Guild Wars 2

It DOES kinda spoil what happened in the last Southsun event, that brought Southsun into existance. As a lore fan I WISH I had been able to do it.

Unfortunately, Hurricane Sandy dumped 2 feet of water into my house and I didn’t get access to my PC until after November had ended (And my laptop was 7 years old and failing).

At least I’m gathering together bits and pieces now.

Saoirse.1934:

The refugees won’t be in Southsun for another coupla days until they patch in that new content on the 14th.

One thing I’ve been wondering, though… I talked to the refugees in Lion’s Arch and managed to learn what they were planning to do with their lives now that the Molten Alliance has been driven back or whatever, but… where’s Malia?! I don’t know if I was just blind, but I was looking forward to hearing where she was going to next. Found Biron, Kirk, others… No cute cub.

Check the Hatchery.

Banners stick high in the air and allow people from much farther away to see your symbol.

Capes get caught in jet engines and cause you to die.

NOCAPES!!! [/edna]

But seriously though, would be nice to have a few capes, if they can be figured out.

Yeah it’s pretty clear. ACs weren’t particularly useful and didn’t really pose much of a threat outside of narrow corridors like Pang or the paths to the SM Lord Room. Now they actually pose a threat to those in more open areas too (Still contained, but more open), giving smaller groups a better chance of survival.

The problem is abuse. That pic of 12 ACs on one door keeps popping up, and that pretty much says it all. I don’t know how often you’d really be able to MAN all those ACs, or how useful it would be when dealing with multiple broken walls or ranged catas/trebs, but the fact is it’s getting overused.

Underpowered and never useful, or overpowered and abused horribly? Which is worse?

I think the reason they’re not worth so much is because there used to be a fair chance of them dropping from Risen enemies. And there were SO MANY RISEN in Orr, combined with the low amount of recipes that use them and the low desirability of them, that everyone got them, nobody needed them, nobody wanted them, so they all got dumped on the TP.

Eventually they started dropping less often, and with the lower amount of Risen in Orr since launch they’ve become a lot more rare, but the damage has already been done.

I think it’s similar to Ancient Bones. In Halloween, they dropped OFTEN from enemies in the Mad Realm (Especially skeletons), and the high numbers of skeletons made them easily farmable. Due to this, the price went down. However the only reason THAT didn’t crash was because bones are still highly desirable both for crafting various insignias and as a component of every Legendary recipe. A similar instance, yet not as extreme.

Supply and Demand, dude. Supply and demand.

I think the little small-text warning was the best part of the whole thing. I’d say more but I’m afraid I’m being chased right now…

[Runs away, screaming, a cloud of bees flying after him.]

Nerf Superiors and keep regulars buffed?

Shootsfoot.9276:

Jemmi.6058:

I find it funny when people ask for my “honest” opinion on something. Why not just ask for my opinion?

Because we’re onto you, silly.

More because there’s a chance you’ll give an opinion swayed by not wanting to hurt a person’s feeling or else wanting to jerk around or get a rise out of them or to give some opinion that isn’t your ACTUAL opinion for other sorts of reasons.

And I find it funny that… um… I can’t think of anything here.

First run in was me (Warrior), two eles, a guardian, and a necro. Died a few times, but we figured out where we went wrong, fought hard, and eventually won. Was the first time we all went in too. AND it was a PUG.

Fun too. No yellings or anything… even had fun taunting that bloody weapons tester.
Me: That the best ya got?!
[cue dozens of red rings]
Me: HOLY-!
Necro: Ya had ta open your mouth…

It’s actually TRAHEARNE! He got a gender change, and now we all get to have our revenge on how he stole our thunder!

….ok yeah I don’t hate the guy personally but come on… how many of you would want this?

And just to let you guys know, killing the entirety of TC’s Dolyak Parade will not net you a load of points. Just horrible, painful revenge.

As a WvWer, the news of the change there fills me with utter glee. Yeehehehehehehe!

Words cannot contain the amount of glee I have for this.

Also dang you for beating me to the punch.

Summed up here…

World vs. World
Added the following rare weapon skin sets to the Weapon Master:

Aureate
Flame
Verdant
Norn

Added new abilities:

Arrow Cart Mastery
Increase range on all arrow-cart skills.
Increase damage on all arrow-cart skills.
Increase effectiveness of applied conditions.
Increase radius on all arrow-cart skills
New skill (slot 4): Toxic Unveiling Shot. Removes stealth and applies poison to targets.
Guard Killer
All Guard Killer bonuses now also apply to enemy lords and supervisors.
7% damage to guards, lords, and supervisors.
Gain endurance after killing guards, lords, and supervisors.
10% damage to guards, lords, and supervisors.
Add 1 stack of Guard Leech on killing a guard, lord, or supervisor.
Guard Leech: Gain health when attacking guards, lords, or supervisors.

