Guild Wars 2

I see, thanks.
Over 2 years and still learning stuff.

It has been decided, GW2, prepare to be installed again.

Dave.2536:

DonQuack.9025:

90% of people are just bad
^ Fact.

fixed

double fixed

Fun fact: When i got my Dungeon Master achievement, full Medium Arah/TA set + some weapons, as well as almost the whole ASC collection (only need those heavy pants for it to be complete) i had just about 2K AP. That was over a year ago, now it’s 3,5K AP.

Well, if PUGging dungeons, expecially arah, is nearly all you do, you don’t end up getting that many achievements. I also went in-active whenever a major event happened…idk why, bad timing, i guess.
Also, when i’m playing and not running a dungeon, it’s kinda like…how should i explain it…? Ah yes, do you know the curiosity-core from Portal? Yeah, that’s me, when playing GW2 on the PvE maps.

On the other hand, my little brother with his 12K AP only knows a little bit about ASC p1+p3.

With the emphasis on might stacking on the pet on your build, why exactly did you choose an axe over the 1Hsword for the mainhand?

Because the range or the bounce?

What’s the 2nd weapon set look like?

May you please direct me to an online game, requiring a certain amount of teamplay, where you do not meet such players on a regular basis?

Don’t waste your time looking one up, there is none.

Such is the nature of PUGs. Welcome to the internet.
I expect that behavior when PUGing in the LFG window – optimistic players will never taste the joy of expecting a bunch of “tru war pros” and ending up getting a mixed bag of friendly, smart players, which more often than not results in a much smoother and efficient run, than with “LF ZERKER 9001K-AP ONLY NO NOOBS” group.

The only solution to this is either don’t PUG or leave, if drama’s about to happen.
That’s how i usually do it.

Tho, i have agree with OP on the dungeon design thingy…i mean, each dungeon and path was, according to their designers, intended to encourage certain class and build compositions for an optimal run, while leaving space for experimentations. Well…

The aetherpath and some fractals are good examples of how should it have been in the first place. While not perfect (nothing is), the designer of that one sure learned from past mistakes.

- The requirement to enter ASC is level 35+ and 10k+ AP.
- You are not allowed to enter WvW aka PvPvE to get POI’s/Vistas/Skillpoints.
- The 1H-sword is the best weapon for the ranger-class.
- The spoon is a lie.
- The upcoming expansion will change the meta.
- You can only kill a Giganticus Lupicus, if at least half of his body is stuck inside a wall.
- I like the aetherblade-path.
- I like Arah’s fourth path.
- The warrior-class is the best class.
- PUGing is fun and relaxing.

PvP: I hate the LB ranger, freaking OP!!
PvE: I hate the LB ranger, freaking useless!!
Me: Lolwut.

Oxidia.8103:

but i’m sure all of you who have ranger as a main or something (aka know how to play the class doh) can surely persuade me that i just had bad luck with rangers in 2 years (it’s pretty short time span amirite?)

See, i had the exact opposite experience with rangers in my dungeon/fractal groups.

I only remember 2 bearbows, one of which probably bearbowed on purpose, because it was CoF p1.

Tho, i remember countless dual sword warriors or warriors, placing banner of disciplines during non-crittable bossfights, staff guards, GS mesmers, etc, etc, but i never seen a single player complaining about these during a run.

On the other hand, i don’t do much fractals, i’m more into regular dungeons. Maybe, fractals magically attract bearbows or maybe it looks, like there are more LB faceroll rangers there, because the LB actually comes in handy in fractals…sometimes.

I love my main ranger, but the class has one fatal flaw: Bows are mostly useless in PvE.
I’m mostly stuck with the GS, if i wanna be at any use for my team…if i wanted that, i’d main a warrior.
The next best thing is the 1H Sword, but it’s DPS is only high on a sheet of paper or against weak mobs or very slow bosses.

I was about to come back to GW2 after months, first wanted to lurk at the forums, to see what’s new and thought “why’d i stop in the first place, again?”.

Now i remember.

