Guild Wars 2

Well I’m not sure what build to really go for then.
I do PVE and WVW, and I’m a Warrior so I focused on Berserker for damage.
Not exactly dishing out conditions nor am I gonna be doing much healing…

I wasn’t really able to solo many folks in WvW, but now I’m gonna be straight up screwed.
It’s just, this sucks. I focused so much on Berserker. Berserker accessories, backpiece, ascended armor, ascended weapons…
Like, why would they even want to do this sudden nerf? The game has been out for a year and a half and things were fine, maybe tweak it here and there but to just waltz in and say “Hey! You guys now do less damage and pretty much are gonna get backhanded in pvp…. No refunds!”

Two questions really.

One, when they say
“The formula we’re using to convert ferocity into critical damage will reduce the current maximum obtainable values. At level 80, it will take 15 points of ferocity to gain 1% bonus critical damage, which means that there will about a 10% decrease in overall damage for a full “berserker” build.”

Does this mean… we’ll be doing 10% less CRITICAL damage, or 10% less damage, overall? If so, i’mma have to stock up on dragon breath buns that increase crit damage by 10%, to balance it back up..

2nd question.
We lose 10% damage…. we gain ???
Like, is there gonna be some sort of… “Yeah we know all we’re doing is hurting ya, but at least you get this!”
This isn’t really a tweak… like in patch notes where they say
“Necromancers will have this cast time altered, this will be reduced in damage by a little, this skill now adds bleed. Etc etc”
This is a straight up “THIS PATCH IS JUST TO HURT BERSERKERS!”

Like, we’re kinda squishy… but now we do less damage, and are still squishy…
That’s okay, I suppose for, PVE…

But, a lot.. of people.. do World Versus World…
So, less damage against players… still squishy.. w..why am I a berserker in WvW again?

Miroe.2054:

Its the helmet from the recent event, Medium Magitech Armor chest part and shoes and currently unavailable gloves and Shoulders. And an Aetherized Rifle.

The gloves/shoulders are what I’m referring to.
Any idea when they’ll be available?
Was looking at the pauldrons while deciding the color for the spinal blade backpiece

Was just curious if anyone knew anything about Scarlet’s Armor.
I remember last week they datamined what looked like boots and some spaulders that were account bound, but there doesn’t appear to be anything ingame yet involving those.

Did anyone know if they were currently droppable or if they would be later content?

Traveller.7496:

Grimno.6172:

What if…

The Sylvari are to Mordremoth as the Undead are to Zhaitan…

That theory has been thrown around many times. The best reasoning may be that the Sylvari cannot be corrupted by other dragons – since they are already minions of another Dragon.

Hey, have YOU seen an undead sylvari or branded sylvari? :\

What if…

The Sylvari are to Mordremoth as the Undead are to Zhaitan or like the Branded are to Kralkatorrik…

And the Pale Tree… is being used as a sort of… mind-control nulling entity

And that is why the Sylvari are so curious about the world around them…. cause their minds are unlocked and they have their freedom…

But arn’t aware of it… like a dark secret…

Do the smart thing. Sell any power cores you find. It’s day one and the suckers are going for 10-12 gold each! Got a Dynamic on my first kill.
Looked at the colors of them and relized, the starting Orange was best IMO… my guy uses the CoF chest/pauldrons and it matches really well… the other colors just seem, meeehh.. and for 10 cores needed? That right now is either 10 lucky hours, or 100g.

Saw one guy with the red one already… thought
“You sir are foolish because those prices will go down…”

What concerns me most is what Evon and Heal-o-tron is cooking up.

Heal-o-tron wants to help in the assault… Evon says they can come to an… agreement.

What did it take you make those overall? And of the Ascended recipes you can buy for 250 momentos, which one is the red one? I saw three but I keep thinking they’re the 3 different colors.

Chrispy.5641:

Grimno.6172:

Forget the dungeon equipment sellers, I’m curious if that Norn will ever complete his guild tryouts and be accepted into that Sylvari’s guild!

What about that Centaur that’s been held at gunpoint for the last year? Or that skritt that always forgets about what he just did, and is forever stuck in his own timeloop telling his friend about the entrance to the sewers he found? What about the Quaggan village?

And what about the Skritt in the Black Lion Trading post?!
Will she ever carry Charr Iron or Stone Carvings? That Quaggan is STILL begging for some!

I like the boots for Charr.
Why? They’re the only boots for the guys that cover the toes! The claws are always exposed. And not just the claws, the ends of each toe is also open…
It’s annoying 3:<

The content is easy as pie, and so is getting to rank 30.

