Mount Balrior - Godscream Ura LCM - cDD PoV #2 @wipemop

wipemop Less clowning than first time. But also unfortunately no cosplay memes this time around, since i wasn't prepared for this run. The team just so happened to need a backup dps monkey and i happily answered the call. We won, crab dead!

I tried Impact Strike over Basilisk Venom for CC. While Basilisk Venom is better burst CC on paper, totalling slightly less than twice as much on slightly less than double the cooldown, it being charge based and getting spent on hit means it can easily be wasted. With Impact Strike i get to use my CC more direct and more often, which can help weakening the CC bar a bit better especially if there are nearby Fumarollers or Ventshots.

I also slotted two additional pieces of Trailblazers for some more cushioning, lest i have another little accident and unnecessarily go down like last time.

https://dps.report/uQEy-20250719-221810_ura

updated 1 year ago

Mount Balrior - Godscream Ura LCM - cDD PoV #2

wipemop 2025-07-20 | Less clowning than first time. But also unfortunately no cosplay memes this time around, since i wasn't prepared for this run. The team just so happened to need a backup dps monkey and i happily answered the call. We won, crab dead!

I tried Impact Strike over Basilisk Venom for CC. While Basilisk Venom is better burst CC on paper, totalling slightly less than twice as much on slightly less than double the cooldown, it being charge based and getting spent on hit means it can easily be wasted. With Impact Strike i get to use my CC more direct and more often, which can help weakening the CC bar a bit better especially if there are nearby Fumarollers or Ventshots.

I also slotted two additional pieces of Trailblazers for some more cushioning, lest i have another little accident and unnecessarily go down like last time.

https://dps.report/uQEy-20250719-221810_ura

Godspoil Greer (CM) - pDD pov - July 2025

wipemop 2025-08-05 | https://dps.report/9ni3-20250710-213718_greer

Basis of the build in play: Snow Crows' Staff power Daredevil
Encounter specific alterations: Isgarren relic, Writ of Masterful Strength food

Isgarren relic means you want to get enough evades to keep up the 10% modifier on your target, so deliberately dodging attacks and generally dipping into the hitboxes of Greer and his underlings is on the menu. It is kept up rather easily on this boss, making it the best pick for a pDD.

Don't mind the Artillery Barrage, it is a relic of the past and i forgot its there. Hadn't played played that build in a while. With how little i used it, it ended up doing about as much dps as Thieves' Guild would. But on a bigbox boss like Greer it is still rather effective. And for some reason i didn't have Brawler's Tenacity trait, resulting in a slight lack of endurance.

Axe / Pistol serves as a great swap in order to get passable line cleave without going Pistol / Pistol, as that requires the Deadly Aim trait and lowers your Staff dps. Also, a small initial burst from precasting Spinning Axes is always nice, which can be done a few times in this encounter. Beware, you'll want to aim your axes at the furthest target but recall them to the closest in order to make sure all axes hit all targets on their way.

Reuploaded - previous version ended prematurely

Godspoil Greer (CM) - cDD pov - July 2025

wipemop 2025-08-05 | https://dps.report/1UgE-20250729-220850_greer

Basis of the build in play: Snow Crows' Dagger condition Daredevil
Encounter specific alterations: full Trailblazer gear, Mirage relic, Escapist's Fortitude trait, Writ of Masterful Malice food

Heavy usage of ally target keybind to quickly detarget the boss and freestyle Death Blossoms in a specific directions in order to twirl where i need to, trying to breathe Greer's musky hitbox air for as long as possible, making optimal use of the Mirage relic. Same for his underlings. On Protos trying to actively evade their attacks is necessary to activate the relic.

Daggerstorm has a few uses either as a cleave dps boost, emergency evade, or for eating a set of big orbs.

Your squad will need to learn appreciation for dancing green circles and trust you to be on the squad as it detonates. If they try to follow your movements like scared ducklings, panic ensues.

