Guild Wars 2

SkylightMoon.1980:

Protoavis.9107:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Enaretos.8079:

SkylightMoon.1980:

LOLOLOL. Because the devs intended people to fail events when they designed the DE system right? Ye. There used to be an Orr farm like this 9-10 months ago where people purposely failed an event south of meddlers waypoint. The devs fixed that event specifically for the reason that players were failing it to get huge amounts of loot. I remember those days, I remember trolling that event so hard to purposely make it succeed since thats the way its actually supposed to be done.

Acknowleges that he trolls for the sole purpose of kittening people off. GG.

Plus DR kicks in after two hours so where’s the issue ? Are you mad that people actually make money in this game and not you ? Stop that.

And for Vayne, this isn’t a bannable offense to fail the event. The only thing that’s wrong is ANet in not having a longer queue for the event restart, thus making it farmable.

Its exploitative, thats all that needs to be said. This happened before in the game once, and was patched. It will again. Just admit what you are doing it wrong. Tell me with a straight face that events were meant to be failed on purpose repeatedly?

I wouldn’t say events were meant to be failed, but they’ve often been designed with failure being an option since a number of events result in a different chain of events with failure.

In this particularly case though, I’d say the biggest fail is a design fail in that if the rewards are that significant rather than completing the chain of events, the reward system in game is not where it should be. Same with the SoE champ farm, it’s more rewarding to kill the three champ golems over and over than it is to actually completely the path.

Do I need to find quotes for you people to prove its not intended by the devs? People are trying to maneuver their way out of the fact that its exploitative lol. It doesn’t mean you will get banned, people didn’t before with the old event farm that theyd fail intentionally
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There is a difference between “not intended” and “exploits” Fiery Greatsword is a good example, it was not intended to be used against a wall without target to deal insane amount of damage, however, dev called it a “clever use of game mechanic” rather than an exploit. Of course getting a better reward from failing is not intended, but it’s not because of an exploit, it’s because of Anet poor reward system for completing events.

SkylightMoon.1980:

Enaretos.8079:

SkylightMoon.1980:

LOLOLOL. Because the devs intended people to fail events when they designed the DE system right? Ye. There used to be an Orr farm like this 9-10 months ago where people purposely failed an event south of meddlers waypoint. The devs fixed that event specifically for the reason that players were failing it to get huge amounts of loot. I remember those days, I remember trolling that event so hard to purposely make it succeed since thats the way its actually supposed to be done.

Acknowleges that he trolls for the sole purpose of kittening people off. GG.

Plus DR kicks in after two hours so where’s the issue ? Are you mad that people actually make money in this game and not you ? Stop that.

And for Vayne, this isn’t a bannable offense to fail the event. The only thing that’s wrong is ANet in not having a longer queue for the event restart, thus making it farmable.

Its exploitative, thats all that needs to be said. This happened before in the game once, and was patched. It will again. Just admit what you are doing it wrong. Tell me with a straight face that events were meant to be failed on purpose repeatedly?

There is a difference between exploits and poor design, this thing is poor design when failing the event reward more than finishing it. Of course exploit definition is vague, but it’s not like players are doing something for the event to fail, they just don’t do anything, which is the difference in my opinion.

Now instead of nerfing farm like these, why doesn’t anet actually rework the reward system for events, makes it worth completing them? Giving out champ boxes for completing events, and making sure the reward fit the time spent/respawn of the events.

Dalanor.5387:

Trice.4598:

Tom Yzf.5872:

I always see that box farm on lfg, is it that good? seems like a waste of time.

People are going to tell you from 20-70 gold an hours, it is not, what it is, is about 70 champ boxes, if no one mess up, if you tag everything. You can get more than that if you have a good dedicated group for AC story or SE path 1 farm. This morning my team reached a pretty solid 90 box from Se in 1 hour, however we get to the golem in 2:45 using thief, mesmer, warrior, 2 ele.

