Guild Wars 2

Greyfur.1082:

I would not complain if this was for character creation but for one of the main characters in the upcoming story line? I have to voice my opinion and displeasure.

Understandable,

As for me when I saw Rox my immediate thought was wow a new model coming in? looks youthful and as I read the info it said young charr xD

If she’s going to be one of the main characters in the upcoming storyline then that’s cool too. I’m interested how her character is going to be played than just her cutesy big eyes appearance.

For now her character is a determined one, but I wonder what’s the rest of her personality is going to be?

Will she be a boring main character? or a fun main character? No matter how the model looks, it all depends on the character’s performance on what the creators gave them.

This type of stuff always happens when it enters anthro mythology art xD. You make it cutesy and then you get shun by that certain community. Priceless….

I know the eyes are big, but remember those can be adjusted. I think people are forgetting if this becomes a options to the character selection. You can shrink the eyes.

Anyways if it happens it happens I’m cool with it either way cause it’s just one more model adding to the charr selection.

Beats a blank right?

It’s like playing duck duck goose with that build. Of course it’s great when you’re surrounded with allies that can carrying the build. Alone it’s probably can’t do much against experts.

Only profession I see having a tough time with condition overall is warriors.

Time changes and so does lore eventually something new happens. Things don’t stay the same forever and if they did it would be boring X)

KorKor.9452:

Since when does creativity involve pulling stuff from a teenage 90’s art book? or generic cutesy stereotypes?

You taking this too serious like a few others which baffles me. I understand most of ya don’t like it, but hey remember we have the option to choose the face since that’s how Anet character creation works.

I’m for it so let it happen

• the more the merrier

I guess having more options like a cutesy option is a bad thing for female charrs huh?

Go figure..so much for creativity X)

xerca.6135:

What happened to the poor Charr? Look at that face… Why are they trying to make her look cuddly puppy “cute” like a worgen female?
The interesting though, are the new looking hairstyle and horns.

No I don’t think it looks cute as a female worgen and I don’t know why would you want to compare it with that. The female worgens model was a rush job and not the original they were going for. Female worgens are horrendous in my opinion.

If that’s suppose to be the new face / looks for the female charr model then I say that’s the female charr in the youthful years around 18. Plus we can customize the look so I don’t know why people want to get so hype up about its appearance and exaggerating when we have the customization option.

As Khyber said it’ll make someone happy and that’s what Anet wants. To make customers happy. So appreciate and don’t choose the face end of story.

fadeaway.2807:

It was sarcasm. I’d bet money on warriors being just as useless in real spvp in the next patch as they are now.

I’ve kind of sense it was towards sarcasm, but some people will truly think like that. So I might as well post my thoughts hoping some can get a better understanding warriors aren’t overly fix.

fadeaway.2807:

Sorry but everyone is going to have to resubmit their answers.
Warriors clearly are not underpowered anymore, they are getting banners with 170 stats on them. All their problems have been fixed. Expect to see spvp teams full of warriors any day now.

If I was sitting next to you I would of taken you out the door and not letting you come back inside until the conference was over.

This doesn’t fix anything on warriors, it only makes Banner warriors useful and that’s about. Respect that every warriors does not wish to be banner warriors. Warrior players want to be something else and since our skill slots are limited we’ll need all the survival skills we can get. Warrior players won’t always be with a group if they’re trying to hold down a node for a while.

This is a minor buff to warriors that only supports banner and a few other aspects they’re adding in. It doesn’t help DW warriors and builds they like to make with it.

Valkyriez.6578:

I just can’t believe so may people think that improving game balance should be the number one priority?

A balanced game with no features is the exact same as a balanced game with no features, just slightly more boring.

No Spvp features you mean? That will come in time since they’re working on it which we know. A lot of people want profession balances because even if they have more features in the game. The profession balance will still remain crappy which will result to players taking more breaks and no coming back this time leading to a less pvp community. We will always be fighting the same players 24/7 with less servers and those players will either be the elitists or pve players knocking around in the pvp zone. It’s best to balance out the professions first bringing more versatility so players can get a feel on what they really want to play instead being this one or two builds to be viable in pvp. Some players may want to take different routes like hybrid Condi and burst, tank, condi and a little burst or all of every build though that build won’t be as efficient as others.

They’re striving for that Esport dream so they’re lots of reworking they’ll have to do and profession balancing is one of them. Then comes new the features everyone been hoping for.

Timze.7980:

By even devs saying this was kind a helpfull, why they can’t do these kind of things too?

I’m quite sure that much more people would take part on these once they would be well advertised and officially announced. These seems atleast for me quite helpfull and this way they would really see what people want.

