Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mini_Polar_Bear

Lololo

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bottomless_pit

Anet had the idea that at lvl 80 everyone should have easy access to the best gear. Armor skins do not change stats so that part of the design still stands. The addition of ascended gear was a huge letdown for all of us who thought we didnt need to grind for best gear, but thats another story (gear grind wtf). Legendaries also cater to a minority looking for something fancy and I will never get one because I dont pve enough.

Catering to the 1% is a good idea, since players can be rewarded accustomed to their individual liking. The hard part would be to cater to all the 1%s out there, but this is a start.

ehmmmmmmmm……

We have our own server griefer too, draining supplies everywhere

http://i.imgur.com/O2iAoEe.jpg

Because lack of a real report function, I report them for everything a few times just to be sure.

edit: inb4infraction

Shockwave.1230:

DeceiverX.8361:

Carighan.6758:

Terrahero.9358:

And the last one has got to be a joke, you silly person :P

Well, in a way.
Long-term stealth like in WoW is used to force initiative. The idea is to always be the one to pick the fight (in return you’re weaker, so you’re forced to pick a favourable context where your victory is guaranteed – easiest example is when the target is distracted).

Stealth in GW2 feels more like a defence. It’s on two rather fragile classes (well, Mesmer more because Clones don’t fulfil their originally heralded function of confusing players since thy’re blindingly obvious), and it’s used to break target lock and force the attacker(s) to fall back to using non-targeted attacks to continue the assault.

As such, what would it’s “counter” be, other than simply attacking?
To turn the question around, how do you counter death? By not dying in the first place, correct. There’s no rezz from dead, either, only from downed. If our rezz skills worked on dead targets the whole dead-thing would lose all meaning (see: Keep Lords, which is just silly).

Stealth might be problematic in balance but mostly because it can be obtained as a combo field (and quite frequently so). Like with conditions and boons, it’s a case of being too weak but way too common.

In itself, having a “counter” would be illogical however. The point is that there isn’t a “oh my target stealthed”-button on every player’s hotbar. If there were, there’d be very little reason to stealth in the first place. Unless this costs a hotbar slot, and then players wouldn’t equip it, and still complain (see: Vitality vs Conditions).

Nicely put.

Stealth isn’t OP. It’s the accessibility of it. Nerfing stealth just removes viable builds like D/D into more frustrating ones like D/P due to the fact that D/P thieves also have blind fields to work with, too.

Blind/smoke field access is honestly what makes thieves so strong against non-ranged classes. I occasionally run a really trolly bunker thief spec in sPvP. It’s a full healing power P/P thief which effectively attritions people to death so hard that until they get reinforcements or the capacity to ignore spamming blind fields, it is unkillable. Why? Because I make you miss 100% of your attacks and hit you for 100-200 damage attacks which whittle you down for 15 minutes and eventually run you dry without either running away and resetting or you getting your friends.

And this build is literally just me pressing 5. I don’t even have to try or even play well, and I’ve been kicked from a ton of dueling servers because the build is just so infuriating to play against.

It’s not stealth, but the access to smoke fields and what ANet made absolutely ridiculous blind durations that make these builds so hard to out-play.

For anyone that thinks black powder is OP, you should try kiting around it to see just how much damage you can deal while making a thief waste initiative.

Yes and any thief with a brain won’t stand in the smoke field – he will be gone before you can hit in melee by heartseeker.

Stealth spam d/p should still be reduced, as for p/d condi cheeze spam (but that counts for condi cheeze builds in general). d/d could do with a small buff since the dual skill pretty much doesn’t fit in any build with the other skills.

Warrior op because of power creep (1-shot evis trololo) and same counts for d/p

Also the amount of hackers these days makes it discouraging to solo roam

NevirSayDie.6235:

I also find the hotjoin community to be subpar, and unfortunately the PvP community in general has gotten less friendly over the last year or so. Used to be the best subcommunity in GW2; now…it’s average at best, and hotjoins are the worst subcommunity.

Have you tried solo/team arenas? Both can be joined as a solo player, and they’re much more friendly and even than hotjoins. I have never been able to think of hotjoin as anything more than a practice area, honestly.

SoloQQ not much better than hotjoin these days…

Kincaidia.3192:

Should we complain about getting hit for 18k from an ele combo? Or 15k from a warrior killshot? Or 12k from an eviscerate? Or 15 stacks of confusion from an engineer? tsk tsk. Your QQ is PooPoo.

ele combo can see it easily.

eviscerate has huge tell, and kill shot… just lol.

backstab… enemy invisible and do random dodge and pray for the best.

