Guild Wars 2

a t s e.9614:

• make mesmers even more OP in 1v1

To nake something OP, it already has to be OP.

Are you sure you’re playing the same game?

Maybe because youre out of range? I think the range is 9000.

Mek.2947:

And just recently I’ve discovered Allisahcat!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos and I strive to be a fun, skilled player like yourself.

Thank you :D. I like putting the emphasis on ‘fun’! That’s why the best advice I can give you is to simply enjoy Mesmering, and the rest will come by itself :D

Can you edit the banner?

I think this one is fitting: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/164/9/0/into_the_fray_by_art_zealot-d53a39t.jpg

So much purple ;D

Update

Someone actually asked me if I could make a character box like the ones I use in videos… I said “ofcourse!”. I actually really like doing it, and it’s quite easy since I already have the custom brushes and layers and whatnot.

I decided to take free commissions, in case anyone else is interested < ( ^ – ^ )>

Just give me some pictures of your character in either PM or this thread, also tell me the name, and which color/personality you want. It’ll be done in a day or so, free of charge :D

And here are some examples:

Nightarch.2943:

This is why I will never use a two-handed melee weapon, they all look so absurd when wielded.

Do you mean in gw2?

I love the look of two handed swords… Shame I can’t really use them for combat :’(.

And in gw2… I spend the majority of the time spinning my greasword around and making purple lasers come out of it… So the stance doesnt really bother me :P

I’d be interested!

A guild in another mmo I played had a website aswell, and it had a chattoom kind of thing :o. I think that would be amazing if someone had a small question qbout the game that isn’t really worth making a new thread for. And sometimes chatting in real time is just more fun :P

It wasn’t free though, and I know nothing about website making… It wasn’t that expewnvie either, maybe 20 euro per year? That was back in 2008…

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Ty all! =D That fight was a slight portion of a larger story I aim to wrap up by the end of the week (or today, ideally.) I’d happily send it to anyone who’d be interested in reading it

I ’m interested :D

My vote definitely goes to Osicat.

Back in the first year of launch, in May, I was duelling a 1vs2 with guildies. I thought I was some superior human being, or rather, a uber god. I thought I was one of the best around basically… But those guildies were a bunker ele (does no damage) and a warrior (were a complete joke back then). It took me a good 5 minutes straight to take thrm out… Then Osicat joined our duelling server.

I’d looked on the forum a few times , so I vaguely recognized his name… Then I asked if he is ‘that one cat from the forums’… But he was too busy utterly destroying my guildies in about a minute of time to notice me chatting.

“Oh… Am I interrupting?”

Fangirl mode activated!

We did end up duelling after alot of me being awkwardly excited, and I lost 3 out of 4 :P. I’m pretty sure he tried making up excuses when I won that one time, but I can’t remember what xD.

He used focus pulls, portals, amazing other things that i was unable to identify back then… And he blew my mind.

After a long talk his wve queue was ready, so I went to the forums to watch his videos… And felt inspiree to become a better Mesmer! Now I realize how much if a joke I actually was, and once I started wathing Osicat, I saw a maaaassssiiive improvement.

I still try to whisper him sometimes to thank him/invite for duels… I geta. Respond about every 2 months, but he always forgets who I am xD. I guess some relationships arent meant to last, or something :P.

Edit: that first day when I met him was actually on a Caturday. Coincedence? I think not. Osicat, if you’re reading this, you and I are soulmates. Will you mary me ?

Oh. It’s not 1st of april anymore?

/dissapointedly walks away.

Our surivanility + damage was already loe vonpared to thieves and others… I can think og ALOT of occasions I’d just get instantly gibbed by having 25% less dodges.

A warrior can literally down my with 4 hammer skills… And theyre nerfing out active defense, while some other professions still have massive passive defense… Theyre not even compensating for it.

Whats the point in the new pvp rewards if I have to stop playing the only profession that i enjoy?

