Guild Wars 2

This lag is really unplayable. It’s too much, I can’t even do super adventure box alone, all my skills will have a 2-5 sec of delay. Please Anet fix this, do not leave the minority ignored as we are your customer too!

I bet OP and most of other people that complains about the new drop rate(which is only 0.000000000001% of the player base) is the one that have been keeping their ectos for ages to sell them at a higher price, but now it backfires them.

Either way, I’m happy with the new drop rate as it does help a lot for a casual player like me that play the game to have fun instead of farming tons of game gold to do… nothing?

I had 800+ of hours in GW2, mostly on WvW. I used to play for 8-10 hours daily, but now.. its just meh. I only get on for 1-2 hours, and that is due to my guild WvW event. Other than that, nothing about GW2 interest me anymore.

mulch.2586:

I thought the intent was to keep playing at the level your gear supports until such a point that you upgrade and can progress.

Can’t you choose a lower fractal level?

Look, problem now is, higher fractal=higher difficulties=higher reward. But due to RNG, no matter how many time you do the lower fractal to farm, if you’re unlucky, you won’t be able to move forward.

I have 800+ hours of playtime(mostly WvW), hundreds of gold thrown into Mystic Forge, and not a single precursor is rewarded to me. With the price going up, I gave up on legendary. 15 nov, a new patch and a new event is introduced and this guy with trial account get a kittening dusk. A kittening DUSK. He just got here for a few hours and he get a kittening dusk due to a kittening random number generator scumbag.

The way I see it, effort>luck but with this RNG is applied, no matter how many hours you spend, if you don’t have the luck, you just don’t fit to get the best stuff in the game.

Veltoss.9135:

My god people.. they added one tier of gear as a one-time gameplay improvement, why the kitten is everyone acting like this is the apocolypse?

It may be one gear now, but when all the QQers get those Ascended, they will complain more. What will Anet do then? Add another tier of item. This is how gear-treadmill happens. kitten like this happened alot of time on others mmo, and Im afraid it will happen on GW2 as well.

It saddens me to see all these noobs that get the precursor when I’ve thrown 100g into mystic forge and get nothing. It even make me sadder when I know a guy with a trial account get a freaking Dawn.

Anet, RNG is just uncool. Remove it completely.

Wanna know the last thing going to happen? Lower tier server will be dead as everyone will join the upper tier to have a “decent” PvE experience.

It will just be another day of hunting mats and gold, just to get the best stats offered in this game in order to have a balance fight with other people stats wise.

Not fun.

Cyric.7485:

Buzzcrave.6197:

http://i.imgur.com/j2fa6.jpg?1

This man have been out for weeks and keep on stalking on every single chick he saw!

**Found it on reddit and I think I need to share it cuz its funny :p

LOL! Aw man, that was totally worth the mouse click.

Glad you liked it. I still keep on lol’ing until now.

http://i.imgur.com/j2fa6.jpg?1

This man have been out for weeks and keep on stalking on every single chick he saw!

**Found it on reddit and I think I need to share it cuz its funny :p

Just make it if you are stealthed you are unable to contest the cappint point, problem solved.

I love WvW, when there’s action. Other than that, most of the stuff about WvW is bad. Exploits, speed hacks, zergs, bad match up, server hopping, too much running, culling, too much downtime etc.

Imo, the best place to experience wvw is in lower mid tier servers without guilds transfering there.

I’ve seen the greatsword version, is there a hammer version of this? If yes, would love if someone post a screenie of their hammer version. Much appreciated.

Its hard to get because it have epic skin. Though the fact that to get a Mjolnir you need to pay the same amount to get a legendary is just plain wrong. Anet made a bad decision on this.

Human. Reason? T3 cultural.

I get 2-3g each day from WvW, but this is due to I used a thieves. 3 hit everyone, cluster hitting for 5k, 8k if the enemy hp is less than 50%. All of that will give me tons of drops. Not to forget all those badges and the fact that I am really, I mean REALLY hard to die. Shadow Refuge=problem solved(80% of WvW is full of noobs, everyone just follow blue dots rofl).

Beside, as a thieves, I’m able to solo sentry and camps(if the supervisor does not have the buff). Pop up Thieves guild, spam cluster, profit.

Imo, to earn gold in WvW, you need to deal the a lot of damage, while trying to not die at all.

Too many people playing thieves insta-gibs build. It need to be nerf, while buffing other thieves build so that the class will be viable. Prob is, thieves doesn’t have much weapon/skill sets.

