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Kos Luftar
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Guys I'll be max 5 minutes late for boss blitz. Wait for me. Please.
Kos Luftar
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Now I was out eating chicken wings and drinking beer.
fixd
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You look exhausted. I hope you didnt do cardio before lifting.
UltimateIke
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Sorry to miss the Boss Blitz event! I really wanted to be there.
We were doing a "quick" fractal, and I helped add an hour+ to the amount of time it took us to beat it after rushing into an area before the party was ready. So I'm extra sorry to my group too.
We were doing a "quick" fractal, and I helped add an hour+ to the amount of time it took us to beat it after rushing into an area before the party was ready. So I'm extra sorry to my group too.
Callunah
So, in regard to this comment and as a PSA in general, just wanted to let everyone know that Callunah's account was hacked tonight. Because of the China launch and possibly because of Wildstar, there's likely an increase in hacking attempts.
If you don't have two-step authentication on your account, you are at risk. Read more here: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/66122673-Guild-Wars-2-Account-Security
And just so we can try to stop this from happening again, we'll be making sure all officers are using two-step from here on out.
LumpOfCole
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Yes, make sure your GW2 account has two-step authentication. It's not any added inconvenience at all - it still knows if you log in from your home IP and won't ask you every time for that verification code. Only if you try to log into GW2 from another connection will it send a verification code.
Also, whatever email you have attached to GW2, make sure that email also has its own two-step verification set up, and definitely make sure your GW2 account and email account do not share passwords.
Also, whatever email you have attached to GW2, make sure that email also has its own two-step verification set up, and definitely make sure your GW2 account and email account do not share passwords.
Yeah.
UltimateIke
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I just found the .apk so I could install the authenticator on my Kindle Fire. Not having the Google Play store had been stopping me up until now. You guys have me scared!
Changed my password too for good measure. Lots of characters, randomly generated by KeePass.
Changed my password too for good measure. Lots of characters, randomly generated by KeePass.
Relephant avatar.
gamergirl85
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Come back and run Arah with me!
Noisy Ninj4
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Damn, can't use the windows phone authenticator. :s
At least the email still works.
At least the email still works.
LumpOfCole
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I posted this at SBI's forums, but I want GAF to know they should come too:
This week I'd like to think most of us are taking it a lot easier after a hard nine weeks of pushing ourselves. Plus, the match-up this week put us in an unfavorable position no matter what other circumstances were put into play.
One thing we didn't do this week was have any prepared teams in SBI BL at reset - not because of the competition we were going up against (everyone thought it would be a different and easier matchup), but because barely anyone wanted to go into SBI BL right after that hard tournament. Maybe people didn't think it would be very fun to defend.
This week, I want to change that - sign up with me and on Friday, June 6th at reset, we will defend our BL with a swarm of minions the likes of which our enemy will never expect. The natural predator of the Minion Master zerg is the inaccessible arrow cart, and there should be a lot fewer of those when we defend our home turf. It's going to be fun, and we will bury even the best hammer squads under so many minions and poison bombs that no enemy will stand a chance.
What you'll need:
- a Necromancer (preferably level 80, but at least try to be level 30 for Flesh Golem)
- a Staff (secondary weapon is whatever you prefer, but I like Dagger+Dagger personally)
- An ability bar full of minions, like so:
Blood Fiend, Bone Minions, Bone Fiend, Shadow Fiend, Flesh Golem
What I recommend:
- Power + Vitality + Toughness (PVT) Armor/Weapons/Accessories.
Recommended Traits (up to personal taste in the end, however):
Spite III: Spiteful Removal (Condition Removal as we mow through unfortunate zergs that oppose us)
Spite IX: Training of the Master (Increases Minion Damage; self explanatory)
Death Magic III: Minion Master (Increases recharge on MM skills)
Death Magic X: Flesh of the Master (Minions have increased health; more Toughness for Necro)
Death Magic XI: Death Nova (When enemies die, they spawn MORE MINIONS. When minions die, they explode POISON.)
