Guild Wars 2

Taku.6352:

HoT subforum never ceases to amaze me.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Missing-Closed-Beta-Invitation-Compensation

A legendary? A godkitten legendary? We should probably get a full set of ascended equip and fractal skins then… zzzz.

cranos.5913:

No thanks, I prefer helping ppl level up while doing the levels I normally do. It’s a win-win.

What does that have to do with what the OP wants?
The OP is saying (from what I get) that ANet should remove all ways of getting AR from outside fractals (or in case of MF upgrades, require at least one account bound item you can only get in fractals) so that people actually have to grind their way through fractals with low AR, like it was on release.
I’d welcome going back to that point too, but it’s simply too late.

dlonie.6547:

Well, WildStar just got a lot more compelling.

tl;dr, WS is going F2P “sometime this fall” (no date given).

B&S finally coming over here, now WS going F2P… I can’t handle this, it’s too much! lol

deSade.9437:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Raids

This is pretty good, me thinks. “No more sitting in corners with zerk gear spamming 1!”

They neeeever get tired of this argument.

People will never learn… zzzz

deSade.9437:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

deSade.9437:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

deSade.9437:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

backlog

:o?

Are you asking what’s in my backlog or what a backlog is? Can’t exactly follow right now. :v

… both?
I’m so tired …. <.< not even my new Barry White voice can make me less miserable. sob.
Ah btw can anyone tell me what this is

Get well soon.

Backlog = List of games bought, but not yet started/finished. Boils down to 90% of my steam library – On top of that, some of my games I own aren’t even listed yet for some reason and I’m quite invested in DFO right now, which is another MMO. …I think I need help.

As for that monstrosity, said person probably has a bunch of… er, specific preferences?

<3
Nahhhh, you’re fine. Avid gamer! It’s hot. I can’t help but wonder, though, why we have so little privacy. Feisbuck, steam… hours played, what you do, what you don’t… everyone keeping you under the magnifying glass?Owell. /shrug
I’m super boring… I’ve played like, what, 10 games in my whole life? I tend to pick one and nerd the hell out of it until I’m burnt out. Been doing that since I was a kid I’m not a big fan of “changes”. Changes bite.

And I bet he does

P.S. Is devil may cry any good? I like horror stuff and I got told many times I should play/watch that.

Well, we choose to give up our privacy on our own, after all. We do have the choice to hide everything/things not everyone is supposed to see, most people just decide to leave all their info open to see for everyone.
Oh, I usually grab one game and focus on that too, once I’m done with said game I move on to the next – that’s always kind of a problem with MMOs. lol

Devil May Cry is a great series (except 2, but I like to pretend DMC2 doesn’t exist), but it’s quite far from horror. The first installment was supposed to be a new Resident Evil, but then got “warped” into what’s Devil May Cry, fast Hack’n’Slash action. None of those games will scare you (except 2, but in a “wow it’s scary how devs can kitten up so hard and ruin everything” way)

deSade.9437:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

deSade.9437:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

backlog

:o?

Are you asking what’s in my backlog or what a backlog is? Can’t exactly follow right now. :v

… both?
I’m so tired …. <.< not even my new Barry White voice can make me less miserable. sob.
Ah btw can anyone tell me what this is

Get well soon.

Backlog = List of games bought, but not yet started/finished. Boils down to 90% of my steam library – On top of that, some of my games I own aren’t even listed yet for some reason and I’m quite invested in DFO right now, which is another MMO. …I think I need help.

As for that monstrosity, said person probably has a bunch of… er, specific preferences?

Enaretos.8079:

Ok guys, so this happened today xD

That look is priceless.

Nyx.7342:

maha.7902:

the problem with mossman and archdiviner is having hard hitting attacks which are poorly choreographed (or in the case of when mossman stealths, absolutely zero until you get dumped by a bouncing axe out of nowhere). the only reason people know how to dodge them in melee is pre-emptively by knowing the timing (a bit like alpha’s teeth attack, no way you can react fast enough to the cast to dodge it).

