Guild Wars 2

I like the pink one ^^

I think i will just Accumulate a full Ascended Celestial-Set for my Engineer as a secondary Set for WvW and other stuff…

First of all:
Dont talk about Gladiators: Their Armor was not really meant for protection- people wanted to see blood- invalid Argument
Second:
The famous Roman Legions had quite good equipment standards for their time, and they protected their Legs by Greatshields, fighting in a closed formation…
Third:
Egypts army didnt had that much of a protection for some reasons: First oa all, most of them werent proffesional Soldiers, but Farmers that where unable to afford much more armor, secondly its darn hot in Egypt and if you want to attack anyone you have to get through the desert. By the way: Egypt only did so incredibly well during their fights, because their civilisation was far more evolved than anything else around, therefore they easily outnumbered everyone else…

In the end every Example you listed comes to that point: Either Heavy Armor was impractical, or just not affordable, and theres still a difference between “I wear only a metal bra” and “I only wear Leather/Cloth armor for a practical reason”, because even Cloth armor was designed to protect or to allow you to evade.

I could continue destroying all your Arguments, but i dont want to waste too much time by replying to this thread…

Please dont give any historical examples if you clearly have no clue about history…

Besides that your Arguments clearly dont mean anything, as this is a fantasy scenario, which means the only reason for or against Skimpy-Armor is personal preference (and maybe that the requested minimum Age is 12…). I dont really care about it, i dress my characters somehow properly, and if someone else is doing something else i dont realyy care.

Edit: English is not my first language, so im sorry for those grammatical mistakes

/ vote for sticky

Never capitulate ! For great justice !

Nonononono we dont want Hobosacks !

I want to start learning how to solo on my engi, i know that engi is often seen as a “weak” class, but i know all of Engis toys and how useful they can be…
So: any tips on which Dungeon to start with and what build to take ?

Yeah, im a very stubborn person, so i will find a way to do that somehow, no matter how many ppl tell me to get war or ele for soloing.

tuman.6593:

IMO Necromancer need to get more DS skills.

Skills that interact with Life Force and make your enemies weaker and himself stronger:

• DS-7: Necromancer sacrifice all life force and steal Power from target enemy to self for a few seconds(numbers or time depend of life force you spent).
• DS-8: Same for Condition Damage.
• DS-9: Same for Toughness.

And ability to enhance the effect of DS-7-8-9 by self-sacrifice:

• DS-6: Transform some of your HP in Life Force.

And teleport skill, we need it because our role in tPVP is all about position:

• DS-0: Necromancer spends all collected Life Force for move him into the target zone.

Plus we need to make possible to use Life Force as a shield outside from Death Shroud by additional button near DS button(call it Spectral Shield). Foot in the Grave trait must be applied to Spectral Shield too, but Vital Persistence cant.

So who we are? Minions and Conditions manager(or boon remover) – yes, fear is our strong feature too, vampirism a bit. But mainly we are Life Force masters, who takes the life force from enemies and use it against them.

I think thats a great idea, opens up some interesting options ^^

I think gameplay whise that separation dont makes sense since the Megaserver-System, i can understand that WvW should stay separated because of the time-zones and the Importance of Coverage in WvW, but besides the internal structure of Anets servers i dont see a reason why NA and EU servers should be separated…

Please Anet, allow me to play with my EU friends while being on an NA server, because i can not afford 2000 Gems a Week for transfer costs…

Yeah, this is a great guild, join us !

Yeah, actually there are many good engis out there, but you dont see them in Dungeons that often… neither the good nor the bad ones.

Classism i.e. People kicking me without a comment on sight for rolling an Engineer (full zerk, scholar runes and a 6/6/0/0/2 build with Bombs+Nades). Heck, if they are stupid Classists they should write “no class x”/“only class x;y;z” into their LFG -.-

Seriously, im sick of that class discrimination + it makes me rage to see other engis rolling flamer AA and therefore lowering Engis reputation…

In general i dont want to get a buff for my Engi, but more toys to play with

What about EU players, do you accept them ?
Because im Currently at Gandara, but your guild sounds really nice and promising and i feel quite tempted to Apply

Elitist that kick me on sight when im playing Engineer, even when their LFG description dont says that they dont want engineers -.-

I cast my vote for sentinent Golems, cmo:n, Anet Tyria needs a synthetic race !

