Guild Wars 2

Arantheal.7396:

On the long run, this will also allow Necromancers & Rangers easier access to Fractals, since both are lacking in group-support (welp, spotter is still kinda nice), but come with powerful condi-builds, hence get better dps than guards, warris & eles against high values of toughness.

Ummm no. Necro is not that good at condi as people think.

dlonie.6547:

That guy had to be a troll. No way.

You never can be sure in this forum.

There are no cons really. I saw “people will kick players that do not want to improve” listed as a con in the past. This pretty much sums up the “opposition”.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

I would just try to “revamp” fractals in a way where healers or tanks would be desirable and no I’m not asking for hardcore trinity where the tank has everything on him and everyone just sitting there using 1,2,3 where the healer has everyone on full. But for example it would be far more interesting if lets say a boss had some special attacks that could not be avoided completely and zerker people could just not survive it.

You have to pick one.
You NEED healers because you will die otherwise (looks like a hard role to me) OR healer is optional (like it is right now) but it will completely remove any challenge from the content because you have dedicated healbot.

Between tomorrow and heat death of the universe I guess.

AegisRunestone.8672:

That allows exploitation of other players, it isn’t right.

It’s the opposite actually. Party with a dps meter can spot a leecher or a liar in their group before first boss is even dead and decide if they should carry or get rid of him.

Astralporing.1957:

BobbyStein.2315:

Blaeys.3102:

I think the most recent trailer for S3 dispels any notion that raids were not a significant part of the next story arc (the introduction, in fact).

Hold that judgment until you play the episode.

After seeing the actual content, instead of only the trailer, i’d say Blaeys’ fears were completely justified. That wasn’t just a tangential connection to raids. We’re definitely talking about a significant part of the story being given to only a small, chosen minority of the players.
That’s really disappointing.

“Only a small, chosen minority of the players” can press F near journal pages and ask for cleared instance confirmed?

Jerus.4350:

stambogalizi.8356:

Pugging 50 with nemesis and his healing power guard bud:
http://puu.sh/jNaA1/cbc47c76a5.png

also this http://puu.sh/jNaAH/f2da2fe6ef.png

After seeing Brazil sit down and talk with the guy I can’t help but feel that this community does it’s best to take him out of context just to demonize the guy. I’d be curious to see the rest of those conversations, not just the bits that are obvious bingo phrases.

It does not takes much to demonize guy that says stuff like “using inventory to swap weapons is an exploit”.

Skoigoth.9238:

Hmm, weird, I was never under the impression that anet has a problem with the “zerker meta” in particular, yet a lot of people seem to think they do. Did I miss something?

1 dev said that “berserker not gonna cut it” few months ago. People heard “trinity is coming to gw2” but in reality it was “direct damage will not be effective everywhere”.

Derenek.8931:

So far in every dungeon I’ve run the strategy is the same. Everyone follows the one guy who knows the map, we find a little corner then stand on top if each other and spam all our skills while standing there.

It turns dungeons into a mindless and pointless affair. Most of the dungeon’s contents are never seen or experienced by players and player skill is not rewarded as there is no skill involved in standing still on top of everyone else and just pressing the 1-9 keys.

You are 100% right. There is no skill involved when you are being carried through everything.

Probably revenant with shiro legend.

Jaher Dal.9503:

I miss the moaning lady from DR… lol

I heard some moaning in DR few weeks ago. Like real porn tier moaning added to background sound channel. Shame that I can’t recall where exactly it was.

HoT is fine. Everything is gonna be alright after April patch.

You think that main reason why people buy path is because they can’t finish them. In reality path selling is so popular because it gives you a lot of experience and dungeon tokens.

Daym this threads still popular.

Harder content = less build variety.

Purple Miku.7032:

Pretty much anything using either black feather wings, white feather wings, or the dragon mask skins will make my stomach turn.

Anyways, this is certainly one of my least favorite getup that I’ve seen ingame, ever. I’ve seen worse, but it’s definitely up there as an eyesore.

I call it the “Cringe-Inducing Starter Pack”:

Add that emotionless asian face and you got yourself the Human Female Meta.

msalakka.4653:

Asura only

:<. I want honeykittenarr. With a little sting on the tip of the tail.

Edit:
Honeykitten
arr
Honeykittenarr

Lendruil.9061:

You also have to consider that you can’t freeze, chill, cripple or immobilize bosses anymore. What would be better to keep a boss like archdiviner rooted for a long time than a ranger’s bear?

Rocky

Conaywea.5062:

record your own voices and just replace them in the game files XD

I would replace replace “rare loot” line with “NONONO”.

