Guild Wars 2

Oh yeah, my mistake about Power being primary, it’s not. I knew everything was mixed up, just pulled the stats out of my head as I made the post. Probably best to completely ignore all the stats and primaries I mentioned in the previous post lol.

Just to clarify, Emerald trinkets (the rings, amulets, earrings themselves) are Toughness primary, but the Emerald addons are Precision primary. This is the only kind of gem with this issue.

There’s a third issue too (1 being the primary stat and 2 being the secondary):

Knights sPvP – Pow(1), Prec(2), Vit(2)
Knights PvE Armour – Pow(1), Prec(2), Tough(2)
Emerald Addons – Prec(1), Pow(2), Tough(2)

As far as I can tell, Knights (and Emerald addons) are very unique in that nothing matches, but every other armour type/jewel/trinket does. Surely this is an error? It just doesn’t make sense and fit in.

All Knight stats, including the Emerald trinkets and Emerald addons should ideally be standardised to Power(1), Precision(2), Vitality(2). Any chance of Dev confirmation on whether Knights/Emerald is supposed to unique in this regard?

Nymphetamine.2103:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The 9/24 update has:

“End of Story Loot bags improved to only give green or better lvl 78+ gear.”

I don’t know if it also has a retroactive fix for players who have already the step, but we do plan on giving players who have already done the step updated loot.

Just a head-up:
I kept my unopened loot bags because of the bug, and decided to open them after reading this post:
Unfortunately it seems pre-existing bags was not affected by the change as I received 4x sub 40 blues and a 78 green.

Can’t wait for the “retroactive” reward though.

The update hasn’t happened yet, it happens in 15 hours 20 minutes from this post.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQRApe7dlYgyCXFyvDfIFSmiVCBtKQQYKIQM6ShDJRA;TwAA1Cto8ysjYHbXOvkdt2YsxGkJIA

Notice the +50% boon duration, +75% retaliation duration, +70% protection duration from runes and traits.

If I run into a Necro that likes to use ‘Corrupt Boon’, I switch out ‘Hold the Line’ for ‘Contemplation of Purity’.

Works great for me personally and has decent condition removal. Can easily hold against 2-3 players for 2 minutes solo. The issue is, you will likely not kill someone unless it’s a 1v1, but most opponents will drop health due to retaliation; you need to call for backup, but backup will usually arrive in time and can finish them off.

Edit: Don’t click the link, paste it into your browser.

I’d like to see Renewed Focus gain Stability for 3 seconds. It’s one of the few elites that are actually completely counterable so as to render them practically useless. You could use it, get 1 second of invulnerability, but knocked back and lose the other 2 seconds of invulnerability and not have your virtues recharged, you then have to wait again.

I can see your point. I ran Longbow on a Warrior (which is probably a bit more PvE friendly), so I had the benefit of high AoE damage, but I did get downed and died a couple of times, particularly when Trahearne decided not to help (and stood nearby off to the right somewhere) after rescuing the first group and we had to defend against the first few waves.

I liked this quest, and I don’t recall it taking me an hour to complete. What profession were you?

You won’t lose anything. Just bear in mind Guild upgrades and influence are unique to each world (I have no idea why this is, probably a technical limitation and we just have to hope they will sort it out later).

On that page you linked, it actually tells you every PvE bow with the same model, i.e Frozen Bow. Doing a quick search for Shortbow (assuming you meant you wanted that Longbow in a Shortbow version) yields: “Shaman’s Frozen Shortbow”, “Shamans Etched Shortbow” and “Frozen Shortbow”. Try looking one of those up in the Trading Post. May or may not give you what you want.

WvW I believe is the only place you can get Exotic weapons from vendors. Don’t quote me on that though.

All loading screens are longer for me and I can’t remember when exactly it changed, but it was a significant change, nothing like the first couple of weeks of play.

+10% extra critical chance I’m lead to believe. This is not a definitive answer though, and I’d rather you didn’t take my word for it.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

I’ve figured it out, it’s called Banded. Next question – where can we get it? I think I might have seen it as a personal story quest reward, but I’ve completed my PS now.

Edit: Nevermind it’s on the TP. This has been a pain to track down lol.

