Guild Wars 2

Xanctus The Dragonslayer.2318:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS-GC9UD0sw

That is the tankiest Power Warrior Imo

That might be the build i was talking about. Had no idea it was all zerk lmao.

In WvW I’ve been seeing these roaming warrior builds where they are kinda tanky but also have massive health regen. Most use gs a/s but I don’t know the exact traits, armor, runes, etc. can anyone help me out who knows this build?

RoseofGilead.8907:

I don’t know 100%, but I think it would still work. I believe that if you put a transmuted item in the forge, it will have a note on the item saying “This item will be forged as the original item” (something along those lines), which means the forge would treat the item like it was the beta fractal capacitor.

Can confirm now. It worked, all good!

So, I am up to the third tier of the ad infinitium legendary backpiece. I need to create the fractal capacitor backpiece. I have a beta fractal capacitor (infused) already. However, the skin was transmuted a while ago. If I put the backpiece in the mystic forge with all the components to upgrade it to the fractal capacitor, will it still work even if it is transmuted?

So the 5th plant node is back now apparently… but the Arena fear turret and the knockback turret are for some reason grayed out even though I know we completed them a long time ago, and it says that all the materials are there. I don’t know if once we get aetherium loaded back up again and approve these upgrades, will we be spending double the materials now for the same upgrade or were these items put back in the treasurer?

I was checking my guild hall just now and noticed that for some reason we only had 4 node synthesizers instead of 5 like we used to have. I checked with the workshop upgrader and noticed that lumber synthesizer 2 was not upgraded even though it said we had all the materials ready. I click approve upgrade and we leveled up to 28.

I then went around to each upgrade npc to see if there were other upgrades that weren’t correct. the Arena upgrade npc had fear turrets missing in it (again said that we had all the upgrades ready). Can’t do the upgrade at this time due to lack of Aetherium from the upgrade I just did.

Anyone else having similar issues?

Malediktus.9250:

A lot of guilds have it already. I would build it for my guild but they dont want one

Then your guild is crazy for not wanting it! lol

Teniz.5249:

Does this thing make sounds or is it just deco?

Yeah it plays music and the instruments move. It was so funny initially seeing it.

Posted this on reddit but thought you guys might want to see it too.

http://imgur.com/a/bjfcs

As the title asks, I’m just curious how much exp the compendium of knowledge actually gives a player. All I could find is that it “gives a large amount of experience toward your currently equipped Mastery.” Any clue on the exact numbers?

BloodyNine.7504:

It’s RNG man. Sucks. A guy in my guild got a precursor and an ascended leg box in the same run last week.

Can you tell your friend that even though I probably don’t know them, that I also don’t like them very much? :P

All you will see from a PvE leaderboard is more people excluding some professions and only wanting others to run with. I never understood the point of leaderboards anyway except for PvP. All it’s meant for is bragging rights and will make the majority of the people feel bad because they might be worse than their friends.

Eluveitie.1290:

Last night I got Frostfang done (after 3 years) and before equipping it, I made sure to check the wiki and in-game info (pop-up windows, etc) thinking the effect of the legendary would still be visible (footsteps) while using my main weapon (Greatsword).

I was heart-broken to see that’s not the case (but I had seen it on other people at some time – so I obviously thought it was the right idea since you still have it equipped on the second slot). Now I’m stuck with a weapon I barely actually use that cost me a lot of work and gold.

Support can’t do anything, but told me to try the forums.

Sorry you are feeling upset, but instead of using wiki, you could have went to any individual in game with a legendary and simply asked them. What you said has never once existed in game. Don’t think anyone can help you out. I’d say enjoy your Frostfang because in my opinion, it is one of the most finely detailed legendaries they made, and is also my favorite out of the 4 that I have. Not sure what class you play, but axe is very viable for warrior, revenant, and necro, not too sure about ranger but possibly.

Hexalot.8194:

… that dreaded word, “Mounts” ? :-)

You’ve got to admit that with gliding, there are some areas in the open world where you can cover substantial ground without setting foot on mother Earth. It does seem (to me) that this may just be ANET “testing the waters” so to speak.

It’s actually mother ‘Tyria’!!!!! That is all.

