Guild Wars 2

I find the whole costume brawl thing to be something to pass time. All my wins so far have been my guild members and I trading blows or being chaotic for fun while waiting on things. The Mad King outfit is certainly better at it, but it is in no way required, like some other actual pay to win games out there.

@Eclipse
The Forsaken Hall mini dungeon is unrelated to the Halloween festivities. It’s something new they added in general. It will be there long after Halloween passes. The only things you can do that are specifically Halloween only are the doors, carving pumpkins, candy corn stuff, and the scavenger hunt.

@Vewen
Yeah, that’s a bug happening to a lot of servers.

The Fleshreaver is the last part of the event, so yes it bugged. It happened last night (before the new build) on Crystal Desert. The boss was just invulnerable forever despite lighting up the room.

Went with a party today. 1 Guardian, 1 Warrior, 1 Elementalist, 1 Necromancer, 1 Ranger. Had no issues in any path.

The titles are placed under your HP bar when people select you. There’s enough commanders on the map, I don’t think we need more icons.

In general, it’s just for fun.

@Shamrocky

Aldus is the boss that stands on the lower end of a staircase in a large room. The encounter is seemingly random. Sometimes he spawns adds non stop, sometimes he spawns them occasionally, sometimes he doesn’t spawn any at all. I read that if any party member dies along the way, he will summon adds, but I’m not sure the truth of that statement.

Along with what others said, apparently having more toughness actually draws more aggro. So it can be good for survivability outside of dungeons, it may be worse inside. On both my Necromancer and Elementalist, I have more toughness than anyone I party with most of the time. I’m usually the one circle strafeing mobs after me.

In my experience, this works. I can do 3 paths on my main, and then 3 paths on my alt and get 60 in all 6 runs. Provided I don’t repeat the last path (say AC path 2 on main, then path 2 on alt), or speed clear it.

My experience with PUGs has been pretty positive. Haven’t had many terrible personalities, and most people I’ve partied with, take the time to listen if they haven’t done it before. I think they’re the best in terms of finding out all the little tips in a dungeon, as multiple experiences get pulled together, as opposed to if you were partying with the same people over and over.

Even though my guild runs dungeons almost religiously, it was still entertaining to watch. Great tips and great humor.

I concur with a sticky.

I spam 1 because a few patches back, my auto attack would just lag cast time wise. Everything else was running smoothly and not lagging, it was just auto attack screwing up.

That would be your usual MMORPG luck.

I’ve also obtained Usoku’s Needle via throwing in random (80) exotics. Judging by its icon, I would guess it shares the model with Spark, the legendary precursor.

A universal token system would only work if every single dungeon instance was equal in difficulty and length. Unfortunately that is not the case.

The way my party does it is have 1-2 people attack the boss from max range. The rest clear spiders. If things get too bad, 1 more person helps. That way, at least the boss is still dying as we’re fighting, and don’t get trapped in infinite spiders.

As for vulnerability, condition removal skills help tons, as well as any supportive skills. Well heals, regen, etc.

Wait, wait wait. They removed the waypoint instead of just fixing the boss? Wat.

Unless there’s extremely rare drop back exotics, then the guild armorer one is the best. However, the stat choices are limited, so you may like the story quest one better. The story one is lower, but it has different stats.

Mitch.4781:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Daily reset, resets your dungeon paths too.

What time does it do this?

I know for US servers, it should be 5PM PDT, 8PM EDT.

The torch part is actually pretty simple, even with chat. The first time I did that torch part (with only 1 person in party that knew the dungeon), it took us maybe 10 tries through chat. The next time, with half the party knowing what to do, it took 2 tries. No voice chat necessary. Just “r” for ready, “f” for fighting.

The wave protection can be a little difficult, but the best thing to do is try to focus fire and if in last resort, kite and run screaming till your teammates can back you up. As for the orb, the orb running part is my favorite thing of all the dungeons. You can actually run past the enemies and the boss, all the way to the last boss room if you wanted to lose aggro and recoup for a bit.

I think path 3 just takes a bit more coordination and teamwork to get mobs down quicker and to support each other.

My personal favorite is CoF’s bomb tunnel in path 3. I love running gauntlet type things and avoiding obstacles like in CoF path 1/CoE.

I’ve been running dungeons since maybe level 70ish. They have always been a profit provided I don’t die 20-25 times – which has never happened. I prefer to do them over farming in Orr because I dread the risen.

