Guild Wars 2

Cute how I get severe lag when I get close to certain people today.

DragonMind.2983:

Chuck Zitto.2367:

I like the war shield skills. It has saved my butt many a times running into that tower past the zerg. Or running through the enemy zerg with zerker stance and stability to the back lines to kill glass cannons or arrow carts. However lately I keep flipping back and forth between my shield and warhorn. That convert conditions to boons is amazing.

Now that you mention warhorn …it really needs a damage skill on it,
we are warriors.

And warhorns aren’t weapons.

Chaosky.5276:

Professions in GW2 are restricted to one armor class for no reason other than game balance, which is stupid and limits roleplaying, etc.

Game balance is stupid and secondary to your roleplaying fantasies. Right.

Epic.3950:

AND THE BEST PART… nobody kittened, moaned or complained about the warrior because everyone you killed felt bad about themselves afterwards…

Except the people who played warriors. ;>

Re: krait.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were dragon corrupted, but with Scarlet around, I don’t trust Anet in that.

Sigh Thanks for making the forum account log out every now and then, great feature.

They should’ve just left the sister dead.
Veteran Seraph sister gets killed. You find out by whom, get revenge – immediate plot. Then find out she was raised by the big Z, maybe into a more powerful minion. Boom, you’ve got a hook, a personal motivation and a boss fight for the Pact half of the story.
No kitten reunion (“You!” that’s some way to adress your sibling*), no disappearing character. What you DO have is continuity.

*I know the problem is that you can’t cover every possible name with voice acting, but if there’s a problem you can’t fix, GO AROUND IT, not brute force it, hoping nobody notices. I knew they’d pull this “adress-yet-doesn’t-adress” silliness the moment I heard Deborah is alive and what suspension of disbelief I had was immediately shattered, before I even met her. My dear sister who I have no connection to. Not before, nor after.

I like those “bubbles” I think they’re a nice touch.

Puzzle Master and Jumpster both sound good imo.

Asking for the two longbow skills to be combined is a fair idea.

Ideas like this however, make me laugh: Adrenaline gain – Inspiring Shouts+Thrill of the kill+Short Temper+Cleansing Ire+Berserker’s Might

Why not just combine every Strength tree into one trait, so you don’t even have to pick!

“Follow the clouds until you reach the checkpoint at the ice bridge. Don’t activate it yet, to the right of the bridge is a small ledge with the chest.”

There, done. Instead of having us jump around on a bottomless pit area for half an hour before graciously mentioning the chest.

After 3 hours a friend and I had to give up at the end because of this BS.
Though Dulfy is partly to blame. First they tell you to trigger the infantile clouds and then the chest is right there before the checkpoint. We wouldn’t have lost our keys if they don’t mention that stupid chest at the end of the list.

SO MUCH FUN I’M HAVING RIGHT NOW.

Ah yes, got it now. I got a dc last time right before it. >.<

Sorry if this was asked and answered already, but in Z3 at the Racoon Kingpin there’s a visible yellow bauble that’s too far away to reach. No guides I saw mentioned grabbing it, sooo I’m kidna confused. Is it just there to mess with you, or do you get it at some later point?

Useless?D
Yes sure, helping your brittle as a twig team stay alive is useless. Of course. Because we all know that the only useful stat in this game is crit damage.

What did I expect from this forum…

Also, 3 utility slots = potentially 3 banners. Mind blowing, I know.

colesy.8490:

I dunno, I find a warrior dropping banner of defence more rage-inducing.

Had to restrain myself here.

“Oh no, free buffs! THE kitten HOW DARE HE!”

I’d like to see the old ‘Agent of …’ priest armors again.

Considering how much they rake in from all the WPing, they can leave the gates on as free to use.
Though I think the story of Ebonhawke mentions Jennah funding the building of the gates? So I guess the operators/maintainers are paid wages by the government and that’s it.

Personally I wouldn’t mind if Anet lowered the base heal on signet and increased the healing power ratio instead.

sorrow.2364:

Ok, now let’s talk about the fact that Kill Shot is a 1500 range skill, while backstab is a close range skill that deals the maximum damage only if you manage to land it from behind.

Let’s talk also about the fact that Eviscerate is a leap.

One has a 3 second cast time (read: forever), is easily dodgeable and the other has a whooping range of 300.
Not to mention that Kill Shot is widely derided on this forum by the warriors themselves, so you’ll rarely have to face it. Even then, the time I was actually hit by a Kill Shot since launch was last month, because of unfortunate timing (Savage Leap animation+aftercast delay mad it impossible for me to move in time).

Fact is, Kill Shot is VERY VERY situational.

And once again, another mighty beast was felled by the unbeatable tactic of Stacking.
sigh

They should make it so that you can jump on top of others, at least then I could laugh at the sight.

Maybe make the Signet active an aoe heal? Heals the user for less, allies for more? Then you would have reason to use it in teamfights at least.

Signet imo really needs an active effect that warrior has no/low access to.
(And vice versa, Signet of Rage needs a reason to actually leave it on passive once in a while.)

