Guild Wars 2

sarasvatri.6871:

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Right, and I guess we can’t make any conclusive statements about someone who goes through other people’s posting history and makes a thread about it….

Forums exist as an avenue to complain about stuff. If you only post “I love this game and this is why” threads you get removed/kicked from most forum communities. That’s because these threads serve no real purpose. Forums exist to be constructive in the sense that people who don’t like something, can go there and discuss it amongst the community. The people who post thread after thread of discontent are probably huge fans of the game that just saw it go downhill and either: don’t know how to quit, still choose to hang in there hoping for the future, or actually really enjoy the game more than they hate it. If someone is going to complain consistently over a long period of time, it shows love for the game not hate.

In terms of this game, we realize the kind of hate and discord amongst the community BECAUSE: We share (or sympathize with) it to some degree, we see multiple people posting the same kind of complaints.

Umm I don’t understand why this isn’t a big deal to people.

In Player vs player combat:

Right after you down someone they are invulnerable for a full 1-2 seconds. If you switch weapons after you down them, sigil of hydromancy or whatever won’t hit them. But you can start the finishing (plant flag in their face move) while they are in the invulnerable state. In other words it doesn’t make sense, if you are trying to finish them quickly, to use any kind of attack that isn’t delayed or aoe….you have to plant your flag. UNFORTUNATELY, certain classes have delayed/constant aoe and others DON’T. This makes certain classes better at downing other players than others by their basic attack skills. Couple this with the class specific finishing skills of engineers/thiefs, mesmers……not all classes are created equally that much is clear. It’s cool if they do certain things better than other classes (like the thief!), but not when some of them do 90% of things BETTER than 1 or 2 of the OTHERS. You should be able to close some of the advantages that one class has over another with sigil/rune and gear changes…but this is another example where the game intentionally goes out of it’s way to prevent you from doing so.

This brings to the second component: The fact that certain classes have abilities pretty much automatically off cooldown as soon as they are downed. Do you have any idea how stupid and frustrating it is to fight a mesmer by a fortification entrance? You down them and INSTANTLY they are able to transport themselves through the entrance to safety, and the skill’s travel distance is definitely far enough that 97% of all the game’s aoe and ranged attacks can’t get anywhere near. Fight them infront of it and down them 4 times in a row only to have them escape instantly and heal, and then tell me you don’t think it’s stupid.

Then the last Part which is maybe the most important. YOU CAN BLIND PEOPLE WHO ARE IN DOWNED STATE! But you CAN’T IMMOBILIZE THEM IN DOWNED STATE. Do you have any idea how stupidly unfair this is? Try playing a warrior or engineer or something that has its only useful crapp, a single target 1 hit knockback attack, on cooldown when they are downed. You are screwed. Yet when you are one of these classes and you use immobilize on someone who is downed….they can move regardless! With mesmer, if you are good enough you should be able to use that 1.5 seconds of invulnerability to teleport your body to a safe place before someone can cast a immobilize on you. But nope, we gotta hold your hand the entire time and make sure you can pull off all your abilities unlike 1-2 other classes…. cause REASONS! And why do guardians get a giant aoe knockback attack (useful against rangers or anything really) when warriors get a short single hit knockdown “throw stupid hammer” WITH A GIANT COOLDOWN that is easily blocked by a pet or guard or illusion….or invisibility of any kind!??!

The game makes no sense!

3 general ideas so far. Strength and Hoelbrak runes are interchangeable. Can’t decide which route is better or if I’m lacking consideration towards any other potential routes.

1. Zerker + 5 eagle runes

http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8ejMdQXIWFCuhAnIG6BKtNC/wArhFPHsA4DiAA-TlTGABGpE7jtHg+IAQlSQiUSMi6PYoJI6HAwQKHqQjwBHEAAuAADbFQ56ACAcA87vBAAA-w

2. Same thing but: Marauder armour + full Hoelbraek runes

http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8ejMdQXIWFCuhAnIG6BKsGW8cwCgPIC02I8DDA-TVDEABQcQAcXHwTKxy+IAYv6PMpcAgHAQCXAAP0IEimguUCGz+DNpkIAwBwv/GAAA-w

3. Same as the other two but Zerker on every piece of armour and weapon with Hoelbrak runes (I would only be able to replace the trinkets/accessories/etc with exotic zerkers if I did want to).

I think the first two pages are pretty set in stone, I need sword and death from above (skills + specializations). Wanted some opinions on the third page (runes/armour/weapon stats).

