Guild Wars 2

Dominus.6320:

ill post you link laters; we got a duo shaman with mes/guard<-(me)
trio with mes/guard/ele aand a naked 5man with 2guard/2mes/1ele
(for some odd reason youtube likes to nerf the HD mp4 files)

O_o I mean :O like seriously O.O. I’m leaving rT to train in Bangladesh to become a cow once you post those vids.

Enaretos.8079:

I’m bumping this thread For Great Justice !

Finally downloaded all the videos I could get in 720p, Youtube won’t allow me to have 1080p… Got Brazil and Duwah’s RIP fractal vids btw.

Is there a way to get all the vids in 1080p ?

You could like.. ya know.. ask the makers?

Zelyhn.8069:

Shout-out to all talented players:

Tomorrow fractals 50+ will be taken away from us. We have very little time to go there and show that content who’s the boss! Achieve anything you think is worthy of remembrance and post your video is this thread.

Tonight we dine in Fotm!

Ill be giving away 20g per solo then :P bloomhunger exception for 10g xD

Zelyhn.8069:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Zelyhn.8069:

I think Dub will be happy to take my place in the meantime.

where did you get this delusion that Dub does fractals?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Please-fix-the-Ele-Profile-Description/first#post3256920

:O but https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Paying-for-fractals-runs/first#post2199352

Zelyhn.8069:

I think Dub will be happy to take my place in the meantime.

where did you get this delusion that Dub does fractals?

Where ma archdiviner solo at, zelhyn?
http://youtu.be/eVHRanhbbiI I know the quality is bad blame youtube, the file is 100% HD

And we’re doing a run with haviz somewhere today, right? we could add something there

Fractals 80 is being removed! have a last look at all of our guild’s solo plays there:

Mesmer Delvert (Bloomhunger, no UI, Red Circles, 7 mins): http://youtu.be/VYpAUwn_wfY
Warrior Wethospu (Bloomhunger, 5 mins): http://youtu.be/7dosrWZXIUw

Warrior Wethospu (Snowblind, 8 mins): http://youtu.be/BVpxj007bl4
Mesmer Sanderinoa (Snowblind, 28 mins): http://youtu.be/CndcoIwxAcs

Mesmer Delvert (first Archdiviner, 9 mins): http://youtu.be/eVHRanhbbiI

Mesmer Delvert (Rampaging ice elemental, 15 mins): http://youtu.be/L7JNybJd2QU

As you may have noticed, Ive been doing some final lvl 80 fractal solos during the weekend, with this one likely being the last I ever do. Atleast we’re going out with a bang too, while keeping up our guild’s ironic specialty: soloing!

http://youtu.be/owKbxqNPwn0

Again, sorry for the recent video spam, I wanted to get these solos out as quickly as I could, considering I will be quite busy during the rest of the week.

I hope you enjoy the video, and try to have an enjoyable monday!

Pretty sure there is none, its kind of the mid road, not as fast as a 5 man group and not as hard as a solo, you can make one though, if you’d like :P

kitten it, moved to linksville

http://youtu.be/CndcoIwxAcs

Final fight took 30 minutes in realtime, enjoy the music if you like that, and have fun skipping through parts.

Hardmode means that UI as well as aoe indication is turned off for this fight, making even bloomhunger slightly challenging, to whoever has not seen my no UI kill yet, enjoy.

http://youtu.be/VYpAUwn_wfY

“Every level starting at 31 will have a new instability to conquer. "

I was wondering, why is everybody being reset to level 30 instead of 31? I know it is a small difference, but this way everybody will have to do lvl 30 again, which I believe is practically the same as we’ve already completed.

Neoheart.2750:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Well the idea is pretty good, particularly for the tar phase, however, as you need to be hit before the block start working, you’ll likely be immobile code half the duration anyways, making it impractical for most runs.

If you were planning on absorbing the shamans arrow, as everybody knows now I guess I can speak freely, this is a great idea, works similar to mossman, but you need to make sure you go invulnerable after it arrives(presuming higher levels). The shaman targets you when he faces you, make sure to look at his movements, and when he faces you, get ready to expect him to move his hands to his bow.

lol this guy?

I didn’t realise youtube.com was a secret society, now I feel as special as you!

