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Instead of nitpicking on moot points, let’s look at some real things.
1. This discussion exists, and it’s big.
2. There’s a growing “us vs them” mentality.
Doesn’t matter in which camp you are, or if you’re neutral – the problem exists no matter how you try to argue for or against it. So let’s talk about solutions instead of arguing about who’s right or wrong.
- Cantha
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The only way i’ve managed to counter this is to make sure i’m in a squad or group when doing the event. That way you have a chance to teleport to a squad/group member when coming back in. If it’s a popular event the map might be full, but keep trying and ’hope" someone else leaves/crashes to get their spot.
Had the same problem, solved with enabling “insecure payment” on my card via the internet bank. There’s a new feature that blocks anything that isn’t using 3DSecure. You have to manually disable the feature through your card settings – the block is then released for 30 minutes.
Chanta is by far my favorite place in the GW universe. Seeing it come to life in GW2 would indeed be a dream come true.
I’ve been kicked a couple of times for not being a “Tank” (*read Warrior/Guardian). Ironically i “tank” better than most with Pistol Whip and self-healing.
Going through AC at level 35 is actually a bit hard. Doing it at 80 in full exotics is a faceroll. That’s why you get kicked, everyone preferes a faceroll.
3 Signets + healing signet (also heals on hit). Traits to reduce signet cooldown, gain might and grant initiative on use. Trait to increase init regen and heal on initiative use. Sigil to heal on crit, food buff to heal on crit. Macro 3 signets to be used in one button press. Equip sword/pistol.
Result: Near infinite supply of initiative for Pistol Whip or Black Powder, effectively blinding groups of mobs or locking down a mob as long as you want (or a combination). Melee AoE that heals you (allot). Hitting 3 mobs with one Pistol Whip will heal half of your HP-pool. Evade all attacks while using Pistol Whip. Always keep Infiltrator’s strike teleport up and break every potential stun against you, or escape a tricky situation.
So, you have a thief that’s extremely hard to kill. Can chain-blind/stun forever. Can effectively “tank” groups of strong mobs (even without vitality/toughness). Does good consistent AoE DPS while healing himself. Can break every stun. Can provide Cripple and Vulnerability (if traited).
Yes, other classes has more “obvious” support to the group because they provide boons and such that are displayed in icons on your screen. You can see a boon being given to you and think “i was provided support”. It’s harder to comprehend that a mob didn’t one-shot you because he was blinded, or because all it’s strong attacks was interrupted, or because it was simply focusing a thief it can barely hit. And on the flip side, as Thieves don’t provide insane amount of clearly visible support, we also tend to not need any from others. It’s a quite independent class.
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Yes, running CoE 300-400 times to get 100 Charged Lodestones seems reasonable. There is no other way to get them, that i know of at least.
I would like all the names removed. To me they only serve the purpose of being a huge “KILL ME, HERE I AM” sign. Try doing something as simple as hiding behind a tree to ambush someone when you have a huge bright text over your head.
The problem is that many of these utilites are useless when it really counts – against bosses/unshakable mobs. The effect is that we have 2, sometimes 3, effective weapon skills on harder fights.
My biggest beef would be the visual feedback of the shield and the lack of a timer on when it’s back up. I’d like to see the shield’s graphics improved to better show the edges of it. Make it look like a clear hemisphere without those “pillars” going up to the center. Then add a progress bar just like shield one that shows how long you got before it’s back up. Alternatively make the shield bar slowly re-fill once the shield is down, and when it’s on 100% the shield comes back.
For what it’s worth, gw2lfg.com works really well. I always use to find dungeon groups and i have not failed to create/join a group even once so far. It usually takes 10 minutes tops to fill a group, but often faster then that. And i’m not talking about FotM here, those groups are found easily enough without gw2lfg.com.
I hope to see almost the exact same tool in-game. A simple post in a list that shows your name, where you want to go and a comment. Top that of with a “join” (to join the group) button and a “merge” (to merge your group with another) button for extra coolness. In addition to that, filter out every chat message with “LFG/LFM” and every possible variation of that from the general chats, and display a message saying “Use the LFG window you kitten” when someone tries to post such message. Do that, and world hunger is solved.
