Guild Wars 2

LordByron.8369:

xsquared.1926:

Both thieves and engineers are able to stack stealth (Albeit thieves do it easier) and engies have the ability to kitten vuln/weakness all over the place, making trash much easier to dispose of.

already capped by wars/mesmers

Mesmer DPS is the lowest ingame, but their superior reflects, great boon ripping, boon duplicating with null field and time warp makes up for it.

mesmer dps is lowest @trash mobs only….

Elementalist is probably one of the most wanted classes in a good group, mainly because of the lightning hammer and fiery greatsword.

Not true….
Fgs bug needs a wall or has 45+ CD….
To play this you need to be carried a lot.
Its really bad at fractals.

In the end, some classes are stronger than others in PvE, but they’re all viable. And the classes that are weaker in PvE make up for it in WvW/sPvP (Necro comes to mind)

2 professions are MANDATORY…
Wars and Guards are mandatory everywhere.

Ele is mandatory at AC and viable at coe 2-3….
Thief is mandatory when you need stealth.

Now because some profession are situationally viable you can t pretend they are OK.

You play a guardian or a warrior? wellcome to any party

You play another?
lets browse lfg for half an hour hoping to be fast enough to join those few spots left in parties…..

possibly lfg tools will give metrics to devs for that.

‘’Mesmer DPS is the lowest at trash only’’ – Phantasm AI is kittened (Wardens not running to their targets if said target moves) and they die fairly quickly if a boss decides to whiff in their general direction.

‘’You need to be carried for LH and FGS to work’’ One pull/knockback into the wall is all you need for FGS. LH has a BLIND AND BLAST on it’s autoattack and is great for might stacking. Ele is still extremely good in terms of raw damage and support without using FGS.

‘’Vulnerability is already capped by warriors and mesmers’’ – They’d have to use certain traits/utilities and give up other utilities to do that. an engineer can just lob grenades while pumping out huge amounts of combo fields that will benefit the party more than just vulnerability stacking. On top of that, they provide tons of stealth if needed.

Thieves can black powder certain trash mobs (dredge pls go) making it a lot easier for the group to deal with said trash. They also have extremely high single target damage like the necro does.

Necros are great for cleansing conditions and converting them into boons, while being able to support their party with wells. They also have the signet of spite (i think that’s the one that resses people) if things turn sour.

All classes are viable and good in the end, and as stated in my previous post; ‘’Some classes might be weaker than others, but they make up for it in spvp and WvW’’

Pugs need to get over the fact that 4 warriors and 1 mesmer is still the best meta. It’s not by a long shot.

Stx.4857:

Sorry, but when I left the game 8 months ago, Warriors and Guardians were the only classes that were really in demand for dungeons, maybe the token Mesmer for their utility. Back then, I was told over and over on my thief or my necro, we dont need you, we need heavy dps.

I come back now, and start trying to run dungeons again and the same crap is happening… Nothing has been done to balance the classes in PvE.

Warrior still has the best dps, with the best survivability, and also has the option to play an amazing support role… Guardian still does great damage, has amazing support, and amazing survival skills. Elementalists still have amazing damage, great support, and can survive usually if the player is extra skilled, which is fine. Mesmer dps is pretty crappy still, or so I hear, but their skills make them wanted. Ok, I can deal with that, at least they have a role.

But what about the other professions? I was told today: “Necro will slow us down”

I am not condition specced, I am in full zerker gear with proper spec, runes,. etc. I feel that my damage is at least 90% of a warrior, but maybe I am wrong.

I know thieves can deal respectable damage, and thats great. But what do they bring that a warrior/guardian doesnt? Group stealth is very handy for certain dungeons, but is that enough?

Rangers are laughed at, Necros bring dps only and even that doesnt match the dps of warrior who also brings buffs and survival cooldowns, I dont know much about Engineers so I wont comment on them.

The point is, why has nothing been balanced? Why are some professions blatantly better in every catagory for PvE, for over a year now?

I just want to play my class, while contributing to my group, without being a burden to the Warriors/Guardians/Eles.

