Guild Wars 2

My Charr Thief
/15 chars

I just wanted to update, there were no problems with restoring the account “forward” it was restored to 13th September (that was the last day before my friend took a break from GW2)

He waited only 1 day for every response from the support – for me it’s really fast. So today we can play as usuall.

Thank You.

We didn’t use dates in the ticket’s “additional information”, no numbers – just “what he noticed happened on his account after he logged in” – I just posted the wole thing on Reddit and someone came up with this suggestion – he was right.

I understand, but IF he didn’t play from ex. April (took a break or sth), it would do no difference to anybody, but he didn’t, he played actively) he took a break in september so even backing up one month wouldn’t change anything, but not 5.

Plus I got him in “friendlist” so as soon as we are online we both go TeamSpeak and play together, so i would notice something is wrong. We know each other in real life, so I always phone him if he’s online but not responsing to my whisp.

But if really anything can’t be done, well that’s just the end for us in GW2, I won’t force him to play any longer and replay all the thing we did, all the time we lost, he wrote a ticket about the whole situation, and now we wait how it will turn up.

I just got a good sugestion about the “date format” from one of the Reddit users.

We are frome europe so we wrote it on 04.10.2013 (4th October), but the support guy in US must took it for 10th April.

Yet still, it’s wierd that he didn’t find nothing wierd in a 5 months old-new ticket :|

Ok, so um I have a question.

My friend’s account got hacked 2-3 days ago, he’s main char was deleted, gold stolen etc.

We wrote to the support about it and we got the answer that ANet can reroll his account back to the state of 10th April. And he will loose everything he did in this game from that day.

I mean, are You serious ? 5 months behind ? Off course we decided to reroll, but still… he quit the game. We worked both so hard to get him a steam weapon pistol skin, we worked both for so many achievements and other things…

So um… idk what to say about it. He quit, and so will I, becouse thisngs like this can happen to anyone – it’s not like we WANT this to happen, but loosing 5 MONTHS of time is a joke for us.

Locuz.2651:

I play an underdog class myself (engineer) and i never have that issue. Maybe its because i dont join a group that specifically asks for full zerker warriors or w/e. There are plenty of other groups to pick from. And in a worst case scenario you can start your own group with your own requirements.

Well lucky You.

Yes i heard that maybe… 2000 times ? “go find another group”, “don’t group zerker/others groups”, “start your own”, “eat your veggies” etc. But please I made almost 40-50 pug trys TODAY (that one day free on weekends) 15 on that where my own parties, put peaple just don’t listen to anything I tell themm they just ignore and after 5 min of failing they ragequit.

You really think I’ll be posting something like that after only 1-2 trys ? I know Dungeon Master isn’t worth the title now just like having 8k achie points/legendary makes You a good player but I made that title 3 months after the game released and I played over thousands of dungeons/fractals since that time but this one is just insane.

Becouse peaple don’t like to be ordered, they are too proud or something i just don’t know!

But um… yea I decided to roll a Warrior and join one of those “elitist” guild becouse I lost all hope after today… 8 hours of failing can break your spirit.

Cheers!

Locuz.2651:

Quam.7218:

I’m just sad It requires so much teamwork and “scpecific classes” with “anti-kitten-projectiles” to make the Ooze part faster.

TY ANet for another Guardian/Mesmer or GTFO dungeon.

“Play the way you want” – oh I had a laugh.

http://www.twitch.tv/ostricheggs/c/3030057

Take a look at this. Its a stream vod of 2 pvpers and their pug doing it for the first time, with 0 knowledge about strategies. Check their uber setup without mesmer or guardian. Go ahead and listen to their teams super hardcore skypecall and their discussions about strategies.

They hate doing PvE and purely do it for the backpackskin.

No You don’t get me.

I know It CAN be made ok ? But most PUGs I join still WANT Guardians/Mesmer and no other classes get it ? I don’t want to play Guardian/Mesmer becouse I like my thief and this is the class I enjoy most. That’s why I put it in quotes.

It’s a PUG issue LF Guardian/Mesmer or GTFO – get it now ?

So as a Thief my chances to get to a party that could complete it under 2-3 hours or never is almost impossible – reroll ? Never.

PopeUrban.2578:

Quam.7218:

Oh I love this dungeon, tried it 14 times with different pugs I just love it! Maybe on 24 or 76 try I’ll get it done ? I so much love to waste time to gain nothing.

I’m just sad It requires so much teamwork and “scpecific classes” with “anti-kitten-projectiles” to make the Ooze part faster.

