Guild Wars 2

Thank you! I will play around with the dyes when I get home. The first one caught my eye more so Ill likey go with that one.

Edit: I do like it!! Thanks again!

Crovax.7854:

. .but certainly not the engi. .

>.< dont.. want.. to.. derail.. thread..

The word different does come to mind, so I guess revealing would be it, although I am unsure. May I see one of both? I know revealing can mean different things although please dont go too overboard with the revealing clothes. that is my worry about picking that path

Hi Lilith, everyone,

I’m almost finish making another outfit, and I have ran out of idea’s of how to style it.
These are my 4 outfits I have already and I was wondering if you or anyone here could help me work on a design for my 5th.

many thanks,

Sarah

As asked, are you Na or Eu? If your Na come find me, Ill love to help.

Are you on na? Maybe we can fractal sometime and I can show you what I mean.

I added a note at the bottom of the fractals were users could write stuff although im not sure if I was clear enough.

When I get home I could copy them here if you wish to proof read me and stuff.

Yesterday I had a look at gwdungeons.net. I found it was missing some info on the fractal side of things. ALTHOUGH ( before anyone jumps to anything ) the info that was missing wasnt anything core, just little things that Ive picked up / seen people do after all the fractals Ive been in.

Sarah

dlonie.6547:

Sarah: Keep trying to grab me. One of these times I’ll not be lame and be able to FotM with ya, if you don’t mind a fractal scrub.

I won’t stop trying ^ ^
That goes for anyone on my friends list!
Ill keep the invites coming

Edit: that reminds me, I owe afew people some runs

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Sarahfull.4930:

If anyone is keen for a fractal sometime, let me know.

NA, right? I’d be down this Friday.

Yup! And sweet

If anyone is keen for a fractal sometime, let me know.

Robinschultz.9652:

When is this kitten ever going to end? So I like playing my ranger, does this mean I become the blacksheep of the group as soon as something goes haywire?

So I joined this level 49 Fractal group, First and second fractal went just fine, then the third was Legendary Imbued Shaman aka the Pug killer.

Being a ranger, I prefer the longbow on this boss for the strong ranged dps and stealth for those annoying grubs that spawn.

So what happens is that everybody in my group went down because we didn’t have enough dps to take down the army of grubs that spawn. I was the only one standing and tried to kill some of the grubs to rally my teammates, this didn’t work out and suddenly I was standing in Lion’s Arch again.

This all really started on the second fractal when apparently the electric orbs the Harpy shoot that knock you down, Is now a ranger skill and I got told not to use the electric orb skill? So at that point they started hating at me, gentle but still.

I guess this story also fits for other classes such as Necromancer and Engineer these days. Pathetic really. I just wish people would look at their own faults and failures from time to time and stop pointing fingers at the ’’inferior’’ classes.

My 2 cents for today.

When I join PuG fractal groups I dont get kicked cause im a engi. Its more the bad mood I sometimes in after work cause life :s

Todays fractals was adorable..

I was doing fractals with friends and its always adorable to see everyone pause for a sec, as there is nornaly 2 stacking spots and watch people atuo step to the one they are used too and then step back with the group.
ITS SOO CUTE!! >.<

Iris Ng.9845:

Sarahfull.4930:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

5x crowbar engi new meta.

I have always wondered about power wrench giving tool kit the dmg needed to play in the meta. I believe you have the dmg with something ( my guess ) 4/6/0/0/4.
my conern is toolkits atk speed.

It’s very decent against Power Lich Necro. Oh wait, wrong game… Let’s just say that base damage is good enough against objects like tre-… well, I mean clown car for example)

yea true, you have to crit 1st. =) oh well, at least I still have my fractals

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

5x crowbar engi new meta.

I have always wondered about power wrench giving tool kit the dmg needed to play in the meta. I believe you have the dmg with something ( my guess ) 4/6/0/0/4.
my conern is toolkits atk speed.

Credit goes to wolf!
The vampire runes are great too, you keep strong power and it helps you live though your zerk stats ( I took a break from gw and now working back into the zerk lifestyle ) yes this is in PvE.

Although as others say ranger is neat against things you can crit on, plus you get that +7% bonus.

I used to use str runes but I didnt stack might to make thrm worth it. I feel you need to stack might and have sigil of battle as well to make them worth the while.

Edit: personaly I still love scholar, although I am making another zerk outfit

Heh, this is adorable and very rare to see. I wish you all you luck and best wishs on this!

