Guild Wars 2

Worst episode so far, they kittened it up wherever they could by making every single thing as complicated as possible… heck im quitting this kitten

We still need duel option in PvE. When they deliver that, they will swimsuits and underwater maps.

Koto.1824:

On your keyboard, there’s a button that magically makes you not get one shot by them. It’s called the “dodge key.” I suggest you use it.

Works well except when facing insible rogues such as mesmers. They only need blocks.. oh wait…

I am still waiting rounded map after 5 years.

How did this game ever got so exciting and competitive to allow mesmers to one shot people? Oh wait, this is NCSOFT…

Since I installed gw2 yesterday on my new rig, I keep getting this wired yet annoying issue where shadow(and light in general) doesn’t transit smooth.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/V5xX9By.jpg

EDIT: Issue was in shaders being set to medium. This is unacceptable, it looks like its set to “None”. Please improve it.
Running retail Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit.
Can anyone help me resolve this?

Does revenant still spams 1st AA skill all the time? Its been 2 years already…

I do too believe this game lost its identity. They should sit down and think about what they want with this game.

There are some core issues Ive noticed over the year this game has, comparing to others.

1. Duelling in PvE. This is the only MMO which doesn’t have duel option. There is no reason not to implement it. Its been beaten to death over many topics already and there are only excuses not to implement it.

2. WvW maps are far too gigantic. This mode is failure for high tier servers. In WoW, Ashran is really small which makes it great. You don’t need 2 hours to roam the map to find opponents. They are waiting you 10 seconds away from base.
Make maps 3-4 times smaller and something might change.

3. Bug fixing. Just look at revenant. 1 year later and nothing has been fixed. I wanted to main it for far too long, but I cant as it feels like in early alpha.

4. Lack of stability. Makers of this game are rushing to bring out new content without previously stabilising old one. Good examples are racial skills and build trees. Revenants state confirms this boldly. Why not firstly take your time to reflect at what you want with classes? Their kit shouldn’t be changed, but rather expanded. What you guys do is expanding something that is not previously stable and polished.

5. Build templates. This could be considered under 4, but its been asked for so long that its issue itself! For unknown reason, developers keep refusing to bring us this feature, which is considered as essential in most modern MMOs.

6. Maps. I strongly believe PvE maps should be released with each expansions and not otherwise. Main focus in between expansions should be PvP maps and PvP modes.
I kinda want to see many PvP maps available, which keeps people entertained faaar longer. Skills can be polished and stabilised alongside PvP map releases, which is great organisation imo.

Their financial reports are showing this to be correct. And I think I am very realistic because Im huge gamer myself and hopefully game dev soon. And yes, I really love this game, but I can’t bring myself to play it in this state.

I am still taking a look occasionally in hope things will change, especially now that Colins gone.

I sincerely hope devs can take something out of this from the heart and make the the game better

well, seems like I won’t be coming back for several years, if ever :/

Thanks for the update!

Heya everyone,

I have been away for really long time now and would like to move from my warrior as I’ve played it far too long.

When HoT launched, revenant was bug sack, so what changed?

+1 on this. And ppl wonder why players leave. Its annoying. Not having build templates and duel option literaly shows how this game is morbidly planned. Its time to implement these.

Lusiva.7692:

its progression, compared to other mmo’s guild wars is pretty soft on that. I think this game spoiled you a tad bit much.

i think not. I played many mmos and still do, yet none have this system.

When I started playing 4 years ago with my friends, we simply ran all over the place and killed everything on our way. It wad like that first 30 levels or so.

The thing I really hate with wing 3 is must having mastery points to compete. This is stupud.

I understand they are endgame content, but is it really necessary to do such thing? I think not. They should be skill based instances, not mastery level based ones.

Hi guys!

There is one cool idea that just occurred to me.

Why not make finisher with raging, screaming charr looking toward sky? He is like looking and screaming(outbursting cry) while flames are surrounding him. And sound shall be like RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWRRRRRRRRR

What do you think?

yeah, I politely contacted support in hope I get replacement. That was worst mistake in my life. Names of materials that will be used to craft their respective weapons should be coloured imo.

Today I was like going to craft hilt for my ascended sword. I typed “sword” in search field and selected first field which had (1) in itself – letting me know I can craft it. There where 2 fields, so I assumed one is for hilt and one is for blade. I clicked on “Hilt” one and pressed “Craft”.

What I got was GREATsword hilt, not SWORD hilt. kitten? REALLY?

I ended up wasting 30 GOLD on this crap. WHY just WHY does GREATSWORD hilt show up when you type SWORD only?

This made me so sick and tired of this game…

Ive been around here since start. This game had its ups and downs like every other.
Ill be honest – Colin wasn’t good enough leader imo. Mo did everything as it should have been. Actually, he allowed us a lot more than Colin did, which is the best for both parties.

As person who prefers PvP more than PvE Im kinda disappointed. We didn’t get much maps here, and WvW is too giant map for me to roam, not to mention that everyone zergs which is not fun at all. Only WvW being too giant renders 1/3 of game useless to me.

