Guild Wars 2

Congrats to [DD] for winning! Was a very close final.

As a mesmer: Use restorative mantras, Harmonious Mantras, Mantra of recovery and pain. Jump in, charge recovery, charge pain and spam ahead. charge whenever its ready.
Did it with full zerk.

I’m a player with a lot of alts and I don’t want to replay the story every time I want to do achievement with different characters.

Just did her on 40. Basically if you get hit once, or fail to block her teleport even once you are dead. You don’t even need condi removal anymore because once you get hit by her bleeding you are dead anyway.
Also cannons in cannon phase do atleast double dmg now.
I actually enjoyed this fight because it was really hard but I don’t think pugs could ever do this.

I would really love to see an elite mantra althought it’s hard to think of a mantra with high cd/big effect.

E Tan.7385:

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

As of right now GWII is still the best MMO currently on the market

Mostly because its Buy to Play ( i would tend to say hardly cash shop oriented ), and also because we dont have access to somes asian mmo right away.

like Blade and Soul hold as hostage by NCsoft since more than 2years , and btw it might look like only big boobies girl, but the fight in that game are waaaaaay more interesting than the GW2 ones.
Arche Age : you can only play it on russian server with a english patch
Black Desert : who know how in how many years we are going to have it…

Intead western market only Pay 2 play + random wow clone like Wild Star… + somes old asian grindfest trash mmo. Yeah choice is quite poor so GW2 remain the “only” viable mmo despite ALL the issue… (imho caused by quite terrible game management)
( And, make FFXIV online + TESO + wildstar as B2P like GW2 not sure it will remain the “best mmo currently” )

Archeage is currently being localized and will be available in NA and EU in a few months. I’m going to play that.

Also I’m gonna be playing less because my main is mesmer and Anet managed to kitten every mesmer ingame off.

Until a better MMO comes out, which will be in a few months, yea I will.

Someone on the dev team seems to hate mesmers

Fade.5904:

Qty Description Price
1 WildStar Deluxe Edition Prepurchase £49.99

if they continue this kitten then yea I hope wildstar doesn’t cater to casuals that much.

Due to yesterdays bug where power block (which is now, thanks to the nerfs utterly useless) went through defiance, I had the joy of playing an interrupt mesmer in PvE, namely in fractals, and it was hilarious. I never had this much fun since launch. I understand that it was OP but if I wanted to play an interrupt focused build again I could interrupt one attack every 45 seconds-1min. If I focus on dmg instead I just get it done quickly and don’t even need the interrupt.
A defiance rework would make the game a lot more interesting and this would really change the zerk meta to a zerk+CC meta.

I know Anet likes kitten fixes, as seen countless times at the illusionary warden, so why not start off by giving defiance stacks a cooldown so they get removed over time?

If you need the rune you have to use black lion kits. Otherwise you just take the item you want the stat from and transmute a skin on it.

I think they should fix it to keep its usefulness in line with most of the other new traits.

OnyxMemory.9401:

Would you recommend me selling my GS to buy exotic sword’s and such? Also what would be your recommended trait build the typical slot skills I should use? I’ll need to get used to using mantras more :O Thanks!

Generally melee dmg is a lot higher than ranged. If you want to just do open world content tho it is nice to spawn a phantasmal berserker and then immediately switch to sword for trashmobs.
In dungeons it is better to use s/s and s/p for singletarget dmg or s/f for reflection,swiftness and AoE phantasm dmg and use your gs only in times where you can’t do anything but range.

In domination “Empowering Illusions” is a good thing to have.
For dueling there is “phantasmal fury” which is a nice boost for phantasm dps, “Blade training” because you will use sword 99% of the time, “deceptive evasion” for shatter on trashmobs and keeping up 3 clones and duelists discipline if youre using pistol.
In Inspiration there is “Glamour Mastery” which is nice if you don’t use mantras, “Mender’s purity” for additional condi removal (generally not needed) and “Warden’s Feedback” for 100% reflection uptime with your focus.
In Illusions I recommend “Compounding Power” for a straight dmg boost.

