Guild Wars 2

Trying out a new dye combo

Asura eles are best eles.

New look. I loved the t3 cultural so much I never really ventured into any other armor, but I’m glad I did. Heavy armor is the best.

From the topic title I was horrified that mesmers across the globe were going to unite and take over the world. That would be a very, very pink and confusing world…

I has a chicken

Irrelevant, the only race that matters is asura.

Asura rangers are best rangers

I am fine with anet reallocating resources and changing design direction, but this is something that was a selling point of the expansion. This is content they told us directly that we would get if we purchased their product. It is absolutely not okay to suddenly say that they will not be providing what it was that we purchased without issuing refunds to everyone that purchased the expansion specifically because of this reason.

If I were to design a jacket with a hood among other features, sell that product to someone before it was finished, but assure them that I would design it the way I had described, I would not be able to suddenly say sorry, but it turns out the hood was actually too time consuming and expensive to make so I reallocated my time to enhance the other features I had promised. That would not even be legal for me to do. Now maybe that customer might actually like my hoodless jacket and be fine with the direction I took it in, but it doesn’t change the fact that I am no longer selling what it was that I had described and have completely changed the product which the customer had already purchased based on what I told them they were buying.

No matter how you look at this scenario the customer is entitled to a refund of their purchase because I am no longer selling what it was that they had purchased. Maybe GW2 has some legal mumbo jumbo stating that when you purchase our game we don’t actually have to deliver any of the things we’ve told you were going to be in that game and by purchasing our product you are agreeing to that and forfeiting your money, but that doesn’t change the fact that on a consumer satisfaction level this is going to leave a lot of people feeling incredibly salty and that GW2 has verily ripped them off and scammed them out of their money. This approach can and will destroy people’s faith in the development of this game and their ability to provide them with what it is that they are supposedly selling.

If the legendary team was not properly managing what it was they were supposed to be doing then they should have altered their approach to legendaries, not completely scrapped a selling point of the expansion.

I was definitely surprised by how much I like these weapons. I picked one up immediately and I’ll probably grab another. One of my favorite sets. I just can’t get over the design and the way the color changes.

Looks like just another bookah to me.

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One of my biggest complaints with the original engineer was that the tech was clearly charr design. While you would think an asura engi would be a good fit, it was actually one of the least sensible combinations possible from a lore perspective. Asuran technology is a combination of tech and the arcane, while charr tech is combustion based which asura just do not use.

Now however it feels like engis use a combination of charr and asuran tech. The gyros definitely appear to be more fitting to the asura and there’s a trait for turrets that gives them a reflective shield that doesn’t look like anything charr use.

Out of curiosity how does everyone else feel about the appearance of the engineer now? Does it still seem awkward for an asura to be running around tossing charr tech around?

Can we get a way to fuse Belinda’s greatsword skin? Not sold as a separate skin in the gem store pls. I understand that’s supposed to be Belinda’s soul fused to the sword or whatever, but Belinda isn’t the only bookah around. I wouldn’t have any issue with murdering bookah filth by the thousands if I could make my sword glow a little.

Still looking to expand the krewe.

Just need one more JQ asura and we can do WvW missions. \o/

I think an asura dominated world is a cause worth fighting for.

Saw an asura RP the other day, that was interesting.

Yes, in order to have a description you have to post it then edit it. The text you put in initially will not show up. It is obviously a bug.

With the way things have been they will probably add additional colors separately to the gem store for 400 gems each.

I would really like to know if it’s coming back as a permanent installment or if it will come back for a short time and be closed off for years to come yet again. I want this to remain open once brought back, but I suppose we won’t know about that until we get an official announcement.

I don’t think the game is as bad as OP is making it out to be. I admit I left GW2 for 2 years when FF XIV 2.0 came out, but HoT brought me back and personally I think the meta events from the maps are a lot more enjoyable than any other open world content I’ve experienced. It requires people to actually communicate, organize and form a strategy. Only at a basic level sure, but every other MMO I’ve played does not have any of that for open world content. It’s just mindless zerg.

As far as running through the maps solo I am at a loss as to how it is overly frustrating for some. I have run through the maps on all 9 of my characters now, one of each class in order to master all of the elite specializations and while I died a few times it was purely due to my own poor judgement. Definitely not invisible attacks. I needed to ask for help for hero points several times, but this is an MMO. I’m not going to complain about needing other people to play with. Also, all of my character run zerker and most of them are in exotic, so again not too challenging to stay alive.