Iris Ng.9845:

We didn’t do it though x)

Why didin’t you let him play how he wants™®© to, tho?

Also, “puglife” cracks me up.

Speaking of which, when in doubt, blame the ranger.
I was in asc p2 (I’m a ranger, pet stowed), at the endboss, waitin’ for detha to die – miles away from the boss – making my ghostbuster equipment ready, when someone pulled the staypuff graveling man towards the group, the one who pulled died.

A second later, i looked at the chatlog:

“WTF, Ranger!??”
“LOL Ranger…”
“GJ, Ranger…”

One of these was written by the guy, who actually pulled the howling ecto dude.
Note: I was the only ranger. Wasn’t a premade. Yes, they were mad towards me for that and not making fun of the ranger class for being the ranger class.

I was genuinely speechless that moment.

Dahkeus.8243:

If you’re not using this skill n PvP, you’re seriously short changing yourself when using the longbow.

And for PvE, the skill tooltip might as well say “Click to loose aggro.”

Trait offhand-training, thank me later.

Also, keep retaliation in mind.

Paper DPS is just that – paper DPS.

One might end up having a higher DPS with the GS, than with the Sword, if AA is disabled, to stay at an optimal position, which reduces the Sword DPS by a good amount, while you can still move freely, swinging your GS left and right.

It’s important to know on which situation a GS outperforms a Sword in terms of DPS.
Generally, if you’re always running dungeons with guildies/friends and you all know what to do, mostly, you can relatively safely spam your Sword #1, which makes it superior to the GS in terms of DPS, but if mobility and/or a bigger cleave is neccessary, the GS is the better choice.

I use the GS with PoS, btw. That actually increases the viable choices of active pets to choose from to me, so when solo, i can use one pet to fill in the cripple/chill/immo gap if both LB#5 and GS#4 are in CD.

Snow-Doge all the way, cripple+AoE chill.

I couldn’t laugh at this, even tho, the OP startet out promising enough.

3/10. “Almost entertaining”

It’s kinda like if you’d ask a guy at a car repair shop, if he can do something about the bad signal on your TV.

I hate to tell you this, but A-Net can’t do anything about performance issues on an OS, which probably still is in alpha state.

Even if they could, it would be pointless, because Windows 10 might work completely different, once at 1.0 as well as already implementing code, optimized for that OS might break things for everyone else.

If you really wanna help out Microsoft optimizing their upcoming OS, do some benchmarks or, if you’re a coder, test out the new features and send them your feedback.

It’s just out as a preview for testing purposes. You should’ve installed it seperately on a different partition.

Meta is for them kazuls.

A true pro dances with the bear. Shake it off, baby.

Depends.

PvE: Nope.
PvP: So much yes.

OP, i got a solution for your problem:
Don’t PUG.

Or, at least put “meta only” in your LFG description, so you can actually complain and/or kick later on.

“We all live in a yellow submarine”.

Guess which dungeon and path.
I’m also more likely to join these kind of LFG’s. If you’re getting it, you’re experienced enough.
And yes, the run went super smoothly, besides Bjarl…he only did his charge like every 2 minutes…urgh…like the NPC in there isn’t already slow enough.

Talyn.3295:

Croc.5129:

Why have stats on gear though?

Why not just expand the rune/sigil system for armor and weapons and let your abilities be fully dictated by traits?

[snip]

Probably to late for Anet to even consider this,

Wouldn’t really change anything anyway, if we got the same state boost from the Traits and such as we now get from gear now.

[snip]

It would just end up being the same like now.
Player’s would still mostly stick to the traits/runes/sigils, which are widely considered “optimal”.

Not to mention how much it would make non-PvE content very one-dimensional.

I’m remembering it, like it was yesterday, when anet proudly stated, that for each dungeon and path, there is an “optimal” composition of classes and builds, which needs to be used with high amount of communication and tactic.

Well…

Jerus.4350:

wauwi.9162:

I also like people stacking at Kohler, who do never dodge or block his spinning move.
3 runs in a row…
“Sorry to break it to you guys, but we still don’t have a guardian.”
Well, only half the guardians, i run AC with, use aegis there at the right time, so i just dodge anyways.

