Guild Wars 2

PvE scrub here, I am looking forward to being farmed. I will be one of those hiding in the Zerg, hoping no one notices my over extended play.

TBH, this is an amazing chance for WvW. When PvP got its seasons and good rewards I dove in full force. Ranked to Gold 3 for S5, and did it again S6 because S5 got me addicted. If this WvW update does the same thing, I’ll be abandoning PvE all together in favor of WvW and sPvP stuff. 4 years of PvE has geared a lot of my characters well, its time to use that gear for something more than just grinding more gear.

funny thing, Necro is still the go-to for CM 100 in Fractals or most people. Its slower, but VERY safe. I easily pull 10-12k dps as condi Necro without a chrono.

Druid is one of the best buffers/healers in the game, and Condi Ranger can out do other condi specs fairly simply.

The people who posted that on the LFG are stupid and don’t know what the good builds are for the classes they are not taking. That clears up once you get to T3 and T4 fractals.

-23. I’m hovering around Gold 3/Plat 1. Its really sad the player base is so small that I can loose 23 rating from a loss at that level.

the dev has spoken. I didn’t check my standing post 2nd update, but after the first update I had the correct # of games (108 of 105 right now) and was properly in my position.

I did a count a few days ago (I got bored while in que) and there were close to 20 people who were on the edge of having the req 105 games but didn’t have them yet.

Also, is this NA or EU? I assume NA since NA has been a clowfiesta this season.

Hey man, you are 100% right. Condi thief is so OP that I have lost more games because of them. They carry the other team so hard, but only when they are on my team. Literally they just sacrifice them selves to the Gods of PvP as an offering for the other team to win. I can’t carry them hard enough to make their build not make me loose. /sarcasm….

Condi thief is a cheese build that will work once and than fail every fight after that. The only thing it has going for it is that it isn’t used by ANYONE who wants to rank up, so when you see it you are surprised and might die once to it. After that, that poor kitten is going to die when he tries to jump in.

There was gear in GW1 that could only be gotten from doing certain PvP. Hall of Heroes was (and still is) one of the only ways to get certain items in GW1. They could be traded, which created a way for PvP players to be some of the richest players in the game. Did it kitten some people off? Sure, but they got over it since PvE was the way you would PAY for those high price items from PvP players.

There wasn’t as much hate towards PvP from PvE because they worked together to get things they each wanted. Now, PvE hates PvP and PvP seems to be going the way of WvW, that is being the stepchild no one wants to talk about too much.

I like the idea of less RNG, but the removal of Air and Fire Sigils worry me. Most (if not all) power based builds use one or both of those sigil as part of their build. They provide those finishing bits of damage that determine if someone goes down or if they stay up. It’s RNG, but reliable RNG. You should know what your crit chance is, and decide if you want those sigil based on that (I’ll take one with anything over 50% crit chance).

I’m also concerned about the boon application sigil. They sound great, but I feel they are more of a trap to anyone that uses them due to Necromancer’s ability to corrupt boons so quickly. Combine that with the power builds taking a hit from the loss of Air and Fire, which I believe would cause a rise in hybrid or condi builds which Necro does very well… it just sounds like it would spiral out of control in favor of Necro (this coming from a PvP Necro).

Just my 2 bits on it.

<3 Thank you so much! I will never be in the top 250, but its really sad to see someone in the #1 spot with 19 games and 0 losses, while even I have over 100 games played. Top level players should be PLAYING not abusing the system like they are currently.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

I was legend last season and am in Ruby this season and am having no trouble advancing rapidly, 14/16 games won w/3 win streaks, so there goes ur argument and assumption. I’m probably a better player than you as I was never trapped in MMR hell last season.

*Your

Than why would you care about MMR being reset? You’ve already said you are going to not play PvP again and that all you care about is the wings. Why concern yourself with a game type that you claim you will never set foot in again?

Funny, there’s a post on this page also about how necro is clearly the reason that PvP is terrible and will never be an esport and is the bane of the game and the harbinger of the doom of the game and… where was I going with this? Oh right, clearly the game is on the verge of its demise and we should all quite now.

