Guild Wars 2

The music (I suspect you refer especially to Ensolyss boss fight) is from Living Story Season 1, final chapter, when we battle Scarlet in Lion’s Arch.

The tune is Battle on the breachmaker from the awesome Lena Chappelle and yeah, is darn good

Enjoy!

sophiewhite.3149:

Astralporing.1957:

sophiewhite.3149:

reikken.4961:

it’s very good design.
ensures you always have something to work towards without massive powercreeping

honestly the stat boost is so tiny its not worth it.

I remember when people were saying the same about ascended gear.

from what i hear its like 200 power or something. thats nothing. ascended gear gives way more boosts.

Well, a food stack is lower than that, is not necessary, but is a nice help.
So yeah, is not game-changing, but if you haven’t anything to spend on, might just improve your stats

Medic has no K and MediKit has no C, otherwise you get filtered in mekitten
Anyway yes MediKit is, even after the rework, totally unusable. If you are going duo with your GF use either Healing Turrent or Medi Gyro. HT is a bit more healing and 2 condi clense, but the gyro still gives good healing, especially if you combo the Toolbelt personal water field and hammer#3.

About the kit, i really hope they finally rework it to be a blaster, maybe with added support (#1 aoe sustained healing, #2-#5 skills like aoe resistence, aegis, burst healing ofc with proper coolowns based on skill power)

When HoT came out I’ve played GW2 the most in my entire 3y, having great fun
Atm I’m finishing off the achievements left while making, after Astralaria, my HOPE, without rush now!

Standard “can i haz ur stuff?” is standard

EtD is a pulse and is supposed to go throught evades, is not the skill itself, is the game mechanic of pulses (like immagine if you pulse boons and cannot appy them because your ally dodged…).

Anyway is not that a single evade would change much if you melee a revenant in EtD, you maybe skip what, 1-2 stacks? Such a big deal…
Counterplay is obvious, range and CC since mallyx has no stun breaks (yeah rev can get stab on dodge but the duration is not absurd and outside shiro we can’t dodge much).

Xetu.7341:

Brokenshard.8346:

i love it

sometime while gilding that sound hawk weeeeeeeeeeed !!

GOOD WING
GOOD ANIMATION
GOOD SOUND HAWK
PS. GOOD ANET xD

Everyone saying they get a hawk sound when opening the gilder, I don’t. oO Why?

something muted in sound options?

Cuddle Time.4027:

http://www.louisaheinrich.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/inigo-montoya_that-word.jpg
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pay-to-win
Having a paid expansion that unlocks all content is not pay-to-win. Ask for more allowance next month. Seriously though, when will these young gamers get it? Expansions are almost always paid content that people work overtime to push out. “Pay-to-win” means you can buy definite advantages over other people by spending more and more money. Games like Archeage are a perfect example of this. Seriously, go try AA and tell me how p2w this game is, please.

this pretty much. learn2call things with their right name

Look at this video, it should explain everything
https://youtu.be/zOkoeKJnggk

It’s simply the best heal period.
Deploy > overcharge > xplode when waterfield is up is the biggest chunk of heal possible + removes 2 condis + is aoe.

ElixH is good especially in HGH build, i just dislike the rng nature of his boons. Heal is just a bit behind HT.

AED is actually good but is situational. I liked to use it in superglassy build but is not reliable.

Medikit is plain bad and need a rework. Again. Make it a mediblaster already Anet!

Gyro…is a gyro…with all his problems. Might seen some usage if the heal wasn’t that subpar

Not enough appreciation threads. Ty OP! I feel the same.
Despite some needed balancing I’m very satisfied with the expansion and can’t wait for future updates ;-)

I honestly dont remember perfectly since i’ve finished it in the first week of hot but here a few tips.

Item you need mobs to drop actually drop only with the relative collection is opened (there’s the proper opening object).

Same goes for the item you need to buy from hot NPCs.

If I remember correctly you unlock those collection by unlocking and finishind each of the specializations (5 base + 1 elite).

Drop rates are actually good, you should just spend few minutes in the proper area to have them (if they are from mobs).

Look at the wiki if you have some doubts

Ad Infinitum is still not acquirable, so it was Unbound.
That said yes, sometimes you see it moving on others, never on you.

We still don’t know which behaviour is the correct one and a dev reply on the matter would be super appreciated

Well I dont think action will be take for the exploit you are mentioning.
I mean is basically skipping, i just save few seconds (seriously) and doesnt break anything.
Anyway I guess reporting never hurts, togheter with ask to do not use it.

