Guild Wars 2

Ryan.9387:

Also double post but the measurement units aren’t just randomly defined. They are tied to constants so they will never change.

E.g. 1 meter = distance light travels in 1/299,xxx,xxx of a second in a vacuum. It isn’t entirely random.

Of course we could just use planck constants for everything…

What he meant is that, why light speed was picked, it couldn’t be the sounds speed? It couldn’t be other fraction of time? All that was arbitrary.

I used a mix of Shaman/Settler set in my trapper/regen ranger.
For roaming WvW was good and as the cond damager in dungeons also worked really well.

mtpelion.4562:

All measurement systems are arbitrary. We, as people, decided that X should be 1 on the scale and that X+Y=2 on the scale.

I have to agree with you.
Metric just looks less random, but I really agree that it is arbitrary.

You guys make it sounds like such item would be really easy to make, I know many of you guys can’t care less about the Personal Story, but if Anet would make such item, it need to work for people that care about it too, also not break the rewards and achievements you already got with the PS, it doesn’t look easy at all.

Wethospu.6437:

People who try to do jumping puzzles with Norns.

Buy a tonic and go make your JP.
I finished all JPs as a Norn w/o tonics.

notabot.3497:

Metric is just as arbitrary as Imperial units. It doesn’t really matter because its unlikely the asura would even use either inferior measurement system. Heck metric is based on H2O of all things. They would use a system based on something much fundamental to the eternal alchemy.

Metric system is all based in units on 10 (1 meter = 10 decimeter = 10 centimeter = 10 millimeter…), both for measurement and temperature.
Imperial is really random (1 yard = 3 feet = 12 inches …), and Fahrenheit is also apparently very arbitrary, but if you think that use H2O as reference imagine use a mix of water and salt to create a new unit.

@OP: Well, this game is created and based in the USA, so yeah … we need to deal with it.

Oenanthe.6549:

Within one week
‘First Ranger to solo Lupi’

This already happened.
For example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpINwYbiYi8?

BrunoBRS.5178:

^ i don’t want to know how much work did you put through that just to prove a point :P

Not as much as you imagine: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Asura
In better words, more than needed but less than you hoped.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Belzebu.3912:

The Destiny’s Edge had 2 asuras and we all know what happened, right?

Kralk only got the job half done?

Nope, it took the wrong one.

You think it is easy like that?
How you would determinate who is a very experienced player, and how you would make those types of players test before releasing the update?

For example, lets balance the power of a class, that “4” spot would be PvP, PvE or WvW, if PvE it would be open world or dungeon, if PvP it would be sPvP or tPvP, if WvW it would be roaming, zerg?

The theory of balance is much easier than actually balance something, it is a matter of trial and error most of times.

Nike.2631:

No matter what you think of Jory and Kasmeer’s relationship, expect it to be short.

The New Destiny’s Edge has exactly one human too many.

The Destiny’s Edge had 2 asuras and we all know what happened, right?

After you get the best set, you can still change the skin of the set even if it is lower level, but instead of an unique slot for skin you use transmutation crystal/stone.

Farzo.8410:

[(Spoiler!) How the hell did Tybalt manage to survive?!]

That would be awesome

Farzo.8410:

[Nerf the Bearbow Signet Ranger dungeon speedrun meta!]

Not in a million years

Inimicus.7162:

Correct, but the weapons issue is that some of the ascended weapons skins are quite nice, but red and poop brown or ebony and cornsilk are not the colors i wanna match to…

I’m in the same boat.
I want to craft a zerker or valk ascended axe for my ranger, but I wanted the blue skin to make pair with the Frostfang and my “ice themed” set, to be sincere, that is the only thing that is holding me to craft the ascended axe for my main.

Every time we kill the The Shatterer we really kill it, after a time a new champion is made/elected by Kralkatorrik and it gain the title “The Shatterer”, so even if it was the Glint’s babies those would be dead long ago.
But answering the question, no, they aren’t the same.

