Guild Wars 2

LordByron.8369:

Emanuel.9781:

BF evades for its whole animation duration. Tooltip is wrong.

Are you sure?
Afaik it doesn’t
0,5 sec starting and 0,5 sec bnefore finishing.

Could also be latence but i died many times before seeing the last hit.

Few things oneshotting ONLY elementalists:
Elementals in Molten fractal
Maw tentacles
Maw mobs with “the prestige” (from stealth)
Almost any ascalon fractal mobs maybe except rangers.
Exploding golems in coe
Turret golem in coe (various Attacks)
Golem (tom something) in harpy fractal
Golem missiles at harpy fractal boss
Almost anything from mid bosses/bosses in TA (except vines and the spider boss).
If i remember well also crystals in CoF (i usually evades them so maybe i m wrong here)
Troll in hotw/ac
Lupicus various Attacks (i could be wrong here, i don t have arah party since come months and lfg is only “sell”)
Cof p2 gate guards

I could also add all the thing that are oneshotting “meta” elementalists and are multihit
(http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJArdnMISZD2yAGQAfEGQAICPEcM6WcaXGA-TRSBAB0s/Alq/YmSwrU+1xBCAP9ELcABA4EAk3DAIAwBADP8wRUARE-e to give one….)
Some of them an ele has no reaction Window long enough to answer with stunbreaks (mesmer has).

How many pages should i add?

P.S. consider Europe + gaming connection.

The Archdiviner can oneshot with Thundering Leap, Swing and maybe some others skills too – At least based on the damage he’s dealing with them. Never played my ele in fracs.
Not sure, but maybe even the Fire Shaman’s Spell Detonate in Uncategorized does enough damage with a single fireball, but iirc it was just below 10k so he has to hit with two… therefore no “true” onehit then.

What blessing nosferatu and maxinion said.
It doesn’t matter if you got your daily though, you can always increase your reward level by running a fractal of your personal reward level or higher. So you could basically gain 10 levels in a day.

DoT is Damage over Time
DPS is Damage per Second

Tachii.3506:

Godkitten kicked in CMp1 just because I aggroed a part where this group wanted to skip (the part with 3-4 elites before the Rifleman/Bombers in front of Bloody Alice). Then proceeded to call me “newbie”, “go play second life”, “12k ap dont know kitten” (I only have 7k ap). Pseudo-elitism makes me kitten.

More so because I don’t even remember the last time I got kicked for something so trivial. Think I’ll auto leave if I see a guild run in CM now.

Lawl, I always kill those. No need to skip them at all… Prolly the most stupid kick I’ve heard of in a long time.

7th fractal run in a row without getting any special reward at the end, this is getting ridiculous.

As someone who mainly plays his Nec, this thread makes me sad.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Commission done on my guardian ^^

I think its great!

That is beautiful.

Imo, in order to votekick someone out of a full group, 3/5 should agree on the kick anyway.

Otherwise, what everyone else said. I too kick people, but for that they either need to be an kitten, play like kitten (I don’t mean builds, I mean things like “wtf is dodging” on lvl49), or when they’re not listening and make it much harder for the group with their actions, more than once or twice.

4 dailies today (49, 38, 21, 11) and every time I got nothing, not even a shabby uninfused condition damage ring.

Wethospu.6437:

No animation. You just have to feel when it’s coming.

Thanks. Thought as much, still had hope that he casts them every few seconds.

spoj.9672:

go solo p1 and p3 :PPP

Bloody victoria is far more interesting than most arah bosses when soloing.

To this day, I don’t understand how she can backstab my face.

Lindbur.2537:

He alternates between a fire arrow and the firestorm iirc.

Really? I remember having an arrow flying at me while a firestorm spawned on me, but I’m not sure. Guess I’ll keep an eye on it, ty.

maha.7902:

easy =/= fun

i find basically everything besides boss solos in this game terrible and i just want the runes

Why don’t you solo it then? Especially p3 isn’t too hard to solo.

