Posts by justice

  • What criteria if any is required for a monk hero to use party heals?

    Divine Favor is applied once per monk spell cast. Even healing touch that doubles it only applies it once. Healing burst applies it once to target but then also heals other party members for an equal value.

  • What criteria if any is required for a monk hero to use party heals?

    Quote from max2562
    Quote from justice

    Divine Healing and Heavens Delight are only legit in an Unyieding Aura build. Otherwise they are just too weak to be meaningful for a player/hero.

    I give henchmen a pass for using it because if 2 monks use it, it's ok party support. We'll for henchmen that is.

    Interesting. I've not looked into Unyielding Aura enough it seems. Would a build require higher Divine Favor vs Healing Prayers? In the description it states that the bonus does not apply to Divine Favor. Does that just prevent a skill or two from being overpowered? Still, think I'll look into this more.


    Thanks m8

    I just think UA not affecting divine favor was a side effect. UA affects direct healing and divine favor is indirect.

    Tested it and its 2 allies below 75% hp and a monk will use Divine Healing / Heaven's Delight.


    my UA Hero Monk

    Divine Favor: 12+1+2 (major rune in helm)

    Healing Prayers: 12+2 (major rune)

    Heaven's Delight, Divine Healing, Patient Spirit, Dwayna's Kiss, Orison of Healing, Cure Hex, Healing Seed, Unyielding Aura

    Stack the rest of the gear with health, energy and armor.

  • What criteria if any is required for a monk hero to use party heals?

    Quote from max2562
    Quote from justice

    Heroes use it, henchmen use it. I presume its when ~3 or more targets need healing they will use it.

    Hmmm... if its 3 then I might try testing again to see if its worth using it. Put myself in some nasty situations and see if it works. I figure with high divine favor it would be a good party savior at just the right moment.

    Divine Healing and Heavens Delight are only legit in an Unyieding Aura build. Otherwise they are just too weak to be meaningful for a player/hero.

    I give henchmen a pass for using it because if 2 monks use it, it's ok party support. We'll for henchmen that is.

  • 20th Year Update Announcement

    Quote from Neutral_CH

    Apart from this news, I hope that the official store will sell off everything at 50% during the event, including costumes, account upgrades, etc. And will also offer items and emotes available with the collector's versions..

    That would be stepping on everyone who bought those exclusive codes, limited by physical copies. Its unlikely they will do that and probably why they went with the in game route of adding skins, an already grey area.

  • Tyria-locked Ironman

    I was able to complete Dunes of Despair using the teleport glitch without pre-killing the 1st general even. I used the slow totem on the east gate (left when facing altar) so I had just enough time to run past the 2nd group of forgotten ele entering the west gate (right when facing altar). I wasn't able to get passed even 2 forgotten ele without alesia getting crushed so I had to kill them so she could be rezed. It was ugly but we did it. Continued to run out west gate and around fort killing like 6 jades. Killed 1st general which was necro, then monk general and warrior general. Had ~1:45 extra time. Same derpy build as before but I put frenzy on it too for a little more dps when energy permitted. I did record and can post if you like.

    GL on this bonus. I am afraid of trying Thirsty River.


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  • 20th Year Update Announcement

    I assumed these would always drop as req 9 rares inscribable but they also chose to break them up by region so idk.

    As they are rare they "shouldn't" drop in pre. Might want to farm a little there to make sure on patch day rofl.

    I am more interested in the quests being dropped in. Are these going to be hard mode versions or just quests needing to be completed in hard mode? I am curious if they actually went and rebalanced some endgame areas for these "hardmode" quests.

  • Tyria-locked Ironman

    So I tried this method for several hours and it just doesn't work out. Getting the ghostly hero outside the fort doing this and when you run back in there are already ele foes converging in on you so I don't see how you even get out of the fort without wiping. I did try killing them off 1 group at a time but it takes a lot of time just to see more foes coming in. Not saying its impossible it is just very tedious and time consuming to setup.

    To get the henchmen to kill goss aleessh lure him up by the bridge and get him down to like 1/3 hp and then grab hero and run him to the altar. The henchmen will kill him in that time or close to.

  • Tyria-locked Ironman

    Yeah I couldn't figure out the npc so I went to wiki again and checked the flow chart. Apparently it is basically locked behind EotN. We can get the confessor orders but we cant do anything with them.

    I got a lucky boss spawn setup. Full ranged the first general (ranger and 2 bows) and his spawn group (the 3 necro forgotten) before taking ghostly hero to altar. Got necro boss entering west gate. Got monk general on right side and warrior general on left. The ele boss might have been quicker than the monk boss but I had enough pressure dps to kill and enough time to clear out the warrior boss team before the monk general's spawn group got to the ghostly hero.

    My build was,

    W/E

    Air 12, Fire 12

    Glimmering Mark, Mark of Rodgort, Glyph of Lesser Energy, Conjure Flame

    Used a collector fire staff with a +27 hale mod. Didn't have a wrap for it, +% enchanting would have been ideal. Had a mix of radiant/survivor insignias. Didn't bother changing my major axe/strength runes out.

    Lina/Alesia/Stephan/Dunham/Claude

    Could probably have changed out lina or stephan for reyna to get better burning up time and cap out the bosses degen since they have natural resistance for +3 HR.


    Beyond simply fishing for a good spawn on the bosses I would estimate a player needs to do a minimum of about 35 ranged single target dps to have enough time to clear the bonus.

