Guild Wars 2

The original KiD Inkk video is the only WvW I have favourtied as it never fails to amuse, thanks for this new one.

grats OP on getting into my servers main instance, I’ve not bothered with TEQ since I don’t have the time or patience to get into my own server rather than an overflow.

I’m sure the traits are as stated, it just seems the damage is low for someone in full zerk gear. I’ll watch it again and dip into WvW on a power setup and make sure I’m not remembering it wrong.

Yeah I thought the damage was low myself, in full zerk I can get 7k total hits with DS4, before I read the comments after the OP I thought it was a necro in PVT gear.

Fenrir.3609:

Chullster.3608:

cafard.8953:

Sarrs.4831:

How would you realistically enforce a moratorium on speculation?

Easy. Any TP purchase becomes account-bound.

You can sell everything you harvest/produce/loot but don’t need, you can purchase everything you need, but nobody can purchase stuff just for resale value.

Agreed. This would solve a lot of the issues with TP playing being the best way to earn money in game, and give all items their actual value.

Every time I suggest this idea though a moderator on here gives me an infraction and deletes the thread.

Probably because it is an utterly ridiculous idea which demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of both the games economy and also of the trading activity going on in the game as well as economies and trading in general.

I cannot see any negatives with making all TP purchases account bound, so it’s a great idea.

cafard.8953:

Sarrs.4831:

How would you realistically enforce a moratorium on speculation?

Easy. Any TP purchase becomes account-bound.

You can sell everything you harvest/produce/loot but don’t need, you can purchase everything you need, but nobody can purchase stuff just for resale value.

Agreed. This would solve a lot of the issues with TP playing being the best way to earn money in game, and give all items their actual value.

Every time I suggest this idea though a moderator on here gives me an infraction and deletes the thread.

I like how in the video FGJ skill is on auto, yet doesn’t activate when it’s off cooldown several times. It’s not just me this happens to then. You’d think they would fix a bug like that before making the video.

I run rifle+Sw/Sh on my killshot build, you need something to be able to leg it sometimes and Sw/Sh provide that.

30/10/0/0/30 traits
FGJ, Signet of power, Disc. banner, SoR elite.
Use the range of the rifle
Shoot into melee blobs and use the power signet to make it unblockable unless you’re going for absolute maximum damage.

I can confirm that now with asc. gear you can get the old pre nerf damage on rifle, last night I was hitting warriors for 21k with no bloodlust stacks or food/oil. I assume he was full zerk like I was, no idea.

If you want a balanced rifle build, then I’m not really the one to ask.

Seeing as how a few of you are beating around the bush, I asked him straight if he has any issues that may cause such an unusual and inexplicable stand point.

Zoid.2568:

Chullster.3608:

Don’t buy any gems with real money, use in game gold, then they’re free.

No. Time is money.

Wrong. Time is most certainly NOT money. Time is far more important than money.

The time I spend working to earn real life money is too precious to waste that money on gems. I’d much rather spend fake money gained while having fun on gems.

On a side note, if anet had made a GW1 sequel instead of a reject-wow-player entertainer, then I may have spent real money after the initial purchase to show support to the company.

Don’t buy any gems with real money, use in game gold, then they’re free.

Hmm this is an easy one:

All Greatswords; get rid of the stupid “burger flipper” look 90% of gs share, seriously, a blade over 30cm wide looks so tacky.

A good example is the fractal one handed sword vs the greatsword, the one hander looks beautiful, slender and deadly, the GS looks like a Japanese anime toy, suited for removing pizzas from ovens and flipping burgers only.

Osi.3504:

Chullster.3608:

Easy way to stop all flippers, speculators and insider traders (like what happened to the crossing) make all tp purchases account bound = no more problems

That would be bad for the economy. Too much gold would be in-game, one of the largest gold sinks would be gone. Making money off the TP isn’t the problem, the people who think so are just mad about it. Flipping has benefited this game a ton. If all the gold stayed in the game you would be looking at precursors being 1000’s of gold a peice.

