Guild Wars 2

i can confirm that soemtmies chests or bodies? don’t render to loot. i played with my wife, side by side and on her screen i could see the chest. so just follow where people are and spam F. uually if there’s a commander around, they most likely won’t miss any chests.

i think the titles for Temp content is exactly that – somethign to show that you were present then and took part in the festivities (in addition to certain items, minis, what have you). there are still plenty of titles that are tied to permanent content for those who might have missed the temp content.

i propose “The Queen’s Gauntlet” as a title for completing all Gauntlet related achievements! at least for this round.

though tbh, i want to say the Gauntlet will keep coming back? since it has its own achievement panel. so i reckon they’ll keep adding new tiers and enemies as well in the future.

Unholy Pillager.3791:

Given how exaggerated the maces and hammers are in this game, I think we should be glad the blade wasn’t 3 inches wide lol.

lol and most still say that hammer heads aren’t big enough! ; )))

phaneo.4597:

akamon.2769:

i’m not there. ; ))

You’re so not gonna get that hammer, ya hear me?

whoever finds it first gets to smash the other with the hammer with no resistance! >:DD

p.s. apparently Gilded Coffers (Risen) for both Entropy and Genesis and repeatedly reported Genesis from Frozen Maw. if you want, we can hold a truce, i’ll stop by TC and we can farm champs. ; ))

good fights all around folk!! dat score.

if you happen to need more dodges, consider energy sigils, as well as endurance regen food. they should also give might when you dodge, so that helps your damage as well.

geared for DPS, specced for sustainability i thnk it a good mix here. : ))

some people on reddit mentioned using boosters if you have any. power, armor, regen booster, speed booster should all help. every bit counts right? if you want, you can also farm up 25 stacks of bloodlust or whatever you need for your build in the pavillion, which should be pretty easy and then go in like that as well.

some people have had luck on Ooze 7 as well for this achieve.

i had a guildie who just camped one tower until he got the right champs he needed. :/// as the events cycle through escort emissary, aetherblade morale, and the champ. (unsure of what the order is though)

i think Ms. Impossible is the last fight. for now. ; )))

i think NickBrah was talking about the wind lady though. sadly, i feel scepter and GS and probs the weapon sets to go for. as well as 1h sword and maybe hammer.

definitely be using a lot of Scepter Power. nice, Charak!

now next question, Light in the Darkness achievement. any Guardians do this yet? or did you do these as well already, Charak?

lol same here. first time, i ended up in DR. lol

so now i stay like 5 steps below and loo tthe chest there

yay.D looking forward to seeing the rest of it all.

and i would love nuking with 4 symbols

Norr.7680:

Clockradio.3257:

HOLY COW CLOSE MATCHUP BG/SOR!

Keep up the good work both of you!

TC, hang in there. The longer you fight us two, the more people will consider transferring over for some T1 wvw.

Glad you all there caaaaausssee most of BG is not lol

i’m not there. ; ))

looking forward to hearing some more too.
once i get done with them all (ideally), i’ll start posting some builds or any other Guardian-related goodies for the Gauntlet. : ))

haha KOPPER, i am the same. :// stubborn like that.
good luck! can’t wait to get home hit upt he Gauntlet again.

not an engi here, but i call her wind lady too so wanted to chime in. i thinkfor this battle, the main thing are the tornadoes. wind lady herself doesn’t do too much damage it seems. and if it takes too long, the more that spawn, the more there will be nothing you can do – so key is to kill her asap.

am sure engi’s have specs that are able to burst pretty quickly. good luck!

(one thing i kind of really enjoy about the gauntlets, you really do get to mess around with builds / setups for each encounter)

with all the bugs in the “lower level” or “starter” maps, i think they’re trying to tell us something. ; ))

yea, i figured conditions would be a good one to have the drop on her. i figure 8 crystals/orbs would take away too much from doing damage her to defeat her.

thanks and grats again!

Daecollo.9578:

oZii.2864:

the rune of perplexity is bugged. I crafted and put it on my mesmer the 4 piece bonus will give you the 3 stacks of confusion not the enemy.

LOL

confused rune is confused. XDD

i think they’ve fixed this btw. haha. hands down, best bug-fix ever.

would love to hear as well. : )) was planning to use scepter/torch for high single target and burst damage, thinking that would be the way to go. since most of our other weapons that deal a lot of damage are all AoE and cleave. don’t exactly have a specific build in mind yet though.

haven’t gotten to fight him yet. do the spawned oozes attack as well or just heal him?

well done!

how did you find Light up the Darkness and any tips?

haven’t done this yet, but having quite a bit of fun in the Gauntlet. i like having to figure out the bosses emchanics, and figure out how to beat ‘em. so ig uess i shouldn’t read so much about these fights.. looking forward to giving it my shot!

and yes, seeing more tiers with future returns would be awesome.

i’d only wish the spectators – which seem were the intention of these arenas and “queues” – woulda been abel to see more clearly. to ahve that gladiator kind of coliseum feel to watching a match. with the distance and all the structural design of the arenas int he way, really takes away from watching someone fight.