What GW2 still lacks is good dungeon and raid variety. It is very limited in those areas compared to other MMOs, but it seems like they’re at least starting to come together. Still nowhere remotely close to FF XIV in comparison, but they are heading in the right direction now unlike before.

Ultimately I really enjoy the meta events in the new HoT maps. I find them much more fun and entertaining than typical open world content.

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Excelsior

I am looking for fellow asura to socialize with. 2 years ago I had created the guild Asura Master Race [xcel] to serve as my personal bank since it wasn’t really possible to have “social” guilds. Now, however, that has changed. I am looking for more people who main asura and have enough common sense to realize that we are the superior race in Tyria.

Some time ago a friend of mine had created an all asura guild and it was incredibly fun while it lasted. We would organize all asura dungeon runs and WvW teams to annihilate bookahs with an army of geniuses. It is easily one of my most memorable experiences from the game. Unfortunately, my friend no longer plays the game and his guild has been long since abandoned. I would like to revive those efforts.

Currently, it is still a fairly small but growing guild. I cannot say that in the immediate future I would have much of anything to offer other than simply socializing, but if many asura show interest in this guild it could eventually become something more than a social guild. We could once again form dungeon runs, raid teams and WvW groups if enough people join.

No rep required. Only requirement is to understand that asura are the best.

Please send me a message here or in game (Dog.1472) if you would like an invite.

Definitely Asura.

No asura guilds? ;_;

Looking for an all Asura guild. I don’t care what content we do as long as I get to spend time around the master race.

I personally don’t think PvE players demanding more content is unreasonable at all. Just compare the amount of content being added in GW2 to another current MMO such as FF XIV: ARR. FF XIV gets more new content in a single large update than GW2 has put out since it was launched.

I leave GW2 for several months at a time and yet whenever I come back the amount of new things to do is so small that it doesn’t take long to do it all and ultimately it does feel pretty unsatisfying.

Meanwhile as an active player of FF XIV since it was launched, rarely ever taking breaks, it feels like there is always something I need to do and if I ever do get to a point where I’ve run everything, a new large update is in the very near future.

The crafting and gathering systems are also far more entertaining and enjoyable to do rather than just feel like menial tasks that I have to get through with.

I don’t really know what’s going on at Anet, but from my point of view there are other MMOs with much more to offer when it comes to PvE. The only reason I complain now and in the past is because I do like GW2 a lot as well and just want to see more and better content that keep me here once in a while.

I will at least give Fortus credit for being a very determined person. No matter how many months go buy it’s always the same QQ. I just hope I’m not the only person who notices all of these thread are made by the same guy.

Anyway as always yes thieves can be countered. There are other people who explain how easy it is to do, please read their posts. All we have here is one guy who refuses to to change his own playstyle and adapt to others.

What you are asking for is to have a trinity system or at least a part of one in GW2. This was against the entire design decision the game was based on. The reasoning is that they didn’t want people to wait around for specific roles in order to do content.

Some of the changes you’re asking for, these ones in particular:

beGreen.4190:

-Changing at least one encounter in every path in every dungeon to have type of damage that can’t be mitigated by dodging to make healing and boons more relevant (i am talking snowstorm in svanir fractal, homing missiles, melee attacks that can’t be dodged etc. )

-Adjusting traits, abilites and stats to a level where being full time supporter is not being laughed at, increasing impact of healing power and adding utility and healing skills that can be used to effectively support others (like guardian’s healing breeze but actually useful)

-Adjusting traits, abilities and stats so being more sturdy doesn’t mean one can’t dodge… for example traits that increase threat making boss more likely to attack “the tank” or control abilities that involve getting hit to prevent damage on teammates.

Would essentially create an environment where people are now sitting around looking for a healer or tank spec.

Now maybe you do want a trinity back in the game, and that would be a vaild opinion. It’s just bugging me that people think that zerker is the core of all of their problems and so therefore they must be nerfed. The “nerf” did nothing to change the meta not because it’s OP, but because the current lack of trinity only leaves one viable role, and that’s DPS. You can nerf zerker all you want, but it will never change the fact that any stats that are not related to DPS are currently useless in PvE and always will be. The most they can do without introducing trinity roles is make conditions more viable by making them do as much or more damage than zerker. The meta will still not have changed much as it will still be all DPS or gtfo. Only the nature of how people do damage will change.

