Guild Wars 2

And the icing on the cake. .. all that is pretty much the introduction haha awesome. Serious. Dont get me wrong I dont like it when people quit it makes me sad. I stay and encourage them to finish. Thats the best when someone new sticks it out and beats the boss.

How many players rage quit during their first time at the spider? Burned by flame throwers, stabbed by spikes, spiderlings crawling all over them, webbed and poisoned LOL its a hilarious riot. I complained but now I love it and cant get enough.

Im ashamd that Ive had over 1200 hours of fun.

For a zerker group to work everyone has to be zerker. With just one zerk warrior in the group yes he is going to be that zerker laying on the ground that we laugh at. But with all zerker members the mobs die before more than one member is downed. Its a train A leaves and train B leaves so where will they meet thing. I dont really know thats just my guess.

Tried to think of a useful answere for you. How are people finding AC path 2 so hard?

Answere: Continue to teach your party members how to do this encounter. Even if only one of them gets it they will in turn teach a couple more players and the process will repeat. In this way you will have passed your knowledge and skill on to many others.

If while teaching your inside the dungeon you adopt the tone that you have here then expect them to stand around, act stupid, and basically do the opposite of what you say. That is my advice which is not an answere to your original question. Take it how you will.

Yes. Yes I would.

Imo it would be cool if there were more invisible walkways but without any debris on them that led to the “end”. Trying to make the next jump and not even sure if anything was there…

There is an event under the stairs before the first burrow. Pretty short though.

Count me in I will gladly join you for any story mode. I do not have the same problem with gw2lfg.com and would hate to go back to not having it. True the lvl 80 only no noobs probably scares some off. Just take the initiative and make more own post stating what your goals and needs are then sit back and wait for the join requeats to come in. Some times it can take up to a half hour in my experience to form a storymode party. AC CM TA and Arah should come together pretty quick imo. Enter the dungeon first so a rage quitter doesnt cause your entire party to be kicked from the dungeon.

Agree with everything you have written but please just add me to your block list now. I dont think Ive ever read such a kitten load of holier than kitten on here before. Thqnk you.

Now that you have had a day to think about it regroup and try again. For the most part I find these dungeons fun but admit I do swear at my screen occasionally when I do not know what I am doing. Try this…

Update all your gear to as close to your current level while focusing on power/vit/toughness. Try other stats later when you are not being destroyed so easily.

If you are the leader of your party watch a video on how to do AC story. By the way AC story has been nerfed with some ghosts now being normal ghosts so kill those ones first. They have no silver circle around their portrait.

Or adverise that you are new and would like an experienced guide to join your party or take you on a run. In this case make sure that you let the guide go first and do as they instruct.

There you go. Use the gear I suggested and go with a group that has an experienced guide with them. Oh you are a warrior…. Use the main heal which also removes conditions, endure pain, stability, shake it off, and battle standard if you have it.

It will all be good and you will have fun. In fact you will find AC story boring soon. I promise.

Not the same thing but while I was in the book store I had a look at the Bradygames? guide. Total waste of time I wouldn’t buy any guide they are nothing but a bunch of generic information without any depth whatsoever.

Made me laugh just now when I went to the gw2lfg.com site and the main advert banner was a link to a gold selling site.

On warrior Ive got ignore pain, stability, shake it off, and greatsword. I start off by the burrow near the entrance and pick those up. Then I am kiting in the west side of the room away from Hodgins while keeping an eye on him and aggroing any additional mobs that may be getting on him. Always staying away from him as much as possible. Ive seen some Hodgins guards burn the burrow by the entrance down most but not all the way. That might be a good idea as it would make killing it at the appropriate time much faster. Im still convinced by Strifey’s video that 2 players one east side and 3 players on west side is probably best. There is two chains of burrows to kill as far as I know. Killing the first in a chain causes the next burrow to spawn. The problem is that it causes the next to spawn on the oppsite side of the room and alot of time is spent running back and forth instead of burning down burrows. The only time I got a pug to try this we were close to perfecting it imo but some fool would restart it before the downed person was revived and too many quit after that.

Watch the vid of the lvl 35 team that did it and use that as your guide is all I can say. Maybe it is harder than you would like. Maybe content yourself with doing just storyry modes till you hit 80. Ac/cm/ta/se/cof/coe/hotw/arah I think that is all. Its quite a bit of variety once you get to lvl 40 and they can be quite challenging. Enjoy.

