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Why I quit GW2

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Not even gonna bother reading with that formatting.
But you can always send me your stuff

f2p ruining dungeon selling

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Its not only about dungeon selling, its about people in general not respecting the demands of a LFG.
Anet should implement certain filters to the LFG tool, that would make this game a lot more enjoyable for a lot of people.

Title of your thread and main issue is dungeon selling and how f2p ruin it so it seem to you it is most about dungeon selling and reason for your post.

My main issue is the dungeon selling part, since I have a guild and friendslist I do dungeons with and therefore never have to pug something.
But a lot of people complain about people that aren’t asked for joining a LFG that has certain demands, and I feel like Anet should do something about this.

If you go to a restaurant and order a steak, would you like it if you get brought fish instead?

You have a guild and a friends list and therefore never need to PUG…

Yet your own post blows that theory out of the water .. of course you PUG, how else would you sell dungeon paths… at least get the facts of your story right and then blow thw the smoke away from your own eyes…
We get it, your mad cos your not making enough coin out of the new influx of F2P accounts wanting to run a dungeon… sure it’s allowed on the LFG but it is not supported so deal with your losses or find something else to come to the forums and whine about.
Personally I think ANET should quit muddying their own LFG abuse rules and stop dungeon selling all together but they like to have one rule for one but allow it to be circumvented by others.

There’s a difference between selling a path and actually running a dungeon with randoms.
The sole reason I solo the dungeons is because I prefer to do it alone, since its usually faster than getting randoms, and it actually provides a challenge in this casual-orientated game.
The gold from selling the last spots is a nice little extra.

I mentioned multiple times in my posts that i DO NOT want the new influx of F2P joining my party, I want them to stay the hell away, they can keep their money, they can’t even send it anyways.

You’re just twisting words

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Wait…. people sell AC?! Why? I’ve never seen that in LFG. What are you selling it for? 30 silver?

It goes for 3-4 gold, 5-7g for p2.
People buy it to level alts, or just for tokens

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Dungeon selling, srsly don’t kitten me off with this crap here.
I hate people like you.

This isn’t your personal subforum, there are people that do care about this.
Stop acting like a 12 year old, I hate people like you

Is Phalanx Strength Viable?

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With the new trait system, there is almost no reason not to run PS in groups.
The party-wide might PS provides, even if they are doing kitten DPS, its just going to be better than the 4s quickness from heightened focus.
The replies in this thread are from before the 23th of june patch, when you actually had to sacrifice a lot of personal dps to run PS

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That way, Zerker meta people get stuffed into their corner, you path sellers and buyers get stuffed into your corner, and I don’t have to sift through your bullkitten to find a group, and you likewise see less people you don’t want jumping into your groups.

Everybody wins, really. Agree to disagree, right? Anet wants the system to seem as inclusive as possible, but really if we don’t want to be in each other’s groups, then giving us a way to separate REDUCES hostility and toxicity.

Exactly this.

f2p ruining dungeon selling

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Ever since the launch of f2p it has been impossible to sell dungeon paths for lower level dungeons (AC, CM) without tons of new players joining without reading the LFG.
These said f2p players can’t send gold or items to someone, so they are not even able to buy a dungeon path.

Selling dungeon paths is something that is acknowledged and allowed by Anet, so I think there should be filters that prevent certain people from joining groups.
This doesn’t only apply to selling dungeons, but also to normal LFGs which frequently get joined by low level f2p people, even tho the LFG specifically asked for someone thats level 80.

It would at least be reasonable to prevent people from joining your group after they have been kicked once, since I had people join my party over and over after being kicked repeatedly, making it impossible to let other people that have genuine interest join.

F2p ruined a big part of this game for me, and I find it sad that people that play this game for free negatively influence people like me, and lots of others, that payed 100+ euros for it

I want to have some sympathy for you, really. But I simply canĀ“t. If you were selling hard to get stuff like Arah and Aetherpath or paths where people that play longer fail if not properly equipped or prepared that are rarely done like the various SoE paths, you would have my sympathy.

