Guild Wars 2

Doam.8305:

We need mounts

Not for Alpine or Eternal as those are some well designed mounts

The monstrosity known as desert Borderlands on the other hand needs mounts or they could just replace the desert map with another Alpine as that works too.

so that gets easilly ktrained like alpine map is?

firebrand is all about woooosh and smooooosh effects… nothing more….

Alin.2468, i might be extremelly wrong, but it feels some will not even start as new meta… some will be stupidly op for what i noticed.

One thing for sure they focused in something they are great at might be the only thing they are actually good, flashy effects and blinding players irl….

ANet needs to start offering sunglasses within the game… for health reasons…

that spellbreaker dome…. freaking huge…. in a spvp map

Nomon ignore balance on this game…. its a pve game….

Andwari.2978:

Playing a Guardian, who is ment to be a Support, Tank Protection Claas and u Flame because u got no dps specc. Classic

tank only bad players and mobs :]

i feel they killed the old core guardian mace/ shouts with the new gimmick specs… so they had to reinvent some new shout system with another name…..

more tons of graphical clutter….. INC lag and rubberbanding Zerg!!! while class looks easy to get overwhelmed by any other class…. even in support.

looks like shouts will be even more overwhelmed… :\

Strider Pj.2193:

Charr car. There.

transmogriffers…. they are fugly.. fithing with a remote controlled car…. we need a charr panza for 8 players :| as movable siege….. add it for the guild who controlls fire keep in dbl.. instead of that dog transmogriffer thing…

transmogriffers sucks!

players who play diablo3 can see what ANet is doing with revenant xD

if all maps get the size on desert BL… xD mounts could be fun…

what about SW and Shouts? signet? they do exist guys!

oh wait… ment to be underwhwlmed so we all buy the new kewl kid toy

we have ew specs to try to play in WvW why doesnt tthat count?

anything else needs to be added or changed over time…

wait for the beta test to see how really they perform:( btw, i predicted condi op’ness and Dh as well before hot :\

atm the firebrand seams a joke at first sight….

some specs looked really kewl… some felt to much :\ that looks that code classes will be weaker than before.due..spellbreaker..?

did they talked anything about the classes???

open beta whuut??? o_O

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

I mentioned this in the AMA, may as well repeat it here. For a multitude of reasons, balance being just one, we don’t have any plans on doing a 2v2 (or 3v3) queue.

We’ve been talking about doing special tournaments on occasion. 2v2 would be one option for a special tournament.

but Ben, due gw2 existent power creep and how easy is to achieve high damage burst, 5 vs 5 is to much…. teamwork?? what teamwork????

cant u guys just hammer some code to test it? or simulate how would behave if it had a queue?

Call it a test mode, patch up some gw1 arena maps??

Pyre/dalesio legend? bow traps?

traps ewwwwwwwww…. more power creep to make players use them and think they are good, that was how anet made guards accept the traps…

i hope Anet as quited the traps as utitlities…— and start porting up skills from gw1

due pure of voice + trooper runes :\

shouts alone on guardian are very underwhelming for aoe condi cleanse nothing more… a guard that uses shout its a guar that leechs from neaby allies most of the time, there are far far better builds

Xillllix.3485:

“Possibility of Failure” … :-]

possible other failure, serves as well…. knowing how Anet decided to work on gw2 i would bet it is…

PoF??? players on fire…. but would make more sense potatoes on fire

when will it be?o_O is there a date already?

#backbarbecue???

wish they were racial themed:\this one look great on charrs only.

I kinda agree CoR getting up to a 10+ seccond CD, but that high CD only aplyes to defensive skills ANet would never do it… (guardian mace/shield/staff skills have falled behind overall and they have higher CD, than high damage skills).. wich is a bit part of the unbalance and make player being carried with the spamming rather then know when to burst or atack target.