I did have one concern, although this is a postive thread about helping so Ill leave it.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Sarahfull.4930:

With the help of friends, I was able to get new clothes and make this outfit. At first I thought I went OTT with yellow! although my sister and my friend ( who adore’s yellow ) don’t think so.

Love the look and dyes!

And lindbur, I love your ele <3

:3 thank you

With the help of friends, I was able to get new clothes and make this outfit. At first I thought I went OTT with yellow! although my sister and my friend ( who adore’s yellow ) don’t think so.

Thank you for this, I knew the rewards werent THAT bad

Over the last week I’ve slowly come back to this game and have been doing a fractal each day. I was reminded how.. " interesting " PuG life can be.

rfdarko.4639:

My big bugbear right now is people glitching out mossman and archdiviner. Mossman at least I can leave easily and just laugh, but when you get to the third fractal after sludging through ascalon or molten facility it just really stings. A few times my will power has broken and I’ve stayed but, it’s like at least once a day I have to leave a run because they want to bug archdiviner. Such a dumb exploit. :S

OMG yes! me2 although I dont leave, I just sit away from the group and watch

RobSalazar.8649:

but I would like some opinions as to an ‘easier’ rotation for the engineer… I really enjoy the class, but the rotations I’ve found (in hopes of being at least somewhat competent ) are a little much for my fingers!) I’m a purely PvE player who once in a great while gets forced into a dungeon where I’m generally clueless as to what’s going on. I tend to stick solo in my normal day to day and my lvl 55 engineer has never been in an area higher than 25 (I’m doing map completions in groups of the levels…. did home cities/ 1-15 areas first, almost done with the 15-25 areas.) With this in mind – are there any suggestions to a basic rotation that will make my solo’ing PvE trips (dare I say) easier?
I checked out Nikes rotation, but wow…. FT 5 then 4 switch to EG hit 4 cancel throw back switch rifle hit 3 then 5 then tool belt skill….omg. I’m all for multitasking but I get so focused on hitting specific buttons, I’m not even looking at the screen anymore to find out if I’m even hitting anything!
Suggestions welcome, altho as the header suggests, I’m sure I’ll get some responses that’ll make me regret asking lol

Hiya, it does look like a lot of things, although all these can be broken up into smaller parts.

To make life easier on yourself, pair two skills together ( maybe in different kits ) and work through them at your pace.

For example: if you normaly stay in nades all day, you could choose to add one of these pairs
net shot ~ nade barage
frost or poison nade ~ jumpshot
Shaprel nade ~ rifle 3

Try to forget the whole picture for now and work on pairs. Once you have two pairs " under your belt " ( trying to make a bad pun here <3 ) , remember them as pairs and try add them into your natural rotation.

It will all come together in time =) dont worry, your got this!!

Sarah

A question, if you may:
Can you do this aoe trick with the engi grenade barrage?
or even with the 3-nade atuo attack?

Hate like that would get to me and I would stop; I guess I have been quite lucky with my fractal runs.

Iris Ng.9845:

Last night, my little brother shared me this “Wall of Hate” which he has accumulated over the years of diligent pugging. I’m not sure whether he would post the image himself at some points but I couldn’t resist

I want to add a bit of background information. This “little brother” I have always mentioned is a junior fellow countryman of mine who has helped me a great deal since my noobie days. He is a highly skilled player in all classes yet still a humble and avid student of the [Noob] mentoring program. In short, he is the kind of meta player with a casual experience. His LFG usually reads “80 experienced, DPS, meta or close to meta only”, which hilariously attracts all sorts of imaginable hostility. Plus, this guys is a bit of a tease with his explosive passive-aggressiveness. He never kicks anyone for being bad, but his speech may or may not have pushed them off the cliff

I want to dedicate this Wall of Hate to our dungeon community on this ThanksGiving occasion.

:/ well then.. dungeon PuG can become that way?

Wow.. part 2 now eh?

Anyway, im down to playing guild wars once a week…. Not too sure how I feel about this..

Sparrow.5936:

Sarahfull.4930:

Thank you,

Again, Im not trying to be mean, just want to understand.

I just wanted you opinion on other toury trats in other games and if you think they also " suck the fun out of them too "

" stacking " , " Line of sight " , " active defence " are all guild wars 2 trats used at a tourament level to complete a dungeon as fast and as most efficient way. Others looking to improve and/or have a easier time doing content will copy these trats and use them as needed.

In call of duty, well.. any fps " how " or " do " you feel the same way about headshots or weapons strong enough to 1 hit kill? In fighting games, in regards to " save moves " , " fast hits " do you feel the same?

