Guild Wars 2

sMihaly.1492:

spoj.9672:

sMihaly.1492:

+ bug, general for whole TA:
nightmare spiders’ stun cannot be broken with stunbreakers

Petrify doesnt count as a stun. Pretty sure its intentional.

:(
kitten
“reflects projectiles, except the unreflectable ones”…
“breaks stun, except the unbreakable ones”
this list is getting better

Well basically Petrify isn’t even a stun, so I wouldn’t say its an exception.

Novalitus.7382:

As a DPS you can choose to go all might and this 20 stack of might helps to boost you to the extreme.

It seems unfair that a player who’s chosing to sacrifice DPS over healing, and thus goes all healing/support should not have the chance to boost -his- choice.

Because ANet wants no dedicated heal. Btw, I surely don’t want what feels like a 1000 tick on warrior’s healing signet…

Painbow.6059:

q.q #HelpMeRnJesus

RNGsus sits next to Satan in their cozy hell-cave and they both laugh at us.

EcoRI.9273:

Question for the people that pick Arah as their fave: Is Lupi your favorite boss fight and why?

He is, because he’s simply what I expect from a bossfight. Clear tells which are punishing if you get hit, different phases and a decent array of skills while posing a threat to both ranged and melee characters in different phases.

I’m not saying every little champ we fight should be like this, but if we got a midboss that’s in every path or even endbosses of a path, I expect them to be good fights. I mean look at the endbosses of Arah p1 and p4 for example, that’s pathetic…

Are “inprecise AoEs” considered a bug? That’s the thing which bugs me the most and I’d love to see it fixed…

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Fearless Pigeon.2501:

Jeez, thanks for all the super fast replies, see i’ve tried lfg, i mean i’ve literally stood for hours at the gates of arah searching through other lfg and with my own, nobody, and i mean nobody is willing to help! that’s why i took to here!
also for anyone asking im in the EU.

Thanks,
Edward

C’mon kind souls, give me a hand

That is really hard to believe man, I just got a group going through my own LFG for story mode at midnight, when I wasnt event expecting to get a group going!

Not the first time I hear it. Had it happen to me once too. It’s kinda hit and miss.

New sigils and runes (3 each) incoming, among them a ferocity stacking sigil.

Fearless Pigeon.2501:

Jeez, thanks for all the super fast replies, see i’ve tried lfg, i mean i’ve literally stood for hours at the gates of arah searching through other lfg and with my own, nobody, and i mean nobody is willing to help! that’s why i took to here!
also for anyone asking im in the EU.

Thanks,
Edward

C’mon kind souls, give me a hand

In case you don’t get a group, I’ll probably push my Ele through the Personal Story over the weekend if I can get myself to do that, so I could do it with you then.

LordByron.8369:

I might say that dark souls and co are considered between the most difficult games around.

Like GW2, players finish it naked once they understand its all about Learning patterns.

It suffers the same exact problem, but dark soul is a long one player game you finish once (PvP is risible).

I very well know that, some bosses drove me mad (especially Ornstein and Smough, kittenmit).

But it’s the same thing with all repetitive content, once you know how the game is trying to kill you, you’ll counter it. In GW1 you picked skills to counter what the enemy throws at you, here it’s a mix of active defenses and needing to know when/what to dodge.
I get your point, but a better AI can’t fix that even though it would help making the combat more interesting. What we need imo is new content with enemies we don’t know, which also pose an actual threat at the same time and can’t be rendered completely harmless with skills. We don’t get said content, thus the content we have gets stupidly easy because we exactly know what’s going to happen, how it’s going to happen and how to act. Fails happen mostly because you fail the dodge, some random crap happens or you’re relying on a teammate to cast a skill when said teammate either forgets about it or doesn’t even have it slotted, almost never because the boss took you by surprise.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2fj1hz/accidentally_clicked_on_endless_monkey_king_tonic/ck9pbcn

:D

LordByron.8369:

people who dies horribly simply don t understand how limited the AI is.
Someday someomne will explain them, and at that point ANY dungeon will be boring unless they work on AI.
And wiping at first boss encounter is wrong.
If you are skilled you deserve to have a chance, rather than basing each fight on memory and fail and repeat that was already considered the number one mistake in game design many years ago.

