Guild Wars 2

I don’t know why people feel the need to do that, why can’t you document yourself about the events and the tactics, builds that works best for your class before? Even a video is enough, and there’s the new squad system which makes it even easier, it’s very obvious that the hardest thing to achieve is to make people work with each other, not the actual events themselves…

I just said that after wasting my time again for TT, and I just want for everyone out there to succeed in these kind of events, so LFG isn’t a taxi fest anymore with people waiting like hyenas just to steal the others food…

I don’t know why people feel the need to do that, why can’t you document yourself about the events and the tactics, builds that works best for your class before? Even a video is enough, and there’s the new squad system which makes it even easier, it’s very obvious that the hardest thing to achieve is to make people work with each other, not the actual events themselves…

I just said that after wasting my time again for TT, and I just want for everyone out there to succeed in these kind of events, so LFG isn’t a taxi fest anymore with people waiting like hyenas just to steal the others food…

Randulf.7614:

I’d agree, however he’s there as an “ooh aaah” spectacle for new players. He is pretty impressive for a first map boss to walk into. He did get a revamp, and it did make him last longer, but they said after the revamps starter bosses were something they didn’t want to make harder.

Shatterer and Karka Queen would be first in line for revamps in my opinion. I don’t think they paint the game in a good light, no matter how cool Shatterer looks.

Karka Queen revamp makes sense because the next Dragon is the Deep Sea one.

You have to wait next living stories for Claw of Jormag or Shatterer revamps.

Then they will have to nerf bosses HP to compensate, simple as that.

Living Story would’ve been so much better without Marjory & Kasmeer.

On the top of a dead Elder Dragon.

Liquicity.3621:

I Don’t exactly want them to nerf any of the classes perse. I don’t trust them at this point with math.

If they change numbers around in a vacuum we are just going to get the last “season:” revisited with different “Meta” teams.

What I want to see is a dev who can take a page from Otacon’s book

Rex’s Weak point-

Otacon: Snake, Rex’s armor is impregnable. You can’t do any damage with the weapons you’ve got. Rex uses the latest advances in compound armor. The only way you can pierce it is with a high-performance HEAT (high-explosive, antitank) round.

Snake: So what do I do?

Otacon: Rex’s pilot seat operates exactly like a VR system. It’s got multiple sensors connected to a high-tech interface used for the controls. It’s completely self-enclosed and shut off from the outside environment.

Snake: He’s not using his naked eyes?

Otacon: That’s right. So if you could somehow destroy the sensors… Do you see that round plate on Rex’s left arm?

Snake: Yeah, that thing that looks like a shield?

Otacon: That’s a radome. If you can destroy that thing, it won’t be able to use its electronic equipment.

Snake: So he’ll be blinded?

Otacon: Yeah. Try to hit that radome with a Stinger missile.

Snake: So will that stop it?

Otacon: No, Rex was designed so it can be controlled manually too.

Snake: Oh, great.

Otacon: The part that looks like a beak is where the pilot seat is. In an emergency it will open up. Rex’s armor is perfect. You can’t destroy it.

Snake: You told me that already.

Otacon: But the interior is a different story.

Snake: I get it… First I destroy the radome. That will force him to open up the pilot’s seat.

Otacon: Right. If you can shoot a missile into the kittenpit, you’ll destroy the computer control system.

Snake: You intentionally designed it with a weak point?

Metal Gear Solid:
Otacon: It’s not a weak point—I like to think of it as more of a character flaw. People and weapons just aren’t complete without a character flaw, don’t you think?

The Twin Snakes:
Otacon: It’s not a weak point—more like a weakness. People and weapons just aren’t very appealing without a weakness of some kind, don’t you think?

TL:DR- Everything should have a weakness. Game design is about the interplay of those strengths and weaknesses. Good interplay is what balance is. Bunkers are meant to be busted.

That’s probably the best example, I love MGS.

Is it that hard for them to re-input the animations?

Wanna know a funny story? My team lost against 3 thieves in the other team (they had a ranger and necro too), I was a Thief myself (no HoT so no DD), my team had 2 rangers and 2 Eles and we lost so easily. I was shocked.
So losing or winning only depends on you and your team even though some specs are harder to deal with than others (like Condi Rev, Power Druid, Bunker Mes and Bunker Tempest).

The title would have been perfect if it was Guardian or Thief instead of Warrior.

Aeolus.3615:

^true…..but at least guards have uniqe useless spirit weapons!
It is a good thing that scrapper gyros didnt went that bad, some on Anet have learned something.
well Anet is trying to make every class have a similiar copy pasta way to play from other classes, they will keep adding weapons and traits wich will i’m guessing now, even guards and warrior will have stealth someday, eles will have their water bow creepa back someday when Anet make that weapon as main etc…

This will lead to alot of problems because it looks they are just doing it because they dont know what else to inovate the classes, and thus might be the easiest or slacking solution to take care of a game.