Mantra Build Harmonious Mantras and Empowering Mantras switched places, which isn’t updated yet so instead of harmonious mantras like showed in the calc use empowering. The empty slots can be filled to your liking/situation. Also has the highest reflect dmg

Phantasm Build
Focus on boosting your phantasms. Also has the highest reflect uptime

Pyroathiest.4168:

Yeah, what you’ve got there is pretty accurate. The only question that remains is whether or not phantasmal haste is a higher damage boost than the 5 point minor in inspiration that gives 15%. I suspect that it’s mostly going to be a toss-up.

If the math of OP in this thread is correct, the average dmg increase with PH is about 13.5% while the traits give 15%

Seems to me that neither phantasmal strength or empowered illusions is worth losing over phantasmal haste.
From a PvE perspective 24053 should get to the highest dps. The average attack speed, and thus damage improvemenet is at ~13.5%, while the 2 trait boosting phantasm dmg both give 15%.
Now it would be interesting to see if 66002 mantra builds do higher total dmg than this phantasm build.

Silk was near vendor price before this was introduced. They wanted to boost its worth and overkilled it. Now why they don’t reduce the cost to 50 silk bolts that’s beyond normal people’s logic. This has been complained about ever since silk hit 2s+ and we haven’t gotten a single answer from a dev yet. So yea they’re basically saying to suck it up.

If you put a bloodlust sigil on your UW weapon, stack bloodlust on land and then unequip the land weapon with bloodlust you will keep the stacks. Is that intended?

Would be very messy and not really help if you have multiple traits with ICD. Also it is not that hard to keep track of those while playing.

If you use it now you will have to spend a charge to re-apply it. Skin items will still be free to apply and cost 1 charge for every new application after that.

Yes I know but when I craft I most of the time don’t want to craft a single item of a single category. Typing for search takes about as long as just scrolling that’s why I suggested it.

It would be nice to have Collapes/Expand all buttons in your crafting menu. Once your crafting is higher leveled and you discovered many things you can craft, it is sometimes hard to find things you want to craft. This would be nice for better visibility and it shouldn’t be all that difficult to implement (or atleast I hope so).

bluestocking.6148:

So uh … did we ever find out who “E” was? Remember that?

That will come. A dev said in an interview that there is a .txt file with all the future stuff in it including who E. is.

Anonmly.2436:

By the gods… that text wall.
I did read it all, however, and I agree with most of your points. However, the SINGLE, BIGGEST, problem, that you failed to mention was the lack of answers….

I (and I think everyone else) wholeheartedly agree with that. But from what I’ve seen so far I seriously doubt they can pull that off. From what I’ve heard there’s even still stuff like this in GW1 (I haven’t played it) so that leaves no hope in me that our questions will ever get answers.

DanteZero.9736:

I read the entire thing. By far, the most detailed and thorough review of the living story! I have to ask, why didn’t you address the short stories that were posted on the site? As far as I’m concerned, if it didn’t happen in-game or was shown in flashbacks, then it doesn’t exist.

Because they were essential to the story; which was a really bad move by the devs to not put it ingame imo. It could have been a story instance where you find Omadd’s lab notes or as the OP said the pale tree tells you.

I really like your take on it, OP, it would have been much better, but what’s done is done.

The only thing I disagree is your opinion on Trahearne’s VA. I think a monotonous and calm voice really fits a character well that has been on his own or was in Orr for most of his life and was trying to complete a seemingly impossible task falling into depression. Trahearne get’s a lot of hate because he “steals the show” but leave that behind and he’s actually a good character.

Zoid.2568:

Who cares if it’s 10% or 20% or 30%. As long as berserker is getting nerfed so other builds are more wanted. Like support, CC builds and tankish builds.

WOW SO BRILLIANT! /sarcasm

CC builds: Defiance
Tank builds: Dodge , Heal , Block, Cleanse

Also there are enough mobs to oneshot you, especially in higher lvl fractals, so good luck tanking them. CC builds could be worth something if it wasn’t for defiance which makes them utterly useless.

Back2topic: I did the math too and came to the same conclusion as OP. In a fully buffed party you will have close to 100% crit chance, which makes this ~ 25% dmg nerf instead of the promised 10%.

Panda Shepard.1248:

I think we should get rid of servers all together so there are no “natives”. The entire concept is ridiculous.

