Guild Wars 2

Hit me up In-game when you can. More AH Hammers for runs would be nice.

Take Receive the light. It’s a good party-support(ish) heal that heals 4500+ to 3 other people. That heal can save your team often enough. It’s not a selfish heal like Shelter, it’ll actually help your team out ALOT.

Talyn.3295:

I think the point is gonna be kinda moot when Chronomancer gets dropped in HoT. Seems anet wants us to have more access to quickness.

Because we’re also probbly going to be getting alot of slow casted at us.. People fail to realize that right now, you don’t fight mobs that put slow on the party.. but once they do… “PLZ Nerf this mob, slow too OP, Need more quickness” and the crying will start .

No clue why people still care about 5 Guard teams. when there are plenty of other team comp’s that are fare more efficient, Severely Out-DPS & Out-Burst them and more content-flexible. Also, why do you think Fury is OP from an ELITE skill? Most team’s have 1-2 ele’s who can easily blast 1m+ fury in seconds before any fight, or the warrior’s FGJ + Spammable Banner #2 by everyone Pre-fight. FMW, It’s a good elite with no real point in nerfing. There’s better stuff out there.

It’s an oldschool fractal weapon.. its basically useless (Just unlocks the skin for wardrobe)

If anyone else noticed, Hammer guard’s aren’t doing that much damage ATM. probbly ninja-nerfed the symbols already.

Jerus.4350:

ThyShadowPaladin.9521:

I agree with you about the stacking bug though, It’s Overpowered. But seeing as it’s an elite, it should still keep it’s fury. Not like Fury’s a problem w/ most group’s anyway.

Maybe I’m just misreading but it sounds like you’re talking about the “Feel My Wrath” as being the stacking bug that’s overpowered. The symbol buff stacking is the real issue. Feel My Wrath just may be a bit too good, but really not worth talking about until this Symbolic Avenger stuff gets settled.

My bad, I meant i Agree with the symbol stacking bug being nerfed, but “Feel My Wrath”, seeing as it’s an elite, should keep it’s fury——

Thaddeus.4891:

ThyShadowPaladin.9521:

Besides, why should it matter to you when other people post 5 Guard teams? I agree, seeing Guard-only posted by newbs who just recently decided to put hammer’s on their guardians is.. /meh.. but hey, it doesn’t affect you, nor me.

It doesn’t affect us if some people like to run suboptimal 5 guards group just because they like it or find it super easy.

But it’s a problem when 4 Guards/1 Warrior have :
- Perma Quickness
- Perma Fury
- 25 Might
- Decent Vulnerability
- High Damage because of the stacking modifier
- High defensive ability

A 4 Guards/1 Warrior just sacrifice too little to gain too much. I think that just removing the fury from the shout and fixing the stacking bug should be good enough.

1 Guard Tank, 1 thief 2 ele, 1 PS war:

Quickness for Spike
Perma Fury
25 Might
Stealth skips
Blinds
Decent vuln, even capped
Massive AOE DPS
Chills
Icebow spikes + Meteor spikes + lava font + FGS + Vuln
High Survival Ability Due to 1 Guard tanking + holding boss, the other 4 can DPS to their hearts content.
High Damage due to class modifiers (Thief atleast 50%+)
etc,etc,etc

^ This team comp also has little Sacrifice w/ alot of gains. So whats the difference?
Anyone can run w/e setup they want and so can you and I.

Isn’t this a “Play as you want” game? If someone want’s to do a 5 Guard team, then they have all the right to. If they want to run 4 Guard 1 War, they have all the right to. If they wan’t to run 5 Ele’s then.. well kitten go in with 5 ele’s.

It’s up to other* people to join them or not in their team’s.————-

I agree with you about the stacking bug though, It’s Overpowered. But seeing as it’s an elite, it should still keep it’s fury. Not like Fury’s a problem w/ most group’s anyway.

Still Recruiting people who want to cut the BS and get in, kill stuff quickly, get out.

https://youtu.be/7gujAajHqNc
^ That, Just change armor to zerker and Scholar/Flame Legion runes and you’re set for high-dps + Survivability.

