Guild Wars 2 : Random Question Thread

**Shiyo** · 2012-11-08 23:01

I've gotten a black lion key in the past 2 days from a mob drop.

**Kuishen** · 2012-11-09 01:12

RNG gods just hate me then, noted.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-11-09 01:16

One must make sacrifices to the RNG Gods to appease them.

**Corrderio** · 2012-11-12 22:06

Is there a way to reset your password if you don't have a GW2 character? Long story short my friend says they had a problem creating an account with the serial code I gave them for the free weekend event and when I tried to create the account for them it said the serial was already used.

**Katlan** · 2012-11-21 11:16

any mesmer's try a glass cannon build for armor (power/prec/cond)? I am currently running prec/tough/cond but I am wondering how uch that toughness actually helps me

**Kiarax** · 2012-11-21 15:47

I think Kachi does (did?), haven't tried glass cannon myself but I could never really advocate it. Mesmer gets some additional benefit from toughness since it can also make the difference between your clones getting 1 shot or 2 shot, which can be huge too (especially in a cond damage build since that seems to be what you use?). If I wasn't hoarding for a legendary I'd be tempted to drop my mats on a Berserker set to toy around with though... the thing about glass cannon sets is it's kind of hard to justify it without knowing the players skill level. Mesmer has so much mitigation potential that you can go for large periods of time without even taking a hit, but without knowing if you're capable of playing that well it's not necessarily something anyone could recommend. Also worth keeping in mind is how aggro mechanics work in this game, if you drop all your extra toughness you will get focused down by lots of mobs since most stuff prioritizes targets based on stats. As a light class with 0 extra toughness, any that go for weak targets will be on your ass constantly.

Edit: Also preempting Shiyo telling you to use a shatter build instead of cond. Your spec is bad and you should feel bad, etc etc.

**Katlan** · 2012-11-21 15:56

I don't think illusions get your toughness or condition, at least that's what ppl have said when I tries to look it up. And since mesmer gets -3% dmg for each illusion (clone and/or phantasm) out I'm starting to contemplate how useful toughness on armor is... Instead of maybe just putting toughness on all accessory slots.

And to preempt shiyo: Condition build is a shatter build essentially. I could never play Mesmer w/o having 30 into illusion to self shatter. It's OP for stun and distortion

**Kiarax** · 2012-11-21 16:40

Your illusions benefit from all of your stats. Toughness is very easy to test in Heart of the Mists, it'll only take a minute to confirm if you don't want to take my word for it. Personally I run Knight gear with Valk accessories, though I'm not sure what the best hybridized setup would be for a condition spec. I'm only rocking the +300 Cond Damage from traits, but the bleeds/confuse is only a very small portion of my damage and 300 is still a fairly nice amount. And 30 illusions doesn't mean you're a shatter spec lol. Shatter build focuses on Power/Prec/Crit Damage and shattering every time F1 (and often F2) are off cooldown. You generally only let Phantasms get off a single attack round before blowing them up rather than keeping them out to stack bleeds, etc. In my eyes it is by far the strongest Mesmer build and the most fun, should give it a try sometime if you ever feel like a change of pace. It's a lot harder to play given how active it is but so worth it.

**Katlan** · 2012-11-21 16:50

I'll try it out. Though I usually have my illusions suedo tank for me. and a shatter build like that means you don't have anything to pull the mob onto

**Shiyo** · 2012-11-22 00:53

No one should ever play a glass cannon build for anything.

**ClarkSammich** · 2012-11-22 03:33

In PVP (including WvW) it's pretty bad, but in PVE if you're good enough at avoiding damage to the extent you don't need tank stats it's fine. Some dungeons can be run without being downed once in full berserker stuff, there's no reason not to if you're good enough.

**Shiyo** · 2012-11-22 04:53

Dodging is a bigger DPS loss than using proper gear and having to dodge/kite/etc less, and many attacks in harder dungeons/fractals are completely unavoidable and balanced around self healing yourself, you won't have enough self healing to keep yourself up in full zerker gear.

