Guild Wars 2

Its quite unforgiving if you’re not used to it. I used to farm them heaps so for most encounters I know which skills to have on my bar, where to pull the mobs etc. There are some tricks to it you’ll learn over time if you run them a few more times. Like most dungeons, a group of friends/gulidies or just people that listen makes things buttery smooth. This is also the first dungeon that taught me how awesome my wall of reflection is

Oldgrimm.8521:

eternity should have a yin and yang feeling since its a combination of sunrise and twighlight

maybe like this: but the devs can be more creative

I think if one side of the blade is sunrise, the other side twilight, will make a lot of people happy. As for the footprint, either a unique one or alternate between the two parent swords. I’m not a big fan of GS in this game but I think I will be impressed to see people with stuff like that.

Just got my leaky mercury thermometer as well, love every single bit of it. I’m gonna take a break (probably months long) from farming before starting to work on mjolnir or foefire’s power

Grounder.7381:

fractal skin will lose its prestige once rng is gone..
i doubt anyone will go to fract anymore once the desired skins is obtained.

there is prestige to owning fractal skins?

“Remain calm. Failure to remain calm is a sign of weakness of the mind.” – Random CoE announcement.

It looked like he was in mist form when the final grub was meant to spawn

sostronk.8167:

Wukunlin.8461:

your rng is almost as bad as mine, lets keep praying

I actually want the Tier 6 mats, not the clovers. Want to trade “luck”?

If we do that, I think what will end up happening is both of us getting T6 leathers…

Wukunlin.8461:

Wukunlin.8461:

88 exotics into the forge, all garbage so far

make that 100, same results lol. Am I doing something wrong? not even a named exo has popped yet, only seen the pearl, tribal, orrian, and the ceremonial exos coming out.

Wukunlin.8461:

38 tries with exotics now, its ok I will keep trying.

on the 40th try, I got it. Thats 160 exotic hammers into the forge. kinda funny that I used a new alt I’m lvling in wvw. Some sort of “beginner’s” luck?

38 tries with exotics now, its ok I will keep trying.

Kamahl.3621:

It works, just not properly.

Example is bandage self – with 30 in tools, it should be a 14 second cooldown, instead it’s a 15-16 second cooldown.

I think it is probably working properly. This is my theory:
When says +30% recharge rate it means you can use them 30% more frequently, so the interval between each use (ie. the cooldown) will be 1/1.3 = 76.9% of the original. If something has 20s of cd untraited, it becomes 20/0.769=15.4 seconds.

I don’t think I’ve tested enough to prove it however…

kokiman.2364:

Doing P4 with Pugs? You must have nerves of steel.

maybe i was lucky, but when I only had P4 left for the title I was desperate enough to pug and hope it works. It took 2 hours where the group killed every mob in our way and we had minimal communication. Somehow got simins done. Wiped a few times cos the team was a bit squishy, but it wasn’t too bad. Even had a zerker warrior that never did arah before and only died once at lupi somehow.

I was expecting another QQ thread but hahahaha, thanks for the lolz dude

personally I have no problem with path seller. I never had to use them though

your rng is almost as bad as mine, lets keep praying

Wukunlin.8461:

88 exotics into the forge, all garbage so far

make that 100, same results lol. Am I doing something wrong? not even a named exo has popped yet, only seen the pearl, tribal, orrian, and the ceremonial exos coming out.

88 exotics into the forge, all garbage so far

Ayrilana.1396:

I also should point out that warden’s feedback is not like wall of reflection. It must be placed directly in front of you instead of anywhere between you and Lupi.

could that be because temporal curtain is very short and iwarden very narrow and only works when spinning so the close you are to them the less likely the projectiles will fly over/around them? I ask this because even wall of reflection isn’t 100% reliable and the further away you stand from it the more likely you get hit from my experience.

Can’t go wrong with obal’s guide on lupi:
http://youtu.be/mJ25Ts2LAuk

If there is the data for it, I also like to wonder how many precursors have been dropped and not been picked up XD

If this is intended, has anyone seen a mjolnir dropped from a chest?

Manuhell.2759:

Imho, either they put a smaller internal cooldown on those food or they rework those fast hitting skill entirely. Crit foods and sigils and traits have cooldowns, while retaliation works per hit. Basically, there is no advantage on them being hitting many times and due to retaliation, it is actually harmful for yourself. Imho, it doesn’t make any sense, especially when we are talking about autoattacks (ele scepter and engineer flamethrower).

Doesn’t fast hitting abilities pretty much negate one-off blind abilities? Even black powder have a interval between blinds if people for some reason decide to stand in there.
Fast hitting abilities also allow those vigor-on-crit procs without having to invest a lot in precision

Got the 3 gifts, just need the colossus now. Threw a bunch of hammers into the toilet, no luck atm

I’m guessing it is some sort of bug that works like this: You start falling and the safety net instadown you, but doesn’t teleport you to the checkpoint right away. You then keep falling to another safety net, since you are already downed, it kills you, breaking your armor etc.

It is sad. I remember when I first did AC explorer like a few couple after launch. The group patiently taught me how to do everything and went out of the way to rez me when I died in an inconvenient place while skipping mobs. I was like lvl 67 or something as well. A couple of months later those type of pugs have pretty much become extinct.

All I can say is that the problem lies within those people. And those people are not the ones you want to run a dungeon with anyway. These people will probably be those ones that will make a run horrible enough to make most people quit the game (ok maybe there is a bit of exaggeration but still).

