Guild Wars 2

If you want to, sure, but you’ve barely scraped either class. I’d suggest playing the classes far more to decide if you even like them when you have their traits/skills unlocked. Also, you should get used to the mechanics of the “core maps” before you try pushing to expansion content.

To answer the main question in this post… expect a nerf to the grandmaster trait “Might Makes Right”. Hopefully the nerf is only a change to the amount of endurance gained. Something like changing it from 5 to 3 endurance gained per might should be enough. Adding anything like a internal cooldown would just destroy the trait.

I don’t think this will be nerfed prior to the expansion, and at that point you’ll have an actual elite specialization to play.

I’ve had the same issue since around March. For whatever reason, I went from a constant 50-60 ping to 120-150… but with frequent ping spikes ranging from from 400 to 4000. The only way I can actually PvP anymore is to use a VPN. It’s still perfectly fine in PvE maps and the usual WvW skill-lag without the use of a VPN.

AegisRunestone.8672:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Gaile Gray.6029:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Um… can someone, a dev or mod, clarify the minimum space requirements? It says 50 GB. Is that for all the current content?

Right now, GW2 is about 29.4 GB for its GW2.dat file (and I have HoT). I only have about 32 GB of space left on my computer… Do I actually need 50 more GB or is the 50 GB including at least the core game?

That is an excellent question. I’ll check for you.

And the answer is, the 50 GB is for everything, not in addition to what’s already in use. Thanks for asking — it’s worth knowing in case others wonder about it.

Crap… I don’t want to uninstall 50% of my other games. Can’t afford a larger SSD yet.

Unless I’ve misread, she’s saying that you have enough room (assuming you already have the current 30gb of the game installed – core and HoT). The expansion is likely going to be at most bringing the entire game (core with expansions) to 50gb (give or take a few for wiggle room). Still, that leaves you with only ~10gb… so you should still look into getting more storage.

Engi/thief duo works well in ranked. Thieves rely heavily on their teammates to provide them with rotations, so having an engi player taking side node fights usually provides for an easy +1 from your thief friend. Engi has strong 1v1s across the board aside from a few (mainly revenant and necro), but those few are weak in outnumbered situations, so it really isn’t an issue. This is all assuming that both you and your friend are running either meta or something viable to fulfill the same roles.

tigirius.9014:

Undo.5091:

A nice change to the trait itself would be to have the invuln go off before the stunbreak and not the other way around. No one likes being stunned during their invuln proc.

If you use cleanses you don’t have that issue. Glasscanons are never good.

Wot.

Edit: I’m talking strictly about hard-CCs, not soft-CC through conditions. If timed correctly, you can CC an engineer as they go into their SRD… so the engineer is stuck in one spot for a good duration of the invuln.

A nice change to the trait itself would be to have the invuln go off before the stunbreak and not the other way around. No one likes being stunned during their invuln proc.

Ithilwen.1529:

I’d prefer anet focused on issues that affect the majority of players. It has been the emphasis on ESL that has contributed to many of the challenges we have now.

Balance is a major example.

This affects plenty of players. The most obvious example of the issue is Kyhlo. The port spots are back to what they were when the map was revamped… which is terrible for anyone who plays using skills that teleport the user.

Pleeeeaaaase. Blast gyro is amazing. I’ve learned to love the broken AI on it when I watched the gyro wait for a revenant’s shield 5 to go away before CC’ing him.

Just don’t use the blast gyro near its hard-counter… stairs.

FYI – The bug is only when you’re queueing on an elementalist or engineer. If you’re trying to play with two or more people who play these classes, have some of them swap classes when you go to join the queue. Once you get into your match, they can simply swap back. It’s annoying, sure, but you can still queue with whatever classes you want.

Ashen.2907:

Engineer.

Zombies would have a hard time biting through leather armor, which would be easier to move in than heavy.

Guns. Turrets.

The ability, conceptually, to keep machines running (without fuel).

So, immune to being bitten, guns, automated weapon turrets, and cars.

Easy pick IMO.

Not to mention the seemingly endless amount of booze you have! That’s a necessity in an apocalypse!

Evan Lesh.3295:

Exciton.8942:

Yeah, you can say that we should just go play unranked and I agree with that. But saying the current custom arena structure is actually decent for some sort of casual experience is just lying.

When I say casual, I don’t mean new players. I mean players who don’t care much about rules or rewards because they use the platform for things like dueling and trying new builds against something other than dummies.

Custom arenas are a tool that allows players to self-regulate and I would personally like to remove all of the baked custom arenas from the browser. People who own arenas would just turn off auto-balance if they don’t like people abusing spectator team swapping or use the ban feature.

On a similar note, can arena owners have the ability to remove the “Ready Up” mark with the character portraits? For the custom servers that do operate like this, it just gets in the way. Otherwise have it as an option for each individual player to toggle?

