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Vena.8436:

Caffynated.5713:

You realize the guy used a carrion amulet and had 30 points in his power line. That’s 944 power, which is more than a zerker amulet. He still couldn’t put out enough damage to get the ele under the diamond skin threshold.

Aside from the rather nonsensical proposition of discussing a staged fight…

You realize he killed the ele? Right? He got through that threshold, and the ele melted.

He won what, one fight (not including when the thief jumped in)? Then the ele realized what he did, reacted to it and stomped him again. The ele wasn’t even a really good player. Who RTLs from beyond max range?

Tornado exists to super charge meteor shower, give you buffer health vs. retal, and for the whirl finisher in light or water fields while you wait for your meteor shower to end. Otherwise, it’s trash.

Broken vs condi necro, condi warrior
Balanced vs. PU condi bunker
Garbage vs everything else.

mini.6018:

I really expected this from necros.I mean this was as perfectly prevedible like them stacking rabid gear and spam scepter auto in complete safety of full toughness paired with two healthbars.

I just wonder that instead of complaining, anyone considered rampager? I a using it on my warrior since a few days and works nicely.Except i need to actually know what i am doing because no armor at all.Why instead of free easymode nectos would venture into a more risky/skilled play? Someone might even find fun to actually have to do other except facetanking and spam condis/ds/condis/leech form/condis i win.Just saying.
Some risk maybe?
Wars were nerfed into less than useles for spvp again and still don’t complain as muh. (Probably because they got back to their necro main afwr they saw the patchnotes).But then they realised diamond skin said hello.

You realize the guy used a carrion amulet and had 30 points in his power line. That’s 944 power, which is more than a zerker amulet. He still couldn’t put out enough damage to get the ele under the diamond skin threshold.

Did they not rollback the skyhammer glory farmer’s millions of glory before releasing a merchant that basically sells gold for a few glory? A guy bought like 3k gifts for 60k glory. Those sells for almost 2 silver each.

Terravos.4059:

While Magnuma’s Night Coverage isn’t as impressive as a lot of T1 servers, It is more then a lot of T2 servers.

You realize Mag was outnumbered most of Monday night and into Tuesday morning when we took the lead from SBI, right? We had 20-30 most of the night, fighting against 50-60 SBI. The few times we had more than that, we stuffed SBI into their spawn and karma trained red’s side of EBG.

Sitting around 20 FPS with everything maxed. It’s normally around 50, but LA is never queued like it has been, so it could just be the number of people.

It’s exactly like every knowledgeable player said it would be. Even with carrion amulet, 300 power from traits, and flesh golem, a condi necro just can’t do enough damage to break through diamond skin’s threshold. On the flip side, when it’s not broken OP it’s worthless.

Now they’re going to think ele has been fixed and do nothing about the rest of ele problems.

This all goes back to the whole “ANet is listening to the wrong players” rant.

#ANet is the new facepalm.

Who needs walls when you have zeles?

The game is going into a rock-paper-scissors death spiral where hard counters decide matches and skill doesn’t matter. In that setting, a class tier list means nothing.

This ship has sailed and GW2 missed the boat. It barely has an sPvP community, much less a population that could support any sort of Eeethporth. I can’t think of one serious team that is still playing or plans to play in the near future.

City.1796:

I love my armor and I am sad if I have to give it back.
But if Anet wants to do people a favor after this..
then let the new armor skin be like the armor of Anise..
pls Anet pls i want the armor of Anise

I want Anise’s armor, but not with orange steam all over it.

Pro tip: always be the one who starts the dungeon. You’ll never be kicked from a group again unless you’re so bad that they’re willing to start the dungeon completely over.

Liston.9708:

Or at least a 20 slot bag like Karka event.

Now that would have been nice. I went through 5-6 salvage kits an hour to keep my inventory from overflowing throughout gold league season 1. More inventory space or a never ending salvage kit would have been just the thing I needed to recover from the inventory management trauma.

The rewards for a lot of these events have sucked, but they’ve been in line with the difficulty and time investment of getting them.

The real problem, is that all of the “new” content is just repetitive, boring, grindy terrible crap that isn’t fun, challenging or worth spending much time on.

What was the last fun and challenging content that was put in the game? Queen’s Gauntlet?

bigblah.3285:

We definitely didn’t have 40, and your screenshot cuts off the rest of the group behind you. Not sure why you’re trying so hard, it’s not like you have anything to prove.

What group behind him?

DPS guardians have always been incredibly strong and have been well represented on dueling servers and WvW fight clubs since launch. They’re not widely used in tPvP because they lack mobility.

My loot key survived 7 weeks of gold league farming, but one night with SBI and it just couldn’t take anymore.

That was a nice keyboard too.

Sure, why not?

