Guild Wars 2

Perfect. Dev response please

I am ecstatic for a rifle. It is exactly what thief needs- something that let’s it deal high damage at a good range.

Bad. Elite Specs and their refusal to do a complete PvE/PvP balance split has done irreparable damage to the game mode. What’s left of the dwindling population are achievement hunters and nasty, salty mean people

Sykper.6583:

……..toughness (which scales a bit as levels progress)

Nope

Agreed. While Gw1 shined brighter in the areas of profession balance, story mode, and PvP, Gw2 is very well built for adding almost unlimited post-game content and goodies to chase after. Perhaps after the next expansion, Gw2 will be able to catch up on profession balance and story mode. Not sure what will save Pvp other than a complete and total skill/role split for the game modes, and I doubt that will happen

If i remember correctly, Cantha was dismantled because it offended the market in Asia for grouping all (Eastern) Asian cultures into one mega continent, and Anet was forbidden from making references to the Canthan continent / culture. The Canthan district was permanently destroyed in Lions Arch and I don’t think there is one in Divinity’s Reach. Even if they used up the entire map in Tyria and Elona, I think we would sooner go to the scrapped Guild Wars: Utopia map than back to Cantha

The big numbers flashing up from my Tempest’s screen disagree

Necro is still easier, but now that I can reliably do more damage on my elementalist than I can on my necromancer in t4s (because let’s be honest, barely any of those 4 necromancer groups actually understood how to use epidemic or cared to), I actually get to choose one or the other, which makes a huge difference to me

Rognik.2579:

Alex Shatter.7956:

Elementalist, Thief: Need a bulky, one-on-one bruiser spec like Scrapper or Reaper, mostly so they can stop being so niche in PvP, where they are hard to balance

It may be true they don’t have a "tank"y build, but I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. I can sort of see a bruiser thief, the bouncers you see out front of seedy bars type, but elementalists – the closest this game gets to classic wizards – aren’t really supposed to be the tanky type. I suppose earth attunement gives them some hardened ability to take hits, but I wouldn’t do much more than that. Instead, just play with how they attune to the elements.

Does it make perfect sense? No. But dragonhunter and scrapper also gave two professions completely new roles that conflicted with the vanilla profession, so you shouldn’t deny elementalist a new one based on that metric. also, a tanky elementalist would make the profession much more approachable to casual players who find it hard to survive in open world or doing story mode content. in addition, there are a million kajillion ways you could make a “tanky” elementalist: Crystalmancer, Battlemage, Aethermancer, et cetera

I am looking forward to an expansion notice as well, but remember- it took 8 living story episodes (9 if you could the zephyrite festival) to lead up to Heart of Thorns, and then a good few months afterwards before they even started unveiling all the elite specializations and new systems.

SynnikuL.6748:

Same here! just got booted from dragon’s stand right before meta and can’t get back in

Same lol it was so stressful. As long as everyone else is having problems too I guess i can go make coffee and read for a bit

There are many, many threads about elite specialization suggestions. They are exciting, and will be great once we have multiple, but most threads are thematically based (I want a sword on ele, I want a ghost themed necromancer, et cetera), but I wanted to start a thread that focused only on what role you think each profession is missing.

Mesmer, Ranger, Necromancer: Need a high damage, glass canon specialization, as they are chained to their utility skills and unique mechanics at the moment in PvE. They are pretty well off in PvP

Engineer: Desperately needs PvE utility. Some AoE like Tempest or buffs and healing like Druid to make them stand out. Nerfs to epidemic might solve this problem for them in the near future though

Elementalist, Thief: Need a bulky, one-on-one bruiser spec like Scrapper or Reaper, mostly so they can stop being so niche in PvP, where they are hard to balance

Guardian: Pretty well off at the moment in all game modes. Healing specializations are unpopular, but since DH already gave them a glassy build, and they have no real way to channel their healing-ness (which is supposed to be a core part of their profession), I think it might be the way to go

Revenant: I think an AoE damage specialization would be cool. AoE damage is kind of something that Tempest dominates and Revenant would be a strong contender for it

Warrior: I’m stumped. This is the profession I haven’t really played all that much. Perhaps they are in the category of Mesmer, Necromancer and Ranger of being chained to their utility skills and need something more damaging and front-line in PvE. Beserker kind of tried to do this? They are fine in PvP as well

MrJ.8142:

give me pistol/pistol to any other job beside thief and engi. Prefered elementalist. Or just make weapon system like GW1. I like when we could really play how we want. Not limited to what weapon we can use. Really my deepest honest wishes. Thank you.

