Guild Wars 2

The bosses are especially easy when you learn to AFK them.

They made this change months ago. This is why you don’t see many people outside of AC anymore.

Wicked Rin.1972:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Wicked Rin.1972:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Wicked Rin.1972:

I never said anything the damage professions do. Main thing about pug groups are about staying alive in my opinion. Some have better utility skills than others. Why use professions with less resources compared to others like warriors, guardians, and mesmer?

Most people don’t like necromancers, engineers, or rangers because they don’t have much to offer. It’s not always about the damage they do.

You really need to broaden your understanding of the classes, then.

You don’t even make sense. Keep believing every class is equal.

I’m not saying that every class is equal. Warriors don’t have Spotter and Frost Spirit. I make perfect sense, you just aren’t able to understand it, and that is probably due to a willful ignorance.

Why are you always trying to change the topic from utility skills so you can look right? Can’t you accept some professions have better pve utilities than others? You also have issues with warriors because I mention warriors/guardians/mesmers but you only mention warriors. I think you should roll a warrior, since you think about them so much.

I actually do have a Warrior. You can watch me play it here

You can also watch our 5 Rangers VS Lupicus here

All classes do similar damage and all classes bring utilities that are useful. People like to hate on Necros because they see a bad one in a pug and because they don’t have reflects, but there are plenty of situations where they are useful.

Wicked Rin.1972:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Wicked Rin.1972:

I never said anything the damage professions do. Main thing about pug groups are about staying alive in my opinion. Some have better utility skills than others. Why use professions with less resources compared to others like warriors, guardians, and mesmer?

Most people don’t like necromancers, engineers, or rangers because they don’t have much to offer. It’s not always about the damage they do.

You really need to broaden your understanding of the classes, then.

You don’t even make sense. Keep believing every class is equal.

I’m not saying that every class is equal. Warriors don’t have Spotter and Frost Spirit. I make perfect sense, you just aren’t able to understand it, and that is probably due to a willful ignorance.

Wicked Rin.1972:

I never said anything the damage professions do. Main thing about pug groups are about staying alive in my opinion. Some have better utility skills than others. Why use professions with less resources compared to others like warriors, guardians, and mesmer?

Most people don’t like necromancers, engineers, or rangers because they don’t have much to offer. It’s not always about the damage they do.

You really need to broaden your understanding of the classes, then.

No one will replace Hrouda.

Bearbow Ranger

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Thief – Thief does the highest single-target damage in the game,

Err, no. :/

I forgot. It is Mossman.

Wicked Rin.1972:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Wicked Rin.1972:

Okay, some things new people need to know about Arah.
-Don’t bring your worthless necromancer that has useless utilites, they suck. Just accept that for pve. Necromancers suck for Arah.
-Use a warrior if you have one, so many evade skills and weapon skills.
-Use a guardian, a whole bunch of aegis and block skills.
-Use a mesmer, feedback, that’s all it is.
-A thief… maybe if you know when to use smokescreen to avoid aoe, plus they have good endurance. Could be a party saver with refuge.
-An ele – lots of good “don’t kill me skills”, just squishy if you mess up.
-An engineer – only has one reflect skill in the toolbet, but that’s better than nothing.
-A ranger – has a few good self-saving skills that cause their pet to die, but at least they’ll be alive.

Last of all, GO WATCH THE GIGANTUS LUPICUS FIGHT BEFORE JOINING A GROUP.

You might actually want to post valuable information instead of misinformed rants. It would be a lot more helpful.

Telling me it’s misinformed doesn’t mean anything if you don’t provide information to fix it. At least explain why you think so. Plus, this is more for people new to Arah. New players to the paths don’t melee Lupi.

All classes do approximately the same damage when they are given high-damaging melee weapons, Berserker’s armor / Scholar Runes, and traits that augment damage. Necromancer with Dagger and Berserker’s armor etc does high damage.

To comment on the rest of your misinformation:

Warrior – Here you go promoting Warrior as a god like most people that don’t understand the game do. Stop this, please.

Guardian – Same as Warriors. Perhaps you’ve never seen a bad Warrior or Guardian and you think that just because someone plays the class or that you see a good Guardian that the class is OP? Think of all of the PVT Staff Guardians or PVT Rifle Warriors.

