Guild Wars 2

PvE class balance.

A zerker warrior on the ground does 0 DPS while on the ground, but it’s quite possible that their average damage throughout the run is still higher than the engineer, necro or ranger’s, especially considering the average gear people have on those classes. Also, they wouldn’t be on the ground as much if they had a proper anchor relieving melee pressure. Just because you went down last doesn’t mean you’re the best player in the group, it means the enemies considered you a low priority.

Thing thing about Aragorn is he realizes when to weapon swap to a higher-DPS option

what in god’s name

randomfightfan.4091:

We want fractals fixed and the precursor scav hunt… but since this is a thread about gem store… I want to be able to change my race. What I would give to turn my norn thief into an asuran…

GOD, plus 1 FOREVER. I so want to get rid of my charr an switch to something that doesn’t feel like it runs through molasses.

The “changes” to mesmer GS#2 and #4 weren’t in the patch notes, either.

Cue Hrouda chiming in with his usual “wow, I’ll have our people take a look at that and make sure nothing funky is happening”

Quixal.9124:

If this is a thread explaining why you are moving on, I wish you well in whatever comes next. If, on the other hand, you are fishing for more challenges to keep you interested, I suggest you try using one or more of the classes on the other side of the power curve.

You do realize how sad it is to say “well I know the game gives you zero reward for completely obliterating all of its difficult content when you optimize yourself and your team for it, but maybe you should try doing it with one hand tied behind your back?”

I mean, the game is in big trouble if we have to start imposing handicaps on ourselves to create artificial difficulty. Doubly so if the handicap is as simple as playing a trash-tier class.

It’s supposed to simulate an amusement park queue, obviously. It’s still a bad idea. The time-gating going on in this game is getting ridiculous. Every design decision involved with Living Story updates has been horrendous aside from the QoL fixes like account wallet. Stop doing this crap, you’re making the game worse.

How about a giant kittening neon sign that says PRESS DODGE NOW

It’d be nice just for once to be able to play a game that wasn’t made for 13 year old boys by 13 year old boys.

There’s boob jiggle when wearing plate armor, eff eff ess.

Did any Anet employees play City of Heroes at all? Cause they were doing “Issues” before Living Story was a twinkle in Colin’s eye. Living Story isn’t groundbreaking, it’s just a gimmicky way to funnel content into the gem store and force people to log in daily/weekly to get things before they go away.

Oh any by the way, Co* Issues brought permanent content. Just FYI.

No it’s true it’s actually a copy of Emerald Weapon from FF7 except he has 80 stacks of all boons and if you get killed by him it destroys all your gear. My uncle works for Anet and he showed me how to get to him, but made me not tell anyone.

Ah another “People should play the way I want them to play” post complaining about skipping trash mobs. Never gets old.

nah the worst part about teaching is that gw2 players do not think that they need to be taught anything

as a great pugger once told me after I explained how we could down Malrona in 10 seconds:

“we don’t need to do
anything you just said
just range her, let’s go”

it was almost a beautiful pug haiku

No one is telling you you can’t come to fractals, some of us are just telling you you can’t come in our groups. But you want to force me to play with you. Because players who refuse to accept the DPS meta won’t allow people to play with or not play with whoever they want, they want to force us to play with them. Like a crybaby little brother who won’t let big brother/sister hang out with their friends alone.

because they’re not good enough to run it

There is plenty of valid prediction and scientific fact located in the pages of the Holy Qur’an. As stated in Surah 55, verse 33:

“O assembly of warriors and guardians, if you can penetrate regions of the heavens and Arah explorable mode, then prostrate them! You will not penetrate them save with DPS builds.”

Judging by the quality of Living Story content, yeah about 2 people.

This “one hand doesn’t know what the other hand’s doing” business is getting ridiculous. You load us up with support tickets, then “SURPRISE! hope you didn’t waste them all by actually participating in the election, cause now you can sell them!” You offer a ticket-for-skin trade and then go “SURPRISE! hope you didn’t waste the chance to sell them by actually redeeming the tickets!” You make it sound like the weapon skins are going to be one-time only and then go “SURPRISE! hope you don’t feel like you wasted tons of gold or real life money on horrible RNG black lion chests cause now you can just TP for the skin you wanted that was supposed to be gone forever!”

Get your kitten together Anet and coordinate for once. Or, actually rectify your mistakes and not just say “meh, we don’t feel like fixing that.”

Saw thread title, said “AW HELL NO” and rolled up my sleeves. Then I saw the thread poster and knew what it would be saying.

