Guild Wars 2

Well… there are also achievement chests, I realized, but… yeah. Nothing but login rewards. :/

Without the login rewards, I mean.

Is there a way?

I hope this isn’t “working as intended” because doing hero challenges all over maps can be an annoyance.

gruntzy.5847:

AegisRunestone.8672:

I AM willing to change my trinkets, I just cannot at the moment.

Sorry, I have misunderstood what you were saying then.

However, If you wanna get sinister trinket, you don’t need laurels, nor guild mission rewards. To get them, you have to do the achievements of the living story II. (episodes 4 to 8.)

AegisRunestone.8672:

Sorry my links don’t work, I guess I dunno how to link builds. :P

I guess you should use the build calculator on this website, and share the URL once you have modified your build. (like this : http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Vh;4VwFb0Z5BPVd0;9;4IKM;0046258047;9;9;0FB5YnPp)

That’s okay. We misread stuff all the time, it’s a common mistake.

Question about intothemists site. How do I access my builds from my profile?

Please read my second post. I AM willing to change my trinkets, I just cannot at the moment.

Sorry my links don’t work, I guess I dunno how to link builds. :P

Well, right now, I CAN’T change trinkets. XD I do like my celestial accessory as I said, but I’m willing to sac, but… I have 19 Laurels. Can’t buy ascended gear with that. I could try it with exotics, though.

I have tried in the Heart of the Mists at the training grounds with the golems using a different build.

I used the Thief runes. They add to condition damage, and I also focused on venoms. The golems went down really fast. I want to try it out in the open world to see how it works, but I dunno if I have the money for the exotics I need to test it.

As for Sigils, I’m willing to change those, I just don’t know which Sigils to use.

http://intothemists.com/guides/5894-vini_condi_build_beta

Here’s a beta build. The back piece changed as did the accessory. I’m not sure how easy it is to get back pieces (I chose the Quiver of Thousand Arrows and chose Valk back when Zerker was meta).

And yeah, I am not willing to part with my weapons. Other than that, I’m free game.

Unfortunately… I have few laurels, so I can’t change my rings, nor my accessory. Personally, I like accessory, and rings, too.

Is there an alternative to Dire that has some power? Dire is condition, toughness and vitality.

And what runes?

I’m also getting info from my guildies that a condi thief with precision would be good, but that may be based on using the Critical Strikes trait.

Hum…

http://intothemists.com/guides/5880-vinis_current_build

That’s my current build, which is Zerker. I like it a lot. I really like the look of my Zojja’s Razors and the Zojja’s Shortbow, so changing those weapons is non-negotiable. (I also like the names, so transmuting them is also non-negotiable) I’m willing to work with my armor and runes, though. And sigils for weapons.

Now, I used to have a DA, Acro, and SA build, but I tried out Trickery instead of Acro and I’m enjoying it. I’m just wondering what would be best for a condi thief if it’s viable.

My playstyle tends to be kill fast before they kill me. Though, you may notice from my ascended rings that I’ve given myself some survivability.

Anyway, any suggestions for a condi thief build IF it’s reliable in PvE?

I refuse to answer this question. :P

Well, I hope something will happen. I would at least be happy with Feline Grace having endurance regen instead of Vigor, and Shadow’s Embrace to cover Fear and Cripple in addition to the other types. That would make me happy.

Seabreeze.8437:

I’m sure the devs are reading these forums. Of this, I have no doubt. But doing things like shouting “_Hey devs! Why do you never read these!? Post something! Respond to me!” isn’t going to get a response. That would only encourage said behavior.

So I don’t really expect Anet to come and post anything around here. Instead, I hope they are at least paying mind to our concerns and considering ways to alleviate them.

It’s true. It’s ironic that I told people to relax a little about this, but on the 26th, really, it hit me hard how devastating the nerfs have hurt my build.

I’m not going to yell at anet, but I want some-sort of response from them. I mean, the fact that they fixed Hidden Thief + Mug + Steal combo shows they are listening. But to what degree will they go to help us?

Admittedly, maybe this wasn’t the right move, but I sent a support ticket (go ahead and laugh) with the concerns of the Thief community.

