Guild Wars 2

Based on the latest patch, it’s stated on the changelog that Echoing Eruption now leaps to a target if one is present.

“This skill now leaps to a target, if there is one.”

However, it looks as though it’s still performing like the May 16 2017 patch where:

“This skill will no longer automatically track the revenant’s target and will instead fire the skill forward.”

Right now, if I target a mob, face 90 degrees away and fire off Echoing Eruption, it leaps forward, effectively missing the mob. If I look directly at the mob and fire off, it leaps and lands on the target. It’s really really clunky.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Echoing_Eruption

bumpety bummmp!

Yes, fix it please!

We are still alive and well.

I look at the collections as a “sticker book”. When I was a younger, I love collecting stickers of all sorts, just to fill the entire book.

Likewise, being the sucker for collections I am, I Iearnt one thing: the road to disappointment comes when you try to rush everything towards completion. Just like my stickers, I took my time to collect and eventually the book is filled.

Don’t rush to complete! Enjoy the slow progress, all while doing the other contents offered. Yes, I whine and complain (to guildies) at times but everytime I do that, I strive harder. Some comments here are right: we all have choices and if collections are not your thing, you always have the power to do something else.

With all the maps requiring different types of keys for unlocking caches and what not, would a “Key-Chain” UI panel benefit us all?

Nothing too fancy but wouldn’t it be great if we have an additional button beside the currency button – when clicked, the UI for inventory swaps over to panel of keys, listing all keys in the game? Visualize it like the current Currency UI.

• Machetes
• Chak Acid
• Exalted Key
• Pact Crowbar
• Silverwastes Shovel
• Key of Greater Nightmares
• Bandit Key
• Zephyrite Lockpick
• Fractal Encryption Key
• Black Lion Key
• And some other keys that I may have not remembered! :P

Gosh look at the list! So many key types! I figured it would be a huge quality-of-life improvement if this Key-Chain UI comes into play.

What are your thoughts?

While statistics are good, I just hope that Guild Hall will one day see its own set of events happening – where they get attacked and provide some form of loot/incentive for players to actually be there. Would be a waste of land area if left untouched like how it is now.

Also, worth noting that having certain features added such as crafting stations, actual guild commendation trader would be good.

eldrin.6471:

They allow the selling of raids,and dungeons and fractals so how does what your saying about prestige make any sense? do you not see the financial profit that is there for anet buy allowing the sale of rewards locked behind this kind of content.and how is this different from buying it.I got one raid boss already 250g and will wait till gorseval price comes down to around the same.

After reading the entire length of this forum thread, I am aware (as you’ve mentioned it more than a couple of times) that you have Asperger Syndrome, some may not understand what it’s all about.

So for everyone’s reference, here’s a quick description:

Someone with Asperger syndrome might initiate conversations with others by extensively relating facts related to a particular topic of interest. He or she may resist discussing anything else and have difficulty allowing others to speak. Often, they don’t notice that others are no longer listening or are uncomfortable with the topic. They may lack the ability to “see things” from the other person’s perspective.

Another common symptom is an inability to understand the intent behind another person’s actions, words and behaviors. So children and adults affected by Asperger syndrome may miss humor and other implications. Similarly, they may not instinctually respond to such “universal” nonverbal cues such as a smile, frown or “come here” motion.

For these reasons, social interactions can seem confusing and overwhelming to individuals with Asperger syndrome. Difficulties in seeing things from another person’s perspective can make it extremely difficult to predict or understand the actions of others. They may not pick up on what is or isn’t appropriate in a particular situation.

https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/asperger-syndrome

With that out of the way, the important things to take note of are:

1. No reason for anyone here to be discussing anything at all because Eldrin has difficulty in seeing things from another person’s perspective. Forums are made to allow others to comment, share and discuss. By that, being able to see the other person(s) perspective is very important.
2. Eldrin has made some remarks about they way this game was launched and managed. How certain portion of its contents were being delivered to the masses – concerning gear and raid rewards.

