Guild Wars 2

Soloing fractals can be fun if you do it for the challenge, though there’s currently not that much of it left.
The ones you can’t solo are underground facility, aetherblade hideout on some classes I guess (depends on scale, too), swampland, volcanic would be tricky too due to the bubble. Thaumanova is probably doable for some classes, but would be… well, Subject 7 isn’t going to be much fun.

“They will be released by the time people got their third tier backpiece”
Or so said ANet… :^)

Vendor uninfused rings, salvage infused ones.

fishball.7204:

Even ignoring food price for a second, a raid shouldn’t award less than 20 mins of tree logging in Tyria. That’s just dumb imo.

Anet clearly knows how to keep a good economy.

Elomite.2396:

dboylolz.3916:

Elomite.2396:

Wethospu.6437:

As I said before, if you want to waste gold feel free to do that.

Yes, sometimes there is no cheap alternative. Then you just have to bite the bullet and spend gold.

Where are you getting your PS warrior might numbers?

Against bosses like abom where you don’t need to dodge much the only time your might ever goes above 18 is when you do hundred blades or if you have quickness, if you don’t it will drop fast down to numbers like 13,14. You need to compensate by bringing extra might generation through sigils or food. I thought this was common knowledge that even ps warrior could not maintain 25 might without buffs.

In the current raid “meta” you’ll be getting 50% boon duration from the revenant pretty much 80% of the time or more so there’s no need for boon duration food or strength sigil on warrior.

I already stated earlier that this was not accounting for outside sources, if you are relying on a ps warrior alone and they are not using buff food, they cannot maintain 25 might. They will have to sacrifice dps for a strength sigil just so they can save a few silver on food. My point was if the warrior who is the main responsibility for stacking might want’s to cheap out on a few silver that will affect the players who rely on his might, lowering their dps as well and like I said this was just an example of the top of my head, I think wethospu is wrong he says that people would only be losing out on 0.1% damage of a bosses hp, if this was the case people wouldn’t be using food at all because it would be a waste.

I think food provides a very noticeable difference especially on condi classes where you can swap out for a more dps orientated sigil since you can reach condi duration cap with consumables, I also think there is amazing utility food like life steal and endurance regen it gives sustain that could easily carry less experienced players through encounters.

We’re talking about raids here, so not taking outside sources into account is, quite honestly, kittened. Solo, group and squad settings are completely different things with entirely different needs and should be treated accordingly. Besides, he isn’t saying to not use food; he’s saying that you can go down one step (as in asparagus instead of truffle steak) because the difference is overall quite minor. That being said, yes there’s food with bigger impacts.

Reading and informing yourself truly is an exploit.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractal-Master-Collection-Bug
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Upcoming-Fractal-Changes

As for the Agony potion, that’s not a bug. It’s intended for people without any AR whatsoever.
The buff potions are optional, if you wanna invest into them go ahead, you’re not forced to and in all honesty, the only one you’d ever want is the one that improves your damage.

I do agree that new islands would’ve been nice; fractal armor would probably not look good, but we got a fancy backpiece at least.

Just find a nice guild and you won’t have issues.

There should be guaranteed ascended material drops on bosses imo, as in completely refined mats. Those should also be given out if you get multiple kills in a week, albeit at lower amounts.
People can then either a) use them to gear up other characters or b) sell them.
It would also actually help the economy to some degree because lets face it, current ascended gear prices are simply ridiculous in combination with how (relatively) difficult it is to get gold by playing the game and both fractals and raids pretty much requiring you to get up, yet nowhere giving you enough currency/mats to do so.

Also, you should be able to turn in your raid-specifikittenradeable rewards (asc gear gained inside the raid, minis…) in at the raid trader. Allow us to get either get magnetite shards, a mix of shards and gold or raw gold for it; at reasonable rates, of course.

Could you answer those questions, as I don’t think they’ll have any major impact on anything.

