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He’s talking about when someone ranging him sees the reflect buff and keeps attacking. If they’re standing behind a teammate, those attacks will reflect off of archdiviner and hit the teammate. This 100% the fault of the guy ranging.
people keep complaining about it. Why dont’ people just dont’ stand close to the boss. It last 3 second anyway.
Which is what I’m discussing with another guy. This isn’t youtube. If you meant to tell me all those pug you play with mysteriously all doing mad melee dps at fotm50, I ain’t seeing it. At least for a few boss like mossman or archdiviner.
and another point i’m trying to make is range dps actually isn’t that bad. Base on what people research, if I’m not mistaken, sceptor is the meta weapon for boss with large hit box. Even if you can’t do that with medium/small sized opponent, coupled in with +20% dmg when aegis traits, it’s actually not so bad.
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While I would agree on that a player should have a slight sense of being able to max melee before attempting melee on a fotm 50, I see much more times people ranging themselves or others to death during Archdiviner/Anomaly reflect phase.
Ranging in some cases is fine, but it is ludicrous to down team members with it.It still baffles me those mechanics are not followed up or recognized in the higher tiers.
yah. but anyone getting hit by archdiviner isn’t really good. First he does a pull, and he only did his aoe and reflect after it. Even if your teamates is ranging, if you get hit you are partially at fault too.
If you arn’t good enough to dodge that you probably shouldn’t be meleeing.
And the situation is like saying since the light is green you can cross the street even though a car is speeding towards you.
Your in a pug, come to some senses, presume your teamates isn’t very good. And many of them aren’t. Which is what I’m discussing with the other guy. Many of those pug really aren’t very good. I mean I see people fail the wisp in event 3 times in a row, and he’s doing the easy one too at fotm50.
laokoko do you know what AA stands for by chance?
EDIT: I don’t care about anything that you link me, if all you are doing is auto attacking your not contributing as much as you can be, plain and simple I am right here, plain and simple.
EDIT 2: And to be quite honest, if I were to choose between grouping with 4 other zerkers who AA range in the back or 3 manning with 2 people in full nomads who stay in the front and anchor, I would rather just go with the nomads people atleast they can play anchor or res me if I make mistakes on mai trin.
Sorry, I’m not as pro as you guys. Like you actaully watch what button other teamates press when they ranging.
I just presumed you are one of those guys who have a hatred on people ranging. If I’m mistaken sorry.
My experience is fotm50. Very few pug are actually able to spend all their time meleeing the boss like mossman or last boss of cliffside without dieing or minimum downtime because they spend too much time avoiding dmg.
What. What the hell is boomerlang?
i dont’ know how to spell that boss name. the last boss on swamp which is not mossman.
who wants to play with someone who only spam 2 and 4 ?
This is not exclusive to rangers, I’ve had scepter guards and rifle warriors that AA max range on mossman, cultist leader, and harpy destroyer.
I’m not sure if scepter is even bad dps. If you seen the new updated dnt builds. They actaully talk about using scepter/focus scepter/torch on large boss such as boomerlang or molten duo. Since it is easier that all smite to connect. And if you can keep your aegis up all the time you going to get 20% damage boost from unscatched contender.
I actaully prefer GS for boomerlang myself just because it is easier to use. And for molten duo, I prefer hammer. Since the extra protection and writ or mercy helps the party survive a bit more for meleeing.
here’s the dps chart. But I think the big problem with scepter is you need to make sure your smite connect as much as possible. And you keep aegis up as much as possible.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ou7qL2Dj2gytJeS0bl1FinoukKWGnTf_FLTEP4gkuUQ/edit?pli=1#gid=947096260
who wants to play with someone who only spam 2 and 4 ?
This is not exclusive to rangers, I’ve had scepter guards and rifle warriors that AA max range on mossman, cultist leader, and harpy destroyer.
I don’t know where all this great pug fractal player you been seeing that should melee in fractal.
Because quite honestly 95% of the player are better of ranging. Because most of them spend more time laying on the ground than a ranger bear tanking the boss.
I think almost every pug I’ve been in so far has preferred melee, then again my luck tends to be on my side. I’ve also have been having some really good experience with necromancer players so I guess I’m in happy candy land or something.