Kitten that! Aoe the baby spiders dont fight them one at a time. Kill the four flame turrets and so what if you wipe. Keep at the spider queen till she is dead if wipe try again. Choose path 2 it is most noob friendly. Now get back in there and try again

Oh ya. Is your gear current for your level? If dying too easy try giving yourself a bit more health and toughness as a bit of cushion. Spider queen you should bring condition removals. Im generous to myself on my warrior I bring three different condition removals for her. Yep Im playing what must be the easiest class….

Fun video. Yea once the bugs are ironed out it will be great. My kids did path 2 pre patch and I just didnt have the heart to tell them the mortars were usless and let them fire away. They really want to do the new one but Im waiting awhile hoping it gets some love.

Path 3 prior to the latest patch was actually fun as it was. It required me to pay attention and move around while not getting knocked on the head. So what is it now? Stand in bubble and range attack, keep his defiant down so you can interupt when npc fails, or stack in one of the exploit spots. This is one fight that wasnt broken.

When I see on these forums players posting that invisible armies has been fixed I will give wvwvw an honest try. So here is to hoping.

Just dont do it. Here is a small list of thing I havent/dont do:

Lost Shore
Winter Event
This new event that you said isnt fun
Fractals
wvwvw
spvp/tpvp
Guild missions
Played for 2 hours last and didnt even think about the daily
Jormag and his giant foot

have fun

Messing around with the spider queen in my small 3man family guild we found that almost all of the spiderlings will pull all the way back to the first graveling mound. All the way back to the repair anvil actually. The queen will not pull even close to that far so most of the spiderlings can be killed (aoe poisons ect burns them down quick) without her interference. Someone needs to pull them though and has to be good at running back up the stairs past the flame throwers without dying. Then burn down the
Flame turrets till it is only her. We three managed to get her to 25% health and I do think we could get good enough to kill her after some more practice. But my kids got bored tired of wiping! And wanted to do something else so that was that. Something I zwanted to try cheesing was getting the event ghosts from below the stairs to fight the queen. But I doubt that even if they would fight that either of them would pull far enough.

Make your own group specifying how you wany the dungeon played. Also go to the guild subsection and search skipping skip. You should turn up a guild or two that have a nonskip policy. You have a different goal then the skippers and you and they can only agree to disagree. Personally I blame legendaries, precursers, and possibly gold farmers.

A bump for the guild “Pathwalkers” main server Crystal Desert. One of the purposes of this guild is to provide a home for those who enjoy experiencing all of the content of a dungeon path. Only required to represent during guild activities but most choose to represent all the time it appears to me. I have my pet guild and will have the 100 guild bank finished in a week so they dont mind you not representing when doing your own thing. I do represent them a fair bit and have accumulated 1000 influence as their only mwmber on Borlis Pass. That was some useless info! But gives my perspective perhaps.

They do dungeon runs almost every night so you can get your no skipping fix. Nothing againts skippers I pug lots and when in a pug or Rome do as the pug its no big deal.

Pathwalkers – Crystal Desert – other servers welcome. Thanks.

Made of pink quartz cylinders 3 inches in diameter and 2 feet long.

I smashed mine and need a new pair!

I have defended the new AC but Anet lack of quality control and pushing out a buggy product in indefensible. Path 2 obviously buggy and has been since RELEASE. Lets say it one more time “SINCE RELEASE”. Sure you can get it to work but why do I have rifle butt the boss in order to wake him up out of his stupor? And poor Detha and her brain freeze we all know about that. Path 3 the Warmaster npc doesnt pop his bubble half the time….though maybe he just needs a well timed knockdown once in a while idk. Path 1 Hodgins is better but Hodgins is still a total idiot dropping the aoe randomly and without purpose.

The spider queen, troll, and kholer are the only good things about this dungoen at the moment. More that works as intended like that please. As it stands now I wouldnt recommend this game to anyone due to the releasing of crap.

That spider room might be the best fight ive come across in the game so far. Lots I havent done yet. It cant be glitched or cheesed (at least so far) and it just has to be beat the hard way. I admit that I have used Robert Houdra’s name in vain in there.

This made me LoL thank you! Kick you out then report you cause they all got booted. Too funny.

