Guild Wars 2

With no power buff food and no ascended gear I had 985 power in CM back in August

pokmaster.9703:

Could be but i’m testing it with different kinds of buffod (food that gives power and without), and didn’t make diff in ym case. Aswell for CM powercap used to be 1020.
It’s now 825. So will be for whole game a power nerf of 15%..

I’m at 841 in CM atm.

With casual buff food, no infusions, full ascended, full berserker on ele I’m hitting 626.
Seems like the power cap may be the same, only they made the downscaling harsher.

Another leaderboard wipe hype!

Good going anet.

Skady.5916:

Hello team!

I started a series of vids showing how to run Cleric Tank Guardian in FOTM.
This build will allow you to face tank any fractal boss virtually without dodging/kiting while your team mates can focus on pure DPS (good old stack here and don’t move strat).

Here is the playlist on youtube with detailed build explanation, rotations and boss specifics. Currently being updated while i’m getting more fractal footage.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCxfgAjHhmmy0a29VtGeRpCK4ADb4SQTS

I hope this will be useful
Have a good one!

P.S. Holy trinity was never missing in GW2 it just never was a part of the meta. You can still play how you want and beat any content

For all of those bosses you can facetank/hold agro while staying full Berserker, blocks are sufficient which you can clearly see on your archdiviner kill. I just don’t see the use of taking Cleric’s gear when it’s not even needed and it’s obvious that you know the deal of rotating blocks/invulns.

The general consensus of the dungeon community is that we want harder content, not easier. If you’re having a hard time doing the content that we have atm, you’re either playing bad or your team is playing bad.

Guardian running nomad’s?

Good job!

PS: Mesmer >>> Guardian

Purple Miku.7032:

What’s with all these CM story videos? :|

Just elitists asserting their dominance.

spoj.9672:

Yeah its fine. It didnt work so no need to take action. Cant even be sure if he was attempting to do it on purpose either. It almost looked like he was dodging back ready to steal to dodge the killshot. Or just dodging backwards mistaking the killshot tell for the pistol spin.

Dont really get why that rule was implemented. But it was voted for. People seem to enjoy having so many pointless rules i guess.

Allowing it would’ve led to people practically being forced to glitch aoes in the ceiling in records or other competetive events, which I at least find very lame. A rule was created, among others to prevent a "gentleman rule" and making it more clear what’s allowed and what’s not.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Pretty good run! Always good to see new soloers learning the ropes. Just to let you know, though, Goku currently has the record for soloing this path, but I encourage you to keep trying! Maybe soon you can give him a run for his money!

Goku has the record for ele, this is for thief, is it not?

That’s kind of the best way we have to communicate without ts for when to start. If the approvers feel like adding a few extra seconds, go ahead. The run wasn’t incredible anyways.

Ele1: Goku: http://youtu.be/3hktZk-2zoE
Ele2: Abe: http://youtu.be/KeiV5pT2o4M

Dungeon: Ascalonian Catacombs Path 3
Restricted Time: 10m34s [All time and current]
Game Build: 45,456
Day: 24th February, 2015

Do you want the pictures fully edited before sent, or do you want to fit them yourself if you choose them? I have a few I could send to you through PM or something.

I agree, if someone wants to see animations for some encounters, there are more than enough videos on youtube.

Wait, so what are you asking for here? Plain picture of the mobs like this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/d/d6/Captain_Mai_Trin.jpg/449px-Captain_Mai_Trin.jpg or also with attack animations?

Ryn.6459:

Always a pleasure to watch.

One question as I would like to solo some stuff orher than AC story.
Do you recommend me starting with warrior (or engi for the matter) in order to learn the stuff and then switch to ele in order to improve the times? I am afraid of eles being too unforgiving

Start on ele, they have access to blinds and superior AoE damage which makes the dungeon a cakewalk.

Was it agreed during the meeting? I don’t really remember, but the boss isn’t completely disabled; he still does his AoEs and I would argue that it should be allowed. And honestly, there are so many places you can "bug" him that it seems more like an annoyance having to focus on not doing it.

So you consider 2 CC skills on engi vs 4-5 on staff ele excellent? Ok.

Nikaido.3457:

dboylolz.3916:

MrSilver.5269:

How is a staff ele overpowered? Serious question.

Excellent CC, excellent damage, excellent survivability, excellent mobility. Something seems off.

You keep the word “excellent” for things that are only “average”. Staff has excellent damage, moderately good CC, but the rest is pretty average. If staff has “excellent mobility” then what would you call a thief or warrior? “Ultra super duper excellent mobility of the extreme excellence”?

When I mentioned excellent mobility, I include the easily available swiftness. And explain to me if staff eles have moderately good CC, who has excellent CC?

MrSilver.5269:

How is a staff ele overpowered? Serious question.

Excellent CC, excellent damage, excellent survivability, excellent mobility. Something seems off.

Wasn’t really thinking of doing that since it was just during a casual run.

EDIT: and looking through KING’s videos I don’t really see many F11s there either. So I guess this record can be put in the all time tab?

No F11, but I streamed the run so I suppose that would make it credible.
Just wanted to fill the fractal leaderboard a bit, hope no one is annoyed that I post casual runs.

Ele1: Abe (Blaze It Abe): http://youtu.be/sfeExEl_syg
Ele2: Casual (Casual Elite Koptev):
Ele3: Andi (Elemental Terror):
Guardian: Axias (Âxs):
Thief: Perry (Perryy):

Restricted Time: 2m45s
Game Build: 45,075
Day: 14th February, 2015

I think they are easily comparable, there’s hardly anything that changes when comparing L49 strats to L50 ones. I would even dare to say L49 was harder because you couldn’t go around dodging like a mad man without a reason.

