Guild Wars 2

Ashreon.2840:

First of all if you think the only way to deal damage is Zerks, you are so utterly wrong…..

You don’t exactly do more damage as a zerk than a condition build. The damage is just done differently. Most of the time our Condition team were done with their split boss before the zerkers…. And that was with 3 conditions and 4 zerks.

Second of all metas change and it was about time some more flavour was added to the GW2 meta rather than just Zerk builds.

Third of all my necro is not forced into condition or zerk. He can do both and equally well I could even tank with him with no issues. Second of all, my herald isn’t being forced into condition, healing, tank or zerk he does all four equally well and I could continue, but I’m not gonna because should have been obvious by now that you are not forced.

I never said zerker is the only way to deal dmg. But i did say your necro can play both, zerker OR condition. So i don’t see your point.
You do realize that engineer and necro are the prefered classes do deal condi dmg? That’s a well stated fact in the community (go on reddit for example). That’s why you’d rather pick a power dmg warrior and a condi necro – and not the other way around. So yeah, sure, you can play whatever you want, but odds being very efficient aren’t high. And therefore you are kind of forced, yes.

Ashreon.2840:

Raids forcing stats?..

Oh you mean kinda like how everyone are forced to play a zerk build if they want to join a group for something?..

So sorry for you that you can’t only play Zerk.. World must be a hard and unforgiving place to live in……..

Ehh… zerk is a glass dps build, so if i am able to play it i surely won’t have troubles with any other build. But anyway, you are missing the point. My problem is not playing different stats but how the raids generate a new meta and force classes into certain stats. I have no concerns about the difficulty or the mechanics thrown at us. In fact i love difficult stuff as long as it is about my skill as a gamer and not about what gear i am using. Now before you sh*tpost again, please be sure you stay within the context of what i am saying.

adormtil.1605:

Well what about not getting hit or better have tank in your team. I mean 200% its no big deal if its not followed by anything else.

Although i think you demand a lot by saying “not getting hit” your argument nonetheless is valid.
However, the vale guardian has a dmg pulse output ticking every few second, so it’s impossible “not getting hit”. Especially with everything else going on in this fight.
Have you tried it yet? Or seen a video on youtube? If not, you should.

Maybe i’m completely wrong, so forgive me / correct me if so.

I have seven chars fully equipped with ascended gear, but due to the pre-HoT metas most of them are zerkers.
Do i have to reforge them now if i want to play raids?
I mean that’s gonna be horribly costly, especially on the financial side. Crafting them alone costs a lot / is very time consuming.

I know the community wanted to see the zerker meta dead, and now that we finally can have group compilations with “build diversity” the game just forces certain classes into certain stats?
Of course a necro for example can go zerker too, but since not every other class is good at condition dmg people will look for necros or engineers to do condi dmg.

To kill the vale guardian you need condi and power dmg. So yeah. Now imagine the next raid is purely condi or purely zerker based. ANet could design whatever they want and we have to go with it, saying we have to reforge our ascended armor every now and then. That’s why i don’t like the “ascended gear recommended” maxim.

Of course there are different solutions to this. For example remove the timer for vale guardian or make it doable with exotic armor. Or even better: Balance the power and condi dmg output for every class, so that it doesn’t matter anymore how you like to play.

But, as i said, maybe i’m completely wrong, so please don’t hesitate to correct me.

I know we still have the problem with missing gods but since the devs have never commented on that thopic and since legendary armor is announced now i just thought i could ask again:
Will we ever get UW and FoW back? I mean, FoW at least was the place where we had to forge legendary armor in GW1…
So… maybe? Pls?

- running dungeons to get gold and tokens for weapons and armor (or skins)
- achievements (which i personaly love to do)
- farming / buying skins
- crafting ascended armor and weapons
- crafting legendary weapons (takes a lot of time!)
- complete personal story (also season 2)
- playing living story content (i guess you have to wait for HoT release)
- fractals (higher levels require agony resistance, you buy or craft them, and with HoT fractals get an update!)
- map completion and exploring hidden places
- guild missions and bounty
- jumpingpuzzles
- playing as a ranger: getting all pets aviable
- beating all the world bosses (for triple trouble worm there is a TS-community, just look it up)
- maybe trying out other classes?
- raids not yet implemented, maybe with HoT?

doing the achievements is my favourite because it feels a bit like a random adventure.
btw with HoT comes a lot more and new content to expand and improve the endgame.

