Guild Wars 2

Bubi.7942:

skullmount.1758:

I’d also like it to go back to the way it was. At least then I’d have a chance of finishing the achievements. Or as others have said, give everyone the achievements since it now broken and exploiters got them done early (like usual).

Yeah right.

Did it before the patch solo without using exploits or cheats, and did if after patch solo and duo too without using exploits or cheats.

The following response is not directed at you, but this whole thread:

L2RollAMesmer

If you are courious: Asura mesmer with Staff – sword/focus

There, I fixed it for you

Blissified.8369:

penatbater.4710:

Maybe it’s because the sun is shinning on your armor, and since it is silver, it reflects back the yellow light, making your armors more yellow-y than the preview?

its not silver, all the armor is dyed CELESTIAL (THE WHITEST WHITE)

I REPEAT THIS IS ALL DYED CELESTIAL

If you want to get what you see in the Hero Panel / Preview window, turn off the Post-Processing effects

And no, I’m not kidding

The preview you see in Hero Panel and Preview window do not take into account Post-Processing and Shadows. Turning off Post-Processing will remove the hue effect around your character

Justdeifyme.9387:

You just need to grind if you want a legendary, at this game isn’t all about getting a legendary, even if that is what many people think.

This game is Skin Wars. Every single end-game content is based around skins.

Dungeons? Skins
Fractal? Skins
Living Story? Skins
Cultural equipment? Skins

Skins, skins, skins and skins. Legendary is basically the “last” skin, the shining door in the long, dark, tunnel. Saying “you don’t have to get legendary” is akin to saying “you don’t have to be level 80 to play the game”. No pie, son, but what’s the point in it?

Vayne.8563:

Peetee.9406:

Erasculio.2914:

It’s kinda sad that today there are so many people playing a game to get rewards, instead of playing to have fun. I guess that’s the MMORPG community.

Obtaining rewards is the fun part.

I don’t think anyone enjoys killing Tequatl for 157th time or pressing ‘F’ on 100 dragon pinatas. If you do, god bless you! I need to be challenged to enjoy the content.

Actually, I don’t kill Tequatl for the 157th time because I don’t go for rewards. In your mind people must do this stuff because they must have rewards. If you play for fun you don’t repeat mindless content.

Take the pinatas from your example. We had two weeks to do them. Every time I went to LA or another city I did a few. By the end of the first week, I was most of the way there…without grinding. I did that stuff in passing.

Some people ran out and farmed projectors? They competed with people to get them. Three days later, no one was on the projectors and I got them casually while going through zones on my way to doing other things. I got the reward without farming at all.

And I was having fun the whole time.

Usually, an MMO is marked with “playing the game with others”

Since you basically solo the stuff, you’re basically playing an MMO alone

Perhaps you can have fun playing an MMO alone /snicker but I personally don’t.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Use your brain and ask yourself: “What did ANet intend players to do with events?”

Complete them? or reset them over and over to ensure it doesnt complete while you take advantage of a sub-part of them?

Anet said “we don’t want to make a game that is all about grinding”, then proceeded to introduce RNG based precursor drop and has not "fix"ed CoF P1 for months. At this point, referring to ANet’s “logic” is a downfall to anyone

ARM.3912:

irishhaf.1692:

This is going to sound like sour grapes but… here goes.

If ET had the numbers you do.. they would waffle stomp you… they have people that can take defended upgraded objectives without a 5 or 6-1 advantage in numbers.

You guys have gotten so reliant on numbers well its disappointing, you do nothing but move in 1 big blob spamming 1 yea you will beat lower population servers doesnt mean your better than them, just that you have more bodies. (again RH is pretty darn good, its the rest of the server thats lacking)

by the end of our last match up whenever you guys actually fought IOJ (a higher pop wvw server than us) the jokes about someone getting lost and being color blind occurred.

You beat us by 50k roughly… should of beaten us by 100k with the numbers advantage you had all week… hell most of our dedicated commander took most of the week off.

Challenge yourself find new ways to take an objective hit upgraded heavily defended positions to see if you can stick it out… work on small man tactics… you have such a LARGE numbers advantage this week there is no reason not to work on tactics to make yourself better over all.

No, ET would still lose. Your yadda yadda and qqqqqachoo train won’t change that fact.

GOM just has far superior players.

ARM

Well, you have superior player number, I’ll give you that

Human Wizard’s Coat
Prolly student’s pants
Temple Shoes

azazil.9541:

Erasculio.2914:

Mustafa.7684:

Many players love this because we currently do not a place where we are able to invest our time and get a decent return on investment.

It’s kinda sad that today there are so many people playing a game to get rewards, instead of playing to have fun. I guess that’s the MMORPG community.

I’m happy we have one less farming spot in the game. There are others left, but then again Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Yes true Rome wasn’t built in a day but collapse in a day.

