Guild Wars 2

It sounds more like the market value of precursors are still way too high. People raging believing they were screwed out of a “free 300g item”. I fear this is going to come up everytime they do an event with an exotic reward in the future. Its like legendaries are the cause of most of the drama with special events around here.

That happens if the person who goes in first gets DCed. I think.

I have yet to be able to complete a single run in multiple attempts of the fractal dungeon due people dc-ing midway. I’m tempted to think sucess in the new dungeon is based purely on RNG that people don’t DC.

I thought the popular exploit of the month was sigil of air + sigil of fire? or was that fixed.

Rayya.2591:

Poaches.1967:

There’s a big difference between mesmer stealth and thief stealth.
Plus, mesmers don’t have backstab.

thieves got no portal
thieves don’t make clones on hit .
thieves don’t hit from 2000 range
and we miss the moa.
I trade backstab for moa at any second .

fyi, mesmers don’t have anything over 1200.

There’s a big difference between mesmer stealth and thief stealth.

Thieves can stack stealth abilities for extended durations, and shadow refuge which is basically like a 14 second stealth on 60 cd can be kepted up indefinitely with a stealth team of thieves. Even mass invisibility is an elite on 90 cd for 5 seconds of stealth; so the thieves “stealth problem” doesn’t really exist for mesmers.

Plus, mesmers don’t have backstab.

Do they have any practical use aside from running away? since mesmers do not have attacks from stealth. Their CD’s and durations make it seem like a poor man’s shadow refuge.

Everyone knows you can sit inside a shadow refuge until it dissappears and walk out with a really long duration ~10 second stealth, longer than any other stealth skill, which is really great for making long distance approaches or just skipping things in dungeons. Does anyone know if you can stack multiple shadow refuges’ on each other with multiple thieves for a really long duration stealth?

Many changes happened since beta in addition to the removal of the condition on the auto attacks though. Lower durations, weaker clones, spvp split, etc. Now you have a confusion that’s worthwhile in pvp, but completely an afterthought in pve. Reinstating confusion back onto scepter, or scepter clones would not have the same impact from way back in beta, considering the nerfs.

Its certainly worth a second look, considering the current state of trident clones don’t have people up in pitchforks.

If one thinks highly of confusion. Why not play bomb kit engineer instead?

Traited GS 2 probably can generate clones as fast or faster than scepter auto without an attack chain; with the benefit gs clones can stack bleeds much faster than scepter clones. If you’re already doing condition mesmer, why lose out on bleeds and more regular damage by using scepter?

You said it yourself, swiftpaw, MF matters in a group because it effects group performance negatively. But so does low gear rarity, unoptimal build types, bad trait allocation, class, and even mf food buffs. Its not a brazen assumption at all; your say mf is the leading problem, but your argument encapsulates min/maxing all of a characters stats when its not “optimal”.

You already have a choice, its called join a pro guild with as much scrutiny as you and only do runs with them. There’s no need for you to impose discrimination on other people’s ability to play; doing so is selfish.

80 exotic MF gear isn’t necessarily worse; c onsider people could be undergeared in -10 ilvl whites no less. (Avoiding repair costs they say)

Its a slippery slope, you want to see people’s mf so you can kick them, next you’d want to see all their gear so you can kick them if they’re not in 80 exotics; then dps counters to kick underperforming builds and so on.

Its already hard enough for new players in pugs to find groups when people only want lvl 80s, only certain classes, speedruns, and people who already have memorized the layout of the dungeons.

I don’t understand at all why smaller races having camera trouble with one jumping puzzle is such a travasty, when the majority of the other jumping puzzles clearly were designed to be much more difficult for the char and norn in particular with all the small cramped spaces and camera hugging walls. Where’s the design philosophy in that?

And its really kinda ironic that many people take smaller races/statures to have an advantage against other players to begin with. And then this happened.

There was that exploit going around the let people farm the prizes without actually doing the JP?

Anyone can do it; not everyone can finish it.

Would you like them to add an option to pay 2 gold to teleport to the chest?

And fun too.

The clocktower addresses a some issues I personally have with the other JPs in the game. Where its inherently unfairly to certain class and races.

Classes like the mesmer and guardians who don’t have easy access permanent swiftness aren’t as handicapped in making percise jumps because most of those are disabled, along with skills that allows risk free jumps like leaps and portals.

Norns and Charrs who normally have to put up with camera’s stuck inside walls and making jumps blind due to passage ways clearly designed with the asura in mind(i.e. troll’s end) don’t have to. Clocktower’s open spaces don’t artifically make an JP hard due to strict camera chasing.

I love to see more JPs like this one. Regardless of whatever outcry over its supposed difficulty. It can’t be that difficult if many people could complete it a hundred times over consistently. Rather, some players might have been spoiled by the advantages of small stature, permanent swiftness, and advantageous skills to really address the difficulty of completing JPs normally.

Char Mesmer

100+ times – 1000 trick or treat bags

I really enjoyed the clocktower activity; Its one of those accomplishments that are obtained by skill rather than throwing money at it. So I had a lot of fun, even if it took some time to learn it.

Legendaries – buy gold
Seasonal weapon skins – buy gold
Clocktower – skill and perseverance

I profess I don’t play WvW regularly on IoJ. Occasionally I see a sizable chunk of people idling in the zone entry automatically using skills, which I assume, is some way of prevention against being flagged afk. Its a bit of an eyesore, but aside, I hear players suggest these entities are botters with the intent to clog up the cue and keep other real players from entering.

I don’t know if this is just a side effect of regular botting that already happens all over the place; or are botters, instead of farming gold, are up for hire by groups of players from different servers to maliciously hold up the wait cue, or do things like depleting supplies from keeps and towers. It sounds a bit ridiculous, while difficult to actually detect. I’m curious if this sort of thing actually happens or not.