But for AC and SE you need good team and actually some brain activities :P

So it’s like 1g/hour? And white knights still can’t deal with it? GW2 community becomes arrgh … i don’t give a crab anymore.

still much more than 1 gold an hour though, 80 champion boxes net me an average of 19 golds, this is by selling everything, just in silk scrap you get about 4 gold, + t5, t6, rare/etc. My average dungeon speed clear nets me 18 gold + tokens per hours if I sell everything.

The only problem I see with the blixx farm is how easy and casual it is. A 75 person zerg, can walk around spamming 1 on their guardian and make as much as a dungeon speed clearer, so why should he even bother trying to get better? The skill versus reward is really lacking in gw2, no incentive to get better :P

Tom Yzf.5872:

I always see that box farm on lfg, is it that good? seems like a waste of time.

People are going to tell you from 20-70 gold an hours, it is not, what it is, is about 70 champ boxes, if no one mess up, if you tag everything. You can get more than that if you have a good dedicated group for AC story or SE path 1 farm. This morning my team reached a pretty solid 90 box from Se in 1 hour, however we get to the golem in 2:45 using thief, mesmer, warrior, 2 ele.

But for AC and SE you need good team and actually some brain activities :P

My extremely bad wifi, my room is a dead zone, I got myself a ethernet cable last week, this is probably how heaven feels like. I’m also probably one of the highest Deaths/hours ratio out there, 13k death (all characters accounted) for 4.1k hours.

I don’t mind the farming in orr, however, biggest problem in this game right now (reward wise) is the difference between mindless farm and actual skilled speed clearing. What I mean is 100 players can equip a staff, follow a commander using only 1, make as much money as people speed clearing dungeon.

Sorrow’s Embrace path 1 farm is actually better than Orr farm, but it require to be focused in order to be efficient which is why it isn’t popular like Blixx.

Minigrump.4961:

I would have but it is against the forum rules to name shame.

of course, but you know, forgetting to block someone ign in a screenshot happens all the time :P.

also a good quote from General sub forum
“Why isn’t stacking and abusing boss mechanics an exploit to you all? They are abusing something too for fast money :/” from the Cursed shore blixx farm, which isn’t even that great by the way, I rather farm SE path , more box, more reliable.

Minigrump.4961:

Never thought I would run into one, but looks like I did.

I knew it was coming, I was prepared, but it still hurt.

There is an amount of stupidity my mind is able to handle, this is advanced stupid. You should have left the name for blocking purpose, you wouldn’t let friend pick up this guy

RoyalPredator.9163:

And really! Until now, it was just interesting, but The Dragon’s Reach: Part 2 won all my respect.

It actualy brings the Lore alive, and not making fun of it.
We meet nice people to have real conversations,
finally we’re not destroying the game maps even more
and we can do a unique bossfight instead!

Bonus: I’ve just found out how mutch I care about Taimi <3 !!
Her reactions was so realistic and cute, this character now had the eSoul!

I would like to say my Thanks to the team who made it, it was my first outstanding good experience of Living Story!

We hope the future brings same good episodes!

I agree, even though some improvement could have been made (mostly to the first part, bit long and not enough action, also doing 4 times in total for achievements point was just wrong)

The boss fight is actually one of my favorite in a while, just enough “puzzle”, a bit easy for experienced players, but not boring. Lore wise is was very nice, I liked how they are bringing back Canach, hell even Trahearne. I wish I could have chosen to support Taimi with her invention though, as the commander of the Pact I think we should be able to judge if a situation is unfit.

Now, even if the agony doesn’t hurt lupicus, does it reduce his heal? that could be a game changer.

but lupicus would take too much time to get the stack off from the shaman, so it would just be both of them healing up everytime

Velho.7123:

With a 4/5/0/0/5 Sword+GS build, since I don’t really use Power of the Virtuous with “Save Yourselves!”, could I use 4/5/0/1/4 for the Vigorous Precision trait for more survival?

In a solo setup or party? I’m not sure about solo, but in party, no matter what, you should have 3-5 boons without using save yourselves! if you really want the extra vigor, I think 2/6/0/1/5 is probably better than 4/5/0/1/4. Correct me if I’m wrong

This would be totally be game changing info. I usually solo the part after the ooze while my team stealth and start skipping. and sometime it just get out of hands and I fail.

make lupicus projectile unreflectable/blockable of course, you know, instead of reducing the amount of projectile or lowering the damage from reflected projectile

deSade.9437:

Trice.4598:

deSade.9437:

Is this the famous one?

