Guild Wars 2

It’s just really frustrating that most instanced content cannot be rejoined. The instance should be left open for cases like this. Dungeons, fractals, and I think even raids allow one to re-enter if they have been disconnected. Why not other instanced content? Then this issue would be, at most, a minor inconvenience.

It can also be frustrating for mapwide meta events, getting disconnected and joining a dead map is not fun.

Hmm, don’t believe I’ve ever seen the “cannot connect to the login server” error before…

Do any other players happen to experience a lot of disconnects where it kicks you back to the character select screen (code 7) during instanced content? This has been bugging me for a while, and I’m not certain of the cause.
This thread made me think of it, and as mentioned in that thread, most recently (and a time or two it has been attempted in the past) the final instance with Mordremoth, for the Migraine achievement… usually the instance is fairly long, and it feels like I get kicked out around 20 to 30 minutes in.

I am just wondering if this is isolated or not.

This happens to me in a lot of instances that take a moderate amount of time. I get kicked fairly often from the final Mordremoth fight trying to get the Migraine achievement with friends, among a good number of other instances.

I agree that it is not an immediate issue, but, I fear it will become one down the road. Even now, T6 on Dry Top is very uncommon, and it feels like the Verdant Brink meta has a very low success rate.

Starting with Living World Season 2, there has been a trend of maps that have a map-wide series of events or objectives that require a fairly high player population to progress or be successful. I know myself and many other players have enjoyed this design, and coordinating events map-wide with many other players can be enjoyable, especially if they end in a boss or series of bosses, like the Silverwastes.

There is a problem, however, that I feel has become more and more pronounced as the game continues to grow, and more of maps of this type are released. When Heart of Thorns launched, every single map that launched with the expansion contained a map-wide meta event, and everything was fine for the most part because the content was fresh, new, and everyone was doing it. Poor Silverwastes and Dry Top began to experience lulls of downtime where the meta events had difficulty progressing and failing due to lower player populations, unless it was during peak time. As the game continues to be developed, this issue will only continue to grow.

With the arrival of Path of Fire, I imagine the difficult map events for Heart of Thorns will reach a similar state to that of Silverwastes and Dry Top, where one needs to log in during peak weekend times in order to have a shot at completing the metas, or, organize events to do so, as some groups have taken it upon themselves to do to reach T6 in Dry Top via Reddit, for example.

This issue is especially dangerous to new players who may not have the means to organize in such a way or cannot play during peak times for whatever reason. Imagine we’re another expansion or two down the road, and a new player needs to get Heart of Maguuma masteries, but the maps are dead… what a nightmare!

I’m sure there are many possible solutions to this issue, but here’s a couple that I feel are most likely to be considered:

1.) Scale back the difficulty of the maps based on player population
This one would be difficult/expensive to implement for what is effectively content that is no longer profitable. It also does not offer incentive for veterans to play this content.

2.) Do nothing.
Maybe this is a non-issue that is being blown out of proportion, and nothing needs to be done.

3.) Offer mystic coins for completion of the meta.
Players complain about the lack of availability of mystic coins, perhaps add a reward once per day for receiving the coins, much like the Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly event, or, add the events randomly to the pool of dailies and have the reward be a mystic coin, much like the mystic forger daily.

Feedback, thoughts, opinions, all are welcome! Thank you for taking the time to read my thread.

I have extremely high hopes for HoT, and I believe it will take the game in an all-new direction. GW2 inspires innovation!

So I know this was a thing before the trait update patch, to have a rabid build that focuses on having clones crit to deliver conditions, but now it seems like all the condition traits are based on shatters.

Is there a non-shatter condition build still? or is that not a thing anymore. Does anyone have any post-specialization builds they’d like to recommend?

This has been suggested a million times over, and I feel like most would agree with you, but I really doubt anet is going to change it in the near future. Would take a lot of work to be sure.

I also would appreciate being able to swap out my utility while it’s on cooldown – not that I mean I should be able to access my utility immediately as if it were off cooldown, but just allow it to swap and the cooldown to countdown like normal. Just a quality of life improvement.

I can’t see any drawbacks to this, and it is a great suggestion.

+1!

