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The “clever girl” reference was amazing. Off topic but an interesting aside, I’m 27, but back in school as an undergrade to get a new degree. I’m in an intro speech class with a bunch of 18 year old freshmen. My professor made a Jurassic Park reference and when only like 3 people got it, he asked how many people had seen Jurassic Park. Only like 5 of us had. What’s happening to the world?
And now I must find that Captain Planet reference. That’s amazing.
I think the Order’s should have a reputation system like factions did in WoW. It was another area of end-game basically, and though it was a lot of grind, I’m sure ANet could figure out a way to do something more dynamic with the orders.
I’m also inclined to think that maybe they’re saving some stuff for expansions, where I imagine your Order will again have a role, and hopefully they will build on this and really flesh it out to be something important.
I agree with the Warrior PvE sentiments. Warrior was my first character and it was a breeze. I can’t solo Champions as easily as a Guardian can (not that that’s ever easy or quick, but Guardians have way more tools for those circumstances), but I could stand toe to toe with pretty much any Veteran I encountered, adds not usually presenting much of a problem.
I’ve been struggling to figure out what my next class to play is. I’ve got a Guardian at 30 and that’s about it. I’ve taken all the other classes to maybe 10 or so and tried out all the weapons, and nothing has been really appealing. Warriors are just straight up fun in combat, where as Thieves and Elementalists make me feel like I’m doing work just to play the game, which isn’t the experience I’m looking for.
WvWvW paints a very different picture. Warriors are in the minority. Its all Thieves, Mesmers, Elementalists, and Rangers.
cant see the link, i think its not working.
GS will apply crits, not many but it will. Im not staying on GS more than 100b usually, a whirlwind or so, i switch back to 1h sword/axe.
My question still stands unanswered. Will a full condition build offset a full +crit damage build?
No. I tried to play full condition using Carrion gear and its woefully disappointing. I was only using Rare gear, but my white strikes crit for like 600, which is basically worthless.
Sword is all about Bleeds. Rampager (or Carrion if you’re going to do some form of PvP)
and about the question, if somebody already left GW2…would be wrong if they’d still post in the GW2 forums if you ask me :P
Depends on what they’re posting. If they’re just hear to keep complaining, then yeah, they need to GTFO.
But I used to post in the WoW forums after I stopped playing. I liked the game and wanted a reason to keep playing it. I was involved in constructive posts (what few there were/are on that forum) to try and make the game better to try and get myself back into it.
I’ve switched to Sword/Torch and Mace/Shield. I haven’t spent a ton of time playing with the new weapons, but Sword has some cool abilities (I love teleporting!).
Someone in my guild killed a Dev in WvWvW (or a Community Team member, not sure there’s a way to tell the difference). They were a Thief. And they were dead. Muwahahahaha!
I’ve been following Wildstar for awhile now and I’m pretty excited about it. The dev team is offering up a lot of really cool ideas and its looking to be a pretty fresh experience.
I think Wildstar and GW2 will exist in pretty similar spaces but not overlap so much to be a one-or-the-other type deal. I’m not totally up to date on what all Wildstar is doing, but to me it seems to be skewed slightly more towards sandbox elements, which though I’m not a fan of pure sandboxes, I’m looking forward too. It looks to be a game that will be both new and familiar, which is always a good thing.
I’ve tried this before in other games to make myself focus, and I just end up breaking down and reinstalling before I intended to. What can I say? I’m weak.
Your better option is to just get one of those programs that locks your computer or certain programs down for a set period of time, so you can’t do anything frivolous when you need to focus on school. Have a friend or parent set it up so you can’t just turn it off at will.
This was rampant before they implemented the once per 24 hour rule. Now its more stable, but its still happening. I agree they need to end free transfers. Its been more than long enough for people to find a home and guilds to establish themselves.
That said, I don’t like the one world per account deal. It should be per character, especially once they end free transfers. How am I going to know what a world’s population is like if I can’t experience it first hand. I’ve taken enough shots in the dark in other games and been burned enough to know I’m not putting money into something as critical as world decision knowing I can’t experience it first hand first.
They just need to make the characters stand freakin’ still! Its hard to see small changes when he/she is constantly bopping around on screen the whole time.
