Guild Wars 2

Underwater combat needs to be seen to. Either Anet needs to completely give up on it and remove it, or finally get around to fixing it. A ton of skills aren’t available underwater, some for no sensible reason, some because Anet couldn’t be bothered to code in a proper way to target them in water. I cringe every time fractal dailies contain Aquatic Ruins, please Anet, remove it or fix it. Don’t leave it in as it is.

Speaking of condi mesmers being broken let me tell you my story. My friend on his condi warrior and I on my medi guardian just puking out aoe heals and condition removal were having fun during WvW reset last night. We were pretty much single(duo?)-handedly responsible for holding onto all 3 bloodlust buffs for a good 6 hours straight. We 1v2’d, 2v3’d, even fought 4 to 5 people a few times and came on top because we worked together and communicated over voice chat, healing, cleansing and CCing for each other, we were basically unstoppable.

At a certain point we ran into a trio of troublesome condi necros working together and modified our build for heavy condition countering and beat them. Not too long after, while still running anti-condi(I’m even using -40% condi duration food) builds we run into just this one mesmer who used PU + condis + perplexity. We were just plain unable to kill him thanks to mesmer’s plentiful survival tools, and while we were able to survive indefinitely in up to 2v3 and some 2v4’s earlier, he could singlehandedly wipe us both out with a neverending spam of high confusion and torment stacks, no amount of cleansing or healing could save us, we would eventually go down. The few times we were actually doing not-so-horrible all he had to do was moa one of us after a condi bomb so we couldn’t counter it and then just sweep up whoever was left.

This is not a “get good” problem, we fought and won countless fights and held all 3 bloodlusts for 6 hours, if we ran into a problematic combination of players we just adapted our builds and countered them, but NOTHING we could do allowed us to beat this one mesmer 2v1, something IS broken.

Still waiting for ascended carrion trinkets.

Seems we already have carrion accessories, but for some reason they had to be locked behind buying ALL of Sorrow’s Embrace and Citadel of Flame’s gear, months of repetitive dungeon grinding.

Mr Snotty Pants.3980:

As a customer, why do I care if it is NCSoft or NEXON?

Because Nexon doesn’t care about its customers and can’t be reasoned with. Might as well point fingers at the right people.

To all of you saying it’s some NCSoft ploy, it’s not. NEXON is in charge of the gem store. They’re the cash shop kings.

What made the previous system confusing/clunky was that the gold to gem conversion was working backwards. You had to keep tuning the amount of gold you put in to get just the number of gems you wanted, that’s not how it should’ve been.

It would be extremely simple and straight-forward if you instead were allowed to input how many gems you want and it tells you how much gold it costs, no confusion, no clunkiness and frankly I’ve always wondered why nobody ever saw how much better it would have been in the first place.

I’d like to see this changed rolled back too, or at least have the ability to buy smaller amounts, 400 is simply too much. I buy gems both with real money and gold and after the current changes I won’t be doing either anymore.

Tengus have the same mesh as the charrs, we’d probably just get the same boring near-identical trenchcoats. They wouldn’t have to work on new armor except for racials.

Lion’s Arch is about to be attacked by a large army. The Tengus are pretty xenophibic and have a gate connected to Lion’s Arch. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t think they’ll sit there doing nothing with their neighbor being trashed and an army at their gate.

This patch heavily hurt my odd, but ridiculously fun 10/15/15/10/20 triple kit build I’m sure it did more harm than good to build diversity.

^ same thing, looking for grenth temple NA

I derped up and kept the UI in, but here are mine.

With bonus charred cub.

Depends entirely on what kind of stuff you want to tank.

Lucyfer.9517:

Ygdrad.7839:

Letting you know you hit the DR would entirely defeat its purpose. It is there to STOP people from farming efficiently. If you were told you hit DR you’d simply move to another area and continue farming optimally.

I thought it was there to stop the bots. Why would they want to stop regular players from playing the way they want?

Because there’s virtually no difference between the effects a bot and a player dedicated to farming have on what passes for an economy ingame.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

I agree with the OP. That DR is nasty, and it makes me paranoid that I’m just wasting my time when I’m looking for specific crafting components.

If you’re farming a certain component, you’re likely already wasting your time. You could be doing almost anything else and selling whatever you get to buy those resources instead without having to worry about DR. If it’s bothering you, don’t farm. I haven’t really had any trouble getting my mats and I haven’t really gone out of my way to get them. I just sell the random stuff I get to buy the things I’m missing.