Rome was built in hundreds of years

Then it collapsed within a few decades

I assume that right now, considering that it’s very hard to find any other player aside from “farming” areas, The Great Collapse of Guild Wars 2 is underway. You can still play, you can still have fun, but it won’t be for long, because all avenue of actually playing the game and having fun (that is, somewhere with enough people to chat with) are gone sans Lion’s Arch and WvW

Ironically, the guys that complained about people “not having fun” don’t know the concept of fun, sort of like those who love “challenge” can’t differentiate legitimate “challenge” and “sado-masochistic pointless waste of time”

Another vote for this to be implemented!

Congratulations! No more life in Orr. ANet has successfully killed Cursed Shore for good

Long live player-less contents!

Any NA servers open?

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

laokoko.7403:

Nothing more to say. Just because there is 1 good run, don’t mean there are many other bad runs.

I’d like to increase my chance of having smoother run.

Then play like a team. You don’t need an optimized DPS team to have a smooth and quick Fractals run. You just don’t.

kitten truth.

I ran with a… sub-optimal party on Arah P3, Lupicus got 2 stacks of buff, and at one point it’s me vs Lupicus while 2 others are downed and are trying to bandage to rally. Astonishingly, we managed to get through it and finish the path like it ain’t no thing

Ran with a… more-optimal party, wiped twice at Lupicus despite no buff at all. Go figure

There will always be that “optimal” build for a certain part, doesn’t mean everyone has to go that path, because that’d be boring as kitten

rogerwilko.6895:

- crap design choice by AN.
– crap attitude by human filth players.

C-C-C-C-COMBO!

What I don’t get is the fact that ANet chose to implement that ridiculously asking-for-people-to-grief mechanics. I mean, seriously ANet? You’re going to kick everyone out for the sole reason of the party leader is a HUGE RICHARD?

mexay.3902:

To ArenaNet:
These type of events need a nerf. You need to take out events that give endless spawning enemies that have loot tables from event chains like this. It encourages bad behaviour in players and prevents others from opening instances. It needs to stop. And give those farmers another place to farm, like, NAO

I fixed that for you, because I’m feeling generous.

People flock to Giant because it makes money, there is literally no other reason people flock to him like that. The only way to make people go away from the Giant (and ergo, the entirety of Orr) is to nerf it so hard the zombies no longer drop any loot, at which point, congratulations: you have encouraged ANet to shoo people away from Orr forever.

Shelter? Killed
Penitent? Killed
Jofast? Killed
Lyssa? Killed
Giant? We’ll see

Check Orr, no, check Cursed Shore alone is there even any life there? You see a few players here and there mining mithril/orichalcum and chopping elder/ancient woods, maybe some odd times players open Arah up, and that’s that.

For an endgame content, Orr is devoid of life (pun intended), the Giant being the only thing that draws people to Orr. Does the giant need to be nerfed? Sure, I acknowledge that it blocks the path to Arah. Is that the best decision? No, absolutely not. With CoF under nerf bat’s swing path, it’s only a matter of time before farming spots get killed entirely, and then you can say goodbye to finding others in an MMO

Thanks capisho!

Any NA servers have the temple open?

I hope now that they’ve tried to regulate CoF path 1, prices will drop bit by bit

Sentinel.5731:

Raestloz.7134:

Had a lot of rage last night

NSP decided to pull the classic “overman” tactic again and pushed into inner. Not sure if stupid or trolling, but they quickly ditched the golems that managed to break unsieged gate in the first place. That or the golems died before they reached the inner, because NSP golems

Then, some jerk decided to click on my char, and spam “/laugh @” so many times it wiped the map chat out of my window

Then commander repaired outer gate and the whole NSP unit got stuck inside

When we finally got out to push, the whole NSP unit crumbled like Bruce Almighty’s cookie

Interestingly, I don’t see any NSP spamming /laugh anymore

Uh huh, cuz on NSP we certainly did not have to Flaming torch for at least 30 mins before that…

Spare us the rage HOD. You are just mad because you aren’t winning. (again) Every server has times where they have overmanned our out manned, its part of the nature of the game. Instead of trying to blame us for using that as a tactic, maybe just deal with it? I did not get on here and kitten when HOD and DR both sent zergs and flipped 3 of our t3 towers. It was super frustrating, and a great play by both servers for seizing the moment.

DL DR take your kitten rage elsewhere, making excuses does not help you win sir

Congratulations, you managed to stop reading after merely two sentences and skipped right through the quick reply box. Because NSP golems.

Yes, numbers fluctuate, that happens

But ditching golems, the only reason you managed to break the outer gates in the first place? That doesn’t usually happen

Spamming /laugh directly with @? That doesn’t usually happen

I don’t care what timezone you are, I DO care when some jerk decided to explicitly click at my char, spam /laugh and follow the emote with @ as I desperately try to defend Hills inner gate as unorganized blob of enemy zerg try to crack open the inner gate with arrows.

