Yeah I see where you are coming from but surely there is bigger issues in the game at the moment than just Malrona’s description, at the same time it wouldn’t need a lot of effort just to make it clear in the description. And regarding fgs yeah I do think it needs a nerf, but if they are going to make skills useless they could tell us which I agree with
Should a boss really be able to be 1 shot if people are poisoned? seems a bit easy which is why they made them useless
Well scarlet is dead and a new story is out which involves a new elder dragon, there is a new area called Dry Top also. I won’t tell you the details because I don’t want to ruin your fun. Also the thief meta is 6,6,0,0,2 full berserker scholar for PvE
Eles are the best class for dungeons due to massive damage, support and fiery greatsword , also eles are one of the best classes in fractals so I recommend it, but all classes apart from necro have a place in dungeons, mesmers are a little weak but still viable
why does it bother you so much, just do the path once find out it doesn’t work and don’t do it next time? removing it didn’t cause an issue, just an attempt to stop another boss being killed in an unnecessarily quick time
I hear Nomads is pretty good damage
Necro’s suck in pve dungeons and fractals at the moment but if you can find a guild that doesn’t care what you play then it’s fine
They are just trying to make dungeons slightly more difficult I think, which is unsuccessful at the moment, e.g you can use un-traited wardens to block the aoes and you can just fear/push to a corner and get hit by the poison then 1 fgs rush kills her.
Feedback and wall are already two of the most powerful utility skills in the game so it’s really nothing to complain about. Nobody is forcing you to fight a boss a certain way
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Scholar are your best bet and Flame legion are also a good bet if you cannot afford scholar, strength has very little benefit to a DPS guardian team build as the might stacking is small
Would just like to remind people to mail officers in-game or over forum message, please do not use this as a place to post your application.
Still recruiting/////////////
Still looking for some new recruits!
Immortal Kingdom [KING] is a high-end PvE guild on Desolation and we are currently recruiting active, good players who have a keen interest in fractals and dungeons. Unlike most other guilds we specialize in fractals and have guides for all the different fractals on Youtube and Twitch, the channels can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gw2king
http://www.twitch.tv/jnvsor/profile/past_broadcasts
What we are looking for in you (requirements):
- Active play
- Good sense of team play within the guild
- Knowing your class
- Mature attitude but able to take a joke
- Using teamspeak and being able to both talk and listen
- Representing in PvE is required 90% of the time
- Know the content, fractals and dungeons
- Having a good understanding of PvE as you will be expected to run high level fractals (50/40/30) and dungeons on a daily basis
-at least one set of DPS gear on a character which allows you to do level 50 (70 a/r+)
What you can expect from us:
Overall a friendly close-knit growing community of fractal fanatics always up for a chat and a daily fractal
- Daily fractal 50/40/30/20 runs
- Dungeon groups/tours
- Good players
- Fast and efficient runs
- Some of the best fractal players EU
- We run guild Bounty, Rush, Challenge and Puzzle every week at 6 PM server time Sunday
- Fun! we aim to have fun in KING and maintain a happy atmosphere as long as you don’t mind a bit of banter
We are currently recruiting:
All classes apart from Necromancer due to lack of usefulness in fractals. For this reason we are also tighter on recruiting mesmers and warriors. Mesmers have limited effectiveness, especially in fractals and we already have so many who can play warrior because it is dead easy
If you wish to join KING you can send a message to me over the forums or in-game mail:
-Painbow.6059 -Zorkoma
In your message/mail please include the following:
-Your home server
-Why you want to join KING
-Where you heard about KING
-Your fractal level, agony resistance and experience
-Your build/gear choices
-Your class you wish to trial on and others you can play
-Anything else you wish to add
Thank you for reading and look forward to seeing some new players!
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Bump this. It still tabs out and there is nothing helpful over google/youtube which seem to help.
whenever I try to swap weapons using Mouse 5 (wheel right) I also tab out to the desktop background, not sure what or where this came from but it started after the patch this morning. I use a logitech g500 mouse
I like the bosses in Hotw p2. At least you can’t FGS them that easy
actually the bosses in p2 are very good to fgs apart from the last one, the first one you can pull behind the pillar to the left and fgs, the next boss you can run up the stairs and stack to the left, drop hallowed ground/SYG and FGS that one, third boss you can focus pull him and the quaggons to a wall and get some burst damage with FGS on them but don’t over-do it, there is also some stack spots if you hug the right wall.
