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probably posted by someone other than the account owner in order to grief that person by having them constantly whispered, emailed, and invited to parties
Expect nothing and anything. Sometimes be pleasantly surprised.
Normal Pug Composition:
U & 4 *’s
Who is the * depends on your perspective.
Use visa buy 1600 gems for $20. Sell for 40g. Enjoy time with friends and family. Or farm for four hours. I had never bought gems but when I wanted a set of valkyries for two characters I thought kitten that and five minutes later it was all over and got to try it out. Which is what I really had wanted to do. Not farm my face off.
Not true. Do we hate the pro soccer player because they arw awesome in their skill? No. The difference is that the pro soccer player doesnt go to the local park and tell everyone that they suck. You just dont see that happening.
Now if only she would run that treb
Because gw2 is a pvp game and you cannot force enemy players to focus the tank. There is no aggro meter showing how much an enemy player hates you.
I don’t know. Lets find out how many more updates with rng boxes it takes. I guess three. Yeesh
Go to the gw2 wiki and look up boons and conditions. Good info there.
Eh you have to like running dungeons in the first place. It sounds like you dislike doing them “legit” or by “cheesing”. Remember how much fun it was speed running dungeons in wow with the healer saying “pull more pull more!”. That is an example of how I enjoy dungeons. Also put on some music to kill to. That helps.
Flee. Flee! FLEEEEE Fly freeeeeee. Take up Karate or something is my advise.
Standing in front of a crafting table is so mind numbingly boring. Tried leveling via crafting and ran away screaming shortly after. Its a combination of zones, events, dungeons, and now wvwvw. 80 mes, 80 war, 80 thief, 80 ele and only one lvl 400 craft between them. Just saying everyone does not level via crafting.
Maybe. I think what is in their gemshop shows who is playing this game and pulling out their visa cards more than anything. Assuming that Anet is following the money.
Im looking out from the perspective of a lvl 80 warrior so getting new gear every so many levels is not an issue for me. My first set of gear was all p/v/t with all traits and upgrades being p/p/c. That felt pretty ballanced and I did quite a few dungeon runs in that without people complaining. Then later I got as full a ppc set as I could. Couldnt find trinkets that were ppc other than accended.
Just unlocked traits is that level 20? There is the healing number six skill that heals you as you are attacking. You want that one most of the way to 80. Now I use the healing skill that also removes conditions instead.
Edit. Im not pro. If im on a dungeon run and my group wipes at the usual stacking spots then yes I do find it useful to reach into my backpack and put on a few pieces of pvt gear. Other times full ppc seems fine it depends o the group. I could be wrong but I dont think crit helps on stuff like burrows. So I throw on all pvt gear for that stuff. Especially if the group think mg warrior would would be just awesome at kiting Hodgins gravelings. My warrior is not awesome at it and Id rather do it on my thief any day. Oh AC path 2 trap kite you are not killing stuff just surviving so I swap there too. Im sure there are wars that do it just fine in ppc but Im not one of them.
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Id say start getting completion in the wvwvw maps right away. So if your server is red this week go grab all the poi and views in the red zones. If your server has the central big keep take the opportunity to get the poi and view in there. Actually this might not be as big a deal as before because Anet seems to be rotating the colors now. Before the last patch some were waiting 15 weeks to gain access to some poi and views. Because the other server was just too dang good! Was just thinking it would be a shame to be stuck at 99% completion for 15 weeks.
In open world pve condition thief with runes and food that extend condition duration. Apply caltrops and d/d number 3 for bleeds. Be an Asuran for racial poison field. Shadow refuge then just stand there while they all bleed out. So group them up, bleed, poison, turn invisible then watch them bleed out.
I have a four button foot pedal that I find helpful but am only using two of the buttons for strafing.
Just saw you are liking the ranger. Its on my list of things to do for sure. Good luck.
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No. None cares about the server bonuses. They are totally irrelevant. What anet does if anything they absolutely must not under any circumstances listen to what a pve player suggests might entice them.
But really I think you do not want to be waiting in a que because you have managed to entice a bunch of pve players.
It is too big and too long to care about. My puny 1 hour contribution feels like a tiny drop in the bucket. It needs some smaller objectives that actually reward the player in some way.
If I can get on a good zerg it is good for leveling alts. Cheaper than crafting and faster alt leveling would get them in. I came for map completion and luckily due to the recent changes got it in three weeks.
