Guild Wars 2

I’m loving these wall’d wall videos xD

inb4 unblockable booger spray

Agony.3542:

What is lfg description? New consumable? Does it cost gems? Exploit???

Exploit. Because reading.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Besides, he has been like this for about two years now. ANET wouldn’t let such an obvious, glaring, gamebreaking bug remain for such a long time... oh wait.

Exactly. And it’s not like you can still completely shut down and AFK pretty much every boss in P4 by simply attacking them before they start their dialog two years after release. These people are professionals!

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they suddenly decided it’s a bug, much like when they decided that Mesmer #3 Sword ability letting you Swap after your illusion had died was a bug.

That post makes me sad. It’s obvious how much effort Frifox and others put into it, and it’s very clear, well documented, and respectful. Even that won’t get acknowledged. And most of those bugs are oooooooooooolllllllllllllllllddddddddddddd.

ANET, stop hurting my faith in you.

Awwww, I hope you’re joking. You’ve been here long enough that any faith should have completely evaporated by now.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Boredom is not an exploit.

I foresee this sentence etched below every new questionable strategy presented in this forum until the end of time.

What’s up with all the ultraviolent mod aduse lately?

Someone should start a thread about this.

JasmineLong.6514:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

JasmineLong.6514:

I have both accounts as well, it’s nice to have the range to do that. Although I mainly use my EU account, this one, to troll forums.

Who are you on NA? o.O

And yeah my EU account is my evil alter ego. She can farm 5 points in 2 posts and often has to sit out for weeks on end. Poor Lepton. So misunderstood.

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And there’s no arguing with mods anymore. The new guy treats me like a multiple offense criminal. He said I deserve the infractions because my posting history is colorful.

cries

It’s a secret…I’m if you dig through my post history you should see the connection

Got it, you’re videoGamermike.

Yay!

Just be kind wrt my fashion sense. My main these days is an asura warr in COF abyss armor. Pretty original, eh?

I could go for one of the 10 or 20ish fractals tonight if I’m on (RL might get in the way…).

I’m super rusty at FotM, might could use some learnin’.

Masterful Trolling — food for thought:

1) Create game without traditional trinity, where the best performing teams will be all DPS.
2) Implement random/unpredictable/switchy aggro mechanics to discourage trinity play by making effective tanking impossible.
3) Introduce Nomad gear, undeniably a 100% tank stat combo.

????

It just sorta struck me — why the hell is there tank gear in a game expressly designed not to have tanks?

No wonder the PHIWs are confused.

Silberfisch.3046:

Cormac.3871:

If the gold reward was removed from dungeons the lfg tool would die. This is why I am confident it will stay.

Not to mention there are actually people who do dungeons because they a) are interested in the story and b) simply like doing dungeons.

True, but these reasons aren’t enough to keep most players coming back to run the same paths for two years….. ;-)

Wha….hey! What are you doing?!?

mmmph….phffffff….errrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhh

idea

xD xD xD xD xD

escapes

TKiller.6829:

I have dreamed of a weird crossover between Arah and living story events with Mordremoth corrupting creatures already lingering with Zhaitan’s influence but all I got to remember that Lupicus had no grub phase and more green beamy attacks and at 50% another GL broke a wall of arena and you had to fight two.

I didn’t even play GW2 for past 2 days.

Does the second GL drop Tears of Ascalon?

Obtena.7952:

No. Casuals were being treated negatively LONG before there was a way to communicate requirements for teaming via LFG. Nice try.

I like how we’re all just pretending that gw2lfg.com (net? whatever) didn’t exist before the in-game LFG tool.

Or LA spam “LF2M COF ZERK ONLY PING GEAR SPEEDRUN GOGOGO”.

The introduction of the in-game LFG tool changed nothing. LFG adverts have always had strings attached.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

It’s vague, but I would say yes, back when mesmer Sword was good, I could escape the crystal by swaping out of it.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait.

I haven’t played my mes in a while, but what happened to mes sword? Is sw/sw + sw/f not meta anymore? What could they have possibly done to make BF not worth it? O.o

Don’t bump someone who wants to learn for me, but I’d be happy to fill a slot if you end up short and I’m on. I love running Arah with new folks

Yep.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the only 10 hour song on youtube.

Scrubs.

JasmineLong.6514:

The point being, there is a progression. I would bet that a lot of the hardcore crowd have run dungeons in PVT gear, with Sc/F guards, at some point in their GW career. They moved on to what worked best for the group, so they could complete it more efficiently, because slowly but surely, the paths became more about getting done than wandering around, learning the bosses, and getting better at their class. The filthy casual of today can become the elitest scumbag of tomorrow, just by playing for long enough.

