Guild Wars 2

The community will never be happy becouse You are trying to prove that is doable where most fail at 80, so You will prove them tha it they lack skills or something, and this is something You should never ever tell/show/prove the community… so the community allways know better when they say it’s undoable it must be undoable period.

I cheer for You guys that You waste Yout time just to prove something that is allready doable to the “screen or didn’t happen” peaple. Unless You do it with lvl 33 naked characters without any trait point spend the community will never ever be pleased – that’s how the community always is

I’m seriously waiting for all the “but You had greens not blues! but You had guardian warrior mesmer setup OP classes, but there is snowing outside!” etc.

cheers!

Aegis.9724:

Sarcasmic.6741:

3. Turns off melee attack assist and has aggressive melee summons either pacified or removed (cannot disable their melee attack assists).

Thats new to me, why is melee assist an issue? :O

I’m more like quessing but if You are not “in the boss” You can still get hit by his smallest of 3 circles in path 1 and 3, becouse “Melee Assist” blocks You from running throught mobs or enemy players putting an invisible shield near enemies.

Aplha has 5 attacks total that I observed:

3 circles “.oO” from the smallest near him to the largest.
deal huge damage, rises his hand before it (but that’s not his only attack when he rises his hand), can be avoided by hugging him

AOE Circle with flame fang upon player
attack on ranged mambers (didn’t obseve this when player go all melee), hits hard, can easy “walk out” of it. It’s only dangerous when You are down or in crystal

AOE spiked circle
Has 2 rings. You just stand inside the inner circle (safe zone), outside deals damage and inflict 6 bleed stacks

AOE ice spike circle
Need to dodge out of the inner circle, it can be mistook for spiked circle if peaple are stacking.

Tomb
Aplha put a random player in a crystal prison. Can be smashed or it can be scaped with any kind of teleporting skill like Thiefs “steal” “shadowstep”, Mesmers “blink”, Guardians “Judge’s Intervention”.

The difference between Ice Spike and Rock Spikes are in the “white texture” in the inner circle. Rock Spikes got it whiter and much bigger, while ice spike is more watery color and smaller.

For a succesfull or fun dungeon run You need to be aware of some things.

A great majority of the GW2 community will allways find EVERY dungeon encouner too hard, impossible, not fun, etc. That is becouse there are some things You need to understand or You won’t succeed.

Dungeons in this game is not “enter → sloughter all enemies → leave”. It’s a thing You need to learn and understand. Compare it to playing an instrument or doing a sport – You “will suck” at the begining! You can give up and grumble about it being too hard an give up (this is the majority of the community as You can see on forums). Or You can just find some ways to make it understand, search the web, watch some youtube, but never give up and eventually You will succeed – and this success will be a nice feeling. But You need some view on the dungeon matter.

1. Knowledge about Your class.

And I’m not talking about “what can You bring to the party” HELL NO! I’m talking about what is Your knowledge about the class You play. Do You know how thing like boons, conditions, combo fields, combo finishers, endurance works, do You know how all Your utility skills works, how can You boosts them or Your weapons, (or special class utility) with traits, do You know how to gear properly.

Becouse without this knowledge… You will make Your charcter a horrible one. If You do not synchronise Your Gear, Traits, Weapon, Utility, Sigils, Runes with each other You could make Your character less effective.

For good start, look into the “proffesion” on forums there You will find many build other more experienced player have, and read some info about how to use them well.

Gear is expensive but there are sites like http://gw2buildcraft.com/ where You can make gear setups without buying it.

2. Intel about dungeon mobs and bosses skills, how to deal with them how to counter them.

Seriously… most dungeon runners fail becouse they don’t have a slightest idea what killed them. They stand before a mob that is castind an powerfull attack that kills and They don’t see it… they don’t even know what to be aware of! The best example was Lipcus from Arah back in the days. But even now there are many peaple who don’t know it’s possible to completle avoid spawning grubs.

There are many guides on forums, youtube that tells about how mobs behave and what is good to counter that behavior.

3. You can’t win alone.

They are encounters with many opponents at time that cannot be done alone. An if Your group is bad… You could be the best player in the world, but You will not win alone.

For ex. dregde fractal last boss. It can be done even 2 man. But in 4 man when 2 does not completly understand how the fight works they will make it a nightmare (until they die :P).