Here’s an example of it (Full zerk variant, Flame legion runes & Zerker trinks) on a Guild run in FoTM 49:
https://youtu.be/MAZmb5C3bvc

Agreed w/ Thorwyn, I’ve been playing hammer guard for a long time, Hammer Guards are awesome.
Besides, why should it matter to you when other people post 5 Guard teams? I agree, seeing Guard-only posted by newbs who just recently decided to put hammer’s on their guardians is.. /meh.. but hey, it doesn’t affect you, nor me.
We’re welcome to post for w/e team comp we want, zerk/META/Ranger only/Open-to-all, whatever. So why complain about other people’s preferences? Yeah it’s broken, but not much difference with taking ele/icebow spike party and still killing stuff in seconds with big AOE + Blinds + vuln + w/e.

[Wolf] – Arth thou worthy
Fractal LFG Guild(NA)

Getting 5+ PS warrior PUG’s in a row in Fractal 30+… who can’t Maintain over 10-15 might.. I lol when they state that they’re Exp..

We are doing trial runs for all New-Joins+Current Low-ranked members. Please PM/Mail any Primarch for a trial run if interested in Joining. Kicking inactives/mediocre skilled players from the guild who aren’t at all interested in improving.

Sounds alot like what my guild has been doing for awhile :P Except 2 guardians Half Soldier/Zerker.

https://youtu.be/brNQMdDxB60

Since the new specialization patch, we are seeking more:
Guardian
Warrior
Elementalist
Thief

Builds are found on :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

https://youtu.be/t8pbEsuCdvA?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

^ Build for My Guilds PS Warriors setup.

You give: Perma 25 Might
-Fury
-Vigor
-Swiftness
-Banners
-Res
-Do Damage
-Condition Removal
-Regen to team
-Etc..

I’ve got War/Guard vids/setups too. They sync up pretty well with each other, but that’s up to you if you want to use them.

I’d like to share my AH Hammer Guardian setup for Post-Specialization patch.
I feel that guardians are a “Tanky/Support/Heal” class, utilizing aegis blocks, hammer/staff blocks, etc to keep the team safe from harm (tanking bosses) while dishing out damage. Therefore I made this build.

https://youtu.be/7gujAajHqNc?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

^ Armor/Weapons/Utilities/Traits/Trinkets(Can go full zerk trink for High DPS)

https://youtu.be/HRKMUFoidnY

^ Example of how this build is used. (We ran Dual AH Hammer Guardians with similar setups + a PS Warrior on Fractal 37)

It’s an awesome build for those who like to play a support/tanky class and still do a fair amount of DPS.
-The protection will help your teamates stay alive, those who get close to the bosses/mobs to do damage (Thieves/ele/engi/melee rangers/etc)
-A nice, chunky heal from your “Receive The Light” will heal the team 4500+ While curing some conditions (Trooper runes) in sticky situations.
-Good base HP/Armor to up survival and allow you to take a few extra hits from bosses.
-A good base of power and precision with some ferocity (Full zerk trinks=More DPS VS soldier trinks) to up your personal DPS.

As a thief.. Pistol whip is a good way to remove defiance.

I feel your pain.. I just counted 650+ Ascended rings… Running out of space on my storage chars.. I hope they let us convert them to Amulets/earrings or something.. that’d be great.

Opened the door to Necros (Full zerk,+Geared DS Traited, EXP)

Warrior in team with a Warhorn.

Seeking more Very Experienced / Expert players (War/Guard/Thief/Ele) etc.

Endgame.. would be to finish my current GW2 Goals: 20m karma, 100k Fractal relics. Then after that, 50k of each dungeon token. For now, I just AFK in lions arch, the true endgame.

I use Naga Epic and Naga 2014, 1-10 are skills , Pushing down scroll wheel = Weapon switch. F1-4 I use Keyboard F1-4 keys since I use WASD to move, its not a hard thing to press an F# key then go back to positioning my Left hand on ASDF.

I agree w/ this. I would love to farm 40> constantly for karma and drops while still getting lower tier rewards from daily.

Bump. Still accepting fractal farmers.

Bump. A couple fresh trainee’s, still accepting newbies who are serious about being good at fracts + veteran players.

