Guild Wars 2

Probably damage nerf to some skill(s)/trait(s), and in order to compensate for the damage loss some skill/trait that is never used gets a 2½ seconds of swiftness on activation.

Some mechanical, not well reasoned change that will render something useful into “why would I ever use this” -realm.

Some meaningless buff to traps.

Probably a big buff to sword. After the dust has settled and people have accustomed themselves with the rebirth of sword main hand in various game types, it will be nerfed again.

Justine.6351:

ImLegion.4018:

Why the hell isnt there a reward system for ascended in WvW. Its the only game mode I play. Not like pvp players need ascended.

Maybe they like your tears,
Or maybe it has something to do with you getting non-price-balanced ascended boxes as random rewards already.

Just chiming in to tell that I’m a tad under 700 ranks and I have never had a ascended weapon/armor box drop in wvw, not as loot, nor as rank reward.

Did you attack the boss during the encounters? We found out with guildies that the achievement won’t trigger unless you “tag” the boss by hitting it couple of times.

Just wanted to chime in and tell that the bugs regarding the suet and the firestone are not fixed, suet still doesn’t drop and the firestone won’t appear in the vendor list.

It was quite fun to play but finding the ball is too difficult (both spotting it on the ground and spotting the person carrying it). Related achievements would have been nice also.

yeah I’m having the same problem, I’ve been dc’ing for the last 2 hours

Khisanth.2948:

Seth Moonshadow.2710:

DiscordOfSound.2190:

Heh, my last run of last night, someone yelled the Copper champ no aoe myth, and it still just amazes me that with all the guides out there, people still believe that.

Its no Myth! I have watched his health rise from 50% back to 75%. Worse when it just hangs at 50% and everyone start the debate of AoE or no. Check out Champion Mordrem Husk Copper under behavior.

Offshoot:
“Abilities
Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration. Crippled
Inflicts Deals damage every second; stacks intensity. Bleeding
Heals Allies On Death1”

Poison Bubbles Large and Small:
“Abilities
Heals Allies When Popped”

Can it be countered? Yes, absolutely. These days however the counter is less often and discussing it while trying to take him down usually ends in a failure

It is also true there are a great number of new players in SW who do not know what to do or do not have the ability to give someone else ideas a try (after all every one is right 100% of the time).
Agreed, many are not reaching or attempting to reach the cone of safety.
Agreed, many are not killing pustules.

It has been a long time since I have seen SW fail, it is happening more and more. I thought I would never see another South Lane of SW fail, but I was wrong! All we can do is try to guide others

You forgot the fine print on the wiki.

The large bubbles move on their own towards the boss and pop on their own when they are within range of the boss. If it went from 50% to 75% then that means nobody bothered to destroy the bubbles before they were close enough. 50% to 75% would be approximately 12 bubbles all near the boss. The offshoots apply regeneration which only stacks in duration not intensity.

Also, what ppl mix up with the bubbles healing and the offshoots regen is resetting. If no one gets down the pit and just range from the pits edge, copper may reset at some point and goes up in HP really fast, probably to 100% or near 100% as someone gets him aggroed again.

Usually then ppl start pointing fingers and telling that someone used too much aoe

If that’s really the company policy that’s really messed up. What if it had been Eternity he had sold for 5000g? I guess it’s a rare case but it still discourages player from using the tp.

Tell me about it.

I had a horrific experience with these OP warriors.

I went to pvp and the match was about to start. To my dismay, I noticed the enemies had 5 OP WARRIORS. One of my team mates said “oh no…” to which another one replied “what?”, but before the first one could reply AN OP WARRIOR jumped in our spawn point and cut his throat with eviscrate. The match hadn’t even started. I started wailing in horror as 4 MORE OP WARRIORS jumped in from the roof. It was slaughter. I only survived because of sheer luck as my other team mates got slain over and over and over again.

