Guild Wars 2

Limiting transfers is not really fair in my opinion.

Putting a ban on WvWvW for transfers for a time period after the transfer, or giving new transfers a low priority in the queue for wvwvw may work to counterbalance the impact such mass guild transfers have on wvwvw.

I recently xfered myself (individually) and would not have minded such restrictions as they would protect the server I was joining.

Pukknub.7368:

Nothing good comes from creating drama on the forum. Can’t we try to ignore it and just have an awesome week?

you lot were not exactly advocating ignoring it in T1. You all moaned continually. And with some justification.

Now you have caused issues on lower Teir servers, you can surely appreciate they may be feeling how you felt, and after all , that prompted your migration.

sendmark.4731:

ChroNoS.6978:

Really impressed with how much more roam-friendly this is over upper tiers! Great small scale fights so far! Really loving it!

This tier was roam friendly and will be again soon, but only when bandwagon jumpers like yourself have moved on.

If you wanted roam and great small scale fights why on earth all go to the same server? Do you not understand that this will leave a lot of you not having anyone to fight? and that you will go shooting up the tiers so fast you will be right back meeting the blobs you were running from?

I never understood why “pvp” guilds cluster up on one server. Dont they want a balanced fight where they have to struggle to win, or do they perfer to hold hands and faceroll?

Its doubly ironic given that the reason for the migration was their complaints about VS….when they are doing exactly the same thing to the lower teir servers.

Do puzzle.

Drop portal entrance at top.
Jump down to the bottom area, where the water is down infront of the alter like think at the start.
Drop portal exit.

Allies have 20secs to portal up.

The irony of using the forums, which you obviously think are valuable enough to read, as a medium to request they are shut down, appeals to me!

But no.

I agree pacing is a bit off, but not too bad.

Levelling is certainally not slow, and after level 30 i tend to treat the entire game as endgame as you have the majority of your abilities, with elite skill unlocked, just getting traits from the on.

My guardian hit 80 never having set foot south of lions arch. Just did the other zones to the north, a bit of wvwvw, and moderate crafting.

If you want to level fast, do everything, a range of activites will level you fastest, do pve for a zone, completion rewards are quite large, gather as it adds a fair amount of xp, craft as its quick easy xp using those mats you gathered. Jump into wvwvw, if you can get in a decent capping group its great xp, capping SM will almost cretainally give you a level right there, and you can flip camps and low level towers really quickly in a decent group.

Crossplay.2067:

Leveling is pretty much going to suck until you get to at least 40 and unlock master traits. In general, I suggest finding someone to level with to alleviate a lot of the frustration.

people say low level mesmers suck, but I just did not see it that way. I really had no issues with dps or survival whilst levelling.

Sure its not guardian easy, but its not as awful as people make out.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1cjmri/new_player_guide_to_leveling_a_mesmer_the/

Thorson.9218:

@Pyro, quick question for you re scepter/focus. Why not scepter/torch to get the extra 3 stacks of Confusion from #5 (PM)?

And yes, Thank You! These tips are a huge help to us uplevel mezmers. :-)

Focus is generally better in wvwvw. The speed line is amazing, esp given mesmers limited movement speed increases, and doubles as a rather nice control ability, can also be traited for a projectile barrier.

Torch has limited use in a zerg, prestige is ok, but you really wont need to stealth much if you are winning, and if not, well, it probably wont save you from what wiped your group! too much aoe being thrown around.

Guardian now.
Was originally mesmer. After beta i went mes as guardian lacked range, but with how wvwvw works, thats not really an issue anymore, so went back to guardian.

I have characters of most professions, only missing ranger, at various stages of levelling. Engineer is nice, but does not feel as effective as my guardian or mes, but maybe thats jut me needing to adapt to it.

about the only time I use Tomes is when I spot an incomming portal bomb and am able to swap to it. ToW on a portal bomb is just hilarious.

Otherwise, RF all the way.

I run staff as its an amazing WvW weapon.

And I then use retreat and save yourselves to travel across the map, swapping back to sanctury and wall of reflection when I near combat.

If running a zerg its not an issue as you get other people’s buffs, if solo, speed is less important anyway, incombat mobility matters more and we have quite a bit of that.

people really need to chill, and remember its a game and we play to have fun.

yes we all like winning, but if I have fun, I’m not that bothered.

lets ditch all the who came from where, and all that crap, and just enjoy the game.
As others have noted, winning or losing means nothing more than you want it to.

A solution has been found to having multiple guilds run together.

