Guild Wars 2

15 mins of combat = 1g if you win, plus the 5 chests

Also, I think right now at least the challenge and fun of it can’t be discounted as a reward. <gasp> doing something cuz it’s fun and challenging?!??!?!?

Not to mention bragging rights.

Imo DPS-Med Guardians are heartier than those glass cannon thieves & eles.

Astral Projections.7320:

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Right now the game requires reading to learn. This has several problems that I can see.

One is that not all people can read. There are large numbers of functionally illiterate people out there. However if they plunked down the money for the game then they are entitled to the same care and consideration as the fluent readers. Which means a method of teaching that isn’t reading base.

Intellectual incuriosity. A person can be intellectually incurious and yet still learn if the game teaches as you play, the same way thay people will learn that fire is hot without looking it up. Life taught them this without requiring them to research it.

Different brains are wired differently. Some people learn easily through reading while others require a hands on approach to learning. These people can be intellectually curious and look it up yet not have the information sink in until they do it themselves.

Many people “just want to play, not do research”. There is no reason that the game should fail to teach them. The designers should be well aware that this is a subset of their players.

Lack of understanding that there is even something to look up. Or not knowing where to look it up.

Truly, to learn how to play a game, at least the basic information should be taught in game. If there are people who get to level 80 and ask then what a combo field is, then the game is relying to much on outside research.

Did you seriously just say that READING shouldn’t be a requirement to play the game??? I’m all for tutorials to introduce game-specific mechanics like the importance of dodging, combo fields, and condition caps. But I do not want hand-holding and I definitely don’t want a game reduced to a picture book for those who can’t take the time to learn to read. Honestly, it’s a pretty important life skill. I’m all for freedom to live your life as you wish, but learning to read should come before hours on GW2. How can you play if you can’t read tooltips and trait descriptions? I really hope this post was in jest.

Also, the hands on approach is actually playing the game. What’s required is some sort of guidance. You need to be told that combo fields exist, and then it’s up to you to test them out, hand on.

Then I’d have 7 mini Tybalts. Should have been a variety.

I like LumAnth’s idea of a selection of personal story minis. We got our Vigil/Priory/Order leaders & mentors, as well as other characters encountered like Teyo, Demmi Beetlestone, Trahearne….

Engi have a ton of builds. What are you using in dungeons that feels meh? Try something else. I know grenades/bombs are the (supposedly) most effective builds, but I prefer FT so it might be a case of you playing with a kit you dislike.

Engineer. Always Engineer.

cesmode.4257:

Seras.5702:

Yes mj.

And seriously, people are complaining about not being able to run this tower without effort? You went through it once, know what’s coming, build accordingly. Drop the zerk gear, bring condition removal, bring swiftness, bring stun breaks, bring stability, bring blocks. It’s a zerg, you don’t have to deal max dps. Build for survival and try again. You don’t even have to maximize the build as if it were PvP/WvW. Oh yea, and pay attention to the spores before their red circles appear. Just don’t go near em.

Drop the zerk gear? So now I need to gear a certain way to do this?

I can rebuild my thief for more survivability, infact he has decent vigor uptime when dodging. But theres limits. My gear is zerk.

If I need to get some PVT gear to get through this, or knights gear…if I need to get a single new piece of gear to do this, then the patch fails. Horribly.

First off, I did say you don’t need to optimize as if it were PvP/WvW. I went through in zerk gear myself just fine. Just bring some condition cleanse, swiftness, stun break, defensive skills.

Also, you made the choice to gear yourself for no defense, all offense. You can’t truly be surprised that some places will be hard. Zerk is fine in dungeons once you know the mechanics and can avoid damage. Likewise, once you learn the nuances of the Tower zerk is fine too. Can’t expect to be pro at everything on day 1.

bri.2359:

I don’t like jumping puzzles and the aspect travel got very boring for me soon after the first time it was introduced last year.

