Guild Wars 2

‘Luckily’ for me, I still have 2 alts that need rings, and I have terrible luck getting useful rings from daily chests. Yay, my pristines aren’t useless!

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Being a full glass cannon in PvE is generally not a good idea. Even the devs themselves have said this. Survivability > Cannon for the most part.

I stopped taking you seriously here.

Son of a Bookah[SoB] says hi.

Called it!

Someone in my guild owes me money… Now who was it?

To be fair, the Agony attack from that boss was always “unavoidable”. It was just untelegraphed, no animation, you’d just be hit then suddenly agony. It had a rather small range from what I remember, as my ranger was more than able to avoid it simply by distance (or at least, the only explanation I have).

If they changed the boss to a truly un-dodge able, visible agony attack, then gg.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I’ll add that to my to-do list this time around, but this issue is not a blocking issue.

Thanks for posting!

Sounds like a “blocking issue” to me.

iFocus.3781:

I don’t understand you people to be very honest. Standing on a perfectly well placed ledge is called cheating? There is no cheating nor glitching in dropping from a stair down to a ledge where the boss can’t reach you – that is called a strategy (rather dirty one if anything). A glitch is where you seek your way through a map or something that is OBVIOUSLY not intended to be performed. A bug is something that causes and unpredicted out-come.

It is an unintended outcome. If you stand on the same ledge out in open world pve, and the mob can not retaliate, it will become invulnerable to you and will reset hp. Since the bosses of AC have “ranged” abilities, the game engine was interpreting it as they could retaliate. However, you were standing in a location that would not be hit, which should have caused the boss to reset.

Either way, it should be fixed now anyhow.

On the plus side, now I can force myself to stay in combat to prevent that bad, self-centered, non-helpful, dead random from respawning.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure feedback doesn’t work when cast on lupi, due to the fact he releases the projectiles from above the dome.

What does work, however, is the feedback on reviving trait. You can actually have someone stay dead just to provide an on-demand feedback to easily block all the projectiles.

It does work on all of Lupicus’ projectiles. You need to be standing inside the bubble to be protected. And be away from the edges of the bubble, as the projectiles have an explosion radius when hitting the ground.

Standard duration is long enough to provide a safe zone (beneath him) during 1 entire AoE spawn in phase 2. Alternate it with Distortion and/or Mimic, and you’ll find phase 2 much less of a worry.

Yep. If you want tokens, don’t start your runs with farming a single path. You hit DR for completing too many runs in too short a time frame. Farming p1 should be the last thing you do in your allotted play time, as to maximize your tokens from elsewhere.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

1. Defiance is necessary unfortunately, and we figured that out early on. Without defiance, groups just stack knockdown skills and utilities and kill every boss without them being able to get up off the floor. There are some funny videos of this that can be found where players repeatedly throws rocks at Adelbern and knock him over constantly, allowing them to kill him with ease.

So Rob, just when was the last time you were in AC Story?

Yaki.9563:

Sarcasmic.6741:

Or (as has been stated on multiple occasions) having certain encounters skipable IS intended by Anet. Just because it’s in there, doesn’t mean it’s meant to be killed.

Then why is it in there?

So people actually have something to skip? Believe it or not, some people have trouble skipping. It’s not always as simple as run from point A to point B. If there were no mobs, it would be simple running from point A to point B.

Feedback reflects both ways, in and out of the bubble. If your enemy moves outside the bubble, you solve the problem by moving into the bubble. Or at least, to the other side of it.

As for Lupicus, yes it works there as well. You’ll need to be in melee range to make the most of it, but it’s definitely worth slotting. The bubble will appear at ground level, directly beneath him, provided he is within its maximum casting range. Otherwise, it’ll be on the ground in his general direction at that maximum range (meaning you’ll likely have to blink inside of it to get any benefit).

