Guild Wars 2

By yourself no.
You could try to find someone else that will do the PS step you want and then you can join, but the character in the cutscene won’t be you.

I know it is nearly impractical, but that is the only way I can see it happening.

Aicus.3174:

Lucius.2140:

You probed to remove the autoatack and start timing the hit?.

Not helping because 1) I am destroying my keyboard 2) I am destroying my finger and 3) I still get locked in unless I stop and let my auto attack rinse every 2 hits.

You shouldn’t “smash” the 1 key, you need to press at the same pace as the auto attack goes, then when you see that you need to evade you stop pressing the key.
It is a really hard task, but it is the only workaround so far, if you keep pressing the 1 key then a buffer of commands will be created and it will work just like if autoattack was on.

If you go to the ranger sub-forum yu’ll find A LOT of topics complaining and giving tips about the sword.

You can even get both at exactly same time.
It once happened to me, 1 skill point ended completing the monthly Skill Point Amasser and daily Skill Point Accumulator, finishing my 4/4 monthly and 5/5 daily.

Rise of level cap is VERY unlikely to happen.
You can craft your ascended weapon without any worries at all.
And even if that ever happens, it would be in matter of years, not months.

EDIT: Just to let you know, in GW1 lvl 20 was the cap from the beginning until now.

quaniesan.8497:

These folks created a fake and wrong presentation of idea they don’t like (but they themselves are not forced to adhere to) and argue against it as if that idea will be imposed on them.
No one said ranger is better off without pets. I am saying some people, including me, are better off without pet. If YOU think you are better off with your pets, DO IT, by all means.

No, he just stated an hypothesis, IF the petless option was better in dungeons for example, then it wouldn’t be a matter of personal preference, you would need to go petless in the dungeon, it is just like the current zerker set with sword, this combo IS the best option, if you don’t like it and prefer other set and weapon, well too bad you are out of the meta.

OP specifically asked for “mechanically intense”, and not “skill intense”.
Thief, ranger and mesmer can be skill intense for sure (but that is more subjective), while eles are mechanically intense for sure and engs can be very mechanically intense too, but not necessarily skill intense.

Actually I just missed that, dodge sure is a counter to everything, some invulnerability only prevent new conditions, but the ones on you will still be there causing damage, same with block.
But the idea is that there are passive and active defenses for both direct and condition damage, the suggested change would remove the passive direct damage defense (toughness) and nothing to replace it.

Currently you have Vit to rise your HP and Tou to rise your armor, you have invulnerability/block/dodge to counter direct damage, and cond cleanse for conditions.

If you changed Tou to not rise armor, how would you rise it? Heavy classes would have more advantage over the rest.

Cool little things that makes life so much easier eh?

The Personal Story now unlocks every 10 levels, so after the Norn story step “The Last of the Giant Kings” your next will be open at lvl 20.
The golden hearts are objectives of the map, that isn’t related to your story.
You can go to the initial maps of the other races, since you are a Norn, go to Hoelbrak and to the west there is a portal that lead you to Lion’s Arch and from there you see many more portals to the cities of the other races.

You can use the mouse scroll to rise and lower the numbers if you have cursor in the box of said number, I don’t need the arrows anymore

Kinda … the thing with WoW in this case is that they are so big, that make those offers isn’t needed, many players will buy all the previous ones along with the new expansion just because it is WoW.
I remember offers like giving exp and items for players that was able to bring new players in a referral scheme, I think it is even a permanent feature of the game.

Anyway, I read on reddit and facebook many players asking if there is a trial for GW2 so they can test it before buying, this will help GW2 for sure.

… can you give 1 example of a game (specially a MMO) that doesn’t want new players all the time?

I would like to see something like that, like the Urgoz’s Warren and The Deep in GW1.

I think most the times people use the “this is not the game for you” is when someone come and say things like “In WoW we have this and that”, “In TERA there was such thing”, or ideas like “add mounts”, “gives us hardcore content”, “make PK servers” and so on.

Those things are features that the ANet is trying to avoid and the game was not designed for that, so in those cases, this is not the game for you.

EDIT:

mage.3570:

But we get the same reactions when we request features in GW1 that are absolutely missing or lacking in GW2, such as more skills, templates, elite dungeons (8+ team), etc

I usually don’t see this reaction for those suggestions.