The unfamous!

Which enemy in the game oneshots you with all of his attacks?
Now I’m curious.
Tell me plz!

I was exaggerating about the illusionist. He isn’t actually that strong, still need 2 hit from chaos storm to die.

Azhure.1857:

Yet another reason I’m convinced that all we’ll be able to see will be blobs of light in the future, instead of character details. ‘Cause apparently in this game you can’t have Legendary anything without obnoxious special effects.

As much as I like legenary effect, I would like to be able to turn them off, they become very obnoxious after a while, and while many will disagree, I actually prefer the legendary skin over most other, that’s without taking effects into account. I just like the way they look.

All he drops now is champ box and crap, no more tokens

deSade.9437:

Is this the famous one?

The unfamous!

I think you guys forgot how long 1 year is, if you don’t bother to log in once in 365 days to “save” your characters name it’s your problem, were not talking about deleting the account, just the name.

Also they could send you an email 1 month before it happens, and then the day before or something.

well, my folder is 23.6G you’re in for a nice 8-10 GB of download.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Last I calculated it, 14 +5 power infusions will cost you around 2300 gold and 140 skill points. All that for +70 power.

I like min-maxing same as the next guy, but this is really diminishing returns on your investment…

This is the price for 14 versatile power infusion. You need 8 versatile and 6 regular. Regular are about 80 gold each compared to the 150 gold for versatile.

Still a huge investment, however this game has very limited things to aim for. Most hardcore players have above 10 Legendaries so we buy whatever can improve our damage.

I feel like people who are not willing to adapt to different situation in dungeon (I.E. using Wall of reflection, blind spam, weakness, etc.) is like trying to tank on a healer in WoW, or trying to DPS on a healer,

If you’re going to do something, better make sure you are doing it right, for your own sake and your party.

Mjgander.1905:

I need to ask this, and this isn’t intended to come across as rude if it at all does, but do you do anything, and I mean literally anything else other than solo Arah?

I really don’t think I’ve ever, not once popped into your stream and not seen you solo that same dungeon.

I gather you like soloing it for the enjoyment as it’s challenging, but how does doing from what I’ve seen, the same 4 paths over and over not get boring? o.o

Truth is, this game does not offer any interesting solo content (or barely any) so people are stuck repeating the same thing everyday. Just like people run the same 15 dungeons path everyday. I’m pretty sure Miku would love to see a evolving “queen’s gauntlet” content but Anet is never going to actually do it.

The reason why Arah, boss have interesting mechanic compared to other bosses, also their healthpool is perfect for solo content unlike lower level dungeon where most boss would die in 1 minute even solo.

First solo took me a good 7 hours of practice. But I didn’t have any experience at al with Lupicus before that, I solo’ed it before I killed it in a party :P.

I’d like to add, one of the biggest problem with GW2 is that players do not have any incentives to get better. People who follow Zerg and spam auto attack all day on guardian since release can easily have 5-6 Legendaries by now.

The skill vs rewards in GW2 is unbalanced. You can get 6-7 gold and hour running around pressing one while eating and watching a movie or you can find a good group, concentrate and do dungeon speedclear for 3-4 hours and get 8-10 gold and hour. And if your group isn’t good enough this number drop below the 6-7 gold you could be getting.

I also think that a decent custom tutorial in personal story is needed depending on class. Thing as simple as :

“this boss shoot deadly projectile, use Wall of Reflection to protect yourself”
“When this boss charge up his attack, use a knock down or knock back to interrupt him”

winterchillz.2564:

So, nowadays me and a guildie do practice runs in Arah constantly. Yesterday, I joined him a bit after he started. I arrived at the Abomination to see this.

lol mesmer dps

Harper.4173:

Small groups – Instanced content such as dungeons and fractals.

And even 1 man – challenges like Liadri.

Sadly those have been completely ignored by Anet, we barely got anything interesting that isn’t Zerg based in over a year. I like the idea on open world 100 man raids, but I would like it to be a rather small portion of the content release, not all of it.

