Guild Wars 2

Nikaido.3457:

You can charge the trap without getting aggro at all. Usually the npc is responsible for aggroing so you can just let it die, lose aggro and come back. Much less of a pain with a bad group.

Using 1 on these ghost buster tools while targeting the boss will make him spawn oozes but it doesn’t aggro him so you can charge all three traps before starting the fight, that’s what I do in pugs. You should never need more than three traps unless you have an exceptionally terrible pug.

lol I always forget about the existence of npc. Interesting strategy.

Maybe I’m unlucky with pugs, but most of the time they managed to charge the traps at least one person would be dead by standing in the wells. So I normally expect 3 people dpsing the boss. And then the boss will start eating the ectos to regen health because they will keep pounding it after the ghost shield is back up. I have to spam ping the ghost shield icon,

Typically I kite the ghost eater around (Used to run “anchor” guardian build so the thing always comes after me), and say only I hit it and assign the remaining 4 into pairs to charge the traps. If people listen it is a very straightforward fight after they get the float-pull rhythm going

It would also be cool to have one side of the blade being sunrise, the other end twilight.

As to the lack of footprints, its a special feature to help you get rid of stalkers following you.

I’m guessing it will be like sigil of purity but you will see a red “immune” text pop up when it tries to transfer the condition.

Okay to add to what has been said already:
Ghost eater: 1. regardless of how much toughness or vit you got, just don’t stand inside his aoe’s. It takes 1 dodge to get out of those circles so just press V and continue pulling the ectos afterwards. 2. when his shield is on, the more you hit him, the more ecto he spawns, he eats up the excess ectos to regen so stop hitting it after you got enough ectos to charge traps. 3. yes he does get stuck, normally I fix it by removing his defiant stacks with CC and a launching skill, it should be up and running after that.

After taking players new to dungeons to AC P2, 80% of the problem lies with people standing inside the wells and die, other 15% is people won’t stop hitting it when there are 20 ectos hopping around already.

What parts are you struggling on? And what do you mean by tank?

Sylvari.6083:

why aren’t devs answering anything in this kittening forum?

because: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/last-developer-feedback-here-7-months-ago/first#post2181667

I see them as training wheels. I take them off as I get more confident in avoiding damage.

be nice to make it shorter but more challenging

zargnath.9524:

Well thank the bug-god for that. That animation ruin almost every shield skin that exist.

agreed

SkipOne.8430:

but its bad for playing. Harder to see if u have an aegis rdy or not

I always find the boon icon more noticeable than the animation.

poor thing gets mobbed by a whole pack of charrs multiple times a day

Hot Boy.7138:

Wukunlin.8461:

The hammer swing creates a type of shockwave that travels to you. If you block it but the next instant the shockwave is still in your hitbox then you still get hit. Similar to the abomination charge attack. If you have stability of block, it will keep hitting you until it leaves your hit box. Those attack do have some sort of interval between damage dealt hence when sometimes your block works.

Thanks, i’ll have to check my combat log next time I do it. I was almost certain that the attack only hit once, instead of a series of shockwaves, because my block never failed before until recently. I’ll look for a group then test it.

you will only see it once in your combat log. Lets say you expect him to hit you with your block up, it will be: 1-blocks (doesn’t show in log), 2-hit (log shows you take 30~50k damage), 3- if shockwave still in your hitbox it will keep hitting, but since you get a brief period of invulnerability as you get downed, the log won’t show anything.

Other things I’ve noticed to support this theory is: guardian focus 5 always worked so far, sometime 2 blocks are shown; if I stand inside his circle but closer to the back then a single aegis is enough to block the hammer smash

The hammer swing creates a type of shockwave that travels to you. If you block it but the next instant the shockwave is still in your hitbox then you still get hit. Similar to the abomination charge attack. If you have stability or block, it will keep hitting you until it leaves your hit box. Those attack do have some sort of interval between damage dealt hence sometimes your block works.

If anything I would like to see more communication with the player base. Too much silence and too many vague messages.

correct me if I’m wrong… are you saying you only use ranged weapons on your mesmer?

