Guild Wars 2

I’ve already ran 26 with 10AR and didnt come across too many obsticles – Afterall, the agony is avoidable if you know what you’re doing. Jade is the only spanner in the works.

Thanks for the post though man, i stupidly used my fractal relics for obsi shards rather than an exo back piece that i could upgrade.

More to come in the way of grinding.

Yeah i have seen this downgrade recipe but in over 100 10+ fractals i have 3 globs of mist essence. RNG – Oh Joy.

I feel your pain brother – sitting at 40 clovers myself after easily 250 tries.

I just don’t seem to have any luck in any aspect of the gambling – still to see an ascended ring after 40+ runs at lvl 10.

I think it would be nice if RNG was balanced, E.g i may get a crap return on my clovers, ut my chances at an MF pre-cursor should be higher. Or Vice versa.

Kinda makes you kitten off that i have paid the same amount of money for the game as someone else yet there are such discrepancies between everyones RNG.

I mean if they gave me a chance to buy a precursor for the gemstore for £50 i’d probably do it the way i am feeling now – rather than everything relating to Gamble Wars 2

Anet – would it really be that difficult to implement a system in which you could enter a value for the ammount of a vendor item you want?

Instead of me giving myself carpell tunnel every time i want to stock up on Ash legion / Teleportation guns / Obsi shards / Orrian Jewellery Box / Icy Runestones etc.

It really boggles my mind as to why this wasn’t thought of on realease.

A simple prompt similar to the ‘Split stack’ prompt would be suffice, C’mon guys, i can feel Repetitive Strain Injury setting in already.

Due to how much more common these are than exotics i think the only thing that should be obtained from salvaging these is the Pristine Relic – At least then this gives you the chance to buy what you want ( and hopefully there will be more things to purchase with pristines in the coming months)

All these threds showing full bank tabs of rings shows you just how common they are – Albeit to some people – I’m still waiting for my first to drop after 40+ runs at level 10, the joys of RNG

Well i run full zerker Armour and balance trinkets (solari, Sunari, triforge, 2x karka shell earring) Axe’s hit for about 1k with auto attack, and thats on a crit. 100B hits for 15-20k, easily.

I think you guys are seriously overlooking the Perma Fury and Perma 25 stacks of might that are easily obtainable in my GS build.

I tell you, 875 power + condition damage (from 25 stacks of might) is not to be overlooked.

^ This.

So even though i got my rings at lvl 10 i can’t actually infuse them until i’m running at lvl 20? is this correct?

This coming from the fact that the shard of mist essence only drops in fractals of that scale.

Oh and firther to that, after over 40 lvl 10 runs i have still not had one ring drop – thank the lord for pristine relics. Can’t even convey how kitten off i get when i see threads of people with full bank tabs of rings yet out of 40+ i am yet to see 1.

I agree with RNG and the fact that all cannot be equal, but the difference between peoples RNG shouldn’t be so vast!

Get a grip Arena Net

I don’t mean to be a killjoy but i know from experience levelling my alts that as soon as you enter a party with a Char that is less that lvl 80 you will get a swift kick.

Unfortunately this is the state of the game with way too many ‘Eliteists’ running around – best thing about these eliteists is that the only aspect of the game they are good at is skipping mobs and completing a dungeon quickly.

For a Condition removal build i think you have missed the point.

Surely running 3 shouts with shouts remove conditions (soldier runes) would be better?
4 conditions gone in 20 seconds, no other cond removal is better for warrior.

Edit : Can you actually explain where your condition removal comes from? I hope to god you don’t think blowing on your war horn removes them lol

I’m sorry but i’d have to spam skill #1 on axe like 15 times to equal the 15-20k done by 100B, 100B takes 2.5 seconds to channel… I would really like to meet someone who can spam axe auto attack more than even 10 times in 2.5 seconds. Being rooted isnt all that bad either providing you run Endure pain.

