Guild Wars 2

I just hate the way the carpet doesn’t have any animations for jumping, stopping or reversing like the riding brooms. Just makes it look very cheap and poorly thought out.

IllegalChocolate.6938:

The infinite spawning spiders was not a bug, it was intentional design in which the goal of the fight was to simultaneously kite spiders, watch out for attack ques, and deal effective damage. The fact that kiting was a concept that people did not fully grasp back then still boggles my mind.

The boss was easily soloed, you could even just run staff guardian, spam one, dodge, cleanse cripple if you needed to. Straight PvT was exceptional for that fight since you couldn’t crit the tree and it gave you fantastic survivability if you somehow got caught by the spiders for a few seconds.

It was one of the only fights in the game where players were required to know what types of tools they had available to them and it was one of the only boss fights were straight zerker was one of the least optimal stat combos, go figure huh?

Source: I did TA all paths regularly before TA aether was introduced.

Infinite spawning wasn’t the bug. It was when you failed it once by being overwhelmed by them they didn’t despawn thus making every subsequent fail even harder and harder.

Build templates.

AC → Engineer
CM → Engineer
TA → Engineer
SF → Engineer
CoF → Engineer
HotW → Engineer
CoE → Engineer
Arah → Engineer

I might be a bit biased.

Purple Miku.7032:

No not necessarily.

I just think it’s mind-numbingly monotonous to have no choice but to wait for the oozes + the people luring them to take them to the gate. Even if I was the person luring them, I may as well toggle off run and just RP walk to the gate because of how slow they move.

This doesn’t seem like a good design for a puzzle to me in the least bit… there’s very little user input required and you have no control over the speed at which you’re able to do it. It’s not necessarily about speedclearing it, it’s about having literally no choice but to just wait. It’s not fun to wait and watch oozes inch their way over to a door.

At the same time, I also feel that it should be possible for pugs to perhaps be able to lure it along a longer route without interference from oozes. Hell, perhaps the option to give the ooze a permanent invisibility buff at the cost of reducing its speed by over 50% along with the elementals dealing 2x the damage to players or something of that nature instead?

Perhaps instead of luring the ooze, the player would have to attack it/cc it to push it to the door. Like, it won’t move unless you knock it back yourself.

They should rather change the ooze puzzle so two of the players have to carry the ooze to the exit rather than luring an AI mob. This way people could movement skills like super speed, bullrush, rocket boots etc. to make it faster but using a portal or a blink should drop the bundle because they would completely trivialise the whole thing even in non experienced groups.

The ooze carrier could have like a perma -50% movement speed and take extra aggro from fire elementals and extra damage from the fire on the floor.

Neve.7134:

I don’t think they will fix condition but we have a hope. Take, for example, the Husks with Triple Trouble Wurm. There is perfectly showed how maybe a new worldboss/dungeon boss should be.

Even the husks are flawed design. 1 good condition engineer can do exactly as much damage as 3 condition players due to condition caps.

The small oasis in The Grove. One of the most serene and beautiful places in the whole game.

Day and night

The game uses a 2-hour day/night cycle: day lasts for 70 minutes, night for 40 minutes, with dawn and dusk taking 5 minutes each. Some events only begin during one of these time periods, some NPCs only appear at certain times, and some food and equipment confers bonuses during either night or day. In addition, the explorable paths of five dungeons and five Fractals of the Mists always take place during the night; the others are always during the day.

Straight from the wiki.

Draknar.5748:

zenleto.6179:

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Warning! Thread necromancy!

This thread is almost a year old. Replying to it is pointless.

But it brings so much joy to everyone else!

I’d like to know if that guy ever did make it past level 5 lol. Let’s get an update, OP!

Based on OPs post history he got to lvl 80 sometime before January 15th.

Level 50 Cliffside, Dredge or Grawl with level 33, 39 and 44 instabilities sounds fun all right.

You can get the game to take lossless bmp images with command line arguments. Produces much better screenshot at the expense of larger file size.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Or you can have an external program like FRAPS for screenshots.

So far I’ve found 3 uses for AED. Arah orb run, Thaumanova fractal heat room and Harpy fractal end boss so i can safely drop my supply crate and DPS when all 4 golems activate (and 1 second stun on F1 skill).