ShadowMageAlpha.7580:

These Flamethrower buffs are actually quite nice. It pushes the FT a bit more into a hybrid kit, which isn’t bad by any means. Flame Blast, which was fairly respectable burst, is now improved by a fair amount from the damage increase, not to mention 9 seconds of extra burning if you can time your blast well. These changes likely aren’t going to increase FT’s use at all, but they will push the numbers up a bit for people who do use it.

I haven’t looked at flamethrower all too much yet in game, but my understanding was that they decreased the direct damage, not increased. That forces it out of the hybrid and towards conditions.

Mesmer… doesn’t compete for the same role as either of those classes. It’s a utility class that can absolutely turn the tides with one good portal.

And while I’m all for build diversity, there will always be a class that fulfills a specific role in a team composition better than another, whether it be from your team’s class lineup or the enemy’s.

This happened while I was in a group of four a few nights ago. We attempted to queue unranked about 6 or so times. While I’m not sure if each abandoned queue was due to the game/server, I know the majority of them were. Our entire party would accept the queue-pop only to either have it disappear and throw us all out of the queue 15 seconds later or show us the abandoned message without any of us being given dishonor. A few times it even showed that the four of us (of 10) were the only players who had clicked accept on the queue-pop.

We eventually gave up and split into two groups (of two players each party). We immediately got thrown into a match against each other.

Soooo… an issue with larger parties entering unranked?

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Druid_-_Shoutbow

That is a link to the highest rated ranger sPvP build. The bunker Druid also works well. You focus primarily on pushing into most 1v1s on side nodes while also poking your head into other fights now and then.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uuh6uObhz-w
Thief and Mesmer only gain a slender mobility advantage on the map.
Sorry, I had to because it’s an awesome play.
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In all seriousness, I’m fine with the mobility they have. It’s the appeal of both classes in SPvP. Besides, Mesmer mobility is more of a utility in most cases than compared to what thief can make of these maps. I also don’t care that ranged classes have it easier on clock tower now.

What I do care about is how simple the map has become just with the buildings that were changed. If any change was necessary to the buildings, they should have changed the graphic of the rooftops (to the side buildings -“jumping puzzle buildings”) to be something that wasn’t straw, so players could easily see the edges and not smack their heads on nearby platforms while attempting parkour. (https://youtu.be/DIPf9MaDrBQ?t=2m56s)

The one change that I’m okay with, assuming it actually works this way now, is the inability for players to hit the buildings near mid. It would allow multiple classes to gain additional procs during fights to provide boons/leeching/life force.

Listen, Henry, I like where you’re coming from. I really do… but how do you expect anyone to take your thoroughly researched propositions seriously with these little nerfs to chip away at classes? You’re not going to get anywhere unless you think big. I wouldn’t settle for anything less than a 50% nerf to all ranger sources of damage, and you shouldn’t either.

Hm, to offset the nerf, we should probably buff one of the profession’s other skills. Maybe we should give Signet of the Wild an unblockable buff. That would help with a good few matchups.

Emf.1240:

Clicked on this for salt and only laughed.

Feels…UnsureMan

Scrapper really hasn’t changed at all in its SPvP role or its capability to fulfill it. It’s still a good pick for a team, in my opinion at least. Also… Electrowhirl didn’t get nerfed. Shock Shield and Thunderclap received the changes.

In a match, keeping 10+ stacks of might on the current meta engineer build in SPvP is incredibly easy. You can reach that much with your hammer auto-attack (the might from the auto-attack also stacks per target, not per use – one auto chain will net 8 might if you cleave 2 targets rather than 1), not to mention HGH and elixer gun. As for losing on-crit conditions, this doesn’t really matter as you’re running a power setup. (Closest thing to the meta build is below.)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASnUUBFpidpCubBkfhlJjKc7Smwi+vr7+W8ZKgAA-TJBFABE8AAaf/h/LDAwFAAA

Still, there are fun variations you can make from the meta, so go crazy. :P

You basically lose all survivability and gain little in exchange. If I had to make a suggestion on your build without largely changing it, I would say to swap in Healing Turret (it’s just the better heal).

SlimChance.6593:

So don’t fix the bugs, just remove the ability.

Just more reason to look else where to spend my gaming dollars.

The change the quickness/slow stops were more of a direct response to bunker Mesmer. It was kittenous build. Matches would be decided by who would be 10-20 points ahead when the timer ran out. It was boring to watch and boring to play.

Function gyro itself comes with scrapper as a minor trait. The stability it has does not. That comes from the GM trait Final Salvo. Without it, function gyro becomes completely unreliable since it tends to blow up before finishing a stomp if it gets interrupted.

