Guild Wars 2

OriOri.8724:

Sunshine.5014:

If you start now, and get to Legendary for both S3 and S4, you will get it. Also, honestly getting to Legendary is not that hard. Just play strictly 3 games a day, regardless of win/lose.

Why only play 3 games a day?

For the daily plays.
It also allows the “hard core” players to move on ahead from you leaving players more you level behind.
Sometimes its best to not play too much, and get into bad habits or losing streaks ( kinda like gambling, play till you win but lose 5+ times because with each loss it just effects you mentally more )

there’s probably more.

It would be nice if a group who’s been doing X fractal can update their group search for Y fractal without having to put it in twice for it to work.

This is absolutely the most frustrating thing about the tool.

Example : Did fractal 60 for T3 daily, trying to get a group going to 57 ( also T3 daily ) but by the time you update the description, people join for 60 because it auto shows the last description.

mrauls.6519:

Daily plays achievement is stupid as kitten

I completely agree, I had planned to literally play the 3 matches per day for 7 days, probably not be passed 2nd division, so for my tier 3 achievement I’d simply have to get to diamond, and by that point I’d be caught up with the rest of the gang who does 1 achievement tier per season…

Had to work my kitten off last season to do so since I started 3 weeks before it ended since I recently got better internet and can actually try to compete.

But now with this, a lot of people may get locked out.

EDIT : Oh wow seems ayrilana is right, thought it was locked like everything else until the previous tier was done. Guess I overreacted too quick, not that I overreacted, was just a little sad lmao.

This actually makes it that much harder for me to finish the legendary back back.. I started late last season and I have 7 days of daily plays to do… now most of those crossing won’t even count for my track since I need to finish those 7 days of 3 matches before it starts counting the division crossing.

This literally kittens me over =\

Vornollo.5182:

You don’t happen to run Shadow Art’s “Hidden Thief” trait, do you?
Because if you do, that’s why. Try it without Black Powder and timing the Steal at the very end of the Heartseeker animation.

If you’re not running Hidden Thief, then I don’t know what it is that’s causing you to get revealed… It’s definitely not a bug I’ve ever ran into.

Very traditional DA/TR/DD

But I tested it out more, and so far its super consistent if I literally steal ASAP after heart seeker is used.

I usually try to time my steal mid heart seeker to interrupt something so I don’t always steal asap. If I heart seeker close and they don’t use a skill I simply won’t bother to steal and save it for for a bit after. Because saving it for that extra burst damage ( mug + damage on interrupt ) feels more important.

I mean, it seems I’m the only one effected by this, so its gotta just be a timing thing with less latency and me just being kitten

Achey.3612:

first i’d like to say blackpowder>heartseaker is such a waste of initiative unless you’re finishing someone off with less than half hp. but with that issue with reveal, it’s not worth the potential damage boost. that’s exactly why i’ve abandoned heartseeker as a stleath completely. bound offers a much more consistent result.

it could be a number of things. it could be that your computer, rather than your internet, is making you lag and it processes your damage weird, especially if you’re traited with mug.

i use bound to stealth because it’s usually the LAST thing to cause damage, after steal damage, and sigils. also, it seems to stealth after the animation ends for bound. i successfully stealth 99% of the time. i’m confident of it.

I agree that bound is super reliable for stealthing, but dash is very useful for that mobility, combined with SB you’re pretty much untouchable ( implying you are without it anyway lol ) But having immunity to movement impairing effects is what pulls me to using it.

Ill try things out and see if my results are any better, but yeah, so far this reveal thing is quite frustrating.
With my internet being way better I’m actually able to focus on PvP and try and get better, this bug ( for me ) makes me sadface =\

Is anyone else having a hard time getting this to work without revealing yourself ?

I do the typical rotation, and get constantly ( roughly 80% of the time ) revealed.
If I do the same thing, but with bound instead, the success rate is extremely higher, and I barely get revealed doing that.

