Guild Wars 2

AliamRationem.5172:

So if I’m reading you right, you want to be able to CC people more easily and prevent them from pulling any tricks out of their bag that might prevent you from unloading a massive burst of damage?

Does this look more like what you want?

http://epicmagemanuever.ytmnd.com/

I guess thats how you would describe it in laymen’s terms and considering the loss of translation, yes.

I’m talking about invulnerability not just preventing damage of all kinds and magnitudes but also allowing the user to do things while invulnerability.

Endure Pain reduces direct damage to 0 but allows Condition Damage to work like normal. Blocks are the same thing, but are also susceptible to Daze and Conditions. Okay, so the point is, you don’t see me using a Shield Block just to do a finisher to a downed enemy — in fact, its not allowed.

Invulnerability is IMMUNE TO ALL!!! Please tell me, you know this. If I’m wrong, kindly tell me otherwise, I’d like to hear about it and actually counter invulnerability.

Is there a counter to Invulnerability? If not, why isn’t there one, in the balance of things?

Invulnerability is an effect that prevents the target from taking damage, receiving conditions, or being affected by control effects. It does not prevent fall damage, or environmental traps.

Has anyone tried using traps to see if they work against invulnerability?

For a game that is supposedly balanced why is there a make shift “God Mode”.
I’m wasting my time considering posting this, but I believe Invulnerability should not allow any other actions including finishers in PvP.

To my knowledge Engineers have 100% chance of successful finisher when turning on Invulnerability. How can an Elementalist even do a finisher in Mist Form? You’re kittening MIST!!
Also, can Mesmers even Moa Transform someone with Invulnerability?

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Stability is also broken. I suggest revamping stability to work like the mini bosses and heroes we summon in the game — a bar you deplete before stun can actually work.
Why keep this mechanic separate?

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Robin Skyshroud.1863:

Since guild wars 1, I always played sword – no one can convince me otherwise because the sword had more consistant DPS and had many offence and defensive capabilities. I’m still playing sword and shield to this very day in Guild Wars 2.

However, unlike Guild Wars 1, GW2 makes sword an ONLY condition damage play style weapon. I’ve tried using sword as a direct source of DPS, but the numbers are quite displeasing compared to ALL melee weapons a warrior can use — unbelievably the mace can hit higher numbers than a sword. Final Thrust is the only high Damage skill the sword has but its activation time is extremely slow that even my grandma can run away from it.

Has the Anet team considered changing sword to be a pure DPS play style and having the bleed condition be applied from a skill, just like the Long Bow can? Seeing how condition damage is in this game, dealing damage solely on bleed is not viable. I rather trade my bleed for some better sword swings.

What does the community think about the Warrior’s Sword?
Does it need a buff?
Should we be able to play how we want or shall we continue to be forced to play as condition damagers?

To answer your questions:

1.) Sword (from what I gather) is fine where it’s at, given the number of weapons warriors have access to.
2. ) They don’t really need a buff. Maybe an adjustment (swap CD for damage kind of thing)
3.) This one is a bit tricky to answer without coming off mean so I apologize in advance. The weapons are what Anet made (as you are aware) so that includes sword. You are choosing to stay with sword, thus you are not being forced by anyone other than yourself to play as a “condition damager” If you were going DPS (which you want to by the sounds of it), and you are sticking to sword, that seems more like a personal choice that you must deal with as you are clearly aware there are better DPS choices.

Sword was set up as a condi hybrid weapon, not pure DPS. I suggest to try to get along with other weapon (mace or axe). I used to play warrior all the time pre HoT and some berserker so maybe a more current warrior/berserker main could chime in with more information.

Hope you find a happy medium and hope to see you on the playing field

I totally understand that I can switch to a whole different weapon, and I do. I guess this game will always be less customizable and less flexible than gw1.

Since guild wars 1, I always played sword – no one can convince me otherwise because the sword had more consistant DPS and had many offence and defensive capabilities. I’m still playing sword and shield to this very day in Guild Wars 2.

