Guild Wars 2

Dodge to them as soon as they go down and begin your stomp. They will be forced to use their 2nd skill. When they do, cancel and straight away dodge to their new location and stomp again. If you can’t see them, guess. You need to dodge because their #1 downed skill cripples and if you walk you won’t reach them in time.

The alternative is of course the standard method of just pouring on the deeps.

All excellent suggestions besides the last. That’s the reason paid transfers were put in, to stop people from aggressively server hopping.

Because if they were good then good ranger pets would be exclusive to those who played GW1, and they don’t want that. It’s the same deal with racial skills.

JJBigs.8456:

I would like to try playing my mediums/light armors in CoE but have no idea where to start, all I have is zerker gear atm and dont wanna buy bad armor or armor just for CoE. Also want to be able to do some damage so if anyone has a guide for that, it would be appreciated. Not so much specific classes, just in general for non-heavy.

Use zerkers becuase if you don’t dodge alpha’s aoe you die with whatever set you’re using. Maybe you’ll be left at very low with a soldier’s set but you SHOULD be dodging every alpha aoe he puts down.

Source: used to do coe every night. This is not a min/max boss where you want to tweak your build, this is personal skill and twork, pure and simple.

Alright. Fears (Or at least Fear Me) will work on his shield provided he doesn’t have stacks of defiant. He will, when feared with the shield up, move the opposite direction at roughly triple speed. Co-ordinate with your team beforehand to say “Please make sure he has no stacks of defiant” (Probably the hardest part to understand for a pug :/), then fear him, and then you have roughly 30 seconds to clear the lava eles. before taking down the shield.

Given that defiant is an issue that pugs have trouble with (Because paying attention to it is useless 100% everyhere else), you also want to say to everyone to be patient and take it slow but safe. If you move him to the middle (He will follow if you swap sides) then there’s a much better chance that he wont go for a villager right next to him, and you can be a bit safer. Patience is key, you don’t want to rush in, die, and then have 4 team members rush in to try and res you.

Also potentially his most dangerous attack, the one that applies agony and a decent amount of burn damage, is the hardest one to dodge because it has the most subtle wind-up. Once you learn that one he’s practically soloable.

You get a carrion pearl greatsword.

I don’t know about you, but I would like to see smaller dungeons. With 5 people it’s enough of a clusterkitten already. I’ve been trying to solo or 3-man some dungeons recently, and it puts a whole new spin on the bosses when you can’t just ignore every attack and try for maximum dps (Almost in a min/max way, like cof P1 speedrunners).

With less people, every action you do means more.

And maybe with less people they would realize that damage sponge bosses are not kittening fun asdf

You get the most money from running ezpz dungeons like AC and CoF.

I would love to but there’s nothing cool I can actually buy outside of stuff like char slots and fine trans stones. Also everything but 1 character slot I’ve gotten through trading gold for gems.

Their funeral, I guess.

Yeah normally not a fan of invisible walls but this is not an issue in this game at all. It’s actually pretty easy to explore about the place, really. My favorite is getting out and on top of the infinity coil in mount malestrom.

I think heart exp should be waaaayyy bigger. Potentially double. Because right now it’s twice as effective to pretty much just ignore them and explore and do events. It should be an option – ignoring them should be viable in terms of levelling speed, but you shouldn’t be punished for stopping to do a heart.

Not like “balance” in levelling matters though, leveling isn’t difficult and if it was everyone would just make a 5 sig war.

plasmacutter.2709:

No, use common sense. Look at it. It’s 100% some generic medieval town. Every single generic RPG is set in something like that.

The phantasy star series had nothing like that.

What you just said means nothing, star wars has nothing like that either. I’ve never played it, in that case it sounds like it’s not very generic?

plasmacutter.2709:

Writetyper.1985:

plasmacutter.2709:

Writetyper.1985:

Isslair.4908:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Humans just aren’t the center of the continent ..

It’s not about center. It’s about the whole attitude.

Ascalonian fractal – we kill humans, cliffside – we kill humans, who is the “failed” member of Destiny’s Edge – human, which race has virtually no presence in story missions – yup humans, etc.

I can understand the wish to stay away from the standard human-centric worlds in fantasy. But anet overdid it. By a lot.

Because humans are generic as kitten. Have you been to queensdale? There is nothing I could describe human zones as with anything less than “extremely generic”.

Besides, I’m really not feeling what you’re saying. Humans are everywhere.

yes, because the asura lowbie zones are so very non-generic.

Well… yeah. Sarcasm is pointless if it’s true.

Please provide a survey of a significant portion of the playerbase which shows metrica is any less generic than queensdale.

The only thing I see are different architecture and more mechanical enemies.