This thread is so dam interesting to read.

Mossman and archdiviner are so fun! (well the first archdiviner not the second one) But they are w/e in organized groups, altho most content really is. The second archdiviner is definitely bad since it’s hard to reactively dodge his attacks since i’ve been hit many times when dodging after hte animation starts, pretty sure it hits at the start of the animation.

I would say I enjoy Bosses that move around more fun than stationary ones, and although i agree they shouldn’t be like pvp players since that would end up being more frustrating than satisfying there needs to be something more than orchestrated attacks. I like pvp more than pve because of the fact that not everything can be planned out. The fact that you have to reactively change up your strategy is what makes pvp difficult and it’s something that is missing from pve. No idea how that can be implemented but with a dynamic combat system it seemse necessary to make great content.

I don’t think PvE needs exactly that.
However there are games with bosses/enemies which react if certain skills are used or specific things happen; for example, use an elite skill and the boss pulls up a shield which needs to get destroyed. This puts you in a situation where you have to decide if using elites is helpful or if it’s better to completely ignore them. Another example is a boss in the same game who reacts to burst damage; if you hit a certain amount of DPS on him, he starts spawning mobs at one of the edges of the map. Those then proceed to cover a part of the map with gunfire and vanish after some time; if you keep bursting, he summons more mobs and – eventually – launches a nuke which wipes the team if they don’t find cover. You end up having to decide if your team is capable of bursting him down fast enough or if you’re better off slowly killing him.

We already have that here to some degree, but I think that’s something that could be expanded on.

Amineo.8951:

Guess i shouldn’t have returned in this game, this is probably the last time i ever post in these forums too, and then people says the community is one of the best in any MMO’s? This is a toxic one for sure…

Well, lets be fair, it is kinda funny; you’re getting mad over someone who doesn’t know the game, yet you end up kicking yourself because you didn’t play after months and end up closing your instance.

Yes, it sucks, but you gotta stand above it – and besides, those people who have no idea how everything works etc. won’t read this sub (or the forum in general, for that matter) anyway.

deSade.9437:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

backlog

:o?

Are you asking what’s in my backlog or what a backlog is? Can’t exactly follow right now. :v

deSade.9437:

dlonie.6547:

deSade.9437:

Yeah you better level up. And be quick.
Honestly, I dunno what the fuss is all about. Surely there’s no fuss with me since I suck at dungeons, but I suck in a funny way. So they say at least. I make the stupidest mistakes and then go crazy on ts.

Sounds like me :P

…. anyone hyped for HoT? The more I play in stress tests and betas, the less I’m optimistic. I haven’t seen anything that could catch my interest for more than a week.

Let’s just say that at this point, I don’t even plan on buying it when it releases. If they decide to add some decent instanced stuff or I start seeing old friends return and stay for more than 2 hours, I might change my mind. Otherwise I’ll wait until the price drops to about $10 :-/

If all we’re getting with HoT is another SW/DT, then no thanks. Didn’t like those the first time around….

Well it seems like it’ll be only that, but we can’t know. There surely will be something else… yeah? Hopefully? /sigh
They talked about challenging… cling to that.

I’m gonna buy it anyway because everyone else is, and I want the revenant to have another toy I can fashion with. That’s pretty much it.
She’s gonna be super pretty

P.S. I may even remake my necro. We’ll see. I’m bored.

Yeah, we didn’t see anything of the group content and, to be honest, letting us do that kind of content in a stresstest that’s free to access for everyone who had a bit of luck wouldn’t be the best idea either.
I’m gonna wait for the release, listen to what the people say, watch a bunch of videos and then see if it’s worth it or not.
I have enough games to play and a backlog huge enough to bury people underneath it for now. lol

Didn’t participate, but I heard condition cap got increased/lifted? Is that true or did someone try to fool me?

deSade.9437:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

deSade.9437:

What have I just read?

