Flesh Golem is the best Elite skill there is in most game modes. Practically unkillable, endless DoT that has activatable knockdown? Yes please. Look at the garbage eles and alot of other classes get, they’d kill for Flesh Golem.
GW1 is actually ridiculously fun. Think of it like an old single player rpg that is going to give you the backstory of gw2. You’ll get so many hints and references in reverse if you’ve played gw2 for a long time. You get npc party members you can equip and level up with you that help with quests and stuff, its freaking great.
I’m with you 100% op. It’s like, go queue again already if you are that eager for more killing you stupid kittenholes. Let me take 30 seconds to look over these stats geez. And no, I’m not going to let them have the satisfaction of just killing me, screw that.
I like the treb, it actually has strategic value. Did the other team leave someone on their treb? Do you want to try and bomb people and leave your team down a man? It has pros and cons, and can be thrashed by the other team if its too effective. The skyhammer is just brutal and almost instant kos people and theres nothing you can do about it if there is a class with alot of knockbacks manning the doorway.
I still think the best solution would be to make it automatic, random and reduced damage. And hurt both teams. It should be a hazard, but not the entire focus of the map.
Get rid of being able to go to the skyhammer. Like other people have mentioned, DH traps have ruined it, you walk in, instant death. Or you just get punted off the side, since its so narrow, by some knockback. The laser should do about half the dmg it currently does, and target places randomly, damaging both teams. And make the trap panels on the ground either last longer, or make the holes smaller or something. And if you do fall, a sand wurm should swallow you, not you just flop into the sand and die
All I’ve ever wanted was the scaled drake. The crocodile looking ones. We had them in beta, it was called marsh drake, it even had the scaled drake icon for years after beta. I dont know why they changed it, but it makes me sad and kittened off every time I see it now.
This makes me really miss GW1, it was so much deeper, so much more interesting even to your pet choices and how you raised them. If only we could get gw2 graphics and gw1 gameplay sighs dreamily.
Thief has a GREAT heal. Channeled Vigor heals for like 5.5-7k with no healing power and restores a big chunk of endurance. Traited its on only 16s cooldown. So on such a short timer you heal like up to half your health and get enough endurance for another dodge. Far from the worst heal in the game. I havent tried to see how it scales with healing power yet.
I have never come across a champ I couldn’t solo on my ranger, unless it has some sort of timer like some of the HoT ones. With the proper trait setup pet just outheals the damage easily, can do it all day long. MM necro is second, with all the leeching and the heal/prot on shroud traits me and pets can stand there forever and not die, whittling them down. I’ve never tried with engi, I assume it takes tons of kiting with grenades or something?
They are designed for groups of 5, but you can absolutely solo any of them at 80 if you are patient and built for it. Ranger is one of the easiest, just use a drake or a bear with full beast build, signet of the wild, natural healing etc, and stand there and laugh as they tank every boss with barely a scratch. Or now with druid its probably even easier, even more healing, but I havent tried it yet with mine. I’ve done them all with regular ranger and necromancer, some of them are pretty kitten rough but AC should be very doable for most people. If you are having alot of trouble, even having 1 friend with you turns a challenge into a cakewalk.
There’s plenty of outfits already for people that REALLY want their warrior in a dress or their mage in plate mail. There’s no way anet is going to go back and redo hundreds and hundreds of armor pieces to get them to mesh together =/
Indeed, it is the Heritage light armor you get for having played guild wars 1. Its free in the hall of monuments, which you also get from having played gw1. This armor is some of the first bonus items you unlock, you dont have to do much in gw1 to get them. Beat the story campaign basically. The best part is all the hall of monuments stuff is free to apply as much as you want, no transmute things necessary. Best of luck!
I don’t think they can bring back the Festival of the Four Winds, didnt that ship crash and most of them die, bits chucked all over Dry Top? Which sucks, because that ship was amazing, I loved the baby dolyak race.
Thats very reasonable and would increase demand for some of the other “useless” holiday drinks during other parts of the year. BUT…it defeats Anets goal. They want you to have no hope of farming the 10k unless you play 18 hours a day, so you’ll give up and fork out some cash for gold to buy them.
Yeah its already your own personal housing area that you can add things to, and only you can enter unless someone is partied with you. I can see them expanding on it, but not adding a whole new system.
Sieran was 100x better than Tybalt. He was a fun goof but I really liked her, she made the story so much more entertaining. I’d buy the hell out of a mini/mist champ/etc of her.
Why not just make the gate guards champions and reduce skritt damage? That’d slow stronghold games down a bit, hopefully less “30 seconds in and the premade has already killed the lord” scenarios.
I like it, or at least add Torment at the end if they dont want to give Mes more poison. Half of CI gets dodged every time anyway, so it would hardly ever go into effect.
Yeah, don’t change Death Blossom, its the only way you can do any kind of condition pressure in melee, if anything boost the evade some more. You’re dead meat in the AoE swamp melee usually is if you’re not evading.
I definitely miss the expanded traits, I find it fun to go through all the minutia trying to pick out the best things not just have “here’s 3 choices”. And the stats being tied to it was an extra layer of strategy. That said, the way they combined alot of the clunkers no one would ever take on their own into single traits was really nice.
What are you people carrying around that you don’t have 4 or 5 slots total in your bank and on your character?! They want to sell bag slots, they’re not going to do that if you have no clutter. How hard is it to keep your keys in the bank then take relevant ones out when you go to certain zones? They already put almost everything in the wallet sheesh. I have a feeling some people must just curl up in the fetal position when they have inventory management in a single player game.
