Guild Wars 2

If I’m not mistaken, Urban battleground fractal chest can give charged cores/lodestones too. It is an easy and fast fractal so maybe worth giving it a try.

It depends on which lvl you’re talking about and if you’re with a pug or not. I generally run fractal with my guild but last time we had 1 pu in the group and he messed it up (was only fractal lvl 38 though). To be honest it takes a bit longer but it’s not really more difficult.
You keep your group on one side and charge it there. You keep pulling the mobs on this side so that they don’t heal the seal too much. The only moment where it can get a bit tricky is if you bring back mobs from the other side in the corridor but if you do, the group just have to move a bit further onto the other side to lose aggro. You destroy one seal and then the group move to the other side of the corridor and charge the hammer there and proceed to destroy the second seal. It is a bit longer because one of the side is almost completly healed but it’s not that much more difficult and remember you can use lign of sight to your advandage with the corridor.

Randulf.7614:

Can they be chucked in the forge to try and make a new pet?

Nope they can’t, I have 12 of them sitting in my bank….

It’s easier to stealth-nerf with vague tooltip.
Kidding aside, I agree most tooltips could use more details. The wiki is nice and all but it’s not 100% accurate and you don’t always find everything that you want to know there.

Skipping content is a possibility and it could be totally prevented if Anet wanted (mobs could not reset aggro for example). Anet has already said there was optional content in dungeons and that skipping is fine (I remember a post about Kholer being optional).
There are already some places where you can’t skip.
If you don’t want to skip content, then say so when you’re looking for a group. I do see some post on lfg site specifically saying they do not want to skip.
Most people tend to skip content because they’re time consuming and not rewarding and/or not fun either.

Azrael.7843:

So today my Guild fought Half-Baked twice. The first time we just attacked him andwe didn’t took the fire shield in consideration. We barely failed the bounty, so we tried another Bounty and got him again. At the second try we did what was explained on Dulfy, meaning we stopped attacking and then used a Mesmer to rip his boons and then used either a pull/push attack.

The frustrating thing is that he still kept his fire shield. Each time someone went to knock him away or to pull him. Since those pulling/pushing attack inflict damage he suddenly got a new stability and didn’t move an inch.

Now I’m wondering did we just had bad luck and he glitched on that fight or did it happen to somebody else? We did checked our defiant and tried with it and without it. Now for next time we will just use a Mesmer that shares his boons and randomly bash at him.

My guild had Komali twice too and his shield was impossible to remove. We had read the tactic before but there was no circle at all and knocking him back after stripping his boon was without any effect. I don’t know if he bugs everytime for everyone but it did 2/2 for my guild. It’s pretty frustrating to find a bounty fast, know how you’re supposed to kill him, coordinate to do the strat and still fail because of a stupid bug. It’s time this bug gets looked at or Komali removed from the possible bounties until he gets fixed.

Citrus Finale.8621:

@Sabyne.6329
Wat kind of armor are you wearing on the first pic? Looks real nice

Helmet is skull starter mask, gloves are arah and the rest is T2 charr cultural armor (Archon armor).

Here she is.

Here is Onyomi, necrocharr of the blood legion and infiltrated in the flamme legion but shh, I told you nothing.
He has two spec, tanky one with the bone mask and hybrid with the demon mask (thanks Nemesis for these awesome guides).

Seen a Charr On Stone one day and found it pretty good. ^^

Wow, I didn’t know what was causing these changes of targets until I saw this thread. It’s really annoying for a lot of people (was talking about that with guildies a few days ago) and it happens a lot.
It would be good to have this fixed rather sooner than later.

Mesmer is my first class and was my main for a long time, got full exploration on it and all. But I was disappointed by all the nerf the class received because of pvp/wvwvw and it really spoiled the fun for me as I’m a pve person only. The class is still effective though. I leveled a necro, it’s one of my alt and I really enjoy playing it a lot. Out of my alts, it’s the only one I bother leveling in fractals after my guardian (guardian is 49 and necro is 28 ftm). It’s really a fun class to play. I play an hybrid spec and have been testing out a “tank” spec recently and having a blast with both (thank you Nemesis ).

