We have a /vm/ guild that has been playing together for nearly 4 years now, if you would like to join simply post your IGN to thread.>>2624988 Previous ThreadOUR NF PROG WILL BE RUNNING SATURDAY'S AT 9 AM EST, I will be posting weekly updates to thread so people can see how we're struggling with the skill lock ruleset.GW1 is now on mobile go download it so you can play while at Grandma's funeralhttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_on_MobileGuild Wars 3 just got announced, laugh at GW2 furries crying about the lack of char here.https://www.guildwars3.com/en/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[Baww] Approved Buildshttps://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/User:Baww_Way>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
>>2708356man I wanted to make a para for this prog, it's the only class I have left to try (besides sin), but it has like half the skills of an ele or necro to roll foris it worth it parabros?
>>2708470I'm making a para because I plan to play it after this prog, I would play something that you think is fun/sounds interesting. If you think you will have more fun playing ele/necro I would recommend that, if this prog is successful I might do it again in the future.
>>2708470Play whatever you want without any consideration of the prog rules. It's not going to change things that much.
Is W/P the most effective way to build Mighty Throw due to SWS? Or is there a P/? build that's better?Also is Warr still bottom tier even after the buffs to HB etc?
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>>2709097P/W gets more total damage by bugging the party with HR, but as a single character warriors got it beat.Or just use pie, cause you're not poor are you?
Here are the skills you MUST have on your bar next week.At the start of the prog I will post what bars people built, and at end of prog session I will post what people are using next week
>>2709443>leadershipoh yes massa I's a good paragon, buffin my party an all, no I'd neva throw a spear or do no damage or nothin, wouldin dream o it, I knows my place
>>2709484jk it's an ias that drops my armor, have fun healing me as I spam spear mastery skills
>>2709488put frenzy on your bar coward>>2709443I forgot to mention - We are stopping at The Honorable General quest next week at the start of the session I'll post a screenshot of all the builds we made
No newfriends joined the prog! :(
I'm still waiting for this renaissance of build crafting that was supposed to happen after Esurge was nerfed.
>>2709511you rightthey gotta nerf it harder
>>2709493I will if the IAS stacks
>>2709499This prog runs so early wtf
>>2709577this was the only time everyone that voted could makewe just had july 4th and you let euros make decisions for you instead of taking action, shameful
>>2709511I said it for years but the real part of the meta is bip resto+ST backline.
>>2709511cry about it bitch
>>2709443aw hell naw
>>2709236I see. Given that Warrior armor is generally cool and Paragon armor is mostly similar looking and kind of boring, plus you doing damage is more fun than your heroes doing damage I think I’ll go for the W/P combo for Mighty Throw
>>2709705they're all the samethe n/rt is the mesmer of healing. does basically everything you need, no matter what area you're in, on a compact unpunishable bar. same with st, spirit hate is borderline nonexistent compared to enchantment hate, and it's party-wide 100% uptime prots on like 5 skills>>2710847
>>2709511>I'm still waiting for this renaissance of build craftingthere never has been something like thatyou just jump from one meta to another
A reminder, come be a retard tomorrow in DoA, it's double ZB week, and Sunday's ZB is Stygian Veil related.
>>2711352the build renaissance is in the heart of every child who dares to dream :)
>>2711867I'm gonna play a GDW rit and only give it to one guy btw
>>2711882They don't care about that they only Roblox now
>>2711867Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it tomorrow.I did, however, set up this build which I had intended to use with a mind to showcase the exceptional qualities of the Mysticism staff.
>>2711884I was going to say that is absolutely devilish, but 2 replies later we have a man DPS maxing with mysticism staff trying to turn our brand new thread into a warzone with his build. >>2711948This is what I'm thinking about running. If we don't have enough supports I might swap to necro and run physical support orders, or I'll run infuriating heat + GDW on my rit.
Gimme a Mighty Throw non-HR P/ build.
>>2711867>>2712133>>2712146>show up to gayest build DOA day>everyone just brought a different mighty throw variant
>>2712146Focused anger tends to be next most popular way for para's to generate adrenaline to spam shit.>>2712151We gettin zesty up in DoA tomorrow.
>>2712151>cup doesn't do 50% damage because everybody comes prepared to do ironman numbersoooo he gon be mad
>>2712151I can't name it but I'd like to try an enchanters conundrum build actually
my mysticism staff is ready
>>2711867I ran gdw last time we did this but I will probably sit this one out so other people can join
>>2713131Chances are we don't fill a full party so come regardless
>>2713123that takes some pretty extreme stuff for me these days
>>2711867What time?
>>27133181PM EST
>>2712480ill just come on vos then i can see big numbers
>>2713541do mighty throw else that one sperg will still think it's balanced
>>2712146AckshuallySolo HR might not be so bad
>>2713674its boring spamming one skill almost as boring as vos was thinking earth shaker
>>2713748nice
LOG ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>2709511Mesmer is still the best offensive caster, BiP solves all energy management issues, and Rit continues to dominate the backline. They're understandably not going to do heavy-handed nerfs, so that renaissance is never going to happen.You're better off keeping a close eye on buffs for Necro, Ranger and Paragon as that's where all the weird, highly specific builds will emerge.
>moa supremacywhat happened now?
In Stygian, with 20 Spear Mastery, my Mighty Throws were hitting for ~110-140, lowest usually in the 80s and if I got lucky my highest were 160s.
>>2713941Warrior or Paragon main?
>>2713972Para
>>2713906Sunspears lost a war against them.
How did people hit high hero ranks back in the day? If I remember correctly, having even r3 or r4 meant that you were a very good player, and people wouldn't pick you up in the HA outpost if you didn't have at least r2. I was too young to ever get into that back then, but just had a thought that you had to be playing HA 24/7 as you would get full, coordinated teams already at the first game. Unlike now when it's bots until HoH (if at all).
>>2715586please buy a new computer
i'm just CHILLIN here in THUNDERHEAD KEEP
>>2713906It was discovered that the plain old pink moa (Strider) has 25% IAS. It also has the usual 25% IMS.Rollerbeetle has 33% IAS but no IMS.
>>2716321I got r6 through iway and vimway pugs back then
>>2716335?
>>2716335>he doesn't know
>>2716335post processing is for midwits
managed to get a full pug for stygian lords and underlords zb's in one go, coomed a lil seeing all the zcoins come in just before the weekly changes
should i go for 3 mesmer and SoS rit midlineor 2 mesmers 2 RoJ monks
>>2717702SoS if you're melee cause then you get big splinter weapon use
>>2713941at 110 damage per spear with 33% IAS the single target damage would be about 3x what pre-nerf esurge would deal to a ball of 5 enemies.
>>2716707baseg
deep run on Sunday please
>>2708356I started playing GW1 a few weeks ago. If I want to join the guild are you going to force me to use discord?I got perma banned on discord last November.
>>2720082we don't even have a discordjust post a character name
5 lockpicks ruined for 5 purples on my melandru's where money is actually a issue
>>2720141that’s what you get for being greedy
>>2720141>He bought?
Tried Reforged a couple months back and did the new pre dungeon then went to post searing. What's new outside of the new post dungeon? Thinkan about playan agane
>>2720308>what’s new the post searing version of that dungeon
>>2720308also balance changes so some motivation to make new builds
>>2720308Reforged dungeon is like Milo: Old and Busted. Nobody cares about pre-Searing anymore.The new [Hoes] hotness is Mighty Throw.
my mighty throw motigon hero does about 66% of the damage of my ineptitude guyabout 40% of my dom magic heroesstill thinking about dropping my ineptitude guy for a command paragon, mainly because i hate Norgu
If I had known that balance changes would make people this fucking annoying, I would have stayed quiet
shieeet it's foundry fo today who up??
>>2720949no you wouldn't have
>>2721122Nuh uh
>>2721138yeah sonormal people don't attentionwhorepost to no one in particular about how they wanted a different kind of attention, they just think "damn"
wiped twice in foundry with people overpulling with evas in the corner of death (or the LGIT corner)
>>2721234Baseball huh
fourth try failed foundry quest but still got zb done I will NEVER pug this again I'm tired of LGIT retards
>>2720085Sounds Good.I am Bantha Kitter.
>>2721567sent ;)make sure to post in alliance chat when you want to talk to the homiesif you're interested in nightfall campaign progression, we began with our first session last Saturday and we play at 9AM EST. you can join and play most anything you'd like. we can help you catch up.
>>2721567>>2721571yeah you only have to make up like 20 minutes of mainlining the primary quest to do nightfall with a big group, if you wake up early on weekends (or are a e*roid)
>>2721686Well adjusted adults with jobs don't consider 9AM "waking up early".
>>2720082Perma banned on discord you say? Someone make this guy an officerWe use ingame chat and this thread to communicate, people have mentioned establishing a discord a few times but I would sooner pay for a TS server before setting up a discord server. (We also have a steam group but it's hardly used and I rarely remember to post to it)>>2721549It's called foundry of failed teams for a reason. Pugs don't understand that 90% of the time that corner is pure suicide unless you have the correct comp to deal with it. Can't wait to first try it with guildies running absolute BS builds lol
>>2721707I know we have this convo every time foundry is up on zb, I still do it for the love of the game
>>2721700unless you have kids this is a confession that you don't have fun on fridays. I wake up at 6 on weekdays, doing something at 9 on saturday is still earlyalso west coast exists
okay hear me outWe put hard ressurection skills in WoC
Do you guys think GW 3 going to be any good? Should i finally upgrade my ancient ass pc to able to play it on it's release?
>>2724040the hype for 2 was unreal. and i think 3 will have none at all. probably for the best. everything about it says mobile game to me, but i guess 1 is now also a mobile game.
>>2724040>Do you guys think GW 3 going to be any good?Not really. I think the current trends of live service games basically doom them all to slop, not to mention the broader games industry trends. There's a good chance that GW3 is seen as the final relic of this current age too, just as GW2 was one of the first live service games to usher in the current age.
>>2724040just wait and see. I doubt it'll be great but who knows
>>2724040Considering GW2 has been consistently bad for 14 years now, and Anet haven’t made a good game in almost 20 years, I sincerely doubt it.
