Guild Wars 2

I did say ‘across builds’ meaning not just condi, but you should not blindly stick to the same utils and 2nd weaps. I typically use sceptre/dagger and gs, with blood is power, suffer, epidemic and plaguelands with staff as an option depending on situation. That’s 4-7 condi transfers on a 20-sec cd or shorter. Don’t forget that u take 50% less condi damage in shroud too.

The other thing to bear in mind is that several of the corruption utils self-inflict the same condition, so if you time ur transfers you won’t be re-applying a condi you just got rid of.

Wouldn’t say ‘no’ to that 1sec resistance (which revs got on mallyx skills, but w/e ^^).

That’s kind-of the point of using master of corruption- you’re harming yourself a little to do more damage via reduced cooldowns on corruption skills.
We have lots of ways to use those additional condi’s either by transferring them to enemies-
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Putrid_Mark
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deathly_Swarm
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Consume_Conditions
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plague_Signet
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/%22Suffer!%22
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plague_Sending
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Necromantic_Corruption

removing them
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spiteful_Renewal
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shrouded_Removal
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grim_Specter

or converting them to boons (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Well_of_Power).

This is all without looking at armour runes and weapon sigils. At first i thought in a similar manner to yourself, then i realised the array of transfers we have across builds makes it work to our advantage. The only problem i occasionally run into is not having an enemy to transfer the condi to, but that’s what lifeforce is for

I also believe we should make the jump to 500 cooking. Food and utility buffs are a great way to complete a build which is just missing that ‘something’. Food buffs are also much more versatile and easy to use than stat-juggling/gear-changing etc.

The possibilities for ingredient-combining are also much greater than with any other craft- we could use those millions of +1 fractal infusions to create various stat-boosting recipes (which could be for fracs only or be more general with a boost inside fracs). I think 4-stat food is a great idea too; how it’s implemented is ofc up to anet as i’m not sure how the core-game-only accts would get HoT items…

Although we already have the food primer from the gemstore, having more hour-long food items would be welcome.

However, I’m strongly against making the journey to get from 400-500 as arduous as the OP. Levelling cooking (for me) was a horrible experience because it was not intuitive or as common-sense based as the other crafts. Although i used guides to minimise my costs for the other crafts, for cooking i had to use a guide to actually tell me what to make next in order to level it up because there are no hints or unlocks to indicate how to make progress (i hated having to make 25/50/100 of the same item just to move the progress bar).

It would also be nice to have a drop-down menu to filter what to make by stat, whether we have the recipe unlocked or not. At the moment, i use wiki’s food-by-stat tables because the only other way is to hover your cursor over the food item to see what it does.

But yeah, go for 500!

Sceptre has the same range as lb, and it’s symbol is on a shorter cd. It also benefits from the right-handed strength trait, which lb does not. The only advantage lb has over sceptre is aoe.

Are they talking abt weapon-swapping, ‘cos that’s keybound from the start (and ofc u can change the key)?

So this evening i’ve been experiencing prolonged ping spikes into the thousands which are making the game unplayable. I’m on a european server and it’s affecting some people but not others. See screens attached Don’t know what i can do about this; restarting the client does not work.

Dragonhunter with lb and sceptre/focus would work, same with necro staff_sceptre/dagger (condi build, obvs) and mes with gs/staff. Rev hammer isn’t too bad i find, tho slow aa is frustrating (shiro-impossible odds helps a bit) and there’s lb/rifle warr, tho i have no real experience of playing that at 80 as mine is a lowbie still^^. I’ve never played ele so i can’t comment. Good luck

Has anyone said a pink cloud like the one in Monkey Magic?

@Donari- i edited my post to include a screenie.

Do we know how much of a nerf to dungeon gold is happening? They are pretty unrewarding as they stand, so unless u need the title no-one will run them as it’s easier to get tokens and skins from the pvp reward track.

The pistol itself is nice (if far too big) but those horrible footprints put me right off. Slightly tempted by the axe, but idk what it’s footprints are, same with the staff (which at least is suited to a wider variety of professions than the bifrost).

I have 307 on my ranger alt- newest char, tomed from abt lvl 30 before the last trait patch hit. He has abt 20% map completion but all traits and skills unlocked. Guess my first elite char will be a druid, which is a shame as i was stoked for my necro but he only has 170 hp.

Proximity to target, toughness (not just armour value) and ressing are all high-priority aggro magnets. For example, Mai Trin will always aggro anyone who tries to res a downed player, no matter what the other members of the party do- she will make that player stop ressing by killing them.

The mordrem teragriffs have a wide hitbox- it extends a little past the sides of their claws when they charge and it’s very easy to be downed by them.

I like that the aggro mechanics in this game are obscure; it takes away from the trinity style of playing.

