Guild Wars 2

No, in dungeons. There are hardly any bosses that leave your clones up for a longer period of time.

TheRamosOnline.2670:

Sephelutis.3480:

Dev still refuse to do pvp/pve split while nerfing everything pve into the ground………….

well it is pretty, pretty clear now: time to reroll a warrior and join in the press 2 button = win style

Confusion does half damage in sPvP.
So stop saying “PvP and PvE needs a split” because it already has one.
The increased cooldown to Phants didn’t effect us in PvE at all. Mobs are dead before I can get up 3 illusions, so I don’t care about their cooldowns.
If the change is something major, such as changing the skill effects, they split it for PvE and PvP. If its a cooldown or cast time change (minor change) then they do it across the board.

Mesmers still rock hard in PvE.

Correction: phantasms are aoe spammed to death by mob before they can launch a hit (or even activate the traits you have).

Cromx.3941:

If they nerf mesmer again in PVE screw I am done with this game. The CD on Chaos Storm for the staff has made playing a staff mesmer just a lot of auto attack. Kinda getting sick of this already.

Portal I don’t care about, its basically a PVP skill.

Portal for jump puzzles an helping braindead teammates skip some parts in a dungeon. ^^

Gasoline.2570:

I find it very odd that they put things like volcanus and foefire as just exotic when the amount of crafting materials they need is still quite insane. Would be nice to have it as something else than just that for the amount of work needed for them, no? Like soft-legendary or something else.

There is no difference between an exotic and a legendary anyways. The stats are the same and weapons like Foefire and Volcanus have as much glow and effects as legendary weapons. People see the ingame look and not the color of the weapon name.

I don’t think they are being cast on banners, and clones are in any way just another enemy for alpha. Your AoE attacks also hit clones and pets in WvW right?

On topic: I managed to defeat her after 1 failed run and 2 party ‘remake’ rounds on the second try. Mind you that we did specifically ask for warriors and a thief to poison to “tactically” beat this boss.

Any other way we tried simply did not work. It doesn’t seem to me that asking for specific professions is the way Anet wants it to go.

Asagi.1405:

It is “shockingly easy” with specific builds and classes, along with exploiting a terrible mechanic.

I assume you mean the hitting in stealth mode by this, which is in no way at all an exploit. If it was an exploit that you could get hit during stealth thieves would be extremely overpowered after ‘the exploit’ got fixed.
It is meant to be done this way, and splitting up as a team of ‘sparkers’ and damagers during here stealth phase seems like a really legit choice.

YingMasters.2051:

Tweek.3190:

…and perhaps even make people’s pc/game crash/lagg because of all the added glows, trails and particles.

Is this a serious part of your argument? Lol

Yes it is. I know a few people playing with the minimun computer requirements for the game and they have can have problems with the flashy skills used by a lot of classes in crowded area’s. So adding legendary flashes on top of that makes the load a little bigger.

CoE path 2 is the easiest of all. I almost never die against alpha on my mesmer and even on my warrior I only died twice during the final alpha. I often survived the crystals and being trapped in one with the aoe under me did 0 damage more then once.

zencow.3651:

In CM exp, projectile reflection is king since it makes the many range trashed mobs riflemen/enforcers/scatter-shots/archers/bombers eat their own bullets/arrows/grenades. Usually just one mesmer Feedback will get them to half-health with them shooting themselves alone! Mesmers can also trait projectile reflection on both the focus skills, Temporal Curtain and Phantasmal Warden turns CM into cakewalk since one mesmer can basically destroy all the ranged mobs by rotating these skills.

Alternatives are Guardian’s Wall of Reflection and Ranger’s Whirling Defense and Thief’s Dagger Storm though these require more coordination to upkeep if lacking mesmer.

Alternatively projectile destruction’s, Smokescreen and Swirling Aura are an option though less efficient.

Then you only have to worry about the melee-based cutpurses/thugs/saboteur which can easily be crippled/chilled/immobilised and kited.

All trash mobs in general can be dealt with by blind spamming via Black Power on Thief or Well of Darkness and combo finishers through Dark fields set by necroes.

tl;dr many options to deal with trash mobs. Mesmers shine brightest where there are many projectile mobs especially CM and SE.

