Guild Wars 2

They nerfed the longbow/gs combo. The GS might be better if you spec for it but then you can’t fully spec for the longbow. Not sure why they would change everything up that didn’t need changing so that returning players can no longer play their favorite builds.

Log in after this giant patch that changed a ton of stuff that didn’t need changing to see they ruined the ranger greatsword which was one of my favorite things in the game. Moment of clarity now shares a trait slot with steady focus meaning you can’t trait moment of clarity unless you want to do 10% less damage across the board. gg anet.

RoseofGilead.8907:

I think we should add using “SJW” to the forum bingo card.

I’m aware it’s nothing more than a buzzword, but there is truth behind it. If the majority of players didn’t want sexual armor, then why does every single human female thief I see have the same exact armor setup with underboob and flowerhair. Let people do what they want basically. OP has the choice of dressing their character so conservatively you can’t see a single part of their skin, but still complains about what other people are doing. It’s immature.

Belzebu.3912:

Nausiation.1469:

If you can’t handle the human female thief underboob you aren’t mature enough to be playing this videogame.

There is a huge difference between be mature and be conservative.

you have the option to dress your character any way you want. You don’t need to wear the single underboob top that is in the game. So there isn’t a problem, unless you want to start dictating what OTHER players dress their characters with, which at that point you’re just a SJW.

apparently there is a SJW mod deleting on-topic posts. Anyway, there are plenty of “modest” clothing options. Tera has way more sexual clothing (and in that aspect it’s better than gw2). If you can’t handle the human female thief underboob you aren’t mature enough to be playing this videogame.

warbignime.4610:

What’s the purpose of this post? there is nothing devs or we can do to your bad internet, get a better one.

Sekai.2987:

as far as i know you dont get kicked from que just because someone wants to join your party (if i´m wrong ignore the rest), only when you accept the join request and he joins you, then you get kicked from queue and you have do que up again

so if you get the join request simply ignore it, dont accept and dont decline
then you should not have any problems with queueing

no, just him asking to join kicks out of queue.

Astral Projections.7320:

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TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.

Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.

Are you certain it was the same person every time?

he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.

…so if he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool….. why would you accept him into your party to begin with?

When it comes to accepting a join request….

THE POWER IS YOURS !

I don’t think you understand. he is requesting to join my party and I click decline. he then continues to ask to join over and over and over again.

Don’t you only get a few party tries before you are blocked from joining a party? If so, let him join then kick him until this happens.

apparently not because he’s been doing it for hours now.

I thought you said you were declining party.

I’m sorry but IDK what you don’t understand about this. Me and a friend are in a two man party in sPVP. We are both set to invisible, and we both have the person blocked. He self invites himself to the party somehow and we click decline. Then he self invites himself. we decline. this continues. over and over. He just keeps inviting himself. also it breaks out PVP queue.

Astral Projections.7320:

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TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.

Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.

Are you certain it was the same person every time?

he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.

…so if he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool….. why would you accept him into your party to begin with?

When it comes to accepting a join request….

THE POWER IS YOURS !

I don’t think you understand. he is requesting to join my party and I click decline. he then continues to ask to join over and over and over again.

Don’t you only get a few party tries before you are blocked from joining a party? If so, let him join then kick him until this happens.

apparently not because he’s been doing it for hours now.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.

Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.

Are you certain it was the same person every time?

he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.

…so if he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool….. why would you accept him into your party to begin with?

When it comes to accepting a join request….

THE POWER IS YOURS !

I don’t think you understand. he is requesting to join my party and I click decline. he then continues to ask to join over and over and over again.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Nausiation.1469:

some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.

Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.

Are you certain it was the same person every time?

he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.

some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.

evilunderling.9265:

Nausiation.1469:

he GW2 meta is just as toxic, actually it probably is even more toxic.

There is no such thing as a “toxic meta”, only a handful of ‘toxic’ adherents to the meta, and they do get everywhere. Please, provide your evidence or reasoning for it being worse in GW2 than it is in other MMOs.

