Guild Wars 2

It seem that ArenaNet has always intended for the format which OP suggested, and dungeons to be a part of that story, as in Personal Story (Arah story) and then in LS S1: Molten Facility, Aetherblade Retreat with temporary short ‘dungeon’ instances like Scarlet’s Playhouse, Canach’s Lair. Along with these they introduced new memorable open world fights like Tequatl, Triple Trouble, Marionette, Escape from LA etc.

What I’m saying is Season 1 gave us a much better taste of different content all round every 2 weeks than in Season 2. The pace is slower / content seems to go in a different direction (more like building up the story again (aka Personal Story steps).

It makes me wonder if there is really all to it, if they plan to take a step back for PVE or have something bigger in plan.

LFG ‘seems dead’ because groups fill up so quickly they disappear from the listing.

Also the last DnT dungeon tournament Twitch stream had about 1.4k viewers.

The dungeon community has always been competitive in speedclearing times (check out gwscr.com), even 2 years in, with the same set of dungeons.

It would possibly be better if the current set of dungeons are left as it is (besides fixing most of the bugs) and not revamped till Anet has real resources for a dungeon team.

It’s the official forums, ppl whine how they want.

Does it mean crucial fights in the story will become a 5 man ‘dungeon’ like Missions in Gw1? Maybe they will leave the classic dungeons the way they are then..

Good thing guesting is still there.

Would we be happy if we only get new Fractals later? Fractals doesnt cut it for me. A new format of elite areas based on ‘open’ maps like Arah with dynamic challenges you have to complete like Underworld/Realm of Torment in Gw1 would win me over.

I would go commander tag + char slots (40% off is quite nice) or any skin you fancy.

It’s a common thing to lose your progress in Gw2.

I wonder what they’ll surprise us with in Week 2: A Fresh Start. I’m cautiously hopeful but sceptical lol. Cos so far the game (especially LS season 1) has been like an experiment for the next big thing they are working on, and LS season 2 is like a thinly drawned out and long preview.

My 2 warriors and ranger

1: Admiring the view in Godslost swamp, Queensdale.
2: Cold and quiet night on the Cursed Shores.
3, 4: Ranger at one of my favourite gw2 trees, in Plains of Ashford, once shown to me by a funny and friendly Charr.

Relist items on tp
Chop trees, mine ore
Play fashion wars
Get my fiery rush and meteor shower fix
Pug arah to get lupi fix
Occasional teq with TTS
Do a keyrun and rage at rng
Log off

- Salvage-o-Matic, great for keeping your bags from filling when farming/trains.
- Bank Tab
- Watchwork Pick, gives extra sprockets
- Ore Node, good with Watchwork Pick
- Spare character slot if you keyrun or need to farm transmutation charges

I would avoid these: minis, trans charges, bl chests / salvage kit, other infinite gathering tools since 1000 gems is about100g now, cheaper to get the perma merchant off tp.

It will be a reskin of the HOM longbow.

It’s still bad, and they should really remove items like skill scroll and essences of luck from the table.

Recent pugs stack for the small spiders and run out to fight queen o.0 even with 2x eles. From a random pug once:

-“I’m so glad they fixed the dumb stacking at queen”.
-“Fighting normal (not stacked) is easier.”

/15 charrs cried

Never join AP req groups.. its a lie… needs better lfg captcha.

I’d hoped they fix some npc and end reward bugs. Oh well, lfg gear check inc!

/15stackedcharrs

Ooh Dungeon patch notes. What bout P2 wp and AC bugss.

Maybe it’s partly Anet’s description that gives the impression :P

Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation.
— GuildWars2.com Ranger

I’ve come across some decent rangers in pugs who bring frost/spotter/dps pet but they use GS mostly. I guess rangers are more welcomed in organized guild groups?

Hi Obal, which Fractal fights are the backup set useful in? I have a spare set of Soldiers and wonder if it’s better to use Knights/Celestial or just the same anyway?

Knight/Soldier/Celestial – Starter Set, Backup Set, and “Tank” Set for some Fractal tactics. This will lead to 8-11% DPS loss fully buffed using the hammer build and up to 15% unbuffed. I did not check numbers on the other build.

Iris Ng.9845:

Is this rune good for anything? I’ve collected a set. Should I keep it or purge it? I’ve been playing all classes and game modes. Just wondering what is the rune worth outside dungeons. Speaking of which, I have seen a mesmer using runes of the traveller and out-skipped a warrior in Arah p1 even though this mesmer was a total newbie.

