Guild Wars 2

My hall (hallow) has 5 but I’ve only gotten the crystals (I have 6+) from the ore not the wood or plants. Don’t even worry about it guys you cant make guild armor yet anyway since you can’t make guild insignias >.>

I used to do 50/40/30 pretty regularly and now I don’t even do the dailies regularly. I find the new system boring and unrewarding. Until they boost the rewards I don’t see myself getting to 100 anytime soon. With the singular fractal per level I was hoping special tailor made instabilities but nope instead we got the current system so they really dropped the ball.

If you don’t like raids don’t do them? It’s just a skin you don’t have to get it especially if the way to get it isn’t fun for you.

Do you guys know how long it would take to make weapons dyable?! Sure it would be amazing but a lot of work for very little payout on Anet’s behalf. Maybe I could see backpieces being done except we have the wings which are a palette swap… so I don’t think Anet will do that for money sake.

Honestly hate auric basin just because those wp are always contested while I’m trying to map complete. I understand people dont like TD because the meta is hard and the map is difficult to get around (it isn’t if you’ve spent seeral hours there) but I just hate contested WPs way more than any other part of a map.

I know in my guild the majority of us would quit the game if a raid was underwater. I like underwater combat in this game but designing a whole raid around it would be far too difficult and underwater combat is still extremely unbalanced. I could see some part of a raid use underwater combat but not for a boss fight.

Paul Ella.2037:

Being environmentally minded the team has actually configured the raid servers to run solely on player tears. While this is normally quite a rare commodity, we felt strongly that the level of challenge that raids will provide should be sufficient to ensure the servers are adequately powered for a long time to come.

I have no doubt that many of our players are of a giving nature and we look forward to and welcome your contributions to our cause

Cheers

-p

Good, I look forward to my anguish.

Personally I think it would have been cooler to get an ascended armor box from it. It’s not like the achievement is easy to get; you have to grind for it. However, I didn’t go for the loot, I went for the title since its slightly more prestigious than dungeon master.

Herald (if that counts since its a brand new profession and all) and chronomancer. The runner up would defiantly be reaper but I’m not 100% sold on it yet.

I’m pretty sure all MMOs end up this way, or at least the ones I’ve played. Dungeons were fun and I’m sure that some new players would enjoy them as well but let’s face it they’re a small market. I’m glad Anet is moving more towards fractals. It’s still instanced 5 man content and I’m sure new people will have just as much fun with it (I know I loved fractals when they first came out )

So OP you’re complaining about pre purchasing because raids and legendaries wont be out at launch when we’ve know for sometime that raids and to a lesser extant legendaries would be after launch? If that’s the case I feel no pity for you. It was in your power as a consumer to make an informed decision before buying a product, not Anets.

So I’m fairly certain this is unintended when the boss splits into three no matter what buff (attunment?) the ranger has the pet can still dps the other two bosses. I mean, realistically It’s not a ton of damage and didn’t make a difference but thought I should report it.

They could just add a pop out option for runes/sigils in legendaries I mean it might be hard to code but it would solve the problem without messing with the rune/sigil market.

Enko.6123:

if you don’t want to kill mossman in the water, then don’t do it?

Though yeah, i don’t understand why anet just doesn’t have mossman use his spear underwater. he has attacks and everything. he just doesn’t use them.

Actually he does use his spear. The exploit is cause by Mossman teleporting to the player underwater when he is on land. This bypasses Mossman’s AI for pulling out his spear and causes him to stick with his axe. Anet likely will fix it with HoT and its not like people can’t put in their LFGs saying “mossman on land”

rotten.9753:

I guess tempest is the spec ele should be using in raids. Can’t wait to get that shiny ball of light called legendary armour.

If you ever think any serious raider will touch tempest you are sorely mistaken, its dps is garbage. There’s no reason ever to run anything but staff in PVE.

OneKlicKill.4285:

Ele is just going to sit on the shelf, like it has been for many of us who have been playing the same d/d cantrip build since pre release 3 years ago. Were sick of it and tempest was the change to revamp some play and they somehow managed to kitten it ups so badly it astonishes me.

I’ll just play rev/mes/necro with some rang/war/guard/theif/engi on the side. And run fractals on my ele when i wana afk and press 1 ez as that

If you think fotm is that easy on your ele then you play an awful ele in pve. Also we’ve seen builds aside from D/D since launch, they may not have been as good but they were there. I just wanted something that would make the class more interesting like fresh air zerker builds did.

