Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the discussion. Only a little bit of time left until we can get a good feel for this new spec.

Arimas.3492:

Engineer shield is also really good but needs the CD’s on par with the other 2 so untraited is 20/25 seconds.

Maybe there is hope a dev will read this thread and lower CD’s?

Chaith.8256:

You’re traited for power wrench btw.

Even with tank stats the Holosmith will move from a glass cannon a little bit up the spectrum to a balanced fighter or bruiser. There is no tank.

Also the stab and barrier on corona burst is way more survivable than super speed. Alchemy way more survivable than tools.. Idk what you’re trying to do really

I have not had a chance to try anything out yet just theory crafting about a tank build. Since there has not been any mention so far in postings about using the Holosmith to tank.

I enjoy using shields and was hoping to find a build that would mesh well with it rather than going the sword/pistol route.

Maullus.1273:

I love the idea of it. Any particular reason you went with the Tools line? Alchemy seems like it might be a nice complement, even without any elixirs on the bar…. snip

I like Tools because of the decreased tool belt spells mixed in with the kinetic battery trait. Basically this build you will be keeping your heat above 50% while bouncing back and forth between forge mode and no forge mode. That way you are getting the benefits from above 50% heat along with the 5 stacks of kinetic battery that keep happening.

What gear set would you end up going with it?

Using a sword and shield could Holosmith now be setup to be a Power/Toughness/Vitality tank?

Without picking gear yet this is the trait setup I was thinking of trying.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAsenEID1IjFJDWIDcJjFDDrvG+DHihBgxxeZMHkgWQA-e

Any thoughts?

Amazing that people think the game should revolve around people who do not continue to support the development of the game.

But go ahead and continue to think that they should develop special things for people who do not support the game. I am sure that would be worth their time.

People just need to mature a little on the forums and the devs will come back. I am glad they post on reddit where not thread crying about X again makes it to front page.

Sicarius.4639:

How is that going to happen when those who don’t like it are deemed salty and told to leave? Then you have a forum of people saying it’s great and nothing ends up changing and or the game dies.

There is a difference between not liking something and being salty while not liking something. Most of the posts on the forums lately have been salty posts about not liking something. But really non of this talk should have been brought to this thread, just shows you what a salty posting is.

Glad to see there are others like me who are still on the forums that actually enjoy the game. Yes some things could be changed, but that is the case with any game. I still have found many reasons to log almost 300 hours on my Herald since the expansion released.

Misguided.5139:

I run marauder with berserkyrie trinkets. I’ve prevented wipes on VG by being able to res in lit up areas. If people run in groups with players that never go down, then more power to them, but I expect that’s the exception rather than the rule. Obviously berserker is better in terms of pure offense, but marauder gives a good vitality boost while only giving up half that much in offensive stats.

That may work for VG, but once you get to Gor that is just not going to cut it. Gor is a complete DPS check you really need to be in full zerkers. If you happen to have a group that fully knows you are not running full zerkers, well more power to you. If you just have not told them you do not run zerk, well there may be a rude awakening if they find out.

With that build it looks like you pan on tanking? If that is the case I wonder if taking sword/shield would be better than hammer.

Check out Rune of the Monk.

I am having fun, I also buy things often from the Gem store.

Thinking of trying to make a raid healing set, anyone have any luck with one? I would think you would be staying in Ventari the entire fight without switching to Glint. But you would also keep FoN going full time for the chrono quickness.

Would you pick the same gear as druid and go for zealots?

Just remember for every 1 complaint on the forums there are thousands of people enjoying the game that will never go to the forums to say how much they enjoy the game.

The new player forum is a great place for getting a feel for everything the threads/posts are very new user friendly.

Ha reading some of the comments in this thread and people wonder why the devs do not post. Common human decency goes a long way in getting a response on a topic. If people would act a little more respectful with what they post maybe there would be more interaction. Until this happens I hope the devs ignore posting on here at all, keep it to reddit.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Whomever they hired for the most recent bundles does not understand price discrimination. Anet isn’t going to get more money by only selling bundles. They’re getting less.

