Guild Wars 2

Tryhard Pants.9745:

…But how would the group even know? …

I run GW/Staff as Mesmer. It’s all I ever run (I find it somewhat fun to play).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

On the contrary, I don’t have to think at all about loot if I don’t want to; we get stuff for nearly anything except sneezing and chatting on the forums.

Here I thought blindness only went so far.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

How would folks know if you can play or can deal damage if you join with a non-meta build? There’s a small minority who don’t want to wait to see if you can or can’t. Near as I can tell, that takes place in every MMO, at some level.

In this game, it’s largely limited to Raids, less frequently in fractals, and hardly at all these days for dungeons.

I wish I had your luck.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People are busy. Do you like to have your time wasted? It might not have anything to do with loot.

I’ve wasted an enormous amount of time in video games, irony aside. Lots of that time has been with games that I’ve been willing to sacrifice the waste of time because the game play was actually THAT GOOD.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

How would revamping combat change that? If it becomes harder, then people are more likely to kick. If it becomes easier, then a lot of folks will stop playing — loot alone isn’t enough to keep a strong player base.

This is actually a perfect note to end on. How determental it is to your argument, failing to realize the beauty of impactful and meaningful combat, games with enough stunning visuals & thrilling game play – people keep coming back regardless of the thousands of hours they spent playing or the hundreds of times they’ve achieved maximum loot gain. From JPRGs to FPS, the titles are out there – setting prime examples of how to make games where people are soaked in without loot even being a factor.

Unfortunate, fanboys always know how to defeat hard criticisms. At least it’s not through hard consciousness.

This game focuses too much on loot and not enough as an actual combat/rpg game.

The amount of times I’ll get kicked from PUGs for not playing meta builds, not because I can’t play or don’t deal damage, but because I’m not optimized, therefor I ‘waste their time’… their time to… GAIN LOOT.

Your game needs a combat revamp or just move on to GW3.

GW2 casino is starting to unveil itself from the folds and clearly (from reading countless of other threads), I’m not the only one.

Cheers, Anet. Best of luck.

Dogs have thousands of years of evolutionary domestication over cats. They have had more time to build stronger and better connections with humans. #Facts over Cats

Think it’s time to play a real esport.

SFV could use a top Juri player, amirite?

@ OP

Holy moly! I feel the same way and can’t pin-point why either. Felt this way since release day-1 and have been trying to figure out why since then.

Looks great, but the immersion level just isn’t there.

A few things I’ve come up with are:

1. Combat is stale after a certain point. Hits don’t feel impactful and things like going out into the world and fighting foes (via solo) is just boring and not engaging.
2. Everything feels frivolous and thrown in the air. Nothing feels rooted or grounded in a reality. From elder dragon attacks to quaggan backpacks – so random and out of place.
3. The ‘Pixarification’ is another point to consider: https://youtu.be/rz6W0h3r30k

choovanski.5462:

my number one recommendation is going to be to break the habit of skill clicking. this will improve the fluidity of your gameplay dramatically.

kin korn karn.9023:

If you click your skills, you’re willfully playing handicapped merely because you’re too lazy to rebind. Seriously, rebind that kitten. Takes like a week max to get the hang of it.

I did try once, just not hard enough. Watched Helseth’s vid on keybinds etc. Although I didn’t find it as useful as I thought.

I’ll certainly consider keybinds, but not until I get platinum this season. The season is almost up anyways, don’t feel I have enough time to learn it.

To that end, recommendations for keybinds? Specifically for Mes, guard and necro?

So I’m gonna do somethin’ a little crazy and throw out my youtube playlist of streams that show me climbing into platinum. I know linking aint proper on the forums, so check my signature if you care?

My reasoning for this is to demonstrate a few things, which will likely get quite a few folks either triggered or feeling justified in their points about the current season.

1. I’m super average at PvP. Pretty much pleb status, but I do play it a lot. So in that respect, I’m not exactly a “PvEer who just wants to grind loots”.
2. I don’t play meta on any of my builds, and arguably, my builds probably have some major loopholes.
3. I main mes, play guard to cheese it and necro on the side for oddballin’. I can’t play ele, engi and thief (classes that I regret not learning because of how useful they become in T3 gold and beyond).
4. This playlist probably even demonstrates how either I get carried, or how non-meta builds still have strong viability. Maybe both?
5. I’m a clicker. (click 6 -10 + Fs), Key the rest.
6. Not that it matters, but I placed in Silver.

