Guild Wars 2

Fastforward to 30:00 in this video: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4036346

That’s generally how my Alphard kills go. I don’t kill her before the barriers are destroyed and I came close to it once before, but sometimes you just get unlucky and the clones appear RIGHT when she starts daggerstorm.

I suggest you practice over and over again, and without ever using any nourishment other than lifesteal on crit foods. Every time when she’s about to approach you when you’re waiting for her to stop her daggerstorm, begin with 100b and perform a WWA— she’ll most of the time begin with a pull but sometimes she won’t. ALWAYS be ready to dodge, but try your best never to waste them.

When the clones appear, keep your eye on her character. Sometimes it’s hard to because of all the bloom/particle explosions from all the gunshots but if you camp GS as much as possible, when she + all the clones come around the corner you can take them all out with a single WWA. Even if she decides to do a pull at that time, the evasion from WWA should save you.

Keep in mind that since April 15th, they’ve managed to kitten her up again. I’ve had a few different glitches with her that never used to happen pre feature patch:
1) her daggerstorms go through walls (fixed it when I crashed instance and completely redid P2 from scratch, such bull kitten).
2) she randomly will reset to full HP sometimes MID COMBAT. I have no idea how to avoid this; I just ragequit when it happens.

EDIT: here is another kill I saved of her closer to 3 months ago back when I could barely kill her. http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3768848

If you want to see some really well-done kills of this boss, search “Luca rT” on yt; he’s a heck of a lot better at it than I am >.<

Gee, this isn’t a familiar rant or anything.

Have your entire party wipe again and the bone wall will disappear.

Arenanet might fix this glitch one day, but probably not tbh.

1) It’s now nearly impossible to get harpy feathers. As many people know, the event bugs out almost 99% of the time when more than one person is in the area when the Veteran Harpy Matriarch spawns. Since there’s no one at Arenanet that fixes bugs of this nature, it’s here to stay. Therefore, the more populated the area is the less of a chance there is of completing this event. These items are absolutely necessary for Arah — especially considering the AI (or lack of) of the dungeon NPC’s or if in a pug team where people aggro all of China to you due to not knowing what they’re doing.

2) I’m seeing Arah dungeon entrance contested a LOT more frequently than before. As well as this, other dungeons too. Before you could simply check to see what servers had an uncontested waypoint but with the new Megaserver system, I have no means of getting myself into another instance of the area unless I magically find someone to party up with that’s in a different instance of the area and can taxi me into theirs.

3) I love setting arbitrary challenges for myself, such as soloing Eye of Zhaitan in Malchor’s Leap, soloing champions in Cursed Shore, etc. I can never do those things again because these events are being scaled due to the huge karma trains flying all over the place. Instead of killing a boss with active defense and putting my personal skills to the test, I have no choice but to autoattack with a giant mesh of people until the massive health bar burns down. It’s SO boring. At least with the old system, if you didn’t want to solo it you could guest to a more populated server to do it. With this new system it eliminates the option of doing anything alone.

4) Increased lag in many areas of the game— in particular, sudden and brief FPS drops for no apparent reason in many areas now and it’s happened since April 15th, so evidently something having to do with that feature patch is the culprit.

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P.S. I am well aware of the fact that there are obvious positives to look at in regards to this update, I just thought I’d highlight the main reasons why it bothers me.

Thanks for reading.

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

You still have yet to come up with any specific situation to support your claim…?

The entire point of this guide, which is even so graciously listed in the title of this thread is a guide to optimal DPS in a solo setting for warrior.

It’s unbelievable how pendantic you are with that statement on reflects. I’ve clarified multiple times with you my reasoning for the claim that “warriors do not have reflects.” It’s because there is no circumstance in which traiting in defense will yield superior DPS. It is always better to learn how time your dodges properly, time your blocks, your whirlwind evasion, kite, time your invulnerability, and more. If you disagree with me, then what’s the point in continuing to nitpick with this detail when you’re clearly not getting anywhere— especially since you aren’t interested in the main topic of the thread?

I also find it pretty amusing how you’re talking to me as if I have no idea of what the word adaptability means, considering how many things I’ve posted solo videos of and how much time I spent learning how to do things differently than what I had known. To me, that’s a blatant sign of disrespect. If you have this much of a problem with the fact that I consider fury an absolute essential for DPS in solos, I highly advise you to refrain from posting again because bad news, good sir.

