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i swear that "minigame" in the arah path where you relay the lantern is bugged to hell every group i've done that with took like a half hour on that alone constantly throwing that thing and having it shatter at the recipient's feet
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Unless something has changed in the past few weeks - the orb throwing has always been a little weird. You need to have the thrown object itself to pass through the character's hitbox, not just placing the AoE indicator at their feet, so in practice you need to throw a bit behind them so that they'll catch it. Or just use a thief/mesmer and have them portal + teleport the orb to the end
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I wouldn't do that particular path without goons. There's a few of that have the lantern poo poo down to a science and can do it w/ like 2 people
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I have some questions about alacrity mech i hope someone can take the time to answer. I have found several builds online and there and there are quite a lot of variation to them, so i am trying to figure out which differences are impactful and not. I don't have the resources to try all the variants so i need to figure this out before investing into new gear. Basically i want an alacrity build for difficult open world content like the final fight in dragon's end. Boon uptime and survivability takes priority over dps Is rifle still the go-to weapon for alacrit mech? It seems the alacrity skill is fairly short range, does that mean you will be mostly in melee range despite using a rifle? I have found builds on hardstuck and snowcrows. These seems very minmaxed so i assume they are for raids? These builds state you must have a minimum of 32% boon duration, and 100% crit. 32% boon duration sounds stressful so i am thinking of increasing that? Why does these build need 100% crit? Just for damage or are there any procs or triggers from critting? I have found a recent build using a hammer instead, how does that hold up to rifle? The same hammer build has a survivability variant for open world content. That immediately drew my eye, however when looking at the build it is mostly just swapping out firearms for alchemy resulting in a lot more boon duration but no real difference in hitpoints. What makes this a survivabilty build? Can i use rifle instead of hammer in this same survivability build?
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Ineptitude posted:I have some questions about alacrity mech i hope someone can take the time to answer. I have found several builds online and there and there are quite a lot of variation to them, so i am trying to figure out which differences are impactful and not. I don't have the resources to try all the variants so i need to figure this out before investing into new gear. Most builds have swapped to Hammer because its more DPS. If you're mainly concerned with open world, you can stick with rifle to have a bit more flexibility in terms of positioning (although you need to stay close to your mech). The alac skill range is 600, which is quite wide as far as boon ranges go (edit: oops forgot that the barrier mech skill only has 360 range). But going melee is generally easier, unless you have a good eye (and skill) for positioning your mech. The Mr Mystic build looks fairly standard, so I'd go with that. You don't need to go above that boon duration - as around that gets you to 100% alac uptime. The survivability one is about increasing self healing and condition removal. DoNotFeedTheBear fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Dec 6, 2023 10:24
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i did arah 4 today with guild it took 42 minutes gently caress arah
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I did arah 1 (despite saying I wouldn't) and it still took like 35 minutes still not as bad as near launch dungeon running!!! Running dungeons does make me realize how big of a number elite specs did on the game though lol
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Dec 6, 2023 18:29
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I remember doing arah p4 in 2013 and it took us like four hours.
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Mr. Neutron posted:I remember doing arah p4 in 2013 and it took us like four hours. same, but the spider dungeon at launch. the one in the sylvari zone? you know the one.
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Holy poo poo I gassed myself up on thinking that the bouncy chest with 80 tokens? That was dungeon rush stuff. I had so little incentive to run dungeons that I completely forgot that's just regular rewards. God drat. Well, I guess this does still make me want to run dungeons, but I also feels like it's very dire that I couldn't remember that these *were the regular rewards*
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0epxFmh3Ub/ They teased a little of the new things for Wintersday.
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Did a couple jump puzzles today and wanted to come back for a thanking you. I finished off the Ember Bay collection and then have completed that puzzle and a bunch more. I still need to get better, but it's not a daunting task ending in abject misery. 
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Just did a Convergence for the first time, that was surprisingly easy. Best part about it was the mastery point for doing one, since I still need like 30 of them to finish all the mastery tracks. No idea what to choose from the chest at the end, so I just stashed it for now.
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binge crotching posted:No idea what to choose from the chest at the end, so I just stashed it for now. Someone who is good at looting please help me loot this. My bank tabs are dying.
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For the Skywatch/Amnytas/Nayos choice chests, you'll probably want the first item (ie, Case of Captured Lightning) if you plan to make the new legendary armor. If you never plan to make the legendary armor, I think it depends on your goals.
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Usually amalgamated gemstones or jade runestones are what you want for raw gold.
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I have like 18 unopened Convergence choice chests because I have no idea what I need from it. I'm guessing it's probably best to just hold onto them and assess how many of each tier of essence I need once the armor is officially out. Weird that it offers amalgamated when none of that is needed for SotO so far.