So, the item exists (it’s been datamined) but the standard recipe for making satchels does not work on this item Any chance it will be activated? I’m already looking forward to the ascended version and wonder if i can make a satchel of that too (don’t think so tho…).

Lmao olven, +1 for the attempted troll I’m not cherrypicking anything, just giving yet another example of misandrist writing in the game. Just because Caithe did steal, lie and betray the pact has nothing to do with her gender. Besides, Caithe IS a thief…

Gosh, i’ve finished the story so i must have got it. Probably used it and got nothing of note ^^

Firstly; over-analysing a thing is not a problem.

Secondly; if the facts that i perceive are not truth, then what are they?

Thirdly; i’m reasonably sure that the ‘more strong female characters’ was intentionally done by anet, as gw2 has been that way since the start. It seems i need to re-iterate: i do not mind that there are strong likeable female characters, i do mind that there is a lack of strong likeable male characters to balance them.

The rest of your points, while valid, largely fall under the marketing category. This game was marketed primarily at a north american audience, so anet had to choose which demographics to promote in the game to appeal to that audience.

Novu, i over-analyse everything anyway, it’s the type of person i am. Fyi, all i’m asking for (as an egalitarian) is balance in how both genders are portrayed.

Here you go, krall:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandry

What BL key reward? Where we supposed to get one, cos i didn’t…

It’s a simple english fail on the writers’ part. They gave in to marketing who like to promote cool-sounding things whether they are correct or not. I see it all the time, and in this case it’s a legitimate complaint especially because it implies the writer doesn’t know the difference and is therefore stupid (which is unlikely to be the case).

I see we have a new narrative director- great! Welcome to the team Leah

There is one issue i would love for you to address, when you have a slot for it. Time and time again we are subjected to pretty obvious misandry in LS episodes, the latest being the pathetic ‘master’ of wind. Can you please kill the misandrist writing in future LS episodes and ensure we have a more balanced view of genders and their interactions?

I’m getting the whole current feminist movement thing but really, i’m overexposed to that enough as it is without having to deal with it in my hobby as well.

As an egalitarian it’s really offensive to see male characters being consistently put-down and cuckolded in LS as well as generally in the game dialogues- i’m asking for realistic, strong male characters to balance out the profusion of realistic, strong female characters.

Thank you

In your original post u said ‘swap, weapon switch’ but having thought about it i believe that you’re swapping with your clone, not swapping weapons hence my initial confusion. Also, i’m assuming this is a pvp/wvw thing cos i don’t see any reference to any specific game mode in the thread (a ‘squishy target’ can be lots of things).

how can u swap weapons 3 times in less than 9 seconds? are u actually using runes of the warrior?

Wait, is that Brienne?

Why would u put a condition rune set on zerker armour?

For tot bag tagging just use a staff, well of suffering and epidemic along with a potion of halloween slaying. For running between doors i use a sceptre because of its’ range and attack speed (auto attack only).

I swap well of suffering out for well of corruption for the lich (as i want to convert the retal) and use sceptre/focus again for attack speed, frequent condi applications and the boon-strip from focus. My build is 6-6-0-0-2.

leman and spoj are forgetting one MAJOR thing: tagging mobs in events. GL doing that without staff, unless u want to wait 35 secs between wells of suffering….

Staff is essential for mob tagging as none of our other weapons can match it for aoe potential.

to the tune of…?

In the UK we don’t have Target, and (as i don’t really buy pc/console games anymore) i’m unaware if any of our retail outlets sell cards for gems. This change is a quintessential “WTF?” moment for me as it brings nothing positive. Go back to the old system, there was nothing wrong with it. If the devs are adamant the new system remains, keep it as an add-on to the old one.

I’m usually on the world boss train when i have time; something to kill every 15 mins gives u time to get there and time to clear inventory after the event before u go to the next one. I also to teq and wurm runs with gw2community and craft my piquant plant food to sell for 2gold+ every day, which means gathering in malchor’s leap. Whilst i’m there, i grab 3 open world chests and do dwayna or lyssa if they are up, plus grabbing ori and anc wood nodes and some omnoms and orrian truffles. If i want to burn myself out i’ll head to a t5/t6 dry top map (with gw2community) for a couple of hours.

There is LOADS to do- u’ll notice i haven’t mentioned dungeons or fracs yet because really, i like to do my own thing and not be too reliant on other people.

This won’t end well…

Really though, this is a bad idea and i have an example right now: Dry Top. The only reason people are on that map is to get the ridiculous amount of geodes needed to make the ambrite weapons, the few quartz/ori/ancient sapling (that always makes me laugh) nodes and some cacti. The other rewards are pretty niche (monkey king tonic, really?) and the amount of running around doing events to get to t5/t6 burns you out after a couple of hours.

@lhos- you want some ‘serious need for co-operation’? How about:
-karka queen
-Tequatl
-Triple trouble
-Marionette
-Assault knights
-TA aetherpath

…just off the top of my head.

