Guild Wars 2

Sublimatio.6981:

kinda unfair that warrior gets 2 weapons while scourge not only has shroud taken away but also we only get a torch…\

i think anet should at least rework staff to make it good in pve. just keep the condi transfer on one of the skills for BiP rotation.

Remember warrior got a lame torch last expansion.

Come on guys this is the necro class were talking about, anet will most likely ruin condi reaper.

And do nothing to power reaper.

Dont get your expectations too high for them somehow buffing this class.

I got that elemental sword from the bl chest a few months back, I figure itll be pretty fitting for the whole dual elements thing.

Hesacon.8735:

Xevv.9175:

It really sucks that I wont have my current spec to just use if I dislike scourge.

And by wont have I mean that while I could spec it and equip the stuff, itll be even more useless than it currently is.

Far as I know nobody else is having their current spec options gutted?

I play base power necro, so if they’re buffing core power specs I’m going to be made in the shade. The revealed on shroud 5 and axe buffs have made a world of difference for me in wvw. The only class I fear is warrior, since you can’t actually damage one as a necro. Or a ranger. Or a guardian. Or…

Im not saying power reaper shouldnt be buffed, it certainly needs it.

I just wish they werent gutting our current condi build to do it. And therefore forcing us into the new elite if you want to play condi.

I mean this also could have been avoided had they not screwed up the builds in the first place. But way too late for that one.

It really sucks that I wont have my current spec to just use if I dislike scourge.

And by wont have I mean that while I could spec it and equip the stuff, itll be even more useless than it currently is.

Far as I know nobody else is having their current spec options gutted?

Jinn Galen.2468:

I wonder if they’ll repurpose Reaper spec into completely power-based.

Yep they have, and it sounds like theyve changed various skills in other trait lines too.

Well see how it turns out but I cant say Im thrilled to know I wont have the fallback option of just playing my current reaper spec ….

The point was directed at the person saying people doing raids just for the rewards in bad game design. Where a large portion of the players do the exact same thing for fractals.

Fractals are also a very reliable way to get ascended gear boxes.

If you ignore people who do the daily 3 fractals and thats it for the day, your population is going to go way down. Thats not too different from raiding just to get legendary gear…

Astralporing.1957:

Xevv.9175:

Which means the only hope you have of getting it in other modes is getting the set that will come from raids. Notice how people are already crying they dont want that to happen.

Well, it’s either an alternate set, the raid set available outside raids, or the raids made easier. One of those is going to happen eventually.

Which one would you prefer?

I dont see how anyone could have watched the last year of legendary design time fiasco and be delusional enough to think they will make a second set. It has taken them well over a year to make the set that isnt even out yet….

The raids are far from impossible now. Notice how they arent making massive nerfs to bosses when patches roll around. They are satisfied with the amount of people killing them. Whether or not any one of us agree with that is largely irrelevant.

The raid set available in a different mode is your most likely outcome. How likely that really is… I dunno. More so than the others, but still not very likely at all is my guess.

Im not sure what makes you so certain theyll just hand it to you some other way eventually. A sense of entitlement isnt the ability to know the future.

It might happen, but I think some of you really need to look at what is likely to happen in a realistic world where design team resources and other time constraints exist.

I mean theres a reason legendary weapon collections were scrapped for the new system… lack of time to do it the other way.

zealex.9410:

Xevv.9175:

Theres also something to be said of by the time youre actually able to craft the kitten stuff youll probably be able to make 1 set from doing vg/escort and slightly more than that for the last year and a half…

Hardly the “epic challenge” alot of people want to claim raiding is.

also while I could care less if they put the legendary fractal back skin on the raid vendor, im not sure its an accurate comparison. it doesnt take nearly as long to make a back skin, and its taking them to make this armor.

of course Im also probably in the majority, I dont give a crap what it looks like, only going to use it for the minimal use of stat changing and will transmute mine seconds after putting it on anyway.

And how all this is against having more legendary armors in diff parts of the game?

Its not, but if you think theyre going to spend months of design team making new legendary armor skins when its taking them this long to make the first set. Youre delusional.

Which means the only hope you have of getting it in other modes is getting the set that will come from raids. Notice how people are already crying they dont want that to happen.

You can hope for a fractal or wvw or whatever set all you want. Its just an unrealistic expectation sadly. You can feel free to come tell me I was wrong if it ever does happen though…. good luck with that.

