Guild Wars 2

Scootaloo Parkour Badge of Approval

Keep it up!

Here is mine…

Kain Francois.4328:

When I use to farm adult karka, they never dropped anything good. With t6 mats worthless now, they still don’t drop anything good.. Do they?

Please explain to me how to profit well off of this.

Also how do you tell differences between male/female?

I just kill them quickly and make money off the shells and rares.

Females take longer but are easier since your forced to deal with the headcrabs.

fan generated content my kitten /p>

So I was testing out fun ways to make money, and as it turns out veteran karka have some of the highest drop rates for rares.

Made a fun little demonstration video for all those who wish to tackle them.

You need a lot of blocking or dodging because of the frequency of their attacks. Lots of DPS of course because it means more money. And you need something to strip off boons or their retaliation will rip you up.

ENJOY!

Red Falcon.8257:

Scootabuser.4915:

did you watch the video? we do a kittenload of jumping

Jumping alone is not parkour.
Parkour is spectacular, risky, to-the-edge jumps, backward dodge-jumps from a roof to a tiny handrail, etc.
Watching and doing parkour is thrilling, the video is just a Benny Hill sketch.

Not trying to rain on your parade just stating that what you show is not parkour.

The term is used in exaggeration since parkour as in the real world is not possible in a limited MMO. The playful title apparently flew right over your head…

They are too busy releasing new Gem related content.

(Not a troll I’m serious, quit releasing monthly content while the game is so new and has so much you need to add)

Furyos.9538:

By far the best video I’ve seen.

why thank you, I’m still learning how to edit

Be careful, this may be an exploit, I wouldn’t risk it!

Red Falcon.8257:

Parkour is a show of climbing and jump skills, in order to make a parkour video there would need to be jumpdodges from places to places etc.

This is just people exploiting places with lack of collision.

did you watch the video? we do a kittenload of jumping

on top of the bank in lionsarch
http://i.imgur.com/wNBqV.jpg

Order of Avinc…ye… JUST made it on top of the bank in Lion’s Arch, WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY???

http://i.imgur.com/9roKL.jpg

wildcode.5403:

This is the 3rd post I’ve seen about this … surely one is enough.

And yes, some of those views were great Makes me want to try to get to “Pride Rock”. Mind saying which map “Pride Rock” was in?

One is in the bug forums to avoid being banned.
But yeah, this entire video is from fireheart rise.
and…
There’s also a reddit post http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/15m4yf/guild_wars_2_parkour_team/
give it some karma if you enjoyed the video!

Our guild making parkour our official hobby!

This is my required post to the game bugs forum informing you that I am hunting bugs and displaying them for you… not trying to exploit the game.

P.S.
Your level designers are awesome, never had so much fun in Gw2

This is my required post to the game bugs forum informing you that I am hunting bugs and displaying them for you… not trying to exploit the game.

Our guild has been on a serious Out of map experience kick. We have the worst knack for immediately finding every possible route to get out of the map’s playable area. (And sometimes breaking our own dungeons >.<) This takes us to some strange places…

Things you will see in this video:
- Triple Wall Jumping
- Portal Gun Abuse
- Really Epic Non-official Vistas
- Ghost on Charr Foreplay :O

I’m always hesitant to post these kind of videos, not because I’ll get banned, but because I don’t want arena net to start throwing up invisible walls everywhere.  Personally I think AN should just take off most invisible walls and let players discover the world.  Is there really an advantage to falling below the map or climbing on random mountains?  Most of the time it takes more effort to get out of the zone then it does to get to a hypothetical goal (chest or vista).

What do you guys think: more or less invisible walls?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWaiFS7CMA&feature=youtu.be

challenge accepted

If Click a dagger, then immediately click a pistol on my rogue, there should be a time-frame where equipping another weapon sends it to your offhand instead of mainhand slot

and then the level 50 scrubs discovered the [TAB] key

Fujiko.8290:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Fujiko.8290:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Why is it with ponies?

That part is confusing me.

If you’re not a “Broni”, then why in the world would you recognize their voices? I watched the video first before reading replies and I had no idea who the female voices in the music were…. just sayin.

(Mandatory on topic sentence to avoid forum bans): I believe this was patched to not be a problem.

I did say up above. I was unable to watch the video because my phone wouldn’t let me watch it.

Anyhows, at what point did I say I recognised the voices?

Ah my bad I just assumed. I didn’t see the w_ponies in the url.

not everyone is enlightened

no moar ponies :<

Apparently after posting this video and going to work, there was a hotfix that permanently opened the Arah door until all the glitches in the event are fixed

TheDaiBish.9735:

Why is it with ponies?

