Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I played a full berserker ele with staff and only 10k hp from lvl 1 to 30 in fractals. I did lvl 20 to 30 in 2 days. Just let other players tank, practice dodging like a boss and use survability utility skills like mist form, teleport and arcane healing which removes 5 conditions.

How do you guys know that you hit the DR limit?

You see the xp / karma when you kill a mob / finish event change drasticly at a precise time?

Can we make a “one time only” legendary weapon and 10000 gold giving too please?

I’ve been playing an elementalist glass canon mode, 11k HP from fotm lvl 1 to 30 without much problems.

There are specific times when you need to dodge and/or use escape utility skills to stay alive. If you do 1 mistake at that time you will be nearly be 1 shoted immediatly. But if you do it right, it’s no problem. My advice to you: look on high level fractals runs on youtube (lvl 50 and more) and you will understand what are the key of the hard fractals.

Well only the 3rd toy rush is different, but i’m kinda disappointed.

The event of tixx in black citadel is the same than the one in human land. Bug?

Finish all your personnal story quest, they give almost 1 level each. If you have a friend lvl 80, he can do them with you so you can finish your lvl 80 quest even at level 20 or so

Also as said, it’s possible to do 0 – 80 only by crafting but it requires a lot of gold.

My ranking after reaching 30+ only with pickup groups:

1. Svanir. Even when executed properly, you can die a lot from elem aggro. First part when you need to light the fire can also be tricky and result in lot of deaths.

2. Dredge. You can also die a lot on first and second part. Then it’s easy. Can take a lot of time as well.

3. Cliffside. This one is actually not too hard when you know the right tactic and have experienced players doing it. But when you don’t, it’s a real pain. Takes quite some time also.

4. Grawl is also easy when you know what to do. But most of the groups don’t know the proper tactic, making it way harder.

5 Asura. Annoying more than difficult => agreed. A bit long also.

6. Water. Easy but the medusa is a bit long to kill, making it boring.

6. Jade Maw. Not very difficult, yet you need to stay focused. Fun to play and not too long.

7. Ascalon. Too easy and a bit too short imo.

8. Swamp/Mossman. Easiest and shortest of all, but always fun to do.

Draygo.9473:

If you dont want to play the RNG,

Buy it off the Trading Post

That’s the thing OP should have made first.

You want something? Buy it from the TP! As people alread said, you could have sold all your gift without opening them and get a lot of money for buying the bell.

But instead you chose to gamble and open them. You get unlucky, that’s sometimes what happens when you gamble. Then you felt frustrated and came here to make this post. But you knew this could be a possibility before you opened the gift. Maybe you won’t do the same thing next time!

PainShot.7154:

Yes, and you need 5 to make infused rings, so we can affirm that ANet want you grind low fotm lvls instead of advancing in top tiers…

That’s wrong. I just did lvl 26 fractal and get 2 vials out of it. Also get one at lvl 30.

Thanks Dulfy!

Did you know that a mini boss in fractal is named after you?

The doll part is really fun

I enjoyed this one more that the first, what about you guys?

The windersday content is so much fun, and the patch is fixing a lot if issues we had for a long time.

This is really great work, thanks a lot!

Guardians and Mesmers can both do supportive actions, but not in the same way.

Guardians are more oriented to protect the party from taking damage (blue invincibility aoe bubble for exemple), while Mesmers can help controlling the map (mass invisibility, teleport portal) or give a huge dps boost with their elite bubble.

If you felt like playing mesmer, do it! You won’t be disappointed.

I’m playing an ele and done a lot of dungeons (currently at fractal lvl 30+) but if I reroll it will definitively do a mesmer

This is only imho ofc

Hey guys,

Yesteday i’ve been doing the fractal in the cave with the imbued shaman boss (the one where the ground is on fire and you need to keep moving to avoid getting fire dot) at level 20 and 30, and after countless tries all my groups kept failing.

After looking for some time, I think this is the right thing to do: when the boss reaches 75% – 50% – 25%, his shield pops up and larvas are spawning.

Focusing the boss shield is a bad idea because then you have to deal with larvas and the boss at the same time, which is difficult.

Focusing the larvas only is also a bad idea because if you do, the boss will kill a human and get back to full life.

So here is the key: someone needs to immobilize (root) the boss as soon as his shield comes up with a long duration immobilize skill, then you kill the larvas while the boss can’t move, then when all larvas are dead you break the shield of the boss and you keep going.

The best root skills are Entangle from ranger and Binding Roots from any human race player using Avatar of Melandru form.
These 2 skills can immobilize the boss when shielded for 20s in a row, which gives plenty of time to kill the larvas.

Hope this helps!

This is my contribution to this legendary thread:

THANKS A LOT FOR THE NEW STUFF!

That would be fun!

Since the drops of rings are random in fractal, everyone ends up with unwanted rings, yet we can’t combine 4 of them in the forge to have a chance to get the one we want.

Why not?

Hey ppl,

i’ve been switching from full exotic dps set to lvl 78 blue full magic find set for farming shelter/penitent and i have the feeling i’m getting very few items compared to when i was with exotic set.

Is it because the drops get nerfed or because i’m not doing enough dmg to get loot chance?

TIA

That’s a good idea!

