Guild Wars 2

oO ???
I will have to try again, maybe graphics settings are important? (I have some stuff on med/low or even none I think).

I tried it in LA jumping puzzle in the dark room and it did not light up any surroundings, they remained completely dark. So this item is apparently useless, pretty disappointing.

The odd thing is that it DOES light up surroundings when I’m in LA in the town area that is bright anyway. Then I can clearly see it making the floor a little bit brighter.

I know there is nothing obvious anywhere that would say they don’t stack, but I thought it’s safer to ask.

Fyi: Both give +10% revive speed. So expected correct result is +20% revive speed.

Expected result considering Arenanet’s usual trait/rune/sigil programming however: Only 10% revive speed in total for no obvious reason.

Measuring an increase of 110% to 120% revive speed is kinda tricky, so I’m hoping that someone might know whether this stacks or not, it having been tested thoroughly in the past or something. Thanks!

This needs to be brought in line, it cannot be that the pet revives the ranger faster than I can crit/hit him down. And I mean ***faster***.
(I know I can “finish” him if I’m in close range, but that’s not the point here.)

Hi, usually runes give 25, +50, +90 of “their” stat, amounting to +165 in total.
Except for mercy runes.
These only give +25,35,+90, which means they are lacking somewhat.
I assume this is a bug (what else), it’d be nice if you could fix it, thanks in advance.

well, any news on it?

Communicator says I have to witness 5 portals closing and it’ll take readings.
I’ve been to a lot of portal-energy-drain events (Lornar’s Pass) and waited till the end until the portal got closed but it still says 0/5 in the quest.

The only thing missing is the Jubilee Daily, I was looking through the menus like crazy until I found this thread on the forum after giving up looking in the game.
So the Dailies are “bugged” and hence not available or what?
God, Arenanet, what <rant involving employees>?

On the good side, the event design is great by the way, credit, where credit is due.

And yeah in the Wiki it says “until 3rd sept”, there is no mention of any sort of deadline today. I know it IS written SOMEWHERE but as someone previously wrote, how the fk are we supposed to keep track of all these arbitrary dates, it’s just bs each time that players cant take at least some time out in between or they miss stuff.

It’s very sad that with all these nerfs Elementalist is now “good at everything but great at nothing”, thanks Arenanet for continued nerfing into a wishy washy class that takes skill to play and yet cannot achieve anything great. (pops healing signet on warrior)

fix this kitten immediately, please. Thanks a lot!

Yeah I didn’t read that, took a long break from the game and now there is this obscenity called Ascended items.. What an ugly idea.

Thanks for that link.

I just can’t really fathom that THIS is the current state of things.
1)? 2)? You must surely be jesting, Arenanet?

The difference in stat points of ascended items -without infusion- over exotics is ~15%.
This is slightly more than the difference between exotics and rares, which is ~14%.

Ascended bs needs to be reduced to 5% advantage asap, or this can only be considered a broken game design.

I’m actually surprised that people who have legendary items aren’t louder about this, since those have the same vastly inferior stats as exotics.

Now flame away.

Edit: I would also like to point out that Arenanet originally said that they’d never do something like this nonsense. Seems that was a lie.

I haven’t played for a really long time.
Now that I’m back I wonder if I’m just not looking carefully or if there are really

1) no dungeon party finder tool
2) no way to simply click on a name in chat and choose “invite”, instead of having to type out the name.

Please tell me I’m wrong.

I talked to the npcs and noticed that they offer sigil or rune recipes for watch work sprockets and gold, for all professions except jewelers, what’s up with that? Or was I just totally blind? ^^

roostapro.9827:

Ele Attunement IS OUR Weapon Swapping, as we are swapping to another element…..

Sense none you make~

And here I thought ele is meant to be a class that reduces your screen area by 10% (because of having the inventory permanently opened to switch weapons).
I’ll get nervous if I don’t have to move items around in my inventory every 30 seconds anymore! HALP

It increases your critical damage by 2%, not your chance to deal a critical hit. That chance depends on “precision” instead.

Edit: Made a mistake. :-p
However, still:
Remove downed state and rallying.

Well, if the price of ectos goes up so goes the price of rares, so there will be no difference.
It’s not like people are like “ohh ectos are so expensive, I’ll just sell this lvl 80 rare for 2s50 on the TP!!1”.
However, it’s pretty annoying that exotics thereby become so expensive that it becomes more attractive again to do kittening pve (dungeons) for items instead.

Need moar bots!

Toroth.1453:

Solution: Gather nodes that you pass as you’re heading towards your destination.

Side note: DAoC Mordred days repair bill was 17x the amount in GW2.

