Guild Wars 2

Really glad to finally hear you guys acknowledge the problems with that story instance, can’t wait for it, as i’m probably going to do it a bunch for caladbolg.

So first of all I would like to start by congratulating ANet for an amazing work, I love everything about what I was able to test, sadly, I wasn’t able to test too much since i’m very busy at the moment and barely had 2 hours to play.

I did manage to test two Elite specialisation:

The tempest:

Feels really similar to the elementalist, which is my main profession, the overload system is pretty nice, though it kinda sucks that you can’t swap attunement after you started overloading, or you end up cancelling it yourself.

The new shouts with the exception of “Feel the burn” feel a bit week, the heal and the Elite skill rebound are kinda nice, take a while before you think about using rebound.

The Reaper:

Is just awesome, so much fun to play, everything looks pretty cool.

I would say that the greatsword feels really slow and weak, it’s supposed to be a trade off between having a really slow weapon and hittign really hard , but you actually don’t hit that hard with it.

The map looks amazing, I love the fact that as a sylvary you can hear mordremoth sometimes, had a lot to the atmosphère.

Overall I’m really looking forward to testing more.

I think every Elementalist in the game was expecting a lot of work to be done on the Fire Trait since like pretty much all of them are terrible and the only thing you did are:

-Lava Tomb: This trait’s internal cooldown has been reduced to 10 seconds. Damage from Lava Font is increased by 33%. Damage dealt while in the downed state is increased by 33%.

I would have expected this trait to just disapppear, honestly buffing doesn’t do anything for Fire , since you don’t really wana buff your down state , since you’re trying to go down as less as possible.
-
Persisting Flame: Updated this trait to also allow blast finishers to give fury (10 seconds) as well as might.

This trait is kind of a good idea , but I feel like it would be interesting to be able to take advantage of this and the I in Air , but either weapons don’t have enough Fire field or not enough aura’s so, it’s a good idea, but putting this on another trait would have been better in my opinion.

So my question is , are you going to keep working on improving traits line? in particular Fire.

Ok thanks for your answer, i’ll try that

What i meant was , that my 5yo computer that i had before was almost running the game the same as what i have now even though i had like things way worse than that.

I know my video card is not like top notch , never said that , and my i5 is 3330 3GHz

that post was never about saying , hey i have a kick kitten computer , why isn’t this working better , but is it normal that it’s runnign like that ? because the old computer that i had was running things almost the same.

And that i’m forced to put everythign on low at the kraken in fractals with that computer and even then it feels weird when i have to dodge the laser whereas it was running all good with the last one

I don’t know why you are like so aggressive with your answer

Hi so i recently got a new computer because my old one crashed because of Guild Wars 2.

But here I am with:
i5
6 Go ram DDR3
Video card: Nvidia GT 620

I already followed the instructions in the FPS and Performance based issues

And if i try running the game full performance ( removing shadder and stuff like that ), I get an FPS of 15 or even below.

And while running it as the recommended with everything low and like animation on medium I only have between 25 and 40 FPS.

I mean come on the computer is pretty good, and it’s running that bad? there got to be a problem because a friend why a worse computer than that i3 gt 320 runs it better.

So here is my questions , is there compatibility problems between Windows 8 or is there anything more i can do to make the game run more smoothly.

I still have lag problem since the march patch, this is really frustrating i don’t feel like playing this game anymore because of it, and i’m limited in what i can do when i do.

Please fix this

Yeah i’m having the same problem , since le last patch i’m lagging non stop and it’s not coming from my conexion

Yeah since last patch , i feel like i have 300 ping constantly, spells take like 1 or 2 seconds to go off after i click them.

Please ANet fix this asap, it’s really unplayable for me right now.

I recently read the interview from Dragon Season of Colin Johanson where they asked questions about “Player created content” and if it would ever be implemented into the game, which Colin Johanson by saying that they were not really sure of how to do it.

Because they don’t really want to commit ressources just to go through all the content submitted by the players.

James “2GD” Harding talked about something like that in his show “The GD studio” a few month back, and i though I would share his insigh on this, if you don’t know who 2GD is, well he is an ex Quake/WoW pro player, he has done some casting for ESL and Blizzard , is now “representing” Twitch europe side of things and owns his own show The GD studio and his own talent agency for esport , representing apollo (SC2 caster) and singsing (Dota 2 pro player)

So his view in the matter would be to have like a place where everyone can submit their work to be added into the game, that work can be seen by anybody, and they can upvote it or downvote it.

When X thing reaches X number of upvote with X ratio of up/down votes it goes to the devellopers and it gets added into the game.

Whenever someone buys the content the original creator gets some gems.
This is for items only though.

I though this was pretty smart and that it would fit Guild Wars 2.

Hope you read this, because having a lot more things to sell in your stor would get you a lto more money , that you could invest for future tournaments , or hiring talented people.