So having a party od peaple who know their class, and have the brains to hear good hints will make Your party succeed.

Also don’t PUG on /m You will have a much greater chance to deal with unskilled players who can’t listen to other or behave like idiots. To reduce the amount try gw2lfg.com.

4. Don’t hide that You are new to the dungeon. Work in team LISTEN!

There will be always players who know more, and will be willing to share the knowledge if You ONLY pay attention. Don’t try to hide You are new to the content becouse You will be the one at fault if You die. I never mind new players as long as they keep up with what I say to them. If they won’t listen and fail “becouse they know better” – well I wich them good luck.

Last time I went TA, Fw/Up we had hard time on last boss spiders, one of the player showd us how to evade and WHAT to evade – we did it without any problem after this knowledge.

And if someone kick You after You told him You are new to the content – good! At least You are not party with and idiot leader
(this does not count members who specificaly look for speed runs or experienced players! It’s their team, their rules keep that in mind)

I also wiped a lot on my first dungeon runs… it was a pain, but once we understanded how it works dungeons became fun.

I remember 2-3 months after game relesead how there were 90% posts about Lupicus being impossible, to hard, no fun, dungeons only for elitist, plz nerf lupicus he’s impossible to kill and 1 shot me! And similar to that – and than some Warrior (wich ID/Name I didn’t memorize sorry) put a video how he solo it

Well nothing change, just it’s AC now, not Lupi… wonder what it will be next

I did all explo ater release on recommended lvl. It was after relese so no one had a 80lvl exotic character or friends just our mains. We did AC explo on 35-40 compared to CM, AC was like a walk in the park. Many don’t remember untargettable burrows, or breeders wiping the party under 5 seconds 15 times in a row becouse no one saw the breeding animation… now the breeders are completly gone from burrows. And the last boss one hitting EVERYONE 360 degrees becouse the crone was bugged and 1 hitted players even on his tail or his back feet unless You did 2 dodges one after another or had some invournability (or just go way way range) You where dead.

It’s always eayier to find and exuse, than to find a solution.

Yes CoF p3 last boss is also boring as hell… resetting conditions every time he comes invourneable is a butt kick for all condition build proffesions.

About Alpha Circles in p2/p3 there are 2 types of them. If You are “stacked” You can’t see the difference but when You spread and wach closely there are 2 type of “ice” or white thing in the inner circle. The whiter and bigger one means rock spikes, the one wich goes more blue/watery and smaller means ice crystal inside.

Put the “green slime” from path 1 on the list… we fought it “to the very last end” last time it was so time consuming as hell aaaaaaaaand we got some nice blues :P

It was only once, now always skip… sorry but it’s not rewarding for the time fight.

Topis was to long, the idea was “I know You all love AC and CoF, but what about other Dungeons ?”

This is not a QQ post. I had about 100 runs of the dungeon I write of. Farming them, and I would really be happy if they put some love in it like in AC or CoF.

The main forum Dungeon topics are now:
AC hate/love/wtf Anet/is impossible now/why they don’t let me in party with 35lvl – 96%
Lupicus too hard/solo 1%
CoF 1%
“Dungeons are to hard” 1%
Kicking from last fractal by a guid X 1%

(But jokes aside)
What about Dungeons like CM or HoTW 2/3 or even SE… (but we almost never do SE so I’m quiet about it…) ? AC and CoF got a little too much attention imo…

I like the dungeons but we need to reserve some more time than for other dungeons. Most peaple have duties and dungeons like CM/SE/HoTW(2/3) are made rarely sometimes only to get achievement for Dungeon Master becouse they need more time than CoF or AC, most rather farm 2-3 times CoF p1 than go to CM/TA or SE, and I undestand Why.

Caduceus Manor has a big amount of trash and they come in big groups.

Most rifle mobs in CM can 1 shot You if You move, thievy like mobs apply 6 stacks of bleeding with 1 hit if You let them – remember not to move while You are targetted by a sniper but if ur not You get bleed… and ranger like mobs ? Don’t even try taking them down with the best “distortion” in the game. All could be doable if not be attacked by 10 silver mobs at time… 3 gives You 25 stack of bleed and other 3 snipe You once every second 1 hitting You, You must always be on the move or a keg explodes by Your feet sends You flying.

It’s ok to have hard trash but at least reduce their ammount to 4(?) maybe silver mobs at time or keep their amount reduce their hp like You did in AC, make CM more attractive at least !

