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It’d be absurd for it to not be capable of being reflected. It knocks down/interrupts AND deals a very nice amount of damage. As far as I’m concerned mace offhand 5 is perfect the way it is; it’s cyclone axe that needs changing. It interrupts a dodge roll (try doing a cyclone axe and hit dodge instantly after you’ve pressed #2, you’ll see what I mean).

Aww… so I’m going to be maxing 45k’s on Brie instead of 50k now?
MRW: http://i.imgur.com/Gh1oV1o.gif

Also lol, Drakent if you don’t know what a percentage is then stop arguing with people about this topic. Your opinion isn’t going to be taken seriously if you keep trying to convince people that a percentage doesn’t scale with a larger sample size. I’m advising this to you for your own sake because it’s… honestly kind of painful to read.

Warlord.9074:

we will have to see I doubt hundred blade damage will go above 20k now

O rly?

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3932442

Rifles are still unfortunately worse to use than longbow in just about every situation other than Melandru in Arah P4.

Here’s some bull kitten , Alphard edition.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3932305

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3932325

I actually got kicked at the end of my Arah P3 solo that I was giving out for free because I was in berserker gear. Two people stalk my stream and wait for any opportunity to arise like that and they threaten to forever kick me from my instances unless I “stop exploiting by running past mobs (they think that if you don’t kill every mob in Arah, you’re cheating) with meta gear and encouraging toxic gameplay.”

Not even kidding lol.

I completely support this idea. I’ve always felt that shield has been very much lacking and in nearly all circumstances it’s better to use a sword offhand. A simple yet effective solution would be to implement what you suggested, OP. It still wouldn’t be needed in most circumstances in PvE but it would actually have an extra block and it makes more sense for a shield to have it.

Great idea.

Everything about your post I agree with. Wow, to be honest that’s kind of a rare find for me.

:)

I would have assumed he meant that he wasn’t cleaving and merely pointed it out to suggest that perhaps he needed to readjust his position so that he could cleave.

Doesn’t make any sense why someone wouldn’t want you to lmao.

Hey, this will be more useful for you for high DPS and heavy tanking.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Guide-for-DPS-build-dungeon-solos-more/

You don’t need to use your attributes for tanking damage. Instead use utilities (and dodges). For example, endure pain and frenzy and maybe defiant stance if you need up to 6 seconds of invulnerability. This would be WAY more useful with maximum DPS to clear out tons of mobs causing you problems than it would be to beef yourself with toughness/vitality attributes.

Try taking a look at what I put in that thread because since you made it clear you’re looking for what’s best to use for an all-around setup including solo and group activities, it’d be really helpful.

Thanks

and @ProtoGunner in terms of “bang for your buck” (LOL please no infraction I swear it’s not an innuendo), this is, in my opinion, pretty much the best they get really. Any mmorpg that exists out there from what I’ve seen is by no means any superior to this one for my tastes unless it’s subscription-based.

Inb4 http://i.imgur.com/2tU9C7V.png

AnnieGYG.6842:

Real proof that you can have the gear but if your traits are not optimal you are really nerfing your own potential. Makes me think we ought to do mossman/bloomhunger naked when pugging fractals as the ultimate “gear check”.

Just amazing stuff

cough My vote is also for a sexy male naked run, maybe round CoE since it’s very pleasing to the eye.

You’re right, traits are the most important between the two but the very most important things are the weapon choices and utilities. I’m not sure if I can solo CoE because for subject alpha you have to rally off of the tendrils.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

AnnieGYG.6842:

Real proof that you can have the gear but if your traits are not optimal you are really nerfing your own potential. Makes me think we ought to do mossman/bloomhunger naked when pugging fractals as the ultimate “gear check”.

Just amazing stuff

cough My vote is also for a sexy male naked run, maybe round CoE since it’s very pleasing to the eye.

I second your last comment, for sure!

@Miku, this is the gold standard for posts on videos. If this gets moved to linksville I will definitely talk to support. Anyway, those of you who post these threads, follow this example

So does recording the run mess with your game at all? Like does it increase the potential lag?

