Guild Wars 2

Wing 3 is coming. Don’t pug your way to envoy armor.

Not binding your dodge to a mouse button?!

I would be aghast but I know there are definitely people who still click their endurance bar to dodge so nothing shocks me.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

We got shouted down. Guess what… we told you so.

Guess what… raids are awesome and fun and you aren’t doing them because of the self-imposed boundaries and limitations you put onto yourself.

Almost every raid group pairs a Rev with a Chronomancer for the boon duration to pump out Quickness + Fury with Signet of Inspiration. Some chronos use Commander’s gear to eliminate the need for Facet of Nature, but I would argue Rev brings enough to the table to run one anyway.

While we are fixing weapon trails, the missing trails on all the gold weapons would be nice to see too.

I suggested Fractal Armor waaaaay back in the Fractal Collaborative Development thread. The answer I got was “the art team that does armor is the highest demand art team and they spend a lot of time working on stuff for gem store and HoT so they don’t have the resources to devote to fractals.” But that was like 1.5 years ago now so maybe they have more free time? Would be nice for a dev to check in and respond?

STIHL.2489:

I find it funny that people make a big deal about the PvE Content in this game, when every game review site, lists the PvE Content of GW2 as Super Causal Carebear stuff, with the only real challenging content being PvP orientated.

Source: “game review sites” lolol

FrostDraco.8306:

So you are saying that everyone who ever wanted to become rich and famous and didn’t, wasn’t dedicated? Dude, seriously? Ascended isn’t that much of an investment tbh, but this line of logic is completely false, unless you are willing to break the law.

I didn’t say everyone who tries succeeds, please re-read and pay attention to that. You can do everything correctly and put 100% effort and still fail to reach your goals. But the type of people who find excuses to fail will never try in the first place because anything worthwhile requires overcoming some amount of adversity and people who aren’t dedicated can’t overcome adversity.

Be a victim forever then. Live in a world of excuses. Whatever you need, dude.

Sun Lian.4075:

am I supposed to keep joining those a 100 times first and listen to the same explanations in TS until one happens to succeed? As if you would do that yourself.

Some people are interested in improving. Other people are dedicated to improving. There is a difference. People who are dedicated towards a goal will do whatever they need to do, people who are merely interested will find excuses to fail. Don’t be confused about which one you are. If you took that as an insult, don’t: you can change which one you are right now by simply making a choice in the moment to be what you want to be and don’t suffer your own excuses.

No I meant to quote you. You insulted a guy for not understanding how MMOs worked while at the same time complaining that you can’t raid the way you want because of a busy schedule or something. cognitive dissonance I think?

Raizen.7981:

Schedules don’t work for everybody

Your options:

1. Join a guild
2. PUG
3. Make super pug from F-list
4. Don’t raid

There is no “option 5. QQ on forums about demanding pugs.” pugs are pugs the world over and since you referenced your vast MMO experience you surely know that. So why are you complaining?

Zenith.7301:

Rewards are still crap compared to pre-HoT.

Dungeon tours for profit are dead.

5g / 8 = 62 silver per path + 35s first completion plus 26s base gold = 1.23g in raw gold. This is a bit less than the 1.26 we used to get, I give you that.

However now we get 100 tokens per path instead of 60. Tokens have value, and level 70+ dungeon tokens COF+ are worth more than ever before thanks to rising ecto price.

3 level 80 paths = 120 more tokens then before. 120 tokens = 4 rares = 3.2 ecto = 1.35g = kitten per path more than before.

For every dungeon except arah we receive more rewards than before. AC is breaking even.

bladex.9502:

Otherwise the rewards are good, but its nothing close to before the dungeon nerfs

What? It’s more total rewards than before for every dungeon except Arah.

Gudradain.3892:

I have seen way more “raiding” guild that cannot kill any boss than raiding guild that breeze through every boss.

It’s way more fun if you name names.

King Cephalopod.7942:

Thaddeus.4891:

People really have problems understanding the principle of RNG. This is becoming ridiculous.