It encourages smarter gameplay instead of the “I’ll just release and run back into battle” herd mentality.

If we get Darkness Falls and the RvR areas of DAoC in GW2 and especially the keep/siege timing/behavior, then I personally wouldn’t mind a higher repair cost

And that math fail of some other poster was pretty funny, “5:1 is an unusually bad ratio” – as someone pointed out, if you have a 5:1 ratio, someone else must die 5 times while only killing you once, in return (statistically). What has happened to today’s educational system.

The idea behind upgrading was to remedy the issue of people’s already existing exotic gear being made worthless. And also a hassle if you put expensive upgrades into it already.

Just provide a WvW NPC that sells a sort of “transmutation stone” for each armour/weapon slot (for say 100-300 badges per stone) that ups the stats of an exotic item to be on par with that of an ascended item.

If your tanky build relies on healing by dodge-rolling, definitely get a sigil of energy.

u no take candle

Manually selecting the real mesmer again and again disrupts and delays combat skills way too much while Mesmer can burst you, making the Mesmer’s short cooldowns op. It needs to be adjusted.

Doesn’t strike this anyone else as extremely odd, considering how lovely all the item icons are usually done (think all the food/ingredient icons etc)?
And now, for a huge, brand-new event the tokens just use the exact same graphics (not even different colouring) as Crucible of Eternity tokens?
That doesn’t fit together at all, something is up. Did they “forget” about this? Hardly possible. Was it on purpose? And if so, why?

Just keep in mind that you aren’t dps’ing while dead. Might make things relative.

Make sure to drink enough water while playing or you might collapse.

Well, we didn’t really get an answer, in the actual meaning of the word.
We just got a PR statement, that’s all.

The DR was never meant for bots, but for players, so they spend more real $ for gems, and therefore for gold.

OP, I agree. Further I’m surprised how amateurish this company handles stuff. Also it really makes you wonder if they are pressured by NCsoft (insert gear treadmill now to get all wow players!!11) or really being this lame on their own accord, hard to believe if you ask me. Refer to Arenanet’s own video trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35BPhT-KI1E mainly at 1:40.
Also it’s pretty interesting that the survey to the lost shores event was actually on ncsoft’s website..

Antiriad.7160:

Hm, I’m just speculating without any knowledge about the current state of those games, so please correct me if wrong:
Wouldn’t now either DAoC Classic (if you like WvW -> RvR) or Aion (if you like the usual gear progress stuff) be better choices, thanks to this gw2 nov patch? Aion had great humour, much less bugs, less annoying world zones, and deeper atmosphere, afaik? And DAoC is by far the best WvW-like experience, has Darkness Falls, but.. how many people do play it I wonder?

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You know, when I heard about GW2 back then with no gear progression and all, as a fan of WvW and not much time to do things like raiding and being no teenager anymore to find fun in doing the same dungeons over and over, but rather getting bored fast of such things, I thought “hey awesome, GW2 will be my game, it’s the only one that seems to appeal to me of all these mmos, I can just log in when I have time, do epic WvW battles, and not have to worry about any ‘gear progression duties’ to keep up with everyone”.
Well, now with this patch I suddenly lost all of that feeling completely The situation on the MMO market to me is as if GW2 was never released, by that I mean that GW2 now takes the same place as all the other mmos basically. It feels weird, lol. But at the same time I’m that more excited to see new alternatives popping up, so I’ll definitely have a look at PS2.

Btw I just read PS2 allows “2000 players on one battlefield”. I wonder how they can handle that many, as we see bad culling issues in gw2 with MUCH less people though? oO

[Edited by CC: Discussing the Planetside 2 launch here is off-topic]

Hm, I’m just speculating without any knowledge about the current state of those games, so please correct me if wrong:
Wouldn’t now either DAoC Classic (if you like WvW → RvR) or Aion (if you like the usual gear progress stuff) be better choices, thanks to this gw2 nov patch? Aion had great humour, much less bugs, less annoying world zones, and deeper atmosphere, afaik? And DAoC is by far the best WvW-like experience, has Darkness Falls, but.. how many people do play it I wonder?

If you like playing with 10% less screen space due to open inventory since you have to swap your weapons manually all the time, in order to fully play your class, go for it.

If you pay to have something that someone else will need 6 months to attain, then you are paying to be able to win during these 6 months, until the opponent is able to catch up, obviously. It’s not “is it either pay2win or just a shortcut?”, it’s “a pay2win shortcut”.

