Uhh.. If you want map completion why don’t you just equip signet of the locust or wait 2 weeks for PoF then we will have mounts.
Warhorn 5 is actually a really good skill in combat, it does good power damage and life force generation and has a decent uptime too.
It’s a game. like a guy playing Lara in Tomb Raider or a girl playing Link in The Legend of Zelda.
. If anyone actually gives any kind of kitten what gender your toon is, that’s their mental problem, not yours.
I happen to agree as a guy, the female characters are more aesthetically pleasing to look at, why wouldn’t I make one. Like, your brain is hardwired through millions years of evolution to like looking at females more than males (if you’re a straight male). It’s absolutely normal lol.
I know gay guys, they roll male toons for the same reason. I’m not saying you’re gay if you make a male character, you can sometimes manipulate them to look brute, toughguy or whataver you find cool. Point is, it’s a game, play it how you want to have fun.
It’s probably been said but I feel the need to re-iterate… You need to stand in melee, even if you have a ranged weapon, because that’s where warriors, mesmers etc kitten all the buffs out. And if you’r standing at range you lose 25 might, quickness, alacrity, fury etc. You will do pitiful damage.
That’s even putting aside the fact that melee weapons actually do intrinsically higher dps by design.
This item is the carrot to keep the map alive, and it will stay that way. It’s not dead, I’ve managed to oneshot a successful meta every weekend (that I tried) since the last 6 months or so.
Newer players aren’t familiar with the rather convoluted LFG/map IP system. You need to turn up at least 30 minutes early by looking at the timers on the website, then open LFG and find a map IP organising lanes and join it before it fills.
While the actual probability of getting that 1/10k drop are extremely improbable to say the least (you know the old saying “gambling is a tax on the mathematically inept”) it’s still enough to trick the human psyche into participating, for the most part.
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To me, as much as it is disappointing, it is common sense that daredevil will be better for almost all PvE.
A single target, ramp-up weapon like the rifle just won’t be practical outside of niche scenarios or “playing for fun, not practicality”.
Anet has stated throug both design, vocally and for obvious reasons that they don’t want high burst damage range weapons, especially 1200…1500 range weapons.
Look at everything else as example, Ele staff is effective onl large hitboxes/stationary targets, both are niche. Dragonhunter longbow, hammer rev, both nerfed burst damage since they launched, now they are purely “for fun” (pve) or safety/utility. They don’t offer dps.
Ranger longbow, mesmer greatsword, Warrior/Engineer Rifle. Try to find me an example of a long ranged PvE weapon which is actually effective. Pro-tip: you can’t. Deadeye rifle will be no different, because the ramp up will by design not allow it to, unless maybe you are fighting a single target boss over a long period (niche again).
Maybe the actually spec Deadeye will offer enough compelling traits to make Sword or dagger comparable to Staff in general PvE content, but it seems doubtful.
Okay, you dislike the projectiles I assume.
I really like them. Just adding my opinion to the pool.
Fully agree, it’s very ugly.
I don’t like the female norn (?) on a raptor for launcher, I don’t see what that has to do with the expansion theme. I don’t understand why it’s purple, too.
It should be a stylised version of Balthazar, and probably red. Just my 2c anyway….
I’m a little jaded about it, I did every one of the rubble piles every day, which if done was gave us just enough time to earn both the selfless and thoughtless potions. It was a HUGE effort and the potions were something I was proud to own.
Now ofc they are meaningless because its just a cash item now.
But at the end of the day, this is just a game. Time will go forward and your achievements are ultimately meaningless anyway.
So whatever, if it made them a tonne of money then I guess you can see that as good as long as they put that into further development instead of the game dying.
This is the main reason I don’t play condi.
Ele is about switching elements and adapting to combat situations with different tactics. Power builds can at least remain functional when doing this and thus fit the fantasy.
Condi build is a hamfisted abomination, there is no synergy between different attunements, and anything but fire is awful, thus if you need to CC, mitigate or heal, you screw yourself and feel horrible for 10 whole seconds which is basically eternity, it feels like a 10 second self stun. You would think at least Earth could do some damage with bleeds but I’m pretty sure they’d need to quadruple the amount of bleeds it provides because burning is that much stronger, its really a joke.
