Guild Wars 2

Burtnik.5218:

RedDeadFred.1256:

Burtnik.5218:

Rain.9213:

While I am grateful that Anet heard myself and others’ requests for Kalla Scorchrazor, it is a real bummer she gets bow and now GS. So many missed opportunities for a unique Greatsword playstyle with Revenant… instead we just get more Pew Pew Pew. Most unsatisfying playstyle in the game, imo.

Dragonhunter 2.0 but with shorter range cus.. shortbow usually has 900 range or so. Who tf need that kitten? How am i supposed to feel when i take a look at Kella statue where she wield greatsword i cant use despite channeling her avatar? Lol, well not my problem anyway, i already decided to not spent a cent on gw anymore. Or at least till they dont replace some team…

Dragonhunter 2.0 because….? You know nothing about the weapon skills or utilities…. I guess because it’s heavy armor and has a bow of some sort it means it’s automatically the same as another spec. Just like how Ele’s is going to be Mesmer 2.0 because light armor and sword. Yup that’s totally how it works. Also, the spec is supposedly ranged condi so I have no idea how you’re getting Dragonhunter out of that. Although, something tells me logic isn’t all that important here.

How are you supposed to feel when you look at some random statue in game? Idk. Spend less time looking at statues I guess if they’re going to bother you that much. Seems like an odd thing to get torn up over.

Anyway, have fun not getting the expansion I guess. Not at all surprising that you won’t be getting it. You’ve been pretty negative about the game for quite some time. I’ll be enjoying the new spec. Although, I think I’m actually more excited for the Mesmer one.

Dh 2.0 cus pewpew, also you dont know if its condi or not as like you said, we dont know anything about skills or utilities. That said if its condi it makes even less sense considering how Kalla died – by poisoned dagger. Shortbow goes against her lore, she wasnt using shortbow at all, she was using greatsword. Its like Jalis using a rifle and Shiro using maces or scepter+focus. It doesnt kittening fit theme wise. End of story.

They should have gone with Pyre Fierceshot instead, that character was more of a legend in my books anyways, also it would match the renegade/shortbow theme alot better.

The difficulty now is equivalent to a queensdale champ farm….

My vote would defs be Champion Ritualist, second would be Champion Invoker

PopeUrban.2578:

Ohoni.6057:

In fact they don’t, unless something changed you have to be on HoT maps to progress HoT masteries. They were unclear on the core masteries, and whether you can progress those anywhere or only on core maps (I suspect anywhere, as they’re “core” masteries)

Yes, but anything you do on those HoT maps, events, raiding, story mode, just grinding mobs, whatever, will advance your HoT masteries. You aren’t stuck doing a single task to advance them.

Also, clovers don’t take just ten minutes to knock out at the mystic forge. They take as long as it takes the player to gain the skill points (now the shards) ectos, and coins.

Ectos and Coins are just money, Spirit Shards are relatively cheap to acquire. I have 4700 at then moment. You need around 140 to get a legendary weapon, you can get 2 per day just from the login challenge, and they pour out of ubiquitous champ bags.

I can virtually guarantee that I’ll be reskinning most if not all of my legendary armor. I really hate sparkly particle effects. It’s the same reason I reskinned all my ascended gear.

So then you wouldn’t mind if other players could also have those armors, who don’t want to do that content, and might appreciate those skins more than you.

See, exclusivity isn’t about lording it over other people. It’s about knowing you have something that is a lasting mark of doing something difficult. It’s about knowing you earned something special not simply having something special

So why does your reward have to be in the form of a skin that you do not actually want? Why can’t you just get titles and achievements to denote that you made those exact accomplishments, while people who just want the skins can just get the skins? “I just don’t want you to have it so that I know I have something that you don’t.” It seems rather . . . small.

I’d say it seems rather small to demand access to something without being willing to do the prerequisite task to obtain it, but hey, that’s just me. Your insults notwithstanding, the point is that a trophy is meaningless if you can just buy it off a shelf. The trohpy has value specifically because of what it represents, not because of what it does. Yes, it could be a title or achievement, but as your ongoing campaign to get access to cosmetic skins shows, skins are way cooler rewards than achievements and titles, and players find them more desirable for the same reason it’s more satisfying to get a trophy or medal than a certificate. It just looks cooler.