I’m not a fan of JPs either. That being said, there’s actually very little jumping that needs to be done in Dry Top. The aspect skills are minimally needed to reach only a couple spots (aside from the actual jumping puzzle). Most of what’s there is on the ground.

bri.2359:

So yeah, LS 2 lost me in first few lines of dialogue.
The content is not worth giving a score.

Glad you didn’t give it a score. I think it’d be jumping the gun a bit considering this is only the very first of many 2-week installments.

Pet.2598:

You can always dodge forward and turn around

Aw, I was gonna say that.

I’ll say that when I tried rolling a priest back in TBC days of WoW it was a nightmare. Later rolled one during Cata and it was a cinch. It took years of redesign and updates, etc to get WoW where it is. GW2 has been out for less than 9 months. Having said that…

I like that the game forces you to learn your profession’s mechanics even at an early level. A guardian can get away with facetanking as long as it has its boons, a thief needs to learn mobility, a mesmer needs to understand how to effectively use its illusions/clones. First character I ever rolled in GW2 was an ele and it was insanely squishy. Didn’t like it. Rolled a ranger and it was so much fun. Later I went back and tried ele again and since I was more comfortable with GW2’s general combat mechanics it was easier to grasp the specific ele mechanics that are more complex than say a ranger or guardian.

Keep at it. Some professions are more complex, but that doesn’t make them bad. Just more involved, which imo is good.

I love the idea. One, because I have boosters taking up 1/2 of my first bank tab. Secondly, because they have to remain in my bank so that all of my characters have access to them. And I’d definitely use them more often if they were readily accessible in a Booster Wallet than as they are now, requiring me to go to the bank to retrieve them.

Mimizu.7340:

If we get true darkness can I have some night-vision goggles?

Roll Engi

While not game breaking or cause for quitting, I will agree that the right of the screen can often become overly inundated with notices. I still haven’t finished my personal story but don’t need an ever-present reminder. Complete my daily..now I gotta look at my monthly progress whether I want to or not. Nearby DEs are fine but I don’t need to know that the SAB is in Rata Sum everywhere I go. I got mail for that.

I’m a member of the FT-is-both-condition-and-power-weapon club. It does only apply 1 condition (burn) and stacking it only adds duration. However, FT deals more damage to burning foes, so keeping the burns rolling increases the straight damage. Also, its #5 skill is a blind. That’s 2 conditions that benefit from +condition duration. It fires very fast, offering multiple crit chances, which makes it ideal for stacking precision & +crit damage. And with such frequent crits, it synergizes well with bleed-on-crit type sigils and traits like Incendiary Powder, Precise Sights, and Sharpshooter. And if you’re able to stack bleeds this way, they’ll benefit from +condition damage. Which also benefits those burns we talked about stacking. And burning is the highest damage condition in the game.

So let’s recap. FT benefits from:
+ condition duration
+ condition damage
precision
+ crit damage

This is why I run a combo or Berserker/Rampager gear with FT. They all add to its effectiveness.

I just cried a little….

+1 OP. I have this problem with my thief and using SB or Shadowstep to escape. You just can’t be quick about it. And it has nothing to do with skill imo, it has to do with being lucky enough to move your mouse to max range on your first try.

I just don’t understand why they didn’t release new super hard to acquire but beautiful armor skins and call it horizontal progression. That’s how GW worked (I know, a different game) but everyone was pretty keen on working for new armor skins without any stat gains for years, so long as they looked good.

Ascended kinda ruined that notion of horizontal progression. To say that it’s not needed is a terrible argument because it exists, some people will have it, some people won’t, and those that have it will be improved from it. Skill is skill, and that’s important. But to think that a person of skill level X will not benefit from a 5% increase in stats is deluding yourself. They’ll still have the same skill level, but have higher stats. I think that’s significant. And while you don’t need Ascended gear to do dungeons, I’m sure it’ll help someone who has trouble with Arah. And I’m sure it’ll help in a small WvW battle.

And lastly, by making Ascended gear so grindy and expensive to acquire reduces build variety and adaptability. 90% of players with Ascended will have only 1 set, which effectively pigeon holes them into playing only builds that that stat set allows.

