Guild Wars 2

Ignoring all the talk of acsended armour etc… what i am really interested in is the bug fixes/imbalances.

1, Necros have some major bugged traits – Need fixing
2, Condition damage needs improving
3, More skins for medium armour (no trenchcoats please)
4, Maybe special item/skin drops in lower areas (very rare) to re-populate them
5, Better group finding abilities
6, Better guild facilities

To me, these are the things that should have been in the first patch, not waste dev time on implementing extra tiers on items… Fix what is already here!

Was at an event on Gandahara and a Ranger was using a Rock dog!
I thought thet couldnt be tamed? (And it was a rock dog, not a Wolf re-named)
Thoughts …

Anyone know how or where to get this armour? tried Googling but no help… :-(

Thanks for reply

As title? When and where?

Reading about the new content and most seems great (I’ll leave the debate about the new armour for other posts) but what i do feel strongly about is the fact that so many builds use conditions yet a cap of 25 seems crazy and totally against group play, they fix this in the patch and i’ll be a happy camper :-)

Well, i do love the look of the Nightmare armour but was put off with dungeons due to certain players attitudes ‘’Yo sux at this Game lol/Shouldn’t do a dungeon without exotics newb’’ etc …
Not fun, but i am a newb :-)

So far my Thief is deced out in Rares after i made 400 Leatherworking and now im after some exotics..

i have heard lots of forum posts bragging how easy it is to get exotics, what are peoples opinions on the best way to get them?

1, i spent days farming various locations in orr but the mats needed for exotics are as rare as hens teeth :-(

2, Another option i have tried is to constantly farm Plinx for the karma and buy the exotic gear (This seems like the best way to go – hence always crowded)

Any advice?

—They look like a certain female anatomy? None of the armors I’ve seen resemble that, and that’s not a really nice word-

You are thinking of the wrong word … (Think toilet) :-)

Since i just reached 80, my main priority if getting into some medium exotics (The ascended gear can wait) but apart from some of the Dungeon gear (which no one wants to farm with me), they all look well…. C***
The Tier 3 human looks good but too costly, so i do hope that new armour skins is available with the new patch – The light and heavy have some amazing looking armour…

Trench coats may have been good in WW1 but hardly suit my athletic acrobatic Thief…

On Gandhara server just made 80 on my Thief looking for mats to craft for my exotics (currently using rare) and constantly bombarded on the chat by …

(LFG warriors or Guardians EXOTICS ONLY)
(LFG heavy damage dealers required, only want EXOTICS)

And this is going on all the time – i thought this game was trying to get away from the Elitism that plagues other MMOs?

Makes me very hesitant to join any dungeon hunt for the constant moaning and kitten boasting about how my gear sucks and should ltp from the no life power gamers :-(

Seems that 80-90% of the medium armours are trenchcoats which just does not fit my thief, the only decent one i have seen is the Lev 3 Cultural armour but thats way out of my budget :-(

Please, new patch some new thief looking armour skins :-)

Just reached 80 and started to look for mats to make my exotic gear and ran into the plinx event!!!
Must have been 30-40 guys/girls there making for a crazy sight (and turning my FPS into a slideshow). Are there really so few events that everyone has to crowd around this? Id like to do the event but the lag and fps would make it impossible :-( .
Where else is good to hunt for Regs?

Not had a dye drop in the last 2 days :-( and still not got a Black Dye

Hi, i am playing with a contition thief and wondered what the best armour (stat/cond damage wise) is?

I have a Leatherworker and am currently wearing rare Carion armour and hunting for the regs for some exotic armour but wondering if there are any dungeon/Karma armour that would be better for my Condition Thief?

All advice apreciated :-)

I play with a great group of people and regularly go hunting/Dungeons together and we all have our own favourite classes.. Myself a Condition Thief, And my friends a Mesmer, Ranger, Necromancer and 2 Warriors.

The problem is that we find it increasingly pointless for us to play as a group due to the fact that many of us use condition damage and the cap is reached so easily that makes the other condition players nothing more than spectators during boss fights!
Its like having a 5000 damage limit on a monster that ticks down slowly, so the first burst damage hit will get the 5000 hit credit and as it ticks down all other hits will build it back up to the 5000 damage limit (100 damage, 200 damage etc… ) no matter how hard you hit!

This seems to be a major problem with making groups (Already on my server i have read many dungeon groups advertising 1 cd damage player per group) but never (1 burst damage player per group please …
With so many of the builds/classes built around condition damage ( Cond Thieves, Rangers, necros, Mesmers) seems strange that working in groups was never fully tested.