As I said before in a comment which earned me a forum ban, this game was designed to make it easy for bad players to leech off good players.

“All want play this game and all must learn how so be patience and stop kicking ppl”

=Carry me plz.

SMH

F*** the system, f*** the rules!
#anarchyintheuk

And this
dun remember who posted it first

That attachment. Shoot me now please.

Lindbur.2537:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Lindbur.2537:

I get sidetracked in Witcher 3 too much, what with all the contracts and scavenger hunts… :/

You make it sound like that’s bad.

Nah. It’s just that I want to get on with finding Ciri but at the same time I can’t say no to upgrades for my witcher gear, etc. Spoilt for choice.

Then the choice is obvious; get those sweet, sweet upgrades.

Lindbur.2537:

I get sidetracked in Witcher 3 too much, what with all the contracts and scavenger hunts… :/

You make it sound like that’s bad.

deSade.9437:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Next-time-tell-us-the-test-duration-first/first#post5092267

And I thought I’m too whiny on occasion…
Jeer, if people actually stopped being as dumb as a bag of rocks. Ugh. HoT forum is a cesspool.

Uhm, can I actually solo arah SM now? I wanted a solo on mes but I just noticed I don’t have it <.<

(Wish me luck for locust rng will ya)

Isn’t half the forum a cesspool?

Locusts are gonna kitten you up a bunch of times, then you’ll have good RNG. My guess.

deSade.9437:

Yeah? You have abt. 6 seconds before you get revealed. So bb shadow refuge. Annd stacking stealth since you get revealed after any stealth even when not in combat.

I think they were trying to “fix” the stealth stacking or something, and ended up making a mess.
As usual.

I wonder how long it takes them to fix. I guess it’ll be faster, since it’s not only dungeon related.

So I heard stealth is bugged now?

maha.7902:

any actual big dungeon/fractal changes I might have missed

lol

I know, I know. lol

@Jerus: Ah, so only annoying stuff. Thanks for the heads up

deSade.9437:

Omg I like the new gemstore skins. Someone slap me violently across the face before I sell everything I have on the chest and go broke.

Ingame-broke or spending actual money? If the former, go for it. :v

winterchillz.2564:

Found a super awesome high resolution painting of Rytlock. Now gonna turn it into a render (I think that’s the name of it?) and use it for a t-shirt.

CHAAAAAAAAARR

Yeah, it can be called render.

Oh, I’m probably going to play a bit again in a few days. Anything I should be prepared for/any actual big dungeon/fractal changes I might have missed after not having played for over half a year?

Minigrump.4961:

look who i found

No. Oh god no. Why is he outside? Is he going to follow us into other dungeons? Then again, could be Varra.

@wauwi: Read half the OP. Closed thread. Welp.

wauwi.9162:

Simon says “DODGE!”.

But I have no dodge button, only W+1

Windsagio.1340:

First time I sold a fractal…

last thing the guy said to us:

“This wasn’t worth it”

I think he got a magi’s ring… for 24 gold.

I hate selling fractals (although my friends like to try it) because it feels to me like I’m cheating people. They’re so unlikely to get value, it’s not like dungeons where’ tis guaranteed progress.

24g? That’s pretty high. Did you sell a Lv50?

//Also I bought, sold and gave away fractals in the past, nothing big. Chances are low, but some people really want the skins and want to go for multiple rolls over the different tiers. Since that takes time with pugs, they might buy one or two tiers and run the other ones. Don’t see the issue with that.

Jerus.4350:

Thing is, most MMOs this “anti meta” policy is a minority. Other MMOs where there’s trinity have IMO valid complaints where certain classes are bad or less needed, but the anti meta hate just isn’t nearly as prevalent.

I did have conversations with people back in DCUO about why 1 healer per raid was meta and why 2 healers was overkill, but it wasn’t “meta hate” as much as just a longing for more balance, it just wasn’t feasible within the game.

