Guild Wars 2

There’s a difference between an episode ending, and an episode stopping. This episode just stopped.

Did you fail to read the ‘I don’t want to do the living story in a group’ bit?

The living story never felt like it was supposed to be group content, and I prefer to enjoy it at my own pace.

Although honestly I found the stealth section and the annoying washed out lighting far more annoying than being forced to play a character I’m not interested in with a skillset I don’t like playing.

Unfortunately this is likely a small, but significant number of players to whom this is a major problem. But, because they’re not the majority, fingers will (again) be put in ears until they eventually drift away.

buschgorilla.6320:

angry riverside paintrain rolled over some borderlands? :P
i thought that gunnar would not be able to make enough points in this matchup.
but what is going on with piken?? i remebered them stronger @ reset-nights. (I know they r better from monday to thursday)

Not really the same unless the kittenhead server has some kittenheads show up in the thread to act like kittenheads :>

I get the feeling the conditions thing might be some unintended side-effect of the condition damage fix to Canach. Or his resistance to traps. Hopefully that’ll be fixed. The conditions system is already dodgy enough in PVE.

10. Cool theme, suitably asuran name, adorable.

Boogiepop – Engineer (Alchemist) – Female

“Asuras are often psychologically underestimated since they are very small.”

That is your own failure, not the game.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Although looking like a crab would be pretty sweet.

No it wouldn’t it!

Do you know why crabs walk sideways? Because they have nothing to look forward to

Red Falcon.8257:

First, Thieves die in 2-3 hits so hitting them thrice will kill them even while they are stealthed.

What a completely ridiculous statement. Have you only ever fought nudist thieves?

Your ‘personal story’ well and truly stops being your personal story when this bozo shows up. The rest of the campaign becomes ‘The Trahearne Show, featuring [insert subject name here]’. Simple as that.

His negative features wouldn’t be nearly as stark if he didn’t usurp your storyline from you.

Life is based on RNG.

There is a reason I play video games.

Sarcasmic.6741:

Feminine =/= Skimpy. I’d like the designs to be different yet still not overly revealing.

A thousand times, yes.

I really like wearing the winter town clothes. It’s the first outfit I’ve ever worn as an asura that looks even remotely feminine.

And yeah, I’d like to look feminine, not like my outfit has malfunctioned in a variety of problematic ways – as with most of the female human armour this thread has produced thus far.

Best I’ve managed so far for combat gear is the culturual tier 2 with its cute tails.

Lothirieth.3408:

Elthuzar.9478:

Sir Black.7423:

Challenging can be good. But being one-shot-defeated by massive aoe that you have little or no time to dodge? That’s just frustrating.

If you watch the priests animations it is easy to avoid. If you see the red circle on the ground it is already too late. I love it.

(ugh.. do not know what’s going on with this post and why it insists on duplicating what I’ve written.. I cannot figure out how to fix it. sorry )

Okay.. but how are you supposed to know where he’s going to put those huge red circles? It’s all well and good watching for his animations, but if the ground ends up being littered with the circles, you still end up in the same situation, no?

Okay.. but how are you supposed to know where he’s going to put those huge red circles? It’s all well and good watching for his animations, but if the ground ends up being littered with the circles, you still end up in the same situation, no?

Also, have fun keeping your eyes peeled for his tiny waggle staff-wavey tell in the massive swarm of particles cloaking his body from spells.

I’m actually okay with a OHKO move if you’re given any kind of reasonable ability to see it coming.

Frankly, the brown-nosing is even more obnoxious than the complaining.

If you’re gonna have an instant-kill giant patch of AoE, could use a bit more wind-up than a split second before the boss farts and everyone dies.

It’s not challenging, it’s cheap.

100nades, accomapnied by the patch note text: “Fixed a bug that could cause engineers to become vaguely threatening.”

Glitch.6849:

I’d like more frequent responses on this and not having this just brushed under the rug.

