Guild Wars 2

Yea, who the hell are you playing against that puts trebs in an area that can be hit by meteor storm?

Keiran.1896:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

Is a bought level 80 better than my hard-won level 80? It isn’t, so I don’t really mind. If someone wants to spend hundreds of dollars for a shortcut and some shiny pixels, it’s fine for me, as long as he does not have a stat-wise advantage over me.

That is where Ascended Gears comes ; they represent power and you litterally need hundreds of gold to get them, while someone can get them much faster with real money. While you will be trying to get the needed gold, those people will be more powerful than you in areas like WvW. Isn’t that unfair?

Why don’t you stop talking about stuff you don’t know about?

The only ascended gear that’s out right now is backs and rings. Do you work for Anet? No? Then you have no idea how the next set of ascended gear will be obtained.

The only thing you can buy with gold to get a stat advantage is the ascended back. The rings are only from running level 10+ dailys, so only the backs can be obtained with gold. And they are not “hundreds of gold.” You can get one with as little as 17 gold. And if that’s too much for you then you still have an alternative. You can buy one with 1850 fractal relics.

I WISH you could buy power with gold. I have 50 gold sitting in my bank with nothing to do with it.

I killed every mob, including the ones behind us at the start.

You shouldn’t be spending any coins on weapon/armor

Why do PvE players feel like they should be able to get everything from just PvE? Why is the idea of having to go into some PvP for some achievements so difficult for them to grasp? Do you see WvW players complaining about having to do PvE for their achievements? Accept that there are some achievements that will have PvP components, just like PvP player have learned to accept we might have to poke our heads into PvE every now and then.

I got both of those my first time I completed the requirements.

The one I’m having an issue with is Open Grave. I’ve gone through that fractal clearing every single mob several times, and have never gotten it.

Yea I’ve got the traits. I’m looking for info mostly on armor and runes/sigils. I was going to go beserkers though a guildmate recommended power/vit/crit damage because of the trait that gives 100% crit on attacks from stealth.

Join an overflow, it’s the only way.

Arsenic.8259:

I would guess you think that a GC backstab build is easy to play.
Make up your own build.

That’s…. helpful.

Not really.

It’s the only useful weapon in a situation where you’re attacking defending a keep/tower

I’ve only kicked someone once, and it was near the end of the third fractal, because they randomly announced that they were running with full rare magic find gear.

Vox Hollow.2736:

What exactly do you feel like you’re accomplishing by not skipping? What do you think you’re missing out on if you skip mobs? Spamming abilities on mobs for 20 seconds to get 0 drops, I know that sounds really exciting but it’s just not for me.

If you’re not into PvP, this game just doesn’t offer that many outlets for stretching your legs and pushing your limits once you’ve gotten geared up. Heck, I’m running with a stacking Sigil just because I like the additional challenge of trying not get downed while doing explorables with pugs.

I’m all dressed up, but with nowhere to go.
And running with skippers is like an evening with a guy that wants to go up for coffee at the end of the night but just doesn’t know how to show a girl a good time. It’s all about the booty, in a depressing sort of way.

And how is killing trash mobs “pushing your limits”

It’s not difficult, it’s not challenging. I’ve killed instead of skipped many times in many dungeons and I can assure you, it’s not a challenge. It’s merely time consuming.

If you consider killing trash mobs to be “pushing your limits” then I’d hate to see you in arah or high level fractals.

I’ve gotten my thief to level 80 and I’m working on getting him geared up with exotics/ascended. I use my ele to farm dungeons so I don’t need to worry about being geared for dungeons.

What I’m looking for is the cheesiest backstab D/D thief build I can find. I just want to be the thief that people complain about on the official forums. I’m looking for information regarding armor, weapons, accessories, traits, everything.

TheGuy.3568:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

TheGuy.3568:

DaveGan.8065:

TheGuy.3568:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I would hope they don’t play WvW. If you’re an ele in WvW and you don’t have a focus in your inventory for swirling winds, you’re wrong.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Swirling_Winds 6 seconds of projectile nullification is not enough to justify the weapon by itself.

