Guild Wars 2

What do people think, yes or no?

I see this a compromise for the large number of people who dont want ascended gear in the game. Make it pve only.

Anet will lose people with their current implimentation while trying to please the grinders…so why not do both. I doubt any of the pve grinders play wvw anyway.

Current Vote:

Yes: 46 (56%)

No: 36 (44%)

Because warriors are boring? And unless you are doing dungeons with hardcore speed runners it doesn’t matter if you kill things 0.5s quicker?

And because you wvw, or pvp?

But I think your real point is that warriors are OP in pve which is true. ANet should do something about that…

Hunting skills in gw1 was fun because there were so many to acquire. Gw2 by comparoson has hardly any skills, so the effort of finding them would not take very long. But they also just cant add more skills, because having so many skills made the game too hard to balance. You can’t have the best of both worlds.

akanibbles.6237:

are rangers now viable?

Hahahahahaha

Basically the HP pools have not been balanced in line with all other changes to classes.

Warriors should have had theirs nerfed when they got active condition removal.

Necro’s should be forced to sacrifice more HP for their utility skills.

Ele’s probably need a bit more.

Everyone else is fine.

Is this attempted trolling? Infinite levels? Please go away.

I actually did the same thing yesterday, got my warrior out for a change and it actually just made me angry. Seriously kitten easy mode. What a joke.

All faith in anet balance team gone.

This has already been said but these traits should not be competing with each other.

Any condition build needs both of these to put out damage comparable to other classes.

I would also argue that traps used in power builds don’t necessarily need to be traited, but are required to for condi builds.

I propose merging sharpened edges with hidden barbs, especially as hidden barbs is not that useful if you cant apply any bleeds…

He’s stuck in an EOTM karma train.

Living story was a colossal failure, even in revenue terms. They should have just worked on new, unique zones that players could work through at their own pace.

They still could have had gem store items unique to these zones too, and players buy those items if and when they need them.

As it stands I missed most of LS season 1, and I can never play that content again. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

Why would you create something only a portion of your player base can participate in, rather than something everyone can do in their own time?

Disappointed by the wvw change. I liked watching you pve guys suffer

Agree with OP. I like metal, and I want metal options for all classes.

Yep, drives me crazy. Have been looking for 3rd part solutions.

So a build that can 1-2 shot and gets 1 shot itself is op?

Sounds balanced to me.

@Riondron – none of that means kitten if no one is playing the game.

People are complaining because they care. And if ANet continues to ignore what people say, they won’t have any players left.

Sounds like you want more face and body options…not new races.

Yeh its a shame the whole game is not one giant racial war where you get to pick sides. WvW included.

I’d kill all non-humans for sure.

Expansion confirmed!

Totally agree. Even though some of the female models have thinner frames the boobs are still way too big. It makes them look like a porn star from the 80s…

And that’s not a good thing.

Too bad the male equivalent is a trenchcoat!

Press b

Go to obsidium sanctum

Exit to LA

Profit

There is also materials that don’t have a spot in the materials tabs like Firefox clusters…

Its actually going to be a mainhand pistol, and the specialisation is called Space Marine.

Eotm is not wvw…

Enough of the P2W argument already. IF you think GW2 is pay to win, you’re an idiot.

What GW2 is, is grind to win, and roll a warrior to win. And this is the problem with the game.

You are assuming that the lore was written as part of some over-arching story arc, with great consideration given to continuation and consistency in the plot.

Rather I think the lore of Guild Wars is a bunch of random stories written by numerous people, who have absolutely no collaboration with each other…

Dragons are lazy I guess.

Bombsaway.7198:

What I think is really interesting?
Doubling of stuns and dazes.
Almost permanent 105 power boost with mighty swap
Crippling enemies for 10 seconds when at 50% should be quite good.
Having moving pets for only 20 pts in nature which might make a number of viable builds open up. Gives us a fair bit more defense actually.

The problem with stuns is that we only have 1 per weapon, and that usually gets eaten up by some defensive trait. The duration doesnt matter because no1 gets stunned in the first place.

Longbow ranger has stealth on skill 3.

Also you can stow the pet outside of combat. Or use the guard skill to position it somewhere else.

Also longbow rangers are made for distance, and are terrible at close range.

I have a much bigger problem with bloodlust, guard leech, and applied fortitude.

No endgame!? What about all the ascended gear coming!?

Seriously though…the initial post is not insulting at all. What he is try to say is that there is plenty of ways to entertain yourself in this game once you reach level 80. And fortunately for for the OP, he has found several things that he does enjoy.

Some people though, only enjoying one type of endgame such as gear grinding, and that is their problem.

Warriors are heavy. Heavy should mean slow…

Holland.9351:

One of the major issues with Longbow is it requiring 50 trait points to grab its traits:
30 in Marksmanship for Piercing Arrows and Eagle Eye
20 in Skirmishing for Quick Draw

The Shortbow has the same problem:
20 in Marksmanship for Piercing Arrows
20 in Skirmishing for Quick Draw

Both Quick Draw and Piercing Arrows only affect the Longbow and the Shortbow. So both the Longbow and the Shortbow need to spend at least 40 trait points to get their relevant traits.

