Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I don’t know why the elite gyro didn’t pulse stability instead of stealth. It would mean we could fully utilise kits and not be forced to camp flamethrower for it which is never really advised. The stealth seemed a bit out of place compared to the stability. However, they might’ve thought it’d be a bit OP.

this is marauder amulett & vampirism runes…

Please, up the dmg of the AA by at least 50-70%
That could also make your PvE crowd happier. Welp, not the meta-fans, but those who actually would like to take the hammer into the maguuma jungle. It really just feels like swinging a wet noodle.

I am currently on a quest to get the Fractal Sword in time for my Revenant in HoT but by the gods is it a pain in the behind. I have a total of 10 Fractal Weapon skins so far except the bloody sword which is the only one I have ever wanted! I have gotten Mace 2x, Focus 3x, Scepter 2x, and Greatsword 2x in a total of about somewhere between 200-250 fractal runs which is incredibly frustrating. I mean, if we don’t get to choose which skin we want, they should at least not make it that you get the same skin more than once! sigh But aside from my frustration at getting screwed by RNGeesus and the poor system in place for acquiring these weapons….

How long did it take you guys to get the Fractal Weapon skin you truly wanted? Did you experience the same kind, similar, or greater frustration than me? Share your experience!

Almost 2 years for me to drop the sword… So hope for the best.

Dark Saviour.9410:

Bubi.7942:

Yeah, it’s not like Karka murdered hundereds of peo… oh wait.

Looks at Slayer achivement panel
…
So we should go all genocidal on the 5 races next, eh?

Seriously though, when a personal story step has a Kodan tell me, “Yo, that Dredge is messing up the balance and stuff because mining is bad, ya’ know? Go murder him and maybe I’ll tell you about your horn,” and my response is basically, “On it, boss!” Gotta wonder how heroic we really are.

EDIT FOR CLARITY: A lot of you are misunderstanding my point. Let me be clear: I am not against Anet marketing their pre-purchasing scheme. They are a for-profit company, and have every right to market their game as much as possible. I AM however against them saying that the free character slot is a “loyalty reward”. It is not a reward for loyalty since you can ONLY get it if you pre-purchase. No pre-purchase = no reward = nothing to do with loyalty.

The pertinent question to ask is:

“Why don’t veterans get a free character slot if they don’t pre-purchase HoT?”

The answer is because the free character slot is not a loyalty bonus for veterans. It’s a way for ArenaNet to ensure they’re not losing money from that playerbase.

If you’re a veteran player who has supported the game since day 1 but is not in a position to pre-purchase HoT, well then looks like you’re not loyal enough for the free character slot!

In their community address, Anet state:

“Veteran Player Appreciation

For our long-standing fans and loyal players, we would like to say thank you and show our appreciation. "

This is misleading because it’s not appreciation of veteran players. Veteran players do NOT get the additional character slot if they buy HoT AFTER it comes out.

This is ArenaNet’s way of disguising a protection of their income (i.e. payments from the veteran playerbase) as appreciation of veterans. It is misleading.

I wouldn’t have posted this thread if Anet had simply stated what they were going to do in response to the community outcry, and not employed their sly marketing team to disguise it as playerbase loyalty: i.e. "In response to the community complaints, we are adding an additional character slot for “veteran” pre-purchasers". Just leave it at that. What they HAVE done is just disingenuous and discredits the company’s image.

scerevisiae.1972:

Revyn.8961:

No pre-purchase, no free character slot.

i’m sure they wouldn’t be so stupid to restrict it to pre-purchase-only, else this will all start again, only even more virulently.

Well, they have restricted it to pre-purchase only, and most people seem pretty happy with it. I really don’t think this is going to blow up again.

A character slot should be included with HoT even if people buy it after it comes out. Only including it in the preorder is messed up.

The character slot is required to make HoT fully functional. The core game doesn’t even have enough slots for all core professions. At the very least you should add one with HoT for the new profession.

To me this feels like I’m being bullied into preordering. I would much prefer to wait until the game comes out and decide if it’s worth the price.

Pushing the preorder this hard makes it seem like you don’t have confidence in the quality of the product. If it’s a good product people will end up buying it after it comes out.

I’d agree, it’s a slippery slope they’re heading

There is one screenshot I needed quite badly, and I got it.

Thank you, ANet!

Nidome.1365:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’ve never been ignored in WvW, when running to a spot, at a spot, in tonic form so I couldn’t fight back or when I sat on the ground and did nothing as they approached. But I guess it’s always possible.

I’ve had them kill me at the southernmost skill point before I could get it and then hang around by the supply camp nearby so their nameplates were with the red NPC name plates and wait for me to come back so they could kill me again.

I think you have been unlucky.
Some people play to challenge themselves and some people play to cause others grief.
I’ve had it go the other way at the southern borderlands skill point – I was once fighting the spider woman when someone from another server approached. I prepared to break off and run but they also attacked her and when she was dead we went our separate ways.

Considering the complaints about being killed (on this thread and other older, threads) and the joy expressed by so many PvE people with this announcement, I would say that my experience is typical. People claiming that WvW players ignore PvErs are thinking that because they themselves are nice enough to do so, so they think this is common behavior.

