We have a /vm/ guild that has been running near weekly events for over 3 years now with over 60+ logins in the last week in our alliance for anyone interested in doing endgame content, new players are always welcome and no prior experience is needed.>>2339983 Previous ThreadAnet has released a brand new dungeon in POST searing this time, based off the one they released in pre searing. Go unlock the new free mesmer hero. Read about the new balance change here:https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/2026042821st Anniversary festival is currently ongoing, we are doing daily HA at 4 PM and 7PM EST everyday until festival ends. Don't forget to get your exclusive attribute weapons and afk on boardwalk before festival is over.I AM STILL SEARCHING FOR BUILDS TO ADD TO OUR BAWWBUILDS COLLECTION IF YOU HAVE SOME YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE POST TO THREAD.Useful linkshttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://gwsolo.wikidot.com/https://www.gw-memorial.net/https://tolkano.com/https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/PvX_wikihttps://wiki.fbgmguild.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://party.gwtoolbox.com/https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/https://ascalon.gwtoolbox.com/https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome>Having trouble figuring out what is worth keeping?https://youtu.be/CnBjJnxC-s0>New player and not sure what profession to run?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQQe_3P1P0
>>2408952On Sunday at 3:00PM EST we will be doing our annual Deep run! I will be giving out store codes, additionally I will be dropping valuable items on the ground throughout the run.There will be 3 different categories you can try for to win a store code:1) Top DPS2) Most creative build (voted by officers)3) Most effective build (voted by players in attendance)Please try and bring more creative builds this time, the judges were very dissapointed by last weeks showing of mostly meta builds.These are the builds we're currently playing for HA, we're having a lot of fun on these builds so we might just run this for rest of festival but if people are interested maybe we'll swap to a modern balanced set up on the last few days of festival. Also as a reminder this thread I will be posting images with hidden store codes for the remainder of this festival, if you find one please reply to the post with picture confirmation you claimed the code. I would additionally appreciate if people post more GW1 pictures this thread to help disguise when I post pictures with codes in them.
>>2408960I may find one, but I'm not going to post if I don't claim it.
Factions is shit and I am tired of pretending it is not.
I like factions the most
Warrior dagger, Ranger dagger, .. all plays the same as sin dagger to the point where I don't know what the point is just doing the same thing on multiple professionsbut Warrior Scythe plays differently enough from Derv Scythe that I think it's warranted playing both.
>>2407416>>2409070
>>2409132The point is to have a high damage build on a profession you're already playing. It's not trying to answer the question of which profession to play daggers with, but rather what weapon do I use on X profession for big damage.
>>2409050when were you pretending, you bitch about factions every day
I sold a name for hundreds of armbraces!And yet still not enough for the zaishen title...
>>2408773I don't dislike it that much because it isn't bullshitty, you just need be able to pull smartly. It's not easy, especially the room where you have to be really careful not to aggro about half a dozen elementalists at once and get your entire party lmao'd in one big fireball.Gyala Hatchery can fuck right off. If it wasn't for the exploit path I would just end my Factions campaigns there. The NPC behavior actually works well in that case except it's entirely to your detriment, because the hatchling turtles are literally coughing babies and since they're the weakest, the enemies ignore everything you're doing and beeline for them. I hate this mission done the intended way because it's just defending constant zerg rush where if you don't body block with perfect awareness for 20 minutes, you are fucked. That mission was just designed to frustrate players.
>>2409181I know, but it's boring playing the same thing on every bar no matter which prof you're playing.For scythe, profs will play differently, with Dervish doing enchants and teardowns, or stacking enchants that deal damage aoe per swing.Warriors mainly doing adrenal scythe attacks while unenchanted (or just receiving enchants from party members that they're not tearing down), mainly using tactics skills to build adrenaline, and having access to things like protector's strike for a spike.and Assassin scythe builds tend to be using things like Grenth's Aura to bypass Shadow Form damage cap.Each is a distinct enough playstyle to keep it interesting.
What's in the new build?
>>2409385new dungeon fixes
48868-9M?C7-2F81K-R9PBM-BRMRCa mysterious code appears... you must crack it first... and swear on your life you will NEVER badge
>>2409424what are you gonna do if the person badges?What if they get the veteran badge?
>>2409569nothing dude, it's Hhave fun
this strikes fear to the hearts of anonsone man babbles about factions being bad to this very day
>>2409736>one manthere's more than one
why are so many dungeon staff skins locked to primary attributes only.there's some cool skins but useless because you can't get them in the attribute you want for AnA/Adept heads.
>>2409736>mfw I load up my 7-smiter party and all of them have Ray of Judgement
>>2409132People will always rush for the lowest effort, highest reward option no matter how boring it is. That unfortunately happens to be daggers for those two.
>>2408960how am i supposed to invent some kind of high dps build nobody heard of by sunday
>>2410077consider all the skills that have been buffed since reforged started, metas haven't been updated for years so there's bound to be some builds that have good damage that are not known right now.
>>2409424It's used up. But what was it?
>>2410077who said anything about inventing a high DPS build? If you want to compete in the DPS category I wish you the best of luck, but considering last week the top 3 DPS were less than 10k off from each other you're in for a tough time.Creative build category was like #6 for DPS he just had a build we thought was cool. The effective build category basically won by default because it was curse necro in a physical heavy party and nobody else played a serious supportive role.
>>2410219ty for replying that someone used it lol I was beginning to wonder. That was the bonus character slot, Wawaa won during Urgoz last week but wanted to give it away on thread.
>>2408960Do you redeem the code in-game or through the store?
>>2410234In-game, go to character select screen and click "Edit Account" in bottom left, then "Manage Access Keys" after that add key
>>2410246so i can idle and PERHAPS be lucky enough to claim a keyit would be a shame if somebody dumped a char slot or storage tab key!
>>2410224oh I actually tried several characters until the game said I did too many requests.. ironically I did A-G then went numbers 1-0, and then worked backwards from Z.If I'd tried 1 more letter before switching to trying numbers I'd have had it, but at the same time.. I don't need anymore character slots, so I guess I'm glad I didn't get it.plus I badged to see the new dungeon
>>2409186Sir, you forgot your medication today.
>>2409321>I don't dislike it that much because it isn't bullshittyIt was pretty bullshit to begin with because you had to babysit two nerds with a death wish but now you also have to babysit your heroes who as soon as you blink will rush off to kill that spirit of Life on the other side of the room.
What year present should I turn these into
>>24111896th because tonics are fun and cool
I gooned my dick raw
>>24111897th cause there's new minis since last year
someone with too many accounts and no life bought out just about every worthwhile inscription from the trader
>>2411124Somebody is doing the complaining
>>2411355We have an inscription trader?
>>2411515meant to write insignia
>>24111897th for the ultra rare minis
I used to think the island PvP outposts were entirely disconnected, but you can actually see the Zaishen Menagerie from the HA outpost.
gang I'm thinking about anni weapons - I got a couple most important ones like scythe, hammer spear, sword for sure next one should be mesmer shield, otherwise what else is good? sin bow? derv staff? talk to me
finally, aint messin with unlucky
>>2412080Ele axe. Mesmer shield is great.
>>2412135my ele is permapre though
>>2412117>kurzick
>>2412080Rit bow is great with spirit's strength
>>2412188Make a second ele if you think double dragon pet ele is a fun idea.If not, there's next year.
>>2412286based, Kurzick armor looks better
this worth anything?
>>2412541The mods are perfect and can be removed if you want them.
>>2412541sundering mod is the only good thing
>>2412293rits cant keep up with pure bred rangers so i don’t know why they even bother
>>2412566let them have it. rits don't have that many fun elites of their own
>>2412589it's not that they don't have good elites it's mostly that 2 of them dominate. SoS and STI've had fun in DOA with DWG before though
>>2412688I like how the devs are buffing underpowered skills, but they should address overpowered ones too
https://youtu.be/kBtU0zSBcos
>>2412703nah I prefer not gutting established builds but rather making other builds look like fun that you grow into them.
>>2412703That would be best but today's gamers will drop a game the second nerfs affect them, the GW1 playerbase being no exception. The current devs will play it safe by buffing everything else.
>>2412703The EotN skills that you can use on every class should never be better than the equivalents that are class-specific.
>>2413027Eotn pve skills should be restricted to their factions' areas
>>2413378The monkey's paw curls and now they are only available as a temporary replacement skill when entering a dungeon, with 2-3 assigned to each one.
>sweatlordsglad you autists are a minority
>>2409132You forget Necro dagger and that bored Paragon dagger users
>>2413511cool vaguepost
>>2413514well, if I was using daggers on a Para I'd still be primarily doing imbagon/HR based builds and just using dagger fast autoattacks for adrenaline.necros.. I don't have soul taker casue I almost never play my Necro.
>>2412703they're too pussy but it's the right thing to do
>>2413649Congrats i knew i should have logged on today. How long did you hold halls?
>>2413751>How long did you hold halls?yes
make 'em say UNNNNNNNNHUNNNNNNNNNNNNH
>>2413818EZ WINS
>>2413826damn hey thanks for the key
>>2413905Yep no problem, that was the free mercenary hero slot, thanks for replying it was claimed.
>>2413986wait I lied, that was Xunlai Material Storage Expansion I got my notepad all messed up.
>>2412556should run vamp on sword sundering is only really useful on hammer
I continue my first playthrough and do we ever get to fight the charr again after the beginningish of prophecies. I feel like I took an insane detour with how it's all been about kryta and ascension
>>2414407yes
>>2414419Oh thank god.
>>2414429The story doesn't come around back to directly saving Ascalon if that's what you're asking. The Flameseeker Prophecies do not concern the fate of Ascalon, only foretell the destruction as a catalyst. Honestly, the plot can be a little confusing, so it's sometimes helpful to talk to the mission info guys in every mission outpost. They tell you exactly what's happening.There IS a quest named The Last Day Dawns which sees you return to Ascalon to help out Adelbern, but I won't say more because it's a spoiler. Just ask us about the post-Prophecies quest chain when you finish because it's not immediately obvious that it exists. And prepare your anus in advance because it's going to get destroyed.The charr do obviously feature prominently in the GW2-tie-in Eye of the North though since they have to set them up to be included in GW2.
>>>/r9k/84474729They don't care!
>>2414466I seee, thx
>>2414466it does tie in, because the Titansare the "New gods" for the Charr, and all over the northlands there are Titan Effiges. It's touched on again in Nightfall in the Realm of Torment, and EotN has a quest tying into the Titans and then the whole Charr Civil War started by Vvatlaw Doomtooth's son, which that name is the name of the scout who first is encountered in Presearing Ascalon. it's kind of an interesting relationship, in which the Charr rebels make it known in no certain terms that their alliance with you is temporary and only used to get an advantage against the Shaman caste and their "new" "new gods", the destroyersThey have no regrets about taking Ascalon, they consider it their homeland that humans usurped.They only have qualms about serving beings as gods who are not actually gods
>>2414487Assuming you're still working at Ascension, this is what you might have missed out in the world up to that point. The Prophecies are well known but poorly understood.
>>2414494I'm not saying the Flameseeker Prophecies do not tie in to the story of Ascalon. As I've said, it was the catalyst for the events, and you can consider the resolution of the Prophecies coming full circle, e.g. the effigies. However, the Prophecy itself does not concern the ultimate fate of Ascalon.
>>2413514really when I think about it, while warrior dagger feels pointless because hammers and scythes are way more fun and still effective.Ranger dagger is worthwhile because bows fucking suck, and since expertise makes 5 energy skills cost 2 energy and unlike scythe and hammer all dagger attacks are energy.. ranger's the best fit for them aside from primary assassins.
I know it's just normal, but I was having fun playing scythe warrior with the anni scythe
>>2414767Also tao being per hit damage synergizes nicely
>>2414494>They have no regrets about taking Ascalon, they consider it their homeland that humans usurped.Europe is rightful Islamic clay!Sasuga, ArenaNet.
we are an sc guild
a*
we are temporarily a pvp guild but only until wednesday then we are back to being DEAD
>>2415983>>2415988>>2416013Shut the fuck up, idiot.
TY fren :3
>>2416142huh, seems like winners aren't wanting the character slots, they might be more willing to pounce on name changes considering the 1 word names are still somewhat new
I'm down to getting multiple mesmer shields, have 3 for fire, lightning, and earth armor. I should get a 4th just doing a few extra things like getting infused running Iron Mines and Ring of Fire which I figured I might as well do cause WiK stuff has mursaat and jade constructs.Do I go with cold armor, slashing, piercing, or blunt?
