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ACS Cave Troll Solo Man Mode, level 33 necro

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Easy fix for the necro hate

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This made me giggle, +1

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Eh, no? I said “guild chat gets interesting” and my pug didn’t even start the path yet, why would I judge them? o.O

Best guild chat reads and puglife stories confirmed?

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1. At Cliffside, I made a thief salty as I constantly gave the group a portal lift. He was trying to run ahead to show off his Infiltrator’s Shot trick but always ended up behind :p

2. Pug reacts to “No underwater Mossie”.

3. When guild chat gets interesting in the middle of a pug, I grinned so hard.

Why are you using Shake it Off, Signet of Stamina AND Rampage in the third picture? how many conditions do you expect to cleanse o.O

Heat room solo setup. 2 Immobilization, I suppose?

Didn’t know heat room was located inside Arah.
If it’s for the immob you pretty much dont really need any condi cleanse on warrior, and if you really want to play safe 1 condi cleanse is enough, or trait for brawler’s recovery since you’re the second warrior in the group anyways

Are you an Arah police for real?

Because I took three loading screen from LA to Arah, swapped traits while autorun and got into combat in the process?

Because that pug group had nothing to do with the fact that my war camps LA/fractal all the time and I swapped to her for Arah on a whim.

And about 2 condi cleanse, I just use what is the easiest and fastest way so I can get my war out of combat as soon as possible before I swapped characters.

Sorry for not playing the perfect way you are assuming.

#nitpicking

I don’t really understand the third picture.
Assumed you were complaining about pugs being bad, so I commented about your utilities because they weren’t really showing you doing better yourself.

Sorry if I misunderstood it

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1. At Cliffside, I made a thief salty as I constantly gave the group a portal lift. He was trying to run ahead to show off his Infiltrator’s Shot trick but always ended up behind :p

2. Pug reacts to “No underwater Mossie”.

3. When guild chat gets interesting in the middle of a pug, I grinned so hard.

Why are you using Shake it Off, Signet of Stamina AND Rampage in the third picture? how many conditions do you expect to cleanse o.O

Heat room solo setup. 2 Immobilization, I suppose?

Didn’t know heat room was located inside Arah.
If it’s for the immob you pretty much dont really need any condi cleanse on warrior, and if you really want to play safe 1 condi cleanse is enough, or trait for brawler’s recovery since you’re the second warrior in the group anyways

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1. At Cliffside, I made a thief salty as I constantly gave the group a portal lift. He was trying to run ahead to show off his Infiltrator’s Shot trick but always ended up behind :p

2. Pug reacts to “No underwater Mossie”.

3. When guild chat gets interesting in the middle of a pug, I grinned so hard.

Why are you using Shake it Off, Signet of Stamina AND Rampage in the third picture? how many conditions do you expect to cleanse o.O

AC P3 SOLO

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Short answer : yes
Its gonna be harder on some classes than other classes
For instance : its a lot easier on ele than it is on ranger, but theoretically its possible on every class

After the last balance patch downscaling is messed up tho, and lower level dungeons are a lot harder, so it will probably take you some practice

Yeah I did tried with war but i just could not pass the first burrows part..
Any tip for the best build&class for that?

Its a little harder on warrior after the patch because the burrows dont die that fast anymore and you will spawn more gravelings.
Most important thing is to keep aggro of the gravelings and bring them with you to the next burrow so you can cleave them down, instead of them attacking the extractors.
You can use items like mortar turrets as well to help you with this

Best class is by far ele, running the standard staff DPS build. (see metabattle.com or Dekeyz ele guide)
You can probably make some changes to be a bit more efficient, but you should be perfectly fine on the standard build.