That just lists the types of armour and its associated stats, not actual names of armour (looks), i.e scaled, chainmail, worn chainmail, gladiators, etc etc.

I found the best way was to salvage from the cheapest 200 glory chests. At least, that’s how I got what I wanted for the lowest amount of glory.

Anyone have any idea?

For the life of me, I can’t figure out what these pieces are or where they are obtained in PvE, except for the coat, which is Draconic. Anyone have any idea where these pieces are from? In PvP, they are called ‘PvP Guild’.

drwookie.6391:

1. Resolute Healer: Has a developer CONFIRMED that the shield of absorption is SUPPOSED to knock back enemies?

I think the knockback on those were actually removed in one of the BWEs because it was considered too powerful. The knockback is not removed on the one you cast manually though, that works fine.

I get that now, but AN is still very very naughty for doing this lol, but I’ll have to let them off as I’ve tested Mesmer’s recharge rate and it’s also X/(1+0.3) at 30 points, so I’m taking a guess at everything else is that way too so it’s all fine and dandy then.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Recharge

There’s nothing to suggest recharge is different from cooldown, just the way things are worded, i.e ‘recharges’ instead of ‘reduces cooldown by’, so I’m really confused here. A 30% recharge rate is not a 30% recharge rate at all, it’s a 23% recharge rate, unless there is something else I’m not aware of or I’m reading into this wrongly.

I’ve seen a bunch of articles like this scattered on different gaming sites and all say the same thing; if they want to progress with e-sport, they should change their policy on this as it has some adverse affects. Not an area I know a great deal about, but it seemed like they knew what they were talking about.

That’s either a sneaky intention (approx 1/3 less recharge than you actually think), or a mix up on the formula, as 30% would actually be Base recharge*(1-0.3).

Actually 23% if I worked it out correctly, so quite a bit off there.

Vigil Armour and Human T2 cultural shoulders. All can be obtained for less than 15g or so.

I think it’s terrible that people are exploiting this and making huge amounts of gold. This item should just be removed from the TP completely, until there’s a fix, to prevent others purchasing it.

My favourite repetition comes from attempting to hold a point in sPvP when playing Guardian w/ Tome of Courage:

RECEIVE THE LIGHT
RECEIVE THE LIGHT
RECEIVE THE LIGHT

Ah, so you did, thanks.

I build purely for toughness, vitality and boons (as much survivability and team support as possible basically so I can keep points secure) and whilst having terrible damage, my worst nightmares are the supposedly underpowered Necromancer and those nasty Mesmers. Everything else is fair game I feel, don’t feel too dominant over any other profession.

Boons Lengths -

I’m trying to figure out exactly what’s going on with my boon lengths (some are confusing me) and was wondering if someone could explain some things, or help point out whether they are in fact bugs or not.

Firstly, my build:

Runes: 2x Monk (25 healing, +15% boon duration), 2x Water (25 healing, 15% boon duration), 2x Earth (25 toughness, +20% protection duration).

Traits: 0, 10 (Signet Mastery), 20 (Purity, Honorable Shield), 20 (Wrathful Spirit, Superior Aria), 20 (Vengeful, Absolute Resolution).

Here are my findings:

1. I receive a ~17 second Retaliation when an attack removes my automatically applied Aegis.

2. I receive a ~5 second Retaliation when I activate any of the three virtues.

3. I receive approximately a ~70 second (yes, over a minute!) Retaliation when I activate a virtue, then lose the Aegis from an attack. Unfortunately, this is somewhat random, as I have also received a ~41 second Retaliation doing this.

4. I receive a ~21 second Retaliation when I activate Virtue of Resolve and lose my automatically applied Aegis (this obviously involves a stacked Retaliation).

5. I receive a ~47 second Retaliation when I activate (in the following order) “Stand Your Ground!” (says 7.5 second Retaliation in the tooltip), Virtue of Resolve and lose my automatically applied Aegis.

6. I receive a ~37 second Retaliation when I activate Virtue of Courage over an already applied Aegis, and lose the Aegis.

I do have “Save Yourselves!”, but at no point do I activate it.

