Guild Wars 2

oxtred.7658:

Atherakhia.4086:

Question: Is the skill working as intended?
Answer: No.

Question: Are people abusing the mechanic and it having unintended consequences?
Answer: Absolutely. It’s therefore an exploit.

I honestly don’t know why we’re even arguing these facts. They’re facts. ANet tried to fix this in the past for WvW and PvP for these very reasons but Fiery Rush remains. The fact that it trivializes PVE or that PvE would be boring without these exploits is irrelevant.

You seem to be perfectly aware of what is intended or not, are you a dev by any chance?

Are you? Nub !

TIL Fgs is prefeclty fine and stacking up to 4 eles is healthy for the gameplay and is enjoyable.

maha.7902:

“PHIW” is playing suboptimally because you prefer a certain way – but at the cost of a faster clear time.

My impression is that Miku Lawrence dislikes the current state of things but abides to it because it’s simply the best. I dislike the current state of things so I’ve abstained from doing dungeons with the guild because they’re doing things I’m vehemently opposed to (extensive use of overpowered conjures).

Expressing your opposition of an oppressively powerful weapon is not “PHIW”, it’s expressing an opinion.

Thanks, too bad we’re PHIWs now.

Add me to the guild

RiP in Peace

Sweet. Keeping the mesmer meta up to date. I like the site ^^

They could always add more HP and make people run out of burst/support.
#Anchor guardian hype

No it’s terribly bugged.

Don’t see the point of your post. I’m saying FGS makes support relevant for 3 seconds into the fight only and that once the tactic is gone, Support will be relevant for longer (because fights are longer). To me that makes fights more interesting than rushing inside a wall for 5 seconds.

Enaretos.8079:

Miku Lawrence.6329:

I did your run for 3 hours straight and as I said I got about 13 gold per hour.

Diminishing returns + bad tagging ?

None. Time spent waiting was not accounted.

RSLongK.8961:

I request captain obvious assistance!

Blinx farm in Cursed Shore. An event that spawns some champions. People fail it on purpose and restart the event 2 minutes later. Trolls make it so the event succeedes.

Enaretos.8079:

Trice.4598:

That farm wasn’t good anyway, much faster to farm SE path 1 or AC story for champion boxes. People claiming 30-70 gold an hour are out of their minds. Even 100 boxes an hour isn’t 30 golds on average.

It was good, about 30g/hour. Except that unlike SE you could just jump in and have fun. But white knight kittens prefer seeing it nerfed when they won’t even be doing Jofast…

Also Trice, I farmed it live on sundays and made that 30g/hour, before you start claiming bullkitten :p

I did your run for 3 hours straight and as I said I got about 13 gold per hour.

Don’t uderestimate the 16% damage boost please. Don’t make the same error as Anet by balancing for PvP only.

So we agree 200k DPS nullifies the need for Aegis and anything defense related

To Colesy, let’s not extrapolate shall we?

^ I’m not sure either how killing a boss before he does his attack is fun. But hey, I must be a casual.

I can’t use any video recording program wooden PC.

I think it’s good. Less Orr farmers makes dungeoneers look rich.

I like, make some more _. Playing Lockdown since yesterday and it’s really nice !

Hello, Miku here with some sexy screenshots about the portal mechanic in dugeons. IF you ever gonna expant the guide in depth.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/images/9/91/Portal_AC_1.png
http://metabattle.com/wiki/images/d/d1/Portal_CoF_P1.png
http://metabattle.com/wiki/images/1/14/Portal_TA_UP.png

WTB sticky please. This thread is good info !

frifox.5283:

Welp, the current meta build for the mesmer isn’t the one being pushed by the site. Disappoint

Changed like an hour after your message. I work on it!

So why is everyone bringing up PU as the counterargument to any possible condition buff?

MSFone.3026:

IE working plus whatever condi buffs are coming to scepter will make our arguably strongest spec (condi PU) even stronger. Fine with me but does condi PU need help? The QQ will be intense. Of course that is what I’ll be running if this is fixed lol. IE won’t be fixed though

How in hell is PU related to condition damage? Hint : You don’t need to run PU to run condition spec.

Scepter is worse than GS.

You’re doing the right thing. I’m happy

DPS – Current No IE – 4 in Illusions – No gear – 621.34 DPS over 60 seconds
DPS – Current IE – 4 in Illusions – No gear – 826.15 DPS over 60 seconds
DPS – Fixed IE – 4 in Illusions – No gear – ~ 1226 DPS over 60 seconds (Aproximatif guess, since adding IE boosts DPS by 200 units, don’t think that works this way tho #frifox4help)

DPS – Sword Warrior – 4 in Arms – No gear – 603.72 DPS over 60 seconds
DPS – Sword Warrior with Deep Cuts – 4 in Arms – No gear – 1008.54 DPS over 60 seconds

Will come back with true condition specs for both classes.

Ok let’s look at offensive condi specs.