Honestly all the weapon sigils could be replaced except for cleansing (the extra condition clear is very useful). For most fights the greatsword does the damage (I engage the enemy with it) and the shield/sw exists for getting in and out of attack range while tanking/bocking damage. In #1 the only real damage from sword is from sword 3 (final thrust), otherwise it does next to nothing in that particular build. I was thinking with zerker stats it could be used as an actual weapon set for damage, but I would be vulnerable to damage all the time without a tankier weapon set to switch to. I could just make them maruauder like the GS though but I’d still lack damage I’d imagine….I only have the marauder ascended greatsword crafted atm.

I’m pretty torn between the idea of the following:

(A) I go full Zerker on everything I can buy with Hoelbraek/Strength Runes. And rely on my two endure pains and Berserker Stance to mitigate damage. That way I can go in full force and rely on ‘frenzy’ and my other skills to end things before they even start. After an enemy is in a position to duel me, combat become 5x harder. I often catch enemies off guard but only take 85% of their hp…..they jump away from me and refresh instantly generally. At which time I’m facing someone who is fully aware of what I am, and knows how to kill me.

(B) Since everyone says you need more survivability, and I do agree to an extent….why not put a few (if not full) Marauder stats instead of Berserker? Vitality can be my survivability trait over toughness. With Marauder I get more stats in total per piece than I do with berserker. That’s the main reason though: Marauder gives you more points in total per piece and it’s stuff that I can use (unlike celestial). If the total points were equal to that of zerker I wouldn’t bother with marauder, I would input survivability (likely by toughness) through accessories and weapon stats.
The survivability would be useful when commanding, when manning siege, when running away, or zerg fights in general.

Sadrien.3470:

Pls do not ppt, instead make a fight guild. Thanks, more advice comes free.

that’s not how you play WvsW. That’s not how you are meant to play WvsW. That’s how YOU want people to play WvsW.

If people had their way it would be a giant honour duels map for godds sake….
People should be kicked for dueling infront of entrances and objectives. But that’s MY OPINION, and it has NOTHING to do with the topic posted.

Juba.8406:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Endure-Pain-bugged/first

This is really old post though. I’ve only noticed it in the past week that endure pain and berserker stance don’t block all damage when used together. I’m also taking damage and getting stunned and knocked back by enemies at range when I’m running away and I’m in the middle of a dodge roll (wasn’t a guardian trap)…. I should be invulnerable if I get halfway through a dodge roll should I not?

There was a really good video on siege placement on the desert borderland map. Learned alot from that. They didn’t do one on Eternal battlegrounds though, which is the one I’m most interested in. Anyone know any good guides (video or whatever) that focus on siege placement on Eternal Battlegrounds?

Also wanted to know if there were any worthwhile commanding guides out there. I’ve been on the wiki looking stuff up already. I follow other commanders around obviously as well. anything else I should read/view?

Would be cool if they got rifle and a support/sniper skill on it meant for wvsw and other open ranged areas. Basically the rifles skills are all support based. Shooting enemies/friendlies to grant boons, buffs, debuffs, cc’s. Then they would have 1-2 damage skills, one being an EXTREMELY long range high damage burst shot that plants you inplace and takes 2-3x longer than the warrior rifle burst shot does. I can imagine going through WvsW and hearing a shot go off and the glass cannon next to me 1 second later goes THUMP, right into downed state. I look up to the cliff and see the thief with its rifle planted in the snow, packing up and getting the helk out of there. Just a thief with a rifle shooting enemies from afar like that is a cool concept imo.

Unstealthing or unveiling camoflauge after camping ontop of a hill/peak and then taking 8-10 seconds to line up a very high damage slug that can down a glass cannon with light armour from a very very long range is quite a cool concept. I can imagine going through wvsw, or whatever, and needing to look around me more often to make sure I’m not lined up for a sniper’s kill shot. I mean the shot could be a bit slower than other projectiles and have a very flashy animation once fired…..and maybe thiefs could be planted inplace and/or have all their skills put on cd after it fired. And maybe movement of a high enough degree (outside of actually dodging) could impede the damage done. I would like to see snipers in this game, nuff said. Then when the thief fires they have a half-measure where they can overheat their rifle and switch to their ult weapon like normal if they need to run or change location quickly. They won’t be sitting ducks when they are spotted/inrange of being attacked after the shot, but they will have combat inhibited by using the half-measure. Just a different way to play certain modes, keeping the game interesting, I don’t think thief really needs another all-rounder weapon.

Bubi.5237:

Nihevil.8024:

Stop complaining about something so kitteng stupid. Don’t tunnel vision into a buffed lord and learn to dodge.

Try to read/see the screenshot.
I was ressing the lord.
The Tower was flipped.
The Lord is up as enemy.
The Lord’s skill usage was broken, as that skill should not hit you that many times in a second.

Anything you still don’t understand?