Basically, the response was ‘post on the forums.’

I feel like that’s not a good response. Granted, they are a support group, but I think the devs aren’t listening. :/

Personally, all I want back is Feline Grace and Shadow’s Embrace, but it seems like when Anet makes a change, they don’t go back.

Jana.6831:

AegisRunestone.8672:

I totally agree. I want to be able to remove Fear whenever Teq or Jormag uses their breath attacks with Blinding Powder. :/

Really, it seems like an unnecessary nerf.

I’m in with that, I now get feared through all AOE and just die – there’s nothing I can do about it.

Especially if you’re fighting Teq. You’ll be feared into the poison fields and have no way of surviving it. :/

Orcinus Orca.8627:

Well, I lost my P/P thief but I got a D/D condition thief. The upside is a bit lacking but I’m OK with that.

That’s great! Still, while I wasn’t fond of p/p (I preferred d/d), nerfing it removes some diversity with thieves. I heard s/d is better now, though.

Actually, I just tested Hidden Thief+Mug with steal. I was stealthed for 3 seconds after using it. Of course, I wasn’t hurt… maybe the life steal is what causes the problem?

Edit: I tried it when I was hurt, and I still got the 3 seconds of stealth. Um… stealth bug fix?

Drennon.7190:

AegisRunestone.8672:

Huh. Well, I never was able to max out Deadly Arts before because I maxed Arcobatics and Shadow Arts in prepatch before they allowed us three full specs instead postpatch.

wait wait… you ran max shadow arts AND acro at the same time?

come on man, stop. You’re not helping your case…

What? I did max those two traitlines prepatch. O_o I couldn’t get any further in any other traitlines.

Nivik.2961:

I see what you’re trying to do here…and I can respect it, BUT, the truth is its really important for the community of thief players to be vocal about what they feel is not working or unfair. This is how these “changes to come” that you speak of come to be. We all love the class, and are paying customers so I think our concerns needs to be heard by the devs. And I think it will be.

Well, voicing concerns is fine. I’m mostly talking about people abandoning their thief because they are—apparently—completely unviable now, which isn’t really true. I think that’s an overreaction to the situation. I know P/P got nerfed bad, and something needs to be done about that. Just like Shadow’s Embrace and Feline’s Grace.

I have nothing against voicing concerns, though.

Miss Lana.5276:

AegisRunestone.8672:

I personally think Hero Challenges should give more Hero Points depending on the type of challenge. If it’s fighting a vet and two mobs, it should give like… 3? 4? If you’re just communing, one is fine.

But only getting one hero point per challenge is a little irksome.

Then what would we spend them on? At the moment I have about ~202 points on my 80 mesmer that has world completion, and has already unlocked every trait and skill. After elite specs come out I’m wondering if there will be a change to how we obtain/spend them.

Looking at it now it’s kind of odd. Of my world completion 80’s, my thief has 199 unspent points (after unlocking every skill and trait), my mesmer has 202 and my necro has 212.

I believe excess Hero Points are for masteries in the expansion.

There’s an extremely easy solution to this problem:

Use the old skill point color and the new hero point icon. Boom! Visible.

I think the apple-stealing scene is hilarious. XD

I personally think Hero Challenges should give more Hero Points depending on the type of challenge. If it’s fighting a vet and two mobs, it should give like… 3? 4? If you’re just communing, one is fine.

But only getting one hero point per challenge is a little irksome.

I also like the F2 addition, it’s very nice, and I always hated the AoE target gunk ability (I like the one that gives Chaos Armor, though), so this is handy.

Huh. Well, I never was able to max out Deadly Arts before because I maxed Arcobatics and Shadow Arts in prepatch before they allowed us three full specs instead postpatch.

Yes, I play a thief. I have a level 80 dagger/dagger and shortbow thief. We got buffed and nerfed. More nerfed than buffed IMO. But going nuts over it isn’t going to solve anything, especially since the patch is a day old.