or simply, “The Queen’s Gauntlet”
:DD

yes, i am rather partial to “The ____” titles.

a lot of peolpe have been wanting this skin to be useable when the fractals were first introduced and people laid eyes on ’em.

though, i am not opposed to your scenerio at all. : ))

oh, interesting Axxo. i haven’t really looked at the new runes yet. will have to do that now.

though, note the difference between Vitality and your Health Pool. Each point invested in vitality equates to 10 health.

taking your example of your health pool of 17,225, and that the Guardian at level 80 has a base health of 1645. so that would make your vitality = (17,225-1,645)/10 = 1,558

so that would net you 47 Healing Power, Precision and Power respectively. i think this is how it’s done. so you can see, big difference. : )) as much as i would love +500 to healing power, prec AND power! lol

GSS, where you at? >:DDD

didn’t wanna start a new thread. so how’ve people’s experience been with this so far? i only dabbled with a few of these guys and got up to boss in T1 and then i went to bed lol. hoping to get most of them done in the enxt few days!

so far, it seems DPS centric builds will still work. but i’ve also heard others doing more than fine in PVT / cleric’s / condition gear.

the wind lady with the tornadoes was mad annoying when i first faced her. didn’t have stability and only one stunbreak. brought hollowed ground and SYG the next time and roflstomped her for knocking me around so much lol

[edit: SNAP phaneo beat me to it lol]

i read on dulfy’s page with the new champ skins that someone found Genesis from Frozen Maw. so i want to assume Sons of Svanir champs? take it with a grain of salt though. i’m looking to get the new mace as well so my guess is also sons of svanir so i’m gonna be hunting these guys down. will keep you all updated if anything.

good luck to us all!D

and yes, don’t pay for ’em. even if you do, wait for a bit when the prices stablize a bit would be my approach.

i didn’t support this, but i guess we’ll have to rely on Kiel now.

^^^ i’ve more than enough questions that already need answering!
now.. now what do i doooooooooooooooooo.

i would liked to have seen OHKO to have more obvious tells. and in a battle where you’re supposed to be constantly moving, it makes it even harder to see. and yes, the dome itself. i was thinking something more grand for the gauntlet battles. even as a spectator, i can’t really see much tbh it’s so far away.

that being said, i guess it all adds to the challenge of all!

it’s still fun to do i imagine. although, i’m going to go out in open world and hunt down champs instead now and focus on Queen’s Gauntlet. : ))

though it was entertaining to watch 50 drop all in one hit – namely against the Centaur legendary! lol.

good stuff! subbed and liked too.

so is this going to be your new channel?

hmm. not sure if i have anything to say about this patch for Guardians.

hi, Tarsius! XDD

i fear i may be PvE-ing for a while. XDDD

i kid i kid. see you folks on the field. soon-ish.

thanks for this!

so you’re sayign that there is a safe spot, but could either go left or right, but once you figure out the direction, you can essentialyl just keep strafing in the same direction to avoid the AoE?

good stuff!

can’t wait to try this. p.s. awesome accent lol

should totally have been an option from the player:

“Yea, we’ve met before”

cue awkward silence from Rox and shifty eyes from Braham.

XDDDDD

so does the floor only open when the time runs up? and if you die then you’re ported back up? more often than not, when my wife got downed / defeated, she was ported back to the NPCs outside, defeated. whereas i was downed/defeated once and the ground opened and i had to WP, run all the way back, etc etc

does each balloon tower always spawn the same type of champ? if it does spawn the champ events.

if so, anyone have a list of which tower spawns where yet? : )))

weren’t the finishers time based? now they only grant 5 stomps?? :// if that’s true, i gues they are trying to phase ’em out and invest in the permanent ones.

i too bought a bunch of super ones. though i don’t regret it, i was kind of hoping we’d get some way to unlock the premanent ones if we’d previously bought finishers or still have some around. i was saving mine for this purpose! lol, but i guess won’t happen. ; ))

i think it’s quite an interesting approach. time-gated i don’t think is bad. it will be sort of fun to be able to watch others attempt, cheer them on, and really have a sense of “community”, whatever that may mean to you. these are fights that are supposed to have spectators, and ANet is creatign that exactly.

though i guess what most people are upset with is that…
- time-gated content is not bad, hard content is definitely not bad, temporary content, is not bad either.. i know, i know, it’s been repeated before but still worth mentioning – hard, time-gated, temporary content, all mixed up in one bag? not the best combo.
- people with limited time to play each day may end up spending most of their time trying to get tickets and waiting, and may be sacrificing their dailies or WvW/dnugeonnig with their friends because they wanna check out and succeed in the gauntlet. yes, i know you mentioned we can check out other content too.. but still.
- a lot of achievement points tied to ‘em, which people are after now more so than ever. the OCD or achievements hunters will, but now most people will want to because AP’s give out rewards now! so people are being “forced” to do all this content

… just to name a few.

though again, everyone, let’s take a deep breath, don’t worry about what we can’t control and wait until tomorrow. : )) then when thigns are as bad as you’d thought or, the Six forbid, worse than what you’d expected, then come back on here.

