Guild Wars 2

Looking forward to it. Should be a good laugh as always.

Don’t expect too much from the trailer lol…but expect loads from the event, should be as epic as you can get in the starting zones

Looking forward to it. Always love your events.

Awesome, count me in.

Rock Paper Sylvari for the day!

Totally forgot about Hero Squad lol. Definitely need to event that one!

kitten Gator, thanks I now know where they are. Excuse me for being an idiot lol.

I was raiding on my Necro and moved them all over there, it was the first time I’d used her in that manner so it totally slipped my mind.

Hi all, I just logged back in after a month or so away only so find that my sinister trinkets have disappeared for some reason.

Is this something that is known or will have to create a ticket to find out what happened to them.

Thanks.

Count me in, your events are always top notch

I do like the new borderlands but I do feel they are too time consuming to get around.

I wouldn’t want to go back to the old maps, they were great but I feel they were too plain.

I also prefer 5-10 person group encounters over the massive zerg battles…although I wouldn’t change that for EB because there is also a place for that too.

Looking forward to it…so how many Revenants do you think we’ll get lol.

Update, resolved it by going to the mists…should have tried that straight away.

OK so after a Dragon Stand run the other night I can now not leave the map and keep getting the following error: 5:11:3:159:101.

After a while this then starts to hit my other character until I can’t log in, then it resolves until I try and move my main from DS and then it starts all over again…

Any ideas?

RPS are planning on putting together an event for this.

EU – Gunnar’s Hold

More details will be posted by one of our officers soon.

I’ve noticed a distinct drop in my ecto rate, I always use BL kits and only really salvage exos but out of the last 30 or so salvages I’ve had about 10 ectos. I used to get about the 0.9 average but the last couple of months it’s either been bugged/nerfed or my RNG luck has just gone to kitten.

I like this idea too, confusion should be another control mechanism and should punish skill use.

Maybe have it always proc on the initial skill use and then proc every 0.5s or 1s for channels. Until the end of the channel or a new skill is started.

Maybe have all clone summoning skills now summon a phantasm whilst in this form.

Great post, sums up my feeling exactly.

Thanks.

QUOTE: Shatter Delusions – remove all stacks of confusion on target. Deals X damage to the target per stack removed.

I Like this idea.

Maybe have it thrown onto Mind Wrack (as a trait), this would give the power mesmer a way of using the ambient confusion you get from cry frustration and stuff and also benefit the condition mesmer by giving Mind Wrack that little bit extra damage. This might make MW hit for similar amount whether condition spec or power…

I do what Vince does too, Lemongrass food (or the -36% one) plus I also have -20% from Melhandru runes and the conditions just fall off me without too much issue. If you get a big stack you do need to retreat for a bit…let your clones do the work.

Well I generally run:

0/20/20/20/10
0/20(sword, X)/20(?, staff)/20(?, Focus)/10 (? normally 50% shatter reset)
? means they change.

I run probably 55%PvE, 40%WvW, 5%sPvP but just can’t really be bothered to change it up all the time.

Mainly (currently) using PVT gear, just make myself hard to kill…

I generally pick the skill which I like the most,

Focus is great with the reflect traited and I can’t go anywhere without my staff.
I was a pure condition build but trying to change to a more power based build now. When I get a set of Berserker I’ll try the burst builds

I too like the downed state, it adds another dynamic and promotes team play.

Don’t forget that Mind Wrack (Shatter 1) is AoE, flip a “mirrroed images” and 1 more clone and shatter can tag quite a few mobs if in a group.

Phantasm on GS can tag a few mobs too, as can the focus one (if the mobs are standing still).

Glamours can also be used quite well in PvE to tag.

Instead of just shouting nerf, why not tell us which phants are giving you the problems and ask for us to help you develope a way to win. You’d be surprised how helpful us mesmers are even to those fighting us.

We’ve had quite enough nerfs over the months and you didn’t complain about this anytime over the last 9 months despite the phants being stronger in the past.

Still very early so I’m not sure I should rate. lol
Mainly PvE and WvW Mesmer here so I’ll break it down a bit.

WvW: 6/10
Confusion nerf is a killer for my Mesmer, it might have been strong before but not OP as you can control it. I think they are trying to offset this by improving arrow carts so we’ll see how that goes. (-5 for the nerf).

Living Story: 9/10
OK only really had time to run the dungeon but really really enjoyed it. I like that it’s only there for a set time as a dungeon but really hope it isn’t shelved afterwards. Converting it to a fractal would appease me though (as some other people have suggested)

GEM Store: 9/10
OK very little that I personally would buy but having new skins and items which don’t rely on RNG is a good thing. Personally I’d like them in BL chests but also in the store. (So that you can still get a great item from a chest)

sPvP: 8/10
Almost never do sPvP but I might start now, I will certainly be watching some matches.