I hate linksville… my sub-5 korga solo record was moved to it back when I posted it

Uhm, the only time recording makes me lag more is if my memory usage hits or gets too close to 100%. I’m only on 4 gigs of RAM (#laptopproblems), so considering the OS and all the miscellaneous processes running in the background typically take up around 70% of that memory, when I run my music player and OBS (I record and livestream with OBS) along with chrome to be on twitch chat, it’s usually between 80-90% memory usage. If gw2 starts using more memory than it normally should it’s usually fixed by simply restarting it lol.

It might sound strange but I not only play on a laptop (wireless connection rofl) but am able to stream on it too… and I play on Desolation (EU) even though my timezone is US Midwest. :P

Haha nope it was requested by a friend of mine when I asked for suggestions on what I should do =P

I very much like to try to challenge myself to do things like soloing bosses when I play games. I used to do this on RS when I played too and I remember doing a “no armor solo warped large 5:5 with 4 maxed leeches” once and my god that took a while. I know this will probably make no sense to you or anybody else without having done dungeoneering on that game but yeah.

Unlucky with Lupi, haha. So close to DPSing him down without reaching phase 3. Also thankfully eles can blink, else that would have been really annoying before ritual when you got hit and lost swiftness before the jump down from passage waypoint… stupid elite risen trash mobs

Ezekiel.1985:

Not sure what annoys me more, the unnecessary change or the fact it wasn’t documented. Stupid either way

It was necessary along with tons of other things that need to be done.

Seeing as this is pretty much what we’ve got for endgame content, the more engaging and relatively challenging boss fights we get the better.

Bring it the hell on, Arenanet.

Also thanks… now keep going. There’s plenty of things in dungeons that are way too trivial and in dire need of refinement so please give us more.
MOAR!
MOAR!
http://i.imgur.com/ux5ZqxL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BV6xKoz.jpg

I love it. Now, if only they’d change the boss on the stairs to not be so trivial as well…

Hello everyone

I was kind of bored when I got on and decided to take on a different kind of challenge from what I’m used to, to solo Arah P3 but no armor or back piece (I left on trinkets, I just took off basically everything that needs repairing after you die). I was able to do it and I have the clips here to show how.

First, here is the raw footage: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3912988

It took about 1 hour 45 mins.

It didn’t actually take the full 2 hours; the last bit of the video is just me killing the 3 champion giants for gigs. Also quite a bit of time was wasted from standing around/offscreening to reply to people on stream (I play fullscreen on my laptop so I can’t see chat unless I alt-tab) and also at the end when I was waiting for people to join (I always give Arah P2 and P3 out for free when I solo them). Not sure on this but I think I wiped 7 times lol.

Hardest part was definitely mage crusher because I had like 700 ping spikes in some places and it was really hard to time dodges like that… especially since his regular attacks aren’t really telegraphed. I enjoyed the challenge but I hated having to keep killing the risen hands until they respawned elsewhere… terrible RNG luck.

Overall I could have done everything in the path much better but I wanted to play it safe so that I wouldn’t have to redo mage crusher/wraithlord, so I used mace mainhand for those.

Sad to say, but I wiped on crusher/hunter twice due to lagging out in the middle of the fight and being unable to evade in time… worst part is I didn’t fight them together for once due to the no armor thing lol

I redeemed myself by soloing Lupicus first try though I think I left all DPS utilities except I used dolyak signet instead of signet of fury. I think it was a good choice because you don’t die in 1 hit from everything on phase 3 so the reduced damage was helpful for this circumstance… or well, it could be helpful if I screwed up a lot more. Maybe next time I’ll leave signet of fury on.

So, breakdown of parts to make it easier for you to look for things in the path:

0:00:00 to 0:02:43 – Entering instance and getting stacks, path starts at 2:43
0:36:15 to 0:42:39 – Crusher, then Hunter kill
1:09:40 to 1:22:30 – Mage crusher kill
1:29:20 to 1:41:30 – Lupicus kill
1:43:45 to 1:46:55 – Ritual
1:51:20 to 1:58:50 – Wraithlord boss kill and path end
1:58:51 to 2:09:50 – goofing around killing the Champion giants

Also I will highlight the Lupicus solo and Wraithlord boss solo since those are usually more fun to see.