From The Wiki Page You Linked

This spell can be used to nullify catapult and trebuchet projectiles

IIRC it’s also the only skill that can do this.

So I post this huge pros and cons list and that’s all you see. Your insight is amazing. The best defense is to move out of the circle. Like I said before 6 seconds is not enough to justify the weapon alone but I guess you missed that part even though you managed to quote it.

The trebuchet blocking isn’t for you. It’s for your keep/tower.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Yes because you have to have the weapon equipped 100% of the time, the possibility of you using another weapon and having a focus in inventory to block projectiles is completely illogical.

If you’re in WvW as an ele and you don’t have a focus either equipped or in your inventory, you are wrong.

Answer both of you in one go. True you can block some but how many attacks is it really? 1 maybe 2. If your taking a keep due to our speed were more useful running supplies and other duties. Let me say it a gain its 6 seconds. It doesn’t mean as much as you think. Now play with focus all you like it has its ups, many in fact, but don’t act like its a requirement for WvW. With it a equipped a player like me sees you as a sitting duck no more no less.

The way your thinking is too limited. I actually take the time to do my homework and figure out the downfalls of using weapon sets in pvp. That “your wrong” if you don’t have a focus crap doesn’t cut it as you give up a lot to use a focus. If you don’t realize that its your won problem. The focus might be useful but it is by no means necessary.

2-3 eles with coordination can completely cancel out a trebuchet. The focus is 100% mandatory for an ele in WvW, if you’re not carrying a focus in WvW, then you’re bad at WvW.

Zabanov.6743:

Heliox.8632:

For the people who skip it boils down to 1 thing.

Note: 99% of people complaining on forums are people whining about why people skip trash, and not the other way around where people who do fast speed runs complain about trash killers. Want to know why? People who do things successfully, quickly, efficiently have nothing to complain about.

No the people who think skipping is an issue just want to enjoy the game, they dont want to take the easy way and just skip stuff. But it just seems like stated before people just want instant rewards.
Some of the people are not gold farmers that just want to do everything quickly. But alas it seems that people will always take the easy way out.
If Anet would have suggested a “skip button” to dungeon most would welcome it with open arms.

you may call skipping successfull or efficient, you can say whatever you want you may say that I complain and whine. But in the end it is the skippers who are just lazy and filled with greed who will take the easy way out on every possible opportunity. And sadly this will not change, these days people only want instant results. And they forgot about the road that leads to those rewards.

Lastly I just want to say fine skip all you want, but I will not. And I hope that those who want to enjoy this game to its full content will refuse to skip as well.

I’m just curious.

What exactly do you feel like you’re accomplishing by not skipping? What do you think you’re missing out on if you skip mobs? Spamming abilities on mobs for 20 seconds to get 0 drops, I know that sounds really exciting but it’s just not for me.

Yes because you have to have the weapon equipped 100% of the time, the possibility of you using another weapon and having a focus in inventory to block projectiles is completely illogical.

If you’re in WvW as an ele and you don’t have a focus either equipped or in your inventory, you are wrong.

PolarApe.9351:

What profession actually just wants Power/Toughness/Vit gear anyway? I wouldn’t use it on the classes I have at 80, anyway (Necro/Warrior). I doubt I’ll ever use any of my badges on my Mesmer or Theif when they’re 80, either.

Guardians? That’s all I can think of that might…

Elementalists.

Lorana.2468:

the trash mobs should be like the Jade enemies in the Jade Sea Fractal.

you can skip all that trash up to Maw easily, perfectly an option.
but my group never does, because those Jade drop Onyx Lodestones, and i’ve also had my fair share of named Exotics from these mobs aswell.

all in all, you want Trash worth killing, dredge is another good example, pretty much everyone hates them but the loot they drop is more than worth it as Miner Bags are very rewarding for the most part with Gossamer and Destroyer Core/Lodestones.

