Guild Wars 2

I just wonder what Ganon is up to.

So is Dub the godfather of SOLO and Sandy just a hitman?

Broadicea.8294:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Broadicea.8294:

Mr. Johanson is the game director, so not really a “dev” per se. More of a PR man in his position. What we want is actual dialogue with people doing the coding for dungeons.

There aren’t any of those people.

Apparently there’s at least one person tinkering with fractals since they get changed in almost every patch. Yes I know there’s no dungeon team, but if what Colin says is true there are going to be people doing actual dungeon work.

Plus, there were people that did the coding for the revamped rewards. Those didn’t magically poof into existence.

Goblins did it.

Broadicea.8294:

Mr. Johanson is the game director, so not really a “dev” per se. More of a PR man in his position. What we want is actual dialogue with people doing the coding for dungeons.

There aren’t any of those people.

They have hard bass power.

Hopefully Guang can show up so he can provide all of the deets.

How do you know that it won’t take a shorter amount of time to craft one-handed weapons?

There will probably be one-handed and two-handed infusions. Having a weapon with 2 infusion slots would be kittened.

We did not use Berserker’s stats.

You guys never thought that there would be a two-handed infusion slot and a one-handed infusion slot? One giving like 10AR and the other giving 5AR?

We tested it in the mists against my Guardian with Protection and Retaliation, and we were able to calculate the amount of hits by seeing how much damage it did to me and how much damage it did to Guang’s ele. So I don’t see the Howling King being more reliable than that.

Dolan.3071:

Dub.1273:

We served 47 exploiting sellers with gw2lfg bans. Only one seller stayed untouched, he was the only one who did Lupicus…

Didn’t you help discover the exploit in the first place? Most likely doing it yourself for a period of time (and profit) and now you’re suddenly “anti-exploiting” because you can now quickly and reliably solo/duo Lupicus yourself?

Dub is not a saint, he is a dark knight.

Bismuth.3165:

If anet fixes the first boss in arah p2 the no. of sellers would decrease by a lot, if they cancelled the lupi skip no. of sellers would go to 10% but the prices would become a lot higher.
dub, don’t try to act like a dev, it’s not like you haven’t used exploits before, giving people the ability to skip lupi is anet’s fault, and honestly, that skip is so kitten annoying if I could solo lupi I’d probably solo him instead of using that skip.
PS: I don’t sell spots, I just know about the skip

There are many ways to do the skip. They are pretty easy, too.

Ummmmmmmmm………………

get it

It’s 80 attacks if they all hit. Guang and I tested it in game.

If you actually had to register on LFG, that would make things a bit better. I guess that would have it’s own problems though.

LFG bans are generally IP bans. Not that hard to work around at all.

Dub.1273:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

SkyChef.5432:

I don’t see those activities much in NA servers and I have looked at LFG website like 4 or 5 times.

Same. Where are all these mythical Arah sellers?

We served 47 exploiting sellers with gw2lfg bans. Only one seller stayed untouched, he was the only one who did Lupicus…

Banned them from LFG or banned them from GW2?

I have a feeling path 2’s exploits will be fixed soon.

I feel like HotW was designed last minute and no thought was put into it at all.

Emanuel.9781:

>Living Story
>Dungeons

Temporary dungeon revamps.

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Bright.9160:

What I always wondered about Melandru… Can’t you melee him from the little well in the middle of the room where all the green things end up in? I never tried it, but by the looks of it, the middle of the well is in melee range, and it would make some sense.

The only thing you’ll have to dodge is his AoE attack, which isn’t too hard.

What’s that thing about adding Gorilla’s to the fight?

I haven’t done p4 legit in a while…

The green things go into the well. That was the first place we tried. You also won’t have enough dodges for his knockdown attack, and if you dodge, you dodge into the green things. The gorillas respawn about every 30 seconds or so, maybe a bit longer, and they come to wherever you are standing in the room. He is not affected by Defiant, sort of like Bjarl the Rampager, so you can coordinate knockdowns etc with your group, but it requires you to stand in a spot where you won’t get hit by the green things. It’s a poorly designed fight all around, and I think the first thing that could be done to improve the fight would be to make the trees that spawn the green things destructible. They could respawn, it wouldn’t matter, but that is a change that really needs to be made. It’s not an impossible fight to do in melee, but it’s probably the hardest and most unnecessarily complicated fights in all of Guild Wars 2. Not to mention that all of the mechanics aside from the recently added gorillas can be completely ignored if you range him from a corner.