You don’t have to actually assemble your own PC to “build your own”. Sites like iBuyPower and similar let you choose every single component, which they will then assemble and ship to you as a complete unit. This takes a lot of the guess work out, preventing you from picking incompatible components, making sure you have the proper power supply, etc. etc.
If you want the best of the best, its going to run you $5k+. If you want something that’s going to be able to blow GW2 out the water and still be reasonable, its going to run you closer to $1k.
Whatever you choose, all I suggest is multicore (i5 or i7) and NVIDIA. AMD is flat out just not as good.
^ Your i5 makes a big difference, especially if its the second i5 (Ivy Bridge I think?).
I run an i7 920, GTX560ti, 6 Gigs RAM on 1920×1080 with high settings across the board except shadows and I pretty much stay right at my 60 FPS V-Sync cap all the time, dipping to something like 45 in WvWvW.
MMOs, especially this one with all the extra calculations your system has to do for combo fields and what have you, are always going to be more CPU-intensive, so dual core systems are going to struggle.
Also, I used to run a 4850 on the same system and the performance was pretty terrible in almost any game in comparison to my new card. I realize 560ti is a pretty significant upgrade from the 4850, but overall I think NVIDIA, drivers especially, are just better. Switching to NVIDIA will cost you more sure, and you probably won’t get as good a boost as you would if you upgraded your CPU, but its still going to be cheaper to get a new GPU, and you will most likely still see some gains.
Buying the training manuals has virtually bankrupted me every single time. Its like you can either save your mats and level crafting, or you can sell your mats and level your traits. Gold flow is somewhat flawed. Events should award more.
this one is the best:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/But is there any area on there (that I’m not seeing) that shows off builds people have done?
No, but its the one most often linked in forums, in my experience. Its very complete too, allowing you to swap Runes and Sigils around and see what the output is to your stats.
Is this even a debate? Greatsword Warrior, hands down. Roll 5 signets and one shot everything on your way to 80. Yes, you start to lose effectiveness after 50, but its still a mindless, one-button build that shouldn’t in any way be as effective as it is. And if kitten goes down, you have a 5 second invulnerability and a slew of other tools to keep pressure off if need be.
Guardian is pretty easy, but that’s only because of the content, not because of the class. When you get into tougher content, Guardian’s need to manage a lot more abilities (timing blocks, keeping up blindness, judicious use of Virtues, wisely using healing abilities, etc. etc.) that make the class significantly more complex. And no, I’m not a Guardian main, yet…
It boils down to what you make of it. There are builds for every class that are more active or more passive, depending on what you choose. How deeply you decide to learn your class is what makes the difference between casual players and the next level. Its pushing buttons. Anything is easy if you take the time to learn the basics.
Now I wish I haven’t been religiously deleting my tonics for being completely worthless. I’ve seen the light…
TSW has ruined voice acting in games for me. That game had exceptional cutscenes. Nothing else even comes close. That said, the voice work in GW2 isn’t terrible.
I would like the option to tone it down some, especially my character voice, but then you have to consider that your character voice gives you a lot of important clues about what is going on that you might not notice if you aren’t staring at your bars (Ranger pet situation, being crippled or weakened, etc. etc. etc.). All in all, its a good experience.
I’m running an i7 9200, NVIDIA GTX 560ti, and 6 GB RAM and I get a steady 50+ throughout the world running on auto-detected settings, which puts most everything at High with FXAA and high resolution textures, etc. etc.
In WvWvW I simply turn shadows off and my performance is just as solid as any other time.
This has pretty much been my experience in all games since switching from AMD to NVIDIA. Hate to say it, but AMD just isn’t on the same level.
^because you can’t hang?
No. The run went fine. A couple deaths here and there because it was my first time, but nothing out of the ordinary. I just don’t enjoy the random chaos. It was tedious and mind-numbingly boring.
I’ve done one explore path and as far as I’m concerned, I’ll never do another dungeon again. I ran with my guild, who know what they’re doing. All of them have been running dungeons for a few weeks now. It was absolutely miserable. No thank you. I’d rather spend my time leveling alts, which is borderline blasphemy for me.
