The patch doesn’t really affect my ranger. She always does the daily things & gathering according to the dev who said Ranger is OP in open world because all the bot use them. And he’s right. She is so awesome for that job.
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That’s fine too, but it sounded like the OP was trying to get the most out of the gear from the previous posts. My guard isn’t fully min/maxed either… but I figured I would toss that sort of thought process in here as well ^^
Trust me, I was so sick of sitting in front of gw2builcraft.com or similar sites before, trying to figure out which set is best for my playing style at one time. So much of time wasted and never satisfying of anything. The decision of whether to move 5 points off Honor into
Virtue already caused me more agony, so to hell w/ all of them. Laugh of relief.
I don’t know if that applies to my post above the way I do thing, but I don’t give a freaking care about that little min/max. I can go all the way zerkers considering of my fighting skill but I don’t even care. When I’m bored, I might go naked too.
Thx guys for help. By saying tanky i meant survivability I think i will do smth like Mikemad said. I will mix soldier and berserker with some knight and i’m going to use GS. I think 3k armor and 3k power will be good with high HP and some crits Maybe can someone help me to do traits to my build? 0/10/30/30/0 will be good for that?
I use the same trait 0/10/30/30/0 w/ my knight armors, all Lyssa runes, all berserker weapons, all berseker trinkets. That set up nets me 2900+ armor, 3K+ power, 15K health, 50+ crit chance, 70+ crit damages.
To achieve high dps for my guard, trait is set up to blind exposure, skill included SY. Weapon skills rotation is optional depending on CD such as focus 4/Sword 2/SY then VOJ to GS3/GS2. With that much of blind/vulnerability applied, I can do damage +7K upward alone.
If you use PVT gear, then you will lose some precision, so you should balance it out by add Sigil of Accuracy to your GS.
I thought w/ recent nerf on p4, Arah should be much easier now and you guys would be on the unemployment line. Obviously, I was wrong.
BTW, I love my title: Combat Healer. Work extremely well in dungeons like Arah.
Your best bet is taken lcpdragonslayer offer to help & tony on TA dungeon (search for TA thread). They will make your dungeon runs shorter & more enjoyable than just going w/ PUG. 1 hr is about right on and w/ them, it could be shorter. Only Arah p4 is really long & tedious, approx 1 1/2 – 2 hrs.
With PUG, you might get lucky & then you might not. And if you are not lucky, it could end up longer than 1 hr with rage quit etc.
I don’t know whether they fix the party problem or not, but afaik, your friend has to stay through out the soloing duration, whether you call it practice or not. And it can be very long.
So the best way to do is doing it yourself, running through p2. And it’s a very long process by itself if you’re not a dps class.
I abhor any elitist attitude toward other players and respond in kind. It’s not a semantic correction. It reminds him or any elitist for that matter who hasn’t killed Lupi soloing that they might not be a good player as they think they are so don’t look down to other players. But I digress.
The point is we are talking about projectile hitting player between circles (hint: Player is already down & do you know how tall a person is when laying on the ground) and you go off tangent about something else.
If you concentrate on reading comprehension, instead of insisting that you are right, then you would know exact the time frame we’re talking when that projectile hitting Wethospu in between circles. I leave that as a reading exercise for you.
Oh by the way, unless you show a video tube that you soloing Lupi, you never did kill Lupi. Your party all together did. And there is a difference in “I killed Lupi” & “We killed Lupi”.
What is really funny is that this game is out since late August, simple guide for Lupi was on wiki (takes you 1 min to read) at least from October (didn’t do Arah before that) and there it specifically says that his attack isn’t AoE but projectile and red circles just show where it will land. So many posts about this, so many players still don’t realise it, so little hope for GW2 playerbase.
Watch Wethospu video & comments about projectiles hitting player already down & in between circles in this link.
And I’m sorry to say the “undisclosed” reason people asking for harder content is mostly for bragging right, which in itself an indication of a lack of self confidence (and lack of self esteem)
The content is already hard. Trying naked. QED.