For some reason i can t explain myself, before demon soul, this kind of gameplay was considered extremely wrong by every review.

That because impacts heavily longevity and adds unnecessary frustration.
A game should be based on reaction Windows and tactics and not to learn attack patterns and rotations.

P.S. note that demon souls is an extremely misunderstood series…was just a budget next gen port of an old game, that was mistaken for innovative while it was just the standard of 10 years before.
And GW2 dungeons have lot in common with it.

…or they simply have problems dodging the attacks. I’d like to hear of a Hack’n’Slay or MMO where every enemy (or at least boss) actively tries to counter you. Most games don’t do that and if there are bosses, usually only other swordsman counter your attacks (which usually ends up in them either blocking or performing the same counter mov over and over again if you attack in the wrong timespan) while most of the other enemies only act and don’t react, like in GW2. And of course, AI has always been “exploited”, it was the same in GW1. That being said, the AI could still use a rework, but it will never be extremely advanced.

While the game certainly is easier than others, that doesn’t make it faceroll for the most part, even if it is for us. Even if someone knows how the AI works, he can still die to their skills, especially if said skills are hitting extremely hard and you’re on a squishy class.

I think you can manage most fights without dying even if you don’t know them but are good enough. I’m just saying that it can easily happen that you wipe on your first try.
Also, it’s needless to say that everything is much easier once you know it; this applies to every game. Once you know how to counter something, you’re going to have much less trouble. It’s inevitable.

Oh and btw, I only played Dark Souls towards the end of the last year and loved that game mainly for the art (lore, soundtrack, design, atmosphere etc.).

LordByron.8369:

Jerus.4350:

I think the learning curve is pretty fine.

mmm no
Its not a curve its a step

You never did it, you die horribly with 0 chances.
You watched a video/read a guide/done it before: you can almost write a macro and go afk.

(this for speedruns… with pugs it slughtly changes)

Looking at all the people out there who die horribly at every boss, despite them doing them multiple times before and/or watching videos, I’m pretty sure that’s not true.
Also, I don’t see what’s wrong wiping/dying on a boss if it’s your first time. You don’t know any telegraphs and what skills do, but you can still manage if you observe a bit first and don’t go into full offensive, if that’s possible at least.

frifox.5283:

Someone is arguing that damage multipliers are added together, not multiplied. I tried to correct him. In return I got a classy link to a proof that “1 + 1 = 2” and then got told that I’m wrong and should “Go divide yourself by 0”.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2fgbk4/how_do_x_damage_effects_stack

My faith in humanity is wavering ;_;

Your mistake was actually trying to argue on leddit. Let me put it VERY nicely (otherwise you’d see multiple kitten in a row), a lot of people there are idiots.

And I thought I’ll actually see the Mistfire Wolf pulling a Randall and/or almost soloing Lupi…

Great job!

dlonie.6547:

Yeah, don’t pay people to run with you :-) Make your own LFG and ignore the sellers.

Now that I’m thinking about it, has anyone tried of selling Arah story runs? I mean…
"Don't read this until after you run it, OP"it's without a doubt the most boring waste of an hour in the game, so surely some folks would be willing to pay to unlock it on alts, get it for VoD, etc.

Might fetch a pretty penny.

Someone who joined at the end gave me 10g once, but I’d say he was being generous. Not sure if many people would actually pay though.

Hey,

you should tell us if you’re on NA or EU.

Also, most lfgs you see are people who did an exploration path alone and want to sell it, that’s because they fill much slower than normal exploration lfgs.
As for story (which is what you want to do), it is rarely run because there’s no need to outside the personal story or to unlock the possibility to open exploration mode on that char. If you can’t find a lfg for story, try to open your own story lfg, possibly saying something like “Story, first timer” and if you want to watch all the cutscenes, add that to your description. Usually the party should fill and you can do your storymode without having to pay anyone here (which you most likely don’t have to do anyway)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Don’t the balance changes come on September 9th?

