That is just the point though. You can glitch it to avoid all skill requirements, therefore the said skill requirements are redundant. Same as for corner stacking, which unless they have changed mob AI dramatically in the last 8 months, still applies and is still far more mindless than even (worst case senario) PvD in EoTM, at least there you have to be aware of your surroundings. I think you will find, though, that most of those people there and K-Training in WvW are actually PvEers.
I don’t need to trash talk skill requirements of PvE, they speak for themselves. There are maybe half a dozen encounters in the game that can be classed as somewhat challenging. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy stack’n’wack, but Havoc/Roaming in WvW is far more fun and challenging. But, you know, personal opinion and all.
Back on topic, again…
I still think that CB with a 15s CD is OP and makes Warhorn redundant, so change the WH skill and CB to 20s CD, reduce the boon duration to 10s and make Windborne Notes add an additional 3 might for 10s.
Warhorn is already kind of redundant. In Pve it’s only use right now is to blast might & stealth with it while your party is ooc & in spvp let’s face it, it’s pretty bad too. Even if you don’t agree with me & for whatever reason stick to warhorn this change wouldn’t devalue warhorn too much, more blast finishers are always a positive thing. Fury is way to easy to come by to have much value unless you play the remorseless build, but then more fury suddenly becomes a great thing ..
I support the OP’s suggestion, it would be a nice QOL improvement.
While we are at it, how about raising pet stats by 300 instead of 150 when they come around fixing it, it’s not like we would suddenly become meta in any game mode that way ..
Before the patch longbow did more damage than now & we were still kitten in higher end pvp & the nerf made pew pew even weaker & other classes have way more options to kill us before we could disengage. (Let’s not even talk about how this hurts Pve rangering ….)
About healing spring:
You are being chased you want to remove your bleeds, if you use healing spring & you don’t stop running it wont remove anything.
Technically it wouldn’t even be overpowered, because right now warrior’s banner of disc does about the same or more dps increase than spotter+ frost spirit & they also have empower allies & str banner & they don’t have fight with pet AI.
If ranger vuln stacking isn’t valued in your group comp then predator’s onslaught with S/A & LB might be (nearly) on pair with dps. GS+LB looks great for fractals, the dps loss SHOULD BE minimal. Pre patch GS was garbage tier. I compared it to sword with the new dps meter thing & the numbers were coming out much worse than what theory crafted numbers(done by real theorycrafters, not me) indicated.
One thing that nobody mentioned previously that in practice path of scars is really uncomfortable to use with quick draw, because of how you have to wait for someone to freeze the boss until you can use it, thus losing a lot of damage ..
This build is potentially not the best, once I’ll have the time & some alone time with the invincible golem I’ll use the legit dps meter thing to test more builds.
Not even. Frost Bow got a buff rather than a nerf so its;
1 x PS War
3 x Frost Bow
1 x Mesmer
I meant the classes in general, not composition-wise. Thief and Guardian will always have a spot on the meta due to what they can offer. As for Frost bow, it got buffs on a couple of other skills, iirc, 2 and 3. 3 is used after 4 but 2 is rarely used, ever.
The frostbow buffs are meaningless more or less, or so it seems to me after doing a cof on ele.
To be fair that would have worked with 2 eles, ranger, mesmer, warrior. Same or more dmg in that particular fight. The video was meant to show us how op mesmer slow is, not an attempt at Lupi world record.
Quick Draw doesn’t work with Swoop. The accelerated recharge starts before the leap finishes & after it’s finished it resets to the original long cool-down.
That and Guard providing Aegis rotations is a difficult thing to substitute out. Even a Ele/Thief/Guard/War composition, Chronomancer looks like to have taken a niche role in that spare spot.
Things die so fast & faster without a guard, so that aegis is often a non issue.
Although yes aegis is highly valued overall. Just today I did SE in a pug & when I told them that I’m more than happy to use healing spring so that we don’t all die from 20 stacks of bleed on the first boss of p3 one guy asked if I was crazy for thinking we don’t need a guard and relogged on his bunker guard. (meta zerker 5k+ AP type of group)
2 x Ele
1 x PS
1 x SA Thief
1 x Frost Spotter with Axe OH
Meta.
Wishful thinking. Sure it will be a good comp, but the ranger hate will stop it from becoming meta & there is the thing that jack of all trades or not, ranger reflecting still sucks donkey balls.
My problem: In every organized group you need: 2 eles, because Icebow OP, 1 warrior, because banners & PS both way too OP. Many dungeon paths can benefit from stealth in some way so thief is a natural choice & then you have 1 slot left. If you need stealth & reflects for something ranger won’t be taken. In a balanced game there would be a number of ways to be nearly equally effective.
I own the Cat Tonic, though I don’t know about the birthday blaster part? But it forces your pet off the screen and you can take damage while in the tonic. You can even use it while in the middle of combat…only drawback is it costs 100 laurels.
I don’t own the cat tonic, that said I’m pretty sure it cannot hold the blaster.
Most PuGs melee him these days unless everyone in the group is extremely in-experienced. But I haven’t seen this in well over a year. Having said that, groups will kick players who are not in melee as all it does it prolong the fight since he will constantly walk away from you and teleport all over the place which is annoying as kitten. Groups not using reflects then by nature are just a time bomb waiting to happen.
Naturally spending 20 seconds on Lupi beats 2 minutes, so I too am going for that, but!
In my opinion Lupicus’s shadow walk is a pretty fun mechanic, fun for the kiter, fun for the dpsers, assuming the goal is to have fun rather than looting the end reward asap.
Probably equiping the b-day blaster while jumping and not losing the effect. My wild guess.