If you want counter play to function gyro, it’s pretty simple. Cleave. The gyro has ~10k HP. The only situation function gyro shines in (as a stomp mechanic) is really in a 2v2. Any more players and the gyro is destroyed instantly. Honestly, it’s far from a guaranteed stomp and is often better off saved for rezzing players.

I want to say it’s a power block from a power shatter mesmer… or a pulmonary impact from a thief. I could be wrong though.

PierPiero.9142:

I bet it is with marauder amulet .

It’s both. You swap to marauder when the other team is predominantly condi-based… or if you just feel like doing slightly more damage in general.

Ubik.8315:

Undo.5091:

ellesee.8297:

Inside the chests are more chests.

And inside those chests are bags!

I get ascended inside some of these! (1/1000)

So… you’re saying that inside those bags you got another chest?

ellesee.8297:

Inside the chests are more chests.

And inside those chests are bags!

Prince Vingador.8067:

you r a siting duck for 10 seconds

Don’t you mean sitting moa?
(It had to happen)
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In all seriousness though, it probably shouldn’t be affected by CS.

It’s not something that will just happen out of the blue. It’s a bug (almost an exploit, really) that can happen (more easily) during PvP matches at times. The bug actually makes it really inconvenient for the engineer anyways since they can only have a single function gyro out at once, so you wouldn’t normally want it to happen.

AirWick.1769:

I know this is irrelevant to your post but, how did you check your pvp match history? Is that screenshot legit? I ask this because, I too want to view my pvp match history every now and then. I just don’t know how to.

https://gw2efficiency.com

You give your account API to this website and it wI’ll tell you everything your heart desires!

Unranked arena isn’t entirely locked by PvP rank. Only Conquest mode is, as far as I know. You and the rest of your guild should be able to play Unranked Stronghold until they hit rank 10.

It’s not all bad. Moa form brings necromancer some much appreciated mobility!

Hexalot.8194:

Pelopidas.2140:

Yeah it did against vulnerable foes. Now that axe got a 10% buff, life blast with axe+unholy fervor should be doing more damage than life blast with staff. Haven’t tested it though, so.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t one-handed weapons do only 50% of the damage of a two-handed one when equipped in DS ?

I’m going by the fact that one-handed weapons only have half the stats of a two-handed one, of course.

Not half of the damage, but two-handed weapons (staff) do deal more in DS. I’m pretty sure this is just due to the difference in weapon damage between the two-handed and one-handed weapons. The difference isn’t huge, but it is more than noticeable.

Ever since the June balance patch, I have had issues when using Healing Turret in combat. From time-to-time my Healing Turret cast seems to be getting interrupted from simply taking damage during the initial heal. Unfortunately, I haven’t really tested this out, but I wanted to post this more as a question. Do any other players feel like their Healing Turret casts are being interrupted without actually being CC’d?

I do want to note a few things first:
-This has occurred both with and without the reactive lenses trait.
-I do not believe that I have been interrupting my own heal (since I’m usually trying to get the Cleansing Burst to go off as well)
-When this occurs, only my Healing Turret is on the “interrupted cooldown” (~3 seconds).

Healing Turret has usually been a difficult skill to interrupt, which is why I have been a bit skeptical over if it is working properly (and reliably).

Blooperz.6145:

PierPiero.9142:

new pvp meta for eng… i bet … great damage and great survability … a “new” build …. returned from the past …
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Z70;2Z;0h0q53Ukw0;9;4jlk;0248146157;4Oo0;3H7W3H7W30y

Your link is broken

Meta!!!

/15 charrs are chasing me

Lightsbane.9012:

rebuttal: conditions are a form of passive damage, even if it doesn’t tick right away.

Even if a class’ main source of conditions come from their “active” skills (i.e. necro)? There are traits, sigils, and runes that passively apply conditions, but this also goes for direct damage.

Riesty.9075:

http://www.amazon.com/Free2mys-Cotton-Sleeve-Casual-X-Small/dp/B00Y2FULYE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433552758&sr=8-1&keywords=polot-shirt

….

They’ve already released? Fantastic! I’ll show my support to ArenaNet by purchasing a few. Thanks for the update, Riesty!
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(On a serious note though, I think some apparel would be pretty cool. Nothing too flashy though <3.)

Belenwyn.8674:

New PvP mode: Polo!!

I would be perfectly okay with this… as long as it doesn’t turn into Asura-ball.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Oh my gosh, Undo, that’s brilliant!

I am sure we will all need to pelt Roy with dampened saltines for giving away that valuable and oh-so-obvious information.

#Mounts_Confirmed

Wanze.8410:

I got another theory:

That t-shirt is totally unrelated to guild wars.

Its just a polo shirt with a polo player on it.