I hope Anet will make the right call this time.

Shukran.4851:

fact is: thieves were good for their PW. PW doesnt kill instant, PW gives you about 3 secs to react…you did whine , they nerfed it. but the people who likes playing thief have found another good build now and you want again nerfhammer on him.

i say: ok nerf backstab to death, give me back my old PW. and this time maybe, really, everyone, learn to play against thief.

PW was nerfed due to combining it with haste+the 4 sec immo trait=a sure kill. No one will be able to get away from that. The chain stun+immobalize for 4 sec is just too OP.

But the nerf that Anet did was so freaking stupid. The damage of PW is already suck, the main problem is the chain stun+haste+immobalize trait. People were asking of nerfing the haste, but what they did was nerfing the damage, which make PvE way harder for PW users.

Backstab is not fine. At. All. The combination of Basilisk>CnD>Steal>BS>Haste>HS>HS or A’sin signet>Basilisk>CnD>Steal>HS>HS are another complete 100% confirm kill. It was so stupid it is hard to avoid it, especially the one with haste. I do hope Anet make the right nerf this time, by that I mean not nerfing the damage but the other skill that make this backstab build an insta-gib.

Let me make it easier for you Anet, make sure CnD is canceled if you use other skill before the animation finishes.

I agree on this. Even if you’re in a team of pugs, if the overall ranking of you and your team member let say 1500 points, and you are match up with a premade team of 1500 points players, you will still be able to have a decent match, due to everyone have the same rank. Unlike all this face roll that we get nowdays.

D I V A.6018:

Thiefs damage needs at least (!) a 30-40% nerf overall!

I strongly disagree on this. The damage is not the one that need to be nerf, is the other stuff like trait/utility.

Beside, the fact that thieves don’t really have a lot of viable weapon set/build, is just making it worst. Meaning, tons of players will only go for the one trick phony build(backstab/hs spam/pw/unload+haste/unicorn build).

Remove mug damage, make CnD to be canceled if you use other skill before it finishes, buff up other builds etc.

A lot of things can be done, but nerfing thieves damage by 30-40%? No sir, it will kill the class. Same like those morons that keep on wanted thieves to be out of stealth when they receive damage. It is game breaking.

Imo GS is bursty type of weapon where you want to finish off someone asap while hammer is the one you want to use for a prolonged battle.

To make it simple,

Short battles=GS
Long battles=Hammer

What we really need here is tPvP ranking. With this a team of pugs with average of 1000 points will only fight with a team of pugs with the same points.

A class that are able to teleport to you in 900 range, instantly get out of your sight while taking away 30-40% of your hp, and finishes you off in less than 1.5 seconds is a bad game design, no matter what you have to say.

Seriously, stop defending this build. Something need to be done, asap.

Naw badges ONLY won’t work. I rather if someone get the full WvW achievement+gold+badges. You need to be that good to be a commander imo.

I disagree with badges only, due to it is easy to get.

Roll a thieves, get full exo, 3 hit everyone else=1/2 badges per person. I’ve actually able to get atleast a stack with a full day on WvW. How? Hop to Kaineng, and beat the kitten out of the other 2 low pop/levels server players.

Maybe 2000 badges+200g+achievement in WvW. That will work.

Guardian elites sucks balls but when traited properly, it can be one of the best trait ever.

Eveningstar.6940:

I’m curious about your stats/build, Buzz. Do you go pure Knight’s on your warrior, meaning no vitality? When you say “regen build,” which one are you referring to?

Sorry for late reply, was on a holiday.

Banner regen build, + dolyak + the regen signet and the regen trait. Since warrior have way more hp than others, you can just neglect vit, go full knight and still have 20k+ hp. The only banner I use is Defense, pop it and hold it and move with a team. Sure you can’t solo much, but since knight add power+precision, having a gs/rifle will give you the dps needed. This is pretty viable imo, but it only work for warrior since they do have a high health pool.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBkODbk0p5t4RAiJOggUYFVxRBUEgpHhBbsGA

Whatever you do, axe and warhorn(traited) is a must. Just swap rifle to gs if you want, but I’ll keep rifle for wvw. Those convert condi to boons and the speed buff+SoR=perma swiftness are priceless.

Why is this so hard? Remove the retaliation and change it with other boons. It is that simple. Idk why Anet need to double the CD of the skill.

Idk, I find that full exo knight warrior with regen build survive anything in WvW. Plus, the lag issue really kills all the dodge, block etc etc.