I can’t believe I’m responding to thia… I was talking about before this was posted all over YouTube yes, not everybody gets their ideas from others.

http://youtu.be/qf-PP2VBBBI
arah p2, might aswell add

Another video from our members! a new warrior lupicus record has been set!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwabSDFDUpY

I am aware that its not really impressive xD but someone asked me to make it, if there is anyone on these forums who still doesnt know how, go listen to my voice for 40 minutes.

http://youtu.be/qf-PP2VBBBI

I wouldnt exactly call it a guide, its more like a commentary.

There we go!
http://youtu.be/qf-PP2VBBBI
have fun with it.

Well the idea is pretty good, particularly for the tar phase, however, as you need to be hit before the block start working, you’ll likely be immobile code half the duration anyways, making it impractical for most runs.

If you were planning on absorbing the shamans arrow, as everybody knows now I guess I can speak freely, this is a great idea, works similar to mossman, but you need to make sure you go invulnerable after it arrives(presuming higher levels). The shaman targets you when he faces you, make sure to look at his movements, and when he faces you, get ready to expect him to move his hands to his bow.

MagicSlurpees.4851:

Well, I managed to pull it off (he did his barrage on me unexpectedly at the end and I won with vengeance, but meh), now I just need to practice enough to get it down pat. I think I’ll probably keep using the energy sigil for a while even though I sacrifice 10% axe/impale damage. The next challenge is no EP, which I don’t think will be too hard since I only use it in transitions pretty much.
Any tips for guard or mesmer?

Somewhat unrelated but would be nice to know, is there anyway to take out the berserker abomination on p2 with mes without taking days to do it? On that note, Brie is probably pretty similar, any tips for her on mes?

This is a nice coincidence, today ill be uploading a path 2 arah solo with a guide aspect, everything on those subjects is covered there just keep an eye on the channel ,should be there around the afternoon.

As a stubborn idiot I tried out the lupi solo in my first arah run, as I was challenged by someone but had spent my days in fractals before, using friends to get me to him I took him out in about 15 hours of practice in 5 hour sessions during the holidays, given, in knights gear. I think you can add another 2/3 to that and get the amount of time it took to solo consistently.

The mesmer solo after that took 4 tries with the silly GS/Scepter setup xD (crafted mesmer to 80, dont judge me).

If you have any questions, you can always ask me, I will answer them whenever I can.

Dub.1273:

Solo Mesmer Sanderinoa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTzORPCn6U (5 min 56 seconds)

Dub.1273:

Solo Mesmer Sanderinoa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTzORPCn6U (5 min 56 seconds)

Dub.1273:

Solo Mesmer Sanderinoa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTzORPCn6U (5 min 56 seconds)

Dub.1273:

Solo Mesmer Sanderinoa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTzORPCn6U (5 min 56 seconds)

fix it dub

I pretty much have to agree with what has already been said

Mesmers have a very good ‘potential damage’, and their damage output is therefore dependant on the situation. In a situation in which there is very little aoe damage, and/or only a single target to kill, the mesmer can put out an amazing amount of damage if running the right build, the same is true for fights which have a lot of projectiles involved, as reflections can sometimes do outrageous damage.

That aside, mesmers aren’t really good at aoe damage, our best phantasms(dps wise,no reflects accounted) are the duelist and the swordsman, which are both single target, making your damage output lower than classes with lots of cleaving damage.
On the same note, as you need to put illusions into the fight, damage scales with time, in trash mob fights, mesmers are unable to attain their maximum damage output, simply because they can’t spawn their illusions quickly enough.

Running 30/30/0/0/10 in non reflect dungeons is a blast though, the amount of damage you can put out with battle signet might upkeep and 4 mantras up is insane, but on the other hand, there are many bosses which really ruin my experience due to their constant aoe that almost literally destroy your dps.

Now counting 35 glorious members! Don’t be hesitant if you’re confident in your abilities.

Check out Wethospu’s solo compilation thread too!
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/links/Compilation-of-dungeon-solo-videos-3/first#post3093635

joey the creator.3587:

So we find capable players for the guild we ask that you can either solo Lupi or run with us and show us you are capable.

Oioi, Im pretty sure we have some kind of copyright on that, can anyone confirm?

sorrychief.2563:

The weak die in Arah.

Notice my class, with lowest hp and armor in game full zerk make it through easily.

???

Wow
such skills
much experience
so good

too bad skill recharge gets in the way.

Anicetus.1253:

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

But for any other dungeon or a team with any additional projectile defense it’s just throwing away dps.