Elitists who are impatient tend to have a perfectionist effect on those around them (and the game in general). We have them to thank for the ascended gear grind and lack of build diversity in pve; it’s play their way or you are inferior.

OT: We don’t need more methods of discriminating against casual players in a casual game.

I would make all aoe skills affect an unlimited number of players/mobs who happen to cross or get hit by the effect. Goodbye zergs in wvw, don’t let the door hit your kitten on the way out.

GW2 pve is a co-operative environment. Any form of dps meter is divisive, as evidenced in this thread. I don’t see how these polar ends can be reconciled, and imo a dps meter would be used to get rid of ‘bads’ instead of educating them, cos u know- a elitists’ time is more important than anyone elses…

This would screw over every class that isn’t an ele.

One way to implement it could be adding an aura mechanic to all classes which changed the damage type of all of their skills for a certain period of time (i’m thinking in minutes here, not just a crappy few seconds).

How to get the aura is up for discussion; i’m a little against it being via a consumable, because you’ll need inv space for each damage type.

Though this is something else which will need to be kept out of starter zones…

@ those above: they just had to implement the patch at a different time. Stop putting words in my mouth. If anet had patched up an hour or two before teq all drama would have been avoided. They screwed-up the timing to make hundreds of (if not a thousand or so) players miss a major event when it could all have been avoided with a little forethought.

Anyway, it’s all done and dusted now; getting back to my time-gated crafting, time and level-gated new char levelling and AR-gated fractals…

I would like all of the downed skills to be available when the downed state is unlocked. Though if, WAI or not, you can rally solely by doing damage (which is both new and inaccurate of the rest of the game) perhaps that is a justification for the later downed-state unlocks.

Le sigh. Do i have to spell it out for you guys? Are you the people the NPE was designed for? It’s a major event which hundreds of people prepare for and organise (through several languages) that is on a timer set by anet. Is it really to much to ask anet to respect their own major event timers? If the servers had remained up (as usual during a patch) there would likely have been no problems but no, servers down; daily chance at teq weapon skins gone. Not sure if i can make it any simpler to understand.

@tobias- we got the 10-minute notification 20 mins before teq was due to spawn. We thought “Fine, we’ll do teq and then log to patch up.” but no, cos the servers went down. Teq spawns 3 times a day, but really it’s only once a day if u have a job; same with triple trouble and karka queen. They set the timers in the first place, and they decided to screw us out of our daily teq run with the timing of the patch. I wouldn’t have minded as much if it was a minor boss (or even karka which has crappy loot) but it wasn’t. And what ‘broken stuff’ do you refer to? The trait system? ^^

4 levels from 0-400? What happened to the missing 3 levels?? Seems like someone set an ants’ nest in this feature pack….

Sounds like they fixed a bug. Steal has 2 parts- the teleport (which activates on-steal traits) and the bundled skill acquisition, which requires a target in range. If your target is too far away you’ll still port but not get the stolen skill. I don’t see a problem with this.

Tequatl and triple trouble are not every hour. When the patch hit, it cost me the chance to do those events for that day and everyone else who was preparing for them. So anet screwed me several times with that patch ^^

Probably because the ranger doesn’t get access to f1 skill until lvl 7 (i think, could be higher) so there is no point in those mobs existing.

Staff #1 and dagger #2 have virtually no sound effects anymore, which i really miss. I loved the ‘ahwawhah’ on staff #1 and the leeching chirrups on dagger #2 and would love it if they were brought back to their former state. After all, FGJ is a much worse offender yet it remains.

Don’t warriors get to weapon-swap every 4.5 secs or something (traited)? If the new sigil has no icd apart from weapon-swap that will be OP indeed for warriors.

This is just breathtakingly bad. Are they catering to 5-year olds now? I wasn’t going to comment but the no-dodge, no condi’s is just massively retrograde thinking. People don’t start learning to swim in 2 inches of water! The SOONER ESSENTIAL GAME MECHANICS are introduced to new players THE BETTER.

insert epic facepalm image

When will anet understand that we are not chinese and that things which work for that market will have difficulty translating to EU/NA markets? If anything, our model should be retained and rolled-out to the chinese market as it’s obviously more advanced. Why do the clients have to be merged anyway? (oh ofc, monehhhhhh…).

Have you been to Orr, ever? Pretty much all of the mobs there give conditions, some have area-denial, lots with aoes (pbaoes and ranged/targetted). Of course none of this matters if ur a zerker warrior as the mobs don’t have enough toughness to last more than a couple of seconds.

As long as any other class can overwrite your condi’s (or u lose all of ur condi dmg when another class takes the stack) then yes, it will still be poor in pve.

I don’t get this at all. Why would u want to craft dungeon armours? Do u want asc dungeon armor? How would that even work?