Guild Wars 2

That’s great! who would have though they would be able to reconstruct her face after the car crash!

Got 2 Replicator recipe, both from Tazza.

I also recently got my 8th Nightmare coil recipe, while my brother, who I run with everyday, got his first about a month ago, this just show how random drops are sometime.

spoj.9672:

I dont believe when the game was first released and noone had any clue about builds or how to play properly is a valid comparison. ;P

Back then only one build was valid in dungeon, naked build.

Broken armor and swag was all you needed for dungeon, oh and also waypoint rushing

Wethospu.6437:

First time I did AC exp we wiped like 5 times on Kholer before we disbanded. Does that count as a challenging content?

6th day after release, my group ran CoF p1, after 4 hours at the last boss, which had more regen than we could do damage, we decided to leave

Of course this is going to work, The whole “zerker” meta is about trading safety for damage, it is optimal but that doesn’t mean other option aren’t viable, they just won’t be as fast if everything goes perfectly.

In pug case, I bet running your comp/build would be better 9 out of 10 times if not more.

By the look of it, you guys could easily do without the guard spec’ing like this, but it must make everything a little less stressful :P.

Before the game was release dungeon were going to have jumping puzzle into them, they however trashed the idea and what you see is early development of a jumping puzzle, as far as I’m aware only AC and CM have those kind of early stage jumping puzzle into them.

deSade.9437:

edit – I need to clear the spelling a bit, it’s too hardcore…

BEST fracs run I’ve ever had! I FINALLY ultimated my pigbow build, I was missing 4 important ingredients: jim, Johnny and Jack, as in, SPIRITS! Beeeeeeest thing ever… they were using hounds of balthazar, no guard, no nothing and we wiped less while all drunk than a full tryhard guild run, like, only 3 times, LOLLOLOL
/pigbow op
/tryhards
Imgur is awesome, the time it takes to upload pics on the forum, so kitten

http://imgur.com/DHG9z1X,kkunknV,676PItA,iYGVdbg,8Mpj8zu,wt3gdG3

DEER GOD, put a warning, I almost had a seizure watching that

I have a question for hardcore Guardians, have any of you been able to burst down Brie in Arah p2 without having to kill the mobs (solo)?

I tried about 40 times with different Build (4/6/2/0/2 – 4/4/6/0/0 – 4/6/0/2/2 and some more), Switched pieces to assassin, rune to flame legion, bloodlust/undead on offhand (but that made switching to sword bad since I lost 5% from force sigil) The lowest I got her was 3-5% using a 4/6/6/0/0 medi build, with scholar and a mix of assassin/berserker

However I was not using Mortar Turret consumable for this, Any tip/suggestion welcome

Here’s the one I use all credit goes to Tree for the video and Moon Fond Inc™ for the infos

The waypoint list Laokoko posted is reallllllly good!

This here may help you http://i.imgur.com/g2zblZl.png
it’s a chart that show you when it is better to start stacking precision/power/precision,

also here are some explanation on how to use it,
http://www.dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/19418960-math-balancing-power-precision-ferocity-based-on-ep

General rules, if an armor give you more of one (if one give 6 and the other gives 5), use the one with the most stats, it’ll be better, but if they both give 5, use the one the chart tell you too.

Conaywea.5062:

The npcs are ok , the problem now is that they try to “exploit” everything in dungeons and not doing things like are supposed to do

There is absolutely nothing OK about the npc, the way they are desgined to trigger event in dungeon, they follow a path and when enemy push them outside they have to reset from the beginning of their path, they aggro mobs when your party is out of combat. I would rather have “ghost-like” npc, that just stand there to be pretty but doesn’t affect the dungeon at all.

Taku.6352:

GrimmR.3541:

Uhm guys, welcome to 2k15 its sylvari all the way now!

highfive

My norn would like a taste of this salad

I’d also like to point out that closing the gap between “Meta-zerker-dps-elitist-build” and the more defensive build will not fix anything, it will cause even more trouble, the average player in GW2 is already pretty terrible (if you don’t think you’re terrible, consider yourself above average) it would just remove any incentive to get better.

As for dungeon, I find they are fine as they are (most of them) in other hand I wouldn’t mind seeing new mechanic, and bigger health pool for Raid bosses if we ever get those, but I also want them to be doable by using Beserker gear stats, even if it takes months of practice, I just want it to be active (using mitigation) and not passive (tanking the hit and healing)

Thing is, when berserker work, everything else work, but if you have to gear in Soldier because the boss has unavoidable attack, or attack very quickly with smaller hit, you’re forcing player to use a certain kind of gear, which is not the case with the current meta, you’re only limiting the amount of options.