This doesn’t have to do with Rising Flames and would be better off in another post

this would be better as an elite spec, and there is a dev approved post with hundreds of suggestions in it. i suggest you post it there.

as for a new profession, i definitely think 9 is already more than enough, and this is too similar to thief and daredevil. it would encroach on their territory in the same ways revenant and mesmer already do

Amazing patch- love the new map and LOVED completing Chalice of Tears. Fractal ascended gear prices should not be gold sinks, we already have too many gold sinks. Would like to see the map currency clutter be better managed, or at least see blood rubies and wood be materials. Regards – happy player

play the game through without the level 80 boost. try out 2-3 professions to see what clicks (no one finds their soul mate on the first go). Get your favorite some exotic gear and then get the elite specs that you want. After that, for PvE at least, you can either join Team Conservative MMO, and focus on crafting, masteries, and ascended gear, or Team Screw That, and start pushing for legendaries and raids right away.

Can I finally log off of my necromancer?

yes it is! it should say in the item description: Transumuted Tempered Spinal Blades or something, meaning that the item does not lose its Zoomerotic properties

I don’t have a main. My biggest goal in this game is to get 9 professions with 9 sets of ascended armor. Halfway through my 4th and 5th set at the moment (because of duplicate chests). The rest are exotic. The first thing I think every player should do is get 9 level 80s, and 2 sets of ascended armor for each armor tier, and all the crafting done. It is just too fun to be able to play everyone doing everything

In addition to showing behind the head, it shows while using skills like Astral Wisp, bouncing up and down and revealing that those skills just make you run really fast. I’m guessing it is the same with RtL

Jay.3409:

Alex Shatter.7956:

Jay.3409:

Alex Shatter.7956:

Generally speaking, the less people in your party, the less useful you become. You damage will be outclassed by thieves or guardians in small pick up groups that don’t communicate or buff each other. In fractals you will have a harder time dealing damage and surviving than condition damage professions like necromancer and druid, though this will hopefully change a bit.

Basically, Elementalists are expensive, specialized, complicated tools that only large companies invest funds in to maximize efficiency. Small companies, who care less about ceiling efficiency, won’t be able to afford or maintain you. If you had to take a measurement, why buy a $5000 micrometer meant for building optical equipment when you can make due with a 99 cent ruler app on the iPhone app store?

Are ele more of a support class or dmg? i was planning on taking ele to arenas and getting good.. but after reading this, i feel like were just a “back-up” also does high burst ele build use melee weap or staff?

Back end damage support. You blast things from the sidelines and let your team get up close. You need lots of support and bodyguards to do anything. No relevant elementalist build in PVE uses anything but staff after the fresh air nerf. There are no relevant PvPayment elementalist builds

so are we still viable? i wana contiune to play this class cuz it looks fun.. but if the class itself suck in arenas, then i might tryout new class..

What are “arenas”? If you mean fighting other people online (pvp) then yes, find a new class.

Jay.3409:

Alex Shatter.7956:

Generally speaking, the less people in your party, the less useful you become. You damage will be outclassed by thieves or guardians in small pick up groups that don’t communicate or buff each other. In fractals you will have a harder time dealing damage and surviving than condition damage professions like necromancer and druid, though this will hopefully change a bit.

Basically, Elementalists are expensive, specialized, complicated tools that only large companies invest funds in to maximize efficiency. Small companies, who care less about ceiling efficiency, won’t be able to afford or maintain you. If you had to take a measurement, why buy a $5000 micrometer meant for building optical equipment when you can make due with a 99 cent ruler app on the iPhone app store?

Are ele more of a support class or dmg? i was planning on taking ele to arenas and getting good.. but after reading this, i feel like were just a “back-up” also does high burst ele build use melee weap or staff?

Back end damage support. You blast things from the sidelines and let your team get up close. You need lots of support and bodyguards to do anything. No relevant elementalist build in PVE uses anything but staff after the fresh air nerf. There are no relevant PvPayment elementalist builds

Things I wish I knew: it takes time and dedication to learn. I quit halfway through tempest and went back later. Reflects are your best friend in open world

Strong points: Even after july nerfs, we have very high damage, and at a comfortable 1200 unit distance. Historically we’ve had the highest damage, but at the monent the epidemic necromancer explout out does us. Another thing we do well is AoE. Clearing adds in raids and breaking down zergs in world vs world is a big reason we are chosen in squads. We have an appealing healing / tank build using concentration / toughness / healing power stats in raids, but only experienced Raiders who know you will take it over a druid. We used to have a good pvp healing build but it got nerfed to obscurity in july

Weaknesses: easy to kill and needs lots of support to get anything done. Because of this, Elementalist is more of a raid and WvW content player, and is bad at fractals and standard pvp / conquest

Ultimate do and do nots: wear full zerker gear for most content. Staff is our best weapon in pve group content but use dagger / focus for solo open world and pvp (I wouldn’t bother with pvp til we get buffed)

Current state: A high end, group content god. Raids and world vs world love elementalists because of the needed AoE and availability of support and communication. Elementalist responds very, very favorably to damage buffs. We are investments with a low floor and high ceiling.