I’m not sure which level you are doing.
For boss like Mossman or Archdiviner I see people melee at 50. And most of them die more than twice. I hope people come to their senses they are hurting the team more if they melee and keep dieing.
Some of my pug Archidiviner fight is terrible because I rezed people like 10 times in 1 fight. I hope people come to their senses, they should stay at max range for that unless they are good. And most of them don’t look good to me.
I mean if you are meleeing, dont’ die more than twice in a fight. And apparently a huge percentage of them do.
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I think I did around 27 tries before I get all of them.
First one droped around 20+ try, and the 2nd one dropped a few round after that.
if you are wearing the best dps gear. All mobs die in less them 2 second. I’m not sure how hard queensdale is.
I’ve been wearing those exotic craftable handcraftable gear on low level, and monster die in 2 second even if I’m not lvl80.
and I’ve seen people completing map completion in less than 30 hours. So I don’t think it actually take that long.
I think the quality of items really matter.
Take for example, I’ve been hording some sclerite weapons but hardly anyone wear them, so almost no one buy them every month. While some of the more popular ones you see people wear have spiked to near 1000.
who wants to play with someone who only spam 2 and 4 ?
This is not exclusive to rangers, I’ve had scepter guards and rifle warriors that AA max range on mossman, cultist leader, and harpy destroyer.
I don’t know where all this great pug fractal player you been seeing that should melee in fractal.
Because quite honestly 95% of the player are better of ranging. Because most of them spend more time laying on the ground than a ranger bear tanking the boss.
I dont’ get kick often unless I join a group which says no necro and ranger but I tried to join as necro or ranger.
Usually people let you know before hand.
Your run is probably not very smooth that’s why you get kick in the end.
I think the OP pointed out for some class like theif flanking etc. But for some class like warrior they can WW in to the wall.
I dont’ think there’s right or wrong answer to stacking. It’s mostly about your teammates in pug. I’m not sure what’s the point about arguing stacking or not will make a 5 second difference to your kill.
Take for example SE path 3. Many people now prefer to fight in the open. But I prefer stacking myself in PUG just easier to rez people and group the add together. Even if I play elementalist or engineer I prefer stacking. I just dont’ stand in the stack and let the other take damage.
Welp, All Seeing dropped from Lyssa for me this morning. I’m down to 1 drop to go (Commissar’s Manifesto). My point still stands though. I have several friends trying to complete this collection as well, and they are expressing the same frustrations as me. For now though, I’m off to do my /happydance
did you actually get all the other jewel from drop? quite some accomplishment if you did.
Most tier 6 mats come from bag drops and bags aren’t affected by MF.
Right, but the question is if normal tier 6 drop more with magic find.
if people are purposely farming say sharks those dont’ drop bags. Not so sure if it’ll drop more tier 6 because of MF.
I some how managed to find most of the temple amulet just for farming dragonite ore or trying to get master traits for my Nth alt. The treasure hunter achievement is too expensive for me so I just sold it though.
I didn’t really get the eye of zhaitan or ogre wars one because I dont’ really do it for no reason.
My suggestion is to just park an alt there and login from time to time. The main problem is the pre events no one really do. I actaully do the pre events just to get my traits, so it is worth it for me. I’m not sure you’ll want to do the pre events over and over again with limited or no help just to get that achievement.
MF increase your chance to get rares, and exotics. That’s for sure. Everyone knows it.
Weather it increase your chance to get say “tier 6”. I’m not sure. I heard source claiming high MF do help getting mroe tier 6. But also some people claim other wise.
So base on what I know it’s inconclusive. If more people be able to research it. Maybe people can understand more. I dont’ even farm mobs much any more, so I dont’ know.
If you arrive 30 minutes earlier to prep. Those maps usually down teq no problem.
If you arrive 15-20 minutes to prep. Those have some chance to fail.
If you enter the map 10 minutes before. Those actaully fail quite often.
So your saying a boss is easy when people spend 30 minutes to prep for it.
you should challenge yourself by entering the map 10 minutes before the events started.
And see if your leadership can carry a team.
