Guild Wars 2

Swarley.8642:

i recently bought the superior sigil of battle for my main dagger and while in combat, noticed that my might was not increasing at all when i switched attunements(except for fire of course). i was thinking that they may have changed this during a patch, so what would you suggest i put on my main dagger to replace that? how do you keep your might at 25 stacks? last question, what breathing apparatus do you use?

It still does, that didn’t change. Do you have a on crit sigil or something else equipped? Do you have boon duration?

Sigil of battle is something that I would never ever want to change out. If your using something else that is on crit such as the sigil of fire or the sigil of air then that is why. Those sigils share cooldowns and you’ll only get the proc for one of them.

Same here, Arah is one of the few dungeons I’ missing for my DM title and I can’t find a group to go with.

I’m on Stormbluff Isle and would love to find a group to go with.

Aww I see… I never saw you when I was on FT. Aspenwood, kinda wish I can see you fight/duel you.

I’m using the same spec as you are but I’m still playing around with my gear, I’m trying to go a little more offensive than you do. I’m using head/chest/pants as PVT gear and the shoulders/gloves/feet as berserkers with berserkers daggers and a PVT backpiece now am playing around with the jewelry. So far I’ve tried all berserkers gear with 1 PVT ascended ring and I’m now using all clerics with 1 PVT ascended gear. Damage took a noticeable drop as does my crit rate, but that’s to be expected, but my ability to survive seems to have increased, need to check it out more.

Stats with clerics jewelry (rare) and 1 ascended PVT ring:
Attack: 2759
Crit: 19%
Crit Damage: 32%
Armor: 2292 (1379 toughness)
Health: 16375

Stats with berserkers jewelry (rare) and 1 ascended PVT ring:
Attack: 2858
Crit: 39%
Crit Damage: 53%
Armor: 2072(1159 toughness)
Health: 16375

Next up is to test it out with Valkyrie and Knights gear. I think that 16k – ish health is good enough, but that toughness seems to add a lot, and I think I want a little more. The damage with the berserker set is good, but survivability lacks a tiny bit whereas the clerics set has the bit more survivability but lacks the punch that the berserker set does. So it’s either the precision or the crit damage, and I’ll have to go look for it. I can take on about 3 or 4 people and win or get away (depending on specs/how good they are, sometimes they just get me) but with either one I can run into 50 man zergs do some damage and GTFO and not worry.

I run around with either Loaf of Omnomberry Bread/ Sharpening Stones/Chocolate Omnomberry Cream/Bowl of Truffle Ravioli. Depends on what I got in my inventory at the moment and what gear I’m using. Mango pies seems to be something I might look into though.

I’m still not sure how I want to run my ele though. The clerics setup is certainly nice, and the damage is not that much lower than with the berserker setup either. But I will say I do crit less, and I haven’t seen 4k burning speeds with it yet :p. I think I’d have to use a mix of Knights gear with that to see those kinds of numbers, though I’m about to pick up a ascended knights ring, so Ill be about 20% crit and 40% crit damage. Then I can keep the earrings/amulet on for some extra healing punch and toughness and I’d end up using the Loaf of berry bread for the 100 vitality and 70 toughness and the sharpening stones for the power.

What do you think? I know you prefer all out defense, but I’d like your input on the balance of things.

The final stats would be around (no food):
Attack: 2772
Crit: 20%
Crit Damage: 40%
Armor: 2340 (1379 toughness)
Health: 16375

Noid.2871:

Would you guys please wait for the actual patch before declaring it’s the end of the world? Guilds/friends not being able to do Fractals together is a real issue, and everyone should be glad it is going to be adressed.

Everything about how the January patch is going to affect PUGs is pure speculation. Maybe ANet will actually display people’s real fractal level next to their name in the “join your party in fotm”-dialog. (As well as the level you’re about to enter. Duh.) Easily done, there goes all your whining.
Even if they don’t, they’ve still said that “rewards” will be based on your fractal level. That (to me) obviously means that you can’t get a daily 10/20/30… reward as a lvl 2, no matter what difficulty you play. It may also mean that mob drops will be the same for that f2 player, no matter whether they play difficulty 2 or 42. Personally, I consider that likely, both for balance reasons and for implementation reasons (due to MF, the game already has to take the receiving player into consideration when determining drops). Also:
(Game Update Notes Dec 14, I can’t seem to get the quote= tag to work)

Fixed mob and boss chest loot drops so that they will now scale up appropriately with player scale.

Then there’ll be no reason whatsoever for low level players to pug any higher than they need to find a full group. (Apart from straight trolls, but if you can’t handle them, then you should stop playing MMOs.)

Actually it says that the reward will be based on your fractal level, so long as your reward level will be equal to or lower than the level chosen. So anyone higher will get a lower level reward.

Oh boy! It seems your guild moved to JQ? I’ve noticed a lot of GODS members there (Im on SBI) Does that mean I might actually get to duel you in WvW? Awesome! You never learn more then you do when dueling someone!

Ikittenar.6457:

the moaning girls sound (ooh aahh ooohh ahhhh ) around divinity’s reach always makes me laugh. feels like i always walks around this people house at a wrong time while they were doing something naughty.

Ok now i have to go see where this is. Where is this at? I’ve heard quite a lot of the other ones mentioned here never heard this one though.

I think the best one is the song that the banker golems play, that needs to happen more often!

quercus.9261:

last match we were playing FA and a DD ele was getting his friend to announce in zone chat (Yak) which camps he would be hitting. Sure enough he would show up, run a zerg around the map, down a couple of lowbies and generally cause a ruckus.