RNG will be RNG, but I can’t help but be salty when doing 78 urban battleground daily got me an unidentified dye, 7 encryption keys, 5 stabilizing matrices, and 10 resonating slivers. Getting that for a high fractal having sunk so much gold into full ascended and AR just makes me feel bitter.

How much gold should you be rewarded with for a 10 minute fractal?

Is pinging your LI or having eternal title a really bad system for telling if someone is good? Yes.

Is there a better system? No, not really.

If this reality bothers you, I suggest we go back to the system we used to find good pugs in the dungeon days: a simple order of operations math problem. 2+3*2 = X solve for x. If the pug can quickly solve that they are probably capable of playing GW2 at an acceptable level.

Dahkeus.8243:

NikeEU.7690:

The problem with this build is it has no reason to exist. If a raid team wants pure dps, it brings an ele or thief. If they bring a warrior they want Might and Banners, not a random condi warrior with sundering leap.

I think the problem isn’t that this is a warrior build that’s not full PS support, but rather that warrior builds that aren’t full support don’t seem to be able to put out competitive DPS with an ele/thief.

Thats basically what I just said.

There is no possible way that Last Blaze is better than smash brawler in sustained DPS. Your sigils, rune and gearing choices are un-optimized.

The problem with this build is it has no reason to exist. If a raid team wants pure dps, it brings an ele or thief. If they bring a warrior they want Might and Banners, not a random condi warrior with sundering leap.

Dungeons and fractals are back. Commitment to raiding undiminished.

Top NA players encouraged to apply.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

NikeEU.7690:

TPMN.1483:

Its actually been proven by many players

No, it’s been claimed by many players. That isn’t the same as proof.

Are you suggesting those players first hand experiences are in some way wrong?

yes, I am suggesting that beliefs based anecdotal evidence, even if sincerely held, are completely worthless.

TPMN.1483:

Its actually been proven by many players

No, it’s been claimed by many players. That isn’t the same as proof.

I dont see how patch times are relevant?

I don’t see how reset times are relevant to WF, which was a topic you raised.

Most of EU are still at work -)

Anet drops patches at 6pm in Britain and France, 7pm in Germany etc. Those aren’t ordinary working or school hours. A person with a 9-5 in france can log in an play the new raid wing the second it drops. A person with a 9-5 in new york has to wait 5 or 6 hours. What part of that doesn’t make sense to you?

It doesn’t matter if you raid on reset night or not. This is a non-problem that is being inflated to proportions it doesn’t deserve.

Patches drop tuesday at 9am pacific. If anything, that advantages EU in races for WF since they are home while most of NA is at work or school. Your argument is ridiculous.

If you’re only into raiding for the reward vs. time I suggest going to Silverwaste instead.

With fractal difficulty much lower than before, and dungeons effectively abandoned, the general community’s level of skill is incredibly decreased. You don’t have to believe me, but I participate in a lot of trial runs of fractals/dungeons/raids with applicants and the quality of players’ micro skill is so low now.

The truth is, raids don’t require you to have good micro or truly intimate class knowledge. They do have their own set of challenges, but flawless personal execution isn’t really one of them. In the old days, players acquired decent skills by learning to solo Lupicus, low manning fractal 50’s etc. Do enough Arah solos or fractal trios on a class and you will eventually learn the most minute nuances and sharpen your play skill. It’s how certain members of the community (goku, sesshi, abe, miku, sandy, obal, dub) became true masters of their classes.

Anyway, now that the dungeon crucible (pun intended) is gone, the average player off the street is just bad. they are able to complete the raid wings because raids test you on mechanic knowledge, positioning and not tunnel visioning. So there is a new generation of player who thinks that by being able to complete the raid they are really good but when you actually test them on the depth of the class knowledge and actual play skill they fail miserably.

Make dungeons a ‘thing’ again. New players need a way to get good at the game.

Bumping.

We are starting to reach the limit for players we can accommodate into our weekly raid teams, but we are always looking for rock star, top notch, A+ raiders who have a strong interest in new content progression. If that sounds like you, apply today before we close recruiting.

Actually Mesmer is the best tank not because it does the most damage, but because it does the LEAST damage. A Quickness bot mesmer in full berserker is going to be doing around 8k dps in raids, whereas an ultra tanky one in Commanders is going to do around 6k. Losing 2k dps to become insanely tanky and not lose any of your utility is a a very easy compromise.

