Guild Wars 2

short version of what is op trying to say is:
“you are wrong. and i hate you”

guide to structural discussions

I know the moderators have been very strict about Complaining posts and threads and i am sure many of us had experienced the consequences, so i have decided to provide the community with a short guide of Asking Questions: Types, Structure, Leading a Discussion from a website I found.I look forward to it helping expect it to help me, and hopefully you as well, Enjoy..

http://dyslexia.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/asking-questions-types-structure-leading-a-discussion/

fixed that for you with my engrish skillz (not my native)

also i would advise to increase readability. by cutting that long sentence into group of short ones.

afaik @ 40lvl starts personal story quests to explore some races like – explore orcs → fight branded. undeads start with claw island @ 50? or am i wrong

wasn’t that skillpoint one from ‘skillpoint challenges’ in the maps? at least that’s how i did it.

btw you got 24 hours to do daily, why are you doing just before the reset?

join some group there. its easier to tag in group.

imo if they had ill intentions they would have kept them in private chat ;o

why do you care about that tax.. the higher the better. makes your gold worth more. lets say you sell something for 100, tax takes away 15. you end up with 85. if there was no tax you’d still have 100 right? but so would everybody else. and that’s bad, as it would increase luxury item prices a lot.

nope. got in traffic jam in the morning, now sitting at work procrastinating

agree that event blocking bugs are disappointing, even more so that those events stay bugged till new game build.

but hope is not lost. you can still guest to other server. or find someone from other server who wanna do story.

whats big deal about soulbound sigils? if they are expensive and you wanna sell/put them on other char. place them into item, salvage with 100% return. profit.

did you buy ‘food’ from NPC or from player TP?

haviz.1340:

Usually more than one guardian means twice as long bosses fights.

how changing 20% of party can drop damage output by 50%? ;o (well unless he was the only one stacking 20might or smth)

dungeons are fun. yes they are more difficult then open world. so just ask someone to teach you.

like buying 250 karma food packets at once =<

now its click click click click….

some weird ‘grind for skin’ argument that is.. it’s like saying, i want six pack, but i don’t wanna workout and carefully pick what i eat.

guardian. unless you wanna spend a lot time mastering mesmer.

trolling others in DE’s at lowbie territories, by killing everything before others can tap =D

yes there is a way to hide personal story tracker. you might not like that way tho, because its completing the personal story. again

nobody likes dredges. nobody

well your text of wall is impressive but.. i have different opinion. it probably has something to with me not liking Skyrim.

also not sure what you mean with term Endogenous. as it has nothing to do with living or inanimate stuff. it simply means being created from inside the system, as opposite to Exogenous coming from outside the system.

so if game world is the system you are talking about, then everything created inside, lootz, monsters etc.. are Endogenous.

and the only thing that can be created and enter system from the ‘outside’ are player characters and gems.

and when you say Endogenous gameplay… what do you mean sir? synonimus for immersive? then why not using immersive, that word would make more sense with the context you provided – poor lore related to events, poor NPC performance (not that i expect them to be smart), fantasy game logic (bigger lewts then poor monsters can carry.. tho you can cary like 10 different armors and 20 weapons, and you don’t mention problem with it.. L O L)

Cawesome.1580:

I think any sort of “fun” in dungeons died when they announced to get rid of the “Holy Trinity”. The trinity made sure dungeons were organized, fluid, everyone had a specific job, and everyone got rewarded for that job.

This game takes all of that throws it out the window, grabs some lighter fluid and burns it alive. There’s no sound structure, fights consist of a bunch of aoe so it’s just a mess of graphics, the rewards are……….pitiful to say the most. There’s no joy in these dungeons. I think the OP is right. I just have no intentions of ever trying these trainwreck dungeons until Anet at least puts some effort into fixing them.

yes they threw it out. and replaced with ‘do not get hit’ concept. and it works. i like it. there are others who like it. ofc there are those who don’t. pick a side. join us, or do something else. choice is yours

Lexy.3912:

This site has 36/37 armour types displayed with information on aquisition and stats. You can also display the armour in different colours although I’ve found the combo option to be the best one to see the different elements clearly.

http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?weight=2&race=2&color=0&sex=0

Edit: and the the duelist sets that share the skins with the named sets don’t exactly cost coppers. http://www.gw2spidy.com/search/duelist?sort_rarity=asc

whoaa thanks. nice site. even shows where you can get those armors (even from which personal story rewards!)

yeah my bad about duelist set, didn’t check that its exotic only

Aden Celeste.3650:

Thanks for reading guys. Please tone down AC a bit. I know many say “AC is Mind numbing easy” or “We need harder content, everything is so easy” but rest assure, these guys usually wipe at least 4 times before finishing the dungeon. I don’t believe in wiping to be successful. I own a guild, and one of my laws in the guild is “NO TEAM WIPE”. As long as there is one person alive, then the fight must continue.

it’s people like you that made me excited about AC. i was like yay… will be some fun challenge to learn new AC. and then… my first time in ‘new’ AC was huge disappointment. well the beginning was kinda ok.. those spiderlings took longer to deal with and in my opinion it’s fair – because i could 1hit them before. but everything else died so fast that i was left wondering what those forum trolls were whining about.

