Guild Wars 2

I’m actually very interested into seeing a clean fight of mai trin at level 49-50, I’d like to see how people actually deal with her. If anyone have one I’d appreciate

Solo’ing her is much easier than doing a party kill. The coordination require to get her into AoE in a party most likely require you to stand there and get hit, which is for most class and instant ohko now. I can dodge all of her hit if I want, but I’ll end up running around, which work fine if I’m solo’ing but in party, she will teleport to someone else, 2 different people will have the aggro of horrik and mai trin.

Then if someone go down, better have a war banner, or he’s lost. I love a good fight, and good mechanic but this one is just is not one of them.

Fire shaman, Dredge powersuit, Ice Elemental, Liadri, Lupicus (this one could need mroe health :P) Some of the crown pavillion boss this year had nice mechanic, those are good example of fight that reward player skills.

The level of synergy required in a team to remove her stack without getting hit is unrealistic, even in organized groups. There is always a person that dodge the wrong way and get the AoE away or the aggro of mai trin. Same goes for those “invisible” cannon AoE during cannon phase, it’s really frustrating.

The damage she was doing pre-patch was actually perfect. This once again show that Anet doesn’t try their content, they probably watched that one video of a Cleric group stacking on her and killing her and thought it was too easy.

After 54 level 50 and 48 level 38 Fractal without a single skin drop and only 4 ascended chest, I am done.

Well, they didn’t say it wasn’t at 7 millions, they said it was to early to get an accurate numbers. I’m pretty sure GW2 is doing better than GW1 did, but it’s mostly due to MMO becoming more popular.

Charak.9761:

can do the same with a hammer, dunno why people keep using that argument for shield… you’re using one weapon simply for one classes utility skill… much value.

Zealot’s Embrace is a channeled spell, it will follow the thief if casted before stealth, if you can get a fire sigil proc you can see his location, then banish him.

Any decent thief will move away from your banish, I’m not saying shield is great I’m saying it can be useful when a thief is stealth res’ing or stealth stomping. Hammer in PvP is much worse, unless paired with judge intervention you will hardly hit anything.

Shield also has some use in PvP, like knocking thief out of their shadow refuge, knocking people down cliff in WvW, it’s a quick knockback.

I have notice a trend of bad players being kittens recently. The PuGs I have joined recently don’t talk when you’re trying to start a conversation, get mad when you try to explain a boss “you think this is my first time”, kick at the end because you finished the boss without res’ing him, rage quit and destroy the instance.

I am done, I rather solo/duo than deal with that one more time, the only reason I was joining those group was to help/teach them anyway.

Problem is, you have 500 persons trying to get in 1 organized Wurm run instead of trying to organize one themselves. Tequalt was like that 2-3 months ago, but now, I can join pretty much any overflow and kill it.

If only people were willing to listen and actually try when some people stand out and try to organize, instead of ignoring them and spam join in.

By the way, I’m not blaming you or anyone for this matter, it’s the community in general that has this idea that only 1-2 of the highly populated and organized guild can kill it.

randomfightfan.4091:

P2 is all rng. I’ve been hit by his massive aoe (while under him) after triple dodging

One of the guardian during the challenge, double dodges + shield of wrath and died by a quadruple AoE at the end of his second dodge, it was painful to watch

A simple fix would be to be able to remove other players particle effect. It would also greatly help people with low FPS during event :P

Thank you, at first then they announced Ascended armor I was a little worried, since this game was about horizontal progression. But it gave me purpose, something to work for.

I have 11 Legendaries, soon 12, 4 characters with ascended armor (the only 4 I use or I would get more). I have ran the same dungeons over 400 times each, fought the same world boss 300 times. We don’t only more stuff to work for but also new way to acquire them.

Don’t get me wrong, I love this game, but I am running out of things to do.