They could revamp the weapons moveset with a real specialisation, GW1 had dual professions, GW2 could have this too but something that fits the base one, like if you have a Guardian, this one can become a Parangon or something, and all weapons have their moveset change with additional skills and elite skill.

Aeolus.3615:

@Amineo.8951 that would be nice, but i guess our unique feacture are called Spirit Weapons.

Nope, because they gave Engineers better versions of these, there’s nothing unique to Guardian now, and Thief suffer the same thing with Stealth that Rangers, Mesmers and Engineers (again…) have…

I’m not sure, but Berserker runes might be better in some aspect.

Aeolus.3615:

reikken.4961:

(no unique boon here, like let’s say mesmer’s alacrity)

Aegis is guardian’s unique boon

Smal correction just cause “unique” sounds as if guardians were the only with aegis.

It is not unique to guard, but guardian is the class that has more aegis, what is unique is how guardians can use the aegis to shatter it remove condis and also heal.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aegis

Then they should make it unique to Guardians…

I recommend this: http://www.gw2oc.com/
But be careful, sometimes the coms switch to another map because some people can make the event fail with lame behaviours.

Prepare to rage a lot once you get to Ruby and Diamond, it’s the same people.

Is it a few months or 6 months or 1 year?

Starbreaker.6507:

Hunter.4783:

I would jump ship asap. No reason for you to stick around with a butchered and mediocre class. In pve I highly recommend anything else but thief and guard. Trust me you will not be disappointed.

Spvp is completely separate. You can play a chrono in raids and fractals and spvp with guard. But please strongly consider switching at least for pve and exploration

For the record, I have over 4k hours on my guard. Now all my guard does is stick by the forge for crafting

That’s too bad.

Oh well, guess I could try Engineer since that was the next class that seemed fun from what I’ve played. I’m trying not to be one of those FotM players, but after living through Warrior on WoW in early Wrath of the Lich King days where we got dump-trucked on by the other plate-wearing classes and got relegated to second-class citizens I’d prefer to not have that happen again.

Another question. Did the elite specializations from HoT make the game worse in a sense? This could be naive thinking on my part, but it seems like that if you don’t run your profession’s elite spec you’re doing a disservice to yourself and your party.

HoT destroyed PvE Dungeons, PvP and WvW, and yes base professions are subpar (except Scrapper which is a different play style) compared to elite specs.

Chrono might not be fun to play, I tried Mesmer a while ago up to level 80 and deleted it, because the play style was not very interesting and too faceroll compared to Elementalist, I still like to play Guardian sometimes but overall I think it’s better to go Reaper or Scrapper if you want variety.

Berserker/Tempest plays like the base classes, Daredevil is bad in groups, Herald is very boring in PvE (auto-attack spam) and Druid is basically Healing Tank…

Azoqu.8917:

I’ve played Guardian as a main since the head start 3 years ago up until the week raids came out. The Guardian brings nothing to the raid that other, better, classes can bring. Well except for one thing that is, terrible DPS that isn’t worth thinking about. Anyone who says they do decent damage has never played another class except maybe Mesmer. Earlier this year when I decided to map complete on my Elementalist I was shocked at how much damage I was doing compared to a Guard.

Guard DPS was good pre-HoT, now it’s only better than Mesmer and nothing else, Rev/Chrono does the job better, Tempest are better tanks and Druid gives better healing, the only ways to fix this is to either nerf the most broken professions atm or rework Guardian/DH…

E-Sport for GW2 is fail, it only works well for Fighting, FPS and MOBA with solid gameplay and huge attention every month, and this game severely lacks the 2nd point…

Hunter.4783:

Guardian is:

- trash tier for raids
- mediocre for fractals and pve
- nub stomper in low tier pvp
- trash tier in diamond league and above

Should be enough for you to make an informed decision. Unless you really love this class I would stay clear of this sinking ship.

Right now whoever thinks guard is in a good spot is either delusuonal, lying or never played anything else

The game is already faceroll anywhere:
-You can have at least 1 or 2 Guards in raids if your team is not bad and have OP Chronos and Berserkers
-Who even bother doing anything other than Swamp Meta? Also PvE is faceroll
-I agree with this
-I don’t agree, It’s not trash if some professions are broken up to the point where taking anything else other than Chronos, Revs and Tempest is meaningless

Juzbeingme.1596:

as i said i dont have the expansion yet and before i consider buying it i first wanna see what the game is like at the moment. Rev therefore isnt an option?
Which leaves the old classes to choose from…from that guardian, double dagger ele and maybe warrior were the classes i liked playing. So then ye…im juz looking into the options to see what could work from those classes and which one has some decent chance to move on to elite specs if i do get the expansion

Berserker is meta for raids, so Warrior is a good option, but your Guardian however will still be awesome for fractals, and Ele is good for both.

