Guild Wars 2

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/engineer-condition-build-pistol-alchemy-5935.html

That’s a good build that stacks a lot of conditions on the enemy. The only thing that racks up glory is a good winning team.

Eviscerate can be traited and built up to be a very powerful attack. I’ve seen Rifle’s Kill Shot crit for 15k. Warrior’s are a bit like Jack-of-all-trades, Master-of-all. Their ranged attacks some say are better than Ranger. They have high defence, high HP, high attack, have that stupid nyerking 100 Blades skill (which as a Warrior, I can’t stand! Only noobs use it), invincibilty for 5 seconds, block for 5 seconds, can support with shouts and banners, and out of all the professions, have the least amount of bugs with their traits.

Some would say they’re OP. I personally don’t think so. I just pity those who spam Frenzy + Bull’s Charge + 100 Blades. It requires no skill and ruins the game.

JonathanSharp.7094:

We’re looking at this now, the more detailed your reports, the faster we can fix it.

I’ve pointed the programmers looking into it at this thread, so thanks for all the details you can provide!

Only now you’re looking into this? This has been happening since the Lost Shores event. I’m sure several people have tweeted you and also there’s been about 3 threads that I’m aware of about it.

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Best thing to do is tick ‘Hide Full’ and ‘Hide Empty’ and then as soon as you open the PvP browser, hit Refresh. Then choose a game that has 14/16 or less. Works every time for me.

It was uber long, it was laggy, the mobs hit hard, and there weren’t many drops. But it was awesome! Chalk and cheese compared to Phase 1 and 2. My only concern with it is the loot I did receive was slightly rubbish (Heavy Armour for a Ranger, a Longbow (worse than my current) a Dagger and a GSword) without any unique skins.

I was looking forward to epic looking loot and was disappointed to see I could have picked up this weapon skin from a level 1 Weapon vendor.

Phase 3 was good. Good work.

17k exp, some karma and 1silver 32 copper ….

I don’t see the problem :P

Those of you who play sPvP/tPvP a lot will know how annoying it is to have to keep turning off the instructions panel that appears at the start of each round and sometimes after respawning as well.

I propose to have the option to be able to turn these messages off. I’m not even sure if pressing Esc works either.

For new maps, the instructions could appear for the first time you enter the map so you have an idea on how the maps work, but with this option selected, the instructions will no longer appear.

Glad it wasn’t just me. Good work!

They wouldn’t include a ‘sniper’ type weapon because this is probably reserved for the Commando class ANet made and then scrapped before finalising the 8 professions we use today.

Their were classes such as the Marksman and Warden (which eventually became the Ranger), the Commando (a sniper rifle type class) and the Juggernaut (a non-magical knight type class) but they were all scrapped. Might see a return of them in the future?

Here’s the interview that tells all about the professions:
http://tap-repeatedly.com/2011/06/exclusive-interview-arenanets-jon-peters-and-jonathan-sharp/

I was actually thinking of a dual shield option the other day. I think it would look bad-donkey! Being able to block all attacks, smash people in the face, and just generally use them as kind of ‘fist weapons’.

I wouldn’t be so bothered about new weapons, but maybe have more skills based on each weapon. So you can select which particular skills a weapon has so you can mix and match the skills. Not too many skills, but maybe an additional 5 per weapon?

It happens with all Melee weapons and ranged weapons are out of range.

Trebuchet: Float like a butterfly. Sting like a truck.

The most frustrating thing about thieves is the fact that they just run away all the time and they always show up to ruin the fun.

I’m an axe/shield & rifle warrior (Hundred Blades warriors are just as bad as Heartseeker thieves) and I was going toe-to-toe with a Mesmer yesterday. We were throwing everything at each other and I finally managed to down her. I was just about to finish her off when a Thief shows up, spams 2 and nails me.

Now any other class did that and I wouldn’t mind so much. But it’s the fact that he didn’t use any other skill, just that stupid f-ing HS skill. Even the Mesmer said ’it’s always a thief that shows up to ruin the fun. I still had some tricks up my sleeve, but yeah you had the upper hand’.

