Guild Wars 2

I agree,

never cease to amaze Marin, always a pleasure watching you work.

I am not sure you understand what you are asking.

Most of your suggestions already exist in the raids.
the number of “required” classes is exactly zero.
There is only 1 class that uses primarily auto attacks,
By having a boss that requires a specific class, Engineer in your example, would go against the very basic idea of what GW2 was supposed to be about. ( not waiting around for hours on end for a healer, etc)

Every single class is Raid capable.
and in some cases there are more than one variant of said class that is raid capable.

so what is the problem again?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4pe4jy/can_we_get_a_directory_of_guilds_that_teach_raids/

there,
Getting into raiding is even easier.

Just my random thoughts,

In truth I don’t have a problem with it being 150. However I can see the concept that Dusk is putting out. 4 months is a long time gate.

I would suggest dropping it to 100,
and here is why,
Its still time gated. but it becomes a month less. AND it will still reward those dedicated raiders for consistently clearing. Simply for the reason that by the time the collection is completely released. you will have enough Insights to craft 2 sets of armor. Which I personally think is super cool.

If you want me to go on a mental bender I would even go so far to suggest adding a single wing raid that is the final stage of the collection. Still allow it to be run regularly of course adding 3 or perhaps 4 more insights to be collected in general, thus reducing the gate even further. Perhaps have a thing in the last room off to the side of the last room that has the "legendary forge " or something like that. They did say that the collection will be completed with content yet to be released. It would be a cool thing to have another wing be that thing.

Eh Ramblings.

Personal opinion, If we are talking about dropping the requirement I would suggest going no lower than 100. Or Adding another wing.
or both.

its the dialog for the collection of legendary armor bits.

Infuse your living crystal and it should go away

little old but more or less relevant to your question.

Good luck Max!!

I have a similar problem. And it has been…. interesting attempting to deal with it.

I am deaf.

Let me tell ya, Pugging is tricky.

Sorry for the double post but I think this bear repeating in this thread as well.

Did you know?
That restaurant critics, will visit a place on average around 6 to 8 times before they write a review. Those tense days and weeks between when we first sight them and when it finally hits print are agonizing. We pay attention to those reviews. Those are the reviews that will make or break us.
Places like Google or Yelp or (insert random critique site), garner very small amounts of our attention. We will check them and get a feel for what the general consensus is. Occasionally there will be a scathing post in which we will panic over and analyse for what happened and what we did wrong. We spend approximately 10 minutes on it, Most of the time, its just people that are not going to be happy with anything. So we shoulder it and move on. There are a lot of other people out there that we need to keep making happy.
Every single night, Me and my crew put our hearts and passion on the line. for the whims of our guests. We aren’t in this for money. we are in this because we love what we do.
And there are many a times we will run into people that no matter what we do or how we do it, they are not going to be happy. Well we tried and we will continue to try because its what we do.
There are many people that have been posting on this thread and the forums in general. Concerning Raids or difficulty or how its to hard to get mastery points etc.
These are the people that come into my Fine dining Japanese/ Asian Restaurant. Order Chicken tenders with fries, Complain to me about how I don’t have hamburgers, (yes this does happen), Don’t tip the server and go on to write some review on yelp about how the sushi was improperly prepared.
You have reached a point where your opinions mean nothing. Most of us don’t even read them any more. As they contain no information worth noting. And they will remain as such for a very long time.
The raid team and Arena net in general have, like me, put everything they have on the line for us. the life, their love and passion to create something that they believe in. In hopes that people will enjoy it. Every hour of every day their work is up for scrutiny. Every plate I send out has a little bit of my soul in it. And all we can both do is the best we can and hope people like it.
You want to understand it all? Be able to raid and be able to have those nice things? Sit down at my sushi bar. And ask how to get into it. Rather than telling me how to do my job, Let us do our job and what we love, and help show you what it is that we find so cool.
and /endrambleItalktokitten much

Did you know?
That restaurant critics, will visit a place on average around 6 to 8 times before they write a review. Those tense days and weeks between when we first sight them and when it finally hits print are agonizing. We pay attention to those reviews. Those are the reviews that will make or break us.

Places like Google or Yelp or (insert random critique site), garner very small amounts of our attention. We will check them and get a feel for what the general consensus is. Occasionally there will be a scathing post in which we will panic over and analyse for what happened and what we did wrong. We spend approximately 10 minutes on it, Most of the time, its just people that are not going to be happy with anything. So we shoulder it and move on. There are a lot of other people out there that we need to keep making happy.

