Guild Wars 2

Goon for Hire.7150:

You want proof about stacking not being intended? There’s no need to get a developer for this, because it’s in the game already. Living story has implemented plenty of mechanics specifically to get people out of this mindset.
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Waitwhat? Most new content basically cries to be facerolly zerged.

Mr Meow, one of Mr Whisker’s (BBCat star reporter) reliable sources, found something sweet.

goo.gl/trdrkV

import random
import math

def newPlay(p, n=10, m=6):
p=p/100.0
#print(p)
global matrix
matrix = [[‘.’]*n for i in range(m)]
for i in range(len(matrix)):
for j in range(len(matrix[i])):
rnd=random.uniform(0.0, 1.0)
if rnd<=p:
matrix[i][j]=‘O’

def generateSolution(matrix):
for y in range(len(matrix)):
for x in range(len(matrix[y])):
if (matrix[y][x] == ‘.’):
count=0
for l in(y-1, y, y+1):
for h in(x-1, x, x+1):
try:
if matrix[l][h]==‘O’:
count+=1
except:
pass
if count>0:
matrix[y][x]=str(count)

def printField(matrix):
for x in matrix:
try:
x=’’.join(x)
except TypeError:
pass
print(x)

def startPlay(p=10, n=10, m=6):
newPlay(p, n, m)
generateSolution(matrix)
global secret
secret=[[‘X’]*n for i in range(m)]
return secret

def play(p=10, n=10, m=6):
startPlay(p, n, m)
printField(secret)
global x, y
while 1:
x, y=int(input("x: “)), int(input(”y: “))
check = 0
while check == 10000:
secret[y][x]=matrix[y][x]
if secret[y][x]==‘O’:
return (print(”Verloren!"))
elif secret[y][x]==‘.’:
for l in(y-1, y, y+1):
for r in(x-1, x, x+1):
try:
secret[l]®=matrix[l]®
except:
pass
z=random.randint(0,4)
if z == 1:
if y>0 and x>0 and x<9:
if matrix[y-1][x]==‘.’:
y-=1
elif matrix[y-1][x-1]==‘.’:
y-=1
x-=1
elif matrix[y-1][x+1]==‘.’:
y-=1
x+=1
if z2: if x>0 and x<0:>
x-=1
elif matrix[y][x+1]==‘.’:
x+=1
if z 3: if y<9>0 and x<9:>
y+=1
x-=1
elif matrix[y+1][x]==‘.’:
y+=1
elif matrix[y+1][x+1]==‘.’:
y+=1
x+=1
else:
check=10000
else:
check=10000
printField(secret)

play()

any ideas on how I could make sure that when you chose a x,y field that is ‘.’ (no mine around it) it also unleashes all other ‘.’ fields connected to it without a number in between? Basically this is to frifox, who’s sadly offline, but anyone else is welcome to help too. I tried to put in a "for i in range(len(matrix): for j in range (len(matrix)[i]) but I wont get it to parse through the field correctly. Tried solving the issue with a random int to decide between actions the “next x,y value” becomes but even with repeating it 10.000 times between user inputs it would still not realiably yield what I want.

I’m like 100% sure theres a totally easy solution to this, but I simply can’t see it. x.x

I don’t complain nor arguing. Just cherish a great build which your math will never let you enjoy. Mesmer is more FUN played like this and not as a meta….

And what if people enjoy playing meta? What if I actually enjoy being able to deal damage? And not just spend a year against a normal trash mob because my condis take forever to kill it?

Most importantly, who are you to define what is fun?

Your build is not great. Conditions don’t work in PvE besides fringe exceptions (like … fotm 79 pre-fractured where glancing blows were so rampant a condi build was actually legit from what I’ve heard).

How wise is to isolate my Bleeding damage only vs a whole power meta build?
.. every time your Phantasms die much sooner than expected and you just wait for their recharge time to make yourself useful again, my Condition stacks Run on the target…

You use sharper images and greatsword, so you’re clearly going for a lot of bleeding damage. You’re not going to get burning, and the only confusion you get will be from you or your phantasms interacting with ethereal fields.

Far too much focus on DPS is being spread all over the place on these forums. Faster doesn’t always mean better, or even more fun.

