Guild Wars 2

obal.3218:

Wukunlin.8461:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Nikaido.3457:

A group of 1 engineer, 3 rangers and 1 mesmer beat DnT’s record kill :
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ho102/new_world_record_lupi_in_41_sec/

That sounds impressive. I bet they would have done it even faster if they had at least one warrior to stack the banner buffs on too.

Regardless, even if it supports my contention, Lupicus is a pretty bad point of comparison for DPS tests because he is just burst and reflect, so it favors just stacking mesmers and bursty classes like engineers and rangers, and disfavors classes with more “steady” DPS. Hell, most of the “DPS” in Lupicus fights comes from Lupicus killing himself with reflected projectiles.

So you barely even read before you reply. I wonder how many factors you choose to ignore and and omit in your excel spreadsheets.

Clippy is a Guardian. He is there to carry people in Excel like in Guild Wars 2 so it should be fine.

Hint: look up a few posts if you don’t get it.

My colleagues asked me why I am facepalming more than usual today

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Nikaido.3457:

A group of 1 engineer, 3 rangers and 1 mesmer beat DnT’s record kill :
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ho102/new_world_record_lupi_in_41_sec/

That sounds impressive. I bet they would have done it even faster if they had at least one warrior to stack the banner buffs on too.

Regardless, even if it supports my contention, Lupicus is a pretty bad point of comparison for DPS tests because he is just burst and reflect, so it favors just stacking mesmers and bursty classes like engineers and rangers, and disfavors classes with more “steady” DPS. Hell, most of the “DPS” in Lupicus fights comes from Lupicus killing himself with reflected projectiles.

So you barely even read before you reply. I wonder how many factors you choose to ignore and and omit in your excel spreadsheets.

Dagraan.2854:

people think underwater combat is complete hell of GW2 is because usually the cookie cutter build they run doesn’t perform well underwater, same with the ele bunker build it can’t do what people want on land.

and you can’t use a GS under water and press 2 to win. personally i find its easier to dodge attacks underwater.
but generally the best classes underwater are mesmers, guardians, and eles mainly the trident with the bouncing projectiles and the amount of damage the ele can put out. not to mention the blind field you can put out and just sit in.

the problem isn’t underwater combakittens Hotw and classes that suck kitten underwater.

not sure if serious

Jackums.3496:

You can guess how much people would cry if a profession got a similar “immunity to all direct damage” trait. I don’t understand how this is even in the game, to be honest.

really?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defy_Pain_%28warrior_trait%29

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

spoj.9672:

Erm in your calculations you are ignoring aftercast.

I consider that part of the channel. There’s no real reason to distinguish startup and aftercast when it comes to DPS calculations.

are you an engineer irl by any chance?

HB is backloaded? The last hit of HB hits around twice as hard but also takes around twice as long. This guang guy reminds me of those 2 trolls in DB LA who talks about how eles and thieves are OP just to annoy people.

Yeah that’s what I though as well. Looks like I need find another trait XD

Has anyone tested if the 2% per condition from modified ammunition only affect base damage or condition damage as well?

like a ranger and pet relationship

Why do you keep bringing up warrior’s GS auto attack damage when people who speedclear don’t use them?

This thread is getting way to spicy to read for someone who just came home from work

Wethospu.6437:

Why are DnT or LoD even replying in this topic if they aren’t really interested?

because the sky will fall if we let a dungeon topic stay on track

Dolan.3071:

For once I’m seeing more arrogance and unwarranted rudeness coming from someone outside of LoD/Dnt, I don’t know whether to be impressed or disappointed.

lol I can’t speak to for DnT but of all the kinky stuff going on in LoD I never seen arrogance or unwarranted rudeness. Some of us have probably given the wrong idea by using a less than gentle tone but I don’t find it hard to understand after seeing so many pugs think it’s fine to waste hours of other people’s time to “play the way they want.”

I can make a random list of gw2 profession too.

you people are just bad and can’t meet rangers’ high skill floor

more food for thought: how does the dps of a downed warrior compare to rangers?

Targuil.3741:

Show us your full inventory screen. You are upleveled from lvl 3 and while you boosted your damage through stats, your weapon stats most likely remain similar to lvl 80 white weapons instead of exotic.

If you haven’t yet, look at the first attachment, 3164 atk, 68% crit chance, 120% crit damage, that is on par with a berserker warrior in full exotics/ascended

maybe Ashym’s squire is a ranger?

mesmer one is unlisted bro. Also lvl up self res is too strong, nerf plz

why is it a zerker path when PVT will do the same amount of damage to the tree as berserker gear?