That part is confusing me.

They’re just awesome!

Subtle.4596:

insaneshadow.1654:

I’ve been running with /0/0/30/20/20 for a week and am liking my survivability but I haven’t found good gear to go with it. Plus, I’m working towards my legendary so I’m trying not to spend gold on things that aren’t working towards it, which sucks whenever I get through watching videos like this =(

I run the same build – Full carrion with cryscola gems – with full Condition stacks with Might food (forget the name – Convo me tonight i will link you) rocking 150 ticks. BUT i need that much focus on defense due to always sporting the blue tag.

Yeah, cause an army of lowbies rezzing you every time you die must be so terrible. I take great pleasure in killing commanders, and then re-killing them every time they get rezzed <3

Not sure if bug, or work around for Arah event always being bugged on our server… :

Tremain.4623:

Scootabuser.4915:

My new favorite build. Carrion + Valk with precision support. 100 damage bleed ticks, 6000 damage backstabs. SO GEWD!

Not P/D then?

Its a P/D D/D hybrid. I have enough crit damage combined with a sigil of intelligence to pull off massive backstabs, but i have the right assortment of stats giving my P/D a mix of direct and condition damage, this way it’s not shut down as hard by heavy armor or condition removal respectably

My new favorite build. Carrion + Valk with precision support. 100 damage bleed ticks, 6000 damage backstabs. SO GEWD!

“I don’t want to be burst. I want to outlast my opponent with stealth and mobility. I want to be as versatile as possible. When I get adds or I need to kite for a minute I want all mobility.”

Sounds like you want to run a P/D Carrion build kitten /p>

Looks like a pretty standard stealth/signet/might build.
Might stacking works much better with P/D though since main-hand pistol scales with condition damage and power.

I don’t see much point in stacking might on S/D when there are so many better food buffs and traits you can take.

Why do people keep trying to make Death Blossom/Condition thieves good?

They’re just terrible. P/D is better in almost every single way, trying to go D/D condition build is just sad and I don’t understand people’s fascination with it.

radiation has more potential if your skilled enough to use it well but…

the key is you can trait for spider venom to heal you, recharge 20% faster, and grant you might

so if you get good with radiation and find other decent traits, id say got for radiation

This is caused by the bad update time from the range indicator.

The strike is appearing at your feet because your current target is out of range.

whirl? NO too OP… Shadowstep? yes
What needs to happen is that the first dagger strike needs to be a low damage boon stripper that’s hard to hit. Make it have a cast time like shadowstrike.

IF you hit with the first strike the 2nd strike is a high damage attack that will hit if you hit with the first attack.

Slic.2406:

Nice use of cropping/keyframes and slo-mo. Din’t really need the blur tbh.

And yea, Shadow Refuge is efin STRONK.

But I never seem to have room for it in WvW. Can’t part w/my extra speed (also an aoe blind for stomping, etc), immobilize and poison! They need to give me 4 non-elite util slots, or just allow me to use non-elite skills in the elite slot.

The blurr is from my lack of GPU :/ Am getting a new desktop for christmas though so it’ll be over soon.

Lordryux.9785:

i wanna try this do u mind telling me ur trait build set up with runes and sigs?

Traits: 25/0/30/15 or 10/10/30/20 or 0/0/30/20/20
Gear: Rampagers and Valk, or Berserkers and Valk, or Apothecary and Carrion,
Runes: Adventurers, Divinity, or Undead
Respectively, videos with the hood are the berserkers 10/10/30/20 divinity set, no hood is the rampvalk set, and the pink gear is my new apothecary carrion set

Sigils: I haven’t found ones that REALLY stand out, I always have a shortbow with a snowball sigil for getting my 25 stacks from the wolves. I’m quite fond of Air and I always use Intelligence on my D/D. I think I may have a sigil of earth on my pistol but I never really notice it, will prob switch to a bleed duration on m rampagers/valk build.

Loading.4503:

I think most thieves regardless of build get spoiled by signet of shadows and find it hard to give up

Seeing as the build is all about maneuverability, position, kiting, hit and run C&Ders.

I’ve just never even remotely considered ANY other skill to be even remotely as useful.

Also it has that instant blind to counter mug/C&D/Backstab or Bullrush/100blades.

Also most classes have very easy access to longer duration of swiftness then thieves so most of the time were at a speed disadvantage.

I lied.

http://youtu.be/Iet0hsjKmxw

Is it just me or is shadow refuge just kitten strong?
Shadow Refuge -> Immediately Unload for 6 100% life-steal shots -> Wait -> Re-stealth -> Unload 6 more shots.