THANK YOU so much for this, ANet:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-brand-new-fractals-of-the-mists-legendary-backpacks-ascended-salvaging-and-more/

After more than a year of farming fractal weapons without any progress,
I’ve given up on it. I play all classes and six of them have full 80 AR ascended
gear – but despite my efford and passion for this dungeon (which imo is
the best this game has to offer) i never achieved my goal.
But now with those changes you are promising i finally see a light at the
end of the tunnel.

Thanks again and again!

PS: now please add FoW and UW and i will worship this game as i did
it with GW1… please.

cocowoushi.7150:

Clyan.1593:

Is noone else offended because ANet keeps tricking us with most cheap attempts imaginable? I mean, at least they could try to hide their intentions behind a less obvious system. But no, just create a new mystic toilet and combine it with an achievement which lures people into gambling and easily swallows hundrets and thousands of gold and ectos.

Not gonna fall for it.

Lmao “tricking”? No one is making you do it. They never promise you’re gonna get rich. You see other players getting lucky and you are deciding if you want to take the financial gamble.

Ahem, i never claimed tricking is the same as forceing. And my point was not the risk of gamling. Read again.

Is noone else offended because ANet keeps tricking us with most cheap attempts imaginable? I mean, at least they could try to hide their intentions behind a less obvious system. But no, just create a new mystic toilet and combine it with an achievement which lures people into gambling and easily swallows hundrets and thousands of gold and ectos.

Not gonna fall for it.

1. put on zerker gear
2. yell at everyone how pro and meta you are
3. enter dungeon
4. turn off brain
5. abuse lack of character collision
6. nuke legendary foe
7. …
8. never care about patchnotes

Let ANet figure out how to balance the condi dmg and stop stressing them to change it again. A lot of people were complaining about how useless condi-dmg was before and now that we finally got what we wished for the rageing just starts all over again… annoying.

And about PvE: You want challenging content? Then go for it, but don’t expect white mobs or even champions in the normal map enviroment to be something special, they never will be due to the simplistic skill system gw2 has. Instead go for fractals, story achievements or liadri the next time she’s aviable – and i bet the majority of you won’t ask for challenging content again.

Hi, ANet

I really love the changes from the June 23 Patch, especially since it gave me some bank space back (new wallet soaked up crests and geods, skill scrolls turned into spirit shards and so on). However, there are still some issues:

Tonics:
I try to get every endless tonic as soon as it is aviable, ’cause i love cosplaying in GW2.
But they take alot of bank tab space.

Toys:
Same.

Music Instruments:
Same.

So… i would love to see a feature which allows us to make all of those items account wide aviable and having an option to store them somewhere in the hero panel just like miniatures.

Pls make this possible!
THX,
Clyan

There’s still a lot of possible improvement to do with this game. This is one of them and i support it. Worst thing imo with actual character screen is the background, it’s so cheap, so dull, like the work of an amateur. It feels like a beta placeholder…

i’d love to have immobulus. but look at the giant eye price, lawl. i’d rather buy another leg.

if you experience someone harrassing you, turn it around and start trolling them with brainless game change suggestions. then laugh about their madness. … profit.

Wow, that’s one old bug.
I need quinta the vendor to purchase an item to complete the collection.
But nope, Anet is uber lazy.
Pls fix this!

Ludovicus.7980:

Clyan.1593:

Oh, right, i forgot about Kormir ^^

No you didn’t

#kormirisnotagodess

#hailabaddon

How did this kormirhate-thing ever get so viral?
I don’t even understand why everyone is hating her?
Were her combat abbilities crap? Or was her part in the lore kinda off?
Pls tell me.

ps: abaddon was an evil big head with six eyes and i smashed him for good, get over it.

same here. thought it was just a random thing…
pls fix, anet.

