Guild Wars 2

Game that launches with GvG (ratings, rankings, guild halls, observer) and a focus on pvp (Hero’s Ascent too, favor of the gods, affected pve access to elite pve content, winners broadcast to entire world) was disingenuously marketed as “Guild Wars” when in fact this was all misleading as the real reason was an obscure lore event. Totally checks out.

I don’t think Anet recognize all the time this guy spent on skyhammer farming his rank 70. Anet why do you do this to him?

HardRider.2980:

We already knew this was going to happen.. Should of prepared yourself for the changes.

I did. By replacing more non-berserker gear with berserker’s. “Berserker’s meta nerf”, huh…

HAPPY ANIVERSARY

This has now been an acknowledged issue for over a year! And exactly nothing has been done about it.

no you’d just have to waste 30 points into the inventions line.

since i don’t use sword and i dont permastealth i see only a MASSSSSSSSSIVE nerf to vigor and my evasion.

But hey!!! it’s MASSSSSSSSSIVE!!!!!

Chiolas.1326:

Bri.8354:

There’s just no way to create a fair scoring system, one which determines the victor by skill over numbers.

False. There are many options, however Anet hasn’t even done a test run with any of them. It’s not lack of way, it’s lack of will.

May the blobbing and nightcapping continue, hope you all enjoy your free ego booster kthxbai

I was talking more about how the league point system cannot be fair when it is built around the current scoring system that heavily favors higher population servers. If they revamp the system I’m sure they could come up with something that benefits numbers less, but as bradderzh points out, WvW competition is not meant to be fair, so for that reason we shouldn’t be rewarding the top servers.

Backstab is OP.
Heartseeker is OP
Stealth is OP.
Blind tanking is OP.
Bleed spam is OP.
Headshot is OP (totally not the runes of perplexity; it’s just thieves).
Dodging is OP.

Now you know that one weapon set with no burst damage? The one with slow, telegraphed attacks and one neat trick where it takes your boons? But not in that cool way like Mesmers or Necro where they share them with their friends or turn them into conditions. Rather more frequently in the same ongoing theme of slow and obvious. Yeah, you know the one. We used to joke about how much it sucked back in the day.

That’s OP too.

Please kindly stand still in your P/- spec. You may spam Repeater if you like, to promote the illusion of fighting back and possibly trigger confusion or retaliation. But no utilities. We wouldn’t want you to accidentally win.

And it would have to be main hand pistol only, because I think that’s the only thing in the profession I haven’t heard blood-curdling cries of abuse over yet. But mark my words now, that won’t last. Body Shot will one day get its expected makeover. And the hills will echo with the cries of OP.

Grimwolf.7163:

kittennit.7648:

Grimwolf.7163:

Doomdesire.9365:

They just need to fix 50% mobility in stealth, because it’s currently NOT working out of combat.

It’s not working in combat either. People need to stop perpetuating that myth everywhere.
The in-combat max-speed is not equal to the out of combat max speed; the max speed is capped as a 33% multiplier, period. In or out of combat.

Yes it is working. You run slower while in combat, but if u have the trait + u are in stealth u will be as fast as a out of combat with swiftness… or close to.

No, I am DEAD CERTAIN it does not, and you’re making assumptions that you’re trying to put off as facts. Many people have tested this with actual math, including myself.
There have been multiple threads on this very subject in the past that each came to the eventual conclusion that it does not make you move faster than 33% in combat, but people completely forget about them the moment they’re no longer on the front page of the forums and the same ridiculous misinformation just starts sprouting up all over again.
Nor does it make you move faster with movement impairments on you.

I have tested it again ure right its not working, my bad. I was sure it did.

It does not give +50%, more like 33% just like swiftness, so you basicly get swiftness while in stealth.

Specifically, low-health blinding powder that’s built as a passive with 5 points in Shadow Arts. Why is this a thing? Could we get this as a selectable and something that ’doesn’t’ have a tendency to get people killed by hitting Dagger 5 and having it trigger between the ability’s execution and the button press? This has happened to me more times than I can count.

I tend to prefer a more active approach to surviving than passively going into stealth anyway. Do I just need to stop trying to stealth anytime my health gets low and predict this stupid thing, or is there any hope of having it moved to something that isn’t passive? It simply rubs me the wrong way to sit there content in the knowledge that this thing will proc when I get low health.

This wasn’t ‘quite’ a rant, but not far off. I apologize for that, but I’m so tired of dying to this idiot trait triggering at the worst possible times.