Anirri.4156:

have you EVER seen an asura warrior…i have one and she is funny as heck. Especialy with a Great sword and the thousand cuts skill…jumping and slashing all over the place….not to mention they are the ONLY race t swing a GS with one arm..then toss it over their shoulder to run off. I do look like a golem in my armor but its funny..most think she is male until i remove her helm…also Zojja is awesome xD

Axe warrior is immensely better as an asura than any of the other races as well. The attack animations are so much more lively.

Yaki.9563:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

. I could make enemies never drop their aggro on players and force them to fight every single mob, but I don’t see that as a viable solution right now.

Why isn’t this a viable solution? You should force players to fight the trash mobs that are in the way because it’s content that you designed for the players to fight. If you don’t want players to fight trash, don’t put trash in the dungeon.

Or (as has been stated on multiple occasions) having certain encounters skipable IS intended by Anet. Just because it’s in there, doesn’t mean it’s meant to be killed.

Strifey.7215:

For the dungeons with 70+ rares, it’s better to use them for rares and salvage for ectos, especially with how high ecto prices have gotten.

That’s also why farming higher level dungeons are so good as well, because ever completion you get two guaranteed rares which on average is like 1.8 ectos.

And for the lower dungeons, you turn into exotic weapons to forge. Either the weapon type of the prec you want (for use or to sell) or spam offhands for general moolah.

Zerker warrior with a shield is purely for Shield Stance. It’s an easy way to mitigate a lot of damage that you know is coming (Lupicus’s AoE spam in phase 2 or the life drain in phase 3 for example).

When you’re full berserker geared, you need to completely nullify the damage, either by dodging the attacks or blocking all of the damage, this goes for all professions, not just warrior. Warrior has a little more fudge room than the other professions built glass cannon, but most things will still drop you in few hits. Just don’t get hit.

Erasmus.1624:

But, hey, at least you aren’t playing Mario Kart, right?

Looks like someone took a few too many blue shells.

Yep, I occasionally switch to alts under lvl 20 for AC completion if it’s a guild run. Regardless of level, you still get about 2/3rds of a level per first time daily completion. (Without DR of course).

Mirta.5029:

Phoenix.7845:

Mirta.5029:

It’s noobish to run full berserker gear without getting any toughness AND accept only warriors.

Why would they get toughness if they can survive without it? Also they don’t accept only warriors, there is one mesmer in the team!

You’re talking about farming runs. Elitist speedrunners do not even accept cof gear, they ask specifically for berserker’s.

Most cof gear is berserker.

They “survive” without it. Have played with Berserkers. Sitting on the floor downed does not count for damage. Of course CoF is the easiest dungeon at this point. It’s going to be upped in difficulty though.

A berserker warrior downed will still throw rocks for 2k+ crits at a higher attack rate than most ranged weapons. I wish my ranger’s longbow and shortbow had the output of a downed warrior.

Why have stealth if you have to patch things to ignore it completely. Bad idea is bad.

It would be nice if I could get any skin. I have a char capable of every weapon type, but they just don’t roll for me.

Except pure dps anything works for all dungeons as they currently stand.

I wasn’t aware “zerking” was a thing now.

Hooray, another GS – Axe/Warhorn.

Got nothing else on the video. Business as usual in Fireheart Rise.

Minda.9270:

Well I, for one, welcome our new golem overlords.

http://s3.mmoguildsites.com/s3/gallery_images/524655/original.jpg?1354618837

You can already buy cultural Weapons of any race, just not the armor.

That aside, I do agree it’s a bit odd that they’re dropping as Wolfborn skins. Seems more laziness than anything from my view.

Oglaf.1074:

Wrywood.6754:

http://youtu.be/yxyiIzKQIkittenta love Vekk. <3

OMG… is that Brain’s voice actor?!

“What are we going to do tonight, Brain?”

“The same thing we do every night, Pinky…”

“Scold the Bookahs!”

And suddenly, it all makes sense.

Ranger has very few stun breakers, but I’d go so far as to say LR is one of the best any profession has access to. It never leaves my bar, at the very least it’s another free dodge (for keeping bonus damage with full endurance).