And aside from that, a gray market is a gray market and can not except protection by the authority. If the tide turns against you, crafty vendors in shady stuff change their business modeol. If you sold a can of oil yesterday and tomorrow a farmer digs up oil in the town you live, you sell crops instead.

I sell arah more often than AC tbh, but it doesn’t really happen to me while selling arah because most f2p accounts simply aren’t level 80 yet.
Also, arah is a lot easier to solo than AC after the downscaling changes, so I’d respect someone that can solo AC more.
I’d say that 1 in 10 people that join my arah sell groups didn’t read the LFG, versus 9 in 10 people at AC

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Idc about dungeonselling, but we had some troubles finding an ele for AC.
We got like….10-20 lowlevel warriors, rangers etc. After we finished P1 with 4 people we finally got an ele…
I’m not doing AC often enough, so I don’t know if thats normal or we had just bad luck.

In GW1 you can only “ask” to get into a group, the group has to accept your request.
Would like to see the same for GW2:
“glf ele” —> “XY wants to join your group” --> show the same infos visible when already in your group —> accept/don’t accept.
Give us a direct whisper option via lfg tool so players can ask stuff like “is a second warrior ok for you?” without having to join the group.
When you want people to read the lfg: “whisper me: hello world” and accept only people who did so.

Yea and you dont need a ele for any of the dungeons, you can complete them with any class combo.

He wants an ele, and if he asks for an ele it shouldn’t be possible for a level 30 ranger to join.

Ofcourse everyone should be able to join thats what lfg is for, not get what ever you want.
Thats what your guild and friends list is for.

So people aren’t allowed to do a dungeon efficiently, and should just accept everybody can join their group, even if they will clearly slow everyone down?
There is a reason you can make a description for your LFG, and if people don’t read that description, its disrespectful, and I don’t want those people in my group

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Idc about dungeonselling, but we had some troubles finding an ele for AC.
We got like….10-20 lowlevel warriors, rangers etc. After we finished P1 with 4 people we finally got an ele…
I’m not doing AC often enough, so I don’t know if thats normal or we had just bad luck.

In GW1 you can only “ask” to get into a group, the group has to accept your request.
Would like to see the same for GW2:
“glf ele” —> “XY wants to join your group” --> show the same infos visible when already in your group —> accept/don’t accept.
Give us a direct whisper option via lfg tool so players can ask stuff like “is a second warrior ok for you?” without having to join the group.
When you want people to read the lfg: “whisper me: hello world” and accept only people who did so.

Yea and you dont need a ele for any of the dungeons, you can complete them with any class combo.

He wants an ele, and if he asks for an ele it shouldn’t be possible for a level 30 ranger to join.

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I think we call this irony.

Do explain, please. If it was the spelling error, thats acceptable, considering that i have a crappy keyboard that half the buttons are broken on because of my cat

Now how to read…. Know how to read. Get it now? Can’t blame keyboard on that.

Don’t think you should be the one making comments about someone’s spelling errors, judging by the amazing grammar of your last posts

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I hope your dungeon selling business continues to be a horrible experience, more than the one you’re making poor innocent newbies feel.

When I was a “poor innocent newbie” and I saw a LFG of what I didn’t know what it meant, I didn’t join it.
People should learn to read, school is f2p as well

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You’re sure they’re not just a regular player messing with you?

Even more reason to prevent people from joining your party after they have been kicked once

f2p ruining dungeon selling

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How does dungeon selling ruin the game for you?
I understand you can be against it, but how does it ruin anything at all?
A lot of people actually appreciate people selling dungeons, so they don’t have to do content they don’t like.
Only thing I can think of is it clogging up the LFG, preventing you from being able to find groups that will actually run the dungeon, but that is exactly my problem as well.
Separate selling groups from other groups, so we don’t get in eachothers way

f2p ruining dungeon selling

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So basically
This entire subforum is filled with people wanting to be rewarded more for the new Mordrem event thingy.
They want to be rewarded more for mindlessly tagging mobs and spamming autoattack, something that takes no skill at all and pretty much everybody with hands can do.
But when we want to be rewarded for being able to solo content that is made for 5 people, something that does take skill, its too much to ask for?

f2p ruining dungeon selling

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Its not only about dungeon selling, its about people in general not respecting the demands of a LFG.
Anet should implement certain filters to the LFG tool, that would make this game a lot more enjoyable for a lot of people.