I usually use the reaolve mantra for solo q. With hotjoin I dont really feel like condi removal is usefull, because you can just run away withtout risk of losing alot of points or something :P

Oh well. I already sqlvaged 5 pieces, because I wanted to get phoenix okena an make infinite light… But I only got powders 5 times :’(

Weapon skills:
1 : 1
2 : 2
3 : 3
4 : 4
5 : 5

Heal : mouse 4 (on te side of the mouse, at my thumb)
Elite : 0

Utility :Z
C
Mouse 5 (also on the side, but farther away)

Movement:

WASD
X to dodge
Spacebar for jump
Auto-run : r
About-face : shift 2

Professional skills (1-4)

F1 skill : F1
F2 skill : f2
F3 skill : f3
F4 skill : f4

Usage skills

Do/stomp/pick-up : f
Weapon swap : ~’

Miscellaneous

Targeting:: ctrl+T
Take target : T
About face: shift 2 (easy to phase retreat forward)
Stow weapon : shift 1/ control 1

Yeah…

People don’t even say hi. Hopefully there will be some more communication when all the pve players come.

Uually when you insist on them soing something, people just rage and call you names… I think the report button doesn’t een do anything, because I see the same raging people again anyway.

musu.9205:

Alissah.9281:

Warriors.

A single skill foes te same damage as my whole burst… They can literally down me with 4 hits O.o

u should mention your whole burst cant get them down.

It coupd get tem down if you use your burst on cooldown… But if you miss one, they completely regen/endurepain/whqtever.

Not to mention they can use normal weapon skills by themselves to do exactly the same damage to you as youre doing to them… You’d have to dodge every single thing while try can just span skills o.o

It feels completely like the opposite of what makes gw2 combat great: active defense, smart skill usage… Etc.

Warriors.

A single skill foes te same damage as my whole burst… They can literally down me with 4 hits O.o

Lol.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

“Oh… You weren’t kidding about them ‘swarming.’”

“Why would I? Now go, get up there and kill them. I’ll cover you.”

Alissah couldn’t help but smile both at her friend’s words and the confidence the thief had in her ability to handle herself despite being grossly outnumbered. She ran up the stone stairs fearlessly with her crystaline greatsword clutched in eager hands, and picked her target from behind the tangle of enemies. Her greatsword weighed half as much as she did, yet the mesmer flicked her arms forward effortlessly, magically suspending the weapon inbetween both of her hands.

The sylvari channeled light and ambient ether into her greatsword, causing it to rapidly spin with mounting power before releasing the energy as a concentrated beam of multi-colored force. The lazer slammed into the unsuspecting Elementalist’s side, causing her to stagger and yell out in pain, which alerted the others. The human mage thought to cast, but her arcane chanting came out more as a cry of anguish as the Alissah seemed to spike her greatsword blade-first into the floor, causing a transparent ethereal blade to burst up beneath the elementalist and impale her… or so she thought.

Vision blurred from pain, the human glanced over to see the Mesmer. She took some solice in the fact that her ally, a thief, had also noticed the sylvari and was moving to attack, but that mirth faded quickly as a ghost-like apparition of Alissah raced towards her, pivoted on both heels, and whirled by with her ethereal greatsword slashing with all the ferocity of a real sword. The phantasm’s blade passed through the elementalist’s body, but sliced a nasty gash along her side. At the same time, the thief capitalized on Alissah’s distraction. The rogue had dashed towards Alissah while she was focused on the elementalist, she leveled a pistol at the distracted sylvari’s head with a grin.

BLAM

After this point… I started having a severe case of “evil laughs”.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

She hit nothing but air, her bullet passing through a myriad of fading indigo embers and was left with nothing but a ringing echo in the back of her mind for her efforts.

The elementalist was not so fortunate; Alissah appeared infront of her. Alissah appeared next to her.

Before she could tell which was the real Mesmer -before she could even finish gasping in surprise- both images lashed out violently with longswords in hand. She screamed, holding up her staff in a feeble, desperate defense as the Mesmer slashed lines of blood all across her body. Though her eyes were shut, she could still clearly see the image of Alissah in her thoughts. She could still feel the pain of a blade scraping across her flesh before all-too-suddenly that image of Alissah in her mind shattered apart like glass, and no rational thoughts could flow through the dagger-like pain that wracked her head.

The Elementalist’s world went black.

…And her enemies could not believe their eyes.

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Alissah! It’s done! Its finalllyyy done! I fixed the nose, edited the head a bit and now all I have left to do is ink it in and maybe some photoshopping. I woulda send this to you as a PM but I keep getting an error each time I try. -_- and was tooo hype to wait till I got home.

