Golems become sentient and a playable race.
Forgive me if this has been a topic before, I didn’t see one.
Does Aurene have a father? Asexual reproduction is uncommon in advanced/complex creatures; presumably it takes two dragons to make a baby dragon. We all assume Aurene will be like her mother Glint, but if she indeed has a father he could greatly influence her powers and abilities.
Slightly off topic I really want Bubbles to be female. All the other Elder Dragons seem to identify or be referred to as male (ie from the wiki: ‘Though its gender is unknown, Jormag is referred to as male by the Sons of Svanir’).
This sounds like a job for Maury Polvich!
All joking aside it could have been one of the Jade dragons from Cantha.
The Sylvari are stated to be of Mordremoth and what enforces that even more is the fact that the Pale Tree can protect Sylvari from corruption from the other dragons sans Mordremoth
I slightly disagree. The pale tree protected the sylvari from Mordremoth’s Call.
But she can’t protect them from the other elder dragons, but also doesn’t need to, because dragon minions are innately immune to each other. Zhaitan couldn’t ‘revive’ the sylvan because they weren’t his to claim.
Didn’t that get thrown out the window when living Elder Dragons started absorbing other forms of dragon corruption? Come to think about it shouldn’t New Sylvari be death touched since you would assume that the Mother Tree being the only living Champion of Mordremoth would start absorbing not just Mordremoth magic but also Zaitan magic; she’s unconscious so it’s not like she would be able to regulate it?
I’ll probably throw some real world money at it, what materials would you recommend just buying with gold that are impossible to farm?
I’ve been playing for almost 3 years so I decided to
bite the bullet and make a legendary.
How do I make an older legendary, so far the only thing I’ve got is map completion?
If you’re having trouble surviving while rolling a PS build, you could always drop to the old fashioned core warrior PS build. Strength, Tactics, and then just take Defense. Your DPS might go down by a little bit, (though, you’ll be rolling with permanent fury uptime on yourself, so that’ll help balance out the DPS) but well, you’ll still be getting 25 stacks of might for your party, which is the main point.
And well, there’s the old saying “Dead DPS is no DPS.” So, yeah. I’d suggest, that if you’re having trouble surviving running a berserker PS build, then just go and run a core warrior build. Better to be alive with slightly less damage than to be dead with more damage while you’re up.
Sounds like a plan, thanks for letting me know that the elite isn’t necessary.
In this potential story mode all loot would be turned off. You would receive no achievements for defeating the bosses.
The problem is this part because not everyone who wants an easier mode wants it for the story alone, they want it for the loot and the achievements. This creates a problem when discussing Raid modes (or tiers in other threads) as different people have different goals for them, often conflicting ones.
Aside from that, will this story mode be for 10 people, or a solo experience? If it requires 10 people then it will be a wasted effort. If finding people to do LS2 achievements or dungeon story modes is hard, imagine how hard it will be to find 9 other people to do something that you can only experience once and get nothing out of replaying it! It will be Arah story mode all over again and they fixed that by making it a solo experience.
Finally, if it’s a solo experience that you do only once and then forget it exists, is it worth re-balancing all the Raid encounters into solo encounters for something like that?
There should be some loot, on par with loot from Story Mode dungeons.
Couldn’t have put it better my self.
Maybe it’s just because I was playing this with my wife at 11AM but no one seems to be doing anything, I just spent the time trying to get her through her story which is a shame because the Map Meta is a great experience. It just seems as though it is very under populated and no one knows what to do, and when you get some one like me that gets it at a remedial level saying that then that’s sad. I kept getting the transfer to a more populated map message as well.
Does VB get more active at night or are the only active HoT maps AB, DS, and TD at night?
I get it, every one’s doing the living world but ANet might have to gut the map’s soul to make it possible for a less populated map to actually accomplish anything.
It may sound like I’m complaining but it’s more like I’m lamenting.
