Guild Wars 2

In Harathi Hinterlands you can find Dolyak Spirits, very fun to follow one and see they charging at bandits

I know they are simple spirits from dead Dolyaks, but still interesting.

Depends on the weapon.
From GW1 many replicas of Sohothin and Magdaer was made, the Fiery Dragon Sword, so I see no problem of a few being lost cross the world and random mob find it.

By my understanding, who bought the skin will keep the skin (if you bought it is because you liked the skin), and later they will release a different skin to replace this one.

Obsidian.1328:

I don’t know why this whole Scarlet thing surprises anyone.

I mean, nearly the same thing happened with GW1 with Abaddon. He was rewritten to be behind not just Nightfall, but the Searing and Shiro as well. Same major players in the dev team too.

I was about to make the same comparison, but at least “blame” an ex human God of all that and then do the same but now with just a Sylvari prodigy is kinda weird.
Also we only knew that Abaddon was behind it all in the end, along the way the story didn’t open much doubts and could be finished without the add of Abaddon.

Scarlet will have an end, just relax and wait.

BobbyStein.2315:

Eluveitie.1290:

This would give a lot of people peace of mind, Bobby, I hope you respond: is the end of Scarlet’s arch already on its way?

I mentioned this elsewhere on the forums, but I’ll say it here again. There is an end to the Scarlet story that has been planned out. I’m not at liberty to discuss release dates or the timeline, though.

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Does-lore-matter/3266722

Carighan.6758:

we ruin the peace of the last Asura,

Just that part is incorrect. A dev said that Fractals never show events in the future, only past, so he can’t be the “last Asura”.

EDIT: Found the post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/The-Uncategorized-Fractal-is-Rata-Sum/first#post2380457

Carighan.6758:

If that’s the case, I wonder whether we end up with Scarlet being one of the good guys. Would make sense. I mean, Chaotic Good in AD&D terms, “Those babies are the devil, they must be put to the sword”-type of good.

So that makes us, the players, Lawful Evil? Blindly attacking the “good” guy because that is how it should be? … in a second thought, that would be really cool

Humans are great survivals, I totally agree. Humans are the “most advanced killers”, really far from be true.

It is not bad at all, it is just very lackluster, only a set that we had with a flame details we see in many other sets.

ipan.4356:

Curious: why do Sigils of Battle and Purity share CD’s, one is on-crit, and one is on swap.

The on swap sigils have an internal CD to prevent stacking by getting and dropping bundles, and all sigils share the same global CD, so for example, you swap weapon and the sigil of battle triggers, during the 9s of its ICD the sigil of purity won’t trigger.

Just a question, how do you keep yourself alive?
Low HP and armor, no healing power, only cond cleanse is from the sigil (btw sigil of purity and battle share the same cooldown, just like all sigils), besides the TU no source of regen … anywhere else besides open world PvE you’ll died FAST.
At least the damage seems ok if you are going solo, quite high cond damage and power.

Yes, I payed attention to add the “most” in my post.

I can’t remember if the meta bar in the Achievement window show a counter like in the daily and monthly bar.

.. “fortnight”, a new word for my vocabulary
Anyway, we also get a new update every 2 weeks and most of the meta are only available during that time.

Human population in Tyria is reducing, between civil wars and foreign wars (charrs, centaurs, dragon minions) they aren’t expanding much.
Charrs expanded to Ascalon, Norns moved southern in Shiverpeaks and expanded their numbers and places compared to 250 years ago, Asuras expanded Rata Sum and their labs across the world (CoE, Thaumanova …), Sylvari is tricky to say since they only have 25 years of existence, humans lost Ascalon, had to rebuild Lions Arch, lost Orr long time ago, they only made Divinity’s Reach and moved there.

Well … people on the leaderboard will represent the 0,00…001% of the player base, so it won’t change anything to be honest, just a selected chosen few that will get some brag rights.

Oh nice, I didn’t watch the stream, well … at least one more positive feature for pets :P

I “fix” the size issue with my norn while running Jumping Puzzles using tonics.
In the end it is a matter of getting used, I finished 100% of JPs with my norn w/o tonics.

biofrog.1568:

Didn’t I just read they are immune to agony now? That’s got to account for something positive?

No, there was an update where the pet now SHARE the agony resistance of the ranger, before that a ranger could have 55 AR and the pet would die in a blink.

Lately Anet is considering pets on the updates, like in the Golem world event pets are immune to the electric field, let’s see if Anet keep with the good work or we’ll get more disapointments.