Edit: I forgot to mention… did you look at Haste? Remember when it took away all endurance when used, and made endurance regen at 50%? Yeah, it doesn’t do that anymore. Haste gives 6 secs of quickness, 6 secs of fury, and it breaks stun. We have gotten buffs, I mentioned a couple in the first post.

Regardless, as I stated before, I do think we got nerfed more than buffed.

Tarkan.5609:

3. Shadow Rejuvination: This trait doesnt give you 1 Initiative back as soon as you enter stealth but only later (after 3 or 4 seconds iirc)

Actually, the description does say that the starting Interval for gaining Initiative is at 3 seconds.

Though, personally, I’d like to gain an Initiative point when I stealth.

Okay, I don’t like what they did to the thief either. Feline’s Grace, Shadow’s Embrace, HP nerf, Armor nerf, etc. did not please me.

However, we did get some buffs at the same time: We got the double steal, which was a good edition (if you chose to use it), and Haste was buffed. I can’t remember what else at the moment.

Note: The patch came out yesterday, so they are going to be bugs, glitches, and balance problems.

A lot of our traits are bugged currently, and I’m sure they’ll be fixed, think about how powerful we’ll be with some of those traits fixed.

Finally, concerning balance: Anet is going to be tweaking and changing things as they see needed, and there’s a chance the thief might get buffed.

There is still a glimmer of hope, and right now, I’m still enjoying my thief a lot. So, we need to relax, and remember there’s still (hopefully good) things coming.

I totally agree. I want to be able to remove Fear whenever Teq or Jormag uses their breath attacks with Blinding Powder. :/

Really, it seems like an unnecessary nerf.

Bumping this to help my thief out. :/

Linken.6345:

level up to 80 and the hero skill challenges out in the world.

So fastest would be lvl 20 scroll and 60 tomes of knowlage or 78 tomes of knowlage

Thanks.

XunlaiSpy.9384:

Skill scrolls aren’t awarded anymore. You get spirit shards instead.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/updating-your-wallet/

If you didn’t use up your scrolls before the patch, you kind of missed the boat.

I actually did use up my scrolls pre-patch. Interesting.

So, I was playing an alt and he did a hero challenge. He got one hero point from it. I was under the impression that challenges would give us more Hero points considering how much more it takes to spend on skills and traits now than before.

Is it possible to get the scrolls still? I know some guildies who had some and their scrolls were still there after the patch.

Apparently, it’s not just dungeons that have this problem, eh?

Okay, Battle playlist seems to be fixed to a degree…

But now the BossBattle playlist doesn’t play… in dungeons so far. I haven’t tested this with World Bosses yet.

Edit: Confirmed the BossBattle playlist does indeed play with World Bosses, but not dungeon bosses.

So, I finished Honor of Waves Story for the first time today… and well, look at the screenshot attached to see the bug. :P

Opening the side chest that appears on the screen apparently doesn’t have a title. Just a number.

What I love:
- New Lion’s Arch: I have been exploring this place for about an hour now. And I’ve already taken a screenshot of the lighthouse at night. I’m still not done exploring, either. This city is so beautiful and has been re-built in the best way possible. Great job, Anet!
- The Trait system (overall): I like that I can have THREE traitlines instead of 2 and 1/5 traitlines, and that I can max out all the traitlines, so I can make different builds at any time. My thief currently has all her traitlines maxed because of the huge amount of skill points she had before the patch (I think she had like 148 skill points. XD)
- Thief’s F2 button: Stealing is a lot easier, and more fun to do now.
- The Mystic Forge: I’m not going to say exactly why for those who don’t know. Only, that they should try jumping into the forge.
- Personal Story re-fix: After nine months of waiting, I can finally continue my character’s personal story, and not miss anything. Yay!

What I disliked:
-The loss of two traits: The “remove cripple upon dodging” trait for thieves is something I very much miss, and loved dearly. And the second was modified. “Feline Grace” no longer gives me endurance when I dodge in general. :/ I liked that in the older version.
- Shadow’s Embrace Nerf: Shadow’s Embrace no longer gets rid of all the conditions, but only a select few. This makes the trait much less useful. I recommend reverting it.

Anyway, those are my impressions so far. Overall, this patch has pleased me.

