Guild Wars 2

I was hoping for such a class as well. Loved my Minstrel and Skald in DAOC… didn’t play bard much because hibbies were dirty animals. Bard in Rift was fun too. I liked the idea above about them having kits like engis. A flute, harp, drum, and horn kit would be awesome. Ranger would make the most sense to me but mesmer would work also.

I agree but at a reduced rate. Make it so you get 1 pip every tick if you are contributing. Nothing excessive but at least you’re earning towards that tier 4 reward while you wait hours for a queue to go through. Maybe earn 3 at the conclusion of a match is over or something if you’ve had a certain amount of contribution. But it should not be equal to what the other maps give.

Or I’d just appreciate it if the queue was account wide as long as you don’t exit character select. I don’t do most of my pve stuff on the same toons I wvw generally. Would also just be nice to switch around if needed without losing the queue.

You could go play swtor who does charge a monthly sub, barely puts out any content, constantly breaks stuff with no fixes, and still has most of their resources invested in their version of the gem store. Most recently charging people $70ish for a lightsaber skin.

tldr: It can always be much worse.

I am very intrigued by this and am looking forward to seeing people’s experiments. Will test this out myself. Even if it comes up short on a dummy it might be something that would have very good niche uses such as in a 100cm where laying bonfire and traps just isn’t possible all the time… or at least in any semblance of a good rotation. Having more flexibility on motion and positioning isn’t a bad thing to help with dps at times. Especially if it keeps you from getting killed. And since there’s barely any gear switching and minimal spec changing you can do it on the go for specific bosses or encounters. I like the possibilities this might bring.

Rumor is before 2018 but probably barely if they stick to the 2-3 month window of releasing last LW3 episode and then expansion after that. And they’ve said that 2-3 month window could be stretched for this last episode and what comes after that. So nothing but conjecture at this point. Anet has said they will talk about what’s next after living world 3 wraps up so we should know most of what is going on by end of August I’d think.

Should be able to boot the guy by vote at that point I’d think. If he is still some how in combat keeping you guys from releasing to last point than that’d solve that problem.

The game has definitely had issues since the leg armor patch. I’ve never had problems with this game since it’s release as far as lag, fps issues, crashes, etc and since this last patch i’ve had several crashes and constant ability delay. Standing outside red insta shot mechanics in 100cm but still getting nuked. That kinda junk. My computer is having no problems with load and all speedtests i do i get 8-15 ms ping and appropriate download/up speeds every time i check.

Have seen similar complaints from others this past week. Definitely something a little off since the patch for a lot of people who don’t normally have problems.

I salvaged juggernaut precursor just a couple of months ago. It kind of tricks you since you have to salvage the different precursor attempts to get a crafting piece for the next step up. Just wasn’t thinking, luckily Anet replaced it after I sent in a report begging them to have mercy on me.

I like to infuse rings with +9 agony infusions already in them which makes them disappear. That’s always a bummer.

I don’t, nor ever will, own either of those legs but the airship change is one of my favorite of all time! My god that was an awful sound… always had to take my headset off if spending time there crafting at all.

For me, Fungus Among Us was one of, if not thee, hardest mini game of the HoT variety. I still haven’t finished gold in that and it took a lot of frustrating tries to get silver. And I will never do it again lol. Most of the other mini games it isn’t too hard to get silver once you know what to do and I’d say 75% of them gold isn’t hard after some basic practice or at worst watching guides. The FAU abilities you have to use are extremely finicky though.

I had a good laugh when I first stumbled upon Captain Penzan and his version of Major-General at the conclusion of his event when I was leveling my first toon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5nkkin/update_what_happened_to_metabattle/

Got hacked.

I want housing like Dark Age of Camelot had/has. Always enjoyed building my own houses, upgrading them, choosing the outside looks, putting decor inside showing achievements, and having a place to go to craft and whatever that avoided the city populations. Was nice to have a guild pick out a block to build houses next to each other and have a community of sorts.

Fishing is fun, nice side activity when you’re wanting to be active in game but not think too much while watching netflix on the other monitor.

