Guild Wars 2

Leonsky.3156:

It’s only OP in party support sense but if you’re soloing with a guardian that signet doesn’t make the class OP at all. I just thought it would be so much more useful on a Guardian than a mesmer.

It’s practically a “Save Yourselves” skill but party wide everyone benefits from it not just the Guardian.

I don’t get how you think a party wide “save yourselves” is not overpowered.

of course it’s much more useful on the Guardian, that’s precisely why the Guardian doesn’t have it

Underpowered as a mesmer skill, overpowered as a guardian skill. Imagine the shenanigans with signet of inspiration, empower, and altruistic healing. An 8k heal for yourself, and 24 stacks of might for your whole party.

it’d be too overpowered, Guardians are already one of the better boon-slingers, they don’t need any help or else it’d just be a monopoly

Lily.1935:

Disease back in GW1 was the most hated and feared degen condition in the game."

I think somebody is being more than a little dramatic.

Remember the Mad King’s Clock Tower? That’s the way to reward people… Imagine if the chest a the top rewarded one of the dragon weapon skins… I’d be ok if you could only do it once per account. Right now, getting a weapon skin all about luck.

Posting in a Daecollo thread.

anzenketh.3759:

Funny thing is though ooc is not as common as he thinks as it is not on the wiki.

I guess it became more common in the past 2 hours because ooc is there now.

The problem is not that Warriors bring too much damage, but that damage is the be all and end all in GW2 PvE. The Trinity needs to be fixed, not the warriors.

Treeline.3865:

The dailies are a problem. They are meant to award you for “playing how you want to play”. Being online several hours a day I rarely get 5/9 dailies from playing how I want to play which includes doing most of the world bosses (Kills, veterans, mentor, kills in area X) and doing explorable dungeons (dungeon daily). I do not like WvW zergfest which is 2/9 every day and I certainly don’t eat 25 foods or use the toilet 5 times a day. Dailies ARE forced if you want laurels – But that is okay because they award you for how you want to play.. Oh wait.

I’ll summarize for you:

“I do not want to do effort but I want reward.”

or if you feel like a boss:

“I want to do what I want to do and net the reward I want.”

Pretty accurate huh?

Yeah its totally unfair because Guardian is also the weakest class in the game!

Wait, no it isnt. Its the strongest class in the game.

I dunno why your posting here instead of the thief forums.

The class has been broken and left alone since launch due to devs incompetence/laziness in balancing the class. You barely touched on the multiple imbalances of the class.

You can’t chain stun a thief who knows how to abuse the class etc due to sword shadow step. It breaks stun and bypasses immobilize. It is more powerful than our 40s cool down utility skill stability..

If you want to vent your dissatisfaction go post in the 80+ page thread complaining about thieves since launch.

The class is OP and everyone knows it and all the arguments against the balance are L2P etc as are all the usual arguments by people being carried by their class -mesmers/guardians-.

I suggest you either roll a thief, post on the thief forum thread complaining about the balance or do both.

we got into a fight with a mesmer.

Got mesmer down. was about to use the stomp.

I had 12 k hp left of my 20 total..

I saw a poff of smoke.. and then i was dead. looking at the target that killed me.
a Thief…

My first reaction was… wtf realy ?? 12 k hp.. insta killed. on heavy armor… seriously.

WTF is wrong with the Designers that should balance this game.

On top of the supreem mobility on a thief. it has invisibility. that not even Dots uncloak… they dont even leave a bleeding trail or anything… just… gone.
And Also thieves have this stupidly insane op burst dmg, wich you cant realy protect yourself against… your dead before you react.

Because the fight is like this most of the times:
I target a thief.. i start to shoot at him..he notice he gets dmg and vanish…
switch weapons to prepare melee…
2 seconds later. you see a poff of smoke around you.. THIEF…
You start to swing.. “my hp is fine, i get this”… “WTF.. iam down already ? its 2 seconds into fight”…

My warrior in 20 k hp.. have actually been 3 hitted by a thief..
It was the most stupid thing i have ever seen.
Sure, that thief had full zerker gear and low hp…
but who needs hp if you can 3 hit 20 k hp…

Feck, i dont want to know the dmg they can do against Light armor.
But i heard ppl in my guild getting 1 hitted………..

Maybe they should increase our base armor ? (like alot)…
Or nerf the thief insane dmg abit ?

I usualy find my thiev very boring to lvl… but iam REALY starting to think about joining the stupidly op side and lvl my thief to 80 also.

one in my guild occupied 6 ppl for 15 minutes…then they got lucky and could chain lock him.
So thieves are also super trollers… REALY good balance by A-net…

Charr are not a “sexy female human/norn/sylvari” whose body they can exploit sexually and make money from, so no, they don’t care about charr.

Been here since BWE and can say Precursors are a myth. {:þ

Kiriakulos.1690:

A lot of the skills in this game lead me to believe that very little in the engine is programmed for dynamic values, instead having static instances that get swapped around as needed.

This seems to be true. Another example is in skill descriptions. It seems when a skill changes, the in game mouse-over descriptions (for example damage, range, etc.) are not automatically changed! It appears that someone has to manually change the description (in the case of a skill balance) or that an alternate skill description needs to be written (in the case of skill being changed by traits). See all the problems we had with Spiteful Talisman!

There seems to be a lot of poor programming practices here.

coding on top of bad code rather than fixing the bad code first is a bad practice.

“You’ll never take ascalon HWOARRRR!”

The ascalon commander’s dubious attempt at a battlecry in the invasion fractal never ceases to crack me up

Agree that retal is a broken mechanic.. been saying this since day 1.. and playing age of conan from early access untill just 2-3 months before gw2 release i know what Caid ment. Thats a good example of a bad mechanic. Anyone not knoeing what i mean just search conq retal on youtube and youll see.. loving this matchup tho and yes guardians cant really avoid retal , specially with hammer :P

well the whole retal things hurst anyone using multihits and ground target AoE`s, and there are a lot of professions who have their AoE builds centered on multi hit AoE, ranger, ele, necro, and grenade engi are some of the key builds.

You can’t stay alive if your taking 3-6k per second in retal ontop of normal damage, so a lot of people swap to beefy melee or to spec’s that don’t use a lot of multi hits.

It is not some intentional sneakiness, it is simply just the way it has to be until something is done about retal on the BL maps, and in general for anyone using an ability with multiple projectiles.

But with the balance the way it is there are not a great deal of viable WvW spec’ing options for guild play if you gotta avoid multi hits or multi projectiles like the plague.

ankdarkwolf.1487:

Nice nice reset, big clashes, even if maybe tomorrow everything will be lost in the alcoholic mist of my mind i started with that epic epic fight in MS garri, still having goosebumps after a past week a bit numb.

I absolutely agree with retaliation issue, playing with engi i really have to excessively restrain myself. I really hope they’ll find a right balance between utility for the users and way of dealing with it for the takers.

See you around the battlefields <3

Personally i just hope they basically remove it (despite playing a guardian). I dont think any game has ever managed to use the mechanic in a way that didn’t seem … kind of cheap or open to abuse. Exteme example but this springs to mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX2JEKVn-U4

genowefapigwa.5769:

It’s probably a bug. Ag should fights agaisnt 2 servers from Germany. The bug has been reported!

please no, let the german servers fight with themselves :p

NO! We like the bug!!

Mass retal is more of a coincidence than something we actively try to keep up, as a guardian myself i hope it gets sorted on bl maps soon.

War Dad TUP

Retal is one of the cheapest mechanics ever seen in a MMO

well the devs dont give a kitten about anything that is not working outside the mists so it wouldn’t surprise me.