Guild Wars 2

ThiBash.5634:

As a counter question, when was the last time you invited a guardian and didn’t automatically assume he was a support character? How often do you ask wheter guardians focus on support or dps? Or do you just assume that all guardians do both perfectly?

I’m guilty of this crime quite often XD. Course i’m just as guilty when it comes to warriors and assuming there nothing more then a zerker.

I’m a mix of D/D and Staff. I love to use D/D for alot of fights but when we have trouble with some area in term of CC or just distance I’ll pull out my staff.

Zelyhn.8069:

Well I am just talking about skills
I will discuss balancing later, when I have more information about the relative strength of our skills.

skill wise we’re pretty good. We got several good hard hitting attacks (provided the target stands still for long periods) we got a good number of condition types. We got a number of CC skills. we also have 3 attack range styles Dagger= melee, scepter= mid, staff=long.

Fasyx.9347:

What I´ve learned in the past: stop comparing any class with the warrior. Warriors are the kings in this game.

PvP aside. If any class is to be compared it should actually BE the warrior. Its the only class anet has openly declared quite often to be were they want it terms of balance. So the rest of us are pretty much orbiting around warriors waiting to be fixed and put beside warriors.

Sunless wings are were a 1 time event item tho It could make a come back in the late future with how anet works (likely Cash shop) best replacement would be the holographic wings you can buy in TP for a few gold

Henge.3907:

Or maybe he’s a blood necromancer?

This was my thoughts also, I looks more like he’s a Necromancer type with his face painting and cloths. They just changed the color of his skills to red most likely to give us the feeling of blood skills or just so we know what’s his and what’s ours.

I’v never minded them, mostly because i’v yet to be caught off guard because of culling and bad lag. They are pretty easy to dodge when you see them coming but I agree if we’re gonna have issues with them not even loading before being hit they need to down scaled so the most they will cause is an annoying pile of conditions.

The is a good question…. has anyone actually completed since it became a random world event?

We all know its only a matter of time before Anet gives Jormag and Shatterer there power up. So lets throw some idea out for anet to read.

Shatterer Thead https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Shatterer-Idea-s/first#post3018259

I love how after the first phase we turn him in into a pinball but what if this phase had a 50/50 chance of ending 2 ways?

The first possible fight being the phase we all know. which honestly I can’t really think anything major I’d want changed. It feels right. It’s possible to fail but just as easy to succeed if people focus on making it happen. so adding the timer would just add a new danger of failing if people goof off to much.

The other possible fight how ever would be completely different. What if he didn’t catch that cliff at the last second and fell into the water and forced us to follow after him underwater for a completely different kind of fight (not sure on mechanics at this moment)
Or for those who hate underwater fighting with a passion just to the edge with Jormag now in the water using a combination of water and ice attacks now like giant waves to push us away or even into the water with him.

We all know its only a matter of time before Anet gives Jormag and Shatterer there power up. So lets throw some idea out for anet to read.

Jormag Thead= https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Jormag-Idea/first#post3018301

I’v had several ideas for changes the biggest being minions. These dragons are the elder dragons commanders so why aren’t there legions of troops on the battle field?. I know Tequatl and Jormag have a half decent show of this force but it seems really small.

I’d love it if he took off into the air like always and started a phase where he just stayed up there raining down enemies and small AoE endlessly (none loot type to prevent farming urges) and the only way to force him down is to protect the turrets while players shot him down using the turrets in the back. Make him immune to damage so people HAVE to help and once he’s down he’ll have a weaken state for a time.

Or possible make this phase a type of collection phase were we kill off minions, pick up shards of crystals and bring them to turrets/lasers that after enough fuel is collected shots him down.

lilz shorty.1879:

Chaotic Storm.2815:

I still can’t believe I bought it for 20 gold on the last day of 2012’s Halloween. It will always be the greatest shield skin ever.

I agree its the best skin lol. And you were also smart and actually decided to buy it cheap rather then wait like everyone else, then proceed to QQ about it. Peoples logic rofl. They decided to wait a year instead, then feel entitled to get another chance. That would defeat the purpose or excitement if they brought back the same items everytime and also be annoying as time goes on. The fifth halloween there will be 100 skins to obtain? Makes no sense.

