Guild Wars 2

it is indeed really annoying at times. I’m adding more berserker gear onto my guardian as I get more comfortable with the mechanics but mobs stick to me no matter what, but then I’m a guardian and its my main so I have learned to deal with it.

What about my thief? Really squishy in terms of vitality and toughness but in a chain event all mobs will attack me even with tons guards and warriors around. Once I had enough and stealthed, and guess what happened? No the mobs didn’t start attacking other players or camp around my refuge. They reset.

yeah, first boss in CM P3, all he really does is repeatedly knock you down.

Also, anyone remember the old risen putrifiers? they will pull you from 1200 range and then another one will pull you to him. and if you get pulled into a pack of them then you might as well forget that your toon has legs if your stab/stunbreak is on cd

a lot of projectiles can only be destroyed (spirit shield, smoke screen etc) but not reflected so reflection abilities will be useless for those.

Also both feedback and wall of reflection have vertical limitations. I haven’t done CM story for ages, is the golem firing the rockets at positions inside the bubble?

oh…. my…. god…. I’ve always wondered why they always do those nasty spit attacks

indeed, in PVE most of the CC is used to remove defiant stacks instead of the actual CC

I would happy with an option to not show those hobo sacks and be able to see the stowed weapon as a short term solution

Like others have said, there may be unpredictable effect on the market if something like this is implemented. It is true that completing the whole storyline takes a while but it isn’t that difficult to be honest. I took my newest alt to lvl 61 in WvW and started doing the stories from the very beginning. Most of it were really easy (way over levelled and haven’t done a lot of them before), except for some annoying and buggy designs that one-shot you in some places. Took me around one weekend to complete to whole thing.

As for my own precursor, it got to a point where I just logged on every day to hang out with my guildies. Helped them farm some dungeon gear so I got a bit of gold here and there. Before I logged out I just put some buy orders so the next day I can throw them into the forge and fortunately one day it popped out. And no I don’t think it is a good mechanic but that was my approach to get my precursor. Farming CoF simply isn’t my cup of tea.

Some of my former guildies say /kneel to every lyssa statue you see help but whatever lol

SE P1 you use inquest potions. Gravelings are effectively ghosts in both mechanics and lore (they consume ghost essence so they have properties of ghosts). Another counter example is subject alpha in CoE doesn’t count as inquest, it is actually undead for whatever reason.

exotic armor are on the second tab

I guess the real question is: does ANYONE find the fractal skin drop rate acceptable?

anyone on NA server doing balth? I’m bored XD

you should have seen my thief in the harathi meta event: every centaur and his dogs would attack me. Even with swarms of wars and guards around them in melee and me with shortbow.

I wanted a weapon in CoF once, all I did was type in something like “LFG P1, not a speedrunner just want my ****ing 60 tokens” managed to find a friendly rainbow group every day until I got enough tokens.

lol nice rig.
My 4.5 year old E8400 with a 5770 I bought a bit later has been handling the game fine in medium settings. Bit laggy with zergs but not enough to stop me from enjoying the game.

great list man.

Are you sure potion of ghost slaying doesn’t work in AC?
Although even if it does it would be lame lol, I only see the extended potion available

laharl.8435:

Wukunlin.8461:

laharl.8435:

Wukunlin.8461:

Chopps.5047:

Oh deae god no. Leave those l33t players in Balefire’s prison. Please, do not unleash them into the rest of the dungeons.

this is a good point actually….

Sorry to burst your bubble, but we’re already doing other dungeons. I run Arah with my guard all the time and have Dungeon Master. My warrior is specifically set up for CoF right now, but when I do run him elsewhere, I re-trait and have different gear.

Also, maybe you should look up some vids of DPSers in other dungeons. Almost every dungeon can be optimized in this fashion.

errrr maybe I misunderstood the post I quoted, i thought its talking about people who treated other players like crap

Nah, he was just being sarcastic by saying “l33t players”. War/Mes groups aren’t treating other players like crap. Well some might, but those are the same people who treat people like crap in any dungeon.

oh haha that cleared things up

laharl.8435:

Wukunlin.8461:

Chopps.5047:

Oh deae god no. Leave those l33t players in Balefire’s prison. Please, do not unleash them into the rest of the dungeons.

this is a good point actually….