1. Will daily chests we get now be affected by the reward update or should we just open them now?
2. Currently, we have +5AR and Stat Infusions. Will we be able to turn those into +7AR and 5 (or maybe even 7) Stat Infusions? This is incredibly important considering fractals now require up to 150 AR and we have Ghostly Infusions which are a pretty good raid reward but only come with 5/5 instead of 7/5.

KaosNinja.4967:

December 1st. an entire patch dedicated to fixing Fractals. and the FRACTAL skin collection is still broken

..except the patch wasn’t dedicated to fractals.

From the perspective of someone who does his PvP daily at best, the current “balance” is pretty much making PvP even less fun for me. I can imagine that it’d scare off a lot of new people if they see DHs with traps locking down points completely, daredevils infinitely dodging and other crazy stuff.

This thread makes no sense tbh.

If you really expected the fractal changes to hit on the 1st, your fault… lol. People should know ANet well enough by now.

luzt.7692:

Good for you that you still can play that ruined content.
Haven’t entered fractals for 4 weeks.

The patch isn’t gonna make it relive its former glory.
People will still do easy fracs,
He didn’t mention anything about changing those stupid instabilities
Or about mobs hitting like wet noodles and we probably know why!
It’ll scare away some of the casual players that got into Fractals since HoT.

Extra gold rewards isn’t gonna make it fun again.
Let me mail you 100g, is mailbox suddenly the most fun content of Gw2? no

No, it’s not going to.
I still like to think it’s a good first step and adresses the most important issues as of now.
Want to run high scales? Do them. I still agree there should be a higher incentive to run them, including a featured 51-75 and 76-100 daily.

…people really use this tactic? lol

Will Lucky.8703:

So is this due for today or for later on in the month?

Today would be very unlikely, put your bets on the 15th.

Taku.6352:

Idm the grindy bits because I knew it beforehand but suddenly slapping huge grind walls and gating content and rewards behind them (fractals say hi) is just disgusting and pretty much the main reason I’ve stopped playing GW2

Yeah, it’s usually not that bad in Warframe.
But it’s often that one piece of a new prime frame/weapon which makes me want to bang my head into the wall.

Taku.6352:

Kinda stopped playing after HoT came out, never got around to finishing the story with kittened mastery gates/grind not to mention the glorious fractal update.

Mostly been playing Warframe and Fallout 4 to pass the time.

Warframe is good, but kitten the grind is real.

GrimmR.3541:

Novaan, don’t be mean. :p

Grimm pls, winter likes that

spoj.9672:

How many different topics on enrage timers can we get? This is going to break the record for all the repeated anti zerk threads there were in the past.

Just wait for the day where they combine both (not like they haven’t already started)

You can get an idea of when you have to phase Gorseval by looking at the total time you have etc.; you can very well notice if it’s a lack of dps or failing the mechanics that kills you. As for checking for weak links in your squad, you can get a rough idea if you take a look at what everyone is playing, checking their rotations… The combat log can help too. I agree though that it’s awfully annoying to do so and having statistics available to watch would be very, very helpful.
On a side note, raids aren’t meant to be pugged in the first place.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Our two big popular threads (this and general discussion) keep getting buried.

I guess there’s just nothing to talk about at the moment.

rip Fashion thread

winterchillz.2564:

Admit it, you only enjoyed that fractal because the best charr EU joined you.

Fun went down by a few levels once you joined. :^)

Just salvage any infused ring drop you may get, that works well enough.

The fractal-run was actually quite fun btw. :P

xcheese.6345:

Exactly. This is why raids need to have a reasonable success rate for coherent and organized pugs. Unfortunately this is not the current reality of gw2, mainly because of the implementation of raid timers.

…? Elaborate please.

LezardValeth.9453:

winterchillz.2564:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

The first ones are painful to get, but soon afterwards you’ll be swimming in them.

This. I’m getting like 2-3 of each kind daily.

Okay, then let me go deeper. What level should I get my personal fractal reward level at? I was planning on 51, then trying to solo some of the lower levels. Do I need to be in level 51 in order to get a certain mist essence item needed for fusing ascended trinkets?