Just went over there to check, threw some balms and what do you know. Nothing but people camped trolling because of OP’s original Q_Q post.

Both sides here are at fault. It’s a matter of respect. Respect the farmers, and people’s farming and they’ll respect you.

Just because you are clueless as to what they were doing doesn’t make you right.

Doesn’t hurt to ask “hey guy, why are you angry? Why are you PM’ing me angry things? Oh, this is your farming spot, I am doing a heart, would you mind if I do this for awhile instead of being ragey? I’ll be done in a sec”
Instead of trolling and crying about it. This way its a win-win and you both come to a mutual understanding.

LF More PS wars, AH Hammer guards, Staff ele’s, and S/P-D/D- D/P Thieves. and desiredclasses, etc.

Bump Still LF more decent peeps.

Still taking in Fractal veterans and Newbies with the desired classes.

Bump. Searching for more Ele/war/guard/thieves.

Bump post. Still looking for decent fractal farmers to join.

But did you know..? Asura Master Race.

Here’s another daily bump. Still seeking like-minded Semi-elitist / Casuals who hate slow runs and bad PUGs.

Bumping for top. Still searching for experienced fractal farmers.

Bumping again, still searching.

Bump, still recruiting.

We’re a fractal guild with a No-Rep requirement policy. Though it’s preferred that members rep, we don’t care.
Speed and efficiency is preferred when doing fractals with us.
If you are a casual player with clerics gear, or a condition damage build, Bearbow, P/P Thief, Rifle/LB Camping warrior, Staff guardian, Longbow camping ranger,etc. this is not the guild for you.
We don’t like to waste our time, nor yours. Get in, kill everything, Salt the houses, burn the women, Grape the fields, collect the reward, that’s the playstyle of the majority of the guild.

Requirements:
Minimum:
PR: 1+ (PR – Personal Reward / Fractal level)
AR: 10+ (Agony Resistance)

Classes(Main) Accepted:
High Demand:
Warrior / Guardian / Elementalist
Medium/Low Demand:
Mesmer/Thief

We do not currently need Engi/Ranger/Necro as per GUILD META team comps:

1.) PS War + AH Hammer guard(2) + Ele(Staff) x2
2.) PS War + AH Hammer Guard + Ele(Staff) x3
3.) PS War + AH Hammer Guard + Thief + Ele(Staff) x2
4.) PS War + AH Hammer Guard x3 + Ele(Staff)

If you do not meet the PR/AR requirements but main War/Guard/Ele and are interested/willing to be better at fractals, we can make exceptions.

Optional
We use Raidcall for voice communication. Preferred for higher-lvl runs, teaching, etc.

How the guild works:

Due to our No-Rep policy, members form runs by sending PM’s to other members on the guild roster. If you are interested in joining the guild, do not be shy. If you feel like forming a run, send PM-spam’s down the guild roster.

Ex: “Forming FoTM 29, We have 3 spots open, LF: Thief/War/Guard/Ele,Etc.”

Ranks: You decide your rank in the guild, since we have no Leaders/Officers, everyone’s pretty much on equal footing. The major dividing factor is skill.

Ranks:

Trial: Trial Period (When you are ready, hit up a Primarch to be tested. This is 3 runs of FoTM 21. At the end of the 3rd, a keep/kick decision will be made. Kept guildies will attain the rank of Comrade.)
———[Trial] Ranked members who fail to show promise of improving / constantly mess up during runs will be kicked.

Comrade A Full-fledged Guildie. (This can be attained without the 3-run trails, decisions will be made by Primarch’s who deem you skilled enough to skip trials.)

Ascendant: Players who are interested in upping their gameplay, leaning toward guild play-style, Guild setups / META builds, etc. Pre-requisite for the Primarch rank. Contact a Primarch/Instructor-ranked guildie if interested in this rank.

Primarch: Former Ascendants that the Primarch community has deemed good enough to join their ranks. Highly skilled in guild tactics, playstyles, setups, pulls, etc.

Instructor: Volunteer rank for Primarch-ranked players who are willing to teach Fractal-related content. (Currently No Instructors, Just ask a Primarch)

Frostbite: This is a volunteer rank open to all members. These guys are in charge of Guild Missions.

