Guild Wars 2

I think the spin attack (ring of warding) has 2 components and you can only reflect/absorb one of them. Despite that, you can still reflect or negate some portion of the damage.

Winds.3087:

Pardon me, but are you playing norn female? Because after extensive tests it seems that those are his priority top, if he don’t find one, he stalks human females, then thieves, then ellies.
(no thieves were hurt during tests)

I hope he likes male thieves.

Wethospu.6437:

Did you just list all my virtues?

Only facetanking.

thefantasticg.3984:

No. I have yet to run it, and I am only going to run it once for my Dungeon Master title. It ain’t worth it for me because I don’t like spending more than 1 hour in any particular dungeon path.

One hour.

If I were you, I’d look for people good at jumping puzzles.

zerotwo.4731:

Umm, what? At higher levels it requires your brain to complete them. Not sure where your going with your response. Those that fail fall out of coordination or need to watch a few more videos to get the tactics down. Lets be honest, a good player re skills depending on the fractal they get. At higher levels it is very rare not to see another player reset skills. That is a good indication the run will be successful.

Higher levels require only a bit more brain than lower ones. I’ll admit though, I’m not used to run with pugs but in 5 runs this is what I noticed:

This is only the things I recall at the moment. Overall problem is that people watch on youtube how teams with optimal composition are able to facetank more freely than other team compositions allow them to and they try to copy it with miserable effect because they don’t pay attention to details, like cc’s, proper rotations, etc. It leads to completely brainless gameplay where they don’t think how else you could do it in case of failure or vastly different team composition.

morganabanana.3517:

At least explain your criticism. My point is I don’t see any benefit to making personal level account wide in the way the OP dictated. If you were to come up with a better reason it should be account wide I would consider it.

Convenience.

morganabanana.3517:

I don’t see why this is an issue. You can play whatever character you want in fractals at whatever level. The only thing you are hurting yourself on by not having a high personal level is the amount of fractal relics you get and your chance at rings and weapon skins.

Most people who run fractals enough to even care about having multiple characters with access to the high level daily chest is already up to their ears in extra tokens and rings. Even if you aren’t all you have to do is swap to your character that has the high reward level at jade maw fractal and you only missed out on a small handful of fractal relics.

My necro is fractal lvl 3 and I felt like running it in the 48 I played the other day. So I played necro all through the 48 and switched at maw to my guardian which is personal level 49 to get the chance at the weapon. I had fun and this worked within the current system.

I want the fractal weapons to remain prestigious so I can feel good about using them. They are about the only hard to get weapon skins in the game and I think that adds something to them. I have put in a lot of work toward getting those skins and I don’t want that to be trivialized.

Posts like this make me wonder how did humanity get out of the caves. I mean, it was warm and fuzzy there.

zerotwo.4731:

Pugging at 48 is easier then pugging at low levels. I have yet to fail at a 48 run.

It’s not about completing but about using a brain.

I thought it would be the 2nd one.

Zenith.7301:

Funny, I think people become more competent the higher the fractal levels. I’d much rather do a fractal 48 daily than a lv1-20. People just cause me physical pain with simple mechanics like getting a boss under the oil.

Recently I tried, keyword tried, to pug 48s. People are as brainless as those at lvl 20.

Zenith.7301:

No warriors!

Condi necro?

You’d have to ask leman.

spoj.9672:

Please record it next time you do it. I would love to see how you do it.

Me too but our team disbanded.

Zenith.7301:

I want to see lightning hammer eles and rangers and thieves meleeing these. See how simple it is without guardians when you don’t have the buffer of armor and hp to tank hits that take over half your health.

That’s what we do! 2 warriors/necro/2 eles.

Bumping cause this lad speaks truth and only truth.

Zenith.7301:

I was missing those empty responses.

First time I used them.

spoj.9672:

Dont see why it should be though. Pretty sure it works on the colossus in the jade fractal and they reflect projectiles.

It works if you are a masochist.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Especially when it happens on a TV show like CSI. It’s annoying in-game too, though.

Also, shoutout to all of my artwork that’s been plagiarized.

My apologize.

