Guild Wars 2

How to casual:

First, equip gear with either toughness, vitality, healing power, or multiples of each and go pug dungeons. Be sure never to use nourishment unless it boosts magic find.

If you’re on a warrior, be sure to rifle things as much as possible with a dolyak signet.

If you’re on a guardian, camp the living daylights out of that staff and equip 3 shouts at all times no exceptions.

If you’re on a mesmer, GS all day with no feedback, temporal curtain or time warp under any condition.

If you’re on a ranger, bear + bow. Always.

If you’re on an elementalist, ensure that you’re in celestial and camp staff for everything. Stacking might is for zerk noobs; camp dat water attunement and spam dem water fields. Spider queen is simply too dangerous and your allies require it.

If you’re on a necromancer, you’re already doing a good job.

If you’re on a thief, p/p without ever taking initiative to SR or blast smokescreen to save time by skipping past mobs.

If we get a pure black dye, I’m also going to need more fire on my armor to make sure I hit all the stereotypes.

Simple solution to all the complaints: remove dungeons, add “fun-geons”.

GW2 is a play-how-you-want game but dungeons are designed for elitists to exclude people. Therefore, all dungeon mechanics need to be reworked to:

- Mobs no longer take damage from attacks. Instead, they lose health automatically over time. They also lose more health the further away players are from them. This will discourage the “zerk only” stacking meta by enabling players to play how they want, with any build, at any range.

- Mobs no longer deal damage. Instead, players either take steady damage over time, reduced by armor, when near mobs. Dodging will negate this effect for 10 seconds. This will give players a meaningful choice as to whether or not to dodge instead of making dodging mandatory (yes, there’s a guy on reddit right now complaining that dungeons force him to dodge when he doesn’t want to).

- Doors will not open until all mobs in the preceding area have been cleared. This is to prevent skipping, obviously.

- Dungeons no longer give rewards. This is to discourage players from “farming” dungeons instead of doing them for fun, the way they were meant to be played.

- Party members cannot be kicked once they join the party. This is prevent elitists from kicking people for playing how they want. If a party wants to kick a member, they must submit a ticket to Anet detailing the reasons for the requested kick to be reviewed by a GM. This will be made feasible by the fact that most dungeons will take, at minimum, approximately two hours to complete per run.

I think I speak for everyone (but the elitist speedrunning zerk stacksploiters) when i say this would vastly improve the dungeon experience.

EDIT: No longer taking commissions at the moment.

Used to be a thread for art commissions, but now it’s just a collection of GW2 related art stuff I’ve made over the years.

Almost! Got 13/30

A player wants to clear a dungeon for the first time. He joins a party and despite his complete lack of experience he expects the group to use the tactics he wants even though he has no idea what he is doing. He also expects to faceroll the content on his first run because thats what he could do in another game. Does anybody else find this logic to be unreasonable?

Enter Rata Sum to troll TP for free golds, see:

John: ranger is pretty pet-reliant so the best thing to do is get a bear and use it to tank while you dps with a bow from a distance
Mike: oh cool i’ll try it out, where do i cap bear

So I figure I should chime in before the poor newb actually ends up trying to run bearbow and I get:

John: dude wtf i am giving legit advice
Sam: man i dunno but my friend runs bearbow and he seems to do just fine
Phil: yeah lol i leveled my ranger all the way to 15 using bear + bow, havent had any problems yet
Tom: dude they’re ’range"rs, youre supposed to use a bow
Dave: lol literally every ranger in my guild runs bearbow, but im sure this random dude in map chat knows better than the meta

So there you have it, bearbow is the meta. Why haven’t you respecced yet?

I feel somewhat evil. I am enjoying the fact that as people cry about their dual legendaries and wardrobe, all I can think of is how people in the fractal reset thread said, “just wait until this happens to you.” And it kind of reminds me of something I’d wanted to paraphrase but never had the opportunity to…

This forum is afraid of me… I have seen its true face. The GD forum is an extended gutter and the gutter is full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the casuals will drown. The accumulated filth of their anti-zerker rhetoric will foam up about their waists and all the bowbear and staff guardians will look up and show “Save us!” … and I’ll look down and whisper “No.”

I should probably take a break from the forums for a bit.

I had spent countless hours and a lot of gems —purchased by real money, not converted from gold-- on making and buying a set of town-clothes which was perfect for my Mesmer. But with the tonics as they are now i cannot wear these pieces together.
So all that money and time i used to create a perfect look for my Mesmer is now wasted.
Answer me honestly Arena-net. Do you think it is fair to first take money from someone by allowing them to mix a set of clothes to perfection, for then to deny them the opportunity to use those clothes in the combination they were bought for?

I honestly feel i have been scammed here.

Lilith’s Super Real Patch Notes

Fractal Changes

• From now until the next feature patch (2020), bobble heads are now a permanent instability for fractals above 10. The head will get larger for each tick of agony. We have done this to ensure a continuing challenge for our players.
• Due to the changes in the Fractals in scales above 10, we will be resetting all levels down to 10. This will be to accommodate the coming leaderboards which will be detailed below.
• After much thought, we have determined that the best metric for fractal skill should be “How large was the player’s head before completing the fractal?” This is to encourage the use of more balanced gear types, so that players do not need to dodge telegraphed attacks that produce agony. We feel that this is the best way to separate the good players from the exploiters.