Theres also something to be said of by the time youre actually able to craft the kitten stuff youll probably be able to make 1 set from doing vg/escort and slightly more than that for the last year and a half…

Hardly the “epic challenge” alot of people want to claim raiding is.

also while I could care less if they put the legendary fractal back skin on the raid vendor, im not sure its an accurate comparison. it doesnt take nearly as long to make a back skin, and its taking them to make this armor.

of course Im also probably in the majority, I dont give a crap what it looks like, only going to use it for the minimal use of stat changing and will transmute mine seconds after putting it on anyway.

maxwelgm.4315:

However, it is a very good criticism that we should never have a single set of legendary armor for every weight that is only available through raids. And in spite of Anet’s plea that armor is the largest development bottleneck (mainly due to testing out every mix and match possibility before release), I do not believe they should use this as a reason not to release more legendary armors at an acceptable pace. /

Based on how long its taking them to give us this one (well 3 technically) set. I wouldnt expect to see any more legendary armor skins after this. Hell I wouldnt even hold out tons of hope for new legendary weapon skins after they eventually give us the full hot set we were promised.

Hijack the raid team and put them to work.

Vinceman.4572:

Xevv.9175:

My condi necro was able to kill his one echo just fine pre patch. I can now solo 2 of them.(just barely and I do have inf pots/food etc)

Some people must be really bad if they struggle to kill one…

Of course it was and is possible for a decent to good necro, nobody doubted that but for the average 100 CM group it wasn’t a safe strategy. Post patch it (condi) could establish harder again but before there were 0 lfgs with 4 necros + 1 druid on CM.

Well thats because its a terrible group, necros do subpar dps. But thats true for all fractals.

Vinceman.4572:

Cynz.9437:

Because unlike in raids, the group can actually kick you from your own well… group. The original discussion was that finding decent (!!!) group that can actually complete CM (!!!) and not kick you for not playing necro/druid is everything but easy (at least from my experience so far, the only time i managed to get in CM groups as thief was…. playing with couple friends, that sadly don’t always have time to play this game).

Tbh, no group is running CM with 4 necros + 1 druid because it sucks at 2nd boss. 4 necros + 1 druid is the random faceroll group for T4 Daily.

But Sublimatio is right, this isn’t the right thread for this topic.

My condi necro was able to kill his one echo just fine pre patch. I can now solo 2 of them.(just barely and I do have inf pots/food etc)

Some people must be really bad if they struggle to kill one…

Rising Dusk.2408:

• No Fractal boss except 100CM Siax automatically fails if 1 player messes up

This is an important distinguisher between the two modes. Fractal bosses, by design, are able to be carried by extremely strong single players. Meanwhile there are mechanics in almost every raid boss where if someone with a key job fails their task, the entire group wipes. In Fractals I can play a build that does respectable damage and will basically never die, and it no longer matters if other players are good. All they do is speed things up in the ideal case. This is in stark contrast to raids where players are critically necessary for a number of reasons.

Like Fluffy.1932 said, raids were really designed with high levels of coordination in-mind. That’s sort of the whole point.

Most bosses have been 4 manned. Hell the only reason they havent been beaten by less in the enrage timer. Could always add that to fractals. But people would probably whine that they cant use their trashy build/gear setup.

I wish Id actually get 10 points for doing the fotm dailies…

4 years now and my ap from dailies is like 230 cause I almost never go do the random little things they want me to.

OriOri.8724:

Xevv.9175:

Mourningcry.9428:

How does the analysis hold up across the various stat sets?

I don’t know much beyond the notes and various posts….

he crafted a very cheap set, the difference is more substantial on just about every other item combination.

I honestly just chose the first name in alphabetical order. Even still for something like Commanders, the different in price for crafting it is only ~60 gold more, since all you need is to craft the cheapest ascended pieces and then craft the exotic insignias and convert the stats. The discount is not that high, and its still non-existent once you account for possible opportunity costs of the fractal relics. Yes, not everyone needs more 20 slot bags, but if you do that’s an opportunity cost that makes purchasing the ascended armor just as expensive as crafting it, despite being substantially more annoying

Ive got plenty of relics, and if you really want to pick at opportunity costs you arent even factoring in the cost for the recipes to craft the gear… youre just assuming you have it.

Thats some laurels and gold.

And ~25% cheaper on a set isnt that bad… not sure how much you were expecting them to cost, the whole point of them changing to this system is because the pvp set was way too cheap.

So if you expected to get this set for a fraction of what it costs to craft it the old way… well you just had some very unrealistic expectations.

Mourningcry.9428:

How does the analysis hold up across the various stat sets?

I don’t know much beyond the notes and various posts….

he crafted a very cheap set, the difference is more substantial on just about every other item combination.

Can we get a way to breakdown ascended crafting mats?

Because currently I have the choice of crafting ascended gear the old way.

Or starting all over on daily cds and using roughly half the materials since I turned all daily cds into actual bolts of damask etc…

Would be nice to be able to salvage them and then just use those new vendors.

Its not like it takes that long to just get through some of it. I just dont see why we need a checkpoint/save system for something so short.

I mean the whole kitten thing takes <30 min and thats with a group of random people/classes.

Id like it more if they put a fractal portal at the airship/ember bay/ etc portal places.

Then maybe Id buy one.