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Namu.5712:

Aww its not your fault the warrior profession is incredibly…. well better at everything then any other profession in the game lol.

False, they have wider selection of weapons + the highest dps in the game, but they are not better at everything.

Example 1. They can’t reflect projectiles for a team. Which is very useful in fotm.

They can, as can Elementalists and Engineers. Guardians just do that one niche better (also note, Guardians block far more projectiles than reflect, Mesmer is best equipped to reflect).

For dungeons, Stamina. 2 bonus dodges for everything that dies. Less useful on boss fights, but with a warhorn you really shouldn’t be attacked faster than you can evade it anyhow.

A lot of immobilizes and blocks help if you /want/ to kill it, but I don’t really feel it’s worth the time.

Nope, he’s a time sink, nothing more.

Dempsey.8760:

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

100b is broken in PvE
I’m sorry but in CoF p1 its hard to outshine warriors, I run full knight armor (toughness/power/precision) and my damage still outshines my glass cannon builds on my other characters with 20/20 in strength and firearm tree. With berserker gear warriors would be pumping out 17k damage every 10 seconds (8 seconds with time warp), I’ve been in runs where the boss died from full hp to 0 within the time frame of 1 timewarp.

100b is terribad in pve, especially dungeons. mainhand axe will out damage it in a 10 second span, just because you SEE 1 big number does not mean it is best it only means you see one big number. Also 100b roots you which is horrid.
in PvP 100b becomes a little better but still not optimal.

That’s why I run both: axe/something (usually warhorn) and greatsword. Ranged isn’t necessary for most dungeon encounters if you can keep your mobility and dodging up.

No, you do not understand the system. You tried to use your example as a counter argument in a situation it does not work in. The dungeon rewards DO reset with daily reset. Run a single path of any dungeon immediately before the reset, then run the same path immediately after the reset, you will receive 60 tokens each run (unless you run into the random, 30 tokens for the first dungeon of the day glitch, but another story for another time).

The OP’s issue is he simply did too many paths too quickly. Running the same path masked the effect, but it still applies. 5 CoF path 1 runs would go 60, 20, 10, 5, 2. Since I would bank on the fact they happened rather quickly, those 5 took significantly less than 2 hours to complete. So the first different path that the OP attempted got the “too many dungeon paths in a set time frame” DR I mentioned earlier.

Nagorn.2307:

Strifey.7215:

T1: Guardian, Warrior, Mesmer
T2: Ele, Thief, not sure where to put Engi after Grenade nerf
T3: Necro, Ranger

There are no tiers…each class have their advantages and disadvantages, btw necro T3??? You don’t have one, don’t you?

Guardians, eles, warriors are good buffers, offensive or defensive, necro = best condition profession, ranger just have a lot of dmg (bows way), mesmers are versatile, i don’t know much about thiefs or engi but i figure thiefs = tons of dmg and engi = mixed dmg with some support.

Necro can stack the most conditions by default, but it’s not the best condition profession. It lacks access to the hardest hitting condition of all, burning. I also don’t recall Necros being able to apply confusion.

I disagree slightly with Strifey’s tiers, but there /are/ tiers of effectiveness both in pve and pvp. Necro usually falls pretty low down the list sadly, as do Ranger and Engineer. Until the balances and bug fixes are completely ironed out (which could take years to finalize) there will always be the profession/build that outshines the others.

Yes it does. You can however, still run into the “too many dungeon paths in a set time frame” DR, even if it overlaps the reset.

Remember, you have 4 runs of different paths in a ~2 hour time frame for max token reward. Your 5th will be lowered to 45 tokens if you don’t wait for that time period to pass.

Barrage indeed does not count as a projectile skill. Generally speaking, if it isn’t a projectile combo finisher, it can’t be reflected. Mob skills are more tricky, just have to learn from trial and error.

x per fection x.2096:

Can you imagine alpha and lupi without people being able to use wp’s? i’ll never pug again if this is the case.