Finally the match started and I managed to escape our spawn and I hid at their spawn curled into a ball. I could still hear the screams of agony. As the match was about to finish I heard running steps coming towards me. I was hoping it was one of the escaping team mates of mine, but alas, it was AN OP WARRIOR. I tried to hide even better. At first he didn’t see me. I stayed as still as possible. He was about to leave. Out of the blue sky he suddenly shouted and I was revealed. He let out another fearsome shout and dashed towards me. I prayed to dwayna. Once again I was saved by sheer luck and the match ended and I was teleported back to the mists.

I could finally breathe normally. I hailed and hugged everyone, joyfully. I had never been as happy as I was at that moment. Strangely enough, everyone was quiet. I noticed everyone was staring at something. I turned my back and the happiness I was feeling turned into dust. 5 OP WARRIORS stood before me ready to slash. I only had time to say “oh no…”

rsimoes.3851:

Laraley.7695:

rsimoes.3851:

Ashen.2907:

rsimoes.3851:

Mightybird.6034:

rsimoes.3851:

With this said, to be able to unlock the elite specialization you only need 60 points, which isn’t that much, so you can still experience the new specialization by mixing the olds ones with the new ones.

Err have you played HoT? No one wants to use a kitten 60pt whatever intro spec. Especially in this difficult HoT content. You’d be 2/3rds of a character.

Yes I’m playing HoT and enjoying the new specializations, No one wants to start a game at level 1 either, maybe we should all start at level 80..

When you start a game at level one you are facing level one opponents. Starting an elite spec means being effectively sub level 80 while facing post level 80 content.

That was not even the point, the point was before you can reach level 80 you need time to reach it, the elite specialization is no different that is why it is called elite, there is nothing preventing you from using your old build to unlock 2 or 3 masteries to be able to reach the new hero points, and then start building the elite specialization.

It’s the same logic as anything else, before you can start bulding new gear you use the older gear.

So you say people should just run around with 2 and a half trait lines when most bosses will just one or two shot you? When the map was designed for lvl 80 in a decent gear? Hot is not where you’re supposed to level so please don’t compare it to starting as a lvl one when everything you’ll face there will be weak lvl ones, too. Didn’t see any mobs with just half of their skills in Hot, yet.

I don’t think you read what i said.. actually i said quite the opposite, i said that you can use your current build to enjoy the new content.

The new Elite Specialization is no different from anything else, before you can fully enjoy it you will need to put some time and effort.

That’s why I think it’s a flaw in design, we get these awesome new elite specs but at the same time we are discouraged to use them until they are fully powered (especially with DD, which is poop at its starting state). Doesn’t that sound stupid?

Unlocking the spec requires us to do HoT content, unless you want to suffer through grinding wvw, which leaves less content for our fully powered elite spec to play with. As many players, me included, want their elite spec unlocked as fast as possible, it steers them into hunting hero points with our old boring builds.

Would you rather have this current system or enjoy the new content and the new full elite spec right of the bat in your own terms and pace?

I do like exploring, but I’d rather do it on my own terms, not by frantically seeking locked behind content, be it accessing full power of the elite specialization via hero points, unlocking masteries or just trying to find the next story step.

Unlocking the elite spec is even worse with daredevil as the “elite mechanic” aka third (modified) dodge is locked behind GM traits, which basically means I’m better off using 3 core specs until I have unlocked everything from the elite spec. It is bad design.

The aforementioned combined with the maze-like vertical maps filled with multiple dead ends, mastery locked stuff, unreachable hero points and way points and finally the “you cannot progress or move on until you have ended this event” type of events made the first touch with the new content rather frustrating.

To not sound like negative nancy, I did like the story.

Solaerin.8635:

The most glaring issues with this specialization are the cast times/aftercasts. In particular, the evasions that are available need attention pretty badly. Bound has a terrible aftercast that roots you in place every time you land, and there’s a slight pause before both dash and impaling lotus that make them feel unresponsive. Dash in particular has a poor animation, which often changes the way your character is facing when you use it, unlike regular evasions.