I personally find it dumb…you save like…30sec? lol

Hooglese.4860:

Yeah those two need work still, which sucks cause I think they’re fun. My two cents:

Jalis

• Lower the cooldown on the yellow brick road.
• Give a stunbreaker that isnt Rite of the Great Dwarf, or if you are going to keep it that way give like 5 stacks of stability on cast. Right now if your using it, you’re going to get interrupted and losing 50 energy is a steep price to pay for having your stunbreaker interrupted.
• Improve the heal by either reducing cast time or increasing the healing. It currently is the worst heal on Rev.
• let the yellow brick road give retaliation, so the might on hit with retal trait isnt so useless.

Ventari
Strap in there’s a lot to improve.

• Increase tablet movement range.
• decrease tabet summon/move cost to 5, like every other heal
• let protective solace cripple near by enemies or lower cost.
• remove/reduce the healing delay of natural harmony cause no one is going to stay in a measly 240 range for 2 whole seconds. The only time this will ever happen is in dungeons when everyone stacks, other wise you will divine precognition to aim it. Oh and another 10energy to move it.
• there aren’t any boons from it directly, which is cool and all but Herald is a thing and it doesn’t improve from facet of nature.
• 240 radius is small, and so are the rewards. One needs to be improved.
• selfless amplification and natural abundance (traits) do the same thing in theme so they will always be competing. Something needs to change.
• Momentary Pacification (trait in salvation) needs to change. It doesn’t work with 3/5 legends, one of which is Ventari, so I don’t see bringing the whole salvation line for a Jalis/Mallyx build, since its pretty much exclusively designed for Ventari.

well that’s pretty much.
I’d make HUGE mods on IR, like make it a fast “wave” of stability, taking you within. Keep the cost/CD but emit, i dunno, 3-4 stab in a cone (including you).
Make it fast, keep road pattern and same animation. This would fix it.

Hammers ar kinda fine, but if this is a def legend, this skill must give some better defense. More healing might be good.

With it not being instacast, I too agree is should be put back to 4s duration

LilBiM.3581:

If I take anything from this video I would tend to take that it looks like Scrapper needs a mobility buff. Given that the Scrapper in this video was within striking distance of that Ranger for about what felt like 10 seconds in the 3 minutes of that fight. Kind of looks like the Scrapper needs the ability to tank otherwise that fight would have been more one-sided than it looked…. and it looked one-sided.

This must be a troll.

I agree, I mean the engi was close for maybe 20 secs in total?

Laserbolt.6731:

… things that will make the eSports viewing experience more enjoyable. It won’t be about casual enjoyment …

How enjoyable view won’t lead to enjoyable play?
The current bunker meta is boring and kittened. It’s so in views because it is the same playing.
The two things are tied and if we shake up the meta to have more fast paced matches and finally not having godlike tanks fighting on node for 10 minutes ending matches with like 200 vs 300 points, all the good.
I really anjoyed my SD engi and burst ele, finally they might come back.
Bunkers also will still be a thing, but as everything they wont solo keep a whole point forever.

Lin.8905:

Leagues even manages to $#@% over good games.

I just came from a 500 – 477, good game, close come back, I enjoyed it.

Then ANet decides we should have won, lose a pip.

Talk about taking a good close game and making you feel like saying ‘Go %^$# yourself’.

yeah i think if the teams are closed in skill and the final score is 500 vs >400 the winning team should get 1 pip, but the loosing team should get -0
The way it is now is not that great if you actually played good but still lost for few points

Yeah can’t wait too! \ o /

I agree, that’s ultimately why I’m not using it that often, especially in “important” content.
The whole feature is neat and great but lack this little targetting thingy

Most likely? People posting in the wrong subtab…it often happens for the open world tab too…

Duka.5864:

I was on map all day i tried organize ppl ,plz next time try to tell something i dont know already!
Map completion is one of basic things in this game and it is locked behind event which require completion on high lvl!

IS much more simple than you think.
Look at the time site it was given to you. I don’t know your time zone but mine is GMT+1 and for me Tarir metaevent starts every even hour. There are 15 minutes of pre-event.
Try to find a decent map (that has some commanders tag in it) around those 15 minutes before the hours (the sooner the better or the chance to find full maps will be very high).
Then just stick with the event. In the last month I saw it failing only once :P

Pls devs, the delay of legendary backpack is already painful, at least let us enjoy our precursor! Or let us know which version is the correct one!