They’re already said it’s not possible, so it’s not possible. This thing that is demonstrably quite possible, and indeed, something they have successfully implemented in a previous title just simply can’t be done! It only took five months of hand-waving and saying ‘eh, we’ll get to it eventually’ to work it out.

It’s absolutely maddening how much I was looking forward to this feature and how much Anet are simply going to put their fingers in their ears until the complaints stop.

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) No
5) Yes
6) Yes
7) Yes
8) No
9) No
10) Yes
11) No
12) No

I guess what’s most disappointing is the implicaiton that it’s not an issue they’re ever going to address – sure, it’s an impossibility with the current implementation, but it’s not a total impossibility. I could stand to wait for them to get around to getting EU/NA players play together eventually, but it doesn’t sound like that’s ever going to happen.

That is an absolute crushing disappointment – there is no hyperbole that one of the major points of sale for me was the guesting system and not being segregated to one region/server ala WoW – in conjunction with level scaling, the idea that I could always play with my disparate groups of friends wherever they happened to be in the game.

The ability to play with people from different regions. Nyuck nyuck nyuck

I employ, er, colourful language on a fairly constant basis. Expletives. Not abuse. Abuse should be punished.

What truly bothers me is people who will use strange spellings and spacings to get around the profanity filter that can be turned off. That’s just rude.

Risen are pretty annoying, sure. Especially with the crazy spawn rate in Orr.

They got nothing on the Dredge. My mission is rub out every last one of those little gits.

Probably Yak’s Bend for being incredibly tenacious and entertaining to spar against, and awfully good sports whether winning or losing.

It rather feels that engineer has a few parallels with the early form of WoW’s druid class.

Druids were another class built under the ‘jack of all, master of none’ traits and early in the game’s life suffered a very severe lack of focus that resulted in a low druid player population and a general perception of them being sub-par in dungeons and raids.
They were taken to raids for exactly one ability (innervate) and eventually labelled by Blizzard as a primarily healer class, as that was the role they shackled together for raids.

Druids only started to shine when given an overhaul for the first expansion, where Blizzard refined the class with the intent of allowing them to specialise, with carrying token utility abilities. It was a rocky road, but that philosophy eventually has allowed druids to become fairly viable in all combat roles in the game today: by virtue of being able to specialise properly.

I guess what I’m saying is that a lack of focus on anything other than ‘versatility’ with result in an unappealing slab of mulch (especially true when that philospohy also includes ‘and their damage should be below average to compensate’). This is one area Anet might want to learn from Blizzard on.

The number of times I’ve been dropped with a loot bag right next to my carcass.

The number of times I’ve missed bags in a highly mobile melee.

The number of consecutive loot bags without a single badge.

The number of times I’ve been running useful tasks in wvw that don’t involve murder (guerilla flipping suppy camps, running supply, buidling, repairing, reviving allies, etc) and not being rewarded in any way at all.

I think the reward systems in wvw needs to be addressed in some way, especially in regard to combat vs support.

Nothing takes you out a game quite like watching the three guys you just beat up respawn while you’re in the middle of fighting their two remaining friends and rejoining the fight. Especially obnoxious in caves and extremely un-fun, leading to battles being drawn far longer than they needed to be until you can finally down all enemies before the first in the pack respawns.

95-120 seconds does not feel correct at all with the rate things can respawn, especially in caves, it’s closer to 30-60 seconds.

Orr is especially bad for this and actually stopping to fight roaming enemies who aggro you (and the mob density in Orr is so great that you will be causing aggro constantly) can get you quite badly infinity-holed by respawning enemies. It’s nearly always better to run in Orr. Compared to other zones, where I’d stop and dispatch attackers, exploration and running around in Orr was playing a stupid game of Captain Cannon-fodder between points while zombies tried to climb inside me. Not. Fun.

First night is always the closest, with the largest turnout, from my experience. That also means it tends to be the most fun!

We’ll see how it pans out for the week, especially with christmas an’ all, but some really awesome fights from all corners so far.

In a game where every class is a hybrid, it’s engineers who get slapped with the hybrid tax on their potential damage output, while elementalists get to be the ones labelled ‘king of versatility’.