This was great practice, and thanks for letting me use your character to get back on my drawing flow. I’ll send you the finished piece as soon as I can get it done, and I have about 50 more minutes worth of work to do on the Alissah-faces (50 more minutes as in.. all I have right now are rushed-sketches that I’m not at all satisfied with and will likely have to redraw. x.x)

Again, I hope this is decent payback for the video’s you’ve done for me (BoonStorm and MindCrush) and as always thanks for all the help!

(also… You’re a boss for using no condition removal. Dat supcutie-style!)

That was awesome :D. It’s 2:28 here right now, and I actually went from very sleepy to wide awake xD. Past the point where the thief shot at the clone, I physically started shaking… I’m so in love with your writing style!

I’m really liking all the details that are in the big sketch! There’s one thing I’ sliiiiiightly concerned about, though… She’s facing the wrong way :P. I like having them face towards the text in the boxes. I can just flip it, though… Most people probably wouldn’t even notice ;D

There’s one way you can repay me… I’m really hyped to start pvping again on the April 15th patch :D. If you have plans to make lockdown videos, or any other type of video, really… Then I’d absolutely love to help out!

@condi removal: what can I say… I’m just dangerous.
… And I’m professional t running away, too >_>. Pin Down and Sword Throw warriors are my worst nightmare :P. 15k damage in one skill? Thats… All my health.

Just make ranks go above 80, and make an animation that shows your rank in numbers when you use a finisher.

Maybe iy could even be in roman numbers… When someone sees a number theyve never seen before, they may pay some apecial attention to it, maybe ask what eank that id, or google it. Compared to the simple “Oh, they’re rank 81.”.

It would create a difference between someone who played 5 years, and someone who played a half year of only pvp, and it doesn’t sound extremely difficult to make :D

Edit: in my oppinion ranks should be even faster, so it can become part of the new reward system, instead of just being 1 level and 5 skillpoints you get every week.

On top of infinite ranks, it could maybe be earned 4 times faster, but also make the finisher unlocks 4 times slower (so dragon would be unlocked at 320, and takes the same time as 80 at 15 april). Every rank would still get a reward box, though.

I really enjoy seeing the bars in pve an wve actually move every timr I do an event/dungeon/kill a player… The pvp bar just takes a single small step after each match :P

Zirith.6429:

Vanthian.9267:

Zirith.6429:

We arnt talking about a rated 1v1 dueling system, we are talking about the ability to 1v1 anywhere you want for fun instead of just afking in town or logging off or afking while waiting for something to happen.

Neither was I. Open world dueling is just a failed idea because it will be populated by a majority of Thieves and Mesmers as stated. Plus, why would you want to fight a bunch of PvEr’s anyway? They are not geared towards nor accustomed to doing PvP. What could you possibly gain from fighting a bunch of PvEr’s?

The almost all pure PvEr’s will just deny the request for a duel, so in essence this is nothing more than a plea for people to beg for duels from PvEr’s and then call people cowards for not wanting to fight.

It is easier and less clutter for everyone else in PvE if you go duel in the area designated solely for PvP. Go to the Heart of the Mists and duel in a empty server. There are literately at least 5 at all times (even though some say they have 1 person in them most of them don’t, at least in my experience). Not only will that take you out of PvE but it will also take away your hyper inflated stats and make the fight more profession/skill based.

You really seem to have no idea what dueling is :/ if people do choose to play perma stealth survival specs while dueling then other people just wont duel them and the other guy could just leave the area or concede (they would have to add at least 1 of those features), there is nothing to gain from anything you do in this game it is just a time sink; Some people want to enjoy dueling wherever they want while wasting their time instead of wasting even more time going to a server where they cannot test roaming builds or be sure that no one will interfere.

We want to duel for FUN, not to win.

I don’t know about you, but perma stealthing or stacking only toughness and healing while doing nothing but stay alive… Is not fun.

I just want to duel friends and maybe ask in map chat if noone’s online. Ofcourse I’m not going to stalk random players in the open world, and use a prismatic understand build to gain 60% stealth uptime, an when im not atealthef, i just heal and dodge…. What would be the point of that? Trying to kill each ither is fun, not trying to not do anything.

Also, have you ever fought a warrior/guard/decap engi? They dont have atealth, and are harder than mesmers and thieves to kill, even though those have stealth. spamming stealth doesnt require any skill. In fact, spamming anything requires no skill, thats why it’s spamming.

