Guild Wars 2

Aidan Savage.2078:

justkoh.4073:

Before this incident I always believed that it was not wrong to sell a legit dungeon run. However, I am starting to consider that its just not possible to distinguish between the legit and scam ones and if selling dungeon runs was made bannable, then the incentive to hijack dungeon runs would also be removed.

Continuing to report such people, who WILL eventually be banned if they keep it up

I heit those people even more.

justkoh.4073:

Maybe when there is a new dungeon?

Yup. Like I said,

A: Never.

I also hate people who do things I can’t.

Those kittens.

Jerus.4350:

Can also place those deployable mortars http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deployable_Mortar_Kit

This should agro the initial guys so they can pop their grubs and act the same as dlonie’s stability situation for the second guy. At least that’s what I remember seeing a friend do when he was showing me how to do it.

Oh my kitten, I’mma go grab a stack of those next time I’m on! Good tip! But uggggh….30 minute cd?

Ugh, I just wrote up a long reply, but lost it when I hit submit and the forums glitched. Yay.

In a nutshell, you can do it without the portal trick, or any other questionable techniques:

Player 1 solos Brie to 50%.

While player 1 is soloing, player 2 runs towards the wooden ramp where the mobs run up. Use stability to counter the technician’s stunlock, and pop the grub carriers here (dodge after a 3-count to avoid damage — you won’t have the out-of-phase buff at this point). This will keep the technicians far away so you can clear the other mobs without them hassling you.

After the carriers pop, return to the terminal area. After Brie is at 50%, both players come to the terminal area and burn down berserkers and deadeyes as they appear, trying to aggro them before they reach the terminal. There are (I think) 3 waves of mobs that appear. After that, you can kill Brie at your leisure. Don’t worry if she resets during this, the mobs won’t respawn when you reactivate the terminal. Also, don’t kill grubs — they’re your friends for rallying and distracting technicians.

My buddy and I use this method when we duo and it takes a lot of the pressure off. It takes a bit of time to clear out the mobs, but it’s worth not having to deal with the teleport if we can’t burn her down in time.

Fact: All ambients are really GMs in disguise.

While the content output here is very lackluster, remember that recently NCSoft ordered massive layoffs through out all of their studios except ArenaNet. The game is far from healthy given the attitude of most of the playerbase (disclaimer: not all) towards ArenaNet, but the fact that NCSoft saved ArenaNet from layoffs means that the game is not going away anytime soon.

The players, on the other hand….

For me, I’ve started duoing dungeons regularly with a regular partner. It’s fun as hell to coordinate some of the fights and honestly, the challenge level for a two-man team feels more appropriate for as familiar with the combat systems as most vets are. It’s completely doable, but presents a challenge and some new ways of thinking to get past certain content.

Recently we’ve started duoing CoE. Let me tell you — that dungeon is very different when you lack a full party’s DPS. Even the trash is more interesting — having to strategize to get past the golems instead of just “stack here and kill”, etc has revitalized that fight. All of the mechanics that get shut down by a good (or bad, even) party become much more important to learn.

But I’ve been dying for new dungeons for over a year now, so this is sort of like new, interesting content for me. If dungeons aren’t your thing you may not find it as much fun.

I’ve also had a blast playing DA:I lately.

A: Never.

Ensign.2189:

I’ve never seen any public velocity estimates. I’ve talked to some people about writing up a velocity estimator as even with really detailed, second to second buy/sell listing data it’s not a trivial problem on the kinds of high volume items people really care about. Nothing has come of any of it though.

Heh, I have feeling that ArenaNet wouldn’t be too thrilled if I tried to collect second-to-second data. I was thinking more along the lines of 10-20 minute scrapes like spidy/gw2tp do. I think that should be infrequent enough so as not to strain their servers, while at the same time collecting a reasonable amount of high-traffic items (e.g. silk, ectos, etc) to show that they have a high velocity. It won’t be close to an accurate measurement of those items’ actual velocities, but it will still show them as very high.

I’m more interest in just being able to have a velocity estimate attached to the items when they come up in my results tables so I can more easily weed out the low-demand items without having to check gw2tp.net every time. I think that’s a much easier problem to solve than trying to do some sort of rapid buy/sell trading.

Andred.1087:

dlonie.6547:

Well, I’m a C++ guy, so web is beyond my abilities, and this is for personal use. I’ve got a little app that does some analysis to try to find profitable investments, but I’d really love to be able to filter out all the crap that never, ever, ever, ever sells (OMG food recipies staaaaahp) :P

No way, bro! Web is easy, you could totally do it! But yeah, if it’s just for you to use, there’s no real reason to make a web app anyway.

Also, C++ might be a little rough for doing something like this. I would recommend a scripting language, like Python or Ruby, since it’s all just HTTP calls and presumably simple algorithms. Unless your other app you mentioned is already C++, which I should have realized before submitting this the first time, lol.