>>2724040Extremely doubtful, all the people who made anet a great studio left years ago. Further evidence of this is the fact the trailer art style looks like highguard level slop, and the fact that the MMO is planning for much smaller player group sizes (larger than GW1, vastly smaller than GW2)This is significant, because one of the few things GW2 does well is it's large scale player content, the open world PvE world bosses and WvW are some of the only redeeming qualities of GW2 and much like they did to GW1 they're going "nope fuck that" on the only good parts of their game, but unlike what happened between GW1 and 2 I don't think they have the talent to pull it off...And even if they did still have the talent, live service games are oversaturated in this market and there's simply no amount of content they could produce with their small studio that would be able to keep up with consumer demand. GW3 launching will cause GW2's playerbase to drop in half, maybe even more and only a fraction will return to GW2 after deciding they prefer GW2. GW2 which already frequently sees complaints about quality and quantity of content releases will continue to suffer as more talent keeps getting poured onto the black hole that is GW3 because as history has shown (in the many times anet has tried it during GW2's development) they are incapable of running 2 projects at same time.Literally I shit you not, the only reason GW2 hasn't crashed is because it was built on a somewhat solid foundation + nostalgia + it has 14 years worth of content to get through so your average player doesn't have to care when the latest expansion is dogshit that can be completed in 20 minutes.Anyway this will create a bungie death spiral in which the devs poor resources and money into new game which isn't even breaking even, meanwhile old game continues to lose profitability, people, and quality worsens until it's no longer feasible to maintain it and the entire studio gets sunk.
I'm sure this topic was brought up in this general at least few times at that point, but oh boy, it's really hard to not see in Reforged anything but a scam. The game existed for a whole year at this point, and they didn't add anything to it but half-baked new hub in pre-raped Ascalon, few quests connected to it, and...it's basically all that matter.Surely if they wanted to sell people a 20-year old game for triple the price they could at least make dlc-exclusive classes accessible for all campaigns(surely putting some new trainers there and there couldn't be that much of a impossible task) or something equally cool.
>>2725288>anything other than a scamI didn't pay anything for reforgedIf you owned nightfall back in 2008 but not factions/prophecies, you got those for free after reforged. The entire bundle for the game is now cheaper than it was before reforged.The entire bundle for the game was also 75% off for the first time in it's existence immediately after reforged announced.I don't really understand what part is the scam, I think people are overusing the word scam to the point that it doesn't actually mean anything anymore.I also don't really understand what you mean by 20 year old game for triple the price. You do understand that BEFORE reforged, the GW trilogy cost 30$ and after reforged it now costs 20$ right?Here's a 2023 wayback of the store page for you.https://web.archive.org/web/20230929024531/https://store.guildwars.com/en-us>GW nightfall 20$Here's the steamcharts page for the trilogy (which had the reforged bundle)https://steamdb.info/app/29620/>trilogy 30$
>>2725288its worth it for me just for the skill buffingi dont expect much from a 3 man team
>>2725288>reduce price to buy game and all its expansions>reduce price of items in the in game store>"THIS IS A SCAM"It's a pretty bad scam.
>>2725288what do you wantit's a 20 year old game and, for free, they added mobile, steamdeck, permadeath and ironman modes, 2 dungeons and 2 heroes, skill patches and ai fixes, and made a bunch of weapon skins and minis available. and based on that woodenpotatoes interview they're gonna make a new skill randomizer roguelite mode
>>2725850sick
>>2724040the mount riding segment from the gw3 trailer could be spliced into the highguard trailer and nobody would notice its a different gamethe gw2 furries will be upset about losing their characters and the trailer for gw3 promised a beta test over a year after the trailer (fall 2027) so i think they will try to change the game to appeal to gw2 furries for a mess of a game stitched together in panic
I want one thing and one thing only, 2weeks.Conjure Earth.
>>2726921best I can do is buffing ebon dust aura
>Apocrypha has Mighty ThrowThis week's prog is going to be fun.
>>2726921Maybe one day the E/W shockwave hammer will be great.>>2728985Someone is 100% getting absolutely blasted and I'm like 75% sure it'll be someone on the para team.
Somebody yell at me in 12 hours to make sure my prog build is set up.
>>2730198Sorry I don't speak 12 hours
is scythe assassin gud or should I just stick to spamming em daggers
>>2730510if you're not playing daggerspam you're suboptimal which is FORBIDDEN
>>2730510Whether something is good or not is irrelevant. Whether it is fun or not is all that matters.
>>2730198Set up your prog buildAlso reminder we are progging in 24 hours from now at 9AM EST we're currently on The Honorable General quest.
>>2730510It's fine. Assassin relies on way of the master to make non daggers work, so heavy enchant removal area will be zero fun. As long as you work around that it's fine
>>2730510its alright mostly cause you dont rely on an elite so you can use wounding strike or something
Just looked over all the Curses skills and i think it might the worst attribute of all in the gameElite skills like Wither are worse then normal skills like mind wrack
>>2732836necro is cucked by pvp big time. they just killed everything and left it that way.
>>2730198yall niggas better bring shouts
>>2732836I used to say motivation was the worst but its been nicely buffed since 2weeks took over. Swords (outside of HB), deadly arts (outside of AP), curses, blood, water are my usual shit list. Wind prayers getting whirling charge nerfed does make me say it might be there too now.
>>2733071my bar is full of my main attribute ^_^
I started playing again since GW3 is coming and I'm having so much fun. I quit last time when I started unlocking heroes because I thought I had to actually make one of every profession to learn the skills. It only took me like an hour of running around to get all the skills I needed. I'm a fucking idiot. But, desu, I'm glad I waited because the new dungeon made LDoA super fast and my end goal is GWAMM for the GW2 title.
so far I've been playing total minion. base ritualist, sub necro with two spirits, two undead and then all mp and minion control abilities. it's weird but fun.
need para book
>>2733214GWAMM will take a LONG time assuming you're not a no-lifer. GW2 will be EOS'd in favor of GW3 by then.
revert the necromancer minion limit
are pve skills fine for the prog? I picked some up at the sunspear hall
PROG ONE HOUR
>>2733967no all PvE skills are banned this prog mostly because NF PvE skills are too OP and it's just easier to blanket ban them, as opposed to ban certain ones
>tfw playing singleplayer MMO while I wait to play singleplayer not!MMO
log on for prog now or die a gruesome death
>>2709443These are the builds people made for week 2! No Shiet sadly, but we picked up another necro
Thinking of making my first presearing char, I see people say ranger or ele is best (I have no bonus weaps just the imp) but the latest patch buffed necro so I was thinking that instead (seems cooler). Is this a good idea? What would be viable pre searing builds/secondaries for Necro? I’m guessing it’s between N/E or N/M?
>>2734309I’m glad they didn’t nerf it in pve, it’s so much fun with SWS on W/P
>>2734126Here are skills that MUST be on your bar for next week We stopped at Isle of the Dead (Completed)
>>2734393roll for our monkbro in absentia
>>2734396I wasn't sure if I should or not, since he didn't show up for today so he didn't get a chance to use the skills for this session.ALSO for the poorfags in our group who can't afford better armor Lahtenda Bog has all the poverty armor collectors. Here is a list of stuff you can getHead Armor - 45-65 AR: 3 Copper ShillingsLeg Armor - 45-65 AR: 2 Mandragor SwamprootsChest Armor - 45-65 AR: 3 Silver Bullion CoinsArm Armor - 45-65 AR: 3 Insect AppendagesBoot Armor - 45-65 AR: 3 Fledging Skree Wingswe will detour next week to help people out and pool resources to fund some poverty sets.
>>2734393Wait, isn't our monk bro Shiet?Yet he is rolled as a necro here
>>2734425curious
>>2734425monkbro didn't make it today, but Roberts joined us 1 week late as a necro so I put him in.We have 1-3 more people who might join post consulate so hopefully he rejoins us so at least 1 of our 2 parties will have a monk lol
>>2733906I doubt it. Everyone said legendaries in GW2 were huge grinds too and I got full legendary besides weapons in like 6-8 months. Wasted time grinding 10k gems with gold too because I didn't want to pay real money for stuff
>>2734511to be fair, legendaries are not grindy at all if you're willing to pay, it's maybe 1-10 hours to do the precusor chain unless you just buy the precursor for 50-200g, after that it's almost pure mat costs.The only huge grinds for legendaries are the trinkets and armor, mostly because the trinkets require 100% full story achievement completion + scavenger hunt, and the armor requires you to farm raids once a week for several months. It's not even a tough grind just a pure timegate grind.But both can still be done within 50-200 hours at worst.GWAMM is roughly a 300-1000 hour investment depending on how optimized you do it and how many account titles you have. For a first time GWAMM I'd expect closer to 1000 hours if you're not doing it super optimal.
>>2734533GWAMM is a lot more manageable if you're just doing zaishen dailies and being smart about turning in stuff for double rep weeks.
GW1 title grinds are on par with shit they expected you to do in like third-tier Korean MMOs in 2002, and I have no idea how even a single person in the world would ever think "Yes, that's how I want to spend my time."
>>2734613>t. bambi
>>2734613Only account-wide titles are really all that bad. Most titles are just completionist shit. "Do all missions and bonuses in NM an HM" "capture all elite skills" "vanquish all zones" it's not a huge repetitive grind, it's just a lot of content to get through.Now something like lucky is some Korean MMO bullshit.
>>2734634Not really since you pretty much afk lucky/unlucky all the way through. I actually can't think of a Korean MMO grindfest title. If anything it would be the Sunspear farm to progress the main quests.
>>2734645Zaishen titleLuxon/KurzickTreasure hunterWIsdom, but that goes hand in hand with the above
>>2734671>Treasure hunter>Wisdom, but that goes hand in hand with the aboveThat's just playing the game THOUGH. Zaishen is the same, you can do PvP and get zkeys for free or just buy stacks directly and spam the chest - nothing Korean about it - sure it takes a long time to max it out but again you get that through playing (multiple formats) of the game. Or if you are rich enough you can max the whole title out in a day.Korean experience would be something like Fire Imp Slayer (r1 to r5) where you have to kill 500000 Fire Imps to max it out.
>>2734698do you realize how many weeks of capping keys it takes?
>>2734710Think this dude was saying buy keys from Indian botters like a nigger.
>>2734716That's still a ludicrous amount of money
>>2734710Where do you draw the line in something being Korean or not? You can max it in a week? A month? Half a year? Zaishen rank can be progressed via many different ways. I unfortunately have intimate experience with early Y2K Korean MMOs and nothing about GW1 is in that vein.