So I don’t think MMOs aren’t for you, it’s just GW2’s community is full of idiots who want their builds to be the best because they want to be the special snowflake who came up with something beautiful, but it’s as idiotic as blaming successful people for your shortcomings. “The Man” is not keeping you down, rise up and overcome it or accept your mediocrity and don’t burden others with your failures (obviously the global you, not the personal you)

I’d like to think this is because people think Action-MMOs are traditional MMORPGs, they assume Trinity is a thing, then they notice it… really isn’t and instead of adapting, they go and QQ and want changes so that we get more and more of a Trinity here. I’ve been in more than one Action-MMO now and there always seems to be the same pattern, you frequently get people wanting to play tanks/healers and if you tell them the game has no Trinity and damage is much better, they end up getting defensive, telling you how kitten that is, how viable their tanking/healer build is, how they’ve always took that role etc.

fracture.9754:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Welp I just looked at the Necro specialisation blogpost. Don’t know what to think.

It’s gonna be kitten.

What I’m thinking.
Guess it’s still no GW2 for me.

Welp I just looked at the Necro specialisation blogpost. Don’t know what to think.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I have never had to change my build for any boss in GW2.

I was able to run everything kitten with Sabway/Discord Heroes and never really had the need to change my build, or those of my heroes for that matter. Does that mean it’s always the most effective setup for a situation? No. You can always make minor tweaks to get through faster, like using EoE in GW1 if you knew there were many mobs of the same type.

spoj.9672:

No because you can only refresh the f5 channel after returning to regular time. It has a secondary skill to reset manually.

F5 > Time Warp > Return > Signet of Illusions > F5 > TW > return > TW

Im assuming you were thinking of casting TW before F5. But that would mean it would always be on cooldown. If something is on cooldown when you F5 it will be on cooldown when you reset.

Does make sense, my mistake was about the use of F5 then.

spoj.9672:

You can time warp thrice. Signet of illusions to refresh that f5. :>

If my thought process isn’t entirely wrong (which it probably is), wouldn’t that allow for four timewarps?

Well, this is not the only game where a considerable part of the community is like this, sadly. I don’t know where this is coming from though.

J Eberle.9312:

I’m a little bit fuzzy off medications atm so excuse my typing , but I believe I have found the mother of all pug experiences. enjoy

http://imgur.com/a/nKcbb

How are you going to reimburse me for the loss of my sides?

In all honesty though… holy crap. What was that guy thinking, if he even thinks?

fishball.7204:

Probably make bosses blow up even faster since all class will be able to stat properly into DPS. My favorite 6/4/2/2 staff ele will get hit though

Yeah that were my thoughts. Slightly higher base stats + more pickable traits (I just skimmed over it, might be wrong) would result in higher DPS, making everything even easier.

Those threads make me mad and sad at the same time. 10/10

Purple Miku.7032:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/31seuk/gear_for_condition_dmg_burn_guardian/

Found this on that thread

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fVIQJARSl0ApUotCxZIktNB9QlVXUdAcAJK2JxS8oA-TFiAABfq+zsKBB4SA8g5vnU+pz+DsoLYgnAApAgZNA-w

I feel so filthy now

I’ve seen much worse, but it certainly left me confused.

Jerus.4350:

Aye no destroying the swirling part of the Elemental Source, though I believe that to be a bug, as they seemed to have shifted hit boxes on “constructs” as there are a few other things like that which are acting funky for people

Also Lupi’s Necrid Bolts (the thrown single bolts that used to hit range only) are hitting in melee meaning more reflects or dodges needed.

CoF 1 unless fixed bugs out at the slavedriver and you need to go into the shielded area or something like that.

Just lots of bugs with the new expansion coming. Figure they’re tweaking a lot of the backend stuff leading o unintended changes in content they don’t care about fixing >.<

Welp, good thing I have PSO2 and DFO.