I want to point out something about obal’s DPS calculation, it does not account Unscathed Contender, which is a huge 20% damage modifier. In most fight I am able to keep it up 50% of the fight which would bring Guardian on par or above Warrior. But Warrior DPS rotation is much easier, even more now since it’s all about camping Greatsword and don’t rely on something like UC to deal damage.

So today I decided to join a pug group for TA up path. Ranger join last, create the instance. He’s a bearbow ranger who doesn’t want to stack/skip, so he just go straight in the room and we have to kill the boss in the middle ( I don’t really care )

We get to the last 2 guys in front of the last boss (ranger died on the skip) kill them. The ranger gets kittened off and crash the instance. That was the first time in 6 months that I pug’ed and the last time.

you need to use the armor craft “Armorsmith, Leatherwork, tailoring” you put the 2 + the orichalcum helmet lining/casing in the discovery mode. (I’m not sure about the name for tailoring and leatherwork, but it’s the peices you need to craft lvl 80 exotic helmet)

Zackie.8923:

girl guardian? i have this bug since forever. it doesn’t show but the damage still goes through for my case

Could it be bound to Gender/Race? I didn’t have this problem when my guardian was a male. I tested it elsewhere, I get the same problem. I haven’t look if the damage still register but since it’s not in the combat log I thought it wouldn’t.

I just can’t believe that some player will never experience those soundtrack because they mute background music. I’m at my 5th map completion and it would never have been possible for me without background musics.

KOPPER.1458:

At what point does precision become useless, or nearly useless? I am starting to infuse my gear.

The difference between Precise and power infusion in a fully buffed team with or without spotter is barely noticeable, something like 100 DPS difference, but in a solo setup/bad team composition, the precise infusion is a little better (also help with reflects where power isn’t accounted for)

So overall for Guardian I believe Precise is better but I like to solo dungeons and when I’m in group I don’t usually have spotter

But, in the future, if we get better food/gear, we might come to a point where we reach 100% critical chance easily, while power has no cap.

So I was getting some pretty low damage with my whirlind wrath in Crown pavilion and I decided to check the combat log. Even when I’m standing right on top of the enemy, my whirlind wrath hardly hit 3-4 with maybe 3 projectiles, which is far from the usual 12 hits I’m getting.

In the sreenshot you can clearly see I was standing right in him, yet the number of hit is far from what it should be.

This also happen during fight with the 6 bosses down in crown pavilion, not just in the gauntlet.

P.S. those are 2 different whirlind wrath, separated by 1 auto attack.

LILITH, I’m sorry I don’t think I can make it, I am going out for diner pretty late and I might not be back before like 9 pm

Wisp.2634:

Sorry, i was not really clear. Yes i like WvW, and true you dont have to be well skilled to play WvW. I meant GvG above there, if u think on GvG you can just spam your skills, you didnt played it….

I was in Redguard 25 man team for about 2 months, and I guarantee it, we didn’t use half the strategies that I used in DnT for dungeons. It was a huge spam fest, unorganized fire/water field blasting. The main advantages we had was, better class comp, better build.

This is what good PvE player look like, most of the boss don’t need to be in corner to be killed, and even if they didn’t stack + fiery greatsword, it would barely add a 2-3 minutes to the run at maximum.

Wisp.2634:

You are all ridiculous. You dont know kitten about [Inc] ppl so dont blame them! Im not a true Inc member. I just joined them for the incredible ammount of gold i can farm there (and i like most of the players there)! My real guild is supporting them, because they doing something, which worth our help, so you kittened up again

Inc guild is for farming gold. Nobody cares about a dungeon guild, because it doesnt worth to farm them.

You dont need a guild for farming dungeons
Dungeon farming is clearly not a guild event, i explaing it why:
- 5 man guild is not a guild
- you cant say that you are doing a guild event unless the 90% of the members are there

On the other hand, you are proud for things wichs dont worth to do, but Inc is farming for real! You are just playing this game how childrens play LEGO

BTW: * Im a WvW player, because this game clearly have no challenge in PVE.*

1st, dungeon are the fastest way to get money in this game

2nd,, WvW is the only game mode that doesn’t require any skills in GW2, It’s about numbers and classes. Any PvP above 10 players vs 10 players become a spam fest. And the only reason why people think PvE is easy is because we’ve had the same dungeons for 2 years, sure people are going to be good at them.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Wanna join Danicia?!

