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That explain my ele bunker dying to engi turrets while engi just sit and watch.

That never happened before the patch.

serapheles.5409:

The fact that you apparently have 5+ sets of armor seems insane to me, especially the condition/healer sets.

I only have 3 sets right now. Crit damage valkyrie, dire condition, pvt. =( Working toward healer. Most of my armor are exotic, while most trinket and weapon are ascended. (all ascended weapon were from teq drop)

I am considering getting a legendary… thinking to be focus (only because it feel reachable, and stat swapping could be nice, and if i make a mesmer focus is needed), but not entirely sure.

MotherKitten.6795:

Instead of getting all those sets why not just get celestial gear?

I find celestial to have “wasted” stats. Because there isn’t a single engagement in WvW that I would actually use all my stats, aside 1v1 roaming, which I don’t do often at all.

Then there is the cost of celestial stuffs, and the crit dmg nerf. Just not worth it imo. Maybe when it become cheap, I might try it out, but I honestly doubt it can become a regular go-to set.

I am constantly poor, trying to get different set of gears for different builds.

I suppose that is one major down side of being versatile.

Zerker pve set… WvW dps set, condition set, pvt set, healer set… so on.

I doubt I have spend as much as some of you guys, especially those with celestial sets.

Anyone want to share how much gold they have spend on their ele so far? (I think I am in the 500 gold range)

Also, was it easier to craft legendary staff back then? or is it easier nowadays?

to sum it up… OP complained that things change, and he had to spend effort to keep up, and the effort is too much.

Am I understanding correctly?

I honestly don’t find “changing” to require that much effort. Hence I am still playing I suppose?

Well, good luck out there… time constantly change and your age constantly increasing, I hope you don’t quit life too soon.

Ferocity major, precision, vitality/toughness (some builds I would want to try)
Healing power major, vitality, and something else (wish for toughness, but i can see the debate)

EverythingEnds.4261:

I don’t think, there is any way to avoid powercreep, when giving every professoin an additional trait.
If the trait wouldn’t influence the build, it would be useless. If it does, it will strengthen the build. This new trait will always influence a skill, a combo or stats. The only way it might not be a power creep, is probably by giving the traits also a downside. Sth like: +10% Prezision, -10% Vita.
However, Even this would be some kind of powercreep. A Burst Build would gain (in absolute numbers) a large amount of Prezsion, while losing not very much Vita.

I am not entirely sure what your power creep discussion would lead to. To have power creep discussion would mean that after getting elite trait functions, there would be 2nd elite trait slot, then 3rd elite trait slot (something along that line). Also that the idea of power creep is that it would obsolete whoever that don’t update their functions (as in obsolete people that don’t have elite trait). However, since everyone get elite trait, who/what would elite trait obsoleting? (or are we going into the unlock topic again?)

Now as for the balancing problem of “re-distributing stats”, I agree it is a more dangerous road to walk (hence I mentioned in open post in the middle section that stat re-balancing would be difficult). We are on the same page here. However I believe there are potential for it, and should not be outright ruled out. Also, I was thinking more in line of “-300 toughness +300 vitality”, I suppose I should clarify that in OP, will edit.

EverythingEnds.4261:

This would probably inevitable lead to power creep.

Everything can become a power creep if not well thought out. If it is well thought out, then it won’t.

In addiotion, the issue with haven to unlock stuff for pvp stays.

I’m on the side that believe this isn’t a problem for a RPG.

I would agree with you if this was a FPS or something, but even they have unlocks.

It is probably too late, but here goes… (and don’t know if suggested before)
unlock grand master traits
Elite traits.

A completely separate trait slot that can be unlocked at lv80. It can be similar to GW1’s elite skill acquisition. Buy a trait journal/manual from trainer shop then go hunting for that mob with the trait and copy the trait. (or simply unlock with gold or glory)

Instead of running around trying to get grand master trait that require one to put 30 points into the trait line, elite trait is a stand alone trait that require no point (or minimal like 10).

This bring it much closer to GW1’s elite skills.

This also allow flexibility in builds, as it is not locked into grand master. Also improve the number of content/things to do.

Few things I feel absolutely should NOT be in elite traits would be…
*pure stat increase:
there are enough stat increase method, and this would only further the extreme (to ultra tanky or ultra bursty)

*constant effects:
this is something that belong in normal trait lines, since elite trait do not similar requirement in term of trait point, it should not weight similar to trait that was invested.

