Guild Wars 2

Orpheal.8263:

GW2 still needs more instruments.

So much stuff missing for a complete orchestra:

• Cymbal

No. Just, no. For the love of god, no.

You can have everything else on your list, though.

You can literally do that path without killing a single trash mob, so idk. Bad RNG?

joey the creator.3587:

My Cleric staff is ready
Mace and shield I shall not forget thee
Eating lupi kicks like spaghetti

I was never good at poetry

Its not haiku, but an A for effort and +1 for making me laugh.

Lupi phase three skip,
Much feedback. The vuln is nowhere in sight.
Alas, all is vain

Quick question regarding phase 2 feedback on Lupi during frenzied blast: do all 3 illusions have to be up for the entire duration of the frenzied blast/feedback in order to get the damage multiplier from compounding power, or can you shatter before it ends? We got trolled again last night on a phase 3 skip (he had about 3k hp left :/) and I was just wondering when its safe to shatter.

Also, whats a good baseline number for max damage on the frenzied blast ticks when you reflect them? Currently getting ~32k which seems decent but I feel like it could be higher.

10/30/0/20/10 with compounding power and empowering mantras, 3 active mantras and 3 active illusions, full zerk (mostly ascended, mes isn’t my main), scholar runes, undead/force on weapons, powerful potion of undead slaying, bowl of seaweed salad for the 10% damage mod while moving. The vuln stacking was a little premature so I’m sure that was part of the issue.

mtpelion.4562:

I threw a die and it landed on 4. Did they nerf 1?

+1 for you, sir. Well done.

The issue though is that lvl 40 is a separate tier from 41-50, as we all know. Its well established that the tonic drops from the 41-50 daily chest, so it comes down to the op’s question (and one my group has been wondering for a while now): can you get it from running lvl 40s?

The logical answer to me would be no, since it seems odd that there would be only 1 level within a reward tier that gives the tonic, meaning it would have a different drop table. However, Anet has done stranger things in the past and despite several inquiries to support, they still haven’t answered the question.

This whole issue revolves around the Fractured release notes about the tonic reward drop which state that it “starts at level 40”. I’ve just assumed it was a typo, but its been months now and we still don’t have an answer.

Next time you do something like this, include a toggle switch to turn it off.

RemiRome.8495:

Tentonhammr.7849:

Challenge ends on August 8th, as he said.

except he said

Challenge end: 4/8/2014. (August, 8th, 2014)

Those are 2 different dates regardless of which way you do dd/mm which is the point of the guy you quoted.

edit: to clarify
April 8th or August 4th.

Neither is August 8th.

rotf. You’re right. I completely missed that I would still think it ends on August 8th, though, seeing as how that’s the date he typed out.

hendo.1940:

Challenge end: 4/8/2014. (August, 8th, 2014)

Infamous Darkness.3284:

BTW your challenge end is two separate dates 4/8/2014 (April 8th 2014), and 8/8/2014 (August 8th 2014)?

Month/Day/Year- ’Murica

Day/Month/Year- Rest of the world

Challenge ends on August 8th, as he said.

Nikaido.3457:

There is no amount of reward that could make me do hotw p2 and p3 again. Not even 30 gold per run in the daily chest would make me feel like doing it. My thinking on underwater combat : anet should just plainly admit the whole idea was a mistake and remove everything from the game. Replace all underwater content with better maps. Remove capricorn in PVP, remove the underwater fractal (that no one runs anyway because they roll swamp), remove hotw p2/p3, remove all mobs from underwater open world and remove underwater combat mechanics, only allowing underwater exploration.

Fixing underwater combat to make it fun would require so much change to the current skill sets / add a variety of skills / missing abilities replaced that it would be too much work put into a section of the game that is not worth it when much more important things need to be changed already. So just admit it’s a mistake and delete everything. Even 1h of dev work put into underwater is 1h that is wasted compared to time that could be put into revamping dungeon bosses, mobs, PVP build balance etc.

Yea…every word of this is true.

dutchiez.7502:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

will ignore dungeons even more

Is that even possible?

Inb4 Nave of Arah becomes the only working wp in all four paths.

