Guild Wars 2

I like the analysis. I had an idea regarding the utility skills and their ability to be killed. I understand the devs maybe want some counterplay to it (if it was something to worry about lel) but why not instead of giving it a health bar give it a break bar? they wouldnt die instantly vs aoe and enemies would have to use cc to kill them, which they then wont be using on you.
Good idea or short sighted?

this is not really a bug but more of a anet decision they are usually afraid of using ground target spells underwater cause lel, and since the madcatskills are all groundtarget there you have it. (i still dont see why we cant have jalis underwater though….) I guess you have to wait for legendary largos stance with bubbles expac

I saw this aswell and tried around, this has something to do with terrain. if your shot is spawning within terrain (a rock) or hast no line of sight to your target, it simply doesnt spawn/shoot at all. furthermore, if the right outmost arrow is blocked like this, the outmost left one wont spawn either even if there was LoS. after trying around a little more, the before mentioned is not always happening. It has definitely something to do with the terrain, but this seems so inconsistent its hard to say what it is… bug or feature, I guess thats up to you to decide its a bug for sure!

I just walked into the demo 10 minutes ago, this trait caught my eye for being too strong immediately. I tested this in the pvp lobby and it indeed seems the crit chance is tied to the icd. when you get fury and the trait triggers to give you vigor as it should, you loose the 33% crit chance buff even if at 100% endurance. this is not random. as it is right now it basically means if you dont run roiling mists this trait punishes you for getting fury. this is surely a bug and needs fixing!

Since I already posted about this issue months ago, I rather add to it than create a new thread.
So as our esteemed chief of bugpolice, benjamin arnold, pointed out to me in this thread targeting skill launchers with precision strike (rev sword 2) were fixed, but some “handplaced gadgets” clearly were not. There are still alot of places where unintended stuff happens. As to pinpoint what it actually is that needs fixing (finding the gadgets) I will try to compile a list and try to keep it up to date. PLEASE if you find any place that is not on the list share it! This will help narrow things down.
It’s possible precision strike is not the only skill to suffer from this, as there are other skills that randomly shoot projectiles in an aoe (for example epidemic). If you encounter issues with those skills please let me/us know! Screenshots can help aswell!

Fractals
Underground facility
- the doors you need to open through standing on platforms at beginning of the fractal
- dredge corpses

Molten Boss
- during endfight, random directions (maybe fire aoe by molten firestorm)

Uncategorized
- harpy corpses in jumping sections

Mai Trin
- cannons placed on the walls in last room

Aetherblade
- electric floors you need to shut down at the beginning
- rotating force fields right after
- machine above frizz in last room

Volcanic
- captives at first shaman encounter (after running from boulders)

Solid Ocean
- at endfight, screenshot

Open World
General
- the outlet of thermal tubes (tested in bitterfrost frontier, ember bay, draconis mons, see screenshot)

Bloodstone Fen
- ground zero at a northeast wall (see screenshot)

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

For instance, until last year, some player skills such as the revenant sword 2 would randomly target these skill launchers, and players would see their projectiles flying at invisible objects.

lol this is still happening with rev sword 2

thats what I instantly thought, when I saw that video and the Archers/Soldiers in the Base just standing around.. just make them oneshot every enemy thats inside the spawn, should be better than giving people invuln buffs

EdwinLi.1284:

We never saw the end result of the war between Balthazar and Menzies

I am not so sure about this. Ever seen this picture?
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Destroyed_world.jpg

Somehow I get the feeling that the rev subforum is attracting a lot of mimimi people.

Hey,
I wanted to post about this just right now I had the same Problem. Starting the client worked, but when I pressed Play I got a message “I dont have DirectX 9 installed or something with graphics driver” lalala… I guess installing the creator update early without the “day1patch” brings stuff like this with it. I reinstalled the nvidia geforce driver and now it works.
Btw 378.78 is not the latest, its 378.92.
Cheers

Abelisk.4527:

I thought I was vulnerable to CC as well, but you can move the tablet around (in other words you can use every skill from it) while CC’D, isn’t that amazing? CC practically has zero effect on you, although it does affect weapon skills which are fairly important.

Really? This IS amazing! I didn’t know that. Thats pretty crazy, not just for pvp. I’m not sure if this is intended
Care to let us look at the build you used? Running Retribution over Invocation, or is the stunbreak more important to you? The Healing numbers do look promising.

