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Today's dailies: You do fractals YES or YES.

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I think at the very most there should be only one fractal daily, never anything more.

Two of them for your PvE daily does seem a bit excessive, if their aim is to bring players into different aspects of the game mode that is.

But contrary to this, it sounds like the OP would complain if even one PvE daily pertained to fractals. >_>

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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I’m getting really desperate at this point and I’m gonna just post my thread here, in hopes that maybe somebody here would have a suggestion for me.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Internet-related-advice-I-m-out-of-ideas/first

I just can’t stand it anymore. Tell me, have any of you guys had problems similar to this before and if you did, did you contact your ISP about and actually have them do something about it before? Every single person at Time Warner insists that there is nothing they can do about it.

Internet-related advice? I'm out of ideas.

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To better put it into perspective some of the really awful consequences to this packet loss can be, here are a few other saved videos of it happening though they are kind of old.

https://youtu.be/e1F4rjuwr3E?t=50s

https://youtu.be/y5A97TrxCmI

I’ve had this problem happening on and off for such a long time, but it’s been much better for the past few months up until the summer started.

If any of you know of a way to help with this, be it an actually reliable VPN (not like WTFast which was unreliable and apparently can get people banned on here so I’m told?) I would greatly appreciate it!

Internet-related advice? I'm out of ideas.

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Basically, I’m running out of ideas to try.

I can’t go back to NA. I’ve tested on a friend’s alt account and I get around 60 ping there (which is beautiful), so it only confirms the fact that I’m being routed poorly.

I’ve gone through 3 modems in the past year, along with two different routers. I currently have a Netgear R2650 that’s within 8-10 feet of my laptop and is only a few months old.

I have called my ISP and spoken with dozens of different representatives.

I have searched through different options in hopes of finding better providers, but Time Warner Cable has a monopoly in my area.

I would be able to get AT&T Uverse, but they offer even worse speeds than Time Warner does.

I’m sorry for the lengthy flustered-sounding post, but I currently am dealing with monstrous amounts of lag with inconsistent and unpredictable delays such as…

Well, this happening: https://youtu.be/__Vta9WXdT0?t=10s
(not me talking in it, it’s my friend… but you can clearly see when I use about face to do burning retreat, everything freezes up/stops responding for a few seconds then all loads at once)

And an even more extreme version of it happening here: https://youtu.be/Ucv6tY-kNo8?t=50s
(In this clip you can truly see everything freeze for up to 10 solid seconds before everything loads realtime…)

I’m looking for advice or maybe just experiences from any of you who might have had problems like I currently do and have. Maybe someone’s tried something that I have not have. I don’t know.

Anyways, thumbs crossed. :x

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Alright so I’m looking for advice from anyone, doesn’t matter whether you’re from the USA but it would probably help if you have had experience with my particular ISP and issues that I have.

So I’ll give a little background on myself and current situation – my lag is legendary for being pathetic no matter what I try and it’s not always just on GW2, but because it’s the current only game I dedicate any significant of time towards, it’s what it affects me the most.

I play on EU servers, but my account originated on NA servers because I live in the US. I absolutely cannot swap back to NA servers due to the fact that literally all of the people I play with are here and I’m a part of the competitive dungeon and fractals community, and an officer of the guild that I’m in. I am aware of the fact that I have no choice but to put up with higher latency – this has always been something I have dealt with since I made the choice to transfer here in 2013. However, my problems only worsened recently in the past month or two when for several months prior there wasn’t nearly as awful of lag.

So yeah contrary to the region that I play in on GW2, I live in America and I have Time Warner Cable, specifically their signature home service which is the best they offer for residents. If I want to pay for anything better like business-class internet, it would cost ~$300 a month and they probably wouldn’t offer it to me anyways as I’ve asked a few different representatives and said that they couldn’t do that for me.

I have been calling them dozens and dozens of times in the past year, sometimes receiving garbage help and sometimes talking to people genuinely trying to help me.

I have tried two different VPNs in the past, Cyberghost and WTFast specifically. Neither showed significant improvements and both were semi-unreliable due to the fact that they could randomly kick me off at times and even on one occasion I’d lag more with WTFast than without.

The lag in particular that I suffer from by far the most is packet loss. I verify by running traceroutes and check via task manager’s resource monitor to track network activity on a regular basis, and I also run pingplotter tests to see what specifically is causing the lag that I experience all the time.

