Guild Wars 2

Agree with OP, this needs to happen.

Level 41 guild hall here solo, do easy trek, bounty and any race, gl.

Kir Sakar.3647:

I lol’d at the thought of how their teamchat may look like.

Yeah it looks bad, but I just ignore it and take pleasure in knowing we are causing Vabbi to drop.

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

Jahroots.6791:

I gotta applaud anyone who can figure out the mechanics in the clusterkitten that is fractal 100. The first fellow’s alright, but the second boss just has way too much going on at once.

Even on normal mode, she’s actually a fair bit harder than many raid encounters.

Viirastra has 2 core mechanics:
1. Stand in the bubble when you have the skull
2. Bounce the marble on your head (only 1 person needed, backup helpful)

If you do these two mechanics correctly, the rest of the fight is pretty easy. Failing these two mechanics quickly snowballs the fight to failure.

There are also two minor mechanics:
1. Don’t stand in the AoEs (You can jump over many of them)
2. Kill the big clones, then drag the little ones to the boss.

Doing these two mechanics reduces the damage pressure to almost nothing.

Theres a bit more to the fight, but this is the core that will allow you to succeed in non CM.

If you are failing the marble, try lower tiers. The marble pattern is significantly easier. Also note that when the marble bounces on your head, it refreshes your SAS. Your SAS is OP and you should use it to move around.

Edit: If your group is learning, try having everyone do the marble at once. There is no time pressure on non CM, and doing the marble gives you lots of aegis and invulnerability so you can stay alive.

Seems to me you have turned fractals into 5 man raids, I quit wow because I did not want to raid any longer, I do not do 10 man raids for same reason, and now I will also give fractals a miss.

Since the devs made such little effort with these elite specs I will also show little effort in my scoring of them all and simply just rate them as a complete package with a score of 4 out of 10. Everything seems so far from finished and the lack of imaginiation that went into traits and utilitys is pretty shocking.

Just increase the cap to 400% continuing the steep curve it already has, 300-400 should prob be the same as 0-300.

I haven’t made this trinket because I do not like the aura, or to be more specific, I do not like the color of the Aura, something for the devs to think about there I’m sure…

Cyrin.1035:

Will the char selection screen background be changeable with the new expansion? I prefer the bright, white background we currently have because it allows me to see the detail of my chars designs and dyes clearly. The PoF background during the demo cast too much shadow muddying all the detail.

Do you think there might be an option to change the background?

Agreed, I would also like the option of keeping the current character select screen, I prefer it to the PoF screen, which I find depressing.

Cal Cohen.3527:

First reply with full world name and gif of cat(s), we play on your world

I don’t have a world, you killed it with server links…

Agree with OP about Silverwastes, I consider it the best meta they ever made, followed by VB, AB TD and DS, nothng else compares to these maps, they are all fully replayable time and time again. The recent design of maps really is a step backwards, if PoF does not have proper meta maps like HoT or SW then I will be looking for a new game to play.

I cant decide who looks the worst in all this, the dishonoured players or Anet… It’s a close one.

These dishonoured players are making a mockery of the devs, and the devs are really not helping themselves with their flip flop actions.

Danikat.8537:

Just for fun I set myself the challenge of putting together GW2’s most prestigious costume – all the rarest, hardest to obtain skins and most expensive dyes together. Surely a thing of glory to behold!

My attempt is below and since a lot has changed since I last tried this in 2014 and I think there’s many more options now I’d love to hear your thoughts and maybe even see some alternate takes on it.

Featured in my attempt is:

• Celebration Hat (free give-away during the headstart weekend)
• Glorious Hero’s Shoulderguards (place 1st in a PvP tournament)
• Perfected Envoy Jerkin (legendary armour)
• Fire God’s Vambraces (30 Hall of Monuments points)
• Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s Legguards (1900 WvW rank + purchase earlier versions)
• Invisible Boots (about 2,000-3,000 gold)
• Eternity (combine both other legendary greatswords)
• Warbringer (legendary WvW backpack)

Dyes are Permafrost, Shadow Abyss, Scorched and Bloody Red with a combined price of about 1,550g (and that’s using buy orders).

Looks terrible…

Manasa Devi.7958:

Do you know what “presumably” means?

This made me laugh probably more than it should have.

Zodi.8932:

These are amazing looking skins and my favourites. I started GW2 late so I’m really expected to wait 3 more years to get these skins that I love? No that’s just a joke.

TBH I personally think its unlikely that this will be the only source of these weapons, because that would mean we would probably need 7 years from now to complete the set, that just seems a bit odd to me, even by Anet standards.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

. I’m also happy to see people get a chance to to check out the VIP areas for ‘free’.