Couldn’t we just as easily make capes a cultural backpiece? They’re iconic to human characters specifically, maybe the other races can have something that’s iconic to them that only they can wear.

Healing Power and Toughness.

I know that this question could have a lot of answers, and it’s contextually important to know what class and build, etc.

I’m playing a might stacking warrior, with healing signet, and healing shouts. My armor is a blend of zerker, cleric, and zealot (a pretty even blend, at that), didn’t opt for vit because of warrior’s naturally high hp pool.

I am asking because I want to know which infusions to slot into my defensive infusion slots later on, I know that these infusions make little difference (5 stats per slot? so tiny…) but they DO add up (40 total extra points, could make a difference!)

I’m curious as to what people think is overall more worth it between the two stats, all opinions welcome ( I mean, except for the obligatory “why not just go full zerker?” :P)

I remember suggesting this a little under half a year ago, but it was shot down because some people thought it took “skill” away from the game to have it in.
OP:
“So, I don’t know if this annoys anyone else, but for ground-targeted skills, if I’m trying to do something really fast, like a teleport or shadow step, it irritates me to no end if I accidentally click just barely outside the range and it completely cancels the skill, so I have to try again. Would it be possible to add in a game option to allow skills cast outside of their range to instead act as though they were simply cast at their max range?

Does anyone have any questions, comments, agreements or disagreements? Would love to hear it."

You can earn it… with money

The easiest way to get it is to go in with two people. Have one stand back and plink at her with a fast ranged attack, have the other run up to her, when they get close, she’ll try to knock them back, then you dodge roll, and run up to her again and stomp. The ranged auto will keep her from ever using the shield since it interrupts her. Also, both players will get the achieve

Yes. Besides, it’d still be cheaper to lvl another profession to 500 than to pay 3~15x as much for mats to make the backpiece.

Why do you think bag slots and bank tabs are available for purchase in the gem store? ;D

“restrict ranged damage based on character’s height”? what do you even mean by that? o.O

anyone have an idea of how long the outage will be? I wanted to buy some lowbie gear ;~;

Edit: of course, not a minute after I post this it comes back up xP oh well.

I pretty much ONLY ever use it to chase down a fleeing opponent, and even then it’s a hit or miss skill at best, and its only use comes from the cripple

ugh man, that song is just way too awful x.x I do love the anime though.

I don’t think anyone would argue against wanting new skills, especially new weapon skills. The biggest limitation is how quickly Anet can produce said skills, and balance them accordingly… and considering all that’s been added to the game since launch is one all-class heal, and 8 class-specific heals, I’d say that new weapons skills are a loooooooooooooooong way off :P

I only pvp just enough to get my 40 points for the monthlies, by strictly doing the pvp dailies. (Playing 3 rounds is always the one that takes the longest for the dailies, and getting 20 wins is always the one that takes the longest for the monthlies)

It could work if it compacted all chops into one bite, so the setting of the cage animation could be just about as long as 3 chops.

I haven’t kept up with the politics of WvW. I don’t know what servers do or did what, I didn’t really care up until last week when we were getting double teamed by YB and EB. I went to look on the forums to see what caused such an alliance… and I’ve come to find out that pretty much everyone hates SBI o.O

It seems to me that SBI has a track record of gloating and being kitteny, which naturally would stir up anger from other servers. Now, I dunno about you, but I don’t really like being a villain. I don’t gloat on the battlefield unless it was a long, hard, very evenly matched duel that I barely managed to win (which usually just means I do /sleep next to their body or something silly), and I certainly don’t brag about our servers’ strength on the forums.

I would like to try and take the first step in rebuilding our server’s reputation by apologizing to any server we may have upset or trash talked due to some vocal players and their “chest thumping” (a term I see thrown around a lot on here), and I would especially like to apologize for any server that has been griefed or had to deal with cheaters (this is not a problem exclusive to SBI, and the fact that people even do it is disgusting, but I have had heard reports of rogue SBI’ers cheating and griefing other servers.)

WvW community deserves better than this. I hope in time we can be forgiven. Cheers, and have a good final week of WvW season 1.

