Farm gold, buy precursor. It’s the only way that does not lead to massive amounts of frustration for 99/100 people.
The problem isn’t time, coordinated servers have shown it can be done with plenty of time left. The problem is that a fight that requires such a large amount of people relies heavily on whether SIX people know what they are doing. It doesn’t matter how good the other hundred people fighting him are if the six guys in the cannons suck. You can’t design huge zerg fights that rely so heavily on the performance of such a small number of people.
“Hard” would be fine, having six people in control of whether a hundred others win or are wasting their time is not “hard” it is just bad game design.
yah i was gonna say how can you say they are at a loss if you harvested the mats yourself, a loss would have to be under the cost of harvesting once or twice on a cheap harvesting tool
It’s a loss even if you farmed the mats because you could sell the mats and make more money instead of crafting anything, capish?
The solution to Orr is not to make it easier, it is to make it worth it for people to be there. If Orr was crowded it would be a lot easier to go around, and if it was worth being in the zone loot wise it would be crowded.
Also we have way too many other good utility skills that making a venom build means giving up our best abilities.
It’s on the first post, stealing recharges one type of ability (traps, signets, venoms) + you get 10% more damage with bundles. It has nothing to do with steal, it works with weapons you pick up.
Get carrion gear, stack condition duration, get stealth traits, CnD and stealth unload your way to victory. It ain’t that complicated.
We got a 10% more dmg when carrying a bundle thing, its part of another trait and it applies to picked up weapons.
Like others have said 30 points in shadow and offhand dagger beats p/d thieves, and most other condition builds really.
Like others have said 30 points in shadow and offhand dagger beats p/d thieves, and most other condition builds really.
Run dungeons, use tokens to buy exotic armor and weapons and the money you make running them to buy jewelry.
Just got 7 ectos out of the 4 rares i got in cof, rng is rng.
Thank you guys for you great help.
But with all crafting disciplines( tailor , weapon / armor smith , chief ,….. ), I will always get ( from selling the crafted items in TP ) more than I have paid to get the materials , right ?Yes, you will pay more to get to 400 than you will selling back the items. Jewlery will get you the most money back whereas cooking will get you the least amount back. Crafting is always done at a loss, unless you gather materials yourself.
But the difference between the cost and the profit is small , isn’t it ?
Depends on the crafting skill, cooking can be maxed at a cost of around 2g while others will run you as high as 6-8g.
3g tops, and maxing a crafting skill gets you ten levels. That means you get a ton more exp total if you craft at 70 than at 1, because it always adds up to 10 levels. Maxing all crafting skills = lvl 80.
Well you said “start”.
What are you, an accountant? I play my thief because its fun, if “fun” for you means watching your kill counter tick then play the guardian. Personally what you described as your guardian playstyle sounds boring as kitten. You are not even doing it to farm badges since you spent 2500.
Grinding the pvp and dungeon badges gets you tons of karma, not sure if enough for the legendary though but it should be close. Doing occasional dailys and not missing the monthly achievements also gives a ton. The karma is basically automatic, it hardly requires any grinding.
Don’t start by grinding for gold, do some of the other required things first. Go for 100% world completion, do WvWvW until you get the 500 badges, run dungeons until you have the 500 tokens you need. Those three things will get you a fair amount of gold, not to mention a big chunk of karma from the pvp. After that you can start farming gold/karma.
My new favorite build. Carrion + Valk with precision support. 100 damage bleed ticks, 6000 damage backstabs. SO GEWD!
Not P/D then?
It doesn’t matter how good the class actually is, two things that always kitten people off are high burst classes and stealth classes. Thank god we don’t have lots of CC because that’s the third thing sure to kitten off other players.
You are comparing a rune with a sigil.
I don’t understand how you can find precursor >_>
Only with luck is impossible really impossible.
I don’t understand people who try to “find” a precursor. You put an order on the trader, million times easier than trying to gamble for it.
Daggers have more viable builds available in the end.
None of them, until people realize that it makes no sense to price a crafted item for less than it costs to craft, so in all likelihood, probably never.
It makes perfect sense that the mats cost more than the final item. It’s been like this in every game that uses this level up crafting style. A finished product is just that, the mats on the other hand are just as good as the finished product + a skill up. You get more value out of the mats than out of the item, therefore they are worth more.
You can use the dagger in more viable builds than the sword though. I was thinking about Bolt until sword/dagger took a massive hit last patch.
It should just be a teleport behind the target hit.
The problem with venoms are Signet of Shadows, Shadow Refuge, Shadow step, Assassin’s Signet and even stuff like Signet of Agility, Infiltrator’s Signet or Caltrops are all very good. For a venom build you have to give way too many not just useful but key Thief abilities. I really don’t ever see me unequipping Signet of Shadows and Shadow Refuge ever, and both Thieves guild and Dagger Storm are far superior choices to the elite venom.
Use a spear, spam 3 and 5. We are frankly incredibly OP in water, at least in pve.
Right, the main thing is the moment you see a thief disappear on you to expect a backstab and act accordingly. Also keep in mind most thieves who focus on that build will also try to CC you.
There are some problems with wvwvw in this game, they have nothing to do with thieves although we benefit mightily from them. Those are not instant moves he did on you, steal doesn’t teleport you behind the target and backstab doesn’t do crap unless he is behind you. The counter to what that thief did to you is to dodge immediately as he stealths and don’t give him access to your back. Dodge twice even, use survival skills. I don’t know what engineers can do honestly but a teleport/stealth is a completely telegraphed set up for a massive backstab hit. Now, i understand with the way wvwvw currently works with invisible enemies and such it might not be easy to avoid, but that is not a problem with thieves.
I wish i knew how other thieves can “chain stealth”, when i stealth it puts a debuff on me that doesn’t let me stealth again for several seconds.
I have 10k hps.
So, Mesmers and Thieves.
Throw bolas, hundred blades.
I think the most likely answer is that it WASN’T dagger storm, it was the warrior steal. Which sends out no projectiles, it just evades you and melts people you run over.