Guild Wars 2

locoman.1974:

Aberrant.6749:

Welp, next time be careful what you wish for. People will quickly lose interest in these and you’ll be soloing the groups. Glad I have all my stuff finished already. Quickly falling TP prices + this =‘s means I and many others won’t be farming them anymore.

But if players don’t farm them anymore, then supply will diminish, and TP prices will start to rise, which will drive people back to farming, which will increase supply, which will drive TP prices down, which will make players not farm them anymore… ok, my head hurts now..

I only see that happening for the coffers from people trying for the tickets if anything. The price drop will slow, but I don’t see it stopping… the “hardcore” mobs from the wintersday event that gave socks etc. didn’t stop people from constantly undercutting.

Kichwas.7152:

Aberrant.6749:

Kichwas.7152:

Kichwas.7152:

The entire event seems designed to remind us of why we left WoW…

Node stealing has come to GW2.

Nodes respawn in WoW too BTW.

But no – not everyone can tag them if you have some 80 running through 1-shotting them before anyone can get a solid hit in by using speed buffs to race ahead of folks, or running past folks trying to clear adds.

I’ve even been mob trained – had an 80 dump a stack of mobs on me as I was trying to reach the node – click it, one shot AOE the whole thing, and then run to the next one while I was trying to avoid going down.

Yeah I could farm these on my 80 and grief him right back… But should I be -required- to use my most farming-powerful character just to do open world PvE content?

They don’t respawn on an 8 min timer, nor are they as plentiful in WoW. Who cares if they kill them all quickly, tons more around. If this sort of thing bothers you then I would imagine you would be constantly infuriated irl.

As an adult I can tell you that people in “real life” have social etiquette born out by either being good folks or afraid of consequences.

I don’t see conduct like this “in real life”. Not even when I was growing up in gang territory in LA and Oakland (were folks are amazingly polite because consequence can come come hard and fast).

I left WoW so I could have a friendly, social MMO. Not a griefer’s MMO.

I see this behavior all the time. I’ve seen it in LA, Portland, Albuquerque, NY… areas dont matter when it comes to this. Some people are just selfish. I guess being around it has given me a tougher skin than others and the ability to brush off unimportant things that don’t really matter. That also comes with age for most.

Anyways they changed it so they go invuln at the start and have ore hp. No more QQ about this from players I hope.

Welp, next time be careful what you wish for. People will quickly lose interest in these and you’ll be soloing the groups. Glad I have all my stuff finished already. Quickly falling TP prices + this =‘s means I and many others won’t be farming them anymore.

In this case I see no reason to ban these players. There was nothing telling them that this wasn’t legit. It didn’t create any sort of loop or anything. They weren’t taking advantage of mispriced items. I don’t really see what they did wrong.

They simply saw a way to profit and took it before all of the masses realized it as well. Over time the rare minis prices would have gone up and the exotic ones would have gone down to where there was no profit.

In other cases I would probably agree that the players were taking advantage of the system… but this one… no.

P.S. I didn’t do any of the mini forging what so ever.

Kichwas.7152:

Aberrant.6749:

Kichwas.7152:

The entire event seems designed to remind us of why we left WoW…

Node stealing has come to GW2.

Other than everyone can tag the mobs… and they only have a 8 min respawn timer… and there are tons all around… so… not at all like that really…

Nodes respawn in WoW too BTW.

But no – not everyone can tag them if you have some 80 running through 1-shotting them before anyone can get a solid hit in by using speed buffs to race ahead of folks, or running past folks trying to clear adds.

I’ve even been mob trained – had an 80 dump a stack of mobs on me as I was trying to reach the node – click it, one shot AOE the whole thing, and then run to the next one while I was trying to avoid going down.

Yeah I could farm these on my 80 and grief him right back… But should I be -required- to use my most farming-powerful character just to do open world PvE content?

They don’t respawn on an 8 min timer, nor are they as plentiful in WoW. Who cares if they kill them all quickly, tons more around. If this sort of thing bothers you then I would imagine you would be constantly infuriated irl.