Generally speaking, the less people in your party, the less useful you become. You damage will be outclassed by thieves or guardians in small pick up groups that don’t communicate or buff each other. Our biggest DPS bottleneck is cast and recharge time, and we are basically the reason chronomancer is relevant. Without a chronomancer, a revenant helping it extend boon duration, a warrior maxing your might, a healer keeping you alive, and a constant, large target to wail on, your damage will drop from (second) highest in the game to middling. In fractals you will have a harder time dealing damage and surviving than condition damage professions like necromancer and druid, though this will hopefully change a bit.

Basically, Elementalists are expensive, specialized, complicated tools that only large companies invest funds in to maximize efficiency. Small companies, who care less about ceiling efficiency, won’t be able to afford or maintain you. If you had to take a measurement, why buy a $5000 micrometer meant for building optical equipment when you can make due with a 99 cent ruler app on the iPhone app store?

Avoid 1 v 1s, especially with guardians. Even good thieves avoid 1 v 1s when they can. Your job as thief is to decap points and to come in on fights when they are almost over and clean up low HP enemies. D/P 3 is your best friend for this. I’ve been having tons of fun with my thief in unranked but I can’t see myself getting too far with it in ranked (though I’m sure it is possible)

Suggestions to make underwater content more popular:

1) make aquatic weapons have land uses so people appreciate their spears/tridents/harpoon guns and are encouraged to keep them updated

2) make aquabreathers drop from normal enemies, give more accessibility of these. i have my ascended one but most people should be able to buy exotics for 3g on the TP like everything else

3) brighten up the water. even if it’s less realistic: crystal clear, bright water would be much more pleasant

4) more underwater skills (why no chrono wells but necro wells are OK?)

Heart of Thorns wasn’t everything it could be, but it is certainly an improvement on vanilla GW2. The elite specializations kind of turned things upside down, but I have a feeling that once we get more than one and have a smidgen more diversity, it will become a net positive for the game. If the next expansion is targeted more towards new players, the specs are good, and it keeps its promises, I suspect another good two years out of this franchise.

oh lol i meant i have coats and gloves i cant’ do anything with and yeah id like to be able to turn a glove box into a shoe box, et cetera

*it isnt luck, it’s daily t4s

I have a lot of ascended chests in my bank that I can’t really use because they are all of the same type. It’d be kind of nice if I could throw them in the mystic forge with a vision crystal, ectoplasms, and an exotic head/chest/leggings/glove/feet/shoulder to transmute them

and elementalist needs no updating whatsoever?

Fix it In addition, you can see the visage skin when you are using skills like Astral Wisp, and it reveals how they work by just making you run awkwardly fast (very immersion breaking)

Yeah I always win 500 – 100 or lose 100 – 500. I don’t mind the losing, the blowouts just make it clear that no matter how or what I play never makes a difference, I’m just being processed and spit out by the matchmaking machine. Winning doesn’t affirm my skills or make me excited, and losing doesn’t teach me anything. Pvp has become slots

This sounds like a Morrowind / Skyrim mod I would get bored of in 20 minutes and uninstall

As soon as I saw the topic title I knew this would be about the butterflies (again)

All right- fine. I overreached when I claimed the majority of the player base wants a desert. But we did spend almost two years obsessing over Glint’s egg, half of Ascalon was nuked by Kralkatorrik, they recently revamped the Shatterer and there is a literal gate to the desert in Fields of Ruin, so I don’t see how Primordus makes as much sense as Kralkatorrik at this point. Although, there is that one Destroyer heart in Kessex Hills.

I liked the Ember Isles in Gw1. It was an exciting, dangerous – if not too Tolkien- place to end the story, defeating the undead lich and clearing out all the titans from Tyria.

And I hope it is exactly the way we left it- with Jade Armors and Titans running around, and Primordus’ Destroyers far and away underground.

Why are we tackling Primordus now? Has the player base not voiced enough that they want to go to the Crystal desert? And the mursaat / white mantle, along with Glint’s egg, was the perfect way to segue into the Forgotten. Although I am happy to hear we are getting heart quests back.