Belzebu.3912:

Alright, I found the post:
“In the forest, the whisper of light wings, glowing and rustling. Some men say they have met with Melandru herself. Others swear they were priestesses of the Goddess. In truth, we might very well never know! Yet, these stories sparked our imagination and inspired us to design this item: We tried to recreate what they claimed to have seen. Here it is, the result of our researches: We are happy to present you what we like to call the Daydreamer’s Wings!”

Hm, i have the daydreamer armor and it may be inspired by the melandru theme, but to be honest, it looks too artifical, melandru is more like a mother nature, gaia, a wooden vegan stripper girl or whatever. I could even imagine her appearing a bit sylvarish, but never like the daydreamer armor.
The daydreamer backpiece seems to imitate a butterfly’s wings which makes way more sense.
But even then the daydreamer set is not appropriate for a ranger – the one class connected the most to nature.

Balthazar – Warrior
Dwayna (or Kormir) – Guardian
Grenth – Necromancer
Lyssa – Mesmer
Abaddon (maybe?) – Revenant

But the Daydreamer for Ranger?
Meh.
I want a true Melandru set.

Oh, right, i forgot about Kormir ^^

Just wondering: Why is there no melandru stuff?
We have everything – Balthazar, Lyssa, Dwayna and Grenth, but no Melandru.

It is just a question of time until you release the armor for grenth and lyssa too, so what’s the reason for dissing Melandru?

Are you afraid of Greenpeace?

!?
Actually i wanna thank ANet for finally doing something about this. This makes me more happy than the wardrobe did. GW1 first-person camera view, i just can’t believe it we get it back. Thank you so much! I can’t wait to satisfy my nostalgia.

Uh, i don’t get it. “Weapons” technically are just skins covering skills.
Look at Mesmer using GS – it’s a ranged weapon.
How can you know what the weapon you don’t want may do? And since you cannot know, why do you assume not to want it?

My concern beside the actual map number is what the maps do contain. I mean, they look absolutely great in the trailers and sure will in the actual game – but: if they just give us a massive amount of events, it will be super boring after a couple of hours.
Consider SW and DT, whoever still is doing these events does it only for the crests and geodes. Noone would do them without the grind element in it. Those maps would be completely dead.

It’s inevitable: To tie the playerbase to the new maps, you have to give them something to do that lasts more than just 2 hours. The easiest way to achieve that is grinding elements. Maybe the new outpost thing can handle the boredom a bit better, but i doubt that it can handle it forever. It’s all about what you get in return for doing events. Karma is nice, but nothing new. New sort of loot can be a turn on, but only until you have no need for it anymore…

I really hope HoT maps will have some huge amount of gameplay variety and lore. Otherwise i can asure you it’s going to be a fail.

I don’t know if i like these rumors. Since the sylvari are a young race, in its childhood so to say, and as it seems without any choice to wether join or deny mordremoth it’s not right to treat them like criminals. However, this may be part of the motivation to finally run down mordremoth.
What i’m really curious about is how they will solve the problem for sylvari players. I have a feeling like the pale tree won’t survive HoT, maybe sacrificing itself or something like that to shut down the dragons influence for her kind. Just an idea. Or do we already have some more specific informations about this?

I’m consumed by my desire to travel into FoW and UW in GW2.

Now, i know we can’t do that since the gods are absent.
But – who knows – maybe there’s something we don’t know yet.

So… will you give FoW and UW back to your veteran players?
PLEASE!

The gliders will help us reaching destinations we could not without them. Also JPs gain a new layer of difficulty (maybe). I guess there won’t be WP around such secret locations.

No mounts, please. Ground movement is good how it is right now. Too many MMOs use them, just because reasons, you know – to stand around and show off your fancy domesticated sabercat or whatever. Don’t turn this franchise into one of those generic MMO clones.

I don’t play too much anymore, but sometimes i just come back to play fractals.
Well, you never know, maybe, after a billion fractal runs i still could get another fractal weapon…

Nope, 7th fractal speargun (two times in two weaks).

Is this ever gonna change? Maybe i’m missing something… just wondering, because i start to feel hollow and kind of abused/cursed.

