it’s really pointless to hypothesize without any skills, but consider why it will PROBABLY suck:
D/P is the lifeblood of thief. Running non-DP of any for is sort of cheesy or considered trollish, because it’s so kittening impractical to not run D/P.
The weapons that even get swapped to need to have evade, movement, or their own form of escape to warrant even occasional use (SB, S/D, P/D, Staff). Thief is a really strong class, but it’s also completely dependent on D/P to function in WvW, and the Rifle needs a LOT going for it to be good.
Thief uses 2 separate weapon sets.
Rifle-D/P.
Easy.
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Hey let’s give the class with the most mobility a 1200 range weapon so they can even troll more, now from a distance.
Clearly,40 dodges/min and stealth is not enough.
Now they will troll you from afar.
Catch them if you can.(You can’t)
Btw this is the first spec I’ll unlock.
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I guess I’m okay with mounts, so long as my asura gets a charr mount. Eh, I guess, to keep things fair, then my norn gets an asura mount. Sucks to be asura.
Being a Asura,they would just build a golem to do the carrying.
I hope your Norn likes golems.
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We can’t have mounts in game,the engine can’t handle it,it would take 10 years to design and another 10 years to program,they don’t fit the lore,there’s no need for them etc etc.
Oh wait….
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Read your op again.
From what I understand this is a L2P issue.
Learn to interrupt heals,and cc,and focus dps players with your team mates.
Other than that,nothing needs to be squishier,if anything dps needs to be toned down both in plain damage and condition damage.
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WvW is still fun,but only for a few hours every day.
They should have reduced the number of available servers,done a merge,and reduced the availability of server transfers a year ago.
Most servers nowadays are graveyards that come alive for a few hours in the afternoon and early night and then die again.
WvW,and this type of game in general thrives on player numbers.
There’s no other way around it.
Now,wait to see what WvW related will be shipped with the expansion and cross your fingers.
P.S Shut down EotM already.
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it’s a shame really, I always felt the dungeons provided another set of lore to the world were Fractals to me just really explain anything and is just there to be there but this also just IMO.
Lore is relevant the first time you run each path with a group specifically set to not skip the cut scenes.
After that it’s skip skip skip.
And Fractals are lore rich as well.
Just not as obvious.
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The 4. point is the most importent after all. The combat in this game lags in it´s core.
In the first year when this hybrit and spam wasn´t a thing like today and hits actually hurt, you could destroy noobs in this game and it rly felt like your skill is worth something.
I know rly well how friends and I were used to go Hot-Join for farming noobs 3 vs 8 basically. It wasn´t the kind of zerg spam like it is today.
I know people were crying about thieves 1 shot backstab and stuff.
Some things were more op then others blabla. The usuall stuff going on.
Befor I think about matchmaking mmr ect, I think about this.
When I play this game today, I find myself back in a spam/zerg.
You kind of see a differece bettween skilled players and those who are not.
But it is marginal compared to what it was supposed to be.
I mean, even against a skilled player, I see myself healing me back to full like 10 times(exaggerate) over befor someone dies. -_-
And maybe people overrate mmr then. Because this needs to be fixed first.
Your skill must feel to be honored in fight insteadly, if it does not even that and you find yourself back in this zerg, you maybe can´t have a working mmr.
If you have a good combat, you can carry much more then you can today with this hybrit spam zerg.
Most of you kind of missed the time when the game was at it´s best point.
They scewed it up like very soon.
The game how it was the first year was the best version of the game.
Besides the lags, ballance issues and stuff. I felt myself actually carrying something.
Todday is just awefull to play.
?Why?
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Are you serial?
Burst damage is already crazy high and it’s so easy to spam,it requires 0 skill,and one shots are already a thing in PvP.
And even the tankiest build available can be focused and killed in under 10 seconds.
In the end,make this a FPS,go away with all the stealth and all the overboard kitten utilities that have made some professions here resemble more what would be a hacker in any other game,and rename the game to Call of Guild Wars 2.
That would be fun.
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If the only reason for you playing the game is grinding gear,play something else.
I have fun playing the actual game content,and I want this to be gated by gear grind as least as possible.