Vinceman.4572:

Eight Samurai.6840:

Vinceman.4572:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml

I’ve gotten 0 since the last update and I’ve made them daily. It’s just fxxxing RNG.

Do my eyes deceive me? Is there someone actually out there who has worse RNG than I do?

Dunno. Pre-HoT it worked fine for me with ascended boxes in fractals.

Yeah Pre-HoT I was getting about 1 a week, often times 2, and towards the very end I was getting 3 a week (but that was very rare).

Vinceman.4572:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml

I’ve gotten 0 since the last update and I’ve made them daily. It’s just fxxxing RNG.

Do my eyes deceive me? Is there someone actually out there who has worse RNG than I do?

Also, I guess that explains it, you have a 62% chance to get nothing at all even from doing the Champion daily, sigh…

Rising Dusk.2408:

Overall combined drop rate for weapon/armor ascended chests from 51+ daily is ~15% or so from my understanding. Obviously you’re not going to see one daily, but you should expect one every week or so that you finish the daily. I know that lines up with my experiences.

Hmm… I’ve gotten 1 since the fractal update. Been getting rings here and there, but that’s it. Maybe just having some bad luck I guess.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

You can get ascended boxes from lower dailies, chance is just extremely low.
We had a bunch of box drops in our guild since the patch; they don’t seem to be extremely high, but they’re not completely horrible either.

Hmmm okay. I’ve been out of the loop on the gw2 subreddit and the forums recently so not sure if there has been a spreadsheet done about drop rates after the patch.

SoliSnake.9457:

you realy want ascended boxes from bug abusing and afk-autoattack play style?

I don’t think you actually know what a bug is. You can still be hit on that pillar, and if it is an unintended thing by anet, they should/would have said something by now. And not really sure what your comment has to do with the OP either.

It’s nice to see that fractals are a good way to make money now. But, I can’t seem to get ascended boxes to drop for me. Ever since the latest fractals patch, I’ve gotten only 1 glove box. I learned that you only get ascended boxes doing the 51+ daily fractal achievement. I have been doing triple swamp 51+ (56 67 77) every single day but pretty much never get any. Am I doing something wrong, is it just bad luck, or are the drop rates still pretty low to get one?

Zergs.9715:

Nike.2631:

Zergs.9715:

Would that categorize pranks as well as form of sadism?

I would say that pranks motivated by a desire to be hurtful are absolutely a form of sadism. The same principle is at work here — Support will almost certainly be reviewing incidents to determine INTENT.

There’s an element of naked callousness at work. This isn’t an interaction with a person you know which opens up the possibility of good natured poking between friends — this is being sprung on complete strangers with no other goal than to be hurtful.

Since it’s so black and white issue I can almost see no difference between deriving pleasure from torturing people and throwing a water filled balloon…

Then I hope you develop the social skills to tell the difference. You’ll probably need them at some point. Because in the real world there are places where pitching a water balloon with be considered fun and others where it’ll get you fired (or worse). Likely with even less opportunity for appeal than here.

Fired? That’s… awfully specific. But y’know what you’re absolutely right! I’m converted! Next time my feelings get hurt in game I know exactly what to do! Mash dat report button till it’s white hot! For everything and anything! Throw a tantrum on forums as well because who else can judge the level of offense I’ve taken better than myself?

Thanks Anet for keeping me safe!

Actually, it’s an offense to abuse the reporting system. I would recommend not to mash dat button till it’s white hot, but the choice is yours to make.

Mikali.9651:

Copestetic.5174:

Nike.2631:

Zergs.9715:

Would that categorize pranks as well as form of sadism?

I would say that pranks motivated by a desire to be hurtful are absolutely a form of sadism. The same principle is at work here — Support will almost certainly be reviewing incidents to determine INTENT.

There’s an element of naked callousness at work. This isn’t an interaction with a person you know which opens up the possibility of good natured poking between friends — this is being sprung on complete strangers with no other goal than to be hurtful.

Since it’s so black and white issue I can almost see no difference between deriving pleasure from torturing people and throwing a water filled balloon…

Then I hope you develop the social skills to tell the difference. You’ll probably need them at some point. Because in the real world there are places where pitching a water balloon with be considered fun and others where it’ll get you fired (or worse). Likely with even less opportunity for appeal than here.