Dodge? why? it’s AC and you can CC him and kill him before he does anything

only half joking, sure dodge if you need, but really AC has become a joke with that change to scaling, my group quite literally just CCs and burn and it’s almost never a problem unless he happens to dodge the CC then we have to actually play right.

Because of my eternal kindness, i don’t bother which build or classes im running AC with, so Kohler won’t die before he does at least 2 Whirl attacks and of course he got full deciance stacks, before he does it, so i mostly can’t interrupt it.
It gets even funnier, if necros fear him (sometimes, into the strong hands of the cave troll), if he’s out of defiance.

I’m also a power ranger with nothing but zephyr or SoR, SotW and FS, so not dodging or blocking the attack leaves me with like 300HP. :P
He downs most of my beloved PUGs with his whirling blades.

All i ask for is, that if you can’t prevent it, at least don’t get hit by it.

Woljnir.7810:

My only problem with stacking is now people want to stack “everything.” Best example is CoF 2 after the devourer nests those 3 Flameforged whatevers you need to kill in the little room. Never ONCE have those 3 EVER been a problem, but now it’s stack around the corner or gtfo.

Trying not to rant about stacking, as it actually is pretty helpful at time especially in CM. I don’t go down NEAR as many times as I used to pre stacking in certain areas, but it’s painful to have every group I join feel the need to stack easy bosses or enemies.

I also like people stacking at Kohler, who do never dodge or block his spinning move.
3 runs in a row…
“Sorry to break it to you guys, but we still don’t have a guardian.”
Well, only half the guardians, i run AC with, use aegis there at the right time, so i just dodge anyways.

Once upon a time, i’ve tried to use them as “on demand” evades, but quickly realized, that they aren’t meant for that.
Have you never seen big red AoE circles, or an enemy channeling a strong attack?
That’s when you use those skills as evades.

Sword #3’s attack’s also great to get behind an enemy fast, in between your sticky AA. (which can be dealt with by disabling AA, still annoying, tho, but you’ll love it PvP builds using sword as the main weapon)

Scarlet Moon.6409:

“p1 swamp ready”.

I saw that today on the arah LFG.

I’ve tried adding “zergburgers” to my LFG…doesn’t work so well.

@hybrid:
Aside from the fact, that i use LB pretty much how you described it (see my earlier post), nobody said that one should use LB only for it’s AA.
My point was, that AA is just a decent option, that rangers have now, especially IF weapon switch is in CD.
Not to mention, that while attacking with the LB, you can walk in pretty much in any direction you want, in a 1200 radius, while still hitting stuff.

In short, wielding LB in dungeons isn’t mostly pointless anymore, for all kinds of playstyles.

Keep in mind, we’re talking about phlunts, bad pugs or whatever here. Good luck in being as efficient and fast as possible, if you can’t rely on your party-mates.
You also gave those “lol stack and just AA with insert your class’ meta weapon here and go poop”-guys delicous food with such a post.

About the holy trinity, that is power, precision and ferocity:
While i’m running a full zerk myself in dungeons and prefer people who do the same, i’m kinda sad about the lack of options in PvE.
There’s no reason to not go full zerk in PvE, unless you have a network (or brain) latency of 2 seconds.
How useful is a big amount of toughness or vitality, if you can prevent most of the incoming damage completely?
I’m by no means a skilled player, but i can just dodge pretty much everything a boss throws at me, once i got it’s attack pattern and behavior down.
Take lupi for example, in phase 1, after a bunch of times of fighting him (or her?), you get a “feeling”, when he (or she?) does the kick attack, even though it’s barely telegraphed. You are able to simply walk out of range before he does it and it’s even reliably evadeable, if you’re that much of a lupi-lover.

So yeah, i can understand, why some people QQ about zerk meta.
I once was such an hardcore meta QQ’er myself…i even suggested forcing players to kill trash at some point.
Man, i was messed up.

