Guild Wars 2

So you won’t re-roll and you won’t use basic strats. Fine. Is it to much to ask, then, to have your buds dodge when the tree shakes to avoid the spider spawn? Is dodging out of the realm of possibility?

You’re mistaken if you believed 55 AR was supposed to open Fractals 50+ for you. What 55 AR was supposed to do was allow bad pugs to get past the 40’s so that when FOTM50 is opened up everyone will be able to start there together.

You guys are missing the point: he wants to sit in the back of the room using auto attack watching red bars while clicking his utilities every now and then. A melee dps build with well timed utility skills is not the do-nothing durdle experience he wants.

Estriella Faerie.4029:

If he only has 45ar

No excuse for that anymore. Get geared.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Hi Mad Queen

While you’re here: Why do you like Tribulation Mode in SAB, which is the epitome of trial and error, but insist on hating on trial and error in dungeons?

Because the boss tells in SAB are bright and flashy.

And there you have it.

Wukunlin.8461:

apparently there is no DR with empyreal rewards in dungeon paths so you can spam 25 cof P1’s if you want to get your 500 quick

Could do SE1 if you want them even quicker.

Now that you have 55 AR it’s all good now.

Bright.9160:

Yeah, but most PUGs avoid CM like the plague anyway, which I don’t get either

I’ll explain it. You know the fiery outrage caused the the mere suggestion that people bring reflects in order to do TAFU easily? CM is an entire dungeon where some amount of reflects are optimal. This injustice cannot stand, in the eyes of people who hate changing utility skills.

morrolan.9608:

The economy is essentially bunk without the ability to buy BIS weapons on the BLTC.

Plenty of legendaries for sale on the BLTC if you’re so inclined.

They just have to unnerf heal on crit food and you will be immune to the retal for the most part!

Engineer.

25 vuln stacksssssssss. Not condition damage in the strictest sense, but it’s a condition that increase your party dps by 25% so….

Ebi.8561:

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I can’t deal with EU lag. I’ll just have to keep pugging away on my pvt staff necro and hope I get a group to finish it so I can have my DM title.

If you can do it solo without exploits I’ll buy 4 slots. Oh and you have to transfer to NA.

You? Nothing, since I’m sure you’d have some dirty tricks.

Buying legendaries for ascended stats isn’t time gated

MagnusLL.8473:

Vol.5241:

Why play a game if everything is handed to you the moment you install the game and log-in? You want a legendary in your mail?

First of all, there’s more than the binary state between “handed immediately” and “requiring 100 years to get”

I’ve made 6 legendaries in the year of the game’s existence. Truth is it takes 4 months to craft a legendary, assuming you target one of the expensive ones AND take your time going about it. I don’t assume people are going to play at my level and get theirs in two months, but 4-6 months for a legendary is doable even for a casual.

I will pay, but you have to do the whole path solo or no dice.

LordByron.8369:

If you pug a lot you understand why i don t like to be in the hands of guardians or thieves/eles that have high chances to miss their tome/blasts

If you got all the way to Maw with a pug hopefully you figured out if the guardian is good enough to use tome.

then again, why even discuss it now that it’s a non-issue?

It’s weird that you think no one has ever done this before.

I hope they never open up 50+. Actually, if they scaled the rewards the way they scale agony, I would change my opinion.

But yeah, revamp rewards first, and then open up higher difficulty.

Mystic.5934:

I assume you’re referring to the inflation that can be seen here (http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19725 = Ancient Wood Log):

What you’re seeing here is not inflation, it’s supply shock.

You should put the pistol on your Engie for when you do TAFU runs with pugs.

3 rangers/2necros lol. Way to make it easy. Should have said 5 necros if you wanted to make it a challenge.

Nikaido.3457:

Rather than build, I just learned of someone who thinks 3 ranger + 2 necro should be seen as a viable party compo for all content in this game. This is stuff of nightmares.

Old: I should be equally effective with any build I want. Play how you want!

New: I should be able to faceroll everything with any party comp. Play how you want!

any Necromancer.

SEE WHAT I DID THERE

PandorasBane.2319:

To Dub, and Brazil. I absolutely do not agree with path/seat sellers.

Isn’t it great that no one is forcing you to buy one? If it doesn’t affect you, what is your basis for being concerned at all about it?

spoj.9672:

I want necro’s to get passive unique buffs when they introduce new skills. ;p

They will get the Empowered Allies equivalent for Condition Damage or Vitality. And since those both suck the boat will be missed again.

Exploit? No. Working as intended? Probably not.

It’s fair to say Anet did not anticipate FGS being used the way it is currently. But I abhor the concept of deciphering “developer intentions” and I feel the way things work is how they are supposed to work until they are nerfed, in which case we can use hindsight to judge intentions.

Any mesmer build with Moa as the elite in PvE.

Player Character.9467:

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

mage.3570:

Emanuel.9781:

The dungeon master title isn’t worth anything sadly.

No one asked for your opinion what it’s worth.

I am just pointing to the fact that dungeon abusers will kick anyone regardless of skill level.

What skill level is associated with the DM title? I’m still working on mine but hopefully I’ll be there soon.

Well I assume part of it is soloing Lupi and some of the other bosses. Some requirements that mean the title says something about you and not something about you being carried through 3mannable content.

