Guild Wars 2

AWACS.6537:

Kitiara.2706:

Quit your whining. The customer service, the constant new content we get, and now this amazing expansion…… We need to help them pay their developers. Get over yourselves.

they should be trying to convince us to buy the expansion, we shouldn’t be wanting to spend money just to help them. We are CONSUMERS. Get over yourself.

That’s true.

Kitiara.2706:

ANet needs to make money so we can keep having great content. I dont want to wait forever for an expansion or new content, like the other games that only charge a little amount.

Quit your whining. The customer service, the constant new content we get, and now this amazing expansion…… We need to help them pay their developers. Get over yourselves.

I paid $99 for the xpac. The way I look at it is – at $10/mo that means I have pre-paid for some fun times the next 10 months (minimum). I look forward to this time, and I am glad to support a company that keeps bringing me great entertainment, great customer service, and a wonderful community.

Got to admit I do feel guilty because this game is great value for money. Still doesn’t change the fact that we are paying the price of a game for an expansion. I dunno if Anet were more honest I just said we need to charge this much for the expansion because were not offering a subscription then I wouldn’t argue. I still think they should knock the price down a bit for people who have the game already, so it could be an expensive expansion which isn’t quite the price of a game.

Tamara Lain.8047:

The price is too high for just an expansion. I think if Anet really wants to put an end to this they should give veteran players all the additional character slots that would come with this second copy of GW2 that we are getting. Maybe throw in some additional storage. Otherwise, it works out to be a better deal to just start a new account. Then you get all the additional storage slots, you can start a personal guild so you get that additional storage from that as well. The drawback is you lose 3 years worth of gameplay working to buy armor and weapons and all the rest of the stuff we have had to grind for. You also would lose all the gem store purchases you have made. I feel like they need to make this right. They have really killed my enthusiasm. Telling me that they are throwing in the core game for free to help newer players just doesn’t feel good at all. It’s the players who have kept the community alive by running guilds & pouring money back into the game to keep it alive via gem store purchases. You may say I am being greedy, but I think you are a fool. If you have been playing since beta and loyally promoting Guild Wars 2 I think you deserve more than an overpriced expansion. How about an option to give your free copy to a friend, and just apply the expansion to your own account?

Wait so if i buy this expansion it’s gonna mess up my saved characters?

Here’s the problem. We are told that we get the core game for free with the expansion. Yes GW2 is great value for money but the fact of the matter is this expansion is price of a full game. So when you say the core game is free we don’t believe you.

If GW2 is having problems funding money you gotta find some other ways and discuss it with the players but it doesn’t matter how you spin it selling a expansion for the full price of the game isn’t right.

You need to reduce the price for people who already have the game.

Darkwolfer.7819:

People normally go out of their way to complain. People who are satisfied generally do not. Therefore your numbers are skewed thinking that the mass majority of players are upset.

If you do not like it, just don’t buy it and SHUT UP

Wow, telling us to shut up? Who do you think you are? I’m not happy either.

Ok let me see if I get this. We can’t buy the expansion without paying for the core game even if we have it already? So it’s not possible to just buy the expansion?

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/hidden-arcana-creating-the-chronomancer/

“An early idea for the specialization’s new weapon even involved rifles, but the team eventually felt that the offhand shield would be the most thematically appropriate choice.”

I agree or at least it’s better than a rifle. A rifle? That’s just awful, I dunno maybe the devs could have made it work.

Dragon.7682:

Clone death matters. Why?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/mesmer/

Mesmers are magical duelists who wield deception as a weapon. Using powerful illusions, clones, and phantasmal magic to confuse and distract their foes, mesmers make sure every fight is balanced in their favor and their opponents can’t believe their eyes.

That is the quote from the Guild wars 2 website.

Clone death traits allows for punishment for players or mobs making the wrong choice. Is distraction not the purpose of clones other than shattering?
Why should we not be able to punish other classes for making the wrong choice. Even reducing the duration of the effects would be better than taking all the dissipation traits out.