Balance and bugs: 7/10
Can’t ever complain about bugs being fixed 5/5.
Balancing in PvE seems weird though, not that I believe balance in PvE really matters as long as each class has strengths and weaknesses.

So I guess overall about 8/10

For populations, only Anet can tell us that. What I can do is tell you my guilds numbers and extrapolate from that.

70 members
6 regulars – 8.5%
11 Occasional – 15.7%

Extrapolating this out to the 3 million copies sold would give:

255,000 regular players
471,000 occasional players

This is only representative of my guild…if more people were to add thier figures we could get a much better average.

As yet we don’t know exactly how the leaderboards will be worked out. Judging by some of the quotes Anet have made, all those old infinite achievements have now been capped (at least for points).

As for the dailies and monthlies I would I would have thier points seperate, so for instance you would do the leaderboard on none repeatable achievement points: sooner or later a number of people would have the upper limit of possible points. They would all be at the top of the table; I would then have a secondary achievement score for the repeatable dailies and monthlies…

This way new players could still show that they have done all of the game just not all the dailies since release. A compromise.

Staff is my main weapon and I’m also not overly enamoured with the current choices, currently just using the guild one.

The staff I’d like to see is pretty simple, I’d just like a straight obsidian black staff with lightning effects, no flashy bauble on the top or bottom, just simple. Could also some in many colours lol.

Just wanted to add that I’m really happy about this, it’s a good solution to help us smaller guilds. Currently my guild gets between 3-10 active players (although 50 on roster) and gaining influence is pretty hard, unlocking the missions feels like quite a mountain to climb but this addition to the game should make guild progression feel more attainable.

Hopefully when we start doing these it will bring back some our less frequent members.

My guild is currently still working on getting the influence for the bounties…yeah pretty small guild at the moment, despite having 50 members…but that’s beside the point.

The best way for us to group to farm influence is by making 2 man groups and going to seperate areas to farm events getting 20 influence per event…this splits us up into little almost solo groups.

We would much prefer to be able to run as a larger group doing the same events.

So I propose that instead of gaining 20 influence per event for each guild group you change it to 10 points per person in the group. This isn’t going to net us any more influence but it will allow us to group as a guild and not a bunch of 2 mans.

It looks as though people are trying to find the most complicated reason to explain this where there could be a much simlper explanation.

If I loot an item and check it’s value on the TP and find that it has sellers at 50s, that’s what I’m going to list it at. It doesn’t matter if its not worth anywhere near that, I’ll still list it for a price near to the sell orders. The item will probably just sit on the TP indefinetly not selling.

As for the high buy price, well this can be explained by people seeing the large gap in prices and thinking “If I put in a buy order at 25s I can then sell them at 50s and make loads of money” They may not think about whether the item will sell or not at the higher price.

I doubt there is any conspiracy, it’s just a market anomaly. Not everything in life can be attributed to aliens.

I found a good resource of spacey electronic music from “Space Ambient” on youtube…might be worth a listen for you, maybe you’ll find a couple more to add. Or dislike it all

I have to totally agree…but with Pyroatheist.

Just check out his videos or those of some of the other mesmers around like Osicat and you can see that when you build and play right you can be incredibly strong.

Personally I think we are well balanced…and all classes could use some bug fixes.

I’ve tried them all but only to level 10 or so, but I just miss my clones so much I always find myself back with Mesmer

Furthermore…how does anyone survive without phase retreat every 6 seconds lol.

As an Asura Mesmer I’m all about the flux matrix…just wish it had a bit more shine to it, considering what it cost me lol.

For me I feel this months is rather boring

I actually like for the monthly to push me to do different type of content, I wouldn’t normally do many dungeons but the monthly promotes that. I like the way they normally push you to try all the differnet areas of the game, WvW, Fractals, Dungeons, Xmas, Halloween etc…

This month I won’t even have to think about it, it will just happen in the background. I like the dailies happening in the background but like to have task for the monthlys.

Just my 2 pence, hope it makes sense

I wanted to throw an update out on how I feel now after a couple of days of playing after the update. I still agree with my Original Post but wanted to also express my feelings towards what I like about it as well.

What I do like is that this update has pushed my guild to be more group oriented, we have a goal and progression to work towards and that is something that we like. We have been grouping more while just levelling and things like that to maximise our Inflence gains. This is all good.

As a guild of about 5-10 active players though we get about 1000 influence a day and need to open the T5 items at 20k each and then the missions at 30k each. So we have in excess of 250k influence to gain which simple maths tells us will take around 250 days…that’s a long time to hold on to players.

We actually want the progression, we don’t want to be given everything tomorrow but I feel that 250 days is a bit extreme. I’d be happy if we gained enough to open up one a month (and I know we could by buying it and stuff but that feels wrong).

All in all I like the idea but would prefer an influence system which was based more on active player participation and not directly on how many players you have.