I don’t know if it has been reported yet but in pve (haven’t checked in HOM), #5 trident fire skill “heat wave” gives me ~23s of vigor instead of the 8s the in tooltip (base is 5s but I have some boon duration).

Agreed, I’ve always wondered why there was no title for fractal achievment.

We had half baked Komali last time with my guild. I can confirm there was no circle at all. We had two mesmers (myself included) stripping its boons with null fields and trying to knockback him (with gs #5) outside of an invisible circle. The fire shield was still up, it just didn’t work. Needless to say we couldn’t complete the bounty, even though we had found the target really fast and knew the strat. This target definitly needs to be looked at or removed from the possible targets until you fix the circle or its mechanics.

I love the starter mask on a charr, that’s why I made my necro a charr.

You shouldn’t take damage from the V shaped attack as it doesn’t apply agony nor any condition as far as I remember but you should still get bumped. Btw, are you sure the endure pain was still active? It only lasts 4s (5s if traited) and this attack is quite long so maybe your endure pain was finished.

Did they change dredge fractal or did my group have a bug yesterday? I saw nothing in the patch notes and I had done it once since the new patch release but yesterday it seemed really buggy.
We were doing a lvl 48 fractal, there were something like 20 mobs waiting for us at the entrance of the fractal. You know where there is generally only one mob on the left, there was lots of mobs patrolling. There were other mobs patrolling after the first door and other inside the room with the buttons. Needless to say it was much more difficult to survive and activate the mechanism. I generally survive when I kite the mobs but I just couldn’t. We had to get aggro on both sides because of the patrol.
It was the only strange things that we saw even if we have a doubt for the bomb path too. We were putting the bombs and were staying next to them hitting mobs to prevent them from taking the bombs but they still managed to grab all of them several times. We had to reroll to a thief cause they just wouldn’t leave the bombs even if we stayed. Maybe we were just unlucky.

Anyone had this kind of bug? Btw, as our first fractal, we had the dredge one twice and had it reset it before getting charr fractal. After we did the charr fractal we got the dredge one. Maybe it could be the cause of the bug?

Oh kitten I’m leveling a thief and wondered about getting this set. I was already not a huge fan of the perma gold parts and now this… I guess I just won’t take it if it stays that way.

“Disabled the use of some consumable items in dungeons.”

Which ones? xD

From what I read on the wiki, the legendary imbued shaman in the volcanic fractal is an elemental, not a grawl, so are his adds so elemental potion is the way to go imo.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_Imbued_Shaman

Sorry if it was already answered but couldn’t find it in the posts. Will we be able to do the training bounty mission and the “normal” bounty mission and get both rewards during the same week (guild merits/commendations and influence)?
I am in a small guild, we managed to do the bounty lvl 1 mission with 7 people and a bit of luck. Next type of mission needs 70k influence to unlock and it’s gonna take us some time so it would be nice to get the influence reward with the training mission to speed it up while still gathering the guild merits with the other bounty mission.

I’d love to have somewhere in your hero pannel a place where it would be written, especially story modes to know if your char can open explorable mode or not. When you have several alts, remembering on which one you did which story mode is getting difficult.

First part isn’t difficult once you get used to it and can be done really fast. Bloom is ok but Mossman is just a pain to be honest, not because of damage or axes but because of stealth, it makes the fight way too long and boring.

We have a mini game with my guild group. When there is the daily rez achievment we steal crystals from one another to get the achievment faster.
As for rearranging crystal, I do it quite a lot for them to not disappear and also shortly before transition phase so we don’t get hit by tentaculas when picking them up.

Guardian can avoid agony of dredge suit pretty easily with focus 5 too (cd match quite well) and provide boons to the party at buckets so it’s not such a bad choice on lvl 40+. They have easy access to speed boost too. In my guild group we generally have 2 guardians, one of them do buckets. I don’t grab wall of reflection now as they changed how the suits aim them. Before he would generally aim them directly at players but now they are quite spread. Feedback bubble of mesmer is still really useful but WoR not so much anymore imho.