DarcShriek.5829:

Whatever happened to the cave just north of old LA that led to the EOTN campaign?

It probably doesn’t exist anymore, after the explosives the Asura and Dwarfs detonated there to kill the destroyers.

Ascended armor for the alts is actually really hard.
Ascended weapons for alts is not that bad, just don’t try to make full weapon sets for all your 5+ toons
Ascended trinkets is pretty easy for your toons, 3 of my toons have full ascened trinkets (and I don’t play fractals) so yeah … go for it.

Kibazuka.1390:

[healing signet too strong, warrior op]
[Where is our Precursor crafting?]

HAHA those cracked me.
+1

[(suggestion) allow ranger pets be stowed permanently]

Players like us that like to level and actually play alts have no issue (I made a lvl 80 for all classes) the problem is that many items get soulbound instead of account (mainly legendaries and ascended), some other players would like to have WPs be unlocked account wide (it makes no sense imo), rewards being per account instead of per toon and so on.

I think that GW2 is among the most alt friendly MMO I ever played.

Rym.1469:

Hmm. I think we may see something related to Tengu and Mr.E himself revealed.

What if Mr. E is a Tengu, and he is not only hiding his identity from us, he is also hiding from the other Tengus that want to keep away from the other races.

He was the God of the secrets, wear a mask fits well, but I agree that it have an evil look for sure, but then Grenth also looks evil but he is probably the most fair God among the 6.

If you are in a party and someone target you “atl+T” then you’ll be able to see your own title and star.

Lazuli.2098:

What does the star by a hero’s name mean?

Means that toon have 100% map completion.
You can use the title “Been there, Done that” in any of your toon, but the star only appear in the toon that actually have the 100% map.

Kibazuka.1390:

Heh, found it always weird that Abaddon looked so extremly different than the other 5.

That form was after a long time “corrupting” in the Domain of Anguish, you can see his statue in the Temple of the Forgotten God

Statistics, the art of torture numbers till it shows what you want.

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perilisk.1874:

Were there five or six? I thought it was Dwarves, Norn, Jotun, Forgotten, Seers, and Mursaat.

Norn wasn’t part.

So you want a low cooldown, cond cleanse heal that apply stealth that can be traitable for even lower colldown? …
We already have a healing skill that cleanse conditions.

Many nerfs was not because of our community, we got nerfs because Anet balanced only looking at sPvP, where ranger are actually good, but doing that we got even worse at PvE and WvW.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Also we’ve seen Abaddon, and that’s good enough for me!

And Kormir too.
Too bad she doesn’t look upon the humans anymore (see what I did there? )

RedStar.4218:

Belzebu.3912:

Why would 1 race get more content than other?

Well maybe because the humans have been on Tyria (continent, not world) for more time than the others ? (Except Charr).

It is exactly the opposite, after Sylvari, Human is one of the most recent races on Tyria, not only among the playable races, but among every race in Tyria.

Why would 1 race get more content than other?
Also you can see the form of the Gods in the statues in Orr, at least those are the ones that can be trusted the most.
The Six are gone, they don’t want to interfere in the business of the humans.

I did the LS step where we check all the Scarlet’s evidences and I had a loregarsm

The way it was written and developed allowed the players that followed the whole story excited and also players that just got the game updated to the story, Anet really nailed with this update.

People are complaining too much.
In the beginning of the season 1 I was about rank 12, after 1 month I got to rank 65 with my ranger, rank 12 with my engineer and rank 5 in 4 other toons and I really don’t enjoy WvW.

If you want to craft the “Legendary” weapon, the weapon that is guaranteed to be the best weapon in the game and where you can choose the stat you want at anytime, then I think it is fair that you need to experience everything in game, I would like that you were required at least rank 10 in PvP to be able to craft a legendary.

Maybe some conditions are being applied faster than he can cleanse?

It is there since game release, even before the diving master achieve was added.