>>2734731Maxed in a week or a month is absolutely not korean tier. That's fairly normal for most MMOs. Half a year of daily commitment to playing 1-2 hours is where i'd begin to say it's korean. And by the way, zaishen keys max at 25 a day, and you need 20000 for the title. It's over two years of a LOT of pvp. There's a reason key stacks are as expensive as they are.
>>2734613They're really not that bad, almost every character title in the game can be obtained in under 25-50 hours at worst with vanquishes being the most time consuming. >>2734762I don't even know why people are bringing up zkeys to begin with it's a PvP title. If we're comparing PvP titles GW2 has multiple that are even grindier. See ultimate dominator (250,000 killed players) or god of WvW. The world first ultimate dominator had to play 10 hours every day for 9 months to hit it, during one of the best periods of this game to get it (with how much more inactive WvW is today that title is now 3X harder to get). And WvW rank 10,000 is so high that even though I have a solid 4000 hours solely spent in WvW I'm not even halfway. The other WvW titles were so horrifically grindy that people did the math and even if you did nothing but grind those achievements some would take nearly 7 full years of grinding every day to obtain (as a result anet eventually lowered the other achievements to be somewhat obtainable by humans). Even the PvP achievements like Champion Brawler (10k rated match wins) or Dragon rank take nearly 2+ years of daily PvP play to obtain.
>prog group wants to potluck mats for armor>nobody wants to donate zkeys for a title
>>2734978Zaishen r3 is a pretty common thing to pursue for hom maxing
>>2734511the main difference is that with GWAMM you actually have to play the gameto get a leggy in gw2 you just need to stand in a big blob of people and wait for the big boss to die
>>2734407yeah but roll for him in case he wants to cum bek......monkbro your lucky numbers are 3 (smiting), 25 (smite), 22 (reroll for pvp skill), and 11 (judge's insight)
>>2734988if everyone on earth gave me just 1 dollar I would be a billionaire
>>2735413yeah but it's a shame if he set up a build for todays prog just to have to change it again when he didn't even get a chance to use it lolI actually did roll for him today incase he did show up since I like to have all of that stuff set up in advance and he rolled Protection Prayers with Draw Conditions and Reverse Hex
Is Hidden Caltrops the worst elite skill in the game?
>>2735461No I think Scribe's Insight is far worse at least Hidden Caltrops has potential PvP usage. Mantra of Recall is a close 2nd place tied with Signet of Midnight.
>>2735498Monks used to run with Mantra of Recall so at least it was useful sometime in the pastScribe's insight is terrible indeedForgot about signet of midnight but yea thats pure trash as well especially with the 2sec cast>Hidden Caltrops has potential PvP usage. not really, there are a lot better snare options
>>2735539It's a good split option because even if you bring hex removal it applies cripple afterGvG video with it 1:12:10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtBia6KySMIt caught the enemy balth derv pretty hard.
>>2735389No you don't... The raid legendary armor had to full clear the raid for months, same for the ring. The season 3 and season 4 accessories require you to do tons of achievements for all of the zones. The fractal backpack was over a month of doing daily fractals. Only the WvW ring was mindless
>>2735461signet of suffering
>>2736188that one's based tho
>>2735422https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjbTbtoJhA
>>2734425jugadores got him
https://youtu.be/qyKaGRSqcrQvery cool
>>2733085This might be one of the most retarded comments I have ever seen imagine thinking wind prayers is low tier at anything in the game
I know the numbers are up, but are there really enough people playing for the game to feel alive?I created a new character in presearing and the town was filled with afk people who didnt chat at all. Checked all the channels, nobody spoke.
>>2738187pre searing american english district 1 was quiet? I don't think I've ever seen that district shut up lolIn general most player groups are concentrated around dailys or guilds. You can always find people to do daily ZB, ZM and people get together to do PvP in international district in HA but depends on day.
>>2738187yeah its alive. i mean its not 2007 anymore but its doing alright.
>>2738187you will see big groups of people in>hubs like kama and la and gtob and embark>outposts for daily missions or boss bounties>ally chat if you join a big allyyou will not see more than 5 non-grouped players in other random outpoststhis is people actively searching for parties https://lfg.gwtoolbox.com/ and it's pretty scarce. if you're hoping to pug your way through a campaign, you're not gonna get that. if you want to get 7 people to do the zaishen mission in hm, you can get that in 5 minsthe upshot is that you can't take more than 7 other people into 99% of zones anyway, so if you set up playthroughs (with friends or people itt) your time in-mission or in-zone is indistinguishable from 2007
>>2738187It's not too late to join our Nightfall prog if you want to come. We're only just past the second mission.
>people be using dey cupcakes during progWHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!1
>>2739105I thought that was the random to fill out the awkward hero-split party
>>2739105>>2739252no it turned out that wawaa was a fool, and the Jokanur's Diggings darts have the same visual effect as cupcakeshttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Madness_Dart
>>2739972im glad this prog is turning people into schitzos
>>2740882>schitzos
>>2739972>When triggered by Madness Dart, skills such as Vengeful Weapon have no target to deal damage to and as a result will gain health and steal health from the affected creature for the same amount.I know what I'm doing next jokanur zm
>>2741291wait I'm retarded, I thought you could get 100 damage spikes
>>2740882that's just wawaa he's e*ropean, it's almost as bad.
Uhm it's been two weeks where is our update?
>>2745003summer break
finna unlocked cpt Thackeraynow i can ditch general Morghan freeman
>>2745446*Ruins of Morah in your path*nothing personnel
>>2745003It's here. They heard you.https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260721
>>2745902Complaining works
>Stalker’s Ration - Using Stalker’s Ration causes pings to appear at enemy locations close to compass range, helping folks that are running Vanquishes to more easily locate their prey and finish them off.>Bird’s Eye Compass - Using Bird’s Eye Compass increases map reveal range and pings nearby locations that have where more map can be revealed.why are they so hellbent on making the game as easy as possible? what's with the casualization
>>2745925mapping is autistic and needs some qol. having a single way to find the last enemy is also needed qol.
>>2745925>why are they so hellbent on making the game as easy as possible? what's with the casualizationyeah can we please ban toolbox already
>>2745925These are both solving annoying as fuck things that literally every single person ever hated to have to encounter. Stop being a contrarian fag for no reason, you're trying too hard.
>>2745925running loops around a map for 20 minutes with no other gameplay trying to find a patrol is not fun or skill-based or 1337hax0r. neither is installing texmod cartography shit and scraping the camera around to get 0.001% title progress. if you take pride in either of these, it's because you have no real skills worth caring aboutalso kys
>equipment menu is a black screen showing nothing is equipped>swapping equipment causes a crashnice
>>2745925the community made both easier first
>>2745925>plays with a bar full of PvE skills for muh efficiencyPretender.
>>2745925Because everyone uses third party tools for this stuff anyway.
>>2746861based anet making the game harder and undoing the casualization
>In our excitement to get the Steam login update available on mobile a couple of content updates snuck out a bit ahead of the update currently planned for next week. We are keeping in the new title support item drops, but they will not have translated text until next week.>We had also added some new drops to the Underworld chest that are now turned off until next week’s content update build. When that build goes live, these will be added back and you’ll have some fun new minis and unique items to hunt down.Content update next week!?
>>2748320>sex update
sunday UW run perchance
>>2749129Why run RIGHT before they update it though
>got whiped three times during cleansing shenzun tunnels in WoCyeah i got in lazy and didn't flag any heroes so my casters where running through the inflicted, but still, WoC is going to be hard on my melandru's accord
>>2749132you tell me
>>2749140>got whiped three timeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMopBpOfv_E
I have a feeling like some HM WoC content is meant to be cheesedLike Cleansing haiju lagoon, in normal mode its hard enough, in hard mode its almost impossible
whats this?
>>2750451makes cartography easier
>>2750549but we already had texmod for that
>>2750020It's meant to be super duper hard, but it is beatable with a few human players in HM. Solo it can still be done, but you'll suffer.
>>2750805mobile can't use that
>>2750805>external program
>>2750451>754gbroke ass
>>2749129I will be going on vacation almost immediately after Saturday's prog so I can't run it, but I'll do a UW run after they update the chest rewards and I'm back from vacation - potentially Sunday August 2nd.
>>2751626I'm going to be on vacation the first weekend in August, so do it another weekend instead.
>>2751639depending on what the reward is I'll consider it. If it's something interesting, we'll do 2 runs, if it's something lame I'll delay it a week.
>>2751626>going on vacay when he could be saving for a homegood goy
>>2751807>Yes goy give us your money and stake your happiness on the stock market
>>2751807broke nigga alert
>>2752744wasting money is an elonian mentality
>>2752783t. kournoid slaving away in the fields, scrimping and saving grain hoping to maybe afford one of those bird windmills one day 40 years from now, coping "but it's honorable"some of us are getting vabbian money (hilli bala hey hilli baloh)
>>2712151>"Ugh, i'm not the only soggy bottom? i have to PERFORM instead of being the funnel at the bottom of an all-stud orgy?"
>Fresh character>Jumped into HM post 20>Completing campaigns and whatever Zaishen quest I can (they give out very good exp)>Made a balanced teamcomp focused on survival and mobilityBeen going great so far. The only thing I backed away from was fighting the drought without activating the pumps. He wiped my heroes with just one Sandstorm twice in a row so I noped the fuck out of there. It's been fast progressing in HM but I've been at the edge of my seat a few times. Great fun though. Will I make it?
>>2754133Your game knowledge is carrying you. A new player, if they survived this far, would be instantly murdered by the end of Moddock Crevice.
>>2751626>>2751639>>2751664>>2751807>>2751900>>2752744>>2752783>>2752904Female mentality.>muh travelingPre-modern man seldom ventured outside his village and its immediate surroundings.
>>2754160Male travelers do it for the feeling of exploring a strange, new land.Female travelers do it because no one they know will see them be giga sluts away from home.BIG difference.
>>2754168>Male travelers do it for the feeling of exploring a strange, new land.This was true until commercial flights made traveling trivial. You are not an adventurer or a pathfinder from 1830 going to the Amazonian forests or Siberia. You got a discounted flight to some tourist trap and you call yourself a traveler exploring a strange, new land.Everything has been thoroughly raped and defiled, there is no new or strange there is a cheap Mariott hotel, wifi passwords, a bus tour to see some tourist spots and a dinner at a place that serves pizza, burgers and sushi. Make sure to upload a photo to instagram after.You are not Columbus.