Normally if I get hit by an invisi-thief I just put up my shield and block all his attacks, shield bash, eviscerate, cyclone axe, switch to rifle, rifle #5, cripple shot and then try and finish off with a rifle. However, by the time I’ve blocked all their #2 spams, they just turn tail and run. Should rename the class to ‘Coward’.

Lmfao this looks amazing! I might get some guildies together and try it 8D.

We used to play WoW Darts.

Basically, go to Hellfire Peninsula and fly up on your mount above a specific target (we chose a spire in the Alliance base area) and then on the count of 3, everyone drops their flying mount and you have to land closest to the centre of your target lol.

Great way to pass the time

Seeing these makes me want to cry and just jump out into space. They’re phenomenal!

Good work

(That poor bunny)

As amazing as these ideas are, I’m sure there’d be some form of complaint regarding religion and how it doesn’t cater for all religions

Lmfao Elric.

I totally agree with the OP. I’m fed up of looking at my character in cutscenes because he just stands there swinging his arms awkwardly without any hint of emotion.
Random person appears: “Oh no. The children are on fire.”
My character: “Oh. Well … I’d better go and let the Seraph know”

Should be like:
“ERHH MARH GERD! Teh kidz are burning!! HALP!!!”
“WHAT?! The children are on fire?! Let’s not stand around, let’s get some water on those poor kids!!”

And what happened to the personality trait? What’s that even for? I’d love to be able to charm some lass in a bar and then start a mini quest of love, only to find she’s married and her angry husband wants to murder me. Or start a brawl in a bar because I’m uber ferocious and hate everyone and end up getting chased out. I thought people were supposed to be scared of you because of your attitude. It seems like ANet forgot to put that part in.

Before you all flame me and call me a nub by saying “DEEZ CLAZSEZ CAN’T SWAP WEAP SETZ CUZ DEY HAZ LUTZ OV SKILLZS!11!11!!!” let me start off by saying I’m aware of this and I know ANet don’t want to give these two classes the option of weapon switching.

What I’m proposing is having an out of combat weapon switch option. By this, I mean allow the classes to equip two weapon sets, but only allow them to change weapons when they’re out of combat. That way, they wouldn’t have to stand around, seemingly AFK trying to find their 2nd uber dagger or that amazing staff amongst the rubbish blues and greens they have. Instead, they could equip the 2nd weapon set and then inbetween fights, they press the ` key and switch to the 2nd weapon set.

Thoughts?

LaronX.8079:

Let see.

Thief can.
Mesmer can.
Guradian can.
Necro can.
Ele can.
Engi can.

Maybe ranger and warrior can aswell but haven’t touched them for a while.

Rangers don’t have a pull, but they have a very powerful knockback when using the Longbow. The closer you are, the further you go

Me and my guild go to jumping puzzles to specifically do just this xD Wait for invaders to get near the top and then just pull them through it!

Off you go…!

Or even (dare I say it) add a small immobilize to the Scepter’s Orbs?? That would probably be OP though.

I do like the idea of Stability whilst casting the 3rd Hammer blow and the idea of a stun/daze/knockback/potato on a shield skill is nice too. Shield of Absorption is nyerked too. It’s like:
“GO AWAY FOR A SECOND! Ok, you can come in now…”

Davinna.2067:

I’d recommend trying a theif. I found that in WvW I’ve gotten used to all the evasive maneuvers. When I took my hunter in there I felt so vulnerable. I have started a theif and so far find it enjoyable.

I’m sorry to derail the thread slightly, but it’s a Ranger, not Hunter. This isn’t WoW.

On topic: I would agree with Elementalist or Engi. Each class has a plethora of skills and utilities available to them and each have their own complexities.

Maybe a torch from the Ascalonian Catacombs? I know a lot of the weapons dropped there are the ghostly blue ones, but not sure if the torch has a blue flame.