Sorry to burst your bubble, but we’re already doing other dungeons. I run Arah with my guard all the time and have Dungeon Master. My warrior is specifically set up for CoF right now, but when I do run him elsewhere, I re-trait and have different gear.

Also, maybe you should look up some vids of DPSers in other dungeons. Almost every dungeon can be optimized in this fashion.

errrr maybe I misunderstood the post I quoted, i thought its talking about people who treated other players like crap

Chopps.5047:

Oh deae god no. Leave those l33t players in Balefire’s prison. Please, do not unleash them into the rest of the dungeons.

this is a good point actually….

I like to know more about Giganticus Lupicus. We’ve only been able to see one and it’s corrupted

Torvic.8256:

I miss something that, ironically enough, was in GW1: the ability to simply click on an area and have your character run over there (as well as keeping the current modes of movement control as well, of course).

this is actually the first mmo I’ve played that doesn’t have that

This is the same problem that dungeon mobs randomly teleport to players’ locations. When I did this I walk up to the first plank, about to reach the ship, saw a bunch of mobs and backed off a bit to the middle of the plank. ALL the mobs teleported to my location instantly wiped all my npcs. As soon as I dealt with those mobs, the following waves teleported to the middle of the plank as well. I think I got myself killed twice killing all the mobs on the first ship. Thankfully my engi has access to decent amount of aoe but when you look at all the dead bodies on the plank (npc + a shipful of undead pirates) its pretty stupid lol.

Interesting. It’s been a while since I did this one. I did that on my thief as well. I think I mostly spammed death blossom a did a lot of running around the tavern to avoid damage.

How about this: If anyone having problem with this boss, add me and if I’m online I can go into the story with you and see what she’s like because it was probably last year that I did that story. Hopefully I can come up with something helpful :P

zargnath.9524:

In which way have the drops been nerfed if I may ask?

apparently there is a certain group that no longer drop loot. I haven’t done dredge for a few weeks (luck + too busy with rl) so I’m not exactly sure which group people are talking about

the MMO i used to play had a feature where you can have a set of armor just for cosmetics and you just tick the checkbox then your current armor will have the appearance of the cosmetic set. ie no need for transmutation stones. The cosmetic armor sets were only available in cash shop though. It was a F2P game.

Yeah I mean, twins as well, geeez

lol I got infracted for pointing out this hasn’t been fixed yet

personally i don’t mind those people farming cof p1. They can grind their brains off to get 1k gold per week for all I care. What really bothers me is the imbalance of reward vs time of other dungeon paths coughfotmcough.

also make sure you get the poison cloud debuff before you turn the fan on or it won’t work

any open in NA server? missed out on mag

I spent gems of bank tabs and the witch outfit. Haven’t found anything else that is worth my money.

so which daily (20+ for chance at skin) has the best reward/time ratio atm? still 26?

You know, the thread has helped me alot. So many times I take newbies for a tour for certain dungeon paths, they sit in red circles even if I patiently tell them 20 times not to (especially when charging the ghosteater traps for some reason).
I think I know why now. These people just REALLY want to know what numbers they get when they hit something…

This has been going on since launch, they either haven’t bothered to address them yet or they still can’t figure out how it is bugging out. Not a single reply to threads relevant to this matter either.

Also, this is not just SM, happened to me a few times in keeps as well.

Totally agree with this. Personally I would like to get rid of those hobo sacks and see our weapons in stowed positions when i use my kits, but obvious allow an option to turn on the hobo sacks for people who do like them.

sounds good, rewarding people for doing relatively unpopular events at the time.

Aeros.2046:

Does anyone else find it odd that random Champion mobs are more deadly then Dragon Champions like The Claw of Jormag and Tequatl?

now that you posted it, next patch we will sea claw and teq doing random unavoidable aoe doing 100k damage to everyone in the map, might add agony as well while they are at it

ever since the orr mobs have been changed (nobles and pirates etc) I’ve had all my allies die literally within a couple of seconds into combat. It doesn’t always happen but throughout my 70’s stories it happened at least in 3 of them at every encounter. Although in some other stories they can really take a beating. Not sure how it can ne so inconsistent.

iirc gravelings do happen to count as ghosts because they are creatures that absorb essences of ghosts so effectively becomes ghosts or something along those lines. But to answer OP’s question, potions are not restricted to the dungeon. In SE you have both inquest and dredge so only the appropriate potions work.

