Guild Wars 2

Vikkela.7261:

No Pulse.2967:

Tbh, I don’t think it’s gonna be much of a change for sellers. People selling atm are exposed to the same danger if they don’t have enough fillers. You could argue that there’s gonna be more incentive for griefers to sell the path they take over, but they are gonna experience the same in return.

wot

Currently: seller gets booted -> instance shuts down = Griefing not encouraged
Improved version by Anet: seller gets booted -> instance does not shut down -> griefers finish dungeon -> griefers has to sell -> griefer can be booted.

FTFY.

Tbh, I don’t think it’s gonna be much of a change for sellers. People selling atm are exposed to the same danger if they don’t have enough fillers. You could argue that there’s gonna be more incentive for griefers to sell the path they take over, but they are gonna experience the same in return.

Maguuma: 1416.

Path 3:

- If the NPC is killed right when she takes the chicken, the event log will change and the waypoint spawn. However, the NPC won’t have the chicken any more, which stops the entire dungeon progress. Unlike her just dying at the cage before the waypoint spawns, this cannot be fixed by getting her hit/killed again.

In my opinion:

- AC 1/2/3: No change
- CM 1/3: No change, CM 2: 1,5g (more incentive)
- TA up/fwd: No change, TA AE: 3g
- SE 1/3: No change, SE 2: 2g
- CoF 1/2: No change, CoF 3: 2g
- HotW 1: 1,5g ; HotW 2/3: 2g
- CoE 1/2/3: 2g
- Arah 1/2: No change, Arah 3: 2g, Arah 4: 5g

Jerus.4350:

So, what about bear form? And with the no stacking what about Burning Retreat and the dagger rush?

Bear form not changed, burning retreat and burning speed both nerfed like FGS rush.
Edit: Maaaybe bear form nerfed aswell

Who cares, eles can provide 25 vuln by themselves now….

Keep in mind that every new dungeon we get will be for lvl 80. New dungeons, hahahaha.

Trice.4598:

Not dungeon related but made me laugh a lot.
“Big Changes are Coming to the Commander System”

BIG CHANGES
BIG CHANGES

lol, they add’ed 3 colors and made it account bound XD #commanderhype

And then we wonder why we don’t get new dungeons.

windowcat.7236:

ANET PLEASE, PLEASE, remove the drop of rings on 30+ lvls. It’s disgusting, how much time you spent on high level fractal to get ring that you don’t need. The fact you are doing 30+ lvls makes obvious that you have all rings and you don’t need more. (Even if you do, you can buy them for 10 pristine cause I bet you have tons of those.) Please anet, I just can’t make myself do another fractal for this crappy reward system at all.
#ETTINBAND4LIFE

Anet is good at removing things…

Wow look, I caught 2 on my hook

Sublimatio.6981:

Take berserker anyway. You can take shield for foreman Spur’s spin attack to survive.

Ermagerd shield, that’s so bad in dungeons, why would you ever need a shield?

dlonie.6547:

I actually agree with point one. They need to add some anti-stacking mechanics to Lupi.

For instance, what if he did some really high damage attacks, but only at melee range? You know, like kick or claw at them? And to drive home that players shouldn’t be stacking, the attacks could knock them back 300-600 units. “Go range, folks!” :-) Some adds that swarm the players while they’re knocked down and at like 10% health might be overkill, but ANet could add them if they really wanted to send a message.

Or a giant, like 600 radius area attack where he shoots a hundred of his projectile bolts at about 200 range? It should instadown any player who stays in it, or at least those zerkers (lol, they’re not even proper tanks with that gear, why should they get that close? That’s DPS gear!!). Make it have like a 0.15s tell so that those elitists that rely on abusing evades can’t just easily dodge out of it.

And to really make sure that nobody tries to stack, a giant (like 900 radius) PBAoE attack, powerful enough to down a zerkerburger, could pop up during the fight. To punish those “players” that just want to finish the runs fast instead of having fun, they could make the attack actually heal Lupi back up. I know, I know, I’m evil >:-) But that would just make those grievers who are ruining the game take longer! Man, I hate those guys. >.<

Maybe someone at ANet will read this and realize how easily they can keep cheaters from meleeing and using what they call “combos” (bugged interactions between skills that somehow give them more damage) to exploit Lupi, and finally implement some of these ideas!