They are my favorite new mobs, I’m so glad anet added a bit of variety and its not just all ‘huge lumbering high-hp monster’ everywhere. You can easily see the packs and give them a wide berth, but I love just charging in and aoe/retaliating them to death, its great. Plus, as has been mentioned, they are cray cray adorbs.
Its definitely a L2P issue or a get new gear issue. People think they can just zerk faceroll everything like the old content then cry when they can’t. I stroll around HoT with ease, can kill packs of whatever, elites, nearly all champs by myself. Invest in some defensive gear/traits it does wonders. If you really can’t be bothered, you can skip most of it like people have said, with proper dodges/stealth/teleports/gliding/speedshrooms/etc to get to the safety of the herd and do events if thats more your thing.
I wouldn’t worry too much. If that’s what your heart is set on, you’ll get it eventually. Most gem store things are brought back several times a year, often on sale. Some are 1 offs and never seen again, but the armor sets and outfits always come back.
Before HoT I would have said no thanks and agreed with everyone else…but now with Daredevil I think it would have some merit. Everything else can be countered, why not dodges? Evade evade evade evade evade is really fun to fight against. When they use the heal they get 5 dodges. If they are d/d they get 3 or 4 more in a row with death blossom. Its insane.
Okay… is Season 2 designed for groups only? I don’t know how it works? Do I get some special buff in the locked episodes that I dont know about?
Because I tried the World Summit again and the difficulty level is RIDICULOUS once the dragon appears… I’ll NEVER be able to go through it without outside help. I should have 20 NPCs there running as a bait so I can focus on actual fighting the enemy! Maybe I suck, but how the hell I went through the rest of the PS?? I think I’m a pretty good player. I buffed up my warrior as much as I could. All exotic. Tweaked my build as much as I could and… it still sucks. IT JUST SUCKS! He dies after 2 minutes, why ALL the floor turns to lava? How am I supposed to protect him from that? Once the armor gets damaged it all turns hopeless. He may as well get killed at the very beginning… oh well, the hero died, you stupid NPCs have to figure it out yourselves!
I’m soooooooooooooooo disappointed :/
There are very few parts with that difficulty, don’t worry. You may just need to invite a friend or guildie, or put a request in LFG for that bit. If you are having that much trouble I’m sure others out there are stuck too. I remember it taking me a couple of tries when I first did it, hang in there.
I would do anything for a rolling devil pet. They look almost exactly like the ’98 American Godzilla. Crap movie, but awesome monster design. Get rid of the useless lightning wyvern and put in something interesting!
lol… why would anyone want to unlearn crafting ? just switch to the one you need to be active…
As a couple people have said, now that it shows your characters crafting icons more prominently, its annoying for people to have duplicate crafts on characters they dont want them on. Keeping track of which alt has which recipes etc. Plus it just bothers me to see an unused craft on an alt from years ago before I knew what I was doing. Its just a simple quality of life change for people’s peace of mind thats all. Shouldn’t be difficult for them to do.
I think it was intentional to get less people to use it. It was probably meant as a gag legendary that not many would use, then that backfired and it was everywhere for the lolz, so they decided to make it less appealing.
I’m still waiting for the chain whip sword to come back, they brought back the mad scientist outfit already, and they were originally released at the same time.
They should get rid of skipping altogether to solve part of the problem. In dungeons/fractals/etc mobs should hunt you for eternity, I hate people gaming the system trying to skip to bosses. It makes playing ranger or MM necro a liability and shunned from groups.
And pets and minions should definitely get all buffs the master gets by default, without stat scaling they are just going to keep falling further and further behind, getting buffs without leeching from another player would at least help a bit.
Sigh. The necromancer trait trainer/guide merchant used to be there, and is now gone/erased from existence. The minions stuck around, and now just stand there aimlessly.
I guess I should’ve just typed that instead of trying to make it amusing.
Nah I got a kick out of it, I’m glad you posted it like that! Seems like a pretty dumb oversight on anet part, but at least its an amusing one. They could at least left the trainers in and had them chat with the appropriate classes, give you little tips and bits of wisdom.
Hmm weird. I have a sylvari named Carys in that spot. Is it based on your order choice or something? There’s all kinds of neat things in the home instance, I found a back alley full of skritt and the priestess of dwayna you meet when you wake up after the tutorial is there too, tending wounded soldiers.
Everquest 2 had amazing crafting, it was a whole mini game you had to play. You could get critical successes and critical failures, so cool. One of the few things I miss from that game.
I love this skin, I remember I got a greatsaw skin and sold it so I could buy the scythe instead. I’ve had it on my necro ever since and wouldn’t swap it for anything. I’d reskin a bifrost with it if I had one! It’s nice that some things are still rare but not completely unobtainable, the halloween raffle -presumably each year- lets people try to win older items and at least gives the TP an influx.
Necros have to deal with that since the beginning (warhorn 5), so i am sure engies will also get used to it….
So have eles (air staff 4, or staff 5 plus blast finisher). However, both necros and eles also have the option of slotting a signet for perma swiftness (Locusts, Air) that will not aggro anything. Engies don’t have anything equivalent to that.
Power Shoes trait? That is arguably even better than a signet, I’d much rather give up one trait slot than a utility slot just to run faster.
I’ve noticed that taking gloves and head gear off is an option whilst still keeping the item’s stats. It would be great if taking off top half of the armour could become an option too. I’d like to show off my toon’s muscles :P
I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned it yet, but have you looked into the Raiment of the Lich outfit? totally shirtless for guys.
Ranger pet stats are still going to be able to be buffed, Compassion was rolled into the Nature’s Wrath trait, it now boosts all your pet stats in addition to you gaining power based on your healing.