I don’t expect it to appear every year. Its easy to make multiple series and just rotate them that way even after 5-6 years (assuming its still being played after that length) we’ll still feel we have a chance to get it again over time.

Tho knowing the way anet works its gonna be our favorite BLC RNG crap to line their pockets as people throw 100’s of dollars for keys

Looking at the pack runes its gotta be that.

No surprise there. Under water combat is that amazing idea that was gonna change the way we view fighting (claims from beta times) and now its that thing they just sweep under the rug and hope no one notices.

I really miss the Old WoW pets. For a game like Guildwars 2 which is heavy into cosmetic looks and additions for characters they completely ignore hunter pets. That was 1 of my biggest joys playing as a hunter in WoW was finding that super rare pet figuring out the challenging method to tame it and then having it out for bragging rights.
We felt special having a 1 of a kind pet with that could only be seen with a hunter and never a common sight in the wild

I have the same issue 9/10 times with the big turrets, best advise I can give is ignore the mortars. No point is doing something that ‘should’ help the groups but screws you over.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Crossing

Wiki is your friend, The recipe is on it but as Wukunlin just said its disabled at the moment pending halloween so there a good chance the recipe will be changed with the up coming halloween crafting additions. Just keep an eye during halloween and after to see if it changes

Zanshin.5379:

Blude.6812:

Hopefully the devs are reading between the lines of most of the posts in the thread.
Although they may be funny,tongue in cheek, sarcastic, there is a genuine feeling that alot of players are tired of RNG and poor/limited/empty drops. People seem to accept it and actually expect little to change.

Just waiting for the next big MMO…

When I pay real money, I do expect to have something I’m gonna use in return. Not some boosters that are gonna stay in my bank. Not crappy crafting ingredients. Not ticket pieces. To me, all this RNG for real money is an insult to the customers.

know the feeling, if I was gonna gamble money away for nothing I be doing it at a casino

and this year I’m bring a bat with me to the tower so I can crack a few norn heads open before it starts.

Not sure. I know the halloween events start on the 15 but I’v heard rumors (yet to confirm them myself) that this path is gonna stay permanently

They did kinda explain scarlet reason for her crazy actions, least as much as they could without spoiling the ending.

I know what you mean. WoW did have an interesting feel for gathering exlusive materials to create something which as also exlusive. then I remember trying to horde all those items in my bank encase I needed them XD

I’v love it if we if had a dungeon that was random bosses from other dungeons and some new ones. It be a great way to practice on bosses we don’t experience much because we don’t enjoy doing a dungeon for 1 reason or another.

if it had happened to me 1 screen shot later filed in with a report for abuse would of been my reaction. A fail for them is a fail for me in the end but I sure would made sure they suffered for it.

I think this was the only mini game that ever got my excited when playing. all the others had there moments but short of southsun survival this is the only mini game that put me on the edge of my seat. Pity you can’t join in groups Voice Chats would make it even better.

Soulstar.7812:

This isn’t a new game, we had this last year.

I played as both victim and hunter.
As I recall you could hide as the victim but had no weapons, there was safe spots I think… not too sure trying to remember.

The hunter had weapons, and could place traps like poisoned food.

The game was brutal but fun.

If it actually read the post you would of got I was talking in past tence. As for weapons I recall us having the exact same weapons as the hunters only difference was it was a single us or limited skill for victims and a trap set up for hunters.

I still recall the joys of ambushing hunters in small groups till we killed him. classic hunter becoming the prey moments.

Electro.4173:

Stinson.5972:

The preview mentions “special crafting items needed for Halloween weapons” being tradeable for candy corn. I took that to meant he weapons are craftable and not BLC-related. I guess they could put the recipes in BLC’s or something, but that doesn’t seem likely.

Could be like last year where there are some craftable Halloween weapons (in fact, I’d wager that the reason they removed The Crossing, Arachnophobia, and Mad Moon was to implement these new crafting items into their recipes) and some BLC ones.

