its the problem wiht Intiative (or energy or similar) type classes that can just burn their resource on mega burst, its worse in GW2 as the thief can literally spam 1 button to nuke someone down in a few quick hits.
They need CDs on abilities and preferably the dmg nerfing alot (though thats true of the other burst class in warriors too)>
PvP should be a battle of skill, not a nukefest.
lol. Not that I think Eles are that useless, butkittenthief if just stupid.
I dont mind some classes being harder than others, but when you compare the amoutn of work an ele or mesmer has to do, to the one button spam wonder of a thief…..well, its just stupid./
You want illusion on dodge as quick as possible, so work towards that. Also work towards buffs per illusion, shattering is not that effective really, and then just leaves you as the only target, so try to keep illusions up and only shatter for daze or distortion.
Staff is a must as one weapon, it’s really powerful. I’d then take either sword+pistol or great sword depending on if you like ranged or close in fighting.
Dynamic =\=permanent
If you beat. Ack the centaur, they don’t all go join a hippy commune, they regroup and counter attack. If the sons of svanjer take a village you do t just write it off, you attack to take it back…
Not sure why you mistake dynamic for persistent as that was never the case, and Wouk be a silly idea as it would make content one run only which only a minority of players see.
Can we freeze the cooldown of spells when you switch weapons?
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ummmmm, no.
Silly idea. Weapon switching is a big part of this game (or attunements or kits or whatever…).
And from a thief, who can spam a nuke many times this is really a bit rich.
Give it a break okay? Isnt this so petty that its not even mention worthy? Pronouncing of words? Sersiously? Every person can say words that have an option of being British or American in a different way, Yes, there is a correct way of saying a word but its just darn petty and seriously disrespectful towards people that actually are not from an English speaking country, as these people most definetly can not pronounce most English words perfectly.
Get a hold of yourselves.
oh so serious……
Bit of fun really. Though it is pretty jarring, and worrying that “professional” voice actors cant pronounce normal words correctly.
I really don’t know how I feel about this. I love the fact that men want women to be sexy and glorious and all that… but I don’t want women to be objectified as little sex puppets. Maybe I’m reading too much into all the demand for slinkier armor skins.
I can objectify men if it makes you feel any better.
You do realize that you’re arguing against what most consider to be the greatest Japanese swordsman that ever lived when you say this, right?
I know who you’re talking about. The quote, though, is that while you -can- use a Katana onehanded, you lose much of the power and control possible with the blade- which is what the blade is made for. And using a Katana onehanded(With a kodachi or Wakazashi in the offhand) was what he used when surrounded by multiple opponents to buy himself time.
A katana is meant to be used with two hands. It was -designed- to be used with two hands. Using it otherwise is crippling yourself for no reason other than style, or using it for something that’s incredibly situational.
Musashi teaches a style of using a Katana in one hand and a shorter sword on the off-hand.
Isn’t that the style developed by the guy I was talking about?
Not trying to be sarcastic I just genuinely forgot the guy’s name.
Miyamoto musashi I think you are referring to. He wrote the book of five rings (or more accurately spheres)
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Don’t think it would work, katanas are predominantly two hands weapons. They can be used one handed, usually with a wakizashi, but it’s very uncommon and more defensive than offensive. Katanas do not hack, they utilise the curve of the blade to increase the cutting edge by drawing through a cut and increasing the ffective sharpness of the blade, which is fast coolled on the edge and fairly brittle so cannot hack and unlike in the movies is never used to block. It would require totally different animations to other swords in game not to look totallykitten when used.
guild names and server names are fine. not in favour of character names.
not sure its the best solution, its not a bad one for WG in wow, it worked really well there and even on a massively outnumbered server where we lost alot of the time it was still fun.
I think other solutions should be explored first here though as its a semi-persistent battleground rather than short BG like WG was.