And thanks so much <3

YES! We are still looking for one more for the 7:30 EST run in NA!~

Wisp.2634:

This “tournament” is a joke, that’s why the teams just left. DnT organised, this crap to be more famous, because nobody cares about thier and the community records. You dont need skill to stand in the corner and use FGS or switch skills while running in stealth. The “competition”, or anything you call it, will be the random factor. I think the organizers of this tournament and the “speed clear” community, just wants more fame.

Dont blame the teams left, they just lost the fun factor, because there wont be any.

This tournament is just for them, boring kitten will flow from the streams!

But this is my opinion, have fun…

If FGS in a corner is so easy why don’t everyone join to make an easy 200 gold? And if you think this is a publicity stunt for DnT, you have no idea what that guild is about.

DnT is all about helping and giving back to the community, they don’t need fame, people that matter know them.

lol, I didn’t even know there was something deeper than the Dungeon subforum.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

maha.7902:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

maha.7902:

you ask me, i say yes and you don’t even put me on the list

i see how it is

u literally want to gvg me

You said “ite” I don’t know what that means so I didn’t assume. Haha

it means yes ¬_¬

Then why do you say it when I say “hey everyone” and “good morning” hahaha

Yes is an acceptable answer for good morning.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Trice.4598:

Count me in, I’m ready to rock!

Haha which runs?!

Oh sorry the NA one 38+

Count me in, I’m ready to rock!

Party wipes
Warrior 1 : kick the guard
Warrior 2 : wait there’s a ranger, kick him first
kick ranger

bretfrag.5607:

The part where you’re closed in in that square and the little freak subjects you to attacks so weak they’re not even worth the trouble of evading? It goes on for too long and it’s boring. Think Anet should re-design it.

This fractal is terrible, time gated, and monster in the tunnel’s room in high level just one hit kill everyone and the camera is terrible too. I prefer cliffside 100x better.

bretfrag.5607:

If I think there’s utility in using it, I will. I just don’t think not using it should be an automatic kickable offense.

Then I will trust your judgement, but I agree with the kick, I have never kicked someone from my party, if you are willing to team up with stranger, you better be ready for the worst and deal with it.

I don’t want to sound rude or anything, but wall of reflection is probably the Guardian best utility and also one of the reason why people want guardian in the first place.

The fact that you are not willing to spare your whole team a lot of trouble (getting hit or having to waste dodge on projectiles) makes you a lot less useful in a party setup, there is not much more you can bring. 2-3 aegis protection if using Writ of persistence and hammer?

If your team ask you to bring it into a fight, why wouldn’t you? there isn’t that many useful utilities for guardian.
-Stand your ground/Hallowed ground , only useful when stability is needed
-Hold the line, not useful, low duration
-Save yourself/bane signet, very selfish utility, usually used for extra DPS when there is nothing better to bring
-Sanctuary, only useful in rare occasion where you need to keep enemy out
-Retreat/Purging flame, both VERY USEFUL should be on your bar along with WoR
-Signet of jugement, 10% isn’t much, you’re better of with Protection and/or weakness
-Signet of wrath, useless
-Meditation, mostly good for PvP/WvW, they don’t help your team, they are mostly selfish
-Shield of the avenger, only spirit weapon worth mentioning, when wall of reflection isn’t enough for projectiles

Today was my 21st Fractal Level 49-50 without a single Ascended box or Fractal skin.
That’s without counting about 10 level 38.

All I got from those were 7 infused ring and 4 uninfused ring.

I know they don’t want to gives them out too easily but this is just a joke.

When you kill an enemy with it, it will get “electrified” while dying, it’s purely cosmetic.