Force stow ranger pet with the tonic to not mess up stealth in TA & Arah. The birthday blaster is nice, because a) I can put the buff on ppl while we skip b) It gives a short swiftness buff upon consuming a cake.
I can confirm ‘Meeting the Asura’ is fixed as of Tuesday morning’s patch. Ran through it last night and like 5 achievements at once dropped. Thank you, Anet!
Personally I think not all fights need to be melee friendly. Ranged Lupi is kind of fun, I had a good time ranging him when gw2 was new, those were the days .. :p
That’s just makes reflects even more required for that fight, nothing else. You go ranged when you have profession like necros who lacks evades and projectile defense.
If you are ranged and spread out you don’t need any reflects, just the ability to dodge, which is doable, if the projectile has to actually travel a bit to reach you. (and Lupi will choose fairly random targets for it too, unlike how it would hit a stacked “meleeblob”)
Please reconsider adding more vendor tabs to the Black Lion Specialist to keep all sets available, they are staying in the game data anyways.
You’ll just have to wait and see what’s in store
It would upset me greatly if fused skins returned for 1 ticket each, since just spent 850g on a greatsword :-I My personal interests aside, I think it’s not good for the economy to randomly play with removing, readding & repricing BL weapon skins.
Personally I think not all fights need to be melee friendly. Ranged Lupi is kind of fun, I had a good time ranging him when gw2 was new, those were the days .. :p
Well, if its like everything else, just wait for HoT, then they can do something in GW2 besides the expansion like fix bugs. I could careless about this one, so many more important needs out there. As an optional skin, it is meaningless in this game, let the bug stay and focus on more important things like actual content or something.
The reason I made this topic is to suggest that they can in fact let the bug stay and focus on more important stuff by giving us a simple shortcut instead of a complicated bug fix.
Optional skin? It’s not only that. You get a piece of ascended armor of your choice + the Light in the Darkness title and even if it were only a skin it’s currently the most prestigious pve armor in the game (nothing else comes even close in terms of effort required) & it being broken sends a pretty bad message too.
Yeah well, I’m trying to be more optimistic than that.
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I run a lot of dungeons too and pressing f3 enough made my pet behave at all times, not a single kick, even though I joined [5k+, zerker only, gear check] type of groups.
Maybe they should just FIX IT….its been a known bug for awhile now…and if they can’t fix it maybe they should hire people who know what the kitten they are doing then.
They have a fix in the works, its posted IN the bug thread. Meeting the Asura(The one in which the mote is not appearing) Is going to be fixed. We rangers had to wait 2 months for our CLASS MECHANIC to get fixed. So yea, they take a long time fixing things.
Theres the post stating that they have a fix in the works. Might be one or two weeks before it goes live.
as for this suggestion, i doubt it will happen despite how nice it would be for those who need it. if it does, i could get the locket before finishing the other two achievements for the final bit in the story. (i have had the mote done since it pretty much went live)
I for one would take passive aggressive pets over the incomplete armor eye sore any day. I also play ranger & got used to passive aggression so much I almost miss it at times. Every time I look at my missing boots though I have an urge to check forums, to press alt+f4 & do various other things. Even 2 weeks is an eternity when it comes to something like this & it’s been what 6? weeks now. I think the magnitude of this issue is similar to as if gift of light forging was broken..
I however understand that bug fixing is no trivial thing & it could be something immensely complicated, hence i made this thread ..
Bumping this topic and discussing this here after all the responses we’ve gotten might be like talking to a wall, since the people with the power to actually help us (in a timely fashion) might not even read the bug/support forums. I mean we’ve reported the bug(s), we know that it’s being worked on etc etc etc..
Currently this item is not obtainable, because of the bugged Unforgiving Infiltration achievement, which is blocking players from getting their Seeds of Truth Mastery achievement, which is stopping us from finishing our luminescent armor set & bioluminescence collection achievement. (it’s been 100% broken since the stability changes patch)
I realize that a fix for this is being worked on & it will be eventually fixed, but I think this issue warrants more immediate attention, especially now with the gem store living story package deal(s).
Proposal:
Provide an additional method for getting Wynne’s Locket.
Proposed variations:
1. Remove the Unforgiving Infiltration from the Seeds of Truth Mastery meta achievement.
This would be probably the best way to go, it would immediately remove this roadblock & once fixed everyone could still get their achievement points for doing this later.
2. The Priory Historian at Camp Resolve could start selling Wynne’s Locket for 10g + 1000 bandit crests. (2000 crests would work too, to make it more in line with the required time investment doing the achievements)
How you would make the post below better w/o using “soon”?
This would have worked with me:
“We cannot promise an early fix, but we understand the seriousness of this blocking issue, as such we will remove the Unforgiving Infiltration achievement from the Seeds of Truth Mastery & try to push this change to live as soon as possible”
Maybe you could put the unobtainable item “Wynne’s Locket” on the Silverwastes Vendor, while working on the problem. I think most people who just want to finish their luminescent armor wouldn’t mind paying 10 Gold extra.
I understand that bug fixes are often difficult to do and I have no problem with that.
Removing the achie from the meta requirements list would be an extremely simple fix & it would solve 99.99% of our problems… Historically speaking, I remember you guys removing achie requirements to make metas more reasonable, here it would remove this roadblock and it’s a lot more justified than ever before.
I do apologize for the increased negative tone in my comments, but after checking the instance every single day and checking the forums several times a day for over a month, it starts to get to me.
It’s ok, I understand. It’s frustrating on our end as well.
Is the removal of the Unforgiving Infiltration achie from the meta achie on the table?