Activating HS cuts utility skill cooldowns in half? Increase the Signet’s CD and you can trade your healing for more frequent Berserker Stance, Endure Pain, Fear me, Stomp, etc.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Seetoo.9316:

BurrTheKing.8571:

The only problem I see with a “charge up” is that I’m not sure anything like that currently exists in the game. If it doesn’t then that would require programming an entirely new system for it, which I doubt they would do.

Already exists. Look at trebs and catas. If you don’t wanna look at trebs and catas, look at the many environmental weapons in open world quests.

That’s charging for distance, not damage. I doubt that they would spend time writing new code to only be used on a single skill, they’ve said before that getting new mechanics into the game is a long process.

They should have a charging code “lying around”, some skills were supposed to be charged for extra damage before they were changed. One of the mace skills comes to mind, but there were more.

I liked them too, would like to see them return.

I’m hoping we’ll be able to combine 4 ascended weapons into a precursor in the forge, with at least moderate reliability. Though that would make people’s heads implode from the rage.

I’m curious, does Tormenting proc on healing, regaining health, or on USING a heal skill?

IMO it looks freaking ugly on him.

Honestly just plink at her from range and strafe her knockdowns. Since you have 3 sources of Stability, the pillars shouldn’t be a problem either.

I used
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30 III-VIII-XI
20 III-VIII
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15 III
Sword/Warhorn+Longbow
Had a Sigil of Energy on the Warhorn.
Signet of Stamina, For Great Justice and Signet of Rage. Last utility skill doesn’t really matter. Balanced stance maybe.
Lots of condi damage, food and tuning crystal.
Phase 1, you know the drill.
During phase 2, I stopped running from her. Whenever she caught up to me I F1’d the area around me, blasted it with Arcing Arrow, then dodged the AoE. Then back up a little to create some distance from the visions. Because of the rotation of the AoE, the spot you F1 and dodge around in will be a safe zone the next turn. So just F1 and dodge and watch her burn.
Oh and smash the rifts ASAP, of course.

I was called a “pew pew kitten ” for using a longbow today.
By another, generic 100b-Whirlwind spamming warrior. o.O

Is the temple uncontested on any US servers right now?

I have a question. (Haven’t started the game up since patch went live.)
Does the Signet heal /sec or /3sec, because the wiki patch notes say the latter?
And I’m unsure as to what was changed about it.

“Reworked the formula that this passive heal uses. At level 80, this skill goes from 392 healing per 3 seconds to 467 healing per 3 seconds with 1500 healing power. "

(467-392)/1500= 0,05 Healing Power ratio. Which is the same it always was?

Maybe it’s because it’s 11PM here, but I don’t get it.

We could discuss how Giant Slayer is madness! Madness I tell you!

They revived me sometimes in beginner zones.

Good luck with that. I’m really liking my own Censor and hope they repeat the event sometimes, maybe yearly in the worst case. It could run simultaneously with the then current Living event so people can catch up.

I wish Hounds of Balthazar was as useful as it is cool… sigh

I could go for more Ranger GS attack animations on non-Rangers. Those are way too cool. _

Obsidian.1328:

TheLazyOne.8509:

It’s very obvious that gameplay dictated the story, not the tale they wanted to tell.

^ This

You have no idea how true that is…

I do know, since they devs themselves admitted to writing the story so as to guide players to new locations.
Then we got those nice Go to Sraights of Dev. Go to LA. Go to SoD. Go to LA. Go to Cursed Shore. quests.

I support this idea oh so very much!

Yeah I missed out on some dungeon boss chests because the owner immediately left and I was busy sorting stuff.

Personally, I made a human for several reasons, including the usual ’I’m human too’, ‘descendant of my GW1 character’, etc, but I also made one because the races trailer completely sold me on humans. A rich, cultured race, brought down to the brink of extinction, their gods fallign silent, but they are determined to survive. Instead we got nothing even near this and I don’t just mean the story. The whole game world is very happy-go-lucky but that’s beside the point.
Oh and promo material made me think that playing a noble in this game would actually mean playing a noble. Instead, as usual, I’m generic adventurer #476501. Who happens to have some servants and a wine cellar, but apparently no house, since we were celebrating in the middle of a square. Without guards to protect the guests. Seriously, what the hell? But I digress, again.

Norn I thought are a joke and EotN treated them as jsut that, comic relief. Then comes GW2 and we have oversized morons who can only repeat LEGEND! ad nauseum and the game expects us to take them seriously. Their way of life was handily proven to be utterly unviable when Jormag started steamrolling through the idiots who thought they could kill it.

The asura may be funyn at first, but if anyone I knew RL that behaved like that, I’d be hard pressed not to throw them out the window.

Sylvari I like. Made two alts too.

Charr I like, some of the armor just looks waaaay to weird on them. Shoes, shoulders, helmets. And too many spikes sometimes.

I have to wonder though what the dev(s) are thinking. Asura and charr stories are the strongest? How would someone who just started up the game know that? And normally you’d expect every story to be on par. It’s not the players’ fault if the writers couldn’t make the most of the great potential they were handed. (Sorry, but that’s how I feel.)

