Guild Wars 2

I ran this on my first alt around the beginning of the year:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmYbyx5gjDAEFm8y4hIbQSRxM4A;ToAg2Croay0koJbTumkNNEZuA

I never had trouble getting CoF groups. Most of the elitist groups make that clear on their gw2lfg posts. Just avoid those ads and you should be fine.

Darek.1836:

welp arenanet has found out I tried to cheat their system and I’ve received a 3 day ban for using the name moobs again. I guess I’m gonna have to pick out a real new name now. sigh.

That’s just priceless. Two thumbs up!

You’ll always be Moobs to me. I remember you from the dark ages when Fergies were hunted down like dogs. Weeknights you and your partner were about the only friendlies my one guildie and I every saw.

No regrets on getting Bolt for my Sylvari Mesmer. I’ve started running CoF with only one MH so i have Bolt on both sets.

I did gave a few days of “now what?” after finishing Bolt. Then i decided to slowly start working towards The Dreamer for my Asuran Ranger.

Has anyone heard anything about whether Ascended Valkyrie items will be coming?

So [FSU] is now on ET? How ironic…

Guilds have been bailing on Ferg for so long, we should be used to it by now.

XxNuggetxX.7823:

Parktou.4263:

Score update from the [WOLF]

Score like that…. Agg must be in our BL.

How’d you guess?

They held garrison and were just messing with us.

Darek.1836:

At least he’s not Krakrabbit from FC who is (actually) aut.stic and spends his entire life telling how bad the other commanders are (including when we wiped AGGs first offensive last night) and keeps his tag on even if 10 other commanders tell him to turn it off. He also proclaims in map chat how great he is for taking an entire supply camp. God I wish he would go to a top tier so even the pugs could tell him he’s stupid.

Until last night, i thought Krak’s animosity was only directed towards Edwin. Just shows what i know.

If we blacklist a commander, does his tag still show up?

Scleameth.6809:

I’m so tired at work today!!! another 1:30am run last night…

Score update anyone pls?

GoM we here at FC jokingly refer to some funny stuff you guys do as “T7 tactics”, but heck I just gotta ask why, when we were attacking durios with 4 catas, would you build a 2x flame ram on the wall?? I mean if it was close to the stairs or in the lord room then it would make sense for the burning damage, but unless it was a mistake you leave me baffled. No screenshot unfortunately since our guys destroyed it soon after it was placed (and then another one placed). All I can think of is that you have a flame troll in your midst?

Pssst – ET: GoM is taking your border land while you’re intent on setting zerg records on our precious little EB holdings.

I can understand rams at choke points, but when I see a ram on a wall I assume someone just dropped the wrong blueprint.

I’d say either:
1. GS & Sword/x
2. Staff & Scepter/Torch

While Necro would not be my first pick, it is a good choice. It might be a good idea to do at least some PvE just to learn your skills.

Sounds like you got a bad commander and/or bad timing. I’m on the last place server and I got my monthly kills in about 1.5-2 hours of weeknight primetime.

Regarding the FPS, I ran Best Appearance from headstart until the anti-culling patch. With the exception of the Lost Shores debacle, I never notice a drop in frame rate. After the anti-culling patch, my FPS drops to an unacceptable level in zerg-v-zerg battles. I just change to Best Performance and manually raise WvW Character Limit & Quality to High. That works OK for me.

FWIW, it’s not just Thieves. A Warrior can do the same if he’s lucky.

You’ll get no arguments from me that my tests were crude and the results unreliable.

All skills were off CD at the beginning of each test and the golem died so quickly that neither phantasm could be summoned twice. The idea behind Chaos Storm was to give the target some conditions to benefit Warlock.

For my tests, i just just stood right at the golem and measured the time it took to die. For staff, i used Chaos Storm and then Warlock. For OH sword, just Swordsman.

Until recently, i used GS and staff. I have become rather attached to iZerker and the knockback on GS, so it was staff that i dropped. I like iZerker for hitting multiple targets.

Has anyone done a DPS comparison between the two?  Simple tests i did on target dummies failed to show any significant difference.

Starting yesterday morning, the Black Lion Trader in WvW was not working. Anyone know if this is intentional?

WvW map completion.

Depending of how your server is doing, that could potentially be one of the more difficult parts to achieve.

Nikaido.3457:

lujate.5432:

FWIW, my Guardian has never been turned away from a group. My Mesmer has.