  • Tyria-locked Ironman

    Quote from CuriousAz
    Quote from justice

    I was happy to hit r3 on my prophecies only ele account to get the ebon vanguard merchant but then realized most of it didn't mean much. A few rez scrolls might possibly one day be useful.

    Those res scrolls, powerstones and summoning stones might be how I bruteforce my way through 4 and 6 man HM missions ._.

    Too bad there aren't any ways to get Asura/Norn/Delver without entering EotN. Got really excited for about 45 seconds though when I realized you can 8/13 pages of Young Heroes of Tyria and max Sunspear and Lightbringer that way, followed by a deep sadness when I stopped being illiterate and realized I'd have to turn in the book in the Sunspear Great Hall and Chantry of Secrets...hopes=dashed

    They only give 1k rep points each anyhow for 8 missions. You would have to "bruteforce" your way through each 100 times ;)


    If you can get access to Elder Rabne you might have good consumable access through royal gifts maybe?

  • Will there be anything new for anniversairy? If so, WHAT? Let’s share your thoughts! (:

    They will announce guild wars 2 server shutdown and guild wars 1 will resume development as the great experiment failed. They will hire back gaile gray, mike obrien, jeff strain and that other guy. Then they will update all the graphics. Do a full skill rebalance. Add in hardmode in presearing. Add all the god realms. Release an Orr expansion. Open all the prophecies arenas to level 20s and force players to play them. Give us mounts and jump. Add in extra hardmode. Make energy surge ear shot range. Make obsidian armor available in shing jea, ascalon city and kamadan. Make all dyes black dye.

    But that's just my speculation to this totally original question.

  • Griefing in Fort Aspenwood a troubling occurance

    Quote from Arena

    I've been to busy to play FA recently so I haven't seen this behavior. That said, that is super lame. Has it been going on for weeks or just this weekend? Maybe just name drop the person here, and in the lobby, so people can get them dishonorable consistently as soon as they que. You could also record it, and send it to Anet support. drstephencw is also reachable via various platforms and occasionally on in game. I'd imagine he would hear you out. Hope this helps.

    Eh skill griefing been around for a long time. Used to be stuff like iron mist that eventually got functionality changed out of FA. The game mode has a small community so it likely could be possible for the GM to address this one person and/or have the pbaoe heal everyone skills pvp functionality changed.

  • Tyria-locked Ironman

    Yeah I don't like doing "no death" type runs as you end up playing safe and tedious in a not enjoyable way. If you are hiding in the backline and running away from a fight or porting out early because things are getting a little scary it doesn't strike me as playing better. Anybody who has randomly had someone leave a pug because "sorry I am working on survivor" knows.

    Did you get dunes of disrepair?

  • Tyria-locked Ironman

    Warrior is good for a normal mode prophecies playthrough, it is trash in hardmode. You get hard countered as a melee while still having to somehow carry the team. I can't imagine trying to 6 man deldrimor bowl as a warrior. Did it with necromancer years ago and it took me like 1.5 hrs. Eastern Frontier is another nasty one as 4 man against patrolling groups with 2 grawl healers. Ended up doing it as mesmer with signet of midnight on my bar for some reason I cannot remember why.

  • Questeion: Chest Running - overfarming mechanics and counter measures

    Quote from Ostona
    Quote from Taichi_The_Real

    And furthermore, why is it so goddamn hard to find a semi usable OS shield drop? Out of all drops I've had there was one shield that I'd use on my war, even though its Q12. Seems rare enough to even get a shield with two mods, but getting one that's actually usable has to be the equivalent of winning the lottery ^^ I'd appreciate any advice!

    That's perhaps the main reason why in 2005 the green shields Grognar's Defender, Thorgall's Shield, Tanzit's Defender, Victo's Bulwark, Malinon's Shield were so expensive, since they were weapons that drop with perfect stats, and the Carapace Shields from the collectors Hagnon Warblade/Yorik Warblade in the Snake Dance were the another alternative.

    I don't remember playing with OS shields back in 2005 at all, I think I always wielded random shitty shields until I was able to pick the Emboldened Carapace Shield in Snake Dance, and time later I bought the Victo's Bulwark. And I only used the Grognar's Defender or Malinon's Shield while farming minotaurs.

    I remember thinking malinon's shield was the best shield ever,

    for my monk 😂

  • Get 8 adrenalin charges with spear: +33% adrenaline VS +33% attack speed

    Spear of Lightning

    "Find Their Weakness!"

    "Go for the Eyes!"

    "Save Yourselves!"

    "There's Nothing to Fear!"

    Focused Anger

    "Can't Touch This!"

    "Don't Trip!" / Ebon Vanguard Standard of Honor / (elective skill)


    Spear Mastery: 12+4

    Leadership: 9+1

    Command: 9


    Get a shield with -20% blind duration and the rune Clarity. "Cant Touch This!" will block throw dirt and lightning touch while your double -20% will reduce other sources by 2-4 seconds. Most blind is 5-10 seconds.

    Get 3 spears with fire/lighting/cold mods.


    Spike with 1/2/3 stacked up and 1/3 otherwise. Buff with the defensive shouts.

    If you were wondering, Spear of Lightning spike with the 2 shouts can crit 60 armor rating foes for like 150 and another 100 for deep wound. Important for when dealing with pesky healers.


    Give your blood hero Mark of Fury. Easy adrenaline and cracked armor for dropping targets.


    If you can afford it, get some Essence of Celerity. IAS/IMS/Recharge Reduction streamlines a paragon so much. You don't have to pop it for casual gameplay but for vanqs its wonderful.