Besides that, the game in its current state is actually quite fun except that they could make much more difficult content to do. The meta itself isn’t even that bad. When you are playing what little challenging content there is and you are using proper meta builds, things start to become fairly complex and require a lot of coordination. It’s not as simple as huurr durr wear zerker and press 1. The people who choose to optimize spend quite a lot of time figuring out the best way to use each of the classes and each of their abilities. There is quite a lot of versatility in what most of the classes in the game can provide and as someone who plays every class, I can say that it has been a lot of fun figuring out how to play each of them to their highest potential.

So, really, for those of you who keep complaining about zerker, stop it, please. You don’t understand what you’re talking about. What you actually want is a trinity so that there are more useful roles other than DPS. This is a valid opinion. There is nothing wrong with having that opinion, but please understand what your problem actually is. So long as trinity roles do not exist, building for DPS will be the most effective way to do PvE.

I had all three dragon helm weight types unlocked after using one of them. I can confirm it’s happening with at least one item.

Why not the monocle idk.

What is going on in this thread? I leave GW2 for a few months and suddenly there’s an outbreak of rabies.

Chill bros. Let’s have some nachos and get back on topic.

Another day and I still haven’t seen any significant change or nerf in the game. I wonder what was the point of this change or what was it supposed to do? If it was meant to make zerkers less useful and create build diversity it failed miserably. Zerker is still by far the best and most optimal setup and other stats still have no point. Seems like a whole lot of time spent on nothing.

Well I certainly haven’t felt nerfed. Some things actually felt easier, but I’m not sure yet.

csquirrelrun.3108:

Dog.1472:

Sooo, if I purchased multiples of the same item with game gold or gems, am I SOL or is there something I can do?

For example, I purchased multiple sets of light tier 3 cultural armor. The cost of this armor is of course extremely high, but now I essentially wasted all that gold when I could have just used a significantly cheaper transmutation in the new system.

Most people will just say, you paid for what you got at the time. Prior to this update you had to pay for the ability to have T3 light cultural on several toons, and if you did, then you got the benefit of doing so at the time.

The same goes for crafting multiple legendaries of the same type (the difference being you still retain the stats and functionality), or acquiring the same Ascended trinkets on all your alts, or (god forbid) buying 2 Eternal Lights so you can dual wield them like a Harpy. The latter would have cost someone over 1000 gold that they could have saved in the new system. However, people that did this were able to afford to do so, and now, should they wish to do similar things they’ll be able to spend their money in different ways.

Yeaaah I can probably just bite the bullet on what I’ve wasted. I can’t imagine being that guy that made 2 incinerators.

There is absolutely no intelligent reason to limit the amount of stuff I can do in a day. It unfairly punishes people who have more time to play on certain days rather than people who are able to play for a small time every day.

Sooo, if I purchased multiples of the same item with game gold or gems, am I SOL or is there something I can do?

For example, I purchased multiple sets of light tier 3 cultural armor. The cost of this armor is of course extremely high, but now I essentially wasted all that gold when I could have just used a significantly cheaper transmutation in the new system.

Another example, I had purchased multiple blue quaggan backpacks on the gem store, which isn’t nearly as big of a deal as the cultural armor, but it’s still money that’s now wasted as transmutations are so much cheaper.

Kinda feels like I’ve been cheated now that the system has changed. :/ I like it the way it is now and all, but holy cow did I ever take a massive smack to my wallet.

Edit: I should probably clarify that all of my characters are asura. So, yes I bought the exact same armor skin for 3 different characters, my mesmer, necro and ele. They all have t3 cultural and it’s probably around 200 gold wasted.

But male asura are definitely the cutest.

Simple, if you choose to play as any race other than asura, you are choosing to be a slave to the asura. Do you want to be a part of the superior race, or do you want to be a slave? Seems like an easy choice to me.

cranked.3812:

Dog.1472:

I learned everything I know about warrior from this video:

http://youtu.be/_KhPMi1GIc4

I highly recommend it.

You know some people are going to believe what you say when watching that vid……

Fein! Serious post, I use this: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-101513/

It’s an okay guide I guess.

