Guild Wars 2

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OP never played paladin in Diablo 2…

GW1 and GW2 most melee centric games out there. Every gamemode have melee effective builds.

General exploration and world bosses – easy, do stand in red circles lol
Raids and fractals t4 – with druid heavily utilizes melee stacking
PvP – no comments it is used
WvW – good melee train is a core of any zerg

Roda.7468:

Are you playing on a different race? Can’t confirm it, but smaller races may have faster animations on their mounts due to the whole leg size thing.

Yea actually smallest female Norn is where I got this bouncy feel. (and two of four my mains are female Norns with lowest height… feels bad)

Checked on max height human male, feels like before

Wow I get where I felt the difference. Male and female (maybe as well as difference in height) animations differs. Female Norn with lowest height animations feels so bouncy unreal.

[Suggestion] rename beastmode – fartmode.

Looks like Raptor was tweaked a lot since previous demo weekend. Now it feels so unrealistic like mounts in other MMO. Very fast response, bouncy animation, and no where near the previous feel of handling 1 ton of raptor meat and bones.

Angry bold head
Herald chest
No shoulders
Heritage gloves
Heavy Ascended legs
Heritage boots

Ramoth.9064:

Feanor.2358:

P2W? No thanks.

Pay to win what exactly? Race to make legendaries? Do they even have those?

Ascended/legendary gear in WvW faster than usual.

Playing power ranger with signets in soldier gear and pressing 4 on CD.

TP speculation aside this is undermining of player experience – dropping once prestigious skins as well as memory items under the bus. In a form of gambling.

This is so wrong.

Suggestion – rename beastmode, make it fartmode

Here are three trends and problems in WvW:

- Queues on t1 in weekend prime time are quite bad
- WvW as gamemode lacks rewarding competitive gameplay (not rewards) – there is no actual benefit of leading your server to the top
- People do GvG in WvW

1. Create additional small map for tournament based WvW between two teams
2. Main participants are guilds or coordinated server groups (limit mode to 30-50 players per side)
3. Hold tournament skirmish/es in primetime to cut queues on other maps
4. Limit tournament skirmishes to top 8 servers and 3 weekend days (basically 3 day tournament between 8 servers)
5. Servers get score and legendary spikes based on their place

- Would cut queues in primetime
- Would give competitive WvWers opportunity to be in control
- Would create incentive to move your server to the top and win
- Would punish nightcap servers
- Would give the community more controllable GvG
- More guild and server pride

Black Frog.9274:

If you do the math, you can buy the basic preorder PoF and direct buy the gems for the same cost as the uber deluxe whatever version. Basically what you’re getting in that package is the couple of extras that boil down to some skins and access to a “room” with all the crafting/vendor/etc stations in it. And an extra character slot. Which you can easily purchase with a lot less gems. The uber deluxe package isn’t really worth it.

Even if you exclude skins (outfit) you end up with 26% discount in gem value of bonus items. (for deluxe edition, 41% for ultimate edition)

Kidel.2057:

People said they would pay for this function: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-add-a-build-swap-button/first#post6713735

And I would too.
You could make the build slot as an expansion from the trading post.

Pay for the basic MMO feature? Witch is long overdue of 5 years?
I imagine scale of drama… Dangerous waters…

warrior banners do work underwater, they ground based.

1. Use TS
2. Follow the commander
3. Listen
Just find commander that call out guardian skills (and play guard as well) After several fights you would get the picture of what and when you use.

Usually comms use hammers for additional CC.

Key words to hear: empower (staff skill 4), purge bomb (purging flames), lines (staff skill 5), symbols (staff skill 3), f2 (condi cleanse), receive (receive the lights), hammers out (switch to hammer), rings (hammer 5), stab up (use stand your ground)

Why do you need more buttcapes, buttshields and buttcarpets?

little tip: Firebrand mantras refresh if you go underwater and your underwater build do not use them.

Pretty much first thing that I thought when I saw it – Stink cloud. Then – Fart cloud.

Never gonna play this on my noble Norn woman.

Why it is permanent? It should be like 1-2 second animation and that’s it.

As long time frontline guard tried it in WvW – almost impossible to operate due to clunky tome design. Mantras could be good to replace empower (and staff) and elite, but you end up with useless tomes.

Right now you can drop tome by two buttons. With normal swap weapon and function keys.

Please remove drop tome from function keys (f1, f2, f3). It is almost impossible to operate them in lags WvW. You just end up activating them and insta dropping them due to lag.

Really bad keybind design.

Yea pretty much stuck with one class whole evening due to 50+ queues

Condi weapon with power traits. lol

AND FART EFFECTS ALL AROUND YOU.

I really do not like when people use this glider. Cant see a thing.

