Scarlet potions work on nightmare court but not flame legion. So you can use them for TA but thats about it.
You can see details of what works for each dungeon path on gw2dungeons. I know there is a thread with all this info somewhere but i dont fancy digging around for it.
Well, today I played AC story and there was this one guy rushing ahead skipping everything leaving everyone behind. Then he started complained. Then he got kicked.
With the new first person camera I think it would be a great time to add images for dungeons and fractal enemies. On top of updating my site I’m also planning to update the wiki.
However getting these images, editing then, uploading them and so on is a lot of work so I decided to make this lottery instead. So here is how this will work:
Lottery happens at end of April
The winner gets 500 g, 5 sub-winners get 100 g each
You get one ticket for each (serious) dungeon/fractal related image
You get an additional ticket for each image which I choose to use on my site
Gif animations get two extra tickets
To increase your chances, focus on less popular enemies!
Images can be about enemies, their animations, their attack effects or just general dungeon/fractal situations (I’m not very strict)
At end of April all imaginary tickets get pooled up and I randomly choose winners and then contact them on forums for account information
Edit your images, at least remove unnecessary areas with Paint
UI can be on or off (which one you think is better)
Any image hosting is fine (for example )
You can also upload them directly to wiki!
Send links to your images in this topic
Hopefully at the end of April we have most enemies, attacks and situations covered up!
Note: If you have ever planned to donate gold, now is a really good time (Wethospu.6437). I have less than 100g so all prize money will come from gems. If for some reason I receive too many donations I will add additional prices.
If you have any questions feel free to ask. Also thanks in advance for everyone helping!
Heyh, based on my observation the biggest thing needed for the dungeon community is a general dungeon guide. There are actually quite many concepts which you have to learn to play effectively and I don’t think they are explained very well anywhere.
For pages I have considered this structure:
General page (done)
What are dungeons and fractals?
How to gear up / find info (game settings, basic combat)
How to use lfg (+ sellers)
Exploiting
Meta (done)
What meta means and what is the current meta
Why it works and how it’s used (active def vs. passive def)
Brief description of professions’ strengths and weaknesses
Links to gameplay/build guides
Combat (done)
How to deal damage (melee, damage build, might, vuln, fury)
How to (stacking stealth, swiftness, mobility, teleports, portal)
Combos (done)
What are they? Overwriting fields?
Important ones
Links to stacking video guides
Others (done)
Combat / out of combat
NPC aggro
Linecasting
Glossary (done)
Terms like meta, zerk, ICD, stack and so on
Now you probably think that lots of those have already been done somewhere. That’s true. I’m going to link to other sources as much as possible to reduce my work and give credit to other people. Current resources:
Maybe that new combo guide on reddit (have to check it first)
If you have any ideas for what should be explained or how any resources please let me know.
Also it will be quite a challenge (at least for me) to keep the guide easy to follow and coherent with all resources around. So if you have any ideas how to organize different topics that would be appreciated.
Heyh, would it be possible to try compile all these changes under same topic? Especially if they have meaningful impact on the fight somehow. Would make my job much easier.
So apart from the rant, do you have suggestions how to correct it?
I was thinking of making a reddit post which would automatically reply gw2dungeons.net whenever someone mentioned a dungeon or a fractal. Do you think it would be useful or perhaps just too spammy?
Why it’s always the “elitists” who have change their ways or use their time so others can keep on with their zero effort style? Yes, I know the horrors new guys are facing. They may have to create their own group, perhaps even open chat and write something.
But sure, once Anet starts paying me I can go to hold everyone’s hands.
It’s actually called Swampland. And the time it takes to roll it is significantly less than doing Uncategorized, Urban Battlegrounds, and possibly the same amount Of time as Aquatic Ruins tho a lot of people don’t like Aquatic Ruins or don’t have the AR for it. So if you want to do an extra 15-20 mins in your run then don’t roll Swampland. And to be brutally honest if you don’t bother to do that you most likely don’t know or don’t bother with the other little things that make fractals go faster or easier.
Another idea is to keep current system but make dungeons less griefable. Currently the biggest problem is that you get kicked at end. What if dungeon tracked your participation?
For example if you get kicked at end you would still get 80%-90% of the rewards. This could also be extended to solos so that you would get 500% rewards if you solo.
Also one quick idea to protect sellers is that you can only kick previous players if you have been in the instance for 5 minutes.
My group does fractal 50’s in 15 minutes. We always get fractal tonics or the skin of our choice. If you do it one second slower you’re a nomad’s wearing newbie.
Lol why so bad? Stop ranging and use valid tactics. I consistently clear it in 5 minutes, solo.
But yeah, I think something should be done to reduce the time needed. It would attract casuals and help us in long term.
The common problem with “narrow scope” discussions is that participants rarely talk about the same thing. You focus on why RNG elements have something to do with player skill. I focus on why player unpredictability is a better mechanic than RNG elements since they both lead to risk management.
From your point of view RNG involves player skill. From my point of view it doesn’t.
No, but that’s not what I said. I said that planning for/around luck is a player skill. Actually it’s a human skill, and a very important one as many events in our lives are influences by such a complex chain of events that they are factually chance-based from our perspectives.
Planning around this, and knowing what to do depending on how a random (or pseudo-random) event pans is important. It actually requires more skill because it creates a very large decision-tree. “Player uses attack X, sigil procs” and “player uses attack X, sigil doesn’t proc” is after all twice as many situations to plan for than just “player uses attack X”.
Why would you promote something which is not about player skill?
I hope you also enjoy these “let’s have as narrow scope as possible without considering the whole situation” kind of discussions (since it will take a while before we get anywhere).
That is pretty neat, just like mai’s spin swirl has a tell as well. Except when your screen is covered with elementalist and guardian spell effects on small humanoids and then seeing those tells in time gets less consistent.
It’s one of the things I really like about my necro actually, when you go into death shroud, the spell effects from other people get toned down a lot so you can actually see crap.
The important part is that their big attack actually has a distinct audio cue.
I wonder what the developers could have been planning when they tampered with Belka.