Now, I’m not intending to poke fun at the disability of others but here are some facts you mentioned earlier in the days:

eldrin.6471:

There’s a lot of people siting on a lot of gold.I saved up 11k just for legendary armor just to find out im locked out of getting it as it behind raids.And im not one of the chosen few in a guild running raids.Seems crazy to lock the vast majority of players out of legendary armor.

You have a large amount of gold sitting there. #justsaying

eldrin.6471:

i play a warrior with 2 sets ascended Armour 2 legendary that i crafted but payed for the mats and fully upgrade bank and inventory .plus various skins off the gem store and around 12k gold.now i was promised just before the launch of hot that my best in slot gear would always be the best in slot gear.that was a downright lie since they added a new armor tier LEGENDARY.And locked it behind a wall they know full well most players wont be able to get past.

Over the last few days, your gold amount has increased by 1k! My rough guess is you are constantly converting gems to gold, even as we are having this conversation here. Reading your sheer unhappiness about how the game has turned out since launched is regrettably sad for me. One thing is for sure though: it seems that you are more likely to stick around GW2 in months to come, or I could be wrong.

You’ve managed to attain 163 mastery level as of today – which means that you have been doing alot of hours in-game ever since the start of HoT. This also means that you have cleared, at the very least, Vale Guardian in Spirit Vale. Good job on that!

Yup! I would agree Anet did lie to you about the new armor tier, if I were to see it from your perspective that is… While there isn’t a need for Legendary armour sets now, I would advise you continue doing what you have been doing in the last few weeks – to start your Legendary journey of collecting item/trophies from both the raids and the open world.

No one is stopping anyone from deploying any method of achieving these rewards. I would strongly recommend you maintain the upkeep of gem conversion so that you can keep up with the 99.99% of players, who are tediously wrecking their eyeballs and fingers just attempting to down VG and Gorseval.

eldrin.6471:

You find every thing anyone says that dont agree with you ignorant dont you xarallei?
you do understand what a forum is dont you?Its were we discus things,not were you ram your opinions down our throats or harass other members into not posting about things they feel strongly about.

We all have to agree to disagree.

eldrin.6471:

They allow the selling of raids,and dungeons and fractals so how does what your saying about prestige make any sense? do you not see the financial profit that is there for anet buy allowing the sale of rewards locked behind this kind of content.and how is this different from buying it.I got one raid boss already 250g and will wait till gorseval price comes down to around the same.

You got it! Exactly what I was trying to explain earlier on. Keep up the good effort!

eldrin.6471:

lol do you even read what i say? im registered legally blind in the uk.no i did not enjoy the raid as i could not see anything but a blurr.I would probably have loved raids a couple of years back before the sight loss.I do what i can with what i got.

I’m sorry to hear this. I’m afraid there isn’t anything within Anet and us players to help you out here. Not being able to enjoy raids, as for it being blur is a serious thing and I’m with you on this.

Moral of the story: Conversation is over. We are done here.

I would have bought the glider on its own but bundled with an outfit? Nope nope nope. Sales would definitely go up if they sell 6-piece gear skins instead of a lazy outfit IMO.

Definitely yes for me. Every game has bad kinks and I’m sure they’ll iron them out. So current “unhappiness over certain class, maps, rewards, AP etc” won’t affect my judgement for purchase, that’s for sure.

You’ve got to ensure you pick the right allies (NPCs) for the easiest of the 2 fights. You can Google to find some rough guides on the best choices.

As for the first fight with the “bow” enemy (with 5 of you in there), just ensure you assign each player a corner or space to play with. E.g split the area into 4 equal parts, last man to take the middle. Any extra bodies will make the fight harder so Mesmers need to constantly shatter before firestorm phase and Necromancers are to refrain from bringing minions.

From 100% to 75%, “bow” enemy will fire Modrem Sniper shots from 3 corners, remember those spots as they are pretty much fixed spots. On first spot, enemy fires one 1 shot to the nearest player. Then enemy moves to second spot, then third spot. After the shot has been fired from third spot, firestorm phase occurs.

