Guild Wars 2

Every dawn after I wake I kneel beside my bed and pray.
" Remember to always place your trust in the Holy Trinity of DPS.
May Power, the Father grant you His Might to rain death in the form of large numbers on top of your enemies.
May Precision, the Son, with His Fury guide your blades into the flimsiest of their armor.
Though fallen, may Ferocity, the Holy Spirit, imbue you and magnify the virtues of both, the Father and the Son, so that your blows may fall heavy on your foes taking on the shape of more hard-hitting crits.
Spared and blessed be the followers of the Assassin that, though slightly bent on their ways, share our vision of smooth and efficient speedruns.
May you never degenerate and fall and be led astray to the misguided ways of the Rampager, or the nefarious path of the Soldier, or the wretched lanes of the Rabid.
May your faith in the Berserker never falter, your Fury never quenched, and your Might always stacked to 25.
For Great Justice!
Amen."

At the nursery at work I pray over the sleeping babies begging the Lord to grant his might onto their low levels.

On the train I beseech my fellow man to follow the ways of the berserker.
I say unto him “And the seventh angel doth poured his vial onto the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, IT IS BERSERKER”

needs revision—-
Our Father in Guild Wars
hallowed be your might
your fury come
your crits be done
in Arah as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily gold
and forgive us the knight
as we have forgiven the assassin
And lead us not into pugs,
but deliver us from evil clerics.

Corax.7381:

So how can you say that “zerker” isn’t a build when it’s clearly PART of a build?

Didn’t you just answer your own question?

Vendor? No thank you.

I’d rather have account bound on acquire item drops that drop from specific foes tied to the precursors that must then be combined in another location (similar to spawning the Mysterious Fire Creature in Mount Maelstrom) which gives one-time access to an instance (similar to the Nightmare Chamber instances) which you can enter and go through a short quest to get a guaranteed drop of a Precursor. The drops, and locations, would thus be tied to the lore behind the precursors and legendaries, giving that long-desired question an answer.

For example, to get the Tooth of Frostfang, you’d need to get a RNG drop from the Veteran Dragon Shaman in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, one of the three Shamans of Ice/Frost/Hail, one of the three Drakkar Spur champions, and “the Icebrood Atrocity.”http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeat_the_Icebrood_Atrocity Then combine them at a new interactive object where Claw of Jormag lands, which gives you an item like the Hall of Monuments Portal Stone that takes you to a unique instance in Drakkar Spurs, ending with a fight against a unique icebrood and completing the instance rewards Tooth of Frostfang.

That would be FAR more preferable – though perhaps not challenging enough – than some mere “buy from a vendor” BS.

If you’re playing a horrible build, then you’re not competitive. You don’t need to play a certain way but you should be playing to strengths and weaknesses. There are very much ROLES in PvP to fill.

You’re probably losing because you’re looking too much at ‘killing people’ and not enough at winning the match. Your kills =/= your performance. Your personal score =/= being a good team player. How you cap, defend, and occupy your enemies is more important.

I know you probably don’t want to hear this, but you’re probably just bad right now. That’s alright. You started off and maybe you don’t have PvP experience in similar games. Just means you will need to practice. A huge part of winning against other players is learning your class and learning their class too.

You should get to where you can see a certain class with a certain weapon set or passive set skills and be able to make some predictions about their playstyle, role, etc… Really good players keep track of enemy cast times, cool downs, etc… and are able to force people to play into their advantage.

If it’s overwhelming, just play some matches and get to learn what you’re doing. Do some solo-que or hot joins. A lot of really bad, uncoordinated players on there will get your familiar with how some classes play without much risk of getting smashed.

I am sure some very good players are on these forums to advise better than I can. Good luck.

I was under the impression that some of these “looters” are actually ex-home owners from Lion’s Arch.

Be careful who you’re taking out. :/

The megaserver system is still less than a week old. As with anything new, people will flock to events and megabosses until they get tired of it and move on. Give it some time and see how it goes.

If they’re still not doable in a month, then come back and complain.

Lazarus the Dire.

The Consortium.

Elder dragons.

NCsoft policies.

I am not sure what players expect for loot? Loot seemed ok to me.

Don’t forget that one of the backpieces calls for charged lodestones, too. As if there already weren’t enough things requiring charged lodestones.

Dye kits are recycled tears from the bottom of the mystic forge.

Frankly, this item should work exactly like the Hall of Monuments stone, IMO. If you have a permanent pass in inventory (AKA the first time the character goes into the Terrace) then have one of the vendors in the Terrace “sell” an item for 0 copper that works exactly like the perm Royal Pass, but requires you to have the perm one already in inventory. This way you’ll need to put the real pass onto a character the first time they go to the Terrace, but after that they can keep the voucher in inventory at all times, which for all intents and purposes (double click to teleport, allows entry) works just like the perm Royal Pass itself.