>>2416489Piercing, imo
>>2415306yeah so.. I need to get me some good daggers for my ranger now, I almost regret customizing my glacial blades on my assassin as soon as I realized I had Q9 glacial blades.. but they look so good I just went for it, despite my assassin already having a decent pair of crescent blades.I was thinking just buy another set but then I see people selling Q12 glacial blades for 55A so nope I think I'm priced out.Warrior I'll want a nice scythe I think I've been having fun with scythe warrior, hammer warrior, dagger ranger, and hammer monk.It's a shame they gave ranger a sword rather than daggers. Sword fucking sucks.all I really do with it is run a beastmaster build while autoattacking and using sun and moon slash.Maybe I need to throw a lot into tactics since I have to use a tactics shield anyway.But as of now I just think.. go daggers for ranger.
OgESU5LTfaEFniKOrGj10kFHjank builds?Lightning Reflexes is sustainable but.. it just doesn't do much really.if there's not knockdowns expected you could swap IAU for Save Yourselves and be a bit more party support I suppose.
set up my resto and prot dervI want to heal YOU
>>2416678the best use for a Dervish baka desu senpai
>>2413649It should have been MEEEEEEEEE
>>2416286Those were just given away for free, I put 2 free char slot codes in the Baww and FUN motd late last night.
>>2413649if i was unemployed i would have been there
>>2416920noooo don't play alternatives you have to play vow of strength
>>2417297oh, you'd mentioned that someone had won a char slot code in your run earlier and they declined it and asked for you to put it out publicly, I thought that was also happening for that code the anon posted.I could see how character slot codes might not be wanted by everyone, if they have all the characters they want and it'd just be a mule.
>>2416542Change IaU to dwarven stability, run ascan over antidote. Drop headbutt for protectors strike
>>2417516Also drop on your knees for sun and moon slash
>>2417550It's a good skill but I wouldn't go that far, you can just buy it from the skill trainer in Kaineng
We're going to win right?
As a reminder we are playing Deep tomorrow at 3PM EST, we will be giving away store codes and other ingame items.There will be 3 different categories you can try for to win a store code:1) Top DPS2) Most creative build (voted by officers)3) Most effective build (voted by players in attendance)>>2417944Illusion hench failed us it's over bros
there are two sluts in this pic
>>2417516dwarven stability requires cons (which the issue isn't really cost, it's the jank of opening up your inventory to get drunk again before hitting the spell) and doesn't make lightning reflexes sustainable, you'd have downtime, not to mention disenchanting.protector's strike is strength, this is a ranger sir.the headbutt is mainly to have a knockdown and then be able to use on your knees to recharge lightning reflexes. In testing it does work, so you keep up blocking and IAS indefinitely.Sun and Moon Slash is one of the things I thought about, if I wasn't trying to maintain Lightning Reflexes. I don't think Dwarven Stability is enough for it.If I was going to use booze, I'd just do drunken master, IAU, TaO, and still use antidote signet to deal with blindness, with Soldier's Strike, Thrill of Victory, Sun and Moon Slash and .. I dunno, Riposte maybe, wouldn't block everything but I could get in some critical blocks maybe.
>>2418328Scan wouldn't really be necessary as Soldier's Strike and Sun and Moon Slash are unblockable. So you'd just need to account for blindness (and miss hexes but nothing a ranger or warrior can do about that)
>>2418328>protector's strike is strength, this is a ranger sir.It's for the AA reset, not the damage.
>>2418390maybe but I think ultimately Ranger Sword just isn't satisfying and if you're gonna go ranger melee it's kinda daggers or bust.
after playing war so much i forgot how retarded derv really was 19 second crips every 2 seconds wtf was he thinking
>>2418912the problem is I think the data they were gathering they were looking at mainly PvE usage which is borderline 0, even if you looked at PvP usage crip sig was a slightly niche derv pick
>>2419011what its on the balth meta bar the main gvg bar everyone runs it was op as fuck before they buffed it anyways this bar is pretty fucking stupid also 16 hammer 16 str 9 hp regen
>new Minis --Althea and Devona >Althea worth at least 10aW e w
>>2419632huwhat ghost pussy does to a niBBa
imagine being some broke black dyed nigga
>>2420306>white superior to blackgaming is healing
>>2411272What'd they add to it last year?
>>2420435minis that were previously only available from like special promotions, Zhed, Vizu, Oni, Shiroken Assassin, and Naga Raincaller
>go to sleep>ecto selling for 10k>wake up>selling for 12k
for deep later do we slot in recalls / ymlads to do the few skips and cheese kanax or are we vanquishing?
REMEMBER TO RETAIN YOUR SEMEN UNTIL AFTER TODAY'S DEEP RUN
>>2420679I prefer vanquishing I've seen people try to do a few speedrunner tactics before in deep and in the effort of saving 5 seconds it just causes a group wipes in areas where a group wipe doesn't normally happen.That said - recalls and ymlad are optional. If people wanna bring recall I'm cool with it but I won't tell anyone to stick it on their bars. Same with ymlad but depending how many KD skills people bring I might request 1-2 people put it on their bars to make things go smoother.
>>2420700>I've seen people try to do a few speedrunner tacticsit's fun___________ THOUGH
>>2420706If you've done deep like 40 times, yeah. But for people new to deep I don't really think the experience of rushing through the dungeon as fast as possible while their builds with minimal AoE damage barely get a chance to do anything is all that fun. I like to enjoy the encounters and move at a chill pace rather than you either leave your loot behind or you get left behind.I'm not above cheesing on Kanaxai though, fuck that final boss lol.
>>2420717fair
>>2420717I always hate speed clears because you're just expected to let your loot rot on the floor or get left behind.
>>2420790everyone involved is spending a bunch of money every second on cons and pcons and doing rolls on the final chest to make it up, you have to make the value proposition work
>>2420798>>2420798Yeah I'm perfectly fine with speedclears as a concept so long as everyone agrees but that's often the worst part about pug groups. You will have people who either normally play with speedclears, or people who have a very "rough" idea of the tactics on how those teams work, so they will rush ahead and try to do speedclear tactics, meanwhile main group is struggling to keep up with them, and then a wipe happens, often times the person doing the speedclear mechanics isn't even aware of why they work or they don't realize that without a dedicated team with specifically coordinated builds their strategies don't work and it's a wipe. Overall I always prefer to do normal vanquishes, not as fun, but it's a better overall experience for everyone in the party and it allows for more freedom for running weird shit.Though I would like to learn the SoO speedclear at some point, I think that could be fun if we can set up a dedicated tank/gate role.Anyway, deep in 1 hour
>>2420798going fast is cool, the faster the better, shadowstep every two seconds, electrifying, real FAVSTIAN stuff
TIME FOR DEEP, COME EMBARK AE1
>>2421333Got the character slot code, big thanks!
>>2420798I don't buy the cons/pcons rationale, they last half an hour, speed clears are trying to clear each floor of a dungeon in about 3 minutes.if you want your value out of your cons and pcons you'd actually want to get some other chests/LoD spawns to get as much value out of that half an hour as possible.
today's deep builds
>>2421642mai was cooking with that build fr fr
>>2421642im stealing some
>>2421642Winners are:Top DPS) Ascalon StrikerMost Effective) DeanMost Creative) Yuri Morishima
tired of these yet?
sparkledog tier cape
>>2421771celebrated with my homies
>>2421979my favorite part of this is the dead K*rz*ck in the background
Well now....>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jI6iAa-cC0
if you do a mission that involves infusion and forget to swap into at least 1 infused piece of gear when turning in the essence it just wastes the essence. Unlike if you are wearing a piece of uninfused gear, it asks for a confirmation.. should have had a confirmation in both cases.
>>2422975at least 1 uninfused piece of gear I mean.
>>2421642Interesting builds
>>2408952Is mesmer a good profession for soloing stuff with heroes/henchmen or is it more for PvP?
>>2424124mesmer is very powerful in both PvE and PvP it's a top tier option, I will say though as a forewarning, I don't think it's a very new player friendly class. As an experienced player I see a group of enemies and I can immediately pick out "ah that enemy is a necro which means he'll have a lot of 1-2 sec spells I can rupt", or immediately clocking the grawl ulodyte as a monk. Additionally you have to carefully read your skills and understand how they work which can be a lot for example Power Spike can interrupt a SPELL, while Cry of Frustration can interrupt a SKILL.I'd recommend mesmer as 2nd or 3rd character you make if you're interested, it can be fun to play.
sometimes I think about the anguish and agony the promo mini hoarders must have felt when they introduced the minis as quest rewards
>>2424223Or the guys who collected the best presearing weapons when the new dungeon was introduced
>>2422975simply dont infuse at all
>>2424277reforged is just a bad dream trust the plan
>>2424124if you are anywhere in the vicinity of shiverpeaks you will be happy being a mesmer because the faggot ai does not interrupt the super aoe stomp for some reason
>>2424354It's great, I'm not complainingTo me it's similar to people who complained when deathleveling was not needed anymore to get ldoa: I understand their complaint but disagree
>>2424354I want more
>>2424353for what purpose
rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'
sometimes I accidentally press n and get sad
>>2424999your greed sickens me
https://youtu.be/33s8xZOrGPoholy CRAP
Coming Soon:Lion's Arch 2: Electric Boogaloo
>blindfold>chaos gloves>full obbyyep it's time to game
>>2421642This was going to be my build but I forgot to comepls r8The glaring weakness is how quickly you become overcast. Not really a way around that though that would fit.
>>2425514>kurzick
>>2425521better drip on most classes
>>2425521Forest > OceanSimple as
I already have 5 Mesmer shields, I can't even fit any more in my bag and i won't get a 20 slot for some timeI have all the weapons I want but I am still set to get 1 more set of 5 proofs at least, not sure wtf I do with them
>finally complete Tahnnakai Temple>forget to leave a space for the Proof of LegendThis mission is CURSED
>>2425521kurzicks are epic
what bars don't really require an elite?>resto>smiter's boon>??
>>2426319for pvp?
>>2426347pve
>>2426319For PvP? Dom mesmer and scythe derv are the most popular.PvE, why are you not using an elite? You're just shooting yourself in the foot for no benefit.
>>2426358Thanks nig
>>2426364knew I should have made the delay faster, didn't want to be too cruel and unusual.
>>2426371Red font was enough of a barrier.
>>2426358so i can run meme elites on otherwise functioning builds
>>2426384Most meme elites tend to preform better in PvP, or they require an investment into an attribute. It's hard to run mist form as a warrior after all.Any class where you don't need to heavily invest in their primary attribute is theoretically fine, doubly so if it comes with it's own form of energy management. But hypothetically, what elites are you looking at? Can't really recommend resto rit if you plan to run something like Flourish.
>>2426439there's meme elites on otherwise functional builds in PVE.SoS on any channeling/resto rit is a given.Icy Veins on a healing necro that isn't BiP
wtf.. do enemies in consulate docks have ridiculously high armor vs lightning or something?I'm doing like 30 damage17 air magic, cracked armor targets.I know there's a lot of heavies and rangers but this is ridiculous.
>>2426911The rangers have 100 armor vs lightning
>>2427471yeah but I was doing less damage there than I was against 140 armor vs lightning destroyers. There I was getting like 70% of normal damagehere it was like 30%.I'm thinking it was Zealots I was noticing, they have veil of thorns and armor of sanctity, so yeah I was hitting for like 40 damage and if I had a condition I was hitting them for the teens or 20's must have been what caught my attention "hang on why is my damage so SHIT"
>>2427507That'd do it. Cause actually even on 100 ar, cracked armor+25% pen would hit an effective 60 ar, and spells would do listed damage if you're 20. Any damage reduction is coming from skills, since it's only the paragons there that have higher ar at 101, which would be hardly noticeable
should i just drop the og campaing and play nightfall?
>>2427951Any reason why? You could tough it out until Lion's Arch, that opens up access to other campaigns.
