Guild Wars 2

JoopFOX.9510:

Arheundel.6451:

How people can complain when a mesmer can deal close to 10k dmg with Iduellist ( 8k dmg + bleeding ) from distance, instantly for half the CD of arcane wave?

Lol, show me a screenshot of a mesmer’s Iduellist dealing that kind of damage. He has to be insanely bursty and the target has to have close to 0 armor/toughness.

My dueslist hits for 5K-6K + 2K Bleeding and im wearing half zerk half knights. I added 4 more pieces of zerk gear last night and im still wearing full knight armor and my duelist hits for 6-7K now. 8K-9K with DPS food + zerk armor is very possible.

I main an ele since Beta and i fear no ele on my mesmer which ive been playing for 2 weeks total. They try to kill my phantasms and they die to me, they try to kill me they die to my phantasms. This is even with the bugged berserker damage spin atm.

Eles are strong atm but last patch they did more nerfs to “dps” eles than to tank eles which is sad. They nerfed all our dps abilities back in beta so our only viable option is tank eles.

People who got the double monthly last month can have 100 laurels atm.

Kaon.7192:

Milennin.4825:

How do you get there solo, though? Is it possible to just run all the way to Lupicus? Never really been in parties that skipped huge amounts of mobs in there…

Anyone have any input on this?
My friends are casuals for the most part and probably aren’t as interested in watching or doing this as I am, so I’d rather solo it and not waste their time if it’s possible.

Path 2 can be soloed, first 2 bosses are easy. Hardest mob in there apart from Lupi is the Hunter before lupi lol.

I play tier 1 which is basically “zerg land tier” and I can still find 1v1s and 1vXs NP.

dinominator.9862:

I thought the only effect of elixir U on endurance is that it prevents you from being able to regenerate it for some time. I’m just basing that off of the tooltip. Didn’t know it could dump all your endurance

Drains all endo and cant regen.

You guys must be crazy thinking confusion damage is fine in WvW,

I have NP running with without zerk grps.

IamDuddits.1692:

DancingPenguins.9875:

Erasmus.1624:

Gigantic Lupicus is easy. Actually, Arah in general is easy. It’s just tedious. Also, I love Gigantic Lupicus.

Wait till you pug it. People apparently don’t carry ranged weapons these days.

I wasn’t suppose to melee Lupi? The more you know.

Im surprised people don’t carry ranged weapons because when i PUG thats all i see.

Spec & Build in the video description.

Been playing mesmer for 2 weeks so feedback is welcomed.

RNG is RNG.

ect.

I think the opposite. If your glass cannon your only defense should be dodging key hits. Vigor on crit should be in the precision line.

I saw the thread and knew it was a parody post, a lot of people with their head up their kitten due to their anger it seems.

Fun times were had with this but it was a bug none the less.

Lordrosicky.5813:

TheBeedon.6031:

There is nothing wrong with this epidemic change…it works how it should have in the beginning, IMO. Now you have to pay attention, OH NO!

It isnt really the same though. Whether it is “fixed” or not is beside the point. I see no reason to ever use it now. The chances of landing it are way too long. With these changes it needs an instant cast time imo.

LOL Insta cast.

Haste being nerfed is a good change, they just need to follow it up with a Bunker nerf soon.

Rawr PATCH DAY!!!

Melee is faster, unless you don’t know how to melee the boss then its going to mean you are going to die.

Trice.4598:

Sadly they might just nerf hundred blade PvE damage, but if they do so, I hope they make it so you can move while using it. which I think would be the way to go, I’m not talking about a huge nerf, just a litttle nerf to help closing the gap.

Axe Wars will still out dps anything else out there.

If your question, can i carry bad players easier on a guardian then a war? The answer is yes.

If your knowledge of the dungeon and enemies is good enough and your skill is good enough yes you can. I run full zerk war everywhere NP.

ITT, people QQing they aren’t getting abilities like in DAoC to carry them through victory that they got by play time. DAoC isn’t closed yet so you guys can go back to play with the 300 players (Counting Bots) left in NF and circle jerk each other on the VN Boards (IGN now or Postcount).

Poison field and trick shot with a thief is good enough.

kitten can’t even make a sarcastic post and not get an infraction by mods, WTF is this.

GJ on the kill.

Well done survey.

Last time i checked EP on the website was wrong. Their posted formula is correct but the acutal number it gives you is wrong.

If protection affects it then toughness should but i dont think it does.

“Somos una madre” LOL.

Arenanet already kitten blocks you with Agony on the Maw so i detest not letting people gain rewards on the level they are doing regardless of personal level.
They still gain levels its just that they cant start up a super high level on theif own. Imagine that you had to do story mode on every alt to gain rewards from explorable.

I dont know about you guys but i play to have fun. Not to play for a long time to get to the fun parts, basically what ANET said there were striving for and killed it with fractals, the fractals themselves are fun but the implementation is still severely lacking.

Warriors do more damage than any other class in melee but what makes them over the top is the GS Trait+Elite Signet. No single class can match that much self buffing with Might/Fury while using the best DPS Weapon.

Old champs are still easy. The new kraits though…… i havent had a chance to try to solo the new champ troll though.

DeathPanel.8362:

It makes perfect sense. It’s called game progression. You are not at that level therefore you don’t get the loot from that level.

But you are actually doing that level…..

OP its to make it so you keep running the content longer. I detest blocked game progression. If im skillful enough to do it then i should get the reward.

daphoenix.4283:

golantrevize.2394:

One word: @daphoenix

LordByron.8369:

it became little popular after daphoenix.