You should do a bit of everything. Go to the ranger forums and ask for what gear there. Go to www.gw2lfg.com and find a group for each story mode dungeon doing them all. Make your way to the Orr so that you can use your karma to obtain gear from them. If they are contested the vendor will not be available.

Use the gw2lfg site to find a group and enter FotM under difficulty level 10.

I have no idea! Go try some wvwvw too.

When I see “lvl 80 experienced and geared” for ac on the lfg site it makes me want to pull out my ebon blade greatsword and poke both my eyes out.

1. I dont care.
2. Its the forum posts by those who wvwvw that turn me away
a) invisible armies
b) flying hacks
c) downed state instant revive by zerg
d) zergs – idc if zerg turtle is good tactic – zerg wasnt fun in spvp and I dont expect to find it fun in wvwvw either
d) aoe only works on 5 players at a time
3. The prospect of playing with people who take wvwvw super serious qnd think they are tough – any rl soldier or gang member knows what tough really is – so I just cannot be bothwred to listen to their kitten

Why is crafting reduced to a single click of a mouse button? Why isnt the best gear only craftable by four elite crafters while chanting secret rituals under the light of a full moon? Why does crafting require no personal investment from the crafter? Dungeon token gear requires a personal investment of time and effort from the player. Crafted gear doea not which makes crafted items worth not one copper more than their required materials. Less even as before the materials were used at least they still had many possible uses. That was my rant resulting from crafting 40 useless items foe the monthly. Anet I already knew from beta that I thought that crafting sucked. There was no need to remind me of it. Unless you had changed it or improved it in some way? No you did not. Thank you

Just because they have the word daily in their name doesnt mean that you have to do them daily. Ive gotten 20 laurels since the entered the game. If you dont like it dont do it. I admit I didnt enjoy salvaging 500 items or crafting 40 totally useless things for the last two monthlies so I comprehend tedious. In the future I will just skip that day or month as it really really sucked. Just dont do it.

Now that I think about it that felt alot like a wow quest. Go collect 20 zebra hooves ect.

ill throw my 2 cents in too why not

path 1 with hodgins – fight boss next to the stairs, it seems hodgins random placements of fire becomes more concentrated as he has less options of where to put it, then u all can go all out on the boss, there may be other locations where this works

path 2 – easy just a bit buggy

path 3 – became easy once i learned to not bother using melee, just stand in the side of the bubble opposite the boss

spider queen – dodge the little spiders ranged attacks, dont stand in her aoe, get out of the way when she is about to do her big attack, lifts her front up when about to do it

I wanted to try some traps and aoe on the spiderlings so went in on my thief with a 45 thief, and a 40 hunter. We cleared the spiderlings before the queen spawns in pretty much one shot by pulling them onto the stairs just below the flame throwers. Did it once more and the queen spawned. I thought she spawned when u went into her area but it looks like its after a certain number of her babies die. Actually not too sure when she spawns as I ran thru her area too.

It has been 2 hours since your post so I bet you are running this no problem now.

Clear the room bit by bit dont run in there and activate the entire room at once. As usual you can jump across to the wall pillar rather than running down the stairs. Shoot the two closest flame turrets from the top of that pillar. Dont shoot any of the spiderlings at that point as they will run up the stairs and start shooting at everyone on the pillar. Jump down now and clear the little area below the pillar of spiderlings up to the point where you can shoot the third flame turret located on the right as you are looking at the large set of closed doors. Shooting the last one is optional as most try to fight the queen out of its range. If having trouble then you want to kill the last turret as well. Now the queen and a final spawn of spiderlings come as soon as you get close to the last turret. Kill the spiderlings then the queen.

Spiderling poison spit can be dodged. Poster above says just move that should work as I dont think the spit tracks you and it takes a second to get to you if you are ranging
them. Queen spits three aoe bombs as you stated. I find them easy to avoid by switching to ranged. Her web scream is predicted by her Looking in your direction and rearing back. If she does this move to her side or back and it will miss you. I think thqt it hqs something like a 30 degree radius. I hope you find this helpful and good luck.

It can be done. It wasnt done by me as I was face down dead in the dirt at the time but I watched the other three finish the final boss of path 1 and 3. One time we were all dead on path 3 except for the hunter who solo’d the final 10% of the boss health. Seems I lack the skill as yet. Already the spider queen is becoming alot easier. Hang in there it will be easy again before you know it. Kitten path 2, which should be the one that almost anyone can do if they stick to it, is ruined by bugs.

