Guild Wars 2

Done everything solo, normal and tribulation mode, several times.

The positives about doing it solo are that you dont have to wait for people, and that the bosses scale.

The negatives about doing it solo are that some bosses and mobs are easier to kill with multiple people. The tribulation cloud for instance will only target you if you’re doing it solo (obviously) which might cause some frustration as it has an annoying knockback and is usually placed where knockbacks = death. In addition it might be hard for not-so-experienced players to complete a zone solo as there are many traps and it might help having more players around to remember the location of the traps after triggered.

I guess this post got more and more specific about soloing tribulation mode. Oh well

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Oh, and also, King Toad is alot easier if you grab a gem and then jump back to safety on one of the two rocks in the water. You can reach him from the rocks with the throw, and you can start throwing when you see the animation where he starts looking around. Using your slingshot will make it go alot faster too.

Thank you for this. Will write something here so I can find this tomorrow when Im a lil more refreshed. SAB w2z3 is one long JP hehe

I agree.

I am currently at personal level 50, meaning I have spent between 50 and 100 hours in FOTM. I dont consider myself a lazy person, but when I started with GW2 I decided to not do anything I dont get joy from doing. This has resulted in me not farming CS or other places for “mad cash”. I have a little over 50g and I have around 1300 hours played. That is very little consindering the amount of time I have put into the game. I am usually not running other dungeons than FOTM and when Im not, I do PvP. I dont think a player like myself should have to farm champions or hoard on the TP in order to get money.

TL;DR
FOTM should have a higher cash reward

Very nice work, Chris! Ive been waiting so long for something like this. Been trying this kill 50 times (15 of em on my ele) and I still cant do it. Up until now Ive thought of myself as a good guard (lvl48 fractals and rank mid 30s PvP), but this broke my confidence Ill give your way a try now, so let’s hope it returns some of my manliness to my now more ladylike body

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First try. BAM! Liadri down. Cant believe it was “that easy”. Makes me think this fight has alot to do what kind of build you’re using.

I wouldnt consider myself an amazing ele, only got a lil over 200h /age, but I have some knowledge about the role of an ele. Still, I might be terribly wrong and if someone with more experience than me replies after me, listen to them instead For now tho, I just wanted you to have a reply.

I am a lil bit hipster, but I like to stay to the meta. Right now I think 0 20 0 20 30 is a good way to go in terms of traits, where the most important trait is the dodge on Arcana GM. It decreases the recharge time of attunement swap and gives you that nice boost to your dodges.

For utility skills I like to do a lil hybrid mix. I have Lightning Flash, Arcane Wave and Signet of Air. The teleport is always handy to have. I usually use it for mobility in terms of chasing/disengaging or when using the 5 earth skill and to teleport into enemies just in the last second. Arcane Wave helps for might stacking in fire (2, 4, 3 in fire + Arcane Wave gives you a great deal of might). The Signet of Air recently recieved a buff with the stun break, and is therefore not only used for passive run speed and active blind. A nice utility to have slotted if you want to run around.

If you’re gonna bunker I think it’s better to go 0 0 0 30 30 and place 10 in either Air or Earth. I havent bunkered in a while and Im not sure if the big change not too long ago changed the water traits for cantrips. If they didnt you can trait so every cantrip remove conditions and apply regen, which is nice for bunkering.

Eles are quite squishy, especially if you want to roam around, because you should have traited for some decent damage. For your burst it’s usually a good idea to have your target standing still or still-ish, so fighting while they’re in between points might not be such a good idea for your burst’s sake (thinking of fire 2 skill for might stacking). You could still pretty much attack anywhere you want, just keep in mind that if it turns out to be a 1v2 you should have a way to disengage or to call buddies of your own. I like to run between points and mostly just help in team fights on points. This way I dont die so often and my team gets more out of my damage.

I have some builds up on my Twitch channel, but they might be a lil out of date. At least you have a place to start.

Good luck

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Yeah, the builds on my channel is very out of date. Stick to what I just wrote and Ill update the builds later today

There are tons of different ways you can go. Some will say that a healing power build is the best, some will say shouts are best, some will say meditations are best, some will say consecration skills are best. In my experience they are all good for their own situations.

