What if I don’t buy the expansion? Am I still able to play on the new WvW map? Or can you only play on that WvW map if you buy the expansion? And is this new WvW map a legit boarderland were we fight for server points, or will it be another karmatrain map were upscalers can level there characters? I like WvW most + I don’t want to make a revenant, so can anyone please explain to me what the expansion have to offer to a guy like me? If it is a legit boarderland Im going to buy the expension, that’s why I want answers on my questions xD
I’m on the same boat!
I dont care for PvE and there doesn’t seem to be much WvW content
Atm I don’t think im buying it, but if they release more info about things for WvW I might change my mind.
Pretty expensive, and this coming from someone who has spent money on gems for appearance changes.
I’m gonna get the Destiny expansion for sure, and then see how Heart of Thorns goes.
My main thing is WvW and one borderland does not seem to impress me.
Pin sniping gives some, otherwise useless classes a role.
If i’m on my ranger and I happen to come across the commander I will target hit, since Rangers are only good at targeting one.
It increases the pressure on the commander, and he will need to call more reflects to prevent it (guardian and mesmer use their reflects)
If i’m in my guardian I wont even try and attack commander, but instead cleave everybody and anybody.
That shouldn’t be the issue most have. Random people targeting the commander and attacking them is going to happen regardless. The complaint as far as I know is that dedicated groups essentially have a team composition specifically to separate the commander and spike them down.
There are ways to completely shut down pin sniping.
In BG T1 the commander will call out guardian walls or mesmer bubbles when he is taking heavy fire. Also if commander goes down people place walls in front of him to prevent him being ranged down, followed by a banner to pick him back up.
Pin sniping gives some, otherwise useless classes a role.
If i’m on my ranger and I happen to come across the commander I will target hit, since Rangers are only good at targeting one.
It increases the pressure on the commander, and he will need to call more reflects to prevent it (guardian and mesmer use their reflects)
If i’m in my guardian I wont even try and attack commander, but instead cleave everybody and anybody.
I want to apologize in advance if this topic has been made before.
What are you guys’ ideas on how Chronomancers will fare in WvW with their use of wells and Alacrity?
Also since there is only one Dps well, do you think that will help Mesmers with tagging opponents in WvW?
Stability is OP considering how easy it is to come by (for some classes) and how useful it is. I think its it will be a change for the better.
It will make things more strategic in WvW, since right now its just mostly guardians and a some warrior stacking and pain-training everything. This change may change the meta, and allow more classes to be useful.
The phantasms I create seem to have their eyes partly closed.
They look very strange. Does not happen with clones.
Does this happen to everyone or is it a bug?
100% agree.
None of them are flashy, compared to other weapon counterparts
Warhorns and torches are also not very good.
I keep hoping that the ones you get with BlackLion tickets will be good, but instead they seem to focus on Swords and Staves and not on warhorns, torches, or axes.
If a ranger does not have a pet, then what different is he from say, a warrior or a thief other than it’s skill set? I know that pets still have yet to be improved upon but removing them is just counter productive.
What I was thinking is, with the Specialization thing being released with the Heart of Thorns, that the Ranger would become his pet and gain the pets skills, along with a dps boost.
So the ranger would become (change appearance to) the Bear, Wolf, Bird, etc. and give them access to the F2 skill (fear, blind, poison, bleed, etc.)
That would fix the pet issue while still keep the pet thing.
Some pretty interesting ideas here. I was actually spit-balling some ideas on how to address this today. This has always been something that has bothered me, too.
For example:
Have kits respect the existing back item flag. If you have a back item and you want to show it, hide the kit. If you don’t have a back item or choose to hide it, always show the kit. Obviously this makes it a little harder than usual to tell what kit you are using, so:
A nameplate icon similar to Elemental Attunements would be a good addition (I may add this regardless if we can get the art )
Move the kit somewhere else on your body. I know, crazy right? For example, who doesn’t like a sweet fanny-pack?
Hopefully this finally gets resolved soon, and I’ll do what I can to see that happen. Keep in mind, as Colin mentioned before, that there are some pretty beefy projects going on that are consuming our engineering time. But that doesn’t exactly mean we can’t sneak stuff in here and there .
-Bill
Last post from dev was 6 months ago, things aren’t looking so good.
i would say from reading a lot of these issues are from people with razer mouse and for a incredibility over priced mouse they must have lousy build quality
My mouse works completely fine in other games (ffxiv arr at least), right clicks when its supposed to, turn when its supposed to. Since launch this had been happening and has yet to be fixed. I do not think its a mouse’s problem but something in the game.
Since servers are so unbalanced it isn’t an achievement to win so I don’t think there is any server pride. There is definitely guild pride, which is still good.
Collision detection is a terrible idea.
Having the ability to block someone from going somewhere will be a nightmare.
If we have problems with griefers (from other servers) suiciding golems in WvW, imagine what they can do with collision detection. Five will stand by an entrance and no one can go in.
Just a bad idea, i’m glad it wasn’t in this game to begin with.
“The last issue I want to bring up is clothing.”
Absolutely agree with this. Since I don’t PvP (and never intend to) I have bad looking PvP gear and in all these minigames that’s what I wear which is a real turn-off. Hopefully soon they allow us to keep our PvE gear for all these minigames.
I think its pretty elitist. Ive seen it a few times and all it does is scare people from going in WvW. If guilds don’t allow pugs to follow then how will they learn? They’ll be deprived of knowing how to run. Training pugs really helps your server more than telling them not to join even if you do win more fights.
It was really irritating because they’d leave their tag off, then run into enemies and waypoint out just to stop them from following. If you dont want random people following run untagged and Ctrl+T the leader.
I’m much more likely of dying from falling of a cliff than getting killshotted to death. I haven’t been hit with kill shot in months, is it really that common in other servers?
