Guild Wars 2

I like the idea since, from what I’ve heard, you can salvage without having to identify AND the unidentified gear will stack with itself. This will cut back on the “hurr, I killed 5 things and now my bags are full” problem. I don’t see the big deal.

Ah, that’s a shame. Exactly the time I’ll be going to bed so I can get up in time to go to work in the evening. The downside to working graveyards.

Oh well, just a stress test. Not like I’m missing out on anything groundbreaking.

Levetty.1279:

I thought it was because when you see it you turn 360 degrees and walk away… wait

It’s called the Xbox 360 because…

Heheh. You made me chuckle.

Yeah, WASD can’t break kneel otherwise you’d only ever be able to dodge roll backwards without having to waste initiative to kneel again. Jump makes way more sense.

I highly doubt that Rifle will end up being meta for PvE Deadeye. It’s far more likely that the damage buffs from Malice, along with the traits that also play with Malice, will be used along with other weapon sets like D/D, S/P, and Shortbow due to their ability to pull higher DPS, or greater AoE/Support potential, than the Rifle has.

Berserkers, however, will, more than likely, be the common meta set of choice. Just gotta wait until the theorycrafters have a chance to crunch the numbers and provide information regarding best-in-class stat combinations for Deadeye. That’ll most likely have to wait for PoF to actually release first, though I may be mistaken as I haven’t exactly gone looking for anything of that sort.

Ultimately, the “immobile whilst kneeling” mechanic is meant to offset the (on paper) increase in throughput on the rifle skills, as well as the range increase, when compared to when standing. In order to balance the upgrades to the skills provided by kneeling, the player has been made mostly immobile whilst kneeling. It’s highly likely, though, that a kneeling Deadeye will get quickly jumped on by the [insert total number of gap closing skills here] blinks, teleports, and shadowsteps that the different classes have.

At least, that’s the way I see the design decision. It is, however, a bit of a clunky-feeling implementation. Pressing 5 a second time to stand up feels odd and, while I’m sure that will pass as familiarity grows, I, personally, would like it if jump could also be used to exit kneel.

No valid path to target.

Need I say more?

I actually wouldn’t mind jump being used to move DE out of kneel. Give an alternative option such that skill 5 OR jump could be used. It’s not like jump does anything whilst kneeling, after all.

I only ever get it while I’m in a story instance, dungeon, or fractal. If I’m running around in the open world I don’t have any problems. For me, though, this has been going on much longer than the PoF betas.

I’ve been having this happen a lot. Most of the time it’s at the point where I’ve almost completed the story instance. It’s always a disconnect to character select but only happens when in story instances. I don’t get it in dungeons, cities, or the open world. Very frustrating.

GW2 NetworkDiagnostic file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3joo9fnluwtbj4n/NetworkDiag.log?dl=0

I don’t think this will be a thing. Imagine the difference in skills and play style, in combination with the different approaches that should be taken to combat, a Ranger compared to that of a Druid.

In PvP, every little bit of information you can glean from an opponent is important. Being able to see that you’re fighting a Daredevil instead of a Thief lets you know that you’re up against an extra dodge, as an example.

I’m not sure about the new Gem Store item but what I can say is that the level 80 boost that came with the pre-purchase of Path of Fire creates a new shared inventory slot in your inventory. I had all of my shared slots used and, upon receipt of my pre-purchase perks, I had the booster in its own slot.

https://youtu.be/3dAtyBykhLM

Just a minor bug that I noticed in one of the new update missions. Appears to be a trigger that is set to call upon crossing a threshold but is not limited in the number of times it is able to be called, thus resulting in endless repetition with a slight cooldown.

Keefe.3821:

It needs work like most other halllf asssssseddd features anet adds to the game while ignoring our feedback. My biggest complaint is that you can’t stay locked on a target once you turn your crosshair too far left or right. Maybe they’ve never played Ocarina of Time? This style was perfected over 19 years ago. It’s not that hard of a concept to grasp. But then again, we’re dealing with anet here.

You can stay locked on – I believe Right-click is, by default, the button to target lock – but you can’t continue to attack if you’re not looking in their general direction if there’s another target where you’re looking.

What drives me nuts is that the target lock likes to break a lot on oversized world bosses that shift around a lot like Tequatl and Shatterer.