I love HOTW, run all paths regularly with guildies and did a solo of p1 last night. The last boss sucks major balls when trying to solo on a guardian
Ele’s are very strong in fractals and I don’t know how people can debate over that, you got perma fury and high might stacking on every body in the party, decent vuln with weak spot, and especially when using fgs, big aoe damage and very big aoe damage against larger targets, conjures, 300 range auto attack e.g lightning whip which makes bosses like mai trin/archdiviner easy to survive on, but on trash yes eles are pretty squishy. You basically got a lot of damage, support and control on ele in fractals, and if played right they can benefit the group massively
In high level fractals the effectiveness order pretty much goes as follows:
1. Elementalist/Guardian
2. Warrior
3. Thief
4. Engie/mesmer
5. Ranger
6. Necromancer
However when pugging guardian is probably your safest bet
I think hammer build is over-rated, It is useful against some trash but I feel that on bosses like archdiviner he will still 1 hit you through protection, also scepter is awesome on some fractal bosses like Bloomhunger, Molten duo and dredge end bosses due to the large hit box
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Well Rangers are generally bad as they use bows and don’t use frost spirit and spotter (pugs) or even good ones offer little in fractals compared to eles for example, necros are just bad and as for thief I got no idea, thieves are great in fractals. But yeah in general pug’s think guard/war/ele are the only classes which contribute effectively, it’s not true so don’t beat yourself up about it
full berserker
Hylek potion + Medical pack + Executioner axe = OP mobility for all professions outside combat in PVE/dungeons
Basically taken down because I didn’t blur out his name, I was kicked from a SE party because I had a go at this elementalist not stacking might or using LH, just spamming scepter auto, I asked him, why aren’t you using LH and stacking might because scepter auto is bad. He then replied im a pro and don’t need to listen to you, his friend then backed him up by saying all eles are for are fgs and nothing else. I didn’t say anything until p3 afterwards when they called me a noob guardian and I asked why, they said you use GS and its bad, they then kicked me from P3 and because I only have 1 legendary on this character the dude decided to ping his 6 and call me a noob for using GS, he then blocked me so I couldn’t reply to him
Horrik is more of the issue now as well as the cannon phase. He does a lot of damage and his cannon shot if you stand in between him and his AOE is hard to tell and very deadly. Also the cannon phase is too long. Mai Trin herself isn’t really an issue but a pistol spin if you got your back turned running the other way is painful. It is also longer to remove her stacks as you cannot go as close to each other because you don’t want to trigger her melee attacks, we did a lot better at her yesterday in [KING] rather than the day before considering that the day before we were three manning with a pug on 40. Basically I think that Mai Trin is still a little too difficult for pugs to handle.
As for the [KING] tournament, we are currently reviewing her difficulty over a week because we will get more used to the encounter by then and she will be easier, but the point system will be changed for Mai Trin.
From experience the best way to deal with her seems to be make sure you can have 2-3 teleport block classes. Eles are the best for this as you got swirling winds and ring of earth (with a short cooldown) you also got over blocks and invulns as to block all the teleports.
You basically use earth/air until her stacks are low enough and then you want to start doing some might combo/dps on her and you can lightning whip her without trigger any melee attacks because of the 300 range. NOBODY should be meleing her anymore because it triggers her melee attacks which will 1 hit people unless they dodge out very quickly. Guard’s can aegis chain and mesmers can also block some teleports. Basically energy sigil’s and vigor are now pretty darn handy for mai trin aswell as evades and blocks, once she gets to low stacks you can dps her down.
You need to be wary of Horrik now since he does a lot of damage with cannon shot so make sure to dodge all of them.
The reason she is so powerful now is because she scales like all the other fractals. she did not before
This is what happens when we ask for more challenging content.
At least they were nice enough to mention this one in the patch notes.
It’s too difficult for non-organized groups too handle
Too early to tell. Though, if it’s as bad as everyone say it is I won’t be PUG-ing fractals anytime soon.
I’m sure they’ll find a way to safespot AFK range it.