Lupicus naked solo: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3913149
Wraithlord naked solo: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3913179

Dub’s naked Lupicus solo with no UI is still way cooler than mine is though!

Anyways I guess that’s all I have to post for now. Please don’t move this thread to Linksville. I’ll buy gems if you stop doing that crap. No one cares about that forum… -.-

I’m happy about it, but I don’t think making them more common was necessary. What would really be ideal would be:
1) Scale the gold reward
2) Enable us to salvage unwanted ascended rings
3) Add more of a use to pristine relics. For example, perhaps add to one of the vendors the option to buy an infused ring for 50 relics? Also perhaps add the option to buy a fractal weapon with X amount of pristines?
4) Add attribute infusions just like we have with agony infusions. For example, +1 power infusion or +1 toughness infusion. I can’t see how this could ever be perceived as a way of being overpowered because provided someone somehow managed to even get six +30 power infusions, for example, it wouldn’t even amount to the same combat leverage that bloodlust stacks would.

I felt like when I posted on the CDI page no one was able to see anything that I’d write due to how freaking long everybody’s posts were and how fast the pages would fill up ._.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3907122

I prefer the female stance over the male stance.

One thing to note is that it’s not totally being dragged on the floor… you’d have to be one strong freaking woman to hold it that low in a position like that, dear god.

I agree with you OP.

I’m not a big fan of LS in general but part of the biggest reason for that aside from how it’s all we’ve been getting attention to on the game is that the story itself lacks depth. It’s such a transparent script and mostly everything was really predictable. I didn’t feel engaged at all since I first began to pay attention to it many months ago.

I made my Twilight and got the achievement for it.

Source: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3497357

Go to 57:20 to see for yourself. You’ll see the little achievement pop up on the right of my screen once I choose to soulbind it with Berserker stats.

It isn’t a bug but it’s a horrible implementation to help prevent spam.

Yes, sorry I’ll include that in the first post. The only time you should really bother with warbanner is I suppose FotM or Tequatl. It’s especially useful for Ascalonian fractal (for reviving NPC’s mostly) and Mai Trin boss fractal.

Aside from that I generally always have Signet of Rage. The other elites are pretty much useless.

I get idiots on high level pug teams for this fractal all the time. Trust me, it doesn’t get that much better unless you make sure early on that your teammates aren’t inept. Also I’m not really sure how soloing this on a warrior would go because I haven’t really attempted but… I suppose it’s possible. Guess you’d have to just be extremely familiar with the fight.

Well… I know that I didn’t do either of these that wonderfully but at least I got them done. Maybe it’ll help you out. I should really retry Destroyer of Worlds though because I’m not satisfied with my desperate struggle to survive even though I did manage it in the end >.>

Alphard: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3768848
Destroyer of worlds: http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3642284

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Wethospu.6437:

In my opinion selling should be fixed. Dungeon should track which players complete which events. Once the dungeon gets completed each player would get his share.

So if you solo a dungeon on your own you would get 5 x end reward. Or if you are on a pug group and get kicked at end boss you would get ~80% of end rewards (for doing ~80% of encounters).

I agree, but Arenanet seems to be apathetic.

Beleth.8249:

Seems it’s working as intended?

Vigilantes need to police the game. It allows them to kick solo runners.
So maybe thats why Anet don’t change it? and keep silent about it.

My god, I really hope you’re just a troll.

Wethospu isn’t posting with the intention of attacking somebody that solos a dungeon he’s commenting in regards to the fact that people shouldn’t even be able to get the end reward without actually partaking in the dungeon. The act of selling isn’t the issue it’s the act of buying that is because there’s simply no reason not to sell a path when it’s easy to do and legal by Arenanet’s rules.

If his idea were to actually become a part of the game then people would be forced to either pay to AFK at the start of a dungeon and waypoint only to tag something once, or actually do the dungeons. Seems like a great idea to me but unfortunately one that probably won’t ever make its way into the game.

Carpboy.7145:

Its easy. If you have all the money in the world, twilight. Every other warrior has it, so must be OP

I have it, but it’s only because I’m using darker dyes. I actually do notice a lot of people with them but not an excessively higher number than sunrise/eternity… maybe I just notice those more because of how shiny they are.

