Guild Wars 2

Grimwolf.7163:

I realized something else this would fix; right now Venoms are weak because, with the proper Grandmaster trait, they can be shared with your group.
With this change though, only the Active effect would be shared, and the Active effect would need to be toned down to fewer hits to compensate for the passive.
This means that much less of the skill’s effect would be focused on the shareable portion, and so there would be far less need to limit its power.
Since Venomous Aura would then become a weaker trait, it could also be moved down to the Master tier and become far more accessible.

Venom Support is a thing. Because multiplying each venom’s power by 5 actually makes them matter. (Spider Venom is still only good for triggering venom traits now, sadly – nerfing Lotus Poison hurt it a lot)

I can press one button to apply 20 stacks of vulnerability and torment to a boss. Every 36 seconds. Kind of strong?

I could, in theory, lock a boss down for 10 seconds… every 36 seconds (More than that really, since it interrupts and such, but this would require godly coordination).

Also, I apply a decent amount of might to the party on a regular basis, and heal them a bunch too.

I like it, myself. But yes, venoms practically require you to use the aura trait to be worthwhile (barring Basilisk, which is nice on its own, having far less competition). I would LOVE to see the auras trait removed and made to do something else, and then buff all venoms a ton.

If all you care about is high score – just get motes when dead, they’re good for 3 (1+2) points apiece.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

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Colbert is backing Gnashblade?

Well, this is over then.

Elbegast.6970:

Mif.3471:

Elbegast.6970:

TR = Asuran sci-fi garbage.

We need less sci-fi/steampunk and more wizards/magic.

Perhaps if you peaked out from under the brim of your wizards hat once in a while you would of noticed that Thaumanova is about chaos magic and dragons.

No, it’s sci-fi. They can say that ‘magic’ works the waypoints and portals and all that other Asuran technology but the fact is, it’s nothing more than sci-fi garbage. If the Asura used magic, they wouldn’t need laboratories, technological devices, portals and waypoints. Instead, they would wave a wand or utter an incantation and whisk themselves away to their Wizard Tower.

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

If you had 4 karkas called on you, you’re doing something wrong… seriously.

Get food, get arrows, and then find somewhere safe to hide (I know of some spots where you’re practically karka proof, AND can’t be snuck up on at all)

At least Survival you can get the achievements for.

Yeah – unless three or four people are beating on the carrier, they will always make it through, wind is completely broken right now with how buggy the 3 is.

Duke Nukem.6783:

i think if you stand still too long ghosts should be able to see you. also ghosts need a weapon to fight ppl standing still

You mean, besides summoning a karka?

Meatoberfest.

Kessex Hills, Butcher’s Block. There’s like seven or eight events there.

Vyniea.2054:

Seriously, it’s way too good.

A crazy strong Knockback and a skill that makes you invulnerable AND boost your speed?

It’s literally impossible to catch crystal bearers who use Air because of this.

Yep. Air just ignores the crowd control of sun and lightning, ignores the movement penalty for carrying a crystal… yeah, it’s completely dumb, and would remain dumb without 1,2,4, and 5.

Most crystal spots, the only shortcuts from base? Air.

Knock people off level to instakill? Air.

Just seal that gate.

Eight. Of which four are 80, and another is mid-70s. (Ele, Thief, Ranger, Mesmer 80s, a 7x Guardian, and the rest of the classes <30)

My elementalist and thief get the most playtime though – Ranger is too hard to get results on par with anyone else, and Mesmer is just god-awful at getting around unless you equip a focus. (While Elementalist has perma-swiftness and a movement signet, and Thief has movement signet and tons of dashing… plus Shadow Refuge, for every fight you don’t want to do).

You should specify builds here, because there’s definitely rock/paper/scissors stuff going on beyond just class.

My money is on condition bunkers, except against Elementalists, who just purge a condition every second basically.

randomfightfan.4091:

dagger has higher single target dps even if you aren’t cnd backstabbing or heartseekering. Problem with sword is that they have nothing else beside the auto attack for damage buff (pistol whip doesn’t do higher dps). Since most threats that actually matter are single targets, dagger wins.