Firestorm (I called it that coz it’s like crazy mad in there) fixates on players, denying you the area to move around. You can dodge past fires so make use of that if you are caught running into a dead end. Idea is to NOT DENY YOUR ALLIES area to move, hence the splitting of the zone.

Let’s say you are taking the bottom right corner of the arena, you “weave” your fixated firestorm (just like the Snake game from Nokia), effectively ensuring you will never run out of space.

At 50% hp, “bow” enemy fires 2 shots consecutively instead of 1. At 25% hp, 3 shots instead of 2. Rinse and repeat.

For Canach (since someone already mentioned it), avoid fire grenades (those telegraphed, slightly bigger aoe circles). Good to have either a Revenant or Guardian to provide area Stability so that all of you can comfortable break bar. This means that before the fight, have atleast 2-3 break bar skills. Stuns, knockdowns, knockbacks is bread and butter here. Having an Engineer helps but a venomshare Thief is king.

For the last fight, survive and DPS. Pretty straightforward apart from the point where you have to clear those shadows. An orange AOE circle will appear underneath each player’s legs. A second layer (slightly darker overlay) will follow suit. Dodge before the 2nd circle completes. If you fail to dodge, you’ll go down immediately.

Good luck! Fight should last about 1hr or less with a competent group. I took 4 hours because I chose to 2-man it for the challenge hahaha!

Hope I didn’t spoil anything and sorry for the long post.

I did it with “2-man”, with a guildie. Took us about 4 hours. All I can say you’ll need really competent, mechanic driven players to complete it as the first fight can be hectic with 5 players. That means it’s less of a chance to actually LFG these attempts.

Definitely worth obtaining Modrem Loop though.

There are alternative methods/routes you can take to reach it. Hit me up in game if you need help and I’ll be glad to show you the way.

evnw.9324:

one I get to a certain point beyond amber sandfall the game freezes and I have to force quit the game. is there anything I can do to fix this? I feel like this could be a common thing. I am also still patching so that may have something to do with it.

The freezing may be related to pending downloads, related to the game content (or a trailer). Best recommendation is to complete the entire game download before logging in to play.

WOW! Much like buying a cheeseburger but instead of enjoying it, one looks forward to bowel movement way before digestion happens, then rages because nothing is coming out.

Azure.8670:

not at all needed right now, but for frac 51+ im thinking full zerk groups may not cut it. im looking for a tanky guardian build that can dish atleast some damage, so im thinking condi is prob the way to go?

anyone have anything they use or theorycrafted?

Open the build calculator and try the following:

Gears = 3 x Dire, 3 Soldier
Weapons = Carrion

Backpiece = Soldier
Amulet = Sinister
Rings = 1 x Sinister, 1 x Rabid
Earrings = 2 x Berserker

Balthazar runes to help burn. Adjust the zerker earrings to something like Rabid if you want to lean more on tankiness and condi.

The ultimate plan for a Guardian to be a good sustain is to not go below 15k hp.

It’s been around since day 1, sorry to spoil all the fun

I feel that Line of Warding is fine where it is today. The amount of stab you can strip from a zerg is one of the reason why Guardians run Staff in WvW. When you have more than 5 Guardians on your side of the fight, it’s going to pose movement problems for your enemies.

As a WvW and an experienced Guardian player, I use it like a “sheepdog herding sheeps”.

The one to Rule.2593:

I just don’t get people. first it was " we need something to do! living world sucks!" Now it’s “OMG I HAVE TO DO THINGS??”

Precisely!

Ok guys, for those who are in panic mode and being tunnel-visioned right now, think about it:

“Do you really think they (Anet) want players to play a half-kitten Elite Spec across the entire 4 new maps just to unlock the traitlines and utility skills?”

I don’t think so. It would be a kitten experience to run a half-baked komali build where you are missing traits and utility skills for the new Elite Spec.

