Guild Wars 2

Josh Foreman.8250:

Nintendo hard only appeals to a niche within a niche. The ping thing is certainly an issue that 8-bit games didn’t have to deal with, so I don’t think normal mode SAB will get Nintendo hard even in the last world because we want as many people as possible to be able to do it. (It’s going to be a tricky balance to not make it too easy in order to accommodate those with bad ping.) But future Worlds will be much much harder than World 1. And hard mode will be there for that niche within a niche who have good ping and want to punish themselves.

Hard modes going to be a breeze.

Dawdler.8521:

They gave it to the ranger, obviously.

Its shooting fire arrows though, something that barrage doesn’t do. This is 83.7x better looking than barrage.

Whatever happened to that 5th Bow skill for Warrior? It looks sick, I’d take it over our F1 skill which replaced it any day.

Arah wings and Hotw.

Mystic.5934:

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Jump

I agree, larger versions of regular mobs is lazy work.

The flame trail comes off the entire sword now instead of just the tip. Its a bit stupid looking really. The positioning how its placed on the back was changed too, I want that changed back as well. I crafted for how it looked before, now it looks like kitten.

I got it on my Warrior when he entered the Giant Ship.

Dezarys.1372:

What if they made like a “Racial compatability” skill… Like norns could pick up asuras and gain 50% faster movement speed and run as fast as possible while the asura has to hold on for dear life. Or if the norn could pick up an asura and lauch it

And the Asurans player would have to balance to stay on.

I’d like there to be confirmation whether or not you want to watch a cutscene instead of having it pop up and disrupt your play. The check mark for Fractals also stops you or interrupts your chat. And the Overflow message disrupts the chat as well. Instead of a Overflow message it could say it on screen; just like entering a new area would pop up on screen.

I think the FDS should have a flame trail like Volcanus. It doesn’t look right when you swing the FDS.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Shadowfist.2708:

While I understand your meaning, I’d actually be more inclined to do it with a developer for the ensuing comedy. xD

Yeah, and upon retrospect, whenever I throw on my dev tag for a dungeon, people tend to show me exploits and point them out >.<
However I have been thoroughly amused at times. I tend to hide my dev tags when finding a PUG, and then halfway through the dungeon I will tag up, and watch everyone leave the instance within minutes.

How about we tag up for that Arah we been talking about.

Mirta.5029:

Ojimaru.8970:

I just spent 3 hours in that dungeon only to have my teammates rage quit.

When you start with this, I can immediately see that this is not a problem with the dungeon, more a problem with the bad group you had. Besides the Champion Icebrood Wolf and Champion Destroyer Crab, the rest of the dungeon’s difficulty is fine. Both of the aforementioned Champions I normally skip because they are extremely difficult but the rewards are terribly bad.

2. Alpha’s earth attack is unblockable and gives no warning
I’m fine with all of his other attacks. You can time dodges. This one? Not really. On top of that my guardian with 2700 toughness would lose 70% of her health if he would hit me even once. And he would spam it on all of us non stop.

By the damage you’re taking, this sounds like his large AOE attack that targets every player and pet in range. This is mechanic-based attack and requires you to dodge in a timely manner. And it is blockable with Aegis, Shield of Wrath, etc. The main reason you think your Aegis is failing is because, when your group is stacked up or spaced incorrectly, you’ll be hit by multiple instances of the same attack, while Aegis only blocks one. If you’re stacked up, the only way to avoid the damage is to time your dodge appropriately. As a rule of thumb, when the circles appear, count to 2 and hit dodge; you will need to adjust and compensate for latency.

He does have the same AoE attacks on other paths and I can run those in 30 to 40 minutes no problem. His regular attack is easy to dodge because it hits about 2.75 seconds after the rings appear. I’m talking about his Earth attack, the linear attack wave that he does with no warning.
Also how do you deal with repositioning of Alpha once you try to stand inside him? He never stands still.

He raises his hand and slams it down, pretty noticeable but it happens fast. Easy to dodge once you know the tell.

1000000,00000,000000000,,00,0,0,0,0,0,00,,00,00 zillion Level Requirement is my favorite idea. But in another thread I said turning in 3 Fractal weapons for 1 you want would work too. But you gotta admit 1000000,00000,000000000,,00,0,0,0,0,0,00,,00,00 zillion Level Requirement is brilliant.