TY ANet for another Guardian/Mesmer or GTFO dungeon.

“Play the way you want” – oh I had a laugh.

It really, truly doesn’t require specific classes.

Every class packs enough CC in a combination of weapon skills and utilities to get through.

Reflects aren’t the only way to fly. Knockback, stun, Daze (which is essentially stun for NPCs) and blind all effectively mitigate damage from the extremely long telegraphed attacks of the lava elementals.

At most you’ll need to swap out a eapon and a skill bar for this section, which is something Anet has specifically stated they want to encourage (Swapping utilities between encounters to suit the next encounter)

I know it looks easy on paper – like every ecnounter in this game.

As a Thief I have many blinds (wich does not work btw, I keept lavas perma blinded but they still did damage to the ooze :O) stuns, daze, but it’s not enough.

And believe me I got all my class weapons and swap them very often before a fight, also utilities and even traits.

It requires a whole kitten team of good player, and good/skilled players/teams sell paths now, they don’t play with pugs becouse it’s not fun it’s a waste of time, so finding a good team is almost impossible. Tried 18 Pugs no luck.

“No noobs/experiented/plz know what to do” I join such tems – in hope mostly… dunno why. After 10 minutes on Oozes I asked the Guardian (3 signet) if he could put some anti projrctiles – no answer ignoring me, Engi killing the ooze with aoe. It’s just kitten annoying.

Just run another pugs, leader ragequit becouse 2 players ignore whatever he says – all got kicked.

Don’t get me wrong I like hard content with good players hard content is fun to play, with bad players it’s impossible to play and not fun, yet after a year the possibility to find a pug of 5 good players id 1/500 or even more…

Oh I love this dungeon, tried it 14 times with different pugs I just love it! Maybe on 24 or 76 try I’ll get it done ? I so much love to waste time to gain nothing.

I’m just sad It requires so much teamwork and “scpecific classes” with “anti-kitten-projectiles” to make the Ooze part faster.

TY ANet for another Guardian/Mesmer or GTFO dungeon.

“Play the way you want” – oh I had a laugh.

I log in to GW2 after 2 weeks of break just to waste 4 hours on TA win 3 green items and just log out.

Maybe I log on after 1-2 or later months maybe peaple will know what to do on this boss, and the bugs and gliches will be repaired.

I feel like doing 50% moar damage while down!

Topic about a Necro searching help with his dodges in CoE Aplha fight and my best candidate:

Nikaido.3457:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Quam.7218:

I have a stupid question maybe, but it bothers me.

Phase 3 why is Lupi doing only 3 attacks (melee, drain, and aoe drain nothing more) ?

If stand still at a close distance to him, he won’t use the bubble.

If you haven’t noticed he’s never using his AoE either, not just a lack of bubble (something that would be highly undesirable on a Guard or Mes solo). I think it comes from being inside his circle while he’s against a wall.

This is what I thought at first, but I wanted to be sure.
Never had a chance to play a full melee pug with him.
(melee… pug… get it?)

I have a stupid question maybe, but it bothers me.

Phase 3 why is Lupi doing only 3 attacks (melee, drain, and aoe drain nothing more) ?

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Let’s imagine a scenario where Warriors, mesmers and Guardians are removed from the game.

1 Ele, 2 Thief, 1 Ranger, 1 Engie = ideal party comp.

Still not viable: Necromancer

I ran lvl 38 fractal with 1 Ele, 3 Thief, 1 Engie – fastest fractal EVER! (with a pug that is)
Swamp, Grawl, Dredge with left way (turrets and freezing gun door 3x shadow refugee piece of cake…)

Crossplay.2067:

When I want to challenge something seriously, I’ll use my Mesmer instead. Yes, with Rampagers because I don’t want to be a clone. I have enough of them.

Like a hipster Mesmer ?

sazberryftw.3809:

ForGreatJustice.3452:

This, or just hang a sharp right into the other side of the space. Basically don’t just beeline into the center of the room.

I meant right not left ^^

Hey np, it’s a common mistake happens to me a lot of time

But good to know how to handle this now.

7/10

He looks more like a Necro battle mage to me the armor gives him a medium armor type look. IMO the chest needs a change, but what matter is that You like it

This is my 1st necro’s final armor, I rerolled back to a Charr one becouse the Charr suites me better yet he’s not fully armored so no pictures of him yet.

Flumek.9043:

We mostly seek/need a POWER weapon with CLEAVE, preferably not CLUNKY
My suggestions:
[…]
2) MH Sword / Greatsword – for cleaves sake- It is simply a must in this game.

