Guild Wars 2

They work on nightmare court, alliance mobs, and krait. They don’t work on dredge or flame legion. Weth tested that a while ago.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/power-potion-of-slaying-scarlet-armies/first#post3852714

I always get the worst swarm rng when I start practicing lupi solos on a new class :/

spoj.9672:

Thaddeus.4891:

Sublimatio.6981:

Lighting whip gonna be nerfed to ground instead of staff. Lol ^^

Well not the fault of Anet if you didn’t know that Lighting whip could be exploited to double the healing with diminishing the damage. Its was kind of broken when someone was exploiting it.

Whats this about? Lightning whip heals? Wot? I assume this is something in PvP.

Signet of Restoration procs.

Not getting patches in the middle of NA prime time is clearly asking too much. Push it back 4 hours and its early morning EU, midday in Oceanic, and late evening NA.

I know, time zones are hard.

Farthest I got on my ele and warrior was the 3rd event, but even using stealth consumables I ran out of time.

Edit: Failed by 15 seconds. Completely doable.

One time I was pugging arah and everyone else dies to p2 aoe. I’m soloing, and in party chat one of them writes, “keep tanking him! Using a revive orb.” Needless to say, 2-3 minutes later lupi is at 5% hp, he finished reviving the whole kitten party, they all charge in, spawn a bubble right on top of me and everyone dies.

I just left.

Bran.7425:

Part of me wonders would you have been as upset if it had been any other profession other than ranger?

Part of me wonders if you’re actually serious, or just a huge troll.

Because, you know, most of us think that speed hacking is bad, not #mlgproelitenextlvlstrats.

Minigrump.4961:

what boredom does to a person in this game

Ayrilana.1396:

As far as the Pendant of Arah, it’s that much due to how few people actually run the explorable. If as many people who did the world bosses on a daily basis did the Arah dungeon on a daily basis as well, you’d see the price drop considerably.

The Pendant of Arah doesn’t actually come from Arah. The Wiki is wrong. It comes from a meta chain, just like every other expensive item in the Collection.

Wanze.8410:

Essence Snow.3194:

It made the other 10 snowflake tonic forge much more palatable though.

Yeah, it looks like they keep adding recipes that make us produce something out of junk.
Until the product itself becomes junk due to rapid supply.

Keeps the market interesting, though. I wouldnt be surprised to see giant gifts to hit rock bottom next.

The everybody actually doesnt even bother to open them anymore and they will introduce another recipe.

I just opened another 500 Giant Gifts, and instead of a ton of luck, I got a TON (several full stacks of each T1-T6) of snowflakes. IDK if it’s a bug or not, but I think that is contributing to the demise of the snowflake market, not so much the new tonic recipe.

After daily reset after the patch, we did our usual rotation, 50 then 20, everyone got both chests and the new daily achievement chest for fractal 11-20. Did 40 out of optimism, no one got their chest. Didn’t bother with 30 after that. :/

Ok. Just did a 50 and a 20 after reset. Got both fractal daily chests, and the new bonus daily for the 11-20 tier. Can someone else confirm this was a weird interaction with the new dailies?

EDIT: Just read Evan’s post. WTF is going on? How did I get my 20 daily chest if the problem isn’t fixed?

EDIT 2: Just did 30 and 40. No daily chests.

Bumped till you do something about it.

Full Cleric/Ventari banner regen lupi solo.

As if we needed proof of how faceroll these builds are, but, well here it is. The goal was to tank and do everything wrong. You don’t need cooldown management, you don’t need endurance management. You make every mistake imaginable and all will be well.

If you don’t wanna sit through this hour long cancer-ebola-AIDS fest, skip to 30:17 for the Life Drink>Life Drain> Frenzied Blast> Life Drain> Life Drink combo… with no dodges. Pretty much sums it up.

Forgive the FPS caused by recording on a potato.

thefantasticg.3984:

Right. So they didn’t say it should give out sub-lvl 80s when you put in four lvl 80s the patch notes.. Got it. Thanks.

This needs to get fixed.

There’s nothing to fix because it’s not a bug. It was an intentional change to increase the variety of skin/sigil combinations possible from forging.

You not liking something =/= bug.

Every time this topic is posted as a new thread, a puppy dies. Why do you guys hate puppies so much? Are they meta puppies?

Let’s push this kitten to another 100 pages before it goes away forever.

Obviously the toughest open world solo is Xolotl in Caledon. One of the few bosses to deploy sonic weaponry and psychological attacks that can’t be dodged.

“PROVE THE SUN SHINES THROUGH YOU!!”

Nomad/Ventari, whatever you call that crap, was never added to defenders armor chests, so I wouldn’t get your hopes up even after the ascended versions of sinister are put into the game.