The solution is quite obvious if you see it:

Longbow Mastery (replaces Piercing Arrows – 20 point into Marksmanship)
Longbow arrows pierce and Longbow skills have 20% less cooldown

Shortbow Mastery (replaces Quick Draw – 20 points into Skirmishing)
Shortbow arrows pierce and Shortbow skills have 20% less cooldown

With this both the Shortbow and the Longbow only need 20 points to get piercing arrows and less cooldown on their skills instead of 40. Talk about improving build diversity!

With this change, If you still want to use both Longbow AND Shortbow together and want both to pierce AND have 20% less cooldown, then it’ll cost you 40 points. Which is exactly the same amount as before the change.

Currently the game basically tells you to go dual bow with how the Piercing Arrows and Quick Draw are set up.

Good idea.

Is this meant to be ranger qq thread? Because if so long range shot was not buffed at range…this kind of damage was possible pre patch…

You must be noob :|

Its a pretty stupid comment IMO because the game would be unrecognisable if it had a trinity.

All of the class skills, traits, and play styles would be different. And the combat that he says is the best wouldn’t exist either.

His statement contradicts itself.

Laserbolt.6731:

^^^

Looking at Impact’s analysis. And the analysis of others above, it is easy to see why players queuing solo are at such a disadvantage over a thoughtful team that has played together and weighs all these things, and (thinks in the way Impact is pointing out).

It would be worth a discussion on just HOW a solo player can have the best chance.

I would argue that bunker @home and 4 @mid should be the standard for solo queue.

The problem for medium is the chest pieces cover the legs.

There are plenty of pants but only about 3 chest pieces that don’t cover them.

The second problem is that the crotch on the pants looks really weird if you do have it uncovered.

There is no bulge.

A number of the traits they didn’t change are the ones no one ever takes…

It’s seriously weak now. Great way to throw 10+ stacks of burn on yourself.

It needs resistance.

Raine.1394:

The original conception of the best gear (power-wise) being trivial to acquire meant that WvW could work without the stricter leveling that takes place in sPvP. Not so sure that’s the case once the power curve has been ascending for awhile. Taking gear out of he equation somehow might be a workable solution in WvW.

A better solution would be to remove vertical progression from the game, then no-worries really.

Well that is clearly not going to happen. Anet is committed to vertical progression. But I say let’s try and get them leave it out of wvw

I would like this for fracs in particular. My situation means I can’t ever really commit to 1+ hours of continuous play anymore, so I won’t burden a group by joining and then having to quit.

At least if it was solo mode I wouldn’t feel guilty for quitting half way through due to RL commitments.

Jrunyon.3012:

So all of you people that complain about ascended in wvw, you don’t kill up levels right? I mean, that would be just hypocritical. You also make sure to party your enemy and make sure they’re wearing the appropriate gear so that you’re both on an even level right? Do you at least make sure to ask them how many hours they have been playing and their estimated skill level?

Wait, you don’t do this?

Then stop complaining.

Again, I think a lot of people would like a completely level playing field but the game was not made that way. However the existing cap of level 80 and exotic weapons are accepted as easy to obtain. The introduction of time gated ascended gear will widen the gap.

Wow some very noobish posts today.

This update is the single biggest shakeup to gear, traits, skills, balance the game has ever had.

That means your old builds might not work, might need to be changed, or might be gone forever.

However, completely new builds are now available, and it will be a couple of months before community starts to figure all of these out.

This is a very exciting time, and you should embrace the changes.

L Step.8659:

I thought the celestial amulet and might sigils/runes needed a nerf before the actual stat, ah well.

The leaked reddit patch notes that Anet said were fake seemed much more balanced than this list does to me :x

I don’t see much changing from a pvp perspective.

Neither do I. Might is weaker but still just as necessary, and will be provided in exactly the same way.

It hurts ele, engi, war from a 1v1 perspective but not at the team level.

Welcome to real life.

@op I have been wondering the same thing. Seems foolish.

The boons should be permanent while the spirits are alive as well (given that they die so easily).

I say change the pulse time to 1s.

Sandpit.3467:

Sorry, what is the problem we’re trying to solve here? So many afk that events scale too hard? No, that’s just BS. People got to pee, answer the phone, attend to kids. Perhaps if more of you had a life and didn’t farm a sad repetitive, and rather unrewarding map we wouldn’t have silly moan threads like this.

Perhaps you would prefer a single player game?

AFK in competitive formats is a bane, but in open world? Really? No

If you did vw regularly you would understand how much of a problem this is.

Not sure what you want to accomplish from this thread.

People are going to list the skills that annoy them, or that their particular build doesn’t have a counter for, like ranger LB2, necro lich form, mezmer MOA, etc…

But none of those are viable at tournament level so who cares?