Every single night, Me and my crew put our hearts and passion on the line. for the whims of our guests. We aren’t in this for money. we are in this because we love what we do.

And there are many a times we will run into people that no matter what we do or how we do it, they are not going to be happy. Well we tried and we will continue to try because its what we do.

There are many people that have been posting on this thread and the forums in general. Concerning Raids or difficulty or how its to hard to get mastery points etc.

These are the people that come into my Fine dining Japanese/ Asian Restaurant. Order Chicken tenders with fries, Complain to me about how I don’t have hamburgers, (yes this does happen), Don’t tip the server and go on to write some review on yelp about how the sushi was improperly prepared.

You have reached a point where your opinions mean nothing. Most of us don’t even read them any more. As they contain no information worth noting. And they will remain as such for a very long time.

The raid team and Arena net in general have, like me, put everything they have on the line for us. the life, their love and passion to create something that they believe in. In hopes that people will enjoy it. Every hour of every day their work is up for scrutiny. Every plate I send out has a little bit of my soul in it. And all we can both do is the best we can and hope people like it.

You want to understand it all? Be able to raid and be able to have those nice things? Sit down at my sushi bar. And ask how to get into it. Rather than telling me how to do my job, Let us do our job and what we love, and help show you what it is that we find so cool.

and /endrambleItalktokitten much

I was kind of wondering about the poison duration sigil over geo or earth.

I think its just a matter of how reliably you can proc the goe sigil when you want it to due to shroud also being a weapon swap.

thanks Sly,

By the way all, this is a cool debate and fun to theory craft. thanks for keeping it light and fun

Refernce chart I am using

Alrighty Ima gonna try this theory crafting thing. Tell me if i suck

Using the chart I linked above. necromancer will cap out on bleed and Chill By a mere 2 percent. The chart assumes Full viper and a sigil of malice with traits Barbed precision and cold shoulder. Lingering curse of course does not count to this as it is a base duration not a percentile cap increase.

All that being said. The chart also does NOT include a rune set. Which will serve our purpose nicely in this particular debate.

Assuming 25 might,
Beserker tick poison for 205.34
Thorns (5 stacks, ) will tick 204.98

So, damage wise it looks to be a wash. Beserker will pull ahead i feel simply due to its not as Situational. As you need to be able to maintain the 5 stacks, and it takes at minimum 50 seconds to get there. Also to note, again using the chart, the rune of thorns will also not just over cap, but sail past it by about 15 percent. 2 or 3 percent is negligible. but 15??

The other side of the equation that should be considered is the power side. So far it appears as though via condition damage alone they come out on par with each other. But the beserker rune will outpace in the power department. Reapers can crit very well. so you will always be getting that damage boost. And in a more optimized party, Grace of the land moves your power damage vs condie.

Interesting,
That chart also is missing a sigil slot….

in my opinion. Max Damage Condition reaper
Viper Armour,
Viper Trinkets.
Viper weapons.
Beserker runes.
Sigil of malice,
and sigil of Venom,

100+ percent bleed, Chill, and poison.
82 percent torment.

0.o
ok you can tell me I suck and tell me what i did wrong.

(( has fanboi moment over Spoj and subli ))

:)

i really need to find an oceanic raid group…

food for thought Dino, I would wonder about the direct damage, over the excess duration. Something to look into i guess. I really wish there was more on crit or on swap condie sigils.

Stajan,
You are not wrong, And you are describing a loadout i use in WvW. But for PvE stuff the added durability is wasted, (at least for me). Its nice to know that I CAN sit around and wait for stuff to die. I just dont like to.

I could be wrong, I will need to do more research (as i am looking at this too. )

my understanding currently.

Viper armour,
Viper trinkets.
Viper weapons.
Beserker runes.

Should be the max damage loadout. Depending on if you want to run a sigil of malice or bursting and what kind of food you can work with may change it a bit. I need to actually get my hand on the trinkets and see what they actually do.

I am personally running a sinister trinket combo with a nightmare and trapper rune set up. simply because Getting into a raid guild in my time zone is not existant. So i have to make do with what I have available.

