Guild Wars 2

I’m going to copy my post from Reddit:

I like the concept but the execution is poor at the moment.
Animations – most of them are recycled and don’t feel fluent with sword.
Damage – Pure sword damage is… underwhelming.
Sword skills range is also too low.
Survivability – barrier that Weaver alone can generate is negligible. Those numbers need to be 3-4 times larger (yes, it is that bad).
Skills and utility – concept of dual skills is very interasting but those skills don’t feel impactful.
Elite is strong but very situational (like every Ele elite to this day which is sad).

Such long basic cooldown on elements is unacceptable. That’s why Weaver feels clunky and not fluent in gameplay. This is the core thing that needs to be changed.
Overall I’m pretty dissapointed because the concept itself is a dream come true. Some people may break their fingers trying to play it. Elements changing mechanics is kinda overkill. I see the vast amount of work that has been put into this spec but I don’t think it will work.

There should be a way to make this buff permanent.

Vinceman.4572:

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But I would be fine with Anet picking the devs from LS and fractals to develop these 2 modes while the raid team is completely focussing on new raid content. Don’t blame the company for content drought then because you would have to suffer maybe a year before you get new stories or fracs.

I would be fine with them not making any more raids and start making something that caters to a larger playerbase.
/sarcasm

Your post was so toxic and selfish that I had to respond. Can we please all leave our elitism out of the discussion for once?

I never did a single raid in GW2 and from that perspective I can only tell you that the new Living World story arc makes no sense to me. I know White Mantle, I know Lazarus, I know the story of Bloodstones (I played GW1) but the rest of this popped out of nowhere…

EU – Gandara – 206.127.159.184 – Telia has problems again, packet loss is unbearable, the game is nearly unplayable. It is most noticeable on Fractals. Last time it took them about 2 months to even aknowladge this… so my hopes are pretty low.

Since when Dhuum is the god of secrets?

All informations are pretty much in the title (I’m talking about the permanent version). It doesn’t work inside Guild Halls. Can we have a fix for that please? It’s especially troublesome if your Guild hasn’t yet unlocked the personal bank. And while you’re at it… can it please return players to the starting point? It’s an airship – it can go anywhere! It would be convinient to just click it again and return where I previously were.

If I wanted to work as a QA Tester I would change my job
I’m not going to run around and search for bugs after launch. I’ll however report any bugs I encounter during my normal play session. And about that “common sense” – it doesn’t always work on things we encounter for the first time.

Chris Cleary.8017:

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For example, maybe that vendor is selling items for 1/100th of their sell value, or perhaps an escort event spawns an infinite number of instantly respawning loot piñatas when you cause the NPC to get stuck.
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And how should we know that it’s not intended? That’s some bad attitude here. We’ve seen this happen – after vanilla launch people were banned for the “karma weapons exploit” (and I wasn’t one of them if you ask). Some of them had no idea that it was not intended. I’m all about banning exploiters and hackers but in situations like these, cases should be triple-checked.

Hey man I just logged in to thank you for all of your hard work. You are an awesome person – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Wait what? I thought that TP does that. Thanks for the hint! I guess it’s time to get back to pigeon – thankfully he’s silent.

You know – that “glyph casting” sound. It’s super loud and annoying, especially when I’m selling a large portion of my inventory on the Trading Post…
Pretty please? It stays there even if I turn down the UI volume.

There are two things than need to be adressed:
1. Shouts shouldn’t trigger the autoattack (and while you’re at it – repair Magnetic Aura on staff. I’ve reported this a year ago and it still does it – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Magnetic-Aura-triggers-the-autoattack/first#post4177412)
2. Shouts should be usable during casting other skills and in mid-air like all others.

Well… when you were busy climbing there – I found an elevator.

Wolfric.9380:

All eles fear that a nerf will also hit non D/D specs.

Of course it will becasue they refuse to split the balance between PvE and PvP… and that’s why Ele shuld stay as it is – I’m tired of PvP nerfs that unnecessarily affect PvE.

Kidel.2057:

Seriously people are still QQing when ele is currently the best class in the game and they even buffed Tempest that was basically already fine. Oh come on, Dragonhunter can’t even aim (yes, longbow AA is so slow it can be dodged just walking).