He was saying it’s a lord…nobody cares nor should they. Which is correct, but you are shedding light on something that isn’t working properly so that’s also fine. Whether it should be fixed or not, I don’t think it’s even worth discussing. Interesting though!

Broken just means it’s working as intended. And yes it is broken, gotta manually type it out….which doesn’t always work cause they have to have all the stuff ticked off and you don’t know if they have it or not.

Really hits home just how much thought and effort is spent on WvsW these days. It’s probably 1 person doing everything. In which case it’s easy to see how they could have innocently forgot about alpha siege golemns in the push to get new content out prematurely.

WvsW: Gs+Sword/sh

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8ejMdQXIWFCuhAnIG6BKtNC/wArhFPHsA4DiAA-TlTGABGpE7jtHg+IAQlSQiUSMi6PYoJI6HAwQKHqQjwBHEAAuAADbFQ56ACAcA87vBAAA-w

That’s what I run currently. Still a little rough (runes, Gs sigils), but I’ve gone through quite a few builds and this one is working quite well.

Still have no idea how people can do wvsw with axe/shield. With sword, my mobility allows me to get away from almost every enemy and bad situation. Great for roaming. i really like the marauder greatsword. You get like 666 stats total vs around 600 from just zerker. It’s an extra 1000 vitality, which is always useful. Unless you are going glass cannon (full zerker), I don’t see why you wouldn’t pick up marauder.
Plenty of damage and tank with this build. Sustain not so much, so end things as fast as possible like always….or run away. Running away counts as sustain I think…OoC regenftw

StinVec.3621:

Technically, binding a single key to send a predefined word or sentence to chat is against the ToS. Policy is 1 key = 1 action.

Making a single key press automatically perform multiple key presses is performing multiple actions with a single key press.

• activating chatbox (1 action)
• each letter being entered into the chatbox (1 action per letter/character entered)
• sending that text to chat (1 more action)

At minimum, sending a single letter to chat via one key press would be bannable as that one key press would be performing 3 actions. Expand that out to entire words or sentences and it really adds up to how many actions are performed via that single key press.

Not sure if they have banned accounts for macroing chat statements before or not, or if they’re kind of lax on enforcing macro usage for this behavior. Just letting you know that it technically does violate the ToS, so do not be surprised if you do get banned for doing it (or attempting to do it).

Well, what would be the best way to check/confirm?

Sorry but I just think you are perpetuating what is already a broken system. So if they want to add more to their system, sure it does just that, but it doesn’t fix anything.

This is how I imagine fractals:
Remove AR from the game. Increase fractals count to 125, doubling the difficulty every 5 fractals with more difficult mist singularities. Or do the opposite so there are more people available for each fractals: decrease the total fractal count to 75, making the 50 about where the current 100 is in difficulty.

Fractals should be about skill, not about having a separate full set of ascended/legendary gear; on which you can max out a grind stat whose only purpose is to tell people who don’t have it (or don’t buy HoT): You can’t play. You shouldn’t need HoT to play content you originally had access to in gw2. Nor should you need to buy a separate gear set or grind a stat who’s only purpose is to keep people from trying challenging content.

Fractals have become so stupid. They obviously know about all the exploits, and choose not to bother fixing them. There’s seriously a rule preventing us from talking about them openly on the forums? That’s a laugh…
The rewards are bad anyways, I guess that’s what makes it okay.

Tigaseye.2047:

Sounds nice, but how do they continue to fund it?

I don’t see why they couldn’t upload existing wintersday skins back onto certain map/zones. Why was attention given to just Edge of the mists? Why couldn’t they change desert borderland back to alpine for Christmas? WHy couldn’t they add dolyak christmas skin back to WvsW?
Why couldn’t they add festive lord skins back? Why couldn’t they reupload old eternal battlegrounds winter decorations/snow back in? I mean maybe alot of map changes have been made there, enough to make it so they maybe couldn’t reupload the entire old map with its skin. But specific skins could easily be done as well as specific decorations.

Why couldn’t reupload the 2012 ‘the grove’ wintersday map reskin? Has the grove map changed significantly enough that they couldn’t upload the old one? I mean LA, that’s the reason they can’t upload the old wintersday reskin….but if they didn’t have money to begin with why the helllk would they reskin LA for a world event nobody really cared about.

And if gems were so important why wouldn’t you throw the biggest wintersday possible after launching the expansion? THe expansion effectively made everyone rebuy the game, and brought in many new players with f2p and new people joining/rejoining the community for the expansion. People who played at the start and then quit….and then rejoined at the expansion have got to be angry at the state of things. They are more likely to quit again or leave sooner than they would have originally. Similar arguments can be made for new players and everyone else.

Anet you are doing it wrong.

