Guild Wars 2

Can confirm Centaur rune swiftness on heal is not working in any game mode currently

I can see the possibility of staff working well and being a lot of fun, but right now it definitely feels clunky, slow and underwhelming.

Outside of Vault (which is extremely easy to see coming and dodge it) & steal we don’t have any other real gap close on this weapon set. I think weakening charge needs to have a longer range on it and/or give part of our auto attack a ranged strike. Weakening charge, for lack of a better term, feels weak primarily due to the fact it doesnt feel like a charge. The range should be around what Vault is and then it would be in a good place.

Staff feels so easily locked out of sustaining any kind of pressure on a target. Sure we mitigate a fair amount and it has nice dodge uptime but it’s very difficult to get decent damage uptime on a target. The only ability on that weapon set that effects the targets movement actually puts us further away with the evade (staff #3).

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if they come out with runes focused around a venom based build as yet a further stab in the dark to try and make them more appealing.
And on a side note, I have to say, I hate the idea of runes being able to make or break a build/weapon set. It happens way too often in this game………….

They should also remove or reduce the cast time on LS if they are going to do this change. At least this way LS has a better chance of not being dodged or telegraphed to the enemy. Its gonna blow if once you land an FS your LS gets dodged, I can see the rage quits now!

Well, first off, you don’t need to be S/P to solo a camp. S/P is probably the easiest for a normal camp without Hyleks or Dredge but you can also run S/D, DD, D/P, P/D or even just Shortbow (which I actually use most of the time).

What I’ll usually do (with shortbow) is pull the Vets to a part of the camp that Line of Sites them to cluster them up, drop poison field (SB 4 Choking Gas) evade into the field and clusterbomb for aoe weakness then Daggerstorm. Once Daggerstorm ends I’ll drop Choking Gas again and Clusterbomb spam while evading around. Once I’m out of evades about the only thing left is the Supervisor who is usually below half health at this point. I’ll swap to S/D (since I run S/D and SB) and finish her off.

I run 0/6/2/6/0 so having the extra evades from Acro helps with taking camps this way but you can also use the same Line of Sight method to cluster the camp Vets up and drop black power into pistol whip (as long as there isnt more than 5 mobs). Using shortbow like I do takes longer to capture the camp but its a lot more fun than just standing there pistolwhipping in black powder.

One other note, using daggerstorm when taking a camp is nice because it reflects the ranged guards attacks and blinds them mitigating a lot of their damage for the duration of the daggerstorm.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Traxal.2745:

Thanks for the replies. Sizer is good for sure, and could make sword/no OH look good. I’m trying to make sense of it for the common thief like me.

So if boon steal is that effective, does 3 skill get the most use? For the evade and boon steal?

No, you only need LS and Steal, but need to trait for Bountiful Theft.

Let’s say I saw a Guardian with 12 stacks of Might running with his Warrior buddy with also 12 stacks of Might. What I do is, use Flanking Strike out somewhere — no target is preferred.

Then I pre-cast Larcenous Strike -> Steal from the Guardian -> Switch target to Warrior -> Flanking Strike -> Larcenous Strike -> dodge roll = Easy 25 stacks of Might.

EDIT:
Minor clarification. Bountiful Theft will steal Aegis from the Guardian first, so that you can steal the Might stacks with Larcenous Strike.

I run S/D & SB in WVW quite regularly and not the popular Sizer build variant. I’m pretty sure when we rip, lets say Might from a target, we don’t get their stacks. For example, if a Guard has 10 stacks of might and no other boons up, Larcenous Strike will pull that 10 stacks off him but give me only 1 stack. For as far as I can tell, boon ripping still doesn’t reward the opponents stacks to the thief.

Say what you will, but I’m having a lot of fun with 6/0/2/0/6 in WVW roaming S/D, SB. High fury uptime from Thrill Of The Crime/Steal makes critting a non issue really since I’m sitting around 35% without any points in the Crit line. Also running revealed training and relying more on dipping in and out of stealth is def a nice change of pace from the usual S/D playstyle.