I won’t be backing down from my statement.

Sigh, you’re the one nitpicking here. See how you mention Throw Bolas, Stomp and Fear Me in your guide? None of those are optimal DPS choices either. Have you invented some arbitrary point of DPS loss at which selecting something goes from “worth mentioning” to so unmentionable that you explicitly claim it does not exist when it does, or are you still stuck in the pre-patch mentality and haven’t yet adapted to traits now being as easy to switch as utilities?

I’m not disrespecting your soloing accomplishments, I’m just amazed at how stubbornly you are willing to defend a single complete factual inaccuracy. Your original guide is otherwise very good.

Did you read what I said they have rare uses for? You aren’t supposed to DPS the wraiths in the ritual at the end of Arah P3, and you can’t DPS the shoggroth tar boss in Arah P1 if it’s underground. As for stomp/kick, reality is that the champion krait was as close to impossible for a warrior to take down solo as it could get and it’s specifically because of the confusion pulsing from one attack. It’s very niche, and once again…

I still can’t think of a single reason where it’d be better to trait defense for that reflect trait, period. I’ve brought it up in each of my replies with you and it doesn’t seem like you can think of any either…

I seem stubborn to you because I already explained several times why I don’t include that trait as a viable option, but you’re still pedantic and trying to give me a hard time for no reason other than to get under my skin. The post before your last I admit did irritate me, because it was kind of tough to perceive most of it in a way that wasn’t a personal attack.

If it helps, fine you’re right; there’s a reflect trait in the defense line that’s seemingly never appropriate to use outside of PvP/WvW, at least in my opinion. Hopefully we can forget about this minute little detail now and move on.

Awesome. I feel like trying it sometime maybe. It probably wasn’t possible to do pre-patch, but no way to test it now :P

The last boss was a really close call

I can’t stand doing FotM anymore because it feels so insulting to put forth so much more effort only to have a reward guaranteed to be equivalent to what I could have found from a 6-10 minute dungeon path.

Also, harpy fractal is one of the least enjoyable experiences on the game.

However, Mossman + Imbued Shaman + Mai Trin (not the snore-fest cannon phases) + Molten Duo might be some of my favorite encounters in all of GW2. It’s really too bad that I have no choice but to put up with so much insufferably monotonous nonsense just for a chance of getting to fight them… well, Mossman is always found on the first fractal so he’s not so rare for me to find. The others, though? It’s once a blue moon if I get to fight Imbued Shaman and it’s been over a week since I’ve gotten a boss fractal other than Jade Maw.

dominik.9721:

cm p3 for example there is nothing more enjoyable than doing the first mobgroup with 30/30/10/0/0 they kill themselfs in a few seconds with mace/shield /axe/sword just reflect theire fast attacks =ggwp

Since the last update, it’d be better to use stability + frenzy + endure pain and either intentionally wipe to go OOC and change to FGJ + Signet of Fury + Banner of Discipline for Sure-shot Seamus, or use harpy feathers / spykits.

Either way works, but your personal attacks with a full 100b channel + WWA deal _much _ more damage than that.

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

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Because of the fact that warriors have no reflects.

Not true, you can easily trait 10 in defense (edit: 2) to pick up reflect during block.

It’s not practical to use in almost any circumstance for soloing in PvE though; you lose out on a crap ton of damage to deal a negligible amount of damage in reflects.

I can’t think of any circumstance in which it’d be worth traiting 2 in defense for a boss solo fight tbh.

You wouldn’t lose much DPS speccing 6/6/2/0/0 to solo something, you can spec 6/5/3/0/0 too and get the health regen for a bit more margin for error/meatshieldability. It would have been silly to spec like that before the patch but since you can now change traits anywhere it’s an option for certain solo dungeon encounters that you can’t just cheese with Sigil of Energy.

Just pointing out it’s incorrect to say “you have no reflects” when you do if you need them.

You’re wrong, sorry. When you are soloing you CANNOT sacrifice VI in discipline. Not only do you lose out on a lot of ferocity, but you lose out on an absolute necessity for DPS – fury. You can’t upkeep fury without signet mastery no matter if you use both FGJ and axe offhand— worse enough, you can’t block even if you do use axe offhand and even if you try to, you sacrifice your primary weapon for utility and DPS, which is GS.

Once again, never practical to PvE with that trait.