>>2427959i think the dervish class looks cool also the game is kinda hard for me, i also didnt tick on the reforge mode when making a character, which apparently i should've done
>>2427961Haven't played Dervish much so can't comment on that.>also the game is kinda hard for meProphecies is hard to start with even Reforged because>Limited number of free starter skills>No heroes (though now there's 2)>huge chunk spent with 4 and 6 member parties>huge chunk spent looting non-max lvl gears that become obsolete quickly
ritualist is BORING
>>2427961>i also didnt tick on the reforge mode when making a character, which apparently i should've doneno>>2428024>ritualist is BORINGno
>>2427951If you're having serious difficulty outside of Althea's Ashes or Frost Gate, you're probably just low IQ.You could maybe just post what you're having trouble with and we can tell you what you're doing wrong.>>2428024Factions likes most of its fun elites deep in the Echovald or Jade Sea. Ritualist does tend to feel like a Great Value air elementalist at first.
It is not too late to repent. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.I renounce, reject, and break every agreementmade with Baal, Ashtoreth, Moloch, Chemosh, Milcom, Molech, Dagon, Tammuz, and every false god of the ancient and modern world. I dismantle every blood sacrifice, demonic altars and covenants, soul ties, conspiracy, wizardry, divination, necromancy, and every occult practice.
>>2428123Thx for the code
>>2427983>Limited number of free starter skillswutprophecies gives away the most free skills by far
>>2426439seven rays of judgment
Is Ele axe good for starburst builds or do you want the typical 40/40?
>thought lucky max is r6>it's r7how many years does this take what the fuck
>>2428024>Turret class>Boring You don't say
>>2428229It's better for double dragon builds but it's not bad to keep one around for starburst
>>2428024ritualist is completely fine when you get the totally balanced pve skill to summon all spirits to you every few seconds
>>2428378don't forget also healing them for 100 every time
>>2428229how come when I try melee ele i immediately get my ass handed to me is this a meme?
>>2428382Because your elementalist AR means you're taking double the damage a warrior would.
>>2427961melee classes are pretty ass to play and to make them fun you require some highly specific setups and balling autism otherwise you are just chasing headless chickens going after your squishy party members
>>2428387>I deliberately stacked my party entirely with direct damage dealing spells and no defensive abilities how can this be happening to me!!!!!!!
>>2428382You have 60 AR bro.
>>2428382Ele is not Mesmer, so Ele gets to have weaknesses.
>>2428103what if someone just finds proph story and 4 man content for dozens of hours (think, it's a new player, they aren't speed running) boring?
>>2428445i like the proph storyand i recently marathoned it to get a grawl
>>2428391if you're playing with NPC's it doesn't matter what kind of defensive skills you use the NPC AI will still cause them to drop what they're doing and run away trying to "kite"a blinded, weakened, burning melee currently affected by wandering eye will still cause a caster hero to drop everything and run, even while the hero is affected by shelter, union, displacement, "there is nothing to fear!" "they're on fire!" and "save yourselves!" IE that melee enemy won't hit them or even if they do it'll be a wet noodle... but they still script to run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
>>2428446you might, but I've noticed a lot of people who start playing GW as new players they get to the shiverpeaks maybe, insisting they want to play through the story, and they just get bored and quit the game.I'd tell them to try a different campaign maybe, but other anons always hammer into them that they MUST do proph first.so they just quit the game instead.
>>2428462good riddance
>>2428465why couldn't they just.. try one of the other campaigns?
>>2428459Maybe try something that isn't mesmerway meta then? Maybe more ST and more interrupts isn't the solution.You're obviously quite aware that it's being attacked that is causing them to scatter and not the direct damage, yet you do nothing to prevent that.Ward Against Melee? Grasping Earth? Shadow of Fear? Return? Shared Burden? Crippling Anthem?No, the solution must be Soul Twisting because PvX said so and I have severe, debilitating autism.No, I'm not going to reply to anything you say more because I know you're the autist who won't shut the fuck up with his rage at reality not being exactly as he wants it to be in his head.
>>2428462Nah bro we hate factions here.
>>2428473cuz i hate black people.
>>2428462Dude didn't even say what his problem was at all, just asked if he should drop Proph and start Nightfall. Saying "no" is a valid answer to a dumbass question.
>>2428476You can't reach him. He's personally offended about the bot AI in a 2006 expansion to a 2005 game that was hustled out the door in about 6 months. A game where PvE was originally designed as an extended tutorial at that.He will be shaking his fist at the sky for as long as this thread exists.
>>2428391>>2428476>no it is not the universally hated hero ai that is so bad nobody uses melee heroes thats at fault here it is your fault for not playing correctly>proceeds to drag a conga line against a wall to corner stack them>throw in a wiki boogeyman in there aswell that will show them my superiority
>>2428476they can be affected by all that, it won't matter, the aggro system of this game will make melee enemies chase casters with base 60 armor rather than something with 70+ base armor.the problem is the scripting, not any of the skills.Player groups are better at doing things like using spells on an enemy group just outside of aggro range, and even if they do get aggro, a player will run up to the tank/melee (and let's not forget that heroes can't play melee effectively).. a hero or hench will run aimlessly (even pulling more groups)
>>2428478dude was thinking nightfall, I'd say go for it, maybe he'll like it, or factions, maybe he'll like itI don't like factions cause of how much escort quest it is and I prefer proph but maybe someone else will like it, because it's short and the time to hit max level is brief. Or maybe they just like Asian themed stories I dunno.I just think if someone buys the complete game all campaigns, try them all before just quitting.
>>2428501There's nothing wrong with melees picking soft target. That's not a "problem", that's just the game.That's why we have the tools we do to mitigate the threat, whether it be by reducing the damage dealt/taken, snaring, etc.Again, it's just this fag who throws an autistic bitch fit every God damn day in the the thread about how he can't play warrior because an enemy crippled him and his autism won't allow him to put Antidote Signet on his bar.
>>2428524>you should make your bar worse to compensate for obvious game design flawsshut the fuck up retard
>>2428462>proph bad>>2428478>factions bad>>2428482>nightfall badis it over?
>>2428552It's been over since 2006, even
>>2428524you have been here so long you think everyone who disagrees with you is the same personmy warrior has iau because the game is shit without it
>>2428560I wasn't implying you were that person in my reply. That person already posted his unhinged reply.
>>2428524I'm saying that even with all those tools, the behavior is the same and that's the part that a person can be frustrated with, with the original comment you're responding to that I'm referring back to being:>melee classes are pretty ass to play and to make them fun you require some highly specific setups and balling autism otherwise you are just chasing headless chickens going after your squishy party membersYou're saying that issue "chasing headless chickens" is solved by bringing defensive skills.I'm disagreeing that the defensive skills solve the problem of caster AI's running when attacked. They still run, even if the threat is practically 0 because of all the defensive skills you've brought.When I play HR my heroes still scatter and run when melee gets on them, even though the melee are practically rendered useless by all the defense an HR, an ST, and an Illusion mesmer bring to the table (which includes shared burden since AI is bad at using ineptitude appropriately)They still run.That's just as you said "the game"all you can do is make it so that those normally squishy bots survive, but for a melee player they'll still be chasing scattered enemies.The solution there isn't "bring defensive skills" it's "learn to use terrain to body block"
>>2428552I wasn't saying proph is bad, I was just saying how I can understand others would think proph is bad and I notice people quit the game before trying the other campaigns if they dislike proph.I'm just saying try the other campaigns first.
>>2428485I don't think it's a dumbass question.just try other campaigns before giving up on the game entirely.
>>2428593It's a dumb question because it's devoid of any meaning or background, there's no meat to it, he never said what why he was considering dropping nor that he was considering giving up on the game>should I drop playing baseball and play tennis?>should I drop eating oranges and eat bananas?>should I drop voting Democrats and vote Republicans?
>>2428604yeah he asked a question like that and the first anon to respond had a real response, asking why.you immediately jumped to insulting them and immediately assuming that they weren't able to get through content.That's what I'm pointing out. That not every reason a person might want to drop prophecies is "too hard"it might be other reasons.He gave the reason that he wanted to try derv.Is that not a valid reason?
>>2428625im autistic today ok? sorry
>>2428604>I don't like baseball. I guess I'm just drop all sports. No there's no need for me to try others It's about as retarded as your fuckass analogy
lf texmod to make my assassin a paag (phat ass asian girl)
>>2428673Use the vabbian legs. They've got a bigger ass.
>>2428524I think a big gap in our experiences might be the type of content we do using heroes.You come at it from like normal mode prophecies missions/questing which yeah, heroes trivialize and you can steamroll with anythingI'm coming at it from hard mode dungeons or vanquishing where you have stacked groups of eles or mesmers that chain blind or hex to where your group simply doesn't have enough ways to clear it all. You got 4 skeletal wizards in that pack each with 2 ways to cause blindness. Antidote signet isn't touching that.You've got 6 wind riders that stack you with soothing images, crippling anguish, and covering with conjure phantasm while hitting your support characters with shame.I don't think there's any group makeup that has enough hex removal to keep all that off a melee player, while letting the melee player actually hit things. The best a melee player can do is divebomb the group, get all the hexes and have their mesmers kill the group in 4s nuking the hexes. The melee player still didn't get to do anything aside from being bait. Is that fun?
>>2428382If you're playing with hero's you either need to precast shelter (it's a single click, you can even keybind it) before going into combat, or you need to preprot yourself with bonds, or you need to run a skill that increases your armor. Otherwise you are a 60 armor ele running at enemies who will 2 shot you. >>2428278unlucky is way worse. >>2428462I really feel like people here are arguing with imaginary dolls whenever I hear them say "but other anons always hammer into them that they MUST do proph first"Are these other anons in the room with us?
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>>2429395Go on without me...
>>2429382I mentioned that some people quit the game partway into prophecies out of boredom with the pace or story.and anons like >>2428465 just say "good riddance" that's the same kind of anon that will push for a person to be proph or bust at the start instead of suggesting try one of the other campaigns.
hey hey people....
>>2429613Would we get an influx of new players if he made a vid on gw1?
>>2429437we've had people say that about every campaign, people spent last thread arguing whether or not factions was a shit campaign or not. It was only a few threads ago people discussed the overwhelming amount of dislike people had for EotN. >>2429660Yes, and his viewers are probably the type of old gamers who would enjoy it, but GW1 isn't esoteric enough, nor has enough porn to ever draw his attention.
>>2429727I once made a random post about Dizzy the Egg on /v/ and he made a video about it soon after so it would be pretty easy to get him to make one.
>>2429750>>2429727Well then just send this to the (((Merchant's Guild))) Discord and voila....
>farm for Nick Set>get decent item>in NMheh
>>2429784put it on the caster set for warrior and you can parse top dps without pcons easily
>>2429784Meanwhile me>HM Duncan>internet starts cutting out in the last room>clear it wiping a few times because of disconnecting and reconnecting>finally beat Duncan>2 diamonds and an onyx gemstonemy luck fucking sucks.
Favorite spot in GW outposts? I enjoy the goat roleplay here.
>tfw got every proof across 9 characters even though I only really want 3 items from the anniversary vendorI don't know why I kept going after 15, either I have a problem or I'm the most normal GW1 player.
>>2429894set up 10 mesmer fast casting shields, one with each +10 AR vs damage type so you can become the ultimate tryhard sweat in PvE
>>2429905i cannot think of an instance where this would be useful apart from a limited swap for doasc
>>2429784I have something like 30 greens not counting campaign rewards and all but 2 of them are from NM.>>2429727In one of his videos like 5 years ago during the "more videos to come" bit at the end he had footage of playing GW1, but I suspect it doesn't quite scratch the turbotism that he finds engaging.
>>2429879glitching under kama stairs
>>2429905I got 53 I have actually modded with Earth, Fire and Lightning damage, the other 2 I don't know what to do with, I have mods for cold, slashing, and blunt damage but not piercing which was the thing someone recommended for the 4th
>>2429727yeah there are haters for each campaign sure. But nobody is so gung ho Nightfall that they tell noobs that they either have to start nightfall and if they don't like it they should just quit the game "good riddance"
what if we applied the same logic to EOTN haters as people try to apply to you if you say you don't like factions or proph?>it's too hard for them!>they can't beat it!
I refuse to believe that anyone has problems with Normal Mode campaigns or EoTN as I was able to beat them when I was 10 with henchmen and later with heroes with absolute shit clusterfuck of builds, stacking major and minor vigor runes, etc.
is the dishes food thing at the end of the event a thing for anniversary?