Godsquall Decima (CM) - cDD pov - August 2025

wipemop 2025-08-04 | https://dps.report/lC8e-20250804-191904_deci

Basis of the build in play: Snow Crows' Dagger condition Daredevil
Encounter specific alterations: Thorns relic, Pressure Striking trait, Pulmonary Impact trait, Writ of Masterful Malice food

Heavy usage of ally target keybind to quickly detarget the boss and freestyle Death Blossoms in a specific directions in order to twirl where i need to and not get smushed by Decima. Trait changes to make maximum usage of Magnet Bombs to lower Steal cooldown and inflict bonus Torment on Decima.

Mount Balrior - Godscream Ura LCM - cDD PoV

wipemop 2025-07-10 | Finally the new legendary challenge mode has been conquered with a boot. Condi Daredevil brings value to the fight by means of high dps and a rather fitting toolset to keep Ura company and her attention while the team deals with Titanspawns. Close-by Fumarollers get torn to shreds.

https://dps.report/gNDs-20250709-192524_ura

Unfortunately in this run i clowned hard and downed to my own Sulphuric Geyser's shockwave. In hindsight i should've used my heal skill but i did not notice it was up again, and failing the jump then put me on the floor. The absolute Sulphuric and cage spam on me had me in shambles.

With not even three seconds to spare this was unnecessarily close, but a kill is a kill. Big thanks to the team for taking me in! This was a fun experience.

Temple of Febe - CM reclear - cDE PoV - Unbounded Optimism!

wipemop 2024-03-31 | Yay, we finally got our first CM reclear! You'd think the lower hp pool of Cerus makes this quite a bit easier, and while it does reduce the dps check, the mechanics are still as relentless as before. On the plus side, i actually managed to cleanly dodge all Despair puddles for Unbounded Optimism.

Log: https://dps.report/tOnm-20240331-232254_cerus

Contrary to my initial fears cDE still keeps up remarkably well in this encounter, allowing Thief to stay somewhat in the race as a pure dps role. However, this is mostly caused by the recent MCS change not having quite the effect it should've had. It just made cDE even more annoying to play in my opinion, and i doubt they'll leave it as is now. None of the axe specific issues have been fixed yet; the build remains unplayable in many encounters.

Plus, qDE builds are flying too close to the sun right now and any colateral damage from nerfs targeting those will also ruin Deadeye as a whole if ArenaNet isn't very, very careful. As a Thief main i can only pray, because any further nerfs to cDE will take the whole profession out of consideration for ToF cm and lcm, nevermind the horrible state the class is still left in PvE overall.

Until next time o/

Temple of Febe - legendary CM - cDE PoV (prepatch)

wipemop 2024-03-20 | It is done! We persevered! We were exhausted, but ultimately successful in beating the newest and as of now hardest encounter in Guild Wars 2 - mere minutes before the patch on March 19th.

Log: https://dps.report/VcFa-20240319-165412_cerus (WORLD 1ST THIEF KILL, OH YEAH!)

While i breezed fairly okay through P1 and P2, in P3 i messed up big time and accidentally used Mark on the Malicious Shadows we brought to the edge. That resulted in 15 seconds of not being able to do dps on Cerus... not my best show, but in the end it meant we phased at just the perfect moment.

RIP cDE, you'll be missed. ArenaNet destroyed what already was a hard rotation in order to nerf the excessive damage potential of axe cDE by opting to prevent recalled Malicious Cunning Salvo from consuming Malice. Now it'll have an even harder rotation for less damage and with even less flexibility. ArenaNet, why? Please step up your balancing game, this is atrocious.

ToF cm prog - cDE pov - 10th of March

wipemop 2024-03-11 | GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GB RAM (31.71 GB RAM usable)
Current resolution: 2560 x 1440, 240Hz
Operating system:

Charr Fashion Contest - European Cattire (Guild Wars 2)

wipemop 2023-09-23 | Welcome to the video reel of the recent Charr fashion contest held by Charr Against Humanity, LarienAnnare and United Arts of Tyria in the Black Citadel!
It shows all participants in their rightful glory, who of the runner-ups took 4th place, and of course the well deserved top three. There even was a raid breaking the scene. We had a blast and more cats in one spot than fursically pawssible!

