Guild Wars 2

JasmineLong.6514:

Recycled thread?!? I’ve never seen this topic being brought up therefore the OPs issue and opinions must be genuine and not just another PHIW post because they got kicked from a group for not contributing to the team. It’s not like this has ever been discussed before.

You must be new to the trashcan forum.

I think he already did his homework

Iris Ng.9845:

Would be good against Captain Ashym as well.

Especially when he has FGS.

My new warrior look…

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Purple Miku.7032:

FGS would be pretty terrible without fiery rush.

Yeah it would be on par with other ele elites

Nothing against Rocky…

Here is mine:

Do you play on NA or EU?

Wethospu.6437:

Firestorm from Imbued is instant cast so I’m pretty sure it is always used on cooldown. So if you know its cooldown you should be in theory be able to dodge out of it every time. But I have to verify this.

Even if it always had the same cooldown, that can get messed up by chill. It’s just bad design for a boss to have a hard-hitting attack that has no animation at all.

Trice.4598:

Thanks for the tips on mage crusher, that’s exactly what I was looking for. [/quote]

If you’re looking for a ranged weapon to choose, shortbow can give you a higher sustain but p/p can kill the hands way quicker, so it’s really up to you.

Ropechef.6192:

i had not thought about the shortbow for entities.

LEARNINGS!!!!

Cluster Bomb has a really nice synergy with Signet of Malice (keep in mind that the entities are immune to conditions, though). If you still have issues with the light debuff, you can use lifesteal food and/or the new Invigorating Precision trait.

Elrey.5472:

Oozes part is done in first try and 30 seconds if you do the “Not defending oozes” strategy. This strat is based in NOT using specific proffesions, since you don’t need guards or warriors or mesmers or anything specific to achieve this fast.

How to? With 4 players.
1: Two players join room (one for each side) and 2 other players stay outside.
2: The first two players aggro all elementals in their side AND also ooze, but then they attack nothing and let ooze dies.
3: As soon as ooze dies, they RUN to the end of their path, to the wall exactly. The 3 elementals will follow them and they can now just tank them away from ooze (you got a small 10 seconds window before a new ooze respawn to do this)
4: The other 2 players now join the room, they move an ooze each one safely ^^.
5: The first players kill elementals before the oozes reachs them, sometimes you will want to keep elementals alive until ooze is half-way done, otherwise they would respawn too soon. Nevertheless, if they respawn, ozzes are more than 50% way done so it’s almost impossible to mess it up.

Result? oozes get 0 damage, oozes don’t need defense, oozes are never hit… and you do it in 30 seconds.

That strategy sounds very familiar I can confirm that it works really well (probably the most reliable method).

Trice.4598:

xallever.1874:

Honestly. If people should complain about anything, it’s the untelegraphed aoe from the last boss at the grawl fractal.

At least you can block this one, and you don’t have to stay in it (in a party it’s really hard to remove stack without staying in the AoE with her at least until she start an auto-attack) I just think that the mechanic of the fight doesn’t fit well with extremely high damage. Just think how ridiculous it is going to be at level 80, Electric field hitting 8k? autoattack doing 12k/8k? Fire cannon doing 15k , spin 12k

You don’t have to stay inside Horrik’s AoE. That’s what I say to every pug I’m running that fractal with and it works just fine. I’m sure that you can do something that even works in pugs. Either a) kite around and let her get hit by the AoE randomly or b) trigger the melee attack before the lightning AoE hits (every 3rd attack I believe) or c) coordinate your CC. I don’t have anything against the boss design because it makes people to rethink their strategy (weapons, traits and in worst cases even gear). Just don’t make up gambits for yourself like “I absolutely have to facetank the boss until she loses her shield stacks”.

The problem with the untelegraphed AoE from Imbued Grawl Shaman is that it’s gonna hit you at least once before you can dodge out of it. If you’re playing thief or elementalist you can only hope it won’t happen many times as it can force you to get out of combat to regenerate your HP.