What happened:
1) At the very least 30 NSPs
2) Had 4 golems, broke outer gate, but right after that the golems are gone. Not sure if WPed or killed
3) Built at least 2 catapults, at least 3 arrow carts, but never built a single ram for the entire siege.
4) Spammed /laugh.

Yes, maybe you had fun blob zerging, yes maybe you had fun sieging, but not building a single ram and spamming /laugh @? That’s mocking, and mocking ain’t my style

There were 1700 supplies at hills, it dropped to 200 before the defenders pushed out, and there were no fort bonuses such as supply increase or movement speed increase. Supplies don’t decrease 1500 points in 5 minutes. There were at least 3 instances where someone from NSP spammed laugh, before I was killed, and had to respawn at garrison to try to go back in. Kormir knows how many laugh spam I missed

Unfortunately, my PC doesn’t have enough juice to play WvW with all its individual armor and animation glory. I had to settle with “Lowest” character quality, otherwise I would’ve tried to find who the jerk is, and spam all my skills at them

zerotwo.4731:

I think it will imitate the current gw2lfg site since it has been very successful. Why change something that works so well, right?

Cursed Shore’s ears are tingling. You might want to speak with it

IIRC Risen KFCs are imbalanced, along with many other things in Orr (like the spiders or the wraithlord). Someone posted a screenshot of KFC egg dealing about 33k damage, which is about 11k more than current possible max health

redslion.9675:

Raestloz.7134:

redslion.9675:

Raestloz.7134:

He probably will just resurrect that Sylvari. Salad Marshal is a necromancer

Sure, considering she said that her only purpose in life is to destroy risen, I am SURE she’ll enjoy being turned into one.XD

Her purpose in life is to destroy risen. Since she couldn’t achieve that in life, give her a second chance and have her fulfill that in undeath :shrug:

Besides, Salad Necromancer needs to brush his skills

Considering the EMBARASSING show his flesh golems gave (almost wiped out by a bunch of grubs… luckily those were ELITE golems), I think no one in this world has done anything so heinous to deserve such a humiliating doom as being resurrected by the Grand Marshal.

My friend, you’re absolutely correct. Even being resurrected by Zhaitan seems to have more benefit than being resurrected by Salad Marshal

Shemsu.8721:

Traveller.7496:

SynfulChaot.3169:

We don’t want that stuff. We want to play the game. Those charas are made to take those roles as, as a player, those rewards are not rewards at all.

I would have been satisfied that my character became a God after Nightfall or the Lord Commander of the Pact forces in GW2. Instead of, like, the best friend of the hero of the movie who gets the girl and you get her ugly cousin.

So should LA have a council with 15,000,000 seats so every “hero” “main” character player gets a seat? How would that work exactly. Everyone beats the personal story, so should the pact have 15,000,000 lord commanders? I’m not sure how people fail to understand that you just cant do that in an mmo. Yeah it works for fallout and skyrim, those are single player, there is only one hero. You have to tell a story different in an mmo. Get over it, you experience the story, you ARE NOT the main character

NO DAMMIT

IF KIEL WANTS THE DWAYNADAMMED CAPTAIN SEAT, SHE NEEDS TO F#$@ING DESERVE IT

AND RIGHT NOW SHE’S NOT. SHE HAS NEVER EVEN DONE ANYTHING, UNLESS YOU COUNT STEALING CREDITS AS SOMETHING.

huff…. huff….

for f*@#‘s sake, people these days don’t know jack pie about “earning your keep”, or in this case “earning your captain’s seat”. The blind Lionguard captain from Claw island has done more than she does. Nobody will mind if Kiel is actually useful, more useful than you, but Kiel simply isn’t useful: she’s useless

Had a lot of rage last night

NSP decided to pull the classic “overman” tactic again and pushed into inner. Not sure if stupid or trolling, but they quickly ditched the golems that managed to break unsieged gate in the first place. That or the golems died before they reached the inner, because NSP golems

Then, some jerk decided to click on my char, and spam “/laugh @” so many times it wiped the map chat out of my window

Then commander repaired outer gate and the whole NSP unit got stuck inside

When we finally got out to push, the whole NSP unit crumbled like Bruce Almighty’s cookie

Interestingly, I don’t see any NSP spamming /laugh anymore

When your tower is under heavy siege fire and your commander screams “Someone AoE that FEMALE DOG!” then you realize how useful Staff Ele is.

Until that kind of scenario happens, people will stick to doing damage to other server’s assaulters

And I’ve seen that scenario more than once. It’s the entire reason I switched from healing focus to mixed.