>>2754160>>2754214keep your gay preening in your bedroom mirror
>>2754146You say it like it's a bad thing?
>>2754215Pray tell where are you traveling? What strange, new land might it be?
>>2754221the land of mouthy retards, apparently
>>2754160pre-modern men were BROKEyou don't have to mythologize your inability to earn enough money to travel and comfortably save for a home, retirement, etc. you are not a god-fearing right-living feudal serf, you are BROKE>>2754214as opposed to the alternative, which is never leaving your house to experience even the traces of those places, and pretending you're better off for it. tend the hearth, breastfeed the chilluns, fear the interstate, and tell other people they have female mentalities
>>2754160Poorfag. From the ice bridge of Russia+Alaska to the literal moon
>venture from 1 goycattle shithole to a different goycattle shithole>I'M AN EXPLORAHI expected better
>>2755326Unless you're posting from Iraq, your ancestors traveled. You're a lesser son of greater men
>>2755584This is true of everyone currently alive, with no meaningful difference created by a plane ride.
some dude has a dream rider miniis it happening?
I didn't check the threads when the balance patch hit recently, because i'm a casual. How badly is dervish nerfed for solo farming? A youtube short told me to delete the character and kill myself.
>>2756860Soon
>>2757108just read the patch notes, it's pretty self-evident
>>2757112I did read the patch notes and all I can decipher is that 60% block chance is bad. I was hoping my bawwbros knew some secret tech is all.
>>2757108I don't think the nerfs really affected derv farming too heavily. Mirage cloak was never super important to most farm builds but if blocking/healing is really a concern to you just go D/A and put like 5~ points into shadow arts and run Shroud of Distress.
>>2754133>Will I make itRooting for you anon, but it'll be tough going. The game has lots of hilariously retarded ways to kill you, as I'm sure you know. I lost a 1m survivor to some iboga boss in Kourna 1-shotting me from offscreen with a lightning bolt. I like your idea of jumping into HM the moment you hit level 20, though. I usually treat DC characters as 'progression' characters and go through stuff in order, but your method makes it seem like the game instead becomes a sort of expanding sandbox, which is also fun.What kind of team comp are you running? I put some thought into what I'd do if I ever got far on a DC character in order to boost team stability, at the cost of clear time, but I never got far enough to test my ideas, so I don't know how well they work in practice. Sometimes the best defense is to just kill stuff fast.>>2754146Knower game mode.
>>2758086I thought about sticking to the natural order, but you progress much faster and safer if you take the sandbox approach. At first it was getting access to the heroes but the thing leading me around now is the Zaishen quests. If there is a vanquish close to where I'm at in NF, I'll push that campaign to reach the vanquish region. Then it's just a matter of some XP scrolls, doing the quests in the area, and clearing it of foes. That's 10-15k exp from the Zaishen quest + sidequests + killing exp = massive gains. But you have to face some serious danger sometimes. Build is picrel. I know I've made some peculiar choices, but it's tailored for my goals. Which is survival, obviously. But also I want to be able to "hotswap" heroes in and out, since I often require a specific one to progress. Left is what I usually use, right are the ones I swap in when needed. Not pictured is the bog standard MM which you can swap in for the Rt, since minions make those spirits practically useless. I found that depending on spirits instead of a meatshield is more dependable and a lot faster, so I rarely use an MM. The core strategy is to shower them with debilitating conditions to lower enemy dmg output and make use of the same constant shower to deal a lot of damage. The mesmer is probably the most important cog in the machine. When I can bundle them up, it melts faces off. The output slows down against spread-out enemies, but they have very little chance of killing us.>bow rangerI know but it's just great to play. And the distances make it safer, even on shortbow. I have high survival to feed that bar and when I was still messing around, I found that healing spring is pretty underestimated (in players' hands). If the party gets hit with massive degen or other trickling HP attacks, it can boost them up to full in no time. And enemies don't target you for using healing spring, unlike the other traps which they aim to interrupt as fast as possible. They ignore healing spring.
>>2758312Bow ranger is pretty solid for DC imo, pretty safe playstyle without being as boring as something like running communing prot as a player.I've considered running condition-based teams with pestilence since the nature ritual buffs, but I'm always worried about inflicting my own conditions back on my team. I feel like it would make any enemy bars that inflict conditions in an AoE really scary. I guess that's where Feast + Plague Sending come in, though.
>>2758312If I can just nit pick a few things about your set up:Minions aren't that bad with ST unless you are running low level minions stuff like bone fiends will generally not have a noticable impact on ST performance, ST hero's are pretty competent at keeping their spirits up the majority of wipes are usually a result of - The player doesn't precast shelter before battle, The ST gets heavily pressured, or all the spirits get AoE'd and all die at once (more likely when you don't have an SoS or minion midline stack eating up AoEs).That said I can respect the fear, however doubling up on prot with monk I don't think is a great idea. Hero's don't understand shelter is up, so the monk will waste energy and time casting Protective Spirit and Spirit Bond which will functionally do nothing most of the time. Additionally playing prot with an HB is not great, HB scales better the higher your divine favor is. I would drop Protective Spirit and Spirit bond for either Shield of Absorption + Cure Hex (you only have a single hex removal on this team...) Or just drop prot entirely and go Cure Hex + Vigorous Spirit. You need more hex removal on this team.On your bar I would personally drop Ignite Arrows imo, ignite is better in physical support teams where you can boost the AoE damage of ignite (such as with orders, TaO, EBSoH etc...) you don't have any of that, with your current set up Apply poison pesti + fevered apply poison is prob just flat better and you tab target spread condis. Alternatively you could go for a crazy opener with Choking Gas and AoE rupt enemies for first 12~ seconds of combat. Rapid Fire probably make bow feel better to play, or you could go Expert Focus + Concussion Shot for a nice source of dazed.(If you want to be a meta fag, dropping rebirth for Save Yourselves would give your team crazy damage mitigation, and functions well with your current set up)
>>2758745>>2758312Continuing on* I would also personally drop the sin hero for a derv hero. Sin hero's aren't great at doing their dagger chain, and your current set up isn't great for a sin hero, heros follow the player, and when the player is playing ranged this can mean melee heros walk outside the range of the hero monk and might get delayed on heals, additionally ass heros have low armor (potentially lower than some casters depending on insignias) so they get spiked pretty hard. I would personally go for a derv hero instead, higher armor and better access to self sustain, and much better access to conditions to fuel fevered and pesti. Something like an Avatar build would be pretty strong here, Grenth for AoE disease, balthazar for more AoE burning (could also just slap on Mystic Corruption or Balthazar's Rage too) and run some earth prayers for free condis. You've got the right idea, I might try to fit Dust Cloak somewhere into your setup though AoE blind is nice. Alternative to avatar forms Wounding Strike would be better for BIG deep wound but VoS is also just flat good AoE.Also as a final note I would stick "Find Their Weakness" onto your para if you could. Deep wound is a really strong condition to have access to.
>>2758492>nature ritual buffsThat was a factor for pestilence. Doesn't really need much of an investment, attribute-wise. Spawning power handles the rest. The new melee hero changes are pretty good and make it worthwhile investing in, I think. Foul Feast is an absolute beast for condition management. I also tried other solutions like Recovery but nothing really tops it. >bow rangerIt doesn't hit the hardest, but it is very consistent if you handle it right. It can really shine in the right comp. >>2758745>>2758799Thanks for that, especially the monk part. I hadn't considered prot with shelter in tandem would negate each other. I'll get more hex removal instead of that. I used to run a hex remover on mesmer but it's surprisingly manageable with just the one overall. Still, more won't hurt. >ignite arrowsI tried various preps with different results. Poison spreading works well, but it's just a bit boring to execute. Ignite prep with incendiary arrows makes quite a hit when aimed at a small pack. Makes it so I'm constantly swapping targets to hit multiple targets and suppress key targets with my interrupts. It's not the most powerful, but it feels impactful, thus making it fun to play. I relegated poison to the blood necro, which works well. I messed around with a daze build too but found mesmer to be spreading it more efficiently. >RebirthIt's there in case there is a partial wipe and I need to reset. It's a rare occurrence, but the chance is always there. Save yourselves is a solid idea nonetheless.>Derv heroYou make good arguments, but Zenmai gets more pull from melee enemies than Melonni which is why I favor her. The dagger routine is straightforward enough, she rarely seems to mess up. Critical defenses seem to work hard and don't really drain my healers while she does good dmg. That said, when I have to enter a particularly hard area I do bring out the war/derv combo. Mesmer already provides deep wound that gets spread very consistently.
>>2758745>>2759191Oh, and on Minions, not having them minimizes having unwanted pulls, and I often had the MM hero lag behind due to cast times of the minion skills. It's just an annoyance to deal with, always having to wait for the hero to catch up and get in position for the pull. The meatshield sure has upsides, and I do utilize it in missions like Vizunah Square where the enemy count is through the roof. But I prefer to avoid it for most things.
>>2759191I am a professional ignite arrow lover so I can't blame you for enjoying using it lol, it's a fun set up and works well with incendiary. And yeah I knew why you had rebirth on there, it's the classic clutch resIf you want to feed ignite some more, the luxon/kurz triple shot is a fun skill to use with it. If you're going to use an SB I'd honestly consider dropping Healing Spring, SB requires you to be slightly further from your heroes and it's super easy to rupt making it sub optimal for when you are taking pressure and would need to use it. If you're really attached to having a self heal I would run Troll ungent it's an extremely powerful alternative option, similar cast time but it's an unstrippable regen you can run off cooldown. Also I would personally swap Whirling Defense for Lightning Reflexes lets you have better block uptime and it feels better to play.It might honestly be worth considering putting a UA monk in instead of HB for your setup, you could run Deny Hexes on your UA which would be really nice for your hex problems, and UA plays better with sin heroes. Would let you drop rebirth as well, if you're in a situation where UA ends up dying you probably aren't escaping that fight. Also this is the first time I ever looked at your ranger hero but drop Power Shot, it's one of the worst skills in the game it's not doing +25...45...50 its ONLY doing 25-50 damage no bonus. I'd swap it for savage shot or a condi. Alternatively you can indulge and be greedy and have it run Winnowing so your arrows do +4 extra damage.