Title of your thread and main issue is dungeon selling and how f2p ruin it so it seem to you it is most about dungeon selling and reason for your post.

My main issue is the dungeon selling part, since I have a guild and friendslist I do dungeons with and therefore never have to pug something.
But a lot of people complain about people that aren’t asked for joining a LFG that has certain demands, and I feel like Anet should do something about this.

If you go to a restaurant and order a steak, would you like it if you get brought fish instead?

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How about explaining it to them before kicking them?

Seems to me that the problem is you not them.

Every time someone with a low ap/level joins my group I ask them if they did read the LFG, and tell them that I intend to sell the path and if they are not here to buy it they should leave.
But 90% of the people simply don’t read/listen

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Its not only about dungeon selling, its about people in general not respecting the demands of a LFG.
Anet should implement certain filters to the LFG tool, that would make this game a lot more enjoyable for a lot of people.

f2p ruining dungeon selling

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Ever since the launch of f2p it has been impossible to sell dungeon paths for lower level dungeons (AC, CM) without tons of new players joining without reading the LFG.
These said f2p players can’t send gold or items to someone, so they are not even able to buy a dungeon path.

Selling dungeon paths is something that is acknowledged and allowed by Anet, so I think there should be filters that prevent certain people from joining groups.
This doesn’t only apply to selling dungeons, but also to normal LFGs which frequently get joined by low level f2p people, even tho the LFG specifically asked for someone thats level 80.

It would at least be reasonable to prevent people from joining your group after they have been kicked once, since I had people join my party over and over after being kicked repeatedly, making it impossible to let other people that have genuine interest join.

F2p ruined a big part of this game for me, and I find it sad that people that play this game for free negatively influence people like me, and lots of others, that payed 100+ euros for it

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Pugged CoF p1
LFG said something like “p1 exp meta speedrun ping gear” (for CoF p1 lmao).

Anyways, the ele tried to prestack might before the first mobs, failed his dragon tooth twice and then just went with lava font + eruption.
At the slave driver the ele gusted him into the wall, his guildie responded to that with “which kittening idiot did that”.
Everybody blamed the ranger until I explained that was a gust and the only person that has gust is the ele.
Ele responded with “its normal to push wall but ok pro kitten you”

They all wiped at acolyte event.
After they kept dying on the rolling balls the ele said “kittening ranger pet”(????)
They then failed to do the gate stuff and I left the party.

What a friendly bunch

Getting kinda tired of the waves of tryhards that watched too many record videos and now expect everybody to play like that while they can’t even play their class themselves…

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Roaming vid - Evisceration - Axe/shield - Gs

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Boring, nothing special. Spotlighting Axe + GS which is like one of the most low skill cap Warrior builds in the game isn’t anything special

Name things with a higher skill cap?

Great video otherwise!

[EU] looking for people to duo dungeons with

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still looking for more people

GF left me because dungeon too hard

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Its sad that there is a need to be a discussion over if something is funny or original or not.
Either embrace it or move on with your life, no need to talk down on something because it doesn’t appeal to you personally.
What an amazing community we have…

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Please give ele weapon swap

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One of the things I like most about ele is the lack of a weapon swap, please never add it

GF left me because dungeon too hard

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I’m crying holy kitten

Thief in HoT

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Thief DPS is just as high as it was before HoT if you don’t pick the daredevil traitline.
Mesmer has to sacrifice too many utilities to generate as much stealth as a thief, and ele has to waste vuln stacking to generate enough blinds.
As long as there is need for stealth, thief will always be “meta”.
We don’t know what exactly the raid content will consist of tho, and when there isn’t a need for stealth there might be other classes that will be taken over thief

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I applaud how you managed not to ragequit with those idiots

fix for not worth traiting in to zerker

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I feel like the only good thing about berserker as it is now, is the berserk mode.
I would love it if they added better traits for power-based builds

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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Just wondering if anyone is willing to help with gw2dungeons and write descriptions/tactics for every single thrash enemy. Some general instructions what to look for when fighting them and how to counter them.

