Guild Wars 2

revial.2938:

It’s not just the T-dawg that’s annoying. Pretty much ever single character you meet is annoying, because the GW2 writers have somehow managed to field the largest collection of pansy goody-two-shoe self-righteous d-bags ever in the history of fantasy story-telling.

I suspect, if I was five years old, and still somehow had a semblance of innocence, I might find the characters and story endearing. I further suspect that such people make up an incredibly small percent of the active player-base of this game.

I do not know what was going through the minds of the writing team, but they are-by far-the weakest link in this great game.

Every game in recent years have as weakest link the story telling team. In fact every game released in 2012 had a pretty bad story to be completely honest.

When I asked someone in WoW how the game was I told him a ‘’I told you so’‘. WoW’s kitteny crapy atm =D, nothing like it was when TBC release or Ulduar. After ToC WoW has gone straight downhill into the toilet pretty much. With Blizzard as the entire company with it.

Games nowadays are crap with every release after the other being a disappointment or worse then the original. The economic crisis sadly is clearly visible in the gaming sector as I haven’t really seen any game being released that didn’t already had a name or some reputation.

I dislike it as well it doesn’t really seem to add much to the game though but it allows for some really interesting and skillful plays to be made in the downed state. It adds something more.

But please remove the annoying state underwater. Better yet remove raid on the crapricorn it’s the worst PvP map atm… mainly because I hate underwater and because Elementalist damage sustain and escapability is a laughing stock underwater. Why do you even spend resources on trying to balance underwater combat? I don’t really get the idea that many people really find it an enjoyable experience.

The other maps are pretty awesome, the new winter map is also cool. You did a good job at making it Arenanet!

Aedelric.1287:

I was expecting him to die at the end, usually I wish no person any ill, but it was such a disappointment that he lived.

Unfortunately from Arena Net’s track record we are likely going to work very hard to kill a God in the future and he will ascend and take it’s place, or something equally disheartening. I really can not stand Glory thieves and `Saladhead´ as some people call him, fits the bill. He and his personal story (It sure is not ours) is such a badly thought out arc, definitely not Arena Nets greatest achievement.

So many topics cover the fans displeasure over him and even the Zaitan story arc from Claw Island onwards. I wonder if Arena Net had a second chance they would do it differently, perhaps they would pull a Bioware and claim `Artistic Integrity´.

Regardless, the rest of the game is an absolute joy and such a bad egg does not ruin the experience, though a few tweaks to the story to make it stink less would be nice.

That happened randomly with Kormir in Nightfall which was the only thing I disliked about Nightfall. Why the hell did a blinded leader even come with you on all those missions?? Kormir was of no use the entire game besides giving you starter quests and making a huge strategical error at Gandara which almost let to her death. I think Kormir her role should’ve been played out after that mission.

I don’t really dislike Traherne but I think he should’ve been a side character not the main character who leads the pact. Mainly because of his flat personality. Also because the other characters you see earlier are better to me =).

I don’t know if he gets to be some kind of god… I think they will just let him die like togo because a majority dislike the character.

Wolfgang Michael.8217:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

It was getting pretty abused. We had some solid metrics on it, and decided to kill the loot from one of the bosses in an attempt to slow it down.

It was indeed a hotfix.

What is sad is that a majority of players already completed most of the abusing and was done with it. We, the rest, just found out and now it’s gone. As the OP said clearly, nerf some more. This is my first real disappointment with this game. The fact that many people already took advantage of it and you were left behind is the sad part.

This was Guild Wars original PvE to…

Perma sin could solo UW hard mode all alone and get money for obsidian armor in 10 runs or so. Ursan + 3 necro trivialized PvE completely with eye of the north expansion making people who done the hard mode content the intended way feel left in the shadow. This really is Guild Wars who implements something as easy to do or an easy farm and nerf it 3-4 months to late.

So be prepared for more of stuff like this because this is just how Anet approaches stuff…

I’m just wondering this. There seems to be really no reason to ever put a point into fire as elementalist.

Why? The elementalist has pretty low health and their scalings aren’t exactly so high that you will be one shotting opponents. Unless Scepter dagger and you hit your grasp and tooth and it all crits with the 5x crit thing you have available but that is very rare to see and very hard to pull off in pvp because one guy can just escape signet of earth for example and totally mess it up…

So then you have this high awesome burst with D/D S/D etc… but then you either miss out on fast switching and attunements and a lot of traits that the water line give or some traits in the earth line which are vital to you surviving if you also put in points in water. Because otherwise you simply die to fast and you can sustain yourself better when having both points in earth and water.