Is that why my Sylvari was naked except for her leaves after coming out of the newbie zone? The guy next to me was naked too.
This is just how the Sylvari starting zone works. As soon as you talk to the first guy with the green blip, you get your armor. I never bothered to follow the lore, but I expect it has something to do with just emerging all new and shiny from the Tree and waking from the Dream, where in you would be all naked Matrix-style for the first few minutes.
“I have to say I’ve never heard of that word before.”
Watch more Vietnam films.
“In PvP dual axes is not viable. It does not have as much mobility and evasion as GS…”
False. GS has one serious damage skill that roots you. If you miss, you need Whirlwind evasion because you have nothing left for the next 5 seconds and you’re about to get owned. Axes give you much more consistent damage output, allowing you maintain constant pressure and giving you the option to be mobile the entire time. Combine that with the various knockdowns and roots in your utility skills and you’ve got more than enough options to be entirely viable. And you don’t have to spec glass-cannon to be effective like you do if you want your Hundred Blades to not feel like being slapped with a wet noodle.
Bull Charge, Frenzy and Hundred Blades. Nothing to see here. Learn to dodge. If that Thief would have made him miss, he would have owned that Warrior in the next 5 seconds and the Warrior would have been unable to do anything.
Just keep checking. Its slowed down a bit since they limited transfers to once per 24 hours, but spots will still open up. I joined a guild before I transferred, not realizing they were on a full server. Took me a few days to get in, but I managed eventually.
It seems that aggro works in this game a lot like it did in the Champions fight in Trial of the Crusader in WoW. Bosses don’t care about who’s doing damage as much as they care about proximity, low health, and low armor. Its not a bad mechanic to mix in here and there like they did in WoW to shake things up a bit, but when its what constantly seems to be at play, it makes it pretty stupid. Greatsword Rangers and melee Thieves get pounded on constantly because they have lower health than Warriors and lower armor than Guardians, and have to play at close range.
That said, dungeons are just plain stupid and I’m never going to run another one. They are by far the biggest fail in the game.
robot.9134: I can’t even imagine what you put in that post that returned “weekittenhing”
Week. Ly. Thing.
At first I was thinking he forgot the space, but no, even when you properly space the two words it still gets filtered. This filter is terrible.
I hate too say it but I wish Anet should buy a month of wow and go back and play its dungeons and raids and just snag some mechanic ideas, WoW has some problems but dungeon mechanics are not one
Id prefer they’d play tsw a bit, because it accomplishes what anet still tries to. with much less snafu I might add.
Not really. TSW still relies on the trinity, which is everything ANet was trying to get away from. TSW dungeons also had some pretty serious design flaws in their boss encounters. Safety dance is cool every once in awhile, but when every fight in every dungeon is some version of safety dance, often to an extent that melee becomes largely worthless, you have a problem.
That all said, I did enjoy TSW dungeons more. Better stories, better atmosphere, better rewards, better boss encounters (excluding the difficulty of being melee), and an overall more enjoyable experience. The Native American dream dungeon is the coolest dungeon I’ve been in since Blackrock Depths.
Exact opposite. I’ve done one dungeon, and as it stands, I will never do another one. Worst experience I’ve had in any MMO ever, hands down.
I didn’t miss the trinity until I did a dungeon. Now I feel otherwise.
I’ve done exactly one dungeon run (AC Explore Path 2) with my guild, who have been running instances for some time now. I was geared properly, I was traited properly, I understood my role, and I understood the boss fights…
It was by far the least enjoyable experience I have EVER had in an MMO. Period. I was absolutely miserable from start to finish. I thought that not having a trinity would be cool, and it is indeed very awesome for world exploration, but beyond that, the concept falls flat on its face.
I’m not going to make a list of what I dislike. Its all already been said. I don’t know exactly how many hours I’ve been playing GW2, but I do know that the past 1.5 hours spent in AC have been by far the worst. So bad it honestly makes me miss WoW, and I haven’t played WoW in over 2 years.
I’ve for the time resolved myself to the simple fact that I’m never going to set foot in another dungeon ever again. I’m just completely disgusted by the prospect and I refuse to take part. It makes me sad, because this is something I wanted to work, but it just plain doesn’t.
little people = smallist hit box in game.
