Guild Wars 2

makes sense,

put all the stuff that makes the encounter what it is in one thing rather than delaying the inevitable

regardless, very cool and really well done.

really well done Donee.

:)

and ya that rev… ohh so salty

Really nice Sesshi,

outstanding as always.

how did you get the set up for the single phase? just play it through and then clear it like ashym?

random thought,

what if rather than changing out the skill to be something else…

perhaps revisit the pre hot possibles of burning damage reduction. maybe tone down burning by say 10 percent, and buff bleeding by 10 percent.

By doing so it would still provide opportunity for a burnzerker to play skillfully in placement of their scorched earth and allow for the loss of damage to be made up in the bleeding from sword.
Engie would level out as their condie damage is consisted of both burning and bleeding as well as others.
Necromancer get a little bit of a buff and a more stable spot in the scene.
Condie Guardian would see a drop but i am not sure that gets played all that much in any game mode right now.
Condie ranger might see some changes but they have access to bleeding as well as burning so I dont know.

just a thought.

my bad, I should have been a little more specific.

yes, I was referring to the back slot item specifically. and i am as sad as the rest of us that we lack either a viper of sinister back.

i will edit the post

(( for the back slot item))

rabid is your highest dps option.

rampager is your alternative depending if you need to manage toughness levels for raids etc.

known bug,

should be fixed today sometime.

the best counter to that instability is as follows:

ignore it.

even an entire party of “boon stripping” cannot keep them off in any sort of reasonable fashion. ( i have done it)

short of getting a bunch of WvW hammer train no crit tanks to slog your way through for a few hours. its just not worth it.

It does however increase a condition/corruption Necromancers damage output if you happen to have one that has the AR to be there in the first place.

DOWN FLESHY!!!!

0.o

CONGRATS you guys, very cool to hear you got it down! best of luck moving forward.

Nokaru.7831:

This is a comic about World of Warcraft, but it’s relevant now: Link

that is awesome,

deSade.9437:

I don’t, I have a thing for chefs going on – problem is I’m EU trash :/ plz get EU acct n be wit kool kids

P.S. Is anyone else overwhelmed by the amount of ridiculous arguments about raids and overall rampaging phiwism? Because I am. I feel like I don’t even know what to post, because the topics are just so stupid.
P.P.S. plz hit me up ingame for raids or erping, we never have enough people for an orgy… sob

i may have to do that,

after over 3 years of pugging with ocasional pickups from established guilds pugging me.

i may just need to move to EU, my normal playtime is your prime time.

research must be done.

NA here,

hit me up D, if you see me and need a slot filled

if you don’t mind a deaf, bitter, jaded chef

:)

i figured it out….

all of this constant whine….

they are the people that show up to my fine dining japanese/asian restaraunt …

and order chicken fingers.

good hell.

TexZero.7910:

I have a really simple solution for everyone suffering from timer depression.

Grab yourself some tape and a piece of paper of your choosing. Tape said paper over said timer.

Look the timer, is gone and you can stop worrying about it.

Stop looking at the timer and start looking at the fight, and you’ll improve exponentially.

0.o
brilliant

the best way to earn gold is in fact to play the game.

typical silverwaste event map will yield me around 10 gold. If I do a session of map hopping for say… 50 percentiles and up i can pull down about a hundred gold in a night of play time, (bout 4 hours).

Typical dungeon path yields me around 2 gold per path.

world bosses are around 1 to 5 gold each.

Dragon stand is around 10 gold per full run.

WvW is largely dependant on how active the map is. but my WvW main is fully ascended and elite speced and has only played inside of WvW.

I make money by playing the game. And enjoying it.

the absolute hardest thing for me, is finding a raid/dungeon/fractal group at 2 am.

spoj.3175:

I have to say i am enjoying the gallons of fresh tears every day.

The rage posts are quite a lovely example of how toxic the “casual” community can be.

((gives spoj a beer))

does not matter the level.
defeat the legendary imbued shaman.

the spot is actually just off the side of the “island” in the lava hold ctrl and you should see it.

is it just me?

or is there a bottomless cesspool of whine everywhere?

eldrin.6471:

The people buying large amounts of gems are not and never will be the same people that can do raids.and by marginalizing the people who are the life blood of this game anet have committed economic suicide.