Juba.8406:

Back in the days when GvGs were active and as part of a Gank squad i used Belinda’s Greatsword Skin since it brings the least visual impact making the sneaking life of the gank squad much easier especially on an Asura and since Twilight is like “target me plz”

Hmm good point. I guess for my purposes I’m concerned mainly with dueling and small group fights 1-4 players. Basically fights in WvsW where I operate as a roamer/independent player. Not all your enemies are completely fluent in all types of classes AND animations from skins. In group fights, multiple flashy (or none at all) animations in WvsW can be of benefit depending on the situation.

I don’t know what you mean by ‘playing on the Tp’. I’m going to assume you mean buying+selling on the TP and that selling on the TP (basically the ONLY way to sell anything of value) on its own is still okay.

Wintersday, selling booze on trading post.

Basically:
On a new day: Go to divinities reach….talk to tixx and get free present
-go to karma merchant and buyout the first 3 tiers of presents with karma
-hit people with snowballs for the daily quickly….
-do tink’s dungeon thing…tt or whatever its called for the 50 presents
-Go to bells and play that. when you hit 600 points exit immediately since the last stage (freeplay) doesn’t give rewards or completion points towards the achievement.
-And/or go and do jumping puzzle which i’ve heard is also a good way of farming….i lagg too much so i never farmed it.

repeat bells/jumping puzzle for as long as you can.

When you’re done: open the presents. Sell all 3 types of alcohol on the TP. If ur lucky you might get something worth 50s—>1gold+ from one of the bags. Anyways with the booze: I usually sell nutmeg for 9s50c. and the other 2 types i sell at 9s. Basically you just list them at that price or 1-2 c lower/higher based on what other orders are out there. And somebody will buy them….within the next hour generally regardless of how low the price might be at the time. Ex) asking price is 7s, selling price is 7s 50c. I scroll back and see a large order at 9s, so I list it at 8s99c just to get rid of it faster.
Obviously if the asking price is over 9s you would list it at the current selling price (or 1 copper lower than it is), whatever it might be.

So I want to be able to press a button and say a certain prerecorded thing inchat. Basic party commands for pub groups.

I bind ‘C4’:

enter+H+e+l+l+o

And it usually reads “hello” in the text chat of most games.

I do it in gw2 and it just registers the ‘enter’….so it selects chat and that’s it. So I wanted to know if the game intentionally doesn’t allow these sorts of things or if anyone else has gotten it to work and has some advice.

The software I have with my keyboard doesn’t tell me how to add a delay and doesn’t have anything in the options that adds in a delay between each component of the command….so is there any universal button that adds delay that would fix the issue if delay is the issue?

Materials vault need higher cap than 250. Ridiculous I have to keep moving them to the bank where it all piles up. Especially when crafting a single item or component of an item can require more than 250 of one material….

Was revenant too overpowered for your liking? Cause you are kinda going to the exact opposite pool of the spectrum with the choice of warrior. Well, I guess I only have 1 more thing to say then….

Welcome, brother!

Broom.2561:

Several of my relatives were alcoholics (past tense because they’re dead now… it’s not something that can be cured).

I don’t even care if you are serious or not about this. Alcoholism has no known cure? Just…
I don’t know how to display my contempt for something like that in words that have real meaning to you. I find it hard to believe that all your relatives were really addicted to the extent that they couldn’t choose ‘not’ to get wasted once in their lifetime. Ya I’m sure for some people it is a real addiction like any nicotine product. The same can be said for pretty much anything in this world though.

Whatever, sorry for your loss if this was real. But it was inappropriate to rant about it here….but maybe you said what you had to, and that’s fine.

bump

What do you want it for? PvE or Pvp? I’d be curious if anyone has a viable axe/axe build for any mode.

raven.9870:

wait wait,as you say you don’t main a warrior so you create one and catch up some builds to try it,it’s like i create a new class and i don’t know anything about it and do 50 matches..well i will die most of the time and then come here to say that class sucks..
i main a warrior, i play over 780 matches in ranked without count unranked. over 2k hours played..so this make the difference and abyss between your try and my game.
sure warrior it’s in a bad bad bad position right now,other classes make same things as warrior can do and even better,so the support he bring in a team it’s almost none in terms of buff except for might.
now,the actual meta it’s bases on cc bunker condi classes and aoe heal. there are some build out of the metabattle site,that can actually change the way the warrior has as role in team fight.
so forget about boons, and hard cc with unblockable skills, high brakestun with 2.5k heal and 1k toughness for every breakstun you has, fast change on weapon choice,block stab,and nice mobility,condi cleanse etc..it’s actually playable sure not easy,you have to be perfecet with timing and choices and you don’t have time for screw up any skill..warrior can be a real pain in the kitten and counter actual metabuilds.
you are not gonna win all the fights and sure you’ll not going to see warrior in esl until nex patch hoping they fix and balance better the actual build variety.
so from a non warrior player i can’t stant a statment that say warrior it’s useless..it is if don’t have a clue how to play it properly.