If you argue your build is good for PvE and it deals low DPS, expect to be beaten down. A good build in PvE is one that maximises DPS and group support, even if you have to lose damage modifiers in favour of more group support (exhibit #1 – phalanx strength warrior build for fractals).

Secondly, don’t try defining fun for people. Fun for me is running strong builds, fun for Skoteinos is running bad builds.

Toxic? Dude, he made some of the best and most popular mesmer builds, he’s a genius when it comes to mesmer in GW2. He’s helped the community out A LOT. That is the opposite from toxic..
Egotistical? He asked for an opinion, he got a very, very objective, honest one. Pyro has great logic and does the math on every problem. The math never lies!

Such a genius that he used to try defending greatsword for PvE.

I can’t decide whether the Pyroatheist worship is either funny or sad.

Make fights harder and this is what will happen:

PUGs will find afk range safe spots.
Experienced groups will melee and do the fight properly.

If you think I’m wrong, compare a Mossman 49 kill from a speed clear guild to a pug group. Compare pug svanir shaman and archdiviner kills to speed clears. They will run around in circles kiting, we will just stack and melee.

Or let’s take the wurm and teq for example, people were flipping out saying it was too hard because, you know, it actually involved co-ordination.

People in this game don’t want hard content, they want easy content with big rewards so they can sit and complain on the forum all day about how the game is too easy.

I tested phalanx strength in low-man Arah settings and it maintains 22-25 might with strength runes and a strength sigil. Guang doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Some people just like to play a caster class as a ranged character. While I personally don’t mind (I like to optimize my build depending on what I am doing), I know people that only play ranged.

In the end, only few players ever come to the forums and fewer care about any meta or “best dps” builds.
They play because it is fun, and if they have fun playing ranged, they a) either continue playing ranged or if ranged is no longer viable b) stop playing.

As far as I know this game wasn’t sold as MMMORPG (the extra M is for melee). Min-maxers gonna min-max, haters gonna hate, most people don’t give a kitten on what other people think as long as they enjoy what they do.

There is really not any more to that topic. People will do what they enjoy.

The OP is looking for practical reasons, not “play how you want” reasons.

The conflict arises where people try to claim it’s an objectively good weapon, and not just “I like lasers”.

PvE Condition Damage

NO

i didn’t post because rezardi hadn’t got round to doing the authentication for me

if i’m given the account i can offer them a weapon of their choice from the next set of weapon skins that go on the anet store :p

You have permanent fury uptime with FGJ + SoR …. so you don’t need fury duration.

kokiman.2364:

Make enemies hit more frequent but let them deal less damage, suddenly support becomes viable and mindless zerking is nerfed aswell.

Because everyone loves dredge fractal.

Also, spoiler: we still zerk it.

Elite Areas.

frifox.5283:

You know you can just type “/p” or “/g” and hit space to switch chat channels instead of mouse clicking that bottom left menu?

I could, but that wouldn’t change the chat window I’m currently in. The chat implementation of gw1 was WAY better.

Make sure to watch for their big tells and mitigate them through blurred frenzy, scepter block or a stunbreak. If you were condi PU you could just try kiting, but since you’re power … you might just have to do the same except you’re going to have to race healing signet.

When I played condi PU against a hambow I got dumpstered because I used decoy and phase retreat offensively, then just got hit by the CC combo – so I’d say just kite them around if you want to win. Remember you can cast phantasms from stealth too – so make good use of that since it wont reveal you.

Caught the guy who kicked me after dwayna. Took him 40 minutes to list an arah selling lfg for 20 gold and he didn’t even get fillers. Totally worth it, MUCH better experience than actually completing the dungeon.

I didn’t see colesy posting for a while!

You can t stack easily with every party composition, so a ranged option is needed.
Gs also is one of the best illusion spammer available and in fractals, being able to get 3 illusions fast for distortion can save your life.

I have pugged every dungeon and I don’t even own a greatsword on my mesmer. It is not “needed” at all.