Yes because it is not like they have the data to back up what they are doing. Oh wait, they do.

Linfang.1087:

Voting with my wallet. I don’t need the F2P bundle of garbage to get one thing that I want. This will hurt them in the long run. Sure a few will bite and put down 2000 gems. But for every person who put down 2k gems, they are losing about 8k gems if they were to sell them separately.

Unless of course the person spending the 2k gems bought them with $$. Rather than converting gold to gems then purchasing it. Hard to rationalize with converting the Gold to Gems for the purchase, but spending $$ is not that bad.

Purchased it for the Glider Skin. No regrets.

It is great when a topic is grabbed from Reddit but then you do not link to the actual source. https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3u2lxs/thoughts_and_ideas_about_hot_open_world_being/

I wonder if you complain about other products like this?

So many people complaining in this thread how horrible Arena Net treated them. Why are you even here then? Is there not something better for you to be doing?

182 hours on my Herald, I do think I have gotten my money’s worth. So yes, I would easily pre-purchase the next expansion loving the map wide events.

Celtic Lady.3729:

You might want to try not making false assumptions about people from your high horse.

My response was a mix between responding to you and the OP. Also when you say LFG does not usually work, I pointed out that it has always worked for me since release. I use it daily, for about 2 meta events each day. When a map is struggling I tag up and help out.

As for the OP, he/she should use the tools available to find full maps. Yes there are dead maps, but it makes no sense to stay on that map. Use LFG or start a map yourself and taxi people in.

Killing mobs that award exp, and getting crystal bags seem to be a fast way to get crystals. I get 1 bag out of ever 20-30 kills. Each bag has anywhere between 5-55 crystals in it.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Unfortunately, I get into more maps that are sparsely populated than I do ones that are full or even mostly full.

Even using LFG doesn’t usually help me get a meta done sadly. It helps sometimes, if I hop enough maps, but it doesn’t work most of the time.

And this is happening less than a full month since launch. That downward slide happened very quickly.

Not really, I use LFG everyday for HoT meta maps. I find them easy when the zone is starting up. From there I just stick with the zone, and help people taxi in.

It is always interesting to read threads of how people expect everything to be handed to them without ever trying. If your map is empty, tag up and start to organize it. Taxi people in find others to help tag up. Yes if you try to start a DS map with 45min left to the timer you may not find a lot of people joining. But start it at anything above hour and half and you should have no time getting people in to the zone.

I agree with the l2p issue coming up, stop trying to get everything handed to you then blaming Arena Net. Use the tools available and you will have plenty of people on the map.

Please do not try to get everything this exact moment. Twelve days are nothing if you factor in the other parts you are going to need.

Lets say 10 per DS run, so you need 25 runs per legendary. That seems perfectly acceptable. I average 15-18 ore per run.

64bit got rid of all my crashes that were happening in HoT maps.

John Smith.4610:

Raedwulf.3712:

Are you still reading, John Smith? Or do you only reply to people who tell you you have some awe?

Define Awesome

If this was on Reddit you would have just gotten gold for this post. Thank you for making my day better.

Posting on the forums will not resolve this issue for you. Open a support ticket and they should be able to get the item back into your account.

It is lovely how you want everything to give you more gold. But then you completely miss the fact that all those precious items you want to buy will just start costing more gold.

Almost every complaint I see against the liquid gold removal makes the same error. So it is OK you did as well.

Enjoy the other games.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Crystal Reid.2481:

If you try to zone into a raid instance while an encounter is in progress, you will zone in defeated and therefore won’t get any credit for loot.

And if you DC?

With any luck the raid will have your ID as doing damage against the boss, so as long as you zone back in before it dies. Although you will be dead you should still receive credit. At least I think that is how it would go.

AndyJo.8794:

I do not care that the good rewards are weekly. Honestly that’s a good thing. It’s the fact that for your weekly roll, you may full well be rewarded with absolutely NOTHING other than some generic rares. You should not be able to get the same rewards doing a World Timer train as the “hardest content in the game”

Raids were never designed to be the best money for your time.