But everything else it’s healing turret all the way. Probably the best healing skill in-game.

This is because you have signet of fire equipped as an underwater skill at the same slot as your LH is. So when you swap it out it takes the same cooldown as LH. Easiest fix is to just put some useless skills as your underwater skills.

Steam hulk, Mr. Sparkles, Molten Firestorm, Steam rider and Toxic Hybrid are the biggest minis as far as I know. Toxic Hybrid is the tallest when it does its idle animations.

Engineer for a bit of everything and when all else fails it’s a very strong solo class. :3

Aetherpath is counted towards Twilight Arbor completion even if it has its own achievement category.

All incoming healing is reduced by 50% be it from yourself or someone else.

frifox.5283:

Got myself an alt account and sent one single dye (Abyss) to it from my main because looking good is important. Now I can’t chat in guild nor pm anyone on niether my main nor the new account. These anti-spam systems are just absurd…

Personal guild banks for the win. No spam filters or suppressions and no worries of getting auto banned for gold selling when you transfer money between accounts.

Wethospu.6437:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Asuaka.1528:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

What is this? Is this real?

It’s someones wishlist… and no, it’s not real

But those images… ugh epic Photoshop?

Not that epic when you can clearly see the copypaste.

Or the Comic Sans font…

Yes.

/15karma-amulets

Asmodeus.5782:

lakdav.3694:

I dont quite get the rage against this feature. Im completely indifferent about it. What is so bad about it being prof-specific on lvl80 and how does that effect the economy of the game so badly?

Leather is almost worthless.
Silk is really pricey.

Light classes > medium classes

And to be precise, the best farming class now would be mesmer, to also have a chance for the best (GS) precursor material.

Mesmer would still be bad for farming purposes even if it has swords, staves and GS as available loot simply because they can’t tag anywhere near as much necros or elementalists.

Astral Projections.7320:

He would need access to his bank if he has ascended items. However if he bought the 2 week banker golems as needed, one char could buy/craft the times and put the them in the bank for him to pick up, using the golem.

Or have the deluxe edition which gives a free golem banker to every new character upon creation.

And having a lvl 80 in the starter instance is not that big of a deal since you can use lvl 20 scroll and tomes to level up in few minutes.

Leaa.2943:

Dusty Moon.4382:

I am having no issues. They can’t fix what is kittenly happens to some players. Please check your connection, the number of hops to the game server, any problems in between AND if your ISP is not throttling. All of this can cause issues.

Not saying there isn’t a problem with the servers but if the servers were bad ALL players would have the issue.

You know the world does not spin around one player right?

There is real issues, not person based issues. We have half eb dc several times each hour. Last night i was in Hills with enemie zerg inside, and suddenly half of them if not more vanished just infront of me, together with half of our zerg.

I get constant skillag were my bar is just blinking. Some casts takes forever to go off so imagine how fun that is to place a waterfield that wont be any were near your raid if it finally goes off.
I get stuck on siege were i can not get off the siege, i am just stuck in a loop, were nothing works not even the leave-button on the siege works, so you relog and comes back to a 60 man queue.
People rubber banding around on the borders, and it looks ridiculous. The other day our raidleader was one of them, imagine how fun it was to have him dc 10 time in one evening together with a few others in our group whilst pushing in raid.

Problem is also that if half the border dc, not all comes back, and that is not really healthy in the middle of a tournament.
Problem started before the big patch, a few weeks before i believe, but got worse after when the big patch/fix was in place.

Sometimes it does revolve around one player.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Character-causing-mapwide-lag/first#content

Elrey.5472:

Sadly getting money in this game is luck based. I have 3.000 hours of played time with my warrior in more than 1 year and I never ever won anything worth. Then last week i did get 2 precursors, 1 in Tequatl (short bow) and 1 in the mystic forge with 4 random yellows (rifle).

So… take it easy if seems unfair, luck works this way :\

Gaining money is far from luck based. I try to do fractals from lvl 20 to 50 and some dungeons and I end up getting well over 30 gold each day from the daily rewards, mob loot drops and salvaged materials. And at that pace it took me 3-4 weeks to get the rest of the gold I needed for my Incinerator. (700-1200g)

Or if you want to go full kazul zerker thief then 56030 gives you lot of leeway because of the extra dodges.