Staff ele’s cc are all short lived, but most are AoE, and imprisoning people in Air 5 is always sweet

Staff ele is NOT for solo combat, leave that thing to other classes. It’s entirely for support. Sure, it’s not as Chuck Norris as getting up close and kill people with fire (which you totally can do), Staff Ele is to others what Artillery unit is to Strike Team: they don’t get to see enemy’s face, but they provide extra firepower (pun intended)

And when your team is falling back, spam those CCs, they can cover an entire bridge

redslion.9675:

Raestloz.7134:

He probably will just resurrect that Sylvari. Salad Marshal is a necromancer

Sure, considering she said that her only purpose in life is to destroy risen, I am SURE she’ll enjoy being turned into one.XD

Her purpose in life is to destroy risen. Since she couldn’t achieve that in life, give her a second chance and have her fulfill that in undeath :shrug:

Besides, Salad Necromancer needs to brush his skills

He probably will just resurrect that Sylvari. Salad Marshal is a necromancer

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Raestloz.7134:

It’s probably more because he wielded Tidus’ Ultimate Weapon

I sincerely hope you realise that Caladbolg originates in real world mythologies not in Final Fantasy (as almost everything in FF does)

You can make references to popular culture stuff and people “get it”, but you can never make a reference to historical myths and people “get it”.

Making a reference to Braveheart makes people “get it”. Making a reference to William Wallace and making people “get it” is pretty hard. I went the easy road

When I saw the first sentence, I thought it’s “Moriarty” and the reference would be about Holmes

You know, the personal story is like Naruto: half the time it’s about you, then suddenly the focus shifts to the other guy, tapi the point that it’s no longer “personal story” but “trahearne’s story”.

Yeah, I think that’s the problem. We never actually get a “personal” story, all we have ever had is “Trahearne’s story”

AlexMc.2083:

Crossplay.2067:

One thing that bugs the hell out of me is Treaherne is a necromancer but I haven’t seen him use any necromancer skills.

He seems to be quite a powerful necromancer actually, being able to raise multiple flesh golems at once.

It’s probably more because he wielded Tidus’ Ultimate Weapon

The question is: can the Elder Dragon of Undead rise again as a Risen Elder Dragon of Undead?

pullnointer.1476:

Raestloz.7134:

Xehanort.4589:

zengara.8301:

Xehanort.7034:

Kichwas.7152:

Xehanort.4589:

I know i didn’t tell them i would leave after i get my daily, but reporting me just because i don’t have enough time to complete all the 3 fractals is a bit eccessive.

They told me i’m an idiot, why i ask myself, i’m just playing as i want and at the moment i was just completing dailies and the daily does not force me to complete all 3 fractals.

You were being selfish and rude to the others, getting your gain at their expense.

I don’t think what you did is considered an offense under the ToS, but I would have reported you as well just in the hope that it was.

If that was a bannable offense, about 80% of the GW2 community would be perma-banned. Honestly, I hope the people that reported YOU would get banned for abusing the report feature. Sure, what you did was a kitten move, but you didn’t grief them, you didn’t do anything whatsoever that warrants a ban.

Tbh, your tryieng to justify something that is pretty rude, by saying that is how you play. In a fractals it can be hard to find another member, also if the whole group is having a hard time in the first place, yeah it may take a couple of minutes, if the group dont just get apart from the moment you leave.
If you need to do your dalies, its probably best to do something easiere, and something that doesnt hurt other people. I dont like to say it, but that was a pretty awfull selfish move, specially if you actually didnt have anything to do after.
Next time write that you only want to do dalies and then they can find another one to join them, or that you will find some1 to join them after that 1 fractal.

I came here to know more about what you think of it. I didn’t expect to receive hate mails after i left. Also i really had something to do after so i joined for a fast fractal to get the daily. I know there are easier dailies but i’m collecting every AP i can from dailies from 5 days ago while they announced the new rewards so that AP was important to me.

You purposefully didn’t tell them, and you actually say they’re the one in the wrong?

You didn’t think there’s something wrong in that line of thinking…?

why would there be? he didn’t tell them because it’s unnecessary. because one leaver is such an easy problem to solve it’s not even worth mentioning. so maybe it’s less drama if he doesn’t bother telling everyone. because one of them might just be stupid enough to take offense to it.

also did we stop being human at some point where we should be placing the interests of random people over the internet you’ve never met and will never meet now? I’m not saying you should grief and dump pugs with your guildie at maw on a 48 fotm run for more guildies, but this guy just went in, got what he needed, left, and this effects the party in no way whatsoever.

Why? Because it is, that’s why. You got a group, have them do their job, and then at your leisure say “okay female dogs, now I have something else to do, fornicate off” and leave. Heck, what if he’s the instance owner? Everyone except the kitten are fornicated, the kitten just continue being a kitten. But that’s probably why kittens are kittens: kittens can’t identify themselves as a kitten

And after all that, you actually expect people not to be mad at it?