“Please provide a survey for every opinion posted on forums to prove said opinion”

No, use common sense. Look at it. It’s 100% some generic medieval town. Every single generic RPG is set in something like that. Generic medieval architecture. Generic landscape. Generic medieval NPCS. Generic missions (Help the farmers to farm!). Generic weapons, generic dialogue and generic enemies. You’d have to be insane to call a jungle with high tech diminutive geniuses and advanced technical triangular architecture, in a fantasy game, generic.

Humans are just humans. If I wanted to see humans I’d go kittening anywhere. It’s boring to see humans in a major role unless they’re an extremely well developed character. This is why major FPS games often have their characters described as boring and undeveloped, because it’s some “grim and edgy guy with a history in the army who makes funny one-liners”. We’ve literally seen it all before, in one cliche or another.

Maybe if the main humans were canthan or elonan? That’s cool, a bit exotic, a bit off the beaten path. But no. Krytans are like literally every other human country from generic fantasy games or movies.

plasmacutter.2709:

Writetyper.1985:

Isslair.4908:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Humans just aren’t the center of the continent ..

It’s not about center. It’s about the whole attitude.

Ascalonian fractal – we kill humans, cliffside – we kill humans, who is the “failed” member of Destiny’s Edge – human, which race has virtually no presence in story missions – yup humans, etc.

I can understand the wish to stay away from the standard human-centric worlds in fantasy. But anet overdid it. By a lot.

Because humans are generic as kitten. Have you been to queensdale? There is nothing I could describe human zones as with anything less than “extremely generic”.

Besides, I’m really not feeling what you’re saying. Humans are everywhere.

yes, because the asura lowbie zones are so very non-generic.

Well… yeah. Sarcasm is pointless if it’s true.

Chorel.1720:

Finally starting to turn into a game that it should have been at launch.

But this doesn’t actually fix any of the core problems with the game… it’s just… skirting around the big issues. I hate to use the term “polished kitten” because it’s potentially too strong, but holy kitten this game is a big pile of greatness washed over with a bucket of wasted potential and letting us preview things isn’t going to help that any time soon.

Isslair.4908:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Humans just aren’t the center of the continent ..

It’s not about center. It’s about the whole attitude.

Ascalonian fractal – we kill humans, cliffside – we kill humans, who is the “failed” member of Destiny’s Edge – human, which race has virtually no presence in story missions – yup humans, etc.

I can understand the wish to stay away from the standard human-centric worlds in fantasy. But anet overdid it. By a lot.

And I’m glad. Because humans are generic as kitten. Have you been to queensdale? There is nothing I could describe human zones as with anything less than “extremely generic”.

Besides, I’m really not feeling what you’re saying. Humans are everywhere.

Conner.4702:

People what he was doing is not important, nor is where he was. The fact of the matter he is pointing out a gamedesign flaw where if you get invited to party yet decline while inside a dungeon will get you kicked out.

Now the OP could have emphasized the problem and not the cause more.

I could have. But I was so sad ;_;

I’ll edit the OP.

I think you’re looking too deep into it, like when people see shapes in clouds. This is just what you’re interpreted it to be, I guess.

Rukh.9287:

You can also do neither, it just sits up in the top left and doesn’t really bother anything.

Well he cancelled the invite because it was an accident. That kicks you. I tested it again recently.

Vol.5241:

The chances of someone solo’ing Lupi and then accidently inviting that player is very, very low, so I’m gonna keep on randomly inviting people to my farm runs. If they don’t want in, they can simply decline.

Soloing lupi isn’t the only thing someone could be doing solo in an instance. How about messing around trying to break out of the map? I’ve even seen people farming the risen at the start of arah by pulling them to the camp. Is there something wrong with asking before you invite people out of the blue?

Vol.5241:

This incident very rarely happens. I’m not going to go through the trouble of having to whisper every single person I want to party up in shelt/pen just because someone else had a rare occurence of being kicked out of a dungeon.

Pen/shelt is an obvious exception because if they’re standing outside pen/shelt then they’re obviously not trying to solo a dungeon.

On top of this, is it so wrong to ask first outside of obvious situations like pen/shelt farming? It’s a bit of courtesy

It’s not an exploit but I don’t think it should be happening.

Speak for yourself, it’s fun. Culling is stupid and I don’t like it, needs to be fixed, but I honestly don’t get it so much as a problem outside of large zvz fights at which point it doesn’t matter so much.

EDIT: Case of the matter is, currently it’s possible to kick people from instances if they’re not in a party. This is a problem/bug, so just to be safe and for common courtesy, ask before inviting someone unless they’re absoloutely 100% willing.