Q kitten Q

I solo roam every now and then but usually when I meet others (1v1) they run untill they find more allies and gank me 5-10v1. Otherwise when they are about to get stomped more allies come in to help and I get ganked again. Even 20+ guild groups (bb, js) are chasing roamers these days across the map so yeah sucks pretty much when you don’t have op stealth so you can’t die or go sword gs war so you run like usain bolt.

at least it wasn’t 4v5 skyhammer

Xenon.4537:

Shew.6827:

Yeah, Marjory implies that the festival is Canthan themed. Speaking with her at the bazaar, she mentions that the Zephyrites’ new stock is similar to items her grandparents passed down. We know that Marjory is of Canthan descent, so put two and two together.

I think Anet wants to return to Cantha, but they can’t make any overt references to Cantha because they still have no real plans to go there yet. We can only hope that one day NCSoft’s desire for money outweighs whatever personal problems they seem to have about Cantha. I see this thread as a means to that end, and I hope it continues to get bumped.

Seems like personal problems with eastern culture seem a little irrelevant now that GW2 is released in China and the two main characters have a same-sex relationship :/. But at least they waited till after killing Scarlet so they wouldn’t have to see a kiss by two women.

Still hoping for Cantha through Tengu/Dominion of the Winds!!

Ganking people with my lvl 5 upscaled thief…. stealth thief OP especially asura and upscaled plz nerf

inb4 power creep http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gear_Grind

This map is buggy as hell too. Two times in the same match today I spawned on the bottom by the wurms, having to let them down me, kill me etc taking about 1 minute each time.

double team op plz nerf !!1!

Seems many skills are delayed or going on full cd while not doing anything. In particular torch, dagger and axe skills are affected. Also getting a lot of obstructed with projectiles when there is nothing in LoS. Thoughts?

everything that kills me is op

I think one of the main issues is that salvaging karma/badge/token armor can be “abused” to make gold of your karma/badges/tokens. While this already happens with dungeon tokens (can salvage dungeon gear for ectos, inscriptions and runes) I don’t really know why other equipment should not be salvagable.

To avoid “abuse” of karma/badge gear salvage gold farm, arenanet could implement 1) do not add upgrade components to vendor gear, so for instance rune of melandru can’t be farmed with karma, or sigil of force can’t be farmed with Badge weapons. Instead make each ‘temple armor’ vendor sell a specific stat armor (berserker, knight etc etc). 2) Add small cost (~50 silver) to each armor piece (like lvl 80 Badge armor has already) just to counter most gold gain by salvaging for ectos. 3) Optional: add previously mentioned runes/sigils to karma/badge vendors so you can buy them with these tokens, but make them account bound so you can’t make a profit out of them (just like with dungeon token vendors).

1024×768 this is 2014 bro

BrotherBelial.3094:

So people playing together to take out champs like they are suppose to. How dare people play together as a group. It’s not like guild wars 2 is an MMO or anything…….. Wait………

These people don’t work together, they are just spamming 1 in the same general area

Suddenflame.2601:

Mal.1670:

Currently you cannot salvage equipment you purchased with Karma, Badges of Honor and certain other exceptions. This is a huge problem for people who have, for instance, invested in expensive runes for armor that isn’t being used anymore, but since there is no way to transmute equipment now we can’t “transfer” upgrades from equipment.

The solution is simple:

If you salvage equipment that was bought with Karma or Badges of Honor, you get NO essences of luck/globs of ectoplasm/dark matter/crafting materials, none of that. You ONLY get the chance based on your salvage kit of getting the upgrade back. This solves so many issues it’s not even funny.

Also ANet, get rid of your stupid Upgrade Extractors from the Gem Store. Those are an insult to the playerbase. Starting price of 250 gems for ONE? Jesus Christ what the hell…

You used to but people began to exploit it. So no you wont get that back. Your asking for impractical things. No one is forcing you to use upgrade extractors but people buy them therefore they will stay. Your asking for unreasonable demands.

Upgrade extractor 250 gems (200 in bulk) = 25g (20g)

Most runes/sigils are 5-10 gold (except generosity which is ~50g)

Why would anyone buy an extractor to salvage something of his equipment? You spend far less by buying new equipment + sigil/rune instead.

