To those saying elementalist is weak: Learn to put points into water, switch attunements, have enough points in fire where you can auto-lava while downed, and don’t forget condition damage for radiation field and burning. DoTs will help you when you’re downed, especially if they stack. You could then rally, DoT kite and wait for self-heal to go off CD, and repeat if necessary.
I agree, the gear in this game is horrid, most of the heart vendors have trash gear, crafting gear is barely on par with gear found around the world, and the greens and yellows you get from completing an area is just random stats with random gear sets. Anet is doing a great job of pushing everyone into the zerg zone (PvP).
Lol I know I was doing heart quest in the Molten Mountain (level 60-69 zone) or whatever it’s called, I have one heart left and have yet to see a staff or armor drop off vendors (except for level 50s shoes on one -_- ) They disproportionately sell accessories and I’m almost 70 so I really shouldn’t be running around in 50s gear.
“SO my advice would be grab a cheap PentiumG dual core and spend the extra 100€ on a better graphics card”
Any of the current generation cards would be bottlenecked by a dual core.
What do u exactly mean by “bottlenecked” ?
So lets assume i have 300€ budget to spend on a upgrade, for GW2 i would buy a 50€ CPU and 250€ GPU.
Do u mean u get better FPS, if u spend 150€ on a CPU and 150€ on a GPU? If so can u provide some data links that shows this reasoning?
I also don’t get how a SSD will “bottleneck” FPS? The SSD will improve loading times and maybe texture streaming, depending on the game. Since GW2 does not use texture streaming i don’t understand how a SSD will impact FPS, while playing GW2?
Bottlenecks are when there’s a part of your computer holding all other parts back. For example, all computer parts transfer data at a rate of gigabytes… except for mechanical hard drives, which are still in megabytes so they would be a bottleneck. Likewise, if a GPU is far better than the CPU then it’ll mostly be a one sided communication as the GPU communicates much faster than the CPU. SSD won’t bottleneck the computer and that’s the entire point of having the operating system and programs (while having videos and pictures on the mechanical HDD) on it and why it’s worth buying one despite it being far more expensive per gigabyte than a HDD.
This article may be old but the principle still holds:
2. These games need to have stuff that only the truly dedicated can obtain. No, I don’t mean you have to be a 12 year old boy on summer vacation or plays Guild Wars all day when he’s home unless he’s eating, sleeping, or doing homework who doesn’t go outside to get them either.
3. Bots give skewed metrics for what people could reasonably achieve. If there are thousands of bots grinding all day then the devs have access to those metrics and would buff the time it takes to get prestige items accordingly. Stuff should be hard or even not hard per se but just long (think flameward hippogryph from WoW. I miss mine since I haven’t been there in awhile) to obtain. It makes obtaining the items that much more meaningful.
You can decide not to buy your mats but if you buy mats you’re basically paying for faster crafting leveling. You should still get most of your stuff from mobs but sometimes the mats drop slowly =(
I took the liberty of editing out the chat window (sorry you’re missing good drama in the corner but some words there weren’t forum appropriate.)
Anyway, how did you get your dyes =) I have more but some were bought from the trading post (ancient silver and bronze) and others were bought unidentified dye packs so I didn’t include those, though I have starry night too =)
Its ugly as hell why do i want it?
Im a ranger not a ninja
even my thief wouldnt wear it, hes a thief not an assassin
1. My thief found an emerald dye and I thought it made him look a bit hunterish but despite that was still very happy with the look. He is now currently in midnight ice armor with some oxblood (found on my elementalist but had a feeling it’d be more appropriate for a leather character and turns out I was right =) ) boots and looks amazing! Thieves in this game have assassin like skill sets and maybe more appropriately labeled as such.
When my thief wears emerald he feels like a dashing hero of the forest while in midnight ice he feels like a mercenary assassin out to do a job and it’s great changing depending on my mood.