BobbyStein.2315:

I can’t comment on what Ree and Jeff are working on, but I can say that I’m ultimately responsible for the quality of the Living World story. I don’t imagine we’ll please everyone with our new direction, but that’s true of any story. That stated, I encourage people to leave their feedback. Just please be respectful.

Respectful constructive criticism attempt coming up!

I would describe Scarlet as well acted, poorly written. She herself is doing just fine. The voice actress is clearly having a blast and pulling off a nice maniacal villain, which meshes very well with her twisted choice of minions. It’s the exposition surrounding her, however, which doesn’t fit well.

You can’t impress people by injecting fake accomplishments into the world, it simply doesn’t fit and comes across as contrived. If the villain is extremely well known and amazing, they would have shown up on our radar far beforehand. More importantly, if you break the established norms of the world to try to demonstrate how super-special-awesome the character is, it feels forced rather than epic.

Let me give you an example. Say I showed you this character: Gragnack the Skulldecimator. Gragnack was an orphan charr who was raised by Norn and found to be an awesome warrior and mystic. He studied with the shamans of the great Spirits of the Wild and was requested by all four to become the new havroun, but rejected them all. Instead, he traveled across all of Tyria, defeating one of every powerful species he could find, and now invokes an occult power mightier than any known shaman’s strength that lets him bend all animals to his will.

Does this character sound amazing and impressive? Almost certainly not, because his power level and plausibility are completely insane. It takes everything we currently know about the Norn and the Spirits and turns it on its head for the sake of making one character sound super-special-awesome. If there were a charr shaman, we would know about it. If there was a charr shaman powerful enough to be havroun, he would have made a huge blip on the cultural radar. But when taken to the level of Best Shaman Ever!!!!, the character breaks straight out of the “rather implausible” and straight into the “bullskritt” category.

So, three points.

1) Fake accomplishments have no teeth. I don’t care if you tell me a brand new character just introduced beat up Jormag with nothing but a rusty can opener and a doylak skull, it still sounds like something you made up to make that character look cool. Because you did. Breaking the suspension of disbelief kills any possible appreciation for the new character.

2) You don’t need the character’s power level to be over 9000. The attack on the city was magnificent, but hearing Vorpp gush about the accomplishments of this super-special-awesome new prodigy was physically painful. If you had simply said “she was a sylvari accepted into the College of Synergetics who studied under -InsertPortalSpecialistNameHere-, then murdered her master and krewe and stole all their research”, it would have sounded perfect. Plausible but noteworthy, with a touch of cruel and villainous.

3) Show, don’t tell. Build, don’t force. If you want us to fear and respect the villain, have them do villainous deeds that instill fear and respect. If you want that villain to be grand and magnificent, build them up over time and use a series of events to instill a sense of grandiosity. Introducing a new character and telling us that they are important and amazing doesn’t work because it doesn’t feel real. If you show us the character being amazing and demonstrate how they interact and impact the world, it creates the persona of a grand nemesis organically.

Durzlla.6295:

I personally LOOOOOOVE Scarlet, why should every villain need to be super cereal? I think it’s more fun when they’re a total loon.

Then I’m missing the joke, sorry.

And for everyone being kitten about all the stuff she supposedly completed, even that asura thinks those rumors are full of kitten. So why are you believing them? And if they were true, so what? She could be a prodigy, it’s not really outside the realm of possibilities especially since she’s a Sylvari and can kinda be born with an obscenely large amount of knowledge..

Because she’s a Sylvari, and Sylvari in this game in general always outshine the other races. Asura are smart? Sylvari are smarter. Norn can drink? Sylvari can drink better. Charr can fight? Well, a Sylvari that doesn’t see himself lead an army does it better. Other racers become undead, but of course not Sylvari. Other races don’t want to work together, but Sylvari ‘will make them see reason’. And when it comes to brilliant blacksmiths, we get Norn (logical), Tengu (logical) and…well, a Sylvari because he apparently created an inpenetrable plant harness.

Sylvari seem to always outshine everything else, and quite frankly, I’m sick of it. The whole ’can’t grasp emotions very well’ bit was lost somewhere along the road, with only Seiran being a decent character. The rest are just one-dimensional Superman-clones.

Another fail by the writers. When will they realize that not only 8 years old play this game and we aren’t fine with ‘ah she is the best of bests who knows everything and is the master of everything’ kind of villain with a Scooby Doo feeling while being a total copy.

But the voice acting is awesome.

I don’t like how she graduated from all three colleges. For an asura, it is an incredibly important decision in his/her life which college to join, since it decides your entire future. And here we have Scarlet, without previous mention whatsoever, being possibly the first and only person to attend and GRADUATE from all three colleges. In record time, even.

