Guild Wars 2

For the people using the reasoning along the lines of, “Omg I have 10x the hours of my friend, but they have more precursor drops than me!!!!”: you need to realise that your number of hours are not equivalent to the amount of time you have spent doing things that you COULD obtain a precursor from.
For the sake of this explanation, imagine the drop rate of precursors in WvW is 3 times that of a level 80 OW PvE area. A WvW player may spend, let’s say, 1k hours in game and obtains 3 precursors (can’t even imagine this actually happening, it’s just anecdotal). Now, his avid PvE player friend may spend 1k hours wandering around in OW PvE and only obtain 1 precursor. Just because they’ve spent the same amount of time in game, it doesn’t mean they’ve spent the same amount of time doing the same things.
I hope this makes sense. My point is some people with apparent 4k+ hours who are complaining about the RNG ingame and ‘rigged accounts’, etc., could have spent half that time afking and have not taken that into consideration. This is where I believe the large discrepancy between ‘hours played’ and ‘precursors dropped’ comes from.

I’m really, really annoyed at the chrono nerfs and the imbalance between professions in general. I liked HoT itself, but the latter updates released (‘balance’ changes) seemed to completely destroy some builds (shatter chrono) while nerfing ‘OP’ builds (chronobunker). I don’t see why it’s really this hard for ANet to balance their game in a way such as BnS has, the game I am fleeing to now. I will have limited game time (in comparison to what I previously had) in gw2 from now on until the obvious, and major, problems with WvW and PvP balance are fixed/changed (or removed, because it seems like that’s their fix for a lot of problems).

Bump this happened to me this morning. Sick of small issues like this not being fixed, I don’t wanna waste my currencies… :L

This is a collection item part of each weapon type’s ‘Machined’ collection. The collection can be unlocked by trading airship parts, ley line crystals and lumps of aurillium as well as 2/3 reclaimed metal scraps to the vendor at the end of the Dragon’s Stand meta event for a plated weapon. Specialisation collections require the corresponding machined weapon type, therefore it is kinda part of the specialisation collection (indirectly).

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this topic, or if anyone else has already written about this, but I may as well try to raise this to the devs’ attention.

Mistward armour is character bound on acquire.

Yesterday I started collecting my Mistward armour (I have completed all the pieces, apart from the helm of which I am missing the insignia and Chak Gerent item), assuming the exotic armor would be account bound, like various other equips, e.g. Glorious armour. I collected one piece on my guardian and the other four on my mesmer, believing I would be able to transfer them to my new, shiny revenant. Today I was met with the red text ‘this item is bound to another character: …’ and was quite kittened off. I know most with reply with responses such as ‘learn to read’, or ’it’s only exo!’, however I see no reason for the armor to be character bound in an account wide collection! Others I have talked to while (nearly) completing the Tangled Depths meta event have had the same issue.

Tl:dr – Devs, please make Mistward armor account bound on acquire, and character bound on equip.

@OP, maybe you should do some research? Legendary armor is NOT REQUIRED FOR RAIDS. You can obtain materials for legendary armor FROM RAIDS. Not only this, but it is not a stat increase and just offers a good looking skin (I hope) and QoL features (stat swapping). Don’t comment on how a game works if you are just spouting out misinformation, thanks.

Pandaman.4758:

As stated by others already, this is exactly why I don’t participate in the beta.

My luck is already terrible enough that I’ve played 644 days without a single precursor, Tequatl Hoard, or any exotic weapons worth more than 4g. Why in the world would I risk actually getting any of those on a beta character knowing full well it’ll go up in smoke as soon as the beta ends?

To test the game for bugs and give feedback before release and have a chance at playing the new elite specs. In my opinion you should make no progress to reward tracks AT ALL on beta characters because the rewards are useless anyway. They just end up cluttering your inventory.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Starfall.6425:

Well the ammounts of exo and asc drops is so high in BW2 and BW3 (I wasn’t in BW1) that it is so obvious that this is intended. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth xD

If the amounts of exo and asc drops are so high, why didn’t I get any?