If anyone cares to offer tips (with respect to my build choices), then please do help. I’m a pleb, after all.

Hopefully get plat before season ends.

RL Pleb here, just plebbin’ in to ask:

What toppings should I order on my pizza?

Also, when the enemy team has an ele/ranger combo, what’s the single best option to help nullify that winning combo?

Needs a complete combat overhaul, imo. Boons, conditions… what a bunch of rubbish.

I’ve raged a couple of times, although knowing full well we were at the point of no comeback. Needless to say, I feel like this is resulting is some rather slop matchups.

Went from silver to plat, now I’m staggering back down to silver and it’s hella making me rage. lol

Hard counters, anyone?

Necro boon-strip aint doing kitten and I’ve been in a loss streak because I keep facing these combos and my team has nothing to counter – ever.

Not what metabattle says lol?

Months ago when I was interested in raids, I had thought the same.

Sigh*… Really feel like Anet needs to rework raids so it’s not so restrictive. By that I mean personal skill and capability. Build diversity isn’t welcome and that, to me, ruins the fun. That and this mentality of trying so hard to optimize/perfection versus just getting a win. Although that just leads to the ‘loot’ mentality, where everyone just wants to get the most loot within the least amount of time… again ruining the fun.

I digress. Ranger meta, please? =P

What’s the best ranger build for getting in with PUGs?

I’m prepared to learn and gear up, but I don’t want to waste time with a build that even PUGs won’t accept.

Few months of MIA and come back to people now deciding to throw matches after anything with 100pt leads or just bad few mins.

That’s something I expected so long ago, but just goes to show how this PvP system isn’t quite there.

It’s such a crappy weapon though. The amount of times I’ve gotten downed by MH sword in PvP (for example) is like zero. Anyone with half a brain knows to bring a stun break and pop before Sword 3 is used, so there goes that lovely 100% buff. You’ll get lucky to strike a foe with 2nd or 3rd stages of sword 1. Well, sword 2 is just pointless respectfully.

The only good to come from the patch is raid groups. Otherwise, it’s still worthless. Upping the direct dmg isn’t going to save it. You need to make it full condi so hits apply something that’ll last longer and effectively deal more damage.

Anet has a chance to make a legit cleave MH with this rumor of an axe. Just don’t make sloppy skills like sword 2 or 3.

Seriously. Just make MH Sword a full condi wep and then whatever new MH weapon we get, make that power based with not so sucky abilites.

There, problem solved!

Funny thing is, back before HoT, people were all over the idea and yet I hated it…

Although after HoT and now with news of another x-pac in the making, the idea of a pistol main hand does sound pretty awesome.

I mean, this could be our way to get more DPS. The pistol could be power based and have an elite spec that reflects it.

So the potential is there. Yet somehow I’m getting the impression Anet will just give us some silly crap, like minstrel specs with warhorn offhand. Trololol…. Sigh*

Just make a Darkish Purple glowly one instead of the orange. Get a new version while the prior can still be exclusive… and cause purple freaking rocks dood.

Just had a guard port to me through an ice wall (actual map design sh*t) on ‘Temple of the Silent Storm’.

Thanks Anet. Thanks.

Not sure I’d consider myself casual, as sometimes I do tend to have those all-nighters of trying to grind something.

Yet the recent focus on raids is certainly pushing me away from GW2. I actually started playing GW1 again, lol.

I tried raids a few times and only cleared wing one, afterwards I quit. I haven’t wasted so much time playing a game before as I have trying to clear raid bosses in this game. Furthermore, the majority of toxic players I’ve met, over my thousands of hours playing, has been while doing raids. Yuk.

I really think Anet needs to focus on individual play and derive new group content experiences from that – instead of the obvious other way around.

More content like the Queen’s Gauntlet.

Was in the Aqua frac and I died near the end. The group finished and then left instead of rezzing. Me and another were left in dead state with no prompt to rez and grab loot.