Warrior is one of the simpler classes to learn. If someone has mastered a bunch of the others, gone online and read a guide on one of the 3 meta builds we have, and played 50 matches….I would give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they have a pretty clear understanding of how the class works.

If anything you displayed the kind of warrior pride we all share. We should be more friendly to outside perspectives though, provided we wish to come off the endangered species list one day.

FatRaKoon.1782:

I agree that they should separate PvE/PvP when making balance updates, because warrior (berserker) is already pretty OP in PvE right now.

But we definitely need more direct damage in PvP, and whoever says the contrary didn’t seriously play warrior recently (not talking about hotjoin).

We are far from OP in PvE. Organized groups can do things easy with warriors, but who cares they can do it easy with most of the classes. At the end of the day, we are squishy if we go full zerker in pve. Warriors don’t solo dungeons….that’s something a guardian or elementalist does. We have raw melee damage, that’s really it. But other classes can do our damage AND outsustain us in pve (revenant/elementalist). It’s really only phalanx strength that does us justice.

What do you guys and gals think is the best greatsword skin for combat on a warrior?

Is it volcanus? The fiery greatsword skin.

Thing to consider would be:
-does the skin make movement/attacks difficult to read?
-does the skin look like a Gs or might an enemy confuse it for something else?
-does the skin make attack range difficult to read?
-does it have any other special effects that might confuse/disrupt enemy movements?

If it is a 300+ gold skin, a cheaper option would be nice to hear as well if you have any.

Congratz. Merry Christmas!

Finally somebody else makes a thread about this issue! Nobody seems to even notice that there is no winter in WvsW or Lion’s arch or in many of the other places…
It doesn’t help that we have these megaservers now as well. It’s just random people all the time…I miss having a sense of community and belonging. I don’t even see the point in differentiating between borderlands anymore…we might as well just be all the same, it’s less depressing if you think about things like that since it’s like everyone is still on the same server only it’s huge. Wintersday….Halloween….the game itself…it’s all gone downhill from what it achieved it’s first few months of being live.

Divinity’s reach is the new lion’s arch for the duration of wintersday. I don’t even use Lion’s arch right now. That’s kind of cool I will admit, since it divinity’s reach never had any real purpose for visiting on its own after story is done. But tink visited the grove the first christmas….and that had winter skin and events……AND LA Had a winter reskin and fun things going on. Now apparently all the races except humans hate wintersday….so the cool moving from homeland to homeland thing is effectively dead.

You’ll still have the same problem even with all the bag slots accessible and 20 slot bags in each. I’ve bought 1-2 extra bank slots and my bank is still completely stuffed full all the time. They need to bump storage to 500 of an item, and stop spamming dust and shards…if you can’t craft these things into their ascended mats and don’t have unlimited bank space then you are pretty screwed.

-Range+Pet or Melee+Range?
-Glass Cannon or Tank?
-Cloak or Aegis?
-Medium Armour or Heavy Armour?

This is basically the limitations of each class. It’s not to say you can’t run glass cannon on guardian or tank on ranger. Just the idea is that ranger offers you a distinct primary play style (damage oriented) and guardian offers you more fluidity (all-rounder).

For pve rangers are great since their pet can tank all the damage. Guardians are just as good, tanking hits directly, with the right build cause of their amazing sustain and tank.

I’m not exp enough with these classes to give you a more detailed answer.

1-Sell directly on TP? seems to be 7-8s/ea
2-Open and then sell contents on TP?

Which is the best option if you want to make money? (I’m partial to having the food and utility items as well, they are always useful. Although gold is the primary desire)

I mean what kind of rare drops can you get from the presents?
-booze is primary income (some1 said drop rate is ~80% from presents). worth 8-9.5s/ea
-chance of miniature (skritt (about 1-2 g)), not sure if there are any others
-candy canes 2-3 S a piece. decent cash if you get enough together.
-most food items useful to just hang onto, although some net 2-3s each.
-Snowflakes= very worthless on TP, might as well just hang onto

That’s been my experience with presents thus far. Is there anything else rare that fetches a pretty penny that might determine which route to go? There’s some recipes I know, not sure if any are worth over a gold or not.

I mean basic math if it really is 80% drop rate. Then 80% of the max sellling cost 9.5s (you gotta be lucky for that though) is 7.6s. So if you sell presents above 7.6s you are making more money than from the booze sales. But plenty of others stuff drops that other 20% of the time along with the booze when it does drop, stuff that can be sold for money although lesser amounts it seems. Or in other words if you have 100 presents its 100×7.6 (list price) = 760. Vs 80 × 9.5 = 760.