I insta deleted it, I do not appreciate them trying to coax me into buying something and calling it a birthday present…

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Amazing 5th birthday rewards, thank you for everything you do, you guys are 2nd to none.

They are 2nd to Blizzard.

Zenith.7301:

It’s even worse on male sylvari since to this date they have not fixed oversized shoulders and over-wide belts on the sylvari male model.

I really wish they would fix that issue with the shoulders, I’ve stopped makin anymore sylvari basically due to this.

Pino.5209:

Why is this still an issue?
-Designate 1 day@weekend and sacrifice it to God of Nerd
.

I want a statue to God of Nerd in my Guild Hall.

Raymond Lukes.6305:

A lot of the ideas we’ve seen have been well thought out and detailed they fall short because you guys are working from a limited perspective and not solving the whole issue.

You mean the issue of how do you keep making money from servers transfers if there are less servers?, hmm yep that’s a tough one, maybe just stop making money from server transfers?

Or what if

Beast mode f3 stays as it is but f1 and f2 become pet utility skills, in that you can now CHOOSE which skills to slot in them from that pets family of skills, which includes the pet f2 ofc.

The part of the crafting system I have a problem with is the recipes themselves, and especially cooking, they are all over inflated requiring far to many materials. It’s a pity because I feel they could have had a good crafting system if it wasn’t for that.

Justine.6351:

Vavume.8065:

Justine.6351:

Oh no! 6months for a set of legendary armor?!??! That’s just awful!

How dare they give us long term goals!

I enjoy long term goals, /see rank, but not when those goals are gated to keep everyone in the same boat, some of us prefer to drive speed boats instead of dingys. Personally I think it is frustrating to be chained down in this way, I would prefer the freedom to be able to farm more tickets, but yeah this is GW2 where things are gated to keep you under control, and to be fair 6 months is actually a long time to farm 1 set of legendary armor when you actually want 3 or more sets…

Or just save time and tickets and buy new ascended sets?

I will do that anyway since its already part of the journey towards the legendary sets, it just so happens that my long term goal is to aquire all 3 weight classes legendary armor, long term goal remember :P I’m just not so sure I will be still playing the game in 1 and a half years from now, hopefully something comes along that does not have time gates like GW2…

Offair.2563:

Dawdler.8521:

Change class.

No really, it works lol. The long loading screen is triggered by certain class abilities, most often teleports.

Hmm interesting. Is that the reason this bug doesn’t struck me playing rangur.

I used to get the bug playing druid, I think it was prob related to celestial avatar, I also experience the bug when playing Necro after using shroud or lich form, I never seem to get the issue playing thief tho, so I’m guessing it is a problem with classes that transform.

Justine.6351:

Oh no! 6months for a set of legendary armor?!??! That’s just awful!

How dare they give us long term goals!

I enjoy long term goals, /see rank, but not when those goals are gated to keep everyone in the same boat, some of us prefer to drive speed boats instead of dingys. Personally I think it is frustrating to be chained down in this way, I would prefer the freedom to be able to farm more tickets, but yeah this is GW2 where things are gated to keep you under control, and to be fair 6 months is actually a long time to farm 1 set of legendary armor when you actually want 3 or more sets…

Soulbeast needs to have the aura removed completely, if I want an aura I will earn one or buy one, forcing one on me ruins any theme I maybe planning for that character, I find this really annoying.

Soulbeast also needs pet swap while in beastmode and for beastmode swoop to be fixed, the tooltip says 1200 range, it does more like 900 and seems to slow down at the end of it making it feel clunky.

Soulbeast should have access to pet f2 skills while in beast mode, I realise that WHEN you put pet swap back in to beastmode it will take the f4 skill slot, so then there will be no available spot for the pet f2, but what I do suggest is that you make the beastmode f1 and f2 skills act like utilitys do, where you can choose from a pool of skills, basically allow f1 and f2 to select any skill we want from the pets skills including the pet f2, and while you are at it open up the pet family skills into that pool, so that if I use a raven I have access to other bird f2’s such as chill instead of blind, I’m sick of being forced into using pets I do not want to use for their f2.

Soulbeasts beastmode beast skills are lackluster, I mean who on earth wants to use bite while in beastmode? it’s pathetic to the point of being insulting, its an absolute waste of a f key.

Deadeye, the kneel skill needs a rework, after kneeling if I press a direction key it should break me out of kneel and move, I’m sorry that you are so happy with yourselves for creating dodge while in kneel, but it feels very clunky and was the reason I stopped playing it after about 30 mins.