Any knowledgeable player knows how to counter stealth.

Why are you afraid of mesmers and thieves duelling? How does that possibly diminish your experience in game, while doing conpletely different things?

Oh my god.

For a moment, the rain clouds dissapeared, and a white holy light came through and touched my skin, as angels sang and my horrible day became just perfect. Then the page loaded xD

We still need a condition melee weapon… I always figured that’d be daggers, but spears as land weapon would be cool. I dont see how using a spear underwater would work well, anyway :p. Spears are made to have a range advtantage over other melee weapons… Add some magic, and it could be the melee equilavent of te staff. Usable in power and condi builds for defense, but te highest damage is in condi.

1. [chain skill) 1st: stab to 130 range with you spear, inflicting 2s bleed. An illusionary spear comes out and stabs to 300 range, 2s torment (the physical spear does 33% damage, illusionary the rest)
2nd: same
3rd: swipe with your spear and illusionary spear, 5s bleed close range. Illusionary spear applies 2s cripple to enemies. (Hit in a cone)

2. Throw an Illusionary harpoon, that aoe blinds (1s) on impact, and creates a purple chord between you and the target, doing conditions and boons per second, lasts 4 seconds.
Chord can only exist between 130-600 range, if target goes too far or close, the chord is broken.
Randomly: 1s weakness and 1s fury. 5stack 2s vulnerability and 5stack 2s might. 1/4 cast time, 6s cooldown.

3. Quickly dash 300 range forward, leaving a clone behind and doing damage, and evading. A line (3seconds) is left between you and your clone that damages and confuses (5 stacks, 1 second per second) enemies. Cooldown 12 seconds, leap finisher.

4. Create a phantasm that uses #2, but without boons/conditions, and more damage. 1s cast time, activate skill again during cast to summon the same phantasm, but a support/control version

Create a phantasm that spins (300radius) around with it’s spear (very, very low damage), hitting 3 times in 2 seconds. 1st hit: confusion (1 stack, 10s), 2nd hit: confusion, and chill (1s), 3rd hit: confusion, chill and daze 1s.
Applies boons to allies: 1st: 1s swiftness. 2nd: swiftness and retaliation (1s), 3rd swiftness, retaliation and vigor (2s) .
Attacks every 5 seconds, whirl finisher.
Cooldown 20.

5. Instantly create (combo blast) a 300 radius bubble (ethereal field), that lasts 4 seconds and dazes foes on creation. When foes enter or exit the bubble, they become dazed for 1 second. Evety second, foes get 3 stacks of confusion 1second, and randomly weakness 1s, chill 1s, blind 1s. Allies gain 1s retaliation per second. Cooldown 30

Or something like that.

Do you want 10 gold in 10 mins or waiting…. Or just 10 gold in 10 mins of time?

The latter is completely possible, you just need to have some patience :P

Wait… What did i miss :o?

Eles are very balanced.

edit: the free for all pit should have downed state, but with a twist :D

There are several random skills that randomly are assigned to your 4 slots when you get downed.

1. Stomp – Warrior skill. Finish yourself with your own finisher, you are determined during the stomp.
2. get rekt – take 123456789 damage
3. fly away! – get launched 1000 units in the air
4. Run away! – get revived with 1% hp, and the vengeqnce, and determined buff for 5 seconds. All skills are replaced with “Run away!” (Move 1% faster for 1 second.)
5. Fight to survive! – throw a rock that heals your target, using your own health pool. (Instantly kills you, heals 1)
6. Rage quit – turns your character red and get 60 seconds of burning. Also increase in size
7. Supply drop – Engineer elite skill. Drop a crate on yourself, killing you, and dropping a few bandages only you can use.
8. Bandage – call your allies for help. Oh wait, you’re on your own! Heal yourself for -20% hp per second.
9. Cry – stand up and cry. Gain determined and 5 stacks of bodily fluid. Every second you lose 1, and when you hit 0, your character dehydrates, dies, and then turns to stone.
10. Last breath – take a big last inhale, which inflates your character like a balloon, untill you pop, and a cartoon costume brawl “POW!” appears. (Maybe just grow your chatacter in size instead of an inflating animation)
11. Press the red button – makes an explosion like the engineet #3 downed, but makes you dissapear in the explosion.
12. Blink – Mesmer skill. Makes your character’s eyes blink, killing them due to intense physical excersise 5 seconds later.
13. Vengeance! – get revived for 5 seconds with the vengeance buff, but all your skilld are teplaced with “You are back for vengeance!” Which makes you punch your target, doing 1 damage.
14. Magic Trick – you dissapear, and doves fly away from your position (like giving up in costume brawl)
15. Denied! – Heal yourself, but interrupt it with a launch, proccing Halting Strike, which kills you.
16. Shadow heal – heal yourself for every shadow partner you have. Cause a black explosion that kills you if you have none.
17. lick wounds – Ranger downed skill. Summon birds to revive you. (Like the ranger warhorn skill that makes birds eat you, and instantly kills you)
18. Deception – Mesmer downed skill. Pretend to be dead by killing yourself. Also stealths you for 2 seconds and makes a clone of you appear that dies aftet 2 seconds.
19. Summon thief guild – summons two thieves that attack you
20. Give up – replace all your skills with “Do nothing”. Gain 25 bleeds, torments, poisons, and burns for 10 seconds.
21. Do nothing – starts on a 60 second cooldown

