Guild Wars 2

This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone actually use Magi before.

Stop begging for more nerfs.

They couple their changes in WvW, PvP and PvE so this would absolutely murder PvE.

Please, have some consideration for people that enjoy other game modes than you before you suggest such things.

Ele, but it pains me to not be able to say warrior. I just don’t really have confidence in them fixing the class.

Lol @ the OP and the title.

I don’t really have much to say that wasn’t already said. Only thing to add is that it’s really annoying how often the words toxic and exploit are misused and overused on these forums.

Ah, some friends of mine got help from a person that is a native speaker to translate that paragraph. Even he had trouble deciphering it lol. He says that a lot of letters that should have been accented were left out, which is why google had a hard time translating it.

Essentially he said that I was apparently smart to upload a video of my incident, and that he isn’t going to lose sleep over getting kicked… or something like that. Different than what I interpreted I guess xD

Yeah… chrome translated it to “the miku is very ready uploaded the video that interested him, the I pour ami first and I save the user when seeing him return it and no .. I have no proof, if you cres that I will lose sleep. . I do not live this.”

-shrugs-

Iunno. Looks like he’s trying to deny it and say that I skewed the situation in my favor or some nonsense like that. Seems like a pretty awful guy.

Haha well I’m not trying to encourage it… but…

Oh who am I kidding. Give him hell!

Sweet sweet karma. Any of you guys remember this? http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3744743

Super long time ago, some guy entered my instance back during the times that I used to sell arah p1. I listed an ad on LFG for tar help, and some guy joins and basically says “send me gold or I’ll kick” or whatever. He booted me out of my instance.

8 months later it happens to him, and he posts a thread whining about it:
https://forum-es.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/game/Abuso-y-robo-del-sistema-de-grupo/first#post101194

(This thread is not in english, my chrome is able to translate it but if your browser cannot then the tl;dr is right below anyways)

I found out about it by getting a private message describing it: http://puu.sh/cs4sb.png

Oh dear.

My main character is warrior as well, Harper, but I have accepted the fact that it is just simply not useful anymore these days in the ways that it used to be.

I’ll bring up Arah soloing because of how much I have always done it, but pretty much the only boss that ele seems significantly worse for than warrior is mage crusher. Warrior is fine for crusher+hunter as well, but only if you go full-out yolo… otherwise it’s super slow.

The way Anet struggles with balancing is just so poorly. They shouldn’t be looking to nerf classes, they should be looking to find ways to improve the other ones instead.

OR at the very least, separating their atrocious changes in PvP from the rest of the game… but I don’t think that’d be fair for people that play PvP.

Yeah, let’s just… not nerf anymore please. Nerfing tends to worsen things.

They should add ballistas and arrow carts to all dungeon paths and fractals, and make sure the ballistas hit 10k each time.

this game… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P13WhOy6W1k

Hi.

I have not edited the guide since the feature patch, but not a whole lot has changed since then other than that warriors deal way way way less damage than before.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/DPS-guide-for-PvE-Dungeons-Soloing-More/first

I think you will find gameplay easier like this. Your trait choices in strength and arms are great aside from II in strength… get rid of that and replace it with either great fortitude or dual wielding.

If you have any questions, post them on that thread or send me a PM.

I just wish they’d let me trade my gold for the amount of gems that I want to buy so that I can get the noble outfit without wasting an excessive amount of extra money for no reason.

Wethospu.6437:

Purple Miku.7032:

Not only that, but today in the ascalon fractal I was messin around with abe, nova and stoya and the ritual began before we were done clearing the middle of siege/mobs.

We had captain ashym in the middle with all the kitten ballistas and arrow carts etc. -.-

We didn’t even do the ritual. It did it on its own.

Ballistas will knock Shaman away from middle so Ascalonians can’t find him!

Yeah this was pointed out to me xD

We skipped Dulfy and when I died and respawned, I respawned inside of the door that she repaired, so I was preoccupied with trying to free myself out of it while the ritual was being done… so, didn’t get to see it.

I tell ya though, running back to see all of those ballistas and arrowcarts with captain ashym chasing Nova around with an FGS… priceless. x]

Not only that, but today in the ascalon fractal I was messin around with abe, nova and stoya and the ritual began before we were done clearing the middle of siege/mobs.

We had captain ashym in the middle with all the kitten ballistas and arrow carts etc. -.-

We didn’t even do the ritual. It did it on its own.