A useful thing to do is to stack a bit of might before each burrow to make sure you 1 shot them with meteor shower/icebow
I personally like to swap to S/D, drop a dragons tooth and a phoenix in my fire field and use my arcane heal and arcane wave.
That way I have 12 might, which is more than enough to make sure I oneshot the burrows, but I dont have to swap out of fire and wait for cooldowns

Sounds good! tyvm i will be trying this.
btw, i can only open on my thief so i need some1 to “hold” the dungeon for me – does it upscale when i do that (even tho the other person leaves?)

Dungeons don’t scale.
They are always scaled to a set difficulty that Anet thinks is fit for 5 players, reducing the amount of players actually in the dungeon does not lower the difficulty.

But honestly, you can solo AC story in 10-15 minutes, even faster if you do it in a group, so there isn’t really any reason to make other people hold your instance because doing story will save you a lot of time in the long run

AC P3 SOLO

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Short answer : yes
Its gonna be harder on some classes than other classes
For instance : its a lot easier on ele than it is on ranger, but theoretically its possible on every class

After the last balance patch downscaling is messed up tho, and lower level dungeons are a lot harder, so it will probably take you some practice

Yeah I did tried with war but i just could not pass the first burrows part..
Any tip for the best build&class for that?

Its a little harder on warrior after the patch because the burrows dont die that fast anymore and you will spawn more gravelings.
Most important thing is to keep aggro of the gravelings and bring them with you to the next burrow so you can cleave them down, instead of them attacking the extractors.
You can use items like mortar turrets as well to help you with this

Best class is by far ele, running the standard staff DPS build. (see metabattle.com or Dekeyz ele guide)
You can probably make some changes to be a bit more efficient, but you should be perfectly fine on the standard build.

A useful thing to do is to stack a bit of might before each burrow to make sure you 1 shot them with meteor shower/icebow
I personally like to swap to S/D, drop a dragons tooth and a phoenix in my fire field and use my arcane heal and arcane wave.
That way I have 12 might, which is more than enough to make sure I oneshot the burrows, but I dont have to swap out of fire and wait for cooldowns

AC P3 SOLO

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Short answer : yes
Its gonna be harder on some classes than other classes
For instance : its a lot easier on ele than it is on ranger, but theoretically its possible on every class

After the last balance patch downscaling is messed up tho, and lower level dungeons are a lot harder, so it will probably take you some practice.

Note : even tho its theoretically possible on every class, you’re gonna have a hard time on ranger, mesmer, necro and probably guard as well.
I’ve personally done it on ele and warrior, and I’m 99% certain its possible on engi and thief as well

Revenant Asura or Charr

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I used to main a Charr warrior, and I deleted it because of horrible camera angles in small places. Charr movement also looks kinda slow imo, and I just generally like Asura animations more.
In the end, its all personal taste tho

PS : human female master race

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Was at lupi and ping was being a kitten so I decided to get some pugs.
Ask for experienced and no oneshotting, staff guard joins, starts “pushing” lupi (even tho I clearly mentioned that we weren’t oneshotting), and eating 4 grubs in the process.

After this an elementalist kept max ranging lupi, making him teleport all over the place.
I asked him to stay in melee range, on which he responded with “talk to me when you are on ele, warrior is noob class”
So I switched to ele, guy keeps max ranging, gets kicked, rages at me for getting kicked.

Never kittening again…

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Alphard resets to full health during combat

  • Reproduction: Might be caused by Alphard being unable to attack some people.
  • Prevention: Wait until everyone is in the area.
  • Fix: Do more damage.

You can fix it by making the people outside the bone wall die, so she doesn’t see them as targets anymore and stops resetting.

Also, a common bug in AC P2 :

Can’t talk to Detha after trap building event (so can’t spawn Ghost Eater)

Reproduction : While building the last trap, Detha gets knocked away from the trap by an Elite Ascalonian Ranger
Prevention : Give Detha stability or kite the last group of ghosts so they dont aggro her
Fix : no known fix

And an Arah P3 one :

NPC doesn’t interact with the book to trigger the door to open after Mage Crusher dies

Reproduction : Activate Mage Crusher before first Crusher dies (although I have also seen it happen 2 times in a random pug where we didn’t use split tactics)
Prevention : Make sure the Wraithlord’s Crusher is dead before activating the Mage Crusher event
Fix : no known fix

These are just from personal experience, correct me on anything if I’m wrong

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He’s not trying to cause problems for me Ellieanna.5027, no need to get defensive on my behalf/target him. I appreciate literally anyone trying to help me out here, doesn’t matter whether or not the advice is perfect or useless to me as long as they’re genuinely trying to help out.