To get the golem parts, just go below the center island. Your side will have a zerg. Stay with them, and once they get close to the center island, just go under it, grab the piece and done!
All you have to do in WvW.

And to get rank 30? Literally just do this. Grab a long ranged rifle, and follow the zerg and just… shooting everything. It’s not rocket science. Shoot everything. Stand in capture zones. Badda boom badda bing.

psizone.8437:

I think in this day and age, it’s a bit odd if you feel any strange feelings due to them being a lesbian couple. It’s more and more common for people to be in same-sex relationships.

Agreeing there, don’t think people should really feel odd if there’s a lesbian couple in a game.

Game developers have been adding in more complex characters with different traits and personalities to break away from the norm.
Look at such games like Catherine, Valkyria Chronicles, and Persona 4.
Some of their characters go beyond same-sex relationships.
In games now we’ve got racists, sexists, same-sex relationships, masochists, even characters of both genders!
Which is funny since people don’t relize games have had characters like these for years now, going as far back as Super Mario 2.

… some of us know Birdo’s secret. Nintendo tried to hide it like what happened with Poison from Final Fight but they can’t undo what they put in that original game manuel.

I’m just glad it’s not implying Rox and Braham are a couple… more like, brother-sister.

First we’re giving the title of Commander from the Story.
Now our characters are repeating themselves?

Oh God… it’s happening again!

I like how my guy went from being an awesome Charr to the socially akward Charr..

Kasmeer – “What about you Rox? Anyone special in your life?”
Rox- No. There was one once. But he was killed.
Kasmeer – “I’m sorry. Was he in your old Warband? Braham said you’re a Gladium.”
Rox- “Braham… talks too much.”
Kasmeer – “Don’t be mad. We’re your friends.”
Marjory – “Yeah, what are friends for, if not for sticking our noses in each other’s buisness!”
~Mission Chest Aquired~
My Character – “WHAT AN ADVENTURE!”

I now think my guy is hiding something….

I find it to be an enjoyable mechanic.
The weapon states it can wipe out an entire Region… which is the whole map.
If someone walks into the map for the first time and gets a face-full of laser… when they ask what happened, just say

“Scarlet Happened”

Quentin Tarantino does.
Google it. There’s a website examining all the movies he’s made and it’s true.
There’s even video of Quentin Tarantino doing it I believe.

Nike.2631:

I think you’re being punished for being a crappy teacher.

No one shows up with the intent to fail. But they may lack the knowledge needed to win. If you’re so certain that you’ve mastered every nuance of the fight, then you need to master one more: sharing that knowledge.

For someone to be a good teacher, they need people to actually listen to them.
Three times when we’ve had 10 minutes before the fight starts, I would explain as simple and clear as I could how to defeat each champion. And would remind them before they entered their match.
Simple things
“You can only damage him from behind!”
“You need to lure him into his own mines in order to stun him so he can take damage, otherwise you cannot hurt him!”
“He hits like a truck, you have to DPS him down. Range works pretty well with this one!”

And so on.
Explained the tower defense part, the lane numbering system, boss fights and more… and it didn’t help. There are just those who don’t read map chat.

Edit – Just did the one at 7pm EST in an overflow server and my god.
Before the match started, I explained everything in simple detail, did what I could… and in the end.
A Perfect Run.
No fails in any lane… Lane 5 severed the 5th chain for a mission complete.
Was amazing, everyone was cheering and it felt good. When people listen, you can succeed!

It is frustrating when you work hard, and you do everything you need to do, but you essentially get punished because other people fail.
Some people think all they have to do is login that day and they’ll insta-win, and have a hard time accepting the fact that they lost, that it was not a victory, that they actually have to put in some “effort” in order to achieve victory

Like the late George Carlin said – “The child will never lose. We know he’ll never lose because in today’s America, no child ever loses! There are no losers anymore. Everyone’s a winner. No matter what the game or sport or competition. Everyone wins! Everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy, noone is a loser. No child these days ever get to hear those all important character building words. You lost Bobby! You lost, you’re a loser Bobby! They miss out on that. You know what they tell a kid who lost these days? You were the last winner! A lot of these kids never get to hear the truth about themselves until they’re in their twenties! When their boss calls them in and says Bobby clean this crap outta your desk and get the heck outta here you’re a loser!”
You can hear the rest on George Carlin’s skit “Child Worship”.

I’ve personally faced and defeated all five of the champions and I have to say. There is no reason beyond the timer that anyone should ever fail at these bosses.

Course if you call someone out on this, that they lost or point out their flaws suddenly you’ll have two people defending them and saying things like “Even if you don’t win it’s not the end of the world!” or the all famous “It’s just a game”.

