Guild Wars 2

I like the new system, but it definitely needs more options in both number of goals per day (maybe five in each category) and possible goals.

I was about to make a new thread requesting the option to turn off your own commander tag for when you’re not leading, but we can lump that in here.

The requirements to earn traits definitely need to be looked at. Also, I think a more even point distribution (i.e., one every five levels) would make leveling feel smoother and more rewarding.

Districts a la Guild Wars 1 are pretty much a necessity to ensure being able to join guilds, parties, and friends without a hitch.

I like that PvE and PvP dailies and monthlies are combined, but having only ten dailies out of both is very limiting. I was hoping that they would literally just combine the two pools, and I remain hopeful that they’ll fix this, dare I say, mistake.

Permanent bobble head option as a reward for a new specific achievement, plox.

1. Elementalist
2. Ranger
3. Engineer? Maybe Necromancer? I can’t place a third as immediately as I could the first two.

Any word on doing anything with more Elementalist minor traits, specifically in Arcane? Does Lingering Elements even do anything right now?

I don’t currently have the capacity to log in and generate a report, but since the patch and as of last night, the game has been unplayable for me in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

I’ll vouch for this. The game is currently unplayable.

As I said in another thread: the patch didn’t fix everything we needed fixed, but what did get fixed turned out pretty well.

We didn’t get all the changes we needed, but I’m really into the ones we got. The new Lava Font and Burning Retreat are pretty wonderful.

This AoE nerf — is it that targets who block or dodge count for the target cap, or is there something else on top of that?

I’m supremely disappointed.

Did anyone see the thing on Twitch? Give me a lowdown of the Elementalist changes.

I used it for a while, but switched to Berserker’s. I miiight go half and half, but I’m liking the change.

Every weapon does have its use, but also, a lot of it comes down to play style. I roll with staff probably 85% of the time and two daggers the other 15.

It did say “with a focus on support builds,” not exclusively. I remain cautiously optimistic.

Kyskythyn.6471:

Ele’s have damage, it just takes a little more effort to survive in offensive gear than say, warriors and thieves.

Whaaaaat is going on in that screenshot?

How are you hitting for 7k/sec? Tell me your secrets.

I mean, five seconds isn’t a long cooldown at all.

The only issue is that it does nothing on world bosses, but that’s a pretty insignificant amount of relative play time.

Always good to see. What’s your build/gear setup?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhImKbyR4gjEAkCmEUQADjCaUeMzO2A-jwDBYLBhgAhKAI5pIaslhFRjVVBTZCQbCRjCWpCS3C1jD1hAxjQQ2lADA-e

Sometimes, I replace Serrated Stones with Earth’s Embrace and Armor of Earth with Lightning Flash, and I’m about 50/50 on Glyph of Elemental Harmony and Ether Renewal. Arcane Shield is also interchangeable with Arcane Wave.

Daecollo.9578:

Drastically Improves the Fire Attunement, completely locks out Air.
Drastically Improves the Water Attunement, completely locks out Earth.
Drastically Improves the Air Attunement, completely locks out Fire.
Drastically Improves the Earth Attunement, completely locks out Water.

Traits like this, that improve yet simplify the class.

That seems like a pretty bad idea.

I see what you did there.

That would be nice, even though it’s not really what the thread is about.

Has anyone else noticed an apparent lack of polish in this patch? I have no particular problem with the Teakettle encounter — it caters to a different sort of player from most in the game — but some of, say, the achievement descriptions are just killing me.

Three achievements with the same name described as “Search for 1 clues of dragons in X”? Does anyone else take issue with this? “Search for clues of dragons in X” just fits better with the style of the rest of the game.

6/10. I’m not into the lack of cohesion.

Pardon my graphics settings. My laptop would probably catch fire if I set them any higher.

I was really hoping they would have done something with the delays in the staff elementalist’s repertoire. It has a lot of potential, but most of its skills have trouble hitting player targets.

Engineers and elementalists could do with weapon swapping, too, especially considering some of the elementalist’s cooldowns, even if it’s on a 15-second cooldown instead of 10.

Cooldowns and delays could do with being shortened. I’m still hoping they give Elementalists and Engineers the ability to swap weapons like everyone else, since our most adaptable skill set by attunement is the trident.

I was trying to purchase some gems earlier, and was met with a message about my account not being able to do so due to security reasons when trying with both PayPal and credit card. I asked about it and received the following stock message:

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How long does such a lock usually last? I guarantee that my account has not been compromised

Yep. My wife just bought the game and is having the same issue.

My mesmer’s not very high level so you can correct me if I’m wrong, but Illusionary Warlock seems like it’d work wonders on bosses.

I’m going to try the repair now. In the meantime, here’s the log.

Ditto that. Even right now, not at primetime, everything’s frustratingly lagged.

I don’t really know what else to add. I’ve crashed out twice now just by trying to expand the dailies dropdown in the top right of the UI.

Kaleden.9386:

Their statements definitely made me raise an eyebrow, but their intention seemed to be that they don’t want players defaulting to using AoE abilities against single players when single target attacks are available.

What was said, exactly? I apparently missed this.

Xriah.5743:

Lingering Elements: Attunement bonuses linger for 5 seconds.

Lingering Elements is great. Your other suggestions are pretty good, though.

http://en.gw2codex.com/build/19238-balanced-staff

I haven’t really done PvP or dungeons or anything yet so I don’t know how it works there, but I’ve found it to be very effective in general PvE.

I almost exclusively use staves. I’ve played around with two daggers and scepter/dagger (not so much foci), but the play styles haven’t really been for me. I don’t get the staff hate — they’re pretty effective in any situation if you know what you’re doing.