Guild Wars 2

lorddarkflare.9186:

I am actually looking forward to the day when the grenade kit gets nerfed into the ground or gets a re-work. That thing has hung like a specter over the class since day one.

Couldn’t agree more. Most probems with “kits” are really problems with grenade meta. Fix grenade, fix the prof!

Very interesting idea in the base, although I would not implement most of your specific examples.

Sample Case:
Rocket Boots needs to evade, move a bit farther and to NOT do damage. Toolbelt should push chasers. “Pasive”: pulsing vigor every few seconds.

Add a CD to kits and you kill engie’s flavor. Seriously, don’t go there, it’s a mistake.

Communication needs to be two ways. Even IF they are reading, they are not communicating with us.

miguelsil.6324:

Ardid.7203:

Do mesmer and thief really use “rotation” in high play PvP?

Spvp is not the only game mode.

You were talking about beating another class, I assumed it was in some kind of player vs player environment.

Do mesmer and thief really use “rotation” in high play PvP?

How much time are the Aetherblade armors going to be available?

The most difficult part of that chapter are the bugs. Aside from that, is not that hard. So it’s more about a lot of patience and a bit of rng: If you get a bug free instance, you should be able to do it.

GS is awesome. I enjoy using it with my chilling reaper with a deep and very dramatic joy.

The armor and bow jades from the begining can be killed separately. Any decent build should be able to kill one of those with some patience and a little cover to hide.

Anyway.
I have adquired the habit of comparing every difficult encounter against the Windmane achievements from No Refuge.

I’ll give s3ep4 final fight a rating of 0.5 windmanes “Hard but perfectly doable”.

It’s so strange that people don’t read before posting.

This IS really funny!

TorsoReaper.8530:

Ardid.7203:

Are eles glass cannons? I got the idea they had truly superb sustain? When this got changed?

Ele has sustain if they trait for it which means they lose dps and also means they are swapping to earth and water which means more lost dps vs a warrior that doesn’t have to do anything other than use normal skills. At this point, being an ele is like being a korean star craft player on the keyboard while other classes can do 1/4 the work for the same output.

So… nerf warrior?

Video please. This has to be really funny.

Are eles glass cannons? I got the idea they had truly superb sustain? When this got changed?

Yes, rifle still needs a lot of love.

Considering almost every profession received noticeable buffs to CDs and damage, I have to ask: Are the changes done to the Engie enough to put Engie in the same level as the rest? Or are we still going to be “not reccomended” in most areas?

I know I’m alone, but I prefer the rifle being a hybrid weapon. I would love to get some confusion on Jump Shot, Cripple on net shot, etc…

Do you really need HELP for rage-quiting? Please.

Phlunt is a member of the council, therefore, not anyone dedicated to investigation, therefore not anyone normal Asura want to follow, obey or be associated with. Taimi, on the other hand, is ofering an opening to a veru interesting area to make discoveries, experiment and in general risk the life in the name of science. This is the biggest call for Asura, bright and dull.

That’s true, Ceera is clearly still in love with her late husband.

However, that love can still originate and be defined by their projects, ideas and ways of understand the world. Love doesn’t have to be eternal, romantic or physical to be true: Ceera can be suffering for all the amazing crewe work she was still wanting to do with Tonn when the commander failed to save him. This is love too.

I like to imagine Asura that way, capable of a practical love born from the creative spark two people can cause each other.

However, this doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with the OP, so I better shut up.

Flame blast was gold against foes in groups or well aligned. I don’t know if the burning will compensate the nerf, but It seems interesting.

It’s fun that they are giving more love to Condis for engie, because it makes my subpar hybrid build somewhat more powerful. However is still sad they seem so incapable of fixing Rifle.

I think kits are extremely important and a defining feature for Engie, but I don’t think embracing that and making it the focus of the development has to be necesarily about DPS. In fact, I would like to see kits tweaked away from mere DPS, begining with a proper fixing of the Med Kit.

I don’t pick kits for DPS. I don’t think that is their reason to be. I pick them for variety of actions available, speed of access and fun.

Sojourner.4621:

Ardid.7203:

Another good reason for choosing engie is those few JP sections that are in darkness. Flamethrower autoatack isn’t exacly a good lintern, but it DOES gives you enough light to explore some of those areas, easy and quick. The Obsidian Sanctum in particular, I did it using this cheat.

Using an AOE target to show the shapes of the terrain in that Pirate JP obscure section is another of my favorite tricks.

It is useful to note that Mesmer and a couple of other classes can equip a torch, and torches do light up the ground in a radius around you. This works in the obscured section of the pirate JP. If you are not on a class that can equip torch, though, some flaming weapons like Honor of Humanity and Cobalt have the same effect.