You have left yourselves only 1 month to fix these problems and all the others that are in this thread, of which there are a gazillion, from what I can see you are not even close to being finished, there is no chance you will get this poilished in time for release, so I have to say I feel a great sense of anti climax after this weekend, I was very excited for the expac, but now I see the reality is that these elites are no where near finished.

RandomWolf.3986:

For some people, transmutation charges aren’t a huge deal, but for someone who has 23 characters and most cities on said characters complete, I’m running out of ways to gain said charges.

The PvP Reward Track feels slow, and I’ve burned myself out with the latest season. The same applies to map completion. I’ve completed so many maps up to this point where I’d rather just do something else. I would have to buy my share of charges, but I’m currently working around on updating each of my character’s builds while saving up for the “Path of Fire Deluxe Upgrade”.

Is there any other way? I’ve been stuck with less than five charges for a few weeks now and it’s starting to become a nightmare.

Get skirmish chests from WvW, easy transmution charges.

Holland.9351:

I’d just like Essence of Speed to give 33% movement speed while in beastmode.

The problem with that is you can already get 25% movement speed in beastmode from beastmaster traitline, so I think its unlikely unless they change that also.

There are so many things need changing with soulbeast and only a month to do it in, tbh I think it’s going to be unfinished at release.

Holland.9351:

lol nice video. Sometimes I was like: yeah ok, whatever, end it already. 2014… was that back when the longbow couldn’t even hit anything that moved? I may have been the only person that used it in WvW back then

Red Moa is my most used pet by far. Getting the F2 to hit me can be annoying however, even if he is on passive. So I was kind of hoping to get his F2 in Beastmode, but nope. Pretty sad.

The thing I like best about that clip is that I killed your beloved Moa along with you, I forget the name of the util you used to use but the one that the pet takes your damage (been removed since those days), I think I 2 shot the pet and 2 shot you both in same burst :P That’s why I named the vid after your pet

/signed in agreement with OP.

Holland.9351:

Beastmode

• Doesn’t allow pet F2 skills. So F2 skills like Red Moa (Fury) still require a pet. .

I knew it, Holland still loves his Red Moa :P

https://youtu.be/GzYErBh4At0?t=2m19s

I agree with him tho, pet f2 skills should be available in beastmode.

Just remove the aura completely, forcing this aura on me massively restricts anything I want to do visually with my characters, I should be able to theme them as I want and not be forced into themes that have to incorporate this green aura. Revenant was the first to introduce this PROBLEM, and it seriously kneecapped my revenant design, please do not do this again, I want total freedom for my fashion wars.

Kreed.2768:

Vavume.8065:

Kreed.2768:

You’re in the wrong profession sub-section for this one.

Nah I’m in the right section, perhaps you have not realized that stealth skills are not only for thieves, mesmers also now have them, so why not ranger longbow? it makes perfect sense since we can stealth via longbow, why any ranger would be against this truly baffles me.

Uh, no, mesmers do not have Stealth Attacks. What you are thinking of is the Ambush skills they gain when they use their Mirage Cloak, which is not a stealth, but the invulnerability blur that replaces their dodge roll.

Ok fair enough but it’s close enough, the fact that their weapon skill 1 is replaced, just like thieves except when stealthed, so why not now rangers? I think its pretty logical and would add some more depth to longbow play.

Kreed.2768:

You’re in the wrong profession sub-section for this one.

Nah I’m in the right section, perhaps you have not realized that stealth skills are not only for thieves, mesmers also now have them, so why not ranger longbow? it makes perfect sense since we can stealth via longbow, why any ranger would be against this truly baffles me.

It should have a stealth attack, since we are able to stealth using longbow, it’s a no brainer. I suggest it be a long cast aimed shot that acts like moment of clarity and adds 50% damage. Makes sense right?

Sylvyn.4750:

Vavume.8065:

Sylvyn.4750:

Vavume.8065:

volpenvieh.3201:

How about finishers that can be unlocked via WvW rank or reward track (like in PvP)?

Love the siege finisher idea, how about a ballista blueprint? :P

If they ever do introduce WvW finishers they most certainly should be for rank, it’s about time they give high ranks some prestige in this game…

Lol…yeah, cuz the last round of pips and rewards didn’t help high ranks at all…no prestige skins or nuthin!

Pips do not add prestige, the new armor does not add prestige either, you ONLY need 2k rank, that’s not even high rank in my book, I was talking about something for Mithril rank up, that’s high rank.

Considering only a small fraction of GW2 players are in WvW, and then only a small fraction of that number is Mithril or higher, you’re asking Anet to do something for a very small crowd, which makes it very unlikely to happen.

