Guild Wars 2

am I the only one who thinks the (actual) meta is far better then it was like month or two ago? Yes, most ppl stick with the “old pirate” but it is now actually possible to play melee train almost like in the old days … yes you have to bait some CC before you commit into push but hey … that’s strategy … nothing bad about that imho.

I understand the frustration from blob players cuz they can’t do this thanks to bad builds and pt composition but it doesn’t mean it’s not possible …

in The Flameseeker Prophecies III: The Chosen

1) War Machine = Bring an Anthology of Heroes to the defeat of the Champion Flame Legion Effigy in Fireheart Rise.

Killing the champ doesn’t award the collection item (I have killed it 3 times already)

2) The Sad End of Ascalon’s Heroes = Bring an Anthology of Heroes to the defeat of Ivor Trueshot, Armsman Pitney, Farrah Cappo, and Horace on the Old Duke’s Estate in Plains of Ashford.

This is the Battle in the Vault event chain.
I have spend like 10 hours in the map and the event didn’t spawn.

Hello,

does anyone know where to get this?

It’s part of the The Flameseeker Prophecies I: The Experimental Shield collection.
I have searched all the LA sea floor but didn’t find a thing. There is only the drill leftover from the Scarlet’s machine but there is no object to interact with and just being there doesn’t give me anything either …

Exactly!
I didn’t beat the raids yet, but I LOVE the challange!

Zaerah.1630:

Also agree, haven’t had this much fun in this game since, well, launch.

QFT

There are no bad condi revs just bad players…
I don’t know how good other classes are but 10 stacks of burning, 22 stacks of torment and 3 stacks of poison with 1,8K condi dmg seams fine to me

/signed

PT was the most fun thing about Rev … traveling from target to target, being trully mobile … that 5s CD is absolutely not needed!

QoL suggestion

It would be nice if repeatable but maxed out achievements wouldn’t show up in achievements summary.

Hobby dungeon explorer, Agent of Entropy, etc.

If it would be true I would definitely play the HoT with silvary so I could attack other people … it would be so much fun …

… but seriously we all know it won’t happen cuz “that cry river” of all the baddies (more than 50% of GW2 playerbase) who can only 1111111 all day long

Hell I’m going to make silvary thief right now just in case 3:)

I’ll comment only this cuz everything else was already covered

In WvW, it feels like a dogfight where everyone just runs around trying to kill each other as fast as possible. There is no order, there is no tactical positioning of players. It doesn’t matter if you’re up front or way at the back.

It may feels like this if you yourself run around like a dog but try to play with organized WvW guilds and you will realize that there is no content in the game with greater order and emphasis to tactical positioning anywhere else in the game. Every single player needs to have very specific build (most of the time very supportive) and play style which correspond to the whole strategy. Also communication is crucial.
tl;dr – you are absolutely clueless

autosummon on legend swap
manual summon after destroying elite skill

pls don’t make it follow (we don’t need any more nobrain AI) BUT make the #6 insta cast – this way you can command it WHILE doing all other stuff (also makes space for high skill play)

also look better at Oriana from LoL (probably where the idea come from) it’s also support character but can spec into dps – this is what I would like to see in Ventari – make the skills universal and let the players decide how they want to play it (let the scaling from chosen gear do the work)

Pet swap (20/15 sec) + Clarion Bond (30/24 sec)
CB should be 15 sec so it proc at every pet swap

Briadonis.8907:

merforga.4731:

Teq’s in a great spot at the moment imo. It’s of sufficient difficulty that it requires some coordination and player skill, yet not overly difficult that it’s impossible without voice chat.

Your definition of “great spot” is seriously flawed. I have yet to succeed without voice chat or broken traits. So I have to disagree with your assessment of the situation.

and who sad you should be able to succeed with pug?

imho Teq should be buffed even more

only think the specializations limits is using FAIL builds … so yes it’s less divers but it only cuts out the bad builds so what exactly is the problem?