>>2759268I'm usually on recurve, swap to SB when it's safe to do so. Good point about lighting reflexes. I'll give the UA monk a shot too. I started out with Troll Unguent, but I found Healing Spring has its uses. When you're pulling 3 fire djinns, it can really nullify the searing flames spam. Sometimes I use it to bruteforce something I know will hurt. Serpent's quickness helps to keep it up with minimal downtime. It rarely gets rupted, which surprised me, but enemies really don't give a shit, and splash spell damage doesn't rupt it. I haven't unlocked the kurzick skills vendor yet but I'm close. >power shotWas meant to be savage shot, just an error. I only use that build for Margrid-related missions.
realized i can run symbolic celerity and signet of return on any mesmer not just a keystone one
I'm gonna miss tomorrow and probably next saturday toopost my /rolls so I can cherrypick the coolest one and pretend that was the last time I checked the thread
>>2760029It's a solid tech, but two slots for that is kinda steep
>>2760726who are you so I know who to roll foralso reminder we are progging in 1 hour. Goal of today is to make it to either Consulate Docks, or Yohlon Haven today.
>>2760749true but it's about twice as good as flesh of my flesh in my opinion
ITS ALMOST PROG TIME LOG IN
Avengers... assemble.
ayo wut Tydus gon do bout it?
>>2761349AYO
>>2734393Here are today's builds, no show from 2 members
>>2761278Res chant is a good alternative
>>2761359Here's next sessions skills. Poor roberts is our minions death magic guy and he got cucked pretty hard by the dice. WE WILL NOT BE PROGGING NEXT WEEK 3+ people out however we will do a UW run on sunday aug 2nd, haven't decided when yet.We stopped at The Time is NightHOMEWORK FOR NEXT PROG:1: Reach sunspear R5 2: Don't be in starter armor still. I have enough trophys for a full set of poverty armor if anyone needs it ((kensuke))Anyone else wanting to join our prog is welcome to join starting at consulate docks.
Bros the get first spear/level 12 part is so ass. Is the fastest way through really just to do every quest you come across?
>>2762133Yeah, just do side quests and take bounties. Or I guess you could just farm mobs/"vanquish."
>>2762133The fastest is to grind mobs, which sucks ass.
>>2762133I'd be down to meet sometime during the week and work on sidequests/rank with others.
I'm looking for a man named "Haunty".
>>2762774he's gay
>>2751523its my melandrus accord character he's always broke
I just recently started GWR, and wanted to see if any Anon's with decent knowledge of that game can let me know if my current build plan is not going to work.PvE only Warrior/Monk (hear me out):Attributes ->12 Strength>6 Axe Mastery>2 Hammer Mastery>12 Smiting PrayersSkills ->Keen Chop [3a]Auto crits (Ignores 20% armor), restores 1 energy with that crit for "Zealous [Axe] of the Assassin" for my weapon modifiers, and has very low adrenaline cost, so more attacks helps restore energy further with Zealous on my axe.>Disrupting Chop [6a]Purely a control skill to inturrupt and disable enemy skills.>Power Attack [5e/3scd]Bread and butter damage skill benefitting from the Strength line for being a Warrior Primary.>Cyclone Axe [5e/4scd]AoE skill can is energy efficient with Zealous on my Axe.>Auspicious Blow [5a]My only dedicated Hammer skill used almost exclusively to restore Energy. Added benefit of being Unblockable is the target has Weakness.>Castigation Signet [20scd]Ranged Smite dealing 50 Holy Damage and restored 8 energy when used on an attacking attacker.>Judge's Insight [10e/10scs]Converts damage to Holy, and grants 20% bonus Armor Penetration. Lasts 18sec.>Seven Weapons Stance [5e/20scd]All weapon attributes are increased by +12 and increase attack speed by 33%. Lasts 17sec.Weapon Set 1:>Zealous Axe of the Assassin>ShieldWeapon Set 2:>HammerThe goal is keep Judge's Insight and Seven Weapon Stance going as long as possible. Judge's Insight is ideal alongside having a high Strength score for a 32% passive Armor Penetration (AP), and Keen Chop adds a virtual extra 20% AP, allowing me to deal max weapon damage plus reducing the enemy's Armor benefit by 52%.Seven Weapons Stance will virtually increase all my weapon attributes by 12, netting me a total of 18 Axe Mastery and 14 Hammer Mastery, with increase 33% attack speed just being great fir Adrenaline/Energy regen.
>>2765787If you use a helmet with +1 Str and a superior Strength rune, you get 16 strength for 100% uptime on SWS and +16 to all weapon skills. Then you can drop axe mastery to 4, then bump hammer mastery to 4 to get 20 in both while SWS is active.Looks pretty solid otherwise IMO. It's hard to 'eyeball' if you have enough energy management for this, but you'll probably be OK. If you find after playtesting you have more energy than you need, I'd consider swapping out the Castigation Signet for something that boost adrenaline gain. For Great Justice will give you more Auspicious Blows and more Keen Chops.If you have heroes unlocked, you can also make the Judge's Insight buff 'external', I.E. bring a Smiting hero with something like Ray of Judgment, Strength of Honor, Judge's Insight, Smite Hex/Condition, and let them buff you up instead of casting it on yourself. You'd still need to self-buff if playing with other players where you can't slot in a support hero, but if you are playing with all or mostly heroes and have control over your team composition, stuff like this is worth considering when choosing which heroes to bring.
>>2765787SWS wammo is pretty fun, you might wanna consider self-casting Balthazar's Spirit as it will supercharge you with energy and adrenaline since you're frontlining and probably tanking a ton of hits, won't need to do jank hammer swaps, and might even be able to drop the zealous mod and equip some real smiting spells like the freshly buffed Symbol of wrathalso get that strength up to 16 mate
>>2765850>>2765855I'll look into refining what I got, thanks. Only lvl.8 on a semi-fresh run, so I have a a but of time to figure it out before then.
>>2765869you get Balthazar's Spirit in Beacon's Perch already so you can play around with it early
>guild got rich enough to afford TWO /u/s
Is it worth playing Necro if I don’t like minions (the health degen pisses me off)? I tried Icy Veins but it just seems kinda “eh”. Maybe I’m just too used to melee run in and spam attacks in general
>>2766413SS necro is pretty fun. i like necro in general since you can combine any caster second class with it because of soul reaping.i'm currently playing pic related, which is more than good enough for normal mode, it's fun actually
>>2766413minions arent everything. even within death magic you can do a pure damage build.
>>2766413Ravenous Gaze Blood Magic builds are the new ESurge these days
>>2766638Is it? Ravenous Gaze does solid damage now, but it's hard to build a midline damage bar that compares to dom mesmer with the rest of the skills available in blood magic.
>>2766638Have an example? And how is it better than icy veins?
>>2766750nta, but Ravenous Gaze on a DA bomber build is fun. Something like:Ravenous GazeUnholy FeastDark Pact/Touch of AgonyMasochismMobility/Defense stuff of your choiceThen you either have a hero cast Dark Aura on you, or you invest in Death Magic and run it yourself. I guess you could also do something like Blood/Curses running Defile Enchantments for a midline damage dealer with Awaken the Blood, or just run typical death magic damage stuff but take Ravenous Gaze over Discord/Icy Veins, but these seem a bit awkward to me.
>>2766561whats a good death magic build that doesnt use minions? im too poor to gear up away from death magic
>>2767224Discord/Necrosis/Putrid Bile/Putrid Explosion, whatever else. Needs hexes and conditions in your team for Discord, or you can fill the empty spaces on your bar with those. Putrid Bile on its own is not enough hex support for Discord because of the 12s CD + being single-target.
>>2767281Oh, and contagion bomber for the memes. Contagion, a shadow step, a bunch of stuff that inflicts conditions on yourself, maso+dark aura. Asuran Scan for DP removal.
>>2767281Toxic Chill isn't so bad either, especially in builds that already have hexes.
>>2765787Just my two cents as a not warrior main player, and there's nothing "wrong" with it, but ...Castigation Signet isn't exactly good energy management, and requires you to stop doing anything at all for a whole second to cast it, and SWS is just providing IAS if you drop the hammer.I'd drop the hammer, drop Auspicious, drop Castigation, drop SWS, add an IAS (increase attack speed), add Balthazar's Spirit, and add an actually fun and strong elite (like maybe Cleave, which they just mega buffed).Attributes would be 12-10-8 axe-strength-smite maybe plus runes as you see ft.
>>2767375Oh, and I guess you do get a number of attribute points in Axe with SWS, but still, powerful elites skills are fun when they feel like powerful elite skills rather than just a passive stat boost that becomes a chore to maintain.
>>2765787I'm inclined to agree with the line of thinking in >>2767375 also I think just running more damaging adrenaline skills, which axe has plenty of, and using a zealous necro axe is substantially better bar compression. Would allow you to run things like cleave and dismember, spam cyclone and power attack and probably could use protectors for pseudo ias if you can't find a real ias you like
>>2766413no necro fucking sucks and im pissed i made my "main" character necro so now i just spirit spam as n/rt because fuck sustaining minions it is the least fun gameplay in this entire game
what's a main character
>>2767839Castigation Signet is there moreso to keep my energy pool filled enough witjout sacrificing DPS so I'm able to land a Power Attack more frequently after buffing with SWS/JI, and they all share a similar cooldown as well. Also doubles as a ranged attack option against fleeing targets if need be.The goal target rotarion is something akin to:SWS > JI > Castigation > Power Attack > Power Attack > Keen Chop > Power Attack > Auspicious Blow > Power Attack > Keen ChopRinse/Repeat. Disrupting Chop as needed.I also retooled the attributes to:>15 Strength (+1 +3)>4 Axe>5 Hammer>12 SmitingOverall better than previous. Would like to get Strength to 16, but dropping Smiting down makes the JI juggle slightly harder to maintain.Without having the build made, it's hard to tell if I have too much energy regen, but this is Warrior Primary, so too much might still not be a bad thing.
>>2766413Necro has always been over hyped because Soul Reaper is the most overrated attribute in the game.That said I play my Necro a lot because I have a bond with her since she is my oldest character and my most played one from back when the game was new. I've been playing a N/R serpent's quickness blood magic build recently now that Ravenous Gaze has been buffed and its pretty decent and you can get a lot of AoE damage along with self heals but it still feels like most blood magic skills need a little extra oomph, especially as I am having to round the build out with two Norn shouts. Before that I was mostly running a Dark Aura Blood magic build which is fun but you will be spending a lot of time on your ass (part of the fun).Occasionally I bring out the AP build which is soulless meta but actually works and has a Minion variation which is the only Minion build I can stomach to play for long periods of time.