If you have 2 phantasms and 1 illusion, then only the one illusion will be replaced over and over again when you dodge. Wont lose any phantasms unless you have 3 up.
I think its pretty rare to have 3 phantasms up at a time (since they die) so I dont see Deceptive Evasion as a hindrance.
I don’t think there’s anything you can do, unless you are also recruiting those people into a guild that makes TS mandatory.
I agree with this, more guilds should make TS mandatory. Thats the only reason I started using it, and its much more efficient. Through TS you can hear calls for water fields (which are then blasted for hp), Veils, dodges (straight through the opponent to make them blow cooldowns), fire fields (which are blasted for might stacking), etc.
Try and convince more WvW guilds in your server to require TS.
I hate having to cast heal to get speed, I always feel someone will get me right as I waste it.
So I opted to passive +25% speed with this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Speed
Eventually ill get runes of traveler, but for now these will do.
Zoom your minimap all the way in, when you get (from the middle) to the edge of the minimap then thats the distance you can go with portal. By the time you get there it will still be active.
This is used in WvW, i’m sure the same should apply to pve.
I think it would be great if we could dye aquabreathers and get to preview offhand weapons. I know they are two completely different topics, but I don’t want to make two threads about it.
Aquabreathers are not very good looking, but being dye-able at least makes them more bearable. I would unequip mine if it wasn’t for the 6th stat rune on it.
They can be dye when previewed so I don’t understand why they cant be dyed in game.
Offhand preview would be great to see how two weapons would look together.
The truth is warrior is the easyest class to pick up and play and the hardest class to do well with vs skilled opponents of other professions.
Saying “truth is” before an opinions does not make it true.
And in my opinion it is still easier to do well versus skilled opponents compared to mesmer(since those two are the only geared 80s I have to use for comparison). My reasoning is that warriors have high defence, great regen, great hp, and is great at removing conditions (lemongrass poultry + that one trait that reduces condition duration).
I feel pretty invincible when i’m invisible as a mesmer. I can still be hit, sure, but I don’t get hit. If I get snared I can blink away. I get pretty awesome buffs as well while in stealth (protect, regen). I feel its a tad OP.
I don’t think it matters too much,
I’m sure every tier will just get an exotic with worse tiers getting yellows and greens.
The only decent thing will probably be the dolyak finisher, which I don’t care for.
Has the OP actually defined what his endgame IS? ‘I want endgame’ with no clarification is not helpful.
There’s a lot of posts on this topic in which i describe what endgame is.. I’ll be more succinct about what I think endgame is and what it isn’t.
Endgame is: PVE content that was designed to be done by my max level toon once I have mastered it and reasonably equipped it. It helps if it is compelling and relevent to the story. I can include some be 80-85 maps
What it is not:
-chasing titles
-grinding
-Elite (or normal) duneons
-PvP
-WvW
-crafting
-a gear grind treadmill
-recycled content that I completed at level 70
-time fillers.
I am not knocking any of what I listed above. (with the exception of a gear grind treadmill) I am just saying they are not endgame.
So end game is repeated content?* You can already do that….
And what do you mean reasonably well equiped, shouldn’t end game be once your fully equiped?
Elaborate on this
“PVE content that was designed to be done by my max level toon once I have mastered it and reasonably equipped it.”
Agreed, reasonably equipped=fully equipped.
I don’t know what you are reading. I said repeat content is not endgame.
Can you redefine endgame then, yours is much too vague. FotM would fit your description of Endgame.
Has the OP actually defined what his endgame IS? ‘I want endgame’ with no clarification is not helpful.
There’s a lot of posts on this topic in which i describe what endgame is.. I’ll be more succinct about what I think endgame is and what it isn’t.
Endgame is: PVE content that was designed to be done by my max level toon once I have mastered it and reasonably equipped it. It helps if it is compelling and relevent to the story. I can include some be 80-85 maps
What it is not:
-chasing titles
-grinding
-Elite (or normal) duneons
-PvP
-WvW
-crafting
-a gear grind treadmill
-recycled content that I completed at level 70
-time fillers.
I am not knocking any of what I listed above. (with the exception of a gear grind treadmill) I am just saying they are not endgame.
So end game is repeated content?* You can already do that….
And what do you mean reasonably well equiped, shouldn’t end game be once your fully equiped?
Elaborate on this
“PVE content that was designed to be done by my max level toon once I have mastered it and reasonably equipped it.”
Without the Holy Trinity, you run into communities like this one where people classify each profession based on usefulness so warrior,guardian etc typically with thief ending up on bottom.
Now spin it in to a holy trinity warrior would have been a tank/dps guard would have been a support/tank etc. there would have been a healer specific class or classes and thief would be a great dpser along with ranger thus making them more sought after in dungeons and such.
In the holy trinity there is still superior dps and inferior dps. So nothing would change, some classes would still qq about being at the bottom.
Ironically Sitael it was FFXIV:ARR that brought me back to GW2.
I thought roles would be great, it wasn’t. I was a healer and so I would watch tv/press heals occasionally. It was ridiculously easy. I did not get any higher than Garuda HM since I did not feel i should be paying a subscription fee to just gear up (time gated to one piece per month, no thanks).
Whats worse is getting bad tanks and needing them to get through content.
Here if I die its my own fault. I can’t blame anyone else, which I like.
I have a lot of fun trying to get ascended gear and skins. Run the weekly guild missions to get guild commendations till you get your accessory. Run fractals till you get the rings. Run dungeons to get gold for better skins. Or for different skins. I love having interchangeable weapons. Then theres dyes I have yet to unlock (celestial and abyss). Also need to unlock all the inventory slots. And the bank* slots. I still got more than plenty to do. I don’t think this game is for you.
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