Guild Wars 2

Wolfric.9380:

Just most are not used to it. Go out in Zerker without much condi clean… Fight a condi build and cry. I had such fights and players seemd to ignore the bleeding stacking, till they realized their life is low .. Then its to late and the are bolted down. Not by condi ….

That’s the issue though. With the changes they have just brought about another imbalance. I am not advocating that condi’s should be nerfed into obscurity, but clearly they need to be adjusted (Anet has already acknowledged that they are overpowered: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Things-we-know/first).

What a kitten meta, the advice so far:

- Pack plenty of condi clear.
– Use condi. reducing food
– Use runes of melandru

So much variety.

Do I even need to care about toughness anymore?

The argument that “well zerker’s dominated previously” is not an argument at all. It’s just petty.

What is best is if all classes are equally viable. The goal should be balance.

Thanks for the advice all. Only two of the group are completely new, although I also personally don’t have a lot of dungeon experience either.

After browsing the TP for some level appropriate gear it has quickly become apparent that at the 30-40 range it is not straightforward as saying I want a PVT setup

So at the end of it all I have opted for power/precision for me and the two new guys. Spent somewhere in the order of 15g for the three of us. I’m not bother by the money, as I have no need to save gold for anything in particular (and I can make 20g in a couple of hours on my level 80’s should I need to, although it is boring).

I’ve kitted us out with runes and sigils:

RUNES
Guardian1: 4 * Major Strength + 2 * Hoelbrak
Necromancer: 4* Major Strength + 2 * Hoelbrak
Guardian2: 3 sets of minor (+power and +might duration)

SIGILS
A selection of Major/Minor Bloodlust, Night and Force.

We will definitely be doing the story mode first (that’s the easy one, right?).

So although I did take all your advice onboard, I’ve chosen to go the bolder path :P. Main reason being that should we epic fail the dungeon at least everybody is kitted out for speedy leveling.

I’ll let you know how we go on Sunday night!

HI,

I’ve been away from the game for a considerable period, and never did much pve when i did play regularly. Now I am back with a few buddies that play Sunday nights only. A couple of these guys are completely new to GW2.

After a couple of Sunday sessions we all now have access to AC and are interested in doing it “at level”, or near enough.

I know from browsing around that the standard approach at 80 is full zerker. However, I am concerned that this may not be an optimal gear setup for characters in the 30-40 level range in a dungeon scenario (inasmuch as characters at that level can go “full zerker”).

Out party consists of:

2 * Guardians
1 * Necro
1 * Thief
1 * Ranger

Should we be looking to balance our gear more (say Power+Vitality, for example)?

Thanks for your time.

Endless Soul.5178:

You DO realize that the place you chose to farm is in a mid level area where people coming there to complete that heart are still new-ish and have no clue what you’re doing there, right? Right?

It’s beside the point. I have no gripe against other players generally, nor specifically those questing at this location.

I’ll spell it out again: my issue was with players DELIBERATELY TROLLING the ambients.

It doesn’t matter to me anymore as I now have a few other spots I have investigated (ty community). Trolling is still a kitten move and those people deserved to be kitten upon.

I appreciate that some people have different views.

With all due respect, I am not the party at fault. The heart can still be done easily, and Trolls go afk when balm stops being thrown, so it’s obvious that they are griefing.

Also, I have found a few posts where players have been suspended for griefing the ambients, so Anet does support my argument.

From now on, I will report as “offensive language” for any griefing (as suggested by: Gaile Gray, ArenaNet Forum Communications Team Lead) and will encourage others to do the same.

Thanks for the tip btw.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Actually untface, the guy who is griefing a ambient mechanic is you. The place you use to “Farm” your tot bags is a place with ambient creatures needed for a renown heart.

If you truly only want to farm tot bags, you can truly use any place on tyria for that cough swamp* cough* queensdale..

If you start being offensive and agrssive with people that are killing stuff there, you are the one who will get punished. Gw2 do’es not have such thing as Kill steal, so your point here is completely out of arguments to concern about.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

It’s extremely annoying to have a bunch of lootstick swinging underwear-people running through that place while we’re preparing for the worm.

So use another WP. How hard is it?

anyway, /endthread not getting anywhere here. I have the answer I needed.

Have fun all.

I’m not doing the heart, I want to get corn for 20 slot bags. I’d simply gotten annoyed with players trolling the crows.

I am very free to judge people, especially those whose sole purpose is to impeded others progress. Your pseudo philosophy is a load of BS.

As is your logic that it takes more than 20 seconds to create a thread.

RSLongK.8961:

Maze balm farmer: Dont block your heart progress (you can kill ress quaggan, stomp frogs or still kill the ravens and get out), increase candy corn income, decrease candy corn price allowing cheap 20bags for all players.
Maze balm complainer: Create a thread about it that takes more time to type than to complete the heart, do not help the economy or players.
:<

Who are we to judge people enjoyment that does not block ours?

So players that go afk, only to start killing ambient’s as soon as a maize balm is thrown, they are in the right? Give me a break.

Having said that, I accept that nothing can be done. There was no harm in asking the question though. I will simply continue to block players that grief (as i would in any game) and wonder at what kind of pathetic mindset gives them pleasure from such activities.

Can anything be done about people that deliberately grief the ambient’s to stop trick or treat bag farming?

It’s a kitten move, one that impacts on my enjoyment of the game, and I am not alone in that regard. Surely Anet have a policy regarding deliberate trolling?

I don’t have a great deal of PvE experience, so currently I am simply reporting obvious trolls for scamming and waiting to see what happens.

Does Anet have any kind of official position regarding pve griefing?

Couple of further questions (in addition to the previous poster):

1. Who built the PC?

2. Does your PC have performance issues in anything other than GW2. Specifically, are you able to run other online games with no unacceptable FPS degradation?

If you turn all your GW2 graphics as low as they can go, does the FPS issue persist?

At least give us a WvW spec much as we get in the sPvP area. It gets annoying porting back to respec every time I want to run some dungeons.