Guild Wars 2

Cyninja.2954:

I love these statements. Nothing is hard once you are good at it. You even state yourself that all the other roles (mostly dps) get a free ride difficulty wise.

Mesmer is easy comapred to what? Playing Bethovens 5th blindfolded with 1 arm?

Of course, but then anything is possible.

I was being slightly facetious, doesn’t come across in text that well I guess..

Cyninja.2954:

Deimos has to be the 1 fight where you can go brain-afk on mesmertank. Poor fight to pick as example.

Deimos requires exactly 3 people who know what they are doing:
- 1 chronotank who can press WoP every 30-40 seconds and dodge one of the most obvious boss attacks ingame
- 1 black kiter who can stand behind the boss and run up to the tank every 30-40 seconds
- 1 handkiter

Now stack your dps in the center and have them range pewpew if they are to stupid to deal with boss mechanics and occasionally pick up a tear. Done.

I would love it to be that easy for the DPS, but starting to really question my sanity..

Still looking for multi-class player, we prefer one support class at least.

We are always looking for new multi-class players, we do progression raids on a Sunday and Wednesday, just ask that you use discord and use the register when you want to come along. Whisper me in game for more info.

Mesmer tank is easy, but that may be because I have been playing it for a while. Will admit raids are a steep learning curve for a tank, but I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I suppose I can understand why people don’t like it as if you make a mistake, you can wipe the group, whereas the mindless classes (dps/cps) seem to get away with loads.

As an example, I raid with my guild twice a week, we are currently stuck on Deimos. As the tank, I have just today spent about 4.5 hours wiping, but I made one mistake in that whole time, its usually the DPS that screws the pooch on there, although they tend to not like hearing that its their fault. So, if you want to play chrono, you need a certain temperament.

What we as a guild tend to struggle to find is people who can multi-class, say a support (chrono/heal etc) and a dps role, that I think is much more important if you want to get into raid content than any one single class.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor – Loads here…

Ninjablob.9321:

Accountwide gold find bonus is useless.
Enemies rarely drop raw gold and even if they do its a handful of copper, 1-3 silver if you are lucky
replace gold find by map bonus – events are the bread and butter of GW2 after all
make map bonus affect renown hearts completion – (by that i mean make them fill up faster, not grant map bonuses) even though by the numbers they make up about 15% of the world completion, they take as long as the whole rest. And some take ridiculously long, like the first one in Draconis Mons, where doing the entire escort event chain gives you just enough to fill it up. The mere thought of redoing all the hearts makes map completion on more than one character horribly unattractive

You realise the gold find bonus isn’t just to gold don’t you? It is to any money they drop and can make quite a difference to how much you get..

Also, the first heart in draconis mons, just kill everything and check the suspicious bushes etc, takes about 2 mins to complete the heart.

A key ring to hold the many keys we now have to keep in our inventory.

Sent mail in game.

Sent mail in game.

I don’t think it will be OP unless they have decided that the axe is going to do insane dps, otherwise not that much of a change from the kitten dps Chrono already does.

still looking.

If you want to find a raid guild, look here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

Ok, maybe we do..

Come on, we don’t bite..

I wouldn’t mind a change to chrono as long as its damage is upped to make it viable. Have 4 raid ready chars and still end up on my chrono more than not due to the needs of the group. Would love the chance to play DPS instead of support.

Oh, and to the OP, play a chrono before writing a post about them, you may learn a thing or two..

Support for Stable Group
We are a small training Raid guild, currently tackling wing 2 (having previously completed wing 1). We are currently recruiting for people with raid ready support characters (primarily mesmers and druids) to join our stable group. We do require all members however to have a secondary raid ready character which would act in a different role, i.e. 1 dps 1 healer for instance. We currently raid twice a week, on Wednesday’s and Sunday’s 7pm BST. We don’t require extensive previous experience just roles which conform to the current meta.
We do also require discord, and we utilise the BGDM damage meter as a training aid.
If you are interested please direct message with your account name and API key. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch.