People are saying it sucks because by comparison to what it used to be, it truly does suck. It deals significantly lower DPS and some of its skills don’t work properly (movement skills) when used against a selected target.

At the moment, I’d much rather use an ele for 90% or more of the game. Before I had a lot of fun soloing dungeons on my warrior but with the ferocity update and change so that strength runes are better than scholar when soloing, the nerf to strength runes by 2% along with them fixing the signet of might bug (which ironically contributed to actually balancing the damage output of warriors), the 5% damage reduction to hundred blades, the 5% reduction to whirlwind, the 5 second reduction on the duration of fury/might/swiftness to signet of rage, the extremely broken nerf to adrenaline, the several nerfs to sword offhand’s impale skill, and the fact that we have to be afraid of our movement skills teleporting us all over the freakin’ place… a lot of us have legitimate reasons to be scornful.

Just watching a video on youtube would serve a better purpose as you can pause and rewind to see the parts that you mess up on.

But, good look with the views anyways

Dub.1273:

Miku #1 NA on EU.

<3

Lol’d.

They’ve shown their true colors.

Jagex v2, ’nuff said.

Oi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmUffXSXqy8
Done over half a year ago, no UI no armor. Dub #1, I miss him.

Idk, Lupi is a weirdo lol.

I still don’t understand why he sometimes runs miles away after a big aoe leech and then bubble… doesn’t make sense to me.

Iris Ng.9845:

I rarely see Lupi does life drink to a warrior preferentially to a ranger or much less a thief, unless you happen to aggro him first right after he’s landing. Between two possible targets, he 90% of the time life drinks the downs, and then the one with less HP, which also explains to me why mesmer’s clones are always the targets.

66200 has better DPS than 66020 and is generally easier to maintain.

Regarding Blasting Staff, I wonder if there is a DPS loss if you don’t have to place Lava Font too close to the wall, but preferably between the wall and your standing spot (a 600 distance). Also placing Arcane Wave mid way between the wall and your position should cover both the blast and the damage, at least.

I rarely see it too, I was just pointing it out that it’s not always the case that he’s after lowest HP pools is all really. Normally whenever I go on my ele he focuses on me but sometimes it’s not the case, and I very very often get surprises on my warrior… especially with him hauling kitten from me and then spontaneously bubbling.

But, erm… why would 66200 be better DPS than 66020 against vulnerable targets? o.O

And you are right about arcane wave, but arcane brilliance is really weird and you can’t use it as a blast finisher the same way as arcane wave. Oh btw, he was focusing on Goku for most of phase 1 and 2, so I was able to stand near him without issues for the most part.

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The boss is boring as hell regardless of what way you fight it. The only time anything is ever a problem is when someone is a being a noob and gets knocked back into the elite risen, lol.

Iris Ng.9845:

Purple Miku.7032:

2:07 Lupicus duo with 2x staff eles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHvaATC62U

It was our first kill so there is for sure going to be a lot faster of a kill soon to come.

A few questions my friend asked that I answered already:
-we used X in air for the lightning storms, and also because there wasn’t much else relevant
-I don’t remember if Goku has ascended on his ele atm, but Lupicus just generally dislikes me so that might be why he was targeting me.
-Goku did not need renewing stamina because as already stated, Lupicus kitten hates me so he didn’t need to dodge nearly as much in phase 3. He still should have used 66020 instead, but it was like 1:30 AM for him so yea we just wanted to give it a few tries.

Lupi always does life drink to a target who has lower HP.
Goku didn’t use Renewing Stamina either, based on the lack of his Vigor buff. My bet is he was using 66200.
You stay way too close to Lupi during p1 – within his kick range.

That is actually not always true, he sometimes targets me on my warrior when I’m full hp and there are others like rangers/thieves etc. Most of the time he does exactly what you say as my ele is very often targeted, but not always.

I also put in the description that Goku was using 662 :P

Reason I was really close to Lupi in phase 1 is because I was blasting my lava fonts. I did not have blasting staff, so it was not possible for me to do so out of the kick range and simultaneously hit him. That’s why

We had a thread with these four things you’ve mentioned already in it along with loads more other bugs/problems that need to be addressed, but it was locked without a word about it since.

There are people that still do FotM ofc, but a lot of people (myself included) don’t bother doing it anymore due to the lack of rewards. Probably faster gold/hour begging for gold in LA or something like that.

You should be sure to always do them before reset because unlike dungeons, you probably will only get a group together after reset once in a blue moon.

Peak times are usually around lunch time or slightly before/after for me (I am in the US but play on EU). Not sure how it differs with NA servers.

