Staff is running/support weapon. GS is primarily our DPS weapon. Hammer is somewhat defensive. Scepter if you need range. 1H sword is probably the alternate DPS weapon.
What commander build? Anyways I run my guardian with a full Berserker gear. But since you’re new to dungeons, you’d probably want a bit more survivability. Maybe a mix of knight’s, PVT, and berserker.
In terms of dungeons, run CoF Path 1 which is by far the easiest dungeon, easier than AC.
Where is this joke you speak of? I must have missed it.
AR attacking the weaker of the two is expected. They can taste the victory! The double team last week is out of the window since the points leader is just within reach.
I actually don’t mind if one of the members go after the elemental right away. I’m not sure of your comp but 4 members can burst down the bubble relatively quick.
If you have a mes, he can focus pull the adds underneath the boss so you get 2 for 1. A guardian’s reflection can also deal with the add’s projectiles while you burst down the bubble. I believe the key is dealing with adds and boss at the same time.
As Tierra said it’s all about the dodges and proper positioning, meaning you don’t walk on top of the mobs. Stability also helps, and as far as I know all classes have access to them (could be wrong). You also don’t just run, you turn your camera and look for incoming attacks/who’s following you etc.
I was doing Arah, and it was so frustrating that PuGs cannot do a simple trash skipping. They told me we should kill everything lol.
Why are you trying to instigated flaming on this thread? You just said it yourself, every server has their bad apples. If you wake up the SBI forum warriors, they’d come up with these very examples you accuse them of against you.
So you done every thing in the game rank 20 in spvp (not sure what the cap is atm) level 100 ish in WvW? level 40 ish in FOTM? Got dungeon master? Have you done all of this? If not you have no idea what is skillful content.
Nice joke. 20 rank its 1 or 2 days SPVP rofl…. 100 WwW its 2 weeks. Fractals 82 im am and im get this lvl in first 3 weeks ….. Dungeon master im did is 2 days in yellow gear 5 september. All of this conten is very Easy….
Good job you burned through all that content so fast now you have nothing to do! I admit this game is a bit casual because there’s really no gear grinding. Korean MMO would do you nicely.
1. Rework scores system so big population/coverage =! winning.
2. Bigger maps.
3. More strategic points on the map like the ogre/dredge on EB, but more complex.
There is no place for ranger in harder dungeons. Red circles will eat your pet leaving you lacking with DPS. They’re great in open world solo PVE. Have I known how bad rangers are at dungeons (compose the majority of my end-game goals) I would not have rolled a ranger.
Hey now. Being originally from SBI, I have never fought my old server. This is an exciting experience for me to see how much you guys have grown since I left back in December.
Cheers to those that know me, see you on the field!
Sympathy, a veiled sympathy at that. I don’t know what kind of “growth” you’re expecting to see.
Shiyo,
If you called others jerks by not adhering to your way of fun, it’s only fair for them to call you a jerk (or carebear) by not adhering to their ways of fun. Any mature person wouldn’t care how others playing their games. To each their own.
And that’s what happened to the League of Legends community. I can be elitist, and you can be a carebear. But guess what, next thing you know everyone is doing the same way. I just hope it’s not the former.
@OP I tried joining a lvl 10, TEN, FoTM this morning with my ranger alt. I got kick twice with 2 different groups. I just cannot imagine how these players do 30+ FoTM. That never happened on my ele main even if there’s two other ele.
You just need a guardian which makes this encounter a whole lot easier. Sorry to say but trinity exists; there are classes, though not mandatory at lower levels, that decides failure and success in your run especially at the hardest dungeons.
Andene
Profession: Elementalist
Traits: 30/20/0/0/20
Experience: Have done all other dungeons, but none on Arah
Gear: Full exotics. Mainly Knight’s.
Time: Sunday – Thursday 9AM – 3PM PST
Other: Have access to VOIP but no mic. Been playing ele since headstart, so if you want me to retrait, fill a certain role etc, I’m all ears to any suggestion.
A little off topic, but is there any benefit to running that high level FOTM (45+ or even 40+)? I do 30s daily and I can’t really push myself to go higher.
@Voy Hollow
It’s not only CoF 1 but FotM 30+ too. Here you have the “2 Guard minimum rule” if you want to get past it as fast as possible, and of course you take as few glass cannons with you as possible.