Face the facts here. There are already many content specific skins in the game. That isn’t going to change.

Nobody’s saying legendary armor should be raid exclusive. We’re saying that there should be raid exclusive legendary armor. There whould be open world exclusive legendary armor, and pvp exclusive stuff, and fractal stuff, and so on.

Anet has designed around this principal for a long time now. Mechanical power is not a prestige item. Cosmetics are. That is how this game works, has always worked, and will continue to work.

I expect that legendary armor will not remain unique to raids just as ascended gear did not remain unique to fractals. I do however encourage you to open your mind to the very real possibility that raid legendaries will be limited to acquisition from raids just as open world ascended luminescant armor is limited to an open world zone

^ This x1000

Astralporing.1957:

Zalavaaris.5329:

Buh bye zerker raiding meta… you wont be missed xD

You missed the enrage timer confirmation in the same blog post.

You missed the “some encounters may even require a member of your group to dust off that toughness gear to bulk up and tank some heavy hits to protect the condition-build players in the back” in the same blog post.

Puls.5867:

Loving the connection with the lore you made that is awesome! And I have Bifrost and bolt too! Although I am hoping we get a legendary pole arm looking staff and loving the idea of the medieval colour schemes! And I can understand maybe sharing 2 it’s like I’m not sure if I can just make my Mesmer an alt after all this time so I will probably share (:

Thanks, I’m a bit of a lore fan when it comes to franchises that have alot of it, I am infact looking at ritualist concept art to see how to further shape my revenant. Yeah, I still love my ele haha. I feel somewhat torn as I’ll have bifrost but that datamined staff looks good, and who knows how the new legendary weapons will look like, I suppose we at least have something cool to start off with :P

Neomir.7493:

Thanks for the responses.

No, I havn’t played Revenant at all but I’m looking at this from a DPS oriented Shiro Revenant. I’d like to mix in some nice support and heals as it reminds me of the idea of my Aion Chanter.

However, as I mentioned every character near enough has some form of instant invulnerability. Warrior being the most obvious with up to 2 5second Endure Pains. This plus some form on instant on demand stability allows a character to successfully reacha target, down them or whatever course of actions is needed, and get out, player skill permitting.

Seems I’m going to have to choose betwee Jalis and Ventari? Which seems to be a shame, but we can’t have our cake and eat it, I suppose.

Looking forwards to the next playtest, so I can, you know, actually play the class I’m theorycrafting…

Edit:
Mobility and an energy sigil will help me out with what I’m asking for, I know. I’m hoping for a Invulnerability skill somewhere

This ^
One of the biggest appeals of the class for me is how much it reminds me of my old Chanter. Invulnerability would be helpful seeing as most classes have access to it. However balancing it would be another thing entirely, perhaps it is something we can consider with the Glint Legend?

Actually thinking of making two, both of them somewhat tied to a legacy from my gw1 chars.

So what kind of Revenant are you:
A vengeful spirit having returned to life looking for a focus for their anger.

Do you have a back story if so what is it:
Originally a Canthan Ritualist serving the Emperor at the time of Shiro’s betrayal but killed by the assassin they were trapped between the mists and our world until recently having been drawn out by the gathering of power and magic in Tyria. Now the tables having turned the former ritualist now revenant now invoking and controlling Shiro’s power amongst many others.

What race are you going with:
Human Female (Canthan)

What weapons are really tickling your fancy?
Defintely Sword/Sword and Staff (Not to mention I have bolt and Bifrost to go along with it)

What is your favourite legend:
Shiro Tagachi

How are you going to make your Revenant look:
Tossing up between the smokey white(for a more ghostly appearance) or jet black hair(more in line with Canthans). Blind eyes (Celestial), combination of Orrian and Primeval skins, greys, dark blues and blacks.

Is it now going to be your main or just an alt:
Ele is my current main, I was at one point seriously considering replacing it with my Rev. In the end I may end up sharing that spot between the two of them depending on how Tempest turns out.

