Guild Wars 2

Broadicea.8294:

mace/shield/staff sentinel/cleric’s guard

I heal my team I’m a paladinnnnnnn

Nah, paladins actually kill things.

haviz.1340:

I don’t play with guardian anymore and I have never used more than 1. I also don’t see how getting to 80 is exploiting. Maybe you should report that as an exploit.

Wat? Everybody knows those were achieved through exploiting. Maybe not YOU but certainly at the top of the chain of people who opened 51+ odds.

Qoltera.3042:

theamato.8756:

you’re using Sigil of Accuracy when you have a mathematical crit chance that is at or over 100%. you’re missing out on the flat 10% damage boost that Smoldering Sigil gives. there it is. they could also be running Signet of Might for more power.

That’s kinda true. But I want my set-up to be more all purpose, not just cof and I feel like I won’t always run a banner of discipline. So instead of smoldering, should I maybe try force or night?

Ya night’s your first choice b4 smoldering if you want your weapon to be remotely useful outside of CoF. It might cost more, but it doesn’t cost another WEAPON more.

mike.7685:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

There’s a difference between saying you like someone and defending their every word against any potential negative comment.

Yes, most definitely.

I agree, absolutely.

I concur.

Quoted for emphasis.

Wukunlin.8461:

Stego.3148:

Wukunlin.8461:

typical “Everyone who does thing more efficient than I am must be exploiting”

That’s not what he’s saying at all. There’s plenty of loop holes in GW2 that make a lot of it’s content vastly easier: look at FoTM and the ways people used to clear it. There’s also a ton of exploits that are regularly farmed that go way beyond what is allowed. Have you ever wondered why glacial cores / lodestones are so cheap and how are they being farmed so much to keep their price that low? They are quite a bit more farmed then cof’s molten variant.

demand for glacial lodestone is pretty low. Most recipes that uses it also uses corrupted lodestone which has a much higher demand due to corrupted weapons and other recipes. Anet has tried to balance it by adding recipes needing glacial and molten lodestone but those recipes haven’t become popular enough.

Also no one who has done the maths would farm fotm in any shape or form for money, the loot is that bad.

They need more fractals that fill ur inventory with heavy bags like the dredge do, my first suggestion would be centaurs (T6/onyx)

Sunreva.8714:

EvilSardine.9635:

Sinaya.4201:

Hey, [FKVA]. You guys have a fan apparently.

That is awesome. FKVA fan club!

The fans are pouring in now, this guy took off the tag as soon as he noticed I was watching him. Ironically, this guy ran from me every time I approached him and waved for a 1v1.

haha this is awesome!

Sounds like he was RP’ing. Might have to pay for a transfer to TC.

nymph.1658:

They are on 18-20s cd.

You can get duelists on a 12s cooldown, and 3 out isn’t 3x the cd time, it’s only 2x the cd time since the first one isn’t already on cooldown. L2Math

Shiren.9532:

This will result in gold becoming harder to obtain for pugs, but easier to obtain for groups that know how to cheese through content by using exploits.

It won’t be easier, you’ll only be able to get the rewards once per day…

Toxic.4320:

Chris.3290:

I thought CD was ready to take on Maguuma, but guess I was wrong.

In theory, we should. However, we are constantly fighting yaks and mags at the same time so it becomes difficult

Like some sort of server vs server vs server… or world vs world vs world… there’s three… hire this man and let him develop a new game!

StealthSnake.9134:

John Widdin.9618:

Not on a golem, but im sure it’s still lucky as kitten.

You can actually go down to 0 health and survive a fall. Has happened to me a couple of times.

You can hit 0 from anything, downed/broken/dead is <0hp

Qoltera.3042:

It seems I just have some sort of passive -15% damage condition on me -_- I just ran a ton of cofs again and most people averaged around 36-38k with the same equips as me. They had less crit damage too…

crit rate? noncrits will drop your damage, also boons and traits

Cogbyrn.7283:

There’s only 1 goal of a post like this…
Eviscerate: Damage reduced 50% in sPvP.