Yup, 100% correct. The game offers no reward for being good at it. The only thing keeping me in is that I have nothing better to play and I’m keeping myself entertained with projects to help other players be good at the game.

Living Story and time-gating everything is definitely killing this game for me. If I had known what state the game would be in now before I started, I would’t have wasted any money on this game. As it stands it’s still F2P for me at this point so I log in to create my own challenges, and try to ignore the LS super-casual crap as much as possible unless there’s some huge reward involved that I’d be crazy to pass up (gauntlet farming, invasion farming).

But it’s pretty pathetic that half of the game is still in beta state a year after release. How many class traits are still non-functional? How many high-value weapon and armor skins are still using the default white icons? How many tooltips are still inaccurate and/or missing crucial information?

Take a break from the Living Story crap for just a month and put two of those teams you have on actual, quality bugfix duty. Polish the parts of the game that have been pathetically broken since release. Make it feel like more than a beta test.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Wolfheart.1938:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I knew it was a male thing!

Makes sense, supporting in my (very little) experience is a female thing! (inb4 males that play support builds jump on me, I’m not being too serious)

Lol actually that is an accurate statement. Generally speaking, support is more of a female role, while damage is more of a male role. Simply due to basic human nature. Although, you do find exceptions to every ‘rule’ (which is why male nurses exist for example). I was just poking fun originally, hehe.

what kind of bullkitten kitten kittenin 1950s Mad Men kitten garbage is this

They should just rename the game to Hindsight Wars

Player Character.9467:

Dub.1273:

Didn’t you somewhere list it with 1,56 million? My feedback had 17 hits, 33k each. Thats 561k damage which is 35%. In an average group it would have mostlikely been 22k hits or less. So with lots of reflects (hitting max. 20) it would be about 30%.

Oh so 35% is perfectly fine for what was intended to be an endgame boss to shoot itself for because a reflect bubble was up?

How about they reduce the number of projectiles he does by, say half? So SOLO and other groups can’t bypass phase 2 and 3 anymore. They’ll still kill him in under 60 seconds, but this change won’t make the fight even harder for non-hardcore groups. In fact it’ll be easier for the general populace, but harder for record-setters. Win-win for all of you so offended by the fact that 4 guilds can clear him this quickly.

Olba.5376:

Oh dear, oh dear…

I would understand it if you were forced to stare at those boobs in that size and range during cutscenes or something. Or if there was a mission that turned you into a Watchknight so you had no choice but to check out that butt.

But the most common setting? In combat. I dunno, but I don’t look at boobies while in combat.

I wonder if any of the people here who are complaining about how the Watchknight is supposedly fanservice stopped to wonder if someone just … you know, wanted to make a female robot.

Yeah I guess they literally had no choice other than giving that female robot a set of 44DDD’s and a trunk overflowing with junk.

http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/ for examples of how women could be put into games without being overtly sexualised

pickpocket.2071:

another thread created complaining rather then the op taking the time to properly learn the strat, fights not even hard stop asking for nerfs n fix ur builds

In fairness, the ultimate blame lies on Anet for stressing “Play However You Want To Play, Everything is Viable” so much.

Mad Queen likes the God of War boss fights because they’re quick-time events

PRES BUTAN NOW

trick question

/15

Art is not above criticism for its societal impact. Neither are absurdly busty sexbots in a vidya gaem.

champs are just gonna be a dumb loot bag with a horrible chance at cores, most likely going to be a few fine mats.

ugh it’s sooooo difficult to find a non warr/mes party

http://youtu.be/1nCWHb8JamU

[thanks neigeux!]

SO HARD

http://youtu.be/1nCWHb8JamU

Dredge fractal last night, ice elemental version. After I think one or two pulls, the lava buckets stopped showing their animation for my entire party. At first we thought it was completely screwed and wasn’t dumping the lava at all, til one of the group suggested we pull the elemental over to one anyway and see if it was just an animation issue, which proved to be true. I recorded a few times to demonstrate.

http://youtu.be/uHD48dm23ug

I have posted this in the dungeon forum as well and other people are also experiencing this bug. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dredge-Fractal-bug-buckets-missing-animation

TooBz.3065:

Antara.3189:

Pretty funny post honestly, Little bit of boasting and flexing… haha. As long as it makes you feel like a boss though.

On point though, post this answer in many threads but this game does seem to be trending towards casual, giddy content that is more for the family, than the “core” gamer. Maybe soon, this game can be a personalized version of Sims. Cosmetics, homes, susie homemaker.

How do you define casual content? What do you consider a challenge?