Is this ‘the’ Nike from DnT? If so, it’s ironic that you’re taking the high horse at all. Especially considering you trolled thousands of players shortly after Raids launched, got kicked from Raid Testing, and then preceded to remove tweets/posts that people got offended by, leaving only the positive ones in hopes to mitigate the damage already done.

If not, my bad. Just think it’s funny.

I believe he is. He is the one of so called kitten people, they say a lot, but nothing at all. White knights, trolls, egomaniacs who still didn’t get banned for their behaviour in all this years – like in that incident.
Very bad kind of people who don’t have self reflection

Whether it is that Nike or not, just because he had a screw up in the past, doesn’t automatically make whatever he says afterwards false.

Tyyphoon.5301:

Bigsexy.8302:

This is ridiculous. If Anet starts banning people for this I’m out.

Spoilers for movies is not against the EULA/ToS.

If you can’t handle the internet, unplug your network cable.

Bunch of crybabies with first-world problems.

^This. 100%.

Kbye

Nike.2631:

Zergs.9715:

Would that categorize pranks as well as form of sadism?

I would say that pranks motivated by a desire to be hurtful are absolutely a form of sadism. The same principle is at work here — Support will almost certainly be reviewing incidents to determine INTENT.

There’s an element of naked callousness at work. This isn’t an interaction with a person you know which opens up the possibility of good natured poking between friends — this is being sprung on complete strangers with no other goal than to be hurtful.

Since it’s so black and white issue I can almost see no difference between deriving pleasure from torturing people and throwing a water filled balloon…

Then I hope you develop the social skills to tell the difference. You’ll probably need them at some point. Because in the real world there are places where pitching a water balloon with be considered fun and others where it’ll get you fired (or worse). Likely with even less opportunity for appeal than here.

Yeah, you have to love those that don’t understand that throwing out an over the top comment doesn’t always make it true or related to something else. It’s like using the internet kitten phenomenon in a discussion. Pretty much the moment you use it (in most scenarios), you show that you are over generalizing and hyperbolizing what is being said.

@Kross Okay well just because you say that this is “getting more attention” than other things doesn’t make it true. Anet has always dealt with exploiters, spammers, etc., as best they could, and over the years changed or updated their stances on things. Gaile is not part of the CS team and was just stating her opinion. I happen to agree with her stance that a person not engaging in conversation with anyone and uses a map chat maliciously is violating the rules. CS may see things in opposite completely from her, it’s their decision.

Edit: I’m baed at doing the quoting thing. I’m baed and I should feel baed.

Xehanort.7034:

so, leeme get this straight: instead of reporting and banning instance hijackers or genuine map griefers, you want people to report other people who spoil a MOVIE that’s not, in any way, shape or form related to GW2, to CS so you can ban them.

uh, really? are you really sure THAT’s what you should have CS be focusing on?

The point is that an individual is purposely doing something that may make a GW2 player NOT want to log on and play the game. Not to mention that these people thrive on other’s dissatisfaction. And just because you report someone for leaking spoilers doesn’t mean you can’t report other people too. Not sure where you are going with this.

Also, just to note that whether you agree or not, this new Star Wars movie is going to be a ground breaking movie for old and new fans. The internet literally broke back in October when they announced prepurchase tickets. It beat Hunger Games, who had the previous record for most prepurchased tickets, 8 times over with just the tickets sold for IMAX alone. It will be the first movie to break a billion dollars in the box office.

ham.8209:

Eight Samurai.6840:

There is a guildie of mine, whom by all accounts would have probably been banned from most other guilds from all the stuff she pulled. The other day starts shouting and spamming a supposed spoiler in my guild chat. I ended up blocking her and itching to kick her from the guild. I have IMAX tickets to see the movie in NYC this Christmas Eve, and if she did in fact spoil it she will be kicked (for the last time) the moment I get home. It will be nice because this movie is PROBABLY going to be amazing, and I won’t have to deal with her again

congrats for doing the right thing and making the right calls . shame she can not see her mistakes for this. she will just have to learn the hard way lol . btw hope you enjoy the movie you want to see and hope it is good as you hope it to be

I know the movie will be great regardless of a spoiler. I think what she said would happen anyway because it was very predictable, and story wise, it makes sense (I won’t say more). Also, JJ Abrams is a Star Wars nerd and his Star Trek movies were closer to be SW than ST anyway haha. But yeah, as a more rational co-leader of mine said after talking to him about what she did, said that she only does what she does to get attention. To me this is going to be the last straw after 2 years of her in the guild.