Zanshin.5379:

And by “good” server, you mean stacked night capping server, right?

If you mean good as in “most sucessful” then yes, because thats how WvW works these days :/

May the odds be in your favor my synthetic friend, you have to know that not every Asuran wants to supress sentinent GOLEMS, in fact a few of us believe that making GOLEMS sentinent beings that live in peaceful co-existence is a neccesary step in the evolution of our society…
And yes: we have to stop abusing golems for lesser tasks like insulting other scientists… if GOLEMhood becomes sentinent we also have to treat them with respect.
In the end i think that this will accelerate our scientific progress…

I think that they dont have to change the skills but to change PvE to actually make skills useful…

Are you on NA or EU ? (Im on Gandara(EU))

I never roleplayed in an MMO, but i have some P&P roleplaying experience (Shadowrun&Warhammer Fantasy), and i have an Engenieer, if you dont mind me being bad at Arah aswell we might give it a go…

This is actually the only mechanic in CoE i dont understand fully, because most of the subverted golems behave just whacky, can anybody give me a quick explanation how to do this Boss in a reasonable amount of time, because sometimes that part is done quite fast and somethimes its just painfully slow.

Looking forward to your responses

Artasqweroldy

I dont think they have to balance the skills, i think they have to balance PvE in a way that makes those skills more useful. (Husks on three headed Wurm are a great example how you could buff condis in PvE)

I just renember myself going into a Dungeon for the first time, with my lvl 80 Magi/Dire/Rabid Staff Elementalist xD
That was CoE, i never did any Dungeon in any MMO before and i didnt know what to do… nobody cared to explain…

Now im the one that organizes Teaching-CoE-fullruns in my guild, and at the end theres always somebody that is grateful how well explained the run was… even when everybody is on TS these runs take longer because no matter how closely i explain things, at some point there will be someone that is confused…

When i pug, im normally not in the mood of explaining what to do, because thats exhausting.
My favorite farm Dungeon is still CoE p1, because its a Dungeon with 3 equally hard paths that tend to be very similar, therefore you can look for a fullrun group and if the first path goes smooth you will know that the second path will be a breeze aswell…
+ the first Champion Wolf is a great Bad-Pug detector, because almost nobody seems to know that pulling that Wolf will normally result in a wipe.
This is an easy way to detect pugs after 2 minutes , which will save you a lot of frustration.

PlagueParade.7942:

I would like to HAVE gender specific armor for Charr and Asura. It is kind of sad that they both have male only armor sets except in town clothes. And no, it does not have to necessarily be some kind of skimpy outfits either. It would be a nice change to not let them have just a unisex set of outfits as they do now. I like my female asuras and would like to see them in dresses or long skirts, something other than the plain old pants of the male sets as they mostly have in light armor and all they have in medium armor. It is kind of sad that a lot of the female armor of the other races have these great sets and when you put it on a female asura or charr it’s just the male version….

Depends on which armor but in general: Yes please, i want my Aetherblade skirt on my asura…

Yeah, CoL is currently propably a huge targetof speculations which makes a super rare item even more rare…

Apparently all races exept for Asurans and Charr are too stupid to dress properly

Just kittening

So, heres my Asura Elementalist.

Kind of a merge between a martial art monk and a scientist…

Head: Storm Eye
Shoulders: Nothing
Chest: Vigils Honor Vest
Gauntlets: Asuran T1
Legs: Asuran T2
Feet: Conjurer Shoes

Dagger: Mystic Spike
Focus: X7-10 Alpha

Colors are Midnight Fire; Silver and Country Blue

I think a trinity should be something optional in GW2: either you have a normal trinity with people playing a Tank, a Healer, and a Dps or succeeding in a dungeon, or 5 allrounders that manage to care for themselves. Both options should deal the same amount of Damage (3 Dps doing the same dmg kitten Allrounders). Right now Healer (bad Healingpower scaling) and tanks (no taunt) are weak, while the game is easy enough to allow 5 zerks to run a dungeon without investing in defensive.