Therefore, you do not have reflects at your disposal to use unless you intend to be vastly inefficient.

You’re wrong, sorry. I like how you have attempted to switch the debate to a theoretical DPS loss. Your original statement was:

Because of the fact that warriors have no reflects.

And it’s still completely wrong.

Additionally, there are two main reasons why your extra straw man reply is wrong too. First of all, Secondly , FGJ and signet provides ~80% fury uptime untraited anyway, so saying “you CANNOT sacrifice VI in discipline” is incredibly narrow-minded too . Yes, you might lose around 10% DPS overall from lower fury uptime and ferocity, but the whole point is being able to use the right build for the situation – in this case, a situation in which losing 10% DPS is less important that gaining other things that will keep you alive like reflects and double the healing signet tick.

There is no “optimal, undroppable” soloing build, it varies depending on the content you are soloing. Sometimes you may need more endurance, sometimes you may need reflects, sometimes you may need more health regeneration to counter unavoidable damage. It’s called adaptability – bear it in mind and you’ll be able to come up with better builds rather than just posting the old PvE meta group build.

You still have yet to come up with any specific situation to support your claim…?

The entire point of this guide, which is even so graciously listed in the title of this thread is a guide to optimal DPS in a solo setting for warrior.

It’s unbelievable how pendantic you are with that statement on reflects. I’ve clarified multiple times with you my reasoning for the claim that “warriors do not have reflects.” It’s because there is no circumstance in which traiting in defense will yield superior DPS. It is always better to learn how time your dodges properly, time your blocks, your whirlwind evasion, kite, time your invulnerability, and more. If you disagree with me, then what’s the point in continuing to nitpick with this detail when you’re clearly not getting anywhere— especially since you aren’t interested in the main topic of the thread?

I also find it pretty amusing how you’re talking to me as if I have no idea of what the word adaptability means, considering how many things I’ve posted solo videos of and how much time I spent learning how to do things differently than what I had known. To me, that’s a blatant sign of disrespect. If you have this much of a problem with the fact that I consider fury an absolute essential for DPS in solos, I highly advise you to refrain from posting again because bad news, good sir.

I won’t be backing down from my statement.

http://i.imgur.com/9GKhkQg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rpX28Yh.jpg

So this thread’s still going? Dang.

Dat persistence.

The honest truth is that aside from utility, GS is kind of bad in PvP because anyone that knows what they’re doing isn’t going to let you 100b them. I’d say you’d be better off using either axe/sword or sword/sword but I understand the feeling of not wanting to drop GS. It’s too awesome of a weapon.

I’d much rather just activate my signet of fury for adrenaline or just axe AA until it fills than use axe offhand. It really is bad, and it’s kind of irritating how bad it is.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Purple Miku.7032:

hendo.1940:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

. Warrior does benefit relatively less from Strength (outside of a Phalanx pug-carrier build) since they don’t stack as much might as other classes do

What

I actually agree with hendo.

What?

I seem to have no problem generating plenty of might, and when I go with might sharing I can maintain 20-25 stacks easily. So I’m hoping that was just sarcasm about warriors, or maybe they meant “in the most professionally organized group play there is a profession better at generating might for a short period of time even if it isn’t maintained”. That sounds about accurate.

FGJ is 3 stacks, Battle Standard is another 3. That’s about 6 stacks you can share around using an utility and an elite on very long CD, that you can use maybe three times in a dungeon tops. That’s not exactly huge might stacking, unless you were referring to self-stacking which is purely a solo/pug thing.

Who’s to say that the fire fields have to come from us anyways? We have a plethora of blast finishers, including banners that can be used by anyone with #5 in a combo field along with FGJ. As well as that, we’re able to generate a LOT of might with forceful greatsword and if absolutely necessary (no ele), Phalanx Strength. I personally wouldn’t ever care to use PS, but it’s there and it’s always an option.

I should also mention that the only reason the new meta for optimal DPS from a warrior posted by Nike is 6/6/0/2/0 is because it is under the assumption that the warrior is able to outsource the fury elsewhere, namely from an ele with Persisting Flames. He went on to clarify in his video that for soloing, you drop the 2 in tactics for 2 in discipline, as Signet Mastery is NOT optional in that case.

You have good trait point allocation, but chose kind of odd traits for 3 of them.

