Purple Miku actually the warrior got better access:
Warrior blocks using mace+shield / axe+ sword (mace+sword would be safer, because one would have to swap sets less often, but axe allows more damage)
Mace 2 – 10s cd
shield 5 – 30s cd
sword 5 – 15s cd
these 3 skills allow a total of 6 blocks in 30s
ele blocks/reflects/invu using d/f
Air 4 – 30s cd
earth 4 – 25s cd
earth 5 – 50s cd
so about 2,8 “blocks” in 30s
adding in utilities:
arcane shield – 75s cd (0,4 in 30)
mist form – 75s cd (0,4 in 30)
earth shield (60s cd but two spawned)
skill 2 – 8s cd (3,75 in 30)
skill 5 – 30s cd (1 in 30)
so only with earth shield you would have an appropiate number of “blocks” and this will mean you will have to use 2 skills (summoning and blocking skill) in short succession and will always have to run close to the second shield to pick it up fast.
If we had the cd of mai trins shot it could be said more precisely how many skills are needed (if it is > 8s one could just keep hitting her with the shield using the invulnerability to block other damage sources).
(no cd reduction traits were considered)
You are forgetting the most important projectile block that eles have. Dagger earth #2 is a projectile block on a 6 sec CD. It is not mentioned anywhere in the tooltip and it’s not commonly known by most eles.
I generally go 66002 with rifle for normal dungeons and 66020 with p/s for fractals. In dungeons where it’s mostly just a dps race from boss to boss so the extra utility from pistol and shield isn’t as good as raw dps from rifle. But in fractals where most of the fights are against trashmobs the extra blind and block combined with permanent vigor increases your survivability quite significantly.
I don’t let rangers into my group because A, I’m usually playing my ranger and having more than one is counterproductive and B, because it’s just easier to get a pug warrior than gamble with bearbow and axedevourer rangers.
Make your own parties or find a proper dungeon guild.
Or its like fused gauntlets and if you didn’t pvp during that time its too bad. If you didn’t do living story when fused gauntlets were available that’s too bad.
It creates rarity.
Except you can get fused gauntlets again by farming the pavilion.
Which one is the better guide?
Or is there an even better range for opening exotic loot bags?
“fishball” was trolling. Ignore them. Aidan Savage was correct in their response of save all bags for a level 80 to open.
fishball has a good point since at those level ranges salvaged crafting materials are more valuable than what you’d get from lvl 80 gear. And you will still have a chance of getting the champion exotic weapons from the bags even if you are not lvl 80.
Well in optimized groups any condi damage is quite wasted as things die too fast. So yeah it would make for better solo builds most likely but it wont really fix the organized group issue. Especially in the case of necro as they dont have a decent hybrid weapon. Whereas engi has nade kit for a mix of condi damage and direct damage.
For ranger i would say buff greatsword auto a bit. And for fixing pets, i dont expect the devs to change anything because as you said pets are the classes core mechanic. But pets are a very large portion of rangers damage and buffing. However they die a lot especially in arah and fractals. Which means your personal dps and f2 utility drops quite significantly.
WTB pre nerf ranger pets. :’(
Oh how I wish rangers had been part of the meta back when pets actually did respectable dmg.
Ascended Force is 0.22% better than Exotic Night.
Exotic Night is 2% better than Ascended Accuracy.
That’s interesting. This means that the Exotic Undead Slaying Sword I’ve been using for Arah is worst than the Ascended Force Sword I use for everything else. kitten . Time to upgrade to Ascended.
Btw, I hope the non-regular dungeon forumer are allowed here.
Everyone’s allowed in the trashcan!
Trashcan doesn’t discriminate as long as you are sensible and don’t try to push any PHIW ideals upon others.
Maybe droprates are fine…
And maybe the issue is some sort of DR.
That explains how people hwo plays lot of fractals never drops anything, while random players drop a lot.
You can see how is likely to drop green and Yellow champ bags and less stuff in chest, when you farm your daily dungeon.
Maybe that is applied somehow to fractal chests also.
There is no DR on the drops. I do 50, 40, and 30 pretty much every single day and I’ve got 1 asc weapon chest, 7 armor chests (4 raiders, 2 healers, 1 malicious) and 4 fractal weapon skins after the patch. Also the i usually get atleast 1 exo and several rares from each run. But outside of fractals my luck is abysmal.
You should probably get rid of that tinfoil hat of yours and start gathering droprate data instead of coming up with your constant conspiracy theories.
Which of these enemies exist in FOTM? Where these (existing) enemies exist?
1) Ascalonian Healer
2) Ice Imp
3) Young Barracuda
4) Bone Fiend
5) Inquest Assassin
6) Murellow
1. Urban battleground.
2. Not in any fractal.
3. Underwater fractal.
4. Cliffside last seal archdiviner summons them.
5. Aetherblade fractal Frizz laser room fight.
6. Molten facility fractal. (bit RNG if they will spawn or not)
I want to start learning how to solo on my engi, i know that engi is often seen as a “weak” class, but i know all of Engis toys and how useful they can be…
So: any tips on which Dungeon to start with and what build to take ?
Yeah, im a very stubborn person, so i will find a way to do that somehow, no matter how many ppl tell me to get war or ele for soloing.
Engineers are actually a pretty solid class for soloing content since they can do just about everything to some extent. I’ve had much easier time doing dungeon/fractal solos on my engi compared to my warrior/thief/ranger/mesmer.