The questions could be as easy as; what people would like to see in future updates. (new contect, fixes, skill balance, performance increase)

Why not ask the players who actually play this rather than making what is easiest to code/write…

I think that’s done on our part like give the company our feedback customer review reports. They probably could of done it themselves, but not like this so hopefully this helps out

The stealth nerf that’s about to happen to thieves soon. Will this apply to all stealth effect that any profession can use or get from a rune?

In my opinion it should because it would be silly if only one class is affected by the reveal debuff while other professions gets of scott free.

Man that sucks I hope they can bring those old fur color choices back. Definitely add a bit more creativity when the female charr.

Thanks for the info

Lordrosicky.5813:

Every single game I am vs premades AND every single game you put some rank 5 on my team.

Why even bother? Whats the point in even playing the games? It is a joke.

Ranks got nothing to do with those who are good in pvp and what profession lacks in in that field depending on their build / design.

I hate to tell ya but in Spvp or any solo queue game you play you’ll be up against mentalities of those who decides what they want to do. It can be glory farmers, node farmers while staring at their allies being gank knowing that they’re next with the excuse of you suppose to protect the node, and those who are followers just to get in on the action gloating over you.

Yes they do. Just not now because it’s too soon how GW2 looks now. Give it time they’re taking baby steps to perfect their work.

I play various of professions in pvp, however my most concern is warrior profession because that’s my main.

I’m quite disappointed with the results I heard what warriors will be receiving in the next patch and from what I’m understanding this patch is all about support builds for warriors.

• Banners buff
• Kick ability can be used while moving
• Rampage getting tweaked

That’s nice that they’re receiving those buffs, but in reality many warriors will rarely use Banners unless a guild member or teammate really wants one on the team. Not every warrior wants to be a support banner and shout build to be useful for the team. I’m sure more can be done and probably in time it will.

As for the kick ability even though it’s getting a bit more flavor to be useable while moving. I’m pretty sure not many warriors will use it in pvp when they have better options to choose over it just like those who don’t wishes to use banners.

So warriors are getting some condition removals abilities or traits I’m guessing which is nice to hear, but for the developers to say they don’t want to make them too powerful had me confused.

What did they mean by that? That phrase not make them too powerful? On what condition removals? or builds? If I am mistaken if warriors were too powerful like that then even handicap builds like DW weapons will be viable in pvp. For an example would you allow a DW maces swap with DW axes warrior on a Tpvp team? I highly doubt it. For my understanding of too powerful means all builds are viable even if its 20/0/20//30 using any sigil, runes sets, and weapon combos.

Also from the video Nero Vitus from JBUO NA said that thieves have weak builds such as condition since it only focuses on bleeds which can be removed easily depending on the profession they’re fighting and with the upcoming stealth nerf they will have more difficulties = more challenges on their part. However back on topic with the bleed focus build warriors have that issue as well especially if they’re pure condition build using DW swords, longbow or rifle. Theirs as well gets removed easily in pvp. To sum it all up both thief and warriors conditions builds should be looked at and provide more conditions than just bleeds since the raw damage is low coming from their weapons.

For now that’s all I want to say about warriors until I see further investment on that profession that can open up more variety on builds than their usual support, burst dps build using limited weapons.

You guys @ Anet got the creativity and versatility potential to make all professions fun to play so don’t hold back. Just do it because deeply inside I know all these classes can do a bit more than what they can do now.

Thanks for the SOTG video to keep us posted on this game progress.

I can’t find it on the character creation for female charr fur option. Was put into the game or not?

She’s on the right side next to me whose in the middle in Black and Red.

Sebrent.3625:

10 points in Arms = +50% Bleed Duration
Rare Veggie Pizza = +40% Condition Duration
get 10% from 10 points in Strength, Sigil of Agony, or some Runes.

You’ve now hit the cap (100%) for bleed duration and only used 10 to 20 trait points and your food.

With 100% bleed duration:
Sword auto-attacks is a 16 second bleed
Sword throw is a 24 second bleed
Longbow immobilize is 6 24 second bleeds.
You can bleed on-crit from 5 pts in Arms.
You can bleed on-crit from Superior Sigil of Earth.

Condition removal doesn’t mean much when auto-attack is stacking 1 to 3 bleeds on the target per hit and other abilities are putting 4 to 6 bleeds on them on fairly short cooldowns.

You don’t need max bleed duration. You only need condition and we already have a trait that increases bleed duration to 50%. Adding more is only nerfing your condition warrior performance.

You must of went rabid amulet for pvp. Just stick with Carrion amulet.

Well that didn’t last long…..