My biggest suggestion for the spec is to give dash the regular evasion animation, but with the increased distance and flashier effects. I hate to use the word clunky, because it’s been used so many times in this thread already, but that’s really the best word to describe how it feels when you use it.

Overall, none of the animations feel smooth enough. Weakening Charge is probably the biggest offender, there’s a pause before you spin, and there’s a horribly long aftercast — honestly, if you want people to use this thing you need to make it feel like a regular, non-daredevil evasion. Debilitating Arc feels like a throwaway skill that doesn’t really fit the playstyle. If you want it to fill the role of a disengage, it should feel more like Roll For Initiative (only dealing damage with not as much range). I honestly have no idea why Dust Strike has such a long cast time. The whole point of using blinds on a thief is that you’re reacting to specific, high-damage attacks, and unless that attack is longer than 3/4 seconds this is another throwaway skill. Vault is another skill that has way too long of a cast time.

The elite skill is the only new skill that I’ve put an actual effort into trying to use, and it isn’t good. Maybe I just need to learn to use it, but I haven’t landed all three hits in a single team fight or scenario where the person I was using it on wasn’t already downed. None of the other utilities were good enough to consider taking over what’s already available. Like, I don’t know why the devs seem so afraid of making really powerful utility skills on these elite specializations, every single utility is just so underwhelming compared to what we’ve been running for years. The physical skills seem cool and all but you have to design this stuff with the understanding that, if you want me to use a new physical skill, it’s going to require taking something like Shadowstep or Shadow Refuge off my bar, which is to say, it has to be incredibly good.

These are exactly my feelings as well. The new gm dodges are each aforementionedly clunky in some way. Staff doesn’t feel as convenient as other melee sets and personally I feel staff skills lack synergy among themselves. I found myself fighting not to weapon swap as I wanted to learn and figure out how to get better with the staff, but the clunky feeling overshadows it too much. I may need more practice though.

Physical skills are nice and fun to use, some more than the others, but are they good enough to take over some of the good ol’ ones? I feel they are a bit too situational and the melee ones are really hard to land, even with cast+steal or cast+infi signet combo.

We haven’t even seen the thief elite spec yet. Who knows, maybe ricochet was moved to elite spec trait line and also includes rifle. I know the wait is long, but wouldn’t it be wiser to reserve judgement until we get more info?

oh ok, yeah, it does affect hp as well

Trait trees won’t give any attribute points (i.e. vitality) anymore, hence the missing hp.

Edit: The loss of stats has been compensated in the gear, but if you are not using any gear that gives vitality, and were using a trait tree that used to give vitality, you are going to notice the missing hp

40g from infinite winters day bell back in 2012, at that time it was a lot. 90g from randomly getting the Bard from the toilet. 2 dwaynas stars, 1st 90g, 2nd 65g. Permanent BLTC trader contract from chest which I AB’d for personal use, I think it was around 250g at the time. No precursor dropped however, +5k hours played

Easily my favorite skill in the game. I just wish it was more reliable

I sincerely, truly, faithfully, earnestly, genuinely, honestly, truthfully hope that last refuge will be one of the traits that will be removed/revamped

Heya!

With so much new stuff: traits, new weapons skills, new class etc, I think it’s fair to assume that things will be at least a bit out of balance for a while after the release of HoT.

That being said, will the players be getting more frequent balance passes after the expansion? Would you prefer to do more frequent small balance patches [let’s say once per 1-2 month(s)] or continue doing larger ones, but more sparsely (twice a year)?

Depends on the circumstances but I’d say that top three in gold making is playing market, dungeon running and SW

Geotherma.2395:

Arenanet = Skynet before they get the air support?

Coincidence? I think not

File a ticket to the support, explain your situation as well as you can and wait patiently. Do not destroy the wrongly picked item until told otherwise. Support has been really helpful in my experience and I’ve had satisfying outcome in a similar kind of situation.

