Guild Wars 2

CoF p1 FTW!

/15char

Currently, there is no legendary armor in the game. The best you can have is exotics, of which there is no “best”. You would choose the set you want based on looks and stats that you want your character to have. You can buy them on the TP or find a set you like from one of the dungeons and run it until you have enough tokens to buy them.

Legendary weapons are a whole other story. They cost a fortune to craft and don’t offer any increase in stats over exotic armor anyway; they are just skins.

Once you hit 80, just figure out what exotics you want based on looks and stats and, if you want, start farming the stuff for a legendary. It isn’t easy or quick, but good luck if you decide to go down that road.

Danikat.8537:

Except you need 54 minis to get the title and they can’t be repeats (meaning 2 mini wasps will count as 1). You need 1 of each of the regular/set 1 minis, including the exotics which cost between 40g and 100g on the TP.

Which is also why you’re extremely unlikely to find someone to just give them to you and trust you to give them back. There’s nothing to stop you keeping them or selling them and then they’re out a lot of money. Unless you can find a friend with the title, someone who trusts you, you’ll probably have to do it the same way as everyone else.

Ahh, I was under the impression you only needed 20 for the title. You are then even more correct, I can’t imagine anyone trusting someone to give that amount of money back.

I do agree with most of what you say. There is way too much bypass/not doing it the intended way.

Personally, I am of the camp that will blame ANET. That doesn’t mean I am excusing player behavior completely. However, the dungeons are a mess in many ways because of glitches, unfixed exploits, imbalance in not only length but time/reward and just poor and boring design. ilr certainly brings up a good point about that particular encounter ^^

The one thing I will definitely disagree is running past mobs. That is just using the agro mechanic, which is used in the open world all the time to run past enemies. And, as was said by someone else above, if the mobs dropped worthwhile loot, people would stop to kill them. Who wants to get into repeated and boring DPS battles with mobs and not get rewarded for it?

Honestly, you are probably going to have a hard time finding someone to just trust that you will return them. My suggestion is to purchase the 20 cheapest you can find on the TP. Many of them are pretty darn cheap.

There should at the very least be a wp in the room where the jp starts. If you die in a bad spot you have to go all the way to the wp outside and jump up the mountain again. I don’t think it needs a ton of extra wp’s, just this one.

Yasi.9065:

Just checked it, nope, no golem Juggernaut… signet of rage…. battle standard… is your warrior perhaps an asura? ^^

Yes, I am an asura. Didn’t realize elite skills were different based on races. I know it’s there at my disposal because I use it sometimes.

Sorry Xehanort, but you are wrong here. Joining a fractal group just to get your achievement point is poor form. Sure it isn’t bannable by any means, but Mad Queen is right you owe them an apology imo.

Not only are there 10 other things you can do to get dailies done, but you should have either said something from the get go or started a gw2lfg and posted that you just wanted to run one fractal to get the daily.

I don’t think it was the runes that called the golem. One of the warrior’s elite skills is a golem, either offensive or defensive.

No offense to you OP, but this is just a pretty common thing now-a-days. There is probably at least one post a week complaining of getting kicked.

About 3 months ago, I was running daily 10 with people from another guild (yeah I know big mistake), but meh I went in anyway. I think I literally spent more time ressing these guys rather than actually fighting (I roll warrior). Then on Maw, I was recycling the crystals at one point to keep them from disappearing and I accidently grabbed the one closest to one of them that was about to get hit by Maw. I got insta-kicked. Obviously, I was kitten ed so I immediately whispered the party leader and wasn’t nice about it. Told me he kicked me because of the Maw thing and because, LMFAO he said I was downed most of the time. Spent about a good hour pretty kitten close to a ragequit.

BilboBaggins.5620:

The dungeon is a joke! Hard mode has officially arrived. I don’t mind the dungeon being that difficult, but I’m one achievement away from earning the mini and I can’t even beat Frizz let alone the dungeon! It’s frustrating to get so close to earning a reward for the living story only to run into a buzzsaw of a dungeon.

I’m not saying don’t create hard content for pro players, I’m just asking please don’t abandon us casuals in the process.

I have the mini and I haven’t stepped foot in the dungeon.

Really should though, want to try it before it’s gone

nemeth.4196:

cranked.3812:

You know. it’s time to stop acting like the community is incompetent or “noobs” or exploiters or whatever.