Ascended for Raids,Fractals and WvW is more than enough.
GW2 already has some serious grinds,but they are related to vanity items and they don’t act as gates for content.
Also,and since you brought it up,I left BDO for exactly this reason.
It’s impossible to do anything competitive and PvP related in that game unless you grind for overpowered gear 6 hours a day.
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The fact that raids are not well attended is not a function of there being no carrot (or even the lack of a huge carrot), but rather that they were never designed for casual players, which make up the vast majority of the game’s playerbase.
You can offer all the carrots you want, but without building in-game systems that both make raids substantially easier to organize and complete, the vast majority will either never attempt them, or try them once and never go back.
It’s not so much about being a casual or not,but rather about finding a dependable group of 10 players you can raid with,and being able and willing to commit to it.
I’d rather listen to cows farting,than having to pug a raid with total strangers.
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Take your time to explore,it’s not that complicated of a map.
It’s really easy to get anywhere you want,just use the mastery ability and any up drafts you see.
Maps in this game make for one of it’s strongest selling points,they are so beautifully designed and varied.
Should they build every map flat because all you want to do is point to a marker in the mini map and walk a straight line there?
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Let’s see.
9 professions x 5 races x 2 for each sex =90 unique sets..
By 2067 we’d be nearing the completion of all the armour sets.
Talk about setting long term goals.
Edit.
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The animations are cool though.
Especially the medium set that goes from austere to extra fluffy.
Nice armor sets,but way too costly and raid exclusive.
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It’s N/A for me since I don’t raid,and even if I did,the cost of making one set(around 10K gold?) is way too high to justify the minor QoL utility it provides.
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Pretty cheesy when that damage is covered by loads of evade time lol. Hopefully when they ever decide to balance the game, thatl be toned down in the first wave.
No need for that.
They just need to add the Benny Hill music every time a Thief starts spamming Vault and evades close to you.
This is ingenious class design,something for the devs to be proud of.
boing,boing,boing,fewwt,fewwt,boing boing……
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Atm, Guardian at low level, then Warrior, Thief and Druid. Thief is hard to master but when you do you kill everyone or at last become totally unkillable. The same with the Druid, you become unkillable and have even better dps and can hold the point if you need to.
If you like toe support role, a good elementalist make a team win. In a match, if a team have an ele and the other one don’t, the second one lose at 90%.
Don’t chose Necomancer for any reason on this world.
Also mesmers are bad to carry, but still better to play.
Thief is definitely hard to master.Spamming that dodge button can be challenging.
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Definitely.
Who wants to spend their game time in fractals or PvP etc,when we can go shopping and looking for materials instead.
With the amount of mats in game ,and the required quantities,materials shopping would indeed be a peach,and a banana if I may add.
Down with QoL features for menial activities,like buying mats.
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Mesmer is weak because it can’t carry a team of 5(which it can,and it shouldn’t,no class or build should in a well balanced game,but whatever).
Enter the logic of GW2 PvP players and the death of class balance.
I don’t know if the op is trolling.
A shatter Mesmer can already pretty much 100-0 you in a single burst,what more “kill pressure” could you give it?
Add in all the mobility and utility it carries,including the dreaded Moa,which in this heavy condition damage meta is an iWin button,since losing access to your cleanses even for a few seconds equals death in team fights as well as in 1v1s.
The power shatter variant is “normal” considering all the cluster kitten over the top op builds that go around,the condition damage variant is faceroll easy mode.
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Gais gais he’s doesn’t want to hear your excuses no other 5v5 game has these problems so fix it or I will go to his house and uninstall for him.
You can be funny all you like, but the fact is this game is riddled with problems that could be easily fixed, even I as a newcomer can see that. It’s fairer to point them out than to just leave without saying anything.
This is a non issue since there was already a option available in game for this purpose.
And it’s not a problem to everyone.
For example I like watching all the various races in game and have no problem with reading telegraphs.
Also,know that the suggestion you made to delete Asura from PvP didn’t go unnoticed.
Expect an Inquest representative to visit you soon.
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Excuse me,but I call the bsOmeter has been maxed here.
There is an MMO where open world leveling is not faceroll easy?