Yes that would be nice. The mobs in jade maw fractal are one way trash mobs could be handled better. They’re actually worth killing for a change. Sometimes we still skip if it’s been a long run and we just want to finish, but I usually kill them.

Teabaker.9524:

3. Class balance. The balance in sPvP is kinda okay, every class has a strong specc. There are some OP and UP classes, like Warriors seems kinda underpowered and D/D-ele overpowered, the rest of the classes seem to be some sort of okay.

Warriors seems kinda underpowered

Never thought I’d see the day.

This sounds like a scam to be honest.

Malediktus.9250:

How is killing stuff which drops t5 and t6 mats (and greens, yellows and very rarely exotics) not viable? Only people who play the TP can claim that.

Any time spent killing trash mobs for t5/6 mats in a dungeon could be spent killing mobs in cursed shore, except in cursed shore you would get 5x as many drops.

achievements need to be looked at.

They seem kind of rushed, like something anet put in at the last moment.

There’s a lot of inconsistencies, especially with how they’re displayed. Some show you how many you need for the next tier, others leave you to guess.

And a lot of them are kind of ridiculous. Especially the WvW achievements.

And it would be nice if they stopped having it so that the next tier takes 10x the previous tier in a lot of cases. Like in the WvW achievements. You use up 1,000 supply for repairs and complete tier 2. For tier 3? You need to use 10,000.

You’re also full, not allowing any transfers.

cannedflame.3597:

Interesting things have been going on lately…

http://bornoficeandfire.weebly.com/

The above site has the screens that show just the kind of behavior that seems to be prevalent in this matchup, at least with one of our opponents…

So let me get this straight.

You see one example of something and use that to make an accusation against all players from a server, complain about them “talking kitten” and then……… talk kitten about them.

“As far as I’ve seen so far, SoR is a bunch of trolling kids who talk big and then… run to put their noses in the corner.”

If I was on TC, I would be ashamed of having someone like you on the server, making the rest look bad with your hypocritical and immature remarks.

I would hope they don’t play WvW. If you’re an ele in WvW and you don’t have a focus in your inventory for swirling winds, you’re wrong.

Huh?

Earth has a great auto attack animation, and provides great DPS through bleed stacks.

I just went on a run, said I didn’t have experience and there weren’t any issues. Group explained what I needed to know. The run went smoothly, only a couple deaths (probably less than your average AC/CoF run) and was completed reasonably quickly.

I found it pretty fun, challenging but not frustrating. I especially enjoyed the fight with lupicus, it was pretty fun and it’s nice to fight a boss that I don’t feel like I can alt/tab out of in the middle of the fight and come back a minute later and still be up.

I’ve been trying to do arah exploreable.

Unfortunately getting a group is near impossible and any formed groups only take people with experience. I’ve been kicked from squads several times for not having experience in arah. It’s like job hunting all over again.

Even though I have full exotics (P/V/T) with ascended gear, a character built for dungeons, a fractal level over 20, it doesn’t matter.

krieb.6039:

alcopaul.2156:

krieb.6039:

alcopaul.2156:

krieb.6039:

Perhaps they can implement something like this to avoid pug disasters:

Everyone gets the same AR as the person with the highest AR in the group.

this is a good idea.

i also propose that everyone gets the same MF as the person with the highest MF in the group so at least that guy will have something contribute to the party other than his constant deaths.

Haha, yeah that would be great.

it is. it will make new “gear” roles. one guy takes care of the AR. one guy takes care of the MF. and the three other guys can wear their maxed DPS/Support gear without ascended items (for now since we got limited build stats at the moment) gimping their build.

And then since the entire group now has perfect stats, then can now go afk and get free rewards at the end.

In fact, forget the dungeon. Instead you get a mail daily that gives you some fractal rewards.

krieb.6039:

Perhaps they can implement something like this to avoid pug disasters:

Everyone gets the same AR as the person with the highest AR in the group.

That’s terrible, it would just encourage people to not invest in AR and run with someone who has more.

Put on MF gear, head to cursed shore during the event to open arah (which is running like 80% of the time) or any other dynamic event in Orr.