Honor of The Waves

Path 1 is also pretty popular but the last boss is boring as hell… his Health Pool is so high ait’s getting on and on and on… I’m not telling he’s hard, he’s just boring the fight takes too long.

Path 2 and 3 trash is ok… but the bosses takes also soo long. And the underwater fight are once of the most boring in dungeons. Path 2 last boss can 1-hit-combo You. I got a full Power/Toughness/Vit armor/weapon/jewelery for the test and he can kill me with it if I take all hits, so the fight is “downstate” -> get to a safer place -> heal -> go in combat -> get 1 hitted if melee -> downstate etc. Off course if You have a good reflex You will dodge it faster or use a utility but that’s not the point, the point is the HP pools are so big this fight can last to even 10+ min it’s boring! The boss with 2 quaggans is also long and boring as hell.

For me personally the best fight in all dungeon bosses was Sorrow’s Embrance Story Mode… EPIC fight!

Try doing cof p1 with all players new to cof and pretend You are also new, also don’t lead or give hints – enjoy.

1. there is only 1 type of golem that gives all the “fire shield buff”, focus it, destroy it fast = no shield buff.
2. As Judge Banks.9018 wrote, nothing more to add.

I done it with 3 of my alts with a pug group this week no problem.

Beside the Last Bosses I find the new AC changes really fun! Wich changes I find good IMO:

Trash is now more “attractive” to kill rather than skip (lower hp, shorter time fight) really nice change!

Bosses/Champions like Spider Queen, “The-Howller-champion-after-Spider-Queen”, Kholer etc. Really nice fight mechanics, good thing their HP got lower, are more attractive to kill rather than skip (Kholer especially) – nice change!

No Breeders in burrow… firstly I asked myself “why ?” but after 15+ AC I realized why, but that will be described further.

New “last boss” mechanic. (Did’t have a chance to see p2 last boss becouse it bugged 3/3 times I try this path…) but for the p1 and p3 I have mixed feelings. The “idea” of p1 and p3 fight are great! They are much much more entertainming than the last one’s they where a bit boring tbh.

So Yes these little changes made AC a really fun to play dungeon good work Anet!

What I find annoying, well there are just 2 things.

First is the “knockback” and second it’s the AI as in fight.
The “knockback” itself is annoying in 2 cases really not the whole dungeon! The first place is at p2 Detha “chain event” the most effective way to play it as for now I found/seen is the “1-man-bait-4-man-chain”

I’m the one deffensively spec’d (Necro) and play as “bait” before the change is Was ok, now when every mob knockdowns You it’s a pain… You get knockdowned and die. This is annoying for a profession who does not have stability skills like Guardian/Warrior to be knockdown be every single mob even the little tiny one who are not bigger than my foot. So this change made me sad, and the fight itself including framrate dropping got really annoying. Same goes for last boss path 1. 10 seconds of knockdown gg.

But the second fight wich made me really sad was the part 3 last boss fight. Just to clarify the idea I find pretty nice, hidding under the barrier gives the fight some “taste” od cooperation and it feels fun. But that’s where it ends. The AI is so incredibly stupid it hurt my eyes. As those melee who fought the boss You cannot go near him becouse You will fly if You don’t have stability. He knockback with every single hit. but that is not it! The incredibly stupid npc want to melee him! He is sended flying 4-5 times and dies like an idiot. Standing inside the bubble also does not mean You are safe no no… the boss comes inside melee You and send You flying right at the collapsing celling gg

tl;dr
I hate encounters involving NPC, they are just kitten
Not being able to go melee on path 3 last boss becouse of every hit knockback.
Also the “Low Framerate” Combo Field and “Every-mob-knockdown” Combo Finisher.

I like the rest of the changes really!

Dolan.3071:

Quam.7218:

Indeed the biggest advantage it the HP of bosses they are challenging, but they don’t have such insane health pools like those on HoTW for example… really like that change.

Same goes for trash. It’s challenging but does not boring with their current HP pools.

Like the new Spider and Kholer, well done I like fighting them, and I see pugs doing them as well!

One thing I dislike is the knockdown/knockback almost every mob has… not fun to be on 12+ second knockdown on Howling King without any possibility to get up while all utility on cooldown (all 3 stunbreakers). You lay down and wait for your death for even 10-15 seconds while can’t do NOTHING but watch… it’s not fun, it’s annoying.