The ONLY people to blame for this is ANET and their refusal to fix even the simplest glitches/exploits/bugs that have plagued the dungeons in this game for a very long time. They obviously don’t care about anything but the living story now-a-days. The only thing they “fix” is things that don’t need fixing (i.e. the dredge fractal). Time to get used to it and get over it.

What? So if you let a gun lying on the table and I picked it up and started shooting people, it’s your fault for leaving the gun there? More kittened up logic please.

People who do this are exploiters, there is no excuse for them. You can alibisticly throw it on Anet, but you are still an exploiter if you do it. End of story.

LOL. I love the over the top examples that aren’t even close to the same thing. Murdering people and “cheating”, as you call it, in a video game, yeah about the same thing.

Anyway, back to reality. My point was, this game has been out for how long now? and we still don’t have even the most basic glitches in dungeons fixed yet? Sure, 8 months ago, I’d say blame the players, but now I throw anything like this 100% on ANET for not doing anything about it.

EDIT: For the record, I don’t “cheat/exploit” unless I am forced to by the group I am in, and I really don’t end up in those types of groups anyway.

You know. it’s time to stop acting like the community is incompetent or “noobs” or exploiters or whatever.

The ONLY people to blame for this is ANET and their refusal to fix even the simplest glitches/exploits/bugs that have plagued the dungeons in this game for a very long time. They obviously don’t care about anything but the living story now-a-days. The only thing they “fix” is things that don’t need fixing (i.e. the dredge fractal). Time to get used to it and get over it.

Ethics.4519:

cranked.3812:

Is this a troll thread?

I thought everyone knew that the loot tables don’t scale with level. If Anet says otherwise, they haven’t checked the drops at all. People have been complaining about this in these forums forever.

Anet does say otherwise. However maybe it’s something along the lines of
0-9 = 1.01% for a rare
10-19 = 1.02% for a rare
20-29 = 1.03% for a rare
etc. etc.

I know what “they say”, however, the many many people who run higher level fractals would disagree. I’ll take the word of the people who actually run the dungeon and see first hand what the loot is over somebody who obviously doesn’t play test anything they release coughanetcough

Dolan.3071:

3 hours!? I could have made 30 gold in CoF in that time! Granted I would never do CoF beyond receiving <20 tokens per run, but the point still stands. In fact that run probably cost you money in armor repairs, stuff and that.

We all know the place to make gold is CoF, but that isn’t fun after about 5 minutes. The OP, along with many other people who play this game, like to enjoy all it has to offer and not mindlessly monkey our way through CoF for 8 hours a day.

Is this a troll thread?

I thought everyone knew that the loot tables don’t scale with level. If Anet says otherwise, they haven’t checked the drops at all. People have been complaining about this in these forums forever.

I had no idea this puzzle was even bugged until I read here on the forums in the last few days. I have done this puzzle many times (and fallen many times) and never had an issue with attunement or bugginess.

Actually, camping the caches is probably the easiest and fastest. It takes about 15 minutes per to get to 50 kills. Even if there are a ton of people there, you only need to hit each one once. It is way faster than running around maps forever taking a 50/50 chance that the holo’s will spawn the pirates.

I think the common theme is simply just people complaining no matter what the situation. Southsun was only popular because people were able to farm it very easily. Other than the farming, with high magic find, it was boring and repetitive, but I guess that’s what farming is.

I think Anet does a pretty good job overall with the events. You are never going to get an event that keeps people’s attention span for the entire run of it, they simply last too long for that. And it would be very hard to make content that everyone can truly enjoy when you have to satisfy such a large range of players with wildly different skill levels and players who range from very casual to very hardcore.

I think the bottom line is, either play the content and enjoy or move on to something else, whether that is a different game or something else in gw2. They will almost certainly never release an event that everyone will be happy with.

Thanks for the links. It was pretty frustrating. I think that there were literally 100+ spiders in that room. And they all do an insane amount of damage per hit. We tried to run in and melee after the first wipe and we wiped in I would guess 3 seconds from how fast and hard those spiders hit when there is that many of them.

So, I PUG’d this path with one guildmate. We had no issues getting to the final boss, the nightmare tree. When we got there, we just couldn’t beat him. Someone said that you need to range him so we tried that and were overrun with spiders almost immediately, we then wiped and nothing reset (not sure if it’s suppose to), but the problem became the shear number of spiders left behind after wiping.