I agree it is sad that we have to rely on our friends and guilds to get a decent party, but I just don’t see what there is to be done about it. Horrible players (in terms of attitude) will always exist.

i also found that every time these is a roll back, a lot of my stuff on tp gets sold. could their tp server be under attack?

I’m starting to take a bunch a screenshots everytime i get good loot lol

just got booted when mapping. can’t log back in, i’m expecting another rollback

edit: and that’s exactly what happened

I can’t imagine them ignoring this problem. Its either that the people working on it don’t visit the forums, or they are not allowed to shed any info about it because it may scare away players.

More likely to be the former… I hope.

imo skipping is not the problem. bad loot is.

on the topic of old tom, while his poison bolts can only be destroyed/absorbed, his one shot bolt can be reflected for around 15-20k damage.

my lagging issues have disappeared, hopefully everyone else’s have too

I just experienced the most severe case of rubberbanding of any games. All actions took places literally about a minute after I pressed a button. I had to alt F4 in the middle of fighting claw because there is simply no point going on like this and I’m pretty sure I won’t get the credit for kill as I can’t tell where my toon actually is.

Oh well imma take a break tonight

I farm a lot of these, but like you said: covington’s trigger seems really buggy, sometimes the commisar refuses to show up until a server reset. Never bothered with the eye because I never seen anyone do it. Similarly, no one does ogre wars on my server.

The fire shaman has some really nice mechanics but it gets really tedious with very few people (less than three) it is quite soloable however as long as you know how to dodge those stupid axes.

The stats of the dungeon gear all include condition damage which isn’t as popular as power specs. The cosmetics aren’t really popular either so it has always been relatively more difficult finding people to do this dungeon. I used to drag my guildies to help to do them with me. A few times I was tempted to start offering them cookies.

hardest thing I find with lupi is when I used my skills in the wrong time and they are on cd when I need them to not die. No other bosses punish me like that.

ouch that sucks. Unfortunately in cases where there is a rollback the data irrecoverable. Its not an uncommon issue, hopefully they have been working on it.

I don’t know if this will help but this is what I did you get my achievements:

- complete map
- go in wiki and look at the map pages and look for areas with no map completion objects (ie no poi, no vista, no sp etc )
- those might be the ones you are missing

I’m scratching my head after reading your post

- dodging isn’t used for dodging it’s used for prolonged kiting including MELEE classes: kitten!?

I don’t quite understand what you mean. I use dodge because it gives me a brief moment of invulnerability. With practiced timing (learning animation + account for my latency) I can avoid the most dangerous attacks from bosses. See the subject alpha fights in strife’s guides in P2 P3 for what I mean.

- attack sequences have no sense of timing in their animation so it’s difficult to feel the beat of an incoming attack which leads everyone to resort to kiting

Actually, most of those deadly attacks have some sort of wind up animation. There are a few bosses that randomly throw out heavy damage like the mossman axe’s and volcanic shaman arrows but those are in the minority.

- attacks come in high frequency with such a high rate of damage that being in melee is something you cannot do for more than a few seconds

which ones? most mobs and bosses actually have pretty low attack rates, I read in some other thread earlier of people complaining how confusions stacks barely get any ticks in pve

- going to ground means nothing, when fighting normal mobs you’ll kill it and get back up, against champions you’ll always die ergo this mechanic adds no depth to these encounters

Indeed. It gives a lot more room for errors when fighting normal mobs. When soloing champions or something unless they are really low when you go down you might as well afk until you’re dead or hope some guy walks by and help you back up. In groups it does allow any other player to quickly get you back up.

- there’s no distribution of responsibility to the individual when going to ground as the party MUST take care of you when you’re down, which makes you feel useless when this happens in a boss fight

well, isn’t it just as bad in other mmo’s? except in those games only a healer class have a rez skill.

I believe OP means something like solo queues in moba games

You can get to P2 lupi solo. Some places are a bit tricky, like the tunnel where you are meant to go through in a suit, but it is possible to simply run across with the right skills.
Otherwise just grab a friend at the orbs in P3

Gratz on completing your journey. I cringe every time I see a legendary listed thinking about the amount of listing fees

I think they just want to discourage people from camping these world bosses. What I mean is, these events are probably for people who happen to be in the zone at the time it spawns.

1 thing I like about the state of gw2 is that everyone is responsible for their own survival.
In other MMO’s I played where trinity exists, whenever something goes wrong it just turns into a finger pointing game. Tank not controlling aggro, healer not healing enough etc.

GL always gives me a thrill fighting it even though I’ve done it almost 30 times.

Other than that, I quite like the final boss in SE story. Pretty easy, but fun.
Drakin Cinderspire is one of the best open world bosses but his throwing axe damage needs a bit of toning down. It reminds me too much of mossman’s throwing axe.

yeah missed sb for this bs

Just got this as well, shifted zones now I can’t log in.

heya GT

hmm what i like to see:

AC: mini Kholer
CM: mini Sureshot? (not many mobs in CM stand out tbh…)
TA: mini Nightmare vine?
SE: again, not many bosses/mobs stand out to me, probably the mesmer boss in P1
CoF: mini Hellstorm (whatever those flamethrower dudes are called)
CoE: mini Alpha
HotW: mini <one of those big doggies in P2>
Arah: mini Lupi

stuff likes this makes me wonder if anet’s design teams’ paychecks are determined by rng as well

lol my guildies who have been in arah for hour will not be pleased

just keep practicing and one day you will start to love it. Some pug groups even refuse to start a fractal run without doing the swamp as the first one

I can’t possibly play my guardian (my main) without the hammer, I love this weapon! But yes, glacial heart is the a joke. And two handed mastery is pretty useful in some situations but i would like to use MB after every chain