Did those groups already have a mesmer? It is very unlikely for a mes to be turned away if there is none inside said group, much, much less likely than for a ranger or necro. If those groups didn’t already have a mes, chances are, you probably dodged a bullet by NOT grouping with those guys.

I don’t know if they already had a Mesmer or not. A guildie and I answered a LF2M shout in LA. They asked “what professions?”, we answered “Ranger & Mesmer” and they responded “No Mesmers”.

AFAIK, the dungeon skins are only on the exotic versions.

FWIW, my Guardian has never been turned away from a group. My Mesmer has.

Dungeons have a learning curve, but most are accessible to the average player after practice. Last night,i did a full-clear of TA Up with a PUG. We had two Thieves, two Necros and support Guardian. We finished with no deaths in excellent time.

The instance owner getting DC’d doesn’t always reset the instance. I had it happen to me last week and the group finished the dungeon before I could reconnect.

I have not ran TA since the latest patch, but prior to that the average PUG could do a full-clear of Fwd-Fwd in about 45 minutes.

Go to the gw2lfg.com website. You can find groups there to whisper or join. The game does not currently have any built-in dungeon group finder.

D/D is kind of the “in thing” right now, so there are probably a lot of players who do not play it well. That being said, I’ve never seen one in a dungeon, other than mine. I think it works well, provided the group doesn’t expect me to tank (which happens quite often). I did have to switch to my Mesmer once because a guy swore you could not do any dungeon with two Ele’s.

I have completed two dungeons (AC & SE story) with only four players because someone quit. It’s possible but I wouldn’t recommend it.

Iehova.9518:

It’s not. Some people just like forcing their playstyle on others.

Both sides could use that same argument.

The room near the beginning with the worms is probably the worst part. but it gets better with practice. AOE is great for keeping the blossoms down. We like to fight right on top of the worms, it seems to help for some reason.

I would urge caution with trying to skip too many mobs when runnings PUG’s. It is often a recipe for disaster.

For the dungeons that can be contested, it helps because you may be the only person on an uncontested server.

Doesn’t the Guardian’s Sceptre have a 1200 range?

I run TA fairly regularly, and AFAIK the Fwd-Up boss fight has not changed. Like stof said, my group just auto-attacks from 1200. Make sure not to use any AOE, attacks that bounce, or any illusions/pets/minions.

FWIW, my Elementalist has never been turned away from a dungeon group, but my Mesmer has.

Not one message was a repeat. There must be something else going on.

Actually, tonight I was trying to organize in WvW. Guess ANet wants to keep Ferg down.

Anyone know what constitutes “excessive messaging”? I’ve been throttled for one message every few minutes, while others just spam chat repeatedly. Just trying to understand the rules.

I use Deceptive Evasion and starting today I’ve noticed that it seems to be most often targeting the wrong mob.

My M.O. is to hit the mob with a weapons skill first (this is required for Deceptive Evasion to work). I then dodge roll twice for two clones. Previously, they targeted the enemy I just attacked. Now they seem predisposed to attacking other things, and each clone tends to attack a different foe (normally neutral critters).

On two occasions today on the FC BL, my wingman and I came across a downed defender in the middle of nowhere. Both times when when went to revive him, we had a large enemy force come out of stealth right on top on us. I am posting this here as both a warning to other players and an apology to those people I don’t stop to revive. I can tell you that from now on, when I see a downed friendly in the middle of nowhere, I’ll be running the other way.

That final event was a ridiculous, 3 hour long, rez-fest. Due to lag, disconnects and just plain stupid content, we finished up with significantly fewer people than the number we had when we started. I would like to know if this is characteristic of how the events are going to be, so I can know to skip them.

Will the upleveling for The Lost Shores event include the Fractals of the Mists dungeon?

In my experience, it is rare for people to even ask about procession.

FC suffered a mass exodus a while back (maybe that week we got moved up a bracket and totally annihilated). Now it is common for us to have the outmanned buff on EB and enemy borderlands during US primetime.

When the event didn’t trigger, we went back and killed absolutely everything in the dungeon.

Spike traps…
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascalonian_Catacombs_%28explorable%29#Room_of_Pits

Is the Flooded Temple in Explorable 2 bugged? We got there but the event didn’t trigger. We even went back and killed every mob we could get to.

Guild: The Fellowship of Darkmatters [FDM]
Server: Ferguson’s Crossing

For the second consecutive day, I cannot access the guild bank. The NPC tells me that my guild does not have a bank.

I am the guild leader.