Mesmer – I can’t tell you how many PVT Mesmers I’ve seen. I have a video I would love to link you to of an Arah path 4 pug I did, but I talk badly about several people in it and if they saw it, their feelings would get hurt and they would cry about it to me.

Thief – Thief does the highest single-target damage in the game, but at the cost of dying to pretty much any single hit. I’m surprised you’ve never seen this happen. Sure they have stealth, but how many idiots just run out of SR right away?

Elementalist – LH Ele played by someone that is bad will be a detriment. Anything besides Bersker’s gear on an Ele makes them useless in PVE.

Engineer – I guess the Vuln stacking and Stealth / Blast Finishers / high damage don’t matter.

Ranger – You don’t understand anything at all about Rangers. I don’t even feel like enlightening you.

ArthurDent.9538:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

ArthurDent.9538:

GodAmongUs.9713:

The reason is that Arah for ele is a complete nightmare. I’m running zerk gear with a small additions of vitality and toughness here and there and when we skip in a dungeon my ele will surely die.

I suppose you might not like to know that I managed to solo all of path 2 today on an ele. We have lots of tools to do the skips and quite frankly it is much easier for us to do them then a necro.

I know how you did it. And there’s really nothing to brag about with soloing path 2 because you can literally AFK all of the bosses and take no damage.

Don’t assume anything, I didn’t skip any of the bosses or use any safe spots to afk them. I still won’t say that this was an incredibly impressive achievement but the point still stands that eles can easily hold their own in Arah.

Do you mind if I see your solo video?

Wicked Rin.1972:

Okay, some things new people need to know about Arah.
-Don’t bring your worthless necromancer that has useless utilites, they suck. Just accept that for pve. Necromancers suck for Arah.
-Use a warrior if you have one, so many evade skills and weapon skills.
-Use a guardian, a whole bunch of aegis and block skills.
-Use a mesmer, feedback, that’s all it is.
-A thief… maybe if you know when to use smokescreen to avoid aoe, plus they have good endurance. Could be a party saver with refuge.
-An ele – lots of good “don’t kill me skills”, just squishy if you mess up.
-An engineer – only has one reflect skill in the toolbet, but that’s better than nothing.
-A ranger – has a few good self-saving skills that cause their pet to die, but at least they’ll be alive.

Last of all, GO WATCH THE GIGANTUS LUPICUS FIGHT BEFORE JOINING A GROUP.

You might actually want to post valuable information instead of misinformed rants. It would be a lot more helpful.

ArthurDent.9538:

GodAmongUs.9713:

The reason is that Arah for ele is a complete nightmare. I’m running zerk gear with a small additions of vitality and toughness here and there and when we skip in a dungeon my ele will surely die.

I suppose you might not like to know that I managed to solo all of path 2 today on an ele. We have lots of tools to do the skips and quite frankly it is much easier for us to do them then a necro.

I know how you did it. And there’s really nothing to brag about with soloing path 2 because you can literally AFK all of the bosses and take no damage.

Black Box.9312:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Black Box.9312:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Black Box.9312:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I don’t really have a problem for there being a supreme end-all of how to do the best damage in the for of Berserker’s gear and melee weapons. You can still play how you want and go along and do whatever. I wouldn’t really mind if there were condition builds that could replace Berserker’s builds and do the same damage, etc, but I am not okay with PVT “tanks” rolling around on the floor doing the same damage as a proper build.

How exactly is PVT not ‘proper’? The word ‘proper’ and the word ‘optimal’ have two entirely different meanings.

Because it causes people to play badly and hinders improvement.

Except there’s nothing ‘improper’ about it, especially when considering the fact that many PVT builds are very effective in PvP scenarios and also that soldier’s gear is the optimal setup for objects and world bosses that do not take crit damage.

How you word your sentences can make a very big impact on how people perceive the message you are trying to convey.

Then I’ll make it more clear. PVT is improper, bad, and causes people to play badly.

It seems to have flown right over your head. Oh well, I tried.

No, nothing flew over my head.

