Guild Wars 2

Can we please get an official word on this? It concerns the immediate gameplay experience quality of all elementalist players after all, not just some random bug that might or might not occur. This is absolutely prevalent and should take rather high priority.

some go 5 scholar / 1 divinity
and for sigils, be very careful if you pick 2 sigils that both have cooldowns (note that some sigils don’t tell you they have cds when they actually do). If one sigil sets up a cd then the other sigil will be blocked for that full duration too!
that means:
sigil A: 40s cooldown + sigil B: 5s cooldown = you basically wasted sigil B!
in such situations, pick one flat sigil without cooldown to be on the safe side, for example sigil of force (+5% damage flat) – in turn here note that identical sigils don’t stack in “power”, so 2x force won’t give you +10%!

Thanks for the info

Arch 32b here, I’d pay again for the game if it ran on Linux. Such a hassle to have to boot crappy OS just to play games, sigh.

Guild backpacks are too expensive.

<I revised my reasoning, there might be a point that I haven’t considered so far. It should cost at most 3g though, not 5g, which is a ripoff.>

Proper pet management mechanics should be important, it’s just lame like this and doesn’t make sense. Just give rangers a dot instead of a pet → same result as this. Worst pet implementation ever.

Also, “defend/assault keep/tower” vs “roam/defend/assault supply camp” → similar hassle, it’s really not just in specific situatios..

Hi, someone claimed he got 200 badges in one evening, I so far got 450 badges in maybe 80 hours, so it seems I’m doing something wrong.
What determines whether you get a badge or not? Although I often participate in big skirmishes on the field where our group kills lots of enemies, and try to handle my class (defensive elementalist, buff/support/cc) as effectively as possible, I only very rarely find any badges it seems.

So, our small WvW group is running to a keep, open inventory, equip staff, press H, switch to traits, change traits, switch healing skill to heal+swift, switch another skill to arcane blast for staff lightning field blast finisher, speed buff group, on the way encounter, open inventory, equip dagger 1, oops in combat, mob aggroed, run away with RTL, run away more, open inventory, equip dagger 2, press H, go to traits, switch trait back, switch healing skill back, switch the other skill back for D/D, engage group, win, still quite a distance to run to the keep, open inventory, equip staff, press H, switch to traits, change trait, switch healing skill to heal+swift, switch another skill to arcane blast for staff lightning field blast finisher, speed buff group, SERIOUSLY Arenanet? Where’s the weapon switch, combined with skills, like the underwater weapon does it? I’ll settle for keeping changing at least traits manually if that’s too much for you to handle, but please at least fix the UI so it takes care of the rest of this extremely annoying nonsense.

I’ve got the elementalist trait to add effects to my dodge rolling, yet it often just doesn’t work, as in, neither visuals nor the effect occurs.

Some keys are not processed correctly, I had slightly different problems:
When running diagonally, I am unable to press ‘R’ (which is my key for reversing direction), instead I have to run just straight forward to do that, or it would just get ignored.

roflmao, I just gathered additional intelligence, that I at first considered just a jest, but no! Lo and behold, someone claimed that +Healing Power actually reduces crit damage you take. Now, the funny part is, you know what kind of equipment I was wearing (armour) and wielding (weaponry) that gave me +toughness? “Cleric” items :-p So they also gave me a kitten-megaton of +Healing.
..
Yeah.

Basically, the side that controlled WvWvW in DAoC would be able to enter DF, the other two realm’s entrances would be closed off. If you were inside while the entrance state changed, tough luck – but it was a big enough dungeon to actually hide from the other realm’s invaders! Darkness Falls was huge and epic, with lots of different paths and crossroads to take, deep, deep down into hell.
(Note: This video lacks some super bosses though.)