More info about the hosts can be found below:

Charr Against Humanity: cah.fandom.com/wiki/About_CAH
LarienAnnare: twitch.tv/larienannare/about
United Arts of Tyria: https://to.tyria.art/about

Thanks for watching. See you on stage in the next one ;)

Credits:
Music from #Inaudio: inaudio.org
Kill The Panic ( youtube.com/watch?v=R_iIAy4v0go )
Fitness Day ( youtube.com/watch?v=1Ek0BULzflA )
Go Bounce ( youtube.com/watch?v=x-5H5X6IkPY )
No Parachute ( youtube.com/watch?v=HhXQJzfxOg4 )

SAB - Adventurers End: Pain and Suffering

wipemop 2023-04-26 | Here it is, 2023's chaotic video tribute to the Super Adventure Box by your's truly. Enjoy!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Fish in Shambles
0:47 Dum Dum Give Gum Gum!
1:14 Avengers Deflate
1:25 Feel It, Wreck It
1:47 Madness Incarnate
2:10 Bunny Thumper
2:21 ... saddest of your life -yet-.
2:40 It's-a me, a-Failure!
3:02 United Fats of Tyria
3:16 Git Gud
3:30 Monkey Business
3:38 Key Experience
3:59 Breaking the Box
4:14 Outro

United Arts of Tyria is hosting a media contest revolving around the SAB and this is my submission for it.

Check out all about [UAoT] on https://to.tyria.art/about and come hang out with us over at discord.gg/UAoT !

Guild Wars 2 - UAoT Halloween Fashion Contest Trailer

wipemop 2022-10-15 | The United Arts of Tyria Halloween Fashion Contest has been announced!
Join us for a fang-tastic night on the first weekend of November!
All info down below or in reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/y50ji1/uaot_halloween_fashion_contest

Or come hang out with us on the UAoT Discord server: discord.gg/uaot

👒 Theme: Halloween
📍 Location: Black Citadel
🇪🇺 Date EU: Friday, 4th of November 2022, 19:00 CET
🇺🇸 Date NA: Sunday, 6th of November 2022 13:00 EST

Total prize pool per region: 2500g
🥇 first place: 1000g
🥈 second place: 750g
🥉 third place: 500g
🏅 fourth place: 250g (community vote)

❗ You will be judged on: creativity, theme and color scheme.

Rules:
- No Outfits, no tonics that change your appearance.
- No mounts.
- No foods to change yourself/no potions.
- Infusions are allowed.
- DUO entries are allowed!
- You will have 1-2 minutes to show off your look, so keep this in mind if you plan to do any roleplay/explanation of your look.

The contests will be streamed on Twitch, so make sure to tune in!

EU Streamer: @Hellmasker, twitch.tv/hellmasker
Join us ingame in the EU region via /sqjoin Uaot

NA Streamer: @LarienAnnare, twitch.tv/LarienAnnare
Join us ingame in the NA region via /sqjoin LarienAnnare

We hope to see you all there!

This trailer was made by your's truly, let me know in the comments what y'all think!

Music by Daniel Garavini: Faceless Beast ( youtube.com/watch?v=5lZwy_yGVeM ), please do check out their amazing work.

DOOT - but its Guild Wars 2

wipemop 2022-10-11 | A Guild Wars 2 based tribute to the legendary DOOT E1M1 [Knee Deep In The Doot] by Nick Ino! This is the link to the original: youtube.com/watch?v=hzPpWInAiOg

No Asura were more than concussively harmed.

Guild Wars 2 - Skullpiercer MONSTERKILL in Harvest Temple CM

wipemop 2022-09-29 | Well, just as I thought it couldn't get any worse, this happens. It'll be hard to top that one, Mr. Skullpiercer!

Guild Wars 2 - Fashion Contest: 91 shades of Asura

wipemop 2022-09-27 | This is a rough supercut of all 91 entrants (and some goofs inbetween) on the EU side of the contest, which has been held on the 25th of September 2022. Due to tech issues it is missing the amazing ingame concerts, and the general editing / formatting could be cleaner.