I’d like to know something too.
The Fire Storm of the Imbued Grawl Shaman in the Volcanic Fractal… Is there any telegraph to this? I watched him but I see no animation, it just appears out of nowhere. Does he simply cast it under certain circumstances/every x seconds or am I just missing something?

spoj.9672:

Devik.9852:

No Pulse.2967:

Your video is banned in Germany, RIP.

Why have I never seen a banned video on YouTube.. strange.

Maybe because I’m in ’Merica?

More likely because your not in germany. :P

^

Germany has a lot of banned music videos because of licensing etc.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Ok, so I gotta ask: I’m new to mmos, but I think I have a right to assume that a large portion of the people that I see online are of the male gender. Why then, do most of my male, heterosexual friends play as girls? My inquiring mind wants to know.

They prefer the looks, it’s looks better… Also, video games are often used as something to dissociate from the RL a bit, at least for quite a few people. I assume at least some of those (and maybe some who don’t even fall into that category) unconciously pick a female character just because of this reason.

I have a few more female characters than I have male ones mainly because I found liking to female Sylvaris. lol But then again, I made a male Sylvari Warrior because I like how he “screams” the shouts.

No Pulse.2967:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

No Pulse.2967:

Opened 2300 gauntlet chances today. 4 favors of the pavillon + 1 recipe yay!

I feel your pain… I’m still waiting for any drop though.
Do you try to get something certain?

Yeah, I tried to get the recipe…

At least your got your recipe. Congrats on that! I’m still waiting on a monocle drop. Or anything by now that’s at least worth something.

No Pulse.2967:

Opened 2300 gauntlet chances today. 4 favors of the pavillon + 1 recipe yay!

I feel your pain… I’m still waiting for any drop though.
Do you try to get something certain?

pre-patch is irrelvant I guess, but 2000~ chances and 2000~ Tokens, nothing else.
Post-patch: 650 chances, 650 Tokens, nothing else.
RNG does love me.

If I wasn’t doing a 49 already, I’d probably join you.
Was already quite fun watching you lots.

Veydar.5017:

data.4093:

Dehuang.2053:

I thought i’d post something here, because it’s just ridiculous, I do at least 1 fractal per day since “fractured” (the updated rewards got me interested, one of my goal now is to get every fractal weapons), I completed Fractal Frequenter a long long long LONG time ago, I got thousands and THOUSANDS of useless fractal relics, almost a hundred of pristines, more ascended rings that i can count.
but yeah…
I can hear you asking: “what about your goal? how many fractal skins do you have?”
well

2
…………..
yep, that’s right :/ only 2, after spending countless hours doing 38+, it’s pathetic.

my question is: Why Anet, Why does the prettiest skins rely on some dumb kitten RNG crap? you have a currency (fractal relics), why not make the skins purchasable with relics? Fractal is your end game content, the progression with the instability is really awesome, but the rewards?? they are completely kittening and off-track…

Well I finally got my 2nd fractal skin today and it was…THE SAME AS THE FIRST. GG Anet. G G.

This can’t be real. You can’t get the same skin twice … or can you? I think a verification of this would be enough to make me uninstall the game and buy Wildstar. No one and I mean not a single developer in the world, could screw up this badly.

My three GS, two staffs, two warhorns and two shortbows hope that you enjoy Wildstar more than GW2.

Anyway, yeah, the drops still seem to be bad, a bit better than before, but still bad. Give us the friggin fractal weapon chests for 41+ already and don’t lock them behind difficulties we can’t even play yet (and prolly can’t for another year)

spoj.9672:

Make reflects and projectile defence useless. Bringing other classes down to the necros level one mechanic at a time.

evil laugh

Seems like something ANet would do. Instead of buffing the Nec in PvE, they rather nerf all the other classes. A shame though, I wouldn’t mind if my Nec wasn’t so easily replaceable. :P

Doggie.3184:

Well the price is now 100-130g, as apposed to 2550g so the rate increase worked.

Either that or the single person monopolizing them made enough gold and stopped. :P

I know of people who got up to five during one day without farming too much.
Sadly, I’m not among them and opening 400 more chances still didn’t yield me anything… But that’s just my “luck”, so the increase of the drop rate has worked indeed.

