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AC isn't fixed

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voidwater.2064

same here, but after rezzing her, it was still bugged.

Ogre Pet Whistle

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I just hope they leave the ash legion spy kit alone!

Ogre Pet Whistle

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Ninja nerfed 2 days ago.

larkrad, I wouldn’t spread that one since it’s less known.

if it becomes widepsread, they’ll nerf it too.

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Symbol of Swiftness not stacking?

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Is this new? all of the “permanent swiftness” threads suggest using SoS twice, to add duration…

Thoughts on Underflow Tech

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think about the logistics involved in this…

When do you decide that a zone becomes an underflow?

How do you get currently playing people into that underflow?

What happens when the underflow reaches its limit and normal maps re-appear, will the Xth player suddenly appear on his server’s EMPTY map? (he’ll be the first one) and then everyone else in the underflow from that server gets a message like the overflow message?

Much more complex than you think…

Resource node botters

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GW2 needs an anti cheat

5 signet/zerker warriors everywhere

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I run a shouts warrior with full soldier runes, and berserker armor, plus a nice mix of trinkets to add some power and more toughness.

When I run dungeons, the different is very noticable. I don’t do that much less damage than a glass cannon, and I survive a lot more.

No healing shouts, though. Just condition removal from the rune bonus.

Change in loot parameters or a bug? [Merged]

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Well that’s why anet reduced the drop rate. To monetize on people who don’t want to farm.

Value of Runes and Medallions

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Crest of the Soldier is the tier above Medallion of the Soldier

+20 Power
+14 Toughness
+14 Vitality

Mount Maelstrom - Oh Really?

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I realy like that event, did it a few times.

Now if only the shadow behemoth would show its ugly face, I’d be happy lol

Will siege blueprints become account bound?

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Press the switch weapon button on the keyboard. ` for me. (left of 1)

Then anyone can pick it up from the ground and then “put back into inventory” (skill 5 I think?)

You just gave someone the blueprint!

Symbol of Swiftness not stacking?

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So I’ve been trying to get super swiftness on my guardian

I use retreat and save yourselves, then run into a symbol of swiftness, and get 9 seconds of swiftness

When SoS is back up and I run into it again, I don’t get 9 more seconds! I get nothing.

As if my second SoS doesn’t buff me. This will persist until swiftness is completely gone.

Is this by design?

Bring back the buddy cam!!!

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This is the reason I don’t do FotM. Being dead and loking around your dead body is so boring, I just ragequit every time.

AC isn't fixed

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For Detha in path 2, it may be related to her getting in combat with the slimes when you first enter the room, if you run away from them.

The Monetization of GW2

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I have a crazy conspiracy theory where I think anet nerfed the drop rare on yellows and ectos to make the price raise artificially, and cause more people to buy gems with real money, and convert to gold.

And with the ever increasing price of gems from gold, trading in money for gems becomes “viable”.

No monthly fee? No, but you’ll pay for the stuff you want.

Minion AI - dumb on purpose?

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See that’s the thing, this thread is simply to show that our minions are designed to be this way. They made a conscious decision to make them act like this. No other summonable pets act like this.

Try the fire elemental powder, you’ll see what I mean. It’s more powerful than all 3 of the regular skill minions.

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AC isn't fixed

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AC path 2 bugged out on me yesterday as well.

Minion AI - dumb on purpose?

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So I ran a minion master for a month after launch, it was pretty fun.

Yeah we know how dumb and useless the minions are.

Well think about it, this isn’t the only minions in the game. Asura have an elite that summons golem, other elites that summon mobs, etc.

And the fire elemental powder, which I got yesterday

Look at the behaviour of those other minions. Look at the fire elemental powder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sKijuPH9fQ

I ran around with that ember for a bit yesterday. That thinks is stronger than all of the necro pets, it’s ultra-responsive, follows you around closely, attacks only the target you attack, defends you only if someone attacks you closely etc.

This thing is smart! responsive, useful.

So why are necro minions dumb? Clearly they have better AI as they’ve used it in other minions.

I think it’s by design. I think they decided that undead pets shouldn’t be reactive -they should be sluggish.