To the person who mentioned the Experimental Teleportation Rifle, there is a second consumable that allows you to make leaps to TARGETED locations instead. The Experimental Rifle is a purchasable consumable from a vendor that appears after successfully completing a boss event at the Risen Chicken Coops in Cursed Shores (If you see the veteran chickens the event has failed and you will have to wait after defeating them for the real event to appear.) The targeted long-distance leap that this rifle gives can trivialize MOST JPs as long as you cast a stability skill before using it (sometimes it can explode and knock you down instead.) It makes any class viable for JP completion.

Even without this a number of classes have hidden leap skills that can, if used correctly, make some long distance leap/skips possible. Engi Rifle ofc, Ranger longsword (have to animation cancel with weapon swap), Guardian Greatsword, Warrior Sword, Thief Staff. Consider traveler runes to gain an extra utility while still running a speed boost, or ofc snowfall runes if you fall a lot. Chronomancer has move speed baseline, but mesmer itself doesn’t have as reliable a permanent speed boost.

Engineer Rifle is one of the beast targeted leaps in the game as it not only lets you ground target at decent distance, but it also gains elevation, rather than being restricted to a vertical plain like most other classes and their leap skills. Thief staff 5 does exactly the same without a cool-down, plus evades attacks in between. Dragonhunter’s f2 leap also gives targetted vertical leaping, for a much longer distance than thief or engineer, but has a longer cooldown than both. Greatsword can be targetted, though, by having scepter on weapon swap. Ground target scepter two, then swap and use greatsword leap. You will jump to where scepter two targeted.

Excelent info!!

Another good reason for choosing engie is those few JP sections that are in darkness. Flamethrower autoatack isn’t exacly a good lintern, but it DOES gives you enough light to explore some of those areas, easy and quick. The Obsidian Sanctum in particular, I did it using this cheat.

Using an AOE target to show the shapes of the terrain in that Pirate JP obscure section is another of my favorite tricks.

vesica tempestas.1563:

Ardid.7203:

Healing Power should affect the number of condi stacks that are cleansed.

healing power is for healing, condy removal is for conditions. You can also already get condy removal with healing in some skill trees.

There isn’t an attribute that controls that Condi Removal. It is present on skills and traits, always with fixed numbers. IMO that number should be tied to Healing Power, making this attribute more relevant and the approuch to condi removal more involved with the rest of the game mechanic, less arbitrary.

It could even simplify the removal game design, dividing it into categories (strong, medium, weak), and applying HP as a multiplier.

Do you want to be good removing condis? you need to have decent Healing Power.
Alternatively, they could directly add “Condi Removal” as a new attribute. I think if would make way more sense than most of the actual ones.

IMO this options could make more armor stats interesting to have, counteract the Zerker/Viper overabundance, create a new way to regulate the tank meta, and over all, open new builds for every profession.

Healing Power should affect the number of condi stacks that are cleansed.

That’s true. The game is a very unique jewel.

Don’t be afraid to make tests. Choose the one you think could be better for you, and level it from the base. Then use other character slot just to try builds and professions.
The booster would allow you to make this. As long as you don’t confirm what you are using in the silverwastes, you could save it for later, and try whatever you like in the 80 level.

Then you can decide.

Neither. Buy your permanent tools, salvage-o-matics, bank space, extra characters, shared inventory slot, armor, etc. Don’t gamble.

I’m always using interrupts, and I have plenty of skills to kill the mob while it is recovering. Of course, I play Engie, and my interrupts are also pushes or launches.

Yes, I know. That’s why I’m suffering preventively.

In other games rpgs I tend to play the stealthy ranged type, and go all silent sniper style, opening the path one unsuspecting victim at a time.

In fight games I’m always going to choose the weirdest and/or more complex character to play: from Lei Wulong to Arakune, and Voldo too.

In GW2 the system is soo clear and precise, so complex in the way of mixing just a few well thought inputs, that It is like a combination of rpg and my beloved fighting games.

So I can play thief, mesmer and necro as much as I want, but in the end my main will always be the more complex and weird (And FUN) underdog of all the professions: Engie is just the best.

WHILE USING MED KIT.

Best class for JP, Mesmer: portal and fall damage reduction trait.
Best race, Asura: just make the tiniest asura ever, and you’re gold.

I usually prefer Engie, though: Engie’s rifle 5 is still the best jump skill, IMO.
Also: permaswiftness is really easy with Engie’s streamlined kits, and you have some very decent sources of stealth if you need to skip mobs.

Med kit wins for the raw size of the uselesness. It is a complete set of 5 skills, every single one of them totally worthless. YET, engie also have the whole range of turrets to choose from, and of course Shredder Gyro…
And honorable mention to Function Gyro, which is a whole elite spec mechanic that simply don’t do anything in Open World.

Stalker sound right in the Whispers area of work…

I decided my characters would be somewhat contrary to the norm, and their presonality grew around that.

The three are asura, but they are way different:

My Reaper is an old, cranky and obsesive guy from the College of Statics, always looking for stability and simplicity, and people to scare. He joined the Vigil because they are simpler, cleaner, predictable, and strong. He saw his minions, soulstealing and frightening shouts could become a nice complement to the fairly mundane tactics of the army.