For solo PvE I strongly encourage you to first check out my guide here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Guide-for-DPS-build-dungeon-solos-more/first#post3712058

For traits, these are the modifications I think you should make:
6 (V IX XI)
6 (I X V)
0
0
2 (VI)

When soloing more difficult content and more fluidity with gameplay, reduce Arms to 5 and increase Discipline to 3. Simple as that; you will be able to weapon swap much faster to take advantage of blocks, extra swiftness/cleanse movement impairing conditions, etc.

As for utilities, you don’t really need fear me in PvE much at all and it’s a waste of a util unless you’re in WvW/PvP where it’s extremely effective if used properly.

Because Arms I (deep strikes) is actually bugged, you will get a free signet of might simply for equipping that trait whilst having an unused signet equipped, period. At the moment there is never a reason to equip it and since Arenanet is well known for having no employees to work on the game and fix content, don’t expect a fix for it anytime soon :P

I suggest making use of For Great Justice, Signet of Fury, Banner of Discipline/Shake it Off depending on whether or not you’re about to solo a champ or something or if you’re travelling great distance where carrying a banner would be impractical.

Hope this helps!

hendo.1940:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

. Warrior does benefit relatively less from Strength (outside of a Phalanx pug-carrier build) since they don’t stack as much might as other classes do

What

I actually agree with hendo.

What?

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

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Because of the fact that warriors have no reflects.

Not true, you can easily trait 10 in defense (edit: 2) to pick up reflect during block.

It’s not practical to use in almost any circumstance for soloing in PvE though; you lose out on a crap ton of damage to deal a negligible amount of damage in reflects.

I can’t think of any circumstance in which it’d be worth traiting 2 in defense for a boss solo fight tbh.

You wouldn’t lose much DPS speccing 6/6/2/0/0 to solo something, you can spec 6/5/3/0/0 too and get the health regen for a bit more margin for error/meatshieldability. It would have been silly to spec like that before the patch but since you can now change traits anywhere it’s an option for certain solo dungeon encounters that you can’t just cheese with Sigil of Energy.

Just pointing out it’s incorrect to say “you have no reflects” when you do if you need them.

You’re wrong, sorry. When you are soloing you CANNOT sacrifice VI in discipline. Not only do you lose out on a lot of ferocity, but you lose out on an absolute necessity for DPS – fury. You can’t upkeep fury without signet mastery no matter if you use both FGJ and axe offhand— worse enough, you can’t block even if you do use axe offhand and even if you try to, you sacrifice your primary weapon for utility and DPS, which is GS.

Once again, never practical to PvE with that trait.

Therefore, you do not have reflects at your disposal to use unless you intend to be vastly inefficient.

Phadde.7362:

I wouldn’t call 15 Fractals nothing… They’re essentially dungeons, at least from an outsiders perspective.

Edit: Really wish that they would add legit challenging PvE content similar to dungeons though. It’s about time.

Yeah, but fractals don’t have rewards… so it’s almost pointless to run them.

I know -_- I don’t even understand what the hell they did to cause it to happen. That and the bone wall at alphard. Really makes no sense to me.

E: Btw, it’s still sometimes possible to pull 3… but majority of the time one of them will just randomly reset. Since it’s not consistent and since you have to take babysteps while letting them all hit you… you’re right it’s a waste of time.

The best solution is to just have the person that lures their 2 sparks first get the last one.

I guess I’ll begin my reply with a copy-paste in a post of mine on the guide I made:

“Runes:
-If you are soloing, I suggest Superior Rune of Strength x6.
-If you aren’t soloing and your party composition either has 1 or more might stacking elementalists or a phalanx strength warrior, you will have higher damage output with Superior Rune of the Scholar x6.
-I know how inconvenient it is to have two full sets of armor so those of you who want an all-around good armor set to use in all circumstances, get Strength Runes.”

Basically since the feature patch, it’s a lot harder for Scholar runes to be the best than it used to be. Not only are they only best in groups, but the group has to be spot-on with might stacking. In PUGs, they aren’t the best to use.

If you’re the kind of player that always has guildmates/friends to do full dungeon runs with, keep your scholar and you’ll be fine. However, scholar runes aren’t THAT much better than strength even in the optimal situation. I mean yeah, they ARE a lot better if your group can properly stack might, but the difference that you make individually has so minimal impact on the outcome of the fight in a group setting that in my opinion is never worth it unless you’re going for a record run.