Krait runes – Rampager amulet – Agony + Earth sigil – 5 trait points spent in Precision and Condition damage lines

• Warrior (5 in Arms, Deep cut) – 2,576.47 DPS over 60 seconds
• Mesmer + Clones (5 in Dueling, 5 in Illusions, IE) -2,164.68 DPS over 60 seconds
• Clones alone (5 in Dueling, 5 in Illusions, IE) – 1,076.03 DPS over 60 seconds
• Clones alone with working IE (5 in Dueling, 5 in Illusions, IE) – 2152.06 DPS over 60 seconds
• Mesmer + Clones, working IE (5 in Dueling, 5 in Illusions, IE) – 3240.71 DPS over 60 seconds

Too good?

NB: Warrior reaches his DPS peak at about 10 seconds into the fight. Mesmer reaches his DPS peak at about 40 seconds into the fight.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

@Miku: Travelers for PvP? Por que? In my experience the speedboost isn’t usually worth it for the loss of stats. What build do ya run?

Erm, meta shatter. Not the only one running travelers, it eases the kiting too. + i’m like forever the close bot, kiting til the thief/ele comes.

Interspecie sexual intercourse.

So you’re comparing a 180 cd to a 240 cd that does half damage (?) and can’t be shared with a second person? I HOPE this one won’t be meta for sure.

PvE – Ranger
PvP/WvW – Travelers

Tried right after I saw your run, not a single projectile was blocked ._.

Since Rox wants to kitten Brahamb but he’s into preteen asurans.

JasmineLong.6514:

You don’t bring a Mesmer for their dps :P

Gs offers a decent pushback which is what was needed in combination with the focus pull in order to get the initial mobs away from the dredge cart.

It also gave me the excuse to put the twilight skin on the gs xD

The spot is terrible tho.

Meanwhile reddit gone wild on SAB and no First person camera (a legit one I mean).

Fear-Thorment-Fear
please !

One Note Chord.5031:

phirefox.2568:

One Note Chord.5031:

Navi.7142:

The question is: Will they fix the existing bugs?

Of course not. They will, however, break iwarden further.

wait – is that even physically possible!?

Absolutely! Right now it still attacks sometimes.

Next patch : Warden runs away from foes but grabs their aggro and thus breaks any possible coordination in yor party.

I guess you’re cathurt :/ sorry for you. No idea about the FGS have in a short laps of time, just happened to post it after an evening on TS that was like “Yeh, what dungeon record isn’t better with 3 or 4 eles?” “I don’t think there is one”. Was kind of depressing.

J Eberle.9312:

deSade.9437:

Well, don’t you think they’ll simply make fiery rush require a target? It seems like the only solution they’d ever do, if what I know about them is correct. Looks quite possible to me.
Twas about time they woke up, anyway. I really want to see pugs trying to stack in AC now. I really do.

Yeh I think that’s what I would do if I was Anet.

Could it be that pugs failing things without fgs = them having less money to inflate t6 prices and other items? :o

I like the way you think

I don’t get you tbh. At least we agree that people won’t stack 4 eles anymore.

Don’t get on your high horses, I don’t see why you are overreacting. FGS is an issue and gets patched this september.

Yes, you can reroll necro now.

deSade.9437:

It’s k, pulled kitty out of there and now we’re cuddling.
Why are you still arguing and bickering and whining about the fgs when you could do more productive things? Say, er, run dungeons with 4 bearbows? Who forces anyone to play fgs outside of record runs? Do you force it on yourselves? Uh?

Warriors are so mind-numbingly boring to play that I’d rather see 5 ellys in speedruns if I can avoid stacking warriors. Such a dumb class.
/waits holding a fishnet

Too obvious sorry.

You don’t need a mesmer for CM if you have 4 eles sorry.
Arah you don’t need anything then if you don’t need 4 eles. Irrelevant.

HowT – ok ye

Your kitten got stuck in the fridge? Ew.

Edit: To Jarus, no they dont. Oxtred is a baddie trying to be smart \o/

stale.9785:

Picking nits here, but the legendary weapons all require pvp to get them – so they’re not at all pve exclusive. (Yes, WvW is players fighting players, thus is PvP – not PvE though quite often it appears to be Player vs. Door)

Wrong, you get badges from Achievement chests. This hyperbola is out of place.

The point is to show the flaw in current meta. Not to pick the best X. The problem is the elestack.

Nah, just because boon strips.

Tl;dr

• [ 4 Eles + X ]

Where X is :

AC – Thief
CM – Thief
TA – Thief
SE – Mesmer
CoF – Mesmer
HotW – Guardian
CoE – Mesmer
Arah – Thief.

What do you think?

Deja vu. Was this posted a few months ago?

Axelwarrior.9084:

Very impressive and fun to watch! Good job~

Not sure where the fun is in doing 200k dps tbh.

New dungeon hype?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2dt4t4/datamining_new_armor_sets_with_textures/