False. Soloing/duoing dungeons involves only 1-2 experienced players yet does not = struggle/frustration.
when you solo or duo dungeon you don’t have 3-4 kittenes who are creating dangerous situations by pulling too many mobs, and prolonging fights by doing something counter-productive – e.g. scattering mobs
not to mention soloing/duoing dungeon is off topic in this thread, as it wouldn’t exists in the first place if OP could solo AC dungeon
but it’s very short, unless you aggro something after falling, so why is that a problem for you?
how they say: pics, or didn’t happen
before, after, and if your inventory is full
guardian greatsword #2 is multiple hit skill
that 3-4k damage on screen, is sum of all #2 skill hits
in chat log you see individual hits
i hope that explains what you missunderstood
processor speed looks terribad
if you mine it just after reset, it will spawn with next reset
if you mine it just before the reset, it will spawn after about six hours
players speculate – daily reset and up to about 6 hours if you mined it just before reset
capturing undefended towers/keeps
if no one is defending, then all you need to do is break the door and kill the lord
sometimes this phenomena occur when 2 servers are not defending anything, and just keep running in circle capturing things to farm karma and wxp
server: NA or EU?
objective: fun or gold?
donate your organs to chinese gold farmer and he buys that armor from you
try TC, JQ or BG servers on their prime time, might find like-minded players
other options:
- player vs door @ wvw (might depend on wvw situation on your server)
- fractals – karma bonus for lower levels than personal (effective only in constant group)
insanity wolf option:
sell a missile from your work place, and buy that incinerator for moneyz
Hey guys,
I´m trying hard to have the mmost fun possible in this game!
But unfortunatly I it doesnt work. I want to make as much gold as poosible while having much fun. I´m an level 80 warrior norn with 45 gold atm:)
What can you recommend me to do?:)
do what you like, then gold just flows in while you are having fun
if you want recommendations, than you should specify what is fun for you
i’m having fun doing dungeons – speedruns, kill all ze thing runs, alt exp runs – everything goes
anything too repetitive is no fun to me – that’s why i alterate how i do the dungeon – often going out of the way to find the troll champ in ac, helping lowbie new players and so on
things you might or might not like which generate a lot gold:
- working extra hours at work on weekend and buying gems to convert to gold
- playing tp market
- doing champ trains like zombie-robot
- dungeon speedruns
- wvw karma train (when 2 servers are not defending anything, and just ‘chasing’ each other – flipping things)
- chopping trees
- jumping puzzles with 10+ alts all day long (preferably with 20-30 lowbies for silver doubloons)
- farming ultra-rare living story skins for sale (varies on living story content)
… This is the first dungeon new players like me are likely to try. What a horrible experience …
its not about level, but about number of experienced players in group
number of experienced players vs dungeon difficulty:
5 – breeze
4 – smooth
3 – average slug pug
2 – struggle
1 – frustration
0 – no idea what we are doing
so if you want healthy dungeon experience, make sure to grab at least couple experienced friends before using lfg tool
pro tips:
- if you encounter experienced players who don’t mind lower levels in the group, don’t be shy to befriend and chat with them after dungeon. they might help you with dungeons in future
- avoid people who don’t want lower levels in party and/or do dungeons just for gold reward
Bosses normally have these things called “mechanics” that require you to do something other than standing still, mashing one button. Maybe a dodge here, or a cleanse there. Many of these are easier to dodge when far away
ok, so spider queen got ‘mechanic’, to spit on targets outside her melee range
which is easier:
- dodging aoe circles at range
- staying inside melee range, preventing aoe circle to happen all together
P.S. plot twist, both require certain skill level. and i’d argue that dealing with bosses’ melee attacks often needs more
And then every single “range” character dies, as most light/medium armor classes aren’t meant to take nonstop AoE to the face.