It was in this game for longer, but apparently it was stealth"fixed" sometime. I noticed it yesterday when I talked to a few people about it and as it seems, it only triggers once every 10s now. So the guess is that it’s a bug and hopefully, it really is.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

At least u no nerfcro.

:’(

Underground Facility is fine, if you really want to speed it up, use a skill that gives Quickness (as the one standing at the mechanism of course) after you’re halfway done with opening the door.

Mai Trin would be completely fine if it wasn’t for the messed up AoE-Indicators and the phase that starts every 25%, especially in combination with the former problem. So a change to that phase would be very welcome.

More boss fractals? Scarlet Prime Holo remade for a 5-man group? Yesplz.

Did they even bother to add this to any patchnotes? I’m sure I never saw it. But then again, I usually skip half the balance-patchnotes.

It completely caught me by surprise yesterday when I noticed that 10s-Recharge.

Sins.4782:

Just tested in mists, only 1 hit of multi-hit attacks was increased with frosty. Requesting someone else to test whether non-multi-hit attacks are gaining the damage bonus more than once per 10s, the numbers I’m getting atm are too varied to tell and I’m low on time.

Wow, and I thought I was crazy when I tested it yesterday with whirling defense. I simply thought it only triggers once on multi-hit skills, but wow.

ANet kicks the Ranger in the balls and no one notices, gg.

I did until a few days ago and it was horrible most of the time with a few really nice exceptions.

Sins.4782:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Since when does Frost Spirit have a 10s Effect-Recharge on the +10% Damage?

It’s always been there on the tooltip, but as far as I know has never been in-game. Bad tool tips as usual.

Really?

Does Frost Spirit only trigger once on multi-hit attacks then? Whirling Defense for example? I never really played much Ranger or bothered with that.

And people thought that p1 thread was a troll. (lol)
Gj showing them OP!

Honestly though, that’s friggin hilarious

Since when does Frost Spirit have a 10s Effect-Recharge on the +10% Damage?

When is this going to be fixed? Just happened to us towards the end of the third fractal on 40, needless to say we’re kittening kittened.

It’s a gamebreaking bug which is in there over a month. How can this not be fixed yet? Or do you think that one major fractal reset wasn’t enough (neverforget) and we need to get the chance at smaller resets every now and then?

Purple Miku.7032:

I had on average 200 ping last I remember in NA.

Doesn’t seem worth it to leave so many of my friends just to do jumping puzzles with 100-200 less ping on average.

Besides… Archeage in 3 days anyways

Pfft, Archeage…

Did you have doubts that it may not work? If you have even the smallest doubt, stacking will not give you its blessings and thus, you’ll die.

Adamantium.3682:

The better question is why not bricks. I would imagine most people who have a stock pile of Bloodstone converted into bricks to save space.

Because they added a recipe which lets you split up bricks into 250 dust iirc.

“We rethink the way you trade items”
“Unlocking destroys the mini from your inventory, but once it’s unlocked, that mini is available to all your characters to equip simultaneously for no additional cost.”

Yep, you’re going to trade less and less. gg. At least you don’t have to do that. Other than that it’s nice QoL I guess.

Jiyn.3158:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Jiyn.3158:

Walking through the path was actually pretty fun.

Yeah, I need to log in there more. I’ve been caught up with a lot of things in this game lately.

Heh… Still couldn’t bring myself to it.

Yeah, you should do that. I have a dream of making a GW2-Team on there… buuut since it’s only us two… lol

there’s already a few people from gw2 on there actually…and good people too

Oh… Oh. Sweet.

Jiyn.3158:

Walking through the path was actually pretty fun.

Yeah, I need to log in there more. I’ve been caught up with a lot of things in this game lately.

Heh… Still couldn’t bring myself to it.

Yeah, you should do that. I have a dream of making a GW2-Team on there… buuut since it’s only us two… lol

Added all of you!