Well, that’s where EU and NA tactics (HC aside) usually differ. You have two guardians in your fotm team, we have none, you run mesmers + guardians in normal dungeons we use either guardian or rarely mesmer.

I heard cookie’s team was planning on doing the run over again without guardians, and rare mesmer says hi

Actually we’re not a condition specialised class.. only bleeding is used effectively, and that’s not relevant in PvE at all, the mesmer actually has great underwater capabilities compared to most classes, as the spear is seriously kitten. I never thought Id see a thread complaining about underwater mesmers honestly.

[Insert random disagreement after not thouroughly reading the post]

I play how I want

Anicetus.1253:

Sanderinoa.8065:

noobgood.8762:

So what would be your argument to say it’s an obvious exploit (skipping)? My guildie said that you 1st never know which way in a dungeon was intended by Anet and 2nd you use “normal skills” to get there.

YOU ARE WALKING OVER THE DUNGEON’S CEILING,

OR SWIM UNDER IT.

GOOD TO KNOW, THANK YOU

noobgood.8762:

So what would be your argument to say it’s an obvious exploit (skipping)? My guildie said that you 1st never know which way in a dungeon was intended by Anet and 2nd you use “normal skills” to get there.

YOU ARE WALKING OVER THE DUNGEON’S CEILING,

and ya know, the fact that some classes cant do it, and that the objective kind of says you have to kill him(dont mention korga, just dont)

Skipping is an obvious exploit, wall fighting is argueable, I dont enjoy it, but its hard to determine whether its an exploit or not

Pyroatheist.9031:

Just one note. As far as vulnerability stacking goes, other classes do it far more easily and consistently than us. I would never ever count a few stacks of vuln on the boss as positive Mesmer dps for that reason.

You’re not bending over backwards for it though, its 5 stack in a like with a daze, works great in places like ascalon once you’ve grouped mobs up, it rupts and gives your entire party a pretty decent damage boost, while the trait is still in a good line which gives you that lovely extra power.

Presuming you use a sword, I always like being prepared for every situation, so if I put up riposte and the mob misses, I dont want to have wasted my time, so instead I release it, still helping the fight progress. I’d get your problem fully if someone would be using Imbued diversions to become a vulnerability stacker.

Xyonon.3987:

I’ve read everything exactly up to here and I’m one of those guys who test everything before saying “nono this is so wrong nub nub”

I’ve played 0/20/0/25/25 but only up to frac. lv38. My own build at the moment is 20/20/0/30/0 and I’m pretty happy with it right now. I made a long thread too here where I tried to figure out “my personal best build”.

Back to topic: So, I cannot really accept the point that you say with less phantasm cd you’re gonna have more reflection.
1. If you are switching weapons, and you should (sigil of battle), then you will allways have 20 sec CD on every phantasm, except the first one you create. Less CD is therefore a bit overrated.
2. If you really want more reflection uptime, why don’t you go then 30 in inspiration and trait glamour -20% CD and +25% uptime?
3. The trait “medics feedback” is highly underrated and saves butts since release. It has been buffed to the insane if you ask me, 6 sec reflection (traited with 10 sec CD. It requires a dead person, but I think this won’t be a problem in fractale Also IF there are SO MANY projectiles in fotm (and hell yea there are), then you should be happy to ress everyone without trouble. You also can use npcs.

Also don’t underestimate the damage of dominion 5 and especially 15. Equip a sword offhand, doublecast 4 and see the profit. 5% vulnerability on a boss mob equals to 15-20k damage.

Also: keep in mind to talk friendly and not agressive to each other!

Agreed on most parts I guess, I dont really use greatsword anymore so I scrapped the 5 final points in domination, as halting strike isnt all that effective, and as I really am fine with my current reflection upkeep the same goes for the final 5 in inspiration, never really could find a good trait in there worth taking. those 10 I put in domination for mantras or blurred inscriptions. I feel like it puts out a lot more damage, and while the party survives, I aint even mad.

yup, they’re still being released this year, I presume somewhere in this month, as FoTM was originally released in november too.

LordByron.8369:

I could lose hours to reply to your post but i have a better answer.

Check the same discussion from the day after nerf (see months ago) all was discussed back there.

You ll see me testing 20/20/0/30/0 and see how it answers all your questions….
I obviously was unhappy thus i accepted the nerf and went to 0/20/0/25/25

The point you made makes me think you never tested a build with IC in fractal because your own points are those who made me choose the opposite you are running.
And at least i can admit how your is better in dungeons…..but not for sure in fractals.