…
Stop pretending.
heavy classes are not supposed “take nonstop AoE to the face” either – and no, that minor hp/armor bonus doesn’t help if you fail to avoid/block bosses’ fatal attacks
also for comparison mesmer with one handed sword can facetank better than those ‘heavies’ with any weapon
btw, pugs are shooting themselves in the face, when stacking for spider queen in that corner, because there is no space to surround her, therefor everyone is hit by her melee cleave and cone shaped attacks
dungeons are awesome. nuff said
whats autorun indicator for?
i mean if you are not holding finger on forward, but your character is running, then autorun is obviously on
4 weapon sets.. hm. that would drastically increase versatility… access to more skills, and combos… but but.. how you suggest to balance that between classes? e.g. now ele and engi don’t have weapon swap, but have something else instead
not as ridiculous as pulling numbers out of thin air
- park some lowbies
- kill some centaurs
- do some dungeons, use reward gold to buy them
and in couple of month, or less if you got more time to play, you’ll have your shinies
well you are exaggerating too, if everyone just clicks 1 auto-attacks against spider queen, they would get slaughtered by her melee attacks which also inflict bleeding. so you still kinda need some support, like cleansing, regen and reviving someone if one get’s downed
also when you do initial pull with spider queen and spiderlings, its important to either kill spiderlings with aoe burst before they do any significant damage to the group, or have some reflects to prevent their damage
i often run into groups that wipe once just to kill the spiderlings, because spiderlings deal a lot damage before they are killed, leaving group barely alive vs queen. and then there is that one weirdo who starts complaining ‘zomigad, this group is so bad, i never wiped on the queen before’ while he was standing there clicking single target autoattack and expecting to be carried by others. by carried i mean someone either protecting his sorry butt with reflects or killing spiderlings for him
ranged(sitting 900-1200 away) players don’t get aoe boons (most utilities and aoe combos have small effect radius), cannot effectively revive or be revived, does less damage in general (with few exceptions)
so why would one choose to play ranged in coordinated small group(dungeons)?
its hilarious when 4 players got banner buffs, fury, 25stacks of might, and there is that one ranger standing 1500 away w/o any buffs, and later complains why no one wants him
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…If ONE problem happens, the group wipes due to AoE poison from the spider queen, AoE from the Howling King, or mobs, or Kohler’s AoE, or whatever else…
that’s not true. if something goes wrong, experienced players just dodge and/or run out of aoes, and continue like nothing. its the inexperienced players that get wiped
which leads to conclusion, that those inexperienced players first should learn doing boss the ‘hard’ way. so that if something goes wrong while stacking they won’t have any problems reacting
… i got on my main character and checked how much i needed for it and i was at 173 areas already …
this statements is so wrong, your achievement page shows total areas explored by your account, so there might have been your other character who already explored that area. there is no indication for individual character, you can check only hearts/vistas/pois/wps progress for character when you open map
you don’t need ‘areas’ for world exploration rewards
all you need are: hearts, vistas, pois and waypoints
hovering over region names in map, will show you progress inside them, so basically you need to find only maps where its not 100%
there is exception – order of whispers instance – which has its own map completion chest
P.S. don’t forget WvW maps counts toward world exploration too
repeating same message 3 times gets you suppressed. how is that random?
first world problems?
just create the mesmer, why would you need to delete anything, you can always buy new character slot if you run out of them
as for your engineer, place him at the end of some complicated jumping puzzle, so that you don’t want to move him again. and use him only for dailies and some silvers from jp chest
what bug are you writing about?
you linked a lot threads with complaints that silver doubloons are hard to obtain. ever occurred to you, that it might have been intended for them to be scarce?