OP: I hate people who use exploits.
Following posts: omg why you hate stacking, los’ing, etc nub??

o.O those aren’t exploits guys, going outside the map, skipping everything, and killing the last boss of each path in 1 run is…

lol none of those follow here’s work even if it was moved to a different section of the forum

Zomaarwat.3912:

Sometimes its not even when the creator is kicked… I made a HotW party once, we kicked this AFK Charr and the whole party just imploded. Everyone out of the dungeon, half quit cause they didnt want to go again…

That means he made it.

haviz.1340:

Player Character.9467:

o.O seriously?… then just warrior lbow 5 it…

He’s trolling you.

-_- we know, you also can’t condition a block

naphack.9346:

Player Character.9467:

it’s not really min maxing if you had the other guy strip naked…

It’s actually min-maxing driven to the extreme.
Maximize your damage, minimize their armor.

No, because you’re not facing real content. Nobody actually spvp’s naked.

Louveepine.7630:

you spoiled the game Mesmers, just because it beats you in pvp?

In pve because of you, the Mesmers become useless …

Actually requiring clone diversity would balance some issues with mesmers… there’s already content that 1 mesmer can just perma warden.

Sunspear General.7964:

Player Character.9467:

Sunspear General.7964:

Also there’s more than 6 dragons…don’t forget elder Dragons have Champions likeThe Claw of Jormag…no one ever said the steam dragon had to be an elder dragon and on top of that the Champions have heralds…like The Great Destroyer.

Champions aren’t dragons, they’re constructs.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragon_champion

…is that the word Champion I see at the end of the url? Can’t tell kinda hard for me to read. =P

As in the champions OF the dragons. Read the list of what counts as a dragon champion. Eyes/mouths of zhaitan? Nornbear? Herboza?

How does ranger require a change in group composition? And the only change hammer ele requires is fire field uptimes…

Wukunlin.8461:

They can drop rares, but it is… rare.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wooden_Chest

kadajic.8941:

actually I was able to loot the bosses corpse quick enough to get a lvl 80 yellow! so i care!

Corpses don’t drop rares.

it’s not really min maxing if you had the other guy strip naked…

Sunspear General.7964:

Also there’s more than 6 dragons…don’t forget elder Dragons have Champions likeThe Claw of Jormag…no one ever said the steam dragon had to be an elder dragon and on top of that the Champions have heralds…like The Great Destroyer.

Champions aren’t dragons, they’re constructs.

RyuDragnier.9476:

You want a hard mode dungeon? Go to Arah and try fighting the mobs. There’s hard mode. Or just go through Twilight Arbor, which got buffed to where a party of 2 warriors, a necro, an engineer, and a guardian get wiped often.

That party composition should be just fine for TA…

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Or a mesmer to blow up the top of the elemental source.

Or any other class, I usually just run in and longbow f1 it twice.

intents and purposes*

Ushio.7138:

Daecollo.9578:

Ele’s water attunement line has healing built into it, so does the dagger ‘2’ for necromancer.

These are what he meant, please don’t take this out of line.

Other classes have things like: Protection/Retaliation/Regeneration/Healing/Sustain built right into there basic weapon sets/attacks while we do not, that is the difference.

Depends on your weapons. S/F for Ele has no healing outside of the pitiful Water Trident. D/F has no healing. Staff heals are on such a long CD you’ll get them off once per engagement, and only get benefit if you can somehow stand in them for extended periods of time. The Necro dagger 2 doesn’t heal very much at all and is a long channel. However, the Warrior warhorn has AoE vigor and weakness, as well as condition removal on very friendly CDs. At an absolute BASELINE (0/0/0/0/0) level, as his post mentioned, the Warrior warhorn would outperfom either of those.

I never disputed that other classes have access to methods that are easier to enhance with traits, as well as being better enhanced by traits. But that laundry list of “baseline sustain” other classes have was simply incorrect.

Baseline horn only removes cripple, chill, or immobilize, the things warriors can already -condi duration heavily.

Hammerguard.9834:

As with canceling all skills, you have to dodge.

