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edit: think we are at 942,601. Not that far off. need 60k more people. I Just logged on facebook and did my job.
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You need to buy the recipe. you can’t discover it.
maybe more people are leveling crafting too because of ascended gear being account bound.
You can always guest if you want to do arah dungeon.
But if you want to do the “arah event” for fun or the grand chest, you might have to fight the farmers for it. Since the event is not always up or there isn’t always people on other server.
I already have armor smith, artisan, jewler, and chef done btw
Not possible. Or will be very time consuming to make possible you might as well level it the normal way. But you should be very near the 80 if you spend 21 gold. You will get to 74 easily. But will have problem getting to 80 on your last craft.
Someone already give you the link. Go read it. It showed you the cost.
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- In GW2, the universal currency is gold, so people will still be doing the same dungeon even if they done it 1000 times. So they get more impatient if they done it so many times.
In other games the dungeon rewards are usually specific loot, or tokens that gives loot. So after certain amount of runs you no longer need to do it again.
- Because the universal currency is gold, if the dungeon group is failing. People get the mentality they might as well quit and do other things to farm gold which is more efficient.
In other games, people are more patient, because they really want that epic sword that can “only” drop from the last boss. So they bare with the wiping.
- In GW2, token is universal. So people who want to gear up their alt can play say their warrior and gear up all their alt.
In other games, many loot are soulbound, so people that want say a dagger have to play on their thief. This creat more diversity and make the game more fun when you are actually playing your alt to acquire gear instead of playing on your main only to gear up.
- many games have raid timer up to weeks. So no matter how much times you have, you can only kill the same boss 4 times in a month.
In GW2, the diminishing return is on a day timer. And could be easily bypassed by playing multiple alt. So people end up doing the same dungeon hundred of times in a month.
In other mmorpg. There are usually multiple “mode”, for example “easy, medium, hard”. So newbie and experienced player are usually seperate apart.
In GW2, you have people with 10,000 achievement point doing AC with a person who just reach level35.
I felt that’s why the dungeon group in GW2 are usually more impatient. At least that’s how I personally felt.
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it ends up feeling like everyone’s only purpose is to be a damage dealer, instead of being a supporter that sacrifices damage to supplement their group
The problem is support don’t actaully sacrifice damage. Just because your wearing PVT dont’ make you a better support.
ANd you dont’ need to sacrifice much of any damage to get good support ability. (eg warrior sacrificing little damage to use warhorn, or elementist sacrifice little damage and get super healing from specing in water"
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@The Mexican Cookie, with what indigo and vox said, imo it just dumbs down everything and doesn’t allow for variety of play, tho with the current design of the game, i not really hating on it, and understand it’s just better, just asking what could be improved.
@Nike Porphyrogentia, My question wasn’t asking whether back/midline dps/support was efficient (i already know that it isn’t), I was asking how to make it just as efficient has a zerker, what would it take to get those roles more accepted.
There are no way. Because anyone using range and wearing soldier gear have a much easier time. So how could you not give the people taking risk more efficiency.
Unless you pretty much make the dungeon so difficult that it is impossible for people to melee and wear berserker to survive. Than it’s pretty much range kite zerg fest.
It’s just the way the game is designed. It is much safer to hit monster/boss at range so people who melee should be rewarded more(more dmg).
Another problem is class are designed to do everything. Just because Im’ a berserker warrrior I can still use knockdown with mace 5, I can weapon switch to rifle, and I can use 1 or 2 utility slot for condition removal.
Maybe give people specing into support “more utility”. Since specing in to dps dont’ make you any less of a support.
You know I could understand your concerns if Anet kept releasing armors.
But they told us that this would be the last tier of armor. We all know they wanted to release ascended at release but couldn’t. Ascended is the gap between exotics and legendaries.
If you refuse to believe in Anet then unfortunately you should probably just move on.
But they also said they going to increase level cap so…
For me it really depend how much I play my toon. I gear them up if I play them alot, else I don’t bother.
I bothered to get some ascended trinket on my alt. Those are easy to get, but things like ascended backpiece I Just skip that. Too much work for my alt which I don’t play that much.
Though achievement points are no way to measure skill in the slightest.
So 2 player. 1 with 500 acheiemvent, another with 5000.
You telling me the “probability” of them to be skilled is the same?
It’s really a probability thing.
I’m usually not picky because it is so hard to get a group already. But thing you do realize is dungeon have a tendency to be smoother if people are playing certain class, higher level, higher achievement point, experienced etc etc.
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This picture reminds us once again that you shouldn’t judge people based on their class.
And no doubt some classes are better than others. There is an imbalance, make no mistake.
Nothing more to say. Just because there is 1 good run, don’t mean there are many other bad runs.
I’d like to increase my chance of having smoother run.
Can’t you trait yourself for -20% signet cooldown in radiance to trim resolve down to 32s?
You can, but you also miss out on builds like increase spirit weapon by 50%, or master of concecration. 0/0/30/30/10 is probably more superior to 0/10/30/30/0 if you have human heal.