…complain and ask for a new map. The alpine maps had plenty of flaws of their own that were never addressed. But only after Christmas since they at least have friggin snow on the alpine maps…..they have something Christmas related on them! It is Criminal that they don’t have the old wintersday events and skins in WvsW. ANd I seem to be the only one complaining about this which has me dumbstruck. Was it a 2012 wintersday exclusive? Is that why nobody here in 2015 knows what the helk I’m talking about?

IT IS CRIMINAL!

Donari.5237:

As for healing, learn the rhythm and you can occasionally go hang out in the middle to get some ticks, maybe run a circle around it and snipe from there to help cut down stragglers the siege missed. Full health isn’t needful at all.

Toypocalypse isn’t challenging content. It’s fun holiday content that you can do without stress, making it precious indeed compared to the JP.

You just put a snow wall down in the center and stand on it while healing, allows you to snipe most enemies. in your los.

~163 hp/second

Whatever….you guys think it’s brilliant and fun material? Whereas I think it easily could have been this fun and brilliant material ‘with’ only a few changes. Whatever…..ya….whatever.

snip: 38 presents max you can get it seems. 10 at the end + max 4×4 times from big present + remainder 12 from chest rounds and toxx.

100 presents = about 15 gold in bootlegging. Personally, I’m not complaining since I need the money. If you already have all that though….
It’s a poor reward, meant for poor people

The grind is optional. You only need to do it for ascended/legendary gear, skins, special abilities, and ‘some’ end game content. Most of us end up doing this stuff at one point though, pretty much right after hitting level 80, cause it’s something to do.

But some people just do pvp exclusively….which doesn’t necessarily require any grinding at all to go at it with full force.

I mean if you are level 80 and you finished the story….why do anything? You have to look at the number of reasons you can scrounge up and go from there. It’s easy to understand your frustrations and arguments, but the game is what it is. Maybe you’ve done all the valuable content and should move on? Or maybe there’s something else you can find?

Apparently you have to place siege to get chest and the final 10 present reward from topocalypse. So if you join at 9/10 or 7/10 or whatever and just go around killing stuff….you aint getting the rewards.

Either that or I got some kind of glitch today (after the patch no less) that prevented me from getting my 10 presents at the end and after a toxx round in between…..even though i was killing stuff and dealing damage to both the toxx’s.

The more I learn about this gamemode the stupider it becomes. Skritt mercs don’t work. mortars are a waste of effort to build and use…They do less damage to toxx than a rifle shot does. Getting ‘you will be kicked’ when I’m standing shooting with the rifle. Getting it when I stand to heal as well….cause 200-300 tick heal = logical when you have 19k hp to regen. God forbid you need to use the washroom. Siege disappears after a timer or after you have so much on the map. It’s more efficient to stand around after you have placed your siege, and only attack when toxx golemn shows up…using a rifle. Stand and click ability 1 on rifle to auto attack and literally just press the number 1…that’s all you need to do after placing your siege. Yet you can’t. The game forces you to build for the sake of ‘looking like you are doing something’. You need to keep building against a nonexistent threat so that the stuff you built at the start disappears, cause reasons!

It’s easy to see why some things are done the way they are. But it’s even easier to see that the gamemode isn’t fun after you learn what’s really going on…which doesn’t take very long. I mean, could you make one sustainable mode for wintersday? It’s not that hard! Bells: the interval between songs is WAYY too slow. Winter battle….one team is destined to win at the start and the other to lose based on numbers. Auto balance is a funny joke.

Jumping puzzle….boring and short with the real enemy being your fellow players and lagg…and glitches. It would be so easy to make these modes funner and more sustainable…but you don’t bother putting the effort in! Someone probably designed each gamemode to be fun, and then in an effort to curb any potential abuses you destroyed the fun factor of each mode to create a boring grindfest where the ingame rewards are the only thing of value.

You created the lfg system to be player controlled and it has screwed me over constantly. You create a wintersday event that is system controlled and you destroy all fun and sustainability of the modes. They both share one thing in common though: Laziness on the part of Anet. You ship things with the intention that ‘you’ don’t have to be held liable for maintenance. Creating lazy restrictions and systems to enable this destroys the fun factor.

Case and point: Preventing Window watchers in Topocalypse?
Look at the issues:
-The mode isn’t fun and people only play it consistently for the end reward.
Solution: make the mode more fun, make more waves, make it harder, allow failure.
-Some people just stand around and go afk while others do the work.
Solution: allow players some control over their party
etc etc…..I don’t care enough to keep going.

