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Are you addicted?

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Yeah, I kinda wanted to quit but then I find myself coming back to the dailes and living story meta achievements.

Buying gems = lower MF luck rate

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I consider myself to have slightly better than average luck. Ive had one precursor from the forge. I loot exotics every once in awhile. I’ve never spent actual money on the gem store.

Ranger vs. Mai Trin

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pet vs any elite mob in dungeons pretty much gets the same results unless you have decent team to support you.

Also pet ai sucks and there are so little options for controlling it. I wish there was a “stay back” option so it isn’t standing in the middle of aoe or being cleaved to death.

IF you're going to reskin;

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I like to mix and match as well. There are plenty of others who do so too.

I'm NOT BALD!!!!

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Yeah its a shame, I really like the headpiece here http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prowler_armor but suddenly you become bald when you wear it.

What pistol is this?

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Yep. It’s an aetherized pistol. I’ve got two of these sitting in my bank for investment purposes. Glad to know they have some demand.

Toxic Everywhere - annoying

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Certain open world champions can be “infected” and receive the toxic buff. It’s pretty stupid imo.

Kill Someone get all their Gear?

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Wager matches would be pretty cool but anet would never add something like that.

Trebbing from a ridiculous place...

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Elona usually have treb in their citadel. Anet could ban everybody who used supply.

The problem is that the banhammer cant drop if its Anets fault that trebs can be placed in spawn. Its not a hack, simply a flaw in the game

Do you know what a exploit is? Plenty of people get banned for exploits.

Server of the year

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I’m voting my server, the best and only. Blackgate. We the underdogs, despite the odds, have risen up the ranks and won against stacked T1 servers SoR and JQ.

We have the most loyal community and will continue to destroy anyone in our path to Season 1 champion.

Trebbing from a ridiculous place...

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It’s completely intended for those skilled enough to jump up there. I’m now tempted to upload a video where my friend and I built a treb up there while outnumbered.

There are plenty of ways to counter that treb though. Arrow carts, mortars, overpowered 1500 range engi grenades.

Experimental Chili

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Yeah I’ll never give up my economy super veggie pizzas on any condition build ever.

immobilize nerf and entangle

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If anything, entangle needs a buff.

Anyone with half a brain can render this supposedly elite skill useless….Then again Rampage as One can be rendered useless by a mere boon steal or corruption….

Oh Ranger, do you get any breaks?

Oh well, you’ll always be my go to class for general pve. Love me pets!

Warrior Downstate was nerfed?

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If you’re dying immediately after using vengeance then l2p. When I mean l2p I mean l2pvt.

Seriously though, stop relying on that invincibility crutch on vengeance. That nerf was well warranted. Did you really think the same huurrrr durrr zerker warrior from PVE would translate well into PVP? Get some Power, Vitality, Toughness armor.

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We attract the wrong type of player.

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I just want Hamstorm warrior back

Your Favorite kill box location

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The Northermost supply camp in BL, i think its called Stargate or something like that.

Red spawn in EB is also my favorite place to camp because I can just contest their keep almost indefinitely. I can usually pick off a few people until a whole angry mob/zerg starts to chase me.

Devs try to stream temples, and they bug.

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I was there…. the Grenth temple event bugged out as well.

We had to move to Dwayna which finally worked. It was kinda sad.

Could E be Scarlet?

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Mr. E = Mystery.

It’s a pun on words. Don’t take it literally.

How did I not realize this sooner….

Superior Sigil of Energy doesn't work.

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Ok. I laughed more than I should have but I didn’t expect you to spaz the cursor over the energy bar all of a sudden.

Anyways, to OP.

Sigil all share a single internal CD. That means if you have another sigil that proc on say….your secondary weapon set, no other sigil can proc for 10 seconds.

If you stick to using sigil of energy and only sigil of energy 100% of the time then you will always see it work.

I have first hand experience from this when I once used sigil of fire and sigil of energy on two different weapon sets while weapon switching.

Why is the targeting system so bad?

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It seems I’ve posted to the wrong Forum.

My apologies. Would a mod be able to move it someplace more suitable?

Why is the targeting system so bad?

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a rough estimate of my experience says that tab on target has a success rate (targeting the correct enemy) of about 60%. This is abysmal.

There also doesn’t seem to be any way to prioritize your preferred targets in any way.

You’d think that tab on target would target the enemy closest to you but it can’t even manage to do that.

Is target on tab run by RNG? Anet seems to love RNG so I can see this.

Q: “Why don’t you just click your targets, huh? l2p scrub”

A: Because necro pets and other various targets clutter the screen. Good luck trying to target a brown asura necro blobbled up in his minions.

How come Isgarren isn't reacting to T.A.?

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He’s not actually there. The floating tower is merely an illusion.

Thinking of coming back. How is WvWvW now?

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They fixed culling. Many people said it would never be done but they were wrong.