The only other requirement is the fact that you have to put up with a Geordie telling you what to do and swearing like a trooper.

Hi, we are a guild that are starting to Raid (we have done VG and Gorse so far), looking for member that would be willing to commit time to raid and not be too casual about it, but also spend the rest of the time kittening about on discord and in game. We only have 30 members, some of who are there just as casuals and some who wanted to try raiding but then get bored of the commitment required. I can definitely say that the swearing isn’t an issue, we insist on it in fact. If you want to know more, find me in game and will send an invite if you want one.

I must be one of the only ones who agrees with ANet on this, it was far too cheap to get ascended from PVP. It is supposed to be difficult to get, it is not a requirement that you get it as you can run around with exotics all you want and still win. Those of us who have put the time and effort into crafting, spending up to 100G a piece for ascended gear only to see cheap kitten in PvP makes you wonder why you bother, but luckily they have now seen the error of their ways.

Maxed out on all crafting including scribing. I think the changes are a good idea as think giving away ascended just cheapens it for those of us who have put in all the effort. The whole point of ascended is it is supposed to be more difficult to get.

Happened to me Tuesday about 6:30ish pm GMT, I also raised a bug report at the time, but seems like when we had 4 people in the party and were trying to do guild missions, so had to pick a team.

When you fix this, can you also fix the time wasted in guild missions while queueing and none of the guild being in a match as this regularly means a mission will fail due to the queue times?!

Yes, definitely yes.

Xilicks, you obviously don’t understand how coding works, if you did, you wouldn’t make such suggestions..

As a few have already said, their communication was fine, perhaps its the way you read that communication that is the issue..

Slowpokeking.8720 – Be glad you weren’t around when ANet last screwed something up, I think you’d have had a heart attack! Stop being so entitled, kitten happens, get over yourself. ANet owe you the grand total of absolutely nothing. The fact that their guys are working their kitten s off to get things up and running so they can get the content to you asap should be enough, I know it is for me and I was one of those that lost faith in them after their last big screw up, took me a year to come back to the game, but this is a drop in the ocean compared to that. You’ll get the new story when it can be released and you will not get anything from ANet for it except for a new story to play, deal with it..

I’m guessing you don’t know the work that goes into restoring servers after an event like this? I have been there and can say, its a moving target and very difficult to give a definitive estimate. The amount of times I have been “oh, it’ll be about 30 minutes”, just to find another issue or that something isn’t quite right is beyond counting. I also know what it is to put in all nighters to get these kinds of issues fixed and can promise you they aren’t fun either. What I would say is cut the team at anet a little slack, its not like they are doing this intentionally, they want you to have this content as soon as they can, but they are relying on estimates themselves, so what do you want them to say?

If you’re going scrapper, Elixir X and the f5 ability are a godsend, but then you’re prey to thief..

Also, only works on 1-2 DH’s at best, when you come up a group of 3 or 4, you’re screwed..

BrotherBelial.3094:

Asking for the CD’s to start when the traps are triggered pits them at a disadvantage. Everyone else’s skills start to recharge on use, not on when the skill is triggered, your solution is not a solution it’s more work for ANet. But you don’t hate right? You just want your “pro” skills to shine through because you simply can not handle one class. I hate that stealth is a thing in this game. But I don’t want it removed from the game, as far as I’m concerned anyone who uses stealth is bad at PvP and needs to hide and get in free hits, but I’ve learned how to handle these players, I find that they are predictable 90% of the time and i know how to deal with them and normally they end up as a free kill.

Its the stacking that is the issue, one or two DH’s can be handled (2 I may lose to if they have a bit of map awareness), but the issue isn’t so much DH’s as stacking, yeah, if there are 3-4 DH’s and you have a team with a lot of map awareness and different classes, they are beatable. I play scrapper and Elixir X is great (as long as there aren’t thieves on the other team, in which case I prefer Sneak gyro simply for the F5 ability) against up to 2 DH’s, but I haven’t played too many ranked matches this season due to time constraints and am currently languishing in Bronze where it is far too easy to come up against at least 3 DH’s per match (It has happened in about a quarter of my matches), which at that level means a nearly certain loss due to others on my team with no awareness/ going afk as they have seen the DH’s and just given up..