Furthermore, the new rings aren’t available at the golem vendor for pristines, the new accessories aren’t available from the guild commendation vendor. But they were added to the laurel vendor??? And legendary stat selections were added for both nomad and sinister. There’s a lot of inconsistency with ascended gear.

Zui.9245:

Tentonhammr.7849:

First, nice solo

Second, just started doing Lupi solos on thief for a change of pace. It’s fun learning how to do it on different classes. Tried it for the first time yesterday and it went fine. Today, no fewer than 3 times he reset on me (once p1, twice in p2) after stealth from CnD… and I can’t figure out why. I was backstabbing immediately too. Is this just kittenty luck or is there something I’m missing?

He will not reset if you CnD+Backstab while he is doing an attack or in the short ‘aftercast’ after an attack, so just make sure you’ve landed your backstab by the time that aftercast is over. In Phase 1, that ideally means during the scream and ‘after’ the kick (providing you can evade through Lupi early enough). In Phase 2, that ideally means after you’ve avoided the swipe, or after his phase 2 frenzied blast.

Thanks.

First, nice solo

Second, just started doing Lupi solos on thief for a change of pace. It’s fun learning how to do it on different classes. Tried it for the first time yesterday and it went fine. Today, no fewer than 3 times he reset on me (once p1, twice in p2) after stealth from CnD… and I can’t figure out why. I was backstabbing immediately too. Is this just kittenty luck or is there something I’m missing?

I’m honestly more upset about the wasted dragonite than the gold lost.

hybrid.5027:

Tentonhammr.7849:

I JUST bought/crafted my rabid set about 2 weeks ago and I’ve been having fun with it. Please ignore the large Norn crying in a corner near the gates of Arah.

My fully ascended rabid set is now my dedicated WvW set. My ultra expensive gear set that I use once per month to get 50 kills with and then never use again.

Q____Q

I never even do WvW on my warrior, so what will I do with a full set of ascended heavy rabid armor?

Condi guardian? Condi guardian.

I JUST bought/crafted my rabid set about 2 weeks ago and I’ve been having fun with it. Please ignore the large Norn crying in a corner near the gates of Arah.

I farmed about 1.5k bags, then bought about 7k off the trading post.

1 Gwynefyrdd
No necklaces
3 ZuZu minis
2 Endless Halloween Tonics

maha.7902:

I’m actually clueless since I didn’t really watch the fractal tournament (limited computer access, phone hates twitch)

what compositions did the, idk, top 5 teams use?

DD: War, War, thief, ele, guard
RtG: War, war, thief, guard, guard
iV: War, thief, ele, mes, guard
Baum: War, thief, ele, guard, guard

Gaile Gray.6029:

• The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

12 pages of vitriol and anger. Is that enough to make it desirable to fix this ridiculous change?

Add 2 buttons. One to convert 20 gems, one to convert 100 gems, until you sort this out.

250 thick leather sections + 250 thick leather sections + 250 thick leather sections +250 thick leather sections= 1 bank space voucher

SundayTrash.9562:

Tentonhammr.7849:

SundayTrash.9562:

I really never get what is with this game and people hating on harder content.

You think 1 random instability is more difficult than choosing to do 3 or 4 instabilities simultaneously? Ok…

Did I mention 1? As I previously mention 2 random for 40-49 and 3 for 50 is much more difficult then picking ur own.

My objection isn’t to adding harder content. It’s to adding more RNG to the fractal game mode that is nothing BUT RNG. Also, permanently enforcing multiple instabilities in higher tiers would equate to a “hard mode” that Anet has already categorically denounced and won’t implement.

The gambit system accomplishes the hard mode we want without excluding the precious LS crowd who sometimes venture into fractals. Yes, people will still select 1 or 2 really easy instabilities and call it a day, but we will still have the option of choosing as many of them as we want to make things as difficult as we want. More importantly though, there is already a precedent for the gambit system from the Queen’s Gauntlet, meaning it’s an idea Anet might actually consider.

SundayTrash.9562:

I really never get what is with this game and people hating on harder content.

You think 1 random instability is more difficult than choosing to do 3 or 4 instabilities simultaneously? Ok…

Right.. cuz the one thing fractals need more of is RNG.

Add instabilities as gambits, like we’ve been asking for for months. Increased difficulty and rewards. Problem solved.

Sarahfull.4930:

I know, I know, anet said they would have a merchant were you could spent the tokens you get on rewards you really wanted, although thats what makes fractals special, makes the skins and the tonic soo rare. Being able to buy the tonic, Im still being used to the idea.. I dont want to lose its rare-ness. I understand being about to trade you skins you have for others you dont; although I hate the idea of spending relics ( of any kind ) on just buying them.

Sarah

This.

