Guild Wars 2

I still don’t see a reason to use to the SB over the LB.

I can’t interact with anything for 1+ seconds after pressing the auto attack button. My character just stands there for over a second doing nothing while I press F.

Wife and I are interested. We’re CD NA. Both have every class with ascended/exo mix.

I’m very xp on Ranger/Druid, Rev/Herald, Warrior, and pretty exp on everything else but ele and engineer elites.

Wife and I are looking a raiding guild to learn raids. Doesn’t have to be hardcore but does have to have people that want to do the raid and aren’t complete …. about it. Hit me up via PM here.

Sword must’ve been borked during the last update because Ranger sword zerker DPS is now pitiful. Extra aftercast or something must’ve been mistakenly added and is a bug.

roamzero.9486:

Animation is fine. The piddly DPS and lack of full cleave is not fine though.

Now that I’ve gotten on today and seen for myself, the sword DPS makes me want to cry compared to it’s previous glory. It just so SLOW now. So pitifully slow. It’s painful waiting for the swings to happen.

Belzebu.3912:

The druid shoulder is detailed and well thought? Yes
Is it good looking? Nope.

Photinous.4628:

To be fair, I have only found the reaper skin to actually deliver. Chrono shoulders are okay too but the rest are kinda ugly as well.

DH gauntlet also looks good, too bad it is asymmetrical like Herald’s shoulder, otherwise I would use both.

I think the design has an unhealthy obsession with asymmetrical armors and I do not like it… It’s right up there with the decision to have 99.99% of medium armors (male) to be dresses and skirts.

You’re right. They aren’t ugly, they’re Effin’ hideous!

Source? Cause I highly doubt it. Hat just reeks of PR lip service to try to calm people.

I absolutely loathe time gates with a massive hate for more time gates. Everytime I hit another time gate the more I loathe them. I’m just waiting for my wife say she’s done so we can move on to another game because it’s getting full on ridiculous with the gates.

MiniEquine.6014:

This is per week, but this would still be more gold per day than dungeons right now 1:1. This is also probably where all the ascended equipment drops went that everyone has been complaining about (rightly so).

Pretty ****ty of Anet to take ascended drops out of Fractals and move them to raids… Along with the liquid gold they’ve murdered fractals.

nosleepdemon.1368:

TD is probably my favourite map out of all the maps because it has so many distinct areas. When I first found that central cavern and finally figured out what all the “x has appeared in y lane” stuff was about I was seriously impressed. From a technical standpoint, the map is quite an achievement imo. The meta event is quite hard, and I’ve only tried it a few times however with that said, I don’t get what the deal is with people absolutely needing it done right now. Tequatl was also hard, and then he got nerfed to the point of just being a complete joke, where’s the fun in that? I’d rather have an event that’s rock solid and requires herculean coordination to complete, that actually feels like an accomplishment when it’s beaten, than some watered down joke that any Tom, kitten and Harry can do with their eyes closed.

I’ll wait 6-9 months before pugging this one then… Like I did for teq

If it’s a bonus event, dear Uncle, it’s not mandatory. A simple concept really.

Howl.2498:

It used to be if you did 50/40/30/20 each day, you had about a 31.6% chance of getting either an ascended armor box or a weapon box, and ascended rings were so common that you’d likely get 2~4 per day. Not getting at least one ring was unheard of (less than 0.5% chance).

Now if you do all the dailies, your chance of getting either an ascended armor or weapon box is under 4% and you have a 34.5% chance of not even getting a single ring. Not even a single ring.

THAT is what’s broken, not gold rewards, not irrelevant stuff like completion chests or skins. Ascended drops have been nerfed so hard into the ground that rings only drop twice as often now as ascended chests used to.

Fix that.

Quoted for truth. This is why my wife and I, who’ve been running for years, have now 100% stopped. Fix it and we will run again, but not one day before.

Regret buying hot? No… But I have been incredibly sadden to find my favorite content, Fractals, have been rekt. Rewards are bad. Bad bad. BAD. As long as my wife plays though, so will I.

Belzebu.3912:

That is good, 2 updates in a row without nerfs.

I’m surprised more people didn’t have this as their first thought.

Andred.1087:

Colin said in an interview literally this morning that they’re going to be looking at Fractal rewards. Anyway take a chill pill, it’s not even real kittening money.

Nope, it’s not real money, but it is real time that one wants to be rewarded for.

Not to mention in that interview Fractal changes aren’t coming until sometime in 2016. So, for awhile, Fractals will be dead to me.

Mods, please move this thread to the trash can along with 99.9% of the suggestion threads.

Hmm. So no more chest like there use to be. Got it.

Speaking of fractal personal reward chests, you get that from doing 1 Fractal Island + 1 Boss Fractal Island in each tier, right? Haven’t played much in fractals since patch but I have maxed my fractal masteries.

Yup. Zenith nailed it pretty hard. This thread just proves there is no need to do Fractals if you do them for the rewards. Pretty sad as it was my favorite content. Now all I do is just socialize with my guild. Thanks, Anet.

radioAspen.6829:

This is such a lovely change. Right choice, anet.

Agreed 1000%

And people like snow are why we are where we are.

gw2 isn’t a popular PVP game. Just have a look at any twitch channel when they’re on. I’ve popped on from time to time and don’t see more than 2-7k watching at any given time. It won’t be unless they balance a lot more frequently, and quite frankly, make it a lot more interesting to watch… Which it would be if it was better balanced… However, PVE and WVW needs to be taken into account when they do these silly nerfs.

oshilator.4681:

What the pvp forums want, they get.

The last week has been hard proof of that.

I learned long ago if I want to know what nerfs are on the way I just visit the PVP forums.

oshilator.4681:

There are no buffs, only pvp.