>>2430125that's Canthan New Year, we had that back in Feb I think>>2430086that's where I'm at, when someone says they dislike a campaign I never assume it's because it's "too hard" I always figure they didn't like something else about it.
>>2430063I hate eotn because of the title grind to get armor/weapons/pve skills
>playing dagger ranger>can't put TaO, Drunken Master, IAU, and Scan all on the same bar>drop scan>add antidote signet(tm)>first incubus blinds me>use antidote signet>second incubus blinds me right after>3s left on signet cooldown>wait it out>3rd blind>use signet again>4th blind??????I thought this was supposed to solve all problems with blind!
>>2430164should have gone ymlad to punish those hoes
I'm a little confused on the timing of the Anniversary event, is right now the last "day" and it's done at 19:00 UTC tomorrow, or we still have another 24+ hours worth?
>>2430172I believe the event lasts for ~19 more hours.
>>2430175Thanks
>>2427961You can enable reforge mode at Lions Arch on your existing character
>>2430167but I was told antidote signet would solve all my problems with blindness and miss hexes!
>>2429976I think the gwpvx beginner guide (what most people get pointed towards) says something like "don't start with prophecies no matter what"
>>2430231never seen itI have no opposition to starting in any campaignthough I might advise not starting as an assassin for your first character.
>>2430231To be fair I would accept literally any answer other than "gwpvx beginner guide" because I'm fairly certain that's the same guide redditors and co point to, to try and "help" new players by teaching them how to set up an esurge team as fast as possible so you can run 4 dom mesmers (they turn the ele's and necros into /Me for dom) to instant murder level 10 enemies.In general we recommend starting with proph because it's better paced, doesn't overwhelm you with mechanics, and starting with proph allows you to unlock skills for when you eventually unlock hero's in NF. Trying to build heroes when you have 0 gold, 0 skills, and 0 outposts unlocked is difficult. But I'll never tell anyone not to play NF if they wanna play with hero's.
>>2430269just to preface, I like proph, even though it meanders around a lot, I get that it's just nostalgia for me so I'm not gonna press that on anyone else...but I'd say proph's weakest aspect is its pacing. The Kryta and Maguuma jungle sections just seem to drag on in particular, and I think anet learned from that in factions and nightfall by not ever having you trek through multiple explorable zones in a row to find the next mission. That rarely happens anyway. Senji's Corner to Tahnnakai Temple, and getting to the second mission in Echovald Forest/Jade Sea is the only ones in factions. Nightfall I think there's never going from zone to zone without at least an outpost between except the first part of Vabbi?Factions is really briskly paced but kind of drops everything on you at once outside the tutorial mission of Cho's, and instead of introducing concepts organically they just put some plaques in Shing Jea Monastary for you to read and have some easy quests giving you a few skills for each concept.... that many people will just skip to their detriment.I actually think Nightfall is kind of a sweet spot for pacing but with 1 fatal drawback that a lot of people hate the whole campaign for, and that's the rep/rank requirements. There's still that one issue where a lot of people will skip using the training ground that was set up to teach all these concepts, but there's more to Istan than Shing Jea for questing to learn things, and Istan even has a few mid level range areas with 8 man parties to cut your teeth on. Provided you don't go assault the garrisons as a noob, Kourna's not very difficult, and feels less like a difficulty jump than getting into Kaineng for the first time.
>>2430255>never seen itso why are you talking about what "nobody ever says" if you don't know the #1 thing new gw players get told to follow or find on their own and follow>>2430269yeah that's what I meanpeople tell new players to rush through the pre-endgame parts and get 7heroed, other people react by telling them to take it slow at all costs to savor the experience and serenity lies in the middle, with factions
>>2430412does the guide say "if you dont' like nightfall fuck off we don't want you playing our game anyway"?
>>2430371I guess pacing is the wrong term, I'm more referring to thoughtful game design, the campaign gives you skills and unlocks skill as you progress in a manner that makes sense, when you reach Kryta, you unlock Mantra of Lightning which helps you deal with the all the ele's that use lightning magic, or you unlock all this anti melee skills in an area with a large amount of melee. I think the experience of being able to explore and discover secret hidden outposts which have special skills you can only acquire from that outpost is a really cool experience unlike factions where all the skills in campaign can be acquired after the 2nd mission, or NF where there's only 3/4~ outposts which have unique skill trainers. I also think it's a better experience for nightfall to have played prophecies, played factions, and go into nightfall with at least 2-4 characters worth of skills already unlocked. That way when you unlock hero's of a profession you've played in the past, you know how they work and what you can do with them. More freedom and more options in build craft is great and less intimidating than "here's 4 hero's who's classes you've never played before, your budget is 200 gold and 4 tanned squares".
>>2430423you know what website you're on?kill yourself
>>2430269>because it's better pacedit is a massive fucking slog>doesn't overwhelm you with mechanicseven the most retarded zoomie playing his first video game can handle all the mechanics this game offers>starting with proph allows you to unlock skills for when you eventually unlock hero's in NFnightfall offers more than good enough skills for heroes and there is a good chance that when you get to vabbi you will get raped by that esurge lion boss and think to yourself holy shit get me thatinb4 i get called a zoomie or adhd for not wanting to do the slog that is prophecies
>>2430458I mean I get you, and I like just cruising through explorable zones and finding "hidden" outposts and shit too, but there's a lot of people who will see going slow through prophecies as spinning their wheels in the mud and dragging on they'll want to go mission to mission in pretty quick succession which is how factions and nightfall tend to be structured, with only a few "optional" outposts here and there that might have a new skill trainer, or in Nightfall's case in particular, the challenge mission outposts which I think in nightfall are more appealing to get some new drip for your heroes, vs factions which started them and yeah you can grind up kurzick and luxon rep at least in those, but the Dragon's Throat mission? I've never done it, I don't know if there's a point to it.Nightfall also has the buried treasures and stuff I thought that was kind of a neat system.I feel like, Proph they let get kind of long in the tooth, they kneejerked with factions and made it short and gated fucking everything to prevent runners skipping, and Nightfall they kinda harmonized it, making it relatively quick paced but at the same time giving you a little freedom to explore. Only gating at each major environmental zone, getting to kourna is gated, getting to vabbi is gated (outside of some cheese to get through sulfur without a wurm), getting through the desolation is gated, and getting into realm of torment is gated. But within Vabbi, it's all open to explore. Within Kourna it's all open to explore. You can get into the mission outposts as normal outposts before the quests take you there and turn them into missions.I think it hit the sweet spot on everything...... except the rep gating, and required heroes.EotN must have gotten feedback about the required heroes BS cause they just had the heroes talk in cutscenes without requiring their use, which I think helped.
on warrior>WHAM>WHAM>WHAMon monk>WHAM>WHAM>WHA-ah shit it got put on cooldown
>>2430609>nightfall offers more than good enough skills for heroeshe's talking about the number of skills you can get, not the quality4 characters worth of 75+ skills including elites vs playing a derv and having 12 hero skill points and no gold and no idea what's good
I never thought a game would make me hate getting diamonds soo much
>>2430959iced out two diamonds from duncan don't hate the dwarf
>>2431362I got diamonds and onyx gemstones on all my dungeon runs yesterday
>accidentally bought 2 of the same item from the anniversary traderI guess there's going to be 2 hammer monks in my party from now on
>>2431740did frostmaw today, since it was my last hurrah with the double decade scythe on my warriorit was funbut>diamond>onyx gemstoneI really am cursed
got my last 5 proofs what weapon should I get between rit bow, sin bow or para daggers
>>2432287sin bow is kind of like the warrior spear when I can’t shadow theft/sws immediately I can just bow/spear some
>>2432311does sin bow even make sense? if you want to play bow you will need marksmanship anyway so what's the use
>Heroes are just ouright refusing to use flesh of my flesh on dead party membersHow did they fuck this up in the lastr update?
>>2432334it’s just something to use when you can’t melee
>>2432351heroes will either ignore a flag and run straight through a pack of enemies to go use FomF on a dead party member from across a room... or they won't use it at all unless they're right on top of you.no sane in betweens
>>2432351you're standing in Frozen Soil range
Wait, Unlucky is max 500k and not 250k? Oh fuck...
>>2432402yeah unlucky goes to r7someone was saying lucky goes to r7 too but I can't find anything on that.I'm 700k away from r6
How badly is mobile going to fuck us up bros
>>2432437you bussin, it's gonna be lit, fr fr on g, just vibe with it no cap
>>2432440By Allah I will hit you with my shoe
>>2432443don't unalive me
>>2432437It's only Prophecies that'll be free to play, and I ASSUME there will be some sort of restrictions.
>>2432437literally nothing will change
>>2432437id be on right now, nigga
Happy 21st anniversary everyone, thank you to everyone who came out and participated, whether it be the people who showed up to our annual Deep/Urgoz runs, people who tried out HA for the first time this festival, and to all the people who participated in the thread throughout the festival! A total of 14 store codes were given away this festival.Of the 14 codes given away, 6 were posted directly to this thread hidden in images. Only 3 of which have been found, there are still 3 unclaimed store codes hiding in images in this thread (quite surprised they lasted this long, I didn't think I was that sneaky this year). If you discover them please reply to the image saying you've claimed it.
>>2429879just used this one
and we are back to being DEADdoes anyone have a bowstring of the ranger (+5 expertise)?
>>2432469well that was fast, I believe that was the free character slot, enjoy.2 codes remain on thread.
>>2432456This one >>2418036 also gonetyvm for the merc
>>24325031 code remains, I'm stunned no one found this one I felt like I couldn't be more obvious with it.
>>2432508people are looking too closely at the images and missing it
>>2432508well yourself
>>2408952>>2432526thank you very much for the storage pane!
I know nothing about this game what's the best way to play it and how do I join you guys and all that stuffive been looking for a good mmo to play
>>2432594buy gamepost ingame character name to get invited to guildgo yellow numbers max
>>2432594>buy game, install, create character>post name here for an officer to add you to alliance>pay attention to thread for when we organize thingsThat being said, you JUST missed the anniversary, which is when it's most active all year. There's probably going to be some downtime where we all recover from nolifing for two weeks.There's going to be a "prog" of Nightfall in the coming months though, so you can look forward to that. Basically, we all create fresh characters and play through a campaign together without using any of our existing stuff.
>>2432594GW has three separate and individual campaigns: Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall. You can start with any of these three at any time. There is only one expansion: Eye of the North. I would recommend starting with Prophecies and trying out different professions (classes) until you find one or many you like, then go from there. This game is based around party build composition where you will mix and match to create all sorts of different builds with up to 8 maximum skills at one time.Post your IGN for a guild invite if you decide to play, and please ask us questions.
>>2432619>>2432621>>2432627Thanks for the help I just bought the gameOnce I have some time I'll give it a go and get back to you guys for an invite
>>2432653I hope you have a good time, friend.
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>>2432855duh the spear rit would have weapon of aggression instead of drunken master naturally
>>2432855>Hammer MesmerSometimes I think about a Mesmer loaded with Artificer's Insignias, a bunch of Signet, and Symbolic Strike.
>>2432334triple shot, dual shot, forked arrow, deft strike
>>2432855>5s knockdown with 5 renewing smashsesbeautiful, but a little dicey on applying with both skills needing to interrupt, sig of clumsiness on skills with 1s activation times at the most 99% of the time.most people wouldn't be able to be effective with that build, those who can though, it'd be pretty good.shame there's no fast casting hammer.
>>2432876assuming you take a adrenaline boosting skill like "For Great Justice" and Mantra of Signets, you'll have +15 from insignias and +15 from Mantra of Signets for a total of +30 armor on top your your default 60 AR. Not bad.Of course that leaves you literally auto attacking until you can Symbolic Strike.
>>2432334>>2432889Forked doesn't work great with way of the master, which you are likely using. Keen arrow isn't bad to use. ST, crit agility, WotM, disrupting accuracy are pretty core. I like triple+dual, keen, and needling as my other 4.
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>>2432550Yep that's the last one, thanks for participating in my autistic scavenger hunt, same time next year I'll release more codes for thread lurkers.Since I saw it mentioned our NF prog will probably start sometime between late may and late june, I'm looking to do a more normal prog (not a single class prog) this time but I am open to ideas if people want to contribute to what our twist would be to keep things interesting.
>>2432920Youtube should have never evolved past this level of video production.