So, don’t panic and ATLEAST WAIT for launch. This overreaction is funny to me because I see so many people QQing about “oh I have 5000 characters, how am I going to unlock Elite Specs? I was excited blaah blah blah and now it’s such a hassle! So many unlocks to do for each character and grindy. GW2 is not grindy… Anet cheat my feelings.. I was excited for HoT but this made me think twice about playing”.

SERIOUSLY? Do yourself a favour and stop being so overly dramatic.

Boy, you gotta realise no one forced you to have 5000 characters and assume an easy peasy life. Anything more than 1 character means extra work, extra effort.

/popcorn

Ghotistyx.6942:

Sarif.1827:

Guard, Sword, Auto #3, Sword Wave – Change it from a projectile to a persistent stab like Mai Trin!

Take Wave of Wrath from Staff, shrink it to 300 distance and 50% width of the old Sword Wave. Each sword animation is the location of one of those new smaller Wave of Wraths. Retain all previous aspects of skill like damage, coefficients, ect.

Boom, actual Wave skill, not a projectile, retains all previous functionality with VoJ synergy, still hits 3 times in center, 1 or 2 times on edges ect, less problems against z-axis…
By far the easiest fix.

This is worth a shot, if I must say. Good idea!

In-game Guild Name/Tag: Legion of Zommoros [LOZ]
Group Type: Community by Smaash Gaming
Gameplay: Everything
Home World: Crystal Desert for WvW-only. No transfers required.
Language: English
Location: Singapore
Timezone: GMT +8 (Active from 7 PM to 2 AM)
Comms: Discord + Telegram

Looking for a unique community to enrich your Guild Wars 2 experience? Look no further! We are competent and enthusiastic about all aspects of the game, and we will be more than happy to welcome you into the magic that is Tyria and the gaming miracle that is Guild Wars 2.

Our key focus is always on building a bigger, better, (‘funner’) gaming experience for all. Join us on Discord and find out for yourself!

Click below to find out more about Smaash gaming community!

Contact us in-game!

Contact us through the game if you have questions you would like to ask concerning the community. Recruitment is done via Telegram only!

• Chieftain Snuffy (Founder | Community Lead)
• Eleria Starmaker (Community Manager)

See you in Tyria!

Guild Name/Tag: Legion of Zommoros [LOZ]
Type: Community (not just a guild!)
Gameplay: PvX (PvP, PvE, WvW and Raids)
Home World: Crystal Desert for WvW-only. No transfers required.
Language: English
Location: Singapore
Timezone: GMT +8 (Active from 7 PM to 2 AM)
Comms: Discord, Telegram

Looking for a unique community to enrich your Guild Wars 2 experience? Look no further! We are competent and enthusiastic about all aspects of the game, and we will be more than happy to welcome you into the magic that is Tyria and the gaming miracle that is Guild Wars 2.

Our key focus is always on building a bigger, better, (‘funner’) gaming experience for all. Join us on Discord and find out for yourself!

Click below to find out more about Legion of Zommoros gaming community!

Contact us in-game!

Contact us through the game if you have questions you would like to ask concerning the community. Recruitment is done via Telegram only.

• Chieftain Snuffy (Founder | Community Lead) – For recruitment matters.
• Kronos Warshifter (Legion Council) – For WvW enquiries.

See you in Tyria!

Aramil.9503:

Is it true that people are boycotting this because it is overpriced? I’ve got like 20 friends who all play and none of them are preordering. In fact, when I suggested that I was going to preorder they all told me not to and that there was a huge boycott on this game. Can somebody tell me if it’s just my friends or if this is a game-wide occurence?

20 friends and none of them pre-ordered? Wow, I hope I don’t have friends like that.

Pro tip: Get off the forums, don’t buy the expansion and stay happy. No one is forcing you to spend that $49.99 for that amount of content. Maybe get a new skateboard or something?

Typical. Not the first time seeing him post for attention. AWWW.

Deflecting Shot

Generally, I feel that the mechanic behind Deflecting Shot is interesting but the projectile targeting type is not. I speak for my experience in WvW where I attempted to block enemy projectiles on multiple occasions.

