Guild Wars 2

You wanna be really ticked? …I usually have crappy luck whever I go… but lately I’ve been averaging 5-8 exotics per week and atleast 20 rares every night just killing random event mobs and helping run NSP’s temple train (roughly 90 minutes per night). …at this rate I could end up popping a precursor.

In WvW all I ever see is thorn trophies & stained claws …. I don’t ever remember getting a rare from an enemy player either. Those rank-up bonus chests are hilarious too … “oh gee thanks… a random masterwork once per hour…. coool story”

bllius.9027:

that are even remotely close?

BP vs. IOJ = always a tight one
u jelly?

with such reduced transfers, people should really consider joining us.
(as long as they coordinate as to not off-set the balance too much)

...* checks millenium *
Oh wow, EU is just as messed up this week as NA is.
This must be some kind of sociology experiment in real time.

Spoiler Alert: the 2 vastly weaker servers will NOT ever work together to take down the big one unless they’re bribed with achievements & T6 mats for it... (IE: hauling in all the dumb kittens from FG/Queens champtrains to bolster their numbers)

Ascii.9726:

wow… what a matchup. We have all the S’s!

^ this guy gets the credit for discovering their secret matching algorithm… right?

Stice.5204:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Here’s the situation. I play ranger (full berserker gear with LB) and i almost always roam on map (avoiding pve stuff).

I win about 90% of the 1v1 fights, and about 40-50% of 2v1 fights.

I personally consider this unlikely as a full berserker glass cannon longbow ranger matches up quite poorly against many of the popular solo roaming builds.

Agree…. I smell Bs. That or he runs on one of the bottom tier realms

I went through LFG.com to find groups for most dungeon runs. … and also ended up on friend lists of some people from the forum. So no a guild really serves little purpose for those. Where I count on my guild (one from Gw1) … is in coordinated WvW.

I was really disappointed with WvW at release but they’ve shown me that what they call “skill groups” can find a niche regardless and wipe much larger zergs when the plan comes together A-Team style.

So no for most PvE stuff, no reason whatsoever to have a guild. Especially open world which just isn’t challenging enough in the first place for people who are capable of cooperating above a 5th grade reading level.

The one full of really boring Mobs with like 3x the HP’s of most dungeon mobs and also Chill-spam every few seconds so your DPS tanks even harder. As if that wasn’t bad enough, 2 of the finales are under water. (only remotely dangerous boss in the entire place is the Werewolf)

Let the Polar bears go extinct, I don’t care anymore.

It was their darn Maintenance today. I was halfway through COF3 /w Sky when one in our party dc’d and got some stealth ninja client update (probably a network related seed for tracking VPN’ers doing the omega Dupe exploit). That player couldn’t get back in but no one else could leave the Party either without restarting their client entirely first. We had to start completely from scratch. Should only be a 1-time thing though but I wouldn’t start any of the longer dungeons when you see that Yellow text on your screen

Wethospu.6437:

People wanting content where Berserker sucks should remember that it needs be so hard that they will cry, not just a river, but a huge ocean.

Shiro without any Celestial cheese was pretty punitive to Glass builds. (esp. melee).

And not just b/c he’d steal the equivalent of the highest amount of damage done to him in any packet…. His super fast attack interval, and the constant teleporting around to random people also kept it pretty interesting. Any boss that did that in this game would really make most people think twice about just feeding it higher lifesteal and relying on dodging only.

Evilzara.6378:

Round 3 with IoJ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23j0L4G-f8

I was complimented on my Cleric’s Longbow… (It’s for Temple event support … not dungeons or WvW so don’t read too much into the stat choice …. it still does MORE DAMAGE overall than my Valk exotic one for reasons I haven’t figure out yet).

I do like the looks of it too…. but I’m also halfway done with a gift of light meaning it’s about to become Wings of Dwayna instead…

I’ve also left the 1H sword “Ascended Berserker Red” for now. But the Greatsword and Axe I instantly transmuted over with Dragon’s Deep GS, and SAB Axe.

quaniesan.8497:

Though I could have sworn it was originally today, I guess I was wrong or it’s rescheduled without notice. Anyhow.