(and yes the sigil cost a lot but will keep up the boons a long time)
What Sigils, and for that matter what runes?
Looks like one of them is Bloodlust.
I mostly agree with lordbachus. Depending on how good you know your kits and skills, you should be able to create your own roatations while in combat. Using standard, pre-defined rotations locks away flexibility. Few hours ago I’ve given the new nightmare fractal a try and the first legendary was quite challenging. However due to my experience and knowledge about my class, I was able to create some working rotations while in combat. I also learned its mechanics that way. This is how I like to play the engineer and the game itself. Not reading a stupid pre-written guide made by a beta-tester and a dev to assure you do not run into any try&error situations at all. Just enter the combat and experience, learn and adapt what is necessary for victory.
I have to admit that I have a few rotations, for healing and might stacking. But those work with the thumper turret. Also I do not use the healing turret. Although I may play my engineer wrong in your opinion, I still love it ^^.
I’m sorry but there shouldn’t be any class in any game with such a high skill floor, it’s a failure in design; now a high skill ceiling makes sense but you shouldn’t need a PHD in gaming to learn a class.
Yeah I forgot what turmoil would occur with the PS if they added Race Changes.
I might do that Sex change, I’m bored enough; how do female Norns look in outfits and armor do they rock the curves?
I got it on the first try, with Caith and Canach.
Why can’t we have cosmetic items to change Sex, Race, names?
Would I find difficulty getting groups as a MM Reaper in Fractals?
The Valks/Decimate defense combo is incredibly flexible for power Necros because of easy access to vulnerability in a lot of skills and traits. In PvE group settings, where 25 stacks of vul is pretty much guaranteed, this lets you sink more points into Vit, boosting your shroud tanking, and lets you keep the DPS going while the shroud soaks the damage. If you have Siphon traited, the speed and hit radius of the Reaper attacks actually becomes a respectable source of healing if surrounded. For open world, Reaper shroud does best if you play it as a brawler, and actually gets stronger sustain the more things you can engage at once.
This is a huge deal on HOT maps, because both events and the mob traits in general are made to overwhelm you, and thats when Reaper shroud is at its strongest. Their noticeably less impressive in 1v1 engagements, but thats mostly because its losing out on the substantial Life force generation from RS auto attack. But out of shroud, the Necro’s other skills have no issues dealing with single targets. This polar difference in Reaper shroud tactics (at the flip of a switch) gives the Necro a level of flexibility it lacked in older Core traits, and makes several builds viable that weren’t really possible with Core traits alone. Its seriously a shame chill damage took a hit, because it made for some respectable hybrid damage in the same way Ele and Guards do with their in-line burning.
This is a Minion Master build I run in Open world….. its the tankist thing outside of a Hammer Guard, doesn’t require a single piece of defense gear, and has respectable sustain damage. I’m not even in full ascended gear, and the only place I still consider dangerous is the Blighting Towers in Dragon’s Stand and their endless AOE. I even send my minions out to go engage mobs, while I do some kind of event mechanic or operate a turret. You don’t even need to hit things to send them out, so long as its an offensive skill and you have a target selected (including auto attacking the air) . It’ll take them several seconds to kill basic mobs on their own… but with that 90% dmg reduction rule on companions, they can stay alive for a pretty long time. Conditions aren’t an issue as long as your minions are up, and have near constant healing because every hit double siphons life, and minion hits add a 3rd source of healing. (Vampiric passive trait, and Vampiric aura stack). Combine this with Unholy Martyr, and you draw conditions from allies, gain life force from it, and send it back out via the minions.
All in all, up to 12 minions under normal circumstances, “Rise!” minions absorbing damage for you (and then self healing), toughness from each minion, toughness from Shroud, multiple life stealing on hit, shroud as a second life bar, substantial damage increase and life stealing ability while in reaper shroud, access to 2 very strong CCs, easy access to strong soft CC, can burst stacks of vulnerability when needed (for Decimated defenses), and can fight while standing in all but the strongest damage fields. You’re only severe weaknesses is lack of stun break, and awkward Stability skill; but not a big issue in PvE, since you can activate shroud while disabled (maybe not stun, but every other disable CC still leaves it available).