The problem with Liadri for me wasn’t the circles, but that blasted ceiling. Camera was jammed in my back all the time as Charr, could never see.

Whenever this happened to me and I’m unable to use skills or anything, I quickly run out of the lane and find a few enemies to attack me and kill me, then I respawn at the WP to the south.
My skills and such work then after.

Welp, 30 minutes to go till my next post!
Edit – Oh neat… signature was disabled too.

I know Desolation completed the 1AM EST Marianette battle last night.
Charge rate was at 80%, but we managed to beat it.

After finally seeing what all five champions were like, I have to say… I’m finding it really hard to believe groups are losing to these.
The first champ is easy, all you do is attack it from behind.
The second champ is easy, all you need is some DPS and to lure it into mines.
The third champ would probably be the “toughest” cause it hits like a truck. Range seems to work best on him but I used Frenzy/Endure Pain as a Zerker WR, had no issues.
The fourth one is also easy. Either stand away from him and use range when the blackhole is close, or stand close and melee him if the blackhole is rather away. The only “hard” part is making sure to dodge when the entire arena turns red. That’s it.
The fifth one is just… whoever it’s following, run to a side, stick to it and just zerg it down.
People keep failing these though… I feel it has to be the time limit cause those bosses are like… If this was the Crown Pavillion arena, there would be in the 2nd tier you fight.

So we got that new content coming out next week which is cool and all, but for the first time I’m sitting on the fence with this one. Not 100% sure if I’m looking forward to it, or dreading it.

The giant wyrm, was kinda ehhhh for me. There are already quite a few of them ingame (Norn intro, Celedon Forest, the one you fight in Kessix Hills right now, etc) so a giant one is just…. Meh.
The giant robot though, THAT seems awesome. Shadow of Collossus like with the giant… puppet.. robot? The one thing that made me pause the video was the giant, circle thingie they showed in the sky. For some reason, THAT struck me as too odd.
My first thought was “…. Sixth playable race confirmed. ALIENS!”

Though with a boss battle that big, requiring that many people…
Tequatl 2.0.

Their season 1 wvw reward chest?
Been sitting here staring at the WvW Season 1 Reward Chest key in my inventory.
I know they said there was an issue with people who went from NA servers to EU servers during the season, but I was wondering if they’ve fixed it yet.

I think everyone is missing the point.

I have reason to be annoyed at least.
Despite my efforts, my trebbing, my commandeering at times, my communication and my jolly goodness for the past 2 weeks+ in a server that is doing darn good… i’m gonna get last place rewards cause I was at the wrong place for 2 days…

Desolution? lol
It’s DesolAtion…

lordkrall.7241:

Well, this was announced weeks before the league started, so it is not really something new ^^

And if that was not the case, most people would simply get their meta and then transfer to a winning server and thus invalidate the whole league.

I know it was announced and at first I was like “Daawww yeah! We’re gonna kick some *!” cause we were doing really well but then right before it started, everyone from IOJ transferred out and I didn’t get that memo! DX<
So then I was like “Where’d you guys go?” and they’re like “We went here!” and I’m like “..Okay!” transfers

headdesks

Liston.9708:

This was necessary or There would be mass influx to winning servers……

Oh that much I can understand but… ARGGGH.
Sucks sucks sucks! I was only there for 2 days! DX>
TWO DAYS… out of the 49 days.
So 47 days of WvW effort < 2 Days

sulks in a corner, grumbling
..stupid..rules… should like… only count it… at the start of week 2 or something…. grumble.. grumble grumble…
Watch, the reward for Last Place is going to be like… 5 Heavy Loot bags and a note says “Please Try Again”.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!
;;
I got the meta already but that sucks! I started on Isle of Janthir and checked out the rankings and saw… they were LAST PLACE (3 out of 3 losses).
Then I looked at the server we all went to… First Place! (3 out of 3 wins)
siiiiiiigh
This bites.. I spent 2 days on one server (I got the “We are moving to a different server” memo a little later then others!) , and so far 3 weeks on another, but the 2 day one is going to get counted…. ><

So I’ve been hopping around a bit to stick with friends and such and I had a question.
When the world versus world season started, I was on Isle of Janthir before transferring a few days later to another server to meet up with friends.

When the world versus world season is over, am I going to get rewarded based on the initial server I was on, or the server I spent the most time on during the 7 week period?

I swear we better get gas masks. I LOVE gas masks, and I hope you don’t have to play SPVP just to have a chance for the full one.

