Guild Wars 2

jsu.4370:

D/D Ele focusing on CC & Dodging.

Example here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyiTT41LLU&hd=1

rofl that song and that video

all heals and no DPS makes jack a dull boy

Yeeeeeeeeeeea Boy!! wooooooooooooo doggy!!! hyah!! hyah!! hyah!!

ohmergehd theres a slingshot? Can you use it on those things that drop mushroom jumpers? that would save me a lot of time

I am using Kodan daggers, they are cool daggers for an ele.

Swim.6830:

Frankly these posts are quite annoying now. I am done pointing out to people the weaknesses and strengths of an Ele to the bads, so I will now only say this… QQ moar

Agreed, it’s just spam now. Meanwhile my ele just died to a backstab for 10k damage in tPvP and then hit by eviscerate for 8k. I got hit by heart seeker that did 5.9k earlier and got mugged for nearly 7k then Ice shard stabbed for 4k

1. Rally system is cool, fun, part of the game.
2. Keep practicing
3. You just got spanked, came to the forum to complain, see number 2.

First chest I opened gave me the Super Scepter just found out there’s only four levels, sad face.

wow I “dodge jump” all the time on my Ele so when I use RTL I don’t get rooted at the end.. had no idea I could use it to make jumping easier!

Warlander.1384:

Randulf.7614:

It’s just a bit of fun for April. And judging by the Super Adenture Box forum, it’s extremely popular with many calling for it to be permanent.

It’s fair if you don’t like it, but just ignore it

Im not saying i dont like it, its fun, however it doesnt fit in this game, it makes no sense to me and destroys any sense of immersion of the game.

whatever theres no point arguing this, im done with the game, ill check back in a few months and see if its been improved.
Only reason im sitting here kittening now is cause im waiting for something else to download.

Still a shame, hope Anets gets there kitten together.

q q good riddance, can i have your gold, see you tomorrow.

this super spider is super soaking up the dance floor

And such a wonderful dancing partner! Super adventure event is a lot of fun.

Just to help you reflect a bit on the situation.

You only play PvE and you joined a PvP tournament to win Laurels. I hope this insight helps some.

yea I totally agree. there should also be some sort of traits called something like “Magnetic Protection” that when you successfully block and invisible attack the attacker gets immobilized for 1 second. Or when you block you perform a blow out. “Block of the Bear” something cool sounding and useful.

Yep update fixed it but at the time of the original post, signing out and back in would not initiate a download.

I’d also like to draw attention to the screen shot of the dancing norn ladies.

swinsk.6410:

I think the negative effects of the quickness should be removed or reduced…

Warriors still take 50% more damage but don’t get the same benefit. Yes, the duration is longer for the quickness but so is the debuff.

Thieves still loose all endurance and won’t start regenerating it until after the quickness wears off which is a much longer duration.

In a real game a warrior stuns you before he uses frenzy and hundred blades so that 50% damage penalty doesn’t affect them because you’re either dead or evading. They changed the way endurance works too so now you can’t have negative endurance which is actually a good change for thieves.

I’m getting the same error every 20-30 seconds.

Error: 164:53:3:495:101

I’m getting this error message every 20-30 seconds, also can’t leave the tournament team and the tournament pop up keeps appearing warning me I only have 1 minute left to join.

Error 164:53:3:495:101
screen shot attached.

Can’t join the match, says to download update but there’s nothing available to download.

Praise be to Karl on this glorious PATCH DAY!

Hey Everybody, It’s PATCH DAY!!!!

ya or making the events happen at random times!!! EVEN BETTER

that is a great suggestion! I +1 this!

Asura would be even more awesome if they had beards.

I was reading your post and all of what you described sounded like a lot of fun to me and made me want to sign out of the forums and go play!!

the egg sacks u find in WvW u can do all sorts of funny animations by clicking inspect on them at varying speeds

using engie/rifle and a mortar to launch my asura as far as the mortar can go. bug reported in 2012 still not fixed

Dante.1508:

I’ll say it quickly and concise.

I dread how powerful this stuff will be when the rest is added to the game..

Maybe you’ll enjoy yourself while you play the new content.