So add or increase another goldsink/cut gold supply…..

Easy way to stop all flippers, speculators and insider traders (like what happened to the crossing) make all tp purchases account bound = no more problems

Cliffside is fine now, even without standing inside the arch diviner.

Dredge on the other hand is just no fun, overly long but yes, rewarding loot wise.

Same thing happened to me OP, was in a group, got dredge 3rd, someone left soon as they spawned, not a word. I thought “what a good idea” and now do the same though I wish the party good luck before I go, I’m never the opener in this case.

I think the best way of showing anet is with metrics, if everyone doesn’t bother with dredge if they don’t like it so much, then the message may get through. The end boss encounter is fine, the rest of it needs work, simply getting rid of endless spawning mobs would be simplest remedy I think.

ShannonKasull.2091:

Mind you if you want DPS, go play a Warrior instead, why try to be something you are not?
While your DPS guardian is trying to do damage instead of upkeeping might and boon heals and damage mitigation you are affecting the overall dps your entire party can do.
Doing dungeons effectively means maintaining group DPS and staying alive, what good is a guard who does nothing but swing his greatsword around.

Downed players do no DPS, that applies for you and your party. Even when stacking in dungeons, having someone in a downed state and having to stop attacking and resurrect them means lower DPS.

However much you want a guardian to be a DPS class, they just don’t fair as well as others in this category, so instead of “role-playing” your “DPS” guardian swinging his greatsword and thinking it is efficient, you need to take a step back and look at the entire picture on how group synergy works.

What are you talking about? you don’t bring a guardian for DPS, you bring them for Aegis, blind spam, group might+stabiliy, condition flipping, small packet AoE heals as well as other stuff like staff 5, GS 5 weapon skills etc

You can do all that above in berserker gear and scholar runes, only you’ll be more of a team player because you’ll bring decent damage output too instead being carried by the team while wearing clerics armor and terribad lyssa runes or worse.

The “Dead players are no DPS” in an old cliché trotted out by people unwilling to realise, even now after GW2 is more than a year old, that any other gear stats that aren’t +damage are a waste of time and unnecessary.

ShannonKasull.2091:

A good guardian will also make use of rune sets that gives all boons when elite skill is activated.

Those Lyssa runes are rubbish, bring some DPS runes as damage is the meta, like scholar runes.

too late as my wife has it;
Charnold Swzenegger

Rigel.3092:

Chullster.3608:

WvW, tbh, I use ’zerk in there as PVT or anything else is too dull to play.

Certainly hope you are solo or small group roaming cause otherwise, if your running such in a zerg, you amount to nothing more than insta-rally food for the opposing zerg.

Yeah I read this all the time on the forums, doesn’t play that way in game, though I am not on a T1 server, so I doubt it matters.

Considering how bad most players are I think if you can rub a couple of brain cells together then using ’zerk is fine in wvw, I was going to say I mainly use it on heavy classes, then realized: no, I use ’zerk everywhere. Flopping about hitting like a wet lettuce is not much fun, but hitting hard and having to actually do stuff to survive is more fun too.

OP in PvE you should have no “armour” or toughness/vitality, it’s a waste of a stat. Run berzerkers and use a guardians in built defenses and you and your team will do much better.

WvW, tbh, I use ’zerk in there as PVT or anything else is too dull to play.

edit: that virtues trait is just a waste and so is the rest of it, especially in PvE, try 20/25/0/0/25

So many bad players…..it’s PvE, if you’re going with a power build you should be in berzerker armour, not that other trash, especially if you’re running with minions.

PVT, clerics…I wish they would put in templates you can ping so I could more easily avoid such time wasters in PuGs.

I don’t agree with you OP and neither does Anet since they’re buffing the rifle trait.

When I play rifle in wvw I had a choice, max damage on 1 target (30/10/0/0/30) or not-max damage but on multiple targets (30/25/0/0/15).

Come today update, I can have my cake and eat it, max damage on multiple targets.