That’s just it. He’s not helping. He’s laying blame on Anet’s servers, when in this case, and most cases, it’s the same issue as you. If he wants to prove his point, he needs to do what you did, and show it’s occurring on the hops that belong to Anet. But him, and most people only show screenshots of their in game ping, and think they can blame Anet and Anet will fix it.

I like how you’re blaming me for not helping, and then start purposefully derailing the thread to start an immature discussion, while you haven’t said 1 helpful thing towards the OP yourself.

Go flame people somewhere else, and try to be actually helpful here

Solo dungeons?

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Are you sure it’s only possible with the Executioner’s Axe? (In any event, that still makes the path soloable, albeit not under our self-imposed solo ruleset for records)

I don’t really play Ele much (something I plan to change… eventually), but it’s my impression that it’s still possible. Maybe they’re just using Executioner’s Axe. Has anyone tried leading with FGS for movement, as well as pre-placing medical packs (with clerics+water runes, obviously), along with good RNG when the orb starts ticking?

I would test it, but to be honest I cant be kitten d getting clerics gear just for soloing orbs while I never solo arah on ele anymore anyways.
And while it still makes the path soloable, not everybody has access to the executioners axe toy

The fix is simple tho, just get a friend to help you

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Btw OP : there was recently a thread posted here with pretty much exactly the same topic, and there are some helpful replies on there so you might want to check them and see if they help you out
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Solo-possible/first#post5364786

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was the first one I found using Google.

I know Goku has soloed Arah p3 on ele in the past, so he’d have a video of it. I’m sure Miku also has a video of it.

That video is a year old tho, and with the recent swiftness nerfs it not possible anymore without clerics gear and the usage of the executioners axe toy

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Are you sure it has nothing to do with the servers?

I live in The Netherlands, play on EU servers, have 120mbps internet with a perfect connection, and I still experience the same things as you quite often.
Especially at night (between midnight and 4-5AM GMT+2) I get horrible delays, pingspikes that go well above 1000 and things completely freezing for a few seconds, and then teleporting to real time like in the videos you linked above.

I never experience this in other games, its a strictly guild wars 2 related issue, and I have no idea why its occurring, because while GW2 is acting like I have some kind of connection loss, I can browse the internet or play other online games just fine.

Did you look at any of the links the OP provided. It clearly shows where the issue is, and it’s not on Anet. Posting the picture you did shows nothing except you are having an issue. And it could very well be the signal going into your house.

Yes I did, I even quoted them but apparently reading is too hard.
All I was trying to say it might be a server related issue, together with the packet loss, because a lot of people are experiencing the same issues

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Are you sure it has nothing to do with the servers?

I live in The Netherlands, play on EU servers, have 120mbps internet with a perfect connection, and I still experience the same things as you quite often.
Especially at night (between midnight and 4-5AM GMT+2) I get horrible delays, pingspikes that go well above 1000 and things completely freezing for a few seconds, and then teleporting to real time like in the videos you linked above.

I never experience this in other games, its a strictly guild wars 2 related issue, and I have no idea why its occurring, because while GW2 is acting like I have some kind of connection loss, I can browse the internet or play other online games just fine.

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Pino maybe you should try taking a break from the forums.
All I see you doing is making fun of yourself by trying to force your opinion upon other people, but using horrible grammar so people cant even understand half of what you’re saying, and every time someone doesn’t with agree you, you start calling them names.