IMO a good change would be SWAP skills from bar, Revs hammer auto atacks are actually quite strong so :
Would swap Drop the hammer 6-8 seconds since it would help with the KD as skill 2 and make CoR 15-18 seconds CD as the 5th skill for hammer.

As for energy management i would stay with the same e-management, probably Drop the hammer would recover 1e for each KD foe, i think that would helpmore usage of utilities than players keep spaming the same key all over again.

Rev does a alot of damage if builted right, ive seen 20k to zerkers, and 10k-15k to tanky builds… and add some more 2-4k from flame blast proc sigil on autos alone… its alot of aoe/cleave damage…

Still the output damage(current easy achievable power creep trough condi or raw) is not the only problem:

As much Anet needs to reduce the overall aoes/cleave spams at least from auto atacks, more some AOE gorund skills need better animation to be noticeable, players with graphics maxed it is like looking directly to a flashligh, if reduced some skills are not much noticeable due animation gets motsly invisble…its stupid….. what is the point?
The game would be less laggy more balanced… at least with AA’s not cleaving with exception a few weapons like ele staff and necros, and lootstick for guards.

When theres to much skills being spammed CoR and some other skills are the least one to get rendered or are just noticeable by the values apearing on the combat console and health magically drops out of no where, “oh i lost arround 10k must be a cor rev, let me look to the console to see what is happening to me….”

rendering priorities to avoid huge fps drops? seriously it feels like it….. and CoR needs to be a priority to be rendered…

condis might be fine, but how this game is ment to be played in a stack & spam adding all the power creep, and boons.

laaaaaggggg…. how will ANet fix it? add more aoe spam and condis ticks cause “inovation”.

Vegeta.2563:

XenesisII.1540:

Stop using conditions.

XD

What does that have to do with it?

Servers get stuffed will all the calcs and iterations, even player collision would kill the servers alone… :\

its how the game is made, yet they enforce aoe spam…its nuts…
Dont forget that gw2 was a new game forked up from gw1 stuff.

Genesis.8572:

It is certainly ironic that for a profession that was billed at release as being good at support and control/soft tanking, the state of the guardian in HoT is that it is subpar in both of these aspects, particularly with the introduction of raiding. My preference would not be for an e-spec to “fix” our problems in these modes, but for Anet to actually address this is in the core guardian profession.

indeed wich means ANet needs to update core or give us decent specs for what guardian was made to be at release.

Guardian could have one in all healer bunker xD, pistol+offhand, paragon based,
Imagine all the virtues getting the leap+wings effect :] #warhammerstyle, or something like diablo 2h weapons plus shield, wich seamsmroe logical since classes in gw2 have alot of similiarities with diablo3.

One thing for shure the winged leap theme on guardian should not stay on DH alone.

imo they should make more maps and merge all servers, tiers were now the “words” themed WVW maps…

3 factions, 4 tiers(each tier being thematic set of maps) -_-

This is how i imagine that word “mega merge”, so many kewl stuff could be added afterwards.

Its all good they need to start separating stuff if they cant do it all at once and end in borked content for WvW…

imo its better this way… they might be trying to avoid another HoT, that thing was awfully in many ways…

gazilion of fire stack

power creep on single skill s (old backstab @1200 range unblokcable with high crit)

more aoe stacking with less CD’s

next specs need more power creep so they get “better” and players want to play them.

hummm ic, i think i was forggting that each tome would change some of our skills and would make a direct effect.

its balanced guys >:}

more support than damage, imo it will be both but offensive support it still support :P

this is what i was speculating the tome to be:

f1 -> weapon spell that makes burns o autos, and purge condis from caster?
f2 -> https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Resilient_Was_Xiko (with better heal values offc)
f3 -> https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Pure_Was_Li_Ming (somethign arround that with aegis and burns stack on each condi that gets removed when tome ends would spread the fire stacks)

the thing is items spells from ritualist would use that inertia bar, maybe tomes will feel like weapon casted kits?
What im wondering how is if they are allied targeted or when player uses it it will affect neaby allies as well.

