User talk:Ruine Eternelle

Hai :3

Just wanted to say thanks again for the comment you left on my talk page and for making the red link turn blue! I also answered there, but you can never be too sure people see it. I really enjoy your user page, and I've been loving editing the wiki at the moment! I've created a very personal layout to my page so I'll be able to keep it updated for whoever might be interested :P

As for LDoA, I'm moving forward! My E/Me is now level 9 and looking forward to starting with the Vanguard quests. I'm a really big coward though, so I don't get a lot done due to the constant fear of dying (because I'm aiming to get Survivor too!).. I've heard of level 8 mesmers that can run Northlands without dying, but I don't understand how that's possible at all! Oh well.. I'm working on it!

Either way, just wanted to point out I like your page and you seem nice, woop woop! (Also wasn't sure if you wanted new content at the top or bottom, so I went for top 'cause that's how I'd like it! Feel free to move!) Jackie File:User JackieDiJackJack Heart.gif 22:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome ! I don't get a lot of comments on my main page, so thank you for your message ;)

Level 9 is awesome ! E/Me is an interesting choice which can prove to be really good when you start farming hamnet, but indeed at lvl9 charrs may not be easy to kill.

Do you have the fire imp ? (use the /bonus command in chat to get the summoning stone if it's unlocked on your account). This little guy can really turn the tide in a battle. If possible, try also to get the headgear from Yakkington and a Rune of Minor Fire Magic to use on it (the combo will grant +2 in Fire Magic attribute => more damage with Fire Storm and Flare). These are tow ways to get more Fire power, but you may already know about it...

If looking for survivor, there really is no shame being a coward. However since you're looking to go out of pre-searing anyway you shouldn't fear dying too much, as you can get the title more easily later (with vaettirs for example).

At lvl9 with most quests done (you've already chosen your secondary) and survivor, I'd say the best way to get to lvl10 for you should be farming Oakhearts in the Northlands. Or finding someone to Powerlvl you up at the charrs (faster).

If farming your oakheart salad on your own and you want to have one or two charr steaks with it :

• use walls at all costs and focus on melee charrs, since other charrs will try to attack you while you are protected by the wall.
• Spam Ether Feast for heal (these will be enough to counter any Banish/Energy Flame and other skills that can hit you even with wall) and fire storm for damage when the charrs have stopped moving. Melee charrs will almost always use Frenzy, so they will go down quite quickly no matter how good and fast their healers may be. This strategy is a bit slow and risky, but it's high xp rewarding.
• You can also aim for the bosses directly (if coming from the right you can take one or two down without aggroing the patrolling groups, but that requires some skills in pulling without overaggro and a good fire power). Ben Wolfson can tank a bit if you can still recruit him.

Good Luck and see you in game ! :)--Ruine Eternelle 07:49, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips! I do have the fire imp and it's a huge help really. It can tank a surprising amount of damage before dying too! I've got my boyfriend with me in pre-searing so we try to farm Oakhearts when we can, and I also aim at reaching level 10 ASAP so I can start farming Vanguard Quests. Generally I try to be careful but if I do end up dying I'll just attempt the title again later when out of pre-searing :) Jackie File:User JackieDiJackJack Heart.gif 11:28, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Talk page usage

Hey Ruine,

Just an FYI about this talk page. It's supposed to be the main way in which other users of the wiki contact you, and it's not meant to be heavily re-edited. Each time your talk page is edited, it's a flag to the community that a conversation is going on.

I'd like to suggest moving your project to its own special page, such as User:Ruine Eternelle/Borderless Cartography Made Easy. That way you'll have a place to do the edits, while others will be able to comment and give you feedback directly on the corresponding talk page: User talk:Ruine Eternelle/Borderless Cartography Made Easy.

The other advantage of moving your ongoing work to a new location is that you can transclude it onto your user page. Assuming you use the names I suggest above, you can put the code {{User:Ruine Eternelle/Borderless Cartography Made Easy}} onto your user page, and it will automatically show your updates. You'll then have a clean page all for yourself to edit, with its own talk page that people can comment on, and your updates will appear on your main page as you go.

If this didn't make much sense, blame me. But if you're curious about what I mean, I can easily demo it for you. G R E E N E R 20:29, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Greener, and thanks for coming on my talk page ! You have been quite clear about it and it's true the mod should have its own page, so I just did as you said. Sorry for the wikinoob, hopefully there should be less spam on the Recent Changes page from now on. Best regards--Ruine Eternelle (talk) 14:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

No need to apologize for learning! If you're able to make Texmod work like you do, then you're far better at coding than I'll ever be. Keep up the good work! G R E E N E R 16:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

You should thank God Of Fissures, since he gave me the project. Everything was almost already done.

Removing item drop locations

Hey Ruine, just letting you know about a common pain in data gathering. There's no good way to prove a negative, unless you're studying Math. You may never have received that item, nor your friends, nor your guildmates, but someone may have in the past.

If you've checked and double-checked your sources (such as the talk page, other websites, etc.), then removing it with a note like you did is fine; just be extra sure in these cases. Thanks! G R E E N E R 18:40, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I understand your point of view Greener. I double-checked my sources : in that case 1) This would be the first time that a weapon exclusively drop from two distinct dungeon chests (while not dropping from zaishen chest !) and above all 2) It doesn't fit the drop research.

This wiki aims to be as precise and true as possible. Let's not claim something unsure like this. If this weapon drops from destroyer chest, we need a screenshot or testimonies from several different players to be able to tell that it is true.--Ruine Eternelle 19:38, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Yep, so long as you've done your due diligence, I'm happy. G R E E N E R 22:49, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Abuse Filter

Hey, if you were wondering about why the abuse filter kicked in while you were editing Power leveling, it was because you only put a single word into the edit summary. This is a typical modus operandi for spambots, so when you're on your IP, either put nothing or more than one word into the summary.

I hope you didn't lose your text. If you did, I can recover it and paste it below. G R E E N E R 06:04, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Np, I switched computers and could do it anyway ;) but i'll remember that note about edit summary.--193.50.216.88 09:23, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Remnants of a discussion about LSoA with Dmitri on Joe Kimmes' page

→ moved from Feedback talk:Joe Kimmes

Like I said, even a tiny boost like 2000xp for daily vanguard quests would already halve the maximum required time to get the title. 5000xp would be amazing but so far, for all people reading this page and taking part in the race toward r2+, please don't give us false expectations--Ruine Eternelle (talk) 19:58, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

No wonder all of us have their own expectations, though two vital questions are: when and how it's going to be realized? In the history of this game's development, there had been dozens of perfectly-justified & well-thought ideas which were implemented with about 3 years delay. :) So what I'm discussing here with the other contributors is my personal point of view based on the past experience and doesn't represent an empowered, official standpoint which can exclusively be delivered by ArenaNet's Community Team. On the other side, within my own answers, I'm always trying to attain the full picture around a certain concept with the purpose to establish an effective waymark which Joe could direct his work upon. The distribution of priorities and how I personally select those for own suggestions is another topic, though the pattern is rather easy to recognize, being the amount of users which particular improvement has an impact on. Dmitri Fatkin (talk) 11:54, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for giving my ideas more weight :) --Ruine Eternelle (talk) 13:36, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Any time, though I'd appreciate if you didn't cut your own answers so heavily as you did the last time, as I personally have found "the altering of 1 Vanguard quest a day limitation" you proposed for level 20 characters being the most efficient for the implementation of this Legendary Survivor of Ascalon pre-Searing improvement. Dmitri Fatkin (talk) 21:43, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I often delete what i write since it is not right-to-the-point enough. But you're right Dmitri and I have removed that last idea a bit too quickly : removing the daily limit for vanguard quest is another way to help people getting Legendary Survivor of Ascalon. With this setting one could get the title in ~250hours. However, I've got two concerns about the update: 1) Why bring something to pre-searing and not to post-searing, specifically not to pvp which is currently dying? 2) This is now the time for gw2 (especially since HoT beta just started) so even if coding is quick and you can make some money out of it, this might sound like a loss of time.--Ruine Eternelle 18:59, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I assume there could be certain grounds behind such worries, since according to Stéphane Lo Presti's post which was made on the 20th of April at the Guild Wars Facebook page, the Guild Wars Live Team is currently focused on releasing periodical maintenance and content patches centered around resolving common playability issues. It signifies that the existing features can be tweaked while the larger projects such as the addition of new quests, areas, global changes to the game mechanics or development of wide-scale world expansions are not deemed as possible due to time and manning limitations of the appointed staff. Dmitri Fatkin (talk) 17:58, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

(What about 10th anniversary ? Wasn't it new content ? And also, can this be considered new content ? This is about making an already existing title more accessible, not adding any extra stuff like skins or exotic items...)