Guard build needs to be updated to 30/20/20/0/0 sword/torch + hammer, burn/glacial heart condi spec in full rabid.

On a more serious note, love the website Weth.

So what you guys are saying is that my glacial heart/burn build isn’t viable? But, but… its fire and ice! And its different, so that makes it good right?

/sarcasm

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Mentors/first

They may be able to help.

John Smith.4610:

The mystic forge changes are a work in progress. What I will promise is that when it is done you will like it much better than you do now.

The number of rares and exotics I’ve chucked into the forge (for science!) is absolutely staggering. I would like to take a moment and share with all of you what I’ve learned about the forge: you put 4 items in and get 1 item back.

That is all.

While I disagree with the OPs point if view (I’m in the same position. I have multiple legendaries. I don’t think there is any compensation to be had, nor should there be) the tone of his post was much tamer and more inquistitory than many others I have read on this topic. He didn’t make demands and rant and rave, so don’t bite his head off just for asking.

Champ train much?

Ralron.8124:

People are generally ignorant in this game. MY fav example is people saying:

OH COND necro only do 5k dps a tick with condition and then say WAR does like 10kDPS. What they all seem to forget is we do 5k COND damage and we probably do an other 5k in Normal attacks… so in reality we also do 10k dps a tick. GW2players are terrible at math.. i have a hybrid necro doing about 3-4k Condition damage a tick ( all the time ) not to mention an other 7-13k Damage with my regular attacks.

if you know how to play your class properly ( what ever one ) ->
you are more viable and better then 99% of the GW2 players no matter the class they have.

I play a necro in high lvl fractals and honestly i out live and out DPS most people i play with. Going FULL zerk in high lvl fractals is as efficient as killing a Bear with a Plastic knife while being naked.

I rather Live. and if your alive you out DPS any one dead. lol

What i like about the necro is that we arguably we have the BEST AOE in the game ( not best dps , but overall = range ( scepter+ staff+ DS) , area we cover (DS #4-5) + epidemic… ) and we can out DPS single targets more then Zerk war . Depending on the fight i have a couple sets of weapons in my bags.

Fractals = lots of AOE needed and lots of bosses have 2-3 MOBS , NEcro = wins.
if you get the phew single targets , you still burn ouT AMAZING DPS ( more then most classes.

What, exactly, are you smoking? (Aside from Nemesis’ kitten?)

Only thing I pug these days are 10/20 fractals (I want my mace :/ ) which my group typically doesn’t wanna run. The kitten these kids are coming up with to deal with Moss Man is incredible. I usually just leave but sometimes stick around with the hope that they mess it up and get rekt.

But nothing tops the eagle eye ranger who insisted that the group stacked might for him while he pew pew’ed Casualhunger Bloomhunger from behind a tree. I voted to kick and no one seconded :/

Range attacks are exploits. Melee attacks are exploits. Damage is an exploit. Killing is an exploit.

Once again, there were several changes made to the current dungeon paths that were not mentioned in the patch notes. Making changes and fixes to dungeons is fine, and for the most part its a good thing, but why are they never included in the patch notes? It’s just annoying.

-Changed player interaction with the first set of barriers in SE path 3
-Changed player interaction with the armored carrier in SE path 3
-Changed the Champion Icebrood Troll in HotW path 1 to be more dangerous

Is that really so hard?

This thread is posted here because devs and mods don’t pay attention to the dungeon sub-forum, so please don’t bother moving the thread. Just delete it if you think it doesn’t belong here.

They’re changing kitten in dungeons. Fine. But why in the holy hell can’t we just get patchnotes?

Yea, this isn’t a tinfoil hat thread. I just saw 9 Eternitys disappear in less than 20 minutes and thought it was interesting.

The other night I saw an LFG for HotW path 1 that read “Super Speed Run. Max DPS. WARRIORS AND GUARDIANS ONLY.”

I laughed for about an hour.

So, 9 Eternitys just disappeared from the trading post. There were 12 of them with the lowest listing at 4400g, now only 3. Massive buyout or just a random fluctuation?

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/30689

Cynn.1490:

I would personally enjoy this as an audiobook read by Morgan Freeman.

FTFY.