Try avoiding waypoints if you can and save bagspace for trash pick up. Don’t forget to bring salvage kits and such too and sell what you can’t use. I’m tailoring so I’m going to buy wool off the trading post (to speed up my tailoring leveling) to ensure I can make those 12 slot bags as fast as I can. I have a feeling that even that when grinding Orr would be too little =( Oh well, then it’s time to grind out for the 16 slot bags ^_^
If it’s any consolidation you never truly “die” as “dying” is completely a game mechanic. Plot wise your character never, ever dies. But yeah I just go to the nearest waypoint unless someone’s rezing me. Sometimes I center my strategy around downed state as you know it’ll happen, which involves radiation field, lava, and the lava activated from the talent. If there are any ranged mobs go to the nearest one so melee crowds you near them, and always take out ranged first anyway as they can afford to distance themselves to ensure that only one of them is caught in your AoEs while still being able to attack you.
Granted the plan isn’t 100% but works often enough. Dying/downed state is something I try avoiding but sometimes you just know it’ll happen.
I like the race change idea.. but in practice our character’s choices and plot were based largely around their race, so a Norn doing stuff only an Asura could logically do in their history would be a glaring contradiction. A big burly Norn at the College of Synergetics and inventing a weather control mechanism?
Again I like the idea but unfortunately it isn’t possible. I like appearance change though, like maybe having a beard for a day.
I have female characters only (I’m a girl irl), never had a male character in MMOs, lol. I have Norn (Warrior main, Guardian, Ranger) and Human (Ele, Thief) chars, not fond of the other races. ;c
But… Asurans are the best! :D How could anyone say that Asurans aren’t sexy after seeing this! :D
“SO my advice would be grab a cheap PentiumG dual core and spend the extra 100€ on a better graphics card”
Any of the current generation cards would be bottlenecked by a dual core. Heck, I have a GTX 670 and worry that my i7 950 is bottlenecking it. An SSD would help a great deal, go with the Vertex 4 and don’t be tempted to buy the cheapest one (lowest gigs) as the 256GB one you will be able to fit your operating system, Guild Wars 2, and so many other programs with plenty of room to spare. Or you could just go for the 128GB, which still has reasonable space.
5. And a PvE version of resolve that fills up as we get stunned, snared, pulled back, knocked down, and slowed that keeps us from getting chain 3-second knocked down and repeatedly pulled (risen and krait are especially bad for this -_- ) where longer stuns fill resolve faster.
So that explains why I am getting 55 FPS at best and 45 on average with a GTX 670! No, I do not use vertical sync either. I was thinking of saving up for a Haswell processor anyway, by the time it comes out I should easily have one. Now I have an i7 950 and will upgrade to the equivalent tier for the generation (probably yet another i7 but 4k instead of 3k like ivy). Then again I could just buy ivy and a MB.
As for overclocking you should have better than a stock cooler anyway. Noctua makes great CPU coolers, and full tower cases are best to maximize airflow. You don’t need a Cosmo II (though admittedly would be great to have though HAF X is good enough) just something with breathing space.
I already shown my thief with emerald (dropped off a bandit in the cave basement) and now I’ll show him in oxblood (random dye pack from auction house) and midnight ice (from a centaur near the bridge event).
What I love about these dyes is that you could really tell that the whoever designed oxblood got the variables just right to be a perfect leather dye, which makes me glad I saved it for my thief. Midnight ice is a great dye too as it is a really dark navy color (you can see tints of blue in the moonlight =) ) that readily reminds one of ninjas.
I find the differences between heirloom and oxblood to be very subtle but still noticeable.
And of course me fighting three bears after killing a centaur:
“If I’m fleeing a mob trying to break agro rather than fight and i notice my mob train engage with another player behind me I stop running and fight. it’s usually an accident that I drug him/her into my mess, but i at least try and help them get out of it.”
I thought you could only undo CC on yourself other players? It would just aggro again it isn’t programmed to suddenly like you if you break its CC.
I have a male Asura elementalist (who sometimes wears clothes dyed with the cotton candy dye I found in the 45-55 pirate zone) and a male human thief (wears mostly emerald and has oxblood on his gloves and boots as it’s an excellent leather color). Although I like looking at the pretty “ladies” in this game I wouldn’t be comfortable playing a girl character in an MMO. Nothing against guys who do though.
Asura warriors wouldn’t even be playable and Charr warriors would be way OP
I have to ask… WHY would that be a bad thing? Why does every race need to have the same stats and the same class choices?
Is it not enough that every class can fill every role thus removing the uniqueness of the classes?
Give norn a 5% strength, charr 5% crit, human 5% toughness etc. and limit their class choices based on lore.