“We didn’t want to reward players for letting clones die or for replacing clones, which are both not optimal play” is what you mentioned on stream yesterday. I believe that this is not correct. It is inefficient yes but it allows us mesmers to make the other team think twice about just randomly swinging at us. Why should our resource, that we create, have no benefit when others try to destroy it.

Mesmers are about giving the enemy a choice: deal with us on our terms or face the consequences. And that is why clone death matters.

Yea I don’t agree about what that dev said either, made a thread about my thoughts in the crippling dissipation thread.

Maybe I misunderstood this but I think I heard the devs stating on the specialization video that they were intending on phasing this trait out the reason being was that it didn’t make sense to have gameplay were you wanted your illusions to be destroyed.

If this is the reason this is faulty logic. I didn’t pick this trait because I wanted my illusions destroyed, it’s a failsafe that if it does so happen that they destroy my illusions I’m not completely defenceless.

I still want this trait, it’s very useful when fighting warriors and thieves it helps to slow them down.

Exciton.8942:

I agree that in PvP mesmer is a bit lackluster compared to all those op spec.

Are you for real? I own as mesmer.

What worries me is that if you pick PS there is no indication that you have had an increase in damage unlike Empowered Illusions, where if you look at you’re power slot you can see the increase in damage.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Did you have any reward chests waiting to be opened when you hit 6000 AP?

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Actually i think I do. Anyway I’ll try and sort things out if not I’ll make a support ticket.

DraganBlack.7864:

it is unlikely but did you also get the 5500 ap chest today?

No I didn’t but I don’t understand why I would get that when I had 5500 ap ages ago.

I just hit 6000 achievement points but I haven’t got my large achievement chest, anyone know what went wrong?

Ah so there is a bug?!

I don’t know about you guys but there might be a paralyzation bug in pvp. I don’t know what the max length is but sometimes you could be like that for maybe 10 seconds and there is no indication via graphics (ie stars around your head or purple chains) that this effect is taking place.

I was fighting against another player in pvp who i defeated and he was complaining that he couldn’t move, my response was kinda like ’ duh that’s the idea’, but to be fair sometimes the effects seem to last really long and it seems like a bug.

I got some ideas for a story I might post here or in another thread. I think you might like it.

(possible spoilers concerning Scarlet)

To be fair I suspected I should have posted this after doing The Edge Of The Mists Living Story ( I also didn’t do the Fractured LS, not sure if that was interesting but I’ve done everything else concerning Scarlet). That did add more dimensions to the character and it’s the right direction to go in.

However I still have a problem she does seem to just fit the stereotypical mad/eccentric villain archetype such as The Joker and Loki. I still think adding more stories concerning ascalons has more potential. I think they are more complex and it maybe hard to categorize them as villains, you also may feel some sympathy towards them. Yea that could apply to Scarlet but the ascalonians seem more tragic i.e Scarlet was simply looking for knowledge and went mad, the ascalonians were just defending their homeland (debatable) and got slaughtered. I also like the stories and events that happened concerning them such as tech such as the searing cauldron etc.

Well what do you think?

I’m not feeling Scarlet, I don’t think she’s that interesting (not that she couldn’t be), how ever I really like the ascalonians. I think they would make better and more interesting villains and possibly heroes.

If you do player housing I would like to have a house in that area, it’s beautiful and the music is amazing.

I can’t answer that question but I have another one. I was doing the instance yesterday but stopped and exited it at the beginning, is there a way I can start it again with the same character?

Jory.9172:

Look into a new computer or mouse if you dodge to death so many times it kills you.

I never said I did actually for the most part it’s fine.

Jory.9172:

Maybe you’ll find some other people in the woodwork here with the same issue as you.. good luck.

Actually I have met some people online with similar issues but like me they got used to the mechanics. However what I did state is that even if you disable the dodge function completely you still dodge by accident, that shouldn’t happen.

Too me it’s not that big a deal but I think it’s a small issue that could be looked at. Insulting players who politely make suggestions is bad manners.

Oh and by the way it is an issue because it’s even mentioned here in the wiki.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dodge

Some keyboards react to key presses more easily, sometimes resulting in unintentionally dodging. It is advisable to disable double tapping when precise movement is required, such as attempting jumping puzzles.

