Guild Wars 2

I actually hit DR on this for the first time ever. I got 400xp per event chain, at level 76 lol. I played this from ~35 to level 76 before I hit DR. I went to AC and did a bit of area completion and came back to finish my push to level 80 an hour later and DR had been removed. AFAIK, that is the only time I have been given DR on an event chain. It was a little strange too. I had played about 18hours straight, No DR, had a sleep for about 8 hours, got up and played for about 2 hours before DR hit. Seems like DR is pretty random.

Now that I am levelled, its off to farm dungeons for exotic armor and weapons to avoid the TP, fractals for the rings and backpiece and to make sure I complete my dailys so I can buy the Laurel Amulets ASAP. Then I can finally go WvW with the best kit I can get :p

- Keep him in the middle. If he gets to a captive whilst in his ball he heals dramatically.
- As soon as he pops shiled target him first to break his shield, then target the fire worms
- Keep moving to avoid hot feet/burn
- You can predict his direct attack, dodge it if your squishy. I dont bother because Im a necro.
- Condition removal helps
- Staying right near the bridge is sometimes better than moving around the area
- If you have a tank, pray they tank. As a Necro I always try to keep aggro on me because you can take so much damage and constantly be sitting on full HP.
- Make sure your food consumable is still going. I always run a food buff, usually healing/vitality/toughness when doing this one.
-Consider instant revives IE Warrior War Banner, Necro Signit, Ranger pet revive etc.

Sometimes it might be better to get your squishys to stay on the foot bridge. A while back I had a few wipes where I was lasting 10+ minutes having to solo, but I couldnt bring his shield down before he healed off prisoners and I couldnt res because it was too much damage to stay stationary. And this is after 3 players died almost instantly as we started fighting. So we sat those 3 players up on the bridge and they stayed alive and were able to continually provide the dps we needed whilst me and a warrior survived. In this case, these players were playing outside their build and capability, but sometimes you might be in that situation and need to adapt to it.

If your using MF to farm, your doing it wrong. IDGAF what anyone says.

Catisa.6507:

being able to solo 5-8 veteran guards at a time is seriously a joke. Very poor design philosophy.

And during the entire time it took you to take out those 5-8 veteran guards solo and placed swords on the point, not a single player reacted and came to defend? As a solo thief I wouldn’t bother trying this because I know its not AI only for long because my opponents tend to know how to defend. Even flipping a flag or taking out a guarded dolyak is risky, because I know there are plenty of other theifs and eles getting around who will respond to these things immediately. They catch me when I bound by the Veteran or whatever I could go down immediately.

When gold sellers find a way to remove dungeon armor and dungeon weapons from the game, then I will care.

The rewards are unique. As a WvW player I acquire most of my gear through dungeons as I no longer want to be a part of the TP. The thing is, you want specific stats. So, for example, I have a theif I want to run a poison CD build. I have to do CoF to get the stats I want. The stats may be similar in terms of figures, but you can’t just throw any figures together, you need the right ones. Also, runes of the Orrian from Arah are pretty exceptional. More balance needs to be done to the dungeons. Consider CM, IMO it is one of the hardest dungeons (with Arah the only one that is notably harder) but it is also the second lowest in level requirement.

Guild Wars Fan.3249:

elkirin.8534:

I have enjoyed playing against the many fine people from JQ, SBI, BG, and SoR over the last few months but the forum warriors have not added any fun for me at all.

FACT, We all agreed to a code of conduct prior to being allowed to post.

IMHO, With a little care you are able to get your point across without demeaning others.

now….wheres the fun in being a forum warrior if we aint stirring kitten up?

you can’t seriously tell me people read all these posts for score updates???!!!

I read the posts for score updates at work. Otherwise I definitely would not even bother reading this thread. I learnt fairly early that its full of trolls and tears, neither of which I want to be a part of.