Frailty, Accuracy, Battle, Strength are all good alternative for day. I don’t know how swap work with engineer so I’m not sure about Battle.

Best for me is the combat, it does have flaws, but I can never experience anything like it in other game (Wildstar is pretty close but it just doesn’t do it for me).

Worst, RNG, when the game was announced, I was completely amazed by the dungeon tokens, no more running the same dungeon 50 times to finally get the bow I needed, then get it stolen by someone else who pressed “need” instead of “greed”
Then with fractal came fractal skins, 2-3% chance to get a random skin after a 45 minutes run (level 50).

Just look at the “chance” from queen’s gauntlet, 0.1% chance of getting something good, else you get NOTHING. I made more money this year with this than last year with the 10 silver per bag, but it was much more enjoyable, and every time I killed a boss, I was rewarded, not once every 200 kills.

Lifestealer.4910:

I have been soloing lupi with a warrior for a while now (mostly having him on wall), this is due to when fighting him on open field i find i only succeed maybe 50% of the time. I have watched videos of pro players soloing it and i find that my timing compared to theirs isn’t off at all. Despite this, on phase 3, i constantly will get hit by at least 1-2 frenzied blast, or his life drain (when he opens his mouth) will hit me in between my whirlwind/dodges. This made it so when fighting on open field i am always in a struggle praying that he doesnt go relentlessly with frenzied blast or i will end up with barely any life left.

I constantly play with 300-400 latency (living in Australia) so i understand why despite having the same timing as other players, i will always get hit by SOMETHING, but i also don’t want to rely on wall too much because of this.

I want to ask for advice as to how to compensate for the latency issue so i can consistently solo lupi on open field.

I play with 200-300 ping and I feel your frustration, for Frenzied blast I found he tend to reposition himself before doing it, it is not 100% accurate but it get my attention. Other than that there isn’t much we can do about it, keeping him on the wall is probably your safe bet, even though it’s cheesy.

Here’s an example of the repositioning (sorry it’s a guardian video XD)

http://youtu.be/5p65DP_-_IQ?t=7m17s

Also I keep my whirlind for Frenzied blast rather than getting out of his Like Drain AoE attack because this way I don’t get hit between 2 dodges or between a dodge and sword block, I only get hit once maximum at the beginning.

Varra “Oh you want to melee Lupicus, best I can do is use that bow and make sure he shadow step to me to kitten you up”

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Less dependency on NPCs? Either remove the hellspawn they call NPC completely or let them be bystanders which don’t attack anything and don’t get target.
In total, I want a lot to be changed. Starting with the SE3 clowncar, going over to HotW to buggy Arah-bosses etc.

They’d never give Necro anything which would make him more useful in terms of group support.

AC Path 2 Detha : “Ohh you guys are trying to fill the trap without aggro’ing him, how about I bring him to you. What are you doing guys ? trying to get out of combat, I’ll bring him to you”

Every single tactics to defeat that boss start by letting Detha die, or killing him on purpose.

StinVec.3621:

Trice.4598:

Charak.9761:

Champ bags don’t have precursors in them only unique exotics

they do, at a very very low rare, got a Chaos guns from a Gilded Coffer doing Arah P2.

That is a dungeon event chest, though, not a champion bag.

Gilded Coffer are champion “bag” http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gilded_Coffer

Charak.9761:

Champ bags don’t have precursors in them only unique exotics

they do, at a very very low chance, got a Chaos guns from a Gilded Coffer doing Arah P2.

Cyrill Faust.9340:

I believe the record time for SE p2 is a little over an hour, while SEp1 & SE p3 take about 10 and 20 mins respectively, so don’t bother with p2. For COE on alpha count to 3 then dodge other wise it’s pretty straight forward.

That 1 hour path 2 was a joke video, it is doable in 15 minutes, but for 1 gold it’s not worth the trouble. It’s also an annoying path.

Make sure to organize weekly guild missions, advertise it well to make sure everyone gets to do them.