I do miss long boss fight, recently watched some friends raiding in FF14 (turn 11), the boss had huge health pool, and the fight felt epic, however it was a lot slower, in GW2, one aegis miss can wipe your whole party, the danger is everywhere, unless you want to go the safe route and use tankier gear.

Anyway I’m not going to waste everyone times by arguing about something that people already said a thousand times

oxtred.7658:

kronos is on my block list as well. Can’t remember why.

95% sure he used to grief arah seller, I have him on my block list as well, or he’s one of those general subforum phiw. but I’m pretty sure it was grieving.

Sorin.4310:

Kormeg.2469:

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Kormeg.2469:

So that’s it then, full zerker or nothing. It’s the be all, end all gear for everything, or at least pve?

Short of a real expansion drastically changing the design it’s unlikely to ever be fixed either.

Holy kitten that’s horrible! I knew it was popular but this kittening sucks! Never seen anything like this in an mmo. Hopefully the ‘big news’ form PAX south is something to look forward to.

Never seen this in an MMO? I’ve only played WoW and Rift, but both had optimal gear. zerker is optimal because it offers the highest DPS and content is still doable in it. It’s not “zerk or nothing”. It’s zerk is optimal. Others are suboptimal. By all means, you can do dungeon runs in other gear. (There are even videos out there of groups going things like full clerics so that don’t have to do any dodges or anything). But it is less effective in terms of time spent.

I’m really confused as to why there’s always threads popping up of “I hope new options open up”. What are you hoping for? In what way could soldier’s EVER compete with zerker’s in dungeons? It mathematically does less damage. You could argue that they could open up the bosses to do more damage or attack more frequently to force players to use some more defensive sets. But this doesn’t really open up options. It shuts down one (zerker) to shift to another. It’s not any more options in the end.

This is a fact, anyone who bother to argue after reading this, is just being delusional.
And of course people will always ask for optimal setup when posting on lfg (aka “zerk only”) why would anyone in their right mind post “bad and lazy player only”

Existencex.9712:

I’m going to go for my incinerator pretty soon and i have not found any info else where on this subject, when i obtain Incinerator, am i able to skin my other dagger to look like it or do i need 2 of them?

~Thanks in advance

Using the Wardrobe system you will be able to skin your other daggers, it cost 1 transmutation charge every time, like any other skin. To be able to skin you must first unlock the Incinerator skin (by equipping it). You only need 1 incinerator.

Lindbur.2537:

1/1/2015: Made Eternity. Yay me!

You should join the Eterniswag guild

CuteLilKittenHugz.2064:

Well why in the world do they call them two different things? Cuz an experience scroll is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than a writ of experience.

Somewhere they explained, they were going to call them scroll of experience at first, but decided to go for writs a little before release,(because scroll was already taken) and forgot to change the description. Pretty sure it was in one of the point of interest episode.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Annnd… I broke it. GG me. Go back to reddit, you noob.

omg lilith, I missed your presence here!, How’s everything?

yes I also made a thread after changing my guardian human male to female, my whirlwind wrath suffered a huge loss. however it doesn’t seems to apply to norn female since i made a new one after seeing that my WW wasn’t hitting every hit. I see a lot more 40ks + when doing dungeon now which I never did with my human female.

J Eberle.9312:

frifox.5283:

J Eberle.9312:

I like hearing about new games, sell me some kitten boys.

this and this

Game looks amazing but I heard it’s a massive grindfest

The combat also isn’t fluid as GW2, it’s more a long the line of dark souls, which is nice but I personally prefer gw2’s combat. I had the chance to play the closed beta for a couple hours and it’s as awesome as it look, I’m just scared since it will be free to play, in other word, open you wallet cheeks and go in deep.

Iris Ng.9845:

spoj.9672:

I think at this point we need a demonstration to show that it isnt berserker that is the problem. Its player skill and coordination.

My suggestion is for someone to do a speedrun using all nomads gear but doing it as fast as possible. I expect the path to only take a few extra mins to complete.

If you chant “We all care about CM in nomads!” as many times as possible, I know a certain guild would be compelled to do this speed run.

I did CM after you wrote that, and I could see in those outlaw’s eyes, they know what is coming, the fear in their eyes as I slaughtered their comrades, they weren’t afraid of me, I was merely a distraction to them, that’s when one of them look at me, staring at my soul and whispered “the crows… the snow crows are coming”

Stompy.1387:

Trice.4598:

Wethospu.6437:

I kind of miss times when people kicked you for meleeing Lupi and when people thought Scholar was a waste.

CoF path1 day, ping berserker with scholar “ruby orb only sorry” kick

4 warriors 1 mes only.