Few things I feel would be difficult to balance…
*stat re-balance:
although pure stat increase is bad, but decreasing certain stat while adding others should be fine. This would allow player to make build that require a certain grand master trait while moving that unwanted stat somewhere else. However, giving player so much possibility, designer would probably mess up and let an OP build through (some 10k players improving build vs a small team of designers… good luck foreseeing every possibility)
example: -300 toughness +300 vitality

*cool down reduction (and initiative regen):
cool down reduction can bring similar effect as having pure stat increase; it might make someone too tanky or too bursty. However, there are skills that have long cool down that would not be effected by this. Hence more effort is required to balance it.

Few things I feel would be great and easier to balance for elite trait…
*high-risk, high-reward:
things like “33% hp and below, every strike of hundred blade inflict stun for .1 sec”
counter-play: simply burst down the warrior or kite him when he reach lower health

*reward for difficult maneuver/execution:
effects like “after performing 3 combos within 1 sec, all enemies within 400 radius is blinded once per sec (for 5 sec) and immobile for 2 sec”
counter-play: pay attention to the combo field being dropped, and any interruption in between could mess up this elite trait requirement.

(I honestly don’t like giving suggestion to a game as I believe it is developer’s job to do so, but it is hard to stop passion some time)

I don’t see what’s the problem.

So many massively popular game force you to unlock and stop you from playing your friend right away, and they did just fine.

Look at league of legend (man, i hate the reference, but so many people play it…), it take QUITE a while to unlock your mastery, rune and cats, yet people still enjoy it. In comparison, this is way less of a problem in term of scale. Even unlocking new class would probably be pale in comparison to LoL’s grind to lv20ish to play with your friend kind of deal.

Obviously LoL’s solution is create new smurf account to play with your lowbie friends (and then it got the problem of egoistic people boosting their ego and be toxic while stomping noobs), GW2 just need a way to solve it as well.

(GW1 was clearly another example, but so overused example here =p)

I just want to mention that tornado isn’t the only ability that increase your power and go along with meteor shower.

To sum up the OP.

“overhaul the game by equalizing everything”

am i getting it right?

As for league of legend comparison… Majority of the customization is gear based (item shop). GW2 PvP is basically LoL on end game stage. The difference between tank and carry are probably way beyond 300% difference (gw2 isn’t nearly as extreme… i think). Their light can wear heavy armor etc.

what’s the highest damage anyone ever done with CE anyway?

imo it need to hit like 11k and above for me to even consider it (not counting bleed).

and killshot is way easier to land than CE imo, with better reward too.

unfortunately, you will have to live with this for awhile…

it is a time sink, because developers know they can not out produce content over speed of player playing through contents.

Even if in the future, all these materials etc become trade-able, it just mean that there is a new time sink in place. People will then complain about the new time sink instead.

The way I see it…
(rough logic)
attacker A (aA) = 100% offense
attacker B (aB) = 50% offense

bunker = 100% defense

the result should be the bunker defense and aA offense cancel out, with 50% damage continue to sip through until the bunker ultimately lose.

Nothing wrong with it. Imo, wanting a bunker to be 200% defense or even 150% defense is as bad as attacker wanting 1 shot kill skills.

There are plenty of pay2win game that let you do that though.

I… uhh… yea… can’t really argue against this…

It is like the phrase “sex sells” except more acceptable.

clearly kodan’s staff.

it got an ice cube thingy on it, making cooler than others.

perfect for hot weathers (assume magic ice dont melt)

i think he is talking about asura racial elite armor increasing his power like a tornado would…

1. Scarlet is actually my father.
2. Zhaiten was a good guy.
3. Logan is actually gay.
4. WvW have collision detection that work flawlessly.
5. GW2 become overly popular and formed a new religion.

spvp video plz… that’s where i got most of my ele frustration.

I only wish the blue was darker like the zodiac weapons, and more golden glow somewhere…

Nonetheless, this is one of the armor that surprised me. +1 for Anet.

Escadin.9482:

Unfortunately, I haven’t played GW but perhaps it’s not too late…

Anyway, would you care to give a few examples of what exactly worsened compared to GW1? GW2 has indeed alot of simplified and even some oversimplified aspects and I want to observe this development so being specific here would help me a great deal. You can rely on the information of this wiki, which I will read thoroughly if necessary to understand your points.

The explanation will take so long, that you might understand it better if you just read gw1 wiki.