Protip, sheath not dodge.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Bleeds also tick off hits of his shields. The more you know!

o.O seriously?… then just warrior lbow 5 it…

Katz.5143:

Devata.6589:

Katz.5143:

Or they could put the jumping puzzles into the game, but not tie them to other achievements. Have a separate jumping puzzle achievement that does not contribute to a reward that is unrelated.

My oldest son LOVES the JPs and he is very good at them. He does not look up how to do them. Instead he figures them out himself. Therefore, I understand how someone can love them.

I, on the other hand, might rage quit the game if I have to do them for a reward that I really want. I’m terrible at them coupled with I don’t enjoy them that much. If I was terrible at them but enjoyed them and wanted to get better that would be different.

With that logic should take all rewards / achievements away because some don’t like JP’s, some don’t like dungeons, some don’t like…. I would love to see them be more useful for leveling. JP’s are a big part of GW2 but they are useless for leveling or loot. You get some AP the first time you do them and thats it. I would prefer leveling ,my alts with some very hard JP’s over doing hearths for example. Or I would prefer earning skins by doing JP’s in stead of doing dungeons. You can level in this game with dungeons, WvW hearths and events but sadly JP’s is not an option. So I would see giving them a bigger role.. of course not a unique role so people who don’t like it can reach there goals in other ways but if there would be some unique item/ skill only as rare drop from one JP chest (providing the chest is available every time you do the JP, not once a day) then thats no problem if they also put another rare skin in a dungeon.

Uh..no. I said have a SEPARATE achievement. That means they have an achievement.
That does not contribute to a reward that is UNRELATED. So it has its own achievement and its own reward.

And why can’t they have more achievements and rewards for each category? A dungeon set, a fractile set, and jp set, a minigame set, a sPvP set, a WvW set, a PvE set.

because if you split each one into their own rewards, you get the systems already in place
-dungeon tokens
-fractal relics
-JP chests
-sPvP skins
-badges of honor

Esplen.3940:

Player Character.9467:

Yes dancing is so much more inappropriate than killing millions of things.

You do know what twerking is, right?

Shooting people in the head to steal their money is ok, but god forbid somebody shake a booty.

Yes dancing is so much more inappropriate than killing millions of things.

Enola B Twenty Nine.2631:

Dual.8953:

Enola B Twenty Nine.2631:

People suggesting that if we do not like jumping puzzles, then we should just not do them, are missing the fundamental issue at stake, achievement points. Arena.net should take away the points, then those who like them can do them, those who don’t, won’t get penalised for having less dexterity.
Anyway, I realise they are not going away even if many don’t like them. I suggest a compromise:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Jumping-Puzzle-improvement-so-more-enjoyable/first#post2456230

You’re looking at Achievement Points backwards. You aren’t entitled to achievement points. You are awarded them when you earn them. To my knowledge, there’s not even a max AP score. Every day you can earn more achievement points doing your daily.

Oh come on, the Achievement Points are there. They are there to be done! Achievement Points are also connected with rewards and titles. Accumulation of these points is an integral part of the game.

Next, JP’s are NOT the same as killing bosses, or doing general missions. Like a First Person Shooter, some people have it and some don’t. Some people can control their eye movement, their fingers on the keyboard, and figure out just how to get their fingers “working” correctly. I can read about the weaknesses of bosses, I can make changes to my build, and I can exploit game AI by learning and understanding the game. JP’s work in a different way with your ability to coordinate your fingers unlike most other parts of the game.

Anyway, even if you agreed with me or not, a lot of frustration has been aimed at JP’s. Even whole blogs have been written on how crap they are. All I am saying is, Arena.net should hopefully take notice of this, as they want the best enjoyment from their game. And it is a freakingly good game!

As JP’s are liked by some people, I am certainly in favour of keeping JP’s and just taking some of the frustration out by having various starting points along the way to go back to.

You want AP removed from JP’s because you don’t like JP’s. The exact same argument could be made for WvW, Dungeons, Explorer, etc. Now we have no AP. What did you accomplish?

BurrTheKing.8571:

Player Character.9467:

BurrTheKing.8571:

peter.9024:

Yeah mace F1 and shield don’t work with it.