They should nerf Ele before doing tweaks on Tempest, seriously. Ele and Mesmer.

I can only speak for myself but I’m worried about the fact that Ele is OP in some aspects of the game (and Ele is my main…). It’s not how balance should look like… and what is even more important – this game’s balance shows tendency to fall into extremes of either nerfing already useless skills or buffing already overpowered ones… (Frost Bow I see you).
Back on topic…
Rebound is a waste of slot. Prove me wrong.

Blasting Staff is still broken on Elementalist for Geyser and Lava Font. Considering a fact that it’s the most important “trait” for PvE… please fix it.

4. It needs a serious rework.

Another useless elite.

If it doesn’t magically turn into a sword – I already hate it.
Warhorn is lame… and that’s the first reason why I don’t like it. I could mention other reasons more related to gameplay but the main reason is that simple.

144 please
154. I saw that 144 was already taken.
IGN: Thaia Dragon Tear

Sorin.4310:

Staff ele. It’s one of the easiest builds in the game, and yet it offers the highest DPS.

Not sure if serious…
I highly encourage you to try Fractals level 45+ on a Staff Ele with pure Zerker armor. Single mistake and you are dead.

Well… as far we know – elite skills remain untouched (except Tornado which was, still is and will be a death trap even with the upcoming change) – still none of them has the right to be called an Elite. Instead of buffing already OP skills (Ice Bow I’m looking at you) they should make Elites relevant or give us an option to slot an utility skill in that place.

It also happens after alt-tabbing back to the game.

I flushed 700g in the Mystic Toilet and got 0 precursors.

You didn’t get the point – I’m not against so called “ballance”. I’m against taking something from me I’ve already earned. I’m not going to grind through four hundred and fifty-five skill challenges (on 7 alts) to get my viable builds back. It’s not gonna happen.

I expect that my alts will keep ALL of their skills and traits they currently have – if not – I will request a compensation for every single skill that was taken from them (and I encourage everyone to do the same) beacause I’ve spent time and money to make their builds look how I want and I’m not going to do that again because someone after 3 years of development thought “hey, let’s turn everything upside down!”.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

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A home-instance Buried Locked Chest (requiring a Zephyrite Lockpick to open), just like the Found Bandit Chest in the home-instance.

How about… no?
We already have 1 chest that’s supposed to be A REWARD and requires me to farm Silverwastes in order to open the chest and CLAIM my reward. No, thank you. I don’t like that design. The chest itself is not a reward – its content is.

Since that incident I have a recording software always set up. Sadly I’m from another server so I guess I’ll meet him during another match-up.

darghe.3072:

Fay.2357:

Timelord.8190:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Timelord.8190:

Zarania.6235:

AresFyra.3570:

Thanks Zarania!! Woohoo, some love!

If you thought I dealt with everything nicely before… …

To be frank, my game play was not up to par before.

But it is now. Plus the music is better.

No problem sweetie, I’m all about positivity!!

Yea, you’re a little positive hacker, arent you? Which anet is to lazy to do something about even when we throw proof in their faces. Like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce1BRAXLvH0

This is when someone says that was just lag.

Anyway, the names match but the account numbers dont.

I’m pretty sure it’s the same person. Just with another account.I’ve seen Zarania.6235 cheat earlier to with my own eyes.

‘Look, here’s a hacker, this person is totally hacking!!!!!111’

‘Nice vid, obviously a hacker…but that’s not the same person…’

‘Well, I’m sure it’s totally the same person, trust me.’

…ok

Sadly I can confirm, I had this person a long time on my server (Riverside) zipping all around in OS as a necro. And with zipping I mean obviously tool teleporting.
Oh and as we speak right now there is a reddit thread with complaining about him up right now.
He was actually on my follower list so I thought I’d give him a little poke about all that fun and what do ya know, instablocked.

Oh well :P I guess I’ll be jumping around more these days in OS, though he switched servers a lot lately. Hopefully I can catch evidence soon

I can confirm what darghe is saying . I saw that guy too and he was doing exactly the same thing. You know what is the saddest? He escaped the punishment again from what I know.

