Guild Wars 2

Said no WvW player ever , lets make this scarlet events.

Traveller.7496:

It’s not the first time they have used hyperbole to describe living world events (and ultimately failed to deliver). That’s why many are sceptic. Sure I’ll give it a chance, if just to get rid of Scarlet finally.

At least they dont fail to fail, that’s for sure.

Spawne.3128:

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This patch killed the buzz for me, I dont even have the will power to login again after playing some of the patch, no scratch that, sitting in overflow. Then to get into the actual map, and then sitting another 2 hours waiting for the event.

Total disappointment with game model.

Aliens contacted Scarlet, as the theory of the ancient astronaut defends that aliens were on Tyria long time ago even before the dragon.!

Mikau.6920:

foofad.5162:

Um, most builds have SOME KIND of boon duration. Anywhere from 25-50%. Some even go as high as 80%. At most a 10/25/0/10/25 person is going to miss out on 3.75 out of 10 seconds of vigor. If they run boon duration runes, it comes down to 1.5 seconds. Not a big deal at all.

Not big deal at all? So in order to play Guardian, I MUST have boon duration or go further in virtues?

How nice, this provide a nice build diversity. NO. One of the biggest Guardian problems is the build diversity and they’re decreasing it. Every balance patch we are losing or keeping the same and boring builds to play, while all other classes always get something new.

Also, not everyone only plays on PvE.

Actually on build divirsity IMO will be created over time, when Anet decides to add more skills/weapons, in first place they need to adress the dps fest, and rework the damage VS defense VS condis for a better experience.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

You’re likely better off with a more DPS-biased build for roaming these days. If you try to go the bunker route alone or with fewer than 2-3 people, you’re just going to be out-attritioned by condition builds. You’ll also be outperformed by Warriors and be stuck in endless duels with other bunker builds.

+1^on Christos comment

Probably reduce that armor for more crit and crit damage, but after teh critical rework update duno how will work, at least in theory looks loke bunker builds will be a litle better.

xFireize.6318:

Maestria of Strat.2974:

Most PVT builds chose to ignore precision. With this buff, I’m wondering how viable those type of builds are. Endurance is a huge part of the PVT build IMO.

And they end up like this person and be a negative nancy.

foofad.5162:

Um, most builds have SOME KIND of boon duration. Anywhere from 25-50%. Some even go as high as 80%. At most a 10/25/0/10/25 person is going to miss out on 3.75 out of 10 seconds of vigor. If they run boon duration runes, it comes down to 1.5 seconds. Not a big deal at all.

Those silly mix-n-match rune guardians won’t be able to stack boon duration easily to that amount anymore. I only run a +5% boon duration build, just for the Inspired Virtue trait.

lold, sometimes some one have to be negative nancy.

Bash.7291:

Aeolus.3615:

I am speechless, that power that stats.
I imagine that video was made full of joke and irony.

I am assuming you haven’t seen any of his other videos… Either he is the most epic troll of all time, or something to be feared for the future of new guardians that don’t know better.

IMO this video contradicts his other videos, i actually like the way he play on some of the videos.

Okaishi.8320:

Brb, leveling my condi engineer.

Bunker engis and warriors will be even more powerfull in WvW if they only rework the critical damage.

Frigid.6027:

powerbuilds haven’t been the meta for a long time now. dire + perplexity has changed that for most classes.

Thats the problem with this game, theres always one build that is super efective against all,theres no balance. and every player goes for the same build.

Get the prove who he/she is by a large number of player and report as scam, siege scam.

Juba.8406:

incoming Crit Damage nerf is because a PvE issue

Crit Damage nerf is not going to PvP, because its balanced there, says the dev.

Crit Damage nerf is going to WvW because ………………………….. ?

Do they care for WvW?
Some think so, they are working on a WvW overflow map for what has been told., very wise choice….right?