Would love to see more throwbacks to GW1 (Monk/Rit/Derv) but I honestly don’t see any new classes being added to the game in the future. Monk/Rit is basically covered by Guardian – the combination of spirits (spirit weapons) and healing/support abilities – so I wouldn’t count on seeing anything like them. Dervish may come in the future as an elite spec for Revenant as, if you think about it, the Avatar system feels similar to the Legend system.

I think, at this point, we’re gonna be seeing strictly elite specializations over new classes.

They’re play-fighting. Cat’s in real life play fight all the time. It’s natural and harmless behaviour.

Many, MANY of us have been asking for something like this for a long time. They have said that they are looking into some different options for dealing with this, such as a button to allow players to disable the sounds, but we haven’t heard anything concrete regarding a plan as of yet, to my knowledge.

I still pray for the day that I don’t have to listen to The Dreamer, aka. Trollbow.

It sounds to me like the OP got the first exotic collection shield from the Revenant (Herald) reward track, since he’s saying he has the shield but it’s soulbound, put that shield into the bank and then deleted the Revenant.

To answer the question: the exotic shield is borked, you might as well salvage it. If you finish the collection achievement for the Ascended shield – Glint’s Bastion – you can still get it without the need for the first part, since you have already collected the item for that part of the achievement. The Ascended shield is account-bound, so once you get it you can swap it between characters at your leisure.

The rotation is absolute torment.

I’ll see myself out.

I’ve been using it since before it was actually a thing. Combat Mode made GW2 a lot more fun and the addition of Action Cam was great.

Kajan.7410:

Samug.6512:

The latest “balance” patch changed how turrets work – now they overcharge upon deployment, once. After that, they autoattack until picked up or destroyed. This change was made to let us use toolbelt skill regardless of whether the turret is deployed or not

Meh, that is a terrible idea. Why would they take control away from users like that?! My PvE playstyle depended on the Overcharge effect of the Flame turret… guess they want us all to equip bomb bundle and kite the enemy. I assume that is still the Meta? Bombs for solo pve and grenades for Group PvE? Or did they phase that out too?

My flamethower worked quite nicely with my flame turret for Blind Effects… mumbles, and here i thought i was to stupid and forgot something… was wondering why i couldn’t do the overcharge on my flame turret anymore.

The lack of overcharge of my healing turret is also annoying. I quite like to have that burst effect.

What a terrible idea!

Mork vom Ork.2598:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2017-05-16

Read it

“Most of the time, engineers were taking turret skills and never deploying the turret because the Tool Belt skill was too important to be overridden by the detonate turret skill.”

Screw that! I took turrets for their overcharge skills, i hardly ever used Tool Belt skills! I want my overcharge back!

The reasoning has a lot to do with power discharge builds taking turrets but never using them because the loss of access to the toolbelt skills was a noticeable DPS loss.

I like the change because it means I can actually use the turrets I take.

redwing.9580:

I serious have never once thought about using the tool belt skill on turrets as they are small unnoticable abilites with the only one being any form of useful (and again not by much) is the rifle and thumpers as you can use those while stunned

And Rocket from the rocket turret. And Surprise shot from the rifle turret, moreso on a Static Discharge power build. Both of which a power bomb build will likely use, though they may still sub out the Rocket Turret for use of Grenade Kit’s barrage toolbelt skill. Surprise shot is still a must-have for non-scrapper power builds.

I actually appreciate the change because it means that I can actually use the turrets instead of just having them there but never dropping them because the toolbelt skills offer more DPS than if I were to place them.

I think it’ll honestly depend on what you’re doing. Guild Wars 2 is a CPU bound game; what this means is that it uses far more CPU resources than GPU resources.

From the sound of it, you and I have very similar systems. I’m running GW2 on the MSI GT72VR 6RD-050 Dominator:

i7-6700HQ @ 2.6GHz (3.1GHz boost multi core, 3.5GHz boost single core)
GTX 1060
16GB Ram

I’m running with almost all settings at max. Shadows on “High”, because the max setting causes some unusual lighting issues especially in Draconis Mons. Sampling set to “Native” instead of “Supersampling” because it’s unnecessary on a 17.3in display. I’ve also tweaked things a bit with Sweet FX to make the game look more vibrant.

Click the spoiler if you’re running an MSI gaming laptop.

I typically get 40-70FPS in most zones, averaging around 40-50. During world bosses I typically see between 15-20FPS. It is very unlikely that you will be able to attain 60+FPS on max settings at all times. My CPU draw from GW2 tends to sit around 50-60%. It is somewhat unusual that yours is only using around 20%, I will not deny that.