On topic : I think we now know that the OP wasn’t kicked for not wanting to use a savespot, but for his other behavior and basically expecting to get carried.

What’s the point of putting On Topic … you tried to derail the other thread by making a reference to my previous mossman thread post attacking me. Hypocrite once again.

The reason I put “On Topic” was to stop this immature discussion, that we’re both pretty much aren’t achieving anything with, and also doesn’t provide anything constructive regarding the original post

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Pino maybe you should try taking a break from the forums.
All I see you doing is making fun of yourself by trying to force your opinion upon other people, but using horrible grammar so people cant even understand half of what you’re saying, and every time someone doesn’t with agree you, you start calling them names.

On topic : I think we now know that the OP wasn’t kicked for not wanting to use a savespot, but for his other behavior and basically expecting to get carried.

Fix CM Frost plank exploit

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Skipping trash is now confirmed an exploit.
Ty for your input Pino, very useful as always!

Well, considering they were put in dungeon by design for you to fight instead of skipping so actually yes.

Actually, Hrouda made a comment about this saying they purposely gave mobs an aggro leash so you are able to skip them.
I can’t find the article right now, but I’m sure someone will be able to link it.

Also, since you’re so interested in me, you should have noticed that I don’t consider GW2 a perfect game at all, and I actually complain about a lot of stuff, your beloved pulling-mossman-underwater being one of those

Fix CM Frost plank exploit

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Skipping trash is now confirmed an exploit.
Ty for your input Pino, very useful as always!

Fix CM Frost plank exploit

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If a GM finds a player that is using a “Safe Spot” and selling the dungeon run, that account will be temporarily suspended without warning.

By that logic, basically every “Boss at 1%” sell group would have been banned by now, yet I highly doubt anyone ever got banned for it…

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Fix CM Frost plank exploit

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Its not really an exploit, just a savespot that is caused by a flaw in the game’s mechanics.
Its pretty useless to use it in a 5 man group, since Frost is a pretty easy boss that you can just faceroll, savespot or not.
Only place where its usefull is when you’re soloing/duoing, but even then its still not that hard to do it normally

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[FnH] Casual 5 minute CM path 2

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Nice run!
Not a world record time, and there’s also some small things that could be improved, but over all really decent for the fact that you’re not using the usual “meta” team comp.
Mesmer and engi being able to replace guard and thief, and even being more efficient in some places is something that most speedrunners already know for ages, but most pugs cant seem to let go of the standard 2 ele 1 war 1 thief 1 guard team comp.
Lets hope videos like these improve the acceptance of “non meta classes” :P

Solo possible?

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I’ve put hundreds of hours into GW2 and have never stepped foot into a dungeon or fractal. Generally I play GW2 as if it were a single player RPG and I never care for situations where I’m forced to use a specific build and party up with others that simply want to rush through to get loot.

You aren’t forced to join those types of groups.
Make your own LFG add and include things like “casual, everyone welcome, no rush, fullclear” etc.
If you really insist on soloing them, mesmer isn’t really the best class for it, certainly when you don’t have experience with soloing yet.

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These are still the saddest ones imo…

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At least their chitchat is more interesting than posting something that has already been done 2 years ago…

Best class to solo arah? (fastest or easiest)

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And what about average time a scrub level player needs to learn to solo the easier paths (on ele)? Just asking to know whether I am too re…kitten for this or I just haven’t put enough time to it.

It helps a lot to watch some solo videos by people like Goku or Miku so you at least know the basics of what to do, after that its just practice.
Depending on how good you are at the game, and how fast you learn, it can take from a few hours up to a few weeks

Pistol whip or headshot?

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I remember sometimes ago there was a veteran runner in this forum (whose name I can’t quite remember) complaining about how stupid it is that every thieves in his runs spam Head Shot to get that second, third or even fourth deep freeze instead of doing DPS. In his opinion, everyone should always does DPS instead of trying to apply Deep Freeze as it’s a DPS loss and a lazy (?!) way to kill a boss. (It was quite a scene, I admit. Even I got called out for playing as a bad headshot spammer in a tour.)