I would like to see at least 5 more new PvP maps. Mo did right thing to make PvP queuing outside of mists possible, but they miss icon which will indicate that matchmaking is in process. Again, we need 5-10 more maps if this game is to be more cool in PvP.

Also, the DUEL button made me quit GW2 few times. All of my local friends quit because they could not duel with PvE gear nor PvP had much maps to offer. I was alone that remained and now in European guild. Please see to it that DUEL button sees the light of a day.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING BANDIT SNIPER’S OUTFIT ON SALE! I BEGGED SO MUCH FOR IT TO BE RELEASED AND IM SO HAPPY TO HAVE IT!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! <3

me in current situation be like

Live footage of ANET fixing servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9aHfg5U0Rw

Joke aside, keep good work guys! I hope everything goes smoothly on your end so we can both enjoy the rest of our evenings

Bandit Sniper’s Outfit. Its been 2 months since I filled up my gems and no sight of outfit please make it happen!

This idea just occurred to me! If Karma is not so well integrated value into game and everyone has tons of it, why not help players and make 20 slot bags purchasable with karma?

I hope this reaches out to Mo. What do you think guys?

GW2 is the only game without duel feature. But enough of that, that topic was beaten to death and answer was always – NO. They don’t care for people dueling with their friends at all. So all we have is to make some kind of compromise and workaround.

I was wondering if you guys could turn this circle shaped ruin into “Everyone-For-Themselves” PvP arena like there is in AION?

Players would enter and fight against all other players. Great way to test your build and have fun until match starts.

Also, considering we have no DUEL button, this would be great

Oh yeah I can relate with this. My first character, back when GW2 got released was necro. It was in terrible state back then(everyone used to play warr) so I decided to re roll into Warrior. I tried every class but necro was one of the most enjoyable among all. I find my charrior(which is geared af n looks like richest cat in the game) very boring to play.

As alternative to reaper, I recommend Revenant. Its kit might be unfinished, but idea behind it is fun and staff skills are reminding of reaper shroud skills. On top of that rev is close combat class.

nicknamenick.2437:

Wow finally somebody that asks about it!

I have reported this like 2/3 years ago or something… i am not 100% sure but back in the beta/first year it wassnt like this.. i think they changed the icon to this when they changed signet of might to give unblockable (next 3 hits..) it used to give might boons
Back then they changed allot more icons and somehow they kittened up this icon..

if you look good you see almost none of the signets are the same..

yeah, exactly! Can someone from ArenaNet speak about this? You know guys, would be nice… there is specific team made for this thing ><

Why is the background of this icon black instead of brownish like other sighents have?

Can someone explain this please? I am wondering if Im the only one being irritated by this small thing.

I have been playing this game since it came out. It was loooong jurney. I grinded a lot but also had tons of fun and met many nice people that later became my close friends!

I hope they will give us something special this year! Maybe unique legendary-like weapon skin? Or perhaps, brutally awesome outfit? Maybe permament VETERAN-ONLY fortress access with all these NPCs?

OR

Some very awesome titles!

Im super excited to see what will happen

I thought such thing was impossible to happen. Glad economy wasn’t hit by this at all. At one point I thought user database might be injured. Happy this didn’t happen.

Nothing like feeling of your characters being safe and sound.

Revenant. Nice burst, high sustain and great 1v1.

Before SAB riot, there was same sized riot about charr armors and it caused no change. ANET behaved liked it never happen. So its most likely nothing will happen now as well.

Oh wait, Colin is not here anymore… yeah, something might be actually done, but I wouldn’t expect it anytime soon.

I have discovered a way for people to wield their profession’s weapon without even using its appropriate traitline.

How?

Make sure profession trailine is set in PvP build and on PvE is not.

Then go to PvP, equip your profession weapon. Exit PvP. WHOLA! You can now weapon swap to your profession weapon without having that traitline.

Tested on my ranger/druid

PS sorry for my terrible English.

in TWO weeks? * NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO in Darth Vader’s voice *

20 minutes till Wednesday, and still no patch? where is it?

loseridoit.2756:

nvidia is kinda an kitten. Blocking driver installs on consumer cards when it detect itself to be in vm. Of course, the workaround is to spoof the vm.

nvidia was always kitten company, closing its product as much as they can. Switched to full AMD long time ago.

Many people ask this all around internet lately.

Worry not – there is very simple, yet perfect solution! “Direct Hardware” feature of virtual machines.

It allows OS within virtual machine to communicate with hardware directly instead of going through APIs. Meaning, you can boot up Windows on your virtual machine, install proper drivers and then run GW2 on it through “Direct Hardware” enabled.

I don’t think you will loose more than 10 FPS, if any.

Better days for linux are comming now that Vulkan API is released and Ubuntu’s Mir+Unity8 will be focused around it(no more xorg) which means developers will have to code once for all platforms supported by vulkan.

I advise using all white gear if you are about to play bugged and unfinished class. Just my 2 cents.

Same case here. I tried revenant mechanic, fell in love with it and moved all my ascended gear on him.

