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depends how you trait druid. If you go GS/Staff and take the 33% movement trait and quick draw. You have ‘perma swiftness’ and if you swap weapons and use your leap skill first you can do it again in 3 sec if your in combat that is. so that’s 3 leaps in 10 sec with a 1200 range for each leap
Then read my post carefully again. i said you could buy them but the difference is to high to do so for all li’s i don’t know the prices but i think you looking at 100g for a run? that’s 15 000g for just the li. Pls read before you reply. the efort you need to make that amount of gold. you can better put it in raiding itself.
If people are up for it. I think it’s a great idea. If you like o do it. Then other people will maybe too. The only problem is finding those players i think.
But I think their will be 1 problem. At first everything will go good. but later on people will want to kill those boses. Not just die everytime in their and then their going to want more and more frome the other players to. I think it will cause some drama.
But yeah. it can be that their won’t be any problem at all. Just a headsup at what could and imo will happen after a while
Why does the opinion of people who already have 150 li not count? Because they already have it? That’s the weakest excuse ever.
for example:
What if an item that i want is 30g in the store. But I don’t have 30 gold. Almost everyone who will post that its a fair amount of gold for that item will probably have 30g to buy the item. So their opinion doesn’t count? So basically they need to reduce the amount fo gold for the item because I who doesn’t have the gold for it thinks it should be lower?
That’s basically what your saying.
Let’s say that you can get 5 li per week. That’s 5 weeks for 1 legendary item. That’s A LOT LESS then what you have to do for the pvp backpiece. if you look at the stats that you get out of that armor. it’s a lot more then a backpiece.
Stop looking at the armor as 1 piece and start looking at it what it is. 6 individual pieces of legendary armor. If you look at the armor as 1 piece. Are you going to look at all the weapons too as 1 piece? Because if I want to run a ranger with axe/torch – sword/dagger. Then I need 4 legendary weapons for just 1 build. So I need a 1000 of every t6 materials for 1 build! do I need just 400g for only the icy rune stones for just 1 build! Do i need around 2000 globs of ectoplams for just 1 build! pls Anet lower the amount of materials so i need to grind less gold in SW or kill less mobs to get my materials needed for 1 build.
(sarcasm for those who don’t see it ;-) )I did not say the opinion of those with 150 insights shouldn’t count.what i am saying is that some of there opinions look like the only have them because they seek to make it harder than need be for anyone but themselfs to get this armour.The collection is finished after around 20 insights and all bosses killed.the collection proves you have beet the raid.wtf does 150 insights prove?nothing.its like all grind its to extend the life of the content.It dont prove dedication,it might prove you got more free time than some other people.
150 insights needs lower or we need another faster way to get them.the time gate is way over the top.and your comparison of insights to gold is just silly.
No the time gate is completly fine. Most people who have a problem is that is is closed bhind the raid. But that’s not the topic. 30 weeks if you count 5 li per week ( fair amount imo ) is fine for 6 pieces of legendary armor. What does 150 li mean? it means you where there when a boss was killed at least 150 times. what does it mean to have 250 provision tokens? that you have enough money to buy them on the tp and your willing to wp around to give the weapons to someone? Sorry but then i find the meaning of 150 li a 1000 times better then provisioner tokens. what does it mean to have a lot of t6 materials. that your an expert in farming? or your just good at flipping tp. but then again. I find it much better to go for 150 li then 250 of each t6 material. becuase you cannot buy it ( well you can but it will become really expensive if you buy 150 raid boss kils). I like the idea of things that you need to do that you cannot buy because otherwise you can just famr SW and just buy it. what’s the fun in that.
- Volcanic: The corridor with the boulders in it is thematic but serves no purpose but making the fractal longer.
It’s something you need to look for when your running down. I find the killing of the grawl at the start pointless too. Why can’t you run down immeadietly? why do you even need to kill them?
- Uncatagorized: Giving the harpies knockdown at higher levels doesn’t make them harder, since you just respawn immediately. It just makes them annoying and forces needless repetition of the simple jumping sequence.
then don’t get hit. it’s better then kill the characters that fall down otherwise it would be much more difficult. use reflects/stability or be annoyed with jumping again and again.
- Swamp: The wisp segment is boring and serves no purpose, as it is neither hard nor a puzzle. It exists only due to the achievement for not hitting a trap.
It’s not hard anymore because everyone knows how to run now. I remember the start where everyone tried to avoid the swamp fractal. Everyone hated that one at the start of fractals. I like it because it’s not mindless killing mobs. and if you don’t look out where your running you can do it again.
- Aquatic Ruins: The darkness segment is too unforgiving of even a pixel stick worth of delay.
It has been a long time since i did this. but just equip invurnable skills and you can swim a bit farther. also dodging helps. (not sure if this is still possible)
- Aquatic Ruins: It is common for anyone having issues with dolphin or darkness to simply die on purpose so they will respawn outside the boss room, as long as one other person has made it. This encourages people to not care about these segments while placing a burden on those who do.
Yeah true. but if everyone needs to make it especially the dolphin part at higher lvl fractals it’s almost impossible to do without someone dying.
- Snowblind: The bonfire locations around the Source are difficult to see due to lighting, which results in many first-time players not realizing they are there and even experienced players having to reference the surrounding buildings rather than the bonfires themselves.