There are only a handful of exceptions, like to remove high agony resistance infusions and that applies only to a few people.

Really make these items cheaper like 50 gems per unit and 40 each in bulk so they might actually be useful.

I like when someone gets killed by a thief it’s “l2p” but when a thief gets killed they are “underpowered” or other class is “OP”.

Right now got killed by perma-stealth thief (WvW so yes it’s not balanced because he had 25 stacks and 5 guard stacks and I had none (power creep op)). I managed to get him low health but of course – stealth, reset fight and try again.

It wouldn’t be so bad if each time I try to knockback/pull him out of black powder I get insta blinded all the time. Dodge? by the time dodge animation is over he already leaps into stealth mode. My skills are on 20-30 sec cooldown and he can just insta spam without cooldown again.

Repair anvil’s plans got foiled by anet… no more repair cost x.x

Bowflex.4502:

Supreme.4051:

come back next year and find out backstab has been ‘nerfed’ to 12.5k hit.

stealth is a passive mechanic that is bad by nature in active combat which gw2 is trying to achieve… can’t believe people are actually trying to defend it.

Stealth is a passive mechanic? Clearly someone doesn’t play thief, and has zero experience.

Landing and CnD mid fight is tough, shadow refuge has a cast time, and if you have any form of situational awareness it’s pretty easy to spot and prepare an aoe or knock back.

Blinding powder / heart seeker combo is a 2 stage prep and easily spotted. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen thieves kittened out of it due to a block ect.

Fighting as a thief, stealth is hardly passive, and it doesn’t make you immune to cc or damage.

High end pvpers don’t have an issue with this, only poor players who prefer to blame a class rather than themselves.

For every 10 of you whining, there’s a great player with zero issues

If anything thieves should be whining, we got the short end of the stick and it’s never been harder to compete high end as a thief,

Hate to say it, but anyone who disagrees, is just showing their inexperience as a player.

Edit, and quit saying you can’t see it coming, you can. Thieves don’t run around in stealth across the map like a rogue in wow. Mostly they don’t even enter stealth until after the steal, which has a limited range. If you didn’t see the thief approaching into steal range, that’s your lack of awareness.

‘High-end PvP’, ‘gw2 esport’ lolo

CnD hard to land? Just reminding you that you can land it on pretty much anything? Why try to hit this pesky player who has a dodge, while pets, spirits, minions, clones, phantasms, turrets, gates, walls (yes you can CnD off a 30 feet long inamimate object). Even if it’s dodged then you can just try again because your skills have no cooldown.

Black powder spams blind so most melee attacks will miss ofc (how do you even block this? unless you have auto-targetting on and leap into someone). If you even have an aoe knockback/pull then you’re lucky but otherwise moar stealth and blind incoming. Of course when a thief is in stealth he’s not immune to everything but any thief with more than 2 brain cells will know to avoid attacks.

I do feel bad for thieves like you out there, noone likes to play against you because of this bad mechanic

to be a free lootbag

+1 so thieves actually need l2p

come back next year and find out backstab has been ‘nerfed’ to 12.5k hit.

stealth is a passive mechanic that is bad by nature in active combat which gw2 is trying to achieve… can’t believe people are actually trying to defend it.

hiding from power creep

I get Xv1’d all the time when running around in WvW… serves them right to get double-teamed

Psychol.5783:

If we are losing with 200+ points then I won’t let them farm me lol, firstly they should implement good old – /resign

And exploit /resign… remember hero battles in gw1? yes (red resign, it was fixed by removing the game mode).

Bloodstealer.5978:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

zoom hacking is no longer an issue, as i have 3 monitors i can confirm ACs now have a limited LoS that can hit, reguardless if a player has the ability to see somewhere the AC seems to be limited by a set standard LoS limitation

See? Zoom hacker confirmed.

Stupid answer is just… well stupid.

Nowhere in that person post did it suggest he/she was zoom hacking.. multi monitor is a supported function by ANET.
You clearly don’t even know the difference between a zoom hack and legitimate FoV techniques via that are fully supported by ANET… you wanna call someone out aim it at the people that implemented the mechanics of the game not others just cos u got ya butt shot full of arrows.

Maybe do some read up before coming out and calling others zoom hackers so blatantly without the slightest clue of what your talking about.

But hey come Monday this thread will be reaching out for the bottom of the black hole anyway.