I agree that much of the living story has been “meh” at best, although the dungeon at the end of flame and frost was cool.

My personal view is that ANet is trying to mix it up. You get some challenging content such as the Halloween jumping puzzles. You get dungeons like the flame and frost thing and the super adventure dohicky. They also throw in a lot of diversion stuff like crab toss.

The idea is to make the game generally entertaining.

Only in Guild Wars 2 have I ever seen a call for more challenging PvE content met with “well you got a hard jumping puzzle for a month” as a serious response.

Lower damage at range is to punish poo-butt babbies who can’t play in melee. DWI.

http://youtu.be/2h3ggP_KE_w

Start by using #4 focus skill on the right side by the two turrets to pull the two fanatics close to the right turret and allow everyone to cleave all 3 targets. About halfway through the fanatics dying pop a feedback on them so your team avoids the second turret barrage.

At the slave driver, focus pull (or GS push) him into the wall and pop Signet of Inspiration (once might stacks are up) and Time Warp, if your team is a little slow and the Effigy comes at you, use a feedback to block its attacks.

Do the run, as you come up to the turrets and fanatics you can feedback to protect from the turret barrage but it’s not necessary. Assist as much as you feel like on the acolytes.

Portal for the boulder run is self explanatory. As the gate opens from that hallway, yell at your team for might stacks then signet to double up stacks on the gate killer. Stay alive in the braziers and wait for the gate to be down.

Make sure to change blink out for feedback as you enter the effigy room. Watch for the boss attack where he raises one arm and pounds the ground with his fist, feedback that so your team doesn’t get hit by the knockdown projectiles (preferably during the Time Warp so they don’t have to waste DPS time dodging). Time warp and signet again. You can also drop iWarden and Curtain to help reflect projectiles if Feedback is on CD but they’re not as reliable.

Fin.

ed: oh yeah, when you enter the first gate get yourself some Curtain swiftness and drop a portal near the flame walls leading to the second gate. Head down to Suma and Ferrah, using a blink to go faster, then skip the cutscene and talk to Ferrah while someone is still in the cutscene. Once Suma becomes available to pick the path, talk to him and drop portal exit, then portal back and run up to Magg’s gate so Ferrah doesn’t have to slow walk the whole way. Pick the path when you’re near the gate.

Essence Snow.3194:

I stopped bothering to listen to him a while back as there is nothing of worth to gather from the words he is permitted to say to us. Kinda like the words of a fortune being meaningless as they are so generalized that they may apply to anything.

Yup, precisely. John is barely allowed to tell us anything and when he does it’s so vague and cryptic that it’s essentially worthless.

I can think of absolutely no reason why the player base shouldn’t be permitted access to basic information about the economy. His remark about the median returns from gauntlet farming is a perfect example. The median alone tells us almost nothing. What was the mean? What about gold earned by the top quintiles or deciles and the population statistics to match?

do we not want people to play better

says the author of the guardian burn build

Bovinity.8610:

Every time you guys do this, you just keep building on the problem that you seem to think you’re fighting against.

This constant assault on anything in any media that has females in it only serves to create a taboo around the female form and ultimately make it so that any female figure must – by definition – be reduced to only her physical parts.

No, it’s not an assault on women appearing in media, it’s an assault on pointlessly hyper-sexualised and unrealistic depictions of women in media. The Watchknights could have easily been modeled in a less curvacious style, but the designers decided to make them SexBots.

Razeor.6271:

Frankly I find class loyalty in gw2’s broken pve to be dumb and borderline stubbornness.

“Play the Way You Want to Play Even Though it Means Having an Entirely Underpowered Character, Oh and Don’t Forget to Get Mad at People Who Point Out Your Class’s Shortcomings.”

Wukunlin.8461:

Broadicea.8294:

-Don’t knock your golem into someone else, mmmkay

no deal

oh well that is assuming you want to get it done quickly, not hilariously

If you do actually sit a dev down and have them do actual work on fractals, could you please have them stop by the actual dungeon forum every now and then to chat? I promise we won’t bite…

…ok, maybe just a little off the flank, nothing more.

POSTING IN A TA F/U THREAD

HOLY CRAP IT’S THE BURN BUILD GUY

It is pretty simple. Toggle button in options menu to disable right click selecting targets. Done.

and jumping on goombas heads trivializes them, gg nintendo way to encourage exploits

It SHOULDN’T be considered an exploit, but Anet is capricious and arbitrary with regards to this kind of business. So who knows.

How dare you skip trash mobs, that is not the bushido way!