At this point you could practically bash your dick into the keyboard over and over and get way more tier 6 mats than you would by killing trash in any dungeon.

Malediktus.9250:

I hate when people want to skip, why skip mobs which can drop t6 mats I need for my legendary?

Because there’s much, much, much better ways of getting tier 6 mats than from killing trash mobs in dungeons.

Grumwulf.9602:

Some posters here need to reread the blog post. Rewards you recieve are based on your actual level. A level 2 cannot farm ascended gear. So there is in fact a disincentive for low level players to go too high as they will have all the difficulty, the higher health pools on bosses etc, but none of the reward. Noobs as you call them will not be sneaking into level 40 fractals because it would make no sense for them to do so. The only reason they might do this is if the only groups on the whole server are running 40 plus. This might happen eventually I suppose but for a long time new players will be grouping with players in the 1-10 category because that doesnt require agony resist. Players will generally go for the group that is the lowest possible number that can raise them a level.

All it says is “personal rewards” are determined by their level.

That is very ambiguous. It could mean anything. Why would they run it? Because higher levels give more relcs, more rares, more exotics.

Grumwulf.9602:

There is no reason for a level 1 to join a level 30 group. He will be rewarded as a level 1 even though he has just done a level 30. Why would anyone do that? Does that in any way seem to you like typical MMO behaviour?

They never said that, all they said is he would get the “personal rewards” of his level.

That is very ambiguous and could mean anything.

covenn.7165:

JaredKincade.9761:

(yawn) WvW isn’t won in a day, or a weekend or even a week.

When SoR beats us 5 weeks in a row, start posting your ss.

You are right, on typical weeks WvW is won during the time slots where one server has superior coverage over another. Which is why classy people or people with a clue about how the game works typically wont point to the scoreboard and brag about it.

Anyways, with this being a holiday week, things might get shaken up quite a bit. People on at different hours due to no work/school, server commanders away for the holiday, etc.

No work? Please.

I’m going to be stuck pulling a 10 hour shift on christmas.

I agree. Before if you wanted to do level 30 then you could invite some random pub and you didn’t have to worry about asking him to link his AR gear, or all his gear. You didn’t have to worry about making sure he had exotics. You would invite him because if he has been able to get that far then he knows what he’s doing.

Now that’s no longer the case. Now the guy that wants to join your level 30 party could be at level 4, have full masterwork gear or, even worse, MF gear, no AR, etc.

Because I want to cheese in WvW with backstab.

Exactly. It’s disrespectful to everyone in your party because you’re choosing to contribute less in order to gain slightly better rewards.

Vials/globs/shards should definitely be able to be bought with some type of fractal relic, either pristine or normal.

Sativo.9754:

Actually, all you’d need to do is ask a player to link their gear. I’m looking forward to these changes although i do think having low lvl players be able to instantly access lvl 40+ kind of defeats the purpose of having challenging dungeon scaling. Will loot be scaled down for a lvl 1-10 player in a 50 fractal, or can they just get a free ride to improved loot and rewards?

It said their personal reward will be scaled to their level, no real clarification on exactly what that means.

My guess, the daily chest for jade maw is scaled to your level. So if your max level is 4 and you do a run at level 28, you still can’t get any ascended rings or infused ascended rings.

What’s to prevent me on my level 80 thief whose at level 2 with full berserker’s gear who is traited purely for offense and is nearly useful in fractals, saying I’m at level 30 with 25 AR and joining a level 30 fractal run in an effort to get carried.

What’s to stop me from putting on full magic find rares and joining a level 40 run, claiming I have full exotic soldiers gear and 25 AR and that I’ve cleared up to 50?

cesmode.4257:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

cesmode.4257:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I hope they add a way for us to view others true fractal level as well as gear, especially agony resist.

Why? Whats the point of this change then? You’ll then be encouraging the current player gated content methodology which is terrible for fractals right now. Bad idea. If they allow people to view gear, fractal level, agony resist…might as well not change a kitten thing in the way levels are handled.

