Guild Wars 2

cof1, ac2, cm1, ta UP, coe1,arah 3, hotw1, se3

they should be the starting paths for each dungeon IMO

I quite enjoyed reading this thread, perhaps the most when that one guy complained about guilds changing servers and he is from PRX, also when Jedahs turned and anti recruit thread into a recruitment thread.

I rolled a guardian :p Though I like tanking on my warrior too. To improve your set up you should get soldier runes (3 aoe condition removals with no internal cooldown is too good to pass up) and use a mace instead of an axe as it has a block and a stun

Ok so unless your very tanky shout heal warrior your not wanting aggro in the acolytes room, so unless you have such a warrior or guardian in the group you will need to run to the cave or braziers etc, abuse spy kits

The gate controller just go in there and pop defy pain, frenzy and balanced stance if you want it down super fast otherwise just pop balanced stance.

You can do these runs in 9 mins with support based parties with guardians etc, if your going to play glass make sure you can stay alive or your just gimping your group.

I think by AOE they mean the 1200 range reticle stuff more so than melee range skills. If anything the Hammer could use some love to make it better in PVE. It’s difficult to justify using it over a greatsword when most things have the defiant buff

CM is just a not fun dungeon, the mobs do stupid damage even to tank builds, some bits seem blatantly designed around requiring thief refuge and that’s the most fun path. The manor itself is nice looking, some of the bosses are OK. CM sadly falls into the do this once for your title/achievements then move onto one of the more fun dungeons category.

looks youve got a few options, you should probably say what times you play on. Lot of guilds might be from different countries and play at different times

if they reduce a warriors damage to that of a guardian they need to increase their survivability to be on par with a guardian, then we have to classes filling the same role, whats the point

You couldnt buy legendaries in other games with a credit card. It’s make them pretty unlegendary that you can buy one day 1 when your lvl1

Is the next content patch on the 28th when guesting arrives?

I would like some harder content that involves 10 players, like 10 people actually have to do stuff.

I think lag plays a lot into it also. In the cof ball room I used just not participate because I was so bad it let the young ones do it. Now after much practice I can do it. Though I mostly just take my mesmer and blink across and portal my party. I was also that noob that kept getting blown off cliffside fractals, hit boxes in this game are server side and it really doesnt matter if your successful on your own screen.

I take my warrior or gurdian to fractals and stability solves any issues with cliffside.

those stupid lasers in asura fractals can be reflected on my warrior I shield block near the top, guardian I keep popping aegis.

I guess I’m trying to say there are skills in the game to help with most things, and if someones having trouble be helpful to your team mates, portal them, give them stability, aegis and speed buffs etc, throw down a reflect wall on your way up the laser stairs.

Don’t be that kitten that just runs to the end and uses no team abilities to help everyone else.

I would rather do 5 months of dailys than wait 6 months for a scavenger hunt that may or may not exist.

I’d hate to think how much Dusk is going to be worth in 6 months too

I am in a Pve guild with 260 members or so, do a lot of dungeons, got my dungeon masters and few others are pretty close. Is no point us being anything else since there are already massive wvw guilds on my server. Just wish there was some new content or something to do coming soon but that is for another thread I suppose

Id be happy with a signet like thieves have, hate being forced to run centaur runes or a focus

Is there some elusive group of 5 eles out there steam rolling all the dungeons? I can’t think of anywhere besides ac burrows that an AOE field is better than hundred blades, I dont play ele myself but there is a lot on my guild and they are just confused over these statements.

kind of cool, people might have to take their builds more seriously. Lot of classes have the ability to instant res from range, guardian signet, warrior elite banner etc. Perhaps these will be equipped more (we really only used them on lupi because the waypoint is so far away on some paths)

Only downside is might cause people to question taking that one friend that dies constantly

As a large pve guild, we let people rep a wvw guild when they are in wvw. still kind of frustrating when some people ONLY rep to spam lfg in guild chat then change back to another guild soon as they get a group

I had been using 2 monk 4 water on my guardian for 30% boon duration and condition removal when hit.

Really hard to go past soldier runes for a shout heal warrior though

culling is when there are players are around you but they have not been loaded in yet so they are invisible.