While he was no doubt a master of his class I can’t think of any other game that lets people get away with this kind of stuff.

That was most likely Dapheonix on Excala. He’s on FA, and he’s generally considered one of the most talented D/D elementalists out there. He’s the guy who has all those videos of him taking on 6-8 people and living for quite a while. He’s the author of the guide in this very forum that quite a lot of people use.

Kalagon.3120:

As far as dugneon mechanics well you got rid of the tank and healer so that makes it hard. Making classes that spec into certain rolls feel more like they are contributing. I play a defensive tank Warrior sword and shield, but I dont feel like a tank because I have NO TAUNT, So I have all this armor and survivability yet the boss or mob will almost on timed schedual switch to another party member and focus on them. I cant save them cause I have no abilities too. Guardians probably feel the same but they have a few more abilities to help others then warriors do.

Healers also have the same issue with no major heals in this game everything is small amounts over time, no Save the day heal on a long cool down. I dont play healer so not sure what they want.

You seem to misunderstand the “No holy trinity” concept in this game….. There are no tanks/healers/DPS so it might be beneficial to you to stop trying to play as one of those. Try a more “balanced” spec and you might find yourself feeling more useful. Warriors are a great class to have in any dungeon group be they shout specced, GS spec or what have you. Aggro is not based on taunts (as there are none, and I certainly hope there wont be) in this game, it’s more based on RNG (or seems like it) however there is a thread where people are discussing what the aggro system is based off of.

Originally I would have mentioned the loot, but it seems to have gotten slightly better. Still needs a little more of a tweak IMO. I also agree on the overlapping AOE circles that Alpha does as well as the Shaman in HOTW.

My biggest complaint however is the Fractals. Due to the way party grouping works, there is a lot of room for being a total jerk. For example, my last run of level 12, I had to pug and ended up in a group with 2 guys from the same guild (don’t know the name) one of which was party leader/instance owner, and throughout the entire run were complaining on how slow things were going/how they were carrying us (the usual elitist “Im level 30+ yadda yadda”). On the last part (Jade Maw) one of the members of the party fell off and died. We had no way to res him, so me and another jumped off the sides to reset the instance. These 2 from this guild went ahead, killed the Jade Maw, and left the group kicking everyone out of the instance and therefore couldn’t loot the chest/didn’t get the daily done (this might have been a bug). We asked them to suicide so we can all go do the boss together, they basically said FU, no, we carried you we don’t need you and can do this ourselves. This needs to be fixed as it can’t be that 2 players can do that to a whole group.

Needless to say that they are blocked of course, but that still isn’t something that should be allowed.

So I’m trying to put in a ticket, but I’m not 100% sure how to do it. Are we talking an in game ticket? If so, under what category/sub category am I putting it under?

If not, then where am I putting this ticket in?

Hello,

I just finished the level 10 Fractal of the Mists, for the first time today, and did not receive the daily chest.

I did right before hand do level 10 with a different group, but we did not pass the 2nd fractal and disbanded due to a DC and someone leaving, so this should not have counted towards me “receiving” the chest, as I didn’t.

I signed in right as the event started, got lag issues, DC’ed and couldnt get back on at all. I couldn’t even make it to the boat to go to southsun cove at all. crashed and couldn’t even do any of the event. missed it entirely….. I honestly just wanted to participate in the event, the loot is secondary to me (I won’t lie it would be nice to get it, but its not as important).

Sounds like it was a blast… laggy but cool.

Its a good combo for PVP. Sigil of Air gives you a good amount of damage to add to your burst.

And axe offhand isn’t a joke. It’s usefulness depends on his role in the party.

hey kidbs you mind telling me what your trait allocations are? That looks like a very nice build right there and im quite interested in knowing what your gear/traits are. been trying to make an offensive support build with sword and torch but cant seem to get those attack numbers like that. certainly not my armor either.

Im using this build:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.3.3.11.17.0.0.0.0.0.54.60.74.69.78.9.0.9.152.0.0.167.175.176.181.186.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.10.30.25.0.5

and was going to go for a mix of knights & berzerkers gear as well as rune for cond. damage.

We can see a cave at the end, but cant seem to get to it, is that by design? or are we missing something? we can climb upwards to the mouth but are short by a bit from climbing in. We just slide off due to the slant that’s there on the rock.

Inside Ascalonian Catacombs Explorer?

Targren.6073:

Don’t you have to do the WvW maps for 100%?

Thats for the world completion. Been there done that is for uncovering the map, not doing hearts/POI/vistas.

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Devs…. what is this.

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I was wondering if the Been There Done That achievement was still bugged?

I currently have –
Krytan Explorer – 175/175
Orr Explorer – 60/60
Maguuma Explorer – 165/165
Shiverpeaks Explorer – 172/172
Ascalon Explorer – 175/175

My Been There Done That achievement is sitting at 99%. How is this possible? Still bugged?

I haven’t done a dungeon in a week, just did Ascalonian Catacombs – Ghost Eater path and received 45 comms. And we did it in 1 hour.

This needs to be fixed. I stopped doing dungeons last week when I received the continual DR bug (the one where no matter what path, or how long it was over 30 min, I was still smacked with DR) and just did one since my guildies said it was fixed. Apparently not.

I dunno, im kinda in the same boat, I can’t for the life of me find a group to run this with

So i just bought this orange “Box of Berserker Draconic Armor” and recieved instead of an orange set of Draconic armor a yellow set of Gladiator armor. now im out a lot of gold, and have something i didnt even want to buy as i wanted the draconic armor, and an ORANGE set not a yellow set.