It was….
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/October-15th-balance-skills-updates-preview/page/25#post2926216

Here’s the quote in case there’s some forum glitch later on:
“Roy and I are scheduled to stream on October 11th where we’ll go over a few more features and adjustments that you’ll see on the mid-october update. Be sure to tune in and check it out!”

Charismatic Harm.9683:

In order to complete the story mode, I have to find 4 other people that want to do the story mode as well. Not once during the entire “Personal” Story did I need to group up with anyone else….why now? Why right at the end?

I was under the impression that the Personal Story line could be completed without the need to group up. It’s one of the things I LOVED about the PS. It was something I could do when I had a few extra minutes and I didn’t need anyone else to do it. Now, I HAVE to find a group in order to complete it. Believe me…..HAVE TO is true.

This also worked against them for those of us who do like to seek challenging Grouping content… You see it in every single comment about what a poor final encounter the fight against Zhaitan was. ….especially if you ever fight the Giganticus Lupicus afterwards. IOW: the mechanics themselves had to be dumbed down and dull to the point that almost anyone could do it.

….. the entire storyline is about what’s at stake and all the lives riding on the line here and all the lives already given for it. The narrative is building your fortitude and everyone else’s around you ….. “the journey”, an attempt to emulate Fellowship of the Rings basically to establish some glimmers of you and your race’s true potential. ….But what kills the bad guy???…. Not SKILL, not fortitude, not even sacrifice….. Nope….

Magic Turrets

My guild leader sometimes runs Snow on his, haha….
But it’s mostly just to troll big Zergs with b/c he’s always the last one standing

(in the middle of like 30 IoJ’s who are 90% glass it’s a good thing the report function doesn’t include a hackusation option b/c they would have abused it so hard against him by now).

bait and switched

Most ironic part is their community team still hasn’t told us what happened.
…meanwhile Whiteside’s in another forum promising better communication in the coming weeks…

“We repeat: The white mouse will NOT explode.”

Pegaasus.3280:

The funny thing is that I’ ve spent these last two days..duelling most of the rangers who posted comments towards me like : You can’ t play this class ^^ Learn to play and so on..^^
They were simply nabs ah ah who died so easily..
I won’ t write their names here to avoid being reported..but seriously..before writing such things..really learn to play your ranger ^^ ah ah))

I actually believe this when I see it.

As mainly a PvE’er (okay so…. melee’ing Lupicus on ranger & soloing HotW might not actually qualify me for average PvE’er … but the experience gaps stands mostly) … I hear sooooo….many…. WvW’ers and sPvP’ers constantly putting down PvE’ers for supposedly not knowing what a real fight or challenge or whatever looks like. And also Whining that PvE’ers get all the new content and attention from the Devs and then spoonfed rewards for easy content. But what do I see when I actually PvP most people in this game? …. mostly scrubs.

And that’s not even a bad thing. It’s GOOD that there’s so many unskilled people still in these game modes. If it was all super l337 pros then no one new to the game would ever be able to learn how to PvP in this game b/c you can’t learn anything against an opponent who’s >9001 % better than you. There has to be a wide variety of skill levels otherwise the entire thing turns into a snake eating its own tail until there’s nothing left but its fangs.

..but…

That swagger of theirs really needs to stop. End game PvE in Gw1 was NOT for the timid. RA’ers & JQ’ers who tried to talk smack about hardmode speedrunners were laughed out of forums. Even Polymock pros had more Cred than most PvP’ers. ….So it’s basicaly like anything in life … If you ask a specialist you’re just gong to get a really biased and insular opinion. The guy with multiple Master’s Degrees will probably give you much better advice overall than the guy with a single Doctorate. …especially if any of those masters are in some kind of history

IcyTeaLemon.4610:

Ranger was so underpowered before 4-5 months…..

I miss those days

Nilgoow.1037:

Bambula.3649:

Prysin the ranger scalles better with crit dmg than with power. We are not like the warrior that needs tons of power
Our weapons scalling is to bad so crit dmg works much better

This doesn’t make any sense logically and is mathematically incorrect.