Content are not meant to be played naked. Difficulty is not found in simply more damage from mobs / less armor for you, the fight remains the same except that you can tank less (a lot less) but GW2 is currently designed so you can’t really dodge 100% of damage (which is in my opinion a good thing).
No matter of cool it is, I don’t want to play naked.
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Your subjective interpretation of difficulty is debatable, as is mine. You are not going to win your argument w/ me & neither mine w/ you. And I’m not going into a wall of text to present another side of view.
But the whole point of my opinion is people are too serious w/ their knowledge and want to impose their “subjective interpretation” of whatever they perceive it should be the way they think it should be.
Anet could take your view or could take my view, and that doesn’t mean one view is better than the other. The only better view is whatever view the mass like the most and that how a good company supposes to operate. Unfortunately, many companies are operated by idiots. Or listen to idiots.
And I’m sorry to say the “undisclosed” reason people asking for harder content is mostly for bragging right, which in itself an indication of a lack of self confidence (and lack of self esteem)
The content is already hard. Trying naked. QED.
His threat varies during phases. On phase 2 he most likely goes after the person doing most damage to him, using shadow walk whenever he can, and using his melee attack on anyone trying to melee, this won’t prevent him from shadowwalking. The only time I was able to keep aggro on him was using my Zerker Mesmer with a lot of reflect, he didn’t shadowstep then only used melee and AOE
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This probably explains why he went after the 2 mesmers like crazy in our melee practice session late last night, because the 2 mesmers took turn giving him quite a few feedbacks. He hardly gave us the 2 guardians & 1 ranger a glance.
Yesterday, the npc was killed at the start of the cut scene by the spiders nonetheless. I hit the skip button during the cut scene then continuing running. When we noticed the wraith wasn’t appeared, we went back to check and find out the npc was dead.
It rarely happens but it does happen.
I also tried to make sense out of Lupi’s aggro but it seems to me I couldn’t. I ran a complete Knight armors guard with a group of 2 warriors, 1 ele and 1 mesmer several times. Based on the look of the armors of my party, I think I have the most toughness (2900+ armor). In phase 2, he went after the ele or the mesmer (probably lowest toughness) and in phase 3, he went after the warriors. I’m pretty sure that I have the most toughness in this set up.
In any case, he may give me a couple looks once in a while, phase 2 or phase 3 are no difference, but after I dodged toward into him a couple times, he lost interest & started looking for somebody else. Could it be the dodging into him so I am always behind him that caused him losing aggro?
The thing that blows my mind is that sometimes dungeons are set up specifically to encourage the players to skip certain parts. Every time I play TA explorable, I get the not-so-insane feeling that certain parts were meant to be skipped just by how the terrain is setup and what the enemies’ attacks are. I think skipping in TA is about the only thing that makes the dungeon fun! This is true for lots of other places too, like the gauntlet after GL in Arah p2 where you run to the next WP.
I hope they don’t get rid of the ability to skip just because some people complain about it. I love the running mechanics in this game.
When I was a newbie in dungeons, I got the same annoying feeling about skipping mobs. Today, I think it was a weakness that I didn’t know very well about my escaping skills and what to do when mobs start targeting me en masse.
Now, I’m skipping those gauntlets in Arah p1&p2 OK, just not as good as some players I’ve been playing w/ in our LFG guild. They do that so easy and they considered skipping is the most funnest part in Arah especially when they came back time after time to escort those inexperienced of the path to the destination.
There’s one circle behind me. And there’s like 3 projectiles.
Yes, you are right. There are 4 projectiles coming your way. You were hit by the 1st. The next two landed in the circle behind you but the 4th one hit you when you down, in between 2 circles. Either their math is pretty bad or Lupi ran out of his red color pencil.
Look like the projectiles travel in a sine wave pattern with decreasing peak toward the red circles as it final destinations. That means you could be hit anywhere if you can’t clear the lowest peak of the sine wave. At 0:28 frame, Weth was hit by a projectile intended for the circle behind him.