• Deflecting Shot projectile speed is too fast to even be useful. Reduce projectile speed but make it travel slightly faster than Orb of Light (Staff 2).

• The ground targeting aspect of it makes it clunky to use. This is especially true when one is trying to deflect projectiles from enemies that are standing up on a wall (defending a gate for a example). The Guardian is forced to come close to the wall in order to aim Deflecting Shot up on a wall, but that itself don’t work most of the time because the projectile seems to pierce through the wall, rather than travel upwards.

• Change targeting method from the existing “line” targeting UI to a regular “AoE” ground targeting UI, just like Symbol of Swiftness (Staff 3). Make it as small as possible so that Guardians can choose which spot they would like to shoot Deflecting Shot at. I believe this would make it useful since we will then able to deflect caster’s/range unit’s projectile attack more accurately.

• Reduce Blind to 3 seconds but either increasing its base damage by 5-10% or granting one stack of Aegis that lasts for 5 seconds.

How will underwater combat be like, since we have no seen any underwater action with Revenants, let alone the type of underwater weapons they can use?

g e o.2589:

Will we get underwater weapon during Revenant Weekend?? or a legend that functions underwater?

We will find out this weekend. We don’t even know what underwater weapons Revenants can equip.

Getting the into the hype of being a Reaper..

Silverkey.2078:

Sad, I thought there would be more supporters of underwater combat…

I had to log in to post this:

I bought this game some 3 years ago because of a video I saw on YouTube about the seamless change of skills/traits when a player (a necro to be exact) transition from land to underwater combat.

I’ll be honest, I was enticed by underwater combat! SAY YES TO UNDERWATER COMBAT! Who knows, given the speed of combat, we might be seeing potential aerial dogfights :P

GinsuChef.3765:

I think it can be made into a passive effect and added to existing utility skills. A few classes have signets that give extra toughness and making fall protection a passive effect to those signet seems natural. Another possibility is to add it to a healing skill as a passive effect.

I’m sure there is much to consider but finding a spot for it in utilities seems like a better fit.

I don’t think it’s even a good idea to have it under a healing skill or utility skill. Why? Imagine when you are thinking of jumping off a cliff while being chased down. I bet you won’t be able to change to the relevant fall damage reduction utility in time, considering you are in combat.

Or maybe you already have it equipped (and assuming its passive effect reduces fall damage), then you use the active portion of the skill.. what happens? What we know is that passives won’t work if the active skill is used and is on CD.

Or maybe we place it on the active skill itself… I’m sure when we jump cliffs, we jump more than one time – in succession if it’s from a very highpoint.

Ahzmund.9708:

Hail Adventurers!

I know this is a bit of a long post, but it would mean a lot to me if you gave it more than just a glance!

I’m a new player to the game. Today’s my fourth day playing, and I’ve grown to enjoy the vast exploration this game has to offer. While I tend to avoid MMORPG’s due to how addicted I tend to get towards them, this is one I can’t help but indulge.

Today is your 4th day.

- Active: If your guild has 100 members in it, and only 5 or 6 are online at a given time, your guild is not the guild for me. When I log in, I’d like to see not only a thriving community, but the same people online as I saw yesterday. Making friends in such a guild becomes much easier and more rewarding. Also, I’m looking for a guild based solely in GW2, and not a guild that plays several different games.

Hmmmm 4th day.

- Helpful: I’m not going to be the guy who always asks for help, but a guild that keeps world-boss spawns on the alert and takes initiative to helping guild-mates get some good loot…

4th day and you are already talking about loot, boss respawn timers and guild active rates.

- I’m poor. Please don’t expect me to be able to buy gems in game for anything..
– Other than play GW2, I like to play Magic: the Gathering, watch livestreams on twitch, and spend way too much time on netflix and youtube. I’m also not quite finished playing some ARPGs, and will play those every now and then. Expect that I will nevertheless log at least 5 hours of gametime into GW2 per day, seven days a week.