I want to comment on this but I can’t tell if the Bamb is talking about Precision & crit frequency …. or the Modifying of 150% crit base. This is an area I see a LOT of generalities spoken by rangers on a topic that I genuinely feel hasn’t been 100% scientifically proven yet

shockwave.1764:

It’s only 200g if you buy every single mat off the TP.

I just leveled 400-500 huntsman for a total of around 50-60g (probably could’ve done it in around 40g if I wasn’t lazy)

Okay….
But you’re still denying that you passed up 200G straight PROFIT.

Even if you yourself didn’t think your time gathering those mats was worth 200g…
…They were still worth 200g. You spent 200g of time on it….

…no wait I’m wrong…

You spent MORE THAN 200g, because the first 100-400 levels in that discipline weren’t free either. And then you also include a stable of alts capable of running around level 80 zones…. those weren’t free either.

I care….

4/5 of my alts are (or will) all be left at the claw island mission simply because there is no choice in it, no alternative possible outcome. … But MAINLY, because 2/3 of the main characters involved in it, get “Deus Ex Machina’d” in a very clumsy and impersonal fashion where MUCH deeper explorations of the psyche would have been possible. I’m not saying the writers are all hacks, I’m just saying they appear to have been locked into either a schedule or plot-mechanics system that didn’t allow anything palatable/replayable.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Thanks for the feedback over night and this morning.

Please note i am going to be afk for most of the day but will catch up as frequently as possible.

What i will do is create a thread on the PVE, WvW and PvP forums asking for the community to name 1 area of the said area that they would like to discuss first and then we will start the discussions on Monday.

Sounds good, …

But PLEASE don’t just put it here in General…. Either confine it to Dynamic Events forum, or Dungeon Forum. If it’s here in general, it will get way too much noise to signal ratio and focus on nothing at all…. It will be the ultimate Seinfeldian experience and leave you with 361 different headless chickens fighting over 360 degrees of tangentiality

Karl McLain.5604:

Roy and I are scheduled to stream on October 11th where we’ll go over a few more features and adjustments that you’ll see on the mid-october update. Be sure to tune in and check it out!

Any updates on this yet? … the only time we were given for any Stream was noon.
It was chap & that other guy who seems to think we were supposed find bloodust & oil-pot perks compelling in Blob vs Blob. …the only highlight of that was when he went full re-vengeance & got int’d by a treb. (which means we should brace for more ranger nerfs)

They didn’t preview one single change. Not even a teaser.

But they DID admit that they don’t play Ranger basically while listing the classes they do play (and find viable). Even more noteworthy was his stungank warrior finally losing to the spirit Ranger b/c he got outplayed even harder the second time. IE: It was apparent who deserved to win the fight both times. Yet the lack of viable weapons & traits for Rangers (due to the decisions these very Developers make) made the fight a blowout the first time, and a dead heat finish the second time. so there’s your REAL preview ….Expect more nerfs in the coming weeks b/c their darling the warrior still can’t wipe the floor with every Ranger yet.

This is bland disappointment so far… when I want to fight over a cap point, I start up TF2

* takes cookie anyway *

I have 4 already…. all crafted. And I’ve been slacking TBH. I didn’t win any Lottery with some super lucky RNG drop to pay for them either. And I don’t farm in this game (unless you consider redoing tons of jumping puzzles when bored to be “farming” that I did ANYWAY before Empyreal shards were even introduced).

But there are some problems I’m seeing with them…. some … Spreadsheet imabalances:

• Soft Wood: 20 planks = 80 logs … NO BUENO. Roll it back to 2-3 logs per plank plz.
• Elder planks: 150 per T7 essence versus only 100 Mithril per metal essence.
• Dark matter salvage = MASSIVE advantage for Gem Store users. (BL Salv)
• We can sell SWood/Deld, & even Asc inscription … but CAN’T sell Vision Crystals
• Everyone Leveling to 500 @ once proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ancient sappling Nodes are poorly distributed.
• Anets “rebalancing” of World-Bosses is hurting the supply of Crystal Dust
• All these materials are so uncommon in WvW they might as well not even exist there. ….When common sense would dictate that you’d WANT tons of Nodes and sources of this stuff in every single borderland in WvW. A LOT more of it than anywhere else in the game… So that people will actually have a reason to go there and team up even when they know they’re up against a steamrolling Bandwagon server.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17xn5fvka8ljzjpg/original.jpg

…hard to stay mad at that rascal.

