Guild Wars 2

Boo, boo, it’s Mary Sue.
Let her rot. What can we do?

Burn the fields and salt the Earth.
Let all know what she is worth.

Until she lies in a shallow grave
no path to mirth will she pave.

Shesh, I must be in the minority about hating most of the previous patch stuff.

Ascended weapons: a needless expensive grind, just to combat the inflation they let go in the game from the prior months grind fest. There was no reason to include ascended weapons or the armor they plan to soon.

Account Magic find: another needless grind that just sucks money out of the economy. If they just made it so you couldn’t use MF gear in dungeons most people would have stopped complaining. But instead it’ll take 2-3 months to get my MF back to where it was in open PvE and karma gain was nerfed because of it.

Nerf Karma acquisition: not that big of a deal, but it effects newer players worse than older ones. But I would have preferred they introduce new things to get with karma instead of nerfing the amount we can get (and introducing the new ascended mats that require obi shards).

World Bosses Buffed: Champ farming was already more profitable than world bosses, now even more so. Did some of the world bosses go down really quickly, yes. I don’t care that much about more hp or more damage (I actually like the more damage part), but the timer along with the hp increase makes them very hard to kill at off peak hours, which is pretty stupid. I’d rather they balance the event around ~10-20 people to kill in 5-10 min, and then have it upscale with more players, with no timer. I hope/can’t wait till they make champ drops 1/day.

Teq: I still think this was a pointless change. Based on what is available in game there is no reason Teq gets stronger after Zhaitans defeat (unless he “ate” the dead dragons magical energy or something, which was never stated and just my wild cherry picking). From a game point standard, the fact that you need to organize ~120 people in team speak and spend 30-40 min to coordinate, with specific food buffs, nourishments, other consumables (the fire elemental dust and/or the mortars), skill/build/stat selections (5 stats are completely useless to Teq [condi dam, condi duration, precision, crit damage, boon duration] and only so many people with those builds can defend the turrets [and still be “useless” vs. the fingers]) is just bad game design in my opinion. Also all the trolling that can be done with people going akitten a turret or not. The lowest I’ve seen him go in an uncoordinated (no voice chat with 30-50 min of prep) event was 80%. Plus if you do manage to kill him, the loot is completely not worth the time and effort. (I’d argue even a guaranteed random ascended weapon for everyone would barely make it worth the time it takes.)

As for the new update, yay scarlet? I’ll wait till I see/play it to pass judgement.

Maladie.1035:

A solution would be to create a item for gems that allows you to pick dyes that you currently own on one character and make them account wide.

Just want to further expand on this, like an idea were you can buy a kit from the black lion and its like you can make 5 of your current dyes account wide and make it cost like 400-500 gems. This way Guild wars 2 still can make their money from gems. It is just me but I think this is a fair compromise. Like my main character has 190 dyes it is not a lot in comparison but I have all of the expensive ones and I finally decided I wanted to level a alt, but when I noticed this I literally was like nope. Just because then I would have to sacrifice getting cool armor on my main toon to just make my others look decent.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

No, the “hint” is to go looking for any bugs involving footwear, so that these will have to be fixed by adding the “hide” option.

Simple. Asura’s three-clawed feet clip through virtually all footwear. I’ve assumed that this was due to launch deadlines and would be fixed eventually, but since it hasn’t been, how do we get this entered as a bug?

I’ve also heard about some very weird bugs with pants…

Not only do they need to adjust condition caps (I think they are trying things out with the “everything stacks in intensity now” stuff) but they need to rethink defiant, if the control part of the new trinity is ever going to be a real thing then we need to see ways to control other than maybe interrupt one attack that you meant to and the rest of the fight the boss occasionally stops moving for half a second when his stacks go down.

I understand that being able to stun lock a boss is lame, but there are many ways that can address this, it has been suggested before that the buffs work backwards, and control effects do their thing as per pvp until the boss has been hit by a few, and then it becomes immune to those effects for a duration, then back to the start, hey even call it enrage or something, give them a temporary speed/damage boost, give them more/different abilities to use during this period of time, make them call in adds, or make the players do a jumping puzzle style dodge (like the laser room in MF), maybe even make the changes last till a certain condition is met (like the dredge fractal boss being dragged under the molten iron/lava/whatever it is). Suddenly you introduced a new layer of strategy because the players have to plan for the boss’s boosted phase. That way people designing their build around control have something to do.