If this functionality were included, I would instantly snap up the permanent pass, until it’s there, though, I’m gonna pass on the pass.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

but … i want my 3 seconds fears.
i think fear me is ok as it is now, later people complain about warrior having too many access to stability again? O_O

29 seconds of stability though… All I know is, if this were GW1, it would have been nerfed already.

Everyone dislikes the poor guy, saying he stepped in and took the limelight. I can see how that is unless you’ve played from a Sylvari’s point of view, when you meet him as early as the second part of your personal story.

But…what if it’s not Trahearne’s fault that he is such an unlikable character? I had my second Sylvari go through the personal story, and found some interesting dialogue.

But does this mean Trahearne was just a glory-stealing, overly prideful shrub the whole time? Nope, I don’t think so.

So, by that logic, it doesn’t make sense, does it? He shouldn’t have turned into what many people see as an overbearing general. But consider this:

His Wyld Hunt was considered impossible. He was supposed to cleanse the land of Orr, and make it livable again. But at that time it was believed that there was no cure. Even if the dragons were defeated, he’d never accomplish his destiny. He was quiet and meek by nature, but he had one overriding quality: he was stubborn and headstrong. Despite an impossible hunt, he kept up his research on Orr. Despite his dislike of fighting undead, he assists when needed. And he has a heckuva strong sense of honor. He’ll go out of his comfort zone just to do what is morally right.

His nature of soliditary makes him unable to connect to the main player. He joins you out of a mix of guilt and sorrow after you lost your mentor, and does his best to assist you. This is all before receiving the sword, and before the Pale Tree tells Trahearne that he must accompany the player to help stop the Dragon’s Corruption (to which he again insists he’s just a simple scholar).

And now he receives the sword that enhances his qualities. Just like before, he moves out of his comfort zone to do what’s needed, and take the position of general. Giving out orders comes from the undenied fact that he knew what was the strongest blow against the undead. But he still needed to ask a seasoned adventurer on the proper course of action, when it came to delivering that blow. He’s not after the glory at all, he’s only trying to do what is asked of him – be a hero.

Yes, he was asked to be a hero. He was asked by the Pale Tree. He was asked by every Sylvari that look up to a Firstborn. He was asked by his Wyld Hunt. He was asked by destiny. And when you have a prophesy dangling over your head, that adds a lotta pressure.

He never intended to steal glory. He just needed all the good rep he could scrape together to appear like a competent general. He had to show he was capable. If he did not, the Pact would have fallen apart, and the Elder Dragons would never have been defeated.

Caladbolg helped him find the inner strength to overstep his boundaries, increase his sense of honor, and increase his tenacity to continue an impossible Wyld Hunt. But it also increased his solitary nature. It increased his ‘Firstborn-mentor’ quality (which to a non-sylvari, would be overbearing).

It’s just a shame he’ll never be able to open up and tell you all this, because you’ll just see him as a needy plant that can’t take the pressure to lead the Pact. He’s probably eager for an understanding friend, when he’s so far away from his kin in an unforsaken land.

Latinkuro.9420:

- I could also claim a real WvW player is the one that plays for objectives and ppt to benefit his server and achieve the win, not just for his own selfish needs.
- Those that play just for fights are selfish don’t care about their server and actually hurt their server, it’s a win the fight lose the war scenario for them.
they don’t care about server win or lose, all they care about is their tunnel vision fights, never looking at the bigger picture.

Sorry but that statement is totally false and inaccurate in every way. My server plays for fights, never for points and never has. We don’t watch the PPT to maximise crap we just all go out and smash the enemy to pieces enjoying ourselves, capping structures happens either coz we have no enemy and are bored for 5mins or because our enemy is hiding inside and has to be coaxed out(even when they outnumber us 2v1).
Our community is one of the nicest, friendliest ones going. Everyone of us care about the server. The bigger picture for us is are we having fun and is everyone working well together as a community. We couldn’t care less if we lose a fight or match as long as we’ve had some fun.

Oh and we’re number 3 ranked server not that it matters much to us. So that thought that floated through your head about a low ranked server doesn’t mean a thing. Your problem is you think everything is this big competiton that has to be won at all costs or you’re a loser, that is so far from the truth but until you realise that you’ll always be angry and mixed up.

I think it’s easy to miss the one vital point.

The trinity started out a very long time ago, so people have had the time to create stuff with the trinity. And it wasn’t just a handful of devs.

So when the trinity started, encounters were very very simple. Everything was essentially tank and spank. And as the trinity became more entrenched, more and more variety was added.

The trinity has had years to evolve. Literally years. And since everyone was doing it, it evolved faster.

