Guild Wars 2

synk.8762:

Good lord. Nobody understands the mechanics of this fight since they fixed it. It’s not hard, I promise.

This poor Queen is stuck in a dank, nasty dungeon. All she really wants is a beer and a shot of whiskey. If you bring her some, then spend 2-3 minutes RPing with her, she’ll give you a buff that makes Kohler start a dance party. If you can Simon Says him for 1 minute with dance moves, he’ll give you the Triforce, and then you can defeat Ganon and cleanse the world of evil.

I thought everyone knew this already.

I was gonna be a wiseass, but…

I just can’t follow that. Kudos!

All that changed is that now Kohler now triggers three PBAoE explosions immediately after his spin/pull, and shoots out bouncing blue spherical projectiles. Both attacks oneshot.

He also drops Shards of Zhaitan.

It was such a great idea to move all crafting stations/bank/TP/trainer/WvW ports/etc into one convenient location.

And then kittening disable the waypoint.

This is why people hate living story…

Gah, the more I think about this the more I kinda want to go. Too bad I’m NA :-(

Lilith Ajit.6173:

This thread is fine for this subforum. It’s looking for a possible group to RP destiny’s edge through dungeons in a non conventional manner.

At Sola, your comment is so irrelevant to this thread I can’t even begin to understand what you read.

Oh, it absolutely belongs here — I think it’s a refreshing change of tone from the usual discussions in here (not that I don’t enjoy snarky Q_Q ;-P). Just saying that OP’s lovely idea might be better received elsewhere

I think so. Good luck with this, it sounds like you should be able to find a group willing to do this, it’s a fairly common request. I’d offer to go, but I don’t really do the whole RP thing that well, lol. I’d love to explore some of the dungeon maps more (esp the areas around the traps in AC p2, or the maze of paths after the spiders but before the detonator in Arah p2). Maybe someday.

Just noticed that there is no RP subforum on here O.o Maybe the Story & Lore forum? Your best bet is probably to join an RP guild, as this may take a couple weeks to finish and it’d be easier to stay in touch with your team.

If you stick it out long enough you may find some people here, but be prepared for another few pages of “lol wot I don’t want that” posts explaining what you said you understood in the OP :P

BTW, thanks for acknowledging that the “fast & efficient” playstyle is valid :-) Most people that come here wanting these types of runs think we’re monsters!

Every time I scroll through the haiku thread, I make sure to unlike this post….just so I can click “+1” again

Lord Kuru.3685:

New dungeon content!
Three Ascalonian tears.
In HOTW?

Out of curiosity, since I avoid HotW like the plague, does the troll still drop AC tokens?

Bumping because of the awesome. This thread should never die.

I join seller’s groups.
Didn’t read, play how I want!
Kick? Me? ELITISTS!!

Dalanor.5387:

Give me something that i can punch …

Pssssh, yeah. All of us solo lvl 50 fractals all the time because it’s so easy. I did it naked on my level 6 necro. Didn’t even use weapons, only Warrior Kick.

smh

I thought the forum felt a little light on Lilith posts these days — The fashion thread actually got knocked off the first page!

Great troll, thanks for the giggle

If serious, part of the problem might be that most of the Risen mobs in Arah are not meant to be fought, but rather skipped. Think of it as a new mechanic where you need to master your mobility skills to advance.

It also kinda sounds like you’ve been trying with a bunch of other inexp players. Take Ivan up on his offer and let him teach you. There are some non-obvious techniques that work quite well in that dungeon.

I doubt it affected gem purchases, so…shrugs

Xar.6185:

Roguefire.8174:

I feel as though it was a rush fix and not even tested before implementing… And why remove the loot from the ghosts?

As bad as removing the loot from the ghosts is, I feel that it’s worse that the ghosts no longer trigger on kill traits…

It’s for the immersion. You don’t kill ghosts, silly. You just go “wooshwooshwoosh” and swirl their bits about.