Trice.4598:

Tar can’t really be solo’ed, but I’m more interested into the rest of the path :P. also orb is quiet easy on thief (shadow trap with shadow step) , but I can’t get past mage crusher since they changed him

You should have enough gapclosers (dagger 2 and sword 2) to melee the ooze, entities are easy with shortbow and Signet of Malice. For Lupi I think there are enough guides out there, you can use a 6/5/0/3/0 acro build, though that’s far from being necessary and you can do just fine on a 6/6/0/0/2 max dps build (I have a thief solo on my channel- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPgQMbY1n4 -it’s not really new but tactics should have remained the same). If you want to solo Jotun, go into the room first and then back out so the NPC can die and you can try it again by talking to the Jotun. Then collect like 4 crystals to be safe and just afk while dodging the occasional lava font.

The cheesy way to kill Hunter/Crusher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGybllqtjaY (line of sight both, have the hunter standing in front of the crusher, don’t target the hunter, max melee range the crusher and PW his hammer attack). Magecrusher can be killed with kiting him around the Lyssa statue, but you can also clear some hands and fight him in his area. For cheese mode just go ranged, then his autoattacks are easy to avoid. If you want to solo the ritual at the end, either use stealth+SB 5 (incredibly easy with harpy feathers) to enter the circles or equip dagger/pistol and 5+2 into the circles and 3 back out.

I can confirm that we need more Arah mentors

spoj.9672:

http://youtu.be/TTYz439cA5w

Stacking such op exploit.

Hahaha, ty, that made my day

I am running 0/5/0/6/3 most of the time.

Iris Ng.9845:

Ele don’t do reflect :>

You casual, nothing is better than an aurashare staff earth camping ele.

LordByron.8369:

I know that dungeon forum purpose is to show peoples skill by answering L2P everywhere.

But its quite an insult to human intelligence to debate if mai trinn at level 21-40 is balanced.
Its clearly not: play any other and then play Mai….

Also i say that LFG tool is clearly speaking by itself on how the community likes the fractal.
I didn t see fractals so empty since cliffside had a gamebreaking bug making adepts+fanatics to infinite spawn at boss (and sum each phase you end up with 12-16 if i remember well).

Just pugged a lvl 29 with someone who was new to fractals. 1-2 downs, not a single wipe at Mai (I just told them they need to stay closer to her than me so I can take her shadowshot aggro).

Cotser.7015:

Well the no grub/bubble/kick rule is always in place when soloing lupi on thief because the grub will knock you down and locusts kill you, bubble almost 1shots you and kick almost one shots you. With 3 in acro+signet of agility phase 3 in mid wouldn’t be hard. Phase 2 has never been difficult on thief..
Edit: The opposite of soft is changed to kitten.

Umm not exactly true

Gj on the solo! Also nice music (that’s exactly my music taste, lol). I think I should also try a lvl 50 solo Only did the last 25% once after my pug wiped at the cannon phase.

You should definitely use T3 cultural armor.

We’re in the PvF top ranks.

Look at that Rune of Hoelbrak price, lol.

TKiller.6829:

I’m having trouble seeing it useful even in WvW to be honest. People blasting water fields on commander demand in damage+armor gear will be more useful than guardians rolling around (literally) with silly traits and gear.

Commander builds.

And you all thought PVT leechers were bad.

Fixing this thread.

15sadcharrs

Vikkela.7261:

Saint.5647:

Necros have some pretty weak team synergy. They are still quite strong standalone or in low manning. Have had some fun play with Necro guildies.

It’s just pretty sad that the guild you’re advertising in your signature specifically says in their post that they don’t use Necroes

Must be discouraging to main a Necro/Ranger in PvE with stuff like this everywhere

I’m pretty sure they are referring to dungeon tours only.

So participants will be able to use all consumables (like Power Matrix or Tome of Knowledge)?

I actually led 4 guildies through a fractal once (that I opened). They seemed to be quite thankful and even apologized for dying

As already mentioned, always be the one who opens the dungeon.

I was pugging AC P1 once. They decided to skip Kholer so I lured him into the burrow room where he obliterated everyone. 10 seconds later I saw the Plains of Ashford loading screen.

