Ranger was always downed. Ele was always in water. Ranger MIA you just lost 20 percent of your party’s damage and the ele in water should have been in fire scepter/dagger smashing some might for you guys at each trap. Only one member even had the faintest idea of how to do the encounter and it wasnt you so what are you going on about? Unless you charged all the traps again with the boss aggrod after the first three were used I’m pretty sure you didnt solo this. Wait you guys didnt charge the traps with the boss aggrod did you? That is hardmode in which case no wonder. This is what we need players who have to l2p going over the logs telling us what we are doing wrong. No amount of logs are going to help your party. What helped your party was sticking it out and finishing the path. Your party learned to play that night even though the process was painful. Good Go. You all have my respect as a player for that.
I dont see where op wrote that wasd is how he moves around. If you do not wasd then the pressure of pushing the buttons on the side of the mouse may cause you difficulty. At least it do for me. I took it back and stuck with my mouse with the four extra buttons on it. If I wasd’d it would have been great I think.
I think that zerk hate is overstated. Plenty of lfg out there that make no mention of zerk.
My first and only time doing this path I made sure to be the instance owner and to use my warrior which in my experience can complete anything. We were all new to the path and players came and went and the hours ticked by. Finally myself and another original made it to the last boss that we wiped trying to unlock from its center cell a few times. Unfortunately the other orginal player had to leave … he was so close. Two experienced players joined after that and showed us how it was done. They asked us how long we had been in there and I responded something like “our oral history speaks of a time and land before this place” to which they responded “sounds like my first time”.
Thanks to that run I was able to guide my wife and to kids to the last boss. But we had started too late so I had to call it as it was a school night. Even with a couple kids and a wife who only plays because it is a family activity we managed to four man it. I guees Im bragging them up a little but mainly its due to us being able to communicate directly. Such is the power of an organized group over a pug. The difference is staggering and the difficulty of communicating as a pug immense.
Trust me you can do this path.
I just realized synonym was the wrong word wups
By default an lfg has an unwritten description of “speedrun stack and skip” but what to write as a description if the intent is to neither stack or skip? “No stacking no skipping” feels clumsy and ugly while perhaps suggesting that stack and skip is bad. I seek to eliminate the words stack and skip from my gw2 vocabulary.
So far Ive come up with:
“Libertarian Extermination Run”
“Bohemian Genocide Run”
Ive tried “Retro Run” without success as people joined but had no idea what I meant.
“Old School Run” had some success.
Any ideas?
Smart mouth or sarcastic answers are welcomed and enjoyed. Thanks
I dont always kill everything in my path
But when I do it is because I made an lfg describing what I wanted.
Nodding my head in appreciation and wondering how some can still manage to fit their head up their kitten.
Sab was always on my to do list but unfortunately was always just below some other stuff I was working on.
No I don’t find in boring. If you play dungeons without stacking you experience the beauty of them and are anything but bored. Bosses one hitting you? L2P, stop being a keyboard turner and get some hotkeys. Perhaps bored on your 50th run but who wouldn’t be? In that case I stack as well. Seriously questioning even making this reply as its entirely pointless. I guess the forums are still slightly entertaining. I should just push that little x …. nah
On second thought im a kitten and I delete that.
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Yes. Possibly you will spend thousands of hours being entertained in this game so spending a couple hundred dollers over that time seems reasonable. Television and radio are not free if you consider the bombardment of commercials. A night at the movies will cost at least $10 for about an hours enertainment. 1000 hours of movie theater is then ten thousand dollers while 1000 hours of gw2 is $40 puchace price and perhaps $200 worth of gems over that time. GW2 is cheap cheap cheap entertainment. I can never get over how little mmo players are willing to spend on something that entertains them for thousands of hours.
I see where you went wrong. You quit in the first room of the first dungeon. Now get back in there and try again.
What do you think kills faster or is better for farming materials out of the cursed shore dungeon. Is it guard or ele? I already have a level 80 ele but have wondered if a guard would be better after watching a video of guard killing cursed shore mobs in under three seconds.
Presently I am using my ele with staff or s/f which kills them pretty quick but I find that I am very squishy. I am already of the opinion that hambow warrior rocks but would like to know if any of you think I should abandon both ele and guard and instead level a warrior to do the farming I want.
