Guild Wars 2

The one thing that drove me nuts about this encounter (which I still haven’t beaten) is that the whole dungeon requires you to pick a pretty defensive setup (for obvious reasons). Then all of a sudden you get to Simin and you need basically maximum dps output to get past it. Since you cannot change your traits on the fly, and most people don’t have several gear sets on them, this makes the encounter extremely challenging for most groups, especially pug groups.
As mentionted above, one slight miss-step in pathing the sparks and it basically resets the fight. I can’t count the number of times we got her down to less than <25% hp, only to have her heal completely because we couldn’t get the last spark to get in the kitten circle.

Your GPU doesn’t need to be the best; you just won’t be able to run with great graphics settings. A middling/minimum requirements one is fine.
Where this game really hits your hardware is in the processor. I have a AMD 4 core and gw2 uses 80-90% of all four cores.

you can get a masterwork set of mf gear for dirt cheap (or even craft it yourself). Really no reason not to.

I see absolutely no reason why you wouldn’t farm orr with a mf set (sorry for the double negative).

Anet has repeatedly mentioned that any 3rd party programs that interact with the game in any way is a bannable offense. No matter how meaningless or benign the usage may be.
My gaming mouse, for example, does not work at all with gw2. I am surprised you got yours to work.

The dailies are even easier now to get than before. kill variety has been reduced. Daily veteran kills is a joke. Crafting is a joke. Dodging is a joke. Resing is a joke. Yesterday took me literally 15minutes to get my daily.

This game is completely geared towards casuals, and as a casual myself, I love it.

:O so you can’t use the gf% infusions on other peices of ascended armor? That sucks

So, by getting superior runes of scavenging, equipping 4 ascended items with the +20% gold find infusions, and munching on some omnomberry bars, you can get a whopping 135% gold find! Wow! That means that bosses in dungeons that used to drop 10s will now drop 23.5s. And that’s just the start! Imagine a character fully equipped with ascended gear and +20% gold find in every slot. That’s potentially 315% gold find! Bosses will be dropping over 40s each!

you can buy exotic gear with badges of honor? (never checked to see if the skins were rare or exotic).
That being said, you are removing a large portion of awesome gameplay and a great way to make money/get gear by not doing dungeons. It’s not required to do dungeons, but I highly recommend it

You can powerlevel your character from 0-80 in an afternoon by maxing out the 8 crafting disciplines (or less using crafting boosters) if you have the gold.
Dungeons also give huge amounts of experience. Once you hit lvl 35, you can do ascalonian catacombs (explorable) and not only level really fast, but make a lot of gold in the process.
I didn’t use crafting and had no problem leveling my two 80s. Pretty much every activity besides standing in lion’s arch gives experience.

You can get every ascended item except for the backpiece without ever setting foot in fotm. The backpieces can be crafted with only 1 vial of condesed mist essences, which is obtained in fotm 1-9 and is not terribly uncommon.
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/
If you’re not going to be doing fotm, the minor difference in stats between an ascended backpack and a rare backpack are negligible.
Dungeons are an extremely profitable endeavour and it is really not that difficult to obtain enough tokens for an entire set of exotic armor within a reasonable ammount of time. Contrary to other methods of getting exotic armor, this will actually make you money instead of costing you money.
Dungeons are also a lot of fun and provide many unique encounters that challenge your playstyle and make you adapt to new situations. To each their own, I guess.

Wall of reflection and sanctuary are insanely good at higher level fractals.

I recently changed my guardian build from 10 in radiance for the good old signet mastery(for the signet of resolve recharge) to 10 in virtues for master of consecrations. Take shelter instead. The blocking functionality will give you a lot of damage mitigation when timed right, effectively ‘healing’ you for more than the signets straight up numbers ever would.

When i dont need projectile reflection, I just pop some more shouts in instead. Running Altruistic Healing and Pure of Voice of course.