Cant speak for anyone else but the server wide buffs due to wvwvw do not even enter my mind. Dont think that I have ever even looked at them. So poi worked in my case I have them but keep coming back for a couple hours of fun every few days. Imo more reasons for players to just get a taste would work. Otherwise many will never not even once click that button.
I like the more unique skins idea. Suggest light armor for males that doesnt make you look like one of the three musketeers.
Three of the most stupid easy paths in the game that I know of are AC 3, SE 3, and CoF 1. Get yourself to lvl 80 to eliminate groups not inviting or joining you due to your level. If you are playing at this time of day there is a big difference in how long it takes to get a group as compared to about eight hours from now. Eight hours from now is better.
I dont use magic find or make much of a special effort to get event chests. 1500 hours anf Id have to estimate that Ive had 20 exotic drops. Two or three of which were named weapons. Totally guessing here but if a named weapon drop has a 1 in 100 chance of being a precursor does that work out to 50,000 hours of game play per precursor? I dont make a habit of using the forge. I probably could have dropped a thousand rares into it by now if I had wanted which I feel from the forums would be about one third the number of forge attempts that is required on average. Ya sorry no hard numbers here from me. I wouldnt get my hopes up.
Explorable paths were described as places that players could do what they want as I recall from the dev blogs prerelease. But Anet has done a few things that indicate to me that they dont like some skipping. Such as removing things like teleport guns from dungeons, making spider queen unskippable, I believe it is very difficult now to SE path 3 stand on structure out of reach of first champ, and also for last champ SE path 3 his troops now follow him down to the old skip spot. Kholer is entirely optional but that fight was redesigned so his adds now pull as far as he does. So imo Anet does have some sort of stance againts cheese. Though it appears to me that the stance is specifically avoiding damage that should be a part of the encounter and not a stance against skipping or stacking.
I like how not only is the op told where to stand and what to cheese during a dungeon run but then the same people come to his post and tell him what to think as well. Seems that they actually dont believe in players doing what they want after all.
Imo skipping may not have been anticipated by Anet they now generally accept it. Too hard to change plus players enjoy it. Stuff like standing on stairs of AC path 1 where damage is avoided entirely will likely see a patch. Lets blame the game and not the players.
Sorry no definitive guide from me. Here are the slot skills I am using in dungeons right now: (Dont even remember what the proper names are sry)
1. The thing that gives 25% movement boost and blinds when activated.
1a) Mist form
1(b) ice bow
2. Earth shield that gives stability
3. The orange bubble that blocks five attacks
4. Fiery greatsword
4(a) greater elemental
Not going to mention gear and traits as mine is set up for scepter/dagger atm.
Here is how I do AC path 3 which is the easy peasy path.
Staff auto attack down the first two flame turrets with fire. Switch to earth and jump down aggro the spiderlings and press number three which reflects their poison attacks back at them for five seconds. Drop fiery greatsword and flail iy around the room for a bit. Drop it heal (i use the heal that purges conditions. Oh ya for this bit replace earth shield slot skill with the one that removes 3 conditions. Put down earth number 2 blast finisher switch to water and drop a water combo field over it to give everyone a bit of a heal and regen. After the spiderlings are cleaned up (25% movement buff slot skill on as well) kill last 2 turrets and then its kill a bunch more spiderlings while avoiding spider queen aoe. Putting fire 2 earth 2 ect on the queen while popping the earth finisher and water combo when possible.
Replace the slot skill condition removal with earth shield and replace the speed buff slot skill with ice bow. For the lovers room.
For Kholer use mist form, earth shield, and the bubble that blocks. If you fail a dodge or think you will any one of those will save you.
Lovers room always try and drop your ice bow when ever it is up. Drop it onto the middle of the room so the others can find it or trip over it. Staff fire number five is also great for taking down burrows also use it when it is up. Bad thing is both ice bow 4 and staff fire 5 root you so you will get stacked with bleeds. Cut your attack short if you have to and heal youtself to avoid going down. Pop earth shield if being swarmed to ensure your attack is not wasted due to a knockdown. Fiery greatsword is cool in that it does decent damage to burrows while allowing you to move around at the same time. Use it when ice bow and fire 5 are down.
Same drill for the next room of burrows except knockdowns are greatly increased.
Stacking on last boss concentrate on doing damage while throwing in an earth water combo when possible. If everything is going good then do earth fire combos for power buff. Havent done so yet but going to put a blast finisher slot skill in for this part.