If it is an issue with the keyboard should I really have to get a new keyboard? Clearly there are lots of players with this type of keyboard otherwise it wouldn’t have been mentioned. I appreciate the devs do a lot of good work but this seems like a minor issue that could be fixed. But to be quite honest I don’t really care anymore I’m just going to be careful about making suggestions again.

illo.5106:

Unbind dodge by double-tapping a move button. (Options -> Combat/Movement -> Double-Tap to Evade)

Ok I think I just said even if you do that you can still dodge by accident.

illo.5106:

I only dodge when I push mouse button 4 – works quite well and 99 % of all my dodges are on purpose.

Yes most of the time my dodges are unpurpose as well. I just don’t understand why it had to be like this. It’s just that odd time when you die when you do it by accident, really annoying.

No it’s not a game breaker and I do love this game.

Ok I don’t know about you but have you had times when you dodge by accident? I don’t know why this is but there are times when I’m playing and I’m about to hit a skill or move in one direction and I find myself dodging.

With practice you can cut this down to a minimum and the vast majority of the time it doesn’t happen. The problem is sometimes you can get yourself killed because you end up dodging when you mean to do something else.

You could argue that you just need to learn how to move better but I can tell you something, even if you disable dodge you can still dodge by accident, that’s how bad it is.

In my opinion GW2 is the best fantasy MMO out so far, but this is the only thing which I think is bad about this game and could say that I actually hate. I don’t understand why this hasn’t been dealt with. A player shouldn’t be dodging by accident, you should be able to only dodge when you press the button.

Jorjeis.2169:

Personally being a hard profession to master is one of the draws of the mesmer. If you have a look around the forums there are plenty of builds that don’t depend on the defender for survivability. Alternatively you could plan your activation better.

I dunno this does sound a bit like you’re patronizing me. I’ve been playing this game from since nearly the beginning and I don’t use any other profession except the mesmer, so I know how the mesmer can be like and I’ve stuck with the profession. It’s not like I’m asking for a major overhaul I’m just asking for a quicker casting time to one skill, that’s sounds like a reasonable request. It’s not like devs haven’t made changes to the mesmer before. Anyway nevermind I guess there are other ways of going about it.

In particular my major problem is with….THIEVES!!! I’ve tried different builds and I’ve tried some of the suggestions in dealing with them but the only way I’ve been able to manage them is with with is by putting a lot in vitality and toughness. I’ve been told you don’t need to do this in order to have good defence. I just don’t know how you can do that when a thief appears out of nowhere and then takes almost all your health. I had to deal with a situation like this and I took certain suggestions, I used blurred frenzy and laid down chaos storm and then I ran like hell because the thief had taken almost all my health with his sneak attack. That situation made me decide to add a lot in vitality and toughness the next time I encountered a thief I actually made the thief run because I was too much for him.

However even if you don’t have a lot or nothing in toughness and vitality it is possible to beat a thief I think with practice. The real difficult part is when you think nobody is around and a thief appears out of nowhere and strikes. You have to bare in mind that PD was suggested in order to deal with thieves but in the situation I’m talking about PD is not good unless you already have an active defence. If you have 0 in toughness and vitaility by the time you break out PD you’re gonna be dead or almost dead.

Anyway I guess I need to read more I just got stuff going on in RL so it makes it difficult to absorb it all.

Psych.6527:

Exactly, i would actuallyu prefer if mesmer stays hard to master please. I dont want mesmer going through what warriors went through now. Besides decoy -> iDefender. Sorted.. LoS? sweet. GS#5d -> iDefender, Staff #2 while casting iDefender or staff #5 casting iDefender inside chaos storm. Torch #4, signet of dom, daze, mass invis, moa…
Asking to make it easier is ridiculous

I don’t know, is asking for a quicker casting time for PD mean I want mesmer to be easy to master? Really? You don’t think you’re blowing this out of proportion? So the mesmer profession is perfect? So if anyone makes a suggestion for improvement that means they’re being silly? Like I said I’ve been playing mesmer from the very beginning. Well yeah I don’t know everything about the mesmer but I feel a bit insulted. I’m not one of those players that started playing mesmer and stopped, I play nothing but mesmer.

