Guild Wars 2

So this means the fall damage trait will basically be an automatic Revealed debuff any time you fall very far.
Last Refuge will also become an even more thorough death sentence than it already is.

During GW1, ANet made constant skill changes. It was common to see patch notes with sweeping changes to skills across basically every class. On top of that, considering they had no official forum, they were also very good about stating their positions on balance concerns and their reasons for making certain changes.
I think the issue here is simply that the game is still extremely new, and they’ve been spending all their time lately getting the Halloween event ready. So not only have they not been working on sweeping class changes, but they’ve not started getting into them enough to give anyone a definitive position on various issues.
They may have been unspeakably God-awful at actually achieving balance, but they certainly tried very regularly.

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RedSpectrum.1975:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Thanks guys! How do you do it with steal? :x I am new to stealing so haven’t really tested if it breaks animations.

The only time you would use steal to stomp is on a thief, if it is ready to use, press it the second they shadow step, and youll blink to them without stopping the stomp, and a tuft of hair as a trophy for your accomplishments

You can also use it on Mesmers and, if you have great timing and they were dumb enough to blow Mist Form immediately, Elementalists.

deepwinter.9015:

Hopefully this thread maintains the constructive criticism these forums require and not be deleted.

I really enjoy this game for a lot of reasons, from dodge rolling to WvW. The world was rich an immerse the moment I stepped foot into it. Once I caught up on the lore by playing Guild Wars 1, I really appreciated the story.

Then a weed named Scarlet was introduced. Sure, she felt a bit wacky, but I was okay with it at first. Then she started cropping up in everything, and it began to feel forced and unoriginal.

Now she is behind the Thaumanova Reactor and there are aether-looking items around the world with a sign saying “DO NOT TOUCH” (clearly of Scarlet design), and I’m just done.

ArenaNet writers, your players are speaking to you.

Listen closely; this is the important part:
We do not like Scarlet Briar!

I originally voted for Evon, but now I’m glad he lost; I swear to god, the Abaddon fractal would have shown how Scarlet invented a time machine at some point, and was the one who originally defeated Abaddon.

ROFL, look at the combat log!
Not only is he a glass-cannon Hundred Blades Warrior, but I’m pretty sure he killed the Thief after taking the full brunt of that burst XD

…And he’s the one here complaining about the Thief. I don’t think this is even a serious post.

Okuza.5210:

There was a LOT in the most recent patch that obviously was more or less completely untested, ill conceived, and not fully planned. This is mostly because it’s created far worse problems for many classes than it purported to solve.

For thief, nerfing dancing destroyed whole builds and toppled an already teetering balance among the weapon sets. That’s a MUCH bigger issue that’s a lot more work to solve than any problem caused by the damage dancing was doing. And, it needed to be solved BEFORE dancing was nerfed.

Same kind of thing with mesmers. Sure, tossing a phantasm through a wall was completely absurd and needed to be fixed. But, the way it was done just put another class on the “obstructed” list. It’s just worse for mesmers because one phantasm is about 75% of their DPS — assuming it’s actually possible to become unobstructed. As you all know, there are many spots (eg. AC burrows) where range is obstructed no matter where you stand.

Obviously, in that case, the obstruction issues needed to be resolved before creating a worse problem than the one you tried to solve.

Now, we’re in a state of “oh, we’re busying working on the event” and thus won’t see any fixes until late January. Not sure about y’all, but I could care less about the events when the game has bugs like these.

Seriously. They never should have done these events at all with how new and buggy and unbalanced the game is right now.
If I remember correctly, GW1 waited until the second year to implement events, and that’s really what they should have done here as well.
There are way, way more important issues. The developers have their priorities completely off.
The events only last over a weekend, then they’re totally gone. What in God’s name made them think they should be wasting so much precious time and resources on them right now? They’ve been doing another freakin’ event every single month, stopping them from accomplishing practically anything else.

Think about it, how long ago was this botched up class balance patch that we’re here complaining about right now?

Scootabuser.4915:

…revealed apply to us even if we leave stealth without doing any damage.

That wasn’t as much of a nerf as this was.

I concur.
No idea what they were thinking.

Wasn’t this patch ALSO supposed to be loaded with Ranger fixes? This would be like the 3rd time in a row they’ve failed to deliver on that “next time” crap.

IceBlink.4317:

Regarding the gun kits, you could easily get rid of the backpacks there since the weapon itself is being held.

- Flamethrower – add two barrels of fuel attached to the waistline where one would normally carry one-handed weapons.

