It’s not currently possibly to select Giver’s stats on things like the Blood Ruby Pendant or stat-change existing ascended armor using a Giver’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia.
I think it would be an interesting alternative to Minstrel’s for builds that don’t need or want the vitality.
Bags that pop up near your corpse are bags that you already earned while you were alive, right? If so, those should always be put in your inventory with the auto-loot perk. I don’t see what being dead has to do with these bags.
I haven’t read this entire thread, but here’s my 2 cents:
- The outnumbered buff is really poorly implemented. Either it needs to be calculated on all four maps at once or revamped somehow. Right now it leads too too much grief and drama. People should never be discouraged from inviting team members to their map.
- People with higher WvW rank should earn more pips, but the current spread is far too wide. It should not amount to a 20+ hour difference between new players and veteran players.
- There is currently no reward for maintaining max participation and there should be.
- I support spreading out the skirmish tickets across all chests on the reward track. It feels really bad when you aren’t able to completely finish one of the ranks and that effort goes nowhere. As someone else pointed out, other rewards in other game modes are more linear in that they grant steady predictable progress for each hour you play.
I like this idea, but 100:1 is too low of a ratio. You can earn 100 badges very quickly. I think around 1000:1 is a good conversion ratio. It makes it so badges are not the best source of tickets, but you can get some extra passive tickets from badges you don’t spend.
In general there should always be a way to convert the currencies between each other, even at an inefficient rate.
On the last part of the Aerin fight, he becomes invincible at 50% HP and you have to end it by hitting him with with Light Dash. After I do this, my Explosive Avoidance eligibility effect changes so that it now has a 90 second expiration. Even if I avoid all barrels, attack him the entire fight, and never leave the top of the rock, I’m not able to kill him before the effect expires.
My group was also affected by the silver mobs spawning and despawning rapidly. It makes it pointless to try to kill them, so you have to work around 5x silver mobs beating you down the entire fight.
The new generic rings with regular stat prefixes, such as “Cleric’s Ring”, are all sellable on the Trading Post, but the exotic version of “Soldier Ring” and “Rabid Ring” are not, despite their masterwork and rare versions being sellable. Instead they’re “account bound” AND “soulbound on use”. Is this intended, and if so, why?
During the captured colossus fractal, one of our group member was pushed off the scaffolding while holding the hammer. When you fall off of these it plants your corpse at the start of a checkpoint. The hammer seems to have vanished when he died, making it impossible to complete the fractal. Does the hammer respawn somewhere we missed?
While I won’t argue about the soul/account bound part, I will argue about it taking +2 months to make a legendary. The game hasn’t been out for two months and there are already a ton of legendaries made.
Commander marks cover up waypoints and quest/orange marks on the map. Please add a toggle so we can turn off displaying them. It’s especially silly when they’re on in towns (no reason) or they’re on in zones but only because people are “leading guildies”.
thats stupid so what do i do with the pvp set? what if i want to keep them in? does it actually affects the runes, like does it glitch them so they do give the stats?
Runes of Sanctuary are either inconsistent, or their tooltip is incorrect:
Minor Rune of Sanctuary
(1): +10 Vitality
(2): +5% Boon Duration
Major Rune of Sanctuary
(1): +15 Vitality
(2): +10% Boon Duration
(3): +35 Vitality
(4): 3% Chance to gain retaliation for 10 seconds when hit.
Superior Rune of Sanctuary
(1): +25 Vitality
(2): +20% frozen duration
(3): +50 Vitality
(4): 5% Chance to gain retaliation for 10 seconds when hit.
(5): +90 Vitality
(6): You gain stability for 5 seconds when you fall below 20% health.
All other runes follow a pattern of increasingly improved (2) buffs, but Rune of Sanctuary switches to Frozen Duration strangely at tier 3. Is it possible to change the Superior rune to Boon Duration to be similar to the minor/major runes?
This is a fantastic idea. I especially like (2) and (3). Orbs are extremely important, and there currently isn’t a way to look at the WvW map without being there.
Alpha moves pretty quickly. He is much easier if someone in your party melees him and gets him to stand in one spot so he can get hit by all of your team’s AOE skills.
Use the thralls or tendrils to rally.
Anyone with an instant blink skill can escape the purple crystals. This includes the Mesmer skill Blink and the Elementalist Lightning Flash.
Call the fact that you are a crystal so people can save you.
Walk out of the Dragon’s Tooth AOE. This skill is very slow and easy to avoid.
Dodge all of the other skills. After the rings appear on the floor, wait 2 seconds and then dodge roll. As long as you are in the dodge roll animation when the spells explode they won’t deal any damage to you.
As far as I can tell, you hit DR the same speed you did before, but now DR scales you down much slower.
Example: On Cursed Shore events, I get 370-379 Karma per event, and when I hit DR it starts reducing. Pre-patch it would sharply go down to 140 karma. Now it seems to take much longer to get down to 50% efficiency.