Auesis.7301:

Buzzcrave.6197:

A spec which teleports to you from 900 away, stealths itself then kills you in less than 2 seconds is just not good game design whether there are counters or not.

So by your logic, even with ways to counter it, it’s still bad? Right. You see, now, because the DPS is more spread across the combo, you have a bigger window to retaliate. As soon as you get hit, you have every opportunity to hit any AoE, CC or bunker skills you have. A glass cannon backstab Thief will be instantly destroyed by any CC. Learn your class. This is coming from a Thief that specs in survivability and snaring. If I can beat a glass cannon Thief without stealth and with my pitiful HP, you can too.

Buzzcrave.6197:

Please, please don’t start fooling yourself by telling me how about those 1500 nukers… You have a kittening Sidestep skill in your phony backstab build for kitten sake.

D/D has no evade skills apart from Death Blossom, which wastes your initiative in seconds. Critical Strikes and Deadly Arts have no dodge enhancements. The only tree with dodging benefit is Acrobatics, a vitality tree with no relation to a backstab build. Your only hope is to run backwards and spam Disabling Shot with a Shortbow, and that will get you nowhere because you do pathetic damage and just make yourself an eyesore of a target.

What the kitten are you talking about?

Sidestep as in utility skill, it doesn’t take a genius to know that Sidestep is a must. Seriously do you even play this game?

I would rather spend 10,000 gem knowing that I will get the skin rather than spending 5,000 gem knowing that I might get a skin.

Get your fact straight, period.

Why the kitten will you use Assassin’s Signet?

Basilisk>CnD>Steal>BS>HS>HS kill anything. Seriously these people that keep on defending backstab is just blind and doesn’t want their glory of trolling people in 3 sec vanish.

A spec which teleports to you from 900 away, stealths itself then kills you in less than 2 seconds is just not good game design whether there are counters or not.

Please, please don’t start fooling yourself by telling me how about those 1500 nukers… You have a kittening Sidestep skill in your phony backstab build for kitten sake.

Transfer to top 6/12 will cost you money, the rest is free. This way if big guilds are tired of queue, they can move to the lower tier to bring it up. With this more server will be able to give a fight, instead of just getting stomped whenever they move up a tier.

Daecollo.9578:

Steal has a 900 meter range.

Buzzcrave.6197:

Yes, you can have an awareness to your surrounding, and when you see a thieves, you’ll just get ready to dodge/stun break when he’s in 900 range. BUT WHEN YOU DON’T SEE HIM IT WILL LEAD TO INSTANT DEATH.

For the love of god, read or don’t post at all.

Redscope.6215:

Buzzcrave.6197:

**Please guys, stop nerd raging and read all my post clearly. I’m not defending backstab

Okay.

Buzzcrave.6197:

Backstab is fine. You may say bullkitten and so on but it is fine. It is a high risk high gain skill. … Imo, don’t nerf the backstab damage. It is stupid. It’s like nerfing PW damage when the real thing that need to be remove is quickness.

Sounds pretty defensive to me.

Backstab is part of a larger problem, but we’ll see what they do. Stealth classes always take hits after release, never seen a game NOT nerf them after people find all the instagib builds. The thief is no different. The players that just want to play the ‘steath, stabby-stabby, win’ class in RPGs should know this by now. He’s been getting one-hit nerfs since release.

Its hard to judge class balance without getting a large mass of players with differing playstyles and skill levels. They have that now and they’ll continue to make changes based on incoming data.

This may come as a shock, but forum crying is not what they go by with their balance patches (queue nerd rage about prior nerfs). You can say that there is always lots of crying before a nerf, and then a nerf happens. That’s a logical statement. What is illogical is to say lots of crying caused a nerf. If that were the case, they’d be buffing Pistol Whip right now.

Its a valuable feedback tool, but most people come to the forums to cry anyway; regardless of balance. Its the nature of internet anonymity. No matter how many ‘backstab’ posts are made, they look to their own data to see if there’s really an issue.

What the hell is your point? You’re not even contributing what so ever. All you said is about how people crying before and after a nerf.

CnD>Steal is the real problem here. Being able to cast another skill after casting CnD without canceling it is the one thing that made backstab unavoidable. It is not the backstab skill.

Fine, nerf the damage, I don’t care. But as long as I can’t react to CnD>Steal, there is really no point of nerfing the damage. It will still deal tons of damage, atleast all those 3 combo will take away 70% of your hp after backstab damage is nerfed. Yes, you are alive, but getting 70% hp gone in an instant and WITHOUT A WAY TO REACT TO IT, is the real problem here.