But teaching its owner anything useful would take weeks. All of the other ranger weapons just aren’t Pizazzzy enough. They completely lack Pizazz. In Gw1 you could roll Daggers & abuse expertise for some really pizazzy pizazz. And ya looked pizazzy doing it too b/c you also blocked everything even when locked in longer animations.

Every other weapon for them in this game is just way too much work for such meager Pizazz.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/100-CRITICAL-Chance-WOW/first#post2999780

Lrn 2 FGS

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Well…. we’ll know in about 40 min….

Not soon enough

I want my disappointment NOW

jcbroe.4329:

Well the devs did say specifically to tune in during the preview for more “balance teasers before patch Tuesday” during a livestream, but they could just dev-troll us and discuss Sic’ Em some more -.-

No they’ll announce a new gemstore item for us that summons cap circles anywhere including dungeons and then streams all footage instantly to a partnering service. Every minute you hold it, increases the range of your weapon and axe richochets (disclaimer: axe will not bounce off wall and hit boss twice like common sense would dictate)

Lilius.9850:

What is “bearbow” and why do people hate it?

Also, why do i do such bad dps compared to other classes even though I have full exotic zerker gear and weapons?

A paradoxical type of handheld catapult that projects an ursine entity from its location and then the user goes AFK without ever finding out out that everyone else in the party actually carried them.

alright who let scarlet onto the forums

Serraphin Storm.2369:

TLDR

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There is no doubt that the ranger is a hard class to play. There are lots of ranger who have a great deal of success with this class and prefer it over any other class.

The difference between the rangers that have the greatest success with this class and the ones who do not is that the one who have the greatest success play the class that is before them. Not the class the hope the ranger to be. They adapt.

To build a good ranger it take more fine tuning. It takes better reaction times. As a ranger you are required to make less mistakes. As a warrior or Guardian you are permitted to eat so of the biggest attacks in the game and just shake it off. Thieves, Ele and Mesmers can disengage from a fight at will and it take very little skill to do so.

Necro and eng just need 10 second and your dead from condtion overload.

As a decent ranger skill level is above the average player. Some rangers can escape at will. The spirited build was nerf because when a ranger is on even ground he kicks kitten . Yes the build was a bit passive but no more than they other classes.

To Play a Ranger you must improve you must adapt you must have a deep desire to over come and never say die.

This isn’t for everyone, but no class is for everyone nor should they be. I play a ranger because its not OP because it’s not easy mode.

Are the issue with the ranger. Yes. I wish my pet scaled with my gear. I wish my pet followed closer to my side. I wish we had more aoe besides axes and traps (barrage does count and piecing isn’t enough (maybe a traited bouncing arrow instead) Pet die but if they die to often then its mostly the rangers fault. Anything that will down a player will kill a pet.

The Ranger core is strong. Rangers learn your strengths over come your weakness then go back build and develop more strengths. To do this you have to over come your fear. I myself am always testing myself. While I like my sword I always have a ranged backup but starting today I will go sword/x and GS. I will develop the skills to effectively run these set in all aspects of the game (exept when I’m farming nothing beats axes). I will run this until I’m satisfied with my performance. Until I’m one of those rangers that almost never die.

The 3 issue I mention are what I feel are the biggest issue outside of them I am happy with the Ranger class. I do not desire a stow option because I know what this class was when I created my ranger.

You get out of this class what you put into it.

took way too long to just say “I like hardmode”

Oxxy.7068:

I wish i had a ranger to test this out but, since esc is kittening useless in this game and i’m highly against clicking in the middle of my screen to reset my target, i usually use GS and sword #3 on my guardian while targeting the spider (which means i’ll move a bit to the back) and it never sprays her poision because of that… so i really doubt ranger autos will break the stack…. but then again i may be wrong, next time i do ac i’ll ask a friend of mine to join on his ranger and try it out.

