Guild Wars 2

Thank you I was wondering why they were so silent…why would the post on reddit then entirely ignore their own official forums… =/ I hate navigating reddit as I dont use the site

Burtnik.5218:

Only from swiftness in Glint. One can hope for move speed trait eventually in deva.

ouch…how could they leave that out given how much open world running there is…

As topic, where/how does revenant get a speed boost for the open world?

Mikal Dynath.6195:

Neural.1824:

Amineo.8951:

Is it that hard for them to re-input the animations?

No, it’s not. It’s not a bug issue, it’s a ideological one.

This.

The stated ‘reason’ has proved to be false, as many have pointed to the myriad of other ‘immersion breaking’ actions in cut scenes that have been left in the game.

I think I’d have less an issue with the continued silence on this change if they hadn’t begun this by lying to us.

Man as a returning player..all I see is complaints over a plethora of small to large problems and complete and utter silence from the dev team… Their lack of communication on anything and the large timeframes of all said issues are likely gonna drive me to not buy hot and just leave the game behind again, It doesn’t look like they can be counted on for anything, big or small.

Been gone for a very long time, haven’t picked up HoT yet but wanted to check the game out. One of my first impressions was…I thought several of my skills were bugged and had no animation. After prowling around a bit I find out this thing about removing “visual noise” that has been ongoing.

Seeing it now compared to then, is really jarring, in a bad way. Some field skills I only know are there because of the circle, but then I don’t even know which field it is in the moment its animation is so tiny/slight. My elementalist throws pebbles, my mesmers once beautiful animations end faster than I can see them or like chaos field… is there one? Worse yet, I see very little communication here at ALL from the devs, even with a new expansion here.

I know now that this is a pretty common topic, but I wanted to put it out there as a potententially returning player. It looks bad. The lack of option to turn it off/on is bad (ffxiv did this). The lack of dev communication is even worse. I should be able to see an enemy skill and know what it is, now I don’t know wtf is going on not because of effects, but because lack thereof oftentimes.

The animations aren’t just tuned down, but rather often gutted and silly looking, elementalist pheonix and fireball as prime examples, as well as chaos…field? If things were just tuned it wouldn’t bug me, but when I cant see a skill or tell one field from another because the effect is so small, that’s just not fun.

I’m not saying “remove it all” as I understand the competetive side, but why cant he have a high/low option I see in so many other games? A few of my classes feel so disappointing now I don’t even want to play them, I feel you are approaching this too one-sidedly, thinking only of the high end pvp aspect and nothing else. This will also effect newer players who are not yet in pvp when they see very lackluster visuals.

Been gone a long time, came back to see new trait system. Whats up with spirits? Most of their traits are gone and the one to have them follow you seems to be entirely removed

lujate.5432:

Have you tried:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

Didn’t even know it existed, thanks I’ll check it out!

Looking at the guide section, lots of builds, it all looks like two years ago. Are they still valid builds, or is there somewhere to look for a more up to date low-down on the weapons? A long time ago I was using a gs/staff bounce/shatter build, but the staff 1 feels super weak now, not sure if its just me or something changed, or I was crazy int he first place.

Hystery.8415:

Create your own group at a time there’s a lot of people, like most likely around 7PM. No way you can get ignored there. Put in the description “Path X, all welcome”, X being the path you wish to do, and be nice to people joining it. That’ll come naturally.

I’ll give it a go again later, I just came back to the game and faced that on my first day so it was a bit upsetting. Unfortunately I work midnights so on my days off I am often on at this time

The gw2 lfg was a ghost town when I last looked at it, all people lfm either say experienced or kick, or they want a full zerker set already completed (which is what I’m trying to do anyways…). If I put my own up I’m ignored…

I really need/want to get into some of these dungeons, its a bit disheartening.

Ranger RaO and entangling roots are both crazy good skills

Clark Skinner.4902:

I just don’t understand how it was accidentally changed.