Epidemic at vale is only worthwhile if you are running 2 reapers, and its for a bounce effect.

the seekers are VERY, VERY tanky. Meaning they do not die, they will despawn.

suffer,

:)

just time it well so that you have it off cool down, its not going to move the seekers. but it will slow them down so they don’t come to you.

o.0

Doctor Crimsonwing to dungeon operating room STAT!!!!!!

:)

good on you bro, I miss your antics but i can totaly appreciate it. be a good student now ya hear!!!!

Kekkei Genkai Kage.5930:

So I can bring my WvW gear to wing 2 raids?

gear does not equal build

this is a special operations excursion. Not a siege, If you feel your skill and ability needs to be padded by the fluffy pillow that is your mist war armour. that sounds like a personal thing.

Nevets,

come play with me, We can be bitter old forumites without a raid team together.

"""Also, to be noted – We’ve used 9 unique professions, 2 without Elite Specializations. So you can be dank with anything you play.""""

quoted from one of the members of the first full clear.

Coulter.2315:

If by “versitilty of builds and group” you mean “will I need to understand the encounter and build appropriately, maybe even using traits and skills I haven’t before,” then the answer is yes.

pretty much this.

Nicely done!!!!

you guys have fun??

what did you all think of the wing over all?

Really cool to hear you guys.

I am happy that the team and wing has delivered.

In case you have not seen it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/49pqld/salt_just_wrecked_matthias/

..[SALT}
salvation pass clear. world first.

awesome job you guys,

you all have fun???

Nicely done [ROID] !!!!

did you have fun???

spent a bit in AC on reaper.

they simply do not have the DpS to be able to do the burrow events.

one thing about reaper and AC,

they lack the DpS to be able to get the burrows down In path 1.

Path 3 I am not sure about. I will need to go back and see.

but generally speaking, your best bet is to either get an Ele, or a Warrior, for soling the path. Find a group. or do PvP.

Its terrible i know, but such as it is.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Actual-DPS-Comparison-between-classes/first#post5973181

this is the one that I know about.

I think Spoj suggested it at one point, or something to the effect.

being able to “manually” reset the instance would be really good. If you have already capped shards and the like, being able to just reset the boss or instance in general would be a good thing, chance for practice with different characters. or the ability to do “record runs” for those guild that do that. My personal thing would be is that i use the green guardian trash to test builds and the like.

just letting us reset the thing would be a great QoL improvement,

"" Why spend that amount of gold for something of so little value? ""

you spending your gold on something else???

Nokaru.7831:

While I could answer this question, this video will do so in a much more amusing fashion. (Link)

That is a great vid,
thank you for sharing that.

I am actually surprised people even notice the timers.

I mean come on, Are you that concerned about your dailies or something to even be looking at that section of the screen?

I would argue that you could remove the visual timer and it would become MORE difficult.
In the case of Vale guardian, given that the other 2 bosses have mechanics that will kill you regardless. What does he do? at approximately 8 min into the fight he think you are all to tanky and are sissies? so he ups his damage output???

You are all kittening and moaning about a little clock up in the corner of your screen. If you are downing him/them before enrage why do you even care? If you are Dying to the Enrage, or Lack of updrafts, or the platform disintegrating.
I think there is something far more important for you to be looking at Vs a tiny clock.

pshhh Junk,

its Dire you dunderhead. dont you know you only need one stat for a condie build???

:)

Something to think about,

When this wing first came out it was (and in many regards it still is) Hard. With practice and repetition the Elite Guilds have done some amazing things and not only beat the content. But have succeeded in out preforming the content.

The general public, have been learning and you will find more and more people able to clear the content in such a manner that would appear as over powered. The concept of the pug meta being about 6 months or so (if not longer) behind the actual Meta. Stand true.

Now,
Crystal Ried and the raid team, I am sure are sitting there as they tweak and modify the numbers and design of the next and future wings. When they made this first one, they were operating under the impression that most 5 man teams were averaging probably around 10-12k dps. per person (wild guess but meh) . well, we got better, 10 – 12 k is our Low End, (real fight Dps, not vacuum) it would not shock me in the slightest, and in fact I (and many others I would imagine) would love it, if they tuned the next wing, “Salvation Pass” around the idea of a 15k dps mark?? maybe??? And then throw the mechanics on top of it all to make us sweat even more?

its gonna be a wild ride. And I am certainly looking forward to it.

Burn War is still perfectly fine Damage wise, it is within the same percentile block that Engie and Necro are in,

Necro gets higher if specific things happen. (epidemic and jagged horror spam)
Engie gets higher if they are a piano player. (Semi stagnant boss and good rotations.)
Warrior is still good and you still bring banners.