My biggest issue with the legendary skins is that there’s only 1 per weapon type so far. Except for greatswords. There’s Sunrise, Twilight, and if you somehow get both, Eternity. The effects on the greatswords are much better than any other legendary in my opinion. All the rest just seem very underwhelming.

My guildies and I got together and we picked up a random who already had an open path 3. He had done the path before, but none of us had. Even though we’re not a total PUG, we only used the party chat to coordinate. When everyone said “r” for ready, someone said go and we would light the torches. It took a few tries and positioning certain people at certain torches to make sure they could handle the mobs, but not impossible.

I’d like to know this too. I know the Gift of Exploration and Gift of [Dungeon] are account bound. The legendary I want to get requires weaponsmithing, but my Necromancer already has 2 400 professions. I’d rather not have to pick up another craft on it if I can craft the gift with an alt.

My party just did this boss for the first time, and we had it summon adds every now and then. The main thing we noticed was that if you go a certain distance – say out of the boss room – they disappear. We had melee people on the ground and run in and hit him and run out if adds spawned. Ranged were on the top and backed up nearest to the entrance and they would usually disappear.

We have no clue how this boss is supposed to be done. >_>

Not sure if it was intended to work like that originally or not. Was fighting Ghost Eater just now in Ascalonian Catacombs Exploration Mode and tried using Doom and Reaper’s Mark to get rid of its defiant buff, but it didn’t remove any stacks.

From the ones I’ve done (2 or 3 paths of)… 1 being easiest.

1. Ascalonian Catacombs (This difficulty seems just right. However, the burrows need work, due to their wonky hitboxes.)
2. Honor of the Waves (Just boring cause of some underwater sections and obnoxious boss HP pools).
3. Twilight Arbor (Even Forward Forward is really easy if you play it safe and focus fire.)
4. Caudecus Manor (It is by no means impossibly hard, but riflemen and bombers are hella annoying. And so much trash mobs.)

Out of those dungeons, the only path I haven’t done yet is HotW Path 1, because I’m not sure if it’s still bugged.

Different dungeons have different stats to choose from. For instance, from what I saw, CM, TA, HotW, and Arah were the only ones with precision, toughness, and condition damage. When I went to get my exotic set, I only ran TA and Arah for the stats and the look.

I have to disagree with Eli a bit. I’ve run a lot of PUGs and non PUGs (with guildies) without vent at all, and we do just fine. If it’s the first time in the dungeon, we may struggle and figure it out. If we have someone who has never been there before, we talk them through it before encountering each part.

But as others have said, there are a few things that every dungeon go-er should keep in mind. If your fellow party member goes down, try to help them up if you can. Try not to go full damage into dungeons, bring some support abilities with you. Focus fire on mobs. Trash mobs in GW2 are absurdly strong, and it can help to take down the heavy hitters first.

It should be Monday.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Patch-9-25-UPDATE-9-28/first#post289405

As most people say, dungeon gear is “mainly” for look. There’s likely another alternate way to get the equipment you want. However, try looking at the other dungeon gear, as the stats vary depending on the vendor. And if you’ve gotten a little bit lucky at all, you should have fine transmutation stones from Black Lion Chests as you leveled/story keys.

I say mainly in quotes, because the light armor I wanted was precision, toughness, condition damage. To my knowledge, that was either Karma bought, random loot (AKA ~7-10g per piece), or dungeon gear. At that point, it was the one that was the least amount of boring farming needed, which was dungeons.

1. The circles on the ground not going away is a possible bug. But if it’s spitting that much, you may need to rework your strategy.
2. Not sure about the archers, I’ve only done a Forward path once, and I didn’t have any issues being ranged against them.
3. Don’t really remember anything special about the third boss.
4. I’m guessing this is Forward->Forward (maybe Forward→Up – but I’ve never done it). If it is, it’s supposed to spawn Veteran mobs. It doesn’t spawn them on the Up path, however, as it is a different boss strategy.
5. Ranged attacks sometimes not working is a bug.

I’m starting to think that this only effects certain people, as my guildies I dungeon with never get shafted on tokens, while I do.

I noticed that my character does grin quite a bit. But nothing too overbearing from my experience. And I actually love how they run. When I play my Human character, I miss my Sylvari due to the running animation (humans just feel like they’re jogging).

Redamz.5038:

I hate this guy. He steals all my glory…

Tegwen: Trahearne saved me from the mirror a long time ago.