I don’t know how to give you many tips beyond use this build. It’s pretty easy to use compared to other classes. Mostly you just need to memorize mechanics, attacks, etc. and know what to dodge whatever. You shouldn’t be getting hit by traps, and if conditions are a problem then you can use shake it off I guess, but you shouldn’t need it. I never have it.

I learned everything I know about warrior from this video:

http://youtu.be/_KhPMi1GIc4

I highly recommend it.

Critical damage changes, yep, they’re nerfing zerkers which solves absolutely nothing. Interestingly, there were actually several very well thought out and brilliant suggestions in the profession balance forum for how to improve the PvE content. All of them realized that nerfing accomplishes nothing.

I don’t know if I should laugh or cry that the devs repeatedly ignore every single suggestion that would actually help the game and continue to spend time on things that accomplish nothing.

Oh my god what happened in this thread. Why are there still so many people trying to argue against doing their best to play as well as they can? It’s incomprehensible. The argument that it’s okay for one person to make everyone else’s time less enjoyable because they don’t want to make any effort to carry their own weight is ridiculous.

I think GW2 is the only MMO community I’ve ever seen where so many people carry the idea that playing poorly is acceptable because of the excuse that “oh it’s fun”. It’s absurd.

People that try to play as well and as efficiently as they can are going to expect others to at least try and give the same effort. They will think less of those who don’t. If you cannot accept that then please move on. You will never convert these people to the point of view where no one has to make any effort to play well.

If they introduce an asura that turns into a joke like Jar Jar I will probably rage quit the game.

I agree about having someone like Efut. She’s brilliant and capable. I want an asura that can be portrayed as dependable, not a moron.

omg every single pug takes my lightning hammer and uses 4.

WHY DO YOU DO THAT STOP IT

I think most people here would agree that the current meta isn’t nearly as much of an issue is the content itself, so here they are apparently “fixing” the wrong thing. So yeah, not surprising people are preparing for the end of days.

haviz.1340:

I would like to ask people that complain that zerker is just autoattacking bosses and occasional dodging how having tanky chars that wouldn’t have to dodge would be better than this? Autoattacking bosses without dodging is better than autoattacking bosses with occasional dodging? Oh, and even now you can kill the hardest dungeon boss without even dodging by being tanky enough and having enough support. I’m sure it’s more engaging than occasional dodging.

I would also advise people that are claiming that zerker meta is based on killing before being killed to check up videos of FoTM high level scales bosses fights which last often more than 2 minutes. Moreover, I would recommend to notice the common denominator why those fights are trivial yet still long. The answer is reflections and aegis. Not killing before being killed.

That people that complain zerker is just autoattacking have clearly never actually used zerker. I cannot possibly think of a single situation where non zerker builds are more engaging or skill intensive than zerker builds. These are builds that require you to know your skills, plan and when to use them and how.

Maybe to non zerkers it looks like it’s made easy, and sometimes it is only after planning for and understanding the fight mechanics. However, running a soldier build does not involve planning, reacting or any form of skilled play whatsoever. It is truly the most casual and disengaging playstyle in existence. If soldier builds are what the game becomes left with, then GW2 will truly have the worst PvE gameplay of any MMO there is.

The meta is not nearly as much of an issue as the PvE itself. We need dungeons and instances with drastically better mechanics. Of course, since GW2 doesn’t have a dungeon team anymore, that obviously isn’t likely to ever happen.

This is completely terrible. What you want would make any stat that puts points into DPS completely useless. Then by far the most optimal set would be soldiers. What would the point of wearing another stat be if you do the same damage regardless?

Man that whole forum is just painful. Reading posts from people who aren’t even literate saying things like, “when i play guh ele it just feels so week comprd 2 me warir i think it ned mor damge.” These people are clueless and I feel like devs will listen to people who have no idea how to play their class, have no experience in the game and don’t even understand the current meta in the first place.

Now we have them wanting to change the way people focus on DPS but how? If they want to make non DPS focus useful then they would have to reintroduce the trinity which goes against the entire concept of the game. They could make conditions useful, but that wouldn’t really change how DPS is still the focus.

Looking at what he said, he said he wants to address the dominance of berserker. Looking at that, I bet they want to reduce the amount of damage berserker is capable of. That changes nothing. People are still going to bring and demand the highest DPS gear whatever it is.

Welp, this thread is over. There’s no way to dispute that amazing argument.

Using a different build on my necro for WvW, got a new armor set and new skins. I liek it.