Also Last boss on p3 is annoying as hell he knockbacks melee with every hit – why ? It’s a hidden message – don’t go melee if You are not spec’d very bunker-like – it’s not fun it’s annoying I get up, get hit, fly, lay down, get up, get hit, fly… while the ranged part of my party is having a blast fun time! And I’m the pushing bag while they have all the fun

LF1M Pushover full Power/Toughness/Vit for the boss to play with while we take all the fun and kill it!

Stability is your friend. Though I suppose that’s easy for me as I main a warrior.

Indeed as a Necro I have none
(I don’t cout the traits)

I had like 5-8 runs on AC but it’s ok, better than before Spider Queen and Kholer die 2-3x fasten than before but the troll hit’s like a truck now. Only trash knockdowns are insane and “you-will-die” like kitten from them :/

Indeed the biggest advantage it the HP of bosses they are challenging, but they don’t have such insane health pools like those on HoTW for example… really like that change.

Same goes for trash. It’s challenging but does not boring with their current HP pools.

Like the new Spider and Kholer, well done I like fighting them, and I see pugs doing them as well!

One thing I dislike is the knockdown/knockback almost every mob has… not fun to be on 12+ second knockdown on Howling King without any possibility to get up while all utility on cooldown (all 3 stunbreakers). You lay down and wait for your death for even 10-15 seconds while can’t do NOTHING but watch… it’s not fun, it’s annoying.

Also Last boss on p3 is annoying as hell he knockbacks melee with every hit – why ? It’s a hidden message – don’t go melee if You are not spec’d very bunker-like – it’s not fun it’s annoying I get up, get hit, fly, lay down, get up, get hit, fly… while the ranged part of my party is having a blast fun time! And I’m the pushing bag while they have all the fun

LF1M Pushover full Power/Toughness/Vit for the boss to play with while we take all the fun and kill it!

Oh I love the P2 chain event, (I was the “bait”) and where EVERY SINGE kitten HACHLING has knockback… why ?

Was running p2 right now, it bugged. Waste of time

Completed 3 times this week, and it was ok.

Silver.4798:

I just double checked the condition damage trait Fourb:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Condition_Damage

The reason why I’m thinking of investing in gear that ups power is because of power also upping condition damage, as does might.

Not sure about that, I was also fooled by first but after reading it 2-3 times it came up like this.

The boon Might increases condition damage along with power.

So it’s about the boon wich increases condition damage with power. If You read about power on Wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Power

The boon Might increases power along with Condition Damage. So it’s the boon specificly not the stat.

Timze.7980:

Sigmatics.7056:

CoF p2 is easier than before, and costs less silver for repairs TBH.

Thinking this is troll. I can’t see how it would be easier.

I don’t see any trolling here I agree. Before they changed it I failed with pugs much more than now – tbh i like the change it’s easyier and more fun than waypoint running.

Sarcasmic.6741:

Quam.7218:

Sarcasmic.6741:

“Selfish glass cannon warrior” will 2 shot those assassins. Why would someone spec anything but?

Yet You fail where others not. Any conclusions ?

Only conclusion I have is you’re arguing for the sake of arguing.

Sorry for they “You”. I was sure You where the post author didn’t check – my bad. I though That the author who has problems with this path talks about only damage – build and got confused.

For clarification: Anyone can play as they want as long as they don’t fail in every encounter becouse they can’t play a offensively spec’d class.

I just never had a chance to withness a non dying glass cannon player. Maybe that’s why I see them as I see…

Sarcasmic.6741:

Quam.7218:

If You all run “selfish glass cannon builds” with no support* than sorry but You will fail.

what I meant was If You are not skilled enought yes to play without anyone be support You will fail.

“Selfish glass cannon warrior” will 2 shot those assassins. Why would spec anything but?

Yet You fail where others not. Any conclusions ?

I don’t understand the encounter is now 100 times easyier than it was.
It really depends on the team but idk what seems to be the problem ?

As soon as someone saw an assasin is was marked and 2 or even 3 persons focused on him while the other 2 tried to kill as many mobs possible.

The encounter seems fine to me I really like is as it is now rather than how it been before. If You all run “selfish glass cannon builds” (idk If You are You just didn’t write a single word about ur setup, an we alsways have at least 2-3 support builded members I just don’t like playing zerker it’s boring) with no support* than sorry but You will fail.

what I meant was If You are not skilled enough to play without anyone be support You will fail.