He just needs to not heal and we’re set. Everything else is good.

Turning in 3 weapons you don’t need for one you want would be cool.

All the Elder Dragon fights will be the same thing, shooting them with some super weapon and not actually interacting with them.

I’d hate to see these weapons become common. If it did happen there should be Fractal Lvl Requirement of 1000000,00000,000000000,,00,0,0,0,0,0,00,,00,00 zillion.

Stomping Puppies

SemmlerTh.2685:

Hey guys,

I just came back from failing again at Lupi in Arah exp. As you cannot use illusions until phase 2, you have to switch to other weapons. So I decided to go with Great sword and Sword/Focus, in preparation to phase 2.

But in Phase too, I feel like I am actually a Problem for the group. I dont do much damage without illusions. And the Greatsword doesnt make more damage than about 400 per Hit. All my other skills, sword/focus and all utility skills are just equiped, for surviging.

There is The Blink, the signet of illusions, and the Mantra of Concentration, because you’ll die if you can’t get away from him. And because of some idiotic reason, I allways have the aggro, until I am completely dead. So all I do, is a few hits, until I have to shatter illusions to survive, or blink arround, and not to forget, dodge those 12k per second insane fields.

and all this, for 100-400 damage every 5 seconds? If Group members try to rez me, this is actually bad for them, because they risk their life, because it doesnt make any diference, if the mesmer is alive, or not. His damage is not worth mentioning anyway.

Id really like to make bifrost, but at this point, it seems absolutely impossible to kill Lupi. How do you play against him?

I run Greatsword Sword/Focus. Greatsword for p1 and Sword focus 100% for p2 and 3. I’ll run to his feet soon as he starts p2 and slash at his toe nails. You can use feedback bubble to hide in it while he does his aoe. And use distortion when you don’t have feedback and then theres Blur from sword 2. I’m full Glass.

pdfrod.1948:

Nihilus.3015:

I found a room full of Kittens.

This must be the first time I see somebody in this forum really wanting to say “kitten”.

Haha, the topic was originally named Wvw Kitten Room. I changed it about 3 times to avoid that. I was thinking of changing kitten to cat instead.

Did they patch Wall Jumping in the latest update?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Hey folks, this discussion has kind of veered off topic to a control scheme discussion. Let’s bring it back to the video and the guardian play, and if we want to talk about key bindings, start a thread

So it that a yes?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Very impressive! I don’t think I’ve seen a guardian solo vid yet, but that was pretty good. I don’t think I saw anything out of the ordinary that raised any alarms. Good solid play and knowledge – I like your means of getting through the trap bubble. Good skill rotation and composure over such a long period of time.

I wanna do a dungeon with you.

Enemies should insta die if they hit you while wearing full Arah armor.

DancingPenguins.9875:

The main issue I have with guardian is that because the class is innately useful, you end up with a lot of players who are clueless how to use them even at higher fractals.

I’m actually ambivalent about having guardians for certain fights at this point. On one hand they do have the potential to throw down the right reflects at the right time. On the other hand, most often it’s the guardian in the group that dies first because almost everybody else had to practice their dodging and timing furiously to get as far as they did.

Whats ambivalent mean?

I like the Arah Shoulders.

If the Dragons actually moved and didn’t just stand there it would be more fun.

Reporting someone cause of a name is kinda pathetic.

I found a room full of Kittens. Look left on the log before jump towards the Vault. I used Ride the Lightning to get in. The Kittens are being trained to Assassinate Ogres. The orange one in the top left is Puss in Boots.

I don’t like the idea of Aoe nerf. I’ll probably leave after this update.

1) Elder Dragon

2) A Fence

3) Black Smoke Monster

Can you still get a Mini Karka from drops even though the event is over?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

stof.9341:

Why should “Reckless Dodge” allow you to exit the bubble when the trait is just supposed to add some damage at end of roll?

That seems to be the issue at hand – is that wreckless dodge is cancelling out the behavior intended for the bubble.

Any dodge can get out of the bubble.

Free Sunrise should suffice.

Epic, you should show me how to get there.