There pretty visible when you are going to the source. Yes when you get teleported and there is a snow storm. Then it’s difficult to find them. But without it it’s pretty obvious where they are.
- Snowblind: The forest sequence is pointless as everyone just runs through it as fast as possible.
yeah but yoiu need to avoid the mobs atleast that’s something. If you just run you get killed.
- Thaumnova: The heat room is not doable by all professions without extreme skill, and some players are unable to do it at all, resulting in the possibility of an entire group being unable to progress.
Somebody posted a guide on how to solo the heat room with every class it isn’t impossible. And if you follow the mechanics and place the cooling rods first and then run to the end. it’s a walk through the park. Just do as intended and it’s easy
- Thaumnova: The pull exerted by the portals serves mostly to knock people off the catwalks, which is in general just annoying as they are forced to repeatedly walk back up. It only makes it actually challenging when it succeeds in pulling you into the summoned monsters.
be prepared and dodge at the right moment or use stability to avoid it. I like it that it can happen. it’s annoying true. but it’s part of the game
- Molten Furnace: The tunnel drilling segment is pointless and serves only to add unnecessary length to the fractal, especially due to the enforced slow movement. The same could be accomplished by simply hacving a sequence where the wall has an entry blown directly to the next part after the ambush.
It’s part of the story of the molten dungeon. Yes it goes slow but hey. you didn’t say anything about the grawls at the start of the volcanic fractal. So why with this one?
- Molten Boss: If you join this fight after the Berserker is dead, you will spawn at the edge of the boss platform and immediately be thrown off by the sound ring that forms for the second half of the fight, becoming unrevivable.
you should already be there at the start of the fight. not when 1 of them is already dead.
- Solid Ocean: Except when doing the achievement, the entire map is simply run through at top speed without fighting, making it pointless.
Well this is my opinion but I’d rather run through it then just star directly with maw
Why does the opinion of people who already have 150 li not count? Because they already have it? That’s the weakest excuse ever.
for example:
What if an item that i want is 30g in the store. But I don’t have 30 gold. Almost everyone who will post that its a fair amount of gold for that item will probably have 30g to buy the item. So their opinion doesn’t count? So basically they need to reduce the amount fo gold for the item because I who doesn’t have the gold for it thinks it should be lower?
That’s basically what your saying.
Let’s say that you can get 5 li per week. That’s 5 weeks for 1 legendary item. That’s A LOT LESS then what you have to do for the pvp backpiece. if you look at the stats that you get out of that armor. it’s a lot more then a backpiece.
Stop looking at the armor as 1 piece and start looking at it what it is. 6 individual pieces of legendary armor. If you look at the armor as 1 piece. Are you going to look at all the weapons too as 1 piece? Because if I want to run a ranger with axe/torch – sword/dagger. Then I need 4 legendary weapons for just 1 build. So I need a 1000 of every t6 materials for 1 build! do I need just 400g for only the icy rune stones for just 1 build! Do i need around 2000 globs of ectoplams for just 1 build! pls Anet lower the amount of materials so i need to grind less gold in SW or kill less mobs to get my materials needed for 1 build.
(sarcasm for those who don’t see it ;-) )
In my experience. This isn’t normal. You just happend to have a bad raid leader.
Because it was bad luck for him to go down just after the shard had been destroyed and you where the only one smart enough to start res him. If everyone would have ressed nothing would have happend. I have bad experience with pugging. But I also have very good once. until yesterday one of my best clears of w1 and w2 where both pug raids. one shotting 4 of the 6 bosses and the other 2 just 3 or 4 try’s
Let’s ask first why raid leaders in a training run ask for a meta build.
If your joining a traing run as a new player. It’s logically that the raid leader can assume that you don’t have exp in the raid. Let’s take a situation that I had already training a groop myself I had 4 exp people and 6 new/inexperienced. If I need to explain every mechanic to everyone. That’s already a lot of work. If I then need to explain what’s best to take in your build to counter those mechanics for all 6 players then the explanation itself will take 2 hrs and then we didn’t even tried once. Leaders ask for meta build because those builds have been proven to be good. Raid leaders don’t have the time to discuss with you why you want something different then the meta build. because there are 8 other people waiting to raid. the meta is a good way and when you take a meta build. The raid leader is certain that your build is ok.
That’s why raid leaders ask for meta builds.
If I’m leading a traing run and someone comes to me and ask for traits etc on a rev. I’m going to link him the meta build. Why? Because I’m not playing revenant myself. I don’t know the traits out of my head. Al I have is my experienced with friends and other pugs and I know the meta build is a good build. Is it bad frome me pingen the meta build? or should I just open the meta build on a 2nd screen and read it to him? maybe it will be better for him because I can explain why you take certain traits. But then I’m letting 8 people wait to start raiding. If I can just say to people ok you take this build. When you need to cc you use your elite, axe, switch to staff and use staff cc ( I’m not sure if this is 100% correct but it’s an example) it will be a lot faster then explain that every cc skill has a certain cc damage and explaning that that rotation is the fastest way to do as much cc damage as possible. Yes your trying to train people. but sometimes when your the one who needs training its better to just to do what they ask. it will have his reasons and those reasons will clarify themselves or you can ask for them later. If he needs to explain everything all the time and you want to discuss it. There is no time for that in a traing run because your waisting the time of 8 other people.
to be on toppic. Is it impossible for new/late comers to join raids. No it isn’t impossible
Everyone can make a character with a meta build. A build that has proven to be able to give good results in raids. Some builds are more expensive/ mor difficult to acquire. But everyone can make a character with a meta build. I see often training runs in LFG for raids (I’m also in Europe). Everyone can join traing runs. So it isn’t impossible for newcomers to raid.