Valleria Darkmoon.4506:

Raestloz.7134:

Have you realized why the official term for Zommoros is “Mystic Toilet”?

Because you don’t get anything from it

Well I think it’s more because you flush everything down it, in the hopes of polishing your turds.

Putting lots of raw things and get less but shiny stuff out most of the time is a refinery. Zommoros is a Mystic Toilet thanks to the fact that you don’t get jack crap most of the time.

Seriously, trying to get precursors isn’t fun

I like it that you focus only “how to fight a thief” and not “how ridiculous the concept of stealth is”. Guess what? My highlight is the latter. In case you haven’t driven the point home and gave her your number.

Everyone can fight a thief, that much is certain. Whether they’re good at it or not is entirely different matter. The whole problem I highlight is the fact that you never get to choose when to fight a thief AND can follow through with it. If the Thief decides they don’t want you to fight them, they stealth away with literally no way to actively stop them short of clairvoyant level of stealth trap positioning. They simply stealth and you lose every progress. They can stay in the fight, or they can just run away; you never know until THEY reveal themselves.

You can’t chase them, you don’t even know where they are. Eles can run with Fiery GS, Engineer have Perma swift, guardian can Shout and run with stability, but you know where they are and can generally give chase. The same cannot be said to thief. How are you going to chase something that you don’t know the location to begin with?

SkyShroud.2865:

If people are not rewarded with xp and wxp, they will immediately notice you are out-manned thus the intention to mask the outman icon is lost. Is like fixing the thing and breaking it again.

Not only breaking it, but splinter it to pieces and hide the important parts in Cthulhu, Leviathan, and Medusa’s stomachs, just in case someone has the idea of fixing it again.

This idea will severely destroy the experience of people whose server has more people willing to go to WvW, the concept seems to be “drive the winning away to even the numbers”, not “invite the losing more to even the numbers”, so I vote no

I don’t know, maybe I’m the only one thinking that running away and stealthing away are two entirely different concept? Because when my ele run away, every single enemy can see where I’m going, while a thief can stealth and for all you know, he probably is still behind you. I tried, I couldn’t find “Smoke Field” skill on my ele.

No, you don’t have control. What you do have is a chance to fight the thief. Everything else: when to engage, when to disengage, is left to the Thief. You can try to run away, that much is certain, but whether you can fight the thief or not is solely on the Thief’s discretion. You can’t chase the Thief: if they don’t want you to fight them, you cannot fight them.

Ergo, all the rewards without a lick of risk.

I ran for Arah P3 the other day.

I don’t remember it much now, as I tried to shove it away from my brain, but I do remember the time when they kicked me.

Everything went as usual. We pulled, we killed, and we stealthed our way to the mage crusher. There were problems, so we didn’t have a smooth experience but managed to get by

You know the part where people exploit it so it can’t attack? Someone (NOT me, coz I was already out of combat waiting on the stone ramp) aggroed the champion spider and can’t get out of combat.

Someone asked “maybe we should kill the spider?” and I answered “too much time”. As in, “it’s just a waste of time”. It’s a Dwaynakitten ed Champion, how long do you think it’d take to kill the kitten thing?

So, another ele (the guy that aggroed the spider) started to attack mage crusher
I decided to follow suit. As the stupid guy falls down bleeding, I casted Healing Rain, and crusher casted his magic, causing red circle on the floor, so I dodge rolled. I happen to dodge to my left, away from the rest (who were on my right).

Suddenly, I saw the “requests a kick, do you second?” dialog, but strangely without the usual green tick and red circle. I was thinking that they’re finally going to kick this useless man, but nope, I got kicked.

I, who absolutely didn’t do anything wrong, got kicked because a certain kitten couldn’t get away from a Champion Spider. I quickly whispered “what did I do wrong?”, but no answer

Lost about half an hour or more.

Ended up joining a party with (presumably) a few inexperienced members. Despite having problems at corrosive light and 2 stacks of buff with lupicus (at one point, I had to dodge for my life as others bandage themselves during downed state), we actually finished the dungeon.

It shows how ridiculous people are. Hell, I’d be more than willing to stay with a few inexperienced who sticks till the end and are willing to learn instead of a bunch of caps who chose a spider aggroer than an innocent member

Xehanort.4589:

zengara.8301:

Xehanort.7034:

Kichwas.7152:

Xehanort.4589:

I know i didn’t tell them i would leave after i get my daily, but reporting me just because i don’t have enough time to complete all the 3 fractals is a bit eccessive.

They told me i’m an idiot, why i ask myself, i’m just playing as i want and at the moment i was just completing dailies and the daily does not force me to complete all 3 fractals.

You were being selfish and rude to the others, getting your gain at their expense.

I don’t think what you did is considered an offense under the ToS, but I would have reported you as well just in the hope that it was.