Having social media for your guild help a lot, Mumble/TS/Forum/Website/Etc. Make sure people join, get them interested by organizing events, guild PvP tournament, Hide and Seek, Guild Icon contest.

Sadly in MMO guild is all about what can you bring to people, that they can’t get elsewhere. Being a good guild leader is a full time job, you are going to need help, find 2-3 people you can trust and make them your co-leader.

I think people give Berserker too much credits, the biggest part of the damage comes from using useful traits with the good weapons.

Take a look at this chart (this was pre-ferocity though) http://s27.postimg.org/nf571pco3/guarddps.jpg

You can see someone wearing full valkyrie or full knight doing about 75% of the full Berserker DPS for about double the Effective HP. Sure if you go for full soldier you’re at about 55-60% but now you get triple the Effective HP.

Also take note the builds are not made for maximum Damage output but rather for utilities, Blind on demand, Fast Wall of Reflection, Faster Condition cleanse, More Aegis, greatsword pull. Now someone using a 0/0/6/6/2 no matter what gear he is wearing, most of his heal from AH are selfish, his condition cleanse are bound to his shout (using shout to condi cleanse instead of using it for the boon), he will most likely not hold aggro because mob often go for low HP.

The Berserker meta is only people asking players to be team player rather than selfish.
If you can guarantee me that you can hold aggro 90%+ time with your Bunker build, I’ll take you in my team for fractal any day, but that doesn’t happen, because AI take in consideration, HP, Endurance, Proximity, Damage, Toughness, and more.

My brother and I usually scout 3 boss each, we are using Maximum output build. What we do is we start on a boss, (usually boom boom and wiggins) wait to hear which boss struggle and move to it. It’s fun how every time we just see in map chat " never mind it’s going down quick".

People don’t realize how much those safe spot, auto attack, ranged are hurting the event. Specially against bosses like wiggins, boom boom, kurai, shurrak who have such simple mechanics. 1 good player in a maximum DPS build is worth 4 of those auto-attacking guys.

It’s sad how usually 6-15 players ends up carrying the 85 players who don’t want to give an effort.

Best example. The poor warrior at wiggins, tanking all the pistol daze, attack, bringing him back to the ramp every 25%, dodging every AoE. while 3 mesmers with greatsword could be helping him with feedback/warden but they rather just press 1 once and watch tv.

I’d like to add a couple of things,

1. Mining, there is a couple of very good spot with Rich Iron Node/Platinum Node that respawn at the same place everyday, if you have 4-5 + alt character, it becomes very lucrative to farm them everyday. (I’d be willing to show them if you are interested) I makes 3-4 gold everyday in about 10 minutes doing this.

2. Keep everything, horde your materials. If you end up buying something you sold, you’re loosing a lot of money. And as many people said, you are probably getting a lot of Ecto, if you need Cristalline dust, salvage the extra ecto, you won’t be loosing money doing (you won’t save anythign either) but you will gain magic find at the sae time :P.

3. Salvage dungeon equipment. anything below 70, you buy exotic helmet for 180 tokens with Magi, Rabid or Soldier stats and use master salvage kit (inscriptions sells for 2 gold + the ectos). Over 71, buy the rare helmet for 30 tokens each and salvage for ectos. (don’t throw them in mystic forge hoping for a miracle)

4. Don’t spend your gold on things you don’t need, this is harder than it look. Expensive foods, ascended weapons/armor (if you are working toward your legendary don’t get distracted) even if it’s cheap (minis for 2 golds, good looking skins for 2 golds in tp)

You said you were running a lot of dungeon path that’s all you need really. You should be making a good 20-25 gold per day just with that, add a little bit of mining and open world PvE, you should be at 35 golds.

Other people said it but if you focus too much on legendary, it becomes tedious. The less you think about it the easier it seems.