I feel Centaur runes are cheaper to use on Mes, when just running for long distances you can set healing mantra to autocast for perma swiftness.

Does the Troop Commander or Kaeyi drop the Replicator recipe? or it rip with Tazza.

p1 80s experienced zerker only.
Staff guard, bowbear, GS mesmer, pistol thief.
Rage at maximum.

Amen x2.

Will we also have a prayer to the Conjure that is both Fiery and Great?

Stacking on top of the rock for gravelings after spider queen in AC.
Guardians that empower after I finish stacking might with Ele.
Jumping up the ledge in Arah p3 after Crusher.
Ranging the dredge car in SE p3.

There’s a problem with LFG, that some people dont read. I’ve had champ box farmers join my SE group, who went ahead and selected p1 first, then leave abruptly without a word before the last boss. I started the instance myself luckily.

Still getting this alot, unable to load 2 chars into lornar’s pass after trying to zone in for the specific TTS map for Wurm.

Hi, am having this problem since the april 15 patch, when I log out to character select screen and log back in, the map will be stuck at 0% in maploadinfo, unless I restart the client, then it will redownload about 20MB file before I’m able to get in game. Any idea what causes this? Thx.

Edit: already tried fully repairing the archive many times, deleting the local.dat, but still stuck at Lornar’s Pass for 2 characters.

haha yea, it was a player in my party. he said it was from the new hairstyles.

Thanks Astral, but the face of the character is Human, and from the back he doesnt have a ponytail unlike the Norn hair, it’s flatter like a crew cut. It’s really wierd because I cant find it too.

I was told this is from Human Male, one of the new hairstyles but I couldnt find it even with the Total Makeover. Do I need to buy a new hairstyle kit? Does anyone know which one is it?

I find that posting zerker speed run / gearcheck / melee only / ‘some quirky description’ works for finding like minded players who are (hopefully) in meta, and generally know the dungeon well enough. Have mostly avoided exp only groups with no requirements.

in x year(s):

[OMG Thank You ANET for fixing party merging!]
[Plz fix exploitable mode, so many swimmers…]
[Yessss finally Cantha!]
[Can we have a dungeon team respond please?]
[New cape styles]
[Zommoros hates me… QQ]
[Kicked at last fractal wtf?!!#!$@!4]
[What to do now? where is the end game??]
[Why do China players have this? we want it too..]

Sniper!

/15 charrs

This reminds me of upgraded Guild Halls in Gw1 where you can map to using Guild panel and it has storage and merchant npcs, very convienient.

I like going to Rata Sum, and Firebreak Fort in Maelstrom for selling of stuff and TP, Ebonhawke too but it’s on the far right.. Maybe Anet will add more fancy ‘terrace’ locations to milk more $$$ haha.

Still bugged sometimes.

laharl.8435:

Honestly, a guide similar to this held me back for ~6 months. Here I was thinking yeah tanking hits and soaking up damage is good, when little did I know, I was a detriment to every pug I entered. I figured this popular guide must know what’s going on. So I spent a bunch of gold and tanked hits like a ‘pro’, barely getting better.

Same thing happened to me when I started out on Guard, I was looking into builds and gear that would give me 3k attack / def and 16+HP. It’s great that we now have a DPS Guardian guide stickied.

I guess how this ‘BEST Guardian Build’ guide appeals to newer players is that it proposes a single all rounded build using a single set of celestial armor and trinkets so they would not have to switch between builds and get additional gear for Zerging/Roaming/PVE/Achievements(lol), even more so with the addition of Ascended armor and the time/gold required to craft full sets. Plus that defensive stats makes them so tanky (dead dps = no dps) so it must be good.

in before thread merge.

Selling posts on lfg isnt spam, it’s a legit post looking for a group. It’s not like gold selling posts in mapchat which sell gold for Real $$$, and you get whisper spammed and have to block bots.

Joining and kicking sellers is griefing, that’s lfg tool abuse.

You will see more selling posts on LFG tool because it takes quite awhile to find buyers sometime and the other normal dungeon LFGs get filled up so quickly you dont see them.

Maybe a few yeears later, when lfg tool comes out of beta there will be filters for $$ posts and no party merging.

Does it only drop in p2? I want dem lunch codes but can never do p2 enough and recipe drop rates are abysmal. My favourite dredge item besides Revolutionary Flyers, it’s kinda of a fun collectible reward.

So true list, #2 tho gets my 10/10 hahaa.

Here’s a quick recap. Why would you still need word from Anet? The support team may just have confused Dungeon Sellers selling for in game gold with real money.