Agemnon.4608:

Why no guardian? They have AoE fields that give stability, a charged skill that maxes everyone’s HP, and that’s not even getting into some traps so a mix of dragonhunter and base guardian skills looks ideal.

Then you have crusader gear that looks good for guardian, you get some nice toughness, healing power, and a bit of offense between the power and ferocity. Mixing with zealot’s sounds ideal for some good staff heals and some precision.

Because people are extremely elitist in raids, the level of sodium is so high that it reached Pacific Ocean state, and people don’t want it to go even further in the Polar Zones…

I have a Human female Ele but I play way more with my Charr Guardian (Main) and Sylvari Thief, the issue I have with the female humans is basically the voice, it doesn’t fit some faces in my oppinion.

Please explain this to me, why almost half of the playerbase are playing Human Females, I might buy Heart of Thorns if you give me the reasons…

Nike.2631:

I give it a 2/10 for inane trolling.

You’re not allowed to talk raid imposter.

Just make a Rev and faceroll the game, this is litterally Thief X Guardian X Ele.

What makes the 5 Berserkers OP are the Chronomancers.

Wow are you for real people? What the kitten is wrong with this community…

Ara.4569:

I also blame the so-called “pro” players for not protesting during an official stream, not even on interviews!

These ’’pros’’ are paid by them, the real pros are doing Solo-Q without being cheap.

You guys obviously don’t know how to win and you know what? …….. Me too, I’m stuck at Emerald…

Rev and Bunker Mes needs hardcore nerfs, DH needs small adjustements.

HoT made me hate GW2, it feels lackluster and brought unbalance in any game mode…

Wanze.8410:

StinVec.3621:

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Sigils
It’s shoulder armor, why would it use sigils in its forge recipe and not runes?
Anyway, depending on what sigils are needed, I expect the supply to get bought up immediately and jacked up in price. So this is one area where it can potentially become very costly if you do not already have the sigils. Then again, perhaps the sigils will be the ones that drop from the Wintersday gifts so we’ll get a supply of them simply by opening the gifts earned via doing the activities to get the collection items.

The Dev said you will need a bunch of sigils and other stuff to craft it. Then she realized that she shouldnt have given that info and stopped.
I am pretty sure you will need both, the sigil and rune from last years wintersday to craft it.

Better buy now or get screwed by Qataris…

Conner.5803:

Wasn’t the Arah Lupi supposed to be one of the smaller giants? So how about regular sized one that isn’t corrupted by Zhaitan?

Yeah, the ones in Crystal Desert are bigger than Elder Dragon champions.

UnbentMars.9126:

I agree it would be a good raid boss with some additional mechanics, but the collective rage at re-using a boss for raids would be unfortunate.

Better to create a new boss with mechanics inspired by Lupicus (including some fixes and tweaks since Lupicus is rather easily soloable) than simply re-using old content

They could use another Lupicus when we get to fight Kralkatorrik as a Raid since it makes sense with the lore in Crystal Desert.

Remove Giganticus Lupicus from Arah, make some adjustements (better stats, moves around, much more attacks per phase and an additional one), and here you have it, the best dungeon boss not obsolete anymore!

I don’t know but I always force them to activate all their skills by attacking until they no longer have blocks and dodges, but it takes time and without good burst and some CC you’re not gonna have enough time before his/her friend(s) arrive…

Defending Bunker Chrono is litterally lying to yourselves, you all know it’s too strong in this meta…

You basically have to be a tryhard DH or Reaper or Revenant if you wanna progress efficiently and pray that your team mates aren’t PvE people whom has no idea about PvP.

Espire.9723:

Won a game, solo players against full premade that all were one division above ours and gained 3 pips! But wait, you just won a game you were supposed to lose? Let’s match you with 3 PvE players ( it was pretty clear they were inexperienced after reading the stuff they wrote in chat…. ) and let you play against full premade teams that will stomp you 500 – 50. OH AND LETS PUT TWO WARRIORS AND A THIEF IN YOUR TEAM WHILE WE PUT 3 DHS, A REV AND A CHRONO BUNKER IN THE OTHER.

MOTHER OF GOD ANET, WTF ARE YOU DOING?