The only achievements I really had to grind out at the end of the season were SM caps (I don’t play EB), repairs (I’d rather leave the wall open and farm bags), Butt lust, and sentries. Everything else just happened naturally, and I would expect season 2 to be the same way.

WvW loot sucks. Why were you expecting this to be any different?

If anything, the rewards were better than the blues I was expecting. Yeah, they sucked, but we’ve kind of gotten used to it. Like when they told us we were going to be getting “A LOT” more ectos in our rank up chests.

LLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL

I guess I shouldn’t have been worried about them adding anything too strong to ele. This is ANet after all. If it wasn’t terrible, it would have a 90 second cooldown.

DanyK.3842:

If that tooltip’s correct I don’t see a reason why it would be op. I think healing signet will always be way better and btw I tested and you barely get hit by more than 15 attacks in 3 seconds in WvW or zerg v zerg. The max I could get was by stupidly triggering a wall of marks and was only 10 hits / sec. Can’t imagine it being even viable tbh.

Now realize that the numbers given are for a level 1 with 0 healing power.

Yeah…

Paul.4081:

Those ascended armour wearing toons don’t look comfortable in it. They remind of dogs you see where the owner has strapped a coat to them.

You thought ascended would look nice enough to actually wear without shame? How would ANet make money off of transmutation crystals?

Looks like WupWup ascended scholar legs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1njf9o/new_ascended_armor/

This has to be a joke. You’re giving warrior MORE invulnerability? You’re giving eles a 3rd arcane damage skill to add to their all in burst? You’re giving phantasm condi bunkers a passive heal?

Does ANet even play this game? Seriously, everything you do is WRONG.

XacTactX.6709:

The players on these servers are not to blame

WRONG

When a bunch of terrible players stack a server so they can win through shear force of numbers, it’s entirely those players’ fault.

I was on JQueue at launch and really enjoyed the community, but when a bunch of bandwagon failures jumped on the server in October, I left and went to Maguuma to find better fights instead of just blobbing everything. I received invitations to join guilds that moved from JQueue to SoR during that period, but it was clear that SoR was being stacked and I wanted to play somewhere that skill mattered more than numbers.

It is entirely the player’s fault that the server population is imbalanced. No one forced you to move to a zerg server. You did it because you are bad and you should feel bad.

It shouldn’t take long. Maybe 500-600 hotjoins. The ladder system that will see the end of ranks is a long way off.

Adine.2184:

udiedhowyafeel.2485:

Caffynated.5713:

The dragons. They seem pretty OP.

best one yet.

Not really . Every time i do Arah story mode its like " im going to tickle you with a lazor . Yes i am , yes i am . im just going to tickle you to death. " and he keels over dead

There’s no doubt that the Zhaitan fight is terrible.

When you look at it from a lore context, all the other races combined to build a giant death star space ship to fight Zhaitan. He’s so massive and powerful that they couldn’t even have a normal battle involving your character because he wouldn’t notice you hitting him. Then consider that there are many dragons, and each of them have their own corrupted army.

Tequatl (a lesser dragon lieutenant) wiped out 80 player raids until people just stopped doing him all together.

Dragons OP. =P

The dragons. They seem pretty OP.

Until the servers get shut down.

I’ve had two drop in a few thousand hours of gameplay. I got 6 mystery tonics and some XP boosters from them. Totally made me rush out and buy 50 more.

MiLkZz.4789:

Can all the American servers please stop de cry on the forums and act more like European servers.

Then we would be at a huge disadvantage, because we don’t have a lifetime of experience walking around with a stick up our butts.

You can still sync to some extent because of the tiny population, but with the updated match making, you’re as likely to be fighting your buddy as not.

Not being able to sync queue and beat up randoms with your buddies on voice comms is naturally going to bring your winning % down.

25 earth minor trait Enduring Damage

The shoulders and gloves of Flamewalker are quite nice. If they had put them on the TP by themselves for 400 gems each, I’m sure they would have sold better than the fugly toxic shoulders/gloves. People just focus on the terrible trench coat and boots, when you don’t have to wear the whole set together.

Flamewrath is a good looking armor set IMO. The gladiator look isn’t for everyone, but I like it better than the female vanguard (male is much better).

hypnopilot.9340:

Farzo.8410:

People using gem armor skins covering their Tier 3 is beyond my imagination.

Do people actually do that?

I replaced my t3 light sylvari yes, and i’m very angry (i have the t3 light human on 2 humans too and the emperor title, don’t tell me to reroll human.)

Roll a human if you want to wear human cultural armor. Period.

Getting the really absurd numbers requires taking a lot of situational traits and armor and then lining up generally unrealistic scenarios to have them take effect.

+10% damage while within 600 range of your target
+10% damage with stamina full
+10% damage while attuned to fire
+10% damage when your health is above 90% (trait)
+10% damage when your health is above 90% (scholar)
+20% damage when your opponent is below 33% health
+20% damage to knocked down/stunned targets
+5% damage to burning targets

They may also be using sigil of the night or a nemesis sigil to gain +10% damage instead of +5% with force.