As I’m sure you can tell this is a very unforgiving build and if you overextend or get yourself in trouble you are dead, but I enjoy the high risk/high reward aspect.

Just received my gifts in the mail! Thanks Anet!

Well, it has been a few days since the last response from Anet on my ticket even though I have responded a few additional times. I can only hope this means they are thoroughly investigating the issue with my account……

Good news is at least they realize there is a new issue with map completion. However, I wish they would be a bit more in depth and detailed in there handling of the tickets as it seems they just give run of the mill responses for this issue.

I still don’t understand the last response I received on my ticket stating that I completed the map in Sept. 2012 as there is no way this is even possible since I maybe had 1 or 2 zones done at most at that time. So, either Anet has written off my ticket based on this response or they actually investigating it properly. Let’s hope this gets fixed soon……

MistyWinter.9670:

Slugonaut.9841:

Well as things progress the more ridiculous they are getting………..Here is the latest response for my ticket.

“After sending my response to you I did some further investigation. I see that you completed and received rewards for every map in the game way back in September of 2012. World and Map Complete rewards are only granted once per character regardless of new locations being added to the map at a later time.

In order to receive the World Complete rewards a second time you will need to complete every map with another character who has not done so prior.

If you have any other questions, please let us know!"

Where it gets interesting is that I’ve never had map completion on this character, or any character for that matter. In fact, Sept 2012 I may have 1 or 2 zones done at best. I replied asking them who’s account are they even looking at, I’m having a hard time even taking this seriously because they obviously aren’t taking my ticket seriously with a ridiculous response like this………….

Did you send the ticket within the game? I am trying to figure out where/how to send mine. I hope I do not get this response also.

I filled out a support ticket from this website. Go to the SUPPORT tab at the top of this page and take it from there

Well as things progress the more ridiculous they are getting………..Here is the latest response for my ticket.

“After sending my response to you I did some further investigation. I see that you completed and received rewards for every map in the game way back in September of 2012. World and Map Complete rewards are only granted once per character regardless of new locations being added to the map at a later time.

In order to receive the World Complete rewards a second time you will need to complete every map with another character who has not done so prior.

If you have any other questions, please let us know!"

Where it gets interesting is that I’ve never had map completion on this character, or any character for that matter. In fact, Sept 2012 I may have 1 or 2 zones done at best. I replied asking them who’s account are they even looking at, I’m having a hard time even taking this seriously because they obviously aren’t taking my ticket seriously with a ridiculous response like this………….

So, I got a response to my ticket………..I was told the following:

“The “Been there. Done that.” title is intended to be awarded to a player when a single character on his or her account has visited every location required for World Complete. In your case, it appears that the title was awarded prematurely, and one or more required locations have not yet been visited.

To receive the rewards for fully exploring the world, please carefully review each map for missing Points of Interest, Skill Challenges, Renown Regions, and Waypoints with the single character with whom you are trying to finish the task. The most common areas that are missed are World vs. World maps, Chantry of Secrets, and the various city maps, such as Divinity’s Reach, Black Citadel, etc.

Once your selected character has visited every required area, you will receive the rewards."

My map shows all world areas completed as well as all WVW areas completed. I’ve tried the Chantry of Secrets as well and nothing. I’m at a loss to what they expect me to do here………does anyone else have any suggestions? I mean how the hell do you get the achievement “prematurely”???

I just finished 100% map completion with the 2 new POI’s in LA tonight. I received the Been There, Done That title and achievement but no reward chest. I tried going into Chantry of Secrets multiple times to see if this would give the chest but had no luck. I also went back through every single zone to see if I missed a reward chest (as also has been suggested) but no luck there either.

I filled out a bug report in game and decided I would come here and make a thread as well. Please fix my account, as I feel I’ve exhausted all suggestions for a solution to this issue.

Has anyone tested out Ricochet with Immobilize added to Body Shot?

Well so much for landing any strikes after Pistol Whip in pvp/wvw now…..God forbid S/P is used for anything other than PVE.

1.) D/P S/P
2.) 0/30/25/0/15
3.) WvW

To whoever is in the small YB roaming TS crew in Eternal, thanks for the fun death’s!