The only solution I can see is to stop class stacking, no m ore than 2 of a class in any team, simple solution that ANet have already implemented elsewhere, so not much to ask for really..

If anything, we should have Khylo removed, now that map sucks kitten ..

I don’t hate pve players, I play it a lot myself and it took me ages to get into pvp, but when I did start to pvp, I used my guild and got them to help teach me how to have a good game. We do weekly PVP and work on our strategies, I still think its the best way to learn for someone new to this form of the game, I try to pass on what I have learnt from others, but will say its much easier to learn on comms than having to try to explain in mapchat. Yeah, you’ll always get the noobs and some won’t want to listen to you, but a lot of them will learn or actually want to learn. Talking about excluding them will just be the death of pvp.

I actually think these forums are one of the worst things to read as there are soo many elitists here who think they are above the rest of the community.

Gwaihir, I think you don’t know what skill means. Core/meta isn’t skill, I am telling you that as you don’t seem to get it.

So, basically you are agreeing with me, Dh’s are OP in groups and you even say that DH is strong. I wouldn’t mind if it took some skill to play that way, but it really doesn’t..

I didn’t play previous seasons as wasn’t really into pvp that much, so you tell me.. The fact that DH is overpowered has nothing to do with what season we are in, it is just a fact.

No, class stacking only seems to be an issue with DH’s, the fact that a DH main doesn’t agree says it all as doubt you’d want your skills nerfed, it still doesn’t mean I am wrong though..

What, so change from a hammer to a pistol, hmmmm, methinks you haven’t really thought out your reply. As I said, I can play against any other stacked class and not really have the same issues, as for practice, yeah, I practice loads with other guild members and they say the same thing as me, even those that play DH say they are OP for what they are.

Also, from what you are saying, I need to adapt my build just for DH’s, are you freaking serious? You do realise what you are saying don’t you?

Your analogy would be good if it made any sense in this case, which it clearly doesn’t. I used to find Engi boring before HoT, even though it wasn’t exactly difficult.

What a ridiculous statement, thread is not incorrect, you just wish it to be.

Isn’t it funny how all those “telling” me that DH isn’t OP funnily enough play DH.. Wonder if they realise the irony in their statements? One DH I can deal with (as I said before), when you come up against 3 in 2 matches in a row, there is definitely an issue (especially as solo/duo wasn’t supposed to be about class stacking). I have a ranger who plays with me and even he says they are massively OP. Oh well, at least its only the DH’s that seem to think they aren’t OP.. Either way, imagine playing a class that boring..

Oh, I don’t bunk a point as although I could, that’s just boring af.

Lucentfir – Who gives a kitten about meta? This game is supposed to be fun, but when you get a class that can just sit there and do not a lot and still win, there is something wrong and the only class that can do that is DH, so yeah, there is something wrong..

I’ve met a lot of player that try to play scrapper, its not often I meet one that I can’t beat, whereas I have a DH that takes zero skill to be able to beat even semi competent players. 8k + hours, well done, bet you still just stand on point, so you can probably less than halve that time as you may as well go make a cup of tea while ‘playing’.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a DH player… It takes NO skill to play a DH, even you have to admit that..

I can hold my own against a DH, but the point is, the DH doesn’t need any skill to hold, Scrapper does simply due to the insta traps and AoE they cause. Put more than one of them in a team and no chance. I will go up against any other class no problem, sometimes I will win, sometimes I’ll lose, but its always a good 1v1. DH, its just frustrating as hell (nearly as bad as a thief that just keeps running, although thief realising they can’t just disappear is always amusing to watch). kitten it, you got me off topic now.

When queueing in PVP as a guild doing missions, pause the mission timer as the queue lengths can be ridiculous and as a small(ish) guild, this really eats into the time and means more missions fail than should. (a 30m mission with 1-2 teams of 3 players each means about 8 minutes of queuing a team [actual vs average] and longer for teams of 4-5). Makes it very difficult for a small guild to flourish and attract/keep more members.