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ptroll posted:Usually amalgamated gemstones or jade runestones are what you want for raw gold. this is the way gandlethorpe posted:I have like 18 unopened Convergence choice chests because I have no idea what I need from it. i'm stashing all the convergence/rift chests, they're far more inventory efficient than essence stacks 
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Truga posted:i'm stashing all the convergence/rift chests, they're far more inventory efficient than essence stacks Especially when it's so easy to run out of the ecto to combine them now 
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Honestly with how much farming you will have to do getting the essences from the chests is kind of a waste Amalgamated gemstones or the items for legendary crafting are just the way to go, tbh
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Reoxygenation posted:Honestly with how much farming you will have to do getting the essences from the chests is kind of a waste I have to disagree if only because gold comes from everywhere else in the game but kryptis essences only come from here. 70s for a gemstone is not as valuable as Having to Do Less Rifts
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Dec 7, 2023 20:14
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Sure but I have like a third of a legendary armor set from just doing a daily-ish convergence and doing the weekly 5 rifts per some area for like, 2-3 weeks since SotO released. If they were like, 5x the amount of what is currency offered, but lol @ 100/50/20
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Tried out the Hammer Alacrity Mech build from MrMystic. Opted to go for the video variant and not the survivability variant. Not sure hammer is my playstyle, both rifle and p/p feels so much more fun to use. Had a good first impression of the build by getting 3 back to back rifts at the end of the world in Nayos, and flinging myself off said world with Hammer3 on every rift (despite the rift boss being between me and the edge, and targeted)
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Reoxygenation posted:Sure but I have like a third of a legendary armor set from just doing a daily-ish convergence and doing the weekly 5 rifts per some area for like, 2-3 weeks since SotO released. If they were like, 5x the amount of what is currency offered, but lol @ 100/50/20 Well, we don't know yet what the final collection to unlock the tokens from Lyhr entails. Could be another Kryptis sink.
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gandlethorpe posted:Well, we don't know yet what the final collection to unlock the tokens from Lyhr entails. Could be another Kryptis sink. I don't think they wash their hands, OP
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gandlethorpe posted:Well, we don't know yet what the final collection to unlock the tokens from Lyhr entails. Could be another Kryptis sink. poo poo. That is true, hadn't considered that
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Speaking of mrmystic, the latest scourge OW build he's posted is absolutely bananas. I never thought any build could ever match celestial salvation vindicator in sheer durability but this one certainly does. I only modified it slightly to include signet of undeath instead of third well (on single target if things aren't dying around you the life force generation is somewhat slow) and firebrand runes (I hate having quickness drop, ever)
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Ineptitude posted:Tried out the Hammer Alacrity Mech build from MrMystic. Welcome to hammer 3 engi. You end up getting gud at knowing where you are with respect to edges around you and repositioning. But if you have your target locked in you shouldn't go past them - if you do, it means you probably accidentally retargeted (which is easy to do, depending on settings). It is a very solid build though, so don't give up on it just yet!
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Mr. Neutron posted:Speaking of mrmystic, the latest scourge OW build he's posted is absolutely bananas. I never thought any build could ever match celestial salvation vindicator in sheer durability but this one certainly does. Double post, but yeah it's good. Scourge is one of my fav specs.
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I've been playing GW1 lately as a ritualist and it makes me feel frustration from the short durations of the sand spirits created by hammering F1 in GW2. If they lasted twice as long or attacked like ritualist spirits, I would never not play scourge.
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You could always try Engineer turrets  (Don’t do this)
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Mr. Neutron posted:Speaking of mrmystic, the latest scourge OW Is this one of the new beta weapons, and nerfs are incoming?
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Ineptitude posted:Is this one of the new beta weapons, and nerfs are incoming? Nope, pistol is available to all necros right now. You can also use a scepter if you prefer (or properly minmax by swapping between them but then you're playing a lazy open world build wrong ).
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Pistol/Torch Necro of all flavors is really powerful and synergizes well. I haven't backed off from it, even as Reaper.
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Do people still run the Serpents' Ire meta in Vabbi? For whatever reason, I decided doing that little golem dude's collection would be the way I finish my Sandswept Isles achievements for Vision.
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gandlethorpe posted:Do people still run the Serpents' Ire meta in Vabbi? For whatever reason, I decided doing that little golem dude's collection would be the way I finish my Sandswept Isles achievements for Vision. Not regularly. It does happen, but you might benefit from waiting til it comes on one of the daily or weekly rotations.
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You can probably get it tonight if you're in NA. There's a guild that does PoFridays and I'm pretty sure they do Serpents Ire. I see it announced on the OTC discord.
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gandlethorpe posted:Do people still run the Serpents' Ire meta in Vabbi? For whatever reason, I decided doing that little golem dude's collection would be the way I finish my Sandswept Isles achievements for Vision. Yes, Frog sometimes does a meta run that includes SI. i can not for the life of me remember the time though.
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Ok, cool. I did find a comment on reddit mentioning a guild that runs all the PoF metas, but it was from almost a year ago. Good to know it's still going on.
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