Guild Wars 2

RustyMech.9876:

It’s not even that challenging to be frank. The first time that I did it, I felt it was like “baby’s first raid”. I’m not saying that it is not fun, which it is, but it’s no more difficult then what fractals are before you know the mechanics.

Difficulty is measured by a percentage of the player base that can/has completed it. Honestly with how few people I hear that have beaten it, or are even continuing to try, it makes me wonder how much further they can go with it. Why develop something for that small of a population, it seems to not make much sense from a business standpoint; why put resources into something for only a small group of your customers.

I’m not saying it should be changed, or they should stop, I just think based on current metrics, it’s a poor investment :p

Morwath.9817:

kitten Conquest.. In fact uninstall Con quest would be nice.

Same.

adormtil.1605:

Warcry.1596:

Mirtis.6847:

Sthenith.5196:

-Ele
-Thief
-Warrior
-Guardian
-Ranger
- Engineer
-Mesmer (depending on encounters)
- Necro (still seems to be at the bottom, but might have changed)

zerker Reaper does quite a lot of dmg. it is on par with GS warrior as far as i’ve seen. weaker above 50% of target’s hp, stronger when it goes below 50%

Since when does greatsword warrior have good DPS? Auto attacks are slow and don’t hit hard. The only potential candidate is 100b but it’s a 3.5 second channel so the number you see should be divided over that.

I thought axe on warrior was harder hitting.

Really 1 hit at critical with those buffs or boons or whatever you wanna call them gives you 3k per hit with the first skill, the second one can give you 90k in 3.5 sec, the third one around 3k, the fourth one around 10k and the last one well I have no idea. But you guess how much damage that is right in a minute right?
Tell of a class that can do that much damage in such small amount of time?

Reaper’s Shroud with 100% Crit until 50% health, then Gravedigger spam.

Mirtis.6847:

Sthenith.5196:

-Ele
-Thief
-Warrior
-Guardian
-Ranger
- Engineer
-Mesmer (depending on encounters)
- Necro (still seems to be at the bottom, but might have changed)

zerker Reaper does quite a lot of dmg. it is on par with GS warrior as far as i’ve seen. weaker above 50% of target’s hp, stronger when it goes below 50%

Since when does greatsword warrior have good DPS? Auto attacks are slow and don’t hit hard. The only potential candidate is 100b but it’s a 3.5 second channel so the number you see should be divided over that.

I thought axe on warrior was harder hitting.

I would prefer just a visual indicator so we know when the boss is below 50%, for certain traits/skills. Or maybe every 25% it can change color or something.

30 minutes after every Odd hour server time (5:30, 7:30, 9:30, etc) the map resets, go then and look for a map that is finding people. I have NEVER not found a map and complete it often 2 times per day. Just keep looking in the LFG and you’ll find it

Perhaps they didn’t want people doing it for reasons similar to farming mobs in certain events. The spiders were not tied to an event, but if you were doing it, you were not participating in any events, causing them to be difficult for players.

I don’t know really, just my thoughts

SkyShroud.2865:

Secondly, didn’t anet mentioned that if people want to grind for experience and level up quickly, it is their rights to do so?

No. They said the Central Tyrian masteries were designed with old content in mind, and how fast we get them is up to us. These new ones in Maguuma they don’t want a farm like this. Which is why CoF is fine, but this is not according to ArenaNet

I have never seen less than 3 or 4 maps at any give time… What is this talk about “only one map” based on

If you don’t play, why does it matter to you?

I’d love to see the fights work like Edge. All Green vs all Blue vs all Red. When a map fills, it opens another instance. Sure it would be hard for servers to find a map together, but it would solve many issues regarding population.

I met my girlfriend/future wife on the 14th of March 2011 at a Zaishen Bounty (Greater Darkness, Ravenheart Gloom). I always hated DoA, but because of that day I hate(d) it slightly less ever since…

Happy for you, there is no better feeling than having someone that shares one of your biggest passions with you

If the map is full you can’t get to it. The Teleport To Friend item serves its purposes.

What if you are in a location a friend can’t get to?

What if he doesn’t have the map you have at all?

Both cases allow the Teleport to Friend to be quite useful.

Dragon’s Stand event chain will get you almost one million experience total. From events and mob killing.

