Guild Wars 2

TLDR version: Auto Attack to counter thieves.

Hmm.. dunno if picture loaded is good.

Weapon would be s/d with shadow sword and dagger skins

Then be proud of your server that 2 servers have to merge forces to kinda beat your server.

Infinitism.6019:

I fail to understand why melee warrior type classes are always so popular in MMO’s. MMO’s are mostly fantasy-themed games. I don’t know about you guys, but when I think “fantasy”, I think magic. Hell, the fantasy genre definition is as follows: “Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting.” Notice “magic” and “supernatural” in there?

So, why do people go for the least magical class in a fantasy MMO? I don’t get it. Aren’t games a means of escapism and entertainment? What’s entertaining about hitting things with a sword or stabbing them with a dagger, when you can easily do that in the real world? You can’t conjure powerful orbs of fire to literally burn your enemies alive, call upon minions of death and drain the life force out of them, or summon clones of yourself to confuse your foes in reality.

Magic makes you feel powerful. Who doesn’t want to feel powerful in a fantasy game? Not to mention magic classes always get the best animations. So tell me, I’m truly curious as to why some people always go for the melee warrior-esque classes in games.

Because i want to.

Gungnir Grimm.7123:

Jefzor.7145:

I don’t agree 100% with your elite choices. Daggerstorm is by far the best elite to use vs a zerg.

daggerstorm+signet of malice into 4+ people, watch as they flail about, dying while trying to hurt you, since most people in WvW wont strip stability and interrupt it.

Man… Just do that in a good group. You will die in seconds (if you render, most of the time you survive because you do not render which is why you think that it is awesome good). Daggerstorm is good against the newbies zerg though especially those range attackers who just attack you and not change to melee or just dodge away.

Ualtar.5047:

whaaaat?

My highest is only level 39. I barely have any maps completed, yet I have more basic stones then I need.

I am not sure where you are going with the part about the store, the stones are very easy to get. Everything that happens in the game is not a reason to complain. If simple things make you want to rage it might be time for a break, might help you gain perspective again.

lol.. I deleted my low level ones(not the fine one of course)…They are worthless. And next time read what the OP wrote, not just the title of the message.

No you do not see the footprints if he is in stealth. Well from what i saw when i fought against one

Senjun.8149:

In WvWvW which is all i play, it’s basically all i played from level 30-80 and all I played afterwards, pvp is basically all I do on any game and I know what I’m talking about when it comes to class balance.

First The Proof.
let’s take a look at this screenshot, from this morning
http://s903.beta.photobucket.com/user/Bergenor/media/gw2thieves.jpg.html

Let me tell you guys before you start assuming things that I am decked out in pvp gear and I i spend some points in Earth attunement just to get some extra toughness. The fact a thief can spam one ability and continuously hit 5-6k is very unjustified. I as an elementalist can hit 2k on a single target on a 1.5 second cast time, with a long cooldown. That is my best burst ability. The fact a thief can spam 5-6k in a skill-less, obnoxious manner is very unfair. This ability needs to be nerfed its damage would still be highly acceptable even if it was cut in half.

Do not worry my good sir, i just sent Anet a report on this matter asking them to implement a general skill where we can evade those attacks. This is really frustrating that all you can do is stand still and get the damage.

TWMagimay.9057:

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

You missed the jumping puzzles? There are the only decent thing in the zone? lol

2 jumping puzzles, 1 laughably easy and the other frustrating to no end, all 3 chests gave me “what did i just waste my time for?!”-rewards. Skipping stones can also be rather frustrating for those who aren’t good at fast jumping, the other one can be exploited with jump skills.

Aside from that…yeah…that map blows. I went from rounding up 4-5 enemies to waiting on projectile reflect shield to come off cd before attacking a young karka. 75 more karka to go for monthly and then I’m out of there for good…

One good tip. Young karka is really easy. Double dodge when you see them do that range attack (its kinda like a cat stretching pose).

Oh man i cant wait to see people’s damage with full ascended gear (Crit damage) which is an additional 24% if this goes like the rings.

Anyway p/d is the most fun build of the thief. Have a go at it. You will love it.