I don’t really think it’s worthy of being classified as an exploit. If a boss was specifically designed to stay in place and stop attacking after you run a certain distance from it, then seems legit to me.

Look at this guardian staff AAing in the back with his personal reflect wall as he lures the robots away from the group and effectively forces the party members to be in the position where they either have to range with him, melee in the back with him, or inevitably die.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3900875

He ragequit after we all revived from checkpoint and I said something about it, idr what it was.

SorrowsEmbrace.8120:

It seems to be like 1 in 10 thieves that know about blasting smoke fields. I really enjoy when you finish up the ice ele in the snowblind fractal, and the thief happily sb’s ahead giving everyone back agro. I tried to get a thief to blast smoke screen in arah p2 once, in the first tunnel. He had no idea what I was talking about, so i explained the mechanic and asked if he had a short bow. “no, i use p/p”. I asked if he wouldn’t mind me sending him one, and he left party. I looked on the lfg and he had posted a new ad – “p2 NO ELITIST SHTHEADS”.

I can’t stop laughing lmfao

@Lilith if that last statement was towards me then I’d be glad to :P

@Dub – Lupi solos for me are still really fun. I’d like there to be more bosses like him. He may not be hard to solo for me now, but he’s still a fun fight and some of my best experiences on GW2 thus far were from him too

@Delanor – I love the cave troll tbh. It’s everything else that kittenes me off — especially finding out at the end of the dungeon that we wasted our time and have to start over because of the kitten NPC’s glitching.

@Annie – I’m glad you had the chance to watch it if it was today, I’m sorry if I seemed kind of ‘hurr durr’ in my Arah run. I was actually kind of mad when I got disconnected on Ancient Ooze, when the people I was paying for tar help were idiots and not burning the boss (resulting in me getting encased in tar and losing BL stacks) and at how I was consistently getting 3 swarm spawns over and over again at Lupicus. RNG my butt. There’s obviously an Arenanet employee stalking me and hotfixing all the elite mobs to be illusionists that spam chaos storm and making Varra Skylark aggro them. -flips off laptop screen-

No but seriously please don’t feel like you’re not in the same league as me; sometimes people think that I would have a problem doing anything with them. The reality is that the I’m not even interested in joining any good PvE / boss / dungeon guilds is because Arenanet designed dungeons to be EASY for groups. It’s not fun when games are easy, it’s boring… I’d rather go in pug teams for dungeons any day than experienced teams.

As long as someone is at least trying and communicating I don’t see the point in raging at them. Silent pugs are ones that I can’t stand and based off of your attitude I can’t see myself ever complaining lol.

It only gets a little different when I’m doing FotM and I’ll explain why. In dungeons, I can go to char select and waypoint outside + re-enter if I die for whatever reason be it lag, fault of my own, trying to revive somebody etc. In FotM, I can’t do that; I have to wait until the kitten pugs get ooc or use a revive orb. Also for the most part everyone is reliant on blinds/reflects. Instead of them being helpful they are required in cases like dredge or harpy fractal. By the way I’d rather do dredge b2b twice than harpy fractal once. I hate it so much I almost wish everybody would just re-roll for swamp if we get it lol.

So, yeah. We can both be decent pugs

Elegie’s post is extremely helpful. Read it top to bottom several times if you must.

My concise response is that because there is currently no use for ascended armor other than for level 50 FotM (you need 70+ agony resistance to function there), there is no reason to get anything other than full berserker. The cost required in order to make the set makes such a small difference in attributes seem pretty worthless when it comes to combat… so getting an ascended set purely for WvW isn’t that great of an idea unless you’re loaded and have no interest in using your money for anything else.

Annie you’re freakin awesome and the last post of yours is a mentality that I wish others had.

AnnieGYG.6842:

…times have changed, WvW is more staff spamming in a huge blob super causal now, PvEs getting more teamwork with things like the Marionette.

BUT – just becasue other pugs are bad, why should it force you to carry them and force you to run a sub par build – screw them, you have just as much right to have a lovely full zerk meta run as anyone.

