Guild Wars 2

Relisted my lfg 3 times because nobody was joining my arah p1/2.
On 4th relist, “Your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging”.

anet pls… ;_;

K. I’ll do 20k samples every day for a week or so. That should give me a good dataset to work with. If I’m getting 48.1% every time then something is definitely up.

I have 1,834 precision. Hero panel shows 47%. Crit Chance formula from wiki says it should be 47.7%. However, I just recorded 15k hits vs subject alpha and tallied up all crits and non-crits. The observed crit chance was 48.1%.

In order for 1,834 precision to be 48.1% crit, the formula has to be (precision – 824)/21 however the wiki says it should be (precision – 832)/21 instead, which doesn’t add up.

Something is not right here…

ChoChoBo.6503:

its safe to say, speed-runs have bred a toxic dungeon community in GW2 and I just don’t care for doing speed-runs anymore.

From my PoV it’s the casuals who are the toxic ones.

That being said, I do want repeatable and rewarding dungeon achievements. I don’t care much for AP and would rather have the reward in some other form. Everything else you suggested though, you have my support.

I would rate mes
- Damage: Terribad (mes only), Low (1Wa), Medium (1Du1Sw), High (1Du2Sw/3Sw, Reflects)
- Offensive support: Low (timewarp, vulnerability)
- Defensive support: Medium (stability, condi removal, interrupt), High (reflects)
- Utility: High (control, boonstrip, portal), Medium (stealth)

Im just trying to keep my hype in check. Too much expectation usually leads to harsh disappointments

Clickbait title. Nothing is confirmed yet.

So apparently “experienced only” means “experienced in this game” and not “experienced in this dungeon” according to my pug party…

Teach them not to join the toxic elitist lfgs and instead to make their own “everyone is welcome” parties.

Portal may be similar.
- lay portal entrance
- slot in blink over portal
- use blink
- slot portal back once blink is off cd
- lay portal exit

This way you can technically have 4 utility slots worth of skills within the 60 second timeframe before portal expires.

EDIT: That’s unless anet patched it. Last time I tried this was like 6 months ago.

Mes can sustain 12k dps (14s into the fight) or 11.8k dps (5s into the fight), under ideal conditions. Tar from Arah p1 is a good example. Unfortunately, those ideal conditions are rarely met otherwise.

I want an API for combat log…

Would a gif or motion png be ok? I’ll be willing to record a few key boss animations so people can know what to dodge.

Or would you prefer to complete mob images first and worry about animations later?

He even classified 6/6/0/0/2 and 2/6/0/6/0 as equal, “Good” builds. I get a sense that he doesn’t know kitten.

GiraffeRampage.6420:

if you join a zerker only group and youre a warrior in full exotic zerker gear and have an ascended gs, with ascended rings and amulet but a low AP score and get kicked because of it,

“If you join…” is the problem.

I have 480 AP. I create my own lfgs, usually along the lines of the elitist “exp zerks only”. Like that I pug Arah daily, both on NA and EU. I have never been kicked in past 2 months of pugventuring.

So it seems the solution is to make your own lfg. Quite easy, right?

Also, Mind Spike is currently doing 10% less dmg that the tooltip claims too. Seems ANet has a vendetta against dps mesmers…

I would advise against using any capitalized letters in URL’s. It’s more convenient to have all lower cased text in case someone posts in gw2 map/say/guild chat and you have to re-type the whole thing.

The only reason that might justify stacking against a wall in coe p1 and p3 (but never in p2), is that pugs never stack tight in the middle and always run around in circles around alpha, and end up eating / causing party to eat the overlapped teeth of mordremoth taking 2x the normal dmg. I believe this is the reason for that “wall is still better than middle” popular pug opinion that I always hear in my runs.

Basically, it’s just like lupi – standing close and still is the key.

I must be a masochist. My daily “tour” consists of pugging arah123 and coe123, often multiple times…

I used 2 mantras in the calcs to save a spot for healing signet and feedback, as well as 50% uptime on Wastrel’s Punishment. Doing calcs isn’t hard, just slow. It’s hosted on google docs and is so complex that after each change it takes a minute or two for all formulas to actually calculate.