Indeed groupping up with randoms from “chat” might really be a terrible experience, after a bad group peaple come to forums and write topics about really hard dungeons – it’s somehow understandable but not and exuse to turn difficulty lvl down.

That’s why I’m using ONLY gw2lfg.com for groupping up. It filters all those player who don’t even know what forums are. I come from a conclusion if someone know a site like this and know how to use it – he must do at least some research about the game in the net. You still might get a better or worst team but with a higher % of groupping with more skilled players. And by better I mean those who know how they should play their character.

Sometimes it’s not event the tactics or dodge what is important but gear choice and build. I had once a full support spec’d (HoTW p1) party without any one being “glass cannon” or damage spec’d and we just stood in every red circle and spam out skills it was the most relaxing run I’ve had took us 19 min (12 min for last boss his HP is ugh…) I’m playing a guardian with boon support and my firend with healing support, no one’s HP didn’t fell even under his 70% and no one did any dodge. Boons are really important to the party as well as condition on enemies.

Before I decided to go Guardian I play’d a necro frost build – my role was to keep mobile champions perma chilled – so they won’t run too much.

I read often on forums about “U R silly I do it all glass cannon party and it’s 46,766666% faster than any other party spec omg lol U noob” blah blah blah sure You can – play as You want. But I had THE WORST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE with fully offencive spec’d players who didn’t know how things work… sure they do tons of damage with 1 hit and after each attack they need to be ressed from downstate, or they just do 3 atacks and the next 15 seconds they run, dodge, hide behind something, run away from combat, wating for their 20-30 seconds heal after healing 2-3 atack and again the same… this is NOT how You should deal damage…

If You are not so good with understanding the mechanics play a more survival/support build You will live more and Youre party will also… You could do more mistakes without dying, after a while You will lern how things work here and can go more offensive. Never go offensive as a inexperience player becouse You will be no help and most of the time get 1 shoted…

The “reward” is a different topic… but indeed.

I only do dungeons for the marks – becouse I know there is nothing more of value besides them in the dungeons (and money from champions)… rare/exotic drops items are too random, and there is not a single amount of curiosity or excitement before opening a chest or looting a mob becouse I know that for 99% I’ll get crap…

Hi everyone,

I just want to THANK ANet for all the hard work they did into changing the dungeons – the changes can really be seen if one knows how dungeons where before. I’ve been playing this game since BWE#1 and I really had fun with almost all of the dungeon content. Hadn’t so much fun since WoW TBC – If You know what I mean, Dungeons keep me in this game.

I’m a rather casual player I spend like 4h a day becouse of work and other dutys, on weekends some more.
But i love the dungeons here in GW2. I love how hard they are, how they force me to focus, think, react, how the “first” pack of mobs tell me if the party I have i good or bad. How after each wipe You regroup and think of another way to take this boss or trash pack, come with different ideas and solutions I love it!

When I go to “dungeons” @ forums and read all the crying posts it makes me kinda sad how fast can peaple give up… “I was in a dungeon today for the first time and wiped and it’s impossible to do and omg plz You have to do sth with it so I can stand and spam my skills cuz I need my right hand to scratch behind my ear and talk on the phone duuuuh… etc”. They give up after 2 try’s and want changes ?! Maybe there are some thing wich I’ll never understand… – sure there are many posts with nice suggestions wich are always good but not suggestions like : “NERF it all!!!!!!!11!!!1Oneoneoneeleven”

Today I done almost all story mode dungeons on my alt (exept CoE and Arah, I was just too tired and left them for tomorrow) with a pug group picked on gw2lfg.com (3/5 peaple were 1st time on story mode but we all had lvl 80) Ihadn’t done story modes since like 4-5 months and I compered ours run to the runs we had after game launched. And those dungeons where “a walk in the park” if everyone Was 80, and just listen carefully even beaing 1st time what needs to be done (HoTW last boss was a lil bit difficult but after 5h we where all tired and it was noticeable) – but it also showed me how hard could a dungeon be when everyone plays “solo” in a party…