For me arcane is a must have to play this class as it was intented. It’s so important that there is little to no reason to not put at least 20 points in this trait line for every specc. The same goes for water. Then you have 30 trait points to give out. They usually go in arcane or water or both, so then you have 10 more points and then earth is the most viable or you can miss out on some water and put in 10 in air if you use the +10stats +2% crit gear and go for a build where you can also deal decent damage with crits.

Fire just feels really weak to me and the power buff feels not noticeable enough compared to the effects the other traits give you.

I don’t think Elementalist is as crappy as I thought it was a month back and I think they got an advantage in most 1v1 situations, but this often is not significant because when they duel another class it will usually last a minute anyway. But I do think that the fire trait is very bad… anyone else feels the same way? Is anyone still even using the fire traits in spvp?

EDIT: I’m not really that interested in PvE because your traits and specc don’t really matter in it you likely faceroll the dungeon with your group anyway ^^
Although for farming I can see why you might take some points in farming but I’m mainly concerned about Spvp as there seems to be no real reason to put any leftover points into fire. Don’t mention glass cannon for spvp though if you think that owns you probably haven’t been playing your elementalist much =). This is because glass cannon relies to much on getting in a combo with S/D and with D/D you need to get close so you will take damage and if there are 2 people damaging you at once you won’t survive because of lack of health + toughness.

Hi,

I was wondering why anyone would play Elementalist above another class in this game. There doesn’t seem to be much of a reason and they feel very underpowered since release already and especially now since their only viable build has been nerfed yet again. Also they’re the worst solo PvE class there is with them dying way to much compared to a ranger who can just keep on farming and get a lot more gold then an elementalist because elementalist die to quickly.

Even in PvP there is no reason to pick an Elementalist anymore over a Guardian or Mesmer these classes are just superior in everything an Ele can do.

So why would you ever pick an Elementalist?? I can’t really see the reasons besides for the fun or because I want to play the UP class.

Remove please, class is wannabe a class because it doesn’t as good as every other class.

Even NPC’s are better to take in a dungeon.

Melchior.2135:

PvE Rangers are kittening amazing. My 2nd 80 is a Ranger who facerolled to 100% map completion in a quarter of the time it took my Elementalist. This isn’t a case of the Elementalist taking his sweet time scouting things out and then the Ranger knowing the efficient path – they both hit 80 at around 30% map completion, Elementalist first by a few weeks. Then the Ranger just kept rocking, sweeping across territory that my Elementalist would then timidly follow into, spending ages longer completing, constantly broke because he was too scared to kill things he absolutely didn’t have to or approach resource nodes in hostile territory, and because his frequency of armor repairs was so much higher. Luckily, the Ranger can farm like none other (see: 95% of botters, who chose Ranger because it’s so strong in PvE that you don’t even have to have a player at the keyboard), so she bankrolled my sissy little Elementalist the whole way. SPvP and WvW are different for Rangers? I honestly don’t give a crap. I’m a PvE player.

I knew a nerf to Elementalist Bunkers was coming, and thought it would be fair and just. That one trick was definitely performing higher than it should have, and I didn’t use it. I just expected they’d do it at the same time as buffs to… anything else the class could potentially do. Instead, they took their time to crap all over that build, crap all over a bunch of other things just in case the handful of non-Bunker Elementalists didn’t understand that we’re at the bottom of the totem pole, and slap some underwhelming stat boosts on a bunch of powers that still won’t be worthwhile to use. The Conjuration Buffs are like finding out your parents forgot to get you Christmas presents, so your dad filled your stocking with pens and notepads he stole from work. kittening thanks!

They took time and programming resources to NERF TORNADO.

TORNADO.

TORNAAAAADO.

This is 100% true. If you play Elementalist you shouldn’t play the game, haven’t been online for like a month. Was hoping they would change Elementalist because I got bored of the bunker builds and the supportive builds because those builds were the only builds elementalist wasn’t like doing half of the efficiency of another class.

So now there is absolutely no reason ( 0 ) to play an elementalist in PvP. Just don’t play it stay away from it if you play to win because winning with an elementalist won’t happen because they’re the worst at everything currently.

=D, elementalist was pretty much pure crap from release. They first had this incredibly weak downed state with no real viable build. Then they had only bunker and support builds and now they have builds that are inferior to every other class there is so there is 0 reason to play an Elementalist. You already put yourself at a disadvantage by playing elementalist but now the advantage is just to obvious that other classes have over elementalist. Also it’s much harder to kill anything, even npc’s are harder to kill for ele then any other class.