Added the following guild siege weapons as rewards for completing guild missions:

Trebuchet
Ballista
Arrow cart
Catapult

Added WvW Rank progress to the WvW Dashboard UI (see top center of the screen while in WvW).
Siege weapons provide World XP when destroyed.
Siege weapons placed by Commander Siegerazer and Commander Siegecrusher now provide XP and World XP when destroyed.
Players now receive World XP for repairing gates and walls in WvW.
Players now receive World XP for defending supply dolyaks from ambushes in WvW.

World vs. World

Updated confusion and retaliation effects to do the same damage as they do in sPvP.
Added a buff to display time remaining before siege weapons are destroyed from inactivity.
Siege sites are now destroyed 2 minutes after being placed if they receive no supply.
Increased arrow-cart damage:
Increased Fire damage by 80%.
Increased Fire Crippling Arrows damage by 17%.
Increased Fire Barbed Arrows damage by 60% and increased the Bleed duration to 15^^seconds.
The “under attack” notice at objectives now displays 30 seconds after it is first attacked. Does not affect waypoint usage.
Siege weapon blueprints are now account-bound instead of soulbound.
Killing a supply dolyak now awards 3 points to the team that lands the deathblow.
Righteous Indignation now ignores damage from all sources.
Players can now deploy siege sites on enemy walls.
Siege weapons can no longer be built in no-siege areas.
Increased radius of cannon basic shot from 240 to 360.
Lotus Poison (thief minor trait, 15 in Deadly Arts) no longer applies to a trebuchet’s poison shot.
Frost Spirit (ranger utility skill) no longer applies 10% damage buff to siege weapons.
Increased boon resistance of siege golems so players can’t apply swiftness to them with increased boon duration.
Picking up supply while holding more than current capacity (due to a capacity buff going away) no longer reduces the supply down to current capacity.
WvW dialogue will now reopen to the last-viewed page.

Words cannot contain the amount of happy and glee I have for this.

Congrats on the Bolt, man. Well done.

Neb.4170:

Jokes on you, Guardian shield doesn’t have a block.

The focus does.

My head hurts.

Well the shield DOES have a skill that blocks projectiles…

I think the big issue they’re not considering raids is as follows…

One: It’s in the open world.
Two: It’s not in an instance that is just the group doing the raid.
Three: (In words some guilders might use) Those annoying little Kittens could run up and do things that could totally ruin the work we put into killing the boss, making it ten times harder.
Four: We have to WAIT to do the raid.
Five: People succeed at the defense enough times and we’ll never be able to do it in the first place.
Six: They start on THEIR timer, so some of our people might not be ready or miss it!

Mind you, I love the temple events (At least the ones I’ve done… never done Dwayna) and being in a group that pulled off Balthazar from start to finish, getting everyone to work together for a few hours after several failed escorts to finally get through and get those Obsidian Shards I needed for my Legendary, plus actually killing the guy for the first time… that was bloody awesome. Raiders would get annoyed by people constantly getting in their stuff, ruining their plans, and then forcing them to wait for everything to start or else rush in to do it when people aren’t ready.

THAT, I think, is what the raiders are upset about. Because it’s not exactly like “A dungeon, but with 8 times the people in the party” it’s not good enough.

Aren’t the custom PVP arenas meant to adress this?

Isn’t this something that custom matches in sPVP is meant to address?

If you really want skimpier clothing, why don’t you go play Scarlet Blade? I’m sure you’ll find plenty there. Here, we’re mature adults who realize not all armor needs to cover the bare minimum of decency and actually want something PROTECTIVE.

o.o I want one now.

Farzo.8410:

Since you played human in original Guild Wars, I don’t think they really used the term ‘Bookah’, only Asura did :v

“Respect yer elders kid! Ah borrowed th’ term from Vekk an a human can use it on a norn or an idiot just as well! A big lumberin’ creature with a loud bellowin’ voice. Sounds like some o’ th’ people yellin’ on th’ forums, don’t ya agree?”

histerico.6153:

So how about this for technobabble
“If I take infinite sum of the alternating geomagical sequence raised to Oola’s constant multiplied by number of veticies on an eight dimensional tesseract plus the number of days since Zaitan’s defeat that should increase my chances of finding risen in Orr.”