This thread gave me a much needed laugh, ty
Anyone tried the new flame axe?
I’m pretty sure that’s literally the single least used skill in the game. I’ve never seen anyone actually use it, except screwing around in towns.
They would have to have made some MAJOR buff in order for anyone to even consider it…
They would need to add at least some form of easily accessable boon stripping skills or traits to all classes. A lot of classes can’t even strip boons, let alone steal or corrupt them. Mobs with lots of HP and retal or protection and regen are a PITA if you can’t remove that.
In HoT we had four maps, but it actually turned out to be three, because DS is basically just a world boss every other hour.
So in PoF do we actually get five large maps to explore and play in whenever we want? Or is it four maps and a world boss?
It just felt like a pointless mandatory resource sink to me. Like -40 pearls for no reason
Sorry but Anet are prioritizing correctly. A lot more development effort goes into things like legendary weapons than you’d expect. I would much rather have more content and an early expansion than have to wait for the rest of the legendaries, and this is coming from someone who is a collector (I have one of each except shield, except two staffs and now two swords thanks to latest ep).
If they can “out-do” the uglyness of the candlestick torch, i will actually be impressed lol.
You clearly can’t have both visible, because it would be horrendous to look at.
You can’t have the shield hidden when stowed, because it’s silly to pull a shield out of nowhere every time combat starts, and inconsistent with game design being that weapons should be visible on your character at all times.
You can’t have the shield drawn at all times, because it would look strange with the character doing regular animations with a shield superglued to the arm.
Having the backpiece hidden seems like the lesser of three evils, since they are only cosmetic and have none of the issues listed above.
I am sure the Anet Devs have been through the process of elimination above and have come to the same conclusion. It’s not ideal, but it’s sort of the best solution available.
This skill lists that you gain a 50% movement speed increase while using it. I am almost certain this is false. From my testing both in combat and out, it doesn’t seem to affect movement speed at all. And it doesn’t seem to benefit properly from quickness, which seems counter intuitive since quickness is part of that weapon set, proccing off of the #4 dual strike.
I might be wrong and I’m just not noticing these effects, but I decided to post here and ask if anyone else noticed this.
Also on a slightly unrelated note, I just discovered the Wiki page for Quickness: (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quickness) Does not list Dual Strike under “Weapon Skills that grant Quickness”, so if anyone is good at editing web pages, that needs fixing.
The whole premise of this thread is wrong because the loot in this game is mostly just disguised currency. I think the OP means character build, in which case they are being kicked (?) For a bad equipment or skill setup, or dare I say… player skill?
IDK, fully functional exotic gear is cheap as chips these days and I can’t see any reason why you would have difficulty obtaining it.
If you switch trait lines and skills it’s super easy to maintain perma personal stealth, and makes providing group stealth a lot easier, but you get stuck with kittenty dps traits. Check the “wvw skirmishing” builds on metabattle.
It’s really diffucult to provide high group stealth solo with a meta dps build UNLESS your group is coordinated and stacks on you and uses blast finishers on your fields which is basically not going to happen in a pug.
My theory is some people are just really quick at switching trait lines and skills at the right times when stealth or dps is needed, which I personally can’t stand doing it’s a PITA and you need a solid memory / reflex action for it.
The leap part messes it up, it should leap at the target since it only needs to hit once now anyway.
Aside from what the guy above me posted. I think you need to wait for the next expansion bow weapon. Or maybe try hammer to fill the gaps as it is now. Not really much tbh.
Can’t tell if this is a joke. 2277? That’s low rank? Wha? I’m like rank 150 and thought I had done pretty well for myself, sheesh.
The thing is both Rev and DH had bursty long ranged attacks with the intro of HoT and elite specs via coalesce of ruin and True Shot, they were both promptly and repeatedly nerfed into the ground thanks to pvp.
