Guild Wars 2

They are really pushing my buttons with these thief nerfs. It is seriously upsetting that every time I read patchnotes I see another thief buff but 100 blades is still sitting there oneshotting everyone. first they nerfed my pistol whip now they nerf my shortbow2 im just like… wtf!

have the same thing happen, makes shortbow venom build useless

I am very upset that thieves keep getting the short end of the stick. STOP NERFING MAH THIEF god dangit. I’m seriously sad they kittened me again….. and warrior still have not been nerfed….. wtf there is a reason my guild is half warriors now.

I hate that the tactic is to just run in as pairs and die. This game punishes you for being melee so hard. I play as a rogue with full tanky traits and tanky gear and I get absolutely buttholeraped by the mobs in dungeons, let alone the waves and waves of mobs that spawn for this event, you just cannot kill them fast enough without an elite group that has good dps. So wtf am I going to do? go dps or keep building more tanky?! seriously annoying that the recomended way to do this event is to just kite yourselves to death in that room.

I am also having this crash issue on my Nvidia gtx 550 ti, i have noticed the times that the crash happens is during scenes or in areas with fog effects in them. Inside water there are bubble textures and zooming into them would crash the computer, same with zooming into fog textures from smoke combo field or poison combo field.

what I found to be a TEMPORARY SOLUTION:
this solution sucks but has allowed me to return to play, is to set the settings to the “best performance” setting but then tic the options for best texture filtering, and high res character textures, and set render sampling to supersample. Hopefully this will allow someone else to get back to playing.

There needs to be a different texture option just for those types of fog textures and water textures and all that where we can set that only to very low or whatever to stop it from crashing and return all the rest to high. as of right now I have no idea what is truely causing the crash in the settings

This issue is becoming more and more detrimental to the game as it goes onward with more and more people joining wvw. There either needs to be a special situation enacted in WvW that replaces player models with lower texture defaults but has them all at once. Or they could allow players to still show off their outfits and things like that in wvw but have two texture depths that you can toggle between based on distance, an example would be that the textures are rendered in the lowest possible setting at 100 yards but at 20 yards it begins to render in individual models in at higher textures one at a time. Something else than this method must be enabled because the invisible player issue is very detrimental to the immersion that you get in a MMO game when looking across a massive battlefield, only to find an empty place with nothing but spell effects flashing.

srsly? where are you getting your information??? :P love how these armchair theorists just pull usage data out of their behinds and expect it to be a valid arguement. It is one thing for the TP to be down. but its another thing to get your tinfoil hat on and start spouting your conspiracy theory.

I could agree with an acount bound status once the bag has been used. As it is right now there is a growing flood on the market for bags that is never going to get better.

this is very unfortunate news after browsing the forum to try and find a solution for my crafting skills being in a state of perpetual staleness. Trying to level Leatherworking and Weaponsmithing at the same time is absolutely killing me, I dont know how to keep up with the demand for rare mats! I have already dinged 80 and i still am stuck around 125ish for both professions… im pretty sad with this crafting system at the moment. The discovery method is fun but the materials you need to craft are just way too rare!

I have gotten away from hundreds of fights using stealth when I am at a disadvantage. I have also gone right back into the fight using stealth and danced on the corpses of those who try to zerg me. You guys really need to stop trying to make this profession something that it isnt made out to be. Permanent stealth will not fit in this game because it is combat oriented fast paced fighting. If you had permanent stealth and a required stealth engagement and always had to open from peoples backs it would be lame. I much rather like the trickyness and slight of hand that this version of stealth allows. And for those who are saying the stealth is not long enough…. get shadow refuge. I have outsmarted my opponent SO MANY TIMES using this stealth alone. The trick is watching your stealth buff timer, once it reaches 5-6 seconds you are able to leave the stealth area and run for your life! combined with shadow arts traits the stealth from this skill lasts a total of around 20 seconds. Try my tanky utility build here: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MzkmMzz0MnFgMMnFgM9MxxacVqzobM it is completely based around being a mobile stealthy death machine. I can jump into a group of 20-30 people and still make it out alive. NO ONE CAN STOP THE CRAZY EVASION TANKINESS! long live the thief!

I agree with the L2P comments, you are complaining about sever parts of the game that simply changing your traits and skills you use would fix. Before you come rage "omg i made it to 33 why am i not destorying all the things?!?!’ how about you look at the shadow arts trait tree? 1 second longer stealths and healing and special effects on stealth as well. PLEASE do not come back here crying after you have obviously not done much testing with alternate builds.

Personally I have changed my Traits to better protect me during long battles. Try using more defensive build traits that will allow you to survive longer. Just like you I was feeling the burden of repairs and such while playing the game from my constant deaths. Since there is no accurate trait builder websites I will just type out the passives:
Weapons: Sword/Pistol – Shortbow
Healing: Hide in Shadows
Utility: Blinding Powder, Shadow Refuge, Ambush
Ultimate: Thieves Guild

Traits: 30 Shadow Arts, 30 Acrobatics, and 10 Trickery or 10 Critical Strikes

Main passives from traits: Blinding powder on 25% health, Stealth lasts 1 second longer, Gain might when you stealth, Gain swiftness when you dodge, Gain back endurance when you dodge, 10% bonus damage when your endurance is not full.

When picking between trickery and critical strikes you are choosing raw damage vs utility. For pve I find that having the 10 point passive “Instictual Response” allows you to auto-stealth past mobs without wasting any cooldowns.

Optional 10-point Passives: Infusion of Shadow allows you to gain initiative EVERY TIME YOU STEALTH, Shadow Protector makes your stealth heal you and any friendlies that are stealthed by your effects, (the 30 point shadow Arts is purely up to you) Shadow’s Rejuvination has you regen health while you are stealthed.
Power of Inertia gives you might every time you dodge, Assassin’s reward heals you when you use your abilities, and by far the most important passive, Quick Pockets gives you 3 initiative when you swap weapons in combat.

when going trickery i prefer instinctual response, if i choose to go critical strikes i do Side Strike.

I just started playing the sPvP part of the game and it is a lot of fun! Now that i have reached rank 3, I am noticing the reward satchel contains random pvp armor for each tier I unlock. Is this the only way to get better pvp gear?