Instead of arriving 30 minutes to prep and have an organized team carry you.
I find it mostly a problem for people who take brakes or are new to the game.
Because quite honestly if you dont’ take any break. You would have 1000 laurel by now. I’m not sure how anyone find that not enough for alt. (besides the altaholic who want the tonics).
Yes please….
you are short in karma. That is presume you actually use it.
I burned through my 30 million karma. Wont’ mind to use the fractal relics to get more karma.
I think the problem is fractal rewards good karma, but many people dont’ need it. Skill point might be hard to come by in the future. Those relics might be useful.
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I’m not sure how much my guildmate spend on the gemstore. But every time a new black lion weapon come out, he would have 30+ black lion ticket for sell.
I presume he got a bunch of booster that way.
I think the reason no one suggested booster for power leveling is because it’s probably much cheaper to just craft your way to leveling instead of buying booster from gem store. Those booster are not cheap.
I basically just read from people who do extensive research on it. Sorry I’m mistaken. Base on what they said warrior are 5th now.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2gol18/dps_ranking/
This is their research on june. I think they said there is a patch on september which made a bit of change to it.
I thought necro had very high single target dps. It was there lack of group support that made them not desired in group play.
They dont’ have very high single target dps. Very high would mean they are at least higher than the other class. Which is not true. They are not lower but not higher too.
But the group support makes the difference. Necro is self sustainable. But don’t bring much to help other people in the group.
There’s some research by those hardcore dungeon guild. Try to search the internet for it.
Base on their research is. Top 3 is warrior, elemental, thief. They are just about head and head. I think staff elementist might be the slight highest.
Everything else is just about the same in tier2. Neco(berserker) is about same as every other class. But the big difference is necro don’t really have any skill that buff might for the group. So that’ll cause the group to lower.
You made 5 zojja sets. Are you saying everyone should make just Zojja sets and ignore all other stats?
I actaully have a nomad set too. and for wvw I use soldier.
It’s probably getting off topic. But if a person never dies in pve, what’s the point about other set which kills slower.
I only use defensive set when I have problem surviving. and that dont’ happen very often in pve.
I think your pushing like everyone else who make multiple set of the same thing or buy multiple mining pick for alt is some weirdo.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect your opinion and suggestion. But I dont’ think the chance of Anet making the change is high. Mostly because ascended is the last gier tier.
And quite honestly, I doubt many people would use anything other than berserker in pve. Mostly because they dont’ have a problem surviving in almost all the pve content in berserker.
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That reduced cost is not for paying for gearing, because the account bound item is already obtained, but to save the time and hassle of switching the stuff cosntantly between characters.
you act like no one is willing to pay those extra just to remove the hassle to switch gear.
I have like 5 zojja’s greatsword because I don’t like the hassle. I have multiple zojja’s heavy armor set and lightarmor set too.
Many people I know actually crafted multiple gear set eventhough they can just run to the bank.
I’m a partial mix myself. Some of the characters I played more often, I just craft a seperate set for them. The characters I play less often I just use the bank to swap gear.
Making another set is an even greater hassle and grind for something I’ve already done.
THe point I’m making is not about making this easy and cheap.
It’s making it so there’s no downside to have multiple characters over favoring just one.
For a single-character player with a “main” that barely plays with the other characters this is a non-issue.
For players who favor multiple characters it’s something to be fixed, the same way dyes and miniatures were fixed: Account unlocks.
maybe the whole reason this game dont’ have gear tier is because almost everyone have so many alts, and there is so many gear stats/upgrade combination.
I’m not arguing with you, I’m just saying do you really expect Anet to make things any easier.
Because this is probably the most alt friendly mmorpg already. I mean do you not have to grind your tier gear for every single of your alt in other mmorpg too?
I honestly doubt Anet will be making things easier.
Even though the game is casual friendly. But you still need to pay or play hardcore for convenient or cosmetic stuff.
If Anet make everything buy once duplicate on all character. I’ll be really happy (granted they give me refund of all m y duplicate first).
But I doubt it is happening.