I only learned how to actually play guardian properly after I dropped AH. Keep AH in WvW when it’s guardians blasting waterfields which keeps the team alive with one of the shortest blast finsiher CDs in the game, but it’s really selfish in PvE when by retraiting you can be keeping your whole team from taking any damage by perma blinding enemies and good use of blocks, therefore they won’t need the heals.

To be honest I know the score with people not reading groups, and even if they read it they come in with sub par builds – I put this thread up to try and get some advice on how to counter that – I refuse to just give up on it (yet :p).

Hell no, never give up. If you’re on EU servers by any chance feel free to pm me at all whenever doing any dungeons or fotm (except AC, I hate AC) and I’d be glad to come. :>

Perhaps one day I’ll be proven wrong, but I’m pretty sure nothing’s actually being reported when you report people. It’s more than likely either entirely automated (with an extremely inefficient system) or just a GUI that was implemented to make you feel like they care about the problems that occur regularly ingame.

As we all can plainly see when it comes to dungeons, they don’t give a kitten. Not one single bit.

Yeah I figured that it’d be possible to safespot him somewhere there but I immediately lost motivation to even bother with the rest of the path after I found out that it wasn’t possible to be done legitimately.

As for the melandru tactic, like I pmed you ingame I’m definitely curious. Lemme know once you feel like sharing it, nab :>

See obviously you don’t know how this process works. When you buy help, you’re paying for a service. A random person doesn’t just enter the party to earn the 1gold— they’re obligated to help take out the boss if they want it. Since the boss requires a minimum of four people to even spawn, let alone fight, anyone with any understanding of Arah would know that the person in the party was only there for the purpose of griefing.

Reporting him for scamming was about as relevant as any of the options could be, along with LFG system abuse. The person was griefing and taking advantage of a flaw in the design of the system in order to put me in a position where I am at the mercy of his abuse, for his own personal gain and for my loss.

You need to understand what specifically “buying tar help 1g ea” means; it means that I’m paying 3 people to enter the instance and kill the boss with me for the payment; they get a coffer + some RNG loot along with 1 gold from me and are sent on their ways.

By the way Wethospu I tested it last night and I’m almost certain that SE P2 can’t be solod at least by a warrior. The first boss in the path is capable of 2-hitting an ele and 3-hitting a warrior in full zerk, does chain knockdowns, and heals himself so absurdly fast that I think even with a duo partner it would still be difficult to dish out enough damage to get it done lol.

Feel free to try if you’d like, but I wasn’t able to come up with any way to do it :/

I was doing FotM 49 a few evenings ago and I’m not joking when I say this; the thief on my team seriously had no idea that they were capable of stealthing with anything aside from shadow refuge. When I told them to blast with us and SR themself at control panel (we had dredge as third fractal), they didn’t have a clue what I was talking about… and they spoke fluent english.

AnnieGYG.6842:

Purple, my friend had a simliar experience today trying to pug his 50 in the early day because he needed to go out drinking, 2 warrior, 1 guardian, 2 mes, 1 thief all 14+K APs – Bloomhunger he charged in popped wall of reflect, stood there bashing away – he looks around and the entire team is max ranging with GS/LB/SB – zero feedbacks or smokesreen or focus traited to reflect. They wiped 3 times and he decided better of it and left then to it.

I’m cracking up visualizing this happening LOL

Almost as awful as the last time I had ever pugged TA up when I was still on NA servers… everyone on the team being 10k+ AP except for me and all ranging nightmare tree with dolyak signets, rifles, banners of tactics and defense… omfg…

Beleth.8249:

What you wrote in OP is not what I saw in the video.

Your fanboys see what they wanna see.

Oh, I’m sorry then.

Try opening your eyes the next time you play a video.

laharl.8435:

I would check out Wethospu’s and Dro’s (Goku) videos and Purple Miku made a post in the warrior subsection with useful info a while back.

Yeah, it’s still there: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Guide-for-DPS-build-dungeon-solos-more/first#post3712058

Wethospu’s post is also really accurate especially where he annotated the specific parts of certain paths that are extraordinarily annoying (Bloody Victoria on CM P1 will give you nightmares for a while after a few solo attempts).

