Guild Wars 2

pdavis.8031:

If PvP players are interested they can certainly explore these options. But if they aren’t using them now, there is no reason they are going to start using them if it was added in-game.

Convenience – people are more likely to use voice coms if it was included as part of the game.

pdavis.8031:

I don’t see any reason to add it in-game.

The reason to add it in game is to encourage / facilitate players communicating.

pdavis.8031:

it doesn’t need to be added in-game.

Does Too!

I think it’s tied to expectations players have of their team to play well and win.
When that doesn’t happen it brings out the inner child, causing them to throw a tantrum.

All Hail Samuel! , All Hail Samuel, All Hail Samuel!

Sidenti.6035:

Sounds like someone had a bad time while playing Thief.

I think that’s most people playing thief right now in PvP, it feels like it’s in a really bad spot with it’s only saving grace being mobility.

Hello Weed, I just wanted to share with you that this is something we can expect with the expansion that is coming out soon.

IMO-
The Celestial gear was a test to see how to community would to the new way of crafting.

Hi Hitman.5829, I play a thief and would like to share some things with you.

1. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heartseeker
2. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Defektive-s-How-To-1v1-a-good-Thief
3. Practice, Practice, Practice

-Jeep-

Instead of giving me Blinding Powder at 25% health Give me
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Powder

eh? eh?

Love it!
Thanks Allie & Anet

I look forward to when we get to hear about the new PvP Rewards coming

Emapudapus.1307:

Duno whats the deal of caring if she leaves/left? She didnt do anything, nothing changed because of her. Well she did try to be helpfull, but thats what she was paid for, not that she cared…

My deal with caring if she leaves/left is that she communicated with the general forum user to start. You saying she didn’t do anything is an abject lie. To say nothing changed because of her is also false. (read her interactions on the forums and check over the feature patch notes, then eat your words pls) Saying she didn’t care because she was paid is narrow-minded. Just because someone is paid to do something doesn’t remove care/concern. You want to slander her here, but it’s not appreciated. Allie was a great community asset and I consider her a personal friend.

Norn – Great Lodge
The nodes are about as far away from the entrance as possible on the ground level.

A DPS check set’s a standard that can be measured against. If you don’t measure up then you don’t get the rewards. With this in place they can more aggressively reward those who can complete it. I feel a DPS check encourages better gameplay by nudging you to see how far you can push your damage and still be able to complete the content. It’s common knowledge to wear gear with no defensive stats requires more skill than playing with defensive gear (ie soldiers, clerics, dire) Dealing more damage means the enemies will die quicker and thus you can complete content quicker. Without a DPS check it would allow builds that don’t risk anything to be rewarded in content that is supposed to reward skillful play.

Just as an example
a while back a I believe RT did a no dodge Arah dungeon run which showed 5 players in full cleric gear beating an end game dungeon without using dodge. We can all agree that dodging key skills requires some amount of skill. It did take them considerable longer to clear the dungeon and they risked less by playing with a defensive gear set. This should not be a viable setup for content encouraging skillful like raids. Skillful play should be required since we have been asking for difficult content.

Link to the video here https://youtu.be/b2VhmwLwvrM

No, Flanking Strike is in a good place right now. (IMHO)

A simple change to allow those who don’t enjoy their elites an option at more utlity

To not derail the thread I will PM you some more info since you are curious

I didn’t mention this earlier but there is one more, however it’s hardly worth mentioning.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vanish_in_the_Deep

I’m Pretty sure we can all blame Vol.7601 for this. It’s got to be his signature.

“How to make 8-12G/HR ? http://i.imgur.com/AMoiQaC.png”

<3 ArenaNet <3 Linsey <3

I am wondering about the Triforge Pendant though. Currently it has the most stats for an amulet. Will it be outclassed or scaled up?

+1 would play ele if this was added

Hi Obed.7629

“Any readers (other than Yishis ) have success with prolonging stealth by using Black Power/HeartSeeker?”