Runes of the soldier and run shouts = Useless Condi theif

Or so it seems from my past experience.

Edit – i have also fought a few where i hae just spammed 100B and they seem to enjoy running into the middle of it

Pennry.9215:

Prezzy.2783:

Prezzy.2783:

This for certain? Because i know when i have transmuted and added sigils to other named weapons they have changed.

Edit : if this is the case then if i bought ‘Corrupted avenger’ off the TP i could have one of any combination of stats as the name stays the same regardless.

You can’t buy transmuted gear off the Trading Post.

OP: Default is “Stats Skin of Sigil”. So best guess is that it’ll change to this format upon transmute.

Just seen this dude, thanks for the post – i just don’t want to end up with a Berzerkers Corrupted Avenger Of Fire.

Thank you for the explanation, i assumed that if i trasmuted them that way all would be okay – i Just wanted clarification before i went ahead with this tonight.

Once again thank you and i believe i need no more advice on this now.

haviz.1340:

Prezzy.2783:

Okay, i appologise that my figures weren’t exactly on the dot but unfortunately i have a life outside of Tyria so don’t memorise every inch.

That being said i respect you correcting me, although, you are wrong. I run Full zerkers armor along with balance trinkets (trifoge amulet, solaria circle of sun, sunari circle of moon, 2 x ancient karka shell earring). My only healing comes from these Trinkets and also my Sup runes of divinity. Even with this Very minimal healing i heal for 1700hp each shout, so your 1k is wholly inacurate.

Your figures are still even more inaccurate than his. Shouts heal for 1192 without any healing power, scaling factor is equal to 0.8 so in order to heal for 1700hp you need to have 635 healing power. Nice waste of statistic points.

I was wrong in what i said, you were wrong in what you said – 2 wrongs dont make a right but dont speak to me like you are some eliteist of a higher order than me.

And as for your dungeons comment, is there only one mob to fight in a dungeon? Because last i checked i fought more than one ‘boss’ on the way to the Final Boss. Yes, certain bosses convert conds to buffs – either way dude, every mob i hit with OMM goes down 10% faster… (albeit for a given time)… correct?

He meant that a vast amount of bosses are partially immune to vulnerability, it lasts much shorter than on normal mobs.

And to finish, i never said that Throw Bolas -> 100B was flawless – but it does work wonders when you have a d/d theif trying to dance around you. In case you were wondering my 2nd weapon is LB – this also has 5sec Immob – not to mention stomp / bulls charge. Yeah, sure, they’ll be able to break 1 maybe 2 immob but 2 immobilize + 2 knowckdowns – now i think that would be a struggle. After all, 100B only need to hit a theif once and they won’t be getting up.

So now you have two 5s immobilize skills, it just keeps getting better. I can tell fairy tales how warriors keep dying to stealth+cnd+backstab combo all day long, doesn’t mean it’s an actual image of balance. A thief can just teleport away from your immobile 100b even if you immobilize him beforehand (or just use black powder and troll you).

No, tbh i think bolas is 3 seconds, LB skill 5 is 5 seconds, stomp is 2 second knockdown, as is bulls charge.

I would love to put my warrior in practice against your theif – afterall, i tailored my build around beating theives as they were the only issue i faced in WvW / PvP.

Prezzy.2783:

This for certain? Because i know when i have transmuted and added sigils to other named weapons they have changed.

Edit : if this is the case then if i bought ‘Corrupted avenger’ off the TP i could have one of any combination of stats as the name stays the same regardless.

This for certain? Because i know when i have transmuted and added sigils to other named weapons they have changed.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Prezzy.2783:

haviz.1340:

Sovta.4719:

They can support you with shouts and have some nice banners (i play guardian mostly now so don’t know them really well.
But then again DPS with nice survivability is always good for me

The only supportish shout is “Shake It Off”, rest are dps (no one uses “Fear Me!”). The only decent banners are Banner of Discipline and War Banner, yet again mostly for dps.