Permissions:
All ranks have he ability to activate Guild banners, buffs, WvW bonuses, access guild stash, etc. (We have omelets! woot!)

Guild Builds:

You are expected to know/run these builds. They are optimized for the way WE run fractals in the guild, and they are also pretty strong.

(These builds are Post-Specialization)

Thief:
https://youtu.be/H8vqTN9nhkg?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

Elementalist:
https://youtu.be/hLbrZbl6QY8?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

Guardian:
https://youtu.be/7gujAajHqNc?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

Warrior:
https://youtu.be/t8pbEsuCdvA?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RKVdw9NVUlIZBXq5qwzvcuA

^ Class Guides/Tutorials are posted on COMMENTS Section of the videos.
Ex: Warrior Baseline setup will have warrior guides/tutorial links in the comment’s section.

If you’re interested, please mail/whisper (In-game):
The Hamster (Primarch)
Storage Gerbil (Primarch)
Blackmanx.9748 (Primarch)
thirstyturtle.9516 (Primarch)
Il Aphrodites Il = il Aphrodites il (Primarch)
harold.3526 (Ascendant)
Cocowoushi.7150 (Ascendant)
Dragkica.5294 (Comrade)

Examples of our runs:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyjlrrQbj9RJeV3DrdRGbI1t1bv9fz8p_

Most of these are casual, we don’t really skip mobs/stealth through, etc.

Renn.8241:

Oh.My.God

They fixed Mossman tysm!!!! He know attacks pretty kitten high underwater

gg anet ninja nerf haha

This is sadly false. I just checked and verified by joining a PUG that pulled moss. still no Mossman attacks underwater.

Starting fractals..

If you’re pugging it, try posting something in 1-9 like:
“LF: Exp player(s) to teach me fractals”
It never hurts to ask for help. Don’t be that guy who joins runs pretending you’re exp, not knowing what you’re doing and screwing things up. Thing’s go down hill FAST for exp-wannabe newbies, especially at higher lvls.

Always ask! This is important.
Ex: What does this boss do? What do we do for the next fight..? Are there certain skills i’m supposed to bring next? What weapons? How can I use my class and skill-set to supplement the team..?, etc..

^ Write this stuff down, and learn from what other people tell you. Some advice is bad, some is good. Learn from other peoples and your mistakes.

Always bring appropriate AR (Agony Ressistance) for tiers.

Tier 1: 1-10 – 0 AR
Tier 2: 11-20 – 10 AR
Tier 3: 21-30- 25 AR
Tier 4: 31-40 – 40 AR
Tier 5: 41-50 – 55 AR

Please note that the Required agony for the next tier starts at the lvl 10* interval. So you need 10 AR for Fractal lvl 10.
Even though FoTM(Fractals of the mist) lvl 10 is still Tier 1, it requires Tier 2 AR. Same for the others: 20,30,40,50. They require Next-tier AR, but give current tier rewards.

Also, Learning and KNOWING how to play your class is extremely beneficial in fractals. Some people have played their “Main” classes for half a year to over a year and yet still don’t know how to use them efficiently.

It’s not all about spamming skill 1, self-heal, evades in fractals. You need to take into account the general make up of your team.
Example team formation:
2 Warriors
1 Guardian
1 Ele
1 Thief.
^ Ask yourself:
Warriors:
Are the warriors running banners?
Does one of the warrior have Phalanx Strength setup?
Is this warrior a newb rifle/longbow camper? (kick this fool)
etc.
Guardian:
Is the guardian bringing reflects?
Does the guardian know how to use Aegis to block devastating boss hits?
Can the guardian mitigate damage to team?
Ele:
Blah blah
Thief:
Does the thief know how to blast fields?
Does the thief know how to stealth?
Is the thief camping Shortbow? or Pistol/Pistol(Kick P/P campers), S/P?
Does the Thief help the team by blinding trash mobs and mitigating damage?
Does the thief have fast reaction times, Quick to res a downed player?

So on and so forth.

I assume by your statement “I haven’t done much PvE in this game, I want to start doing more.”
That you are a WvW/PvP player. So you have somewhat good knowledge of how to play your class(es). Fractals is a team-oriented dungeon.
The best way to approach it is to set up for team play. How can you support/supplement your team while doing considerable damage and maintaining good survivability. Get ready for alot of trial-and-error. But the more prepared you are going in, the easier it will be for you in the long run.