In PvE I mostly do Fractals of the Mist, where consecration skills with reflects and such, are very nice, but my build actually focuses on shouts. One of the most important traits you can spec for a guardian is the Altruistic Healing which heals you every time you give a boon to someone. Using this in combination with your staff 4 skill (Empower) will heal you almost halfway up, depending on your health pool and healing power. If you combine that with Pure of Voice, which converts conditions into boons on your allies when affected by a shout, and roll with alot of shout skills, then you’ll have a good time.

Here’s my regular build
Here’s my high level Fractal build

Ive had a lot of success with this build and it’s even a lil bit aggressive if you let it be. I usually swap out the GS with Scepter/Shield in high level fractals or other dungeons where Im more important alive and supporting than I am halfdead and dpsing.

If there’s anything else I can help with, let me know. Good luck

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Added the high level Fractal build too which is a bit more tanky and might suit you better. Feel free to swap out scepter for mace. I just enjoy the distance better. I swap it for mace when I need to get in melee, while standing on the pressure plates in the dredge fractal for instance.

The cloning happened to me in the water fractal after doing the whirlpool elite.

http://nightzirch.net/gw2/gw015.jpg

I felt bad that you had made all this work and noone had given you a reply. Then I noticed you posted this today. Still, Ill leave you with a reply.

Awesome job! I was thinking of making a module on my guild site to display some basic information, like the amount of members and also the guild emblem. Basically, what we get from the API. It quickly hit me that the emblem would be a problem since the official wiki only offers them in black/white/red.

I still havent tried your script, but I still see how much work lies behind. I will give this a try when I get a chance

• Added Keg of Liquid Karma
• Since you can have Karma Infusion on several accessories, it was logical to have this as a number input field instead of a checkbox. The max value of this field is 6 as that is the maximum number of accessories you can have
• Changed the indication of how many percentages in total you get from boosters into something that is easier to understand for humans

• Added Sip of Liquid Karma, Karma Gift Box, Refugee Child’s Drawing and Encrypted Thank-You Letter
• Added Communal Boost Bonfire, but since it does not stack with +50% Karma Booster, they are put together on the same checkbox option
• Also added an indication of how many percentages in total you get from the boosters

Karmic Infusion now added, along with some other minor changes

Nikon Justus.6902:

What about the 15% Karmic Infusion

Good point. Ill add that and the new +10% guild banners which does not stack with the +5% ones, so gotta do some minor tweaks.

I am happy to announce that a friend from the guild has developed a Condition Damage Calculator and let me add it to the site. Go check it out.

I also made some minor tweaks to the already working Karma Calculator, removed the Outmanned buff since it’s clearly not working, and the landing page for the domain should now be something other than a teaser page.

Click here to see the new landing page: Guild Wars 2 Calculators

I am also very happy to see there are alot of users. There are over 1000 page views and almost 600 unique visitors, meaning over 47% are returning visitors. Google Analytics is a fun tool

Feel free to share with friends, guildies and communities and to comment in this thread

njoost.6953:

Just a note. The unmanned buff from wvw also works with the jugs

I did’nt know that. Thank you. I will add it, even though it is not something a player can control. I might have it outside the control of the “Check all” checkbox since it’s not a buff you get every day. Edit: Or not. It will be affected by Check all. One could always save up all one’s Liquid Karma until the Outmanned buff appears. Thanks for the info!

BioFringe.7945:

I like it and would love to see more from you whenever you decide what you’re going to tackle next. Here’s my only constructive feedback that I have at this moment…I’d like to see the Total Amount of Karma changed a bit into something more like:

Total Amount of Karma

Initial Karma
Liquid Karma Gained
Booster Karma Gained
Total Karma
Goal
Remaining

In other words…a complete summer of everything and in a logical order.

I wasn’t sure exactly how the monthly button worked at first but it certainly didn’t take long to figure it out. Having said that, there’s something about it that doesn’t sit just right so I’ll try to figure a suggestion for that if you like.

Excellent work. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the great feedback! Right now I dont have many ideas for new calculators. Perhaps a sPvP rank calculator. I have all the glory requirements here so shouldnt be too much trouble to make.