Iv’e tried countless times even against the golems in the pvp lounge and it’s the same thing all the time. Iv’e even tried spamming my stow away button in case it was me auto attacking causing it to reveal stopping me from using backstab and nope, I land next to the golem revealed and with my weapons put away.

Iv’e recently moved and my internet is monstrous compared to what I had previously, I don’t think that would cause my attacks to register so fast that it reveals me before I get the chance to even stealth =\

I agree, when you pick an elite spec you should be giving something up in return.
guardian/necromancers kinda do that.

But example, Chronomancer literally only gains things and doesn’t lose anything.
Changing or replacing all F1-4 skills ( making F4 CS ) would mean no distortion if you grab chrono, giving incentive ( example ) of sticking with base mesmer.

Same for thief, I personally feel like Daredevil isn’t a “thief” it’s like some acrobatic person, steal should be reworked or changed completely. Remove steal and 3 dodges as stances ? who knows. But it should help with making base classes viable again.

I dunno, I mean this just happened.

I’m not sure if my team of diamond were just THAT good and had to fight better players, no a better overall team, for this to happen.

The queue was pretty fast/average too, wasn’t any 10+ min type of thing, more along the lines of 3-5 min.

EDIT : Changed the pic and it’s being wonky maybe.
Either way, it was full diamond vs full legendary.

Togo.7094:

that’s why you always volunteer. not only do you get 25 bonus points but you also get credit for the win. not sure if you get credit if you didn’t volunteer though

If you don’t volunteer you get no bonus and no win.

So yeah, it’s best to swap over for a free win.

Is it actually 4k ? or would it be proccing air/fire/blood sigils ?

AA gets buffed/Acrobatic gets a rework ( still unused ) and literally everything on thief is being QQ’d about.

I don’t even understand why.

Looking at the video ( twitch ) preparedness isn’t baseline thus far.
Who knows if it will be by the 26th or not though ( doubtful >_> )

One thing I’ve just recently read, and gave me this idea is that elite specs current give more compared to their non-elite spec counter parts.

From the thief perspective ( while still a little under performing imo )
They gain an extra dodge/custom dodges, additional weapon choice + skills etc.
Or even mesmer, they gain F5 and a new effect ( alacrity ) which in all honesty is nothing but an upgrade.

And while we all know core trait lines could use some buffing, I always thought that when you get an elite spec ( say thief again ), that Daredevil would replace “trickery” since trickery was all about steal etc and that daredevil would basically bring something to replace F1 ( steal ) kinda like Reaper did. So basically Trickery would only be selectable within the “elite” trait line, like DD is.

This would truly be a win/lose situation, where chosing DD would actually make you lose steal/other thief goodies ? ( Trickery does have that 3 initiative etc. )

In all honesty, when I first heard of elite specs, I always thought that the traitline focusing on the class mechanic would also be an “elite” traitline but yeah, thoughts ?

The internal CD is your endurance bar.

You can’t dodge forever, and wasting all your dodges on uncatchable means you have no more dodges for stuff that matters.

This is a non-issue.

I’m curious about this no risk, medium reward thing.
Do explain.

Cuz I’m having a great time running around with High risk/Low reward.

Having played tales of phantasia/Star ocean.

I always liked their

X button at long range = Y attack
X button at close range = Z attack

( Two different attack, same button. )

Couldn’t something of this nature be used for thief to even further their options a little more ?

Like that whirling axe.
targeting an enemy and using it 600 range or less = whirling variant we have now.
targeting an enemy and using it 601 range-1200 = eviscerate like attack ( obviously not as strong, with a whirl finisher cuz why not ? )

Thoughts ?

Why is impossible odds locked for like 3 seconds upon swapping to shiro ?
there’s literally no point to this and destroy fluidity >_>

During the meta event, I simply can’t avoid a crash ever.
Everywhere else in the game has been much more stable since the patches have been rolling out. I was hoping this event would be fixed too, but still nope

And this is when attacking the octovine only too, at no other point.