Hi guys, thanks for the thoughts. I will only be WvW with this char. Ive started doing some test runs pre-gear. Just to point out, there is one major reason I prefer venom. Most of my work will be Dolyak kills, flag flipping and killing small groups (1-3 players). When capping a flag, Im sure you know the veteran guarding in pops heal which is quite substantial. Also in long fights with small numbers, particularly when there are 2 or 3, good groups will be able to micro and heal after you burst them down. So, yeah, bleed I agree is good but the 33% heal reduction on them is really helpful. Ill have another look at it though and see if there is a better way. SB and dagger comes with venom already, so maybe I don’t need venom skill as well.

Yeah its all a bit concerning. I really hope the majority of the content can be acquired without gold like it is now…ie dungeons etc… because I am not liking where this market is headed and yes its a very slippery slope.

Interesting. I honestly thought it was a bit strange. On first thought, you would think they would be attempting to make more profit, particularly with the 15% sales fee they wont be making much at all when sales are being made well above what they are offering. But who am I to think its strange, they are probably making more coin than me :p

Personally I think they should increase the time it is applied for but reduce the damage. This way you have a chance to adapt to the condition and/or remove it. When I roll necro I find condition removal for it isn’t so great because it only lasts a short time. But Anet likes easy mode and ground casting shouldn’t be instant either.

Hi guys, Ive just finished levelling my seventh char, the thief! I mostly play WvW, but do dungeons and open world to level and for a break. Thief was pretty hard to work out, so Im looking advice on my build that I am working towards in case it seems wrong to experienced thiefs. Other chars seemed my straight forward. Keeping in mind this is predominantly a WvW build, how is this looking:

Traits:
30/0/30/0/10

Deadly Arts: Potent Poisons, Quick Venoms, Residual Venom
Shadow Arts: Shadows Embrace, Leaching Venoms, Venemous Aura
Trickery: Uncatchable

Primary Weapon: Shortbow.
Secondary Weapon: Double Dagger.

Armor: Shaman reward armor from CoF (Power, Vitality, Condition Damage)

Runes: Currently looking at Superior runes of the undead. Was considering Orrian, but I really hate Arah. Superior runes of the afflicted are still looking good but $$$. Maybe worth buying though?

Sigils: Sigil of Venom, Sigil of Corruption, Sigil of Force

Rings and backpiece from FotM: Endless Quiver, Seal of Osuku, Royal signit of the Doric.

Skills: Hide in Shadows, Shadow Refuge, Signet of Shadows, Spider Venom (activated as auto attack), Dagger Storm.

Im not sold on Double Dagger. Its not so excellent in PvE.

Rez.8016:

When you see the 20 @ 76.2S sale offer, what is the highest buy offer and volume?

Thats one of the wierd bits. The highest buy offer is 76 silver. Not sure what you mean by volume… do you mean the amount of buy offers at that price? If so its around 500 for that buy offer and another 500 or so buy offers within a few copper of that (IE 75.98, 75.99). I would understand it if it was someone just undercutting for a quick sale, but everything suggests thats not the case at all, because why would someone post an item for 76.2 silver, undercutting an item with a lowest seller of 80 silver, when the highest buy order is only .2 silver less? Proportionally it makes no sense to me. If I were to undercut a price like this I would look and see the lowest sell offer of 80 and the highest buy offer 76 and kitten I will sell my item for, say ~79 silver, not put it so close to custom purchase orders.

THACO.7021:

1) You do relise the OP made no mention of skill being involved in WvW To get Map complition Right? Oh wait people like to make things up and CLAIM the OP stated something (Or other people)
2) You do need to have blind dumb luck to get the right cornor of the map to gain said things

I Would have to agree with the OP WvW should be removed from Map Exploration and such.

Allso claiming YOU SHOULD JUST CHANGE SERVERS
is basicly known as free boating and such … its allready cause for alot of problems in WvW along with so many other things.

WHY Should you have to swich servers or wait blindly to get the right cornor to get map completion?

anyone?

