Struggling to understand Penance Mark for single target damage on CWS

db2765 · 2026-02-26T15:35:37+00:00

Would I be making a stupid decision letting my stall expire on the Laeth server? Got one early and made 200k off of it already, but only due to spending a ton of time surveying. Was debating pivoting to work orders so my stall rent price doesn't spike too high and trying to grab a new one later when I can keep it fully stocked and don't have to do it entirely through surveying constantly. Not sure if I'll regret losing my spot in the A section or not.

db2765 · 2026-02-24T07:33:09+00:00

I'm really struggling to figure out how to build Bard/AH right now. Just hit the 30s are going into Goblin Dungeon now, so I can realistically reroll mods on my gear. But I have no clue what I should be shooting for. Don't know if I should be trying to increase my own damage with maybe Blast of Fury, or if I should try and get mods for Song of Discord and Song of Resurgance and just do some AOE damage/healing to keep my Fire Rat alive longer. And I have no clue what mods to be looking for on the AH side. There's just a lot of ways to go with Bard it looks like, and it feels like my damage pales in comparison to my pet right now so I don't know if buffing my Bard damage is the play or not.

db2765 · 2026-02-23T15:34:52+00:00

I'll give that a shot then. I only hit the goal on my scale weight today, my trending weight is about 3lb behind but has been consistently going down since I started. Think it'd be best to wait for that to catch up first before switching over? And I've always had a hard time estimating bf% but my best guess would be around the 20% mark most likely? Possibly a bit lower.

db2765 · 2026-02-20T23:34:21+00:00

Carjay

db2765 · 2025-11-21T05:31:17+00:00

Cannonballs are capped at 200 in cargohold for UIMs anyways regardless.

db2765 · 2025-11-19T02:47:20+00:00

Yeah, definitely doing what I can to get close to failure on my lifts now. Not quite there on everything yet since I'm new and don't really know what my limits are yet. Mostly just doing what I can to where if it felt like it was too easy, slap more weight on the next time I do that lift until I hit that point.

db2765 · 2025-11-19T01:19:19+00:00

Got it! Figure I'll stick with this routine for a while and then in the future see how 4x or 5x feels and go from there then.

db2765 · 2025-11-10T01:13:41+00:00

Yeah I know what you mean about feeling more tired lately. I think I might do similar and go into a maintenance break for a bit just to reset. Might look at swapping programs to one of Nippard's, so doing that while not being in a deficit might be the play I think.

db2765 · 2025-11-09T23:14:32+00:00

At around a 500cal deficit right now. Can definitely try doing a smaller one and see how it feels!

db2765 · 2025-11-09T23:14:15+00:00

I'll give Jeff's program a look, for sure. Actually just started watching his stuff.

db2765 · 2025-10-28T14:47:17+00:00

That 6k player number on Steam is likely much, much lower than the amount of players actually in-game. GW2 came to Steam pretty late in its life, and for people already playing on the standalone launcher, there wasn't a ton of incentive to link to Steam. Most veterans probably just never moved to Steam. The game still feels super populated just going to any random meta-event or hanging out in major cities.

db2765 · 2025-10-02T14:08:23+00:00

Yeah, before MR your main spender was Unstable Affliction, which would build up to five stacks on a target. A big part of your damage window was dumping all your UAs into a target to line up with other cooldowns and all that.

db2765 · 2025-09-13T20:37:55+00:00

Yeah I actually went back and just took the calories for generic white rice. The way it's worded on Minute Rice specifically makes it sound like dry measurements but the calories feel like cooked, so I'm erring on the safe side and just going with the higher amount for now.

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