So the safest area probably are those circle gaps closest to Lupi because the projectiles originated from his hands will travel downward in a descending peak patterns.
Thanks for the video, Weth.
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-My experience is that Queen Spider causes more wipes than most of the end bosses. I admittedly can’t put my finger on what exactly it is. I’m skeptical of whether it’s the fight itself or poor group comp with too few condition removers or just poor position/experience, so insight here would be good.
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Probably caused by chain reactions when players trying to rez others in a confined area with a lot of AoEs. Lupi & Alpha are another good examples.
No, it’s not hard but it’s a lousy dungeon design by Anet as they did the same way with Arah p3 & p4 or other dungeons.
Guess which one people want to do when they choose between the shortest path with minimum numbers of obstacles and the longest path with maximum number of obstacles and rewards are basically the same?
Who would be in the right mind doing p3 over & over while they can do the same in p1 said in 10min?
When a developer stated that the ranger is so OP in open world PvE, and the proof is all bots used ranger as a gathering toon, you know what the ranger is used for.
I am about to do Arah now, I had such a terrible team I left at ooze. Message in game if you’d like to run
This thread is about an invitation to a non-rep LFG guild so we can run Arah together, not a bad PUG that you left at ooze (which we don’t tolerate rage quitting neither). Please read the 1st post before making a comment.
Because people are skipping the harder, unrewarding content to get to the easier, rewarding content.
It’s not harder or easier, it’s the reward doesn’t match the effort. Tell us which boss, or mobs are hardest in this game and give 1 exotic or 1 gold per enemy. You will see players would seek them out and no place in GW2 is safe for those mobs & bosses, period.
If you have this problem, use the wp back to where the spiders used to ambush players on their chased return path then run back to the altar. Stop before the exit where couple risens patrolling ahead of the huts. The chicken cut-scene will start there.
Afaik, the wp you are talking about only appears AFTER you trigger the chicken event and you get that cutscene.
In any case, when you run from lupi to the end boss, you will see a quest marker on your map, at around half way there. When you reach it, slow down a bit or even stop for 1-2 sec so that the npc can reach that point. You will get a cutscene and a wp there. After that just move along to the end boss.
My bad. I did check the cut scene location yesterday. The wp is indeed only happened after the cutscene. And quest market is at the huts before the opening to the last undeads, giants area with the spiders on your tail. So you do have to back track to Lupi wp and run back.
Actually the players you guys should worry in lfg are "moronic experienced’ and “moronic inexperienced” players. You know what is the common denomination of these 2 type of players? Moronic.
The “moronic experienced” are the stereotype players seeing the game the way they played and trained to play it. They couldn’t cope with any deviation from their game, hence rage quit & lousy attitude. Most of them couldn’t handle hard contents with either by themselves or with a couple more players and that’s why they need pug. By this definition, they aren’t very good players. Legendary weapons, commander tag, 3000+ achievement notwithstanding.
The “moronic in-experienced” are the dumbest, butt head everything brute fort. They typically know couple skills inadequately, not waiting for instructions when knowing nothing about the content, dying within the 1st 15 sec when the battle starts (repetitively) and making the game play so intolerable to even the most considerate players of this community. If they ever passed this inexperienced stage, there is a very high chance (like 90% give and take some) they will grow up to be the “moronic experienced” players.
And there are always someone in between. Without the moronic part, of course.
If you have this problem, use the wp back to where the spiders used to ambush players on their chased return path then run back to the altar. Stop before the exit where couple risens patrolling ahead of the huts. The chicken cut-scene will start there.
I don’t consider I carry any group even I’m the last man standing downing boss. All members contributed to the event in one way or another, either creating the situation I was in to enhance my skills, or contributing the dps to lower the health of the opponents. Proof? I didn’t solo the instant from the start to finish. Maybe I’m a little bit better player, maybe I don’t have that lag in a particular day, maybe I wasn’t distract in that particular play and there are a lot of maybe. I couldn’t even solo meleeing Lupi passing phase 2 on my 1st try regardless how many videos out there to tell what Lupi did in all phases, regardless how many times I played meleeing that w/ other members in my party. So I can be safe to say that I don’t carry any team. I help them a lot though.