Pure Heart.1456:

No one has addressed the OP’s concerns directly;

1) Too many hitpoints
2) 1-shot kills
3) No waypoint ability to rejoin the fight

Yes, all of these suck. Really, really badly.

why do those ‘suck’?

in my opinion:
1) depends what monsters/bosses you are talking about. i find it fair that dungeon monsters have more hp then open world ones. i take it for damage avoidance test – that is survive long enough to kill monsters. if it had less hp, there would be no need to master that… (well there are exceptions like HoTW)

2) and this is bad why? a lot of games have this, remember mario? you fail a jump, and rip. (GAME OVER, sound familiar?)

3) the more reason to make less mistakes. promotes improving skillful play. unlike the old – oh i died.. lul w/e lets run back and not care about getting better.

and one last thing that most people miss – dungeons are not meant for everyone to like. its a place with strong monsters for strong players (of course that’s just my opinion too).

Queensdale used to be my place of choice for dailies. even now, i often come back to see how good old troll is doing.

and your so called medium ‘named’ share same skin as duelists armor. thats what i mean by ‘they don’t have unique skin’. if you buy this ‘named’ exotic just for skin, then you are kittening yourself, as exactly same standard skin costs coppers .

btw gw2armor is terribad, as it doesn’t show all armor skins, and fail(?) naming them

e.g. there are 36 distinct medium armor skins w/o legacy ones (HoM)

gw2armor shows only 23 skins.. ignoring standard (armors from drops), most craftable ones (shows only top tier one for some reason). and lists other karma skins under ‘Just for looks’

Adine.2184:

No its definitely the named chest . and after looking at an armor site it looks like Vigil Priory and Whispers armors are used ( not sure how )

http://www.gw2armor.com/human/male/medium_list.php

you are aware that “named” exotic armors don’t have their own skins, right?

gw2armorgallery > gw2armor

http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/human-medium.htm

it’s standard duelist armor chest. (not karma duelist armor chest). leggings also duelists (tho duelists boots cover the ‘pants’ in this preview). and duelists gloves.
http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-medium-stand-duelist-male.jpg

vigil shoulder/vigil boots:
http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-medium-order-vigil-male.jpg

whispers helm:
http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-medium-order-whisper-male.jpg

P.S. for those who don’t know, you can transmute order armors on white items then they become account bound, and can be transfered to you other characters.

you don’t really need uberbuilds like you write here. tho you are right that just any random skillsets doesn’t work.

a lot ‘beginners’ go to dungeons with ‘solo’ builds. i mean builds that work kinda ‘ok’ when you are alone in open world. they don’t take any utilities or weapons that actually help the group. typical example would be warrior with might sigil instead of “for great justice”. well it kinda gives more might to him… but FGJ would contribute more to his group performance.

and there are really a lot alternatives for all classes for group utilities, if u wanna be ‘casual’.

P.S. i’m on of those who prefer killing all the things. yes over and over again. don’t care about rewards. because i’m filthy rich anyway.

Florgknight.1589:

I went out of my way and rescued this one.

emergency food supply? nice

Hillaan.6904:

Do it yourself since it is so doable, funny how everyone always wants someone else to do it. Even if it is possible why would anyone go through the aggravation. I did not mind running it before but I doubt I will ever venture in there again.

well i got to admit this. i’m too lazy to make 35lvl toon

nethykins.7986:

(Just based on trait’s alone) You agree 5 levels difference will screw you, but you disagree that a 45 level difference doesn’t?

…….Wait, what?

he clearly explained why fighting higher lvl monsters then you is bad.
he never mentioned traits. it got almost nothing to do with them. except hp/armor, but who put points in them anyway?

i’d love to see… or maybe even make a video, where 2-3 35lvl toons complete ac. just to troll the nonbelievers

its 35lvl dungeon. what were you expecting? ofc its cakewalk ;o

Iures.2894:

I’m curious how might stacks and blast finishers are supposed to help if they’re literally getting 3 attacks in.

I mean—combo field, blast, blast, she’s invisible again. That’s the way I’m reading it, anyway. That would be her going invisible before it’s even possible to build might stacks with combo finishers, much less simultaneously getting 25 stacks of vulnerability.

preparing might in advance obviously. if you think its impossible then you are not ready.

how many might stacks you had on average? your group composition got plenty fire field/blast finishers. would be sad if it weren’t around 20 all the time.

was tear thrower part time attacking?

from your description, seems like spark running was terribad. why were pets in the way? rangers should have stayed somewhere out of sight.

short version:
its not 50% “bug”. its called “group too slow to enter phase 2”.

areas to improve:
spark kiting – runners with at least swiftness

tear throwing – you didn’t mention anything, so maybe it was ok, if noone ended up petrified.

damage checklist:
25 might stacks, yes/close/no?
permanent fury, yes/close/no?
25 vulnerability, yes/close/no?

offensive weapons, yes/no?

weapon/kit/attunement skill swapping yes/no?