I buy lots of gems,

I raid…

I also WvW and PvP,

your point?

what??

I work 50 plus hours a week as a chef… I still have enough time to be able to have 19 characters many of them in ascended. run the occasional dungeon tour etc.

its not about how much time we put into it, its how well we spend our time doing it.

the hardest part for me is getting a group at 2 am.

spoj.9672:

Got a new amulet from Sabetha.

dude….

thats pretty spiffy!

that particular meter,

all it does is screen cap your combat log, hence why it is open in the vid. it adds everything up and does math. so yes if you stop attacking stuff. its not gonna calculate anything.

all it is doing is providing a fast calculator for you.

and Spoj and Donee are right, Reaper is great in the raid scene. Relax a bit you all.

Maxzero.4032:

Lopez.7369:

There are in-game damage meters, and they generally prove the spreadsheets right in optimal scenarios. In those optimal scenarios, condition reaper is about 12k to 14k DPS, and condition engineer is about 25k. And power reaper is about 14k to 19k (depending on the boss’s health), and power revenant is about 25k.

We can argue about whether the optimal situation is always applicable, but there’s very little reason to think that a power revenant or even a good condition engineer would struggle much more with uptime than any reaper build. And that means condition reaper is really bad, while power reaper is better classified as below average in terms of DPS.

As for the idea that ArenaNet isn’t going to balance fights for optimal DPS, we already know they are balancing fights assuming you will optimize DPS. That’s not as noticeable on Vale Guardian, which is purposely relatively easy, but it’s definitely true for the other two bosses in the available raid wing.

They do?

Link me me some readouts that show classes doing 20k+ sustained over a long period of time.

not 100 percent as if you are in "down time for more than about 3 to 5 sec it stalls.

Ele stronk

spoj.9672:

You can just use toughness food. Thats all you need.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

That’s… a pretty good idea.

o.0

Plate of Spicy Herbed Chicken +100 Toughness
+70 Power

VERY VERY COOL!!!!

good on you guys!

Hekela.1846:

MadCat.9172:

Shards drop in 50+

You’ve confirmed that? You’ve had a drop?

can confirm, i have had several drop in the last few days.

Dovienya.6597:

has anyone tried the sigils that steal boons on the crit makes boon levels?

or boon corrupter reaper or necro build? [2 AOE boon corrupt1 that pulses x5, and a trait that corrupts boons and give yourself might on signet use with the ability to trait for signets that proc on bleed passively. (plus heal and spite signet.)]

in other discussions, yes we have,

the most effective way to “deal” with this particular instability is to simply ignore it.

Even with a full party of boon hate, you simply cannot remove them fast enough. (yes i have tried)

random thought though.

does the ascended capacitor appear in the forge for stat change???

Maxzero.4032:

Cogbyrn.7283:

Garo.5304:

It’s because this forum is particularly obsessed with melee grade DPS. For some reason necros have to be able to do it to. If you win a fight even though the math says you’ll lose. The math is no longer valid.

I don’t think the math has ever said Necros will lose a fight. It just says that another class might win the fight faster.

Another class or another Icebow?

http://gw2dungeons.net/Records

Here are the GW2 dungeon speed records. What do you notice about the class representations? Every single group has at least two Elementalists. I wonder why?

You know what else is interesting?

THERE IS NOT A SINGLE NEW RECORD POST ICEBOW NERF.

Funny that.

I suspect that the site is going to become very stale since its going to be hard work trying to top speeds done by groups generating 80k dps per Ele abusing exploits.

the records were reset for the launch of Heart of thorns.

heart of thorns has been out for a very short amount of time.

the People that make records are busy playing the game and enjoying the new content and learning the new specs.

dont worry I am sure some will start popping up soon.

That being said, get yourself a group and put one up. Maybe stir up some competition. and maybe you will learn something along the way…

ran a party through this instability that was built and designed around boon removal.

Necros and mesmers. and all their corruption and stripping glory.

you cannot strip them fast enough. you cannot corrupt them fast enough.

so what we did was…

ignored it entirely.

went back to our regular builds and proceeded to roll through it.