Part of the problem with Dominion (as a former LoL player) was that it was put in, than never balanced around. The entire time that it was in the game it was the neglected child that was laughed at and the few people that did play it slowly left because they were ignored. I actually worry more that Stronghold in GW2 will turn into that since the Meta is all based around Conquest.

Ranked to Ruby with stronghold only, playing DH, Condi Reaper, Tempest and Druid, up until stronghold was turned off, than played Tempest/Druid bunkers in Conquest until Ruby T5, than stronghold came back and I finished out to diamond with Condi Reaper.

Terimac.5871:

I can’t see anything wrong?

The Druid is inside the Enemy base, while the gate is still up. There should be no way for that to happen since the gate is still up, Tele skills should not work because there is “No path available” so it looks suspicious of hacking.

Zefrost.3425:

Why do you think no one uses most of these sigils? Because they’re balanced.

HA! So if all sigils are balanced no one should be using them? Most of the sigils aren’t used because they are too situational. Ogre slaying is useless for 99% of the game play. Burn duration isn’t needed for many classes because they HAVE NO BURNING not because 20% burn duration is balanced.

Zefrost.3425

Not fun for anyone to play against. These sigils give abilities to classes that were never meant to have them which totally eliminates build diversity. For example, warrior was never meant to have poison, yet it can have poison. Who needs to bring a class into the comp with actual access to poison, then?

This is exactly why we need these sigils. Ele doesn’t get poison unless they take that sigil, but it does make is so they can dampen another classes ability to heal. Which than means that class is going to want to take some kind of condi cleanse (which they are likely to need anyway).

Zefrost.3425:

My necromancer can inflict 5 conditions – weakness, chill, vulnerability, bleed and torment with 1 auto attack. Think that’s fair? Remove all of this,
Bring back the skill to this game.

Yes, I do think that’s fair. Because as soon as you do that you can’t do that again for another 9 secs, and most of those will wear off pretty fast because you opted to take a sigil that does that and not one that will give you duration. There is a trade off that you are forgetting when people take those sigils.

Time to Dive into this mess…

Zefrost.3425:

Sigil of Generosity – Change to -> Skills that transfer conditions transfer 1 extra condi.

No. Transfer skills that would be affected by this are 3 skills from Necro, 1 from mesmer. No other class has ANY skill that would benefit form this change.

Sigil of Nullification – Change to -> Skills that remove boons remove 1 extra boon.

No again. Skills that would benifit from this: 4 Mes, 1 engi, 1 Rev, 2 Necro(untraited signet). That’s from all the skills in the game among all the classes. Traits that could POSSIBLY benefit from this: 1 Thief, 1 Mes, 2 Necro, 2 Rev. There would also be a BIG problem with this change paired with the last change you said in that they would work together WAY to well with necro signets. Transform boon on the enemy counts as a boon strip, which mean for every signet activated there would be an extra boon removed, which means an extra condi applied, which goes against your original argument.

Zefrost.3425:

Sigil of Ice – Change to -> Skills that inflict chill inflict 1 extra stack. (Make chill stack)

There is good reason they didn’t make chill stack. Its because Necro is the only class that can use chill to do damage, and a stacking chill effect for classes that can’t use it to do damage does what? Lengthen the duration of it? that makes it op because of necro. Stacking in intensity? Ele, Engi and Necro could than just make people move at a snails pace with skills that would never come off cd.

Zefrost.3425:

Sigil of Fire (AOE spam) – Change to -> Skills that inflict burn inflict 1 extra stack. (2s)

I have to give the face (0.o) to this. Why would you want this? Ele comes to might right away. Overload fire in the middle of a point, wait for some poor fool to try and jump you and laugh as they burn to death from a small fire skill rotation.

Zefrost.3425:

Sigil of Rage – Change to -> 10% increased damage while under effects of quickness.

Golly jeez Kitten! Rev and Mes and Engi and War and Thief and… who doesn’t benefit from this in a BIG way? Quickness effectively makes 1 person do the damage of 2, and you want them to have even more? that 10% looks more like 20% boost with a Warrior quickness burst. or worse, a Rev quickness burst.

