I found a useful tip on the spider queen for speed groups. This is only assuming if you have a ele for AC, which you should anyway, because it makes those run more smooth.
Try to kill off most of the spiderlings before the spider queen comes to the stack. At this point you should already have an ice bow ready to freeze her before she does her aoe. During the freeze, your group should be able to dps her without having to worry.
The only problem with this tactic is that if you pug, which I do often, there will always be a person that doesn’t listen and crowd control the spider queen anyway. UGH. I think it’s because they’re new to the game still and don’t know what cc/defiance does.
There should be an introduction to field/blast effects and cc/defiance tutorials for beginners. I don’t remember doing them if there were, but I do know I looked them up to learn about them.
You guys forgot the main exploit! Stacking is wrong that’s why the spider queen in AC does aoe regardless of your position. She aoes for you to stop using the stack exploit.
You did the wrong thing by joining groups that say “exp, fast”. Everybody knows post like “exp” “speed” “fast” “80s” all mean the same thing, because people join regardless of their experience/builds.
Speed and exp may mean something different for the person joining and the person making the group.
It’s gonna be pretty tough to do AC spider queen with people having low dps in PUG groups.
No more carrying lowbies and “play how I want players” for now.
This spider queen change is to make non zerker players and players using horrible weapons set to think again about the weapons they use. There will be more weeding/booting people for not listening in AC groups on the spider queen.
-Staff guardians that use their staff to pull and continues to use it to chip down the mobs in the stack. I say chip because the damage is weak!
-Guardians that spam their light fields even though their is an elementalist in the party.
-Ugly looking charrs that join the party, they’ll all ugly unless in the mad king outfit.
-Mesmers that never use feedback or timewarp.
-Necromancers that fear mobs out of the stack and ruins it.
-Any professions that use their knockback skills just because it’s off cool down and makes everyone else run toward the target again. Why does it always happen when their defiance is gone? WHY?!?
-People that don’t answer questions when they’re being asked directly.
-People that refuse to ask for help and continues to run around lost in the dungeon until they get upset then leaves…
I tested most of the outfits, pirate/bloody prince/mad king/witch, and when I tried to remove the shoulder look. It does not work. The shoulders appear regardless of clicking them off or not. Please fix this.
thanks
Okay I fixed it. I should’ve put thief for arah skipping. W/e
Best tip: bring the most dps can you can to the party. The faster you kill stuff the more fun it’ll be for you. Wiping because of weak dps is not fun for anyone.
AC: elementalist using ice bow for ice storming the burrows and bring stability for the last boss (p1/p3). P2 is about having dps and reflects for the last ghost boss.
CM: thief for stealth
TA: thief for stealth, guardian for lawn mowing and aegis.
SE: guardian/Mesmer for condition removal/reflects, bring stability for the spinning golems to prevent dps lost time.
COF: dps dps dps! Anything less is slow. Mesmer for portal if you can’t run through boulders. I love having boulder races, it’s fun.
COE: vigor skills if you can’t dodge… reflect for the golem with turrets
HotW: snooze dungeon… bring good dps or you’ll be sleepy
Arah: If you can’t melee Lupi, keep trying to learn how to melee Lupi until you succeed. It’ll lead to faster runs later on.
I hope my vague tips help somebody out there.
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Tank = Everyone stacking together.
Healer = Personal heal skill, dodge and the revive button “F”.
Dps = Based on armor/weapons/traits (Best damage = berserker stuff, traits = use the damage boost ones).
For people who thought it went away, it never did! It evolved.
Most of the achievements in this living world event I think is fair, because most of them are based on your ability to dodge or avoid certain things. The only problems that I see with some of the achievements this time is the killing the 3 knights within 6 minutes and the prevent the toxic spider from reaching a cocoon.
If the living world was suppose to be for the casual players then I believe killing the knights within 6 minutes is impossible during most times of the day. This is only because most casual players, I assume, do not play with berserker sets or with the maximize dps traits.