Dude, what about the fact that my shouts heal (allies within range) for 5k every 14 seconds? AND give you all might and fury AND hit the dungeon boss with 10 stacks of vulnerability meaning 10% more damage… From everyone, so really the other shouts aren’t that uselss – Oh and coupled with my soldier runes i remove 4 conditions every 14 seconds too, thank me later squishy theif

And BEFORE you say i sacrifice DPS for this i have might stacking on crits and perma-fury meaning 68% crit chance, Can comfortably drop theives in both PvP and WvW – with 2 skills – Bolas -> 100 Blades = Dead squishy theif.

I could easily rip you apart and explain just how dumb you truly are, but it’s not worth risking the forum ban over.

What i will say though is every 14 seconds? 5k Heal? Lol no. If traited, FGJ and Shake it off are on a 20 second cd and on my Mark is on a 24 second cooldown, the 5k heal? No, each one will AoE heal for about 1k, it scales terribly with clerics, and you’d be a fool to use clerics gear to boost the healing capability of your shouts as it’d gimp your damage majorly.

Dungeon bosses (The final ones) have a buff that causes vulnerability to last less than normal, meaning your OOM is effectively 10% damage increase for i’d say.. oh 2 seconds on a 24 second cooldown.

4 Condition removal, yes, every 14 seconds. No, someones either oblivious to the actual cooldowns, coming up with facts out their kitten or can’t count.

and don’t even get me started on how you think Throw Bolas + 100 Blades actually works flawlessly, are you aware that other classes besides you have ways to remove conditions?

Okay, i appologise that my figures weren’t exactly on the dot but unfortunately i have a life outside of Tyria so don’t memorise every inch.

That being said i respect you correcting me, although, you are wrong. I run Full zerkers armor along with balance trinkets (trifoge amulet, solaria circle of sun, sunari circle of moon, 2 x ancient karka shell earring). My only healing comes from these Trinkets and also my Sup runes of divinity. Even with this Very minimal healing i heal for 1700hp each shout, so your 1k is wholly inacurate.

I was wrong in what i said, you were wrong in what you said – 2 wrongs dont make a right but dont speak to me like you are some eliteist of a higher order than me.

And as for your dungeons comment, is there only one mob to fight in a dungeon? Because last i checked i fought more than one ‘boss’ on the way to the Final Boss. Yes, certain bosses convert conds to buffs – either way dude, every mob i hit with OMM goes down 10% faster… (albeit for a given time)… correct?

And to finish, i never said that Throw Bolas → 100B was flawless – but it does work wonders when you have a d/d theif trying to dance around you. In case you were wondering my 2nd weapon is LB – this also has 5sec Immob – not to mention stomp / bulls charge. Yeah, sure, they’ll be able to break 1 maybe 2 immob but 2 immobilize + 2 knowckdowns – now i think that would be a struggle. After all, 100B only need to hit a theif once and they won’t be getting up.

Thank you and goodnight.

Crafted this last night to put me on until i complete Sunrise.

I was just wondering if i transmute my ‘Mystic claymore’ stats and sigil will this change the name from ‘Corrupted Avenger’ or will the name stay the same and just the stats switch.

I don’t really fancy a 60G+ item changing its name to ‘Berserkers avenger of fire’ so any advice would be appreciated.

Prezzzy

10/25/5/30/0 – Might stacking healing shouter. Search the ‘sonic boom’ build on the internet if you wish for more information -

Sorry i do not have time to go into detail now as i am @ work.

^ Great Wife

Kind of agree with you – but this doesnt stop ANet implementing a way of getting SOULDBOUND precursors that doesn’t involve RNG.

I wouldnt even mind if this was one hell of a grind, at the end of the day, thats the whole point of Legendary.

But tbh, i don’t see tossing X number of weapons in the forge until you finally get a pre-cursor as legendary… More like a precursor to Repetitive Strain Injury.