‘’Necro will slow us down’’ – Necro has insane amounts of DPS on their mainhand dagger, but it lacks cleave. it’s good versus bosses and the likes, but meh against trash mobs. To make up for that, they give plenty of support though

‘’Rangers are laughed at’’ – Sword/Warhorn ranger with frost spirit and spotter would like to have a word with you.

Both thieves and engineers are able to stack stealth (Albeit thieves do it easier) and engies have the ability to kitten vuln/weakness all over the place, making trash much easier to dispose of.

Mesmer DPS is the lowest ingame, but their superior reflects, great boon ripping, boon duplicating with null field and time warp makes up for it.

Elementalist is probably one of the most wanted classes in a good group, mainly because of the lightning hammer and fiery greatsword.

Warriors are extremely strong and argueably the best class in PvE, their banners provide excellent support, and axe pumps out immense damage.

Guardians also pump out huge amounts of damage when built properly (15/15/0/30/10 and 0/30/0/30/10 come to mind) while cleansing tons of conditions with shouts, and having a very good reflect skill, along with plenty of protection from the hammer as well as having a fair amount of blast finishers.

In the end, some classes are stronger than others in PvE, but they’re all viable. And the classes that are weaker in PvE make up for it in WvW/sPvP (Necro comes to mind)

Nikaido.3457:

I had a pug guardian once state out of the blue in party chat that he was “using full dps gear” during a fractal run.. followed by “I’m running a burn build”.

I sure hope he used all the bonus damage on burn traits!

guys pls rate my epic guardian build :^)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNApeGmIsK8vqH0bfy76hCfIDB-jwBB4iCi0CgkFBKTqIasFPFRjVJjIqWdDTKA5kGB-e

Condition guardians are the best

posting in a TAFU thread

This could be a good idea for a ’’hard’’ mode dungeon, making the runs much more lucrative (2-3 times) as much in comparsion to a normal run.

Hard mode would consist of the following.

-No Waypoints to res at if you die
-Trash mob damage is increased, but HP is decreased
-Entrance fee (40-50s maybe?)
-A full wipe kicks you out of the dungeon and you’d lose your fees
-Boss animations would be sped up so that you’ll need to act faster (25-30% speedup or something along those lines)

This way you’ll get the lucrative and difficult dungeons while keeping the normal ones, allowing players to choose which type of run they’d do.

Excuse me for my broken english, i’m not fully awake yet.

Mine is gone too, such a shame. I really liked the mini

Spiky Muffin.9180:

xsquared.1926:

People will most likely report you for it. I got kicked from a CoE run not too long ago because pugs wanted me to pay up at the end of the path. That said, i have sold spots with a friend once, so not everyone is a baddie.

Some people are legit, others are scum. It’s a 50/50

more like 90(“scum”)/10 honest
that is if you consider skipping bosses i.e. lupi
in order to be able to solo and sell the path

Skipping lupi is a cheap move, but this whole path selling thing is branching out to other dungeons too, such as CoE as i mentioned in my post above. It kind of worries me, to be honest but yet i also support it in another way. It makes 2 manning or even soloing dungeons much more profitable and gives players more reward for their time spent.

colesy.8490:

Jovel.5706:

No.

It rewards brainless berserker players who have rolled the classes best suited for DPS in PvE. No risk, lots of loot if you’re in a party so the damage requirement to be qualified for the loot is low.

There’s people making hundreds of gold in a few days from intentionally holding back an event from being completed. Meanwhile, players who have played all dungeons and all paths per day get less money a week.

It’s old CoF path 1 on steroids. Still repetitive with skill lag and hard culling, no skill involved and tons of harassment if you actually want to complete the event. The only risk being an easily avoidable ground targeted attack the embers cast that nobody will resurrect you from if you’re downed, costing you a few silver and a 40 second walk back to the embers.

Firstly, why does running berserker = brainless, and secondly, you do realise that every single class excluding mesmer is best suited to DPS don’t you?

I think the point was that spamming 1 in full zerkers with a guardian staff is brainless.

People will most likely report you for it. I got kicked from a CoE run not too long ago because pugs wanted me to pay up at the end of the path. That said, i have sold spots with a friend once, so not everyone is a baddie.