I manage to get my dungeon master title without too much of a problem.
Just check the gwlfg page often. Not every group require experienced in arah.
The 2 advice I can give you is use food and consumable. A ghost slaying sigil and a potion of ghost slaying can boost your damage by 20%. Another is try to get a berserker set for path 4 if you havn’t already.
ever since the patch I have to wait like 10 more second before I can exit dungeon. Because the loot blocked the exit dungeon button. Anyway to get around it?
I got a bunch of pvp item from the achievement chest. ANd sometimes I get double.
I know nothing about structure pvp. Is there any point on keeping double of the same item?
I don’t think you need to go full melee to be effective as a Ranger
You don’t. But the problem is people still get the mentality ranger use bow and longbow.
If I’m a warrior or thief I get frawned on if I use range weapon. But most people don’t have a problem with ranger using bow.
If people just think that melee = high risk more damage. Range = lower risk less damage. It is much easier to understand why ranger is design that way.
I would say ranger is as good as other class meleeing, if not for the jump chain attack. So it is very hard to use.
For dungeon, the way to do most damage is to use a melee weapon for ranger…
But the problem is the people who play ranger don’t use melee weapon. So they get the idea ranger can’t do dps.
Not only that, because of the dodge mechanic, it is very hard to play ranger.
I tend to like 30/10/0/0/30 a bit more. I’m not sure how much % is empowered. I thought it was 2%, but wiki says 1% now for some reason. So I rather have the vulnerability stack.
I dont’ have that much problem with hit box. Axe hit just fine for me. If I’m that desperate for larger hit box, I go axe/axe and use offhand 5. Beside, I still have GS as my secondary weapon most of the time. GS is pretty good for running.
Im’ not surprise someone have 23k. I probably made around 4k by just farming too much. The problem is I spent all my money. If I been smart and save money for “investing”, I probably be alot richer.
The problem is what’s the point on having all those money unless your goal is to have a bunch of legendary weapon and armor or just to play trading post tycoon. And if you save all those money just to make more you won’t be wearing legendary for a long time.
I think what they said is mf from gear will disappear. I’m not sure they meant food too.
For pve i just use axe/mace now. 30/10/0/0/30. full zerker with ruby orb. It’s kind of easier to dodge, since I don’t get lock in hundred blade. And 2 weapon means 2 sigil. That’s probably the greatest offset, so the dps isn’t that different.
I use rifle myself, but do have a longbow. longbow probably better in group for it’s utility.
Believe me, just level 1 character to 80 first, and play the end game a bit. And decide what to level next.
If you meant to do it by “map completion”, just rotate character when ever you finish the zone, so you still remember the zone and can do it fast.
I just level 1 at a time. I think that’s more fun. Have 8 character with full map completion and story completed.
There are also other ways such as crafting your way to 80. That’s the fastest way to do it. just grind gold and use it to level your character. Another way is to switch to lower level character when finishing a dungeon to quickly gain a few level. I really hate when people do that, but that’s a quick way to level.
Why is everyone making everything so complicated. If precursor drop rate increase, the price will surely drop. Probably not by much since the popular precursor are probably governed by the mystic force. But the price of tridend or spear precursor will most likely drop.
It’s already proven. It happened in the Karka event.
I think what people mean is the big picture. If precursor drop rate increase, some people get lucky will get more money thus increase the price of other items such as tier 6 materail.
are you joking? berserker is the best set for arah. Those arah group which don’t use berserker are much worse.
I joined an arah 4 group who have been stuck for 5 hours. And the moment I joined we kill the boss immediately. they dont’ have enough dps. ghost slayign sigil + force axe/mace helped them there.
It’s true those zerker warrior might have a hard time. At least they have a much easier time than the other non zerekr toon
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I get what you are saying, but everything is relative. those every class berseker pug are “much worse” than the typical warrior/mesmer group.
Those typical all class group take like 10 minutes. So if you think those warrior group are bad etc etc…
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I don’t think anything changed. Everyone doing speed run cof only will be doing speedrun on other dungeon path.
The money reward is once per day according to the blog post. Means repeating the path wont get you money it will just get you tokens.
“To encourage players to participate in a wider array of dungeon content, we’ve designed the system so if you complete the same dungeon path twice in one day, you’ll receive the normal reward for completion, but won’t receive the bonus gold reward again during that day.”
I dont’ think you get what I’m saying. People are doing speed run on all path. like 6 minutes cof path 1, follow by 8 minutes path 2, followed by 7 minutes SE path 1, followed by 8 minutes AC path 1, etc etc..
We’re talking about the CoF1 farm specifically, the people who do the path ad nauseam. For them, the game has changed.
I think those people who farm cof 10 hours a day, won’t have a problem farming other dungeon.
The 4 warrior, 1 mesmer cof group is always faster because those farmers are usually the more experienced people. The typical all berserker any class group are usually much slower because “those guys are inexperienced”. Else every berserker group should only be 1 minutes slower than the typical 4 warrior group.
ya I probably have to find some good fix group to do dungeon.
