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Yes, please.
I really don’t think it looks good (personal opinion), but more importantly I think it doesn’t fit the body morphology of those two races. It set a bad precedent for any future asura or charr armors.
I would prefer that those future armors (particularly those hard-to get legendary armors) have a design for each races, like those T1/2/3 cultural armors which are IMO the standard to achieve in the game. But I understand it’s probably too time consuming. (Although it’s legendary armors…). But at the very least, no boobplates on races who do not have boobs.
Hi,
I know this is GW1 related sorry, but I don’t know where else to ask this. Maybe Gaile Gray can see this and pass it to the right person ?
So, this summer I played GW1 a bit, and wanted to buy a costume (Augur of Kormir) from the online store. But unfortunately some of them weren’t available at the time, namely: Kormir, Lyssa, Ravenheart, Vale, Shining Blade and White Mantle. I asked on reddit if this was normal, then contacted support. Their answer was that some costumes were “limited time items”. The wiki doesn’t say anything about this, nor the players i’ve talked to, so I think it’s more of a oversight from the store transition in June (from ingame to webstore).
But now, as you can see here: http://store.guildwars.com all the missing costumes are back, except for Augur of Kormir… Why ?
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Here’s my dps staff build : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWnMIShDW5AWPArEIwBQoer2oPSjEo0WA
Goal is to take every +%dmg you can get. It’s kind of cheesy but it works really well if you know how to position yourself. It was insane pre patch with celestial gear (meteor shower->tornado you could kill whole zerg with 7-10k single meteor), but post patch I wouldn’t recommend celestial, its way overnerfed.
I don’t like going in Fire, I think there’s no traits really worth it. The 20% cooldown reduction on fire skill is really bad if you theorycraft a bit: you don’t need cooldown reduce on 1, 3 and 4; 2 has a very low cd and since you will switch elements a lot, you will not spam fire 2. meteor shower is why a lot of ppl take this trait, but when you think about it, cooldown reduction doesn’t give any damage to the first 4 meteor shower. 20% cd reduction means in the time it takes to do 4 meteor shower, you can do 5… But its extremely rare to do even 4 in the first place in a single teamfight.
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Tornado is very strong in WvW. Cast Meteor Shower (until the end) then Tornado, and boom your meteors get all the stat bonuses of the tornado. Which are and I quote the wiki: “Base Power is tripled. Base Precision is doubled. Base Vitality is doubled.”
The new heal is also good, but it’s not easy to use right, and Ether Renewal is still a very good heal in WvW.
Asura Golems are meh, last time I used one was in leveling. Or maybe just for fun. But racial skills in general aren’t good and aren’t used in WvW.
You have the blasting staff trait which makes every staff aoe 20% larger. The aoe damage radius of single meteors remains unchanged afaik.
360 + 20% = 432.
Heya fellow eles
I’m a staff addict in WvW for a little while now, been playing in pug and guild groups. But I wanted to change, and since eotm I roam a bit with friends or solo in D/D. Problem: I die in 2sec against thieves because my gear is bad (it’s mostly zerk-since I position myself well in zerg fights). I wanted to try new gear for a long time but I don’t have a lot of gold / karma / badges, sooo…
What’s the recommended or simply your favorite roaming gear ? Why ? Can you solo with it ?
Somebody already told me full celestial was the best right now, but I don’t want to commit to this gear given the future patch…
All the first year’s cosmetics returned for the anniversary. I would imagine Grenth hood would return too, but probably not very soon.
It’s simply the best response to this problem I’ve read.
OP really hit the nail about active defenses empowering all-out DPS far more than mixed dps/defense.
I have just something to add, and I wish OP talked a bit about that in his post, because it will draw Anet’s attention. And it’s the question : “Why is the trinity working so well ?”. Please don’t think that I want some kind of trinity in the game, but we can certainly learn from a system which has been refined from mmo’s to mmo’s and is working very well in some of the most popular ones.
I think it’s because of 2 things:
- Passive defenses are far more important in a trinity setup than in GW2. The Tank tanks enemies, and if he doesn’t have enough defenses or fails to play around that (using skills to augment defenses or dodge etc) during combat, it’s over. I don’t see this happening in GW2 because active defense is really easy to do (aegis, dodge, etc), and rezzing a downed player is deliberatly extremely powerful. Making foes harder will only make the content less forgiving, but players will probably not switch to passive defenses.
- All classes have some kind of Resource management. Mana, rage, etc you name it. Basically, what it allows is a finer balance between offense and defense. If you use all your mana to dps and the mob isn’t dead, you can’t cast active defenses anymore and you’re dead. It creates choices and consequences. It provides equilibrium. GW2 has a wonderful system which make the combat very dynamic, by removing resource management (except for thieves, which totally unrelated I always thought was kind of weird) and making cd extremely low. And don’t get me wrong I love it. But the equilibrium isn’t there anymore, and you can go 100% dps against a boss while casting active defenses without any problem.
I do not believe the “Zerker Problem” will ever be fixed, because it really stems from different mechanics which are all deeply rooted in GW2’s dynamic combat gameplay. But if Anet ever find an answer other than nerfing Zerk / buffing other stats, they will have my utmost respect, because it’s clearly a very difficult and complex gamedesign problem.
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Oh kitten that’s a pretty funny lapsus haha. Yes it was Muffinz, thank you <3 I’ll try to find some vods, but it doesn’t seems he has his own channel.
Hey guys,
So this is a bit off-topic, but it’s the best place to ask. I liked watching a specific streamer on the guildwars2pvptv twitch channel. He played Thief and his name was Cookie or Cookiez or something like that (can’t remember exactly :/). I watched him somewhere in August I think, when I began playing sPvP consistently. Since then I dropped GW2 because IRL and now that I want to play again, guildwars2pvptv didnt had a stream for 20 days, so I think it’s dead / in sleep mode ?
Anyway if someone remember this streamer and could link me his twitch, even if he doesn’t stream anymore I would like to watch his vods.
Thanks.
Ahahah! In fact I’m belgian, but if you replace wine and cheese by chocolate and beer it’s the same stereotypes I suppose
^ Ahahah! Nice screenshot!
For the last time, we don’t have any french canadians (they would probably have 250+ ping, and with GW2 combat system it’s unplayable), just a hardcore player base who LOVE WvW and want to see Vizunah dominating. Stop whining over that. In addition to a lot of our players playing more in WvW than PvE or sPvP, we are more organized, we communicate a lot even with pick ups or small guilds, and we have good leaders.