@Foofad – I agree with most of what you typed. However, I cannot agree with the presence of a period denoting an arrogance or finality in the tone of a message. The essence of casual typing, at least to me, is based on laziness and brevity. To use words such as “thru” and “u” are simply a result of typing quickly and only getting the message across. Also, many of these came about from the days of phone texting using the number keys to type.

I’m a fast typer and do a lot of it in a professional setting. As such, it’s 2nd nature to type with proper grammar and not use chat shortcuts. If I type through rather than thru it does not mean I’m pretentious or arrogant, simply that I don’t need to shorten my words to type quickly.

Also, I’ve never heard of periods being a factor when potraying tone in type. For that, I always thought one used exclamation marks or capitlization. A period is just what goes at the end of every sentence. I’m not trying to denote a moment of finality, simply that it’s my habit to end sentences with “period, space, space.”

I have mixed feelings about this event. I’m 31 so I’m a child of the 80’s and appreciate the event for what it is. I have nothing against the theme of the event, since the Asura tech angle works for it. And it’s optional so you can ignore it if you hate it. New content keeps things fresh.

But I’d like to see some of the current issues addressed rather than more content added instead. New content is awesome, don’t get me wrong, but it pains me sometimes to see a huge patch of new content (dungeons, skins, events, etc) and pages of bugs ignored and class balancing ignored. Why would anyone care about a new dungeon if they can’t take their fav class into it cuz it’s broken/lackluster?

I get that they have teams working on their own tasks (class balance, dungeons, events, art, etc). But man, you gotta shuffle personnel around so there are more people working on class balance and bug fixing.

Flamethrower doesn’t push you back.

Ret is a big problem with FT. The only thing I can think of is to reduce the autoattack from 10 ticks → 5 and double the damage of each tick. But that would reduce our crit proc chances. So both good and bad.

Putting Torment on the FT is actually a pretty good idea. The short range and inability to hit moving targets 100% of the time would benefit from ‘forcing’ enemies to stand still. Since we’ve got ready access to burning, perhaps changing the toolbelt of the FT.

Also, making the FT toolbelt a targetable ability would let it synergize better with a hybrid FT/SD build, something I’ve been trying to make work lately.

Comparing raids to champtrains is stupid because raid bosses are nothing like champions. A more accurate comparison would be comparing raid bosses with world bosses. World bosses are basically raid-style bosses that aren’t locked inside an instance and have no player limit (other than the zone pop). You’re comparing apples & onions.

Against 1 target, yea you’re probably right.

But whirling wrath blasts foes at a small range at 360 degrees. Also, you have to look at the other functions of each skill apart from the straight damage. GS gives you an aoe symbol that gives Ret not just for you but your allies too, gives you a gap-closer, a burn that can pull multiple foes to you at once, thus maximizing the GS’s abilities. it also has a light combo field, which is helpful when conditions get heavy (whirl) or inconjunction with allies.

Hickeroar.9734:

I wandered around as a lvl 2 asura thief for 30 minutes in the level 2-3 metrica area without a single event starting. I finally said screw it and leveled in WvW.

Why? Why not do the hearts and vistas and pois and do the DEs as you come across them? You wasted 30 mins of actual XP gain from doing hearts. At that level 30 mins of doing hearts & the story would get you to level 4.

Ok I Did It.2854:

Just send all suggestions to forums@arena.net they will get buried in general discussion.

Im out.

But sending an email means that Anet sees the idea but it doesn’t garner any discussion. The best suggestions are often not the initial idea but what comes about from multiple players chiming in with tweaks, analysis, and counter-arguments.

I got me a male norn thief. Couldn’t bring myself to go max size, being a thief and all. But you see a norn whirling over your head in a death blossom and you pucker a bit.

A little asura thief popping outta stealth right next to you…ooo creepy.
A giant norn popping outta stealth next to you = what the holy crippled christ where did he gaah!?!!