This is basically what a lot of people forget. The long, drawn out, boring, embarrassing stories I could tell about my early days playing this game. I’ve been playing since head start and I honestly started getting into the “hardcore” side of the game the beginning of this year.

So much this. There’s a reason that a lot of the ‘elitists’ say meta is superior to a homemade, PHIW build — it’s because many of us have tried both, and once we tried meta we realized how much better it is. Shout heal warrior? AH/EM Staff guard? p/p thief? We’ve tried them, and they just don’t offer as much once you get over the novelty of the dungeons.

Until then, kitten it — play what you want and have fun. Just don’t join exp/zerk/speed parties with those builds.

I’ve always viewed any meta build as a starting point. Especially with on-the-fly retraiting now, I start with a meta build and swap things around to suit a particular encounter. I think it’s a little simplistic to say that meta players just blindly slap on a build and run with it. To be effective running the meta, you still have to know your class and experiment a bit.

There is a lot of build diversity in GW2, but unfortunately most of the builds just aren’t as useful in an organized dungeon group of experienced players — that’s where the meta comes in. Meta builds describe the regions of build configuration space that promote party support, heavy damage, and active damage mitigation, while avoiding areas that promote selfish/pointless configurations. Selfish being things like signet warrior, and pointless being something like the “Banners do more damage when placed” trait. 500 damage every 90 seconds just plain isn’t useful.

A lot of those selfish/pointless traits are just there to be fun. And they are. There are some builds I’ve used that are a blast to play in other parts of the game, but I wouldn’t bring them into a dungeon. For example, I really liked my “crippling thief build” which threw spikes everywhere. Super fun to troll in PvP with (50+ seconds of cripple, anyone?), but requires wasting dodges, does low DPS, etc — not so good for dungeon running.

The return of the Prophet.

And there’s also this awesome feature that the mes gs auto attack does more damage from range — you can stay out of damage AND do killer deeps! How cool is that?

I felt oddly compelled to make this*…Love that smile.

.* Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is purely accidently and unintended

J Eberle.9312:

Brozil just went next level, this guy.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Can-we-please-nerf-the-AC-spider-queen/first#post4272122

Already cleaned up. Literally rotflmao. How many infractions did that earn, or did they just instaban? xD

Aaaaaaah ha. Got it. That was a tough one, I’m usually pretty good at “name that kitty”.

farnaz? O.o

Vikkela.7261:

Okay guys, maybe enough of ganging up on the poor fella? Thread is deleted and life continues, as discussion of dungeons should too

I felt the same way about how he got treated…

…the first time he did his [Whirlwind Attack] through our little subforum, spewing nonsense, rage, and bootyouchies all over the place.

The second time (and beyond) I saw it happen….and I understood.

Say what you will, the man is quite skilled in mental gymnastics. Oh the contradictions and ill-thought-out rationalizations, all while pushing an air of superiority. Astounding.

I’m [Mind Wrack]ing trying to figure out what just got kitkat’d there…

That’s more or less what I was trying, but I need to fail a few more times to learn the timings/patterns, I think. That, and I seem to panic occasionally and forget that dodging procs confusion damage >.<

At least it’s easy to rally off her clones/illusions

Managed to solo him last night \o/ EZPZ with the long bow traits. I went 6/0/4/4/0 and the extra healing let me completely ignore the poison. Good stuff. Now to figure out lyssa

Most annoying thing for me @Melandru now are the kitten ed roots — they seem to prevent autoattack from working >.<

You mention a faster warr DPS tactic — does it still use longbow?

VideoGamermike.5813:

I called specific things elitist [….] I use the word to it’s definition, not a straight insult designed to make another group feel bad.

Just to clarify, no one really take issue with “elitist”. We’re used to it, we’ve “taken the word back”, so to speak.

But here’s your quote, which is “not an insult”:

VideoGamermike.5813:

That is why I call those elitist fools, elitist fools. When you don’t want to put any effort at all into the game, and are instead throwing around the word efficiency, you have no right to be lecturing others.

Besides the obvious example that it does take a lot of effort to solo dungeons, which is all the rage with elitists these days, can you realize how it’s hard to take your stance of “casual is offensive” seriously, especially when the posts are made less than an hour apart?

Oh, and:

no, the pug environment is poisenous, full of people … I was told “F**** KILL YOURSELF”

I’ve done plenty of pugging, and I’ve been called a “f’ing idiot” exactly once. And I deserved it when it happened. Most of the time it’s worth taking a second to look at your own behavior, think about what’s coming out of your mouth, and think about what the problem really is.