I fully understand that the Guild Wars team don't have enough time to work on big projects around gw1 ; they have bigger things to work on. But if they have a moment to give to add one of the two small changes above (removing daily limit or increasing daily reward for lvl20), this could make the community much more active.--Ruine Eternelle 18:59, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

First act of vandalism on my page !!! Woot :D

Let's pop some champagne , we need to celebrate !

On a side note, I was wondering why it took so long for that.

And btw I'm also a bit disappointed. It could have been something more trash or sophisticated, not that plain gay and loser thing, but well... what was I expecting from a vandal ?--Ruine Eternelle 11:26, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

The wiki's been around too long; the good ones have all died off. Heck, I wasn't even around for the best-of-the-best. G R E E N E R 14:25, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

It was only glamorous back then. In hindsight all the memes seem so silly now that they've been old for years. Like making doge jokes all again. --DANDY ^_^ -- 19:16, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

RUINE ETERNELLE IS A NOOB AT GUILD WARS!

THAT'S RIGHT - NEWS FLASH - WELL NOT REALLY SINCE EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS - YES RUINE ETERNELLE IS A TOTAL NOOB AT GUILD WARS! HE HAS NO LIFE BTW AND IS HEAVILY UGLY AND MEGA GAY! THAT'S ALL FOR NOW, STAY TUNED! 178.62.88.210 09:35, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Says the guy who stalks recent changes to troll the 3 active users on GWW for several days straight. God, go ply LoL or HS or something. --DANDY ^_^ -- 11:59, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

I know of some famous group of manly men who actually need people like him. They think of themselves as winners, hate gay and christian people and love to vandalize things. They have a lot in common.--Ruine Eternelle 12:23, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

[1]

It's standard to list basic prophecies skills as being available from Ember Light Camp. It's the user's choice where they get the skill from, but removing Ember Light Camp from the list implies that it's not attainable there, which is incorrect. Apparently someone else already reverted it, but I already wrote this, so.. :p --DANDY ^_^ -- 16:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

You're right, but I feel that this information is not relevant. I mean, the only way to get to Ember Light Camp without going to LA is to have a tyrian character and refrain from doing the small way from Beacon's Perch to LA while doing the rest of the long run to Thunderhead Keep and do the mission. The situation never occurs.--Ruine Eternelle 16:26, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Of course it's relevant. The only place to freely buy any randomly selected list of non-elite skill from prophecies is to visit Ember Light Camp. This instead of traveling to Lion's Arch to get one, Henge of Denravi to get another, Yak's Bend to get a third, etc. Of course you've visited these places already, but that doesn't mean it's the most convenient way to buy skills. This wiki listing skill acquisition thoroughly is what taught me that they exist there in the first place. --DANDY ^_^ -- 18:06, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

I think there are a few selected skills that you can buy only from him anyway. Well, you usually will buy from the furthest skill trainer in storyline anyway. That doesn't change a thing to me (yes i'm stubborn).--Ruine Eternelle 18:25, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Quicksand / SS

Hey Ruine,

Are you certain that Spiteful triggers twice on attack skills? I never really watched that skill so closely, but it's not noted on that skill's page either. Steve1 (talk) 09:03, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

I'll check that. I was probably wrong with it.--Ruine Eternelle 11:03, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Edit : indeed, I was wrong. Sorry for all that mess.--Ruine Eternelle 11:23, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Cool, excellent. Thanks for checking!

No mess, no worries. Steve1 (talk) 07:55, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Fairly sure it triggers twice on Quicksand. SS might not be the same. --DANDY ^_^ -- 10:57, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Summoning Stones

I assume that IP is you. As you mentioned in your edit notes, there are only 2 stones that are reusable (btw. that is clearly visible in the nav box at the end of the page - so I didn't bother adding it to the page. I dislike redundant information which is redundant), but the Charr stone is the only one which has a usage cost (of 1 skill point). Cheers, Steve1 (talk) 15:35, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, I don't log in when not on my main computer - out of lazyness mainly. Yeah, the affirmation saying that the igneous is the only summoning stone with infinite uses is false since there's another one. I suggest removing that part, especially since infinte uses is in the page navigation at the foot of the page anyway.--86.217.116.8 17:32, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, agreed. And I added a big brainfart in my edit notes to top it off. Steve1 (talk) 19:14, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Hey

Hi, I recently returned afetr a years long break from Guild Wars/The Wiki, and came back to try and finish what I started: rendering "everything". I was thinking on giving rendering HoM statues a go soon, and since you seem to have a lot of titles/active on Gww I was wondering if I might enter your HoM a few times, and render them (I'll explain my technique later if you want). -- Magamdy 19:48, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

You're using texmod i suppose ? I can't play anymore today but tomorrow (i.e. in >~10hrs) sure. I don't have everything though.--Ruine Eternelle 19:57, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Only texmod when my software glitches. And yes tomorrow is fine, somewhere in the afternoon/evening preferably. -- Magamdy 20:00, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Moving pages

Hey Ruine. As an FYI, if you're planning on moving a page, please use the Move option rather than creating a new page and asking to delete the old. Guide to Prophecies has a very old history of edits, and we do strive to maintain them. I'm racing out the door, but I'm going to tag the page with at least a redirect. G R E E N E R 17:48, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry Greener, but I felt that that page deserved better: it is the most important page for beginners, and therefore the most important page of this wiki to me, that's why I enlarged it to cover the three tutorial areas without warning anyone. I promise, I won't move such a big thing without asking for your guidance in the future. --Ruine Eternelle 17:52, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Oh, no, I think you misinterpreted what I meant. If I delete the page, then the history of that page is gone (if anyone other than an admin wanted to get what used to be there, they couldn't). A "move" maintains the history, that's all. No need to ask for my permission. G R E E N E R 19:17, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Oh, I see what you mean. Well, it's up to you. I haven't checked the history so I do'nt know if any important thing might be still somewhere.--Ruine Eternelle 19:28, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

"I didn't know creating this page would cause so much reactions."

This is one of the oddities of life. Some actions create a tsunami, while others create not but a ripple; and no one can truly predict which will happen. Since there's no solid tie between actions and reactions when creating a new idea/article on this wiki, don't let it bother you. Just do it, and work with others as the situation calls for it, like you've been doing. G R E E N E R 16:21, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Equivalent energy regeneration

Attribute rank	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Energy cost	100%	96%	92%	88%	84%	80%	76%	72%	68%	64%	60%	56%	52%	48%	44%	40%	36%	32%	28%	24%	20%
Base cost 1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Base cost 5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
Base cost 10	10	10	9	9	8	8	8	7	7	6	6	6	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	2
Base cost 15	15	14	14	13	13	12	11	11	10	10	9	8	8	7	7	6	5	5	4	4	3
Base cost 25	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5
Maximum equivalent energy regeneration (expertise)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	3	4	5	6	7	9	12
Maximum equivalent energy regeneration (mysticism)	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	4	5	6	7	8	10	12	16

Progression
Soul Reaping Energy per death Maximum every 15 seconds Equivalent maximum energy regeneration	0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 2 2 6 1 3 3 9 2 4 4 12 2 5 5 15 3 6 6 18 4 7 7 21 4 8 8 24 5 9 9 27 5 10 10 30 6 11 11 33 7 12 12 36 7 13 13 39 8 14 14 42 8 15 15 45 9 16 16 48 10 17 17 51 10 18 18 54 11 19 19 57 11 20 20 60 12 21 21 63 13

Hey Ruine,

I see what you're trying to do, but I find that info a tad bit misleading. Take Mysticism: In order to get your calculated EER, the derv would have to cast derv enchantments non-stop (I assume). Which isn't exactly very realistic.

