Guild Wars 2

I only play PvE.

Ele gave me a huge learning curve at first, but now I can survive pretty well. I dodge, run around, slow, etc., and healing’s nice, but it feels like that’s all I’m good at: Running and healing. Once I get hit, if I’m slowed or stopped, that’s it for me—more than 3-4 mobs and I am down in seconds. One personal story quest was impossible to solo because I always had 7+ mobs on me at a time who could slow and poison. It takes a long while to kill most stuff, unfortunately. I can survive, I can manage, but it takes so much time. And I hate summoned weapons, so I never use them.

It’s tricky, but it sounds like it’s not your style. You’re supposed to run around and swap elements a lot. I don’t like the massive amount of running around I have to do (all the time), but I accept that it’s generally a mobile class.

ElQuebecois.4691:

Velyanthe.6894:

Reiizm.5871:

Except bows do have the capacity to be “mage-y”. The Quincey from Bleach? Magick Archer from Dragon’s Dogma?

Not familiar with those examples, but any weapon or items has the capacity to be mage-y. Bows just aren’t commonly like that. At the very least, that is my view of them.

tell you what, not only in most of game i play (or played), bow are made to use elemental magic, but some of them don’t even need to be magic at all to do elemental damage (that exemple of lighting your arrow into fire before firing it work so well), i know 2 games where there is frost character that use bow to shoot on ennemies. i know another one that every skill of the bow are elemental. i know another one that the only way to have elemental bow (and/or dagger), is by enchanting them. I know another one that each time you fire with your bow, it can do a chain of lightning that can attack up to 4 minions at the same time. the only element i haven’t seen used by the bow is… earth -_-, so i think it’s time to make an exeption and to be unique.

Enchanted bow isn’t an inherently magic one.

Either way, your experience with bows in games is not mine. I don’t care about yours. Bows aren’t magic items to me. That’s my point.

Reiizm.5871:

Except bows do have the capacity to be “mage-y”. The Quincey from Bleach? Magick Archer from Dragon’s Dogma?

Not familiar with those examples, but any weapon or items has the capacity to be mage-y. Bows just aren’t commonly like that. At the very least, that is my view of them.

I wouldn’t mind this, but I disagree with roachsrealm. If GW2 needs a goldsink, it should be a goldsink, not pocket change. ANET probably doesn’t really want this to happen, and definitely not frequently, so I would support the high prices. Sure it may be cheaper to buy something else off the TP—go do that, then. I don’t mind goldsinks I won’t participate in, though.

Reiizm.5871:

Then why can elementalists use them?

Dude, I’m not saying can or cannot, I’m just talking about what I typically see. Daggers aren’t typical mage-y weapons, no, but neither are bows.

Personally I’ve always hated weapons restrictions on classes. It makes sense for anyone to use any weapon, just some weapons are more conventional or common for certain classes.

Azunai.5974:

Velyanthe.6894:

bows aren’t particularly magical weapons..

You need a bigger imagination.

edit- Holy hell, how many games have you even played to not have run into magical bows/arrows at least once?

Well, as staves tend to be inherently magical, I usually just see bows as enchanted, as a sword or armor could be enchanted. I have run into some enchanted/magical bows, but they’re not typically mage-type weapons.

Reiizm.5871:

Velyanthe.6894:

bows aren’t particularly magical weapons.

What? And daggers are?

No?

I find ele difficult in solo PvE. There was a learning curve, and it was awful at the beginning but now I’m familiar with using the class. However, story quests and Orr are sometimes overwhelmingly difficult for no good reason. I realized I may have to kite a lot, what with it being a mage-type profession, though I didn’t expect almost always kiting + low damage output. Either that or staff is awful for solo PvE; I don’t remember D/D, but I’ve just been waiting for dagger drops.

Eles have more weapon attacks than most/all other classes due to element switching, and in my play experience, bows aren’t particularly magical weapons. However, you can summon an ice bow with a certain skill and use that.

I’m a bit iffy on what happened, but I do remember either consumables → food not existing the other day, or consumables → food only showing drinks. Which was kinda disappointing.

I’ve done all 13 and given up hope for getting the achievement; it’s stuck at 12/13. I got the meta, but it is still irritating that this one is so broken. Having a list of zones I’ve done so I’d know which one to try again would be great, too.

“Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.”

This is abysmal… it’s so bad with the current events on top of everything.

See attached image. Three events are minimized, along with the daily, personal quest, clockwork chaos, and heart quest, with two events, Scarlet’s Minions, and Kralkatorrik’s Legacy not minimized (because I didn’t really have the time to minimize them all). My minimap wasn’t enlarged at all. I couldn’t see what I was looting most of the time.

What would I actually want to see in that case? Just the stuff in the Scarlet’s Minions Invade! event thing.

The option to the right is RSS Feed. I don’t actually know what it does, but many websites have it.

When I click “subscribe”, I am brought to the end of the final page on a thread. I do not know where to find any subscription list. I assume “subscribe” should change to “unsubscribe” once subscribed, but it does not. I have to check my post history to see the threads I want.

In the suggestions subforum, I got one result for searching “U”. I was actually intending to look for “UI”—there was even a thread on the front page with that in the title. So yeah, still broken.

I don’t always want to do my personal story. Sometimes, I want to do events, or a living story thing. So I minimize the personal story quest… and then it expands again after completing an event. This wasn’t a big problem until I decided to do a bunch of Queen’s Jubilee events and ignore the story for a while. If I can’t remove it, at least make it stay minimized. I don’t want to see the daily or monthly hanging around there either. If I want to track something, let me track it, don’t make it a default. The only thing I want to see up on the top right is events, and even then I want to remove them if uninterested. I don’t want to see the persistent Living World stuff there either; I am not interested in most events and I do NOT want to be bothered by that.

Someone else on the first page mentioned they have OCD and this bothers them. Well, I do too, and I am frustrated so much at this point that I may leave GW2 for a couple months again. Every other game I play has a customizable or comfortable UI, and I really want to see that here. It would save me a lot of stress.

While the UI is minimal, indeed, I just want the option to customize it a little bit.