So – a way of getting souldbound Pre’s would be ideal IMHO

Forgive me if i’m wrong but doesn’t the GS take 30 mystic coins?

And at 10 silver each its hardly breaking the bank :P

Takato.4976:

Sovta.4719:

And BEFORE you say i sacrifice DPS for this i have might stacking on crits and perma-fury meaning 68% crit chance, Can comfortably drop theives in both PvP and WvW – with 2 skills – Bolas -> 100 Blades = Dead squishy theif.

I think you lack the pvp experience if you think throw bolas -> 100b actually works on anything, especially a thief. Saying this just plummeted any credibility you could have had.

Warriors are in need of a buff in pvp, they dont lack damage but have no reliable way to actually do the damage on anything. Plenty of threads about this in the warrior boards, you may have a read.

For the topic at hand, Ill take a thief over a warrior/guardian any day, you only see what you’re missing after playing one in the higher level fractal or playing with a good thief.

Cheers.

I wasn’t stating that this work on anything, but most theives yes, it does – maybe i wasnt clear enough. D/D theives that try to dance around your static 100B just get downed. Stealth yeah, its good but using LB just pop the AOE around yourslf and at least you are safe in the knowledge they cannot Melee you.

I know you love your squishy theif but please man, try not to be biased in your judgement. Hell i’ve seen warriors down multiple theives in pvp and WvW.

I would LOVE to see 5 theives against Lupi – 1 theif can ruin it for the whole group, never mind 5!

Lemme guess, theif is your main and you are not biased?

Warrior has far too many immobilize and knockdown skills to set up your 100 Blades for theif to be a viable counter.

I must admit, condi theives used to be my achilles heel – that was until i got the soldier runes, now the only thing that i find difficult is, urm, another Warrior.

Sorry, i didnt catch that…

You have a puny health pool of 9k whilst mine is up at 27,000?

Edit: And i think you mean SOME thieves can remove conditions better than SOME warriors? And with yours being a DPS build i highly doubt you fall into this category.

All i can say is that from my experience with theives in dungeons my most usefull trait becomes ‘Revive 10% faster’

haviz.1340:

Sovta.4719:

They can support you with shouts and have some nice banners (i play guardian mostly now so don’t know them really well.
But then again DPS with nice survivability is always good for me

The only supportish shout is “Shake It Off”, rest are dps (no one uses “Fear Me!”). The only decent banners are Banner of Discipline and War Banner, yet again mostly for dps.

Dude, what about the fact that my shouts heal (allies within range) for 5k every 14 seconds? AND give you all might and fury AND hit the dungeon boss with 10 stacks of vulnerability meaning 10% more damage… From everyone, so really the other shouts aren’t that uselss – Oh and coupled with my soldier runes i remove 4 conditions every 14 seconds too, thank me later squishy theif

And BEFORE you say i sacrifice DPS for this i have might stacking on crits and perma-fury meaning 68% crit chance, Can comfortably drop theives in both PvP and WvW – with 2 skills – Bolas → 100 Blades = Dead squishy theif.

The Blue Ace.2850:

This game is dead to me.

^ This

So, 10 days worth of play for 10 Laurels – and its no different to a bottle of elonian wine.

Great shout Anet – another wonderous idea, how about just sticking account bound lodestones into the laurel merchant?

Or does that make too much sense for it to be feasible?

Dont get too disheartened – when ascended Weapons and Armour get introduced there will be uproar from all the crafters of those diciplines how its ‘unfair’ that no-one will buy their crafted crap anymore.

Us quiet little jewelers have had this issue for months

Selling exotics used to be my money spinner, until now.

Most expensive Legendaries in game are not quite legendary… makes sense.

I might craft that crappy focus for a total cost of around 300g as opposed to 1500g for either GS

Wish they’d respond to this – I mean how hard can it be to add a badge to a weapon.

facepalm

Gift of battle – run the Eternal Battlegrounds JP once a day on 5 alts and thats 75 badges – You’ll have your gift in less than a week.