Maybe you’re actually getting them on your main acc and not beta? :p

Starfall.6425:

Well the ammounts of exo and asc drops is so high in BW2 and BW3 (I wasn’t in BW1) that it is so obvious that this is intended. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth xD

puts on tin foil hat

On a beta character after 3 hours of PvP, I decided to open some reward chests. First ever asc armor drop from PvP :’) My heart goes to anyone who had prec drops on beta characters from anything but the mystic toilet. <3

Yes, this is a QQ post.

I don’t want hate and attention, only to hear if this has happened to anyone else. :p

I like this idea! I always find myself gearing up a character, then not enjoying the playstyle and just end up using it as a ‘mule’.

Obsidian Sanctum.

I think you could ‘get rekt’ quite a few times, regardless of wps – IF they have told us the truth about the difficulty spike.

Easiest solution, in my opinion, would be to allow you to permanently add a rune/sigil to a legendary armor/weapon. If this does happen with legendary armor, gen 1 leg weapons should also be updated with the same function, just with sigils. It would make the stat swap seem more ‘worthwhile’.

Grabs the popcorn

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but maybe (just maybe) alacrity would fit into the concept of the skill? Even if the alacrity was short duration, it would wipe out the possibility of someone using an ‘incorrect skill’ at the ‘wrong time’. Yes, they did say that alacrity would probably be Chronomancer/Mesmer exclusive – it’s just something to think about.

Couldn’t resist replying to your post while browsing the forums on my phone First of all, concerning your armor, either assassin’s or ‘zerker armor is favoured by mesmers across all game modes (unless you are running a condi build). I would recommend staying with your ’un-upgraded’ rare armor until you have enough gold/tokens to afford either assassin’s (for reflects, as only the reflect damage is ‘bounced’, not the crit chance,) or berserker exo armor with whatever superior runes are meta at the moment. The runes I am using are scholar, but that is mainly because I have an ele and I like to swap asc armor between the two.
Staff may be ok for OPEN WORLD PvE, but I find its power dps terrible in comparison to that of the sword. Most mesmers who want to out the most damage in dungeons run sword/x + sword/x, fitting the situation. If you didn’t know, you can hold the same main hand weapon in both sets without having to buy two weapons and just slot in your two off hands. All this may be unclear to you, but i’d recommend looking at a dedicated dungeon guide for mesmers, which I think could be found in this forum.

Good luck playing mesmer, rolling one after my guardian reached level 80 was one of my best choices in the game.

Kal Spiro.9745:

FoRcExVoRtEx.9548:

inb4 someone complains about Zephyrites stuck in DT

You missed it by five minutes actually, it was the very first reply.

Ever thought of the time it took to type an answer and actually upload it from a mobile connection? No? Ok.

inb4 someone complains about Zephyrites stuck in DT

I would love SAB and Festival AND Pavillion to all come back a month before HoT. I understand how that could be difficult if ANet is working solely on the expansion, however I think we would all greatly appreciate it Maybe they could come back with a new stage of Queen’s Gauntlet? Please? PLEASE?

I would love to join you, as I am very supportive of the chrono traits; they’re excellent! However, I am on Gandara (EU) ;( I’d love to see how it goes for you! Be sure to record

Eggs.3142:

While were at it lets get them to change Chronomancer, as it doenst fit my personal style of Mesmer play. its too tech sounding.

Mate, the spec is literally what it’s named: a Chronomancer. Just play mesmer if it ’doesn’t fit your personal style’. Also, please don’t start the arguments we are having over in the mesmer forums in the guardian forums about mesmer being ‘downgraded’ without its spec trait tree (which is completely false).

Sorry for this, a load of things rushed through my head when I read this comment.

Too many to count. Just change it.

I doubt you are the only one, but I hate it. Technically all of us are dragonhunters, even the chronomancer is a ‘dragonhunter’, and the name does not even fit how the spec. looks anyway with its animations etc.. Even if it is not completely suited to the playstyle of the first elite spec for Guardian, I would have loved to have a more Guardian-like name, such as Zealot or Paragon.

To the people who say mesmers are kicked from dungeon parties – you’re wrong. Yes, I main mesmer and yes, I don’t do dungeons constantly. However, mesmer brings utilties such as reflects and portals to parties that some ‘pros’ highly favor. You could say, ‘Oh, why don’t you use guardian then? They have a reflect!’ but the duration of a guardian’s reflect is puny compared to a mesmer’s (feedback, focus 4, double phatasmal warden using healing signet). Often a mesmer can deal massive damage just through assassin’s armor and reflects.

