Guild Wars 2

LittleLepton.8915:

I bought my first couple Arah paths this past Saturday. I didn’t feel like running them, and i did feel like supporting my local dungeon sexies. I only bought non Lupi skippers, and it was pretty sweet. Good folks!

Help our economy get back on track! Support your local dungeon sellers today!

Nice job

Devils.3679:

You are looking at this the wrong way oldsomalia. im talking about a whole game system not a soul inter guild race or 3rd party hosted events. it’s not just something i would like but something i believe would improve the game state.

What makes you think i wouldn’t have already done or thought of doing what you said. Also so you know i have my guild has Records set on the site linked above. [LOD]

dutchiez.7502 yes thats great. If only it was implemented in-game. that fact that someone(or group) has gone and made that site and its active should say to ANET that it is a system that would improve the game state.

While I agree that something like this would be a nice feature to have added to the game, you shouldn’t waste your time asking for something so few people will really use and is related to dungeons to be added to the game, because it won’t happen.

http://www.gwscr.com

kcmastere.5298:

they really should be called hunters :P

Why?

Wolgore.8257:

Idk. But the idea just seems unfair, you know? It’s hard enough finding the people. LFG should be for the new people who want to dungeon. Not the level 80’s that seem to miss use it.

The people that ask for 80 only just want a quick, smooth run with experienced people. I don’t see why it’s unfair that they don’t want to run with sub 80s.

I agree that it’s a horrible path but I don’t think it’s supposed to be the ‘hardest kitten out there’.

Also I don’t really see the point of this post.

Start your own group saying anyone is welcome.

I bought the permanent pass and not having it available on any character makes it completely useless. You can not park a character in there because you get kicked out every time you log out and having it in the bank makes the point of having it in the first place completely moot. If it were infinitely redeemable we could just hold one on each character.

Only way this will work is if your position is measured by completion time. This will promote better play and better teamwork. And this will be kittened because of exploits that allow you to skip parts of dungeons.

No

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

If you want a zerker speed run, advertise it that way. I never join those groups.

How exactly is using portal to get your party past the boulders quickly and efficiently related to ‘zerker speed runs’?

robertul.3679:

I’ll just leave this here.

I bet you photoshopped that.

Young Somalia.1706:

Lupi doesnt require four people. I was comparing how long it takes to do all of the P1 events solo, versus the ONE event that can not be soloed.

I figured :p , your wording just made it sound like you went from tar straight to jotun.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Pistol unload? I don’t think I’ve seen that animation before. I’ll try looking. ty

It’s the same as Thief unload (P/P skill 3). Basically a lot of shots with both pistols very quickly.

Young Somalia.1706:

chrisgaj.7539:

thanks alot. thing is..they were at lupi when i went to the lfg so i got all excited saying yes in 5 mins this will be over..guess i was wrong.

Sort of unrelated, but sort of related:

When I do P1 to pug, I just solo up to Tar Elemental. It might take 15 minutes.

You know how long it takes me to fill the group and solo Jotun (and Jotun only takes a few minutes to run to and solo)? At least 40. Pugs are a kitten parody of themselves. I give them something so easy (help me kill Tar, since you NEED 4 people, only for this) and they still can’t do it in a timely manner.

Bah

So… you skip lupi?

Just run to a corner of the room, out of aggro of any of the wraiths and wait for the marks to down you. Then rally yourself with down skill 4, kill the wraiths and repeat. They will not use the mark on you again after you have downed.

cifer.2357:

Or use the Arah jumping puzzle to jump over that wall.

Korga is already activated so someone has already done that.

Break aggro so he resets to spawn point?
Try hitting him from melee?
Try hitting him from 1200 range and see if the projectile’s arc allows you to hit him.

Otherwise just skip him like someone in your party has already done.

Unless he didn’t actually leave the party, he was not the host.

Maladon.5760:

laharl.8435:

Only in pve things are easier because you know what you’re up against and you know exactly what skills a boss will use. So why not choose the optimal build for this setting?

I haven’t made a case for either type of build. I was just pointing out that it’s really disingenuous to claim an activity requires any measurable skill when you’re just speccing for max damage and blowing kitten up.

That only happens because we know what to do already. When everyone first started playing this game some bosses that are now considered the easiest ones were really hard (like Alpha in CoE). We know when to use reflects, when to use blinds, when to use blocks and that’s why it’s all so easy to do: because we know. So to say that you only spec for max damage and blow everything up is a bit of an understatement since there is much more going on beneath the surface.