And engi is so far the only class for me on which I’ve managed to get Lupi to ~15%. Someday I’ll find enough interest to go into Arah and take down that bugger.
Yes you can. As long as sigil aren’t of the same type they will stack. (Like superior fire sigil and major fire sigil won’t stack but superior air and superior fire will stack.)
I agree with Spoj on this one. Sylvari need cultural or TA armor to look good, otherwise they’ll just look like generic human 2.0.
And for light armor I’d use:
T2 headpiece
T3 shoulders
TA coat
TA gloves
T1/2 skirt
T1/2 shoes.
But most importantly the dyes are what makes sylvari special. Eventhoug the armor selection is rather limited you can make them look completely different with different dye schemes.
Can we ban them? can we have their details so I can go and make them drink sheep dip? can we shave their heads and then drop bricks onto it from many great heights?
Can you remove skyhammer as well as thats just a joke, but murder the families and pets of afkers first.
Way to go champ, this will surely get the attention of developers.
Am I the only one who did not shake from seeing a post by Josh Davis in this thread? They never cared about us before, they still don’t.
I will devote my resources to make a great PvE tournament, but it won’t be thanks to Anet in any way. I will do this for the community, because the community deserves it.
The devs’ check is heavy loaded, a single post does nothing to unburden their responsibility in gw2’s PvE demise.
Oh, you’re not the only one. I couldn’t care less in 200 devs posted all of a sudden, because what they say is void of any meaning and just some PRish thing to encourage us in entertaining ourselves. “Good job, keep at it, we’re watching! /pat”.
It was too little, too late. Seeing people that get excited over the first dev post in.. what.. a year? is kind of a pitiful thing to watch. I don’t care about devs, I don’t want their approval, I don’t want anything from them but to do their job and, if possible, add more content that is meaningful to me and people like me – so stop with the quaggan backpieces. That is all. I don’t care about pats on the head, I’m not a dog.
This kind of thing is meaningless if not backed up by facts.
…
No, not even, you know what? After 2 years of their “silent” treatment, I don’t care anymore. I wouldn’t believe in their good intentions even if they spoke to me in person. We’re still the trashcan.
Never forget. v v v
Not to mention the fact that Grouch isn’t a part of the games development as suggested by his title. I’d be much more exited if the first response actually came from someone who is part of the content creation itself instead of some random spokesperson.
So if I kill tequatl on 2 separate characters I still get the dragon chest in both instances but not if I kill subject alpha in p2? Dungeon chests are nerfed to once per account but open world is still per character?
Tequatl chest once every 8 hours vs. 3x CoF chests every 10min.
We finally gave up on the giants because they have a skill that restores them to 100% hp when they hit 25%. Shout heals confirmed OP. We also would have had to kill a pack of ~30 elites.
I figured that out on my own ages ago when soloing them. It’s bullcrap right? All that effort… to get screamed at.
Aren’t the giants part of some optional event where you need to help some pact troops to build a cannon that kills them?
You need to quest onto the server that has the guild missions unlocked. In this case it’d mean that you need to quest to Blacktide for the duration of guild missions.
I think you mean guest instead of quest.
Sorry for being such a grammar nanny
English is not my main language so pardon any grammar mistakes. Also typing on a phone doesn’t help my cause.
You need to quest onto the server that has the guild missions unlocked. In this case it’d mean that you need to quest to Blacktide for the duration of guild missions.
You people are sick. I can’t believe you guys trying to make money of breast cancer awareness day.
For one thing, it hasn’t happened yet so it’s a bit early to be outraged about it. For another, it’s pink dye that has been tied to breast cancer awareness in guild wars one and two, not pink quaggans.
I’m joking. Don’t be so serious. If you are even being serious.
Funny thing is last year during the Pink Day in LA community event there were people raving on the map chat about people profiting for trafficking pink dyes…
I love pugging CM. Especially when I post the LFG and it fills up in 5 minutes and I kill the boss and get paid for it. Easy 12g for 30min of spamming blinds and skipping trash.
I think the best method would be – since zerk gear typically has no toughness – to add a negative value to toughness and further increase their power.
This would make them capable of dying in a single hit.
Currently all armor classes have a base toughness that is sufficient for end-game content w/o the dire need for toughness (it helps – but it’s not needed).
Since we know damage is calculated by…
…We can easily see how if we pulled – say, 1,000 toughness away from them – they should die from just about any hit.
This will create a need for a support class to accompany the zerkers – and since all classes can support with AoE healing and such – it would balance the game far more.
Many people would rage if the zerk bars got nerfed – but it would make the community much more tolerable in the long run imo.
Berserk armored thieves, eles and guardians already die from a single hit. Rest of the classes take 2 hits to go down. Non skilled player using berserk gear will be a burden to any team but a skilled player will be able to mitigate that incoming damage with evades, blocks, blinds, invulnerabilities and other means.
Try meleeing the ettin in uncategorized fractal at lvl 50 and you’ll realise that berserk armor is fine as it is.
I’d like to know something too.
The Fire Storm of the Imbued Grawl Shaman in the Volcanic Fractal… Is there any telegraph to this? I watched him but I see no animation, it just appears out of nowhere. Does he simply cast it under certain circumstances/every x seconds or am I just missing something?
I personally have not seen an animation. from what i have noticed its just a red aoe ring that appears and you have about 1 second to react before doom.
The first damage tick comes as soon as the skill is used. It’s pretty much impossible to dodge it unless you are 100% certain he has agro on you.