Now before you say that your not willing to take a meta build. That isn’t the topic actually ;-). But to reply on that to.
I can make a tempest build that outperforms the meta build in burst damage. But is that needed in raids no consistent damage is needed. I can make a rev build that does more damage then the meta build. But is that needed? No again. And for every meta build online I can make a better build in a certain way. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a better build for the raids. It isn’t the primarily task for a rev to do damage. it’s keeping facet of nature up 100% of the time and have a lot of cc for cc fases. Yes you still need to do damage. But that doesn’t mean you can sacrifice either of both to gain more damage.
For example:
If your joining as a rev. They expect you to fullfill the role frome a rev. But if you say No I’m a pure dps rev and I have no cc and I’m not using facet of nature because it’s not needed for my damage. Then you can still have the best DPS build for a rev possible. You can maybe outperform every rev raiding in dps. But why should they choose you when a pug can do more damage on a meta tempest?
Everyone in the team needs to fullfill a role. Some classes are better at fullfilling certain roles then others.
You say your using shiro instead of the dwarf stance. Did you tested it out? did you take into account that the mesmer is in the same groop as you? so already have a lot of quickness. At those moments you don’t need to change to shiro. because you already have quickness. But you always can change to dwarf stance for the hammers if you already have quickness. (Just pointing something out)
yeah finding new recipes give you the most xp in crafting. If you really want to lvl your crafting. Search for a guide. If you want to it without a guide i shall tell you this :-).
you need to craft new armor that you don’t have in your recipe list yet.
what does it take to ‘find’ those recipes?
make the 2 pieces of armor for the same armor piece. ( i cannot remember the names. But you always need to make 2 things for gauntlet’s or 2 things for a chest piece.) and make 1 insignia. go to the discovery panel and throw in those 2 things frome the armor and the insignia and you should have that piece of armor with the stats of the insignia
I like the change. Now you are actually forced to play WvW every time you want a new legendary. You didn’t needed to play much WvW to be able to buy many gift’s of battle. What you needed Badges of honor wich you could get true achievement chest’s or jumping puzzles (wich are not WvW) you needed to be WvW lvl 5 ( i think. I’m probably wrong =D) wich was not much Wxp in total at all. especcially whenever you gaion a lvl you got a Wxp booster so you would lvl even faster. if you don’t like WvW then go eotm that’s also just running around capping stuff without fighting. Just keep in mind that WvW players need to do A LOT MORE maybe like 10-20 times more pve to get a legendary then the other way around. Be happy that’s its only 1 reward track.
One other thing. If this apparently amazing raid team they have can make all this raid content, why can’t a small fractal team pump out more fractals?
I mean, they are supposed to be much smaller in scope and complexity, but still 5 man challenging content right? Heck, can we even just have the raid team moved over to make a few new fractals every now and then if they are so good at content creation? Or have them obersee the fractal team or something anyway.
The raid team isn’t creating the new wings frome scratch. Most part of those wings where already done before the raid team got that small. The raid team now only needs to fine tune, repair bugs, alter small things etc. So even if they move that team to fractal team. Don’t expect a new fractal every month or so.
you can combine +1 agony infusions yourself if you have a character that has artifician.. And don’t worry about the +1 agony infusions. Just buy the +5 at the vendor for starter. You only need the +1 or more if you have infuse asc rings/backpack
the first boss has no enrage timer and other than watching for warg spawns, has 0 risk in the entire run.
split up the group 3-7 (3 run mushroom cave and tower, 7 escort) and the entire thing is a joke.
So could I create a pug group tonight and expect to get past the first boss/event?
depends? If everyone is running a proper build and you have a good setup then yes it’s possible. I advise you take 1 thief to the groop that goes trhough the mushroom cave for stealth. Makes it a lot easier. and have a druid take care of the npc you need to protect. Then it’s basically. Take a tower → deafeat the 2 wargs → move npc to the next white circle and repeat.
also when you took the npc all the way to the end and your fighting the boss. Just all stack just stack in the little courtyard below and the boss will go there. Don’t stay inside the towers.
ooh very important. watch out for the mines. they insta kill you. You can walk inside the white circle. This makes the mine vurnable to attacks and you can destroy the mine. But be aware that they respawn too
Still, I compared % of active accounts with % of active accounts.
No you estimated how many WoW accounts are active. You guessed 5M but what to they do? are there 5M players loggin in daily? I doubt that.
So why are you comparing 5M people who have an active wow acc ( i assume an active WoW account is an account that can be played on and not neccesarely be played on ) to 100k players who do login daily? you made your own mistake in comparing htings. You estimated to much. If you do a guess about a guess frome a guess that has been said somewhere on a forum by someone who just made up that number. How can that be Correct?
Ok i know the numbers i took are probably wrong. But it’s to make a point.
egotistical elitist entitled jerks
Could you please make a list of things they are entitled to? It would be very useful.
Complete Access to the game I paid for. In case you missed this, I paid for this game, and the Expansion that went with it. Any Skill, Any Time Investment is nothing, compared to cold cash that keeps their lights on.
