Guild Wars 2

My part is in here, we killed some candy corn and now we are stuck…it seems nothing or anywhere we go (completed the jumping portion all the way to the bottom and there is no where else to go) will trigger the mad king…

Can anyone help

Aether McLoud.1975:

Well if you spin really fast with 2 daggers, you’re going to reflect all projectiles. But an immaterial tornado? kitten that kitten, shoot it down. Le sigh.

Haha yeah, not to mention the Tornado graphic not showing up 75% of the time.

Could someone please explain to me, why we can bleed, be poisoned AND crippled as a bunch of mist, or a raging tornado made of wind….last time I checked a tornado couldn’t stub it’s toe on a building and limp away.

Also just a little more feedback, people will respect and want to try yoru spec/advice more if you show it to them in actual use, like sPvP or WvW.

Just trying to help.

Teulux.6732:

omg you had to figure out something on your own? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO?! /slitwrist (<I was unable to figure out the changes to the game without it being spoon fed to me)

You act like this is the only game to have changes made to it and not be told about them. Log in and figure out the changes on your own. Not very hard simply by playing the game.

Ok, you are obviously trolling or have some very bad anger issues….it’s alright, you made a dumb post and got called on it man, just move along…

The main point (talking to the rest of the people) is that I have seen post after post of people asking for the patch notes especially when they start noticing their skill don’t work like they did 5 min before.

And to tell Teulux one more thing, it’s not our job to log in and test every aspect of the game to see what has changed, it’s ANets job to provide patch notes to their player base.

Teulux.6732:

Do you REALLY need a post saying “routine maintenance no changes were made” ?

Honestly do you need someone to help you put on your pants in the morning?

If there are no patch notes then there are no changes that you would notice

It is not really that hard to understand. They give us a game with more then 90% up time, the ability to patch on the fly and you still cry about anything you can think of.

This is a perfect example of someone who doesn’t think….at all…

If I signed on and things weren’t ninja nerfed i.e. RTL, Drop rates etc…then we probably wouldn’t care…but when that stuff happens all to often YES we want to know…

Next time you post please think before typing.

I appreciate you making a video man, but at least talk over some gameplay…you jumping around annoyed me so much I couldn’t finish either of the 3 videos.

I know this has been the source of a lot of disrepair for the community.

The bots are VERY annoying and ruin gameplay, but I wanted to share something from a post. This is an official ANet response on it.

Hopefully this will make some of you feel better.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lets-talk-about-that-GW2-Article-on-Gamespy/first#post550927

“Hey folks,
Since it has been a few weeks since we gave an update on this, just wanted to quickly update where we stand. We recently hired an entire new team of people with one mission in mind: operation bot destruction.

They’ve been getting everything in place to accomplish our goal of making botting, hacking, spamming, and malicious behavior as non-existent as possible in Gw2. In the last few weeks, over 10,000 bot accounts were banned from the game alone. Another area of massive improvement has been in account security, where our two-factor authentication as well as your password changes have led to account thefts dropping to a tiny rate. A vast majority of account thieves use those accounts to run bots and/or perform RMT transactions, so our serious beefing up of account security has led to fewer bots, and most importantly fewer stolen accounts. That being said, we have massive improvements on the way in the next couple of weeks that help us detect, verify, and remove botters.

What we don’t want to do is have someone report you as botting, we ban the account, the bot appeals, and we have no data to prove they were botting on file so we have to give them the account back. Ensuring we have 100% clear data on bots that’s incredibly easy for our GM team to quickly verify, and when an appeal is submitted verify within seconds if the person was truly botting is our most important goal. We don’t want to ban people who were not botting, and we want to keep the people who are permanently locked out.

Bottom line: We’re doing ok, but we know we can and need to do much better on this front and are putting massive resources behind ensuring we have a permanent solution to this issue. You’ll see a dramatic improvement in this area in the next few weeks as our remaining detection and bot destruction tools and staff come online.
We’ll continue to keep updating on this front as we go forward, but rest assured we are aware of issues folks are raising and take them incredibly seriously. From FOV to bots, account restoration to more awesome stuff to do at level 80 we have teams working like mad on all of these fronts."