If they change the crit damage, they must rework almost all skills, if not this game will be a fest of unbalancement more than it is now (ive seen warrior holding like 5-8 player with good damage build and contidions, hitting and hp still regens and hit like a truck and remove condition at ease, same goes for other 2 classes that got this very good mechanics, necro and engi).
The best choices are not nerf this or buff that, gw2 skills design was made to be a simple way for balance but so far as proven the other way, more changes they made more inbalance the game is, the ebst solution would be to rework all classes to work with any kind of stats armor and having multiple roles, not what is hapening where almost every one use the same build and weapon sets.

Mechanics wise game inst anything that special.

I am speechless, that power that stats.
I imagine that video was made full of joke and irony.

Nope, mixturing the armors can have a better effect, but thats my opinion after get 2 t3 armor sets :/

I just feel maps and towers are dammn to small and easy to take, the rest is the only thing i like in the game.

I imagine the temporary boss being adapted to a fractal dungeon later on the game.

It would be worse, invencible golems army all the way vs ac’s.

Imo stuff is already to easy to capture, that when u loose a keep, wood/paper doors get destroyed in seconds by just pvd from a zerg.

1st, theres no point of holding unless for server ticking.
2nd, let it be caped and cap again becouse at least you will get one more chest.
3rd, the point in WvW is the same as in gw1 AB, try to cap faster then you oponents dont really need to defend anything.

iv’e seen much better concepts of siege in old mmo’s

For my experience in WvW you would get obliterated with those stats in a few seconds, for roaming most stat you want to use is the critical and the critical damage armor is good arround 2.8 <→ 3k

If you dont make damage your target will not need to kite and take you down armor is almost irrevelant( if you dont make damage).

More unbalancing, more gear with other name and brighther skin, more overflows,more zerg,overflow WvW map just becouse yes, more skrits.

Acerola.6407:

No, not really. The only thing that could be interesting is the huge robot which kinda looks like a map-wide raid-fight (of some sort). But it’s temporary so I bet it’s going to be a messy zergfest.
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Keep the quality up, Arenanet. I’m going to try the coming 4+1 updates and if I don’t get hooked again, I’m gone, with a tearful eye as this could’ve been a great game.

I had the exactly tough.

xFireize.6318:

Aeolus.3615:

xFireize.6318:

Aeolus.3615:

WVW i can reach 30khp in my guardian yet being downed with 2 hit since roll and block are limited.

That is a hilarious story. Here I am standing at 22k fully WvW buffed and thinking it’s overkill.. oh overtanky?

Dont pretend to be pro, show-off its not nice, and yes my ~30k can take alot of damage with the right rolls and bloks, but if u know the game that well when facing certain builds they can almost instadow you at your minimal mistake or lack of atention facing several targets.

And im not talking about WvW walking bags (zerkers).

Oh I apologize if I pretended to be a pro. I just hate people who are giving false facts to new guardians, discouraging them to try to be tanky for WvW. Your build explains so much though, thanks for the clarification. I was curious how 30k HP guard get downed easily, now it makes sense.

Internet words might sound blunt anytime^^, and yes, being sturdy on WvW Guardian its not good if theres no damage and yes there are build that still do 20k if hits on that stats and was just a test i did, it is not discouraging to new guardians, game mechanics are damage wise (DPS, and anything outside that poorly works or do not work at all, leave that role to warrior (they have excelent builds for that kind of gameplay) if they want to be really sturdy.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

HykCraft.4610:

Guild Wars 2 Dungeons = stacking in a corner to win the game.

Do you blame this on people doing maximum possible damage or poor enemy AI?

Both, game design fault, both pve and WvW are bad.

lol.. would be good to merge some servers since in WvW is a blob stack fight.

Why anet doesnt admit their design mistakes, game turned into a ugly model and keeps worse, now next WvW map is a overflow map, just redesign the whole kitten.

End WvW and turn into a guildwars sandbox game!

Make guild’s conquer and develop the Mists!

The game looks like a mess, how ascended gear is obtained and its purpose, how classes work, WvW concept is interesting but poorly designed.
WvW is blob n stack cap keep, leave keep alone and move next one, ugly design by default.

xFireize.6318:

Aeolus.3615:

WVW i can reach 30khp in my guardian yet being downed with 2 hit since roll and block are limited.

That is a hilarious story. Here I am standing at 22k fully WvW buffed and thinking it’s overkill.. oh overtanky?