This is confusing as hell right now, and I haven’t even investigated every Retaliation possibility or order. Can someone give insight as to what is right and what is wrong for me please?

I had to test this out when I was spamming (admittedly) some virtues and shouts and got 2 minute Retaliations in sPvP.

If a Dev wants access to my Character for whatever reason, just have to ask, but some of these numbers are completely absurd.

Edit: Apologies for formatting, it seems the plus sign has caused part of the text to underline.

Rounder.6703:

i disagree

sometimes it is fun to have an big advantage over other people.

Don’t take the fun out of our game.

You have got to be joking…. so it’s alright for you to have fun and your server have the advantage but not the others?

Fun needs to be for everyone, not for a single side, and can be achieved by removing advantages from winning sides to even the playing field.

Personally I’d like to see Orbs apply a modifier to incoming points or at least something not related to unfair fights. Yes, the winning server will get more advantages in other areas, but the losing sides will not be fighting more numerous, higher health and higher stat enemies.

ptitminou.6489:

Unsure if its supposed to be that way.

It is. It used to be two separate traits, a +90 toughness and a 20% reduction on shield skill cooldowns, but merging them is a lot better because as the previous poster said, +90 toughness on its own is not that big of a deal really.

Honorable Shield – Valor. Tooltip doesn’t say it increases toughness by 90, but it does.

I wouldn’t mind seeing the Ruins point moved on to the boat, and all sharks removed, but that’s probably because I personally dislike water combat.

A single rune does not provide all 6 boosts, it provides only 1 boost. To acquire all 6 boosts of a rune type, you need to have 6 runes of the same kind. They do however, each add up, so if you have +25 toughness, and then a +50 toughness, and then a +90 toughness (on a single rune type), you would get in total, +165 toughness.

Equipping 5 of a rune with 0/2 is not a good idea, as you will only get the 2/2 boosts – in this case, the +10 power and +10 vitality.

For Superior Runes, here is an example:

Superior Rune of the Traveler:

+10% Magic Find
+15 Vitality
+15% Magic Find
+35 Vitality
+25% Magic Find
+5% Move Speed

Will provide, in total, for 5 runes: +50% magic find and +50 vitality; you will not get the additional move speed.

You can also mix and match runes, to get even bigger boosts, I use:

2 x Superior Rune of Water, 2 x Superior Rune of the Monk, 2x Super Rune of the Earth for a total of: +25 toughness, +20% protection duration, +50 healing and +30% boon duration. I wanted this on my Guardian because combined with the trait line, I can achieve in excess of +70% boon duration.

You’re better off with only 5 runes, and one Superior Rune of the Traveler, for a total of 60% magic find.

Crit is more than likely critical damage, unless it explicitly says critical chance. Base crit damage is 150, and any extra damage over that is additive to the base, i.e 30 crit damage gives a total of 180% critical damage.

At level 80, critical chance formula is ((Precision-916)/21)+4.

I’ve just started to get to grips with Guardian in an sPvP environment (being mostly a Warrior PvE player), speccing and traiting for survivability and point holding, and I’m having a huge amount of fun. Haven’t taken it past level 2 in PvE yet though.

As a Chrome user I don’t need to enter my details each time I visit the site, I just have a favourite pointing to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum.

Edit: Oops, just occurred to me I never close my browser, I have a bunch of tabs I always leave open and I never turn my PC off. I just closed the browser and it did require me to login again, so, it’s not possible to save the login info.

A minor issue, but Renewed Focus will not show a duration if you have the Elite Focus trait.

If people are mixing runes to obtain +60% Magic Find (which is not possible with a single set), then I’d guess that mixing these runes, at least two of each, would allow +30% burning duration.

I’ve actually reported this as a bug in game because it was happening far too often for me. I could almost get 100% reproducibility when over around 700 range, but at short ranges, it would more than often hit without first going through the enemy.

How does Guild Armour work – Do you only have the chest piece, or do you need to pay 6g for all the pieces? Do you lose the piece of armour you imbue from when you do the transmute?

How does +Magic find% work – is it best to build up as much % as possible through explorer armour, runes, trinkets etc, or there is a cap on the total increased magic find? I can build up to over 100% but is it really worth it/necessary?