Blind spam and dodging is a thing.

complete level 50,
gain cheesement,
visit " buy-2046 PFR " ( the yellow gollom on the left.
it is the 4th item down, called. : Fractal weapons Crate (in pink lettering)

thanks Nevets,

I am sure we ill find them at some point

looking forward to having you back, I would love to run with you someday if you will have me

this makes me happy.

theoretical vacume dps rotation,

starting with 0 life force.

Focus 4/ warhorn 5
dagger auto till shroud fills.
if off hands skill are available use before shrouding
pop shroud.
rs3
rs5
rs4 (inside of 5 for chill stacking)
rs1 till shroud is 50 percent (asuming the traited damage buff for life force is still in effect)
leave shroud
focus 4/warhorn 5
dagger auto,
(repeat as needed till target is 50 percent health.)
swap GS,
gs 3 if need lf gen for damage buff,
gs 2 till dead.

….
maybe?

Purple Miku.7032:

Hey,

I’ll post it here on this thread only because I don’t think this is worth making a new thread over:

Ihave 99,250 arah tokens and I think I’ll be doing like a 4k or 5k gem giveaway or something like that for the night I get 100k— probably on stream. It’s probably going to be sometime this weekend, because I’m just assuming I probably will get 250 tokens a day for the next 3 days unless I get lazy and cba to log in. We’ll see!

very cool Miku,

keep us posted, I doubt i will be able to watch given my rl schedule but this is still a cool thing!!!

I have seen ascended nomad, as well as Magi, Guardians AND warriors.

they do exist…

ColinJohanson.2394:

Unlocking your elite spec is a training line in your training panel that costs hero points. You do need to have trained all the existing training lines before you’re allowed to put hero points into your elite spec.

If you’ve got all the hero points in the existing game you’ll have enough to train about half the elite specialization training line on launch day. The rest you’ll need to earn in the jungle or via the new system Tyler outlined yesterday from WvW. The number of points to fully train your elite spec is higher than other training lines – but hero challenges in the jungle are worth 10 points each, so it’s not actually as big as it appears.

ColinJohanson.2394:

It’s 400 points total to unlock everything in an elite spec training line – I just can’t remember off hand how many points folks have currently if they have done all the existing ones, but it’s right around 200. The rest you’ll need to earn in jungle to unlock the deeper skills/traits/etc. in the training line.

Again, hero challenges are worth 10 points each in the jungle. So no you don’t need to go do 200-400 jungle challenges.

400 points gang,
values of 10 in the jungle though,

the level of salt in the forums in general these last while is obscene.

i am about ready to start farming it and using it at my shop…

on second thought maybe not. it would most likely taste terrible.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

This is great news, thanks Gaile.

To Nike and others at DnT – make sure it’s hard

this, so much this!

good luck you all and have a fantastic time!

this makes me very very happy.

not to long ago…

I had to close my restaurant.
several years of blood sweat and tears. My first marriage ended with the beginning of my career. That place costed me my second. Along with my home, and many friends.

If I could go back, I would not change a thing.

I still cook for a living, and still love what i do.

I Have spent a lot of time here listening to all of you. those of us that have been here for awhile. And it makes me happy to see the new and awesome stuff you are all doing. And the community that the dungeons have created for those of us.

Its a sad thing, but so was closing my doors for the last time. except now i get to open a new one. and all of us are faced with new challenges. and new things to create and do.

have some faith you all.

see you in game.

awesome work Donee!!!

i as super stoked about the poison cloud changes,
I moved this weekend so i missed the play time and i dont have a stable connection currently. (miku i know your pain. its terrible)

Soon as i can solidify connection i am gonna see about that solo. been trying for longer than i care to admit to…

randomfightfan.4091:

holy tiny fluffy cat

random!

o.0

/15confusedchefs

Yelloweyedemon.2860:
Just because the druid line and staff is all about healing, it does not mean that druids will just stand there spam heals…

yes they will

holy necro mr bond.

NECRO IS GETTING A PROJECTILE DESTRUCTION!!!!!

holy hell…..