Guild Wars 2

MikeRocks.9243:

Awesome! Thanks for posting this.

I was planning to get it already, since I’ve been collecting pretty much every sort of transformation potion available. I started late, though, so I only have 40-ish laurels. X.x

Anyway, I’m an avid RPer, so things like this really help out for certain characters and scenes. I have one character that just RPs as another Elementalist’s snarky Elemental summons using the charged, hard, cold, and warm potions. The cat potion just opens more doors for other fun things.

…………….. nevermind

It is april fools only event.. ends on 4/7

None, zip, nothing..

This 8 bit crap sucks…
Lost shores??? lol did you try that one out
Rinse and repeat with the rest of them..

That was good job OP

Few things..

You can powerlevel via crafting.. 10 levels per 400 skill. I just took an alt warrior to 80 in under 10 hours. Did 20 levels pve, then 50 via crafting and last 10 in wpvp.

That said you can go wpvp early. Sure you will be easy kills, but if active there is really good exp for you. Do NOT forget to use the supplies and repair walls/doors.. Easy to get gold that way.

Also use siege as that will help you with kills.

Enjoy

lol WHAT a waste..

ton of folks x-fered to HoD I know

Or play how you want with guildies and friends…

If you can’t get burst out of your s/d you are doing it wrong. And 900 range is more then enough for all but keep defense (and everyone should have staff anyway).

I am not the only one running it and doing very well wpvp. Just check the first page here. There are posts, videos etc of other players rocking it.

If YOU can’t handle the spec, that is fine. But the tools are there.

s/d has no issues with burst and have range.

There ya go.

Fortus.6175:

Kromsin.6359:

Why would you pigeon hole yourself into one weapon? Run scepter/dagger and switch to staff in certain situations. Elementalist is one of the best in wvwvw. Grass isn’t that much greener on the other classes lol.

“yah, i can see that thief running at me, here, let me open my bag, look for the dagger….where did I put it?! AHH, i remembered, i conveniently put it on the bottom left, here let me equip it before this giant screen overpowers my entire view (which already does) and finally be able to take on this thief 1v1 since no matter what in small plays they ALWAYS get to the back line…

OH OOPS, cant change weapons mid fight, like every class, because each class is different and we have access to 4 sets instead of 2, bummer, well, at least 1 out of 4 should be good enough to defend myself in a 1v1 situation, I mean, thats the whole point of versatility, right? Nope, im wearing a staff, one gap closer ends the fight agaisnt me so might as well just bend over or blow all 3 cantrips for 5 seconds added survavility until their next gap closer refreshes in 2 seconds while my cantrips go into 90secs."

Face it, all other classes have the option to go full support or part support and part “oh kitten” weapon when omeone jumps on them, WE LACK THAT. Anyone can change weapon out of combat, and every ele does that already, so dont feel so smart about it. All Im asking is to either make staff truly versatile as in able to take ANY situation or give me a weapon that allows me to switch weapons (like a macro) out of combat, that way if i manage to create enough distance in a fight and get myself through skills out of combat to switch to the weapons of my convinience without having a giant UI blocking my entire view while trying to find the weapons i need. Get real.

It is really simple.. If you are moving from point a to point be you should have dagger in offhand anyway. So you now have d or s in main. Either of those will be viable 1v1 against anyone.

You only swap to your staff in a pre-set group or taking/defending areas. There is plenty of time in those situations to swap when out of combat.

If we had weapon swapping it would be op’ed (in combat swapping I am saying).

why would you pug? That is why you have guilds/friend’s list!

Rizzy.8293:

Adastra.9821:

Rizzy.8293:

Thunderbrew.7034:

SuiRyuJin.4615:

if ur server got some well organized groups, a staff ele on either dmg build or a bunker build is a god send. a well organized zerg finishes the battle in like 1min. either ur wiped, or the enemy is wiped. they stack up, they push, smashing into and through each other. personally, even as a glass cannon, i am almost always in the front line, right behind or close to our commander leading . as u run through, u drop ur aoe in the back line of the enemy. some aoes like eruption or ice spike can interrupt the cast time by dodge rolling foward to keep mobile. glyph of the storm can be casted on the go. magnetic aura can take care of any range atks as u charge forward. its a… risky style as a glass cannon, but when the fight is over in about 1min-2min, it really doesnt matter much once u finish ur cycle.

i started wvw as a staff ele glass cannon, i am sticking to it unless some major changes get applied to staff.

