Guild Wars 2

Then there’s an opportunity cost which is completly the point, I have to give up one thing to get another., which in turn throws out the entirety of my build. Oh you play a thief how wonderful, tell me how you feel you are important to approve or disapporve posts?

Btw i’m wondering how many above people really play a thief. Or Just trolling for their other characters?

The whole purpose is to balance the professions. Well there are now three dominate proffesions mesmer, ele and warrior. Ele are the most mobile with endless combinations and conditions, warrior highest dps and health, and well mesmers need i say more. But I really don’t care about that I have all 3 above charcters and iam easily adaptable. I will play with the stongest character, what really annoys me is i have bought specific weapons sets and runes for each charcter focussing on optimal builds and because of the nerfs will now need to completly buy new armour. Its dam frustrating.

In my opinion the thief is now the weakest character in the game, it has less health and less damage , it has the weakest crowd control options, 1 skill that has a 1200 range, etc.. But what is really ticking me off about these changes is now I have to completly change my build which means new armour and more gold I don’t have.

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And the 2v1, giving all opponents equal and attack ability while downed then yes it is almost impossible.

I was was reffering to the thief’s no 1 ability in down state.

Agree take the kitten downed state out of the game, OR leave it in for second chance noobs but provide servers without the option

Yeah I read your opinion didn’t care to much for it.

Very easy to stealth in for a backstab? Ok hero. You mention a thieves skills as if you can equip them all, maybe you should understand the concept of opportunity cost and limited skill slots. Very easy to mention cool downs but what you don’t mention is weapon slot, so to most characters there are 10 skills available while the thief needs to regain initiative. Which brings me to my last point, thief’s are heavily dependent on ‘decision making’, even more so than other characters, because is forces a thief to spend initiative wisely to maximise damage. Spamming heart seeker or “the most efficient damaging skill” is not best. Sigh. Maybe you should learn to play the profession before you comment on how you disagree with the relevance of the post.

Downed state needs to go. If you are defeated by a player you are defeated by a player. Like I said it undermines the efforts it taking down that player.There is enough dynamics is selecting a character traits, weapons, armour, skill slots, runes and accessories. That where the focus of team play and tactics should be directed and not in a second chance down state. This is not a new concept this has work for every MMO/RPG, ridding the down state will not create balancing issues, its quite laughable that you wasted your time writing that. If you have not figured out how to defend against a glass canon build then you quite clearly need the down state.

Ok so I have read a few posts about balanced issues with a few characters namely thieves, warriors and mesmers and about 90% of complaints are very short sighted. Most complaints cherry pick the highest damage skill of a character and report it as been unbalanced. There are a lot of people who appear to not fully understand the mechanics of a characters skill. Picking a high damage skill in isolation does not make that character unbalanced. Sure until recent nerfs the thieves had high damage single shots, but actually getting large damage hits is not or was not as easy as people thought. For example a thieves backstab with signet gave a lot of damage but before backstab could be used a thief needed to stealth, additionally the thief need to be placed correctly and if that was not hard enough there were boons that could easily counter that attack like aegis etc. Also a thief has a limited amount of intuitive, once used they have very minimal attack damage. Additionally, thieves going stealth can still take damage. Thieves who hit hard have weak defence. Thieves after recent nerfs don’t have the highest damage output, are one of the lowest health characters and have minimal armour in comparison to other characters traits.

Downed as in the second chance. Sure if you mean hiding in corners or completely avoiding fights then sure you can avoid downs state, and crowd control gives PVP that special dynamic. It is absolutely something you can prevent e.g.. stability etc… But in saying that crowd control, traits and boons really shifts a players skill to chance. For example if you build a glass cannon character, there are very few options to prevent curing conditions because you have supplemented defence traits for higher dps. Visa a Versa, so come match time you hope you have built your character that counters your opponents skills, otherwise you are going to have a difficult time. Moral of the story build a character with as much offence as defence.