I think it’s premature to expect a non-trinity system to be fully fleshed out in a year or two. So far, this game has given me more enjoyable fights than any trinity game I"ve played. I’ll never miss waiting for a tank or healer, and more importantly, I’ll never have to jump on my healer because my guildies are pestering me to play a character I’d rather not play.

But the trinity goes far beyond limiting players. The trinity also limits developer creativity. It hampers the progress of boss encounters.

It’s like the first games that come out for new consoles aren’t usually as good or polished as the ones that come out later. It takes time to learn to use a new resource. The trinity is one of the major limiting factors in most older MMOs. It should stay there.

argl, I’ll probably take me with sticks … but I am in trouble. I would have liked a little something more Wintersday as a competitor has Tixx …

During this break, I turn-by-round.

Who’s complaining? Most people have been asking for a break, far as I can tell.

Come to think of it, it’s kinda sad that the only time they’ll give us some time off is during the holidays, as though they’re our employers or something.

And if that’s the case, we should at least get a christmas bonus. Some extra gems for all our hard work grinding achievements this past year. Amirite?

I agree with the OP! I tend to be very, very skeptical about endings, but this one was very well balanced, and the view from the hill of the tower debris is glorious. There are a lot of ruins in Tyria, but THIS one was made by us! Ha!

This was my reaction when i watched the tower of doom fall.

What the heck did you do with the jumping puzzles this year? I did not mind the waiting time last year. Was kinda fun to snowball fight with undie wearing characters or snoring for two minutes in the waiting area when you missed the first jump. But this year it’s like a nightmarish snow globe of lag and glitches. All the stuff I noticed in one hour doing it:

• Respawning twice, because once isn’t enough.
• Lag spikes that instantly kill you, when you synced again (because you just run of the flake/present/path).
• Chaotically appearing snowflakes in front of you that force you to wait and watch your health ticking down, while the one you need to jump on wont appear.
• Rapidly exploding gifts.
• Non exploding gifts for at least 10 secs while waiting at Trixx (and then: chain boom).
• Two rolling snowballs right behind each other.
• Rolling snowballs standing still all of a sudden (no lag at all, the goal area was loaded at the moment I jumped into the present).
• Actor glitching out. I did the jumping puzzle while my character was laying on the belly. twice.
• Wobbling around at the goal area as if the character is constantly walking on icy Lego bricks with invisible obstacles between them
• Seriously. I noticed the clock which is ticking down from 30 minutes to zero. One might ask when? I tell you: with Trixx’ extra gift in my hands on one of the small blue gifts right before the last jump. How did I notice? I found myself at the starting area one sec later…
• Did I mention the horrible ping?

And you removed the first time daily extra drops (or I haven’t got it because of another bug). That simply sucks.

Or maybe it was a “title” conferred by others – not necessarily something they would call themselves.

You know, “O, that’s crazy Greg” – Greg’s probably not running around calling himself crazy but everyone knows him as “Crazy Greg”.

Dual navigation (top & bottom) would be a very nice update.

This all makes me wonder if Anise is just as powerful.

I’m pretty sure nothing anyone says that is actually logical or reasonable is going to get noticed here by those whiners.

I stand by my comments.

TL;DR: It should be 12 times as hard to gear 12 alts as it is to gear 1. That’s the way math works. They’re already nice enough to let our insignia recipes and armor recipes remain as they are. So you only need 30 laurels for 1, 5, 12, or 100 characters. (Or if you are really stubborn and have to have different stats you should only really need 2-3 different types of stats because most stat sets are useless and terrible).

This is the last time I impart my knowledge and logic onto this useless thread. If you can’t accept the ascended armor being difficult to get, play a different game.

Just like almost everyone said – please leave the ranks. Everything else is fine and even sounds fun. You can take away the glory and the impact a rank has in every respect, but just leave it there for the individual player to work on

Apart from the finishers and the rank number, there is also that lovely medal in the account screen that I wish to maximize

Only reason why I play SPvP (If I dont mention having fun while killing ppl) is get Dragon finisher eventualy but it was something what I expect to get in next two years because I havent 24/7 on that. Now its pointless. I dont care about some ladders or seasons. Especialy seasons its another time gate crap like Living Story what push ppl into instead let them chose how and when they want to play.
If you do that Justin if you removed ranks you will lose lots of remaining SPvP players much more then you get via new system.

Please keep ranks, and the ability to earn finishers via ranks.

However, perhaps don’t have them relate to the ladders and how peolpe get paired up with one another, but leave the feature in. it can sort of be a personal goal type thing, IN ADDITION to the new awesome rewards you guys will be introducing.

i don’t think the ranks themselves or the finishers were/are the issue.

if this is because of the farmers, then all will be achieved is actually rewarding them, by being able to keep the finishers, as well as punishing those who may have been slowly workign towards the next rank but decided to do it legitiamtely.