Guild Wars 2

Yes! Get this trash desert map out of here. It looks nice but terrible for WvW so repurpose it as a PvE zone and give us alpine back.

So far for a sneak peak i’m happy with the changes, i like 4 of 4 proposed changes especially on the rallies in WvW and rezzing. Giving smaller groups a chance to zerg bust is one of the first steps to reducing zerg sizes, because currently the most reliable way to win is just to have a bigger army then the other team.

I noticed that Staff #4 Renewing wave does not actually cleanse condis like it says it should in the description, Says it should remove 2 condis from 5 allies which is does not. Anyone else able to confirm it does not work? I haven’t had the condis remove once for me, would be nice to have this fixed.

Nice video, i’d like to ask though. How do you have your mouse tooltip set up like that?

This even happen in lord rooms in towers, even when i should be in the clear to use it. It turns off like right away. Given the radius is relatively small why should terrain/walls/randomness deactivate a skill i use more for survivability than damage.

Would prefer this either gets tweaked to work regardless or atleast tune the sensitivity down. Just seems in a lot of instances this skill doesn’t work at all.

Sorean.5379:

Yes,but no energy enough to activate all 6 at once.

Now that I think about it,there should be a trait that gives +1 energy regeneration so you can upkeep them all

I like that idea, stick it somewhere in the invocation spec line.

Well from what i remember, in BWE 1 revenant had NO underwater abilities let alone weapon. It seemed as if they totally forgot they had to make underwater skills.

Also the fact that land and underwater doesn’t save legends separately makes the class quite messy in regards to environments where you need to do either or. Basically if in WvW someone wants to escape a fight from a revenant, jump into the water all my skills disappear.

I could understand if you meant to say reduce the servers down to 6 tiers (18 servers) but 6 servers? No way!

I do think T7 and T8 should merge into other servers and then have gold league servers be T1 & T2, silver league T3 & T4, bronze league T5 & T6 when the WvW tourney starts again.

As the title says, i am currently receiving proof of heroics as a token in my inventory. Not sure if Anet is already aware but could we please have this turned into a currency stored in our wallet please? Cheers!

P.S Loving the expansion good job guys!

Guild wars 2 has been running perfect for me on windows 10. Did you make sure to update all drivers to windows 10 versions?

I’ve even noticed my average ping is a little lower, not sure if coincidence or not but i uss to average 100 ping im averaging 80 now but framerates pretty much stayed the same.

My ping has been fluctuation pretty badly since the patch aswell. I used to average 80-110 on a normal day. Since patch i’ll average at around 250-300 and sometimes spike to 1000-1500 and in some extreme circumstances the game just hangs for 10 seconds at 5000+ ping.

I double checked my firewalls and network settings to confirm nothing is changed and everything is dandy on my end, and internet runs like a boss on downloads and other games aswell. Issue on my end is isolated to GW2.

I actually just changed my email last week. Took a couple days as I had to wait for anet to get to my ticket. You need to prove ownership of account. I had to give account name as you see on forum ending with four numbers, a character name, cd key, current email address of the account, last four digits of CC I used on last payment (if made any)

Basically send in a support ticket, there is a specific category just for account email changes. Provide as much info as you can, the more the better.

This has been happening a lot to me aswell, I haven’t notice a specific pattern but just about everyday I have to reselect my finisher a few times. Kind of annoying considering we pay for these finishers and can’t even keep them selected.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

I have the same problem. I killed a thief, then he was like you kittenng nwb! You can’t go meta in WvW bla bla bla. Then he called another thief friend so they can gank me together.. Then this happent —-—>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQo-OJME4g&list=UUqzaA1ju9Nr9CsRwmQvGjfg

Nice video, you’re pretty good.

What computer specs and video software did you use? You got really smooth framerates in that video!

Few things probably happened here

These six players were so terrible they possibly have issues figuring out how to equip weapons. Thus being a L2P issue

Mesmer clones mistaken for players?

Best ranger in the world?