I now actually may do map completion on my mesmer xD

‘Signet of Inspiration may grant passive swiftness and one extra boon. We are trying that out right now’

- YES YES YES!!! If this is what I think it is, the devs have finally blessed mesmers with a standard skill <3

C’mon, at least just remove the achi from the meta achi/give us a temporary means of getting the kittening locket. Sick of this now, it’s putting me off collections.

I think having Glint as a specialization legend would be not only cool, but would make sense too. Think about the story and ’Glint’s Secret’ in the Maguuma Jungle!

Don’t worry, ANet will have thought about all of this. I hope you realise how long this expansion has been in development (a very long time)

I would pay double the price for a set of armor skins that looked identical to this. Just putting that out there.

C’mon, there must a be a trend somewhere… I think.

Still not fixed, seriously ANet? This is blocking my progress to my main goal at the moment, Bioluminescence.

I am confused on this too, as the class’s rotation could finish very quickly and leave the rest of the battle with low damage autos… I’m wondering, what time do they measure it over?

To add on this, surely if people were looking for ‘achievements’ to buy, wouldn’t they look for the name of the achi, not ‘SW’? Something seems off when you say that.

And if this doesn’t cover the problem you are having, you should consider finding another means of getting gold, other than selling achis.

If it is such of a big deal and means so much to you, just contact the support team directly. Also, for kitten’s sake, just find a decent, active guild that offers taxis to maps that you need. It is a lot faster and if you have a problem with the people using lfg, you can avoid them. Just use some sense.

I was quite disappointed myself by the video showing only a shield on mesmer. However, I believe that we should not assume anything until it is released officially (i.e. through the constant blog posts we are getting, which I love). I have not lost hope in the balancing/specialization team, yet – I am still holding an open mind until it is properly announced.

40-60 with GemFX Does drop down to 30 sometimes in large scale fights/zergs, but it’s not that noticable.

I agree with the OP; sick of seeing great costume skins to be wasted on… costumes.

This isn’t really an answer to your question, but I had a similar situation… I started with a guardian when I first started playing the game, got him to 80, geared him out. However, playing guardian did get boring after a while (maybe because of the simple class mechanics?), so I decided to try mesmer. I loved it. Repeat this for about 5 professions, and that’s where I’m at now To be honest, eles can fit just about all roles, but like you said – they can only specialize at one at a time (apart from cele builds in pvp). I would think about what you like doing in gw2 most, then decide on a profession that fits your needs!

Wasn’t expecting you to be so indepth, but as I mentioned I realised some of those reasons as I was writing it xD Thanks for clearly stating the, now obvious, reasons for people like me @Dreamslayer

Call me rude, but I have not read through all 8 pages of this discussion… yet I still wish to provide a suggestion. I know there must be some reason against something as simple as this, but why hasn’t a 1 to 1 trading function been added? It would reduce scamming dramatically (if sufficient anti-scamming techniques are used) and would completely blank out the need of using mail to reduce trading post costs. Yes, this would lead to huge BL economy changes, but it’s just a suggestion. Be free to critisize this however you want – as I have been writing this, even I have thought of the repercussions.

On a slightly different topic, whatever weapon(s) mesmer does get, it should better have the new skill tech. we have seen on Rev. If not, I will have something to say.

Why can’t the patch just work? ;(

Northen UK and I’m stuck on initializing. Halp.

My client is stuck on ‘initializing’… Seems to have downloaded the update, but the client is bugged :/ Anyone had any ideas?

i don’t know any mesmers who run bunker builds in *PvP

I’m sorry OP, but I just read somewhere that you were bunkering in stealth. Now, if this was WvW, I would understand slightly more. If this is PvP, no. Just no. Even if it was in WvW, you are either a dodgy PU condi or power mes with a sense of escape/kittening confusion, or you just flat out shatter. I don’t know any mesmers who run bunker builds; we just don’t have the sustain.

P.S. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you cannot hold points with stealth/invuln

I would love to be able to go duel pistol – gs phantasm in WvW and PvP <3 That would be amazing