Www.gw2lfg.com will get you dungeon groups till anet hopefully gets lfg tool in. Hope you get some more detailed build info good luck.
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That dredge npc from se path 3 and would constantly yammer “nonononono”
Graveling mini from ac which would randomly knock people down.
Kholer and troll minis which would duke it out if they came near one another.
Ele is interesting. No weapon swap so choose your weapon before the encounter and live with your choice. Each weapon feels pretty different. Cant comment on how welcome they are in dungeons.
I am waiting for the exchange to be 10g per 100 gems before buying a gem card. Keep on rising.
This path used to be one of my favorites till the ghosteater started resetting with little cause. Have not touched it in about four weeks. Most everyone knew how to do this but it is just a pain now. Good luck.
Don’t get pulled in. If no more than one person gets pulled in per pull it should go fine. Even two players pulled in should be ok. Kill the adds until he is at about 10% health then just focus him.
Dodge of course.
Los the pull
Ele – mist form, earth shield thingy, the bubble that blocks attacks
Thief – smoke screen
Warrior – stability, immune to pain
Get 1 full set of pvt gear and one full set of ppc gear that way u can swing your survivability and damage as you want. So start off full ppc gear and throw some pvt gear back on if getting downed to much. Trait 30/30/x/x/x and put the last ten where u like. Get a great sword and a ranged weapon then generally start off melee switching to ranged to keep from going down. Number 3 great sword is a dodge if I recall. Switch back to melee when you get a bit of health back. When stacked with your party generally depend on them to revive you if you go down and don’t leave melee.
This is a reason why pvp has no sympathy for pve who must go to wvwvw for map completion.
There is no point to doing the dungeons at all. None. As much would be accomplished by typing backslash dance in LA and going akitten for an hour. The argument that mobs are pointless is missing the entire point of even playing this game at all.
Still skipping makes sense in many cases. AC gravelings are just animals so why not just slip past them. SE is in a state of revolt and chaos I believe so why shouldnt it be possible to slip through in all that chaos. I buy into that skipping can be more fun and challenging then fighting straight through.
Example SE path 3 IMO. Running along pipe and jumping down to first champ is fun. Standing on the block where he cannot touch you is not fun. Jumping down, running across the bridge, and jumping to the ledges is fun. Two manning the second champ because the rest could not make it is fun. Probably not for the rest though. Standing in the safe spot killing the APC is not fun but is handy if you need to change a load of laundry or take the dog out for a quick p. Standing on the platform akitten while auto attack kills the final boss is not fun. Stacking the final boss is kind if fun. Running around in the open killing the final boss is alot of fun.
Con …. month after month of broken kitten and no incentive to fix it.
Of course it is easy when you stack the giant spider, skip kholer, know the order of burrow spawn, and then stack the final boss. Lets go over this….
1. Stack
2. Skip
3. Repitition
4. Stack
This dungeon is so broke. To be clear this is not an insult towards the op. People who say this is easy are completely right and anyone who thinks they are awesome sauce because they can stack …. well lol. Even so after a couple times its not too hard to do it legit either. Just a bit of practice.
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Incoming lick wounds nerf.
Just ask them before the run starts if it would be ok with everyone if you switch to your 80 at the last boss…..
I fully support you in your desire to use whatever level you like. Just make your own group in the future.
Really Anet should just put the tokens in a bucket out front of the dungeon. Save everyone the hassle of having to go inside and actually experience the content.
Omg its harder to garbage bin bads now. Im a bad. First thing I do now when I pass a tower is make sure there are two arrow carts placed where they can take out rams and then keep them refreshed. Holding off an attack as a noob till help comes is complete sweetness.
Don’t do path 3 for about 3 months and then try again to see if it is still bugged. I predict that it will still be bugged.
Zojja. I like her attitude.
WSG and AB 14 15 !
Played wvwvw with family (4) for the first time this previous Sunday. They were all having fun till we ended up inside Ebays lord room of their eternal keep. It was 3 way fight with AR BP Ebay in same room. Wife quit and found something else to do kidssayed this sucks and left gw to do something else entirely. I dont blame them as the skill. lagdidindeed suck. It is a game eaker.b my touch screen going crazy sry
Norn male ele. I couldn’t stand it any more and 350 gems for a sex change is cheap. Problem solved.