Thats happened to me before. Just keep track of it and dodge while re-engaging.

I was there as well, and yes they died in about 3 mins, but for some reason I (and 1 other person in my party) got the 6 min achievement. No idea why, just happy I got it.

One thing I wonder, I got a bonus chest when I got the achiement, containing a masterwork bag (Assault satchel, knights bag? Something like that) full of greens and an obby shard. So a separate bonus chest from the one containing the deluxe gear boxes. Did anyone else who was there get that additional bonus chest? Is there still an issue with participation credit? Is the participation credit checkpoint for 6 min somehow higher than for simply killing the knights? No idea, just throwing that out there.

Same. In overflow.

Sublimatio.6981:

once tried withdraw up there, never again :P

“Look behind” keybind is your friend

eMKay.4028:

Either way the underwater Legendaries look pretty nice – both the Kamohoali and Kraitkin.

I loved Kraitkin when I made it. Then I made KK. I now regret making Kraitkin. If you make a water leg. for necro, go with Kamohoali. On crit animation procs on most of the weapon skills, including death shroud skills. Shark projectile LB finishing with the shark chomp crit? GTFO if you think you can top that.

OMNIBUS.2913:

IMO frostfang fits necro well. They do have some icey spells and triats and frostfang just adds to it + life blast has a little ice affect with frostfang.

Frostfang has very very cool effects on necro. Looks amazing. Only problem is, it’s still the necro axe…. yea…

Howler or incinerator.

spoj.9672:

Flame seeker prophecies so nice. Shame shield is like the least used weapon in the game. Used on engi but you would never see it. Nice on warrior maybe but offhand sword is better. :<

I know :/ The legendaries I make are ones that I really like and are weapons I constantly use. FSP is the one exception.

I basically have a legendary whose sole purpose is dedicated to the dredge controller room and taking screenshots.

Iris Ng.9845:

Not in dungeons, but Idc. All I want is to challenge colesy in terms of shininess.

#WinningAtShininess

robertul.3679:

The other didn’t wore the armor he pinged(different skins).

I love that. You think we won’t notice you pinged a full set of CoE zerk/scholar and are wearing a Phalanx set that’s prolly soldier?

obal.3218:

Proposal Overview
The rewards should be higher to reflect the time and difficulty of the content compared to other content.

Goal of Proposal
Fractals is a grind in hopes you get the weapon skin you want and unrewarding in the process. Other dungeons let you spend tokens on the items you want and give you a good amount of gold for time spent.

Proposal Functionality
The trader should be updated to add the weapon skins in exchange for relics. An armor set should be added as well like all the other dungeons. The skin drop rate should be higher at higher levels and the ring rate should be lower since no one needs them anymore if they are high up. Fractal weapon skin boxes should be in the loot table as well in some way. Recycling unwanted rings in some way should be introduced. The gold reward should scale better. The higher levels should give as much or more as dungeons given the time and difficulty is greater.

Associated Risks
Some people may have deleted rings or spent all their relics up since no change has been made. They might get a bit mad but this would be a great change going forward and would get a lot more people interested in doing them again and be a rewarding experience.

Do this. I’ll be happy.

There is a very loose correlation between AP and experience. There is no correlation between AP and skill. I avoid these groups like the plague.

Aisina.4963:

Quaggans

This is the greatest thing ever, in the history of everything.

Annnnndddd… bugged. Just finished 4 defense events successfully and didn’t get it. Main server maps got screwed kitten this release.

What “defend” events are they talking about?

I assumed it was the 3 entrance events in Bloodtide Coast, Gendarren Fields, and Lornars Pass, but I went to all 3 (one after the other, part of the same cycle) and got credit for each event, got the individual event achievments, but not Triple Play.

So, is it bugged or are they talking about a different series of events inside LA?

On a related note, Anet, will you PLEASE start making your achievement descriptions more clear?

Same problem. Please fix.

Same. Event finished with all 7 moas alive, got Gold credit for the event, but no “all bets are off” achievement. Kaineng mainflow.

I’ve been running fractals obsessively since the dungeon was first introduced in November of 2012. In mid 2013 I was lucky enough to find a group of hardcore fractal players within my guild and we’ve been doing 38 and 48 (now 37 and 49 or 50) daily runs almost religiously ever since.