I have dozens of screenshots to show the results. Normally, they’re always like this:

http://i.imgur.com/swz5sHs.png

Okay so anyways, as evident in this screenshot, hop 3 I’m having about 7% packet loss, indicating the wireless router is having some trouble at the time. This isn’t very irregular, it happens (risk of being wireless afterall) and if it persists it’s easily resolvable in worst case scenarios by resetting my wireless adapter and rebooting the modem along with it in that order.

The real issue, as seen in this image, is that I’m being routed to the ncsoft servers in an undesirable way, where at hops 7 8 and 9 you see 72% packet loss at level 3 communication in Texas or whatever, along with hops 8 and 9 completely timing out (which is why there are blank lines representing the information).

I’ve called my ISP numerous times about this, and the many different people I’ve talked to declare that once the connection leaves their services, which is shown as hop 6 and I think is located in Chicago, they apparently can do nothing about it.

One guy in particular sent a ticket for me, providing all of my screenshots, my router and modem models, and all information he had in regards to me to them but there was no guarantee anything would get done.

I’ve once tried ethernet cables before and there was no difference at all other than having a more stable connection from my router— it did nothing in regards to the lag-related problems that I have, which is packet loss.

As stated before, I’ve tried two different VPNs but they weren’t reliable. I’m really hesitant to try paying for one because of a really awful experience I’ve had in the past with a proxy service that I had to pay a monthly fee for and it took me over a year to get them to cancel it including refunds for all of the money they took from me in the time that they ignored my requests to cancel the subscription. I want this to be my last resort option to try again at this point.

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Remove Mai Trin

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There is no consistency to Horrik’s aggro patterns, regardless of armor or hp values or damage or anything. He fires at both my ele and warrior in groups, neither more often than the other and I have noticed absolutely no pattern to it.

It’s Mai Trin’s aggro pattern that tends to be more consistent, as she always will go for a warrior or guardian over an ele. The only time I don’t get aggro when I’m on my warrior is on the occasion there’s another warrior and sometimes guards. I don’t know which value(s) she aggroes most off of for which attributes but my first guess would maybe be armor.

Is condi Mesmer viable for dungeons?

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Everything is viable in this game. People have cleared dungeons Naked solo.

This is the correct answer on here. There is nothing that isn’t viable, as everything is capable of working.

Now if you mean to ask whether or not a condi mesmer is good is a completely different story. Do you mean to ask whether or not it’s a good thing to bring in groups? If so, the answer is a definite no.

Fried Golden Dumpling Alternative

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You can use them, but dumplings still are better because they give 20% boon duration and a chance to grant might on critical hit with no ICD.

It’s all a matter of how much you are willing to invest into efficiency is all. For me, I don’t have any issue whatsoever with accumulating enough money to afford the best foods. For somebody that needs to concern themselves with cost, a list like what you’ve shown in this thread is extremely helpful.

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DirectX 11/12 request [merged]

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A renderer code can be easily rewritten. In my line of work easily means less than 6 months. As to why they are not doing it, I have no clue.

A renderer is part of the game engine (i guess if you are a car guy, that would be your camshaft). It can be replaced.

It’s likely because they don’t want to prioritise any longterm projects aside from the expansion right now. They will be in deep kitten if they goof it up and it’s definitely the most important thing for them to focus on, but still I don’t like how this has to be an excuse for nothing getting done… which sadly seems to be the case for many things the past year (or several). :P

DirectX 11/12 request [merged]

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Yeah it’s a darn shame.

Would be really nice to have dx11 support but nope. Same game engine as GW1 apparently.

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Solo possible?

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One thing I want to mention is that while AC is the lowest level dungeon, it is by no means anywhere close to easiest to solo if it’s explorable paths. Explorable paths were very trivial before the downscaling changes from June, but now they are AIDS. Possible of course, but still AIDS. I tried it on warrior and certain events like the p3 burrows which were once faceroll are awful now, but it is still very trivial on ele. Last boss on p3 also has been bugged/overlook since stability changes and the NPC will glitch when he gets knocked down during his shield animation, so there’s that too.

I would say that out of all dungeons TA is by far easiest to solo.

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BUG: Warrior Sword 5

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I actually have mentioned this detail in the warrior guide on dulfy:

“One fact that is uncommonly known about Riposte is that there is a very brief instant at the start of the animation where it is not blocking (a small fraction of a second). This means that if casted immediately after a dodge roll for example, it may still be possible to take a small tick of damage depending on the timing of the block and the intervals in time of which the attacks being blocked are executed.