You should go into necromancer with the right expectations. It's not a frontline damage dealer specialty profession. Pick elementalist if you want to nuke shit with spells.You can think of necromancer as a primarily midline support profession focused on buffs/debuffs (Mesmer is punishment/denial, which is different). They excel at buffing other players and generating pressure on enemies. Even the minions are a support mechanic, as they're there more to soak up damage and die than to do damage.
Hmmm no, I will stick with Dark Aura and keep blowing myself up.
>>2768602You're still kinda wasting your suffix on the assassin mod. Necro or ranger would be more energy, and enchanting would buy you 4 seconds on JI. Also with +33% ias, you're getting two autos between each PA. More adrenaline skills is going to be better damage because it will replace those generic autos with real skills. I would still drop hammer, and run 12+1+3 str, 12 smite, 3+1 axe and use one more adrenaline skill. You have nothing to handle any block or blind and get hard shutdown by those.
>>2768751Does adding +5% passive crit (on top of already hitting 20% passive through Weapon Mastery via SWS) not bring incentive? Keen Chop is the only skill that doesn't benefit from the +5% crit, but is always a surefire energy pip. Ranger is probably the one I'd go with otherwise, since it's more predictable in a rotation.
>>2768602>>2768772I'm also tinkering with the idea of having my Hammer be "...of the Warrior" to jump my Strength Score to 20 while wielding hammer. Two reasons for this:>Allows me to cast SWS at Strength 20, and my understanding is that once a stance benefit is applied, it's locked in even if attributes shift. So I'll get +20 to both Axe and Hammer Mastery (more skill points freed up, but I'll keep +2 to both weapons to offset possible Weakened conditions screwing me over)>Makes Power Attack with my Hammer deal more damage if I have energy to burn>The whole idea behind Auspicious Blow is to get the energy refill to recast buffs, so I'm likely to have the Hammer out when using SWS anywaysAxe = Energy regen + CritsHammer = Harder hits + max Buff benefit/duration
>>2768850The "of the Profession" mods do not add attribute levels, they simply set it to what the mods says.
>>2768860Damn, nvm then.
>>2768772It's pretty minor damage, especially since +5 soul reaping is the equivalent of +3 energy regen pips, and you're bringing multiple energy management skills. Shouldn't need more than balth aura and the zealous+SR/expertise mod for energy management. Crit math is kinda weird. The crit strikes isn't +5% crit rate, it's 1.05x your existing crit rate. At 20 axe mastery against level 28 enemies, you have a 23% ish crit rate. That assassin mod is only bringing that up to like 24% crit rate. Hitting 20 axe mastery is a way bigger deal than that at around a 4.5% increase. Drop the assassin mod, drop the hammer, drop castigation, run 16 str, 4 axe, 12 smite and bring balth aura
>>2768883Also, you really should just get a 40/20/20 smiting staff for casting judge's insight, and then swap to your axe+shield set. Can camp the staff when not in combat so you're not at 0 energy pips after zealous+b.aura. Cast JI, swap, run in, body block and cyclone for huge energy.
>>2768740based>>2768883>it's 1.05x your existing crit rateI think it's 0.95x your existing non-crit rate. You don't take .23 * 1.05 to get ~.24, you take 1 - .23 = .77, and .77 * 0.95 = ~.73, so the new crit chance is 1 - .73 = .27, or ~27%. It's effectively a separate roll. You roll for base crit (The 23%), then you roll for critical strikes (5%), then you roll for skill bonuses (Fear Me, GftE, etc.) and if any of these rolls succeed, you get a crit. It's just like stacking multiple HSR/HCT where the 40/40 is really more like a 36/36.
>>2768942Hmm that might be right. I was under the impression it was (1-(1-crit strikes)*(1-additive chance from skills))* base rate but thinking about it, I would actually expect it to work like you've said. Still a +4% final crit rate is not really that big of an increase compared to dropping an energy management skill and gaining a damaging skill or something to counter blocks like wild blow (another auto crit that wouldn't benefit from assassin mods)
>>2768602again, just use Balthazar's Spirit for infinite energy and free skill slots
>>2768980Wouldn't that put me at 0 passive energy regen if paired with Zealous since I'm a Warrior primary? Relies on me getting hit to regen, and enemies in this game seem to favor chasing casters/healers from what I've been seeing thus far (if this changes late game, then sure. This is just my early game observations).
>>2768987That's why you body block and other weapon sets. Swap to a non zealous to have regen out of combat, and use zealous (and "of the necro") in combat.
>>2768987remember, 1 pip means if you get hit by ANYTHING once every 3 seconds you're breaking even, anything more frequent and you're gaining more than you've spentgetting hit once every three seconds is completely trivial in any fight in this game
>>2769004>>2769012Gotcha. Still trying to wrap my head around the mechanics, so that makes sense.
>>2769012Not to mention the adrenaline for more keen choppa. Guaranteed crits+armor pen+20 ranks is actually decently strong given how strike levels calculate. SWS+JI is pretty good and brings keen to be slightly stronger than power attack on 60 ar targets, and moderately okay on 120 ish targets
>>2769012>>2769032Okay, new Attribute spread:>16 Str>4 Axe>4 Ham>11 SmiteSwapped Signet with Balthazar's Spirit. All lowering Smite down to 11 does is reduce JI by 1sec, which I think is probably worth it by keeping Str to 16 and upping Axe/Ham to (virtual) 20, alongside keeping SWS up for 21sec on it's 20sec cooldown.
Haunty, where are you? Please answer me!
I'm using soldiers stance on my mighty throw paragon and doing a shit load of damagegiving my entire team 100 armor + there is nothing to fear + they are on fire(along with my burning refrain paragon hero)it feels so strong, and its a lot more fun then being a heroic refrain bitch
anyone else a pro like me?
>>2770794lower your tone when you're speaking to me
why is it so hard for anet to ban bots
I'm playing all of the content besides prophecies for the first time, and damn, Eye of the North sucks. I was excited since it was the only true expansion but the main quest sucks compared to every other campaign. It's just fighting through bland dungeons over and over and really short story quests. That's disappointing... They already got lazy with most of the bonuses in the campaign missions making them time-based but they didn't even bother in EotN. Nightfall was amazing, though, which makes EotN feel even worse in comparison.
>>2770996Yeah, EotN dungeons were kind of sad. Imagine if we got something on the level of pre Catacombs that were fun to go into and explore, with cool unique layouts, and you had a variety of quests to do in them.
>>2770543im doing all that plus heroic refrain
>>2771022I just got to the Azura zones and they are definitely the most impressive zones in the game at least... The ones with the floating rock path almost looks like a GW2 zone
>the only true expansionWhat did he mean by this?
>>2771081factions and nightfall are campaigns not expansions
>>2770996devs rushed eotn so they could start working on gw2 full time
>>2768627I'm trying out the Blood Magic Ravenous gaze one, currently using Dark Aura but the stats are a bit too spread. I want to use it on a hero and have them auto cast on me without the micro, but I read that they auto cast it on anyone with blood sac skills, which means they will use it on my BiP hero right? Is there any way around this other than not using a BiP hero?
>>2768627Soul Reaping is exactly as hyped as it should, it's insane amounts of energy and completely passively given to you. Even just 5 SR (an of the Necromancer weapon mod) is the equivalent of +3 energy regen. At 10 SR it's like having a personal BiP on you permanently. Assuming things are dying of course, but it's stupidly easy to achieve. Even your own minions count for it.
>>2771824Recently, they changed how the AI uses Dark Aura slightly and it it now prioritizes certain skills which tend to be the ones you will have on a Blood Magic build that wants Dark Aura, they will even keep it up on you out of combat with certain skills so you can go into fights with it. They will normally only cast it on your BiP hero if they are surrounded in combat and should still prioritize you but apart from that no.
content update todaywe hyped?
>>2771861Sure
>>2770996EotN was literally thrown together with cancelled campaign assets after they moved developers to GW2. It only exists to introduce GW1 players to GW2.
>>2771064>>2772014Funnily enough, most of the cancelled campaign assets were repurposed for Asura zones. Imagine that.We were ROBBED of our mesoamerican Guild Wars campaign by fucking furries and trannies.
>>2771861Hell yeah, UWSC whiners will be happy (for a microsecond).
I'm trying the supported Dark Aura Blood Necro Ravenous Gaze build and it's all right but every time I keep thinking "damn I'd be doing double the damage on my derv/daggerspammer/mighty throw warr". Are there specific situations where this build shines? Just running through normal missions with it atm
>>2771834I don't think people contextualize energy management skills in terms of effective energy regen pips frequently enough. It really helps to compare options
>>2771867UOHH
>>2771857They did do this, but they also now will NEVER cast dark aura on characters with health sac skills that aren't the designated ones, even in combat. So you need one of the following skills on your bar, then heroes will maintain DA both in and out of combat: Contagion, Soul Taker, Signet of Agony, Touch of Agony, Wallow's BiteI don't really love Signet of Agony or the touch skills, since they are not spells and thus do not trigger Masochism, but if you're taking Dark Aura off your own bar, you're freeing up a spell slot anyways.
>>2772295I don't think it shines anywhere, but I used it when going for gwamm a bunch since you have a flexible secondary for skill capturing, and it's a fun alternative to minions. But if you want maximum damage and don't mind being in melee as a squishy caster with health sac, then there's always Soultaker. It shits out comical amounts of damage and you'll get to post your epic deathcounts like these anons >>2770794 >>2770835
>>2771861>>2772025Is there anything besides UW changes?
>>2772593Find out in three hours probably.
>>2772603Can't believe they killed shelter
What are some good or cool builds that require essence or +1-3 attribute cons? Give me your richfag builds
>>2772605What did they change to shelter?
>>27728505s activation time like God intended.
Ok Ravenous Gaze with Dark Aura is too awkward to play, needing to be in melee range while having spells feels bad to play. Can someone recommend a non minion Necro build to speed through Prophecies with so I can grab Soul Taker asap?