But you are right, you can do every dungeon that is not about either max dps or max survivability with every combination of professions.
Parties that require 2 guards at frac 38 are probably terrible; expect around 2 terrible players in the party.
Yeah we are so terrible to want a faster run where we can melee everything (much higher dps than range) and get it done faster than your average group of “anything goes” carebears who think class does not matter.
With 2 guardians you can safely melee bloomhunger, mossman, all 4 mobs in the sad harpy fractal champ room […] things that take like 3 times as long in the average pug. I’ve never seen a pug go full melee in the ettin room until after the first three died. We start and end with full melee with a decent group that has two guard.
Of course 2 guard doesn’t mean 2 tanks, you want at least one of the two to go full berserker. You mostly want the guard for the hammer, reflection and aegis. Blind in some frac like cliffside.
It’s parties that do not require 2 guard that are terrible because they don’t really get this game.
I agree. At first I was denial to this fact, but the fact is you can do runs faster, more efficient with less deaths, whatever with guards/zerker warriors/ other zerker setups. All this bullkitten saying you can finish the run with any profession… well of course you can. After the “play for fun” is pass, you run for the rewards per time ratio.
I think Anet failed short on the no more trinity philosophy. There’s still is, especially on higher fotm, just hidden.
I’m still waiting for that 2 necro/2 engi/1 ranger setup that can supposedly match the guards/warrior/mes at harder dungeons.
Thank god it’s the last week because I actually wanna start you know… winning. These great skirmishes are enjoyable no doubt, but there comes a point where you wanna see the fruit of your hard work.
The only question now is whether we’ll be stomping the other servers or getting stomped next week.
^^ I’m sorry but I read your posts three times and still couldn’t clearly decipher the 3 factors or reasons that lead to guilds leaving SBI.
Free transfers closing? Well that’s not a reason by itself, you need a reason to leave.
Preserve the guild? Possibly. I understand.
No plan executed? No idea.
I disagree with every suggestion that penalized people for grouping into a large group.
same.sry but there are guilds that like to play together and sometimes they have a lot of people, so why punish them? It’s called guildwars not family feud!
LOL We can call it Zerg Wars.
@OP My solution is to head over to lower tier matches. Smaller zerg and only occasional large zerg. Obviously not a real solution but hey it works.
The probability of them dropping is similar to an alien invasion. I’ve been doing daily fractals in 20s/30s, and still no luck. You need to grind really hard or be super lucky.
If your at lv30 and still struggle with him even with 25/30 AR, you shouldn’t be at that level. Grawl fractal should be the reality check that players should learn to dodge agony not just stack so much AR its irrelevant.
Seeing as how you have 3 guards, it’s not really surprising. What bothers me is that there are still classes that are pretty much almost mandatory at higher fractals such as the guardian.
I thought all classes can perform all roles almost equally but no, some classes are way better at some role (thru utilities whatnot). Which brings me to the conclusion that holy trinity is still there, it’s just not as apparent or rather hidden beneath the surface.
DM titles do not carry as much weight anymore. It simply means someone did all dungeon paths at least once. DM doesn’t mean you’re a good dungeon runner, nor you have experience in that path (you need more than one run to be “experienced.”)
It sucks but would you rather 4 manned the last boss because 1 ditched your group? If you wrongfully got kicked, that’s reportable anyways. For those who buy dungeon slots for titles, well they’re stupid or just a completionist for that achievement.
Agree, but Anet pretty much implied that WvW is a numbers game. “It’s about the world, not the individual” or something along those lines. If you want a skill matchup go sPvp.
WvW is about zerg, who can field more men, and coverage. It’s frustrating because these are out of any individuals control. Not enough players on your server? Too bad, just hope someone bandwagoned to your server.
You do realize if they did that, people would have been furious with having choice being taken away and quit? Allowing people to choose, by informing them, they ensure that there’s no fallout. Sure, it’s created a mess in WvW, but there is a significantly higher pve population that would have been completely outraged if this had been silently implemented.
I agree, it’s pretty much to protect their a$/es. Still it will probably take at least a month, probably 3 until the servers levels out. After the servers get their respective tiers and spot in a couple of weeks, all servers will stagnate for several months.