Black Box.9312:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Black Box.9312:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I don’t really have a problem for there being a supreme end-all of how to do the best damage in the for of Berserker’s gear and melee weapons. You can still play how you want and go along and do whatever. I wouldn’t really mind if there were condition builds that could replace Berserker’s builds and do the same damage, etc, but I am not okay with PVT “tanks” rolling around on the floor doing the same damage as a proper build.

How exactly is PVT not ‘proper’? The word ‘proper’ and the word ‘optimal’ have two entirely different meanings.

Because it causes people to play badly and hinders improvement.

Except there’s nothing ‘improper’ about it, especially when considering the fact that many PVT builds are very effective in PvP scenarios and also that soldier’s gear is the optimal setup for objects and world bosses that do not take crit damage.

How you word your sentences can make a very big impact on how people perceive the message you are trying to convey.

Then I’ll make it more clear. PVT is improper, bad, and causes people to play badly.

Black Box.9312:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I don’t really have a problem for there being a supreme end-all of how to do the best damage in the for of Berserker’s gear and melee weapons. You can still play how you want and go along and do whatever. I wouldn’t really mind if there were condition builds that could replace Berserker’s builds and do the same damage, etc, but I am not okay with PVT “tanks” rolling around on the floor doing the same damage as a proper build.

How exactly is PVT not ‘proper’? The word ‘proper’ and the word ‘optimal’ have two entirely different meanings.

Because it causes people to play badly and hinders improvement.

I don’t really have a problem for there being a supreme end-all of how to do the best damage in the for of Berserker’s gear and melee weapons. You can still play how you want and go along and do whatever. I wouldn’t really mind if there were condition builds that could replace Berserker’s builds and do the same damage, etc, but I am not okay with PVT “tanks” rolling around on the floor doing the same damage as a proper build.

I understood your point, I don’t think you understood mine. Anet is responsible for breaking and continuing to break their own game.

Mesket.5728:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Every class in Guild Wars 2 plays like a Warrior when it is played optimally. You attack with a melee weapon. That is how you do the most damage.

You understand this is not an universal truth and it is because someone didn’t do their homework properly at ANet, right?

I mean,.. when we post here we are not taking current variables as dogmas… like a ranger should be good enough with a bow and shouldn’t be forced to be a thief instead.

Just hope you understand ANet is no god and everything in the game is subject to change if they see the reasons clearly.

Playing all classes exactly the same isn’t really the definition of a game well designed and IMO shouldn’t be praised or spread as total truth among other players, instead; we should ask Anet to balance according to common sense and enforcing class variety. That would only make the game richer.

Playing all classes with DPS traits, Berserker’s stats, and specific melee weapons with specific skill rotations is how you achieve the highest damage barring things like abusing Reflection. It is a mathematical truth and it is demonstrable. This is Anet’s doing.

Every class in Guild Wars 2 plays like a Warrior when it is played optimally. You attack with a melee weapon. That is how you do the most damage.

Crigger is the 5th.

Ranger is a very strong class, it’s just a matter of finding someone to play it in a way that will actually benefit your party. There are only 5 good Rangers in all of Guild Wars 2 as far as I know, and 4 of them are me.

Anicetus.1253:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Waxpax is one of the best players in DNT. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of him.

What is DNT?
I remember it mentioned in some Ebi thread. Down Syndrom and Tourettes?

Dogs N caTs, I think. It used to say in my signature, but now that is gone and I don’t know what it means.

Waxpax is one of the best players in DNT. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of him.

They should make you able to reflect the damage, but it applies the reflected damage to the boss in the form of 25 Bleed stacks that scale based on your Toughness and Condition Damage.

Lucius.2140:

Personally i think that party kicking must be a votation with a “No” vote included, giving one minute to conclude the voting.

The title is granted to us by fallacious logic.

Our opinions aren’t the Gem Store, so they don’t matter.

It would become the Mistclock Observatory amirite?

All of that aside, I could actually see some terrible integration of Scarlet and a Fractal invasion.

I doubt Anet will make Fractal weapons buyable because it would be admission of making a mistake. They wouldn’t do it unless they had a clever cover up story.

I got banned twice in a row

He’s a Melandru priest.

haviz.1340:

swiftpaw.6397:

You’re offending me! You’re offending me! wee woo wee woo!

How?!

Dub.1273:

From entering the room?

From selecting the path.