Not all of the golems are rendered useless, only the fire one.
Also, so what? Still no need to nerf reflects themselves, but instead they should simply start giving the bosses more and/or better attacks so that they keep being dangerous even if you reflect them. They’re a pushover, with or without reflects.
They can reflect DoT and AoE-projectiles, right. But if you have them on you/below them, reflects can’t do anything about them either.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

When I dodge, I press a single button and negate all the damage I should’ve taken. Better fix that.

Can you please stop giving such silly answers?
One singel reflect can negate all damage for several seconds for your whole team.
Your dodge just negates damage for you for one second. It does furthermore not negate dots and AoEs.

Let me give you a better one then.
The only point I agree on is the sometimes ridiculous reflect damage which should be limited imo.
Not every class has access to reflects and they’re not useful at every boss, only on certain ones. Out of those, not every can be reflected for those ridiculous amounts of damage.
Yes, reflects are powerful if used correctly, but that’s because they’re situational.
They’re better off giving the boss new melee or non-projectile attacks instead of nerfing reflects.
Btw, I want to see a reflect which stops DoTs from ticking and aoes from damaging me.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Jerus.4350:

Cheesy play huh? So it’s reasonable if I share your opinion that using things as intended is cheesy? Ok…

So you say using one skill to block all or atleast a huge protion of the damage a boss is able to do is not cheesy? Ok…

Lets remove everything that has situational uses. Anything that when used correctly is beneficial. Lets just be left with damage moves and dodges, that’s it!

Don’t say that too loud. ANet might listen to you.

When I dodge, I press a single button and negate all the damage I should’ve taken. Better fix that.

I’m simply going to assume that he never got hit by the poison and then proceeded to reflect or saw someone struck by the poison beforehand do a reflect, seeing as the poison slows you down, amps up your damage and doesn’t count as regular poison at all. This, of course, is never said or shown in any way until it happens to you.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

draconx.3102:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

CuRtoKy.8576:

Point is nobody knows so why is anyone trying to say ArenaNet intended X when it isn’t documented. Logically you can only assume why something was done. Even then people have different ideas why something was done. On top of the bias too.

As for TA spider boss. You can fight it without reflect stacked and you do just fine. Just have to dodge tbh.

That still doesn’t discard the fact that one reflect made this boss very easy and to no threat at all.

I agree that the reflect damage against this particular boss was way out of whack. But the solution is not to make all reflects useless. We’ve just moved from one bad extreme to another.

The reflect did literally no damage… It just protected you and your mates from taking any damage, making that encounter way too easy.
And I’ve already said that this change did not being the smartest one. Just the easiest.

If you’re still talking about Malrona here I’ll simply repeat myself: She can be almost killed with a single reflection.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

If you stack in front of Malrona without any reflect, you’ll die instantly.
The reflect doesn’t hurt her but it negates her only damagesource outside of her highly telegraphed poison.

Oh boy it does hurt her. Actually it can hurt her so much that she, given the right conditions (enough vuln etc.) almost dies instantly. You easily were able to take 50% of her HP away.

Not even ANet knows if those changes are intended or a bug. Especially since most of these changes don’t change anything.

Fror.2163:

RSLongK.8961:

(8k+ AP)

Why do you throw random data in your message? A month ago or so I did a AC p3 where I was the lowest AP with my 11k something. One was above 20k, another above 18k, the two others around 13k.

Worst run ever.

This.

While there are indeed now players who don’t know the dungeons, some of the worst groups I had were groups where everyone played for some time, at least judging from the AP. AP do not say anything about skill though, they simply accumulate over time.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Good information. So I guess the question is, what is the cause of the decline in quality and attitude in pugs? When I used to pug daily everyone was friendly (back in the gw2lfg days). People were helpful. Most of my best friends in game are met that way. Now the only people I form new relationships with are on the forum or in divinty’s reach while showing off shinies. It’s weird what has happened. Have the players changed? Or are they not the same players now? When did it start to decline?

