Guild Wars 2

My mesmer was my first character and was quite due for a makeover. It’s a shame I don’t get to play it as much nowadays!

obal.3218:

Fall of Abaddon

EcoRI.9273:

Is there still a cheese spot for ooze boss for arah p1? I don’t think Arah p1 is worth soloing because of the tar boss.

There is a cheese spot but you have to range it so it’s not really fun at all.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Just thought I could share this gold with you fellas:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/29dg9w/what_are_thing_about_the_game_you_dont_like/cijyts3

Oh my.

Thanks to DnT for organizing this tournament. I had a ton of fun watching and participating. REN lucked our way into 2nd and there’s tons of room for improvement.. Congrats to SC, you guys are amazing and I loved watching your runs.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Ok, so I gotta ask: I’m new to mmos, but I think I have a right to assume that a large portion of the people that I see online are of the male gender. Why then, do most of my male, heterosexual friends play as girls? My inquiring mind wants to know.

I identify more with my female characters than my male ones. Also I think their fashion is prettier just like in real life.

7, 2, and 10 respectively!

Aomine.5012:

Harper.4173:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

maha.7902:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I’m in agreement with others that simply nerfing berserker gear is not the answer. I don’t agree that the change to ferocity ‘did nothing’ or is ‘useless’ though. It was simply the first step in a long list of things that needed to be done in order to balance the various available roles to make support and cc more desirable.

I think we’re starting to see some of the further changes, although I don’t think their implementations are perfect. The amount of things no longer reflect able might require a bit of tweaking, for example.

support is already extremely desirable. CC has niche uses but when used, it can be used very effectively. what is the problem here?

support is only ‘extremely desirable’ in that you can provide it adequately while still running zerkers. that’s not precisely what im talking about.

one of the main issues with zerkers being the king of all sets is simply due to the fact that you can max your dps while still fulfilling the needs for support and cc without specing for it. thats not precisely how it should work, and what causes the majority of the issue at hand. in instances where you need support, you should need someone that is specced that way, or at least a couple of hybrids. the roles are not balanced in their need of having someone specced for it.

you can see it most obviously in dungeon runs. most groups want that person in zerker gear who can provide the better dps, but can still offer reflects or protection or w/e adequately. they are going to take that person over someone in anything else because the support that person offers is sufficient.

You seemed to ignore these things earlier, nice to see you’ve posted it now.

Fun fact :

GW2 went away from the traditional MMO trinity because they didn’t want people needing a certain type of player ( tank / healer) in order to complete content.

That’s why we don’t have tanks and healers.

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Right now no role is required in almost 99% of the content which is * a good thing*. Why change that? Because a few players can’t enjoy the “superstar” status they had in WoW?

That’s exactly it. “No role is required in almost 99% of the contents”
That’s why zerker is the way to go for most people because if ANY SETS can complete 99% of the contents, why not choose the one that can complete it faster and safer? (Yes, killing boss fast is much safer than killing boss slow)

There’s no-way to fix this issue unless Anet start introducing mechanic that force you into certain roles (making the content “harder” that is) in order to succeed.

For example:
Enemies like Husk in triple trouble should infest all around the world or dungeons so people need condition specs more to succeed.
Some bosses need to reflect lots of damage to players so they need more healing to keep on damaging bosses.
Some bosses need to constantly chip a certain percent of HP from players no end, so healing will play a very important role to succeed the encounter.
Some bosses will periodically throw a lazor attack that hit for the whole screen, which is undodgeble, unblockable, and no-way to cancel its damage, so the only way to survive is to make your toughness and vitality high.

But hey! People hate hard contents!
So let’s roll back to our zerker Meta

How is that harder? That’s a gear check. The way content is designed now you can do it any way you want including whatever non-meta build you have. Everybody gets what they want as long as they’re willing to play with people who have similar mindsets.

Do you really think that if they introduced gear check encounters that it wouldn’t be the same people who value efficiency just carrying whatever minimum amount of X required to finish the encounter, speccing the rest into DPS, and checking to see that the people they were running with were doing the same because now they actually have to in order to finish the content in the first place?

Surprise: The way wurm works now is that you bring around 1/8 of your players to take care of husks and guess what? Everybody else specs DPS.

If you want gear checks and trinities, this isn’t your game. Your issue with berserker isn’t that it violates any game design axioms, it violates your personal sensibilities so you’d rather force a playstyle onto everyone.

Quetz.4389:

As someone else pointed out, knowing which bosses you can use refelcts on, and when you need to switch to absorbs is becoming too inconsistent.

It’s honestly really annoying to me from a game design perspective because rule consistency is #1 if not close to it.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Immobulus and holy moly I love your sig. ^^

I’ve been learning towards Immobulus for a while as well.

Welp, there goes all my money.

Honestly I’m having trouble finding a scepter I like. I was using the princess wand but it’s too small for me.

I’m not a huge fan of Guardians in TA Up who immediately throw up their wall at the final boss when there’s nothing to reflect.

The event breaks at the part with the Veteran Harpy Matriarch spawns.
-All the Skritt are alive
-The harpy is always “defeated”. The issue is that if it is defeated too quickly, an easy task for any character that’s level 80, (while it’s still going through it’s dialogue), the harpy disappears altogether rending the event unbeatable. You can reproduce the event by killing the harpy matriarch extremely fast as soon as it spawns.

Once it reaches this point, the only way to get the event to reset is to lure harpy warriors to fight the skritt thieves and get them killed, causing the event to actually fail.

Hi, it seems after the June patch that Heightened Focus is not updating the tooltip correctly.

The first picture just shows my base crit chance (46%), the second shows me with fury and empty adrenaline (66%), and in the third I use Healing Surge to bring my adrenaline to full with the tooltip still showing 66%.