Position makes all the difference when your running P/D, be behind the enemy as often as you can. The goal is to be invulnerable or invisible 95% of the time.

Stealth -> Unload -> 1 Shot -> Dodge – > C&D
The enemy has very little time to actually do damage to you.

If your looking to mix things up.

Try Power/Vitality/Condition

You won’t notice a huge drop in survivability but will notice a huge leap in damage.

Remember, even a tanky thief is squishier then most classes if you aren’t using your evades correctly.

/duel command.

Ranked would be a pipe dream cause balancing for 1v1 is kitten and a terrible kittening idea.

But still, a lot of people like 1v1s and entire communities could develop because of a simple thing that most MMOs have anyways…

1v1 Tournaments wouldn’t be a stupid idea anymore.

I was so excited I thought it might be a S/D power vitality toughness thief

Skip to 5:10, you’ll see the stealstomp

Also if your wondering why this seems so OP, it’s not. It is the key mechanic to “shadowstep” (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shadow_step_) it’s what separates shadowstepping from teleporting. (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Teleport)

D/D and P/P require different traits for them to become good, p/p is a crit and imitative build, while d/d is either imitative and condition, or full crit

http://youtu.be/_XpgHfBImu8

Enjoy <3

http://youtu.be/W1zz1jY-bx4
Roll for Ini is bugged if you use it while immobilized.

http://youtu.be/W1zz1jY-bx4

Just noticed it might be a bug…

Jink.5097:

I’m just about to hit level 80 on my thief and have been running a condition damage via venom build for leveling in PvE. I use the double daggers and have been successful so far, I think. But I know as soon as I hit 80 I’m going to be running dungeons and PvP. I’ve been digging through posts and even off-site discussions over which build is the best and what weapons. All it’s done is frustrate me. This is my first real go at a “thief” in any MMO and I enjoy it, but I don’t know where to go from here.

I’ve read good things about the “glass cannon” builds with the sword pistol but I’m skeptical. I’m so used to the D/D and the mobility and speed at which it kills but is it practical for dungeons?

Any advice, input, whatever would be helpful because of now my thief is a clean slate as far as skills and armor goes until I figure out which build to play.

D/D when combined with condition is very very bad. Conditions builds need a bleed mechanic to do anything good.

D/D may have more DPS, but I mis-typed. I meant to clarify as DAMAGE DONE.

Take a D/D rogue against some bosses and a P/P rogue against a verity of bosses. And by the end of the fight the P/P will have done more damage.

There are very few bosses that you can actually do more damage with D/D then P/P.

(I do have D/D for those few bosses though in my back pack

Tulisin.6945:

Scootabuser.4915:

PvE? Yes, full berserkers, 0/30/0/20/20 picking up initiative regain and damage. With that a P/P rogue can spam 3 ALL day long for kittenloads of damage. You also have the survivability from Black Powder and dodges. The on demand boss interrupting of headshot. And finally the lack of dependence on any utility skill makes it so you can bring whatever skill best suits the fight, calatropes for kiteing, venom for heal heavy bosses, ECT… you also turn steal into a massive support skill giving everyone fury might swiftness vigor and 2 of the enemy buffs without kittening your dps.

Best team buffs
Highest Applied DPS
Survivability up the kitten
No condition overlap.

What P/P brings to the table in PvE is relatively safe ranged damage with access to the nice utility of the pistol offhand. You’re mistaken about applied DPS though. Unload spam doesn’t even do as much as sword or dagger auto attack. P/P also lacks AE capability, which is a heavy weakness to have in open-world PvE and even many dungeons.

I’d like to point out that I run S/x in PvE and have just as much malleability in my utility skills. For group situations I, too, can run boons-on-steal. What I don’t have is the safety of 900 range.

That said, P/P is absolutely a great choice in some fights. For the Dredge fractal boss, for instance, no other weapon set gives interrupts-on-demand while delivering enough raw power based DPS to consistently burn down the boss while kiting. Same idea with the grawl fractal boss, high hit volume is a great way to wear down the shield and pistol’s range means constant DPS uptime even while staying mobile.

You’ve been reading too much of the forums, let me blow your mind…

As soon as you get good at PvE you’ll realize how useless vitality, and how COMPLETELY useless toughness is, on a thief; wishing you had gone berserkers.

Also if your going to try to talk scientific, it’s not LUCK its PROBABILITY. And yes averaging in probabilities is a scientific way of determining accurate things.