WoW did that and no one can play tauren rogues =( Races should be completely cosmetic with story differences. Also, classes are unique as it is. Elementalist can switch between attunements, can slow down with ice field then pop a healing rain, then switch to fire to lay down AoEs and stack them with a radiation field. Thieves (and other classes as far as I know) don’t have that capacity (though thieves do get a poison cloud on their short bows), while other classes have different knockbacks, pets, deathshrouds, etc., that others don’t have. This isn’t as homogenized as SWTOR at least.
Yeah that is pretty lame. I’m an elementalist so I have a skill (on long CD) that lets me teleport to ensure I can tag mobs on time but it isn’t that kind of teleport.
If you completed it then you already know you could beat it so repeating is just redundant.
So you want to run a dungeon once, get the gear, and be done? Wow.
“You got from level 1-2, you already know you could do it so repeating is just redundant.”
“You got your crafting to level 2, you already know you could do it so repeating is just redundant.”
“You killed someone in PVP, you already know you could do it so repeating is just redundant.”
Hopefully you realize how ridiculous that entire argument sounds.
Umm, no. Leveling isn’t quite the same as leveling is tiered. Levels 1-10 should be easy for anyone and take about a day or two whereas 70-80 should be far more difficult yet have a larger range of content. Dungeons involve specific mechanics and if you can complete a dungeon once you can complete it again. All you’re doing is repeating content when you do the same dungeon. If it’s fun then sure you’d want to do it again but a little something for the trouble can’t hurt.
And you can’t compare it to PvP since each class and individual player and build is different. WoW arenas have people rated over 2000 because they’re consistently good at PvP, fighting different people and different teams. In dungeons, it’s the same trash mobs and same dragon. Only thing different is the guy standing in fire wearing greens (if armor were more accessible he wouldn’t wear greens) may ruin things for everyone else.
While our characters join and are promoted in the ranks of a society it seems like our plot power (and even gameplay power with scaling) stays constant throughout the game. I understand the need for some gameplay and story segregation or else Asura warriors wouldn’t even be playable and Charr warriors would be way OP but some confirmation of increased plot power would be nice.
One of the most common complaints about dynamic events is that they’re “too zergy”. “All I do is spam my AoE”, people complain, and there’s some truth to it. Once a certain critical mass of people is reached, that is all that is required, and frankly it’s optimal if you want to tag mobs and collect loot. This is because events, in their current form, are not scaling well past 5-6 players. They need to produce more veteran and champion mobs, they need to start splitting players into different areas to attend to different things so they can’t cluster their AoEs, and they need to offer a meaningful threat to the single player beyond “I should make sure not to be the first guy to get aggro here”. I’d like to see Champion and Veteran mobs become a little more mobile and offensive, as well, and a little less “I am a bag of hit points”. Fortunately, this is a matter of tweaking some numbers.
Actually the shark in a level 60+ zone that can clip through land and attack people standing on the coast =( I’d say that’s very mobile. It also steals life and can basically 1 or 2 shot some players. I think that events just need to have their regular mobs’ HP scaled up when more people join so more people can have a chance to tag more mobs and give the thieves enough time to equip their shortbows.
I knew this would happen. People back in August thought that SWTOR was going to kill WoW, I played the beta in November and it was okay (didn’t get past 8 it just wasn’t addicting) on the starter planet, then more problems became noticeable and glaring. It went good for a few months (guild mostly kept me and I only went to Bel Savis if I teamed up as it’d be too boring otherwise)
This late into GW2 is too late for a honeymoon phase, but it is a good enough game. However, like any game it can be improved upon, like giving players a PvE version of resolve that applies to snares and pull backs as well (to avoid entire groups spamming pull back and slow down as that makes it nearly impossible to get away and resolve would give players a very credible chance of getting away in time).
Yeah one currency for everything would be nice given that extra currencies just trivialize the main one. You’ll eventually reach a point where silver is nothing more than transportation tokens. Instead of dungeons dropping tokens they could, you know, just drop the loot in its entirety instead. If you completed it then you already know you could beat it so repeating is just redundant.
My Asura elementalist ( I don’t like the shirt as it has a bare midsection) has cotton candy dye on most parts, front waist robe indigo, gloves and boots celestial, and the belt is ancient silver:
“Oh look, another poster who was posting his legit concerns and got infracted for it.