Lately, if you can get 250 gold for between 1300-1350 gems that’s not bad. If you can get 250 gold for under 1300 that’s very good. Anything over 1350 gems is in the buy high category I’d say. Like people have said, whenever stuff people really want come out or goes on sale such as cool outfits or keys being on sale is the time to buy gold which is kind of an obvious conclusion. It’ll almost always dip under 1300 gems for 250 gold during prime time of big sales.

Davion.8509:

Including all trinkets? Or 2-3-4 Sinister trinkets will be a better idea? Runes are of Thorns.

P.S. For Fractals and maybe someday Raids.

Well I believe meta is to run an accessory, a ring, and back sinister if you are getting hit enough that your rune of thorns is proc’ing frequently. If it isn’t proc’ing enough you’re better off running full vipers with sinister back and rune of berserker.

I personally find it varies a lot whether I’m getting hit enough so I kind of hybrid between the two with the full viper/sin backpiece but still use rune of thorns. If you’re in a dedicated group where you know exactly who’ll be taking the hits focus on the one that is relevant. I pug and solo a lot though so I kind of play both possibilities lol.

Manasa Devi.7958:

/signed

This combined with the “world full” bug tends to eat minutes off my karma buffs.

Rinse and repeat.

This is the biggest problem with it for me. The waiting and constantly retrying part is obnoxious but the part that really ticks me off is wasting my karma buffs. Especially since 50% boosters are so rare these days, I had some saved up and the time you have them up is too valuable to waste spending 10 minutes trying to get into a whole bell choir round while doing nothing else.

After the first couple of days I just decided to use two different toons now. One with the premium buffs for the orphans each day and another with the easy to get buffs just to spam bell choir until i finally get one that is worth doing.

Yeah it’s quite daunting to start a new character in this game if you don’t want to level it. I wish they’d add something that if you’ve had 1 map completion done on your account it auto-unlocks waypoints near dungeons and maybe all the entry ones into zones.

Felahr.9830:

TTS does the wurm literally every day. use the lfg feature.

Yeah I’ve been in their nightly group a couple of evenings in a row now. They seem to be doing it on the 11PM est spawn. So look in the World Bosses lfg for TTS (triple touble) squad and join it. They always have three large squads set up with tags for each wurm so you can join whichever specific one has the achievement you need.

Same issues, Monday night the game was constantly disconnecting every 5-10 minutes. Last night was fine and now I can’t stay logged in for more than 30 seconds. Very annoying. I can do anything else besides gw2 so it’s not me. Think i’ll try the f2p ESO trial they are offering since i can’t play this one.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

I agree about blade shards, chak eggs, mysitic forge stones, etc. I also suggest resonating slivers.

I undertsand why you don’t want to put crafted things in. Would it be hard to at least make more things stackable in the bank, like the various salvage kits, harvesting tools, etc.?

Every month I end up getting quite a few BL salvage kits. It’s great to get them for free, but it would be even better if they stacked.

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

Kind of off topic I guess but how about a new item that a vendor sells… a 250 stack of BL salvage kits that costs 10 regular BL kits + 1 gold or something like that? Would be a nice QoL addition.

Curunen.8729:

One hand sword would be very welcome.

I never liked Bolt and would like to see a cleaner more minimal practical sword skin, just very well made/refined with a nice aura/effects.

Aye, same for me. All I want is a cool one handed sword that is bad kitten looking but is still a sword in a real world sense. Just, like you said, with a really cool aura or effect. Bolt has nice effects but it looks awful.

Your links always get blocked for porn and not safe so can’t look at it at work lol. But is it basically the same thing that someone put on metabattle recently?

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Chronomancer_-_Boonshare_

I can understand increasing the cost but increasing it by 75% of the old cost? Ouch.

Zephyria.6103:

what game is CO short for?

Champions Online I’m guessing.

Personally I’d just be happy with being able to dye weapons. I like most of the ascended weapon designs but hate having to always use the red ones for the most part which clash with everything. And being able to dye weapon effects would be sweet.

I think as a gem store item that’d be kind of lame. But I kind of wish they had more way points unlocked with the insta 80. Not all of them but maybe the ones closest to a dungeon entrance would have been nice.

Zephyra.4709:

..And when players prance around with their 730+ gold in their pockets shall they swiftly remember the foul sting of inflation at work – you cannot prance around with that Legendary so soon, child, for it now costs 10,000 gold.