I agree with your thoughts on server hopping. Everything else is wrong.

Personally I think there should be seperate consumables for WvW. Fine if you still make them by crafting or whatever, but better to balance them for WvW and keep all those boosts that were intended for PvE in PvE.

Thumbs up to anyone who has killed you. Although I personally wouldn’t waste my time chasing an obvious scrub.

Ive recently been investing in the market and as such have been keeping a very close eye on things. I’ve noticed a very unusual trend that I think is really quite unusual and cannot think of any rational reason why this would be happening.

To give an example of something I have been watching very closely a number of items I purchased, what in this game, would be a “long term investment”. I purchased a number of items going on a trend where they have been stable and consistently going up in price since release. Its had ups and downs, but the trend is up. I don’t want to reveal what it is im investing in for obvious reasons, so some of this will be made up, but proportionally it will be correct.

So these items have a current sell offer price of 80 silver. The custom offer price is 76. Less than a week ago, the sell price was 76.2 silver and the customer purchase offer was still 76. Part of the reason it went up to 80 was because I purchased a substantial amount of them and because there were only a few listed sales between 76 and 80.

But here is the unusual bit I find suspicious. There is a very frequent undercut sale being added of 20 of them at a time for 76.2 silver. The amount being sold at this price (the undercut price) is consistently the same amount. These are undercut prices are being sold almost immediately. But the price of the item is constantly going up because demand is substantially higher than supply can be.

So, I know its hard considering Im not giving out full details, but is there something I am not seeing here? It is definite that Anet is not manipulating the market in anyway? Am I seeing bots at work here?

Whats wrong with AC? I find it was pretty easy and I mostly pug.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

AC is still do-able but if you really want to throw your desk through a wall, take a shot at CoE. That made me nearly quit the game right there….

Really? CoE? I presume you only did it once and chose the hard path. Try Arah, that is hell. First time I did that, turned out to be a group of inexperienced players and we wiped multiple times in the first few minutes until we gave up. Next group I got was a really experienced group and it was still really hard. Actually don’t try Arah, that would make you quit the game.

IMO Necro is the best. Why? Because I know how cats can hit the fan when the commander goes down. Necros have the best survivability in the game. I said cat because I feel kitten just didn’t cut it.

As I understand it, your "taxed"so to speak to list an item and "taxed"to sell it. Are these both calculated on a percentage and if so how much? Also, if you sell to a custom offer, are you still paying the listing fee or just the selling fee? Im asking as I am looking to invest in some stuff in the TP. I don’t want to spend time “flipping to TP”, but I feel having gold sitting in my bank is unwise and I should purchase things that I can later sell for a higher price. Even if I make a small percentage back, but I need to know how much I need to make to clear the fees.

Since AC is looking likely, just a tip, make sure you have a skill that breaks/removes knockdown. The one thing I found hard with that one is the skelk that knocks you down and knocks you down and knocks you down. I use ghost walk whenever I play AC on my main (necromancer) and its the only time I use that skill.

Its going to be a bit complicated. As I understand it, early in the games release ëscort the doylak"mission included XP and other rewards and essentially what happened was servers were experiencing 50 players following a dolyak around the map “farming rewards”. The rewards have to be seperated some how to avoid this stuff and I really don’t see how they can do that individually. My best guess at what they should do is measure a players contribution in WvW and apply larger server bonus’ and those bonus’are given to individuals on a percentage base of their contributions. But even this would be treading the line of exploitation. In all honesty, I just have no idea how they are going to do this without it being a flop.

Cost me 1.6million karma in shards to get my 77 clovers. It seems, alot more than average. But it doesn’t really matter, the T6 mats are a pretty solid reward anyway and you need alot for your legendarys.