>>2432921Every time we make a black people joke, we lose a skill (nagas stole my skills)
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>>2432921Since we're all Elonians, everyone must run Blackout on their bar.
>>2432932can't have shit in kamadanI've still got a skill loss prog on my mind I think the ruleset would be something along the lines of every session we roll an 8 sided dice to determine which skill you lose for the rest of the prog and I'd keep a chart with all the lost skills. NF progs go around 10~ weeks, so you'd lose a total of 10 skills throughout the prog.
>>2432921some kind of build randomizationlike go to the most recent skill trainer, count the skills they have for your profession and /roll for 2-3 that you have to keep on your bar next session>>2432957not aggressive enough imo, you can keep most builds going with 1 different skill
>>2432992Yeah I'm of that opinion too, but when suggested for the factions prog it got some pretty heavy pushback (which I'm not even totally convinced was real considering the assassin prog also got pushback, yet it had on average 11 people show up every week and was one of our most successful progs to date). It'd probably be something to discuss on week 1 of the prog if we end up doing it.
>>2433007I think losing skills is dumb.
>>2432876
>>2432910You still have your signets. Should bring symbolic celerity over FGJ, honestly. Keystone, strength, unnatural, clumsiness, some of the interrupts. Distraction is really good there.
>>2433009After running something like 10+ progs I've noticed a trend that in progs where we have no rules there tends to be intense drop off around when players finally accomplish their dream build for the prog. I think a lot of people really enjoy the vertical progress/prog sections where individual actions have a lot of weight on the outcome of fights, where you are forced to work with sub optimal builds and the theory crafting weird shit to get over challenges, a good example of this is during proph progs when we do the beacons perch run to try and unlock an early elite, we spend 2 hours getting our asses handed to us by level 20 enemies while we're level 10 but it's absolute peak prog shenengians and weird strategies people always happy to do it, even run it multiple times. NM proph/factions/nf are not difficult and any sentient party can easily clear it, doubly so if they're running anything even mildly meta relevant which makes for boring progs when you can run 3 missions and nobody dies, you don't struggle and it's just afk clearing enemies.I think anyway we can artificially add difficulty, or a reason to be creative is good for the retention of prog members. People suggest sometimes to remove armor pieces, but that's not really artificial difficulty, that's just making the monk role miserable.
>>2433007>>2433009>>2433087being told "you can't use that, make something new" feels badbeing told "you have to make a build that uses these 2 skills, in attributes you might've never tried" is novel and enough constraint that you know what you need to doit's what that tard keeps saying about nerfs but actually trueskill trainer /roll 2k26 get it trending
>>2433141Yeah I'm not opposed to it I've written it down as a potential idea for when we get closer to NF prog date.
>>2433141I think the 4/4 prog we did was pretty novel and not so limiting. I agree it's the "you can't use those skills" that I don't like.
no pve skills is a good enough restriction
>>2433304nah people will run the same shit the whole time unless you prod em into changing
>>2432910keystone turns every signet into an attack as long as you can nail the interrupt.which, doesn't work that well in a hero group cause they'll get the interrupts faster than you (when they choose to interrupt), and you'd kinda need a human group tolerating you running kind of a meme build
>>2433312so.. this will be your first prog since they added Melandru mode right?Why not just run that as the requirement for the prog?
>>2433484In a human only party melandru mode functionally is no different from how we have spent the last 4 years doing progs with the only key difference being if you get a Prodigy insignia as a Ranger, you can't give it to the Mesmer in your group which sucks.If people want to enable it they can, but there's no requirement to do so. An alternative idea for a prog I've toyed with is having a prog where the goal is to keep at least one person with Dhuum's Covenant alive until the end of the prog, but given the current issues with it I've put it off for now.
given your character is 18 years old when you exit pre searing and the searing happens, your character would be like 38 years old when the foefire happens41 years old when your friends koss and lonai are slain by palawa jokoby 68 he could witness primordus awakeningMy character could've done so much more, maybe even prevent a disaster(gw2) from happening
>>2433495yeah I suppose with them fixing the dropping on the ground thing there'd be no way.I didn't know your prog groups you didn't allow people to use the bank or trade though.Just that you only wanted skills and gear that are accessible in the campaign itself.
>>2433506>foefire>primordusis this gay GW2 shit?>>>/vg/gw2
>>2433484>hey what about a group playthrough where there's absolutely 0 interaction between you by force. no trading drops for other people's classes, no swapping mats or giving people a sup rune, nothing like that>yeah I know already you self-impose rules that are basically identical every playthrough but there's a badge this time, it's completely different
>>2433567I was just thinking of it along the lines of "they added a new mode since the last time there was a prog group, that has a strict ruleset so you don't have to make one up"
>>2433506>koss and lonai are slain by palawa jokokoss is in my party right now faggot, get this fanfic outta here
>>2433556>is this gay GW2 shit?Lore about the foefire came out in 2010, before winds of change finished>>2433571Why do you have a hero warrior in your party?
>>2433603probably because there's missions that require him
>>2433620>w/rt SoS build with the bonus staffit actually makes him more usefull
>>2433542pretty much it's "ironman" prog, we don't allow bank usage, rune trader, campaign travel (with some exceptions), and in general you are incentivized to only use skills that unlock from that point of the game. We've thought about banning the mat trader multiple times but ultimately I don't think it'll make for a better prog experience to give people homework to solo farm so they can afford/craft better armor. There will always be people who won't do it and having them eat dirt for multiple weeks in a row isn't fun for anyone.>>2433556>>2433603They supposedly had plans for GW beyond to include stuff about post nightfall Joko's rise, and the fate of ascalon (not sure if that includes Foefire, or if it's just the journey to establish Ebonhawke) but they never got to it and all their plans got axed. To me the GW beyond content would be perfect stuff for this studio to work on.
>>24335705 people thinking up ideas 10 mins each, <1 hour8 people playing 15+ hours each, >120 hours spent on that idea
>>2433646I would pay for a fate of ascalon and joko's rise dlc, but it would be a dark ending of the story>that human city you grew up in? destroyed>elona, istan, sunspears, you actually doomed them to 100+ years of slavery by letting Palawa Joko take over
>>2433646that's fair I guess, I'd mostly limit the campaign travel and use of tomes more than anything.Rune Trader ban is fine if you're only doing normal, if you were doing like HM DOA at the end of the prog or something like that I think you'd want people to have runes but as long as it's normal they're not necessary. Armor in those 2 campaigns at least comes pretty fast so they'd only need to farm after the first few days once for their max armor in Kaineng/Consulate Docks and not deal with it again unless they want drip.So do you just honor system not using the bank?On your second thing they did plan for a Palawa Joko GWB chapter. There was talk about Evennia's disappearance, the and the founding of Ebonhawke but I never heard of the Foefire before GW2.
>>2433675>that human city you grew up in? destroyedwowI can't imagine a story like that in gw
>>2433674it was just a spitball idea because it was a new mode. Don't get bent out of shape about it.after the first guy mentioned about not being able to trade a rune between players in the group I just said "yeah you're right" and dropped it.
>>2433684i have always needed closure i just left the place, came back to kill some titans Years later its just ran by furries and all the humans are ghosts
>>2433706the new dungeon seems sorta like they're trying to provide for some safe haven for the survivors... in caves
goodnight gw1g
>>2433780>saging the threadrude
>>2433780how many people are going to blow up this picture to 200-400% looking for codes
>>2433800I already found it but I don't need anything in the store. Still fun hunting for it.
>>2433780gn
>>2433780Good night
>>2433626>w/rt SoS build with the bonus staffI hate that this is true for basically every required heroWhat do you do when you play with people? rits are always SoS
>>2432910Kinda want to build thatBut then I'd have an armor only useful for that meme build
>>2432910doesn't that cap at +24
>>2433676Tomes are normally banned unless we're doing a 1 profession prog, campaign travel is tentatively banned in that you're not allowed to go to future campaigns to get skills. Sometimes I'm ok with people going from factions to proph to pick up skills but I encourage people to make bars of skills unique to the campaign we're in.For post prog activities we usually just do NM stuff, but people are welcome to use rune trader by that point (though by that point in a non melandru party you've probably gotten most of the runes you wanted anyway).And yep honor system, I don't really strictly enforce the rules as long as people are following the spirit of the prog, it's never really been a problem. The most I've had to do in the past is pull people aside when they join mid prog running a meta build like TaO daggers in a proph prog or etc...>>2433800>>2433811that's not me, I didn't post any more codes lol.
Is there much group play left in this game? I miss pugs in general but it sounds like people mostly solo with henchmen now.
>>2434153Mantra of Signets does not affect the armor cap
>>2432334disrupting accuracy and incendiary arrows is fun
>>2434484Unless you're planning to do it, random PUGs don't happen outside of the daily Zaishen quests.https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen_Challenge_Quest
Teen me was having too much trouble with the mobs in the Realm of Torment to appreciate the scenery.
>>243415325. But no, mantra of signets is one of three skills to use the special armor bonus category that doesn't cap. IaU and illusionary weaponry are the other two
>>2434484new pre searing dungeon is the only thing recommended for pugs
>>2434331was making a joke cause of random landscape screenshots that you'd post with codes hidden lol so someone posts a random landscape screenshot they think it's you and there's a code to look for
45 MINUTES TO ZAISHEN RESETSTYGIAN ZB TODAY
Another Duncan HManother 2 diamonds and 1 onyx gemstonewtf
>>2434484Like other anon said, people regularly do dungeons and missions together - it just has to be a zaishen daily. There's still a pretty large PvP presence left in this game, they just organize different PvP on different days and times.And as always you are welcome to join the guild, we do stuff together semi regularly but you can typically find people looking to do ZM's and ZB's in ally chat.
Derv, Rit, or Mes for a MADC character?
>>2435592MADC?
>>2435602Melandrus Accord Debilitating Cuck
>>2435629ah, hmmwell, Rit at the very least as a spirit spammer has relative safety to stay alive (using spirits as decoys to get away when a near wipe is happening), and weapon stats don't mean as much to a rit as spirit siphon is their energy management they don't need SR, or enchants, or HSR or HCT since binding rituals aren't spells.only drawback with Melandru's is the shaman's insignias
>>2435592playing melee for a dhuum's is pretty ballsy, only having one campaign as a source for dervish-specific weapons and armor can also be pretty limitingmesmer is the safest, just because you get to control the shutdown personally
>>2435762Mesmer would be my second choice of those 3, namely because unlike a Rit, if your team is wiping you can't just lay out spirits behind you and run, and Mesmer has more gear dependency, a Necro wand or staff wrap is really helpful to a mesmer but a rit doesn't need it.
I just think it's a little silly that the pet beetle colour is randomized and the decal is your racing one and not the one you pick up at the menagerie. It's just a small issue so whatever. Also I think I'm at the end of prophecies. Game is fun so far for the most part.
Should I hold onto this thingie
>>2437883do you need the plat?
can we do a full doa run this weekend?
>>2435762I played DC assassin and had to restart the character 4 times. Once I died because I forgot to unflag my heroes after a pull. Another time I got nuked by the afflicted elementalists in thanakai HM when I didn't precast shelter. It's suffering.
>>2438198if you're using toolbox bind yourself a hotkey with instant teleport to the guild hall
>>2437839Using the rollerbeetle brands you as a metafag so I avoid it like the Scarab Plague.
once again advocating for giving enraged lunge a try
>>2438267that's a pretty meta PvP elite iirc
>>2438270i wouldn't know about that to be desu with you
>>2438191helloooooooo
>>2438191it's mothers day go fully doa good deed for her
>>2438277fuck off we're full
>>2438351what do you mean retard, there's nothing planned for this weekend afaik
>>2438191sorry senpai we just did one Iike 3 weeks ago
I never did urgoz, deep, or doa until I met you guys
>>2438682so what, we've also done urgoz and deep does that mean there's nothing until the next anniversary come on elonianwe can do fow? been a while, might be fun with non-meta builds too
>>2438697fow would be pog because im too retarded to do it by myself
>>2438713do NOT ping anything when we are doing griffs
>>2438375>>2438697There may not be an event happening this weekend due to burnout from a number of people.
>>2438717well pencil something in for Sunday and we'll see if people show up, I think we can get an 8 for a chill fow run
>decide to replay the entire GW story>use this threat for nice discussions of GW1>alright done with GW1 lets do GW2 now>go the the gw2 threat on /vg/>its just furries and freaks talking about what furries and freaks talk aboutwtf
>>2439012Never forget that's the modern anet audience.