I would also add to not immobilize, cripple, chill, etc … the boss between the lava bucket spots because if you slow him down too much, he will lose the super heated debuff and will manage to regen. Keep these immo, cripple etc for when he is under the lava bucket to make sure he gets it.

Boss.3876:

I’m a fan of the Helghast style helmets but the rest of the armor is kinda meh in my opinion. Also, dredge are annoying. They make weird noises and yell “NO” way to much.

You have no idea how much of a pain this sound can be for some people. I’m French and what they keep saying sounds like “TG” which in French is the short for “Ta gueule”, a rude way to tell someone to shut up. So basically, everytime I fight dredges, they just spam tell me to shut up, really annoying. Most guildies had never noticed this until I told them and now they only hear this when fighting these mobs. So rude. :’(

Lightsbane.9012:

on any server.
1.) what made you choose and stay on the server you’re on?(other than friends)
2.) what will it take for the wvw players to get you into wvw?
3.) wvw benefits your dungeon runs, do you not agree that helping us get the buffs you benefit from is the right thing to do?
4.)is it the repair bill that scares you out?(i farm maybe 2 hours a week and that’s a 7g profit each week i’m sorry but i can’t see that as valid. to each their own maybe)
5.) why would a risen priestess of milandru be impressed with your Legendary?
6.) to my GOM bros specifically, some of the PvE guilds on our server are upwards of 300+(and active), can you grasp how much of a difference just 1/10 of your guild members would make if they were active in wvw daily?
7.) World Vs. World is one of(probably the) best way for your guild to not only get recognition, but respect. if your guild is influential enough here…you get the point.
Something i’ve realized, that the fact of the matter is, PvE heavy servers will stay that way until WvW’s incentives surpass PvE’s. That or thief gets nerfed hardcore.
However, if open world pvp were introduced…the tune might change quickly.
k, gripe over.

1) Friends. If you’re not really interested in RvR, as long as you have people you enjoy playing with on your server you don’t really need to change, do you?

2) I’ve done some RvR, even upgraded towers and stuff, what I found really annoying is people in map chat. Most of them are barking instead of talking when things doesn’t turn out how they want and it’s pretty annoying. I’m playing to have fun and when ppl aren’t being pain in the bum I generally stay much longer.
Having a non top PC doesn’t help either, neither culling.

3) Tbh they could remove these buff, I couldn’t care less.

4) Nope, I don’t really care about repair bills.

5) Was this question even useful? Are you trolling or trying to find solutions to a problem? Being sarcastic won’t make ppl want to RvR. Btw, I don’t think the Risen Priest of Melandru will be more impressed if my server is holding Stonemist for the week long but I could be wrong.

6) /

7) Maybe the next update which will introduce some kind of progression and resolve culling will help but the biggest drawback I found is players’ attitude (just look at the tone of your post at some parts) and Anet can’t do much about it.
Oh and some people just simply don’t enjoy this mode.

I got disconnected and can’t login back.
error 42:6:3:2158, server Fort Ranik (fr)

emikochan.8504:

I enjoy my t3 skin (goggles) was totally worth it. But they should just remove the stats and make them like the skins you double click to apply.

Pretty much this. The stats are irrelevant, only the skin matters when you buy these armors so being able to apply the skin without transmutation stone would be nice. I doubt they’ll do that though.
Anyway, I’m enjoying my T3 heavy sylvari armor, it just looks amazing, especially the helmet. I fell in love with it and I leveled a sylvari warrior just for that.

