Both or your sigils share cooldowns, you might want to change it. You might also want to swap arcane mastery for renewing stamina or vital striking for either aquamancer’s alacrity or stop drop and roll (if enemy team composition has plenty of burning) if you have issues with surviving.
They don’t bounce, game engine simply doesn’t draw them when there is more players. He doesn’t fill room as well, they don’t land at the same time, in fact there is a pattern there.
If I had to guess something based on my knowledge and intuition the answers would be:
1) Not much. Knights is specifically chosen as the next best thing after bers for damage while the survivability from toughness is a must. All stats are chosen based on the need for extra healing power and the crit dmg % . You can definitely find the proper answer to this in the first pages.
Knight’s is hardly best after zerker. It’s probably near soldier’s level depending on your critical damage value.
kitten you Dub, I wanted to do this before you but I lack money (I borrow them to Kyzen lol) to level up via crafting.
Food nerf changed almost nothing, most of the time you won’t proc it more frequent than 1 time per second on a single target. Actually, soloing lupi is even easier than few months ago.
I wouldn’t call Rampager pathetic on damage – you have as much pure damage as a knight, plus full condition damage. You end up with 19K bleeds on top of raw damage.
Short Answer: No, nobody outside of COF farming will avoid thieves or rangers. Nobody.
Noobs have a huge misconception of rangers simply because all they do is dungeons. Rangers and thieves are the two dominant classes in both pvp and WvW.
Do you even understand why those classes are better in pvp and zvz?
The sword main hand makes it very obvious, but for the more classic but bad dps greatsword wielding baddy there are a lot of magic find trolls who have the same set of armor in zerk and MF in their inv, and I’d really want a gear+build checker anyway to get the job done before we even enter the instance. It would be much faster to set up a decent group.
I get what he is saying, but that really has to do with one skill, FGJ, and not about the damage coefficients and attack rate of the skills. That one utility skill gets better and better the more warriors you add until you get to 3. Going from 3 warriors to 4 will not increase the team DPS by as much as going from 2 to 3 did. Basically, there are diminishing returns for stacking warriors, it just so happens to be later for warriors than other professions.
The way I would look akitten …
DR kicks in for warriors at 4, Guardians at 3, mesmers at 3, Engies at 2, Thief 3, Necro 2, Ranger 2, Ele 2
I think it has more to do with the fact that warrior is really straightforward proffesion focused on dealing damage than one skill. Warriors don’t have much utility in their weapon skills and utility slots like most other proffesion (or people just don’t use those utilities because they’re too situational or plainly bad).
:D is there footage of elementalists beating lupicus? I wanna see!!!
I’ve done it in about 15 minutes but only got screenshot from february (don’t worry, it’s legit, at that time you couldn’t even be invited by anyone or invite anyone if you started dungeon solo).
Guy called Pepsi did same feat two weeks ago in about 17 minutes.
And lastly, here’s a clip from Smooth Marc.
Differences in times are results of more or less aggresive approaches.
No, it is a pug issue. Ive never worried about having too many mesmers in a guild group.
I think Dub meant to say that you can stack warriors (let’s say up to 4) but same thing doesn’t apply to any other proffesion. Hence, it is balancing issue.
a thief can solo towers in wvw….
a thief can solo giganticus lupicus…
Never seen an elementalist do that but that doesn’t mean they are any less viable. I can solo three big veteran karkas easy (takes some time) But I prefer using S/D against karkas because the ranged gives me more mobility without having to lose out on doing damage. I can switch between mid-range to close-range while D/D is almost completely stuck in melee range. Which isn’t bad since you get to give the wariors and thieves and guardians that fight with you healing and boons. (or other D/D eles for that matter).
Thief is a highly specialized class while the elementalist is more good all-round.
It’s not the issue of being able to solo lupi because it’s been done by at least (confirmed) 3 elementalists but that thief can solo him just by using autoattack and infiltrator’s strike. No other skill is required beside self-heal.
Karka projectiles can be simply strafe’d if you are at about 600 range or interrupted.
Let me rephrase it. Do you think that veteran risen giant represents a valid sample of average mob and uses typical tools that players have to counter in so-called high end pve?
Easier to find and get to solo, but any of those would work, too. Main point was to go do it rather than sitting on the forums yapping about what ifs. Do it, fraps it, show the world.
Just go kill a Veteran Risen Giant in Cursed Shore. It takes me much longer for any of my other 80s (all 8 classes, so I’ve tried everyone) as it does for my warrior, though admittedly I don’t have optimal skill rotations down on many of them.
Why veteran mob in open world when people moan about balance in dungeons? Why not elite risen elementalist or hunter? Maybe lupi?
I haven’t used anything similar to Strife’s Guardian build in awhile, because after a few months of playing Guardian I simply didn’t need a build like that anymore. My Guardian’s DPS is quite high, so if you feel that yours is low, there are clearly things you could do to increase it.
Good to know people are moving from anchoring to dealing damage!
I’m aware there is a solo mission to unlock. None of that changes my expectations: that it’ll have kittenty rewards and be less productive than other farmable dungeon runs. I know aggregating as much gold as possible isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but since I’m on the legendary chase it’s my current preoccupation. Stopping and smelling the roses is important, but after you’ve smelled them for 30 minutes there’s not much reason for me to sit there and keep sniffing.
I’ll also add more just to make you look like a fool.