So let me get this straight. You are a glass cannon ele, that stays in the front
and “runs through” their zerg while dropping AOE? If that is even remotely
true the only thing saving you is complete and total lag in large zergs, preventing
the enemy from attacking. That or they are complete newbies.

After 1500 hours in staff ele WvW at tier 1, I can assure you that that doesnt work.
You are the first target they look for.

Pfft, assuming they can catch you through all your cantrips and ride the lightning -.-

Because we can equip a dagger offhand here right

Im talking about D off hand.

Umm the whole point was staff. Hence no dagger in off hand..

Stop standing around then. Go do something else. For the folks that cry they have no time and “needed” the Maw on a fast timer, you could do a speed dungeon run in less time, get better loot and more money.

There are also sites to help you /lfg (ie like the timers for the dragons). The Maw was bugged in the sense that you got dragon rewards on a non-dragon timer. It was fixed, get used to it.

Your names does break TOS… ride it out and wait..

Lafiel.9372:

All high tier servers stay at very high 24/7.

So why would anyone really move off a high pop server to be honest.

They should give the med-low a free x-fer to whatever the lowest of the high (if you can make sense of that)..

Just merge then is what I am saying

How does Anet not test stuff? Why must we always get patches dumped to live without us having a test server.

Costs them so little to have a server where players can (bear with me, crazy idea) test issues ahead of time..

Is there any other real mmo that does not run a test server?

Hmm that would be too easy I guess.

so the pump up free x-fer to medium servers and that is a total of 3 of them.

Most high volume servers will drop to medium at that time. I should be able to get a free x-fer, right?

umm FT still works fine. EG is good also with glue trail.

Not sure what you are seeing as the big problem.

They removed this already.

4th chest got one..

Just random as normal.

oh and opened 10 more and nothing.. (edit to include that)

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

The Lost Shores minis have the potential to be the rarest traded items, as they are the only non-account bound ones that are no longer available. Hold onto them!

Bingo.. I got two and they are worth a ton.. Going to move them before the end of this next event though before they drop in price.

All those shields look horrible.. sorry

Shield looks horrible on us. The whole book thing is silly looking for anything but maybe the guardian.

farming what? events in Orr.. Yeah FT is simple for that.

Up to the guild to control access via guild ranks to the vault.

Not up to Anet to police that..

My issue is that WE have to handle this for Anet.. Why do we have to police their inability to control bot (again mind you, this problem has been around since launch)..

Anet GET on the problem. Do not make us, the paying customer, have to fix the lax controls you have when it comes to botting..

The best thing, I will infracted for calling this out.. /shrug..

This is with Firefox browser

If I enter a sub forum and read a post, if I hit a back button, it will only take me back to the start of the thread I was in, NOT the subforum listing.

I have to right click my back button and click how far I want to go..

Just a heads up.

once.. at launch..

once.. at launch..Zero reason for me to go there (for my time spent)…

once.. at launch..Zero reason for me to go there (for my time spent)…They pooped the bed on that zone and know it.. Happens. Good news is you can fix it, not like it has to stay static..

Umm f2 on ranger pets are VERY powerful for most pets (admit the pigs are not that great in most builds).

Rangers are 100% fine with this regard. They need better traits

Of course.. Or it would be able to x-fer anything to the player/mob.

teleporting bots are back in force on Fort Aspenwood. I see them ALL over the t6 zones while playing.

Can’t really report as they pop in and out really fast. I try to get SS and email it though.

But they are baaaack…

The timer stuff is nuts..

Last night on Fort Aspenwood, the SB was busted (seems to happen to that boss from time to time).

The sheer amount of people that stood around waiting , and waiting and waiting for at least 90 mins (I was leveling an alt in Queensdale and following chat) was nuts.

I came back hour plus later now 15ish and was finishing the map where the SB spawns and ALL those folks were still standing there.

Talk about lemmings.. Everyone blamed the timer, Anet, etc. Yet they all stood there hoping for the carrot on the stick.

There is no other way to get a rare?