Fashion Mage.3712:

Aeolus.3615:

Ayuruk.3980:

Hopefully the xpack will bring a healer spec to guards. Maybe a rebuild of the mace or staff. But I agree guard support and heals in non existent. The other professions out there just do it better.

Its not a healer spec ist a condi removal + condi spec, with some minor healing.

Source?

and guardian healing is hardly non-existent.

it is not hard…the class name helps as well, still no one know yet, and wasnt there some info where some dev or who ever leaked it sayd that guard wont be a druid but it has some heal like it always had..?

Since this is a damage output game it will be a condi guard spec, that will output more damage purgin allies condis to fire damage or somethign arround it.

It just wont be a healer spec….

Player sasked befor HoT for a bow crap, and ANet gave it, after hot cancer builds and power creep players wanted a condi based guard and Anet will deliver it.

i can imagine tomes being something like the weapon spells ritualist used…one was used for some minor healing as well, and other used for AOE bombarding.

Then explain me where do i get the Marks needed…

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grandmaster_Weaponsmith%27s_Mark

Maybe we are talking on diferent things then :\ becouse thes ascended need the 3X marks to get it…and to craft those marks player needs the crafting at 500?

If yest then crafting is needed to to get ascended.

but can it show up more than 8 ?

Ayuruk.3980:

Hopefully the xpack will bring a healer spec to guards. Maybe a rebuild of the mace or staff. But I agree guard support and heals in non existent. The other professions out there just do it better.

Its not a healer spec ist a condi removal + condi spec, with some minor healing.

Any one know if theres a way to make the aquad UI show more than 8 party members?

I dont like to run the grid version.

sometimes i drop tons of siege on enemy wall looooooool or near allies so they get hardly targeted, no eles to destroy siege or ally need protections? no problemo… be a cheap player.

this game is all about being cheap and leech the bropken gimmicks anyways, best way to play it…

Justine.6351:

Aeolus.3615:

i would not mind if i could get the items that needs the crafting on the WvW merchant with a high price, but IMO still it would feel wrong as well, getting the armor tiers is a mess on this game.

Anet should just make withe/yellow/orange(green after upgrade)/purple(dark purple) type of gear… theres to much trash/clutter and that made this game crafting a mess since ascended was a forced tier added to the game….

And then they could make a small reorganize on gear crafting and wayss to get it.

we players have to much armor types and mostly even a new player can get easilly rare or exotic.

Could be possible to upgrade with Tickets and other materials Exotic to ascended?? it would be green color armor, wich could not be stat changed as trade off.

You didn’t understand the other poster,

*Exotic is tickets with no crafting
*T2 is tickets with crafting
Both are same ticket price to unlock the same skin

To get T3 you need to unlock the skin from exotic or T2 (these 2 are the same skins)

*T3 is tickets with no crafting, double ticket cost

Once you buy the exotics or T2 pieces the first time to unlock that skin, you can then buy T3 pieces at any time for double ticket price, no crafting component needed.

This will be great in the long term for wvw players wanting to make alts down the road when they have the banked tickets from one expansion to the next. It’s like how badges work, only meaningful.

I dont think so, t3 is tickets with crafting i got quite some stuff t2 unlocked(already had the mystforged skins from WvW tournaments) and t3 as well, since i dont care about the skins on t2 cause i already have them, the t3 stuff i still need the crafting maxed for the Grandmaster Marks,

example:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grandmaster_Weaponsmith%27s_Mark

Wich is what at least we should buy with tickets as well imo, but still would feel messy cause the crafting and rewards are a mess of a system and the gear tears are on the same feeling.

I know i went offtopic but, it has a follow up logic, as in rewards would be better if they were better organized.

And sorry my poor english :\

hummm, not sure what to expect as i try to acompany the LS, it makes sense to go to orr thats nothing new, since it was once the home of the gods, maybe players will go there to kills something that is corruptig the gods.. where maybe Balthazar is a minion itself(or its trying/figthing to save himself or/and the gods).