That way you also don’t have “dead” skills in a fight, on my support guardian when I have to switch to range, I use my staff. Do you know which skill I never hit in a typical boss fight? You guessed it line of warding! Why? Because it is useless, it doesn’t remove stacks, it isn’t a combo field, it only wastes time. Sanctuary is also nearly useless, and shield 5 (those two are good for most ranged attacks but still). So many skills that we as players are forced to take, don’t even work against bosses, which is how you end up with people complaining “every fight is skill 1 and strafe till it is dead”. My suggestion, maybe remove the damage on a lot of the skills and make their effects better, why not make the cripple last longer, or shorten the cool down, the player isn’t using dancing dagger for the damage, so let them use it when they want a cripple, and make it be worthwhile for them to stop using their damaging abilities.

If even half of those changes happened we would start seeing build diversity, and actual strategies involving skills between players.

I know that seems like a rant, and there is a lot of frustration in this thread, but honestly I love this game, that is why I am passionate about it. I want this game to succeed, and be fun as possible, we need these kind of changes to make it feel more interesting, as it is right now, in an effort to make all professions equal it feels we have swung the other way. There are no unique play styles, no unique resource management opportunities. Sure there’s death shroud, but that is little more than an extra weapon that gives extra health, it’s the necro kit if you will, or conjured weapon. Initiative should feel entirely different than the other professions, but because only a few skills are worth using most of the time, it’s kind of foolish to not spam those skills.
Edited: Grammar

In GW1 there were also Hero’s Handbooks (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hero's_Handbook) for redoing the story in the Eye of the North expansion. You redid them and if you completed every “chapter” you could turn them in to a historian who would pay you for each completed book (you could only have one on your person at a time, of course). It’d be cool to have something similar to that.

Just an idea of mine. How about on September 17th, the next patch day, we try to organize an engineer sit-in in Lion’s Arch. I was thinking around the Mystic Forge. We all guest into the same few servers, equip or favorite (or least favorite) kit and hang out, spamming our displeasure in map chat, perhaps singing our little protest songs, and generally making ourselves known.

Arena Net has made a habit of ignoring these issues for far too long, giving us at most two half-hearted and uncommitted responses over the last year, so let’s do something they can’t just sweep into some sub-forum and wish away. Screen shots and youtube videos encouraged, obviously. I, for one, and tired of this crap, so I say we start taking steps to force them to acknowledge this issue on a wider scale. Comment below to RSVP or offer any suggestions you may have. Clearly we need to pick a server for each region ahead of time, so suggestions for that would be helpful. Obviously we need a server that isn’t always full so we can actually all get in.

I decided I would do speed clear videos of tribulation mode without dying.
World 1 – Zone 1 (2:53): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-C9VRaZKEE
World 1 – Zone 2 (4:55): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJWXcOvDNvo
World 1 – Zone 3 (4:47): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA4D_EEA75M
World 2 – Zone 1 (8:39): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD90o1DN-nQ

Do you even SAB, bro?

Hi all,

Currently, the logic is that since Elementalists have 20 skills per weapon set, the idea of a swap weapon set button for combat would be too strong. Understandable, but today people still switch weapons all the time. Once out of combat, you can open the inventory screen and just change equipment.

My suggestion is to add the second set of weapons in the hero panel (like all other professions) and put back the weapon swap button for elementalists. However, make the functionality different: the button does not work in combat and will only work when utility skills can be switched. It would only work out of combat. Obviously it would not go on cooldown, because changing equipment never goes on cooldown.

This is the exact same as the current system, only the player is opening the hero panel and switching manually. The would be a quality of life improvement that is minor in nature, but pleasant if implemented.

While looking at current pet list, only thing that comes to mind is : mess.
Pets are not set there by any order, just thrown like that.

So I just setted them by their families.

Terrestial

Aquatic

My pet died instantly when a champion looked at it.