Strength runes are the best in pugs, the best in solos, and are still really good in superbly organised teams.

Eulolia.2467:

Purple Miku.7032:

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Because of the fact that warriors have no reflects.

Not true, you can easily trait 10 in defense (edit: 2) to pick up reflect during block.

It’s not practical to use in almost any circumstance for soloing in PvE though; you lose out on a crap ton of damage to deal a negligible amount of damage in reflects.

I can’t think of any circumstance in which it’d be worth traiting 2 in defense for a boss solo fight tbh.

When posting that back then, I was well aware of that trait but this is a guide for DPS and efficiently going about things as a warrior in solo PvE, so with that in mind we don’t have reflects at our disposal to use.

So I decided on my p4 solo tonight to try once again to see if it was possible to “solo” Simin with a few conditions.

This was the best I could do, so enjoy:

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4166624

Basically I tried to get as few interference from my friend as possible. I tried having him help with sparks, but that wasn’t even close to enough still. I then tried to have him provide a banner of strength for me and it still wasn’t even close to enough.

So, I nearly gave up and decided to just duo it as regularly. Instead, I decided to see if it’d be possible to at least be the only person damaging her. He took both banners and battle standard, along with helping sparks, and I was the only person attacking boss.

So, it’s not a real solo. It’s still pretty much the closest to soloing it anyone can do without exploiting the ever-popular taunting animation bug, which I really wish Arenanet would fix.

So, my build in this video:

Strength runes x6 full ascended berserker
6 (V IX XI)
6 (I X V)
0
0
2 (VI)

Even with my friend doing banners for me AND helping with sparks… you can see I was barely able to pass the DPS test. At one point in the video, I managed to get her in the perfect spot, and dealt a crap ton of damage as she wasn’t moving around like a spaz :P

Anywho, hopefully someone will try this on an ele. I would myself but I lack the experience on it and would certainly not be able to pull it off. Requesting Dub!

@Amicable
Thanks for the suggestion on the Axe; I was thinking with the mindset of trying to keep up the might as much as I can before switching back to GS, because at the time everybody was putting strength sigils on their GS and I just wanted to make sure that my 100b channel would put out more damage, seeing as it’s the main source of my DPS. Your explanation clears it up for me; I will indeed have no choice but to make a third ascended axe with sigil of battle :/ lmao

@Snowball
You kiddin? We did a phenomenal job especially considering it was your first P4 duo ever if I’m not mistaken. 1 hour 20 minutes on your first Arah P4 duo is fantastic and nothing less. Also that was our second time doing Lupi together and from what I recall, our first Lupi fight together was just as hilarious as this last one was. I was laughing the entire time as we FGS’d him… SO MUCH DAMAGE xD

@both of you, play Arah with me moar. Lots of duos plz.

kitten … you did a very fine job. I’m more so sitting here dumbfounded at how trivialized the first part with Sure-shot Seamus became since the feature patch, as this path was legitimately one of the most awful ones of all to solo for warriors before April 15th.

Also, did not know you could use those things for Wahlen W T F… and to think how much time I spent trying to melee that jerk when his “LOL BOMBS EVERYWHERE” attack is an insta-1 shot.

I commented on the vid with a question about the last boss; I would have certainly tried to FGS him, though if you really didn’t care you could have stood at the tip of the wooden platform (off of it, just against it) and easy-mode lava fonted him with him just staring at you. Rooted mobs are always a bad idea, hope Arenanet gets that through their head someday.

Wethospu and Guanglai, I am impressed with the level of patience you two have shown with Warlord.

Honestly guys… sometimes you just have to accept the fact that there are some people in the world that simply can’t be helped. Just let him think what he wants. Sometimes there are people that are “never wrong.”

tl;dr I don’t think anyone’s going to win this argument and it’s just a cyclic mesh of close-mindedness (and apparently ineptitude with intermediate algebra).

54 min Arah P4 duo (Purple Miku / Derqy Moa): http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4144672

4:41 Korga: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4153817

4:46 Lupi: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4153787
4:47 Lupi: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4153769
4:51 Lupi: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4108928

I think this is the fastest duo for P4 I’ve done, and with all bosses done and no bugs. He goofed on Lupi and I goofed on the Grenth first part, so it could have certainly been in the 40 minutes range but we were just trying to sell the path… it felt really ‘casual’ for us but it went a lot smoother, so I checked and surely enough… nice time. Moa #1 tbh, extremely consistent and one of the best warriors I know.

