Guild Wars 2

We are definitely spoiled. There isn’t a single valid complaint in these forums.

swiftpaw.6397:

Meanwhile, in the guardian forums, there’s a guy trying to argue the value of dps guardian with AH and a mace for a main weapon. Ah happy days.

reminds me of the guy telling me I shouldn’t camp hammer and swapping to mace is the way to go

basically, “we don’t know how to design challenging content so we put in stupid rng and so those lottery winners can feel special.”

Dro.1047:

War 4:48 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExJRVBrgbdo&feature=youtu.be

so weird hearing FGJ said in a different language XD

I seriously don’t give a kitten what ranger means or originate from. All I know is if I want my ranger to dps I bring a sword in most cases.

There are a few options, see this thread
The dps levels vary a bit, some trade a little dps for more utility etc

it’s okay, if only I can show you the original thread, it had an entertainment value of 11/10

Zelyhn.8069:

Am I the only one to avoid warriors like the plague for fractal run with pugs because this class is so week in fractals?

I feel like I’m missing a joke here.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

moiraine.2753:

Wukunlin.8461:

You no range boss?

learn to play bro

Is saying it someone who has never done it as a melee the whole fight.
I could say to you L2P.

And gratz Obal.
You done it again

It was a joke.

You forgot to say learn to play at the end of your post. It makes your argument more valid.

Learn to play.

I have grown to love 20 in virtues for absolute resolution. PoV makes you use shouts to remove conditions which can be bad because a lot of the times you have to use them at specific moments (retreat when expecting one shot attacks for example). There are also times when you only really want 1 shout on your bar (typically retreat, sometimes SYG) because you may need 2 consecrations or WoR + SoA for projectiles so PoV is pretty weak.

I stopped expecting anything from pugs.

“I play how I want. Stop being an elitist”

you play for fun and not for the rewards guys, stop feeling so entitled.

huehuehue

This thread is proof that the sky is falling

fiery rush actually takes longer because it takes a lot of time (“a lot” in the sense of farming) to get them against walls.

Level cap increase means time for RL for me

pretty sure he means the phase 3 frenzied blasts

You no range boss?

learn to play bro

Personally the lack of audio cues isn’t a big problem for me. maybe because I played too many games with annoying audio cues “TAKE THIS!!!” “DIE YOU LITTLE kitten!!!”

He loves fighting but he doesn’t want people to respawn

Caradryan.1795:

Now I just randomly wander Queensdale as a giant candy corn. It definitely feels better.

gonna try that as soon as I get home

yeah for the most part I just get a skin or mini or something (assuming they aren’t ridiculously tedious) and never touch it. The LS as a whole just doesn’t interest me.

I am all for good income for dungeon runners but I can’t say the same for anet.

“Oh look, dungeon runners found a way to make more gold” NERFNERFNERF

problem of extra reward will be either: no enough to have an effect or: enough that people will start using it to farm more efficiently.

frifox.5283:

Attack rate (untraited):

• Swordsman – kitten

Attack rate (traited):

• Swordsman – kitten

this forum filter….

fellyn.5083:

Wukunlin.8461:

but do they HAVE to be different?

Yes? What is the point of making a game and having it be exactly like the last game you made? If you love GW1 so much you can still play that game you know?

not having a totally unnecessary stat tier doesn’t make gw2 exactly the same as gw1 you know?

I see energy sigil gets mentioned here and I fully agree on their usefulness. However I have been experimenting with sigil of stamina (refill energy on kill) and seems to have worked okay, anyone else tried this?

fellyn.5083:

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Aurust.8961:

gimmethegepgun.1284:

fellyn.5083:

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Aurust.8961:

The devs have said many times that ascended is the final level of gear.

Yeah? They also said there wouldn’t be a new carrot to chase every 6 months and then promptly added another tier of gear 2 months after launch.

And that’s held true.

Oh? So they didn’t release a statistically better tier of gear walled behind a ridiculous time gate 2 months after launch in an obvious carrot-shaped attempt to keep people playing?

Yes, 2 months after launch because they realized that exotic was to easy to get…. and there had to be something between legendary and exotic.

And yet they held for years in GW1 without ever increasing the maximum strength of equipment, despite it being possible, in Nightfall, to equip a level 2 with max gear.
Also, what gap between legendary and exotic? They were the same stats. They could have added some more “tiers” of skins of varying increasing costs without dumping a pointless stat increase on it.