Such a shame, can’t even get myself to do more than log in and grab daily rewards. I really hope the expansion brings new dungeon-content and overhauls of the old dungeons/fractals.

spoj.9672:

Theres nothing going on or any news so theres nothing to say. :P

I was about to ask if dungeons/fractals got any good fixes, but I think I don’t have to. :P

Did they at least keep everything as is/made some fixes or did they do “fixes” no one asked for and things worse? I heard you can’t destroy the swirling part of elemental source anymore, for example? Also Lupi seems to hate melee more now?

Pushes the thread up

Hey guys!

rfdarko.4639:

Too busy with the fractals kitten measuring thread I guess. :P

Maybe. :P

I think I just found DeKeyz in another game.

Anyway, how’s everyone doing? I’m just looking in here every now and then, barely playing right now.

Why is this thread so deep down the dungeon sub. :v

Hey guys!

Laulajatar.4253:

That usually happens when you use it while invisible (probably away, too).

…welp. That has to be it then.

Thanks, otherwise I probably would’ve searched ages for a solution.

Does the lfg tool show both NA and EU groups by now? …for some reason, I get mainly EU groups on my NA account, and I can’t join any of them. That’s pretty painful.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

GrimmR.3541:

I’m hyped!
Guildhalls might become pretty cool aswell as GvG
New legendaries.. Hopefully a Staff and a Sword I will like <3
New class, c’mon guys it did look cool!
New “challenging“ groupcontebt, we will see about that.

TL;DR: I like what they said, it’s waaaay better than getting nothing.

I feel like that raven staff that was datamined ages ago would work really well as the new ranger themed staff? It would be neat if the new leggies are tailored toward the new class who can use them.

That would be nice indeed.

Also, I bought a NA account just because and immediately got sad when I pressed H. All my beautiful skins and dyes, gone. kitten.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

So… no mention of dungeon/raids/fractals? God kitten it.

That saddened me too, just gotta hope “New group content” means dungeons among other things.

But, Necromancer with GS. I may finally be able to properly play Nec again in dungeons… That would be so great.

I… I am a little bit hyped. Is this bad?

Vagrant.7206:

Is there any chance we’re going to see upgrades to how Fractal weapon skins drop?

Unlikely.

http://i.imgur.com/fAUOr2c.png

spoj.9672:

They way you described probably only worked because of lower level and/or already having some cooling rods in place. Agony reduces healing remember. So just a single flesh wurm port and then DS tanking with heals probably wont work when you have agony to deal with. Atleast not reliably anyway. You can see from subli’s video at lvl 1 it was close enough.

It worked on Level 40 for me, though it is indeed a very, very close call. If you mess up, you most likely won’t make it.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Yeah you can solo the heat room by doing the following:

• Set your bar to full minions + Wurm + Spectral Walk
• Wurm at the entrance before you start
• Run in with a full Death Shroud bar
• Faceroll and get as far as you can
• Activate Spectral Walk
• Blow up your Wurm to teleport to the beginning
• Activate and blow up the rest of your minions for DS
• Heal up as much as you can until 1s is left on Spectral Recall’s timer
• Activate Spectral Recall
• Run the rest of the way with the DS you built from blowing minions

It’s tricky and requires a lot of steps, but is doable.

If they didn’t change anything, I always went full Blood Magic and Soul Reaping, started off with Flesh Wurm, ported in, dodged, spammed the hell out of 1, healed up, went into DS (interestingly enough, sigil of energy triggers when entering or leaving death shroud there), kept my endurance low and always made it. It’s been some time since I last did this though.

I tried it in some ways, but I never thought about the way you described… Maybe I should if I decide to give it a go again.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Data-mined from this patch:

Ascended Gear

109894_0203: Victory does not go to the loudest, but to the most effective. —Master of Whispers

Oh god, is Anet taking a jab at the tears of the casuals (loudest) versus the effectiveness of speedrunners?

Did Zerker master race finally won the war? Ahaha

That’s actually one of his quotes in GW1. Would be funny if they picked it for that reason, but I doubt it.