Justice.3608:

After the nerf Knight’s or Rabid will likely be the overall best stat for DPS and survivability.

Knight’s is currently:
Toughness
Power
Precision

Knight’s after the patch:
Toughness
Power
Ferocity (BOTH precision and crit damage)

You got it all wrong.
Ferocity will replace ONLY crit damage, what probably mislead you is that Ferocity will work like precision, but for crit damage instead of crit rate.

Knight set won’t be changed at all.
Zerk will change from (Power/Precision/Crit Damage) to (Power/Precision/Ferocity)
Valk will change from (Power/Vit/Crit damage) to (Power/Vit/Ferocity)

See the difference?

@OP: Zerker will still be the top DPS set, the only difference is that a full zerker build will have a 10% less crit damage than our current one, but if you don’t have full zerker set the difference in the damage will be even lower.

If my ranger could use spear in main hand (like in GW1) and a shield, it would be just like my ranger build in GW1, I would be the most happy and nostalgic ranger in the game

The karma set fit well the radiant pieces.
The shoulder and helmet of the karma set was the pieces that was ugly in my opinion and the radiant replaced perfectly.

It would be too much average, you would have an ok power, precision only from knights gear, crit damage only from cavalier, so you wouldn’t crit much and when you crit wouldn’t be a much higher damage, but at least you would have a nice toughness, but no healing power to sustain the low HP.

Hey Kal, sup?

I think you are over thinking this time, it is just weapons with “love” theme at most, most like they are just “cute” weapons and no much more meaning into it.

Yes, you CAN get your cash back … actually the gems.
Just send a ticket and ask your refund for the flame kissed armor.

Zenith.6403:

What patch notes?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-February-4-2014

TooBz.3065:

Thanks for posting. It looks like re-skinned feathered armor.

Just like the medium armor is the re-skinned WvW set.

Those probes may be searching for something magical, but it doesn’t discard the idea that something physical can have high magic influence.
Scarlet may be using a “magic detector” because elder dragons are so big and massive that could be mistaken by a rock or mountain or something like that, but a big magical source is less likely to be mistaken.

Nope.
Just like everything that depends on RNG, you can get better or worse days.

Nope, you can only get the next achieve chest and then pick the skin you wanted.
Eventually you’ll be able to get all the skins available.

Repeating myself, Devs said Legendaries will always be the BiS, so I believe that if the level cap ever get higher then the weapon will also get higher.
BTW the devs didn’t said they will eventually rise the level cap, they just didn’t discarded the idea.

Ascended and Legendary have the same stats, and legendary also allow you to pick any stat combination how many times you want.

Devs stated that Legendary will be the Best in Slot item, so if in a future GW2 get a new tier of weapons, Legendaries will have the same stats as that tier.

Search for Fractals of he Mists, Living Story and the updates in the WvW (ranks and unique WvW skills), today we’ll have an update with a new WvW map.
Those are the more permanent and fun things imo.

Kibazuka.1390:

Longbow for ranger would be cool.

I see what you did there ;D

My class is ranger so …
2handed: Staff, that would be the long range AoE weapon for rangers
main hand: dagger, that would be the power focused 1 handed weapon
off hand: shield, ranger need a more defensive focused OH weapon.

Other classes:
Necro: sword, would be similar to the warrior chain attack and the ranger mobility.
Mesmer: MH pistol, why it isn’t an option already?
Engineer: Hammer and mace, not really sure why, the idea looks cool in my mind
Ele: Hammer, with some heavy power and defensive skills, but poor control/condition, it would be nice imo.

They are actual players.
In WvW you won’t be able to see the real name of the opponent, all you can see is “server” + “rank” + “guild tag”, something like “Backgate Knight [lol]”

It is not about being simplistic, it is about not “forcing” a certain race to certain class.
If charr/norn had bigger hit boxes but bonus to power, then all warrior would probably need to be one of those races.
Race in GW2 is just a flavor and not a game changing mechanic.