“Thanks for pointing out that we seemed to have had a bit of miscommunication about offering “runs” as a service in the game. I can tell you that runs are not disallowed if they do not in some other way form a breach of the User Agreement or Rules of Conduct. We consider such an offer a form of a “gentleman’s agreement” where two parties agree to a specific service for an agreed sum in in-game currency (or in-game items, as the parties decide).

Naturally, if the run itself involves the use of an exploit, that service is strictly and fully disallowed. (And of course we want to hear about any exploiters.) Runs for real-world money or goods are, likewise, strictly prohibited. And if the service ends in a disputed situation — for instance, someone offers a run and then leaves the party, or offers to pay and then declines to do so — then we may take action against a scammer, if an agent is able to confirm what took place. But because the service is a gentleman’s agreement, we do not get in the middle of repayments, re-dos of the run, etc.

Thank you for asking about this. I’ve written and circulated an internal e-mail so that all team members are clear about our policy on this.

Regards,

Gaile Gray
Support Liaison
ArenaNet"

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Please-fix-people-selling-dungeon-slots/page/5#post1162080
Hi everyone,

Just posting to inform you all that selling dungeon runs its NOT against the rules. People are free to do so. Please, exercise extreme caution to avoid getting scammed.

Thanks for your understanding

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Selling-dungeons-is-allowed/first#post3005032
Hello,

it is allowed, if you have a dungeon (you take as an example Arah) alone or in pairs legally – ie, without skips, exploits, bugs or other illegal means – through play, then sell in-game Lfg tool against gold to player ?

Thanks in advance for the answer.

answer
[11/10/2013 08:57]

Hello […]

Thank you’ve turned to the European support team.

There should be no problem, as long as it does not violate the User Agreement, or if you play through the dungeon without exploits or similar.

Should any questions or problems arise, please contact us any time you are available.

Sincerely yours

GM Andi
Guild Wars 2 customer care
http://de.support.guildwars2.com

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Rightful-reporting

A guildwars tradition
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/currupts-running-services-outpost-missions-t10527035.html

Warriors have an easier time finding groups compared to say ranger or engineer, mostly I guess because they are easy to play in full zerker, have great self buff and mobility, and while many still think Warriors deal highest dps (I had warriors fighting for cof Gate and arguing with thief on hundred blades dmg…). Although it seems common to stack warriors in groups there’s always need for other classes like Guard for TA, Mesmer for projectile heavy dungeons, Ele for easy AC burrows. Albeit only small specific parts.

Are you maining a Mes OP? You should not need to reroll unless you want the option of having a War for runs or you’re in a guild that requires lvling one.

Hmm fluffy name sounds familiar in lfg but I’ve not played with them before. My friend was kicked from a normal p3 pug run once, I also joined a P2 where the leader and a friend started kicking everyone when brie at 25%, so yep there’s definitely some out there who are doing it.

Back then when devs used to update the Release Notes about fixes to Dungeons and open world, they added this feature to prevent this:

If the owner of a dungeon instance intentionally leaves his party to kick out players and invite new players, it will now also kick that owner out of the dungeon to prevent people from kicking PUG members and inviting guild members for the final boss of a dungeon.

But I guess they forgot about how PUG kickers could also start the dungeon with a friend and kick everyone else out. This intended feature probably wont be changed unless they want to do an overhaul of the LfG system, who knows maybe something will happen when the LfG tool comes out of beta. Maybe they are still gathering feedback and it’s probably low on their list since no devs acknowledged the issue since.

Laeki.6523:

how are necromancers doing in dungeons?

They are doing well here recently :P In game, I don’t mind a necro in my dungeon party as long they are running a dps build. Once I got 2 necros join a speedrun and some party members left immediately o.0 And then sometimes the pug wars in CoF complain about bringing classes like ranger and necro, even though they were already full zerk. It’s kinda sad really. Maybe the good trio for dungeons is 1. War 2. War 3. War? :P

There’s always this 3 classes archetype in MMOs/RPGs like a warrior, archer/rouge, mage. In Gw2 although we dont have the trinity, with all the combos and synergy of skills I wonder which classes in a group of 3 consisting of one heavy, one med and one light could make the best setup.

Never happened to me at hodge, but at once at the howling king, i think it was Guardian sword 2 that made me go under. my party members were laughing so hard cause I was hitting king under then he found and killed me. There’s also a glitch with War whirlind or some skills that gets you stuck behind a corridor door at burrows.

sanderinoa so cool !