Agonize.2015:

SundayTrash.9562:

how is it fair that some people get to loot the chest multiple time, while the rest were left out in the cold. Looking back at how Anet were banning people for karma/cooking exploit, and considering as how this was suppose to be an one time event, it is clearly a exploit.

i open chest twice with my 2nd lvl80 in a overflow server, and i give a chance to do event at ppl who never do.. so my story is this:
when i read forum and c the overlow running i just post on forum for ferry ppl who whont open chest maybe 2nd time or maybe 1st time who care if i give to a lot of ppl chance to open 1st or 2nd time (maybe more) the 1 time event chest?
I think is for ppl like me a lot of player was able to do the event for DC problem or Real Life problem..

My party was Crazy man, my wisp was like hell and for 2h i just stand and try to replay all /w and ferry all ppl to give a chance>>>

and u wont ban me for do this? ban for helping community?
GZ MAN

Yup thanks to all of you guys who helped guys like me a chance at having a go or two with the event. Was so depressed when i heard i could have a chance at precursor but did not attend the event. Even though, i did not get one, i had my chance. Better luck next time.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

People seem to think that precursors were being handed out to everyone at this event like candy corn. I’m here to kill that nasty rumor once and for all.

Anet said their highest concurrency is on Sunday at 12 PST (event time). They also said they had over 300,000 players on at their peak concurrency. So if we assume about 300,000 players got to participate in the event throughout the day (lower concurrency then their peak, say only 200,000 but the event ran repeatedly throughout the day allowing more people to participate, was still starting on some overflows as late as 9:00 PM PST) we can figure out the relative drop rate.

According to GW2Spidy: http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29185
The amount of dusks available for sale jumped from about 10 to 24 due to the event. Lets say that an additional 6 people bought dusk since it dropped in price giving us about 30 supply, which is 20 added to the market due to the event.
We can look at other precursors (Zap: http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29185) and see a similar trend, 10 to 40 in zap’s case. So overall we get an average of about 35 (high estimate, most only added about 20) precursors of each type were added into the market. There are 20 different precursors (only 10 of which are actually worth any money but we won’t worry about that here)

so 20*35 = 700 total precursor drops (within an order of magnitude)

700/300,000*100% = ~0.2% drop chance

which is about the same chance you have from the MF

So no, you did not miss a free precursor candy handout. Only a very small number of players got one, you just heard about it a lot because they were all concentrated in one area at one time with lots of people around that heard what happened.

So according to your calculation, everyone will immediately sell their precursor and barely, anyone will buy a precursor. How about:

1. Awesome nice i got a precursor i needed for my legendary, i am going to keep it.

2. Hell yeah i got a precursor, monies monies but i do not need it right now. And will not know if i am going to craft a legendary later. Let me keep it. Anyway the price of the precursor is way too low to be sold (when compare to the highest price before) so let me keep it. Maybe in the near future i can sell it for way higher when supply of precursor decrease.

3. Super rich guy sees dusk dawn going down in price. Let me buy those since i wanna control this part of the market. That’s not counting other people buying them since they are going down in price.

RedBaron.6058:

…GW2 lasts a few years, do you honestly believe that there will be no increase in characters maximum level cap or new higher gear grades will not be introduced?

It is the normal path of all MMO’s and mainly because the player base demands it to keep the interest.

What ANet needs to careful about is to not introduce many big changes in a short period of time. The community need to settle and have time to achieve the new challenges.

Best regards,

Red

What defines normal? Didn’t ANET said they want to revolutionize the mmo genre. Why then follow the most boring thing in an MMO; getting gear with higher stats but then there is no change since monster will also get higher stats to compensate.

Just tell me what is the point of having higher stats in gear if monsters are getting scaled to the increase in stats? What new challenge? Getting gear with higher stats to counter monster with higher stats? is that the challenge you want?

New challenge for me would be improved monster AI; them having a range of 5 to 10 skills or spells in a pool of hundreds+ skills/spells and using them effectively to kill us. If they had just improved the AI little by little, i would still play. Right now, this new patch is sapping my will to play this game.

Oh yeah i am not complaining about the new content (dungeons or stuff like these “love those stuff”) its only the gear with better stats.

