Guild Wars 2

Dub.1273:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Even without the 10% damage bonus Scholar Runes should still be better.

No.

It has higher Power and the Precision isn’t really worth it since you can get to 100% without it.

Even without the 10% damage bonus Scholar Runes should still be better.

Scholar Runes give 165 Power and Ruby Orbs give 120 Power. I don’t think it’s worth using Ruby Orbs in any situation.

Boldy Hyther Belootle

I need to get Eugene on the phone.

Another thread about Necros

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

OP: I bought chocolate ice cream, and for some reason it didn’t taste like chocolate. Why is that?
Brasil: Don’t buy chocolate ice cream. Problem solved. RESPECT ME!!!

No, the answer would be to buy a different brand of chocolate ice cream. If you want to apply your nonsense to this situation, the answer would be to do damage in a different way. Condition damage is capped on how much it can do, and the entire group of people you are playing with all share this cap. 5 Rangers get to share 25 bleed stacks and fight over Burning and Poison. It’s a stupid design and it doesn’t work in PvE. If every single mob or boss was a Dredge from Fractal 80, then condition damage would serve more of a purpose. Everything is susceptible to direct damage.

Molch.2078:

I think I’m done here. Have fun!

Btw, now that you renamed your thread and the opening post, I’m fine. Thank you.

You even named it BHB.png <3

Fade.6725:

dw guys it’s all resolved after talking with molch he’s shown the only reason he’s here to it criticise and troll and he can’t even do the dungeon himself in other words he’s all talk.

Let’s kill Tequatl with 200 condition Necros.

Fade.6725:

and seen as you so obliviously care about the name i changed it to First Look gameplay just for you, btw if ur so good at it how come ur on this how toand not doing it right now?? hmm explain that WHY would u need to be here unless you completly suck and can’t do it urself

BHB alert

Fade.6725:

Okay Molch you kitten i tried being nice but ur just a fk kitten Go make a video right now with randoms and do it perfectly 100% perfectly and if u make 1 mistake it means all u are is a piece of crap who is obvs an elitist with no friends ur right i’m bad i don’t sit on a computer 24/7 playing games like you i was nw to this dungeon but we got threw it we killed everything we got our achives and we completed the dungeon If a bunch of pugs don’t know hwo to run it even if this takes a while it still works it runs them through it with success! so if ur just gonna be an kitten go make a video right now on the dungeon and upload it to youtube and if you don’t it means ur all talk and just a piece of kitten

BHB alert

Condition Necro is #1 vs Mossman and Dredge Fractal

yeah

FrankGrimey.7032:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

FrankGrimey.7032:

laokoko.7403:

FrankGrimey.7032:

laokoko.7403:

FrankGrimey.7032:

colesy.8490:

FrankGrimey

Also, in respons. to the support comment, that’s BS. 1) support helps keep group alive and hitting . rder/faster.

Me

I’m sick of people playing badly, and I’m sick of them not wanting to improve

This is exactly why I hate teaching PUGs. You support just as well in zerker, and AH builds are trash.

CoE Path 2 and 3. Aplha. It varies but sometimes, its too much too often with the AE he does Support helps there. Just one example.

Unless I’m a noob, AH don’t actually heal you ally. Nothing in that tree even support your ally. All it does is make you survive better, but nothing about your ally.

I have symbols, dodge roll (which on avg heals about 10% per roll, AND I can roll 3-4 in a row before no endurance. I have the F2 forgot the name. And that combined with the elite that resets F1-F3, I heal a lot. That in addition to the fact that I prioritize empowering over my own damage which is low. I also can take a hit. Often times, I can stand and take damage then others can’t. But this is all besides my point which people don’t seem to care about being selfish so I give up. Be selfish. I’ll learn via YouTube and join the no noob groups.

I didn’t say guardian is bad at support. I just say that tree actually didn’t support your group at all.

And I like your attitude. Other people are selfish to care about their time when you can’t stand to take your time to do the dungeon yourself.