I mean files on my computer don’t change themselves. I need to open them, delete a number, replace it with another number, close and save the document. How does a decrease in salvage rate accidentally happen to code?

game design is way more complicated then that, and changes to one thing can create changes to other, possibly even unrelated things.

zuraith.6104:

I totally understand. I’m a Fractals fanatic, but I remember the pain of getting scolded for simply not having experienced every shard. Then they change again at level 10, so you think you have it down and then you get blown out of the air by harpies that now have wind nukes.

But! Not all of us are jerks. Sometimes it’s worth it to specify in GW2LFG or in map chat that you’re new. When that happens in my groups (especially Guild plus 1 groups), I calmly explain the shard and if things go south, we just try again. Not everyone is going to be forgiving, and you’ll almost certainly deal with impatient butt-heads (especially when you get to tier 3+), but it’s worth the pain in my opinion. They’re fun!

say your new you dont get invited, or people start dropping group

To answer above no I am not in a guild I have joined a few and none of them turned out to be any help in anything other than being a chatroom so I am not having much luck on that side either

need fractals for ascended gear, yet they are proving very difficult to get involved in. Even for fractals 1-4 people freak out if they know I haven’t done them before and won’t go, or even drop midway into the run when they discover people havent run X fractal before. I just want to runt he earliest fractals and get to know them, the mobs inside seem like a joke in these yet STILL people are going full elitist over it, I just don’t understand it would be so easy if they stopped dropping group like kittenes. I can understand higher fractals of course wanting people who know what they are doing, but if I am expected to have run (not watched a video but personally run) even at the lowest possible level then WTH.

It’s like this for dungeons too, what made this community so kittenty in PvE

I notice in the shattercat mist he says good condition cleanse due to focus, while I see it has a light field, I don’t see any finishers in mesmer in the build that can trigger cleanse off that. Am I missing something?

Pet mechanics/control is terrible, I would redo the entire setup…

Make pets more useable and not have kittenty mechanics? UNPOSSIBLE

yea I hope it gets a little more coolness soon

is there any gear that does heal/power/con or will I just ahve to mix-match a lot?

If so what roles in wvw does it perform well in? Its my favorite elementalist weapon and I am hoping I can use it effectively in both pve and wvw

Those need to reflect actual server sizes, my server “Northern Shiverpeaks” is a ghost town at all times and even in big events I often don’t see enough people to complete them. “Very High” my kitten ….

Staff cant be your only weapon, it sounds like GS isn’t your second, so try sword/focus and use the pull to MAKE him come up close, then sword 3 can immobilize him.

Boyd.5438:

Rajani Isa.6294:

Amun Ra.6435:

I really wish people would stop quoting the dictionary…anyways…

This was absolutely NOT an exploit.

If a quest specified you needed to kill 10 Undead….but you killed 15 instead, accidentally or on purpose…would that be considered an exploit? Would you report yourself for doing so?

Right, because making sure a word is used properly never helps things :p

This is quite simply a game design/mechanics exploit. Not saying that if it was a crime it’d be a life sentence type crime or even just a “minor” felony (this type would be a misdemeanor). While I don’t doubt this will get changed (probably just remove the drops/exp) I don’t see them banning anyone over it.

why do you guys use the word “exploit” so often? because you think its not right? so not right means exploit?

who are you to judge if its an exploit or not?

it was build this way, intended to be, will be. is that not sufficient?

everything you don’t like is an exploit?

god bless america.

If it was intended they wouldnt have changed it

I am getting a lot of out of range bugs, specifically against structures and turrets I will see ranged attacks soar up into the air and never hit it. Mesmer ranged illusions cannot hit some targets at all.

Aside from Zerker and Knights sets, are there any other very commonly used armor sets for mesmer I should work on getting? Condition seems pretty bad ont hem outside confusion in pvp unless I am mistaken, and I don’t really see much for heal build potential so I am having trouble coming up with anything else to aim for.