This small bit of information is extremely helpful in order to understand that when trying to chain block attacks between Riposte and Shield Stance (in order to skip trash mobs while remaining out of combat), it is always best to begin with Riposte before Shield Stance for 100% block duration uptime for the full 5 – 5.25 seconds whereas beginning with Shield stance and swapping to Riposte will result in a very narrow window of opportunity to take damage and get stuck in combat."


While I don’t think it can be classified as a bug, it’s at the very least an oversight and agree about it being stupid.

PvE Solo DPS Guide (Updated Aug 5th, 2015)

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After hours and hours and hours of work, I have finally brought the warrior guide on dulfy up to current day standards. Check it out!

http://dulfy.net/2014/06/28/gw2-comprehensive-warrior-pve-guide-by-element-and-purple-miku/

profession meta ranking

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I still wish I recorded it for the memories, especially the part where he rushed off into the sunset and reset to full hp at literally 3% remaining hp…

Best class to solo arah? (fastest or easiest)

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Fastest depends on path. For path 2? Warrior is definitely fastest, but path 3? Elementalist has potential to be the fastest, just would require pretty good RNG on mage crusher with rocky aggro and for Lupicus.

Path 4? It’s tough to say because elementalist is way faster than warrior and any other class on melandru, but since all the bosses on this path have small hitboxes and there’s a lot of travel time warrior is probably fastest overall.

Things have changed since the specializations update, warrior has really strong personal DPS once again.

As far as ease is concerned, guardian is by far the simplest class to kill Lupicus with, but so much slower on everything else that it’s overall too annoying. RIP sword meta, I miss you.

profession meta ranking

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I don’t see how mesmer dps is lower than necro or ranger.

Have you seen condi ranger? It’s pretty good, same with condi guard now thanks to how OP burning is.

Mesmer can in some cases be way faster DPS than some other classes but it’s really situational that’s why I didn’t put it very high because sometimes it can be good and sometimes awful.

For example monsieur Sanderinoa solod bloomhunger recently in one of his videos at ~3:41, which is comparable to that of warrior time. Try doing a mesmer korga solo though, it will make you wish you had ebola.

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Two things I hate about Arah p2

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Alternatively you can just jump over the wall straight in. All classes can do it too, provided they have access to swiftness.

But yeh, pretty sad that it’s been over a year that this bone wall glitch has been around now. That’d be Anet™ for ya.

Just Random Bullkitten

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Why are you posting Dub’s vid from nearly 18 months ago?

profession meta ranking

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What is Thief DPS in a group? Apparently Ele is sitting at 17-27k depending on hitbox from numbers I’ve seen from Maths people. Engi is 17kish on power. Does a Thief beat that? I’d imagine they’re up there and certainly have plenty of uses making them very very worthwhile, just curious where they’re at for potential.

This is burst damage that you’re talking about, it drops below that after the initial burst. Meteor shower and ice bows have long cooldowns.

I don’t have numbers to give because all situations vary so much, but if it’s a tiny boss or a medium sized boss and it has infinite hp and there’s no dodging or anything needed I think a thief would be either slightly ahead or probably equal to ele over time.

profession meta ranking

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It varies a lot depending on the the bosses and whether or not it’s solo or a group.

There aren’t any bosses that stay alive for a long enough time for sustained damage to matter as much as burst, so eles tend to be at the top in that regard due to many reasons with ice bow being the biggest. If it’s sustained DPS and if permanent fury and banners are assumed I would probably wager thief would be the highest DPS unless it’s a big hitbox enemy or something like that, which ele would for sure be the best.

Not 100% sure but I would guess the order in groups would be:

thief, ele, engineer, warrior, guardian, ranger, mesmer/necro

Solo setting however, I would say that if it’s just straight up damage against a medium armored boss that doesn’t require excessive defensive utility….

ele, engineer, warrior, thief, ranger, guard, mesmer/necro

Don’t know enough about mesmer/necro DPS to compare them properly, I think mesmer’s DPS varies too much depending on the boss mechanics.

PvE Solo DPS Guide (Updated Aug 5th, 2015)

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Hey all I’ve added a quick video to the guide on the first page showing a general rotation for offwall GS + axe/mace using strength/arms/discipline, furious and heightened focus.

The video can be found here:

It will also be in the dulfy guide for warriors.

PvE Solo DPS Guide (Updated Aug 5th, 2015)

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Excellent news everyone!