I’d be super happy if they were all craftable, though.

I really liked the idea that even after halloween if your luck with RNG is bad you still could get the skin through craftable means I’v yet to see a situation where making something craftable has make it worthless in the TP.

I’m still hoping will get some kind of jack-o-lantern focus or even better a staff that turns elementist fireballs into screaming pumpkins and necro skills into screaming skulls.

I still can’t believe I bought it for 20 gold on the last day of 2012’s Halloween. It will always be the greatest shield skin ever.

If i’m learned anything from horror it will be a Edrick’s still beating heart that he has hidden away to make himself immortal.

Conditions is 1 of the main issues with lack of build options in the first place. I use to love playing a duel sword warrior. everything about those skills that seem right except for the fact its heavy into conditions and can be blown out of the water by any Direcr Damage warrior of the same build

ANet is pretty much made conditions a by product of fights and not actually a way of fighting. I mean come on Direct Damage is independent of each player but everyone has to share the same limited conditions pool? Its a joke!

Thanks, good to know.

Wouldn’t it be great if anet held a contest for legendary Weapon designs. As good as some legendaries are lets face is most just seem to fall short of the title “legendary” in terms of apperence. So if you had the option of designing 1 weapon skin. What would it be, and what kinda effects would it have.

Who else is just dieing to play this mini game again. I still think this is by far the best one Anet has created.

We got a thread for fails in dungeons but I’m sure there has been just as many times you feel like you were standing on top of the world. So let the bragging begin!

There is a good chance the skins will be brought back just as another BLC ticket series

I’v been noticing lately when I log onto my account I will find a 2nd IP address from TX logged in (usual the same time as I do, 1 min) Thing is I’m from Canada, Saskatchewan so I know that nothing should be coming from any other computers but my home or work computer.

Is this just some kinda effect from me logging into a computer and having to verify it throught my email or is someone been able to get my information through several password changes both on my account and email.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

How ANet measures fun/success:

-No one does the ruins in borderlands
-So they introduce a daily to capture 5 of them, 2 weeks since the patch that brought them in.

What a joke.

heheh because you know by adding it as a daily it sudden comes 10X more amazing then it was before.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Anet are fools for turning GW2 into a traditional MMO. It just means that when the next newer, and thus inevitably shinier, MMO comes out, people will leave in droves because there’d be nothing unique about GW2.

sad part is there already a number of players eyeing several MMO releases this year. Myself I got my eyes on Wildstar.

+1

would be funny if they added a right click option that let people play it like an instrument.

might be a glitch, try restarting the game. if that doesn’t work, anet tech support.

and this just shows us that Anet doesn’t have a clue what’s happening with their own game.

Molch.2078:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

The only viable build with the staff is support/healing.

Besides anyone who thought “dps all the way” left ele a long time ago.

Thats funny, because Ele is #1 dps in PvE.

No, thats warrior your thinking of. Their 100 blades pretty much hold the highest dps count.
Note: Not sure if the 26k dps is still possible for 100 blades or not (never pays much attention to other class nerfs)

9/10 I love the way the colors blend in so natural

Give us some kind of self destruct ability so our deaths can have meaning. or at least a suicide button so we don’t have to just sit there and feel worthless while we slowly die out.

I admit churing earth in pvp situations is pretty bad but i’v learned to adapted with it. Now its my anti-melee spray in group situations to buy them a few extra healing/casting seconds.

Solo.9027:

Churning earth should do scaling bleeds/damage based on how long you hold the button down. A quick tap would be a minimum of the damage/conditions from ring of earth and a full churn would do what it does now. It could scale up for each second spent churning of the 3+ second cast time.

that be an interesting idea.

I myself say elementalist but the best advise I can give is play between engineer and elementalist and get a good feel for their pros and cons before deciding.

FOR PONY!

all I heard was “stronger support” and now I’m waiting for the dps nerf so staff’s Support aspect will seem stronger suddenly.

http://dulfy.net/2013/09/24/gw2-bone-pick-and-deathly-dye-pack-in-the-gemstore/