Prior to the Fractured update, we would usually see 1 or 2 weapon skins drop for the group on 48 daily runs (never the ones we want, of course), sometimes more, sometimes less. From my personal experience that drop rate has been pretty consistent for the 8 or 9 months I’ve been doing lvl 40+ fractals. I personally had a really bad stretch of rng where I didn’t get a skin for 8 or 10 weeks straight, but the overall drop rate within the group context remained constant.

Since November 26th (the fractured patch), I personally have only gotten 2 skins. More importantly however, we maybe see 1 skin a week within the entire group. Not 1 skin each, 1 skin total. They nerfed the drop rate of fractal skins into the ground. Plain and simple.

As far as ascended weapon and armor chests go, the drop rate pre and post patch seems about the same. They were really rare to begin with, so its hard to tell if they became any more rare. On a related topic, I reject the notion that the ascended boxes are influencing the weapon skin drop rate because the two are not mutually exclusive. You can get both a weapon skin and an ascended chest in the same daily reward from a single run. It’s happened to me twice- once pre patch and once post patch.

2 of my friends in my dungeon team did this last week. They agreed to 300g plus expenses. However I personally think thats a bit low.

You’re use of the krait tonic killed my immersion. Please redo and play it the way it’s supposed to be played, the way you want to play it, the way I want you to play it.

I’ve fallen asleep at the keyboard twice (that I can recall) during the clown car on lvl 48, 49, or 50 daily runs.

flamedramonBarbaro.7893:

Omagad, all this time i thaught AP was attack power

Thanks for this post, now i know why i can’t get these values, and why people of these parties are so flamers, personally i got 1500 ap, i am new to game, and most party ask for 6k ap. 6k ap? I got 1500, so i need to play everyday till 6k to play with other players? xD So shamefull that these parties ask AP requirements

The good news is these parties usually suck. You should avoid them anyway.

I love the idea of new titles and achievements, but I think it needs to be something more specific than just “Dungeon Rank Goes Here”. I’m so kittening sick of people using the “I have the Dungeon Master title” line to try and defend or justify blatant inexperience or kittenty play. Just imagine what it would be like when all the CoF path 1 Dungeon Gods finish their title. Split it for each dungeon. Besides, “God of the Ruined City” just sounds so much cooler.

Two more for the gag pile:

Elemental Agitator- aggro every single ice elemental during the transition phases in the Snowblind Fractal during the Elemental Source event. This title is automatically equipped whenever you enter Fractals.

Elemental Eliminator- kill all the aggroed elementals while the bearbow ranger and staff guard who pulled them lay dead on the floor.

I’ve made several legendaries and this is the process I’ve found to be the most efficient.

• Decide which one you want to make and research it thoroughly.
• Make sure you understand exactly what mats are required and how they are obtained (don’t be one of those people who decides to make Juggernaut just to find out its the most expensive legendary and then QQs about silver doubloons.) This research may affect your decision.
• Make a list of what resources you already have and which ones you still need.
• Start with the Gift of Mastery. Its the easiest part and is a universal component for all legendary weapons. You will aquire mats and gold along the way, things you’ll need later on.
• Make your mystic clovers. Another universal component. You will get t6 mats and other components you may need if you don’t get clovers from the forge.
• Level the appropriate crafting professions for the specific gifts you need.
• Work on the specific gifts you need. These usually involve a lot of wood, metal, dust, leather, or cloth which can be gathered or salvaged for. If you don’t have much gold and you’re not in a rush, try not to buy these things directly (but you may have to).
• Work on lode stones (if any) and dungeon gift. There is sometimes a little crossover here as you may get lode stones and cores from the dungeon you need to run (but not always).
• T6 mats. You will need to buy a fair amount off the tp. I prefer to do this last (or second to last) since you will, by default, collect them (but sadly never enough of them) while doing other things for your legendary.
• Precursor. You’re on your own here. If its under 400g on the tp, save your gold and buy it. If its expensive, you may want to consider trying to get it from the forge but remember its a long shot. Saving and buying it is always a safe bet, but it may take a while.