If that was a bannable offense, about 80% of the GW2 community would be perma-banned. Honestly, I hope the people that reported YOU would get banned for abusing the report feature. Sure, what you did was a kitten move, but you didn’t grief them, you didn’t do anything whatsoever that warrants a ban.

Tbh, your tryieng to justify something that is pretty rude, by saying that is how you play. In a fractals it can be hard to find another member, also if the whole group is having a hard time in the first place, yeah it may take a couple of minutes, if the group dont just get apart from the moment you leave.
If you need to do your dalies, its probably best to do something easiere, and something that doesnt hurt other people. I dont like to say it, but that was a pretty awfull selfish move, specially if you actually didnt have anything to do after.
Next time write that you only want to do dalies and then they can find another one to join them, or that you will find some1 to join them after that 1 fractal.

I came here to know more about what you think of it. I didn’t expect to receive hate mails after i left. Also i really had something to do after so i joined for a fast fractal to get the daily. I know there are easier dailies but i’m collecting every AP i can from dailies from 5 days ago while they announced the new rewards so that AP was important to me.

You purposefully didn’t tell them, and you actually say they’re the one in the wrong?

You didn’t think there’s something wrong in that line of thinking…?

It’s underwhelming, terribly if I might add.

Here we have a dragon so powerful he can rise an entire land from the depths of an ocean, and yet ALL he can do is fly by and take down the upper 1/4th of a small airship?

I did it in a group of 5 with people I’ve never met, and… it’s underwhelming. Destiny’s Edge didn’t even do anything during the entire match.

I don’t know, I expected us to finish him off in a way we finish Sin off. As it stands, Zhaitan is less Sin and more Yu Yevon: sounds dangerous but actually useless

When someone starts talking about “Claw Island”, bail out

Aberrant.6749:

Dawdler.8521:

Aberrant.6749:

It depends. Unless you’re talking about low skill levels… a zerk mesmer will wreck a zerk thief.

Thief pop stealth to backstab, Mesmer pop stealth to evade, thief reappear, Mesmer spike thief from stealth.

Great to compare with the Mesmer, the only other class with stealth lol. Which was the entire point with the post you quoted. So no, it really doesnt depend.

Ignoring a stealth built Mesmer, only bunker builds have any chance of surviving roaming built theives, because no other class comes even close to them in that area. And the success of bunker builds often depend on the mistakes of the thief rather than their own abilities.

Every single class can stealth.

You don’t need to build for stealth as a mesmer to beat a thief. You have plenty of evasion and CC skills at your disposal plus phantasms that auto target the second the thief comes out of stealth and hit like trucks.

Only bunker builds have any chance against a roaming thief? Seriously? I guess I should just delete my non-bunker guardian and HgH Rampager/Rabid mixed eng that have both killed tons of thieves then.

What you may be experiencing though is that roaming builds will beat non-roaming builds 1v1. This is intended.

If you go play a thief for a short while you’ll understand them better and they shouldn’t be as big of a problem to you (just go do some hotjoin tPvP as one).

Are you…. are you kittening kidding me? EVERY SINGLE CLASS CAN STEALTH? What kind of bloody bollocks is this?

The issue is Thief simply has control:
They choose when to strike
They choose when to bail
They choose when to rinse and repeat

Dey be stealthin, I be losin my target, and I literally mean I lose my target, both visibility wise and game play wise. Den dey reappear, and when dey got their hindquarters spanked, dey be stealthin and runnin

Considering that many skills require target to function properly, the fact that stealth removes targeting is already ridiculously advantageous. Add in the fact that you literally can’t see them, and the fact that they can not only stealth themselves, but others too, and you have a TrollTastic tm class with TrollMechanics tm game play built in for OptimusTroll tm experience.

Many a thief would exclaim “But… but.. dat be our only survivability yo!”. That’s NOT survivability, that’s trollability. Stealth needs to be revamped, period. Gradual visibility like suggested would work pretty well. 20% visibility during the first second, then add 20% every second after that

Have you realized why the official term for Zommoros is “Mystic Toilet”?

Because you don’t get anything from it

citypigeon.6358:

Raestloz.7134:

EDIT:
And while we’re at it, we nominate Trahearne – a Salad – as the leader for the sole reason that a Salad Goddess happens to nominate her own son as a leader. Seriously, ANet? I don’t mean to be racist but if you want a particular Salad to lead a multi-racial army, perhaps it’s best to also get votes in from other races, not just from another Salad

IMO that’s a pretty misguided train of thought. Simply because

1. The Pact does not revolve around races. It revolves around the Orders.
2. The Orders obviously agreed to it. Thanks to your character’s suggestion.
3. No one else in the Pact knows about the Pale Tree showing you and Trahearne her vision, so there’s no such thing as the Pale Tree imposing on the Pact.
4. Speaking of the Pale Tree, she didn’t nominate anything. She simply pulled a Galadriel.