Testing realm for updates

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It was pretty cool, basically you had the freedom to create any toon (kinda like the PvP area) on the fly and test out, whatever.

http://www.uoguide.com/Test_Center

Increasing gem prices is a good thing!

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Oh lookie there, the new GW2 monetization manager is doing a great job at making all the items the people want so expensive that you have to buy gold to afford them.

Testing realm for updates

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Ultima Online had a test shard. Before any large changes were sent out to the general game, they were applied on the test shard for players to offer feed back on it.

Path 3 CoE. Evolved Destroyer.

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Agreed. This boss has way too much HP. Very, very tedious.

Even fighting “normally” takes forever.

New update!

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Wow, that’s very awesome. Guess how many more bug fixes we get?

Sorrow's Embrace Seems rather hard

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What post patches?

Also which path? Path 3 is considered the easiest

Sorrow embrace need some love.And suggestions

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Path 1: Slow down the add respawn rate at the beggining, that might reduce the difficulty a bit.

Path 2: WAY too long, way too many bosses and way too much HP. I really like it, though. There’s a lot of different things that you have to do, intresting mechanics to work with.

Path 3: We’ve learned to love it, as it’s not too hard and not too long

Eye of Power Scepter Recipe?

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Nobody knows, but it has to be known.

Official dungeon DR info?

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So I’m wondering how the dungeon DR works.

I have two toons, X and Y.

1. I run AC path 1 to 3 with toon X, then swap to toon Y and run AC. Will I get 60 token every time?

2. I run AC path 1 with toon X, then I log back in and run AC path 1 with toon Y, will Ig et 60 tokens both times?

sell a TP

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Well after you get that 15g, you’ll get over 300
I don’t see the problem?

Commander Icon Hatred?

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Commander icons can be useful in PvE, when events are on it’s easy to follow the commander icon and get to the zerg.

SE path 1 - Is this intended?

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I’m a fervent SE runner. Ran every parth several times.

Path 1 was bugged up until last week, let me explain:

Yes, it’s very tough. SE path 1 is tough.

Yes, the mobs are meant to come back in wave. No, they’re not supposed to stop coming after the golem is dead.

Here is what was fixed: When you get to the asura boss after the golem, ADDS stop spawning! A couple of weeks ago, you had to drag the boss down the stairs to fight it safe from infinite adds spawn.

Let me reiterate: Adds will keep coming until you get to the asura boss, then they stop spawning.

This path is doable, but remember one thing, it’s a pure DPS path. Some classes and builds just don’t put out enough raw sustained DPS to down the golem fast enough.

Also you need to learn what I call “the dance”. There are specific procedures to follow to pull certain bosses, hide from certain enemies at certain times, this will ensure survival.

I’ve tried this path 4 times, succeeded twice. Everytime we suceeded, it took less than 30 minutes. This is a short path, just a very hard one.

We don’t usually run it because we don’t have the right party for it. But it’s doable.

Best decision I ever made for my necro

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Sorry, to reiterate, my entire standpoint is base SOLELY on PvE, as I do NOT PvP, or WvW, so I have no idea how this class workss there…

And my comparison to the warrior is also based only on PvE experience, and not PvP.

Best decision I ever made for my necro

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Ok guys, you convinced me.

I agree, I played 500 hours of just dragging minions around, letting them do all the work. It worked in generic PvE, but it’s not a good build for anything worthwhile.

You’re right, I suck at necro’ing.

I’ll read this thread and work more at being good. Thanks for the nice words.

Best decision I ever made for my necro

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Can necros provide team buff? Maybe some regen to team mates because of vampiric traits, but that’s very low.

Apart from plague signet, which isn’t working at peak efficiency, any condition removal?

Speaking of damage, how can your necro’s DPS compare to warrior? Provide trait config, armor setting, weapon set and skill set.

Sure, my necro has 1800 condition damage, I can pop bleeds that will bleed for 10000 damage… over a minute. One “thousand sword” from a warrior does over 10k damage.

Yeah necros are cute and all, but they don’t bring anything to the table that other classes don’t do better.

Disclaimer: I am speaking purely on a PvE standpoint, as I’ve never PvP or know anything about it.

Best decision I ever made for my necro

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Learn to play, learn to play. I clocked in 500 hours on my necro. My main, my love.