Yes, as far as a i know. It will just overwrite the versatile infusion with the resilient infusion just like every other normal gem on normal accessories.
All four level 1 players should have leveled up to 2. I assume you guys finished all 3 fractals which after the last boss of the 3rd fractal you will be teleported back to the FOTM lobby. If you didn’t level up, it’s a bug i supposed or you could just try again since it wasn’t that hard anyway.
Every kittening time wethospu posts a video someone in the comments is always “hey nah it’s warrior this guy couldn’t do anything without his classDD”. Have you not perhaps thought of the skill required to solo lupicius with any class? I’d like to see you get a warrior and do even remotely close to the same.
That’s the thing. I think the community likes to see other classes being able to do the same. Solo lupicius and this, it’s been a warrior. Maybe we should just leave it us, “Other classes are simply not skilled enough to do something like this.”
Considering the OP has the necessary skills and knowledge to accomplish this as a warrior, I don’t see him not being able to do it with say ele, or ranger, or engineer. Just some time to learn the class mechanic on his part.
I always regard support build as secondary, meaning that it shouldn’t be your primary objective when you play (unless you’re in a dedicated team that specifically asked for it). The reason for that is everyone is jack-of-all-trades, you can’t really excel specifically at one thing.
On a PuG situation, ideally you wanna deal damage first to be sure, then support comes next. Afterall, you don’t really know what builds they’re running, your team might end up with 5 support for all you know.
I’m not sure myself how to fix this issue. The thing is 80s have more traits and (most likely) better gear than non-80s. Traits are not scaled down. There are also the sigils and runes that certainly make a difference.
Jade Quarry!
We always had a good laugh when we’re talking about you guys. It seems everyone can crack up a JQ joke. From the massive transfers to camping the JP @EB to mindless zerging. Above all we managed to stay T1 from the beginning until now.
Ele is usually responsible for aoe’ing the lava grubs. I guess it boils down to party composition. Just look at the skill set for focus. You’ll be sacrificing your aoe and other utilities for one skill. Unless your party can kill the grubs before their next burst, you only prolong the fight.
Agree to all except for #2, and a little bit of #3. FotM is quite fun for me because of the difficulty progression and the randomness of getting which 3 fractals you’ll run. They are also not terribly long. (I’m looking at you Arah)
As for #3, even casual players should at least get to level 10, possibly 20. If you can’t handle higher levels like 30+, no problem. You’ll be experiencing the same thing as those on a much higher level than you.
I guess you missed all the ruckus about skipping kholer/trash mobs before the big dungeon patch. According to a dev, players skip kholer because there wasn’t a good enough incentive for them to kill him. The same for any other mobs.
Most players would just want to finish the run for the chest instead of killing trash mobs for a chance to get a loot.
How else are ppl meant to pay for armor repairs. Sure the good players will rarely die or earn enough without thinking about it, but maybe for the average casual player, WvWvW is 50% accounting and checking your gold balance, and 50% playing. Costs do mount up if you’re just mucking around so it’s good to either have a budget in WvWvW, adopt a play style that minimises penalties or ensure rewards are being given for playing (i.e alt-f4 loot).
Fair enough, but I don’t think anyone play purely WvW where it’s their only source of money. When I play WvW, I’m sure to burn some cash more than what I take in. My take on this is that players who alt-f4 are “not serious” about WvW (they’re are just there for the hell of it, maybe got bored in PVE land), otherwise you wouldn’t mind the small repair cost and the hassle logging back in, queuing, then running across the map.
What I don’t understand is why are people so obsessed with getting a puny, often-than-not useless white salvage (OK, maybe a badge or two once in a while). When I see players disappear, I just call it my win and move on.
So here comes a brand new player looking for Fotm level 1. Too bad for him, chances are he won’t find a party unless he has RL friends who are willing to do level 1 instead of their appropriate level of 10/20+.
Hang on, if I’ve completed level 1 of the fractals that means I can’t just choose to do level 1 again? :/ Hmm this was in the patch notes wasn’t it… goes to look
Obviously you can, but would rather do level 1 or the one appropriate to your level? Same reason why hardly anyone run dungeon story mode anymore.
DD”. Have you not perhaps thought of the skill required to solo lupicius with any class? I’d like to see you get a warrior and do even remotely close to the same.