This build is so much better for high level fractals than anything the10% damage reduction signet could ever give.

Give me something to do with all these ascended rings. Seriously.
I’ve got close to 20 rings in my stash. Some of them I’m saving for alts. Others I have no use for. Since they cannot be salvaged, they are vendor food at 5s making them less useful than an exotic drop. Please make them salvageable. Or maybe allow me to trade them in for relics/pristine relics.
Also rare backpacks. Again, make them salvageable.

Green weapons are considered rare enough drops to come in a chest, which is a little silly. It should be only for rare/exotics/ascended items and t6 mats.

No. I wouldn’t mind extra quests for more trait points though

Gaudrath.6725:

They should modify the system so that it works in tiers. As in, any 1-10 level can group up, so it is easier for people to find groups to level their fractals, but someone who is below 11 cannot do fractals above that level. 11-20 again can, then 21 – 30 and so on.

I think this would remove a lot of frustration people have both with finding low-level fractal groups and with getting inexperienced people in high level fractals.

I was thinking the same thing, but then the problem is people running on alts who are level 30 on their mains and have a lot of AR on their alts, just haven’t leveled them up yet. They want to do lvl 30 with their guilds or whatever.

LHound.8964:

Finally a decent not QQ’ing Fractals Thread. Agree on all the arguments here. Don’t forget that newbies don’t know what to do, so just be patience and explain that, instead of being rude!

Cheers!

Very true, and I am (perhaps it wasn’t made obvious). I do explain and try my best to bring new players up to speed. So should everyone else. It’s really not that bad.
When I used to run arah all the time, I would spend a good 10-15minutes explaining the giganticus lupicus fight to new players, since that is probably the easiest place in-game to wipe when you don’t know what’s going on.
That being said, if you are new to fractals, please ask questions if you are unsure what to do. You don’t have to exclaim “I’m a total noob, what do I do!?” but it does get frustrating when you spend a good 10 minutes explaining something like the dredge fractal to someone over and over. Then you ask them “got it?” and they say “ok!”, then they don’t do any of the things you just explained xD.

Clark Skinner.4902:

Sorry, I should have asked if a lv1 and four lv 9s go in together, are teh enemies going to be way too hard for the lv1, way too easy for teh lv9, or somehow equalized?

So it depends on the level selected by the party. Since in your above example, the max possible level is level 9, then no. Before level 10, the monsters do not have any special abilities and the bosses do not yet have agony. At level 10, bosses get agony and mosters get new (and more powerful) attacks. The damage done by agony increases as you go up in difficulty. At level 10, agony is manageable by popping your heal, but still hurts. If you went into fractals 30 for example with 0AR, agony would one-shot you. For people starting fractals, level methodically until you get to level 10. Don’t join groups >10 until you get ascended items with agony resist. Doing the level 10 daily bonus gives you a chance to get an ascended ring, and one pristine relic. If you don’t find the ring you want, you can always buy the ring you want for 10 pristine relics. Get the simple infusion for 75 regular relics if you don’t have the mats for the ones with stats on them. Save up 1850 regular relics and you can buy an ascended backpack. Good luck!
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/

Yeah having no AR is definitely a problem on higher fractals. You can get away with it on level 10; it will also teach you which attacks apply agony and how to avoid it. If you have insane micro you can actually avoid/dodge every single agony attack. But having no clue what’s going on, leroy-ing into boss fights etc. is pretty brutal to the rest of the team. Especially when they have explained several times (by typing it all out, no less) what to do and how to do it.

aint no thang

you guys should check out strife025’s guides to arah on youtube. He has an awesome strategy for melee-ing Lupi. They down him in like 2min. Trick: reflect projectiles. He basically kills himself

yes, if you are playing level 4 you will fight jade maw and get your daily reward. Much easier to do odd level fractals now since it doesn’t really matter Just don’t go to fractals 20 if you havent passed fractals 3 yet >:O

So I haven’t gotten to fotm 39 yet, but I do know that if you get out of combat, downed players can res up. They also released ascended amulet, which increases the max AR possible to 40 i think.