We should just have districts or channels or whatever for the PvE zones. That way there shouldn’t be empty areas and you can easily join your friends in whatever district they’re in.

PvE doesn’t need servers. It only hurts us. Natives don’t have anymore right to the map. Guesting is the way Anet fixes it so they could have WvW. Get rid of your “natives only” concept. It really doesn’t make sense, and if you’re on a full server, this limited stuff probably wouldn’t even help you. There’s more than 150 people on your server anyway.

This and the ability to create password protected “overflows” or in this case channels for guilds. Problem solved.

I think Gossamer should not be worth less than silk. I, personally, am fine with the silk price but gossamer should get something to increase its worth.

The problem is that no one has 21k yet but a lot of people have 12k

I don’t know what is causing it, but in the molten facility when you reach the boss room sometimes the “Weapon Test” sequence doesn’t trigger which forces us to restart the fractal. We tried various things like wiping, killing the npcs etc. but nothing helped.
This happened three times to me now.

They nerfed the droprate of those skins to the ground since fractured. Everyone has been complaining about this.

The mobs at melandru die instanlty when a bigger mass of players is present. It should scale so that mobs become tougher when more players do the event.

You can get ~10 lvls by discovering lv80 rares,greens and blues. That is pretty cheap.

RedCobra.7693:

You should always find a buyer before you sell expensive items, come to an aggrement with someone, its always better than crossing your fingers, im not advising you to do it outside the TP though, you should always go through the TP

Finding a buyer who you can trust with such high sums is near impossible. I know I’ve been too greedy and listed too high but finding a trustful buyer probably takes longer than a few weeks. And yea it would’ve been better for me if i wasnt undercut by such high margins. The price has been pressed down to 2500g since which is absolutely horrible for me.

I’m here to bump the thread because why not

I seem to notice elementalists get a lot of aggro. Just my feeling tho^^

RoyalPredator that looks amazing! :O
The actual designs for sunrise and twilight are just pretty pictures, they shouldn’t be that hard to change, trails and auras might require some more work.

BUT there is a need for a tax as goldsink to prevent massive inflation.
/thread.

I’m the guy you outbid by 300g.
Patience little grasshopper, your time will come (and so will mine)

There are a lot of people that actually like quip and the dreamer. I don’t think they should be “removed” or anything similar, but they will add new legendaries so lets hope those are not utter crap. (I really don’t like the raven staff, if that really is a legendary)

Also here to bump for eternity because it looks kitten.

I play 8 hours or more a day and salvage everything and even I don’t get 300 silk per day. This is ridiculous

Once you reached higher lvls of crafting your list becomse huge and to find the right thing you want can take time. It would be easier to have all submenus collapsed from the start or make a “collapse all” – “expand all” buttons. (whatever is easier to make, both are fine options imo).

I came here to bump this thread because if this happens it will make me very happy.

Thaddeus.4891:

This is really what Eternity should look from the beginning. But right now, they just can’t change the Eternity skin. Some people that already have Eternity love their skin. It may need some improvement (like Eternity lose some animation that Sunrise/Twilight have), but they just can’t change it all.

What they could do it make a new Legendary Greatsword that need Sunrise and Twilight. They could call it Infinity and they would only need to change a big the Eternity recipe in the Mystic Forge. Right now Eternity need 1 Sunrise, 1 Twilight, 5 Crystalline Dust and 10 Philosopher Stone. So ’’Infinity’’ could use Crystal over Philosopher Stone.

This would be fine as long as every eternity owner gets both twilight and sunrise back in exchange for their eternity. (any mabye those 5 dust too lol)

Needs moar bumps

Is this a bug or is this intended? Because it is annoying as hell and I think it should be fixed. The skill is our only way to get swiftness and if it puts us in combat it Kind of defeats its purpose.

well thats normal for small asura, also try turning your graphics up it seems they are on lowest. maybe that helps

Just a warning, destroyer shield is kinda small.

Magic

For every precursor there’s an exotic with the same skin except for the rifle. I think there should be one, maybe as unique drop from a special boss? Would be awesome.

Bump for great justice! (and because I want this awesome eternity)

Mainhand pistol for mesmer

I get 2-3 stacks of empyreal fragments a day; I don’t see the problem.