Expect more rifle warriors, even if it is a worse weapon than the longbow, it’s a lot of fun.

15k is rather bad damage by the way, I’d be ashamed hitting a killshot that low.

I’d say their lack of response is your answer; it’s not an exploit.

With that in mind which dungeon are we talking about?

I transferred to desolation a few months ago to play PvE in a less dead server using in-game gold to buy the gems, who thinks anet made any money from people changing server? are people that poor (in game) or daft? (to use real money on gems)

1st Eu Silver

Some junk I’ve already broke up/sold, some useless junk and a temp finisher. As a PvEer it’s good news for hardcore WvW players: I wont be back for season 2 so you’ll have less headless chickens like me running around.

I only went for the chest expecting something unique and permanent.

I enjoyed reading this thread, the first page and the last.

I’m a PvEer from desolation and noticed the meta achievements with 1 week remaining. I think those early predictions were right about if the pve hordes can be utilized or not.

I can say that in the last 2 days I played WvW like someone possessed, as well as my other guildies that really only came to wvw one or two times a month before now.

The constant play has taught us quite a bit and I must say thanks to the commanders/guilds who used map chat and spammed the TS3 stuff, even joined in there too.

I and I hope others will have enjoyed the season even if we only noticed “pve” stuff in there late, and just picked up information by doing meta events forcing us into stuff we wouldn’t bother with normally, learning the lingo etc.

It was madness and you could tell that deso had big numbers and played like the film Aliens; just throw yourselves in wildly and give it some stick! apologies to proper wvw guilds in my server.

PS berserker armour works just fine for me in wvw, I did get a PVT set ages ago, but found the play to be too boring, now its “full acended ’zerk with scholar runes” every day for me on my ham/bow war, your pve gear works just fine.

Draknar.5748:

Chullster.3608:

No OP I don’t, as I’m not daft enough to buy gems with real money or play a game that requires rent money.

Daft for spending real money on the gemstore of a game that costs nothing to play besides the initial box purchase? Let’s say someone spends $20/mo on the gemstore. Alright, now let’s assume someone buys a cup of coffee every morning on the way to work (let’s assume everyone here has a job). Let’s say the coffee costs them $3.00. A typical work-week we’re looking at $15/week —>$60/month. Hmmm, which is a bigger waste of money…..

If you buy coffee from a coffee shop or buy fast food regularly you are much more daft than if you spend some money every month on a game you enjoy. Retail is for suckers.

I agree, both examples are daft, so I don’t do either.

No OP I don’t, as I’m not daft enough to buy gems with real money or play a game that requires rent money.

IVIUIEI.9631:

They’re not gonna do it u can’t even spell thief right, lol.

And you’re too lazy to use “you” instead of “u”, like a child would.

Qaelyn.7612:

I’m not saying the complaints are invalid as I have no basis for making such a judgment. It’s more that companies set themselves up for this by making too many promises.

I bought GW2 not because of any promises made, no one with any sense should believe a promise made by a company, I bought GW2 as the principles/style of play/depth etc, whatever you want to call it, was perfect for me in GW1. So I was probably naive after so many other sequels expecting same thing from GW2.

I’ll still pop in here from time to time, hoping, but each time leaving disappointed.

I would like GW3 to be GW1 updated.

It wont happen, and after getting so jaded with GW2, ending up not playing it anymore, I doubt I’d even buy GW3 as Anets reputation with me is now worthless.

I’m like that guy above in that I only come here in faint hope someone at the top of Anet has decided to turn the boat around and make GW2 what it (IMO) should be.

Last time was today when I got an alpha key to start playing Rust, a cheapo browser game.

I’m pretty bored of GW2, I know it’s not Gw1, and that’s why I’m bored I think.

Good luck to all the WoW players, now you have your treadmill, cya.

What the guy above me said, also that build is terrible.

AH in what you call a DPS build?

Try 20/30/0/10/10

gz OP.

Now you’ll have to craft another sword with decent stats to transmute that skin onto, seems a waste really.