I miss that meta back when everyone had a full geared warrior just for cof

Wethospu.6437:

I kind of miss times when people kicked you for meleeing Lupi and when people thought Scholar was a waste.

CoF path1 day, ping berserker with scholar “ruby orb only sorry” kick

I know dungeon dont bring money, however people who do dungeons often do, some of the biggest spender I’ve met were hardcore speedrunner/soloer or just people who enjoyed dungeon (hi lilith), a lot of them quitted because of the lack of dungeon updates. I would be spending good money too, I however have no reasons to do so.

I have 99 problems, and the forum restructuring is all of them.

IllegalChocolate.6938:

Trice.4598:

Wow, I knew they stop caring/listening a long time ago, but this is just wrong, do they really think every player who enjoy dungeon enough to speedrun are toxic?

I was going to buy some gems tonight when I get home, guess I’ll just buy another mechanical keyboard

Please anet just remove every dungeon from the game, this way, we can just quit all together since you obviously don’t want us around.

They actually have been listening but just because they are listening doesn’t mean they’ll follow through with the intended direction of the feedback.

I recall something very similar back in WoW where someone had an idea of a paladin spell that would “lasso” a target to the paladin as a method of closing distance, was given complements by WoW Devs. This was implemented via death grip for Death Knights instead.

Know what I’m saying?

I meant about Dungeon, and if you indeed think they ever listened to the dungeon community, you’re just wrong I don’t even need to argue about it.

Wow, I knew they stop caring/listening a long time ago, but this is just wrong, do they really think every player who enjoy dungeon enough to speedrun are toxic?

I was going to buy some gems tonight when I get home, guess I’ll just buy another mechanical keyboard

Please anet just remove every dungeon from the game, this way, we can just quit all together since you obviously don’t want us around.

Minigrump.4961:

been practicing my orb runs on guardian solo. so close. just need to time my heals and dodges a bit better.

That’s pretty impressive, didn’t expect it to be possible on guardian, did you use norn elite rush?

I’d go with scholar, still the best rune possible for optimized group, with few exception who can make great use of range rune. But for heavy, scholar for sure since guardian won’t benefit as much from strength.

It really comes down to which one of the 2 you are mostly going to play, and if you PuG a lot.

Dredge fractal boss is probably the worst example he could have given for an anti-zerker meta argument. That boss is one of the high risk high reward scenario that prove that the meta is fine and is as it should be (not perfect though).

Jerus.4350:

Trice.4598:

Dalanor.5387:

Trice.4598:

My favorite idea is what they done to Deadeye Dunwell, one of his attack was extremely powerful when reflected at first, so they reduced the damage of it when reflected. I think every very powerful range attack should be reduced when reflected they done it already so it is doable.

This would require a dev to go over every bosses and ask himself, “is this too powerful when reflected?” which shouldn’t take too much time.

How about reflects not scaling with enemy power instead use the players power value? Oo

With 25 might and everything, the damage from an attack like lupicus would still make insane amount of damage.

I’m sure they could fudge some numbers to make it a low enough coefficient yes?

That’s actually what I meant, give reflected attack a low coefficient

Dalanor.5387:

Trice.4598:

My favorite idea is what they done to Deadeye Dunwell, one of his attack was extremely powerful when reflected at first, so they reduced the damage of it when reflected. I think every very powerful range attack should be reduced when reflected they done it already so it is doable.

This would require a dev to go over every bosses and ask himself, “is this too powerful when reflected?” which shouldn’t take too much time.

How about reflects not scaling with enemy power instead use the players power value? Oo

With 25 might and everything, the damage from an attack like lupicus would still make insane amount of damage.

My favorite idea is what they done to Deadeye Dunwell, one of his attack was extremely powerful when reflected at first, so they reduced the damage of it when reflected. I think every very powerful range attack should be reduced when reflected they done it already so it is doable.

This would require a dev to go over every bosses and ask himself, “is this too powerful when reflected?” which shouldn’t take too much time.

Someone datamined them from the client, they should be coming out within a couple of updates

Really show how useful mesmer can be and also the damage was impressive, great work.

dlonie.6547:

Ugh, I’m so tired and sick of nitpicky people that I can’t even tell if I’m being sarcastic or not. I’m trying to just be understanding and not stir things up, but it just sounds sarcastic when I read it back.

I should go watch some Sarcastaball or something.

I used to argue with this guy on a daily basis, he is literally the person I despise the most on the internet. One day, I gave up and never went back to the “general sub forum”

I really like how they try to force range on us, I don’t mind mechanic that makes it harder to melee, but don’t make me have to wait outside of a AoE, kitten, they are putting time gate on melee’ing.

