Guild Wars 2

Well my builds been butchered simply from the weakening shroud nerf. Which I can understand for pvp. But again pve gets the short end of the stick.

There are a few random projectile which will troll you. But the only class that should be a problem for is necro cause they have to solely rely on dodges, even then they have DS to absorb the random hits.

If they dont want people to use the pipe maybe they should fix the floor they broke. You didnt even need the pipe to skip that group until the floor vanished. Now you have to go the long way round because the floors gone… It baffles me how they can edit the map data to fix an exploit but ignore the huge missing floor right underneath it.

Pretty sure you can dodge them all. Refer to pretty much every lupi solo video.

Ignore him, hes a soldier mm necro. That negative lupi dps!

And ignore the missing floor beneath it.

deSade.9437:

Greek? I’m so bored it hurts…

If ur soo bored, why dont you log in. Nub.

My engi is called Spojbob Engipants.

I had no idea people actually ranged the wraith.

Doesnt seem worth it though. The merit of an engi is reliable vuln. Take that away and you get slightly better individual dps but worse group dps. If I wanted to do that id just play vuln stacking necro which has a lot better dps than engi and seemingly better vuln stacking than bomb engi. Doesnt really matter though, both classes are in pretty poor states for dungeons. Engi can atleast do something about that with vuln.

Thats interesting. Whats the highest uve seen bombs hit for? Because if its around 8k and bomb auto hits 1.1 times per second. Then bombs alone would give about 8.8k dps. 10k seems reasonable and a bit better. Still puts engi in a bit of an awkward position. Seeing as to get good dps you have to sacrifice the vuln stacking. Which means its just like necro but in an even poorer state (lower dps and even worse vuln than necro). Meh pve balance please. :<

Get ready for my dagger necro 2.1 build. Its gonna be stronk.

Kegway was what made p2 fun. Pretty sad about this.

I had no idea he had path guides xd. Pretty sure they are months out of date and using really bad pug tactics though.

Mungrul.9358:

spoj.9672:

Im forced to do open world events to get dragonite. I sure as hell dont enjoy them. But if I want to finish ascended gear on all my alts Im gonna have to.

And why are you grinding out Ascended gear?
To make content you already don’t enjoy even easier?

So I can have BiS for speed clears and fractals. Why do you think? I dont open world, its dull. Doesnt mean I dislike all pve.

Haha I thought dub was just being strange. Now I am enlightened!

Im forced to do open world events to get dragonite. I sure as hell dont enjoy them. But if I want to finish ascended gear on all my alts Im gonna have to.

I would of thought max dps would be 30/15/0/0/25. Bomb kit doesnt feel any faster than grenades. But Ill just give you the benefit of the doubt seeing as my engi still isnt 80. From the numbers ive seen other engis hit, it doesnt seem like even the max dps build would improve the dps that much. Thats something to look into I guess. I would do so myself but im not that interested in lvling my engi atm and I dont know enough to make accurate calculations.

One shard did half the animation then finished early like I had quickness. Still got the progress though. I assumed it was just lag or something because it didnt happen to any of the following shards. Maybe something similar happened to others and they didnt make sure they had it completed. Sounds like most people just missed 1.

Does it not still act like its blocking though? Cause you are pretty safe with sword block aslong as you dodge out of melee. If splash happens then thats pretty crappy :<

I was actually thinking about reflect warrior earlier tbh. ;D

laharl.8435:

Are there a bunch of messages being deleted from the post or is the forum just acting up?

Yeah moderater went on a spree.

Just got infracted for sarcasm. :<

Legendary jewelry has been mentioned as the next type of legendary items.

No i believe its a bit lower even when including conditions. Which seems right based on the cast times and actual numbers you see compared to other classes. I cant find the post but guang did some numbers and it was like 13k dps for eles and thieves, 12-10k for the others. Ranger and engi were at 9k, with ranger slightly higher than engi. I dont know the exact buffs and conditions used to calculate these values, but they were done under the same assumptions for comparison.

Yeah in pugs a nade engi is pretty good. But they still have lower dps than other classes. Obviously boosting group dps with vuln would counter that in a pug and possibly make that groups dps better than if you were taking a 2nd/3rd warrior or an other class. Pug groups are never perfect min/max so it doesnt really matter. Providing vuln for your group is pretty good, its just a shame engi dps is pretty bad. Engi can contribute a lot more than other classes in casual runs thats for sure, its just not great for optimized groups.

Engineer is 2nd to last because the only thing they are genuinely good at is stacking aoe vuln. But they have pretty low dps compared to other classes so they get dropped down quite far.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

generally the place my engineer takes in a dungeon is Might stacking through use of bomb kit and thumper turret, and vulnerability stacking through grenades and bombs. I run a zerker build though.

1) guard
2) ele (might stacking and utilizing incedible damage from FGS and LH)
3) war
4) mes
5) Theif
6) ranger (frost spirit and spotter trait)
7) Engineer
8) Necro

This is a pretty accurate list. I would rate warriors 1 and guardians 3rd though. Banners are just too important. Every group should take atleast 1 warrior. Cant say that for any other class (maybe ele). This doesnt mean engi isnt viable. Its a pretty good choice if you have all buffs covered except vuln. But theres a reason you dont see engis in any of the current records. The only class that properly falls short and should probably never be taken in a serious run for regular dungeons is the necro.