Hit boxes are all the same size.
Sometimes. I was doing Temple of Lyssa events last night with 3 Guardians, and they were completelykittenface. I didn’t feel like I was keeping up. Plus the blue flame just looks awesome.
Personally, I think they should just start world servers at different times during the year, and that world runs regardless if anyone shows up or not. If you are there on day one and you and a few others manage to kill a camp of bandits, that camp will be destroyed for all other players in the game.
What you do actually, truly matters. The story/ world will run until its resolved, one way or another.
So, what do new players do? They have a few options.
1. Wait until a new server/world starts
2. Join the story in progress
3. Play in a “holding” area where you do other tasks (farmer, training, exploring) until the server starts.I personally would play a game like this. I would get to know the players on my server. I would log in every day to make sure I helped and didn’t miss awesome stuff, and I would create a name for myself.
This is basically a sandbox. Check out ArcheAge.
Doesn’t WoW already do this with zone phasing? Once you complete a certain part of the story, the zone “changes” for that character forever. It can change multiple times, depending on how many layers are built in. So yeah, it can be done. Its just nobody but Blizzard knows how to do it.
Blizzard doesn’t even know how to do it (unless it got better since I stopped playing). Phasing in and around ICC ended up being a terrible thing. It was cool from the story aspect, but when it permanently affected your game world and separated your group into what are basically separate instances, with no obvious indication of who was phased, who wasn’t, or what other players had to do to get out of one phase and into another, it was just annoying.
78 Warrior 8/10
Then someone smashes their shield into your face as you start whirling and its all wasted.
Which can be said for just about any ability in the game… Interrupts… Who knew?
A zone with no hearts and constant DE chains could and should be amazing. Unfortunately, Orr is just a terrible execution of that concept. I hate that place.
It depends entirely on what type of damage you are trying to mitigate. Conditions ignore Toughness, so if you’re in a PvP situation and you’re trying to survive bleeds and poisons, Vitality will do you better. If you’re in PvE and you’re trying to not get 2 shot, Toughness plays a larger roll mitigating big single target hits.
Ideally you want to mix both to be well-rounded, which is what the game is all about. You don’t want just a bunch of one and none of the other. That’s no bueno.
If you’re going after conditions, you want CONDITION REMOVAL skills. You can’t stack vitality and expect that to be a defense against conditions. Conditions do more than just DPS you down, they kitten you in many ways as well. Vitality is your life bar. Once it goes to zero, regardless of how it got there, you’re down. Actually removing the 25 stacks of bleed is going to help you more than having 1 extra second of living while its on you.
Toughness does not mitigate big hits more than anything else. There’s an equation to Toughness that people haven’t found yet and Anet is being very mysterious about. The original idea about Toughness was that it was going to mitigate small hits more than big ones…that has since been tossed.
Sure, but those all have cooldowns. You get caught on cooldown and a bigger health bar is going to help you last until your cooldown is up. And how viable is it to stack your bar with condition removal skills considering what other utilities you have to sacrifice to do so? You can cleanse conditions all day, but you’re going to be kited to death in the process.
It depends entirely on what type of damage you are trying to mitigate. Conditions ignore Toughness, so if you’re in a PvP situation and you’re trying to survive bleeds and poisons, Vitality will do you better. If you’re in PvE and you’re trying to not get 2 shot, Toughness plays a larger roll mitigating big single target hits.
Ideally you want to mix both to be well-rounded, which is what the game is all about. You don’t want just a bunch of one and none of the other. That’s no bueno.
Hitting 3+ targets and maintaining dodge/mobility are very valid, but I would like to see it hit a little harder. I’m talking out of mykitten a little here, but I don’t feel like it compares to some other classes AoE, or even our own longbow. 3 skill on Longbow crits like 8k on a single target at level 60. I don’t think Whirling Axe adds up to that.
Asura Warriors are the best warriors. Brains and brawn. Fact.
In addition, I think our racial skills line up really well with melee combat, giving us significant defense (Pain Inverter) and strong AoE abilities (Radiation Field).