“kiss my tail”
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randomfightfan.4091:

You’re using v as a utility but what are you using to dodge now? If you’re double tapping, I suggest getting used to using something else as well.

haha totally forgot, I changed dodge to c (I have small hands so its easy for my thumb to reach), getting rid of the double tapping habit was another painful but worthwhile experience. I wished anet didn’t have double tap enabled on default. Thanks for reminding though

I changed mine to: Q for heal, E for elite, RFV for utilities, and changed interact to Shift (was going to change that to right mouse click but couldn’t find a way to do that)

When I first made the change I was extremely painful a lot of my reflexes were hardwired, took me many hours to get used to the new binding. Worth it in the end imo

Chopps.5047:

It used to be hard but they nerfed it so everyone and their kid brother could get Dungeon Master and feel special.

I wish in the future there will be hard mode with simins in pre-nerfed state. My first time doing P4 was with a pug 2-3 days after the nerf patch. Now i know some people I can communicate well with I have been wondering how difficult she really was before the regen was toned down.

Also, remember waaaaaaay back she could be dpsed when stealthed? saw some videos on that, it was so messed up XD

I think I did a 26 or 28 with a pug and the other chanter was killed (dunno if accident trolling or inexperience.) It was pretty painful but got it down in the end, took more than an hour because no strategy involved just brute forced it and running back and forth. At least one person didn’t understand english, and at least 2 people never typed a thing in chat so communication was almost impossible.

why skip you ask? because they are not worth my time. I run a dungeon for money, token, or fun. Kill trash mobs doesn’t give me ANY of those.

as for people wiping when skipping, you can say the same thing about people who wipe when killing trash. If you they are that bad then they are gonna wipe at one stage or another.

Having said all that. If there is more than 1 person in the group who isn’t familiar with the dungeon, ie doesn’t know where to run and where to hide and when to use their dodges, they should probably find groups that doesn’t skip until they are comfortable enough to run past those mobs. But when you have done the same paths enough times to know the encounters like the back of your hand, I honestly don’t see what people will want to fight trash mobs.

my engi entered WvW from lvl 3, once I got randomly instigwibbed when operating a ram. looked at a combat log and found that I got hit twice by meteor shower, hit me for 10k+ each

nice try, that month’s worth of rust is definitely showing though, you’re eating those arrows like a pug XD

yeah i also don’t understand why pugs insist on standing inside those wells and die. iirc the boss doesn’t regenerate health if you don’t hit him too many times with the ghost shield up. any slimes out of the trapped will eventually be absorbed by the boss to regen health.

number of defiant stacks depends on the amount of people around the mob, minimum is 3, 25 might be the max

RIDICULOUSLY high price?

Seercull.1495:

OliverT.9021:

I think the credibility of these posters just dropped by -1,000 points…

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Changes to important things like salvage rates would be listed in the update notes if they have changed. If it’s not in the update notes, then no changes have been made by the development team.

Vol.5241:

Doomknight.7923:

Vol you are contributing nothing to figuring this out.
If YOU would like to do a 2000+ sample size then, by all means please try it.
Otherwise refrain from criticizing people who are constructively posting on this.
I did one of the initial 100 salvages and later made a video of me doing another 10. (admittedly the 10 was a small sample)
I will NOT be salvaging anything else as of now. MY RATES have been lowered. If you don’t believe me that that is your prerogative.

Actually I’m one of the few voices of reasons here. I’m not to keen on joining the circlejerk that just cause you have a lower ecto chance means Arenanet OBVIOUSLY kitten the rate.

Erasculio.2914:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I did not get even one single Ecto.

Oh go ahead, nerf the game some more.

Yes, ArenaNet has just nerfed ecto drop rate.

Just like this time.

And this time.

And here, too.

And that other time.

And of course here.

People should read this. Those complaints about having nerfed the salvage rate of ectos is proof that the GW2 community is not reliable when it’s a matter of talking about drop rates.

