Guild Wars 2

kiwituatara.6053:

Personally, I only use it to tag monsters while farming PVE LOL.

Yeah, the best skill for that is Axe-4 though.
The way the target limitation works for piercing AoE skills makes it hit every enemy in a mob at least once.
Love it for those huge initial mobs at Orr/Southsun.

Good Job, Daecollo. That is actually a pretty solid suggestion.

Just goes to show, throw enough rocks into a desert you are bound to hit a lake at some point.

I Deschain I.4623:

It’s funny ‘cause you didn’t mention rangers since… well they are rangers.

Youre right, its unfair rangers get a pet, whats with that horse poopymagog!?!
We need to take the rangers pet away too, no class should have anything that makes them different from the others, because thats just stupid and 1 class will end up being good at something and another wont be as good at the same thing, and my mommy said Im special and I can do whatever I want.

The thing that i wounder about when Reading on the forum is what game have you played when you complane that Arenanet is slow with updates? can not be WOW it took them 7 years to make it 3d, it cant be AOC they still havent fixed things that should be with when it was realiced, can not be SW-TOR so what game is it.

wish.3102:

Seriously, ascended back items are left out? You have a week, please hurry and add them so I dont have to do fractals, or add something specific to WvW like weapons to force PVE players into it like we’re forced to do their stuff.

Those ascended fractal backpieces are a total pain in the kitten to complete. If they were going to be put in with a badge equivalent, I’d expect that it would be something in the realm of about 3500 badges for one, not including the ectos that are required to ascend a fractal backpiece. The logic for this is the fact that the vials/globs/shards required to upgrade backpieces from fractals are extremely rare, you have to do way more fractals than just to get the 2300 relics to be able to do the upgrades to make sure you have those items.

I’m all for WvW only peeps getting their equivalents, but make it an equivalent hard-as-hell to work for item so that those of us that do love WvW but did go jump through those PvE hoops to get our BiS backpiece don’t get F’d in the A for it.

^ Death Knight?

JS though, Soldiers Necro+Greataxe + Spectral Grasp, inc clothy death knights!

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Causes the enemy players to log out due to disgust.

“LEEROY!”

You gain 25 stacks of Might, and 25 stacks of Vulnerability (10s)

What exactly happens when you apply variability?

Sure, I’d like to use the Thu’um.

Really, REALLY want them as a playable race.

Especially if they /dance Gangnam style.

Only a wvwvw player types into mapchat “wwwwww1111111111111123454323wwwasd”

I got the title without doing the JP. It was much more exhilarating putting on goggles and jumping off the planks into the lava!

Entropy.4732:

The OP ain’t criticizing zergs per se, he’s criticizing the supposed “fix” to zerging which I assume was supposed to be AC’s. He’s saying, and I agree fully, that AC’s actually have had the opposite effect, making zergs stronger and making it harder for the outmanned teams to flip camps and towers. The golden age of WvW was before the April 30th patch when arrow carts were balanced and confusion was still effective. Those were the days when a good team of smart players on an outmanned server could still be a threat to a Zerg. Those days are over. Anet needs to understand the concept of “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” The good news is they’ve clearly seen the enormous error of their ways and are scaling back damage on AC’s to siege and reducing the range. But that’s not enough. The 80% dam increase to players needs to drop and confusion needs a buff.

No, Arrow Carts have changed the Meta for the BETTER. Sorry you can’t just roam the map and trade caps with the enemy team, but if you have an Arrow Cart and Ballista already setup in your keep, there should not be ANY reason for the enemy team to set up siege of their own. It literally take ONE ballista to ruin any and all siege on the enemy team.

Perhaps if players chose to play more defensively and actually try to DEFEND keeps, instead of running in last second when the Gate is already 50% down, there wouldn’t be a problem.

I have a serious question: If you willingly join a competitive multiplayer game type that pits dozens upon dozens of players against each others for map domination, requiring siege weapons to raid keeps and supply points, why WOULDN’T you expect players to team up with one another?

GW2 is the only game I have ever played where the community actually hates teamwork. Call it zerg all you want, but that “zerg” is a unanimous group working towards a similar goal, using one another as is intended in WvW.

Don’t like it? Click the crossed swords at the top of the screen and stop complaining. It’s like whining that guns killed you in a first-person shooter.