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Dub.1273:

http://www.youtube.com/user/wplnts

Oh no.

But why.

There are people that like plants, and then there are people that like plants.

Dub.1273:

http://www.youtube.com/user/wplnts

Oh no.

He’s a plant, he likes his fruit. It makes him stand still and be happy.

CJ, can you guys make Trahearne the final boss of each TA path?

I think they made Melandru worse again because I don’t ever recall trees taking 30% of your health when they spawn. The Gorillas were a pretty terrible change to the fight, and I guess that was just a lazy work-around for his Defiant stacks being broken. That boss could really use a complete revamp, because it sure seems like the intended mechanic is to range him from a corner.

It’s really not a big deal. There are just people that complain that their group of 5 condition damage signet Guardians can’t beat the tree. They refuse to try any real strategy at all, so they just complain about it here instead.

lyk dis if u cry evertim

lyk dis if u cry evertim

Do you main a Necromancer? I got my hopes up when I saw the Anet logo on a thread in the dungeon forums

I think they should keep it how it is. I enjoy forum posts that cry over people skipping mobs.

Mesket.5728:

Bright.9160:

Mesket.5728:

Bright.9160:

Mesket.5728:

Jokes aside, its fine to try to beat your own record. But I don’t think the whole community plays your game. There is this stupid trend, like if “not playing” the game is the best way to play it.

The irony is almost painful.

Since English is my third language; would you be so kind to point out the irony? my grammar and/or syntax might not be that good.

(I rushed that comment as I was picking up a call at work)

pointless rambling

The irony is that you say “But I don’t think the whole community plays your game.” while we are not the people imposing our way of playing the game on others, while you are. You are telling us we shouldn’t skip mobs, because it’s the wrong way to play the game. Yet skipping is totally optional, so technically, if you want to complete a dungeon by killing everything in it, none of us are stopping you from doing so. You however want to stop us from playing dungeons the way we like to do it. Which means you’re trying to make the whole community play your game.

Hope that was more clear than my one liner, which I thought was pretty clear to begin with, seeing how the irony was so glaring.

I see know.-

Of course I’m not imposing anything to anyone. We are discussing, giving out opinions; this is a forum after all.

To see the point you would have to go up and see that “pointless rambling” even though I see no rambling at all.

If you won’t read people’s opinion then I think you are in the wrong part of the internet. Unless you have attention issues and are here just to play cool like you did before.

What are you talking about?

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

colesy.8490:

Dub.1273:

Perception > Bloodlust.

You would use 10/30/0/25/5 then, i guess?

Why perception?

And I just run 10/30/0/30/0, there doesn’t seem to be anything worth sticking 5 points in besides inspiration, might as well take a grandmaster trait.

Perception tends to be > bloodlust in ideal cases, thieves being the only exception I can think of (that I know of), since they can hit 100% crit chance without it. Math might work out differently for Mesmers in terms of Phantasms, but in terms of reflects – bloodlust isn’t helpful.

Guardian and Ranger don’t really have a use for Perception stacks. Bloodlust tends to be better for them.

When using WoR Perception is always better than Bloodlust.

I just use Signets on my Guardian.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

colesy.8490:

Dub.1273:

Perception > Bloodlust.

You would use 10/30/0/25/5 then, i guess?

Why perception?

And I just run 10/30/0/30/0, there doesn’t seem to be anything worth sticking 5 points in besides inspiration, might as well take a grandmaster trait.

Perception tends to be > bloodlust in ideal cases, thieves being the only exception I can think of (that I know of), since they can hit 100% crit chance without it. Math might work out differently for Mesmers in terms of Phantasms, but in terms of reflects – bloodlust isn’t helpful.

Guardian and Ranger don’t really have a use for Perception stacks. Bloodlust tends to be better for them.

Mesket.5728:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Mesket.5728:

Why do you play a game based on fighting mobs if you don’t enjoy fighting mobs?

I find that question a little too… black and white, I guess. It almost suggests that you think players would rather have a gauntlet to run through, with traps and puzzles, instead of fighting stuff. While I actually think that would be pretty fun (ANet pls), it’s not like people hate fighting ALL mobs (I’d assume).

For example, I love the Lupicus fight. It’s my favourite part of any Arah run, and probably the game. I don’t enjoy the Grenth fight in P4, it has no challenge to it, it’s slow, and it’s just the kind of fight that makes you stop paying attention to what you’re doing and start smashing buttons until your brain falls out of your nose. If I was given the option to skip this, I wouldn’t have to think twice.