Want to become part of the UAoT community? Head on over to discord.gg/uaot!

When you stuff 90+ Asura into one contest, chaos ensues. There was a metric tonne of great looks in this one. Asura are fashionable afterall.

The contest was hosted by United Arts of Tyria [UAoT] in collaboration with the two beautiful Asura communities of Tiny Twinkle Stars [TTS] and The TINY Army [TINY], with twitch.tv/hellmasker at the helm of streaming for Europe and twitch.tv/larienannare taking over for NA on the 26th!

[Muse] Musicians of Euterpe and [SONG] Lunar Melodies gave incredible impressions of their musical entertainments before and after the show, and kept the 3+ hours waiting people in the lines happy. You rock. Literally!

Announcement post on r/Guild Wars 2: reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/xip4bg/asura_fashion_contest_by_united_arts_of_tyria

Music by Anwar Amr! In chronological order:
Funk Cool Groove ( youtube.com/watch?v=FGzzBbYRjFY )
Funk Fashion Disco ( youtube.com/watch?v=5NgKw_PSvaI )
Quirky Funk ( youtube.com/watch?v=NCaHquUFv98 )
Cool Groove ( youtube.com/watch?v=GgT1HvHygoI )

Guild Wars 2 - Skullpiercer POTG in Harvest Temple CM

wipemop 2022-09-04 | Whoever put foes with knockbacks into HT cm, they knew exactly what they were doing.

EDIT: Oh my god, thank you so much for the overwhelming response to this little clip - it literally exploded! I am speechless and hope I can supply content of similar quality in the future. Cheers!

Livestream von wipemop

wipemop 2022-09-03 | ...

Guild Wars 2 - Fashion clip: The Mask

wipemop 2022-07-10 | About time i finally get around improving my first cosplay clip. Enjoy!

youtube.com/watch?v=R4tEFDzQLsg is the sped up and trimmed version of this for the 1st UAoT short-clip contest.

Guild Wars 2 - Super Adventure Box 2022: Adventurers End

wipemop 2022-05-04 | Hi there!
This is my submission for the [UAOT][JP] SAB Fun Video Contest of 2022 as part of the "Jumpionships" contest event.

Rather than just displaying common speedrunning fails and general goofs like last year, this year I also incorporate custom made skits to capitalize on slightly more sophisticated editing, which allows me to play a bit around in terms of imagination. Have fun!

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:37 Xibalba Turtles
00:52 Yellow Yellows
01:12 Green Canyon Zone
01:30 Jungle Stompers
02:07 Frosty Frolics
02:31 Tophill Turmoil
02:44 Weekly Highlight (18+)
03:13 Revenge
03:57 Credits and Disclaimer

Disclaimer:

I do not own anything.

Copyright of the game footage belongs to ArenaNet and NCSoft, developers and publishers of the game Guild Wars 2. All used audio snippets and parodied game franchises belong to their respective owners.

The Song that plays during the OnlySAB logo display is Kevin Macleod's "Retro Future" which they have published under the Creative Commons License and thus is free to use so as long as the creator is being credited, which I hereby have done.

This video is not monetized and exists for private entertainment only.

[OLD] Guild Wars 2 - The Skyscale: a comparison with Springer & Co

wipemop 2019-05-24 | Hey there!

Because it has been requested and because i have the personal wish to amend some of the unjustified negativity the Skyscale has received, i decided to put the Skyscale alongside the Springer, Griffon and others in a race against the clock. Who sets foot on the target platform first?

I chose five different climbable areas to do the traversal / climbing comparison between the Skyscale and whatever other mount combination you would use to scale difficult terrain with a positive height difference.

These areas represent whatever obstacles you'll come across and have to overcome in everyday play when you want to get from one point A to another point B.

What i hope to achieve is to change people's minds who thought the Skyscale would be nothing but a mere afk helicopter with a niche use case too small for having actual impact on the way you travel within GW2. But in fact, it does add a lot to the table and is a wonderful augmentation to our mount pool. No mount is strictly better than another, they all have their respective strengths and weaknesses.