Just 2 things
If you roll all day you actually won’t kill squat so is a bit pointless.
In fact you don’t see anyone doing this ;-)

dodge roll + IO – > is a safe stomp against low-midtier because a decent team can put 3 CC on to save the downed (or stealth him). Is a 100% only in solo, but then there are plenty other classes that can do so :P

If they implement it right I’m totally up. I mean, why not? It would add another layer of gameplay which is always welcome, imho. And also might give more reasons to run other fractals other than swamps.

Fermi.2409:

We already have accurate 3rd party DPS meter addons, all we need is anet to say that it’s all right to use them

if you mean the one that read the chat yes, is legit, by the simple fact it doesnt violate anything and works exactly like all other overlays (Like Overwolf, which is plenty supported/used).

If you use something that taps into game’s code, that’s bannable.

I think people didn’t get the meaning of the fix.
Division counts as 50% of your score in the matchmaking (other 50% is MMR)
While queuing in party your “division” was averaged between the other of the group (that’s why people used to party with ambers, so that in the end they would count as 2 sapphires, o rubies).
No the party average is the highest division in the party (amber+diamond = diamond).
Other stuff hasn’t changed.

In the future tho they’ll give more weight to the division (i guess) and probably make some adjustments in pug vs premade scenario.

It’s not a scam.

First is says slot, not bag.

Second is 1 slot where you can put items that are well more worth than 700gems.
A single Copper-fed Salvage-o-matic shared between all alts is already a tremendous saving (by Odgen’s hammer!) in gold/gems. Now think for stuff like Permanent Banks, TP, Merchants….

Last thing, is a comodity item, a luxury. Too much for you? Leave it there.

Infused rings have 2 rolls on the Stab Matrixes.

Can’t say about attuned but I’d say is the same, and probably att/inf are 3 rolls.
Don’t take for sure my last sentence since I haven’t made any real test

Well, the whole point of the trait rework back in june is to add elite specs with hot and next release. Why otherwise it was critical to reduce the max number of selectable specs to 3? because in the future we’ll have many options ^^

It surely has things to fix and balance in many places but kitten guys, it’s the only game in my life that keeps me playing since day one. This must mean something I guess?

I don’t reallt see daggers that fitting in the rev them, especially not in a “ninja” way.

If we talk about dagger appearing/disappearing into the mists or giving cool options like teleports (but we sorta have it on axe#4) it might be nice, but i’m looking at other weapon options :P

Burtnik.5218:

Hammer doesnt work bc Jalis kit is broken. There is nothing on hammer that help you kite and in melee range it sux forcing you to swap weapon unlike dh that can pressure you still with no range penatly on true shot+traps.

Why hammer sux cus of Jalis? Bc vengeful hammers used to deal 200% more dmg so you wasnt really forced to swap out from hammer and keep going just like dh can do with traps. Synergy between jalis and hammers was great back then but cause they nerfed it into oblivion it doesnt work anymore. Hammer is pure pve/wvw wep now.
Damage nerf on Jalis hammers need to be reverted.

Staff is more of a utlity weapon but cd’s on 4 and 5 are a bit too high when other weapons (-shield) has 12/15cd. Its overall in good spot tho but cds could be tweaked a bit.

hammer doesn’t work in high end PvP environment but in mid/low with plenty od squish trap DH, CoF cast at the border of points is massive. I usually run Shiro/Glint and i swap staff to hammer as soon as i see 2 guards on the other team. Can’t really quantify how many times the mid fight was won because i shotted down the guards with hammer#2 and disarmed the traps with hammer#3.
Yeah, sure is a niche :P

Burtnik.5218:

I can see the damage moved from auto to sword 2 and “call it a day” tbh. I hope base rev will get serious buffs so i dont have to look on this ugly herald anymore (looking at shiro junk heal and jalis).

Kinda funny how they want to nerf rev auto and buff thief auto at same time rofl.

same thinking, since they share the same class concept, with the fact that thief can gain initiative back in many way, increase the pool and they don’t spend it on utilities.
Kappa.

Anyway I’m not that worried, in fact if thhey shift the damage presumably on #2 this will help a bit when chasing opponents since #2 is ranged + chills.
If for “looking at defense” they want to nerf something, well they have to buff something else, because our current defense are the difference between life and death in a semi-decent pvp environment: Rev is squishy and we cannot stealth/zap away like teefs, active defense is all we got. I might be cool with a complete removal of shield#5 passive proc trait with something else. Or just bring in line ventari/jalis + relative specs and finally fix corruption spec to be a match with the current Mallyx

99% sure it won’t work, I’ll try tho.