There is a guildie of mine, whom by all accounts would have probably been banned from most other guilds from all the stuff she pulled. The other day starts shouting and spamming a supposed spoiler in my guild chat. I ended up blocking her and itching to kick her from the guild. I have IMAX tickets to see the movie in NYC this Christmas Eve, and if she did in fact spoil it she will be kicked (for the last time) the moment I get home. It will be nice because this movie is PROBABLY going to be amazing, and I won’t have to deal with her again

Laraley.7695:

Eight Samurai.6840:

Also, not to braaaaggg buuttttt, we did have a solid 30 seconds left on the timer when we finished the boss. It was the best or one of the best paced runs that I ran. Also, to those still trying to beat it, the tank is the most important position, it’s also very tough seeing as I tried to run a tank during our guild practice event and I was horrible. So, don’t be too mad at them if you see them mess up once or twice.

We had nearly two minutes left :P

Wow! I didn’t think that was possible to get it that high. Just goes to show how some practice can make something go from unbeatable to destroying it. And I’m sure eventually the same thing will happen with the next Gorseval boss. Everyone is saying that it is much tougher than Vale (which I’m sure it is), but with enough practice, those that are dedicated will beat it.

Also, not to braaaaggg buuttttt, we did have a solid 30 seconds left on the timer when we finished the boss. It was the best or one of the best paced runs that I ran. Also, to those still trying to beat it, the tank is the most important position, it’s also very tough seeing as I tried to run a tank during our guild practice event and I was horrible. So, don’t be too mad at them if you see them mess up once or twice.

thrag.9740:

Grats op. I have a question. Do you have to beat the first boss everytime you want to get to the second boss now? It seems likely to be the case, I just want to confirm there isn’t something like, leyline rifts let you teleport to the second boss or something like that.

Okay so my understanding is, that the first mastery line for the raiding allows you to skip past a boss that you beat already. However, I also know that raids reset every week (I don’t know the exact day) but you might have to redo all bosses if it resets I think.

Raiding LFG needs to happen, I’ve made a lot of friends last couple of days and learned so much from the people I was running with. Such a good feeling to get it done. Too bad my reward was an un-named exotic that was lvl 79… Not surprised that’s been my typical thing since day 1 though :P

It took a couple of days, but my group got it done. Mostly composed of pugs or friends made from pugging during the raids. Was tough but super fun the whole time!

ummm wut… o.O

Nova Stiker.8396:

bladex.9502:

Nova Stiker.8396:

TheFamster.7806:

Land of Cheese.2584:

You bring DPS to a raid because the goal of the raid is to damage the boss until he is dead. Anything else is secondary. In MMOs with a traditional trinity, the tank and healers are there to support the DPS. The healers keep the tank alive so the tank can keep the aggro and the DPS can do their job.

That red bar over every mob’s head is a health bar. You need to decrease the amount of red to 0 to win. This is what DPS does. If your role is DPS and you are not wearing optimized DPS gear then you should not be there, period.

There is no such thing as “balance” between “doing all the DPS in DPS gear and doing all the DPS in healing gear.” That’s not possible. That’s not possible any more than it’s possible to hammer a nail with a feather.

If you want to bring your nomads to a raid and “do DPS” you are delusional. There is something fundamentally wrong with your critical thinking skills.

InB4 you get flamed and asked “have you beaten the vale guardian?”
I told OP I beat it twice, and I have the proof, and I bet him 9000 gems to prove him wrong, yet he completely ignores my posts and complains that raids shouldn’t not be about killing the boss but singing happy songs while dancing around the mythical creature. I don’t think OP knows what raiding or even the concept of killing mobs to get loot.

Omg would you shut up. You have done nothing but brag that you beat the Vale Gaurdian, welcome to the club. Welcome to the zerker meta.

The issue is the DPS balance is out of wack, as I stated, if you have 8 out of the 10 people that have anything into vitality, healing power or toughness, you most likely not have enough damage to beat raids.