Thanks, Veron

My primary concern is how EXPENSIVE mighty infusions are, for a mere 5 power 5 agony resist. I’m worried that any changes to these or possible upgrades will be even more bewilderingly expensive than before

Devik.9852:

Karizee.8076:

You won’t lose anything. The change lets you acquire more.

http://i.imgur.com/w7cZQZn.jpg

Everyone keeps asking the same question. I don’t get why people cant read.. it doesn’t say they’re nurfing anything but instead as you said – you won’t lose anything.

… and I’m not sure if you read this thread. >.> I never claimed anything was getting nerfed, nor was I asking if anything was getting nerfed. I was asking if the OLD infusions were being changed – please refer to the screenshot I attached.

._. will be super sad if all the money i invested in my mighty infusions was wasted, lol

That was most unhelpful :/ Take a closer look at the screenshot I provided. The “offensive” infusion slot is clearly on the top – as opposed to the diagram that you showed me, additionally, the mighty infusion in said offensive infusion slot is adding 7 power and 6 agony resist. They normally add 5 power and 5 agony resist. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mighty_Infusion

I was watching through the twitch preview of the new fractal stuff, and i noticed that the Mighty Infusion that the thief was wearing at the time was giving him 7 Power and 6 Agony Resist.

I was wondering, are new infusions being added? or are the current ones being updated…? I spent a lot on my current mighty infusions, so I can’t really imagine how much MORE stronger versions of it would be.

Edit: Realized this should be in the Fractured subforum. Feel free to move this, mods.

Cries Of Sorrow.5864:

Very immature response from a mature person, i think you lack the integrity to judge wether this discussion is mature or not.

No, I agree with Mad Queen Malafide. Anytime someone brings up the “If you don’t like it, don’t play it” argument, then they basically have no argument. People don’t want to simply stop playing a class they like because it’s underpowered or undesirable in parties, etc, they want the game to be balanced so that NOT every optimal setup is the same zerk guard/warr/mes fiasco we’ve seen since the launch of the game.

Basically, by saying you don’t care that a class is underpowered, then you’re actually saying you don’t give two kittens about class balance… and considering this thread is about class balance, well… you put it together :P

Yeah, I happened to be sick the day that the gw2 event was going on so i went to pax the day after… then i learned about the mini mr. sparkles codes, and was super sad

WvW has a plethora of rewards, including its own unique badges of honor. It doesn’t really need glory.

Activities, on the other hand, give like… what, one of those little chests per game where you get a blue and 300 karma? I don’t think glory is off the table, albeit it should be a reduced amount compared to spvp.

I thought the reason they said that they were changing how glory was earned was to normalize glory gain per game mode… it felt like it was implied that activities should also be getting glory gain.

I find that if you just keep playing a class, those hints eventually pop. Usually at about level 3 and a half, but sometimes up to 5.

Thanks, lovely answer <3 That’s all I needed to know!

So no sigils work on clones at all, except for ones that apply might or add a stacking buff? Like, Sigil of Malice and Sigil of Bursting wouldn’t affect the duration or potency of any conditions that clones would inflict?

Heya all,

Does anyone happen to know which sigils affect or work with clones? Additionally, which sigils do people like to use in clone heavy builds? Looking for suggestions on condition builds, but power builds are welcome also

Karizee.8076:

FluffyFox.2756:

I don’t think the trinity is the root of the problem. I believe that people could care less about the trinity in and of itself, but people DO want to feel like they’re doing something to contribute to the party in a unique way; Something to make someone feel desirable, as it were.

It is my opinion that the reason people get bored with combat in this game is because there are no adequate replacements for the trinity. The whole “DPS, Control, Support” triad we have currently going on is fundamentally flawed, and it basically just boils down to DPS. Additionally, combo fields were meant to make combat more engaging, but the whole combo system is a bit of a bore. I hardly pay attention to fields that are not water or fire, and anything but a blast finisher is basically pointless, or has so little effect that it’s not worth the effort to really do.

Common misconception. That’s what dps is in other trinity-based games. Tank stands in front and takes damage, healer stands behind and heals damage, dps just stands there and does their dps rotation.

Here you have damage mitigation and healing abilities as well as straight dps. The interactive nature of the combat makes it significantly more interesting, I can combo my own fields or any other players. Of course this becomes more evident as you move into the more difficult content, most open world content and a few lower level dungeons don’t require that level of coordination.