P.S. boons are better then conditions in dungeons

well your story doesn’t add up either

at first you stated that you started with 276 tokens. in the middle of the story you changed that to 286 before opening bags (whut? when is that? before or after dungeon reward?)

well lets ignore that. fast forward:

you state that you have ended with 302 tokens. bought something for 300.. and ended with 40 tokens? seriously? 302 minus 300 definitely ain’t 40

now if we skip all nonsense and look from theoretical side:

276 + 60 + 6 + 60 + 6 – 300 = 108

if you start with 276, you need 2 runs, and 4 bags to end up with 108

seems like memory is not your friend, and math is your enemy

1.) friend
2.) nothing
3.) nope
4.) nope. i’m filthy rich
5.) well its just pixels. didn’t feel anything after completing one

to sum it – been there, done that. did not like it. well at least commander badge didn’t go to waste, super useful in group events

P.S. you might want to edit your first post, because it gives bad vibe – as if you are looking down on others who don’t share same preferences. more respect and tolerance please

so you are telling that your brother had lags and you didn’t in the same instance. and you claim it is server sided? doesn’t sound reasonable

helping others works for me to kill time

no to Frogganz no no

game starts at lvl80. you are wrong. and i hate you. (main mesmer)

Neural.1824:

… With my warrior, I feel like I take more damage than I should as well…

from your description it seems like you have problems with character control and positioning, not the build or gear.
gw2 defense is about not getting hit.
how is you character moving while performing attacks? most attacks can be performed while moving. if you are standing still, then you are sandbag for other players, and they can circle you to avoid some of your attacks.

how are you control keys binded? hopefully not default ones.

do you use strife sideways buttons?
is your dodge key comfortable?

Neural.1824:

…then what should I start with practicing?…

walking sideways lvl beginner:
find some lowbie drakes (e.g. in queensdale) practice not getting hit by their uber slow fire breath attack without killing them. doesn’t count if you use dodge, run away, or aggro less then 3 at a time.

when you pass this try smth else.. like uhm.. ettins maybe… then at some points you can start practicing that with ‘alive’ players

use forum search. find that ac jp is movie tribute/reference. don’t create repetitive threads. why the sad face?

Crossplay.2067:

The changes have pointed out yet another flaw in battle mechanics. As a mesmer, I can’t cleanse fear from myself or my party members. Null Field is disabled when I get hit with fear. Even when I got lucky and managed to cast it before being hit, I literally ran through it but still had fear on me. On its own, this would just be a minor annoyance but once that fear pushed me into a mob of gravelings that happened to have a champion in it. That came very close to becoming a party wipe. From then on my party decided to skip the Cave Troll because he’s now more trouble than he’s worth.

In any case, fear, or rather the abilities that can remove fear, need to be fixed before such a mechanic can be used by dungeon bosses.

null field is not stun breaker, why should it be enabled while under cc effect?

decoy, blink, and other stunbreakers works fine to remove fear.

CookMETEnder.7582:

Water, Monks, and what else?
Wait… 60% from runes? I was under the impression that it was 15% from the duos…
Can someone correct me?

Rune of the Fire – 20% might duration
Rune of Hoelbrak – 20% might duration
Rune of Strength – 20% might duration
Rune of the Pirate – 20% might duration

pick 3

+90% might duration (30% trait 60% runes), Lung Capacity(-20% shout cd), Vigorous Shouts(shouts heal), Inspiring Shouts(adrenaline) , Adrenal Reserves (cheaper burst skills), 5s weapon swap + longbow = perma fire field might fest.

go go power ranger

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Still the CHEAPEST was to acquire 20 slot bags, considering the superior rune of holding is 10 gold and the cheapest 20 slot fractal box is 150 relics.

2-3 hours slowpoke cof runs for 12 gold vs 3-4 fractal daily box runs for relics – way more then 3 hours for slowpokes.

doesn’t seem ‘cheaper’ at all.

besides, if you craft you can pick bag type (invisible, upgrade components, junk, etc). tho fractal ones complement sorting too (uncommon and rares)

infinite light – would keep you busy for a “while”.

Ambiguous suggestion. could you add more detail?

so if suddenly group of engineers covered by couple thieves came out of ‘nowhere’ and bombed you and your friends to death, you wouldn’t complain?

and necromancer is among superior classes in wvw zergs

P.S. afaik using “anet” in thread title the way you just did is against forum rules.