I can’t believe we have yet to get a new dungeon, all we get is mindless zerg fest that require no skills, along with bad drop with insane RNG or gems store items.

Noah.4756:

Trice.4598:

CosmicShadow.3568:

I saw a mesmer using a staff but apparently she has electric effect (from bolt) surrounding her body. She didnt have bolt’s footstep effect.

Does this mean Bolt’s Electricity Aura still takes effect when you are not wielding it and equipped as 2nd set weapon?

Not sure if anyone understand me: This is the assumption.
Mesmer currently using Staff weapon 1 and stash Bolt as weapon 2.

There is a glitch right now with some effect, if I have bolt out, switch to my second weapon set, and change weapon, the effect from the bolt will show. My explanation are probably bad :P sorry.

You’re correct. If you have Bolt on swap, all you have to do is draw your weapon and change to another weapon (with Bolt still on swap).

My question is, does this neat little bug also work with other legendaries such as The Juggernaut?

Yes it does, I do it all the time :P

CosmicShadow.3568:

I saw a mesmer using a staff but apparently she has electric effect (from bolt) surrounding her body. She didnt have bolt’s footstep effect.

Does this mean Bolt’s Electricity Aura still takes effect when you are not wielding it and equipped as 2nd set weapon?

Not sure if anyone understand me: This is the assumption.
Mesmer currently using Staff weapon 1 and stash Bolt as weapon 2.

There is a glitch right now with some effect, if I have bolt out, switch to my second weapon set, and change weapon, the effect from the bolt will show. My explanation are probably bad :P sorry.

Yargesh.4965:

Captain Unusual.9163:

Presumably because it’s level 0 with an upgrade slot, so it can be used when farming black lion keys by rushing through the first 10 levels of personal story. Small stat bonuses on gear matter a lot at low levels.

Can’t see any good return on investment for this being used during a key run. At most it would gain about a minute reduction in a 20 minute run (which is fairly standard for me without any bonus equipment at all). I do at max 2 runs in a day every couple of weeks but even if I was doing it non stop I could not justify to myself paying this much for frankly no significant speed increase.

Some people as myself can’t stand not having every best things possible. It’s not something I am proud of, but I just can’t help myself, if something is better, even just sightly I have to get it.

I can already smell the Balance patch.

Fixed ** tooltip to reflect the correct number of target
Added tooltip to ** showing **
*Spirit weapon mastery now also add an extra 5% damage to spirit weapon
Amplified wrath increase the 35% from 33%

“Anet : We felt like guardian were in good place, we however wanted to promote different playstyle that we feel player tend to avoid”

maha.7902:

You could take retreat just in case you miss something and lose your aegis, or purging flames and blast your focus 5 inside it for might and to maintain burn uptime for the damage modifier.

Agies, I really don’t need when solo’ing (I can’t remember last time I was hit by him) and while I agree on purging flame, it would be barely noticeable improvement. I still rather take the Quality of life of SyG when doing it on guardian.

maha.7902:

Trice.4598:

dlonie.6547:

Come, laugh at my n00bness.

[PrintScreen]
[Alt+F4]

There will be no second try tonight.

Lol, just as bad as my abomination yesterday. Tried to use stability (for his transformation knockback), pressed wrong key, get knocked on a dead body, manage to get up, try to use stability again on his transformation, fail again, knocked on second body. Alt + F4

Why would you use stability when you can dodge just before the knockback and you will only get slightly pushed

I play guardian, beside Bane signet and Save yourselves, I have no other useful utilities for this fight, so I just put SyG to make the fight less annoying. I guess I could use something to keep better fire uptime on him but I rather use stability.

dlonie.6547:

Come, laugh at my n00bness.

[PrintScreen]
[Alt+F4]

There will be no second try tonight.

Lol, just as bad as my abomination yesterday. Tried to use stability (for his transformation knockback), pressed wrong key, get knocked on a dead body, manage to get up, try to use stability again on his transformation, fail again, knocked on second body. Alt + F4

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Don’t bother contacting CS. They will only change Display Names if they are found either inappropriate, or for security reasons.