Ascalonian Catacombs SM is 30 and EX is 35. Its probably one of the better choices. I also believe Fractals of the mist can be done at (character) level 1, but Im pretty sure they don’t count towards dungeon monthly because I didn’t get credit for those ones. In that case AC is really your only choice. Next is Caudecus Manner at level 40 and is quite hard until you get much higher than 40.

AC is a pretty good dungon imo. AC, FotM and Twighlight Arbor I really enjoy and play regularly. Not a fan of most of the other dungeons.

Oh, and don’t even think about soloing a dungeon.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascalonian_Catacombs

CuteLilKittenHugz.2064:

good way to get something great nerfed is to post on here about how great it is. that’s why i keep my build, how i make gold and how i level to myself.

Its ok. Im level 69 now. In a few hours Ill have my 7th char to 80 and be well on the way to levelling my 8th char by time they nerf it :p

Art.9820:

Yup indeed they need to rework gold sinks in WvW, if you play as a zerger you make decent money, as defender you will lose money or recover what you lost, because upgrades cost way too much

I play both zerger/defender depending on what I feel more is needed whilst im in WvW. Id say im 50/50 and Im losing coin the more I play WvW. Hopefully all the “rewards for playing WvW”they are talking about will include not going broke playing it.

If I deleted my account today and started a new one and my sole objective was to acquire a legendary, I could probably have it in about 3-4 weeks playing around 60 hours a week. So about 240 hours of game time. Except, most people play the game for fun and pick their stuff up slowly along the way. Plus if your new to the game and don’t know what we know, it would obviously take longer.

In your case your saying 5 hours per day or 35 hours per week, so that would make around 6-7 weeks.

Thats about what it would take me. Im sure there are others who would be much quicker. Im not the best "TP profiteer and that has alot to do with getting what you need. Or at least, it certainly makes it easier.

Not sure how many of you have noticed, but there was an announcement that they aren’t resetting stats now. Might be a JQ/SOS/SOR next week

I only really have one major issue with fractals atm and that is levelling system and how a level 1 can join a level 10 or 20 and expect to be carried whilst dieing every time an enemy looks at them. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but not far from the truth. It seems everytime I join a group, there is always one or two players who are playing well above their capabilities and slow the rest of the group down. Either they aren’t geared well enough or they haven’t got enough AR or they just don’t even know the basic mechanics of the fractal (and Im talking level 20+ where you would expect people to know what they are doing).

Dalure.4691:

Like we all mentioned on forums…..merge the bloody servers….NA with EU you get 24/7 coverage……hope Arenanet will listen if it comes to merging servers.

/Peace

I don’t think thats possible. Latency on NA servers is bad enough as it is. Add another 200 ping to that and forget culling, you won’t see anything, ever.

Wise move I think. At least in NA it was going to fix some problems, but make more. Better to just let it ride out this wave. More features need to be introduced with the upcoming wvw developments that include reasons to be loyal to a server.

I agree about the achievement thing. I had been working towards acquiring my legendary. Im now in place to make it. But why? What it takes to get it doesn’t give me a sense of achievement. There are only a few components in the legendary that give me a sense of achievement. There is 100% world completion (which isn’t that hard) and badges of honor (which you can get from never actually kiling anyone in wvw thanks to JP and the number of badges is way too low). I think its too late to revert the Legendary, there are way too many out there and Anet has failed massively on what is supposed to be the ënd game content". Many may not see it, but when you fail at this stuff, you reduce the lifespan of a game. That affects all of us, whether we have no legendary or dozens.

Vol.5241:

You need to do a certain amount of damage to a mob to get credit, even if it shows exp. When there are many people at events, this makes it hard to get credit since the mob dies very quickly before you reach

This is correct. The kessex hill chain has a large amount of vets that spawn. If you do ALOT of damage to them you get credit. You gotta be quick though, especially right after reset otherwise everyone will do too much damage and you don’t get credit. If your on a low DPS char, it might be easier to go solo some by yourself.