Due to the fact that Element no longer actively plays warrior, I will now be taking up the responsibility of maintaining and updating the guide on du;fy.net, found here:

http://dulfy.net/2014/06/28/gw2-comprehensive-warrior-pve-guide-by-element-and-purple-miku/

The guide is very long and I have only begun tonight (so far at the time of posting this message I have modified the introduction and the descriptions for both greatsword and axe mainhand weapon skills only), so it will take a lot of time to get through the whole guide.

This will be a much better way for me to provide detailed information to help aspiring warrior players!

Fractals broken

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james.5087, this happens if you stand next to the portal.

Try waypointing somewhere else in LA and then accept the prompt to join. If you try to do it while in front of the portal to FotM it just creates a separate instance.

how do people solo old tom(fotm50)?

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Is this the engineer you mentioned OP?

As far as I am aware it’s the only actual video up of it. I tried it a year-ish ago with warrior and wasn’t able to do it but I may try again in the future.

With a ranger, I am not entirely sure what I can advise but I would suggest trying something similar to what you see Element do in his video. You will definitely want to find a way to sustain the poison damage while you’re running around turning on the fan and heal up in between, but you also need to make sure that you are always keeping an eye on the attacks Old Tom does because one mistake and you’re pretty much guaranteed to die (at least on level 50).

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Dungeon acts of Kindness?

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This used to happen to me a lot when I used to pug quite often if it included path 4; it is not as uncommon as you might think. This path is very daunting for newer players so to have some of the parts explained in detail for them and to have somebody help get them through it and save potentially hours of their time is something that many people would be more than glad to send you a token of their appreciation for.

Most of the time I would not accept the gold and just tell them that it was fine and unnecessary to pay me, that their cooperation and words were enough as it was, but there is nothing wrong with accepting it either. It is their gift to you for being generous to them with your own time.

EU- [rT] Retaliate Top PvE Guild Reopened.

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To all aspiring warrior trialees:

Sangi is currently out of town for a large portion of August and will be unavailable to trial. I will be the only person trialing warriors until further notice when normally we both handle them 50/50, so all inquiries must be directed to me (preferably by ingame mail).

Don’t worry, I don’t bite! Only Sanderinoa does that sort of stuff (he’s a little strange…).

Hate to all classes except "metazerk"

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While it’s true that the meta is optimal (otherwise it would not be called meta), i’d rather have an engineer or necro who knows what the strengths of their class is and plays it brilliantly than a meta class player who does not do their job.

Going to be pedantic here but the word you’re looking for is not optimal… the correct word is easy.

It’s not always the case that a thief is worth taking in a path, and rarely is guardian ever optimal just easier to play with for more casual runs. Even in casual runs, it is incorrect to ever say that this pug mentality of “metazerk” is optimal.

It actually does make me frown a little to see how many people on this game actually think guardian is necessary for a run to be smooth. Not saying this is you, just in general.

PvE Solo DPS Guide (Updated Aug 5th, 2015)

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Thanks for the guide!
I got a question tho, i’ve seen some videos of yours SOLOing Arah but i wonder, is it possible to SOLO AC (any path) right now?
i’ve been trying P3 but couldnt manage to do so :s

On a warrior? I doubt you can solo P1 burrows on warrior but P3 is probably possible. I don’t know because I don’t really do AC unless on ele 99.9% of the time. I guess I could try it sometime to see.

EDIT: Just tried and got to about 68% before failing on AC p3 burrows with warrior. It might be possible but it’s really annoying, I’ll try it again with ember/ogre pet/mortar kit sometime to see if it makes a difference.

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Remove Mai Trin

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Removing it hell no lol

What I wish would happen with Mai Trin is that when you remove all of her stacks and push her to 75% 50% and 25% hp she will either get stronger or new skills, and regain her stacks along with the cannons firing periodically throughout the fight, but just way less often. After each phase, the cannons would increase in frequency.

That would make this fight more interesting. Too bad it will not happen.

Hate to all classes except "metazerk"

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Engineers have the potential to be great but any time I remember pugging and seeing one join they were camping flamethrower, making them literally useless.

[rT] Arah P1 Restricted 6:39

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edited to include sangi’s POV now that he has awoken from his slumber.

Posting a record 1 second faster than the competition, pretty sad although it is to be expected from someone like Miku.

Hey wasn’t my idea that’s why I keep mine unlisted because it was a crappy time. Also, it’s our last opportunity to try with sangi before he goes on vacation… but maybe next time I’ll use D/F ele with energy sigil <3

[rT] Arah P1 Restricted 6:39

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Thanks :>

[rT] Arah P1 Restricted 6:39

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After our warrior surprised us by coming home from from the bar drunk and zombie-like, we decided to do a couple of runs at 5:00 am.