Zefrost.3425:

Sigil of Incapacitation Change to -> 10% increased damage against crippled foes.
Sigil of Doom – Change to -> 10% increased damage against poisoned foes.
Sigil of Geomancy – Change to -> 10% increased damage against bleeding foes.
Sigil of Hydromancy – Change to -> 10% increased damage against chilled foes.

These ONLY favor power builds that passively apply these condi. Necro benefits from the poison and chill one while in Reaper Shroud, which means another 20% boost to their damage while already in one of the highest damaging forms in the game, which also acts as a safety net.

Zefrost.3425:

Sigil of Air – Change to -> Causes lightning strike when dealing damage over 25% of opponents maximum HP.

This change would be directly countered by a high HP build. If I have 25k hp (not hard to get as a Warrior) you would have to get a lucky crit of 6.25k on me to get that effect to proc. From what I see in youtube videos and not knowing the builds, a 4k crit seems to be a good day even from a thief right now in sPvP vs a warrior. Not a good change IMO.

Nope, nope nope nope nope. I have seen Warriors and Thieves that were the reason we won the game. Allowing people to select which class they want/don’t want in their party for solo q does no good and just causes more class warfare (pun).

jessiestiles.9437:

It seems to be broken. snip:

This could actually be working properly. All you know is that there are Ruby players and a sapphire player, but that doesn’t tell you where in ruby those players are. If they had just crossed from sapphire into ruby than its entirely possible they are still being placed against sapphire players. Like a high Amber going against low Emerald player.

MAN.9046:

HoT failed in terms of PvP that’s for sure no other game out there has its viewers on Twitch and forum users actively trash the devs/game lol.
I love this game but HoT ruined PvP with the elite specs :/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry, you must not watch many streamers… Twitch streamers will trash every game for views, they will complain about game mechanics, bugs, ELO in pvp, and so on. Guys in LoL would trash on Riot after every patch, every time a new season started and each time an item was changed that they didn’t like just because it was either new, broken, or not what they thought it should be (the last was the most common).

Its funny to be one of those guys that was super sad to see tempest when it first came out and now I love it. I love running fresh air, overloading, swapping to another element and getting a crit to swap back to air and get a 5 sec recharge on the overload again! Perma boons for life!

I would say Rev, since they can actually kill something. But Mes if you are just trying to hold points. I want to see a 3 Mes, 2 Rev team comp, where the mes just bunker and the Rev’s roam between points. a single mes can basically bunker forever against 3 average people, or 2 pro’s.

A single DH wouldn’t have made any difference in that match man. Bummer you got put against them, guess you should have rolled Ranger, or Mes, or Necro, or ANYTHING with a pet/ai driven character. Want to make a DH mad? have a pet walk through their traps.
Want to beat a DH? Play something that can out survive them. The longer the fight, the harder it is for DH to win.

New meta incoming, 4 Mes bunkers, 1 Burst condi rev/Ber/Necro.

I was just thinking about how it would be possible for someone to just get perpetual bad teams, and than I see this and my thought was “man that’s either a really bad player, or I just saw the future”.

forgive me OP for not taking you as serious as someone that likes sPvP and now dislikes the league system. You already disliked it, so you are going into it with low expectations, while someone who enjoys PvP went in with high hopes, only to feel like they were dashed.

butch.8136:

Band-aid fix until balance patch: no class stacking.

I would love to see this as a permanent thing in Ranked ques. I realize that this would SEVERELY limit the que, since it would be taking 1 of the 9 classes out of the options, but it would solve the problem of multiple classes that can be very strong.

Celestial is good for classes that can use ALL of the stats it offers better than an alternative. Thief, Warrior, Revenant, Guardian and Mesmer (so far as I know) do not use the Celestial amulet, because they get better stat usage out of other amulets. Ele, Engi, Necro and Ranger can use it because they have condi and power damage that can be kept reasonably high while still keeping a high survival rating.

+1 to the removal. There’s no need to see my Mastery level in PvP or WvW, please don’t make me see my Ranking in PvE. Yes, it may be good exposure to PvP, but its still clutter that doesn’t need to be there.