I’m just going to drop my opinion here. If the journey isn’t worth the destination perhaps don’t go to the destination? People should get exclusive rewards for the content they do because it shows their dedication and what they went through. what you want OP is like saying we should be able to get shiny glorious armor in pve because I don’t wana get a on the top of the leaderboards.

Card.9704:

How many healers will we need?!

FIVE cleric guards! also I cant wait to try raids.

I hate to tell you this OP but this isnt the first time IGN has broken embargo. I don’t think anet’s really at fault here.

I love ele and hate tempest so why would tempest being bad effect ele? It doesn’t detract anything from playing an ele just adds (although what it adds isnt great). I realized after the BWE that tempest wasn’t marketed at me and never will be so I don’t care about it anymore and will continue playing vanilla ele.

emikochan.8504:

an AI revamp for minions would be the dream <3

If anet did this I might actually play ranger in PvE again. Minions are awful in this game and hinder classes/builds severely.

xinkspillx.3914:

While the idea of extracting an ally from danger is kind of cool, I feel like this skill would almost certainly be used for trolling more than anything else.

SSSSHHHH! I wana pull people off jumping puzzles! but yeah, you are right.

SlyDevil.3952:

Summary: Combat is based on distance, keep mai trin far away, do not hit any mob that stands near the middle of the arena, don’t let them hit you as well.

Actually OP just needs to not get hit (or hit him) by Horik or by the aoes in cannon phase. Has nothing to do with mai trin in most cases.

Zerker(and assassins/sinisiter) is not a problem and never will be one. People die in zerker because key componetes of the soft trinity are not being met. In TA you need good condi removal, reflects and blinds. If you miss anyone of those things are going to hurt. Without those components you have to change your strategies most pugs do not.

In this game you have no reason to run anything but DPS since agies, reflects, absorbs, invul, vigor, dodges, stablity and condi removal keep you alive. OP you ran into bads who cannot survive in sub optimal situations should they run sub par gear or try to get better? that’s a question that each person will answer differently. So please don’t think zerker is a problem, look a little deeper and see why your team is dying and try to prevent that with a well place blind/condi removal/agies/reflect. You can also point out what they are not dodging (and if they refuse to learn leave).

P.S. cele is really bad because of healing power try Valkyrie or knights it will still keep you up I promise

Honestly as far as stats go cele is awful. Its better to mix and match and avoid that healing stat as much as possible. Personally I would go for full sinister since D/F is really easy to survive on. D/D would be better for dmg in a sinister build but since you have trouble staying alive I wouldn’t go that route. Also for me I don’t use the signet heal very often since arcane brilliance is a much better option. As for traits, going fire/air/earth is best. For traits in fire you want persisting flames, its just too good to pass up fury in a class that has no good access to it otherwise. Here’s the trait set up I would use http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAodnMIClNg9NAOOA0RgBBALCAFgDwED2BFB5SGCSBA-e
In pve arcane is pretty useless and its usually better to go for raw damage, kill it before it kills you. Now as for you survivablity issues that will take time and practice but just remember to keep swirling winds and obi flesh at the ready for those panic moments.

Jekkt I really like this as a specialization, I mean some skills need fine tuning (the heal is a little to strong imo) but all over amazing! I really wish this was a spec, I even like the name for it

Robert Gee.9246:

Yeah sorry guys, this one is delayed a bit for the same reasons as the Dragonhunter one.

Thanks for the response and take your time!

This was actually asked for year or more ago, and turns out some of the devs actually like being shoeless, however nothing came of it so…. not looking good for you.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

kitten we talkin bout RL issues in a game designed to keep us entertained and away from RL…. you people are nuts!

Media for entertainment often has IRL issues in it whether its addressed and tackled is completely different. It’s not unreasonable for people to talk about this stuff and personally I find it interesting.

JayMack.8295:

I’m guessing we’ll get ours at some point.

Karl was the host of the Guardian/Tempest specs, and since Robert responded to the Guardian thread, I’m guessing ours is coming at some point, too.

I would hope so that lack of communication is very concerning, especially from the large amount of negative feedback (and the many great suggestions to fix tempest). I really do hope Karl is just busy with the suggestions rather than forming ideas in a vacuum.

Zaklex.6308:

Hmm, Norn…known hunters and are prone to just rush headlong into danger without thinking…I’d almost think it was normal for them to rush ahead like Braham did, do it wouldn’t be something that would register as urgent to a Norn Pact Commander, whether female or male…at least that’s how I’d see it, but then I’ll have to hear myself to really decide.