Its not a particularly high skill build (ie, its pretty lazy outside of onslaught events), but its very survivable/forgiving in HOT maps without giving up the requisite damage potential… and thats not a claim the other classes can easily make.
Fun fact 1: If get access to an AOE healing skill on a turret or bundle, I’ve managed to get up to 6 jagged horrors up at one time using only the trait passive by healing over their HP degen. Theres an event in Auric Basin for a tower reactivation that has turrets, where I think its technically possible to create an unlimited amount of minions as long as they are far enough out to use the healing skill on them.)
Fun fact 2: Minions can life siphon through most invulnerability states. While the damage is pitiful, its still nice knowing you’re doing damage while not one else can.
Fun Fact 3: This would probably be a Meta tank for raids if it was a straight up fight….. but cheeky mechanics like to wipe whole parties if one person isn’t standing perfectly on a marked spot. So once again, the terrible AI control system they refuse to address still keeps pets/minions massive liabilities in “difficult” content.
Reading this post makes me wish the night was over so that can go home and spread my dread across Tyria.
I use a mixture of Valk and Zerker for my Power Minion Master build.
It is fool proof, I run Death Magic, Blood, Reaper Power in Valk Gear, Ascended Great Sword, Exotic Axe Dagger, Ascended Non Armor pieces that are Zerker with two that are zerker with Vitality.
My question is whether this is viable in Fractals?
I was just browsing GW2 Reddit and I found this.
https://m.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5f36nq/returning_newbie_disappointed_in_engineer_class/
Looks like my assumption was correct.
Drop Healing Turret, cycle through kits hitting 5 through 2.
I suggest The Engineers Hand Book by Wolvineer; I’ve never been able to wrap my mind around a rotation.
Season One will be revisited in Fractal form.
Malyc will never be addressed.
The Mother Tree and Trahearn will be adressed in a later episode probably if we need to consult her regarding a vision or Elder Dragon Magic influencing other minions.
Maybe there will be a Nightmare Court attack showing them corrupted with death magic regarding if Dylvari get effected by Dragon Magic.
Perhaps Sylvari don’t have funerals they’re a young race and they all seem to be connected in a hive mind so perhaps they process grief under the radar.
I’ll just have to Git Gud, are there any gear choices that might help me more like Valk ( I figure as long as I’m stacking might and bringing banners and staying alive most people will be happy)?
Haha easily possible with a nomad anything. A mace guard for example can tank buffed WvW lords. But of course, your damage will be kitten. I wouldnt use it in PvE.
Reaper remain by far the best facetanker with damage because you can build it to regen a ton of lf and hp in shroud, ie you will be immortal as long as you maintain shroud most of the time.
I was hoping for a change of pace so I’ll probably lvl an Engineer and camp Hammer, I Assume In low level Fractals no ones going to care any way.
I might check this out, I my self have pretty bad reflexes so a virtual keyboard might be a good option for me in general; I’ll check out your videos.
Even with the joke, I think you are mostly right, Beard.
There are some “rotations” for engie, but nobody really uses them, because we have so many available skills that is better to just pick the most useful for the specific moment.
It all depends on which game mode are you playing, and which build you are using…
The basic is as follows:
Weapon AAs on Engie are weak, with the exception of the hammer. Kits AAs aren’t bad, but aren’t that strong either. Grenade AA is one of the most used, because DPS, followed by Flamethrower, for tagging mobs. Bomb could be good, but is static.
Many engie skills offer fields, and many offer finishers. A good Engie will be using the combo system all the time.
Example combos:For healing: Healing Turret > Cleansing Burst (Water Field) > any blast finisher > Detonate Turret.