Ran all of the dungeons with it, did the entire story, explored 85% of the world…

I’ve tried… of course I have… I mean sure you can have some nice skills to put on some damage, but nothing compares to the DPS of the heavy classes.

What does a necro bring to a dungeon party that another class doesn’t?

Best decision I ever made for my necro

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Yep. Instead of posting about how much necros suck, I just dumped it altogether.

Now I use it to farm shelt/penitent path, at least it’s good at tagging.

Best decision I ever made for my necro

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I made a level 80 warrior.

Now I’m actually useful in fights.

Since dungeons are the new focus

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What would be incredibly awesome is a “random dungeon generator”, kind of like in Nethack or Diablo 1.

You enter the dungeon and the floors are generated randomly, so it’s a new experience every time!

PSA: Don't waste your money on Commendations

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sorry I meant 26 copper per commendation

Use the cheapest “trinket” type item, 3 of them gives 7 commendations

Malachite copper stud and tiger’s eye copper stuf, 26 copper each

Comes to about 1.20s per commendation

Hi PowerCat – 1 silver 20 copper per commendation equals to 1 gold, 20 silver per 100 commendation. Multiply that by 5 and you need around 6 gold pero 500 commendations.

Not sure on your server but on Santum of Rall, the cheapest exotic level 70-80 armor is 70++ silver. That translates to around 2 gold 20 silver (rounding up) for 550 commendations.

Of course, if you don’t need that much commendations, your way is fine

PSA: Don't waste your money on Commendations

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This was a brilliant plan by anet to rip the TP of useless junk. Huyndreds of thousands of stacked leftover items selling at base vendor price on TP have completely gone.

“Tiger’s eye copper stud” had an initial stock of 30000 items. All gone. Malachite copper stud had 50 000, down to 30000 now.

Scavenger hunt with all chars?

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Also wondering the same thing! Wouldn’t want to miss out on exclusive items cause I didn’t do a prerequisite quest.

PSA: Don't waste your money on Commendations

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Use the cheapest “trinket” type item, 3 of them gives 7 commendations

Malachite copper stud and tiger’s eye copper stuf, 26 copper each

Comes to about 1.20s per commendation

Sorrow's Embrace Exp is way too long

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Path 1 isn’t bugged, just incredibly challenging.

With a good group, you can plow through it in 15-20 minutes.

Patch Feedback [merged]

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Anyone got patch notes for update today?

The dreaded Sorrow's Embrace path 1

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Hey,

Recently been doing Sorrow’s Embrace, and trying to do path 1.

What. the. kitten?

Infinite spawning mobs at the start making the dungeon pretty much impossible?

Nobody wants to try it. Is the dungeon really bugged as people claim or is it meant to be impossibly hard?

Even path 2 is very long and hard. It’s as if they made SE the hardest possible dungeon in the game. What’s up with that?

Also as of today, what is the efficient strategy to complete path 1? I heard something about kiting grenadier at the start, but then I heard that had been fixed?

Help me out!

Stop deleting my nicknames!

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This is an issue we’ve been investigating, but has been difficult to fix. We are still working on it, however, and will update as we get more information on it. Thank you for the reports!

Thanks for the response, Jason!

Glad to know you guys are aware of how useful this feature is to us. Maybe expand it?

Upcoming patch: 5 pages of changes

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New upcoming patch has tons of bugfixes. They’re talking about 30 for engineer and 16 for rangers!

Jon Peters has mentionned that it’s 5 pages long.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/GW2-is-dying-a-change-of-priorities-is-mandatory/page/4#post674835

Necros?

cricket noise

"Underflow" Shards - for Underpopulated Zones

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Good idea but how do you implement it?

How do you set a limit? Will the underflow suddenly kick everyone back to their own server? Will the Xth person just appear on a map on their server, by themselves?

Just blacklist gw2walmart already.

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GMs? Reset broken events? Monitor the game for bots and misbehaviour?

Great idea. this needs to exist.

Just blacklist gw2walmart already.

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How many times a day do you see or get gw2walmart spam?

Isn’t it time arenanet put a filter where you can’t say that word anymore?

Stop deleting my nicknames!

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Again?? Come on, this is really annoying. Now I don’t know who’s who…