So yeah. Human I found the most appealing, but I made one of every race anyway.

Ed: I don’t think human story is bad per se, but incomplete, only in part related to what was teased and maybe too short. It’s very obvious that gameplay dictated the story, not the tale they wanted to tell.

stof.9341:

XII.9401:

What kind of game allows you to use abilities or get hit during stealth and not get revealed?

DotA

You’ve played a very different DotA than me then, because attacking did break stealth.
Besides, DotA had actual anti-stealth mechanics, unlike GW2. Dust and the true sight gem.

Since they teased the rapier in the Aetherblade update, I’d say disarm could be a rapier skill that causes daze?

As far as I know the Hero Panel is bugged and doesn’t always show real values, maybe that’s the problem? Had the same complaint with Heightened Senses a few months ago.

I found a “regular” giant in the southwestern corner of Brisban Wildlands, but haven’t checked if it’s counted towards Giant Slayer.

@Parlourbeatflex
Really nice idea, I’d be happy if Anet did something like that.
Another thing is, it would be nice if there was a reason to go the home instance in the first place. I’ve heard there are changes as the story goes along, but didn’t notice since I haven’t been there since level 20 or so. Why no put there related order merchants at least or something?
Maybe add housing. I chose noble background and didn’t see my house and apparently I don’t even hire guards. Adding an upgradable house would be nice and we’d have reason to show the instance off to others.

Oh and I’ve still no idea what the Blessed by Balthazar choice is supposed to have done for me.

I like April Stewart’s voice/performance too.

I like how you preach about team spirit, then expect people to conform to your selfish demands, because you can’t stand the idea of someone doing less damage than you. Or expecting to get an MF buff for graciously allowing suboptimal MF gear into your party of hardcore insta fighters. Or because you are too cheap to pay a lousy 3 silver repair cost if you happen to die – which is your fault, not the MF guy’s.
You wouldn’t have wiped at the boss’ last sliver of health if that guy had extra crit chance? You managed to get that far and get a wipe? Hardly his/her fault. You just want to scapegoat a stat because it doesn’t fit into your elitist high number min-max mentality.
You are taking offense at what others are doing with their characters, which is none of your bloody business. Take offense to it if you want, but leave the rest of the world out of your selfish nonsense.
What do you need that oh so wonderful dps for anyway? Farming high difficulty fractals? So you can get a weapon that has the same stats as a relatively easily crafted one? Or an ascended item with +4 to a stat? That’s why you’re on a hate campaign, possibly denying people from their go at an instance? And you call others selfish? You should be ashamed.
What’s next? Kicking people from parties because they brought a class that you counted has lower dps than others? Or people who don’t bring party support skills? Don’t bring a certain HIGH NUMBERS weapon? Pfft.

But hey, who cares? Who cares about such things as kiting, weapon and skill choices, bad coordination, in/experience in the face of your glorious MATHS. The numbers don’t lie, everything is the MFs fault! Burn the witch!

Anyway, I’m out of this thread. Have fun raging at your 42% or whatever.

Oh sure, I’ll stop being selfish and get another full set of exotic combat gear, just for your sake.
But hey, if every bit of damage counts, you can always join a 2-2 guardian/warrior team and call them noobs if they don’t use GS and Zerker stuff!
As I said. Skill > Gear. Yes, gear makes it easier. Counting every point of damage? Pointless. And then there’s stuff like Ascalon fractal, where the NPCs do most of the damage on higher levels, or getting turned into a dolphin with fixed stats…

Kaaboose.3897:

I can’t do anything about it because there is nothing stopping someone from running a MF set behind my back.

Someone is very obsessed here. Running behind your back? You’re acting like it’s on par with getting backstabbed by your best friend. It’s a game. Not a number simulator. But hey, you an be all snobbish and go HURRDURR NO MF on lfg.com, if that makes you happier.
Sadly, there’s nothing stopping people like you from whining at what they think is not hardcore and optimal.

Kaaboose.3897:

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Actually, there was no particular reason I listed the defense stats.

Berserkers don’t just sport damage gear. They use damage traits. Which translates to -> getting oneshotted. MF doesn’t dictate your playstyle, you can get toughness or whatever. Which means -> MF doesn’t make you fall behind, bad builds and lack of skill do.

Btw, it’s okay to “handicap” myself, you know why? Because there’s things I’d like. Like my Protector’s set. 120 gold. You know how I’ll get 120 gold? By getting more loot. Not by killing something 3 seconds faster. You can math all day, there is no handicap. Your damage potential is high all the same. You can cripple/immobilize or kite bosses just as well. Regular mobs are a non-issue.
Sure, I can understand what your point is, but why do you care? Let people run MF if they want. If you don’t want to, that’s your choice, let them have theirs.

So much for my theory then, thanks for answering.

One bug I’ve noticed is related to Kill Shot, the rifle adrenal skill: If you have Crack Shot (20 pt Arms trait) and your shot penetrates one (possibly more, didn’t check) enemy before getting blocked by your actual target, you retain your full adrenaline.