If Anet does not want to make content for it’s Paying players like me, or wants to cater some other group, then they can expect me to stop paying into this game, Hope you all pick up the slack.
But, yah, I am entitled to Full Access to the Gear, Content, and Aspects, in a way that I enjoy, and if that means I don’t want to deal with elitist jerks, then so be it.
if you thought your investment into this game meant anything, you’re wrong, your skill is pointless, your time spent is worthless, the only thing that matters is dead presidents, which is something I had been providing.
If they want me to keep providing, they better start to build stuff that makes me feel like a special kittening snowflake.
Because, remember this well, I don’t owe them, or you a kitten thing, I don’t care how much you love raids, if what they make is not making me happy, I am not going to support your game mode with my money. Keep that in mind the next time you’re swiping the credit card, make sure to buy a whole lot more to cover what I’m no longer buying.
Hmm aren’t you able to get in raids? Aren’t you able to join the HoT maps. You have acces to every bit of the game. If you do not want to go their. That’s your fault not theirs
You can get every piece of armor/weapons/trinkets. But does it mean that you have to be able to enjoy how you get it? No. I’m not going to buy a shooter game and then complain that I want only mellee combat in it. You bought HoT knowing their would be raids. Logically speaking their would be rewards entangled to raids So you knew their would be specific things you could only get through raids. So you bought this knowing this. And except if you paying a couple of 100 000 bucks to the game. I don’t think they will even notice if you stopped buying gems or expansions. Every player you see running around has bought HoT. Most of them bought the original gw2 so don’t think your the only funds Anet has.
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I have a right to choose who I play with -and I choose to play with people that worked hard just like me – not ones that joined late and expect to be carried.
I should also have the right to choose who I play with, and a part of that, should not be being forced to deal with egotistical elitist entitled jerks that think they are better then other people.
But sadly, Raids cater to that very exact demographic. Starting to see the problem yet?
You aren’t being forced to deal with egotistical elitists. When you have to deal with them. You choose to join an elite groop. If they asked for experienced players and you are not. Then you are the problem not them. I know people who do every boss 2-3 times a week to help out friends. To learn new people how to clear the bosses. To train new people in specific mechanics. I do it myself to. But am I being selfish that i first want to secure the boss kills myself? Ofcourse not. try to search for training runs at the end of the week (friday/staturday/sunday) I see a lot of training runs on LFG just join them. Only requirement is that you have the right build for the character your going with (logic duh). Don’t expect to join a groop at the start of the week ( monday/thusday) because they first want to secure the kills for themselves. are they being selfish? No because a lot of those people are helping others later on the week.
Most of the lore is in cleared instance, but all of the experience is in the bosses, experiencing the lore is what we want. I want to play a game, not read about it.
Yes but here your talking about experience not lore. And even when not defeating boss 1 you can still be fighting boss 2. Try to find a training run and have a decent build and you have the experience.
I want a Dungeon Mode, exactly the same as raids except dungeon level of difficulty, doable with five players. With slower to acquire rewards or different rewards.
Let’s leave it at LOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!
True, but if the smallest dev team can produce this much content in a few months, taking 1-2 devs from the expansion team (or the cancelled legendary team) to work on scaling the raids down for 5players seems very reasonable to me.
There is no small dev team creating this much content in a few months. There is a small dev team fine tuning already existing content to before they release it to the player base
and sometimes more isn’t better. compare creating content with moving a table. The weight of the table is the difficulty or the amount of work to be done. You can carry a small table with 2 persons. But maybe the table is a bit to heavy to carry around with 2 people. So you take 4 people. 4 people will maybe easy carry the table and communicating is going very good because your only with 4 people. Now if you can carry it with 4. Why don’t you take 8 people. Well if the the table isn’t that big. Sure the weight of the table isn’t going to be any problem. But moving around will still be. Because your uncomfortably close to eachother and you need much more coördiantion to move around. So in this case 4 people is better then 8. I’m not sure if this is comparable. But that’s how i think it is to compare to something as easy as that. People with experience in programming games or making content can wrong me. If you don’t have experience then keep silent.
My problem with raids are both locking out content to players AND locking out lore to players.
Their you have it. I think the only valid reason to complain. Not about the bosses being to hard but about some of the rewards. imo viper asc trinkets and other HoT stats should be acquirable through other means as raids. Maybe lock it behind some LS3 achievements (difficult ones because these are strong stats) About lore. again There is almost no lore in fighting the bosses except in experiencing the boss fight. everyone can experience this by having a geared up character and joining traing runs. The rest of the lore is laying on the ground or is worked into the enviroment. So actually every bit of lore is accesable if you want to make an effort if you don’t want to make an effort then let’s explain it with an example.
You don’t need an easy mode Arah because it is already at an acceptable accessible level. It is easy to get five players together and clear it within a reasonable time.
so arah story has an easy mode to be able to do it solo. But the exp paths don’t. If you don’t have friends that can join you but you still want to experience and exp path of arah you need to look for people. But you don’t want to do it with pugs. You want to be able to experience it alone (Someone already noticing some similarity’s?) Then some people will say but arah exp paths are soloable to. But then you need to invest in the right build. You need to invest to look up how everything works and how you can solo arah. Then you need to try it over and over again to finetune your methods. I think your seeing similarity’s no?