For might: Orbital Strike > FT Napalm or Fire Bomb(Fire fields, must be deployed before orbital hits) > any blast finisher.
On the other extreme, you have some real tight rotations that, If perfectly executed and in the perfect circumstances, will simply destroy your opponents. They usually don’t work with real enemies that move around and try to stop you.
They are nice to see, anyway.
Condi rotation example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxSMg8psXbE&feature=youtu.be&t=126
So I guess Flame tlThrower 1 puts down a fire field then, followed
By the rest you mentioned?
There were some nice leveling guides before hot… but I think these should be too outdated. Anyway, they aren’t that necessary, leveling is fairly easy in this game.
Basic concepts:
- Scrapper isn’t available until you reach 80. Use Rifle if you like power, 2 Pistols if you like condi.
- Take Flamethrower as soon as possible. -> Tag as many mobs as possible. (Bombs seems to be good too at low levels.)
- Take Tools traitline as soon as possible, get Streamlined Kits. -> Spam a kit button every 10 secs to get permaswiftness and navigate the map faster.
- Take Healing Turret and learn to use it as soon as possible. -> Healing combo with turret is useful from the most basic PvE novice play to the most advanced PvP carnage.
- Be sure your armor level is close to the level of the map you are playing. Change your armor each 10 or 5 even levels. DON’T buy expensive armor, use the basic. If you don’t mind to spend, buy green stuff.
Thank you.
Is there some sort of leveling guide that eases people into this class?
There’s literally no build I could suggest to you fitting that description. If you’re going to ignore dodges and let enemies hit you with every single attack, there’s nothing you can play that would benefit your party (because they could always replace you with someone who doesn’t ignore dodge mechanics, reads enemy tells and provides much more to the party).
Tbh. unless you’re willing to l2p, I’d say your best bet is to stay on your reaper. Power-based damage is superior to condi in dungeons most of the time, so you’ll be contributing a decent amount. Also if you cannot stay alive on other classes, there’s no point in switching, just stay on necro who has double healthbar and is extremely easy to play.Pro tip: If you’re facing multiple trash mobs (enemies who’s rank is lower than champion), try placing down well of darkness under them. It’s a blind field, meaning their attacks will be rendered completely ineffective for at least 5 seconds.
Pro tip2: Boss enemies usually have breakbar (the blue bar under their health). If you break it quickly, it will disable the boss for 5 seconds, allowing you to freecast as you wish. Your best skill for breaking that bar (called CC) is charge, which is 2nd skill after you activate flesh golem as your elite. Your other CCs include 3rd and 5th skills in reaper shroud.
It’s not that I’m completely incapable of dodging it’s just that for every attack I manage to avoid I seem to get screwed by something else, I know how to break break bars, 1 wasn’t aware skill 4 on the GS was a blind though so I guess Inshoukd save that one for
BBs as well.
To be honest dodging is not a problem for me but I get stunned a lot, and once that happens or you get knocked down you’re dead.
I’d probably camp Mace/Shield as a Guardian if I had some stability for example.
Actually in low lvl Fractals I don’t die as a Reaper, the only times I run into problems are Ghosts in BSF and Jades in EB.
So for some one like me that sucks at dodging the Scrapper would be great for PVE, do you stay in Hammer the whole time, should I keep
Flamethrower in utilities to have a lootstick, what other utilities should I use?
I’m coming into with out much familiarity with an Engineer other than hearing their rotation is spamming everything and then wait for cool downs to
Reset.
How is this build used, do you stay in Hammer with no kits, which gyros do you use/when, whjch elixirs do you use/when?
I’m thinking of finishing my Engineer I was wondering what the rotation is, spamming 6 through 10 and then f1 through f5 while hitting what ever comes off cool down?
In answer to Just a Fleshwound lower lvl Fractals, original 5 Mans, Open World.
To the original replier I’m assuming Engineer is just spamming everything the hitting anything that comes off cool down?
It’s on the table.
