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    Your poor formatting hides the best part!

    The End of Culling in PvE
    On August 20, we’re turning off culling, which will remove the limit on the number of characters you can see on-screen at once. The cities of Tyria will now be even more vibrant and bustling than ever!

    It's already that way in select test locations (has been for a while), but finally worldwide.

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    my poor formatting is pulled from ANet's page, one does not simply walk in and format what the devs say!

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    Great, my PC runs slow enough as it is.

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    So someone's beat the final queens gauntlet with Gaurdian on here right? FML shits hard. Any tips appreciated.

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    I beat her using meditation build with stand your ground for the condition cure and stability to avoid getting pulled in by the orb. Used focus with scepter, and put 20 into zeal for more damage and to lower focus recast (skill 5 can be a lifesaver when you get pinned by phantoms and wana save endurence for dodges). Took some endurance regen food.

    On second phase i would walk backwards in a circle. If timed right, you rarely get hit by shadowfall. Walking backwards also assures you keep dps on liadri. make sure you also land skill 2 often. She sometimes nails herself pretty bad if you have relation up. Try and save your dodges for the last second rather than using them to get out of shadowfall. The aoe lands about 4 to 5 seconds after the circles appear.

    What you having a problem with specifically?

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    Mainly just getting out of the shadowfall shit, seems I don't have quite enough dodges, but I shall try saving it for right when it falls. I have like 70 tickets so I'm just going to go at it hard today until I beat the shit. I'm still pretty fresh 80 so all my gear is only the rare set, idk if that matters. I have a set of beserkers and clerics right now. My build is also meditation but I shall try the change ups you mentioned. thanks!

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    Yea, saving dodges for before the shadow falls helps conserving endurence. If you take endurence food (you can check wiki but i think it's the meat stews) you should have an easier time saving energy. You are a guard so you already get vigor by putting 5 into the trait line with the vitality boosts.

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    Fun tip: pull conjured greatsword to the middle and watch it take everyone 30 min to kill it with retaliation. Just been lmao at this shit for the last hour. dude was getting so mad we wouldn't trap it in the door, so i just started soloing it with syg and GS symbol in the middle. hilarity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuya View Post
    (you can check wiki but i think it's the meat stews)
    Orrian Truffle and meat stew! It's been a staple part of my thief's diet for a very long time, but fuck that price rise just because of Liadri!

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    https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-ga...ugust-20-2013/

    ^ Vandalized. Shits gonna go down.

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    A post titled "Obey." was posted by "Suspicious_Figure" in bold green font and got stickied on the GW2 reddit. Its linking to this: http://i.imgur.com/8AJXumQ.jpg

    I am amused.

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    I like where this is going

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    Update notes:

    August 20 Content Release Notes
    LIVING WORLD
    Clockwork Chaos

    The nefarious villain, Scarlet Briar, has made herself known to Tyria! Chaos ensues as she unleashes her clockwork minions across the world!

    Closing Ceremony
    • Witness the high point of the Queen’s Jubilee! Attend the ceremony and hear the Queen’s Speech in the Crown Pavilion of Divinity’s Reach. It’s sure to end with a bang.


    Clockwork Minions Invade

    • Scarlet’s clockwork minions are invading entire zones across Tyria.
    • Watch the World Event UI for new invasions.
    • All overflow maps created within 10 minutes of the start of the invasion will host a concurrent version of that hour’s event.
    • Complete additional waves of the invasion for an increasingly lucrative map-wide reward.
    • Map-wide rewards are limited to once per account, per day, per map. For example, players who claim the map-wide reward for an invasion in the Gendarran Fields will only be able to claim invasion rewards in other maps until the following day.
    • Complete all waves of an invasion to unlock a bonus battle with Scarlet.
    • Defeat Scarlet for a daily world-boss reward of two guaranteed rare items.
    • All possible maps will be invaded at least once per day.
    • Invasions will not occur in Orr, Southsun Cove, or maps suited for character levels below 25.
    • After the Clockwork Chaos release, the invasions will continue at a less frequent pace.


    Scarlet’s Funhouse

    • Scarlet has claimed and occupied a prominent structure in Tyria and twisted it into a demented fun house.
    • Help Emissary Vorpp at the Crown Pavilion reverse-engineer Scarlet’s portal technology to find a way into her fun house.
    • Defeat Scarlet to restore the fun house to its proper form.


    Ongoing Festivities

    • The Crown Pavilion and Queen’s Gauntlet will close for maintenance on September 3. Look for their return in the future!