It just happened again.

I never had the GWAMM title and never got it due to a bug.

What has happened once (and now twice), is they’re taking away 450 points plus all the of other titles like “legend of the mists” etc. Which I did rightfully earn.

I just got a mail saying that my achievements from GW1 have been revoked?

I included a screenshot of my actual character achievements from GW1 and yes the accounts are linked. It’s been like that since GW2 released… so clearly this is a bug?

So, will we ever get to return to these maps in gw2?

25 pips into diamond now. I’d probably be in legendary if I hadn’t stopped with pvp since Wintersday dropped.

I play a non-meta Mesmer. No portal or blink either. Mantra, shatter, lockdown and condi removal + staff for support.

I’ve mixed with SoloQ runs and team runs via guildies.

It helps a lot when you talk in team (SoloQ that is). Know rotations and you’re good.

Other than that, losses usually are because of poor team comps.

I fear you guys are simply reading the title rather than expanding on the points being made.

This isn’t about hardcore versus casual play. Nor is it about catering to solo over group play.

It’s about introducing a system that balances solo & group play equally. You can still have difficulty with such a system, for example; splitting a quest line into three directions on the map - each direction being a different difficulty. So even if people aren’t around to scale the quests up, you’d still have your easy/med/hard etc.

Again, these are broad ideas and require more depth to hash out a proper mechanic. Yet given today’s industry, it really doesn’t seem like a far fetched notion.

HoT, currently, is broken. You could lfg, yet the emphasis is on swapping to meta events only and losing your map exp as a result. Trying to get a chain going for the smaller events is a joke. You either have to lucky by being on at the right time or you’re screwed. That’s not a ’play it my own way’ kind of deal.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

…not by giving up and turning the game into a solo world with in-game chat features.

That’s not what I suggested.

Nothing is more frustrating than having to spend close to an hour on a minor event in Auric Basin because no one is around to help. With creatures that have fast spawn rates, large dmg outputs, huge health pools and overwhelming herds – it’s simply not enjoyable.

Isn’t it possible to innovate like you said you would? I mean, imagine creating a solo experience yet adding group play without being tacky? If done right, you probably could get away with ‘innovation’ and please both group + solo interests. What a notion!

A very broad starting point: how about personal quests that trigger around a player and thus naturally become group events because they triggered in open world? Magic. Scaling would still take effect depending who’s around, yet more importantly it won’t waste time when no one is around. It’s like removing personal story altogether and merging it with the open world. Two birds with one stone.

That’s only one general example. I’m pretty sure you could get away with something better, right? Innovate is the keyword after all.

https://youtu.be/lsfhADiaP5E

The combat system is simply too casual. They’d need a whole new level of interactions, such as skills flipping over into combo states due to environmental status or something. Think like black desert or whatever. I’m sure there’s better ideas, however, the point remains.

It’s simply too easy to face-roll with meta builds and I’d argue that the lack of solid balance is due to the combat’s over-simplistic nature. Sorry, anet, but that perfect balance between casual and hardcore is just not possible without dithering the quality of one gameplay type over another (PvE over PvP etc).

This is the third time tonight, within about an hour or so. Can’t seem to finish a pvp match without it crashing. Sad cause each match was in our favor and yet I lose a pip still… >_>

Running 64bit client*

The side-shaved stuff is great! I love Anet for going to that area of style and I wish they’d add another side-shave with a shorter style instead of long (human females).

Cheers, Anet! Thanks for those styles and I hope to see more.

saturn.4810:

What do bikinis have to do with partiarchy? Are bikinis more prevalent in patriarchic cultures, or something?

Just some exaggerated sarcasm. In the past, any time someone would inquire about “skimpy” armor, it would turn into a battleground. Kinda surprised it hasn’t happened yet. Good on you, anet community… Good on you.

They never made it for players. It’s been requested many times before though. Certainly would be cool to see as an outfit, perhaps with some more tailored designs and not so simplistic.

also, inb4 someone shouts misogyny, patriarchy or whatever…

Unfortunately I only play one profession, so I can only really vouch for one. Despite that, there’s no doubt in my mind that having just seen other specs play out, the chronomancer feels bland.