DrMcAwEsOmE is really offending to my people/religion, I’m totally reporting that wink wink

TKiller.6829:

I wrote a long reply with some funny causes mentioned in it about how my EU Arah runs were mostly smooth and fine but forum decided to log me off right as I tried to reply.

Let me quote the Lilithist Bible.
“Miku 60:18
Thou shalt not praise thy EU PuGs.”

LordByron.8369:

I know pvp ONLY players unable to complete AC
I also have double your playtime most of wich in Fractals, going for the second stack of pristines.

I have 2 friends in my buddy list with 3k + hours on guardian only, who pug FoTM 2-3 times a day, 20k achievements points, couples of legendary, yet when I tried running a couple fractal with them, they wouldn’t use Wall/Shield of the avenger at Mossman. Didn’t blind in Ascalon fractal, and hardly ever used Aegis. I’d take a necro or engie over that anytime.

Whoever say Guardian are god bless in PvE pug is delusional. Every single PuG guardian I have seen is running a AH staff build. I’d rather get a bearbow ranger than a staff guardian, at least the bearbow is actually doing damage.

Also about you saying that Fractal =/ dungeon. That is wrong, whatever is better in dungeon, work just as good in Fractal.

Don’t forget to make those illusionist level 84, in case someone wants to FGS them.

Just 2 days ago we used an engie to perma (well 70%) immobilize Legendary Archdiviner, my life had never been so easy, we just stood behind him and DPS’ed him down. This could become a very interesting tactics.

Otaur.9268:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Um. What attack were you using before that cleaved more than three targets?

Skills on cooldown can often cleave up to 5, but auto-attacks on cleaving weapons have always only hit three.

melee skills (i.e 100b , autoattack) were unlimited on how many they could hit.

The max AOE targets for every skill in the game is 5. Nothing in the game that isn’t a siege weapon hits more than 5 targets.

Please do more studying… I know AoEs that hit 10 targets, not siege weapon related.

I know Warrior warhorn 4 hit 10 allies, I don’t know about attacking skills though.
Staff ele used to be so boss back in Beta without the Target cap :P.

From the Tweets she made, it look like a disagreement on how they wanted her to handle her position as CM. This is only an assumption, don’t take my word on that.

obal.3218:

Dahkeus.8243:

Trice.4598:

Charak.9761:

maha.7902:

Sword dps is actually almost equal to staff

Also same as mace :P, it’s mostly due to the fact it doesn’t have any burst. Greatsword burst isn’t as great as Warrior but it’s there.

…really? People are comparing sword DPS to mace and staff?

@ Charak: My thoughts exactly.

5/5/0/4/0-GS-Hammer – 11029
6/6/0/0/2-GS-Scepter – 10871
4/6/2/0/2-GS-Sword – 10797
4/5/0/0/5-GS-Sword – 10515
3/5/0/4/2-GS-Hammer – 10146
5/5/2/0/2-GS Camping – 9417
3/5/0/4/2-Hammer Camping– 9338
4/6/2/0/2-Sword/Focus Camping – 7530
3/5/0/6/0-Staff Camping – 7391

do you by curiousity have the number for mace camping? It was around 3% difference last time I saw numbers.

J Eberle.9312:

Dom is god of thief. Seek him out and much rewardings will happen.

Yes I was actually at Dom yesterday, he doesn’t upload a lot of solo stuff however, which is what I was loooking forward mostly :P

Charak.9761:

maha.7902:

Sword dps is actually almost equal to staff

Also same as mace :P, it’s mostly due to the fact it doesn’t have any burst. Greatsword burst isn’t as great as Warrior but it’s there.

No Pulse.2967:

Trice.4598:

xallever.1874:

Honestly. If people should complain about anything, it’s the untelegraphed aoe from the last boss at the grawl fractal.