No, do not be alarmed. Look at the bottom of every mail you EVER get. If it was sent by a player (not a mod or dev or member of Anet) it will have the message that you see in that picture.
Likely that is a stolen account with a generic bot sending out messages. What ever you do DO NOT follow the link they provide. You will likely get your account stolen and it will turn into a bot account.
Simply report the mail as a bot or a scam in the ingame interface and ignore the person who sent it.

I was looking over the condition equations and noticed that fear damage does NOT have an equation. Does it have one (an equation), and if so, what is it? I’m thinking specifically of the Necromancer trait that gives fear the ability to do damage.

The complaint that its a bad time is the same thing as me saying its a bad time for me because I will be on vacation from the US Memorial Day. It will always be conflicting with someones schedule. They set it up for 3 time slots, 11:30pst, (great for US second shift workers who are just waking up), 3:30pst (great for students who get off from classes in most US states at that time) and 7:30pst (great for people who work normal US 8-5 style jobs). Does it stink that it’s at bad times for most people in a global game, yes.
But this is still beta phase of the game, and limited to a few people who actually got the portal or were invited some other way.

TLDR: Tough GoRedEngine for some of us, have fun for those who can.

1. Yes, its allowed (unless anet changed their policy from the past two years, which isn’t likely.
2. You should probably credit the composer of that piece of music, and note that its part of Guild Wars 2, published by Arenanet. I think that should cover that section.

Arenanet have been very willing to let people use their soundtrack’s in gameplay video’s and allow you to make money on that video. If a claim is filed against you for that piece of music you can contact Anet, let them know you have been flagged and they will usually help with the process. Youtube did a big mistake a while back where people were wrongly flagging videos and most publishers have gotten good at quickly clearing up any false flags.

I haven’t seen anything in my searching (though that was just a small search), but will Heart of Thorns give us a character slot when we purchase it, like Factions and Nightfall did, or will it follow the path of Eye of the North and not come with an extra character slot?

I second this. There must be a new guy going around sending out fake mails. I just submitted a report to Anet about this. I know to look at the icons, and the notice at the bottom the mail before trusting anything mailed to me, but I have friends who have no idea and could freak out and do something foolish (like give out their account info). Having the notice moved from the bottom of the mail to the top would make it simpler to see who sent it and if it was Anet or someone else.
+1 from me on the idea.

I was replaying PonR and had to afk in frond of the abbadon statue, so I started to dance. right before I got out of my chair my character fell into the downed state. Nothing around to hit me, Marjory was still talking. I stood up and danced again just to see what would happen and I went down again. Is this an easter egg reference to the final mission in Night Fall?

Mjgander.1905:

Now I’m against a full team premade, 5 people in the same guild.

My team, isn’t.

GG WP

Its going to happen, it will keep happening. If you hate it, play a different part of the game. If you MUST play PvP, play practice until the system has been worked out. I’m sure you wouldn’t mind playing 4v5’s where you can landslide the enemy. Can’t stand practice? Don’t play PvP until it has been tweaked. Anet’s got allot on their plate right now, and just the fact that they made this change to pvp is a good sign.

Now that I think about it, you seem like a troll… clearly the system is not so bad that you have stopped playing, so…. do you just want to complain? If that’s the case, some one close this thread… nothing productive or constructive is happening.

I agree with Flumek, courtyard was a great idea to put in, but it has turned into a Zerg Death Ball map. Who ever has faster AoE burst wins, and it usually means a 500-0 win. I think that if the map were to be changed to 3v3 max or even 2v2 it would be allot better.

I tried to use the Candy Corn Gobbler before entering the new Living Story instances and didn’t get any buffs. The candy corn I had was consumed, but no buff given. Possible new bug? I still transformed.

Hey everyone,
I have been thinking recently about how a friend of mine seems to be correct. His big complaint with the crafting is that it “doesn’t feel rewarding”. As I have thought about what he said I find I agree with him more and more.
So, since there’s no reason to complain without a proposed solution, I would like to see crafting get new weapon skins at different levels of crafting. These could be obtained from karma vendors or gold vendors out in the world, similar to the way you get the current different crafting skins (like the Charr and Godskull skins). This way people who are crafting for the first time would be able to get their hands on new skins relatively easily, and the more experienced players would want to go back and pick up those new skins.
Thoughts? Other ideas? Or am I completely out of it and crafting is great and wonderful and filled with rewards?