NeoVaris.4806:

AC 1/2 (P3 if you don’t mind time gated events)
CM (all paths) – CM P2 is around the same length as P1, if not faster, so you could probably also include all of them as mentioned.
TA Fw and Up
SE 1/3
CoF 1/3 (P2, again if you don’t mind time gated events)
HotW 1
CoE 1/3 (unless you like the husk part, which is boring unless your team decides its fun to kill each other)
Arah 1/2/3

Pretty much this. I would also do CoE only if you have finished everything else. The time/reward ratio is really low.

Sedrigoth.1978:

“You know what, screw it…I’m tired of carrying you guys through all these dungeons. I’m going back to pvp.”

Story of my life.

Enaretos.8079:

Inb4 someone discovers that I’m AI-controlled :/

Reported for botting.

TKiller.6829:

I don’t really see what then. Frenzied blasts in phases 2 and 3 are the only things that are sorta rngish.

I see you’re referring to his AOE (which I thought was called Necrid Barrage). If that’s the case, never mind then

TKiller.6829:

No Pulse.2967:

TKiller.6829:

Why would anyone want to keep him in phase 1 lmao.

Oh well, probably underwater stuff.

Play thief, you’ll understand… If there only was a legal way to do it, lol.

I’m usually very lucky with frenzied blast, so nah.

I’m not talking about Frenzied Blast, though

dutchiez.7502:

The NPC can also bug out when she is holding the chicken on top of the platform. Idk what causes it and there is no way to fix it. It basically stops you from progressing to the ritual and forces you to restart.

I had that twice while soloing. The NPC just lost the chicken after taking it (she wasn’t holding it any more and it was not in the cage), thus the ritual couldn’t be started.

TKiller.6829:

Why would anyone want to keep him in phase 1 lmao.

Oh well, probably underwater stuff.

Play thief, you’ll understand… If there only was a legal way to do it, lol.

You might consider pulling up your skirt, children are watching.

Cotser.7015:

Sword + Pistol- cleaves locusts and lupi, if he spawns too many at once you can always back up a small bit so he can’t kick you.

That’s actually something I would never do in that situation. If he cannot kick you, he will spawn locusts every 2nd attack.

There is no friendly fire in this game though. Except for Arah p1…

Just use Hoelbrak runes and lemongrass food, your 2 best friends in wvw and at soloing Belka

IvanTheGrey.2941:

No Pulse.2967:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Lol, yeah, we’re pretty solid. We do do guild runs all the times. I’m just addicted to pugging right now lol. That, and sometimes no one wants to run arah the second I do and I get impatient lol.

Feel free to join me in WvW after your burnout

Does that mean I’ll have to buy PVT gear?

Nah, just get dire and rabid. It’s really strong atm (or go berserker’s with hoelbrak runes).
Roaming is actually quite fun with some friends.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Lol, yeah, we’re pretty solid. We do do guild runs all the times. I’m just addicted to pugging right now lol. That, and sometimes no one wants to run arah the second I do and I get impatient lol.

Feel free to join me in WvW after your burnout

On top of that you have 12 seconds of invulnerability from Signet of Stone and Protect Me.

Iris Ng.9845:

I’m wondering which classes would use 6/6/0/0/2 besides Thief, Engi and a very rare occasion of Mesmer.

Warrior!

Oxidia.8103:

The kicked players were ok players, did nothing wrong.

You said that so it must be true.

“Random quotations too stronk”
Anonymous

dlonie.6547:

It’d be really cool if they started fighting each other ala Troll/Kholer.

My guess is that by the time they whittled Lupi down to 75% with ~14 grubs, the first phase 2 AoE would wipe them out xD.

Actually we didn’t let him eat grubs And my guess is that he killed himself on the p2 feedback

dlonie.6547:

I was thinking this morning that I’d like to see a group pull all (or at least most) of the risen mob from before Lupi into his arena and fight them and Lupi at the same time. It’d be hilarious

We had that once with an elementalist. He must have died in phase 2 (noone has seen him dying).

Welcome back Iris!

I’m getting more and more into wvw. Inb4 becoming a PvX scrub