My guild and I would be willing to help as well as receive help in return :P

Yea I find myself agreeing with both of you. I went from long lost interest in the LS to regaining it, Marionette was also plenty of fun, wurm is tough as nails and i haven’t gone as hardcore on attempts as some have so I can’t really comment on that but it has been fun so far.

Note possible spoilers!

I have to say this update surprised me, I was ready to skim past the story part of the LS until I ran into the instance and then scarlet’s lair/journal. All the interactions between the characters, being able to talk to them see their motivations and such. I think this update was a step forward towards creating a more investing story for the LS.

Never thought I’d say this but well done, you piqued my interest again :P

crunchyraisin.6054:

also…why is this thread in general discussion and not under the new fractal update where it belongs?

Don’t want to accuse anet of hiding/deflecting our concerns….but if it looks like a fish and it smells like a fish…

Sorry but this thread had been made before the Fractal LS tab had been created. Hence it’s in general discussion.

Karizee.8076:

Because of the new Leaderboards. It wouldn’t be fair for you to be at the top of the Leaderboards from completing it on easy mode would it?

Kitten the leaderboards they’d mean nothing and to wipe legit progress made by people is a foolish move.

Dardevilmon.6702:

you arent even 48 iamgine how i feel when i got to kittening 80 in personal lvl and now it will all be deleted and not rewarded at all becose anet feels like it it is such kittening bullkitten

I’m not at 48 sure I’m at 44 but my goal was to get to 48 this week now that’ll be completely pointless. I know that if I feel ripped off I’d know that it’d be even more so for those at 48+

Also for those asking for source:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/view/news/page/1/read/29156/Guild-Wars-2-Next-Updated-Called-Fractured.html

It makes no sense to do that, plenty of people (myself and guild mates included) have worked up past level 40 and were aiming for 48/50 soon only to find out all that progress is getting wiped. Please please give a honestly good reason for doing this because I have no idea….

Edit: being dropped back down to level 30 for fractals

I’m game for this guild, always enjoy discussing builds and the like. But i have to agree alot with what Frowny and Slayer are saying. I have myself been using condi ele in wvw and for solo/group roaming I’d take it over a glass cannon any day.

Not to mention a condi tank is far more efficient than a power tank. Less stats to worry about for offence so you’re able to build more on defence.

Around this length of time in Guild Wars 1 lifetime we had gotten Factions, Anet had 50 employees back then. They have over 200 now and I feel we’ve gotten far less in my opinion :/

I feel the living story cannot truly replace expansions it can work great as something while we are waiting for an expansion leading up to it and all.

I’m not advocating killing off the LS but rather to use it as a build up for expansions that can bring so much more life to the game rather than try and replace it.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

The living story just feels not epic. I as a player feel like a merc instead of a hero.
I feel replaceable, in a world that is endangered by dragons, I run around and do useless stuff. Why ain’t we going to confront them now, they will only get stronger.

Scarlet is a weak villain, she just feels random. Her character does not fit to the mastermind she is sold as. And she is no dragon. That is a weakness too.

For a year, Zhaitan is dead, for a year the Pact is rotting in fort trinity. Why did the living story ignore everything that was built up by the personal story. It does not feel like a new arc, but like a different game. I do not miss Trahearne, but I miss to be in a cutscene, being part of the story, not just part of the events.

The personal story was sold as one of the pillars, but it is gone, nothing personal at all with the living story.

This so much :/

lordkrall.7241:

Quite sad to see people complaining about this, when clearly something have happened.
Are we really so entitled nowadays so we complain about stuff being canceled due to stuff out of peoples control..?

Quite sad to see there are still people like you posting their higher than all of you comments.

Incorrect and correct. Those are the only schools of magic however ritualists did not draw from those pools and had access to their “magic” before the human gods gave it to the races of tyria. Their powers came from communing with the spirits.