Of course endgame is still being developed. Didn’t you notice all of the new outfits in the gem store?

“I’ve got 20AP because I ran to green dots and pressed ‘f’ a lot worked really hard in LS and PS. I even follow a zerg around spamming Wave of Wrath regularly battle open world bosses to make enough gold to pay someone else to run dungeons for me and earned my Dungeon Master title.

I know what I’m talking about when I say my longbow does better damage against these burrows at range — I know my class, scrub! Don’t tell me how to play!"

PUGs are an illness, a good guild is the cure ;-)

Sorta:

• Fixed several issues causing Detha’s story path to stall.

Ohh, that’s the problem. They fixed Detha’s story path — were you running her explorable path? Detha’s story mode should be all fixed up.

giggles

Next time will be better! :^)

I’ve spent so much time on him it’s not even funny. I have a bag full of excuses (mainly that my connection was too kitten to dodge kicks for a while, though much better now). I’ve probably solo’d each phase at some point or another, but never in the same run. I just rolled my first warr a little while ago and I do much better these days, but still need more practice. Half of the problem for me is finding time to open a path to him and still have enough time free to practice. That, and I’m just not as skilled as many of the other players, but I’ll be kitten ed if I’m not persistent :-)

Some people have mentioned getting him down in 10 hours. I’ve spent at least twice that much time on him and still can’t get him into phase 3 reliably. But I’m getting closer.

Just wanted to share — if you’re having trouble, you’re not alone. Gotta keep practicing until you stop making mistakes. In the rest of the game, not dodging will get you killed. At Lupi, wasting a dodge is worse than eating a hit in some cases….

True true! Fortunately I’ve been playing long enough that I really don’t give 2 kitties about the 15g, but I did feel pretty terrible for my two guildies that helped me :-( It was the first time low manning it for all three of us, and kitten , it was a lot of fun!

ProtoGunner.4953:

Ram Banson.4081:

(anet give us new dungeons pls)

^^ Very funny video and a good statement. People are so bored, they do the ‘hardest’ boss in fun mode.

Please Anet, give us new dungeons.

+1000000000000000000000000000

I tried again last night and got the gorillas to stick by the rocks on the first try :-) They would randomly aggro during the fight, though. I didn’t have the longbow range trait unlocked, I’ll try again with that next time.

I ended up pulling in some guildies to three-man the rest. We kept trying to clear the trees and never really doing any significant damage to the boss. Luckily one of the guildies came on mes and we let the duelists kill the priest while the mes and I cleared trees and the other warrior kited gorillas (they still aggroed :/). Made me wonder how anyone could solo it since the trees have high enough HP and low enough respawn rates that it takes too much time to clear them.

I rewatched the video and noticed that you don’t actually clear them, but let them all spawn in a small area and then go away from them a bit. I’ll try that next time, too.

The rest of the trio was smooth, though the northern sparks sometimes lost aggro at simins and had to be pulled twice O.o

We got the bloodstone to 5% and listed on the LFG for 18g. Had a very nice buyer join and shoot the kitten while we waited for a fifth. Fifth joins, some kittenbag who didn’t read the LFG.

I go to kick.

I’ve been in this dungeon for about 6 hours at this point. I misclick — “Leave Party” by accident.

Cursed shore loading screen.

mfw

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

JasmineLong.6514:

How can the change the gift of fortune to make it more expensive? A stack each of the lodestones? I’ll wait a year an a half then before making any like how I did with these legendaries I’ve made this year.

Maybe not even a gift of fortune at all. Maybe you have to actually earn the items for the legendary this time through finishing challenging content… Nah who am I kidding.

TBH, I don’t have a legendary and never will, due to the existing challenges put in place to make one: The challenge of trying to maintain interest in open world PvE long enough to get map completion is enough to completely dissuade me from even considering it.

EcoRI.9273:

I consider Fractals of the Mist to be a dungeon, you should definitely try those out first. They have more interesting mechanics than the standard dungeons and they have good rewards for first timers(ascended rings and backpieces and 20slot bags)

This too. The mechanics are way more interesting, and EcoRI is right — the rewards are good if you’re still getting your gear established.

