Guild Wars 2

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Given that the “special skins from living world events” were continuously back to back and always temporary, I’d honestly rather have the masteries that, while only obtainable in a small amount of area of the game (that will grow over time as new maps are added), is actually permanent.

But in all honesty, I would not do farming if I prefer – and since I can go after masteries at my own pace, I don’t have to farm them; I would have to farm for the skins, since they’d be temporary as a true “living world” would be.

I prefer their current set up – Season 2 styled living world that fills in gaps of otherwise no-content between expansions. It just needs to be more content in future expansions than what we got in the rushed-feeling HoT.

im going with you on this. my sentiments exactly

Given that the “special skins from living world events” were continuously back to back and always temporary, I’d honestly rather have the masteries that, while only obtainable in a small amount of area of the game (that will grow over time as new maps are added), is actually permanent.

But in all honesty, I would not do farming if I prefer – and since I can go after masteries at my own pace, I don’t have to farm them; I would have to farm for the skins, since they’d be temporary as a true “living world” would be.

I prefer their current set up – Season 2 styled living world that fills in gaps of otherwise no-content between expansions. It just needs to be more content in future expansions than what we got in the rushed-feeling HoT.

Rangers and Necromancers are fun. Both are great to start to play too. Once you have learned the game though, try out the other classes. You won’t really know whether you can play them and have fun until you try.

One thing everyone starting this game should practice is dodging. If double tapping the movement keys is hard assign dodging to something else. Some people use mouse side buttons for it. Well timed dodge is a lifesaver for any class. It is possible to play the game to level 80 without dodging, I did that at the start.

I don’t think I’d recommend revenant, or any non-minion/pet class for HoT content. Most require a fair amount of dodging and kiting to survive when solo, so without something to take aggro, the experience will likely be frustrating

Best is impossible to answer they all work totally differently and the actual balance between classes is constantly changing.

I play a guardian because I like their battle mobility, decent DPS, excellent party support and active defenses. The downside to guardian is they can need a lot of gear and strugglr with speed buffing. Playing Guard well means picking the right weapon for the job. Although 99% of the time that means hammer or greatsword I still always carry a mace, staff, shield focus, scepter and torch because it’s awesome to have the options when you want the extra damage / survivability.

I also always carry two sets of armor. Both with Zerker but different runes(speed and strength) so for general PVE speed isn’t an issue.

That being said, while it took a bit of work to put all that gear together, there is pretty much nothing I can’t handle

I for one love the underwater combat aspect to this game however just as you said there is very little variation in builds/equipment to use underwater and I just feel weaker so honestly I avoid it when I can..hopefully they can come up with a way to make it better because I really do think its a great thing, It just needs some TLC.

Not every trait should work under water, nor should every skill, there is the reverse and this definitely needs work.

The same for weapons, a great sword, just won’t work the same under water. You spend a fraction of the time underwater, it only needs a fraction of the weapons. The real flavor should come from skills.

There are lev 80 karma breathers exotic
There are ascended breather recipes on tp for a few copper, and the mats are not bad considering the waste on a breather. (Note these are the ones that drop in such excess from fractals we basically vendor trash them in the tp for a copper or two.)

I don’t aim to speak for other players, but its not a matter of feeling week, its a matter of weak AI and underwater enemies. It’s quite the opposite, because all I have to do is swim in a circle spamming 1 on just about any weapon and I will kill everything with out getting hit. There are few exceptions to this.

Now for the over all theme, I would love to see underwater redone and improved, but I won’t hold my breath.

I don’t mind underwater stuff at all, I just want it to stay out of PvP, because it’s rather poorly balanced for that. Exploring underwater caves has always been a blast in this game and I hope it stays that way.

if it’s any consolation i’m in the minority too, waiting for something about underwater combat. even if it’s an underwater cave in the roots of the jungle… something… anything…

Please Anet tell us what changes are being made to under water combat.

In the mean time, what changes do you all want to see happen to improve Under Water combat?

I can’t help but feel they’re wanting to abandon underwater combat and exploration altogether. I consider that unfortunate, but I get the impression I’m in the minority on that one. I guess we’ll know how committed to it they are if the list of new Legendaries doesn’t include a spear, hapoon, and trident.

If they removed underwater combat, my pet shark would have to evolve into a land-based creature…and that’s just daft!
Not to mention all those diving goggles left lying around the map…

No,underwater combat is awesome and Anet knows that.It should be never removed from game.

And I thought I wanted tengu to be playable badly lol

Really it is as Belzebu said.
Tengu was in the plans before release, and thus they have the city etc.
However they chose not to add tengu at release… they have said nothing at all if they want to go back, complete them and put them in, let alone when.
Infact there is no real guarantee they ever will be playable.