Ryn.6459:

frifox, do you have the numbers for 2/4/0/5/3? I am aware of my phantasm will be the.main source of damage, but heck, I hate mantras.

2/4/0/5/3

• Average dps – 4,523 dps
• Time to 300k dmg – 69.5 sec

5/4/0/5/0 (updated, forgot to include WP in previous test)

• Average dps – 4,699 dps
• Time to 300k dmg – 67.0 sec

6/6/0/0/2

• Average dps – 5,149 dps
• Time to 300k dmg – 62.4 seconds

Also, why hate mantra? 3 insta cast AoE stability on 2 sec cd and 3 insta cast AoE condi cleanse on 1s cd? These two are MUCH more effective than blink or nullfield. If you dont need a 3rd utility, take the insta cast AoE daze mantra. Perfect for interrupt, which imo is one of mesmers strong points.

I used to hate mantra as well because I loved Blink and Feedback but, after forcing myself to play with concentration/resolve mantras instead I can to realize just how much more effective and useful these two than all other utilities. Try getting out of your comfort zone and soon you’ll realize just how much better a mesmer you’ll become once you master mantras.

Dack Saris.2418:

Frifox : you have forgot the “with phantasm” in your quote.

Correct, 6/6/0/0/2 has less phantasm dps than 5/6/0/5/0, however… 6/4/0/0/4:

6/6/0/0/2

• Mesmer DPS – 2,399
• Phantasm DPS – 2,750
• Combined DPS – 5,149

5/6/0/5/0

• Mesmer DPS – 1,875
• Phantasm DPS – 2,824
• Combined DPS – 4,699

6/4/0/0/4

• Mesmer DPS – 2,267
• Phantasm DPS – 3,041
• Combined DPS – 5,308

Arah p2, EU, “experienced only”, waiting for pugs to make the trash run…
- http://i.imgur.com/HZCLMsd.jpg

I guess my memory failed me. Fury applied to phantasms does affect their crit chance.

I’ll compare your build to the meta mantra one, both using 1x duelist + 2x swordsmans for max dmg.

5/4/0/5/0

• Average dps – 4,653 dps
• Time to 300k dmg – 68.0 sec

6/6/0/0/2

• Average dps – 5,149 dps
• Time to 300k dmg – 62.4 seconds

Basically your “build to do a maximum damage” is about 10% weaker than the meta build with only 2 charged mantras. Further, if I use the runes you suggested the number will shoot up to right around 14%. Spending whole 5 points into Illusions to get that extra 15% dmg for phantasms is not worth it, unless you absolutely need traited focus and even then might as well go with 6/4/0/4/0 instead.

ANet changed max camera angle again. Now you have to be closer to the wall to land fb on top of lupi, like it used to be few months ago.

The might behavior is correct as you say but Fury affecting illusions is new to me. Afaik when I tried a year ago or so it didn’t. Of course I may have simply remembered my tests incorrectly, it really has been quite a while, but I’ll double check it tonight to be sure.

Applies:

• Power
• Precision
• Ferocity
• Condition Damage
• Condition Duration
• Boon Duration
• Toughness
• Healing Power

Doesn’t apply:

• Accuracy
• Critical Damage
• Vitality

I have also noticed while playing with torch that Mage confusion duration isn’t as long as I was expecting it so there may be a bug where Confusion Duration or even some Condition Duration from some sources doesn’t get applied to phantasms. Will need to spend some time tracking that down.

Btw, at the end of the page source there is a snippet for google analytics:

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For analytics to work the UA actually has to be a valid ID, not UA-XXXXX-X….

Skeener.2506:

And they also do not work for Minis

Did you test it? If so, when and how? If not, who is your source? The implication of that allegation is pretty big…

Can we keep all the technical support questions off this thread? As an alternative I propose to centralize all support to the github section here:

• https://github.com/frifox/gw2dps/issues

Opinions?

Iris Ng.9845:

My asura engi may have enjoyed herself a bit too much today…

kawaii overload !!

