Guild Wars 2

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Scootabuser.4915:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

This doesn’t sound like a beginner’s guide. Just a tutorial. And I feel like most of these are a given for people who do them. It’s not that hard to get down, a better guide would be how other non-dps dependent classes approach it imo.

It’s a beginners guide to CoF P1 Farming.
Not CoF Path 1

If you want this guide to include other classes the petition AN to buff their damage.

Ah…right. I guess what I’m trying to say really is that you are actually really neat in writing a dungeon guide, very comprehensive and clear, but I am just flustered at why out of all the dungeons you choose to write one for, you choose cof path1 because it covers such a small percentage of players. I mean, are there really that many zerk warriors out there that do not know how this works? I feel like (“just follow me and dps!”) is pretty sufficient for this path in particular. Given your technique in explaining, your write-up abilities would be far better useful for something like Arah Seer Path (p4).

Honestly this took me about 2 hours to make, and yes CoF path 1 makes you INSANE amounts of money right now it is INSANELY broken. There are A LOT of players who farm CoF path 1 for this reason. Learning the tips and tricks to turning your 10 minute group into a 5 minute group requires you to either learn it yourself or run in a group that teaches you the techniques. Many players are excluded from CoF farm groups because of inexperience and they never learn how to at least PRETEND to be experience long enough to GET experienced.

Also, if there weren’t already 100 guides for every dungeon path out there on youtube, I’d consider it.

I think the point was that if the devs had opened up each box as a test before launch, the hunter bug would have instantly been caught.

Such an over-site implies that there is little to no testing before new content goes out.

MaRko.3165:

I was out ‘farming’ the Straits of Devastation for mats (and map completion) yesterday and came across a ‘Champion Risen’ with an enormous HP and a decent chest.

The resulting battle likely took longer than a full ‘zerg’ that normally happens at these things but my Ranger with the help of an Engineer took it down with barely a scratch.

If I lay down my Bonfire or Healing Spring in front of the Ranged players, they get the benefit of adding Fire to their attacks and the front line gets regeneration. My pets can add boons or remove conditions for the entire group. Not as well as others some may argue but very useful.

I’ve never been excluded because I was a Ranger.

My Theif can kite around champions ALL day long without getting hit ONCE. Your story has nothing to do with class mechanics.

Mirta.5029:

glad that it will probably get a complete revamp. CoF is the easiest dungeon out there and attracts the most noobs in berserker.

Because spending 20 minutes in Arah for the same reward is just THRILLING >:3

Also what do you mean by noobs in berserkers?
Talk to any 40+ fractal group, you’ll find 1 Guardian in Clerics, 1 Necro in Carrion, and 3 people in Berserkers.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

This doesn’t sound like a beginner’s guide. Just a tutorial. And I feel like most of these are a given for people who do them. It’s not that hard to get down, a better guide would be how other non-dps dependent classes approach it imo.

It’s a beginners guide to CoF P1 Farming.
Not CoF Path 1

If you want this guide to include other classes the petition AN to buff their damage.

Dirame.8521:

Rangers have one thing that no other class has, a 15 second water field that provides regeneration and condition removal. If you guys know anything about combos (I do hope you do)you can have other classes do blast finishers into your healing spring to perform AoE heals and this can be crucial in fights where your team just to a wallop to the face.

Not in any dungeon is this useful.

Not in any fractal is this useful.

Dungeons are easy to survive so you go full DPS.
High level fractals have a support cleric guardian for heals and 4 high dps characters to end the fight as fast as possible, a hunter has neither the heals to keep everyone alive nor the DPS.

The only time this is helpful is while pugging lowbies in dungeons. And even then it’s usefulness is just an illusion, your heals rarely save anyone and they don’t make the fight go by faster.

For those of you who are saying you rock with the hunter, I bet your skill would be better put to use on another class.

This post isn’t about flaming hunters, this is a FACT. I don’t play hunters nor do I exclude them from my groups but if you look on gw2lfg you will see MANY posts saying “NO HUNTERS.” Even Elementalists are discriminated against. Mesmers are only useful for power running dungeons. End game fractals is all Guardian/Necro/Engi/Warrior/Thief.