I dont mind difficulty as melee (though a few more “make ranged run round like headless chicken” moves from bosses would be nice!), but I mind low health mobs for DEs so that ranged aoe them down before melee can get in close and get credit. Esp problem for guardian who has no real ranged options.
there were originally no heart tasks at all in closed beta aparantly, they were added in to give direction in the early game, but get phased out later so its all dynamic content.
Ok, dont want to be “that” person, but this really really jars.
Quay, is pronounced “key” not “Qu-way” as the voice actors in this game do, its incredibly annoying.
Maybe its an american thing, butkitten the language is English. Maybe you could start doing English regional versions where you pronounce things correctly.
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Yes I can say overpowered, but I normally put the words warrior or thief in the sentance too.
@Cosmatman
I’ve killed it several times, and its really not that bad, I’ve just told people to get off bridge, spread out and prioritise adds.
Usually after a few deaths people start to listen and it does not take many to get it working properly, then as other people see it working, it tends to follow on from there.
And I think a starting area is precisely the right place for this. Shadow Behemoth is nice looking and all, but its too “stand and nuke”, it does not teach players anything about how to tackle these events.
There are a lot of threads about nightcapping on these forums, and whether you agree or not, its definately an issue thats causing conflict amongst the players.
So I have to ask, why are there NA and EU servers? why not just global servers with no region specific tag?
If servers were actually global then surely it would all even out, all servers would be 24/7 rather than a few pwning at nights when their opponents are less active.
Right now WvWvW needs looking at, people are not going to invest in defences if a keep can be easily taken at night when a guild cant be on to defend it. WvWvW is supposed to be fun not a job where you have to schedule defense teams 24/7.
Yes there would be issues with lag, but surely just a ping timer on the server select screen could allow people to choose if they want to join servers closer to them.
It just seams to me that losing the regional tag and just having global servers would remove the whole “they play a night” or “they have french canadians on their server” arguements.
Also, a decent diplomacy feature is required, so that the two servers losing can better communicate to halt the winning server.
Logan.... (Spoiler, only read if you've done Twilight Arbor story mode)
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Strange how people insist on focusing on Logan when a good portion of the members of Destiny’s Edge can quite readily be held accountable for their questionable actions as well. Is it really so unrealistic for someone to screw over their friends in order to protect someone they love? I’m pretty sure a lot of people would follow a similar route if they were put in that situation.
Then again, people these days seem to be allergic to flawed heroes.
its not so much the issue of him leaving, its that it was incredibly badly written to make logan seam like a totalkitten There was no conflict, no dilema, no build up, just logan off chasing skirt (or mesmerised, though thats been said no to by the devs). A decent author would have handeled it better and made it seam a hard choice we could have understood, even if we did not agree with. But no, Logan looks like ankitten and I have this urge to slap the screen everytime he appears.
Infact that author was a mistake all over for that book. It started ok, but obviously got away from them. The power of the heros kept ramping up to ridiculous levels, and it became dangerously close to farcical at some points. They obviously had to put the brakes on before one of the cahracters accidentally sneezed and wiped out half the population of the kryta. And the did it in an incredibly bad way.
Its not so much an issue with logans choice, its how that was portrayed, and that was a result of a pretty poor author writign the book.
If this is not an exploit I’m not sure what is.
Its clear the ore is supposed to be rare, as shown by the long respawn timers, using a window of free transfers (which will not be the norm) to take advantage of node respawns to up your money income is obviously not an intended activity, and an abuse of the free transfer system.
Now, if you did it once and then stopped, I’d not think you shoudl be banned, but anyone obtaining significant money from this should be perma banned.
The fact you even had to ask tells me you knew something was fishy with it. though I agree Anet could be clearer on this matter.
roll warrior, and kill people in 2-3 hits within a stun?
oh for gods sake, learn to search there are many other threads on this topic, all as ridicuous as this one.
Totally agree, its just too much of apain to get a group going, you have to sit in one zone or LA…..rather than play the game. Sorry, I dont think its fun to stand round an instance portal spamming chat.
Maybe an NPC shouting tells would work?