software bug – it is when something is not working as intended
from what i saw – current game engine is not suited for ships. there are no moving objects you can stand on, except flying ships in arah story, and they are implemented poorly
so yeah, idea is awesome, but probably not possible atm
then you can got for longbow warrior, providing group (and ofc yourself) with fire field and banners. but group will still want you somewhere close, so that they get benefits from your buffs too
longbow is a bit lacking versus single targets, but kitten aoe and integrated aoe fire combo makes up for it
if you are not confident in melee range, then gs is perfect escape mechanism (free evade – ‘whirlwind’ and with auto target off – ‘rush’), and if you have 5s weapon swap trait, you can go back to longbow in no time
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for pve you would need at least 1 warrior, as banners are just too good to give up and stacks with any other damage buffs
also would want some way to sustain constant fury and might stacks via fire field/blast combo (warrior/ele/engi for fire fields)
and depending on the content you might want some projectile reflection/destruction (guard/mesm/ele)
but because facerolling is just too mainstream, you might as well just pick whatever classes are fun for you, and roll with them
P.S. i’d go for warrior/ele/mesmer
as someone who likes teaching and helping others to play dungeons, i find this suggestion offensive, because then no one would seek out for me
advice: get more friends
not everyone who wields legendary is any good in pi vi pi
tho it would be fun to duel spar with friends for practice outside spvp with pve gear
viewing armor? no no. ask them
1 dungeon token loot from everything seems a bit too much. i’d go for 1 dungeon token from elites (guaranteed or at least high chance). and maybe very small or no chance from weakling trash
why would anyone bother kiting away camp npc’s. they are easy to kill and gives loots and wxp
1. Might
2. Fury
3. Swiftness
4. Vigor
5. Regeneration
6. Stability
Aegis
Protection
Retaliation
never argue with stupid, from distance no one can tell the difference
changes in dungeon meta – “LF1M thief for trash skipping”
“path X, speed run, dm title, 9999+ap, com tag, 81+lvl, legendarty and false advertisement”
works every time
yes you do. if you read the update notes it said that new aerith path replaced old f/u path
P.S. unless you already had f/u path completed, then obviously you don’t need to complete it again
week ago got – Recipe: Claw of the Howling King
and it’s only second dungeon recipe i got, even tho i do a lot of them daily. first one was from cof months ago
agree, not everybody likes gambling
and yeah, it might look simple for experienced players, but single new or trolling player can (un-)intentionally screw up everything (killing holo’s in the wrong place)
i’m at work now, usually start playing from 2-3 hours from now
well you might missed it, but now you can freely guest to other servers (except cross EU and NA servers)
so you can find friends to play together on other servers too (except WvW where only players from your server can be on same side)
easiest way to get friends would be using ingame lfg tool to find groups for some objectives, and then talking to players, while you are doing it, or after you are done
P.S. don’t give up trying just because you run into antisocial players, there are friendly players out there too, who are seeking someone to play with
P.S.S. i’m not on Devona’s rest, but on other NA server, so you could ask me for help if you see me online (warning – i’m limited resource – rarely helping more than 1 player at a time)
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if everyone in group is familiar with dungeon mechanics, then the it’s not that difficult. ran into couple guys doing it for skins awhile back. don’t know how often they get them, but they told its profitable for them in long run. did few runs in a row with them, because everything went smooth. didn’t hit the jackpot, but time was well spent – i like smashing things, shinies are just sweet bonus
so, isn’t it finally some content that actually rewards those hardcore players for their sleepless nights. why would it need any rewamp?
P.S. tho i wouldn’t mind more rewards, after all that would be in my best interest
take any class, buy a lot of those:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fire_Elemental_Powder
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ogre_Pet_Whistle
P.S. if it gets killed, you can summon new at once
enjoy the game
you wrote you paid for 2800 gems, but do you see any gems in your ingame wallet? look at the bottom of inventory page, or press h (default if you haven’t changed it) to open hero panel and go to wallet tab to check
yeah, “open all”,“buy 250 item stack” would be nice. because current design promotes using automation which is against TOS
P.S. i think you meant ‘save’ not ‘safe’ in thread title
I meant rifle over longbow, not over hammer
longbow got immobilize. CC > dps
you need to buy 375lvl inscription from crafting npc
What do you mean combo breaker?
you have my bow
you have my sword
and you have my axe
combo
you have my bow
I will add you today, what is your character?
you can add me using account name (left side of each post in forum)
but if you insist – Shira The Barbarian
skelks killing yaks for weeks, and noone bats and eye. living story mobs start killing yaks, and everybody loses their minds
you have my bow