S/WH (preferably, S/D) and swap Read the Wind for Predator’s Onslaught.

I have quite the problems seeing a boss channeling a skill within stacking, due to extreme particle effects going on, especially, if an ele is in my group.

Leurent is a good example. I simply can’t see him under all these effects.
Maybe i just should check my eyesight…

Yeah i guess “selfish” isn’t the right term…more like “too much focus on swords AA”.
Spotter&Frostspirit is as mandatory to bring in a dungeon for a ranger as banners for warriors, though, i hardly see other rangers doing it…in “fail-up groups”. (i like the shorthand for that name)

I’m pretty sure, LB is part of the meta. It’s AA is now as damaging in melee range (untraited), than the one from the GS (traited two-hand training), + a burst, which is far superior to maul (single target).
I mix them up, for a great amount of vulnerability and burst, usually opening with LB, switch to GS and go back to LB, when enemy is at low HP or if block, daze and swoop are all in CD.
I wish i could force my cave spider to stay in melee range…it would be my new dungeon staple pet, then.

Is it intended for WvW? In that case, any decent player will one-hit your birds, because those are complete glass cannons. You want pets with CC, like a wolf (fear) or any other canine (knockdown).

You also have quite alot ferocity for a standard crit chance of 34% (54% if under fury), so you might think of a different set, like knight’s or soldier’s and maybe different runes.
Swap Steady Focus for something else, unless you rely on dealing the most damage with an opening strike rapid fire, which will fail hard, unless your enemy is braindead.
You will not be at full endurance for more than 90% of a fight’s duration.
Stacking sigils are not a very reliable source of better stats for WvW in my opinion.

Other than that, it will serve it’s purpose within a zerg, but you might get in some troubles here and there, if you solo-roam. Equip the “Sic’em!” skill, if you roam – it’s a must have and thiefs and certain mesmers will hate you forever.

And a full set of ascended, eh? GZ on all that money you have.

“Phlunt” is too long, needs 3 or less letters to become a shorthand for something in mmo’s. :P

With “active defense”, you mean stuff like i do with my GS in dungeons, like boss is channeling AoE knockdown of doom and i use an interrupt of justice, to make sure, no one’s getting hurt?

I’m not strictly playing the meta, btw. Looks like 6/5/0/3/0 LB+Sword/X ranger is “the meta” for my main class, but aside from high DPS (which i also have with 6/4/0/4/0 GS/LB, switching to Sword/X before some bosses), it’s too selfish of a build for my taste.
I’d rather run a party condi-clear signet as my stunbreak, instead of the “bursty” quickening zephyr in dungeons like TA or fractals.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

wauwi.9162:

QQ about QQ – QQception.
But instead of ranting about players, thinking ALL dungeons bosses are like that and claim, that you’re so much better than those (which is kind of an elitist statement)

So.. where did I say I was better?
oh wait.. I did say they weren’t aware of what their team was doing. Which amounts to that. I concede, I am elitist for not wanting to run instances with braindead zombies. :-)

Since your OP was basically nothing but a rant and QQ, it pretty much sounded to me like “me good, you bad”.

But fear not, i’m on your side now…had the pug of my life a few minutes ago.
AC P2, Guard joins – 30 seconds in, says group sucks, until then we had done nothing so far, says don’t stack at the graveling trap part, because group sucks, headbutt aggro’d the last boss, after saying the famous last words “let me pull”, we wiped.
Trap respawned, i’ve said, please don’t pull, if you don’t wanna use wall of reflection, let me do it.
Everyone stacks, i send my pet to lure, guard runs out of stack, headbutts the boss, long before my pet could reach it.

Urgh. Imma hop on the pug QQ bandwagon now, hope you got donuts on board…i’m hungry for them right now.

But then again, it’s the nature of PUGs.
I don’t know a single online game, no matter the genre, where PUGing isn’t a complete lottery.

But surprisingly, most of the time, i have PUGs with actual brains. I even learn new stuff sometimes, from hardcore dungeoneers.