^ lies. I screwed up a pull in a training run in my first day in the guild. I was stripped naked and flogged publicly. On top of that I wasn’t allow to sleep in the house for a week.

This is the first time I see people regard switching characters as an exploit.

on SoR something seems to be going on with the defending seal of lyss event required for killing the lyssa priestess. From a small group of 5 people to a decent sized zerg, we just couldn’t get it done. I noticed the following things

1. vet abos. There is a group of them, at least 4 at a time. They got tons of health and respawn far too quickly. Since there are random npcs running around they easily build up their stacks and start one shotting everyone, including the npcs we need to project.

2. vet acolytes. Their ability to summon armies of adds is most impressive. Half of those adds are plague carries who can get players to very low health when they are neck deep fighting other adds. Not to mention most players are probably out of endurance from dodging the abos with 25 stacks of frenzy.

3. vet nobles. Enough said tbh. shadow step with the nuking symbol. These ones also seem to pull players into the symbol, it just becomes really difficult to deal with.

Other seals seemed to have been dealt with relatively easily. This one just feels overtuned.

Interesting thing is, how come we never see GS mesmers suggesting anything like this?

Actually, now I think about it, rangers just need a decent melee weapon. Decent enough to make ranger players want to swap to it and melee their targets when they want to kill something fast.

I have started to wonder if rangers can do more dps if they pick up a warrior banner and auto attack with it.

laharl.8435:

Wukunlin.8461:

big thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/TA-F-U-spiders-change/page/3#post2268298

basically, best strat atm is to rush into melee range and chain anti projectile skills together and burn the boss down. High dps helps, but since you can’t crit PVT gear is actually viable.
What I don’t know is how to deal with it after you wipe. It may be possible to get the whole group to run through the spider into the boss and get your guardian/mesmer/ranger/thief etc to pop anti projectile skills and start killing it.

edit: winston beat me -_-

Actually you can still melee stack after a wipe. A couple of us died on the first try because we ran in too fast and got killed by the lifesteal it does on the NPC. We had 2 guards and a mes, so plenty of reflection. We just ran in, popped reflection and chained them. It went very fast. Thanks to Nikaido for enlightening me on how to do this after the change.

good to know, I wasn’t sure that would work because I last did that path was 2012 and forgot how vicious those adds are. I would imagine consecrated ground trait can be useful in pugs to throw down the WoR or sanctuary to mark a spot that everyone can run to.

big thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/TA-F-U-spiders-change/page/3#post2268298

basically, best strat atm is to rush into melee range and chain anti projectile skills together and burn the boss down. High dps helps, but since you can’t crit PVT gear is actually viable.
What I don’t know is how to deal with it after you wipe. It may be possible to get the whole group to run through the spider into the boss and get your guardian/mesmer/ranger/thief etc to pop anti projectile skills and start killing it.

edit: winston beat me -_-

Once there was a pug who did this intentionally but he was like a split second too late so we all still got the reward. That person has the honor of being the first person in my blacklist.

from the patch notes it looks like anyone who purchased rich coffers at all will get those recipes. But some people will get them later than others due to limitations of gw2 postal system.

Ryptel.5196:

- Scholar runes in my armor. I don’t dispute that these are good, but I’m not used to the dungeon enough to stay above 90% enough. I 100% salvaged that armor, sold the scholar runes and bought a new set of armor with ruby orbs.

I hope Nikaido doesn’t get a stroke after reading this.
You know you could’ve just run the dungeon enough times and become better at staying above 90% lol.

Is this the same guy that complained about having to press a button to collect loot?

Oldbugga.7029:

Apparently, the Australian Communication and Media Authority may already be looking into this in terms of the Interactive Gaming Act 2001 in Australia…especially as it relates to under 18 players and the game’s approval rating.

I mean it does not matter where it stems from, underage gambling should not be encouraged in any form…especially where there is no public scrutiny or accountability of the “results or outcome” of the gambling process.

really?
good ol’ aussies.

JJBigs.8456:

Why are divinity runes 10G?

good question, I also don’t understand why fire sigils are worth so much :S

Thankfully I don’t have to directly damage the evolved husk.

rangers and necros will still be relatively useless. engineers are… engineers. optimized team comps will still stick to a certain meta

swiftpaw.6397:

VowOfCarnage.6927:

Quam.7218:

Pihtt.4360:

Thank you Anet for this dungeon.
Please…
Do NOT nerf it!
Never!