TAZ is born. Long may its zerglings run free, through EB, and round the BL,and over the occasional cliff…..no wait that lemmings….

I only uuse renewed focus.

Tomes are a nice idea, but the fact you lose your other abilities (including heal) means you just get pasted in seconds.
Also they are too short to be of any real use unless traited.

renewed focus is underwhelming unless traited, but at least its consistently useful

Its not hard to spot the mesmer if you know how, and its not about weapons, it about how players move differently to clones.

The only advantage is that its harder to pick them out in a group, but thats minor

Roo Stercogburn.9671:

iorlas.6721:

Hule.8794:

Oh so you are that erotic store owning that phone line, Iorlas.

that’s correct Sir, where you the one asking about Blow up Sheep?

Exploding Sheep. One of the few things from WoW that I’d love to see in this game.

From worms

Power is good, pve is more about avoiding being hit than tanking stuff, so you dont need to go too much into toughness etc, tough it never hurts.

Condition dmg is a bit meh, power is generally better. Crit is good depending on your traits.

But dont be too concerned over stats, just keep your gear current, withing 5levels of you, or you’ll get hit hard with scaling when down levelled.

Calvin.5380:

erm, why is WXP so important? Is this another outlet, besides legendaries, for those spending their lives in grief?

not sure. Its not exactly game breaking.

Ok carrying more supplies, if a large group of players have it could be useful, but otherwise the benefits of ranking up are mediocre at best (which is how it should be, lets not introduce a power rank system into wvwvw please).

clay.7849:

Vayne.8563:

clay.7849:

TwoBit.5903:

To be fair, the designers probably didn’t know what they were getting into when they decided to do “active combat.”

They clearly didnt. Despite the fact that they added jumping and dodging and swimming, this game is still based too much around skills to be considered “action” combat.

Now all we have is a poor excuse for either.

In your opinion. I actually quite like the combat.

Some people prefer shallow easy combat. That, however, is not something for a developer to be proud of.

Its not an action game, or a FPS, its an MMO.
Its designed to have many people in small areas, with potential latency at each end…..

That places limitations on what can be achieved.

My opinion is that its the best combat in an MMO to date. Thats not sayign I woudl not love a true MMO with jedi-knight or PoP style combat, I would, and someday maybe, but for now GW2 combat is a massive step up from the norm.

And to go back to teh OP, I’m not sure what else you expect to do with a sword? I mean, its kind of designed for swinging…. Not really sure what you are trying to say to be honest, what were you expecting?

Humorless.1573:

Cameirus.8407:

Elmuerto.9840:

Cameirus, you rascal..I’m afraid the running away to come back and stab you in the back is a very thief thing to do. I never run away I only re-position.

Running away is fine, but beign able to always do it (unless you are a bad thief) is really annoying.
The amount of times a thief jumps me, I fend off the burst attacks, we skirmish for a bit, then they just stealth and inflitrators arrow away with impunity is annoying.
And come back again and again and again. I have to “win” each and every time for no reward, yet they have to win once for a reward.

Yes I can get lucky by aoe spamming when they stealth, but no other class relies on pure luck to be beaten.

I’m guessing you’re one of those sad people that log out during 1v1s?

um….no.

I just dont bother chasing thieves anymore. I kick their kitten until they run, they carry on with what I was doing. I tend to treat them as a pesky annoyance, kind of like a gnat buzzing round you. Pretty ineffectual, and mildly annoying, but not realy worth the bother of swatting.

Rezz.8019:

1. Thief is supposed to be the strongest 1v1 class, so you’re not supposed to beat an equally skilled thief player with your necro or anything else.
2. Thief takes full damage while invisible.
3. Fix your build.

This is coming from champion shadow/champion phantom, etc. player who wins 90% of necro vs thief, or thief vs necro duels.

Also… why would you go 1v1 in WvW?

um, I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen Anet come up with that statement that thieves should win 1v1, I’m pretty sure you jsut made that up.

notwithstanding our lack of ranged, we are incredibly good for wvwvw.

We are durable and can perform well in smaller fights and roaming, and in larger groups we excel as a support. Abilities such as wall of reflection and similar just cannot be overestimated for their usefulness, plus if traited we can put of a reasonable amount of healing with symbols and such, for when your gorup needs to hunkerdown and turtle to survive an incomming zerg.

massive thanks to Azshara for leading angry zerg today, that SM defense was truely epic, cant believe we held that.