However, unlike Guild Wars 1, GW2 makes sword an ONLY condition damage play style weapon. I’ve tried using sword as a direct source of DPS, but the numbers are quite displeasing compared to ALL melee weapons a warrior can use — unbelievably the mace can hit higher numbers than a sword. Final Thrust is the only high Damage skill the sword has but its activation time is extremely slow that even my grandma can run away from it.

Has the Anet team considered changing sword to be a pure DPS play style and having the bleed condition be applied from a skill, just like the Long Bow can? Seeing how condition damage is in this game, dealing damage solely on bleed is not viable. I rather trade my bleed for some better sword swings.

What does the community think about the Warrior’s Sword?
Does it need a buff?
Should we be able to play how we want or shall we continue to be forced to play as condition damagers?

What was the reason for GW2 to have no secondary profession?
As a huge GW1 fan for 5+ years, I cannot understand this. Please enlighten me. I miss secondary professions.

Shinji.2063:

I get it, you might be newer and want to experience the dungeon, but most of us have been running this content for years. Stacking is immediate default because most people want to get in and out. When you have run these things thousands of times like a lot of us have you are just using them as an ends to a means. COme back in two years and still tell me you like slogging through the same dudgeon after those two years

I do. I can’t speak for everyone, but I love killing in this game! I use to vanquish in Guild Wars 1, so I do it in every dungeon. I just need to kill! I’m max pvp level, max pve level and max craft. As a warrior, killing is what I do best.

Taku.6352:

If NPC collision was so important then why do they give us an option to turn it off with a press of a button?

I do not follow. Are you refering to Camera collision? I don’t see an option to turn off NPC collision.

maha.7902:

I can be certain that when a level designer makes a level, he does not account stacking to be one of the many ways of completing his challenge.

No, actually you can’t be sure. I can quite easily say that due to no collision detection, stacking closely together was taken in to account. So besides your possibly incorrect assumption, how do you know what anet intended?

I’m still sticking to my answer. There is still player to NPC collision. And considering that Guild Wars 2 came from GW1, player to player collision was a huuuuge thing. Unless you are trying to tell me that player to player collision was a mistake?

Rednik.3809:

desertleaf.5403:

Stacking in Dungeons has been a long and unforgettable plague in Guild Wars 2.

This is a serious problem that needs to be made even MORE clearer to Arenanet.

Please Look at this Screenshot. I am glad this isnt as bad as people bad mouthing, disbanding, or kicking, but this is still relevant.

I hate stacking, it takes the fun away to straight boring.
I know I am not the only one who experiences this, but must I remind Anet, 90% of people running Dungeons will stack, and if one refuses to play the game incorrectly, you are hated and removed near immediate.

I am not just talking about standing on top of each other. This is picking a corning or a wedge in the wall, fusing the party into a monster of 10 arms. A corner that best fits this method of gameplay is a spot that ignores or avoids the environmental challenges that the dungeon provides. This is straight cheating…

Not matter how I feel about this, people will just keep on kicking. A solid records was getting kicked 4 consecutive times in a row. I know i am not the only one out there.

Are people really afraid to play this game correctly? Don’t get me started on people Stealth-ing through the dungeon.

Hint – you joined their party, you follow their rules. If you don’t like it – feel free to make your own “no stack or kick” one.

You do realize that in doing so, will take forever to make a party. There are nice people in this game, but majority of those that stack arent so nice. This reply is a clear example of it.

It would be easier if we all can just party and play!

Card.9704:

How is your way of playing more correct than theirs if they’re also playing how they want?

It really is not a matter of being correct or incorrect. That would be taking it to a more psycological approach, which in my opinion is far over and off the topic at hand.

I can be certain that when a level designer makes a level, he does not account stacking to be one of the many ways of completing his challenge.

… wasting my words with you Card.

I was there and I +1 Desert Leaf.