I have 11 boots 7 gloves chest, nothing else, I do believe glove and boots are a lot more common than the rest

Taku.6352:

Wee finally got my permanent hairstylist. Now I can fashion whenever i want.

Changing hair is the real end game.

Wethospu.6437:

Oh no, I dared to post about attribute caps on reddit. As expected, half of the people have no idea what I’m talking but think they do know better.

Filthy elitist that you are, how dare you flood reddit with your mad man discovery, BURN THE WITCH.

On topic, the cap in TA story is so harsh, that I’m pretty sure you can use Rare and still hit it.

This also mean that precision/ferocity food is much better than their similar priced power/precision food since you’re more likely to hit power cap. This does give a nice advantage to Legendary weapon though, if you are in a situation where you are hitting cap, switch them to assassin

frifox.5283:

Death by: Lupi

#LupiSwag

Yesterday someone in my Lvl 50 Fotm Used the #3 on Ranger longbow on ArchDiviner when he was reflecting, result was an invisivle Archdiniver who then one shot 3 of us, the panic was real when he went invisible.

I kind of like those thread now, they help expand my block list, this way I make sure I’ll never have to play with one of those anti-stacking anti-meta players.

J Eberle.9312:

oxtred.7658:

“oxtred is the best player in the world”
-oxtred

This one. I like this one.

“This one. I like this one.”
-Swiftpaws

Jerus.4350:

Prodiax.8645:

i’ll switch my build to 4/5/0/0/5 seems much better
what about the runes on armor? get scholar?
what stats on accessories/trinkets/rings/backpiece? all zerker?

No 6 in prec tree is dropping quite a bit of crit chance, not just from base stats but also Right Hand Strength. Scholar is ideal because it should be quite easy to be at full health when it happens. And full zerk is the meta so no reason to get ascended just for this gimmick that may be fixed in the future.

Just want to point out, Right hand strength in Radiance will not improve your reflects critical chance (the 50 precision from trait will though), only you scepter skills. Other than that 4/6/0/0/4 seems like a nice build, never tried it though, I’ll definitely try that!

If you want to make sure you ohko, you may want to switch your build to 4(II, VII)/5(VI, X)/0/0/5(I, III), this way you can get both unscathed contender ( 20% damage boost with aegis) with the Ground Targeted trait . This way when you put down your wall of reflection and he uses his lupine blast thingy, use Virtue of courage/retreat/Renewed Focus. The 20% damage modifier along with the 2-4% from 5 in Virtue you should be able to one hit KO 100% of the time.

For weapons, GS with Force/Undead Slaying (or accuracy if you don’t want to get a weapon only for arah)

And Sword/Focus with Force and Energy.

Also about your 5/6/0/0/3 build, if you want to use something similar, use 6(II, VII, IX)/6(VI, VII, XI)/0/0/2(I) with GS and Scepter Focus (camp mostly the Scepter) it is the best DPS build for lupicus but you might not ohko lupicus every times with your Wall of Reflection otherwise use the one I talk about previously (4/5/0/0/5), it’s probably best for a first timer!

Biggest problem with open world event right now is that they don’t reward completion of said events, they reward during the event.

This is why champion farming has been so popular, this is why the chest farm was so popular, what we need is what we got with crown pavilion this year (people were rewarded for finishing an event, the faster the better).

If the good loot came from killing the boss after the breach, I bet people would be completing the event rather than farming side-things.

Tree.3916:

U wot m8. I’d h8 to r8 ur post m8 but I’d give it an 8/8.

that’s gr8

“Ancient Nite : Halp im still ok”

RIP Ancient nite, never5get

I realllllly miss Lilith, and winter and all the others

Purple Miku.7032:

Yeah there is a reason why I didn’t put the word record in any of them. I intentionally didn’t let myself go ooc for crusher+hunter and wraithlord so I could start on full adrenaline. The only reason I couldn’t do that with mage crusher is because there were no nearby mobs for it.

If it makes you feel any better I can tell you my best time on crusher+hunter without any previous attempts in the instance since 9/9 patch is 2:11 in full strength runes 65003, curry butternut squash soup. I didn’t want to upload a time that was only 3 seconds faster than my previous best, which was uploaded a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dyKNuEYwWs

Anyways, thanks for the posts all of you. As others have said the projectile attacks for mage crusher are attacks you need to kinda just guess for. This is a boss that warrior is undisputably the best for, due to the fact that you get absolutely rekt on any class with a low hp pool. During casual ele solos I lure him to the same spot and use focus with energy sigil and renewing stamina and lifesteal food… still get pwnt and need to resort to using FGS for evades on occasion >.<

As far as I am concerned, it doesn’t make it any less impressive Good job again.