Please, please, please finally do something about it Anet!

the thing is, everything’s too easy. everyone can have this armor pieces with a little time efford. you actually don’t have to be a good player, that’s why they come up with all this grind BS, so the game always has something left to do for you.

imo anet should turn the LS into a 5 member party instance with some true difficulty, only doable with teamwork or crazy solo-players.

omg, did i just miss it again?
i see it coming, next year page 4-6 and then 7-9.
… hopefully the LS-update is no already up when i get home from work…

>.<

- My guardian is on full ascended cleric
- My necro is on full ascended rabid
- My main is a ranger which has 100 AR
- If the team wipes at Mossman on first try, i leave
- My favourite place is the hall of monuments, because it reminds me of GW1
- I spend real money on legendaries because i’m too lazy to farm the items
- One unfriendly word is enough to make me block you
- I find quaggans dumb
- I occasionally buy dungeon runs
- I want asurans back down below the surface, because their technology ruined the mystic feeling of tyria
- I write stupid lfg descriptions
- I assume the story writers to be complete amateurs
- I can’t stand the fact that Logan is an offspring from my beloved Gwen
- I didn’t care about Belinda’s death
- I think Braham looks like a giant hipster baby

Dyedra, unfortunately i don’t play too much with her.

Yeah, I’ve spend 2650 hours with this game, most of it went into farming fractal weapons (of which i still didn’t get the one i want) and farming laurels for ascended armor.
I’d say it worked out good for anet, but it’s time to give something back, guys.
I really don’t care if it is an expansion, just bring back some of the old GW so my nostalgia can die in peace. It still hurts to not have one of the other continents, no FoW, no UW, after two years no Ring of Fire or Crystal Desert. At least you are working towards maguuma wastes, i appreciate that!

Imagine our heroe travelling into new realms or fighting the fairytale creatures of elonia, strolling around in exotic and strange cities with fresh and fantastic culture. What has happened to your urge to invent new worlds, ANet?

Giving us the opportunity to explore more of the current map is cool, but if you open new maps at this speed it will take eons to complete it.

Put your hand on your heart, ANet – Tyria is worn out.

Heya, ANet

Since i visited Lion Arch the very first time in GW2 back in 2012 i was wondering, if you could get the Tropical Bird as a Ranger Pet.
Wouldn’t it be nice, to have a little exotic bird beside all the generic other ones?
Or at least make it a Mini, so i can have one traveling / flying beside me – please!

What does the community think?

Thx

lordkrall.7241:

I wonder how long it will take before ArenaNet simply decides to shut down the forums altogether. Every single thing ever done in the game is just met with massive rage and hatred here and very little constructive and useful comments.
Might be a better idea to just shut them down and spend the time and resources on the actual game rather than having to wade through all the kitten here.

you cannot expect a community to give constructive critisism about such nonsense. what they’ve done here is just not reasonable. let’s take, for example, the foil-wrapped candy that costs 25 gems… would you spend 70 gold for 400 gems, just for that? i don’t think so. even if they allow a 100 gem exchange it’s still a broken system because i only need 25 gems. when i go to my bank and want to exchange money, i can choose how much to exchange. and that’s good. because if they don’t allow me to do that i just go to another bank.

4 legs in, 1 laughing madking puppet out.

lordkrall.7241:

fellyn.5083:

It’s working as intended. There’s no way it’s a bug.

How is it no way it’s a bug? It is fully possible that it could be missing a part of the trading and so on.

I am not saying that it must be a bug, but it is quite silly that the forums explode every single time something is changed without even thinking about if it is actually working as intended or not.

I don’t think it’s a bug either. They want you to throw away high amounts of gold so you just find yourself in that position where you need gold again so you buy more gems and trade it back to gold. it’s the moneygrabber cicle.

anet, that’s insulting. i used to buy a ton of gems and now look at this crap you just invented. congratz. i now have to click a billion times the same button when converting high amounts of gems into gold. and on the opposite if i want to make gems out of gold i cannot trade below an exchange of 400 gold. that’s just silly. thx alot.