Seems fine to me, really wish theyd change our CD back to 60 seconds though

I did hotw drunk on new years, that crooked ship really is worrying, though drunk lupicus was more fun

Been busy deleting my fraps files of sos vs jq, can’t have that sort of thing getting out.

I like how blackgate players just charge in and give no kittens, it’s refreshing

Just a note to thieves, , a lot of spells require a target to be activated. Running around swinging 500dmg auto attacks is ok, but when you have a button next to it that does 6k but you can’t press it because of culling it’s meh.

really get sick of hearing, you don’t need targets to use your spells

You will get 1 crown for doing a daily and 10 for monthly, or atleast that is my interpretation of what Colin said, there is a pic of a vendor in the blog post also showing things you can buy.

crowns next to achievement bars means you will earn a Title for under your game name if you complete all the tiers

Hoping there is some mention of precursors on the twitch thing tomorrow.

Still kind of laughing at random drop being a new reward system.

I’d prefer they made things like stuns and daze more useful in pve, then they wouldn’t need the disparity.

Putting daze instead of vuns is a nerf to pve, I agree it needs to be looked at though. Bow should be 1200 without a trait to make it more suitable for glass

10 points in arms and discipline gets you 12% extra dmg and 9% extra crit at full adrenaline, even though I have fairly tanky gear and shout heals those 2 traits let you still hit like a truck with a greatsword since you never use the burst skill

Pretty sure devs already said it’s the oozes that bug it, but if you didn’t skip apparently not

Mesmer dodge clones not working in urban battlegrounds (and ac 3 for that matter, hit boxes on the balls in grawl being serverside

the story modes have the some of the best mechanics, like SE boss and COF boss, lupi is always fun, I kinda like hunter and crusher in arah p3 too if done as intended

yeah path 2 , detha bugs for me far to often. Just gonna do path 1&3 from now I think

Prelude.3817:

oh yeah. Lets give bunkers toughness, healing AND vitality on the same jewel. Bunkers are so easy to kill nowadays.
Or lets give necros vitality, toughness and condi damage
Or lets give warriors power, precision and toughness
Or…well, i hope you get my point.

Some stat combinations are too powerful for certain classes/builds. That’s why they’re not in-game.

And we used to be able to equip rings in early beta——>instagibs all over the place, even more than now.
Not good. Not good at all.

I actually wish the jewels we have were nerfed a bit. That could solve the burst/bunker problem.

lot’s of stat combinations are not available in pve/wvw also, but for example my pve/wvw warrior is a combination of valkyrie, knight, zerker, cleric. Warriors can sacrifice crit chance because they can give themselves 20% crit almost constantly yet warriors can’t tune their stats for this in pvp

pvp forces you to min max, thats why it’s all burst/bunker

Yeah looks like another 6 months of waiting for them to fix precursers, don’t see what the issue is, put them up for 400 crowns, give them out for finishing story mode.

Thanks Colin, seems to contradict what you said in the scavenger hunt thread though.

““you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.” – Colin Johanson

have you got a precurser for sale on the TP now or something krom, they are being added to the token vendor, the devs said they are, and they said they are retroactively converting our acheivement points to crowns

Im on sea of sorrows, it depends on what map your trying to get to and what day it is and what time. On reset day for eternal battlegrounds we have 1-2 hour queues. but You might only have a 10 min queue for the least popular borderland (jade quarry for me)

most of the time there is no queue on atleast 1 map so if you just want to quickly go gank a few people you can.

No this information isnt from the article, it’s sourced from 2 different threads Colin posted in, were he talked about the rewards system and in the other thread said scavenger hunt is a no go for now but the precursers will be able to bought in the new reward system. The only thing Colin hasn’t confirmed is how many crowns they cost

Chorel.1720:

They haven’t shared any more information than what is on the main page post. My guess is it’s doubtful they would add precursors in the list. They are talking about the scavenger hunt that will be out at the earliest April.

Colin has said “you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.”