You can only use one skill at a time, so the others go on cooldown when you use one.

Also, you bleed out alot faster. If you were to just afk, youd bleed out in 10 seconds or so.

Allarius.5670:

Random power ups, perhaps like those from the bazaar of the four winds release, I enjoyed that.

That sound like an amazing idea!

Also, the underwater part with the practice golems can lead to a seperate area of the map with all these jumping things. No one uses that anyway.

You can already grt on op of the building near the assesory merchant. It would be cool if fron there you could jump on clouds or something.

Also, I loved jumping in the trees with dragon bash :O.

I try to jimp from locker to locker with swiftness… Its really difficult. Im a bit sad that the locker is going away now :/

Can you please let ud run story or explorable mode?

I really feel like I waste my time doing story, because it has close to no rewards, and several explorables are actually faster (but a little bit harder) than story.

If you let us have te choice, then pvp-only players can do story, because they dont have good gear yet, and they can do story at a lower level. But players who wvw or pve can do the explorable without. Wasting time.

There IS one downside I can think of. Pve sungeon runners will have the tracks unlocked by accident and without rven knowing, that could remove a certain sense of progression.

suggestion: when you unlock a reward track, make a yellow system message appear thqt says: “Congratzulations, you unlocked the X pvp reward track!”.
This can potentially attract new players. “A reward track. Tht sounds rewarding, I should go try it!” . Especially when they dont reqd blog posts and dont know about pvp reward yet.

Reikan.2908:

ok i am a little confused about gear and what makes a difference.
im not sure what the best way to go about gear is ive just started saving everything for mystic forge and slowly converting things to get exotics. is this the main way for gear?

also i havent equipped anything yet because i have no idea what runes make a difference. is there any point of holding onto a non lvl 80 exotic?

ive built myself so far entirely in the tanky trait trees mostly because they seemed to apply more conditions and buffs. main slot skills i use are usually glamour fields and stealth abilities.

also i dont understand what a precursor is?

sorry so many questions

Mystic forge is one of many ways to get gear… But just buying from the Trading Post is probably the best option, unless you get extreeemely lucky with te mystic forge.

in the end lvl80 exotic is what you’re aiming for, but if you don’t have the funds for it yet, you can stick to rare (yellow) gear. You can always just salvage them for a chance on globs of ectoplasms, which you can sell, or stare at the beautifull purpleness and drool at it.

Unless you’re going to go with pro mlg 1336 elitist speedrunnerz, trait setups don’t really matter. It’s easy to respec, and will be even easier once the 15 april patch hits.

A precursor is a regular lvl 80 exotic that is also a material in legendary crafting. Always check what an item’s price is before selling/salvaging/equipping. It’s better to sell a precursor and buy a full gear set, than to equip it by accident and bind it to your account ;).

You’ll generally want to aim for direct damage (power, precision, critical damage), as it’s the most effective in pve. Knight’s is a good choice if you want to get used to how dungeons and pve work. If you feel like you have too much surviavibility, you cna slowly replace the knight (preferable rare gear), with exotic berserker for more damage.

My first reaction: finally I can make money doing something I like, instead of farming stack-in-a-corner-and-mash-buttons dungeons/grind trains :D

It was my second reaction too.