CnD>Steal=Instant damage(4-8k for both skill), instant teleport to a person, instant invisibility. How long does all those thing take? Less than 2 seconds. How the hell are you going to react to this when you’re not aware of the thieves?

Boloth.6879:

Buzzcrave.6197:

Backstab is fine. You may say bullkitten and so on but it is fine. It is a high risk high gain skill. Why does its hard to evade then? Combining with Basilisk it is hard to avoid, but since basilisk are able to be stun break, it is easier yet it is still hard.

Here is why. What make backstab is not really a “high risk” skill is the fact that people are able to CnD>Stealth/Sidestep signet = instant teleport and invi to the person. This is what make the skill over powered. Yes, you can have an awareness to your surrounding, and when you see a thieves, you’ll just get ready to dodge/stun break when he’s in 900 range. But when you don’t see him it will lead to instant death.

Imo, don’t nerf the backstab damage. It is stupid. It’s like nerfing PW damage when the real thing that need to be remove is quickness.

Just make sure that if you cast other skill after CnD, it will cancel the CnD. For example CnD>Steal. With this, thieves are unable to instant teleport to you while getting instant stealth and stone you at the same time. If CnD is canceled when you use other skill, backstab will be easier to counter and at the same time making it less OP while maintaining its damage.

Thoughts?

I don’t see what’s so hard about this.

Players do not like losing control of their character while being killed instantly by an invisible opponent.

It doesn’t matter if there are one million ways to counter it.

It’s not fun to play against.

The question that players should be asking isn’t if backstab thieves can be countered or not but “Do they promote a healthy competitive environment”?

Because it’s not the forum posters that you need to convince that backstab is fine, it’s the players who get one-shotted, decide the game isn’t worth their time, and then quit without saying a word.

And frankly I’m getting sick of seeing players defend backstab thieves and other faceroll builds because they’re not doing it because they truly believe it’s balanced, they’re doing it because playing them lets them pretend that they’re actually good and they don’t want their power trip taken away.

You aren’t fooling anyone.

I’m not defending backstab. To be honest, nerfing the damage is just as stupid as nerfing PW damage. The one thing make PW OP is when it is combine with quickness. It is impossible to get out of the chain stun+immobalize trait.

Same goes with backstab build. It is impossible for you to react when someone instantly teleport(steal) and CnD you while at the same time stone you(Basilisk) and went invi. One second later he landed a 10k backstab resulting to instant death.

Now imagine you are able to see the thieves running to you, isn’t it easier to be deal with? It’s like 100b warrior, when you can evade the bull rush, 100b is nothing to be afraid of. Same goes with thieves backstab build, if you can see which way the thieves come from, when did he go invi, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

**Please guys, stop nerd raging and read all my post clearly. I’m not defending backstab, I even call out a way to make it easier for players to avoid it.

Incurafy.6329:

My thoughts are that you are incorrect. The instantcast combo of Steal is not OP and should NOT be changed. The only thing that is OP about the Backstab combo is the Assasin’s Signet. 150% is just too much and should be toned to 100% or lower.

I don’t know. Even without Assasin’s Signet I still deal tons of damage and my enemy can’t do anything because Basilisk>Cnd>Steal will only took less than 5 sec. Best part is most of them didn’t do anything because it happens TOO FAST. Damage is nothing now, even if my enemy didn’t die, I can just spam HS or auto attack.

The real issue is players unable to react quickly due to CnD>Steal combo is just too fast. Unless you see the thieves movement, there’s no way for you to realize it if you didn’t see them. Best example is on wvw.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate thieves, I have my own, full exotics dual Corrupted Shard, but it just get too boring when I’m able to execute Basilisk>CnD>Steal>Backstab and downed a player in less than 5 seconds.

Though when I’m on my warrior, guardian and engi I really hate it. It’s just impossible to react that fast when you can’t see where the thieves come from.

I know a lot of you backstab build will cry on this, even the caltrops since Caltrop>Steal=instant success on hitting caltrop, but let just admit it, it is an OP combination when you can precast a skill without canceling it.

Apophis.8561:

how in the hell is backstab a high risk skill? its free, and your kittening invisible? what a stupid post.

It’s high risk to jump in and go stealth and backstab a guy since when you make a backstab build, you will die really fast eventhough the one hitting you have damage next to nothing.