So I can’t for the life of me even begin to fathom how Anet plans to implement a sniper spec which the very identity SHOULD be long range bursty attacks.
I fully expect the weapon to be underwhelming like Hammer or Bow for the respective classes.
The SW JP may have been a bit too extreme, which was kinda fun and interesting the first time I did it (spent a whole night in there), but after which I was pretty sold on the fact I never want to do it again.
The newer ones, specifically Draconis Mons and Ember bay are just right though imho. With a bit of practice and memorisation they are repeatable and challenging each time, it offers the difficult experience that an end game JP should.
I don’t think it would be totally unfair if it worked as follows:
Buying any infinite gathering tool comes with one consumable item, similar to a “bag slot expansion” that you can consume on any character of your choice.
The “Gathering slot expansion” allows you to use any infinite tool skin you have unlocked on your account. It also allows you to choose one “enrichment” that has been previously mentioned on this threads, such as Sprockets or UM.
This wouldn’t discourage sales of gathering tools, because the slots will only unlock on one character of your choice, per tool set, and it solves the annoying issues of not being able to choose the skins you find aesthetically pleasing because they don’t provide the gathering bonus.
I think this would be an amazing change and it would actually probably promote sales of more infinite gathering tools so it’s a win for Anet.
This is pretty apples and oranges. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is like a more action focused third person Skyrim. I can’t really find that many similarities to GW2 aside from it being third person.
A rainbow glider.
Like a ROYGBIV particle effect one.
To accompany items like Bifrost and The Dreamer which have Rainbow particle effects
Agree, can’t use Kudzu if you’re not a Sylvari, it looks silly. Especially on a heavy armored Dragonhunter.
Honestly they could have skipped Rifle entirely and I don’t think anyone would have cared or noticed. It’s just disappointing to be waiting 3 months for a legend, hoping it’s one that’s badly needed like the Longbow, only to get most useless weapon class in the game, and looks silly to boot. Then you gotta wait another 3 months and hope they don’t release a torch that looks like a monkey farting fire.
Pretty disappointing choice considering the current state of the rifle weapon class in the game…
Maybe one of the new elite specs will be pirate or swashbuckler.
Beauty by definition refers to physical appearance (ie. beauty pageant). Wickedness refers to having a sinister agenda.
It’s basically just a crappier version of “don’t judge a book by its cover”.
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Felt like WvW to me. Blobs floating around in sync focusing targets down.
It might be easier if you try to follow around an ally and focus his target, then the rest of your team does too, but obviously with random groups that’s dependent on the competency of the random people you get teamed with. But because it’s random you should in theory win and lose roughly equal over time since you’re just as likely to get grouped with good players as the other team. At the lowest level is just boils down to another grind.
For the record I found it boring too, and don’t plan on playing it again.
Gw2 is a casual mmo so you can quit and come back without having to play catch-up. You may have to look into getting some of the Living story episodes. LS3 is very interesting so far and hopefully an expansion will be announced later this year. From the reviews and youtube review of BDO its a grind. It does not seem that way at first but eventually you get to a point and realize how much of a grind it is.
And I read you get relentlessly ganked and camped by higher level/more geared players. Yuck, I can’t believe companies still make games like that.
One sigil that gets “refunded” when you replace it?
or a sigil that you can right click and change to any like a legendary?
If the former then I wouldn’t even want it at all. If the latter, probably ~2000g.
Pretty good, but it’s being developed quite differently from the past.
Smaller but more frequent PvE updates, with an expansion in the works, more focus on WvW and PvP / Esports.
I don’t think even NASA or a Quantum computer could run this game at 60+ FPS at 4k. The engine is too outdated. I have a beast of a machine and it struggles to run 60 fps max settings in most of the game, at 1440p. Pretty sure Anet would have to revamp the engine and as much as I love the game, it’s old and I don’t see that being high on the priority list for Anet.
Even if you remember to feed your eaters every single day, it still takes months to consume a single nights worth of dragonite ore from SW chest farming.
The other resources I don’t have issues with, but I have dragonite coming out of my ears and have even manually deleted a multitude of stacks.