Take the ranger: Sometimes rangers just use auto-attack (e. g. to spread poison in GvG) or use a skill with cast time (e. g. preparations or spirits). Can't have either one in your calculations I guess.

I don't know how Soul Reaping is implemented, but if ANet took the easy route, than they have up to 3 timers counting down from 15 secs. And any kills while all 3 timers are running won't trigger SR. If that's how it is, you'd need to get a kill the exact frame one timer runs out in order to get the full EER. Unlikely, even in PvE w/ minionmancers.

Cheers, Steve1 (talk) 17:42, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

My first thought was that a ranger with 50% reduction in energy cost of its skills is actually having twice as much energy (and twice as much energy regeneration)- the energy has actually more value than the energy of a 0 expertise ranger. I had quite a headache thinking about it, but I finally figured out the formula : EER=Natural Energy regeneration*((100/energy reduction in %)-1).

However you are entirely right, the equivalent energy regeneration only works spamming the adequate skills with no casting time non-stop (for mysticism/expertise) and having at least 3 deaths/15s (soul reaping). Even if the maximum is rarely reached (especially for high investments), the result still emphasizes pretty well the power of certains builds, mainly ranger dagger spammers, touch rangers, trappers, spirit spammers rangers, minion masters and dervishes with fast recharging enchantments. Not couting offensive teambuilds with necroes everywhere. The passive energy management from the primary profession being a key for bar compression (among other things), I believe that this is still a good tool to compare the professions together ? Now it indeed is limited, only a few special settings will benefit from that huge energy management (need tons of fleshy foes for MMs, touch/ranger/attack/spirit skills for rangers, and feeder/teardown skills for dervishes). Anyway, I put that here as a bolt idea, to see what people will say of it. Do you think I should add "maximum" ?

It's true that a dervish is very unlikely to be using only enchantments, especially since flash enchantments mutually disable themselves. However a Pious Renewal dervish will. And usually half of the time you will be casting enchantments so you can consider that you have half the stated EER. Probably a bit more since teardowns (signets, adrenaline, 5 energy skills) are usually cheaper than feeders (10 energy enchantments), so perhaps up to 75% of the stated EER unless using expensive PvE-only skills (such as Pain Inverter, EBSoH).

Expertise rangers may only auto-attack, but I don't think they won't use any attack skill at all if they can use one. Unless having high recharge skills. And using high energy skills (Magebane Shot, Burning Arrow , Crippling Shot, Savage Shot, Pin Down, Penetrating Attack and Sundering Attack, Concussion Shot...) will allow you to regenerate energy while auto-attacking. To be honest, I don't really know of PvP whereabouts but to me, fighting with full energy is a waste most of the time since that energy could be used to better purposes.

Three timers on Soul Reaping is already 30-45 energy. Plus they are usually not all 3 up together (unless your minions got wiped), you will generally have one or two up, since the oldest one will expire before any new one starts. It's not easy to estimate this, but the results show that Soul Reaping is still a broken mechanism.

To get deeper into the question, one should take into account the number of the skills affected, the average cost of these skills, their average casting and recharge time (including disabling from flash enchantment spells) and the overall utility they have (which is rather hard to estimate with numbers) for mysticism/expertise , and the average frequency of deaths when killing foes in PvE for Soul Reaping. And I probably overlook a lot of other things.--93.25.120.137 18:28, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it's a useful way to view this type of energy management. Unlike energy gain sources, cost reductions do not result in a set gain of energy per time period and it's misleading to present it as such (especially if the amount you're calculating will vary depending on cast times, recharges, amount of affected skills, or other unconsidered factors). Energy management as a whole can be summed up as Net Energy = (Gained Energy - Spent Energy) / Time, and your addition kind of confuses matters by shoving expertise/mysticism's effects into the gained energy part of the equation (which would require calculating it's EER per build) instead of modifying the spent energy, which is a much easier way to determine its effect on a given build's energy management. Toraen - talk 18:51, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Another interesting thing to point is that this form of energy management is unstrippable and cannot be rupted (it can only be nullified by two or three skills) unlike most forms of energy management, makes you lose no momentum casting an energy management skill during a fight. Sparing 5 energy is for me pretty much the same as gaining 5 energy,since you're gonna use that energy for another skill. Well, if both of you think of it that way I'll remove that info. Unless you see a better way to explain what I mean. I'm just some french random guy who can do one or two calculation, certainly not a native english writer nor a very skilled mathematician.--93.25.120.137 19:03, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

We could use this debate as an opportunity to update/cleapup the three Energy management articles:

• Energy management/table1
• Energy management/table2
• Energy management/table3

Its always easier/cheaper to conserve energy then generating more energy; just ask my electric bill. ^_^ --Falconeye (talk) 06:32, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Not relying on skills for energy management is generally a good idea, even though it means having to spend attribute points in a line from which you may not use any skills (for example a spirit spammer ranger won't use any expertise skill, and dagger spammer rangers may not use any too). In my view, skills>armor>weapons in this game. If you can free even one skill slot, you can increase your skill bar efficiency by ~14% (if each skill has the same utility weight in your skill bar, 8/7=14%) and your overall efficiency by 10% (this is an estimation but you catch what I mean : the impact of a change in skill bar and attributes is usually stronger than a change in your armor or weapon)--193.48.141.104 08:08, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

(Reset indent) @Falconeye, separating energy management in three sections "primary attribute"/"user skills"/"allied skills" (battery)/"Zealous weapon" sounds like a good start. Edit : this is (almost) already the case, which is good. But I'd see another separation in user skills in three subsections "little to no investment skills" (such as channeling, Glyph of Lesser Energy)/"primary attribute investment skills"(such as Ether Renewal, Signet of Lost Souls, Warrior's Endurance to only quote those)/"non-primary attribute investment skills" (such as Mind Blast, Castigation Signet). And maybe a 4th section "narrrow conditions skills" (for example, Blessed Signet and Melandru's Resilience). Probably redivide into range/melee (if your caster has a melee energy management skill, soemthing is wrong).--193.48.141.104 09:11, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Actually energy management can also be separated in attack/casting/any/other for energy management skills. The melee section could hold attack skills providing energy, expertise, critical strikes, Warrior's Endurance-like skills and zealous weapons, while the casting part could hold glyph of lesser energy, channeling, blessed signet. Any would hold Leader's Zeal whiel others would hold Melandru's Resilience.

If you help make these tables better with your ideas, then please do so! ^_^ --Falconeye (talk) 18:34, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

What??

Your edit on Sword makes no sense to me. When I search for sword I want a list of ALL swords, not all models. Hell, some models are shared by 5-6 weapons (not necessarily swords). You'd mean that I could only ever find one of those, which one is up to the edditors fancy, unless I specifically searched for it? When you make such a big edit at least discuss it. -- Magamdy 09:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Undo this if you feel like I've stabbed you in the back. Still, most players would prefer a list of all weapon skins, knowing which one they can get and use or not. You can still do a similar work to the one I've done on the shield page. --193.48.141.104 15:22, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

It's not about me feeling stabbed in the back, it's about you unleashing mutilations of these pages due to your own convictions. " Still, most players would prefer a list of all weapon skins", "this is an article about sword skins, only one of them is required". Please do point me to proof of these statements, this is just how YOU'd like it, not how it should be. Your idea on the shield page is good in principle, however it's execution I find poor. Starting with the " Models" headline, which can be confusing from the get-go. Secondly, there's no clear definition between "models" and individual swords, leading to more confusion.