>>2439028can’t believe gw1 died for that shit
>>2438713FoW isn't "hard" it's just easy to accidentally fuck up. Underworld can be difficult.
>>2438267>>2438272Enraged lunge use to be pretty meta PvE elite but it fell out of use around the time TaO was added. It's still a very decent pet set up, just not a part of the current meta.>>2438722If people want to organize something they can but as primary organizer of stuff I'm taking a 1-2 week break after playing 4+ hours every day of the festival lol, we did DoA like 3 weeks ago too.
>>2438264its cute and it makes a funny sound tho
>>2438691sameI love that we can do full 8 man or 12 mans just like back in the day
>>2439012>done with GW1heresy
Hey there's been a noob ranger posting their journey here lately. If you're still around, have you made it to the Crystal Desert yet? That's where my solo proph char is, and it's also where stuff starts to get hard to do with only henchies. Should team up.
>>2439424no one is going to show up dead guild until April 2027
>>2428699confirmedsheeeiiittt
>>2428673>>2428699>>2443034Seconding Vabbian for that gym-rat ass.
about to pug foundry pray for me
>>2443319foundry of failed teamslet us know if a member of [LGiT] wanders off to talk to an NPC and wipes whole group.
>>2443324we wiped at room three of courseattempt no 2
>>2443324damn that baww doa run 3 weeks ago went smooth as ice
invite him to the guild
>Another Duncan HM>2 onyx gemstones and a diamondI hate this so muchyou should only be able to get 1 of the shittiest rewards.
>>2443491he's in my party!!! this pug is gonna be a movie fr gang
>>2443510another wipe on room 3
>>2443550
>>2443603>Mesmer Chud joins the pug>???>profitkneel
>>24437553rd time the charm i guess, gz.
>>2443435>>2443550room 3 is the great filter for pug teams, a lot of teams are too insistent on corner room strats without the team comp or understanding on how to make it work. Foundry is the only DoA ZB I really dislike playing with pugs because it always goes the same way.1) Party groups up, there is a mismatch in experience and people who only sort of understand foundry.2) Group wipes on room 3 once, maybe even twice3) Player rage quits, or team dissolves after wipe and party has to reform4) 75% of players who join new party are from the last partyAnd that's how you get a 30-45 minute foundry run which takes 1-2 hours, it's faster for me to solo both Gloom, and Foundry than at least half the pug teams I've tried it with and I have run the DoA areas a TON.
I kinda regret getting Deldrimor armor on Xandra and Livia, Brotherhood just mogs it on both.Gwen's just the only one who truly looks better in Deldrimor
>>2445106Just get both then. Problem solved
>>2446597nah, just get brotherhood armor for them, I'll never actually want to display deldrimorI honestly don't know if I want to run Duncan ever again after this week of fucking diamonds and onyx gemstones.Out of 7 characters that ran it, only 3 got a weapon of some sort, 2 of them greens 1 got an onyx staff but it wasn't good.the other 4 exclusively got 3 trash stones.Basically I got no chance at a voltatic spear unless I RMT armbraces, cause my drops are fucking shit.
>>2446614everyone's drops are shityou'd probably have to run it hundreds of times to get a Volty drop
>>2446624I'd be a little more willing to do those hundreds of runs if 100% of the runs weren't at least 2 gemstones
>>>/vrpg/3981966
>>2446614I'm pretty sure the only actual viable speed clears are like DoASC and SoOSC. Maybe kath hammers.
>>2446756oh I'm not speed clearing, after the first day when it's the ZB you can't even find human groups for it anymore so I have to slog through with heroes. I can do it fine just the loot is not worth it.Speed clears afctually less so since they expect you to use cons so now you're investing money into getting those diamonds and onyx gemstones and you don't get to loot chests, light of deldrimor or even pick up your drops without being left behind you're banking EVERYTHING on the final chest and onyx and diamonds aren't even going to pay for your pcon use.
>>2446744nigga got filtered by the desert 100%
>>2446744>games bad cuz you have to play the game to progress your characterWHAT!?
>>2435572how do i join?
>>2447769post your IGN for an invite at any time
>>2446744This feller sounds like a faggot and his shit is all retarded.
I beated prophecies, holy shit FUCK imps
>>2450085*nukes you instantly*you bringing your char to factions or starting a new one?
>>2450092I've been checking out the other campaigns so I did a bit of factions and nightfall. I have a native factions warrior that's in the same area so I'll do either one idk yet. Need a break from this game first, actually.
>>2450221Try a different class, maybe something ranged. Melee is rough in this game.
>>2450221>factions as melee
>>2450608It'll be fine, I just did Factions twice on Warrior and Assassin back to back last week.I was burned out on the campaign afterwards but it wasn't hard.
>>2450608>>2450720oh he's a new player never mind
>>2450085Now that you've finished Prophecies, go back to Droknar's Forge and kneel in front of the statue of Glint to receive a new post-Prophecies quest line dealing with all those titans that were sent to capital cities.Also, if you missed it, I definitely suggest leaving from Temple of the Ages west to where Kryta changes over to Maguuma wastes.
>>2451403Maguuma wastes sucks, if he skipped it, good
>>2434501>>2434738>one of the best multiplayer games of all time>its almost exclusively played sologrim
>>2451810Just not enough people actively playing to populate all the various outposts. It's the whole reason NF introduced heroes.
>>2451768It's not about the wastes, I'm just trying to nudge toward Rotscale without ruining the sense of discovery.
>>2451826we're lucky the game is still active at all. its just a little sad compared to how it used to be when every outpost teeming with players spamming LFG
>>2451967When did they add the group finder anyway? I don't remember seeing it when I played EOTN briefly back when it released.>>2451826>More content means playerbase is more spread out>playerbase is also dwindling over timeIt was inevitable
>>2451967game was better before heroes and actually took effort
>>2451860oh, I suppose that's a good detour.while on that line he should also travel north from Droknar's Forge through Snake dance, or through Spearhead Peek
Today's ZB is 4 horsemen, we're probably going to do UW in 2 weeks from now so people should grab it
any places to farm root behemoths that don't involve traveling through 1 zone in entirety to reach the zone where they actually exist? The Lagoon itself is the shortest trip starting from the wilds I think but there's literally like 5 root behemoths in the entire map and a shitload of wind riders
>>2453332The wiki page has tips. I farmed mine this morning using it. I was able to walk (no speed boost) from Henge of Denravi all the way to Dry Top without much issue just by kiting the trolls and scarabs.
What are the chances we ever get new zones and missions in post-searing?
>>2453357Missions (with cut scenes and voice acting) may be a stretch but instanced quests and new maps I think are likely. That's what they've been testing so far, adding additions to the Northlands map, adding the new dungeon and new questline
>>2453369What about new skills?
>>2453370hol up, lemme call 2weeks and ask
>>2443194sheesh
>>2453370until they can balance the current ones I think that's unlikely
it's an omenQ8 tactics crude shield 14AL, gold, didn't bring ID kits with me so don't know what it is yet but probably vendor trash
>>2453410only single mod, not maxed, vendor trash
7weapon hammer smash
>>2453448but where's your smashI see>blow>blow>strike>blowno smashenemies immune to knockdowns?
>>2453468unfortunately all the fun elites are shit in pve but they are good in pvp luckily
>>2453511Yeti smash and renewing smash brothough currently I run hammer bash since renewing smash is single target anyway.
I'm bored, and I have some diamonds and onyx gemstones and the other mats to make a destroyer weapon.Destroyer Maul or Destroyer Scythe for a warrior?My main hammer is an oppressor's maulmy scythe is Balthazar's. I'm kinda thinking the Balth Scythe maybe looks cooler? But what about destroyer maul vs oppressor's?
>>2453592scythe on warrior you say.... an intriguing concept.....just look at them in tb
if i had one bullet and i was locked in a room with a scythe warrior and a mysticism staff derv then i would shoot myself
>>2453647I went with the destroyer mauland without sperging out like that one guy, I think warrior scythe is legitimately pretty fun.
>>2453541yeti is kinda trash tho and renewing is boring kinda lame all the non elite kds burn all your adrenaline i run dev hammer and earth shaker with heros that new weapon of fury is pretty dope
>>2453718aoe knockdown isn't trash>renewing is boringwhat?that's the thing I like on hammer warrior knocking something on its ass and punishing it severely.the draining all adrenaline isn't that much of an issue with renewing smash, you charge your skills back up with it, especially with something like FGJ or weapon of fury.I haven't tried weapon of fury myself though, losing splinter seems like a lot to give up.
>>2453736its pretty great can slot something in besides for great justice if you want a kd i would run this +40 at 20 hammer
>>2453757yeah honestly after I had kinda missed that staggering blow was an activation time skill but saw it on yours I threw that on in place of crude swing, swapped in heavy blow instead of hammer bash since it gives bonus damage and is 1 adrenaline cheaper and staggering fuels it, and then I don't need to throw withering aura on something or use it myself to fuel yeti smash.I do like knocking a whole group on their ass though. I'm still going to run renewing cause I find it fun, in place of protector's, and hmm.. crushing instead of a 3rd pve skillwelldepends on how much I may need something to deal with block stances, block enchants, blind, or miss hexesor just run scan and deal with all of them simultaneously
am i the only one that likes shields
>>2453795Ive only ran asuran scan like 10-15 times on my derv and war its not really needed with hero's run runes and shit if you need to i do and i wouldn't drop prot strike use it on hit pumps your adrenaline and helps a lot with attack speed auspicious into prot stike is one of the nastiest combos
>>2453860renewing is also a hit pump provided you can knock something down.I often times kd, renewing x3, kd, renewing x3 etc cause the 3 renewings can charge right back up if you have a source of extra adrenaline like mark of fury, weapon of fury or FGJ running.
>>2453860>>2453920but I'd disagree on the not needing scan it really depends on what you're running. if you're running content with more miss hexes than your heroes can clear you'll need it EotN areas stack mesmers and eles like crazy.I do run runes of clarity but.. when it's blind after blind after blind sometimes you can't wait for it or clear it off fast enough so throwing the scan helps.
>>2453920yeah i know how it works it just reminds me of daggerspam repetitive and boring but if it works for you use it
>>2453939well any rotation gets repetitive and boring after a lot of use. The difference between the kd/renewing rotation is that it's conditional, sometimes you can't knock something down. sometimes you fuck up cause you didn't know that this enemy was immune, or the weakness gets purged off so the knockdown fails, or something like that, and there's real penalty for failure when you get greedy and do 1 too many renewing smashes when they stand up, 30s cooldown is kind of a punishment for fucking up.Where dagger spam the worst thing that can happen is your rhythm is off, fox fangs is still on cooldown, and you whiff death blossom, which is fine cause now you just fox fangs now that it's off cooldown and complete your death blossom.
>>2453842What other option is there? I like shields so much I put them on my casters
>>2453972that's another reason i don't like it if you miss or blocked your kinda fucked for a bit and there's so many big enemies in the game that cant be knocked down its also why i don't run kds much why the first bar i posted was raw dps but most of the fun with hammers is kds fucking game
With Preservation fixed, I present the improved afk resto rit.
ok I figured out how to justify having a leadership shield… the 20% chance +1 attribute mod so you can get potentially 21 leadership
>>2456216Didn't even realize they changed stuff today. The spirit siphon change should make it always better than essence strike now
>>2455085that's why I want to run scythe as primary dps weapon for 7WS, I feel like I'm missing something if I'm not knocking things on their ass with my hammer
>>2456627well until you notice your SoS running back to the last place he used SoS to tap and isn't there to heal or give you splinter weapon as he's still running back, and hopefully didn't get caught by a patrolThey won't tap off your ST or BiP's spirits, only their own that they spawned.
>>2456671if i wanted to play scythe id just play my derv its a way better class overall but that's boring
>>2457451derv and scythe warrior play differently it's not like daggers where you just copy the same dagger spam rotation. Warrior doesn't do the enchant/teardown playstyle of derv, warrior will hardly use enchants at all. Warriors have easier time using mostly adrenaline attacks where derv does better with energy attacks.like the only thing that might be the same on my bar between a Derv and a Scythe Warrior is Reap Impurities or Chilling Victory.