It’s kind of getting annoying to download a patch and have no patch notes to go along with it.

ANet is beginning to get a reputation for ninja nerfing/incomplete patch notes, so i would like to know what I am downloading whenever I go into the game.

Just giving feedback that a lot of people would love to see the notes every patch, even if it’s one item.

Do you think the game would be better off without it?

Do you think the skill needs adjustments and is too powerful?

Do you think it is fine as is?

Could we please get some patch notes?

I have patched 3 times today and the latest notes at 10/24/2012.

Does ANet know Warriors are bugged and hitting people anywhere from 30-60k with a certain attack (I wont name for obvious reasons)

Wow…people like Calle make me laugh…they didn’t even read the OPs message, just the title and made a really dumb remark.

Funny post though OP

Boloth.6879:

If Guild Wars 2 was e-sport material it would have been one yesterday.

Developers can’t just will an e-sport into existence. Video games become e-sports when there’s a community of players and spectators that feel the game is worth taking seriously on a professional level.

sPvP features, balance changes, and ranking systems won’t change a thing as long as PvP is the MMO equivalent of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

If ArenaNet truly wants to create an e-sport they need to create a good PvP experience first, the rest will take care of itself.

All I can say is facepalm this is just…..facepalm

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-October-22-2012/first#post506037

Read the bottom and feel exactly how your post looks.

They brought it to us when it was right and when it was stable.

Thanks ANet for quickly addressing the issues and not letting the community waste their money in paid tournys on unstable servers.

iCryptik.1496:

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I do a ton of damage, have survivability, and get out of dodge before it gets to bad and then run back in after I heal.

Surivability? I am not sure you know what Glass Cannon means :P

Nah it looks like a good spec, I will def give it a try!

Thanks for posting!

Quick tip, asking for a red reply usually guarantees you will not get one.

If they replied to one person because they asked on the forum, every thread would contain “Red respond please” in it.

Salvo.8290:

I want a formal response to the issue of teleporting through base walls. What is the purpose of having a door if you can teleport through the wall and kill the lord? Some people claim that it is not an exploit, but I want Anet to comment in the forums on this. If base doors were not meant to be destroyed in order to enter a base, then why have them?

A little demanding aren’t we? Geez, have you ever heard of a bug before?

If you think it is intentional then you are just out of your mind, yes it’s a bug…you would be in a better place using their in game reporting feature for bugs instead of coming here demanding responses. All that does is make you look childish.

You children are so quick to judge when you have no idea what their plans are, what the development cycle/process is and what can/does happen that could throw a wrench in it.

Did you ever stop to think they are working on the problems, that the game is still young and they are working the bugs out.

They already announced more game modes coming, they announced PvP is a focus and they already announced Paid Tourny’s are coming when they get the servers stable. Why? Because they don’t want you wasting money on paid tournys if the servers crash…geee that sure sounds like a money hungry company to me.

You are acting like spoiled brats, they are doing everything they can and you just want want want…they give you a ton of new/cool things and you just sit back and find something to complain about.

Just sit back, shut up and play the game…ANet is doing a bang up job and I have every bit of faith that they will keep balancing (Which they have been at a non knee jerk reaction) and they will keep making this game awesome.

Reduced fear’s maximum stacks to 5 to prevent excessively long periods of time where players don’t have control of their character.
Updated the stability boon to stack duration up to 3 times.
Elementalist
Air Pocket: This skill no longer allows players to shadowstep out of water.
Cone of Cold: The healing gained from the this skill’s heal attribute has been increased from 480 to 780 at max level.
Earthquake: The responsiveness of skills used after this skill has been improved.
Fire Grab: This skill has had its attack angle increased.
Glyph of Renewal: This skill no longer resurrects dead allies; it only revives downed ones.
Lightning Touch: This skill has had its attack angle increased.
Magnetic Grasp: The responsiveness of skills used after this skill has been improved.
Ring of Earth: This skill now applies cripple.
Signets: All signets have been updated to function properly with the Earth Magic traits Written in Stone and Signet Mastery.
Downed State Updates
Discharge Lightning: This skill can now stack vulnerability up to 2 times.
Grasping Earth: This skill has been moved to skill 3 and given a 10 second recharge. Damage has been increased by 50%, and it bleeds enemies on every pulse. This skill can now be interrupted by other skills.
Vapor Form: This skill has been moved to skill 2, is instantly available upon being downed, and has a 20-second recharge.
Guardian

It would be really nice to be able to read the patch notes while we download the patch, not 20 minutes after.

