Guild Wars 2

Reincarnated.1754:

API Files.

Have some files gone walkabout?

http://timscloud.comuf.com/GW2/Icons/API1_Files.html

Noticed the same since yesterday evening (here in UTC +1) – Item Icons & stuff are also broken but seem to come back step by step.

Edit: did a little debug-run and saw the foowing result:
Request failed with code: 500
java.io.IOException: Request failed with code: 500

Pretty strange, the images are loadable with my webBrowser but my Client(okhttp3) gets an Error 500

Why can my browser display the images but okhttp quits its service on the same URL cal?

Hi @ all,

i want to report a Bug within the specializations API + the image renderer.

Some specialization backgrounds are a little out of shape.
For example https://render.guildwars2.com/file/B969F9B27EE82CBF0E4651FD0F760F702CB5FCED/1012101.png

you can see that there’s a large area of nothingness above and on the right side of the image itself. Same here – https://render.guildwars2.com/file/6FCF0E0E0C0E539290A8245F0DA49D0556D71E62/1012110.png

This wouldn’t be a huge problem if the images would habe the same areas of nothingness around them, but for example https://render.guildwars2.com/file/992D53319C5FCD4AE841C592DC2AE91D5906AECF/1012057.png is totally different – so a code based image cutting on my side is not really an option

could you maybe fix the images to get rid of all the empty space around them?

The one to Rule.2593:

Why would you ever use that for a stun break in pve? Scholar are superior since you’ll have perma fury.

because there are a ton of mobs that will stun you to death if you’re unaware for a split of a second?

and yes you can maintain perma fury … but you can’t maintain >90% Life that easy in maguuma and your perma fury is also gone as soon as you stunbreak or swap legends if you haven’t build up enough of it to handle the time till you swap back to glint. (and this for your whole group)

so what you should use? the rune you can maintain a 100% upkeep or the one that looses its effect as soon as a little pocket raptor hits you? – the times of faceroll afk CoFP1 gameplay are over in the jungle

Rage is not the optimal way – but its the safest one

The one to Rule.2593:

rage is useless with facet of darkness. go scholar

Rev is heavily connected to fury and as soon as you use the darkness facet as your only Glint Stunbreak (or also for its blind) or Swap legends your Fury is gone within seconds on you and your party

RageRunes make it possible to stack up enough fury to be free to use all your options at any time without panicing about loosing your fury.

Rage > Scholar

Tiggers.3890:

Thanks for the advise guys, I went for rage because it was just so kitten cheap it was like 3G and change for a full set. I’ll use those for now until I earn enough G for the runes of strength if it i s THAT much better

it definitively gives some more DPS but not even remotely enough to place >90Gold into it

SkullProX.7083:

Its supposed to make your character stronger

No its not – its supposed to make your character playstyle DIFFERENT

/sign

this feature is needed heavily

it was hard enough not to bite in his keyboard when a DC on Vinewrath or Tequatl striked – but now with all the Map-Metas its getting more and more disgusting.

it means fury now gives you 40% increase to crit-chance instead of 20% it would normally give you

so it increases the effectiveness of fury

Aytheist.9476:

Solo players cannot advance in the new content, and any decent publisher would disclose such a fundamental change prior to taking your money.

playing solo since HoT Release – L2P !

Synosius.9876:

infused light is actually the worst heal in pve if the mobs nvr hit you
you cant run all those active facets and do much more than auto attack

infused light is the strongest heal in PvE if timed correctly – you can get instant full HP – also its some kind of “oh kitten” button.
If the mobs never hit you you wouldnt need to heal yourself though.

I Mostly use my facets of strength and elements active (strength ALWAYS @ the beginning of a fight for instant 20vuln) while i try to keep my darkness facet on passive for group fury and a stun-break on demand. If a boon-bomb is near activating F2 to passive is also a great deal.

Facet of Elements & Darkness are good for avoiding a crushing on your party (Weakness and blind)

the trick is to use your boons wisely without making them burn your whole energy regen

nothin’ beats an Asura Male Revenant ;D

Zach.2618:

But the most gold generated is from silverwaste so why isn’t it getting needed?:/ just because dungeons generate more gold than fractals doesn’t mean it generates a lot of gold, 30 gold for playing 5-6 hours only once a day is hardly any gold I would nerf over.

since when do SW generate gold?
They generate tons of materials which will give you gold via the TP … the Gold generation in SW is pretty low

Coolster.2536:

My Rev’s name is Blitz Creeg.