Just curious, why do I see people go condition/precision instead of power/condition? I don’t know the math behind it and am new to 80

I have noticed I can sell many supply bag items for 1s+ on ah, this made me suspicious as to what they could contain but no matter how many I open, it seems more worthwhile to just sell them unopened on the trading post.

Whats the secret here?

I like the team dynamic in team deathmatch, sure it is “simpler” but that doesnt mean it doesnt have depth, and a lot of it. I’m tired of bunker building and hunkering down in a point and being annoying so they cant cap it, I want 5 on 5 teamfights with purpose to annihilate the enemy team.

pho.9412:

MrSmiley.1543:

I do need a guild, but not even sure where to start looking for one, randomly shouting gets you zerg guilds and I’m not into those.

Ah.. yeah, I was on the same boat when I started this game. I played cos my rl friends were playing. then they all quit, that was when I was in my 60s. then I just lvled to 80 by myself and did a few dungeons with pugs, and decided it was too boring doing everything with pugs because people dont really wanna make friends with you. so I went to the guild section in forum posting that I needed a nice pvx guild, my class/lvl, the time zone that I play, what I want out of the guild, then I got a pm from a nice guy. I got to a WvW guild, it was full of nice people, and we did wvw everyday. but, I got tired of wvw, so I was talking to my guild mate about that, and they inv, me to their pve guild. So now I am in 2 guilds for wvw and pve ever since. but, I think I am one of the lucky once that actually got a nice reply, and got super nice guild. You can try what I did and see what you get.

ahah, the guild section BRILIANT….shoulda thought of that on my own though XD

I do need a guild, but not even sure where to start looking for one, randomly shouting gets you zerg guilds and I’m not into those.

So I am really liking axe and finding builds that work with it, axe/axe with lb/sb/s with knight armor seems to do pretty well, but I was curious would a axe/torch and sb build be able to work? Although Carrion is power/vit/con and form my understanding toughness is a better stat, but I’m not sure how much prec/tough/cond would scale.

Any ideas on this, has anyone tried something along these lines?

EDIT: build planned for being viable in pve and wvw gearwise-

well I am done being mad for the moment and have returned to dungeons today, no problems yet so i think I had a spat of terrible luck yesterday

Chopps.5047:

Easy: because foolish players will kick someone just for bringing a spirit. Heck, I got kicked from an Arah pug yesterday for dodging grubs. They said you can’t dodge grubs. :/

Lol. I have had plenty say “you don’t need to dodge grubs” but they have never said not to if you can…

Honestly this is killing my drive to play, ranger is my favorite class and I don’t feel like leveling another entire class just for dungeons. I get so many comments just on my class as soon as I enter a group even if they don’t do anything about it, it gets annoying and demotivating. Notably I have never been criticized after a group starts, but I am sick of getting talk just for not being a certain class.

Also, if they judge instantly off of buffs then they are pretty stupid, solo/group utilities are not always the same for any class…

they never ask about my build, or look at my weapons. It’s like they see the paw print next to my portrait and then they just see red.

Seriously, I only recently started the endgame dungeons but the amount of times I am kicked or not allowed in for being a ranger is sickening. Thing is, I don’t even see why when I do actually get in I tend to be on the better performers, also search and rescue saves people so many times. When I get groups in arah I have to go out of my way to convince them to allow me to stay just for being a ranger and I really shouldn’t need to do this…

Anyone else having this issue? I’m even ignoring most of the lfm groups that sound too elitist in their message yet still these people are all over.

Trying to explore Malchors Leap but every single waypoint save the one at the start is always contested meaning a single death forces me to re-tread the entire zone, which is annoying. I am playing on Northern Shiverpeaks and every zone seems dead of people all the time but when I look at world selection they all say very high, so either the world selection doesnt help, or the zone just sucks.