Wrong thread, sorry big thumbs small
Screen.
Hey guys I’m looking for a new class to have fun with, I’m currently maining a Great Sword Power Reaper but I would like a class that brings more value to the table for
Other people.
Here’s a couple things, I’m a crumby evader, most of my Wep Skins are Great Sword, I have 4 lvl 80s Necro, Guardian, Warrior, Ranger.
I’ve noticed my Warrior with an incomplete Berserker trait has its health evaporate, when you fill in the trait line do you get more health sustain?
My Guardian has too little health, I can’t find a way to
Survive knock downs or being cced since 15k health gets chewed through fast.
With Ranger the Staff is underwhelming and the damage takes forever to
Kill anything even with Zerker gear.
At least with my Power Reaper I’m alive a majority of the time, the DPS is decent; but is Vampiric Presence enough to bring to the table for group value?
I’ll give this a solid try, how do you get stability on Guardian against knock backs.
Can you use
Defense in a PVE build as long as you use Phalanx Strength and Berserker line?
I didn’t realize how old this was, I found it while googleing.
(edited by Oldirtbeard.9834)
I was wondering if I could trait Defense as long as I still used Phalanx Strength and Berserker Specs?
I guess I’m too edgy for this crowd.
A couple hours ago I logged off during Season 2 Metalgear Caithe and the game froze, I couldn’t atl tab, ctr/alt del, or Function key my way out of it so I did a hard shutdown. I’m just giving you folks a heads up in case there’s some kind of bug from the latest S3 Eisode that might have inadvertently effected other areas or if perhaps S2 just has some known bugs that might be low on the priority list.
In either case knowledge is power, hope it helps you folks on Friday, congratulation on a stellar LW Episode that only had one glaring flaw in my eyes but it’s not a game breaker personally.
Can you throw me an invite, 38 year old american that works 3rd shift, only time you’ll see drama from me is if I get irritated about a mechanic; I’m like Bones from Star Trek in that regard, unfortunately it is coupled with the social sensibilities of Michael Scott from the office so I can be a bit dense socially but I’ve got a good heart.
Thank’s for the candid response in game, apparently having strong opinions on the forums regarding a game we all love was a disqualifier; there should be plenty of more pliable happy go lucky folks to choose from.
(edited by Oldirtbeard.9834)
Hey folks I have a lvl 80 Ranger that I would like to utilize for group support, enough dps in open world and instance combat that I don’t hit like a wet noodle, I prefer melee.
I have an ascended Great Sword is there anything I can do with that weapon; it’s also Berserker stats so if I have to change the stats on it how do you reroll the stats?
All of my 6 non armor pieces are ascended zerker so I guess the same question applies, unless there’s such a thing as a power Druid?
It’s nice to see that my reaction was reasonable to this situation, I had to get the buff again to progress the story after logging off and going to work/sleep only to
Discover it was gone at the beginning of my one hour pre work gaming session.
For a second there after getting chewed out by my GM for complaining about this in Guild Chat I almost thought there was something wrong with me, but to be fair this is becoming a past time with my GM lately; perhaps it’s time to move on.
Hey folks I’m a US guy that works over nights, I predominantly work overnights, I do a lot of open world so it would be great if folks were around running meta events as a guild, I would like to get into Fractals on a casual basis so ideally I’d be fine with people
That don’t care About Meta builds in 5 mans.
This ones an important one, while I enjoy this game I have a tendency sometimes of getting under white knights skin because I tend to be very expressive if there’s a policy change/mechanic/feature that I have grievances about so I tend to try to get into conversations that might irritate defenders of the game with out realizing that some
One can be heavily opiniated about as aspect of the game with out something turning
Into a lecture where I’m told to go back to WoW for picking at something I may be venting about.
I’m looking for folks that work that realize that limited time is valuable so if I’m venting about a mechanic that hinders a smaller window of play time that I’m not
Lectured by a an officer or GM that happens to have all the time in the world to put something off since they have no where to be any way.