Well, one thing I’d like to clarify… how the hell is one able to solo Melandru on Arah P4? I actually just checked and Wethospu, yours was apparently done before respawning gorillas. I wonder if there’d be a better way to go about doing this other than extremely obnoxious kiting with stability equipped :P

Lol, I tried pugging level 50 FotM the other day and there was a guardian AND a mesmer on the team yet 0 reflects. Also, 3 of them were using magic find food and boosters. I was the only person in zerk and I felt like I was soloing Mossman in swamp.

I ended up ragequitting in harpy fractal because of everybody flopping around like a bunch of fish due to the mesmer camping GS, guardian camping staff and being too scared to unequip his shouts, ele camped water attunement, and they even had a LFG post something along the lines of “Lvl 50 70+ AR experienced.” You’d think people who have full ascended would gear would likely know what the hell they’re doing, but evidently it doesn’t mean anything.

I really don’t understand people. Why play a mesmer if you’re not making use of any reflects?! Why play a guardian at all if you aren’t going to make use of not only the nicest damage output in some cases but the best protection as well (reflect wall)?! Why play a thief if you aren’t going to make use of blinds, stealths, or shadowsteps?! Why are the warriors in my pug teams planting banners of discipline when I already pinged mine and planted it… omg…

Sometimes I get pretty decent runs but most of the time I’m all like: http://i.imgur.com/bCmOqYH.gif

Your experiences sound pretty normal to me, OP.

frifox.5283:

There is absolutely no reason a warrior should not be going full glass both in gear and traits. It’s hilarious watching a war justify his kitten build because “I survive longer that way”.

??

I haven’t ever been above 916 toughness ever since I’ve been level 80 and have always been using 30/25/0/0/15 since shortly afterwards as well. How am I a hindrance to the team? I fail to understand.

I don’t range anything either, not even imbued shaman.

AI translates to “artificial intelligence.”

The mobs are idiotic and extremely predictable.

Corpse Flakes.5369:

Purple Miku.7032:

zenleto.6179:

We don’t ALL want be bored kittenless!

If you’re bored on your warrior, perhaps it’s your own fault for not doing anything interesting?

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3840557
Most people who play on warriors probably don’t melee this guy. Try it. It’s fun as hell, requires fast reflexes, and has high intensity especially with an inept guardian.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/3840580
Most people who say things like “warriors are boring faceroll classes” or anything of the like are likely having in mind group dungeons. If this isn’t the case for you, then fair enough.Try soloing them. It’s a completely different experience and is much more than just autoattacking with axe mainhand.

@OP
I don’t hate other classes and I have no issue with rangers specifically other than the fact that the vast majority of the ones I’ve encountered were all morons. Realistically, it’s just the idea of people feeling the need to safely range everything from a distance that irritates me. A ranger with a bow is by no means no worse than a mesmer with a greatsword or a guardian using staff for PvE. Sorry you have miserable experiences with pugs but believe it or not so do I, and all I play on is my warrior.

The only class that truly is awful in PvE by comparison to any other class no matter what, is the necromancer. I feel bad for the people that main them… it’s not their fault that their class was designed poorly.

I don’t understand. My Necro absolutely face rolls dungeons, I’ve soloed Arah P3 on it in under an hour. Why is there so much necro hate?
I main thief though not necro.

So have I, best so far was ~40 minutes not including the time spent idling to allow people from stream to come at the end. Much room for improvement too. Point is that you’d have been able to do it better with any other class. There isn’t anything that a necro can do that another class can’t do better.

…are you using a Black Lion Salvage Kit…?

This isn’t a bug; you’re only able to acquire 1 from each of the 40 locations every day before the daily reset.

I used to think I had the same problem but like Tman said, it shares an internal cooldown with other ‘on swap’ sigils.

For example if you had both a sigil of battle on mainhand and a sigil of energy on offhand, you’d find that you aren’t acquiring 50% endurance regen on swap. Similarly if you’re equipping 2 weapons both with sigils of energy… oddly enough, they at times actually disrupt one another! No idea why, but try it for yourself.

Since then, whenever I’m skipping trash (sword mainhand for savage leap and warhorn for perma swiftness on warr), I just use a warhorn with bloodlust sigil to prevent it from happening.