Most of the time NO, It’s not supposed to.
But if there’s even a slight desynch…. or start chain too early…

Spirit H4X

that was painful to watch yet I am in Awe and a bit inspired

emachine.2706:

Holy cow, that site is great. Can’t believe I’ve not come across it before. I assume it was a poison pool as we all went down in a relatively short period of time. In combat awareness is probably something I should be working on because I don’t have a definitive answer for you.

Thanks for the link.

That’s why I HATE the stack…. slightest little movement and everyone else in your party Dies b/c they’re too dumb to dodge roll out of it. As sword ranger… it’s not exactly UP TO ME when I move an inch or two to the left. (also means not FGS’ing or Ursan, and I can’t use any of my Lunges for setting up Combos which kitten es me off even worse and hurts my entire potential). … Doesn’t mean I won’t stack, but I am very leery of any party who can’t beat this part W/O stacking. It can also means they need 2-4 attempts to do Hodgins Graveling Room unless I’m the one kiting adds and holding their aggro

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

GW2 has too many peasants that don’t like it when others are doing things faster than them with a different play style. BHB’s and peasants.

Meanwhile in the heavy petting forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-I-play-as-i-want-rangers/first#post2999082

…it’s terminal…. like cat leukemia

I only run Frost Spirit… but yeah I’ve been running it a lot more often lately.
(instead of any of the signets which let’s be honest, are beginner mode once you’ve figured out Nature’s Voice and manage to still not die very often in big Guild clashes).

I could see sun spirit being pretty useful too for anyone with high Cond stats. (though really redundant in teams with multiple Guardians … wish Anet would look into that).

I imagine it will be competing for a slot on my bar with Sic Em soon… but luckily with good scouting, you’ll already know ahead of time if you’re facing a large group where Frost is better, or some chickenkitten thieves who never evolved past that Glass+Stealth crutch.

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For better details: … My guild tends to do a lot of the Back-Crashing into larger zergs right as they engage a gate or another smaller zerg. Most logic tells me It shouldn’t really work … that your average human being is smarter than that and wouldn’t panic so much in that situation and fall back further over a little oakheart with the words “Frost” on it while attempting to scatter. ….Or they’d atleast dodge roll….

I like to think the extra 7 or 10% or w/e it is damage partly explains why they all die so fast …. either that or they’re all pure Glass which gives me even less hope for the future of WvW competency…

NargofWoV.4267:

Well, Poliswag, you may be in luck. Anet mentioned they’re taking a look at the Ranger Weapon numbers for the Oct. patch.

95% of the time, given their track record, that implies a nerf…

And other classes wonder why this class is so bad….

One look at where the upvotes are in this thread makes it pretty clear.
/losing all hope of it ever getting better.

Going all Assassins/Rampagers gear should allow this…. (sort of)

Going all Berserkers SHOULD NOT.

There’s your Critical Failure (anet)

Vayne.8563:

You don’t talk to a guy and get a quest and go do something, you see something happening and react to it. That’s really what the manifesto was trying to say. The world is alive.

No, you check a website for when the timed event starts (or just login around reset) and then follow a farm train around. …It’s actually worse than taking a laundry list of quests because there’s no variety in it at all. Atleast quests have a variety of outcomes & ways to do them besides Zerk-while-Zerging. (they also tend to have a story behind them)

But we DO get Gem / Jewelry mats from slaying elementals. Also from Imps.

OP does make a great point though about Plant enemies (and Nightmare Court)…
We should definitely be getting herbs from Plant mobs. ….just try not to think too much about what part of their body that Parsnip and Truffles came from.

I’m pretty sure the OP was satire…

kingcragus.6810:

Because some classes are faster than others?

yeah…. Thieves and Warriors. …And they get the highest Spike capacity (next to condi Mancers) on top of that. …. Make no mistake guys… This is not a PvP issue…

This is a PvE balance split issue. Don’t complain to Devon about it … talk to Sharp.

Chris.3290:

Warriors are the best long-distance sprinters but several classes have faster gap closers.

Extremely skilled Ele’s and Rangers … which might as well be pink fluffy unicorns given how uncommon they are …. CAN keep up with the Warriors. Yes… I’ve been that warrior’s Ankle-biter who literally beat on ’em non-stop (in Valks /w Fury+Prec stacks/food) last night all the way from Lake…. to Bay… canine snaring, sword chain which also includes a snare, swap to Spider, path of scares, crippling talon, drop muddy terrain, even ENTANGLE does absolutley NOTHING.