Finally someone gets the point of the thread!

[An elderly man sits on a rocking chair, a blue cane with a swirly top and two gems embedded in hand as he gazes out over the forums, watching the flames of those within.]

“Paaaah… you young bookahs today… yeh don’t know how good ya got it. With yer gw2lfg and yer crafting systems… ah hear ya crying about zerkers taking everything, but that’s nothing! Back in mah day we had ta wait FIFTEEN HOURS just ta get access ta th’ Underworld! Then it took another 3 hours ta form a group if we were lucky, and by then th’ KOREANS took access away from us again! Yer lucky if ya have ta wait 15 minutes ter get yer precious COF access.”

“And th’ trading post! Ya don’t have ta wait fer anythin’. We had ta trade th’ old fashioned way! In person! Yellin’ till our keyboards were worn! And usin’ Ectoplasms an’ Ambraces fer currency! And we LIKED it that way!”

“An’ don’t even get me started on craftin’! Pah.”

[The old man spits into a nearby bucket, sitting next to a blue and red flame-stylized sword with a gold hilt.]

((For those who don’t get the joke, basically making this as a silly thread for us old vets of the original Guild Wars to act like crotchety old men talking about how good the old days were, or how good the people of today have it. Be silly.))

((And no, that Korean comment isn’t anything racist or anything about Koreans. But when access to the UW and FoW was restricted to whoever held the Hall of Heroes whether it was the US region, EU region, or Korean region… well, one of the three tended to hold it more often. And it wasn’t US.))

Yanno, really the point of this thread was less to discuss the Technobabble skill, and more to come up with silly yet entertaining technobabble of your own. Because we need more silly threads.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Chessrook.8643:

I point out again that as far as I know, most if not all ascended gear can be acquired through other methods.

For amulets you will need laurels.

My bad, I thought they were also available for Guild commendations like trinkets. Very well, that one type of gear is the only other exception.

TooBz.3065:

Well, practically speaking, there can be no need in the game. It’s a game. I could read a book or watch a movie or play another game.

However, if you want to maximize your toon, then you need to do dailies.

I point out again that as far as I know, most if not all ascended gear can be acquired through other methods.

mercury ranique.2170:

Imitation, cause the real omnomberries just tastes omnomnomnomnomnomnom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqL7jyrXhLs

Pretty much yeah.

Well we Asura have a skill called technobabble, but to my knowledge you don’t hear any actually said. So lets think a bit! What do you think your asura is saying when using that skill? Give us something good!

Bonus points if you turn it into a reference!

“If I use eleven Octogonal Poly-Harmonic Matrices instead of ten, I’ll see some REAL non-trivial waste processes!”
“Should I twist the flux module 42 degrees towards the Cosmorganic Generator or nine units towards the Aquatic Amplifier and seven units above the Jocular Enhancer…. which is the answer?”

A norn, a human, a charr, and a sylvari walk into a bar.
The Asura walks under it.

A short joke or an intelligence joke? YOU MAKE THE CALL!!!!

Puaru.9325:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

I have to say, if ANet does ban people for this, I will be very disappointed. It’s not greifing, it;s not an exploit and it’s not cheating.

I’m interested in how you think building multiple flame rams in locations where they can not actually attack anything is anything but griefing. Don’t say the person doesn’t know how to play or how they work, plenty of people have told him.

He griefed Borlis Pass for weeks, now he’s in Ebay doing the same. He even publicly admits that he is intentionally burning supply.

Even though I do not approve of such tactics, I can see why. Specifically, the same reason as spying: To give your home team an advantage, and make it easier for them to succeed. Sabotage, essentially.

Is it right? About as right as spying I’d say. Is spying right? I’ll leave you guys to figure that out. I keep separate from these kinds of things.

To those who say the Sylvari are elves (And I didn’t read out the entire thread) I’d like to point out something I heard the devs said once… HUMANS fill the niche usually taken by elves in a narrative sense.

Loud, old, magical race, once powerful and very loud about it, and currently fading off for the younger races to take the mantle.

I like this idea. I do, it gives badges more of a use.

So the guy in charge is named Moto, we all know this. But the princess at the start is apparantly named Mia.

Mia and Moto.

I facepalmed.

Phlogus.2371:

I want my Charr’s eyes to flash and make a wild panther roar when i smile.

Oh that’s not a panther. That’s a Jaguar.

Crise.9401:

Wait, a virtual world inside a virtual world that takes attention away from the real world that is virtual :P.

Sounds like a virtual inception. Virtualception?