Sanderinoa.8065:

one warden+ feedback kills, eles

Try some higher level maybe…..

Your list of points is completely wrong ….Illusionist Celerity doesn t read “get 20% more reflect uptime” but reduce CD by 20% on skills summoning illusions.
Its nice to have 20% more phantasm dps but not if your phantasms are DEAD and on CD.

I am sorry, but I am not going to look for an unspecified thread from months back, that aside, I am aware of what the traits say, but the thread looked to be pointing at the increased warden uptime being the reason for the use of the trait.

you’re starting the build idea with the plan of losing all your illusions consistently, so you’re making them over and over again, I have used IC before, at the archdiviner solo it was really useful because he was, indeed, constantly destroying the phantasms, in a teamsetting however, your illusions just shouldnt be getting destroyed as often, apart from specific situations.

We appear to be looking at this situation in a different way, your plan is to weaken the illusions, but compensating for their deaths by recreating them, my plan is to make them hit harder while they’re alive, while boosting my own damage, so my damage stays decent when they are, indeed, on cooldown. I just feel like the increased damage that Im putting out, and my illusions are, while alive, which they usually are when well placed and you interrupt foes from time to time, is better than decreasing their cooldown by up to 5 seconds, while decreasing their damage while alive.

And the archer high level thing, really? maybe Ive been running with too many dps oriented people, but on pretty much any level below 70 you should be able to handle a ranger group with a groupup->warden->feedback->sworddaze-> second warden strike, as long as your party isnt absent. But ya know, maybe thats just because of the increased damage output.

TKiller.6829:

Sanderinoa.8065:

TKiller.6829:

You’ll need him to get around 8-12 to make his aoe lifesteal oneshot an elementalist I believe. Well, more one-hit killing attacks would add some challenge, but since he gets tankier with each grub it kinda kills the thrill.

Now what made me interested, if you get his damage high enough, would there be a point where he would one-shot himself with the barrage? I mean, his defence raises by a constant 10%, but the reflection damage is amplified by critdamage, so…

His defence increases more than his damage Im afraid, we already tried a 25 stacks feedback once before, the formula is linear and just decreases FB damage per grub

I should have thought you guys tried that already.

So it’s either max reflect damage mulptipler combined < Lupicus damage reduction, either the buff scales differently for his attack and defence, I guess?

Pretty much, I dont think anyone really knows how the empowered buff affects him precisely though.

TKiller.6829:

You’ll need him to get around 8-12 to make his aoe lifesteal oneshot an elementalist I believe. Well, more one-hit killing attacks would add some challenge, but since he gets tankier with each grub it kinda kills the thrill.

Now what made me interested, if you get his damage high enough, would there be a point where he would one-shot himself with the barrage? I mean, his defence raises by a constant 10%, but the reflection damage is amplified by critdamage, so…

His defence increases more than his damage Im afraid, we already tried a 25 stacks feedback once before, the formula is linear and just decreases FB damage per grub

Well I mean, we could probably do a 25 stacks melee run or solo, it would just take a billion years..

Dredge to say one, and thats practically everything, wardens get easily destroyed there because of the large amount of the mace dredges/strazars that keep hitting all over the place, plus, if you cant kill a group of non silver dredge within one warden/temporal/feedback time, there is something wrong with your dps.

with mantras and more precision/critical damage, your reflections do damage, you’re putting 25 in a trait line which supplies practically nothing reliable aside from haste which doesnt affect swordsmen, and 20% faster illusion spawning, while losing an enormous amount of stats which are transferred to those illusions.

Maybe Im just stupid, but Im pretty sure that losing 150 power, 10% critical damage/4-5critical chance on your illusions as well as yourself, combined with losing a possible 12-16% damage from feedback/temporal reflections and direct damage, which you should be doing in melee at all times, next to sword block, just to get 20% faster illusions, which you apparently expect to die pretty kitten quickly, is not worth it.

EDIT: oh, and I forgot about the 15% illusion damage which, btw, also affects warden reflects.

