Guild Wars 2

I do try to convince all the people I play with to spam shaman (my favourite), but only my friends of 1-2+ years actually concede :/
… after all that time, one can say they’re immune to my bullkitten.
I shall attempt guild converting.

Woah, that’s a lot of F pressing! I’m glad my keyboard is almost new.
/copypastas links dutifully
Knew I could count on you, guise <3
And yeah, been doing some decent money with this wintersdee puzzle so I went and finished my viper heavy armor (watch them nerf burnzerker).
… when and if I can get in the jp’s instance, alright :/ between that and fractals, half of my playtime is composed of loading screens, and I ain’t even joking.

Where do you guise farm iron, wood n’ so on, a.k.a. Pressing F Nets More Money Than Clearing The Raid?

Rip Hrouda.

If raids’ rewards weren’t so tight and timegated weekly, would anything be different at all…

Oh look at dem tuning icicles, they’re so cheap! Imma buy the recipe so I can craft even more and avoid spending th—-
/checks materials
Leeeeeeeeegit.

I got carried in all 3 fights and my “team” killed 1st time VG and gorsi without me (how to blame them); they then came back to “help carry” me, stating that they “didn’t mind” as long as we did it for all the ones who missed it (clearly carrying me alone would’ve been such a bother, not like we’ve been knowing each other for 2-5 years! apparently I’m a pug), so all I felt when we—I beat the raid was bitterness (vale), frustration for not killing it earlier (gorseval) and numb guilt for getting carried (sabetha).
Currently stopped raiding (temporarily, I presume?) and it’s much better. I’m bored, yeah, but at least I don’t have to scramble to get people only to have them whine because they have to “wait” (excuse me if I don’t instantly summon raid-slaves which blindly follow my lead within 2 minutes from the convocation) or we don’t down the boss 1st try, or pm spam me while I’m trying to focus and get 2-4 zombies who don’t talk on ts to collaborate and confirm we’re all on the same page.
Apparently it’s my fault if we never have enough people to fill all the slots.

I’m too stubborn to give up on it.

People have this obsession with overhealing and overstacking toughness. I don’t understand why. 6 clerics armor pieces and you heal the entire team back to full with a CA 4.
And well, even that could be considered overhealing..

What the kitten?

Doggie.3184:

Everywhere I go I see so many Rangers who are generally awful people. Awful because they disrespect their friends/comrades by calling them Juveniles. You rely on your pets, yet haven’t the common decency to give them a name and let them know you care. It doesn’t matter if you just caught it or just summoned it from it’s pokeball, it’s a living creature that deserves love and respect. All those poor neglected pets out there makes me so disappointed in this community.

Preach it…

Well, at least you don’t get to grind gold however you please this time, since you have to do specific—-
Nevermind :/

I don’t, I have a thing for chefs going on – problem is I’m EU trash :/ plz get EU acct n be wit kool kids

P.S. Is anyone else overwhelmed by the amount of ridiculous arguments about raids and overall rampaging phiwism? Because I am. I feel like I don’t even know what to post, because the topics are just so stupid.
P.P.S. plz hit me up ingame for raids or erping, we never have enough people for an orgy… sob

Nike.2631:

(…and NOBODY gives a tank unwarranted grief. The personality type that likes tanking is even rarer than healers. My rule of thumb is 7:3:1 for DPS:heals:tank gameplay preference)

Someone should send the memo to some raid groups, then… because I don’t think they got it.
But then again, if you don’t like doing what you’re doing and you do it only because you’re afraid of being replaced even more readily than usual, I suppose you’re… very easy to replace.
Aye, ok, it doesn’t work very well.

P.S. How the kitten do you get to 1k8 toughness while being a “healer”?

Putting aside chicken fingers (boy does it sound wrong) for a second… I’ve been thinking. We always have trouble filling our last 1-3 slots for raiding; makes me wonder if there’s some non-beginner, non-kitten out there without a guild that would prefer a (barely) more static group over pugging. I’m tired of having to wait half an hour to fill the remaining slots so we can fail at a boss for 2000000 years since I have to invite without criterion.
There must be some good-at-the-game guy without an awful attitude out there, right? Eh, maybe not.

Oh yeah, I remember the extremely powerful pu mesmer in dungeons for epic tanking… Gee, that build was op. Or not.
It’s ok, first they gonna nerf droods. Again.

