Guild Wars 2

Zenith.7301:

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I think you people will have to accept at some point they balance this game PvP/WvW first and PvE is not a priority.

I never understood how you can think you are able to balance both game mods pve and pvp (and wvwvw?) at the same time even so they are so different to each other. Why not make it yourself easy and say there are different versions of a skill with different stats for each game mode?

What also needs to be looked at is how the aegis works. At the moment aegis blocks not only attacks that would hit you but also attacks that are not even there. What I mean is for example during the lupicus fight or the molten fractal end boss fight you lose your aegis automatically every two seconds or so without even being hit by anything.
Once you lost your aegis suddenly you won’t get hit by anything any longer!

If lupicus for example shots its projectile at you you also block it even though it wouldn’t even have hit you. The aegis mechanic needs to be changed, so that it only blocks an attack that would really hit you.

I would say that every guide suggest a gs because you can hit a lot more enemies with it than only the one or two you can with the sword. Thus your dps gets higher with a gs.
Gs has also some nice skills while sword only has a blink and this channeling attack

I can imagine really well what happened beforehand

Invictus.1503:

BlueLouMarini.5986:

So you also don’t know of an official statement by anet? I mean sure I could express my disappointment, and how easy it would be to change those outfits into armor (/irony off) and thus making hundreds of new possibilities for new mixed armors and that other armors also have clipping issues, etc pp…, but I asked for an official statement so I won’t start another flame thread and so this thread could be closed with just one answer.

You do realize you posted on a public forum, right? You should expect public expression on the topic, otherwise the better avenue is putting in a ticket (which will likely get a generic answer). Anet has said time and time again that they watch the forums, but don’t respond to most as they simply do not have the time/resources. Furthermore if you look at the track record of any Anet employee directly answering any vague question like this has been, you’d know that they are next to nill. They aren’t allowed to talk about such things in most cases.

So, it seems like you are either blissfully unaware of how these forums work, or your statement was very much a troll post. In either case, getting player responses should be fully expected.

I’m sorry, english is not my mature language and I may have put the question in a misleading direction but you may have realized that I was not asking anet on purpose but the other forum users, because I am indeed fully aware that anet does not like to respond to these kind of special questions.

Edit: Astral Projection, thank you this was kind of what I was looking for.

So you also don’t know of an official statement by anet? I mean sure I could express my disappointment, and how easy it would be to change those outfits into armor (/irony off) and thus making hundreds of new possibilities for new mixed armors and that other armors also have clipping issues, etc pp…, but I asked for an official statement so I won’t start another flame thread and so this thread could be closed with just one answer.

Does anyone know what anet is thinking of making outfits into armor skins? I can’t find any official statements in the forums or the internet.

Ryan Diederich.8179:

I actually agree with you. I would have liked to increase the vote count a majority with this change, but unfortunately not all the pieces of code around party votes are set up in a way to make this a quick and easy change.

We were aware of the possible issues with the instance ownership change, but felt that holding back an improvement to the base experience on account of trolls was unfair to users that are playing nice.

Stealing instances using the LFG tool, or booting people for no reason (or to give your buddy the rewards for no work) at the end of a run are bannable offenses and should be reported.

What happens if someone wants to sell a dungeon path and sets up a lfg post just so some random abusers join in, kick him and sell the dungeon again?
Besides all his work is gone and he will never have any chance of getting it back, does this one person have the chance for justice when he’s the only person who reports those guys?

Will you Arenanet actually take actions against those ppl?

The same thing goes with the Basic Lumber Node Pack. You get it for 2000 gems, was it?
I did the math back then when it was released. Assuming you harvest all those 3 trees each day and each gets you 3 logs times their tp prices you have to harvest those three trees each day for a full year to get your gems back.
I mean what the …!? Running through the maps you can easily find four trees next to each other for free! Who does something like this?

Is there any reason why enemies don’t refresh my Virtue of Justice when I kill them?

I’m writing this because lately I have to watch desperately how my aegis bugs out more and more. A long time ago it didn’t concern me that much but nowadays it makes me see red.

What I mean is that my aegis blocks attacks which never really hit me!
For example lupi’s aoe, whenever he does it the first thing that happens is that I lose my aegis though he didn’t even began to pop red circles nor did one of them hit me! Or in stage 2 where lupi shoots projectiles at you I lose my aegis instantly without him hitting me.
Another example is the molten endboss Firestorm. I’m unable to sustain my aegis cause somehow I lose my aegis every second constantly. A good method to check what I mean is when you use Shelter during the fight you see you block something every ~1 second though there is nothing that could have hit you at all!

In both examples I don’t get hit or lose any damage after my aegis is gone. The game attacks me whenever I have an aegis but if it’s gone I don’t get hit anymore. Just wtf!?

I’m sure I don’t have to explain what this means, but I will do it nonetheless.
First it means that I can’t have an aegis that is constantly up to block attacks when I really need to.
That’s maybe not the biggest problem since it only applies on the one block from my virtue that I constantly have but it’s one block less that I have for no reason.
Second it means that if I time my blocks bad, for example the Firestorm in the molten Fractal attacks me and I pop aegis but too early it gets taken away from me and the actual attack hits me without me having a block ready.
Third and I really wanna emphasise this case! There is a trait called “Unscathed Contender” which gives me 20% more damage while I have an aegis up! With these problems it means that I lose 20% (!!), let me repeat 20 percentage (!!) of my damage for no reason. Whenever I play guardian I try to keep my aegis as long as possible just because of this trait.

So pls Arenanet fix this bugs or make it so that you are actualy hit when you lose your aegis!
What this would mean is that the molten Firestorm constantly hits the grp with an invisible attack that you can track in the combat log and make it so that lupi instantly hits everyone whenever he does his aoe attack in stage 2 (lol).
This way there would actually be a real reason for the aegis to block something.

What I would do instead is that aegis blocks only attacks that are visible in combat log. This way you fix aegis and you don’t have to fix multiple bosses and mobs in the game.
No matter what you do though please do something about this!

Despite some people saying the wurm’s armor is ugly I quite like it

Jahroots.6791:

Pretty cool. They shoulda stacked on him though.

Made my day!

guys, there is still hope! Remember how arenanet said they gonna nerf the healing signet of war? Actually they nerfed it only by 8%, so from like 412 to 380 and every war still uses it. Maybe we can expect something similar with the guard trait

btw. where did you get that info?

Please let us dye the blue parts, the shimmer effects can stay the way they are, but the way its now is forcing at least me to use blueish dyes though i would like to use other colours.

The problem isnt that ranger is a bad class but the balancing of all classes. If i just look at the ranger class i wouldnt have much to complain about. The same goes with any other class. The real problem appears when you compare the classes with eachother. For example: what can a ranger do what a war cant?
Nothing! A war can do much more damage, also has good grp buffs , can take more damage, has better aoe dps,… . Or take an ele: It has might/fury stacking, fiery grandsword, a lot of aoe damage/cc and range(!).
All in all the game gets dominated by the OPness of a few classes, because you basically need nothing different than damage, because with good damage everything dies within a second. So either make a proper class balancing or change the way pve works naimly its focus on pure damage.