Why would I want to play a Revenant healer? Might as well go play druid to heal effectively and reliably

I might, but I don’t want to. I’m sorry, but I’m not someone who lets himself be controlled by the “meta”. If playing meta and meta only is the only way to feel “worthy of playing” for you, that is your thing. But don’t take that out on other people. This is exactly why you won’t see me raiding. Not because it’s too hard or I can’t get my kitten together, just because people more often than not are a little too arrogant and serious about this.

I have no reason to play ventari. It’s clunky and awkward.

Can we call it different? I haven’t played much of it yet, but I agree the playstyle is something unique. If you are not willing to deal with this unique style, that is again your thing. I will learn it, because ANet gave us an oppurtinity for it with this patch. It seems to work very well in WvW, so it WILL have it’s place in the game. Game is not only Raids you know.
Overall I have to say guys, don’t take this too seriosly it’s a game, and yes your expectations weren’t met at some point for rev. Why? Because again meta tells you what is gud and you think that is the only viable thing. Being worthy in the eyes of meta! That’s just not my thing. I thought people (especially in raids) have proved that you dont NEED the meta to kill a boss, but I guess that is not common sense in the community (yet).

ESO’s Morrowind is just around the corner and the Warden sounds like the class I was hoping the Rev would be.

I hope you wont get disappointed. You most likely will be.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Have you tried just giving the Vision Crystal? That seems to be the next step.

That. I did this yesterday and my broken sword vanished aswell, you basically hand it over to the npc. You won’t get it back, but you don’t need to get another one
Don’t believe everything you read on dulfy.net :P

Apparently Ventari got buffed alot more than stated xD How to reproduce this? will both explode with elite?

In that case I would request a refund
no really, you should look in the right tab. the 4th tab is core stats, the 5th tab is HoT stats

Hey guys,
I thought this was fixed by now, but it is apparently not everywhere. Was just doing T4 Volcanic, and at the endboss fight again some projectiles of precision strike (rev sword 2) were flying into the great nothingness, targeting things that are not there, especially not enemies. If I am very close to the boss (< 150 or so) all 3 projectiles go for the boss, but if just a little farther away from him 2 of 3 target emptiness. Saw this some months ago in Aetherblade fractal especially, but that has been fixed and still is.
I keep an eye out if I find more places where this happens.
EDIT: Happened again during last bossfight in snowblind fractal. I don’t know if was just during bear form or the whole fight, but i saw it several times at the end. projectiles flew to something invisible, “obstructed” popped up.
Fix pls

I guess you should not read forums on (balance) patch day. everyone is complaining, only a very few people are actually talking some sense. I bet 80% of all the people complaining never actually tried a ventari healer. This won’t lead anywhere good.
Stay calm and try to stay positive, complaining only wont change anything. But I guess most people will stay the way they are, because that is the easy way.. If any of you guys care about revenant, have some ideas how to improve things or anything feel free to contact me ingame.
I haven’t tried ventari heal yet, because I was evaluating the other stances/specializations up until now. And therefore I can’t say anything about the changes, and I won’t until I’ve tried. I will summarize some stuff after 500+ hours of revenant play that came to my mind though, when I find the time.

I think its a very good idea to poll this and not just dump it on people. Thank you for that!
Question is, if we have our classes locked will matchmaking force tournament rules on us, I mean 1 class per team only? I would love to try this. yes qtime will most likely increase, but Id rather wait 2-3 minutes more in q than having 10 minutes of a frustrating match with 5 thieves/guards. unranked could still stay the way it is now.

Are you sure your graphics card is working as intended? you say you have 6GB video memory, but the game only detects 2GB as shown in your crash report (at the bottom).

Abelisk.4527:

> If your skill rating is below the skill rating you received from placements, you gain more points winning than losing

> If your skill rating is above the skill rating you started on, you lose more points losing than winning

do you mean the rating after the 10 placement matches? or that arbitrary number before the placement matches? if after, what you said is not true. I am 80 rating below the inital (after 10 matches) and I loose up to 10 more. This would only make sense if it had placed me much higher than i was previously.

Even though this matchmaking makes sense for some people (not for me) I can tell you guys, many wont like this. You do everything you can, you do your best and maybe have about 60% winrate (when matchmaking tries to get you to 50% (tell me if I am wrong)), but the system tells you you are bad and loose rating. Sounds to me like frustration and broken keyboards waiting to happen… And I lost 80 mmr in 2 matches, just because I wanted to play with my friend rated much lower than me… I will never play with him again lol
Another problem might be that we are (maybe out of other games?) not used to such a large deviation in mmr, at least I am not. I’m sure it was this large in the past already, we just didnt know/see it.

