Guild Wars 2

Location: UK

Time and date: 6PM GMT

Game World: 206.127.159.156:0

Description: General Lag in-game, lagging out and skill delays, not all the time but sometimes.

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Bumping this again

Collecting achievement points are also a waste of time because the rewards are bad

At the end of the day it’s only a mini, the people who REALLY care for collecting it will put the effort in it get it. You also have an entire year to get it. Also the point about the fractal tonic is VERY valid. Fractals is more difficult content and is a lot more un-rewarding than farming then opening the bags. The fractal tonic has a stupid drop rate but we all live with it and work towards it with a determined and positive attitude. All i’m trying to say is look at other areas of the game such as Fractals where achieving the tonic is a lot more difficult than achieving the mini. Arena-net don’t seem to want to do anything about that in terms of making pristine relics useful to fractal runners so why should they improve the drop rate of an item where you already get a lot from the bags anyway, for which I might add is easy content compared to high level fractals where players still can’t get a tonic?

Gust is a beautiful skill with tactical trolling uses on fractals, gust is love gust is life

Bumping again, another epic SS from HOTW p3 :>

Elementalists have the highest aoe damage along with a lot of other support such as blinds and swirling winds. They got the strongest might stacking and realistically without having a phallanx warrior + an ele you wont be at 25 might stacks a lot in fractals, but a phallanx warrior has low damage. Once you got a guard, engi, war, ele, you take something with good support and damage options. No other support is necessary so why take any other class over ele which has a lot of support and damage, rangers have low aoe damage, mesmers have much lower damage, a second warrior is pointless, the engi+ ele provide enough blinds.

The whole point of gems was being able to get the exact amount you needed. This new system is just awful and means people will have a hard time using all their remaining gems

KING is still recruiting, join the hype for fractals

2 ele
1 warrior
1 guard
1 engi/thief (thief for longer stealth but engi is overall more utility and aoe damage with enough blinds)

This is the best fractal composition in my opinion

Don’t use hammer on fractals bosses, it sucks.

bumping again.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Retal burn tank

Wow, looks like they might have got someone who is actually able to make a difference to fractals, please be true

It’s alright but not necessary. I use mace in fractals on a few occasions, Mossman with sword focus on offset and the first archie in cliffside. It’s also alright for trash with hammer if you don’t need to gs or staff on offset. But for most bosses/stuff sword focus/gs is better. Hammer is bad on all fractal bosses anyway

And as for dungeons its fun to use every now and then or for more aoe damage than sword/keeping up scholar buff on others

Still recruiting, message me in game if you wish to join

It just takes time getting used too. 66200 is a good bet and use energy sigil for bosses where you need more dodges. But there is other builds and weapons you use as well as dagger focus

These jokes Arah great

I SE what you did there

46202 in organized parties, 45004 when pugging

Still recruiting, here is a picture of getting ice-bowed

Still recruiting

Mace ain’t so bad but shield is pretty crap in pve

Bump, we are closing recruitment to main warriors with growing number of them in the guild

Still recruiting, I will leave you here with a very vicious creature frozen in its prime

Got this problem too

We are still recruiting, I will leave you with an epic icebow shot of which I have many.

q.q #HelpMeRnJesus

Just get some zerker gear and join in

cleric gear is an exploit because it allows you to ignore game mechanics such as retaliation

Well my guild are not usually into dungeons much so I end up pugging quite a lot of them. It is bad and you notice a dramatic loss in skill when you pug as well as it being a lot less efficient. Pugs are generally less reactive as well as not understanding game mechanics. Saying that though you can carry pugs as an ele pretty effectively with conjures and high dps, but with upcoming fgs nerf phalanx war won’t be a bad idea at all

wasn’t me but still an awesome icebow 5

Not just the bridge, one fears cof for the OP acolyte event.

To infinity and beyond!

With more players learning to play multiple professions we are opening trials up to all classes again

Temptest defense and it’s fun to try get stuff in frozen pose

#GetRektAlpha420

Purple Miku.7032:

Painbow.6059:

The amount of people who dislike HoTW is saddening. It’s one of the only dungeons where the bosses are not a faceroll and requires coordination to complete quickly.