The issue isn’t DPS, the issue is it’s ONLY zerkers. ONLY vipers or sinisters.
That 1200 power you get from soldiers? Not enough.
Cavaliers? Still doesn’t give enough DPS.
Rabids for condi! Sorry, all that toughness is holding you and your entire team back.

Time to find another more casual game maybe, have you tried Maple Story? maybe Runescape, they have nice casual raids that allow you to afk in tank gear.

Raids in every MMO have always been focused on DPS, as soon as people understand the content they will just stack as many DPS as possible, even in holy-trinity based games.

Also its rather funny you say he has done nothing but brag about killing Vale Guardian, yet all you do is brag about how you got to Gorseval and talk down on people that didn’t.
I’m sorry Anet stepped on your tiny weenie, but you’re just either gonna have to adapt or look for another MMO

You are confusing DPS focused with zerker focused. Get it right. Well, I doubt you can get it right.

Oh stop with the semantics argument. Condi in many cases deals more damage than physical dps. When people say zerk they mean DPS, they are interchangeable terms. Nitpicking about this just shows how much people want to ‘sound’ right rather than actually be right about something.

Been practicing that first wing since it was released… With what you can call endless amounts of failure. Been running it with my guild when possible and also pugging it to see what new tactics I can learn to share with the rest of my guild. After much frustration, I realized for myself, that I actually CAN win and that the wing is beatable (though haven’t beaten it yet).

Not sure why anet said that raid wings are unpuggable which is why they didn’t create an LFG for it. Anet is completely wrong.

I made a lot of friends last night through a group composed of only pugs. We were all on TS, organized, and most of all, cooperative. We listened to each other’s advice and we tried to learn what we could from one another. Our best attempt was getting the Vale Guardian to 20% health with 2.5 minutes to go but unfortunately we wiped. We ACTUALLY had a winning run but ended up having a few mess ups in the end. Before, my best attempts were only to about 55% before time ran out or we wiped. It was so exhilarating to see this happen and every one in the party admitted that was their best run to date!

Afterwards we even all decided to join someones empty guild to stay in touch. Anet is crazy for not thinking we shouldn’t pug this.

Edit: reddit pretty much never gives me any love so decided to repost this here for some optimism.

warbignime.4610:

Bread.7516:

Honestly I’m disappointed, I wanted a fight not a mini-game/gimmick. For HoT only VB has bosses that are in the right direction (minus the zerg fest). They could work on more diverse behavioral mechanics instead of mini-games.

Dodge duck dip dive dodge…and block, countering, stepping in and out – that’s a fight

Guess this is the direction they’re heading.

If by minigame you mean to actually use brain and think rather than mindlessly press 1 then of course it is.

Knowing what to do isn’t the hard part, it’s the min maxing to get pure dps out of everyone which to some is not how they like to play unfortunately , by being forced to run a certain stat/ weapon set

ZachAttack.3957:

The one to Rule.2593:

I doubt that. The zerker meta is never going to change.

For raids it’s looking like it will.

Nope, I was one of the lucky ones to beta test the first raid wing. With 8 minutes (unless this was changed) to kill the final boss, if your party isn’t mixed between max physical dps and max condi damage, and possibly 1 support to keep people alive, then you will fail. However, it was found out that the boss follows the person with the highest toughness, so groups should take that into consideration. Zerker and sinisters/viper is a must.

UnbentMars.9126:

I think having b2 of each of PS warriors and Heralds is a little overkill since both can stack might very effectively, so I might recommend switching one PS out for someone who can better utilize the support they will receive, like a Shiro-zerker Revenant who can lay on the damage. That said, PS can stack more than a herald can unless the herald is completely decked out in boon duration gear so that’s more about what you want than anything else (though heralds can provide fury better than any warrior). I think exchanging an Ele or an Engineer for a Reaper would be good. That vulnerability stack will improve everyone elses life and you’ve already got a fair amount of condition damage.

EDIT: Condition engineers are also hard to play right, so you might have better luck switching one out for a Berserker Warrior for tons of Burns and crit.