I already avoid pugging it if at all possible, I’ll just avoid it entirely if this truly happens.

Malediktus.9250:

My guild does it this way: 5 guildies go in, before endboss 4 leave and we sell the spots for 15g each. Endboss get killed and the 4x 15g get split equally to all 5 people from guild. So no kicking innocent people involved.

I have a question. Ignoring that you were adamantly against selling spots, and flopped to the profit bandwagon after finding out you were wrong for singling out the people doing it; how do you manage to get past the ‘last player gets kicked from dungeon if all the other members leave’?

The game, for some odd reason, recognizes solo began instances, and group began instances differently. If you start a dungeon without a party, then invite someone to party, you’re kicked. Likewise (from my experience) if you start a dungeon with a group, and the rest leave, you are also kicked.

The point is to encourage those players who want to transfer, to do so to one of the servers with lower populations. Pick a new one of the “High” traffic servers, not one of the “Very High”, especially if that server is in Tier 1.

If you’re just trying to have fun in WvW as a guild, you can find plenty of engaging matchups outside T1. In fact, you’ll most likely have MORE fun on the lower brackets due to it being less rigidly regulated.

Also, Kaineng says hi.

Twill.6217:

well that’s not really true. i know plenty of groups that build for support in high level fractals.

Ok fair enough, not full glass cannon, but using gear besides Berserker’s is more what I’d meant. I have a guildie warrior for example who trait slots for shout heals, but still builds damage wherever else available and wears damage gear. Things of that nature. None of this Soldier’s/Cleric’s/Apothecary’s/Etc builds focused on “tanking” damage. It just doesn’t happen that far into fractals. You either don’t get hit, or you get downed.

cafard.8953:

juno.1840:

Veil — never use because if I want it I take mass invis instead.

Veil has a massive advantage over MassInv: it isn’t limited to 5 targets. In WvWvW, it’s a big big difference. Cast in front of a tight melee train about to charge, it makes an entire raid disappear, and only reappear after half the opposition is dead. With the culling problems, the stealth is even longer than what the tooltip says.

So yes, in WvWvW at least, Veil is a major game changer.

Veil only has an advantage in WvW. The stealth doesn’t actually last as long as Mass Invis (although the tooltip states it should). You won’t need to stealth more than 5 targets in pve (party limit) and spvp (almost at room limit/at tourn limit).

Only a mesmer? Get the nerf hammer ready.

Twill.6217:

the real question here is: why would any guardian go full glass canon?

as a high level fractalist myself i am well aware that glass cannoning doesn’t work beyond ordinary dungeons.

Why would you do anything but glass cannon beyond fractal 50? Everything 60+ will 1-shot down you either way, “trash” included. It’s best to do the most damage you can in hopes that you kill the enemy before you yourself were downed. (Guardians are actually more capable at building full glass and surviving anyhow, except to maybe Mesmers)

4 warrior + 1 mesmer groups are spamming CoF path 1?

Brb: nerfing mesmers.

Traitline is still useful for the crit damage and the major traits, the actual burst damage boost is trash though.

Darx.9842:

No. My guardian has 3000 attack and 70% crit damage.

Scepter hits rarely go over 1.5k.

Well, you’re missing about 20% crit damage (possibly more), and the rest I would assume comes from your trait lines. It’s entirely possible to make each tick of smite do that damage. You could be auto attacking for more.

CC-ing most bosses actually makes the fight harder. If you blow through the defiant and actually interrupt a skill, it tends to reset the bosses’ AI. Making them use attacks outside their usual predictable order (at least once).

For example, knocking down Rumblus in AC 3 during his summon, has caused him to immediately stand up and scream on multiple occasions with guild tests. Far more dangerous than just letting him summon adds.

Off-topic, at work so I can’t get you a link. See if I can’t dig it up later. He doesn’t stream often, mainly just to show us stuff, and when he was progressing past 60.

On-topic, yay at someone who sees guardians can be more than walking boon dispensers.