>>2772917You can run a curses build using Defile/Desecrate Enchantments, Awaken the Blood, Necrosis, and one of Spiteful Spirit, Feast of Corruption, or Lingering Curse.A death magic build with Deathly Swarm, Bitter Chill, Putrid Bile, Putrid Explosion, Masochism, Necrosis, Intensity, and whatever soul reaping/death magic elite is easy to obtain.Abuse soul reaping to be a runeless version of nearly any ele or smiting build.Every build is going to feel awkward to some extent as necro isn't meant to be a reliable source of direct damage, but you won't have to deal with being in melee range
>>2772905That's fair enough
Wa/Mo Anon here, I didn't realize SWS was a skill you can only if you hold some anniversary item. Does that mean I have to wait for an event in order to get the oppertunity to aquire it, or is there a workaround?In either case, I came up with an alternative build if SWS is going to be out of reach for a while.>12 Strength>16 Axe Mastery>3 Smiting PrayersSimilar concept, except using Warrior's Endurance for energy regen. Weapon mods not really accounted for here, and I wouldn't mind suggestions (previous recommendations "of the Ranger/Necro" being most likely I'd assume). There is also a mod that increases damage when in a stance that seemed like it could be decent as well. Keen Chop when available, and cycle between Power Attack/Swift Chop for more frequent hits (debating swapping Swift Chop with Furious Axe), Cyclone Axe for AoE.- Strength of Honor just gives all my attacks 9 more damage across the board, which seems decent enough on it's own with as many fast attacks I'm trying to shove out. - Flail/Rush are what I settled on for IAS(33%), with Rush being the cancel Stance that also is nice for getting around after combat. Both sharing rhe same Adrenaline cost is pretty cool, too.Essentially, I'll attempt to run this setup until I get access to SWS, however that works.
>>2773061Spiteful spirit not the best given I run 3 Mesmers so maybe death magic will do it, is there anything besides pvxwiki for builds?
>>2773220You just need someone who already has the proof to come with you to capture the skills. As in the thread or in Kamadan and someone will likely help out.
>>2773228Oh, cool. Thanks again, Anons.
>>2773220Burst of aggression is a better ias than flail if you're using WE. You also should heavily consider protectors strike with that bar. I would personally change keen and swift for wild blow and dismember.
>>2773262Oh also on the topic of profession mods, of the ranger is substantially better than necro for warriors endurance bars. Zealous weapon of the ranger means every 5e attack is net zero, with cyclone and adrenaline skills being positive enough that you easily afford other skills. If you're willing to look at pve skills, it very easily fuels heavy ascan use, in which case drop wild blow for whirlwind which also is big damage.
>>2771867is this part of the update? asking for a guildie
Holy shit check the wiki. they added cynns feet with the update
Holy shit, new Guild Wars merch store including Cynn's thong replicas!
>>2773623SCW I kneel
where is it
>>2773262What exactly does Protector's Strike do that Power Attack doesn't? The way it reads seems like the same exact skill, but with conditions that need to be met to achieve it. Also, what is the benefit of Deep Wound through Dismember if you don't plan on running any payoff skills for it? Is the 20% enough, and does the enemy get that lost chunk back when they lose Deep Wound as HP, or an empty bar?
>>2773664You run both power attack and protectors strike. Protectors strike has an activation time, meaning it interrupts the endlag of an attack and does its whole attack+effect within the activation time (which is also affected by ias). This speeds up your effective attack speed, and since it's the same CD as PA, you just pair it. Very nice especially if you have on hit effects and can deal with the energy, which WE expressly does.Deep wound is big because very few attacks are gonna reliably do 20% to an enemy. They do get the hp back, but only if it wears off before they die. Axe twist is a good payoff for it as well but you really don't need it to make dismember worth running.
>>2773664Power Attack doesn't have an activation time. It will simply happen during your normal attack routine (1.33s).Protector's Strike has a 1/2s activation time, The entire attack will complete in that time, which is much shorter than normal attack rate.
>>2772917Ravenous Gaze Serpent's Quickness build.
>>2771861Why would you lie to me like this I was really excited.
>>2773823what do you do for the 6.25s between casts of ravenous gays
>>2773847Think about the next time you are going to cast it.
>>2771861update tomorrow?
>>2771861fuck you
>>2708356my dad has been playing this game for like 20 years
>>2774033>like 20 years>not actually 20 yearsYour dad is a factionsbab
>>2774033is he single
>>2774033He's literally me. I'm your dad.
>>2774187I do not understan this meme somebody /fa/nslate it
>>2774223left is some gay e-celeb who dressed like a woman (right)
>>2773688>>2773704Gotcha, never thought of activation timers weaving into normal attack patterns. Makes sense now, thanks. Obviously it's better if thebl target is moving, but is it worth using for the free attack in this instance with some bonus damage upside?
Guys, almost two decade ago i had a monk main when i had friends.I'm thinking of tying to relive some of those days, playing through the game with a fresh start, but mostly solo (with heroes). I prefer ranged and casters. What should i use?
>>2774574Necromancer, that other anon is gonna get soultaker soon so we'll need a new anon complaining about necro being a nobuilds profession.
>>2771081wik, woc, hotn
where's the fucking update
>>2774438Yeah you use it for the attack reset, the conditional bonus damage is simply gravy
>>2773830>>2774012>>2774028they said update this week and ANet patch day is tuesday idk why it didn't release blame SCW not me
>>2774574You could just play monk again. Smiting is fun.
>>2774438It's kind of a spike play too. You can get more damage off in a shorter time, + the 20% less health from Deep Wound if you can do that.
>>2775252I thought patch day was wednesday
>>2776346to be honest it's been so long since GW1 has had regular updates I don't remember when they used to drop, but GW2's been patching on tuesdays for the past 14 years
>>2776438I checked the recent updates and it kinda bounces around tuesday-thursday
Looks like today may be the day.
>>2776656Roguelike mode?
>>2776685Probably still in the works but will take a long time.This is just some new drops to quiet the UWSC whiners.
>>2776656Basically a nothingburger
>>2776712That SoH change is low key huge.
>>2776712>casting energy requirement thresholdwhat
>>2776741For AI decision making
>>2776712Minions not getting splinter kinda sucks ngl
>>2776735Is it? It wasn't that difficult to micro it before. It'll be a little less annoying to maintain in areas with enchant hate now, but does it change anything else?
>>2776911It was very annoying imo
Oh it also means legionnaire doesn't get targeted by splinter anymore
>>2776712>Strength of Honor: Caster maintains this enchantment out of combat as long as they have 1 or more pips of energy regeneration. Should only cast on melee-wielding party members.Holy fucking based. Are you crazy? That is amazing. Constantly staring at the buff bar to see if it was dropped was ass
Running around as a R/A and I feel like I'm just shredding everything with this patch. The brainless SoH buffing and it feels like I get splinter weapon way more even though I have no allies or pets. Seems kinda busted.
>>2777220What if I play as a buffbot for my heroes?
>>2777241Daggers with SoH+Splinter on heroes was always strong as fuck, but less micro is very good
>>2777256it felt like splinter took forever to get before and way more random but now I get it immediately at the start of combat like every time
>>2777251There's a difference between party synergy and stacking heroes to buff the player character. It's ultra gay.
>>2777220It will continue to happen until it is no longer possible to buff physical damage.
>>2777291It's one hero. SoS+splinter+SoH+resto
game is crashing out, can't do anything in Kaineng city
I'm trying to farm Rot Wallow Tusks for Nick this week, but the game crashes whenever I try to go from Boreas Seabed to Pongmei Valley. ANet pls.
>Play GW when it came out with a buddy>He forms a guild with me, just the two of us>He hasn't been on in 20 years>I'm designated Guild Leader apperantly>Cannot kick him since he was OG leader, and can't leave until I designated a leader, and cannot disband the guild until all members are goneWtf do I do to get out of this?
>>2778125trick someone into joining the guild, make them the leader, quit
>>2778125well you're in luck because we have room for one more guild in the alliance if you want to join us until you figure it outyou could probably give the guild away if you really wanted in some town
>>2778125Contact support. Might take a while, but they'll help.
>>2778125You can't make him the leader? I guess I'm in the same situation I just don't care about joining another guild. My friend in the guild hasn't been on in 18 years and I'm the leader
>>2776712someones gonna be mad they dont cast splinter on minions anymore
>>2778867yeah, me. i loved running double splinter with bone fiends.
>>2778867and me
>>2777291you dont need to stack though since smiting can be tacked on easily to a normal splinter bot
>>2777241>>2777268you guys dont manually cast splinter and bip on yourself for 100% uptime?
>>2779471Micromanagement is for self buffing nerds. True enlightenment is making hero builds that require 0 input to function.
Are there Assassin builds worth playing other than daggerspam? Kind of want to try an Assassin (I like their ridiculous armours) but I already have a TaO daggerspam ranger, seems a bit pointless to play the same build more or less (and the ranger version might even be stronger)
>>2780775none of them, not since they nerfed my favorite build ever
The missions where you have to protect NPCs suck so much. I don't even think I want to go for all hard modes because of these assholes. They're so retarded and you can't make them stand still. Making allies follow commands would make this shit so much less infuriating.
>>2780886>german>1024x768This makes too much sense.
>>2780902Only prophecies puts them in real danger, though. In the other campaigns they are really hard to get killed.
>>2780934The Factions missions that make you protect turtles and the guys around the trees are terrible. I need to set up keybinds for the separate heroes I guess because I don't have a quick way to split up
>>2780937You can use your numpad to flag heroes individually as far as I know. For Gyala hatchery there is a trick where you can skip 90% of the danger for the turtles by running out of range right at the start and then take out most enemies before the turtles move
>>2780775AssDaggot or switch classes.
>>2780775Daggerspam is too strong on most professions, Assassin includedIf you just want viable builds then you can run crit builds with hammer, scythe, spear, bow or axe. Maybe you can run some kind of caster build using Shadow Theft to boost your attributes. There's deadly arts assacaster but it's not great.
>>2780775This guy here has a couple solid oneshttps://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/User:ZStepmother/A/any_Critical_Assassin
>>2782625>>2782686Thanks, I'll try the Scythe version once I can unlock the anniv elite.
>>2780937Would be really great if we could get some of the old shitty escort missions or quests converted from the old school "NPC follows their predetermined path to the destination" to the NF/EotN style where they just join your party
>Game progression feels really well done, and always striving for that next weapon or armor tier bump>Find out at lvl.10 you can go to EotN>Get there and basically get handed a welfare top tier weapon simply missing mods...well that was anti-climatic. I realize white weapons aren't anything special, but it's kind of lame knowing the rest of Prophocies isn't going to get me anything better for the next 10 levels.