According to wiki the shards start dropping at 50+, but I don’t pay attention to it so I can’t verify. If you have enough vials/globs (doesn’t sound like you do, but who knows) then you can check the wiki for the recipe to upgrade those into a shard.

Cletus Van Damme.2795:

17% of failures are “cat walking across keyboard”

…this made me laugh because it’s actually the case in our raid squad.

Sorean.5379:

What do you think about Augury of Death?

All builds Ive seen for Reaper takes Chilling Nova instead.

I think both are great,and since I’m aiming for a melee/minion build with Reapers Shroud,Augury of Death would be great for more survivability.

While Chilling Nova is great for more damage.

I’m using Chilling Nova right now because everyone takes it so it must be superior to Augury of Death,but if I ever take Augury of Death I think will change my elite to Chilled to the Bone,because since I’m melee the synergy would be better than Golem I think…(Because it is not guaranteed that golem will hit the target you want for the cripple)

Augury is good, but you’re not always going to have shouts on your bar/the CDR won’t always matter. So it’s something you can swap to if it’s necessary, but nothing you normally keep traited.

Taku.6352:

Would have to be quite a disguise to conform to all 9 of my lovely lettuce ladies.

Who knows what kind of exploits the female human meta is aware of.

Taku.6352:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

winterchillz.2564:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

winterchillz.2564:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

winterchillz.2564:

cough I’ve been running fractals and dungeons daily cough You know there’s always a spot for you cough

Playing with you means having to deal with Charr. That’s a very big tradeoff, not sure if it’s worth it. :^)

You pitiful human, I will crush you. Rawr!

Edit: Does anyone have an idea what’s the status of [NooB] at this point? I saw Ares decided to quit mentoring outside of the guild, I don’t see NooB being very active. Hey, I might actually start up a dungeons/fractals mentoring, this will be something fun to do.

He thinks Sylvari are the same as humans, hah, that silly Charr.

You’re lucky I’m not vegetarian.

I’m lucky I don’t have to touch that lice-infested fur of yours.

You plebs. Sylvari are obviously far superior to some filthy humans.

Wow, insulting a fellow of the Sylvari-masterrace. Are you sure you aren’t just a female human in disguise?

saturn.4810:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

saturn.4810:

1. remove raids
2. revert fractals to the old system
3. revert dungeon rewards

There, dungeons saved.

pls don’t do step 1
pls no

Raids are the cause for Anet’s total neglect of any other instanced content.

Not only was no other instanced content (outside of story) added for over 2 years, but the rewards for the existing content were nerfed into nothingness.

It’s really hard for me not to bear a grudge against raids.

ANet started looking for raid devs a bit over a year ago.
Dungeons got the last addition two years ago at the expense of an existing path.
Before that, we barely got anything and didn’t really get all that much attention either.
Raids aren’t exactly the cause of that, it’s the fact the dungeon team has been laid off a long time ago and ANet never had much interest in expanding on dungeons for reasons probably only they know.

Warlord.9074:

Thaddeus.4891:

Warlord.9074:

problem is that reapers bring nothing to the table in terms of group support so given the DPS is not as strong and they don’t offer support why chose a reaper over an engi or a warrior.

Because raid are a group of 10 players. Yes Warrior bring banners, but after you have two of them, the third don’t don’t bring much more than dps.

The engie bring blast for water field, but the vast majority of group in raid don’t use them because they need some coordination unless you blast your own Healing Turrets, Mortar Water fields. Stealth is useless in raids and might is almost never a problem, meaning that the support from an engie is pretty much some cc and some healing. The reaper too can bring CC, so the difference between the support of a Warrior, Reaper and Engineer isn’t that much (Unless you don’t have at least one PS Warrior or 2 of them for Gorseval and Sabetha).

And reaper bring A LOT for Gorseval with chill and epidemic.

I’m not aginst reapers in raids I am just pointing out that basically what a reaper can bring to the table another class can bring more. Engi and Warrior both bring more CC than a reaper too. It isn’t just cc, water fields from the engi and cc, tactics and str banner, and battle standard from the warrior.