Still after that i dont expect much changes to Orr itself… players are going there just to kill a mob probably…(not expecting much..)
Some players talked about restore Orr :\wich i doubt that would happen.

Dawdler.8521:

Junkpile.7439:

Necros have so short range that 15 longbow ranges counter them.

Which is why longbow ranger is zerg meta…?

cause it is not an auto aoe atack

i would not mind if i could get the items that needs the crafting on the WvW merchant with a high price, but IMO still it would feel wrong as well, getting the armor tiers is a mess on this game.

Anet should just make withe/yellow/orange(green after upgrade)/purple(dark purple) type of gear… theres to much trash/clutter and that made this game crafting a mess since ascended was a forced tier added to the game….

And then they could make a small reorganize on gear crafting and wayss to get it.

we players have to much armor types and mostly even a new player can get easilly rare or exotic.

Could be possible to upgrade with Tickets and other materials Exotic to ascended?? it would be green color armor, wich could not be stat changed as trade off.

calculations to the client side they become to easy to manipulate…even server side u can trick them.

ANet needs to reduce the aoe/cleave spam and condi/boon(mabey) overall…. to the game gets playable, with less lag and much better fights.

ic what they did there…

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Elemental_Sword

Vavume.8065:

Aeolus.3615:

i wont get crafting @500 wich meant wont need nor cant use the ascended stuff, so tickets are useless for me as well the ticks are.

I dont care about skins.

Not sure if you realise you can get t3 ascended armor without ever having to craft.

i dont have crafting maxed nor do pve/fractals.
its been a pain to get mats and gold even to go from weapon crafting from 430 to 450….

even on wvw im being flooded with tons of chest that endmore time salvaging stuff or running towards the merchant.. :\

FXLEACH u need to see what is making the lag, guess what.

When they adress the aoe spam gameplay they will fix the lag…. wich is not what will happens, it will get worse.

Swamurabi.7890 thats the traditional blob warning effect even with outmanedplaying with a oc’ed amazing computer u notice those minor fps drops as in somehwere players are spamming their gaming skills or blob is near you ;P

@OP at least u dint buy the expansion to gain a condi cleanse on block…. and traps gimmick damage wich is almost mandatory to use…. more than core builds….

yeah not like wow, they trade gear grind to a system where players need to buy the expactions to play the next and most easy gimmicks and feel the placebo “class progression”.

Q:My question for you all, is what makes this game so great for you?
A: im here just to laught how bad Anet has become(its actually sad….the quality downgrade from gw1 to gw2 even on skill design), learn what not to do when u do an mmo.
Learn from the mistake of others and this game is full of mistaken olutions/decisions.
The skill design and balance in this game is a joke as well.
but
(meanwhile wait for them to make this game as good as gw1 was/is, but it looks this game is downgrading every time they add most of stuff)

P.S the storyline is somewhat entertaining(still inferior to Gw1) gw2 pvei is a bit confuse to follow wich made me lost track of pve stuff, and since i play with my wvw build some dps missions were a pain to kill the mobs/bosses as well….and felt like i had to drop pve.

TDLR: OP you need to find wich gimmickness made you atracted to buy the gw2 game….some are here just for th graphics and how easy s to get carried in this game.
Just dont forgget that this game was designed for player that didnt like mmo’s or never played mmo’s before.

possible counter would be several shout traited+tropper guards, but they are still useless and die in a few seconds (guards are extremelly easy to kill if they are built for condi removal and empower bot behavior), sometimes when players cant use skill or condis + random floating power creeps from cleaves and aoes overwhelms them, what could be the counter its not actually a counter its a suicide build (due the power creep of how easy is to pull and play damage output builds).

i wont get crafting @500 wich meant wont need nor cant use the ascended stuff, so tickets are useless for me as well the ticks are.

I dont care about skins.