Norns are very flexible, the main goal of one is to become a legend among them, but how you’ll do it is by your own, using magic, necromancy, stealth, melee, long range, gadgets, doesn’t matter.
Look that Norn in Hoelbrak near the Keg Brawl vista, he wants to be known by counting snow flakes

I’m running an weird power build that I’m enjoying A LOT.
Zerzer armor + Zerker/Valk trinkets and weapons, 20/20/20/10/0 build.
Weapons are axe/axe + axe/wh
In the end the stats are 2.3k power (w/o food), 117% crit damage (with honed axe), 60% crit (w/o fury), 18.5k HP

With sigil of blood + SotW + mango pie I have really good survivability even with 0 healing power, in WvW zergs and even better at small groups the axe #1, #4 and #5 are really nice, wh #4 hit stealth targets if you cast it before, also healing spring + wh #5 cures a lot you and people near you.

I only tested this build for 2 days, I’m really enjoying it, and it also works really well at PvE and dungeons, I know that axe isn’t a great power weapon but I really like it.

Well, I meant more as lore wise than in game actually being growing.

Well, in the Anet stream showing a guide for rangers the dev said that LB isn’t really effective as you get further into the game, so yeah … they know LB isn’t good and I doubt it will ever change.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’d argue that it is completed, that’s just the aesthetics of the charr. To have something that’s more bare bones but solid of a structure than something that’s all pretty looking.

I would say more, since Black Citadel is the Iron Legion HQ, it doesn’t look unfinished but it is constantly growing, they are always making new improvements, always looking towards efficiency and not aesthetic.

I can’t wait to see the “Blood Citadel” and the “Ash Citadel” .

Holland.9351:

I would agree with you if the AoE targetting was improved. I just find it very annoying, especially with engineer grenades where all skills are AoE. You really need a multi-button mouse for it I guess. Pressing 1-5 while trying to move with WASD while keeping the right-mouse-button pressed to turn and the cursor to aim and having to trial-and-error to find the max range. Too much of a struggle with the controls.

With the new AoE option to cast on button release, cast the grenades got much easier, at least for me.
Also that is a player side problem, I agree that play with LB is WAY easier, but we need to agree that grenades have much more potential.

I love ranger, but sadly long range damage isn’t the strongest option for a ranger currently.

Because when you press F2 as a ranger the server side need to check the state of what the pet is doing, depending of the skill the animation need to be stopped and after that the F2 will be triggered.
Mesmer clones only have 1 action and don’t need to make any decision since it can’t change target or execute multiple AI choices, so when you shatter all the server need to do is stop the state the clone have and start the shatter skill you picked.

My weapon sets are exactly like yours, a/t + a/d with Frostfang as axe , for exactly same reason, I just can’t get used to sword.
I really enjoyed the video, I want to try something different from my current build but not too different, currently I’m running a cond/bunker trapper build.
You tried some zerg fights with your build? If so how it went?

I’m on my way to have all classes at lvl 80, a couple weeks ago I got my engineer to 80 (now I only need thief and ele to finish) and traited granades also have 1500 range, are faster than LB, have a pretty good damage, is AoE, and cause many conditions (bleeding, burn, poison, vulnerability and freezing), can be used in walls and spots where arrows would cause “obstructed”, all that using only 1 utility slot, so you can also have many more support skills.
Ranger is my main, but I would pick a engineer over a LB ranger anytime.

Tumult.2578:

Do we get our trait points back to re-allocate after so many have been changed?

You know that at lvl 80 it cost only 3s to retrait, right? There are WP more expensive than that.

I’m leveling an ele and he is at lvl 41 now, S/F sounds lots of fun, my doubt is, it is more suited for a power or cond build?

About the pet mechanic, ok I see that make the F2 skills cast faster won’t be fixed any time soon, so let’s to the next problem, pets have huge trouble to hit moving targets.

If you do the heart quest in Wayfarer Foothills where you transform into a snow leopard and need to kill some stuff, including running prays like rabbits, you can notice that it is really hard to hit, then I payed more attention on how our pets attack and I saw the problem, pets try to attack as soon as the maximum target distance is reached (or close to that), since the attack animation takes a few moments, if the target moves just a bit he’ll leave the attack radius.

The solution I see to that is make the pet trigger the attack only if the target is at around 30~50% of the attack radius (those numbers may be tweaked), for example if an attack have a reach of 120 then the pet only attack if the target is at 35~60 of distance, so if the target moves there is a bigger chance of that attack actually land.