Kudos to those who get the meaning

germans understand >:D

Roy Cronacher.1576:

I’ve gotten lots of feedback, increasingly so with time, about this part of the sword auto-attack chain. I’ll be changing this skill so that it will no longer use a projectile attack and instead it will become a normal melee attack which applies vulnerability.

NOOOOoooOoOOOoOoOo

this skill is a kitten nice AoE Attack .. why do you want to remove this? … ppl should start thinking about their positioning instead of screaming for a skill-change :/

Stuff like this:

Invictus.1503:

That’s all well and good, but this video suggests that the projectile issue on Rev. AA was a real thing. Good change in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bjhdw_26Rw

can be adressed in another way or not? if not you’re right then its better to change the whole skill but i can’t believe that there are no other ways of solving this issue O_O

Rest in Darkness Mallyx – old friend

Roy im disappointed in the case of Mallyx

Instead of fixing the functionality of the great idea you decided to remove it and make Mallyx a Jalis with a dark theme and problems like infinite condis that Mallyx can take by his Party are still untouched and AtD is just a joke now

Roy PLEASE reconsider Mallyx in total- the base idea is still great it was just not implemented well enough.

The base problems were a) lack of ways to get rid of conditions and b) problems due to condi clean by party members – both features could be addressed without nerfing the hell out of Mallyx (now he is just not interesting anymore)

I also understand the remove of the displacement but this was the greatest defiance breaker ingame – please give it back .. Make it knockdown or whatever but the idea of a AoE CC canon should stay :/

We know you can do this !! Please don’t give up Mallyx

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Killyox.3950:

People think that dps is the only metric that is important. What if someone doesn’t get downed, avoids all dmg and performs fight mechanically very good but does 30% less dmg than a dude that needs to be constantly revived and messes up mechanics making fight all around harder because NUMBERZ!

Anybody remembers tanks in wow standing in aoe to ramp up vengeance? to dps moar ?:P

So the other guy that constantly died still did 30% more damage than the guy that was alive the whole time?

That is exactly the reason we need a dps meter. The fight was dragging on so long because the second guy did 30% less dps than a dead guy.

We definitely need some metrics to tell us why we can’t complete a fight. If you can’t figure out what is wrong then you can’t fix it. damage meters are a minimum barrier of entry for raids.

Raids will fail as content if we can not accurately determine who/what needs to improve.

the question is easy to answer – the one who needs to improve is the DEAD guy …

no dungeon boss has some kind of enrage mechanic or a timer – there is literally no reason to nuke the kitten out of him as quick as possible if everybody survives. The only reason to fail a dungeon boss is that ALL of you die

DPS is a useless metric – if a rev uses his energy to keep up protection and might and refuses to do dps aside from AA is he weaker than a ele who nukes the kitten out of fire and air but never ever procs a heal or a shield?

The ones who keep an eye on control and support are way more worthful than the ones who just faceroll their buttons to gain the largest number because they take care of their party members instead of focusing on stupid numbers

Roy Cronacher.1576:

I play everything, but I’ll definitely be focusing on Revenant for HoT launch.

it would be a shame if HoT hits and you would say “screw this kitten class i’ll play Dragonhunter” O_O

Be aware we are obviously dealing with a “LFG COF1 Zerk Warr ELE 10k AP+ Gearcheck or kick” kid here.

