Guild Wars 2

DaddyBoJangkitten 12:

I am currently running a 1h/shield build on my warrior with shouts to remove conditions/heal a little. I have full exotic Power/Tough/Vit gear on with the superior rune of the soldiers slotted. Jormags Breath and Corrupted Bulwark with Longbow in the swap slot. All my accessories are rare mine two being exotic with crests of the soldier in them.

I can take a lot of damage but at the same time I don’t dish it out very well. My warrior is 10/0/20/30/10 build. Just wondering if based off what I have posted here what my chances in Arah are. Paths 1-4 are all that’s needed for Dungeon Master. I keep hearing of people getting kicked for not outputting enough dps and I don’t do near the damage I used to do in my old gear with a greatsword.

You’ll do fine in paths 1-3.

Svarty.8019:

Offski.4897:

Also comeon Anet let us know the new ratings system, just shows a complete lack of respect to all those who have paid for this game and put time and effort into it.

Arenanet have NO obligation to explain their internal systems to you, and I encourage them to keep them a secret.

Why do you think that? Without us, they’d be nothing. We at least deserve information and acknowledgement to the issues.

DivineBeing.2086:

Oglaf.1074:

They’re not bad but are they able to have the same impact in WvW as Mesmers and Elementalists?

Hardly.

Disagree. 5 organized necros and wipe a 20 man zerg.

Disagree. As long as that zerg has condition removals you can’d do anything. My ele can remove 15 conditions in 6 seconds. Necros are useless against me.

Quiznos.4296:

As for “OK everyone leave combat and let the boss reset so I can re-spawn and actually play the game.” I know I wouldn’t leave combat in that scenario. Maw can be pretty much solo’d.
Also, Jade Maw doesn’t really give the option of having a full party leave combat since you can be hit from anywhere on the final platform.

Even with your various arguments. Not one person has mentioned why a timer would be a bad idea. angan gets it. I mean 5 mins +the run back time should be a rez and not a rez-rush.

You sound rude and disrespectful. I hope I PuG with you just so you die and are unable to res and enjoy playing the dungeon

Adding my name to this list as well. If I’m not hosting the instance, I’d be running the path with my D/D ele and then switching to my thief during Simin for DPS. Send me a /w, mail, or forum PM.

Show us on the doll where the mean thief/mesmer/ele touched you, OP.

fade.8603:

My suggestion to everyone. Inform everyone to quit WvW by exiting to LA instead of directly logging off GW2 in WvW. Not sure if it works but worth a try.

I believe if you encountered a disconnection by the server, ur player remains in wvw for a good 30 mins. If this disconnetion is often, im sure many spots will be taken up by disconnected users

Could someone please present a reason why this couldn’t be true? Because it just makes sense to me.

Lert.6287:

F1 – fire attunement. Rather F1-1 would be fire – skill 1.

Unless you bound F1 to a different action? He means F(ire) 1.

Hats off to Icoa tonight in TC BL. You guys are a very organized group of players. Your zerg doesn’t break off just to run after one lowly player like SoR does.

appledainty.8127:

Team Dolyak [DOLY] the official cross-server guild of the yak parade is looking for more members to join The Herd!

If you’ve never heard of the herd before, then lemme break it down for you. Every Thursday people from all three servers gather at 9pm in a prearranged location, use ruminant tonics to turn into dolyaks, and march around the map together exploding fireworks until they are killed by a hostile zerg or have a glorious three-way battle at the end.

We have guild banks on both Tarnished Coast and Blackgate for those who need or want free tonics.

More information here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-Multi-Server-WvWvW-Dolyak-Parade-1/first#post1307496

And now a musical interlude with video from the last parade with SoR and TC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3edgFJZcNo

Omg that was fantastic!

jazzllanna.1278:

Well there is space on the other servers.. you know the ones that got abandoned for the next great thing. SBI has no queue on any map.

Every day there are a few posts asking for number increases, new maps, something that anet should do.. how about maybe- just maybe, consider your choice as a player and guild not to choose such high wvw population servers?

I am truly sorry for the players that had been on servers since the beginning and having to face queues because of the mass transfers, but honestly most of those servers were asking people to move there. Sure there was a 5 min queue before you attracted 1000s of new players. Just think what the queue will be with the new wvw additions that are suppose to be coming.

I do not think it is right that everyone crammed into 4 or 5 servers knowing that there are max capacity for maps and then complain about having to wait. That was something that should have been considered before moving imo.