Some people are legit, others are scum. It’s a 50/50

Killing Kaeyi and Tazza gives you 2 bags, whereas killing just Tazza gives you none. Pugs however skip fighting both because it’s too much of a bother/too hard for them.

So far the bosses that do not drop loot are:

General Zimmerman
Tazza if fought solo
Wraithlord Hunter
Wraithlord Mage Crusher.
Seamus according to the thread, haven’t tested this myself.

If i missed anything, feel free to add to this list

They just need to let the spiders despawn after you wipe. It’s not a hard fight in general, but it can get a real bother once you failed it once or twice. At that point you might aswell reset the whole path and do it over again

Some players just have to get good.

I haven’t gotten around to soloing lupi myself yet, mainly because playing on the US servers from Europe messes up my dodges tremendously (I’m looking at you, P1 kick) but after studying lupi for a while, you should be able to know which animation triggers what attack.

A claw raise tells you he’s about to spawn a grub on you. A belch/screech spawns locusts, and his kick is well, a kick.

P2 is fairly easy, with the exception of AoE’s being wonky every now and then. Dodging away once, and then dodging towards him makes you dodge 90% of the projectiles, though.

P3 has the big bad bubble that will probably wreck you if he decides to pop it 3-4 times in a row (Which shouldn’t happen if you just stand still and melee) and maybe the single target life leech if you’re unlucky.

In the end, to everyone that can’t beat lupi (Including myself, sometimes) get good, learn his telegraphs and adapt your movements to them.

haviz.1340:

You just did AC, didn’t you?

xsquared.1926:

What’d they change, they die too fast for me and my group. Arah being an exception with their risen illusionists.

Illusionists have same amount of hp as most other silver mobs in Arah. And even then, Mages grants protection while Illusionists can only get random Aegis through Chaos Storm.

Killing people by planting it near edges.

CoE/CoF skips, sPvP point controlling and recapturing, portalstomping (although i like disortion more for that, if it’s off cooldown) Golem porting, JP porting, Portal bombing, Arah solo/duo runs at the glowy balls part, using portals as glamour bombs back when confusion was good in WvW, Faking enemies out with portals.

I think that’s about all of the fun i’ve had with mine.

Considering laurels give you acces to unique BiS items (Read acsended necklaces) makes me think they’re worth a fair deal of gold/silver. However, if we look at an absolute gold value from dyes/T6 bags, then a laurel would be around 40-50s.

In the end it all depends on what you’re doing with your laurels. I’m personally hoarding them myself for future releases

F&F dyes would be nice, 150+ Golden shekels for a dye is too rich for my blood, considering other dyes are able to get the same/close to same effect. I’d still like the dyes because i am a dye collector, though.

Prices keep rising because the market is being saturated by gold, especially since the pavillion and champion updates. (Read Deadeye and Ember farming) People rake in tons of gold with these methods, and use that gold to buy gems, which in turn floods the gem market with gold and makes gold prices rise.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Gold > Gem conversion was 5G next month, or hell even at the end of this month.

Lyndis.2584:

Is it soloable? Out of like the 5 LFG’s there are, all of them ask for experienced players and don’t take my classes. (Thief, ranger.)

I really want that pistol to pair with the Mythic one, but there seems to be no way to get tokens….

Push some buttons and flip a lever, it’s that simple.

OT: You’ll probably have some issues with the laser field, and P1 isn’t soloable at all because of the golem terminal. Alpha’s crystal imprisonment should be breakable/avoidable with shadowstep, so make sure you have that slotted.

Also, try to find a group at first, you’ll probably (Read: Definetly) fail if you try CoE alone without help on your first try.

What’d they change, they die too fast for me and my group. Arah being an exception with their risen illusionists.

Why not.

15char

monkeydluffy.7896:

Arah P1: 3g
Arah P2: 3g
Arah P3: 1.5g
Arah P4: 3g

pathetic…Arah should be atleast 5g….so many pugs struggle with that

Arah is easy once you know how to deal with the trash/run past it.

Paths are easily doable in under an hour, maybe even under 20 minutes for p2 and p3 with a good comp.

HotW needs a buff in gold rewards, and so do the lesser ran paths such kitten P2, CoF P3 as a few examples to those.