Somebody please advise this player. Spoj The Second already stated ele is better in an above post.
Make things like static field last along time so that they become part of the terrain of the fight. Make churning earth sit there for 30 seconds waiting for your command to explode. Imo things like this would be interesting.
Im with cranos above. Also storymode dungeons are your friend.
Id be shot on sight in most pugs but I do run ele 30 in water and carry a full set of clerics gear in my bag. I get away with it because I dont join zerk groups and my hobby is hosting under80 groups in ac. Sometimes splashing them with water the entire time seems to make the difference but other times they dont need it so I put on my might stacking gear and try to might them up. Trying to stay on topic…
You say guardian is a tank but what the guardian is doing is putting up party wide blocks of which he has a finite number till they are on cooldown Your thief has an unlimited amount of blinds which have a similar although inferior effect. What blinds have over blocks is that the are infinitly spammable and what they lack is the ability to stop unaimed attacks. If the thief is blinding the mob is the thief not tanking the mob like a guardian? If you are not stacking bosses, which I can relate to as I find it boring (extremely effective though) here is a super cheese thing to do. Make your party’s guardian as tanky as possible then when someone thinks they might go down they run away from the fight till they lose aggro and their health regens. Even if your entire party runs away the guardian prevents the boss from resetting. Now your guardian is a tank holding aggro and the act of running away is healing.
My small guild rarely stacks so we run around a lot in what looks like total chaos. We did just stack coe path 1 alpha but did not stack coe path 2 or 3. It took us a few tries but eventually we mastered it. It is called not standing in red stuff and dodging the other attacks alpha sends your way and it is an aquired skill it is not random chaos.
Stacking also requires knowhow and skill. We actually are not good at stacking as we are not sure when to block or dodge and our dps is low. So those alpha fights probably took us ten minutes of non stop movement where a dps stack is 30 seconds?
Ohya when one of my guildies was near death id say “run away run away till your health regens” so you know im not above cheese moves.
I just dont think gw2 should have classic trinity. Maybe revamp defiant as it makes your skills useless. Maybe give some boons a greater range so we are not practically forced by the game itself to stack. Maybe make some of the boon fields placeable where the player wants to put them rather than always at their feet. Would be cool if the thief could put the blinding field where he wants like shortbow poison.
Idk if I stayed on your topic op but these are the thoughts your post created.
Imo mob contol like a wow tank having the ability to maintain max aggro is boring.
Ive seen the inside of her apartment and it is pretty utilitarian. Little in the way of either carpets or drapes.
I use the mouse for movement unless I am putting an aoe down in which case I use wasd. Wasd is remapped to buttons that I like for example the walk backward button is on my mouse and the strafe left/right buttons are on ahem the foot pedals. Whether this is very effective or not idk.
/wiki karma merchant
Type the above into the game’s chat window or just google gw2 wiki.
Yes. I did near release and most members got the dm title I think. Then they expanded into wvwvw. I was on different server so left at that point.
Who ever designed these towers and approved the funds to have them built should have their head chopped off. Its like they were made to be taken…. Off with their head!
Place your under80 ranger just outside of the entrance to the dungeon that you will be running your 80 through. Start a party that states you will be switching during the final cut scene. Do not enter he dungeon first because if you attempt to switch characters you will boot everyone from the dungeon and all their time and yours will have been wasted. Once everyone is inside restate that you will be swItching and ask if anyone will watch the entire final cutscene. As soon as or when the boss has a tiny bit of health left relog onto your under80 ranger and enter the dungeon. I believe that your ranger will recieve the xp. If they forgot to watch the cutscene dont cry about it just try again. Or you could even pay someone to hold the scene for you but that shouldnt be necessary. My writing is as bad as yours so Im fluent I guess.
Your keyboard has tons of buttons on it and it is already paid for. Just a thought.
Appreciate ALL the reponses. Ill prob hold off as there are empty pvp rooms and really we have enough on our plate already to consume our limited play time.
Though it couldnt be anymore useless than that How to Dance thing I bought with somegold I’d accumulated. Thats stupid dad they said. Ungratefull whelps! Never used again. Thanks
Cant believe Im actually going to give a serious response funny guy.
Be like the willow tree and not the mighty oak. Adapt to your party and you will have DM in a week.