Again sorry if it was your server before and if it is a weird bug that sucks and hope it is fixed, but seriously consider how many people moved in the last week expecting their wvw experience to be so amazing now that they are on “the” server to be on.

I hope they do not raise the population caps so that maybe there will be people that do transfer to the lower population servers and in time maybe they will all be somewhat even and fun for everyone involved.

You can’t just take high tier players and tactics down to a low tier server. You end up steamrolling every map and it ruins the fun for everyone.

Just would like to chime in and say that myself and at least 20 members of my guild have been queued since 4:30 PM PST and it’s now 7:45 PM PST and we’re still not in.

A three hour queue to play some of the only endgame that GW2 has to offer is not okay, high population server or not.

At this point I am quite certain that I will not be able to participate in my guild’s push tonight.

urzen.7096:

Spazza.6024:

urzen.7096:

TC exploiting the invulnerable spots. This guy would hang around lowlands kill people and then run back to the spot when he got in any danger. I made sure to emote at him a lot since they like it so much.

It was in SBI boarder lands and you guys kept Zerging lowlands as I was trying to solo cap it (because almost no other TCers were on the map it seemed). And no I didn’t kill anyone the most I would do it Down them because I know its wrong lol. (just ask the SBI people that were there too lol)

You expect me just stand there and let the 20 of you kill me?

You had more than enough time to kill me as I was running from the camp to the spot!

Also on a side note does Arena Net ban for people doing that? If so I am JK that was not me. If they don’t ban yes that was me.

Attacking people from an invulnerable spot is bad sportsmanship.

Ahhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

SoR lecturing us on bad sportmanship??
Sorry, I haven’t lol’d that hard in a while.

Braxxus.2904:

Jiiub.7135:

also the 2 best classes for WvW is Warrior and Guardian. BOTH NOT USING aoe as main attacks..

lol…

Did every ele/thief/mesmer/necro quit playing the game at the same time?

I know I’m not to quit but I’ll be kitten if Anet isn’t forcing the population of this game to roll a warrior or guardian to be functional.

I can’t see allies that are 10 feet in front of me but nearly every enemy is rendering immediately for me now. I think it’s a fair trade off.

I use cleric’s rings for the toughness and extra healing power. Combined with the 300 from my trait points in water, I sit at around 500 healing power. Everything else is knight’s because of the arcane trait that gives me a chance for vigor on crit. Since Zephyr’s Boon gives me perma fury, I have 40% crit chance and usually have vigor up allowing me to evade more attacks as well as proc my evasive arcana more often.

So is it possible for them to nerf ele into the ground in sPvP and leave them at least viable in WvW and PvE? I know some thief skills are different in sPvP and reading through this thread again, I see the sPvPers complaining more about ele being OP than WvWers or dungeon runners.

Blade.9317:

No score to report yet, Feisty is enjoying some water sports until reset:

I really missed your score updates!

It’s weird to say this, but I’m glad to have Blackgate back instead of SoB—err I mean SoR.

Just dropping by to share my screenshot of the parade

Thanks everyone. Learned a few good tricks here.

WIGZ.8245:

Because right now, DD literally has
everything: damage, mobility, healing, survivability. At least from a PvP standpoint.

What’s wrong with that? Almost every warrior, guardian, and thief have those attributes. Are they they only ones allowed to have any fun?

And why are they trying to buff single target damage by nerfing AoEs? People who spec for single target damage should be kitten well prepared to only damage a single target. (A shocker, I know.)
Every class can spec for AoE damage except for ranger but them needing buffs is a different story entirely.

I wholeheartedly disagree with OP. I ran a few fractals today for the first time in a while and was pleasantly surprised with the amount of lodestones, cores, rares, and exotics myself and my team got. I’ve noticed an increase in unidentified dyes as well as rare drops from regular dungeons.

Don’t let gear fool you. Yes, it is an important part of determining the outcome of a fight but it is not as important as player skill. I see experienced players on their upscaled alts take down legendary weapon wielding 80s every day.

Latinkuro.9420:

skinnyb.5920:

This thread is a lie. I am doing jump puzzles right now and having no problems crossing gaps. I was in Lion’s Arch earlier too crossing over the water and onto ledges.

It is the same as before Monday’s patch. These guys are just bad at RTL.

1 You obviously have no idea what is being talked about here.
2 new players wouldn’t notice why should they, they never experienced RTL the way it was implemented originally.

