Guild Wars 2

I really hope there are more changes. The rubbish fire traits were not even addressed, and neither was the 25 arcane trait’s 7% proc rate on crit.

Also the Attunement specific 5 point traits still absolutely suck, other than water’s.

All the changes in the world mean nothing unless you take people away from the Arcane tree. The difference between a 15 second Attunement cooldown, and a 9.6 second one is absolutely monstrous. So unless you change the Arcane tree bonus and make the 9.6 second base (or make 12 seconds base, and 9 with full Arcane), versatility will never exist.

Actually, you could also make it so Elementalists can specialise in a tree, which would make those ridiculous Fire, Air, and Earth only traits actually useful. But I believe most people like the constant swapping.

P.S 45 characters max for the title is not enough.

Strang.8170:

I stand by my words, healing power is really sucky stat for staff ele.

With full healing power gear, you will get less than 4k extra to amount of burst heal you can do, and less than 290 hps from passive healing. And this requires you to be in the melee blob, puts 2 of your attunements on cd denying access to water, makes you spend both your dodges, requires an utility slot, forces your target to stay still to get all of the healing, has compromised your defensive stats and destroyed your damage output.

You must never run with the zerg or assault towers. Or fight in prolonged, massive battles. Or fight near arrow carts.

…

Actually, what DO you do?

Do you see this Anet? Do you now realise the merits of letting people type the number they want to purchase in?

Korgov.7645:

Avatara.1042:

Wait until retaliation gets nerfed.

World vs. World

• Updated confusion and retaliation effects to do the same damage as they do in sPvP.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-April-30-2013/first#post2014472

There is a very large difference between hitting a few people in sPvP, and triggering 10 retaliations a second from a WvW zerg…

It needs its own lower wuvwuv value.

Wait until retaliation gets nerfed.

Not the starving orphans in Africa.

Mif.3471:

Sad to see GW2 sink to the same level as last generation grinder MMOs.

http://www.wowpedia.org/Alliance_Bonfire
http://www.wowpedia.org/Horde_Bonfire

Except those were done much better.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Currently if you buy ALL the taffy needed it would cost 60g. That is the price the wings were selling for at the start of the event so it seems pretty reasonable to me.

If you farm these daily then you can get it even cheaper.

By the end of the event I suspect the candy will go down to 3-4c meaning 30-40g for the wings. Once the event ends this will be the cheapest way to obtain them.

So really nothing ridiculous about it.

Yeah, no. The food will keep the taffy price higher than that, and even after the event ends there will be loads of wings for 10 gold on the AH. The taffy price is absolutely ridiculous and sums up Anet’s recent ‘efforts’.

Not looking forward to buying my stacks of festival food…

So do you realise how ridiculous 100,000 taffy is?

Stop trying to excuse Anet’s typical poor communication. They have made a bad habit of stating differing things in different places.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-June-11th-2013/first#post2233980

- Festival planners have added effigies to the explorable areas leading to Lion’s Arch. Players who dance before the effigies will be granted a health bonus of up to 10%.

THIS is what their message directs you to. They need to change this, seeing as it is completely wrong.

Might want to specify that not all areas leading to Lion’s Arch have them…

Hopefully the fireworks trigger every weekend during the event.

Btw, the helms are ugly.

Attunement swapping needs a 9 second BASE cooldown, and the Arcane bonus needs to be changed.

The Legend is very hard to get

vluhd.7562:

tolunart.2095:

So your solution to prices rising is to print more money? Seems like this has done very well in the real world, I’m sure the same thing that happens there would happen in the game, too.

Post WWI Germany anyone?

More like the current US.

Kerithlan.1659:

Avatara.1042:

If you combine SoS and CD’s numbers, you get about half TC’s.

Due to this, defend your borderlands as a priority when/where you can, and focus on TC, not each other.

I know that won’t always be an option, but if we ignore the scoreboard and focus on day to day contests it’ll be more fun.

The list I previously posted is a decent starting point — I’d love to see some objective based fights over bragging rights take place.

Or omega golem zerg brawls.

We tend to concentrate on EB. Always have on SoS, for some reason.

If you combine SoS and CD’s numbers, you get about half TC’s.

kokocabana.8153:

I just looted 2 off of random mobs. Either buy the wings off TP or wait until taffies go down to around 1 or 2 copper and then it will be 10-20gold.

Taffy will never drop that low, because of the food you can buy.