“that Bridge is a deathtrap, get in there….!”
“We are being swarmed by his minions, kill the firethingys” (cant remember their name)
Or something similar, the difficulty is spot on in my opinion, though as its a starting area, maybe a few hints would not go amiss.
Logan.... (Spoiler, only read if you've done Twilight Arbor story mode)
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Can’t stand logan, wish you could smack him. I think the children sketch taking the
kitten out of him on “stealing secrets” quest is accurate.
“I’m Logan Thackeray and I ran away….”
That book was a mistake, all it made me do was hate the main character in my storyline, it could have been handled so much better by a decent author.
Grenade 1 should be cast on target, if only to save my 1key from imminent failure.
nah, I’ll do what everyone else does in this game, and look after myself and not care about others.
I constantly ressed people, but they dont return the favor, and to add insult to injury, you get rewarded less for ressing people so Anet are actively discouraging people from doing it.
The notification needs to be increased in range, and also some events need to have health upped so people can get to them.
I ran round gendarren fields for 25mins earlier before I found an event to complete my daily.
Couple of times I saw one start, but it was over before I could run to it as the “boss” died in seconds.
Its easy.
Get in the room, spread out, kill the adds in priority over the boss.
That way the aoe is spread out, the adds are dead so the really lethal aoe does not occur and not everyone gets hit my the bosses fire lines.
Boss actually has pretty low health, its just you have to clear adds to allow you time to dps rahter than constantly dodging aoe.
A really good fight where proper execution means its fun and doable, but messing round on the bridge and ignorign adds results in a wipefest. We need more of these boses not less.
(and use dodge, and cds to get past bridge if people are stackign there)
the scaling need sorting, its ok not to gain skills, and for gear to give a slight advantage, but right now its giving a faceroll advantage.
Scaling needs to make fights reasonably fair, not allow faceroll wins.
Was originally not bothered by this, but on thinking about it, I agree. A PVE player shoudl not be forced to PVP and a PVP player should not be forced to PVE. Keep the world explorer 100% separate from WvWvW, put in a separate WvWvW 100% explorer.
I was given to understand that whilst scaling would not guarantee and equal fight, that it would at least make it a reasonably fair match….
Well if that was the intention its failed badly. Level80 geared characters faceroll in WvWvW against lower levels.
Now if WvWvW was not intended for all levels that woudl be fine, but its supposed to be viable for everyone, and its just not the case.
Admittedly it seams to mainly be warriors and thiefs who dominate with silly burst (and can you please put some CDs on thief moves as they can just spam them and pwn using one move until they run out of initiative).
Scaling is failing in pve and pvp. Pve it still leaves you massively op, and in pvp its not making fights anywhere close to an even match. I dont have an issue with an advantage, just make it so its not faceroll.
Yep this was obviously going to be an issue, it has been for every MMO which has been released in the last couple of years wihtout a decent LFG.
The “flag yourself LFG” which is currently in game is woefully inadequate, just like swtor’s version was.
We need a fully fledged LFG asap.
They are far too pricy.
If they were all level 80 and just for skins then whatever, but as they are lower level and have stats, the intent was obviously for them to be used as gear for levelling characters, but the price puts them way outside the ability of an average player to get at that level, same with armour.
And whilst we are on the subject of prices, lose the traits manuals, just unlock the new tier of traits at the appropraite level. the cost of the last one is particualarly stupid.
With traits they put out decent dmg through bleeds, they sometimes have secondary benefits depending on how they were summoned.
They wont take 100% aggro, but they will take some aggro so they do cut incomming dmg. And you are supposed to either trait for benefits of having them up, or use them for shatter effects.
If you want a perma pet, go ranger.
Phase retreat…….will often teleport you UNDER the map.
Agreed, maybe the rewards should go direct to account bank. And be based off highest level character. Though I’m not sure they should even scale, but rather be flat rate.