The reason some people tank with necromancer is they have a trait that gives additional Toughness per minion so that they are insanely tanky without having to use any tanky gear and thus not giving up any DPS.

The best bet for a warrior would be a full commander’s geared PS warrior as tank since it would give up a little DPS but lose no utility, but even that is a bad idea. The reason mesmer works well is that it has two blocks on an extremely short cool down each. A greatsword warrior has nothing comparable.

In a pure condi build like Scepter necro, the difference between trailblazers and vipers is going to be less than 5%. The only thing that will be less is the incredibly minimal direct damage and losing some on-crit procs since youre crit chance will be marginally lower. That said, I don’t expect any random pugs to understand what actual DPS differences are between the two and for them to be tolerant to “non-meta” gear.

Astralporing.1957:

Considering that Anet have just posted a link to that cinematics on their main page, it’s clear they don’t consider it to be a mere troll complaint.

A valid complaint, repeated too many times unnecessarily, becomes a troll complaint.

I think we all appreciate a good troll thread now and again but ones regarding this particular topic are getting boring.

Valik Shin.9027:

I would still make the argument that strength vs scholar is dependent on team comp

I would say that if you are in a comp where there are very little sources of Might besides the Warrior, and there is no Rev to give FoN, you could make a case that Strength runes are worthwhile.

I would contend, though, that even in such a scenario you can use Scholar + dumplings + Bountiful Stones and be perfectly fine thanks to Signet of Inspiration. Especially if your Mesmer is ALSO using Dumplings.

Also, if you have typical Dagger/Horn eles you can advise them to use Heat Sink in their rotation for more Might doubling. With that much Might doubling I don’t think it would be realistic to have a Might problem except a slow ramp up right at the start of a fight.

I suppose you could have a comp with no Rev, no FA eles, no mesmer but once you’re that far away from “the meta” you are not in optimization mode, you’re in survival mode.

Website is a long story =P.

Scholar is definitely better than Strength for organized raid groups, and probably better for pugs in many cases.

If you already have strength runes, don’t bother overwriting, especially if you pug a lot. If you are gearing a new warrior from scratch, go scholar.

It would be amazing if people who cared so much about stuff that doesn’t affect them to make a post about it would care enough to do research on the topic before making a silly post about it.

Ranael.6423

In fact I’d more likely thank every player who have been part of the testing phase, whatever their guild is, to have put some of their time for the community to enjoy this content.

Watching guilds get their first kills and the ecstatic joyful reactions of the players on VOIP is really what made me feel happy about the work we put in.

The best tip I have is to (mostly) ignore the Platform Crush. It doesn’t do much damage and the platform health is only relevant if you let heavy bombs go off. It’s pretty much a red herring mechanics that is meant to distract you from focusing on the things that actually kill you: Karde, Karde’s turrets, flame walls and cannon shots.

what is likely going wrong for your team is that you get the platform crush mechanic and it makes tons of little red circles and a lot of people get overwhelmed by them and go into tunnel vision mode to avoid them. unfortunately, tunneling on them makes you miss things like throwing the sapper bomb to the next launch pad, or a timed bomb blowing up the group or standing in Karde’s flamethrower or not paying attention to a Bandit Thug near you who kicks you into the flamewall. if you ignore the platform crush and pretend it didn’t exist you’ll find it isn’t particularly more stressful then the time that Keirnan is down with Sabetha. Once Karde is dead its relatively easy.

Marthkus.4615:

So with updrafts, what’s the min number that could beat this boss?

Updrafts might actually make it harder since you are more likely to hit the enrage in a low man setting if you use the updrafts and gorseval will be much more likely to eat the adds which will hurt your sustain. Plus you will have more orb issues. there is definitely a point where no-glide actually becomes the better/easier option than actually gliding.

Octaslash.9437:

NikeEU.7690:

Octaslash.9437:

Ayrilana.1396:

Octaslash.9437:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

TexZero.7910:

Dirdyy.1648:

That s how economics work since 5000 years.