I believe the cocoon achievement for preventing the cocoon from being touched by the champ spider is the worst one ever made. The worst one! I believe nobody thought this through enough when they made it because it’s based on 5% players skills and 95% random factor of one person trying to solo the champ and dying. Therefore, making it impossible to get the achievement until another champ spider spawns. Even when another one spawn, you’ll have to watch out for another griefer spoiling the achievement for everyone else that wants it. This achievement was made for griefers. Catering to griefers does not make the game appealing. Anytime it takes only one person to fail an achievement… it means that it’s a bad design.
lets be honest, there is no difference in an lfg with p3 or p3 exp only, p3 speed run, p3 whatever. the 1 might fill faster than the other but your still getting randoms. GEAR CHECK and stop moaning like little bithces
^ This! Pugging dungeons will always RNG bad to skillful players. The only thing good about putting exp in your lfg post is that it will have an increased in better players that’ll join.
I found people that are great to add are the ones that do arah runs. If they can melee lupi then they’re good enough for other runs. Melee and survive that is. There’s a huge difference between a person that does melee and dies compared to one that lives.
I’m talking about all veteran risen subjugators, everytime i run into them they do life leech nonstop. Even when I interrupt them, they’ll just do life leech again. It’s annoying to map.
I’m surprised this bug is still around. This life stealing veteran will keep stealing life from you even after it has been stun/feared/knockdown. It’ll stand back up and continue to life leech while you can’t do anything about it.
I didn’t notice they were in the same guild until they started sounding so aggressive in the party chat. Most of the time it’s fine to pug in normal dungeons, except for probably fractals and arah, where most of the people kick just for one mistake.
Just thought I’ll give another good reason to make it so it takes more than 2 players to boot people from a party. This probably would not be the majority of the people but these very few makes it worst for other players.
On a normal evening, I joined a semi guild groups for AC path 1 and 3. I say semi because there were only 2 people in that guild and the other two were random pugs, like myself that joined. We were doing the run normally in path 1 to the boss and I said wait for the it to come to the corner before pulling. Since I thought they were going to aggro by accident, I rather say something then to be silent. I also typed it in capital letters by mistake, but whatever it happens. They thought I was rude and said something rude back to defend their honor or some such. It didn’t bother me, oh well.
We went on to do path 3. What happen was the person that went out to pull the spiderlings got downed and his guildie decided to run out and try to save him but also got downed. Lucky for him, he was an ele and mist form back to us resulting in a wipe, but before the wipe I said “stack”, since I saw people moving out of position. After this they said a bunch of “we know what we’re doing comments”. I decided not to bother arguing with these morons. Probably one reason why most pug players don’t speak in chat. I figured they’ll kick me from the party there, because they were sounding like little kittens. I should’ve left, but I didn’t… my mistake. We moved on to reaching the last boss and right before the boss died, I got booted. I was wrong, they were more of a kitten then I thought. I had my time lost because some idiots decided to kick me, for saying, “WAIT, DON’T AGGRO UNTIL THE CORNER” and “stack”.
p.s. I saw them both with ice bows and their ice storm didn’t destory a burrow… I just thought it was funny.
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Force and accuracy it is.
What sigils should I use for my professions?
I’m thinking Force and Accuracy for my warrior, guardian, thief, mesmer, and ranger.
Force and Accuracy and/or Battle for necromancer, elementalist, and engineer.
For the stacking sigils, which is better for the professions, bloodlust or perception? I hear you can double stack these, is that true?
I can’t decide cause these are so expensive. Some input will be nice or maybe why you think other sigils may be better for certain professions.
Necromancers are being kicked for being necromancers. This profession need something to bring for the party or get a damage boost for pve, they get kicked from groups for this very reason.
Sometimes doing fractals is annoying. Run to the boss and he just stares back at you doing nothing. We need a way to reset the encounter without having to wipe, because sometimes wiping to reset the encounter doesnt’t work.
Got to the molten weapon tester and the dialogue pops up but nothing happens. Add a way to start every encounter and these auto encounter bosses will bug less for us. It’s also good for people to prepare before the fight too.
This needs to be looked into as well as the other party system that is bad. People joining groups and leaving make it impossible to post for more players.
Need to remove the limit on lfg post.
Standing inbetween the lasers sometimes kill you or it sometimes doesn’t. This need to be fixed.
The difficult I feel is the same. Some mistlocks need to be changed, like 37 and 43. 33 just need to be fixed.