i think for starters, we need to cease or somehow contain the “if i wanna do X, i’ll just go warrior/ele/what have you”.

take it for what it’s worth, i think it’s true, perhaps we can’t out blind a thief, we can’t out damage a _, we can’t our regen a ranger, etc etc.. but if we want to we can do a LOT of these things VERY well, all. at. the. same. frigging. time. sure, many call us jack of all trades, master of none. is that a terrible thing to be had? and how far off are we from the so-called “masters”? i like to believe that the Guardian’s strength lies in the fact that we can be so versatile, with a huge access to boons, group wide damage mitigation/support, while contributing steady DPS at all times, as long as you’ve took the time to understand how damage is done in the game and are mindful of how you choose your gear and trait your build.

hey obal! long time ; ))

just wanted to let you know i’ve been using this guide and slowly working my way up the fractal ladder. of course, i’ve made adjustments to better suit lower levels, but the core is here and thanks for all the hard work!

sadness how intothemists is blocked at work. :// well not blocked, but i’m unable to upgrade our browsers – yes, that should tell you how dated my browser is right now lol

someone remind me to check it out when i get home! lol i’ll be posting a pseudo theorycrafted build soon, but only when i get enough testing done. : ))

another fun night of 5-man roaming while [SAHP] was doing their thing, we even took a couple towers last night!
and then ended with a few suicide runs to barely even scratch an enemy’s treb, lol

last night’s notable shout out goes to… [TKG]! /salute

further tested the stones with my luck yesterday with the stones, but to no avail. didn’t get any named drops either but more than a handful of berserker pearl weapons so i put those back into the TP and broke even if anything. ://

moer to come! lol

so it’s confirmed that the Queen’s Gauntlet will have separate achievements? so i guess in a sense, it’s like Belcher’s Bluff, which was intro-ed with Bazaar and has it’s own set of achievements. at the same time, there was a BotFW achievement tied to Belcher’s Bluff, which can’t be gotten after the next patch.

i guess it’s good and bad. and how will we enter the Gauntlet after? assuming the Pavillion is only with the Jubilee? ah heck, i’ll just wait until tomorrow to see XDD

iv’e yet to full testing, but i’ll be getting there soon once i actually craft the armor. thanks for the report, Brutaly and i suspect either might stacking or boon duration will be the way to go, at least in terms of having the builds be more than viable. not sure how i feel about soldier runes yet, but may have to look into them.

seems even with new gear, Valor is being left behind in certain builds, of which many are very strong. that being said, i still think it’s a great line. just merely making an observation, heh.

hope the little one’s keeping you nice and busy ; ))

@CMF – i’ve read some Guards (or players in general) will carry two of the same weapon, one with force and one with night, to switch accordingly according to time of day. to really maximize the dmg they output and min/max. ; ))

though if you frequent certain dungeons that are always night, definitely could be worth it.

ya, i use thoseoccasionally. or hydromancy, which i prefer over ice, if i know i’m gonna be in your face the whole time and plan to be in small group fights. but the more chills the better i say! ; ))

and lately, i’ve been using more force sigils and the like for damage. or if someone wanted to run energy sigils but also apply chills… for example. so that would just open up more sigil choice if it were embedded into our traits is all.

[edit: typos and to add – i just REALLY liked the idea or burning ice! lol]

just putting this out there again, there are people who’ve written up mini-guides on how to maximize points. if you’re playing to last the longest, most likely you won’t be top scorer, though it happens.

if you’re just trying to get max points each game… you want to kill as many in the grace period, and then one that’s up, i usually try to die right away in the camp that we all start al – most revenge motes! if i feel i can manage another kill or two then i’ll do that and then die. then find players who tend to outlast the others the most, though at times if they’ve a ton of rations, they won’t risk scavenging much so you don’t get more motes. but get as many as you can and i stalk and only use #1. some ahve said if you see a player low on health without rations, drop a 3 and kill them to get more points but i just keep using 1 regardless.

i’ve never won a game, sadly, but i am chugging along with my points.

i will add though, if ANet’s intentions are to get people to play these mini-games and enjoy them, best leave achievement points out of them. at least, if they’re time-gated. like how many people here are concerned abuot getting all the APs related to keg brawl? when you take sometime with a time constraint, tie AP tasks to them that CAN take a while, people won’t be happy and again and again, will play the game for APs, moan and groan the entire time and never play it again once they get done.

this is actually a really fun game and i’ve never felt the grind was too long (still 75% and hopefully i can finish before the event ends). i have fun most games, as though i am still competitive so when i don’t do as well, lol, i get a little fired up. ; )) it helps to NOT track your progress and do your best. been averaging 70-80 points most games with the method above. and if you find yourself in a tought group, take a break, and join another instance. it helps.

JudgeD.5673:

Akamon, were you the CDS guy we kept running across? Some good fights regardless.

yea that was probably us. had 3 – 4 of us with tags and then a couple more at any given time. i was the Guardian with a hammer and sword.

definitely saw the same TC faces over and over ; )) catch you again soon hopefully! good stuff.