Grenades might still be your best dps option, but it’s the best of a bad bunch.

It’s not about how hard the achievement is to get, it’s how a group activity in a multiplayer game cannot be done with your friends. Really poor show.

I kinda consider the supply crate to be the best of a bad bunch and I’d swap it out for something more generally useful in a heartbeat.

The gryphons can easily be kited to death.

The skritt and toy soldiers are a little trickier, but still fairly simple.

The dolls, vantari and golems, with their ranged attacks are completely awful.

I don’t have that much trouble with my level 80, but at lower levels they’re an absolute nightmare. Doable, but not worth the faff.

I’m just concerned with the server shuffling occurring next week is that between christmas week and event particpation and junk, we might not see a good representation of a WvW match from any server. Bit of a janky time to get moved.

I know my playing habits will be disrupted by christmas, and I imagine that’s pretty much the norm.

In a game of hybrids, imposing hybrid tax on one particular class is just silly.

When your design doc for a class includes that their damage should be sub-par, you should probably rethink that class. The engineer’s inability to perform truly competitive DPS or really anything more than ‘sidekick’ rather offsets the awesome aesthetic.

And really, you make a class that uses guns and explosives and flamethrowers and SCIENCE and then decide their damage should be a bit lame.

Even with level scaling, they’re all the more irritating the lower level you are. A pack of mobs who individually have an obnoxious amount of hit points. At least the around the level 30 mark, the dolls, ventari and golems (all ranged attackers) are simply not worth the time and effort it takes to kill. Better to grab the ground presents and peg it.

That sure is a cool PVP video. Sure doesn’t help that the main weakness of engineer right now is how ‘why bother?’ they are for PVE.

I do wish they’d put as much effort into bug fixing as they do into making stupid seasonal event. Of course, now they’re busy running around sorting out stuff for their stupid seasonal event.

Whoever wrote the engineer paragraph seems conveniently ignorant of the fact, that, y’know, the game offers the possibility of builds. If I want to build my engineer for versatility, then that should gimp my damage. If I want to build my engineer for damage, then that should gimp my versatility.

I really want to highlight this bit as something that should be taken notice of. The current design philosophy behind engineers is awful, based on that description, and will only ever lead to them being lacklustre in every area.

I feel awful making a post like this, but I’ll try to arrange my thoughts on the subject in a manner a passing developer might find useful feedback.

What really doesn’t help is the rather poor choice of words to describe how they want to balance to classes. Let’s compare:

The Engineer is a highly versatile class. While it doesn’t have the long range capabilities of the Ranger, or the melee capabilities of the Warrior or Guardian, they are comfortable at medium ranges in most fights. They have a lot of control, and use their boons to keep themselves (and allies) alive in a fight. They can use different kits based on the situation, but this extreme versatility comes at a cost in damage on their main hand weapons.

…with Elementalists:

We see the elementalist as the king of versatility. The skill ceiling for the Ele is exceptional, as the ability to leverage all four attunements at the right time is crucial for understanding the elemetnalist. The Ele boasts some of the best team support and control abilities in the game, as well as some great area of effect damage.

‘Decent utility with low damage to ’compensate’ vs ‘King of utility with awesome healing and damage’. Sounds fair, doesn’t it?

Might be hyperbole on my part, and might be a bit of poor explaination on the writer’s part, but that design philosophy doesn’t bode well for engineers going forward in my eyes.

It rather feels like Arenanet doesn’t quite know what to do with engineers. It rather smacks of the early days of druids in WoW. Such an unfocused ‘jack of all trades’ class is very hard to get right.

If engineer ever felt like the afterthought class, if you take a gander at their GW2 wiki page and the links therein, that’s because it is was more or less exactly that. It was designed last and created as a mucky amalgation of two april fools classes from GW1.

It’s still possible to be a very effective engineer. We’ve got your tankcats and your static discharges and such, but it’s a bit nebulous when placed against most other classes.