Fourtyfives.6297:

Generally; whenever I have an issue with something in a game, I ask myself if it’s related to balance or a realistic vs. gameplay-issue.

If it’s ever the latter I quickly ignore my own contempt, simply because I don’t think games should be tailored around realism and rather around balance/gameplay

(I think AoE is a little too dominant in this game and making it partially ignore blind would stress this unnecessarily.)

I think of it as they’re holding back making sure the game is balance in my opinion. They understand the idea where we are coming from, but they don’t want to cross that line.

Resouled.5614:

Brutalistik.6473:

Well there is a reason why it’s not viable because it has flaws. A build like has

• control of your enemy unless they have stability up then it’s pretty useless for the moment.
• can be kite easily and you’ll be easy picking
• may be decent depending in a 1 vs 1 fight depending on the players skills, but overall not good.

and with your condition level it’s not enough to make a opponent sweat in their pants much. The only profession you’ll put fear on is warrior profession.

I’ve tried this build in the past and as you say it has its moment, but overall it’s not a great build. DW warriors won’t have a comeback unless the devs tweak those playstyles giving it more flavor.

Well it’s most effective in 1v1 situations and as node defender it would do great.

- Stability is rare and usually not long and you still apply other conditions and your direct damage does some decent damage too.
- It has the ability to cure snares, leap and immobilize and would be best for on a node so I’d say kiting won’t be too much of a problem.
- Ofcourse it depends on the opponents lvl of skill too but the 4cc’s the single and duration blocks along with stability and condition removal makes up for a solid build when a decent player uses it. I think it has potential. CD warrior specs seem to be very frowned upon but I think this build works fine.

Cool cool I’m pure condition build DW sword and LB. It has it’s moments, but the only thing I see viable of this build is staying in groups. I run 0/30/20/0/20 because with fast hands trait Pin down and impale becomes a combo thanks to the Pin Down buff.

Red Falcon.8257:

Blinds makes your next attack miss.
If you next attack is Stomp, it will miss.

How ironic isn’t since it misses everyone in that perimeter center. I understand that’s how they design the blind condition in the game, but aoe attacks should get some benefits from it.

w/e though it’s not my design I would allow in a game because it’s just an attack

Well there is a reason why it’s not viable because it has flaws. A build like has

• control of your enemy unless they have stability up then it’s pretty useless for the moment.
• can be kite easily and you’ll be easy picking
• may be decent depending in a 1 vs 1 fight depending on the players skills, but overall not good.

and with your condition level it’s not enough to make a opponent sweat in their pants much. The only profession you’ll put fear on is warrior profession.

I’ve tried this build in the past and as you say it has its moment, but overall it’s not a great build. DW warriors won’t have a comeback unless the devs tweak those playstyles giving it more flavor.

Draygo.9473:

One thing in this combat system that seems off to me is the ability of the condition blind to negate a point blank aoe attack.

For example. In WvW I charge into a group of enemies and use Stomp.
Except I got blinded, so all I see is a ton of ‘miss’ dispite stomping right next to 30 enemies.

I’m pretty sure that blind shouldnt be stopping point blank aoe’s I’m hitting the ground not people, the act of me hitting the ground is what launches foes.

I can see why it should affect weapon attacks or ground target aoe’s but point blank aoes that fan out in every direction seem like abilities you dont need to be able to see to use.

Its kind of annoying to charge into a group of enemies and use stomp, here I make this huge crater in the ground right next to my enemies and it doesnt affect them most of the time. (rarely am i getting directly targetted to get blinded, mostly its combofields and projectile/blast finishers that apply blind to me)

Anyway I thought I would share why I am bothered by blind in conjunction with point blank aoe’s it just doesnt seem right to me.

I know what you mean because it’s like someone threw sand in your eyes and when you throw a boulder into the crowd if they’re still there. It magically goes through them without having any effect.

What would be nice is

• The more players that’s in the aoe are likely to get in and the target you’re trying to hit has a 50% chance of being hit.

Why I say it like that is because the player didn’t dodge out of the way so the player have to take some damage. If they were out the aoe area then yeah 100% miss.

The only attacks that should be 100% misses are single target attacks when having the blind condition on applied on your character.

I’m pretty sure that’s some coding they have to do, but it can be done.

I’ve been DW sword LB since I started GW2 and from my experience it was horrendous at times to play in pvp due to condition remover and conditions being put back at on ya due to a skill.

In pve it’s great because you can farm all day with bleeds and ring of fire conditions on large mobs.