And people say dungeoneers don’t help others out…

Wow. I couldn’t bring myself to walk through a path. gj I guess. lol

Btw Jiyn, either I miss you all the time or you need to get your kitten more often in PSO2.

Rasimir.6239:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

After that… let me say troublesome run you deserved that.

I still hope it’s not me, but there’s a disturbing number of fractal runs I’ve had with forumers that were “special”. Ask Winter about the first time I went to fractals with him and his guildies … two warriors, three mesmers, and at least three of us (my little asura mesmer included) below 25 ar in a 20+ fractal. By the time we got past mossman in swamp we already had seen everything go wrong that could go wrong . And I did a 49 with some other forumers a couple of weeks ago that didn’t exactly go smooth either … I guess I will have to do my best to go back to fractals often and break that streak of bad luck runs (although I wouldn’t mind them so much if they’d reward me with a few more nice fractal skins ).

Well, our problems were ANet-sided, so none of us is to blame. :P

Nokaru.7831:

Exotic Ascended Slots:

• I’m probably going to be flamed for this, but here goes:
  
  I think Exotic armor should have Infusion slots, similar to Ascended gear. I don’t mean (Infused) like the back-pieces and the rings; just the single slots that come with all Ascended gear. For the record, I’m saying this as someone that already owns fully Ascended and Infused gear.
  
  I say this because I think the main gate for progressing through Fractals should be one’s skill and time devoted to Fractals themselves; not if they have crafted Ascended armor or weapons through means outside of Fractals. It would also be more in the spirit of how Ascended gear should be only a marginal statistical advantage, and not offer a tactical one of Agony resistance.
  
  The main motivation and inspiration for this suggestion is that I have many old friends who used to run Fractals with me back when the old cap was 80. They have quit for some time, but every now and then will return to the game. However, they are usually soon put off at the thought of needed to craft Ascended gear for more agony resistance.

Make an ascended fractal armor which you can buy with pristine relics, gg.
Every piece of ascended gerat offers that “tactical advantage” and that’s fine, you need ascended only for fractals. Play it, and you get them. I’d still prefer if you’d only be able to get ascended loot inside fractals because that’s where it belongs to, but for that, it’s too late. “Oh hey for fractals you need ascended gear, here, do dailies, guild missions and crafts which are completely unrelated to fractals in order to play them successfully”.

+n Agony Infusions:

• I’m not a fan of the functionality of these upgrades. As an example: Let’s say you add a +1 Agony Infusion into your Red Ring of Death (Infused). When you obtain another +1 Agony Infusion, you would have to use an Upgrade Extractor to remove the previous Infusion and use an Artificer to turn it into a +2 Agony Infusion and then add it to the ring. Since Upgrade Extractors are expensive, it makes players less inclined to be upgrading their infusions frequently.
  
  I would prefer it if they created the functionality which would (using the previous example) allow a player to double click their new +1 Agony Infusion and then just select their current ring and they would then slot a +2 Agony Infusion into it directly. This would allow players to more seamlessly and frequently upgrade their infusions.

You aren’t supposed to upgrade your rings all the time imo, since it’s better to go with 5/10 anyway. Still a nice idea which I wouldn’t mind being implemented.

Jeremlloyd.6837:

You can add me if you want. I might do mostly dungeon with guildies, but you can always ask. I can also be pmed for duoing Arah, which I still find fun. (Also if I duo / solo Arah, I will usually stream it)

Sure, will do.

Rasimir.6239:

A couple of days ago I was browsing through the wardrobe, trying to find a focus skin that would suit my sylvari guardian, but the only one that I really liked for her outfit was the fractal focus. I resigned myself to using something sub-optimal, since I never expected to win any fractal skin, much less the focus.

And then last night I did a fractal 40, somebody got a skin (horn) and I almost forgot to open my chest (I’ve had a streak on people getting four infused rings and me getting nothing lately), and when I finally remembered it, there was a brand new shining fractal focus skin inside, perfect for my guardian. Good thing I wasn’t on TS that moment, I wasn’t exactly quiet when I realised what it was .

After that… let me say troublesome run you deserved that.