My best drop was the crystal guardian in queens gauntlet when it was new. Easy 70g from LS content woo!

Give necro that projectile reflect bubble the toxic krait are using.

Its not hard to track the achievement and just remember if one doesnt give progress. I worry about some peoples memory capacity. :/

You can mix the sets yes. Blood prince costume is a mask, shirt and staff. Shirt applies the full body costume except for the mask. Executioner set is just like witch and mad king; mask, shirt, gloves, boots and axe. And yeah you can use the toys on different costumes.

Bump. Find it very amusing that you took the time to fix the skip above the missing floor and didnt actually fix the floor. Its not just that you have to go a longer route to get to the boss. The pathing of the patrol of dredge is bugged aswell thanks to the missing floor. They have no floor to cross so they sit blankfaced staring at a wall round the corner.

Dont forget stealth aoe in phase 2. Thats always fun.

I read about this bug before i attempted. So I tracked the achieve and was careful when doing it. Unfortunately some mobs respawned mid channel on about half of the shards. I was put in combat, interrupted by mobs, interrupted the channel myself, channeled while poisoned. And not a single one failed to register. I dont believe it was interrupting that caused the bug. If you were interrupted you wouldnt of finished the channel so you would of imediately reattempted.

I cant believe they fixed the pipe and then didnt fix the floor right underneath it. It was even reported several times on the bug forums… Im guessing they saw the missing floor and that people were using the “exploit” to get passed it. So they thought “hmm must stop exploit!” and completely forgot about the bugged floor which causes the patrol group to stand staring blankfaced at a wall.

Doesnt beat the risen in coe. Which barely slow you down and you dont have to spend ages pulling.

I use to want the old gw1 style necro back. Now im not really bothered. I just like the feel of gw2 necro. The main thing I want is proper pve balance. Cause at the moment my necro is just a fractal kitten and im thinking of taking my warrior for fractals instead and just swapping to necro at jade maw. I think the only way necro will be improved in pve is when they get round to adding new skills and weapons to classes. When that happens I hope they add order type skills and a melee cleave weapon. If they dont ill probably completely give up on the class.

No fury or banners. :P

4 guards would be a bad idea aswell. Warrior is one of the few classes that can get away with being stacked.

Guess I should stop listening to music while playing. I must be fully immersed in the living story!

Amber.8193:

7/10, not a big fan of the Abyss dye as it hides too many details on armor…but maybe it’s just the image quality

Vinushka Macbeth, she’s been through so many looks during one year, but here are the actual ones (bad quality tho)

What shoulders are those on the 2nd picture?

Watch a video guide = more experienced than most “experienced” groups.

In solo/duo runs its the kill times which slow you down the most. In 5 man groups it should be the running sections. But you certainly shouldnt be that much slower in running sections. Mesmer and necro are slow, but they arent so slow that they would add an extra 5mins onto a run.

The problem is people might farm the start of dungeons repeatedly with that kind of incentive.

Thats because the build is designed for organised groups. You can take an axe in the 2nd set if you want. Axe is an absolutely awful dps weapon though, even the #2 hits like a wet noodle. You should always have a dagger on one set when using the beserker spec seeing as your dps is trash without it. Obviously you can alter the build how you see fit to work with what your comfortable with. This is all just advice, I dont care how much people alter my build for their own personal use. Ive set it out for organised groups and maximising dps because thats how I play and im confident in pretty much all encounters with that build.

Every player, I would hope, wants to improve and going full melee is a big part of that. Also going ranged increases the chance you dont receive buffs from your group unless they are all ranged, not to mention the already bad dps when ranging. Obviously take what you need for the encounter and what your group is doing. If your not confident melee then it would be suicide to go melee solo while your pug group ranges and baits you. But im pretty sure the op has the common sense to adapt my build when he needs to.

Also bare in mind you only need 1 mainhand dagger. If your second weapon set just has an offhand, when you swap to it, it will automatically use the mainhand in the other set.

Also you can swap signet of locust whenever you’re out of combat. I do that after every fight, then swap it back just before i get to the next boss/encounter. All utilities are situational. Most of the time signet of spite and well of suffering will remain on your bar for fights but there are situations where you dont want either. Utility swapping is encouraged.

Having long dungeon paths is not good design. You alienate players with less play time. Which is why the dungeon lengths in gw2 are pretty good. And skipping is intended, they could of easily made it impossible to skip but they havent. They did actually increase the leash range in arah several months back to make it slightly harder to skip (they could of just made it infinite). The option to skip mobs promotes variety; clear mobs, run past mobs with brute force or stealth past. Being forced to take a thief or clearing every mob group is not good design.

Making blue scrotums for backpieces is more important than dungeon content and fixes.

Eles would be faster :P

I expect they fixed the se skip when they fixed the floor being missing? Seeing as people were forced to use it to get passed the game breaking bug rofl.

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