This game made with the intent of being pvp focused imo. I pve and many of the skills are just useless when compared to the giant health pools of dungeon mobs. Those skills I dont use are very usefull againts players I would guess. For example I could trait my thief to do damage when I steal but whoop dee doo the amount of damage it does is so puny compared to the monster. Now in pvp I could see that making a difference. I dont know why they do or did I guess they havent given up. And like others said Anet claims they will split skills between pvp and pve.
To request to join a party without wispering them first copy their name from the gw2lfg site. Switch back to the gw2 game and type “/join” into your chat box. Now press and hold down the control key on your keyboard and then press the letter v. Press enter and this will send a join request to that party. If it doesnt then the player is not in a party and is solo. Then use “/invite Players name” instead of “/join”.
You could be content with the eight story mode dungeons. Only one is available to you now but at level 40/50/60 ect you will gain more options.
Or do these things:
Stack gear with vitality and toughness and put power into all the upgrade slots. Go to your traits and assign the points to the power trait line. Use slot skills that remove poison so you dont get poisoned to death in the first ac boss room aka giant spider. Do not shoot at anything unless someone else is or if it has already attacked you. Do not run ahead of the group .. you already know that. Dont shoot spiderlings while standing on the pillar as they will run up the stairs and start downing people before the run has hardly begun. Also the will be invulnerable for a while once you jump down if you shoot them from the pillar. Dont aggro anything on that raised portion of the spider room till all gargoyle heads have been destroyed. Dont stand in the poison or go into poison to revive someone.
Once the giant spider is done switch to skills that prevent damage, block attacks, and for sure grab stability if you have it.
Now for the love of kitten dont go on an ac path 1 (Hodgins). The first burrow room where he has to live while the party kills all the burrows is a source of more kitten in ac then everything else combined. Plus when the group skips through the maze with all the gravelings which knock you down that is going to suck for you big time. Any new players out there please just say no to path 1 lol.
Now go to gw2lfg.com and make a post stating that you are a new player and are looking for more or a group to do ac path 2 or 3. Wait for players who want to go with you. Oh ya ac patg 3 is a 99% chance that the party will stack in a little corner of a pillar. Just stand in there with them and obtain the boss as a target before hand. Someone should have called target in it already so just press t if you lose target. If you have group heals make sure you are throwing them down when needed and available. Revive players if they get downed while stacking in that corner. Good luck.
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Summary: AC Path3 transforming into a ghost results in slot skills locked out.
Hello. Twice now in the last two days after being transformed into a ghost during AC path3 all of my slot skills have been locked out. When I hover over them the message is something like “this skill cannot be used while transformed”. No heal skill no anything all are locked out including the elite. Only the weapon skills and steal (I was on an Asuran thief both times this happened) are available. This also happened to another player on the same run but I forget what class he was. Both of us tried relogging but the skills were still locked out. But once we both relogged onto different characters then entered the dungeon all of our slot skills were available. In my case I relogged into a Norn Elementalist and finished the dungeon that way.
Sounds like you did path one. Hodgins. That room ruins an otherwise fun dungeon. Ive probably done that path fifty times and it just doesnt get any better over time. It seems like either your group is going to succeed in there or not with very little middle ground. That is attempting it over and over again has rarely resulted in success. Too bad that room is such a choke point because the next room where you gather the rest of the pieces is really fun. The final boss is actually pretty fun to do legit too even though most pugs will glitch him.
You spent 20 minutes forming a group for ac path 2 and some how ended up without one single player who knew how to do this path. This indicates to me that none of you knew of the lfg site and were all standing outside the dungeon entrance lfg’ing in map chat. Conclusion is that all five of you were new. Yet somehow you or four of you managed to make it to the final boss even through a bugged out Detha. All that it would have taken was a “lf1m ac path 2 need someone who know how to do the final boss” request on the lfg site and someone would have come running eager to show off their knowledge.
Pat yourself on the back you all did good. Wow LOL I can hardly believe your badluck in that not one person in your group had ever done this before. Sucks that this was the first time for all of you but it will get better so keep at it. You all made it that far which makes you awesome in my opinion.
Player starts party with lfm stating his desired method of completing the content and enters the dungeon first. kittens join and proceed to do whatever they want. Player who started the party gets to maintain a level of control in the existing system.
Bored of thief bow skills really really fast. My opinion.
I’m very sure that about a month after release I met a player in AC who was a male but in a dress. His buddy said he was a cross dresser which is what made me notice. Otherwise I was too busy at the time trying to stay alive. Was or is this possible and how?
yep. one of the few good fights now cheesed. enjoy