Ele 1 (Austin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIWfdE34w_E
Ele 2 (Miku): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5F1XDTf60 (timer + F11 here)
Mes (Spad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba52m_mU04k
Thief (Quaggan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJNRYxhXMqA
Warr (Sangi): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUx7eRe-Mos

P.S. – We love you Xukk <3

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Should I use rifle or longbow?

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ehh, be careful. Rifle 3 is a channeled skill. It can be deceptive. Each time the number flashes on the screen, your not hitting that much, its equal to the cumulative sum of all your hits so far.

This is true but if we’re talking about whether or not it’s worth using at all, it’s a DPS increase over just autoattacking is.

Intentions For Berserker Gear?

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It is the venue to voice concerns, but what I mean is that you’re kind of already complaining about having to switch to condi builds and that berserker gear is going to be rendered useless when you don’t know whether or not this is true.

You know that they will increase the scaling on multiple attributes rather than just health and outgoing damage, but you also know that they are releasing FotM-specific consumables from the vendor in the mistlock observatory. Could it be that these consumables will give us an insane amount of crit chance in certain fractals? We don’t know, but it could be.

There could be a lot of things. After all, they specifically stated at the end that the blogpost was only part of what they had in store for us and they didn’t tell us what exactly they were going to do.

Expressing concerns about maybe having to switch gear sets is one thing, but your post seems like you have no doubt that it will happen which is why I’m trying to tell you in as kind of a way that I can muster whilst still being realistic that you’re being a little quick to jump the gun. :|

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Guild Wars 2 Trio Invitational Tournament!

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Literally the only barrier is how much practice you’re willing to put in.

I just want to put it out there that this is not entirely true. There is at least one other barrier, and that’s the stress of a tournament setting. It is extremely stressful to join a tournament that people watch, and this is magnified if you’re an introvert in general, regardless of your skill level in the game and what kind of content you want for it.

I am very much so an introvert and have streamed for nearly 2 years now and even I felt a little uneasy compared to how I normally feel. However, it was a lot of fun. I completely understand and agree that it is very stressful to know there are over a thousand people watching and judging you xD

Intentions For Berserker Gear?

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You are complaining about something you know nothing about other than vague descriptions. It is possible to make other gear sets slightly more appealing to use to the average player without completely trashing berserker gear.

Worry you should not, at least not without specific details.

Idea: FoTM Solo Instance Reward Level Gating

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I would be very happy if they released this, not only because it would at least help with filtering out leeches/clueless players that ruin runs easily, but it also sounds like it would be fun. ^^

what weapon should be buffed next?

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Both main and off hand axe.

Offhand I agree with deserving attention but mainhand axe needing a buff?

WAT.

OT: I definitely think rifle is most deserving of buffs due to the fact that it is the only weapon on warrior that is literally never the best choice to use anywhere in the game. It is only a weapon for trolling, roleplaying, or if the person just finds it fun.

[LN] TA Aetherpath 14:08 [Restricted]

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Do people not even read the entire thread before going around tossing accusations around?

Obviously not. Some people are just thirsty for drama.

After watching this I see no reason why this should be unrestricted.

Static fractal schedule

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I have done at least one fractal a week with different guildies and pugs since before the fractured patch.

Yeah… that’s not nearly as often as you might think it is…

There is nothing fun about RNG. Once you’ve done all fractals there is no element of surprise, it just becomes tiresome whenever you get a fractal you don’t feel like doing.

Then what seperates dungeons from fractals? When this change goes live you will just be choosing from a list which one you want to do

Fractals scale in difficulty™ and offer the possible drops of ascended rewards and unique skins that can’t be earned elsewhere (top kek at PvP reward tracks being the fastest and most efficient method of acquiring dungeon skins -facepalm-), and a lot of the bosses have more interesting and less forgiving mechanics than those found in dungeons, which tend to be more basic and easier to deal with.

Additionally, FotM gives terrible monetary rewards by comparison to dungeons. They are completed for different purposes.

Info on the "new fractals!" etc

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honestly fractal skins at least had a little bit of value because they were hard to get and you couldnt just buy them unlike every other skin in the game up to legendaries, now theyll just be on the same level as everything else which is kind of disappointing.

Once again, there is no prestige involved with getting a random lucky drop. This is not difficulty, this is luck. The skins have value, which is true, but only due to the fact that there is no reliable method of acquiring one in a reasonable amount of time and it could either be acquired within a day or years of mindless farming.