So you needed 3 monitors to get a ‘legit zoomhack’ ? Smells like pay2win to me lolo

These days I found ACs to be limited in where to aim, so maybe it’s fixed….

Same with weapons… Had some PVT weapon with sigil of force to transmute onto other stat weapon.

Can’t do it anymore so useless weapon clogging up inventory.

Real problem, passive gameplay:

stealth
AI: clones, minions (not ranger pet because they suck mostly)
healing signet
etc

This game was supposed to be active combat, why make passive builds strongest?

because pvp should be like pve… spamming skills and standing afk

power creep

15char

GS buff is ok as long healing signet gets a decent nerf

GS + Hammer, chill on swap sigils, Judge’s intervention as utility (combines nice with Ring of Warding).

Most players won’t know what hit them, some op thieves/with ALL teh teleports n stealth will still be able to run away.

Use Banish or Greatsword 5 to get enemies out of Shadow Refuge or interrupt Leap while they are in Blinding Powder.

GG Theifs hide yo kids hide yo wives yo gonna get stomped by guards !!

Venomge.7142:

Just read/watched some materials on GW lore. And I got the feeling that GW1 was way better than GW2 in terms of story/lore. I wish GW2 got expansions like GW1 did, i’d pay for that without hesitation.

GW1 had some good and some bad things storywise. Like GW2 it suffered somewhat from the ‘main NPC’ being useless/annoying problem (Rurik, Togo, Kormir). But it was designed good. Doing the story was the main part of your progression when leveling up and there were main quests in between the missions that connected events and areas.

I liked the Canthan areas/missions too, although I think it was kinda in a hit or miss fashion in the playerbase.

Lore-wise there’s still plenty to do in Cantha so going back there would be +1 from me.

Bump

Waypoints continually contested by perma-stealth thieves… trololo

I think it would be better to rename ‘hot-join’ to ‘thief and mesmer-join’ pvp.

At least you know what to expect

Zylonite.5913:

It is funny when all these “Thank you” posts comes from people that have spent zero dollars in game and requesting more updates.

So now only people who have spent money on gems are supposed to get updates?

But I have to agree with the OP that GW2 ain’t that bad at all, especially when you try another MMO for a couple days you might just start to appreciate GW2 a bit more

From an ethical point of view, is it wrong the let the lord be killed over and over again by the players? It’s modern day torture…

Why do you think looking back in the combat log isn’t informative enough?

Talyn.3295:

Given how hard we laughed at the youtube video of your guild getting slammed. But in case you have forgotten due to one to many hammer hits to the head. I hunted it up for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WCq986sCpU

Who’s guardian only spamming 1 on staff during fight? This guy is just leeching bags…

There’s allot to come pal.

pupi.2465:

jsduke.6537:

No dueling in PVE zones. No thanks. Never.

You want to duel? Go to PvP arenas and duel your heart out. That is what that area is for.

If you don’t like the way dueling works in PvP arenas, then request changes to that part of the game. Don’t bring that crap to PVE.

You do realise that Duels dont affect Pve right? Tho, duelling was a part of waiting for long queues (Raids and Dungeons) in past mmo’s and training even when someone would teach you some moves when they know more than you the class you’re playing (even for pve bosses fight), your hate against duelling jsut delay your pve experience in a sense of boredon.

Ppl asking for the denial of such features that would benefit all kinds of players and not only for those who are found of pvp is just going backwards in time.

When you ask for devs (please no this, and no that) know this, you are denying a part of the game that would bring something for you, in a case of another when you least could expect.

Say no to content (even pvp when you dont like) = enjoying your empty world. (just see as the current state of the game is).

just a tip.

I’d rather walk around in an empty world with a few friends/guildies than getting swarmed by thieves spamming duel.

In terms of priority I’d like to see some improvements to pvp first before they spend precious time on implementing dueling.

Somehow a few of the traps in obsidian sanctum got bugged. The indiana jones style rock slide and the spike traps on the platforms after that are not working. Now all enemy players can just casually skip these traps. It’s a shame because especially the spike traps are great for making people fall.

Hope there will be a fix soon (sfr/rs/vs matchup btw, are any other matchups affected as well?).

Victory.2879:

I’d reply to this thread but I’d get another infraction point.

Better watch out because all those infraction might just retaliate with worse RNG for your account, no precursor drop for you mate #tinfoilhat

Not a bad suggestion though…