Anyway, if you are looking at a disarming bait, use hammer #3 into the point, problem solved

krzysiek.9061:

@Flaming.4250
Oh, yeah! Throwing daggers would be amazing!

Stabbing foes throught the Mists! Glorious!

Not for me…on the other hand, on charrs the arm effect clips with the armor Q-Q

At start there was the Thief instagib meta.
Then Guardian and Engi bunkers (i seriously miss my condi immune/bomb bunker engi :P)
Then we all remember the flippin Turret Engis, perma Stealth Mesmers and PewPew rangers along with a loooooong time with cele d/d elementalists.

I dont recall any other special cheesy builds atm, i guess those were the more prominent

Manthas.6234:

Vayne.8563:

Give me some examples and I can talk about it. Saying what you’re saying now has about as much value as me saying it’s good.

From my personal perspective the writing in the Personal story was weaker than say most of the open world writing. The writing in Living Story Season 2 is a bit better, but the writing/delivery in HoT is probably the best it’s been. What I’ve seen is improvement in story telling.

Let’s not forget, for a whole lot of people the PS is unbearably slow.

SPOILER ALERT

A few examples of loopholes:
Caithe takes egg for no reason. Then we are told, that it was some sort of a new vyld hunt to protect the egg. And while protecting it she moves towards Mordremoth? Yeah, it lets plot advance, but other than that it doesn’t makes any sense.
Dragon’s weakness. At the last moment, PC somehow figures out what its weakness is. For some reason.

Trying to keep it as spoiler free as possible

I totally agree on second point, it’s a deus ex machina and like any, it’s not the greatest way to resolve a situation, at least not in this case. A DEM can be interesting in a very bad situation to make those “surprise/relieve” moments, but in our case, without an imminent problem (yes, we still had a mission, but we were looking for a solution, not really in deadly danger) is not that great.

On first point Caithe was doing what we have done in Tarir, she just wasn’t the “choosen” one. Still weak argument, i agree, but at least decent.
Is just after Tarir, anyway, that the story feels to fall apart. Or better, it feels cut, like u clearly see 1 missing lane in Dragon Stand: I bet there was some more chapters at the end of Auric Basin and into Tangled Depths, for sure.

I vote or a “Soul Reaver” (ala Legacy of Kain spiritual Soul Reaver, the one the Raziel wields) for sword

Says that HoT is luckluster, proceds to list a ton of content HotN hasn’t.
Kappa.

Also:
- armors are 4, you forgot the light/dark guild ones that you have to multiply by 5 because in GW1 there were only humans, in GW2 we have 5 races and, even if same “concept”, are still different models. Plus 1 heavy for revenant. Plus the incoming legendary armor (3 weights * 5 races = 15).
- you forgot 2 weapon sets: light/dark guild ones
- you forgot all the new content that will come in the month, that you paid with said expansion.

Ofc everybody has personal opinion, but all this it seemed well worth the price tag, ihmo.

I believe you cannot train anything else in HoT masteries if first you dont unlock gliding 1, so yeah, i think you have just to fill the experience, then spend the point needed to unlock it ;-)

ezpz

/15 mini gorsevals

First of all they were added just lately, I believe with HoT introduction (probably to give more mastery points for core masteries.
So, unless you are sure you have done them before HoT, well, you have to do them.
Otherwise contact support

Like Andulias said, pick up what you like do to. Set your goals and work towards them.
Fractal (new) backpack? Complete the raid? One of the new legendaries? Map/mastery completion? PvP? WvW?
Try something, look into it the set,ready,go!

Until WvW revamp, since you are a bit tired of PvP do some PvE.
Things to do: achievements, map completion both core&hot (this counts as also exploration, jumping puzzles, etc etc), fractals, raids (even if you dont want to do them, they are still there), working on high end gear if you plan to play PvE (ascendend trinkets, weapons, armors), legendary weapons, elite specialization unlock, masteries.
You are looking at hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay.
Ofc if it’s your cup of tea

Stay clear or his aoe attacks, especially the CC orb, and attack ranged.
I’ve beaten him first time, I didn’t see that much threat

Mahou.3924:

Archdevil.1748:

Gaaroth.2567:

Archdevil.1748:

Ayrilana.1396:

This is for those that dislike the events on timers. I’m not trying to make an argument for or against at this point but get some insight as to why it specifically bothers you.

What is it about the timers that you do not like?
What is it that you cannot do but want to do?
Have you tried using the LFG to hop to an active map or bring people to yours?