Dont pretend to be pro, show-off its not nice, and yes my ~30k can take alot of damage with the right rolls and bloks, but if u know the game that well when facing certain builds they can almost instadow you at your minimal mistake or lack of atention facing several targets.

And im not talking about WvW walking bags (zerkers).

Where is the campaign against massive stacking ???

Morrigan.2809:

Junkpile.7439:

What the kitten you would do in your house? Sounds boring.

I would build my house .
I would mount all my slayer kitten on my walls,
I would plant stuff, because I can and I would have lace curtains because I crafted it
I would have a whole garden of minis because I am just cool that way :p

Basically I would build my house to reflect my characters

Guild could build GH for GvG no?

Mimizu.7340:

I agree, i find most of the game offensive.

It is the search for the most “press key to win” build, actually some classes really got them.
At the end every one is playing the same builds (stats and weapons).

you join a guild/group with teamspeak or vent

:o a sandbox continent!

Sublimatio.6981:

Aeolus.3615:

Sublimatio.6981:

(…) I will never see Livia, (…)

Not so sure about that…

Actually we see her but not in her original form, I assume she is Anise. I’ve made topic in Lore section about it ^^

Well Livia has something to do with Orr if i remember after EOTN she departed to Arah in search of the prophecies staff (dont remember staff name ^^), for sure LS with get there someday, funny Anise might be Livia grandauther :P.

Plant some silvary’s o_O

Sublimatio.6981:

(…) I will never see Livia, (…)

Not so sure about that…

Problem was how LS was introduced and working with the blob per distric mechanic, it was a ugly method.

Hate: game mechanics
Like: Artwork/design

Watch some GW1 GvG to see what skill means, there were some good mesmers/archers arround that time.

Walls and doors also display the guadian Strength in Numbers trait.

juno.1840:

Azure Prower.8701:

One thing I don’t miss from Guild Wars 1. The combat was utterly dull.

I couldn’t disagree more. It seemed to require much more thought than what we have now. More teamwork as well.

^this
I miss the mesmer imterrupter, or a well timed arrow… all u need here is blob and in Pve is damage n’ roll.

Sirendor.1394:

Aeolus.3615:

SonicTHI.3217:

Because ANET abandoned the development of GW1 to make a better game based on the same principles – no grind for stats, cosmetic endgame, good and engaging pvp.

Instead why dont the people that want vertical progression and all that go back to WoW?

They abandoned the game, still better than gw2!

GW2 worse mmo ever!

So far for reasonable discussions.
That is a rather radical, subjective, and largely false statement.

[trying to get ontopic then]
I know it is radical but its not entirely false, gw1 was and is way more fun than gw2, we are talking a game thats close to 10years, yet Phrophecies history is far superior and had severall pvp concepts, Gw2 lacks all of it, classes mechanics included, for a game with 1year there were alot of bad decisions on how to the game(Tyria) would envolve further, you got concepts that got badly deployed into the game as in “living sotry VS districs” as i like to call it.
The worse problem is the artwork was what saved the game, game mechanics(to the player) has zero new/inovative content, being a DPS only game was a just easy way that dev’s tough it would be better and easier way to balance the game.
The only content i ended doing in gw2 was WvW even that has huge problems…
Gw2 is just a common themepark game with good graphics, the rest is nothing new, even ascenced gear show how game is disorganized.

Actually atm im playing gw1…

SonicTHI.3217:

Because ANET abandoned the development of GW1 to make a better game based on the same principles – no grind for stats, cosmetic endgame, good and engaging pvp.

Instead why dont the people that want vertical progression and all that go back to WoW?

They abandoned the game, still better than gw2!

GW2 worse mmo ever!

Nuzt.7894:

In before the Thief QQ’s about how they are the weakest class in the game and the rest of the player base just has no idea how hard they have it.

As a thief always carry a supply trap, be sure to cast it first.
Solved my problem.

Obsidian.1328:

Vayne.8563:

Csele.1647:

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I don’t know why anyone would argue for an chievement based game. It’s like those parents that give everyone in a little league football conference a trophy so no one feels bad if they didn’t win. Achievement-heavy games are literally ruining online gaming.