3 yes you can close very small gaps as shown by my videos taken today jan. 30th 2013.
look at what happens when you try a medium gap total failure !

4 the older video is how RTL used to be before all the nerfing !!!

I don’t know what’s being talked about? Then enlighten me.
I’m under the impression it’s about the elementalist dagger/dagger air skill Ride the Lightning being used to cover gaps of space between solid ground, which it still does.

I can see from your videos that you’re very bad at using the skill to cover gaps. It hasn’t covered gaps without jumping for months. I specifically went to the spot in your second video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdsh_nRPczM&feature=youtu.be) and replicated it several times with success. Sorry I don’t have FRAPs to prove it.

This thread is a lie. I am doing jump puzzles right now and having no problems crossing gaps. I was in Lion’s Arch earlier too crossing over the water and onto ledges.

It is the same as before Monday’s patch. These guys are just bad at RTL.

Muppet.6485:

I currently run either a 0/20/0/30/20 or the usual 0/10/0/30/30. I recently changed to 30 Arcana to spec into EA. I’ve only been playing like this for a week or so, so I’m still unsure as to if I prefer it, but I’m almost probably not using it at full efficiency.
I would also strongly recommend not building for glass cannon, yes you deal big numbers, but you receive them as well and being on the floor isn’t fun.

My gear setup is as follows:

Armor and Weapons – PVT (Soldiers)
Jewels – Emerald
Sigils – Battle
Bloodlust
Runes – 2x Sup. Monk
2x Sup. Water
2x Maj. Sanctuary/ Sup Strength or Fire —-— PvE-WvW/sPvP
(If using Sanctuary they MUST be Major, Superior runes do NOT have the boon bonus)

/edit
For slot skills I run Ether Renewal (get SAFE when you’re using this..), triple cantrip (Mist Form, Light Flash, Armor of Earth) because I find the extra survivability is more suited to me than running some arcane, but thats just me, I might change. Elite is ele glyph.

Reasoning:

Armor & Weapons
PVT gear is great, though not as damaged oriented as other gear sets, this is what I find the ele needs. Power to bring up the raw damage, Vitality to increase the base health pool, and toughness brings up the EHP, making that Vit go farther.

Jewelry
Main stat Toughness and then Power, Prec on the actual item, and the socket will be Main stat Prec with Power and Tough minor. I like these because it gives the build more raw damage, more armor – increasing EHP and giving you a much better boost to survivability then stacking more life. The precision here really makes up for the lack of it elsewhere, especially in the armor stats. This should land you around 30% or so, I don’t really remember, but that’s fine because fury will kick that up to 50% and just over which is more than respectable in my opinion. Your Fury uptime will be near constant due to Increased boon duration from Traits and Runes, and the Boon itself is generated through your two auras and changing attunements.

Sigils
Battle – I find this Sigil much to powerful to be ignored on any build. 3 Stacks of might on every attunement switch? Those build up fast and stick around for a LONG time with all the extra boon duration. This more than makes up for your more defensively stat oriented armor. In my opinion this should be mandatory.

Bloodlust – this is where there is room for a little change up. I like Power stacks. You might like Precision stacks or effects on crit. Up to you. I run stacks because they’re a constant bonus and I don’t find myself being downed too often. I also like Power (if you hadn’t noticed) for reasons already stated.

Runes
Water and Monk together net you 30% boon duration. This really increases damage potential and mobility through Might, Fury and Swiftness. The 1st tier of both give you Healing Power. Great! We don’t have any of that, we have more than enough Toughness, and it’s far better than Vit at this point.

3rd Rune Selection changes a bit for me

In SPvP I use runes that give me 20% increased might duration since I don’t have access to Minor Sanctuary for overall boon duration and I have Might coming out of my ears from Sigils.

Currently in wvw I use the minor sanctuary, but will probably change to my spvp setup. I have plenty of uptime on fury and swiftness as it is, I think I can take the hit of 10% to all boons and gain an extra 10 on might.

How to Get It

-Armor&Weapons – AC runs, and the armor comes with monk runes, great! The skin is horrid though, reskin or risk hearing about it constantly from all your guildies.
-Jewelry – Craft or buy it.
-Sigils – Find and salvage, or buy. Majors are fine placeholders until you can afford superiors or happen to come by some.
-Runes – Monks are taken care of in armor, Water can be crafted with a 400 tailor or bought and if i remember right are pretty cheap. Sanctuary are bought from the HotW dungeon token merchant.