For me, I love the idea of timing my runs, and trying to get a new ‘personal best’ every run. It’s like a self-imposed challenge. Try and get a faster (and cleaner) run than the previous. It shows that myself (and my team mates) are improving, and I like the pseudo competition that comes along with it in terms of “Hey you, what’s your fastest time in x dungeon?” It just so happens that skipping as much ‘optional’ content as you viably can is what it takes to push down completion times.

Well, that’s a personal opinion. Not everyone consider the fastest, the best (ask any girl about it ).

Jokes aside, its fine to try to beat your own record. But I don’t think the whole community plays your game. There is this stupid trend, like if “not playing” the game is the best way to play it.

This is a very metallic statement. Note that I would say “Ironic,” but Bright has already used the word “Ironic” and my use of it would be too mainstream. Iron is a metal and therefore your statement was very metallic.

Broadicea.8294:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

inb4 everyone apologizes to Guang again after Mesmers become the new meta.

don’t you mean inb4 guang gets someone else to do his heavy lifting

That’s step 2. He’s done step 1. Step 3 is the best, and that’s when everyone realizes he’s right.

But yeah, Memser is sort of like Regigigas in terms of DPS.

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

HatSimulator.9362:

12 hours is my longest attempt at Arah. Over 50 wipes
nice job

This is not something you should openly admit.

There are some videos of you that shouldn’t be accessable for everyone, too.

And you skill click in all of yours O_O

I’m rather clicking skills instead of explaining game mechanics by showing how it shouldn’t be done.

I’m Rather. Rather Dashing. Shoe me you’re a real man, Rather Dashing.

Am i supposed to understand that?
Continuously making jokes of me for clicking skills in the past isn’t very nice.
It’s not like I always mention you’re bad at this game.

YOLO I guess.

inb4 everyone apologizes to Guang again after Mesmers become the new meta.

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

HatSimulator.9362:

12 hours is my longest attempt at Arah. Over 50 wipes
nice job

This is not something you should openly admit.

There are some videos of you that shouldn’t be accessable for everyone, too.

And you skill click in all of yours O_O

HatSimulator.9362:

12 hours is my longest attempt at Arah. Over 50 wipes
nice job

This is not something you should openly admit.

So if I pug this path for DM I’ll really be okay?

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I wonder if Lupicus clicks his skills.

Probably he does, i don’t.

…Wait……. So you are…. Playing as Lupicus in all of your solos?

fungihoujo.8476:

Let’s see.

-Poorly telegraphed one shot attacks- check
-Adds that don’t despawn if you wipe forcing you to redo the dungeon- check
-A sea of adds up at all times which endlessly spawn no matter what you do- check
-Enough direct and condition damage to kill your party thrice over flying around constantly- check
-Highly unintuitive fight- check
-Massive ramp up in the difficulty of the fight that makes every single guide and video up completely useless since they don’t show how the fight actually looks- check
-A mechanic, reflection, which should logically deflect the spider’s ranged attacks being completely ineffective- check

And all of this makes for a fight that simply is poorly designed. Particularly the last note- why is there fourty spiders using ranged attacks on me, if my ability meant only to reflect ranged attacks does not do so?

Overall- extremely unintuitive fight, buggy, and broken if you wipe on it. Game’s been out for a year, how long are you fanbois going to defend broken content? Guess they’re too busy with living story to devote a team to bug fixes.

-kitten -check

get it

I wonder if Lupicus clicks his skills.

Cool, thanks!

get it

Mesket.5728:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Mesket.5728:

They don’t need to be more difficult, just not skipable. Skipping mobs kills the inmersion what kills the fun for me at least.

No. Anet is fine with people skipping mobs and it’s faster and more profitable not to fight them.

Because that’s EXACTLY what they want. To be more profitable and fast. That is ANet’s goal. All the other mobs wondering around in the dungeon was an accident with the mob spawning machine, it went crazy and they couldnt stop it so the extra mobs has to be skipped! Last thing I heard is that they are still developing a way to just single hand things to players without even logging in.

My god the kind of things you read online.

Are you for real, yo?

I solo Lupicus IRL

Mesket.5728:

They don’t need to be more difficult, just not skipable. Skipping mobs kills the inmersion what kills the fun for me at least.

No. Anet is fine with people skipping mobs and it’s faster and more profitable not to fight them.

I’m bad at them so I think they should be easier.