My guess it the decline started when stacking and bursting everything down became meta. Pugs are not used to playing efficient in any way, yet they usually make it through because stacking and bursting makes it easy. Even more so when reflects can be used. If they fail now (most likely due to their lack of skill, because they’re only used to stacking and spamming auto) they tend to blame the group instead of themselves, because that’s what humans like to do.
That would also explain why you find good pugs in high-level fracs; you can’t easily stack and burst there with a few exceptions, so it actually comes down to knowing how it works and using your skills/dodges wisely. “Get hit, get rekt” basically. This keeps the bad pugs from progressing too far into fractals and only those who get it make it into higher fracs where they get grouped up with other good players.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Fellow dungeon runners, it Is time for us to gather the current status of pugging here in Tyria, as it has come to my attention that things have become either worse or have stayed stagnant for the past few months since I shifted to casual status.

Last night, a rare event occurred and I was able to run 3 whole dungeons. After the first, I received a whisper from a person with about 1.7K AP saying that someone told him to contact me so that I could teach him pro speed runner dungeons (because I’m so pro right?) So I journeyed with him and a misfit group of fun players (Me, Sam, Dramen from ARES and our good friend Bright who is no longer with us here on the forums) into TA. We did up and forward with minimal effort. We had hiccups, we weren’t all that speedy, but it was smooth and things went well. The noob could not believe how fast it went (he said something about his cof p1 taking longer) and thought we were all optimized and a “static” group.

Has pugging really gotten this bad? Is cof p1 actually taking longer than it did a month after the cof p1 farm was killed? Have pugs forgotten how to run it? What is happening?

This threads purpose is to catalog and journal the status of pugging. Which dungeons have the highest pug success rate? Have you found that it is harder to find pugs who know what to do, will communicate, etc?

This Is important to me because we have something resembling a dungeon team again. So what exactly is happening here?

10 minutes for the Eternal Flame in CoF p2. Nuff said.
This is of course the worst case scenario, but pugging indeed got worse. People blindly run to stacking spots, do nothing and wonder why they get killed, tend to flame or suddenly quit. AC already was a pain to do pre-patch, I don’t even want to know how annoying it is now with pugs.
Actual communication is often non-existant, it seems like people rather kick those who happen to kitten up, even if it’s a simple thing.
For example, someone in my FL did CoF p2, wanted to solo the lava pool, ran over, a few people followed, they died, Magg died, everything went south fast, randoms flamed each other, they ran again, my friend who was the opener died for the first time, got kicked; the randoms then actually went on to go all “wtf the opener left, what the kitten”.
Also, kicking people at the end of a dungeon becomes more and more of a habit.
Went into a 19 frac one or two months ago, I joined a guild team. We were 3 wars and 2 guard (I was one of the wars). Everything went okay until dredge, where they died over and over again and didn’t bother to listen when I kindly asked them why they don’t use reflects and they should use wall of reflection as it is extremely useful here. We got through and got Mai Trin… Well, the two guards died at the champ and at Mai Trin, I finally got to see a reflect wall… They died within the first minute, I tried to give them some tips, we went in again, they died again and I got kicked for being a noob.

It seems like people get more and more unfriendly overall while thinking they could pug everything in WR-time. That in combination with very bad setups (more and more staff camping guards, bearbow-rangers etc.) and the fact they don’t know what their skills actually do results in a lot of flaming, which results in slower times which results in flaming etc…
However I did notice that teams where everyone speaks the same language (I know that his applies to german groups most of the time, don’t know about other languages) tend to communicate much better and once they grasp that you can speak their language, they suddenly become much, much more kind and open to suggestions.

Best things to pug are imo 40+ fracs, with 30+ being okay too. Everything below has a high chance to run…. not well at all. SE and TA are quite okay if pugged too. AC, CM, HotW and Arah are equally worse. Furthermore, CM seems to attract a lot of new players for some reason, probably because humans are often picked and it’s a dungeon in the first map they get into. CoE is kind of a mixed bag, 50% of the pugs are good, 50% are bad, you usually end up with a group like this too.

