[QUOTE=Zephyrs;23792316]but if you grab pain inverter in eye of the north any target that does large amounts of damage just instantly explodes. It's easy to do 2,000 damage instantly with that skill, which can drop most bosses.[/QUOTE]
How does it do that? The wiki says that it can do 100-140% of damage of a maximum base damage of 80.
[QUOTE=Newbienice99;23894827]How does it do that? The wiki says that it can do 100-140% of damage of a maximum base damage of 80.[/QUOTE]
If the boss deals multiple packets of damage. If you have 8 party members, and the boss uses an AoE Skill, he gets struck for 8*80. The numbers can soar if you have a MM and/or SoS.
So it really only works with some bosses.
[QUOTE=Newbienice99;23900007]So it really only works with some bosses.[/QUOTE]
It works on pretty much every single elementalist and ritualist foe. It works on a lot of necromancers and mesmers, and even monks (smite hex/condition). The only thing it doesn't do lolrific damage to are martial classes, though some dervishes have PBAoEs, and hundred blades or barrage can deal a lot as well. You can instantly kill tundra giants with it when they use giants stomp. Cast it on shiroken elementalists. Watch them star burst into a corpse. Roaring Ethers? Esurge and they drop. Ruby dinjin? Shitterflames into a grave.
The skill does up to 80 damage per packet. Essentially anything that has an AoE explodes when it uses it. All it takes is 500-600 damage to drop most normal foes instantly.
Even if the foe is a martial one, it still does a lot, unless you are running some sort of heavy heavy blockway team with aegis chains and miss hexes. The skill works on everything, but it is ridiculous against most casters. For a while while calculated risk was bugged you could basically have 2 pain inverters on one bar. And one was a 7 second recharge that lasted 20+ seconds. With fast casting this was more like 5 seconds, and while it only redirected half the damage, the cap was 100, and it prevented the damage that it redirected.
I don't suppose anyone has a Dervish skill tome, do they? I really need one, or I'll have to finish all of Nightfall to get the skill I need.
Elite or regular? If is a regular skill just unlock it with Balthazar faction and buy it in Spamadan. Once a skill is unlocked it is available at every trainer in its respective campaign. Core skills are available everywhere, including the guild hall.
If it's elite, let me guess. The only Dervish elite in the Realm of Torment is Onslaught. All other skills are can be capped once you gain access to Vabbi (Kodash Bazaar and such)
I'm still pissed about the Shadowform nerf
[QUOTE=TheTalon;23982899]I'm still pissed about the Shadowform nerf[/QUOTE]
Why? You can still maintain permanent spell immunity quite easily with it. It is still the cornerstone in speed clears because it lets you solo dozens of groups with impunity. You're just not flat out invincible with it anymore.
Flat out invincibility is really, really bad for any game. Are you aware of the fact that the economy suffered a collapse because of shadowform and various pve only skills?
Sure, the value of most things in a MMO game decreases over time because they don't break or wear out, and the overall supply will increase slowly. (Minipets are a perfect example of this. Year 1 and 2 pets are nearly worthless. Year 5 pets still go for a bit.) However ursan blessing and shadowform saturated the economy with rare items at a rate that simply could not be kept up with. The game has a limit on your available currency, and so people used a valuable item, the ecto, as an alternate form of currency. This lead to a somewhat inflated value because people hoarded them. By flooding the market with them the value crashed as the bubble, which had been stable for a long time, popped. Ecto's are a consumable item, so it wasn't like they weren't leaving the economy.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;23979545]Elite or regular? If is a regular skill just unlock it with Balthazar faction and buy it in Spamadan. Once a skill is unlocked it is available at every trainer in its respective campaign. Core skills are available everywhere, including the guild hall.
If it's elite, let me guess. The only Dervish elite in the Realm of Torment is Onslaught. All other skills are can be capped once you gain access to Vabbi (Kodash Bazaar and such)[/QUOTE]
Regular, but I don't have any Balthazar faction, and don't feel like doing pvp repeatedly to get it. I just bought one
Is it just the time I went, or is ABing dead in Guild Wars now?
I play it 'Connor38 - Masons dream lover - W/Mo level 20
[QUOTE=Newbienice99;23987735]Regular, but I don't have any Balthazar faction, and don't feel like doing pvp repeatedly to get it. I just bought one[/QUOTE]
Tomes only let you buy unlocked skills.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;23997570]Tomes only let you buy unlocked skills.[/QUOTE]
Aye, was thinking that too but he probably just bought it on a different character with a secondary profession change to Dervish.
[QUOTE=Gnomie;24000292]Aye, was thinking that too but he probably just bought it on a different character with a secondary profession change to Dervish.[/QUOTE]
Then it's available at EVERY trainer in nightfall.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;24000603]Then it's available at EVERY trainer in nightfall.[/QUOTE]
Then what's the point of tomes.