Purple Miku.7032:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Zaxares.5419:

Huh, really? I’ll have to take your word for it. I’m still only up to SE in terms of dungeons. (Finishing off the last path on my characters in the coming weeks, then it’s finally on to CoF!)

Yeah, you’ll just have to take my word for it if you’re only on SE. Arah story is, of course, a joke, but the later story modes you’ll find, are more difficult in some ways than the explorable ones.

http://i.imgur.com/R0V7bbz.gif

Stop looking at me like that, kittenmit!

Gonna add you once I get online. :P

Purple Miku.7032:

Good RNG? Me?!

When I enter Arah, I’m like a black cat bumping into mirror and shattering it whilst inadvertently opening an umbrella under a ladder, thereby injuring myself and making it impossible to respond to a chain letter on Friday the 13th.

THIS is what happens when I fight Brie.

Can confirm.

Btw, I thought Korga was 1:03?

How about we nerf everything into the ground until everything does 1 damage per hit under whatever circumstances?

frifox.5283:

Every time I try to solo I end up rage quitting after getting royally owned by the locust during p1. Is there a special trick to walling lupi before he summons the swarm?

Being blessed by RNGsus? Other than that, wall him, step a bit back, take care of locusts and then start if you already have swarms at the beginning and they bother you too much.

//“i forgot” omfg lawl

Purple Miku.7032:

You had a rifle warrior at Mai Trin and you didn’t take a screenshot of it and mail it to me?!

WHYYY?

I always take pictures of things that horrible. Like this, for example http://puu.sh/berLK.png

I don’t want to be reminded of the nightmares I see.
But for you, I’ll start screening that kitten.
Also, that screen made me laugh more then it should. lol

@cranos: added you!

Quality post right here.

NACotser.4125:

Feel free to add Cotser.7015 and hit me up if I’m online c:

Added you. :P

Hey everyone,

my friend and I are getting tired of horrible pugs since we get a ton of them lately… It’s becoming a real annoyance. Sadly, neither my nor her friendlist harbor a lot of active players and I want to change that.

We’re up for pretty much every dungeon, although our usual habitat are fractals where we do at least two dailies (everything up to 49 goes… Maybe even 50 if I ever feel like crafting ascended armor/weapons) and I’d say we know most of the stuff you should know about fractals and dungeons.

I’d like to find players which are about the same; you don’t need to be able to solo everything or have uber-skillz (neither have we), but I want that you to know the class(es) you pick on a regular basis, what weapons you pick for what encounter (I don’t want to see GS-Camping Mesmers, LB-Rangers or Rifle-Warriors at a 40 Mai Trin ever again) and know general tactics (not running through the middle at elemental source and pulling every elemental in a radius of 5km for example). We’re not about optimal group setups or speedruns either, so we’re not looking for certain classes, but it would be appreciated if you play as offensively as you can in terms of gear and traits.

Our online-time usually ranges from 16:00~ to whenever during the night, UTC+2/CEST.

If anyone’s interested, just add me/drop a message here.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Another one of my students solo’d lupi for the first time!! Yay!!

Your students get kitten done it seems. Send him my congrats. :P

Tom Yzf.5872:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

…

I don’t have stability or projectile destruction. Now I get hurt.

OP was wrong, projectile destruction doesn’t work on any of the Troll’s attack. So you are on par with any other class when it comes to that.

As for stability, 1. you don’t need it, just bring a stunbreaker and 2. You have multiple sources of stability, one of which is traited DS (3s stability on a 7s cd, which is pretty dam good)

edit: inb4 frifox (untraited wardens don’t count :p)

As good as Foot in the Grave is, I dislike the fact that I have to retrait just to get a decent source of stability. Well, at least SR gives 200 Ferocity… Other than that you don’t have good stability sources. Yeah, you could use your transform, but meh…

RedStar.4218:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Oh also don’t forget that you’re living in NA and playing on an EU server.

Does this really matter ? I’m on EU playing NA and aside from my kittenty computer, I don’t seem to have connection problems.

I assume it does, but then again I don’t know if EU and NA-servers are in different locations or not.