My sarcasm detector is broken. But I wasn’t even talking about any tree for my spec. I’m an altruistic on my guardian by definition of the word altruistic. My heals focus on group healing. Contrary to what someone else said, it is useful. And again, I reiterate (in response to whoever said support guard or altruistic guard is pointless in Arah) that if people were willing to be a little more helpful, I would have known.

But I give up. I’ll follow someone else’s advice and just join a group after I watch the vids. Then I’ll start open groups when I know what I’m doing in there.

Stop making a case for your AH build helping things. It doesn’t. It draws fights out and gives you a false sense of being helpful. It’s also very lazy because people use it so they don’t have to dodge.

I invite you to run CoE with me. I’ve run it too with all zerk warriors and we’ve ripped through all paths, but with other groups of same composition, it has failed because people ran out of energy, couldn’t dodge and died. It varies. Alpha sometimes spams AE, sometimes he doesnt. I’m all for throwing max damage at everything but in my experience, not all encounters work that way making support necessary. And I’d argue for the last time my preference is zerk. Four of my six 80’s are full zerk. If damage is better for Arah, then that is what I’ll run.

I invite you to duo Lupicus with me and we will see who runs out of dodges.

FrankGrimey.7032:

laokoko.7403:

FrankGrimey.7032:

laokoko.7403:

FrankGrimey.7032:

colesy.8490:

FrankGrimey

Also, in respons. to the support comment, that’s BS. 1) support helps keep group alive and hitting . rder/faster.

Me

I’m sick of people playing badly, and I’m sick of them not wanting to improve

This is exactly why I hate teaching PUGs. You support just as well in zerker, and AH builds are trash.

CoE Path 2 and 3. Aplha. It varies but sometimes, its too much too often with the AE he does Support helps there. Just one example.

Unless I’m a noob, AH don’t actually heal you ally. Nothing in that tree even support your ally. All it does is make you survive better, but nothing about your ally.

I have symbols, dodge roll (which on avg heals about 10% per roll, AND I can roll 3-4 in a row before no endurance. I have the F2 forgot the name. And that combined with the elite that resets F1-F3, I heal a lot. That in addition to the fact that I prioritize empowering over my own damage which is low. I also can take a hit. Often times, I can stand and take damage then others can’t. But this is all besides my point which people don’t seem to care about being selfish so I give up. Be selfish. I’ll learn via YouTube and join the no noob groups.

I didn’t say guardian is bad at support. I just say that tree actually didn’t support your group at all.

And I like your attitude. Other people are selfish to care about their time when you can’t stand to take your time to do the dungeon yourself.

My sarcasm detector is broken. But I wasn’t even talking about any tree for my spec. I’m an altruistic on my guardian by definition of the word altruistic. My heals focus on group healing. Contrary to what someone else said, it is useful. And again, I reiterate (in response to whoever said support guard or altruistic guard is pointless in Arah) that if people were willing to be a little more helpful, I would have known.

But I give up. I’ll follow someone else’s advice and just join a group after I watch the vids. Then I’ll start open groups when I know what I’m doing in there.

Stop making a case for your AH build helping things. It doesn’t. It draws fights out and gives you a false sense of being helpful. It’s also very lazy because people use it so they don’t have to dodge.

Dub.1273:

Then i’d have 20000% more ascended weapons than i currently do.

I get it! Math jokes!

Bismuth.3165:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

………

This post reminded me of this

It’s more like this:

Please don’t post trash like this under the title of “how to do ____”

Talking about how you support with a Guardian isn’t making you sound like someone we would sympathize with. It makes you sound like an ignorant BHB.