In that light, shouldn’t we just DPS when the boss is frozen then using CC when the icebow is pinged? Probably a few stacks are already peeled.

If you are constantly spamming headshot, you’re wasting the potential to be one of the highest DPS classes in the game, and basically degrade yourself to do worse DPS than the average mace/shield dolyak signet warrior.
If there is really a need to actually chain your freezes, headshot is an option, but I cant think of many scenarios where that is needed.
Usually Bassilisk venom + steal (and if you really want to, scorpion wire), in combination with other class’ defiance removal skills is more than enough to remove defiance stacks in a few seconds for a second freeze to be applied to the boss

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Double Freeze is not needed in dungeons ever the only place where its “needed” is at Mossman and uncategorized champions and even there its just a matter of Steal+Scorpwire+Basilisk Venom together with what the team has.

You know that Basilisk breaks Icebowstun?

Did you even read the thread? because he literally said that an hour ago…

About pathing

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Very very late, but I finally got around to uploading that video that I was talking about. I just haven’t really played GW2 or kept up with the forums for almost a month, so I lost the motivation to go out of my way and put the clips together. Anywho, here it is. If I missed something or need to change something, just tell me and I’ll actually get to it in a timely manner this time.

I wish every player would be forced to watch this before they enter a dungeon…
Really good job!

Fractals kicking needs to be sorted

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When I quickly look at the OP’s other posts I see him write :
Hi recently started ranger and love the bow
Also :
Im new to engineer but i enjoy the FT haha im a born firebug so yeah

And now we know why he was kicked

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Gear choice for new 80 warrior

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Thanks Miaire. So what should i do what the non-COF tokens?

You can buy pieces of armor with them and salvage them for ectos and inscriptions, which you can sell of a decent amount of gold.
Woodenpotatoes has a great guide on this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo-336Lf1zY

Do people really get kicked for their builds?

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i got kicked for playing condi guard

Then don’t play condi guard?
I mean, if you really want to focus your build around condition damage instead of power, play engi, a class on which condi builds actually work.

Pre-patch I would agree, but right now condi Guardian is a good build. About 8% less dps than zerker against single target, but more dps against group of mobs. No reason whatsoever to kick a guardian unless you want to break a record (but then you don’t pug).

And in a typical dungeon run, how often are you fighting against a group of targets, opposed to a single target? exactly…
Only place where a condition build’s DPS would get close to a power build is against targets with extremely high toughness, like abom in Arah p2

And? So 10-6% less dps make the build unviable or bad? Make sure that all the party have food, potion, good rotation, good composition, max might, fury, vulnerability and then come back to kick the condi guardian. The vast vast vast majority of group don’t fulfil all of those thing.

There is a difference between viable and optimal.
Also, I never said I would kick him myself, or that I agree with the people that kicked him, I was just explaining why a standard group of pugs would kick him.
Pugs are known to be kittened, and see metabattle as the holy grail and kick everybody that doesn’t use a metabattle build.
But in a sub-optimal situation where there is already a severe lack of DPS because of people not knowing what the hell they are doing, bringing a condition guardian (that probably doesn’t know what he’s doing as well) into the group will harm your DPS even more

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Sinister has about as much precision as Berserker for you to benefit from Wall of Reflection.

- Damage: check
- Utility: check

Judging by this guys post, I really doubt he’s using Sinister gear, and not something with toughness and healing power…

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i got kicked for playing condi guard

Then don’t play condi guard?
I mean, if you really want to focus your build around condition damage instead of power, play engi, a class on which condi builds actually work.

Pre-patch I would agree, but right now condi Guardian is a good build. About 8% less dps than zerker against single target, but more dps against group of mobs. No reason whatsoever to kick a guardian unless you want to break a record (but then you don’t pug).