1st- this is the wrong forum
2nd – the API already delivers the characters crafting disciplines including the current crafting level of all of them (active and inactive – you just need to learn them once)

({discipline:“Armorsmith”, rating:10, active:false}) ({discipline:“Artificer”, rating:25, active:true}) ({discipline:“Huntsman”, rating:15, active:false}) ({discipline:“Jeweler”, rating:15, active:false}) ({discipline:“Leatherworker”, rating:14, active:false}) ({discipline:“Weaponsmith”, rating:500, active:tru

the point with the known reciepes could be implemented in the future as we already can load the reciepe-data via the API and the Reciepe ID it would just be an array of known Reciepe IDs

edit: obviously this feature will come soon – the api offers a disabled endpoint

/v2/characters/:id/recipes [d]

ReiCH.6273:

Because atm i don’t feel there’s any diversity in the classes. We’re all dps. I feel that build locking will allow us to come with new builds that are more diverse and fun to play with. If you start to change gear, traits, weapons it won’t make it more interesting just more bothersome. You would still need to use whatever build is considered the optimal for the content, or whatever the raid leader tells you to use. Only difference is, with build locking you’ll do it once and be done with it, with switching around you’ll end up doing it after every fight, you’ll end up staring the ui instead of the instance.

What? with locking gear / build will “allow us to come with new builds that are more diverse and fun to play with.”

that makes absolutely no sense

just because we’re all dps now doesn’t mean we’re all dps then – if all raid bosses are easy doable in zerk gear everyone will run it.
Nobody switches from DPS to something different if thats not needed and it is way more interesting to adjust the group setup for every boss than to be locked into the buil/gear you’ve chosen as you entered the raid.

But that topic is the same as every “restrict sth” topic – if you want to restrict it … run with guildies and restrict it the way you like it. Imho there is absolutely no reason to do it as the result will be the total opposite of what you think it will be.

At the end of the day you will need to run 2/3 bosses suboptimal because you specced for the 3rd one instead of being able to adjust your roles the way you need them.

If an ele can specc pure heal for one boss and maximum fire dps AoE Meteor bangbang for the other it is was more diverse than to have a heal ally the whole time.

as there is nothing in the restriction list that restricts crafting in any way i doubt that.
why should free accounts be locked out of these reciepes?

ReiCH.6273:

Now that raids are coming to the game, can we please add some build locking into them?

The last thing we need is having to go through the same thing we ’re going through in the fractals were people switch around traits, gear, abilities and weapons from boss to boss.

Or even worst classes. There’s nothing challenging about that, it’s just a massive annoyance that you have to do before each fight.

Can the raids we get, build/class lock you when you enter, so people can enjoy the content without changing stuff around all the time.

why do you want to remove the diversity of the classes?
it’s exactly the other way round bro. making it possible to change gear / traits / weapons during the dungeon makes it more interresting as you can adjust your group to the situation you’re in

Dadov.2736:

So what will get veteran players ? I bought this game at it’s launch and i have supported it since then and now when it is free to play for new players why can’t veteran players get the expansion for free ?

because you got 3 years of GW2 for that money?

Linken.6345:

Brigantia.5746:

They should especially do this for the hearts that REQUIRE the events in order to get heart completion. Waiting almost an entire hour for an event to trigger to get map completion is just aggravating.

what heart are those cant recall any?

kitten i wrote te same ;D but yo were first xD

Kajan.7410:

Behellagh.1468:

And if you see toxic map chat, report it. Show these new players that we are as good of a community that the devs and others believe we are.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

That good community of yours went down the crapper when they went F2P. There is no loss for anyone over a banned F2P account. They’ll just make a new one.

F2P Chars can’t talk in Mapchat …

Kajan.7410:

Loex.5104:

yeah … lets flame around about a product that becomes “free” after a period of time …
do you also cry when a movie that you watched in the cinema is on free tv one year later?

Dunno where you are at, but where i am living we don’t have free cable.

there’s also stuff like satellites & kitten also most channels have a free web stream but staying @ cable – you pay for your provider for the infra structure … not for the movie you’re seeing.

Kajan.7410:

Loex.5104:

you got freakin 3 years of GW2 without needing to pay a dime
you also had NO PROBLEMS buying HoT (btw HoT has nothing to do with the f2p base game though) and now you are blaming ANet ?

For ripping me off? Yeah, i do. And i honestly don’t care how you feel about it. That will not change the fact that i feel i paid 100 bucks for a free product. Why the hell should i pay any money if its going to go free down the road anyway?