I understand your frustration OP but I believe there should be difficult content in the game that requires skill and effort to complete and because of that nature it won’t be for everyone … you are free to ignore such content if you are not willing to better your gameplay or put in the necessary effort

THANK YOU ANET!

you should be faster with that (not to mention it should be like that in the first place), but better late then never right

about the price … €45 … for me it’s more than justified … I don’t remember how much the base game cost when it launched but if I’m going to play HoT for as long as base game (4,5k hours) it’s like €0,01 = 1 cent per hour … show me anything (not free) that cheap!

Vixena.3821:

I’ve been recently playing a ranger in hot joins so that I could do the Hunter achievement, and wow… I have been verbally abused every single day that I’ve been playing that ranger. I never received so much harassment on my warrior, engineer, or mesmer. It’ll happen at least once and up to five times per day that I’m doing spvp. I’ve had to report so many people over the past week. What I find interesting is that it is often coming from players who have the Legendary Champion title.

Where is all of this hate coming from? It’s making me really hate playing my ranger. I do not say anything nor do any emotes to provoke. All I want to do is play my ranger and not have to worry about someone calling me f****t (most popular word to use).

QQ … momy they call me out … QQ

MAN THE kitten UP!
Play what you want. Play it at best – that is how you do it not by telling on someone

When you can’t defend your honor on your own – you don’t deserve it!

I don’t care about vanilla being included in HoT
I don’t care about amount of content I get for my money

I do care that I’m forced to pay more, grind or delete one of my characters to experience content (Revenant) that I have already payed for …

it’s like buying new car … and then the retailer comes with “oh, and here are your car keys and they cost additional 20% of what the car cost …”

first – that ranger was terribad
second – he was running bad setup (wrong pets, wrong 2nd weapon set, who knows what else …)

LB/GS Survival Ranger would destroy you with one finger in nose

commander sniping only affects pug zergs … and because all pug zergs deserves to die I see no problem

no rly what is the problem here? if you find yourself getting sniped get more defensive build or use shadow command …

there is nothing to fix it’s just l2p issue

wish that will never come true

I dream of open world raids like they were in the beginning of Lineage 2 – there you had to fight others (players) for the right to defeat the boss … it was everything together (aka all in one) raid, open world, mass pvp, challenging, rewarding … it was like life itself – survival of the fittest

those golden old times of “political incorrectness” …

then come WoW with it’s “instanced kitten” and all went to hell …

mhmm wait … we are talking 40-50 € maximum here … not a new car price … who can’t afford that?

I like it

/15 chars

1. ultra hard mode versions of instanced dungeons (new or current) with unique rewards

2. instanced dungeons for 5+ (10, 15, 20, …) which require great deal of splitting and coordinating

3. pretty much anything that I wont get because it’s against ANet policy = even the greatest noob can complete it … or it’s RNG and ofc doesn’t require any skill

or you know what I will be humble – anything that require more then 1111111111 …

going even more tanky for shoutbow is useless, you need more DPS

therefore this would be imho much more usefull
http://dulfy.net/2015/05/02/gw2-specialization-calculator-that_shaman/#profession=warrior&traits=“Defense”,2,6,8-“Tactics”,2,6,8-“Discipline”,2,5,9

FINALLY

maybe, just maybe, it will end the “melee train bullkitten”

does the present meta needs skill? well yes it does to certain amount but to me it was always so kittening boring – bait enemy spike, pop boons, go in and spike, get out for regroup when your stab is not up, rins and repeat … yes there is a lot of small play for every class but the main strategy is so dull … hopefully we will see a change

imho it’s like with psychedelics trips in real life – your gonna see “something” … but that someone (Scarlet) goes mad from it doesn’t mean you are going too … it’s nothing more than just information, if you can “handle” it is completely up to you and up to anyone who gets it …

actually I wouldn’t be much surprised if Scarlet in the end would turn out to be “good” (in her own way) trying to save the world

I like OPs idea – problem is there will alway be more noobs who want to bandwagon and farm (aka zerg) then ppl who wants to actually compete …. and because ANet listen only to majority no matter how bad it is for the game this idea will never get through

Ragnar.4257:

The point isn’t about whether it’s “fair”, “allowed” or “expected”.