There is nothing remotely difficult about this, and complaining about removing the element of RNG from a reward that was obviously very problematic to begin with is just silly. What you should instead opt for is ensuring that acquisation of said rewards costs a high enough amount of pristines to ensure that it still requires doing FotM enough to make it “feel like you worked for it.” This can be done without playing a game of roulette, I promise.

Static fractal schedule

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I have done at least one fractal a week with different guildies and pugs since before the fractured patch.

Yeah… that’s not nearly as often as you might think it is…

There is nothing fun about RNG. Once you’ve done all fractals there is no element of surprise, it just becomes tiresome whenever you get a fractal you don’t feel like doing.

Golden routine

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Chest farming is not really better gold/hour than doing daily dungeons is but you could do it after you’ve done all of your dailies.

The dungeons I bother to do the most are all four Arah paths (~11g from all paths), sometimes AC, and sometimes FotM if I feel like it.

I can tell you now that if you are interested in gold rewards alone, FotM is a very inefficient source of income by comparison to dungeons, regardless of how fast your group is.

Info on the "new fractals!" etc

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You all missed this part.

Additionally, we’ve simplified the current system of daily reward chests into a system of new daily fractal achievements that have been separated into three distinct difficulty ranges: 1–20, 21–50, and 51 and above.

It would be kind of ridiculous to receive daily rewards from tiers 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, 81-90, and 91-100 don’t you think?

That said I would not be opposed to increasing the amount of different dailies you can do from only 3. I say 5 different tiers sounds most reasonable.

1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-100

this basically kills any prestige fractal skins had if you like the “base skins” which everyone will now have because they can just farm ONE stage per day 3 times a day and get enough pristine to buy them.

Prestige? Plz.

You can theoretically get all fractal skins in less than a month with godly RNG, and there is no prestige in RNG. The items do not reflect that you have played the game the longest at all. I know people who have done way more FotM than me and have never seen a fractal sword before, yet I have gotten 3 of them before, with 2 of them being within the same week. How is that prestigious? That’s just lucky (or rather, unlucky in my case since they were duplicates).

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Info on the "new fractals!" etc

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MyBodyIsReady.exe

Some key things to take note of are that they specifically mention that this is not what they have planned for the expansion with “challenging group content” and also that this announcement is “only part of” what they have in store for fractals.

I don’t even care if they have a history of disappointment. This is genuinely a pleasant surprise, especially considering I never caved in and deleted all my ascended rings.

YEAH HOARDING #1

PvE Solo DPS Guide (Updated Aug 5th, 2015)

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Purple Miku.7032

Whats your Opinion on the Two-Handed Hammer. Im new to GW2 and have got my warrior to 50 and have really liked the Hammer so far. Does it just not compare in anyway to the other options?

Hammer is great in PvP and WvW but very inefficient in PvE. I understand why you may like it, as it has a lot of crowd control utilities, but the reality is that it has very inefficient damage output comparatively to that of greatsword and doesn’t contribute to any offensive buffing.

As my guide is geared towards optimizing DPS in a solo setting, I don’t recommend using it because quite frankly it’s very bad in PvE :P

That said, if you’re new to GW2 I still encourage you to use it while you level just so that you understand its weapon skills! In fact, experiment with all weapons. You may find that even though you know it’s not the best to use, you still like it and want to use it. If this is that case that would be perfectly acceptable, provided you are respectful of others when you start to play with groups.

[LN] TA Aetherpath 14:08 [Restricted]

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The only thing I don’t understand is why Goku is posting this if he isn’t in the path o_O

Please Post 7/28 Bug Reports HERE [merged]

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Purple Miku.7032

Thanks for the information, Gaile.

Please don’t let the posts with completely childish and irrational anger discourage you or any others at Anet from posting to help resolve the problems that we experience.

I for one greatly appreciate the speed at which this bug was fixed and am surprised to see so many problems we’ve had fixed in today’s update.

Good job, thumbs up from me.

PvE Solo DPS Guide (Updated Aug 5th, 2015)

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Warrior
Blademaster: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from reducing the recharge of Riposte.
Signet of Might: Added a description for the unblockable effect caused by this skill.
Berserker’s Power: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from functioning when used with the longbow burst skill Combustive Shot.
Rampage: Lowered the duration from 20 seconds to 15 seconds. Increased the recharge from 150 seconds to 180 seconds.

Hell yes.

Now all we need is for them to fix the fact that they forgot the Inspiring Banners trait and we’re all set to go!