+1

Every new dungeon in Living Story gets better and better.

And every new dungeon in Living Story shares the same problem. ITS NOT PERMANENT.

These living story events are like periods man, they come once a month and they’re painful.

LOL In that case I need a gw2 panadol.

Don’t forget the icebrood at the start and the dude in P1 iirc

Kasaeva.4691:

I was unaware that Lupicus could be melee’d at all. We’ve only ever used 100% ranged tactics. How does that work? Doesn’t he just wipe out everyone in melee range?

What about p3? Surely he can’t be melee’d in p3 right?

basically:
P1:
dodge when he raises his hand so you don’t get grub on you
dodge 2 seconds after he tries to put grub on people and after he summons locusts so you don’t get kicked

P2:
no shadow step when all in melee range
he will try slap people in melee range but there is big windup so dodging that is easy
aoe can be reflection by mesmer feedback, guardian WoR (haven’t tried that myself but I’ve seen people avoiding all AoE by placing it directly below him and standing inside it) or guardian shield 5

P3:
you have to run away from big circle life drain
have to dodge single target life drain like you do ranged
rapidfire attacks negated using same things as AOE is phase 2 or dodging underneath him (may need 2 dodges)
can avoid bubble attack if you stand still in melee

once you get the hang of it, it is much easier than ranging cos he won’t be able to hit you with lupine blast (single target attacks that does ~15k damage)

I don’t think the exchange rate will change that much. Not that many people will like the armor enough to spend 20g+ on it.

Exile Firestarter.1943:

It was a CoF zerker farm and its all about speed and the right gear. you had scholar runes instead of ruby orbs in your armor.

I understand the MF part but this… wow

If you can actually just buy it for x amount of gems from the shop then I’m all for it. At least I know how much I am paying for what I want to buy. If they want a source of revenue then this is one of the ways I can deal with.

roachsrealm.9284:

in my experience, the AoE rings in this fight outright lie. that doesn’t help at all. It’s a tricky fight to be sure. Always have 2 people alternating skill 2, everyone else use skill 1. If you can draw the boss on to the trap first it makes it much easier. Only one person calls targets. this is a great example of a fight where it’s more important to run away and not do damage than it is to zerg it out.

while I agree that it could use some attention, the whole mechanic is a nice team building challenge. please just make it a little more user friendly, or allow some practice with this rather unique mechanic elsewhere in the dungeon path before we get there to teach newbs.

I used to teach people this path and my method (turned out to be inefficient but thats a different topic :P ) was me kiting the boss around and let the other 4 take their sweet time pulling the ectos. The circles of the wells are pretty accurate as far as I can tell. Maybe a little bit out of time delay some times but if you got aggro, as soon as you see it spit stuff out, hit dodge button then you should be fine. When fighting it I do agree it is possible to miss the red circles but when your health is getting chunked down a good guess would be find another spot to stand, even if it means interrupting a 100b

I don’t think size really gives us lore information for most of the npcs’s we fight in the game. Their sizes are largely dependent on their types. Vets are larger than normal mobs, champs even larger and then legendaries larger still. On the other hand GL in arah could be just shrunk down for players to be able to read animations and dodge attacks..

it is not a issue with silvers but like others mentioned it is a mechanics issue. having different templates ready to be able to switch conveniently would be awesome.

go ahead and submit a bug report then

Are you just not getting skin and rings or are you not getting the daily chest altogether? If you are still getting those daily chests then it is most likely just bad luck. I got my first ring at lvl 17 and that is after doing 10+ lvl 10’s with no ring drops.

When the fused weapon stuff came out they must have made a ton selling BL keys comparing to the fixed price tag wintersday skins. I hate RNG boxes and we can hate all we want. Whoever makes these gem item decision will not stop selling them until people stop buying them. There isn’t much more to say to it really.

somewhat related: if people ask me if I still like this game I will say this "Yes, but mostly because I have no gambling problems "

Sucks that you missed out but it wasn’t that great tbh. The timing was weird people had to wait till in game dawn for it to happen so the one time I waited for it, it was almost an hour later than the supposed time. Oh and I got the rewards from randomly walking on a bridge before those 3 days. Bad luck if you really wanted the horns (nothing special imo), but the fireworks are recorded on youtube.

its not uncommon to see people who gets nothing by pristine relics (and other regular stuff) for their dailies for almost a month doing 20+ dailies.

You must have offended the RNG gods.