Well, thank you. I deleted that post since it’s not on by purpose.
Anyway, the situation isn’t that simple because whoever could figure out to solve this problem would be a multi-millionaire over night. The problem is dynamic because player’s definition of fun changed once they approach a higher level of competency. What’s used to be fun before now becomes boring. What were challenged before now become easy. And there is no end to that. And it could be why Anet has made a change to cater to those “casual” players have moved up to a different level. In absence of evidence, it’s as good a speculation as any of yours about “casual” players want to have the kind of fun you think they should. And I think they have more data logged on players’ behavior on contents than you & I have.
I haven’t argue anything because I just want to understand what’s your definition of casual & hardcore. Your definition thrown in doesn’t help because one is based on mind set and the others about competency. Education is one form of competency and experience is another. Combination of both: Priceless.
Now how do we got that competency without being hung by the ropes while learning it? Perseverance is the only way. Other than that, the only help that could make the road less travel bearable to some are from the pioneering players of this game who put a lot of tutorials about build, skills, traits, videos of everything. Considering this, these pioneering players have no experience of whatsoever encounters they have faced so they have to pay for their mistakes with numerous deaths & armor repairs, until they master the arts through perseverance. With a lot of efforts of these players, what else one can’t find about anything and google is so easy to spell and remember.
And also what’s easy for one is harder for others. What you consider hard while the “elites” consider easy, and what is considered easy or acceptable by you is considered hard by others, who has lower level of perseverance than yours. The only thing that can be done to compromise all of this is lower the difficulty to zero like hit #1 key and get 1 gold. Of course, I exaggerated but you would get the point.
Maybe, we should have tutorials about perseverance then. But then how a person w/ no any perseverance trait passing the course? Should we tie them to a chair doing neural pattern programming but I guess, you probably don’t like that idea either.
Your definition according to dictionary are about mind set, not about competency.
Your own definition of a team of hard core players implied that they are competent while the casual isn’t.
Am I correct?
IF that fight has phases it would be very useful to have some sort of indicator showing the phase shift. That would make it a lot more obvious if there is an actual bug or if she is just bouncing between phases for other reasons.
Actually it’s good idea if they can change the color of the boss health to indicate the phases.
From the amount of people complaining about how other people are running CoF1 I don’t understand the claim of lack of people to not wanting to run war/mes groups.
Maybe they have all the initiatives to complain but no initiative to start a group of them all?
OP, try this at GW2LFG: LF4M CoF P1, don’t care your profession or level
and you will see how fast you are going to get people. Very fast.
If you missed the dodge on grubs (mostly caused by camera angle) during meleeing, hit stability so you don’t get knock down, then get kicked by Lupi. And I think you can dodge the knock down too when grubs are on you if it’s well timed. The same count down 1,2,3.
Edited: Wrong term used. Locusts don’t knock down.
I think you misinterpret what I’ve said. I might take what you claim that your group killing Lupi in 1:35m as a world record for a drunk group but others might think w/o a video, it’s not happening. A video w/ players in slurred voice killing Lupi definitely a fun one to watch.
And good as confidence boost for newbies.
A world record of a disorganized & sloppy group w/o a video showing it is just a pipe dream. Make strifey video a no show.
Strife’s kill is 9 seconds faster than ours and we didn’t record the 1:35 kill. You’re gonna have to believe me.
Strife’s record is 1:24m w/ an organized group and well awake. You guys on another hand are drunk and disorganized with 1:35m kill. That’s very impressive with 11 sec differences and no doubt a world record for a drunk group. And I know you are a very good player which also extends to your group.
btw, how do you define drunk & disorganized? USA official alcohol content in blood level? 1 beer? Disorganized as if you have never played w/ each other before in killing Lupi? No team chat whatsoever?