Please reduce the casting time of Phantasmal Defender, it takes too long to cast and by the time you’ve cast it you’re almost dead or it gets interrupted. It’s manageable if you have lots in vitality and toughness, but if you don’t it can be too dangerous to use due to the casting time.

Mesmer is a hard profession to master and it’s hard enough as it is fighting against other professions in pvp who attack you at 100 miles per hour.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

Holy mother…… I am speechless. I actually do not really want a Rifle tho..

If that’s what that is I agree. Rifle doesn’t suit mesmer.

How comes you don’t use torch? I would have thought that would have been brilliant for condition damage. I use staff and scepter and torch.

I don’t see the problem with shatter mesmer but I use it in pvp. I have 10/20/0/15/25

By the way what song is that?

Well at any rate thanks for the info.

Reesha.7901:

If there were a lot of them at the same time, it sounds more like a Blast finisher interacting with an ethereal field. (In this case Feedback being the ethereal field). Anyone in the team using a Blast finisher within an ethereal field would apply Chaos Armor on all the team members. The Chaos armor itself does not reflect projectiles though.

You can read more about the combos here

Thanks that looks kinda complicated, I hope there is blast finishing guide for dummies.

Ok I’m a bit confused I met a mesmer in a dungeon and he had this skill were lots of bubbles appeared around the team members protecting them from projectiles, or was it around enemies not too sure, but I saw an ability that created lots of pink domes. I asked him what that was and he said feedback.

EDIT: Didn’t see post above but that seems to be the solution.

If you go to the Inspiration trait tree and and look at number 10 you will see different trait options with roman numerals. Look at number 1 it says this “Feedback – Glamour. Create a dome around your foes that reflects projectiles”, underneath it says “Medic’s Feedback – Create a feedback bubble while reviving your allies”.

I’m talking about Feedback Glamour, I’m saying it’s not working but Medi’cs Feedback is.

P.S. Just as I’m typing I think I’ve figured out the problem I suspect I have to choose feedback(utility) to activate it instead of it working automatically.

Actually it’s not that. It’s under the heading feedback and it’s called Glamour.

I’ve chosen this trait option for pvp I swear nothing seems to happen when I get attacked by projectiles. It wroks when reviving players though.

Thank you for the info.

I got a question. I already have the jump from the top of the tower feat, what exactly do they mean by jump from the exterior of the tower?

Ok I was starting to think it was a big deal that I soloed this with my mesmer on my first go without dying, I guess not.

It’s fine now. As I suspected it got sorted out after the update.

I’ve given it a try and still the same problem. Using windows via shortcut I typed in this.

…\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe -repair

and

…\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe -repair -windowed

By the way I forgot to mention it said this as well

(code=164:53:5:1299:101)

P.S. I suspect this has something to do with the update the nightmare within.

I’m trying to get into pvp, I can’t because I keep getting a message that says GW2 has been updated please relaunch. I’m not sure how to do this.

Ok I got that but I’m still a little confused. I’ve completed all achievements ( I mean that all other achievements need me to reach 13 to be unlocked) and I’m up to 12 now. The only thing I can see is if I do Mad King Says and that’s not available to the 30th apparently.

The confusing thing is that I was 11 and got to 12 I think by opening up trick or treat bags but isn’t that a repeatable achievement? Well I hope somebody can tell me how to reach 13.

EDIT: No worries I’ve hit 13.

I’m up to 10 out of 13 tiers to get elemental candy corn but I just completed Lunatic Inquistion Regular for the third time but didn’t go up a tier, I should be 11 not 10. Maybe I counted it wrong but I think something went wrong there.

The character is level 80, pretty sure she wasn’t the only one in that party. Don’t think I would have got props if it was just that though.

Ok this may not be a big deal to some people but this was for me. I was playing Caudecus’s Manor story mode, before I started playing people in the party were getting scared and stating that I hope you have heavy armour my reply was that it didn’t matter because I had a mesmer tank build.