The Hunter class lacks DPS and it lacks burst in dungeons. Any utility it provides is wasted as soon as you get above a certain skill cap.

VIDEO GUIDE

Group Template
1 Mesmer (Group Support)
2-4 Warriors (Offensive Buffs)
0-2 Thieves (PureDPS)

Gear
Full Berserker Armor Accessories and Weapons
Omnomberry Bar
Potent Potion of Flame Legion Slaying
Superior Sigil of Smothering (If you have no shame)

Weapon Sets
Warriors: Greatsword and Axe/Mace
Mesmers: Greatsword and Sword/Focus
Thieves: Sword/Pistol and Dagger/Dagger

Need an uncontested ToB on an NA server, will help with event if anyones running it, just pop me an invite.

They are excluded from groups of all types. It’s actually a serious problem.

I’m not saying they need a buff, but if there is some supa1337 hunter build that only a few people have, then someone needs to release it…

Anyone who has about 8000 gold in their pocket can make thousands of gold by buying up the precursors on the AH and selling them a few hundred gold higher.

Power traders feed money into the system so they can get more money out, and most of the time it works. This works as a massive gold sink as only failed traders lose money to the system.

This is why arena-net will never make precursors available from something as silly as a scavenger hunt, and why they will never remove legendaries from the auction house. They need the power traders to act as gold sinks.

Either start power-trading if you want money, or just farm, but don’t complain about precursors and legendaries cause they are never gonna change from what they are right now.

The dungeon gifts you buy for 500 tokens no longer appear at in at the vendor’s in Lion’s Arch.

Did they move them? The wiki clearly states -> Purchased from Valiant Saeraquel in Lion’s Arch for 500 Deadly Blooms.

Do AC SM with 4 new players.
Fireheart Rise has plenty of downed NPCs, you can’t camp them.
Start a suicide cult in Lion’s Arch.

Just be creative, that’s what the dailies are about.

Level 80 Thief, 79% Crit-Chance
Sundering Strikes: 40% Chance to cause vulnerability for 5 seconds on crit. (1sec ICD)
Superior Sigil of Frailty: 30% Chance to vuln on crit. (2sec ICD?)
Skale Venom: ??% Chance to vuln on crit. (?sec ICD)

Spamming Unload and Vital shot I’m barely reaching 4 stacks of vulnerability and mostly sticking at 1-2.

Am I doing something wrong?

Blacksarevok.8104:

In a perfect scenario when you can always get off all of your 100b swings, probably GS. Realistically, though? Probably Axe.

But don’t hold me to that, I really don’t have any numbers to back it up. Just what I’m guessing from “feels”.

EDIT: This is assuming 2hs = 2-hand sword = greatsword

Posting on the forums drunk is bad mkay…

I’m asking this to prove a point to a friend.

Which has the higher DPS as I know that 2hs already has more burst.

I killed a Paxa norn necro and an elementalist with my charzooka :X
I think I may cry though because my fraps hardrive was full.

Also HOLY CRAP http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Become_the_Snow_Leopard <— this is like one of the best run away abilities O.o, wish I rolled norn

But I think if I remember right you 2 were harassing a group of nubs and drew them to the little tiny platform behind the ruins in south borderlands and I’m pretty sure you would have won if I didn’t knock one of you off the cliff…

I wanna duel you mystery necro, my vs necro is so bad right now.

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

Scootabuser.4915:

Is now the official term for a boss you just use ranged weapons and dodge his attacks.

Are you sure you don’t just want to make an MMO slang word out of your nickname?

I wasn’t the one that started it actually XD I’ve been hearing it from a lot of players.

Is now the official term for a boss you just use ranged weapons and dodge his attacks.

marnick.4305:

Scootabuser.4915:

Hire more people.

Release bug fixes more frequently.

Start a DevBlog like Eve Online has.

Again … your talking from a player’s perspective. What you say is simply not that easy to do.

As a Lead Designer you don’t have the rights to hire people nor should you do so if it’s not financially feasible. But you could send it up the command chain as a suggestion to management.