**ClarkSammich** · 2012-11-22 14:39

I don't know about that, dodging is only a second or so and the damage gained from berserker gear can be pretty pronounced. Also, which attacks are unavoidable?

**Kiarax** · 2012-11-22 20:24

Something else to take note of is how aggro mechanics work in this game. Lots of mobs prioritize target based on stats, and should there be bosses that go for who it sees as the weakest target as far as defensive stat goes, it's gonna be completely glued to you and you'll get facerolled. Even if you do manage to keep kiting it and survive the mob constantly running around will likely make the fight take significantly longer depending on your party comp. Any skill that roots you is suddenly worthless without first having to immobilize or freeze/cripple the target, and those generally have much longer CDs than your burst skills like 100 Blades, Blurred Frenzy and the like. One example being the golem boss in CoE. Aki (Ranger) runs in our group in full zerker gear, and whilst he's competent at dodging stuff it's literally impossible for him to stay alive here because the boss endlessly barrages him with multi-hit ranged attacks, stun fields and a bunch of other random shit. It's not really an issue in this case because the boss is a fucking joke, but he doesn't have the opportunity to do much damage at all since he has to constantly be dodging or getting rezzed (through no fault of his own really, but still slowing down his and others DPS). These situations don't come up all that frequently, but they're very noticable when they do.

**Shiyo** · 2012-11-22 20:43

There's tons of unavoidable attacks, the room wide dredge AOE on the dredge fractal path, random AOE damage on tons of mobs/bosses that won't kill you, but does enough damage eventually to make you heal, autoattacks, zerg of mobs autoattacking/AOEing(dredge path fractal shows this a lot, you have infinite spawning mobs that are constantly aoeing/autoattacking you and you can't possibly avoid all of it), plus there's puzzles and things that require you to actually take damage, like standing on switches on the dredge path. The ice fractal path shows this with the stacking debuff and teleporting you far away, FORCING you to take damage. There are tons of situations in this game where you are REQUIRED to take damage to win, or just have to outheal the unavoidable damage with your heal skill.Even as the best player in the world, you're going to be taking too much damage to outheal it in full zerker gear, and actually will be doing less damage than a valk/knight mix player, especialy if you're CONSTANTLY dodging/running away. Pretty much every single boss/dungeon/fractal has multiple forms of unavoidable damage that doesn't hurt you enough to kill you, but hurts you enough to make you have to use your heal on cooldown.

There's just no reason to be in full zerker gear, literally nothing is a DPS check, everything is a strategy/teamwork/survival check, and why DECREASE your survival just to do a little more damage? It's insane - and people need to realize how bad glass cannon is in this game. It's been like 3 months ffs, people should've realized this on day1 of doing any dungeon in the game.

**NotGreyheim** · 2012-11-22 20:57

Do ascended rings only drop from the daily chest? Haven't had much luck there, and was wondering if there was a more reliable method to obtain them.

**Kiarax** · 2012-11-22 22:55

So far yeah, daily chest on 10+ only. You can make a backpiece with 250 fine t6 mats or 1850 fractal tokens but it seems rings are daily only so far.

**NotGreyheim** · 2012-11-22 23:02

Bleh, thanks. At least I'm making good progress on the backpiece, though. about a third of the way there tokenwise, and I haven't really been grinding as much as I could be.

Edit: Would fractal 9 be the best for pre-agony resist token farming? I tend to run into a bunch of bads once avoiding agony starts coming into play...

**ClarkSammich** · 2012-11-22 23:58

While I agree there aren't DPS checks, and for the most part full DPS gear is a bad idea, I still maintain there are parts of the game where it's absolutely fine to use. Like the jellyfish boss fractal, if you're an engineer using grenades, you will literally never take damage fighting it.
I generally keep a tankier set on when I know I'm going to take a beating, then switch out pieces for damage on content I know it's safe for.
While not completely necessary, I don't see how it detracts from anything. As for people running away/kiting, idk. People do this anyway, even with tank stats and wind up wasting them because they're not taking hits.

**Prothescar** · 2012-11-23 00:09

OP Guardian, stand still and take all attacks like a boss.

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