So you’re saying you want kind of a summary? I could do that, make a list. However, right now I feel there are almost too many elements on the page. Lot’s of input fields and lot’s of text. Adding more text and information might not be the solution. It would just be confusing. Though, I could add a spoilered summary so it doesn’t clutter up the view. Would that work for you, you think? About the monthly button, I decided not to make it a checkbox and instead have a question and two radio buttons. I thought it would be the best and least confusing way to do it. I would love to hear what your thoughts are. Is it the graphical stuff doesn’t seem right? Unsure what is active and what is not? Or is it more the context? That you’re not used to answer a question like that with radio buttons? Again, thank you very much for your constructive feedback. It is much appreciated!

Aoshi.4785:

Indeed it works, I had no idea. I held off on putting it into the build queue because it says for dynamic events only. It works for liquid karma in all forms, and any other time you’d get karma. Awesome!

Awesome! Good to know. Then Ill keep it on there until I hear of any changes made. Thanks

Gehenna.3625:

So, you think it’s ok to make money with someone else’s products?

I know, right? I hate it when graphic designers abuse Adobe’s great tools and make money without paying Adobe. Oh wait…

Again, thank you all for your kind words!

Zaxares.5419:

That’s what the description says, but according to player feedback, the guild +15% bonus actually affects ALL sources of karma, including Jugs. I’m not sure if this is a bug or whether the description is incorrect.

Hmmm. I added the guild buff for now. If it seems as if they fixed or changed it so liquid karma is no longer affected, Ill remove it. I appreciate your feedback and would love to get some confirmation that the guild buff does in fact affect liquid karma.

Thank you for commenting and for the nice words!

I excluded the +15% guild bonus on purpose. According to the wiki it only affects dynamic events.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Also, it’s applying the boost to your already acquired karma.

Oh, wow. I didn’t notice that. Thanks for pointing that out, hehe. Will fix it first thing tomorrow. (Edit: fixed now)

Also, Im not so sure what a DPS calculator would do. Take a skill, add power and up the damage, add precision and figure out crit chance and up the dps? Ill keep it in mind, but I dont think it will be worth the effort

Hey!

I dont think I am alone when I say Ive had an xml document in my Guild Wars 2 folder for calculating how much karma I can get with my saved up liquid karma. I even added formulas to show how much I would get with boosts and how much I would gain by using boosts. I searched around the great big web of the inter, and found to my surprise, no real karma calculators. I then decided to make an online tool for calculating karma.

I havent had much time to develop, but I wanted to release the first working calculator as soon as possible.

So here it is: www.gw2calc.com/karma
Edit: www.gw2calc.com

As of now, the front page (www.gw2calc.com) just contains a teaser picture, but this will be changed in the near future when I get time. As I said earlier, I only focused on getting a working karma calculator out on the internet as quickly as I could.

I am planning to add other types of calculators as well, but I dont have any great ideas for these just yet, so if any of you have any ideas or requests, feel free to respond in this thread. Also if there are any programmers among you and you want to contribute to this project, feel free to hit me up on PMs or ingame.

Some of the features for the karma calculator:

• Adds all your saved up Liquid Karma to your already gained Karma
• Ability to add boosts
• Displays gained Karma from boosts
• Ability to add a personal goal, and the calculator will show how much you have left
• Tells you how many days left of daily and monthly farming you have

I appreaciate all feedback!

Changelog
16.03.2013

• Added the Condition Damage Calculator developed by Hazno
• The main page is now not just a teaser (long overdue)
• Removed the Outmanned buff since it’s not working on Liquid Karma, if at all

21.03.2013

• Added Karma Infusion
• Replaced the “Check all” checkbox for the boosters with two buttons for checking all and resetting
• Since you now can get +10% karma guild banners as well, there are now some radio buttons for the guild banners since they do not stack

03.05.2013

• Added Sip of Liquid Karma, Karma Gift Box, Refugee Child’s Drawing and Encrypted Thank-You Letter
• Added Communal Boost Bonfire, but since it does not stack with +50% Karma Booster, they are put together on the same checkbox option
• Also added an indication of how many percentages in total you get from the boosters

28.05.2013

• Added Keg of Liquid Karma
• Since you can have Karma Infusion on several accessories, it was logical to have this as a number input field instead of a checkbox. The max value of this field is 6 as that is the maximum number of accessories you can have
• Changed the indication of how many percentages in total you get from boosters into something that is easier to understand for humans