Condi damage is a must in that some phases and enemies only take condi damage nothing else

Let’s hear your ideas about you think will be the best party composition to beat the Vale Guardian in the first wing of the first raid. Mine would be:

2 PS warriors/berserkers- for party buffs with banners and might stacking along with physical damage.
1 Chronomancer- For timewarp and alacrity.
2 Herald- for descent DPS and also 50% boon duration for allies
2 Engis- preferably in sinisters or vipers stats for massive condi damage.
2 elementalist- for condi damange/tiny bit of support
1 druid- mostly for some party support/healing

Side note, I don’t know too much about condi or best professions for it but this would be my ideal setup based on the knowledge I have.

The one to Rule.2593:

Eight Samurai.6840:

NikeEU.7690:

Why can’t you still run dungeons? If you just do the fast, efficient paths the gold per hour is still very respectable.

It really is funny because with fractal rewards completely broken and raids not out yet (nor do we know how good the rewards will actually be implemented, such as the chances to get just rare items might be super high, etc.) dungeons are still pretty fast and reliable to get gold, even after the nerf to dungeons. CoF path 1 takes about 8-10 minutes, you get about 55 silver (plus loot) from your daily and completion reward. Just keep running those fast easy paths and that’s several gold you didn’t have before in just an hours worth of time. Also, I hear that Arah path 4 still awards 3g or so.

@The one to Rule I think your failing to understand that there is a lot of deflation happening right now whether Anet intended it or not. Stop comparing the rewards to pre-HoT. As of now Dungeons are still a very good way to make gold.

Arah path 4 also takes over 2 hours to do, it’s the longest dungeon path in the entire game and entirely not worth doing once you get the dungeon master achievement. When you can pick flax for more gold per hour than running dungeons just by planting 5 of your toons on the flax farming spot, Yeah I think there’s something wrong.

I don’t even care about the gold from dungeons, but lets not live under the delusion that it’s good money anymore.

Well, I could make the argument that yes, the path is hard, but once you know what to do and how to do it the best way, it should take no more than an hour tops. An hour to earn 3-4 gold post-HoT is pretty good deal. Yes, of course you can farm flax too between all your alts, but after those 5 minutes of farming, you still have plenty of time to run anything else in game (unless you have only 5 minutes to play then yeah…).

About the dungeon comment, again it’s not the only way to make money, but it’s still extremely profitable. I think most forget those shiny tokens you get can be converted for free into rare or exotic armors/weapons and salvaged for lets say, several silk/linen and ectos. So, not only do you earn 55s for a 10 minute (probably less) dungeon run, but you can earn about 1-3 ectos, several extra mats (depending on what you spend your tokens on), plus drops. Sounds good to me with this new economy.

To be fair, almost everything new implemented was either very short, or very broken and unbalanced. I would have gladly waited another month or 2 for the expansion if Fractal rewards were fixed, collections were fixed, a longer story, guild hall upgrades weren’t intended to drain thousands of gold from the guild as the sole way to upgrade, scribing was more consistent with other crafting professions (on a side note, scribing is so expensive you need the entire guild to help fund a scriber in your guild. Bad news if that person stops playing or decides to leave the guild, you are back to the drawing board), guild missions being almost completely messed up, and so on. You can’t be upset at people who paid anywhere from 50-100 dollars to play an expansion where only the basics work. Should I also mention that WvW is more or less dead at this time as well?

Stop telling people to not be upset, this is dumb. We paid a lot of money for a product that was rushed, wasn’t checked well enough prior to release, and even at times hurts the core purchase players who did not get HoT by removing things they used to be able to do.

The game is also a giant grind between obtaining mastery points in tyria, obtaining mastery points in maguuma, farming the hero points on every alt you have (which for some is a lot), farming millions upon millions of exp for masteries which force you to do the same events over, and over, and over because they made it so that those were pretty much the only ways to get experience in maguuma. We were promised that HoT would not be a grind, but besides making masteries account bound after you do eventually unlock them, is a lie.

Misguided.5139:

Rev lacks condition cleanse by design, so I don’t see that happening, especially per pulse on shield 5. I prefer the existing trait to your suggestion. Moreover, shield skill cooldowns have already been increased, and increasing them further to justify a cooldown reduction sounds awful, making shield far less effective without the trait.