Don’t choose a Male Human. I made a Human Ranger and I’m fed up of hearing:
“My leg!” – Crippled
“So …. cold…” – Chilled
“…..STRONG!” – Might
“Urge to kill rising!” – Fury
“I achieve things… I’m an achiever!” – Achievement unlocked.

Their dance is cool though. Choose Sylvari. Their end game armours look bad-donkey. (donkey substituted for the ‘A’ word that is censored on these forums)

I’d like to see the perma-stowing of a pet too. I don’t always want a fat bear or an annoying crow by my side. I wanna ride solo, ya know, yolo? Lolo (oh dear God, make it stop! I hate yolo. ¬_¬)

Drakehound – Scooby Doo
River Drake – Dr Drake (Dr Dre.)
Raven – Your Mum’s a Raven
Bear – Big Ol’ Bear
Shark – Jaws

This. I spent £8.50 on loads of dyes and got some nice ones on my Thief and then decided I didn’t like Thief. I want to be able to use my dyes on all characters (including the elusive Abyss Dye I looted ;D).

It would be nice if you were able to see your guildies on the map, particularly when in WvWvW. I play with about 6 other people and if we want to go into WvWvW we can’t all go in the same party so it just means the other player just runs around looking for them and trying to guess where they are.

I think having the ability to have a ‘Guild Party’ where anyone from your guild can join up in a party (think ‘Raid Party’). Obviously this would only be for main map things such as world bosses and WvWvW and the normal limitations of said ‘Raid Party’ would still apply (Can’t do dungeons etc.)

Any thoughts on this?

I’d have thought that when a DE ‘changes’ the world, it would be something akin to Rift, where if you didn’t kill the invaders, they would set up outposts which then sent out more invaders to try and eventually take over the whole map.

I’d like to see something where a city gets burnt down and then the invaders or who/whatever move on to the next one. Then the next DE would be gather mats to go and rebuild the destroyed city.

The more this goes on, the darker and more wartorn the scenery gets until the whole map is nyerked!

Totemwolf.4516:

I really hope spirits get some attention soon as well. I am pretty stubborn and trying my best to make a spirit build work, but it is pretty painful to say the least.
Moving spirits needs to be either default or moved down to an earlier bracket, as it limits there effective use to level 60. Aoe. immunity or at least a significant dmg. reduction.
I love the idea to change the activated ability to a combo field, and like this posters idea of reworking their buffs:
Sun spirit – Randomly gives Might for 3secs and randomly burns foes for 3 secs
Ice spirit – Regeneration and chilled
Lightning spirit – Swiftness and blinds
Earth spirit – Toughness and bleed.

Thanks man

As a lot of people have mentioned, Spirits are useless at the moment. They’ve been summoned to help the Ranger and his allies, not stand there and look pretty for the 0.76 seconds they’re standing around for.

They should assist both offensively and defensively.

There are several other cutscenes in this Personal Story that have missing voiceovers.
- When scaring the Moas, Petra will say something like “Look at those feathers fly!”, but there should be a bandit speaking as per the subtitles.
- Petra misses her voiceover when the Player has given Andrew the medicine.
- Countess Anise has missing voiceover when being told about going undercover as a bandit.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a Human character
2. Choose ‘No helm’, ‘Raised by common folk’, ‘Ferocity’, ‘Never got to join the circus’ and ‘Balthazar’.
3. Play through the game to get to the Personal Story ‘Desperate Medicine’.
4. Enter the instance
5. Run forward to trigger the cutscene between the Player and Petra.

Result: When Petra is supposed to say her first line in the cutscene, there is no voiceover. However, in the next frame of conversation, her voice comes through fine.

Not sure how much of this post will contradict or coincide with the OP post, but I posted this on another thread:

Perhaps a spirit could replace the pet for 30secs (in the same way the Ele can summon axes, g-swords, bows etc.) and instead of attacking, they give off boons & conditions based on that spirit? This way they’d be a bit more viable (In that you can walk alongside them instead of leaving it behind) and you still get the benefits of them.