And in a typical dungeon run, how often are you fighting against a group of targets, opposed to a single target? exactly…
Only place where a condition build’s DPS would get close to a power build is against targets with extremely high toughness, like abom in Arah p2

Remove Mai Trin

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By OP logic, every dungeons and fractals in this game should be removed just because players already too good and too bored with them. (most of them are 2-3years old after all)
Throw every world bosses event to the garbage too, except 3xwurm. They can be done by pressing 1.
Pathetic request and logic … tbh.

So, the content has been around for 2 years, and players are too good, but you still have to pull Mossman underwater? :^)

I find it funny that you call the OP’s logic “pathetic”, but then rant on another post that pulling Mossman underwater is okay because “it saves time”(???) and the boss is too hard?
If I would base your view of the game on that specific post, you would agree with the OP, and want them to remove Mai Trin (or add a a savespot), because its long and slightly challenging

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i got kicked for playing condi guard

Then don’t play condi guard?
I mean, if you really want to focus your build around condition damage instead of power, play engi, a class on which condi builds actually work.
But if you’re playing a condi build on guard, you’re basically wasting your class’ potential, and slowing your entire group down by filling a spot that could have been filled by a better guard, that actually does damage.
Don’t blame your group for kicking you, 9 out of 10 people that pug dungeons just want to finish the dungeon quickly to get their reward, and if you slow them down by running a kitten build, people are going to want to replace you for someone that is compatible with their demands.
If you want to play condi guard in dungeons, look for a casual guild that doesn’t mind you playing sub-optimal builds, but then you also shouldn’t complain about runs taking 1 hour, while you could have been done in 10 minutes

Also, your entire rant about tank gear and healing not being viable is pointless.
Anet designed this game in a way that it steps away from the holy combat trinity, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for support.
A guardian in berserker’s gear can place a wall of reflect to defend your team from projectiles, so you don’t HAVE to be healed, and still deal a high amount of damage.
Having to use tank gear, or a dedicated healer, in this game just means that you don’t understand how to play your class, or use a dodge button

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How do you lose stuff when you transfer server? oO

Your bank is not affect if you xfer server.
Even guild bank copies over.

Or did he delete all his characters to get a free transfer? In which he didnt lose it, but choose to destroy it as couldnt be assed to pay the gem cost to move!

Not everybody is blessed with either enough money irl to pay for the amount of gems to transfer servers, or enough gold in game to convert to gems.

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Probably got kicked because the other guys knew eachother, and they got sick of bad pugs, so they wanted to invite another friend or something like that.
Also, you didn’t path the mobs before the entities, shame on you!!!

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Was doing CoE today and halfway p2 someone had to go so we pugged a 5th.
LFG said metazerk gearcheck blablabla, the usual.
After a while a thief joins, and he ignored us asking to ping his gear, until after a while my friend asked it again.
He proceeded to ping white weapons and CoF armor with the baelfire runes still on it.
He got kicked, and we finished the run.

After the run I felt bad for him because he got kicked for his gear, since he was really friendly, and I personally don’t really care what gear he uses, as long as he plays good, so I messaged him.
Turns out he lost all his stuff when transferring servers, so my friend and I bought some exotics for him

i have to say i respect your class

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i was trying to set up a tank had 20k hp 3.7k armor and 2k power i died in less then 20 sec at that practice lord fight in the mist

Maybe you should try dodging attacks?
If you are effective at playing your class and familiar with Guild Wars 2’s combat system there is no need for using tank gear, you can just time your dodges and blocks and be pretty much invulnerable, at least against simple AI like a practice lord fight

Idea: FoTM Solo Instance Reward Level Gating

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So how about this: each 10 levels, you get a personal instance you have to clear yourself (no party members allowed) and if you do, you unlock the next personal reward level tier (11-20, 21-30…). So unless you clear that instance, you cannot get your personal reward level higher than this threshold and do not get higher level rewards.

This is actually a really good idea, +1

[EU]Looking for Large PvE Guild with TS.