I have a very good answer for these questions.
I have 2-3 hours a night after work and may be 4-6 hours on weekend days. The timers on world bosses don’t bother me. If I want to kill a world boss I track the timers. Otherwise I am not forced to do world bosses. Free will Vinewrath in Silverwastes is a player driven meta event and is the final result of the collective Free will of a big group of players. Went to Dry Top several times. Timed map? No thank you. I don’t have free will. The game tells me what to do at certain times. Not my cup of coffee thank you again. Timing all the map events in all the expansion is just INSANE. I want to do on those maps whatever I want not whatever the game tells me to. NO free will
We are limited by too much things in real life. Being limited in the game you love and play for fun and relaxation is killing the joy of the game.
I want to explore and help progress meta events but not on a timer, but on my free will.
About the LFG – tried the DS meta. Watched the clocks. This is …. I don’t like it! The DS starts. First map 2-3 ppl around me. Transfer to another one. 2-3 ppl around me. Finally get to an organised map. Most players and all 4 commanders are German. Don’t understand anything in map chat. We start running and killing stuff. Yay! This is great! And then comes poison. Ppl try to revive me. I drop dead. Rez again. Drop dead immediatly. Poison lore says someone. Waypointed and for the first time in my life Allt+F4 the game!!! Never to come back to DS TD and AB. Now when I am in the mood (once in 2 weeks) go to VB, try to learn the event chains and GRIND some more xp to level up some stupid mastery and to be able some day to go to AB. TD and DS are such a long term goals as in may be 2-3 years if I still play the game

You cannot be serious… please tell me you are joking

No, I am not joking. Which part is not serius according to you?

Just ignore the troll. Gaaroth has always been completely unable to even to understand opinions which don’t conform to his narrow-minded vision. Instead he tries to belittle those disagreeing with him. He does a miserable job as a “white knight” as he simply refuses to acknowledge other opinions, similar to “It’s fine for me, so it has to be fine for everyone”

Wait, what? Maybe I can have some bitter reply that’s for sure (when I see some “kind” of posts) but i often gave honest reasoning. Also, I never “whiteknighted” and I repeat it again: I’m having a good time with HoT but is FAR from perfect, there are many flaws that even if not “gamebreaking” are seriously annoying, mainly the map/instances/taxis that we need to “play”, balancing in various forms (costs for stuff, skills) and bug. What I really don’t stand are posts that says “omg hot is failure, nothing added, 50€ ripoff” with close to 0 real argument or with reasons so flawed that I cannot shut up. I’d be against a “hot masterrace 11/10” posts too, but you don’t see them around. ;-)

Archdevil.1748:

Ayrilana.1396:

This is for those that dislike the events on timers. I’m not trying to make an argument for or against at this point but get some insight as to why it specifically bothers you.

What is it about the timers that you do not like?
What is it that you cannot do but want to do?
Have you tried using the LFG to hop to an active map or bring people to yours?

I have a very good answer for these questions.
I have 2-3 hours a night after work and may be 4-6 hours on weekend days. The timers on world bosses don’t bother me. If I want to kill a world boss I track the timers. Otherwise I am not forced to do world bosses. Free will Vinewrath in Silverwastes is a player driven meta event and is the final result of the collective Free will of a big group of players. Went to Dry Top several times. Timed map? No thank you. I don’t have free will. The game tells me what to do at certain times. Not my cup of coffee thank you again. Timing all the map events in all the expansion is just INSANE. I want to do on those maps whatever I want not whatever the game tells me to. NO free will
We are limited by too much things in real life. Being limited in the game you love and play for fun and relaxation is killing the joy of the game.
I want to explore and help progress meta events but not on a timer, but on my free will.
About the LFG – tried the DS meta. Watched the clocks. This is …. I don’t like it! The DS starts. First map 2-3 ppl around me. Transfer to another one. 2-3 ppl around me. Finally get to an organised map. Most players and all 4 commanders are German. Don’t understand anything in map chat. We start running and killing stuff. Yay! This is great! And then comes poison. Ppl try to revive me. I drop dead. Rez again. Drop dead immediatly. Poison lore says someone. Waypointed and for the first time in my life Allt+F4 the game!!! Never to come back to DS TD and AB. Now when I am in the mood (once in 2 weeks) go to VB, try to learn the event chains and GRIND some more xp to level up some stupid mastery and to be able some day to go to AB. TD and DS are such a long term goals as in may be 2-3 years if I still play the game

You cannot be serious… please tell me you are joking