So there I was trying to solo lupi. It’s hard, but my god it’s fun. The first time I got kicked out after I had mastered P1 and was still getting used to P2 because of the server reset. That’s okay, I came back the next day, solo’d my way through path 2 to get to lupi in an hour or so, and then got to the fight at which point I managed to get him down through P3 to about 25% health after about 10 attempts and 45 minutes. And then someone accidentally clicked “invite to party” instead of “send mail”, and I got kicked, and I had to start again. From scratch. Turns out if you’re not in a party, and you get invited to one, you get kicked from instances, like dungeons. So,

to people in general: ask before inviting someone to party. I’ve been guilty of this, but it’s both considerate and good forethought on the off chance someone is doing something important in a dungeon solo.
to people who want to solo run: If you’re in any party – even one with people not in the dungeon – this doesn’t happen. So just invite a bro and then they can afk or whatever they do, with the added bonus of moral support.
to anet: please fix :*(

Mantisian.4729:

Red Falcon.8257:

There was no employee survey, just a discussion among players.
It’s been debated a lot of times if GW2 would be worth it even with a monthly fee, but…

Exactly! That’s my question: why is it debated so many times?
It’s really, really strange IMO…

This just in: it’s really, really strange to discuss guild wars 2 in the guild wars 2 discussion subforum.

Funny how this thread won’t get deleted even though it’s not relevant to GW2 because it’s in praise.

Yes please, at this point I’m already sick of every person I see in full abyss cof.

Make good armour, not flashy armour. Flashy armour is the equivalent of those neon signs you see outside cheap fish and chip shops. Good well designed armour is the equivalent of a coherent design you might see outside a bank or something. I think we can all say which one gets our attention more, but agree on which one we would rather look at.

They both have their uses. Hammerstorm warriors backed up with guardians putting out retail and stab and other buffs is absolutely nasty.

Both use mainly greatsword

This is probably right for PvE, but you will want a better weapon for WvW.

What would it be, a circle of rocks? I really don’t get why you think this is something that matters.

Play the game for (are you ready for this?) fun. If you don’t find anything fun, don’t play it. Why did you grind for stuff in a game you don’t like in the first place? I don’t get this mentality of fun in “setting goals and grinding for them”, cosmetics mean literally nothing in a game you don’t play because you don’t like it.

PvP is separate yet parallel to the pve game by design. I think this is good. It would be nice to have something shared between the two… but I can’t think of anything. What use is laurels to a pvp player? What use is exp to a pvp player? Best you can do is titles and achievement points.

Nah, I’m a huge fan of the idea of skill involved in the making of a legendary and I don’t think this is a good solution. You have to think of the repurcussions: every single encounter would be put under heavy scruitiny by runners, everyone would complain once they found something too hard, people would complain about the idea of unskilled/uncapable players being “locked out from legendaries”, people would complain about being forced into groups, people would complain about simin and as Saulius said dungeon path selling would be huge. I like the idea on paper but I think this is a situation where the cons outweight the pros.

Optimally I’d like to see small personal challenge solo dungeons for legendary items. Picture this: you have to explore a region (magumma, shiverpeaks, ect) and for every event you do or champion you kill (stuff like that) you get some kind of token. Once you have a hefty amount (say, 2 hours of play) you get to open an instance which is personal. This could be really really difficult and tricky to finish – even with some kind of a guide you need to have a level of personal skill to pass. When you do, you get one component of a gift for making a legendary – and you’d have to do it 4 times, once for ascalon, maguuma, kryta, and the shiverpeaks.

Ultimately that’s a pipe dream, because it would be a lot of development time spent in something maybe 1% of players will ever care about, but kitten would it be nice. I would respect anyone with a legendary a lot more.

Riss.1536:

Can someone explain me the point of this thread ?

Can someone please explain to me the point of this post? This subforum is for general discussion of guild wars 2. This guy is generally discussing how he feels burnt out on guild wars 2. Seems pretty clear to me?

If you don’t find it fun, don’t play it. There’s no point grinding for stuff you think looks cool in a game you don’t like. That’s far too much like work. I personally find the game quite fun and so I’m not stopping anytime soon.

At least stay up to date with the patches. Nothing stopping you coming back.

Mesmer

15 characters (Do mesmer)

This thread is kittening embarassing, a prime example rise of the pleblords.

I’ve got no problem with people gaming the system and abusing attacks to get their laurels instead of playing the game, but doing this and then complaining about it is just dull. Fact.

If you game the system to try and get your dailies without playing the game then you shouldn’t be surpirsed when something goes wrong. Besides, you can do your kittenty little dodging thing literally everywhere. Literally every creep that attacks you. It really begs the question, why don’t you people dodge and why do you have to find special little places to get your silly little daily for muh farming? How do you do Lupi? How do you survive in WvW? Are you the same people who complain about kholer being too hard? I bet you’re playing warriors.

No offense but this is nowhere near as impressive as your other runs… HotW is kind of easy, just boring as kitten. Shouldn’t have started at the top

EDIT: Uh and it kind of cuts off right through the shaman boss, which was probably the part I was most interested about figuring out how you did.