I can do the trash mobs in Arah if you want

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Arah P1
We had a thief. The thief took quite a while to get to the Ancient Ooze, but we didn’t really think anything of it. We killed the ooze, four of us make it to the crystalline entities. The last person we’re waiting on is the thief.

The thief got halfway through the run and stopped for a while. Finally I ask what they’re doing and it turns out they’re waiting for Shadow Refuge. I said, “You know you have two other ways to stealth.” They replied, “I know,” and continued standing there until the recharge was up. One person asks if they’re new to thief and they reply, “Yes.” That person leaves because they don’t have time for running with a new thief through Arah.

The thief finally makes it to the cliff, dragging two drakes with them. The thief promptly dies. One person tries to res and dies in the process. Me and the final person stand back so we don’t aggro the drakes and can safely res after. Thief says, “Good job resing” and then leaves the group. We res the third and last person in our group and they say, “I don’t know what’s up with them. They’re normally much better than this. Sorry guys, gotta stick with my friend,” and then leaves the group as well.

Bonus: I ran into another Shadow Refuge addict in Twilight Arbor yesterday that insisted on waiting for the 60- (or 48-second traited, I wasn’t really counting) cooldown.

Thief PSA: You can blast Smoke Screen and Black Powder for stealth. That is all.

The Problem I think in that case was the mechanics of the game itself (though the thief sounded kinda rude) since dungeon stuff tends to be way overtuned. The shadow refuge waiting isn’t for stealth but healing. For dagger/dagger thieves hitting W (that skill that vulnerability and stealths) helps for stealth, which heals the thief alone for a little. The problem with blinding powder is you need to put it in place of a signet, so you’re missing out on a passive power boost or haste.

You can’t apply shadow refuge and heal when you’re downed or dead.

What the hell did I just read lmao

Best Professions/Builds for Soloing Dungeons

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Warrior is definitely the most easy.
Pretty big health pool that lets you take some hits, healing signet for high regeneration, availability to blocks/reflects (when traited), and 2nd/3rd highest single target DPS in the game.

Guard is nice in dungeons where a lot of the encounters can be facerolled with projectile defense.
Thief is easy with sword and invigorating precision, but more difficult when not using invigorating precision, due to the squishy nature of the class.
Ele is hard to master, but really rewarding when you do.

In the end it all comes down to personal preference, and it also depends on the path like Miku said, but overall I would say warrior is the best

Revenant Solo DPS v. Other Classes

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Necro dagger: 50 seconds

Does that mean Nemesis’ calculations were wrong all along, and warrior actually does more DPS than necro? :O
that was unexpected

SE PATH 2 CANNOT PROCEED!

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I don’t find any of the bosses interesting, but I don’t really like SE in general.
I’m always pretty happy when it bugs out, so I don’t have to wait for the boring timegate, and still get 5 champbags

SE PATH 2 CANNOT PROCEED!

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SE P2 bugs pretty often.
There is no fix for this as far as I know, just reset the path or be wise and never set foot in that place again

Revenant Solo DPS v. Other Classes

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Slow times?
But I guess engi is around 45 seconds then, which makes warrior better personal DPS (against a target golem), especially with the berserker spec.\

Anet’s censoring is great, cant even write 45 seconds with the “seconds” abbreviated to “s” without getting it turned into kitten

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Revenant Solo DPS v. Other Classes

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Can someone test engineer with a proper rotation?
I did warrior with strength/arms/berserker and got 39s.
I think warrior might be the second highest personal DPS right now, if engineer isn’t faster

Favorite Black Lion Weapon skins?