Wesnoth.1705:

GEARCHECK!
Well, zerkers are better than mf users anyways, at least some contribution to party

They just have to use this simple food.

If no one melees him, he always do arrow→arrow→aoe→arrow→arrow→aoe etc. After 2nd arrow be prepare for aoe. This video shows it in practice.

LordByron.8369:

no wait >.> quick immunity stuff was mostly patched afaik.
I also used to Blurred franzy and stuff but doesn t work no more since months.

And btw is way easier to just not being hit ._. unless the boss start his stupid focus that means you are dead because RNG decided so.

Blurred frenzy grants evade since 25th June. I’ve seen warriors kiting him for 2 minutes without getting downed on lvl 79.

LordByron.8369:

in volcanic fractal if an Arrow hits you you are dead anyway :| i don t think burning is an issue.

Also you are supposed to evade them 100% at higher levels expecially with the future particle effect review.

You can survive arrow at 79 with quick immunity skill and condition removal. Maybe with enough AR once anet releases additional ascended gear, it won’t be even needed. My comedy act is still possible.

You can try 30/25/0/0/15 as well if you know you have other warrior with empower allies. The difference between them is miniscule in optimal situation which doesn’t happen with pugs anyway.

“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves."

LordByron.8369:

The only i saw was condition cleanser…and for that is possibly the best.
Unfortunately dungeon don t need that :| except cliffside and aetherblade retreat.

Add to that volcanic fractal if someone gets hit with an arrow, runs near you while screaming “IT BURNS!!”.

Zenith.7301:

As does playing berserker by reducing the time window for things going wrong.

Yet nobody complains about somebody running berserker vs. running rampager’s.

Practical and reward-efficient is fun for many people.

dukevonart.2691:

Sorry to rain on your parade perhaps, but Elemental Surge doesn’t quite work how you describe. The particular condition that Elemental Surge causes is actually set when you use the ability, so if you are in fire attunement when you finish casting Arcane Power it will cause burning whenever you use the Arcane Power charges, no matter what attunement you are in when you use them. The same applies to the other conditions that Elemental Surge applies as well as the conditions from Glyph of Elemental Power.

You jumped too fast, arcane power takes your current attunement into consideration, unlike glyph.

Guardians make things easy, frankly too easy. If you care about efficiency/work done ratio it’s the best class. Eles require a bit more input to be even partially effective as guardians.

Dub.1273:

I did, it’s beatiful.
But for such a cute artwork the red circles should be pink.

Most credits go to Brazil, I just updated it.

Dempsey.8760:

The implication is that you can SEE the red circles while you are behind him and I’m glad that he finally realized it. Either way I too am glad that he can finally melee such a simple boss.
Do moss man then I think I’d be impressed.

Check my piece of art at the very least.

Zenith.7301:

They make it a lot less painful.

They make most content faceroll.

Player Character.9467:

Equipping celestial for crit dmg is like equipping runes of rage for crit dmg.

That’s what I said but you still can get 70% from berseker’s gear, just ascended. 62% is from exotic trinkets.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

I’m glad you can melee him now.

It’s more like this

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Base 50% + 62% from gear + 30% from traits + 10% from consumable + 15% from banner + 12% from orbs + 10% from Axe Mastery = 189%. I just rounded up to 200% because like I said, rough estimates..

You can get 70% from gear (ascended) and a bit more with celestial but no one equips celestial armour/weapons.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Now I can teach pugs how to melee him!

I tried.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I’m sure most groups will just drop the idea after they give him 25 frenzy stacks

Stunning him removes frenzy stacks. There’s always a hope.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I hope they all go to CoE, crash the lodestone prices

Yep, arah has only pitiful piles.

Nikaido.3457:

This thread is going to generate a ton of fun. Or maybe not, because the interested party might prefer silence after this being posted + DnT’s 80 group melee.

If by interested party you mean me I don’t know why I should prefer silence. I melee him on 79 without guardians and mesmers trivalizing whole fight to dodging occasional red circles.

Saying that fight is annoying doesn’t mean you don’t do that. For instance, archdiviner in phase 2 is annoying to melee but I don’t range him.

