Guild Wars 2

Donari.5237:

In context, I think you meant now rather than not?

Indeed, that was a very unfortunate typo. Fixed now, thanks.

Due to the recent aurageddon (and the horsemen of the wingpocalypse preceding it), I’m now firmly in favor of a detailed set of options (preferably checkboxes) that would allow me to tweak my visual experience.

I’d absolutely love to have the ability to disable backpacks and character auras on other players and at the same time bring back skill visuals and auras.

Einlanzer.1627:

Why in the world would you ever use Basilisk Venom as your elite skill in PvE instead of something like Dagger Storm or Thieves Guild?

Breakbars are a thing in some fights. If every thief in Vinetooth Prime zergs slotted BV and knew when to use it, the world would be a better place.

stone cold.8609:

Renegade: 1/10. Kala who? I kept wondering if she was so worth of a legend, then why didn’t I hear about her before? Would not have been my choice lore wise.

That’s curious because, speaking as someone who didn’t even touch GW1, she’s one of the Rev legends I know (along with Glint and Ventari). Still no idea who Mallyx, Shiro or Jalis are.

Yeah, I’m not seeing much hostility in map chat at all. I do have around 20 people blocked (over the course of 2+ years), but it’s been exceedingly rare and I play a lot.

They reworked that event so you don’t have to fail anything anymore, check the wiki. I sure didn’t have to fail any events when I was working on my HOPE.

I played a bit with the Holosmith today, and I kinda like it. I might make a different engi just for power Holo… but if I do, I’m gonna make it super gimmicky and non-meta as well.

I agree, they’re indeed too difficult to see.

Rawr.9467:

Tbh you could have probably traded gems for gold and would have had enough for the skins you want.

Words of wisdom right there. Do the math, see how your drops from chests stack up against buying the item outright, and see what works best for you. Chances are, unless you particularly enjoy gambling, you’d be better off buying gems, converting them to gold and buying the skins.

Purely on the scale of me being excited about them:

Deadeye: 5. I theorycrafted a rifle build that was almost perfect in my head. Come stress test day, I just couldn’t make it work against lots of mobs which is essential for overland PvE. I’m not giving up on it yet, but I’ll have to adjust my playstyle a lot.

Holosmith: 3. My main is engi, but I don’t have any interest in this one. None whatsoever.

Scourge: 6. Another toon I made during stress test. It’s fun, but I’m bad at AoE targeting (especially since I mainly use the mouse to click on the skill bar, which makes ALL AoE into PBAoE, and that’s not exactly what Scourge is about).

Spellbreaker: 7. Third toon I tried out, and it’s the one I liked the most. It sorely needs a damage boost and cleave on at least one of dagger 2-3-4, but I found it fun leaping around on an asura and full-countering things.

Soulbeast: 4. I don’t really play Ranger much. I’m currently leveling one (albeit lazily) but I don’t feel like giving up any of my trait lines for the elite at this point.

Weaver: 1. This spec is basically more piano-playing for the most piano-playing class in the game already. I wouldn’t play it if you paid me… eh, actually I probably would if you paid me. Accepting offers!

Mirage: 5. I don’t play my mesmer alt much, but I kinda vaguely want to try this one. It’ll depend on the state it’s in come launch day.

Renegade: 2. I don’t really care about Revenant in general tbh. Very unlikely to play it much.

Firebrand: 4. Eh… all the cones kinda kill it for me, if I’m honest. That doesn’t synergize with anything. Axe should have been a 400-600 range cone weapon like FT if they really wanted to make the cone thing work.

Huh? Golemancer’s glider?

Oh, you mean Geomancer’s. One of my asura alts got excited for a second.

Shirlias.8104:

That said, i doubt they are gonna change the way we can acquire a gift of battle, but still what is your problem in thinking that “have to play” 8 hours “a specific content with a specific track” is better than getting the item almost instantly while you can do what you want?

The point where someone blatantly lies about their own words is the point where I’m done arguing with them, as a rule. Have fun still being stubborn and willfully obtuse.

Shirlias.8104:

Ariurotl.3718:

Really, sometimes I find myself almost speechless when I read comments.

That because you are not able to read, but it seems it’s not your fault so don’t get mad at it.

demitel.1340:

Isn’t the legendary supposed to be a long term goal?

Just one from many.
Help yourself.

They didn’t say it’s “better”, nobody does. You’re twisting people’s words to make a blatantly false statement. The only people supporting this change are a few hardcore WvW purists who feel that “turnabout is fair play” because they had previously been forced in a similar situation. Now PvE folks suffer like they used to. That is all there is to it. Kindly stop twisting people’s words for your personal agenda.