And like I said earlier, any favoring of one weapon over others with the same skin is inherently flawed and impossible to solve except for listing them all on one line with slashes between them. Which is again problematic because the same skins drop across different campaigns.

What I suggest is restoring the way the pages were and either adding a skin breakdown section at the bottom, or on a subpage. Thay way you have the best of both worlds, as the current system is severely lacking. -- Magamdy

Hello Ruine, my 2 cents:

1) You updating the classifications is really appreciated. For example, Icy Dragon Sword was categorized wrongly. That's really nice!

2) I'm not too hot about having very similar large tables like now on the sword page. Wouldn't it be possible to reduce it back to one table? What's the use of 2 tables here?

3) Getting rid of randomly selected skins is a rather arbitrary (and thus bad) thing. Who decides which skin is the "master skin"?

3b) One could visualize how the skins are the same by adding them all like that: sword a/b-sword/scimitar C/broadsword D. But then what happens if A and C are core whereas B is nightfall and D is prophecies?

4) So my suggestion would be: List all skins (like it used to be), correct the categories. And if you really want to visualize same skins add a little table below where that's being listed.

Cheers, Steve1 (talk) 17:35, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello everyone ! With all these reactions I don't even know why I started all of this :s . While it's true I lost info in the process (some names disappeared, and several skins lost their drop campaign(s) for the more general core), I cannot find a good way to categorize things. For example, Signet Shield can be found in EoTN, while Shield of Purity (same skin) is part of beyond and factions, leaving the question of the skin being core or not. I could add some kind of indent with all available names but - as Steve pointed it in his 3) - what would be the master skin ? Should it be the historical one, the storyline one, the easiest to get or the one with the highest number of different requirements ? Otherwise one can still use a lot of ^{small numbers} in order to specify things a bit more, and perhaps lines for the available requirements in case of several requirements. And I might overlook other things. There are 4 parameters : skin, name, requirements, campaign. I can find at least one exemple of shields having everything in common but one of these parameters. Difficult to have all these in one single table...

@Magamdy : as someone working on model renders, I think you actually understand why I'm trying to categorize weapons by skin. The skin means much more than the name, since it's the only thing people can see in game (unless you wanna ping your weapon set, of course). Of course requirements and maximum armor rating (for wintergreen shield, for example) are even more important, but people will look for skin most of the time, especially when trying to get caster weapons.--193.48.141.104 07:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm not against you categorizing weapon models, Im against you replacing the existing system of individual weapons with it. Since that seems solved, I'm a-ok. In the case of different weapons with the same skin, I'd just list them alphabetically. I.e. Gladius/Rinblade/Short Sword/Starter Sword. Starter Sword for example is from all campaigns, so maybe you'd have to create a "Multiple Campaigns" category, or work with color codes etc. Also, maybe it's possible to incorporate unique's based of a certain skin in the table too, as that's something that's kinda lacking right now on the wiki.

A tutorial on Advanced techniques for cartography (how to break out of the map in GW)

Break out of the map eh. I'm listening ;)

This is the spot that I uncovered btw using that Necrotic Traversal thing before it was patched. Magamdy 13:50, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

I have been looking for that part for years ! :D I love you <3. I will add that one to the mod as soon as I have time ! About the tutorial, sadly I don't have a video pre-patch, so I will probably just say a word or two about it but no video.

The two main ways for breaking out of the map are Minion trick (which is still not so well-known but very cool) and portal jump (with SaO chains being the most easy and efficient way to break out of the map since you can do it at almost all portals in the game). Aside from these two techniques, there are a few circumstances where one can break out of the map, but they are quite rare : dzagonur bastion's south gate, the portal from silverwoods to Ettin's Back (I heard that the portal doesn't cover all the ground and you can walk around it)... Also sometimes during cutscenes your character is actually already breaking out of the map : moving will cause you to uncover some slivers of the map, but sadly there is no way to explore.--Ruine Eternelle 10:22, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Ah that's what you meant. I thought you could go further and glitch the game to make you walk through walls etc. Guess I shouldn't have let my carto-nerd-feelings get my hopes up ;(~- Magamdy 10:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes, don't misunderstand. What I meant by breaking out of a map is going to normally unexplorable areas, with flaws in level design --Ruine Eternelle 10:33, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Needs moar haxx -- Magamdy 11:23, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Did he get that from you?

Hey Ruine,

Did FE copy this (http://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Energy_management&curid=4395&diff=2603486&oldid=2603195) from you? I asked him some stuff about it on his user page, but maybe I should rather ask you? I do feel like I vaguely recall that we hed been taking about something similar like that in the past. But I don't really remember. Steve1 (talk) 15:21, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

You have got a good memory of things. It indeed seems like the job I did on my main page.

As the one who had the idea to convert primary attribute passive enrgy management into energy regen (in the case of soul reaping, expertise, mysticim), I wanted to point out the fact that this kind of energy management is good because you don't need to waste a skill slot for more energy. It is very true for rangers which usually spam ranger skills/touch skills/attack skills.

However, it doesn't always make sense because 1) dervishes usually won't spam dervish enchantment spells 2) you won't always have 3 death/15s for soul reaping to trigger

To conclude, yes it was probably plain and simple copy/paste from my page, because critical strikes are also missing, though they do provide passive energy management too. Moreover, I made the page and already spoke of mysticism/expertise/soul reaping.--Ruine Eternelle 10:42, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Would you be willing to explain the math behind your meer calculations? SR is obvious, but Exp and Myst aren't (to me at least).

Thanks!

Steve1 (talk) 22:10, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

If you have 50% energy cost reduction on all your skills, that is basically as if you paid the regular energy cost but with double your regular energy regeneration. That's the idea I followed. I had to figure out the exact formula, but that's about it--Ruine Eternelle 12:25, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

I don't think that's an accurate assumption. If you rigorously calculate energy savings per skill (take how much energy is saved on each skill divided by how often each is used) you will get a different result. I did a naive calc for the PvP Burning Arrow Ranger, and got about 4 energy/sec saved assuming skills were used as available, with special consideration to Apply Poison since you only need to use it every 26 seconds. The table says that 14 expertise is only 1 additional energy per second (EER = 3). The effects of mysticism & expertise should also be calculated separately from the base energy regeneration of the class. They are different sources of energy.

For another example, a ranger dagger spammer with 13 expertise. Normally, the chain is 15e every ~3 sec (3 second cycle is convenient mathematically: EER is equal to the energy saved in that time period), but with that expertise it's reduced to just 6e/3s. The energy saved is effectively 9 energy regeneration added (counted against the chain's unmodified cost of an effective 15 energy degen). That's way more than the table suggests as the MEER for expertise 13. It can vary a lot depending on the build used, which is why I don't like using Expertise EER to try and figure out if a particular build idea will work (which should be what the advice in an energy management article helps out).

I think the table ultimately just confuses anyone inexperienced with energy management, especially since it attempts to conflate the attribute with the base regen of the class. Falconeye ended up concluding that Expertise/Mysticism were always better than Soul Reaping (ignoring that you can't just interchange them) even though the table didn't really support it (and soul reaping didn't factor a necro's base regen while the others apparently did). Toraen - talk 17:09, 31 March 2016 17:09, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Interesting numbers, I will see if I made a mistake anywhere. It's true that all this depends on the frequency of use of skills... Well, I will think about it. Did you use a Zealous weapon ?--Ruine Eternelle 13:26, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

(Reset indent) A zealous weapon is not used in these calculations. The only things calculated are the base energy costs of the skills over time (which is then converted to e-degen) and the energy savings of expertise (then converted to e-regen). Expertise doesn't care if you currently have 3 regen or 10. It will save the same amount of energy. So, taking just 14 Expertise Apply Poison as an example:

1. Apply Poison is used every 26 seconds (24 sec duration, 2 sec cast time)
2. Cost per use is 15 energy, so divide 15 by 26 = 0.58 energy / second
3. 1 pip eregen = 1/3 energy / second, so multiply the previous step by 3 to get its effective energy degen = 1.73 e-degen
4. Given a value of Expertise, you know how much energy is saved on each cast (14 exp on Apply saves 8 energy). 8e/26s = 0.92 e-regen. Apply Poison is only causing an effective 0.81 e-degen (you get the same result by just calcing off the modified 7e cost). The only reason to do it the first way is if you want to see how much energy Expertise is effectively generating.