It’s a class without the high burst damage and without any kind of support abillities. They should’ve just made elementalist a support class imo though because at the current state they likely won’t be viable in PvP to play.

Devs are just dumb in this game when it comes to balance btw, just look at raid of the capricorn. Nuff said.

Celestina.2894:

One thing to keep in mind is that unless you are a Sylvari, he is literally shoe horned into your story because really the Zhaitan story is very Sylvari focused.

For me, I never felt overshadowed myself. At the same time though, I do not hate but I also do not like him. He had potential for being a interesting character……..but felt rushed, especially for non-Sylvari players.

Unfortunately, presentation has never been GW’s strong point. The plot and lore? Great, but the presentation is where is normally falls apart with exceptions such as Tybalt. Some will tell you otherwise, but even Guild Wars 1 had bad presentation with a few exceptions. Funnily enough, in my opinion Nightfall was the strongest of the stories……..while having possibly the worst character in Kormir.

Kormir wasn’t that bad tbh but there really was no reason to make Kormir a Goddess when you defeat Abbadon. It just doesn’t feel right for a character who lost nearly her entire army, her own eyes and can barely fight to become a goddess. I think that that ending kind of sucked.

Nightfall story was pretty good though but it has a few weak spots but still far better then the other campaigns of original guild wars.

Guild wars 2 is: dragons want to kill everything we should unite and go to slay them all! That’s what I got from the story it’s just bad. GW 2 is so much different from original that I can’t even call it a sequal to the original it’s an entirely different game and it plays like a WoW clone (despite not having healing classes dedicated to it there are classes that are most efficient healing supporting so you still have a trinity but then with tank dps and support instead of healer).

I don’t like it probably I will play again if they fix all the countless elementalist buggs along with the class being useless compared to other classes like guardian / mesmer.

If you get owned by an elementalist then you’re just bad ^^

It’s pretty true. As e-sport guild wars 2 really blows I don’t even get why they are trying to make it an e-sport as the skills have been poorly designed to such a point that they’re unbalance able.

I think the maps aren’t interesting and tbh I wouldn’t get off seeing someone play this game competitively, nor would I for any MMO. Anet can’t and won’t change how PvP works, they removed the monk class and this ofc promoted heavy bunker builds or nuker builds. But since the bunker builds are more OP and more in favor of the current maps you see mostly bunker builds/support builds so that isn’t really surprising you could’ve told from the start that if the maps where to be designed like this that it would promote either of these 2.

I like WoW better though with PvP although it’s a gear fest mainly because of raid of the crapricorn and because I spend most of the time not even pvping in Gw 2 but either laying on the ground or camping a point. I don’t think LoL has the same amount of fun that LoL / SC / WC 3 / CS could give you because of the way the gameplay is done.

I liked the original Guild Wars better in PvE and in PvP. I think they should’ve made GW 2 more like original GW instead of making it an event grindfest until 80 and then a dungeon grindfest as there are already so many mmo’s where you have to grind something to max level and then do the same repetitive dungeons.

Hi,

I’ve played a lot of MMO’s even more RTS games and also a lot of hack & slash and RPG games. But I just can’t seem to get what’s so great about guild wars 2. I don’t find it the worst in it’s genre but definitely not the best. The events make for a grindy and boring experience. The characters don’t leave a real expression on you like they did it GW original and the story is a real mess to the point Diablo 3 story is a Shakespeare work.

The graphics are half decent but it doesn’t make me really feel attracted to the game they are just… like those of SWTOR which I also didn’t find very lively I don’t know exactly why maybe that’s just a personal preference.

Anyway for PvP and class balance all I could make out of it is a huge mess. I played elementalist and compared to the thief / war in pvp or guardian even elementalist is just terribly up, even in PvE to the point that playing Elementalist is a waste of time because other classes are much more efficient at everything an Ele can do.

The only thing I seem to have done in this game is doing event after event with some nonsense story which is inferior to nearly every RPG story ever made. Also exploration, I don’t like it in this game because it feels to forced and tries a bit to hard to make you explore to the point you just don’t really care.

So tell me what do you like about this game? As it feels like a waste of 40 euros to me.

Make their auto attacks on par on those off the thieves. I don’t care which specc that will be as auto attacking with ele is like tickling your opponent so low damage it does compared to other classes.

Oh you can also easily always outplay an ele, ele need to really do it’s skills very good to even get average results if you are against a noob. If you are evenly skilled you usually lose.

Just make a thief/guardian and stop playing this kitten class that’s just how bad it is to play elementalist sadly. As thief/guardian outperform ele’s in every aspect and ele’s are competitively a death weight class that adds sadly nothing.

wertyuio.8630:

Selix.5670:

It’s called might stacking, and having 4,000 attack, and perma swiftness, vigor, and regen. HP is vastly overrated.