I would just like something built around replayability. Dungeons/Fractals are NOT this at all, even though they vastly encourage it because they are exactly the same every time you run it.

Hell, I’d be happy with your standard defense mode that you might see in other games (see Halo’s firefight or GOW’s horde). Semi-random/dynamic defence, gets harder as you go along. It doesn’t need to have rewards, there’s nothing wrong with just playing something for fun.

If WvW and my guild weren’t here, I’d probably have left this game long ago.

Falcon Night.4653:

WvW should go under the Monthly PvP tab.

But the pvp tab is for spvp, that’s a horrible idea. And you can’t give a wvw tab because it would have to give pve rewards and then a bunch of plebs would rush in to wvw and throw for their server because of the rewards.

lunawisp.2378:

Craziplaya.2103:

lunawisp.2378:

Well, I don’t pvp so it’s out of reach for me. Not complaining, it’s my choice.

No PvP needed…

Oh? Is WvW not PvP then?

There’s a screenshot of the kittening monthlys at the top of the thread that plainly shows no WvW and you still complain about it requiring WvW. What.

The good:

-This is a good idea for helping out commanders with letting themselves be known, sometimes people talk about really irrelevant stuff in team chat and it just gets drowned out. Some people don’t even seem to look at chat.

The bad:

-this will only help horrible commanders be more horrible.

Vigil
Banded
HotW
AC
Barbaric

^All really good sets. Here’s my current char with mix nd matched gear:

-Some heart helmet (Search “Icedevil Helm”)
-Hotw shoulders
-Hotw gloves
-AC Chest
-Vigil pants
-Hotw greaves

It’s a shame hotw armour is some of the best in the game because it’s the most absolutely boring dungeon to run.

I would prefer they keep warriors the same, and change dungeon fights to actually require utility rather than pure DPS. Given that this would require a 100% overhaul of dungeons (for the better – no more trash mob skipping, more more damage sponge bosses) and I highly doubt anet can be bothered to do this, we can expect just a damage nerf. At that point I’ll stop doing pve altogether because anet are convinced that their idea of walking up to a boss and hitting 1 for 10 minutes where utility is useless and every class is the same but just does damage in a different way, is “fun”.

Now you’re making me curious, what’s in the document?

I have equal amounts of both. Some people seem to think that in games they’re meant to represent or become their character. I don’t. I just make what I think is a good character.

Also don’t say “toon”.

But there’s no rewards for story mode…

Unless you like horrible rare hats, that is.

Do you not understand the concept of difficulty levels? Why would you need story mode to be hard? If it’s reasonable it’s always there for the casual players who even find something like kholer hard.

No NPC races besides kodan (which just use the norn rigging) have their mouths properly animated. If they were to make either of these classes playable then there would be a lot of work before they could make them so. Relax.

I go for what I like.

I don’t understand people who use stuff they don’t like just because it takes a while to grind it. I had a discussion with a guy who literally could not understand why I use the base greatsword skin (Also the best) on my warrior when I’ve played enough to own The Juggernaut. I just use stuff because they look cool.

Either you’ve got a bug I haven’t seen or you’ve got a serious serious dps issue. I’ve never seen him able to outheal what people are throwing at him.

Consider:

-making sure your team has the best gear they can get their hands on
-running it again to make sure it’s not a bug
-stacking might with fire fields
-running gear with at least power in it’s stats instead of giver’s or something.

Oh, of course. I think it might be at Balth but I can’t check at the moment. Can’t find it on the wiki either.

There’s no temple armour that is zerkers stats, unless I’m mistaken or they’ve changed it.

Yeah, they’ve completely trivialized all the hard parts of dungeons now. In some areas it’s for the better (Subject Alpha – if you could do him for 5 minutes then you could do him for 10) but generally they seem to have just given in to the idea of dungeons being facerolled through by the least capable people.

Some like to throw the word “casual” around. I disagree with the use of this word. My girlfriend, who has taken this whole time since launch to get her character to 80 (Some might say “Casual” amounts of play) had no problem getting through SE P1 or CoF P2’s old magg defence room, because, you know, we thought about it, we used teamwork, we had the whole party working together. Anyone went down we got them back up instantly. We didn’t just run in like headless chickens in full zerkers and get CC’d to pieces by the smokelord, we had some people stacking might, we had some people blinding and CCing the smokelord, and we had everyone putting out as many heals as they could.

Hell, my friend’s 11 year old daughter downed less on kholer than the two mute pugs who tried pulling howling king to the stairs.

There comes a point when you can’t use the word “casual” anymore, just “incapable”.

All these people aruging for the return of graveyard zerging with arguments that essentially boil down to “it’s my right to rely on a blatant crutch to pass fights instead of actually learning to play or working with my team!” confuse me. It makes me wonder how they coped on bosses like lupi, who, if you don’t learn how to dodge will kill you faster than you can run back.