From there on out, we tried everything, melee, range, kiting, some combination thereof. We tried at least 8-10 times and never even came close. This was my first time on this path and dungeon other than story mode. What is the trick to beating the tree boss? I felt like something was either broken or it was impossible (which I know isn’t true considering many people have beaten it).

Roman Legionary.6715:

OMG! SOMEBODY EXERCISED THEIR FREEDOM TO PLAY WITH WHOMEVER THEY WANT. I’M GOING TO GO CREATE A POST ABOUT THIS ON THE FORUMS.

LOL. Could not have said it better myself.

Seriously, enough is enough with these threads. It’s unfortunate that you got booted from a dungeon group, but there are plenty of other people to play with. Find someone else to play with. CoF P1 is especially easy to find a group in less than 5 seconds.

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Meh, people pay far more for cosmetic items in other games. People pay 100’s of dollars in some cases for unusuals in TF2 and they are just hats. So, I guess $35 is a deal from that perspective.

CorneliusCoffin.3169:

GuzziHero.2467:

I think the sassy nemesis will be Mai Trin. I foresee a lot more 1 person stories coming up. I just hope they can be groupable and scaleable.

If Mai Trin is going to be our nemesis, I hope she’s going back to supervillain school for a few terms first, because what she tried to pull off at Dragon Bash wasn’t exactly the archetype of a perfectly planned crime.

Maybe she went to the “Dr. Evil Villain School”.

Next she will throw us into a tank of mutated sea bass with freakin laser beams on their heads. Muahahhahahaahahaa

800 gems is actually closer to 25 gold. ^^

Ehh, I don’t like the idea of actually being a moa and doing the race myself.

However, the way they did it where you bet and they run off and you never know who came in what place unless you win something was just unbelievably poorly thought out. Who came up with that idea? A monkey? Seriously, how bout a race track where you can watch the moa’s race and at least see what is going on? Or, at the very least, let us know which moa’s came in what place at the end. It really was very disappointing and boring.

I think they spread themselves too thin here. The moa races, the dragon ball and the story. I would have ditched the dragon ball and just spent more time on the story and event itself. It didn’t really bring anything to the table worth mentioning anyway.

As for the tickets, they would never make them tradeable because that would mean less money. It’s relatively easy to make gold in this game and if people could trade them, there would be a lot on the market and Anet wouldn’t see a dime for any of them. Let’s face it, they don’t care if you or most of the people who didn’t get a ticket are happy. As long as the money is flowing, they are happy.

Miku.6297:

cranked.3812:

Sounds like most of you people are the problem here. If you keep spending real money in the gem store, Anet will continue to make these tickets only obtainable through RNG knowing full well you will all continue to fill their wallets.

Anyone who spends real money on RNG has no one else to blame but themselves.

Remember some people could be buying rich coffers with gold:)

I know, but there are some people above me who said they spent several hundred dollars.

It’s not a bad idea to have confirmations, because if you didn’t you would have just as many threads of people complaining that they accidently clicked buy and they want their money back, especially at things like the laurel vendors.

The best idea is to leave the confirmation in and just allow us to purchase stacks as was suggested.

Sounds like most of you people are the problem here. If you keep spending real money in the gem store, Anet will continue to make these tickets only obtainable through RNG knowing full well you will all continue to fill their wallets.

Anyone who spends real money on RNG has no one else to blame but themselves.

They don’t even have any real useful stuff to spend karma on, how are they going to come up with something to spend achievement points on?

They already have a daily for that. “Group Event Completer”.

There are already tons of jumping puzzles and world bosses that give chests. There are also many achievements that can be done in the game, map completion, wvw, pvp, dungeons, FotM and so much more…..

If you have a hard time finding something to do at level 80, you are either bored of the game and/or need to find a new game.

What is the purpose of this? Isn’t there enough map space to hang out in? I’d rather have anet add content (i.e. dungeons, living story) than waste the time on this.

Right now, southsun is still not bad because you get the 200% magic find.

I, like many others, travel around daily and do many of the world bosses. As it stands now, you either camp a map for a long time or you travel to there when the boss is close to spawning. However, if you wait too long, the map is full and you are sent to overflow which means no boss fight and wasted gold.

Why not give the players the option to cancel the travel to a wp if the map is in overflow?