That being said after some random testing me and some friends did today, I dont know if it was a stealth fix or if we were just not paying attention. but scorched earth is more or less fixed. as in that a single target will take scorched earths from 2 different warriors. What does that little .5 sec internal cd do? It makes it so your entire scorched earth functions as a single fire field. Similar to that of the Ele skill. So inf you land 2 of the “fields” on a targets hit box, you will only get 3 or 4 stacks of burning. instead of 6 to 8.

not sure if serious… 0.o

does it matter???

how did you “waste” gold gearing a condie war. It is still perfectly usefull.

If you are concerned about the COST of gearing a “new” class. then I would not bother. Gear them out because you are playing them, or enjoy playing them.

What else are you using your gold for?

Zerg surfing king,

Love it Methane, it is always a pleasure seeing you do what you do.

that is impressive Tyr,

Very cool!

Lightsbane.9012:

the reason you bring a PS warrior over a power reaper is that warrior’s dps is much higher.

not by a long shot.

you bring a PS warrior over Power reaper because banners and EA,

in a raid setting, you want 2 PSEA warrior for each subgroup to make sure all have banners, Empowered allies and the might stacks, Once you have those covered. Reaper is a solid DpS choice, and far better option than a third power warrior. And with the recent changes to Scorched Earth, Its a non issue on the condie front you can bring Either Condie Warrior or Condie reaper.

its not,

now,
If you are planning on puggin, I would suggest you finish the sets, its really not all that hard.
If you are getting in with a guild group. then thats between you and them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Furious_Maintenance_Oil
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Furious_Tuning_Crystal
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Furious_Sharpening_Stone

Kind of expensive. But for the occasional buff, its fun.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Furious_Maintenance_Oil
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Furious_Tuning_Crystal
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Furious_Sharpening_Stone

Kind of expensive. But for the occasional buff, its fun.

Did you know that dungeon tours are just as profitable as before if not more so???

NikeEU.7690:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-to-Condi-Correctly

My god the level of insanity.

wow….

thats… wow…..

AHAHAHAHAH,

well played Methane. I do always love your stuff. I am fully convinced you are the zerg surfing king.

Some good stuff there Sand.

nicely done!

I could be wrong in this thought,

Bu I don’t take well of corruption for the corruption…

I take it for the AoE damage. the corruption is just a touch of sugar.

outstanding stuff Holl,

I have been so focused on PvE since HoT i have not really been out in WvW much less PvP

inspiring as always.

Scootabuser.4915:

Someone said condi-mesmer, I think I died a little inside.

((comforts Scoot and gives beer)))

kzar.3079:

Ropechef.6192:

kzar.3079:

The problem I see with raids is the lack of build diversity. I main a ranger and am mostly stuck with druid which I hate. Every profession should be able to contribute to a raid in more ways than one. Ranger for instance should be able to have 3 viable builds, power DPS, condi DPS and healer, however most groups are only interested in the last. And being forced into playing healer or any other profession shouldn’t be required. I don’t want raids to be easier, but give every profession enough build diversity to allow them to fill different roles.

power druids are a thing.

pug meta is slow as usual.

that I am aware of every class has a viable power and condi spec. healer not as much.
If you want to run a power druid, then do so. If your group doesn’t want a power druid than run with a different group.

there is is more build and class diversity now than ever before in the life of the game. the fact people don’t see it baffles me every day

I see that there is build diversity, however most of the community doesn’t seem to thik so and is blinded by the “meta”

do not confuse the “meta” with the “pug Meta”

there, Power Druid.

kzar.3079:

The problem I see with raids is the lack of build diversity. I main a ranger and am mostly stuck with druid which I hate. Every profession should be able to contribute to a raid in more ways than one. Ranger for instance should be able to have 3 viable builds, power DPS, condi DPS and healer, however most groups are only interested in the last. And being forced into playing healer or any other profession shouldn’t be required. I don’t want raids to be easier, but give every profession enough build diversity to allow them to fill different roles.

power druids are a thing.

pug meta is slow as usual.

that I am aware of every class has a viable power and condi spec. healer not as much.
If you want to run a power druid, then do so. If your group doesn’t want a power druid than run with a different group.

there is is more build and class diversity now than ever before in the life of the game. the fact people don’t see it baffles me every day