Best of luck to you.

Very excited about the new healing breeze for guardian. I use it all the time, and this will make it significantly better for party-wide health maintenance as a guardian

The problem with blocking off the underwater part, is that sometimes you get those PUGs that rush in.. kinda aggroing mossman when not everyone’s ready, so they need a way to break combat. If you blocked the water path leading back to wisps, you doom teams. (Yeah good teams are already prepped, but mine usually preps skills, etc on that ledge in the water just before the fight, some PUGs rush in and aggro him while we are sometimes)

I suggest giving the Skale more range. They stop following past a certain point when mossmans pulled, shortly before mossmans own max range (before he teleports back). So give them the same range and you should have less water bugs being applied.

I second this. I too tire of many PuGs trying to water mossman all the time. It’s like every single pug group “Let’s water moss” or “Pulling?”.
It’s usually the bad/unexp PUGs that ask for the water pull though, most exp teams i’m with just burn him on land.

I would like an option to toggle legendary effect on/off when stowed. would work great with juggy effect, be shiny whenever you want :P and turn off if you don’t.

I agree. People should read LFG posts instead of joining right away. Nothing ticks me off more than some random person with the wrong class(Ex: Ranger/nec/mes/whatever we don’t need more of) join after we post "49/50, Ele/Engi/Thief/War only) on a fractal or something. They then get >:O and (Q.Q) when they’re kicked by the team within 5-10 seconds of ENTERING fractals(They could have changed characters to one requested in the LFG post) and then the PM wars erupt.

PUG’s have either no respect, or don’t know how to read.

One thing you can do is post your Requirements Before the path/lvl to help mitigate these problems.

Ex:
(Original) = 49/50 LF: EXP Zerk War/ele/mes/engi/ranger 70+ AR speed

(Now) =
War/ele/mes/engi/ranger-Zerk EXP, 70+ AR 49/50

I noticed that people tend to just join once seeing numbers.. Like path numbers, Fract lvls, etc.. and don’t bother to read the rest. So make it blatantly obvious what you’re looking for first b4 they read the path/stage.

Had a PS EA warrior camp Longbow the whole run… even when we were stacking for trash mobs… I called him out on how bad his build was and that he should be on GS for DPS since it had higher damage contribution(The team agreed w/ me ofc).. We fought the whole run, which ended up with the team kicking him. He then started a PM war.. something about “My 5 man WvW team will cream your team” even though I told him I don’t even have a core WvW team.. and I was confused as to how this transitioned to WvW when we were obviously talking about Fractal builds..
He then challenged me to 1v1 him, saying that he’d own me and that I wouldn’t be a challenge.. of which I accepted(I told him I’d use my fractal build to 1v1 him), so I temporarily left the team during stage 3 (Reactor fractal, I had faith that the team I was with could 3-man it anyway during my absence)
The fight was one sided. He didn’t even take me down below 90% hp when I downed him and finished him.
I immediately rejoined my team in reactor, and the PM war ensued. The end.

Both methods are viable. I prefer to melee. This is because I run guardian (Zerk-AH Hammer) and know when to dodge/aegis/imob,etc, but ranging a boss isn’t bad either.

This is for Bosses as they do hit pretty high and there’s no negatives with ranging it out and doing constant DPS instead of going down / dying from that one boss hit that you don’t dodge fast enough / not aegis blocked / run out of vigor, etc.

Just don’t be that guy who camp’s a freaking Rifle/Longbow on warrior while fighting trash mobs and the like.

Stats depend on team setup for the most part, and what your team does. If your team sucks then going full-zerker might not be the best choice as opposed to a Zerk/PTV mix, etc.

Here’s what I run for guard, other build’s differ ofc and people have their opinion/favorites but it’s a pretty solid setup for most teams.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWl8ApXolCxQI0ENR8QVVAg9TsFV61HRMcDA-ThCBABCYBRlq/cmSQsU+BwlUgijUQKaa0THQAPAAn2PgUA5pMC-e