Just a suggestion

Same for my wife and I…

They said October 22nd, if they do it at midnight that would be October 23rd…

The Anet post I saw was a response to a forum thread, I will look for it.

Even though, isn’t it after midnight GMT anyways?

I saw an ANet post saying it was coming at midnight for European players to everyone…that was a while ago so, where is it?

Natural.7013:

How does everyone feel about the coming nerf to what it takes to get the legendary? As someone working hard towards it, kinda makes me want to stop if this is true.

Really? This is what it’s come to for people to complain about?

You still have your item, you can still use it and they aren’t touching the stats…

Don’t pout and stomp your feet….you will be ok…

The game is just fine, I am leveling an alt right now and every zone I go to I see people everywhere.

You also have to keep in mind that people might be playing their level 80’s…

Also WvW is VERY active to the point of long queues…

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Players log
2012-10-21

07:30

The three guilds I’m currently in are empty. I take a survey, four people respond when I ask in map chat who’s out there I run around through several empty dynamic events. The game is built with dynamic events being a critical component of story delivery, but they aren’t designed to be solo-able.

I could try my luck, crack my armor, spend my in-game savings. This is so frustrating. I do a few heart quest, one has me gathering items and taking them back to an NPC, I get bored quickly. I try for the next chapter of my personal story but fail it. It wants me to be two levels higher than I currently am. My armor isn’t good enough, have to grind….

08:30

I’m in Lions Arch selling loot and doing a little crafting. My loot is mostly whites and blues. trash items. I take what bronze I can get. I’m bored, going to check out the human starter area maybe there are other players there in zone for my level.

I arrive in Divinity’s Reach. Mostly a ghost town. I step outside. I cross the bridge and run past the sprinklers on the hill. Other players! Rangers with bears! A lot of rangers with bears I run with them, but they don’t respond to my local chat. . I don’t like this group, I move on.

In the swamps I see a very large creature spawn. He’s huge. We have three others players here trying to take him down, but simply not enough to make it work. We all die many times before giving up the fight.

09:30

Signing out…

This really is the weakest attempt at “The game is dying” I have ever seen in my life.

It’s Sunday morning, some of us actually like to sleep in on the weekends because we were up late either out, or playing GW2 the night before.

Did you ever think not everyone wants to wake up at 7:30 am on a Sunday morning?

nerva.7940:

im loving wvw. 3 80’s? u need a break. and stop posting about leaving/quitting. no1 cares you’ll just get flamed.

You should probably read the post before responding like this.

It really makes you look bad.

Why do I still take damage from bleeds if I am in the mist…I thought I was supposed to be water vapor, last I checked water vapor doesn’t bleed.

I find that in a thread with 130+ posts, screenshots from multiple people clearly showing the problem and their frustration to be very disheartening that ANet hasn’t made a post yet

Yeah I mean, I really appreciate people like Arheundel giving advice and what he does. I am not one to make a post and just go NO PVP SUCK blah blah…

I would LOVE to hear strategies from everyone and how they are dealing with it, I am desperate to fall in love with this PvP because I like ANet and I like GW2, but not enough to stay silent when there are clearly broken things.

Arheundel.6451:

Chris.7653:

Arheundel.6451:

Chris.7653:

Before the flame war starts, please hear me out…or see me out..whatever the text translation is.

I have done nothing but champion for ANet and go to bat for them, but I just can’t take this PvP anymore.

I have come across few games with worse balance issues than this game, worse CC spamming and worse “Alpha strike” (when they blow a CD and kill you within seconds)

Well play better! Yes I agree, there is always something that can be done, I have watched videos, learned class mechanics by playing as the classes I have trouble with and done my research on what to do in several situations.