‘A’ final solution: Make the mode funner by introducing harder waves and a high chance of failure at the end of the mode. Introduce a final onslaught round or something where failure is predetermined, but how long you last determines a small end reward. This makes placement and the work leading up to it more fulfilling. Everything can still be made to work in a timely manner so a full run through takes the same amount of time as currently or even less time than currently if desired.
If a player is found by the system to have been idle for too long…instead of kicking automatically, give the party the control over whether to kick or not. It could be just two kick votes needed by a full party. Then smaller parties only require 1 person to vote kick to have them booted. It can’t be abused AND complained about at the same time if done this way. I shouldn’t even have to explain this stuff…look at any tower defense game for inspiration, everything you need is already in existence in pretty much every game.

If there was a reward for creating something fun and destroying it with system restrictions, you would win! It’s sad, but there’s no denying it’s true. I just feel bad for whoever spent time visualizing and creating the minigames, only to see all the fun and heart sucked out of them. There’s no way somebody created toypocalypse to play the way it currently does ‘on purpose’…..

IF they aren’t bringing Christmas to WvsW why would they bring it to guild halls and elsewhere?….Oh right, gems!

Make dat money Anet Claus! Keeps more people happy!

Oh I thought this would be an intellectual discussion on what constitutes a puzzle and what is should be named…..not another /cry emote. The prize is terrible anyways….you are better off ignoring it and turning 10k drinks into gold.

Personally I was never good with hammer, and with what I run it’s not viable to learn it proper, so I don’t really go by my own experiences. I’ve seen other warriors run GS with Hammer as their offhand in wvsw very successfully. Granted these are very skilled players with full stats and they are rolling out all the stops (food buffs and everything) for ‘just’ pvp fights in ‘wvsw’. The cooldowns are pretty epic so offhand is really the only option. Switch to hammer for the burst and use 1-3 abilities once…go back to gs….when you get adrenaline again switch back to hammer for burst and land some base attacks while u wait for the cooldowns to be over.

If you have evades onhand the hammer attacks are easy to dodge. With frenzy though the game changes. All this stuff is gimmicky at best, but it makes hammer still viable to use….as an offhand, but that’s saying alot more than axe and mace (and mbe sword) got going for them currently. You are stuck with axe/shield or mace/shield.

But ya my rants were based on comparing warrior hammer to other warrior weapons….the divide between warrior hammer and revenant hammer or some other class goes without saying. Oh and I guess i was talking about just pvp gamemodes. Do people use mace and hammer in pve? I haven’t seen hammer warrior in pve since I came back to the game for HoT. Then again I haven’t seen many warrior at all.

Things were better when 2-handed weapons didn’t get 2 upgrade slots…and when I could get 2 charges for on kill sigils if I had 2 of the sigils equipped…..and when I could swap those on kill sigil weapons for different weapons without losing the stacks automatically.

Oh and I don’t think hammer needs much of a buff if anything done to it. I mean merciless hammer is crap we all know that, but it’s not needed either. Hammer works fine as an offhand. As a main it could use a bit of a buff….in which case we just need to make merciless hammer better lol; that would make everyone happy.

…but then I took an arrow to the knee. Cause I’m still living in 2013 when WvsW still worked. And everyone was tired of that joke, but it was still allowed cause people had no energy left to complain anymore.

Huh, you are kinda explaining the exact thing I’ve felt since returning to the game right before HoT. I’ve spent the time since HoT came out re-experiencing the joys I left behind 3 years ago. Long story short, the content is the same yet worse than it was before. Things have been changed to make the game really RNG (run and gun)…..so the depth and features have disappeared from alot of it. I don’t know what your time gap was….what kind of gw2 you came from and reappeared infront of. But I can tell you with the vanilla game over 3 years: there is pretty much no new content with the exception of a new lion’s arc skin, a couple new fractals (nothing amazing), ascended weapon(cheap legendary)/armour, and a new WvsW borderlands map (desert bl). That’s pretty much it in terms of new content over a 3 year period.
In terms of what was taken out from 3 years ago….alot has disappeared to favour RNG and it’s quite sad. To name a few: armour repair cost, dungeon difficulty, WvsW is broken, wintersday and halloween were the same events but restricted to tiny zones not appearing in WvsW or over the pve zones/maps like before.

The pve content from HoT is….nothing new from what we’ve already done. It’s like when you had to clear a low level zone for map completion, it’s the same old stuff you’ve done over and over. It’s just a grind. You grind and grind through content you’ve already done…that is also broken since HoT. You learn similar stuff you’ve already done and then grind through that content like you’ve already done. And you max your gear and then look for skins…again. Stand too long in 1 spot and the server kicks you. No sense of community or heart with these megaservers and the RNG system.
So what can you expect with HoT over the next 3 years if you spend it here? More of the same is a pretty good guess.