It is quite hard to talk about the difference of condition damage without talking about the other mechanic. One mechanic lead to another, basically we’ll have to explain the whole game.

But to sum it up super short… Defense got severely weaker from gw1 to gw2, to balance that, offense got weaker too.

Opinion:
Then anet didn’t leave enough room for themselves and players to play with. Now they have to somehow come up with a way to “spice up” the system.

This problem clearly call for extraordinary monster to solve.

I introduce you the “man-eating rabbit”.

What we need is have a man-eating rabbit that find afk player to be tasty to chase after all players (since they are rabbits, they breed extraordinarily fast… so there are a LOT of them). It will try to sniff someone about 5 to 10 times to see if the victim is tasty enough to eat. Wherever the eaten player end up, no one knows.

The player need to talk to the rabbit and trick it by telling it that they are not tasty before it sniff player enough to find out (good thing rabbit aren’t exactly too smart).

Don’t forget lighting people on fire when they are in water.

I suspected this event is a huge DPS race… this is clear evidence.

This scream out to me as “if you got kittenty gear, you shouldn’t be doing this event”.

Now I would like to know what is “kittenty gear”.

Get to lv30ish is decently easy. Then you would need to grind a bit to reach near 40ish.

Once you are 40ish, u can join WvW and just run along a zerg to capture tower and keeps. Also do your personal story whenever you are within level range of difficulty.

Once you hit 60, tequalt event can give you almost a full level.

Once u r 60ish and up, http://us.gw2stuff.com/en, select your server on top, it will tell what event is going on, and u can bring urself there to get some event exp.

I don’t recommend playing every event you see on the way, especially the escort ones. They take too long for too little reward.

Personally I find leveling fast to 80 is extremely important. I have more fun in gw2 at 80. Because at low level, you almost can’t find people to play with nowadays, even on highly populated server. Generally the lv80 will not waste their time playing with lowbies; there are too many event going on with reward they are after to care about lowbies.

check WvW vendors, there are some that are skins.

then there is the gem store…

I was wondering why dps was so low… didn’t know most people have trouble even moving.

My OC’ed i5 3570k cpu was able to run decently at cobalt with about 40ish people there (blackgate).

How about a best “tag for bags” ranking?

The issue is, I have not play gw2 for a long time; have never seen such e-mail. Yet as soon as I start to be a bit more consistent in gw2, this e-mail show up.

It could either be coincidence that it show up now… or somehow these criminals really did get my e-mail from gw2. I hope it was just coincidence.

Juba.8406:

what about roamers ?

already bunker-condi builds are OP, after this patch what reason left to roll a power roaming build.

crit damage nerf should not hit WvW just like PvP.

like u said, bunker-condi is already the build to go for… anything else is already history.

this doesn’t change anything aside to make stubborn people drop their build.

i am just saying the emotion is uncalled for when nothing for wvw has changed. Aside thieves. Thieves probably… should change class… I know I did.

I honestly think celestial shouldn’t get a nerf…

the nerf should have been aimed for zerker equipments. celestial was never the main problem, so keeping the same crit damage should be just fine…

but it is anet.

I will give them +1 point if they dont nerf celestial.

Travlane.5948:

NinjaEd.3946:

Its not nearly as bad as people think, it just means ppl won’t explode as quickly. I think the only aspect that this will change for thief is wvw roaming where they can exceed 120% crit damage. 10% less damage from 120% crit dmg builds is a lot, but 10% from ~50% in spvp isn’t that big of a drop. Granted for some classes this isn’t opening builds but the crit damage change wasn’t the only one. Besides, they always dropped hint of “good changes” that they couldn’t discuss at the time. Maybe we have good things this time around ^^

yes but dmg is thief specialty. like defense/hp is to a warrior. wont hurt most classed but will hurt badly on thief.

will 10% hp loss or toughness loss or armor loss on warrior hurt? yes! badly! on thief? no not really.

Uhh… no…. warrior specialty is “defense/hp/speed/damage/cc/more i forgot”. Just want to correct you on that.

they will just go like “lol anet, only nerfing 10% on 1 stat, please try harder”

let’s see…

we still have to bring many catrip for pvp…

spvp crit damage will be the same…

wvw crit damage nerf…

a few buff…

I think ele is pretty much the same with above points, maybe a little less window for death.

Now the big change is rune and sigil change… However we lack information to even talk much about it. Rune/sigil will probably determine how will ele fit into the game. It should shake up every class dynamics.