5. Even as the opener if you dc it does not boot the party (I believe) and you seem to have xx time to get back in. Having someone dc every 5 minutes gets old and can double the length of the run. Most parties tolerate a dc but I would not blame a speed run for kicking. So I have to say no.
It was only $60. I would not feel guilty over trying every single other game out there. We take this too seriously. Have you tried Eve Online? Everyone should try it once. There is no going back, I tried to go back it did not work second time around, but once was epic.
Thinking of buying custom arena kit for my family and myself to mess around in.
Looking for thoughts opinions on the custom arena.
Thanks
If there are more like myself who were never serious with wvwvw we have moved to the new map to satisfy our small pvp needs. More action in a shorter period of time and I feel that it is possible for me to effect the outcome. Three hours is something I can be interested in not seven days.
When I get the mass wisper I do try and come help you guys for an hour or so. I love a super sexy karma train. Water field water field please. Sometimes he gets what he asked for but usually not.
Props to you dedicated wvwvw’s who have not jumped ship to a higher pop server. You guys amaze me.
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The loot in this game is truely horrible. Even the most dedicated gambling addict would have given up on this by now. Throw us a bone already!
Remember when the only chests in a dungeon were the big ones? No champ bags ect. Idopen the chest and get two blues and a stale bun that had been in there who knows how long. When describing this games loot I tell them “two blues and a stale bun….that is gw2 loot”.
Not entirely true as recently I had four lvl 80 exotic berserker pieces drop in a couple day and final rest dropped three times in a row from SB. But still my overall impression will always be two blues and a stale bun.
Now to unroll my roll up the rim to win coffee cup…..I hate you Tim I hate you and your kitten slosh coffee in my car lids so much
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Suggest that instead of saying “Skipping” that we say “Evading” or “Navigating”. Skipping is such a negative word imo.
So: “alright guys lets use our skills and navigate our way through these mobs” or “nice job on evading those enemies”
Instead of “stacking” how about “maximum dps” ?
Everyone should have a warrior in their back pocket. Warriors are awesome.
Roses are warrior
Violets are warrior
I love warriors
Warrior warrior warrior
I stole that and it said something else before I changed it to warrior.
It is pretty awesome. They dont find it tedius they high five and cheer when we finish a ath. I join in. I only find it tedius because I kittened up and logged 2600 hours in gw2. This was supposed to be casual I kittened it again. Wow and Eve same. They are doing it casual so Im happy.
But I came back to edit because TA the new path still remains I forgot about that one. Cant be lying. Peace.
A long and tedius journy that is still not finished.
Remaining to be done:
CoF 2/3
CoE 1/2/3
Arah 1/2/3/4
Fractals: swamp and jade maw I think
The usual four man 2 ranger/1 thief/1 warrior for HotW. We did not enjoy final boss of path 3. Our warrior friend dinged 80 and helped us finish CoF1. Though now I wonder was it possible to get los on and range the lock? Does not matter … each path only once.
Seems to be getting slightly harder now though CoF1 was a cakewalk and a welcome break. We walked into Arah never having been there before and stumbled our way to Lupi. Guess we should have been killing those grubs. It will take a bit of work for us to get that one. A truely horrible post but I will follow it through. Maybe it will encourage some to give it a try when they otherwise would not have. If my wife, two children and myself can do it anybody can. They wont let me quit! Have to finish what I started they say! So cruel.
A long and tedius journy that is still not finished.
Remaining to be done:
CoF 2/3
CoE 1/2/3
Arah 1/2/3/4
Fractals: swamp and jade maw I think
The usual four man 2 ranger/1 thief/1 warrior for HotW. We did not enjoy final boss of path 3. Our warrior friend dinged 80 and helped us finish CoF1. Though now I wonder was it possible to get los on and range the lock? Does not matter … each path only once.
Seems to be getting slightly harder now though CoF1 was a cakewalk and a welcome break. We walked into Arah never having been there before and stumbled our way to Lupi. Guess we should have been killing those grubs. It will take a bit of work for us to get that one. A truely horrible post but I will follow it through. Maybe it will encourage some to give it a try when they otherwise would not have. If my wife, two children and myself can do it anybody can. They wont let me quit! Have to finish what I started they say! So cruel.