+1. I HATE the people in this thread, on reddit and especially ingame that didn’t believe me and others when we said that there was something fishy with ectos, JUST BECAUSE they for some reason had good luck with ectos.
Thanks for the thread and all the people that provided the data necessary to back this up. Signing out!
@Regina I won’t get on your case for that one but bugs always slip in – you could not have known. Luckily the situation was resolved.

you’ll always get a bunch of idiots who spew out a bunch of garbage without reading a single word in the thread. Ignore and move on

while I do like the idea of getting more rewards for these events. The inflation from these extra silver can be disastrous…

I think the man power needed to compensate everyone appropriately is not the sort anet can afford to spare. And if they are going to do that with a script… my memory about the karka chest compensation tells me it will open up another can of wurms for them.

quest items that keeps dropping from every single mob after you completed the event or heart

the wavy effect isn’t my cup of tea. I appreciate them making the circles more noticeable but would rather have solid circles instead of wavy burning ones

don’t forget the useless rings and skins in our bank tabs guys

its the players. not the class. I’ve met amazing necro, engi, and rangers (all the good rangers I’ve met use melee weapons most of the time funnily enough) with pugs, but a lot of them failed so bad you just don’t want to see another one of them anymore.
Even the guardians, and wars have loads of bad players (signet warriors anyone? guards that doesn’t even know a reflection wall exists?).

well, personally it doesn’t matter to me. Like you said a lot of the changes they made sound very vague (not that certain tooltips aren’t vague enough already), some changes they don’t bother showing in the patch notes at all.

Vayne.8563:

I’d like to see defiant go, at least on most bosses. But I wonder if that would make the game to easy.

I don’t think defiant should be rid off altogether. Something like an irremovable defiant buff after a successful CC that lasts for a certain time would be a better version of the current defiant system imo.

This is one of the interesting fights where too much dps at the wrong time can be problematic. Spawning elementals when my wall and shield are on cd? 90% GG

Sometimes I wish the elementals can be a bit squishier but that’s a very minor issue comparing to puggies who eat arrows like candy

Dub.1273:

Phase 2: wait until he starts his aoe then run for your life.

Ah, I think I found the pattern. When he shadowsteps he can bypass the leash spot and keep on chasing. Thanks man

hmm interesting, maybe they relaxed that leash range even further now. Cos I made it as far back as the first spot you jump down and he still wanted me dead (until i got owned by 2 illusionists when i got stuck in the corner XD)

recently I’ve been running with some people who are relatively inexperienced in Arah. On a couple of occasions things got really ugly during transition (3 people instagwibbed, other one downed and 2 grubs eaten etc…). I tried to run out of the room to reset the fight. I remember before if he even gets close to the exit he will reset. Now when I run out he will follow me out of the room and chase me down. Has his aggro pattern been changed lately? What will be the best way to reset him when the need arises?

probably off topic but once in jade maw i was telling a ranger to stop attacking the colossi with a bow and use a melee weapon. He told me his only melee weapon is a shortbow.

This probably doesn’t help OP but another way I’ve seen this done is to maintain blackpowder around magg so the assassins are always blinded when trying to do damage.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

We SUSPECTED that the huge bones across Tyria and Elona were G-Lupe bones. Those bones were, after all, the most likely remains we had. But they’re more of dragon champion size, not G-Lupe.

ah, that makes more sense

I wish there is some development with the centaur in LA being held at gunpoint

One thing I like to say about giants and GL. IIRC some gw1 players pointed out GL’s are meant to be larger than the one in arah according to some info they got from gw1. So maybe the one in arah exp is either a baby GL (poor thing ), or it is simply shrunk down so players fighting it can actually fit it on our screens.

Also between the colossus in fotm, GL, and the “giants” (risen ones and those couple in other areas in GW2) seems to be different from one another and just (somewhat) similar in size.

awesome, I won’t be home until like 6-7 hours later though (procrastinating at work atm….)

They need to make underwater activities more enjoyable first. At this stage too many skills are locked underwater imo

Kiwi dungeon crawler here, super keen for this. I main guardian, also got mesmer, thief, ele, and engi. Never done pvp outside WvW though.

I’ve seen it work recently, typically after a server reset but it easily gets stuck. And don’t forget about the merchant kidnap event near the entrance to Lornars, I have literally never seen it work.

given the quality of the story quests…. I don’t think we need more. I mean those we enjoyed it will like it but I don’t think its NEEDED at this stage.

well there is another post in the thread pointing out that CCs annoy the heck out of people but they don’t really make the game content that much more challenging.

A mob will keep you blinded/KDed 95% of them time but you can deal with the damage by whatever means and eventually kill it. I personally would find that plain annoying.