As per the wiki:
The Ritualists are one of the oldest known professions on Tyria. Being unique to Cantha, they have existed long before the Exodus and the gods granting magic to the races. Before magic, the Ritualists relied upon a power similar to magic, granted to them by their powerful ancestors whom maintained a connection to their descendants. Through their spirits, the Ritualists were able to practice magic, or something close to it. When magic was granted by the gods, many of the original abilities were strengthened and merged into their modern form. Though still relying on the power of the dead, their original skills are no longer a visible part of the profession.

Kain Francois.4328:

Elona is better with Joko anyways. He might be a dictator, but he is a wealthy dictator who brought Green and Water to the desolation.

Would you have really preferred Kourna with its evil military generals, or Vabbi with its too-stupid-to-live oligarchy? Istan might have been better than those 2, but they are the birthplace of Kormir…. That leaves Joko to fix up this mess.

Well…he brought water and greenery to the desolation by redirecting the Elon river…that means Vabbi got owned.

Exosferatu.2961:

Let’s say the Pact and Kralkatorrik had a treaty. What happens after they defeated Palawa Joko? Kralkatorrik will just stab the Pact in the back or worse: kill Trahearne in the process. Trahearne’s death could cause the Pact’s disbandment (unless our characters stepped in and become the Marshal).

You say it like it’s a bad thing for Trahearne to be killed :P

In a way to try and make conjures more interesting/accessable and versatile I put forward my opinion on what I think could be done.

Much like Warrior adrenaline and guardian charges (unsure what you’d call it exactly, but it’s to do with their virtue of justice) Elementalists could employ a similar mechanic with their conjures linking them to their actual attunements.

What this would end up doing is removing conjures as utility skills and instead employing them as limited time weapons that can be activated after a certain number of actions within an attunement or something else along those lines with traits possibly affecting how these may occur as well as their frequency. You could think of it almost like a powerup or unlocking an ultimate abiity so to speak.

Some conjures may of course require a few adjustments but none too radical I’d think.

This would allow elementalists to have access to all their utility slots whilist making conjures far more friendly to what an elementalist is meant to be at it’s core. A master of all the elements. It would give further importance/impact to the use of each attunement it would help us with our lack of weapon swapping range/melee issues. This said conjures would probably have to be restricted to the elementalist alone as I’d imagine they’d beable to be accessed more regulary.

When a conjure is available a small icon of it would be highlighted above the attunement (F1-F4) once activated it would consume all charges and perhaps have a global cd on the other conjures for a short period (as regardless one would need to gather charges again) The weapons themselves would have no charges, only limited by the time they can be active.

Now I haven’t put as much thought into cds, stats and the like but I wanted to just put this idea out there and see what everyone can come up with in regards to it. Please feel welcome to add on to what I have said already.

I think this has the potential to add a huge amount of flavour to the elementalist as it is even though it is a rough idea.

Any thoughts?

My first Teq kill I got a teq mini, still need one more achivement for the title, and despite that I plan to keep going at this event as long as possible. I used to lag alot more than I do now on it and with less people spamming it, seems alot easier to get done.

Rng will always be meh but I would not say it’s impossible to get a drop as you’re as likely to get one as not.

I honestly was frustrated with this boss at first but over time I started to really enjoy it more. I hope I won’t be alone in this.

Willing to take in an oceanic? :P

Oceanic here, beat Liadri on my thief and ele. It’s doable, though it does help to guest to a low pop server if it’s very laggy where you are :P

There is a reason the Queens Jubilee and Guantlet are seperate achivement categories with their own metas. This is because the Gauntlet was designed for a certain playerbase while jubilee was designed for the other.

It was never expected (as per their stream) for everyone to beable to complete the gauntlet. My only issue with the gauntlet was the dome in which you fought in the walls and floor could get in the way of seeing clearly at times. The boss itself was great imo.

As for Liadri
I beat her on both my thief and ele after a fair amount of tries and tweaks. A famous golfer once said, “The more I practice the luckier I get” practice makes perfect especiallu in this situation. But if it’s not your cup of tea don’t worry about it you still have the living story achivements to take part in which are very doable.

The orbs are also killable at range via non projectile attacks especially ground targeted ones.