I levelled up my engi in WvW, most of the mindless pug zergs can be rid of by simply elixir S – gear shield with speedykits. If it’s an organised guild group then the story might be a bit different…

So i just realized. Those vet spider hatchlings popped up in one of my story quests. yeah like 3 of them popped up with stupid amounts of health and their auto attacks are fast and hitting 1.5-2k health each. Also pulling me all over the place so I’m CC’ed like 75% of them time if my stunbreaks are on cd. Not to mention dying at that stage means having to do a 5 min swin back to the spot with a bunch of risen that have sink skills, hoping my npcs don’t die before i return (it’s a boss fight that summing a bunch of spiders). WHAT IS TESTING LOL

yeah those nobles at the start are still there, did the story just then. I was walking a bit to reposition myself and I left a trail of risen noble aoe’s with all my npc’s dead in a couple of seconds. 5 nobles sounds about right but the cd on their symbol attack seems to be really small that they just spam it all they like. I was too busy trying to stay alive to take a screen shot. there were around 10-15 circles on the ground at certain points.

and another thing. hoards and hoards of risen leading up to the eye, my engi would take years to kill them all. when there are about 2 large groups left I just said f it and ran straight to the eye kiting the ~20 mobs chasing me (oh lets not forget risen mobs have ridiculous move speed + some with shadowsteps). Died 2-3 times completing this story but pretty sure saved a load of time than pulling those mobs bit by bit.

and last thing, those hoards of mobs respawn when i was running back, fun eh?

EDIT: the next story isn’t that much better. I chose the one to cut off the mouth’s food. can’t fire the cannon twice without hoards of pirates and nobles chunking down you health, not to mention instagwibbing all the npcs.

I heard high fives in the dev room when they watched a group got wiped because they didn’t expect the change and then a bunch of awwww’s when they found out you can still solo it.

Seriously, why in the gods’ names do they only put a selective amount of changes in dungeons in patch notes? either put all of them in or don’t put them in there at all. If they want to give everyone a surprise after every patch, I can live with it. But when they say something has changed it kind of implies others haven’t but no. Anet seriously has issues communicating with the player base.

that’s insanely amazing. I can definitely see you guys do it under a minute. The warriors should be able to squeeze a couple more 100b’s or ww’s in there.

Basically they don’t want people farming/grinding in their game but a lot of skin recipes absolutely requires a load of farming…. so umm…. :S

you know, a lot of the complaint about the salad dude would be less vocal if he is more competent in combat. I mean if instead we have one of those hammer warriors in TA, I would like him a lot more. Just my opinion…

One thing I like to add is first impressions. If you are a newbie doing arah with a random pug and the first thing you do is jump into the sewers and bring up hoards of spiders to your team while they are probably afking waiting for other to enter the dungeon, those puggies are more likely to be more intolerant to you later into the run (assuming they don’t ragequit already LOL).

might be worth it to just go into the dungeon by yourself just run around (don’t need to fight mobs or anything if possible) and at least be familiar with the starting area.

Amun Ra.6435:

AR is a really bad mechanic to make people feel like they " accomplished" something. Companies have tried this same mechanic is pretty much all other MMO’s and eventually gets thrown out the window because it segregates the community. AR will be thrown out sooner rather than later or they will pretty much hand out AR gear…bet ya.

they have dug a pretty deep hole now. Either continue with AR and segregate the community further, or throw them out of the window which basically backhands anyone who spent those stacks of ectos to upgrade their capacitors

obal.3218:

I don’t post ar requirements when I go. I do hope they have high ar though since I tend to scratch my head and wonder how some pugs got to be in 20-40s and not know how to do fractals, dodge the attacks, and refuse to pick up the hammer after doing the dungeon 20+ timesAt least the ar will be there to save them below 40 but they will possibly make a 40 run take over an hour longer as they spend half or more of the time down/dead at ever boss since it won’t save them there.. If it’s people on my friends list I really don’t care since I know they can dodge and handle not having ar to save them.

I’m gonna check if I’m on your list when I get home XD

maybe you are meant to kill those mobs with the new arrow carts. right?

happens relatively frequently if you are not face tanking the mob. Recently started using sword of my thief and was practicing by killing the champ boar in queensdale and trying to fight it without getting hit. So lots of dodging, shadowstepping and what not. It felt like if i don’t take damage for a set amount of time it resets, even when the location is no where close to the leash distance. No exploitable terrain in that region either.