Buffs are fun little treats for PvE, but for PvP only nerfs to everyone and small numbers really keep balance

human male sounds like a Little League dad

I mean, just saying

Balkarrie Legacy.9175:

Just why ?????? Not needed or correct , would be nothing but a pile of pc claptrap shoved into a game

Where is interspecies offspring in the DNC platform? Has “pc” just become a hand wave for things you don’t like but can’t directly complain about?

go to the lfg menu and try a raid with a pick up group or play ranked PvP with an elementalist alt

in all seriousness though, Gw2 excels at casual gameplay and cooperative content. you cant really criticize it for not being something it doesnt want to be and never was from the beginning

Ignoring what’s in demand, why would you need three full sets of ascended armor for a given weight class?

My mesmer and elementalist both use zerker / scholar for fractals, so they shamelessly share. My necromancer has her own set of vipers because she needs it.

Similarly, my thief and power scrapper share armor as well. For my fourth I’m thinking a starter set for heavy

Ad Infinitum is no doubt the biggest offender, and the Fervid Censor, Ascension, Bifrost, glowing gliders (soul river, HoT, exalted, bubble, phoenix, jet pack thing), Scarlets tentacle thing, bloodstone pack, and glittering pack are all, I agree, too much.

I second this

That thing that makes you add friends to your friends list before you can invite them to your party should be fixed. not sure what causes it. on that note, a “join party option”. If you are solo and want to join a friend’s party of 3-4, they need to invite you, which is cumbersome. A “merge parties” option would also be nice outside of the lfg

getting a pug that can do this on t4 in a reasonable amount of time and not die on the poison blooms is like trying to convince the pope that god doesn’t exist

Josh Davis.6015:

We’ve been talking about personal score a bit. I’m personally of the opinion that it isn’t representative of a player’s effort in a given match, and it also can be incredibly misleading and potentially lead to bad gameplay habits (5-capping home).

If you were to redesign personal score, what would you do? Does it track different types of stats? Would you want your personal stats displayed to other players?

-No points for double capping. The person on it the longest gets the points, or the score is divided evenly among players on it. Especially true for home

-No points for skirmish kills or restrictions on it. Players should fight on point

-Extra points for rezing and stomping. This behavior should be encouraged

-Point system for fast rotations, somehow. Points for joining up with allies and +1-ing fights. I’m not gonna be the mastermind behind this but I’d like to see that kind of play encouraged

-more points for following map directions. Communing stillness/tranq, running spirit orb, fighting on the bell tower

How do you dodge the little bubbles on the third round? I know people used to hide on the vine thing in the upper corner but I’m 99% sure they fixed that because when the rocks hit me on the vine now I get disqualified

Mea.5491:

I feel your pain… :P I’m a mainoholic who rerolled her main three times just because of race change and rerolled profession once (Ranger main to Necro). I’ve been here since beta (more like since GW1!) and no b-day gifts for me. Most other MMOs look at account age instead of character age so GW2 is weird. Oh well. Unlucky for people like me. XD

the struggle is real. i delete characters and re-boost them for fun in all my RPGs. i guess no backpack for me. ill see if support can help me un-delete one of em

My account is 4 years old but a year ago I decided to start fresh and deleted my 4 year old. Now there are coolio backpacks

I figure I already know the answer but I was wondering if anyone else was in this situation

Chill

/15 John Cenas

Oh Snapalope.1378:

My static group does MT 100 4 necros 1 druid healer in 8 minutes. Find something that can beat that. You know why people kick chrono in t4?

Realistically chrono does only like 10k DPS and all the boons you give gets stolen. Then there’s that thing called armor scaling where power DPS drops by about 30% ?tested by a dnt friend). So you in total you do about 6-7k DPS and all your boons are stolen. It’s basically asking 4 people to carry you for a free ride.

why am i supposed to believe any of this, or care? Give an adequate explanation as to why your 4 necro team can clear MT in 8 minutes (are you bouncing epidemics off horrik or something? If so, only two of you needs to be a necro) as opposed to a team of 2 necros and support. No matter how much you doubt chrono, there is absolutely no good reason to stack more than 2 necromancers on any team, ever. If you have one necromancer for epidemic, and really want to only do condition, engineer can out-damage necromancer with conditions by about 7k per second (https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4v76gq/qt_updated_guides_and_dps_benchmarks_for_all/). If you care about survivability, druid is on top. I’m sure if you used 2 necromancers, 2 engineers and a tempest you could clear mai tran in 2 minutes with your mad skillz.

Also, toughness stops scaling after the level 50 fractal. Even if 30% drop was accurate, necro can only put out 25k in conditions per second, which probably drops to 20k per second w/out those nooby chronomancers and PS warriors, making it still inferior to any decent zerker team set up with support.

Surviving in any non-raid setting should be easy. I do upper level (t4) fractals with my mesmer all the time in zerker gear, feel that my damage is fine, rarely die, and no one complains if I slack on bringing support wells. Generally, unless you are doing raids, the profession you play has little impact on survivability or group dps (to an extent), it’s all about experience