A solution could be to make the bleeds unlimited stacks or each player gets their own bleed limit or something similar…

This is for PVE not PVP

Been reading the forums and seems there are a great number of changes happening to each class and just wondering how it will affect my game…

Right now i have a condition Thief which is great fun to play (just got to 80 last night)to solo but had soo many rejections to party for dungeons due to insaine low level bleed max (25 stacks… come on!) and them having a conditions ranger/necro so no need/use of another condition dealer :-( .
So, i am hoping they fix this but, due to the crazy amount of nerf thieves threads i worry that i’ll be spending all my time hunting Mats to make some decent gear only for my Thief to become useless…
I also have a Necromancer but again, will they get their bugs sorted out?
I think i’m not alone in wanting to know how the new add-on will affect my class and playstyle so i’m not wasting my time.

Just got to Lev 400 and 80 on my character and now looking for high level crafting materials (to make my armour)

So, the best way to get these is to hint in 75-80 zones and salvage everything?
Just looking for advice…

I have a bleed/condition Thief… love playing him even though hes not as damaging as a warrior or as survivable as a guardian he is very fun to play :-)
i stealth in, Db and steal – stealth out… never tried the glass cannon backstab build, but i do worry with all the crying from pvp for a nerf it will affect my stealth ability in pvm :-(.
Then it’s a long road down hill…

Reached level 75 on my Thief and have been using the Rascal armour set (which i think looks great) but i have seen 3 armour sets which look amazing but no clue how or where to get them in game?

1, Commando Armour
2, Conquest
3, Trooper

Special drops? Karma vendors? All help appreciated :-)

As stated, there are other less insulting ways to enquire about his build without making him feel like a faliure because he doesn’t match your ideals on what damage a warrior should do.
Maybe he had a healing spec or was roleplaying?

‘’The guy was playing a kitten warrior, a profession with big damage output and little thinking requirement. He was failing, yet, despite his inability to render himself useful to the group…’’

I think this is what a lot of players are trying to get away from… You don’t do max damage so you suck and should not be in a group/cannot play properly/should quit game etc …

I was hoping GW2 would be free of this :-(

I think the problem is not the question but how it was worded…
He may have felt like you were critisizing him and his build/playstyle (Even if that is not what you intended) especially if he was having a hard time with the boss.
Maybe a better thing would have been to help him, then after dungeon send him a quiet word (pm) to him.. something like…

Hey, the dungeon was fun, i’m a ** (build) warrior and seaching for exotics is driving me crazy hehehe – So, what build are you going after with your warrior? you thought about exotics etc …

I realise it appears to be walking on eggshells with regards to some players, but many are tired/bored of the Wow Elite crowd (not saying you are one) who are highly critical of anything not maxed out or playing a class a specific way and would percieive your comment about their armour/playstile as a throwback to that.

OP, Don’t get me wrong.. Dungeons are far far easier and quicker with a maxed out party (I’m not against Min/Max builds) but the problem comes when a Min/Max player groups with casual players (Like myself).. Then the moaning-questions about builds/damage begin which can be a distraction from the fun.

I do concede the point that it was very wrong to kick out a player before the final boss, but as others have stated there may be more to the story..
And having a go at a player *passive aggressive * about his spec/items because he did not kill a mob as fast as you would like him to is not nice and makes for a bad social environment. There are better ways to ask about another players build without sounding so critical to him imho
But again, maybe more to the story…

Maybe next time you get with a group, you can personally ask each member what build/weapons they each have before the dungeon so you can decide to join them or not?

Yeah, if i’m playing in a group, last thing i want is someone no lifer elite player constantly moaning and critisizing me for not killing a mob fast enough.

Eg…You have the wrong spec, you’re a newb, you have wrong armour etc… Gets old real fast… some people play for fun not to have the most ’’uber’’ build.

Maybe they were playing a warrior for ’’Fun’’? and didn’t like your eletist snipe comments about how ’’you’’ should build a warrior min/max ?
Just a thought…

I would like (In no order)

1, Necro skills Fixed
2, More skins (especially for Medium armour)
3, Maybe a change to how bleed works (Having more than 2 condition damage players in a group/Party is currently pointless as the cap is easily reached at 25)
4. People moan about BS Thief, so maybe increase init cost for backstab skills but balance this with giving thieves better Condition damage/poison abilities (so not making them totally useless)
5. New Tames/Pets
6. 2 Handed axes

So i guess i’d better start Leveling a Warrior or Guardian if i ever want to do the Dungeons… Shame

Reached Lev 33 and was looking to do my first dungeon, someone in chat asked for people to do AC story mode – Great i thouht so i answered but i was told i was not needed as i had a condition Thief, also they did not want Necromancers or rangers.. I asked why and was met with a tirade of abuse (Nice i thought) so left that conversation.
later i tried myself asking for a group to do story mode again, and i was asked by about 5 people what character i was and when they found out what i was replied with
‘’No thanks lol ’’
i admit i am not a great gamer by any stretch of the imagination but i can hold my own in pve so what is the problem? (I have heard a few people complain about this, mainly Necromancers and even Engineers).