Read the Gw2 Reddit every day for easy bug fixes and exploits.

Releases smaller patches more frequently for bug fixes.

Start a small devblog to encourage player feedback and settle unrest in the community.

Here is an example -> http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp

DevBlogs help the community. Letting player’s know your fixing something stops unrest.

Even if the posts are riddled with “NO PROMISES BUT WE’D LIKE TO,” people would still enjoy the feedback, and be more open to sharing feedback with you.

They don’t have to be long, but letting players know what your focuses are, is beneficial to the community and shows us you care about the game.

Ex. Recently it has been very easy to use a simple macro program “relativity safely, you could only get banned if you were reported by numerous players.” to jump into enemy keeps late at night and SOLO, yes SOLO the keep lord. Some classes can do it easier then others but it can cause MASSIVE point differences at night. The latest patch fixed this, but up until the patch WvW players got no feedback on what was being done, for all they knew AN just wasn’t paying attention. Devblogs would help fix this problem. “Yes we see it’s happen, yes it’s bad, we’ve banned some people please report people if you see it happening, patching it is a high priority for us.”

Hire more people.

Release bug fixes more frequently.

Start a DevBlog like Eve Online has.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I didn’t do a lot of dungeons in the first place because they are simply too hard and take too long, and this doesn’t sound like an improvement. I guess it’s too much to expect that we’ll ever get solo dungeon modes. Oh well.

Spend less time on the forums and more time making friends!

Or go play Witcher 2

Karma’s big thing is that it helps you work to your legendary.

You can buy SOME weapon sets in ORR IF the temples are uncontested.

Karma is mainly used for getting mystic clovers for your legendary…

I can understand where OP is coming from, and I feel like this is something relevant to this discussion.

http://tinyurl.com/amrs7b2

Kodiack.2783:

Acelerion.6820:

So hows the roaming action in this tier? I see a lot of posts about people running 5…

ask a PAXA member.

-K

If you put “-K” in your signature…

Hopefully they can’t fix the jumping and just fix WvW with invisible walls >.>

Well, SoS that was the most fun I’ve had in a long time, took my S/P P/P PvE Dungeon gear into WvW for some lols.

Ended up spending 3 hours defending a camp against wave after wave of enemies.

Got lots of kills and died a lot but I found out something special.

Charzooka + Haste + Devourer Venom is a MAGICAL combo <3

I wish I had some video or screens of it but my laptop was already struggling

Pic Related, me being fabulous!

Guild tag is [Hope] Name is Scootts, but my guild doesn’t do PvP much, were more into sequence breaking.

Despite my trolling I would LOVE to do some duels with you guys I respect you guys a lot, it’s just the kind of composition you run is a pain in the butt for what I do

Oozo.7856:

In this thread a pistol/dagger thief insults others for their choice of builds.

I’m not insulting them, I’m just saying I don’t have fun dying to them ;D

Well… It is till the mesmer shows up <3

Next videos gonna detail how to get around INSIDE the Arah instance, and also how to climb some very high coral trees

Npac.3476:

Scootabuser.4915:

Let’s be nice guys, PAXA runs high mobility small groups of squishy burst damage characters.

It’s extremely good at the 1 thing it does….

Stomp random solo players…

On a less trolly note, that 1 friggin stunluck/burst mesmer charr always ruins my fun when I down some of your members I’d say I’d love to duel you but I know better then to duel burst classes, pretty much comes down to if I hit infiltrators and dodge at the right half second xD

If you are going to call us out then you have to provide name/guild tag. How else will we know what you are claiming is true?!!

Thanks!

Let’s be nice guys, PAXA runs high mobility small groups of squishy burst damage characters.

It’s extremely good at the 1 thing it does….

Stomp random solo players…

On a less trolly note, that 1 friggin stunluck/burst mesmer charr always ruins my fun when I down some of your members I’d say I’d love to duel you but I know better then to duel burst classes, pretty much comes down to if I hit infiltrators and dodge at the right half second xD

It’s kinda dumb that GW2 doesn’t have a lot of features that most MMOs just HAVE. Like dueling and mounts…

They don’t implement them cause they make peopel SWAD

This is a nice friendly game where in everyone wins and no one cries

Gisei.5749:

The nostalgia… from the underwater music. Made my night to be honest.