If you’re getting sub-20FPS at all times (bear in mind that Lions Arch or other cities are poor places to gauge your FPS as there are usually a large number of other players at any given time) then there might be something going on. I would recommend double checking that your graphics drivers are up to date and double check that you’ve got all your Windows Updates. (Bear in mind that some people have been having issues with certain games, GW2 included, with the most recent Windows Creator’s Update.)

At the same time, since your system seems to be very similar to mine I am assuming that it has both an SSD and an HDD. Which one did you install GW2 onto? What other, if any, programs are you running in the background? How old is the laptop? Do you play True Fullscreen or Windowed Fullscreen? What resolution do you have your display set at? Is this the first time you’ve tried playing GW2 on this system? If no, did you have these problems last time? If no, what changes, if any, have been made since then?

(I won’t be able to get back to this thread until tomorrow, if I even remember. If not, hopefully someone else will be able to take the answers you give and help in my place.)

Liewec.2896:

clearly you never used turrets if you approve of this change…
as someone who DID use turrets i could care less about the toolbelt skills,

i’ve lost my instant access to stealth from flame turret,
what did i get in return? a damage skill on a long CD…

i’ve lost the long range knockdown from rocket turret
what did i get in return? a damage skill on a long CD…

i’ve lost the double AoE knockbacks from thumper turret
what did i get in return? a damage skill on a long CD…

so what do turrets do once deployed now?
rocket turret does nothing but weak damage.
flame turret does nothing but weak damage.
rifle turret does nothing but weak damage.
thumper does nothing but weak damage.

they have absolutely DESTROYED turrets and you’re like “cool, stop complaining guys!”
it is against the forum rules to call you an idiot, so i certainly wont.

You seem to have missed the fact that turrets overcharge immediately upon drop now. Whilst it only overcharges once per turret drop, they still overcharge. This was a buff to Static Discharge builds because we can actually USE our turrets instead of only using the toolbelt skills.

Yolomouse is an amazing and lightweight little program. I can definitely second that.

I have never once been somewhere that did not have a repair point. Dungeons have them, all maps have them, many of them are located right beside a waypoint. I dislike having my money wasted on an item that serves no practical purpose especially since repairing has no actual cost to it.

While having armour repair is fine to me, having a real-money item, obtainable randomly from a chest that uses a cash-shop key to open, seems like a punishment in the form of a useless item wasting my real-life money.

Leave armour repairs, remove armour repair canisters.

No. It’s a freakin’ joke in a video game, for crying out loud. Grow a sense of humour.

Oh, neat. Had no idea it was a mini because I didn’t seem to be able to click on it. Thanks!

Zoned in to Dry Top and saw this after I loaded in. Have never seen it before. Is it a bug or a new addition relating to living story? It feels like something similar to the Fractal Anomaly Ghost…

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdIQJAqenUUB9dhVYBuoCsehF2iKsGuoXjO4P+kH8DLxAA-TxRBABA8AAKT5Hlq/YmSQ/3fAR9AUcCAIFQeCtA-e

There’s the build I’ve been using forever and a day. The zerks gear gives damage and crit (for bunker down) while the celestial pieces give everything, including condition damage to bump up the pistol’s hybrid damage as well as providing survivability.

It brings a lot of breakbar damage, a stun break, 4 separate blast finishers and a decent enough split between physical and condition damage. Swap in a second pistol as preferred.

It’s not something I’d take into Raids, Fractals or PvP but it serves quite nicely in PvE. There’s very little that I have trouble with. Elixer R can be swapped with anything, I just like the utility from Throw Elixir R as I prefer being able to pick people up without having to actually stop to pick them up.

I freely admit that, from a meta standpoint, this build is garbage. I enjoy it, though.

What the OP is failing to realize is that the only mining tool worth getting, due to its nature, is the Watchwork Mining Pick. It is the only harvesting tool that has a chance to produce an additional item on top of the normal gathers – the Watchwork Sprockets – that can, as of now, only be gained from Watchwork Sprocket Nodes in Home Instances (as far as I am aware) and can be sold on the Trading Post for a profit.

Why waste the gems on something inferior?

I definitely liked not being able to see anything.

I don’t mind things as they are now, honestly.