And my third.

I can’t wait :/.

Edit: can we maybe gett a gift of exploration by doing the 5 maps in pve, and all 5 region tracks once? And do we get achievement points? That would also give us badge of honor required for the gift of battle.

Rank isnt an indication of skill, just time grinded/skyhammered.

Thats what the ladders will be for, it rewards skilled players and gives you something to showbiff prestige.

Eles always used valkyrie amuley and berserker jewel. Thats the only one i know that always used a different jewel than amulet.

I love te atmospherr water makes. In real life, I actually have a huge underwter phobia, so its nice to be able to breathe underwater in gw2, and swim with te bubbles and such.

I really like the raid of the capri corn as a map, and i was super excited when it first was released :o.

Yeah, underwater combat is extrenely imbalanced, with rangers being invincible without downed penalty. Balance doesnt really matter in hot joins though.

As for making buil crafting easier…. You dont even have a choice…. You either only get 1 weapon or 2, and always equip them all. A new player could jusst copy the sigils they use on their normal weapons.

Im definitely in favour for keeping raid of the capri corn in hotjoin, and increasing diversity :/

Mek.2947:

What spec and gear are you running? 20/20/0/0/30?

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgUQNAsfRlwzKqHTTrGbNJipCEHqHYH49dkK0alUYbXIA-jkCBYLERjkFCREGYkIgJPhNBaIalhFRjVXDT5KxaXCqyAkvFA-w

I added it to the description now, too.

skcamow.3527:

Entertaining as all get out (as usual). Keep ’em coming!! :)

I’m going to have to take a break first. 4 days straight of working on this is starting to take a toll on my non-sleepiness. And I’m glad you enjoyed :D

Pakki.4175:

may i ask which rune did you use?

ps. that last fight is awesome!

Traveler :D

The last fight was… Frantic :P. This was the first duel we had that day, and all at a sudden people start fighting all around, and I start spinning the camera like crazy… And at that one point where the guardian attacked him, I figured I’d portal away and let him instagib the guardian before we continue… ZOOM, there comes the backstab xD

Mek.2947:

OMG! You’re my idol!!! I would have hands down died to that thief. The video was hysterical too. I lost it when I heard the first screaming sound effect when you knocked the guy off the cliff.

I love you too <3

Pyroathiest.4168:

Heh, for making vids I just stick with the standard ‘black flag’ package: fraps and adobe premier pro.

I used to slap music on gameplay like you, but then I…

Realised how much of a perfectionist I am, and how much I keep trying to make videos perfect, evem though that doesn’t work, because theres always something you can do better, and in the end spend 16 hours on a single video.

I hate myself :P

MSFone.3026:

You are awesome.

No, you’re awesome :D

It was all an April Fools’ joke. There is no video. this thread doesn’t exist. You’re just dreaming. It’s all a hallucination. What is real. Inception. Meow.

BlackDevil.9268:

Actually it’s usually sony vegas who kittens up rendering when you put clips over eachother ’’incorrectly’’ which leads to black screens :<

Turns out I thought there was a mistake in my custom render template… It rendered 1480:720 (high definition)… But I figured it’s supposed to be 1920:1080. That made it unescesary difficult to process, which lead to it rendering blackness o.o I also minimized it to tray several times, that could’ve had a negative impact aswell.

Oh, and then there’s the fact that it takes 100% of my processor to render. And that I have 40 tracks… And that I still watch youtube videos and do other things while it renders.

Oh well, now it’s fixed :D. But my internet died at 98% uploading… And it’s stuck in “processing” x.x

Mice.8921:

Alissah.9281:

/insert advertisement here

Youtube bugged the video, making a part of it completely black. I decided to remove all links here, because I don’t want to show you something unfinished. There’s no way to remove a thread, so I’ll just type this. It’ll be up without bugs tomorrow (28th march) :D

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Update 1: I may have overdone this a little.
Update 2: My heart is racing :o
Update 3: for some reason at 8:19 is a huge black part, I’ll fix it tomorrow :‘( It’s the 4th time I’ve rendered it, and this issue wasn’t in the previous 3 versions O.o

I want to watch your video :-) your videos are awesome!