Im out of time for my lunch break ( :p haha ) but you get the idea of were im coming from. I just hope the mood doesnt come off wrong and you get the wrong immprrssion.

I just want to understand.

Sarah

I think you’re comparing apples to oranges. Actually more like apples to watermelon. What i don’t like about line of sight and stacking etc.. is that it’s taking an action based game and turning back into a stand still and press skill button game. The why people stack has nothing to do with it. I just think Anet needs to throw a wrench into some of these old boss fights.

So the title of the thread really needs to be rewritten. It’s not the stacking I’m against, it’s the boring part of being able to stack and instant win. Bosses need a counter to stacking to keep players on their toes. Something to make players scatter and rely on some skill. This is a GAME, and boss battles should be engaging. Standing still and yawning at a boss is weak. I apologize for targeting stacking as the issue. The tactic makes sense, but bosses need some kind of counter for it. Stack all you want, but at some point be prepared to scatter.

I think the real divide of the community that is for and against this argument is split between those who FARM and those who want to play a GAME. Farmers wanna farm, gamers wanna make the game more engaging. If arena net wants to make both happy, make the bosses more challenging, but up the reward so Time Vs Reward remains the same, but game becomes playable again.

Maybe add a “challenge mote” to the old dungeons like we see in the living story for more rewards but more challenging boss fights.

Oh good. yes I do agree with you, and it is a lot easier to agree with you now that I understand. The reason why I ask, is because back when I used to play soul calibur, one person commented how boring it was to watch a tournament match and everyone came down kitten them. I don’t know, the posts here just reminded me of that.

As much as we would like Anet to help out and make them harder, they seem to go the easier rote and filter " us " out in return for new players.

Edit: just thinking about it, I don’t think its THAT different compering those examples together :o its all just tournament strategies

Sarah

Thank you,

Again, Im not trying to be mean, just want to understand.

I just wanted you opinion on other toury trats in other games and if you think they also " suck the fun out of them too "

" stacking " , " Line of sight " , " active defence " are all guild wars 2 trats used at a tourament level to complete a dungeon as fast and as most efficient way. Others looking to improve and/or have a easier time doing content will copy these trats and use them as needed.

In call of duty, well.. any fps " how " or " do " you feel the same way about headshots or weapons strong enough to 1 hit kill? In fighting games, in regards to " save moves " , " fast hits " do you feel the same?

Im out of time for my lunch break ( :p haha ) but you get the idea of were im coming from. I just hope the mood doesnt come off wrong and you get the wrong immprrssion.

I just want to understand.

Sarah

Sparrow.5936:

I’m a big PVE player. Unfortunately most players out there are in it for the speed run grind/farm fests. That sounds so much fun! I can just stack at a boss and it melts in seconds with zerker gear and dungeon is over in 5-10 minutes. How about I just go back to work at that point, because that sounds more like mindless repetition rather than a fun game.

I was recently in Twilight Arbor and had a small revelation. We were at the spider boss Malrona or whatever her name is, which happens to be a boss that is hard to stack at because of it’s overlapping AOE attack then can wipe a group. I was mesmerized about how bad all the players were in my party at fighting a boss where you couldn’t stack. I had to solo her at the end and laugh to myself while everyone was confused about how to play a game where they don’t smash their face into keyboard to win.

So I think more bosses in this game should have some sort of attack that can wipe a group or severely damage players if they are just stacked on top of each other fighting like mindless nubs. ( maybe overlapping AOE that magnifies in damage when near other players or something similar).

The meta of stacking has sucked the fun out of the game and also crippled new players abilities as well. The learning curve is low. Players can’t hold their own anymore, and can’t think for themselves.

On the plus side, it makes picking off those same players in WvW much more easygoing.

No more stacking! Let’s make this game fun again!
To all those who will reply with “you don’t have to stack, let it be the players choice”. Well first off, you will get kicked out of 90% of all parties out there if you don’t. And let’s be real, you just want things handed to you on a silver platter in easy mode.

This game wasn’t designed to be played the way it is. Players found a way to make it disgustingly easy, maybe it’s time for the game to evolve and bring some GAMEplay back to it. Boss changes needed!

Hi,

If you don’t mind, can I ask a few questions and get your opinion them?
I’m not trying to be rude here, just wanta better understand your side.

Sarah

Hi all!! who can help me out?

I got a call from a lovely Eu friend looking for help getting their 5 P.relics. Me being on the Na side of the things, I cant help them out. How much Eu friends can I rally to help them out?

Sarah

don’t you know how dangerous it is around here??!!