>>2783556I never really cared for the gear progression in this besides runes. To me it was alwaysv about skill unlocks
>>2783642Proph gear progression is kinda neat if you're using collectors, but I agree skill unlocks are the more fun part of progression. On a new account, going around and capping elites to get my hero teams up and running were some of my favorite parts, and I'm glad they put Melandru's in so that I can have that experience on any new character.
>>2783556the status effect that sets you to level 20 didn't tip you off?if you wanna play prophecies with level and armor and weapon scaling, don't bounce around. every other campaign will rush you to level 20 and max armor and all. the skill power levels also start collapsing, you can get a 30s cd summoning stone to draw aggro every fight at the very start of eotn
>>2761756>Song of Purification Elite Chant. (20 seconds.) Allies in earshot lose one condition with their next 1...5...6 skill[s]. 3 adrenaline 2s cast time >Lyric of Purification Chant. (5...17...20 seconds.) Allies in earshot lose one condition with their next signet. 5 energy 1s cast time 10s recharget-t-t-thanks
Are there any bow builds for ranger that are actually good? Bows seem so sluggish and poor damage
>>2785348It is probably the worst weapon in the game, especially since Spear got buffed.Somebody will tell you to go with Needling shot though.
>>2785348barrage + manually casting splinter on yourself from a hero is actually fun and surprisingly good
>>2785348Do you like interrupting and setting things on fire?
>>2785348expert focus penetrating shot sundering shot, tao volley, triple shot dual shot ignite arrows flourish, concussion shot with a hero extend conditions hotkeyed
I think bows and ranger in general was of a pvp direction regarding design and all given the interrupts, easy condi spam etc. Is the prog on today? Do we all have consulate docks unlocked or will the first hour and half be people leveling to 17?
>>2785515Likely a factor but that makes rangers extremely malleable and versatile in PvE just the same. Ranger doesn't need a lot of raw damage by default to be effective, compared to the other physical classes. It can be if you want it to, but it starts to shine when you step away from that and focus more on the control side of things.
>>2785348Barrage, Penetrating/Sundering spam with Marksman's Wager or Expert's Dexterity (or even Quick Shot), condispam on a Fragility team with Incendiary Arrows and Wilderness Survival, shutdown with Broad Head Arrow and Epidemic/Fevered Dreams, TaO pew pew, Marauder Shot is beastly these daysgenerally, stack as many attack buffs as possible (Weapon spells, conjures, etc) and use a shortbow
I opened locked chests and got a streak of 15 broken lockpicks in a row. 2 retained out of 20. my chance for retaining the lockpicks with titles is 28%. The chance for 15 lockpicks breaking in a row is 0.7 %. Is this some shitty anti farming script again against chest running?
will ecto ever go to sub 10k again?
>>2785515no prog todayUW tomorrow
>>2765787Welcome to GW1, as always you're welcome to join the guild we're pretty early into a nightfall prog right now and sometimes we do other stuff. We did a prog a little less than a year ago where I played W/Mo (our 50/50 prog) this is the builds we created by the end mine is at the top. I tried to make Judge's Insight work for the longest time because I wanted to stack armor pen bonuses, but it just didn't work out for me no matter how hard I tried, the 2 second cast time is brutal, and in some areas there are too many enemies with enchant strips that it made it annoying to use.I went with SoH for the unconditional bonus damage, and I used balth spirit to cover it that way I could easily maintain it out of combat, balth spirit can pay for itself pretty nicely if you can get a bunch of enemies smacking you. I might still have my Totem Axe if you want it, it'll be perfect for a Judge's Insight build since it has +20% enchant duration on it. >>2766499That's a really cool setup. I don't know how I feel about the ele, I think I'd replace lightning orb + enervating charge with chain lightning + arc lightning for better AoE., Or maybe even swap from air to fully earth and run unsteady ground to KD enemies so they can't run from RoJ and the warriors. Churning Earth absolutely dumpsters HM enemies. A water ele might work pretty well here too, or maybe even a Gust air ele.For your monks revealed hex is an inspired choice I don't know if I like. You should replace that and Healing Touch for Deny Hexes + Divine Healing for AoE heal and better hex removal. Healing touch is very dangerous to use in parties with melee, because the monk will run after your warriors trying to molest them. If you're going run an Healers Boon monk I would also swap Healing Whisper for Orison of Healing or Patient Spirit, healing whisper suffers same issue with it being half range and you have melees.
>>2774574as previously mentioned you're always welcome to join our guild, we do regular campaign progs together and try to recreate the magic as best we can.>>2778125Can't you promote him to leader and then leave?>>2778345You're always welcome to join our alliance so you can see alliance chat. As long as we have space I don't mind people who are attached to their OG guilds staying with them but still being able to participate in an """active""" guild.ALSO WE ARE DOING UW TOMORROW AT 3PM EST
Man I hate this mission. I bashed my head into it for hours with my normal comp and couldn't do it. I got to the very last wave and lost a spirit right before the mission ended. I gave up and just copied a strat from a YouTube video and got it first try.What other missions might be considered hard? I'm trying to just get all the shitty ones out of the way first.
>>2788028Tahnahkai, gyala, I think dunes of despair? Gate of Madness if you didn't flag cheese it
>>2788060I'm cheesing whatever I can from now on, fuck it. I didn't realize you don't even have to kill the turtles in The Eternal Grove. They legitimately don't do anything even when there are 5 of them up and they become friendly and help out in the 2nd part.
>>2788028just bring a couple minion mastersalso helps a lot with gyala if you don't take the 'safe route'
>>2788170Oh yea I already did that one. I followed the path on the Wiki and it was a joke. The only wave where enemies come from two directions if you clear the enemies before you start is the first wave. It only took 1 try but I probably tried Eternal Grove like 15 times. I got close but got fucked on the last wave on try like 5 and was careless for the rest
What's the point of the UW run, they just added some new greens, not even new items just reskinned models. 2weeks more like 2fails lmoaoaoooooo
>>2789029>add new reskins to a 21yr old game to give players some fun goals>"ohbloebloe what's the point lmaoo"The fuck is wrong with you?
>>2789029UW is fun and profitable, I'm also not impressed by the new items, but it provides an ample reason to hang out with bros, run some retarded builds and make some money maybe someone here will be more interested in the items but most are somewhat meta PvE/PvP relevant so it's not like they are bad greens.Also as a reminder we're doing our UW run at 3 PM EST today. Theme will be mighty throw builds
they need to add a dual vamp hammer 15 -1 5-1 +5 chaos damage so i can bypass bullshit armor stacking dream green right there
>>2789166>whole UW for a shitty ass reskin is a fun goal nowWhat a cope get real boyo>>2789225I agree with the latter but UW is not really that profitable ever since they added eblades to the new dungeon drop table
>>2789372I mean, ectos are selling for 18-20k for the last several months and on average you get like 3-4 ectos per run if not more, not to mention if you have mobstoppers you can easily get an extra 20k+ ontop of that ignoring all other loot drops. None of which requires you to sit in spamadan to sell, nor does it require you to hit the 0.1% drop chance to get an eblade...but even if that was true mini dhuum sells for more than an eblade, DSR sells for a considerable amount as well. Both have comparable drop rates.I'm not really sure what the point of nitpicking eblade was. I guess if you did 1000 runs of the new dungeon and 1000 runs of UW maybe you'd net more profit? But I bet you 100 ectos I can do 1 UW run, and net more profit than 10 new dungeon runs (and have more fun doing it too).
>>2788028Tahnakai temple is by far the most difficult Eternal Grove you can easily do with 2 minion masters flagged on the right place, can't remember the last time i failed that mission>>2788060Gyala is easy if you take the backdoor route
>>2789372Dude, it's not like this is some fresh hot new kinda game dying for live service content. UW has always been fun and good. Just some extra dressing on top of that is fine and worthwhile by me. Are you like meta-optimizing the fuck out of everything and not touching it if it's not le optimal? You seem like a fun guy to have at the party.
most interesting class for melandru between mesmer, monk, warrior and ranger?
>>2789485RangerMonk is a very boring class, also you will strugle at the start with your low level armor
>>2789485Ranger or mesmer. It depends on if you want caster or more of a fighter. Both are the best classes in the game in my book.
>>2789485Seconding ranger or potentially mesmer.Warriors use a lot more sets of armor/weapons for builds which can be very annoying to manage in a melandru.Monk is not very fun to play solo.
>>2789412Yea the minion master builds made is a joke. I was just trying to rush the enemy spawn because my team wasn't good enough split up before.Tahnakai Temple wasn't too bad since I struggled with that one on normal mode and I learned how to make it easier. If you just flag a single "Avoid Combat" hero in and out to pull the enemies you can split them up easily without risking the story NPCs dying
>>2789412>Tahnakai temple is by far the most difficultWhy do you think so? It's about on par with Vizunah with the added difficulty of pulling in my book. Never struggled with it.
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>>2790190>It's about on par with Vizunah with the added difficulty of pulling in my book.because i never got wiped on vizunah, even before hero's became a thingTahnakai temple is the only mission where i have to be careful with pulls, thats why it is the hardest
>>2790530But you always have a fallback route though, even if you overpull it, it's so easy to back away from it and deal with stragglers. Not trying to dick you around btw, I'm just surprised you consider it the hardest one.
>>2790611>But you always have a fallback route thoughyou don't, if you fall back menhlo or Togo will just stand there and tank all the damage till they dieTahnakai is the hardest mission because its the only mission where i actually have to pay any kind of attention, i'm suprised that you actually strugle with the other missions
>>2790948>flag heroes back just inside healing range>run back>Menhlo/Togo disengage fall back with youThey don't stay locked in combat for long if you just bolt back, just don't backpedal. I'm NTA btw, don't really have a problem with any of these missions.
>>2789029>>2789225Is there a list of the new drops yet?
>>2790948I just started hard modes and I'm finding most of them easier than I did on normal mode since I didn't have any type of build at all for those. I was expecting a lot harder. GWAMM overall doesn't seem that bad. There's no way this would take me more than like 500 hours to complete
>>2791118vanquishing skill capping and mapping can be pretty boring probably the hardest part really
