Toryne

I still need this set:

in my life.

A-net most definitely needs to make the high end armors look more like the Aion ones:

Sylvari based armor:



Other high end stuff:

There's only one way they should be:





true ascended armor

The concept is fine.
The execution, ANet's writing, the months of buildup to this dungeon, and the sensationalist "13 days guys! Please all log in at once to play it! And be sure to check out the gem store for the Exclusive™ themed skins!" are not.

I liked it, it sort of reminds of the dungeons/storyline of Guild Wars EoTn.  I do wish more parts were multiplayer-story rather than the SP that 3/4 of F&F was.

GuanglaiKangyi, on 01 May 2013 - 10:47 PM, said:

He was being sarcastic, in the Ascalon Fractal for instance, you want the cooldown for each group pull and even at 32s cooldown you sometimes have to wait a few seconds before pulling the next mob. And for the dredge fractal, it helps for separating them as well for each pull.

These are things you would know if you actually ran fotm 40+.

Granted the cooldown isn't always useful for hammer and switching out to symbols is useful sometimes, but it's not 100% of the time.

Dirame, on 15 April 2013 - 11:19 PM, said:

Because people like to complain regardless of what Arenanet does.

Hi ! My Norn Mesmer



Necromancer Mask (trasmuted)
Shoulder cultural T2
Vigil Garb
Gloves, Shoes, Leggings cultural T1
Abyss/Icing dye (and celestial soon)

Impmon, on 29 October 2012 - 05:17 PM, said:

impmon i suggest u try following the instructions i gave you before commenting that it requires something magical. u make it unsoulbound when u xmute the look of the helm to another helm which is not soulbound. hence its not soulbound. always use a white or blue item as they are usually not soulbound when found.

GuanglaiKangyi, on 10 April 2013 - 09:02 PM, said:

TBH thats not really feasible outside of a very few fights since you dont use the banner on thrash since it does not have 100% up time, you drop it on the first boss and carry it until it runs out then drop it on the next boss. Also once the fight begins you are looking at 2-2.5 secs per person to refresh it which is DPS loss.

But back to the original argument, Wars > Guards DPS by a good amount, good enough to not bring a guard over a war for a DPS slot once your other requirements are met in terms of reflect and buffs.

GuanglaiKangyi, on 10 April 2013 - 09:02 PM, said:

Impractical for a majority of fights, you usually cast banner while running into the fight since you can move while casting it. You really expect everyone to just stop, wait for the warrior to cast it, then waste 5 seconds having everyone pick it up and use the fury skill. That's a huge waste of dps, time, and is tedious before every fight. Not to mention if you're carrying banners from fight to fight and have to stop before each pull to do it again.

Counterproductive to talk about groups which kill the fastest then assuming you're already lower guardian dps is based on wasting a few seconds before every fight to pass around banners.

Go cast a banner, pick it up, cast your shout, drop it, and do it a couple more times. This is the best case scenario since you don't have a delay in passing it around to other people, and it's already a huge waste of time.

Well, here's mine..

Wasnt this one of the guilds that left Dragonbrand and leaving again from SoS to a euro server?

kissmyelemental, on 07 December 2012 - 04:29 AM, said:

I've actually switched my gear around a bit now that I no longer WvW.

I pretty much got rid of all my p/v/t gear for a combination of knights and berserker. I also replaced the jewel in my knights earrings/amulet with exquisite ruby orbs since they offer the most amount of crit dmg with the least amount of toughness lost. I've managed to luckily complete my ascended gear, so my back and rings are the power/tough/crit damage set.

Basically, as I got better at dungeons and run dungeons with a bunch of good players now, I found myself not needing as much health, especially with agony in fractals. My main reason for PVT was for WvW as well or if you pug more and need more leeway for getting downed or tanking for your group. I have roughly the same toughness, but basically replaced my health for more crit to make dungeon runs go faster. Since I was hardly dieing anyways, I figured the health was a waste at this point.

For fractal build I run 0-10-30-20-10 now.

I'll try and work on updating my guide with some new info and current build in the next week or so.

Story mode...I'm up for it. Looking to get them completed over the Christmas/ New Year break. Anyone wanna join me?

If anything, I want to get all the story modes done for the fun of it, and also to have the convenience of being able to enter the explorable mode of any dungeon. There are quite a lot of us who have actually played the explorable mode of dungeons for which we have yet to finish the story mode.

Occasionally we get an odd moment where we form a group of 5, then realize nobody can trigger explorable mode because nobody has done the story mode! The additional issue is that story mode dungeons are somewhat linked to the personal storyline, which means that for those who have changed their 'main' toon, or those deciding to run dungeons on their alts need to do the story mode on the dungeon again in order to gain access to the explorable mode (unless you join a group where at least one in the party has already done the story mode).

In my case, I did the story mode for two dungeons, then changed 'main' and re-ran one of them but have yet to do the others. That explains why there are quite a few toons running around looking to run explorable mode, yet haven't done story mode yet.