Well, I’ll be sure to include more nostalgic tracks in future vids

Fight clubs going on in WvW. Fights are 1v1 no stomping, but no other rules.

Constructive help and friendly. This is not a guild, were running fights as I post this

Message me in game for a party invite.

raptor.1064:

now go do it to jump over keep walls in WvW and portal your whole team inside

there seriously needs to be a report for exploit button

That seems boring. Exploring > Exploiting

GenXdark.4732:

Lame. laughing out loud

Don’t worry, in a few years you’ll be old enough to join

For anyone still here our 2nd video is out you can find it on our post in the guild forums

For those of you that don’t know there are elite dungeon farming groups that run path 1 CoF all day and fight it slightly faster if they just run with 4 warriors. There’s a lot of hate and classism people are edgy and mean. I’ve never seen such poor teamwork, I was in a group for 45 minutes (the 2nd person invited), to get kicked without warning as soon as they needed an open door.

It’s a shame it has came to this…

Nerf Warrios, Buff Hunters

And quit ruining stealth, 95% of mobs in dungeons see through stealth now, I’m having trouble surviving on my thief :/

NEW VIDEO → http://youtu.be/4k5WhANp3ko
[Hope] is still recruiting able minded jumpers for fun in skyboxes! We run dungeons and dribble in WvW but what sets us apart from other guilds is we frequently go on off map romps, seeing how high and what we can climb!

Req.
Level 80
18+ Years Old
Vulgarity to a Minimum

Hey guys, got a nice tutorial on how to get up and over the wall in LA that leads to the Tengu Area. At first I was sure there was no way to get over this monster, but we found a little place to jump to behind a bush that brought us right to the top. [Hope] you enjoy it!

http://youtu.be/M2kNErKRPRA

SAY NO TO MACROS AND TURBO PADS ;D

The thing about fury is that warriors already easily provide 100% fury up-time. If your not taking it for the initiative your better off with deadly arts.

Title says it all, afking in LA falling asleep and.

CACHUNKBAM

25/30/0/15/0 or 25/30/15/0/0

Deadly Arts: III/IX
Critical Strikes: (I or III)/X/XI

Utilities: Haste, Assasins Signet, Signet of Shadows, Basalisk Venom

Attack Sequence: While un-stealthed → Assassins Signet + Basilisk Venom → Steal (Mug) → Cloak and Dagger → Backstab + Haste → Spam Heartseaker

Gw2 Holy Trinity for End-Game PvE: Support, Control, DPS

Support: P/D Carrion Venomshare Thief, Grants allies 8 might and 400 health for 16 attacks. (Still not anywhere near as good as the guardian however, but that’s how end game PvE works)

Control: D/P Berserker Blinding Thief, Spam Auto-Attack and blinding powder. (Not as good as the necro or engi but again, end game PvE)

DPS: P/P Berserker DPS Hero, Spam Unload. (This is the top tier build right now, level 30+ fractals kill for a good DPS thief, with 10 vulns and 25 stacks of might from other classes, you’ll be hitting 12,000 unloads)

So it depends, END game TOP TIER PvE? No not every class can do anything. Thieves get a few decent support abilities like shadow refuge and weakness, but those can easily be apart of a FULL DPS build.

But if your pugging CoF, then do whatever the hell you want cause you can run that easy kitten naked.

I CAN’T STRESS THIS ENOUGH If your using a SB to activate combo fields, then you have no idea what your doing. Your wasting DPS to activate crap combos like Choas Armor when the only combo that needs to be going on is the GUARDIAN who is pounding the warriors Banners on his fire fields.)

It’s supposed to be hard to hit with. S/D is a high skill weapon-set.

no

it wouldn’t be the thief forum if half the front page was p/d videos

Only takes about 5 GOOD people to do a cathedral, make some friends?