You can go scepter/dagger
gear mix cleric (just enough to get ~400 healing power)/berserker with some traits:
0
20 VI X
0
20 VI V
30 V I XI
et you really good dameges , and with the healing you can put out still survive well , + lot’s of combo field for might helping your whole group
Utility spell you take:
healing signet
arcane wave
arcane blast
mist form
fire greatsword and you’re good to go

You misunderstood me, i meant, probably didn’t read the first part i guess, i meant accessibility to skins for your gear, not accessibility to PvP itself.

because honestly in PvP your gear looks like kitten until you get to like level 30 almost, or you need to play tournaments which without a team is not that great.

Skip that part if not interested to how i got the idea

Ok so I watched “State of the Game” with Jon and Jon yesterday and they mentioned they wanted PvP players to be able to buy like PvE gear with their glory etc , well at least they wanted to give PvP players a bridge toward PvE.

And I though to myself, well what about PvE players ? I understand that you want to make this game eSport matérial and for that you need to make the game the most attractive possible to PvP players. And that’s great , I love GuilD Wars 2 it’s a great game and I really hope it makes it as an eSport.

But making PvP more accessible to PvE players would be great too. Because well all know that PvP gear is all about the looks , because you can decide your stats in a few clicks anyway.

So what about creating transmut stone that you buy with honir that allows you to apply your PvE skins to your PvP ?

Stone would cost like 30-50 honor and be only purchasable when you reach like lvl 15- or 20 (in PvP) and wouldn’t work on like arah gear or any gear that you buy with tokens.

Other idea also, you said you wanted liek to reward PvP players with some things you know to feel they are really working towards something.

What about unique PvP gear that you can’t find in PvE that you can drop in any chest starting at level 40 or something ? and maybe a higher chance of drop in Paid tournaments.
And also like at level 80 you can drop Legendary skins weapons for PvP or like new unique to PvP Legendary skins.

tiHi so I keep having this bug with the trade post, sometimes ( like 9 times out of 10 almost )

The mouseover items doesn’t work so , i can’t know like statistics on gear or things like that.
Also i cannot Buy anything on the trade post because of that nor trade gems etc.
Most of the time, the only thing i can do is get the money from thing I sold , which i cannot do often since like I said i can’t use the trade post most of the time.

So what i’m asking is , is it a problem on my end of things or do other people have this bug , and most of all is there a way to fix this please ?

Yeah i agree that the staff needs some love right now I feel like almost all the awesome looking weapons are great Sword like any game right now.

Yes I totally agree +1 to more visible titles

The thing that I want first would be to see al the bugs fixed then:

-Reduced casting time on meteor shower.
-A better Elite, something like Element Master that give you a boon dépending on what element you’re in when you use it
Fire
-damage
or
-causes burning when you/you are hit
Water
-heal
or
-some kind condition removal tick like the signet
or
-all your skills heal you
Air
-perma swiftness
Earth
-reduce all incoming damages

but still allows you to attunement swap.

I see that people are arguing about whether or not mount are needed in this game:
They are not, you can travel very fast thanks to the waypoints.

But does that mean they shouldn’t exist ? Not at all

Even though i don’t think we actually need those in this game, I am still in favour of mounts.

Why ?
Simple answer because, mounts are god kitten cool I mean how can you not want a mount ?

Yeah switching weapons in combat would be awesome but i think you’re looking at the elementalist all wrong.

yeah elementalist have to commit to one range while other profession can have two different one.

But the ele as the the tools with all of his weapons to deal with everything because of his larger skill set. I agree that dépending on the weapons you’re using it’s harder to deal with melee or high range sure, but it is not impossible, and in the other hand you are really strong against the other one.

I don’t know if all this was really clear but short answer:
I don’t think eles should have acces two combat weapon swap

No they should just listen to people suggestions and add the necessary features.

Here’s a couple of thing I would like to see

Option to disable the alt-tab windows shortcut

This prevent from accidently clicking on it, and if you want to go back to windows you just reactivate it again in the options.

View other players traits and gear

Really usefull, because even though you can ask them, they don’t always answer or want to bother telling you everything.

Mount

Because it’s just cool, they don’t really need to go that much faster than when you are walking, it’s just for the look : )

Numbers on the healthbar
Numbers just make things more clear.

Target’s target

So usefull both in PvE or PvP because it is way easier to know when to dodge things when you actually know if you are targeted.

I really love my elementalist, it’s really fun both in PvE and in PvP.

Yeah i rage sometimes about those bugged spells ( ride the lightning…. ) and about those kitten one shot backstab thief which i cannont see coming sometimes because they come from my back.

But overall I really think that Ele is not that bad.

I feel that points in earth don’t really make you that much tankier ( of course the thoughness helps), but on the other hand points in water do, because one it increase your health and also it allows you to heal yourself more:
-Health when attuning to water
-Bonus healing power
And the condition removals are pretty good too.

I Feel like those two builds from Phantaram ( the elementalist from Team Paradigm EU ) are really strong builds without being that squishy ( welle for an ele ).
Scepter/dagger
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEIQJArYhImOblR5gjDAEFmoiQRFOUeMTM1A;ToAA0CnoqxUjoGbNuak1MsYSA
Staff
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