Guild Wars 2

Yes please! Allow us the ability to lock/unlock our skill positions so we can rearrange them to our preference.

My suggestion:

Symbol of Wrath – removed Retaliation, increased damage (cooldown 10s)

That way we can get our arrangement of skills back the way they were and you can change the retaliation from the symbol so it simply deals a little more damage to those that keep on standing in it.

To me that simple change would have been a lot better than blatantly increasing the cd by 100% (and in doing so messing up our entire skill-set).

Instead of increasing the cooldown from 10 to 20s, why couldn’t they have simply exchanged the retaliation to something else? Heck, they exchanged stability for protection on the Tomes already.

Uhm, a little confused here. The patch notes state that the cd on whirling wrath was changed to 10 seconds, but wasn’t it 10 seconds before the patch already?

So what exactly changed (apart from it now being on 2 instead of 3)?

Latinkuro.9420:

The Zhaitan story is great, people are just complaining about the fight itself !

I was hoping to pound him to the ground myself with my own power, not using a cannon and pew pew peck him to death, you can’t even see damage numbers at all feels kind of not epic and he’s to small for an elder dragon.

I’d love to see a more interesting fight, but I doubt that fighting him with your own power would even work. If Zhaitan was a human, you would be a wasp. You could sting him; but then he swats you to the ground and stomps on you.

So to me it would be more a fight against time where you had to fend off his attacks and minions long enough for some giant Asura mega-laser to become fully charged. Then something unexpected might happen where the crew manning the laser would die and you have to dodge-rush through mobs in order to press the button. Then, during a short cinematic, you see the laser firing, shearing off one of his wings and he slams into the mountainside and tumbles down into the mist.

This is just a quick example ofcourse, but it could be a more intense fight compared to firing little cannons the whole time I think.

Then again, I have yet to complete my storyline so I don’t know what’s going on at present time (wanted to go yesterday, but the door to Arah seems bugged and will not open)

Linfang.1087:

Aveneo.2068:

Wait a minute…

So for your personal storyline, you have to group up and do a 5-man dungeon? Why is this not stated anywhere? All I can see in my log is ‘Kill Zhaitan’ with no references at all of it requiring 4 other people.

I know the personal story is more single player. But in the end, you have to face the inevitable fact you are playing a MMO, and in conclusion , you will need to connect your end story with others.

Yeah, and I have no problem with that. It’s just that it is not mentioned anywhere that you need to get a group of 5 people for it. So in my opinion they could have added [Group Event] or something and state that this last quest requires 5 people.

Avenger’s Longbow (Sylvari personal story reward) has an issue with the length of the drawstring. It’s too short and looks like it was meant for a shortbow.

Now this one may have already been reported, but seeing my character as well as every Sylvari archer NPC with this issue is pretty annoying

Wait a minute…

So for your personal storyline, you have to group up and do a 5-man dungeon? Why is this not stated anywhere? All I can see in my log is ‘Kill Zhaitan’ with no references at all of it requiring 4 other people. Unless it’s listed somewhere else, you might want to implement some better notification because me and a friend were initially planning to go in with the two of us (because the both of us just happened to be on the last stage).

Next to that it’s great to see that a retroactive fix is planned and will feature the GW1-style token. But that ‘feature’ was already there from the beginning, so it was the initial intention to go with the GW1-style token in the first place.

Someone up the line apparently chose to remove the means of giving that end reward to the players by having the vendor’s inventory disabled and not hand out the victory token in the reward menu after the defeat of Zhaitan . Instead of the token, that someone decided to fill that slot with a ‘random loot bag’ instead it seems.

All the end reward items, ‘pact victory token’ and vendor were already in the gamefiles (weapons are even viewable in the PvP locker and everything).

But I guess Jeff meant that detection scripts need to be added to send out a mass-mail with the token to people who already completed the storyline and replace the loot-bag with the victory token for those who have yet to complete theirs, which could take slightly longer to implement. At any rate I am glad to see that ArenaNet will implement means to rectify the situation and give people a more fitting reward.

One thing I was wondering about. Why are the weapons simply blue when they’re ‘sheathed’ and only get their ghostly mist effect when wielded?

Why not apply the ghostly mist regardless of it being sheathed or wielded?

Don’t have any raw numbers, but I don’t think it scales with healing power or anything and is just a flat 25 per target hit. So the bigger the packs of mobs you can hit, the more healing you get apparently (Whirling Wrath <3)

So for me it’s more a combination of:
+30/s (Dolyak)
+25/hit (Zealous)
+160ish/s (Resolve + Healing Power)
+???/dodge (Selfless Daring)
+240-370?/10-12s (Water sigil).