The missing question is…what did you think of Mordremoths voice, or did you not notice it?

I loved it! It made me want to play through on my slyvari ele first time instead of my human. Although on that note Jenifer Hale’s voice acting is a little off or something… It just sounds bad and I don’t know why.

lordkrall.7241:

Substance E.4852:

Vague twitter post of “2015 release” without even saying which quarter = binding contract now?

The twitter post was added AFTER they had said it on a stream in order to clarify it. It is rather unlikely that they would tell us that (both on a stream and on Twitter (and also here on the forums I believe) unless they were 100% sure that it would launch this year (barring massive issues of course).

The double source does add credibility but if you remember before launch we had a lot of devs being inconstant with each other so staying skeptical never hurts.

Daddar.5971:

I played beta as well, and got no email. Not that I WANT to fill out a survey… I’d be willing to do it to improve the design.

Same checked both my emails(don’t ask why I have to do that too complicated lol). I really would like to add my input, oh well, I’m sure they’ll be more events.

shambo.3842:

something like Obsidian armor from gw1,

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Obsidian_armor

the necro Obsidian armor looked to cool. it was fun making them because you had to clear a big part of FOW to even get to the guy to forge them for you. not to mention getting all the ecto and Obsidian shards ( they were a lot harder to come by in gw1 )

and more heavy armor that doesn’t have skirts for my female guard…lol

I’m going to be honest with you, if they add obi and its gemstore only people will lose their kitten hard. Now if it was added in game and was difficult(not super hard more akin to UW/FOW difficulty) to get people would be much happier.

Michael.8562:

niea.7504:

What?

^ This. What exactly is your point? You’re free to role play the game in any way you please as long as you don’t ruin someone else’s enjoyment.

His question is coming from a thread which was locked with in I want to say 30 minutes, that was a little Role Playing type of post. It was a racist human being racist towards charr. He’s asking why is this a bad thing/frowned upon in Tyria from a purely logical point of view.

Liewec.2896:

i hope they don’t re-add the 2012 halloween skins.
what they should do is add NEW one-time rewards.

if they ever made the skins obtainable again i’d feel so disheartened with the sheer lack of prestigious items available in this game.

one-time “i was there” rewards are a very good thing in MMOs.

How about both? Mexican music plays

Seriously though I think the raffle is a great idea as long as each account (or even better each IP) has one chance at it. 100 skins is a veeeery small number in an MMO.

Pistol Joe.3741:

i still dont get it why it got insta deleted ..
but on topic .. Exactly wha tiam thinking .. why me as a human dont have a choice ..

It most likely got instantly deleted because of the title and the fact you never clearly stated it was a bit of RP silliness. Anet’s mods tend to be a bit over zealous, which I would prefer to the alternative.

Lol this sounds exactly like the Cerberus kinda of argument for Mass effect pro humans/humans first. Racism in this game is actually seen first with the charr vs. human war and with the inquest in their treatment of, well, everything really. Then you have the slyvari hatred/paranoia. It’s not like it doesn’t exist in Tyria just like in real life, but most people(and I’m sure the developers as well) think that co-existing and working together is a much more preferred ideal. Tyria doesn’t appear to have a lack of resources, in addition there’s this whole giant dragons who are hell bent on destroying life thing everyone’s worried about.

MamaGumbo.3982:

I don’t understand all the hate for him, though I’m still going through the story but I thought he was really interesting when he was introduced. I disagree he has a lack of personality. He’s just not the type that you would often see thrown into the important role of a giant war, but that’s what I found more interesting than some beefed out battle master.

My first character was a slyvari and I chose to hang around Treesus(Trahearne) through out most of my PS. He has the worst voice acting in this game. He’s dryer than a cracker and his development/writing is just awful. If he actually had some good rallying speeches and lines to indicate he was accepting this difficult role of leader maybe he could have been better. Right now he minus well be a cardboard cut out hes that dull.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

fracture.9754:

Warr master race. Not fun to play, boring, you will carry banners for your team, press #2 and sometimes even dodge.