Just want to calculate if I have enough achievement points to get one

I guess this is what a lot of us a wondering, can we get some enlightenment on this please

I use far reaching manipulation on my mesmer and can blink through the balls, which is kind of handy since with a bad aussie connection the balls teleport all over the place and the balls hitboxes don’t line up.

I will say again I did few days ago for first time with 2 healing shout warriors (we did use our greatswords) 2 support ele’s and a dagger dagger thief.

we had one ele on tears, the other ele was giving us might, we used for great justice , on my mark and strength and crit banners to maximise our party dps, this was doable but I dont think you’d want to get much lower on DPS than what we had.

We also didnt reset her with 4 sparks in. If you did that and took 3 zerker warriors etc you would destroy this boss so easy.

Ive had these bs thieves jump my 3 characters multiple times, my 27k hp tank warrior gets hit by backstab for 2-4k , after this full combo I am back to full hp by popping my shout heals and not even using my heal, at this point thieves run away.

Guardian should have aegis up when you roaming around, that pretty much screws up this combo, never been insta killed by a thief on my guardian who has 1500 toughness or something.

Mesmer, backstabs thieves are just plain scared of mesmers. Nothing more entertaining than shattering a thief and watching them kill themselves on confusion.

Being able to help others while keeping yourself alive is the best way to do it. Like a shout heal warrior with soldier runes, gives party wide condition removal and a 1-2k heal every time you shout.

Dungeons go very smooth if everyone brings something helpful to the team

the axe is the only corrupted that glows while sheathed, probably a bug like the AC bows. Though I’d prefer if the corrupted all behaved like the axe

RedStar.4218:

So is the timer thing true ? (go invisible every minute like someone a few posts back explained)
And is there a bug where she continuously go invisible at a fixed percentage no matter how fast you go ?

We tried to do it the regular way for 30 minutes to an hour before to characters that had more dps and do the 4-1 trick. Don’t plan on doing that again for a while, but I’m curious about how the fight is supposed to work. Because they way we did it and she behaved, the only way of doing it was being extremely loved by sparks (simply going to the sparks and back to the statue, not even correctly placing all of them, she was already above 70% of her health).

I’d have to do the boss more times to confirm if it was time based, it seemed to be though, we were getting her to 40% before the first stealth, then she be back at 80% after sparks. It did take 5-6 stealths due to spark issues before we downed her.

I did not realise you could put 4 sparks in and reset, hmm that will help a lot next time

I did dwayna for the first time tonight 2 shout warriors, 2 healing eles and a thief, thief dc’d first try and redid our a traits and utilities as much as we could on the fly to up the dps output and went again and got her down. I don’t think you really need high dps for this but you do need to hurt her more than she heals.

The biggest problem is the sparks just don’t behave and can be to hard to get in the slots, like they go right over them and don’t activate, and also sparks following the NPC? thats just mean.

We agreed when we came back to help the rest of our friends to get dungeon master we would spec more dps to make the encounter less dependent on the sparks. As it is though you don’t need 5 zerkers or anything, just do your best to get the sparks done as fast as possible

while I don’t like magic find people in my groups except food, what the OP describes is certainly more sensible and responsible way of using it.

To the glass cannon guys, do you spend all day in here giving out bad information. I’m just lucky I don’t have to carry you guys any more, I got my combat healer title long ago and no longer have any use for you.

If it isn’t required to kill to get the 60 tokens or drop a bag of wonderous goods it’s a trash mob, a good example is that champion scavenger in AC path 2 his trash. I do see your point somewhat on short dunegons like COF and AC, even if you do add infinite aggro like wow had stealth will negate it like it did in wow but here we have AOE stealth in mass invis and refuge that drops aggro plus spy kits.

Then you need to think about Arah, some of those paths take hours with skipping. the trash mobs like the oozes are brutal and there is a truckload of them.

p.s its fun to take a mesmer to cof 1, to have some use besides a time warp bot and that tanky guardian should be running with you giving you stability and heals when they skip, I have 2 tank characters and a super squishy mesmer so I know both sides of the coin for skipping, isn’t much fun getting 1 shotted by trash on my slow kitten mesmer while everyone else runs off

The sad thing is someone listed soldier runes as a warrior skill. That’s how dependent on them we are