Devs need to look at these and fix them. 33 has insane buggy damage, we get double damage from aoe. 37 trin boss can’t be killed. 43 has insane unavoidable damage and killing chanters in cliffside doesn’t remove the debuff. Getting damage for hitting the enemies is so stupid because their is no real healing in this game.
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Dungeon vanquishing seem wrong just because some dungeons have connecting paths.
1. Make dungeon story account bound so we don’t have to repeat the same story for each alt or give us tokens for doing story mode so it doesn’t seem pointless to repeat story mode for each alt.
2. Make it 3 players to kick a person instead of only 2 players in a group.
3. Make it so that once a dungeon is open, the opener can leave without booting the group from the dungeon.
4. A daily dungeon checklist to show which dungeon paths we’ve done between daily resets.
Removing waypoints is not the way to make people like dungeons. It’s not a challenge, it’s an annoyance.
They can do whatever they feel like to dungeons, BUT please announce stuff like this. It’s like going into a math finals and having nothing but history questions thrown at you.
Also, removing waypoints are a big deal. Imagine all the other dungeon paths losing a few waypoints. Have fun walking back from the beginning… nobody likes that bullkitten.
It’s only a matter of time until anet finds another way to make life difficult for arah p3. Seem like anet wants to increase more path sellers because this is what it’ll eventually lead to.
Correction, scorpion aoe wires into instant bomb (the bomb hurts you before it even blows up). Impossible to avoid without a stability. Need to react instantly or die… I find this stupid.
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In path 2, Alphard gotten buff, potentially one shot the whole party if you try to melee. Instant bomb after aoe scorpion wire nearly impossible to dodge. His spinning dagger attack shoots lightning long enough for you to die. Melee = death. The waypoint after the billion of elite spiders is removed…
No information on this hidden patch. Things like this is annoying to players.
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In case you guys are not doing this already, roll for the urban fractal to get a higher chance for the molten fractal to show up. Good luck.
Really? How does that work? I thought it was random
There are different tiers of fractals: shortest, medium, longest. Urban is under tier 1 and tier 2, so if you get urban for tier 1, it will not show up for tier 2. This increases your chance of getting the molten fractal.
In case you guys are not doing this already, roll for the urban fractal to get a higher chance for the molten fractal to show up. Good luck.
then i have to tell you, if you have never seen a true necro player you can’t judge.
i do more damage then a team can, i even kill champs on my own while other profs need a team to do the same.
i heal, support, do massive DPS and even take down whole groups almost blindfolded.again, you can talk bad about necro’s but you can’t judge, they are actually one of the most powerful in AOE DPS and support.
every profession can kill lupicus alone. problem?
BUT all the professions have different time kills. That’s the problem, well actually, it means some professions are better. ;p
I never said anything the damage professions do. Main thing about pug groups are about staying alive in my opinion. Some have better utility skills than others. Why use professions with less resources compared to others like warriors, guardians, and mesmer?
Most people don’t like necromancers, engineers, or rangers because they don’t have much to offer. It’s not always about the damage they do.
You really need to broaden your understanding of the classes, then.
You don’t even make sense. Keep believing every class is equal.
I’m not saying that every class is equal. Warriors don’t have Spotter and Frost Spirit. I make perfect sense, you just aren’t able to understand it, and that is probably due to a willful ignorance.
Why are you always trying to change the topic from utility skills so you can look right? Can’t you accept some professions have better pve utilities than others? You also have issues with warriors because I mention warriors/guardians/mesmers but you only mention warriors. I think you should roll a warrior, since you think about them so much.
I never said anything the damage professions do. Main thing about pug groups are about staying alive in my opinion. Some have better utility skills than others. Why use professions with less resources compared to others like warriors, guardians, and mesmer?
Most people don’t like necromancers, engineers, or rangers because they don’t have much to offer. It’s not always about the damage they do.
You really need to broaden your understanding of the classes, then.
You don’t even make sense. Keep believing every class is equal.
I never said anything the damage professions do. Main thing about pug groups are about staying alive in my opinion. Some have better utility skills than others. Why use professions with less resources compared to others like warriors, guardians, and mesmer?