I see that free trial as a good opportunity to get rank in PvP matches and advance in the reward tracks, haha

But yeah, not sure why ANet isn’t announcing that free trial out there.

Yes.
When you use 2 weapons, the damage and sigils works for all attacks.
For example, if you have sigil of air in the off hand, the skills 1,2 and 3 can trigger it.

Depends.
Dungeons? World Bosses? General Open World? WvW? PvP?

Dungeons: what maha.7902 said
World Bosses: force + bloodlust
Open world: air + fire or bloodlust + fire (you’ll be fighting groups of mobs often so the AoE of the fire sigil is better than the air sigil)
WvW and PvP: it will depend a lot of your class and role there.

Apparently yes, it is genuine.
There was even an update last night to block free-trial accounts into WvW (except EotM).

With 2 weapons you can put 2x sigil of force, but they won’t stack, 1 of them will be useless.
2 sigils of the same name won’t stack, no matter or what.

Elementarist and Engineer would be the top ones by a good margin.
Elementarist need to keep switching attunements to be effective.
Engineer kits and toolbelt also force you to press tons of buttons, specially if you want to combo between kits.

PS: Mesmers need precise button pressing but not much quantity of button pressing, as in skill intensive but not mechanically intensive.

AncientYs.8613:

one question, for the power zerker build listed here you have soldier armor and zerker trinkets wouldnt that cripple the power for pve? or ? full zerker is too squishy? why the split armor? an answer is appreciated^^ thanks!

For PvE you go full zerker, nothing there is hard enough to make you invest in survival.

That build is probably for WvW

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I don’t want to re-level a character I have already leveled. I don’t want to have to go through more gating.

I’d far prefer to see new classes than any “prestige” ones.

The idea isn’t of level your toon again in that class, in game I think it could be like a challenging chain of quests to unlock the path you want and done.
It would be an upgrade to your class, not a rework.

Malkavian.4516:

3. Elementalist = Thaumaturge

Looking at your account name and your suggestion, I’ll assume that you like Vampire: The Masquerade.

I think that for a prestige class to be interesting there should be at least 2 options per class. like: ranger → arcane archer or ranger → duelist | guardian → paladin or guardian → templar and so on.

Devs usually post when a new CDI will happen, like the current Guild CDI was announced a week before.
How often is not certain, they are now making CDIs when seem necessary.

Also, I love the idea of prestige classes, in D&D it worked really well, it added a flavor to the regular classes and here in GW2 I think it could work for sure.
The mechanic I see would be add new traits and a few utilities unique to the prestige class and maybe even unlock a weapon based in the prestige you pick, like ranger → duelist could unlock sword off hand and dagger mh.

Sanguina X.8301:

Is the link supposed to take you to the German version of the site?

In the left hand corner you can click in the US flag and will change to english.

Account and soulbound items can’t be added to the guild bank, it may be it.

Romek.4201:

dlonie.6547:

Razor.9872:

I believe they will re-vamp this fight in the future when they have less on their plate.

giggles

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

they should ask Uwe Boll

They way the PS ends, I think they did.

In WvW my drake hit for about 3k auto attack, I usually use it in the middle of a zerg, so the cleave and blast finisher is great, and the TU + SotW and the natural high HP keep the drake lasting surprisingly long in the battlefield.
I usually use the river drake and I often see the F2 skill reach 12k (if ppl would stay still it would hit for more haha).

In small scale fights (5v5 max) I use the jaguar, I see it hitting 5k very often against other players, usually medium armor targets.

ANet knows about that issue and then they fixed it in the LS season 2.
Now you can go away from the game for months, and when you come back you can buy the access to the LS and play it.

MH Axe has always been my favorite weapon, so after the update I couldn’t be happier.
In WvW and against trash mobs you can easily maintain 9 stacks of might w/o any source of boon duration, and sigils or runes.
I run axe/axe + GS and the damage is great against several targets and in 1v1, and my pet is hitting like a truck, in WvW a drake filled with might is a power to be feared.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

notebene.3190:

cheshirefox.7026:

no clue.. but my advice is you avoid that collection until arena net changes it
it’s a complete sham

pourquoi?

I think you mean “por que?”

“por que” is in portuguese/spanish
“pourquoi” is in french

And I’m also curious to know why.

PS: Yeah, it may drop in any path.