No way is it possible a ranger to win a 1v6 unless ranger like I said is the best in the world and the six defeated players are astronomically terrible and all up levels.

Got to give Anet some positive feedback on this patch especially is recent efforts to optimization. Well done, I used to typically get 30-40 fps in LA now I cap at a steady 60.

I understand others having issues and what not but wanted to atleast provide some positive feedback, just glad to see Anet is getting on the right track with optimizations now and hopefully they iron out the issues some players have but on my end, huge difference!

Keep up the good work

Specifications below for anybody remotely interested. Note, this is a laptop.

Intel I7 4700MQ
16GB Ram DDR3
Geforce GTX 765M 2GB GDDR5
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
1080P monitor
Windows 8.1 w/ latest drivers

So does arena net plan on doing anything about siege trolls or what? this player “******” on crystal desert has been placing 20+ siege rams all over our ebg keep draining supply screwing us over. Yet arena net does nothing…. so stupid it really is, I bet a.net will not even comment on this.

Clearly it screws our server over and nothing is done.

I would love to see a server support open world PvP in any area of the game, only downside. I can see LOTS of high mobility warriors just running from fights all day until they find non 80’s

Would be nice if Anet updated ingame reporting to allow for reporting WvW griefers quickly and easily.

This issue is actually purely shadowplay related. Happens to me in minecraft, gw2, starcraft 2, and few other games. If you go onto shadowplay forums there are posts specifically for this problem. all a matter of waiting for the update i’m afraid. I haven’t kept an eye on the shadowplay forums but it looked like I was trending toward laptop users.

I myself use a laptop so it might explain why. Take the time to drop by shadowplay forums ppl more familiar with it may be able to help. For now I have to put using it on hold.

I’ve been considering anvil rock, but I’m looking to start up a mesmer too. Any guilds happy to take one in?

So before I go blowing a bunch of gold, karma, badges etc on gear. I’m trying to think what would be some good stats to invest in as a staff ele?

I was thinking full soldiers armor and berserker trinkets to be balanced and play it safe in WvW while still having damage for zone completion, or would I be best investing otherwise?

Thanks in advance.

I’d say warrior and Guardian easiest to level. Elementalist and Mesmer hardest, however I never really tried leveling thief so I don’t know how hard they are.

I tried searching for guild cloak threads didn’t see any so I apologize if this has been brought up before.

So i’d like to ask why does this game not have guild cloak? I do like quite a few of the backpiece items in the game but I have always wondered why this game has never implemented real guild cloaks. It was a very common thing in GW1 but in this game if you want your guild emblem on a backpiece it’s a backpack.

Why not just roll out the cloaks? Something about cloaks has always appealed more to me and without them you hardly notice guild emblems at all.

1. Elementalist
2. Ranger
3. Mesmer

Hey, you should check out the MSI GE60. I just bought it two weeks ago and love it I play guild wars high settings at 1080p resolution mind you shaders and shadows on medium. stays steady 60 fps in PvE and 20-30 fps in WvW. It is just under 200 over your 1k budget but honestly worth the tid bit extra investment, i’ll post a link of where I bought it it’ll have all the info you need and the price I paid.

Note it’s a Canadian store local to my area, not sure if America has better deals or not but thought this may help. Its worth the extra nudge over your 1k budget, I love this computer, also has a steelseries blue backlit keyboard very nice!

Hope this helps

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX46883

Edit: Forgot to mention no cooling issues at all, even has a turbo cool button, I experience no throttle issues at all and ambient temperature in my house has been a steady 20-30C since I got it.

colesy.8490:

When the fire elemental spawns, my frame rate goes from smooth to something absolutely atrocious while it materialises (though it’s fine once it’s all there), and whispers agents dropping their smoke bombs causes my frame rate to drop quite sharply as well.

Is this a problem on my side or is it the game itself? Apart from this my game works fine, it’s just those two gfx seem to be really computer intensive.

I have the same issue as you describe, runs fine, starts lagging pretty bad as fire elemental manifests, then runs fine again after he’s fully spawned.