The only complaint I have with Map Completion is the redundancy of having to get the same points on three different maps. Not sure on the technical side but it should just require that you complete EB and one of the borderland maps instead of all 3 since they are all the same anyway.

if you like it, go for it.

why should you care about any other reasons?

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

Srsly though, guys. Even if all changes aren’t well received, it’s really great to see WvW getting some love lately. Keep up the great work.

It was pretty much ignored for 10 months… in which a very high % of hardcore pvpers left the game… hopefully this is not a case of too little too late.

The game has only been out for 8 months. They’ve actively been making changes to it for two months now, which means they’ve been working on those changes for a lot longer than that.

I wonder how many badges an ascended item will cost? And now I regret just blowing a bunch of badges on re-skinning…….

So my Jaguar Zander wanted to make a pvp vid. He doesnt know how to use recording software so I agreed to follow him around and film his fights. enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RdNLKAuLY

He must be underwater a lot.

He’s probably pretending not to know you so that you don’t overshadow him in-front of Kasmeer. He’s pretty desperately trying to tap that, after-all.

Few things are quite so savory to me as thief tears.

There’s finally a hard counter to stealth and now they are going to lose their kitten. Oh, your core gameplay mechanic has a counter now? How bad that must feel. I main guardian—my core gameplay mechanic is boons and I have a low health pool. You know what counters my core gameplay? Boon stripping and conditions.

So welcome to the club of the rest of us. We meet in the gym after AA on Wednesdays. Bring donuts and paper plates.

This boxer is easily deflatable if you can get inside his ‘personal space’ and have good AE abilities. I flanked around him while he was busy with our large group then Steal > Daggerstorm which caused enough chaos with his bots that we rolled over him quite handily.

edit – I almost wanted to start farming the guy for all the loot bags =D

Here is the answer to all this gambling stuff:

• chests drop two types of tokens: a “regular token” and a “super token”.
• Guarantee a regular token in every chest.
• 100 (or some other very large number) regular tokens can be turned in for a weapon skin of your choice. (You need a large number to prevent these weapons from being too common because that makes them less desirable.)
• chests have a small chance to drop a super ticket that can immediately be turned in for a weapon skin of your choice.

This way:

• Players can always get what they want (customers happy).
• Players are induced to gamble for that super ticket (Anet happy).
• Players who are lucky obtain their skin at a cheaper price (customer really happy).
• Even if a player gets a super ticket, he/she will have many regular tickets from opening all the chests before getting the super ticket. He/she will feel all these regular tickets are wasted if not used, and thus will spend more on tickets to get a second skin (Anet happy).

You’re welcome Anet, the bill is in the mail.

Buy all weapon types your Ranger can use, and unlock every skill on them. Read the skill tooltips and see which 2 sets you like best.
Go charm some pets, and choose whichever you find cutest (lol). Well, at higher level you’ll want to look at what your pet is actually able to do and what stats they have, but at low levels it shouldn’t matter really.
At level 5+ have a look at your utilities and start unlocking the ones that look good to you.

tldr: Just play your Ranger. Read tooltips, and do whatever looks most fun to you.

I find i rarely lose to thieves, we have too many ways of just totally negating their opening burst if we are paying attention, and after that its fairly easy to beat the down.

But i have given up trying to kill them, they just run and i cant catch them, so i dont bother. I beat them up a bit, then just carry on with what i was doing when they run. Its only usually a problem if they keep comming back and catch me with everything on cd, but thats pretty rare.

Oh I’m so happy, thank you so much.
Based on your advice, I theorycrafted a 30/20/0/0/20 and it looks to be perfect. I have all the spirit weapon abilities, and by swapping traits like Eternal Spirit-> Sceptre power, A Fire Inside-> Radiant Fire, etc, I can actually have both a Spirit Weapon “damage” build and a supporting Consecration burning+boon/condition removal build available at all times. By using Carrion gear, I help the low HP of Guardian without increasing my toughness and therefore threat. Additionally, I am good in events with staff for AOE stuff and scepter/focus for the big scary bosses I want to stay away from. This is wonderful.
Oh and I really like the Banded Mail for wizard-ish armor. It looks cool and is a relatively cheap rare, so I could afford it and it would still be decently good armor (better than masterwork anyway).

Thanks for all the advice. I might actually get to play something I love both thematically and in gameplay.

I got a fiery themed charr warrior who just got The Predator. Best thing ever.