That said, my love of engineer stems more from the aesthetic of the whole thing rather than their design and role in the game. Currently the class feels a little slipshod in execution and I really hope Arenanet take a bit more time and make them effective. I’m not asking to be OP, I’m asking to not be generally considered to be a delicious snack in WvW by other classes. (Please note: I am not a delicious snack)

“- The Engineer is a highly versatile class. They can use different kits based on the situation, but this extreme versatility comes at a cost in damage on their main hand weapons.”

I do hope they update this section to be more accurate. Something like “but this extreme versatility comes at a cost in damage on their absolutely bloody everything.”

Some people need to a banner to rally behind that isn’t just ‘for scores’, you know? That Dolyak only had two days until retirement.

Too bad TC tricked CD to attack FA because of some incident with doyaks

It wasn’t that. We offered them sweeties.

Niim.9260:

Macallan.9270:

Aytrix.4059:

For a tier 3 server, TC has way more than enough people in WvW. As it stands now, you guys win on sheer numbers alone.

TC has many hours where we will have at most 10 players on a map. While I understand this to be a convenient reason for the scores to end the way they do, I’m disappointed that you discredit our players abilities and strategies.

I am disappointed that you keep posting this kitten in a recruitment thread.

match thread -> that way

If you defame them, they will come.

Really now, we should have waited for Yak’s Bend to come back up to tier 3 before trying something like a yak parade. Seems appropriate, and the sort of thing they might be on board with!

Thread closure imminent, on account of rampant immaturity. A widely announced pacifist event is schedule in a PvP world, and it was disrupted. As much as I never would have done such a thing, was anyone really surprised?

No, not suprise. But, you know, this is why we can’t have nice things.

The main issue isn’t being left alone, it’s the POI’s and Viewpoints located inside enemy strucutres that can be a pain in the backside to get your mitts on. It can be especially tricky if you don’t move spawn colour week on week.

I managed to attain the locations simply by playing W3 a lot and it took about two weeks for some of the trickier locations (enemy keeps, etc) to become available.

Another option is to transfer to a server you know has a desireable team colour for that week.

I find it a bit perplexing that WvW is a hurdle for world completionists to overcome, and dungeons and heart-of-the-mists areas are not.

Any NPC involved whatsoever = PVE, apparently.

Oh dammit, the towers and covered with NPC guards and a keep lord boss!

I think it’s a great idea and may just encourage a struggling server to put more people out and make a match all the more interesting.

Portable Magic-cannon. Because I want my own personal rail-gun looking thinger.

More than other class: it depends how you spec. Engineer is a very versatile class and, as that tankcat spec shows, is capable of being extremely hardy as much as it is capable of ye olde glass cannon.

Extra Punctuation – Drop the High Scores - A fun little analysis of certain forms of multiplayer. The column starts off talking about high scores, hence the title, but veers off into ‘indirect’ forms of multiplayer, namely Dragon’s Dogma and Journey. I think a lot of it applies to GW2 in terms of how you can interact with other people in the game.

I’ve frequently ‘informally grouped’ with lots of people, not actually teamed up with them but run around together fulfilling the same objectives and helping each other out. I’m pleased that GW2 allows other people to enliven my experience as and when, and to whatever degree, I choose. I don’t always feel like reaching out to talk to strangers, just as I’m not always a horrible misanthrope.

Not so much ‘cheating’ as it is ‘abusing a poorly implemented mechanic’. A mixture of rendering issues and peculiar design decisions. And no, it’s not particularly clever.

Neb.4170:

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Who said is was on ‘indefinite hold’? Last I heard they were still working on it.

Anyway, misinformation aside, you will be able to guest on any server.

Do you have any source to verify that? I haven’t been able to find any concrete answers on it.

Thanks.

Here’s a link to the last (only) official response I’ve seen on the matter.

My paranoid brain gives it a tone of ‘eh, at some point.’

Guesting is the one of the most attractive features in the game and a main selling point for me. Along with level scaling, it allows me to play with my friends wherever they happen to be in the game. So the lack of it, and any evidence that it’s coming anytime soon, is quite irritating. :<