2:07 Lupicus duo with 2x staff eles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHvaATC62U

It was our first kill so there is for sure going to be a lot faster of a kill soon to come.

A few questions my friend asked that I answered already:
-we used X in air for the lightning storms, and also because there wasn’t much else relevant
-I don’t remember if Goku has ascended on his ele atm, but Lupicus just generally dislikes me so that might be why he was targeting me.
-Goku did not need renewing stamina because as already stated, Lupicus kitten hates me so he didn’t need to dodge nearly as much in phase 3. He still should have used 66020 instead, but it was like 1:30 AM for him so yea we just wanted to give it a few tries.

Does anyone here have a link to either a list or chart of calculated theoretical solo DPS between all of the classes? I am more interested in figuring out how ele/guard/warr/thief compare to one another in a solo vacuum setting, but it would actually be nice for reference to see them all to compare how drastically they each change in optimal group vs. solo scenarios.

GreyWraith.8394:

So warriors now completely suck in all game modes. This despite being highly desirable in WvW zergs and capable of soloing dungeons. The last post is clearest really: if you want an OP FotM class, warrior is not the bandwagon you are looking for. Otherwise you’ll be fine and very effective.

I already stated that warriors are mostly wanted for stacking the hell out of swiftness in WvW zergs especially, and since when does “being capable of soloing dungeons” actually matter? Literally all classes are capable of soloing most dungeons— even the necros. Sometimes there are certain bosses/encounters that certain classes particularly excel at (example, situations that call for reflects = guard/mes), but overall it’s pretty much always been this way.

Warrior is incredibly fluid and much easier to learn/survive with in most circumstances which is why most people tend to call it OP when the reality is that they’ve always had low-end DPS in groups, yet fairly nice solo DPS.

The difference nowadays versus previously is that not only is it low-end but it’s even further behind the other classes than before in groups and instead of having fairly decent solo DPS, it has noticeably bad solo DPS by comparison to before.

Iris Ng.9845:

Everyone knows that P3 is tough on ele and a mistake in your rotation can screw you easily. Still very formidable, imo

Try staff ele for phase 3 — it’s the biggest joke ever tbh. I never expected it to be so great for it but it makes phase 3 with a warrior seem like hell by comparison. With D/F you’d always need to worry about the big aoe leech but with staff it’s just 1 dodge backwards + a burning retreat and voila.

However, off-wall would be another story. Like I said in my post above, probs need an energy sigil to pull that off.

But yeah like I said… staff ele on Lupi phase 3 = wayyyy easier than D/F haha.

rfdarko.4639:

Purple Miku.7032:

What I’m mostly referring to is when I was going for a fast D/F ele solo a while ago, it was not possible for me to use swirling winds unless I just blindly guessed if he was about to do the attack. I had to double dodge and hope for good RNG which was just too rare.

Just wanted to say, you maybe already know this trick and didn’t want to swap into earth because you were going for a record, but one way you can deal with aoe phase is using ring of earth. If you dodge back once, stand still and cast, you won’t get hit. At least, so far it’s been 100% for me, and I know from playing thief my rng is not so great :x.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-pVotEBck

^ skip to 2:45 for the first time I use it. Obviously that’s not a fast solo, it was an overly cautious off the wall solo XD. At some point i want to re-do it without arcane shield.

It’s actually even better to do the same thing with magnetive wave since it reflects for more damage. I know this, but at the same time I’m still trying to go for the fastest possible time that I can given what I’m able to roll (RNG). With that in mind, I’d prefer to not have to screw up my might-stacking rotation as much as possible and…

with D/F you just have so few of blasts, blegh. It totally blows when you have to swap to earth for popping obsidian flesh and mess up your attunement cooldowns. :<

Same deal with swapping to it specifically for ring of earth, really. I also somewhat have this dilemma when doing staff on phase 2 if I’m to use earth #3 for the AoE because then you have a few seconds with dreadful DPS.

Thank you for the response though!

Either way, it’s become extremely clear to me at this point that soloing Lupi with an ele is by far best to do with staff on the wall. For offwall, I can’t see staff being too wonderful… the rapid fires are horrible. D/F seems like the best option here, but perhaps energy sigil on staff would make it OK?

I still have not done an offwall D/F ele solo without using both energy sigil + arcana II + lifesteal food and arcane shield + lightning flash btw. Dem rapid fires. However, I used arcane brilliance and arcane wave, no mist form.

