Guild Wars 2

Any chance that even if other changes are to turrets these propositions can be applied to all Objects in the game? Be it Teq, trendils in dungeons such as CoE, and the like?

Essence Snow.3194:

Vergil Huragok.3967:

Not sure if this is under the right section but seemed best to ask. For the new nodes that are available from Black Lion chests or the trading post is there any sort of limit to them? I imagine not in purchasing but in use of them as unspecified limits to home instances?

They are bound like all other nodes in home instances. Once per day per account.

That isn’t the nature of the question, I know the nodes themselves are one use per day it’s the greater context of buying/receiving the node bundle and if the bundles have unstated limits

Not sure if this is under the right section but seemed best to ask. For the new nodes that are available from Black Lion chests or the trading post is there any sort of limit to them? I imagine not in purchasing but in use of them as unspecified limits to home instances?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Absconditus.6804:

Collections for Black Lion weapons. Yeah, because it’s reasonable to collect 16 skins that you need to gamble on to obtain reasonably, from Black Lion Chests. Again, they want you into the Gem Store. Not all collections added are all bad, but some of these are absolutely making me loathe whoever it is that’s behind them. It’s screaming greed, and it’s making the game look so cheap and tacky, like a full-fledged Free-to-Play title. Only difference is I paid up front for this one.

OR… you can buy them from the TP with Gold. No RNG necessary.

The only issue with BL collection that I truly have with it is that it’s literally for every set of weapons ever offered, provided you have at least one to enable the set, but Anet has decided that they’ll discontinue some sets such as Scelrite and I know they discontinued one other. IMO with this change (in terms of creating collection achievements for each one) they should set a maximum ticket cap per skins and keep every weapon they’ve created as an option to be traded in

(a minor gripe for the BL collections is that the game can award you with an items credit if you don’t or have never had one- forcing the tracks appearance)

The mini binding I can’t really see too much of an issue, but what annoys me is that they didn’t bother to make new achievements with the change- it’s literally the same 3, re done and god forbid you didn’t get the “old” ones before the change and miss out on the basically extra AP

I’m suddenly more annoyed by this nerf to the position of commander. People complained that Trahearne stole the spotlight and now the lore team is reducing our spotlight in The Pact solely because the overarcing teams are pushing away from a Pact centric storeline, this seems like a greater cop-out than the handling of mixing with the 2nd rate destiny edge which is likely limited in the choice of voice actors whereas the direction of the story, and as such our position in the pact, would and could still be directly affected by Anet’s choices- a shame they decided to downplay us in that regard once again.

Yup, some “bug” fixes…Buffing rewards, adding things that are slightly QoL, yet ignoring the near nonexistent drop rate of Chaos recipe or how bizarre Lightning Pull is acting for people; Good “quality” work on your patches guys

Caedmon.6798:

If you want to understand that mindset of doing the opposite when being told something,go learn psychology.There’s nothing much to it besides it being human nature to go against “authority”.You should know this,as a human.Therefore before a match starts say in general,Lets keep it at home/mid..And see what happens instead of picking on one guy who goes far but doesnt like being told to do otherwise.Try to speak to the team instead of this one person..lay the rules and the plan out before the match,not during or after someone has done something wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

That’s a popular enough study that shows people don’t really rebel against authority, though some people do like to grief or might just truly not care and doing it to fullfill say dailies

Gadgeteer doesn’t make gadgets anymore appealing in any regard, of the effects Utility Goggles is the only one that seems to benefit from it, same for experimental turrets for the most part (especially given alchemy line)

Bunker Down…I don’t even know, I really don’t was hoping for a grandmaster maybe a bit towards rifle/weapons that’s more useful than modified ammo, boy was I horribly wrong…unless you can somehow have a ridiculous amount of mines ranged weapons and at location traits still seem asinine (or at least to me)

Yoshifxe.8346:

Vergil Huragok.3967:

To be fair, more traits that the ones listed are coming, but looking at the compared to others presented in the blog to ours it does make us seem shafted, but turrets always have been especially in regards to other AI in terms of ability and damage

All of which are grandmaster traits. We are getting 1 new trait for each line and unless those other 4 are going to integrate with turrets(which is very doubtful since 1 WILL go to gadgets) turrets will still be turrets unless they drop an entire rehaul of this skill set on the patch.