Shirlias.8104:

That said, i doubt they are gonna change the way we can acquire a gift of battle, but still what is your problem in thinking that “have to play” 8 hours “a specific content with a specific track” is better than getting the item almost instantly while you can do what you want?

Really sometimes i find myself speechless while i read threads.

People (PvE folks, at least) aren’t saying that it is better, just that it’s not as bad as it seems at a first glance. In other words, most non-WvW people don’t like this change, but it’s not something to get bent out of shape about.

Really, sometimes I find myself almost speechless when I read comments.

You’ll get a response of “WvWers have to do PvE a lot to make legendaries” in 3… 2… 1… Heck, you’ll probably get it while I’m typing this. And they do have a point tbh.

The good thing is, you don’t really have to do that much to finish a reward track. I just basically did some of the easy dailies and got the rest by escorting dolyaks from one place to another for what seemed like an eternity (probably around 6 hours in total). Terribly boring and at no point did it serve the purpose of making me interested in WvW, but it really wasn’t that bad. I only got attacked once or twice, just let them kill me and moved on. Item repair is free. /shrugs

EDIT: Oh yeah, I got yelled at for not fighting back once by someone who cared way too much about winning whatever our glorious server has been fighting for. I just blocked them.

Regular open world is all about dealing with lots of weak mobs. The more AoE you have, the better. So yeah, Scourge.

My main is deliberately low-key, without any auras or particles other than H.O.P.E. Primary dye is Black, not those darker texture-killers. The only thing that changes on regular basis is the scarf color whenever I feel like making it different.

Gotta admit, some submissions in this thread demonstrate just how skewed the perception of “flashiness” is in MMOs.

I’m voting no to this sort of passively toxic elitist crap.

Dorian.8542:

Can we please try to get a dev response for this

You can’t be serious.

Well, next time you’ll read item descriptions more carefully, so it’s a good thing! Seriously though, try contacting support, they have been known to fix things like this for people (according to reports, can’t say I had any dealings with them myself).

Ragnarox.9601:

Its firebrands elite mantra but its bugged cause casting Renewed Focus brings this voice.

Seems like the most likely explanation to me, can anyone else confirm hearing it?

I’m preeeeeetty sure it’s not Mantra of Resolve on an asura, they shout different words (other than “resolve”, obviously). I’m not discounting the possibility of it actually being MoR and my ears playing tricks on me though.

It’s definitely not a warrior shout.

Arden.7480:

Where’s Weaver?

Do you really want it added to a poll that can’t possibly even tell anything of any substance due to specs being randomly paired together? I’m surprised this thread still hasn’t been deleted.

I’ve only started noticing this voice effect in PvE zergs fairly recently, and I’ve been playing regularly for 2+ years. Sounds a lot like a mantra being prepared, but with words used for Guardian virtues, which is peculiar. Has it always been there (and am I insane in this case?) or is it some PoF stuff seeping through via bugs/hacks?

RedDeadFred.1256:

My main is an Asuran Warrior and he has always had my favourite animations. Flipping around with 100 Blades feels so satisfying when compared to just slashing a bunch of times with other races.

To each his own, I guess. I never really liked these “hanging-in-the-air” animations on Asura. They do have the best animations in the game, but these particular ones irked me. D/D Asura spellbreaker looked just perfect though.

My issue (as another PvE scrub) is that dagger spellbreaker doesn’t really have enough cleave/AoE. Full Counter is nice, dagger 5 is nifty (for reflection more than anything) but that’s about it. 2-3-4 on dagger are all single-target, so is the burst, and slotting that AoE boon-stripping meditation in overland PvE is a waste most of the time.

I’m with you, OP. I like how it plays with the daggers, and I can also finally have an asura warrior that doesn’t look ridiculous.

Moyayuki.3619:

We also don’t get the title “Champion of Orr” (or whatever that was) that the old Orrian king bestowed upon us at the end of the Personal Story… That’s one of my biggest complaints.

Yes, that too. Ideally, you’d get the Order titles in the original PS as well, but the collection I listed as an example simply makes it easier to implement.

It’s genuinely baffling to me, it’s like whoever makes the titles is ashamed of the game’s lore.

I can’t be the only one to have noticed this, but titles in the game are painfully generic most of the time to the point of actually avoiding referencing any GW2 lore. I think you can find more references to GW1 in them, and that just seems insane to me.