Oh and poison on dagger also causes weakness if traited.

With the nerf to the trait, you get more weakness uptime from sword.

SynfulChaot.3169:

Polaritie.4851:

Actually, if you finish having used Light Speed, you don’t get the achievement. I had this happen – used two of em, took first, it said I had second, presumably due to having lost 10 points (two checkpoints)

That wasn’t due to having used Light Speed. That was due to someone else still beating you. Some win then immediately leave so it can be hard to tell, but using Light Speed does not invalidate wins.

Someone was waiting and watching – I only had 165 points.

It’s not exactly easy to test this

Azure Prower.8701:

BlueSoda.6297:

Coldin.2840:

VinylScratch.3461:

Exactly. I played three games and figured out the game and now place anywhere from first to third in 7+ player races. The mini game isn’t hard at all sadly no reason people can’t earn it. This isn’t World of Warcraft. Earn your stuff by trying instead of having it given.

It’s not easy for everyone. In some cases, not easy purely due to factors outside of their control like latency.

I don’t think it was meant to be easy for everyone, that’s why it’s not required for the meta event. That being said, I can certainly understand the frustration of not being able to get an achievement point. I personally am having trouble with some of the kite ones. But I will continue to try and work at it, and everyone should try and work at the things they struggle with so they can get better at it. What’s the point of playing the game if you just get everything handed to you?

Coming 2nd is just as much work as coming 1st.

Nah who am I kidding. Getting 1st is easy if you get lucky with teleport power ups. It’s really a luck based title. Not skill based.

Actually, if you finish having used Light Speed, you don’t get the achievement. I had this happen – used two of em, took first, it said I had second, presumably due to having lost 10 points (two checkpoints)

Human Elementalist, Vigil.

Elementalist for enjoyability. Vigil for best light armor imo.

Holland.9351:

I recently made a similar topic. Rangers are the only class that can be handicapped by their class mechanic. Ranger starts handicapped and the pet has to make up for it.

Power builds can never reach the potential of other classes because the pet is dead or unusable in many situations (some PVE boss battles and WvW walls).

Even if the pet is alive, your stats mean less than other classes, because your weaponskills do less damage regardless due to pet being a portion of damage… BUT your pet doesn’t scale with your stats!

This inherently means that power, condition damage, etc. is less valuable to a ranger than anyone else.

DeadlySynz.3471:

They could just make the pets invulnerable and un-targetable. That way the pets don’t draw aggro and thus the bosses leave them alone. It’s not like their damage is game breaking, at the moment, especially with the damage reduction they just received. Other classes are allowed to have their 100% dps, yet Rangers fight to keep 40% of their dps alive.

They can just be an extension of the rangers attack.. kinda like an additional arrow every 1-2 seconds

This, exactly.

Just make them unable to attack anything outside of a certain radius of the ranger, take no aggro, and have infinite health (but can be CC’d, so that cripple and such work to keep them away). Then it essentially becomes rangers have 2/3 “weapons” equipped at any given time (So you could have Greatsword/Canine, for instance, using Fern Wolf for the regeneration/water field on F2).

Making pets essentially auto-firing gear or something would solve the issues faced by players at the endgame nicely, I think.

The loss of beartanks for leveling is a separate issue, but I don’t think its insurmountable when pets don’t go down.

Ideally, there’d be a way to manually fire pet skills, but that’s a problem for another day (I think it would be cool if there was a weapon that could manually trigger pet skills, or an elite that basically had the ranger possess their pet – making 1-5 the pet’s auto-abilities, the F2, and a new skill. Possibly keep utilities open? I dunno)

1-More armor skins (and don’t you dare just make the 51st jacket/pants medium armor, or a 10th slightly different version of chainmail…)
2-More build diversity (so many traits don’t have any application at all, or are too narrow to ever be used. Why would I burn a master trait on making three specific utilities give a little regen… and they have no other traits that specifically boost that set?)
3-Fix rangers. For the love of god, fix rangers.