I agree with everyone else Anet’s writing of this part of the game is real shoddy/contrived/ Kormir-like blahblah, but there is no need for making up things from thin air.

I’m all for criticizing what we don’t like in our games, but ppl need to stick to canon/know what you’re talking about/no headcanon pls.

Congratulations, you have realized how ridiculous the story is.

We nominate Trahearne precisely because the Salad Goddess’ vision says the Salad Necromancer will be a great leader. That’s the only input we have. There is no other input regarding who should run for the leader. For example, I expect the queen to nominate a human champion, because of their racial bond, and because she’d know humans better than she knows a charr. By using only the Salad Goddess as a source of wisdom, can you tell me what’s the point of having other races to begin with?

And the worst part is, everything I said is canon. We asked a Salad Goddess, she spoke, and that’s all that matters.

No, she didn’t “nominate”, she simply showed you that Trahearne is the leader in the future, said he’ll be a great leader, and gave him the equipment needed to be a leader, oh wait… did she just tell you indirectly that Trahearne should be the leader?

Terrahero.9358:

Raestloz.7134:

Terrahero.9358:

I think there is one obscene combo where you place down Big old Bomb, and then use Elixir X. Pray to sweet jesus you get Rampaging Brute, and BoB will hit for obscene amounts of damage because it scales with the greatly boosted Power from the Engineer in Rampaging Brute.

Thats the only thing i know that could possibly, maybe, do that much damage in 1 single hit.

It is. Unless you get that stack of might AND the enemy stays in that position, it’s not gonna happen

It is extremely situational and people who get hit by it really only have themselves to blame. But its a thing.

Altough in WvW you’re much more likely to get one-shotted because you got pulled or knocked down a steep cliff and die from fall damage.

It’s not only situational, there’s 50% chance you’ll turn into a Tornado instead and all that effort will be for nothing.

Engi can deal some good dps, but it can’t deal a huge burst

Terrahero.9358:

I think there is one obscene combo where you place down Big old Bomb, and then use Elixir X. Pray to sweet jesus you get Rampaging Brute, and BoB will hit for obscene amounts of damage because it scales with the greatly boosted Power from the Engineer in Rampaging Brute.

Thats the only thing i know that could possibly, maybe, do that much damage in 1 single hit.

It is. Unless you get that stack of might AND the enemy stays in that position, it’s not gonna happen

Brtwrst.9312:

They are definitely strictly cosmetic.
Enemies can’t see what “kit” the engineer is carrying in PvP and WvW anyway, the Kit-Backpacks are not important.

For PvE however its even less important.

There, much more accurate now

Adamantium.3682:

I don’t buy the “players need to see what we are using”. I do think that is a big focus in GW2, but it’s just unnecessary to put a giant ugly backpack on our back to accomplish this. It could easily be a buff just like Eles get with the icon of the kit we are currently in. I don’t even think that’s needed, but if that’s what needs to be done that’s great.

To give the benefit of the doubt I’ll assume the big problem is not with Flamethrower, but with kits like Grenades, Bombs, and maybe Tool Kit. What really cracks me up is that there are players out there who honestly claim that the backpack for any of those kits alerts them to what it is before any skills are used. That’s just nonsensical.

The backpacks aren’t telling players anything they don’t already know, and in most cases I’m willing to bet if you showed just the backpacks to random players over half of them couldn’t even identify which kit they go to.

The real problems with Hobosacks (that’s their official term):

1) They’re too small for someone in front of you (you know, the guy you’re fighting for you life against) to see. Or even yourself, because you’re busy looking at the guy in front of you (the guy you’re fighting for your life against)

2) A large portion of them are covered by our body, which people are going to focus at

3) They already switch your weapon. yes, there is a huge difference between a rifle and a wrench, or a charrzooka and a flamethrower

4) You already know what kit you’re using merely by glancing at your skill bar. you’re more likely to confuse what kit you’re using by glancing at your backpack art, because the skill icons are much more informative: Flamethrower has fire image, Medkits has 3 identical bags, Toolkit has a wrench, Elixir Gun has a green futuristic gun, Grenade Kit has freaking grenades, and Bomb Kit has bomb kegs

5) You don’t try to see what backpack an engineer is using if there are other people to deal with, especially in a shader and post-processing festival

So, Hobosacks are seriously not needed, period.

violentlycar.5267:

I still like my idea of two concurrent games with their own ratings: one that runs from, say, 12 PM local time to12 AM local time, then another that runs from 12 AM local time to 12 PM local time. There are a lot of ups and downs of the system, but it would do a lot to mitigate the coverage problem.