That solution may make the pet take a bit longer to attack but since the chance of the attack actually land will increase a lot, it will make up for that.

CETheLucid.3964:

Chopchop.5629:

P.s More armour that isnt trench coats.

I like the trenchcoats, they’re awesome. Just need moar consideration for Charr tails plz. Ty.

Trench coats are nice, the problem is almost all medium armors are trench coats, from the top of my head I can only think of human T3 and Hall of Monuments set that aren’t trench coats.

It is a matter of personal taste, see what you like to play and is comfortable with and go for it.
For example, many rangers don’t like MH axe, but I like it so I made the Frostfang.

Definitely Norn.

If you want that shoulder, you need to be a Norn.

whyme.3281:

did he answer any questions?

He answered as a politician, in a very vague way, resuming that is the Q&A part:

Q: What is the ranger niche in the game?
A: Ranger is the pet class.

Q: What is your favorite pets?
A: We are many people and we like many pets, I personally like cats and spiders.

Q: Pets can have evades?
A: The way the game is now it is a difficult thing, but we are looking in ways to add a defensive mechanic for the pet when you dodge or in another way, we are always looking to make the pet better in the game.

If you don’t like or have twitch you can check on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uGM1CGV8g

Not being picky but … half of our traps have field and the other don’t.
Frost and Flame traps have, Viper and Spike don’t. and that is it.

But I agree that Viper should have a poison field.

I used to run a build similar to that, but with 0/20/20/0/30 to get more cond damage and toughness and the off hand mastery, and I loved that build.
I changed when pet damage got lowered and after some tests my drake was still tanky enough w/o the BM trait line, also I was suffering a lot by the lack of cond removal besides the HS, so now I run 0/30/30/10/0.

recharge time no, after cast time yes

Substance E.4852:

Belzebu.3912:

What amaze me is that no dev come here to at least say “we’ll check this” or something, even if this is only a tool tip typo a dev should inform us.

Probably the same reason our 1H sword still claims to remove bleeds on #1.

That one a QA guy answered saying it is a typo, now about the Trap Potency we have no word at all.

What amaze me is that no dev come here to at least say “we’ll check this” or something, even if this is only a tool tip typo a dev should inform us.

Martial Mastery reduces the recharge time of abilities that have a recharge time.
So … no.

blackgoat.5172:

Are you saying that if I transmute a soulbound legendary from one character that when I split it, it becomes soulbound to the new character? Sorry just looking for clarity.

Transmute soulbound legendary into an white weapon.
Split white with legendary skin in another toon to receive back an soulbound legendary in that toon.

That is also used in the thief hood in other classes, pretty much the same mechanic.

HAHA would be epic.

JakeG.9620:

honey, I beat the clock tower last year <3

Same here.
It is my impression or there is no reason to complete this again?
Is there any new achieve, chest prize or something?

I was expecting nothing and nothing is what I got … I can’t complain, eh?

I still didn’t watch the video, anyone can tell if the reveal will be applied on cast or on pet hit in the target?

From nothing I got 30 HoM points in about 400 hours, could be faster if you focus entirely in only get HoM points.

For a cond/bunker build seems really good, looks like a vitality version of the undead rune.

The sword skin you can get with the pact token looks really nice imo …

I’m pretty sure we’ll get some kind of nerf, I just hope that isn’t in some place that I currently use in my ranger.

I’m also having that problem, but to make sure it is the same issues do the following.
In game type “/ip” that way you get the IP of your server.
Out of the game run the CMD and then execute the following command “tracert <ip you got previously>”, that command will show the status of each step your computer takes to reach the server you play, if any of the steps gets high ping (over 1k) and get packet losses then there is nothing much you can do to solve it, but Anet should check with their ISP what is going on with that.

I’m also having that problem, apparently it is a server in Dallas that is having some problems, called Level3 or something like that, using the tracert command to my server IP my ping goes from about 120~200ms to over 1,5k when those servers are reached, and also get packet losses, around 40~65% loss.

I later made a test using a tunneling/proxy software called WTFast and my connection got WAY better, from around 1 minute lag and constant DCs my ping went to about 180ms and no DCs at all.

I’m from Brazil, and I play since the BWE1 and I never experienced such terrible lag issues, people at Anet should check their ISP because there is a problem in the route to their servers that is affecting MANY players.