I wish we could combine bltc salvage kits too, not sure why Im saving them though Ive got way more of them than Ill ever need.

Wow that outfit!

I never noticed antlers in game.

Yep a million times this.

I too was so disappointed about having to clog 3 slots and bounce them between chars.

Please just make it an account wide buff unlock.

I wish it was just an account wide buff that unlocked once you bought them…

I mean 3 inventory slots that I need to switch between characters is annoying as hell.

Or it would be if I bought them, Im struggling to really see the point of def/mob when Ive been doing the max lvl of each fractal just fine each day for the last year…. At least offensive speeds them up a little.

You actually only have to avoid taking damage at the end when all the things are active for the last 20%. Which is super easy to avoid all on your own.

You can get hit all you want before that. No need to do all these complicated rotations and stuff people are talking about.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Dinks.2478:

I highly disagree, it reflects the state of WvW and the reality that only a handful of servers are worth WvWing on. It reflects how poorly balanced WvW is and how poorly structured it is. It reflects how little people want to play it even when it is rewarding because the gamemode itself just isn’t good. If anything it reflects how wrong anet is to try and force people into it without fixing any of those issues.

We are all capable of choosing our attitude in how we approach anything we do. It just requires preliminary consideration.

edit: the poster I quoted above demonstrates them choosing to do a 9 hour stint, choosing to be afk while doing it, choosing to bring in a build that’d be useless and unengaging to them, and ultimately choosing to participate in such a poor way with such a poor attitude that they’re admitting wasting the valuable map space they’re taking up. Those problems stem from their choices in how they’re approaching WvW to be engaging for them… not a problem with the reward track system.

~EW

Yup thats how I choose to do it and many others Ive seen have done and are doing the exact same as I type this. Why do most of us choose that? Because the wvw is in a pitiful state as far as many are concerned. If you want to spend your time playing in that mess feel free. Forcing others into it as opposed to just fixing issues and making people actually want to play it isnt a good solution.

But thats how it currently is and as long as it is if I need a GoB I know how Im going to get one… You telling me I should like I should like wvw because you do isnt going to change a thing.

They can change it, leave it. I dont really care Ive got more than enough GoBs for myself. But personally I have no desire to do anything in this game or life with people who dont want to be doing it. Doing activities with people who dont want to be there is generally an unpleasant experience for all involved.

I dont understand why people who like wvw are wanting it to stay like this.

You really want me to come in for 9 hours, largely be afk, and totally useless to the “team” while someone who wants to do wvw, and will contribute sits in a q waiting for a slot that Im essentially wasting?

I mean yea world completion sucks. And I feel for those who only want to pvp but want a legendary. But comparing that to this is just silly. You thinking making me do this makes it “fair” is just hurting you and your friends who actually care about wvw.

Obviously nobody will know for sure (unless a dev wants to chime in) but Im just wondering what other peoples opinions are on whether or not blood rubies will be used for the next episode(s) and unlocking the other ring/earrings

Right now that node doesnt seem too tempting, but if the rubies will have a use past this episode…. well Id rather buy it now and start collecting.

Seems like youre all luckier than me, Ive mined a crapload of nodes and Ive gotten <10 total that way.

Only semi decent thing is I play a warrior so Im not in a huge rush for vipers gear.

I just wish I didnt need to kill a raid boss to unlock the last ones Ive needed forever. I gave up even trying to find a group when my only options were pay a bunch of gold or link insights which I obviously dont have.

I’ve got full ascended on my warrior. I did vg to the transition the day it came out and that was it.

Wouldn’t mind getting a kill just so my ocd can stop bothering me about the mastery number.

Can spec ps and drop banners and all that if someone wants to take me along. I would really appreciate it.

Master Togo.4281:

newbihack.7180:

Is there going to be a discount on character slots or not?

unless u have that much gold like i do….lol

loaded with everything in my account….20 char slots, maxed bank slots, maxed toon bag slots, all toons with exo and accended gear, weapons and jewllery etc….

all u need is to be good with money managment and your dreams wil become true .
if u need support ingame with anything…feel free to contact me ingame

I dont even know what to say to that pile of gold, it took me soo long to save up enough just to buy living story s2. At this point Im just glad repairs are free lol

I could use some ectos. Im not sure if Im super unlucky or not, in all my time playing this game the best thing Ive got to drop was something I sold for 8g

Im probably considered lucky to someone out there :/

what game are you moving onto anyway?

Yup at which point by the time you can finally join one dragons stand maps are full… so you get to wait 2 hours to try again.

Except I havent because every one I attempted to join filled before I actually got in it.

While youre fixing that how about you get some servers that can handle more than 200 people per world shard, thats a pathetic number for an mmo.

Life has gotten in the way too much atm maybe when it settles some and i have more playing time.

Did you leave the settings for sweetfx at default or did you tweak some stuff?

If so what?