Ryoki Hokishami.2756:

Grimno.6172:

::equips Zephyr Rucksack on their Charr::

Don’t forget the heavy aetherblade shoulders.

I mean last year people were all complaining about “Oh your character is too big! Remove the armor! I can’t see!”

Heck, if they haven’t even changed the layout of the map, then I got that place down to a SCIENCE.. a SCIIIEEENNNCE…
Candy Farming for me

Heheh.. ha.. ha ha … HA Ha…HA…HAHAHA… HAAHAAHHH! AAh-HA HA HAA ::holds arms up, lightning strikes:: HAAAA! HA! HA HAAAA! OH HOHO… HA.. HEEEEE HA HAAAA!

::equips Zephyr Rucksack on their Charr::

OH HO HO HO… AH, ah hhhaaaahhheeeeeerrr HAAAA
Oh ho.. ohhh ooh.. ooh man… ohhhh oooh, this is going to be good.

ArkhamsJester.5206:

and getting peppered by cows from your guys’ hills.

That was me. I told em in teamspeak
“You know I could always just set my treb up at hills and rain down on them constantly..”

So I did.

I love my cows. My sweet, sweet, supply draining cows…

We were really amazed at how well you guys were holding that tower down. Keep up the good fight!

And I love the zerg train we had going tonight.
The whole time we were running I was singing

“Cause we got a little convoy, rockin through the night~”
“Yeah we got a little convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?”
“Come on and join our convoy, Ain’t nothing gonna get in our way~”
“We gonna roll this truckin convoy, across the U.S.A.!”
“Convoooooyyy~”

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

it may be news to you, but the event fails if he isn’t killed in 15min. People will adapt

Yeah and you could fail the Clockwork Invasion if you didn’t kill Scarlet’s waves in 40-45 minutes but that didn’t stop folks from failing just as often as winning till the very end.

The horde is going to fight Tequatl, few will defend anything and if they did all the defenders will be on one objective with two people defending another and leaving the rest unguarded, cannon users are gonna suck at what they do, and at least 25% of the people there will just get a few hits in then go afk somewhere and wait for it to die but still get credit.

Warm Bodies 2?

I’d watch it…

They also throw Ninja Stars… Just like in Naruto AKA the first ever depiction of Ninjas ever created ever….

So Asura aren’t getting bigger.
Everyone else is getting smaller!

I smell conspiracy.
And this Tuscan salami artisan pizza…

If you want to do Tribulation mode, just YouTube the guides for it…
You’ll still die, but you will die a lot less.

What people also can do is Buy Continue Coins with Bubble Baubles.
I believe 1 Bauble gives you 5 continue joins.
So completing World 1 Zone 1, would essentially give you 55 extra lives.
More then enough to complete World 1 Zone 1 in tribulation mode.

Unless the 5 coins was 3 baubles… not sure.

Congratz! Working on Tribulation myself, only done World 1 Zone 1 so far.
(Thank you YouTube guides!!!!!!!!!)
Not sure which one I want to make. Might do it twice just to get daggers for my thief, or longbow.

How the heck did you get past the group right before the 2nd Smokey Bear?
I tried moving past them but the shotgun guy came after me…

“What’s this? A random idea that could prove entertaining to a large majority of the player base? My briefcase full of dog bees should put a stop to this!”

After playing Zone 1 and Zone 2, I’ve listed a few things that could be changed that could make the playthrough still challenging, but more… enjoyable.
Since this is still only just world TWO of FOUR.

Zone 1
Fix the issue where if the spout vanished from underneath you but you’ve already jumped off of it, it doesn’t cause you to get knocked around.

That’s about it for Zone 1.

Zone 2
Make it so that the Darts are not a 1-hit kill, but instead do 2 hearts worth of damage and knock you back (Not flying knock back, but makes you fall back on your butt kind).
This way, there is some room for trial and error, but you still can’t just run through the darts. This way you can’t just “skip” some areas.

And that’s really just about it for zone 2.

The darts really are the issue there, not cause truthfully the 1-hit kill, but because of the sheer number of them after a while…
(The Gong Tower.. was NOT fun.)

I saw a whistle for 250 baubles at the start of Zone 3 in World 2… but I think it only plays 3 notes.

Get three Asura together and you’ll get four opinions.

What they should do…

IS SHORTEN WORLD 2 ZONE 2!
Seriouslly, it just kept going, and going, and going, and going and GOING AND GOING!

Doesn’t help you have to pace yourself to avoid all the insta-death darts!

60 lives used on Zone 2 alone…
No continue tokens, ended with 1 spare life.
If I had died then, well then I probably would have never tried it again because the thing took easily 2 hours just to get through!