Pvp is also a very small crowd, however they are in no shortage of prestige items, such as top 250 titles, Statues built in their likeness and crowns or w/e.

Black Scoutsman.5830:

it really just needs to go altogether. its hideous

Agreed, Auras should never be forced down our throats, I would like to decide for myself how my characters visual looks.

dagrdagaz.4913:

What i want is the new weapon not tied to the new Elite Spec, with the Elite Spec having traits that benefits the new weapon.
So, using the new weapon with the new Elite Spec would be preferred but not mandatory.

I agree, I hate the fact that certain weapons are locked behind elite specs, I would prefer more freedom in the builds I create.

Disappointed with soulbeast so far, synergy between trait lines is bad, bird swoop states its 1200 range but its nowhere even close to that and to make it worse it feels sluggish towards the end of it. The elite skill is meh, and did I mention traits suck, yeah traits suck.

Sylvyn.4750:

Vavume.8065:

volpenvieh.3201:

How about finishers that can be unlocked via WvW rank or reward track (like in PvP)?

Love the siege finisher idea, how about a ballista blueprint? :P

If they ever do introduce WvW finishers they most certainly should be for rank, it’s about time they give high ranks some prestige in this game…

Lol…yeah, cuz the last round of pips and rewards didn’t help high ranks at all…no prestige skins or nuthin!

Pips do not add prestige, the new armor does not add prestige either, you ONLY need 2k rank, that’s not even high rank in my book, I was talking about something for Mithril rank up, that’s high rank.

volpenvieh.3201:

How about finishers that can be unlocked via WvW rank or reward track (like in PvP)?

Love the siege finisher idea, how about a ballista blueprint? :P

If they ever do introduce WvW finishers they most certainly should be for rank, it’s about time they give high ranks some prestige in this game…

Dawdler.8521:

Its really quite simple.

If WvW is available in demo mode and you are playing on a demo character slot, nothing will be saved. Otherwise if elite become available on your normal characters, it should be like normal.

What he said ^

Personally I will just test elites out in pvp instead, despite WvW being my main game mode, the thought of a precursor dropping puts me off playing any content with loot, for the same reason I skipped the last demo weekend completely. I had 3 precursors drop in the first 2 years of the game, but none since, if one dropped during a demo I would prob want to uninstall.

I would rather they add some new WvW aura infusions, like fractals get celestial, we should have something that represents war, and make them prestigious.

Anet recently doubled the amount of tickets everyone can achieve in a week along with adding more pips for placement, why the OP feels the need to now squeeze one more pip out of them because he has not reached Diamond legend is pushing his luck imo.

As one of the supposed 23, I feel that being rewarded with an extra pip over players who can be 3k+ ranks lower than me is fair. Considering this is basically the only real benefit I get at rank 10k, I would happily give up my 1 pip advantage for something more meaningful, like a rank finisher or a title tho.

And while they at at it fix the issue with me getting the option to charm other rangers pets when I’m next to them, so annoyin when I’m tryin to cut a tree or something. (Yes I know I cant actually charm)

Thief has always been the best roamer, and Deadeye will prob be the icing on the cake.

Fluffball.8307:

Vavume.8065:

Adenin.5973:

Vavume.8065:

Holland.9351:

Found the Sand Lion on the east edge of the map next to the road.

Where is the pic of the actual lion tho? :P I am just as interested in that.

Thankyou, I’m hoping it looks better in game because it almost looks like its made from rock in that screenshot.

I think that’s the intention. It’s not a lion that lives in the sand, it’s a lion made out of sand. The pet looks very rocky.

Yeah that makes sense, it’s a pity tho, I wanted a proper Lion

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

they may not like me, mostly because I point out truths, they can’t handle.

Serious case of denial…

Having 1 dye channel is pretty pathetic, they more or less all look the same, but I get it, because Anet will obviously add gem store raptor skins that allow more dye channels, but right now these raptors are nothing to show off…

Havent had a pre cursor drop in the last 3 years, first 2 years of game I had 3 drop, so right now I do not even think about them dropping, nothing that drops in this game is exciting to me, loot is just trash, even at max magic find nothing is ever exciting when it comes to loot dropping, therefore I will happily salvage all unidentified gear and save myself a lot of time, because after all, time = gold.

I am very much against cutting the heads off cheetah’s, these gloves need to be reworked, instead they should have Dev heads on them and be awarded when killing a dev in WvW.

Adenin.5973:

Vavume.8065:

Holland.9351:

Found the Sand Lion on the east edge of the map next to the road.

Where is the pic of the actual lion tho? :P I am just as interested in that.

Thankyou, I’m hoping it looks better in game because it almost looks like its made from rock in that screenshot.