Because then you’d be forced to try to do level 30 fractals with people who haven’t gotten past level 4, have rare MF armor, no agony resist, and are trying to get carried.

I don’t want to have to deal with someone who doesn’t have the necessary gear, experience and player skill required for higher level fractals.

Still…If agony doesnt hit low level players, what changes? Youre not becoming a better player as your fractal level increases.

1. But it will hit low level players.

2. Yes you are. You learn more about fractals and difficult encounters. A pug whose highest level is 30 is going to be better in fractals than a pug whose highest level is 6, 9 times out of 10. The higher levels weed out lesser skilled players.

cesmode.4257:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I hope they add a way for us to view others true fractal level as well as gear, especially agony resist.

Why? Whats the point of this change then? You’ll then be encouraging the current player gated content methodology which is terrible for fractals right now. Bad idea. If they allow people to view gear, fractal level, agony resist…might as well not change a kitten thing in the way levels are handled.

Because then you’d be forced to try to do level 30 fractals with people who haven’t gotten past level 4, have rare MF armor, no agony resist, and are trying to get carried.

I don’t want to have to deal with someone who doesn’t have the necessary gear, experience and player skill required for higher level fractals.

I hope they add a way for us to view others true fractal level as well as gear, especially agony resist.

I’ve gone from 1 to 20.

I’ve ran with some groups in lower levels that in no way could have ever survived a level 20 fractal, much less a level 30.

There’s a problem in that we can’t see someone’s true fractal level, or their gear. I don’t want to be an elitist but I have no desire to run with someone running full magic find rares (my level 17 had a ranger with full MF rares in it) not only because it makes them weaker, but because it’s disrespectful to the rest of the party.

You mean like the lost shores update we just had?

laharl.8435:

Wow, I’ve hardly seen any of those problems. I’m tier 26 and have done tons of below my tier fractals. I’ve seen a few minor bugs but the only bad ones I’ve seen are about 3 total disconnects and a bug on Cliffside where the hammer runner fell off a cliff and the hammer became stuck in midair preventing us from advancing.

Giving players the option to choose their fractals is a terrible idea. We’d end up running the same 3 fractals every single time.

I’m pretty sure if we could choose fractals then every single time would be:

Snowblind
Ascalon
Underwater.

You either didn’t check the description of the ring, or you saw the word “unique” and didn’t bother to think about what that could mean.

Either way, your fault.

+1

Why is it on these forums that every single times someone has a little bit of bad luck, they “got hit with DR.”

It’s called bad luck, it happens, deal with it.

You are either extremely overexaggerating or you’re the unluckiest person alive.

I have completed over 110 fractals and that stuff rarely happens.

“- Someone (or everyone) gets kicked randomly by fractals”

Has never happened to me or anyone I’ve run with.

“- Someone gets stuck in some wall and can’t get out or falls through the floor to their deaths (even worse when they don’t die”

Has never happened to me.

“- The timing of which people get kicked is impeccable, 4 or 5 times I’ve been kicked (usually with the entire team) at the 3rd boss right before it dies”

I’ve never seen anyone get randomly kicked. If you’re entire party is being booted out it’s more than likely your party lead was trolling you and left which made you all leave. If that happens report him.

“- Something happens that makes it so you can’t loot a chest or a boss corpse”

Has only happened to me once. Snowblind fractal the final boss died on the ledge to condition damage and we were unable to loot his corpse. One time in over 100 fractals.

“- Even if you get on a map you don’t mind you can’t choose the variation that you actually prefer”

That’s the point.

“- You try to fill in a certain event requirement (ex. grawl shaman, trying to save all prisoners) but something bugs, making you insta fail”

I’ve never had a bug cause me to insta fail. You do realize that if all the prisoners die then your party wipes? That’s not a bug, that’s intended, you’re supposed to save the prisoners.

I have had 2-3 times where something bugged causing me to insta-win a few times. Mainly on cliffside where at the final boss the seal would suddenly be destroyed and the chest would spawn, was pretty nice.