I was wondering how it would go after the patch but it went ok. Just did it earlier at lvl 36. Group was two warriors, two guardians and one elem. It took 2 or 3 tries. We had one on each button and two kitting mobs. Elem was the one who opened the door and he entered the room last to avoid taking aggro on any mob. Only one person dead. I guess we could have done better but it was not as bad as what I thought. Still we had 4 heavy char so I guess it helps too.
To be honest I’m quite happy they patched the spy kit. I was using them too but it’s true that it was too easy this way and involved no skill at all except knowing how to count 10s in your head. I hope they will get rid of the other exploits too.

Navzar.2938:

Stealth nerfs (or at least some of them): Soothing disruption now only gives 5 seconds of regeneration and vigor. Shocking Aura now only gives 5 seconds of swiftness and fury when used with zephyr’s boon.

I don’t understand why they can’t just tell us everything -.-

I’m not in game yet, is this only pvp or pve too?

Don’t be relieved too soon guys. Apparently they have forgotten to write some of the changes in the patch note.

JonPeters.5630:

There are some updates missing from the notes. We are tracking down those, but some changes to the D/D and S/D ele build are in this patch despite not being in the notes.

Build: 16732
Error Code: 42:1020:9001:4105 or 42:1020:9001:4103
EU server : Fort Ranik

I chose to go for a charr and I don’t regret it. When I saw how the mask was like on a charr, I just couldn’t go for anything else and it inspired me his entire look.

Nightmare greatsword (the one you buy with Twilight arbor tokens).

Don’t worry Osicat, there are already some pvpboys talking about nerfing vulnerability stacks on daze and put a 10s cd for deceiptive evasion. If they got enough people to follow their QQ, you can expect more nerf incoming for the mesmer.

Sungak Alkandenes.1369:

If you have Carpel Tunnel or some other hand/wrist RSI issues, for now you may want to steer clear of the class. What the grenade/bombs folks here aren’t saying is that those kits do not have an autoattack option for #1, requiring many repetitive keypresses to take down enemies.

Grenade doesn’t but bomb kit do have an autoattack, one of the reasons I prefer to use it. ^^

Bargaw.4832:

Spirit shield is very, very, very powerful in fractals.

^This.
I use spirit shield in fractals that need it and spirit sword underwater.

Jake.8639:

Why are you showing stats with an unnamed foodbuff on?

He said he was using omnom loaf. ^^

I’d love Mind stab to be a blast finisher. Please Anet, make it happen. I’m sure Quaggans want it too.

Agreed, medkit could use some qol buff. It doesn’t help that most ppl seems to avoid the bandages as if it were plague of something.

You have to be struck by your ennemy for other boons to show up and your ennemy get conditions.

I dunno but I guess he can mate with his moa pet.

Xavi.6591:

Nice. Can’t wait for the build details. It will be a nice change to the current power shatter build.

I’m guessing…

Dom 10 (III)
Dueling 30 (II, IV, IX)
Illusions 30 (III, IV, XI)

Am I close?

I don’t think he uses duelist IX as he doesn’t equip a pistol though X is more likely as he spawns clones on dodge. For illusions, I think he has VI instead of IV as I saw the shatter cd refresh when he got to 50% health. ^^
Nice video anyway.

The formula doesn’t seem to work for downscaling.
I’m healing 59 at lvl 9 with 46 effective healing power and the medic +6% bonus.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/173107healingbomb2.jpg

At this lvl, we’re not even supposed to have access to this trait so I guess, they have a special way to calculate for downscaling.

Maullus.1273:

Sabyne.6329:

I tested it in frostgorge sound, not in the mist, so I believe the difference could be due to wvwvw bonuses we get? We have a medic bonus at +6% on my server. Maybe that’s it? Not sure if medic bonus affect healing bombs though.

Ah! That would explain the 6% difference between the model’s prediction (~221) and your results. Excellent.

Just tested it in overflow server in Lion’s arch and it is indeed 221 (took falling damage to test this). ^^

There you go.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/523691healingbomb.jpg

I tested it in frostgorge sound, not in the mist, so I believe the difference could be due to wvwvw bonuses we get? We have a medic bonus at +6% on my server. Maybe that’s it? Not sure if medic bonus affect healing bombs though.