Stacking has to go. Stacking is not a key strategy to beating a dungeon, but a big percent of players believe so. I’m sure ArenaNet devs do not believe it is either, so how about we get some non-stacking love changes for your real dungeon crawlers? I want to play the game, not sit through a game — I might as well just watch TV if I had to stack!

Stacking apparently judges whether you are worthy to be in the party or not. This just doesn’t make any sense.

TyPin.9860:

Where in the world does it make sense to be able to remove all conditions? Of course there is a more frequent application than removal. Can you remove all Power damage after it was applied? No you can’t. Why shouldn’t it be the same for condition builds.
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Power can be removed after it is applied… Warrior and Ranger both have skill that force all physical damage to 0. Invulnerability does the same thing; however conditions still are in effect unlike power.

This is all in the matter of, have you thought of every possibility?

Simply said, conditions are very very unbalanced right now for PvP. Nothing ever bothers PvE.

Saiyan.1704:

desertleaf.5403:

FYI….. Guardians can do 4k – 10 K fire condition per second.

Power builds are not as strong with this New Setup. Condition Builds can run in circles while you burn by 10K fire ( BEFORE ARMOR).

You heard correctly. You can keep chasing with your power builds, or keep shooting with all that effort.

I’ll just get 1 shot of fire in you and ill run my kitten off while you die.

Condition Removal??? Well, Guess again. I can apply conditions way quicker than your 30 second cool down.

THIS GAME IS kittenG BROKEN. Armor needs to factor in Condition damage as the quickest and EASIEST FIX.

FOREVER BETA 2 : CONDI WARS EDITION!

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P.S. – Pre-purchased HoT and I got this mess.

Do we play the same game?

Condi build’s can’t run in circle anymore thanks to the nerf in condition durations. Everyone is basically forced to use Balthazar runes because of it, even then, burns don’t last long. They’re suppose to deliver quicker damage than Bleeds.

Necro transfers conditions to enemies
Medi zerk guards have self + team cleanses
Shout guards have lots of team cleanses
Ele’s have numerous self cleanses, not counting their DS trait.
Wars have Stances and self cleanses on adrenaline usage.
Ranger transfers conditions to pets and can be invuln to attacks.
(don’t use other classes)

Tell me, which team are you on that can’t handle burns (not conditions) builds?

Saiyan, you clearly don’t play condi then. Trap ranger can run in circles. Mesmer can run in circles. Even a warrior can run in circles doing condi.

It doesn’t take a math matician or a software engineer to tell you that conditions can be applied more frequently than any remove in this game.

desertleaf.5403:

An easy fix which ill be ignored as usual.

Make conditions reduced by Armor. As of now Conditions are BEFORE ARMOR.

TO balance out the insane Condition frenzy, Anet needs to make ARMOR factor in.

Best suggestion ever! Awesome thinking DesertLeaf

I thought keeping skills to a particular weapon and blah blah blah was suppose to ‘make balancing easier’. I found Guild Wars 1 more balanced than Guild Wars 2. Condition Damage is off the charts now! It is completely unbelievable! The QA team must not be running good PvP builds, because you can’t last 2 seconds with such condition spam going around. I also have to mention that there are a lot of skills that condition players successfully even while blocking [Traps are perfect example!]

I don’t know about the rest of the PvP players in this game, but I been fighting a lot of players that just run in circles on a cap point, spamming conditions. Yea yea yea sure I can just remove them, but lesbi honest, whats 60 or 30 seconds of a ONE time removal going to do against condi that can be applied every 1 second!

OH wait, warriors can remove 1 condition every 5 seconds with weapon swap — which is the biggest joke! Players can team up and apply conditions faster and more frequently than any removal known to this GAME!

Seriously, this game is really starting to bother me. This by far is the most negatively mind blowing update I’ve seen!

Anet, just play a PvP match for goodness sake! See it with your own eyes. Don’t be afraid to start a ranked match without a team. YOU MUST SEE IT!!!!

ps I dont care if my english is so bad, just know my frustration is coming out. I more stressed playing this game! THANKS ANET! WOW

JUST WOW!