I just figure they are botting to not get kicked… so I report them for such. Dunno if anything ever gets done about it though /shrug

Cover Girl.2580:

Yes, I grinded until my fingers bled yesterday and got 302 candies. I did quick math and IF i were to get 1000 candies a day. it would only take me 100 days to get enough for the wings. I’d really like to get a redname to weigh in on this ridiculous feat and demand. That Anet Math that also thought it would be an amazing idea to place T-1 champion wvw server against the T-3 champion… cause you know. they both won their respective tiers so they MUST be close enough!!!

302 = fingers bled? o.O You have some very squishy fingers there. Don’t ever try to play a guitar. You would quickly die from bloodloss.

Also T1,T2,T3 champs going at it has been really fun… at least for us on TC Been a blast taking on 2x our numbers (often more than that) and watching them flee.

Kichwas.7152:

The entire event seems designed to remind us of why we left WoW…

Node stealing has come to GW2.

Other than everyone can tag the mobs… and they only have a 8 min respawn timer… and there are tons all around… so… not at all like that really…

Sell the jorbreakers, buy the wings. You’ll get it long before the 100k. Or you could go farm CoF for 3-4 hours. The price of the wings also keeps dropping. Just wait a little while and they’ll be even less expensive.

This event was done RIGHT. You could get lucky and get the wings early, but if not, you have a 100% certain way of getting them. That was the major complaint from the flame and frost event with the jetpack… there was no guarantee you would ever get anything. I guess some people are just never pleased.

It’s random who wins. So it might be hard and costly, or easy and profitable.

You don’t NEED to do racing.

You’ll have the reward chest from achievements (and get the shattered wings) if you just do the others. It’s 100% optional. If you choose to do this one, then don’t get upset if you have bad luck with the moas.

I see NOTHING wrong with this… it’s not excluding anyone from the final reward. If you’re upset about a few achievement points… then whatever, that’s just silly.

It’s totally random. This means for some people it will be hard and costly, other it will be easy and profitable. You also don’t NEED to do this for the final reward chest. You’ll have enough if you just do the others. It’s 100% optional. If you choose to do this one, then don’t get upset if you have bad luck with the moas.

I do wait for others who are running to them… but if others don’t… WHO CARES?!

Dear holy kittening god there are TONS around. If some one chooses to just go fast because of whatever reason (say they don’t have a lot of time) then you’ll live. It’s not a big deal what so ever since there are so many of these around.

Terrahero.9358:

The icd on Retal needs to be much longer, i’d go for a full second. 5 procs per second still leaves fast-hitting attacks extremely kitten, and since all the advantages of fast-hitting attacks have been kitten and standerdized with slow-hitting attacks, there is no reason why this type of attack should be penalized so heavily.

The damage return on both type of moves, who both occupy their own end of an extreme spectrum, would be brought far closer together allowing for much more balanced number tweaking.
You can make Retaliation hit harder, meaning it would be less penalizing for fast-hitting attacks compared to how it is now, but much more viable against slow hitting attacks as the damage return is higher.

This is the exact same solution that I came up with. +1

Velzer.1325:

Arale.4207:

magikfox.9658:

Arale.4207:

To the 6-8 SoR spawn camping SoS on TCBL, you guys give your server a bad name.

How? lol

How what?

Theres like 2 SoS there, and people just have to spawn camp them? It’s a pretty kitten move.

Much respect for SoS though. You guys are hanging in there, and you’ve shown more determination then other servers that have been in T2 when the going gets tough.

Who cares? I’ve witnessed every server spawn camping with a small group of people in the past two days. 6 people is a very small sample size of any of our wvw populations

O.o Who on TC was spawn camping? We’re VERY much against this as a server.

Regardless of who though, it’s very unclassy and not sportsman like at all… especially against a rank 7 server.

It’s too strong because of how the duration is calculated. Say I have +40% cond duration and they have -40%. 1.4 × .6 = .84.

It not only counters it, but then reduces it even more. A fix for how that is calculated would solve the problem… but it’s probably easier to just nerf the food down to where it would just even out.

Kerithlan.1659:

salluks.6017:

Points don’t matter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAGwNtI26w

This is exactly how I view points in WvW. Idc about the PPT or overall points or whatever. I’m just there for some good mass PvP fights. Stupid towers and keeps just get in the way.

timidobserver.7925:

I think the T2 servers can do okay enough against T1 servers. For example, I think that TC vs SOR vs DB would be a solid round.