For the whole build, just add together all the results for each affected skill. Just from what's saved on Apply Poison, we're already nearly a third of the way to the 3 EER predicted by the table. Expertise is definitely far more effective than TPiY, or no one would bother using it. :P Toraen - talk 15:27, 4 April 2016

Minion trick

A proposal for moving Minion trick to Gate Glitch is being discussed. --Falconeye (talk) 18:03, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

It doesn't change much. Since you don't need a minion for that, it is fine by me. Gate Crossing would be another good name.--Ruine Eternelle 20:35, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Elemental Flame

I see you are contemplating running it in a build in due time. I strongly advise that you do. Mirror of Ice, Rust, and Icy Prism are a few of my favourite skills to combine it with. Steam is also a worthy mention, for shutting down melee while it's on fire. The 2012 Elementalist redesign hasn't seen a lot of meta-game, unfortunately. It kicks ass. - Infinite - talk 14:30, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

I noticed the skill not too long ago and I quite liked it but it has many drawbacks. Here are the summary of my thoughts :

• The biggest drawback is the duration/recharge ratio of the enchantment. A character needs non-neglictable investment in fire magic for the enchantment (and the burning) to actually last (6 fire magic for 3s burning and 20s duration - full upkeep under GoS and 20% mod, 10 fire magic for 4s burning and 27s duration - full upkeep under GoS or 20% mod) or an elite skill such as GoR but you probably want to keep your elite slot for something better. Whatever you may choose, enchantment removal.
• The second drawback is the high cost of most elemental hexes, scoring easily 10+ energy. You will need energy management. Best way is to invest in an attribute such as Energy Storage for things such as Aura of Restoration, Glowing Gaze and Glowing Ice. An alternative is Channeling or Eremite's Zeal. Again, you can use an elite skill but you probably want to keep your slot for something better. The good point is that you often get a cover enchantment. Whatever you choose, energy denial.
• The third drawback is the mandatory investment in Fire Magic, while Fire Magic hexes are few and have low utility. You may need or want another attribute, in addition to Fire and Energy storage, so you will have to spread your attribute points (probably 10 fire-12 another attribute-8energy storage or 10-11-10 or 10-9-9-8 for a four attribute spread) or use an elite skill such as Master of Magic/Signet of Illusions but again you probably want to keep your elite slot for something better. Weakness has more impact and skills aare less effective than they would be at 12 investment.

Now that all drawbacks are quite clear, here are the possible combinations, depending on the magic school:

• Fire : if one does not want to spread attributes, one can still spam Incendiary Bonds and Smoldering Embers on a foe hexed with Mark of Rodgort, with Fire Attunement and Glowing Gaze to get energy back. This makes interesting damage with a constant burning, but that's pretty much all there is to it. Mark of Rodgort + fire damaging spells (or simply wand) can do the same. Glowing Gaze still deserves a mention as a good energy management skill if invested in energy storage.
• Air : Lightning Strike is one of the shortest recharging elemental hexes, so one could find a build to spam it. As far as elite skills are concerned, Glimmering Mark is a good anti-melee, while Lightning Surge is a knockdown with rather short recharge. Chilling Winds is actually a Water Magic support. Teinai's Wind is a great interrupt and damage on burning foes.
• Earth : two of the three hexes have AoE centered on the skill user. Mostly snares, so one can fetch a build with Shockwave (and Crystal Wave ?). Frozen Burst is also AoE snare elemental hex centered on the user, but in Water Magic. Some synergy with water hexes in general with Teinai's Crystals.
• Water : the premium source of elemental hexes. EF further boosts the damage from Shatterstone (which was already high). There are some interesting elites but the best pick is Mirror of Ice because of its range and low recharge. Rust is great to counter that annoying res signet. Blurred Vision and Steam are great anti-melee for rangers and assassins, since warriors and dervishes will never reach their targets at 66% snare anyway. Icy Prism for damage, definitely. I do not know if one could make a resilient healer out of Frozen Burst+Mist Form, but probably not (use with Earth Magic hexes and magnetic aura/surge ?). Deep Freeze has the largest AoE of all elemental hexes and synergizes well with Maelstrom but 2 skills with 2s casting time would be a bad choice in PvP. All other water magic hexes are mostly single target snares that cost 10 energy for 5s snare... Well, it is funny to freeze foes while burning them.

Good thing is that we have some choice for the elite skill (Mind Blast, Starburst, Savannah Heat) but bad point is that we have bar compression and attribute spread troubles. I can still make several builds out of it, though I am not sure they will be efficient.--Ruine Eternelle 12:49, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Rangers

Rangers are very effective in endgame, due to their ability to speedrun endgame content the fastest (I believe the current world record for DoAHMSC is held by a ranger primary, as well as being included in most speed clear teams for extremely high damage output. The only downside is their high investment barrier. Assassins are more forgiving, but are often traded in in favour for a ranger (save for specific tanking rules such as in Shards of Orr, where "Can't Touch This!" must be brought along), and of course Critical Strikes isn't as nice a primary attribute to have when using mostly spells on an assassin anyway. The endgame professions of popular choice are ranger, mesmer, (assassin,) and dervish. I used to burn rangers into the ground, but even I have to acknowledge how awesome they are once they pop a few cons. If you're not convinced yet, do give endgame rangers a decent try. You will not be disappointed! - Infinite - talk 18:53, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

I see your point and I fully agree with the aspects you present. Rangers have indeed several good points with their elemental armor and the powerful expertise (which includes whirling defense). It's true that reaching 19 expertise (with boosts) halves the cost of 5 energy and 10 energy skills compared to 16 expertise, making them even more easy to spam. My note was more for the standard player which will not use cons. --Ruine Eternelle 23:09, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Oh, fair enough. That makes a lot more sense. - Infinite - talk 23:10, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

RaO

It was about regaining energy per second in order to recast it on recharge (BM 0..9) or keeping it up all the time (BM9+). No clue what made Exp 4 so special though. Steve1 (talk) 14:34, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh so it was the cost. Yes, it can actually be a useful information. Needs a few words here and there.--Ruine Eternelle 17:26, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

How come ...

... that some of your screenshots are with the German language setting? You're French, and most screens are in French. Just wondering ... (in case you wanna tell). Cheers, Steve1 (talk) 21:05, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

I am french, english is my first foreign language, german my second. I try to keep my level up-to-date by playing in german and english whenever I can ;) --Ruine Eternelle 23:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

ldoa page updates

I am glad someone is finally updating that page. Are you planning on doing more updates for it or should I continue to clean it from where you left off Shade the (talk) 04:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

I'd say just go ahead when you got the time and feel like it. You two are probably the 2 most experienced pre players left on the wiki. Steve1 (talk) 10:26, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Go ahead if you want.--Ruine Eternelle 21:01, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Not meant in a bossy or snarky way ...