You know what, I don’t even mind the daze, its the fact that they can have more than one at a time that bugs the kitten out of me. Anyone on this thread tried playing a scrapper and going up against DH’s? If you play a ranged class and are saying they are not OP, well done, have a medal, but your view is useless to this thread. I don’t mind any other class, but the traps are OP, it really is that simple. I can even suggest an instant fix that wouldn’t mean them losing the daze ability, which is to only allow them to fire one at a time and CD doesn’t start until it has been fired off or 30s pass (then the first one disappears), that would fix the issue. I just can’t believe the developers can’t see this is simple to fix and would make even the total noobs think again about using this class to sit on a point.

Dawdler.8521:

Bezerker.2379:

This crap again? Traps are not OP.

And yet when scrapper gyros acted exactly like the DH traps with going on cooldown after used and dazing, they nerfed them 100ft below the ground. Hm. Odd.

Exactly this, I play scrapper, bit hard to stay out of melee range when melee is all you’ve got, why nerf other classes but let DH (still a fecking guardian, but lets play semantics) continue to be totally OP in a melee situation.

To the div saying reread the notes, I read them and understand them thanks, just because its a class you play, no need to be a kitten.

Reading todays release notes, why the hell would you buff Guardians even more? They are so OP in PVP already, what you should have done is simply only let the cooldown on traps fire when a trap was triggered or after 30 secs and then the previous trap disappears. Really don’t get why the Devs don’t see them as being far, far too OP..

You do realise the drop off after season 1 was because of the debacle over servers crashing and kicking over 1/4 of the community on a live one time event that was handled badly by ANet and ended up with a lot of very kittened off players, some of who are only returning to the game now, don’t you? If that had been handled better, it is much more likely that the player base would still be quite high. As for content, there is plenty to keep people interested in the current market, but you will always get drop off.

Most of those above type too much, [STOP] is a guild based on FoW (EU) looking for active social members, we have no requirements (except we ask you to represent) and are pretty chilled out, we help all kinds of players from total newbies to those coming back to the game, we have over 300 members, quite a few active ones as well . Catch me in game for more info etc..

EDIT: Oh yeah, we have a Lvl 57 guild hall (probably higher by the time you read this)

By far the worst thing about the keys at the moment is they only drop 2 items plus a bloody weapon fragment, at least give me three items for the price, if you want to add your latest collection on to it, then that should be separate from the three slots they have always given before!

I find adrenal mushroom very very useful, in fact, I think I’ve found all the masteries useful at different times. I also haven’t done all the activities and still have 12 mastery points left over (haven’t opened the raid ones yet though). I think I could still get another 15-20 of them if I really needed to.

A black Lion Chest Key that gives you three items, not 2 and whatever you are pushing at the moment, I feel cheated!

misterman.1530:

Unless someone else asked this…

The Ember Bay infinite Hearts – how do you get map completion? It appears I have to do all the Hearts in the same session along with the rest of the map exploration? If I only have an hour or so, this will be a tedious thing. I would not have spent ANY time doing these Hearts if I had known. Teach me not to read Release Notes I guess. Also each time I log in, since the Hearts are “incomplete”, I can’t access the Heart Vendors?

Edit: Oh, wait. Just read the release notes and it said nothing at all about how Infinite Hearts work with map completion. So…can we get an update to the Notes to ’splain these?

Yeah, you have to do all 5 hearts in same day once you have everything else.

DBZVelena.5186:

Ember bay is fun. cept for the 2 poi’s gated behind leyline gliding. not everybody have the skill or time to grind that mastery.

I have ley-line gliding and believe me, those two poi’s aren’t easy to get, in fact, I still haven’t managed it.

As for the map, it is ok, but can’t see myself spending a lot of time there, same as I didn’t in bloodstone fen, without a meta, its pointless and please get rid of the hearts..

I’ve not read all 13 pages, but a better version of the silver fed salvage o matic that didn’t cost more per use than a mystic salvage kit would be nice.