I have had issues on some hot keys with a 1/4 sec delay also. STarted today (at least for me. did not play must day before)

Really notice it on my F1 steal, and on randomly on other 1-5 keys. Everything else is smooth, but there is a very noticeable lag on just those hot keys. Meaning, my auto still fires, heals go fine etc. but just the f1 (all the time) and 1-5 at various moments.

killcannon.2576:

Glad to see people are getting behind the idea of randomizing the event times. As far as the dragon timer website and people misrepresenting the complete times… I say good for them, hack the planet and all that.

There ya go!

Warhammer Online had Engineer class that use turrents and they got it right (in that regard)

Heck there you could only pick one to use and it worked.

Few things.

1. Turrets hit hard
2. Player got a 20% damage inc if in about 600 range of their turrent
3. Turrets debuffs on top of damage and had control

I make solid money off rares still. First off make stuff folks might actually use.

Zerk stuff sells well along with Knights. Make things like GS, Pistols or Daggers.. Those always move really quick.

I am all for new content, but I echo that just putting it out there and not a big announcement would have been better.

This would be a true teaser. heck put a few red herrings around also. None of that takes much effort, and will keep the players guessing, talking etc.

Right now they just ripped thru stuff that takes 10 min and stand around waiting for more. If not ready to release more (which I understand, trust me), then rolled it out different, without the fan fare and build up.

I did the same thing. I play this game for max wpvp (not running around with a level 2).

OP did overspend by about 20 gold though, but hey money is cheap.

I wanted my last toon to 80 so I did the same thing. Was nice to have the option and not grind thru junk I have done already 3x on my other 80s

oh and person that said you level to learn to play, sorry man, but you are not complete till level 80 anyway. Plus if you got other 80’s any class is pretty simple to pick up.

This is a mmo, not rocket science. People overaggressive the learning curves of the classes in this game.

lol no. it is a stupid skin. nothing more.

Why blow it on that.. Don’t be vain

For toolkit, hit number 2 BEFORE you pull them with #5

that way, they get pulled into a snare/bleed. Hit them with confusion, swap to p/x and off you go.

100% non farmer here. Never ran FOTM either.

I level and play wpvp mostly. I do Orr from about 72-80 at the tunnels and running events. Been playing since beta weekends.

I have gotten 6 exotics. 2 were in wpvp. I have gotten a ton of rares..

My only two issues.

1. Names that are clearly offensive and you know will be changed soon. Those idiots are just looking for attention.

2. Names that are just spelled wrong on purpose. So you get Blaaaack Wiiiidoow or something stupid like that. Listen kiddo, your name was taken, be creative and come up with something else.

I do report names that are clearly against the ToS all the time. I freely admit to that.

Per request on Boards.. p/p set up.

When you run away from a skritt and they go

“you ran away from a skritt, ha ha”

I am in a two person father/daughter guild so we understood 100% the limitations we had. That said, worked out really well for us with various access to our guild bank and various bonuses.

What I hate about the new guild stuff is two things..

1. The amount of spam in /map with guild bashing, spamming for larger guilds and just anti smaller guild stuff is now sad.

2. Very viable guilds of say 25-40 people really suffer now. Due to examples like Riaky said, it just makes it really hard for them. I don’t understand how Anet catered to the huge “uber” guilds with this update.

well ANY kit gives you perma swiftness with speedy kits.

I dislike med kit on my elixier build, but I love having my toolbox slotted.

The throw wrench, confusion and block are key to my wpvp.

Anyway, I just use that with speedy kits for 100% uptime on swiftness. Just wanted folks to know you can us any kit not just med kit.

Ok hard to read all that.. The way you formatted it..

After I fought through it, not sure what you want.. Dungeon finder? We got that.. Great website and zero downtime to find groups..

Anonymous The Spy.2491:

So I was all excited about the new daily choices but was very disappointed when they were so restrictive.
Essentially this game is a sandbox world but the dailies force you to move into certain areas. And, due to TP costs, this diminishes your returns on completing dailies.

But I was getting by as there always seemed to be 5 non-area-specific dailies to do. But today’s dailies seem completely impractical and expensive. Especially the eat 25 food! Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Even if I bought 25 loafs of bread it would still cost 10 silver!

Flat out you are lying with this.. 25 loafs for 10 silver? I did this 2 nights ago for 45 copper..

So OP before you rant , get a clue.. 10 silver. man you are just nuts..