Warlander.1384:

Chessrook.8643:

250 years of time is no small amount in the realm of technological and scientific advancement. Throwing magic in the mix can just speed things up.

Props to ANet for not making another fantasy world that stagnates for millenia.

Oh really, so the asurans magiclly invented retro 8 bit arcade game items, ok cool, well maybe soon they can also invent a magic burger king where i can get a burger and win a chance at a paper crown.

Cause thats the world thats starting to get made, its already hard enough taking anything seriously when i saw a 8 foot tall charr warrior with a bouncing quaggan back pack on, an anoying sounding 8bit digital pet is even worse.

We already have hamburgers. And veggieburgers too. A comment made in Flame and Frost implied that the Molten Alliance is on the verge of creating its own computer. Asura themselves have created golems, essentially large robots with functional AI, so they have computers as well. Is it really so hard to believe that an Asura decided to use that computational power in another way and, through magic, bring those digital creations into reality?

250 years of time is no small amount in the realm of technological and scientific advancement. Throwing magic in the mix can just speed things up.

Props to ANet for not making another fantasy world that stagnates for millenia.

Can be easy for some to miss but… well… just LOOK at it!

There’s so much eighties in it my head exploded!

And was that a Jaguar reference at the end?

Aye, after playing a bit more I’ve started to take the Scepter/sword and sword/torch setup. It ain’t perfect, but it’s enjoyable.

I think the thing I’ve been frustrated with is that there doesn’t seem to really be any good area attacks in the weapon skills. No matter what, my attacks are focused on one enemy. The few times it can hit multiples, I’m forced to either line them up or cluster them in a very small area. Sword strikes are the closest I can get.

Your jeweler skill is 400, isn’t it? Because those are cool. What kind of stat boosts do they give?

Kazhiel.8194:

Chessrook.8643:

Reading up, it sounds like you’ve forgotten what one of the scepter’s strengths is, at least that I’ve noticed. It may have the lowest DPS, but it has two skills that cause confusion regularly, which is frankly quite devastating in the right hands. The way I’m playing that sounds like the things I want… illusions out the wazzoo, and confusion all over the place. A mesmer who confuses his foes in multiple ways.

I will say though, having glanced over the various trait lines the bottom two (Whatever they’re called) seemed most intriguing to me.

Scepter only has one way to cause confusion, that’s #3, unless you mean the clone creation for shattering.

Ah, I misread. Was looking at the wiki description for Ether Clone, didn’t realize the tooltip description was wrong (It says it applies confusion and summons a clone)

Reading up, it sounds like you’ve forgotten what one of the scepter’s strengths is, at least that I’ve noticed. It may have the lowest DPS, but it has two skills that cause confusion regularly, which is frankly quite devastating in the right hands. The way I’m playing that sounds like the things I want… illusions out the wazzoo, and confusion all over the place. A mesmer who confuses his foes in multiple ways.

I will say though, having glanced over the various trait lines the bottom two (Whatever they’re called) seemed most intriguing to me.

So I’ve made a new mesmer, and having looked over the skills I’ve found myself having trouble picking a weapon setup. Or at least one for my secondary.

I’ve tried a few so far. Staff was dull and Greatsword was also boring, with very little happening or anything like that. I’ve also tried a sword main-hand (Not very happy) and a focus (eh). What I HAVE liked so far, though, is a scepter/sword. The mixture of two defensive block skills, along with the high refresh rate of lost illusions, means I almost always have doubles everywhere. And while I don’t know how that affects damage (Still trying to understand the difference between clones, phantasms, and so forth), it at least dumps a LOT of dummies for others to attack.

What about the rest of you? Opinions on weapons and the like?

For all situations, by the way. Levelling, PvE, WvW……not really sPVP though, I don’t do that much.

Teca.1872:

15 is Recruit…feel like i got demoted with that title

Au Contraire. If you’re a raider, assaulter, or invader, you’re just a single random shmo running around on your own. As a recruit, you’ve been DRAFTED. Be proud to be part of the army!

Clever, but reading the title I can’t stop thinking of a skritt rolling down a hill in a barrel he knocked over because he saw something shiny inside.

Well it’s for all the people whose achievement scores aren’t high enough or shoulderpads aren’t big enough.

Size matters after all. ;3

morrolan.9608:

Hope all the other splash damage that goes through doors was fixed then eg. engineers flamethrower?

That wasn’t. Or at least, Guardian Staff 1 got through the doors.

Vayne.8563:

The question is why are people so attached to these short cuts?

Because speed, efficiency, and higher gold-per-second acquisition rate.