Unfortunately the gold rewards are absolute kitten compared to anything else in the game, save grinding heart quests, so I find little reason to run them these days. But if you’re looking for fun and a chance to hone your skills, fractals are a good time.

Wrong forum — this is where the elitists hang out, and it’s been well established that we don’t have fun.

lulz.

Arah explorable is definitely the most fun if you enjoy a challenge (despite what you’ll experience in story mode).

This dead horse is getting kinda pulpy. Can we get a new one pls?

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I give this a shot next time I have a nice chunk of time to kill. A huge part of my problem was that I was being too impatient to wait for the gorillas to wander away from the rocks, and they usually downed me before I could climb up >.< I really should go buy some stealth kits for my warr…

I usually don’t watch live streams while they’re actually live (come to think of it — impatience again, I like to skip around in videos :-P), but I’ll keep an eye on your channel. Sub 2 hour? Honestly I’m amazed any time I see someone solo Grenth. That alone is probably the most impressive feat in a p4 solo to me :-)

Stupid zerker elitists. Why don’t they just play how I want!!?!

Every time I tried all three of them just went back to roaming once me & Ran the Man died. Is the trick to die while on the pillar?

So I was looking for something to do yesterday, and figured, wth, I’ll go start up p4 and see how far I can get.

Champ Knight + Balthazar were easy enough, got both on the first try. But I ended up stopping at Melandru, because, well…you know…Melandru x_x

Ofc the boss isn’t a problem, it’s the gorillas. I tried clearing them out, but they seem to just respawn so that there are always 3. I imagine that this would be super trivial to duo, so long as one person kites gorillas while the other AFKills the priest. But for solo, how do people deal with the gorillas?

I saw Joey and Purple’s videos where they do some trick with Randall to get the gorillas to get stuck away from the priest, but I haven’t been able to replicate it. All I could tell is that they kill Randall by the hoppable pillar stones, but I couldn’t get it to work. And Purple said it didn’t really work consistently, anyway. Can someone explain this (or some other) technique in a bit more detail?

Anyone have a trick for this? I’m aware that mountain goats can make it past this boss, but I’d rather figure out some semi-legit way to solo him.

TKiller.6829:

*Gets damaged by kick mid dodge roll 11 times

Alright, Rostelecom, I got it, no Arah today.

Story of my life Q_Q

This made my morning.

Be sure to save it for when the wrath of Mod inevitably comes crashing down on this thread!

Also — don’t be afraid to post your own LFGs. Put something like “Any path, inexp, looking to learn” and you’ll often get a good leader, or at least a more patient group.

dat inside-out-lupi-face-howl @22s…

#nightmarefuel

Wethospu.6437:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Queen_Spider

Looks familiar. :P

And uuh

You know what they say about imitation and flattery —

Imitation with better uptime is the most sincere form of flattery

Or something ;-)

Just messing with you, gw2dungeons is great, but it’s usually not up when I need it T_T

lol @ go play with dolls. Some people, smh.

Agony.3542:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enBxtU9vBLc

Because kitten beeing able to see kitten.

lmao, that’s a new one…

This forum is drunk. This post has two entries in the thread list O.o

Purple Miku.7032:

Lawl. I’ve once had him in a pug run sit back down in the middle of phase 1 and go invulnerable. He then stood up again and restarted phase 1 without full hp. Was weird as kitten.

I’ve seen that happen by pushing him into a door before.

The creepy CM room is my favorite, although the last time I checked it out the one room no longer spins, and you couldn’t get the 12 hour retal (or whatever) buff anymore.

#BugFixPriorities

I love that thread.

“There’s nothing wrong with gs mes, bearbow, staff guard, etc!!”

“AC p3 is OP! We can’t make it past the 9th burrow!!”

headdeskheaddeskheaddesk

Also how they “outsmarted” the vet in their group by not stacking at spider queen so they could avoid the poison (prepatch).