Dub.1273:

I lately joined a duo party selling p4 for 18g, claiming they cleared the dungeon completely. I entered, ran to bloodstone and couldn’t find alive mobs. I was so surprised I just paid them for the sake of effort.

…even the legendary giants?
I don’t want to know how long it took them.

We gotta remove melee then too, everyone knows it’s an exploit!

This seems to be heavily inconsistent. Sometimes the projectiles went through, sometimes they were reflected.

Our whole guild got dc’d + rollbacked 6 times, ruined our guild bounty.
Fix this ASAP, things like this should NOT happen. There are no excuses for such things.

Well, they’re named Saboteurs, so I kinda expect them to have no AoE-circles/telegraphs. Gonna watch and focus them; I usually call out saboteurs as high priority target when I “lead” Baines.

Megis.9264:

There’s a MF recipe to make more shards out of a shard, some sprockets, and a few dust, just saying.

Thanks to the price of sprockets, that’s quite expensive by now.

Vol.7601:

Yes it’s obviously bugged. As I said earlier last week, Anet ‘confirmed’ that the recipe was working as intended.

But the last time Anet ‘confirmed’ an item was working as intended was Final Rest. And one day after a patch released the drop rate was fixed (unannounced) and we started seeing Final Rests popping up.

In all honesty, the drop rate probably IS working as intended, but the coding that allows it to drop may be bugged.

For example, maybe the drop rate is 1.5% in their loot table but it won’t even give a chance at that roll because it only worked on the first few gamblet chances immediately after a patch.

Wasn’t the main problem with Final Rest that Behemoth was always bugged and never spawned? Or did that just happen to be on top of the bugged drop rate?

Keep the Gauntlet Chances until they a) patch it or b) the event is over.
The worst case is that they don’t do anything and you’ll open them at a later point.

No one knows if the droprate is intended, but as long as we don’t know, why bother? The reward isn’t going to get worse, not that it even can.

I have collected another two stacks of chances with a few more tickets to go and I will hold out on opening them until ANet did something about that droprate…

Please explain why.

Ohoni.6057:

Actually, I found four different megaservers today which coordinated gold runs and managed to usually do it, with the occasional silver reward in between.

ANet really needs to explain the alchemy involved in some players reporting that they always" manage to find servers where the Boss Blitz just goes off without a hitch and everyone does everything right, while the rest of us are always stuck with servers where nobody has a clue and it all goes south. What is going on there?

I can explain that with a single word: Megaservers.
Also, organised guilds happen to search for empty megaservers and fill them, so you often don’t have that much time to even get onto them.
For example, two days ago I stood afk in an rather empty pavillon and when I came back I saw that TXS went for gold runs there.

Sobat.8650:

I’m surprised there is no Liadri + all gambits achieve

Because not every class could achieve this, probably.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Too funny. I just logged into the Pavilion to maybe grab a few tokens and give this whole thing a second chance. There’s nobody there.

Anet, you never get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression.

Actually, I found four different megaservers today which coordinated gold runs and managed to usually do it, with the occasional silver reward in between.

You’re welcome.

Actually, Necro is quite good for most encounters inside the Gauntlet, so try around a bit if you struggle.

Wethospu.6437:

If some of you get really desperate you can always try to find a trustable friend/guy to do it for you.

That’s what some people did last year.

This.

Believe me though, if you do it yourself, you will a) improve your gameplay, b) improve the knowledge about your class and c) feel like you actually accomplished something, which is rare in gw2 imo.
If you really can’t do it, don’t bother with her. Liadri was made like because only people with a certain skill level are supposed to kill her (and lifedrainers etc. ofc)

If I remember correctly, I simply killed him with Dagger/Focus and Staff with berserker-gear back in August. I’d prolly need to take another look at him though.

Read the patchnotes Curtoky. It’s not about the Gauntlet Chances, it’s about the festival tokens and the boss blitz.

I’m at 850 now and just got my first drop; a Favor of the Pavillon. While I’m glad that I at least got SOMETHING out of it, the drop rates are still atrocious.