Guild Wars 2

In browsing the forums these past few days, I have noticed they respond to threads about invisible shoes, gw2 fashion, logo concerns, and other minor issues that make no difference in the grand scheme of the game, the future of it and it’s playerbase. However they are still dead silent about major issues such as this post, wvw concerns, economy concerns etc.

As a brand you need to always be vocal, not only when you want to. Especially on important issues such as this. What you are doing is actually counter productive to business, and to your brand image. Even to jump in and say “Hello, we have heard your concerns and are currently looking into it” helps ease some people and quiets some of the rage. The fact that you cannot even do that shows myself and many others how inept your community management, customer service and overall structure is. What makes it more inept is the fact that you infract people who speak out against you not out of hate, but because they care… shame.

I have been saying it for years, and I will say it again. This game had the potential to become a legendary game.

Anyone who works in branding, marketing, upper level management… knows that Anets Marketing/Sales department is of the worst. Their skills, experience, and tactics are lower than what high school kids can provide to a business. The people approving some of the decisions such as bundles and everything else do not have an ounce of business experience in them. Items should be sold as separately at full price , and bundles at a cheaper price. Personally I think all of these new armor skins etc being introduced should have been obtainable in game for free. Customers paid 50 dollars for a great expansion, but lets be honest… the worth of this expansion was no more than a 20 dollar DLC, I got bored of it in 3 days. It is nothing more than a silverwastes farm on 4 new maps. You are losing your grip on your customers by being greedy. There are many that will never buy another expansion again, never buy gem store items again. They will continue playing the game out of hope, because they enjoy it, or have communities they enjoy being with, but due to your deception you have lost them as paying customers. Now suffer the consequences of that.

When you have a diamond in the rough you carve it into a shining diamond. In this case Anet took a diamond and made it dull/rough again. The main problem with this and how this game evolved into what it is now, is due to Anet listening to our “white knights” on these forums who blindly support every decision Anet Makes, rather than actually listening to feedback and critiques from people who want this game to grow and succeed. White Knights are complacent, they are not customers you want to build a product around, you want to improve and build a product based on critiques and criticism.

Pardon my spelling errors, I do not really care about them. Just trying to get a message out.

In all honesty if you want to go tanky run this -

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNIQRAnY8fjEq0wa/KWsQ1aAMhqdBssBw7cIVXVXXwJvqSrA-TxhHwAZV/ZwJBgs+hkK/A8EAws/QclgkCwMxWA-e

There is not a build in wvw that will be able to kill you. You are the king of 1v1, and 1v2 against most classes. Dolyak healing you for 71 hps, mango pie for like 85hps, regen signet 136hps, and natural healing 175hp3s. GG 292hps and 467hps. + regen Also Leeching will heal you for 900+ on weapon swap. Oh and lots of vigor.

You can replace dolyak with dwayna but regen gets stripped easily, when people see you are condi. Also toughness + vit outweigh regen/healing power.

If you want for PVE replace mango pie with Condi duration food and u can solo any champion as well.

Very forgiving, very faceroll. When you become an expert at the class you can switch settlers with Dire gear, and spec can turn into 2/0/6/6/0 -

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNIQRAnY8fjEq0waNLusQ1aABhaVA0OGu3Ww9QcDf9JjqSrA-TxhHABDcSAeZ/h20PAwTAYR1fsTJoRK/IFAEjtA-e

Cheers,

Zei

Hi,

I am a thief that runs on the Commander Tag, this trait setup has been tried unfortunately Venoms do not work for some reason. The groups gets them, but they do not trigger properly, and get cleansed easily, there are better builds to run on the tag.

You can also optimize your stats much better. At this point you provide nothing to your group. Just Venoms that will get cleansed every 30 or so seconds and a blastbot from shortbow 2. No damage.

P/P is fine, the most it needs is some damage on Vital Shot or Head Shot. Other than that the build can 1v1 any class, and 1v2 just as well.

It has taken me two full weeks to learn how to play this spec properly, and now I reap the rewards of it. Evasion? Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew is your friend.

Spvp? 2/2/0/4/6 , 2/6/0/6/0 , 2/0/0/6/6 or any of the builds below.

Learn to swap weapons often and kite. Combo your Black Powder and Smokescreen with Shortbow for stealth. Kite enemies around Smokescreen for multiple blinds. Time your daze properly

Please watch the video at the bottom of this post to get an idea.

Sample builds –
My Favorite –
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAqaVlsMp0pdPx6J8PNBNB5dY+SZ0KAdfk+OEA-TFCFwAl2fAwpA4qSQkKPE8EAQp+TSlYZ0HQKgqEGB-w

Build 2 – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAqaVlsMp0pdPx6J8PNBNBt9wzQE8OMfpMaFAA-TFCFwAl2fAwpA4qSQkKPE8EAQp+TSlYZ0HQKgqUGB-w

Experimental – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAqaVlsMp0pdPx6J8PNxLBtdzHxK0cBBozocYA-TFCFwAl2fAwpA4qSQkKPE8EAQp+TSlYZ0HQKgqUGB-w

Credits to Shponk for introducing me to this awesome build – Video link below –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkgXTpjbVo

Having immense lag issues in all aspects of the game. My net company even came over to check it out, running 59mbpss, 29 mbpsupload speed. All is perfect.

Ever since this patch I have been having crazy lag and only in GW2. Game is unplayable for me even with the /clientport 80. =(

Thanks for the fun Kiltor, but it was 15v15, only the first round was 20 because we thought it was a 20v20. Anyway, was awesome! Hope to do it again sometime.

60g for a back piece is a bit ridiculous though

Is there a Dire Stats exotic back-piece? Gw2skills.net says there is but I cannot find one.