Maladon.5760:

I didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s ego, I’m just reading the thread like everyone else. If there’s no consideration that needs to be taken defensively for pve then you simply can’t claim it takes very much skill to participate. This thread is actual proof of that concept.

There are different skill levels in every aspect of the game. You have the average pvt/knights team in PvE and the zerging masses in WvW. But you also have the full dps-specced soloers in PvE and the small roaming groups in WvW. I wasn’t going to defend PvE because tbh I don’t think there’s that much skill involved in any aspect of this game. But to say that all you do in PvE is roll zerk and roflstomp and that’s why there’s no skill involved in any of it is just wrong.

foofad.5162:

dutchiez.7502:

Maladon.5760:

dutchiez.7502:

Nick.6972:

PvE is easy, everything’s scripted, pressing dodge button is not hard.
Go to sPvP or WvW.

Thanks for this amazingly appropriate and on-topic response. This really adds to the discussion and I’m sure that if I ever come across you in any PvE encounter I will be amazed by your level of skill.

Based on the fact that you’re supposed to run around in full zerker gear dps’ing everything down as fast as possible I don’t see how anyone can claim there’s very much skill involved.

Based on the fact that in WvW you just run around in a giant zerg and spam 1 to win I don’t see how there’s any skill involved there either.

I don’t know, stacking on the commander seems to be really hard for some people.

Just like running zerker and using reflects/dodging is hard for others.

Maladon.5760:

dutchiez.7502:

Nick.6972:

PvE is easy, everything’s scripted, pressing dodge button is not hard.
Go to sPvP or WvW.

Thanks for this amazingly appropriate and on-topic response. This really adds to the discussion and I’m sure that if I ever come across you in any PvE encounter I will be amazed by your level of skill.

Based on the fact that you’re supposed to run around in full zerker gear dps’ing everything down as fast as possible I don’t see how anyone can claim there’s very much skill involved.

Based on the fact that in WvW you just run around in a giant zerg and spam 1 to win I don’t see how there’s any skill involved there either.

Nick.6972:

PvE is easy, everything’s scripted, pressing dodge button is not hard.
Go to sPvP or WvW.

Thanks for this amazingly appropriate and on-topic response. This really adds to the discussion and I’m sure that if I ever come across you in any PvE encounter I will be amazed by your level of skill.

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Nosoyelarty.7268:

Wall of reflection is weird against the pull if you are melee because you are constantly pushing her, if 1 person pass through the wall or w/e to attack and get pulled everyone will die. Feedback still reflects it.

Yep, wall has always been wonky on this attack.

But then we wouldn’t have to farm and farm and farm and farm and farm and farm and farm and farm! Think of the children!

TKiller.6829:

dutchiez.7502:

World bosses/WvW are the only means of acquiring dragonite

Also iirc guild challenges and Scarlet’s invasions.

But yeah much more limited compared to other two materials.

You’re right, although even here it seems there are fewer options to obtain dragonite. There are 4 guild challenges which reward dragonite, and 3 puzzles and 6 rushes for empyreal fragments.

Painbow.6059:

1 they are easy to get
2 there are many ways to get dragonite
3 you don’t “have” to you can just get higher agony infusion slots

1) Easy doesn’t mean fun. And even if they are easy, the amount of repitition of boring things you have to endure to get enough dragonite is very high.

2) Compared to the other ascended materials, no there are not. World bosses/WvW are the only means of acquiring dragonite, while empyreal fragments can be found in:

• Any chest in the open world, including jumping puzzle and mini-dungeon chests (see below)
• Guild missions
• Dungeon explorable paths (20 for first and second completion per day, then diminishing returns)
• Fractals of the Mists daily chest
• Volcanic Fractal – Magnificent Chest spawned by saving all the captives in the champion shaman fight (7-9)
• WvW

Bloodstone dust is found on every champion in the game.

3) No, we don’t “have” to get ascended equipment, just like we don’t “have” to play this game. But anything below optimal is subpar and all we want is more ways to acquire dragonite which we will enjoy doing instead of grinding the same boring thing over and over again.

Acolyte.6294:

The LFG tool is in beta everyone… What we need is a list of fixes that we as players would like to see.

Honestly at this point I don’t feel like there is any point to something like this.

There is one for each dungeon path AFAIK, I have the one from CoF p1 and AC p1.

Silberfisch.3046:

Anyway as long as he was offline or – while logging back on – still in Lion’s Arch, the instability would not trigger.

Wow… if that is true it pretty much negates any instability. For most it wouldn’t be worth it but for some of the harder ones it would be easier to 4-man it.

The tiers have been changed, they are now 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 and 41-50. So presumably, 50 gives the same daily reward as any 40.