Problem is, with the use of CnD>Steal, it’s not even close to low risk. You can get instant teleport and invisible to your target. This is the one thing that make everyone unable to react quickly because it goes so fast. Now imagine if a thieves need to walk to you in order to land CnD. It is easier to see and you are able to react better than the latter.

My post is about making CnD to be canceled if you use other skill after it(CnD>Steal).

Please read my post properly before showing your nerd rage. It really make yourself look stupid.

In order to execute backstab you need to be invisible and behind the enemy. CnD>Steal make this way too easy. If those combination are remove (once you use CnD if you use other skill it will cancel out CnD), it is easier to counter backstab. Because all you need to do is not letting thieves to get near and CnD you.

Of course there is other way for the thieves to go invi, but that “other ways” are able to be counter instead of now all thieves need to do is press 3 keys(CnD>Steal>Backstab). Resulting to an instant death that are really hard to avoid in 3 sec.

Backstab is fine. You may say bullkitten and so on but it is fine. It is a high risk high gain skill. Why does its hard to evade then? Combining with Basilisk it is hard to avoid, but since basilisk are able to be stun break, it is easier yet it is still hard.

Here is why. What make backstab is not really a “high risk” skill is the fact that people are able to CnD>Stealth/Sidestep signet = instant teleport and invi to the person. This is what make the skill over powered. Yes, you can have an awareness to your surrounding, and when you see a thieves, you’ll just get ready to dodge/stun break when he’s in 900 range. But when you don’t see him it will lead to instant death.

Imo, don’t nerf the backstab damage. It is stupid. It’s like nerfing PW damage when the real thing that need to be remove is quickness.

Just make sure that if you cast other skill after CnD, it will cancel the CnD. For example CnD>Steal. With this, thieves are unable to instant teleport to you while getting instant stealth and stone you at the same time. If CnD is canceled when you use other skill, backstab will be easier to counter and at the same time making it less OP while maintaining its damage.

Thoughts?

Most of the people here crying on rendering, yet they want classes to be nerf. I found this funny.

I always run with a group of 2-5 and go out all nighter on killing people, yak or even ninja a camp. I’m able to get atleast 100 badges in a day, 5-8 hours of playtime. It is not that hard to take badges, you just need to be organized.

As all of you expected, this is a topic on the frustration on getting a precursor. It irritate me when thousand of rares thrown inside mystic forge, hours and hours of waiting for your buy rares item on TP, and you still didn’t get any precursor. What make me more sad is a guildie of mine get a dusk in his 10th try.

This randomness make me crazy. It need to stop. Anet, please make another way of obtaining the precursor. It doesn’t matter if it long, as long as I know I’ll get one. Instead of throwing rares and crossing fingers, this method is nothing near to fun.

To the players, any insight on a better way to get precursor?

Just about to make a post on my frustration on getting a precursor, and I’ve stumbled upon this. Although I know the likeness of me winning is next to zero, ehhh what the heck. I’ll give it a shot.

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg598/yazid901/Gw2_2012_10_15_18_15_09_939.jpg

This guy oxide.8324 just fly in and try to kill our siege. Proof is here, now banned this kitten.

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg598/yazid901/Gw2_2012_10_14_08_37_41_964.jpg

The players have done a lot fo work for you, for once please do your job. Kthxbye.

Seems like if you go through the front gate, then its goodbye to you. Use the side path instead. Though a lot of pugs didn’t know it, hence it really cut our forces by a lot.

What the kitten is this? It was a good run, CD vs IoJ vs ET. We rushed for the orbs, 3-way fight on garrison and suddenly, when everyone spawn back to rush to garrison, everyone were kick to loading screen and just get forever stuck in there.

Even the invisible issue still occur when there are a lot of people on the same spot.

Anet, what did you do?

More important is, does this happens to you? I know bunch of my guildmate and server experienced this. CD btw.

Problem is people won’t def because capping is way faster and easier to get gold/karma/exp than defending.

Imo rewards for defending should be superior and faster so people will actually rush to def instead of “Nah, let anz fall, we can get it anytime”.

EB is the best map for fight imo. Problem is, most of the organize guild prefer borderlands over EB leaving EB full of pugs resulting a karma zerg train. Really kills the WvW in EB.

I lol’d at most of the post here. You people that judge by looking at the profession insead of playing it really are misleading a lot of people. My suggestion stop with the bullcrap that you keep on posting on every god kitten thread.