The comment I had replied to seemed more in line to the presenting of traits, I certainly won’t argue that turrets have been low rung in use and fixes, as I said in my first post in this thread this trait is a really niche trait as are turrets as a whole based on the active ness of gw2 as your opponent can literally walk away.

Dasboba.1652:

I haven’t played in a few months, but I just had to come here to voice my opinion on the stupidity of the anet balancing team after reading the latest blog post. Each class is getting new traits, and the engy gets the shaft again. Mesmer is getting a trait that allows an interrupt to cause someone’s heal to go on a 10s cooldown, effectively winning any fight. Engy gets a 4s turret bubble. It’s pretty mind boggling at how much they hate this class, and only solidifies my decision to leave this game.

PS, my Titan gets a free 4s bubble every time I drop one.

To be fair, more traits that the ones listed are coming, but looking at the compared to others presented in the blog to ours it does make us seem shafted, but turrets always have been especially in regards to other AI in terms of ability and damage

Lupanic.6502:

ohh turrets….. n o b o d y is using turrets. Not in WvW not in sPvP and not in PvE.

I’d agree on this, this trait however can make them a bit more useful in some situations however in PvE with free trait reworks since it’s a 4s reflect that can total to 16s when placed in sequence, 20 with SC- this is notably useful for Uncat fractal’s asuran boss but overall it’ll be a highly niche thing

I kind of wish they’d have consulted the HoM calculator and given a ticket in the mail to individuals who had collected them all from GW1, it’s rather annoying to see them returned and part of bridging your legacy is now items that were added to it, not in the game on release, and now redone in the gemstore; Classy.

Seem to be the first, curious if it works with other tonics? I know it says it is one but I had kinda hoped it’d function similar to the Support Badges

I’d give them out if I could :x I’m just trying for the tonic at this point.

Noticed this today after getting my second one of the same type. Is there any way they can be enable to stack? As they are essentially the same type of bags as Scarlet Spare keys in what and how they distribute the items. Would be a good way to save inventory space.

Naevius.3185:

Simple solution: Nerf all ascended weapons back to exotic level.
ducks for cover

throws a can your way But actually that’s kind of why this is how things are the way the are and haven’t been changed in regards to PvE/WvW the game is usually and more often than naught balanced around PvP, all PvP items are coded in relation to exotic rarity if they bumped them all to ascended level equivalent (or changed rarity code presumably if changing the numbers is too hard a task without the larger PvP rehaul) then the kit/bundle change could be done more globally

Fasyx.9347:

rfdarko.4639:

FGS does OP dps, but then people have been saying that for months. As wooden potatoes pointed out, they did nothing to change it when the did the big rework of elementalist conjured weapons so it’s unlikely to change anytime soon. It has zero to do with berserker gear and everything to do with a skill’s unintended (more then likely) side-effect.

This! FGS even got buffed with the last updates in terms of mobility.

- FGS isn´t overpowered! Fiery Rush isn´t overpowered!
- Fiery Rush ONLY works against a corner or a wall AND an enemy who doesn´t move
- Fiery Greatsword has a cooldown of 180 seconds
- and finally: FGS is an Elite skill, compare FGS to something like timewarp or warbanner(especially WvW/PvP). Now tell me again, that FGS is overpowered -.-

Keep in mind: FGS gets nerf will result into a “4 x warriors + 1 x mesmer” meta all day, every day.

On my phone so just gonna point out something on fiery rush, the skill is op damage wish due to it not needing a target, or working without one by setting that option off- regardless of this being an elite skill or not one can argue its unintentional and abet actually could place a limit on it if they chose as seen in the engineer tool belt for add static shock- it literally will not work unless an enemy is targeted, it’s a matter of balance if they apply this to other skills ( which I prefer they’d do to some in terms of absurd mobility applications)

My only issue was the weird 4 element thing, because it honestly made little to no sense or had horribly loose tie ins; Flame legion was fine, dredge as “earth elementals” seems poor in the area that wants to be conveyed as they work with sound tech as importance, referencing their mines or ability to would have said the message better, the creation of the air ships seems off as originally mentioned as being stolen from the pact and the toxic alliance isn’t really water as their toxin is more air based than water in its distribution – here’s hoping it’ll at least seem clear in the next 3 parts

Not a bug; /threaten the gate

Since it also relates to this item, I’d like to mention that the Light of Dwayna item is still listed as Account Bound (at least in tool tip; haven’t made it myself) as opposed to Shadow of Grenth which still has soulbound on use binding, as the recipe was changed I take it that the Account Binding of LoD should be changed as well

I know destructive bridges were mentioned as a part of the new map, will the team that owns it be able to destroy it as an actual strategic move? I’ve alway thought of it as a good move to do in hills though we can’t

For the love of Abbadon…Make the Gasmask an achievement reward akin to the Hellfire and Radiant pieces, I need more than one - NEEED.