This is what works for me, and I feel like it’s a decent starting position, but your build is yours, play how you like it.

This is a very good post.

If I may add, though, I use a Major Rune of Water instead of Sanctuary and 2 Cleric’s rings for a bit more healing power.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

The glitch where a boss can’t fight back will be fixed this patch.

Hooray.

Standing on those stars is REALLY pathetic. How do people expect to handle dungeons like CoE or Arah if they can’t even handle freaking AC path 1?

I’ve had to kick/block more than my fair share of cowards.

Isslair.4908:

Well, every ele I’ve pug’ed with got downed IF he was actually pulled and recieved damage from Kholer’s spin.

Obviously mist form counters it. It’s among those things evryone aware of. But it doesn’t change the thing that as a dps warrior I don’t need any stun breakers\invulnerability to survive it. I can just wait out the stun and dodge. And still have like half health. Not to mention that warrior also has stun breakers, endure pain, mobility skills etc.

And it’s just one of many examples. There’s Lupicus, where light classes survive mostly because he targets the heavies, fire shaman adds in fotm 20+ who instantly melt squishies, the list goes on.

It’s not like non-heavy classes are bad, it’s just, as I’ve said before, they don’t have such a built-in handicap for making mistakes.

You’ve probably been playing with elementalists that have crappy “fire mage” builds. I can tank Kholer’s pull no problem but I never have to due to all of my cantrips.

And actually, more often than not, Lupi aggros me instead of warriors/guardians. (Go figure?) I’ve had to solo him more than once while my party ran back.

A new necro is not someone you’d want to take to a Lupicus fight.

Yes, you’re right in saying that everyone’s first time is at some point but it’s just that people get tired of explaining and teaching dungeons and prefer a smoother experience with seasoned players.

If you’re just /joining random LFG’s, you’re going to have a tough time. You need to post your own ad or /w the person beforehand and explain your situation.

I want them to add an “Agony Mode” where they go back and add agony attacks to all of the dungeon fights. It would make the agony/ascended gear system much more widely used than it is now.

Had some fun tonight on SoR BL trying to hit Cragtop only to have you guys freak out and rush there instantly.

Score at 11:40 PM PST.

Rampage.7145:

Ok so, i hate PVE, i never ran a fractal, but i want my ascended gear for WvW it would be nice for casual players like me who works and have limited time to play, to have access to top of the line gear by buying gems using real money i would pay up to 300$ for them if necesary, i think many other playes who don’t really have time to farm the fractals or don’t even like that hadcore farming concept would do the same.
I think it is ok to give WoW kids something to farm but i don’t think is right to force the non Wow players to do it aswell. I just wanna do WvW, so make the ascended gear buyable by badges or real money, u are ruining the game… If we want to play WoW we would just do it, think about that.

I hope they make every new piece of Ascended gear soulbound so people like you can’t just throw money at them.

One of the reasons I like WvW and dislike sPvP is because I get to use my gear and weapons that I worked hard to achieve instead of just picking whatever I want out of a locker.

If you don’t have the time to put into the game to get better gear, then I say too bad. Go play sPvP and get your Ascended gear out of the locker.

Do you d/d at all or staff only?

I use d/d and only switch to staff when I’m forced to so it’d be nice to pick up some relevant tips.

If you guys got that far in AC with just the two of you, I’m fairly certain that you could complete CoF story mode by yourselves.

Explorable mode requires 5 people, however, due to a few mechanics.

kuora.5402:

skinnyb.5920:

MarzAttakz.9608:

I think you’d be replacing the Knight’s accessories mentioned above for Cleric’s if you’re planning on going full bunker instead of a balanced approach although the higher crit. chance is great if you’re running life on crit. sigil and food like Omnomberry Ghost.

I consider my build a bunker build even with a knight’s amulet and earrings. I do have cleric’s rings, however.

I find that with all cleric’s accessories you don’t hit as hard.

Bunkers are suppoed to hold a point as long as they can in sPvP, or taking hits and charging into enemy front lines in WvW.

I do just that and I can actually kill people while you “true” bunkers continue to dance around forever.

As a D/D ele, I’m not too worried about this upcoming nerf.

What could they really do to us? Make the Ring of Fire or Churning Earth circles smaller? Whatever, that’s fine. I only use RoF for stacking might anyways and I can still use Lighting Flash for Churning Earth bombs.