Holy kitten 3 DH? God have mercy on your soul…

This meta is so good that you can litterally take a Bunker Chronomancer and tank 4 people at once without leaving your spot, or just take a Druid with Bristleback and spam 2 with your Longbow…

Malediktus.9250:

Mortifer.2946:

Because this is what people want to do…use third party program in order to play one of the basic parts of the expansion….yaaay. /sarcasm off. Tripple trouble is the most similar to TD and look how many people are doing it. None. I killed that wurm just twice since it was released exactly because I don’t want to bother with 3rd party programs and the “wonderful” megaserver sys-not-tem

I killed it over 100 times, get organised. Noone wants stupid boring brain afk events where attending is all that matters.

100 times? Looks like a big lie to me, I only see 2 or 3 successful TT per week.

If you like bewbs: Go Human or Norn Female
If you like being cool: Go Charr (Male and Female are good) or Asura Female
If you like being a hero: Go Human Male or Sylvari

Ascended is way too expensive now (and I mean a set of weapons and armors), trinkets are easy to get, but still that’s almost 500g depending on classes for an efficient choice of weapons, and the double for an armor set, that’s too much for new players…

Konig Des Todes.2086:

We don’t even know the DSD’s first domain.

It’s Water obviously, dark Water of the abyss.

Too much human females, that’s why I said it needs a nerf.

SuperduperMLGbsns.9345:

Aomine.5012:

SuperduperMLGbsns.9345:

Vieux P.1238:

Hey thieves, get skill’s!

>playing Thief
>running into a stack of guard track
>dieing instantly

Skilled gameplay 2015. Well done.
And no, traps are meant to lay them hidden, so people run into them without knowing that.

Whoever is in charge for Thief and Guardian balancing needs to be fired. He seems to hate his job.
But hey, nothing will be changed as long as there are enough scrubs who yell “l2p” under every comment.
9.2k true shot on an 11k hp Thief. Legit.

Wonder who still use Zerk Amulet on low/mid tier HP class.

Guess it’s really a L2P issue.

Also when I play DH, I never see True-shot doing over 6k damage. Keep on exaggerating. Oh wait, maybe that guys has 25 mights on him and you have 25 vulnerable on you. Make sense.

Also I still see thieves do some nice spike within 1.5 secs if you’re not fully awared, and downed if you don’t react with your stun-break/invulnerable in 1.5 sec.

Marauder is nothing but a cut at your balls and techically 6k more HP means a kitten when there is no real mechanic to use to overtake the control of a fight after a while because that would require dmg pressure which you only can draw on very unskilled opponents atm.
A bit more jumping around just stretches the time but it doesnt really change things in long term.

And It was at the beginning of a match where I recieved that shot when teams entered a choke point. Didnt even have had melee contact. It didnt seem the team knew what to do and no one joined groupwise in this match.
The fact that YOU never have seen more then 6k doesnt mean it is impossible because that would imply your knowledge is allsurrounding but its fairly not, k?

Oh, and just standing next to a Rev to get 45363 might without perstacking before entering a fight surely is a “l2p issue” as well. #skillissues2015

I also dont really understand the cry around warrior tbh. No matter what cls Im playing, I have massive problems when he brings the juggernaut elite. That being said Im not playing mesmer pretty much which I assume as the only viable counter for it.
Ive seen a lot people arguing with “just try to disengage” when the topic was present and it stucked at this answer but what the heck is that for a way to reply? No one has 20 secs to give it to someone. Dash hits ppl for 7k and most skills cc. If you arent able to overtake the control of the fight in this time you should stop playing pvp in general.

Smartplay surely can encounter the warrior at some point but what I see mostly is that this class is the 2nd biggest noob sponge in this game after ranger. Literally everybody has one.
It deals a kittenton of dmg and its up to you to use it properly. I personally think warrior, how it is now has the best balance so far except for that kittena faceroll rifle shots. The thing is just that other classes recived too much many buffs/upgrades. And at that point it turns to nothing but a joke that war and thief players cry each other who is the biggest loser in this current state because no gives a kitten who it is. Its like a fight between 2 kittenroaches in a dark cave while other classes enjoy watching it and set bets who will win (plot twist: cant be a winner).

Last note:
I often have read how warrior players were disappointed by the berserker because they expected huge leaps and new superduper fancy ways to apply like 9485390% more dmg like other classes had but in reality it wasnt really necessary because the class never been so low tier especially when it comes to dmg like as you want us to sell it here.

Brace yourselves. kittenstorm incoming.

Btw am I the only one who felt extremly betrayed when I read that Assasins presence was given to revenant instead of thief?

Revenant is the new Warrior and Thief…