And for all the enemies we kept charging up the rear!, thanks for all the loot bags, its apprecaited

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

I handled a 3v1 earlier in WvW (1 upleveled Guardian, 1 Warrior, 1 Mesmer) in which I killed all of them (Except the Mesmer, he ran away at 5% health)… but I can’t handle a single thief…

It’s embarrassing to someone whom is proud to wear a Champion Phantom title in tPvP.

Ah well, I suppose WvW isn’t for me.

Dont get discouraged.

Thiefs are stupid in WvWvW. they can jsut run and keep trying until they get it right.
Anet severly messed up with this profession, its total easy mode.

I’m afraid thiefs is somethign you have to live wiht in wvwvw, generally they are pretty bad players, so more of an annoyance than a threat, (the thief’rogue class in most MMOs seams to attract bads for some reason), but if you get a good thief against you, you may aswell just let them kill you and take the ress. Even if you take them down, they will stealth run, and come back 30secs later and do it all over again.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

Yes I understand sPvP and the like are completely different, but I outmatched him in skill, he was making beginner’s mistakes with his Thief… he just.. was CONSTANTLY in stealth. I received backstab like 5 times.

Does anyone have any sort of strategy for fighting these things?

Nowadays I just ignore thiefs. Ok I play a guardian mainly, so I jsut beat them up a bit until they run away, and ignore them,.

You cant kill them, they can just run with impunity,and if you chase they come back and you have to keep kicking their kitten for no reward.

So when they inevitably run way in fear,(they call it “repositioning” lol") dont bother chasing. They’ll soon get bored, and go find an AFK player to gank to bolster their self esteem.

Elmuerto.9840:

Cameirus, you rascal..I’m afraid the running away to come back and stab you in the back is a very thief thing to do. I never run away I only re-position.

Running away is fine, but beign able to always do it (unless you are a bad thief) is really annoying.
The amount of times a thief jumps me, I fend off the burst attacks, we skirmish for a bit, then they just stealth and inflitrators arrow away with impunity is annoying.
And come back again and again and again. I have to “win” each and every time for no reward, yet they have to win once for a reward.

Yes I can get lucky by aoe spamming when they stealth, but no other class relies on pure luck to be beaten.

marnick.4305:

Jordo.5913:

for instance…in WoW, your skills basically do the same thing…swing your weapon in melee range(chop right)….hit another skill…swing your sword in a different animation(chop left)….hit another skill(overhead chop)….hit another skill(spin chop)

in this game its…..for instance on the greatsword…..autoattack is your chops, skill 2 is chopping on steroids, skill 3 is a mobile whirlwind, skill 4 is a throwing greatsword, skill 5 is a dash uppercut

so each skill does something different other than doing the same thing, just in a different direction

Let’s take guardian greatsword as an example:
1: chop, choppy, aoe chop (spam combo)
2: pbaoe ranged chop
3: jump and blind (no chopping)
4: holy symbol with buff and debuff (no chopping)
5: ranged chop and pull

2 out of 5 don’t chop.
.

And all have some form of dual use. Some blind, distance close, act as CC to pull or interrupt, make combo fields, activate combo fields (whirls and leap), not to mention adding conditons or boons.
Plus with guardian you have virtue activation to throw in there and the associated variability in that due to traits.

Oh, so you need more ways to not die?
You are a thief, hw are you dying anyway? Just run away like all other thiefs do, being cowardly is a requirement to play the prof

Not really.

Its not bad, but if you are taking a dps offhand, you may aswell go gs or hammer.

I go 1h+off hand for the survival boost from focus or shield.

Just remember, even though levelling, when in groups, the value of virtue activation goes up, as it effects others around you too.

Does anyone care about wxp? Sure its nice as a bonus, but its hadly ame changing enough to chase it.

MeveM.7913:

My point is, Arenanet used a whole lot of phrases to lure us into the game, since it’s no subscription we’ve already paid what they wanted, all they need us to do is buy the expansions and hope it’s been made into what we wanted it to be.

Dynamic events are pointless since Karma is used for nothing but a bad gem box and one armour set with limited stats, even WvW tokens give a wider variety. They basically sold the game on Dynamic Events and they don’t let us do anything with it’s reward,

Its not anets fault you have such a mercenary attitude. I do dynamic events because they are fun. Its a game , its supsed to be fun, forget rewards, its just pixels, play because you enjoy it or leave.

As for your first post, you take it out of context. They were saying that static combat was not in ge2, and its not. You have to move much more, your timing of abilitites is muchmore important, timing blinds and such has a great effect, aure you can just spam your abilities on cd, but thats usually not their best use. Timing them to interrupt, apply conditions, or mitigate dmg is usually more effective.