He is a picture of me and mai having a quiet rest and also looking adorable. ^^

I agree they were discussed but not intensively. It felt very much one sided for me, with a big heavy spotlight on rewards.

I only wish anet would use fractals as a testing ground for tougher AI. You guys ( people on this sub forum ) give great results and test things really well. We can trust you to say: " AI too OP " or " the AI is lacking here "
But this is just wishfull thinking, along with AI that uses active defence and strats back at us

spoj.9672:

Well we will get some evidence of whether they can filter CDI’s effectively when they get round to acting on the fractal CDI. I wonder if that will happen during the end of season 2.

Tbh it was more a " want better fractal rewards thread " than a proper fractal CDI

IvanTheGrey.2941:

I had a little helper with me at lupi last night. Suffice to say, she helped me with lupi after the pugs bit the dust.

Omg too cute!!

moiraine.2753:

Looks like this game is left with the zerkers only like oxtred.7658.Now i understand why tanks and healers have left long time ago and why the game PvE is so stagnant.
Any way looks like i will just wait for Anet to finish with their Raid CDI.I really adore the things that are discussed there.

The zerk elitests will figure out the raid months after, find the minium defence needed and throw everything else into dmg. They will find out what active defence to chain together, when to do them and learn the matchup. They will combine all this knowlegde and put it into practice till its down.

They will seemlessly stack and do thr dmg rotation pressing all them 1,1,1,3,2,4, etc, etc,..
they might even loS ( line of sight ) the bosses. Through doing all of this they will be called expoiting, hacks and other names.

Yet through this knowlegde, people will take some of this and apply it, and some that apply it will
will turn around and still call them names.

And to think all this is, is people with a tourment style kind of mind doing thr thing..

Your not being forced to do anything, although if you still want help witth fractals I will be happy to help.

spoj.9672:

Its generally just a dungeon with slightly larger groups and much harder content. In many games it is gated by gear and is the main source of obtaining highest tier equipment. Some games have 40 man raids but those are just zerg fests. Most agree that around 10-20 is a decent size for a raid group.

Oh my… That explains all the fustrastion. Sounds like you would need an organized group. If this is the way to obtain highest tier outfits then that shouts to me that you would have to play as though you were in a toury to win. :’( how can guild wars have raids when most people believe toury play is hack / expoiting.?

I dont believe the dungeons are fully at fault, its mainly the view of " tourament playstyle "
and/or " play to win " playstyle that alot of people dont get and think are hacks / cheats / expoits etc.. etc..

Please excuse my ignorance, as this was / is my first mmo; what is a " raid " anyway?

Is it that whole 50 people verus one epic boss with different stages and stuff?

Kahrgan.7401:

Sarahfull.4930:

Dungeon selling – soloing – elitest / zerk etc. . Etc. .

No need to hide Op, we are all the same arent we?
You want us all filtered out just as much as others do

Don’t worry though, its slowly happening..

Not sure what you’re trying to say, honestly..?

I run zerk all the time, but I disagree with allowing selling or buying dungeon paths. I also dont care if someone is elitist or not, when I’m in a dungeon I fill my role… If you do that, you will never have someone yelling at you.

:) well I made a kitten of myself. Please forgive me, guild wars is abit gloomy for me atm so I read your post in the wrong tone.. So I am sorry

Dungeon selling – soloing – elitest / zerk etc. . Etc. .

No need to hide Op, we are all the same arent we?
You want us all filtered out just as much as others do

Dont worry though, its slowly happening..

:’( this gane is getting harder and harder to play for a long time. Even the forums are less interesting. ( no offense )

What to do, what to do..

:s now your making me wanta try learn lupi.. these vids are amazing

Sesshi.2610:

Sarahfull.4930:

ugh, Tried this, but I cant make the 2nd to last jump to the top. Its as though you just leap n walk up! its soooo annoying being soo close Q,Q

Yeah, you have to aim for the corner, weapon swap right when u hit the wall then jump :P

Ohhhh, thank you!! I have afew ideas of how to achi that now <3

ugh, Tried this, but I cant make the 2nd to last jump to the top. Its as though you just leap n walk up! its soooo annoying being soo close Q,Q

Oh my… A….amazing 0=o

Like.. can I hug you?

Jerus.4350:

Pulled the trigger, no longer a scrub without a legendary.

Well done!

Sanderinoa.8065:

Melfice.5091:

Finally a soloer with good taste of music

What you tryin to say >_>

Aww poor sandy, although Im not a big fan of that band myself

Edit : kinda makes me wanta a mai solo :0