However, there is currently a server that was T4 two weeks ago that is facing a T1 this week. That shouldn’t happen ever.

I agree with this totally… SoS was holding their own against the other t2 servers, but against the top t1 server… it makes what would have been a much better fight 1t vs 2 t2 servers into a T1 v T2+T4 which isn’t nearly as fun.

That being said… so far we’ve wiped 2x+ our numbers multiple times so there are good fun fights to be had! I just really hope SoS just doesn’t get demoralized. Keep up that gumption you showed last week SoS!

Piogre.2164:

20 minutes? I hope I don’t sound callous but do you mean to say you stay on that kit without switching at all for 20 minutes? Or does it happen after shorter time sometimes?

Not that that excuses this bug; I’m just surprised you’d stay in the kit for 20 minutes straight, not even switching for a second for swiftness etc.

It happens to me while farming armored scales under water (ty free 200% mf increase). 20mins sounds about right. I have little to no reason to swap out of nades underwater while doing this.

IIRC they said they don’t know if it will be an issue or not until it’s implemented. If it is an issue they’ll work to correct it.

Right now they are working on fixing transmuted precursors so that they can be used to create legendaries despite the stat change. Apparently code wise it becomes a new item when you alter it at all.

Gear and achievement points can give you a little indication, but you really would have to watch them in action and see how well they do in a dung/match. I’ve seen warriors in full arah gear get downed over and over in SE. I’ve seen rangers in rares be a large asset to the party. It just comes down to skill… which you really can’t quantify.

It’s easier when you’re higher level to go do lower leveled areas. Just get to 80, get geared, then go for it. With exotics and a full build you’ll tear through the lower level zones far more quickly. They don’t fully scale up to your abilities and gear at 80. Even dungeons are just scaled up to rare quality gear/stats. If I had to guess the lower zones are scaled for a player in all greens (but I don’t know that for sure).

In WvW those same traits/gears will help you stay alive and be more competitive.

If you PvP then IMO the ones that punish you the most for not knowing their mechanics well.

Mesmer
Thief
Then one other one of your choice.

How much does it heal for per kill?

Legendary weapons are already PvE slanted enough as it is. Look at it from the OTHER POV… some people don’t like PvE. They have to do SO much PvE in order to get a legendary. 500 Badges is nothing compared to the amount of PvE you need to do for it, You can get that 500 on a few reset nights with a zerg on a good server.

Angus.7460:

www.gw2crafts.net

^This

Updates hourly based on price to make sure you’re doing it for the least gold.

They working now? I know a while ago they were bugged.

Rinzler.8072:

It was mentioned on SOTG, whooho !

It wasn’t really stated correctly by the player (not really his fault). It’s that it’s VERY unreliable. Even on a static target it doesn’t hit 4 times… like ever.

Their response to izerker’kittenting problem was sort of “Wat?… We’ll take a look at it” Not really a good sign IMO, but at least the problem had some attention.

jportell.2197:

A bug of the phantasm not working in a video is in one of these 8 pages….

- from the first page

This wouldn’t be nearly as big of an issue if the servers were region locked. Nothing against anyone overseas… but that’s just the truth of the matter.

Lower the hp on downed + put a DR on extra ressers. Problem solved. Don’t know why they haven’t done either yet.

I also agree with shortening the time you’re able to just stay dead, but that’s minor imo.

“Fixed rare “error 1022” disconnections that could occur when interacting with vendors. "

Is this the error where when too many players use the same vend it can DC you?

I agree with removing the badges from the JP… but not removing the JP’s themselves. They are a great source of siege. Just put in another random piece of siege instead of badges. That would make it easier on the dev’s as well (wouldn’t have to do anything to the borderland maps).

Cond on mes is worse than cond on all other classes (save guardian) regardless if it’s PvE or PvP. Sell it, forge it if it’s soulbound… whatever. Get yourself a damage set. Doesn’t need to be full zerk. Having some survival is important (you do no damage or support when you’re dead)… but you’ll want to be as damage heavy as you can be.

My guard can almost go away from keyboard and beat a thief.

Dear A-net

Please nerf scissors
Rock is fine
Sincerely Paper

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y[/video]

My guard laughs at thieves. I can beat thieves on my other non-thief classes as well (although I can’t just akitten like I do on my guard).

