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General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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Oh, and btw… I posted something in the dt’s theorycrafting subforum. HF!

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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I like hearing about new games, sell me some kitten boys.

this and this

Game looks amazing but I heard it’s a massive grindfest

The sorcerer playstyle intrigues me. Sort of a marriage of melee Mesmer and Elementalist. Love it! Can’t wait for the NA release, which is sometime 2015.

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General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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I like hearing about new games, sell me some kitten boys.

this and this

Will DPS meters get me banned?

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So basically the tool just reads the mob health from the system memory and takes the delta health of them. Eg. at second 0 it had 1m hp and second 1 it had 950k so your party dps would be 50k for that second.

Correct. Specifics can be found here, and here (starting line 1050)

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Will DPS meters get me banned?

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Is it worth though? You get to see a number and that’s it. You can’t compare it with other people because rarely anyone uses a DPS meter.

It doesn’t show personal but rather party-wide dps.

Meta party – 45k – 100k dps
Decent party – 35k – 45k dps
Decent pug – 25k – 30k dps
PHIW pugs – 10k – 20k dps

In fact, I may argue, party-wide dps is much more important than your personal dps. The goal for the a dungeon run is to get maximum party dps after all, not just min/max your own output.

Why we can`t use DPS meter?

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I will never roll 100% zerker, thats boring and dull. And those that are doing that ARE the bad players. Period.

Yet those “bad” players somehow solo dungeons, fractals, and various bosses in that same zerk gear. Your statement that those who roll 100% zerk are bad is wrong. In fact usually it’s the exact opposite. Period.

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Why we can`t use DPS meter?

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I’ve lost count of how many times I post a “zerks only” lfg (I enjoy playing with people who share the same mindset, don’t blame me) yet get people who join me to be completely opposite. When asked, they either claim they’re “zerks” or even go as far as linking zerk gear yet wearing something completely different. This is why I use a dps meter. It helps me keep the inconsiderate liars out of my parties.

If you could invent a new [F5] Shatter...

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I want more control and trickery. Hit F5 to grant your enemy a wet noodle. He cannot drop the bundle for 5 seconds.

Will DPS meters get me banned?

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Hey frifox! Speaking of addons, has Arenanet said anything or taken any action when you use your dps addon that you posted several months ago on reddit? I assumed that the addon that is posted in the screenshot was yours.

Nope, not my app in OP and nope, zero acknowledgement from ANet. It’s understandable though, it’s a gray area and they rather pretend it doesn’t exist than do anything about it. Still using it daily for the good of the mankind.

Will DPS meters get me banned?

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Doesn’t this also display HP #s above stealthed enemies heads? Getting caught using it in pvp would probably be a bad thing.

If it does this, then it is definitely bannable in PvP or anywhere.

I highly doubt it shows you data or location of stealthed enemies.

This "Meta" has to end

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Goes into the same issue, you can’t fix players.

You can’t fix players but players can fix themselves. Kick them enough times and they might actually considering that…

Simple question: No more dungeons coming?

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Nothing is off the table.

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True. It’s also easy because 1 player can manage 25 stacks of might, maintain 25 stacks of bleed, can keep up protection and regen (or readily get it from allies).

I’ll bite. Please elaborate on how to accomplish the above.
Thanks!

mesmer and retiliation on illusion

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No

[Request] Help with generalist gear choices

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No, reflects are not the reason for assassins being meta. With full offensive buffs, direct damage with Assassins gear is better than Berserker by around 1% with reflects being around 4% better. With no buffs, direct damage with Berserker gear is around 2% better than Assassins, at a cost of pretty weak reflects.

Most “meta” parties max out the buffs which makes assassin gear an obvious superior choice. Sick reflect dmg is a nice bonus.

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Condi isn’t viable at all in pve instances.

Condi has too high a ramp up time for how short bosses last.

You just blew it. Condi builds CAN be very much viable in pve instances.

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Just carry around a zerk set of gear to ping and wear what you want, I do.

That’s not going to fly, especially when I can tell what you’re wearing without even asking.

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While true, a single player cannot put out the damage required to kill a boss before you run out of dodges (aside from thieves). Thus, building more defensively becomes optimal because those stats matter.

If you can’t survive in zerk you switch to a condi build (Rabid gear). The goal is still pure dps but through a different approach. Either way, 90% of bosses are perfectly solo-able in zerk gear. If you can’t then it’s a simple matter of “learn to play”.

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Ok, sorry path 3. I only found one mesmer soloing path 3 and I don’t really get what he was doing – he switched to the human heal skill which doesn’t seem to have that much advantage, that was all. No idea what build he was running. So – maybe mesmers can do it as well with or without clerics

A mesmer can solo it naked, without any healing skills.

Goodnight sweet prince

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Thank you!

Goodnight sweet prince

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Let’s state it again then. You stopped caring about us long ago and you don’t even have the balls to come and tell us you’re not giving a duck anymore. Come here directly and tell us to go screw ourselves.

Not going to happen. No sane company would openly diss their customers.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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I had 100 reasons to play gw2. With this forum restructuring I’m down to only 2.

My PUG story...

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It looks to me as though the only people complaining about the removal of instance ownership are path sellers and people who are disrespectful to other group members.

You just stepped on a landmine.

Dungeon Inquiry

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Dungeons don’t make ANet money, no point in asking.

Runes for shared heavy armor

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Ranger runes. 2nd only to Scholars and don’t have to watch your health all the time.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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gw2dps updated

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Focus tactics

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First you need to clear you mind. Then envision yourself pulling the mob to the wall. Then, as the mobs…. hold on a sec, how the heck did you manage to get haste with focus??