    Achievements

    • Two achievement categories have been added to the Living World achievement group:
      • Clockwork Chaos contains all release-related achievements and the meta-achievement for this release.
      • Emissary Vorpp’s field assistant contains achievements related to the Living World story for this release. It serves as a guide to completing key achievements in the Clockwork Chaos category.
    • Completing the Clockwork Chaos meta-achievement awards the player an Infinite Watchknight Tonic. Completing this meta-achievement requires players to complete 18 achievements from either the Clockwork Chaos category or the dailies related to the Clockwork Chaos release.


    Exotic Drop

    • Play Clockwork Chaos content for a chance at the exotic Twisted Watchwork Portal Device Recipe.
    • The recipe requires a level 400 artificer. The ingredients are 50 Watchwork Sprockets, 50 Bowls of Salsa, 1 Unidentified Dye, and 1 Glob of Dark Matter.
    • The Twisted Watchwork Portal Device is a single-use consumable that teleports the user to a random place in Tyria. The destination may be very rewarding, very dangerous, both, or anywhere in between.


    NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT
    World vs. World


    • Trebuchet Mastery has been added to the Ranks and Abilities tab.
      • Increased the damage of trebuchet skills.
      • Disease Cloud from cow ammo now drains supply from enemy players.
      • Increased the radius of trebuchet skills.
      • New skill: Healing Oasis—Fires a shot that heals allies and creates a water combo field.
      • Basic shots that hit enemy supply depots will now destroy some of the objective’s supply.
    • WvW Ability Points are now equal to the earned WvW rank of each character. All rank 1 characters will have 1 World Ability Point.
    • Liquid World Experience is now available as a drop in WvW rank-up chests. When consumed, characters receive a set amount of WXP.


    Culling

    • Server-side culling has been removed from all PvE maps. More information on culling may be found in this blog post.


    BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH
    Achievements


    • The character-select screen now displays information about several achievement categories in addition to unlocked account medals.
    • The watch list in the Achievements panel now supports drag-and-drop functionality to organize achievements.
    • Additional visual and audio polish has been added to the achievements system.


    General

    • The amount of karma granted from consumable karma items has been increased. Karma boosts no longer affect the amount of karma gained from consumable items.
    • The minimap and objective list no longer disappear when a character is downed or defeated
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    Story

    • “Last of the Giant-Kings” – Korag is now flagged as a veteran to match his difficulty.


    Profession Skills
    Elementalist:


    • Signet of Restoration: The signet effect will now play at the start of the cast for this skill.
    • Glyph of Elementals: Removed an unnecessary range fact.


    Engineer:

    • Flame Turret—Overcharge: The skill fact now displays the correct radius.
    • Elixir Gun—Elixir F: Added a bouncing skill fact to the base skill when it is traited with Rifled Barrels.
    • Thump: Updated the damage skill fact to more accurately reflect the damage done.
    • Jump Shot: Fixed a bug that caused the vulnerability applied by this skill to be unblockable.


    Guardian:

    • Purifying Ribbon: Added a skill fact for the number of bounces.
    • Signet of Wrath: Added a damage skill fact.
    • Faithful Strike: Updated the healing fact to display the correct value. Added a radius skill fact.
    • Bane Signet: Added a passive skill fact and changed the knockdown fact to display the correct duration when this skill is traited with Perfect Inscriptions.
    • Signet of Judgment: Added a passive skill fact that is also updated when traited with Perfect Inscriptions.
    • Signet of Mercy: Added a passive skill fact that is also updated when traited with Perfect Inscriptions.
    • Signet of Wrath: Added a passive skill fact that is also updated when traited with Perfect Inscriptions.
    • Virtue of Resolve: Updated the buff skill fact to accurately display the healing per tick.
    • Hammer of Wisdom: Updated the damage facts for this skill as well as its Command skill.
    • Sword of Justice—Command: Fixed an issue that caused the Command skill to go on full recharge without activating properly when used without a target.


    Mesmer:

    • Power Cleanse: Removed the range fact as it was unnecessary.
    • Mind Spike: Fixed a bug where this skill was checking for a boon on the mesmer instead of on the target. The extra damage will now be correctly applied when the player’s target has no active boons.
    • Moa Morph/Tuna Morph: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to appear unselectable while underwater.
    • All Phantasms: The ghostly effect on phantasms should no longer fail to show up in low graphics settings.
    • The Prestige: Fixed an issue that caused the blast finisher to occur at the point where the skill is cast, rather than on the mesmer.


    Necromancer:

    • Putrid Explosion: Added an unblockable skill fact to indicate the skill’s functionality.
    • Bone Fiend: Updated the range skill fact to indicate the creature’s actual range.
    • Lich Form: Updated the skill fact description so that it doesn’t indicate it removes spectral forms.
    • Plague Form: Updated the skill fact description so that it doesn’t indicate it removes spectral forms.
    • Chill of Death: Changed the radius skill fact to a range skill fact.


