Guild Wars 2

shelter > heal signet imo.

if you worry about the condi removal, remove 10 from radiance for 10 in valor. but i guess you really want radiance 15, which is solid. soldier runes then

shelter is ridiculously better than heal sig when you can time the block properly.

on a more related note : good show.

the nerf to selfless daring on the guardian is gonna be a pretty rough one for bunkers. it was pretty much half the healing we had, and its been hit pretty hard.

did anyone test out what the % of healing we lost with that ?

Urxx.6840:

Relentless.5678:

Wow. Content looks great! I’m really excited.

Thank you Arena Net.

Yeah I’m really excited about new content as well. If it wasn’t for ascended gear, this patch would be awesome.

This way it could be the beginning of the end of the GW2 they promised us.

even the ascended gear is kind of a good idea (even if they could just make a quest a la infuse in gw1 for the current gear we have, but thats another topic).
the problem is them having a stat upgrade compared to exotics. thats all they need to change to make this madness go away : keep the stats the same.

170 pages and growing by the hour …

let me fix it for you : remove the stat increase on the gear, keep the infusion slot, keep the rest of the patch content, keep almost everyone happy and stay true to your design and manisfesto.

this kitten storm could have been, and could still be, easily averted : keep the patch the same, with the ascented gear, and just remove the stat increase.

SOLVED. now everyone can get excited about the patch content !

i’ll take the job, thank you.

Edelweiss.9815:

You CAN NOT dodge out of the circle. I tried it, it never succeeded. It’s all about Stability and maybe something else, but I’ve no idea what exactly.

And you can’t walk out of the circle if you’re stealthed, just whack the area with your attacks.

you can certainly dodge roll into it. i see it all the time while defending clocktower. never tried to dodge out of it cause i never need to.

and to the guy that didn’t know you could JI + 5, JI + 4 is pretty awesome too.

you guys seem to only think it can be used to trap people in it … but most of the time i use it is to block the access to a certain area (ie : top of clocktower, for exemple), and the fact that you can just dodge roll in and out of it makes it stupid bad.
so instead of having 3 forms of CC with the hammer, you end up with 2, both of which are already stupid easy to evade due to their long and obvious animation.
hammer needs some lovin’ (and mostly fix #5).

you still can leap in and out of it from dodge roll. its pretty bad.

charr elite is by far better.

mcarswell.3768:

Lheimroo.2946:

I’m hopeful at Chris’s latest post – I mean, the whole move is still slightly disconcerting.. but.

We do have the assurance that they do not intend to keep increasing stats.

So, basically, this is a one-time move intended to give players a bit more ‘meat’ in the gear-up process when they hit 80. Now, bear with me – Arenanet never said getting gear at 80 would be absolutely effortless. They said you’d do it with a little dedicated effort, get your max stats, and then be done. Hopefully that vision is still intact.

As for the whole agony mechanic.. well, heck. I’m going to trust the GW1 vets who said this ‘Mursaat’ mechanic was no big deal way back when. I’ll take a wait-and-see attitude.

i’m glad he posted that. it’s not looking so bad now. if i can get the ascended gear over time without having to do the dungeon with the stupid agony crap, that’s great. i’m in.

if they feel like they need that after 2.5 months, what do you think they’ll do after 1 year ? 2 years ?
thats the gear grind thread mill. it never stops. doing it this once means they’ll be doing it again.

DONT DO IT ! leave the stats the same !

Lutharr.1035:

I love the idea of acended gear. Hip hip horray Anet!

i’m sure everyone is fine with the idea of the ascended gear … if it would be the same stats as exotic.

tkalamba.2541:

Anela.3867:

I haven’t even finished getting my exotic gear. My family and I chose this game because it was supposed to be casual. If it does become a gear grind, it will be more work than it’s worth to us.

I have spent a LOT of money in the cash shop because I am such a casual player and don’t have time to grind for gold. I won’t spend anymore if I have to keep doing it just to keep up.

You wont need to worry, there are benefits and disadvantages to Ascended gear. They cannot be custom tailored to your build as they cannot be upgraded which means no sigils or runes in armour or weapons of Ascended quality. Exactly the same as unique weapons in Gw1

where have you read that ? cause so far, all i saw was a ring, and a ring cant have sigil and runes anyway. i’m sure the ascended armor will let you put a rune in it on top of the special slot for the infusion.
and it will have better stats.

DONT DO IT ANET !

RamzaBehoulve.5640:

You people complain about gear treadmill, yet they had to come up with a whole mechanic system to make you unable to damage the new mobs before doing specific tasks BECAUSE they cannot add a real gear treadmill. Add to that a specific condition to not to increase normal stats, again…

go read on how GW1 worked for the infused gear.
they do NOT need to put in a new lvl of gear with better stats and an upgrade slot to make you access harder content. they didn’t need it in GW1, we certainly don’t want it in GW2.

following the update from chris…i dont see why you need to make the gear stats better than exotic. you can add new content, you can make us have to get the infusion type of buff on the gear to go further along into the pve content, but you certainly DO NOT have to buff the stats from exotics. i don’t see why you guys think you need that. it is against what you made us belive in your manifesto, and obviously against the principles of a new mmo genre that goes against gear trendmills. if you put better stats on new gear, you obviously introduce a gear trendmill.

new content and new skin is enough to keep people that want to happy and farming. but having better stats makes us feel we need it to compete and thats where you lose alot of us that have no interest in pve runs.

please keep the stats the same. you can still have everything you planned on your following patches, you just have to keep the stats the same !

“Fun impacts loot collection. The rarest items in the game are not more powerful than other items, so you don’t need them to be the best. The rarest items have unique looks to help your character feel that sense of accomplishment, but it’s not required to play the game. We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.” – Colin Johanson

was colin fired ? cause judging from that ring picture that was posted, we’re seeing a stat increase of 8%. that is pretty massive and is certainly something that most will feel, and rightly so, that they need to keep the competitive edge. completely against everything that was posted above by colin, and why alot of us are here in GW2 and loved GW1 so much.

please keep the same stats as Exotic. MAYBE different stat combos, but certainly NOT better stat values. come on now !

question is : will it stay in the rotation past the patch ? will there be servers that run only that map for the weekend ?

Please, for the love of PvP based game that you have been with GW1 and GW2 so far, PLEASE make the new armor stats the same as the exotic ones already in game.
make the new gear look awesome, and make it mandatory to unlock future pve content, but please don’t make it better in terms of stats.

the only thing we need is a ladder system a la GW1. it was great in GW1, and it will be too in GW2. hopefully it comes with an observer mode similar to what we had in GW1 too.

it will come people. just get good until then.

samo.1054:

Sprawl.3891:

rank and QP currently mean nothing but time played, so i see no point in them wasting time adding this until they add ranks that actually represent skill.

Exactly.

You guys seriously think it meant something else than time played in GW1 ? i mean, for those farming for the tiger and such.

what i would like, other than the /rank, is an option i wanted from GW1 : let you choose which animal you want to spam.

wtb my deer back !