I had been an evon supporter and had voted plenty for him and the fractal he offered. However in the end I did not mind that kiel won. As much as I would have preferred an abbadon fractal there is still alot of potential for the other.

I think that such an act will be of no real consequence, I suppose it’s the thought that counts right?

On the bright side I won’t have to worry about a potential Zhaitan 2.0 fight :P

Please don’t nerf her. Only changes that need to be made are to the arena you fight her in itself the rest is fine.

I personally find them rather ugly looking :/ I honestly wish they would quit with the robots but if they were to be golems/robots I’d have preferred them to look like knights in armour but that’s my opinion I guess.

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skullmount.1758:

Necrid.2705:

Everyone does realize that if Keil wins, the Cheaper Waypoints is only temporary, right?

Vote Evon, Fall of Abbaddon, if you want Thermanova, go to Metrica Province, it’s already there.

You want the Fall of ABbaddon go play GW1 Nightfall.

#Vote Kiel, cheaper waypoint > supporting RNG cash boxes.

It’s before gw1, and the story of the 5 gods taking on abbadon is just a hands down win, who cares of kielhern and her temporary waypoint reduction which I’m sure would be barely noticeable.

You want to see the reactor? go to metrica province and see what you can already see. Or would you rather go and see something no player in gw1 or gw2 has seen before?

It would be in the crystal desert around the desolation which was a sea before hand. Not in Orr as far as I’m aware.

More Abbadon more nightfall sounds good to me.

Yeah sorry, I was going for kiel at first until I saw Evon was doing a nightfall fractal. Sorry nothing beats that :P

#EvonGnashblade

Also to those thinking it has anything to do with the mad asuran in fractals…no it isn’t. It’s where the fire elemental world boss spawns and plenty of info over there but nothing interesting.

As something I’ve been thinking about for a while to make finishers more pronounced and interesting (this is for pvp for those of you who don’t know) would be to add profession specific stomps.

Few examples;
Ranger: as a finisher they send out their pet/or other animals to maul the downed player
Elementalist: Incinerate the downed player in a burst of flames
Necromancer: Drains out all life from the downed player leaving a skeletal corpse

Currently finishers are all the same unless you get one of the temporary rank/gem ones. I feel something like this would create a greater feeling of impact when taking down a player in pvp.

Thoughts?

My ele’s knight set, I was originally going for a steampunk look but got sidetracked with more orgainic skins :P

Thayel.1236:

DaMunky.6302:

Engineers are an “Adventurer” profession. Indianna Jones is an adventurer. We should have whips so we can pretend to be Indy. BAM, EXCUSE’D.

Pistol Main Hand, Whip Offhand! Need an attack where you wrap the whip around enemy and then shoot it in the face.

They’ll have to think about renaming thieves skill “pistol whip” :P (Or at least changing what set uses it)

Also would love to see the whip on elementalist, ranger and engie. (Others could go for it sure but ele and engie have the least amount of weapon choices as is already.)

I’d say it’s quite possible he turned to nightmare, not that he necessarily became the embodiment of pure evil. That still leaves us wondering however who our personal nemesis would be…

(I still have my cards on Kasmeer for some reason)

Guild Wars is not Guild Wars without Cantha, enough said.

The op is actually really well written, I’m still somewhat on the fence about the whle issue I’d prefer still if it were implemented differently.

Found this thread and thought it worth bumping :P Would love to see some of these areas added as bonus fractals to rotate with the jade one.

maddoctor.2738:

Theway I’d prefer doing this (weapon swap) is to let us select certain attunements to go with certain weapon sets, for example, when I’m in Fire Attunement I use Staff, when I’m in Air I use D/D etc, it won’t make Elementalists use 40 skills (which is ridiculous), they will still have the same 20 skills, only some variety in RANGE.
Obviously 2 weapon set tops like all professions.

The other solution is to give us a conjure with 1200 range (much needed) and then fix the conjures to be useful and not total garbage.