Seriously, who signed on off it?

I had hopes for the new achievement stuff to maybe help here, but… nope.

It feels like 90% of the basic models are identical. Half the dungeon models barely differ from these.

Heavy armor is bad too, but it at least gets some variety eventually – the only things that look remotely different for medium are exotics and cultural.

Can we please have the same diversity in medium that we get in light?

Red Jay.2516:

I was thinking something along those lines as well, although my idea works with attunements, instead of weapon swap. Sorry for the hijack.

First of all, IMO, conjure weapon skills need to be reworked.

The only situationally useful utilities are hammer and greatsword, and that is only in very specific builds, or for using one or two skills before dropping them. Their skills need to be looked at and improved and/or reworked to make them worth keeping for longer than 10 seconds.

First, drop the charges, OR, get rid of the time limit. Having both is too restricting and makes using conjures too much a hassle. Oh, and make their conjuring instant.

Second, they shouldn’t lock all of your attunements. Conjure weapon should occupy only its own attunement. For example, when you conjure a Fiery Greatsword, you gain its skills only in fire attunement. Other attunements remain untouched and you can freely switch between them. Also, you can always press ; to drop it and return to your real weapon skills.

Third, Conjures need traits that are actually worth using. Perhaps a trait that grants specific boon for 10 seconds when you summon a conjure. Gaining 10 second protection would make people actually use Earth Shield. That is, after you make its skills not suck.
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tl;dr: Rework useless skills, make Conjures tied to specific attunement (like FGS – fire attunement) so we can still switch to other attunements (still can use ; to drop the wapon) and give us ineresting traits to spec into, like 10 sec of protection when conjuring an Earth Shield.
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That would solve some of the issues Conjures suffer. It would give eles sort of “pseudo” weapon swap that would give them more range flexibility, like range from Frost Bow to melee centric DD ele or Lightning hammer for ranged SD ele. It would make them similar- yet different from Engineers weapon kits in the sense of on-demand mechanic, instead of using one or two skills before ditching them completely.

Actually, Ice Bow is a godsend for D/D builds when you’re fighting something that demands you stay at a distance. Also, the 5 is a ridiculously strong stun – I’d equip that one skill as a utility on its own if I could.

The Great Al.2546:

I like signets for a 20/10/10/30/0 build – activating a signet will give you and your party a fire aura, swiftness, fury, and protection. I think it’s a very underutilized support build.

I’ve been kicking around a 30/10/30/0/0 idea as well – permanent burning basically for the +10% from that, plus 10% for stone splinters, constant swiftness/fury from fire aura, etc.

Signets isn’t impossible. Elementalists are pretty good about being able to pick a skill type to build around. What isn’t possible right now is a single-attunement build (there’s not enough traits for one – if water spells were more powerful base, you might be able to do it for that with the vulnerability damage bonus and cooldowns, and I’ve considered a conjure build using attunement buffs since you can switch attunement while conjuring, but… it’s not viable atm)

Writ in Stone just demands that you build around it – it’s an incredibly powerful trait.

Molch.2078:

1800 votes and 15% voted “Thief” as the worst dungeon profession… thats 270 players who have no idea what they are talking about.

I do not like this survey.

Anyone who voted Thief worst has never seen a Venom build perma-weaken bosses (and everything else… though the last trait changes nerfed this part away) through their anti-weakness buff, cause 2-3 seconds of stun every 30 seconds regardless of CC-immunity, etc.

Am I the only one annoyed with the long kitten animation for this? It takes forever to go off, you can’t do anything else during it, and only after all that does it go on cooldown.

It doesn’t have a cast time, so shouldn’t it be faster to go off? (Or be given an actual cast time/bar, or something)

It just feels strange like this.

Frankly, I think it should just not have a long animation – go off near instantly, still take a while to burst.