Note how many MMOs literally bribe players to join pug runs that might include new or unskilled players.

sorry I’m not some journalist who documents cases of toxicism in mmos for your personal needs of evidence. All I know is I see people get kicked out of dungeons all the time for being necro, and I’ve been kicked at last boss and a ton of other people have been kicked at last boss since the start of the game.

evilunderling.9265:

1. Look at any trinity MMO’s LFG, and you’ll find lots of runs demanding gear that’s seventy levels higher than the content, or threatening kicks at the first mistake. Why is it suddenly bad when someone asks for an all-zerk group?

yes because it’s not like people kick every single necro from dungeon parties or anything. The GW2 meta is just as toxic, actually it probably is even more toxic. Kicking people on last boss and classes like necro.

Lazuli.2098:

Nausiation.1469:

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To all that are going to say you don’t want tanks/healers,

I don’t want tanks/healers.

then you also can’t complain about everyone running zerkers and dps spamming through dungeons, because that’s what we got for not having a trinity.

I don’t complain about dps spamming through dungeons. Obviously you are one of the complainers.

I don’t play much pve so I don’t really care enough to complain, but I probably would play it more if I could play it as a healer role because I would find that more fun than autoattacking a boss for 10 minutes while alt-tabbed because it’s that braindead simple.

Lazaar.9123:

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Lazaar.9123:

Nausiation.1469:

In this video there is a bar under the NPCs health that changes when it is being taunted by the player. Is this a new sort of aggro system? I truly hope so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7zkWJxYqUA

That’s the new defiance bar, which is related to CC. Nothing related to aggro. Guild Wars 2 already has an aggro system, but players can not manipulate it with threat from skills, and that will likely never change.

are you a dev? How do you know it’s a defiance bar. Someone on reddit claimed it was a new defiance bar and an ANET dev said he was basically wrong. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2wluav/new_defiance_bar_active_only_during_monsters/

It’s the symbol used for unshakeable, it’s pretty easy to tell.

that symbol is only shown during the NPC’s ability. there is a different, new looking icon.

Lazaar.9123:

Nausiation.1469:

In this video there is a bar under the NPCs health that changes when it is being taunted by the player. Is this a new sort of aggro system? I truly hope so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7zkWJxYqUA

That’s the new defiance bar, which is related to CC. Nothing related to aggro. Guild Wars 2 already has an aggro system, but players can not manipulate it with threat from skills, and that will likely never change.

are you a dev? How do you know it’s a defiance bar. Someone on reddit claimed it was a new defiance bar and an ANET dev said he was basically wrong. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2wluav/new_defiance_bar_active_only_during_monsters/

Immortal.3647:

Nausiation.1469:

Every day I see people saying how garbage the pve is on reddit, these forums, and in-game map chat. at pax they say they hope the expansion will bring “pve content that isn’t terrible”.

it’s because satisfied players don’t run to forums.

Can you read though? I also said map-chat. I don’t think mapchat is a part of the forums.

Wolfheart.7483:

Nausiation.1469:

A vast majority of the playerbase complains about the PVE in this game. Most people do not like the fact that everyone has to run zerkers and it’s all about doing as much DPS as possible. A lot of people complain about this to ANET. The only way they could possibly fix this is make tanking/healing viable so that not everything is a dps-fest.

With the introduction of a 6 second taunt on revenant, and class specializations, specifically druid ranger, I’m hoping anet is moving towards the holy trinity. This would open up so many more options for types of gameplay and builds. I know anet started out not wanting a trinity but in reality, you need it in MMOs or everything will just be DPS-fest.

In this video there is a bar under the NPCs health that changes when it is being taunted by the player. Is this a new sort of aggro system? I truly hope so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7zkWJxYqUA

To all that are going to say you don’t want tanks/healers, then you also can’t complain about everyone running zerkers and dps spamming through dungeons, because that’s what we got for not having a trinity.

First, you don’t know or speak for the vast majority of the playerbase.

Second, going full trinity isn’t even close to the only way they could “fix” the zerk/dps meta.

Third, Taunt in GW2 does not function like Taunting abilities do in trinity MMOs.