- Elixir Gun – gun can be standalone
- Tool Kit – character holds wrench in hand
- Bomb Kit – character holds a bomb belt with visible bombs in left hand. Can flap about when moving, but ideally should have more heavy gravity affecting it to hang downwards. Add additional bomb belt to waist.
- Grenade Kit – can be same as above, but loop the belt and make it float a bit more. Add additional grenade belt to waist.
- Med Kit – carry first aid box in left hand by a handle.

That is actually a remarkably succinct idea… Just add an object that you carry in one of your hands, just like the Toolkit, instead of a pack. Remove the pack from the kits that already have a hand-held object attached.
If people want a hobo kit, just get it as a regular back piece. There are at least a couple, and they could turn the kit packs into regular back piece items as well.
Then you could solve the Legendary issue by making it sheathed while the kit is active.

Also, I could have sworn this used to be larger than a mere 4 pages.

Amaimon.7823:

While the lore is pretty good, I find the design of the Norn severely disappointing and lacking in any imagination. Especially when you consider that the Charr and Asura are pretty unique races, the Norn lack any kind of uniqueness. They are quite literally just larger humans. It could’ve been fine if they had a shared ancestor, but anet insisted on making sure they’re two completely unrelated races. How can Norn and Humans look 99.999% EXACTLY alike while not being related in ANY WAY.
I think they should’ve had some unique traits, you know. I think it would’ve been cool if the Norn looked like a splice between Jotun and the current Norn. At least then you could tell they’re not humans with a growth-hormone abuse

I completely agree. I feel like the koda are what norns should have been.
I don’t even like the lore, they are literally just nomadic humans with an animist religion. Worst of all, their very existence means that human characters can’t have any tattoos, because it’s the sole defining characteristic of norn.
The hilarious part of the whole thing is, they had around three whole years between the end of GW1 and the start of GW2 to realize how terrible this was.
They could’ve easily just said that at some point in time between the two games they adapted to be in bear form all the time, and that’s just what they look like now.
They even set the precedent for it with Svanir. They could have just said that Jormag cursed them or something.

dahkot.3579:

I’ve got to ask all you saying AN ripped you off , wasn’t fair , kicked your dog , whaever.

In those chests you opened , was there something ? I don’t think you are opening blank/empty chests , they still contain everything they could have before.

You are just choosing to buy/spend $$ for the Halloween items.

How in the world is this anything AN is doing “wrong” as the chests are EXACTLY the same as before , now just with more possible loot.

It’s your own personal decision if the chance is worth it or not for the item that you hope to get , and whining after the fact is just amusing.

Everyone here got something in their chests , just not what they wanted , thus again

/stomp foot
/stomp foot
/cry
/stomp foot.

Don’t even try to justify this with something like that. First of all, everyone knows the chests have complete garbage for loot. Second, they made an official statement basically saying “Hey, buy chests now and you might get this awesome weapon skin!” But they made no mention whatsoever of what kind of a chance you might really have. Because if they had, most people would have just continued to ignore them.
They did this to deliberately encourage people to buy the chests for the sole desire to acquire one of these items. Do you honestly believe that all these people would’ve bought 20 or 50+ keys today if the chests were -not- said to contain those items? Neither would they have purchased so many if they’d gotten the skin they wanted within the first several keys.
And the reality is, that the odds are so low that almost no one will actually acquire one without either ludicrous blind luck or buying an absolutely disgusting number of keys.
They consciously decided to manipulate people into throwing money at something with almost no hope of actual return.

I like pretty much every suggestion you’ve made. Another minor thing I’d like to see is for the rifle’s #1 attack to have a more useful effect than just piercing, and to have the Coated Bullets trait also work with rifles.

Kirschwasser.3972:

ZBeeblebrox.4928:

This is not funny. There are enough places in the world where legitimately elected leaders really are threatened with things like assassination; let’s not bring it into the video game world, please. Whether the voting was rigged or not, keep it civil.

… Except that’s also commonly used in the plots of even lighthearted videogames like this.

You know, like Caudecus’ Manor?

So really, this is just kinda overly-sanctimonious. You know what else happens in real life? People getting kidnapped. Can we please have less kidnapping in the game? /sarcasm

Know what else happens? War! And Pain!

Replace swords with politically correct and inoffensive statements on your antagonistic friend’s great stature!

Of things that need improvements, pistols and traps definitely top the list. I also think our downed state needs to be looked at, it manages to be a bit too good in PvP while being wretched in PvE.

The problem is that it has no damage. You can escape people effectively in PvP which is all you really need there, but in PvE what you want is the ability to down an enemy so you can rally, and Thieves have no damage in the downed state. I think the best option would be to replace the cripple on the main attack with bleeding.
That would tone down their ability to escape in PvP a little which is a real complaint, and it would give you the ability to actually down something to rally.
Another option would be to make it single target, and give it a combination of a short duration cripple and bleed. I might prefer that, but I’m not sure of how balanced it may be.