Purple Miku.7032:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Purple Miku.7032:

In my opinion what they should have done was fastforward the airship with cutscenes + a loading screen and have Zhaitan crash the airship with the party members + a few others evacuating the ship in time and fighting Zhaitan in the lair.

Actually, I think this is what they planned all along but due to having not enough time, they had to make it like… this instead, seeing there is a POI in his Lair you can’t get to and it looks like a huge arena.

Is that a challenge?

-cracks knuckles-

Mountain Goat time.

In all seriousness though, I think I remember being told that if you intentionally disconnect your internet before you crash to the bottom after jumping off the airship, you’ll log in at the bottom of the lair. Haven’t confirmed but I’ll try it next time I do story mode.

Hmm….wouldn’t you just show up at the dungeon entrance, like any other time you leave a dungeon and re-enter? I can’t think of any dungeon instance where you can enter anywhere other than the main entrance.

I’d love to see what that place looks like though — maybe some l33t mountain goat or RAMjacker can take some pretty pictures for us?

Lucas.9157:

Source: Prophet Mike, the Video Gamer

giggles

I don’t think I ever saw an argument from him that even approached this level of coherence.

Silberfisch.3046:

Although I do like the cutscenes.

That’s good, because you’re forced to watch most of them every time….

gMy gbet gis gthat ghe ggzoomed gup gthere.

Seems like it should be the easier (and more robust) fix, too. Dunno why they just keep throwing up walls and ruining our fun times.

Maybe it’s because there’s better job security in playing whack-a-mole?

My favorite walls are the (first) coral wall near the lobby and the one by the platform near Belka. Both could just be jumped over with minimal effort.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

There’s nothing to explore in the dungeons just so you know.

I don’t know Guang… We had a guild phiw CoF (drunken) fun run and jumped out of the map to fight the completely optional ooze king and queen from p3. I’d never seen them before and it was pretty cool imo. Mind you, I was drunk at the time, but it was pretty cool for a bit Something I don’t see every day.

Someone just showed me that the other day on a p1 or p2 run! (forget which) I’d been playing for over a year and never knew they were there.

Purple Miku.7032:

No Pulse.2967:

Arah mountain goats approve of this thread.

+1

This.

This is why I QQ about making the required bosses required for Arah. Everytime they put up an invisible wall I like the dungeon less and less.

And kitten , we get that it takes time. If only they’d acknowledge the issues and let us know they’re aware of them and fixing them…

Mai Trinn is just the new Alphard. Obviously broken, but will they admit it/let us know they even care? Nahhhhhh. We’re just stuck hoping that the next patch will fix it. Maybe in a few months it will happen.

Until then all we have is the rumor mill. I wouldn’t consider it wise to leave customer support up to random forum folks, but whatever. Not my business.

Yeah, seriously — don’t judge Arah until you run an explorable mode. The story mode is by far the biggest joke in the game.

You haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Lupi yet :-)

Two things:

Condition > Direct Damage

If your original claim is correct, then you weren’t running a complete DPS build when you tried zerk. Once you have the proper armor, trinkets, traits, runes, utilities, and weapons, zerk will deal more damage than your condition build. If condition builds were better than direct damage builds, the meta crowd would run them. Trust me — gaming attracts a lot of semi-autistic nerds. The math has been done, the results have been compared. Conditions do not outperform direct damage.

Q_Q I don’t like getting kicked for not following the LFG

Ok. Make your own LFG then, and be specific: “p2 causal run, anyone welcome”. If you still want to place some restrictions, you can do that, too: “p1 exp 80, all builds welcome”. The beauty of this method is that if someone joins your group and complains about folks not being zerk, now you get to kick them for not reading the LFG

Remember, if you don’t want to play the same way the rest of us do, no one is forcing you to. Complaining that different playstyles exist is not going to help anything. Just find people to play with that you’re compatible with. The tools are available.