I tried a few dungeon solo yesterday to learn some of the dungeon better. The zerk style will always be the standard to speedrun.
I don’t think anything changed. Everyone doing speed run cof only will be doing speedrun on other dungeon path.
The money reward is once per day according to the blog post. Means repeating the path wont get you money it will just get you tokens.
“To encourage players to participate in a wider array of dungeon content, we’ve designed the system so if you complete the same dungeon path twice in one day, you’ll receive the normal reward for completion, but won’t receive the bonus gold reward again during that day.”
I dont’ think you get what I’m saying. People are doing speed run on all path. like 6 minutes cof path 1, follow by 8 minutes path 2, followed by 7 minutes SE path 1, followed by 8 minutes AC path 1, etc etc..
I don’t think anything changed. Everyone doing speed run cof only will be doing speedrun on other dungeon path.
People arguing against this want the game to remain melee-only. First MMO I’ve ever played where “ranged” wasn’t an option.
Maybe it’s because fighting at range is so much safer in this game.
Try to do speed run. Do the dungeon as fast as possible and see what your limit is. Those are pretty fun.
Why do people keep saying guardians? They really aren’t that amazing. Their only amazing quality is that they can maintain aiges for the players that rarely get hit and projectile wall on the few bosses that rely on projectiles. They don’t have that much damage and they need to swap to staff to generate good might stacks. And to all the pure tank guards… why? I’ve had more useful condition rangers in my groups then I’ve had tank guardians. At least when I have a ranger in my group all the annoying particle effects from the guard doesn’t manage to blind me and make the boss completely cloaked in shiny blue crap while being surrounded by more shiny blue crap.
I don’t know. I suppose the less you dodge the more damage you do. Maybe that’s why Lyssa rune seems pretty popular for mesmer this days.
If I do more than 5 daily list. Can I get more than 5 daily achievement point?
Or do you get at most 5, even if you do 6 from the list.
The real difference is probably in the experience. Since there isn’t much difference between a level35 and level80 in raw stats.
My guardian just got to level30, so I compare it to a levle80 guardian in AC story. Dont’ seem to be much difference. My 30 guardian is wearing blue, while my 80 guardian is wearing exotic and 6 ascended jewel.
level 30(dps) level80 level30(balance)
power 496 406 396
percision 466 411 381
toughness 206 401 306
vitality 206 318 306
condition damage 100 22 0
Boon duration 0 0 0
critical damage 6 12 16
agony resistence 0 6 0
attack 810 745 713
critical chance 56 48% 39%
armor 492 730 592
health 2292 3412 3292
condition duration 10% 0% 0
healing power 0 67 100
virtual recharge rate 0 0 0
magic find 12 12 12
HP 2407 3583 3457
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There’s a chance Labyrinthine Cliffs might be permanent. So it’s possible that the merchant will still be there. Just the Zephyre are gone.
No one knows except for Anet.
And the two candidate for the election is trying to sign a trade agreement. So it’s “possible” those merchant will be permanent.
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For warrior, make sure to learn, for great justice, endure pain, balance stance, frenzy, “maybe dolyak signet”, signet of rage and warbanner.
Good weapon to have are, axe/axe, great sword and rifle.
Make sure to be at least level35 before you try ac explorer.
Problem I have with necro is lack of AOE. If I’m going power dagger build what am I going to use as secondary weapon? staff for AOE? or spend 3 utility slot on well?
Maybe someone can shine the light, because I want to go power necro, but end up going hybrid because power necro just dont’ have the aoe power.
The reason why it is hard capped is because some one managed to get 10k achievement points by simply salvaging alone.
Not what I was asking in the least… in the current menu achievement panel, in game, it says it is infinite when it is mostly likely caped at 250.
I think it’s because it is infinite, you can keep doing it over and over again. You just don’t get achiemvent point after 250. Kind of like the dungeon hobby system.
does ranger’s spirit stack if there are more ranger?
there are a few new one for living story. gendaran field atherblade, divinity reach, disseu plateau, wayfarer foothill.
check those area, if not, check chanty of secret
I don’t have a problem with account bound item. Just creat a mule and move there.
But the problem is with soul bound item. You have no choice but to put them in your bag or bank. There are item set I want to get, but purposely didn’t get it since it take too much bank space.
I’m wondering for single target. Does bow or rifle do more damage?
Does long bow or rifle do more damage for single target “without trait for it”?(presuming I’m wearing berserker)
I’m wondering since sometime when I’m in trouble in dungeon, I’d like to range instead of melee till I can heal.
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There are other type of farm/speed run. You can try to join. They are usually less strict. Those group usually can do 6 runs per hour without problem. Even the elite group can’t run more than 8 runs every hour(at least 99% of them), so the difference isn’t that big.
Group you can try to join are:
warrior/mesmer group without ping gear requirement.
berserker only group without class requirement.
farm run without any requirement.
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I havn’t play thief for a while. I thought there is a skill that let you do double attack(or something of that sort), but I can’t seem to find that skill now. Did they make some change to that?