Chorel.1720:

It will be ignored for the most part. People generally only really went for the rich ori. The odd person farmed karkas though.

The odd mesmer, anyways. So much reflection.

Oblivion.8307:

an engineer drops concussion bomb. all eles are dead.

Mesmer rolls F1-F4, all eles are dead. Faster. (30 in illusions, obv)

Raine.1394:

I have 6 level 80 characters and 11 character slots. There were a few tedious patches while leveling, especially for those professions that don’t come together until level 40 or so. But, on the whole I found each alt easier and faster to level than the one before and each was great fun as I explored the new profession as well as the gameworld again. The level cap is high, perhaps too high. But, the leveling process was much easier, less tedious, and more fun than any other MMO I’ve played. This I regard as a strength of GW2.

My only concern around alts is vertical progression. with 6 80’s and more on the way chasing stats to keep them current would be impossible if the progression is not extremely slow. I had 6 max level characters in WoW and it felt like a death march keeping them current. I hope they can keep GW2 alt-friendly in that regard. The other concern is just awareness of the altoholic in deciding whether items should be soulbound or account bound. As an altoholic I generally favor account bound items—the more the better.

Heck, just do away with soulbound for most stuff. Let me transfer over an exotic armor between characters.

Durzlla.6295:

Arekai.5698:

So uh, if i want the quiver just for the look, i can use a trans stone on it and my current backpiece, right?

Can i buy everything i need for it or do i have to jump into the gear treadmill dungeon?

Well…. The quivers (and ascended tomes) have the best stats in the game, so I see no reason to use a transmutation stone.

And capacitors, don’t forget those.

When ranger pets are downed, instead of them just coming back, let them keep fighting, but at half movement speed and damage. Possible disable their F2 skill as well.

This way Rangers aren’t completely screwed over by any boss with AoE spam.

Honestly, the worm spew really needs a windup, because it’s insane right now. The wurm room is 90% of the dungeon’s diffuculty, and feels more like a dps test than anything else (As in, enouggh dps to down center wurm before you have 5 more spewing death around the room)

A Popcap.1432:

I want a variety of armors which show the tattoos of male AND female norns better, because at the moment you only sometimes see the fore arms and face parts usually, sorta want to be able to see the back or even just have them not cover shoulders,

Give us a medium armor that completely reveals the back, shoulders, and arms? (The Whispers one comes close, but it seems like someone put part of the hood on the chest piece, and that covers an area…)

It’s more effective with Illusionary Persona, but otherwise its a complete dud.

You’d probably get more effect from the Phantasms give regen trait.

sephire.7296:

Confusion is the counter to Quickness. One of my most glorious moments was running into a enemy group who were in Time Warp and using Mirror Images -> Cry of Frustration.

Traited for retaliation, I hope? (Because why not)

Predator.7321:

Yep mesmers are useful in dungeons mainly for portals, tw, distractions mainly

Portals alone make Mesmers highly sought after for Fractals.

How many builds actually get something out of boon duration? (Significant, I mean. Water traited eles, for instance, get a lot of damage from having boons up, 2% per, so it’s nice for them).

Also, pretty sure Monk is the AC rune, which may be a reason why.

Ranger has an easier time leveling than thief, but thiefs are probably better at 80, just because you aren’t having to do pet management and such.

Of course, a downed ranger still has a lot of damage from the pet.

Alloy.2839:

Always remember to wear armor, and don’t name your character “qwertyuiop”. Seriously, the signature that ANet uses to detect bots is not going to be publicly available, for obvious reasons. If you are close enough to a group of bots to be concerned, play it safe and go somewhere where you aren’t worried about it. Tyria is a pretty big place.

Someone strutting around in anything remotely good looking is probably not a bot, after all. Good looking takes effort!

Darn. No comboing it with heal on shatter then.

Does this only trigger on healing skills, or can healing traits trigger it too?

Jabberwock.9014:

I agree it could be a BIT longer, but it’s better than the tents for me. One of the other few leggings I like are the vigil light leggings. Nice balance of covering and revealing.