Pure C++ baby. That’s my day job, so I’m just more comfortable with it. Plus there’s jsoncpp and Qt’s newish networking core that make the more tedious bits easier. I totally agree that python would be far better suited for this sort of thing, but familiarity wins out :-)

Wanze.8410:

I would suggest to check the API forum for info.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api

Well, their APIs do not have the information I’m looking for, at least not directly. I plan to scrape them if needed, but I’m curious if anyone has already done this and is serving the info.

I also should mention — I posted this here since this is where the BLTC forum posts went. Since this doesn’t concern the existing GW2 APIs, I’d rather not see a mod move it.

Andred.1087:

I looked around a while back, and best I can recommend is just do it yourself, so you can get exactly what you want (provided it’s available via the API, of course). It’s a pretty simple thing to interact with.

That’s sort of what I was thinking — after all, once I have collected the raw data myself, then I can do all sorts of nasty, creative things with it…heh heh heh ;-) Always better to do it yourself, but if I could save some time while building my own infrastructure, that’s worth looking into IMO.

Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you want to build? A web app? Or just a personal utility?

Well, I’m a C++ guy, so web is beyond my abilities, and this is for personal use. I’ve got a little app that does some analysis to try to find profitable investments, but I’d really love to be able to filter out all the crap that never, ever, ever, ever sells (OMG food recipies staaaaahp) :P

I’ve been dabbling with the TP APIs to do some amateur market analysis, and I’m interested in tracking item velocities.

Now, before I dedicate hardware, storage, bandwidth, and development time to record listings and estimate velocities myself, I figured I’d ask if anyone is already serving this info, or alternatively, historical records like the raw data in the graphs on gw2spidy (and yes, I’ve looked at spidy’s API, but historical data is not available ).

My guess is no, but it never hurts to ask, amirite?

I was wondering where he was, too. I thought CoE at first, but there’s grass…so now I’m thinking he’s by the Rata Sum entrance in Metrica Province. Definitely Asuran architecture in any case.

And don’t forget that Heitred is still running around.

Tree.3916:

Well, if they aren’t trolling legitimate instances then why do you care if they are back?

Sam’s instance was legit.

I believe people should be given second chances.

Me too. If they grieve in such a blatant, rude, horrible, selfish, toxic manner as stealing another player’s solo instance, they should be permabanned, and have another chance by buying a new account.

That sort of behavior has no excuse, and the sort of people who do it are nothing but complete kittens.

You can’t get banned by an illegal vedio, did you reed the COC?

Justagnome.9287:

Hey guys, I’m a ranger as a main. I use a longbow and a bear. With a greatsword and a lynx. Come @ me bruh

I love my guildies, but the other day I was taking one through AC on his ranger.

This actual conversation took place after I noticed him using a bow on the burrows in p1 (summarized):

“You’ll really want to use a melee weapon on the burrows, we need DPS and cleaving.”

“I don’t have any melee weapons, and my shortbow pierces, so it’s fine.”

Followed shortly by, and I kid you not:

“Should I be taking black bear or brown bear?”

He was completely serious. I don’t think I’ve ever been so speechless.

Ofc we just gave him some pointers and finished the run, after all, I was “that guy” at one point, too (AH condition guard back in the day. Fo’ reals, dat burning. OP). The ranger stereotype was just so beautifully fulfilled in that conversation xD

Why do you think they’re exploiting?

Really? Cool. We’ll try that when we go back.

That was one fun duo

Yay! We got it, nvm.

Haste.

Haste is the answer.

I remember seeing some discussion about this a while back, maybe someone can help me out.

A buddy and I are duoing CoE p1 for the first time, and are at the laser puzzle. We’ve tried thief/thief and thief/mesmer with shadowsteps and portals, and we can consistently finish before the timer expires. All 5 gears disappear before time runs out.

But the laser doesn’t disarm. Sometimes the timer doesn’t even start. Are we somehow bugging it out? Has anyone ever duoed this successfully?

Halp :-/

Gave away AC story on the LFG for funsies after soloing it tonight.

All four randoms said thanks.

Warm fuzzies.

Same. The commerce APIs are down as well.

inb4 generic reply about PvP griefing.

oxtred.7658:

I’d like to do arah story as well but I keep getting kicked when joining those berserker parties. I wish they were support in this game pve, I liked playing tank in WoW and now it’s just dps everywhere.

You can join my party anytime (advertised: “arah story | speed clear | full clear | no skipping | killing kholer”)

Believe it or not, we had a guy join and then drop after learning that we weren’t full/speed clearing.

It made my head hurt.

Cavendish is mah kitten.

deSade.9437:

Woah, you seriously must be bored out of your mind.
Or…
Hearbroken? You still grieving over your lost manliness when Sera turned you down? Come on, man, time to get over it.

I’ve accepted that Sera has friendzone’d me. I still enjoy her humor, and I try not to be bitter about what could have been.

kitten.