It’s not.

(You should have read the thread when the Obsidian sanctum was needed for a PvE achievement and how so many WvW people camped that jumping puzzle just to kill the PvE people trying to do it for their achieve. So many angry posts by PvE people and so many posts by WvW people saying, “suck it up” or making remarks about drinking PvE tears).

Downed state bar is some kind of dark green instead of red, very hard to notice when someone ’s downed now while the red color popped right into your eyesight.

Jerus.4350:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Windsagio.1340:

I have a friend who’s way too afraid to run his engi at high levels. I’m working on convincing him.

Engi can exploit fractals so hard all over the place. It’s a top notch fractal profession.

You always make me curious what awesome stuff you do on engi. Personally I’ve just started to get more into fractals and I’ve been loving the strength of our Immob uptime so much.

There are really only 3 things that are engi “exclusive.”

1./2. When you throw a rock-like object, such as a crystal on jade maw or a rock on the fire shaman middle fight, if you switch kits you get the crystal/rock back. SO you can do the mid shaman fight super fast and if the whole team is dead you can solo maw pretty fast.
3. You can skip the first boss of the molten duo fight by using some wicked jumps. There’s a video of it somewhere on YouTube.

Other fun things that are not necessarily exclusive:

1. Engis can break the top ice part of the ice storm on the ice fractal with range traited bombs or with carefully placed genades.
2. Engis can do some nice jumps on the aetherblade retreat fractal to skip all the lightning and turn the lightning off before it gets turned on.
3. Engis can solo the heat room in thaumanova reactor up until level 49 without being a Norn.
4. Engis can use magnet to interrupt the Ooze’s shield.
5. Engis can solo the fires on ice using stealth. Other stealth skips include the harpies on the harpy fractal. On the harpy fractal fractal we can also hit the golem in the poison room from behind the battery without taking any green floor attack damage.
6. Engis can leap onto the engineer in the molten test facility prior to the fight start. I think this has some serious potential that I haven’t explored yet.
7. Engis can do some nice dolphin/dark room solos in the water fractal.
8. Engis have really nice immobilize for the cliffside fractal.
9. Engis on the aetherblade fractal can leap over the cannons behind the wooden wall before the boss fight.
10. Engi stealth can make the dredge fractal button room easy – your party doesn’t have to fight any dredges if you time it properly. We can also bucket almost as good as thieves with super speed and rocket boots.

Just some fun stuff.

I would like to see the following new ways for acquiring Fractal Weapons:

1. You get a Fractal Weapon Box for completing Fractal Frequenter (500 Fractals completed). This is a one-time bonus and is retroactive.

2. You can trade 100/250/500(? Open to negotiation) Pristine Fractal Relics for a Fractal Weapon Box. As part of this change, you can trade back any existing Fractal Weapon skin you don’t want for 100 Pristine Fractal Relics.

3. Fractal Weapon Boxes are now a very rare drop from completing Fractal Level 40 – 50.

4. A new Fractals meta-achievement is added where you get a Fractal Weapon Box for completing every single Fractals achievement (except Fractal Frequenter). (This may be a problem if ANet decides to add more Fractals in the future, however.)

Painbow.6059:

If you keep at fractals you will eventually get the skins you want after a long time

Why the false statement? If luck isn’t on your side you can literally never get the skin you want. If you happen to be super lucky you can also get the weapon you want after the first time you run a 20+, sometimes lower. Rng account bound…… one of the worst things in gw2 imo.

Still a random drop. There is in fact a box that allows one to choose the skin, but apparently it only drops from levels above 50, which don’t exist. So yeah.

So you have to balance between hitting Barradin and CCing the Menders?

Awww, you had to think outside the box how to defeat him? Good. That means this fight is well designed and it gets you thinking about your profession and the boss fight environment.

I welcome more boss fights like this in the future. If any boss fight gets us thinking about our class, it’s obviously doing something right.

Step 1: Set to follow
Step 2: Kill everything yourself in <3 seconds (zerker gear ftw)
Step 3: Done

Maybe now that he’s finished his Wild Hunt thingy, he’d have had enough time for other worthwhile pursuits, like learning to speak with more than one tone.

So we know about whats going on with Marjory but I like a theory crafted on Reddit that I hope A-net pays attention to because this to me would be the making of Jory as a character.

Jory sent Kasmeer and you away, so that she could potentially practice necromancy on Belinda hoping to bring her back from the dead.

This, to me gives us TWO opportunities for some very interesting theories:

1.
Jory fails, Belinda is horrifyingly deformed or something goes horribly wrong, which in turn will change Jory significantly as a person.

2.
Livia makes her first major appearance in the setting, and agrees to help Jory in return for something, and possibly train Jory to become a powerful necromancer in the future.

Thoughts?

I assumed mine heard of it because of his connections to some people who have secrets to keep. Now, where did I leave those apples?

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

CoOOOooOOOoo!

(Unfortunately Quaggan doesn’t own a Kitty or Mini Dolyak Calf Tonic T_T)

I’ve witnessed it comrades.

…Kehehehehahahahaahha!

Perfect. Just perfect. This makes my night.

Please ArenaNet, don’t patch this out. This is amazing.