Now they just have to work on optimizing the game and fixing the lag.

Post your videos of overpowered warriors here

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I can make some videos roflstomping pugs with hammer/mace stunlock, is that okay?

How to make people crash in Obsidian Sanctum?

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Gw2 rarely ever crashes for me anywhere except for the obsidian sanctum. I don’t how they do it but it seems some people know how to make other people’s client crash in the Obsidian Sanctum.

It’s very frustrating when you’re in combat and fighting when somebody causes you to crash.

I’ve never crashed in obsidian sanctum out of combat. It’s always when I’m fighting someone.

Not only do I have to forfeit a fight but I have to requeue just to get in the sanctum. Please fix this already or make it so that I don’t have to enter EB to get to OS.

Heard this many times

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It’s basically the same thing as a noob. Maybe slightly more demeaning.

OMG Turrets are useless in big events!

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You can’t expect every utility to be good at everything.

50%+ of HP gone in one shot? Intended?

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It’s called min/maxing . If a thief traits for ALL OUT OFFENSE then he will get incredible offensive abilities. Outside of stealth however, his defensive capabilities will be abysmal.

If a warrior traits for ALL OUT OFFENSE then he will get incredible offensive abilities including a massive amount of stuns. However, he doesn’t need anything defensive. He only needs Signet of Healing.

So what have we learned here? Roll a warrior and you too can do the the maxing without the minimizing!

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Just learned Caltrops + Stealth...

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I’m an avid p/d thief who uses both caltrops on dodge and the caltrops utility. This has never happened to me. I was roaming just a couple ours ago and never experienced any reveal using caltrops.

Just for you, i’ll log on and test.

EDIT: just tested, caltrops doesn’t reveal if you’re in stealth.

Little Ranger Survey (Sick Em!)

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They are dangerous in groups. It makes it significantly harder to 1v3 if the ranger in the 3 group is spamming Sic Em.

I used to see Rangers as free kills, they are higher on the priory list now.

P/D Applying Confusion Without Interrupt?

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p/d thieves can use the stolen Engineer skill http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Throw_Gunk as an Ethereal field for x5 confusion projectile finisher with http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sneak_Attack .

I use this quite often when I have Throw Gunk, I love it. During stealth just un-target, throw gunk at your feet, target, and unload a sneak attack for 5 stacks of confusion.

I am joining the army. (of warriors)

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G’luck – grass is not greener (more like over-fertilized with brown spots everywhere).

8 80s here (all classes) and Guardian is actually better in every respect except appearance, solo-farming, and (a very minor difference) in burst damage which is easily offset by “burst reactionary” defense.

You forgot about 20k Killshots. Now with ascended gear you can mix-max berserker and one shot most people in wvw. If not, just finish em off with a volley.

Its funny how anet loves zerker gear. DPS DPS DPS. They even got rid of the trinity for DPS DPS DPS. You’re allowed to mix max for pure dps but you can’t do that with condition builds since ascended condition gear is borked.

MKWT Post Patch Bug - No Trick or Treat Bags

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Unless you literally succeed 100% of the time, a better way to get treat bags is to farm events in the labyrinth, and in that case you also get the three champion loot bags every 10 minutes or so. Unless you find the jumping puzzle fun and find the zerg loathsome, I can’t see any reason to bother with this after you get your exotic gloves, treats or no treats.

I don’t know how many bags you get farming champs but pre-nerf I could get 7-10 tot bags every 2-3 minutes farming the clocktower and reloading map after a run.

MKWT Post Patch Bug - No Trick or Treat Bags

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I’m going to assume its a deliberate nerf.

MKC Reward gone?

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The chests on the way up still give rewards though. That’s something to do it for. That and the thrill.

At that point, it’s really not worth the time spent especially since they make you wait a whole run after one successful run.

MKC Reward gone?

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You don’t get the trick or treat bags anymore. After looting the useless empryeal shards you get nothing afterwards.

They made a crappy ToT bag farm even worse.

Hell, they ruined the whole Clocktower by making it into a pvp activity, you can’t even play with your friends. The rewards suck and the initial reward is account bound instead of character bound as it was last year. The mist balls are the only thing that was an improvement and it wasn’t even a problem for me last year. The people complaining about large character models (norn and charr) were bads.

PSA: Clocktower Bug,reload map if encountered

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The bug can prevent you from finishing the clocktower. Upon reaching the top, you will be met with an invisible wall as you try to jump to the final room.

I suspect the bug being cause by latency/lag issues when the server de-syncs with the player. This is evident as seen with the bugged loading animation throughout the jumping puzzle..

If you encounter this bug, reload the map.

I did back to back runs while having a glitched map and can confirm that you cannot finish the clocktower (normally) with a bugged map. If you’re interested, I have detailed footage of a bugged run vs a normal run. http://youtu.be/zxrxhj7zYUQ

Also, does anyone know if Tirzah ever got her cheeseburger?

