Guild Wars 2

Apparently 1 path of 1 dungeon = all of PvE

15 gold is pretty ridiculous for 1 dungeon path. Maybe if they were offering completion of every path in arah, but 15 gold for 1 path is insane.

You’re not alone, just salvaged 7 CoF helmets and got 2 ectos.

I highly doubt that would happen. Has a developer even hinted towards that or is it just random speculation.

1. No idea what you’re talking about.

2. You’re supposed to sneak past the krait, it’s a challenge that doesn’t involve fighting, get over it. As for the boss. If you would learn how to actually fight him instead of whining, you’d learn that you’re supposed to drag him to electrified cages. Not doing that and complaining about it taking too long is like killing the legendary dredge powersuit without oil and saying it’s too long.

3. Oh wow, and then you went and complained about that. Pour oil on him, not hard. BTW When he’s superheated if he tries to heal then he just stuns himself. And no you’re not, “always losing people and relying on luck.” You play your class properly and deal with the mobs, it’s not hard. I get through them at level 30+ with no deaths, you should be fine.

5. Yea I wish it would remember where I left the pop-up menu and pop-up there instead of in the middle of the screen.

6.) ……….. seriously? They did make an achievement for that, it’s called open grave. Also I don’t get people whining about skipping in fractals, what do you REALLY skip? A handful of mobs on the first climbing section of cliffside. Sons of svanir on the way to the boss in snowblind. That’s all I can really think of.

7.) Or you could… you know.. do level 10+/20+ fractals for globs/shards. Hell all it takes is like 2/3 shard drops and you’ll have more than you ever need.

I read it, you still have yet to show how this is an issue.

Why is this an issue for you?

Why does this need to be said so much?

Find. A guild. Run fractals. With that guild.

I mean, wtf do you expect? You run with random players and then whine because you got the bad part of the random players. Oh and you’re especially screwed because all the GOOD pugs are at 20+ by now.

Find a guild, plain and simple. Stop running with random people and then whining when they do what random people do.

You can do it with really any gear, at any level, with any skill level. But if you want to get to where the money is then yes, you need to be well geared and know how to play well.

Really anything would be better than the current system.

Are people looking at a different site from me? All the time on these forums I see people claiming stuff like "all posts say “must have experience”" or “all posts say, must be guardian”

I very, very rarely see those posts.

That doesn’t change that fractal weapons are still terribly implemented.

Also, rings aren’t needed for progression.

I don’t even mind the RNG when it comes to whether or not you get a weapon.

The issue for me is that if you do get a weapon, it’s probably not even one you can use.

My first fractal weapon drop came at level 26. I got a fractal pistol. Something I can use on my thief but not my main character.

Then at level 28 I got a fractal mace. Completely useless for me.

Just now I finished doing my daily level 30 run. Got a fractal rifle. Completely and totally useless for me.

So I’ve gotten 3 fractal weapons. Only one is useable, and none can be used by my main character.

I don’t get why the system for fractal rings was addressed with the system for fractal weapons completely ignored.

Blueshield.6291:

I’ve tried both of those approaches. So far the results have been to get me kicked from the group, be unable to get recruited to a group, and be unable to recruit additional players. I will continue to try at it, since there’s really not much else I can do, but it’s very frustrating constantly being turned down simply for not having ran the content before.

Unfortunately posting that up-front essentially requires the use of in-game chat, which mean hitting far fewer potential party members than would otherwise be reachable via lfg.com.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Everytime someone says that I look it up on lfg.com and every single time they are completely full of kitten.

I guess you didn’t notice that lfg.com is, due to its very nature, constantly changing? The 10 minute interval between my post and yours matters. Consider that before you accuse people of being full of kitten.

I checked within 5 minutes of your post, and some of the ones I listed were 10 minutes or older.

The fact is, people love to sit here and say “even on lfg.com all the postings are only experienced or only speed runs” then that isn’t true, ever.

Oh and:

I’m looking at gw2lfg.com’s listings for AC Explore, and literally every LFM entry states either “speed run” or “experienced only!”

“LF3M AC Path 1&2. Alt Swappin at boss welcomed. Taking one lv 40. /join Nayix”

“LF3M AC all/any path(s)”

“lf1m, all paths, self join, not skipping kholer, so please be proficient at dodging”

“GLF 1m AC path 1”

“LF1M FOR P2 SELF INVITE”

These are the 5 most recent LFM posts on gw2lfg.com

Everytime someone says that I look it up on lfg.com and every single time they are completely full of kitten.

Why not start your own group?

wads.5730:

the entire point of the ELO rating system is so that eventually, with minimal population shifts, you’ll be fighting the same enemies every single week. and the only way to change your rating is to improve in strategy and skill, not population.

working as intended.