What a community."
Quote button disappeared again. Of all the things they had to borrow from SWTOR it just had to be unnecessary forum rules (even enforcing that which doesn’t even hurt anyone) and delete happy mods. There are better forums.
3. I agree with you somewhat, but in the pirate 45-55 zone there are frequent enough dynamic events to make up for it, but in the 30s I can definitely agree and my Asura had to run to Norn lands to find a decent amount of events (when he was lucky)
I wanted to comment on this. I get bored with the same ole same ole very easy, so I fully encourage people to move outside of their racial areas and diversify! As a human I have explored Charr and Norn areas to a fair extent and, since each area has its own kind of character, this has kept me from getting the “human kingdom doldrums”. So, absolutely branch out into new areas, the game makes this easy in order to encourage it! I’ve still barely touched the Sylvari and Usura areas with this character, but if I get bored with what I’ve been doing, I always can and the down-leveling mechanic will mean I can hit the mid-level zones for those races with no problem. This is the first MMO I’ve ever played where I haven’t suffered from severe alt-itis, because it has made getting out and sampling other areas so simple and worth doing! Don’t limit yourself!
I like the other zones but running around for events seems futile sometimes especially if there is an event but I’m too late for it -_-
Anything that can stealth. It would be a great mechanic if I actually felt any tension or danger when a creature vanished, but as it is it’s just an annoying delay in its inevitable death.
You have to time its stealth then dodge. It doesn’t work all the time but try afflicting it with a DoT before it stealths. This isn’t WoW so it won’t pop out of stealth but it will still take damage =)
OMG this! Especially since you hardly ever fight them 1 on 1 and they have pulls. Also those frog guys with the rapid fire poison darts (you dodge and they still hit you, you use the healing that ticks and washes DoTs but their charge lasts longer -_- ) and the poison lasts forever -_-
Some dungeons should be so difficult that only 2% of players can complete them (not all dungeons should obviously but at least one per expansion and armor and weapon drops to go with it).
How about no? Why should 98% pay for content that only 2% will ever experience? This makes zero sense.
Maybe it doesn’t, but I remember having fun in single player RPGs with bonus dungeons harder than the final boss (alright, they weren’t 2% hard, but still…)
Because frankly, beating those giant super-cyborgs from the future/extragalactic trash mob army and their weird looking unclassifiable giant creature thing overlord that dimension shifts/etc., that has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot is one of those nifty little extras that add fun. The 2% was just an arbitrary number but I just mean something really, really hard, but in practice the strategy for it would be posted on the internet so everyone would wind up being able to beat it eventually anyway.
“We also reduced the rewards of completing story mode, once you have already completed it, because the rewards for story mode were never intended to be a high as they were.”
So I’m being punished for not rushing to 80? Thanks -_-
1.Craftable gear should be the best and when I started in WoW I leveled leatherworking because I thought the best gear would be craftable. Turns out it wasn’t and I didn’t bother leveling it past 200. Frankly if people aren’t selling ultra-rare mats for 100g then Anet is being too generous with the best crafting ingredient gear rates. There should be excellent gear for considerably less sure but ultra-rare legendary ingredients to make such legendaries is what helps enable only a select few characters to accomplish something. Sure it’s RNG based in a big way, but that helps ensure uniqueness. Some dungeons should be so difficult that only 2% of players can complete them (not all dungeons should obviously but at least one per expansion and armor and weapon drops to go with it).
2. Yep, everyone knew these posts would come up. It’s still a great game and yeah I don’t like the tailoring grind either but there needs to be some value to making it to max crafting or else everyone would be maxed out yesterday. Being a max level crafter should be meaningful.
3. I agree with you somewhat, but in the pirate 45-55 zone there are frequent enough dynamic events to make up for it, but in the 30s I can definitely agree and my Asura had to run to Norn lands to find a decent amount of events (when he was lucky)
4. The exchange rate of gold to gems is 100 gems for 20 silver last I checked, not worth it at all, especially since you can kill things and do events to collect trash and sell to vendors to easily make that.