Just play one-two years of EVE-Online.
All your dirty PvP dreams would be fulfilled for the rest of your life.

This THE BEST mastery point in the game so far. I am biased a bit as an F&B manager.

Doubt you are good t4 fractal player, capable to do t4 in full bers/vipers.
Never went down on exotic default guard. And I am just mediocre, I use healing signet in t4, lol.
I was really surprised with the fact that WP is just a bad player. Because his ass was kicked a lot in this instance.

Main question is bad player supposed to be defeated in story mode boss? My answer is yes.

I would say it depends on ability of Anet to grow up in programming department.

Right now Anet is not capable of simple things:
- Make build templates (just silence)
- Make new character screen (spaghetti code they say)
- Fix dungeons (discontinued instead)
- Chat support for anything except western European alphabets (feels bad 5 years in, completely destroys local communities, new players of specific language groups just quit)

In the future GW2 would need to modernize at some point or it would be abandoned to a new game, like GW was. And only success of “GW3” would keep it afloat.

What modernize does mean?
- New modern engine
- Implementation of new engine to OLD zones
- Creating whole regions instead of small maps due to the new engine
- Possible console port
- Huge API development
- Stable content/business model (at least we have it now)

There is only one game on the market that actually do this: EVE-Online. But their programmers are beasts. Since 2003 there was 2 huge engine updates. And they pop out expansion size content every 6 month or so.

Why casuals do need ascended armor? You can do lvl 50 fractals with specialization weapons, ascended trinkets and exotic armor.

Why casuals do need legendary armor? They need to play 4 different builds on their WvW mesmer?

Casuals do need only exotic armor. Full set is like 30 gold? Ok, vipers may be a bit higher.

Anet foresee economic crash. It is a thing they intend. They cater to casual player base witch would benefit the most. And completely destroy veteran player base witch have some patience to research economy in their favorite game and invest their hard earned gold in mats.

And no, I am not a TP baron. I have around 50-100 gold in my wallet and max 300 gold invested in mats and orders at TP.

martin.1653:

THere’s actual separate keybind for dismounting. Works well. You don’t have to use attack to dismount.

Thank you captain.

The main reason is that game had clear key to drop any kit for 5 years, and it was weapon swap key.

I feel the same. To much mats.

Amnoon chest farm train on the doorstep.

Viking.1285:

but you dont drop your kit you use a attack skill

But you drop your mount kit with a skill.

Viking.1285:

you know you can keybind it, do you?

It is keybind for skill 1 of weapon. Not the key i want to rebind for any reason.

Dismount/mount is ok. Battle dismount is unintuitive by GW2 standard. Every time when you want to drop special kit you use ` (weapon swap). Mount is a kit in a sense and skill 1 on mount is basic drop toolkit with a bonus attack.

Please move engage (battle dismount) skill to weapon swap slot.
Maybe it is just me but I press ` constantly when I try to enter combat on mount.
For me it is like additional tool bar and by GW2 intuition ` is key to leave additional tool bar.

Just imagine galloping strafing horse with a char in a saddle… First thing coming to my mind is rolling TIE-Fighters sounds with some blaster shots.

Thanks for answers.

My level of frustration is 100%. I play 3 mains:
- Power PS Berserker for fractals
- Condi Ranger for raids and open world
- WvW frontline staff Guardian

At least Daredevil dodge speed trait is not nerfed because of mounts. Can do my daily gathering and some Lake Doric farm and frack off until expansion hit.

Aeolus.3615:

Yakez.7561:

None. Hammer/Staff is the most useful combination due to hammer skill 3 and 5, same with staff 3 and 5. It is the main might stacking and cc in any zerg.
Now you just cant 1-1-1 rams and have more downtime on weapon swap.

And if you used staff for lootsticking on enemy retreat instead of hammer cc… well you are just bad teamplayer.

As a mace/shield guard thats the staff 5 function, they need to change staff 2 as the main atack and give a 1 sec dome cast as a aoe skill, with 2-3 sec recharge on staff 2 xD since they borked up SW SoA….even more..since ANet copy pastaDiablo barbarian hammer of wisdom cast…to all SW… wth ANet…

Simboldofswiftness, its useless alone, rev’s have it as a passive aoe pulse, i would request a better simbol, Staff 5 needs to give slow

this would be the simple changes i request for staff….

You need at least one staff guardian for every 5 squad members to apply might. How you stack might with mace/shield? Staff 3 is usefull for wall bombing. Staff 5 is really great thing to cut off portals.

None. Hammer/Staff is the most useful combination due to hammer skill 3 and 5, same with staff 3, 4 and 5. It is the main might stacking and cc in any zerg.
Now you just cant 1-1-1 rams and have more downtime on weapon swap.