Mystogan.4157:

Im not seeing the dps in sword. ive been using it with warhorn because fury is important in my build, but when i have it out it jst doesnt seem as beneficial to me as the gs, because i can get fury on gs attacks when traited and deal 5% more dmg.

Swords AA is slightly faster than the GS, stacks might on your pet (you forgot you had one, didn’t ‘ya :P) and perma cripples, which you’ll benefit alot from Predator’s Onslaught. (10% more player damage + 5% more pet damage)

Mystogan.4157:

I thought sword has more survivability? With the leaps and evades compared to an auto evade and a 3 sec block and a leap

GS’s Swoop also evades and it’s #5 daze can interrupt enemy attacks.

However, it’s difficult to say, which has more survivability, because that’s very dependant on the situation, your playstyle and build.

QQ about QQ – QQception.

While your post does have a point, let’s be honest, this game got quite a few bosses, where your whole party safely can stay on AA and go afk, if you pull such a boss to a sweet spot and stack.
It’s not optimal, but the fact that it’s sometimes possible is kinda sad.

But instead of ranting about players, thinking ALL dungeons bosses are like that and claim, that you’re so much better than those (which is kind of an elitist statement), how about you teach them the optimal ways? Give them tips on how to be more benefical to your party, try to make them use combofields, party condi clears, party boons and tell them, that they should use CC attacks, when they see a boss channeling an attack, teach them how to aggro a boss, withouth triggering his PUG wipes.

And just pray to whatever god you believe in, that the necro in your party actually listens and stops with the fear, if you say to him/her to stop doing fear.

I’ve just read “AC P3 50kAP lv80 exp”.
It already came this far…i wonder when the first “Dungeoneer Title or kick” LFG’s are showing up.

Solandri.9640:

wauwi.9162:

Greatsword: AA Dodge, Cleave, Mobility, Burst, Leap, Block, Interrupt.

A lot of people forget that GS can cripple as well. 8 abilities on 5 skills is pretty nifty.

I wouldn’t count it towards an advantage, especially not over Sword/Dagger, since it’s autoattack and offhand can cripple, too.
But yeah, i guess the whole package counts.

It is pretty nice, if you run LB/GS with Predator’s Onslaught.
That’s what i’m mainly using. (keep in mind, i mainly play PvE)
Opening with LB#5, then RF, switch, if cripple wears off GS #4, plus a canine or feline dealing chill, to close gaps during longer fights.

@Fluffball:
Nope, not working either. Must contain copyrighted music. I’m from germany and blocking such youtube videos is basically a hobby for german lawyers.

“because this doesn’t happen with other games I play” is very misleading, to track down PC issues.

It reminds of of a problem, i had, with a cheap-o PSU, which degenerated over time and couldn’t provide my hardware with enough power anymore, in very demanding situations.
Playing GW2 is one of those situations. It’s as much of a benchmark game as any of the crysis franchise is.
I could play other games just fine.

But an insufficient PSU is unlikely, if the PC crashes during -repair too.
First, you should check if all your drivers are up-to-date, then reset all overclocking of your system to stock clocks and lastly, clean boot your PC.

If it all fails to help, you can just try to re-download GW2. You do not need to enter the serial again. The serial is only needed for account creation.

“this video is not available – we’re sorry”.
:(

By the way, it might be due the lack of energy drink i had today, but i can only see 5 mobility skills with sword/dagger: #1 – leap (1), #2 back&SURPRISE (3), #3 roll (4), #4 boing (5).

Fluffball.8307:

with the 6 (!) movement skills.

Including Lightning Reflexes?

Sword/Dagger: High AA DPS/Extra evade.
Sword/Horn: High AA DPS/Blast finisher, Fury, only reliable source of swiftness.
Sword/Axe: High AA DPS/Reflection, pull.
Greatsword: AA Dodge, Cleave, Mobility, Burst, Leap, Block, Interrupt.