‘’Players left UO because they didn’t like the griefing associated with their AWESOME PvP/PK set up. Real consequences associated with leaving “safe” areas. I left because I moved on to other MMOs – but no nerfs changed my love for UO’’

Maybe you were not around for the major Tamer nerfs or Archer nerfs then.. all because some crybaby PvP’ers didn’t know how to kill a Pvp Tamer (Which was easy if they bothered to learn to play).
Sadly their Nerfs had a huge knock on effect in PvE and Guilds just decided to leave (Mine included) as the fun was gone.
Sadly UO is a deserted wasteland with the only few payers left playing the only viable PvE template (Sampire/Thrower). Good times though :-)
I just don’t want GW2 to go the same way and cater to the vocal ’’Nerf’’ group

Well, as i stated, i play a Condition thief and having great fun (yes, i can’t kill as fast as a warrior but i enjoy the hit and run feel to my character).

Just worried (as i have personally seen in my many gaming years in UO and EQ1+2) once they start on the nerfing for PvP they can go too far and risk losing players.

:-( So my PvE experience and fun could be stopped because some guys got killed by a Thief in PvP !!
I saw a warrior in Queensdale kill a Troll far quicker than me, so i say Nerf the Warrior into oblivion too …
Ahh.. but the warrior doesn’t have stealth they say …
Warrior does not need stealth when they put out so much damage in PvE

Only fair (This is how/what killed UO game balance with the constand moaning and whining of the Minority vocal PvP crowd and the Anal retentive devs fawning over everything they said insead of looking how it would impact on the wider game.)

Yeah, i’m keeping with my bleed Theif… Having fun bleeding/Stealing then running away and finishing off with shortbow :-)
May not kill as fast as a warror or Guardian but gets the job done :-)

As previous posts attest, I am a new player coming from Ultima Online. My char (Lev 16) Thief mainly concentrating on PVE but would like to dabble in WvWvW once I reach a higher level.

My Concern – I asked about a decent PvE build for a Thief and was met with constant posts suggesting I re-roll another class as the thief will be changed/Nerfed into uselessness with the new upcoming patch? (This was from several forums) I have no idea why I should be touched as even at lev 16 other classes seem to be doing far more damage in PvE than I can unless this is another ‘’PvP nerf that will affect PvE’’
I had enough of that garbage with Ultima Online – PvP’ers whining to get Tamers/Archers Nerfed making them pointless/Useless to play in PvE.

Cheers, i’ll try it out tonight :-)

‘’if you get hidden thief trait why don’t you db3x, steal, backstab, then db again..’’

This sounds like fun, but with so little Crit chance, would backstab do any real damage?

My first character is a Human Thief and making him a condition (Deathblossom)/steal build and looking for a litle advice…
(I have read some builds and seen a few youtube videos for ideas and come up with this build)
Deadly arts 10 (mug)
Shadow arts 20 (Infusion of shadow + Hidden thief) work well with steal for added initiative and stealth
Acrobatics 20 (power of inertia + Assassins reward) Might to help with damage and assassins for health boot with initiative use
*Trickery 20 *(uncatchable + Thrill of crime) i chose thrill of crime to help give my teammates a boost

I will be using runes of Krait and Thief (agony on weapons)
Skills – (i will change depending on opponents)

Thoughts – i feel thiswould give me a solid condition build with the Acrobatics+Shadow arts giving me health and toughness with added damage from mug. Main use will be to stealth into combat, db x3 then steal, db then stealth away (or dodge depending on enemy) finish off with short bow.
How does this build look? Any glaring problems you can see (remember i am a newbie to GW2)
All advice apreciated..

I am new to GW2 and would like to join a server with a good population (for events/hunting) and i’d prefer an English server if possible (net/ping issues)

Any advice? (i do like to roleplay but have read the European Roleplay server is empty and not much fun roleplaying alone) :-(
All advice apreciated