Or just you know put them all in one place like…

http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

Old Tom has 3 attacks.

• Spin attack that shoots poison bolts.

• Bouncing electric bolt much like elementalist staff air 1 or engineer static discharge.

• Fist punch where he shoots his arm towards someone and pulling them back towards him.

Of these three the electric bolt is reflectable/blockable and the fist punch can be blocked (but he rarely does that if everyone is in melee range).

nirvana.8245:

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’re all welcome to play in different ways. The OP has has an opinion, and s/he shared it here, which is just fine. If you disagree, that’s just fine too, but please do so respectfully, without insults or arguments. If you have a point to make, you can make it without resorting to rudeness, right?

Thanks.

This is a wierd statement I have seen alot lately from Anet devs and others: “We’re all welcome to play in different ways”, sometimes worded slightly differently with the same sentiment. But it’s certainly a wierd statement. It says to me I can play the game however I want. Sounds good right? So if I want to go into sPvP with a perma-evasion hack I’m welcome to do so. Or if I want to go into WvW and siege troll commanders and perma supply drain keeps I am welcome to do so. Or if I want to go into PvE and exploit a bugged event and farm as much linen scrap as I want I am welcome to do so.

OFC its obvious right. The things I listed above are against some rules. Probably the TOS. But they may not be (Im not entirely sure tbh). I mean I have farmed coiled watch for a few hours straight by failing the even with some 100 other players. So for those who say your not playing the game the way it was intended, your right. So it looks pretty clear to me that the game was intentionally design to provide players with the ability to sell dungeon paths. It just happened to be the case that you could.

Just to point out. I am not really opposed to dungeon selling. I myself payed for some Arah paths to complete my achievements after being pug broken a few times. But if this is why dungeon paths selling is so successful, like coiled watch or the linen scrap farming event or the giant event in Orr, shouldnt it be reworked just like these event have been or will be?

Those events were changed because people were exploiting the event mechanics by allowing them to spawn endless amounts of adds that you killed for loot and generated wealth out of thin air. Also because they are open world group events they created significantly more money than people running dungeons.

You used to be able to make roughly 15-20g per hour from farm events with average luck. Now multiply that by about 30 people doing the event and then multiply that by how money servers were doing it at the same time. Compared to a good dungeon runner soloing Arah p2 in about 30 minutes and then selling it max 10g per slot. In this case that 10g was already generated by other means and just exchanging hands without generating more raw gold to the economy.

While we are at it should we also introduce holy trinity and monthly subscription?

Also obligatory mount thread gif.

No one would still take necros because an engineer can do all that better and then some. Only reason you don’t see necros in pve is because they offer 0 group support compared to other classes and even most of their utility skills are very self centered.

If you want to use swoop for escape you need to detarget and then use it. If you have a target you will start going towards them.

Miniatures and finishers disappear every time you change your dyes.

HARDOFREADING.7298:

Don’t know what video you were watching Taku ,but some of those were well over 2k.
If anything…Your video shows that the range is very much in doubt when it comes to accuracy. To say nothing of the fact it’s from almost a full 7 months ago.This isnt a post about anything other than range on Ranger skills. There was mention of using “Sic Em” to determine where the 2k line range limit was…This assumes that the range on “Sic Em” to be correct.
There seems to be a fair amount of deception involved in the posted ranger skill ranges and ALWAYS has been. Why?
For all the trolling I see…The justification seems to be " Oh well". Assumed as much yet none of this gets back at the core of the concern.
What are the ACCURATE ranges and WHY have they never been correctly stated?

Watch the video again and notice that there is a range indicator on the top of the screen that reads the game memory and gives the exact range from the target. Max distance was 1970.

http://youtu.be/eLsLgA_zE4Q

Bit less than 2k on flat ground.

dlonie.6547:

Ahem

Lupi is hard, kholer killed my pug, LOL bearbow, stacking == esploits!, zerker or GTFO, elitists don’t like having fun.

Ok, we should be good for another page or so.

You forgot spider queen rant #796196798.

Pugs will always be random. If you want to have proper pug runs then you need to make a specific LFG and actually enforce that people fill those requirements. I personally have very few bad pug experiences because when I end up resorting to the LFG I make sure to ask for meta builds and gearcheck them, and if they do not fill those requirements then i’ll just boot them from the party.