EDIT – I got an exo one and stuck a sunrise skin on it – i’ve only ever used it to pull Tazza in SE p1

You summoned 3 iduelists, and the Boss isn t able to kill them due to the magnificent AI.
At that point you simply sit at range with autoattack (doing more dps than almost any other profession) because playing melee without any illusion generating skill, limits your options.

Or you get triple duelist/swordsman and 1-1-1 away with your sword because it deals 40% more damage than greatsword.

???

You need AoEs.
SW-Focus/GS is the best option.

sw/f + signet of the ether

You want a decent cripple uptime (see mossman for example)
Once again SW-Focus/GS

temporal curtain, i-leap

also, allows you to not be stuck on a low DPS weapon for 10 seconds

Case5) mobs have permareflect…
GS bypass reflect with each skill

i heard melee weapons bypass reflect too

Wall fractale, dredge, ascalon, there I often use the GS and swap back to it if the fight lasts long.

Why would you use a not-sword/focus in an extremely reflect heavy fractal like dredge? And why would you not melee in ascalon when you’re LoSing groups of mobs all the time?

Pretty much what he said. Maybe not everything imo but he gets the point. There are situations for the GS, and it’s not a bad weapon. It’s like saying “Scepter sux cuz no aoe” … well … doing’ it wrong. However scepter against for example the first boss at wall fractale (when u enter) is extremly useful.

wall fractal?

It’s almost as if we’re reverting to our pre-enlightenment days. Maybe I need to smite the subforum with holy justice once more.

I could surely make use of it (aka calling it similar to some forum frequenter, confusing people), but I don’t have much to offer back.

Although, I could probably write an obfuscated C program which displays your asura, but that might take a weeks of work (being kinda busy).

That’s actually THE idea! Make a contest about programming your asura! Although frifox would definitely take it all.

Today seems to be the day of dubble-blocking.
I was joining three parties and found myself to be literally kicked and blocked out of each. One arah path 4 seller who was just waiting at the entrance, two german guys who I and some others even helped at dwayna and of course Azreell.

Azreell was online today, I even pm’ed him.
Two seconds later I was blocked and he went offline.

screenshot time

The context:

I soloed arah p2 up to Lupi, was lagging and didn’t want to rage at my screen attempting a solo so I just put an LFG up inviting people in. This is what I got:

http://i.imgur.com/8pnZ2ww.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/onqeqbn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zab3lmy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WwMUQBm.jpg

SPOILER – When the warrior brought Brie to 50% I dropped party and killed the instance even though it meant not getting a daily.

http://i.imgur.com/V2Ros9g.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nf5l1mn.jpg

also, screenshot for funsies:

http://i.imgur.com/Yq8HOnV.jpg

no casuals were harmed in the making of this image

Immediately after patch I thought of 30/10 but then the fact that you can just switch traits in dungeons means that you can honestly just switch between 20 illusions and 20 inspirations dependent on whether you want focus reflects, plus you don’t have to give up blade training that way.

keenlam.4753:

@Pyro: didn’t expect u got so caught up with my poor choice of word, anyway, i guess i should have made it more clear. Don’t you see this is a big issue in terms of limiting build diversity?

Move the traits anywhere else and people will just shift their points in to those traits regardless. ANet stealth moved empowering mantras so in PvE we just went from 0/30/0/25/15 to 30/20/0/20/0 (or 30/20/0/0/20). If they moved deceptive evasion in to inspiration master as an example you’d just have condi builds which are like 0/20/30/20/0 (…which gives us condi cleanse on heal and phantasmal healing which would proc illusionary membrane for even higher protection uptime in PU builds).

People overrate build diversity, if you were stuck in to say, four different builds but just with the points moved around you just go back to square one with people crying that there’s no build diversity.

I’d say ranger runes were probably your best bet if you don’t take scholar. Drop the greatsword for sword/sword and take something like force/accuracy, force/night or force/undead or something. Strength runes are absolutely not necessary fortunately enough, though I’d honestly still recommend scholar if you could afford it.

If you want to use traveler runes for WvW, honestly just invest in a different set of armour (run cof, coe and arah a few times, you’ll get tokens for berserker gear quickly enough), you might as well be playing runeless in PvE if you take a traveler set in to dungeons since it doesn’t do anything.