Sounds like this post is one of many that will start feeding the tear bucket. The raid runs off that bucket.

Also I play content for it being fun/unique rewards, not being the most money efficient for my time spent.

Something about a horse and a stick… In all seriousness you are gambling did you expect to make a profit?

Random weekly gated rewards have been a thing since the start of Raids in any MMO. So you want to complete it once get the exact thing you wanted and then be done? That is not healthy for a game at all.

I am very much excited for this. Everything looks great can not wait to experience raids in GW2. Thank you Arena Net for all the work that has went into this expansion, it has been one of my top expansions that I have experienced.

Also for some of the posters in this thread could you keep the toxicity level down a bit, there is a reason why people dislike coming to the forums. We are supposed to be a friendly community and yet day after day the toxic posts made from some people is getting ridiculous. Devote that energy to actually being a contributing member of society.

Precursor crafting lets you work at it at your own pace. You do not need to save up X amount of gold, if you wanted to do that just buy the precursor. Not once did they say precursor crafting would cost less than a precursor currently.

So many tears for the raid bucket in this thread.

I think I need you to send me gems after reading this post. It has been very unhelpful and does not contribute at all.

It is also best to farm the flax seed right now for the oil. Super pricey if you buy it. This should level out in the next month.

Is it wrong that i turn everything to low besides music up as high as possible. I really think you all did a great job with the music. If it is possible maybe toss some of the new music into some of the original maps just to switch things up a little.

So this has been said a lot, but precursor crafting never meant to lower the price of precursors. What it would allow you to do is create a quest of sorts where you have progression towards your precursor.

Galandil.9641:

In the end, the poorer segment of players population will have two choices:

- Play more than before in order to get one of those luxury items.
- Get the money they need from the Gem Shop.

There’s a third one of course: stop playing the game.

You had such good points before you stated this. By your own logic a deflation will start to happen in the market, that means the the items that new players are finding will start to be ‘valued’ more. This will help new players bringing the overall worth of each thing they find being more than had this happened. If liquid gold is removed from the economy like what happened with dungeons. The wealth between players will start to be traded between each other. This is a good thing because the value goes back to the ‘item’ rather than the piece of coin you getting running X dungeons a day.

Also stop saying people need to pay with a credit card to get their wealth. It makes you look like a childish whiner that does not understand what the gem system actually does.

displacedTitan.6897:

Econ 101, please sign up for it.

If only people who talked about anything economic related actually required this. Or the experience equivalent of it.

Gets rather sad to read all the armchair economist posts. I enjoy when John Smith steps in to set things straight, it is a shame he is busy. I am sure he could have a full time job just commenting on some of the absurdities that gets posted.

This game does not show you the food and then help you eat it. Sorry it is probably not the game for you.

Although the amount of time to type up the OP you could have read patch notes or check out dulfy’s site.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

That happens if somehow the legend stance buff is removed(it shouldn’t be) as it’s used to help control the upkeep skills. Is this any adventure or just specific ones? More information would be useful.

Roy, I posted over in the bugs forum. Basically what I have found removes it is new discovery of land marks in game. So I was running in Wayfarer Hills and I had passive speed boost on. Everytime I discovered a new WP the buff/facet would be both removed instantly. But then I would notice the same thing happened when I would run around and hit PoI’s . I have not done enough testing of it since I am just starting to work on world exploration in Tyria but every WP I hit on the way to Shaman triggered my buffs/facets to be instantly removed.

Thanks for the caps in your op. It helped.

Really like the quick scan to see what characters have what. Most of mine have 4 crafts each and I think it is just fine right now.

Bug: Discovering a way-point for the first time causes my Herald facets to reset. First found out while in Wayfarer Foothills. May happen everywhere, have not tested.

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

Huh, I thought it was double tap?

If you hold your jump key, at the top of the jump the glider will come out. It helped fixed the issue with people lagging and not being able to open the glider in time.