Are there any servers with more people wandering around the zones? Getting tired of being completely alone on every map, it was a lot more fun when there was other people romping around too, and maybe a few waypoints wont be perma-deathed

so I am using a 20/30/5/0/15 build, using sword/horn (or GS) and shortbow (or longbow). I am trying to figure out what stats I should be getting, should I go for full berserker for max damage or am I better off with something like power/precision/toughness?

So I am about to hit 80 on my Ranger as my first 80, but I am not too sure where to go from there. Best way to initially gear myself? Should I star explorables/fractals right away? I haven’t done either, so I am not too sure about the general flow here.

Should not kick you instantly out of the instance and reset the entire kitten mission. Doing a very long story mission and near the end, every time I suddenly randomly dc, get back in literally 5 seconds~ later and the entire thing is reset. I don’t understand why it cant hold your instance for like 5 minutes, if that. Speaking of which, is random dc’s a server problem? I am using fiber optic internet, when I start lagging ingame I alt tab and check my connection (its fine) my roomate is still playing another mmo(its fine) yet I lag, only in this, dc, then it deletes my entire instance.

Haven’t played in awhile, when I last played Ranger GS was considered pretty weak, has it improved at all since then?

one of the towns in gendarren field is overrun with centaur, you have to secure 3 points and hold them, I managed to clear out one point with 5 normals and 2 vets, then more came including a champ before I could even start on another hold point. This is the most extreme one I have seen, but often times I am having to butt heads with an incredible amount of enemies just to have a town opened up, and the waypoints are always contested making porting around a total PITA on some maps

So was trying a spirit based build, I have a 70% chance to apply their effects, i quickly apply them 2-3 times then…it stops and I don’t apply them anymore for that combat. Is there a hard cap or something? I really wish this stuff was explained more…

Paulytnz.7619:

If it’s the game in general I would say it’s an issue with gear/build or knowledge (trying different things in the game to reach that short term goal) of the map/area in general.

Don’t get me wrong SOME events and places are tough but you can pretty much solo 99% of the maps and content in them. The 1% where you can’t there is usually a work around to clear the map and/or reach your goal such as that vista over there or that SP near that champ etc.

Uh, I’m pretty sure I can’t solo a champ+vet+5 normals, at least the normals respawn too. I can kill enemies fine, I can kite and kill groups of 5 or veterans with a couple adds, but I can only take so many at once, the town reclaims seem pretty crazy they often have like 10 enemies at once half with ranged attacks.

As far as guesting, well I don’t know people on other servers, nor do I have a clue as to how I would get to know people on other servers. “just transfer” is a bad idea because I shouldn’t be required to tansfer for normal gameplay not to mention that mindset only makes this issue worse, because people DO do that, which in turn causes the server issue to further.

Every single town point is contested making it difficult to port around the map, many of them too many enemies at once including champs and veterans so they cant be soloed but no one around to care to help it. I cant go into any towns or port to them the favor points inside them require sneaking or death run to see their stuff.

I wish they would do something about this, it is getting aggravating, some of these events even if I can kill all the enemies and veterans fine respawn faster than I can solo them, so its useless even then.

Tristam Green.9178:

FlashKillz.3509:

Correction it’s Shae Springbreeze, forgot I changed it cause the full name didn’t fit…

Works well. Sounds pleasant! Solid 7/10.

Mine is Treant Reznor.

8/10 rolls well and sounds good while being…planty?

My Sylvari Necromancer named… The Necroplantcer!

Have been gone awhile and picking up my mesmer again but I am a bit lost atm, what are some good general solo builds/set ups?

we’ll probably just get nerfed again. Also they seem to not understand pets die in dungeons…lol

don’t want all the attention..want some, even a little that isn’t a nerf to the word class ina ll aspects in the game. Even a post sooner than 4months ago would be nice…as of now we are punching bags and not wanted in any aspect of the game, its terrible.

ah your right, kitten /p>