Bluefox.9580:

Then in theory it’d probably be 5 ele’s in perfect sync with various field + blast and leap combos providing the maxed might stacks and 5 FGS extreme damage while cycling elements for permanent protection/healing. In theory of course.

You would however miss out on the banners from the warrior, which is roughly a 20% party wide DPS increase, and the spotter + frost spirit which is roughly a 12% DPS increase. Also, each elementalist conjures two fiery greatswords upon the skill cast, so having more than two would be kind of redundant. If there isn’t enough might, you can always throw in a mesmer and make it use signet of inspiration and Time Warp.

Arah p1, p2 and p4 are fine. They’re all fairly quick paths which can be ran in under a hour.

Other paths such as HotW 2 and 3 need adjustments (Underwater fights please go) And hell, even CM could use a small boost in rewards.

You might be correct in that matter, but i’m purely speaking from a theoretical aspect right now. I’m just curious which party composition would churn out the most damage while keeping good utility at the same time. All classes described in the OP would increase the party damage greatly, save for the guardian i suppose. The guardian does great damage and churns out a ton of reflects and blinds when traited, pairing that with the elementalist LH, you should be able to keep up around 60-70% blind times on random trash, which in turn increases the survivability of the party greatly. Again, this is just some theorycrafting, i haven’t tested this composition ingame yet.

A few days ago i was doing some dungeon runs with a few friends and we basically started talking about the ’’true’’ optimized party setup. Now, we all know that the 4 warrior 1 mesmer meta isn’t the fastest by a long shot, so i was thinking. What is the best party composition in your opinion?

I had the following in mind.

(2) 1 Warrior for the green banner (Maybe green and red), might take a second one over a ranger.
(0) 1 Ranger for the spotter trait and the frost spirit for party wide DPS increase while dealing great damage with sword auto.
(2) 1 Elementalist with a lightning hammer and a Fiery Greatsword for FGS rushing bosses after they are pulled into a wall.
(0) 1 Mesmer for pulls, reflects and timewarps, helping the Elementalist with their FGS rushes and optimizing DPS by wall pulling.
(0) 1 Guardian for additional reflects and extremely good damage on their sword auto when traited, although it’s not Warrior tier.

Keep in mind this was just a quick train of thought of mine, so it’ll probably be flawed. I’d like to hear everyone’s thoughts on this matter, though.

I only display my Dungeon Master title and my Champion Slayer title.

Currently, i’m working on my Champion Illusionist title, which i really, really want for my mesmer.

Shame there is no Fabolous title like the poster above me said , though (Perhaps a good idea for cultural armours? Could be made possible as the half-way mark for the emperor title)

The haswell CPU and GTX 780 will do just fine if you plan on getting them, I currently both use a 4670K and a GTX 780. The 4670K being oc’d at 4,6 GHz and barely reaching 60c under full load. My GTX 780 sits at 1150 MHz/7GHz (Core/Mem) and runs stable. I can however push it further in other games, all the way up to 1250MHz/7GHz. When it comes to GPU overclocking, GW2 is slightly unstable for some reason, although you shouldn’t need to OC at all with this setup.

To kill my party members’ stacks ofcourse. This will have potential once i’ve figured out how to reproduce this.

It’s probably a mix of attack speed and ranged, I also bore witness to the attack after we wiped to it. I was using Smite on my scepter as an opening attack (Forgot to swap out to GS) before switching to my sword for ZD and Shield of wrath and DPSing him down. This has happened three times so far using this method, although it isn’t consistent.

Might be worth looking into i’d say.

7,5/10. Had a good chuckle.

Count me in too.

I myself am from the Netherlands, but play on the NA servers because all of my friends are there. Since the latest patch I haven’t been able to do any dungeons with them, though.

After reinstalling a few times, and trying to repair, my problem still persists.

Everytime i log in and launch GW2 and log in, im able to see the loading screen, but when the loading has finished, the game just plainly crashes and gives me a crash report.
The following data was in my crash report.

An answer would be very nice, thank you for reading.

No pants are the best pants.

I am the Master Ruseman.

It shouldnt be that hard to figure out what class he is, now that you know his name.