I agree.

The BHB is strong with this one^

I wanted to tell everyone my story and why I’m still here, but I guess I should be talking about food instead

As someone who does FotM regularly I think it’s good to have 55 AR on my trinkets (excluding the karma amulet) just for every alt I make. That’s pretty much the only reason, though.

Kurr.4179:

I’ve had some people tell me they should destroy someone else’s instance because they were selling a path “too cheap” and that it bothered them…. just seriously infuriating.

That was me I think, referring to someone who was obviously exploiting the path and selling it every 10 mins for the quarter of the normal price (very easy to do, for example in Arah path 3 you skip the first 2 bosses – takes maybe 2mins – wall and oneshot Lupi with WoR and you can already post the lfg)… Maybe my standards are too high, but I don’t think someone should be rewarded for doing that.

But hey, whatever… I’m not even selling any more when I see them around. Neither do I go out of my way to destroy their instances or tell anyone they should. Not that the griefers care anyway. I don’t know if it’s still that bad, but when I was selling a long time ago on EU, I had my instance being destroyed multiple times a day. Still, I can’t think of a single time they checked if a path was exploited or not.

From my observation it’s generally two groups of people. Those who think that selling paths in general shouldn’t be allowed and others who are against people making high profits (if there was a way to grief TP flippers, they’d do that too). It really went that far that you would have people kicking you when you asked for help at the Tar boss (or in my case, at the p3 lights when I was still a nub who couldn’t solo them).

I never understood why people from your block list could still join your parties. Or why Anet doesn’t take action against griefers. After months of destroying everyone’s hard work, I still see them logging on daily (I also remember that being said about someone who was famous for it on NA).

Right now, there are not many ways to prevent that from happening to you. You could make proxy parties, but that wouldn’t leave people a way to tell if you are scamming them or not (not that you would do it, it’s just something that many are afraid of). Who would you trust more, someone who already finished the path or someone not even in a dungeon collecting gold for someone else?

Then you could use an extern site to offer your services, but since the introduction of the LFG tool people stopped using gw2lfg. Maybe you could try having a friend post something along the lines of “selling path X, on gw2lfg.com, /join – X gold/each”?
Of course you can also have fillers and let people pay one by one before you invite the next one.
I have done that when I started selling paths. Nowadays I don’t bother having 4 people in the party before I post my LFG any more. I don’t think any of my friends would appreciate me asking to waste their free time every hour or so. Occasionally I’m asking for help in the guild chat and I would only pm someone when I knew that selling on my own isn’t possible right now because there are griefers around (ty IvanTheGrey, I really appreciate your help).

Personally, I learned dealing with griefers as something that just happens. To me, it’s part of my every day business. The first time I was kicked on NA I could only laugh about it, I think I also posted it on the forums. So maybe just accept the situation as it is and move on?

winterchillz.2564:

Just got the fractal rifle in 38. Guess it’s time to make an engi :O

Except… Hobosack hype!

Abstract.9258:

I would think it is just an easy solution of lupi shadowsteping out of the wall every time he is pushed in. Everyone still gets there reflects and everything is balanced phase 3 becomes more interesting with pugs

I thought you could reflect his shadowstep?

I’m watching this on 240p for some real immersion.

Yeah, the dodging applies less to the guard than to everyone else who should be running berserker gear. I think the tell is similar to warrior axe 4 skill.

Sorin.4310:

Some bosses can’t realistically be melee’d 100% of the time. I’ve always just rotated between range and melee for the boss. And when he whirling axes just ignore him for the most part. You certainly can’t melee him during then and he’s reflecting projectiles so most ranged stuff is moot.

The best time to melee him is actually when he uses his whirling axe attack because you can hit him from max melee range without getting hit then. At all other times, try to dodge when he does his AA/pull. If you don’t plan to FGS him down, bring 1 AH guardian who can hold his aggro (he always attacks the one with the highest toughness) so you can keep him in 1 spot, which makes meleeing much easier.

I just met the first griefers on NA, 3 people joined my selling LFG and kicked me

J Eberle.9312:

I have said this before. I will say it again, because I am having some serious issues comprehending the reality of this.
How.
How
H
O
W.
Do posters on forums actually function IRL. Like.
How do they
feed themselves
And like.
Breathe.
W0t.