I’m hoping this isn’t a serious post. I’d say it was satire, but mocking yourself seems strange.

Yeah, but you’re forgetting it has a massive 3 minute cooldown, only as much healing as a regular heal skill, and the couple turrets die easy as hell.

I put a lot of thought into it, and I think I’ve thought of a solid solution.
The main problems are that it lacks defense, sustainability and utility.
The reasons for this being that it depends too much on Unload as the sole source of offense, and Unload is too much of a resource hog for this role.
If they buff non-Unload abilities enough to be viable alternatives, it makes D/P and/or P/D overpowered.
If they buff Unload enough to make the set viable single-handedly, it exacerbates the existing problem and makes it a ridiculous one-trick pony spam-fest.

So here’s my idea.
First increase the cast time on Unload, then add a secondary activation to it (a la Shadow Return and such). The increased duration of Unload is important for several reasons.
It will weaken it enough to help balance the addition of the secondary activation.
Draw out activations of Unload, both to reduce down-time spent on condition-based auto-attacks, and reduce the reliance on Initiative traits without making them overpowered.
And finally, to prevent it from allowing too much burst potential with the secondary, and make it that much easier to trigger the secondary (since it would be available while Unload is active).

The secondary could be called something like Reload. It stops the Unload mid-cast, triggers a small evade window during the early portion of the cast, and restores a couple Initiative.
The cast time of Reload would be sizable, and only give back the Initiative when it completes. Something like a 1 second cast with a 1/2 second evade at the start.
This would give a bit of much needed defense (particularly while using Unload, which currently jams up defense and utility further by locking out other abilities), and gives back some Initiative to help with stringing in non-Unload attacks more frequently.
It would also make Unload spamming for offense significantly less boring and more involved.

Danikat.8537:

Grimwolf.7163:

Wait, is this an issue with female characters? Male humans have lots of those hairstyles. I can think of like 4 off the top of my head.

Yeah, it is. Female humans only have straight or wavy hair. Lots of different styles but all for the same type of hair. You can see all the default options here: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Human_female_hair_styles.jpg

Wow, you’re right. I even looked over the style kit options, and human females literally do not have one single hairstyle like this, while males have half a dozen.

DevonCarver.5370:

insanemaniac.2456:

why we wont see a useful outnumbered buff:

scenario — player enters map where his server has outnumbered. server loses outnumbered. other players harass him to leave so server can be stronger.

Correct. The idea behind the buff is to incentivize you to show up even if you are outnumbered by pulling out some of the disincentive for losing a lot, but if we put anything too good on it, it will cause serious problems between players. We don’t want it to be something that people fight over, harass each other over, or generally cause a worse play experience because someone takes away the buff because it is our goal for the maps to be full and for no one to have the buff.

Then couldn’t you just NOT use a binary formula for the buff? Make it scale the more thoroughly outnumbered you are.

Bas.7406:

Grimwolf.7163:

I can’t make it for 10am on Saturday. I don’t think I even get out of work that day until 11am PST.

I am so glad you got to be a part of this event. The amount of times you signed up and no one else showed up was awesome. You gave me the courage to keep asking for more thieves.

You made it sound like a eulogy XD
I’d still like to do more in the future.

I wonder if there’s a word for that bizarre kind of massive vicarious narcissism, where one person believes another is completely infallible.

News flash for you, this game was made by human beings, and humans make mistakes. Constantly.

Knighthonor.4061:

Why use Gliders if we have Waypoints in HoT?

Because you’ve created your own preconception that they’re supposed to be a bizarre form of mount.
More likely they’re used to reach certain places when traveling, like gliding across a chasm or safely down a cliff. They’ve even said that there will be some sort of updrafts that you can use your glider on to reach higher places.
Anyone who’s old enough to’ve played the first couple Spyro games on the PS1 will probably have a fair idea of how it works.

I think they set it too far apart from land combat. Engineer kits are a perfect example of how it should have been handled for everyone; use all the same weapons and skills whether on land or water, but simply tweak the skills where necessary (like how grenades become enemy-targeted rather than ground-targeted).

rootnode.9546:

I said “nearly” permastealth. The 3 seconds of being revealed before they can stealth again is not enough. So the additional second gives other classes a way to react better.

A maximum of 50% up-time on stealth is near-permanent?

Atticus.7194:

This one is pretty simple, everything should have some means of a counter and atm stealth finishers have none so unless ArenaNet is willing to add a new downed skill to all classes to prevent thieves from finishing you off with impudence then they need to remove this. Thieves shouldn’t be the only class that can negate all other classes downed abilities simply because they have one ability that trumps all others.