Mad King's Clocktower on Farm!

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PSA: you can respawn the chests and sometimes decrease wait time by exiting and re-entering into a new instance after each successful run.

It’s still a bad farm since it was heavily nerfed compared to last year.

Clock Tower hates me

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It is a bug. If you encounter it, reload the map.

Thoughts on Sic'Em after the patch

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Ranger’s can be a bit more useful in groups now when dealing with thieves.

I Beat the clocktower!

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I like the fact that they are blue mists, it does make it easier.

What I don’t like is:

1. The scoring system – it’s absolutely pointless other than to brag to others that you’ve beaten it so and so times. First place doesn’t even get a reward, and it just makes it take longer to get to the puzzle. Why was this even added?

2. Unable to play with friends now. This is an issue with all activities, but I remember having a blast racing my friend to the top, and now we can’t join the same server anymore. Why is it like this? Why can’t I play with my friends?

3. Only 5 people. One of the most fun things was the social interaction from last year – the blue mists got rid of the issue regarding Norns and Charr, so why in the world did they reduce the amount of people jumping through the puzzle? It’s not as fun with so few people.

With that being said, I love the challenge of the puzzle, but it’s just annoying that most of the changes based around it kind of suck.

THIS THIS THIS!

Last year’s clock tower was so much better! I dont know why they bothered to convert it into a lame “activity”. It takes longer to do repeat runs due to wait time now. ALSO the initial reward (armor piece) is account bound, it was character bound last year and all my alts would be able to get it.

Mad kings tower screwing me over

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I have completed the clocktower multiple times (at least 20 times) and not once have I failed jumping into the clocktower when reaching the top.

You have to wait for the lightning to strike the clock and then proceed to jump.

edit: yeah I think most people will be super excited and jittery when they reach the top and will jump way too early. You gotta wait a long while til the lightning strikes.

EDIT2: I have finally encountered this bug, ITS REAL. I believe it has to do with server/latency problems when the server slightly lags or if you are lagging. I have video proof and have been able to re-create this lame bug. Will be uploading tomorrow.

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Roaming Mastery?

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No need to buff roamers. A single good roamer can already lock down supply caravans or perma-contest enemy waypoints.

"kitten"

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It’s anet’s profanity censor.

When people say kitten, they really could mean anything vulgar.

LFG 101: Read The Listing

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HA! Pugs always find a way to annoy or waste your time.

Best Roamer/Sabateur?

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lol Moon, get off the high horse. It’s funny, I used to think like you. I actually mained mesmer before rolling a thief. Back then, my server Sanctum of Rall was a T3 server and had a lot less zergs running around. Oh how things have changed. Currently In T1 most 1v1’s quickly turn into 1vzerg. I simply got sick of it being a numbers game.

Anyways, Banjax it’s up to you what you want to roll. Sure you’ll have more utility and more of a “challenge” if you go necro, engi or guard. The challenge being how many seconds you can survive while being zerged down. In the end, I never found it worth it to roam with any other profession.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.0|a.1m.h9.8.1h.h5.0.0.0|5.1d.h1j.0.0.0|1q.73.1q.73.1q.73.1q.73.1q.73.1q.73|1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1b.62|5.0.u45b.f3.k37|0.0|59.5a.5b.5c.5w|e

This is my exact build I’m using. You can make some more improvements to the equipment if you grind for backpiece or ascended stuff. with t5 condi food, giver’s weapon and sigil of agony you’ll have 7 seconds of bleed per stack.

The Centaur runes gives you swiftness on heal. and with Withdraw’s short cd and snare cleaning, you’ll have permaswiftness and be hard to pin down. Shortbow’s (with sigil of energy for a free evade) shadow steps aren’t affected by snares so you can switch to that if withdraw is on cd. Your utilities are all failsafes as well. You can pretty much run circles around the enemy if you want to. Just keep in mind that all CC is dangerous, fear necros, hammer warriors, mesmer’s magic bullet etc. If you’re outnumbered by a competent team using CC then forget about beating them, just move on to your next objective.

Most damage comes from “Sneak Attack” bleeds. You need stealth in order to use Sneak Attack and most of that stealth will be coming from the skill “Cloak and Dagger”. Don’t miss your cloak and dagger’s. All the traits in the build will assist you in relevant ways.

Play around with the build for a bit and see if you like it.

best BG music (not in the game)

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I’ll just leave you with this….

Technically isn’t in this game but hopefully soon haha.

BM viable?? (Been away...)

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They ’re mostly pointless in WvW even when roaming. Only good in sPVP.

best BG music (not in the game)

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I’ll just leave you with this….

Technically isn’t in this game but hopefully soon haha.

Swiftness on Hunter's Shot

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I too would like to see a mobility buff for rangers. Rangers are in a sad state when compared to any other profession. Anyone who says otherwise is in denial.