This mount is well worth the effort and not in need of severe buffs like some requested. However it could use a small QoL pass by adding a seperate button for the wall clinging, that one is unnecessarily agressive especially when trying to land on a small ledge instead of latching on the wall around it.

Thanks for watching!

Greetings,

TheBandicoot

[OLD] Guild Wars 2 - Obsidian Sanctum Speedrun @1:45

wipemop 2014-09-12 | Starring this yound lady, Tyria´s First Engineer to fly across half the map (literally - more like falling with elegance).
Due to usage of this shortcut that i stumbled across me a Norn Engineer is able to top the current fastest class, which is the Warrior, without abusing teleportation bugs. Best Warrior speedrun i´ve seen so far is 2:54, which is also the best time i´ve seen at all. Well, until now of course.

The run wasnt perfect and with better timing, all jumps working, some route optimization its surely possible to crush the timer below the 1:35 mark. But it ain´t get much faster than that, certainly.

Aaaaand the reason why i´m setting this video from unlisted to listed is because ArenaNet changed Norn Snowleopard and Bear Form´s Rush skill. That now is 40% slower, this jump is not possible anymore. Hey at least i did do it, right? Was a pain to level up a Norn lady when all you´re used to are small pretty Asuran ears flapping while iterally sprinting where a Norn just does a mere walk in the park.

[OLD] Guild Wars 2 - Ascending Mad King´s Clocktower

wipemop 2013-10-17 | A playthrough of the first iteration of the Mad King's Clocktower during the Halloween release of 2012. Back then the other contenders weren't just floating orbs, so you can imagine the chaos that ensued when your wee little Asura gets buried between full screen Norn and Charr.

[OLD] Guild Wars 2 - Ascending Crow´s Nest

wipemop 2013-07-13 | ArenaNet managed to implement one of the hardest (if not THE hardest) jumping challenge ever with the recent patch. And thats not even the best about it. It´s just rather impressive they most likely did this not intentional. Anyways, JP-ambassadors like many others and myself absolutely adore stuff they can hop on, and thus a place like this won´t be secure from us.

The hardest part actually is managing to do this without any fail. Considering you only have 10 charges of each of the both jumping Aspects - Assisted leap and Lightning Pull - you either get up to Crow´s Nest in one turn or have to stop halfway, asking a fellow Mesmer to port you downstairs to recharge your Aspects. Also you must not fall, because any falling hight here will be lethal if you happen to miss the next three beams on your way down (happened soo many times to me, lost count...).
Another hard part is to be lucky with the Lightning Pull. One thing that really turns me off about GW2 is that skill usage is heavily dependant on your latency. And if the zone you are in is full, especially skills which move you around tend to stop working like they should. This results in the shortened Lighnting Pull seen at the bottom of the tower. That skill also gets a higher chance to simply miss its target or overshoot it the more people are in that zone.

Finally reaching Crow´s Nest is almost as good as christmas and birthday combined, such a good feeling if you appreciate jumping challenges. Sadly Crow´s Nest is also the highest point you can get, right behind me is an invisible barrier and all debris up there doesnt have collision anymore. I admit the end of this video is not perfect. You can safely jump from up there and survive if you land in the water below. But i chose to upload this just to give you a good laugh at how unlucky one can be...

I hope you enjoy the video and are inspired to try it by yourself :)

[OLD] Guild Wars 2 - Seizing Goemms Lab

wipemop 2012-07-27 | Oh boy, this was long, LOOOONG time ago, way back during the final beta weekend event preceding launch of Guild Wars 2. This is a playthrough of Goemm's Lab, the jumping puzzle in Metrica Province. Please excuse my terrible gameplay in the end, I was a total noob.

Music:

Track 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9-O_YD_xQ&feature=relmfu - Norn Theme Orchestral Remix
Track 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic24-sArcPA - Asura Theme Electro Remix
Track 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Hyblot9Co&feature=channel&list=UL - Charr Theme Metal Remix
CHannel of the artist who created these beautiful mixes: http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewwebermusic?feature=watch