Blood Magic II: Bloodthirst (Siphoning health is more effective; more uptime and less dying)
Blood Magic VII: Vampiric Master (Minions siphon health and transfer it to Necro)
Consider these Runes:
Superior Runes of the Lich for extra life + extra minion (Cheap)
Superior Runes of the Ranger for a lot of extra DPS (Pricier)
Superior Runes of Speed / the Traveler for movement speed (Super Pricey)
Consider these Sigils:
Sigil of Frailty to inflict Vulnerability (Cheap)
Sigil of Purity for extra Condi Removal (Super Cheap)
Sigil of Water for healing allies around you (Super Cheap)
A lot of peeps like to run Minion Masters their own way, and that's great; the main thing is that I want to see a whole BUNCH of Minion Masters on Friday, ready to swarm and devour whichever enemy team tries to take our BL.
If you are interested in joining in, post here and then be here on Friday. SBI has taken a week of rest but I want to show everyone else in our tier that our BL is no longer welcome to intruders.
Bumping this for a new page. Will need more bodies for Friday!
Kos Luftar
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I can't believe this. Even after she changed her password earlier yesterday it still happened. Hope ANET can roll back her account.Callunah
I put a two step authenticator yesterday on my account. Have to figure out how to do that for my email aswell.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So I got an ascended weapons box (Coalforge/rampager stats). Now I plan on making a condi thief so rampager works on him (too bad he can't use the weapon yet since he's just 21 lol), but what weapon for the thief has much condition attacks? mh Dagger or mh Sword?
Kos Luftar
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Yeah I just set that up as well.
Vyrance and Callunah both joined the stormbluffisle.com forum recently. Did you guys use same email/passwords for that site and GW2?
Pistol/Dagger is the primary Condition Damage Thief setup, working off of going in and out of stealth to use Pistol's Sneak Attack, and from there going off of differing build variations for other conditions. You can use Venoms, you can use the new Trickery Grandmaster that applies Confusion, you can go Perplexity, you can go for more stealth and bleed, or you can even go hybrid damage. You can also look up Wild Bill on youtube.
Dagger/Dagger Deathblossom is the crappy and underpowered Condition Damage Thief setup that isn't very competitive outside of a swap from Pistol/Dagger in certain PvE solo Champion kill videos. Of course this means this is my Thief setup for PvP/WvW, using Settler's Amulet/Gear.
Since it's Rampager, I'd probably make a Pistol/Dagger hyrbrid. Or at least find some trait/rune/sigil setup that took advantage of the naturally high precision.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Aww I was going for a melee and a pistol/pistol build, so I take it dagger dagger sucks for pve?
If it's for PvE only, I'd consider a hybrid damage Pistol/Pistol build to be pretty good. You'd want your swap to pack more damage or more utility than Dagger/Dagger though. If you try to use Dagger/Dagger for both Deathblossom and Cloak and Dagger+Backstab you'll be running out of initiative too quickly (not to mention that P/P is already an initiative heavy set). So I'd put Pistol/Dagger or the good old standby Shortbow as the weapon swap.
Mr_Antimatter
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It's not bad for leveling, but its not idea for group content. I tend to roll Sword/pistol and shortbow. Them interrupts are great, and its got some interesting utility.
Probably need to redo my gear a bit though, to move more toward burst and away from conditions though.
On a semi related note, what sort of gear is best for a ranger? I finally hit 80 on mine, and have little idea how to best gear this class. I've got some bleeds and traps, which suggest conditions could be nice to have, but i'm really not sure here.
Going to take a few days off to finish Tex Murphy's new game, then probably just farm festival till season 2 starts. Granted, last week of the month i'm off on vacation.
Noisy Ninj4
Member
Got my necro to all of level 40. Should be ok to party tomorrow.
Coriolanus
Banned
That does not seem to be the case.
Appears to be a discussion there, although short. Survivability is also argued in the second page.
Their guides for guard and especially necro dps did wonders for me.
Maaan, be careful with cond. So many damn things in this game cause bleed that even in a 5man you'll be hitting the stack cap super fast. It's part of what made me come to terms with not rolling a condi necro in pve.
Really fun in the wubs, tho.