Thank you :D

Yoh.8469:

Hmmm, what I’d like to know is if Power Lock is going to work on AA and Initiative/Thief skills. If you could shut something like Heartseeker down for 10 seconds, that would severally limit a Thieves options.

But I am unfamiliar with lockdown builds, so I’m not sure what can or can’t be interrupted (other then instant cast), or if skills with no recharge can even be put on CD when interrupted.
Might be something worth trying if you can shut a Thief like that.

It’s going to require intensive testing in either case.

It would be cool is power block was: “interrupted skills have a 5 second highet cooldown.”, so auto attacks and thief skills go on a 5 second cooldown, and all other skills on 10. I wouldnt see how it’s OP, I already often spend 5 seconds doin other stuff than auto attacks (kiting, dodging, using other skills).

An it woulddefibitely make this trait less useless versus thieves.

Its an S/D 10/0/0/30/30, or 10/30/0/0/30 evasion spam thief, with emphasis on spam.

With shatter or lockdowb youre at a huge disadvantagr vs these, because youre ery reliant on an interrupt/mirror blade/ illusionary leap to start your combo… If a stray evade so happens to be used at th exact time, your whole combo fails :P. And since I’m using a defensive off hand, my burst is pretty much the only offensive option i have.

Phantasm or condi would be better. If you stay away grom your phantasms, they cant cleave both of you down at the same time, and if the thief chooses to attack you, the phantasms will occasionally hit past their evades. With condi, you actuallly stick with your clones, so they do cleave them down, and the time they spend hitting you, you have protection, and they have cripple and weakness and the like.

A duel with a thief is essentially a battle with your own cooldowns, that gets easier the more efficient you use them, and dont use unnescesary skills. A thief can disengage, and at worst wait 10 seconds for al their weapon skills to be usable again, you cant.

Generally what I try with shatter is to use all skills with defensive uses, defensively. For example blurred frenzy, is much better used defensivelythqn offensively, because it had a low cooldown and is only available in sword. Its better to save decoy, prestige, blunk and all those.

Other than efficient defensive skill usage… Its pretty much a guessing game. Your burst hits twice in a row? Good, theyre dead. If it doesnt hit… You give them time to heal and chip away at your cooldowns. Whenever I specifically fight Djuna (other s/d thieves i fought after nerfs are a joke), it becomes a frantic chaotic mess where i desperately try to stay alive for as long as possible… If a burst hits, i consider myself lucky, but dont get over confident to land another one :P

As for the black part, it was intended to pop into blackness there, but aprox 3 seconds later 2 new clips should start, which didn’t, for whatever reason :P.

As for collaboratrbateding (collaborating) with Chaos… There are sone vague plans about that with the lockdown book :D!

Edit: I’m extremely afraid of what the vigor nerf will do… Having 25% less dodges will most certainly kill us in situations where we were already at a balance disadvantage… Arenanet, you better not kitten this up :/.

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Alissah.9281:

Seras.5702:

Alissah.9281:

Except transmutation crystals and stones will be converted to charges :P

I was hoping the wardrobe would be something fun and easy to use, but its just a massive gold sink that you can only use a few times :’(

It’s actually no different than it is now. Still need transmutation stones/crystals/charges. And I’m not sure where you’re getting that you can only use it a few times.

The transmute change is simply to streamline its synergy with the wardrobe system.

The wardrobe is not a gold sink, but rather an opportunity to get that look you want for less gold than before. If you bought a sweet piece of armor and want it for another character, you don’t have to buy a duplicate and xmute it like you do now. You’ll have it unlocked and just need the xmute charge, no additional gear purchase required.

As for race…go Sylvari. They look the coolest with all the purple glowiness.

I have about 3 gold, and I refuse to do grinding-trains for hours just to get some money. In The little free time I spend on gw2 nowadays, I’d rathrr have fun and de-stress after a busy day, instead of grinding money till I get bored to tears. I can buy… 0 transmutations with 3 gold.

A gold sink is something that removes gold from the economy, such as the gem store. You buy transmutations from the gem store, and therefore, the wardrobe is a gold sink. In my oppinion its a massive gold sink, atleast compared to buying stuff from vendors. At best I’ll be able to transmute 1 gear set if I start saving now with 1 dungeon per day, before I’m completely broke

I hope thry give us 1 transmutation for doing a daily… Atleast it would be something fun that makes it worth it to log in every day :P. Atleast for me, I don’t really care about getting a few achievement points.