Here’s one of the more recent examples of lost opportunity: the HoT pact backpacks. You get two-tiered collections for Priory, Vigil and Whispers packs, then if you complete all three, you get another achievement and the title: The Great Reformer. Okay, and that references what, exactly? Did the Pact actually disband after the failure that was the initial Mordy assault, and did the Commander bring them back together? Thanks to some references in LS3, we know for a fact that it’s not true. And what exactly is the point of this title outside of the Pact context? Does it just sound good or something? I can’t imagine many RP situations calling for someone to be referred to as The Great Reformer. The title is meaningless.
What they should have done (in my opinion) is make all the top tier collections award the corresponding titles: Warmaster, Magister and Lightbringer. What are the downsides of those? There are multiples of people of those ranks in each of the orders, so it wouldn’t be THE thing to break immersion, especially not with so many other, much more immersion-breaking things in the game. Heck, make the lesser collections award lesser titles as well. I know “Agent” would be popular with a lot of people. It’s not like there’s a dearth of titles in the game at this point as well, so I can’t see any perceived prestige being a huge factor.

So why are the people responsible for titles shy away from the game’s own lore? I know the story is not exactly Shakespeare but when it comes to titles, it is avoided like a plague.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I’m confused. What makes you think you need to send a character to the desert to learn an Elite Specialization? As noted above, the NPCs only offer(ed in the demo) lore; no ‘quests’. I don’t think it will be any different than it was in Heart of Thorns. I certainly ‘learned’ Elite Specializations on characters that never set foot in HoT.

Wait, so those NPCs were not in the desert? Or weren’t required to learn the spec? I am confused as well, haha. Sorry.

Basically all I want is to be able to start training Deadeye with extra hero points I get from Central Tyria and HoT, without going to the desert on that character first.

Beorn Raukar.4328:

A brand new thief can go to PoF and do the story to unlock deadeye.

Right, but that would make no narrative sense. The char wouldn’t even be a commander at this point. Unless PoF is happening in a separate timeline, which it is obviously not.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Ariurotl.3718:

Machiavell.7396:

New specs will require unlocking with special missions from what we heard already. NPCs are actually teaching you how to become new profession.

So what I think this means is that in order for my newly made thief to become Deadeye without jumping ahead in the story, it will only have to do PS, LS2, HoT, LS3 and ONLY THEN go to PoF and unlock the bloody spec? Screw that so much.

I don’t like the sound of that, I really don’t. Hopefully it’s at least account-wide.

It’s nothing like that. If the Demo is any indication, there will be no ‘missions’ offered from NPCs. Those NPCs offered only lore dialogue. No ‘quests’ or ‘missions’ were present.

The fact that you have to do something to unlock them is not the issue here. It is just immersion-breaking for me to randomly send a char on a spec-learning trip to the desert. But yeah yeah, it’s not really important. I’m just nitpicking at this point.

Machiavell.7396:

New specs will require unlocking with special missions from what we heard already. NPCs are actually teaching you how to become new profession.

So what I think this means is that in order for my newly made thief to become Deadeye without jumping ahead in the story, it will only have to do PS, LS2, HoT, LS3 and ONLY THEN go to PoF and unlock the bloody spec? Screw that so much.

I don’t like the sound of that, I really don’t. Hopefully it’s at least account-wide.

Yeah, selectively turning off the backpacks on other players is a feature I never knew I wanted before they introduced the black/white wings and suddenly everyone and their fashion-challenged grandma was wearing the useless tacky things. I’m very much in favor of adding such an option specifically for backpacks. Sure, there’s an option to just turn off everything and have everyone wear the default outfit, but that’s just too much of a swing in the opposite direction imo.

What is this “old abandoned content”, exactly? I can’t think of any off the top of my head that isn’t still being done regularly or at the very least on “daily” days.

Very unlikely, I don’t see ever going away from my FT-camping, elixir-chugging scrapper (sorry purists, I can’t play the piano). Perma-stability from Juggernaut makes everything 74% less annoying.

If you’re on EU and you have trouble with Mordy, I’ll team up with you and help you (not in challenge mode though).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The OP seems to be arguing that the game should have been designed to use the mouse alone, without a keyboard. I can’t agree.

I’m just asking for the option, and more importantly, for the consistency. I don’t see how anyone can be opposed to the option of right-clicking on a skill and choosing how you want it to be deployed.

And yes, in my ideal world all AoE skills automatically snap to target and affect the area around said target. But I’m not asking for it to be mandatory for everyone. I’m asking for consistency and the freedom of choice. The fact that having to track the cursor is mandatory if you have “snap to target” enabled is farcical.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The latest map, Siren’s Landing, is a great mix: there’s one waypoint and, for a nominal amount of local currency, you can ‘buy’ no-cost/in-map access to 4 more. I don’t feel it’s hard to return to an event at all.