Typical case of…

Dear Dev’s

Please nerf Scissors
Rock is fine

~ Sincerely Paper.

I have no problems roaming solo and finding people to fight regardless of the day…

other than reset night.

loseridoit.2756:

azuzephyr.7280:

You are making my point.

Every other class has forced a team to save some kind of utility just to stomp them, costing an aegis/stability/teleport which could have otherwise been used for their own benefit, the mesmer cost the other team absolutely nothing provided they actually know how to stomp.

mesmer down state is not the worst in the game.

the down #2 is a near guarantee anti stomp that can delay a kill.

Because of this guarentee, mesmer down state is just as good as a guard.

Down state from best to worse
Ele
Thief
Ranger
Guard and Mesmer
Necro
Engineer and Warrior

Warrior’s downed state is not as bad as eng’s… it’s one of the better ones. you use #2 to delay a person long enough to pop #3. Being able to get up again and use all your skills and move around is pretty epic.

That being said, mesmer’s downed skills aren’t great aren’t super horrid. My only gripe is that #2 doesn’t move you AWAY from the target. Please at least make it 180 degrees in the other direction so that I don’t tele into the middle of a group -.-

PvE-ers can get rares faster and easier by doing the dragon timer’s events. Go to the place, push 1, afk, come back and get your 100% rare + extra loot+ karma + event $. You can do this many times per day. Why is this ok but at least a rare per rank chest in WvW isn’t? o.O

They had a limited time event when DB came… with an item many wanted to go RP with. When we got all our RPing done we came back to WvW and hulk smashed things again. You’ll see TC do poorly if they introduce another time limited RP item. Heck if they put in time limited my little pony items we would drop to t4 at the least.

OMG that day was SO much fun. It was like… people actually fought people instead of siege fighting siege. It was amazing.

Isaac.6041:

Aberrant.6749:

Still no way to get ascended backs outside of fractals. <- At the VERY least this needs to be fixed.

Wrong. You can get the Sclerite Karka Shell (ascended) without doing a single fractal.

Oh sorry… one back with stats that few want. Oh yay.

Still no way to get one from WvW. Better mr semantics?

Ynot.8397:

Beachead.4127:

Ynot.8397:

Beachead.4127:

Ynot.8397:

Maladon.5760:

I don’t understand why WvW players don’t have laurels. WvW is pretty much all I do and I had all my ascended gear except for one accessory which I just bought today from the WvW laurel vendor. The daily laurel quest has always been easy and is even more easy now. If you have made the choice in the past not to gear up by doing this ridiculously easy quest everyday during the course of playing WvW then you need to live with that choice now and stop complaining. You messed up by not taking advantage of the opportunities available, shut up and live with the consequences.

God I wish this was a wvw loading screen comment. Right in the middle there so all these whiners would just kitten already and deal with it.

We have been doing the dailies… We also have tons of badges eating bank space with nothing real to spend it on… Everyone has enough badges… It’s the fact that we have to wait on laurels to spend the badges.

I don’t have nearly as many badges as even the worst T1 player because I am in T8. Can I get a fix for that? Buy siege and give it away to other people. Go do some pve content. Getting level 10 in fractals takes no time at all. You can get that ascended back piece at random starting at level 1 in fractals. You can get the rings at level 10. You can make decent money in fractals. You can get 20 slot bags from fractals.

People need to stop complaining. There are methods people can use to get these better gear pieces. If you guys are mad that pve players can get better gear and you can’t I don’t understand. Pve players are competing against the content, not other players. PVE PLAYERS GAIN NO ADVANTAGE OVER YOU, ONLY THE CONTENT THEY CHOOSE TO PLAY.

Stop whining…

So your solution to Anet’s broken promises is to go play other elements of the game I hate… Yea lets all be apathetic and not voice our opinion and call everyone else a whiner because they have been keeping up on all the promises that have been called out and are sick and tired of Anet’s lack of attention and poor execution on WvW since launch. Such whiners….

The problem isn’t even a problem. What do ascended pieces give you that you need? Marginal stat increases that only matter in small group combat if you are equally skilled. If not the difference between exotic and ascended doesn’t matter. Pve players who do fractals NEED ascended piece or they can not progress through the ranks. The fact that I am not fully geared in wvw does not prevent me from doing anything at all.