For eles to maintain the amount of skills they have now we’d need two attunements per weapon. So d/d may be air/water and staff fire/earth. Personally I think it’d take up to much effort to rework all the weapons and essentially the class by doing that. Out of combat switching would be nice for quality of life. I’d much prefer a revamp to trait lines outside water and arcane which are fine as they are now.

There is a thread on reddit talking about some of the things that will very likely be coming in the future if the dat file is anything to go by.

…one of those things are the dun dun dun Dragon Festival! :P

Risingashes.8694:

Vayne.8563:

Really they should just introduce a second leader board that ignores dailies and monthlies. Then everyone should be happy.

Yeah, that’d be fine.

:( which is along the lines of something I was trying to long windedly suggest.

Vayne.8563:

Actually there are several things Anet can do to make Leaderboards “fairer”. I’ve already talked about having different ones for dailies/no dailies, but how about this.

SPvP already has it’s own leaderboard. Not everyone SPvPs though and the Achievement Leaderboard has both a WvW and SPvP achievement column in it. What about making a purely PvE achievement leaderboard, for those who will never PvP?

And this ^

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Risingashes.8694:

Whoa whoa whoa. ’We’re all wearing blinkers’ therefore my particular issue is meaningless? What kind of logic is that?

And out of context? Please explain the usage of desperate in your post if not to make the exact implication that I answered.

Ok before this gets blown out of proportion let me go through some things.

Blinkers: When I said that it was because it is the case with the vast majority of us this was not soley directed at you.

Out of context: because it is an important issue to you is it not? It comes across as something urgent that you want changed is it not? Hence desperate issue?

Pointless discussion: because there are already threads discussing this and it’d be better to add to them than creating duplicates all over the place. This is not a fault of this topic alone but of a fair amount of others.

I hope that helps clarify some. Yes I don’t see it as an issue because using achievements in a leaderboard in the manner you seem to want them to be held as (compeditively correct?) is unrealistic in that fact that achievements are a poor measure of skill and only really show how often someone has played the game dailies are not alone in this.

I gave a suggestion for a new leaderboard that would be better suited to what you are looking for if you read the post you quoted yet made no comment on that.

Risingashes.8694:

Serephen.3420:

Please just no….this discussion is pointless. Having finite achievement points will only result in everyone tied for “first”. Tell me this however, what do the leaderboards mean to you that you consider this such a desperate issue?

I like leaderboards. I like achievements.

Currently the system is BS, and telling me that my preferences are meaningless is incredibly childish. Nothing on these boards are important, we’re playing a game.

The leaderboards certainly wouldn’t be tied. Those who have the harder to get achievements would be ahead. And if there is a tie, then the solution isn’t dailies. It’s to add more broad and harder to get achievements.

Serephen.3420:

desperate

Desperate? Why are words like this used in a large number of these replies? As if I’m ranting hysterically that the size of the penny should be 10% smaller. Why is my issue apparently meaningless, whereas I’m sure that things in the game that you care about are of vital importance?

Aside from that one word being taken out of context, if you want a reply to that kind of question it’d be because perhaps leaderboards don’t have any effect ingame whislt other issues do? I say the discussion is pointless because while you and a few others call people out for wearing blinkers you forget you too are wearing blinkers.

That aside the thing you’re looking for should be a different leaderboard to achivement points which really are not compedtitive at all. You would have to change every single achivement to be a show of skill and compedtiveness and not how much time have you spent killing dolyaks.

If you want a truly compeditive pve leaderboard ask for one with timings on dungeon runs and world firsts etc.

Mitch.4781:

I completely agree. There are hardly any non legendary staffs with particle effects for a start and the ones that do have it are very basic. If you are a staff necro, do you really want Bifrost? There is a huge opportunity for some really dramatic and creative staffs. I am so sick of seeing Greatswords everwhere I go.

Some love for staffs PLEASE!

Question is…would any class ever want bifrost? (with exception to pink dyed guardian).

One of the ugliest legendaries in my opinion.

For necro however I would suggest Final Rest and two others whose names I forgot :S

Please just no….this discussion is pointless. Having finite achievement points will only result in everyone tied for “first”. Tell me this however, what do the leaderboards mean to you that you consider this such a desperate issue?