Weapons are past the point of exclusivity so I wouldn’t really care if they ended up at the vendor for pristine relics, but please not the tonic. It’s the only thing left in the game that I really want and don’t have, and I like the fact that it’s as rare as it it.

If we get higher tiers, and the drop rate increases with those tiers, I think that’ll be fine.

But there are far too many people who just spam low level fractals every day and have never even done 40s/50s (let alone higher levels pre-Fractured) but have tons of pristine relics saved and could just flat out buy the tonic 2 seconds after patch day if Anet ever made it available at the vendor. I don’t think I could stomach that.

It was introduced as a reward for people who do high level fractals and I think it should stay that way. If there was another way to get it that maintained that philosophy I’d be cool with that, but buying it with pristine relics? Nope.

notorious bob.2061:

How about a vendor to convert WvW Badges of Honour into Dungeon Tokens?

No.

“P1 zerk speed. Join fast or be kicked.”

I still don’t know what he meant by that…

GrimmR.3541:

“Get a chance for a rare item“ Yes please..
Also would dungeons with lets say 100 people be a laggfest.
Even tough it would be funny seeing 50 people dying at lupi!

It’d be funny watching him regen back to phase 2 with all the cleric tome guardians healing the main tanks who don’t feel the need to dodge out of the life drink aoe.

Necro wells count (or used to count) towards sword master. That’s how I got it before I shelved my necro. Lightning hammer does not count toward hammer mastet. No idea about spirit hammer.

Gyler.8150:

maha.7902:

insert obligatory condition damage videos here

But you are forgetting about (Transylvania accent) epidemic and how it does 20k DPS on a group of 6 mobs!

FTFY.

Dear Subjugator,

Learn to break your spawn cycle. Get rekt, nub.

Chillin Safely,

The Foulbear Chieftain
#NOgrewars

Sesshi.2610:

Thaumanova reactor – the golems in the turret room seems to have their dmg increased, and when you kill the endboss you don’t get teleported to a chest anymore (may be a bug , tho I did it twice today and it happened both times)

Like, no chest at all? Or the chest spawned on the Anomaly’s platform?

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Mai Trin Fractal:

- The safespot during the cannonphase has been inviswalled.

The mes portal one?

And there goes my Arah instance to the 7pm traffic spike…

With the changes to instance ownership, instances are now lost if you log out or leave the dungeon while soloing. If you dc, you’re starting over.

GG for people like me who enjoy soloing but have crap internet.

You ask them nicely to use them anyway, despite it not being part of their “build”, which is kittening absurd. If they refuse, vote to kick. If the rest of your party is worth keeping they will second it. If no one else seconds the kick, I’d leave. It’s not worth the aggravation and failure. Reform your own group.

This is also the reason why I only play my Guardian when pugging fractals.

Advanced Skritt Technology

Gyler.8150:

Come back in 2 to 3 years. Maybe by then necromancers will actually be useful.

No. It won’t.

Inb4 breath mint nerf.

#SABorRIOT

15 MOTOS

Bogy.2953:

Tentonhammr.7849:

Bogy.2953:

but mostly i just want to know if anet will bother altering this to see if i should learn to solo lupi on a diff classs

I’m preeeettttyyyy sure Abe can legitimately solo Lupi any number of ways. This video is just him screwing around and doing something funny because he’s just as bored as the rest of us. Don’t over-analyse this. And it definitely should not be the determining factor to if/how you go about learning to solo lupi.

no one is questioning abes ability to solo

i just want to know if anet is ok with lupi getting blown up like that , because if they are great ill stick with guard when i try n solo arah because i dont see how anyone could blow him up faster solo so i might as well just stick with guard

however they have changed other bosses to not get blown up/trivialized by reflects so mostly i just want anet to look at the vid and respond

If Anet is going to change something in a dungeon, we will be the last to know about it. They will not respond to this. If you’re already learning Arah on a guardian, just keep on learning on guardian.

Bogy.2953:

but mostly i just want to know if anet will bother altering this to see if i should learn to solo lupi on a diff classs

I’m preeeettttyyyy sure Abe can legitimately solo Lupi any number of ways. This video is just him screwing around and doing something funny because he’s just as bored as the rest of us. Don’t over-analyse this. And it definitely should not be the determining factor to if/how you go about learning to solo lupi.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Is that massive number of reflect hits thanks to the walling? I haven’t done Arah in a while.

He’s using Consecrated Ground to give WoR ground targeting, then casting it on top of the arena wall.

Theory time:
-WoR is in the middle of Lupis hitbox, causing more (all?) projectiles to be reflected.
-WoR is reflecting the projectiles that normally hit outside the combat area on the other side of the arena wall
-There’s some interaction between the height of WoR on top of the arena wall and the actual source point of Lupi’s projectiles vs reflecting them when they’ve spread out and reached their target on the ground.
-All of the above?
-I’m completely wrong?