The only time I actually notice the random agony for L50 is if I use my heal at the same time or in addition to the random burning on grawl shaman.

Why not have them? It’s not like the all time fractal leaderboard is overwhelmed with records anyway.

Painbow.6059:

I also want a record section for Guild Missions. I think it would really promote the guild mission runner community

Wouldn’t that be very inconsistent, considering the fact that most of them are disgustingly timegated?

I would do it so that duo/solo belongs to the person/persons that did the record and 5man belongs to the guild. If a guild disbands and players switch guild, but remain active in the speedclearing community, I would change the record to the guild in which the majority of participants resides. However if they have no intention in continuing being competitive I would just keep it as the old guild. This would prevent there from being random casual guilds that never records.

stuff

The puzzle is doable with any amount of people, in my opinion there is no need to change it.

Zui.9245:

spoj.9672:

Many of the guard solo records were without energy sigils.

AFAIK those were done on the wall, though. The OP is asking about off wall.

I’d actually love to see an off wall guardian solo record, if one exists.

Uhm, actually most older Guardian records were done offwall in P3 to try continuosly triggering Rapid Fire. Just check out some of the ones way back when Notrigger and Goku were going at it.

EDIT: and P1 and P2 hardly matters if it’s offwall or not.

1. Best Solo Player of the Year
Sesshi 1st, Goku on a close 2nd and Miku on 3rd in terms of how many videos they released during this year and the impressiveness of them.
2. Best Speed Run Group of the Year
Completely biased I would say my own, there really aren’t that many to choose from anyways.
3. Best Speedrun World Record
AC Story[rT] or CoF Story[SC], even though they are both mostly boring, I really enjoy split tactics.
4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
DnT tournaments were nice, both from a viewer’s perspective and as a participant’s.
5. Best Visual Guide
The fractal guides by [KING] were the best in my opinion, all though some of the tactics I wouldn’t agree on.
6. Best Written Guide
Dekeyz’ Elementalist guide for sure, the time she puts into those is just mind boggling.
7. Community Member of the Year
Nike seems to pop up in most reddit and forum threads about PvE, so I would vote for him.
8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year
Definitely Tobi.. I mean Dom.
9. Best Comedy of the Year
A certain video by Tom, don’t think I should link it. But my vote goes to him nevertheless.
10. Epic Fail of the Year
Can’t really think of anything else but the KING wipe in AC or rT wipe in Arah.

I advice you to check out these two channels:Tobi and Dom, it’s mostly thief gameplay, two of the best PvE thieves in my opinion.

This sounds like an interesting idea, but I too believe that it might end up as one team steamrolling the others because of a good roll.

1.Norway
2.Every day since the last Living Story pack, worst at around 8-11pm GMT+1
3.Ring of Fire
4.Rubber banding, timing out, dc, game not responding for 10-15s some times and skill delay

If it’s any help my dungeon group with people from Sweden, Germany, France and Slovenia have almost exactly the same lag, so please don’t tell me it’s on my part. It’s extremely infuriating and making me consider quitting the game even more. Sorry about the rant :P

hybrid.5027:

After some consideration the Asura elite skill that apparently does 10x extra damage will be banned too assuming it isn’t hot fixed prior to the tournament.

"Fixed a bug in which summoned 7-series golems caused excessive damage."

It still does a crap ton of damage, will it be banned unless they further adjust it?

If arenanet viewed it as a serious exploit they would’ve patched it, no? That’s what they usually do when something in PvE is broken, right?

You need to use it on a target.

winterchillz.2564:

PvE is now fixed and challenging, aw yiss!

Very challenging

Instead of making the projectiles unblockable, I would rather have the originate from somewhere else in the room, making it impossible to mass reflect. Let’s say for example just falling from the sky or some kitten.

Favourite: CM or CoF (Except p2, kitten p2.)
Least favourite: CoE

I really don’t understand how someone can have CoE as their favourite; Trash, Spire, Alpha, Golem, Alpha, Alpha, Alpha, again Alpha.

Shameless plug.

Profession: Mostly Elementalist, but some other professions too.
Channel: Abe
About: Some solos, record runs and living story of course.

Seems like people that skip Lupi are just slightly forgetful. Everyone should stop giving them such a hard time.

maha.7902:

can someone please explain to me the fixation with using ice bows on small targets

Dekeyz does it, so it must be effective.

I’m so confused.

But no word of bear form, if they don’t nerf it as well it’s all geegee.

You can report them for LFG abuse, but it’s not like anything’s going to happen. Friend of mine and me got kicked in Fractals 50 at Mai Trin just recently. Even have it on a stream VoD, and when you have it on tape you would think it would be easy to deliver justice, but no. Anet haven’t done anything yet, and they probably won’t either.

frifox.5283:

Runes of the Centaur… welp, now I can say I’ve seen everything.

Aka lazy eles.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Mesmer’s never been "in a bad spot" at least not for DPS, it’s just that maintaining phantasms is problematic against certain bosses. For most dungeons, including CM, they do just fine.

I find that the problem with Mesmers in record runs does not lay on Phantasms dying, but rather the long cast time and their lack of burst. Few boss fights elapse longer than 10-15 seconds which does not really allow you to do much.

Would definitely be nice with a response from one of the devs explaining these drop rates.

“No blobs”? Not at all:P