Well get better by playing! I have played a lot and specifically geared my skills/gear to try and prevent some of this burst.

What has it done? Nothing, you still get killed within seconds, there is no DR on anything so if you come across a few classes that can CC, you might as well go get a drink cause you wont be playing your character at all as you watch them lay on the ground.

This isn’t skillful pvp…it doesn’t take skill to pop a couple CD’s and kill someone within a couple seconds. I am sorry if you think that is what it is, but it is not. There is little strategy in the game modes as well because a lot of it weighs heavily on your group make up.

I wont even get started on bugged skills…

All in all, I am gonna give it some more time and really try to love this PvP, but at the current rate…no one I know enjoys it and we have all been hardcore PvPers for years and years in many different games. The CC, Burst, unbalanced classes, BUGS, and static game mode just ruin it.

Anyways, I am sure I will get a bunch of hate replies or “l2play” comments but please understand, I give feedback because I care and I want the devs to see not everyone is just happy as can be so maybe it can help in making the game better.

Seriously pls guys….I don’t get it at all…I’m playing a freaking ele( the profession with the most whine threads) and I don’t see any of the problems you mention, it’s really a matter of l2p man, during every fight I’m well prepared to be CCed at least 4-5 times in row, jeez during tournaments I prepare myself to be the target n1 and still do great

I’m sorry man, but the issues a lot of people are encountering with bugged skills/traits, insta gib classes, chain cc and everything….this really isn’t a l2play matter.

On top of stun braker, you’ve got interrupts also that you need to save for those chain CC sequences, professions which use CC chains tend to become predictable so you can sort of try to develop a counter strategy that works for you.
For example I use d/d ele to counter every other profession now, using the same build I simply change approach, from counter oriented to extremely aggressive style ( against mesmers where speed is everything).
Against those CC sequence I make great use of chill ( which I can stack up to 14s in one go based on the enemy) and burst them down afterward ( as they’re extremely squishy compared to me)

Do you mind if I message you in game? I am open to any and all strategies man and I am very interested in any advice you could give me as well.

Arheundel.6451:

Chris.7653:

Before the flame war starts, please hear me out…or see me out..whatever the text translation is.

I have done nothing but champion for ANet and go to bat for them, but I just can’t take this PvP anymore.

I have come across few games with worse balance issues than this game, worse CC spamming and worse “Alpha strike” (when they blow a CD and kill you within seconds)

Well play better! Yes I agree, there is always something that can be done, I have watched videos, learned class mechanics by playing as the classes I have trouble with and done my research on what to do in several situations.

Well get better by playing! I have played a lot and specifically geared my skills/gear to try and prevent some of this burst.

What has it done? Nothing, you still get killed within seconds, there is no DR on anything so if you come across a few classes that can CC, you might as well go get a drink cause you wont be playing your character at all as you watch them lay on the ground.

This isn’t skillful pvp…it doesn’t take skill to pop a couple CD’s and kill someone within a couple seconds. I am sorry if you think that is what it is, but it is not. There is little strategy in the game modes as well because a lot of it weighs heavily on your group make up.

I wont even get started on bugged skills…

All in all, I am gonna give it some more time and really try to love this PvP, but at the current rate…no one I know enjoys it and we have all been hardcore PvPers for years and years in many different games. The CC, Burst, unbalanced classes, BUGS, and static game mode just ruin it.

Anyways, I am sure I will get a bunch of hate replies or “l2play” comments but please understand, I give feedback because I care and I want the devs to see not everyone is just happy as can be so maybe it can help in making the game better.

Seriously pls guys….I don’t get it at all…I’m playing a freaking ele( the profession with the most whine threads) and I don’t see any of the problems you mention, it’s really a matter of l2p man, during every fight I’m well prepared to be CCed at least 4-5 times in row, jeez during tournaments I prepare myself to be the target n1 and still do great

I’m sorry man, but the issues a lot of people are encountering with bugged skills/traits, insta gib classes, chain cc and everything….this really isn’t a l2play matter.

Before the flame war starts, please hear me out…or see me out..whatever the text translation is.

I have done nothing but champion for ANet and go to bat for them, but I just can’t take this PvP anymore.