Just wanted to say the shield skills are pretty pathetic for their cooldowns. Skill 4 shield gives 3 seconds of prot and does not heal you unless you aim it right next to you (because it heals where it reverses back). Skill 5 forces your character to stop moving, which in wvw or pvp is pretty much suicide.

With condi cleanse, making them not be able to do this by design is so very dumb. Condition damage is right now the most powerful form of damage in the game which can be seen by the builds people now run. They are easy to apply, burning does a godly amount of damage, and everything now stacks. Condi also ignores toughness and armor making tank builds useless to condi. Poison also makes healing skill 33% less effective. No profession can afford to go without condition cleanse available.

As of now the only worth while forms of condi cleanse for pvp or wvw is Jalis healing skill and going maylyx which gives you the resistance boon (which technically speaking isn’t a cleanse). This means you are forced to go into one of these stances if you want to survive. All a mesmer has to do is apply several stacks of confusion and torment, go invisible and wait for you to kill yourself.

NikeEU.7690:

Why can’t you still run dungeons? If you just do the fast, efficient paths the gold per hour is still very respectable.

It really is funny because with fractal rewards completely broken and raids not out yet (nor do we know how good the rewards will actually be implemented, such as the chances to get just rare items might be super high, etc.) dungeons are still pretty fast and reliable to get gold, even after the nerf to dungeons. CoF path 1 takes about 8-10 minutes, you get about 55 silver (plus loot) from your daily and completion reward. Just keep running those fast easy paths and that’s several gold you didn’t have before in just an hours worth of time. Also, I hear that Arah path 4 still awards 3g or so.

@The one to Rule I think your failing to understand that there is a lot of deflation happening right now whether Anet intended it or not. Stop comparing the rewards to pre-HoT. As of now Dungeons are still a very good way to make gold.

Farming Flats.5370:

In the old system we had guild boon for everyone in the guild : 10% bonus XP , Karma , gathering stuff like that …

Today it’s now called ‘’ Guild Enhancement ’’ you get by upgrading your Guild Hall.
You need to talk to the Bartender in the tavern to get the guild boon.

Problem is … this is disabled for non-HoT players. It’s a simple boon .. why such a thing is disabled for non-HoT players ? non-HoT players can’t get guild bonus but there is no problem for them to interact with the Treasury and donate to the guild that’s why I think it has no common sense to lock the guild bonus. Is this is intended ??

If non-HoT players don’t have access to the new stuff like the scribe or the Arena , OK it’s fine and you are right …But i have a problem with the stuff we already had and now you are removing it from non-HoT players.

Guild Bonuses for every member in the guild was part of the core game.
Let the non-HoT players interact with the bartender and get the Guild Enhancements.

reddit discussion :
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3rydkz/guild_boon_disabled_for_nonhot_players/

So far, there are some interesting reflections and answers.

I made the same exact post on reddit. Most people cant get around the fact that many things core players used to have are now gone behind HoT. I was down voted to kitten to say the least. Their response was stop being cheap and buy HoT

Many might find it strange but, according to the numbers and data, Revs main souryof damage comes from autoattack. According to DnT every other skill might do nice damage somewhat but does less than sword auto per second. Even UA was only seen to work as good if not a bit worse than auto for dps. Also the more enemies (or even invisible objects there are) the less damage u di with UA to your target.

I believe that making UA cleave will give revenant more damage diversity whole wielding swords. This would be a great edition to pve and wvw too where there are so many enemies that not using cleave attacks is almost pointless. What do you guys have think?

With ascended gear making a comeback can you guys add more types of the new stats to the chests?

Honestly if anet does get this right. ASSUMING the do… There shouldn’t really be any more issues that are severe. Don’t screw it up anet. Also before December sounds better.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Block and report.

Good luck.

What he said. Block, and if you think it’s THAT bad report, and set your filter if you can’t handle some words. My guild would be perma-banned if Anet was as harsh as you want them to be lol…

GW2 is not a new game, IDK why people keep thinking this. It’s been 3 years. They had 3 years to perfect WvW, it is dead at this time on pretty much any and all servers. Fractals is 2 years old, and there is nothing good about it atm except if you like to achievement grind. The story arc for HoT was EXTREMELY short (fun yes, but short).