However back to the story with DW Sword and one of the issues they have are

• 1) Impale not doing enough damage when pulling out
• 2) Block which should have a very low cool down because warriors do not have great defensive boons like aegis or protections.
  Practically overall it’s horrible
• 3) The direct damage Sword weapon give is extremely the weakest one hand weapon for warrior period.
• I know sword can be use for both damage types, but as of now direct damage is bad.
• 4) Sword Flurry ability doesn’t stay up too long. As soon you use it you’ll see the bleed ticks drop immediately less than a second while a thief caltrops or others profs stays for more than 3 seconds at a high bleed tick %.

As for the long bow weapon for warriors

• 1) Fan of fire and Arcing arrow, fire condition only stays up less than a second not providing any condition damage to tick which can be beneficial to condition warriors. *

• 2)Smoldering Arrow only gives a blind condition, but I think it should also have a daze condition as well.

• 3) Long bow should have a 1200 range like rifle instead of using a trait to make it that range. That trait should be used to reduce longbow skills by 20%.

Ever since the recent patch it has gotten easier for me to stack my bleeds a bit more thanks to the pin down buff, but condition warriors can use a little bit more flavor.

I play DW sword / LB full condition build in pvp all the time and it’s the only warrior build that appeals to me because I do get a challenge out of it even though it’s not the greatest warrior build in GW2. However it makes me feel that warriors have more versatility than a warrior usual support banner, shout , 2hand GS ax/shield burst, hammer build we see every day. I hope to see more variety of warriors builds in the future like more DW warriors.

Sorry for the long post just sharing my experience views on condition warriors and etc.

Electro.4173:

Danikat.8537:

I’m a bit dissapointed they didn’t let you use the new colours on your fur. I’d love to see some bright pink charr running around!

I’m glad they didn’t. Hot pink Charr running around would make me want to hurl.

I wouldn’t mind light pink though xD or pink gray

Sharkinu.8096:

I think we have evidence that romance between a norn and a human is possible.

Norns are like the same height as Charrs, so we speaking of 8ft or 10ft. I think 6ft are the smallest a norn can go.

Oglaf.1074:

Expiatus.4210:

My only concern is looking like an anime character.

I’d rather think “Punk Charr” than “Anime Charr”

:3

Punk Charr fits because charrs don’t even know what anime is.

Why? so we can become more of a target profession than we are now? No thanks…I can just do that going the GS/ LB build to draw attention.

Do not like

Just don’t play a warrior because you’ll be feeding the other team points. Wait until warriors get some changes done that’s if you play the class.

Tarisuca.3142:

I really would like to know if the devs play GW2 PvP.

They do well from what the Jons told us in the recent State of game. They run a 5man engineer team in tournaments. In a way that nice that a group of engineers can manage to excel in tournaments, but also it means not every profession can do that which loses out on variety that can participate in tournaments and be viable especially in higher tier brackets.

Defektive.7283:

Sanis.1096:

2 bad state of game is useless if they just dodge important questions

Ya I stopped watching because of this reason.

I’m assuming the important questions were pvp ones right? Not overall the game because truth to be told this game is fine, but just not in pvp depending on which classes you play.

For instance I know warriors can have a little more than what they have now.
Not all warriors are

1) Rage, hack and slash brutes waving war banners in the air acting like they don’t care.

Some warriors can be disciplined into magic as well like for a example temporary enchanted weapons or poison and I’m not talking about pvp sigils either. These could be boons that can last up for 10 seconds. The game did not want to take that direction though like in other mmo’s. They pretty much made them soldiers on the battleground master of arms and that’s it.

I’m sure other professions can back themselves up too that truly need help, but I’m supporting warrior for now. They need more than what they have now to become fun to play like having more defensive boons, traits is nice and maybe more flavor to our weapon skills combos.

Nord.5360:

Hey folks,

It’s about that time again.

Date: March 14th, 2013
Time: 12PM PST (8PM GMT)
Guests:
ArenaNet Game Designers Jon “Chaplan” Sharp and Tyler Bearce
Xeph (EU) from Team Paradigm
Zoose (NA) from Nonstop Nonsense
Where: GW2Guru Twitch Channel

Feel free to respond to this thread with any questions or concerns that you would like to see addressed. I can’t promise that everything will be covered, but I do my best to represent a wide range of opinions, hardcore and casual players alike.

Here’s a link to our announcement thread on Guru.

If you feel more comfortable reaching out to me personally, feel free to shoot me an email at sotg@guildwarsguru.net.

Thanks guys!

This probably going to be about the big pvp update and some other goodies we will be getting.

HannaDeFreitas.4236:

It works on Endure Pain.
Just watch the cooldown timer, untraited it goes off at 85 (aka 5 seconds) while traited it goes off halfway in 84 (6 seconds and something).