I have come across few games with worse balance issues than this game, worse CC spamming and worse “Alpha strike” (when they blow a CD and kill you within seconds)

Well play better! Yes I agree, there is always something that can be done, I have watched videos, learned class mechanics by playing as the classes I have trouble with and done my research on what to do in several situations.

Well get better by playing! I have played a lot and specifically geared my skills/gear to try and prevent some of this burst.

What has it done? Nothing, you still get killed within seconds, there is no DR on anything so if you come across a few classes that can CC, you might as well go get a drink cause you wont be playing your character at all as you watch them lay on the ground.

This isn’t skillful pvp…it doesn’t take skill to pop a couple CD’s and kill someone within a couple seconds. I am sorry if you think that is what it is, but it is not. There is little strategy in the game modes as well because a lot of it weighs heavily on your group make up.

I wont even get started on bugged skills…

All in all, I am gonna give it some more time and really try to love this PvP, but at the current rate…no one I know enjoys it and we have all been hardcore PvPers for years and years in many different games. The CC, Burst, unbalanced classes, BUGS, and static game mode just ruin it.

Anyways, I am sure I will get a bunch of hate replies or “l2play” comments but please understand, I give feedback because I care and I want the devs to see not everyone is just happy as can be so maybe it can help in making the game better.

Hammerheart.1426:

Play a class that has to actually WORK for burst damage (Elementalist for example), and then play a Thief, you’ll see how stupid easy it is to burst as a thief. They don’t need a damage nerf, they need their playstyle difficulty increased.

Typical D/D Elementalist “damage rotation”
Start in Air
Ride the Lightning (4)
Updraft (5)
Signet of Earth (Util)
Shocking Aura (3)

Swap to Fire

Fire
Burning Speed (3)
Ring of fire (4)
Drake’s Breath (2)
Fire Grab (5)

Swap to Water

Water
Frost Aura (4)
Frozen Burst (3)
Cleansing Wave (5)
Cone of Cold (2)

Swap to Earth

Earth
Magnetic Grasp (Or Signet of Earth if its back up) (3)
Earthquake (4)
Armor of Earth (Util)
Churning Earth (5)

After that it takes an on-the-fly assessment on what to switch to next.

Thief
Assassin Signet
Steal
Haste
Heartseeker Heartseeker Heartseeker

I guarantee you just did more damage than my Elementalist.

Nerf the damage? Maybe its not neccessary, just nerf how kitten easy it is to achieve it.

VERY well put…It almost makes you wanna give up on playing other classes when they can achieve in just a couple buttons what we have to actually work hard for.

TeoH.2098:

Thieves will occasionally perform the same animation more than once in succession, this apparently gravely offends people.

Get over it. This is not a class balance issue.

Except that little combat log thing, or the death recap…You know, the ones that CLEARLY show heartseeker spam.

Jay wilson.1702:

anet got sum nerfing to do he has a vid at the bottom of him 1v1ing every class

You already posted this on other threads. Just because you couldn’t overcome it, doesn’t mean it needs a nerf.

I will def sign off on heartseaker having a 2 sec CD.

I know all of you are trying to help.

But clearly stating something will or will not be is an out right lie and you know it.

You have no idea ANets plans or what features they have coming. So to answer something like that is 100% a lie.

I am referring to posts like Milenchy’s.

Does anyone find it ironic that in the second video, one of the people that got owned was an Ele?

That is a bold claim you made OP, and without any actually data to back it up or screenshots, this sounds like a troll post.

TheWarKeeper.5374:

im happy that youve found a build that made you happy, let me know how it turns out vs players that actually knows how to play.

This type of response is just the worst.

It comes from a jaded player trying to ruin a good post from someone trying to help the community and likely isn’t very good at the class to begin with.

OP thanks for taking the time to create this post for us all to enjoy.

Red Falcon.8257:

This will be locked because it’s the wrong way to report.
Click their name, report, botting.

I wasn’t reporting it, I was commenting on the explosion of bots I have seen recently.