The taffy will never drop low enough in price to make buying the wings viable, because the food you can buy with taffy is actually quite good.

I actually think a real dragon is going to crash the party.

I think you meant who, not what.

SoS actually goes into SoR territory more than we do TC territory, in EB.

What a joke of a system…

Does anything in Southsun drop the crates? I found one in my inventory which I must have looted somewhere, but I have no idea what dropped it. It did contain the hot chick in her bikini mini, though.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Point is, we all (or many of us, anyway) came out of this event with stacks and stacks of karka shells, thinking we’d be able to exchange them for something cool. Now we can exchange them for something that leaves most players feeling a bit “meh”… and there’s a hefty gold price ontop of it.

I think players expected the merchant that comes up after they defeat the main boss to carry some sort of reward – either something new, or at least a special deal on items.

I’ll pass – neither the skins nor the stats are worth 2 gold / item for me, even without karka shells. I’m better off getting exotics off the TP.

Exactly. You cannot sell/forge/salvage them either, and they do not even come with the max level runes/sigils.

Mentalhead.5721:

Gold isn’t the problem, but grinding Karka for armor.
Hopefully there will be an alternative way to get those.

Karka Shells are easy to get. The problem is the 2 gold.

I seem to recall that the exotics I just bought at the Temple of Grenth gave me the ‘Are you sure you wish to equip this? It will become Soulbound’ warning when I equipped the gear. This would suggest that they were accountbound, and only soulbound on equip. Which makes this Settler gear extra rubbish.

Leablo.2651:

This is all part of the lore. The settlers are refugees, the refugees are people who lost to dredge and flame legion because they were wearing these stats. The 2g+karka shells is not so much for the items, but fundraising so that the settlers can buy decent gear off the TP.

Heh :P

digiowl.9620:

morrolan.9608:

Lévis.5489:

A lot of ranger bunker builds have stats like these (apothecary) Good to see that they are selling them for such low prices .

2 gold and 70 karka shells per piece is a low price?

Since the unveiling of the new gear the shell price has crashed to 1-2 silver a piece.

Meaning you can land yourself a set at 3 gold a pop or there about.

You mean a SINGLE PIECE.

Cheap, as in more expensive than the Trading Post?

Why the gold as well, seeing as like one class can use the armour, and you cannot forge it?

2 gold is a complete rip-off.

They should be awarded on the side of the screen, like daily and monthly chests.

Alex Behemoth.4952:

So how many Karka Shells do you have? I have 13k

You clearly do not have enough.

Whatever. I bought about 500 just in case. Even the rumour of a new set is more than freaking Anet have given us so far.

Space should never have cost gems. It completely screws new players.

It was already too expensive, especially for making ice cream

Ice cream or omnom bars? Maybe something in the new patch.

The bags and chests should be awarded on the side of the UI, like dailies and monthlies are.

Anet are basically selling gold now.

JubeiTM.5763:

dagrdagaz.4913:

That for $10 u get 1 soulbound pick is a rip-off

Try WOW and pay 15$/month for nothing)

You better be trolling.

It is a rip-off if you are converting gems to gold, like most things now. It is for the $$ to gems people, as usual.

Rhysati.4932:

Avatara.1042:

I hope it is not with gems. I hate that store. They should at least give new players a better way to buy space.

A better way? You can buy it with real cash or in-game cash. What else do you want?

New stuff is going to be in the gem store. Otherwise, why would they bother making new stuff? The people working on the game have to make a profit somehow.

You buy space with GEMS, not gold. Gold would be the better way, because the price would be fixed. Instead new players have to pay everything they have ever earned for MAYBE one bag slot.

I hope it is not with gems. I hate that store. They should at least give new players a better way to buy space.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

If that’s the deciding factor, I think you’ll be better off playing a game which you like for its gameplay.

Different people enjoy different things…shocking, I know…

Saulius.8430:

halloween armor? or it doesn’t count as post release?

The witch set is town clothes only, and the Mad King set looks exactly like the exotic non-set pieces. Anyway, I have both.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

None.

The only thing is the shoulder armor you mentioned already, and then the new gloves that came with the Living Story. They have added some back skins, but those are restricted to Fractals and the gem store. And they keep adding “odd” town clothing, but that’s about it.

So absolutely nothing, nadda, zip, zilch, etc.

:(

I was about to start playing GW2 again, but now…