On their own they feel pretty lackluster, but alll of them combined with 600+ Healing seems to give you a very nice stream of healing with splash for your allies as well.

Numbers will probably be way off as I’m no mathematician heh heh

As to summoning spirit weapons. I usually summon them prior to engaging an opponent and later on after I dodge out of the way or need to kite something a little bit. It’s really great that you can summon them whilst moving

As to the sword dealing lower damage, this might be because it lasts longer than the hammer and is on a shorter cooldown.

For dungeons however, I’m inclined to swap out either hammer or sword for the bow or shield though, for better support.

Haven’t had much experience in dungeons, but it seems to work great against packs of mobs during DE’s or in Orr (where every undead hobo has cc’s apparently)

Noticed this on all my characters (Guardian, Ranger, Engineer). My friend noticed it too on his Elementalist.

So it seems to be an issue with all classes and a pretty annoying one at that. Sent in a bug report regarding it yesterday.

Aveneo Lightbringer and his new girlfriend (Yin and Yang right?)

I’m currently using this one (mainly for PvE though):

Spirit Build

No clue if it’s any good, but I’m having a lot of fun with it and rarely go down even when jumping into packs of mobs and pulling in even more. The 5+ seconds of stability ensures no nasty surprises from cc’s and it seems to have quite the self-healing potential whilst fighting.

Using it with a full exotic Cleric set (Draconic crafted armor) with 6xDolyak runes, a Valkyrie greatsword with the Superior Water sigil and a mixed batch of Knight Amulet, 2x Valkyrie Ring, 1x Cleric Earring, 1x Knight Earring.

But I’m sure people could point out the potential flaws in my design, or suggest something else that they are fond of using.

New suggestion for elite: Spirit Catapult!

Lasts 30 seconds and deals AoE damage up to 2400 range

Sure, you can’t move or do anything whilst using it; but you’d have your very own siege engine.

Or this: Spirit Armory! Summons 1 of each of your Spirit Weapons simultaneously for 20 seconds (30 when traited with Improved Spirit Weapon Duration or Elite Focus; 40 seconds with both)

As to Renewed Focus, it would be less crap if it would also remove all your conditions (and maybe turn them into boons) :P

Anyways, I always thought ArenaNet claimed Elite skills to be something powerful and spectacular. But in the end most of them are just a bad utility skill of extremely limited use on a very long cooldown.

Just my opinion on the matter. I’m just going to stick with my Mistfire Wolf

In my opinion Story Mode should focus on story; not on bosses/trash/traps that can almost (if not always) oneshot you.

Where Explorer Mode should focus on challenge, coordination and potentially deadly encounters; Story Mode should have a much more forgiving and ‘casual’ nature where they can be seen as a string of ‘dynamic events’ that are tuned for 5 average players in terms of difficulty.

I know the perfect ending!!

After getting Logan’s ride beat to scrap but the dragon being wounded, Trahearne makes the ultimate sacrifice, kicks everyone else into a dinky Delorean being driven by a whitehaired Asura named Docc while Trahearne sets a collission course for Zhaitan, impales him and then the ship explodes in an antimatter explosion!

Perhaps today IS a good day to die… PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!!

…this won’t end well…

;)

Yes OP, you are too old.

If I were you I’d start thinking about buying yourself a rocking chair, sitting on your porch all day and complain about ‘them darn kids’ on your lawn; just like me…

:P

(I’m 37 by the way, so I am allowed to make fun of us)

Found this over on the wiki:

“Pact Requisitioner Hargrove is an NPC that appears in Fort Trinity at the end of the Personal Story Quests, in the Victory or Death instanced version. He has the dialogue to buy weapons from him, but currently, only the sell option is available. He is behind a door that is normally closed, to the left of the door that leads to the airship. "

So combined with the fact that working models of all the Pact weapons are already in the game-files as well as those Victory Tokens, I’d say that it was intended for the player to be awarded a token upon completing their storyline which they could hand in at Hargrove for a rare quality weapon with a unique skin.

Question remains why they ‘deactivated’ Hargrove’s inventory and the token; because everything is already in place to offer a real unique reward instead of these ‘random crap’ bags we’re getting now…

Today I have had this wierd ‘woo woo’ siren 3 times and every single time it was during the Claw of Jormag fight.

All sound was replaced with the ‘siren’ and after a while GW2 crashed.