Everyone should not be stuck because their mother-in-law decided to stall the conversation a bit longer

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Raestloz.7134:

The real solution:
Get rid of Trahearne entirely. Leave no mark of his existence.
Replace Trahearne with Destiny’s Edge.

No, no,no. Destiny’s Edge is just as bland and boring, if not MORE boring than Trahearne. Would you really rather have Logan Thackery taking the spotlight, rather than yourself or Trahearne? I’ll take Trahearne over Logan any time. You’ve got Logan being the goody two-shoes while doing his emo stick, and nagging about Queen Jenna all the time. You have Caithe injecting vague dreamy Sylvari nonsense that doesn’t really contribute anything to any conversation, and mostly just exposing her lack of character by being this living personification of a void in any of the story. Then you’ve got Zojja, who is mostly just annoying, even when she’s trying to act with an attitude. Then there’s Eir Stegalkin who is basically always neutral and doesn’t have an opinion, and is completely unconvincing as a strong female character. The only one with some what of a spine is Rytlock Brimstone, and he’s funny because he’s always a bit of a jerk to the rest.

What they need to do, is write OUR characters better. A lot of us do these story missions with our friends. There’s your band of heroes right there! You don’t need Destiny’s Edge. The player and friends should be the band of heroes. Provide them with character and attitude (based on our choices in the game), and make us the central figures of the story.

No, I said “Destiny’s Edge”. Not Logan, not Eir, not Zojja, not Caithe, not Rytlock, but Destiny’s Edge as a whole. You know, the guys with historical experience for combat? And represent ALL playable races as a whole? One that indeed would have respect from the three Orders?

I don’t know about Zojja, but the rest of Destiny’s Edge actually has reputation amongst their own races at the very least.

Logan is the Queen’s Champion.
Eir is a bit of a legend amongst Norn
Rytlock has a very high position amongst the Legions
Caithe is a firstborn

They started out as combatants, and was successful enough to bring the fight to an Elder Dragon. Not just watch from afar, but actually get in the fight.

Maybe they can even inspire the respective race’s army to join the Pact, because… you know… the Orders are not actual military branch from anyone, they’re literally volunteers. If actual military forces from each race help, they’ll have even bigger army

It’s a personal story. To be honest, I was expecting us to do something that matters for US, not for everybody else, Final Fantasy Tactics A2 style. I don’t expect us to be the hero, because this is an MMO, and making lore for MMO without kitten ing off players is pretty hard, but I do expect someone with real reason and real capability to lead.

As it stands, Trahearne is Kormir from GW1 or Martin Septim from Oblivion. We do all the work, then they slip in and steal everything from us. At least we were acknowledged in Oblivion as the Imperial Champion. In GW2 Trahearne – his ego being pumped up by his mother – thinks he’s the all-important figure in the pact while we do all the decision making and floor cleaning after he falls face first in every quest.

EDIT:
And while we’re at it, we nominate Trahearne – a Salad – as the leader for the sole reason that a Salad Goddess happens to nominate her own son as a leader. Seriously, ANet? I don’t mean to be racist but if you want a particular Salad to lead a multi-racial army, perhaps it’s best to also get votes in from other races, not just from another Salad

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

Svarty.8019:

neostars.7029:

How hard is it for the 3rd place to drop a tier. 1st place move up a tier. It not rocket science anet

If you do that, people will throw matches on purpose.

“Let’s lose so we don’t have to fight X next week”.

it would be an improvement since in this system it is almost impossible to drop a tier. servers have been loosing on purpose for weeks and still couldn’t get to appropriate tier for their performance lvl.

1 up/ 1 down would be a great fix. so what if some1 wants to drop a tier… it will actually fix the matchups if they ever become stale.

also 1 up/ 1 down will actually react instantly to population movement. this means it will be possible to make an effort to bring T1 servers down since moving up will be instant (at least compared to what we have now). so bringing EU viz down will become possible. now they are just matched up against wrong opponents and any server trying to make an effort to go against viz will “never” get to T1 from lower tiers. with 1 up/ 1 down it would take only 7 weeks to get from T8 to T1.

tell me that is not awesome:P

One up one down seems to be an obvious answer compared to this horrible thing they pretend is a matchup.

Tiers generally represent only 2: coverage and numbers. They do not represent actual fighting capability of a server, thus the ominous “what happened? Night came, that’s what happened”

So, a tier can’t try to lose all the time to find an easy opponent and roflstomp them throughout the month. As it stands, this system is horribly bad to mine data right now, mainly because the damage has already been done: t1 servers get overpopulated, lower tiers underpopulated.

This system would be nice when:
1) delete every piece of data about server rankings
2) stop wvw for a whole week and allow free transfers during that time
3) do something about outmanned servers instead of giving it Magic Find bonus

Then, they can throw random matches. This may mix things up a bit, and when everything’s over, everyone’s rankings will reflect their performance again.