So no, don’t be apathetic. Be a reasonable person and realize that this game doesn’t revolve around you. They made the daily even easier to complete than it already was. They allow people guild missions. You have other opportunities to get these things if your lack of ascended gear is really this horrible. Suck it up and get it done.

It’s the same diff between rares and exotics. So I’m sure that everyone just stuck with rares when exotics were the top? Lawl. A few added stats often makes the difference between winning and defeat. Get a clue.

My fractal running friends have inventories full of ascended jewelry from running fractals. They didn’t have to spend any of their precious laurels on them and and get more very easily. Yes there is a time investment to get to a higher fractal… but there is also one for getting to a higher wvw rank. Give higher ranked players a higher chance from the daily boxes to get ascended items.

Still no way to get ascended backs outside of fractals. <- At the VERY least this needs to be fixed.

Earrings are the same as the NPC in LA. Laurels and globs. No reduced cost for badges. -.-

Aaaannnndddd ascended backs are still ONLY available through doing fractals. Even if you want to do the t6 mat version… you still need to go get a vial from doing fractals.

What the kitten a-net. MONTHS later and we get this kitten.

BobbyT.7192:

Aberrant.6749:

Alex.6940:

T3 human armor has underboob… I think this settles the matter :P

For some Vigil legs > T3 underchest… just sayin’

You can easily get the best from both worlds.

How do you get anything done in game with that sort of distraction?

Alex.6940:

T3 human armor has underboob… I think this settles the matter :P

For some Vigil legs > T3 underchest… just sayin’

Hot Boy.7138:

I would also like a timer on it cause at the moment I just have to judge how long I think 60 seconds is if I’m trying to wait for the right moment to use the exit portal.

How I time the 60s portals… by playing this in my head twice.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWuQVpBeqLs[/video]

Either go with Asura (size advantage in wvw + great animations) or human (hot hot pixels).

Valk armor + div runes + zerk everything else.

/end thread.

Travlane.5948:

Anubarak.3012:

Stop saying warriors out-DPS thieves, it’s not true. We have the strongest single target DPS in the game. It is your fault if you are not able to reach it.

Why should we tank? why should anyone tank, use your skills and your brain. We can dodge everything, so what is better: healing 20k dmg or completely evade it?

At least thieves can support very well since damage is the best support… btw we have smoke screen and black powder and signet of agility if you don’t use them its your fault

check this out https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Thieves-suck-in-PvE

why do all groups in cof elite only run 4 warriors 1 mesmer? why not 4 thieves 1 mesmer? plz answer this

Because the thief needs to have the buffs on him to out damage the other players, but has issues generating the buffs himself. Also if one player messes up he’s in a worse situation on a thief vs a war.

I have done COF p1 speed runs with 3 war 1 thief 1 mes and it works great. You just need to know where to position the mobs for the thief to be able to backstab (Ex. there is a place you can jump up on a small lip behind the slave driver if you do the pull right).

@ the vid above… why you edit down the vid as to make the run seem shorter? >.>

Thief (and mesmer) punish the other players the most out of all of the classes for not understanding the mechanics/playstyle.

To a new player the thief teleported to them, disappeared, did large damage, downed the player, disappeared again, and spiked.

To a good player the thief opened with steal, used c&d, did a backstab etc., c&d again, then stealth spiked.

The reality… in a higher skilled fight the thief is actually at a disadvantage. There are many ways to counter thieves.

However in an lower skilled fight the thief is at an advantage. New/casual players get frustrated easily. They will go complain about thief being “OP” and ask for nerfs on everything more frequently. Higher skilled players will seek to find the counters.

Thief or Mesmer.

Basically the classes that punish new/bad players the most… you’ll encounter a lot of these.

Just about any class when plaid well 1v1 will be a tough fight. 1v2 you’ll die against a pair of good players.

Saw some one post that mesmers are slow… if you find mesmer slow… you’re not doing it right. It’s one of the more mobile classes in the game, you just need to trait/gear into it a bit more than other classes (but there are other benefits that come along with that if you choose to do so).

Another way to do it is to get the most sturdy classes that you can (Guard/Hunter). But the downside of that is longer fights where more can come/they can leave the fight easier.