DeSade gets it.

Sam, I’ll never stop applauding your ability to keep your cool in these situations.

Kudos.

Nicely done! Happy to see [qT] kicking some kitten

Jerus.4350:

Dub.1273:

Mister H? Heheheheitred?

Yessir apparently he’s still around.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/General-Dungeon-Discussion-Thread-Part-2/page/10#post4623054

Because we’re the toxic ones.

<3 those 404 “follow thread here!” PMs.

I didn’t notice any naming and shaming. ThomCruzes guy should still kill himself, tho.

ooooh is there some sort of living world that I can walk to green dots and press f for? Count me in!!

I just finished the last personal story bit (first time, srs) and am watching the credits. Wow! Look at all those people they laid off! Truly impressive!

Laulajatar.4253:

I just did Arah story.
It was boring.

You lied

idk bro, dpsing Zhiatan with those cannons was TIGHT.

oxtred.7658:

It’s probably not sarcasm, dlonie is a phiw.

QFT.

That’s a thief for ya.

Warm, gooey burst damage. Drink it in.

Randulf.7614:

arenta.2953:

Zhaitan “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM”
Priory Scholar “You’ll need a tray…”

I love you, Jeff Vader. Glad I’m not the only one who thought that xD

Ah, gotcha. Wasn’t sure if it was the gesture or saying the phrase or what — I’d never heard of a gesture being illegal before (though it’s easy to understand why in this case). Thanks for enlightening me.

On topic, yeah, that’s certainly not an inaccurate way to look at these forums…

I just finished Arah’s story mode with my ele friend (thanks for helping me finish my personal story!), and wow — what a ride. From the "Don't want to ruin the ending! ;-D (>^_^)>"raging airship battles against giants and dragon minions, to the EPIC fight against the evil Zhaitan, I had so much fun. What a fantastic, rewarding end to the personal storyline, battling an elder dragon to the death!!!!

Can’t wait to see what other fantastic challenges await! =D

btw, I thought the mouth dude was a little too hard though, my guard tank died right away while my ele friend soloed him. Maybe it could get nerfed a bit? I hate dying >.< ugh! lol ;-D

lol, the new dailies make me laugh:

We asked for them to be more transparent.

And then they talk about metrics whilst introducing “daily login rewards”.

While that move was indeed fully transparent, it wasn’t quite what we were shooting for…

HHR LostProphet.4801:

“To hail” (which is illegal in modern Germany btw.)

Can you explain that a little more? I’ve never heard of this, and I’m curious exactly what is illegal? Seems like an interesting tidbit…

HHR LostProphet.4801:

And on the future of GW2: It’s unlikely but one can still dream…

ikr? Just take a look at player morale.

Tom Yzf.5872:

Jesus, I must be coming off as an kitten today. This is the second time I’ve had to clarify my posts.

kitten you, Tom. What’d you say about me mum?

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor.

Ermagerd that looked fun. Very nice!

fly fly, my pretties

Sneak peek:

Hannelore.8153:

Guardians use burning for damage, not direct damage, so the Staff will have the highest chances of proccing upgraded Virtue of Justice.

Tenrai Senshi.2017:

Guardian staff actually does decent damage […] against large mobs you’ll probably find you’d have more DPS with a staff than any other guard weapon.

lol, I thought the same about the sellers xD I seriously don’t understand why some people get so offended at the mere existence of dungeon sellers.

And yep, it can still be tough to get a party going certain times of day. Between people leaving the game out of boredom and those who stay being so sick of these dungeons that they won’t touch them, there aren’t as many players around as there used to be. The longer ArenaNet lets this content languish, the harder it’s going to get, unfortunately.

Good on ya for trying. Keep at it, and be sure to check out the [noob] guild if you’re still having trouble finding a group:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Mentors-Noob

Remember back when we were wondering why the new dungeons were taking so long to finish?

I think that’s a pretty excellent idea, but unfortunately, Tree is correct.

See this and this for details. In short, they just aren’t willing to staff people to work on dungeons as they aren’t a priority. In an MMO. Crazy, right?

Seriously though, grab me for SE2 anytime!

As for LFGs, this one has left me scratching my head. The only part of it that makes sense is the name Nemesis.

Are you NA? I’mma drag you through it and get you that DM :P

smh

Wasn’t it Lucas?

lol high five Cookies FTW!

My favorite lately has been just joining the “p3” / “story” / “p2 at last boss” groups listed in “Open World Content”. Fun times.

I’ve also discovered that some of the most fun pugs are found by seeking out SEp2 PUGs. Always a laid back, easy-going group, if you’re into that sort of thing. Not terribly skilled, but motivated. Plus you usually get to be the hero, because nobody knows that path, lol.

Enaretos.8079:

[SC] Shortest Dungeon speedrun ever

Absolute amazeballs. Nice work.