EDIT: I can only post once every 30 minutes, so response to Tom Yzf.5872:

That happens to me most of the time too ofc, but like I said — attempting to maximize damage for best results. I generally will just double dodge always and hope for the best to avoid losing the extra blast/screwing up my might stacking rotation. It’s very RNG-reliant.

I was just pointing out the extra damage added from reflecting, that’s all

No, because this would encourage everybody to stop running group dungeons and solo Arah (use Arah as the example because it’s most profitable).

People already do it, but it shouldn’t discourage people from running together. If this were implemented, everybody’s goal would be to get to the point where they’d never need to run with somebody else again. This is bad.

They aren’t interested in discouraging group activity. As it is now, pugging Arah can often times take longer than it can for somebody knowledgeable of the path to solo it. Giving people 15g for soloing paths would mean the death of pugging (at least Arah).

Also as somebody above pointed out… it would encourage kicking people before the last boss to steal the gold they would have been rewarded.

Terrible idea is terrible.

Oh I never let people do it if I’m in an instance. I will intentionally drag him away from the wall when there is a guard/mesmer in the group and they show any signs of knowing what is going on. I hate it. He is one of my favorite bosses so to me it’s just as bad to do that than it is to skip him.

What I’m mostly referring to is when I was going for a fast D/F ele solo a while ago, it was not possible for me to use swirling winds unless I just blindly guessed if he was about to do the attack. I had to double dodge and hope for good RNG which was just too rare.

RNGwars 2 ftw.

Sometimes the ping spikes so badly that I will take the damage + cc from a kick/swipe before the animation even begins… that’s always cute.

Anyways, my connections never used to be this bad before. It makes me sad. I was talked into playing GW2 again at least sometimes but since I pretty much cannot stream anymore due to getting disconnected so often I have even less reason to log in than before. :<

I will try to have the modem/router relocated and see if it helps alleviate some of these issues. Wireless is expected to suck, but never as much as this…

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-sniffles- here are the worst ones…

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:(

Oh god. Yeah dual core… that bites!

Whenever you’re able to afford it I suggest getting a new PC altogether tbh.

See, my problems are like 100% network-related instead of hardware-related like yours. Not only does America have pretty much the most pathetic internet speeds in the world, but it costs more in most cases too.

Like, it’s not even possible for me to use swirling winds on my ele for Lupi’s phase 2 aoe for example. My ping’s just too high. You need under 250 ping for it to actually be possible to react fast enough, and I average 300-350 now (used to average 250-300 before the september feature patch) so yeah.

But lately my wifi has been even worse and it doesn’t appear like there’s much I can do about it… my house itself is old. The signal strength varies. My ping frequently spikes up to 500-800 which is pretty much unplayable.

Worst case scenarios it’ll hit several thousands (highest ping so far was 24.2k, took a pic of it lmao).

Even on highest settings I’m still never spiking above a quarter of my CPU’s usage unless I’m also streaming or something like that.

Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz

i7’s aren’t quite as expensive as they were when I got this with my laptop 3 years ago. Even though GW2 is taxing on the CPU, when it comes to gaming on a PC the most important thing you can do for yourself/your system is to have a good graphics card.

If it was April where I live, then I’d be able to hit over 50% more damage than I currently do and none of my movement skills would be teleporting me all over the place, so no.

vincecontix.1264:

Purple Miku.7032:

Warrior is terrible now since 9/9, so pick either elementalist, guardian or thief.

Salty much? Warrior is still a good class and is a welcome addition to any group.

Warrior’s DPS is disgusting. It’s so bad that I feel embarrassed to play the class now along with the fact that some of its skills are very bugged. In groups it might be less noticeable to the others since the realtime difference it makes is negligible (few seconds at most on bosses) but in a solo situation it’s sometimes close to a minute slower than before the update.

That’s really bad. Warrior DPS was already on the lower end of the spectrum before the update.

Warriors bring no useful group-wide utility to parties and there’s literally nothing about them to make them worth having other than
a) banners
b) phalanx strength in situations that call for it

Other than that… nothing.

And that’s really sad. It’s been my main and favorite since I started this game last summer, so it’s insulting to see what I love to play with destroyed.

Bartosz.2013:

Purple Miku.7032:

dooger.2640:

Choppy.4183:

lol @dominik.972 You appear determined to miss the point.

Remember, the OP was asking about PvE. You seem to be fixated on a limited aspect of the game and judging everything, builds, players, etc. according to what works best in that limited niche.

Pve does not matter, so who cares.