Being able to get a Legendary Weapon skin that’s on a 4 hour timer like the Halloween ones were, just for 1 weekend. Maybe through Fractal Tokens. They should disappear after the weekend so people aren’t carrying 1000 timed Legendary Sunrises. This would give people motivation for the long grind ahead.

Kryden.5817:

i didnt see a lightning rush, if the graphics kittened up, thats fine, but he covered at least 2000+ ground, with burning speed. he did about that much dmg like whats shown in the video, but much faster, and i was at full hp, 23k…. theres no mistaking burning speed. it was a massive fire trail, and a burst of flame, from over 2000+ range… the fire trail was incredibly long, probly about 2.5x the normal length of that ability ive seen and the speed was rediculus. having seen the video its posible to do alot of dmg on knockdown, so maybe it was that combo or similar. but it DEFINETLY was burning speed that covered the massive ground. not teleport, not lightning rush. i highly doubt it was a graphical error, the animation was the exact same.

It was a combo of Fiery Rush and Burning speed.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

did you report him? Because we do ban for that type of behavior.

We’re always working on ways to keep people from trolling and exploiting others. We recently made it so that the party leader can’t leave the group and kick everyone out without his instance being destroyed, so this is just the latest iteration in people trying to abuse other people. I will alert our programmers to this if they are already not aware.

You can get banned for going afk?

17. Mesmers now have a constant Agony that can spread to allies if they get too close.

Maybe we could fight 2 at a time. That would be sweet.

Anet employee said Skipping Kholer is okay, I think the thread was titled Exploiting Kholer or something. . I skip too, I can do everything fine. Its just for fast runs.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Malediktus.9250:

I always tell my group: kill him or I leave.

I’d kick anyone I saw with that attitude.

Me too.

Pretty sure its not even on the GW1 map.

I heard this from one of the Dev’s “The Karka were driven out of the sea by a much bigger and powerful force”

http://games.on.net/2012/11/guild-wars-2s-lost-shores-event-battling-giant-enemy-crabs-was-never-so-terrifyingly-hard/

At the bottom

Are they suppose to make Dungeons easier?

I hate that Kitten censoring.

Polantaris.9513:

Nihilus.3015:

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

We’re aware of the disconnection problems in the Fractals dungeons that you’re experiencing. The team is working to fix the issues.

We apologize for the impact to your experience of this content.

You didn’t answer the important question. What about not being to enter the same dungeon your group is in after u dc? Even if u fix the current dc in the dungeon people will still dc. So, will we be able to go back into the same dungeon?

I’m pretty sure that qualifies as a “disconnection problem.” Not saying that I know that they are, but part of the issue with disconnecting is that you cannot get back into your own fractal, which in my opinion qualifies as a disconnection problem. People are going to disconnect regardless, so I don’t think “We’re working on making sure you never ever disconnect” is really a valid problem that they can fix.

I know that’s why I said people will still dc after the fix, just cause dc’s happen all the time. What I want to know is if we’ll be able to get back into the dungeon with our group instead of not being able to re-join.

Mystic Starfish.2586:

There’s pretty much no doubt this update is DSD related
However, I very highly doubt any bit of it will reveal/make aware the prescence to in-game characters. Only the aquatic races know of DSD, and to land dwellers there’s just a sudden influx of Karka. So while we obviously can tell that DSD is doing some stuff, the in game characters are probably confused as heck as to why the Karka appeared now

Im sure the Karka aren’t related to the Dragon. Neither is the event. I spoke too soon, I just read “the Karka were pushed out of the sea by something bigger and more powerful”, That can only be 1 thing.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Krakens are not related to karkas. They’re very different, and have been around while the DSD slumbered so no tie there.

The DSD does have tentacled minions, but nothing indicates the DSD itself is like such.

Zaxares.5419:

Given that the DSD and Zhaitan’s spheres of influence overlap somewhat, one has to wonder if their minions are not already battling it out under the waves though.

Come again? Zhaitan’s sphere of influence is around Orr. The DSD’s is – at least – in the Unending Ocean which is huge, and we don’t know where in the Unending Ocean either, except underwater.

His minions are also in the Ring of Fire and the Crystal Desert. The ring of fire is right beside the unending ocean.