And there are other examples. What if i don’t like open world content? But i want to experience the breach of tarir? I need to be extremely lucky or use lfg to get in a good instance to be able to complete the mission? But i don’t want to do it with other people. I want to do it alone! should their be a story instance of the meta event of tarir? no people are going to say. its open world content deal with it that you need a groop. We can say exactly the same. And triple trouble wurm is an even better example. you need an organised groop to be able to do it. Yes the gw2 community on europe does it every day. But then I need to go on ts. Then i need to do a jump to the map. Then i need to be lucky to even get in the map or get lucky that their is still some space left to taxi in the map. All things that recquire preparation to. so what if I don’t want to do this kind of preparation? Should their be a story mode for triple trouble wurm because i want to experience triple trouble wurm? of should I try to do the events with the few people on the map and be happy with failing? If your going to make a story mode for 1 game mode. You need to do it for other to. if your taking things really extreme. why not make a story instance of pvp and WvW? Yes I’m driving this extreme. But if you do it for 1 game mode. Why not for another one too?
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Why even complain about raids? You knew raids where coming with HoT. So why did you bought hot then if your so hard against raids?
I think most of them are just mad they can’t get the unique skins and other rewards from raids, not because it’s to hard but simply because they can’t be bothered to invest the time and effort into it like most other people.
The complaints about lore, accessibility and other new pve content being lacking is just a distraction from what they really want: loot.
If the PVP leagues and recent WVW changes had added ways to get more ascended or new legendary gear they would be complaining about that too, make up a bunch of excuses to hide their true intentions (from both themselves and us) and whine that everyone who disagrees with them is just an elitist trying to keep the loot to themselves.Also sup Valheru.
I bought it because I bought “HoT, the expansion of GW2”, not “A Raid, featuring HoT”. If your prefered game was overall great and would get an expansion with a bitter pill at the side that you have to swallow, wouldn´t you buy it? I am sadly not one of these guys that is smart or patient enough to wait a year before things get nerfed again.
Try to look at it this way: As soon as Hot releases you go in verdant brink and you stay there for 3 months before you go to auric basin. So you enter auric basin in december, you do the same again so you enter tangled depths in march, you do it again so you enter Dragon stand in June. Oh wait where still june and you already have 4 maps while we have only 3 raids wings. And you have so many events and story’s in all those maps. and adventures and meta events that weren’t easy to complete at the start. In 9 months we only had 9 bosses with a minor event in between. I think that seems fair no?
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Why? it’s a guild mission. And the definition of a guild is:
1. an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
So why should something that is meant for more people be soloable. Even when it is easy?
Why even complan about raids? You knew raids where coming with HoT. So why did you bought hot then if your so hard against raids? It was said with the announcements that raids where coming with HoT. The only difference is we get the raids realeased in pieces. Not all at once. There would be sooooooooo much complaining if Anet released only VB for the first 2 months and only then realesad Auric basin.
The raid team isn’t making the raids anymore. The raids where already done for the most part at the realease of HoT or at least at the release of w1. The raid team now is getting out raid specific bugs and finetuning the next raid wing frome what they experience in w1 and w2. why don’t you complain about WvW. There doing huge changes to it. population balance, new rewards tracks and so much more? why aren’t you complaining about pvp? Surely with the new league. There are some dev’s monitoring or keeping an eye on that one? No one would have complained about raids when they would have released w1, w2 and w3 at the same time.
So even if only 5% of the players play raids. If not more then 5% of the resources of Anet goes to raids then you have nothing to complain about. And as long as you don’t have a spy in Anet’s office or Anet doesn’t realease how many resources there spending on what. You cannot complain about raids taking away other content. If raids wouldn’t exist. You would still be waiting for your LS3. and you probably would complain about WvW or something else.
Wouldn’t it be a great idea to use combo’s as a mechanic in raids?
Just an idea like:
You fighting in a cave with no light source. The first 30 sec you have light. but after those 30 sec the light goes out for some reason. So you need to light torches at the edge of the cave before the light goes out to still have light in the cave and the only way to light a torch is by a fire field + projectile finisher. so in this case each 30 sec someone of some people need to create a fire projectile combo to light up the torch
Ok I know it would be stupid because why can’t an elementalist staff 3 in fire (forgot the skill xD) light the torches? Whell maybe it cannot burn throug the use of magic or so. But I think it would be a great idea especcially when you can code it that the person who places down the combo field needs to be someone else then the person who uses the combo finisher. Otherwise most combo’s can be achieved by 1 class and it wouldn’t be as fun as when you need to use 2 people imo.
just an idea =D
Do some of you understand why people enjoy narrative game design? Why there are people out there who buy games for the story? They could very well stick to books and movies only (but they don’t).
Gameplay allows for very immersive storytelling in an unique way. It allows you to experience the story right within it, interacting with the world, with the characters/ NPCs and having to deal yourself with the dangers of adventure.
If your most intelligent suggestions are to “go to youtube”, “ask for a instance with gameplay cleared” or “ask Anet for a mode where all bosses have 1 health”, then you are clearly missing the point. You could very well tell them to ignore GW2’s story, ignore storytelling in videogames, stick to books and movies and play GW2 only for its “intended gameplay”.
I personally am not a hardcore raider. I can’t see myself ever raiding. However, the story that they are presenting in raids is really interesting, touching on subjects that players (especially from GW1) have been asking for years.