THIS! YES YES!

Broadicea.8294:

the trials and tribulations of asking for “zerk only” pugs in CoE

Made my day !

Also my alts:
Greatsword Mesmer! – BIG weapon BIG damage!
Mr. Torque Short(2)bow Thief! – EXPLOSIONS!?

http://youtu.be/-YRyhqsUgag?t=20s

Minion Necro – becouse now we have 10 not 5 !

shimmerless.4560:

Quam.7218:

Bright.9160:

full AC

And pray path 2 does not bug at the end with the cannon repair. I have such a bad luck it buggs really often, that’s why I just evade that path…

Cannon repair? I thought P2 is the Ghostbusters one with the stacked traps?

Before You fight the last boss she must “build” them (for me it’s like repairing old ones) she runs to the room aaaaaand do nothing, the next phase does not happen.

(Today same thing happened, we pulled a skelkt at her, she died, after ressing she un-bugged and started to build the cannons)

spoj.9672:

Pretty sure it does work. Definately worked a few months back when i tried it.

Good to know, it didn’t work for a very very long time. Played Necro since release but after the community being “omg necro sux” (war/mes/guard ftw) and being kicked from parties just for being a necro I jus gave up on that class 4 months ago – no fun that peaple look upon you with hate just becouse you play a necro.

Bright.9160:

full AC

And pray path 2 does not bug at the end with the cannon repair. I have such a bad luck it buggs really often, that’s why I just evade that path…

Plague of Darkness + Chilling Darkness would be nice, but it does not work (I wonder why – or does it ? Didn’t play Necro a while).

It’s not the classes it’s the dungeons design, they favor such style. And Warriors/Guardians/Mesmers/Ele can bring more easily Might/Fury to the whole party = great damage.

Many well designed bosses don’t even care what class You are and what gear – like SE of CoF story last bosses, IMO fantastic design, they look good and feel like bosses and not another bag with milion HP just to be nuke down.

If You had the chance (and You will have in this year) to play the Aetherblade Retreat “mini-dungeon” (future fractal) than You will have a chance to experience a more interesting fights.

I still hope the dungeons will be revamped in the future and new mechanics will be brought to bosses – maybe the “meta” will change a bit, but not for now.

And to add about Necromancer: http://youtu.be/1ckhmyUfC2Q?t=2m29s

I’ve completed with my alt 2 maps, Lion’s Arch and Metrica Province and I did not get a map completion chest for any of it :<

aB EXT.1287:

Personally, I recommend a 0/30/15/25/0 build. This is what I currently use for level 40-79. The only important traits are Executioner for CS, and Quick Recovery in Acro.

I switch between S/P and D/P depending on the fight ahead, with SB as the weapon swap (always). The trait slot in shadow arts can be changed between Shadows Embrace (turning all your stealth skills/utilities into condition removal) or Infusion of Shadow for perma stealthing your team through mobs they wanna skip using BP + weapon swap Cluster spam.

S/P will allow you to mitigate a LOT team of damage if your group pulls correctly (grouping them up for you), while dishing out really nice cone AOE damage. D/P is better for boss fights that you know you can get up close on safely. Shadows Embrace will give you a condition cleanse when you HS into BP. That means you get a Backstab + a cleanse.

Try it out, I find it’s by far the most useful builds I’ve run in PVE. Goes over well with the troops.

I use a very similar but I put the 30 in acrobatics, in single target fights I take Master Trapper trait it works great with Shadow Trap (Fury, 10 Might) is gives a nice burst moment. (I don’t run hardcore teams with ultimate setups mostly pugs)

Scartlet had 50% HP → dc’d to login screen → overflow another 40 min WASTED this event is so much fun it hurts.

djspicegirltang.9674:

the reality of this dungeon […]

wow digging up 5 month old post

http://img.sadistic.pl/pics/b09576f21c3c.jpg

I allready know what…

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

(not my pic, but made me laugh hard, you can find it if you know where to look :P)

Also deleted, becouse I didn’t like the looks, and no makeover kit was than. Nice…

Dolan.3071:

1g OP, should be 25 silver daily reward.

There should be none, You should even pay for it

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Yes he did. It was a picture of a Meser in the Vampirism gear and at 10% health triggering the 6/6 rune (kinda like Vapor form) and the dude thinking he was hacking/cheating.

WHAT!? Well that’s cheating!

Yenn.9185:

Berserker builds do give up damage mitigation, whereas condition builds have 1 defensive stat (due to stat allocation on gears) even if you go full offensive. In addition to utilities (prots, wall, blind, etc) condition builds are inherently sturdier. As neko said, it wouldn’t be fair for condition builds to do as much damage while retaining 1 defensive stat.