Is P/D mainly for Cond or is it viable for DPS builds? Or would S/P be better for DPS?
Thieves have too many combinations, making it so confusing.
Noisy Ninj4
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S/P is high strait DPS. Pretty nice for PvE. S/D is usually better in pvp or wvw because S/P roots you and that is bad. In pvp, a rooted thief is a dead thief.
A Dutch GW2 site is reporting a Journal Feature is coming to GW2 just in time for Season 2 of the Living Story. Here's a translation from Reddit:
DragonSeason is reporting that more news will be coming today (within the hour) and that this site broke the embargo early.
Obviously being in English would help, but it sounds like you just need to log in once during a Living Story event to have it saved to your journal, or can go back and unlock it later (in-game fee could be gems or gold). I wonder if this will be integrated with the Personal Story somehow.
DragonSeason is reporting that more news will be coming today (within the hour) and that this site broke the embargo early.
Obviously being in English would help, but it sounds like you just need to log in once during a Living Story event to have it saved to your journal, or can go back and unlock it later (in-game fee could be gems or gold). I wonder if this will be integrated with the Personal Story somehow.
Reddit is already declaring this as ArenaNet caving in and allowing Living Story content to be instanced by groups / guilds, at the exclusion of all others. From a translated article that broke embargo early. Fucking Reddit.
Yeah, I figured it wasn't fake, but there's definitely details missing here.
Thread is already ready to be posted in 10 minutes.
Yeah, I figured it wasn't fake, but there's definitely details missing here.
Don't worry, there are some screens and the pr message will explain most of it. The blog will probably go into bigger detail
edit: enjoy http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=831217
Don't worry, there are some screens and the pr message will explain most of it. The blog will probably go into bigger detail
Nice, looking forward to reading it.
Also, from Reddit: "Oooh instanced permanent farming locations, gimme."
How do these people function in the real world?
It's why I don't participate in discussion on reddit and certainly not on the official forums. The adventures of you guys here are always a fun read tho; keep up the fun and good work
Coriolanus
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I was literally going to quote your post, comment "aww yiss, infinite marionettes!" and add an excited child pic.
Then the pc isp crapped out.
I dunno man, i'm doing ok.
Blog Post is up: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-story-journal/
That was what I was thinking too, unless they remove the rewards somehow.
Also, I hope I don't have to finish my PS before I can do Living Story content, even if I'm 80.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah pistol/pistol is one weapon combo I'll use.
What about dagger/pistol or sword/dagger, not condi friendly?
What about dagger/pistol or sword/dagger, not condi friendly?
Mr_Antimatter
Member
Yeah, i'm thinking i'll redo the ranger as more a sustained damage sort of build. I roll with Long/short bows, so I'm thinking mostly Berzerkers with a bit of solders or valk or something. Just for those times where you have undodgable ranged attacks or such.
As for the news from today? Sounds like the living story will now act like the personal story, and be instanced and repeatable. I wonder how that effects the open world events though. Being able to go back and farm profitable open world events would do weird things to the game I think.
Noisy Ninj4
Member
D/P and s/d have little to no condition damage on them. S/d is nice because it does lots of direct damage, removes boons, shadow steps, dodges on 3, cripples, and has a stun/blind stealth attack. D/p has some poison on the 3rd autoattack but that's it. Nice set for stealthing but it has no aoe.
Shortbow, p/d, p/p, and d/d have bleeds and poison readily available.
Here's my thought on how they'll handle this.
We all know that megaservers probably freed up a lot of resources that were running for nothing.
Instead of having 24 map instances, they probably have 1-3 map instances running at once now.
So what i'm thinking is, they'll create time-locked map instances that will run said event/story.
So that when you decide to redo one of the story/event parts, you're going to be sent to those map instances.
We all know that megaservers probably freed up a lot of resources that were running for nothing.
Instead of having 24 map instances, they probably have 1-3 map instances running at once now.
So what i'm thinking is, they'll create time-locked map instances that will run said event/story.
So that when you decide to redo one of the story/event parts, you're going to be sent to those map instances.
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