Incorrect, they do work with it and it’s the basis behind the Skull Crack+100b that makes all strikes critical if you have fury up.

No, mace f1 and shield bash don’t work with the trait, the attacks that follow them do. The 100b you do AFTER works with the trait but, unlike earthshaker, the stuns on mace f1 and shield bash are currently applied after damage calculations. In a Skull Crack -> 100b build your skull crack itself will only have a 50% crit chance while your 100b has 100%.

I misread what you were saying, I thought you meant that the stuns applied by them didn’t give attacks after than the crit increase. Actually, I’ve found that using Pommel Bash followed by Shield Bash/Skull Cracker makes the attack almost always crits, making me wonder if Daze is being counted as a stun.

I’ll test it tonight.

Qoltera.3042:

Would that 3-5% damage be able to boost me that much? I feel like I’m lacking some really important aspect that’s holding my damage back a lot. I’m looking at screenshots of 40k+ damage on lots of bosses and mobs, how do they hit like that? Ive even seen a 52k, which just makes me feel weak and useless For example, how do you hit 40k+ on lupicus wethospu?

25 might, 25 vuln, banners, empower allies

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Chopps.5047:

New rangers let their pets die a lot. You should play with me obal, and use my high level fotm build.

Obal only does 48’s. Doesn’t slum it in the 20’s.

Oh burrrrn… is a painful condition. >.>

haviz.1340:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Frost Spirit and Spotter is a 12% group damage buff.

I think interested parties realize that. But like I’ve said, any proffesion can bring something to the team like vuln stacking, blinds, aegis, projectile defenses, cc, etc. And in my opinion obal should focus on that part, not damage capability. In other words, what ranger can do that other proffesion do worse or can’t at all.

Other professions can’t summon spirits or run the ranger passive trait buff.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

and click on my various utilities.

Well there’s your problem.

The issue warriors have is things like shout heals, banner regens, the condi removal on shake it off, etc. are all scaled off of having 5 people in range. It’s not self sustain, it’s group sustain.

Jae.5138:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sFBCx;0VKkP0d4cLVQ0;9;59T-T;13;0182;124A6wG2U;1CoF2CoF26km

im using this one but switching out sure footed for defy pain sounds like an interesting idea too

i also find berserker’s jewel not all that useful since our crit’s not all that high

If ur swapping every 5 seconds then you aren’t getting use out of one of your sigils of energy.

Ok so first hour you expected to get anywhere from 0-2 (MAYBE 3), the following 2 hours you were in DR so… why would you expect anything.

Who farms something that DR’s for 3 hours?…

I think Jetwing’s trolling you.

no, never /axe…

Jumping puzzles aren’t the main parts of the game and aren’t forced on you at all, every jumping puzzle is a small detour on the side of the map that provides you with nothing but the AP for doing the puzzle.

Or ya know, kill the moas so the enemy group doesn’t just rally on them?… You can’t just expect a “Target that thing I want by reading my brain” button

ExTribble.7108:

Hey, lets argue instead of clarify the post! (/sarcasm)

The OP is asking for target nearest enemy function which would exclude idle (yellow) enemies (moas and such) and objects (like siege). It can be troublesome in WvW if you’re trying to use targeted skills on a player and instead aggro a few braindead moas.

Assuming I got this right, definitely supported :P

That’s when you use the next target button.

Dis content, I do not like eet. Please remove. Only the tings I like may be in da game.

Fenrir.5493:

Now i know 3 people that dont have reading comprehension skills.

Only 2 other people posted in this thread before you wrote this…

but this is still here for you when you’re ready young squire
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/88115/wswswww.jpg

Who works on a legendary 1000 times worth only 3 gold? English man, use it.

Envy.1679:

Fenrir.5493:

Again, we need this to happen soon, the target system is really compromising the game, how can you pretend this to slide, this will not slide, people knows the terrible target system we have, this is not a good target system for a competitive game.

This game has a lot of incoherences like this, an action game asking you to become CLCIKER to target your enemy, is like asking to clik in a shooter to select your target before you can do damage to them, ridiculous.

wat

do you even game

Ya there’s that too lol