You might enjoy being made a sucker, but i do not.

because there was no problem as it was not free? and im sure you have more than 2 chars with more than 3 bag-slots? and you also used the BLTC for everything?

you payed 50 Bucks for GW2 … the 50 for HoT you can’t count bro…

Kajan.7410:

Loex.5104:

Just create a free account and see what this “free 2 play” is … have fun with your 2 char slots and the 3 Bag Slots and all the Restrictions for WvW PvP Whispering Mailing and BLTC

I don’t do PvP so i could care less. And I don’t need 2000 characters either. 3 Bagslot.. yeah okay, but honestly, i hardly need more than 3 bags.

screenshot of char-select … proove you just have 2 :P

Kajan.7410:

Loex.5104:

This is not Free 2 Play – it is an Trial nothing more nothing less

A trail is temporary.. THIS is not temporary and it gives everything i ever did or care for for free.

just because its a common thing to limit trials by time its not the only way though…
do you even know the limitations of F2P accs?

Kajan.7410:

I can play through the entire game, only Pvp is restricted. All cities unlock with level caps, yeah, its a bit more grindy as F2P.. so what..

Yep – with 2 chars with 3 bag slots and no meaningful access to BLTC / Map Chat / Whispers / Guild Bank and no access to Laurels.

Kajan.7410:

Nothing stops them from flooding the market economy with farming bots either. There is no restriction anymore. Doesn’t matter if the nodes are random.. you can just make 20 accounts and have them search all possible areas. You don’t need to shell out 50 bucks for each of them. They are free now.

you know that F2P accs just can buy/sell a defined list of items?
and whats the benefit of 20 trial accs to sell items as they cant send items / money to other accounts?? who the hell would waste his time without profit? ( as if a copper farm bot would either be profitable in a way … also they cant leave the starting Area till lvl 10 so a bot youldnt farm anything valuable (and again – he cant send its profit back to a normal account)

DistantStatic.6098:

ArenaNet… it’s like… you WANT to kill this game. First HoT, now this? I’m actually excited to see how much more you’re gonna shove this game down the metaphorical toilet. I thought Bungie with Destiny was the biggest train wreck but GW2 is coming up to a close second and may just overtake them. I’ll be keeping tabs just to see how terrible this game ends up. I wonder how many more wonderful game studios are gonna be gutted into short-term profit factories.

its funny … ppl hear “Free to play” and obviously two wires in the brains are touching to activate “omg we’re all gonna die”-Mode.

DistantStatic.6098:

PS. How does it feel to tear apart your own piece of art that you worked so hard to create?

Dunno – maybe ask Microsoft why they release their Win10 for free ?… (and this is not 3yrs old) its MARKETING to gain more customers … and all the restrictions lead new players to buy HoT .. and they will.

anyone remembers the Karka-Event?
and Scarlets invasion?
the labyrinth cliffs?
the first time the remaked Tequatl kill the whole zerg with its wave?
The moment our sunnyboy Faren tried to save Jennah – but it was just an illusion and he fell into the crown pavillion? → the moment we found him in there in the cauldron and had to kill the fire
all our wipes in Dungeons that are now done by smashing the face on the keyboard?
or the very first time we met our members of Destinys Edge 2.0 ?

Stuff like that & more is stuff the new players will never see … the last 3 years were a great time and i regret not a single cent i’ve spend for the game / or the gems i’ve bought and also with all the F2P restrictions if feel 0% betrayed or ripped off

Kajan.7410:

I would like to say this about the Free to play move:

You can be kitten lucky i already bought the expansion. Because you quite frankly wouldn’t see a single dime from me again. If i had known that i didn’t need to pay for this game down the road i’d never have bothered paying 50 bucks for it and another 50 bucks for its expansion.

And quite frankly i feel cheated. So thank you for the big middle finger, ArenaNet.

I was perfectly fine with the Base being free with HoT, but it going completely free 2 play. Why the heck did i pay in the first place?

yeah … lets flame around about a product that becomes “free” after a period of time …
do you also cry when a movie that you watched in the cinema is on free tv one year later?

you got freakin 3 years of GW2 without needing to pay a dime
you also had NO PROBLEMS buying HoT (btw HoT has nothing to do with the f2p base game though) and now you are blaming ANet ?