Is there an MMO that has more challenging open world content than the HoT metas?
An MMO that has harder open world mobs and bosses?
An MMO that has more varied and extensive open world public events?
In what planet?
Maybe the op can enlighten us.
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Don’t delete your old characters.
If you still have available character slots,create a new character of the the race and profession you like.
If you are an old player you probably have hoarded up on birthday scrolls and experience tomes,and it will take you all of 2 min to max level your toon with all the trait lines but the elite spec,unlocked.
If you don’t have a remaining character slot,buy one from the gem store.
Everything else in this thread is fluff and kitten.
GW2 has THE easiest levelling of all times,especially for veteran players it hands out free lvl 80s like candy.
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Bloomy is one of the best encounters in all fractals.
That’s debatable.
Is it really? He said it is one of the best, which is as far reaching a comment as you can get. What’s there to debate about that? He isn’t saying it is the definitive best.
Of course it’s debatable. Someone debated it
More seriously, some people hate the new version of Swamp; for them, there’s no chance it’s “the best” or even in the top 20 (inb4: yes, I’m aware that there are only 16 atm).
ppl that hate it hate it for a very particular reason and that the fact that its no loger that free loot fractal they were used to run.
I would say it’s largely in part to that, but I feel like it’s also because it’s an absolute pain in the ass to run in PUGs. It (in my opinion) is a complete nightmare to do it with people who constantly die or won’t CC Bloomy.
If you don’t have players to CC it,and to stay on the safe side just range pew pew it.
The big attacks are telegraphed and easy to dodge.
Unless a huge walking tree thing jumping around like King Kong doesn’t seem as much of a threat to your team mates.
In which case you need to inform them that the big tree cow=bad and so are the big red circles.And of course if it lands on you you are going to die.
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Certainly.
Having to run all the way from spawn to the other side of the map because 99% of the time WPs are contested is not a pain in my kiiten enough.
Increasing the probability of having to return to the spawn area is gg all the way.
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GW2 is an MMO.
It’s PvP is easily the best of any other AAA MMO,and the class balance in PvP is as good as in any other MMO,as in non existent.
The work Anet did on balancing the classes and the overall combat gameplay is good enough for an MMO.
It’s not good enough for an E Sport.
You can’t say that you are seriously pursuing E Sport status and then go on to drop a balance patch every 3 to 6 months.
It simply is not enough.
Can we now go back to having fun with the game and go away with all the E Sports and League kitten?
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Do you really think, balancing arround people that don’t even understand half of the things they are talking about and that have completely different opinions on what should get changed, often based on anecdotal experiences and lack of knowledge, will somehow improve the game?
We would probably end up without any dmg skills, because apparently everything that can kill other players must be op accoding to someone …
They already do that.
Look at all the low no skill builds that play on auto pilot.
Players learn nothing because they don’t have to learn anything.
All they do is pop invulnerabilities and spam DPS like Chuck Norris.
There’s is no requirement for making hard choices,no risk and reward,just reward and reward and reward.
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Ok,I watched the vid.
It’s an eye for an eye.
Thief is also one of the classes that can do this to other classes.
Oh and Anet,when we say that DPS in PvP is batkittencrazy and in many cases requires 0 skill to pull off to the point it’s become a joke.This is what we mean.
A guy initiates a attack from stealth and kills another player with a single burst.
Zero skill.All Benny Hill.
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It’s kinda futile to worry about such details in GW2.
All other examples pale compared to how not only the Elite spec,but the whole Revenant profession was handled,where lore wise it is made repeatedly clear to the player that this new magic is brought in the world of Tyria at the start of the HoT story line by RB,but then you create a character and play the personal story line from the start as Rev.
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Would be great to be able to type in other alphabets.
This has been possible with any KB language set up that’s installed on my PC in much older games,the only limitation there was that users that didn’t have the same languages installed couldn’t read what you typed in,but got gibberish symbols and characters instead in the chat window.
I don’t see why this can’t be made available in GW2 as well.
How hard can it be?
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I don’t care.
You can divide the WvW campaign in as many skirmishes as you want,and you can add all shots of clutter in the UI to give players a sense of purpose and progression,in the end it’s just a boring campaign.
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