Oh cool, it worked, ty guys!

For the love of grenth, why some of the items don’t stack even if they seem to be the same exact type? It’s not that I’m running out of space, but it’s quite inconvenient and somewhat annoying

Cas.6182:

I for one can appreciate the effort and give the April Fools Prank a chuckle but I kind of agree. Let me clarify however, I’m not upset but instead have decided to log out until tomorrow seeing how I have plenty of other means to distract myself lol.

This. I can see why it annoys ppl, but the amount of moaning and complaining is unbelievable and people are so overdramatic.

Edit: ^ see?

ProtoGunner.4953:

Why do you want a useless stat like nomad anyways? There is only one use for it: WvW commander, otherwise this is useless trash.

I agree it has little use yes, personally nomad is for just baiting purposes and for lols in wvw, but what I use it for has nothing to do with this thread.

I cannot see them either, I have done all the ls stories and the achievements as well

edit: upon investigating this further, it seems the wiki is incorrect as I noticed that no one can see them at laurel vendor when I asked several ppl to check it, meaning the nomad ascended amulets have item codes yes, but haven’t been released.

Anet staff confirmation would be helpful though

morbidillusion.2759:

You literally made that kitten up and now you’re trying to defend it. You are the worst kind of human.

Not to derail the thread or anything, but huh?

That’s a bit personal. I can imagine tons of things that is worse than having a different opinion than I. I could justify that kind of comment if he was responsible for a holocaust, but not really in this case.

oh yeah, that works

DeanBB.4268:

For me the game is not so much about how much money I can accumulate, but the enjoyment of playing it. So I’d rather add the node to my home than sell it. Then I would enjoy harvesting that node every day. Three times, actually, since I have 2 alt accounts.

I’m pretty sure you’d have to buy 2 more for the alt accounts in that case, making it even more expensive

to recap:

-rewards aren’t good enough
-the enemies are annoying
-the map design is annoying, ( i.e the contested bottleneck camp to access the west side of the map)
-events are from hard to impossible to solo, and there aren’t that many events anyway
-the map doesn’t contribute to 100% map exploration

Only reasons I go to southsun cove is karka queen and very occasionally jumping puzzles

Also, I like what Randulf said

Yeah, I’ve noticed as well and it’s easy to reproduce. Also sometimes if I infi arrow twice to cover more ground quickly I end up teleporting in place or end up rubberbanding back (with the second arrow), but that might be just good ol’ lag

Izaya.2906:

Denis Strasse.3462:

I have 2 sets each of heavy, medium and light Armour in ascended and I don’t think it cost me anywhere near those figures Ayrilana with all due respect – it all depends on how much mats you gather. I buy some and gather others. I also have about 15 – 20 weapons in ascended. I have Grand Artisan status as have been crafting for over 2 years.

My gripe is that ascended equipment is not treated like all other items up to exotic – you can’t sell them (only a few mats) , you can’t give them to your wife which she would like and she can’t give me all the mats I need to make her stuff but has to destroy them. Empyreal fragments still take time collect even with the drop rate in silver wastes. Drop rates of mats for other things seemed to have decreased in recent days.

Pricing on the TP bears no relationship to cost in most cases. There are some inconsistencies here and there.

Gathering mats doesn’t make those mats “free” when computing for the total cost to craft something.

This. While I crafted my ascended armor pieces with cheap linen (42c a piece) I bought before the ascended armor patch, that doesn’t mean there’s no opportunity cost involved. Instead of crafting I could have gotten nice profit in gold.

ArchonWing.9480:

Hmm, not gonna say good or bad but is this one of those changes that get put in without any feedback, and all resulting feedback gets ignored so they’ll hope people will forget about it?

This. And even if it’s the case that they don’t want the feedback I wish they would be upfront about it i.e. “we’re doing this because of x and y and trying to accomplish z” at least to calm these threads.