I prefer the white set (1). 2 is too common a look, and the Radiant gear gives your Mesmer a bit of a battle-mage feel. Rocking dual swords, how can you not want to gear up with heavy looking battle gear?

Imagine what the Selfish Potion horns will look like on asura. Tiny floating specs.

To balance having so many skills available at once you’d have to severely nerf the strength of them or institute a cooldown on everything. The draw of engineer, imo, is that we’re free of so many tedious cooldowns. I’ve realized that while our attacks may not hit as hard as those of some other classes, we have access to so many with very short cooldowns. I don’t want more cooldowns. It would break the style of play I have come to love.

Then write that kitten into the lore. Everything you said is correct. But I don’t care. I wanna go back!

Have Kormir return and bless us with some artifact that can only be used to fight the dragons if all races of Tyria come together. This artifact will ultimately allow us to defeat Mordremoth, as well as gain insight into the Old Gods, and through it, gain entrance to their realms. While we’re at it, we discover the Mursaat laying low in FoW.

On the contrary, I’ll have to play more now to make money so I can regear and unlock traits for all my alts.

Xyonon.3987:

So lazyness warrants ~50% efficiency?

Actually, no matter the build, laziness always results in less efficiency. This is true pretty much everywhere. Except naps. Laziness helps naps.

You’re making excuses. You can’t say “Necros remain the ONLY profession in the entire game without Practical Stability (with the exception of the one cleanse, lich #5).” and then backpedal when others point out that it’s simply not true. You have to trait for it, boohoo. It’s on demand with DS and doesn’t take up a utility slot. Compare that to warrior who has multiple stability skills but they all take up utility slots and have longish cooldowns.

Warrior fear has a 60s cooldown. Necro has multiple ways to fear and with lower cooldowns. Plus stability boon corruption is fear. Fear an enemy right off the cliff. It’s a great interrupt for this map. Also, condition or not, it can’t be cleansed with the likes of Cleansing Fire or Smite Condition because it requires a stun break.

ImProVocateur.5189:

SaintSnow.6593:

ImProVocateur.5189:

Here’s your sign. Both untraited with Steady weapons.

Hey now, that ele has a zerk jewel and the engi is running soldiers. Harder to compare the two with pvp “over the top” stat boosting trinkets.

Are you saying that a Soldier amulet overpowers a Berserker amulet? Your statement does not make sense. The amulets are balanced.

The Ele needs crit to do enough damage with all their (nerfed) direct damage heavy skills. That is where the kill damage comes from. The Engi does not need crit because of their toolset, and their conditions do not need more Condition Damage or Condition Duration than what is given in the traits. Additionally, raising toughness and vitality “accentuates the positive”, since Engi survivability augmented through traits is tank-worthy.

You are looking at pictures of two builds that are supposed to counter each other. There is a problem with the current design. Anyone with experience playing both classes can look at the numbers and tell that it is broken.

Complete rubbish. You can’t compare stats when you’ve built for specifics. To say “look at my low hp!” when you’ve got 35% crit vs. the engi’s 4% is misleading. Why even mention both having steady weapons if you’re not going to compare apples to apples? And to say that engis don’t need crit for a power build is wrong, and to say they don’t need condi damage in a condition build is even more wrong.

Gonna preface this with: I love my engineer. Best class in the game, most blah blah, etc etc etc.

However, I would like to see more non-kit weapon options. Not because I think our kits are lacking or I dislike the mechanic. I actually love the mechanic. But the kit system just doesn’t synergize with aesthetics. Drop 2k gold on a Legendary rifle and you’ll see it maybe 1/2 the time. Grind out a sweet, limited availability backpiece and you’ll see it maybe 1/2 the time or clipped horribly. More weapon options would potentially give us less time in kits. BUT I’d rather see some sort of aesthetic fix for kits.

Should there be an in-game LFG tool? Yes.
Are they working on one? Yes.
Is there an alternative while we wait? Yes.
Are there guilds a plenty to run dungeons with that completely negate the need of a LFG tool? Yes.