My personality tends to be very dry, i speak bluntly because I do not have social skills for
Subtlety, i guess apparently that either offends people some times or really just my GM which turns into a lecture during my limited play times. So yeah a group of people that are not special snow flakes I might accidentally offend since I speak plainly with out a filter; I don’t typically go in a dirty direction, or anything racially insensitive but
I am from New York so tend to be a ball buster.
I suppose I’m a cross between Bones from Star Trek and Michael Scott
From the Office.
So if
There’s any one out there like that give me a shout out.
This afternoon I was working on the new story and I head to this cave in the North East thinking I’m good to go, I then died of acute hypothermia. Naturally since I’m not a morning person I lost my marbles since I knew I had lost part of my potential play session working on a new Elixir. Since I made the Elixir The first time I was no longer able to track the mats in my ui so I got Stuck grabbing a bunch of mats for a
Grawl idol instead ofThe elixir. So I finally make this Elixir and wind up rushing through the cave instead of Enjoying It because I’m paranoid about Getting stuck in this situation again tomorrow.
Please make The first Elixir separate from the daily so that it doesn’t impede people with jobs from Completing the story.
By the way I’m totally on team Braham.
Well she’s made out of blue crystal so Heisenberg’s Scion.
I should have said speculation.
I’m going to pose a different view point on Braham then the consensus that he’s some reckless Commander wannabe.
What if we as the player character are not meant to kill every single Elder Dragon on our own?
Perhaps for the sake of the narrative taking it’s time over the life of the game the responsibility spreads out?
So Braham fulfills the prophecy with the tooth and goes on the warhunt for Jormag, I suggest leading a re-galvanized Norn he succeeds in taking out Jormag and transitions himself to becoming The Dragonhunter. I’m not saying there wouldn’t be any ramifications from this, however I bet your bottom dollar that the magic released gets absorbed by Primordius and snuffs him out through sheer crap luck and irony.
I bet you Braham winds up turning after taking out Jormag like when Arthas took out the Lich King and picked up the helm of Domination becoming the Lich King.
However the magic released from Jormag will probably flow toward Steve and awaken him which might for shadow what occurs in the Third Expansion where we may have to deal with both Kralkatoric in the personal story followed by Steve becoming active in Cantha during LW Season 4.
I f GW2 is still active after the third expansion we deal with various demigods that absorb dragon magic to become crazed villains and despots such as a Svanir super-powered Braham. Maybe a Crystal Undead Joko guy from the Crystal Desert, a Water powered Shiro?
(edited by Oldirtbeard.9834)
Sorry armor lovers I’m guilty as charged when it comes to financially supporting outfits, as a matter of fact I plan on buying the new one when I get paid.
You all still keep ignoring the fact that WoW’s endgame is entirely based around raids while in GW2 it’s just a rather small side-project.
A small side project that happens to be the only path to Legendary armor, while I don’t care about that stuff my self I do believe that making it the only path to get that armor makes Raids anything but a side project.
I remember a time when people who really cared about lore in games, played the games.
It is a shame how the culture of games has shifted to playing to the game to demanding the game change to fit you as a person instead.
It’s not a shame, because that has never happened. The games at that time fit the people playing them the same as they do now – it’s just they were meant for a much smaller population. When your target for a major game was in tens of thousands of players at best, you could make them as hardcore as you wanted. When that target increased however, the gaming studios soon found out that there simply weren’t enough players that were interested – and that if they wanted more, they had to make those games more inclusive.
TL/DR: there was never really a case where players changed to fit a game.
Exactly remember when Ghostcrawler had the audacity to try doing that during WoW Cataclysm, there was this blog he wrote called Heroics Are Hard; they relented and thus Raid Finder was born.
Here’s the link to this ancient piece of MMO nostolgia, it was Ghostcrawler’s Watereloo.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/2053469/wow-dungeons-are-hard