I’m just terrified of the day they start picking apart the synergy of our Water and Arcane traits. That will be the day ele’s reach engineer status :/

So let me get this straight… You’re all complaining about dying and losing ~3 silver?

Um, wow? What is your issue that you cannot afford 3 silver? I have 20g’s saved up and I can think of a single thing to spend it on other than siege blueprints and repair bills.

MarzAttakz.9608:

I think you’d be replacing the Knight’s accessories mentioned above for Cleric’s if you’re planning on going full bunker instead of a balanced approach although the higher crit. chance is great if you’re running life on crit. sigil and food like Omnomberry Ghost.

I consider my build a bunker build even with a knight’s amulet and earrings. I do have cleric’s rings, however.

I find that with all cleric’s accessories you don’t hit as hard.

I want guild towns.

It’d be an instance with several houses for the various guild members as well as buildings such as shops that contain vendors or crafting stations. There’d also be common buildings/areas with fun things to do such as dueling areas (something else that needs to be added as well).

I think that Rangers should be given an ability or a pet than can reveal stealth. It would make them more “ranger-y” and make them a much more valuable addition to WvW than they are now.

LordByron.8369:

Xplosiv.1503:

I just love people like you, who play ele and defend their class ^ without any proper input in actual improovement.
.

And then people complain about skills like churning earth… ._. that is easier to evade than kohler in AC.

B-but Kholer is too hard! Skip plz!

Wethospu.6437:

And yet another Elementalist complaining.

Indeed, try playing one sometime. You’ll find that we only have one real viable build while warriors have several, yet, I’ve still got a nerf to look forward to.

Don’t get me wrong, you obviously know the game mechanics and play your class well. I just don’t like how the devs pretend the warrior isn’t superior to the other classes but pretend that things like an engie’s grenades are overpowered.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

If you watch the gameplay closely, he’s swapping utilities and weapons frequently, and to serve different purposes. He has a knowledge of the bosses and event mechanics, and mitigates what risk he can through smart play and knowledge. His dodges and blocks are well timed, and rarely are they unnecessary when he uses them. He knows which attacks he can soak, and which attacks he needs to avoid.

I think it’s rather funny how the devs beat around the bush with how overpowered the warrior is compared to other classes.

Robert, do you think a Ranger could solo this with the same exact knowledge that you described above? How about an Engineer? They wouldn’t make it past the first group of small spiders.
I’ve gotten all the way to the part where you’re supposed to find the scepter on my d/d ele but I didn’t have the DPS to take down the burrows in time. Yet, we’re still getting an AOE nerf next month.

Robert, c’mon, man. Stop pretending warriors are okay. They’re ridiculously above the other classes.

pot.6805:

I feel bad for my TC friends, I knew you guys were thrilled when BG left because you’d be in a way more even matchup and wouldn’t be nightcapped into oblivion every night.

It honestly didn’t seem so bad until this week when you guys really started getting all the bandwagoners :/

Soo many new guilds from SoR we’ve never seen before and a lot of them dropped like flies but just kept coming. You guys may be in the running for the next “zombie” nickname

You won’t kill anything 1v1 with a staff.

With my d/d bunker build, most thieves make me laugh, literally. They’ll be there, all adorable trying to HS me to death, while I just /laugh emote and out heal their DPS.

The p/p or p/d perma stealth ones are even funnier. Okay, I can only see you for .3 seconds… but you’re not getting me below 85% HP? I usually can’t fight them due to not being able to see them so I almost always just jog away.

I think it would make us entirely too powerful.

I can’t really see how they’d nerf d/d without making it completely unplayable. (I mean literally unplayable. Not whining unplayable)

Seriously, what could they really do? Decrease the radius of churning earth? That’s fine, I use it with lightning flash anyway. Make burning speed travel a shorter distance? Eh, no biggie.

Someone please enlighten me.

Kyon.9735:

Trivia Time!
Did you know that grenade kit/flamethrower kit which engineers use can be bought from certain NPCs? And guess what, they are stronger than the original kits!

FTW Anet.

We can also buy mortars that are slightly better… :/

Poor engies.

He’s made a thread about this before complaining in the same entitled way.

Life will not simply hand you everything you want, Aedrah. You have to work for some things and frankly, it is very, VERY simple work finding a group to play Guild Wars 2 dungeons with.

Haha that was my old server. I even recognize some of the guild tags.

You guys had amazing coordination and communication but that zerg was just terribly pathetic. They should have grew some balls and rushed you guys.