Don’t do it. Yesterday I’ve spent around 500g on Mystic Forge and got nothing.

Give support a break, buy new account and – what is most important – stop hacking or you’ll meet justice again. You are only digging yourself a deeper grave now because if someone from ANet will actually respond you – you will be ridiculed and we both know why.

Blanche Neige.7241:

Kaz.5430:

You realise, that once we get closer to the release of HoT, there will ‘most probably’ be a fully open beta?

You realise it’s very unlikely they will do a full open beta. It’s doubtful they will put online enough servers only for that. And even if they do an open beta, it will be only on a few servers with ridiculously long queues.

And it’s even more unlikely they will do an open beta on the regular servers. Too much risk to have something go wrong that would compromise the live game.

You realise that many people won’t buy the expansion if they don’t get in the beta right? I still remember “the Manifesto” and how it differs from my personal experience in GW2.

Guhracie.3419:

1. The change in the trait system.
11. The NPE. Level-gating things in order to make leveling seem more rewarding.
12. Putting precursor crafting into the game as a feature of the expansion.
13. Putting a muzzle on Josh Foreman.
14. Selling the infinite continue coin in the gemstore, then failing to work on that content at all for at least a year.
15. Introducing the watchwork pick at the same price point as the other infinite gathering tools.
16. Three months since the announcement of the expansion, and we still don’t have any information about what the other specializations will be, aside from Ranger-Druid/Staff, and Necro-Greatsword.
17. Selling the SAB minis on the SAB anniversary, with no intention of bringing it back right now.
18. Turning townclothes into tonics, not outfits.
19. Fractal reset.
20. Adding currencies to the game, but not to the wallet.
21. Narrowing dailies to be overly specific and complete removal of monthlies.

(I could make an equally long list of good design choices, as well, but that’s not the topic of this thread.)

I would switch 1 with 2 because I think that NPE change was more harmful but I’m amazed how accurately your opinion fits mine…

Vayne.8563:

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Maybe people need to stop being so self-centered and realize not everyone is as intelligent as they are and some people DO need more help and more time to get used to things.
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Oh I perfectly understand that some people DO need more help but other people DON’T so why force them to deal with this stupidity? Let me turn this whole NPE bullkitten off and I’ll have absolutely no problem at all with it beeing in game.

I bought a second account 2 days ago and all I can say is – god… the NPE is broken and insulting. I am HAPPY that I started playing before it came out. Otherwise I wouldn’t play at all.

White Feather Wings Backpack skin. Seriously. I need this in my life.

I have an opinion about new conditions and boons – this game has enough CC and if you don’t believe me:
In PvE: Go to Orr.
In PvP: Try to remember the situation with Immobilize nerf.
Remove that before it’s too late. People already feel like ping-pong balls when are in Orr.

Your location : Poland
ISP: Orange
Time and date of incident (plus time zone) : Now.
Game World : Gandara
Server IP: 206.127.159.153
Brief description of what you’re seeing : Rubberbands, freezes, general “skill lag", players teleport around me. Imagine Mai Trin fractal with your whole team laging…

Your location : Poland
ISP: Orange
Time and date of incident (plus time zone) : 4:39 pm Server Time (5:39 CET), 1st Feb 2015
Game World : Gandara
Server IP: 206.127.146.54
Brief description of what you’re seeing : Rubberbands, freezes, general “skill lag", players teleport around me
The problem seems to occur (always) on the 10th hop (like the last time) when I tracert.

Block & report – it’s a scam.

I wanted to buy 800 gems via PayPall couple minutes ago. The game opened my browser and redirected me to PayPall (which was perfectly fine) but after I logged in and confirmed the payment it redirected me to blank page with strange name – “fatfoogoo” or something like that. It didn’t fully open because my browser blocked that redirection thinking it’s suspicious. I didn’t know at that point that the transaction was successful because this site didn’t show any confirmation so I tried again (after I found in Google that “fatfoogoo” is a part of Digital River…) with the same result… and it seems that I paid twice and bought twice much gems. I don’t want a refund or anything like that for that second transaction but please, PLEASE inform people when you redirect them during payment… You should inform us beforehand that such redirection will take place because at first I thought that someone wants to scam me – nothing in “fatfoogoo” says that the payment will take place on behalf of NCSoft…

People hated Fable 3 for this but I personally think it was an awesome feature

Okay so I think I finally understand the concept behind specialisations. I think that most of you are right saying that it’s “just another option” not an “upgrade”. I just really hope that we will get some meaningful horizontal progression for existing classess in near future – aka an “upgrade”.