ADDITION:
fire fractale destroyer harpy boss – protection from agony and burn and also from the fire eles tell me how wardens help your ranging party survive agony, and how your wardens are surviving firestorm after you didn’t do enough dps to kill the eles in time

ice fractale – protection from the ice eles take a pistol in second offhand instead, if you have 2-3 eles(which you should), stun then when you’re out of reflections, which should honestly only take a second or two, there is nothing wrong with dodging once in a while

harpy fractale – protection from everything harpies are skipped, wardens are pretty useless at the champs, old tom says hi, sure, you can use an untraited warden, but half the mesmers don’t know this or forget to turn off focus reflection, as for the final boss, yup, pretty good there.

mole fractale – many projectiles here too – especially mole endboss bombs endbossbombs dont damage anymore, and arent reflected by the warden, thats just feedback, rest is pretty valid, but I commented on that above

swamp fractale – mossman axe mossman moves away from wardens, attacks too quickly for the warden to be spawned, and honestly, how many of you actually know when he is going to use it?

ascalon fractale – eles and rangers rangers are a good point, but do so much damage to themselves that one warden+ feedback kills, eles on the other hand spam their firefields and autoattacks all over the place making wardens utterly useless.

underwater fractal says hi
cliffside fractal says hi
Jade maw fractal says hi

And in general, if you are afraid of your reflection uptime being 80% instead of 100%, maybe its a good time to start questioning why we’re expecting to run with 4 necros

My cover is blown! kitten it dub

Or instead of going for quantity you can just go for quality, 15/30/0/25/0 is what I usually run in fractals, it makes your reflects actually do damage, so you dont need as many and you’re also useful in other situations instead of just a reflect/tw bot.

Either take mantras with XI in dueling, or take VIII and pick blurred inscriptions with Signet of midnight, the only place where you really need constant reflections is the harpy fractal, and even pugs skip those 90% of the time now. At the final boss normal reflections without 25 in inspiration can do well if you just time it, and maybe use mirror/SoM while standing in front of the boss to save partymembers when out of area reflects.

Amicable Pugs.4503:

Gotta love Sandy’s answers, so helpful.

Well I am a very helpful person, a helpful person who requires understandable language to answer a question. Fun to see you on the forums for once.

Yes so I’m back at the forums, ill answer this one. Ok lets see, ah yes, no, uhu, well you see Ehm.. could you rephrase that? I have no idea what the question is right now

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/lfguild

We’ve now started taking on worldbosses for fun, check some videos out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKotO8sXR7M&feature=share&list=PLtHOCldxpy7ZY8mc1RI3eDsiFfibGZRjf

Naduk.8750:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Naduk.8750:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Naduk.8750:

haviz.1340:

Naduk.8750:

I doubt someone has a Fractal reward level higher than 60.

Good laugh.

So, good to know.

How long ago did you last drop a skin in fractal lvl 80?

Considering logic, the last one I got at level 80 was somewhere around january, but the most recent one I got on lvl 48 was yesterday.

I really don’t believe you. I’ve done more 20 runs in 48 since I’m 52, and I got nothing. It’s not just bad luck. Something is really wrong. I was getting skins pretty often before I raised my level.

If you’re not going to believe my response why did you ask for one? x_x
its RNG, its random in essence, if you start trying to find patterns in it you will go insane.

I’m not trying to find a pattern. I’ve even sent a request to ARENA asking if it’s something intentional (got no response so far). It’s just that a person with fractals lvl 80 droping a skin YESTERDAY is too fit.

Im sorry I do a lot of fractals

Naduk.8750:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Naduk.8750:

haviz.1340:

Naduk.8750:

I doubt someone has a Fractal reward level higher than 60.

Good laugh.

So, good to know.

How long ago did you last drop a skin in fractal lvl 80?

Considering logic, the last one I got at level 80 was somewhere around january, but the most recent one I got on lvl 48 was yesterday.

I really don’t believe you. I’ve done more 20 runs in 48 since I’m 52, and I got nothing. It’s not just bad luck. Something is really wrong. I was getting skins pretty often before I raised my level.

If you’re not going to believe my response why did you ask for one? x_x
its RNG, its random in essence, if you start trying to find patterns in it you will go insane.

Naduk.8750:

haviz.1340:

Naduk.8750:

I doubt someone has a Fractal reward level higher than 60.

Good laugh.

So, good to know.

How long ago did you last drop a skin in fractal lvl 80?

Considering logic, the last one I got at level 80 was somewhere around january, but the most recent one I got on lvl 48 was yesterday.

haviz.1340:

Naduk.8750:

I doubt someone has a Fractal reward level higher than 60.

Good laugh.

:)

Ohright, Ye I did this once, then i woke up on the kitchen table and realised I don’t play ranger