I take this as you didn’t play GW2 since the huge specialization patch. Warrior has actually became much more complex since then. It remains true that it’s easy to just “play” warrior and survive thanks to its tankiness, but if you want to do optimal DPS, you’ll have to take care of much more than that. There’s a huge amount of damage modifiers and skills you need to incorporate into the rotation (plus it depends on the battlefield and your positioning), if you lose focus even for 1 sec you lose on a good chunk of your DPS. Still nowhere as complex as engi, of course, but much more fun now than it used to be.
Embrace The Bold.7619:

Actually from what I’ve seen on my tours it’s actually better to take mesmer over guard in many dungeons since their dps is actually better!

Dunno where you got that from, but it’s not true. Mesmer’s DPS is very situational, but in 90% of the cases guard does better. Since it takes a long time for a mesmer to build up his phantasms, it’s very likely that the boss will already be down by the time mesmer is ready to begin doing damage. For coordinated groups, mesmer is a huge boost thanks to its portals and other utilities, but mostly in casual runs and pug runs you see guardian, because that’s much easier to pull off. So if you happen to know a good mesmer, it’s better to take him, but otherwise it’s easier to find a decent guard than finding a decent mesmer.

Yeah, building up phantasms is the problem with mes, but I run with really good mesmers. Overall, guards are better for average players and many dungeons will be better for guards(and some fractals). I think it really comes down to the team coordination. I will say that yes, warrior has gotten better, but it’s still boring. Warrior soloing is lots of fun (and easy) so if OP ever wants to try soloing warrior wouldn’t be a bad choice (though all classes can solo some are just better suited for certain paths).

I think this is a great idea. When it comes to finding information it can be annoying or poorly written. So I can imagine both new players and veterans will find this to be a good medium to output info and receive it. There are plenty of people on the forms who will love to help you, myself included. Hopefully this will remove some of the stigma from “elitists” so people will know not all of us are kittens (though many of us are saltier than the ocean :P).

PS: I agree about the aetherblade path for TA, it was pretty good but unskipable cutscenes, ugh!

fracture.9754:

Ele master race. Fun to play, a lot to learn, the most complex class in game alongside engie, maybe. You’ll be doing everything.

Warr master race. Not fun to play, easy to learn, boring, but very good. You will carry banners for your team, press #2 and sometimes even dodge.

Guardian is really good, can’t really think of a thing guard can’t do. Very good class overall, a bit more complex than warr, you’ll be playing a babysitter for the team.

Thief has simple DPS rotation, but very high single target DPS. You’ll be stealthing your team. Stealth in this game isn’t a gimmick, you can skip practically everything, provided you have a team that can blast.

Honorable mention goes to engie – really good and fun class. Complex, has access to pretty much everything, but pugs dislike em. Get into a good guild, if you want to run fast dungeon runs on engie.

Mesmers are also really good for utility, but pugs can’t utilise them properly, so they’re usually not used due to low personal DPS.

Take ranger or necro if you like being hated and kicked.

Actually from what I’ve seen on my tours it’s actually better to take mesmer over guard in many dungeons since their dps is actually better! In addition sinister ranger using axe/torch is pretty strong, though most pugs are ignorant and will kick you if you use that build (and sinister sets are annoying to get anyway). If you do plan on playing ele OP you can always shoot me a pm or mail ingame (note I’ll be on vacation for the rest of the week unable to log gw2).

I’m just going to throw my 2 cents in here…

Warhorn: great (I really loved playing it!) but needs a little buffing to flesh it out. However I think this entire community would be happy if ele got a main hand to go with it, like sword. Because right now scepter is pretty weak and dagger pairs better with focus or offhand dagger.

Overloads: GAWD AWFUL. It’s a mechanic that goes against the base of ele mechanics! we are supposed to be attunment swapping (lets ignore staff meta in pve for the moment). In addition the skill cast time is forever with no way to prevent interruption (aka stablity). It needs a redesign before I would ever use it.

Tempests traits: Because overloads are awful most of the traits are as well sadly.

Tempest skills: elite is nice but its not really worth being in the elite slot, it should be moved to utility. The other utilities are pretty weak unless you are an auramancer so a little buffing would be nice.

OP I honestly don’t think the specializations will have ANY baring on PvE content. From what I’ve played and seen most of the specs are extremely weak in pve compared to their zerker meta counter parts. However, that doesn’t mean that this challenging content wont be easier with specs, I just don’t see how anet could accomplish that with out kittening off half its fan base.

Jerus.4350:

I’d find this fun, like Miku said. However, it’s pretty unrealistic to expect. What I would like is that each level can only be increased by the appropriate next fractal. So you couldn’t find the highest level easiest option and grind it to level people up.