Letting you know you hit the DR would entirely defeat its purpose. It is there to STOP people from farming efficiently. If you were told you hit DR you’d simply move to another area and continue farming optimally.

You should’ve kept your post focused on delays instead of going on about your personal fantasies for ability reworks.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

kill Elixir S kill self

I’ve noticed this actually. If you have strong conditions on and the auto-Elixir S activates, you die. There’s nothing you can do about it.

Actually, the Cleaning Formula 409 trait would cover you there. The guy just has to pick his traits right if they’re giving him trouble.

Any server with this guy?

looking for open temple in NA

My Silvari necro. Decided to make to make it look more casual. And my Charr engi, couldn’t bear anymore trenchcoats.

I’m currently trying to buy the karma armor from the merchant usually found at the gates of arah. There’s one big problem though. Every server I’ve asked so far has the gate opened but no vendor and the event for arah is stuck somewhere.

Is everyone’s arah gate event broken? Does anyone have the karma vendor present? I already tried asking the event board yesterday, but for the most part people go there to ask, not answer.

I need medium armor from the guy too. Are there any servers where it isn’t broken?

Just ignore the guy. He’s either a troll, here to stir up some trouble, or a sick person who enjoys to see others suffer. If anyone is to choose if punishment is to be handed out, ANET will do it. Anyone going out ASKING that people be punished is the same kind of crazy who starts witch hunts.

I support this suggestion.

I also want this.

Lysico.4906:

Orion the Cursed.1206:

Lysico.4906:

Mesmer f1 shatter build

is not single hit

how is it not? hit f1 and bang.

If you say kill shot is, then this is. Takes kills to build up adrenaline to get full kill shot power. I can get 3 clones out in under a sec and hit f1 faster then a warrior can build a full bar of adrenaline.

The mesmer F1 shatter is actually up to 4 hits(with persona), it is not a single hit. Just watch it in action and you’ll see. As for the speed at which a warrior can get his adrenaline, he can get it all instantly with the right skills or traits or in only a few short seconds just by hitting stuff.

You obviously don’t understand the workings of the 2 classes’ mechanics.

So I take it the only thing to come even remotely close to the warrior’s single-hit damage is thief backstab? Anything else someone can think of?

Thanks for your input, but the wiki really can’t be relied on which is why I’m asking people, eviscerate and kill shot actually have a base of 1000-1200, and the wiki claims that the command activation of Sword of Justice has a 2300 damage base which ,after testing, it didn’t even come close to.

I’m actually testing stuff with the Superior Sigil of Intelligence and AOE attacks are really iffy as the one crit in there seems random and skills involving multiple hits only crit on the first one.

I’m basically trying to figure out which classes can get the most use out of the sigil of intelligence to land single powerful crits without having to invest in precision.

I’m trying to come up with a list of skills which have high single-hit damage to decide on a class to try a build on. Can you list the ones you know?

Good examples would be the warrior’s Eviscerate and Kill Shot.

I’ve got a female Norn elementalist and I’d like it to look decently protected rather than skimpy. So far I’ve found the lv60 acolyte set which looks like decent armor. Does anyone know of other armor sets/pieces which are metallic or look protective?

While this is definitely something I agree with and something that should be brought to the devs’ attentions, this is definitely not the right place to post it.

So I was in for a challenge and was soloing lv3 fractals on my warrior for the hell of it when I ended up on the colossus fractal. I was fighting that first boss with the hammer for a while when i messed up and went down. I decided that maybe i should go for another fractal and used Vengeance to get back up and used the button to return to the hub. I died in the hub and got the option to respawn at the start of the fractal checkpoint. I did so out of curiosity, and the hammer guy was gone and his hammer ready to be picked up, had fun with the rest of the fractal. Also, if you return to the fractal in this manner the button to return to the hub is switched for the one to return to Lion’s Arch.

I’ve got another one for you, Deceptive Evasion simply does not work if you are “morphed”. This includes being changed into a ghost in the Ascalonian Catacombs, being a Charr in one of the fractals, and probably any other instance of the mesmer not being his starter race visually.

Yeah, I’m not touching the personal story stuff until I have this fixed.

I had no problems whatsoever with cutscenes a week or so ago before I took a break. I come back to the game today and the first paragraph of almost all(in some it’s the second)cutscenes is missing the voice. So far my own character’s voice is always working, it’s usually the other person’s lines that have sound problems.

Is there a way to fix this?

If more information is needed, let me know and I’ll do my best to post it.