Oy vey. All Anet did was make it so every Greatsword Guardian can’t keep retaliation up all the time. You now have to spec a little into it if that’s what you want. Greatsword’s AoE DPS actually increased a bit because Whirling Wrath and Leap of Faith got a cooldown decrease.
Grand misinformation there. Whirling Wrath was always 10 seconds cooldown. Leap of Faith has a 5 second shorter cooldown than before (20s down to 15s). That would be great except it is not an AoE skill, it is single target, or it has a very narrow attack arc, and it in no way equally compensates the 10s increase on symbol of wrath cooldown.
This was my mistake: Wrath did not get a cooldown decrease, but Leap did receive a decrease from 20 to 15 seconds. Also: Leap does hit everything near the target foe with blind and damage.
I am not saying this makes up for the Symbol change, but now I have corrected myself.
Oy vey. All Anet did was make it so every Greatsword Guardian can’t keep retaliation up all the time. You now have to spec a little into it if that’s what you want. Greatsword’s AoE DPS actually increased a bit because Whirling Wrath and Leap of Faith got a cooldown decrease.
Actually no since rune boon duration increase from rune does not stack (at least it doesn’t stack with Virtue path boon increase), reported already but still no input if it is working as intended.
What? Really? Can anyone verify this?
It does work. I can confirm that both the tooltip and the actual effect are accurate for at least Guardian skills. Save Yourselves! goes from 10 seconds to 17 seconds for every boon, for example.
are you 100% sure that your Boon duration effect the boons you give to your party members? Heard that boon duration only effect the boons on YOU.
Boon Duration affects boons that you output, so it works for both you and your party members, as long as you are the source of the boon. If someone else gives you a boon that boon will not be lengthened, because they are the source and it uses their boon duration.
Boon/might duration should affect this outgoing boon, but it may be broken. You can easily test this in the sPvP lobby where items and stat resets are free.
Player’s wouldn’t have logged out if the repair costs were eliminated or toned down significantly.
This is partially true, but I think most WvW players would continue to be jerks anyway even if there was no cost. Your character should remain in the world for around 5 extra seconds after a disconnect.
Remember that it works for all Regeneration boons you create, too. I’m currently stacking healing power and boon duration, and it’s working out really well.
This gives me +70% boon duration and about 1200 healing power without temporary buffs. If you combine your passive Resolve with shouts or other effects that give you Swiftness, Protection, and Regeneration, you become incredibly hard to kill with around 14 seconds on Protection, 35 seconds of Regeneration, and 35 seconds of Swiftness. You also send these long buffs to your party as well.
I’m surprised that so many people don’t like renewed focus.
With 5 points in radiance and 5 points in virtues, I can blind all enemies around me and set them on fire and grant stacks of might to allies, then apply aegis to my nearby allies as well as give them 6 seconds of -33% damage, pulse heal everyone for 1800 health and apply regeneration and then do the whole cycle over again after being completely invincible for 3 seconds.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me for an elite on a 90 second cooldown.
I am a gigantic fan of Renewed Focus for this reason. It gives you a free release of all virtues, usually giving your whole party 6 buffs and +1000 health (not counting regen even). You can release the virtues while channeling it, too. In PvP, the invincibility can be trollface, especially when you’re getting focused. In PvE, the invincibility is a great extra few seconds of tanking or breathing room for your regen.
I find the tomes to be pretty underhwleming, simply because of their cooldown and my limited mobility when using them. Also: I have no idea why you’re not allowed to release virtues or use utility skills when using a tome. All other environmental weapons allow this.
Today I completed three runs, small breaks in-between:
Catacombs, Dretha Path – 60 tokens (I ran this yesterday)
Sorrow’s Embrace, 3rd path – 45 tokens (I have never run this path, ever)
Cathedral of Flame, Magg chain – 30 tokens (I haven’t run this path in the last three days)
I don’t feel that I completed any of these paths faster than I should have. Other members of my guild reported similar results, but some of them started at 45 and moved down to 30 and then 15. The system is rate-limiting everything and not distinguishing between separate chains correctly. The rule that you receive 60 per path per day doesn’t seem to be working as an override to the rate-limiting.
As a side note, if less than 30 minutes of completion time is factored in to Diminishing Returns, it needs to be corrected. The AC Dretha path is extremely easy to complete in less than 30 minutes, no mad rushing required.
“a Vast majority” is akittenstraight lie.
Sorry to break it to you, but you are actually in the minority if you claim to enjoy the pvp and “collecting gear”
You are obviously a reasonable person and this is a quality thread.
I use a unique email address for Guild Wars 2 and I use a very long and random password that is extremely difficult to type. I cannot paste text into the Mac client’s login forms, so I am unable to log in unless I change my password to something I can type by hand.
When I paste my e-mail, I get garbage boxes instead of characters. Screenshot attached.
The password shows up as stars, but it is also garbled. I manually typed my email but my password paste attempts have failed.
I completed September achievements around the first week of the month. Today they just reset again for me. It still says “September” on my achievements tab, but I lost all progress.
I guess it’s kind of cool I can get another 20 Mystic Coins, but thinking that this is definitely a bug.
