Guild Wars 2

Don’t ever take an Asura player’s advice on aesthetics.

Man, I’ve been wrecking with your build. Its really good! Question, why do you take Peak Performance when you don’t have any physical abilities on your bar?

Human if you want the least amount of clipping. A lot of the armor is modeled for human and then morphed to fit the other races.

The problem is that DoTs in games like this are meant to be a ticking clock, not a sledge-hammer. “Condi burst” shouldn’t be a thing, ever.

The entire logic behind DoT’s is that they take a while to kill the opponent, but unless the opponent has a way of cleansing or ignoring that DoT damage, it is guaranteed damage. There’s no dodging it, no kiting it, if the spell hits, that’s damage that will seem insignificant at first, but devastating later on.

Power should be a blitzkrieg, Condis should be attrition, but with the current implementation they’re both blitzkriegs and that gives Condis a significant advantage.

As is, its a badly implemented mechanic defended only by the people who stand to gain something from its current implementation.

It’s happened to me about five times in the last week. It’s amateur-grade product and I honestly would expect a lot better from this game.

Seriously, this isn’t acceptable in any way, shape, or form. Playing through a 30 to 45 minute instance, fighting your way to the end, and being disconnected at the last second and forced to start over is amateur-grade BS.

It’s happened to me enough at this point that I literally lose any joy going into instanced personal story missions, because I spend the entire time worried that the game I’m going to lose all of my progress and have to start over again. I work a full time job, I’m not a high school kid anymore with all the time in the world to waste. My after-work hours are precious and if the game is going to quite literally waste them, I’m struggling to see the point of investing any of them into it.

I stopped playing, but two months ago people seemed to talk about Thief being in a really good place, but now I’ve come back and everyone is talking about it like its been heavily nerfed. What happened?

If you want to play a furry with silly looking finger-claws and horrible clipping, go with a Charr.

If you want to play an awesome viking giant, go Norn.

I was so disappointed when I found out there wouldn’t be two-handed axes.

Even the picture of the warrior on the webpage had one, so why the heck dont we have them<

I wouldnt even care if it was like…all of dual-wielding axe’s abilities with a different animation, I just want the aesthetic of a two-handed axe ;_;

Can somebody please explain to me why these two are separated? I know that you fight NPCs, but your major opponent is enemy players. They’ve pigeon-holed us into an axe-axe build, but its major damage move does 50% less damage in WvW for no real viable reason.

I understand, and even support the idea of PvE having a different moveset/ruleset from PvP, but trying to hybridize the two in their WvW battlegounds is just a horrible design decision. I mean, you can try to tell me that “Well you’d kill keep lords quicker”, but we have NPCs which we fight in regular Spvp who give /huge/ point bonuses if you kill them, so that really isnt a viable excuse.

uberkingkong.8041:

Its called balance. Your the beast at PvE and dungeons… But in PvP your a joke. So it balances each other out equally.

This logic is pants on head kittened.

They are two completely different parts of the game, and being better or worse in one and not the other has absolutely nothing to do with balance.

There are those of us who dont pve at all. As much as the idea of repeatedly running the same dungeon over and over again to get tickets so you can get different looking gear appeals to me…wait, it doesnt. I like the idea of competing with strategies put forth by other like-minded players and seeing who can come on top when the scales are balanced.

It still baffles me that they dont do what they did with GW1, where they separated PvE and PvP skills.

Nerfing PvE and retroactively nerfing PvP when our PvP was already in a bad place is stupid and generally a horrible design decision. There is no legitimate excuse for it, and I for one have lost pretty much any faith that I had left in Arenanet.

You’d think after 9+ months of being the king of suck they’d figure out that they could just separate our pve and pvp skills from one another and then actually give us something balanced and useful.

But no, they instead nerfed our pve ability while retroactively pounding our pvp ability into the ground.

I’m gonna go play something else until the devs actually figure out that people want to play this class and not just Guardian. I guess I’ll be checking in until then, hopefully the money I spent on this game wasnt wasted.

This patch is like a nightmare, and I’d been hoping ever since I saw the leaked notes that they were not true.

For every buff they’ve given us, they’ve nerfed us in turn. One step forward and two steps back just has us getting crappier and crappier.

Berserker power going from adept to grandmaster and only getting a 3% buff in damage is just kittened.

Axe 1’s damage all being loaded into the last hit so that the enemy has more chances to get away from it? kittened.

Instead of giving us more variety, they’ve given us the ability to do the same build in three different ways, all of which generally suck. Wonderful, now I can choose which pile of kitten to wallow in when I want to play my favorite fantasy archetype!

Even still, it’d be nice if one of the stats from our trait lines actually did something. We’ve been going how long now with one less stat than every other class?