The players in GW2 who would rather do achievements than dungeons, pvp, etc. are the ones helping to make this game so watered-down and trite. Those are the ones the devs seem to be listening and catering to anyway. Please don’t advocate for something that literally sucks the life out of anything meaningful in a gaming experience.

Imagine a tablet game with grind skin stuff and a gemstore but with 20gb and players run it on a PC, that gw2 in a nutshell.

DarcShriek.5829:

Ethics.4519:

DarcShriek.5829:

Ethics.4519:

Oh yeah. It makes it okay? Well, next time I have a project at work that isn’t done. I’ll just go in a week before hand and say “Hey, sometimes stuff gets pushed back”. I’m sure my manager would be perfectly happy about that.

Just as an FYI, it’s okay to like the game and still see fault in actions of the company.

I get projects that get pushed back all the time. Right now all my projects are being pushed back. My engineers are all busy on earlier projects, so my projects are getting pushed back. It’s quite common in this field.

I’m an engineer as well. I have had projects also pushed back. However my manager didn’t say “oh yeah, things are subject to change, no problem”. He wants to know what the issue is and what I’m planning on doing about it. An excuse like “well, some stuff came up” doesn’t really cut it.

Also, even though I know I brought the example (as others have), there are still differences in the relationship between customers/company and employee/boss.

Last time I checked neither you nor I were managers at Anet. They don’t owe us detailed explanations. It makes me sad that someone that claims to understand that projects do get pushed back takes such a hard line position on this issue. They don’t owe you anything, stop acting like they do.

Engineers need to learn to not get pushed back then, i tough they have learned that on univ, it is a mater of know what to do in first place also known as organization and method.

PS. another Engineer with a large to do list.

vincecontix.1264:

gwfanboy.2496:

Mochann.5298:

Warhawk.7095:

I’ll actually respond to this, becuase i am also a thief, running full travelers runes, shadowstep, signet of agility, and the shortbow shadowshot, and there is NOTHING you can do you catch/kill some of these warriors. Either you literally cannot keep up with them, or you barely manage to and they just shrug off the few hits you manage to land while fighting at a full out sprint. What happened to the core notion that a thief was supposed to have some actual mobility?

Thieves do have mobility. Just because Warriors have the same mobility doesn’t mean you’re slow.

Gotta love thief players..the handicap isn’t enough so they resort to asking nerfs for other classes and resorting to hacks if they aren’t busy running away when losing.

Thief Shortbow teleport initiative cost needs to be increased. There is no reason for them to teleport all the way from one end of the map to the other.

Warrior GS mobility needs a nerf -usually thief/war players are the one running whenever they are about to lose-.

Engy rocket boots+eternal swiftness+ 2 blocks need a nerf

Ele Fiery sword mobility needs a nerf

The mobility has to be brought down to the slow classes like Necros and guardians.

This is pvp..not a hide and seek or running away game. Sheesh. Never seen anything as bad as in this game’s class balance.

lol let me guess you play necro or guard right?

Thief mobility if fine, and leave the bow alone!
The problem are the game overall mechanics its a dull system(game)….

Sovereign.1093:

All players dislike hacking. The only exception are the hackers themselves. ;3

Define hacker only if they made their own tool….
if a player buys a tool to cheat he is not a hacker.

Thorn.7963:

I haven’t played GW2 in months because of living story. An expansion would get me back in.

With the same old inovative mechanics and skills? would be almost like buy the same product again.

Make PvD hit 1 damage on door….

mcarswell.3768:

DAoC had a really great mechanic where the guild that claimed a keep or tower would get messages in guild chat when a guard near their tower was killed. The message looked like “a guard from your tower was killed with 25 enemies in the area” and showed up in guild chat even if you were in a PVE zone.
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Its sad when old games have better gameplay concepts then the new ones, DAoC, RO(WoE)…

Frigid.6027:

best class : warrior
why : because warrior

^this

TheDaiBish.9735:

Question: Why not log in for the content you enjoy?

That is why i am at teh forum, forum excells over the game.