As the title suggests, please don’t join fractal groups you are not ready for.
There are several great online guides. Check out strife025 ‘s channel on youtube if you havent already.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the new system is much better than the old system.
If you’re running with guildies, and they are explaining to you over vent or whatever, that’s fine. But pug groups only have so much patience, and can only explain strategies so many times before people rage quit after the 10th wipe.
On a separate note: please recognize the power of reflect/prevent projectiles skills, especially on higher fractal levels. I just ran with 3 guardians on fractals 20 and none of them even knew what wall of reflection or sanctuary are.

TheDaiBish.9735:

marnick.4305:

Already exists.

1/ craft 4 rare greatswords with Weaponsmith
2/ throw into the Mystic Forge
3/ Zommoros feels sorry for you since this is your 2000th attempt
4/ collect Dusk
5/ PROFIT!!!

Fixed

Hahaha so true it hurts

Yeah, this defintely makes the dragon fights less enjoyable than they should be. On tequatl, you can stand right under him. On the first phase of jormag, you can stand on the right or left of the ramp and take no damage. Only phase 2 of jormag is actual difficult and engaging (stacking on the ledge is not the way to do phase 2, people).

Hey, I have a suggestion regarding crafting and the skyrocketing price of precursors.

At the moment, high value precursors such as the legend, dusk and dawn have hit the 600g mark.
At the same time, the usefulness of crafting outside of using it to powerlevel characters is at an all-time low (besides maybe jeweler). You can’t make money crafting. Most of the time you are hard-pressed to even just break even.

The reason is crafting gives butt-ugly skins that no one wants.

How about giving crafting a chance to give other skins, even precursors?

This will make crafting useful, both as a way to potentially make money and as a gold and mat sink, like it should be.

This will also bring down the price of precursors by giving players another way to craft them, since few people are actually willing to dump 100s of gold into the forge.

whaddya think?

This is not a problem at all. Once you are in a group, you can simply right click a person’s profile and lick on “Join in Lion’s Arch” to join their overflow server. Doesn’t matter what server you start in. It is extremely unlikely that out of 5 people, no one will be in an overflow. Once they impliment guesting, overflows will not even be needed. To find a group, use gw2lfg.com.

Yeah I would leave s/d for pvp. WvW is about staff ele and occasionally switching to a focus to seige denial/protection.

I played ele all throughout beta and really liked it. I chose it because I thought having access to 20 weapon skills vs 10 would be an advantage. Plus I played monk in gw1, and thought that the ele would allow me to play some support reminiscent of that beautiful class from gw1. I also have a 80 guardian

Waraxx.4286:

Quick Mouse.7635:

maddoctor.2738:

Quick Mouse.7635:

for people who think the fiery greatsword gives less mobility than rtl:
add me in-game, we’ll have a race xD

fiery greatsword can’t be cast on the move…. that’s reason enough

Okay lets race then xD

the question isn’t “how far can i get over the course of 30 seconds”? the question is “how far can i get from that thief NOW” if you are in alot of kitten you want to get out of their range asap. so if u already have it up , sure, you might have a advantage. nomatter what, it’s still a sucky elite.

I have used fiery greatsword many times to get away from thieves, and even to solo theives. I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder (or skill of the player ).

Yep, free karma and mystic coins, can’t complain. Some black lion salvage kits and repair cannisters if you’re lucky.

maddoctor.2738:

Quick Mouse.7635:

for people who think the fiery greatsword gives less mobility than rtl:
add me in-game, we’ll have a race xD

fiery greatsword can’t be cast on the move…. that’s reason enough

Okay lets race then xD

for people who think the fiery greatsword gives less mobility than rtl:
add me in-game, we’ll have a race xD

I use greatsword in wvw always. The mobility generated from skills 3 and 4 is insane, especially considering we have perma swiftness. You can get from one side of the map to the other in a minute. Not to mention skill 3 gives evade, great for getting out of sticky situations or soloing pesky theives.