I only did it one 5 days ago, we failed consistently at sparki and slick for about 2 hours (always tried to kill Slick first…), after that we invited two experienced players and did it in 45 minutes…
Propably the must fun i had since a long time, and i will definitely do it again, especially because dungeons are not affected by this kittening megaserver system…

I think they might drop slightly in value… T6 mats aswell…

Sloth.8729:

Bumping this for more attention. This system is completely abused and I’m sick of it. You spend lengthy amounts of time in dungeons just to be kicked over stupid things that really don’t make sense. Today I was kicked from Arah completely out of the blue at lupicus just because i didn’t warbanner in time when one person was down and the rest of the party was dead. Like…. I’m sorry if you suck so much that you can’t stay alive but why take it out on someone else?

Sure you got kicked ? For me this sounds more like an instance owner ragequitting…

But this doesnt changes the topic, once i had a pug group in cof with a slightly unexperienced guardian… after a while another player started to call him MONGO and yelled at him, sadly the guy was together with two other guild members so my attempt to kick him after the half dungeon was answered with a re inv from his friends… at the final encounter they kicked him and invited an guildie… which made me leaving the group- as the instance owner… i will rather run a dungeon again, then allowing that to happen…

My Suggestions for new weaposn options for old klasses and for new weapons :

Ranger:
Staff( for a druidic themed ranger)
Rifle
Warrior:
Offhand Dagger
Offhand Pistol (like Rhytlock !)
Torch
Thief:
Torch (Saboteur themed)
Mace (a thief could be played as a thug aswell)
Engineer:
Hammer
Elementalist:
Warhorn

Regardiing polearms, i think Necros, Warriors, Guardians and maybe Ranger should be able to use them…

Up to some point i can understand what the OP is talking about, i repeatedly tende to snap when my family or my friends are making fun about me because i was bullied at school- i know that they are not serious about it… but it still hurts. After some year i managed to hide that, but i still feel personally offended…

On the other hand its a little bit weird to block everybody in a MMO, therefore i would suggest to stick to a modified chat box which only shows you Guild nd Group comments, and if anybody whispers at you angrily just block him.

I never saw so many people using the word gay in gw2 in my complete gametime, maybe this is something NA specific…

I got my Precursor (the Warhorn) on first try, actually i just throw 4 exotics into the forgeand tada! Precursor xD i was so suprised that i almost ruined my keyboard as my mouth was full of water… i never seriously planned to get a legendary but now i will propably go for Howler.

But seriously, i think when it comes to RNG there are always some insanely lucky people and some insanely unlucky, the problem is that you only hear about the lucky ones therefore you will always have the feeling of being unlucky as informations about super lucker are spreading through the game quickly so that it seems as if there where many of them… its all about selective perception…

I think instead of offering a huge bunch of easy sponge bosses that only need 3-10 minutes to kill Anet should introduce harder bosses, that take you three to five times as long as before but also give you an increased amount of loot, i think world bosses in general need to be a way harder and utterly epic experience not meant for mindless farming but for proving skill, both personal and as a group.

Therefore my suggestion is to make these fights harder than now (not as hard as teq or wurm, but still a though fight that can fail when badly organised) but also more rewarding with more dragonite ore at the end…

I have a suggestion how Anet could adress that issue: your actual personal droprate will be determined by your previous rewards from fractal chest, this means you would have a hidden value, every time you only get ascended fragments from fractals, this value will increase by a certain amount, making the drop of something more useful more likely, getting an ascended ring would be considered as an average reward (at least for a lvl 30+) therefore not changing your drop propability, getting an infused ring or anything better would therfore decrease your hidden value by a certain amount of steps, so that your end reward will get worse again until you build up a certain amount of this value again.

I think this would make Ascended Drops a little bit more predictable and makes phenomenoms like “random guild member that rarely runs fractals gets three fractal skins in a row” extremely unlikely while your average luck regarding your drops should increase…

hopefully you got my idea as english is not my first language

A while ago i thougt about making a female charr mesmer (actually never saw this combination) and wanted to ask what in your eyes is the best personal storyline?
I know this is a kind of subjective question, but maybe theres an exeptionally shiny peace of the story that stands out compared to the rest of it.