Sometimes the trash mobs before Grenth give you a really hard time so it’s nice that we had minimal problems there on the run.

The simin fight in that P4… sub 4 minutes with 2 warriors. That’s really nice tbh. We got her in essentially the perfect spot to DPS her out; not entirely sure if we got lucky with RNG towards the end where she didn’t go into hiding or if it’s because we were dealing such high damage.

I managed to beat my pre-patch time for Korga and I’m a few seconds off of my best pre-patch Lupicus times too. Strength runes with undead slaying + force on GS, sigil of strength on axe but tbh I put it on because I wasn’t sure if sigil of battle would screw up energy sigil… didn’t want to blow 6g on it to test and see if it was fixed >.>

I got a little ambitious in the 4:46 Lupicus solo right at the end and almost died, because no scholar buff = no problem with low hp.

I don’t think 6/6/0/0/2 GS camping is a good idea for this because you would need perfect RNG, or to basically save whirlwinds all of the time for the evasions… and you would always have to leave the aoe ring for life drink on phase 3, it just doesn’t seem worth it to me because I already have to spend sometimes over an hour just to get him to not reset immediately when i plant banner on phase 1 -.-

Any thoughts on battle sigil for axe? I don’t think undead slaying would be good to keep on it anymore because you want to avoid swapping in the first place; if you believe otherwise please explain.

Anywho, lots of stuff… but if that wasn’t enough you might find it entertaining to watch my first Korga solo on my ele, which I’m a total noob kitten with still lmao. It’s embarrassing how bad I am at blasting for might on it but at least he still died

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4139401

I think LH was a kitten idea for Korga btw, just wanted to try it that’s all.

If you read/watched this far, ty.

Please remember to mention whether or not you’re playing on NA or EU servers. If you’re on EU, message me ingame and I’ll help you out, or click on the stream link in my signature and sift through my highlights; you’ll find lots of solos— especially Arah paths, all four of them.

Also, check out Nike’s youtube channel for lots and lots of full party runs of Arah (and other dungeons) as I’m sure there’s loads you could learn from there: https://www.youtube.com/user/TurboDzan/videos

Another warrior Arah P3 guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HgM8ZieRE

Once again, give me a whisper if you’re on EU and if I’m not busy I’d be glad to run with you.

reapex.8546:

Hi Miku, thank you for the guide. In your post you said you would talk about runes. But I couldn’t find any mention of runes. Were they left out because of the April 15th update?

Sorry about that, I guess I forgot to edit that in. Doing it now!

I can’t even believe you’re saying staff eles deal low damage.

Are you aware of the fact that a properly geared and traited staff ele has some of the absolute highest potential DPS in the game?

6/4/2/0/2 if you don’t need vuln, 6/6/0/0/3 if you do.

6 (VI VII XI)
4 (VI VII)
2 (VI)
0
2 (V)

6 (VI VII XI)
6 (VI VII XII) Fresh Air is optional but more practical in my opinion
0
0
2 (V)

Strength runes.

You will hit MONSTROUS damage.

Dreary Yew.5187:

If you’re playing your ele correctly, you’ll have more survivability in full zerk than a warrior in full ptv in zerg fights. Protection really isn’t needed when you have some of the best escape skills in the game, and you’re ranged. Positioning is key. Also, your Armor of Earth gives you stability and protection when you get caught, and Earth Attune gives protection as well if you’re specced correctly.

Absolutely NOT. As somebody that ONLY plays warrior and ele, this is false. In full berserker it’s painstakingly easier to survive in a zerg fight with my warrior than on my ele unless I essentially stay the kitten away on it and therefore, drastically hindering myself. The thing about ele is, once you’re targetted you WILL die, provided you’re in zerk. There are a plethora of incredible ways to defend yourself, I’ll agree, but it’s not enough to survive if you’re targetted in a zerg.

I can tank as much damage wearing no armor with my warrior as I can with my ele in full berserker. Sorry but your comparison is just… no.

Please keep in mind that I do feel like elementalists are in a great area and I’m not advocating buffs with them.

zomg, i made a funni?

scoreeee http://i.imgur.com/EQREB7c.gif

What you need to know is that he’ll only move in between attacks. If you need to re-enter his circle due to accidentally drifting off to the sides, wait until he’s performing an attack and quickly enter his red circle during it. This way, he won’t adjust himself (assuming he’s on the wall).