Again, this is your 4th day… atleast 5 hours of gametime into GW2. You want a guild that focus on GW2 and not other games but you have “some ARPGS” that you are not finished with and will occasionally go back? Fair enough…

Good luck finding a guild!

It’s a server-side issue I believe. I’ve been stuck at 0KB/sec for 10mins during my initial attempt and it gave me “Connection error….”

Now I’m re-attempting the download and it throttles down to 0KB/sec once more and has been stuck there for the last 8mins or so…

I agree on the point where it seems a bit too overpowered but I guess we have to explore/deploy other means of siege tactics. I personally feel that different types of siege weapons should be used in a structure assaults – not limited to the use of rams but catas and trebs too.

Not as easy as it sounds.

;P Jackalope has seen the Eternal Alchemy.

Let me nerd-rage here. Anyone else experiencing lags/delays in WvW maps?

Skribulous.3521:

Fadhli.9086:

Thanks guys for following up on this. If you have any screenshots or video links related to this bug, please post it up under this thread. I did not manage to capture it as it caught all of us off-guard.

My apologies, I didn’t make a screenshot at the time it happened. I did send a bug report using the in-game support, but I’m not very hopeful it’ll go anywhere, considering the lack of CS Anet has with this game.

It’s ok. We try our best to get this across to them so that they can roll out a fix. I haven’t been running Wurm for the last few days since this bug occurred.

Is it still buggy as reported?

We have upgraded from [OTD] to [LOZ]. Bump.

Thanks guys for following up on this. If you have any screenshots or video links related to this bug, please post it up under this thread. I did not manage to capture it as it caught all of us off-guard.

It has been twice since this morning that Wurm just popped HP from 80% to almost 0%. This caused the event to fail and not allow us a chance to kill it.

shiri.4257:

I would recommend [HAX] or [Sig]. I think hax has singapore or malaysians that do pve. I only encounter them in wvw and teamspeak but they are a funny bunch. cutie phantasmer might be a contact, not sure how to spell name. I know sig does alot of pve but they might be more NA oriented with a handful of hardcore asian pve.

Or you could consider joining me in OTD. We have an alliance with HAX by the way. I seem to pop-up out of nowhere!

Hi Luciena! We would love to have you join us! I’ll pm you all the necessary details. Hope to hear from you soon!

We are still recruiting!

OMG fix this already.. It looks horrible.

I’ve similar encounters with abilities going “frozen” in both PvE and WvW. I cannot find out what triggers it or how to reanimate the bug but roughly it occurs in random when you perform 2-3 actions at once.

I can move, I can type out in chat, I can swap weapons but whenever a skill is pressed to cast, nothing happens. Cooldown doesn’t trigger off and nothing gets casted. Waypointing doesn’t quick-fix this and the only way is to either log out/character select or die (not down but be dead).

If I can recall correctly, it has been happening (once in a while) since the introduction of The Mad king patch..

Initially when the hood rolled out, I bought a piece for my charr. I have The Juggernaut so everything chromed up except the hood itself, which was fine.. Then one day when I logged in, I realised that the cape became longer and my charr horns became visible, which was absolutely great as well! Considering the fact that even the hood itself turned chrome then I yielded The Juggernaut.

Then the fix came: It messed up the back portion of the charr, somewhere near the area below the neck. My armor is seen protruding out of the hood (looks like it pierced through) and when I go chrome with The Juggernaut, there is this UGLY triangle patch/piece/portion of the armor!

Please fix this. It looks really horrible, especially when the hood doesn’t get affected by The Juggernaut’s chrome effect…

azizul.8469:

10pm GMT+8 is around 6am server time now i think, taking into account the daylight saving time…

Azizul, my guild [OTD] Order of the Djinns from Ferguson’s Crossing would love to have weekly Guild Missions with HAX! I’ll add you up so that we can talk more about this in-game..

Bump this post up!

When I hit “left shift + mouse button 5” for elite skill, it auto-triggers my utility skill 3.
When I hit “left shift + mouse button 3” for utility skill 1, it auto-triggers my healing skill.