I’m not putting you on the spot but do you know a video w/ slurred voices of players killing Lupi would build a ton of confidences to inexperienced players across all dungeons, not just Arah. Seriously, look at all the AC posts and you know what I’m talking about. Fun for you and a lot of good laugh for others. Just don’t drive after killing Lupi though.
Skipping mobs is an escape skill and if you are good at it, it will enhance your fighting capability. By saying good at it, meaning you are running alone not w/ a group because that will guarantee you will be a target and are remained a target for a long time.
On the other hand, running with PUG is like playing Rusian roulette. If you are not good at escaping, you might got lucky and you might not.
Edited: A general observation of player’s skill during skipping mobs. Not direct to your post, mosspit.
Kuishen,
Yes, I think your comment “Don’t waste our time. It’s disrespectful” deserved an insult because:
1) You don’t need PUG if you are that efficient. And if you need PUG to help to do your job, then you are not efficient, either you are not that good to clear the content w/ a minimum party or your guild isn’t that good to fill a party w/ its own guild members. What’s so hard not to understand this even for any person having lowest education standard? Oh you said, you need them so you can teach them how efficient you guys are doing? I’ve never seen any lie this blatant.
2) Because of (1, you need PUG) and you act on them as if they are slave to your will, what does that tell us? You use them for your benefit and turn around boasting that’s for their benefit. Hahaha.
So quit dancing around it. The issue is you need them. And if you need them, be nice to them. You need PUG, use them for your benefit and at the same time, tell them to slave for your will then what kind of people you are?
Etiquette is a desired behavior we wish PUG have if we need them. That doesn’t give you the right to enforce them as if you slave them to your will. I was pretty reasonable w/ the OP even the tone of the 1st post is pretty harsh, until you show up. W/ a person like you in that group, all the benefits of the doubt I gave you guys are gone. Birds of a feather flock together. You ought to remember that.
All of these come down to one simple fact: Don’t waste our time. It’s disrespectful.
I don’t understand this part. Did you do the PUG a favor by accepting them in your group or do you use them to benefit your group? To me, you need PUG for your own benefit or else why you need them at the 1st place? You need them and at the same time, you act bossy as if you give them the privilege to join your group.
This clearly indicates an educational challenged mind and like wise an extension of an immature group of elitists (and most of them having a huge issue of l2p), regardless of the nice clothes you have put on. Birds a feather flocks together indeed.
Hmm…now that I think about it…is it even necessary to put in profession/traits/gear? I mean I get this feeling that anyone who applies gets accepted anyways haha…
Because the 2 most important requirements are nice & considerate (like you). Those said one thing but appear in contrary might find themselves very lonely in a group of nice people.
I go through the list and give you my impression of your list. I basically agree about the etiquette w/ those I have not listed, not the action taken though…
—Consistently not raising.
What’s about the other alive players? Most PUG I noticed not rezzing players are due to they are inexperienced and confused of their roles during that moment. So I always said something like this “Every one should pay attention to down players and only 1 rez while the rest kiting away”. If you are the leader of a group and you don’t tell PUG what you expect in rezzing, hmmm.
—Misusing timewarp
Inexperience players.
—Not following targeting
Inexperience players not noticing that their target has changed & stuck.
—Ranged attacks, Scepter Guardians, Pistol Thieves, Rangers, Rifle Warriors, Thieves
I love doing this w/ my friends so they have to work their butts off so I can boast that I’m the last one standing to rez (name your class here ) but you are not my friend so… Besides, these players in PUG group are mostly inexperienced players.
—Joining on a character lower than 80 when you have one or multiple 80s
You need to specify it at your LFG. It’s your fault.
—Splitting up mobs
Inexperienced.
I won’t kick anyone because they are inexperienced but I won’t join any group that kicks any inexperienced players neither. Unless, I specified “experienced players only” then all the points above is moot.
I think i will do smth like Mikemad said. I will mix soldier and berserker with some knight and i’m going to use GS. I think 3k armor and 3k power will be good with high HP and some crits
Maybe can someone help me to do traits to my build? 0/10/30/30/0 will be good for that?