I’m sorry, but I will have to shoot this theory down. Everything within a Guild Wars stream is intended to be relative to the Guild Wars universe, so the shirt is no exception. For example, Roy Cronacher (Game Mount Designer) shares his first name with Roy Campbell (a character within the Metal Gear Solid series). The voice actor for Roy Campbell is Paul Eiding, who is also the voice actor for Warmaster Forgal Kernsson within Guild Wars 2. There is also an entire accessory type as well as a dye based off of the commonly used and completely understandable improper spelling of Rubi’s name (Ruby).

I would also like to point out that if this weren’t related to Guild Wars and was, in fact, just a shirt with a polo player on it… then I believe ArenaNet should become a clothing design company. Guild Wars is a fantastic universe and game, but these shirts could easily make a fortune. I could easily see myself using this as both casual or golf-style wear.

So, I’m sure many of you watched the Ventari specialization stream today. I’m going to avoid talking about the actual focus of the stream in this topic because there were many teasers that seemed to have gone unnoticed by viewers. One of the biggest teasers, in my opinion, was the one that was right in front of our very eyes throughout the entire stream.

If you look at the image attached, you will see a close-up of Roy. His shirt IS the teaser. This comfortable looking Guild Wars themed shirt appears to have one image on the corner. For greater viewability…view-ability….more… easy to see, I have enhanced this image and flipped the color scheme. It would appear to be an engineer riding a horse mount. Why engineer? Well, my guess is because they wanted to show off parts of the new specialization, and what better way than by including the engineer class’ new weapon!?

Also, while I unfortunately could not snap a picture in time for it… during the stream, they introduced several player theories on screen. One of them dealt with Ventari mounts. At this time, Rubi and Roy laughed it off, but Rubi’s eyes fell upon the emblem on Roy’s snazzy GW shirt. One can only assume that this was her way of telling the player-base that we were not far off in our guesses.

Anyways, this clearly confirms the introduction of mounts for the Heart of Thorns expansion. If you have any comments, concerns, or other confirmations you would like to share, feel free to in this topic.

I also want to mention that I have speculation to believe these shirts will also be released around the same time as the expansion. Hopefully, we will be able to purchase a special edition in order to get one of these shirts as either a physical or digital item.

I’m pretty sure tribal skins were old PvP skins only, so they can’t be obtained anymore.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tribal_armor

*You might want to edit your post a bit to remove names because naming&shaming is against the forum rules of conduct.

Just continue to report the player when it happens. The name alone gives away that he’s just a troll anyways, so I really hope action is taken soon.

After growing tired of playing at Forest and Legacy all day (and refusing to play Courtyard), I wished really hard to play on Temple. My group believed in my wish… and we have received.

I think you’re confusing this with Putrid Explosion, which is a minion skill. Putrid Mark should still be unblockable if traited for it.

Plenty of players have been having issues with the game since the last patch. I have a similar Sony laptop that was able to run the game incredibly well. The only lag I would get is when a massive fight started in WvW. Ever since the patch, I have been getting frequent stutters in the game. At first, I assumed that this was my computer slowing down, so I started using Gamebooster and I unparked the cores in my laptop. It boosted the FPS for all of my games, however I still get an odd FPS drop in GW2. (FPS drop as in… starting a fight with 60 FPS and having it drop to 15 [for a brief second] for no apparent reason.) I still play frequently, but it’s rather irritating.

I’ve been playing GW2 since the release and the game has been running fine until recently. Yes, I’ve seen many other topics about lag/frame-dropping in dungeons, etc, but this is slightly different (or at least I think).

Ever since the big patch, I’ve been having odd spikes in my game. I will be standing still and looking into an open field with ~120 FPS (low settings), have a single mob or skill be cast somewhere in my view, and watch my FPS plummet from 120 to 40 to 15 and immediately hop back to 100+. This happens no matter what settings I am using in game (High/Med/Low). I have never had this issue with the game until the last patch, nor do I currently have this issue with any other game.

Soo.. the main point to this post.. Is this the same issue that everyone else is having? Whether or not it is… does anyone have a solution that could help me out? Thanks!!

Soo.. the main point to this post.. Is this the same issue that everyone else is having? Whether or not it is… does anyone have a solution that could help me out? Thanks!!Edit: I just noticed Aberrant’s post, which sounds like the same issue I’m having, so at least I’m not alone.

Hey everyone!

We (Immortal Avant) are a newly formed guild on the Dragonbrand server and we are looking to expand our roster. All current members have been playing since the launch of the game, so we know our way around a fair bit. Anyone who is interested is more than welcome, we just ask that you be 17 and older. We are looking for mature, active players who want to enjoy the game with a group of friends. We cover all aspects of the game, from WvW(vW) to PvP and, of course, PvE. Immortal Avant hopes to hear from you soon, so please consider joining our guild!

Contact Information: Davik.1870 // Undo.5091
Other Information: Skype is preferred, but not necessary by any means