There’s another visual bug with the Healing Turret. Many times when there’s a lot going on on-screen the overcharge effect doesn’t display. Drives me nuts ’cause it causes me to miss the timing on the water field. :<

But Necros can’t use Longbows. :P

Medkit is terrible. The healing turret provides statistically larger amounts of healing between the rejuv and water field + burst and, unlike the medkit, allows you to provide said healing without stopping your damage. When using the medkit you do 0 damage.

People have to realize that Lazarus is a Mursaat. The Mursaat tricked the White Mantle into thinking that they were gods and used them to further their end. He doesn’t care one bit about Caudecus’s little power struggle for the throne and likely doesn’t appreciate the lowly human trying to use HIS – Lazarus’s – White Mantle for anything other than that which will benefit him.

I’m actually really stoked to see a possible return of the Mursaat. Those things were the bane of my existence pre-infusions in GW1.

Just going to point this out, but they don’t actually see through stealth. I use stealth a lot to avoid taking damage while gliding through the Fen. If any Mantle have targeted you while you were visible, they will get at least one rock off even if you stealth right away. Likewise, if you allow your stealth to fall off for even a split second between dodges you will also eat a couple of rocks.

The only way to avoid eating rocks while gliding is to chain stealths so that just before your first one runs out you reapply it. Granted this will only work so long as you have endurance, but it’s better than nothing.

And trust me, if my 15k HP Elementalist can glide through the Caldera without dying to rocks, when those bunks of dirt hit me for nearly 2-2K per stone, then you can, too. Just gotta be smart about it.

I was under the understanding that currently raid bosses can drop ascended gear. Legendary armour isn’t in the game as of yet. I don’t understand the complaint here.

Also: power creep. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxszx60ZwGw )

Censorship can do that.

The kittens were amusing at first but they’ve become tiresome. The fact that things that aren’t even related to curses are being censored is a bit of a problem and simply shows that the list of things to be censored is too unrefined.

kitten (A fifty-five?) Like kitten monk? But if I simply put something between a_55? No problem. Silly. /shrug

I don’t understand the issue considering once we have max illusions the sceptre auto attack applies 2 stacks of torment instead of overwriting illusions. The only time you are going to end up overwriting illusions is if you use Deceptive Evasion, decoy, or mirror image while you already have 3 illusions up.

I honestly don’t see a problem especially with the QoL change the sceptre just got.

But they are account bound. >.>

FrizzFreston.5290:

Allied targetting is hardly nescessary, unless you are incapable to target with your mouse.
But even then, most healing is still built in each profession, and usually only time it’s needed is when someone didn’t dodge at the right time. Though there are occasions that is not completely possible, like in raids.

Two words: function gyro.

While a good idea it would be, right now, somewhat pointless considering it’s practically impossible to see the targeting ring when the effects start flying.

The only thing about the current system that bugs me is the fact that wasting exp is a terrible feeling.

For example, in my case, I only have Fractal tier 3 and 4 left to master. If I work on grinding out mastery points all exp I earn is wasted. I would prefer it if exp continued to accumulate towards the next tier but perks were locked until the tier was actually unlocked with mastery points. At that point I would not mind as much the slog to get the painfully boring collection and obnoxiously specific, and in cases quite difficult, living story mastery achievements.

Lmao, I got an infraction because I forgot to black out my email address from the screenshot I posted. So much for trying to help, haha.

No, influence can stay dead and buried for all I care.

The reason influence was scrapped was because we are able to be part of 5 guilds yet influence incentivised only representing a single guild all the time. It’s the reason we see “100% rep req” as part of guild recruitment messages even now.

Khisanth.2948:

Assuming people do their research (huge assumption though) then buying should always end up cheaper. If the price of collecting becomes cheaper people would eventually shift to doing it that way which will push the price on the TP down over time until it becomes cheaper to buy again.

The current problem is the fact that if you craft all the materials required to craft the precursor but, instead, sell those materials on the TP you will be able to buy the precursor from the TP AND still have made a profit.

This means there’s absolutely no point in crafting the precursor.

Basically what I’m seeing is that there isn’t a huge difference between the two weapons overall outside of Life Force generation.

While I really like the feel of the Greatsword, I’ve started using Dagger/Focus (in PvE) so that I can use Quickening Thirst instead of Signet of the Locust, since I use Blood in my build for the extra support from Vampiric Presence and Transfusion anyway.