^. HP IS overrated. just look at guardian. they’re the most survivable class in the game and they have the same amount of HP as we do.

however, selix…warriors stack might far easier than elementalists do, still deal far more damage, and are much more durable.

also, permaswiftness, vigor, and regen are only available when you spec for it… making you rather useless in a combat situation such as the ones you encounter in SPvP.

though people say elementalists are the best at AOE and are tied with guardians in terms of support, this is only for staff. i’ve never seen a staff elementalist hold his own against anyone but the most mediocre of opponents, and believe me, i’ve searched. on the other hand… scepter/dagger and dagger/dagger, the two highest DPS weapons elementalists can use, still pale in terms of damage compared to just about every class, and are innately considerably more selfish in nature compared to staff.

even if an elementalist is godlike in terms of skill, many would agree that a team with an elementalist instead of, say, a guardian, is lacking a team member due to lack of said cooperation.

edit: back to the main topic: what would 2k more HP do? not much. it’s 10% more hp, which would translate into… what, 3-5% better survivability in a stretched out combat situation? a miniscule and almost imperceptible difference… unless the OP’s reasoning is to prevent a thief from instakilling an elementalist with a backstab combo.

also, considering how an elementalist’s 6 skill + water element skills in dual dagger, for example can heal oneself for 70% of our health, i doubt it’s HP that’s in question.

It are the cast times and the fact that you can dodge every elementalist skill except for lightning strike. Also if you do manage to hit your spells somehow then you do average damage at best. There is nothing the Elementalist is good at and it’s bad at everything at the moment.

Elementalist = hardest class to level worst class at maximum level.

Arenanet intended Elementalist for only 0.1% of the playerbase who have a masochistic desire for being owned over and over. Even in PvP Elementalist is the worst possible choice. It makes Hunter seem overpowered in start Cataclysm in WoW.

Doesn’t matter at the moment elementalist = useless.

Kind of true. Elementalist skills have some of the worst synergy I have ever seen in a MMO. It just doesn’t make sense. For every skill that you have you can get countered easily or it’s just in general useless because it got a huge delay or it is a blind that sucks because it breaks in 1 auto attack. Elementalist do low damage and are to squishy atm. They are the worst class to pick, you should definitely pick another class the only ones you will be owning with Ele are total noobs.

Even Dervish in original Guild Wars was better.

This class is just weird with skills, I do have a clue how you should use them though but they are very ineffective compared to the other classes.

You have for example when running a scepter/dagger set up ride the lightning. This isn’t viable at all to use with anything I come up with other then to escape or chase a fleeing foe. Blinds are pretty terrible in this game and fade away to quickly, so your blinding flash and dust devil aren’t pretty useful in a fight either. Then you have 4x auto attack which all do something different but they aren’t that significant. You have earthquake, which I also find useless. Yes you can go ride the lightning + earthquake but either you are very low when you did that or you got crippled and aren’t in target’s reach. Ok so you did it and are at full health, let’s do churning earth oh wait it’s barely worth it considering the damage.

Then your protective skills, pretty lackluster a few minor heals in water specc and a slow that is also easy to not walk into and dodge. Lightning strike is the only guaranteed hit and if you want to do a high burst with fire you need to hit your skills which is hard and unrewarding considering that one hit does the same damage as freaking hearthseeker.

As bunker I don’t find them viable at all, guardian is much better at that. Elementalist are a liability and useless compared to other classes you can take. You should never take an elementalist in this game as they just suck and I do know how to play them but their skills just don’t match at all.

You get owned owned and owned by so many classes that it just isn’t funny anymore and your damage figures are way to low compared to a warrior just bursting hundred blades. Elementalist is crap.

Forgot my screen resolution: it’s 1920×1080

Hi,

I got this game a while ago and what is bothering me is that even when I play on low settings I tend to get a fps of 20-30. Considering that my system is far above the system requirements I find this unacceptable. I only experience these fps problems in this game as well.

To list my specifications:
Processor: Intel Q9550 quad core @ 2.83 Ghz
GPU: Radeon HD 6770
GB RAM: 4 GB
1 TB hard drive and windows 7 32 bit.

Are there any solutions to fps problems because it must be obvious that this isn’t my computer, neither is it a virus as I can perfectly run Diablo 3 on highest settings with a fps that doesn’t go below 40, however my PC can be struggling to maintain 10 fps in PvP when playing on the lowest settings in Guild Wars 2.