I’m the embodiment of a refernece

In lines to the changes of I can’t seem to find documented changes for Go for the eyes, from 50% on crit 10s ICD iirc or the removal of burning from rocket turret..Will these be mentioned in the 12-10 update despite being at best a month (nearly 2) old by then or any explanation for them really?

Asami.3572:

Let’s discuss how to train a dog to do this! O_O points to GIF

Chaining, conditioning, teaching your dog to do it one step at a time and rewarding it per the given steps until the action is completed, I’d get my book to look up the more direct terms but writing a paper on something else entirely…less anyone has a 4 page book report on Victor Frankl’s The Will To meaning they’d love to give me…

Assuming the Mad Realm existed naturally, how did Oswald Thorn come to take control of it? If not, how did the Mad Realm come to be? Was it made for individuals with such lunacy as Oswald Thorn or did Oswald Thorn himself somehow make it, as we’re told that he had or knew powerful dark magic.

Go for the eyes went from 50% to 33% and seems undocumented change..or what I’d hope would be a bug as it’s one of the better rifle traits ~-~ But who knows

Well you can always preview the next level to come, and at current their is only the one box so logic/lore between it’s absence would be that Moto takes it down to work on the coming level(s) and add improvements

Delvoire.8930:

I’m not following how it contradicts anything.

The castle fell and then Wynn and the others caught up to the Mad King as he fled or was fleeing.

“So what did you do?

We murdered him from ambush, but didn’t stop there. We put his pieces in different boxes so we could hide them with obscuring spells. "

They couldn’t have killed him in the sacking of the castle, as that wouldn’t have been an ambush.

I can’t figure out how the burning of Pelchalice is out of order either..

Ambush implies they had been lying in wait, as I said it could simply be open ended was just wondering if any others see it as a possible inconsistency. Pelchalice would be fine. It’s just in how the short story is written it seems like he likely died with the revolt at the castle but in previous segments of the story (as a whole) show that he died potentially far from the castle where he’d be prepared as it were.

I was looking over some of the lore on Halloween, or well Oswald, that’s been out since GW2’s release and wondering if anyone else thinks this might be an inconsistency or just something that had been left open ended.

The main thing I’ve noticed was Portia’s comments imply that Pelchalice was the town burned down by Oswald, and as we see in The Family Business this was likely done by Edrick with the intent of this was the overthrow of his father, and this is where the problem potentially begins. The story ends kind of open ended with the past scene ending with the death of Dribbin, with the potential implication that castle Thorn fell which would contradict the final clue of Act 2 last year from Wynn’s Ghost about when the king died as it appears long after Pelchalice’s burning.

Anyone else think it may be an error or just a possible oversight? In regards to if part of wynn’s discussion of the prince, I don’t see that as an oversight in the historic sense (Thorn removed the records of Edrick that could have remained to be studied, though certainly would not have prevented new ones to being written) but the issue of Pelchalice is certainly at least a chronological error at the least.

Dajas.4715:

hgh is useless, traps you into your traits to much and those little changes on elixirs aint gonna make it that much better. I have to say i was a little disappointed with this patch, i love the increase in size off the bombs, it really is so good, but that’s it. im sticking to my ht/tk/bombs and eg.

Just wish they would sort the turrets out as i’ve always wanted to use them without feeling underpowered! One day they will have their day! O_o

Sadly most of our traits trap us into trait lines, one thing I dislike about the class and why I have no traits in power, the main line and non picked traits all seem unappealing or useless (to me at any rate- maybe I just don’t like being so close when it seems we lack the most mobility of medium classes)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bam/Zhaitaffy-Vendor/first#post3034365

And relevant dev replies:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

The Merchant who traded items for Zhaitaffy is now named Sonder the Seller, you will find him next to the Laurel vendor in Fort Marriner. But he couldn’t pass up a great opportunity like Halloween to exchange for Halloween items. But once Blood and Madness is over, which runs until November 11th, he will resume trading items for Zhaitaffy.