I dont have a clue…
Removing block list so that i cant block these stupid whatever…
Set the words “please” and “thanks” on the index of the chat filter…
Group Chat now in pink…
Nice background music when attempting to kick someone…

kittenOLOL

The Revenant.4970:

Arisal.9740:

eleshazar.6902:

Arisal.9740:

The Revenant.4970:

Arisal.9740:

The Revenant.4970:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal

I’m assuming they will be acquired through the same methods.

With out spending gems the only way is daily reward which you have a 0.26% chance… Sorry that doesn’t cut it. Only other way looks like map completion and you get 3 of the stones which will convert to 1 charge. Still should be other ways.

What about people that only pvp or wvw. This doesn’t help them out at all.

I have little sympathy because people who only play 1/4 of the game to begin with, shouldn’t be up-in-arms over cosmetics. If anything, this gives them incentives to step foot in some other regions once in a while. They got by up until now with the acquisition methods of stones and crystals….they can continue to get by.

I don’t know about you but I consider spvp 1/3 wvw 1/3 and pve 1/3 of the game so excluding 2/3 of the people from the game you have no sympathy for?

Also since to me it sounds like you don’t pvp did you know that they have had a pvp skin locker which is very similar to the one were are getting that is going to unify them? The pvp skin locker it was free to check in/out skins so we never had to rely on these so called transmutation stones/crystals and now charges.

Are you that ignorant that you would blatantly say screw you pvp crowd? Wow man please understand where some of us come from. I have 1000+ hours in the game and play all the 3 parts but some people like my brother only do say 2 of the 3 so you would kick him to curb???

You are obviously misunderstanding the whole system….. Ugh. I play pvp too, and quite a bit. In the old system it was storage of items. 1 item could be stored that you can “check out”. This system doesn’t turn all items into skins that you have to pay for. If you have the item you still have the item in the same way you do now. You have just been given the ability to “duplicate” the look of that item onto something else. You have lost nothing in this new system. They aren’t destroying your current items, or only dropping skins in the future.

Please read and understand the blog post before you freak out.

Dude please stay on topic. This post is about how to acquire transmutation charges. I know perfectly well what the blog post talked about and how both new wardrobe and pvp lockers work. Maybe you should have been the one to read my post in the first place before you go off on some tangent.

No no, you were in the wrong Arisal. Get over it and move on. There is no ‘winning’ over the internet.
Even if the PvP locker merges with the PvE, which they made no actual mention of, then so be it. PvP only people shouldn’t be able to switch their looks on a whim if the other’s can’t.

They actually mentioned that somwhere, basically they said it would be great to have the possibillity to carry over your earned PvP skins to PvE and vice versa… sorry for not deleting the irrelevant rest of the post, but im on my my mobile phone…

Besides that it would be strange to NOT merge those two extremely similar systems with each other

I think you will now be able to wear any unlocked skin in PvP and that aquiring pvp skins will also unlock them for transmutation.

the idea of a Japanese styled mesmer Mask for necro is really cool 8,5/10,
may I ask which gloves you used ?

Looks really scary…
here is mine: All armor from CoE, dyes are Nightfire, Sea Green and Antique Gold

I could imagine a new GM trait “fast curse” which basically halves the time your vmconditions tick but doubles their damage on tick or tick rate…

Are you trolling about the shortbow skins ?

By the way: which personal reward level do I need to have a chance of finding ascended weapon and Armor chests ?

Just balance pve conditions, they are way up in my eyes, i want to play a conditionmancer that can come close to a zerk necro…

With a crit chance of 50 % a sigil of Earth, the Curses Adept minor and a total Bleeding duration of 133% (100 Condition duration+ Scepter Grandmaster trait which is not affected by the 100% cap) you can get to 25 bleeding stacks on your own.

Dont forget that this is an average value, sometimes you are lucky with the procs and you get 2 extra stacks, but it is still possible to get none

I think the whole vampirism thing needs a rework, i think instead of dealing extra damage siphons should work like: “2% of the damage you deal is transferred to you as life” or something like that to make it more similar to the new healing skill the guardian has.

TA forward where you can just jump out of the path and skip safely…

But hes still annoying :P

So what about celestial equipment instead ?
Seems to be a well rounded alternative for a hybrid, especially as i heard rumors of them going to buff celestial equipment (only heard it once in another forum post so dont rely on this). It may be a very expensive alternative, especially when used with traveler runes, but it could be worth a thougt.