Guild Wars 2

I left gw2 for a while after feeling burned out from the “grind.” Started playing BDO instead. I can now say I’m back in gw2 and happy for it. If nothing else, in GW2, after “grinding” towards a goal, atleast there isn’t an RNG roll at the end that could forfeit all the time you spent grinding.

Which JP(s) does this happen to you in? Perhaps it would be easier to add those JP’s to the no fly zones that disable your glider.

If you fall to your death, it’s no different than any other time you fell to your death in a JP prior to gliders, so that counter is moot.

I’ve been playing since early access, so forgive this noobish question, but which class has absolutely no condition clear ability? You know, the other cc.

Managed to complete this with only crafting 2 weapons (pistol and shield). One of the perks to having a problem when it comes to alts. Had to craft those 2 because I only had 1 engi.

That said, it did burn me out a bit, so I haven’t gone back to AB to work on the second part of the collection to get the ascended version of the backplate yet.

Paulytnz.7619:

I am not sure how old this problem is in PVP but I am seeing it there too now. That is enemy mesmers placing portals on your downed allies so it makes it harder to res them.

Surely in PvP we should not see the use portal option for the enemy team right?

Are you sure your dead teammate wasn’t the mesmer that dropped the portal as an escape and just died prior to using it, sabotaging his own rez?

As for the other instances, trolls suck. That said, does auto-loot (through tyrian masteries) work on the chests? I thought it did, but maybe I was just imagining it.

The alts I use make no difference now, since HoT. My alts that do have the passive speed boost travel as far as my “slow” alts. Prior to HoT, the alts that had the passive speed boosts (again, not swiftness or something granted from a skill use) would make it just a bit further. Example would be the launch up to the large pipe before the steam vent section. My “faster” alts could make it to the large pipe without slipping down into the space between the large pipe and small pipe like the “slow” alts do. Now, all of them slip down there.

I’m not complaining. The adjustment to it was simple. I am just curious because it was noticeable to me after running it so many times.

I understand that change, but I don’t see how a passive 25% speed increase could get lumped into that. Also, if I’m not mistaken, that swiftness/quickness change happened recently, not at HoT launch, when I initially noticed the difference.

I am one of the crazy few that actually enjoys the not so secret jp. Prior to the HoT release, I would run it atleast once a day. I always had some kind of movement speed increase on my characters via travelers runes, traits, signets, etc. Since the release of HoT, I’m finding my jumps from the launch pads to be lacking in distance. I didn’t really pay attention to it since I was spending more time with the new content. It seems like my movement speed increase no longer applies while in the air ONLY after using a launchpad. Normal jumps still have the small boost to distance. Is this a bug or working as intended?

I wanted to see if anyone else that was used to doing that jp with some form of speed boost has noticed the same thing.

I like this idea quite a bit. Have the heal skill locked to it’s position, but set the remaining skills as open to any utility with a max of 1 elite. If it’s a balance issue because a build becomes too OP when excluding an elite skill, kinda sounds like elite’s aren’t really all that elite and should be looked at.

Well I thought I was content with my current glider skins and then you come along and turn my world upside down. This would be awesome!

I’m still hoping they add a glider-less glider skin so you can fly around like when you use the aviator memory box, including airplane sound effects. Right now, I have to hope the rendering bug happens in VB and make the noises myself.

For practice maybe? For classes or new builds that I’m not too familiar, I like to add a little toughness and/or vitality. It makes the fight take longer, but allows me to learn skill rotations and how to react to different situations. Zerk gear tends to shorten fights, with the enemy or myself dying too fast to learn anything that would help in a tougher fight. As I get more comfortable with the build/class , I change to a more offensive stat combo

Ugh! I thought I was being courteous and helping the rest of the group when I mess up, go full dead and wp out. I want the thing that killed me to die, so I want the people that are still alive hitting it, seeking revenge for killing me. If, by the grand intervention of those wonderful people that placed a waypoint for me to revive myself, I can get back to claim my own revenge, life is good.

You may never wp out, but I will never rez you when you go full dead (unless the fight is over). It’s not out of spite. I’m trying to avenge you. If you want to avenge yourself, you know how.

That said, I realized something. OP has been brutally killed multiple times in the thread, but he keeps coming back to fight. By his/her logic, does that mean he/she is exploiting the forums?

I’m not a fan of Tangled Depths (so I don’t stick around there long).

I can do without some of the mini-games (so I do without them).

