Guild Wars 2

you can now salvage your wvw gear! SALVAGE. WVW GEAR! what are you complaining about? they only needed two years to implement that change! maybe two years from now WvW will be fun again!

STAY TUNED!!!

kitten ups…

when i was running around the new wvw boarderlands, my mouse and sometimes my keyboard were lagging, unfortunately i could not test it infight, because i did not find an enemy on the boarder…
i checked it with several other games and it was not a problem.

anyone knows why?

now i really can not wait till the fallout 4 release!

Zachary Stiers.1879:

With Heart of Thorns the exotic equipment purchased with gold and Badges of Honor will become salvageable. Salvaging a piece of this gear returns only the upgrades that were applied and some Badges of Honor.

it would be cool if it teleported you to your designated location. this way we could use wvw gear to go around the maps in a reasonable time instead of walking 5 minutes to the inc…

cheerz

i think the new borderlands are kitten. they are eotm 2.. i f i walk from spawn to hills or bay (dont know what the kitten its called now…) i need like 5 mins to go there.

to my questions: were the new backlands ever tested by real WvW people or just ANET-fanboys?

you kittened up once again anet, give us back the old boarders!

cheerz

EDIT: 5min to get to the south gate of the kittening confusing dungeons you call fortress…

oh, and nice implementation of the new maps into the old layout.. really? you couldnt even be bothered to make a new one that fits????! my kittening god…

EDIT 2:

we just had an INC on our garry, i needed like 3 mins to cover all the spots… thats a kittening disgrace…. i am not the type to rage on forums, look at my history, but thats just a really hughe kitten up…!! at least they left one map untouched.
if i did my job this way i would be fired!

i had allready 200 something points on my main char, wich has map completion and almost every point on the new maps, and it was not enough to unlock the elite spec… so.. i have to GRIND! with EVERY SINGLE ONE of my chars. not a little bit.. i have to grind a kittening lot to unlock only one char-spec. and of corse i have to grind PVE to get it as fast as possible… i just imagine making 400 ranks for EACH of my 9 chars in WvW and i can spend my next three years in WvW and dont reach it… what a kittening joke!

ah, and the new maps are aweful, running around 50% of the time is just kittened up…

cheerz

Zalladi.4652:

schulzki.1862:

the solution would be to make the elite specs free for wvw, as they are for pve.

They made that solution for sPVP, but as WvW doesn’t require gear/build balancing and equality, they did not make it automatic for WvW as well. Here is the quote for it being automatic for sPVP:

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PvP players won’t have to worry about unlocking anything, as all skills and traits will be automatically unlocked upon entering the Heart of the Mists. – Source

As for your other question, we don’t know the exact amount, but I would suspect it is closer to the 91 you suggested, as the Elite Specialization consists of one new trait line, 4 utility skills, 1 healing skill and 1 elite skill. So it should be similar to already existing specializations.

well, thank you for burying my hope mate
if this is how its going to be, i am sure i will absolutely hate to get the elite specs for every single char i have and i am also sure nobody at anet gives a kitten about it. sometimes its really hard to be a wvw player….

Zalladi.4652:

schulzki.1862:

you can not imagine how much i hope that you are right on this one but still… why is it that we have to do hero challenges to unlock class mechanics, even if they are elite…? why not give it to those ppl who purchased HoT?

Because it is effectively how ANet are giving us new profession mechanics akin to how other MMO’s make you level up to unlock new skills with their expansions. As HoT has no level cap increase, this is their method of having players unlock new skills/mechanics for their professions.

It gives HoT some more gameplay incentive, which I personally think is for the better, but can understand where it will be frustrating (I have 8 characters, and I know of others that have 60 characters, so I understand the annoyance it might cause).

do we have some solid numbers for the hero points wich will be needed to unlock the elite spec? i mean, if its 20 i can live with it, but so far, for what i know 4 skills, 1 elite and all the traits would cost 91 hero points (i do not know how my guildmate came to 175, but he said it was datamined…), wich is to kittening much from a wvw point of view…. again: i only play wvw, with very little (very!) pve sometimes.

the solution would be to make the elite specs free for wvw, as they are for pvp.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hero_point

skills:
4×5 utility
1×9 elite
1×2 healing
traits:
1×2 adept minor
3×3 adept major
1×4 master minor
3×5 master major
1×6 grandmaster minor
3×8 grandmaster major

Tim.6450:

schulzki.1862:

ty for the response

i am allready lvl 80 with all of my chars (saving tomes for my necro). do you know how many hero points more i need? one of my guild members said it would be around 175 for elite spec/skills and 250 in total for a special weapon on top. he said that was reveald through some datamining… i mean there are 189 hero points all over the world, soo… i would have to do almost everything just for the elite spec

There is no way that unlocking an elite spec would cost 175 hero points, since it would mean that every expansion (and any other elite spec update) should release +-175 hero points which is a full tyria worth of skill challenges. That can never fit in one or two zones.

you can not imagine how much i hope that you are right on this one but still… why is it that we have to do hero challenges to unlock class mechanics, even if they are elite…? why not give it to those ppl who purchased HoT?

ty for the response

i am allready lvl 80 with all of my chars (saving tomes for my necro). do you know how many hero points more i need? one of my guild members said it would be around 175 for elite spec/skills and 250 in total for a special weapon on top. he said that was reveald through some datamining… i mean there are 189 hero points all over the world, soo… i would have to do almost everything just for the elite spec

hey

I heard today you need to complete hero challenges and get map rewards to choose the new elite specs. i thought until now it will be available at lvl 80, as the other specs. from the point of a WvW only player, to be honest, that would suck! a LOT!!! i play all classes in WvW and would have to do the maps/challenges with ALL of them to play a class mechanic??!

cheerz!