To the person to decided it would be a great idea to push over the down system in SPVP is a kitten. Probably a good guy but a terrible mistake. Why? Well firstly it undermines the efforts of a player taking down the opposing player. Secondly, it throws skills slots out of balance; in most cases a player will use skill slots to take out the player. There’s more dynamics in SPVP (builds, traits, skills), then their needs to be, stop complicating and frustrating it with the added down system.

And why is there no single 1v1 plays. We want to see a single player ranking gameplay. I personally get enough zerg v zerg in WVWVW. Why is there no love for players who want to duel, instead the only variety PVP players get is zerg, zerg and zerg. It’s shifting single players skills to team orientated skills. The only option for duel is hopefully finding a server with 1 other character and even then in short before 2, 3 players join. I get that GW2 is guild and community focus, but i want a system where i can control the outcome of a fight and not have to rely on other team members.

Lets not get carried away, the reality is while guilds contribute some success to world ranking’s its the combination of all participants. SOS has well established wvwvw intensive and competitive guilds and i presume they will be placed no1 for a long time to come. Guild wars is still relatively new and now over the last month or 2 has ranking placments began to seattle to their natural equalibrium. Exagerating the extent of one guild only proves 2 thing’s 1) Your a mindless fan boy and 2) You have little understanding about the mechanics of the game.

Anyway I’m looking to put a competitive wvwvw thief team together on SOS server. My account name is Yoda.9428, message me if your interested.

Yeah simlilar thing. I am so kittenin pissed!!!!!!!!!!! Was browsing through trading post, didn’t buy anything, checked inventory and my gold has gone. Also i have had missing items. Almost sure this a transaction problem and not due to hacking. kittenin kitten dont know how much i had to grinf just to save for commander then have your gold go. kitten YOU

So i my account has been deleting items and gold continually. I originally thought it was me making some silly mistakes buying items more than their worth or accidentally deleting items. However, today while logged in gold just dissapeared from my account. I was thinking about saving for commander, closed off inventory went to do a quest, look back into my inventory and all my gold gone. Only a few silver there. Tried everything from reinstalling, changing password, running scans. i can’t even log into support which has been a problem for me over the last month. I’m at that point where i will be looking for another MMO to play, i see no point in playing a game where my achievements continually disappearing.

I am angry and frustrated for numerous reason. Firstly, money and expensive account items have been continually taken from my account. I noticed this trend early on within launch. I initially assumed this was a fault of my own, perhaps I incorrectly gave to much on bids or accidentally deleted items. Few weeks following i noticed my mystic coins had disappeared. My initial reaction was that i accidentally deleted them, or perhaps I had been hacked. So, i changed my password, re installed GW2 and ran scans. I also attempted to follow up this with GW2 support. Well this was useless. Why? Attempting to get pass the verification system was almost impossible after countless attempts. I ended up giving up after the continually response of “incorrect password or user name”. I have 1 email assigned, 1 account user name, and 1 password. I continued to play knowing besides those issues, this was a great game. Well only today when i have been working hard to save gold for commander did i noticed gold had been taken from my account. I was working out how much gold i needed from my deposit, closed off, fought a serph, open back in and my gold just disappeared.

So now, I have gold and items been taken from my account, tried every avenue to rectify thus issue, and still can not get into touch with support.

You can’t start changing the specs of classes, to do so can lead to serious balancing issues.

Yes, good post. We want stats and I am ashamed to say this but something similar to the stats of diablo 3.

Yeah I will have to agree, the commander sytem is mostly negative. It seems commander status is problematic in itself whereby the consensus is a authority figure dictating the scenario in WvW. The responsability of a server figure head should not be bought and a true deomcratic process should advance the right candidate. Perhaps mentioned above, the elected candidate should get the title of commander and not a player with deep pockets.

Totally agree, searching for the relvant topic with 30 posts per page 154 pages can be a little time consuming. The PM stated infringment and infracted the post. Although suspicously my reply borders infringment. FYI: I do have too much time.