Note: I do think larger guilds should be first to get these things but not by quite such a time frame. Example: larger guilds (25+ active players) 4 weeks to get something; smallest guild (4 active players) 6 weeks to get same thing. That sort of time difference.

Coming from a smaller guild (5-8 active) I do have to agree with Matipzieu KyA’s post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-guild-missions-opinions-concerns/page/14#post1522077

Where I love the idea of these missions it will take my guild a good number of months to open up the content. The core of the guild is a group of friends who i’m sure will stay but I am worried that some of our members who we’ve recruited might move to a guild who already have all of these cool feature open.

Well I was under the impression that no clones did any damage (apart from conditions and about 3 damage max).

Further more it’s kind of a moot point, why not just use 3 iduelists and the scepters auto attack, this would be higher than both the calulations above. Remember that a phantasm will always override and clone and a clone will never replace a phantasm (at least in theory).

I’m currently trying out a scepter/pistol build and as far as I’m concerned the scepter clones are totally useless lol.

EDIT: I’ve tried all clones (staff, scepter,sword anyway) to see how high I can stack the bleeds with Sharper images and sword is the best because it has the higher hit rate, staff clones are good but they are slower and the standard bleed you get isn’t quite enough as it gives burning and vuln also, scepter was much slower but that might have been because they are slower to get out.

I wanted to reply to this question because i’ve been changed.

Before GW2, I wouldn’t play an MMO unless it was subscription, I didn’t feel a free game could be what I wanted.

Enter GW2, which is a game that I love and would probably have paid a subscription for at the time, I feel it’s as worth a sub as any other game out there at the moment.

But since I’ve been playing GW2 virtually for free I can’t see myself going back to subscription model. Don’t get me wrong I probably pay about the same for this as I have done any other game and I’m happy to, but now I’ve played this model I think it fits me better. I can choose what I want to pay.

I’d consider staff aswell…great weapon if you want to survive, I’d probably swap it for GS…but then again I never go anywhere without my staff

Well my Ranger has a cadre of invisible skritt who follow him around and collect arrows for him. It works out well, skritt are really good at collecting all these bits and bobs and work really cheap; he pays them with tiny bits of shiny tinfoil…

I kind of like being the only class with portal but I would much prefer that they give it to another class aswell, over nerfs or getting rid of it entirely.

Makes WvW so much more interesting

I’ve thought about this and feel that you can just adapt the little circles, have a different colour for phantasms amd have the circles interior change due to health…maybe like a little clock.

I’m WvW a couple of times a week so I’ve asked my guild leader to grant me WvW access on the forums, as soon as that’s done I’ll get chat sorted.
I’ve noticed that GH are doing a bit better at the moment and we had some great fights on sunday night.

My guild generaly has a WvW night on Sunday but it’s hard to get the numbers.

Let’s keep up the hard work and see if we can get up to T7

Well done guys.

If your clones are far away when you hit MW can you still hit a CoF before they get to the mob? Does this work?

I’m not too bothered about these changes, I think they were probably needed but I run a more condition spec than Osi’s shattercat.

Well I don’t really think this will effect me all that much, I hardly ever hit more than 1 shatter at a time and because my clones are normally ranged staff clones and will never make it to the mob in 0.25s then I can probably still get MW and CoF in on one set of clones.

The adjustment to SS is justified and was rather OP.

So yes, it makes us a little weaker but we’re still strong enough.

I use Focus and have Focus traited for 20% CD Reduction, not the best for speed but with blink and Phase Retreat I can get around pretty sharpish. Although some guy left me in the dusk the other day in WvW…not sure how he got so far away so quick…oh well, all classes have things they are good at and things they are bad at

I don’t think there is a “win” in guildwars 2. I don’t think there’s anything for me to win. I play the game and have fun with friends, I guess you couldcall that a win.

Try throwing a feedback bubble on a keep gate that has 30+ attacks ranging it…check out those numbers.

I’ve only really got to a high level on a Mesmer so I can only speak about them but our traits can dramitically change the way you play and some pretty good unique options available. So maybe it’s just some classes which have boring traits and need working on.

OK so for the most part I disagree with what this article says, the only points I do agree on are that I do always out level my crafting making it kind of redundent and that it’s hard to get the materials as you out level the drops and are left with hopping on bags.
On the other hand this does help to promote trade which is a good thing.

I kind of agree on the personal story but this isn’t a dedicated RPG so what do you expect.

The rest I have to disagree with, it sounds like the guy/girl who wrote the article needs someone to hold his hand and tell him where to go what to do and how to play his class…I personally like working these things out and not having a cookie cutter set of predefined options…I’m not told to go there do that, I can do what I want. I don’t need to be told to “now go to this area complete and move on”, that’s not what this game is about.

I guess all on this is coming from normal MMO burnout, I just can’t stand the normal quest dynamics game employ now or the whack-a-mole healing. I prefer the fluidity and flexability of the systems in GW2