Except there’s such a huge disparity in populations between servers (seriously play one a tier 1 server and then a tier 3 server and you’ll see a massive difference) and since population and coverage completely determine your ranking, even if you did somehow manage to go up in ratings, you’d get sent back to whatever tier you came from in a week after getting destroyed since you can’t compete in population.

You’re choosing to contribute less to your group to increase your own drops. Plain and simple. It’s disrespectful to everyone involved. And no matter what you do with MF, you could do more with something else. When you use MF in a dungeon or fractal you are saying “I am more important than the rest of you.”

Go ahead, kick away.

Rings would be worthless since so many people have banks filled with them.

It would be cheaper to buy ascended than to buy exotic. Hell it’d probably be cheaper to buy ascended than to buy rare.

Let me a bit more clear about this.

I have farmed mats since I’ve been playing this game (and I got it on release)

I have farmed in every situation you could imagine. In combat mode, not in combat mode. Being attacked, being chased, being stunned/pulled/slowed/whatever. This is an issue that has only recently began to happen.

Futhermore it happens even when I’m not being attacked. Just now I went to mine some orichalcum in the EB jump puzzle, and got a ruined ore despite using an orichalcum pick and not being attacked. I can say 100% that this is not an issue with being attacked while farming.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

It’s only been recently though. I used to be able to harvest while being attacked and would never have this issue.

I enjoyed leveling my first character. My second I just wanted to get it to 80 asap.

Only reason I don’t have a guardian right now is that I don’t want to have to level it.

Only time I’ve skipped and someone couldn’t make it was after the first boss in the first path of arah, some classes can’t get through that without a specific build.

evolverzilla.2359:

Really, people are not reading NOTHING in this post.

The major problem of skipping is, EVEN if you ask for non skipping group, or non exploiting group ou whatever. There will be always someone that will skip, bug or exploit and the rest will be left behind or will run with the skipper/exploiter.

There are lots of trolls in this game that will do this just for fun, and other that just want to get a group faster and will get ANY group even one that will not share his ideas.

So if people will cause grief to others not respecting it´s better to force people to do the dungeon in just one way. Or a dungeon made to skip everything or a dungeon with lot of things to force people to not skip.

You can see very good examples of griefing caused by people because they don´t want to do de dungeon like the resto of the group, and asked for skip or stay they just say whatever and do what they want, even if its opposite to what is asked in the beginning.

So, if people really respect what is asked from them, this SKIP or STAY discussion will be really a whinning.

Then you kick them, plain and simple.

If I make a group and the majority agrees that we should skip and someone refuses to skip then I kick him. Don’t see why you wouldn’t do the same for someone who skips while the rest clear.

Skipping is boring and unrewarding in a fraction of the time though.

Also, some people just like to complain about it because they feel like others should be forced to play the same as them.

I managed to get a weapon skin.

Too bad it was a mace, and I play an ele and thief.

nerva.7940:

thats not really relevant to the discussion. staff eles are balanced as 1) they can be seen, 2) theyre rather squishy, 3) AOE’s can be bypassed. thief can dump 16-20k burst and disappear, drop targets and leave combat basically on demand (unless chain stunned), and can almost always land their burst (most reliable burst dump in the game).

sure, culling makes everything a lot worse. but im saying thieves are not OK in WvW, even without the culling issue.

If you’re not stunning the thief when he shows up then you’re not playing right. There should be no way for a thief to get to the back of a zerg, attack someone, and leave. He should be slaughtered the moment his stealth wears off.

theyre rather squishy

Hahahahaha

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of ruined ore chunk, ruined logs, and ruined herbs from farming, even when using the necessary tools.

Earlier I got a ruined log from a tree that normally gives elder wood logs, while using an orichalcum axe.

nerva.7940:

aoe can be bypassed, staff ele can be focused and annihilated. staff ele can be seen.

well played thieves are pretty broken in wvw, even without culling

I’d like to see you get to a staff ele at the back of a large group without getting murdered instantly.

While thieves are running around trying to get kills with backstab, eles are getting 20-30 kills in under a minute in big zerg vs zerg fights with their AOEs.

Just transferred over, I’m finding it a very enjoyable server.

Just doing jumping puzzle in EB was a lot more exciting than just jump around and hope you don’t get caught by 50+ crystal desert people.

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Aquatic Ruins
– Final boss takes too long to kill without being a challenging fight."

You’re supposed to drag him to the lit up cages.

marnick.4305:

I don’t want to be a doomthinker here but really … a year doesn’t mean anything to me. A year is merely 600 hours played. Does anyone expect to get full ascended in that timeframe?

I do

You can’t exploit to lupi anymore.