I get upset with myself when I can only kill 24 out of the 40 pocket raptors that swarm me after I only spotted 6 initially, but that’s happened more than a few times when I was trying to get wvw map completion prior to the change and a zerg rolled over me so /shrug. Ok that’s not entirely shrug worthy. Getting killed by something that’s half the size of the smallest asuran is embarrassing no matter how many there are.

I’m too casual to solo the Champion of Balth in Auric Basin….haha.

To sum it up, no, I don’t hate the game now. There’s certain aspects I’m not a fan of, but I can find other things in-game to do to take my mind off of the really real world for a few hours. Some in HoT. Some in core Tyria.

What a clever way to get a list of AFK bots. jk

Not home right now, but when I looked earlier this week, I was around a casual 4500 hours. Took a 3-4 month break some time ago (right around the karka invasion of LA). /shrug

More than a few AFK hours or hours chatting to guildies while sitting in Lornars.

This is not even remotely close to an exploit. What you’re saying is akin to calling a bunker build that does almost no damage an exploit because it is very hard to kill. Every build choice comes with sacrifices and benefits. For fast kills, you sacrifice defensive capabilities. For high defensive capabilities, you sacrifice fast kills. For a hybrid, you sacrifice a little of both survivability and dps.

Kraggy.4169:

Kind of begs the question why adding flying .. sorry, gliding .. to Tyria so many invisible walls had to be erected to restrict it to avoid ‘exploits’, to use Anet’s own word.

It’s funny…I haven’t ran into any invisible walls as of yet. Perhaps it’s because I’m gliding and not trying to break the maps. Give it a shot.

That said, this has nothing to do with the OP’s issues or complaints. Back to the topic, I haven’t experienced the OP’s issues either, but I focused on leveling my newest alt via exploring so the chance is there that my personal story could be bugged. We shall see. It won’t make me quit either way. I’ll find something else to do in game

There are so many threads about how everything can be viewed as greedy Anet committing another money grab. Wouldn’t this request be classified as just that?

OP,
If you want to up the difficulty and penalty of dying, you (personally, because who else would choose to do this by default) could either:

A. Respawn at a waypoint, unequip your damaged piece of armor and delete it. Salvaging and recovering mats, runes and infusions on such flawed armor would not be realistic.

B. Logout to character select and delete that fatally flawed character and start over.

I’m speaking for myself here, but I would rather pay the small fee to wp and then pay nothing to repair my armor besides my time. The change/removal of repair fees is in my top 10 favorite changes.

I witnessed this bug in Harathi, but it worked fine for me. Felt a little bad when I popped the glider mid launch, floated back to the launch pad and repeated it over and over in front of the bugged players….but just a little.

A guildie has that bow and the sound was so bad, his hard drive died.

Of course I’m being sarcastic. Although his hard drive did die. And he did use Dreamer. And that sound is obnoxious. Hmmmmm……

I feel bad he can’t play atm, but it’s so peaceful.

You could always switch to your other weapon set or constantly run around with your weapons out instead of stowed (a bit of manual labor required). I believe the clipping would be more annoying than the shield covering the back piece, personally.

Ruby and Weiss

So many shatters

I was pleasantly surprised that my mesmer couldn’t use mirror blade, Pzerker, dodge in and mind wrack to kill the Corrupted Veteran Oakheart like he could before this “nerf.” Now it takes a whole 2 of those chains…sometimes even a Mind Stab.

One of my clones chased an ambient crab around the island in Timberline for a few minutes yesterday. The crab despawned and my clone just stood there with 25 stacks of confusion (not literal). Another crab spawned close to it, and she was able to kill it after another chase lasting about 30 seconds. With her mission of crab slaughter completed, she faded away in a shower of butterflies. My stomach still hurts from laughing

I think these very forums make EOTM feel like Mr. Rogers neighborhood

It could be much worse. They could replace the hyena with the wolves from the maze.

Hyena are fine as they are. Sorry for your inconvenience.

PistolWhip.2697:

PvPer 1: “Hello opponent, may I politely kindly end your wonderful life so I may go about my tournament experience of lovely compassion?”

PvPer 2: “Why of course my gracious fellow player who partakes in the medium of competition. May I also say how grossly resplendent your outfit looks on your well played character?”

I have no idea what you’re talking about, this is how every interaction I have ever had in Spvp has been.