Both those classes offer much more than this in terms of group support. While in a perfect comp thats all they need to bring in un perfect comps there are a lot options engis and warriors have in utility and traits that can improve the comp with minor changes to fill a void or fix a problem. Necros have nothing like that.

Necros do have some stuff that’s benefical to the party; vampiric presence and transfusion come to mind. They have decent amounts of CC without giving anything else up (for example, many warriors currently switch to Mace/Mace for CC, crippling their dps a lot if they have to use it) and they have a rather simple rotation which pretty much always works whereas engis are heavily reliant on targets not moving and the rotations get pretty crazy. Of course, getting rotations down is a l2p issue and Gorseval isn’t moving much/Sabetha isn’t moving at all afaik, but it really depends.
Not saying Necros are op as hell in raids, but I feel like you’re not giving them enough credit.

saturn.4810:

1. remove raids
2. revert fractals to the old system
3. revert dungeon rewards

There, dungeons saved.

pls don’t do step 1
pls no

Something that should be mentioned is that you can upgrade vials into globs into shards and downgrade shards into globs into vials; might be helpful to some people.

LezardValeth.9453:

I forgot to mention that I’m at fractal level 47 and I still only have 15 AR. Trying to get to 51 before the December update, but its getting harder since people keep doing AR checks.

Your best bet for more AR would be getting more trinkets/weapons/armor pieces so you can put +5s or, once you have the mastery, +7s in.

The first ones are painful to get, but soon afterwards you’ll be swimming in them.

PvP :^)

/15charsofesports

As the general saying goes, the people happy with the content are busy playing it while those not are busy kittening on the forum.

Also >looking at the kittening LFG to draw your conclusions
Very good way to do that when raids are content meant for guilds and people who already know each other and thus ANet doesn’t even give proper support for raid pugging.

It doesn’t even matter if it’s cost effective, it’s the fact people originally spent money on those infusions and can’t use them now on high scales, thus a way to upgrade them into +7AR and +7stat or at least +7AR and +5 stat is required.

Flesh Golem was always great to at least decent, depending on where you used it and the state of the game (for example the FGS nerf was a heavy hit for Flesh Golem too)
Minions can be useful if you run around solo because you can get quite high amounts of toughness + the damage reduction from rise while running around in full dps gear and even getting some bonus power, given you go Death Magic. What I generally suggest is Flesh Golem + Blood Fiend and additionally Rise if you feel like you need it, otherwise whatever else should occupy the slot in that situation. If there’s nothing and you don’t need Rise, just go Signet of Spite; other two utility slots are pretty much always Well of Suffering and Corruption for me as the burst is pretty good and BM offers protection on well-cast + CDR on wells. Spite/Blood Magic/Reaper as traitlines because it’s nice damage and if there’s no one else around, at least your minions can benefit from vampiric presence. Quickening Thirst is also nice QoL to get 25% IMS as long as you have your dagger equipped. Would not suggest going staff.

Junkpile.7439:

I would kick viper reapper too. Dire reapper is much better.

Hah.

Honestly, those people are some you don’t want to raid with anyway, they’d fail, get wrecked and wouldn’t bother to change their strategy/just get mad and ragequit.

winterchillz.2564:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

winterchillz.2564:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

winterchillz.2564:

cough I’ve been running fractals and dungeons daily cough You know there’s always a spot for you cough

Playing with you means having to deal with Charr. That’s a very big tradeoff, not sure if it’s worth it. :^)

You pitiful human, I will crush you. Rawr!

Edit: Does anyone have an idea what’s the status of [NooB] at this point? I saw Ares decided to quit mentoring outside of the guild, I don’t see NooB being very active. Hey, I might actually start up a dungeons/fractals mentoring, this will be something fun to do.

He thinks Sylvari are the same as humans, hah, that silly Charr.

You’re lucky I’m not vegetarian.