Someone is in denial. Every day I see people saying how garbage the pve is on reddit, these forums, and in-game map chat. at pax they say they hope the expansion will bring “pve content that isn’t terrible”.

A vast majority of the playerbase complains about the PVE in this game. Most people do not like the fact that everyone has to run zerkers and it’s all about doing as much DPS as possible. A lot of people complain about this to ANET. The only way they could possibly fix this is make tanking/healing viable so that not everything is a dps-fest.

With the introduction of a 6 second taunt on revenant, and class specializations, specifically druid ranger, I’m hoping anet is moving towards the holy trinity. This would open up so many more options for types of gameplay and builds. I know anet started out not wanting a trinity but in reality, you need it in MMOs or everything will just be DPS-fest.

In this video there is a bar under the NPCs health that changes when it is being taunted by the player. Is this a new sort of aggro system? I truly hope so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7zkWJxYqUA

To all that are going to say you don’t want tanks/healers, then you also can’t complain about everyone running zerkers and dps spamming through dungeons, because that’s what we got for not having a trinity.

so I dragged my minimap to the top of my screen and now I can’t move it back down to the bottom. Please help.

they are still sending them out I think. I got one about 20 minutes ago.

Just got a free bank golem in the mail from anet. I’m guessing this was because they were bugged and weren’t working for a while. I tested it out and it’s working so I guess they fixed it. I’m really impressed they handed out new ones though. Thanks anet!

yeah I definitely know the strength of retaliation as a ranger, but it’s usually not THAT extreme xD nothing some mango pies + wvw vitality stacks can’t fix usually.

Lindbur.2537:

You’d get crushed in seconds with zerker gear even if you stay at the back of a zerg with all the AoEs that get thrown about.

would you REALLY though? I am currently playing full zerker ranger and yes, I know ranger is a BIT tankier than an ele, but I almost never get hit at all as ranger. 1200 range is more than enough to stay out of aoe.

I feel like running soldier would be a crutch for people with bad positioning and who can’t stay out of red circles.

so on metabattle there is a wvw zerg staff backline build. It says to run soldier armor….and I can’t for the life of me understand why a backline class meant to dish out damage would be running soldier armor. I don’t have an ele but am considering making one, and I feel going full zerkers would obviously be the best. Is there something I’m missing about this? I just don’t see the point in going tank ele. as long as you have good positioning, you can sit in the back and rain aoe.

There is an entrance to it in the caledon forest, and also one in lions arch. those two locations are pretty far away..is all the space in between those supposed to be tengu land? also most of it is ocean.

I run a nomads guard in wvw sometimes and it’s really not even that tanky. kind of depressing, but it’s good support and I basically babysit our comm and keep him up.

maul is life

This was against a level 80 mesmer with both WvW stacks and food buffs. not an uplevel. At first I thought he went invisible. He just got one hit.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Nausiation.1469:

this is pretty much the standard, overall best dps build in dungeons.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjUq0qaFLmsw1ag9gadAEwjO3MoD8VFZ8UJymA-TBSBwAP3fooyvIKBvp+DKdBIM/B4JAk/SAAA-e

you can use healing spring instead if you need condi removal. Also you can take out quickening zephyr for signet of the hunt if you need movement speed.

Sword/axe over GS any day.

The difference between those two is about 16-18% …

yeah sword/axe does have higher dps but I figured op wanted to continue using GS since IMO it’s just more fun to play with over sword axe.

still clicking skills I see :P you gotta stop that! it lost you the fight with the engi

this is pretty much the standard, overall best dps build in dungeons.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjUq0qaFLmsw1ag9gadAEwjO3MoD8VFZ8UJymA-TBSBwAP3fooyvIKBvp+DKdBIM/B4JAk/SAAA-e

you can use healing spring instead if you need condi removal. Also you can take out quickening zephyr for signet of the hunt if you need movement speed.

lorelei: I like the first one, not too original but it looks good, 8/10. I Don’t like the second one that much though, 6/10.