Edit: This vid was taken with the old graphics engine from when DAoC was released, but it will serve to give you an impression what I meant by ‘huge’ =P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78wI2kLAO8

Assumed I had balanced gear to actually do damage instead of just tanking (wow that worked great, how I tanked that guy 2-shotting me!), would I have been 1-shotted for 20k damage or rather for 30k? It’s hard to gauge, but maybe someone can guess such numbers based on his great experience.

I have exotic gear with toughness on every piece + toughness upgrades stacked for a total of 1908 toughness, yet I got this:
“You were hit for 14121 damage damage by … using Kill Shot”.
Hopefully you have a patch up soon that fixes this, thanks!

Edit: Since that came from a warrior, who has extremely high base HP and good defense, I as elementalist was just looking at my skills and traits to figure out which would be the best combo to inflict about 25k in one shot on someone (since elementalist has like half the warrior HP and much less armor, I figured that would be the natural consequence), but I’m such a noob that I was unable to find it! Maybe you can help me search for it.

Some enemies were hitting me, my HP dropped, to zero, then I.. died completely – no down state! o_o

Btw, it would be really nice if the combat log showed more useful information like in other MMOs.

Great idea. Maybe put a chancellor and a prince in it. And a worm. A scary worm.

Seems it was just either a guardian or mesmer skill, and that it was up for such a long time was merely a visual glitch on my end. Someone standing next to me was actually unable to see it. Wonder what’s up with that.

Actually, since weapons and armour is already available through a number of means, how about making jewelry available from Karma, for balance? Would also make perfect sense when comparing crafting professions.
However, the main point is, make karma gear available that has reasonable stats, please!

If a ranger’s pet gets killed because they just used it as a means of fire-and-forget, then there should be SOME sort of penalty for it if they allow it to die. Either something that actually costs anything (food or plain cash) or a time penalty (eg 4 minutes) until the pet can be used again. This is just silly.

I’ve got 250k karma and cannot use it for anything. The armour pieces have (to me) pretty useless stats compared to dungeon token/crafted armour, there is no exotic jewelry nor exotic weapons that can be bought from Karma.

Maybe it could be possible to add more Karma-bought gear?
Thanks for your time.

[Edited by Moderator] Edited to adapt it to the subforum

Oh, doh. Whyyyy? You arbitrariness!

As I wrote guys, it wasn’t tied to anyone. I was the only person in that area and I waited for a minute or longer and it didn’t go away. That’s what made me wonder who could cast something like that, and what it actually did.

In WvW I apparently somehow looted a rare “carrion amulet” (level 80) which is soulbound though right from the start without me actually wearing it or anything. Oo
Any idea why it is soulbound and any idea what I should do with it (useless to me)?

I’ve seen a blue sphere in certain places, once at a keep door, once at some hill top, that was already up when I arrived there and didn’t seem to go away. What is it, actually?

Please increase the AFK timeout by factor 2 in WvWvW. Reason:

When defending a keep or tower, and the enemy won’t attack it, you might be standing around for quite a while without doing anything (and not getting any reward either for your time investment sigh – it’s as if it was your fault that the enemy decided to not attack your position but instead go for that other tower). Now I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do all the time, so I sometimes do other stuff irl in parallel, not watching the actual game all the time, waiting for someone on voice chat announce an assault or change of plans etc., just to find myself logged out and then back in 30 min queue :-p

oh and..yeah, why IS the karma rebreather only 79? :/

..for all the stuff such as “will the guild backpack still work if I step down”, “does sigil of X go with sigil Y in dual-wield”, “why is the karma rebreather only 79 instead of 80 so I can’t put top upgrades into it” and so on..

I didn’t see any fitting forum so I went with general:

Those backpacks are too expensive, not gonna shell out 5g for an item that isn’t even exotic.

There, short and precise. :-p

Well, exotic jewelry is now super expensive to craft and harder to sell because of this. :-p
QQ

Could we maybe get more orichalcum nodes in the game? It feels a bit off balance compared to the other raw materials.