Zalladi.4652:

Suggested oh so many times on the forums, the only developer response was a year ago:

Evan Lesh

We absolutely want to make build templates. They could work similar to GW1, but there are more components to a build now. Using the old string-code method may prove to be unwieldy.

Things that must be in a template:

• Weapons
• Sigils
• Rune
• Amulet
• Skills
• Traits

What could be in a template:

• Skins
• Dyes
• Outfit
• Finisher

Things to consider:

• Sharing (chat links? codes? urls?)
• Viewing (seeing some else’s vs. seeing your own)
• Saving (notepad vs. local vs. account vs. web)
• Building (one spot in UI vs. multiple spots)
• Websites (third-party sites should work with in-game)
• APIs (Could expose an API to third-parties)
• PvP vs PvE vs WvW (each mode requires different configuration options)

How would you like to see any/all of these work?

Source

No major action has been taken since that. However, the game does already save your last template for each game mode WvW, SPvP and PvE, so some build template functionality is already there.

well, i did not know about that, but it surprises me, unfortunately, not that much… thank you for posting this

cheers!

hi all!

in Guild Wars we had templates for Builds. it was very convenient this way! yes i know GW2 ist not GW and we should not compare it(….)
Its just.. that is a feature i really (really,REALLY) miss! the seperate Builds for WvW,Pve and PvP are a step, but not enough for my taste.
Maybe i am just a lazy person, but i think it would make sense and i had to make a post about it

soo… have fun and GL

cheers!

game crashed two times in 15mins. after restart, i was downloading something and my loot was gone…

was playing WvW on Kodash

Edit: well, since i was playing WvW the loot would have been crap anyways, but still…
(sorry had to do it)

hi there

this! so much this i can’t even…. still got an armor set in my bank with soldier runes wich i bought right after the beta (impossible stats for guard and i mostly roam nowadays)… and i am still hoping i can salvage it sometime soon… since almost three years…

good lord… please…

(im cheap i know:P)

have a good weekend

p.s. english is not my first language, soooo…

edit:

to be clear here: i do not care about mats or ectos or anything from salvaging WvsW armor, BUT i would really like to get the runes out of it…. even if the armor is going to break…

Only one Question:

Will there FINALLY be a save/load option for this whole stuff?!

Only one Question wich has not yet been asked:

Will there be a safe/load Option for the specializations ?! I mean… come on……

tyvm olvendred

should i delete the message or keep it for any reason?

edit:
ty cyninja

hey there

today i received an ingame scam mail, wich told me my account will be banned for money transactions. it was written in broken german and at the bottom was a message that stated it was not written by an arena net employee (not included in the message, but outside the window.)

my question:
how can i report the mail / author?

thank you

Edit:
i added him to my FL, now i can report him for scamming? do they look at the ingame mails he sent? should i add some kind of comment?

hey!
1. yes it is. if you want more variants use mataballte.com

2. every class/profession has the same hitbox form the tinyest asura to the biggest norn

have fun.

edit:

i meant metabattle.com of course… sorry about that!

Vikkela.7261:

There exists roaming condiguardians? :O

Hybrid, yes.

On Topic:
i am done leveling my mesmer today. going to run shatter in wvw, because i will not use a condition setup. i was running conditions on my thief and engie for some time (without perplexity because thats cheap!) and it was boring as kitten. going full risk is fun and since there are no rep-costs on armor…

invisible.. that was the issue. thank you so much.

however, i did not set it on invisible

Hi there!

since the wintersday patch i am unable to post in the guild chat. everything other works fine. i am a member in four different guilds and no chat works. if i try to post :

“you are not a member of a guild” (translated from german original “ihr seid nicht in einer gilde”)

i would like to talk to my guildmates! thank you.

hey corvette

i dont know what to say, to be honest…

when i look at your build it is no surprise you have no fun playing your guardian. i would recommend that you read this very carefully and try again.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-PVE-Guardian-101-A-Beginner-s-Text

ty

@rozbuska
ty for pointing out that i should take projectile belt skills.. i was wrong about that

@wolfar

thank you very much for your link, i am running your yolo-static-discharge build now with a few adjustments and it allready works like 50% of the time. i die a lot, but its a l2p issue on my side

hey guys

i got my 80 lvls on the engie done 2 months ago. currently i am running a three kit power/condi hybrid. this works fine for me, but i like a little diversity in my builds, i get bored really fast…
i only do wvw with her.

so i thought i build a full bersi high risk spec. everything is just in the editor at this time. please criticise

the idea is to pump out damage with analyze —> minefield --> detonate minefield. this is supportet by static discharge and the damage is maximized by target the maimed and explosive powder.
i do not have any sustain, but.. high risk
if its kitten, please tell me!

(english is not my first language, so… sorry)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpvrtdxLLseNSbhMy3fB9pR+YhAA-TlBBwAVuAASUCac/R5HgHAAO1fSpDAA-w

edit:

maybe full gadget with a.e.d. ?

edit2:

toolkit instead of rocket boots for the 3 sec block, the pull and maybe a little vuln. stack on AA

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUnUISJX22FeZBrXGptQG57vg+0IfsQAA-TlBBwAVuAASUCac/R5HgHAAO1fSpDAA-w

I personally like to roam and try new Builds with the Outnumbered Buff. This Way i do not have to pay Armor repair. Thats all…

Duke Blackrose.4981:

The fact remains that we WILL get axes. And everything else. Anet confirmed that they had plans to give every profession access to most, if not all weapons.

well… anet confirmed many things over the past year…