I jumped in after leaving the starting tutorial, and had a blast. Ignore all the muppets who say you have to be 80, its untrue, a level 2 running supplies and helping build seiges aswell as fighting is worth 10 level 80s who dont build or ress or other wise actually help out to win.
to be honest I’m not sure why the levels went past 30 in this game. the extra 50 after you get your elite skill seam somewhat pointless.
I’d have prefered max level 30, then the zones to get progressively harder (more mobs, more vets, more complicated mob tactics and events) as opposed to increasing in level. That way more of the world is truely endgame as downlevelling still leaves you incredibly overpowered.
Its possibly harder to make out the animations on an asura, but with spell effects going off all over the place, thats not too much of an issue really.
but then again, I’vehad issues underwater with my shots being fired from above my asuras head, to over the enemies head….which I can only assume is an issue with how the hit box and character size interact as it does not happen on any of the other races.
There are no homosexual or hetrosexual sylvari, the concept does not apply to them as gender is arbitrary and they do not reproduce that way.
also, I always cringe when I see people make disclaimers about how they dont have problems with homosexuals….when clearly they do.
OP. you are misguided.
Casual =/= scrub as you seam to think.
Casula/hardcore merely denote playtime. Casual players also want hard demanding content, and some hardcore players bascially always work out the easiest work/reward activity to just farm safely.
Do not make the rather stupid mistake of assuming playtime correlates with play style.
I think drop caps are great, the encourage you to move around and not sit there farming the same mobs over and over.
Nothing more annoying for a player trying to do a heart task or DE than to find some farmer endlessly killing the same mobs.
I think the reduced drop rates, and bonus XP for monsters who have been alive for longer is a really elegant mechanic Anet put in.
oh dear, you bought a game without paying attention to one of the main design choices….no Anet should not change one of the major attractions to the game to accommodate you.
Downscaling is brilliant, but I’d say needs to be made much more harsh, right now you can still massively over power enemies in lower level zones. Downscaling should be made harsher so the lower level zones are an equal challenge to when you went though at the appropraite level.
burst does seam a bit OTT on some builds. there is a lot of nukeage potential in some professions.
personally I dont consider a nuke kill to be fun to do, I’d prefer fights to be longer and require tactics other than just go through nuke rotation, get kill, run away until you can do it again…thats not pvp, that boring as kitten.
Also, you say they attack every 5-6 seconds. Right, let’s call it 6. Let’s say there are 3 of them. Let’s say they don’t all attack at the same time. 6/3=2. It’s so easy to dodge and attack every 2 seconds all day long, not.
unrealistic, are you letting them get 3 phantasms out and maintain them? why? and why assume that even in that perfect situation you’ve allowed the mesmer to get into, they wont be attacking perfectly in sync. And chances are random aoe will kill them if there are 3 out, you are likley to hit one when targetting the mesmer.
I dont think mesmers are too bad, compared to warriors for instance! Its just that the clone/phanstasm mechanic is pretty unique in the way its implemented and peopel are not used to fighting them. Add into that the fact that differnt specs require differnt approaches to defeat and it will take a while to balance.
I’d prefer Anet to leave it as is for a while to let things settle, before jerking the nerfbat around.
On the subject of Moa, its not all that great against a decent player, they dodge, and avoid stuff, so you basically lower incomming dmg but thats all. Its powerful yes, but so are other classes elites, they are supposed to be powerful, Anet said they shoudl change the balance of a battle, and to be honest I’m not sure Moa actually does that.
I like it, really feels like you are pushing into enemy territory, keep moving as you fight, push on. It feels pretty epic.
I think it gives a nice glowy effect to it, but I can understand your opinion may differ.
utilities should take the one that summons 2 clones, use that on the way in (wiht a dodge with traits to summon another clone) and instant shatter them for aoe, use Sword 2 for lots of aoe albeit short range, use pistol 5 to hit 3 mobs, use staff 5 for nice aoe.
I’d always take timewarp as the elite, drop it over yourself and unload super speed death to up your contribution on larger enemies, or to allow you to churn out dmg on smaller targets quickly.