You receive 40 Empyreal Fragments “NONONO”

Could be failing ram. Or Chrome like in my case lol. Every time I start playing youtube video or open new tab during or right after any loading screen in gw2 there is ~70% chance that game with crash with similar error. Happens on my laptop and pc. Memtest returns no errors on both. Every time this happens I can just drag error message off screen and continue playing for hours without problems.

Never heard about this bug.

GS is the most boring weapon ever. I will be more hyped if they will give thief a warhorn and call him the Scarecrow.

Xstein.2187:

Sometimes I think you shouldn’t even be allowed to take two of the same class into a dungeon. Of course lfg would take longer and people would cry. However, I think that would clear some things up. I think this would also motivate people to play some of the less played classes in pve. Its all relative anyway. People would complain if this mechanic was added now. However, if it was added before the game game out, I don’t think people would care as much and you would see a lot more variety in dungeons today.

Note: This does not mean that all classes are balanced in pve events like dungeons. I believe Anet should work on making classes more balanced in pve and produce a no more than one class rule.

Going from 1 war, 1 thief , 1 guard/mesmer, 2 eles to 1 war, 1 thief, 1 guard/mesmer, 1 ele, 1 engi not gonna help necro and ranger.

Hair with “physics” like vanilla ones please.

Still icebow. Disabling bosses for 10 seconds is no joke.

Player vs Forum is the end game.

That coe door reminds me this. It is not a bug or exploit. It is called “lol lets make a huge hole above that door”.

I hope they will explain it in detail during the stream. Explanation in the blog post is just horribad.

Astralporing.1957:

Then why not give him the access to those skins, and keep the challenge for yourself?

Because those legendary skins are designed to be a raid reward duh.

My only complaint is that it has way too many mechanics just for the sake of having them. Can easily cut out half of them and fight will be the same just less cluttered.

I will not work. Clovers are not a currency. They could add it to the bank though.

Finally got a chance to fight the boss without disconnects and bugged ui. It does not feel like gw2 boss at all. Where did our cool combat system go? Everything feels way too passive now. It is challenging but not in a way I was hoping :/

Single player AAA games need some changed files while for mmo you basically need to create your own server which is costly, time consuming and impossible if server stuff was not leaked. And even if you got your server set up and client is working fine you prety much guaranteed to get in jail/huge fine or both.

evanlegion.7680:

it took them more than a year to “fix” rush for warrior…we only need to wait 6+ month more ;D

It was bugged since beta if i’m not mistaken.

Calcifire.1864:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Calcifire.1864:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

It is not that large now as it was 2 or even 1 year ago. And it will be even less of a grind in hot. Amount of gold game just throws at people for barely doing anything is going up every few months.

if you are wearing light armor, you need 10800 scraps of silk.

currently silk is selling for 2s 79c

that means that you need to spend 301g 32s to make the armor.

now let’s add the rest of the materials, shall we?

according to gw2spidy, the current cost to make the damask is 467g 63s 64c
the cost for the leather is 18g 67s 74c
crystalline dust is 28g 51s 20c

so a minimum of 514g 82s 58c

and that’s not including the cost of exotics for dark matter, the insignias you need for the stats (hope you don’t want celestial, because that’s an unavoidable 30 day time gate), or vendor bought materials like thermocatalytic reagents or gossamer thread

over 515g and 36 days to make a set of armor, even more expensive if you want to skip the time gating

and you say that that ISN’T a grind?

when you start measuring things in quantities of TEN THOUSAND in a game with a stack size of 250, the devs need to re-evaluate their recipe costs

compared to a few years ago, the grind is WORSE, silk has exploded in cost since then.

And if you actually play this game for at least 2 hours/day you can drop this price to less than 100 gold.

oh? how is that? by gathering the ten thousand scraps of silk yourself?

how many days are we talking? to do it within the month you’d need to get 130 scraps of silk per hour at that rate.

two hours a day of doing nothing but farming silk. god that DEFINITELY doesn’t sound like a grind.

PvE raids shouldn’t stand for “player versus economy”

130 scraps per hour is very little if you salvage stuff you get and sell mats you don’t need. And “silk has exploded in cost since then”. Other mats did so too and will continue exploding with hot. This combined with how easy you can get them will allow you to get 130 scrap in few minutes. By the time you write your post some random Billy equipped with harvesting tools can hop around the world, get some gold, do his daily ascended crafting and log off.

Windsagio.1340:

NikeEU.7690:

Windsagio.1340:

NikeEU.7690:

Is the concept of Active Defense not “inherent to GW2”? The second the combat was designed around active defense, positioning and parry/blocks PvE was destined to be dominated by glass cannon builds among players at the skill/experience cap. It may not be exactly how the developers envisioned it, but it is the inevitable end result of that decision.

The concept of active defenses does not make glass king, the high power of the active defenses makes glass king.