KratosAngel.7289:

With a really good group, you can make up for this … but if you have a good group, people don’t just kill the 2 chanters at both sides. So if you fail at keeping one alive, nah, you won’t recover, you’ll fail. If you see that, just abandon your run.
Worst thing ever, pugs won’t listen, causing a wipe, and then bug happens : adds won’t reset. You can’t try it again, you’re doomed to fail and quit your fractal run.

As I just mentioned.

In my last run (level 30) our necro killed the marked mob.

A few minutes later we were moving on to the final seal.

Just finished a level 30.

Some idiot killed the marked mob, it took a while but we managed to get through.

I’d end up doing 5 minute clears with my thief, solo, in CoF path 1.

Good gold rewards. Unique weapon and armor skins with exotic stats.

“4. I haven’t done fractals at all because everyone advertises for “fractals lvl XX”. Trying to get into fractals at level 1 is impossible. People seem to be drawn to fractals, saying they are fun, but as it is now it is very much higher levels only.”

Hahahahahahaha, that’s a good one.

Finding a group for level 1 is easy, I could have one right now within 15 minutes.

Do you really think it’s harder to find a low level group than it is for someone like me to get a group at any odd numbered level? I could find a group for level 1 and then finish it before I could get a group for level 31.

Just used up 10 ectos/shards/coins (using the recipe for 1 ten different times)

Got 1 clover.

I use full PVT gear, I’m at level 31 fractals and I farm Arah regularly. I wouldn’t imagine using anything else.

Come at me bro.

Generally you should leave one mob at one of the sides

I’ve done it before in the 20s range with both sides at full mob spawn. Simply fight in the tunnel close to one of the seals, the mobs from the other side won’t aggro you there.

When you first enter the tunnel between the two paths, stay around the area where the hallway turns right. If you stay there then the mobs from the other seal won’t attack you. Charge up the hammer on the left side and when you need to, run to the right, hit the seal, and then run straight back (bonus points if you have ash legion spy kits) where the mobs that chase you will deaggro.

Next time I’m in cliffside I’ll take a screenshot of the ideal area to stay in.

Oh and it helps if the one who runs to hit the right seal has utilities that will help him move faster and stay up, elementalists are pretty good for this, especially with their lightning flash.

I’d love to but I’m still only at 31.

Seems that once you hit 30+ you really need to be in a group with others since otherwise finding a group for odd level fractals is a huge chore.

Thomassassinate.9370:

Support.

Also (unless they fixed that if so feel free to correct me) the armor shouldnt soulbound it should be account bound so you can actually spend the money instead of hoarding up tokens incase you decide to make a new character.

The armor is soulbound on acquire, the dungeon tokens are account bound.

So do not buy the armor/weapons you want for a character on another character, as it will be soulbound to the character who bought it.

Stop dancing around the issue. What build are you using that doesn’t benefit from any of the ascended gear available?

What crazy kitten build are you using that couldn’t possibly benefit from any of the ascended items.

The game is doing pretty well ATM despite what the forum population would have you believe. There are issues as is the case in every game, but it’s still doing well.

Yes.

People are upset about a set of gear and a dungeon that both are completely optional. Dunno why.

Except developers have stated that they’re fine with people skipping, and that it is intended.

And do you really think killing mobs makes a dungeon challenging? Do you really think that killing those trash mobs will make a dungeon challenging? Get real.

DancingPenguins.9875:

You can overstack AR and be virtually impossible to damage.

And this here folks, is somoene who has no idea what he’s talking about.

Honestly these are pretty weak tips and involve a lot of luck.

Salvaging isn’t really good advice. He salvages 4 rare tridents that sell for about 27/28 silver each with a black lion salvage kit that he got from a daily which is the first flaw. You have to take into consideration the price of the kit and you can’t assume that everyone will get a black lion salvage kit for free. Buying gems to buy kits is clearly unreasonable as well since you’d be losing money.

You also can’t just go by such a tiny sample size and say “this will make money” as when he only salvaged 4 weapons. The average rate for salvaging rares is around 0.8 ectos per rare. That means out of 4 rares he’d get 3.6 ectos (I know you can’t get 0.6 of an ecto, I’m going with the average)

So, you have 4 rares you could sell for 28 silver each, that would make you 1 gold 12 silver (before trading post fees)

Salvaging them yields 3.6 ectos. You sell them at 28 silver each to get a whopping 1 gold 8 silver. Well you also have to consider the cost of the kit, again not everyone has a free black lion salvage kit. Mystic kits are starting to get pretty expensive, with the current gold price 250 gems will cost you over 4 gold (250 for 5 is the smallest amount you can buy) along with another 25 silver or so for the kits. Master kits cost 15 silver each so it’s better to buy those than use mystic kits. 15 silver for 25 uses which comes out to 0.6 silver per salvage. So to salvage those 4 rares would cost 2.4 silver as well.