If I were you, I wouldn’t waste the karma on weapons/gear. I leveled to 80 and didn’t buy any gear until about 60ish and, even then, only went with either blue or green stuff. Even though there isn’t much to spend karma on, you will find it useful if you ever decide to go for a legendary or, who knows, maybe anet will add some cool stuff to buy with it. You don’t really need to spend any real money on gear until you get your exotic stuff at level 80. I think I ended up spending 20ish silver total before that. You will find a lot of gear to use along the way.

Southsun does not count toward map completion, so there is no need to go there unless you simply want to complete the map. To get 100%, you need to do all the pve maps and all the wvw maps, no dungeons.

I don’t see what is so hard about a buyback button at the vendors, similar to when you sell a bunch of stuff to a vendor and you have the option to buy things back if you accidently sell the wrong thing, would just be the reverse of that. Wouldn’t need to hire any additional support people and problems like this would go away.

Did it just bug recently? I did this about a month ago and I am on tarnished coast. Not sure if it’s bugged atm though.

I ran it again a couple times last night, same friend. I have all magic find ruins and he has none. I received all rare insignias and he got exotics. To me, it is pretty obvious from the second post in this thread that MF doesn’t affect chests. I think you are just getting lucky and associating that with MF working on chests. I am happy for you that you are getting exotics, but that doesn’t prove your hypothesis.

I like this idea as well. And as said right above me ^^, the cool thing about fractals is they do have limitless potential based on the design.

LOL @ your quote of Schopenhauer.

The devs already commented on the subject, so really it’s a done deal. He said, “They only work on creature kills.” If you feel it works for you, I am happy for you. But, you are not the first and, certainly wont be the last, poster to try and “prove” something like this.

Come back when you have run 100 times without MF gear and 100 times with MF gear. Running it a couple times means nothing.

Arrow.3856:

…….The boss I attacked with MF and killed using MF gear. The drop was the usual junk but with an exotic insignia. I know this is no proof that MF works but I made 3g out of that one run where as I was making about 1.5g using zerker gear.

My friend got an exotic insignia on his first run ever last night and he runs no MF gear.

I don’t understand how this is still confusing people. He specifically says, it only affects loot from creature kills. His exact words are “They only work on creature kills, chests however have a better table then normal kills.” Which means, chests are different and are NOT affected by MF gear. Chests aren’t dropped from creature kills, they are a result of completing an objective, which just so happens to be killing a boss in most cases.

I don’t see why players can’t have at least one place to farm items/gold. They already nerfed the loot drops almost everywhere else. I have done some CoF p1, but it gets boring really fast. If you really want to grind for gold for whatever reason, let there be a place.

Or, buy them on the tp!

I don’t think that it’s a matter of not having good player detection and targeting. When the ring appears, often it is on top of you and surrounding you, but it’s just so slow that it’s easy to move. I did, however, have several times where the ring would appear and instantly the fireball would be on you with no real time to dodge. So, basically, extremely easy to dodge or no time at all. I think it’s just that there is a lot of room to kite and dodge the boss and his attacks. I guess the real way to make it difficult is to be in a group like I was last night where 3 of the guys were seemingly down every 15 seconds (that is not an exaggeration btw). Try kiting/dodging, attacking and rezing players at a nonstop pace, that will add some challenge for you!

I have played a lot of console (both xbox and ps3) and have just recently gotten more involved in pc gaming (within the last year), but I just don’t see how using a controller is anywhere near as easy as a kb/mouse. But, if it works well for you, good for you! The more comfortable you are with the controls, the better you will be.

guildwarstemple.com shows rough timers for the world bosses.

So, I need to upgrade to an ascended back item from what I have now. I kind of like something like this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endless_Quiver

Two things:

1. I was looking for some suggestions on cool looking back items I could make.

2. I have bauble bubbles left from the SAB and I might as well spend them on items that I can use to create a back item. Would it be better to buy Obsidian Shards, Crystals or Philosopher Stone’s to make an item? I have no intentions of ever making a legendary.

Thanks

Yeah I know warrior is easy mode in pve, but I still want to improve my build. It’s the only high level toon I have!

So, I like the idea of keeping my knight armor and adding magic find ruins to improve drops. I see the Superior ruin of the pirate and the Superior ruin of the traveler does almost the same thing. The pirate sigil’s cost 40 some silver and the traveler is around 1.5 gold but it gives you +5% movement speed with the 6th one. Would that make a noticeable difference? The only thing I don’t like about the warrior is the slow move speed, but not sure 5% is worth that much extra money?