And pvp demands nerfs.

So they get them.

Nailed it. 10/10. Would read again.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Pre-patch: Used to FOTM 50 daily.

Post-patch: 0.

That’s where I am at now.

No fractals and no dungeons. No point anymore to either. I already told my guild don’t ask me to run until they fix the HP sponges and the rewards. After that I will consider it.

Yeah, we still need to be able to select [PVE] or [PVP] tags when creating threads on this forum… But I guess the forum software they use just won’t allow it. Hopefully for GW3 they’ll choose a different forum software.

Julie Yann.5379:

I am running zerk r and glass condi builds and I feel the difficulty level is just perfect for open world. I pay dearly if I make a mistake which is the way it should be. If I’m foolish enough to agro everything at once then I deserve to die.

It’s a learning curve and a difficult transition from what we are used to but once people figure out the mechanics and what builds work the content will get much easier.

Yeah, I agree, content feels pretty good regarding difficulty. Just difficult enough when I’m drunk and just easy enough when I’m sober. Don’t change it, Anet

So, I gave the Druid a try last night and unless I pop TU or use the staff I pretty much don’t get to use the Druid F5. Bummer because I wanted to use the line as damage support, but things are dead before it ever charges up…. Since it doesn’t degen it’s better because I can use it at the beginning, but that’s it. Things are dead before I can charge it again.

Yeah, but it’s the very very few that do have an icon… Vast majority of ICD triats don’t have an icon on any class so you really don’t know… Just like we don’t know, still, what’s going on with the pet. Stupid we can’t see its buffs/condis. Also, TheydonBios nailed it with his opening sentence.

Do believe it’s your personal reward lvl has to be 51+

Yup, you’re a zerker elitist jerk now lol

If it doesn’t drop for me with the same frequency it did before patch… Nope. Ain’t doing fractals anymore because ascended chest was WHY I did fractals.

Don’t be foolish. All the balance devs work together on all the classes. They all knew what was going on, the only differences is you have leads that just manage specific profession balance so it’s not a cluster and there’s a point of contact for that specific profession. Don’t think Irenio is innocent here. Irenio knew good and well what was happening, and IMO most likely, agreed with some degree to the changes.

Looks like they plan on leaving it as is for WVW and PVP. Sucks to be you guys.

Still, unless they buff AF generation from damage, remove out of combat degen, and remove the 100% full gate to enter AF I’ll never trait Use AF… Not because I wouldn’t want to its just fights will be over before its charged enough to use it…

Doesn’t much matter anyway as Rev is killing it right now.

Well, not now since the damage reduction…

But yeah, we aren’t crazy because we aren’t blinded by unconditional allegiance to the Ranger/Druid.

Levetty.1279:

Revenant is the future.

Yup. Really enjoying mine.

Liewec.2896:

400 is fine but they shouldn’t be trapped behind the long-term mastery grind.

That is exactly my issue with it.

You got the 400 points in one day? That’s pretty good.

Cactus Brawler.7415:

Requires 40 new hero challenges to complete, several of which require masteries that require as much EXP to unlock as leveling to 80 several times over.

Yeah, that is grind.

This guy gets it.

Fractals are pretty much dead to me now. At least until Fractal Mastery is 100% completed. Even then probably still dead because I’m not at all ok with needing to spend coin to get my final rewards from Fractals.

They 100% rekt’d fractals for me. I’ll no longer be doing them. I only did them because of the reward tier chests. Now that’s gone. It’s locked behind a gold sync? No. Just no. kitten YOU.

I look at that stuff and realize I just don’t want to do fractals now.

Chokolata.1870:

the number 4 could use some love. perhaps inflict a couple of torment stacks as well.

I would love to see the animation and range nerfs reversed…

The one to Rule.2593:

berserker.

I have a full set of zerk we trinkets and weapons to use with either celest or zerker.

Shoe.5821:

will this override pet damage immunity to certain things like the lava in Megadestroyer?

Or the cannon phase of Mai Trin

This is a great question

Looks like a decent solo pve build as well.

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

It means that if your pet has 5 stacks of might (durations don’t matter) and you have 10 stacks of might (durations continue to not matter) that when you hit WHAO you’ll gain 5 stacks of might for 10s and your pet will gain 10 stacks of might for 10 seconds.

This is the kind of change I can get behind!

Fluffball.8307:

What the heck does your post mean, Gman? You said dungeons won’t change except that they will be dead content. That’s why I told him not to base expensive purchases on the dungeon meta. It would be ridiculous to spend 20 gold on scholar runes and then find out he needs something else for raids.

True, if he ends up doing raids, but he asked about pve (which was vague, granted), but if dungeons is what he wants to do then investing in them wouldn’t be bad. I’m willing to bet that the zerk setup will be useful in most of the content coming.

Kreed.2768:

TheFantasticGman.9451:

Wait, you only raised it from 0.25% to 0.5% for charging Astral Force?? LOL! I see that’s why you said 200% instead of the 0.5% that it is now. Gotta PR it right!

I think it’s changed to 0.75%. It’s been increased by 200%, implying another 200% (0.5%) is added on top of the existing 100% (0.25%). It would make it about half the amount you’d get from the nerfed healing amount, which is going down to 1.5% with the announced 40% decrease.

Hmm. I misunderstood then… Slightly better, but I’d have to be able to hit AF when it’s off of CD to use the blast finisher, then stack the DPS buff, then leave AF without using heals… I mean, that’s about the only way I’ll take the Druid line anyway. I hope, in use, I’ll be able to reach AF in 10sec because most of the fractal bosses are done within 15sec. So, if it takes too long I won’t be able to use AF and then what’s the point if I can’t give the dps stacking buff? And no, healing my allies doesn’t get my jiggly bits moving.