[QUOTE=Newbienice99;24001019]Then what's the point of tomes.[/QUOTE]
They are generally cheaper than buying a skill. Think of it this way. Eventually every skill costs 1,000 gold to buy. A regular tome is usually available for half that. It doesn't matter if you haven't yet reached the 1 plat mark on skills, you are delaying that by using a tome, hence still saving money. Due to stuff like raptor farming outside Rata Sum, sin tomes are worth less than 200 gold a hit. Elite sin tomes are only around a couple plat a hit. These are exceptions due to the incredible amount of farming going on there though.
They don't consume a skill point.
They also allow you to get skills form any campaign. You can have a level 3 prophecies character in Ascalon (post), and have a bar made up of nightfall, factions and eye of the north skills.
I will say, I don't find regular tomes to be very useful. Actually I don't find elite tomes to be very useful either since most of my characters have gotten the elites I would want them to have.
I forgot my login info and contacted support. About 28 hours later, A-net has still not gotten back with me. Drats.
[QUOTE=Lucario;24067832]I forgot my login info and contacted support. About 28 hours later, A-net has still not gotten back with me. Drats.[/QUOTE]
This happened to a friend for weeks because... well, what I think happened was, he had his account name and password... he just forgot his character name.
And part of me wonders how he forgot it if he played the game so much.
I have an account that has some GW crap on it. Now I just have to remember what the account is, wohey..
Sweet, a security question that asks me for a name of a character I have. And I have no clue.
It's sad that I have all the Guild Wars discs but I never really played the game hardcore... played it for maybe a month or two. Re-installing them now to hopefully get into things a little, albeit late... >_<
I have the worst luck. I got a build to do solow UW on a rit. I kill all the aatxes I can, graspings, mindblade spectres, and everything, and once in a while I'll get an ecto. Now my friend, who's doing the exact same build and run (actually, he kills less than me), is getting like 2-4 ecto every run.
This also reminds me of the time, before the Skeletons of Dhuum update, where I killed smite crawlers for a week straight and never got an ecto.
Makes me sad that it took since GW release to make 200k
I got lucky in a couple of dungeon runs and got weapons worth >100k...
Also, is this old-fashioned GW facepunch guild still going? I've been looking for a new guild to join, seeing as my old one basically split up and all my friends are in elite guilds that I'm not pro enough to join (need to have 2 characters that can do DoA, 2 for UW, and 2 for FoW... Excessive much?)
Last time I was in it, maybe 2 or 3 people were active.
1 guy's been online 3 weeks ago, rest even more
gonna be on for awhile as "pharoh xainiax"
[QUOTE=Newbienice99;24215504]I have the worst luck. I got a build to do solow UW on a rit. I kill all the aatxes I can, graspings, mindblade spectres, and everything, and once in a while I'll get an ecto. Now my friend, who's doing the exact same build and run (actually, he kills less than me), is getting like 2-4 ecto every run.
This also reminds me of the time, before the Skeletons of Dhuum update, where I killed smite crawlers for a week straight and never got an ecto.
Makes me sad that it took since GW release to make 200k[/QUOTE]
Speed clears. The payoff is so much better than simple solo farming it isn't even funny.
Also, if you power trade you can make a 100 plat an hour standing in town doing nothing. Bought 2 everlasting boreal tonics a few days ago for 20 ectos a hit. Sold one for 30 ectos, and am looking to sell the other for 25-30. This is 15-20 ectos or 100-130k in an hour, and this is the low end. Power trading the very rare items (while risking financial suicide if you play incorrectly) can yield 100-500 ecto in a month of fairly casual play.
You need to have decent funds to get started, but you can make money hand over fist if you put your mind to it.
I would like to do speedclears, but I don't have anyone to teach me. I don't want to just join a random group because I'll be shit, and I'm too polite to waste people's time.
And I'm sure I could powertrade, but I can't exactly do that when I don't have anything valuable. Plus, I have no idea what the price of things should be, because I don't have, or want any of them.
My lukc is improving though, I'm getting 2 or 3 ectos a run now, which is great for me.
I've been playing GW a bit recently... Doing a lot of Jade Quarry. But I'm not in the FP Guild... Leaving my guild would be like removing the largest part of GW for me, since I've been with them since the Beta Weekend Events
[QUOTE=TheTalon;24329735]But I'm not in the FP Guild... Leaving my guild would be like removing the largest part of GW for me, since I've been with them since the Beta Weekend Events[/QUOTE]
That's good, cause no one is in the FP guild.
I wish I was still in my old guild from like 2 or 3 years ago. But when I went inactive, I got kicked, and I don't know any of the remaining people well enough.
I just got my account password reset from about a year ago, deleted all my characters, and started anew - do we have a guild still up?
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