I’m sure you’re aware of this but GW2 is a completely different game than GW1. I’m really not sure why people think that just because a thing was a certain way in GW1 it should be the exact same in GW2.

but do they HAVE to be different?

the ornithologist is done on a regular basis because after you kill it a vendor shows ups selling experimental rifles

guanlongwucaii.3162:

Wukunlin.8461:

Delay.6908:

Wukunlin.8461:

okay I just tried pugging with the new lfg tool

Never

Again

So uh… how did that CM run go?

e;lrjs;jhg;ajgra;jg;jreg;iaejgkanfg;aljfg;klaj;lkewgrge

“hey what’s up?”
“pugging cm…. ugh….”
“HEY LETS FORM A CM GUILD GROUP, WANNA COME????”
“can’t just leave in the middle of a run ._.”

you had your chance

and you missed p3 also

It’s just that every time someone in a pug group just leaves without saying anything I just get really annoyed and I can’t bring myself to do the exact same thing.

Delay.6908:

Wukunlin.8461:

okay I just tried pugging with the new lfg tool

Never

Again

So uh… how did that CM run go?

e;lrjs;jhg;ajgra;jg;jreg;iaejgkanfg;aljfg;klaj;lkewgrge

“hey what’s up?”
“pugging cm…. ugh….”
“HEY LETS FORM A CM GUILD GROUP, WANNA COME????”
“can’t just leave in the middle of a run ._.”

pugging CM first try:
-lvl 4x engi, opened the instance, dced, kicked him then got kicked out so yay excuse to leave
-lvl 4x I don’t remember class never bothered entering instance after waiting for 10+ minutes
- lvl 6x warrior who decides to pull every mob and die

Thankfully that ended before we killed the first mobs.

Tried again and finished P1 in 40 min… I can’t say anything really went horribly wrong. Just a lot of suboptimal builds and inexperienced people. It was bearable though, that group was easy to chat with. But seriously this lfg tool needs a way to set things like lvl filters (underleveled people cannot self invite, eg a lvl 42 shouldn’t be able to get into a CM exp group), at least let the current members look at the player before popping them straight into the group

okay I just tried pugging with the new lfg tool

Never

Again

yup, it’s been happening for as long as I have remembered.

high health, high damage, multi phase with annoying daze spam, KD spam, burn spam adds, and nearest wp too long away.

Actually, the way it works is that you go to the containers and there is a specific option that you choose which allows you to disable that container. When you choose the right one a bunch of inquests will spawn, one of them is an engineer (with an X on top of his head) which you need to kill or else he will re-enable the container. You can leave all the inquests to live and just kill the engineer and the even bar will progress.

I thought the OP wants to bypass the listing fees so the seller is willing to settle for lower prices

Hunter.4783:

Min maxers should look elsewhere.

pretty sure min/maxing doesn’t really have a place in wvw last time I looked

There is no direct way to trade so someone will have to place a lot of trust on a complete stranger on the internet.

also, without listing fees you can use the TP as an infinitely large bank to store all your stuff by listing them with prices no one would buy

Dolan.3071:

Wukunlin.8461:

spider sac despawning after fyonna dies would be okay, trolling from guildies too strong

#YOLOSWAGWHOOPSTHATWASASTONETOUCHGOODLUCKEVERYONELSE

#FUUUUUUUSOMADSTARTRAGINGONTS

Once a pug in my group said:

“I am a slavic person and I find the dredge offensive”

tolunart.2095:

There’s a controversy? Is that what they’re calling whining these days?

Like nearly everything else in the game it’s optional and not required for 99.9% of the content or activities you can engage in. It’s just overreactions by people who were trained by other MMOs that there are two tiers of gear, BiS and trash.

I agree with the overreaction bit but which controversies cannot be regarded as whining?

spider sac despawning after fyonna dies would be okay, trolling from guildies too strong

Using a staff guardian with a signet build and never once got kicked

LordByron.8369:

its not that hard to understand:

if you get a box, in 4 lvl 48 runs you got the weapon you want …basically like paying a dungeon weapon 240 tokens…..

If you have a random skins the chance to get the one you can use/want get drastically lower….That means you have to run a lot of fotms.