That isn’t true, just today I disconnected and got right back in. I get the fatal error when using the mortar. But whenever I do I can either get back in immediately, or I spam for a little.

Some require mastery for Gold. Speed Shrooms for The Floor is Lava is required.

To clear up confusion, this is a guide about the final event within the time limit. Not the bad kitten world boss encounter.

There are 3 lanes, North, Middle, South.

South fights Axemaster Hareth
Mid fights Blademaster Diarmid
North fights Staffmaster Adryn

There are often conflicting strategies for these encounters.

The challenge is not in fighting the bosses, but coordination, so I will not post how to kill the bosses, but how to enable them to be attacked.

The one that has worked more often for me is to have a group of 5-10 at each pod, killing the pod and the Preservers that restore them, with the remaining to fight the boss.

The one that I personally do not like is everyone running around killing Preservers, while a smaller group kills the pods, then fights the boss.

The strategies have pros and cons, most of which are just related to how well the group is coordinated. I think that more coordinated groups can handle the group strategy, while the lesser coordinated groups may want to stick to running around in a circle.

The Pods keep the boss immune, and the Preservers heal and revive them if given enough time.

The object is to keep the Three Pods at each location destroyed, so the boss can be attacked.

The bosses have to be dead at the same time, however if one lane kills a boss too early, it can keep it from respawning by ensuring a Preserver does not respawn a Pod. If it does, the boss returns with full health.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about how scaling works in events like this as well, so I’d like to clear up any.

Each event (North, Middle, South) is its OWN event. Meaning, the people at North will NOT scale the people at Middle or South, and vice versa. Also ANY person in the giant circle at North will scale up ANY SPAWN that appears in the circle at north, regardless of how close or far the person is from where the spawn occurred. It works just like Tequatl the Sunless, where people have thought that having too many at a specific spawn point will cause champions to appear. This isn’t true, per the explanation above.

This guide isn’t perfect, but it should provide a good enough explanation for the few that read these forums about how to complete it.

Good luck!

Dahkeus.8243:

Yea, I honestly don’t know what this game would do without Dulfy.net. That site is so awesome.

To Dulfy and everyone who supports that website: Thank you!

As someone who doesn’t visit her website I can shine light on that. While I may not find everything first, the feeling of discovering everything in my own just helps me feel more into the game. No matter how frustrating it is for me, I enjoy the aspect of discovery for myself. She’s great, don’t get me wrong, but I try to avoid guide like websites for my own enjoyment.

Would have been a good time to add the Fall of Abaddon Fractal.

I was hoping THIS was the change made instead of 400 to 250. Keeping it at 400 and hard to reach, but soloable makes you still have to explore the jungle deeply.

Per the blog post a month or so ago, they said “scarcity is a good thing”. So I would think they want their materials to be hard to obtain. Not saying I want/don’t want it to be changed, but if they say they want scarcity, they will change it.

I’m kinda Canadian, I go there every few months to visit my Canadian lady. Does that count?

Anka.5086:

Izzu.1084:

maybe they arent as greedy as you are

Greed is good. :p

This explains the American economic system.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I run into more people like that in PvP than anywhere else in game, but yeah, that’s definitely off the wall. You should report him and submit the unadjusted screenshots as evidence.

When you say submit the screenshot with a report, where do you do that? When I submit a screenshot with a report I made, I was told they “were unable to view screenshots”.

Every time I see threads like this…

ANet: “we recommend ascended equipment”
Hardcore players: “Raids are not meant for casual players”

ANet: “using full Berserker comps won’t work in our new content”
Hardcore players: "Well let’s just wait and see how the content is before we decide anything.

I honestly think the raid won’t be as hard as people are claiming. Sure it may take time, and a lot of trial and error starting out, but I trust my guild of misfits and casual players could do it with some practice.

Think of Greatsword Symbol, the animation involved stabbing into the ground, that makes no sense while moving.

Also Hundred Blades would look weird while moving, hard to put power into swinging a sword while moving.

This will sound like an ignorant question, but as someone that most would consider hardcore, in the sense of time played and skill level, I don’t understand the correlation between hardcore players and a damage meter. Why can’t a damage meter be for everyone? I personally don’t care for having one but if it’s implemented it also wouldn’t bother me, I’m just not getting the association with a meter to hardcore

Maybe add something like: “If no conditions are converted, gain one second of Stability instead”

Paragon in GW1, Necromancer in GW2

My issue is this. It will either be REQUIRED, as in, it must be used, or content is impossible, or it will just be another build possible and thus serve no purpose.