I get the exact same garbage in my mail (outside the game) every once in a while… and actually I used it in my Bachelor’s Thesis when I talked about phishing mails… so I guess that they helped me to get my degree XD
Just report it and delete. Messages sent by ArenaNet have their logo.

Your location : Poland
ISP: Orange
Time and date of incident (plus time zone) : 8:10 pm Server Time (9:10 CET), 31st Jan 2015
Game World : Gandara
Server IP: 206.127.146.87.0
Brief description of what you’re seeing : Rubberbands, freezes, general “skill lag”, code 7 and DC
The problem seems to occur (always) on the 10th hop when I tracert.

I love how people here say that everything is “optional”. Well buying the game was “optional” too… yet I am an active community member since 2007. Please stop with this “it’s optional” thing – I can see it all over the forums.

BrunoBRS.5178:

Thaia.5146:

BrunoBRS.5178:

think of it this way:

up until now, there was only one specialization. with the release of HoT, you’ll get your second one, thus allowing you to choose which specialization (say, ranger or druid) you prefer. later on, more specializations would be added.

If that’s the case why don’t we allow players to creat Druids straight away?

we don’t know if that will be an option straight away, but in GW1, you had to undergo some quests to adopt a secondary profession (at least the first time). the idea being that you need to get used to what your primary can do first. similarly, you can get used to what rangers can do in general, then you can understand better the traeoffs of playing as a druid instead. a lot of the things are shared between the base class and the specializations.

but hey, who knows, maybe you can swap to druids as early as it takes you to get traits.

You need to be level 80 to get a specialisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIEM_ll6Cc#t=465
Aaaaand…
“When a ranger becomes a druid, they have an entire new set of skills and traits that come available to them. And their profession mechanic changes as well. That’s true with all the specialisations. You actually play the profession differently, not just in skills and traits, but in the CORE MECHANICS of those professions.”
http://www.pcgamer.com/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-interview/#page-2

So there are 2 questions now:
The first one: If the specialisation changes the core mechanics of your profession – why do I need to be level 80 to even pick a specialisation? Why do I have to “master” the ranger to become a druid if it changes the core mechanics?

And the second one: IF I really need to “master” the ranger to become a druid why it sounds like I’ll loose some of this “mastery” to fill a more narrow role in the game (to “specialise”)?

Gandalf.3516:

It’s like a sub class kind of. It doesn’t limit gameplay options, it expands them. [snip]

Yeah okey but in GW1 I had NINE subclassess (10-your core profession) and I could choose something usefull from them. I don’t think I will have such choice with only 1 specialisation.

guardian.6489:

Then your class will remain the same as launch and you’ll understand what it’s like to be a Guardian :P

Oh so you want to discuss that topic with someone who mains an Ele?

BrunoBRS.5178:

think of it this way:

up until now, there was only one specialization. with the release of HoT, you’ll get your second one, thus allowing you to choose which specialization (say, ranger or druid) you prefer. later on, more specializations would be added.

If that’s the case why don’t we allow players to create Druids straight away?

dsslive.8473:

Thaia.5146:

BrunoBRS.5178:

all things point towards specializations being an alternative to the base class, not an upgrade. you can still remain an elementalist, or you can specialize into whatever comes for eles, earn some new tricks, and lose some old ones.

I don’t mind “loosing some tricks” but I do mind which one I’ll loose. That’s why I’m a little worried when I hear that initially we will be given only one specialisation.

ye but if you dont like the loosing the ones you lose, you just switch back to an elementalist, since you can swap out of combat when you choose too

Okay I agree but where is my horizontal progression then?