I’m sorry, what do you mean by a guardian reflected grub?

As per the title,

I noticed that niether the rock dog or fleshereaver trigger deathnova when they expire, does anyone more learned know if they are effected by any other minion traits like +health/damage, condition draw, protection of the master etc?

thanks

Tried to search but nothing happened when I typed in my query.

As titled,

When the Rock Dog from runes of the ogre or the Demon from the sigil of demon summoning die, neither are triggering the Death Nova trait, either damage blast or the poison field.

The sigil of superior demon summoning also fails to start counting charges again after the first demon summoned has died.

Thanks

I want sigil of demon summoning to work properly and start gaining charges again after the last demon has died

fadeaway.2807:

I don’t see many builds featuring this trait, why not?
Aoe blind refreshed on kill with 3 stacks of might each time.
15 hits of ah if you are so specced (0/15/30/20/5).

Seems like an interesting tweak on the typical valor/honor setup to me.

What do you think?

That stat spead is as old as the game, I have topics on GW2Guru from months ago featuring characters I’ve since deleted and relevelled it’s that old.

found one: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/77379-build-mace-in-their-face/page__hl__%20mace%20%20face

The only Farm I’ve enjoyed was Ember farming. It was exciting, team work required, more loot for knowing game mechanics, danger, trolling anti-farmers, the moments when 2 champ wizards or 3 champ jesters appeared….

It also had a nice variety of loot too, not just gold or one particular drop.

The 5-10 minute turn around was just enough to sell up, store stuff and find a group.

Perfect

R.I.P. 10 minute ember farm

OP why would you want to tank in GW2?

It’s a waste of time and doesn’t do anything for you or your team.

Star Ace.5207:

lilstev.3498:

There’s no healers or tanks in this game, so why wouldn’t I go all out DPS…….

Flawed logic, always. No offense, as you are not the only one who thinks this way, by a huge margin (though I admit, it’s not too hard for DPS to overpower most content in the game-quite sadly.)

Every Profession fulfills “traditional roles” in one, not just DPS. You heal yourself, revive others, support yourself and others, and do damage. How is it logical to say that because there’s no trinity, you MUST neglect every other capability your character has?

I suggest ANet makes it more even for all other stat choices, though I doubt DPS lovers will ever change their mind, even if encounters would be re-designed. There’s too much “if there’s no trinity, let’s just focus on DPS!” mob-mentality in the game. Which would be fine, if they wouldn’t be intolerant of everything else and stopped calling others “selfish” and similar silliness for not playing the game the way they play.

I think he means not that there are no healers etc, but that healers and tanks are a waste of time in GW2, which is quite correct.

OP made me laugh with his last line about zerk being best in all “but Fractals” when this is exactly where it’s most obvious that zerk is the top of the pile.

Stuff one shots you in high fractals no matter your gear, so why take anything other than offensive gear? ie zerker. It’s not just a waste of time taking anything else, it’s also most obvious that anything defensive has no effect or use.

Great.
Some attention seeking….rhymes with door.

Have you not heard? there are no girls on the internet.

Go and do your money grabbing elsewhere.

Reikou.7068:

Heres a little tip.

Stop trying to “work for money,” and instead perhaps try to have “money work for you.”

Both in game and IRL.

I’m sorry, you’ve lost me there.

In game I just play, use that which drops etc, IRL well that’s another discussion entirely. I don’t think I’ve ever said or implied that you should “work for money”

tolunart.2095:

Chullster.3608:

@ the person who said if he bought level 10 blues to then sell on later, I’d say they’re only blues, probably worth less than a silver each and even greens are now merchant fodder.

You wanted an example where items bought from the TP become account bound would be a problem for a casual player. “I don’t care about it therefore the example is irrelevant” is not the proper response.

Your suggestion will never be implemented for other reasons, but it is what it is. You aren’t interested in a discussion, only venting your frustrations.

I’m not frustrated with TP flippers, I just think the game would be better itself if people were encouraged to make in gold by playing the game itself.