There seems to be a long delay from when i use it to when they become effective. Maybe 1-2 seconds from when they are fired to when they “land on the ground and start doing what they do”. You can find minor use for it on stationary mobs to help build some bleed stacks, but it’s pretty useless when you actually need it for what it is (should be). That is, when something is chasing you and you’re low on initiative/health, so you want some distance to avoid damage for a while. Since every mob and their grandmother runs faster then you, paired with the delay on the effect, most mobs just run through it without being affected, even if they are a fair bit behind you to begin with.
And i love it. I really dislike the blur dodge. The asura animation looks awesome!
I tend to salvage everything that doesn’t go for a reasonable price in the trading post (mostly rare/exotic are worth selling i think). So far i’ve gotten 2 trade skills to 400 without having to buy much, and another 2 are on 150/50’ish. Sure i have loads of excess materials, but i hoard it all for future trade skills.
Yes there is SirHypnotoad, but there’s also some bug that counters stealth. I do suspect it’s due to an auto-attack hitting a split second after stealth, thus breaking it.
So you’re saying it might work as intended, but RNG could potentially have it never ever trigger? To get most out of it you would want to have a variety of 3 different schools?
I’m not sure if this is intentional or not, but if you are interrupted while casting a stolen skill, the skill is then gone and Steal goes back to showing it’s cool-down. I think it even does this if you interrupt the cast yourself by dodging for example.
I started my crafting session with ~5g in pocket and 256 Weaponsmith last night. I went to bed with 9.18g and 400 Weaponsmith + several discovered exotic plans.
It’s possible.
I think it’s related to typing the exact same thing several time (pasting in a LFG message for example), since that is typical spam-behaviour. Try changing your “macro/paste” message a little bit each time, might work.
I suggest that you read this before posting: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/How-To-Bugging-Best-Practices/first#post27631
Yes i’ve tried this as well a couple of times. I’ve never had it working. I tried with all different types of skills, none of them worked. I think it’s called “Improvisation” in “Deadly Arts”.
I’ve been using a stealth heavy build for a while and i love how it plays, except, the actual stealth fails so often it’s silly. It is NOT due to the debuff (exposed/visible?) you get after breaking stealth with an attack. I carefully watch that debuff to make sure it goes off before using another stealth skill. The one’s that fail the most are Steal with Hidden Thief trait and Blinding Powder. The only one that seems somewhat reliable is Shadow Refuge.
What happens is that i simply don’t enter stealth. Maybe there’s an auto-attack going of a fraction of a second after the stealth, thus breaking stealth so fast you don’t even notice it (common issue with stealth in general it seems).
Maybe i’m missing something, but i don’t think so. I’m pretty sure i should enter stealth when using my stealth abilities. If it failed once in a while i’d get over it and move on, but it literally fails around 30-40% of the times i use it.
Happens all the time when using a stealth build to hop in and out of stealth.
Happening allot to me (Asura Thief). I think i’ve narrowed it down to using a dodge-key and using any of WSAD at the same time. If i only press my dodge key to evade backwards it works every time. If i press backwards (s) and my dodge-key at the same time it often fails.
Stealth does not prevent from taking damage and does not make you invincible.
It’s working as intended. You have to use stealth after channeling ends.
No it does not make you invincible, but it’s not working as intended.
Scenario: Opponent starts channeling a 5 second spell. After 1 second you go in to stealth. Opponent’s channelled spell continues to track and hit you (who are now invisible) as you move/dodge until the 5 seconds has ended. The spell is locked on you until the channel ends no matter what. You can start the channelled spell and go make coffee while still hitting the thief, who went invisible and quickly ran behind you, for the full duration of the spell.
What should happen: The opponent should lose the now stealthed target and continue to channel the spell in whatever direction they are facing. If the thief cross the channelled spells path he/she takes damage of course. The spell should not auto-track the invisible target.
Another scenario: Opponent starts casting a spell with a 3 second cast. After 1 second the thief goes in to stealth. The opponent continues to cast the spell for 2 seconds while auto-tracking the now invisible thief. The spell then proceeds to hit the invisible thief like a heat-seeking missile. The invisible thief must waste endurance to dodge the tracking spell to avoid it.
What should happen: The spell should fire off in whatever direction the opponent is facing.
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