The Empire State Building : 1930 -> 41 M. $, 2016 u would need 636 M. $ to build it today.

And the legendarys are the only real high Goldsink for ANET since the start of the game.

1 gold in game = 1g in game

If you haven’t noticed the problem with what your stating…you basing the dollar value which has long been weighted against the worth of gold to something that has no defined weight or value.

Hence your analogy is bunk.

The dollar hasn’t been based on the gold standard for almost a century.

Not gold, it’s oil now.

No it’s not.

Yeah, tell me more about the Petrodollar

Oil is tied to the dollar, not the other way around. If the dollar strengthens, oil drops. However, if oil drops it doesn’t strengthen a weak dollar except in the most tangential way.

If countries start buying and selling oil with other currencies, the Dollar will grow weak, demand for dollars will drop

That isn’t an accurate statement.

God no. The day I hit the cap was great because I no longer had the OCD compulsion to get my daily done every day. I dont want to go back to that.

As a pure DPS character, Condi Ranger is pretty poor in raids. Why?

1. Don’t benefit much from Quickness or alacrity. Quickness = more auto attacks. Auto attacks are worthless to condi ranger. Alacrity is better, but not amazing because your money skill is still bound by weapon swap cool down.

2. there is almost no loss of DPS for a condi ranger to go into druid. In a raid, a pure DPS condi ranger might get up to 18k DPS. A condi druid is likely to get 15k dps, and thats while also providing healing to his time and buffing with Glyph and Grace. when you consider how little the condi druid gives up and how much value there is in the heals and the buffs there is no question of which is better.

Octaslash.9437:

Ayrilana.1396:

Octaslash.9437:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

TexZero.7910:

Dirdyy.1648:

That s how economics work since 5000 years.

The Empire State Building : 1930 -> 41 M. $, 2016 u would need 636 M. $ to build it today.

And the legendarys are the only real high Goldsink for ANET since the start of the game.

1 gold in game = 1g in game

If you haven’t noticed the problem with what your stating…you basing the dollar value which has long been weighted against the worth of gold to something that has no defined weight or value.

Hence your analogy is bunk.

The dollar hasn’t been based on the gold standard for almost a century.

Not gold, it’s oil now.

No it’s not.

Yeah, tell me more about the Petrodollar

Oil is tied to the dollar, not the other way around. If the dollar strengthens, oil drops. However, if oil drops it doesn’t strengthen a weak dollar except in the most tangential way.

Seconded. I have a feeling that Vipers/Commanders trinkets will be available in season 3 as the big reward, but there is no real reason that these aren’t at the vendor now when you can get them as drops.

Raids make you play more. Fractals make you play less.

Still looking for some dedicated raiders!

Hey all! We are Death and Taxes [DnT]. We are a hardcore Raiding, Fractal and Dungeon guild on NA. We excel at all areas of instanced PvE but our primary focus is on raiding. Despite our heavy raid focus, we still have nightly fractal and dungeon tours and expect our members to participate in those as well. We take pride on our teams being greater than the sum of their parts and our members push themselves to be the best they can be at all times.

Currently, we are looking for a few more dedicated raiders to join our team. If you’re a highly skilled player in a more casual guild and you feel held back, we may be the guild you. Maybe you’re already in a high skilled raiding guild but tired of dealing with annoying teenagers, we may be the guild for you. Maybe you’re simply someone who is ready to take their game to the next level and be part of an elite team in time for Wing 2, we may be the guild for you.

Requirements

• You must have at least two classes geared fully for raids in ascended, and be able to play them at a very high level. The more classes you are capable of playing without a drop off in your skills the bigger an asset you are to the team.

• While we have a raiding focus, we don’t want people who are going to hold us back in Fractals and Dungeon runs either. Part of our trial process involves Fractals so be prepared.

• Our raid times are NA prime time EST. We have three scheduled raids per week and we would need you to be able to attend two per week at minimum.

• We use VOIP. If you don’t have a mic, or don’t want to use a mic we cannot accommodate you. Successful raiding is making clear and decisive calls and it is mandatory for us.

• We are a 99% rep guild. Feel free to rep a side guild when you PvP or for personal banking purposes but [DnT] is your main guild and you need to rep.