I’m sorry if I came across as someone disgruntled with the lack of money making options, which I’m not.

@ the person who said if he bought level 10 blues to then sell on later, I’d say they’re only blues, probably worth less than a silver each and even greens are now merchant fodder.

@Those people who think Flippers provide a service, I fail to see what service would be lost if there were no flippers.

People who want items would either buy those listed, or if none were available, then put in a buy order, exactly like it is now, only there would be no premium paid to the middle man. I actually thought US based players who love capitalism would rejoice at “cutting out the middle man” especially as in a game like GW2, as they add nothing.

@people who would buy too much of an item then wish to sell it back, I suggest primarily working out how much you require rather than guessing and if a mistake is made just store/destroy/merch the spare items.

@Megaobo. I fail to see why the price of desirable items would suddenly rise, can you please explain your reasoning?

@Celebratty You are correct, it’s an MMO not the real world, and I’d rather the TP offer the great service that is does already without the negatives of real world markets. And as it’s run by one entity; Anet, I think such a move would be feasible.

I do not think flipping does “nothing beneficial” I think it’s actually worse and is detrimental to the game by inflating prices for the many for the benefit of the few.
The profit gold made by flippers does not come out of thin air, some other player(s) handed it over.

@People who think I only started this topic as a complaint that “I can’t make money like Power Trader X” I can assure you I have no need for more in game income, nor am I jealous of people who played the market and have 1000s of gold lying around.
I have enough legendaryes, a character for each profession all kitted out in full exo/asc zerkers gear, spare gold for fluff…etc etc etc

I started this topic to see if there were any other downsides that I had not noticed.

Other than “People wont like it”, speculation of price changes, mistakes in purchasing stuff and those who have no problem with flipping, speculation and manipulation being aghast, I see no other reasons not to make the change.

I’ve tried Brazils build mentioned above, but I prefer 20/30/0/10/10 DPS build that is knocking around somewhere.

It does more damage than Brazils build and buffs the 2 weapons I currently like most 1-h sword/focus and Greatsword.

AntiGw.9367:

DrixTrix.7168:

whats wrong with flipping?

Flipping is the current “flavor of the week” pointless complaint.

Hardly FOTW for me. I got the idea months ago while discussing in game money generation on the GW2Guru forums which I no longer use.

I saw the other post about limits on TP profits which I think is unworkable and could harm all types of players, so I posted my own solution (stolen from another GW2guru poster) to see if I had missed any negative outcomes.

I thought bashing necros was fotw?

CrossedHorse.4261:

If they did this they they would need to implement some sort of refund option too … can’t think I’m the ONLY person who might have clicked “buy” by mistake on some hugely expensive item I was only trying to preview. Yes, it’s my fault for rushing it, so normally I’d resell it on the TP, and accept a small loss of change if that’s the case. But if I can’t resell it, not sure what I’d do with it and it would be stupid to just destroy something worth money.

This sounds like a pretty reasonable idea too, if it has a small time limit (10 secs? whatever is decided) so it could not be abused when a cheaper alternative becomes available. It would actually be better than reselling on the TP as it is now if you made such a mistake, so would be an improvement.

So far the only downside to all things bought on TP being account bound is that it’ll stop flipppers and speculators, I have yet to see a point written that harms normal/casual/hardcore players.

Speculations/flipping/manipulation do harm the market in this game, it actually stops something having the correct market value and is anti competitive. Far from being “commie”, as some 1950s comment implies, I think such a change would correct the artificial prices and items would be priced at the value provided by players who actually want to use their purchase rather than those seeking to squeeze a premium out of other players.

I also see no arbitrary limitations. With my suggestion you could buy all the materials for a legendary or anything else you require, you could also still sell absolutely anything you get as a loot drop or crafting etc.

No change in gameplay for anyone other than TP flippers

So I don’t think such a change would even be noticed by most players other than prices generally falling and junk items no one actually wants gathering dust on the TP.