I’m watching the nerfhammer of doom coming down in slow motion

Sabetha begs to diffeeeer…

Hah. That’s what kittenty playhowiwants wanted, didn’t they. Roles?
Lil kittens.
I’ve already been told by some kitten I tried to join to “heal more” (at gorsi phase 1, people downing from his swipes even before the 1st breakbar phase, something like 10s into the fight if you didnt’ get it); this is without mentioning the times in which I got kittened at for being too slow with vg pulling. Why do you think I’m always stuck on those roles, huh?
… difference is, I’m definitely not gonna shut up about it. They can go kitten themselves.

I was really kittening missing the hate, the blame and the disrespect you got when playing as a support character in trinity games.
Fan-kittening-tastic.
En-kittening-joy.

If there was a way to identify phiw’s pcs and put a timed bomb in each rig, I’d do it… that’s how much I’m lovin’ it.

Orrrr you could do better dps.

fishball.7204:

Even ignoring food price for a second, a raid shouldn’t award less than 20 mins of tree logging in Tyria. That’s just dumb imo.

Rude? Lol.

Yeah, it’s a pretty valid concern.

I wish I could try it out and have fun with it, but thanks to anet I can’t even afford to buy food nowadays. Gotta wait 7 weeks of capped magnetite to get my zealot set and then will be left with naught.

I don’t like the hardest content in the game giving less rewards than a couple of dungeon paths, and I like the huge timegate even less.

You just described what any decent tank does in any godkitten game in this universe. They take enough defensive stats and skills to survive, and the rest goes into dps. Or healing, some tanks are also the healers.

On healers: even if it’s not as demanding as the tank role, they still have to be absolutely on point… but as always, healers don’t have to work much if the team is good. Just as it was in trinity games such as gw1, where good parties brought as little support and defensive stats as possible to be faster and more efficient.
Which sometimes meant no healing monks.
But no, clearly, we are “forced” (what is this, a dictatorship? a tyrannical oligarchy? you can leave) to do some damage and not be complete dead weights who overheal and overdefense just because having more defensive stats means more “diversity” and a defined “role”.

This game is never gonna have a rigid trinity, and you still don’t get it. It’s not completely phiws fault, though, because arenanet hyped the druid and raids to hell and back, giving the wrong impression with the stupid “zerk is dead” talk. I knew people would’ve misunderstood. After all, we’ve had trinity complaints for over 3 years now.

P.S. The second boss doesn’t really “require” a “tank” like for vale; it’s a dps check. Woops, my bad.

Page 3? :O

Soooo I’m currently in the mood for love, anyone wants a useless p—a lovely, cute, stup—noob—skilled lil kitty in their instanced runs? I don’t bite, I don’t eat too much, I’m friendly and fluffy.

Nova Stiker.8396:

ODB.6891:

hurrado.2346:

A-net logic to kill the zerker meta… Add timers to the boss so you have to dps like mad to win.

Clearly you don’t even understand what the zerker meta was even about. I’ll enlighten you. The zerker meta was to bring ALL zerker geared players…no healers, no tanks, nothing but top direct damage (builds, gear, etc). That is clearly not what is happening now as you have healers, pseudo tanking, and condition damage builds/gear. Please stop regurgitating things that you don’t understand.

Stop posting when you never gotten past the Vale Guardian.

I can tell you for a fact, after dozen hours of fighting, trying different builds, professions I will tell you what you need for success:

• 1 Tempest Auramancer to tank at the blue pillar.
• 1 zerker Revenant
• 2 condi trap rangers
• ZERKER EVERYTHING ELSE

I cannot stress enough how taking Soldiers can mean you and your team will never beat raids.

Good game design?

????

Childishness? I have no problems basking in it.
/basks in childishness

IIvIIozzie.9250:

Arenanet and this community need to lighten up. Who cares if they claim to be first, of course they would be. This was obviously going to to be the case when they decided to give early access to players. If you’re hurt that you and your guild aren’t first simply tell yourselves that they don’t count. It isn’t like WoW where you get an achievement for getting world first.

What’s wrong with you people?

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That’s why they got kicked out: because they’re arrogant, gloating kittens, because they disrespected anet, bragged about raids and implied they were easy to clear and decided to spit in this amazing opportunity they had; not because they “claimed” world first (after testing the raid for weeks). Here, educate yourself and let’s see if you manage to find a caveat to keep defending them poor oppressed people.

I thought it was f2p? u.u

I’ve never experienced a stronger rush of schadenfreude in my whole life. I don’t experience it often, but woah. Almost as good as a turkey-and-mayo sandwich.

Rag.3258:

spoj.9672:

Nah they werent. Fractals have never been rewarding enough.

Yes they were. Fractals have been rewarding enough.