So you decided to leave the game because you couldn’t be bothered to use a simple & useful tool or join a guild to achieve your goals? I don’t get it.

Cutting off magic to the dragon would decrease the rate at which the dragons reabsorb the magic of Tyria. As I understand it, every so often the dragons wake up, eat the magic of the world to balance the scales, and then slumber. Cutting off the flow to Mordy would delay his return and keep magic pumped just a little more for us Tyrians.

Not really sure that would require a year’s worth of wonton destruction. Scarlet coulda just come to LA and said, “hey can we drill down and cut the flow of magic from an elder dragon, thereby delaying his return?” I’m pretty sure we’d have been on board.

Thus…I think he plan was to awaken the dragon and it would have happened no matter what we did. She said herself that we were too late to stop it The only thing that didn’t go according to her plan was her death.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

…. unlimited retraits would be horrible.

Why? The game has enough gold sinks. I don’t think being able to make build adjustments and experiment freely is ever a bad thing. It’s one of the things I loved so much about GW.

SuperJugy.3192:

… I chose Riffle Turret, Battering Ram and Toolkit because they are the shortest cooldown toolbelt skills that do direct damage. I also chose toolkit to have something to do after the burst is gone. Like pulling with magnet and prybar; or shield my kitten…

I like Goggles, ToolKit, and either Rocket Boots or Rifle Turret. Pop goggles, then the SD toolbelt rotation. Goggles gives you a stun break, fury, and immunity to blindness for the duration of your burst. Plus the toolbelt stacks 10x vuln on your target, making everything else hit that much harder.

I prefer RB over RT because of the burn, but use RT when range is necessary. I’ll get to why that’s important later.

SuperJugy.3192:

As for the traits; well obviously I need Static Discharge. I got Hair Trigger since I only have one toolkit and I don’t want to find myself with all skills in cooldown, but depending on how it feels I might change it for something else.

I got some traits in inventions to give me survivability.

And the 3 other traits I thought they would do good synergy. Modified Ammunition does more damage the more conditions I have up. Since rifle has very little conditions I picked Precise Sights and Inciendary Powder together with Sharpshooter minor trait to help me get some conditions. And since these last 3 traits are on crit proc, then my accessories and sigil help me get some precision.

You’re going to want 30pts in Tools for any SD build. The strength lies in using that burst as often as possible so reduce that toolbelt CD as much as possible. Speedy Kits keeps you mobile, SD obviously, and your choice for the 3rd. I like Adrenal Implant.

(Because of your super low toolbelt CD, take MedKit with 15.5s CD)

In Firearms I take Hair Trigger for shorter rifle CDs to increase control & mobility when your SD burst is down. Sitting Duck is solid: low cooldown net shot means you’re immobilizing your foe often, stacking cripple and vuln (and w/ goggles means you don’t need Precise Sights). Immob, cripple, vuln, burn (RB) with Mod Ammo = +8% dmg. Love it.

Your last 10pts put wherever you want. I like Invigorating Speed. Coupled with Adrenal I’ve got tons of dodges.

SuperJugy.3192:

The armor is basically half Soldier and half Berserker to have both offense and defense with as much power I can get.

Since I have no stun breaker and such, I went with runes of melandru to help me in those situations…

Zerk+Soldier is fine. Goggles gives you a stun break.

Perception Sigil is fine in PvE but you’ll probably die before you get 25 stacks in PvP/WvW. With your crit% so low, I’d take Accuracy. With Oil & Soup and that sigil your crit% jumps from 35% to 51%, which is where you want it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUl0pqdH5y3F17IyoHkWntZgeYX51IKqQ+B-jwxAorgQEAyeFRjtMWENW1CmqkIq2bUEtahAGtAA-e

Seems portal’s strongest place is in WvW. Might have to take up WvW.

…except play the game. Honestly, it doesn’t take 2 weeks to play each LS patch so do whatever it is you normally do after you finish with each patch content.