I remember those tries when we were @ explorable dungeon min lvl required, without any knowledge how to play our characters, with habits from others MMO’s… it Was a pain but it was fun even we failed after 2h of trying some boss or event. Yes we lost time and some nerves but still after we calmed down a little we had a laugh memorising how we wiped on AC p3 with all 35-38 lvl for 1h trying 100 tactics to “hit” an unhittable burrow, trying to understand why the last boss hits everyone 360 degrees with a “crone” attack. Learning mobs animation and attacks and how to counter them, how we wiped on Kholer, how we took our friends to Diessa Plateau to Nageling and waited for the big giant to spawn there we learned and mastered our “dodges”, understand the game mechanics and properly dodge Kholer’s pull atack, how we had to give up on some encounters becouse we where too tired to continue after 2-3h of trying – it was somehow frustration and dissapointing but after a while it was really fun to make such memories!

Finally Arah with tons of wipes, deaths but still happy after finishing any path – but that satisfaction! Priceless!

Those king of dungeons are more fun than those in wich You come, clear and go even with a poor team… well yes it is fun for the first or second time but after 20 runs it’s boring… where is the challenge? Here in GW2 there is!

Now CoE Path 2 the Magg event when You have to defend him while he’s arming the bomb at last boss chanber is a GREAT change love it. Also The Path 3 torch reduction is really nice, still some dungeons needs some love like trash mobs in CM are a pain. But after experiencing those changes I’m sure it will be polished.

TL;DR Dungeons should be challenging, hard, You should not give up after 2 tries – be a man fall down 7 times and stand up 8! (or woman) GW2 is a Young game and still needs some love in PvE – give it time to grow.

(sorry for any mistakes, english is not my native language )
And for all those who want to create another QQ topic about “too hard dungeons” a song: http://youtu.be/Pu_yOyzyFqs

Ty for pointing this, I’ll keep it in mind

look what I found.

When I saw the topic I Was like “YES now I can go and play, and complete my legendary” but after:

“We offer one restoration during the lifetime of a Guild Wars 2 account.”

I lost hope…

I’m seriously thinking of abandoning the game… I really love it, really want to help it grow and support it best I can – but when I read this… this… its just does not make any sense I’m losing my will to play every day more and more after reading this. WTH?

If I get my accound hacked once it’s ok, You can get it back… if I get it hacked after 4 years You just write “we are really sorry about Your loss”. Yes… Yes You are. You are sorry I lost all items in wich aquireing I put precious real time that I could spend on other stuff – and no one will give me this time back.

You can’t even Imagine the frustration of those who lost all that their work so hard and You cannot do ANYTHING about it ? It’s like having a car stolen, and the police “We are really sorry Your car was stolen, but we could recover it only once and that’s the second time” but we will advise You how to protect Your car in the future from being stolen.

Will You give peaple advice how to protect their accounts. You really think there is a “100% hacker-proof” method ? If there were the’re won’t be any hacked accounts.

I’m really glad that You made something like this – good job! But kitten why only once per lifetime ?

Mine quit… sad To say, but I would do the same thing and I understand him perfectly.

I also still feel unsure – this might happen to anyone. It’s too risky to obtain or have any “rare” goods now. I’ve cancelled my legendary creation. I even play the game with less entusiasm as I did now… Just doing stuff that if lost i won’t be regretting much.

I’m gratefull about a fast answer.

It’s nice to know that something is being done in this direction – I can’t even imagine seeing all those hours lost with any possibility to get them back.

I got my answer.

This week my firends account has been hacked, he lost 250 gold, all items, everything and his cleaned character was send to another server.

I talked with him recently he told me that ANet answer was: “from the technical side it’s impossible to give his items back”.

My question is: Is this true ? If yes I have to hank You for those wonderfull 5 months of playing but I will not play a game in witch my robbed items, money, recourses will be gone endlessly. It would be a waste of my time to play GW2 wich I found up until now the best MMO I’ve ever played.

I would be glad of any answer.

Peaple wanted hard dungeons, peaple got hard dungeons, peaple don’t want to do hard dungeons.

OMG… so many peaple asking for Dungeon Finder ?! HOW lazy can You be not to be able find a group by urselves !? This is madness is this still an MMO ?

#&$% You Blizzard for destroying the good old fashion MMO idea of dungeons by adding something so stupid like dungeon finders, such a wanderfull world and peaple sit on their kitten in towns and LFD…

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but indeed chat bans for looking for party = spamming can be annoying

YES! You have no idea what big smile on my face I had when I saw that vid and my memory brought back all those QQers about dungeons in melee… “You can’t melee Lupicus”/“Go range” posters!