Solo Nokk (SE P1)

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#mesploits ftw

Dire gear? Check.
Only 1 trait? Check.
Mesploits? Definitely.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 2

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So it seems in eu high AP is valued more than your gear, build, proper utilities, and being generally nice.

Downscaling of signets, banners and might

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Signet and Banners are not affected by the attribute cap.

1-shotting Lupi...

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purple miku, just for you:

1-shotting Lupi...

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So, an exploit to grief other exploiters?

1-shotting Lupi...

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Just curious, why would you assume that Lupi has extremely high power such as 10k as opposed to normal power levels and simply extremely high damage coefficients?

Mostly logic and common sense, with some math.

Knowing the dmg formula, reflect formula, my own stats, and Lupi’s armor, and then recording how hard frenzied blast hit about 50 times from my reflects, the only unknown variables left in the final formula were lupi’s power, frenzied blast coefficient, and his weapon strength. Then, knowing that majority of our weapon coefficients are round (ie 0.600 / 1.925 / 2.000 / 0.550 / 0.125 / 3.000 / etc) and are usually less than 3.000 I assumed frenzied blast coefficient must follow similar pattern. Then, seeing as pretty much all lupi’s attacks hit extremely hard and knowing how anet loves to copy-paste skills throughout the game it made sense to assume that lupi’s skill coefficients are low like every other coefficient and it’s the power that is inflated. After plugging in various coefficients I came across a combo that was awfully convenient – 1.850 for skill coefficient, 10,000 for power, and 1,000 for weapon strength (equal to most ascended weapons).

Having such round numbers made my math very easy in the long run. Of course, you can assume anything you want as long as the assumed multipliers actually fit the equation.

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1-shotting Lupi...

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If you assume lupi has 10k power then his skill coefficients are actually quite similar to our weapon skills. The main reason for reflects being so out of hand is because they scale off source power value and not mine. Make reflects scale with my power and they will be brought back to acceptable levels, even if you still would have uncapped reflect count and attempt bombing lupi.

1-shotting Lupi...

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Would be nice if the wall behind lupi becomes untargetable by ground target abilities

1. Look on the ground
2. Use Feedback
3. …
4. Profit

I guess but that means feedback is on ground not on top of the wall? If you can place feedback on top of the wall then when he is in the wall make him reset to middle so no more wall pushing.

I meant that you can land a feedback on top of the wall, not on the ground, without anything targeted, even if you’re almost next to the wall. Just like landing a dragons tooth or comet on fire fields under you.

1-shotting Lupi...

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Would be nice if the wall behind lupi becomes untargetable by ground target abilities

1. Look on the ground
2. Use Feedback
3. …
4. Profit

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 1

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Any c++ gurus on here? gw2lib src was released, which is what gw2dps is based on. Want to get gw2dps back working but can’t seem to get the gw2lib to compile. I’m quite a casual when it comes to cpp…

1-shotting Lupi...

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I am unaware of any other classes that can prevent the 1-shot.

cough hylek poison cough

1-shotting Lupi...

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I do it. Why? Because it’s fun. Also, I love exploiting.

Condition Damage in PvE Overview

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The proposed solutions are mostly targeted toward solo playstyle. To address condi builds in a group:

REMOVE THE CAP for instanced content (dungeons) .

Open world can have condis cap to 25 stacks due to the amount of people doing open world content and server load however dungeons, incidentally the place where “dps” and PvE “meta” are the most obvious and important, will be much less harsh on the servers because I do believe that the amount of people who run dungeons is tiny fraction compared to the players in the open world.

Phalanx vs. Ele

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I play an illusive profession where evading and blocking is actually a massive dps burst. Life is good here too.

Phalanx vs. Ele

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Would 430k HP sponge be a good enough sample to compare 1 ps war & 2 staff ele vs 1 dps war & 1 staff ele & 1 sc/x ele? Basically, a vacuum test.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 1

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So there is this CoE recipe, Alpha Conduit, that sells for about 1.8g on tp. Nothing spectacular. Today, some idiot posted 250 buy orders of 5.5g each. So, me and a guildie, each:

Poor guy took down all his buy orders 2 minutes after we dumped our tokens. Have no idea what he was smoking when he placed those orders but I liked it <3

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General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 1

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It’s ok, that thread has 400 comments and 250 votes. I actually made a comment with math in there and now I can’t find it because thread is too kitten big… Anyways, you did you job, the gw2 reddit community is now informed whether they like it or not. Guess you can call that a success. XD

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Tips for Portal?

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The portal length is just slightly under the width of the map with it at max size, zoomed in.

Opposite. The radius is slightly larger than the width but is slightly less that the corner points.

Mesmer Bugs: 33+ [Updated October 22nd]

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Each swing connects 2 times. 4 swings x 2 each is 8 total. Do BF and check your combat log. You should see “you hit xxx for xxx with BF” 8 times in a row.

General Dungeon Discussion Thread - Part 1

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Death by: Lupi

Subject Alpha-- just funny

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Kill this. With Fire. Please…

[PvE] Help me improve my mesmer build

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You can run anything you want for open world PvE and still “win”. For dungeons we have a stickied post where you can find the most current builds:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-How-To-Mesmer-in-Dungeons/first

Also, same info can be found here, which I make sure is up to date too:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_S/S_/F_/P

As far as a suggested build for open world PvE, go with 6/6/0/0/2 with Sw/Sw or Sw/F with Gs.

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Listening ->reactions->solution!

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I’m sure they’re actively planning on thinking about possibly reading those suggestions in the not too distant future.