Guild Wars 2

Good suggestions OP, I want them implemented.

Land combat is great. I love running duel daggers and having to position myself, dodge, using Heartseeker for mobility, timing Leaping Death Blossom for evasion…

But underwater combat is just dull. It suffers from a few problems.

1. One of the general problems in underwater combat is the lack of dodging that is required or beneficial to the player. Most attacks are standard, fast attacks and are pointless to dodge. Compare this to land where enemies may have super powered wind up attacks, or aoe attacks, which encourage dodging.
2. Restriction of elite skills. Of the six or so elites I have on land, underwater I’m restricted to one skill. Why? Why aren’t the other skills appropriated for underwater?
3. Spear is totally non engaging when an enemy isn’t attacking you. None of the skills are interesting to use in this situation. In fact there are no good skills. None of your Spear skills do high damage, I find myself auto attacking and just watching TV instead.
4. Flanking Strike and Shadow Assault are too similar. They both serve the same function; moderate damage while evading. I don’t see what the purpose of Flanking Strike is.
5. Shadow Assault is neither fun to use, or to encounter in an enemy. You spend a couple of seconds watching your character move around, if you fight somebody using Shadow Assault all you are going to see is “evade, evade, evade” if you attack. While you can do other things while they are evading, attacking may be your only real option.
6. Nine Tailed Strike is a fun skill, but is limited to when you are being attack. When you are not its useless. In underwater dynamic events such as bosses, you will never use this skill.
7. Harpoon Gun=kite mode if you can be bothered. Again this weapon doesn’t do a lot of damage and its dull. Basically you just stand there and use Deluge whenever its up. Occasionally you may use Escape or Disabling Shot to kite.
8. I’ve never encounter a situation where Ink Shot is useful, apart from travelling around underwater slightly faster. Perhaps you could pull of some nice escapes in PvP, but in PvE its all but useless.

I hope underwater thief skills are improved because currently it can best be described as a chore.

The word “assassin” may be Arabic related, but I doubt the concept of an assassin only came out of Arabia. Personally I like tight fitting clothes. In real life thats what I wear, I hate wearing bulky or overly showy clothes, I like well fitted clothes that show off my figure, with a bit of skin, so its how I like to dress characters in video games.

My biggest problem with a lot of the thief gear is the flowing robes/tails of the chest pieces. In my original screenshot the top half looks great, but the flow isn’t.

Where can I acquire duellist gear guys? It seems to be something you can buy through the TP but last time I checked it was down. And are 80 transmutation stones only available through the gem store?

So Zojja is charging up the canon, its chaos everywhere, people are dying, you are being pushed to your limit. Success! The canon fires and hits Zhaitan, he’s going down.

But its not over. Hoards of enemies still swarm the ship, then one, two, three Eye’s of Zhaitan pop up! Its a tough battle but you make it.

Finally you have your chance to get head to head with Zhaitan personally, he’s vulnerable and…
You mash key 2 on your keyboard for five minutes, with no skill involved and no threat of danger. You are falling asleep on your keyboard.

Seriously, what happened here? It was a great start but why ruin it at the end? All I did was press 1 and 3 to aim the canon (for some reason it only moves at 90% angles) then once I had the shot (which isn’t hard since there is only 3 places to aim) I just had to mash 2. At no point was I in any danger, I once got hit by a puddle of goop which did about 3k damage…pathetic. So I’m hitting 2 for something like 5 minutes, watching Zhaitan just sit there, watching my team mates stand at canons and mash 2. At no point am I actually engaged in this fight and I am not tested in any way.

Then Zhaitan just falls and its like “hooray we killed him!”. But we don’t actually see his dead body, we don’t see him die, its just assumption. The kind of assumption that happens all the time in films and television for you to find out “OMG HE WASNT REALLY DEAD HE WAS JUST INJURED THE ENTIRE TIME!!!!!”. Why isn’t part of the battle to follow him to the ground and finish him off hand to hand?

Like I said this was really disappointing and ruined the end of the dungeon. Since it is the ultimate fight in GW2, the climax of the story,its even more disappointing. Why ANet, why?!

This is what I’m currently wearing but I don’t feel thiefy enough…I associated cool armour with skin tight, some minimalism. Any suggestions guys?

The thief non signets skills are pretty underwhelming. Currently I run +25 movement Signet of Shadows, Signet of Agility and Ambush or Ice Drake Venom in PvP. None of the utility skills are interesting or change gameplay in anyway. I found utility skills on elementalist and necromancer much more enjoyable.

no legitimate arguments against an inspect feature, other than “go back to WoW!”

lol fanboys

Agree’d. There are situations where you know you will never revive, its just better to immediately die and re spawn instead of waiting those 3 seconds for you to die otherwise.

Its a pretty stupid requirement, especially considering that salvaging makes a net loss in money. Typically an item will vendor for 8 copper, the salvage value will be like 6 copper. You’re asking me as a player, so spend money on an achievement basically.

Tybalt’s dialogue was awful. Why is this idiot in one of the most secretive orders in Tyria? And why does my character not get that its a secret order when she tries to join: “HEY I WANT TO JOIN DA ORDER R U DA AGENT?!”.

Otherwise personal story dialogue is a mixed bag. Some of it is done well, some mediocre and some bad.

The difficulty of the dungeons is fine. The penalties for death are far too severe however. After finding Ascalon Catacombs and Cadaceus Manor enjoyable I tried Twilight Arbor. It was an utterly horrible experience. We wiped many times, which is fine. However each death required us to to spend a significant amount of time running back to where we died and the repair fees cost a hell of a lot.

As a result I’ve decided not to run dungeons simply because its not fun. Its not fun seeing your gold disappearing, or spending minutes running back after death.

Maybe you should play video games for fun, not virtual rewards. Just a thought.

kroney.9462:

It’s hard to fix something that didn’t break. Would you fix the wheels on your car if they’ve never had a problem for 2 years? Don’t see a reason to if it’s already working.

Are you actually suggesting events aren’t broken right now?

And yes, its very annoying. In the Charr 50-60 zone I came across 3 broken events. It really breaks up the pace of the game when you have events that never move forward. Frankly I’m avoid PvE as much as possible until these issues are fixed.

“Sir” is a pretty gender neutral term nowadays. GW2 is hardly based in realism (otherwise there wouldn’t be any women soldiers at all, and if there were you’d see a lot of sexism) so whats the problem?

Don’t know why this hasn’t been fixed yet, this issue was present in beta. Its a strain to see what is on screen.

I love how people somehow equated grinding with skill or grinding with value. Grinding isn’t fun and making an item grind only does not make it special or interesting, it just makes it a pain in thekitten

This is an extremely annoying “feature”. Why should legitimate users have to suffer because of lazy methods to combat bots?

I think skill 3 is the biggest problem, other classes happen to be quite powerful, thiefs is incredibly lack luster. In PvE its close to useless for instance, since mobs will re aggro once you are removed from stealth.