Best post on this thread by far

Hit harder. He didn’t steal your kill. You merely softened it up for him

Most enjoyable post I’ve read on the forums in quite some time. Well done

I’m a big fan of blacklight personally

First expansion

HoT: Heart of Thorns

Second expansion

C:OLD: Cantha: One Little Dream

I personally use macro’s for playing instruments in game. I like being in-game and unwinding after work and there are a few songs on the harp that take the edge off. I try to stay out of heavy traffic areas and when someone does stop to listen, I tell them that I did not play that…someone else more dedicated than I took the time to record the macro after playing and tweaking it for days or weeks. I’ve been tipped gold a few times now and have promptly returned it.

As for others using it, I will sit and listen to people playing instruments without a care if they are playing it or if it’s a macro. It adds some variety to the typical soundtrack and it feels like a bonus to me when I get to hear something new. If someone is playing it themselves, I have a ton of respect for them. If they use a macro, thanks for the song.

In regards to macro use in other aspects of the game, if there is no impact (reward for the user or limiting of reward for others around), I am ok with it. I’m not sure what macro used in the game outside of playing instruments would fall into that category.

I don’t use this to further myself in the game or hurt anyone else’s playing experience.

pdavis.8031:

We will get the skin as soon as mounts and dueling and open world PvP are introduced to this game. :P

We have mounts with the broom and drill. WvW could be considered open world pvp. Dueling happens in EB all the time. Give me that skin

I started scrolling, so forgive me if this was said multiple times already. While recruiting, can’t you simply state what server your guild calls home and ask for people from the same server?

“[insert server here] Guild blahblahblah is looking for fellow [insert server here] players. [insert requirements/perks here]. Whisper for invite”

Don’t take this the wrong way as I’m all for everyone playing the way they want to play, but if your guild ONLY does dungeons, you can join up to 4 other guilds that branch out, thus widening your options. The only thing that would cause problems is if one or more of them require 100% rep. If you join, for example, a guild that prefers open world content, you can do some exploring with the new guild after your daily dungeon runs with your primary guild. Perhaps some in that new guild always wanted to try dungeons but didn’t want to PUG, you can bring them along on a dungeon run with your primary guild and show them the ropes (exactly how I started running dungeons….I still don’t PUG though). Others from the new guild hear how fun they were and join in on a later run. Your guilds are now mingling together. Some from your primary guild start running open world content with some of your new guildmates. Oh the possibilities!

Instead of asking to change something that a lot of people asked for and are happy with so that it matches what you and your guild are used to or prefer, go out and meet some more people. Regardless what some on the forums say, there’s no shortage of people and there’s quite a bit to see and do.

The easiest and shortest way I could answer the question of why this hasn’t been done earlier would be perhaps Rytlock didn’t know he could until something that’s learned in the upcoming chapter.

Could be way off base though

In a land full of elder dragons and their minions, I don’t really know if I would like to spend the gold and materials on a house that could easily get wiped out. Making them out of Bloodstone Dust is a decent idea, but is Bloodstone Dust water soluble? It’s fine in a bank, bag or locked chest, but out in the elements, who knows? Could be like building your house out of sand on the beach during low tide.

Seriously, I like and miss player housing from other games, but at this point, in this game, I don’t think it’s needed. I don’t think we should have a place that feels perfectly safe in Tyria. I was impressed with how quickly Anet destroyed a major city that was the hub for all major cities. It’s being rebuilt slowly, but that story arc impressed me for what it was. A statement that nothing is safe and secure. BotFW was the exclamation point.

Does anyone remember Star Wars Galaxies? It had:
Mounts
Player Housing
Player ran economy
Crafting
Pistols
Rifles
Swords
Two Handed Swords
Hammers
Armor
An emulator years after it shut down
[Edit] Dancing….a whole profession for dancing

The relevance of this post? None. The relevance of this thread? ……

Zaxares.5419:

But if they assault or attack anybody, the Wolfborn will come down kitten them.

Momentary pause to point and laugh at the profanity filter.

/point
/laugh

You may resume your discussion. I apologize for the interruption.

I liked them enough to get the staff, hammer and greatsword for my guardian. I don’t really need the rest and they don’t go with the themes I have set for my other toons.

If only the tormented skins would start selling. I want that gold lol

Funny! That looks just like the ticket I submitted when I had multiple soulbound infinite harvesting tools. Exchanging those for gems I can understand when they changed them to account bound. Exchanging a second incinerator for a bolt…not so much. If that’s the case, Anet please take one of my Infinite Lights and give me a Mjolnir. That would be swell.