What he said except more elegantly than I would have. Economics will take over and prices will inflate if there is an overabundance of gold thrust into the system over time compared to prices. It’ll all even itself out over time. Kind of like raising minimum wage to $15/hour…. people who work at McDonalds thinks it’ll help them buy more stuff lol.

People who want to level the old way will still do it and those who don’t use a combo of insta 20/30 gifts, crafting, blowing through the story parts, and tomes. And it’s not like insta 80s get the map completed for them. If they want to go anywhere they’ll still have to clear maps and if they want map clear or achievements they’ll still have to go through the all the maps anyway. They’ll just be down leveled from 80 instead of around that level already. And it’s only one per account.

tldr: it won’t affect anything, your complaint is invalid

Yes, I completely agree that noise is very irritating especially when wearing a headset (which seems to make it much worse) which I do 90% of the time. Yeah I rotate and nudge myself into a position where it’s not as annoying but when doing a lot of complex crafting and move back and forth between several stations or banks it’s just a nuisance. Would be glad if they just got rid of it.

velmeister.4187:

Bolt is one of the worst looking swords in the game. Please release a new legendary sword soon that actually looks like a sword and not a blunt chunk of decorative fencing with a handle.

Thanks.

fixed this, sorry. The effects are cool looking though.

Qugi.2653:

Gem card probably consider gift card. I think in US and many other place can not charge tax on purchase of gift card. Where you live probably have some tax on internet purchase.

Yeah I’m guessing you’re right even though it makes no sense. I mean I understand it looks like a gift card but it’s not really. So basically the smart thing to do is to always buy the physical cards vs online which seems backwards but oh well. And to be clear not blaming anet for this or anything. Just the idiots who make up the laws for this sort of thing.

What I don’t understand is that I literally just went to Best Buy and bought 2 of the $15 Gem cards that they have. It was $30.00 even with no tax at all. But when I buy them through the gemstore online I get charged roughly 6% tax. Someone tell me how that works?

And I live in Illinois for reference. Not that I’d be surprised if this screwed up state some how had tax for online purchases but not physical purchases of online entities. But still curious since it seems someone is screwing up some where.

Burtnik.5218:

As for legendary sword its been datamined i believe
http://imgur.com/b3iOwP1

Ugly as .. but well.. legendary.

Better looking than Bolt at least. I feel sorry for people who spent time and all that money making that decorative fencing with a handle they called a sword.

Morfedel.4165:

I suppose that was my concern. Is it cheaper to acquire the crafting items and make it, or buy the precursor outright?

It depends on what you’re making. Since you mentioned Bitfrost I’d guess it’s better to make the precursor since the The Legend usually is selling for around 1200 gold on the market. As where if you were trying to make something less popular like The Flameseeker it’s precursor The Chosen usually sells for under 500 gold so I’m guessing it’d be cheaper and far less of a pain in the rear to just buy it out right.

Same, broken. How is this not fixed yet?

Ah ok thanks all, that makes sense. Completely missed that you had to channel number 5. That sucks I like sword and board for aesthetic reasons. Hopefully they make it less awful.

I’m curious why you, and most any other build I see, bother using OH axe instead of still using shield. I know shield got nerfed to hell but it’s still a small heal and possible protection that could be used in a pinch. And in a pve setting it doesn’t seem like axe is all that useful since both are a dps loss. The port to and the pull CC is nice once in a while but I’d think you’d rather have some extra healing in emergencies instead.

And I’m not questioning your decision as I’m just now about to hit 80 on my Rev after making one last week and using a bunch of saved up tomes so I have no experience with the class. Just curious why everyone seems to throw shield away that still has at least minor utility in pve compared to axe OH that I’d think would be rarely used.

Thanks for the updated guide and video though. It’s been very helpful for me.

I’m a returning player from like the first three months of the game’s existence. What level do you have to be to start AC? And how long can you do that… or to what level? Still trying to remember how this game works lol.

Thanks for the replies all.

@DaisyRogers-thanks for suggestions. Had been looking at the reflect projectile definitely as that seems to always bee needed in dungeons. the might stacking would be useful as well in a lot of situations.

And is there a way to enhance chance to block when a shield is equipped? Or does it just block when you use the number 5 skill? Can’t decide if it is worth using for dungeons or not as I level my warrior.