That’s my take on things as a fellow warrior.

Deniara Devious.3948:

This is dishonest and disrespectful towards the player base…..

[rabble rabble rabble]

There’s a million other threads to complain about desert borderlands on….go educate people there not here. That’s not what this thread is about. Respect the forums.

-"Players will also no longer be able to revive defeated players while in combat. "
-“points per kills”
Stuff like this. Keep adding in stuff like this. Give death more meaning, and you will give the game more meaning.

But If you are making catapults cheaper why aren’t you decreasing their damage to walls (esp. fortified and reinforced walls)? They eat through walls so easily currently that it’s arguably just as fast as rams, AND they can be placed away from defenses on the fly…safer and more efficient overall compared to rams. Cheaper costs make setting up 1 catapult position….and then moving slightly away to another position the defender siege doesnt reach (which drains their depot) a much faster process. Given how walls take a ton of supply and time to repair….catapults are too overpowered currently and this only makes them worse when large groups use them.

Keep it turned off until you see it or u will get terrible spoilers. It is too late for me. Heed my warning. Now stop reading, and don’t visit these forums or read the replies to this thread.

Amaranthe.3578:

Qugi.2653:

Just HoT. HoT have core game include free for new customer.

heh
isnt that kind of a middle finger to the ppl who bought both?

It’s a very fair business practice that makes the game better in the end for everyone. But the fact they intentionally changed existing content from vanilla gw2 and made it so you now required HoT to play/do it… WAS NOT FAIR PRACTICE. Content you paid for originally is being barred from you, and you have to pay again to have it? That’s not what gw1 or 2 was about.

Shiiroi.6035:

Yeah I think that idea would be pretty nice ! The problems with banner is that if you want to use them you need to carry them around… And that’s not so good during a pvp match.

I always thought the 5th banner skill was used to kill downed players instantly. I was surprised when I saw it’s just a glorified animation that serves no purpose. Seemed like a no brainer….would make carrying them into battle as a support more viable.

Dahkeus.8243:

I would actually say that vitality over toughness is a good idea for PvP since vitality helps against condi and gives you time to escape or get healed when needed.

The ferocity, however I agree on. I actually wonder if an int sigil would be better on the rifle.

I thought toughness was said to be > vitality on the basis that warriors don’t have good sustain. And with toughness if we have a smaller health pool our sigil of healing and regen from adrenaline allows us to stay in higher ranges instead of being whittled down. That was my understanding. I was always told vitality is better for conditions in general. But for warriors to stack toughness and condition duration decreases. Although condition duration decreases lesser than 50% never made sense to me either….you have to clear them before they do 50%+ of their damage or you are gonna die.

Phantom.8130:

One thing I had thought of, and have seen suggested on these forums, is to have EB be the central hub, then have the borderlands connect to it. What I’m thinking, though, is a series of areas. Ok, there’s be 3 asura gates in EB. Each one connected to a unique pass area, that then connects to the corresponding borderlandkinda like a hallway connects rooms. So if you were in EB, you’d have to take the gate to the pass, and then go through the pass to get to another gate that would take you to near the spawn area in that borderland. If you wanted to jump from one borderland to another, you’d have to go through a pass to get to EB, then travel across EB to get to the pass to that borderland, travel the pass and then get to the borderland.

It would have a similar effect, in delaying response times, to limit map hopping, but it wouldn’t result in people just kinda…. sitting there looking at their screen for x amount of time. They’d still be mobile, so they wouldn’t get too bored by it. Hopefully people would realize that they’d be better off breaking up their 80 man map queue blob, into 2-4 smaller groups and spread those out for better response times.

This is a terrible idea. Do you even play WvsW?

Yes cause having wintersday celebrations confined to 1 tiny area and eotm is a job well done. Let’s go back in time to 2012 wintersday…

I need clarification. I do not own HoT.

Am I able to craft ascended and legendary weapons without HoT?

I’ve been going through the wiki and things keep changing it seems. I’m totally lost on whether I can still get all the materials for legendary weapons without HoT. ANd now I’m totally lost on whether I can even get ascended weapons without HoT. One of the precursors required airship oil…..and the wiki listed every location as HoT only content. One of the precursors for legendary required an achievement be unlocked which was HoT only.

This is very confusing. They list on the top of certain pages “HoT content only”…..but other pages with the same stuff they don’t say “HoT only” even though the information they give does infact point to that.

Can I still craft ascended and legendary weapons without HoT? Yes or no? And if yes can some1 refer me to a source that explains how….the wiki isn’t clear.