I find that building for condition damage (and obviously survival) is the way to go. Conditions aren’t mitigated by armor or toughness and you can dish em out and then kite away while they eat away at your enemies.

Leveled my thief with conditions and it was EZ-mode using dodge-trops, caltrops, and D/D #3. Just mad stacks of bleeds and stealth away.

Obviously, different mechanics for guardian; never got mine past 45 due to boredom. But I’d think that if you can keep burns rolling you’ve got a shot. Maybe swap scepter to mace?

Another bug is the auto-resizing of our inventory panel whenever we change maps.

If I could click this 100 times I would. Please add new armor to the game and not to the gem store.

If they want to make money, Anet should bring back all those individual town clothes pieces from the past. Now that they can be used in conjunction with armor, they’d sell like hotcakes. That should satisfy them enough to warrant actual armor in-game.

Found one in Malchor’s Leap last night. Touched it twice. Both times I got pushed back, no damage, and got a text box that said “can’t you read?”

I would like to see a continuation of our hero’s journey, to combat more dragons, and an evolving world that reflects our efforts.

I think it’s a majority concensus that the pre-Orders personal story was the best part of it because it felt, well…personal. I’d like to continue that personal journey.

The dragons are supposedly the most important evil right now. It’s what’s drawn an uneasy truce amongst the humans and Charr. It’s the basis of 2 of the GW books (and the catalyst to the 3rd). It feels like we’re ignoring them atm. I’d like to continue to fight the super-evil.

We’ve been questing throughout Tyria for over a year now. We’ve defended outposts, helped farmers, defeated centaur leaders, and fought with countless dragon minions. Yet we’ve seen no reflection of our efforts. I’d like to see some sort of change to the zones in Tyria that introduce new DEs, begin a healing change to Orr, witness an aggresive push by Jormag’s minions, something to make me feel like my efforts are truly pivotal to the world.

Right now the Living World does not feel like it is evolving. Since launch, nothing in the world has changed based on the Living Story except a single dungeon path in TA. We’ve had the addition of a single area, Southsun Cove. I was initially very excited about this area, but it has had no evolution and serves merely as the arena for large scaled LS events.

LS chapters feel like temporary acheivement rushes right now. We spend 1-2 weeks racing to unlock the achievements, get the meta, and then complain about the temporary content. I’d rather see an evolution of the game as a whole, rather than constant little events that force everyone to zerg an area for 2 weeks and then return to life as usual. It trivializes the content too.

I’m not sure what you don’t like about that post. All he said was that they want to commit more time to responding to the community in the forums and that they don’t pay attention to insults or mean people. Furthermore, they stated very plainly that they strive to deliver stuff for the community as a whole, not just acquiesce to the loudest voices whining about this or that. Can’t blame them honestly.

Since you’re clearly upset that they won’t implement all of your ideas just cuz you type in CAPS or bold or with a lot of enthusiasm and find quitting the answer…can I have your stuff?

Like others above, I too have gotten so used to Speedy Kits that I find myself popping my heal with other characters for a boost. While some professions have a no brainer signet or passive trait to run fast, our Speedy Kits is so good just about every build takes it.

I’ve been swapping back n’ forth between FT & grenades pretty regularly. I’ve found that I can keep the same gear (zerker/rampager mix, altruism runes, battle sigil) with both. ‘Nades are a straight ranged damage kit. I use EG with FT and tend to play a more support style. Since FT’s damage can’t match grenades, even with a few dedicated traits, I like to use it to its fullest potential: spread burning & vuln, create fire combo field, pbaoe blind, pressure reduction knockback, sawp to EG heal field, EG weakness/poison/cripple, back to FT, repeat.

In CoE I take FT/EG and faceroll the dungeon. In CoF, I prefer to keep my range and mobility and use grenades.

My Guardian is hung up on a shelf in Rata Sum, watching his brethren venture out into the world in search of adventure. He is sad. But he is boring to play so he can suck it.

It’s probably cheaper to just pick up say JC and craft 10s worth of mats to get the monthly ach