Intel I7 2600k 3.4 ghz
Evga GTX 560 TI
8gb DDR3 ram

Latest drivers, double checked as writing this. All windows updates done and I’ve previously tried file checking gw2 just incase maybe a graphic file was corrupt. I’m not the only one who has this issue, my roommate experiences this too.

You really need to upgrade that CPU bud. That processor is 6 years old, and this game is very demanding on the CPU. You Video card is fine, I have a 560 TI paired to a I7 sandybridge CPU and 8gb of ram I run the game quite fine.

My suggestion, Ditch that CPU it’s very old, it’s release date was 2007 and if you can upgrade to windows 7 64bit and throw in another 4gb of ram. The video card atm is the last thing you need to change right now.

Lysico.4906:

ack NEVER use a debit card..

It can be drained faster then you know if they bungle account security.

Just ask folks that played Warhammer Online and EQ1 or EQ2.

I learned back then to NEVER use a debit card for mmo’s. If you don’t have a credit card you can pay off without interest at the end of the month, get a pre-paid one to be 100%.

Ha funny that you mention warhammer, the time they overbilled people EA mythic charged my card 13 times for monthly subscription. Luckily I got the charges reversed fairly quickly but made for an interesting day to see I was charged 15 bucks 13 times on my monthly statement.

Not sure what policies are at bank in America about debit visa’s but with my bank in Canada visa transactions used on a debit visa share same coverage as a real visa but ONLY on visa transactions.

Happened here on Eredon terrace, JUST after we killed shatterer and got our, loot. Rolled a lot of us back to before the event everybody losing the loot they got.

I like the idea of having some sort of “epic” zone or hardmode zone. Gives the feel of a dungeon on a larger and more challenging scale. Having a hard to reach world boss that spawns once or twice a day that requires teamwork to reach would be icing on the cake.

Whether it goes by your idea or by some sort of lore of the game already waiting for implementation. Would be nice to have a zone that ACTUALLY throws a challenge our way.

Aridia.3042:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lHxugvam5M

Anet is basically Dean. The community is Lex.

Ahahahaha that video literally made my day, that video is a.net and the ranger in a nutshell . LOL

Does the test team even test these updates? Or do they just sip on coffee all day?

Bring us public test servers and let the public catch these bugs before patch day, these rollbacks are rediculous.

How come this game does not have any public test servers? Wouldn’t this allow for Anet to fix any last minute bugs or glitches the patches may implement that players may catch that the test teams may miss?

Most MMO’s have PTS servers i don’t see why this game shouldn’t, even allows Anet to let players test out new features, balance changes etc. before they roll out.

I completely agree with the OP on this. The tooltips on a good number of abilities do not give enough detail and some are misleading. A few times i have had to /wiki <insert skillname> just to find out what exactly it all does.

Modimor.4319:

Jay.3284:

If the damage goes down, the amount of players/enemies hit needs to go up. That being said Anet doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing

It will moast likley do the oposite. Seriusly, Meteor Shower as it is now is super OP. It’s a HUGE radial with a long range. Skills that does this amount of damage to so many people should be limited to PBAOE. skills.

I see solo Elementalist nuking down 12 lvl 84 mobs using 2 skills in about 5 seconds. Imagine how destructive this is in WvWvW when you have 5 Elementalist covering the same area. The areas should be smaller, for more dmg. Or be at melee range. Even at Melee range i feel the area might be to big.

Meteor shower i can understand using some tweaking, it’s a very powerful skill but it’s the only AoE i can think of that would draw good amount of attention to ele’s. Most elementalists here are concerned about cross the board skill nerfs for ele’s since majority of every skill is an aoe and many of them don’t always connect the damage to intended targets since most AoE’s can be dodge rolled or walked away from.

Don’t forget to mention the fury buff and sigil precision stacks, may mislead people who wouldn’t look for it. Nice crit chance though

Caffynated.5713:

I think this is the final straw (anvil?) that broke the camel’s back. You can’t create a class with almost 100% AoE damage and then nerf AoE damage. They won’t be competitive.