Queued up for wvw-battleground, when I pressed the “Travel” button I got the error message “The world you are trying to join is full” and got disconnected from the game.
Great, I only waited for half an hour.

Most importantly, downed state mechanics shouldn’t allow one of your opponents to return to live if his team mate downs YOU after you downed him, in situations where you are up alone against two. Can it really get more unsportsmanship-like than that?

Usually it does, but this time I triggered mist form and still was rooted, for the full duration.
Sorry, the sparse combat log doesn’t provide any more useful information.

Please, any official word to go by? ^^

I’ve been using RTL-Updraft-Burning Speed+Ring of Fire+Fire Grab, but the problem is that Updraft and Fire Grab have excessive cooldowns (45s) that make killing monsters really tedious using this sequence.

So I’m hoping that you can share a better sequence to kill stuff in pve with D/D!
Also, any good sequence for S/D?

Gief tesselation please? =P

Hiya, usually you’d have the holy trinity in MMOs but GW2 is doing it differently (which I like for a change).
So, since Ele has lowest hp, lowest armor, mediocre damage, and no really outstanding group/ally utility spells compared to other classes, it should get a buff of some sort.
But if you buffed its damage to properly make up for hp/armor then you’d get back an element of the trinity, so, well, just buff its base hp.

As a GW2 fan, after reading an interesting bug report list done by helpful players on this forum and today’s official patch update notes I had the following two questions to Arenanet on my mind, looking forward to your replies:

How many programmers do you employ?
Do you also have Software test engineers?

Thanks for letting us, your fans, know more about who you are, keep it up!

Yep: Add items with cond.dam/toughness/healing please :-p.

The worst/funniest is that it targets monsters that aren’t even in your field of view. Oo

Please, please fix RTL just picking its “own” targets randomly despite of what I actually have clicked. I don’t want to RTL back to that monster BEHIND me (which I haven’t had targetted ever), nor sideways when I’ve actually selected a team mate and just intend to RTL forwards without any diversion.
At the moment it’s like, if there are any monsters (that you of course haven’t selected) nearby/behind you, roll a dice to guess how RTL will turn out.

Happened twice today in wvw that I didn’t get credit for taking a keep, it seems to happen when there is really a lot of ppl around.

Edit: Just to make sure: I was within the green marker ring when the keep “changed owner”, as usual.

underwater, killing a krait.. all of a sudden “invulnerable” → swims back and heals full, for absolutely no apparent reason.
Tends to happen when using the lightning cage and/or float skill (water attunement) I think.

That’d already be a very great help, yes >_>

Whenever there is a lot of stuff going on in WvW it can happen that although I press a key, and the according skill “registers” it (indicates by the skill icon flashing accordingly) it is NOT executed though! So although the game apparently registers that you just pressed that key, it will for some reason refuse to execute the skill (and put it on cooldown accordingly). Sometimes it requires as many as 3 attempts to finally “get through”. (Quad core cpu here btw., and system fulfilling the recommended game hardware requirements.) This bug is actually pretty rare, I had really insane wvw spam happening on my screen (everyone including myself invisible yay) without it triggering, but IF it happens it’s annoying nevertheless :-p.

Hi, sorry there seemed to be no forum for “items & item mechanics” (which should probably be created considering the questions regarding sigil mechanics and so on) so I didn’t know where else this belongs:

Could the devs please state if the current absense of “Condition damage / Toughness / Healing” items is to be fixed in a future patch or will remain as is, so we who play classes/roles affected by that can make actual decisions on which exotic gear to spend our resources on, without regretting it?

Thanks a lot!

Elementalists are the squishiest class in the game (lowest base hp and armor), and are relatively hard to play well, if you want to have a decent damage output and not die all the time. Basically, they’re most awesome if you love torturing your keyboard .

Devs, could you maybe make it so you don’t get kicked out of BG if you reconnect? That way ppl could just restart their clients to work around the bug, without having to requeue.

(or you can just already increase elementalist base HP by 3k :-p)