... you're aware of that? https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Defender_of_Ascalon&curid=10998&diff=2642128&oldid=2642124 Steve1 (talk) 10:27, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

I always do that mistake. I know it is wrong, but in french punctuation there is a space between the word and ":", so I need to be extra careful and often forget. You can see the french ruling on the wiki page quite clearly here. --Ruine Eternelle 20:57, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh, I'm well aware of teh stylistic difference. I find it amusing, is all. Steve1 (talk) 08:51, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Hehe, well french rule makes the ":" a bit more visible.--Ruine Eternelle 12:22, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

could you please try to remember it? It“s now necessary to check out all your edits since it seems to be getting worse. Thanks. 18:05, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

The work they have done has been quite substantial and very beneficial, if you find errors on pages that are this small, feel free to fix them. It would take a couple seconds. I do not think it is as big of deal as you are making to. Also do not forget to sign your comments. Shade the (talk) 23:07, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Since I started that paragraph: I concur with Shade's assessment. Steve1 (talk) 09:05, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

List of weapon upgrades

Assuming Inscription is correct, then the Lowu table was incorrect. But if you scroll down to "Focus items or shields" you can see that not every inscription can be found in the same campaign. So are you certain with your edit? are they all core and NF inscriptions? Steve1 (talk) 15:49, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Undone. I think I read that incorrectly. The "inherent" means that you can actually only find a "Guided by Fate" inscription on a dropped martial inscribable weapon, although you can apply the salvaged inscription afterwards to a non-martial staff (as it's teal colored).Ruine Eternelle 16:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

If it makes you feel better, I also read it wrong, albeit in a different way than you. :D Steve1 (talk) 16:06, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Guide to vaettir farming

The warrior has some attribute points unspent, especially no points in Deadly Arts for DP. Since I'm clueless about that build maybe you could edit that? Cheers, Steve1 (talk) 08:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Edited. I didn't bother mentioning it as the build can work without this investment. --Ruine Eternelle 08:39, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

IMoM

IMO Crystal desert collector armour sucks, since it can't be upgraded. And it's the IMoM mission walkthru, not the list many locations where you can find max armor article. :P Steve1 (talk) 14:30, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Right, it feels too long. I mentioned collector armor because it's cheap and good in iron challenge. --Ruine Eternelle 14:49, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

For iron challange I'd argue the player will be rather knowledgable about the game and won't need that info. ;) Steve1 (talk) 16:06, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Damage note not a bug

In Guild Wars, damage from any weapon is handled by more than one set of parameters. The requirement needs to be met to be able to deal the base damage, but weapon proficiency (if you will) is measured independently. In normal circumstances you would not notice this, because the requirement tends to be the same as the weapon mastery attribute, such as axes using Axe Mastery for both the requirement and the mastery. But with the new weapons that is not the case. You can test this easily by usong the new weapons with the "normal" requirement (an Anniversary bow with Marksmanship, per example), and you'll notice that you're not dealing the base damage (because that part is linked to another attribute). That's why it's not a bug, but definitely a development oversight. - Infinite - talk 13:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh okay I see now (took me a while lol I'm tired). If it's an oversight shouldn't someone do a feedback to User_talk:Stephen_Clarke-Willson ?--Ruine Eternelle 14:32, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) I'll try to clarify that one line, which will boil down to this: wands and staves only care about the requirements being met. They don't have the weapon mastery values like martial weapons. This is because there are no attributes like Wand Mastery or Staff Mastery to scale damage off of. Instead it scales off of level (100% base damage at level 20 when the requirement is met). I think that's what they were trying to say with the one line, but I agree it's really odd to phrase it like that.

To ELI5 the weapon mastery versus weapon requirement mechanics: a weapon can deal xx-xx base damage (per example, 15-22). It will be able to do this base damage as long as there is no requirement listed behind it or if the requirement is met (if there is a requirement listed), but for weapons that are not wands and staves you also need to have enough mastery to use the weapon efficiently. This is only possible if your mastery is of a high enough rank. The threshold for 100% weapon mastery is Weapon Mastery attribute rank 12. To use a maxed sword 100% effectively, you will need at least 12 in Sword Mastery. Even if the requirement for that sword is not Sword Mastery! So to use the new Ranger sword at 100% efficiency, you will need to have 9 Expertise or more to be able to deal the full 15-22 base damage, AND 12 Sword Mastery to use the sword at 100% efficiency. Only then will it deal "normal" damage. - Infinite - talk 15:02, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I think you got it now! I'll admit this is very technical stuff that most players would never really notice. What people expect the requirement to mean on a weapon then dealing that damage is also probably what ArenaNet intended for the functionality of these special weapons, hence the "oversight" part. :] - Infinite - talk 15:05, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Heroic Refrain

https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Heroic_Refrain&diff=prev&oldid=2655113 What's wrong with, say, Anthem of Flame? Or of Weariness? I don't really get your note .... Steve1 (talk) 18:43, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Chants are working but outside combat do you really want to have to stop every now and then to recast? - - Ruine Eternelle 18:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Soul Taker

"potentially resulting in high damage with Dark Aura, and can be spammed as the attack never goes on recharge." I don't get it. Exhausting result has a recharge. So what attack are you refering to? Steve1 (talk) 20:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

If a dual attack fails because it is used out of sequence, it does not go on recharge and you can use it again immediately - - Ruine Eternelle 20:35, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

"The concise description is correct : the damage is armor-ignoring bonus damage." How do concise and full description differ? And where does the concise description mention armor-ignoring? Steve1 (talk) 08:40, 2 June 2023 (UTC) https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Soul_Taker&diff=next&oldid=2658265

Garbage skill abbreviation redirects

please don't. -Chieftain Alex 14:41, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

That is why I did it. Over the limit is currently a bad skill that will probably never see use. It doesn't deserve a redirect link. --Ruine Eternelle 14:43, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Talk:Ancient_Anniversary_Weaponsmith&diff=next&oldid=2657350

His (the original IP) edit was in 2015. He's talking about Decade weapons. Really.

And don't delete my edits, that's effing rude. Steve1 (talk) 09:06, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Moving / copying talk page comments

Hey Ruine, I just took a look at the history of Stephane's page, and it appears that a lot of the editors' comments were not originally placed there by the editors. Ensuring feedback is seen by Anet is a positive goal, but it would be better to just link once to the appropriate talk page(s) or section(s) so that the editors' comments are kept in context. This way a conversation can continue to grow, adapt, and end on the relevant talk page without having to be duplicated elsewhere.

There are very few reasons to ever move another editor's comment (e.g. moving it from the admin noticeboard to the wiki bug report page), and when a comment is moved we make sure it can be followed with the {{moved}} template. An example of when not to move comments around is this edit. I know that some talk pages may seem messy or out of place, but unless there's egregious commentary or a need to do formatting and archiving, it is best they are left in situ.

Thank you for caring about the wiki, the game, and the devs. Let's just tone down the talk page edits a bit. Greener (talk) 13:50, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

I realize I have overdone it. I didn't think about the consequences for the original contributors. This is not gonna happen again.--Ruine Eternelle 14:05, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

From Stephane's talk

Moved here cause I'm not sure anymore. I still believe that the skill is bad, but I want a solid argument.

→ moved from Feedback_talk:Stephane_Lo_Presti#Over the Limit

Hello Stephane,

Great job on the latest updates. Thank you for considering my previous post.

I assume you guys are currently focused on guild wars 2 and other projects and have little time for the good old guild wars 1 so I will leave this feedback here in case.

The weapons are great. The new PvE only elite are great. Except the elementalist elite skill Over The Limit.

One point of overcast per second and -1 energy regeneration is a big penalty that 50% recharge isn't enough to compensate.

After gathering feedback from the the talk page of the skill, it seems that there are actually two main different directions the skill could go from where it is, and then various ways to improve it.

1st direction - Make the overcast more manageable, or remove it. There's no way to prevent or reduce overcast currently except the elite Glyph of Energy and waiting. This forces to dismiss Over the Limit frequently (by double clicking on a small icon with no keyboard shortcut) to avoid building too much overcast, or wait between fights. Here are a few ideas from different users :

• Removing the overcast generation entirely.
  • Making this skill "cure" overcast progressively at the same rate (or maybe even a faster rate?) instead (idea by Wooden potatoes).
• Removing overcast on end (for instance 10...26...30) and gain energy for each point of overcast removed (idea by User:Falconeye and other users)
  • Making all spells cost overcast instead of energy (0 energy or 1 energy, and incur the remaining cost as overcast) for the duration, could be a fun idea. At the end of the enchantment all overcast is removed and energy is resplenished. (idea by Falconeye)
  • Doubling the maximum energy and overcast on start and halving them on end.
• Modifying an existing skill to provide an effective way to reduce overcast. For instance Energy Blast (energy storage) to "Energy Renewal: You lose all overcast and gain 1 energy for each point of overcast lost (max 10...18...20)". Alternatively, Intensity, the elementalist sunspear skill, can be used instead to ensure this will not impact PvP.
• Making skills with overcast cost remove overcast instead for the duration.