At least your legendaries are account bound and you can change stats on the fly. Try 2 soulbound Infinite Lights or any expensive soulbound item you may have 2 of.

Found it funny how even in beta that snow leopard just kitten slapped the illusion on ileap.

Replacing iLeap with Leap from beta would be perfectly fine by me.

Tiresias.6473:

It wasn’t a nerf, it was a bug fix.

Which leads to the question: why was the skill designed so poorly in the first place? Wouldn’t it make more sense for it to teleport both the clone AND the Mesmer to the target and allow you to hit the button a second time to teleport back to the original location?

Doesn’t that make sense for a Mesmer? You just had two guys teleport into your face… which one is the real Mesmer and which one is the clone?

Wouldn’t be a bad idea if your target didn’t just cleave both you and your clone. That being said, I have 2 different mesmer builds that both use sword main hand. IMO, it was a bug fix for a skill that was broken in more ways than just that 1. I can’t tell you how many times the clone would “leap” towards the target but stop halfway, making the position swap useless since you were still out of melee range. When it actually did make it to the target, I would swap and BF. I really never used it as another blink. Guess I was doing it wrong.

The way I typically use it is to generate any phantasm or clone, hit illusionary leap, swap almost immediately, dodge towards my target creating the third clone/phant and shatter. Not ideal, but that still works for me since the illusionary leap clone isn’t up long enough to get killed. It’s fun to follow immediately with blink or decoy.

I would love if they would make it so you teleport to your target yourself and create a clone at your original location. Press the button again within a few seconds and swap places with the clone that way. Much more hit and run style compared to the current run and get hit.

[Edit] Another thread reminded me of the MHS #2 skill from beta called Leap (that was replaced with blurred frenzy). Very close to what I was asking for in the previous paragraph without the ability to swap places with the clone. I’ll take that over iLeap anyday. OMG an actual gap closer for a mesmer!!!!

I created one a while ago called A Guild Called InQuest with the tag [QTip]….see what I did there? Had a golem logo (of course). Never recruited or had any interest in running an actual guild. Just made me chuckle.

Trahearne ate them. Sorry you had to find out this way

10 characters at level 80. 1 at 100% map complete

Seabreeze.8437:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Seabreeze.8437:

Logan Thackeray is the biggest tool on the planet. I hate him so kitten much. He’s “pro” ’cause that manipulative queen has him wrapped around her little finger and she knows it.

(If you’ve read the novels, specifically Edge of Destiny, you’d understand this better, I think)

Gods, Logan is so annoying…

I want him to be replaced by somebody else so he can go back to being the kitten leather wearing warhammer wielding trapper he was in the beginning of Destiny’s Edge. I loved him so much until the Queen came into the picture.

THANK YOU! That’s exactly how I feel! He was actually pretty cool, until… that happened. Seriously, the first words he muttered when she appeared was, “she’s… _beautiful,” then started acting like a love-sick moron all the time. After that, it was “my queen” this and “I’m yours forever” that. It didn’t help that Jennah basically paraded him around saying, “check it fools, this guys my b****, come at me!” I basically lost all respect for him the minute he when full tool like that. I don’t blame Rytlock for wanting to gut him where he stands.

Mesmer is so OP! Beats Guardian everytime

Stars.2179:

Please nerf karma more. What do we EVEN need karma for? There are too much. We don’t want any more karma. People keep convert them to money using the mystic forge exploit. Please let it that we only get 100 karma for the daily. Each event should only gives us 10 karma or so. Teq should only give you 1000 karma instead of 20,000. Each Obi shard should cost 10,000 karma instead of 2100.

Or they could swap bloodstone dust and obi shard drops. Everything that gives 3-5 bloodstone now gives you 3-5 obi shards. Bloodstone dust can only be acquired by karma, fractal relics and laurels. I’d say our requests are equally (im)possible….but at least people would like mine for a week or 2.

linuxotaku.4731:

Also — the high buy offers will encourage more people to throw in rare and exotic greatswords in the hope of getting a dusk … increasing the supply.

This is pretty much why I did it today. Bought 80 lvl 80 rare GS’s after reading this thread and on the 11th combination in the MF, I received a Dusk. Sold the remaining ones back to the TP and hyperventilated for a few minutes. My main reason for trying it again today (gambled with about 300G total…still surprising lucky), was because there was only 3 available on the TP, so I convinced myself that one was due to come out of the MF. Not going to sell it though. I’ve been working on Twilight for a while now.