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Maybe you should try looking for recruitment posts of PvE guilds and apply for them, instead of expecting them to contact you :P

choosing sigil air/frailty/strength?

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Sigil of strength I don’t see often on thiefs. Phalanx warriors do use it

Using Sigil of Strength on warrior is completely useless, since you’re wasting a damage modifier that you could have used in place of that Sigil of Strength.
You can easily maintain 25 might by just using strength runes, and if you’re having trouble with that you can just use dumplings as food, but I would NEVER use a Sigil of Strength as a phalanx warrior

Wrong. Alone without sigil and food you can’t maintain 25 stack of might. Even with food you can’t. The group usually have at least 1 other source of might to maintain the 25. Remember that we lost 30% boon duration with the patch. PS Warrior might last less longer than it used to do. Strengh on a PS warrior isn’t a waste. Remember that Dumpling is in limited supply and will continue to rise in price until february next year. So someone that play that, but don’t want to pay the food could use a sigil of strength. Not the best, but a viable option still.

There is a difference between viable and optimal.
Sure, maybe its a more safe option to go with sigil of strength, but 99% of the time you’re wasting a 5-10% personal DPS boost.
We have no idea for which situation the OP is gonna use these sigils, so making an estimation based on very niche situations in which your party is not gonna be on 25 might is completely useless
Overall you’re gonna keep your party at 25 might easy (with a proper rotation and maybe use of buff food), and sigil of strength will be a DPS waste

Need new word to describe META for lfg tool

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Just use lfg for fun, that’s all it’s good for

Or to hook up. I’ve seen some “lf girlfriend” posts before. I’m sure one could also do “lf friends”?

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Sigil of strength I don’t see often on thiefs. Phalanx warriors do use it

Using Sigil of Strength on warrior is completely useless, since you’re wasting a damage modifier that you could have used in place of that Sigil of Strength.
You can easily maintain 25 might by just using strength runes, and if you’re having trouble with that you can just use dumplings as food, but I would NEVER use a Sigil of Strength as a phalanx warrior

1. you don’t awnser OP question

How did I not answer the OP? he asked if sigils of strength are a good thing to use and I explained why not.
But if you really want :
Sigil of frailty is nice if there is a lack of vuln stacking, but if you have a competent team with 2 elementalists that use their glymph of storms right, there isn’t really any need for sigil of frailty. You can carry a weapon with a sigil of frailty around if you are a true min-maxer, but its not really the best all round option.

For thief Sigil of Air would be a good option, since it has a high single target spike, and you’re often focusing on single targets anyways.
Although I think there is currently a bug with the internal cooldown of sigil of air, making it recharge for 5 seconds instead of the mentioned 3.

All of this applies to daytime dungeons and fractals.
Most dungeons and fractals are set at night time, which makes a weapon with sigil of night and sigil of force the best option.
Also, the sigils you listed are good, but not necessarily optimal, if you really want to achieve the highest possible efficiency you can carry a weapon with force + insert dungeon specific sigil here around, or swap sigils.

I usually have 4/5 weapons of the mostly used sort on every character (GS on warrior, staff on ele etc).
One with force + sigil of the night
One with force + sigil of undead slaying (for arah)
One with force + sigil of justice (for CM)
One with force + accuracy
And a bonus staff with undead slaying and energy for lupi solos

TLDR : go with air for daytime dungeons in your case

Edit : since you’re a thief and you’re not gonna swap shortbow out a lot generally, you can put sigil of force + a stacking sigil (bloodlust for instance) on there

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Sigil of strength I don’t see often on thiefs. Phalanx warriors do use it

Using Sigil of Strength on warrior is completely useless, since you’re wasting a damage modifier that you could have used in place of that Sigil of Strength.
You can easily maintain 25 might by just using strength runes, and if you’re having trouble with that you can just use dumplings as food, but I would NEVER use a Sigil of Strength as a phalanx warrior