Here’s an Ele fighting a fairly well known skilled mesmer (which is considered to be the most broken class for 1v1’s) named Osicat. Ele staff is tremendously helpful in zerg fights and apart from group encounters you will encounter small scale fights like this. Here’s how well a D/D ele can stand up to one of the hardest professions to beat in a 1 on 1 ingame:
You won’t fight many skillful mesmers in WvW anyway, so most won’t even be as hard as that, let alone other professions being less of an issue in most cases.
So would you stop complaining? I hate having to think that just because you’re bad at playing Ele that new players get turned off from the profession.
I showed that awesome collection of duels to a friend and he started laughing at 0:14 mark. Bare in mind that first duel starts at 0:07-0:08.
PS. If you ever include links to youtube or wherever else, please use them properly so there won’t be a gigantic area of white spaces.
If it’s 30 minutes with a good, fast group, I and many others will treat it just like the Molten Facility (also ~30m on a speedy group): do it once for the achievements and then straight back to doing something more productive in game. Going off past trends, the rewards will be mostly crap with a couple ridiculously low RNG drops from the chest that aren’t worth wasting my time for when I could do 3-5 COF runs in the same timeframe.
Reading comprehension mate!
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Then we will have group setting. I’m filled with expectations.
be patient?hahhaahha,are you kidding me?it’s been 8 months since the game is out,and the changes to dungeons are almost inexistent.What am i supposed to do,grind CoF 1?No competitive PvE,no hardmode dungeons,no new paths,no gear to differentiate you as a skilled dungeon player between the random noob pug groups who in 8 months haven’t learned to dodge….No special dungeon leaderboards,with speedruns or special achievements like all the other MMO’s have…absolutely nothing.
Check the 26 may patch,let’s discuss the dungeon changes there,oh wait….
It’s been 8 MONTHS and they still haven’t managed to get the dungeon dropped runes account bound instead of souldbound,i have a whole bank slot filled with them,just last week dropped my fifth different char monk rune.yes,i have 5 monk runes in 5 different slots in my bank,why?because i’m kitten enough to play this game…
Obviously patience is not your virtue. I, on the other hand, cannot anticipate how many surprises anet will prepare for us.
Robert Hrouda is not making dungeon content anymore,because anet moved him to living story…Haven’t you noticed the zero work done on dungeons since february?
Be patient, I’m sure we’ll get something. Eventually…
Nerfing reflections will NOT make these particular two classes more appealing. It might make the elementalist, for example, which has a truly great absorb that doesn’t reflect a potential competitor.
Rangers and necromancers suffer for reasons that will not change even if you nerfed the guardian, mesmer and warrior into oblivion. For the ranger, the fact is anything like a pet mechanic in an action heavy game where dodging is a key mechanic, has been, and will always be, a mistake. As long as the ranger’s dps relies too much on the pet it will be a low tier class for dungeons. A beastmaster-like class will never work with GW2’s gameplay.
Personally if I had found some glitch to kill Lupi in 20 seconds I’d show folks with an explanation. Especially since you did bug report it, typically the best way to get Anet to actually fix something is to publicize it. Look at what happened with the necro “1/3rd HP in downed state” bug, people were trying to bring it to Anet for months but until there was incontrovertible video proof they basically blew it off.
As far as getting in trouble for sharing it as a strategy, I think Anet would be totally in the wrong for coming down on you. It’s not like 20 versus 60 seconds makes or breaks the dungeon. Lupi isn’t the keystone of Arah runs. It’s the kittenty trash runs with no waypoints.
Anet is aware of that bug, I got a response from Robert. It does actually break the dungeon if you knew exactly how that works.
Haviz actually did post a video the other day where his group of three people kills GL in 15-18 seconds. I saw it before it was taken down by the moderators. Don’t blame him for not being able to post it here without being infracted.
Thank you for being my only witness!
That said, I’d be curious to know the trick behind it because it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me. And for the record, they should really make GL’s projectiles immune to being reflected (but still able to be absorbed).
Agreed, it makes projectiles reflection a bit too gimmicky. They are currently too strong and one of the major reasons why you don’t see 5 other classes in speedruns. Reflections should not be dependent on stats like critical damage and they should work for limited amount of damage and then either disappear or just absorb projectiles. It would be a major nerf but it is necessary if anet wants to see more class variety. No buffs will ever make necros or rangers viable if reflections won’t be severly nerfed. I say it from guardians point of view.
In your later posts you finally admitted to it since you’re talking about anet potentially fixing this if it was made known public. It very much is an exploit and as such not something that could possibly considered a legit record.
Have I, for once, said anything about beating anyone’s record? I’ve said it’s possible to do in less than 15 seconds and I did in fact reported it as soon as it was achieved. Please, don’t make me repeat myself, I tried to explain that very straightforward, yet there are people here who can’t grasp simple ideas.
Once again, it was a mere statement that it is possible to do without flexing. If I ever wanted to beat anyone’s time I would do that with filled party.
Another thing I’d like to add is this peculiar speed pets seem to have. To clarify, why is a pet able to catch up to me when I am kiting away under swiftness?
I’m sure killing him in 15 seconds isn’t an exploit at all.
I’m sure.
Very sure.
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Few weeks back someone would have said same thing about your record. Don’t let it bother you, I don’t compete with your guild at all. I’m just saying it’s possible.
Like I said, it was achieved similiarly to the one speedkill of one of the boss in one of your video guide.
I don’t have any solid group and I’m not a part of any speedrunning guild so there’s no group you could no-respect at all. Also, if I ever cared about public opinion I would actually publish clips, don’t you think so?