Only problem with laurels is you can’t get them while doing sPvP… which means It will be a very very long time before I get Baron Von snufflepaws or whatever the cute puppies name is.

I used to have 4 characters parked at the rich ori node in southsun.. now that it’s gone i am too lazy to farm, i just play the game for fun and never run into issues with gold. I also didn’t level those characters to be farming mules, I leveled them because it was fun… I never wanted a legendary because well everquest invented “Epic Weapons” in what, 2001? I got an epic back then, and It didn’t require you to spend currency at all. You went on an extensive quest around the entire game world to get it, it was an epic quest. Epic Quest… ya that has a nice ring to it, sounds like fun. When I hear Legendary weapon im like yea it’s so “legendary” that it’s on the trading post.. so yea, no need for gold, no desire to farm. I don’t care if some fiend is so obsessed with fake money that they spend their own life time satisfying that need. I’m having fun playing that’s all I really care about.

Dafomen.7892:

As we are talking about content, I cant help myself but do the following to that list trying to be as objective as i can:

Flame & Frost teaser events/NPCs [content]
Dailies/Monthlies [feature]
Achievement tracking UI [feature]
Fractal reconnect [feature]
Guesting [feature]
Orr polish [gameplay experience enhancement]
PvP map [content]
Bug fixes [maintenance]
Skill balance [gameplay experience enhancement]
Etc. [?]

and:

Flame & Frost teaser events/NPCs (phase 2) [content]
Spirit Watch PvP map [content]
Item preview [feature]
Guild Bounty, Guild Rush, Guild Trek, etc. [content]
Bug fixes [maintenance]
Skill balance [gameplay experience enhancement]
Etc. [?]

so to sum it up, we’ve got:

Flame & Frost teaser events/NPCs [content]
Flame & Frost teaser events/NPCs (phase 2) [content]
PvP map [content]
Spirit Watch PvP map [content]
Guild Bounty, Guild Rush, Guild Trek, etc. [content]

and now with my opinion:

>> flame&frost 1&2 (miniscule)
>> 2x PvP maps (i loved pvp in gw1, does anyone still pvp in gw2?)
>> guild missions (absurd implementation)

so basically its juts flame and frost

dont get me wrong, i am not complaining about the lack of content or similar, but what i dont like is when someone tries to sell me an egg for an apple…..eeerm…ya know

Did we really get two maps? I play PvP I only remember one PvP map this year, Spirit Watch. The last map to be added before that was in 2012 called Temple of the Silent Storm. It blows my mind that you listed a new map in January as someone who works for the company you should know better. The list you provided for January is all just bugs and improvements that would have gotten fixed or added with weekly updates if this was Everquest 1. This is a quote from the official January patch notes.

“We’ve updated the game for routine maintenance only. No content changes were included.” – Mark Katzbach
Community Special Operations

There was no map added in January this should be corrected. Since i’m posting this thread will now be closed and locked, and I will be infracted. I will now quote the famous Porky Pig – “So long folks!”

Evan Lesh.3295:

I looked into this and have updated character select to work with PvP equipment and town clothes. Whether it goes into this month’s patch is questionable.

Awesome! We can only hope! Well done and thank you.

Doomdesire.9365:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Unfortunately, I’m forced to agree with the OP.

Stealth is just a little too overpowered.

Scenario:
You know there is a thief approaching…. he thinks you did not see him enter stealth and begin advancing toward your location… but you saw it all right.

You begin to prepare for the duel…

You can’t hit him with projectiles while he is approaching…. but you might be able to tag him with some melee once he is in range…

…but how do you know when he is close enough?

You begin channeling your block skill…. but nothing strikes you before it is over.

You swing your weapon, and it seems as if you’ve hit nothing.

You swing it again, and still… your adversary remains cloaked.

Did you hit him? Is he even here yet?

You dodge roll just to be safe…. he has got to be here somewhere by now.

BAM

You are immobilized. You finally see the thief, but you are completely helpless as he takes large chunk out of your health bar.

Knowing that the assault will not stop, and your death will be quick otherwise, you use your stun-break skill to break free and actually move from defensive to offensive for a split second.

Your opponent is fragile. Just a hit or two has already taken a significant portion of his health away.

You use your heal skill.