I’m lucky I don’t have to touch that lice-infested fur of yours.

winterchillz.2564:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

winterchillz.2564:

cough I’ve been running fractals and dungeons daily cough You know there’s always a spot for you cough

Playing with you means having to deal with Charr. That’s a very big tradeoff, not sure if it’s worth it. :^)

You pitiful human, I will crush you. Rawr!

Edit: Does anyone have an idea what’s the status of [NooB] at this point? I saw Ares decided to quit mentoring outside of the guild, I don’t see NooB being very active. Hey, I might actually start up a dungeons/fractals mentoring, this will be something fun to do.

He thinks Sylvari are the same as humans, hah, that silly Charr.

ChrizZcE.5981:

“Ping your gear” is the very first thing every PUG Raid group asks for now.

If you don´t have full ascended armor with the right stats good luck finding a group.

I feel like it´s time for me to leave the game now.

Don´t have the energy anymore to run in circles in the SW for 100+ hours just to get a minor stat increase.

…or you could raid with a guild?

winterchillz.2564:

cough I’ve been running fractals and dungeons daily cough You know there’s always a spot for you cough

Playing with you means having to deal with Charr. That’s a very big tradeoff, not sure if it’s worth it. :^)

Lendruil.9061:

Basically what the title says. It is annoying to wait for your skills to wait to come off cooldown after you wiped on a boss. It already works in pvp, please implement this feature in raids aswell.

This is something that actually bothers me as well. Shouldn’t be too difficult to implement either. I mean it mainly affects elite skills but would still be nice.

eldrin.6471:

Lets see were this all goes when the people who spend real money and work for a living and don’t like that no life basement dwelling raiders get all the shinny s go elsewhere.
casual=more money than time and spends it on entertainment.

lol
So everyone who actually… plays the game for a few hours per day and manages to get something done is a no-lifing basement dweller? At first I thought you’re serious, but now it’s pretty obvious you’re just trying to troll.

eldrin.6471:

legendarys are not a must have item?Are you crazy?What else is it you think was behind most of the gem purchases in the last 3 years?Do you honestly think all the big spenders on this game just buy skins?You poor deluded soul

Legendaries are a “want”, not a “must” in order to get through the game.
You want something of truly legendary tier? kittening work for it. Simple as that.

eldrin.6471:

Will the raiders get out there credit cards and make up for the inevitable loss of income the game will suffer due to the casuals being locked out of the latest greatest must have legendary gear?And who is going to admire there new shinny legendary armours when the casuals that funded this game since launch have got sick of not getting to play what they paid for and the servers have shut down?

Yes, because “legendary” armor surely is legendary if everyone is running around with it… You said that as if there’s anyone who plays longer for a month who goes “wow, he has a legendary weapon!”. It’s more like “oh, another eternity.”

Mortifer.2946:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Mortifer.2946:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

What does that have to do with elitism…?

He basically said raids are not hard enough because PUG people can get it too… So he kitten ed even harder content so the ones who beat it can feel special, can feel….elite

He wants a challenge, which is completely fine. He also said that said harder encounters should be in a seperate difficulty without touching the “original” difficulty we have right now, instead of just ramping it up.
The raids in their current state are completely doable by everyone who is willing to improve and invest time into it. It’s great that we finally have content you can’t just roll through.

Even harder difficulty? I would rather arenanet made some nice new maps not bound to timer…. or fix bugs… or add more raids – but harder? so only 0,1% of players can enjoy them? nah..

It is clear you don’t enjoy hardcore content; at the same time there’s people who don’t enjoy open world content etc.
Instead of wanting the content to be easier, you should want to improve yourself in order to clear it. If you can’t/want to do so, then there’s plenty of other content for you to enjoy. Leave those who like the challenge their raids.

Cayenne.5341:

Hi I have been playing since beta but had very long breaks and returned a bit ago and I have not been playing the necro for long. With sliders all the way back you mean low settings? Playing on a strong computer, I am playing at highest settings, maybe that is a mistake then? It is a shame though when we have to make the game less pretty in order to see what is going on.

No, they mean the Field of View slider.