ANet doesn’t know what they’re doing. If this goes through, it’s game over.

Feel the same way you do. It’s senseless to blanket nerf because people can’t figure out what to do when they stand in big red circles with fireballs falling in them. Dodge problem evaded.

And to quote A.net saying AoE damage is too close to Single target damage. Sure our AoE damage is on par with single target damage, but our single target damage is average at best.

I really hope this supposed AoE nerf will not hit staff very hard. It’s all staff has is aoe’s. If they nerf AoE’s give ele better options for single target damage. Staff honestly makes me feel like a easy target if i don’t people to back me up, i thought the idea behind the AoE’s on staff was to sacrifice survivability for AoE damage, area control aswell as some support tools. All this will do is push the rest of the ele’s over to D/D.

Here’s a screenie of my ele. Using priory armor dyed with midnight fire, harvest gold, and iron.

Will there ever be possbility of being able to change the account name/forum name? Like how it says <insert name>.#### I know this is of different means but thought i’d ask anyway.

What are your computer specs?

I rarely experience crashing in WvW even during three way stonemist fights. Perhaps you may have a driver issue.

I enjoyed your video quite alot, and has actually pushed me to trying GC D/D Normally i stay in my bunker build just because it adapts fine for WvW but i got some good insight on your video. Keep up the good work! Hope to see more.

For those who think sticking to fire for higher DPS is the way to go, send me a message if you see me online sometime we’ll goto sPvP and I’ll show you how fast i can melt you with attunement swapping. I’m not going to argue, i’d rather prove it lol. MSG me ingame or on forums if you want. I’ll be on later tonight.

Thanks guys for the help, just need to grind abit of karma and AC and I’ll be set. Appreciate the help.

Is there any other way to get power/tough/vitality gear aside from the WvW invader gear (Badge itmes)?

I kinda like the mix and match idea of soldier stats and cleric stats, but i haven’t seen any soldier stat items except for the ones off WvW Badge merchants.

I need some input on which stats i should use for PvE/WvW D/D build. Should i go with cleric stat items or go with soldier stat items? Or any other items that may benefit?

Not to be rude or anything but this sounds like more of a personal issue than a game related issue. While the game does have some concerning issues with nightcapping when some servers have a strong nightcrew when others have none, it’s not worth the effort you put in.

However the game was advertised as casual, because it welcomes casual players. Although the game can be played in a hardcore manner, I from time to time go from casual to hardcore back and forth depending on the needs of my personal life. But never will guild wars or anygame takeover this much.

The game isn’t rewarding enough to lose hours of sleep, risk damaging your relationship with you girlfriend, and risk making your friends mad because you bailed on birthday drinks for a video game. How you have a girlfriend with this hectic gaming schedule i don’t know. If i played like this i’d end up divorced.

I’m sure you can place responsibility of a night crew to one of your guildies, just ask around in your own guild, do some tryouts, Or simply take the game alot less seriously. Family and friends come first, not guild wars 2. I’ve seen your guild in action they do very well, i think can manage a few less hours without you.

I apologize if i came across rude in anyway, just trying to give some insight is all.

When i leveled my ele i went D/D for PvE and staff for dungeons. Stat wise i mostly focused on power across armor and weapons and defensive stats (tough/vitality) on jewelry to keep damage high with abit survivability. Since D/D already has alot of CC and a few ways to keep yourself alive it’s alright to focus onto damage more than defensive stats.

As for traits, arcane and water were my most focused upon trait lines, water traits being for cantrips and arcane for attunement swap bonuses and attunement swap cooldown reduction. Used cantrip utilities as my get out of jail free card skills. Not 100% sure if this is THE best way to level but it helped me level at a decent pace without much dying.

I would always recommend keeping a staff on you for times you may need ranged attacks.

To be honest race choice is mostly cosmetic, sure you get some racial abilities but rarely do you see racial abilities placed into an effective build. So pick whichever you like, but don’t feel obligated to switch to sylvari. In the long run it feel purely cosmetic.