Sweetblue Huntress.9856:

Ashandar.2570:

Belzebu.3912:

Currently, there is no legendary collection.

Unless they have removed it in september patch, there is still a Collection achievement for legendaries, though it isn’t under “Collections”.

Ashandar is correct – it’s under Explorer (though I have no idea if this has been changed since patch). http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explorer

When I said “collection” I really meant it, there is an achievement you get for having 5 legendaries, it gives like a total of 25 AP and that is it, no reward, no tittle, nothing.
PS: The chest thing in the login screen is showed as soon as you get 1 legendary.

Ashandar.2570:

Um.. isn’t this discussion also applicable on legendaries? Massive grind/gigantic currency wall, RNG, Collection achievement…

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Currently, there is no legendary collection.

I think ppl want alternative ways to get BL skins purely because of the collection, I never read any complain before the update, but it also may be result of the key farm nerf …

Labjax.2465:

This isn’t real life. We’re talking about a game.

With no parameters to compare everything gets easier to ask.
I would like to get a precursor or legendary as birthday gift.
BL skins for every 2k AP.
Guaranteed ticket scrap in every BL chest.
Also get 1 AP for every hour I’m not logged in the game, so casuals can compete with the hardcore.

Get similar rewards of the “hardcore” players, being casual, doesn’t sound right.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Belzebu.3912:

words…

“Prestige” skins? More like skins that show how big your wallet is.
And why he wants those skins? Hmm, maybe becasue that’s what this game is all about, skins.

Well, “prestige” is a way to call expensive stuff, both in game and in RL.
I’m a system analyst and I have an ok pay check, I would love to have an Aston Martin but guess what, I can’t have it unless I “grind” a lot for it or have lucky with the lottery “RNG” to be able to get it.
The OP wants the Aston Martin even though he has a regular job and w/o the need of lottery. See where I want to go?

My Norn ranger would probably have a smell of frosty blood and sweat and a bit of animal fur, and depending of the time of the year a stronger or weaker smell of a “fine ale”

1) If you (or your character) likes peanut butter do you prefer chunky or smooth?
Smooth

2) If you are a US citizen please answer the following: If I offered you $300 cash, and went further to ask you what denomination you would like your money to be delivered, what would that be?
I would ask to transfer to my bank account, if not possible, then in 100’s, so I would deposit it as soon as possible

3) I need to know you (or your character’s) favorite pizza toppings.
Meatlovers

4) If you (or your character) are a dog lover, do you like German Shepherds, Pugs, or Boston Terriers?
From that list German Shepherds, but Boxer is my favorite breed

5) Do you or your character prefer mathematics or the humanities?
Math for sure, both myself and my snow leopard follower Norn

Yes, I also think that a Legendary Collection should exist.
I’m sure a few players would have that already and others would start to pursuit the last legendaries needed for the collection.
Collections are far from be mandatory, if you don’t want to make it, then just don’t.

Hepatolith.6389:

That’s because Pet’s received a 75% health buff for PvE some time ago (last featurepatch?), but this health buff does not apply to WvW and PvP. =)

Exactly, it was in the October 15th update, almost 1 year ago.

Conncept.7638:

Belzebu.3912:

If you are a casual gamer, why do you want a prestige skin that doesn’t offer any advantage?

Did you seriously just claim these were prestige items? That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Cost can set something up as a prestige item, even I would consider a Maserati a prestige item, but these items aren’t barred by cost nearly as much as they are barred by RNG. They’re more like a draw for either menial 1980s commutermobile or a Maserati that you have a chance of getting if you pay a random amount of money for it.

Expensive items (BL skin or the Maserati) are prestigious items, both can be acquired by RNG (there could be a promotion that gives a Maserati) and that wouldn’t make it any less prestigious.
The only difference is that the BL skin is “built” from RNG and then sold for a high price (offer/demand), while the car is built in small numbers with expensive material and then added a even higher profit margin based only on the prestige.

IMO fractal skins and legendaries for example are more prestigious, but BL skins also are.

HenleyLegoMan.4987:

Not seen any guides for this new keyfarm yet. But very time consuming for a casual gamer in my opinion.

Updated guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7JMF2d8V8o

Yes, for a casual and for a hardcore it is very time consuming, the difference is that a hardcore can farm about 40 hours in a week and a casual will take months to do the same.