I quote myself from another thread.

“$50 that also includes core guild wars 2?! What does that mean to an existing user of guild wars 2? It means R.I.P. off. The core game can be purchased on Amazon for $20 or on the official guild wars website for $40. This means that expansion is probably only $10 to $20 worth of content.

I would only pay $50 for a new start location in a whole new continent — maybe for example Elona, or perhaps more of the North. What ever happened to Eye of the North?

I hope you guys re-think this marketing plan.
G.G. arena net"

$50 that also includes core guild wars 2?! What does that mean to an existing user of guild wars 2? It means R.I.P. off. The core game can be purchased on Amazon for $20 or on the official guild wars website for $40. This means that expansion is probably only $10 to $20 worth of content.

I would only pay $50 for a new start location in a whole new continent — maybe for example Elona, or perhaps more of the North. What ever happened to Eye of the North?

I hope you guys re-think this marketing plan.

G.G. arena net.

Falx.8427:

…This isn’t GW1, it’s GW2,…

Guild Wars 2 has no gvg. Its just Wars 2.

I dont believe stronghold is a gvg mode. If it is, then that’s just Guild Wars 1 making its way to Guild Wars 2. (its about time)

Tired of captureing points? Respond to this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Simple-Team-Deathmatch-Mode/first#post3740338

With the current state of PvP and the ongoing tweaks of all professions, the meta of current PvP mode is leading into a competition of who can run the fastest, survive the longest, and hold a point the longest. These 3 specific challenges to winning a PvP match has caused an uproar of professions to be built just to run in circles to hold a capture point while tanking all sources of damage, and/or builds that are meant to constantly push enemies off capture points long enough to neutralize and/or capture the point in their favor. As result to these circumstances, fighting enemies in general is now one of the worst ways of capturing a point or gaining score.

Without going too much about the obvious in pvp, can we have a mode that focuses on fighing rather than capturing? Perhaps a straight on team deathmatch just as Guild Wars 1 did.

I been running condition warrior since launch, and patches only seem to improve them. Although I still believe Warriors take a considerable amount of skill to play. I don’t mind changing Impale back.

Warrior Sword Skill – Impale applies torment condition when it used to apply bleed.

Many players I came across say that the torment version is too over powering and unbalanced in PvP and WvW. I use this skill a lot and find either version of the skill satisfying, but if I had to vote, I prefer the bleed version more.

I wish to revert

I like the Norn elites, and use them when I can. I wish for longer duration and shorter cool down though. Norn elites are what keeping me from getting bored with the game.

Norn elites do not need a nerf. If its not in sPvP then there is no worry. WvW does not bother me either because there are too many players around. What I want is the extend the durations of the elite considering its long cool down. Norn is the number 1 reason I came from guild wars 1 to play guild wars 2.

Robin Skyshroud.1863

if they were to update us with new weapon sets, then I suggest releasing one at time in a span of several months to help ease balancing.

1 weapon at a time keeps the balancing away.

I dont totally agree with mixing weapon skills with other weapon skills, since it will completely demolish the mechanic Arenanet has, but I do like to see additional skills to the weapon you already mastered or (at least) being able to swap the order of skills inside the weapon.

Weapon skill related posted previously here : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/More-Skills-please/first#post1662506

Hylox.9746

yes i am talking about Guild Wars 1 Alliance Battles…

I hope they bring back a lot of Guild Wars 1 pvp modes and concepts into Guild Wars 2. Just a heads up Hylox.9746, there is no Alliance Battles, no Random Arena (where you win by eliminating the opposing team), no Team Areana, no Guild vs Guild, no Guild Hall, no Morale Boost, no Hexes, no Beatle races, … Guild Wars 2 is missing a lot.

roachsrealm.9284

You, sir, are on the wrong forum!

Someone teach this user how to count to two!

no such thing as a stupid post either.

Amadan.9451

i’m not sure, i would like this to be optional, not for secrecy but because i don’t like the idea of my gs and my staff put together behind my back…

Dasorine.1964

as amadan said some weapon combinations wouldn’t work well being shown together.