A) you can earn 3 transmutation stones for each map completed. That’s not grinding, that’s playing the game. You can clear Rata Sum in a few mins.

B) I think you’re confused about the wardrobe system. If anything, it’s making transmutation cheaper, not more expensive. Currently, you still need transmutation stones/crystals to make these changes, as well as 2 pieces of gear (one for looks, one for stats), one of which will be destroyed. The new system will let you make the same transmutation but without destroying (or needing to procure) a 2nd piece of gear, for the exact same transmutation fee.

A) 3 transmutation stones equals 1 transmutation charge… So 6 maps completed to transmute a whole set :o

B) just because its cheaper than the thing we had before, doesn’t mean it’s not a gold sink. In fact, you’re sinking the exact same amount of gold with both ways: 1 transmutation crystal.
Sure, having 2 gear pieces instead of 1 is more ezpensive, but buying gear isn’t a gold sink.

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kill them before they lay eggs !

Oh no, you watched it D:

It actually got bugged, leaving a giant gaping black hole at 8:19.

I hope you enjoyed it anyway :D

Reserved, cuz maybe I’ll put all videos in one thread… But I’m lazy, so I dunno.

Update 10/4: free character box/art commisions :D

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What about listing them by importance to interrupt? It will be a mix with how dangerous a skill is and how easy/difficult to interrupt it is.

For example:
Power lock – instant 1sdaze. It can potentially turn the fight around, and you should avoid it at all costs, but it’s instant cast and pretty much impossible to interrupt, so it would be ranked as not important on the list.

Same goes with shadow return, which is the thief sword #2, and has a 1/4 second cast time.

Churning earth – has a long cast time, making it very easily interrupted. However, it’s also easily dodged, so sometimes it may be better to save your interrupt for when you really need it. Would be ranked above “not important”, but below “very important”, as opposed as simply saying “easy” in an easy/medium/hard list. Another example is Mesmer scepter #3, which is easy to interrupt but not very important.

All heals – very important, for obvious reasons.

Earthshaker – very important, but kind of hard to interrupt. Can screw up a warrior’s rotation, but you can expect the #4 (spin-thing knockback) to come straight after the daze wears of. If you use Chaotic Interruption, and simply walk a bit away, they will waste the spin into the air, and miss you. 2 flies with 1 swat!

Anyway, that’s just how I’d do it :P

I hope transmutations are part of the new reward system, so we can actually use our pvp skins in pve… Or even reward them as daily, it would actually give a point to doing dailies.

Transmutations are way too expensive to buy with just the gold you make from playing…

Seras.5702:

Alissah.9281:

Except transmutation crystals and stones will be converted to charges :P

I was hoping the wardrobe would be something fun and easy to use, but its just a massive gold sink that you can only use a few times :’(

It’s actually no different than it is now. Still need transmutation stones/crystals/charges. And I’m not sure where you’re getting that you can only use it a few times.

The transmute change is simply to streamline its synergy with the wardrobe system.

The wardrobe is not a gold sink, but rather an opportunity to get that look you want for less gold than before. If you bought a sweet piece of armor and want it for another character, you don’t have to buy a duplicate and xmute it like you do now. You’ll have it unlocked and just need the xmute charge, no additional gear purchase required.

As for race…go Sylvari. They look the coolest with all the purple glowiness.

I have about 3 gold, and I refuse to do grinding-trains for hours just to get some money. In The little free time I spend on gw2 nowadays, I’d rathrr have fun and de-stress after a busy day, instead of grinding money till I get bored to tears. I can buy… 0 transmutations with 3 gold.

A gold sink is something that removes gold from the economy, such as the gem store. You buy transmutations from the gem store, and therefore, the wardrobe is a gold sink. In my oppinion its a massive gold sink, atleast compared to buying stuff from vendors. At best I’ll be able to transmute 1 gear set if I start saving now with 1 dungeon per day, before I’m completely broke :D

I hope thry give us 1 transmutation for doing a daily… Atleast it would be something fun that makes it worth it to log in every day :P. Atleast for me, I don’t really care about getting a few achievement points.

Except transmutation crystals and stones will be converted to charges :P

I was hoping the wardrobe would be something fun and easy to use, but its just a massive gold sink that you can only use a few times :’(