If you are a casual gamer, why do you want a prestige skin that doesn’t offer any advantage?
Also, you can use in game gold to buy gems, so save the gold you earn and then trade it.
Another thing is key farm, you get keys doing the lvl 10 Personal Story, there are many updated videos and guides about that.
GW2 is very casual friendly, but the game doesn’t need to be 100% casual focused.

PS: If you are a casual you probably have a job of something, then buy gems is even more accessible for most casuals.

Yeah, Lightbringer is a tittle I really wanted, even before the game was released.

I think it never broke, the difference is that leveling by crafting got way more expensive since you need to craft to lvl 500 to get the same exp that use used to get with lvl 400 crafting.

Simply a ncp dialog.

Ok, since you are a developer lets talk same language.
Let suppose a few situations:
1 – the algorithm is updated on the run, every time a RNG function is called to consult the drop base a select is made on the forum posts made by the account where the content of the post is positive.
That consult would be REALLY slow, consult in a DB using partial texts is very consuming and not plausible at all.

2 – A DB job/query runs daily or even weekly updating a table, giving a weight in the account RNG based in the former posts of said account.
While it would be a bit more plausible by the develop side, such query would take ages to finish and even if that query was made in parts it would be too outdated almost all the time.

3 – There is a trigger on the forum post that update a table in the DB to change a weight in the RNG function for your account.
This would be the best of the scenarios, but still it assume an insanely high demand of the DB and would make the forum very slow.

Also, all those scenarios are only even possible assuming that the RNG function reads an information linked to your account, and if that was actually made, the DB workload would be too high, the RNG function need to be called w/o a too specific DB select, only information like time, account name, position in game, AP and so on, those infos are acquired w/o a DB consult.

Do you see a way where your theory could be actually made?
EDIT: Also in a secure way, cookies and client side stored information can be easily “hacked”

Lodius.5392:

Back to the initial programming of the game… It’s not a basis of “how much good you can give a player” but " how much good you can give a company"

A programmer is not invested in the player as much as himself.

Take for instance, people paid on commission for how much they sale. They are not paid on how happy their customer is, but on how happy their boss/company is with them.

So as a company I would pay someone lots of money to develop a code that would keep precursors at a rate which kept them in high demand (supply vs demand). If the programmer could code it so that no more than X amount of dusks would be out at a time would ensure the price would force people to buy gems to convert to gold.

Thus, the programmer “made his dues” by developing a good algorithm to keep supply low and demand high.

Now this is plausible.
A code that for example limits 10 dusks a day and after that no matter or what it won’t drop, is ok, but a code that is updated by if you are making compliments on the forums is plain ridiculous.

Cassandra Nea.2507:

Belzebu.3912:

Really, people actually think THAT far?
The is absolutely no chance at all that the in-game RNG algorithm use user forum semantic content towards compliment as variable.

But it is one HECK of a funny theory. I’m still giggling.

Conspiracy posts in the forums rise my giggling rate IRL :P

EDIT:

Lodius.5392:

Just like casinos never cheat people.

Or carnivals don’t have games that are “unwinnable”

Or by Carnies that lie to your face…. I did exactly what one said to do to win his game… then he made up some ridiculous excuse as to why I didn’t win.

I have been a game programmer and know just how easy it would be to do things behind the scenes to influence algorithms.

Where something as simple as a Customer Service person could use a hidden “+1” or “-1” system behind the scenes that triggers a increase/decrease of .01 (or something) to the internal algorithm.

Simply, a * b = c
a – original algorithm
b – sway of votes
c – standard RNG score

OMG! Are you really serious?
Let me laugh even harder then.

For dungeon/fractal I would suggest the guardian and mesmer for some specific paths.
For WvW if you think in roaming, thief and rangers are really good, but I suggest going with your warrior, it is more flexible between zerg and roam, but the build is usually different between them.
For PvP rangers and mesmers are good (I personally like guardian a lot but they are stronger in dungeons), I’m not experienced with thieves in pvp so I can’t make an opinion in that aspect.
I didn’t mention necro in any part because they are in an “ok” spot in all game aspects, except for dungeons, there necros are just bad.

Devs posted already that perma-stow options won’t happen, rangers are supposed to be the pet class in GW2 (Not that I agree 100%, but that is what was said by a dev).

Search for the Ranger CDI in the profession balance sub-forum, the post is there.