If keeping it as a maintainable enchantment, this may open the door to Arcane Mimicry abuse. Giving this skill a set duration, preferably maintainable (30s for instance), can help avoid that.

2nd direction - more in phase with the skill's name, would be to increase the effects even further, making the seconds with Over the Limit really count (like a super saiyan state). The following or a combination thereof could do the trick :

• Even more casting speed and recharge reduction.
• Bonus armor penetration (20...36...40 for instance) or damage increase (10...34...40 on spells (idea by various users to increase the viability of Elementalists in end game and elite areas).
  • Bonus damage proportional to overcast. (idea by User:Damysticreaper)
• Cost reduction
• Attribute increase
• Level temporary increase?? Because the damage of spells is function of the level?

Thanks again for the update, have a good day !--Ruine Eternelle 18:22, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Self reflection on the update

A few things have been changed with the last update.

• The monk elite skill is now great. The reduced recharge clearly helped. Some have started to use it to farm undead in gates of kryta.
• The Weapons are gold now.
  • I like the axe on my ele, hammer on monk.
  • The sword on ranger is good too (although it kinda synergizes badly with the elite as all pets are melee attackers so it reduces the area of effect).
  • Assassin bow has a niche for wilderness survival builds. Haven't tested the rit bow but it should do great with sos builds.
  • Dagger para not sure, as you don't get double strikes, but surely a good thing as paras suffer from attribute spreading.
  • Spear good for hammer warriors, as a defensive set to switch to for defense and still able to deal some damage while building adrenaline faster than with hammer.
• Over the Limit is decent. At least it can be used now instead of being a lesser serpent's Quickness. I am still not quite happy with it though
• The failed dual dagger spam has been removed and I'm starting to think it may have been a bad thing. It was a bit too strong, but it was original and funny. Maybe it could have been balanced by reducing the damage from Dark Aura instead?
• Heroic Refrain change has been criticized, but I think +4 is already a very good boost. Good change overall.

Before you continue

could you change the word order please? "This skill requires exactly" sounds more natural to me (but I'm not a native speaker either). Steve1 (talk) 14:54, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Melandru's Assault / pet attacks

I saw this https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Melandru%27s_Assault&diff=next&oldid=2659059 and was wondering if it's an exception that skill damage benefits form the 33% damage increase in PvE. Then I found the info on pet attack but you removed it https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Pet_attack&diff=2659066&oldid=2659065 . So what is correct? What is affected by the 33% boost? Steve1 (talk) 13:31, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

MQSC Page

Question, that page is extremely out of date, and needs the new route and instructions added to it for the current meta for it as well, which I typed all out and created a video for on PvX. Anything I added there is free use (I assume me publically announcing it is sufficient?) so if you want to add the new things to it (all 3 links and tactics there are old) and replace any images with the ones I made, that should not only fix the issue you tagged it with but also actually make the page up to date. Anything I can do to assist with this just ask, but I am more of an in-game knowledge person not a wiki editor so I would rather not mess it up myself trying to clean it lol. Shade the (talk) 15:37, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

I wrote this ages ago lol now I know that PvX is more suited for all scs and complex farms. Shouldn't we leave the page empty and simply put a link to the related page on PvX? No work and no duplicates. --Ruine Eternelle 18:08, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Whatever you think is best for the wiki. I wont make that call. I didnt even know there was an MQSC page off the top of my head. But since there was I didnt want to leave it in an outdated state. If you think leaving to go to the 2 PvX page versions (new current dervway and older.. uhh whatever you want to call it way) then that sounds fine to me, especially since it fixes all the issues listed. Shade the (talk) 19:27, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

RFA - Sysop nomination

Heya - Not sure if you saw the discussion regarding inactive admins, but I put your name down as a potential addition. It seems to me that you've added a lot of valuable contributions to the wiki since you first joined. Anyway, after the RFAs on current admins are finished, I'm hoping you would be willing to give it a shot? horrible | contribs 17:04, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

I saw it, and I really greatly appreciate that you did it. I actually suffer from a very low self esteem and I do not think that my contributions are that great, so I am happy to hear that you find them valuable!

Sadly I do not dare take game-related engagements or make game-related things more prevalent than they already are in my life. Video games and guild wars especially have had a negative impact on me for a long time.

Thank you again anyway, it's really nice from you. - - Ruine Eternelle 07:28, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

That's totally fair. It's definitely good to know what you're comfortable with, and I completely respect that. Thanks again for all the wonderful things you're adding to the wiki. horrible | contribs 18:09, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Message on admin noticeboard.

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself; it seems the IP became primarily angered by the user page they were repeatedly trolling, being protected and no longer having access to edit it. An IP had already made main space vandal articles attacking several users (which were delted and the ip banned) before the widespread and pointless article content Deletions. Anyway nice page... glad to see people are still using Lensors old character page template. ;) -- Salome 11:14, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the message. You are very nice. I'm also happy that you like the page. I have been experimenting with it for a long time now and I am still not sure what I can do to improve it further. Your page is not bad either, I see you used Lensor's layout as well. She really did a great job, it's very well made and intuitive.

Sometimes I wished I had joined the wiki earlier. There seem to have been a lot of interesting people back in the day, although there are still a few of them around.

So you are a lawyer and game tester? How do you manage to combine both ? - - Ruine Eternelle 13:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Aye Lensor was a crackin editor with a great eye for detail, colour and design. I always loved her character page and made a few edits to it which suited my own personal tastes. As for lawyer/games tester... thats something I need to update as its out of date now. I used to be a human rights and family lawyer, but while I was studying for my degree I used to work at Rockstar (Grand Theft Auto) in their QA and test teams. I also worked for a while giving companies legal advice on copy right and trademark within gaming enviroments, so that they couldnt be sued for using things that looked similar to existing brands.

These days however, I went back to uni and I'm now in training to be a doctor. So the last decade has been interesting.

As for the wiki back in the day, aye it was good fun. Alot of interesting people and a great community with alot of engagement from anet and the dev team... was nice but it seems like you still have a lovely, all be it much smaller community, around today. Anyway its lovely meeting you. Hope you're well and staying safe. -- Salome 13:43, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

That's quite the resume you have. I hope you have or will found what you are looking for. Stay safe you too.--Ruine Eternelle 13:59, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Rejuvenating the game

Hi Ruine,

I'd like to invite you to help me start reworking the current meta framework for the game. The recently added PvE only elite skills have made many new things possible and I'm currently seeking the most active members of the community to try and inject some life into the somewhat homogenised game experience. View my account's main page if you'd like to get a gist for what I'm aiming to accomplish, hopefully with enough progress we can publish some new material on the PvX wiki and open up the options for players looking to experience more variety in a game which focuses on variety as it's cornerstone. I published this on your talk page just in case anybody else is scrolling down and happens to see the post, so apologies for taking up space. - Dj3nt M4ch1n3 (talk) 17:19, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Apologies accepted! :) Thanks for the invitation, it's very kind from you. I like people that try to break the rules and experiment with new things.