LordByron.8369:

Aside the usual thief player trolling in ele section… (feel free to spot them its easy)

Combo field are good, its fun to see how staff lacks finishers, and D/D requires you to stay near opponents, things almost unviable in PvE with a glasscannon (in difficult dungeons even an ele tank cannot do that).

3 out of the 5 earth attunement skills with staff are combo finishers.

pmnt.4067

Yes, the elementalist really shines with AoE damage in PvE, but there is no real single target option for the ele – and single target damage is needed in dungeons for boss battles or killing specific mob types fast. The AoE helps only with trash which is skipped anyway.

the thing about bosses is they often have large hitboxes, meaning that a casting a meteor shower on a boss will have every meteor hit the boss. Plus, as mentionted, the huge number of combo fields a staff ele has access to is often overlooked and underrated.

Vol.5241:

I grinded out the 420g that it cost for me to buy my Dawn. Why can’t you?

I did it hardcore over a week and a half. If you don’t want to grind you can get it in a month.

A lot of people can only play a few hours a day, if that, and not necessarily everyday. Let’s say you can play two nights during weekdays for an hour, then 2 hours on sat and sun for a total of 6 hours a week. At your estimated 3.5g/hour, it would take 20 weeks to get a precursor. And that’s only half the battle.

Traits and slot skills create a large amount of personalization and customization. Finding the right balance between your trait selection, slot skill selection, healing skill selection, weapon selection, rune and sigil selection could take a minute if you don’t care, or hours if you want to create a ‘perfect’ build. There is no lack of skill diversity, only a perceived lack of skill diversity because people don’t put the effort into their builds like they should.

I have always wondered the same thing.

They have discussed implimenting a scavenger hunt type method for crafting the precursors. But don’t hold your breath; it won’t be comng anytime soon sadface.

@ragingpuma lololol
Love this thread.

kicking should require 3 people, this is true.
For finding fotm groups, use gw2lfg.com until they impliment one in-game. Never had a problem finding groups of any level with this site.

You can get 50 wvw kills in one night wvw-ing. You might even like it.

WvW will give you everything you need for daily. However, since I’m trying to get my ascended gear, I do fotm first which usually gives me most of my kill variety and kill count. I get my mining done by bringing 2 characters to the rich ori in southsun cove. Doing jormag gives you all the daily dynamic events you need.

You didn’t even have to do the jumping puzzles, only discover them. Really not a problem, even for people who don’t like jumping puzzles.

So my whole guild is moving to another server. While most of them got in, for the past 2 days the server has been full every time I check. And I have been checking a lot. I don’t know if room will be available today, tomorrow, next month, or next year. I suggest that you be able to queue for server transfers, and you will be placed into the server once room opens. This way I don’t have to check the server status every 5 minutes. When paid transfers arrive, you should be able to pay and queue up, but cancel the queue at any time for a full refund.

I have suggested the same thing way back in september. It would be nice, but I don’t think they will add this.

2 questions:
Is there a way to make stealth not effect culling? an entire zerg with enough thieves and mesmers can essentially be invisible in huge battles for several minutes at a time (I’m looking at you, SoR)
Can we have a way to make gold in sPvP besides playing paid tournaments?

I was just wondering, because I have posted about this a few times and gotten little/no response:

Are you guys happy making 0 gold in pvp?

In gw1 all pvp was profitable in the form of balthazar faction => zkeys.

I for one would love to play more pvp, but feel like I’m wasting time that I could be spending farming the mountain of gold i need for legendary/ascended gear.

I suggested being able to buy gems with glory, something like 5000 glory = 100 gems or so. This way people who play pvp can make gold and also have access to gem store items without having to pay real money.