Anyone wanting level 100 would haev to do every single fractal level . Still filters just fine (if the challenge is real which I expect it will be at least on some map/instability combos). I mean it’s going to be some serious carrying if you can kitten your way through a Grawl Shaman without reflects while he’kittenting harder and critting more. One arrow… you’re done.

I have to agree as long as we can’t jump past certain levels it’s going to make things better. I’ve played with plenty of people who go “omg i hate this one” when we get grawl/cliffside/mai trin then proceed to do some incredibly dumb kitten and die.

I don’t know how I feel about the loss of randomness to fotm. On one hand we may get to see tournys and I can get some practice with Mai Trin but we also lose part of the joy in fractals. Personally if fractals is going to just be farming the same map over and over again I will hate it. Fractals random 3 maps (and then 4 when they added the bosses) was part of why I liked it. You didn’t know what maps you were going to get and that was fun.

Well anyway hopefully anet will rebalance some maps (snowblind cough cough) so they are a little bit more fair for pugs who aren’t experienced with being knocked back 15 times in a row. Maybe well see the underwater fractal played more, cuz it’s pretty easy and fun. I’m not looking forward to scaling toughness and precision to a lass ele neither on of those look fun to deal with, I already have to deal with rng skelk one shots in swamp… on the rest of the maps? errr no thank you. As far as toughness goes though you just make things slower, like adding more hp, but if you do it too much you make people have to buy a completely different gear set, which is annoying.

Dynia.9574:

Glitchfull.5826:

Dynia.9574:

Prism.5649:

Love the video, but I don’t understand your title. Are you complaining about when you get double teamed or excited about a close 1v1?

no, its ridiculous how you need to spam buttons as ele and make combos etc when some ez class like ranger click 2 buttons and deal 5x more dmg than you xD

look how combos looks as d/d ele and how combo looks as ranger ^^

Yeah . . . no. Ranger does no where near as much damage as the ele while simultaneously surviving. Oh wow, they have 1 skill that does a lot of damage! Too bad it’s damage split over a channel and is one of the easiest things in the game to block. Elementalist combos are easy to do and honestly you just need to apply burning and blast finish fire fields for might. Ranger is a hell of a lot harder to play than ele for the simple fact that ranger is in such a terrible place right now they have to completely out class their opponent by such a huge margin. Stop spewing 2 year old hate bandwagon things that are outdated and do not apply today.

If you are losing to rangers as an ele? You need to practice . . . a lot.

Anyways though, still an entertaining video.

ranger is harder to play than ele ? nice troll over there 0/10 try harder

I think for a ranger to be effective yes, for getting his rotations down, no. Ele is a harder class to master yes but being a good ranger is mostly about map awareness which is surprisingly difficult for people.

Ruzin.2410:

maddoctor.2738:

Ruzin.2410:

maddoctor.2738:

also I like that they put so much synergy with old specializations.

What?

Already posted some of the combos:

“Feel the Burn!” or Wildfire + Blinding Ashes is a massive AoE Blind
Cyclone + Lightning Rod = Good damage on multiple foes + weakness + control
Lots of support for Auras making an Auramancer viable In general there are lots of combos in Tempest with the old traits, which is good.

Ok, maybe you are right. There are some combos, but they are weak.
That combo with Blinding Ashes, I can do almost the same with Flame Burst, Drake’s Breath, etc. + The damage is much higher with much lower cd and I don’t have to sacrifice a lot of useful traits.
Combos with Lightning Rod are interesting, but I don’t know why we have to take it, when we can take Fresh Air or Bolt to the Heart, which are much stronger. Even if I take it, still staff is the king of CCs.

Not to mention Blinding ashes internal cooldown is per target so getting everyone all at once has its disadvantages. I will say that tempest will see some play but at the moment it will not be top tier and more for lulz and funzes in hot joins/unranked. I do hope they buff the class so that a fresh air D/W or S/W is viable in pve (or hell in pvp I wana see my howler on my ele kitten it).

This bug tends to happen to players who are playing on a server different from their own region i.e. a Brit playing on NA servers. For some reason the servers get confused and think your playing on eu (or na for the opposite case) preventing you from joining their instance. The easiest fix for it is to always start your own instance then inviting members in or closing down your client completely. As to the level resetting thing they can open a 50 but as long as soon as they hit a loading screen (for example rolling for swamp) it resets to their personal level.

Nothing. If I wanted be up in the front lines I’d roll D/D. But hey I can sit in LA and use my howler on my ele while I afk, that’s something.