Now It's my turn to apologize as I'll have to decline it. I have yet to find a job irl, my search takes priority on other projects. It is tough as I get distracted very easily by games. -_-'

I'll be sure to watch your pages (and other links that you want to send me) and give ideas to improve your team setups if I found the time.--Ruine Eternelle 21:54, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

No worries, I know the struggle of finding employment given the current situation and I also have the same issue when it comes to being distracted. If you change your mind at any point and find the time outside of a potential job though, I'd happily accept your input on a more involved basis should you feel inclined to join me / us on this little project. Dj3nt M4ch1n3 (talk) 07:32, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Tahnnakai Temple explorable gate glitches

Many moons ago, you stated it was possible to glitch through all the closed gates in Tahnnakai explorable. Could you possibly clarify this? I ran around the area on a character with A Meeting with the Emperor active, then abandoned it and ran around again. Neither time did I find any closed gates. Is there a specific quest needed to spawn them? Mist Y (talk) 20:08, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

I remember testing one long ago, I think it was to the east in the mob free part. One at the start of the mission as well maybe. Didn't go on an exhaustive test to be honest, I can't glitch correctly. You know how to glitch reliably and how to use toolbox? - - Ruine Eternelle 20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm good at both of those things, yup. Where can I go to test? Mist Y (talk) 20:37, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Can't say, I tried all those I thought of back in the day. I tried Fort Koga, for instance (the outpost ends before the gate).

However I didn't notice stuff like the one inside doomlore shrine and the fence in Yak's bend, so there are likely things I missed. - - Ruine Eternelle 20:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Completing a comprehensive list would be an enormous undertaking - there are far too many gates in the game to check them all. What I'm interested in is confirming the ones that are on the page. Specifically the Tahnnakai explorable gates and the one into Unwaking Waters (Luxon)... those don't seem right to me. Mist Y (talk) 20:59, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

A quick TexMod question

Hi there. As you appear to be an authority in all things TexMod, maybe you could answer this question. Is it normal for a TexModded map to occasionally bleed into the main screen? I'm currently mapping my way around the world, and sometimes little boxes appear around characters with details from the .tpf, most noticeably when there is text involved. On occasion, the map overlay can totally cover the main screen, necessitating re-zoning - which generally clears things. Is this just a TexMod "thing," an issue with the carto .tpf, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for yoour outstanding work on that map mod, by the way! — snograt 15:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

You are welcome! And yes it is a common glitch with texmod. - - Ruine Eternelle 16:11, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Thought as much. Just a minor inconvenience, at least. — snograt 17:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Elemental Flame suggestion

Howdy, atm the Multiple targets list is neither sorted alphabetically nor according to recharge times (like the Single-target list). How about adding 2 sortable lists (including the attribute)? Cheers, Steve1 (talk) 08:31, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

That's a great idea ! --Ruine Eternelle 08:54, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Sharpen Daggers

Out of curiosity, if combining with Judgment Strike, would you run a Mo/A (because JS needs DF) or an A/Mo (because of Critical Strikes)? To me it looks like a really shitty combo tbh. Either an A running a Mo elite (lulz) with no points in the Mo attribute (double-lulz) or a dagger-Monk (just lulz). Not dissing you, I just don't get it. (all lulz are imo ofc - and I might be out of the game for too long) Steve1 (talk) 15:10, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

You are not wrong, it may be a shitty combo. I was thinking about how interesting it was that Whirlwind and Judgment strike were the only skills allowing to hit several foes with daggers, and I think I got carried away...

You seem to say that an assassin with a monk elite is always a bad thing, and that using an uninvested skill is also always a bad thing. I am not sure why you say that ?

Back to Sharpen+Judgement, Mo/A would indeed be shitty because sharpen daggers lasts only 5s with 0 critical strikes. A/Mo is not completely stupid I think, it may see some use in Echovald (the warden rangers use Lacerate and Brambles, both can increase the impact of JS and Sharpen).

On the other hand, Whirlwind is not elite and you can get it very early and without a proof, also going /W is usually preferable to /Mo, so maybe leave WA and remove JS. --Ruine Eternelle 18:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Always is a mighty strong word. No, not always. Still lulz imo though.

There are a few skills which are good enough without points invested in their attribute. Very few though.

"it may see some use in Echovald (the warden rangers use Lacerate and Brambles, both can increase the impact of JS and Sharpen)" That sounds like a niche build / application to me. In all honesty: If your A is going to face those wardens in Echowald, would you use your one elite skill for JS? Why would you need SD in that case since they use Brambles (they might not be attacking that moment, so no KD, so no Brambles trigger and no bleeding)? And all that just to spread some bleeding? Steve1 (talk) 11:06, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Out of curiosity: With the exception of JS, which monk elite would you run on an A/Mo? And which uninvested? Steve1 (talk) 11:15, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

One thing I sometimes enjoy to do in guild wars is to pick an underused skill and try to create a working build out of it. It's very funny and interesting.

You ask me what elite I would use against wardens. For my assassin in general PvE I use Moebius strike for death blossom rotation, rarely way of the assassin or shadow theft. The first elite I used was palm strike I think ? Anyway, I mostly go for damage. And I don't try to adapt to the area much, I just stick to what works in most situations.

For the secondary profession, I naturally go for martial ones, warrior for axe and save yourselves, rarely ranger (incendiary arrows+critical accuracy). Not monk of course. Unless I go strength of honor+locust's fury for fun (and if I don't trust my heroes to use soh themselves).

For your last question, about other potential elite monk skills that could work well on sin, I suppose Signet of Judgement could work as an unconditional knock down, even at low smiting prayers. The recharge sucks sadly. --Ruine Eternelle 21:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Animal companion

So that note is actually incorrect, if I understand your edit summary correctly!?! Steve1 (talk) 14:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I have evidence that it is incorrect (elder wolf from aggressive wolf despite playing the game normally and having ratio damage dealt/damage received greater than 1). Maybe it was a fringe case since pet evolution is not a well-known mechanic. Ruine Eternelle 15:05, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Would you mind tossing the information that you gathered onto the article's talk page for future reference? Greener (talk) 16:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

CME 2017 running patch permission

Heya! I've combined Relative Velocity Running mod into CME 2017 and would like to kindly ask permission to release it.

It is simply a patch designed to work on top of CME 2017 by solely taking the running mod maps and putting the CME 2017 edits onto it.

The credits logos will be edited and included.

Another question, the nightfall map has Ruine Eternelle at the very bottom, but I cracked open the texture file and found a couple of other names floating down there. Would those need to be included as well or were the hidden for a reason?

Thanks! -User:Chromos

Hello ! Neither the map tiles nor the fog belong to me, so you don't need my permission and you don't need to credit me.

Are you suggesting to remove the current CME mod and upload an identical one with running information ? If yes, I disagree.

About the forgotten names, it can be leftovers from me trying to credit other players, or to show off my characters (in which case they are better left forgotten).

I wish you a fine day. Sincerely yours --Ruine Eternelle 20:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

It was nice chatting with you in-game and glad to have got everything sorted out.

Thank you once again. -User:Chromos

Edge of Extinction

https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Edge_of_Extinction&diff=next&oldid=2551663

Could you elaborate about Avarr the Fallen and Johon the Oxflinger please? Thanks, Steve1 (talk) 08:09, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

I believe all the other norn foes in the game turn friendly before you kill them, including Magni the Bison and Knorr Oaken. I haven't tested if Avarr or Johon are actually norn though. I probably shouldn't have made that edit, it's untested and doesn't help much.

I made some changes. I think this is fine now?! Cheers, Steve 88.128.88.57 09:03, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Companionship

"Notes: it may have an effect if the caster is at negative health though, I didn't test)"

How do you test something at negative health? Steve1 (talk) 13:03, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Lower your health (with health sacrifice skills), then equip a Grim Cesta (knife) or an armor piece with superior rune (the end effect of skills such as Endure Pain should also work). The game shows 1hp and doesn't kill you, but behind that the amount of negative health is stored, healing and health regeneration have no visible effect until your actual hp gets back above 1hp. It might be that the hidden value is considered for Companionship, in this case you should be healed since you have less health than your dead pet (which is at 0hp). --Ruine Eternelle 22:18, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Now that you mentioned it, I had heard/read about that. - and forgotten. :D Steve1 (talk) 23:18, 21 September 2024 (UTC)