For what it’s worth, I get that the “shrinepoints” are free once you unlock them, but this mechanic annoyed the crap out of me because it was just another thing tacked on to complicate things. I’d rather pay the silver for the usual waypoints.

I’m not being an ELITIST here, I’m a pretty poor player, but I have to disagree. None of the bosses caused me much trouble other than Caudecus (due to the camera and awful AoE bloodstone-throwing mechanics) and Aerin (because screw all this Zephyrite jumping nonsense). If I can beat them, then almost anyone can.

I hate to say L2P, but what are you gonna do?

P.S. Don’t deck your chars in Berserker gear if you have trouble. Toughness and Vitality are the best friends for bad players such as you and I.

Yes, this dead horse again.

I’ll admit, there has been a lot of positive change in AoE targeting for us slow-reaction people in GW2. The “snap to target” feature was introduced, and it (half-)saved AoE skills for us. But it’s not enough, not when the glaring problem is still apparent. What’s the problem, you ask? Well…

Snap to target only works when you use keyboard keys

Let me explain that further. Some of us use the mouse to click on skills. And what happens is, if you click on an AoE skill using the mouse, it will center on you. All the time, every time. In order to get AoE to snap to target, you HAVE to use the keyboard keys, and you HAVE TO make sure your cursor isn’t floating over the skillbar because if that’s the case, enjoy your AoE centering on your char.

I know the code is old, the engine is old and what have you. But it would have been SO GREAT if the right-click on a skill on the skillbar changed how it works. Just please please PLEASE let me snap to target by clicking on the skillbar.

Is it really that hard? Why do I have to even take the AoE aspect into consideration when I decide how much FUN I’m likely to have with a given weapon? Nobody should, and yet I do. I look at the Renegade shortbow and I think, well I’m not gonna have fun with that because of all the cursor-watching I’m gonna have to do if I pick it. THIS IS NOT HOW IT SHOULD WORK.

In conclusion, thank you for the half-measures that made using AoE skills less of a hassle that they were before Snap to Target. Now it’s the perfect time for fixing the problem once and for all. Just let us right-click on an AoE skill and choose how it targets. It won’t hamper skillful players at all, they can just keep it as is. But us slowpokes would really appreciate not having to track the cursor all the time because GOD FORBID IT’S HOVERING OVER THE SKILLBAR.

Rant over, peace.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Copied from the Gemstore thread:
Exuberant dye kit allows one choice from one dye kit. The choices are: Bloodstone dye kit, Vibrant dye kit, Solar and Lunar dye kit, Primordis dye kit, Zephyrite Color Swatch kits (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green).

Lion’s Arch Survivors Kit is not one of these? I noticed Enameled Reign and Jungle took a nosedive on the TP…

EDIT: Nevermind, it’s one of the kits dropping from the LS1 nostalgia boxes.

Seera.5916:

They want to explore the new lands and play the game with the new elite spec.

Not be rewarded with the new elite spec after exploring and playing the new expansion pack.

Exactly. Couldn’t have put it better myself.

It will not be available for gems because ANet actually want you to pay money for the expansions, not gems you converted from gold.

Please don’t lock the new elite specs behind content walls, PoF-specific hero challenges or an exorbitant amount of hero points. Please don’t make this launch as bad as the initial HoT was, with all HPs required to fully unlock the spec.

On the day PoF hits, all I want is to be able to put my extra hero points to good use. I don’t want to have to do PoF areas in order to unlock them and I don’t want to see HP costs of new specs inflated just to make players do PoF hero challenges.

Can you just let us (or at least those of us who had already done tons of extra hero challenges in preparation) enjoy the new specs right off the bat this time? Pretty please? With an omnomberry on top?

The new direction seems to be more grounded as well, there is less hype and fewer big statements. All part of learning from the mistakes made in the run-up to HoT.

So… not a quality of life change then?

These threads, I swear.

Here’s a fact for you: specs are balanced around these restrictions. If ANet ever budge to this ridiculous demand and unlock weapons for everyone (which is thankfully unlikely), THEY WILL NERF MOST OF THEM. You will never have a rifle/staff Daredevil keeping its precious three dodges without huge nerfs.

No, keep weapons tied to their respective specs. You have to make hard choices, that’s the point.

Judging by the OP’s previous posts, they main Necro and think the shroud traits are useless for Scourge, which was actually shown to be false. Shroud traits will affect the respective new sand skills.

Not sure what’s going to happen to the shroud entering/leaving traits though.

It is unlikely that GW2 will ever have such a mode, so I recommend playing a different game, one which encourages sociopathic tendencies more.