Reward issues and pre-patch bugs aside, I personally don’t have a problem (except for minor annoyances) with any of the fractals but the Molten Duo fractal, which is just insane. Aside from random agony (by walking too close to the edge, apparently) and getting hit by circles while not actually being in them (I do not have this problem anywhere else in the game so I doubt it’s latency-related) some things just do not make sense. Sometimes I get random burning from seemingly nothing, I get hit by the Molten Berserker’s “Pound” attack from over 1500 range and once in a while the shockwaves are invisible. If you add the Champion Effigy randomly resetting while you are hitting him when he hasn’t moved an inch from his spawn point to this, you make for one buggy/unintuitive fractal.

Debbysaurus.4016:

dutchiez.7502:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Everyone is just going to have to get back to using gw2lfg. It’s safe from this kind of issue; plus, fewer numbers of people using Anet’s lfg is the only way to get Anet to act.

The only way to get Anet to act is to a) find an exploit which makes you a lot of money/gives you a big advantage over others or b) have the majority of the playerbase complain about it. Since neither of these is true for this case it will probably be a long time before this is fixed, if at all.

Only wayto get that to happen is if everyone merge bugs every party on lfg, force the people to complain about it….
Maybe then Anet will see the problem.

Yeah, should get a group of players to crash every group on the LFG.

Servers don’t matter, as long as you are in the same region (EU or NA) you are good to play together.

I’ll teach you duo arah if you can’t figure it out yourself. At least you already know CM p1.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Everyone is just going to have to get back to using gw2lfg. It’s safe from this kind of issue; plus, fewer numbers of people using Anet’s lfg is the only way to get Anet to act.

The only way to get Anet to act is to a) find an exploit which makes you a lot of money/gives you a big advantage over others or b) have the majority of the playerbase complain about it. Since neither of these is true for this case it will probably be a long time before this is fixed, if at all.

This has been happening for a while, since 2 patches ago IIRC. Nothing we can do. Not selling spots isn’t an option, just grid your teeth and accept the kick once in a while.

Asia Skyly.7198:

As they are right now leaderboards are mostly cheaters. Why even have them around.

What “cheaters”? As far as I know the leaderboards concern fractal level, if someone has a high fractal level they are a cheater? The only type of cheating I can think of is skipping certain (personal) levels and that’s not possible.

I think an option to remove 1 fractal (either regular or boss) from the rotation would be nice, but other than that I don’t see any way to “narrow down” the potential fractals without options for abuse.

SundayTrash.9562:

dungeon exploit at the end.

Finishing a dungeon is now an exploit.

Silver.3284:

I realise how can long it can take, but still. I am just amazed that there are people who will pay that amount instead of running the bloody thing. P2/P3 I understad – its for tokens, ppl may not like the dungeon and dont want to run it 25 times. P4 also fine, cause I know there are groups that fail in P4, so those may not have another option if the “need” dungeon master. But P1 ? goes off to continue rant offline

p1 is definitely one of the worst paths to pug. I know I have spent 30 minutes waiting for all party members to finally arrive at the tar elemental (not exaggerating).

Xarilith.1043:

I’ve actually been thinking about doing this (as my guild doesn’t really dungeon) but I’ve been put off by the thought of getting scammed. What’s to stop someone advertising a run, taking the gold and then just disappearing?

Also, I’ve not really spent any time in Arah, will I need to go and learn the end boss before joining one of these runs? (Not a problem, I’d just rather know the score before I go in!)

You should always check if the instance is completed up to the last boss of the path you are trying to buy, beyond that you have to trust the seller (tbh I’ve never heard of someone being scammed while buying a path). You do not need to know any of the last bosses, except p3 maybe which is a pain to do solo so the seller might ask help, but it’s a very straightforward fight.

Mastapiece.1745:

Yes i finally beat this lvl

7,5 hours? That’s rough.

Yes, it’s 20 baubles for everyone in the party.

Jordo.5913:

they could make an exception to ppl who have the infinite coin maybe?

it’s not that im trying to cheat the system by not using a continue coin….im trying to legit rejoin

And suffer through a 100 more threads whining about the Infinite Coin being P2W? No thanks.

I just completed World 1 Zone 3 Tribulation Mode for the second time and still don’t have the achievement. I have finished the other 2 zones, waited until the timer ran out and did the bonus area, still no achievement. My Thief is enjoying the two pistols though.

I’ve been stuck on 4/5 for about 6 invasions now. Really hope this will get fixed soon, I want to see what Scarlet’s Playhouse is about.