Those are the main advantages to each of the melee options, that we have.
You should disable AA for both GS and Sword, to maximize their effectiveness and not spam “1” all the time.
For GS, if you know, that your enemy will do a hard hitting attack soon, time your #1 right, for an evade.
For Sword #1, if you need to position yourself differently (get behind an enemy, for example), just stop pressing #1 and position yourself, then continue attack, and/or use an offhand skill, that allows you to walk, while using it, like WH#4+5 and continue attacking normally, once in position.

Also, while the Swords “stickyness” is a disatvantage mostly in PvE, it can be a great advantage in PvP.

@Jerus:
Keep in mind, we’re talking about carrying PUGs, which are often inexperienced low level players.
I sometimes have PUGs, consisting out of 1 mesmer, 1 necro and 2 thiefs, sub lv50. You gotta have one (at least) deffing hodgins in such a scenario.
But yeah, AC is a whole lot easier, than i remembered it from one year ago (just started playing again 3 weeks ago).
Burrows seem to die a whole lot faster.

About the CoE path: There might be better ways of dealing with it, but i’ve seen guards doing that pretty well with the staff, 1-4, kill big golems, then 4-1.

@Jeremlloyd:
OP wants more than just doing fractals, where an adaptive and skilled mesmer is the best carrying profession, imo.
And appearently, rangers just sit back and pewpew with LB#1, according to you. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here and say, you must have had really bad luck with rangers in pugs.

About the guardian and his staff: It’s a bit more to it, than just killing blossoms in TA.
It’s the guardians best kiting weapon (if not the best way of aggroing or “conducting” mob trains for any class – choochoo) and he/she should have it in his inventory at all times.

A few examples:
AC P1 – Deffing Hodgins, if your party does not have enough DPS to kill the burrows fast enough.
CoE Submarine – Aggro as many explosive golems as possible, during the security breach part.
Arah P3 – Kiting the wraiths all around, at the endboss during the ritual.
Arah P4 – Kiting the gorillas around, during the melandru boss battle.

So yeah, the staff’s a pretty good utility weapon.

Jeremlloyd.6837:

Well I don’t play Engi enough to put it in the list, but yeah Ranger and Necro are not that great for pug carrying

Weird, i can carry pugs of first timers through many dungeons.
I am a ranger. (mainly)

I’d say, the class doesn’t really matter, as long as you know enough about the dungeon and it’s mechanics, as well as it’s boss’ ones.
Also, how much each pug is willing to “understand”, “comprehend” and “learn”, especially from their mistakes, greatly varies.

My fastest pug lupi kill was about 2 minutes long with 4 first timers – ranged. After i’ve explained the boss, i’ve let them watch a short video of a group fighting him.
No one died, only one grub eaten (minus the last one) and everyone was happy and i was proud.

Then you have guys like today, when i was carrying a few beginners through AC P2.
Everything went smooth, until the trap part, where one kept firing the green laser at the boss.
One also aggro’d him, after a trap was ready, even though, i’ve warned about the AoE of doom, he casts, if not properly positioned.
Whenever i’ve said “wait”, “ooc” or “stop and listen”, 2 of them just kept attacking the boss, while he was invulnerable.
Eventually, i’ve got them to stack behind a pillar and LoS’d the boss, w/o triggering his AoE. (which i’ve just learned during that run – pets might be somewhat “duuuuhhh”, but man, are they life-savers sometimes)

My main (Ranger), duh.

Gotta represent the new meta with style. (insert sitcom laughter here)

@maha:
I admit, i didn’t thought the “defensive audjustments” part out very well, but my main point was to encourage the experimentation with condition builds in PvE.
A crit resistance mob/boss could still suffer from condition damage and i would like to see that balanced up to a point where a condition centric group is as effective against a crit-resistant enemy, like a zerker group against regular ones.

Therefore, full soldier or knights wouldn’t be “optimal”, but “optional”.
Optimal would be a mix of builds in parties, suck as zerker + zealot and those who don’t bother with effeciency and want it a bit safer, could go rabid.

This would also benefit other builds, such as boon duration ones, if you have access to lots might stacking boons.