So every day there’s 2 pairs of prof for the daily ( minus engi, who are for some reason more special than everyone else. )

Would it be possible to have a clause or secondary condition in which winning 3-5 matches would also give you that specific daily ?

Example….

Warrior/ele is one daily.
Thief/Mesmer is the other.

But if I win 3-5 matches with X other prof, it would let me complete my daily as well, would just have to play more to get it.

stof.9341:

Technically, since it’s impossible to get 6 utilities, you can make Improvisation work with physicals with the same proc rate as before the DD.

Just in case you didn’t know, regardless of what’s equiped there’s a chance to select that skill.

So if you have all deception skills, it could still recharge “trap” skills as an example.

So updating the skill will nerf if it 1/5 to 1/6.

100% is 100%.

What is 100% of 100? Def 100.
What is 100% of 150? Def 150.

Signet of agility ( example ) would obviously restore the whole 150 endurance.
There’s absolutely 0 reason it would.

Same for 50% refills, which would fill 75 endurance, which is 50% of DD’s new endurance bar. A dodge and a half refilled.

And while it does “cost” 50% for a dodge with 100 endurance. if you have 75% of your endurance filled, its not going to remove 37.5 endurance for your dodge ( Which is 50% ) It’s going to remove “50” endurance, like it always has.

Simple math ladies.

Wait… So when you do pick this new trait line, are you still able to pick “trickery” ?

I haven’t bought the game due to waiting for thief specialization so I’m unsure about how this honestly works…

So mesmer with Chronomancer can still pick illusions ?

And I’m also a little disappointed that this is pretty much what acrobatics should have been, but Ill wait until tomorrow to judge.

welp, that almost makes me want to pick up ele after almost 3 years of never touching them.

people yell “cleanse the burn”, yeah but it’s reapplied like seconds later =\ It’s on the absurd side honestly.

Their heal is like, a better version of skelk venom too.
I’m quite jelly.

You know, at 7:16 in your video, you use steal and your deception skills all recharge.

A little cute to be praising executioner when the video you post actually has improvisation traited in lol….

for those trying to watch it.

Agree completely, thanks for making the choice much easier on me.

Before I had to pick between 5 trait lines and now only having to care about 3 makes it so much easier on me.

Making Shadow arts and acrobat absolutely garbage made that choice better since I didn’t have to weigh in 5 different trait lines, as only 3 are remotely viable.

Kill or be killed ( typically ending in the latter, since other classes can be full damage and still have some sort of survivability )

And lastly, won’t even need to buy the expansion either, since nothing can save the thief now lmao

Use F5…

Die…

Prince of Persia ?

would be pretty sweet I dunno lmao

I’m serious though.

No new professions.. ok…

But at least each a new weapon would be kinda nice at this point of the game’s life.

So, we had leaks of engie with hammers and guardians with longbows etc etc… ( that was such a long time ago )

what ever happened to having new weapons ?
Or are we doomed to have the same few for all eternity ?

Spiderbite.8049:

again with this?

It’s coming out in the cantha/crystal desert expansion with four new dungeons, hardmode for current dungeons, and guild housing where your flying mounts can duel while wearing capes that drop legendaries every time you log on.

So never ?

/15char

Red border around the “portal exit” skill when you’re out of range of your entrance.

Why hasn’t this been done yet ?
Are we supposed to carry some type of in game ruler to determine that distance ?
It’s all a guessing game to be honest ( trial and error until you know good spots to drop the portal at ).

This would just really help, because 2k+ distance doesn’t tell me much.
And with my bigger screen I stretch out the mini map and can’t really use it as a guideline.

Agree with the tomes being so spread out, that or to at least get experience per match win/loss as a small bonus would surely entice people a little more too.

I’d like to see a level up track, a 1 time thing that maybe has 60-80 “rewards” total ( much like the ones now are 40 )

And you’d use that to level up your character to 80.