No they weren’t.

I’m speaking in general right now, not at someone in particular – because I keep seeing this kind of threads… Can I be enlightened on why people are so afraid of guardians not having a place in raids? Did they start sucking horribly, did they get nerfed while I wasn’t looking? Since revs have a 150 ferocity buff, offensive boons and good damage and no guardian was used in that infamous vale kill, then all of a sudden guardians are out of raids?
And well, 3 years into the game, you still need to be told what a good guardian can bring to a party?

Now I regret trying to be decent. I should’ve just gnawed at his neck and at least get some fun out of it… /sigh
Then again, what can you say other than

OJM.5103:

perry.9645:

seeing this makes me really happy raids have oneshot mechanics and enrage timers

I had the most fun in days…. organising guild missions with 6 people.
I’m that desperate.
/facepalm

To add my limited input, I’ve been running fracs with a near-static group since ner—xpac with up to 15 fracs per day, climbing to 100; done all dailies (all of em) and been doing them since day 2… I suck at math but that means quite a lot of dailies among the 5 of us.
I’m the only one that got a weapon box.
Oh, and it was in a CASUAL daily crate, and it was after we got to 100.
From my experience, yes, daily chests are the only ones that have a chance at giving you anything, an extremely low chance, and your personal level matters absolutely 0. Think about it if you wanna climb to 100, since it’s meaningless unless you do it for the hell of it. As we did. ’cause what else can we do, right?

… may I advise you to at least play druid, so you buff your team’s damage while healing? condi, preferably… se-settlers? /shudder

Dungeons are still there… Don’t mind doing an arah path or 2, especially because fractals are so lame now. If you really like dungeons, that is.

Gonna take a break until raids <.< I wanna be mentally prepared for the overflow of lame threads and flamewars in 2 weeks.

No, null field and mesmer autoattack isn’t enough. I rolled chrono instead of druid in some fractals because we lacked reflects and boon/condi manipulation, precisely in an attempt to counter the instabilities.
There’s nothing that will stop enemies from gaining a bazillion of boons; you can only do your best not to get hit in key moments, remove the most dangerous ones (prot, swifness on the shaman before he goes into bubble) and keep might stacks low, possibly below 20-25.
You can THEORETICALLY counter the instability, but in practice? eh. The best thing I’ve found is to spam phantasmal defenders, try not to dodge unless necessary and spam distortion so people dont’ get hit.
But then again, see where the problem is. You dodge, you lose boons; you get hit, you lose boons; you kitten, you lose boons. “I shouldn’t dodge, lemme equip my nomads gear” Wow, nice design, really.
Now, if people could stop talking out of their kitten…
“I haven’t done fotm, BUT…” But my kitten . Shut the hell up until you climbed up to at least 80-90, kitten.

Dahkeus.8243:

Agreed with this, except that I’m not sold on ranger for CC…
They have a lot of soft CC, but not much in terms of stuns/dazes/etc.

Yeah, only a 4s (traited) daze on a 24s cd which also triggers a small heal, a condi cleanse and a 3% dmg/condi boost, a 6s daze (traited) which also triggers a -see above- and is… 6s? cd (you can use it twice easily before leaving form) even though available in astral only, a 2s daze on staff swap which ALSO triggers with astral form just like it were a weapon swap… and point blank shot if you happen to use longbow.
Nvm the wyvern..
Definitely not many ccs I can only melt a fractal boss’ defiance bar in 2 skills. And heal and buff at the same time.
But oh, engineers are extremely strong at ccs too, no doubt. /shrug It’s just fun how people keep stepping on rangers like nothing happened with the recent patches.

wait a moment, zurkur meta is ded, y give us amulet with POWER, PRECISION AND gasp FEROCITY as reward?
omg anet elitists
i’m triggered

I just can’t wrap my head around the currently hardest content having the absolute worst rewards. I can’t. Put aside everything else for a second, personal sympathies and conspiracy theories…
… How does it make any sense?

Don’t worry, it’ll be a trenchcoat… but a legendary trenchcoat. Prestige!
Woops.

/looks at wallet

Oh god, my money. Thx
Now I have to decide between this and crushed bone. Tuff.

At least archie actually had a chance to kill you in 1 hit if you didn’t cheese it with ib and aegis spam :/ now you can afk as I did and not die.

Soooooo condi engi is viper armor now? rest can be sini?

Nerfed? NERFED?!? Dude, they weren’t nerfed. They were completely obliterated.