My Guardian is a giant of an asura, as tall as a little human, and as dark as tar. He’s an extremely idealistic and benevolent member of the College of Synergetics, who decided to join the Whispers for 2 reasons: 1- He think he can be both a good sword and a moral compass for the order. 2- He fell in love with the fast, natural and unpredictable schemes proposed by Agent Batanga.

My main is a really short female Engineer from the College of Dynamics. Since she likes to experiment new things all the time, exploring the world became her major focus. She joined the Priory because she though they could support her search for knowledge, while she could offer them a good flamethrower to deal with all the dangerous things that populate the fringe of the known world.

coso.9173:

if they went the ESO route and made outfits equal among all genders, we would both gain double the amount of outfits we have now, and people could choose the one they prefer for their character, no matter their gender.
there are lots of male armor that people would prefer on their female toon, and the other way too.
but I guess we’re still in the 1960’s and females should wear short skirts and guys should cover themselves completely because that’s what everyone wants…

This.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If they’re going to make 2 separate outfits then make and sell 2 separate outfits and let both sexes wear them. And if you have females wearing pants and males wearing dresses, then c’est la vie.

And this.

Armor should really be worked to fit the different races, not only hastily stretched. That means they should design HOW each culture would take the theme of that specific armor, lorewise, before adjusting the 3d model.

I know it would lead to slower armor release, but I don’t really care. Right now I’m not buying any of the outfit they are puking every few months, anyway. They come one after another, and I can’t value them precisely because they are being made without enough care, just as cheap, mass produced, easy to sell, non combinable and low quality trinkets. Any improvement over this would be welcome.

So it’s going to be another nerf disguised as a buff?

I have all the crafts at max, Scribe included.
I don’t know anything about statistics: I may be an exception, or the most common profile in the crafting area, I truly don’t know.

I don’t want an easy raid mode that’s soloable. I want one that is PUGable.

I don’t see Asura particularly preocupied about sex. They clearly overcame that basic animal obsession a long time ago. Now they obsess with way less primitive, way more explosive stuff.

Why do you choose the mechanic to be something you only use when you have failed to keep yourself alive? Don’t get me wrong: I think those are very good ideas. But I think they are suited to be traits or skills, not the whole elite spec mechanics. Not if they are just automatic lifesavers for when dropping to 0 health, at least.

Ardid.7203:

An elite mechanic must be something that:
- Is visually interesting, a clear trademark for the Elite spec.
- Truly change how you play the profession, afecting all the other areas of the gameplay.
- Is active and doing something relevant most of the time.
- Is usefull in all game modes.

I dind’t make this list out of nothing. This is an amalgam of the complains people posted here in the forums, and of the objectives the devs themselves declared for the Elite Specs.

If you can make your ES mechanic to fit that list, I asure you it will be great.

No, it began way before.

I try to never do anything in the game for the rewards. If it is not fun by itself, I prefer to do something else. That said I stoped doing the AB meta when the multiloot became the standard, because people behavior became too toxic. Now I may go back to it again.

Sometimes you need a truly rotten zombie to remind you some things still stinks, years later… So yes, please Anet give more love to the hair accesories, horns, ears and tatoos!

Dawdler.8521:

Ardid.7203:

Everything is smaller except heads. Yet weapons, details and effects shouldn’t be just shrinked. They should be tweaked and fully polished to still be clearly visible and look good on smaller PCs.

Except weapons got to be shrinked or it’ll clip through the ground. Human bodies are like long thin sticks in comparison to stubby Asurans – my dualwielded tiny Hopes already pretty much reach the ground.

A proper scaling on a 3D environment doesn’t include only sizes. It MUST include also positioning and animations. Tall basket players and short jockeys don’t wield sticks in the same way.

Basically stop buying outfits. If enough people do that, Anet M A Y B E E E will consider spending resources on armor again. Though I doubt it would work, I’m still not buying any outfit unless it is cultural.

Second option is to wait for GW3. Then maybe they will implement a better way to make armors. Or maybe they decide to just make only outfits forever. Who knows.

I truly think counter magic is already trivialized. It was born that way. That’s the problem. Is a mechanic that works by making only one thing on reaction to only one thing (hear the bell, press the buton). I’m ok with having it linked to “f”, but I’d rather have it simply removed.

An elite mechanic must be something that:
- Is visually interesting, a clear trademark for the Elite spec.
- Truly change how you play the profession, afecting all the other areas of the gameplay.
- Is active and doing something relevant most of the time.
- Is usefull in all game modes.

F Gyro ALREADY FAILED in being a proper Elite Spec Mechanic. It is a BAD gameplay design, with a good basic premise but totally underdeveloped: extremely niche, with weak interface design, dependent on the bad play of others, with very specific use (maybe 1% use in PvE?), and, worst of all, utterly boring.

Please don’t propose things that are similar to F-Gyro. Please, don’t imitate gyros at all.

Hipersonic spinning laser daggers.