At least you can block this one, and you don’t have to stay in it (in a party it’s really hard to remove stack without staying in the AoE with her at least until she start an auto-attack) I just think that the mechanic of the fight doesn’t fit well with extremely high damage. Just think how ridiculous it is going to be at level 80, Electric field hitting 8k? autoattack doing 12k/8k? Fire cannon doing 15k , spin 12k

You don’t have to stay inside Horrik’s AoE. That’s what I say to every pug I’m running that fractal with and it works just fine. I’m sure that you can do something that even works in pugs. Either a) kite around and let her get hit by the AoE randomly or b) trigger the melee attack before the lightning AoE hits (every 3rd attack I believe) or c) coordinate your CC. I don’t have anything against the boss design because it makes people to rethink their strategy (weapons, traits and in worst cases even gear). Just don’t make up gambits for yourself like “I absolutely have to facetank the boss until she loses her shield stacks”.

The problem with the untelegraphed AoE from Imbued Grawl Shaman is that it’s gonna hit you at least once before you can dodge out of it. If you’re playing thief or elementalist you can only hope it won’t happen many times as it can force you to get out of combat to regenerate your HP.

Yes, I know you don’t have to stay into the AoE, I wasn’t really clear, what I meant, is that it’s hard to efficiently remove her stack in a party without being hit. One part I agree with you is the CC part, people are so focused on not getting hit, removing her stack they forget how much easier it is to remove her defiance and pull her into the AoE :P.

No Pulse.2967:

Trice.4598:

Tar can’t really be solo’ed, but I’m more interested into the rest of the path :P. also orb is quiet easy on thief (shadow trap with shadow step) , but I can’t get past mage crusher since they changed him

You should have enough gapclosers (dagger 2 and sword 2) to melee the ooze, entities are easy with shortbow and Signet of Malice. For Lupi I think there are enough guides out there, you can use a 6/5/0/3/0 acro build, though that’s far from being necessary and you can do just fine on a 6/6/0/0/2 max dps build (I have a thief solo on my channel- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPgQMbY1n4 -it’s not really new but tactics should have remained the same). If you want to solo Jotun, go into the room first and then back out so the NPC can die and you can try it again by talking to the Jotun. Then collect like 4 crystals to be safe and just afk while dodging the occasional lava font.

The cheesy way to kill Hunter/Crusher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGybllqtjaY (line of sight both, have the hunter standing in front of the crusher, don’t target the hunter, max melee range the crusher and PW his hammer attack). Magecrusher can be killed with kiting him around the Lyssa statue, but you can also clear some hands and fight him in his area. For cheese mode just go ranged, then his autoattacks are easy to avoid. If you want to solo the ritual at the end, either use stealth+SB 5 (incredibly easy with harpy feathers) to enter the circles or equip dagger/pistol and 5+2 into the circles and 3 back out.

Thanks for the tips on mage crusher, that’s exactly what I was looking for.

This is how I feel anet is reacting to their players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg&feature=kp
To be clear, Anet is the female :P

Ropechef.6192:

I know Nike will run his thief sometimes on his stream. just not always.

i honestly dont know who is running thief main for streaming or youtube…. I would love to find some though.

I think path one and three though are going to be tricky simply due to Tar and Orbs. but of course you have me curious. now I want to see some….

((pokes dungeon forum))

we got any thief mains out there????

I guess you have to be that person Rope, time to devote your life to trickery and become one with the shadow, then once you mastered the thief life, start streaming.

P.S. Tar can’t really be solo’ed, but I’m more interested into the rest of the path :P. also orb is quiet easy on thief (shadow trap with shadow step) , but I can’t get past mage crusher since they changed him

xallever.1874:

Honestly. If people should complain about anything, it’s the untelegraphed aoe from the last boss at the grawl fractal.

At least you can block this one, and you don’t have to stay in it (in a party it’s really hard to remove stack without staying in the AoE with her at least until she start an auto-attack) I just think that the mechanic of the fight doesn’t fit well with extremely high damage. Just think how ridiculous it is going to be at level 80, Electric field hitting 8k? autoattack doing 12k/8k? Fire cannon doing 15k , spin 12k

So yes, I’d really appreciate if someone could provide me a recent Arah P1/P3 solo, every thief solo I find are extremely old, mostly since they made change to p1/3.

Also is there any thief streaming “hardcore” PvE content? all I see everywhere is warrior