I made the decision early not to bother with dungeons until I hit 80 on a char and was fully kitted with mostly exotics. Playing them in lower levels with gear makes a big difference. CM EX is pretty difficult with a full team of levels 40s. Its not so bad with 5 80s fully geared.

Im currently levelling a theif to see for myself. Thus far, my prediction is that I will find that thiefs are getting a bad name due to hackers and that they aren’t so OP at all.

When your already getting rings dropped the pristines are becoming useless. Can we either convert them to fractal relics or maybe use them to buy amulets or some other items that are useful. It doesn’t take long to get to fill two slots with rings

me im not.9357:

covenn.7165:

me im not.9357:

hope Anets AOE nerfs get here soon, and I really wish they would find a way to fix culling—- but I suppose those are complaints for another thread.

Fix culling yes. Nerfing AoE will require entire classes to be redesigned from the ground up. Not only that, it is not needed. The reason why zerg balling around works to begin with (and the resulting culling advantage) is because AoE is highly ineffectual due to the 5 target limit. If AoE actually could put a dent in them, that tactic would disappear as it would force people to spread out and actually do something that requires thought.

Note: I am not complaining about zerg balling really, I think they are easy to beat open field providing you aren’t heavily out numbered. The only place they are really problematic is in tight quarters.

AOE is already getting nerffed… its not a matter of IF anymore, its a question of when will they implement whatever it is they’ve come up with.

“There are a few different knobs we can turn in regards to AoE some of the bigger ones being:
Radius of the AoE
Frequency of the AoE Damage
Damage of the AoE
Max Targets of the AoE

Currently, some players causing the AoE are able to do more damage to one person while also controlling a portion of the field, compared to a player with single target damage.
In our balance discussions we always look at what these changes could do to PvE as well as PvP. Any changes we make will undergo a lot of testing, both internal and by our trusted alpha team. It is important to understand that we are not doing a blanket nerf to all AE’s or a dramatic adjustment of the damage AoE’s can do. There may be some cases where players can build for AoE damage, but are just not viable or other cases where AoE is clearly the dominate way to build, and as such the other builds get left on the side lines. Its these classes/builds that we are concerned about."

In other words—- not ALL AOE is getting nerffed……….. but I think we can all guess which builds are going to see some changes…. Infact— there are 3 that are pretty broken in culling zergs in particular that are likely see the hit, and I think we can all guess which 3.

This confuses me. Everyone is talking about AoE nerf like its supposed to be a good thing for the zerging. I see AoE as a tool to help deal with zerging and a nerf would promote zerging tactics.

Fair call. They haven’t even leaked how they are going to be doing the ranking to MOS yet. WTF, seriously this information should have been handed to the site a week ago by Anet. Anet, you have figured out what you are going to do right?

Akame.1073:

Sry to say but its a L2P.
CM: each person grab a barrel, run to the wall on the left of the barrels (manor) all drop the barrel ( npc will run to pick up the barrels) in the meantime you can eazzily run pick another barrel & delivet it at the door, with time to spare.
COE: dodge every 2 secs when circles apear, stay in mele for crystal & if someone die.
Cone spike wach tell & dodge.

Stop complaining about dungeon being hard, its your foult for not knowing the base game mechanics of each dungeon.

Your right. But thats precisely my issue with dungeons. They are not difficult, once you know how to use the mechanics properly. So at first you hate them because something is rediculously hard because you were doing it the hard way, then they are rediculously easy because you know the best possible way to do it. Thats not challenge. It promotes grinding. Its not stable content that you can play repeatedly for any other reason.

Sauzo.6821:

Well did you guys really think that in an MMO with thousands of people playing everyday and the way legendaries are set up being pretty much just a gold sink, that you were gonna be a special and unique snowflake after 5 months into the release? You people that are so worried about others really need to just focus on your toon like Aza.2105 said.

I actually dont have a legendary. I am in the position to craft two with everything I need, but I am holding off for now to observe the market. Im not really good with that stuff tbh so I need some time to think about what I am going to do. The whole concept of legendary though, its kind of contradictory when they are common right?