No mention to me that recovered the mirror, fought the risen and did all the job while Trahearne only used a magic spell. (and that only if you chose him over the Asura engineer)
I know that maybe this dialog is generic to all the races, but it need to be changed for Sylvari that did participate in this event in the early personal story.

It feels even worse if you chose the Asura path. Tegwen says Trahearne saved her despite the choice. And it’s like they just met you for the first time. Just… what the hell Trahearne. D :<

AusterlitZ.7941:

Sera.6539:

The DR system is buggy and not granting the right amount of tokens.

are you a CM?

No, just stating what has been the consensus around the forums. And what has been reported in the patch updates.

The DR system is buggy and not granting the right amount of tokens.

What skill are they using, and what is their build/gear?

And don’t worry, on my 80 Necromancer, I do maybe 300-400 (albeit I have everything in condition damage).

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Nagare is a close-knit guild that bonded in the MMORPG Perfect World International. We are more than happy to have more join our family. Our goals are simply to have fun playing the game, help each other out, and enjoy time with each other.

We mostly do PvE at the moment (exploration dungeons). Ever so often, we also enter WvWvW. We have about 40 members right now, almost a fully upgraded guild bank, and other perks. We also plan on holding guild events in the future, with the first being hide and seek on 9/29.

If you’re interested, shoot me a whisper or mail (either in game or on the forums).

Still disliking the rewards at the end of the dungeon only. Too risky. DC’d due to the ongoing error 7 issue at the end of a AC run once. Luckily my party saw it and stalled the boss till I got back. A few of my guildies have gotten DC’d at the end of a run and got nothing cause of it.

The way my party usually does it is we line up outside the room. One person goes in and kites the mobs. Before the person gets downed, next person in line goes in and takes over. Person who gets downed respawns and goes to the end of the line.

Welcome to death row.

Bug in the diminished return system.

I think my biggest issue (if what I was told is correct), is that the door buster is meant to be kited (yet they increase the time). I was told that the enemies become invulnerable at low HP, meaning you can’t fight them. You have to run around. This just creates a graveyard zerg to kite the mobs around.

Karma is only gained from doing a dynamic event I think. Not a lot of dungeon content is a DE. The only one I can think of, off the top of my head is the AC burrow (in story?).

Spawn.7014:

it seems TA is bugged. i haven’t tried any other instance but after running TA for the first time and only getting 6 tokens i think i’ll wait a few days for them to iron things out. No point in wasting my time for 6 tokens.

I don’t think the dungeon itself is bugged. It’s the reward system screwing up. I went on the Up path today and got 20 tokens (albeit I did TA already before the build was out – so it’s not “daily”). Then I did Forward->Forward an hour or two after and got 45. Neither being 60. On the other hand, a guildie ran all three paths back to back and got 60 in each of them.

The system is buggy, so your rewards will likely be random as hell. As for why this wasn’t tested… who knows. I asked the same question when the monetary reward was buggy.

Sera.6539:

Did some runs before the build got implemented, so that may explain the non daily. However, I got 20 tokens, and yet the full money/EXP reward. The player who had gotten 45 tokens had never been in the dungeon before. Others got 60.

Got 45 tokens in the Forward→Forward path of TA Exploration. Was about an hour or two gap from the time I ran Up. Still not the 60 it should be.

I like that you’re making tokens account bound. I also understand why tokens were changed to be rewarded at the end of the dungeon (likely to prevent some issues like Arah shard farming). However, this just increases a risk of not getting any reward. If the dungeon starter leaves the party, if they give up, you get nothing. If you disconnect at the end for no reason (has happened to quite a lot of my friends) and don’t get back in time, you get nothing.

The worst part of the patch is that the rewards aren’t working properly. I would rather have a consistent reward rather than have to worry about spending my time for a reward that will be random as hell. At least in the previous build, we knew how many tokens we would be getting.

Kromica.2831:

So there are DM on tokens now?

Yes. But the system is still not working as it should be. So it’s giving diminished rewards on tokens when it shouldn’t. Basically before the build, we only had to worry about monetary/EXP reward. Now we worry about getting gypped on tokens and monetary/EXP reward.

Did some runs before the build got implemented, so that may explain the non daily. However, I got 20 tokens, and yet the full money/EXP reward. The player who had gotten 45 tokens had never been in the dungeon before. Others got 60.