My point isn’t that I want to do things faster than normal. My point is that I want to get the same results out of my time and effort as everyone else. Obviously, yes it should take longer to outfit multiple characters. However, in every other game I’ve played, if I have two characters it takes twice as much in game time playing, three characters takes three times my time, and four…. But, in GW2, if I have two characters, it doesn’t matter if I spend twice the time in game farming and crafting as someone with one character, I can’t reap the same benefits of that time spent. For each extra character that I have in game, I get less out of my time exponentially.
ascended armor is put in last year. If you craft everyday, you can make enough bold of damask to craft 18 sets of ascended armor.
I bet you dont’ have 18 sets.
Also you can buy the items directly from the trading post. Take damask for example you just need to spend 2 gold per damask if you dont’ want to wait.
Ascended armor probably take average folks like 50 hours of farming to get it. I dont’ see how 3-4 more hours more really matter that much to buy from TP directly.
I don’t understand how anyone can be rich enough to craft so many ascended gear.
And that is from someone who crafted like 6 sets of ascended armor and like 30 ascended weapon.
Just make sure to refine everyday. Not only when you needed it. You should have more than enough by now.
Also you can buy deldrimore ingot or bolt of damask from the trading post. So you dont’ need to wait.
I also bought like 12 ascended amulet with laurel. I dont’ have a problem with laurel. There is a bank with reasons. Just go to the bank and grab it if you need it. I have 26 lvl80 right now. Dont’ mean I need 26 ascended amulet.
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I’m not much of an AP person myself.
But I think the system should allow people that start late to have a chance to reach the top too presumely he play … like 24/7.
The daily and monthly AP is capped anyway so people’ll be able to get those anyway. All those temporary missed events AP are gone for ever.
I think the AP system should have been better designed, but it’s a bit hard to change mid way through. Probably the new mastery system will be similar but better.
I’m personally very excited about stronghold.
That being said if I say it’ll be cool to have 20vs20, 50vs50, or even 100vs100. I hope people wont’ discredit it and say it’ll be totally boring. I played a few games with those, and it is actually quite fun.
I listened to an interview by Colin and he mentioned about it. Talking how wvw is the large scale combat, spvp is the small group fight. He’s thinking about some middle sized fight himself.
That being said, it’s probably too hard to do it in the context of guild since there is too big of variation on guild size and activities. It probably have to be similar to EOTM but with a bit more depth.
Anyway, I can’t wait for the expansion, strong hold, and the new specialization.
I would say it sounds rather much like GvG.
But I assume you are talking about the BvB that people have created in this game and have decided to call GvG?
I don’t even know what you mean. As I dont’ play GW1.
I think he means a fight where the entire guild can participates and not just 5-10 of the 500 people in the guild.
I have no idea how the stronghold or ranking system will work. So it’s a bit early to say. I hope that it is something everyone in the guild can participates, and not only 5-10 of the best people in the guild can participates and hope no other people join so it won’t bring down the ranking.
That being said, the things they said will be in the expansion already blow my mind. Having a large battle where the entire guild can participate would be cool. But I’m not let down because there is so much things coming in expansion already.
I think most people already know that, because that’s how G1 works.
I kind of hope for a battle where the entire guild can participate myself. So I am disappointed. But on the other hand, everyone knows how popular MOBA is. And having a new pvp mode which ressembled MOBA is quite cool.
Also I think the ability to register as a guild and rank a team is quite cool. That’s not previously done very well before.
I doubt I’m good enough to make the cut for my guild’s stronghold team. But I’m sure I’ll be cheering on them. I hope a guild’s can register multiple team also so more people can participate.
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However, things like bandit crests tend to pile up even if you’re not trying to hoard them and even if you’re spending or destroying them all the time it is kinda annoying to have to always organize your inventory over and over, especially if you play in places like Drytop or Silverwastes regularly, where you’re getting geodes or crests really fast.
For sure. I mean I could spend the bandit crest now to buy obsidian shard or crafting bag. But what if Anet fixed condition damage and it become the new meta.
But what if I spend the crest on trinket but Anet never fixed condition damage, that’s just a waste. So hard to decide! Let me just toast those bandit crest to storage.
One of my characters is almost full of dragonite ore ….
Better stock them up too! What if the new precursor crafting need them!!!!