If that isn’t Villain Sue, I don’t even

I’m really getting frustrated with how inconsistent shadowstepping works, either it be with steal, shadowstep, infiltrator’s signet, infiltrator’s strike, etc. At times I’m able to shadowstep through several walls whereas a bump in the ground will screw me over.

Over time I have a general idea on where this ability works and where it doesn’t but I still run into this problem quite frequently as a thief who relies almost completely on this mechanic (not stealth).

Is there a chance that this could ever be fixed/consistent? Or is it a “deal with it” kind of situation? I feel like they really need to streamline this so it’s just a straight up teleport rather than a gamble that doesn’t work properly within it’s own rules.

Meeks.1079:

I would love to be able to jump in to WvW on whatever char I feel like playing that day but character bound WXP ruins that. If I don’t feel like playing my main WvW char I find myself logging off rather than playing one of my others.

This makes no sense. WXP abilities make hardly any difference in gameplay. In DAoC high realm rank characters were extremely powerful, yet people still played alts for lots of reasons, not the least of which was the satisfaction of progressing through the ranks again.

Nononono

Finishers (limited use) can only be used 5 times after you consume them.

The unlimited rank finishers will have the infinite symbol, bt limited use finishers will have a ‘5x’ below them.

It seems like a nerf to me… I have 3 super adventure finishers, 15 uses, would have been 1 and a half hour before the update. If i jump in hotjoin mathes they can literally be gone in 15 minutes, assuming i can get 1 kill per minute.

I feel the same. Carpet and her Authorized Clowns…. ehem…. Scarlet and her Aetherblade Pirates seem to be very incompetent, just like every other “ebil” organization in this game. The opening ceremony assault was really pathethic. They didn’t achieve anything during that, other than losing another bunch of thugs of course.

Also NPCs kinda kitten me off when commenting about them: “Hey, remember that they are like super dangerous, doesn’t matter that we killed just about 20 of them without any losses and problems.”

And if they really have other goals, like sabotage something while other members will fight to get others attention, then how can they (pirates) agree on this? Hey guys, we gonna send you on a suicide mission, cause reasons, but don’t worry, your sacrifice won’t be forgotten(it will, lol).

Andele.1306:

Its also not difficult to be a good person and obey the easy down/defeated rules of pve, if downed, help, if defeated let them rot for being lazy.

The down/defeated thing is meant for pve events where everyone is combat. This is because ressing someone while in combat is painfully slow, takes away dps, and might get you killed. So they’ll get back to the fight just as quickly if they use a waypoint.

Trying to apply that to a situation where you’re out of combat and just standing around waiting anyway is pretty stupid.

beating liadri should give you a “gauntlet’s champion” title, for bragging rights. the mini is cool, but until ANet makes minis an equippable item instead of a collectible, they won’t catch on.

I agree that gambits shouldn’t use tickets. Like Varonth says it doesn’t make sense to use gambits solely for the reward since you can just use that ticket that you used on the gambit to do another round without gambits.

Gambits should not take tickets in the first place.
Gambits are used to make the fight more difficult in exchange for a higher profit.

With gambits requiring one ticket, you basically gain the same reward per ticket as you do without gambit, but the possibility of failing becomes higher.
You just save a minor amount of time…

lordkrall.7241:

So you would rather have a cheap item that would invalidate one of the Mesmers main uses?

It makes me question why they would even put it in the game in the first place. Better to leave it out than get our hopes up and spit in our faces.

sbr.8170:

I am glad it is that high, I was afraid of what would happen in WvW if everyone was able to portal everyone else everywhere. What a nightmare.

They made it pve only.

Zenon.4328:

Lets focus on the OP’s post here. He was on the first boss, not some of the later ones that people here are arguing about.

The first boss’s 1 shot skill takes so long to wind up and only hits in front of him. If you are gonna melee him and stand in his face, just dodge behind him. He can’t move while charging up the attack so if you dodge earlier to behind him, you can just hit him while he stands there.

No, the first boss did 1 shot me the first time i tried, but then i got him the 2nd time. The odd thing is when i got 1 shot i was long way away from and don’t even know what hit me. All i know, i was full health 1 minute and dead the next.

2nd boss 1 shot me too, but i was confused by him coz he kept growing larger and larger and no matter how much i dodged or ran from him he was in my face. Then the 3rd boss, i was just a football, pulled and showed back and forth until i saw tiny little things in the air, don’t even know what they were. Birds? and it may have been them that were playing football with me. but even though i was downed i managed to kill the boss just in time.
then the 4th boss 1 shotted me as soon as i entered the arena and that’s when i rage logged.