Yes, I definitely want a “story mode” for raids. Ideally, by having it work like Arah’s story mode: tuned for solo playing that scales if you invite someone else. Let us enjoy the raid’s storytelling at our own pace, do some of its explorable achievements (those that can already be done through “cleared instances”), a simple final reward at the end of it, and call it a day. And, who knows, maybe that would also be a good way to have more players jump into actual raiding.
Like so many poeple said before. There is no lore in fighting against the bosses/doing the events. If you want to experience it. Then gear up a character and search for a training run for raids. If you want to experience the raid lore like you said by defeating the boss yourself so you can feel to progress towards resueing the captured people. Then do it as it should be. Yes it’s not soloable. But why should it be? this is the story. difficult bosses who you need to defeat through TEAMWORK why should you be able to do it alone as this is the story that your playing? why should it be made easier? Raids aren’t that hard. Yes you need to gear up a character. And yes you need to learn the mechanics of the fight. But does it mean that you need to spend every evening doing raids for 2-3h to be able to do them. No. Some bosses are easy. Some bosses are harder.
My first mathias kill came after i think 2h of trying him in 3 different runs. No i didn’t bought the run and no i wasn’t carried by 9 experienced players. Frome the 10 people in the squad 4 people never killed mathias before that one. We had a very good commander explaining and pointing out everything so we could learn at a very fast pace. So if you find the right people/guild if you have the right build then raids are accesseble for almost everyone. But you need to put in an effort. Its not just zerging around and do damage. and let a few people take care of the mechanics. No now everyone needs to watch out or your whole party dies. Simple as that.
It happend to me to. But You are on the ground And I think you fell down whil in down state. So I think the damage shown is actually falling damage and because you fell pretty high. You get an insane number.
This happend to me when I wanted to go for the hero point in the canopy. But when I passed him. I got hit in mid air and was downed. When I hit the ground I got damage somewhere in the million.
imo you don’t need to speak. But be honest about it. and try to not take important roles. Because sometimes it can be dead or alive when at sabetha you can say that you cannot reach the cannon. So backup can cover for you in time. Or mushrooms on slothasor. I’ve done enough raids where people don’t talk. But if you can avoid taking an important role. do so. Especially when you start doing raids. Maybe it is an option to have macro’s that can type somethin really fast or a sounboard where you can give small notifications like I’m down. But as said before. It’s not neccesary
PLS take a look first on the forums if you write something like 1 post below your post I found this
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Raid-lore-for-non-Raiders/first#post6194807
Also about lore in raids.
Now let’s get on topic.
Yes there is a lot of lore in raids if you look at the right places. But all this lore is still there when you go in a cleared instance. There is no lore while defeating the bosses. There are no npc’s between raid bosses. Every npc you can talk to and that maybe change what they say when you cleared the raid is at the start of Spirit vale and everyone can get there. Even if you don’t take any armor/weapons/trinkets/food etc. with you.
Just ask around if someone wants to open a cleared instance for you and Everything lore related should be open for you to explore. There is no need to make a story instance for the raids. Sometimes I see people offering in lfg for opening a cleared instance. I think many players will open an instance for you. As said before I have a friend who made a blog post about lore in raids and she never ever killed one of the bosses. The only thing she did was kindly ask to someone if they could open a cleared instance..
Edit: Everything lore related is what you can find in the surroundings, notes laying on the ground, etc.
Spoiler alert. The story of raids itself is just your party trying to rescue captured people. nothing fancy about it. and you can already now this just by entering the raid instance even when not cleared or without experienced people.
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if you want exotic commander trinkets. Don’t waist your gold in buying/making them. imo its better to take another stat combination for power, thoughness and precission. and just put a platinum doubloon inside the exotic trinket. You get more stats and boon duration exept if you go for ascended trinkets.
taking 5 exotic commander trinkets you get around 14% boon duration.
When you take 5 exotic tinkets and put in a platinum doubloon you get 20% boon duration.Don’t forget that you can also put platinum doubloons into exotic commander’s trinkets. This is in fact easiest way to get to 100% boon duration by yourself (i.e. without a revenant). The setup here will give 100% boon duration with fried golden dumplings and bountiful maintenance oil on sigil of concentration proc without the need to craft commander’s armor.
Yeah i thought about it after I placed the post =D. But I have now a 100% boon duration mesmer without the use of bountifull sharpening stones and commander trinkets.
Armor and weapons are asc commander, trinkets are exotic berserker with platinum doubloon, sigil of concentraition and sigil of force, chronomancer runes and golden doubloons ( ok it’s actually 98.5% boon duration I know but that 1.5% isn’t going to make any dfference. I don’t even know if anet’s round those numbers )
Lets be clear, we are not asking for easy content. Let the raiders have their fun. God knows I was one of those folks not to long ago in WoW. Make it as hard as it can be for that segment of players to enjoy.
What we are asking for though is a story instance so we can enjoy playing through the lore and not miss out on anything. Reading or seeing a youtube vid is ok, but we play a video game and having a story instance would just feel right.
I think all the lore is available through a competed raid instance
I think so too. Even the cutscene when you kill mathias can be seen in a cleared instance. Everything as far as i know related to lore can be found in a cleared instance maybe the only difference will be the npc at the start of spirit vale. But then again. Every player can get there. solo or in groop as you don’t have to kill anything to be able to talk/listen to them.
Diamond pvp.