Just create a free account and see what this “free 2 play” is … have fun with your 2 char slots and the 3 Bag Slots and all the Restrictions for WvW PvP Whispering Mailing and BLTC

This is not Free 2 Play – it is an Trial nothing more nothing less

DaedalusDragon.3754:

I’m a bit disappointed as well. They may release more stuff over time, but it will probably be LS and I am not interested in staying around just to play LS nor am I interested in buying the expansion AND THEN buying the LS in the future just to get the content that the expansion that I bought was missing.

so simply log in when the LS is active?
im always amused how ppl can find a problem in EVERYTHING

Asura male
/15 chars

PLEASE ANET lock WvW to payed versions – the level 60 lock is a joke – i can see servers starting multiboxing just to fil the slots of the enemy ones

also i dont want to talk about the insane amount of spies WvW Servers will get

By the mother of all dragons ANet lock please them out of WvW !!!!

need condi cleanse

see you yesterday

Sylent.3165:

Yes we are weak to conditions for sure. But remember with glints heal those conditions will heal us.

Once they stack up as well jails heal will remove all conditions and heal us. Legend swap if traited to breaks stun, shield 5 can make you immune to conditions to 4 seconds as well. We do have options, not as many as some other classes but it’s still something. We can also taunt as well which can be very helpful

you know that there are conditions like chill / Weakness / poison /cripple that ruin our day even without doing lots of dps to us?

sorry but all i see in Dare Devil is
dirt devil

Purecura.1795:

Ahhhh! It all makes sense now! Thank you guys for clearing that up for me! Guess I’ll have to wait till November to get my Birthday gift.

type /age into chat to see when the birthday of your characters is

im with you for suggestion #1 – the both traits definitively need to switch places
This was asked many times before and it is totally obvious imho

Rym.1469:

2. Removing cast times from all tablet commands #7-#0? Disagree. If we make them all instant, there’s nothing to interrupt. I would however reduce the cast time on the Elite by 1s and reduce the response delay of Natural Harmony by 1s.

he said Cast times >>>>to control tablet<<<< are removed which means #6 and this change is absolutely needed

Recursivision.2367:

Kidel, pls. Mallyx is one of—if not the—strongest legend in every game mode. Having that trait baseline would both make the legend necessary in PvP while trivializing the corruption line.

what? with the great ability to kill yourself if you want to clean condis from your PuG / open world ? or due the fact that you can’t hold any condis on you while playing in an orga-group?

Mallyx is cool in WvW due UA and the chaos this creates as well as PvP due great boon Strip and again UA … but the legend-mechanic itself is just brolen atm.

Mallyx works great on paper but thats it.

But Kidel is right, everyone and their mothers picks this trait – it must not be baseline but i totally see its place on a minor trait.

edit:
i gave it a second thought – actually you can’t play mallyx without having it traited
Kidel is right – it needs to be baseline or every mallyx skill should provide its resistance

you are just a pure victim for your enemies if you use mallyx stuff without the trait

but again: IMHO Mallyx is broken as hell – it NEEDS ways to get rid of conditions
it is not funny to suck up >60seconds of cripple or burning – but yaay 4secs resistance ..

as if dungeons were hard and can’t be facerolled atm.

Tomes will work as they should – there is literally NO reason to Block them on Revs as you learn nearly nothing by leveling as a veteran

sorry but this is nothing more than a restrictive suggestion that has no benefit at all

Spirited Was Eceni.3869:

RIP Tybalt Leftpaw, I remember you whenever I eat an apple.

kitten onion cutting ninjas T.T

why the hell is this topic still a thing? if you don’t want to pay the price don’t buy the Xpac and/or wait for a sale.

Anet got a huge kittenstorm for not valuing veteran players + they listened and gave us a goodie – we just can hope that they’ve learned something.

Hulkmaster.1724:

Events:
Boring. Especially the one with sniper rifles
Make the one, who created Silverwastes lead level designer, please – he knows what to do with pve map!