Its just about fun.

Lets leave aside formal duels for now, and just talk about roaming, where 1v1s and 2v2s can frequently happen.

If I’m in a 1v1 while roaming, and 2 allies jump in and turn it into a 3v1, I don’t get annoyed because its not “honourable”. I get annoyed because its not “fun”. 3v1 takes zero effort, requires zero skill. You can do it with your eyes closed.

So rather than having a challenging 1v1 where I have to really work hard, by adding in you turn my fun fight into, basically, PvE. You have robbed me of fun.

Its not about honour and fairness, its just about turning fun fights into tedious zergfests.

However, I fully agree that people shouldn’t expect perfectly fair fights if they’re hanging around objectives and main-roads. This is why many people seeking duels on EB go to the east side of Stonemist, where the Oakhearts are, because there is rarely any reason for the PPT hordes to go through that way.

truer words cannot be spoken
it’s not just 1v1, 2v2, GvG … it’s about every aspekt of the game
this divides players into two groups
1) those who wants to have fun
2) those who wants to win (or whatever) no matter the cost (hello zerglings)

Trait unlock of line 5 trait X can’t be completed because starting event “Protect Sentinel Whiptail …” is bugged

Sentinel Whiptail NPC is standing still at start not proceeding to find the “siege devourer”

I checked it multipple times in the past 3 days and the event is always in the same (bugged) state

thx for the fix

great idea
+1

/15 chars …

In the upcoming April feature build, we will be converting all legendary and ascended equipment to be account-based. This means ascended equipment will always remain account-bound and will not soulbind to a character when equipped. Legendary weapons will continue to be tradeable until equipped, at which point they will become account-bound (rather than soulbound). As part of this change, we will convert all the existing ascended and legendary equipment that is soulbound to be account-bound instead.

Does this include trinkets too? I mean will all the ascended backpaks, rings, amulets and accessorys become accbound instead of soulbound?

I know the blogpost sad “all” but with ANet one cannot be sure enough …

I just love these “guild raids” … yea me too

You have server spreadsheet which tells you at what map you are playing
You have guild spreadsheet which tells you what class and in what party you are playing
At 8.00 PM you have 25 man raid rdy and armed to teeth … for the next 3 hours you are rdy to wipe the floor with anything that stands in front of you unless it’s triple your size (and sometimes even that)

problem???

I like the RiverOfWalkingLootBags, one has to farm the gold for asc armor somewhere right? Who cares about PPT anyway …

REAL Fun Facts

Eight worlds remain undefeated, beating every opponent they’ve faced so far.

North America: Blackgate, Fort Aspenwood, Henge of Denravi, and Sorrow’s Furnace
Europe: Vizunah Square, Desolution, Drakkar Lake, and Ruins of Surmia

no. 1 EU server (so far) Desolation was beaten every single prime time by Aurora Glade … yet the score is what it is

From my experience it’s not the blob itself what ppl dislike but what comes with it and especially skill lags … when my guild fields like 20 men we can wipe twice the number sometimes triple … if there are no skill lags.

The other thing is their cowardnes (especially seen at german servers – yes u Riverside). They bunker in towers behind bazilion sieges untill they are like 3-4 times more and then they go out. But sometimes when we kite them to open field from the reach of their ACs they fall back in the tower … in those moments I’m like WTF? your are outnumbering us 3 to 1 and u run away? This kind of gameplay is boring as hell – I understand you play for then win (never go into fight that you can’t clearly win) but is that worth it?

from the organized group point of view Necros are pretty much where they were before the patch – 1 necro per 10 ppl in your raid and it has to be power well bomber, conditions are useless in mass fight …

dodge maybe?