However, when I shut my headset (Logitech G930) off I could continue playing normally. I didn’t have any sound, but the game also did not crash!

So it seems the game will only crash if you keep listening to the siren, but if you shut down your audio receptor (headset/speakers) you may not crash at all. It’s only a partial save though because as soon as you enable your sound again, the siren is still there.

Only way to fix it is by doing a restart of the game, only way to postpone it is to disable your headset and play without sound until you find a spot to relog.

Lemon Mogget.2974:

Not sure if you guys are aware, but there is a series of “Pact” weapons (viewable in the PvP armor locker) which are unobtainable in PvE thus far. There is also a “Pact Requisitioner” in the end instance at Fort Trinity who claims to give out weapons but so far does not.
1 + 1 = 2

Chillax and wait for them to fix it.

You’re right! I also found a lot of ‘pact’ entries on the GW2DB including this:

Pact Victory Token
Pact Requistioner Hargrove offers good service rewards in exchange for this symbol of victory.
Bind on Acquire

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The 9/24 update has:

“End of Story Loot bags improved to only give green or better lvl 78+ gear.”

I don’t know if it also has a retroactive fix for players who have already the step, but we do plan on giving players who have already done the step updated loot.

First, thank you Jeff for posting your response. I really appreciate it. What I do not appreciate however is the solution and choice for the end-reward.

Did the guys who work on these rewards even play Guild Wars 1? I mean, players complete their personal storyline (campaign!) and get a RNG bag?

Just give players a unique token that they can hand in for a reward of their choosing (lvl80 exotic weapon with a unique skin, or any one of the existing dungeon weapons?) during a big celebration party for defeating Zhaitan, not a bag of 78+ vendor/salvage trash.

This is supposed to be the crowning achievement for the hero, the Destroyer of Zhaitan. But instead the hero zero gets a bag of random crap the soldiers managed to loot off corpses.

Sorry for the harshness of this message, but seriously. This is the best those guys could think of as an end-reward for players completing their campaign? A bag with mostly random 78+ green junk? I am very disappointed.

Having the same isssue. Upgraded to DD for 2000 gems but my main (level 60 now) can’t select the elite.

[Incident: 120906-001534]?

Lorati.7361:

raphaeldisanto.5478:

Not that I’m against more options, I just don’t see why it’s needed with the way mail works.

I guess what I’m saying is .. if ANet implemented a “Trade with” button, it’d probably use their in-game mail system behind the scenes anyway, and it would probably just be a reskinned mail window, since that’s what mail does anyway.

The major reason behind a trading UI is to prevent scams. It would take some work to add it, but the reduction of scam reports would probably add up to money saved for them over time.

Exactly. People are now getting scammed through mail because there is no CoD function. Doing a trade window like they had in GW1 would be to the benefit of everyone.

• Human fishing with a fishing rod
• Asura fishing with a fighing golem MK2000
• Charr fishing with sticks of dynamite or a Charrzooka
• Norn bear-fishing with their bare hands
• Sylvari sitting at the edge of the pond, gently asking for fish to jump in their baskets

Seriously though, I’d love to have more leisure activities like fishing in this game. Besides, in the game we already see npc’s fishing; so why can’t we?

I would have preferred they stuck with their canvas style painting approach instead of this. If they had to implement real life images with ingame; they should have had a couple of art-students painting the world of Tyria on a giant piece of canvas and it coming alive. Then in the end they walk through it into the painting and becoming ingame representations of themselves.

To me this current ad was a pointless video with some equally pointless attempt at subliminal messaging and deeper meanings that the average casual commercial viewer will not pick up anyway. Heck, they’d probably be staring at the screen like their brain shorted out for a duration of the ad and then forget it ever happened.

So in my opinion they wasted money on something that will not see any additional copies being sold. Instead they should have stuck with their canvas-painting approach.

The above trailer sold me on Guild Wars 2 and made me also buy Guild Wars including all the campaigns and EotN. Something similar for a commercial would have been a lot better in my opinion.

More canvas, less ‘rebels breaking free’…

Thanks for the response Gaile, I appreciate it. Yet I only hope that by ‘as soon as posssible’ it will actually be adressed as soon as possible.

I just want to be able to use the Mistfire elite on my ‘Spirit Guardian’, but because he was level 30+ the icon was greyed out. All my existing pre-30 characters had the elite unlocked and available however. So this bug seems to happen for every character that already had access to the first tier of elite skills (so level 30 and above) prior to upgrading to DD.