I admit it’s useful in some ways, yet overall it leaves a dry taste in my mouth.

The other problem is that bigger guilds have more incentive, so they’re far more likely to snatch recruits.

This has gotta be a joke. Mesmer downed state is probably the worst in the game… But now… I don’t even…

1. Elementalist
2. Thief
3. Guardian
4. Mesmer
5. Engineer
6. Necromancer
7. Warrior
8. Ranger

Here, this is what I run: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Rg-Z;1VPV11I7RW-71;9;4STU;0037136136;45Zl65;1Kwyvjzyv5B

Try it out and you’ll find some relative gameplay.

I opt for chaos over inspiration as chaos has good support skills to help raise survivability- such as Illusionary Defense and Mirror of Anguish. To that end, I also go for Desperate Decoy. Lastly, it’s super effective to really pump that control if you’re gonna use MoD – so Harmonious Mantras and Chaotic Interruption. It’s a solid way to handle dueling and taking out other mesmers or thiefs with invisi. Lock ’em down and blow up.

Lyssa runes seem cheesy at first glance, but when you consider the convert 5 conditions into boons with mass invisi – mmmm, so good.

Your build looks relative to mine. What are you traits/runes?

Grind burn outs + loot driven end-game = I give up. Pretty sure that sums it up well.

Make a game that has insanely fun and engaging combat etc. Then you’ll really have your die-hard dedication.

So far my current thoughts are that shield is great, yet not when paired with scepter or sword. Between the two, you’d think sword would be best (considering it’s in meta). However, it doesn’t have the same value without torch #4. Instead, scepter with conditions works best as shield does a fine job of helping mesh blocks and illusion creation.

I did notice that with a dom/duel/chorono, my illusion production is through the roof. I traited with meta and opted for mantra so I could get that extra daze (concentration over portal). A daze to prep before scepter #3 seemed pretty effective. Then follow with blocks and more interrupts.

Chrono traits:

- Delayed Reactions
- Illusionary Reversion
- Chronophantasma

I’ve also noticed how Continuum Split doesn’t seem all too worth it. I’ve gotten a few instances of enemies chasing down elevated paths and popping split before I drop to bounce back up while they’re left below. Other than that, pop for blind and boon removal I guess (with required traits).

Been doing good with 1v1 and some bunkering, a lot better than meta and yet still with some dmg from meta.

Desperately need condi removal though. I took Lyssa runes and mass invis to drop when it’s too hot. That seems like the best I can do though. I really didn’t feel good dropping blink or decoy.

So I just opened a twitch and hopefully I can get some good mesmer action going.

http://www.twitch.tv/voegoestwitchn/profile

Still new to this whole thing, but figure since my days off are pretty bland, why not share some game time? I’d appreciate any tips to improve the quality of my channel.

Let me know if there’s anything you wanna see with the chronomancer.

Still getting mine every few moments. It goes from an average of 50 to 800+… driving me crazy and beta is so soon. Q_Q

http://i.imgur.com/HnT2cBF.png

http://www.pingtest.net/result/128332778.png

I’d love to see this as well and have actually hoped to see a return since GW2 released.

I’m of the belief, however, that it would be too much work. The amount of submissions they’d get would be staggeringly high.

The art community has expanded immensely since back when Anet had their first design a weapon contest. Even then I’m sure it was a load of effort.

Just imagine it now – from the pencil doodles on ruled paper that people sketch while at work to everyone and their dog now having access to cheap tablets and pirated copies of photoshop.

Aww man, you’ve got the sick Devil’s Canyon cpu. I’m planning on upgrading before FO4.

Yet dang, your fps is still relative to what I get and my cpu is stock at 3.4ghz.

Think I’ll just continue to blame DX9 on this one. xD

For comparisons sake, my settings/fps was added.

i7 3.4ghz, 16gb ram, gtx 780

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4557899336

Not sure what it is. I’m getting lag spikes every few moments, regardless of where I am. Open world, dungeon team or PvP – it all lags.

This problem started a few days ago, or at least it seems so. Prior to that it was fine.

Various facial piercings to choose from would be awesome. At least one can hope.

How about some finishers for each profession type? Also hopefully with the default color themes.