Maybe not to you, but for the overwhelming majority of the game it does.

Dooger must be angry, maybe cause his gamemode is nearly dead =)

Can you blame him? It’s literally the worst PvP I have ever seen not only on any MMORPG ever, but any game ever. I’d be pretty angry too.

Basically what it seems to be like is the Duel Arena from Runescape but without staking, without individual 1v1 fights, and the match doesn’t end when you either kill or get killed but rather when you stand in circles the longest.

There are good reasons why it’s so unpopular, yet for some reason some of the people that play it (like this guy) feel the need to condescend those that don’t play it with comments that belittle their interests. So perhaps I should do the same, like in my post here?

“No one cares about what you like.”

dooger.2640:

Choppy.4183:

lol @dominik.972 You appear determined to miss the point.

Remember, the OP was asking about PvE. You seem to be fixated on a limited aspect of the game and judging everything, builds, players, etc. according to what works best in that limited niche.

Pve does not matter, so who cares.

Maybe not to you, but for the overwhelming majority of the game it does.

Warrior is terrible now since 9/9, so pick either elementalist, guardian or thief.

The only part about NPC aggro that desperately needs changing is Varra Skylark shooting any and every single thing with an HP bar and pulling them to you.

Wow Jerus, even my NVIDIA GT 540M can put up with a lot better settings than that! :|

Do you have a GPU or are you just running off of your motherboard?

dlonie.6547:

What could be more fun?

I honestly would rather have 3 necro than 3 warrior pugs. That way I wouldn’t have to cringe as much.

Last Arah P4 pug I did the warrior was longbow autoattacking the elite wraiths in the second part of Grenth… christ that was shameful.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Zoom in on your character, look to the ground and rush. You’re welcome

Angling camera down was a nice trick I learned from a friend to stack fire fields with burning speed, RIP.

Also I’ve already learned about zooming in on character affecting the way it behaves when jumping, but good idea. Didn’t think to try it with GS rush.

But yeah zooming in the camera FTW. Lots of people I know have trouble getting on the pipe in my favorite jumping puzzle here at 0:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvqUhZEihuI and surprisingly, when you zoom in it becomes like 100% quicker to double-hop onto it lol.

RemiRome.8495:

Purple Miku.7032:

Did you also think it was fine for them to let us safely autoattack the ancient ooze on that coral branch in Arah P1 before they fixed it?

Tom Yzf.5872:

as bad as the people safespotting on coral for Ancient Ooze. It is pretty silly.

Leave my friend out of this. He doesn’t know any better.

Thank you kindly.

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:3

This is not the same Arenanet from GW1. They are entirely different people. I also believe that after they launched the game, loads of the people working there left.

i.e. no dungeon team, etc. Like, they probably did what just about all game makers do. Just hire people to help build the game, then downsize because maintenance requires less people so they can profit more. We won’t ever know for sure but….

It would explain why there’s very very few bug fixes ever. I guess all you can really do is just… not expect anything. Don’t set yourself up for disappointment. :/

Anyways, I agree with you. The fact that we can’t reliably use our movement skills anymore is depressing / frustrating. Even if you don’t use them with a target selected, there’s a high chance of turning around mid-air and/or teleporting backwards. So bad.

207 times, and I have gotten ~45-46k total shards of zhaitan overall. that’s roughly 150 times of getting hobby dungeon explorer from Arah alone, lol

150/207 = ~72% of all dungeon paths were Arah, not including the time spent goating

Based off of the series that Dub started but stopped after episode #2…

Lupi Swag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znd8dMXWkWc
edit: sorry no music, twitch is mean.

…can I have whatever you’re having?

Surbrus.6942:

Wethospu.6437:

If no effort is spend on dungeons how can they expect them to be popular?

Just like Charr armour. Anet did a kittenty job at making armour for Charr in a game which focuses on aesthetics. When most people don’t play Charr specifically because of the lazy job on armour, Anet then claims that there is no reason to spend time on Charr armour because not many people use it.

This might be Anet’s reasoning for Medium armour trenchcoats and the lack of swimsuits even though everyone has been inquiring about these things. The metrics, graphs and charts say that everyone’s wearing trenchcoats and no one’s wearing swim suits!

I know that the armor clippings are terrible, but I don’t agree with the bolded statement because I’m fairly certain that most people tend to pick characters/races that are more relatable— human classes always are the most popular on games and I think I’ve heard more people whine about charr animations and being too bulky/kitten when doing jumping puzzles than anything else. Same with norns, haha.