All that is just theory and to work, it would most likely need more than just some “defensive audjustments”, like i’ve said earlier.
But fear not, fellow zerkers (i’m also one of you, since there’s no point to wear anything else in PvE), all that will never happen and zerker will stand supreme until the end.

maha.7902:

Ah yes, “crit resistance” because adding a mechanic which simply makes people do less damage and nothing else is clearly what this game’s bosses need.

Yeah, just read “crit resistance” and ignore everything else in my post.
Well, i can’t blame you…quite the wall of text, i wrote.

maha.7902:

Here’s an eye-opener – all bosses in this game which are objects are 100% crit resistant. Guess what builds are used for them? Yes, the DPS ones full of damage modifiers, and with (at least for the boss) redundant on-crit effects.

Of course, because everything up to such a boss (or after it, in case of fractals – wait, fractals are dungeons…right?) is best fought with the holy trinity, that is power, precision and ferocity.

I’m tired of the zerk-meta. It’s been here for how long? Yeah, since the very beginning of GW2.
It just won’t go away, like that buzzing mosquito in my room, so i think it’s time to smash that mosquito.

Well, there’s no single reason not to go zerk, so how about a dungeon-mob revamp, that would encourage the use of condition builds or more defensive builds, such as knights, while maintaining the usefullness of zerker DPS at the same time?
Before you get your pitchforks: In other words: NOT a zerk nerf – zerk = still good and viable with my suggestion.

How? Here’s a story first:
I was pugging TA like every other day. When my group was at the nightmare tree, i’ve noticed something odd next to my frostspirit – a banner of discipline.
I’ve looked at the boss and thought “Wait a second…that’s totally useless. You can’t crit that big ol’ tree guy”.
Then it made “snap”.

Here’s the idea: Some mobs/champs/bosses are crit resistant.
Some enemies might need defensive audjustments/balances, tho, like lowered HP, but it should encourage players to try out different class/skill/weapon combinations and most importantly, builds.

Sure, there always will be an “optimal way” or “most efficient way” of running a dungeon, but at least it would add some variety to the monotonous meta, without increasing a dungeon run’s time by like half an hour.

Oh and while we’re at it: Give us a reason to kill trash. We’ve already been given a good reason to kill optional champs, thanks to the bags, so how about giving elites the chance to drop a token bag?

People who wanna skip, skip and people who wanna see some blood actually get a little reward.

That is all. : D

Eugene’s OP ranger build:

Still relevant, especially now, since the ranger is even more OP, than when this build was made.
We’re the new meta, guys.

I’d either do Blood (life steal), Generosity (Shifts a condition you suffer to a foe) or Strengh (might), if you’re offensively build.

BTW: Thanks, Fluff, i constanty thought about what to put into my GS.
Energy it is. It suits my needs perfectly.

Huh…interesting question…when does melee ends and ranged starts…?
I guess common sense must be applied here, until they make it more clear in the tooltip. (if anet ever bothers with this)

That being said, Sword, Greatsword (except #4’s throw), Axe #5 and Dagger #4 should count towards “melee attacks”, which should trigger Strider’s Defense.

I don’t know wether it’s always active, as long as you perform melee attacks (in other words, during the full animations) or only during the actual, damage inflicting attack, which for example, on the GS’s autoattack would be less than 1/2sec each on the first two slashes and les than 3/4 sec on the third.

But i guess Strider’s Defense is active all the time, as long as an attack animation plays.
Why? I don’t think, that this trait can be any more useless. :P

A fix would be quite simple:

Dungeonowner leaves = Dungeon stays open for the rest.
Dungeonowner gets kicked = Everyone else is getting kicked as well.

It still doesn’t prevent griefers from making your day miserable, but at least they wouldn’t benefit from it anymore.

Tentonhammr.7849:

“P1 zerk speed. Join fast or be kicked.”

I still don’t know what he meant by that…

He comes to your home and kicks you, if you don’t join fast. :P

Since when does SoS grant “invincibility”?
You simply can’t take damage from attacks.
CC’s and conditions still apply. One well timed knockback from an enemy = signet wasted.
Also, you loose 180 toughness, while it’s in CD.