Yes- I was reading Cruuk’s Guide http://intothemists.com/guides/guide.php?id=5
and he suggested in the comments to do this…

“Ya a good thing to do is make a square of the black powder as you heartseeker through it. Kind of cutting the corners so to speak. Or you can just angle the camera on the 3rd heartseeker as you come back into it. Once you nail the 4 combo the real challenge comes with trying to avoid hitting anything.” -10:52 PM, Fri July 19 2013

If you would like some help in game message me and I can show you GL

“go backstab their face” -awge.3852

#believeinkarl

I believe!

Yes, however even with this I believe you still get non-crits from time to time.

Method A: Hidden Killer
Gain bonus critical-hit chance while in stealth.
Critical Chance increase: 100%

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hidden_Killer

Method B: Beserker Gear + Party Buffs (Banner of Discipline, Spotter, etc)

Gyp is a slur against a particular type of people. (Gypsies) – The more you know *

Jemmi.6058:

The character cycling is used on a few items, I agree. That doesn’t mean it is not exploitative. Unless you think that it was ANets intention that people create and delete characters repetitively to receive rewards at accelerated levels?

Hey check out this post where it is officially accepted to recycle characters.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Are-Black-Lion-Key-runs-an-exploit/first#post1222647

If you are a Norn you can have sandals. (Other races need not try)
1. Buy the Cooks outfit
2. Equip the Cook’s shoes
3. ???
4. Sandals

Dondarrion.2748:

I’m sorry, I just don’t see an ingame team speak solving anything…

Have you never had any issues communicating with your team? I think it’s pretty shortsighted so dismiss something because you personally don’t see it solving anything. Let me direct you to another thread where we have discussed the pros / cons of it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/In-game-VOIP-a-good-idea/page/3#post4981191

Dondarrion.2748:

I can only imagine it’s because of language issues

I think pugs don’t type in chat because of the disadvantage of typing in a fast paced game + you never know if your message was seen/read. When on VOIP you can speak to someone directly and if they answer they heard you, if they didn’t then you can assume they didn’t.

Dondarrion.2748:

I think TS/Mumble/etc. remains a privilege to coordinated, premade teams.

Indeed TS/Mumble/etc. VOIP programs do help people coordinate.

For those suggesting getting on a seperate VOIP,

Please understand the difficulty in being able to reliably do this in certain parts of this game.

Personal Observations

PvE Guilds I have been in have all had some form of VoiP for
-Guild Missions and associated events (Bounty, Puzzle, Mission, etc.)
-Dungeon (Speed Clearing, Casual, Roleplay)
-Open World Events (Mostly coordinating larger events like Teq and Wurms)

PvP Teams I have been watching on streams use it for
-Team Queue
- Sync Queueing
- When someone already knows the server info of someone else they may join up for solo queue as well (highly unlikely with pugs)

WvW
-Every guild I have been a part of has had a personal VoiP Server
-Every Server I have been a part of has had a personal VoiP Server

If you have type, your be prepared to get typefragged

Type Frag-
Getting killed in an online multiplayer game while you were texting your message to other gamers on the server.
Source – http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=type%20frag
Example “I was type fragged while trying to let my team know where the enemy is.”

Last Thoughts
*I hope this can give some perspective on how all game modes currently have people using VoiP, and thus show it’s a wanted/needed. *

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

HELLruler.4820:

Oh, thank god they fixed that

I agree, having a halfway decent alternative to CoF was terrible.

Tough times when you can’t exploit eh?

Having a ready button before locking would work.
That way you can talk to team members for X minutes and be able to coordinate roles

-Bunker
-Far Point Assaulter
-etc etc you get the idea

I like the current version of Pistol Whip.

Thanks for that post Delta Blues.8507 I agree. This is why I enjoy the thief class the most because it forces you to play well or be punished. With some other classes you don’t always see that your doing poorly while with the Thief it will be obvious, especially if you watch other thieves and compare effectiveness.

Off Topic @ Donari.5237

Beep! Beep! Im’ a Jeep!
OIIIIIO <-Headlights and grill of a Jeep (I thought it was clever)

^^ Throw Gunk Storm LOL

Getting Legendary Effects with Elite Usage WOULD BE AWESOME!