… when I had three dreams about it last night. It’s currently a few minutes before 6 am here and I just couldn’t sleep.

I had a dream about Lion’s Arch. It was really dark, as if in the middle of the night. There were no lights, but the loading screen was different and you could see the beautiful architecture of the city.

I also had two different dreams about the new skill/trait system. One of them was really expensive, the other was not-so. You could also customize the look of the traitline ‘card’ (background image).

Also, one of these dreams included a new feature where we could upload our screenshots to the game itself and share with other players while in-game.

’tis been a restless night, I hope the patch comes soon.

Thanks, guys. I purchased through the Gemstore, so it’s automatic. Thank you for the answers!

GuzziHero.2467:

Um no.

I dont want or need an extra character slot. I deleted toons because Anet screwed us over with Ascended, so I have loads spare. But I don’t agree with any ‘gem equivalent’.

People got what they asked for, leave it at that.

Did you read this about Ascended?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Gear-Anet-please-fix-this/first#post5173842

… and I can’t find where to register my pre-purchase of HoT.

Or is it automatic?

My guild and I are drama-less toxic-less people. Wanna join?

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True, things have been going nuts since the HoT price announcement, but things will simmer down (I hope), this community is, overall, the least toxic community I’ve stumbled onto.

I think it looks great as it is. I never noticed the black border until someone pointed it out.

The problem persists! I could report it again, but I don’t know how much good that will do. Please, Anet, I would appreciate a response of anything. Even if it is asking us more details about the bug.

I just want to know whether this is something the devs are handling or not.

Wait, it’s been happening for awhile? It’s only happened to me once!

How long has this bug been going for?

Ralanost.8913:

I like this much better. I would be resentful crafting ascended armor with fixed stats especially with the meta being switched up soon. If it had the same stats as exotics but you could change them like a legendary I would not only be ok with that, I would feel more inclined to actually make the kitten things.

Wait, the meta switching up? I know about all the changes to the skills and stuff, but… is that going to change the stat meta? Does that mean I have to craft a whole new set of ascended armor and weapons with different stats? I spent so long on my current set.

Happened to me yesterday. I reported it with a screenshot.

Oh man, that’s so hard to choose ONE area. Can I choose a section instead? Like, for example, Kryta?

If I can pick a large section, then… personally, I like Maguuma Jungle the best. I like the scenery—I think it’s absolutely gorgeous. Also, my favorite world boss is in that Jungle: Tequatl (Yes, Sparkfly Fen does count as part of Maguuma).

If I have to pick one area—just one—that I like then… hm…. that’s so hard. I think Rata Sum would be my choice or… I really don’t know. XD

If there’s any place I hate, then that would be Straits of Devastation. I despise that map so much, too many enemies around, and it throws me off when I’m trying to get a Vista after being mobbed.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10715283/8/The-Assassin-of-Rata-Sum

Chapter 7 done! I would really like some constructive feedback! I want to hear your thoughts! I also would love suggestions on how to improve my asura vocabulary.

Enjoy!

Cody Crichton.7516:

Whoa Will, yep that sounds really annoying. Thanks for posting about it, and for linking a sound file which made looking up the specific cause relatively easy. Positing the very exact area of a map that you’re in can also make things pretty quick for us to track down too.

So this is a bug that was exposed by a recent change to the audio engine. Good news is that all the particular instances of this type of bug can (and have) been fixed internally through content redesign (doesn’t need any further engine rework). These fixes should be out to you in the next major content release. Sorry for the disturbance to the peace!

Is this bug related to custom playlists as well. We’re been having problems with those: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Custom-Playlist-No-longer-Random
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Buggy-Custom-playlists

This also has been happening to me. It gets repetitive and boring to hear the same track over and over again. :/

I’ve been getting spikes for a long time… probably a month. We appreciate your game, anet, and it would be even more appreciated if you fixed this issue. Thank you.

Still not fixed with the recent patch. Please look into this, Anet. Thank you.

I haven’t had any problems since. Well, I d/ced once yesterday, but I think that wasn’t during a World Boss. That was my router deciding to reset itself. :P

I’m sure many will post this, but…