Here’s mine, a ranger.

as a ranger, if I have steady focus (10% dmg while full endurance), hunter’s tactics (10%dmg while flanking), and runes of the ranger (+7% dmg with companion) how do those all add up? how much extra damage would I actually be doing? does it stack multiplicatively?

LISTEN TO ME ANET PLEASE. I WANT TO PAY YOU FOR SKINS BUT YOU WON’T LET ME. I know you want my money, and you know I want the skins you made. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM??? I will buy marjory’s dagger and the katana if they ever come back, I’d buy them instantly. The whole point of a microtransaction model is to sell us skins, and yet you refuse.

DiamondMeteor.8345:

If you seriously insist on using a tanky pet then just use the River Drake. Lightning Breath is incredibly strong and the Tail Swipe will help your Ele friends with blasting might. Just be sure to have Jaguar or Jungle Stalker as your alternative pet so you can give good DPS during burn phases/ when people stack.

Make sure to cancel your pets skills with F3> F1 if your Drake is using the Blast Finisher when there isn’t a Fire Field though. I can’t emphasize enough how infrequently people ignore their pets in combat.

cool thanks for the tip, I’ll switch to drakes/cats instead then

I think they should buff a few current pets that aren’t as viable, but I guess new pets could be cool as well.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

If you are relying on pet in order to win 1v1 you are doing it wrong. If you are full BM, and the pet is still doing nothing, you are doing it wrong again.

PS: Agility Training. The amount of rangers slotting it is too kitten low. (And I prefer to keep it that way cause eezy killz!)

holy kitten you really are the most cancerous person on these forums. Every post by you is just negative assumptions. I never said I was relying on my pet in order to win, try reading properly next time. All I’m saying is if you actually watch your pet try to attack a mobile enemy, they don’t land a single hit. I’ll say it again, get off the forums.

So I’ve been running bearbow in dungeons and I personally feel it’s very good. Depending on what boss we’re fighting my autoattacks are doing 3.5k-4.5k damage. I can also get 15 stacks of vuln up. And by using bear, the thing SERIOUSLY tanks. I make sure to pay attention to who the boss is attacking and a lot of the time it is attacking my bear, which just means my party members are safer. I don’t see how this build is bad.

I actually came to the forums to make this exact post! I loved obsidian sanctum back in the day when there was aways 20+ people there dueling and doing the puzzle. what happened? I don’t see why it changed, it’s still a great place to duel. Try to get some people to go there.

alright so I was wondering if there are any good places to farm for gold that aren’t dungeons or fractals. for example, pre-nerf silverwastes chest farm. I prefer things like that and event farming way more than dungeons.

I’m getting really tired of my pets doing LITERALLY nothing in 1v1’s in WvW. The wolves miss their abilities completely because they have like a 4 second windup for some kittened reason, and just get completely kited. spiders have really slow auto attacks as well and completely miss their aoe poison. Is there any type of pet that can actually hit a single ability on players?

I only explained to them that they needed to pick up the whisps in the swamp at the same time because they had no idea what to do haha .

Why is this ok? was doing a LOW LEVEL fractal, most of the people in the party didn’t even know how to do the dungeon properly and I explained it to them, slowly got through like 3 and then I was kicked randomly. So I just wasted about an hour trying to do my daily fractal and got absolutely nothing out of it. explain to me how this is enjoyable and why anyone would want to continue playing this game if this is what happens?

lol that guard got sheit on

bumping this because it still happens

I think I’ve seen you in-game before, or someone who uses that outfit. Also what bow is that? it’s huge! also, you really need to not click abilities, it’s really bad.

what is npe?………….

So I’m leveling a new mesmer and I’m not having too much fun. Almost all the weapon abilities seem to be conditions, mostly confusion, which isn’t very good for pve/leveling. Also there doesn’t seem to be any good mobility skills so it’s taking me a long time to get places. any helpful tips?

I’m genuinely curious. I was considering leveling a necro, but when I think about it, they seem kind of bad at all aspects. I don’t THINK they do very well in pve, and from my experience in wvw they’re the worst class for wvw. Am I wrong or is this somewhat accurate?

oh and by not doing well in pve, I mean they are like worse versions of ele/mesmer