They just hope to not have a wipe fest. If you do not put requirements in your lfg this is what you get :
Lvl 80 380ap
Lvl 65 600ap
Lvl 22 145ap
And it is all their first time.
Example pulled out of my kitten but based on actual experience.
bigger problem look at the lfg, it is practically a barren wasteland, probably a small number of players doing the same path for the hundredth time
im just going to throw it out there, nobody wants to play in the zerkfest meta and that is why it is empty
and since its empty anet is not going to waste time on something that has had a solution from day one …. enter the dungeon first and your problem is solved
This must have more challenges added to it at higher levels and this is the difficulty I am reading of. Of course pugging anything can turn it into a nightmare. Ive only done it at level 10 and under so please tell me that it gets harder after that. Im a fractal noobkin.
When you go in at 80 and still dont know how to play or choose gear and skills you will have your kitten handed to you again. Or be carried by your party.
Wrote 80,000 not 8,000
80,000 ! Old age may get you before boredom.
Light Zodiac Armor made me fat :(
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Lmao lol lol lol
Always hilarious when someone says kick this guy and another immediately seconds only to find themselves standing outside the dungeon. “Wtk happened?” I dont know idiot. What the kitten do you think happened? This kind of drama actually makes the game more interesting imo.
Almost forgot about this question. Thank you for the responses Im going to go back, do as you said, and make my ele drop her summoned weapon without clicking the screen. You guys say it works I must have been doing something wrong obviously. I will be very pleased to drop it easily thanks again.
Most players you are pugging with have done it hundreds of times. Imo. So the likelyhood of you pugging with players like you is very low. In my experience maybe 1% of runs turns into a nonstack nonskip run on its own. Players that you want are doing maybe one dungeon run per week or even only doing each path once. Good luck crossing paths with them!
Stacking and skipping is just faster for those that want gold ect.
Maybe that is how those players beat the dungeon. Why should they be judged? That is why they are kittened…you insult their ability or imply that they are bad of course you are not well recieved.
Speed running is a challenge to some. How fast can we do it? Similar to completing with four, three, two, or one player it is the challenge.
Some content just seems to scream that it was designed to be navigated and not killed.
Skipping or navigating your way through can actually be fun.
I pretty much stick with the easiest dungeon so I will use it as an example. AC path 1….gathering the sceptre pieces … it really is fun to avoid the mobs and snatch the pieces. And navigating the maze through the mobs is enjoyable. More challenging and fun than beating them all to death. They are just innocent animals why must we kill every last oneof them?
Roleplay or immersion….SE story mode we are their to help the Dredge is it really necessary to kill them all? Is it not more helpful to sneak past as many as possible so as to avoie butchering them needlessly?
Off topic but Ive discovered something I enjoy in AC. Ill make a party of under 80s except for myself Im on an 80 ele and we will stack the spider. In the past this has been a painful experience but now I will stay in staff water which aoe heals as I attack. This keeps them all at full health. It takes about four times as long as a good 80 group but it is very smooth.
AC path 3….the final boss was not stacked before the dungeon revamp…. actually that boss was fun before the revamp…. after the revamp there was a problem with the npc which made it nearly impossible to do… the npc was stupid it would get itself killed and would attack the boss instead of putting up the protective bubble, causing a party wipe. It was necessary to stack in a safe spot. Later the npc was fixed but by then the meta was established. The boss is stupid easy to do without stacking…. so easy it is a joke…. so easy it is possibly even more boring than stacking it trust me. Try it. That boss should be put back the way it was. Path 2 and 1 are better now though.
But im off topic. I’ll do a nonstack noskip with you just add me. Better not Arah though I have not done Arah yet.
we currently are on se path 2 where u must gather glowing rocks, the npc has not started that event and wont collect them, thank you if u know how to fix this
just started it over, worked fine the second time
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Good to know thank you. Does not work on ele. I did set my interface size to maximum and that makes it easier.
How do I hotkey drop bundle as an ele? Trying to mouse over that tiny little button in combat….
Thanks
Type “/wiki” into your ingame chat window and then press enter. You can pretty much do that with any term that you come across ingame. Example “/wiki food” , “/wiki boon” , “/wiki condition” , “/wiki finisher”.
While you wait you could google gw2 wiki.