Sephius.2876:

ensoriki.5789:

http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/editorials/sky-pirates-tyria-traits-preview-part-one
There is a preview to hold you down.

Well them notes are identical to the leaked notes, further strengthening the legitimacy of the leak.

I guess the patch notes were real.

Actually at the top of the page it says they’re unofficial. So they just copied the patch notes from the forum and put them on the site.

The patch is only two days away, but its feeling like forever with anyone and everyone yelling bloody murder about a set of patch notes that seem to have no actual source or credibility. Arenanet, can you please diffuse the situation and just tell us whats actually being changed? It’d be nice to actually have the forums back.

It’s telling me that I can’t connect to the log in server, when I hit the “Join Game” button in the Mists. Yet, I’m already logged in. I’m running around. The code its giving me is:

20:5:11:3935:101

This wintersday event has pushed me away completely from ever spending money on microtransactions in the future.

On a whim, I spent 10 dollars on 800 gems to buy 10 of the mystery boxes. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try, and to my surprise, I found 2 mini snowmen! I’d heard about foostivoo, though I had not seen it, and figured another 10 dollars would net me my first rare pet. Then I opened ten boxes filled with nothing but dyes and consumables. Suddenly an urge came over me, I just needed one more pet! Thirty dollars? That’s a bit much, but its a collectible! It must be great!

A second bust, RNG had screwed me again. With a labored sigh, I told myself that I would only try one more time. To my luck, I managed to get a third mini, and was able to make Festivoo.

I regret this so much. I understand that its my fault, I understand that I should have gone searching for information beforehand, and I understand that I could have completely avoided this situation if I had exhibited some more willpower. Still, I feel like a fool and I hate that I spent 40 bucks, enough to buy a completely new game, on a pet that doesn’t even look that good (It’s far too tiny, and I’m a norn.)

I know I can’t ask for a refund, because ANet isn’t going to give up their profits for the sake of one individual who got a bit trigger happy with his card. Even still, looking around the forums, I see a lot of people who are quite unhappy with how this event has gone. There are people who have spent upwards of 50 to 60 dollars and not even received enough pets to make the Festivoo mini. This is just ridiculous.

Do not make your gem store a gambling den where only you stand to profit. It is really unbecoming of you as a company and has turned me off so completely from ever spending money in your store again.

So this just started yesterday. I’ll get into Guild Wars 2 just fine, find a group, start doing a dungeon, then right smack in the middle of everything I get an error message and the game kicks me out.

When I try to restart the client and log back in, I get error message 42:1000:7006:852 and the game refuses to log back in, and I wind up missing out on my dungeon group that I just managed to put together. This is really really really frustrating, since I’ve managed to organize three groups now and missed out on the rewards for every single one of them.

Is this problem client-side, ISP-side, or is it Arenanet’s servers?

sPvP is dying? I can always find a full server and people are playing all the time. Granted, like with any game the player base is going to shrink until you get a devoted community. It seems like this shouldn’t be too far off.

I certainly hope they dont wait until the far future to add something like this.

Gosh, I hope so.

Hello, as many of you might know, at the beginning of a character’s life the player takes a small gamble when choosing their appearance. For many of us who like to main a single alt, this is going to be how we are personified in the game world, its how we’re going to identify ourselves, and its what we’re going to think of when the game comes to mind.

Unfortunately, you cannot take into account everything, and often mistakes are made during character creation that are not noticed until far later into the game.

I, for instance, made a Norn warrior and went with the default body type (huge and muscled). I also chose not to take a tattoo. Now, at level 80, I am dissatisfied with how large my character is, and I’d like to have a tattoo. It seems kind of ridiculous that I would have to completely re-level a new character to 80, re-farm my gear, re-farm my dyes, and re-farm my pvp rank back up just to change certain aesthetic things about my character which I did not realize I would not like at character creation.

I understand that the programming of a system in which an already made character can have their appearance and possibly gender altered requires man hours and work, but I am not asking that you simply do this for free. I believe that many people would be willing to pay a small fee, something around $5, to make heavy alterations to their character’s appearance. This is extra money that can go towards the development of new material, other projects, and simply general profit. Think of it, for every 10 people who pay $5 to change their character’s hair, physique, tattoo, facial structure, accessory color, skin tone, eye color, or whatever else they don’t like or have grown bored of, you have essentially sold another box.

I do understand there is only so far one can go with this. Race changes are likely out of the question, due to the investment of the personal story line. Yet, I do not see any issues that would arise with the simple act of allowing a player to re-enter the character creation’s appearance menu.

To summarize: Please allow us to pay a small fee to change our character’s appearance after creation.