Bring popcorn if you must, I just don’t know why would you.

LordByron.8369:

it doesn t hit 360° it has target and its a melee range possibly messed UP to 1200 range.

Should be fixed….not justyfied :|
With little lag is just IMPOSSIBLE to evade.
Expecially if somehow servers are involved.

Either the game uses US servers (thus is harder for EU players) or it works in istances hosted by players then you are in the hands of the host.

It just need to be fixed.

I think we have different definition of word impossible.

You can get 147% with few builds.

Base critical damage bonus is 150%. He’s talking about 150% that displays in your character screen and 50% because formula is (crit_dmg+0,5), hence 200%.

lordhelmos.7623:

Encounters don’t have phases, bosses don’t change tactics mid-fight, bosses also don’t punish players for standing there and dropping an obscene amount of damage on them.

Some bosses have phases like archdiviner or imbued shaman, but the former is cheesed by almost every team.

Current bosses that are considered “hard” like TA FF and lupicus are just bypassed by bringing enough firepower to kill them before the party has to really deal with the mechanics they have.

There is not much a boss can throw at you in 20 seconds.

TA FF last boss is hard since when? And how many teams can actually kill lupi in ~20s? Not to mention the preparations. Lupi might be hard for an average pug but the hardest bosses are in high level fractals.

Konrad.9587:

Yes, people are sheep. It took only a few posts disapproving AH builds and judging by this thread alone, the community considers them now to be more trash than MF builds.

I’ve been bashing AH builds since November.

There is very simple formula for checking which sigil is better. If the below is true, you should invest in precision:
power > 2100/(crit_dmg+0,5) + precision – 822

Just remember to add 420 for fury, 315 for heightened focus (or right-hand strength) and that above 2922 precision you don’t gain anything at all.

Ozzo.7425:

Well obviously the point is to have high levelled reward too, and the only reward difference that matters between doing level 48 and level 2 is the tier of daily chest you get after maw

But you got to high level so why can’t you get a proper reward? Would you be okay if you had to swap your characters to the one that did story mode so you can get full amount of tokens?

Ozzo.7425:

Is it really matters, the progression of your alt? You only do fractals once a day anyway…whats the point of having many high-levelled toons?

What’s the point of having one high-levelled toon? What’s the point of swapping before maw? Why do you have to get lvl 1 chest after 3 first bosses? I have 2 chars way above lvl 48 and I still want to have it account bound.

Player Character.9467:

Guys just drop the damage mods, they apply identically in both cases so they cancel in comparison… Only apply damage mods to comparisons where you actually change the mods.

haviz.1340:

Not that it matters here.

Dub.1273:

<.< Thats how noobs do it.
Theres also a chance of getting no grub if dodging in the moment it would spawn with stability.

Or being in downed state.

Dub.1273:

Oddly using a full PVT set with 0/0/30/30/10 comes close to 1/5 of my dps with berserker equipment and 10/25/0/25/10. And cleric doesn’t even have power as mainstat if i’m not mistaken.

I compared berserker gear with 10/30/0/30/0 and cleric’s gear with 0/0/30/30/10. Fury makes the damage multiplier go from 2.8→2.9. No other boons were considered.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

And the formula is…

Power x (1+crit chance x crit damage) x base damage modifier

crit chance is expressed as a decimal, so 92% crit chance = .92
Crit damage expressed as a decimal for 115% crit damage = 1.15
base damage modifier is a decimal, so 38% base damage modifiers = 1.38

It’s actually crit_dmg + 0.5.This formula comes from this:
Pwr * (1 – crit_chance) + Pwr * crit_chance * (crit_dmg + 1.5)

Additionaly, if you count only scholar runes bonus, berseker’s power, stick and move and attack of opportunity, damage modifer is equal to 1.433245. Not that it matters here.

Dub.1273:

And for ele’s using 0/20/25/25/0? Or 25/20/0/25/0, i don’t know which one really is highest damage. First one has 10% more damage multipficators but lacks 200 power.

With both banners, empower allies and 25 stacks might.

Let’s not derail the thread.