Gentso.1852:

My guild transferred recently and I can’t transfer to the server because it’s full. I understand that WvW is unbalanced but this particular server isn’t even winning, or even close to it. This is pretty lame.

Before you come here with that attitude you should probably understand how it really works.

As soon as the server drops to high population as people sign off you can transfer to it.

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone else has seen this type of thing yet.

As we all know bots have been in the game since the beginning, but I have seen a RAPID increase in them lately.

Look at these screenshots…it’s very frustrating, especially when my wife and I were trying to do a heart and they kept coming through wiping out all the mobs.

Keep in mind everyone (except me and reinea) you see in these screenshots are bots that we watched for quite sometime.

Just a heads up, ANet has already announced D/D improvements and downed state improvements coming for ele.

Rezo could you expand on what makes it a nightmare?

Is it our skills or because we die fast?

If it is the die fast part, would stacking vitality and toughness work? Or is the class more of glass cannon or no damage.

If it’s the skills what do you think is wrong with them?

Truga.5897:

Hi, OP.

Ele is amazing. Anyone telling you otherwise is either bad or didn’t do their homework.

I currently roll two builds. First one is for general solo PvE. Full “Carrion” armour and jewellery set, along with carrion weapons. The set gives condition damage > power = vitality. Traits are 0/0/10/30/30. I usually run earth’s embrace for earth trait, cleansing wave, cantrip mastery, cleansing water for water traits, and elemental attunement and evasive arcana for arcane traits. For the second arcane trait, select the weapon you have equipped (windborne dagger/vigorous scepter/blasting staff).

With ~20k HP, PvE is easy peasy, you can take plenty of hits, same in small scale pvp (wvw roaming or spvp). You will be permanently dealing upwards of 1000 dps in condition damage alone (if the enemy is removing them, you’re on a much shorter cooldown), with some extra damage from all the power on your gear. D/D and S/D is great in this build, but fire staff DPS is a bit lacking, due to not enough burning effects, but in a good group that uses the fields you put down, it’s still not bad at all. The amount of healing and condition removal you can do in dungeons is great, too, thanks to water fields + evasive arcana. Rolling into a water field while attuned to water should heal for ~3k+ from the blast and evasive arcana effect alone.

The second build I use is strictly for group PvE/dynamic events and large scale WvW battles. It’s a 30/20/0/0/20 build with a full set of (lol blue) berserker gear. Traits are pretty simplistic, more damage, even more damage against people under 25%, free might stacks every fire spell you cast, blasting staff, etc. I don’t remember all of them right now.

It deals insane amounts of damage in fire with any weapon set, but is very squishy. Not that it matters, you have plebs… err non-elementalists to act as meat shield. 1200 range should mean you don’t even get shot at in zergs, and meteor shower can extend this range ever further, thanks to it’s huge aoe. Combine the range with frozen ground from water and the crippling line thingy from earth for ultimate lols.

Staff auto-attacks and lava font will crit for ~2k+, meteors will hit for 3k+, clearing any and every enemy you come across in short order. Just stand inside your team’s zerg and spam meteors and lavafonts, while autoattacking during cooldowns. Infinite kills for free. Use fire signet for more crit, mist form for escaping tight spots and arcane wave as a blast finisher for stacking even more might with your eruption+lava font combo.

These are two, pretty straightforward builds. They’re both very easy to use, and work very well in their intended roles.

Thank you for this awesome and constructive post. It really helps when people like you take the time to write something like this.

In WvW with your Staff build, do you usually get a lot of kills (meaning loot bags) cause I have been having trouble getting them without a siege weapon.

I just hit 30 and placed my first 10 into water, and second 10 into Earth which gave me more hp and toughness and have been trying to mix my gear between power/vit/tough and I run scepter/dag.

Do you see anything wrong with scaling my gear like that stat wise?

I see your point…but can you share specific cases of where it is bad also where it is good?

DreadShinobi.4751:

Progressively losing more and more faith about Anet being able to prioritize.

Just because they don’t prioritize based on YOUR belief on what comes first, doesn’t mean they aren’t doing it right.

You don’t know what they are working on, heck they already announced buffs for D/D ele coming.

Statements like this in my opinion are just pure ignorance.