Immolator.5640:

I am kind of disappointed with the turnout from Gandara, but tbh morale is low and people have been waiting a while to get out of the blob-fest of T3 – that kind of stuff… It just gets to you, you know!? ~breaks down sobbing with tears~

I can’t help myself byt I find this rly hilarious
talking about getting out of blob play while doing nothing else is just epic

completely agree with OP

I don’t mind global events having such good drops … I did them too for first two days before I get bored with them

I do fractals for fun (my usual drop is like 0-2 rare, why else would I be doing that) but if you compare the amount of work you have to do to finish l40+ with the amount of work (none) to complete world event then the rewards are completely off

and yes, I think that dedicated players should have better drops then some scrub who have time to play only 5 mins in a month

just move your movement from WSAD to EDSF and u get like 4 keys
I did it few years ago when playing Q3 and I’m playing like this in every game since then

also don’t use doubletap for dodge – it’s too slow

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Healing_Seed_Pod
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fire_Elemental_Powder
(do have in mind that the 10min CD is false information)

you’re welcome

some interesting thoughts
bumb for visibility

just to support MithranArkanere.8957
the constant hiding is known bug … I experienced it like 2-3 months ago – it could be back

LordByron.8369:

SoliSnake.9457:

healing rain 8 sec of regen and cure condition and geyser + blast finisher usless (i have 90% boon duration and 800 healing power) ? learn how your party move so you can heal where they are going not where they are, for mossman i prefer s\f too but for shaman the best for how i play is staff

nice a L2P answer….didn t expect them

They should place a button near reply called “reply L2P” it would save lot of time…..

You didn t answer….infact
How do you deal with shaman shield with staff?

I’ll tell you: you just survive and make your party carry you…..

I used staff on this boss for months because i was lazy…..(also because i have a staff skin i like i never use :/).

I tried a lot to use staff the probolem is that if you are not a full GC is not viable and even so is situational…
And D/D is way better at healing than staff… that weapon simply could not stand 3 mayor knee-jerk nerfs…

even though I use staff very occasionally I have to disagree with you about Shaman

Staff gives u everything u rly want for that encounter
reflect (even party wide when traited)
condition removal
heal at long range
great AoE dmg
multiple hit attack to take shield down (Lava Font, every tick counts)
massive slow for the Shaman when shielded (Frozen Ground)
free evade (Burning Retreat)

but if u have better option feel free to enlighten me

Razor.6392:

whip ty .

ic what you did there!

I bet you run in Profane Armor you naughty naughty

+1 for the suggestion

very strong indirect buff for skilled ppl

Auesis.7301:

I don’t know if culling has affected Mossman, but I’m having a similiar problem only after that patch. Usually what happens is that he stealths, and a few seconds later the charging animation and arm trail will slowly come in to view before he attacks. The charge up usually takes 2 seconds-ish before the attack happens, and it was easily dodgeable. Now, however, he is entirely invisible until 3 of us have been cleaved at once. No charge-up animation or effects, nothing. Just a smack in the face.

My best advice is to spread out so if one of you falls victim to it, the others won’t be taken with you.

well we tried that but problem is when he stays at the downed player and keep beating him untill he’s completely dead

and besides bugging?

I need advice how to deal with Mossman at FotM?

Agony is not the problem, I can dodge his Axe throw and even if I fail 35AR is enough to keep me alive but I have absolutely no idea how to dodge his melee attack when he is invisible.
Before update (28.1.) he apeared then used his melee attack (it was easy to dodge) but now he kill someone first and then apear and as I sad I have no idea how to dodge invisible attack …

So am I missing something? Is he bugged or what?

lol, obvious troll is obvious … none can mean this seriously

it’s just The Ultimate Fail Build