Liquid.9672:

sostronk.8167:

Lyndis.2584:

SoS is getting demolished, lol.

:x

Far from it. Last week on Thursday BG had a 13,000 point lead over SOS. BG players were coming in here and celebrating their second place as they beat SOS for the week and were well on their way to knocking SOS out of Tier1. What happened? SOS topped the PPT by a long way for the last 18 hours of the server reset and beat BG by around 3,000 points. They have Oceanic coverage, but more so they have Oceanic/weekend coverage. They win big at the start of the WvW week and on Fridays they turn up early and play right through to sever reset. As a JQ player, Im only just starting to feel comfortable with our lead over SOS, but I still know they are capable of pulling those numbers back.

Ive taken a bit of a break from WvW this week and only played about 10 hours as I have been levelling some other classes. As an Oceanic player I will most likely be turning up Friday/Saturday to make sure we don’t lose in the final hours.

Nothing personal, but your assessment of what transpired last week is pretty far off the mark. If SoS wanted to move into 2nd place, they could have done it much sooner. Their agenda was different however, until they realized that it wasn’t going to happen. That’s when they pushed for 2nd.

Im trying to find the bit that contradicts what I said.

Guys, it even states on MOS millenium website that the figures are not accurate for next week… why are people basing their still basing their tier starting position on what the website says? I thought there must have been an announcement that stated how anet is going to calculate next weeks matchups, which there is not.

So I jump into WvW the other night and all I can see is rainbows and unicorns. Ill throw it out there, I may be the one and only, but I think legendarys are way too easy to get.

Dealing with the Asurans agony is a teamwork affair. Generally what I try to have happen is one player pull him whilst the others work the golems. In alot of cases thats me because I have high AR and high suvivability as a Necromancer. I still damage and assist with golems but take alot of the attacks from the asuran. If I get into trouble with it, I bait him to someone else. If your in an organized team its easier because they will actually react and bait them to attack them. Asuran agony actually hits pretty hard compared to most bosses. Kiting and teamwork are key. Overall its not a really hard boss because the golems go down quite easily, but just beware the agony, especially if you have no AR.

I agree with you OP and moreso with the dungeons you chose, as they were the first to come to mind. I quite like Fractals, Twighlight Arbor and Ascalonian Catacombs… although I feel they still need some work.

I know the feeling. What I do is set my own goals in the game and keep setting new ones. Keeps my grinding lawl. There is certainly a point where the open world becomes a been there done that a hundred times, where WvW offers nothing new.

So yeah, I finish the first part of my living story in 2 minutes. Now I have to wait almost a month before the next installment. Can’t wait for the next bit because the first bit was so intense.

Since the maintenance window, I am experiencing the following:

- Regular disconnects from the game.
- “Skill lag” = casting not working at all ie press 1 and your auto attacks wont go off
- What seems like extremely low FPS, seems like I am almost playing a picture game and guessing where everything is going to be next.
- Errors logging into website (As I understand it, Anet is aware of this, at least going by twitter)

Ive checked my connectivity and run multiple speed tests. Seems consistent. Started happening around the end of the maintenance window and the game is pretty much unplayable. Ive experienced this in WvW before, figured it was just massive lag due to the server. But this has been constant since maintenance.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

Well it kind of sucks that one one will ever be able to dethrone JQ until people get bored and inevitable quit. Some of those guilds that transferred to JQ should have dispersed to SoR, SoS, and BG for much more even match ups. The way this is going we will just have servers fighting for second place like SoS is doing right now. Anyway the weekend match up was awesome and I am looking forward to more of those in the future.

Dont forget Kain. I have a suspicion they will actually be the ones to beat soon. Also, I wouldn’t consider JQ to be sitting on the throne right now. Especially when comparing their record with SOS’ record.

Source? I haven’t seen this WvW news.