Migraine done soloing it (my party die against mordy at the first fly phase)
Every single dungeon done.
HoT story done.
Maguuma Trailblazer.
fractal 94.
Still i need to kill the VG……………………..
i CaN’t FiNd A sInGlE GrOuP aBlE tO pLaY lIkE a TeAm. 3 ,no wait, 4 months after the first wing release still i never killed the VG…….
okok i’m a noob i need to l2p blablabla……. please….. please….. make it more easy……. not for me….. ok for me too….. make this raid more easy so i can play something different. there are 2weeks that i’m stuck helping the others players to get the fly achievment of the HoT story in hearts and minds (stupid bug, you find a team-die against mordy- the team kill him for you-you get the ach -_-") or helping teams to get migraine because that is the only last funny thing i can enjoy from this game (in PvE i mean).
please this raid need a debuff or wolf players like me (i play alone, no guild. yeahyeah this game is a guild game find a guild blablabla…. no thx no more) willl never get behind that frigging kitten VG. only if i’m lucky to find a “normal party” i can hope for a VG kill. The others bosses………………………….. it makes me cry and laugh at the same time.
:’’’’)
btw reading post of people talking about opened cleared raid wing……… it looks so dumb!! i don’t want an open clear wing! are you kidding? i want to be able to clear the wing by myself. what a dumb person buy a game where he leave people playing for him? lol
i don’t want stupid cutscene. i can have it without a single penny spent. just look it on youtube. i want funny fights! not leave the others play for me! this is so….. dumb :/
Why should they make it easier. Raids weren’t created to be easy but when you know them and with the right builds and groop. There actually not that difficult With a good groop composition you can kill every boss pretty easely. Yes it can be hard to find the right groop. But the best clear groop I ever had was a 100% pug groop. If you don’t want to join a guild. Fine that’s your choice. But also remember that some guilds exist that are only a list of players who do raids where you can ask if people want to join a raid or not. No represnatation asked. No donation asked really nothing just a list of players who you can all contact very fast.
if you want exotic commander trinkets. Don’t waist your gold in buying/making them. imo its better to take another stat combination for power, thoughness and precission. and just put a platinum doubloon inside the exotic trinket. You get more stats and boon duration exept if you go for ascended trinkets.
taking 5 exotic commander trinkets you get around 14% boon duration.
When you take 5 exotic tinkets and put in a platinum doubloon you get 20% boon duration.
There are raiding guilds that exist of a big groop of players. It’s not a guild like we raid every week on monday/wednesday and friday. But more like a big player list where you can ask around for help or setup a raid? Some of those guilds try to organise training runs to. I heard people getting their first mathias kill by join a groop for trio who went further to mathias.
I got my first mathias kill last week. We had a groop of experienced raiders for slothasor and trio. But 4 of us didn’t killed mathias before. But after trio we still had time and experienced people joined us because it was the ed of the week. Amazingly enough. It took us only 4-5 runs to kill him.
Just be patiend and try to find a friendly groop who’s willing to take you with them and be sure that you know the mechanics.
Even when your capped. The mini’s you get you can sell to the merchant at the start of the raid wing for extra shards. If you get an ascended weapon but you don’t need it. Just salvage it. You get extra shards. I know for sure you still get your shards when you already reached the cap. But I’m not sure if you didn’t reached the cap yet if the acquired shards through these methods will count towards the cap.
So even when you reached the cap. it’s still possible to earn more shards while defeating bosses.
The solution is actually quiet easy. Just ask around if anyone cleared one of the wings and ask if they can open an instance for you. They open the instance. you join on the map. They can leave and do whatever they want to do. The only thing is that you cannot leave the raid instance and enter again. Then you need to ask again if someone can open it.
A friend of mine made beautifull lore blog posts without defeating 1 boss. She just asked some friends to open up instances and she watched the cinematics on youtube.
here are her blog posts:
http://www.dragonseason.com/lore-behind-the-raid-forsaken-thicket-salvation-pass/
It is possible to get a full ascended armor set without crafting. I have a full set of ascended light armor and I don’t have a character with 500 tailoring. Now there are different ways to obtain ascended armor pieces
1) daily tier fractal daily’s:
I don’t know frome wich tier they start dropping but the highest chance of an ascended box dropping is tier 4. But this would be a bad choice because you actually need ascended armor/trinktes to have enough AR to play tier 4 fractals.
2) raids. You can get ascended armor drops frome killing bosses. Also when you do raids you get a currency. With that currency you can BUY ascended armor. It isn’t a fast way. But you don’t need to craft. This will be difficult tobecause you will need to have the right build and most groops want you to ping your gear and most of them won’t be happy seeing exotic armor.
3) WvW rank up chest. But there extremely rare. I’m around rank 1400 and If my memory is right I had 1 ascended armo box dropping frome them.
I don’t know this for sure. But there could also be a chance of ascended armor dropping frome guild mission rewards. But again. I’m not sure of this.
I think the easiest way is to craft your ascended armor. Because if you choose a another way doing it the ‘easy’ way you need ascended armor for those methods too. If you don’t do tier 4 fractals I don’t think its worth it trying to get a full ascended set frome fractals. and for raids. Chances are big you won’t find many groops willing to take you along. You don’t have ascended armor and you are new to raids so you don’t know the boss mechanics.