McSlappy.1372:

Antiriad.7160:

1) I wonder about the situation of people who have spent substantial amounts of real money in in-game armour/weapons that are now devalued, because wrong “assuring” information was given to them by Arenanet in advance. Isn’t that actually something similar to fraud?

A good luck finding an attorney to pick that up. Unless you plan to sue and fund it yourself this is an empty threat.

Besides that no you can’t. You paid for an in game currency. Just like in the real markets changes happen and can cause currency to be higher or lower valued. You can’t sue over decisions you made in the past like that. Could you imagine the stock market? I lost money because your stock value went down I’m going to sue you to get my money back!!!! Ummm no sorry. Also look at the real estate market. You buy a house and it devalues. You don’t get to sue the previous owner for fraud.

I would never spend money on in-game stuff related to “power” of your character. It feels like you’re playing chess and instead of moving a pawn to the 8th line to turn it into a queen someone offers you a queen for $10 instead. Doesn’t make sense oO?!? Except if you don’t actually want to play the game but just get over with it already (but then you should just resign aka quit).

However, since you brought up the stock market, that’s actually a good example: A company has to release certain information about their plans and situation, which is than evaluated by people buying stocks. And if the company actually lied about those facts (this has nothing to do with market speculation or anything) then they are liable and will instantly get sued.
It was just an interesting thought experiment here, as I said, I do not spend money anyway. (Except if I wanted marble chess pieces, why not!)

The ascended item shown is 10% better, and it actually tries to mask a potential higher difference because it’s an ‘explorer’ item which uses MF for its primary stat, which is hard to compare here (similar to how 1 crit dam is about as much ‘worth’ in stat point tax on an item as around 20 points of another stat), so if we see for example a comparison of a ‘knights’ item, it might reveal that ascended items are even >10% in gain.

1) I wonder about the situation of people who have spent substantial amounts of real money in in-game armour/weapons that are now devalued, because wrong “assuring” information was given to them by Arenanet in advance. Isn’t that actually something similar to fraud?

2) Another question I’ve been wondering about is, that article says that the devs found players “hitting a ‘legendary’ wall” so they added Ascension gear for inbetween progression. Does that mean Legendary items will have their stats increased to match or surpass Ascension gear? Otherwise it would rather be a regression from Ascension gear to still try and get Legendaries, no?

3) About some who said Arenanet is trying to get WoW-people over here. I don’t think that could work, because friends of mine are actually back to WoW, not for gear progression reason, but because they were missing the trinity tank-dd-heal!

4) Some people who keep posting something about “5 power” cannot really calculate, because obviously the posted example displays a 10% gain in overall stats when going from Exotic → Ascension. And attention needs to be paid to the MF stat, which is in fact the highest stat (all items have 1 primary and 2 secondary stats, if you remember), and therefore can cleverly mask the actual power difference here. If we had a ‘knights’ item for example, it might actually even be >10%, we don’t know yet.

Only drawback is, terminating makes TP interface stop working.

Game needs more chests giving blue rewards to make solving jumping puzzles and killing champions that much rewarding.

BabelFish.7234:

So I grind of hours, getting loads of karma, I’m buying my karma gear and MISCLICK I buy heavy karma armor which I can’t use. I message support immediately and they can’t help me.

Mr Cannot usually lives in the Wantnot street. Especially in Arenanet town.

Oh god, here goes my reason why I played gw2 (to play PvP and not worry about having to re-grind for item sets over and over). Also, thanks for making all the saved up money I just spent on exotics TRUSTING IN YOUR STATEMENTS, ARENANET, useless soon. Whatever the next thing is you develope and want money for, you will have to do without mine.

Whoo, 1 hour playing an alt, aoe’ing and killing people, for exactly 0 badges. Thanks anet. Is there like “if level < x then do not get any badges” code in there?

Hey gw2 devs, is the repair cost of an item after dying ONCE being 73% of the money it costs you to buy a brand new one another one of your brilliant design features? I mean it’s not like you’re not aware of this for 4 months+, so I guess it’s intended?

It’s interesting that teleport breaks root although it only says that it breaks stun, while mist form says so too but doesn’t break root.

cantrips arent a specific skill but a group of various skills, if you know an actual skill or other way that helps, write it here. How about a rune setup?

Well I find blowing mistform just for this kind of a waste, since its cd is so long :/
Water V as I mentioned in my OP just removes one condition, which could be something else than root.
“many” as in which others?

Which are the different ways elementalists can get rid of root spells aka immobilize?
I don’t mean “cure 1 random condition” type of spells, because those might cure another condition on you after all, instead of root. So I’d like to know the specific ways that you can use to get rid of those 2/3-second immobilizes on you.
Thanks!