Throw in 25 stacks of might and vulnerability for good measure.

It also matters who the target is. Some mobs and players in WvW have very low armor for their level, which can cause damage to be as much as 50% greater than the expected values.

Builds would be 30/20/10/10, 20/30/10/10/0, 10/30/25/0/5, 10/25/25/10/0 or similar

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Crise.9401:

First people go up in arms about that skin and now they are unhappy when something is done about it.

Keep in mind that the skin costs roughly the equivalent of $10.00 US Dollars. Where as the Tier 3 Human Light Cultural Armor costs in the realm of $18.59 US Dollars (give or take a few dollars depending on market fluctuations on each server).

That means that each of these people who bought the Tier 3 Cultural Armor, and applied the Light Armor Flame Skin to their Tier 3 Cultural Armor are effectively losing around 8.59 US Dollars because of the change. Even though without the change they had effectively gained a new appearance for the Tier 3 Armor that they originally bought, and additionally could arguably have gotten access to their level 80 Tier 3 Cultural Armor at a much lower and earlier level for a great deal cheaper than they would have otherwise have been required to do.

In effect this is going to require anyone with a human character who had previously shelled out money for their Tier 3 Armor (roughly 18 dollars give or take), and who then shelled out money for this skin to apply to their Tier 3 Armor, to once again shell out money for a new set of Tier 3 Armor, assuming that they want their Tier 3 Armor back at all.

This isn’t even counting Transmutation Crystals that would be required to give the Tier 3 Armor in question the stats that the individual in question wants, which would also have to be purchased and which would be an additional investment if this happens.

In short for those with TLDR issues… I can honestly see where the people who are complaining about the change to the Light Flame Skin are coming from, and if I had a level 80 Human whom I had applied this skin to the cultural armor for, I would be a bit peeved as well.

2400 gems ($30) will buy you 139g right now, and that’s with the hugely inflated gem:gold exchange recently; it was half that a few weeks ago. T3 is 119g + 240 gems for transmutation crystals.

Berelious.3290:

The whole thing is a slippery slope, but that’s beside the point. The argument stands. The medium skin is “exclusive” to WvW, and can only be paid for in Badges of Honor. If you’re going to base your argument purely on exclusivity, then it it has to be applied all the way around. Exclusive to race, exclusive to area, still exclusive.

You have to go into WvW to buy it, but everyone got thousands of Badges of Honor in the PvE achievement chests. It’s about as exclusive to WvW players as temple armor is to Orr farmers.

Drama, really nerdy cat fights, and Ostricheggs allegedly stole money donated for the streamers to buy himself silly scimitars. Now nobody wants to stream on the channel, except CMC, and he only streams his face and plays music.

Oh, and the game died.

Skyhammer is an amazing competitive PvP map… said no one ever.

Do all of the people claiming that they or their “friends” skinned over existing t3 cultural with flamekissed realize that you’re actually undermining your own attempts to keep your welfare cultural armor?

You’re telling me that welfare cultural is so vastly superior to T3 cultural, that you effectively deleted the 119g you spent on the skin and the 30g you spent on transmutation crystals to put it on exotics, because you thought you would never again want to wear the vastly inferior T3. Think about that for a second… well, maybe a lot of seconds with this crowd.

Dat overzealous moderation doe….

Let’s try this again.

Based on my tests from a long time ago, the “back” is a 180 degree arc behind the target. Flanking attacks are anything except the tiny 90 degree (maybe less) in front of the target. It’s not a thief specific game mechanic.

Mac Maritimus.8327:

This.

Thiefs are NOT overpowered as we speak. Its very high risk with less reward with all those bunker builds floating around on warriors, necs and rangers. Thiefs needs need some love or better ranged options otherwise they will stop getting playd even in hot-join, in high end tpvp they been away for months.

Thief is less OP than warrior, necro and ranger, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t OP. S/D damage avoidance and D/P perma stealth are both completely broken. They’re being hit on Dec. 10th, so we’ll see how that shakes out. Otherwise, I think thief is fine in sPvP due to the far lower effective power in the game mode. They’re still completely broken in WvW though.

Creating an ultra rare armor set only available to the few thousand who bought it before being pulled from the TP does not seem the most fair or solve the issue of human cultural being made available to other races for 1/3 the price.

ANet goofed. Flamekissed is getting nerf. It happens.

I think it’s good that they’re doing away with this welfare cultural. They can reintroduce the skin later as an upgrade to existing T3 in the mystic forge. A piece of T3, 250 flame legion charr carvings, 10 destroyer lodestones, 10 molten lodestones to upgrade it to the flame version seems reasonable.