Oh hell yes. The female vigil light armor is a wonderful design.

cNcHellShadow.7691:

Well, I use my karma on my main to buy skins for my other characters that I don’t want the stats for. I have 2 toons in some God armor just for the looks…transmuted to armor the other toons can wear. Other than that, not really sure what purpose Karma serves late/end game.

Obsidian shards for legendaries, I guess. Cooking mats (not in any great amount, but lemon bars are much cheaper than omnoms!)

There’s a cap on siege deployed at a time (Because lets face it, 20 arrow carts beats almost anything).

Without it despawning, you’d end up with people being unable to deploy anything. To say nothing of the issues with people trolling by dropping rams in the middle of nowhere.

The big issue with mantras right now is the casting time – you could be doing a ton of things during it (weaponskills, other utilities, setting up clones, etc.), to where it feels pointless except when preparing them before a fight. Recasting mid battle just screams inefficiency (I mean, why charge up attacks for 3 seconds instead of just hacking the enemy apart for similar damage while not taking hits? Yes, I know there ARE mantra builds in use, but I feel that it’s a horrible opportunity cost to use them)

To that end, I propose reworking mantras to passively reload. As an example, getting a charge of Pain every 4-5 seconds (still maxing at 2/3). Healing every 6-8, etc.

Obviously, the traits would also need to be reworked.

Harmonious – increases max charges to 3
Empowering – 2% damage for each stored charge (If it’s 4% per type, everyone’d just leave one hanging and only cast the second for massive +damage)
Mastery – increases reload speed
Protected – +armor or -% damage per stored charge
Restorative – Heal allies each time a charge is loaded. (Or used, but loaded keeps it as a steady stream instead of a massive health spike)

Thoughts?

We need more medium armors that aren’t trenchcoat+pants. That’s about it – heavy and light have a good mix of sexy and practical already.

My group just walled the tops of ramps, then spammed whatever we felt like wherever. We had 3/4 people running in supplies I think.

The dolyaks barely got damaged during the last four waves. It was awesome.

How? I wanna turn into a plush griffon. But no transformation tonics from gift boxes (normal loot kind), unlike Halloween.

Troll Unguent is a ton of healing, but it gives zero burst healing. Stacks with regen though (Fern Hound, go!).

Bow/GS was what I used most of it. GS+Quickening Zephyr lets you just spam 1 with the near-constant evasion, and GS has solid defensive skills in 4 and 5. Both bows offer interrupts. Longbow with points in the first trait line is nice – 15 points and you can open every fight with 20 stack vulnerability on the target.

Durzlla.6295:

jkctmc.8754:

There is no possible way a Ranger could kill my Mesmer. I was killing level 80 Rangers by level 40 in WvW. For that matter any 2v1 situation where the second opponent is the Ranger, I’ll ignore the Ranger until I kill the other person, then easily kill the Ranger. The only time this is an issue is if I’m facing a D/D Elementalist, or a good Warrior at the same time I’m facing the Ranger.

Yes, but a lot of rangers are just AWFUL, I didn’t realize how bad a lot of them were until I started pugging with other rangers, my god… They’d spend the entire instance with a dead pet, and get downed at least twice each fight, I might as well have brought under leveled players…

Fight a ranger that’s actually good and they’ll wreck you.

In a dungeon – if the boss can off your pets easily, use ranged pets. Or pets you’re only using for the skill (Red Moa, Jungle Stalker, Blue Moa, etc. for buffing. Wolf for Fear, since it goes through boss immunity, Hyena can summon a sacrificial unit with half power every 20 sec… etc.)

It’s showing the active icon instead of passive I think. The active buff from Signet of the Hunt is similar. (Of course, Signet of Stone’s is not, so there).

Sarmach.1547:

Well I know for a fact I’m getting 2k gems for Christmas. Which is only like 29g80s at current exchange rates. (Used the average rate per 100 gems)

Right now it’s far more than that.