A manifesto is not a stone tablet of promises, its a statement of intent and direction. I think anet managed to pull it off remarkably well, sure its not 100%, but it would have been naive to expect that.

Bottom line, play for fun, or dont play at all. If you will only play for rewards then why bother?

Grimwolf.7163:

So he was attacking siege with nothing but Cloak and Dagger? It’d take him a week to break a single piece of Siege.
And if 12 people couldn’t kill him, that isn’t a game issue, that’s an all 12 people are raving idiots issue.
Stealth doesn’t protect you, it just makes you invisible. All they had to do was start throwing around AoEs and attacking the air around where he might be.
And it’s not like the Thief is actually doing anything while he’s staying in stealth like that.

where do you throw around aoes? seriously? esp on walls where he can just jump off, or into supply building roofs.
No its pure chance to hit them,.

Its not skill.

Its a totally op mechanic.

AS ever the thiefs only agruement is “everyone else sucks”, strange that no other profession could do something remotely similar.

I’m not saying he was not good, he was, but the facts are stealth is op with an average player, wiht a good player its totally kittenedly good.

Today in WvWvW, one thief managed to get into a keep (no idea how, walls were up, presume it was an exploit), but he ran round destroying seige, just stealthing, hitting it one, stealthing over and over and over again. About 9-12 defenders were trying to kill him, but no luck as stealt is kittening op.

Thats totally overpowered, no one playe should ever be able to resist being taken down by 12 others.

Thats not a L2P thats an OP mechanic.

Snow White.9680:

Khal Drogo.9631:

- Personally I don’t mind the plush toy backpacks. Women DO play this game you know, not to sound sexist.

You do sound incredibly sexist though. I, frankly hate the backpacks. I think they are tacky and would never wear one.

I like them, my guardian runs with a quaggan one, its so cute!
oh and I’m a bloke btw.

unless engineers can do it with grenades, no leave it out

Veldan.4637:

Right, I’m kinda tired of mesmer portal in its current state. It’s a fun skill, and has some nice uses. Speeding up siege golems by portalling them ahead, portalling 20 people into an enemy zerg for a surprise charge, escaping just before a zerg hits you, etc. But I’m tired of it being used to bypass game mechanics.

1) jumping puzzle cheating

Yes, I called it cheating. People use portal to bypass the puzzle and get rewards for something they didn’t do. I don’t understand why this is still allowed. To get rewards for completing a JP, you should always have to complete that JP, by playing through it. Not by pressing “enter portal” at the start.

2) WvW keep cheating

There’s a whole tactic around this. After capturing stonemist, people take 5 minutes first to “mesmer sweep” the keep, and it’s not even always enough. One mesmer inside and it’s gg, keep will be in enemy hands again before you know it’s under attack. I absolutely don’t understand why Arenanet allows this. Bypassing the need to take down wall or gate should be called cheating and made impossible.

A simple fix would be to make mesmer portal require a path. This would remove said issues while keeping all normal / non-cheating uses of the skill.

neither of those situations is cheating.

there is nothing wrong with portal.

I think RF is the best elite as it is, its certainally the one I use most, and the one I activate most when its on my bars.

The trite answer: Any.
And its true any works.

But most people go GS for a reason. Its good dmg, its good aoe, its got control, and it feels fast.
Hammer is nice dps, but can feel slow, so some people dont like it. A symbol build works really well in pve as most mobs run straight for you anyway and sit on your symbols.

Scepter + Focus is a great combo for those hard mobs, you can kite really well and focus is so much more useful in defense than the other options.

Staff is a must for dynamic events, you can spam 1 and tag everything for max credit (not to mention its a kitten good group support weapon), and using staff 4 before charging in with a GS whilst solo really hits hard with those 12might stacks.

I personally found, sword, mace, torch and shield to be lacklustre whilst levelling. They have their place for sure, but I think the other weapons are better for levelling.

takes a few mins usually, at most half an hour if I try the events ones and get unlucky finding them. (if I’m not wvwvw’ing)

I usually get them just playing normally, or just have to spend 5mins finishing the last one off.

Loved teh “vist laurel vendor” one today! lol.
Then again, if I miss a day by not playing, no biggie> I used to hate that in wow as I felt I fell behind, in GW2 I really dont care, and thats a good thing, it means I;m not feeling forced to do stuff.

SoulSaga.2390:

Why worry, much of the T3 gear looks worse than the T2. Take for example the Sylvari heavy armor T3 vs T2, or the Norn light armor T3 vs T1-T2.