As a fellow Guild War2 fan, I recently published a petition to see if in fact there was majority support for dueling and inspection options. Soon after my petition was posted I was was replied with an infracted PM. For those who are not sure what infracted means, it is a violation of rules, law, contracts or promises. (I will reply my petition post below so that you can determine what infringments occured). What troubles me however, is the moderators ability to distinguish between a forum (definition of forum: Where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages), and an infringement. The post was appropriatly titled and catergorized under the heading “suggestions”. No profanity was used and community opinions were encourged. The petitons purpose was to identify the amount of interest in dueling and thus give some insight into Guild Wars 2 dev team decision making.
So this makes me conclude with ’ do Guild Wars 2 moderators encourage community involvement? or is players ideas and recommendations not as valued as others?

FW petition:

“Hello Tyrians,

There has been overwhelming support for PVE to have both a duel and inspection option. For those who are new to the MMO genre, dueling is the option to combat fellow players in PVE. The mechanics vary from MMO to MMO, however in short an invitation is sent between players allowing them the option to combat players. It is important to note that dueling is only permissable if players accept the request to duel and there is no obligation to do so.

The second petition is for inspections. Inspecting allows you to view players achievements, stats and other useful information. The benefits of inspecting promote a personal feel to the game and bridge communication gaps.

In order for us to enhance this great gaming experience we ask for you to support this petition. Our goal is to reach 200,000 support requests. To show your support please reply to this post with the word SUPPORT, alternatively you can subscribe. Together united we can create the best gaming community in the world”.

Moderator Notes:

Please refrain from making petition threads. Threads of this type do not assist members with support issues and concerns. The question of duels and inspection has been already discussed in the forums and the dev team is aware of those.

Hello Tyrians,

There has been overwhelming support for PVE to have both a duel and inspection option. For those who are new to the MMO genre, dueling is the option to combat fellow players in PVE. The mechanics vary from MMO to MMO, however in short an invitation is sent between players allowing them the option to combat players. It is important to note that dueling is only permissable if players accept the request to duel and there is no obligation to do so.

The second petition is for inspections. Inspecting allows you to view players achievements, stats and other useful information. The benefits of inspecting promote a personal feel to the game and bridge communication gaps.

In order for us to enhance this great gaming experience we ask for you to support this petition. Our goal is to reach 200,000 support requests. To show your support please reply to this post with the word SUPPORT, alternatively you can subscribe. Together united we can create the best gaming community in the world.

Hey GW2 awesome players,

I have a few suggestions some mine others i here on chat.

1. Player duel and inspection: This is probably a big one i here. People want to see players achievements, additionally players want to fight other players.

2. Mounts: This would enhance exploration.

3. More customization and armour design.

4. Softning the de-leveling of players. I loves in MMO that i could go back to areas that were once difficult and slaughter the beasts that killed me. God like players were cool!!! Maybe soften it or atleast balance xp so that top lvl players can fully benefit from experience.

5. Improve on player matching system. A system that auto matches players into teams, useful for dungons and group parties.

6. Improve on a trading system. Have a trading system whereby trades can be more secure with a duel party accept option. The current mailing system may encourage stealing.

Besides those suggested improvents, I LOVE THIS GAME!!!

Whats everyone’s opinion? feel free to reply

Firstly, on a whole the game is frikin EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

So i have a few minor problems, firstly lets start with the bosses. I don’t mind the boses been hard ( that’s the purpose of a boss). However i’m somewhat confused and angry at how much damage they can do in a single strike. If you can’t survive a single strike against combatants then the game turns from being enjoyable to annoying. For example, at the starting ground od Asura when fighting the fire elemental I was taken down by only one strike. I had full health, lvl requirement and decent armour/weaponary. I understand the concept of doging, however when you have 15 minions, boss and traps then its impossible to survive without dying, which really sucks. I want to have some hope of going toe to toe with bosse.

That brings me to my next point. TRAPS!!! wtf!!! If you have been through cata dungon then you know what im talking about. It’s great to have those extra hurdles in the game but WTF with the damage. Yes i have rage quite a bit with those misrable thing’s.

Lastly, not sure if this is shared opinion bu tthe thief kinda suck at pve. I knida agree and it’s what i have been hearing. Kinda dissapointing that they don’t have optional direct stealth abilities, considering how the other classes are filled with so many options. They seem kinda boring,

Anyway, GW2 is awesome!!!