Do you see the difference? It’s all in the numbers and the balance.

As your buddy noted, they’re not going to touch old content much, but we’re seeing the new content already impacting things — just not in a form where you’d want to have the ‘meta’ discussion.

If you take the current balance as the be-all and end-all and as what must be in the system, you’re making a pretty basic mistake.

Active defense in this game is binary. You dodge or you don’t. You block or you don’t. You stand out of the arc of attack or red circle or you don’t. You can make content where those things are more challenging or less challenging to do, but those are binary actions.

Active defense is binary, but lets take (and admittedly crazy) test case.

Let’s say every 3 seconds the boss pulses a dodge/blockable 500 damage attack on the whole area in addition to his normal attacks. The boss has wyvern style defiance and enough health that at max dps it’s a 5 minute fight

There are problems with this fight (numbers are kitten -pulled so they might be very wrong), but it’s (hopefully) illustrative of a point so I hope we can stay focused on that.

The fight takes a very different flavor, because toughness and healing support (and protection) are much much much more important than dps or active defenses. Aegis will be stripped almost immediately and even if the pulse was worth dodging it’s not realistic to be able to keep your dodges up even with vigor.

There, simply, is a fight that would work within the current system but emphasizes a whole different set of defensive abilities and actions than the current model. It’s not likely that they’d do so much to deemphasize active defenses, but it’s a design decision not to.

If they wanted to design encounters that made toughness more valuable, they could. If they wanted to design encounters where dodge was useless, they could. They choose not to, but nothing in the system forces them to play exactly like the existing archetype you’re used to from dungeons.

So basically add healing check like in every trinity mmo ever made?

I don’t use backitems that much. If our only options are clipping or floating then I pick floating.

Lol. Manifesto, treadmill, ascended and power creep in 1 post.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Personally, I liked her. But man . . . the amount of hate she got on these forums. She was called everything from cardboard to a poor plot device.

Well like 90% of her character development was done way after her death. I know few people who changed their mind after learning more about her in the second season.

Djinn.9245:

And I agree that most responses are not helpful.

He did not ask for help. He said that story is hard and that he runs high level fractals so his skill should not be questioned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/guildrecruitment/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor
:P

Pact destroyed
Trahearne dies
Pale Tree is controlled by Mordy
Rytlock emerges from fractal asura gate

Tiny Doom.4380:

I don’t know why this is all tied to the idea of whether Gliding is or isn’t good for Jumping Puzzles. I don’t care about JPs but I don’t want to use a glider unless I want to use a glider. It should be default OFF and switch it on in options if you want to use it.

Or let people rebind it to something that is not a jump button.

Nothing. Still waiting.

You just met average PHIW players. Kick/block/report.

Mr Godlike.6098:

And as for the ,,same stuff argument" What if pvp, pve (raids are NOT PVE), and wvw had their own legendary armour’s that look different?

“Player versus environment, or PvE (also known as Player versus Monster, or PvM in some communities), is a term used in online games, particularly MMORPGs, CORPGs, MUDs, and other online role-playing video games, to refer to fighting computer-controlled enemies—in contrast to PvP (player versus player).”
They are pve.

Belorn.2659:

Diovid.9506:

So you’re saying they can’t do small scale tests with external testers anymore in the future? Because the moment HoT pre-purchasers are able to get in a test ceases to be small scale.

Marketing and sale design require careful design in order to not confuse consumers or making them feel like they are being tricked. Instead of promising “all future beta tests” they could have phrased it as “a exclusive pre-order test”. It would result in the same thing, but rather than leaving preorders with a feeling of betrayal they would feel happy about the exclusivity of their purchase.

Now they painted themselves into a corner and they got to figure out how to fix what they broke. Maybe their PR department can figure something out, but if they do nothing, the result is an other disappointment for consumers who thought they bought something and now finds out that anet is using a technicality to take it back.

They never promised “all future beta tests”. They promised “all future beta weekends”.

What are Beta Weekend Events?
Beta Weekend Events are selected weekends when everyone who pre-purchases the game is invited to test Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. BWEs may include new content or a repeat of content available in previous tests.

When will they take place?
The Heart of Thorns Beta Weekend Events will be announced as we get closer to them.

Is there a way to participate in Beta Weekend Events without pre-purchasing Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns?
Unknown, but the only way to guarantee access to the Beta Weekend Events is to pre-purchase Heart of Thorns.

takatsu.9416:

Elite specs needed to be done in PvP and WvW bc this is how to tell class balance. everything would be too easy in pve. there are some simpler pve npcs in HotM.

Then they should have called that a beta. Demo is not for feedback. Demo supposed to show off the game and create good a impression.

Probably not started yet.

People are crying because game is not pay 2 win. Amazing.