I hope too that they will become playable, and sooner the better, but I can wait.

What baffles me a bit is… if you don’t like the game with the races we can play now… what makes you think it will be better with tengu? It may bring a little new story and new aesthetics. But all in all the game is still the same, if you play one race or the other.

Yep. You’re locked in to your Ascended gear once you’ve got it. You just have to pray balancing, nerfing, buffing and new skills don’t change your build enough to make you want or need to change gear.

Ascended Armor isn’t a grind. It only takes ten-thousand Silk Scraps for a full set of armor.

Wait for legendary armors….

BTW anet if you are reading this: why can’t you give us changeable stats on ascended? Think about pros… 1. It makes guild wars 2 more fun – BINGO! nothing matters more!
If you don’t want us to change stats whenever we want and for free after crafting asc. gear, at least make some consumable item which will enable you to reset your stats on asc. gear. You can even bound it into gem store if you make it cheap… like 100gem for 1 consumable which is able to reset all of your currently equipped asc. gear.

I gave up on going for ascended armor from day one. I figured:

1) The stats aren’t significant enough to warrant its worth
2) It costs an arm and a leg (200+ gold just for 500 crafting alone, and on top of that, more gold and laurels for the recipes you want)
3) Time gated stuff
4) There’s currently no other equivalent or viable way of obtaining ascended armor (unless you get lucky via a drop or WvW rank chest – and even then it’s like a 1 in 500 rank chance, AND it’s a lucky dip as to what stats that ascended chest will give – not good)

Those reasons alone are enough to put me off. I’m just going to wait to get a whole set via WvW or something because it’s just ridiculous. Even then though, finally after 550+ WvW ranks, I received an ascended armor chest from a rank up chest, and it was cleric stats which I NEVER use. Nevertheless I’ve put it on my guardian since he’s most likely the only character that will use it, and the extra little defense won’t hurt him.

What I feel Anet should do is not only make ascended armor chests and ascended weapon chests obtainable through other currencies such as karma, dungeon tokens, WvW badges, laurels et cetera, but also make it so that you can not only choose which armor piece to get (helm/shoulders/chest/gloves/legs/boots) but also get to choose which stats that ascended piece gives (clerics/berserkers/knights etc.)

Then everyone’s happy.

So the wurm can only be done by those with full ascended armor? Okay.

You don’t need Ascended armor. The stat increase over Exotics is minor. So if you’ve given up on getting these, you can still play the game as normal.

TChalla.7146:

I’m sure I’m in the minority on this, but I actually like the system the way it is. If I get a duplicate dye, I have the option of either giving it to an alt or selling it. My characters are all completely different, and I’ll want different dyes on each one anyway, so I don’t really need to have the same dye pallet for each character.

But that’s just me.

It isn’t about the palette for me, it’s about the collecting. When I started playing I opened every single unidentified dye I got, and never bought a single dye off the TP. It was a game I was playing where I wanted to collect them all for fun. Each unidentified was a new bit of fun. Then I found out they weren’t account bound and boom, not fun anymore.

That’s why I don’t buy gem store dye packs. There’s no fun in the RNG (at least for me) because it isn’t a collectable, you’re hoping for a specific dye (either for your palette or just the most expensive one to sell). Its far more practical in that case just to go to the TP and buy the one you actually want.

neko.9028:

It will never happen, because if this happens the gemstore dye kits are not going to profit them, that is literary the ONLY reason to why they are NOT accountbound. If I remember correctly this was a choice made by the woman who runs the gemstore, Cox.

As I’ve said many times, and I suspect I’m not alone. I don’t buy gem store dyes BECAUSE dyes are soulbound. It isn’t just the fact that gem store dyes are hugely pricey for only one character, but the fact that there is no incentive to “complete the set”. If dyes were account bound, then having them all would be feasible for collectors. Thus collectors would buy even dyes they didn’t like. They’d also be happier to get RNG packs because 1) they’d be more fun for a collector (“RNG” packs in real life are pretty much only made for collectibles) and 2) there is more incentive to buy because you aren’t just going for the specific dye you want as they all have value in completing the set (even the non-new ones).

zenleto.6179:

And for those of us who like our characters to be separated from each other, to individually progress on their own, what would we get out if it?

I’m sure both of you would manage.

I also fail to understand how RNG dye drops (or BLTP purchases with shared funeds) are progression . But that’s just me.

yup… no heroes pls…. it more or less destroyed the MMO aspect of GW1 and will do so to GW2…

Oh and sorry for double post, but I want to be able to buy or craft exotic aqua breathers of all existing stat combinations. Tired of this Gaeveborn green aqua breather of lameness.

How dare you, OP?!?!? Some people enjoy zergling roleplay! Who are YOU to tell them how to play?!?!?!1111?!?!?!