Membership Perks

• Despite our hardcore reputation, we have an easy-going and friendly guild culture. We take our runs seriously and expect people to play well, but we don’t tolerate fighting, pointless raging or trolling

• We have excellent theorycraft resources and we will have up to date meta builds and team comps

• Speedy fractal and dungeon runs and fully blinged out guild hall

• Guild Missions on Wednesday nights

• Membership in a guild whose name and tag is recognized in the community with a storied history in GW2 and other MMOs for over a decade

For More Info Contact One of Our Officers:

nike porphyrogenita.8137 (Nike)
timlankey.6239 (Tim)
unratedx.2794 (Narc)
tentonhammr.7849 (Zel)

If all this sounds good, shoot me a PM here and I will send you the link to our application page. As always, your inquiry and application will remain private.

spoj.9672:

NikeEU.7690:

cranos.5913:

NikeEU.7690:

Conner.5803:

NikeEU.7690:

Mesmer is still OP in raids it’s K.

Condi warrior everyone saw that nerf coming miles away. If you made ascended gear for condi warrior you had to know this was a likely chance and you had to know what you were risking.

But is condi warrior still worth bringing at all? That’s the thing most of us are probably wondering.

IMO, it’s alright if you…

1. Need ranged DPS
2. Need that DPS to be condi based
3. Don’t have a condi reaper geared up

If you fit those three then it’s probably your best bet.

Kinda confused now, dekeyz said on reddit it’s on engi level? Are you saying condi reaper beats engi too dps-wise?

They are all actually roughly equal, but condi reaper has tricks you can do with double epidemic if you have 2+ Reapers or jagged horrors that make it powerful. In a random group, I would say warrior is fine because it has banners to contribute etc. But DPS-wise they are all in the same ball park now, ignoring Epidemic and JH stuff.

I’m curious about this statement. Yes I agree reaper tricks bring it up and above other Condi builds. But without them I have always found Condi necro quite a bit below the rest. I did some quick calcs a while back and without horrors or epidemic, dps was lower than power builds.

I’m talking strictly from a Vale Guard green AOE team POV so it would be a bit different than comparing to another boss or a full melee dps role.

TPMN.1483:

Tbh- I would like to see a group wide DPS Meter available in game with some additions:
Heal Output,
Booms Outputs – eg Prot/Regen etc
Condi Outputs

So we can see how the group is performing so we can optimise play.

I would add to that, Damage Received. This is a big part of figuring out (if it wasn’t already obvious) who has poor positioning or isn’t learning the mechanics well enough. If you have three eles in your group and they all do about 20k dps but one receives twice the damage as the others on every boss pull, its pretty obvious who the worse of the three is.

Azure.8670:

NikeEU.7690:

Azure.8670:

according to DnT numbers burnzerker is still top dps at 20k.

anyone else see this?

Those were not our numbers. I consider this build dead unless you fit all of the following criteria…

1. You need ranged exclusive dps
2. Said DPS must also be condi
3. You don’t have condi necros available/geared

Ah my favorite person. Good, I didnt think those numbers were accurate. Im in LUCK and someone was positive about the current numbers from DnT post patch and it just didnt sound right to me. Thank you for confirming.

Some guild called [ST] posted a bunch of DPS graphs for classes after the patch. Their methodology left something to be desired.

Azure.8670:

according to DnT numbers burnzerker is still top dps at 20k.

anyone else see this?

Those were not our numbers. I consider this build dead unless you fit all of the following criteria…

1. You need ranged exclusive dps
2. Said DPS must also be condi
3. You don’t have condi necros available/geared

Pre-patch BR was horrible in PvP but amazing in PvE.

After patch BR is still horrible in PvP and now horrible in PvE too.

Please consider changing it back so the skill is useful in at least one game mode.

Coulter.2315:

Mesis.2951:

Punish players for too high dmg (each 2% spawn adds, aplly debuff, …)

Its like the ghost of Karl Marx is here with us xD

Seriously though the Raid does have plenty stuff like the things you wanted in the OP.

Karl Marx was a genius who had incredibly well thought out points. So there is some minor difference here…