 

Open World and Dungeon Changes

• All aggro’d elite and veteran mobs will have an infinitely long leash range. These mobs will follow you out of a map, an instance, anywhere, until you either kill them or log out for at least 2 hours. (If you encounter Dredge, any Dredge left alive will spawn a clown car of 200 other dredge that will also be aggro’d infinitely.)
• All dungeon safe spots have been walled off. If a player attempts to approach one, the player is instantly downed and all pieces of armor completely broken (but you don’t have to pay to fix it!).
• In order to complete a dungeon path each day, each player must watch all of the cut scenes that detail the story prior to the place in time which the particular path is placed. This is to increase immersion.
• All dungeons have events to contest them, which take at a minimum of 15 minutes to complete and a maximum of 5 minutes to respawn. This is to increase immersion.

 

Black Lion Trading Post Additions

• Sick of all the mobs chasing you? Buy the Infinite Deaggro Pass which will grant you access to the Deaggro room. This cannot be used in dungeons or PvP, but can be yours for the small price of 2000 gems! Be the only one in your party to escape, and leave the guardians to do the dirty work!
• Dredge Mini Pack: 500 gems. Get these cute cuddly minis today! Pack includes 50 mini dredge chasing and attacking you from behind (no, they can’t hurt you!), a rolling dredge clowncar, and a mini Rabsovich.
• All of the returned town clothes tonics are now offered in the Style section of the gem store. Get yours before we run out! 200 gems per tonic.

Algreg.3629:

sometimes, I am very ashamed to be european… like at the moment.

Never be ashamed of being a european
Remember we civilized the world
;)

RedCobra.7693:

lol though, i bought around 50 exotics with doly runes and wanted to see if saying this would make them sell, what do you know it did cba again though only made about 10g not worth the negativity :C

give me a break wanze im new to this whole thing, dont sit there and pretend youve NEVER done this before

Yeah, right. All those 10 people that saw this topic before you changed the title and OP, bought your 50 dolly Armors within an hour. Give ME a break.

I have done plenty of hawking on this forum but i do it in a subtler way than you I guess. Another difference might be that i have build up a reputation compared to you because people actually made some gold from my tips and thus are more inclined to believe me.

If you truly believed that dolyak runes will be more popular because of increased regen after the patch, the smart thing to do would be to salvage those armors with a BLSK to get some extra ectos and save inventory space, as the runes itself stack, armor does not, and wait until after the patch to sell.
To increase your chances of other speculators raising the price, you could have posted in an already existing topic on this forum that deals with speculation about the feature patch and related price shifts. It would also help your cause, if you would have provided a link to the interview and would give an example in which game modes people like to use dolly runes.

If your information was accurate and not dolly droppings, you can utilize other peoples buying power to increase the price of the item and even make some of them a little richer, adding to your reputation.

If you would have done so and waited with selling your dolly runes until next week, you might have gone out with 100g profit instead of 10 gold.

The players of GW2: ANET THIS GAME ISN’T ALT FRIENDLY WITH ALL THE SOUL BOUND STUFF OMG CHANGE IT.

The players of GW2: ANET OMG YOU CHANGE IT AND NOW ITS A BIG KICK IN THE FACE EVEN THOUGH I ASKED FOR THIS.

Professor Sensei.2941:

so why is there no official GvG? I’m honestly shocked in the time that I’ve played this game the closest the community got was the Obsidian Sanctum. Don’t get me wrong the Obsidian Sanctum was amazing for players who wanted GvG and dueling with PvE gear but being limited to two opposing servers at any given time?

Guild raids, guild versus guild, and guild halls should have been a given for this game. Looking back on Guild Wars it’s hard to see how they missed this.

There have been SO MANY THREADS ON THIS – the Name Guild Wars comes from the lore and history, not that there are Guild Wars NOW.

Please read the lore before posting….

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lore

“Tyrian disasters

Throughout the centuries, the continent of Tyria found itself in constant warfare. The multiple Guild Wars raged across human lands – constantly ending and starting again, creating a series of wars between Humans. In all these years, not much aside from the constant wars and temporary times of peace existed. However, nearly two hundred years prior to the Searing, a powerful arcanist known simply as Lord Odran sought to reach into the unknown, and in doing so, by sacrificing many souls, found access to the Hall of Heroes. Though the spirits were outraged at Odran’s intrusion on the land they had paid to access with their life and blood, they could do nothing against beings of the living. For years, Odran explored the Rift and the many worlds, placing his portals in deadly locations and concealing them with spells. Until one day, the spirits of the Rift found a way to harm that which was corporeal and when Odran returned to the Rift they tore his body apart. In doing so that which they hated most came to pass as the spells of protection and concealment over Odran’s portals were removed and mortals gained free access to the Hall of Heroes."

Axelwarrior.9084:

The problem isn’t caused by the stat, it’s caused by the dungeon imbalance.

Currently, Berserker’s is ALWAYS the best solution to everything (well, maybe with rare exceptions, usually being Assassin’s) because we can bypass the difficulty by stacking/skipping etc.

If “exploits” weren’t possible, then we’d need more survivability in dungeons and thus Berserker’s wouldn’t always be the best option.

Was waiting for the “exploit” comment! Top lel.

sirflamesword.3896:

Jerry Attrick.5963:

When equipped you walk with a cripple

If you are mediocre, that is your own fault. And if you believe rank = skill, then why has EVERY “hardcore” pvper been crying about rank != skill since the beginning of the game.

QQ post is still QQ post.

Wow. Sounds like someone has the Shaft up his butt.

Hey OP we really should do it. I’ll use elixir gun cause someone told me the autoattack is very good. How about arah p4? All turret engi dps/support/crit tank builds?

Stop being bad.