You sir are THE boss You shown them!

Tried to do it twice today, and gave up. (there were 30/40+ ppl)

If even 1 mob spawn in the square it goes red and the bar doesn’t progress.

There are waves comming from the srairs, these are ok, but there are several mobs spawning and 3-4 seconds before the mob even get fom under the ground the circle goes red…

We had 2 min to fill 40% missing, no wave came from the stairs, still mobs spawning 1 after another (literally one after another) are makeing the capture impossible.

It’s unimportant that they die in under 2 seconds, they keep the blue for 15 second on 2 remaining minutes…

Waste of time as for now. Ppl get dc, can’t go in, we can’t end it in 3 man, precious time WASTED.

Disappointed as hell.

Human, Male, Necromancer. Acolye exotic light gear (from 100% map). Eyebrows are on top of the mask – screen.

Dredge Suit is hard ? It’s hard to me to imagine what’s the hard part in it… (got only to lvl 3 diff, becouse when someone get’s dc we have to repeat the whole diff again meh…)

It has only 2 attacks I’m afraid of:

- Bombs, easy mode to dodge… put me down maybe 2-3 times (aaaand it was my own mistake not the difficulty of the fight) on 3-4 whole fights.

- an “invisible” form of attack when I see “dust” after he hit’s the ground I dodge automaticly, also standing above him on the platform can gat You down/killed from this sttack.

And that’s it…

Yesteray I fought the “Ice Elemental” first time and notice it’s “heal” it really grat but as a necromancer… when I see him kneel down i put reaper’s mark or cast doom from death shroud.

Advantages of fear is it passes trough Deviant so I always have full control of him.
The fight is long it took us 14 min to took him down when we first encounter him, but it was not difficult – we’ll see on higher lvls.

Hi, I also play a similar build in PvE dungeons/solo.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVVzMm9cmMChomMChox9MGGMabVRzR

For utility I change skills depending on the fight but wells do really great support in pve.

Well of Corruption – for Dredge like fight (strong booning)
Well of Power – for heavy condition fights
Summon Flesh Wurm – somewhere in the corner/behind a pillar for extra escape

Spite ‘X’ trait is a nice condition on trash (on bosses I change it to VII on max range fights or VI for extra might)

Blood Magic V + Vampiric 15 gives some extra healing with Axe 2 skill.

Soul Reaping I for some defensive (Fear is almost a 100% condition and can save ur butt), VIII is for when You need to GTFO but can be changed accodting to player prefferences to buff Dearh Shroud as You like.

I geared my Necro with “Knight” armor (exotic) with 6 Ruby Orb (I just find Orbs better than Runes in some cases) Knight Axe/Warhorn (rare) Berseker Jewelery (rare and 1 green)

So my gear still needs update.

2950 Power
39% crit chance 59% crit damage
2300 armor
~20,300 HP

Spectral Walk is good for get in melee range put down a well and quicly escape with spectral recall.

It’s not usless in PvE – there are mobs witch can stack up to 25 might and 1 hit You – like quaggans in path 2 or 3 hotw or some other bosses stacking 3-4 boon for 2 min.

In SE it’s my primary skill along with Well of Corruption, the drege stack boon like crazy!

(but indeed in PvP it can do “magic”)

Indeed, Fractals are just awesome! We play as a guild with TS.

- almost no bugs, everything works perfect (I’m in heaven, the one thing happen in “free the giant” hammer event our guild member fell off with it and the hammer didn’t appear on the altar rather is was where the player fell in mid air)
- the BEST boss mechanic I’ve ever seen!
- difficulity scaling is a genius idea – every one can find his own challenge level
- beautifully designed, the view, the grapics – breathless
- less trash mobs is good! More jumping puzzles, more traps, more riddles, more coordinated tem play, more champions! The “Hammer” idea Was just fantastic, we didn’t have such fun in ages while doing it.

Go in that direction and GW2 will be the most epic game ever played

The only one disadvantage is when a playes get’s dc (wich happens… often) and the “one-stage-difficulity” is quite long (it’s 3 fractals on 1-2 lvl dunno next). That player cannot re-enter again, also no one insteed can be invited and… we have to quit and do it from the very begining. Some are doable with 4 but that 5th person still is 1 difficulty level behind.

