Guild Wars 2

IllegalChocolate.6938:

Borrows in path 1 and path 3 can be 3 manned without ice bow,

Solo’d (Duo’d)*

3 people is overkill

IllegalChocolate.6938:

You can 3 man p2 boss in straight zerker in a single phase, you can spare a person to go PvT.

You can 3 man with only 1 person wearing berserker gear too. No idea what the other two was wearing but they were WvW players and ate the aoes for breakfast.

dutchiez.7502:

It’s funny how the Queen now won’t come into melee range unless you stack behind a corner.

pretty sure she didn’t do that before either. ranging was a complete joke. strafe a bit every x seconds.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Remember that elitism is not about player skill/experience or wisdom
Elitism is about what you’re wearing, if you can afford it and if you’re using meta

This doesn’t make any sense at all.

Just as with AC troll in HotW these changes didn’t change anything. Just made it very slightly more interesting. At least if you pug.

Shame cc is so useless in PvE. No way you can stop her poison now.

You don’t have to stay inside circle for bubble.

I didn’t even notice the P2 change as I always kill the champion anyway.

Died at the usual time of 90% of graveling bar.

And the puglings didn’t have an issue with queen either. Except they forgot to yolo after the spiderlings were dead so it was mostly a solo/duo deal.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

RemiRome.8495:

Seems like it prepared most of us here just fine.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

We don’t have that problem here, since the forums are full of a bunch of theorycrafters and perfectionists who go above and beyond in the game. But unless players are experimenting on golems, or talking with other theorcrafters, they won’t know about all these hidden limits.

My second selfquote was highly relevant. Pointing out it’s not an issue with the game doing too little to teach but players doing too little to learn.

Could it do more? Probably. Would it help? Probably not.

Path 1 (Jotun): Fixed a bug that prevented some of the waypoints from appearing after the correct event.

Is this real life?

Like any game that isn’t versus a player.

Thanks for your input.

edit: what the hell I just refreshed don’t you people have anything better to do?

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

The problem isn’t the boss blitz. The problem is, the rest of the game doesn’t prepare players for the boss blitz, neither by the game’s mechanics nor by the require cooperation.

Seems like it prepared most of us here just fine.

RemiRome.8495:

They are lazy and not interested. There’s no desire to learn.

Ghost reporting.

Except there’s no Guide dang it at all.

You see 6 enemies. You see a timer. It’s not rocket science.

They are lazy and not interested. There’s no desire to learn.

edit: edit out the actual link for the love of god.

Jerus.4350:

Overall I agree, with one addition, the grenades at melee range on boomboom is bad. I’m dead before the orange circles appear on my screen =/ Give me a half second at least please. Average human response If I understand correctly is around .3s, give me at least that.

It’s not like she doesn’t do the same attacks in the same order with the same timing all the time.

Big Jay.1479:

Xenon.4537:

The guy that says he will run lava in CoF p2 and dies every time.

I hate it when everyone just ports back without confirming who is going to do the lava part. More than once I have seen all 5 people port back only to have all 5 of us return to make the run as a group.

Rule #1

Do everything yourself until you see someone else do it faster.

maha.7902:

Pre-patch, people thought you needed multiple people to kite wraiths in the wraithlord ritual. We used one.

So pug meta went from being what it is now pretty much to worse then back to what it is now? Difference being the mandatory afking in circles back then.

Behellagh.1468:

Vol.7601:

20 copper ancient bones.

A long time ago when the TP was new and shiny.

When ancient bones dropped more than all other mats combined*

they didn’t even hit 2s until like january iirc. basically all t6 was dirt cheap except blood which was around 4s.

Accountbound dark matter – worth an exotic. opportunity cost, yada yada.

Nonbound dark matter – worth nothing.

Tachii.3506:

That spot is immune to the rock AoEs. It means even if the pug team is all running PVT armor they will still get the job done since the bosses’ damage alone is negligible. I don’t mind the FGS stacking spots but I wouldn’t push pugs for that spot since I wouldn’t know if their DPS is enough before the rock AoEs starts to fall.

Grast hangs out in the southeast corner anyway so it’s no problem. Cakewalk even if you aren’t FGSing. (stability could be nice though… I told you guard. I told you ;_; )

edit: errr. northeast? anyway. the spot that isn’t pillar.

I’m glad Weth took screens before I got around to it. Turns out it would have been a waste of time.

unicorngirl.1487:

Elitists who think they’re something special just because they do a load of easy dungeons over and over. LOL

A+

crosknight.3041:

maha.7902:

Arah is an end game dungeon, the bosses should be challenging.

like i said: what is to easy for you might not be to others

why would anyone unbind their movement keys? that doesn’t make any sense.

Wethospu.6437:

Sure, their Flame Burst hits like a truck but it’s a PBAoE with a distinctive sound.

Flame burst?

What happened to the invisible lavafonts? This changes everything!

Stooperdale.3560:

Ranger sword is one of the least liked weapons in the game and it is only appreciated by the players who control the #1 skill manually.

first part true
second part not so much

iirc guang ditched traveler on engi with the patch.

he might be one of a kind but he isn’t kittened.

edit: I guess his new choice is strength. for obvious reasons.

I’d assume the biggest problem is getting hit by nonexistant lava fonts when they are actually throwing meteor showers with pretty clear tells.

edit: or possibly that other attack that staffwielding fire attuned elementalists have that isn’t lava font.

Warlord.9074:

i guess you didn’t really know any better

cute.

But I was hostile so I’ll allow it.

Cormac.3871:

If you start your own group saying “all welcome” you will get experienced level 80’s three times out of four.