For example:
Sun spirit – Randomly gives Might for 3secs and randomly burns foes for 3 secs
Ice spirit – Regeneration and chilled
Lightning spirit – Swiftness and blinds
Earth spirit – Toughness and bleed.

By making them have a random chance of inflicting the above-mentioned status effects, they don’t become overpowered as you still have to sacrifice your pet AND a utility skill, but you still have the full effects of them.

EDIT: Just read that this is kind of how they work anyway except you have to manually activate the secondary skill. ¬_¬ sigh.

Why would you only want to use 1 weapon? That’s just madness.

(And yes, this is Spartaaaa…aaa…a…ergh)

I love the Greatsword’s blocking skill (number 4). It’s like:

Presses 4
“Come at me bro … Ah. Hitting my dog are you? Well fine! I’LL JUST THROW MY GIANT GREATSWORD AT YOU! HA!”

Lol as Wolfgang Hype mentioned, using a 1h Sword will throw you all over, so you need to know what’s behind you when using it. However, using a 1h Sword is all about evasion. Time it right and you can dodge roll out of the way of an attack and poison your foe in the butt

You can have two sets of weapons at one time, so I have a Sword + Warhorn (For the pecking birds and swiftness buffs) or a Sword + Dagger combo for melee and then a Longbow for ranged. I don’t use my longbow all that often, so I just stick to melee.

The pets are kinda rubbish. They take a lot of damage, but like weapons, you can switch out your current pet for another one with full health. Pets also gets passive buffs in the form of Signets and they also have their own Trait Line (‘Talent trees’ in ‘other’ games >_>) that increase their stats, so they are useful but could use some love.

Perhaps a spirit could replace the pet for 30secs (in the same way the Ele can summon axes, g-swords, bows etc.) and instead of attacking, they give off boons & conditions based on that spirit? This way they’d be a bit more viable (In that you can walk alongside them instead of leaving it behind) and you still get the benefits of them.

For example:
Sun spirit – Randomly gives Might for 3secs and randomly burns foes for 3 secs
Ice spirit – Regeneration and chilled
Lightning spirit – Swiftness and blinds
Earth spirit – Toughness and bleed.

By making them have a random chance of inflicting the above-mentioned status effects, they don’t become overpowered as you still have to sacrifice your pet AND a utility skill, but you still have the full effects of them.

Just a thunk.

Not necessarily. Everyone in beta probably wasn’t playing in a linear fashion like you have and went off exploring every nook and cranny, which is what the devs wanted.

I agree with the OP about there needs to be another boss if the DE is going to repeat. Like a former Lieutenant taking the place of the previously defeated boss and trying extract revenge in a bigger, badder kind of way.

“Huuurrr you killed my leader, now we get bigger and stronger and we kill your landz!kitten” That kinda kitten lol.

EDIT: Lmfao. They replaced my naughty swear word with ‘kitten’. GG ANet. GG.
EDIT: What the..? ‘d-e.r’p is banned? o.O

I’m a level 26 Human and I’ve just completed the 2nd area of my start zone (if that makes sense – Kessex Hills, level 15 – 25 area) and I haven’t been to the other start zones at all. I gather, chop, mine and explore everything. I also fight mobs in between running around area to area ‘just because’. I’ve had no probs with levelling at all.

Both zones are 100% complete. I think you’re only limiting yourself, not the game limiting you.

Does anyone else get a random noise just pop when running around? It sounds like a wooden wardrum – best way for me to describe it. It only lasts for a fraction of a section, but it’s loud as hell and very annoying.

It’s still pretty annoying though thinking “Oh yes, I’ve finished this map! Let’s check my prize! …. Oh. Well that’ll look great … on my level 3 Elementalist…”

I thought the rewards players received from exploration completion or dynamic events were supposed to be class specific?

I got 100% completion in Kessex Hills on my Ranger yesterday and was very disappointed to have received a Shoulder Item for Light Armour and a Trident. Woooo….

I read that rewards were meant to be for your class only?

I’d hardly call this a reward for going out of my way to explore every nook and cranny available to me.

Anyone else share this view?