See, I’ve used her website 3 times for living story stuff, and each time the guildes were incorrect, despite my following them perfectly. Personally I’ve had bad experiences with her website.

Deus Fatorum.2473:

Wolfey.3407:

Grats
Now what?

Why Yak Slapper of course! =P

After Heart of Thorns foes live, it will only require 2500 Yaks, which some have already done.

I appreciate the video, I will watch when I get home, small screen makes it hard to see… Plus free WiFi at DMV isn’t exactly reliable!

If I am wrong then great, it is a nerf and I will stop saying it isn’t :p.

I think it means if there are 6+ foes in the aoe… Only 5 will take damage from it period. Not each individual impact.

I’m convinced that each impact currently hits ONE foe, that’s what I’ve observed, I’ll record a video today if no one else will to test, that’s how I understood the balance change to mean.

I am an evidence based person, I require evidence to form an opinion, and will provide mine once I’m able to, if you guys care to follow suit and show me yours, we can get to the bottom of this.

I have not seen that… I only know each one to hit one foe. Show me a video if that is the case. The tooltip does not say 5 targets either.

It’s only a nerf against one foe. Against two foes there is no DPS change, against three foes it is a damage bonus.

People are ignoring the fact that each hit from Ice Storm hits 3 foes now, and I feel like it’s intentional just to complain. Meteor Shower already does this, perhaps Glyph of Storms in Water, Lightning, or Fire could follow suit.

It isn’t a nerf.

It will deal overall +50% against groups of enemies.

4000 × 1 = 4000
2000 × 3 = 6000

It just requires more foes to hit.

Zenith: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meteor_Shower

Meteor Shower DOES do that.

We keep our minions when transformed!!!

No, I want raids to have heavy mechanics involved. Aetherpath level mechanics, but more innovative

According to ArenaNet, the Berserker meta will NOT work. Druid will be amazing because of this. Druid has the possibility to be the most used specialization… At least the most needed

I don’t agree with your feelings on PvE, but I still love to roam in WvW

Vissarion.6509:

I would say, charr mesmer.

My mesmer is charr! But yeah I think this is right, though personally I know quite a few

I’ve reported inappropriate guild names before. With a screenshot attached they told me we can’t use player submitted screenshots, I’m assuming for possibility of them being editted.

Ours isn’t losing Shroud, it’s changing it. Reaper is also getting the highest damaging weapon of the set, someone can correct me if that’s wrong. Reaper is also in one of the best places among all of the specializations.

My question is why this thread is even open still? When Guardian symbol damage trait was bugged 2 months ago I posted a video of Tequatl dying with 13:38 on the timer and people talked about it in the video and I got infracted for posting it. Where is the OP’s infraction for discussing an exploit?

I don’t REALLY mind, I just don’t get why I was infracted if someone else wasn’t or won’t be

I solo roam. A lot. At least while I am in WvW anyway. I never follow commanders and just scout or take camps at their request. I get into some 1v1s but I find more 1v2 than anything else. If I can’t win, I do what I can until I did or help arrives, I NEVER run, except to reposition or bait. I find a decent amount of fights personally.

Vahid my party stands at range. Takes long but that’s how we’ve always done it

robertul.3679:

Yes it’s illegal.
But you can’t just ban people for a minor misdemeanor.
Also you can bug it by accident too.

Of course they can. Read the Terms of Service, or the EULA. There is a clause that says they can terminate your account for any reason at anytime, or for no reason at all.

I actually fight him on land. Always have, always will. Parties that want to exploit him I just respectfully leave and move on to another party. I figure if you need to exploit that fight and are unable to beat it without doing it, Fractal 50s are probably not for you. Those that do it for speed, whatever that’s fine, I only mean those that simply can’t survive on land.

I have said this since the first Stronghold beta. If your inner gate is destroyed, there should be a path opened, or a portal that takes you directly to the Lord’s room. Too often do I die, or take enough damage/waste too much time from someone camping the path from my spawn to the Lord’s room, thus removing me from defending my Lord.

On paper the upgrades look like they will spice up and overhaul WvW completely. Which is a good thing. That was my point, I was just rude about it :p