I have 60 characters. I have space problem too.
I think the problem is called hoarding. Deep down you know 90% of the things you hoard have no use, but you keep hoarding them. Just in case they find a use in the future.
For example http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Princess_Miya%27s_Wig, should I trash it or not! What if they find a use in the future!!!!
Why am I even stocking up one time use hair kit when I have a permanent one! But those cost a fortune on the gem store!
What if apothycory become the new meta! Better stuck up those ascended ring from fotm!
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I typically waypoint if I go completely dead in events like these, and yes you do miss out on the loot-
Does anyone know is this is true? say I did some damage to the champion troll but died and WP back and can’t run back in time.
Do I still get the troll Extracted Part from using the extractor?
LoL in the maps ive been people wont even ress the downed, at least some of you would help the downed, thats a little hope. I wish anet.net let us know how scaling in this event really works.
I think it’s a bit exaggeration if no one rezed the downed. It’s probably just people not paying attention. Most of the time I use spirit elite on my ranger so I can rez downed player more easily.
And it’s not like it is easy to distinguish between downed player and full dead with so many things going around.
My general observation is it does when I’m fighting the troll during breach.
ALso people act like it is easy to rez people, especially those that are full dead. If it is so easy to just stand in one place and press F, people won’t die in the first place when they can move around.
A better question is “do you still get the rewards anyway if you WP”. If the answer is yes, those dead people should no doubt way point back.
Also to the person above me. It depend what they mean “period of time”.
should i spam signet of spite? I mean if you spec in signet the cooldown is 48.
Is the condition applied worth it, or should I just don’t active it since the passive is more power.
Most of the dyes are cheap you can just buy from the trading post. There are also some more expensive dyes, usually those are from gem store, but can also be bought from TP.
I have some bug that all of my guildmates appear offline for some reason.
I think it’s due to me relogging too fast, and my guild list didn’t redo the status.
I don’t think it’s worth using a transmuation charge over a low level gear that you will replace in a few hours.
So basically I just use transmutation charge for lvl80 gear.
Most of Nexon’s game is pay to win.
NCSoft is probably one of the few companies most of their game is subscription, or isn’t so cash shop focus in asia.
I’m not sure what Nexon’s complain is. I’m not sure if it is even mmorpg related. Maybe they hope NCSoft develop more mobile game etc.
I see a bunch of people in my guild in invisbile mode. But they seemed to be able to see guild chat.
I thought you can’t see guild chat if you are in invisible mode? I’m not sure how they able to see it.
I’m surprised so many people use skill point for superior siege.
Since for example superior flame ram is only 13 silver on buy order. You’ll need to spend 1 skill point just to save 10 silver to craft it.
…If you are willing to drop say 10$ cash, that can buy you around 650 superior flame ram. I personally spend 10$ a month buying gem myself.
That really makes sense because people will have to craft it, if it isn’t you it’s someone else who will not have skillpoints as well. Not sure what your point is.
I always thought almost all of the superior siege weapons on the trading post are from rewards such as JP/map completion/rank up etc.
I’m surprise people willing to spend a skill point just for 10 silver.
You can make much more money promoting other items. If you willing to take some time to buy lots of tier 1 wood, and craft them into plank. You can probably make 4 gold per skill point. You can buy like 30 siege that way.
That’s why I always thought all the siege from the trading post are from map completion or rank up.
edit: i mean promoting tier 2 wood not tier 1. that’s a mistake.
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I’m surprised so many people use skill point for superior siege.
Since for example superior flame ram is only 13 silver on buy order. You’ll need to spend 1 skill point just to save 10 silver to craft it.
If anyone didn’t know there’s a vendor which sell glove with karama. You can buy 4 and put it in mystic forge which give a new glove you can salvage for linen. So you can make about 8silver/1000 karma, that can probably help with the war effort.
If you are willing to drop say 10$ cash, that can buy you around 650 superior flame ram. I personally spend 10$ a month buying gem myself.
when the imbued shaman bubbled. Does he regen any health at all. Or he only regen health when he reached a villager.
Also when he reached a villager does he regen 25% health immediately? or he slowly kill the villager and regen life from the villager.