Teach me Cormac-sensei.

Yargesh.4965:

You don’t try to control the adds that spawn while you damage the champ?

There’s adds?

CuRtoKy.8576:

I was bored just now so I soloed the spider queen boss at that corner. Wasn’t too bad you just don’t want to waste your active defenses and time them correctly.

To be fair. Soloing corner in p1 is pretty ridiculous. Hodgins best healer in the game. His healing rain have no cooldown (or that’s what it feels like).

edit: A+ thread. Glad I read it.

Dee Jay.2460:

as were the untelegraphed instant-gib AoEs by the NPC Elementalists

it’s not untelegraphed.

The issue with wurm is that everyone that is not the mesmer is screwed. This makes people sad and angry.

Dungeons do not have that problem so it will most definitely be added.

:(

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

(thief has two stealth stackers, while engie only has one).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Powder

Infinite stealth stackers in practice.

Chill works from what I’ve seen but can’t apply long enough duration on the things that matter.

People that pretend that their LFG isn’t casual and make silly demands that takes longer than the path itself.

edit: bonus points if they themselves don’t fit the criteria.

he sadly left eu right after pugging with me.

i’m sorry.

Wheatty.1892:

or sometimes use daggerstorm in her current position without teleporting to the middle.

interrupting the teleport is a bad idea

Erasmus.1624:

Just did a 50. Out of four, only one got a infused ring. Lower tiers also gave nothing.
Yeah, I’m not feeling the “improved” drop rates.

Correct. That is how stuff works. A coin toss will always be in your favor.

I was saying there is no “should” involved. It was very possible to solo before without stealth so there’s really no debate whether it is possible now with the easymode version.

DonQuack.9025:

I sent guardian 5g and got the gold and this little gem back.

Some day he will teach someone else to fish.

Beautiful.

Ayrilana.1396:

There’s really a set way to do it now that dumbs it down enough to be done consistently in pug groups?

Kill stuff.
Don’t be a kitten on oozes.
Kill stuff.
Kill that other stuff.
Don’t be a kitten on electric floor.
Kill the last stuff.

Since it was released.

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

I just did a 50, 2 uninfused rings and 3 people getting nothing ‘fixed’ drop rates for sure

Correct. That is how stuff works. A coin toss will always be in your favor.

MagicSlurpees.4851:

and it seems possible to fully solo if you’re not a kittenty player and you don’t get PuGs aggroing the mobs and killing you.

if you could fully solo it before without stealth I don’t see how getting endless free stealth for any class would somehow make it harder.

Ok I Did It.2854:

the boss that fires the rockets will 1 shot your entire party now, you can no longer stack these

errr. it always did that.

you wearing sentinel or something?

edit: and why aren’t you dodging the only thing that hurts?

Levelord.5746:

Ironically in one of the fastest dungeons (CoF path 1 and 2), nobody uses stacking. It’s strangely easy enough for people to relax and spread out without having to worry about min/maxing a fight.

every dungeon is like that if you want it to be.

things faster than cof2.

ac1
ac2
ac3
cm1
cm2
cm3
taup
tafw
se1
se3
cof1
cof3
hotw1
hotw2
arah3

and honorary mention to arah1 that is less than 10 seconds slower.

edit: I like the part where no one stacks on Slave Driver and Prison Warden though. nice touch.

DigitalKirin.9714:

Anyone else observe his odd ground attack behavior?

Same deal with every leap with weird altitude shenanigans going on.

Arah p2 abomination comes to mind.
ac troll (the original!) on stairs or why not even a tiny little bumpy stone? tons of fun.

edit: rereading thread I’m kind of surprised no one knew what you meant.

No Pulse.2967:

So I had a warrior in my fractal pug sitting on LB pressing 1 from 1200 range. I asked him to run PS, he replied that it could never sustain more than 3 might stacks, so he’d better be off “supporting” with “healing banners”.

“Gain might on a critical hit”

he was probably right

dutchiez.7502:

I think that might actually be the same guy, since he was french too. Was his name Koneko ____ ? He was also an ele and spelled it “dongon”.

Indeed.

dutchiez.7502:

I think this pic speaks for itself.

It really does.

I heard they were writing a tutorial on how to duo p4 100% legit no exploits boss at 1%.

Sadly only in french.

Lindbur.2537:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Magician skirt is fabulous with phoenix coat.

:)

my norn ele got stockings with her magician skirt. why are your legs visible? :<

edit: nvm. probably some graphic setting
edit2: the knees threw me off. I probably have quality lower or something. they seems flat on mine.

a. start dungeon and let people know you might have to afk from time to time
b. join dungeon and let people know you might have to afk from time to time

people will either be fine with it or in case of

a: leave
b: kick you

why would anyone be banned?

Iris Ng.9845:

I remember posting a really angry post criticizing haviz for not appreciating the elementalist class. Boy, was I naive and uninformed at that time

Every time I see something like this I wonder if I’m weird.

It’s like. I’m fanboying it up over something cool Miku or Goku did and no one knows what I’m talking about.

Be prepared to switch back and forth a lot if the selling doesn’t go smoothly. Can’t relist with sub80 in party.

Other than that it shouldn’t be an issue.

edit: most p3 sellers expect the buyers to help with boss and you get less money back. so I don’t recommend leveling through p3.

Knaifhogg.5964:

When’s the last time anyone did AC p3 without stacking at the spot the ceiling rubble can’t hit you?

4 days ago when I told my pug we’re running straight to boss (with or without Grast cooperating).

It went mostly fine.

thanks rT for the ac runs.

hopefully pugs will accept the old master race of spiderspots.