I’m just so sincerely disappointed. I did make myself guilty of being too bitter and unfair in the past, but the new fractals simply sucked for me. How appalling it was to climb to 100 with such… ease? I don’t know. I’m not a very skilled player, I’m not a math person, I have the decision making and the tactical prowess of a navajo shaman drugged with peyote to the eyeballs…
… and yet it was so uneventful and boring ç_ç
The only fractal that made us curse is aether. Really.

I was expecting stuff, that’s why I was so disappointed. I know, I know, my bad, aight. First of all, I was expecting new and unique instabilities per fractal; second, I was sure they were gonna add new and unique mechanics to bosses at 70+; third, it was—
blablabla.
It was just boring. Yeah.
… I mean we did mai 100 despite the… the thing she did (how do you spoiler tag? :O) on first try. First tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I didn’t even beat the last boss in the personal story first try!!!!!!
It’s not supposed to be this way, or is it just me? I have no experience in mmos and raids other than gw1 (which made us wipe multiple times on the very first pack of mobs in élite mission Urgoz’s warren and then sent us out of the instance with a roundhouse kick, lol! so much for respecting the legacy).

Zach.2618:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

I hear people saying “I’ll just go do X while we kill this boss”

X being a random householdtask / surfing the internet / playing other game.

Isnt it ridiculous the level of concentration and skill you require of your players in the new fractals?

What fractal are you playing? Lol there are hard fractals and there are easy fractals, ofc if you do mossman all day you can practically afk with enough support from your teammates. Other than that I think your statement is bullkitten. I wanna see you do 100 while doing household chores, or 97 or 94, even 64, well I could go on and list a bunch of somewhat more challenging fractals for you if you want a challenge. Oh but wait people just wanna do the easy ones to get the rewards and than complain how easy it was. There are easy fractals and there are hard ones that’s how it has always been.

I akitten at 80+ archdiviner, came back and I was about half health. Akitten quickly at mai 100, went back and I was about 30% (I apparently got hit by mai once and Horrik a couple of times, which would’ve downed me in old 50). Your statement is bullkitten. Bosses had their damage nerfed to hell, and it shows. Even my dog would notice it.

True, some are slightly harder, but the only fractals I found remotely challenging were cliffside with last laugh (mostly 30% challenging 70% tedious, since we finished seals with 4) and aetherpath last boss at 80-90, when we didn’t cheese it with pets. That was genuinely harder than others, but because of the 10-12 stacks of agony you got if you messed up. Sounds kinda fair to me, though, especially because golems DIDN’T HAVE kittenING 20 BILLION HEALTH AND TOUGHNESS, making it a somewhat fair and tolerable fight despite being a bit harsher.
The new anomaly? unbearable. I would’ve akitten if it weren’t for the collapsing floor.

What’s the point of bosses if trash mobs do more damage and pose more of a threat than them? If you think people wanting to go afk in the middle of a fractal 80-100 because of sheer boredom is ok, you seriously need to get your head checked. The old 50 archdiviner was harder, jesus kittening christ. How is this normal?
You can say that some fracs 75+ are much harder until you’re blue in the face, doesn’t hide the fact that some bosses had their dps kittening cut in half! Or more! and that now you can facetank 2 attacks in full zerk!
What in the hell.

P.S. No, I never wanted to afk in the middle of fractals before, despite being burnt out. Why? because archie, mai, mossy, they all posed a kittening threat if you didn’t cheese them. At least the molten berserker doesn’t die in a spit anymore, that’s good. Problem is, it’s also non-threatening.
P.P.S. Oh, and they also killed 2manning for me with these changes. Who wants to hack at mossman for 20 minutes now? I’d rather smash my own fingers with a rusty hammer.

And what kind of achievement do you want? “I Hit Lots of Pinatas”?
No difference in rewards from 51-100 and with good reason, all bosses are huge hp bags… Typical of anet, they make bosses harmless but taking 1 hour to kill and “trashmobs” deadly.
The dredge veteran champion in the cage is more dangerous than the dredge power suit. #anetlogic
Phah.
Oh, a name for the title came to mind. “Agonising”.

just do +10 148’s more than enough unless you and your team are completely hopeless

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Numbers.3241:

The only way to move away from a zerker meta is to make damage completely unavoidable with planning and skill, and doing that just shifts things to “Stack enough vitality to survive and zerker the rest”.

There is another way to kill zerker. One that isn’t vulnerable to players finding one way to play with full zerker that they didn’t close off. One that is much more honest. One that doesn’t leave players sitting around in useless gear if it’s successful. Just remove zerker gear from the game.

zis is pure genius