I use mace/fc instead of sword/fc with GS on swap for my operative belka solo :P in arah p2, the healing help dealing with the constant fire, and since belka reflect 50% of the time, it’s hard to use sword (and you’re stuck on it for 9 second if you swap) It’s the only way I found to solo her without having to hide and heal back up lol.

nearlight.3064:

neonreaper.4805:

Having made the Minstrel and another Legendary, I would advise against Minstrel. You may get more use out of Minstrel but you won’t feel like your efforts are rewarded with something truly special. I’d rather take a stats hit and get a much cheaper and better looking exotic, if I had to do it over again.

I’d much rather have an AWESOME looking legendary item that I don’t use as much than a lame one that I use all the time.

Cost of Minstrel isn’t as high and I can see why that has a strong appeal, but, keep in mind everyone who sees you with Minstrel is going to say “ah, that sucks”.

Thanks for the input. While I personally like the Minstrel, I do realize that it has a very poor reputation amongst the player community, and it sucks that I could get hate for that. And I’d say I really do love meteorlogicus even though I can’t use squeeze it onto as many builds as I could with a focus. So maybe you’ve convinced me to go for the scepter. I’d probably grind out the fractal focus skin as a counterpart for it….

Anyway for meteorlogicus. I don’t know where to begin to get that much gold. It worries me greatly, but it seems so worth it to me. If anyone has any advice on how to defray the cost of meteorlogicus, let me know (besides the typical run CoE erryday for cores/lodes).

My only critic about Minstrel, it’s hard to make it match with other weapons. I am a Male Guardian so that might be the problem, it probably fit better on something like a Female Mesmer :P.

I would totally go for Meteorlogicus, the attention to detail make it a very nice Legendary, it’s a little overwhelming but nothing too bad.

LordByron.8369:

No prices are not the same.
-T6 skyrocketed
-Ecto increased
-Precursors increased by a lot (crashed recently when unbinding was datamined and many 1h precursors magically appeared in the TP).
-T5 are possibly highest than ever were.
-Runes and sigils are extremely expensive

That makes basically 99% of top traded items by most players.

PvE nerfs reduced materials supply, not gold.

What i like the most is i hear economy complaints in game every few minutes in possibly any chat.
That means this broken system can’t go on like this for much longer, despite whatever you’ll say.

Lol, T6’s Skyrocketed? some of them were ridiculously cheap, Anet fixed it but getting them to the same level of the other T6s, Blood were 35-40 silvers really early in the game, they are 45 – 55 silver now. some fo them went from 20 to 30 I don’t call that skyrocket. Don’t forget that early in the game, only a small portion of players were actually aiming for legendaries, now everyone is, which explain the demand for T6.

T5 went from 1.5s to 2.1s, it’s an expected increase with T6’s increases.

Rune and sigil have always been extremely expensive, 18 months ago I bought rune of divinity for 12 gold, and bloodlust for 7 gold.

Of course price have increase what I’m saying is it’s pretty stable for a mmo, and PvE nerf affected both Material supply and Gold ( champs bag going from 10+ silvers to 1 silver )

There only thing wrong right now in the game is the prestige item extreme RNG.

Majory’s axe and eye of rodgort are 2 gorgeous skins already so i wouldn’t change them yet. The dreamer is fun and sweet but does the unicorn interest you? I think it’s nice and it got nice footsteps so it comes down to your opinion on it.

Incinerator is great and would probably be the one I’d make.

Greatsword are awesome, but they are very popular and the effect can become overwhelming.

Bolt is awesome, would probably be my second choice.

Minstrel, I don’t know what I think about this one, Iv’e seen some people pull it off but it’s kitten a guardian, fit mesmer a lot better :P.

This is my opinion, you can also consider the fact that you can use a weapon on more than 1 toon. Greatsword are great for 3 classes, dagger are good for Thieves, necro (ranger), Sword are good for thieves, warrior, guardian etc. if you quit one of your toon, you wouldn’t want a useless weapon laying on the character :P

omg, do not change my howler in any way, it is the best looking legendary