And if you used staff for lootsticking on enemy retreat instead of hammer cc… well you are just bad teamplayer.

But, how ammo mechanic will work with quick draw?

Add 1 ammo when not full?
Trigger on first non ammo skill? It is already triggering on weapon only skills.

Most of rangers using full signet power builds. Ammo is to complicated.

But as an ranger with 450h I was really surprised on this patch. Ranger with bows and arrows… and no ammo. While warrior get ammo on kick and SHOUT lol.

Anet logic is the best ever since 2005.

Gold is useless. Inflation is real.

That is why max amount of gold I ever had was 300 for commander tag.

Always invest in mats that you would end up using later (legendary, ascended armor and weapons). Then invest in mats that are used but are oversupplied (mithril ore lol). They would spike one day. After all that just invest in gems when their conversion rate is good. Gems are always useful for the new gemstore stuff.

At this price point most useless item ever. I thought it was free to play item but… Why shared slot is not included?

I just do not get logic.
- As free to play account or core account you could not use this item unless you buy additional shared slot 700 gems witch brings price up to almost 30 USD (just buy expansion with booster then)
- As newbie with both expansions, you still get two 80 lvl boosts. And 2000 gems is pure rip off when you could invest in more useful stuff like pass, bank and bag slots.
- From veteran standpoint… I have 10 slots with 9 80 lvl chars around 200 tomes of knowledge and another 260 worth of lvl with b-day scrolls.

Just a pack to spend your ultimate gems and not on something useful for new player.

10 Keys and 1 lvl 80 booster is one of the worst things to buy in this game. Once you have one or two lvl 80 chars and play some PvP/WvW you have ton of tomes to lvl up. Exotic gear supplemented is like 20-30 gold witch is farmable in 2-3 hours.

Bag slots would be on anniversary sale later this month as well as char slot.

ONE gathering tool is luxury item that need to be used with shared inventory slot to be any useful as QoL item. And honestly one of the last thing to buy on account after bags, char slots, bank slots, shared slots and pass keys.

I’m curious about the (2) Bag Slot Expansions if you are already maxed on Bag Slot Expansions.

You can use bag slot expansions on other non max-bag-space chars.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bag_Slot_Expansion
Once you get it in mail and put them in inventory, they are soulbound.

Back in 2012 was expecting to play guard as main. Proper human char to relate. Never happened. Support was non existent in bers meta.

Then they released HoT with Dragonhunter. Longbow damage spec… Useless in PvE, fractals, raids.

And at least I played guardian as main in WvW. And now they nerf the main Guard weapon in WvW giving nothing in exchange, because of PvE lootstick? And lets be real WvW loot do not cover WvW expenses. And most of the time u use hammer or GS in melee train if u are proper guard, not tagging kitten.

Nerf then shortbow on thief then. Axe on ranger. And just remove necro from the game already.

So what is ultimate edition from noob perspective (only bonus items):

1. Char slot – 800 gems
2. Identity Repair Kit – 1000 gems
3. First ever outfit – 700 gems
4. Lily of Elon pass – 1000 gems
5. 4000 gems
Total of 7500 gems for 50 USD – ~42% discount

Definitely the deal for any starting player. Main question how many new players would invest in thing that they know nothing about even considering raw value?

Value for veteran player of bonus items:

1. Char slot – no value, bought enough slots several sales back (maybe just another mule, but at point of 10 slots you have enough mules already)
2. Identity Repair Kit – 1000 gems (great item considering new faces and name change contract, something you would not buy from a real need, but as an luxury)
3. Outfit – thrash item, no value, lets be honest this outfit not even close to the last outfit release
4. Lily of Elon pass – no value, most of veteran players had their passes already, and lets be honest it is downgrade to Mistlock Observatory
5. 4000 gems
Total of 5000 gems at best for 50 USD – 20% discount

Still a deal, but really moderate, there is no real sellers like robot outfit for ultimate bundle.

P.S. Personally I only bought Ultimate for Lily of Elon and gems to buy more shared slots (yes I has no pass 1400h in)

I bought PoF already and Lily clearly says: “This item will not activate until after you have completed Chapter 1 of the Path of Fire story.”

Other thing that I noticed, that item actually called Invitation to “Lily of the Elon”. So maybe it would be replaced by actual usual pass after unlocking first chapter on any char? Hope so.

Delaware proxy.

So right now Lily of Elon is gated with 1st chapter PoF story for obvious reasons. Would the gate remain after PoF release?

If yes, this item useless and do not worth investment just like Sunspear outfit, because you have zero access on non lvl 80 chars (mules, champ bag openers, gobblers). Also you would need to complete 1st story chapter on every char? This is tedious.

Just felt a need to draw a map on my wall. Why not to draw one of my favorite maps – Tyria.

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