The tooltip on distracting daggers says the “active duration” is 15s, but it is actually 25s.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, so I write about this here. If you have your Class II Rift Stabilizer and use it to create the “out of body” experience, then die as anomaly or go back to your original body and re equip the stabilizer afterwards, you get the activated Class I skillbar instead of the “Activate Stabilizer” Skill as you usually would. Which means you can’t target another rift. If you jump through, it seems you get to the same locations as you would with the class I (I tried the first 2). Could anyone try to reproduce this and / or tell me whether this is a bug or intended?
Cheers

OH… How sad. My bad then. Still thanks for the info

Hi there. Don’t know if this is the right place for this, but I wanted to play basket brawl for the daily activity achievement and I can’t find the guy to enter anywhere. Did he get removed intentionally or is this a bug?

Hey guys,
I appreciate fixing the lighting issues in several places all over tyria, but I’m not sure if the core issue was adressed. Since the time the lighting issues appeared they also appeared on my armor. as you can see on the screenshot, the hero panel shows how it looked like before and how it should look like, but especially the gloves and the coat show that something is still off.
Cheers

I ran into the same “problem”. Tooltip says you need the collection finished, but reality is you need the precursor. Changing tooltips would fix this issue

Hi everyone,
I dont know if this bug was already reported, so I will do it. I tried it a few times, and it “worked” everytime, which means the bug is easily reproducable.
It has to do with the targeting of the Thermal Core in Molten Furnace Fractal. If the core falls on 75% and 50% it turns untargetable. But what you can do (me as Necro with scepter autoattack) is to keep attacking the core, if you dont change target after it gets untargetable. You wont see a usual target icon on top of the screen, but you still have the core targeted. Just keep hitting 1, and your character will still attack the core. you wont deal normal dmg, but you can still apply conditions to the core which will deal dmg! This works with AoE Condi transfer (Suffer) aswell. So if you are fast enough you can skip thermal core dmg phases entirely. I dont know if this works with other classes / weapons that apply damaging condis, but since I found that suffer works I’m sure they will.
Fix pls!

Edit: I will try to get a screenshot

So on Monday I was doing Dragon’s Stand. Everything worked and went as usual, except for the Vine Growths during the last Boss fight. As you can see on the Screenshot, the Vine Growths were permanently visible on every island, but were not targetable. Their events did not trigger even once during the whole fight. Anyone else had this?

Jon Olson.8439:

Glider deploy is associated with the Jump keybind, as is the on-screen prompt.

Just as short feedback on this, it works as you said. Even though I still think it should be rebindable to a seperate key I understand that this would need time to be done. Time you dont have right now. It works well as it is, so I am happy with it anyway

I am not so sure this is a overheat problem, there is some other stuff coming to my mind like lacking power or the RAM is running full. Windows 10 still can do strange stuff, even if you have 32gb (my RAM ran full when I tried to install a new graphics driver…)
Is your computer just instantly shutting down, or are you getting some kind of bluescreen?
Do you have latest drivers installed?
Monitor the Temperature and maybe look into your BIOS / UEFI where the max Temperature is set.
Several possibilities here, as already mentioned. My guess is lack of power. Do you by any chance have another PSU that you could plug in and try out?

So this is about the Flanking Strikes Trait in the Trickery adept line. It says when you flank someone or attack from behind you activate haste, just like the utility skill. Both “trait haste” and “utility haste” have a 60s cooldown. BUT if you trait this together with Trickster the cooldown of the “trait haste” will be reduced by 40% (36s from 60s) and not by the mentioned 20%. The “utility haste” is fine, it has 48s.
This is the case eversince the specializations rolled out in june, but it seems noone has noticed yet. Fix pls.

Thanks for the answer! I’ll try it during the next BWE

my jump is on mouse 3, but the gliding is still defaulted to space.

didnt try any jumping with default settings, since i wasnt able to participate in the beta last weekend. but i can imagine that its causing some difficulties there aswell. so give us the rebind ANet! =)

Will there be an option in the future to rebind the Hotkey for Gliding? Since I have my autoattack on space (just like in GW1) it was kind of irritating and sometimes not working properly. Or maybe just default it to the Jump key instead of space, that would be fine aswell!

I’ve been playing the personal story with my necro in the past 2 weeks and finally reached arah story which was also bugged for me. Regarding the Voiceover in the PS instances, it was bugged only during the cutscenes (not in open world). NPC Text passages with the word “commander” in it were ALWAYS muted, some afterwards aswell. player text passages were fine. I hope this is helpful