Some pieces are nice on their own, but the full sets are the least interesting of all half the time.

I like sylvari heavy T3, apart from the wacky helm.

Provost.6210:

I’m sorry, 800 gems for one gathering tool — even if it is unlimited use — is ludicrous.

With gem prices what they are currently, here’s the breakdown of the returns:

100 gems = 2 gold, 9 silver
800 gems = 16 gold, 72 silver
1 orichalcum mining pick = 4 silver

For the same price as this mining pick, you could purchase 418 orichalcum mining picks.

That’s enough to mine 13,933.3 (repeating) mining nodes.

Assuming you do your daily gathering entirely out of mining (7 mining nodes, rounded up), it would take you 1,991 days (about 5 and a half years) of using this mining pick before it started to pay off as an investment.

I will not be purchasing the volcanic mining pick until one of two things happens:

1. The pick is reduced in cost to 250 gems.
2. The 800 gems also includes an unlimited use logging axe and sickle.

My opinion has been stated.

then you wont be buying the pick.

No one cares.

lupercaleb.6041:

is no one considering the possibility of a new kind of ore being introduced in expansion packs

Im hoping thye dont, and also hoping for no level increase.

Mind you theyve said no expansion is being planned at present, just continual content updates, which purchases like this pay for.

The more people buy this, the less likely they need to do standard expansions

chronometria.3708:

Homonavn.6348:

Its the cultural armour of your race.

Imagin, your mother’s necklace for example got more value than a random guys car to you, right?

Just like the cultural armour. They cost alot since its “Special” for the race

Unfortunately, this is a pricing myth that people are starting to believe. Originally, tier 3 cultural was quite affordable. The problem was twofold.

Firstly, some of the items were underpriced, even beyond that affordability, due to some typos in the pricing.

Secondly, you could salvage them for parts at that time.

The upshot of this was that some people noticed and bought a large amount of those items and salvaged the lot of them for materials. As a knee jerk reaction, to prevent this, the price was made deliberately ludicrous, especially considering the limited money available to players at that time. It was made so that nobody could buy it. While this was done, work went on to prevent the salvage of certain items available from vendors and the problem was neutralised in a better manner.

Unfortunately, the knee jerk price increase was never revoked and remains in this sorry state today. The fact that players have somewhat more money means that the prices seem less stupid than they actually were at the time (nobody in the game had more than about 5 gold to their name). These items should be returned to their karma cost now that the typos are corrected and the salvage exploit has been remedied.

I never understood why they cost gold, surely karma does make more sense for cultural armour, after all you are gaining rep as it were and good will from your race, which ties in with cultural armour more than, just spending money on it.

Nachtz.4930:

I wish SFR fell into T2 soon. Not because I don’t want to play against them anymore, but only for them to leave this topic. This constant whining is just epic. 81 pages, 90% whine from SFR players. Just crazy.

And please stop with this aggressivity towards French people, that’s just pathetic.

The endless qq really started to get to me, and the latency issues in T1 were becoming a joke, so i finally jumped ship to a lower teir, and this week my wvwvw experience has been a huge imrovement, much more fun, no latency issues, a much better atmosphere.

And guesting still allows me to pve with people i left behind, its a great move and i’m happy i did it.

My guardian i only use the reset vitrues one, mainly for the invul. Its pretty meh.

My mes i use timewarp, though not so often now its been nerfed, but that was pretty powerful.

Engineer, i use supply crate, its ok, but hardly game changing.

I think elites lack punch to be honest, trying to think of any that really make a big difference. The thiefs guild one is pretty hard hitting and the warrior rally is useful.

If they are for stats they are overpriced as better gear is much cheaperre.

If they are for looks….then compare the price to e cosmetic skins in the gem shop.
800gems for a skin is about £10. But a t3 set costs about £80…..Yeah thats way way ovrpriced for looks.

No Walking.6349:

Does anyone seriously prefer having costume brawls over duels? Duels are a huge part of MMOs….

I prefer costume brawls.

I see no reason to duel, Classes are not balanced 1v1, and duels will jsut cause QQ for that to happen, which will never work and will lead to an awful buff/nerf clycle that ruins classes and leads to inevitable homogenisation.

MMOs are massively multiplayer, so I see no reason for individual based pvp./

MIrra.3604:

WTF is going on? Lots of players getting perma ban for no reason….

I doubt there is no reason…..

I’m not banned, neither are any people I know. mind you we dont exploit so maybe thats it.