1. DS – Spinning + Shooting out Unicorns
2. DS – Spinning + Shooting out Bolts of Electricity

You see where this is going … (awesome town is where it’s going!)

+1 Cloak and Swagger

I do know that the person who designed the Lion did an awesome Job! I hope to see it again. (It would be over-excited if there was some kind of event tied to it where we could help rebuild it) I want to give my appreciation to who made. It was quite beautiful (and according to my sources the creator thinks so too.)

XP Booster
Tome of Knowledge
BL Key

Used second key

Armor Booster
Black Lion Ticket Scrap
Permanent Trading Post Express Contract! What!

Best Chest yet!
Edit Added Screen Shot

Q: How to eliminate stacking?
A: Enable Allied Until Collision

Stacking – (Working as intended)

Indeed keeping things civil is important for discussion.

There will be costs associated with adding features to the game.
To say it would greatly increase the costs of Solo-Q is an assumption. It easily could be a minimal cost to add this functionality. For now I’m going to leave this as there is no way to determine with accuracy the costs for ANET to do this.

For Solo Queue – If implemented would allow for greater coordination. As stated previously. To expect your solo queue team to do the following:

a. Have VoiP
b. Have the correct Application
c. Have the time to connect to the VoiP server

Having this expectation can be disheartening. I doubt it would work out often.

For Team Queue – This would put randoms in a better position to fight off pre-mades. Optimally solo-queuer’s will not be paired up with Team Queue but that is for another discussion.

I see adding VoiP as beneficial for the whole game, but primarily for sPvP.
Our voice is one of our greatest assets. I would love to be able to employ it in sPvP.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

it would seem to me that fighting them instead of just fleeing, takes a lot less time and slightly more effort

It takes more time to fight the mobs than to run past them.

Try it vs any mob.
a. Time yourself killing it
b. Time yourself running past it

Now Compare the two times, and it should be easy to see which takes less time.

Personally I like to complete dungeons as fast as possible because the rewards don’t scale based on time spent in the dungeon. Hope this helps

Make it!, I just finished Frenzy I don’t get to see it all the time, but when I do it’s makes me smile. I just wish I could stack the fish frenzy aura on land

I just wanted to point out two things

1. Nike openly admits to exploiting
2. He is in an elite PvE guild, but complains about a patch that makes you play CoE as intended. (for the shame of all DnT)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Withdraw-forward-short-tutorial/first#post4167589

@Big Tower.5423 Why? Don’t you realize it has a large role in calculating damage?

@ Ralron.8124 it’s not free gold you’re working for it & Thanks for farming it for me <3

Hey GreyWraith that’s unfortunate you have had bad experiences with voip.
1. I do want voip, but it’s less important if ANET develops it. I think just having it in game as an option would be great regardless of who creates it. (Example an addin that launches a partnered application)

2. Voice coms are always superior as far as GW2 is concerned.
Interesting projection, but keep in mind this would be the gw2 community vs whatever community you came from where you had a terrible experience.

3. That’s an interesting and negative imagination you have. ^

4. VoiP is a way to communicate and it’s better/faster than typing. I think saying voip is not for pugs is akin to saying pugs don’t need to communicate when in fact their need for communication is probably the greatest.

Well said Tao.1234

Hi,
Since you are going for magic find I will suggest an Opal Orb in your other weapon.
(not sure how much you are dedicated to MF, but there are weapons with built in MF as well.)

I use the spider bow which has 3% mf on the weapon and superior Sigil of Luck. When the luck stacks are at 25 I swap to another weapon with MF on each weapon and Opal orbs in them as well. (I don’t wear this set anywhere but in CS

If you want condition damage from the sigil I would suggest looking at the givers weapons (they have 10% condition duration built in) & one of the following

-Sigil that procs a condition on weapon swap
-Sigil that has a bonus to your conditions
-Sigil that on swap give you back endurance (more dodge caltrops)

All of these options fit your criteria GL