Guild Wars 2

Ticket: 634568

:) when you get a chance

I’m not sure if this is just bugged for me, but ‘disband’ is spelt wrong for the squad options for commanders

Sorry for creating a topic over such a little thing!

That’s exactly what I was hoping to achieve with this topic, If you can think of any useful tips for new players on certain mechanics that aren’t well known, It’d be great if you could share them, Maybe even some tips for dodge rolling.

Yeah, the wiki is great for information. But they may not understand it completely in some cases, which is where the forums are good. Players can simplify it and make the information more comprehensive for them.

That’s what you’d hope, But unfortunately that isn’t the case all of the time.
xD

Yeah, It’s a shame.
But even if it’s not implemented, we can still list useful information for people who wish to learn.
:)

Some information came from here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defiance

Clearing Defiance.

‘’Immune to crowd control. Crowd-control skills remove stacks of defiance’’

“Defiance is an effect that grants immunity to most control effects. It is caused by Unshakable, an ability possessed by most champion and legendary rank enemies.”

“When a creature with the Unshakable effect is successfully affected by a control effect, the creature will gain a minimum of 3 stacks of defiance, but potentially many more depending on how many players are nearby, based on event scaling. Stacks of defiance can be removed with additional control effects, and once all stacks are removed, the creature is vulnerable to control effects once again, and the cycle repeats. When no stacks of defiance are present, a control skill can apply control to the creature, but it will also apply defiance, preventing further crowd control from being applied until removed. For example, interrupting will have no effect unless no defiance is present; if no defiance is present, the creature can be interrupted but this will immediately apply more defiance.”

Removing defiance helps in interrupting skills, and allow you to move the boss to a better position.

Some moves/effects that remove defiance are:
Daze, Fear, Float, Knockback/Push, Knockdown, Launch, Pull, Sink, Stun.

Combo fields yield different bonuses when used effectively.
Combo fields are effected by different finishers, such as Blast finishers, Leap finishers, Projectile finishers and Whirl finishers.

Blast finishers create Area effects, granting boons to more players.
Leap, projectile and whirl finishers usually only result in boons for oneself and conditions for a single target, however some provide healing and condition removal to other players.

Dark – Area blindness, blindness, life steal. (Examples, Shadow Refuge, Well of Suffering)
Ethereal – Area chaos armor, chaos armor, confusion. (Examples, Chaos Storm, Vortex)
Fire – Area might, fire armor, burning. (Examples, Ring of Fire, Combustive Shot)
Ice – Area frost armor, frost armor, chill. (Examples, Frozen Ground, Frost Trap)
Light – Area retaliation, retaliation, remove condition. (Examples, Symbol of Wrath, Wall of Reflection)
Lightning – Area swiftness, Dazing strike, Vulnerability. (Examples, Static Field, Lightning Cage)
Poison – Area weakness, weakness, poison. (Examples, Choking Gas, Poison Grenade)
Smoke – Area stealth, stealth, blindness. (Examples, Black Powder, Smoke Screen)
Water – Area healing, healing, regeneration. (Examples, Healing Spring, Healing rain)

The title says it all.
I find that the majority of new players don’t know much about combo fields and how they work. I think that the player base would benefit largely from a simple tutorial. I can’t begin to count the amount of times I have decided to PuG and they have gotten upset because I put down a combo field (for example, Wall of Reflection, Guardian Skill, Light field) at a boss fight to help clear conditions and grant retaliation.

(I get complaints from them saying “there are no projectiles why are you wasting a Wall of Reflection”, I don’t blame them, they are just most likely unaware of what the combo fields do)

The same goes with defiance, clearing stacks of it is vital in some fights, yet many players don’t know how or what it does, or what moves can be used to remove it.

There are quite a few other things that many people don’t understand mechanics for, feel free to list ones that you know of.

:)

Yeah, It would be nice to get rid of all of my spare trinkets sitting in my bank all soulbound to one character :L

Yeah, I don’t want to lose the legendary status xD I doubt Arena Net would forget about transmuted ones. Meh who knows, what about using it for trinkets? just throwing ideas out there.

Well anyways, Along similar lines… What about say like… 600 gems for a kit that would let you unequip some armor you have equipped?(ie cultrual t3) Wouldn’t that be better than transmuting? idk I’m just looking for opinions

In the upcoming patches legendary items are able to swap out stats whenever you’re out of combat. I don’t want to miss out on that because I transmuted it.

Flissy.4093:

You’d pay 1000+ gems to do the same job as 2 transmutation crystals.

Wow.

No. I’d pay 1000+ gems to keep my legendary as a legendary.

Mystic “unsoulbind kit”??
Why is there no such thing? I would happily pay gems to acquire such a thing. Even if it only had one or so uses, wouldn’t this be a better alternative to using transmutation stones on Legendarys? even if the kit just made the item “account bound until equip” or something…

This is just my opinion. I know if it were too under-priced it would just be abused… but I would seriously consider paying 1000+ gems to move one of my items to another account.

(INB4 “blah blah shouldn’t have equipped on that character if you weren’t sure”)

Opinions on this? or similar ideas?

Yeah, I’m getting a similar problem, I log in and select my character. Load into the game, I can run around but it does not display any of my friends online nor does it show me online for my friends. I then get disconnected (7:11:3:189:101). This is annoying… I didn’t have this a few days ago.

Yeah, I have also been getting DC’d after logging into my characters, I am sometimes able to log into Lionsarch, but not access WvW or any other areas… My loading screen either stops and displays the error code “7:11:3:189:101” or loads into the map and shows my avatar moving around but mobs and entities staying still… I then crash a few moments later with the same code… I am a level 80 mesmer, on the server “Fissure Of Woe”

Hopefully this gets patched soon >.>