Ah now I see it, the new thief specialization will be Lootbag. Increased chance of loot for the enemies who defeated you. New GM traits will increase mf for the enemies by 500%, increase precursor drop rate by 1000% and last one gives out gold from the thief’s wallet by random amount.

Now to be serious, it’s horrible if the z-axis nerf goes through. Even more horrible, if those gap closer nerfs go through. S/* builds will take a huge hit in every game type.

However, that all being said, while I see dark days for the thief in the near future (especially in pvp), there’ll be a new class, specializations, boon, cc and condi, which means balance will be messed up for a long time anyway

Location: Finland +2 gmt
Time: Weekdays 20:00-24:00, weekends 17:00-24:00
Game world: Far Shiverpeaks

Any news about this one?

For me this problem started after the 18. of November patch. On weekdays it usually starts at 20:00 and stops at 22:00 to midnight. At weekends it starts at 17:00 and stops around midnight, today not being an exception. For me the problem persists I think about 4 days out of 7. Game goes utterly unplayable, disconnects me and shortly after prevents me from logging for hours. Today being my only day off work this week, I’m naturally quite bitter that I cannot play.

kromi.7682:

Maris.3164:

Location: Finland
Time and date: every evening since November 18th patch, starting from 5pm-7pm local time and continuing throughout the evening. UTC+2
Game World: Desolation

Constant lag, skills/dodges ect not working at all or not activating for a long period of time, people running into walls, interacting with items happening with a delay of a few seconds or even minutes. If using a teleport skill it doesn’t activate properly and after the lagspike is over I am teleported back and forth a few times until settling.

I get alot of freezing also, and after the lagspike is over everything happens fast at once until I freeze again in less than a minute and the same happens. I disconnect every now and then after a lagspike (usually at least 2-3 times a day), and logging back in might take several minutes or I cannot login at all.

Sometimes the lagging and disconnecting stops for an hour or so but then starts again.

I’m experiencing the exact same issues since the latest patch, especially on Silverwastes. Am also in Finland, but playing on Ring of Fire. Can’t even login as of now.

I’m suffering from the exact same symptoms as well. I’m also from Finland and playing on Far Shiverpeaks. Only good thing about this is that it’s almost predictable so I can at least try to plan around it.

ninjaedit: While I was writing this post, the lag and connection issues went away as fast as they came

ninjaedit2: The connection issues came back with a vengeance, what a cruel way to play with my feelings. O lag, you harsh mistress

Dear Gaile, other devs or other A-net employees, and/or other forumites, sometimes there comes a time, when a man wants to have a drunken ramble, at 5 am, about communication and the means of delivering the news of mmorpg.

Worry not, I’ll be constructive and I’ll try to stay on topic as much as I can. These are my opinions and other people may feel differently.

First thing I would like to quote Gaile:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I think what you’re suggesting is that we have a dedicated page in the News and Announcements Forum that listed external updates: a blog post here, an interview there, that sort of thing? So you’re thinking public information provided elsewhere might be gathered in a sticky post in that forum?

Yes. In fact, every newsworthy item should posted in most portals if not all of them. And they should be all archived in the news & announcements forums. With open discussion enabled, meaning every newsworthy item should have its own thread. Like my fellow forumite, Guhracie, said many interesting things, whether it be important to a player or not, get buried in the forums, or in the worst case doesn’t get mentioned at the forums at all.

Many news, many promotions & sales, many interviews, many things, in fact most of the news I get second hand even though I am an active forum reader myself. This isn’t a bad thing itself, I know, as everyone doesn’t use the forums, but let’s say I had a 2 month break and I wanted to know what’s been happening during the break. I would have to basicly comb through endless amounts threads and reddit posts. Thats why archiving news in a known, separated, chronologically logic, uncluttered place, like the news and announcement forums, would be a good thing.

I mentioned that every newsworthy item should be posted in every news portal. And I mean everything. Hotfix changes, free bl items, that interesting (newsworthy) dev post in the 25th page of that really interesting thread.