I rely on conditions as an elementalist as burning + radiation field means their HP drops faster when I’m downed. stand next to ranged, circle strafe in the radiation field, lay down a lava, and when I’m downed an additional lava comes up. I try avoiding such situations when I can but sometimes when you think you’re going to fight 1 on 1 the enemy has… umm… shall we say clown car “hammer space” where mobs spontaneously appear and go after you (pirates and risen especially).
I may not have a warrior (but played one during beta) but do warriors get a lava moat passive for when they’re downed? Can they place a radiation field, fire condition, and stack that with the coming lava field? I don’t think so. Now if there was only a way to turn off auto attack to save killing off the almost dead mob for after they’re downed so you could immediately rally afterwards…
I am so jealous of you guys. I played as a Charr and no one from my story shows up. I was expecting my warband to show up for the the battle of Claw Island and no one did. If I know if I was actually my character I would go to the Black Citdeal and ask for my best friend Clawspur to fight alongside my side instead I never hear from my best friend that I known since my childhood again. Arenanet decided that no one wants their choices from early on to reflect on the latter game. As far Trahearne getting credit, the kitten gets credit for everything we do. He tells us to do something, tags along, does kitten all and then gets the credit.
Edit: I use the ba word and it is changed to kitten. Arenanet all the kids are swearing in cod, there is no need to block these words.
They even block out the non-euphemism version of darn for “frig” sake and that’s not even a real swear. Most swearing isn’t even done within the context of insulting others anyway.
Like I said, there are moments when no other words will do for a given situation, but rules are rules so we are forced to use dork speak =(
I remember one time thinking to myself, “Time to swim to Lion’s Arch”, so I travel up from the level 55-65 zone with the frog people and zombies and upwards past the level 45-55 pirate zone. Along the way I did a quest where you have to use cannons to take down some ship that catapults zombies at you, a heart quest for the Order of Wispers in addition to a random event involving saving an agent, and killed things along the way, so I actually made more than the 30 silver I had on me.
Since fast travel cost scale upwards with level I’m getting into this practice now in the 60s.
Lol you beat me to it! I wouldn’t say the worst character and was going to post this in another thread but wanted to mention that Trahearne seems more like the star character than my own (he even gets a certain sword that shows the devs are FFX fans I like that game too and the shout out is cool but…) because he gets handed the sword (to be fair elementalists can’t use greatswords anyway) and feels more important. Also, he’s a boring character whereas Tybalt was an awesome character with memorable lines and a personality, and was just a likable goof you looked forward to adventuring with along with his “unorthodox” methods.
Edit: Why does the f-word change to “kitten” instead of “kitted” when I write “****ed”?
It’s even worse than that, some acronyms are even “kittened”, which I think is ludicrous. That’s just so your parents (who likely aren’t even watching over your shoulder as you type these things) won’t get (you know the word) off over other people’s communication methods, most of which is appropriate (from what I read) given the context in which it’s used but people are forced to express themselved in a watered down manner that doesn’t accurately reflect the situations and/or their true feelings. They don’t want your parents to pull the GW2 plug from you and if they see swears they might, you know how some parents are.
Making this choice mattered because I got to help the fish people (OMG I was in the suggestions forum and forgot why I was there now I remember I wanna suggests the fish people race as playable!) Tybalt is a very memorable character for lines like this to be fair though.
Also he seems to take being in water unusually well for a cat person ^_^
(picture contains potential spoilers but not too much I don’t think)
He’s like that cartoonish goofy best friend who winds up being the breakthrough character in a series ^_^ If you pick the wrong secret society you won’t team up with him =(
Here is another prime situation where an arenanet fanboy looks past the glaring flaws in this game because they cannot see anet ever doing anything wrong. The game is a great experience but it is by no means close to perfect. At this moment it is lacking in some very specific areas.
And lets face facts, anet didn’t keep to their word in terms of antigrind. What is there to do at lol 80 but grind legrndaries, grind cosmetic dungeon skins and wvw?
Especially crafting mats (especially if you’re tailoring, pretty much every tailor has completed their kill 1,000 bandits achievements by now). But it’s still a great game.
Elementalist is still great for random events since they could tap many mobs at once with fire or air skills, so at least it’s good for farming crafting materials that drop on escort quests and such.
OhkittenI like the “thief” title because it isn’t some watered down “rogue” euphemism. Assassin would have been cool too, but the thief is a classic RPG archetype.