Never going back to boring trinity games.

I don’t disagree with you, I think this combat system is a step in the right direction.

That being said, I don’t think it’s quite there yet. I’ve gotten numerous people to purchase this game and play because I told them how much I liked it, and what I liked about it. Only a few have really stayed and continue to play, and going back and asking those that have moved on why they quit, it’s because they felt the combat was too dull and they didn’t have any incentive to do anything except dps in groups, so they never felt “needed” for anything.

I don’t think the trinity is the root of the problem. I believe that people could care less about the trinity in and of itself, but people DO want to feel like they’re doing something to contribute to the party in a unique way; Something to make someone feel desirable, as it were.

It is my opinion that the reason people get bored with combat in this game is because there are no adequate replacements for the trinity. The whole “DPS, Control, Support” triad we have currently going on is fundamentally flawed, and it basically just boils down to DPS. Additionally, combo fields were meant to make combat more engaging, but the whole combo system is a bit of a bore. I hardly pay attention to fields that are not water or fire, and anything but a blast finisher is basically pointless, or has so little effect that it’s not worth the effort to really do.

Hi Jon, I know I already asked this on page 1, but I really would like to know if Thief sword/dagger #3 will be getting any attention. Recap:

“If thief sword is going to get a cast time for infiltrator’s return, would it be possible to look into flanking strike and larcenous strike again? Ever since it was nerfed to only steal one boon, I find myself almost never using it, due to the fact that boon durations are generally very short, they are re-applied very easily, and there’s no control whatsoever on which boon you will be stealing anyways.

I do agree that it was too powerful at 2 boons stolen per larcenous strike, but I find it far too weak at 1 boon stolen… do you think the skill could be modified in some other fashion so that it’s not such a waste of initiative anymore?"

If thief sword is going to get a cast time for infiltrator’s return, would it be possible to look into flanking strike and larcenous strike again? Ever since it was nerfed to only steal one boon, I find myself almost never using it, due to the fact that boon durations are generally very short, they are re-applied very easily, and there’s no control whatsoever on which boon you will be stealing anyways.

I do agree that it was too powerful at 2 boons stolen per larcenous strike, but I find it far too weak at 1 boon stolen… do you think the skill could be modified in some other fashion so that it’s not such a waste of initiative anymore?

Thanks! I found that thread helpful

So, I’ll admit, way back when the game was new, I gave WvW a try or two for a few days’ span. I didn’t really care for it.

I’ll also admit that I came back to WvW for the achieves… but, as a more experienced and knowledgeable player than I was back then, I am very much so enjoying WvW. I will continue to play it even after I get all these achieves done.

I wanted to extend my thanks to ArenaNet for giving me a reason to revisit WvW, and show me what a fun game mode it could be.

I would also like to ask all the awesome, dedicated WvW players to cut us PvE’ers some slack You never know when one of us will try to become one of you!

@ Funky: I agree that it might be considered unbalanced, but once again, Mending already heals for more, heals 3 conditions, and with the trait, heals 7 conditions all at once. I don’t see the problem in letting the other heal skill do the same.

@ Deathspike: Ah, if only I had some acrobatics on my thief, I’d test it myself :/ I’ll try to think of other classes that have traits that modify healing skills.

thief and necro have not had it always. It was given to them on certain skills a few months back. It is relatively new.

Edit: Beat me to it, Dendail

:O Are you saying that other classes don’t have traits that modify their healing skills? Also, Warriors already have Mending, which cures 3 conditions and heals for more than Antitoxin Spray does… so, I’m not really sure that’s a valid argument. Wait… no, it’s not a valid argument at all. o.O This is simply a bug.

That’s not really how skills and traits interact with each other. Even if a skill says it only heals a specific condition, and then a trait modifies that type of skill to remove another type of condition, it would still apply, regardless of the fact that the original skill specifies only one thing.

Nah, anet don’t hate warriors :P (I know you’re just being sarcastic). I don’t main a warrior, but my gf does, and we were both looking over the heals and comparing them, and we noticed that her trait doesn’t work with the new heal, which is clearly a bug.