It was about 300 lines of “I report everything that offends me and get ignored, and then when I violate TOS my posts get deleted. MODS ARE VIOLENT”.

Seriously. He said “violent”. Repeatedly.

Oh, and making sweeping generalizations that we’re “elitist fools” who want to “invest no effort” is ok, but saying someone is casual is HORRIBLY offensive.

Good stuff.

J Eberle.9312:

I have said this before. I will say it again, because I am having some serious issues comprehending the reality of this.
How.
How
H
O
W.
Do posters on forums actually function IRL. Like.
How do they
feed themselves
And like.
Breathe.
W0t.

I’m gonna report you.

J Eberle.9312:

I just read the verbal diarrhoea in that thread. I need counselling, somebody hold me I can’t stop shaking. Like where do I even begin? How does one begin at potato?

Did you get to see the deleted thread? Dunno if anyone screencap’d it, lol.

Good stuff.

No replies after this — I think the coast is clear, guiz! You can come back now!

Or he saw where the nickname came from and is trying to remember a password…

deSade.9437:

VideoGamermike.5813:

I was told it was morally ok to kick people because they weren’t died all pink.

Where’s this? xD lol (forgot who I was talking with for a sec)

I remember the orig discussion, but haven’t seen this new post from him.

Sublimatio.6981:

tip for mesmers: run shatter build and take portal. when the terminal is going to be destroyed, run to corner, spawn portal, get teleported and AVOID COMBAT, then wp to the waypoint at Belka and spawn portal. use terminal again and continue the fight

That’s pretty clever!

aaaaaaand it’s gone. Did everyone receive their PvF XP in the mail?

I wonder if Mr Frizzle ever reads this thread. I guess we’ll find out if the last two pages get modzapped.

xallever.1874:

maha.7902:

Just got a fractal longbow from a 49 after leeching

but you deserve it for videogamermike posts

QFT.

I can’t anymore right now. This doesn’t even….wot.

Constantly complaining about other people doing the same things you do. Making up half-baked rationalization to say that “it’s ok when I do it”. Somehow feeling that the term “casual” is more offensive than “elitist fools”.

I see two possibilities here:

(1) Masterful trolling.
(2) A level of denial and misanthropy that is beyond the norm.

If 1, congrats, you have perfected your chosen art form!

If 2, well….I just feel kinda bad. Not going to throw any MI labels out there, but I seriously think you may not realize how the arguments you’re making sound, especially in the context of the full discussions and your past behavior/accusations.

In either case, I have to get back to work. Hope you find some peace in the latter case, or are still getting some kicks in the former.

Reported.

Wethospu.6437:

15?

O.o Good to know. Didn’t try that because, yanno….trim()…

VideoGamermike.5813:

Talk about condescending. You just threw the “Casual” label to insult an entire group of people, all because they had an opinion that wasn’t your own. You made malicious and callous words designed to hurt the people you in an extreme and ridiculous manner.

Hmm….kinda like labeling an entire class of players as “elitist fools”? The dense is strong here….

Then you make a personal insult to me, when I have no idea who you are, with a nickname I clearly did not pass off on, and use me as a scapegoat for your malicious attacks.

That name came from the second result of googling “videogamermike”, in case you were wondering.

Anyone who claims that the society is perfectly healthy, the fact I get THIS treatment on my mere existence, is proof enough we have a problem.

Once again, maybe it’s not everyone else who is the problem here?

I love today.

and all 15 charr.

Concrete slab does +200% dmg against elitist zerker fools.

Why Colesy, Why?? You know better!

deSade.9437:

Pfff, please, do you really think they’re going to leave fgs as it is for much longer?

If this were January 2013, I might have agreed with you.

VideoGamermike.5813:

You know…I know why Anet did this. I know why Anet added the poison thing. People were stacking to such a degree that is actually stopped being meaningful. The problem is all it did was make the boss needlessly more difficult to try and punish the people abusing stacking.
Anet needed to let us, the players, deny using that “stack against the wall” garbage, not punish the people who don’t do that. So yeah, many of her updates need to be nerfed back to their non-existent states.

OH GOD I’VE MISSED YOU

I really don’t care, I’ll usually just offer to hold the cutscene. But if they don’t say anything, it is definitely a slight annoyance. Worthy of a sigh, but not much more.

Seriously, thanks for sharing that. These are the kinds of PUGs I usually get, and it’s really not that bad.

If the people complaining about not being able to find a party would put some effort into it, they could be out there having a lot of fun, instead of stewing and raging in here….

Rag.3258:

10/10, made me write an angry response

Didn’t take much O.o

Is it Rag because you’re on it, or because Rage was taken?

Great attitude there, buddy. Really makes us want to help you.