Most people don’t like necromancers, engineers, or rangers because they don’t have much to offer. It’s not always about the damage they do.
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actually less people would buy dyes if they were account bound cause they wouldn’t need as many and the dye market would crash overnight. It’s one of those good for the player bad for the economy things so i dont see it changing .
More people would get dyes because it’s account bound. All the dyes on the trading post will be gone so fast.
I think it is not a glitch. I think the copper gives more runes when used is to prevent champion farmers from farming for a long time without visiting a merchant. It’s slows them down because their bag space is being filled even when their items are salvaged.
Okay, some things new people need to know about Arah.
-Don’t bring your worthless necromancer that has useless utilites, they suck. Just accept that for pve. Necromancers suck for Arah.
-Use a warrior if you have one, so many evade skills and weapon skills.
-Use a guardian, a whole bunch of aegis and block skills.
-Use a mesmer, feedback, that’s all it is.
-A thief… maybe if you know when to use smokescreen to avoid aoe, plus they have good endurance. Could be a party saver with refuge.
-An ele – lots of good “don’t kill me skills”, just squishy if you mess up.
-An engineer – only has one reflect skill in the toolbet, but that’s better than nothing.
-A ranger – has a few good self-saving skills that cause their pet to die, but at least they’ll be alive.Last of all, GO WATCH THE GIGANTUS LUPICUS FIGHT BEFORE JOINING A GROUP.
You might actually want to post valuable information instead of misinformed rants. It would be a lot more helpful.
Telling me it’s misinformed doesn’t mean anything if you don’t provide information to fix it. At least explain why you think so. Plus, this is more for people new to Arah. New players to the paths don’t melee Lupi.
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This glitch get noticed yet? Anytime you try to pick up an item, if you happen to fall or get interrupted by an enemy, your skills are unusable.
Okay, some things new people need to know about Arah.
-Don’t bring your worthless necromancer that has useless utilites, they suck. Just accept that for pve. Necromancers suck for Arah.
-Use a warrior if you have one, so many evade skills and weapon skills.
-Use a guardian, a whole bunch of aegis and block skills.
-Use a mesmer, feedback, that’s all it is.
-A thief… maybe if you know when to use smokescreen to avoid aoe, plus they have good endurance. Could be a party saver with refuge.
-An ele – lots of good “don’t kill me skills”, just squishy if you mess up.
-An engineer – only has one reflect skill in the toolbet, but that’s better than nothing.
-A ranger – has a few good self-saving skills that cause their pet to die, but at least they’ll be alive.
Last of all, GO WATCH THE GIGANTUS LUPICUS FIGHT BEFORE JOINING A GROUP.
The ele’s fiery great sword is great for skipping trash. Put your autoattack off and just spin and dash your way across without having to worry about going backwards because of the autoattack. Maybe use the stability skill in case one of the undead does the banner skill on you, forgot what it’s called, until you get used to where they are.
yeah the further seal get reset but the seal from the jumping area doesn’t. Seem like a half reset sort of deal.
Dungeon tokens are always useful. It’s the cheap way to gear up alts. You get the tokens to buy your alts items they need and the gold to use for anything else you desire. I think dungeons are okay the way they are. Fractals, on the other hand, has stuff that needs a fix. Ascended rings not being able to salvage and pristine relics that are useless after getting your rings. At least with dungeon tokens you can make legendaries or salvage for ectoplasms/dark matter.
I’m guessing if ascended armor did have slots for agony resist, it’ll be the new agony infusion slot. To infuse the armor will probably require Shard/Glob/Vial of mist essences. This way, if you got the higher agony resist for the back/rings, they will not be wasted.
Also while they are doing that;
I would also like a simultaneous talk about why they decided to make an already annoying fractal infested with dredge even more annoying by packing even more dredge.
I would sincerely like to know the justification behind that idea…
Yeah, I don’t understand the increase dredges part either. People were complaining that the dredge fractal was more time consuming than being difficult. Making it longer would just prevent people with limited time to even play fractal.
If you’re pugging groups anyway, you’re bound to either get the no wipe group or the takes awhile longer group. People shouldn’t expect good runs if they don’t set them up with their guildies/friends.