Invite me: fullburn

Same here nothing happens on overflow

Thanks for the help

What’s the easiest way?

Hey guys,

I’m trying to find how much damage are doing each normal and superior siege weapons to door / walls to know which one should be used regarding the avariable supply in raid.

Anyone got some numbers?

TIA

Dxtory is the new fraps imho, check it out

A moderator kindly did it

Commanders can already turn on or off their icon.

Commander icon has been designed to lead your entire server.

If you don’t, you’re doing it wrong!

2 solutions: if you only want to lead several party of your guild, do not use the commander icon and ask one member of every party to target you and press ctrl+t. This will put a big red target icon on top of you that only the members of your guild will see, not anyone else.

But if you wanna be the most efficient for your server, when there is no other commander on the map where you are playing, you should activate your commander icon, gather up everyone and strike big objectives like towers or keeps, while your guild group should be roaming to capture supply camps and kill dolyaks.

So we’re only 5 ppl caring about that problem?

Ok i’ll just stop bothering everyone then :p

Zoula.5139:

Agreed. While in WvWvW zones Commanders with an active icon should have their posting allotment increased before getting the flooded treatment.

Yeah maybe not disable but increase the number of text before reaching the limit indeed!

Hey,

Do you guys agree that flood protection on “team” channel on wvw maps should be removed for commanders?

I happend to be leading my world several times, i had to give a lot of informations on the chat so people would do the right things, and sometimes I can’t chat anymore because of the flood protection.

What about you?

Thanks for your answers guys and especially CharliePrince!

By “international” i mean with a lot of presence through all the day and night, and not only “multiple countries playing on them”.

My goal is to join a server in tier 1 with full time coverage that play against another full time coverage server, so at least it’s even in terms of people playing on them.

I think i’ll join Blacktide as i’m fearing to have high ping beeing an EU player if I go on NA servers.

Hey,

In EU we have Desolation as the only “international” server that i know (lots of EU playing during 1 part of the day, lots of NA playing the other part).

My question is: how many servers like this exist? Is Desolation the only “international” server in EU league?

TIA

PS: no trolling/flaming, if you want to discuss about night capping, do it somewhere else!

Guys I asked in my first post to not start a flame war and that’s exactly what you are doing.

I don’t want my topic to be closed, so either discuss about the main topic and stay polite, or do it somewhere else please.

Well I’ll just keep trying, I know they are reading the forums but can’t answer everyone.

But since I think this is a major concern for a lot of people playing wvw, i hope they will!

In short – the community has fixed a developer mistake by turning NA and EU servers into International servers. This is the only way to keep tier 1, 2, and 3 in both ladders competitive.

This is your opinion and I respect it. But I’d like to have Anet game designers one, because if it’s indeed what you say, i’ll just move to one of these servers. But if it’s not, i’ll stay on my server.

Yes it would be indeed! Comon, be cool guys

This is a question for Anet game designers! My goal is not to start a flame/troll war, so please do not answer here to give your own personal opinion, not that I don’t care about it! Please let only Anet ppl answer here, thanks!

In the post of Matt Witter about nightcapping, he says:

We feel that everyone should have the ability to contribute no matter what time of the day it is.(…)
Everyone has different off peak hours for whatever reason.

Then JonPeters said:

We don’t want to inherently make logging in at non peak hours less rewarding than logging in during primetime. (…)
There are some things we need to do to encourage you to log in even when your world is being dominated by a massive rush of enemies who live in a part of the world where they aren’t checking their watches to see if the sun is about to rise.(…)
But we are not ignoring the fact that players want to feel like their late night efforts are worth more than just a pat on the back.

So my question is: what do you mean by “rush of enemies who live in a part of the world where they aren’t checking their watches to see if the sun is about to rise”?

Do you mean “people from the same timezone that for some reasons play during the night”, or “people from other regions of earth”?

In other words, do you think that large number of guilds from NA moving to EU servers or from EU to NA servers having most of their playing time when this is the night in the timezone where they play is normal?

I’m not giving any opinion here, I just would like to know yours so I can play accordingly.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

I agree with the first post.

All the NA guilds that moved to Desolation EU server are cowards that claimed to come for challenge, but in fact they just wanted to get easy win by exploiting night capping.

Until Arenanet doesn’t do something about this, Desolation will always be #1 EU server and all EU leaderboard will have no real meaning.

Nobody is getting the “instance enter” icon when coming close to Caer Aval door

What i mean is “hit every downed ppl you see once”, because if they are downed, they are likely to be killed and drop badges. But don’t focus them until they are dead, just hit them once if there are more than 1 at the same time near you.

You can easily spot them because they have a red arrow above them.

You can only get badges from bag of loot. To get a bag of loot that has a chance to have badges inside, you need to hit something that get killed.

This something can either be:

- a supervisor/lord/legendary guardian from camp/tower/fort/miststone capture areas,
– a human player.

The easiest way to get badges is to be in a large group (over 30 ppl), and when your group is killing other people, try to hit everyone that is about to die at least once instead of focusing on killing 1 player.

To OP: if they can hit you with it, then you can hit them with something as well.

Since it’s been over 2 weeks now that we started having these queues problems, it would be nice to have some news from Mike about this!

Because waiting 3 hours in a row without any way to know approximatively how long you need to wait is just not fun!

TIA