Mightybird.6034:

PvE dungeons

In dungeons you should never range. If for any reason you do, use gs because at that point dps will be the least of your worries.

Yeah, I messed around with it and removed as it made gw2 uglier. SweetFX uses SMAA as oposed to FMAA like gemfx and gw2 which makes the game smooth and beautiful. Unfortunately it does cause gw2dps to crash the game on load. Probably a conflict in how it hooks in.

Installed gemfx and then loaded gw2dps as usual, running windows 8.1. No problems at all. The screenshot function captures the gemfx AND gw2dps overlays. Something must be wrong on your end if you’re having problems…

edit: what miku said… lol

If you have phantasms out, shatter only at the end. If you have clones out, shatter when you can. There really isn’t a set answer because there are always exceptions and niche tactics but the above is a good starting point.

Compounding Power modifier is calculated for every shattered illusion individually. First of 3 shattered will still have the CP multiplier off the other 2 that are still alive. However, that’s not the only purpose for using that trait. You use GS3 and MoP before/during shattering, so those burst skills still make use of the extra dmg modifier since your illusions are technically still alive.

I propose a different approach to open world builds. The phantasm builds above excel in prolonged encounters and fights where you need extended reflects. I have found that all of that is unnecessary if you have enough ranged and melee burst as well as AoE dmg. This is the reasoning behind my current open world pve build that I use:

6/6/0/0/2 – III/X/XI – II/IV/XI – III
Greatsword + Sword/Focus
Berserker gear, Ranger runes, Force/Accuracy sigils.
All mantras – Recovery, Concentration, Resolve, and Pain.

The GS23 + F1 shatter combo will pretty much insta kill 99% of the mobs in. For veterans you might have to swap to sword and finish it off with another shatter and Blurred Frenzy combo but rarely does the fight lasts long enough for phantasms to hit more than few times which is why I opted out for buffing burst skills such as GS2/3, Mantra of Pain, and Mind Wrack with the mantra dmg modifiers and the extra offensive stats through going full 6 pts into Domination/Dueling. Once again, it seems that top dmg/burst > utility/sustain in pve.

How bored does one have to be to kill subject alpha using only confusion…

link

dll is ejected once the mail thread is done executing. While (GetAsyncKeyState()) was keeping it from closing by waiting for a certain key to be pressed. If you close the main thread without closing the child threads it would crash. I updated my repo with the code that would close main and sub threads when you hit F12. However, it still doesnt unhook the hotkeys so if you try hitting Alt+Whatever hotkey after closing (or re-launching) gw2dps it’ll throw an exception because the original call tied to the hotkey won’t be there anymore. I’ll look into that sometime later, too lazy atm…

Also, added the gw2offset which is the bruteforce thingy I mentioned earlier XD

There is a function in the lib that terminates the esp. I think i ended up mapping it to F12 or something. I’ll mess around with it tomorrow to see if I figure out the crashing.

There is but the way I coded my thing causes client to crash when you unhook the dll. Was too lazy to code a proper unhook because, well, I didn’t really need to.

Surprise. They actually got it right this time. The attack rate is faster both with and without Phantasmal Haste.

Attack Frequency
- 6.781 sec base
- 5.770 sec with phantasmal haste

Or a combination of wvw mastery and agony resist. Playing in the jungle earns you points that you can then put into your mastery of choice. Without certain amount of points into “Mordremoth Resist” mastery you will not be able to complete the content. That’s what it’s looking to become to me…

Today, deadeyes became my best friends:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQ-4_vO1Tw

A warhorn that summons an army of butterflies that rain hell upon your enemies. Why not?

1. d/f ele
2. engi

In that order.

Ryn.6459:

Just to be sure. Is it possible to email items from a EU account to a NA one?

Yes.

Can someone explain or share a video of what chronomancer is?

So I got my necro to 80 today, zerked up, and went arah. After few runs I’m actually starting to feel that my necro does more dps than my mes….

;_;

Some classes have extreme advantage over others in certain situations forcing those who want that record spot to run that said class and nothing else. Not fun.

Take off all your speedbuffs, maybe even try the other side of the gate. It’s tight but it does pop up if you aim your jump properly.