Sadly, it got boring very fast. Aside AA, which is used 99% of the time, you use 2nd skill. Then move to Shiro for extra AA speed and when run out of energy switch back to Glint for Signet of Nature, Might and perhaps Protection(Ult).

Class, as of now has the lowest skill elo and its most boring one after guardian staff.

This is mostly because class itself is not finished, has many bugs making 50% of skills not working correctly, energy use is not balanced. Some skills are not even finished(Ventari for example, complete mess).

Even thou DPS Herald with sword has good idea, ppl AA most of the time because giant dps loss through animations and low dps on skills such as 3, while cost is too big(again energy problem).

Other than perma swiftness boost and 2 emergency heals, class is literally unfinished boredom.

My advice, until class is polished which could take up to year, stay on berserker. You can make revenant and play with it, but don’t expect much, at least for now.

I was wondering when will balance update be released?

I am really looking forward a lot of revenant bugfixes and adjustments, aside other improvements and returning gemstore outfits.

Crystal Desert. Because Silverwastes wheren’t enough! HA!

JK, probably bloodlegion homelands or sth like that. Maybe Ring of Fire dunno.

Euthymias.7984:

Burtnik.5218:

Many skills are dps loss. Theres no reason to cast sword 3 for example as it is not affected by quickness+it bounce off random kitten around your target so its actually a huge dps loss vs target, same goes to strike.

Yes, those are definitely DPS losses since they’re affected by multiple targets being present (or Sword 2 just going after objects…ugh). I still think that nerfing the AA isn’t necessary to fix them so much as just adjusting those skills to work better against single targets (as sword skills were intended to “single out enemies”) and to remove their energy costs so they’re an option off of cooldown without the detriment of energy loss when elites/utilities already drain it.

If Precision Strike only focused on whatever you’re targeting and UA only concentrated its bounces about on a single foe, then they would be better without having to buff their damage dealt.

Edit: The quickness thing also affects Mace AA 3, right? How quickness works on these attacks needs to be looked at in general. They really should at least make skill bug-fixes independent of balance patches.

Seems like they should buff 3rd sword (Unrelenting Assault) a lot to cover dps loss over animation or make it affected by quickness?

Josh Davis.6015:

Aury.1367:

another Bug:
1. Envoy of Exuberance;
Doesnt heal when blinded even though its not attack

Good catch. Added to the list for the next balance update.

May we know when is next balance update? My fingers hurt form hitting that 1st button all the time.

DPS rev would be fun if they fixed sword skills a bit, making 3rd skill viable ^^

I am more interested in how class feels overall, not is it OP or not. I play for fun and its important that it fills me with joy while I play it

Power Rev is my kind of thing(I am not into condition playstyle), but its not fun thanks to class being unfinished.

I used to main warrior in vanilla so I will probably get back to it if ANET doesnt do something about rev soon enough, as my finghers start to hurt from hitting that 1st button on keyboard :P

P.S. how do you run fast on warrior nowdays anyway, as Warrior’s Sprint is not used anymore?

I advise lowering damage on AA and boosting damage on other skills. Also making them utilise and preserve energy the more balanced way.

This class has insane fun potential but its not done imo, rather its in broken paralysed state.

Hi everyone ^^

I am in great doubt: should I keep myself on revenant as my main or should I reroll back to my warrior(berserker)?

First of all, I wanna say that I just love revenant. I love its kit, how you invoke the legends and how everything moves and flashes according to them! All these years I was searching for my perfect playstyle in across all professions, but revenant’s kit remains my “one” and favorite! Idea behind it is amazing!

Sadly, I am terribly bored to death of its autoattack + 2nd skill sequence. Idea of this class is awesome, but its not there.
It looks like class is not finished or its meant to attract noobs that will spam 1>2>1>1>1>2>etc(same like thief spam heartseeker on launch).

I have 100% map finished on my warrior and have both 500 weaponsmith and armorsmith on him. But warrior(berserker) to me is now kinda boring compared to revenant, and too slow as I got used to that perma swiftness

Its more like idea behind the class is brutally awesome than class itself as it feels broken when palyed, comparing to warrior which can get really fun during fights(aside its boring idea).

I am also working on Gift of Fortune, so I would like to decide my direction from here onwards as to craft appropriate weapon for class I will use.

I am welcoming any kind of feedback as additional advices. Cheers!

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

TokyoGhost.6492:

I PREFFER REPLY FROM ANET TY

This is not meant to come off as cheeky, but then you might have better luck asking on Reddit.

These forums seem to be intended for the community to talk with each other more so than for ANet to chat with us… with, of course, obvious exceptions.

Regardless, good luck and I hope you get your answer.

~EW

Thanks sir!

nottsgman.8206:

Bandit Sniper Appearance Pack was never a separate outfit, unfortunately. the others were, and will probably return as such in time

You want to say Bandit Sniper’s Outfit is unlikely to return at all, even with bundle? I dont think so. It was only once on market if I can recall.

Sniper was only in bundle I couldn’t go with 2k rly :P Im looking offers for 800gems, and they are unlikely to return based by what we seen they do with packs.