Let one of the players operate these skills instead of the npc.

He will stop while in ghost form and just stand there and will stand there for ten or so minutes. After he stood there for about ten minutes the second time we pulled a bunch of the normal blobs inside and let them have a go at him (ghost buster guns work on normal blobs btw). That did nothing so we killed the normal blobs and when the last one died the boss started up again. Dont know if one thing had anything to do the other though.

It happened again for a third time on the same run this time by another trap that was charged. We rifle butted him onto the trap and he did nothing till the trap went off and he became vunerable to damage. Then we finished killing him as normal.

Otherwise a pretty fun run which would be alot cooler without the bugs. Thank you.

Buy another one.

Gw2 is staring at RL out the tiny cobwebbed window of an attic bedroom smelling of dust after playing an old game of snakes and ladders by yourself with wooden dice that you found in an old travel chest amongts some musty clothes of your deceased grandparents.

In real life to craft something takes many skills and hours of dedication. In Gw2 crafting takes the push of a button. In Gw2 I get 60 tokens per run. In RL my wife is sleeping alone in bed. In RL there is a loving kiss.

But I likely missed the point of this post.

I am familiar with the 1 player guards Hodgins while the rest dps the burrows in order tactic. However one time we split the group with 3 starting at Hodgins and 2 starting at the first burrow as normal (I was part of the two man team on the first two burrows as normal). Im pretty sure that before I even made it back to Hodgins after killing our two burrows that the three man team had downed the next three burrow including the one by the stairs. Fastest I have seen that room done. Then the party leader said “Split method works every time” or something like that. Can anyone explain this method as I did not see what the three man team did. Killed the burrows I guess that is obvious but an explaination would be appreciated. Thank you.

Ojimaru awesome ty. Strife too.

Casual imo is a couple hours on the weekend (by that definition I am not anywhere near casual). If that is your level of casual then even so after 13 weekends of running each path of AC once you should probably have full exotics with two weapon for swap and enough gold to buy all exotic rings amulet trinkets. Just stay casual whatever that is and take your time.

Pressing the #2 did feel a bit like hammering on Heartseeker or Hundred Blades. Hehe Zaitain dies of Hearseeker spam.

idk, first time i ever did a jump puzzle the chest was already open

Imo it is not as bad as it was. Is it just me or is pure grinding fading? Used to be hard to get a group when I was under 80. Now I see someone making an under 80 group and I think I will go help those guys out it used to take me a long time to get a group going like that. By the time I type /join whatshishame the party is already full! It is not that bad I think. And they have the right to form their lvl 80 exotic parties just like you have the right to form yours.

Gems are too cheap imo. 1600 gems for $20 would get me approximately 20 gold am I close? At that rate its almost profitable for me to quit work and just play Gw2 for a living doing speed runs. Of course not really so save it. An exchange rate of 10 gold per 100 gems would be more to my liking.

Off topic but I checked out gold seller prices and they look to only be about 25% cheaper than doing it legitimately through the Anet gem shop. Just Wouldnt be worth it to use a gold seller imo. If I were to spend $750 on a legendary (not happening!) I would just go all the way and spend $1000 through the Anet gem shop so I know its totally legit.

Stolen goods should always be at least 50% less than retail or you are being ripped off! I Dont really know though because I am not a scum bag.

Thank you for the responses. T6 mats and gems huh. I will be rich rich I tell you! Seriously thanks. I had totally forgotten the one year anniversary there is sure to be come new stuff in the gem shop at that time.

Any predictions on how summer break (school) will effect the TP?

Yes Im a know nothing wondering what to do with my massive 30gold btw.

As at least 3 others have said, do not use double tap to dodge but rather use what ever key you have dodge hotkeyed to (probably v) and push it while moving in whichever direction you wish to dodge into. Pressing v without moving will cause you to dodge backwards. I actually liked double tapping to dodge but it is just too slow compared just pressing v while moving in my prefered direction. Obviously having it hotkeyed only requires one tap while double tap requires two taps.

Oh and how many have been sold to vendors salvaged trashed ext

It might be amusing to know how many precursors have been unclaimed loot.

Similar to jugs of karma but experience for alts instead. I’m bored of levelling alts and bore of playing the same class for too long. Just saying.

Thanks guys appreciate your responses.