Pretty sure you can get the title without solo’ing anything.

Red Falcon.8257:

colesy.8490:

Or you could use whirlwind or your dodge key.

Sounds like someone needs to be introduced to the endurace bar and cooldown mechanics.

I remember you. You posted fail builds filled with misinformation back in the day. And now I see it continues here.

To address the OP if you run with bad pugs you should use 30/25/0/0/15. Shield is bad in PVE except in two occasions (both of which offhand sword are better for) that I can think of, Lupicus and the bee run in TAFU. My recommendation is to use offhand Mace or Sword and learn to play properly without relying on a shield block that is costing you 5% dps.

mage.3570:

Emanuel.9781:

The dungeon master title isn’t worth anything sadly.

No one asked for your opinion what it’s worth.

I am just pointing to the fact that dungeon abusers will kick anyone regardless of skill level.

What skill level is associated with the DM title? I’m still working on mine but hopefully I’ll be there soon.

http://youtu.be/RK2NdTAZI6A

Updated Sorrow’s Embrace p1 guide (4:49)

Just have the mesmer portal you past them and you’re good to go.

arkealia.2713:

Someone is actually buying all precursors to sell them at higher price, already happenend to the legend, tooth of frostfang, zap and dusk.
Check any BLTC tracker to see what I mean (for exemple :http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29166)

Nope. John Smith already posted showing that all the precursors are being bought and sold by unique sellers.

Why do credulous types feel the need to see a conspiracy behind a question that can be answered with simple supply and demand? Is it so wild to believe that with the free bump to ascended, plus extra gold from invasion farm, that people might be going hard for legendaries? Is that so far out there that you need to invent a conspiracy theory as a more rational alternative?

spoj.9672:

Theres no discussion to be had though. You just posted to vent your frustration i presume.

Exactly this. What is the discussion you wanted to have? Did you want a bunch of feel-good “oh man i feel so sorry for you” posts? There is no back and forth conversation or exchange of ideas in a thread like that, so the thread is dead on arrival.

My advice, and please take it, if you want the type of carebear feel good posts pity party posts to get a positive reception, post them on the reddit subforum. The quaggan backpack furry homoerotic fan fic run what you want RP crowd on there loves stories about meanies who run dungeons oppressing the little guy.

No one is denying thakittens highly likely your story is true. What people are questioning is why you are making a QQ post here rather than just reporting the individuals and moving on.

DaKillaOfHell.5907:

The problem is the massive mis-design here: In GW2, damage is everything while the rest..well, it is optional, but not required to do dungeons. Even the holy trinity like in WoW or something like that had more balance than a dungeon fight in GW2.

Incorrect characterization. GW2 is all about damage avoidance. If you cannot avoid damage, all the dps in the world won’t save you, nor will all the tanky builds in the world save you. Once you understand damage avoidance, the sky is the limit with your dps potential. This is learned through experience and muscle memory.

siberiano.7380:

We will transform GW2 in a game where people learn to play

What about killing trash mobs will teach people how to play better? Be careful what you wish for, you might discover that you yourself are one of the people who don’t know as much as you think you do about how to play.

In the pug life there is no mercy and there can be no tears. Things happen, innocents will be hurt. You’ll meet angels with hearts of gold and the most vile scum of the earth. This is the reality you face each time you join a pug. I would say you chose this, but for most people, they didn’t choose the pug life, the pug life chose them.

I wish all the anti-trash skippers would join that new [BHB] guild.

If you lose stacking sigils after unequipping the weapon or swapping, I can’t imagine bothering with them except for a Mesmer to get to 100% chance to crit for Lupicus.

I don’t see any reason at all to change the way these work. They are a reward for good play, good planning and good gearing. Are these the type of things anet wants to discourage?

Knowing Anet, mini lupi will be released as a reward for a pvp tournament winning team, there will only be 5 in circulation ever and they will be worth thousands of gold. Then someone will figure out how to dupe them and everyone will freak out.

Where have I seen this story before….

Bright.9160:

I think some of the bosses in HotW p2 and p3 get killed on a less regular basis than Lupi though.

Supply would be lower… but so would demand.

It is somewhat dumb that Entropy/genesis doesn’t drop from the Archdiviner. Prestigious, valuable drops should come from difficult instances, not casual open world.

Most dungeon/fotm hardcores aren’t obsessed with gold, but they would like some prestige items. Gold rewards alone will not satisfy this, though its better than no reward. If every legendary boss in the game had an ultra low chance of dropping a miniature version of himself on his exotic loot table… lets just say I could imagine Mini-Lupicus being one of the most prestigious (and valuable) items in the game.

Vox Hollow.2736:

They’re sick to death of things they’ve never even really bothered to try.

Remember in September 2012, a month after launch, when every forum post in the general game forum was “there is no end-game”? I wonder, in retrospect, how many of the people making those posts had their DM title already. I like your quote very much in this regard. Obviously there are veteran players who I wouldn’t hold burn-out against. but there are complete newbies who complain about dungeons being boring when a good deal of them may only have run each path once at most, and in a pug at that.

Probably wouldn’t test with berserker sets on either in pvp arena. In fact, just don’t equip an amulet at all, and don’t use any traits at all and the damage would be significantly lower.

Bonus points for being the opposite of my expectations when I clicked this.