And by Nothing, I mean the rest of my guild might try to range these warriors down but I’m not even slowing them down with all of these skills that they seem to be completely IMMUNE TO so pretty quickly it just turns into me alone not even doing enough DPS to overcome their healing sig with all melee-attacks. ….and yeah they need to be immune to it in sPvP ESPORTS LAND so they can keep doing dale earnharndt laps around the cap points and not be the absolute worst class in sPvP.

But this isn’t sPvP. They have banners and might stacking and Paragon-Tier group shouting and Mob-Cleaving and nearly as much overall group utility as Mesmers (the SLOWEST class in the game). …. yeah we get it, Warrior is only a shadow of it’s former self in whatever it is people plays instead of H.A. in this game. But this isn’t HA. This isn’t even GvG. ….They’re also easy mode in Dungeons as well because of this crap while engies & rangers and necros get kicked by the dozens simply b/c they’re not warriors.

Do you know WHY there’s so few skilled Eles and Rangers???
It’s b/b they’re not allowed to play with everyone else long enough to GET BETTER.
Anyone with a glimmer of hope, is told to roll a different class, or they figure it out on their own (and just go invis spam thief instead) which is even worse.

Was about to ask for a discussion on this topic….

…

Basically, you’ve got the T1/T2 guys telling us T4-7 guys that our Closer matchups don’t matter b/c half the time, someone’s BL is always 1 solid color …. while their BL’s tend to usually be mixed colors with real defense buildups unless there’s a really uneven matchup. They get constant action and therefore get to claim that their group reaction time & composition matters more than ours does.

And we’re looking at them … going “Well that just means your wins are always decided by who has the fastest Computers/Fiber” … b/c really, there’s no room for actual Tactics when you don’t have to shift your resources around on the fly to cover all that negative space. They’re basically playing Big Game Hunters. They have an unlimited Crystal field and 10K vespene to fuel their Zergs.

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I think it’s a really important discussion and for once, I’d like to see Anet’s devs actually get involved in it b/c when they add Claustrophobic stuff like the the Bloodlust CONQUEST sPvP esport arena in the middle ….. I honestly have no idea what they’re thinking. Is it really adding more “choice” to the game??? Funneling people into the same confined space together might create more action…. But does it really create more replayability?

Maybe it does for Jade Quarry b/c they’re into that stuff. But it lost SBI everything… and they’re only now starting to bounce (wagon is more like it) back

EDIT NOTE: for clarficiation, this thread was originally posted in WvW forum.

Gizmo.9178:

wut…

This
I didn’t see a single hint of anyone, or anything related to GuildWars, or Realm vs Realm.

That’s not to dismiss female contributions to gaming, no Mam!, my guild’s #1 scout and most relied on source of information that every move we make is decided upon … is female and we coudn’t do what we do without her.

But this video seemed pretty generic /w mixed-messaging; and not even in the same “genre” of respected qualities that this game mode structures all of its Merit around.

Spying doesn’t really mean anything when the people being spied on KNOW it.

…unless they’re not clever enough to use that to their advantage (but instead keep throwing the same expensive robots up the same hill again and again and again…)

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That said…
I can’t remember the last match I’ve seen where 3rd place jumped to first place on a monday, and the then-discplaced 2nd —>to--> thirded-place then rallied & took a wide first place by thursday morning… This wasn’t decided by numbers. It was really obvious that none of these servers had full coverage of every Land. I bet some people thought BP did, but BP’s dirty little secret is that it was constantly robbing peter to pay paul.

I’d like to know why SAB & Molten is still temporary stuff

…while this Zerg DPS check crap got made permanent…

bokkieskitten.8023:

Seems like a certain server is really taking advantage of this omega dupe

It’s all I’ve heard about since I got on TS this morning. Omegas this… Omegas that… if I didn’t know any better I’d think I’d woken up in the middle of a weeubooh gundam convention

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Edit: HERE WE GO: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Omega-Golem-Blueprints-whats-up/first
…that’s it, forget CD’s treb fairy, entire match has more taint than Toronto…