FrankGrimey.7032:

Most, based on their experience seem to have the opinion that running with noobs and trying to explain to them is some god-awful experience. I guess I hold the opinion I do because it’s mostly been the complete opposite with me. After the first encounter or two in a dungeon, I can usually tell who is new. I’ll then ask in the party if anyone is. When they raise their hand, I proceed to explain and in most situations like this, the group goes fine. It’s not fast like when I run in all zerk groups, but it’s still done in a reasonable amount of time. They may be accepting of me guiding them cause I don’t have a condescending tone and don’t belittle anyone, but I guess that’s just me.

Forgive me (all of you who oppose my opinion) for asking people to try and do the same. I’m (and many others new to some content) not looking for a handout. I’m looking for help. I pull my weight. It’s easier done with some experienced mixed in who are willing to teach then trying to learn from scratch with an all inexperienced group and again, it works out better for everyone because it increases the base of players who know what to do.

It seems people find it absurd when helpfulness is asked of them.

I pugged Arah path 4 twice a day for 2 months so I could help people with their DM title and also try and farm the Bloodstone Fragment recipe. You haven’t done enough teaching to know how I feel about pugs.

FrankGrimey.7032:

colesy.8490:

Here’s a good incentive: how about bads stop demonising us and calling us elitists?

If the gw2 community wasn’t so entitled and full of zerker-hating scrubs I’d be more willing to spend my time teaching people, but they’d rather defend their use of bad gear and their poor attempts of imposing a trinity by “being tanky” or “giving lots of heals”.

First, I love zerkers. Four of my (all exotic geared or better) 80 toons are zerker including War, Thief, Ranger and Mes. I also have 80 support Guard (in SS on original post) and 80 support Ele. I don’t feel entitled at all, but I am sick of the kittens like yourself who are concerned only of yourself. There are people like you appear to be who the moment something doesn’t go perfectly, leave the group and refuse to slow down a bit to teach and accept the fact that not everyone yet has the same experience as you do.

It’s kittens like you that fail to realize that if more of you who knew exactly what you were doing and were willing to help others that you would over time help potentially increase the base of experienced players making the grouping experience even better. I think the satisfaction of running a group of new guys through something is great. I go the extra mile to stop the group and explain WHY we’re doing a certain something instead of just telling them what to do.

I play most of my classes well. With my altruistic guard, I run support and keep everyone buffed and healed as often as I can. But it doesn’t help when no one knows what is going on. All I’m asking is that people be a little less selfish and come to the realization that the stronger the base is, the better it is for you, too. And if Anet can assist in this by adding an incentive for you to not be a kitten, it would be great.

Using a support build is a detriment to the team you are playing with. It makes you feel useful when you actually aren’t.

Anyways, I’ll speak about what you were focusing on. I used to do pugs so I could teach people what to do. I still make build videos, and before I had my own channel I helped Strife with a lot of his stuff. I answer questions when someone whispers me in game, I respond to pretty much every Youtube comment or private message that I get, but I don’t do pugs much anymore and I don’t bother trying to teach people how to play by playing with them and taking them through a dungeon. Whenever you devote a lot of your time to trying to make other people better players by coaching them along or holding their hand, you realize that it takes a lot of time. You also come to an even greater realization: there are an infinite amount of people like this, and you can’t help them all. You also come in contact with idiots that think they are carrying their group by using an AH Guardian with 4000% boon duration and Hammer just because they are so afraid of dying and looking bad since they’ve convinced themselves that they are good. Trying to teach people how to do every path of Arah every single day you play Guild Wars 2 is tiring and draining, and you realize that it’s pretty much a waste of time. People could watch your videos instead, people could learn by themselves just like I did, people could make an effort to find a guild that has players willing to take them along, whatever the case is. And now, since I don’t want to waste time coaching people through Arah, I’m being called an elitist with no distinction being made about my actual level of skill and people ridicule my good builds because they think heal support Cleric’s gear is better. We wanted to help at one point, but a community of infinite juvenile tools drove us to where we are today: taking shots back at those people on forums because there is nothing left for us to do. We mastered the game and we can do nothing more with our knowledge because most people aren’t willing to listen to it. They want to call us elitists instead.