In the meantime you get lot of stuff you can use but takes many runs to get all you want…..

Once again do you want to punish people who run the unrewarding difficult content by:

-nerfing drops
-inflating drops
-gear requirements obtained via grinding outside fotms
-no guaranteed rewards like dungeons
-T7 materials that became obsolete rather than being included in ascended crafting
-lowering difficulty by increasing AR

and now the last nail in the coffins give easy skins to everyone….

I can agree….let make everything more accessible to everyone…

But before that i want to see precursors sold by npcs at 10G ….so even legendary becomes easier….

After all legendaries are BiS while fotm are only skins….

What you ask is to make fractal weapon skin incredibly easy to obtain….

Now if that is what you want, just make them tradable so at least fractal runners can get some money they lost playing fotm….

After all you are going to make them easy to get but at least long time fractal runners won t pay the price for it as Always happened and recover a little gold they lost running fractals instead of cof/open world bosses/champions

surely there are better ways to make things more difficult to get than bad rng?

it’s because I cleansed the burning off you

LordByron.8369:

actually an hard to obtain skin is a proof you like fotms….

And that you play those a lot if you want a weaponset.

Since SKIN was the only reward people got, giving away them easily so anyone can be carried on few fotm 48 runs, would just destroy any reward fotm players had.

Like zenith weapons….they are nice but when everybody have them they are far less appealing.

hard to obtain those skins isn’t the problem. The drop rate of the weapon box can remain low enough to keep them scarce. The actual problem is that when you do get one it is likely going to be useless to you and end up sitting in your bank, or salvaged. You see what I’m saying? Say for example, what if the harpoon gun (never gonna use it) I get some time ago is a hammer (def gonna keep it and transmute it) instead? Will it change the scarcity and prestige of fractal weapon skins?

Ebi.8561:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Ebi.8561:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Serious responses start here:

1) Grenade engineer to stack might and vuln and output consistent DPS for when pugs insist on range stacking. Also heals, CCs, stealths, reflects, etc. God tier carry for bads in general.
2) Mesmers for portals. Run through half of Arah, portal rest of pugs through.
3) Rangers for fury. Most pugs don’t stack fury, so that area fury alone is a blanket 15% extra DPS or so.
4) Elementalists for raw DPS. With the terrible damage of most pugs, you’ll probably double or even triple the party’s total DPS as an ele.
5) Guardian for protection stacking and Aegis. Nice because pugs don’t dodge so damage negation is important.
6) Warrior for banners and shouts. Limited in usefulness because pugs don’t carry banners usually.

Sorry to say but you’re wrong in a few things there, Rangers is a NO as well as Engineers. No room for them in good dungeons.

Guardian is great for a few things, but if you run an altruistic guardian GTFO.
Berserker or go home tbh
Warriors, do not use shouts. Shout warriors can also walk home with the Altruistic Guardians, Warriors are for pure DPS, Full zerker. There is no other use for them.

You can DPS with shouts. A/M and LB, Heal Surge, Discipline Strength, FGJ, Warbanner. What do you run, Endure Pain? Frenzy? Dolyak Signet?

I don’t think i got my message across as well as i wanted to, I’m talking about warriors that run OMM/SIO/FM in dps fights, i’m talking about in-experienced warriors.

And in response to the “no rangers” I’ve just had bad experience with rangers, never met a good one that i’ve had time to watch and play with, i know they can buff greatly and do some good damage, i have watched DnT’s CoF P1 run with the ranger, which i was impressed with.

But i stand by my egineer quote, i do not like them, personal preference, we’re not on this forum to agree with one person, everyone shares a different opinion and you can’t target out someone with one that’s not equal to yours. ^^

I met a berserker sword ranger (frost spirit and all) in a pug once.

oh
my
god
/brainasplode

Could tell he/she was definitely doing a fair share of dps

true, but even in fotm 48 the chances of getting the specific weapon skin you want is too low for the amount of work though. Like, almost 1% for that specific weapon? I guess only have weapon box at 48 or whatever is the hardest would make sense

Bright.9160:

The hound in CM p2 maybe? I actually have no idea about his attacks and what they do, and if he’s hard. Never got around to killing him.

this is my experience from last year so things may have changed. Only thing I remember is stupid levels of health and armor and aoe fear spam.