What? SW consists out of basically 3 Events

Caputre Base
Defend base
Escort Dolly

Aside from the great Vinewrath event thats all SW has to offer (don’t count the quests far north of the map as there is seldomly anyone)

VB offered a whole bunge of stuff (during day at least)

- Wyvern attack on village → stop the burning
- defend the village from the invading mordrem
- recapture the village
- frog-hunter escort events
- throw food at some crazy frog to stop his propaganda speech
- secretly dig in Wyvern eggs (you’ve stolen the event before) without being noticed
- fight the wyvern
- save the frog meal and feed the frogs

and thats just the Itzel area

The endfight with the pale reavers where 1 grp has to defend their snipers to kock out the shield-caster while the other group has to damag the vine from the other side of the plateau with mortars is pretty neat and also the way there is not bad (even if its just some basic escort stuff)

im not sure what you’ve played but VB is way ahead of SW

skowcia.8257:

You need kiting tools tho. Right now hammer has none. I still want that launch on 4 to give it also other use outside of anti projectile tool. Doesnt make much sense when x weapon require you to stay at range but theres no tools at all to archieve it unlike say ranger longbow.

actually you have enough mobility on shiro utils but i see what you mean- But i would rather see a knockback added to #4 instead of a toggleable “leap back”

SinDynasty.7541:

I can use this skill to jump near the target, and then swap melee weapons

what? i tried that last beta – it didn’t worked! – maybe i always swapped after the leap back animation started? → sounds definitively not intended

SinDynasty.7541:

why Phase Smash(Revenant hammer 3 skill) will teleport back,not only leap

cuz hammer is a ranged weapon – you don’t need a gap closer on a ranged weapon

/sign

this also leads to the queston if its not technically possible to merge the Bank once a day to the Beta-Account.

i think it is obvious that it means 15%

the 15s is just a typo

[img]http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gw2-revenant-herald-traits1.jpg[/img]

UnknownRH.4592:

WvW good job? How and when. I failed horribly with that tablet. How can you even predict where your group is gonna be to heal/condi cleanse/block projectiles effectively? It is a support stance and fails to do all of that except spawn tablet and use elite to knockback enemies. Few fractals does not justify how horrible that stance is atm. I may have gone too far saying bad in PvE but all it does is show us how slow it is. Maybe perfect for stack tactics and block skills.

To block just place the tablet between the fron lines – a good commander will rotate around it
You can also save your siege from balistas and kitten … There are really a lot good possibilities

For heal and condi clean its the same as for all other classes … An ele also don’t know where to place its healing rain without predicting where the zerg will move to – same for a guard wall

It’s hard micro management of course but the whole tablet idea is pretty neat imo

Ventari is fine IMO – tablet should just spawn instantly and the move skill should be instant so it doesn’t block your other skills and also can be used while you do other stuff

Ventari will be used at least in fractals like ascalon / uncategorized and also mai Trin – also in WvW it does a good job

NeroBoron.7285:

//offtopic
Wasn’t rytlock a warrior before? So yes the revenant is a warrior 2.0

Totally

But rytlock got trained in the mists and raised his skill level to be able to be a revenant
Same should the players do ;D → want to be a Rev? Get rid of the warrior typic button on cooldown smashing and learn handling resources

im not sure but i think the skill was firstly intended to be a range skill (seen in the announcement trailer as well as in the ingame cutscene – glint FLYS to the target and does its stuff)

dunny why its a short range skill now but yes – JW seems to be a better choice
but dont forget that JW costs 50 Energy while the Facet costs none

robertul.3679:

So here I am with this amazing idea and everybody be like “lol no cuz u see its skillful 2 not mash all dem buttons like a noob we wanna autoattack 27/4”

My point was to make it easier to balance that’s all.

robertul.3679:

amazing idea

This Idea is neither amazing nor it is new – its a typical statement of ppl who don’t get the Mechanic and just spam all skills on cooldown

robertul.3679:

“we wanna autoattack 27/4”

*i think its a typo: you mean 24/7 ;D

if you end up having no energy for anything it is your bad gameplay that lead to that situation – nothing more nothing less. Learn 2 Play the Revenant or play something else (same for all classes)

Energy-management is pretty solid (always possible to talk about numbers on some skills of course)

robertul.3679:

My point was to make it easier to balance that’s all.

Balance should not be your problem – balancing stuff without cooldown is always harder than stuff that just has cooldown. Thats not YOUR Problem … that’s the Job of ANet
And ripping off the whole class mechanic has nothing to do with balancing … you create a Warrior 2.0 with your “amazing idea”