Pack runes are

trash

Lucas.9157:

Plot twist: Azreel is also hendo/Dub/colesy

Oh my god. That would be a dubble-merge.

Possibly next semester break.
Browsed through some old dungeon picture of mine and found some stuff.
As I’m not even percentile’ish as skilled as you and some others on fashionablism and setting your characters into the right scene, I’ll just pass on that topic.
I’d totally call the account: “Lilith Ajit.6172” by the way.

“When gravity takes a day off, you might aswell run a wall straight up.”

“D’up in the air.”

“You NEED to be more careful! That stuff, once on the internet, can never be deleted forever.”

Been working on university stuff all day, no time to log on and take some screens.

Well, wouldn’t win anyway.

AC Path 2+3, CM Path 3, SE Path 1, Arah 2+3 (1+4 with minor help at one encounter each), most other dungeons that do not require a full party. I just mentioned the one’s I’ve recently heard about or did.

Hodgins gets (or used to get) revealed periodically at the burrow event. No way to complete it as thief.

Dat shoutheal-hammercc-rp.

Because any build can succeed. We finished arah path 3 with 5 MM necros (nemesis guide) in a speedrun manner. Given, It took us about 6 times as long, but we did complete it.

Why do my forum “fights” always end the same way?

I’ve always hated the z-word. Although zergburgers are fine.

haviz.1340:

Paraphrasing a known leader “Kick solves all problems – no man, no problem”.

People are too softhearted theese days.

Well, waiting here for almost 2 hours now, I’ll be heading off to study.
Laters.

Warlord.9074:

Last thing I will add to this thread before it dies since I have had a little while to think about it. Then it can disappear.

Warlord.9074:

-snip-

Why?

Iris, save me! Sitting here in Gandarran Fields, arguing with pugs that ranger solo capacibilities are bad and necro’s axe/focus isn’t viable.

They tell me ranger is strongest solo “class” in the game and deals the most damage, necro being second highest with vuln stacks from axe/focus and bleeds from scepter/dagger.

I don’t know….

I tell you, I can kill any boss in AC without dodging once.

VideoGamermike.5813:

The bosses are excellent, but are too hard for the first dungeon

What?
Bosses you can facetank solo with some toughness or in a party in berserker gear are excellent but too hard? Lupi is a good boss. Anything below his difficulty is “meh…”.
Alphard is some fun because you need to watch out for the pull, but aside of that I can’t think of too many bosses where paying attention really rewards you.

10k AP pugs generally kick me because they are better than me.
I guess, I only joined a friend once and said I’m a firsttimer, telling them I watched guides and linked my lupi solos. Kicked.

I’m hungry.

I’m awake!
And feel like kitten.

It will be on twitch, thanks to dankies. I’ll record it and upload to youtube later. Going to sleep now, though. See you in 7 hours. ~.~

Something Sanderinoa forgot to elaborate on. Lupi targets everyone in the area with projectiles.

Sanderinoa:

Lupicus’ shot are divided in two groups: those for show and those for kills, the first variant spreads all over the place and the second one is aimed directly at targets.

You can look it up later lindy.

Someone on the spreadsheet mentioned that you should use both, berserker and celestial in ascended or other variants of the same rarity + item level.

maxinion.8396:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D7njjRmjTYAarPpqg7b9bDrU_9HmEYX7ET-MVan2OdQ/edit#gid=0 is the official betting spreadsheet. Thanks Tree/Dankies!

Hillarious, lol. Although I’m not colesy.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I’m considering offering the winner of this challenge a brand new guild wars 2 account. Mainly because I’m nearly positive dub will win and I should like to know when hendo=colesy or dub.

And they’re 50% off right now

Woopwoop. Totally in for that, although I’d have to refund Lilith ingame with fancy gemstore stuff again.

Gyler.8150:

Does this event have a name? Was thinking “Do you know more than a Zerker?”

What if I use clerics gear myself?

I’ll be recording the runs with shadowplay, btw, so you can see what exactly goes on on my monitor. Don’t judge my on my youtube subscribed channels, though. I like music!

Edit: Apparently the new geforce experience broke shadowplay, it records desktop and ingame to different files in different directories.