Feedback is on my utility list 95% of the time.
I absolutely looove my well of darkness on necro.
And when I start leveling my thief, I already decided I would trait him for blindness with Black Powder.

Chaede.7348:

rich.3417:

given the amount of complains from people that dont have legendaries and crying about the RNG sytem, I think Anet will eventually cave in and start to offer “welfare legendaries,” like guarantee you will receive just by doing x, y and z.

So long as X,y and z are more legendary than spending 400 or more hours grinding gold and involve more than just farming endless plinx than I am ok with that. You know, if they involved the achievement system more, or completing all event chains in Orr, or finishing all exploreables, jumping puzzles etc than yes, that would be a much more legendary method of obtaining legendaries than just grinding a legendary amount of time or having legendary luck in the mystic forge.

Its not welfare if you have to complete skill based objectives and social activities to get and participate in game events. It is welfare if all I need to do is buy X amount of gold to get it.

But by doing so there will be a way greater amount of people wielding a ‘legendary’ lowering the legendary status and perhaps even make people’s pc/game crash/lagg because of all the added glows, trails and particles.

zencow.3651:

Shamrocky.5036:

The RNG to getting the precursor seems really silly. I didn’t even believe it the first time I heard it. The only thing legendary about it is legendary luck.

Actually when I see a legendary weapon bearer, I think “gee this player has really mastered the Trading Post/Curshed Shore farming!”. I don’t see them as skillful players per se as they are ‘meant’ to be.

More like: I wonder which site he bought his gold from.

Gasoline.2570:

After last days of patching, the ecto drop rate from yellows and exotics have gone way down. I’ve been getting over 50% less ecto drops. It’s heartbreaking to get like 6 ectos from 10 exotics.

Why do this anet?

3 globs in 10 exotic salvages all week… Only 1 item gave me globs

NPC: “Hey there, you did a good deed for me. Take this note that give you 158 good deed points (karma)”
Player: “Thank you sir!”

Player: “Hey there mister shopkeeper, I have this note that says I have done a good deed. Can you pay me money for that?”

Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds…?

As I expected, but it was worth a shot.
Now I am stuck with a lame recipe for gift of souls where the weapon can be bought for 10x less money. And they didn’t give the staff enough glow, you can barely see it…

I am 100% they can rollback. I don’t know how it happened, but like a month or 1.5 ago I ran CM butler path with my previous guild.
I did unlock several POI with that run, and of course, made progress in my achievement. After logging back in the next day and doing path 1, which has the same end area I noticed that I re-unlocked the very same POI. After completing path 1 I did not complete my CM achievement, instead it said 3/4.
I also bought a skill during the first butler path which I didn’t have the next day anymore. The rest of my team however did not get a rollback.

One of my expensive items accidentally got used so now I have lost the money I invested in it. Is there any way to undo this change?

I would be interested but unfortunately we can’t run dungeons cross Euro-American servers.

You should report this ingame immediately after the run. We don’t want these rotten apples in our community.

And then to think poor old Lupicus was already nerfed. I wonder how all those people managed to kill this “impossible” guy before that and get the armor.

Lenny.9301:

I realize this may sound like whining at a glance, but I do very much enjoy this game and would like it to be more fun and appealing to as many of my friends as possible, which is why I am criticizing it.

Short Version:

1. To make dungeons more rewarding for the short-term, substantially increase the chances of finding lodestones and rare or exotic gear from dungeon chests. We needed this over a month ago. Worried about hackers abusing this? Then fix that too. Stop punishing legitimate players.

2. To help parties and guilds gauge a player’s effectiveness in a dungeon, add player inspection to GW2. There is so much more that can and needs to be done towards this end, inspection is not asking for much. I want to know if our party is carrying someone in Cultural Tier 3 with a bad spec and level 65 trinkets, and I want to know when somebody is wearing magic find.

3. Balancing issues. PvP seems fairly balanced, while PvE is terribly balanced. We know. We don’t need damage meters to tell because it is so glaringly obvious to a good player. Specific groups of 2 Guardians and 3 Warriors is the superior composition for explorable dungeons. Other professions are much weaker, overall.