We get Grenth in about 3 minutes with my super Wraith strategy.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ojtki/dnt_4_second_lupicus_kill/

Lot of BHB

This is the fastest recorded run that I’m aware of: http://youtu.be/edcRz-WaszM

But considering we’ve been able to duo / trio it in about 30 minutes, 5 people would be a lot faster.

If you want to use a Hammer, play a Guardian. Here is a build that will help you:

http://youtu.be/pZTPyt1BknU

gotem.5284:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

gotem.5284:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

gotem.5284:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

gotem.5284:

The class is so kitten boring to play and you can master this class in less than a day.

That really shows your understanding of the class. People that run around with bows and bears think they’ve mastered the class, but give them a Sword and it’s really game over. They don’t know what to do and laugh at how stupid they think it is because they can’t actually handle it.

No, it shows that I came from a game that had DPS rotations while GW2 has none. I tried sword… stop hyping it up like it takes insane amounts of skill because it doesn’t.

I also use jaguar/panther as shown in that Brazil video so nice job being a kittenbag and assuming what I used.

Sword is only harder than bow because of spell queueing that makes character control harder. Which is pretty easy to control but also contains RNG which is why Brazil doesn’t play it (the “stress” he claims of playing it probably comes from RNG of being stuck in a sword attack chain and having to move). So basically sword is “hard” because it’s annoying to play. There is still no DPS rotation. You spam the 1 key and try to control your leap incase you have to move.

I guess pressing 1 key is challenging for you but for me I would like something harder. (See I can be an ahole too)

The person you’re quoting, is Brazil.

So he can either validate my point or deny it. The only challenge of sword is the games auto queue feature + sword chain. You are still hitting one button. You are just dealing with RNG of queuing up the leap and having to move.

He got banned on the forums again. He never claimed it was difficult relative to a different game which may or may not have intricate rotations; he’s stating that due to the auto attack it is a difficult weapon set to master, and has a higher skill floor than any other build/class in THIS game. There is no RNG to using the weapon, it is simply difficult to work with. There are ways to evade even while in the auto attack, and the only reason you’ll get hit is because of your own inability or fail. Saying that you need RNG is just proving your lack of knowledge on the matter.

We can keep going back and forth between skill and RNG. I’m not though because it will get us no where. I’m sure most people will side with Brazil based on reputation but I would just like to add that he switched out of Ranger due to the “skill” required to play sword. I analyze that as he got sick of the RNG of getting stuck into an auto attack chain and dying.

Edit: If this game could disable auto queue then I would agree with him.

Now that I’m unbanned again…

There is no RNG. You have to learn to work with it, and most people can’t / don’t care to learn how. I also just find Warrior (mainly now since I got bored of everything else) the most fun to play, so that’s what I’ve been playing lately. Other classes just don’t interest me anymore and don’t have the soloing ability that Warrior does.

Elementalist is actually the best class that can use Hammer.

gotem.5284:

The class is so kitten boring to play and you can master this class in less than a day.

That really shows your understanding of the class. People that run around with bows and bears think they’ve mastered the class, but give them a Sword and it’s really game over. They don’t know what to do and laugh at how stupid they think it is because they can’t actually handle it.

Harrahou.4518:

Anicetus.1253:

Hey hey, be careful. Such a post might get you a forum ban!

lol, The amount of infractions I get/day is nothing, your ban, is nothing on my history.

That’s what I thought. And you are just a young child.

SkyChef.5432:

Wait. Where are people like AntiGW, Sublimatio, Floryn etc?

They are managing branches.

I’ll help you with it. I’m on NA

They just decided to implement their new Super Timegate. It’s working as intended now.

So we farm world events for Dragonite and stop doing dungeons.

Lucius.2140:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I think Dungeons were a social experiment by Anet. This is why they don’t post in the forums, don’t fix bugs, and leave us to trolling eachother. They sit above us, looking down and taking notes.

They pay litle attention to not constructive feedback, that includes troll posts, using inapropiate terms, hostility, etc.

They actually don’t pay attention to anything. They make empty promises and do what they want. You must not be familiar with their history.

The flamethrower’s are disabled in dungeons and have been for some time.

That’s basically what happens.

I love this thread

Keep on flagging