We just had a poll on our Guild website to pick a new name. I’m not involved in the leadership, so I don’t know definitively, but this makes me think such a thing is possible. Unless the leadership plans on re-inviting all 400+ of us…
But I haven’t played an MMO yet that allowed you to randomly switch guild names (not that I’ve played every MMO out there), so if it isn’t in the game now, I wouldn’t anticipate it to be added anytime soon, if ever.
I’ve been running Dual Axes pretty much since level 10 (now 60). In terms of traits, I’m running 20 Power, 20 Precision, and 10 Toughness (don’t remember what the actual trait lines are called). My gear is standard Berserker gear or whatever I come across that has both Power and Precision.
As far as what specific traits to pick, I’m still not sure. 33% chance for Vulnerability on Crit is a definite must. I like 5% Power given as bonus to Vitality too. I’m not stacking Bleeds, so that’s not a good choice for me and I burn Adrenaline pretty often unless I feel I need to heal. I don’t like the healing Signet (though it is viable, I’ve been playing around with it). I like the bigger burst heal from Healing Surge. Once you play awhile and start taking damage, you will learn when to conserve Adrenaline for a big heal and when you can burn it on your finisher. If you pick up the trait that builds Adrenaline when hit, you can still burn Adrenaline pretty often on Eviscerate and have it when you need it for a big heal as it will build very quick in multi-mob situations.
For 30-50, the zones seem to be more forgiving. Mobs are spaced out enough that you can avoid multi-mob pulls and you can burn down singe targets real fast with stacking vulnerability and a decent crit chance. Even if you overpull, since axes cleave, you still won’t be getting hit that hard to worry much.
50+ things start to change. I leveled through Timberline Falls and the Grawl there are a pain in the a… Its almost impossible to pull one at a time. So you need to start playing a little defensively. Consider a defensive banner or some other CC-oriented skills. You’ll start to take significantly more damage. 2 Grawl can take me down to 30% health, and if a third wanders into the fray, I’m usually using my heal.
I’m Asura and my racials line up pretty well with my playstyle, so I make ample use of those. Pain Inverter and Radiation Field are great for avoiding damage and burning down multiple targets and staying alive. I don’t know what the other races offer, but something along those lines that offer retaliation or a daze/confusion of some sort are very helpful.
Other then that, its pretty much up to you. I don’t think there’s a right or wrong way to do it. At higher levels, since it seems fights take a little longer, you can even consider a Bleed/Condition build with a Sword main hand. I think the traits even line up a little better for that style with 50% longer Bleeds and 10% increased Crit chance with Swords. Its just another option. I would still keep an Axe in my offhand though for 5% increased damage.
My build looks like this atm: http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fIQQNAnXTlcOSu3cT5BT0ACqQVYU8DDxRBVAgA
You can get 2-3 quick levels by 100% exploring all the racial cities and Lion’s Arch. As a human you already start out right in front of Divinity’s Reach, which conveniently has a portal to Lion’s Arch, which then of course has portals to all the other cities.
Exploring a city takes 15-30 minutes, maybe a little longer depending on how much difficulty you have with the Vistas (Lion’s Arch are in my opinion some of the most puzzling I’ve found in 57 levels). But its free, easy XP.
You will most likely have to zone hop a couple times. Clear a few extra starting areas to get a few levels ahead of your story and you shouldn’t have many problems down the road keeping up.
But Serpent Strike just looks so cool!
I like some of the inherent dodge mechanics in the sword abilities, like Serpent Strike. Its an evade+damage and it does a pretty good job of keeping you centered on the mob you’re fighting with very little extra management.
Now the evade abilities that send you straight backwards, those are not my favorite. I want to use all of my abilities as often as possible when I’m just grinding levels so I’m not just auto-attacking when I could be using cooldowns, but its annoying to use an ability, evade backwards when you don’t really need to, then have to run back into melee range. I understand abilities of that nature have very situational moments when they perform really well, but overall, I like the evade in a circle type motion of Serpent Strike much more.
I’m fairly certain this is a bug. I tamed a dog and he tried to steal Walter’s identity, but then when I renamed him Ralph and renamed my bear back to Walter, they’ve since then kept their unique names.
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