1. What does dungeon loot have to do with hackers lol?

2. Absolute no… There is nothing wrong with taking a player who is a little less geared then you, or even has a little less experience. We all had to start somewhere, as did you. Besides, there is no challenge in dungeons so let the challenge be helping fellow gamers? It is nice to learn a new player something and see him grow in the dungeon you are doing.
And the gear is barely noticeable, I run all my dungeons in rare magic find gear and carry my exotic set in my inventory. I even run smooth explorable runs on my alt characters in masterwork gear at lower level without problems. If you really think your team is failing because of bad gearing you should wonder if it isn’t just a bad play style.

Dungeons are already cross-server, that is only european servers and american servers can connect with eachother. Euro-american isn’t possible.

Ontopic: CM is on of my least favorite dungeons as well, the silver mobs can be so strong and overwhelming and the gear/armor is just ugly. I’ve run it a few dozen times for my noble rune sets though and never had much trouble finding a group. Then again, that kinda depends on your guild.

My list of salvage results this week: 9 exotics – 1 gave 3 globs the rest gave nothing… Got to love RNG systems!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQNAW7dl4zqq3UzgGa9Iy5DKHqHdn3ddlZMbXIA;TgAqmMNJay2krJZTrFGLA

My current build, I used to run power instead of crit but this offers more versatility.

I often swap my Illusions traits depending on the situation my team needs in the dungeon. I use staff as primary weapon, create clones with dodges and shatter them. I can protect myself and my team with feedback, distortion and chaos storm.
I can spam some nice illusions with dodges and skills to blast them for dps.

And this is with my MF gear

This is my mesmer in it’s exotic gear.

Kursor.5746:

oZii.2864:

Terazeal.1976:

It is almost certain that all possible recipes have not been discovered and publicly posted yet. I think that the people who are posting the recipes they find aren’t approaching it from all possible angles, which would explain other weirdness like the comparatively high amount of foci discovered thus far: foci are likely all made using the same general formula, that being the one that the public researchers are exploring.

Pretty much every combination of recipe has been found already. You can see every pistol and rifle in the game just by going to gw2db. They data mined so everyone knows whats in the the game or not. Also I am sure they will add more weapons to the game.

Do you know this for a fact? Can you link a discussion or something that proves this to be true? Otherwise you’re just speculating.

Yes, we know every skin in the game from GW2DB, but that database doesn’t show how to achieve those items so we have no way of knowing if a skin is from a drop or from the mystic forge.

I highly doubt we’ve exhausted the mystic forge’s recipes, especially seeing as there are only TWO staffs on the wiki list, one of those being the Halloween staff.
There are even some mystic forge specific skins which have been discovered by players who won’t share their recipes.

Ps – I’m not trying to be rude, I just think we should try to keep as much misinformation about the forge to a minimum since it can be hard for someone trying to find out about the MF what is true and what isn’t.

If you follow the crafting forum and the wiki mystic forge list you would have noticed that there hasn’t been a weapon discovered that wasn’t in the gw2db database. So if you find that there are no cool pistol/rifle/staff skins available don’t get your hopes up that there are undiscovered mf recipes, because there aren’t.

Temple of Lyssa uncontested:
Sparks – charged lodestones
Earth elementals – onyx lodestones
Ember – molten lodestone

Temple of Dwayna uncontested:
Sparks – charged lodestone

CoE dungeon runs:
Charged lodestone

Semi-complete guides…
And I am not sure, but do Tar elemental drop any of the lodestones? I believe I heard it somewhere but am unsure.

I have farmed onyx and corrupted lodestones a few times and they seemed to average to about 1 per hour for me. Sometimes I got none in 2hrs and sometimes 3 in 30minutes. It’s all random and luck, but the average was about 1/hr.

TravisTrout.6803:

That was also my plan until I realized that current price * 250 = lol for a bloody exotic. I was up to 8 stones after much mind-numbing farming, then I decided to call it quits and cash out.

