Guild Wars 2

Dante.1508:

This thread shows perfectly why most people hate raiding with a passion, the communities it draws are some of the worst online games can generate..

Best honestly just to ignore raiding completely, in every game not just here.

Sorry if you’ve had bad experiences but you’re generalizing and over-reacting way too much. I’ve done alot of raids by now (all of which were with pugs) and I have yet to see anyone being an elitist jerk. The worst i’ve seen is someone get kicked by a party leader because clearly he didn’t know what to do, but the guy that kicked told him why before and was very polite about it.

Since alot of raids are coordinated in TS or Discord or whatever the keyboard warrior factor kind of goes away, and people in general are quite nice.

That being said, i’m on EU, maybe its a different story on NA:)

style.6173:

Just advance in tiers and you won’t need to worry about the newer players. If you are referring to hot join, who cares? People just go there to mess around. You can’t expect good games there.

wasn’t referring to hot joins. Saying just move in ranks doesn’t really help. It still gives newer pvp players a bad view of how the game should be played. And it could be avoided very easily.

Pepsi.8907:

Scoreboard is actually useful if a tie happens between the teams…
But yeah it’s incredibly flawed and reward way too much agressive play, which leads to horror such as multi-capping or fighting off points.

Maybe add something like the first one who start the cap gets the point and that if you’re outside of x radius of the cap, you get no point for killing someone.
Beasts should lead to less points reward, etc.

Oh yeah I forgot that tie thing.. Just removing the big yellow number that you see when you get the points would help alot imo. Because right now it’s like : hey look at that big number! I need as much of those points as possible!

And that’s just not how the game works.

By points system I mean the 10-15 points that you get each time you cap/kill/res/etc.

It should be removed because it seems to give newer players the impression that it’s a good thing to have as many points as possible, often leading them to go 3 people at a time to cap the close point at the beginning of games, leading the team to a huge disavantage because there’s not going to be enough people at mid, etc.

I know this is probably not an issue on higher ranks but I honestly get these type of things like 1 game out of 3, and it’s annoying because it’s such a stupid mistake that makes the game so much harder to win.

Maybe removing those points is not the best idea, but at least making them less visible would be beneficial.

Someone needs to take his chilling pill.

Hey recently i found a little bug. It seems like all servers are mixed up and we can’t do GM or temples properly now. Somehow i was in a group with my guildies ( from the same server) and we didn’t even show up on the same map!

It’s a pretty well known bug, I heard people calling it megaserver

Please fix.

The other day I was in a group with m friends. Same guild, same server, same group, and we didn’t even appear on the same map ? How ? Why ? Why does anet keeps knocking down their own game ? Finding temples to get dragonite is now absolute hell. You have to keep checking every 15mins if there’s one active. I’m not even gonna talk about how much guild events are kittened up.

Why is it like this ? Is there something I don’t see in this megaserver thing ? Because for now what I see is an absolute fail that led alot of my friends to start thinking about quitting.

Harper.4173:

Vyndieco.6187:

I’d much rather see new awesome skins than having the same skins that I’ve seen in GW1 for 6 years. And if they add more, they’re probly just gonna mess them up again (see Zodiac weapons).

Have you seen the quality of skins that have hit the Gem store lately?

There’s no heavy armor that doesn’t have spiky tidbits or looks ridiculous. I want to go back to when heavy armor also had a " serious " theme if you so wanted.

Where’s the serious heavy armor in this game ? – Human T3 Cultural – what else?

Yeah i agree, but what i said is what I would love them to come up with something NEW and that look just as good as the skins from gw1. Seeing the same weapons that i’ve played with for over 5-6 years is a bit disapointing to me..but I guess it’s better than the kitten that they put up recently

lazycalm.5186:

Hi

I’m gonna start playing with my Mesmer in PvP, even though I heard they’re not in a great spot atm (is this true?)

While I know conditions are better atm, I’d prefer playing a power shatter free build (mainly because I don’t think I can manage shatters being new at Mesmer)

What is the most efficient PvP build after this patch? Can you post a link with traits, skills, runes and sigils please?
I’m just asking this because I’m quite new with Mesmer and I have little idea of what to use

If there is a much better condition build in comparison to power, I’ll take the condition build and give it a shot

Thank you for your help

Shatter mesmer is the most viable build, if not the only viable one. It’s not on a that bad of a spot right now really, Portal is very awesome utility, boon stripping trait is very useful, and halting strike is awesome. The condition mesmer build generally is PU, but imo it’s not very good except for 1v1s.

For shatter I personally like staff/gs, but i know some people run sword torch or sword focus too.

I’d much rather see new awesome skins than having the same skins that I’ve seen in GW1 for 6 years. And if they add more, they’re probly just gonna mess them up again (see Zodiac weapons).

Chase.8415:

Pie Flavor.1647:

Chase.8415:

Prefect.3681:

You totally wrong about this. Just go into map and hit nr “1” awhile when healt lil low, dodge hit number “6” and start spamming skill nr “1” again. Isnt that hard?

Open World PvE content, just about anything works as there are so many players and scaling is terrible.

You can’t really do this in high level fractals.

have you ever been to high level fractals? the builds from players are the most unimaginative builds I’ve seen in any game. Full berserker gear (damage, + crit chance and + crit damage) with berserker weapons and berserker trinkets, filled with runes of the scholar (damage, + crit change, + crit damage and +10% damage when HP is above 90%), sigils of more damage and embellished ornate ruby orbs (berserker jewels, either that or straight up ascended berserker trinkets)

you don’t need to learn a lot of stuff when the only viable thing in end game PvE is pure damage, disregard everything else (that being defense, health, condition damage, healing power, etc…) because you can avoid all attacks by dodging, blocking, negating damage and evading.

To be honest, the only reason why the build variety is so small is because of the dodge mechanic, if we weren’t allowed to evade all damage by pressing V, toughness and vitality equipment would have some kind of value, but alas, they became obsolete the moment skill rewards more than facetanking.

Berserker is extremely viable stat combo in fractals because a lot of ability scale off a percentage of your health and ignore defense.

Which proves my point even more, why provide so many options when only a select few are the best and rest are a waste?

Newer players aren’t gonna do fractals right away. Zerk is the meta for high level pve (for speed running) such as fractals and dungeons. For leveling, exploring and everything a new player does, berserker gear is not necessary at all.

Also, you asked why stats other than zerk even exist, well, there are some other things than fractals and dungeons in this game my friend. In PvP for example, players have alot of uses of the other stats. Same for WvW.