I’m looking forward to all of this, but srsly it’s 2014 and i’m still waiting for the gods to return so i finally can play a gw2 version of FoW and UW. Can’t you just bring all dragons up at once to fasten things up a little bit?

FrostSpectre.4198:

Yeah, it is.

GW2 was supposed to follow GW1 style gear progression. ANet made exception with Ascended gear, and updated Legendary gear to match the stat levels of ascended.

In my opinion, better just remove the excess stats and make Ascended and Legendary gear match Exotics once more.

In GW1, normal gear and “Elite gear” had no stats difference, they’re only cosmetic and prestige.

yeh, but GW1 had no option to transmute a skin. so it would be a total waste of money or time or both if you’d craft ascended only for the skin (especially the super ugly heavy helmet on female characters)

Ascended gear only serves any purpose in Fractals, because of its AR Slot. And of course for those who want to compensate the lack of endgame content with farming a huge amount of items. Seems like you hurt yourself doing so though :-P

Most impactful death? Zhaitan.

RnG in this game makes me always lulz.
Took me over 1800 hours to find a precursor.
Took me over one bazillion frac runs to realize it’s no use to grind anymore.
Took me a single second to realize i have no patience for the new headpieces from LS2 beginning.
The span it took me to give up on grinding for the new weapon mats is not even measurable.
I finally learned.

Honestly, the only thing i love about the chests is how much dragonite they spit out. Just great! Thx Anet

Time to give my 1cent.
Had Mai alot the last days. 4 Times in a row yesterday and once today on lvl49.
I really don’t see why her lightning attack is unblockable. I don’t see why you cannot block horricks canon shot. I don’t see why her normal attack hit with 1/3 dmg of my lifepool. Her shadowstep hits with 1/2 for me on guard or warrior which have heavy armor.
Also it seems like there are more canon balls OR the canon balls fly faster in the bombing phase. There are some situations where you get surrounded by aoe circles and almost have no chance to get out of them.

I don’t want to say it’s not doable. We killed her everytime except today when i left the party because the pug was horrible and i saw no way we could make it.

Why the hell did you buff her like this? She is totally imba now. Test what you are doing before releasing it kitten .

Strange… i like her voice somehow. It has something original in it, not that boring perfectly flawless hollywood sweet 16 thing, every immature man falls imediatelly in love with because of his protective instinct.

Well, don’t play it bite-wise then. Log in every two weeks and logout again. Some month later there will be enough in your Story-Journal to play through for you. … You do know the Story Journal, don’t you?

Hi, there

I know, it may not be the time for this and we just had a really great feature patch.
But there’s something bothering me since a long time and i cannot get rid of this idea.

To use a Miniature you always need to have the item in your inventory. It’s only one slot, sure, but i don’t see why i need it there when it can be stored in my bank. Also i’m always a bit afraid of accidentally throwing it away or delete it due to missclicks. The thing is we have a ton of miniatures but i rarely see them except maybe in the cities.

So why not adding a slot in the Hero Panel? This slot would be linked to the bank and allows me to use one miniature at a time. Maybe the position isn’t right there (in the wardrobe tab it’s the city clothing slot), but i leave this to the developers to decide.

What do you think?

I really wonder where you can find him.
… or is it just a troll?

chronus.1326:

If this plot turns out to be about the shenanigans of Abaddon (ie.: Kormir), then I might forgive 2 months from the last 2 years of this trainwreck.

Have her still be the God of Lies, having been responsible for waking the dragons and imprisoning the other gods. I’d buy that for real cash. Heck, I could write it.

I really doubt we are going to see abaddon unless in a fractal. Abaddon’s dead.

MrIllusion.5304:

Clyan.1593:

There also was an item with a blue text saying “Caithe, some day you’ll see. Tyria needs me”. What if scarlet’s goal was not awakening the dragon, but maybe bringing back the six gods for whatever reason… ?

What if she doesn’t want to bring back the 6 gods, but rather become one herself?

I mean, what would be the point of unleashing the dragons if she can’t survive the ordeal?

I don’t think so. To become a god you need to kill one and take its place like kormir did with abaddon. Second she was possessed and acted in desperation or on order from a secret evil. But that’s my opinion. You never know.