Not really a difference between an epic looking exotic and an epic looking legendary. Especially if you transmute your legendary back onto an exotic to match the stats you need, the color will be orange again.

Karpuz.5409:

Well at least you manage to farm them. I did 5 CoE runs, got 1 Core. And my server NEVER seems to clear Temple of Dwayna, so no chance to farm sparks alone. hurray

I actually prefer the temple of Lyssa for spark farming. And ye the dungeon loot chances or horrible… That will be improved soon though.

CoE a difficult dungeon? Since when?
And as far as the droprates, I have yet to receive a single lodestone from any dungeon. I have only gotten a few (2 or 3) molten cores and 1 onyx core so far from dungeons. I am better of farming mobs for them.

The server reset for act4 (temporarily) fixed it, and on my server (ring of fire) Arah is opened again.

Nope as TheRabbit said, it IS possible for a group leader to kick everyone but it doesn’t happen the way you said it.

I was able to get in the dungeon yesterday but Lupi bugged out on us and it would not become an attackable NPC. It stayed green, and we didn’t even get the cutscene with the friendly NPC.

I am looking for a server where the gates of Arah are not bugged at the moment. I prefer a server where it is uncontested, but as long as the pre event is not bugged it is fine.

Could anyone help me out on this? Trying to get Dungeon Master after weeks of looking at bugged gates/bosses and PuGs falling apart at you know who.

Discovery is the way to go.

oZii.2864:

The idea is ok but its more to it than just making sure that it takes time to do it. You have to think about people that have invested in and are selling lodestones for profit also.

No you don’t. Abusing the TP to make money ruins the economy for people who play the game normally. Items get an artificial value which it shouldn’t have. Ruining merchanting on the TP can only be seen as a good thing in my opinion.

lackofcheese.5617:

You can type in the number if you click on the number area and press Enter after you’re done typing the number in.

One thing they fixed in the current system is that now you can do more than 999 items in one go, which is a decent improvement.

I have 5 professions at 400 and I never even attempted to make more then 300 items at once.

This sounds like a good idea but I have to agree with Ryokoalways that 60 is way too cheap. 180 or even more sounds like a better price. Dungeons earn a lot of money themselves so after 3 runs you could buy a lodestone with money AND get 3 your way. That sounds way too easy to get.

Did you really think 40 staves would be enough? If it was that easy to get a precursor it would never have gone up to 400g in the tp.

As Icey said, I would expect legendary armor first. I don’t think jewelry will ever be released since it has no visual function ingame and the stats of legendary is the same of exotic.

Since I have rebuild my traits (from 30 – 0 – 0 – 10 – 30) to 0 – 25 – 0 – 15 – 30 the scepter became a bit more useable.
It can kill enemies around the same time as my staff (using focus as secondary), sometimes incredibly fast and sometimes a bit slower. Granting my clones fury makes the bleed stack, getting them killed stacks confusion and finally blowing them up gives another 6 stacks of confusion. Combined with the scepter skill 3 this quickly results in the death of mobs. Using the scepter block to stay high hp and possibly throwing in a warden for extra damage/block or even using it as a suicide phantasm.

I also see that the item says soulbound on use, but I can’t find the weapon ‘The Crossing’ when I search on TP.
Does this mean that if I learn the recipe on my mesmer I will not be able to use it on my necromancer later on? Or can they just not be sold on tradepost?

You can just make a character get a few levels then delete after unlocking the hint.

You are wrong. Listing price is 5%, the other 10% is taken away after selling the item. And you obviously will not get it back when you take the item off the auction house, that’s why it is called LISTING price. You did list the item so you do pay for it.

Yes I have experienced this too, after selecting a new target your old target will be attacked for another 2-5 times (even with just auto attack) before my character attacks the fresh target.

The only story modes I had any problems with on my mesmer were the ones where Lion’s Arch gets infected by the risen. After that they all were doable with a bit of tactic and thinking.

I support partially. The only place I remember where it really bothers me is CM, in the basement and in the house. The rest of the dungeons are decent enough.

If it was a connection failure the browser would give the no connection page, not a javascript alert screen. I agree that this does not make sense.