This is a 1 time thing per character and would also help/speed things up for new chars who need the skill points for traits/etc that they need.

Level 80 chars could use the extra skill points too I’m sure.

My favorite race is charr by far, but why would I use a charr with their stretched and ugly armor skins when I can use a human and know that their armors got a lot a work put into it instead of a stretched out model?

Wolfey.3407:

Azrael.4960:

That’s not likely ever to happen. The whole point of a lot of these skins was that they were available during the event only. It promoted the achievement farming during the event. To go and make them retroactively available is going to raise the ire of a lot players, even when it doesn’t really affect them.

I did not mean make them available again for new players, I meant if you have EARNED them in the past, you will have them UNLOCKED in your wardrobe.

Example:
I have the Achievement: “Boss Week” completed.
Attached to that title is a chest for: “Wings of the sunless”

Under my purposed idea, because I have “Boss Week” completed, the “Wings of the Sunless” will automatically be unlocked in my wardrobe, even if I do not have that skin anymore.

If that still confuses you let me know and ill try to clarify a bit more ^-^

This would make way too much sense.
Due to that will probably never be implemented.
R.I.P my fused gloves :’(

Wait, people are actually angry that they want chinese players to watch a european tournament ?

When the NA tournament starts I def don’t want to see any of you hypocrites there.

It’s OP at being garbage imo.

Shadow step is 2 stunbreaks in one too, something we can’t forget.
Either way.

I’d stick with lyssa for no, it still does its job extremely well.

I always check if he posted something else at another place. Work of art.

Yup, 10/30/0/0/30

D/P with sleight of hand.

Really good burst capabilities and it never really abused initiative traits, so the initiative buff is probably most apparent with this set up.

Posting my support for this. We should be able to skip the whole thing after doing it at least once on the account.

Rubik.7192:

Kanto.1659:

Oooh! The PvE tutorial! Man, don’t post this in the PvP forums -_- Sure, I’m game for skipping the PvE tutorial but it very literally takes two minutes or so.

Yeah I was talking about the pve tutorial. The reason I’m posting this in the PvP forums is that spvpers are constantly remaking alts based on the meta and to test new builds out so I figured I would get the best support here.

^this.

PvP players have to go through the pve tutorial every time, not a big deal but still annoying the 39072390572th time.

vincecontix.1264:

The fact you’ve said that mesmer have more stealth indicate you have some learning to do about the mesmer class.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Health

What ? I mean, they DO have more health.
A little less than 5k health extra is at times a big deal. Especially since toughness really doesn’t scale all that well unless you spec full bunker.

Vuh.1328:

Takato.4976:

Tone down the condition spam or give other classes more condition cleanses then.

Condition spam isn’t even a big problem anymore, necros have been toned down alot already.

coming from someone who only has lyssa every 90sec or 2 condi removal on my heal skill as only removal.

Clearly, that’s why Necros ( Staff and signet of spite ), Engineers ( Nades + incendiary ), Mesmers ( Any build revolving around staff ) and warriors ( nuking basically the whole point with near permanent burning + torment/bleed[sword] ) haven’t been running rampant for ages now.

Conditions are insane, anyone who says otherwise either has sufficient cond cleanse or are the ones practically spiking others with conditions, something that should be damage over time.

People seem to forget that condition specs are tanky as kitten, deal so much damage in such a short amount of time ( Bleed + burn + poison + torment together is just ridiculous ) AND still have damage associated with their attacks too.

Tone down the condition spam or give other classes more condition cleanses then.

I don’t remember it being once per account… I have 9ish char slots and EVERY new character goes through the tutorial, ( it’s honestly annoying at this point. )

The sad part in all of this is how much it sums up PvP so well.
Lots of work to be done Devs.

If possible, I would like for my ticket to be reviewed.

Ticket # : 150813, sent on Sunday IIRC.

Anything is appreciated as far as replies goes.