Sure enough we got to the second to last boss, three times everybody in my party died and my mesmer was the last person standing and at one point may have been able to finish off the bad guys on my own. What was really interesting was the short conversation we had afterwards I was like " Yea I told you my mesmer was tough." what was really interesting was the other players response, “Yes your character has good survivability…….and a mesmer who would have thought.”

It’s a bid deal for me because when I first started playing the mesmer it was really frustrating but I refused to give up on the profession and I stuck with it. I wanted to create a tough mesmer that was difficult to kill and that’s what I did. When other players say positive things about your survivability then you know you’re doing something right. It also seems that mesmers have a bad reputation for survivability and I proved them wrong. I think mesmers are a difficult profession to play but in some ways that’s what makes it so much fun. I could go on but meh think I’m done now.

I’m a little confused how and when I’m supposed to make this. Obvously I know I have to collect candy corn, but how much?

Could the devs make it possible to play as either an ascalonian or a zephyr. I find both subraces interesting. I’m not sure if zephyrites are human but they seem to be the guild war version of the new gods or eternals (dc and marvel comics readers know what I’m talking about).

On that note I was wondering if the devs could make more styles related to braids or dreadlocks. All my chars are black and sometimes I think the different hairstyles are limited. Yes I know you can go for straight hair for female but I try to avoid it.

Vis.8471:

LINK:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/16/guild-wars-2-designer/
(And by “disappointed” I am referring to the statement of ““people avoiding charr & asura are missing the strongest story stuff””)

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I chose a human due to the fact that I wanted to play a Norn or a Charr however the Norn males are hideous and their animations are god awful. Charr’s cant hold a shield without it clipping through or way off their arm and their tail goes through most armors by clipping etc etc. And they are both SLOW. So I went with the boring old human.

The most likely race to be released next is the Tengu which is just yet again another large animal race so I’ll just stick with my human after them as well. I’m waiting for a magical race. Something like the largos etc.

This is the first MMO I have ever rolled a human. I only did it due to the Norn males having worse hairstyles, movements, animations than any other MMO race I have ever seen.

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TL;DR?

Were you forced into playing a human due to something?
OR
Did you choose a human simply because you wanted to roll a human?

..and he maybe be right but I find the charr and asura a bit silly looking. I can’t take them too seriously.

Yes this is the first fantasy game were I have played as a human and I was kinda forced into it. I have a pet hate for animal races.

colesy.8490:

I don’t really have any experience with hybrid PvE builds, but considering conditions are worse than power, I’d say it wouldn’t be ideal. Plus you’re sticking 20 points in Inspiration for scepter traiting when the main reason to do it in the first place is focus traiting. You also don’t have 10 points in dueling so you miss out on phantasmal fury, and since our best phantasm fires 8 projectiles, that’s a lot of crits you could miss out on.

Sorry I was just thinking how much better is power over condition dmg? So if I get +200 CD from inspiration what you’re saying is that +10 power is better than +200 CD, not to mention that there is a signet that increases CD as well. That doesn’t make sense to me.

Xyonon.3987:

But Condition damage alone – hell IT SUCKS!

You’re using the wrong powers. Prestige, Chaos Storm and Confusing Images are beastly. As well as using a shatter on images with confusion.

colesy.8490:

I don’t really have any experience with hybrid PvE builds, but considering conditions are worse than power, I’d say it wouldn’t be ideal. Plus you’re sticking 20 points in Inspiration for scepter traiting when the main reason to do it in the first place is focus traiting. You also don’t have 10 points in dueling so you miss out on phantasmal fury, and since our best phantasm fires 8 projectiles, that’s a lot of crits you could miss out on.

Good point, so what about survivability? I could put 30 in power and condition damage. that leaves me with 10 points. I would rather put 10 in toughness, than in precision and I wouldn’t want to split it either. I know Precision can give you vigor but sometimes you just can’t dodge

colesy.8490:

The problem is you’ve traited wrong and equipped yourself wrong.

Read my guide.

I just remembered I’m planning to combine power with condition dmg, so with that mesmer the argument seems redundent, but I’m planning to put 20 in power and 30 in condition damage, 20 in vitality and pick a trait were I get +200 condition damage with scepter.

That sound any good?