Why everywhere? Why everything? Because I hate missing out. I tend to read most of the things I see carefully, unless I know what it’s telling me, or I’m in a hurry. Sometimes when I log in, I may not read the news in the start panel. I don’t use facebook, I don’t use twitter, (I know I’m a minority here), but if the news were organised in the news & announcements forum, I know I could ALWAYS find the newest items there.

Remember that set of those nailbiter pvp matches between Made in Meta and The Civilized Gentlemen few weeks ago? I loved those matches and I’m not even interested in pvp. It was linked to me by my friend and the link, I think, was in a news article, but I’m having a really hard time finding it again to show to other people.

The news in the frontpage are chronologically organised, but I think it’s a bit laborious to go through (especially when trying to find something specific without decent knowledge) and has some room for improvement.

Anything newsworthy that gets mentioned in facebook or twitter should also be mentioned should also be mentioned in the front page and game start panel, and therefore also archived in the news and announcements forum as a thread, whether it be something big, or even if it’s slightly silly. All this with open discussion in the thread.

As my beverages are running out, I’m running out of words to contribute this thread. I’ll check this post at morning for spelling mistakes and such. Good morning, good evening and good night o/

next to the laurel vendor in divinity’s reach

Kukchi.6173:

Ghostwolf.9863:

Escapability without anything to target, without stealth and highground to teleport to.

Warrior – GS + S/W, bulls charge.
Thief – D/D, swiftness and shadowstep.
Ele – D/D, teleport and fire GS.
Rangers – GS + S/W
Engineer with perma swiftness, rocket boots and rifle.

Thief is the king of chasing though.

You CANNOT as a warrior out run a thief.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Melandru
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dogged_March
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Lemongrass_Poultry_Soup

Not necessarily outrun, but he won’t be able to hold you down with this particular combination

I’m also getting this in gendarran fields and malchors leap. It also does a short rollback at the same time

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Tourney-and-Customer-Support

I get hit big occasionally, but most of the times I manage to slip away (shadow step, blinding powder, shadow refuge). Having said that, there are few times I’ve been hit hard and taken down instantly.

First one I remember was last year, in january, before the grenade barrage was nerfed. It took me by complete surprise to get magnet pulled and took somewhere around 26k dmg from the barrage.

Second time I was chasing a squishy rifle warrior and he started to reload kill shot. I was smashing him, figuring that I would dodge the kill shot. Again, suddenly, I was magnet pulled and instantly downed by combination of 3k pry bar and 12,5k killshot.

Third and fourth time were quite similar, getting instantly downed by fiery whirl against a bridge barrier in 3rd by an ele and phantasmal berserker by a mesmer in 4th. Both did well over 10k dmg if I recall correctly

This is an out of game -suggestion, but here goes: Actually listing all the changes (except fixing exploits) in the patch notes to avoid unpleasant surprises e.g. alphard in arah p2, troll in hotw p1, several risen skill changes.

Zacchary.6183:

I can already see this being op.

Also before you ask: Thief racials are op so I didn’t put one.

Perfect build. I like to sometimes use smoke screen instead of that scorpion wire because it’s powerful. I like how you left the elite empty, just goes to show how insanely powerful this build is.

EDIT: I just noticed those doubloons, so OP

My thief (must be at least 15 flippedy floo)

1. Ranger
2. Elementalist
3. Thief

“Darn, those necromancers outrun me every time”

“Let’s not take this keep, it would be unpleasant for our opponents if we downgraded it”

Regarding wvw:

“Even if you’re losing, you have moments and rewards and things you’re playing for that they’re compelling right down to the last minute.”

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

AsiraasiB.7165:

idk with you but the .25 isn’t exactly .25 I seem to be there a full second…

I don’t know if it’s the skill queue system, general lag or both, but yeah, it feels quite sluggish, clumsy at the moment. S/d lost some flow with it. Anyone else experiencing the same feeling?