I started getting the same thing but I’m not wanting to delete my .dat file. I have heard this is caused by the Megaserver’s and is coming from Anets end, can anyone confirm that rumor?

First, EotM is a mass karma/xp/gold farm with its events and loot bags that drop from the champs. It wasn’t meant to be that way when they designed it, but players figured out what they could get from it and that’s what it has become. I personally take my guild members into EotM for just that reason, so they can farm and lvl characters, there’s no reason to ban the # of guild members in an EotM server.
Second, and with the first in mind, if you are trying to run in EotM Solo you will die. Period. Even running on the sub levels and only doing small points someone will catch you, or you run into a zerg, or something, but you will die. Solo play is NOT part of that map anymore even for scouting (which is a big deal in WvW I guess). If you are wanting to Level an alt, join the zerg on your EotM map. Fastest chain of events in the game. If you’re going for mats, join the zerg, you will get the most amount of loot in the shortest period of time.

TL;DR: EotM is a farm area that uses only zergs, so join the zerg.

Logged in just to +1 this! I love the idea, and since EotM I have been playing more WvW (also map completion) and having a way to get more levels would be sweet since even as a mostly PvE and sPvP player, i have gotten around 2.5k badges with very little effort. Bought Gift of Battle just for the lulz even though I wont be going after a legendary anytime soon.

I spent a good amount of time in LA, but never though of it as my characters home, more of a gathering place of great history. My favorite place was Old Lions Arch that is under water, and now all that’s left is a giant hole, with even more in ruin than before, and it’s almost unrecognizable.
To be honest though, I hope they never fully repair that area, and leave it as a scar on the land that I can show my brothers when they finally get the chance to play again.

If you are immersed enough to feel sorrow for Scarlet, you should also remember that she has killed MANY people in LA. There’s a nice memorial set up now in case you forgot. Scarlet made a choice, kill many, and had to pay the price. The jokes at the end are the result of intense stress and is a coping mechanic. If you don’t believe me, look at soldiers in post war situations, EMR’s and police officers after difficult situations. They will sing songs, joke and do all sorts of things to cope with what they saw (many are off colored songs about that situation, and jokes that are less than ideal for the experience).

OMG nooooo!!!!! The spoilers! oh wait… why does this all seem so familiar?!?!?!?

^—— What he said. I just watched this video and this guy knows his stuff. Anet should hire him for his know how on the game and actually doing the math behind what he says.

Some people may have already seen this set of builds by this youtuber, but when I searched for him on this forum I didn’t see anything about it:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsfTAd-qhsRxTk0WuXFF1I7qteSilnjcf

These builds are in depth, and that’s an understatement.

I like the idea, but not Queensdale, there are too many new players that would start there and not know what was going on with PS being under water all of the sudden. Also, for the Behemoth, Aatxe cant swim. Try getting one into the water and they bug out, either rushing back on to land, or just sitting there in the water for you to kill.

ah, Your right, I did forget about that… Did we ever get an explanation as to how we missed that? Massive mesmer veil?

The Largos do have something to offer and you mentioned it: Stealth (the Tengu have nothing to offer, that I can tell, that some other race couldn’t already give to Scarlet’s plan). If Scarlet had been able to get at least the Largos she may have been able to sneak into Lions Arch unnoticed using their stealth magic and found a way to drill without us noticing until it was too late.

Sounds like we want a villian more like Canach?

I noticed that each of the camps set up outside LA is close to each orders HQ. If Scarlet’s going to attack the orders HQ all the citizens we saved would be back in danger, and honestly I don’t see much point in the attack. The Pact is still preoccupied with Orr, which means most of each Order’s man power is there, posing no real threat to Scarlet’s plans. So my question: why would Scarlet bother with an attack on the orders if she already has control of LA and the ley line crossing?