    Ranger:

    • Swoop: The charge portion of this skill no longer spams “miss” while running toward an enemy.
    • Juvenile Lynx—Rending Pounce: Updated the bleed skill fact to display the proper amount of bleeds.
    • Frost Spirit: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Cold Snap: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Sun Spirit: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Solar Flare: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Stone Spirit: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Quicksand: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Storm Spirit: Added a radius skill fact.
    • Call Lightning: Added a damage skill fact and a radius skill fact.
    • Crippling Talon: The projectile thrown will now travel the full distance when traited with Off-Hand Training.


    Thief:

    • Infiltrator’s Signet: Updated the signet’s effect to properly follow the thief when activated.
    • Flanking Strike: Removed a redundant damage fact.


    Warrior:

    • Seismic Leap: Fixed a bug so that this skill will now properly be a blast combo finisher.
    • Rampage—Dash: Fixed a bug that allowed the character to move further than intended.
    • Whirling Axe: Updated the skill fact to include a radius.
    • Banner of Discipline, Banner of Strength, Banner of Defense, and Battle Standard: Updated these skills to properly display their duration. Battle Standard now displays the casting range of the skill.
    • Banner—Sprint: This skill will now properly strike a target when it reaches the target while underwater.
    • Kill Shot: Fixed a bug so that this skill will no longer drain the energy of a target that reflects it.


    Racial:

    • Asura
      • Pain Inverter: Replaced the range skill fact with a radius one to more accurately reflect the skill’s function.


    Structured Player vs. Player

    • Minimap is now always centered and cannot be panned or zoomed.
    • Secondary objective icons for tournament maps have been repainted for clarity.
    • Map art for tournament maps have been repainted for clarity.
    • Downed icons no longer overlap profession icons.
    • Spectate camera icons no longer steal mouse focus from capture point icons when not visible.
    • Profession icons are now a fixed size regardless of map zoom level.
    • Player icons now show names in their tooltip.
    • Removed the capture point text from the map.
    • All capture point icons now properly show their name in the tooltip.


    World vs. World

    • The Outnumbered buff now provides a 25% boost to all WXP gained.
    • WXP rates have been increased across the board. All activities that award WXP should now reward much more.
    • The Siege Decay buff is no longer visible to hostile players.


    BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
    New Items and Promotions
    • The Zodiac Weapon Skins are now available for purchase from the Black Lion Weapon Specialist. This weapon skin set is inspired by the classic Guild Wars Zodiac weapons. For one month only, until September 16, these weapon skins cost only 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket. Claim Ticket Scraps can be acquired by opening Black Lion Chests. Black Lion Chest Keys are available in the Gem Store in the Consumable category for 125 gems each or a pack of 5 for 450 gems.
    • Mini 3-Pack Set 2 is now available in the Gem Store in the Minis category for 300 gems. Open this pack to get three random minis from an entirely new set of miniatures! Each pack contains two common and one uncommon mini from set 2. Collect all 46 new minis! The Mini 3-Pack Set 1 is also still available for anyone looking to complete their set 1 collection.
    • The Permanent* *Twisted Watchwork Finisher is now available in the Gem Store in the Upgrades category for 800 gems. This upgrade gives players unlimited, account-wide access to this twisted finisher.
    • The World vs. World Experience Booster is now available in the Gem Store in the Booster category for 150 gems. This consumable grants 50% more WvW experience for one hour.

    Zodiac Sword/Greatsword/Dagger are sexy as hell. I can say that much.

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    Weird thing happened to me during an invasion, all of Scarlet's spawns were centered on me the entire time. So around a dozen times, she spawned directly on top of me, knocking me down each time. A couple of times when I was no where near other events. I kept an eye on the map looking to see if she ever spawned anywhere I wasn't, and I didn't see her anywhere else even once. Needless to say it was annoying, but funny at the same time.

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    Taking out culling in PvE was interesting, but holy hell at trying to fight Scarlet without it. I thought my system froze up about 5 times during the fight with her.

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    Yea unusually large fights have become super laggy.

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    Totally worth it though. All those loot boxes... <3 <3 <3

    Now if only I could get one of those rare exotics. So friggin close to my Colossus.

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    If you're lagging due to culling then you're doing it wrong. There are options to let you cull more people than before if you wish to do so, it's just an optional setting now rather than across the board. I get like 40-50dps at Scarlet.

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    Are you a douche all the time or just in this subforum?