You’ve got what appears to be the upper hand for a moment, but your offensive doesn’t last for very long because the thief has once again stealthed himself.

You look at your health bar… and it is pretty low. One or two more hits from the thief will surely be the end of you.

This time, you flail around like mad mashing your attack skills that will actually function against a stealthed opponent You dodge roll. You dodge roll again. You continue to attack the air.

The thief comes unstealthed…. in downed-state. You did it!

But it was just a stroke of luck.

You were just swinging around your weapon and dodge rolling around blindly.

There will be other times when you will not be so lucky.

You can actually predict accurately where he is during first contact as the limit on time per stealth(3s for most), they would be running towards you before the stealth disappears. If he enters stealth before he comes into combat with you, he is doing a few things

1) Using hide in shadows(bad move)
2) Using shadow refuge (Also, bad move, he won’t be able to use it later in the fight where it is most critical or if he decides to run)
3) Blinding powder

It’s highly unlikely that a thief would enable contact with a person in stealth due to the fact that is ruins the chain(they will get revealed on steal and will not be able to backstab).

You can also tell if you hit a thief by your auto attack chain. If it advances to the next skill, you hit him, pretty good tool. Although I wouldn’t recommend auto attack unless you are a high DPS auto attack profession. If you have AoEs, do not throw them randomly around. Throw them under you. If he wants to attack, he’s going to get hit.

If you see a thief, there’s a 90% chance he’s using a dagger offhand to stealth. Dodging that will deny him 90% of his stealth skills and waste his initiative. It’s very predictable and it has more than long enough cast time to dodge.

You forgot thieves can steal items that give them buffs and a few of the items they can steal that gives them buffs gives them stealth and makes you blind.

edit- I accept the challenge in your signature.

Raptured.9307:

http://i.imgur.com/9WWFqyk.jpg

Me on mesmer, 2nd day of trying the class in spvp. How? Greatsword, sigil of fire, null field, skill 4, 2, dodge, f1, autoattack, 3. totally safe and huge numbers happen.

You lost the match. Your enemy had a level 1 on their team and their top scorer was level 2. Huzzah for you, huzzah.

staff rocks

those guys were baddies

I’d like to suggest a clock or reminder for monthly progress (anything with a time limit) so people know exactly how much time they have to do something.

Itscrypt.3598:

So I can make a character then just delete and swap over in the morning?

yes.

knight.4379:

Okay, usually the only spot I see an RPer is at the divinity’s reach tavern. You cannot deny that the role playing community seems to be quite down in population in this game. Curious as to why.

It’s because of Quaggan/Plush Charr backpacks, Afro puffs on Asuras. The bow that shoots unicorns, the pistol that makes annoying party noises.

It’s because none of the Devs role play. No news or patch notes ever posted have any role playing in them. Also there is a very lose naming policy, that further discourages Role playing.

Another reason is that a lot of RP people are stifling and elitist who tell boring stories and have issues against letting outsiders join in the fun. and another reason is that the male norn in all pink armor named X Princess Dankbudz X wearing a quaggan backpack and boxing gloves while riding a broom stick called all of you guys Nerds and that further discourages role playing.

I Rp all the time, it’s pretty subtle tho as I don’t turn on walk and hang out near the pub all afternoon.

I dont know how transfers work anymore but they used to be free. So you could play tonight and transfer tomorrow… I think if you just bought the game you still get a free transfer, but again I don’t know anymore.

FateOmega.9601:

Why does this thing keep popping up very single month. Finish your monthly a few days before the month ends. Don’t procrastinate so much.

Opening sentence of original post read something like:

“I’ve been busy at my job but have been chipping away at the monthly all month long”

Tsubaki.8732:

Grizledorf.5290:

Brendar.3548:

Monthlies and dailies reset at 0:00 UTC, which for US west coast is 4:00pm PST. So, we are in March for all servers.

I’VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF UTC UNTIL YOU JUST TAUGHT ME ABOUT IT.

I stand by what I said,

Resetting the Monthly before the First of the Month of March was

So Not cool.

They cannot have individual server time for every player in the world, depending on where he/she lives. And if they chose a server time based on pacific standard time, people in Australia would complain “why hasn’t the new monthly already started, it is already March for half a day and the monthly is still the one for February?”