Rachael Augg.2379:

Yes, Sonders the Seller will trade both of those items after November 11th. The minipet and and pail will still be available. The upgraded crafting materials for nougat, fangs and skulls will be removed.

It’s certainly better than what I originally thought, makes more sense for the fangs and such to be a bit more of a heavy gate for the Halloween themed weapons. Intially I thought the Candy corn stuff was extreme but hadn’t known Sounder would be taking corn afterwards as well…so all’s good :o

Edit in part to what Weaver mentions above about cobs not being around on the 12th, that’s a misinterpretation on martin’s last sentence which is to Sonder accepting taffy again on the 12th, though he will stop Fangs, Nougat and Skulls- just not cobs

And the yak finishers are temporary until the next season as well, I imagine much of the other rewards are pretty much standardized

It did, just different format with lines; Also isn’t a retcon as Edrick could be alive by his fathers dark magic (corporal v spirit)… Edrick is added lore, he is a son of Thorn presumably the eldest from a course of 8 wives and he was locked in a box we don’t know when, if he’s a ghost, it’ll be explained in the release and it may be an interesting twist for the LS as a whole

Aycee.9162:

I thought the villagers killed him =/

He did have 8 wives, this still kinda circumvents the notion of whom is Edrick’s mother, and him not being killed along his father is also tied into being locked within a box for time unknown….What’s more interesting is the term “monster” and “brought his family shame”…How does one shame the Thorn family? All in all a really interesting trailer…why can’t it be tomorrow ;-;

Presumably it’s Thorn’s remains (Or would be my go to knowing the lore) But given the new doors and the Bloody Prince (Which I pray is not Oswald with body) could be anything.

I hope the Bloody Prince does not = MKT when his body is back because the hair style bothers me in the sense that he died 500 years ago <_< modern tryia that hair seems weird. Maybe it’s Joko somehow :o They did have a feud… But who knows

Didn’t think it could get more annoying, was wrong; Please make it somewhat less unbearable by making the score 11 again.

Replace laurel req with x amount of karma, it’d still be the other form of currency asked for (Certainly far better than gold as an option) just depends on the rate they want to have between karma and wxp awarded

yet it’s end reward is 2g? Doesn’t that seem a bit odd to anyone?

I’ll take an invite if you don’t mind :P

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

I don’t see what the problem is.

While the OP’s post in short laments the idea that zerker is limited to 1 stat (power), he raises a point about world bosses. They are objects, immune to critical hits and while they are special objects that can get conditions the hard caps make conditions all but useless.

The world bosses as objects is a horribly flawed design in this game, even if they were say immune to the benefit of a player’s critical damage modifier but not the base 150% it’d allow for better functionality to how fights are approached and the outcome of the fights.

For instance, there are a total of 12 on crit sigils that cannot be used in any world boss fight solely due to this bad design of no crit mentality. Some of these sigils (Blood/Water) can enhance the survivability of an individual or a group. Others allow for what is the basic DPS sponge of a boss to go by faster (Fire/Air/Rage/Strength).

This also cascades down into trait lines of various professions and their effectiveness (Theives and necros primarily, damage in the case of warriors)

If anything the design of world bosses truly highlights PVT bias that the OP mentions because the large health pools are really only ever dwindled by power as the caps and design decisions limit or void any other means and should be addressed before any further revamps.

Then you have 6 people not fighting Teq on a time sensitive case, 1 person running back is far better than 6 people not doing anything for 15 seconds

Been noticing recently that I have not been getting the 50% evasion restore, not sure if others trained into this line are experiencing the same or it’s just simply my server. Located on IoJ but wondering if any else are in the same position

As of current the sound effect for the rifle only works on our auto attack; Is there any possible way to add it, or some variant of the sound to some of the other skills as well, even if just in the background?

:l The first sentence depresses but does not surprise me

Groonz.7825:

Could we have baubles included into the wallet? if it ends up like last time, I’ll end up losing space by constantly stacking up my baubles :/

This would be amazing! Only issue might be the SAB’s ingame wallet and considering they are used as ammo it might not happen due to that

Simple: I want the Mad King to be freed

Heh, I’d be fine with that setup for my engineer if and only if the shield was like the center fragment of the Bloodstones

Far as I can tell disable post processing and this no longer becomes an issue, done her about 40 times (and failed- close on about 2) but never the screen change effect.