OEXTRA.1780:

Fritz.5026:

OEXTRA.1780:

I’m greatly disjointed in how most of you forum gamers are behaving. Yeah sure the new armor rank has its ups and downs but why are ya’ll acting like it’s the end of the world?

first off most people would have stuck with a dedicated pve game if they wanted to grind items like its their job. there are already several fully fleshed out games dedicated to grinding items that cater to the no-lifer crowds making them feel like spending their life in front of a monitor is rewarding in some way.

and secondly, its been 3 months and they already have the next ‘tier’ of gear released. do you honestly think this will be the end of it?

It seriously doesn’t take much time to attain any piece of exotic. I’d be full exotic out if I decided to collect the other dungeon sets, but alas the dungeon set I want (CoE) is hardly played by anyone on my server. At 1st I was just going to go ahead and get the CoF armor since that always gets played but after getting 3 pieces in like 2-3 days, I decided to stop since I don’t really like how the armor looks. Since then I’ve been logging on to see if I could get a CoE party and if I can’t I log off.

Long story short, if I wasn’t stubborn and picky, I could’ve been had full exotic in a week tops. But it’s not really necessary. And as I said yeah, I highly doubt new ranks will be added later, if anything just new infusions (which sound like runes/sigils to me).

Send me 30+ gold i use on my sets since they are so easy to get, i will not mind if you can send me more since you sir is a farming god. Or even 15 hours of farming one dungeon. 15 hours of my life gone in a flash!

Bambam.3961:

It seems a bit over the top for a Thief to be able to Finish off someone in WvW/PvP while stealthed

Well anyone can finish off someone in WvW while stealthed just that thieves and mesmers can stealthed.

Bambam.3961:

, so no one can do anything about it.

You must be one of those funny guys who see someone stealthed on a friend/foe then says “dang it, he is gone”. Lets go back to walking around.

Bambam.3961:

I’ve done my fair share of doing this in PvP as a Thief. Both on giving it and receiving this tactic. But as of lately I feel like it just isn’t right.

I do not know about you but when i see a shadow refuge on a down opponent i am like well two kills for me. However, when doing one on one well it is a pain but the thief or mesmer got the better of you so just give him the kill or try to kill a mob nearby to rally.

Then what you are saying runes and orbs are balanced. Which is a good thing i suppose.

Trooper looks like CM armor to me. It would be good if someone can confirm.

Metalripper.5406:

TommyProvolone.3715:

Metalripper.5406:

What endgame?

Ohh, you mean playing Dress-up with your pixels?

Yeah, I tried to get into it, I couldn’t.

I agree. I find killing the same monster 800 times in a row for a set of shoulders that will give me a +1 increase in Precision to be a much more satisfying process.

Not entirely sure, but I sense failed sarcasm. Perhaps an attempt to categorize equipping a new pair of shoulders as “not dressup”.

You know… maybe they could like…. make actual dungeon mechanics? Just a thought between corpserushing insert dungeon boss here

You corpserushing boss?? Your group must be new in the dungeon or just not traited for it. And oh yeah a piece of advice not all encounters need that same utility your using since the beginning. some encounters need different utilities, just gotta know what to use.

gamefreak.5673:

We are all wrong, your words of wisdom has shown me i am just a horrible player and backstab perma stealth thieves are balanced.

I am a newbie here, tell me how you can be a perma stealth backstab thief. i just rerolled to a thief.
Whenever, i cast CnD and then a backstab, i cannot get a second backstab straight away and after the first backstab i am out of stealth.
I even tried CnD—>backstab—> CnD (does not let me stealth) and thus couldnt backstab. Since i am a noob here, tell me how you do it? I so wanna own them people with that perma stealth backstab thief build i read about in forum.

Could be retaliation or repel projectiles. Not sure though.

Facepalm… You do realise that whatever time the patch comes, it will always be prime time for some people.

We’ll be back. On the 2nd of Nov.

Incurafy.6329:

Galandil.9641:

You should be reported. For your grammar skills.

Going by the structure of your post I’d say that you’re not much better.

+ 1.

Kwami.4356:

BlackDeath.8106: How many US servers are there? How many non-US servers are there?

Since im playing on US servers. I become an American now? Think about it.