And the TL;DR version since people are casuals at reading

That was an actual answer, and it should be appreciated.

Stop using condition builds. That will solve all of your problems.

You’ve not created a distinction between an elitist and someone who is actually a skilled player that doesn’t mind helping. Elitists want to sit around together and brag about how good they are, and that mentality isn’t just limited to Guardians and Warriors that want to speedclear something. There are elitists that are Staff condition damage tank Necros that will preach how Berserkers gear is destroying the game and how Anet needs to fix it etc, and there are elitists that think they are the best Warrior on the planet because they could do CoF1 in 8 minutes while bragging about how their “Hundred Blades hits for 30k damage on the last hit alone.” Those are not good players that are willing to help, and you don’t want to give them incentive to join your run and troll you for an hour.

DigitalKirin.9714:

LOSing is an exploit because the game is meant to be played a certain way and LOSing violates that preconceived notion.

You thought you could just sneak that in there, didn’t you?

Wow

Player Character.9467:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Player Character.9467:

Oy, there’s nothing wrong with 18k killshotting a stealth spamming thief in wvw.

That’s exploiting

It’s called out trolling, the number of times I’ve had some troll build thief use me to shadow step away from everybody else they’re trolling AS killshot goes off in their face…

Altho I’m never in a rifle build when I do it… I just swap one in because I know volley and kill shot don’t give a kitten about stealth and if I swap in zerker gear at the same time I can rifle butt glass for like 7k.

It’s exploiting stealth.

I’ve been knocked down from the rifle while I had stability. I’ve seen it happen to others, too.

It was confirmation bias, actually.

frifox.5283:

Now that the rifles aren’t usable in dungeons, here’s a tip. Grant yourself stability before jumping with the experimental rifle and it will never backfire on you.

That was confirmation bias. It didn’t actually prevent you from being knocked down.

Player Character.9467:

Oy, there’s nothing wrong with 18k killshotting a stealth spamming thief in wvw.

That’s exploiting

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Repost this if you are a strong mace/axe warrior who dont need no stacking
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Broadicea.8294:

-decent
-fairly effective
-pretty good damage

sounds like a eugene build

IDEAS

That’s actually pretty slow.

Path 1 is the easiest, but path 2 and 3 are pretty hard. Path 4 isn’t that bad. TBH story mode is the worst. You’ll also want some Cleric’s gear for your Ele since bosses and mobs hit pretty hard and you’ll need to heal your team. I’d also suggest a Staff.

No one is forcing you to continue the Living Story.

*almost worth a precursor

CryxTryx.9208:

champ.7021:

The best title in this game: emperor
if only i had 700g lying around…

I’ve looked at that achievement quickly. It doesn’t specify Teir 3 does it? Wouldn’t require that much gold if you just user lower tier pieces to advance the acheivement.

You need 1 set of kitten, and T3 for each race. I would have had it long ago, but I have only Norns and Humans.

They are only useful for skipping Lupicus. They don’t really prevent any of the AFK spots for any of the bosses.

You can pretty much do path 2 on any class that has a jump and you don’t need a rifle. You can even use LH on an Ele.

They should just take away Hammer and mainhand Sword from Warrior in dungeons. That would fix the jumping through Arah and the baddies in PvE at the same time.

Melody Cross.8465:

Well that just makes everything all better now don’kitten Shucks I’m sorry fellas. I didn’t realize ya’ll was on the short bus.

WvW is the short bus of PvP.

Kitties?

Nike is Captain Casual

I don’t even like the new path. TAFU was honestly better.

I’ve made 3 kitten weapons so far and every single one of them has almost killed me.

Mortifer.6490:

Aznhaxx.2054:

With the Devs removing TAFU and nerfing certain paths like Path 4 Arah…

Haven’t been keeping up with events. How did they nerf Arah Path 4?

Simin stands around and doesn’t really do anything.

There are no mods here.

Emissary of the Mad King