I thought this thread was going to be about the giant Norns and Charrs in trench coats covering entire platforms and removing the ability to see your character.
I dont really have a problem with destroyed snowflakes tbh, it happens every other time and you can only get 17-18 clears max in a non-bugged public game anyway. From my experience you can probably get 17 clears even if the snowflakes are destroyed every time.
So even if you are an absolute pro working at maximum JP farm efficiency, you lose 20 presents per hour from this griefer. Down from 360 to 340, doesn’t seem that big of a deal since most people make mistakes and fall anyways.
The community is the best part of this game. I rarely see any hyper negative or “toxic” players, but I think that’s due to how Anet engineered the game so all the acessable, puggable content is full of happy chappys and the serious bunch still have their guild runs and efficiency groups.
Merry Winters Veil and good luck in your adventures in Tyria!
Well in order to make the infusion valuable it has to be extremely rare like that.
Personally I could quite easily farm 1000 gifts in a day, as that’s only 100 completions of the JP, which is 300 per hour if you are an average skill at it. If there are 100 other players doing that, it means one infusion added to the TP per day. I think we both know there are more than 100 people farming it, not to mention the many thousands added from casual JP’ers and other rewards.
1/100,000 or 0.001% sounds very reasonable / likely to me.
I don’t think it would work as a dye because its more of a texture/aura overlay effect. It presents different color tones in shadows/sunlight and night / day. It would probably have to be an infusion effect but I don’t know if that would work either.
I havent experienced that but what I thought you were talking about is I’ve been physically attacked by a condi necro when I entered once, right at the start. He got me down to about 25% HP before his skills locked out or whatever.
Well for example am a member of both a NA guild and another which has members oceania based. Because I live in Australia but I work unusual hours so I mostly play during the day on weekdays (which is afternoon/night “primetime” in USA) and I play late nights on the weekend (which is when USA way too late / early and they are all asleep) so it’s nice to play with my Australian guild at those times.
Yep that spot just at the end before the presents into the final reward area, my character sometimes randomly just flings backwards / off the edge with no warning and you’re left thinking “…”
This is extremely frustrating because most people don’t believe you when you say its not working, they probably already did it before it got bugged, so they think your doing something wrong.
I concur with the above poster who says bugs like this make you want to leave the game. When you set yourself a goal and work hard on it, the find out its broken and uncompletable you have no choice but to give up. Then you need to think about another goal to work on, but you wonder if that ones going to be broken too, whats the point.
I would also like to add, that while these maps are indeed rewarding, some of us don’t play the game to grind or farm. A lot of us, in particular those of us that spend money for gems and gold play the game to have fun, the grinding and reward are secondary.
Bloodstone fen, Ember bay and Bitterfrost Frontier are thematically beautiful, and lovely to look at. But they don’t have the living feeling that Living World 2 maps had.
There is no map-wide objective and very few, poorly rewarding group events, does it surprise anyone that the LFG panel for each of these maps is always empty?
Initially, with the release of Bloodstone Fen I decided to reserve my judgement and hold out to see what else is coming down the line. The clear pattern of emphasis on harvesting map currency nodes by yourself has only worsened with Bitterfrost frontier.
If you look at a map like SW or any of the HoT maps, they have multiple objectives there is an actual thought process and choice involved. Yes I can run around and open Airship Cargo or Bandit Chests but that isn’t the ONLY thing on the whole map, and they are even rewards tied to playing the story of the map, getting involved.
Contrast these to the LW3 maps, there is a clearly defined path, and that’s practically the only way to play the map, all of the game is a grind but these are particularly bad because there’s no choice in the grind. Walk there, harvest those nodes, fill in those hearts, harvest the other nodes, map complete.
I enjoy the actual story missions, but I think the world maps are a more important asset to the game. I know it’s not realistic to expect extremely high quality content on a frequent basis especially with a split dev team, but personally I would rather have one SW quality map every six months than a shallow LW3 style one every 3 months.
No idea why certain changes like Infiltrators Strike gaining a 300 range increase would break the game in PvE.