Kwami.4356:

Sindariel.2354:

1. America is not tiny.
2. We have more players than any other time zones. We definitely have more players than whatever timezone might have suffered if they deployed the update at midnight Pacific time.

You sir must be working for anet right? because it is so obvious that you have the stats for players in GW2 from what you have written.

I bought this game because i read that there will be no extreme gear progression and that you will not grind endlessly for them. Sure enough i got my full set of exotics armor/weapons/jewel after 3 days (add another day for runes and back). Another reason is because of Jeremy Soule’s music are epic. These two are enough for the $80 i paid.

I hope it stays like this. 5 mins downtime for a build! Better this than what, half a day downtime. Haters gonna hate anyway.

Able to wear heavy armour cosmetics for my thief.

Skolvikings.5132:

Asheara.4380:

but power, toughness and vitality are quite useless for a ranger.

You meant to say “are quite useless for a glass canon.” Newsflash: not all rangers spec that way.

Shh… stay quiet why are you telling them this… I love them squishies.

If you watch the video and listen to him. He said he is just gonna troll the kitten out of groups of people. However, i agree with you what the op wrote is misleading.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/780-the-recipe-for-crafting-your-legendary-including-screenshots/page__st__100/

burst build D/D go for air and force. the air for me does 2k damage min each procs.

Zenyatoo.4059:

Actually the silliest thing to me is when they set up in a spot thats just not destroyable.
Because then I just go back to taking all of their bases outside the jump puzzle.
The only thing they have accomplished is denying me 2 additional siege (which I already have tons of) while denying their team 3+ players that they sorely need.

Too bad that chest does not give only you 2 blueprints. Now lets say server 1 control all four jumping puzzle for one one week without letting even one other opponent from other server from reaching that goal. And during that time, 1000 of their own players has done the puzzle all 7 seven days during that week. That is 56k siege weaponry free for them during that week. Do you understand now even though this is extreme.

Dunno about other class but thief only lacks in underwater combat. Since he got no aoe underwater except for a trail of poison. However, i have no problem farming with thieves at level 80 on land. I d/d and sb. backstab for 1 on 1. 1 on 2 i throw daggers. more than that sb.

Yea 80 first timers and no siege weapon maybe. Let me see you defend a tower or keep from 80 veteran players with your 8 pro/elite/ veteran people. And 80 omg which server are you on? i was never in a group more than 30.

Luthan.5236:

Wurps.3264:

Simple solutions are usually the most poorly thought out ones.

I’m not sure you’re aware of this, but jump puzzle pvp is WvW.

How is this WvW. Explain? I did not know that it was giving points to your server. Still new and have not played WvW that much. I always thought the points only come from the camps, towers, keeps(including stonemist) you are holding? Then everyone can just camp the jumping puzzle and kill enemies and still win in ranking? That’s news to me.

You want a good reason. Those jumping puzzle rewards the player 2 blueprints which can be used to protect or siege keeps, towers or castle. Controlling keeps, towers and castle gives you point. Defending towers, keeps and castle with siege is much easier. Assualting towers, keeps and castle without siege weapons <—- who would do that.

To all those who are saying, we need 5 glob of extoplasm and also 5 TIER 6 blue mats ( i said it Tier 6) to craft lvl 80 exotics, yeah JC too need those too. However, if you guys had the brains to read his post you will understand that he is talking about crafting RARES and not exotics. For Jewelers to craft rare level 80, we need 3 glob of ectoplasms in addition to the other mats required.

For all of you guys saying mystic forge sucks because there is no recipe, you really need to read a bit more.

There is the usual gamble like put four item good or kitten and u get a RANDOM item.

However there is also the recipe one which needs a lot of mats. Those need a set define amount of mats to be put in the forge and u get THE item you are making.
Try looking at this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zfr9x/mystic_forge_recipes_and_research_it_makes_exotics/?sort=hot

who says its 100 runs?? It is 46 runs if you do one everyday (30 carvings). Therefore 46 days. Now if you do 5 runs everyday u will need 13 days (30 + 4*20 carvings). If you also include weapon well gonna calculate a bit more but for armor its only 1380 carvings. So not too bad.