It’s really not too early to tell, this will make pugging fractals impossible. We found Mai Trin difficult and failed a couple of times in KING (a fractal guild) with the composition 1 guard 2 ele 1 war 1 mes
This is what happens when we ask for more challenging content.
At least they were nice enough to mention this one in the patch notes.
It’s too difficult for non-organized groups too handle
This was the best thing ever, she is so dam broken now, was on lv 40 full zerker ele, lightning whip 7-8k, teleport 15k, horric’s aoe/cannonshot 9k damage, melee attacks insta -down, basically you can’t go within melee anymore and you have to play very defensively, also if your back is turned she will destroy you. Basically she is broken as hell, we struggled with her in a full KING group, just saying this will make pugging mai trin literally IMPOSSIBLE.
In PvE Shelter is a much superior option when playing full berserker. Since you have a low health pool (as little as 10,800*) the heal from shelter does not actually seem so small. Also a lot of things will 1 hit you which shelter can let you block. The damage block through shelter more than makes up for the lower heal and often you use it for a block and not for a heal. Signet of resolve is only really good in PvE against non-blockable attacks, which is very rare
so when logging into the game unless I start moving ect I DC within about two minutes. It is always error 101 at the end. I also DC maybe once per day at random and cannot find the cause. Have run various internet tests and package loss tests, nothing can be found, also everything else works perfectly well. Would really appreciate some feedback on this issue as I am aware lots of other players are also having disconnection issues of recent
A Mix of berserker with berserker sounds good to me.
Well in PvE guards are certainly better than engies. For gear choices it’s still easy to survive as a full zerk guard using meta dps traits (4,5,0,0,5) so just run with that. The guy who said 0,0,6,6,2 has l2p issues
If this is pve talk then warrior is easier to survive in using full zerker and is more forgiving than guardian due to twice the health, but both classes are very survivable and forgiving. Guardian should play full zerk to be effective with the meta game in PvE, using knights gear is a waste and basically the only play you ever use it is in fractals for tanking ettin/keeping aggro on svanir’s while kiting
thanks
which build would you use for dps guard for group play?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE
If you want to do group content in PVE you should always aim to use Scholar runes
it’s the best range weapon for guardian so having one is useful anyway, even though the only place you would use it in dungeons/fractals is maybe ice elemental (when pugging but mele works fine too) on dredge fractal or imbuned shaman(to allow cooldowns of reflects if needed), maybe hotw p1 but standing at max melee range works fine too, you can also use it for afking world events but using scepter as a main weapon in pve is not a good idea
my m8s are running dps guards in dungs…
well elementalist is becoming more and more of an option as it add’s zerg support and dungeons support + eventual dungeons max damage if traited…
between elementalist guardian and ranger for WvW + PvE what would u guys point at?
Bout the 3 guardians in a team (dungeons/ fract): does this work? i mean, will it slow down the dungeon or fract to much?
I would say 2 max really, guardian has bad offensive buffing to the party so 1 guardian is usually the right amount, however 2 dps guards isn’t half bad, if you really want to go guardian then yeah you can, anything in pve “works”
I’d say 1 guardian is optimal, two DPS guards is still alright but any more than that you are just missing out
Elementalists on the other hand are always good to stack up
I hate to point it out, but this question tends to lead to a popularity contest. I don’t just mean here, in the GW2 Forums, but in general life.
Honestly, I don’t see a point in asking. Everyone has different criteria, and that changes their answer. If everyone states what their criteria is along with their answer, it would at least be worth reading the responses.As for my answer, I honestly have none. I just meet a lot of random people.
The best guardian is Jesus..
can i get a amen
+1 Jesus
cleric gear speed run
Anyone using healing gear in pve should be insta kicked from any dungeon party, full zerker is the best option
Depends of the dungeon. I’m zerk for fast runs dungeons like CoF, SE et cetera, I’m cleric geared for fractal 50 and sometimes in Arah.
cleric is also trash in fractal 50 and in arah
yes, yes you are
Nemesis. /healertankpro
Anyone using healing gear in pve should be insta kicked from any dungeon party, full zerker is the best option
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE
Healing power is weak, not needed and slows the group down so it is useless in pve.
Tanking is not viable in pve.
That leaves DPS
Scholar since guardian’s have low might buffing and easy to maintain health with blinds/blocks/other stuff