What the hell are you talking about… defensive stats ? This is not WoW where you stand like a punching bag and get hit while the stats do everything for you… even if you go full defensive stat you will sill get hit like hell in hard boss fights if you don’t learn how not to take damage.

This is not PvP the bosses have defiant and give @&#^% about any cc you have and they will focus you so hard until they kill the crap out of you and no one will be able to help you. In full berserker gear the boss hit you for 13k every single hit full ptv 7-9k ? how many hits will you handle until you die – not to mention your damage is crap in full defence so the fight take longer so more hits you take.

Sorrow’s Embrance

Path 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42yKjtnAmcw

Path 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1OKcXRGO4

boldswords.6943:

In PvE dungeon terms anyway, all I hear from people is go zerker and just dont even look at condi builds at all. Never really understood why.

Condition Damage is limited to a certian damage per second, but that’s not the worst limit… As an example use this calc:

http://gw2.hazno.net/

A lvl 80 player with (example) 1800 condition damage with 25 bleed stacks + burning + poison 100% uptime can maintain up to 4363 damage per second LIMIT (from those conditions only) – also the player must keep 25 stack uptime permanently or the damage lowers (so if by any means the bleed stacks drop to 18 the damage per seconds drops to 3432)

The only boon that can inscrease condition damage is Might (fury… yes… but only for 20% more chance of applying conditions stacs/uptime per traits/sigils) granting by 25 stacs additional 875 condition damage = by uptiming 25 bleed + poison + burning we have a damage of 5863 wich is… poor, really poor comparing to some pure power (zerker) builds also the “burst” type damage is way more effective on trash and bosses than the “sustain” (condition) damage, becouse there must be some time wasted to apply all those bleed stacs etc. So having “bursting” type damage the teams kill faster = mobs have less time to do damage to the players.

Next thing are the bleed “slots” limit.

If you have a party applying bleed other than you the take your bleed slots… so for ex a 5 man team. Warrior 5 minor trait in arms (33% bleed chance if crit – even if they have no condi damage gear they apply bleed) same goes for many other minor traits… power Necros (5 curses) Mesmers (15 dueling) Engi (5 Firearms) even if they are specd power/precision/crit damage they still apply bleed.

So, if any other class tekes bleed slots they do a poor ~44-50 damage per tick (full condi can do 160+) but you have only a % slots left. And from 25 you are limited to 18 or 15 or even less… = your overall damage is even lower.

The worst scenario is having multiple condition damage only spec’d classes, than you reach the 25 stack limit fast but you don’t do any direct damage becouse (your gear has no power/crit damage) every one takes 1/3 1/4 or (my god) 1/5 of the 25 total bleed stacs and all the party reach fast the 25 limit cap doing 4363 max (example) damage per scond from conditions only as a whole party.

There are also some bosses that clears their conditions very often or it’s hard to even keep up conditions on them. CoF p3 last boss… clears conditions every 10 (? can’t remember didn’t do it for too long) seconds.

Last thing are "dead’ objects like walls/doors/burrows – you cannot apply any conditions to them, so if you have to take down something fast (like http://gw2dungeons.net/?SNOW Elemental Source) you will take much much more time than a power spec’d team.

So comparing all those limitations in condition damage to pure power builds the damage is really really poor.

The only boss I can think of was the last boss on Aetherblade Retreat dungeon, when You damaged her “100% immune to damage” boon by 1 stack, direct damage did 10% but condition damage did 100% becouse it bypasses all toughness and direct damage limitations. So if by any chance we will get some interesting bosses than having 1-2 condition damage ppl could be not bad, as for now condition damage is way way behind pure power damage.

Hope I helped You a bit.

CMF.5461 post it a second before me I’ll just add one other.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/

here You go.

I do similar damage with groops that don’t have voulnerability/might/fury (I might call them poor pug) but in a good pug with all above + my food/utility and dmg modificators I do even 100%+ more damage with GS"2" and Hammer “2” crit.

Highest I saw was in Arah it was like 14k (but I run a more support oriented build 0-15-0-30-25)

Flissy.4093:

It actually is. COE and SE are only more difficult than COF.

Yeah if someone did 500 CoF runs and 30 CoE/SE/TA/Arah runs than yeah, CoF is easyier.

kulle.6542:

What is the current best to worst dungeon dps class list?

Wait… let me chack my damage meter.