Why does it matter though? Whether you win or not in WvW is large group effort. It is not a dueling arena.

Also, it is not like you win anything special if you win WvW neither.

WvW also start to lean more and more on tanky setup, unless you are playing highly specialized role that need protection.

Only thieves should be complaining, since they got another big nerf, and can’t fit any other role aside those “highly specialized role” (thou they don’t need much protection… because they are already dead! haha? not funny? darn)

ok nvm, i found my answer in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/A-Note-about-Phishing-Emails-1

I am now more curious how they got my e-mail for this at all. Time to change password and stuff… Since I submit one section of the answer before I stopped (several pages of answer).

I got an e-mail saying my gw2 will be shut down within 72 hours etc

exact message

We are sorry to inform you that your login account <my email> will be shut down or partially limited within 72 hours due to currency transactions or abnormal login. If you want to remove restrictions, please click the following link to validate:
https://account.guildwars2.com/login?

Please keep in mind that Guild Wars 2 is a global game with hundreds of thousands of players. This means that standards of behavior must be upheld. For your convenience, you can obtain more information about our rules at the address listed below.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/
Guild Wars 2 Account Support Team

Is this thing for real? anyone else get this? I am making sure this isn’t a phishing attempt or something, because it is asking a little too much information for comfort. I also haven’t done anything special in gw2 that I feel deserve this kind of e-mail. The only abnormal thing is I found lion’s arch to be super laggy today, and I had trouble navigating the trading post in LA. (i just move to dvinity’s reach and I was fine)

I updated my java 2 days ago.

For two days, every round of tequatl event I will crash at the exact same time. When teq reach half life and about to change phase, my game will crash. Since there aren’t any major system change in my pc last two days, it was easy to suspect java update.

I reverted java via system restore. Problem fixed.

Missed out two day worth of teq reward, over 6 hours waiting for it and the several hour spend doing the event. Don’t be another me. Don’t update that java (yet).

I am curious, Xfile, is your hyper threading (bios setting) on or off?

i would like to see a comparison of hyper threading on vs off in heavily populated area.

I have heard some games actually get worse performance with hyper threading on.

Rod.6581:

Just out of curiosity, can you do video on 100 vs 100 fight in WvW and show FPS?

Unfortunately, good GPU don’t improve much toward number of objects. Generally CPU determine how well you don’t lag in massive battles.

He need to OC his CPU with nitrogen or something to make this thread matter.

can any class beat two warriors in 2v2? (obviously equally skilled)

Shinenryu.6351:

It would be awesome if they up Ele (At last !), but I don’t expect it in the coming patch.
I read all the patch note where Ele is concerned since August 2012, and there’s 12 patchs where there’re changes. 8 nerfs, and 4 “up” (with all necessary quotes).

Adding onto the quote, people should also check 2013 jan patch to see how much Anet would/could do between dec. and jan.

The schedule of last year is probably not too different than this year, in term of work hour. (especially the balance team)

So… I am expecting some small minor tweaks that almost won’t impact the game.

How about lancer? Land pole weapon based heavy armor class.

We already got spear and trident for water. Just bring it onto land. Can throw hammer and staff into the mix too.

There also the “infinitely blessed” individuals that find numerous precursors and sell those off for big bux and no effort.

I wonder which has better “probability vs reward” ratio… finding precursor or wining lottery?

I am all for diversity and variety… Unfortunately I don’t feel Anet is as for it as people like myself.

I definitely like the “base state redistribution” idea.

I personally can envision quite numerous problem already… so if anything, it really just tell me how limiting the gw2 mechanic is on an overall scale.

Guaranteed severe server side lag. The only con that matter. There are technological limit to Massive multi-player and server side collision/trusting player client.

Everything else is a choice. (realism vs idealism)

So… what do we get for wining WvW again?

As someone who played a good bit of thief in WvW… if you got ganked by a glass thief as zerker ele during a zerg vs zerg, you were definitely at a terrible position.

(even then, ele can just mist away)

blackgate do it 3 times a day, with a bunch of guest contesting room. Need to arrive minimum of 1 hour 30 minutes to be in good spot. Else, good luck.

one time a little before reset, two times after reset.

“feel like i am constantly doing things” style play -> ele
more toward “auto-play” -> necro

PvE dungeon -> ele
PvE farming/event/etc -> either is fine
sPvP -> necro
WvW -> either one is fine