Thanks for your time

I think what you mean is, you can’t do anything personally, if you happen to be playing a Ranger, and they have no allies standing near them who you can target with Thunderclap instead.
Because everyone else can avoid it perfectly fine.
Engineer – Booby Trap
Mesmer – Deception
Guardian – Wave of Light
Thief – Shadow Escape
Elementalist – Vapor Form
Warrior – Vengeance
Necromancer – Fear

I think the real problem is simply that you’re terrible at the game, and would rather drag everyone else down to your level than try to improve.

While we’re complaining about stealth and stomping, I’d like to point out that thieves can still BE stomped while in stealth, making the #3 downed skill totally terrible for most situations.

Well, Warriors WEREN’T annoying. The new stun lock builds are pretty kitten annoying.

DarksunG.9537:

ugh.. it’s like Anet is angry Sylvari aren’t popular so they over-compensate by now making one laughably super-smart.
And they’re mad Norn are really popular so they make Brahm weak sauce & Norn have almost no impact on the story.

Well, they might feel a little disappointed in the Norn, as well. In GW1 when they were bigger and transformed into a werebear freely, they were more interesting.
Now they’re literally just slightly larger humans with a different culture.
The Kodan are what Norn should have been.

ANet definitely is not very punctual. This is a pretty consistent thing.
I don’t know how they run things, but normally when a company sets an exact deadline like this you try extremely hard to be dead-on with it. It would be normal practice to have everything actually ready well in advance, and you simply wait until the deadline to actually release regardless of the fact that, due to proper preparation, it could actually be out sooner.
I feel like they procrastinate and leave it all for some last minute frenzy of effort.

Wolf.5816:

Making all weapons accessible to all professions… This sounds like a dream.

Now if they give Engineers the ability to wield Greatswords I won’t have to keep begging and praying for the Chainsaw Kit.

This pleases me.

My thoughts exactly.
Give me greatsword!

Does anyone really enjoy either the Crucible of Eternity or the Mad Asura fractal? Because I’m quite sure it’ll mostly just be more of that in the Thaumanova Reactor.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

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For human characters, Beirne is the very first NPC they meet. So, granted, he doesn’t mean anything to other species, but we didn’t pull him out of thin air just to kill him for this step. : )

I’ve played one human character up to 77, another up to 52, and 3 others up to around 10.
I have no idea who the hell “Beirne” is.

So when an item is RNG based, like the F&F weapons, people complain about the RNG and say they’d rather purchase it directly.
When you can purchase it directly, people complain that it’s too expensive (despite being far cheaper than the comparable RNG items).
When an item gives actual power to your character people complain about others buying an advantage, but also complain about cosmetic/convenience items not having enough practical use…

They’ve handled this mining pick in the best way they have for similar items in a very long time.

…What the hell were they thinking? Remove Stealth for a full 30 seconds on basically EVERYONE within 1200 YARDS? And the trap stays in place for a full HOUR?
Those things will be EVERYWHERE around any keeps or camps or… basically anything important.

Normally I’d just attribute it to more baseless stupid Thief hate, but the Devs are in on it too.
I’d really like then to give them the benefit of the doubt and not assume the Devs just have it out for us like so many players.
I doubt it’s the constant dodging. That already got nerfed pretty hard recently, and hardly even needed that with how weak the damage and versatility were, and how fast you’d drop the moment you made a single mistake.

After seeing the new weapon skins for Halloween, I’ve had an absolutely beautiful idea for a new weapon option for Engineers; a Chainsaw Kit.
I’ve been able to find only a single video of one of the chainsaw skins so far, but it is freaking amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDBZf_T9Xg

The idea of having one of those with it’s own unique skills is just… awesome.
Also, well… the idea that I can’t use that weapon skin on an Engineer drives me absolutely insane.

A full year of development time, everybody…

ClintonD.8620:

In the final phase, many of us fell into the lava pit and could not rerez. As I rerezzed over at Owain, the loading screen would not finish and I heard the explosion. When the loading screen STILL would not finish, I restarted the client to see if I could still get the items. Nope. And I wonder if everyone who fell into that lava pit were denied the item too because of being stuck at the loading screen.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed today’s event despite some lag. I do think that you should make the items available from an npc, like what happened after halloween.

I agree about them adding an NPC for it; at least for the unique 20-slot box and accessory.
I really don’t know how I feel about the rewards; the event itself was an abomination, but it had a completely sick reward at the end. Now because it was so botched up most people either did not or could not complete it despite being there for the event, and wound up missing out on an amazing reward.
Had we really not gotten anything, I could at least feel like I hadn’t missed out on anything.

If we’re not given another less-crappy chance at those items, that would be the terrible frosting on the terrible cake.

Are they not still out there trying to wipe everyone out?
We’ve had nothing dealing with them since the personal story the game launched with.