Or just find a guild with like minded individuals.

adozu.6398:

it’s really a good change, whitout frosty rangers were -worse- than before the patch in pve.

…now if only the rangers that joined me weren’t always bearbows… >_>

Actually ranger dps was higher than ever before after the feature patch. New trait, signet change and LB changes pushed rangers into the top 3 of DPS spectrum along side with thieves and eles. And now with frost spirit rangers will be as important party member as warriors in terms of getting the most dps out.

RoyalPredator.9163:

Some of you guys really don’t understand that this is kind of cheating.
You can happy that screen isn’t blacked out. YET.

“Only Dead Man Not Talks”

Maybe we should ban voice coms too because it’s kind of cheating.

RNG

Cormac.3871:

Zui.9245:

Ceesa.1350:

This will only happen if you are selling Arah. Easy solution: stop selling Arah. No one’s going to do anything to stop this from happening to you because selling dungeon paths was never supposed to be part of the game in the first place.

I’m having trouble with your reasoning. I’m sure you thought before you posted (you did, right?), so perhaps you could explain the flaw in my understanding… Here it goes…

An AC P1 or P3 group is 3/5. It advertises it is at the last boss. Two people join, enter the dungeon, and kick everyone. They invite their 3 friends. They kill the last boss. Each has made 60 tokens and ~1.5 gold for virtually no work. This dungeon is not Arah, and the people who posted the LFG were not selling.

I can’t remember the last time I saw an LFG posted with only 3 members in it at the last boss aside from selling posts. If you really wanted to employ this method of making money you would be sitting around so long that you would probably make more money doing just about anything else instead.

I’ve joined several fractal/dungeon LFGs stuck on the last boss especially on the weekends. Trick is to find them fast enough because they fill up really quickly.

http://www.gw2dungeons.net/?SE2

But beware, it’s very prone to bugging out to the point it can’t be fixed and you need to reset it completely.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2g9166/why_is_there_not_a_fractal_weapon_collection/

Crapgame.6519:

Azaruil.3406:

Let us compare it to eviscerate which was already considered somewhat overpowered.

You don’t need to build adrenaline.
You can hit from 1500 range.
You can pierce targets to hit more than 1 person.
It stacks vulnerability.

The biggest issue I would say is the 1500 range. There should be a trade-off from being able to attack from that far. Either lowered damage, slower attacks, higher cooldowns etc.

It should have a range of 2000 in my opinion.

With eagle eye you get effective range of +1900 even if the tooltip says 1500.

Well i tried again and got 1:59 on engi and 2:42 on ranger.

Engi : http://youtu.be/LrV2pJiRP_w

Ranger : http://youtu.be/A-R6waOuRdU

Enjoy the potato quality and fps. :D

Afaik it will give you 133% when out of combat and 125% when in combat much like super speed on engineers and eles.

Best way to get it to blast properly is to never shoot it upwards. If you aim directly horizontal or little downwards you will get the blast off easily.

Conditions will never be good in PvE group content until Anet completely revamps them. When one single person can stack every damaging condition to their max caps there’s no reason to bring them because secondary procs on 4 others hamper the condi persons dps greatly.

Also direct damage burst is always faster way to kill things compared to condis. Not to talk about the fact that direct damage will never have max cap whereas condis are limited to certain stacks.

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee usually never has auto attack on! Vee Wee did PvE with sword! Auto attacked off a cliff! Why can’t Ranger sword be like other swords! Anet please!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Well there’s your problem, if don’t keep auto attack on you have A: lower dps B: higher chance to jump off a cliff because you keep spamming 1 after target dies.

Keeping autoattack on and just letting it do its own thing will keep your dps consistent and you won’t start bouncing around after the target dies. It just takes time getting used to the rooting but when you get used to it it’s not that bad.

spoj.9672:

You dont need to set foot in a dungeon to get that title. I imagine most PvP’ers are closer to having it than actual dungeon runners. We spend our excess tokens for money not collections. Kind of a joke really.

I spend my excess tokens to get more skins for my wardrobe. :<

They are shortening Halloween because it was too confusing and overwhelming for new players.