I heard oxygen makes your body age.

Purple Miku.7032:

No Pulse.2967

Haha, I’ve had him attack me 9 times in a row at the very most. It was during a solo, the most he’s done in a row while in a pug group was 6 times. He’s done 6 in a row plenty of times for me tbh.

The only super-rare RNG I haven’t experienced that I’m just dying to is the legendary level 84 Elite Risen Illusionist spawning in place of the berserker before the Lupicus arena that inappropriately touched Dub.

And I thought I was unlucky
I’m sure I have at least once seen nothing in place of the berserker. No berserker, no other mob, nothing.

Purple Miku.7032:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Meanwhile, I have a streak of 13 (and going) runs without any daily drops at the end , thus beating my old streak of 12.

Blessed be RNG, blessed be fractals.

You haven’t suffered until you’ve firsthand experienced my not-getting-swamp streak of mother f***ing 74 times back to back when rolling for a level 40 run.

Also can’t forget the time I had wraithlord autoattack me 13 times in phase 3 before doing his breath blast, or the time I was triple kicked by Lupicus.

-cries irl and buys magic find boosters from gem store- SAVE ME ANET

But did you have Magecrusher autoattacking you 6 times in a row?

NACotser.4125:

Yeah but now he’s in my ‘Elitist Jerks only’ Arah p2 party. :c

I saw it when I was selling P3

Wethospu.6437:

Would you consider this person tolerant?

He definitely isn’t an elitist.

What the kitten did I just read…

I just got my warrior out of Cursed Shore by guesting on a different server.

Purple Miku.7032:

What the hell is phase 4? Does he start twerking with AoE projectiles landing everywhere or something?

Yeah, he did the p2-p3 transition today at 20% HP (the 2nd time).

If you think that’s weird, then you have never seen Lupi PHASE 4.

Forceful Greatsword is what makes GS stronger when soloing.

I still have that Raider’s chest

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

When does NA has its reset? EU has at 02:00.

Vikkela.7261:

The way you guys over there view Europe is just extremely adorable

I feel so bad for laughing at that…

spoj.9672:

Only bad eles are ineffective in fractals.

Arah mountain goats approve of this thread.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Now try to dodge the unreflectable aoes of the mages with no tells

They have pretty clear tells though

You guys don’t know anything. Eles in this game are healers, that’s why they are supposed to wear cleric’s. Warriors are DDs, thus berserker gear, but they have high hp and therefore can also be played as tanks/offtanks. Guardians tank and hold aggro, they use either PVT or Nomad’s gear. You’re welcome.

Elrey.5472:

I will check that illusionist, sounds like fun Where does he appears exactly?

You don’t choose the illusionist, the illusionist chooses you…

Purple Miku.7032:

You also forgot Simin. :P

Did they break the sparks again?

maxinion.8396:

All of Arah should be doable.

Not the Tar boss.

Silberfisch.3046:

Thank you for cheering me up today everyone.

winterchillz.2564:

Flying level 84 illusionists, anyone? They’ll just roam around and aggro you on random occasions. Kinda like the Mossman instability.

No, they will roam around out of your aggro range but the NPC will occassionally run over and start pulling them to you.

What I would like to see is 0/5/0/6/3 PS.

This could be one of the Arah p5 bosses (mountain goat path).

So I had not much to do today and decided to pug AC. Joined an “experienced” party.

And holy crap… People are still stacking on top of the rubble pile after SQ, breaking their camera in that Kholer corner, skipping Kholer in P1, asking to “kite” in the burrow room, spawning oozes, getting in combat, pulling mobs from the scepter hall to Hodge, dying so often at the last skip that I regret not playing ele and using that stacking spot in P3 (see screenshot).

I think we needed 30 mins just to do P1 (with 2 eles).

Why the hate against engies?

Iris Ng.9845:

How’s about a tall big fierce Male Norn with a retired pirate cross Sons of Svanir flair ? Would be more interesting than trying to have a fancy norn female. I’m not a big fan of hulky woman.

Oh wow Iris, y u do dis to me…

Are PUGs really so awful at the moment? Makes me want to invite you to dungeon runs, lol.