>>2456216>heals party membersaiiiiieee minion bros we were so close
>>2456671its viable, basically trading armor rating for more dps
>>2456216thats honestly a great change I'm glad they finally fixed preservation cause it's an interesting elite.I don't think it'll shake up the PvE meta at all, but it's going to have some serious implications for the PvP meta, especially stuff like RA and AB, maybe even split strategy GvG stuff. With 20 second recharge you can creep it forward pretty effectively, can easily maintain 3 of them outside of eachothers range for total coverage over a wide area.I might have to play some RA
>>2457640Warrior armor with sentinel insignia and IAU is higher armor than Derv, they won't have the damage reduction of Armor of Sanctity I suppose or some of the other defensive abilities like mirage cloak or mystic regen or mystic vigor, but I haven't noticed a survivability pitfall vs derv, and it doesn't really have to worry about shatters, where heavy enchantment removal can ruin a derv's day.If there's no enchantment removal the derv probably does have more tools on their standard PR or VOS bars for surviving under pressure though you are right.
>>2457725what change do you think they made to preservation in pvp
>>2457823The update from today, check them out. I'd assume the change is for both PvE and PvP versions of the skill, since it doesn't specify it's for PvE.
>>2458046my bad, idk why they put it under "skill ai adjustments" and tucked the heal lowest behavior at the end, I thought it was just hero behavior
>>2457819Enchant removal literally doesn't matter to derv. PR is THE perfect cover enchant. You need to be hit with chilblains for it to matter
>>2458266mesmer or necro stacks in groups say hi.
>>2458266>>2458306I mean when I say "heavy enchantment removal" i don't mean groups with 1 mesmer who has 1 enchantment removal on 15s cooldown or some shit I mean stack enchant removals or multiple mesmers/necros that will nail like 4 enchants in 2 seconds right at the start of the fight and follow up when you try to recast and strip them again before they're out of skills to strip them with
some guy on leddit was looking at NCsoft earnings and figured out GW1 brought in over 2,2 million dollars in 2025 alone (and 400k-500k a quarter even before Reforged was a thing and we were still in pure maintenance mode)https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1tbrdjs/2026_q1_earnings_strong_first_quarter/I think it's safe to say the game more than pays for its own upkeep
This is merch food i assume?
>>2458565I'm not sure on the use case for stance and slashing but it's q9 tactics with 2 perfect mods so it's probably worth something.
>>2458565260g
>>2453842I like shields but I don't like Axe and Sword is terrible.
>>2458565this is pretty cool
>>2457496They play pretty much the same tho just just spam skills on balled up foes and adrenaline loops with itself on scythe and energy is irrelevant at this point with Sr mods or radiant scythe
>>2458875nah, Derv will be fueling most of their damage via enchants, whether teardown or not, warriors will not, even with zealous and necromancer I never see Scythe warrior bars with a heavy reliance on enchants. Warriors will fuel their damage through fast generation of adrenaline through TTL and Thrill of Victory and dumping adrenal scythe skillsif you want to boil it down to "spam skills on balled up foes" then every single profession plays the same in a DPS role, because even single target damage dealers like rangers will benefit from splintered weapon into a ball.Having played both though, their bars are different. Yes it's still melee'ing a ball with the same weapon, but they have different stat spreads: strength/tactics heavy with some investment into scythe just so it's not a total loss if your stance gets stripped.. vs mysticism scythe mastery heavy with some investment into earth or wind prayers or heavy earth prayers investment with significant mysticism and barely enough scythe mastery to cover requirements (12/10/8 spread with a sup/minor/minor or sup/major/minor). Also they just use different skills for the most part the overlap will be reap impurities and possibly chilling victory.You're just not going to find teardown philosophy on any warrior's bar, but any derv bar is going to have some form of teardown and be enchant heavy.Instead warrior is going to use shouts instead of enchants and pump adrenaline with TTL and Thrill of Victory and dump into crippling victory, reap impurities and chilling victory.They're different enough that I consider both worth playing.
>>2458974what about using sws and no dervish skllls just strength stuff
>>2459166You can do that too but I think that crippling victory, reap impurities, and chilling victory are all good scythe skills to use on a warrior. Warrior can inflate their health through TTL and if that's not enough, Endure Pain would definitely be enough, but I haven't needed it generally.You just wouldn't use teardown attacks.
Is Air Magic and brute forcing your way through the armor better for Titans and Destroyers or should you try and make a Water build with Shatterstone?
>>2459692water is more fun, and can shut down the nasty melee destroyers though you might wanna spec a bit into air too for shell shock
>>2459692Titans have 63 or 83 armor vs water and 83 or 103 vs lightning. Air magic AP would bring that to 63 or 78. It'll be basically the same. Destroyers are basically the same deal, but some have a bit higher baseline, which is even more in lightnings favor. Just use what's fun cause they're too close for it to matter. I usually like the lower cast times of air vs water.
>>2458974 ok so your using the same busted weapon with some of the same busted skills and your balling enemies up and spamming huge aoe skills yes very different play style thank you for enlightening me
>>2459888if you can't see the difference between enchanting and teardown and using passive enchanting effects to spread AOE damage regardless of whether you hit with your weapon or not as different then you might as well say that Elementalist and Mesmer play the exact same both using aoe spells on balls of enemies.That shows no discernment for nuance.
>>2459692you should make an air magic build and then bring winter on a hero for armor pen water damage
>>2460322>Winter to hit the lower armor>Cracked armor to lower it further>Then you ignore 25%Sounds cool
>>2459692>>2460387For titans air magic + winter is great.For destroyers no matter what attribute you spec into it will be low damage suffering. You will always be doing at best about 70% of the tooltip damage. Even under winter. Even with cracked armor and armor pen. Cause you're starting at a base of about 120 armor vs cold (160 vs fire, 140 vs air). So you lower that to 100 armor, and then armor pen down to about 80, so you're still working through base warrior armor.Vs the casters, while using that specific combo, it'll feel like you're doing normal damage to other enemies, you'll do somewhat over tooltip damage because it's treating it like 40 armor.. the way that armor pen works on a normal 60 AL enemy, but it's starting at 80 AL which is only that low because you're exploiting a weakness with winter. Without winter you'd be basically doing tooltip damage against destroyers of hope/thoughtsBut any of the ranger and warrior destroyers.. you'll feel like you're wasting your time trying to damage no matter what Ele build you try against them.
>>2459692i did unsteady ground obsidian flame necrosis and it was tolerable
>>2460453yeah but that's life for like every class but mesmer and occasionally necro, vs everyone but rangers
>>2460486well for melees your based damage will suck but you'll get the full + damage on your skills, enchants/TAO/SOH etc.Now if you do a build where you use a lot of skills without + damage on them like your jagged strikes with daggers, or sun and moon slash with swords or double/triple shot/forked shot, your damage will be absolute ass, you're right.But with + damage on skills it's not terrible.It's only on Ele that I do Raven's Point or GOLEM or A Time for Heroes, see my damage numbers and die a little inside.
>>2460490if you run intensity with something strong you're going to rape any single target build anywayjust learn to love lots of numbers more than one big one
>>2460501yeah well, the intensity off your invoke lightning will do like 50 damage
>>246050767
https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Linsey_Murdock&curid=8018&diff=2728081&oldid=2693774
>>2462357
>>2462363new expansion soon
>>2462363>Gamespot: PAX 2008: woman in the game industryShe's going to insert woke slop
>>2462559she’s literally one of the original devs, ass
>>2462583>designed 3 or more cavaliers on sulfur>pvp balance>craftingyeah whatever she touches is gonna be shit
>>2462458I hope they don't add new professions but instead try and make secondary professions more interestingMaybe have some skills only be available/useful depending on secondary profession?
>>2462357>>2462363holy shit what wretched news to wake up to
>>2463225I bet you are the same anon that sperged out about the prerelease devona hero description text
>>2464171>i bet everyone that dislikes everything that happens is the same personno retard i just remember the VoR patch that lindsey cites as "skill balance" experience
>>2464228yep gottem
>>2463086>that imageGood God... An "original dev" that began the downfall of the old Guild Wars and cemented it with Guild Wars 2.
>>2462559>>2462583>>2463086>>2463117>>2463225>>2464171>>2464228>>2464353>>2465367I told you but in your infinite hubris you wouldn't listen. Reforged is the beginning of an end. We NEED private servers now with pre-reforged builds.
>>2465568I'm still not listening to you, I'm very happy with current changes
>>2465568reforged is gw3 and that’s a good thing
>>2465568Reforged has been amazing so far and Linsey on the team is very reassuring
>>2408952have not played GW Reforged since it launched. is it still goin? worth to hop in and mess about? I imagine most players are on the OG launcher.
>>2465760We're still in the post-anniversary burnout phase.2weeks is going to release Reforged for mobile in the near future, so that will bring another spike of players.
>>2462357wow they're really bringing back the whole original anet team I just hope they don't recruit Gaile Gray lol>>2465760The steam release happened almost a decade after the game launched so most of the playerbase are not on steam. That said if you told me to guess how many people are currently playing I'd estimate there's between 3k-6k players at any given moment and that's me lowballing the estimate. Game probably sees closer to 10k+ on prime hours/weekends especially given how much money GW is producing >>2458543 since GW1 is now producing 10% of anet's total income. That said, GW1 is a very solo friendly game, you can complete the game from start to finish and every area in the game without ever having to interact with another player and it's a rather decent experience. You can replace players with heros/henchmen which are NPC allies you can customize with skills of your own choice and have minor amounts of control over. There is almost always people doing dailies, and end game dungeons see some grouping still. As always you're welcome to post IGN and join our guild we do stuff occasionally.
>>2465760I bought on launch and only started a week ago. The outposts aren't as crazy packed as they were but the cities are still bustling. Considering mobile is coming out and they're hiring more developers I think the future's looking up.
>>2465760Don't join the guild here, they only do stuff one week a year. It's pretty dead. Just go with any of the big guilds you see advertised in Kamadan or GToB and you will have nice people organizing groups at any given hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtE3VzaJSqEI hope they don't nerf this. It looks pretty fun.
>>2466867We do something at least once a week for most of the year.We're not a huge alliance where there are dozens of people online at any given time, but we are considerably active for 21 year old MMO, plus you can be casually racist in alliance chat.And BTW, you can just show up to our alliance events even if you don't join.
>>2458543Wow, guess I'm not the only one who buys character slots every year
>>2466867>>2467556Our total alliance has maybe 50~ logins every week, at any given point in the day we have on average maybe 4 people online, 8-12 during peak hours, despite that we have been doing something every weekend for the last 4 months straight, this is one of the first weekends or so where I haven't been online 2-4+ hours running/cordinating stuff we're doing. We're not a big alliance, big alliances can have multiple people running events independent of eachother, I'm the sole person who plans and runs stuff and I have been doing this for nearly 4 years now. I'm not saying this cause boohoo me, I love running this guild and there's no other group of retards I'd rather be here with but please try to understand even I want to do other things than play GW every single weekend for 4 years straight lol.Advantages to large guild are as you say, they always do stuff, but large guilds are deeply impersonal and basically act as a group finder more than a guild, you WILL join the discord and you WILL run the build they tell you. The ally chat will move fast with names you only sometimes recognize, if you're an extremely social person I'd maybe recommend a large guild.Advantage to joining us, you can say a slur and we'll correct you on the slurs our professional racists have created for this game. Additionally due to our size you will recognize people who hang around and chat, we don't use discord so all our communications happen either in thread, or in game. tl;dr big guilds function as group finders more than "guilds" and our guild is just a group of bro's who do stuff occasionally. Regardless of what you pick, non ally members always welcome to show up to stuff, they just need to post/inform me so I know who to invite.On the topic of events I mentioned earlier but we'll be doing an HM UW run next weekend, additionally our NF prog starts next month, that'll get discussed more in a future thread.
>>2467897ladder bots were rupting even quartercast slurs, killed ranked
I followed the suggestion to go west and bro what the fuck lol I have the game open right now maybe I should just bumrush them and see if I live
>>2470441nvm tested the waters a bit and that was a terrible fucking idea, i'll just try to pull the other dudes with a bow
>>2470452I bumrushed them.that wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be but i still got wiped once. the funniest thing was seeing the cluster of red dots on the minimap on the way there
>>2470526now do it in hard mode
>>2465753Just hire a chudscalonian to keep an eye on her and others so we won't have niggers and trannies shoved into our Based Wars.