TL;DR: Epic work ANet! I’m impressed like never, looking forward to see what comes next

PS. Updating Shatterer fight – nice one!

K, we tried again now, bug didn’t occur – everything was fine – idk what could be wrong.

New patch came, we wanted to try the “fixed” dungeons – we went AC.

I’m playing Underworld EU, they Blacktide EU. We couldn’t see eachother inside the dungeon. When I entered (had story mode done for explo) they didn’t get any message…
when they got in I didn’t get any.

We tied relogging, resetting the game nothing worked.

End of my big jurney… now I can’t even play with my firends… Single Player MMO here I go :/

Just log in.

The game is impossible to play from 2 days. I got lags for even 1 minute long – never had ANY problems with GW2 lags, connections lost, dc, login issues or anything it just started 2 days ago – sorry to say but I have to give up playing – it is unplayable.

It’s just one player so no big loss.

In our early tryies we also had many problems with those – still some pugs have, it needs to be learned and done extremely fast.

Tactical Tips:

- Burrows spawn is a repeating pattern, they don’t spawn randomly, they do it every time in the same exact pattern, that will help You know where to run next and don’t waste precious time.

- Ignore most of the mobs, they will be eventually killed by aoe near the burrows.

- Breeders need to be controled(!) and killed right after a burrow. If You do NOT do a CC on breeding You will have ur arena spammed with mobs.

- Have some CC/Movement utilities equipped, It’s important to have CC for Breeders, and some swiftness for funning around.

- Bring Your power gear with You. Condition gear without power are really bad for fight like this. Best are Power/Vit/Toughness – even greens for karma. Burrows cannot be crit so Berseker gear is less effective than for ex. Valkyrie and for slots don’t use expensive runes use chep Orbs.

Proffestions. From my experience with professions Power Warriors, Power Ele, Granade/Bomb specced engie’s can do insane amout of damage to burrows in lowest time, played with Necro, Mesmer, Thief – it was just not effective they lack aoe burst damage.

Here is my movie from AC explo 3 burrow event 11m 19s. Hope it helps.

Same problem.

I was running SE explo for 2,5h the lags where sometimes 1 minute long… and before thle last boss the client crashed, some files downloaded and – the best part – I could not enter the dungeon cuz we have different client builds GOD kitten &!@^#$% so much time lost for nothing! THIS IS MADNESS :/

Busy with Helloween, busy with Lost Shores, busy with x-mas, busy with somethting else what the hell ? Really ? I’m starting to look at all the bugged door like that’s somethting normal. I’m not even curius about the new content if it will look like this for 3+ months…

Why adding something new without reparing the old things and start to make them work properly ? I just don’t get it…

Meters in the hands of bad players are a horrible idea.

Indeed… as a “Tank” (WoW) i HATED them… peaple just focused SO HARD on being 1st they just didn’t care about anything else, they stood in fire (cannot move cuz I lose dps) didn’t observe the field, fell in every trap /facepalm – meters destoyed the fun of dungeons, rather than think what we do wrong we blame each other for low dps… and that’s just stupid.

The 2nd and 3rd phase attack hitting for 10-12k dmg is SO HARD to see when it blends with the circle bolts animation it’s sometimes impossible to tell what projectile is comming at You.

If it’s not while circle projectile flys it can be seen but do You have so many dodges, sometimes not. I play a mesmer and don’t have anything to block/migrate that attack – only dodge (if chaos strom not on CD I can give myself aegis, clones die fast as hell sometimes distortion con’t pop up cuz no clone available) I tired “Mimic” it CAN be captured and sent back dor 10k but You also take damage even if You capture it… so it is useless. Feedback works ONLY on 3rd phase attack when he cast many bolts at one red circle, before him.

Tried to “run” not dodge red circle to avoid using dodge and save it for the “instant-cast-almost-invisible-nuke-bolt”, died all the times. Once circle just gave me damage 0,5 second after spawning – I could’t even react it was so fast…

I’ve done this today and just give up… the run from waypoint on path 1 is insanely long over 210 seconds…

But… the most idiotic of all the mobs are Oozes and their condition damage with every hit… isnane just insane.

The boss is hard yes but the trash is just stupid having so much HP – just boring.

Chest and Pants still needs to be done.