Raptured.9307:

+1 to daphoenix.showed me the potential of dd ele in one thread

: P you guys are giving me too much credit, lol

Intigo.1653:

Every D/D auto except for Air is worthless. So, 17 I guess. :p Air is pretty awesome, though.

I use all the auto attacks, fire1 is pretty awesome as a finishing skill when your still in fire attunement. Also doubles up as a way to break #Block attack skills too. Water1 is one of the best ways to cover condition, and does alot of damage in a hallway where everyone is in a line (usually for PvE purposes). Plus it comes back too, so you can prepare another cover condition in advance. Earth 1 (I usually use this one the least, it is kind of useless most of the time :P) is another good cover condition too, you can use it without facing your enemy too. Its a guaranteed hit unlike the other autoattacks if your enemy is within 300 radial units.

yea air> all other auto attacks.

Air AA is pretty garbage in actual PvP against good opponents, just run around the ele and watch his attack “miss” as he tries to hit you.

Many eles been running D/D since beta, me included. Its delusion to think a person made a spec popular by themselves. The Nov. 15th patch killed Staff bunker spec and people flocked the next bunker spec which was D/D. This is because Bunker is the only viable spec for eles at high level tPvP.

Too easy I am the 1%!!!

But seriously dungeons are not hard even with pugs. A lot of it comes down to not knowing the dungeon at all and not knowing how to play properly in a group. People with their open world PvE specs or WvW specs in dungeons making it harder than it should be.

Wethospu.6437:

Dub.1273:

Completed path 1. After 8-9 hours of failing over and over again, the final run took about 30 minutes.
http://i.imgur.com/fYLLyzy.jpg
Maybe i’ll do a full solo of path 2 if i sometime can spend 5 hours without a break.
Path 3 will (hopefully) follow.
Nvm i forgot the burrow event at start, so here is the full solo:
http://imgur.com/IcmxSO3

I’m not calling for nerfs but they seriously need to buff us weaker classes to your master-class level.

You cant has my awesome attunements!

This, tired of running Orbs on my ele.

Fury.6281:

Pre-reckless dodge nerf I know for sure an ele could do it because Haviz managed to get him to 10% life in phase 3 before dying. The reason the reckless dodge may have affected it is because Robert stated that he was fixing “things like it” along with the reckless dodge patch. Not sure if this killed any abilities the ele had previously for getting out of the bubble.

But best of luck getting it done

EA used to get you out.

Florgknight.1589:

Puandro.3245:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Admired.7461:

Okay, so we know a Thief can do this. It seems only logical since they have such high evading capabilities. Warriors used to be able to do solo this guy, but I’m not sure about now. Have there been any other reported professions able to solo Lupicus (proof or very well argued theories)?

My guess of other possible professions:
Elementalist, Guardian, Mesmer(?)

I bet a ranger could do it easy… it just might take a bit longer. Sword\dagger and short bow, and go full condi and evasion, and I bet it could be done. I may just have to try it myself… but I imagine people who say I am using dev stuff and not being fair.

Condi not worth it on a ranger, go full power. More DPS and no need to run traps.

Because dps is the only factor in success.

Why run a Condi build that needs Traps to pull decent DPS when you can run a Power build and run utilities to help you live while doing more DPS.

It’s a no brainer.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Admired.7461:

Okay, so we know a Thief can do this. It seems only logical since they have such high evading capabilities. Warriors used to be able to do solo this guy, but I’m not sure about now. Have there been any other reported professions able to solo Lupicus (proof or very well argued theories)?

My guess of other possible professions:
Elementalist, Guardian, Mesmer(?)

I bet a ranger could do it easy… it just might take a bit longer. Sword\dagger and short bow, and go full condi and evasion, and I bet it could be done. I may just have to try it myself… but I imagine people who say I am using dev stuff and not being fair.

Condi not worth it on a ranger, go full power. More DPS and no need to run traps.

If you delete all your toons you can pick another server.

Rising Dusk.2408:

At what part of the animation did you do it at? Maybe that plays a role. It’s also possible that my eyes betrayed me, though. I don’t discount that possibility.

As soon as the red circle appeared on the ground.

I Knocked him back on my guardian and it interrupted the AoE.

I wont tell you what spec to run or what gear but the top DPS spec for eles is staying in fire with 30 fire trait to gain might on cast and 30 air with 10 earth. I wouldnt run that in PvE groups but its the top damage spec.

Focus is not a damage offhand, stop trying yo make it so.

Attacks dont have base power and you guys dont get it. Also that is not the damage formula.

RTL is not a teleport.
RTL should be affected by slows.
RTL should go back to 15 secs though if that happens.

No attacks in GW2 have BASE Power like other games its only scaling.

cargan.5689:

o freedom o.9028:

i love when a dev comes in with the cold hard facts and is like BOOM

Problem is now im stuck with this as the image of Mr Smith owning some on in the forum

Haha wow.

Damage isn’t an issue with eles, its delivering it.

The last patch was a step backwards towards opening more Specs for Eles. It barely did anything to bunker eles while hurting Burst Eles more. I play my Ele in tPvP, WvW and PvE and i thought the patch would nerf Bunkers (more than what the patch did) and open more viable Burst specs but ATM i guess ill stick to my D/P Thief if i want to play burst or mess around on my GS Wars.

The RTL nerf was a bad move, they should just made it be affected by slows like every other movement skill and left it at 15 seconds.

The Vigor nerf hurt DPS eles so much, Staff hits slow as molasses and now you have to wait 5 seconds before you get a CHANCE to proc it and a lot of the other ele attacks are multi hit channel attacks. Bunker eles usually run boon duration and 30 Arcana so can keep perma vigor up more easily since you get almost 8 seconds of vigor per proc even with your low crit chance.