I went with this build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQRAre7dlUgyCHFyKEfIFSmiCEBtFUVIewegRwXHB-jwxAYrBRTECEVI0Jviox2GKiGruGT5SEVLDQ1EA-e

it took me nearly 20-30 attempts to get familiar with the combat but I did manage to beat her.

(Also I used the Rata Sum npc buff for extra crit chance)

I have nothing against the content but I spent more time running from TP to the arenas than fighting inside… best wasted time ever.

Current Guardian Looks.

Sir Samsonknight.5916:

Most people on MMOs are former WoW players and there is no denying the fact that WoW was extremely successful and instances where most the fun until end game.

Firstly if it where so succesfull, peaple would wtill be in WoW and nowhere else.

Secondly what time of “WoW” do You mean ? With every expansion the game changed SO MUCH… that sometimes I did not know why I played that game for soo long… (oh yes… friends, many friends no other reasons it sucked for me after WoLTK but I played becouse I had many many friends there). In the current WoW all that is left from it’s beauty is the name… and the memories from it’s first years.

After the 3rd expansion the game was starting to get easyier and easyier… dungeons with dungeon finders where “fun” (?) idk what fun means they where boring as hell there was no challenge at all and peaple became so lazy thay stood in major cities jumping before auction houses and pressing dungeon finder buttons they where teleported to the dungeon they did not have to say even a single word – becouse the dungeons where so kitten easy is was nothing to talk about, and after it they just left without any “gg/nice run/other” hjust left… WoW became a Massive Online game… the only “Multiplayer” part was that the dungeon finder required 5 ppl to sign up…

The “extremely successfull” WoW ended long long time ago, all those who play are just new to the game (every game is exiting in the baginning if you are new) or just old players who play becouse it’s “WoW” nothing more (99% of my old guild/friends log in for “raid nights” only and than log out). Comparing Classic/TBC WoW to the the later (WoLTK, mid-end Cata/MoP) is like comparing Diablo 2 to Diablo 3 – from all 40 firends starting played D3 still play 2, and I’m not comparing the game types, I’m comparing why ppl even bought/buy the “new” product becouse “in the past” it was awesome.

But gamers changed they became more and more lazy and demanding. Casual players wants the same things as Hardcore players (why ? alternatively someone who works 3h wants to earn the same money that someone working 8h it does not make sense) they only argument it “lol man I don’t have so much time to play as them I got blabla other stuff to do” so don’t play, if you don’t have the time don’t play it, play something else this game requires time/effort to achieve something you won’t have anything for free.

Don’t like it ? Get back to WoW(or other thing that was so sucessfull).
This is how I see it.

Sir Samsonknight.5916:

Right now it sucks waiting 30 minutes to an hour to do any dungeon other than CoF.

I play pug only (with guilds it the thing… some of them are “poorly skilled” but they think of themself too high and don’t want to listen to any advice – they take it as an offence… I think of myself as middle skilled – there is still much for me to learn) and I never waiter more than 10 min for any dungeon/fractal so idk how are You look for Your team.

TL;DR

Yes for a Dungeon Finder tool that requires SOMETHING from the player (like gw2lfg.com but inside the game) but definitely NO for a fully automatic dungeon finder tool like WoW/FinalFantasyXIV:ARR/Other.

Co-Farmville over ?

swiftpaw.6397:

Yes, there really is a difference between constructive (criticism? I prefer conversation) and the everyday Q_Q about Swiftpaw saying things people don’t like.

That wasn’t pesonal I should mention it earlyier – my bad.

I had no problem on doing all story modes on all my alts – becouse not having story is sometimes a problem in pug groups if no one has it done ( did 2 weeks ago all story modes in 2 evenings with my last created. alt using LFG website) so I don’t see the problem.

Peaple are just too kitten lazy to look on forums for pages like gw2lfg, they rather spam 10 min on /map and than rage on the forums.

Bumbler.7581:

This was Strife’s old build. He quit before the June 25th patch, and has moved on to other things. The new main dungeon build in those forums is:

http://bit.ly/19rdv2g

I essentially use this when not in a PuG, and think it’s great. I do, however, swap out deceptive evasion for the pistol cooldown on bosses (I find deceptive evasion on trash fights, such as dredge for example, to be very helpful. Not so much on bosses, when I want to do my best to keep 3 phantasms up.). Also, I swap out temporal enchanter for other things depending on the fight.

And to reiterate Esplen, I very rarely don’t have both feedback and blink on my bar for utilities (save for melee only bosses). They are just too good to NOT slot, in my opinion.

Using the same build. Works great in fractals and heavy projectile dungeons.