Use the 1 clover recipe not 10

30 points in defense and you call this a DPS build? :S

I run healing shouts with a GS and probs do a hella’ lot more DPS than this build.

I run runes of Soldier with 3 shouts and healing surge.

Condi theives used to be my achillies heel yet since soldier runes i am yet to be find one that does me over on a 1v1.

4 conditions gone every 14 secs, stupid squishy theif – they dont even last a full 100B :/

Thanks a lot bro – better make sure he doesn’t equip it

Zogy – is exploit your favourite term?

Pretty sure it was you who tried to tell me that the 3 x Orichalcum candy corn amulet + donation package was also an exploit.

Forgive me if i’m wrong.

EDIT: Forgive me, i am wrong :/

Going to craft this to put me on until Sunrise -

Just want clarification on something…

I can’t be arsed lvling my Weaponsmith to 400 just yet ( i’m aware i need this for Sunrise).

So… if i get a friend to buy the recipe from Jormags boy and mail him the mats i presume he can craft this then send it back to me?

In short, i presume this is soulbound on use rather than soulbound on accquire or account bound?

Thanks for the update guys – I was just thinking about this last night and thought that it was gonna cause more problems than what it solves.

Haha i am fairly chilled tbh, i just wanna know how we are gonna go about getting dailies done?

Does the party leader decide what scale to do? (EG. lvl 10 or lvl 11)?

For example if i am the party leader does it go as follows:

I choose the lvl (for this instance lets choose lvl 10)

I then do a similar LFG map chat / LFG site post asking for other Tier 2 lvl 10-19 players.

Once completed we all recieve the lvl 10 daily reward but you get +1 to your own personal scale EG. someone who has completed scale 18 runs lvl 10 with me does this then mean they have completed lvl 19?

Or for advancement does the scale you do have to be higher than your own?

Hi there, can someone please advise me as to how the fractal dailies are going to work with the new system?

I presume if i enter a tier 1 group (0-9) i will get the standard daily chest with extra fractal relics?

i presume i can then enter a tier 2 group (10-19 ) and do my daily for the chance at a ring?

I am just after clarification that for the old lvl 10 daily i just have to enter a tier 2 party doing any scale from 10-19 OR does this still have to be an EVEN numbered fractal?

Please dont tell me they have made the way of getting rings even worse, because i dont like what i’m hearing so far about this new system.

Okay thanks for the fast reply.

Has this been confirmed somewhere?

Yo guys, just been pondering… Think its worth not completing the monthly until after the 28th?

Or are they introducing the ‘Laurels’ in next months?

Just a though, only got 3 more JP’s to go so may save them until after the January update.

Prezzzy

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/fractals-of-the-mists-dungeon-improvements/

Note what is said at the very bottom -

’ We plan to ship these two changes in January’

Yeah this is whats made me Sceptical.

Initially they post a news article maybe 3-4 weeks ago on the login screeen saying that the fractals fix is coming in Jan update. However, since then i have heard no more about it.

Dev response please?

Empty promise again or sticking to your word for once?

I presume i am right in thinking that the DC / no re entry into fractals is being fixed on the 28th?

Or was this another of those empty promises?

AFAIK the recipe’s are still there and they still provide commendations – but the commendations just have no use.

Vol.5241:

Olba.5376:

Oh where do these people come from?

50,000 commendations? I sure hope you did not get that from the exotic trinket recipe, which was taken out of the game as exploitable. After all, if you did, all of your commendations, which you probably want to turn into cheap Black Lion Keys, would be gained from an exploit.

And exploitation is grounds for a banning, I think.

Just saying.

Geezus

The exotic trinket was not an exploit. You’re thinking about the snowflakes, which is an entirely different issue.

And the BL keys have been taken out.

I think he realised his error mate – or cat got his tongue