So the best thing they could do was to base the server time on UTC, which is called “coordinated UNIVERSAL time” for a reason, it is a world wide time standard.

Also, +1 to the player above who posted that leaving monthlies (or pretty much ANYTHING with a time limit) until the last day is a bad idea. That’s just risky. What would have happened if your internet provider had trouble today?

I wouldn’t have sweated it because in my head i’d still be thinking:

“It will be ok, It’s still February, I still have time to do the achievements for the month of February’s Monthly achievements”

Then I would dial them up in an outrage and express my dissatisfaction with my service and demand satisfaction.

BTw for all of us who never cared about the monthly before you added laurels we didn’t care when the monthly reset. A little heads up would have been So So nice of you to provide.

IamALie.8190:

Monthlies and Dailies have always revolved around GMT, not PST. If you didn’t know, I’m sorry :/ Otherwise you should have seen this coming. It’ll help for the coming month to know at least.

Why would a USA/west coast server reset when the time changes in London England.

I wasn’t done with my monthly.

Brendar.3548:

Monthlies and dailies reset at 0:00 UTC, which for US west coast is 4:00pm PST. So, we are in March for all servers.

I’VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF UTC UNTIL YOU JUST TAUGHT ME ABOUT IT.

I stand by what I said,

Resetting the Monthly before the First of the Month of March was

So Not cool.

Derk.3189:

I’ve been in March for 16 hours already.

That’s great for you. I play on a West Coast server, it’s still February officially on the server I play on.

I’ve been busy at my job but i’ve been chipping away at the monthly. I was planning on finishing today but…

…at 4pm pacific time, the monthly reset.

That is so not cool. Not only is February the shortest month on the calendar (for some stupid reason. yea lets make this month 28 days long, the rest 30 ohh and some even 31 days, but every 4 or 6 or whatever years we’ll make february 29 days long!)

But it’s not even the end of February yet and the “Monthly” for March already started. March btw is a 31 day month. On earth where I live March doesn’t start for 4 more hours and the daily’s don’t reset for 16 hours from now. March monthly should start in March.

everyone chant with me:

March Monthly Should Start in March.

LOUDER, I can’t hear the lurkers in the back:

MARCH MONTHLY SHOULD RESET IN MARCH!!!

Why did you reset the monthly before the month ended? I wasn’t finished with the month of February’s monthly achievements. It’s still February, I should still have time to complete what I started.
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TLDR: Scroll up to beginning of OP.

Dolan.3071:

Fairly new to thief, but I’m just curious as to whether or not you lose invisibility time when activating one whilst already invisible? E.g using Cloak and Dagger, Shadow Refuge, Blinding Powder, as well as the healing skill one after the other. Is there some form of cap or invisibility time reduction when doing this? Or does it generously add all 3 second boosts (10 in the case of SR) together? (As it should do.)

Yes it does. You can get stealth to over 14 seconds with shadow refuge and blinding powder. Also using haste seems to make SR give more ticks of stealth but I could be trippin. you could have easily tested this in game quicker than it took you to type this up and wait for a reply.

Dezarys.1372:

My plan with WvW thief is Shortbow for zergs.
Dagger/Dagger for solo or 5 man.

Precision Crit Damage Build.

That’s what I run with in WvW. The Damage from shortbow is very lethal. Cluster bomb has 1200 range… Poison field works great against the righteous indignation buff and your normal auto attack hits 3 people really hard and quick. You will definitely want to make or buy Omnomberry Pie or ghosts. With that food buff your cluster bombs give you TONS of heals from the lifesteal.

Where are you guys reading about changes|nerfs?

Ellieanna.5027:

So are you mad that you need 30×6 laurels for amulets or that they can’t be shared? If a ring drops, you can give it to your alts.

Dude did you even read the original post? The mods should delete your post that doesn’t contribute a thing to the conversation. He is upset that it will take him over half a year to equip the characters he plays in the new gear they just released. And is asking for a more reasonable time frame to acquire the new gear. Just because it’s an “ALT” doesn’t mean you don’t play that character. You do have a best friend don’t you, and you have other friends who you like to hang out with right? It’s the same thing, we have a favorite character we play the most but also other characters we play often as well.