But its what you’re character is wearing… I never understood why any game hides the majority of weapons a character pulls out of its body (clipping? polycount? texture memory? no room on the character!?). There are some games that show all weapons on the characters body and I agree to it completely. I would say it definitely brings more life to the character as well.

Torvarren.6295

The reason for the set unchangeable skills is because they admitted that Guild Wars 1 style was a failure becoming exponentially more complex when trying to balance skills.

That sounds like laziness and an excuse for Anet. Never ending bug fixing and tweaking is the life of a developer. Squash a bug, two or three more show up. Add a new feature then some other thing yells back.

They are bound to add more skills whether they believe their system will reduce balancing or not. Introducing a new weapon set with its own skills will still require balancing or that set and pre-existing sets.

League of Legends still makes new champions to play regardless of how many champions there are (110+) already. Even so, nerfs and balancing changes to all items/skills/ old champions are updated quite often especially when a new champ is introduced — a Guild Wars 2 great axe will be no different. If balancing is a huge “omg” to Anet and if they were to update us with new weapon sets, then I suggest releasing one at time in a span of several months to help ease balancing.

There was or is an MMO that does this called Perfect World, or maybe its Forsaken World. If you can fly, you can carry a single person and fly them him/her around. If you turned into a four legged creature, you can have someone mount on you for a ride.

Its a fun idea no doubt, but I’m pretty sure they would not use this because the world already has “fast travel” by means of teleporting, especially how easy it is to get “dat money”.

Good Idea! Id spend some money on this :P

Two Handed Axe makes tons of sense since there is a hammer/2h hammer; sword/2h sword. There are also numerous axe skills from Guild Wars 1 they can bring back. Executioner’s Strike, Decapitate, Dismember, Furious Axe, Cleave or see complete list here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Axe_skills

No love for the 2h Axe I guess.

@ Bron.9647

Yea! Largos, thanks! Those guys would be fun, and Tengu was my dream to play as in Guild Wars 1. haha

I can guess that these icons are temporary since many skills in PvP are still old icons used from Guild Wars 1. For anyone new to Guild Wars game completely, whenever a skill icon appears on your screen and appears smaller than normal, that would be a skill icon from Guild Wars 1.

Cheers and Hopefully my guess is correct !!

I just remembered, that the halloween PvP had exactly what you are wanting! I’d hope they bring that back as a full on game. It had skeleton warriors running down certain paths to designated “tower/bases” to destroy. Players either defend against them or aid them. Bushes also turned players invisible allowing surprise attacks on ongoing enemy. The pvp had a lot of League Of Legends / DOTA aspects.

I agree to balancing Structured PvP. What not to complain about a little more structure?

Previous Thread posted here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/sPVP-tournament-balance-suggestions/first#post1640729

+1 Rukia
Perhaps a small reply from ArenaNet admin can give us some peace of mind?
Im sure and I strongly hope, ArenaNet has packages, patches, and gigs and gigs worth of content including skills to be release throughout the year. I pray that Flame and Frost has new skills :P

yes or just the name of the guild – dont wanna message spam the guild leader asking for invites.

mnwolfboy.9348

I understand people say balancing issues well there bound to add new skills eventually to keep the game fresh why not more weapon skills.

Either Arenanet or other players are too worried about balancing issues. Honestly, it has already been done in Guild Wars 1, so why not in Guild Wars 2? -_-

More skills please.

In Guild Wars 1, Rata Sum had a lot of veloci-prey type creatures including dinosaurs. Considering that there are Naga, quaggan, and frog creatures, I dont think this new race will pass.

What I would like to see as a new race are those dark ocean creatures that are humanoid and sting ray looking. I cant remember what they are called but you run into them as skill challenge, and sometime in the storyline.

I totally agree with more skills whichever way how they do it. Guild Wars 1 was fun because of the variety and abundance of skills. Im sure anyone can agree.