I still believe that trait should also reduce stance cooldowns.
Stances are basically our only utilities without a CD reduction trait.

Agreed because Endure Pain 90 seconds is way too long if its only going to be immune to phyiscal damage and not condition. Look how Elixir X or S I forgot the skill name function. It’s a 60 second cool down and its immune everything except whatever conditions got through before it was activating.

Thanks you was suppose to rate it though 1 out of 10 scale.

I like the theme going there, but the headpiece the headpiece matching the tattoos or armor be nice.
8.5/10

I am surprised to see not many awesome Norn pics here to Rate Screenshot. Don’t be shy, show how awesome you screenshot can be.

Here’s a funny one I took

When it comes to lore..any adventurer can be anything they want to be. For the culture lore I’m assuming they learn all of the professions which is why its available to all races instead of a few. That’s creativity right there not sticking to one method, but branching it out.

Kaiza Scorchrazor.5083:

I think a lot of us agree that we would like to see a more well rounded selection when it comes to Charr armor. Some want to show their fur, some want to over up with their awesome heavy metal armors. No one wants them to change all the armor, but simply stated, a lot of the medium and light armors don’t fit very well, and frankly make the Charr look soft, not ferocious. Almost as if they are being domesticated by the humans. o.O

Well when you put it that way…they’re kind of domesticated by the humans anyway….{points at the model designers for charr armors}

Bagi Natureclaw a.k.a strawberry shortcake :P now

Khyras.8021 take it easy man it’s not that serious as you think. So you have to wait a little longer. It’s not like you’re getting a parking ticket or being pulled over cause you miss a stop sign.

Yup agreed because I want to show more fur like how some of females and males have their armor. I say the same goes for Asuras since it can’t be all one sided ya know. Skimpy armor ftw thnx

Defektive.7283:

Warriors.

Changes.

Please.

It’s gonna come but lets hope not as a disappointment ;p.

P.S DW sword and LB got a little fun playing again. I think it could use one more push >.<

ComeAndSee.1356:

Why is Anet so reluctant to make SERIOUS class changes? It’s like we’re taking baby steps.

Are they really that afraid of player backlash?

Didn’t they say something similar to that in their first State of the game video taking small steps at a time instead of large steps? Where were you? busy pvping I bet.

*Warrior

Healing Signet: Reduced low-level healing for this signet without changing healing at higher levels. This signet now heals for 12 points at level 2 instead of 25 and then scales up to heal for 200 points at level 80.*

Can Healing Signet and Adrenal Health scale with Healing Power attribute yet?

I hope so because
a) It can help warriors since they lack regen boon without trait for banner.
b) It can be somewhat of a bunker instead of being fully support build.

Larynx.2453:

Mattidore.3482:

Brutalistik.6473:

Mattidore.3482:

Yeah. Because 99% of warriors run gs with 20 to 30 traits in power precision. I do fine with my hammer.

I run with DW sword and LB mostly. Hammer is pretty awesome but most go with GS and the other thing because of burst damage and mobility.

And that’s why most warriors suck at pvp and that’s why warrior is in e lowest tier

I guess only you know the secret OP warrior build. 10+ months of player theorycrafting is about to be proven wrong in one swift stroke. Please share your knowledge with https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp

Enlighten those heathens.

The secret is accepting as it is going with the flow hoping for something to change for the better in the future. That’s the secret…

Mattidore.3482:

Yeah. Because 99% of warriors run gs with 20 to 30 traits in power precision. I do fine with my hammer.

I run with DW sword and LB mostly. Hammer is pretty awesome but most go with GS and the other thing because of burst damage and mobility.

Haven’t seen any awesome screenshots lately on Rate the Screenshot Charr thread :P. Here’s a new picture of my charr

Volrath.1473:

First it was Nov. Dec.
Then then started talking about Jan. Feb,.
Now they say "you just wait and see the big pvp changes in March – April)

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
You will not fool me a third time.

Well we just got to wait a bit longer cause I’m surprised they did some changes at all let alone we don’t know what ninja changes they did in this patch. They said this wasn’t the big pvp patch so that wasn’t their focus and when they do the big pvp patch I wonder if we will see the same replies and most likely we will.

Condition warrior 4 life…sad story but I like it DW sword and everything.

I’ll start mine off with this pic, but give your character the best shot you think is good for your char Have fun!

My warrior Norn name is Melcroma Lupe
Her colors are black and red. I wanted to give her a dark theme

@Janira Ishkardotir 7/10
sorry forgot to rate ya xD it’s a cool name

Someone rate mines please xD? I was skipped hehe