If he’s on the wall but uncomfortably too close to a door, you can actually lure him in the opposite direction by standing on the edge of his circle in the direction that you want him to move in, and slowly inch your way in said direction whilst attacking. He’ll inch along with you.

I don’t know if this solo of mine is the best example to demonstrate what I’m talking about because I don’t recall moving around too much in it, but here’s a visual aid that may help:

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4108928

Thoughts?

Well, yeah. You’re wrong. CoF isn’t even the fastest dungeon, nor is it the most rewarding. Arah P1/2/3/4 all give more than it, P3 being the only one that gives only 1.5g instead of 3g. None of them take a long time to do in organised groups and all of them can be completely solod except for shoggroth in P1 and simin in P4, btw.

If you’re complaining about everything not being as rewarding with respect for time as CoF, you are mistaken. It is easy, but it’s not the fastest one.

One thing that I do believe is that the paths that aren’t done as often need to be tweaked so that they yield slightly higher rewards, to entice more groups to do them.

I vote no, because then it’d be really tough for newer players to find groups for story mode I reckon.

MRW when I skip past the trash spiders with harpy feathers before mage crusher in Arah P3, engage in the fight with mage crusher, and stupid pugs run past the spiders without stealthing.

http://i.imgur.com/c38IIxm.gif

General rule:

You don’t range in PvE unless you have to. Otherwise, make sure you provide a disclaimer for parties and let them know you’re going to be a lot less effective than you potentially could be.

Wethospu.6437:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

lol i can get 40k on the last hit on Hundred Blades alone, let’s see a video of an ele beating that

Ye, when you add all hits together it’s like 200k damage. I timed the attack with my watch and it took like 2 seconds so it is 100k dps.

http://i.imgur.com/j2DKE2K.gif

Starburst.1826:

Hai Miku, nice guide. o/

<3

Oh my dear god please, PLEASE don’t give them ideas. This is all we have left before stacking weapons are completely removed from PvE.

I actually agree with Redead; it’s irritating for it to even mention the word cost when changing dyes. To me, the idea of someone highlighting the fact that something costs $0 or whatever implies that it’s something that I should be paying attention to, as in it’s a special occasion.

It doesn’t seem illogical at all to assume that it could very well mean that it won’t remain free.

If that’s the case, then they shouldn’t implement such an awful one. Right now it’s basically “you’re either 80 or you aren’t.”

No levels have any significance at all until 80. Sure, you unlock access to an elite at some point along with multiple utility slots but no one will let you participate in anything other than open world zerg content where your presence there likely has so insignificant of an impact on the outcome that it only reinforces my point that nothing matters until 80, at least in PvE.

The problems that are most apparent with levels on this game:

1) universal experience. makes no kitten sense for me to be making blueberry cookies, cheeseburgers, and stare off at the landscape yet suddenly become more effective in combat.
2) level cap isn’t an achievement of any sort, it’s just a standard.
3) you can bypass levels with scrolls…

Just adding this in for the sake of clarity, this is the P4 end boss. What people typically do to hold it at 1% hp is to simply run out of its attack range and wait behind a tiny and narrow little tree.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4000918

Because I wasn’t interested in selling this path, I was trying to get friends to join during this clip so that I could give em the free daily. It’s a trivial encounter and all you really do is just DPS DPS DPS.

Brie is the same deal honestly. This is why rooted mobs are stupid… you just run away and they can’t get you anymore.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3688051

Poor design, that’s all.

I do hit much less than pre-patch but switching to strength runes makes it slightly better.

10% my kitten .

Dreary Yew.5187:

Purple Miku.7032:

http://i.imgur.com/UxwdLff.gif

thank you for adding something constructive to the conversation

Anytime my friend, anytime. Glad to be of service!

Yup.

As far as I’m aware, running away from a fight isn’t cheating. Do you think it is? That’s literally all one has to do for it.

For Path 2, all you need to do is run out of range and Brie will just stare at you like an idiot.

For Path 4, same deal. Just run away and stand still + wait.

http://i.imgur.com/UxwdLff.gif

Selling paths is fine if you don’t cheat in the path or kick players from your party in a group so that you can sell the slots instead.

Support.

Requesting pre-April 15th servers, willing to buy gems for them.