The same topic is posted in a previous thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/More-Skills-please/first#post1633126

The skill queue does need some work. Sometimes I find my warrior waste his Adrenaline Skill or any critically timed skill soon after recovering from stun or a knocked down; canceling the action usually takes a repeated strike of another skill.

Troll:
One way to fix zerginess is to use the word mob instead. This isnt star craft.

This is a tough one. I never really learned how to utilize falling damage other than for jumping onto enemies from a high height, which i rarely do because it would end up hurting me more than hurting them.

I rather see more uses of falling damage in blowout and pushback skills. I always thought the warrior’s Stomp skill would utilize falling damage on enemies, but it does not! This was a big “teeeeheeeee” to me. Please ArenaNet, just please…

Dezarys.1372

_I run 33k+ hp, 3300+ armor, 2k toughness, and 3200+ attack. _

With all those stats, you shouldn’t be dying at all. I believe you should be godly. I WvW a lot and my warrior has only half those stats and I hardly die (18k hp, 3200 toughness + 2200 attk).

Use a lot of blocks, and I mean a lot! Then play your warrior like an assassin, and you will hardly ever go down. Warriors are designed to take hits, but they are not meat shields; the guardians are. Besides, who wants to run head first in a full battle when over 70% of the enemy army is using range weapons.

“In Guild Wars 2, your actions really matter and your choices have an impact on the world around you. Instead of static, boring quests in an unchanging world, our dynamic event system creates a living, breathing world that bustles with energy and responds to player actions.” – https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/dynamic-events/

I am currently trying to accomplish world completion, and I noticed that any event I play or choose not to play hardly affects the map im in or more so the world. I do notice a bridge being destroyed or water supplying getting contaminated, but thats about it. The bridge can be crossed from some nearby land formation, and the water supply does not seem to harm any nearby villagers.

When I heard “…affect the world”, I imagined villages burning on fire with villagers running in fear that would take days to repair; overrunned and vandalized towns (that changed dramatically in appearance as if one can see the very torment corrupting the town); champions and bosses causing a more dramatic impact (worship, slavery, droughts); water supplies actually getting villagers sick and needed to be taken cared for; bandits robbing random homes; beggars created by recent destroyed farms or towns; the list can go on. On the brighter side of things, villagers would host festivals and parties, town folk will cheer players on as the savior of a town, npc’s seen dancing and singing randomly (the grass is greener; the water is fresh; happy Gwen status).

From this, what happens outside of the main city walls should also affect what happens on the inside. Main cities should be getting jam packed with homeless and beggars because the nearby towns were burned by centaur; increase of bandits and gangs because no player decided to help defend homes from being robbed; cities walls being torn down from old ascalonian rioters ( or have riots ).

My point is, whether or not if some of these events that I mentioned are in the game or not, they need to be more visually apparent. A player should be able to walk into an area and notice that the air is a stench, the ground is vile, and that nearby towns are ghost towns or completely demolished because no one cared to help save Tyra. I suggest Guild Wars 2 to build more rewarding and more visually apparent outcomes in the decisions players make.

I believe the bosses are of Epic proportions yes. THEY ARE FUN, but i only fought 2 of them out of the entire game. EPIC to me means, more frequent spawns of these bad boys.

I agree with Feyr, high rank/glory can often tell the other players how “seasoned” the fighter is. Going up against someone of higher rank would obviously show and result in the person having played more and thus learned a great deal regarding the do’s and donts, and the ins and outs of combat.

Now, if i was not me and responded in someone else’s way of thinking, that “me” would say, rank/glory can do nothing to the player’s skill level. Rank/glory is only there for fancier looking weapons and armor. All the stats on gear are balanced and are intended for fair competition. Then quite often, ending it with the word “noob”.
(haha its actually funny and wierd how people do sound like that)

I could be wrong, but this sounds a lot like League of Legends and DOTA. Its a good idea, but it seemed like Guild Wars 1 Hero Battles was going to head in this direction before. Unfortunately that pvp doesnt exist anymore.