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Dreamthistle and Tempest all the way

Revenant Solo DPS v. Other Classes

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Tested some target dummy times on classes I play most :
All times are for 4 kills in a row.

Staff ele (25 might prestacked) – 33s
Staff ele (no prestacked might) – 49s
D/F ele (no prestacked might) – 59s
GS Axe/Mace war (solo build) – 43s
GS Axe/Mace war (phalanx strength build) – 49s
War with berserker spec – 39s
D/D thief – 51s
LB Sword/Axe ranger – 1 min 5s
Guard – 59s

I used “meta” builds and “optimal” rotations for all kills.
Would do more classes, but I’m not used to playing them so I would feel there will be some unfair rotation disadvantages

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Worse time to patch

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How is she even able to play the game if downloading 30mb takes 3 hours?

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PPS: Anyone interested in fast late night Arah runs?

You can always hit me up, if you learn how to oneshot!!!!!!

omg…

is it just me or is everyone on this thread slowly turning into some sort of feigning noobinessness?

Yeah, I stopped taking the forums seriously when it became acceptable to use Ice Bow and pre stack might.

You’re just mad my necro does more DPS than your warrior!

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PPS: Anyone interested in fast late night Arah runs?

You can always hit me up, if you learn how to oneshot!!!!!!

Your best LFG reads and puglife stories

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Thiefs that don’t use black powder are my biggest pet peeve in this game

SUGGESTION: on fixing dungeons issue's.

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For your information OP : There’s even a stickied thread in the general discussion forum where Anet acknowledges not to have a problem with selling spots for dungeons
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Policy-on-the-LFG-Tool/first

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Ugh the wave of PHIW kittens on the dungeon subforum lately is getting really annoying…
Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean that other people don’t like it.

Skipping mobs is not an exploit, Anet intentionally made it possible to skip them.
Otherwise they would have infinite aggro ranges like mobs in other MMOs, or have to be killed to trigger access to the next area of a dungeon

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Worst Patch Note You Can Think Of

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Phalanx Strength : added a 5 second internal CD

a fix for stacking

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I feel that stacking takes no skill….

And moving around while spamming skills does?

Your post makes no sense, the so called “stacking” is just more efficient because boons only get spread in melee range.
Pulling bosses in corners and stacking there originates from the old FGS days when you could melt bosses with it, but its still efficient now.
You can perform attacks like Whirlwind Attack or Fiery Whirl against a wall so it hits every damage tick, increasing damage and also improving might stacking from a warrior perspective.
You’re basically asking Arenanet to remove efficiency and force people to range a boss, just because you prefer to.

Now, I do agree that they should add mechanics to make mindlessly standing in 1 place and spamming your skills harder, but not by adding stupid debuffs.
In my opinion Anet should make boss encounters (a lot) harder, and add more punishing mechanics that actually require you to use your dodge key.
Lupi is a great example of this, too bad people ruin it by using stupid wallsploits, and Anet doesn’t care enough to fix it :/

What can I do to punish Dungeon scammers now?

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September 2015. People still have to use fillers because Anet doesn’t care about scammers…

How will raids handle buffs?

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1 guard, 1 mesmer, 2 warriors and 6 elementalists hype

How will raids handle buffs?

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We can only speculate at this point, but I doubt they will increase the cap.
I secretly hope they do increase it tho, so ranger finally gets a spot in the meta

solo arah p2 (26:25) warrior

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Because just posting something to show your accomplishments isn’t possible, right?
Everything has to be a record!!!!

well it seemed like he was posting as a record. our mistake for assuming so. guess I’ll check with the poster next time to make sure since hP’s Swampland wasn’t listed as one either yet Might For U was pretty adamant about the guild name showing up right on gw2dungeons.net

Maybe next time actually watch the video before assuming things, and pretending someone was trying to fool you(???).

solo arah p2 (26:25) warrior

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Because just posting something to show your accomplishments isn’t possible, right?
Everything has to be a record!!!!