I don’t mind having new players in dungeons/fractals well fractals depends on the level :-). But there is 1 thing they need to do and that is listen. Usually when i see someone with -1k AP I ask in chat if anyone needs an explanation or something. If i dodn’t get a reply I just go on. But sometimes I see them running like headless chickens and then I ask again if they need an explanation. If there still doing stupid stuff where you can see that they just don’t know the mechanic’s. I ask 1 more time with a warning that I’m going to kick them if they don’t listen. I have patience and although it’s a long time ago. I too had to learn how to run dungeons/fractals. But if there to stupid to even say. I don’t know how this goes. can you explain. Then I don’t bother to type everything if the chances are very big there not even going to listen.
I like the idea that you can still fight after the match is over. Had the last 30 sec of the match a good 1v1 against a mesmer. When the match was over we kept on going because it was a very good balanced 1v1 and no one would add because they already left. After the match we did some more 1v1. Sometimes its fun that you can end the fight that you started.
Take a look at metabattle.com It’s a site with many builds for every class for every game type. You can find some ideas there and if you don’t like them. You can start and alter them a bit.
It’s borderland bloodlust
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Borderlands_Bloodlust
if there is 1 star. That server has got the ruins on 1 borderland.
imo. you can add those canons. But tower needs to be at least t2 so a blob just cannot cap it. build the canon and then start firing at the garrison. and garrison itself needs to have a similar weapon to put pressure on th towers as well. Don’t forget that in Alpine border you could treb both ways.
Why not make a guild tactic that you can use in you keep that’s called nuke. Insta kill’s everyone on the map?
NO – too many guilds depend on the Airship attack, rather than actually defending themselves. This is the issue for me. I want to fight players, whether defending or attacking, not siege or goofy kitten items in game.
I should have quoted. But I was being sarcastic about the 1 hit kills on canons and OP AC’s being suggested.
Just made a quick basic WvW frontline guardian build. You can always tweak it. But i think to start this is the most basic one
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJAWRlsAhWhYzQwWIwPEHJE1dZDgDAvBhQKknh/LAB-TFhXgAg6CAU+5oEkX9HA-w
Notice that I only used soldiers gear. I suggest to start you go very tanky to learn the flow of battle. Even when your used to play backline. As a frontline it’s still a huge difference imo. Later you can always swap out some trinkets to berserker when you feel the time is right.
little tweaks
1) you can swap Greatsword for hammer. more blast’s and a imob. But you don’t have a leap or a pull. When you go hammer you should change Honor trait line into dragonhunter to have a leap on your f2
2) runes. melandru, durability, hoelbrak, soldiers. each one has it’s advantages
3) If you see there are a lot of range classes with reflectable projectiles. swap purging flames or hold the line to wall of reflection.
Well this isn’t probably the best guardian frontline build. But imo it’s a pretty kitten god one to start out with.
Why not make a guild tactic that you can use in you keep that’s called nuke. Insta kill’s everyone on the map?
The thing is, with an organized group you usually want to focus on a small subset of the bigger group, trap them, kill them, reset (heal/empower, etc) and go on again. In that, the target limit to 10 is not that bad.
When you fighting bigger numbers you can use statics to divide the groop. If 40 people run into the static and 10 don’t have stability. You already achieved something. The first 30 need to go further and have the initial clash without those 10 people. Or those some of those people will uss a stun break. Or the whole groop needs to wait for the cc to be over wich gives you the advantage to outmaneuvre your enemy. Now probably the first 10 hits of a static will be absorbed by the mellee train with stability. then the backline can do without it.
Is it stated somewhere that their going to remove DBL? I only heard them saying their going to bring back Alpine borderland. I think their going to rotate those 2 maps around. Their never going to throw away a uear of work because some people doesn’t like change scenery. Yes DBL had his flaws ( long walking times, lot’s of chokepoints, difficult to navigate etc. But the map itself is nice and when you get used to it. It’s not that bad.
Try to remember when you first came to Alpine borderland. Then add a few weeks even 2-3 months. Could u say you knew Alpine borderland as good as you knew it just before it got exchanged by DBL? imo if they set up a rotation everyone will be happy to have another different map to fight on to. Especially with the changes they implementen with the patch
If you want to start out as elementalist. I should recommend a cantrip build. with earth armor, mist form and lightning flash. you have a lot of get away/stun break skills. Don’t go to squichy at the start and use staff. I think overall that’s the best way to start out as elementalist.
As a guardian be sure to use shelter and renewed focus. There both good ‘panic’ buttons. But be aware that the wells frome a necro aren’t blockable so you can’t use shelter to bunker a well spike. I think the easiest way is to start with full pvt armor and trinkets. You will do almost no damage but you will learn the flow of battle. Then you can start out to swap some trinkets to berserker when you feel the time is there.
What I think needs to change is the cc cap at 10 players. Its a lot harder for a small group to fight a big group when the cc can hit only hit 12.5% of the group with cc..
I agree. This cap gives the bigger groop a much better advantage then the smaller groops. and it makes a lot of static’s and lines usseless. When a big groop is pushing into a chokepoint. they only need 10 heavy people up front with stability and they can run easaly through every cc. all the classes can then just follow without needing to worry to get cc’d
If I’m not mistaken Anet wants to give smaller groop also a chance. I think it’s better to remove the cap on those skills as it’s a better adventage to smaller much organised groops. Then the bigger less organised groops