Oh also If we were to have a new expac, better bring Dociu and Soule back on board. Otherwise it's gonna be an absolute dogshit.
>>2470441This is always one of the highlights of Proph prog. Just a ragtag group of fresh-faced Ascalonian level 14s straight outta LA rolling up.
>>2470733Soule got cancelled over rape accusations during #metoo. He will probably never get his name on another credit again.
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>join a pug to vanquish bukdek byway for the zaishen daily>one guy had the Winds of Change quest active>one guy was doing survivor and leaves on a wipeManaged to clear it at least. Never done winds of change before, but that was some insane damage. The first time I felt I probably needed to go full prot instead of getting by with hybrid.
>>2472934>pugging a vanquishyeah don't do that, quests influence the number of enemies too much it's better if someone has the right quests to where there's only like 1 enemy in the entire zone (the drinkmaster I think)
>>2472934Bukdek Byway is literally a 1 enemy vanquish. Thanks for reminding me to pick it up on all my characters for later.
>>2472934>vanquish bukdek byway for the zaishenbro, your chasing zenmai+the afflicted guard?
>>2473626Unfortunately, that character had finished chasing zenmai like 10+ years ago
>>2473653I just find a buddy and spam it. I have a character with the 2 quests, I do it for all of theirs, they have one, they do it for all of mineeven doubling the time, it's like 75 zcoins a minute
>>2470728>niggers and tranniesParagon is already both those things.
I'm surprsied by how many normal animal pets there are in this game, figured there would be a lot more fantasy animals but you ahve 3 different coloured crabs and wolves lmao.
>>2473948paragons are lgb hold the t niggas, the bathhouse type
>>2473996To be fair there are a lot of crab species irl
>>2473996Never thought about that but yes it's very weirdThere are only 2 actual fantasy pets: the racing beetle and the hound of Balthazar (arguably we could add the phoenixes too)
>>2474631I would probably also count moa bird, dune lizard, moss spider, jahai rat, and melandru's stalker I checked out what pets there are in gw2 and it looks like the devs decided they should've added more pets unique to the setting lol
>>2474664Moa birds are actually real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoaYes, and pets each have unique skills in gw2Would be nice if charm animal was replaced by a pet-specific skill if you have one
>>2474879they look decently different so i'll give moa birds in this game a pass. also yeah charm animal seems so oddly useless lol. they really should do something like what you said. would be cool.
>>2473996I greatly appreciate the relative realism of Guild Wars instead of the pride parade aesthetics of Guild Wars 2.
>>2474900>also yeah charm animal seems so oddly useless lolIts function is to allow you to have a pet. There must be "cost" (one slot of your skill bar). They even made this easier in PvE by allowing certain skills to keep your pet out (e.g. Comfort Animal).
I hope they're thinking of reworking character selectionI want to buy more slots, but it's already hard to use
Giving away my bank since the game is on its way to become gw2-lite. LA German at noon CET on Saturday 23 May.
>>2475113>game adds 2 dungeons to tutorial>"game is on its way to become gw2-lite"what did he mean by this?
>>2475440getting updates and having an active playerbase is the most GW2 thing you can do
https://youtu.be/ENepquSkmSwBABE WAKE UP NEW PETER VID DROPPED
>>2475539I wonder if they roll back on skull crack
>>2474879I would be happy if it was just a dedicated pet attack button.
>>2475072The cost would be you still need the skill slotted, and likely the attribute leveled. Beast mastery is meant to be like the second weapon of ranger but they never could make it work
>>2475840Nobody would use it still since if your pet dies you'd have to have a second skillI think Revive Animal should also let your pet travel with you, totally useless skill since comfort lets you get away with 1 skill that is both the res and replacement for charm animal
>>2475068I feel like there's a good middle ground to achieve with animal designs, but I get that. I really like how this game looks in terms of artstyle.
GW Hatchetmen casi 400 juggalos : Pve, pvp, faygo, etc, en discord.gg 3xICPg8yz2
>>2475840toolbox commands your pet to attack when you call target, so if anything I would prefer a pet xp bar than anything
pets are for being cute and the armor bonus
>>2478754cheatbox ain't doing shit, that's normal game function
https://youtu.be/sikctuUYjWwinteresting
i hate the black dye cartel
https://youtu.be/QxF-Hxq3QYIbros it's over
>>2483345it only threatens gw2 which is a good thing
gw reforged mobile is online in canada if anyone cares
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260519
>>2484261>Chat, player-to-player trading, the ability to invite other players to a party (but you can be invited), and PvP are not available
We're going to do an HM UW run at 3 PM EST on Saturday we'll be doing a melee support setup team if people want to theorycraft some builds between now and then, this set up is a lil flexible but ideally we have a TaO dagger ranger, 2-3 other melee, and a GDW rit, all other roles are somewhat flexible.
>>2485564wtf that's me
>>2485564me on the right (big red)
fighting destroyers as an elementalist is just depressingI tried a water build and vapor bladed an unenchanted target for 55 damage, spreading about 35 damage with intensity.
So is it worth doing reforged?
>>2486305oh my god stfu already
>>2486378well, it's really fucking shit.
>>2485564me in the center hiding my face in shame (eight mortals body blocked me into a corner and auto attacked me for 20 minutes straight)
WoW
>>2487914fuck how did you know i'm back playing wow
>>2487914im glad i got my fow armors already sheesh
>>2486305destroyers aren't fun to fight for the vast majority of professions. you abuse pve skills if you aren't a mesmer, and there was a time where they had to do that as well.
>>2487914CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHERSO HIGH
>>2485564Is there room for another rit
>>2489649at the moment I have no idea who will show up, so probably. Ideally an E/Mo works best as prot here, but an ST rit is probably fine too. The mentioned roles are just what we for sure will need, GDW rit is just SoS rit but you cast GDW on the melee.
>>2489678im going to attend
sup anons, i recently came back to gw to play casually and noticed i have an opressor staff with an unconditional +20% dmg affix. are these common? i checked the collector and the staff didn't have this affix, but mine does. i couldn't find an upgrade component that gives a +20% uncoditional damage, either.
>>2492284you customized it
>>2492315that's it, thanks anon
What's a good build for farming Minotaur Horns?
>>2492733when the game first came out i found out that 5 minotaur horns trades for mesmer gloves and the mesmer gloves salvaged into a few linen which at the time was worth way more than 5 hornsim pretty sure later on they patched collector items to be unsalvageable but i made a cool million gold doing this because i had people farming the horns for me
>>2492733SoS ritualist is probably the easiest + least effort to set up. Alternatively some high armor ele set up with AoE damage probably works pretty good too, some flavor of earth ele abusing silver armor + stoneflesh aura. You can probably bruteforce a melee farmer to work but Wary Stance makes it less pleasant to play.Anything that kills too slow, can't tank multiple melee hits, or has no answer to healing sig (shield of judgement monk farmer for example) is suboptimal.
I'm on my first play through, and the thirsty river is messing me up.
>>2494433Did you upgrade your armour?If not, look up "[profession] collector armour" on the wiki
>>2494433or do the meta thing and go recruit all the beginner heroes, NF campaign then Factions and EoTN then finish up Prophecies
>>2494433get the fuck out of prophecies bro thats not good for you
>>2494433Rest assured that it's not just you. The desert is the first area is a challenge for most people. It's basically a big PvP tutorial.Let's start by making sure you understand what you have to do. Each group has three groups of two enemies and a boss group with a priest. Every two minutes, every defeated enemy on the team will be resurrected by the Priest. Obviously, this means that if you kill the priest, they will cease to resurrect at their shrine.You want to start by managing the clock. Typically, you can begin killing one group over two minutes before the next resurrection because you're aiming to have them die soon after the time mark. Then move to kill up, focusing on the priest once you get to the boss group. Once you're done, wait out the clock to the preferred time before starting on the next group.The enemies here are just harder too. The warriors are tanky and cripple, the rangers Blind and Daze, the necros strips enchantments and buff the melees, the mesmers sap your caster energy, interrupts spells, and snare your melees, and the eles are tanky with AoE knockdowns. If you're having serious trouble, it's worth asking for help.
>>2494433Whats your primary? I would personally go with something to shutdown the priest or a spike build to try and quickly kill the priest if you manage to get him low. Like anon above said it's basically a PvP tutorial. You have to keep the timer in mind while attempting this mission, when enemies are about to respawn if you can't complete the kill you need to start pulling back and trying again, otherwise you'll just get overrun.
>>2494537> go recruit all the beginner heroesNot really useful for new players who don't have skills for those heroesI recently finished prophecies with a melandru warrior, and actually had to ditch my heroes for the desert
>>2494879more reason not to start in proph
It's still Fendi Nin (SoO) zaishen bounty. If anyone's up to do it later today or tomorrow, go grab it and roll a BDS.
>>2494966Not gonna start in niggerland, and factions is very hard for new players
>>2494966new players don't do well with factions or nf eitheryou're simply meant to seek out other people until you know what you're doing
>>2495004I missed the quest but I'll still come if I'm around for it
Is the Poor Tenant bugged in Reforged mode? The bees stopped following me when I got to the bridge instead of following me across it like they should.
>>2495713No, they've just always been sticky like that. If you go under the bridge and rub the wall you'll still get credit and the bees are less likely to get stuck.
>>2495723I think I'm just going to have to rezone for it, because they're completely locked in place.
>>2495739Yeah, once they're stuck you're better off rezoning.
I will be waiting in Vlox if anyone would like to do SoO
SoO again, we are at vlox
>>24963125/8
cooked a lil something for UW later today
UW run at 3 PM EST TODAYUW run at 3 PM EST TODAYUW run at 3 PM EST TODAY
I wish I was dedicated and social enough to play with /gwg/ on a regular basis
>>2499338You're always welcome to join the guild and just pretend to be social. We have a lot of people who join and don't ever say a word/never join us for anything. Should you ever change your mind or the stars align and we're doing something you planned to do anyway can just tag along.
>>2499338they only allow characters that start in proph anyway
>>2499358>>2494966Who hurt you?
>>2499365we deadass need to kill this autistic nigga I'm sick of seeing him post the same shit 50 times every thread
>>2499358Are you still upset that the guild doesn't run Domain of fucking Anguish every week?
>>2499373fr bro we finna do he ahh in no cap no capI have been perusing the archived team quitter forums and I read that clicking is server-sided and moving via WSAD is client-sided and that's why you have rubber banding and desync when using keys as opposed to clicking, can any nerds confirm?
>>2499524Pretty sure you are indeed correct because it sounds familiar, but that's some esoteric PvP autist knowledge right there
>>2499436There are at least 43 people posting in these threads at any given moment. Take a deep breath in, relax your forehead, unclench your sphincter and decompress your shoulders. No one is stalking you. Take your meds and be there for UW later today.
>>2499534Sorry. Meant for >>2499373
Underworld Soon, log in (you too Spirits)
>>2499534nah I know exactly who I meant, and I got great posturehow was uw
>>2500234>I got great posturePics? You single?We are 4/10 at 73mins but it's going pretty smooth.
>>2500250slow is smooth smooth is fastpost builds when you wrap up, I wanted to run some weird shit but I had obligations
>>2500275your winnersIt was a pretty basic melee support set upR/W TaO sword ranger was probably most uniqueD pious derv with EBSoHA shadow theft dagger spammer with demonic fleshRt/Mo - SoS with GDW and SoHRt - Classic ST with remove hexN - Order of Vamp supportMe - PI dom mesMo - Classic Healing Burst monk
>>2500565icl you got screenshotmoggednm or hm?
>>2500570HM, took things nice and slow we probably could have gone a bit faster but I have too much trauma from when I use to do hero's only HM runs that prevents me from skipping all the mobs that we COULD skip.
It could have been so good.
>>2501140was it the cool skin or the boriing one?
does anyone even play this game in asia? the servers/districts are so empty that i'm regretting buying the game
>>2501532everyone plays on aed1
>>2501539i have like 200 ping on that server, really not fun to play
>>2501549not sure where you're at and what languages you speak but you could try to find an asia-based guild to play withworst comes to worst, it's still a pretty great game solo. probably 50% of the playerbase treat it like a single player rpg just using henchmen or heroes
>>2501398It was this one.
>>2494537I tried this, but ultimately made it through using the henchmen instead of heroes. I think heroes are only good for you if you aren't retarded.
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