’scuse me!?

Aside from Svanigandir and Ginva the butcher, everything else is just monotonous with way too much HP…

As somebody that’s solod just about all of these paths minus the underwater fights and story mode last boss, I have to say the majority of these bosses don’t have any interesting mechanics and take seconds to learn how to fight properly. Even in pugs, pretty much nothing worthy of mentioning aside from the butcher.

I’ll agree that path 2 takes some good coordination to complete quickly, particularly because the 2 quaggans + that one other annoying guy are obnoxious and because of the underwater fights, but what makes this dungeon more interesting than others? As far as I’ve seen from record videos, there isn’t much more coordination required here than many other paths to execute properly… o_O

It’s just that most people don’t care about HotW as much, at least in the dungeon speedclearing community.

Svanigandir was probably one of the most interesting fights I’ve experienced in the game and is truly an outlier in HotW and dungeons in general. I’d never expect to get that kind of fun out of HotW. I wish they would have followed this trend and released more bosses of this nature.

Notice how I said ‘quickly’. Pugs never used FGS in the right way in HoTW, most dungeons you can just drop it because a wall is nearby or a boss is not painful but in HoTW it often requires stability/reflects present as well. Pretty much all the bosses have spots to LoS but trying to pull off half of them in pug groups is just not going to happen. I think the high health pool is something good about HoTW because it means teams have to be able to survive well over a period of time

The amount of people who dislike HoTW is saddening. It’s one of the only dungeons where the bosses are not a faceroll and requires coordination to complete quickly.

Fav: HoTW/TA

Least fav: Arah

In p1 ignore the flame burst unless you have vigor, just dodge the cone attack, in p2 all you have to worry about is the large aoe, dodge that and in p3 dodge both cone and aoe.
if you don’t have vigor and you pug in slow groups you won’t be able to stay alive forever. Also icebow 5 can trigger temptest defense and give 5 seconds of free attack time, as well as obsidian flesh in your might combo at the start

Elementalists and Guardians are the strongest fractal classes currently.

Eles provide perma fury, high might, conjures, blinds, very high aoe damage and good single target, also FGS is amazing but even without fgs eles are still very good.

Guard provides all the necessary defensive support apart from being a little weak on the blinds.

Warriors are also great for offensive buffing.

Basically anything but necro and ranger has a place in fractals. Necros lack any kind of unique group utility and the damage buff rangers provide doesn’t make up for the lack in utility

Rush in pieces fgs/ still recruiting

I think if they made trash worth killing people would, but from a dungeon tour perspective why would I want to waste time killing adds and taking longer with no stacking when its just the same content over and over and gets no more interesting

Honestly, just stick to full zerker and learn slowly. Staying alive on guard in DPS gear and traits is fairly easy if you know what to dodge. Just give it some time and you will improve.

Bumpidy bump bump

My suggestion would be completely changing the skill, maybe make it like a slightly more powerful version of LH so it’s still useful, but not as powerful as it is now.

All adds in arah have been replaced with champion grubs

Well for a start in PvE the only way to be effective is to run full berserker builds even on Guardian, the truth hurts I know. Fiery wrath is something you always have for 10% more damage, 5 points in radiance for 10% Mod is also a good one to get, also having unscathed contender, master of consecrations and absolute resolution is handy. Zealous blade since you will be using GS a lot. Honor trait-line is only used if using hammer build or if you need extra vigor basically so don’t worry too much about that

Ryn.6459:

I see. Ty!
The other issue that I have is that I feel bad if I dont have arcane brilliance and arcane wave for blast finishers 24/7 on my bar. And sometimes my survavility goes down because of this.

On mai trin use ether renewal and maybe at grawl shaman if you aren’t using staff, other than that it shouldn’t be an issue with arcane brilliance, arcane wave is on your bar pretty much 24/7 though

Also pugging high level fractals on ele is more difficult than in an organised group. If i were to pug fractals I would stay guard pretty much 24/7