Guild Wars 2

I have 80 necro/elem all exotic and WvW all the time, in sPvP pub games though I use just thief so I can roflstomp everyone (considering 50%+ of players in pub games user berserker), you have to be joking me if you think backstab is hard to pull off or balanced.

Even if opponent is not in berserker, it’s still faceroll. Ways to counter burst thief is bunker/defense otherwise 10k+ in your back

By the time you farm enough karma and exploration, you’ll already have enough gold for other stuff.

200 skill point is probably one of easiest part of legendary, my elementalist had 250 skill points sitting around with only 55% world completion and I’m not even going for legendary on my elementalist

Make a list http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/68910-the-long-awaited-legendary-greatsword-sunrise/ and make sure you really want to start on this journey.

I been playing since beta and can’t find one /tag thread

I have noticed this too after patch, when I first started playing WvW right after launch I had almost NO problems with invisible enemies, it would happen rarely..

NOW, it’s invisible enemies everywhere, it’s ridiculous i can’t enjoy game like this. What’s next invisible buildings?

I thought i was the only one after patch, it’s not too bad for me because I’m running constant 85 fps+ but sometimes gets jerky esp on jumping puzzles that used to give “camera freakout”

Camera smoothing slider would be great

Happened to me as well

I have 80 necro and I saved starting gear headpiece to get transmuted into 80 exotic and it works perfectly on my character. I will try it with elementalist glacial eye piece when I get home.

They should just change deathshroud so you can stomp/revive with it on lmao

Okay in the video that was posted https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/my-legend-grows-forging-your-first-legendary-weapon/ dev states legendary weapon can change projectile animation, did they forget to add this to Bifrost?

When i watched someone who got first Bifrost, I was extremely turned off by it not because of rainbow but because it looks like generic staff with weak rainbow glow that comes off the character, anyone know which legendary weapon can change projectile animation?

@ Ahmon

Yeah it was joke list haha, i thought it would be obvious from wielding undead cats

Angry Flying Squirrel.3041:

@Chronologist.9782

If you did that than power Necro’s would do nuts damage with the staff. As they don’t need to be the ones that apply the conditions. Also that might as well be the scepter 3, which most people already hate.

You caught me I am power necro : \

It sounds like Necrotic grasp would have to do combination of damage to make both condition/power necro happy

@Knyx

ANet implied they are keeping an eye on thief damage output and OP listing of threads from first page is supporting the fact thief community is supporting damage output potential being great

John from ANet expressed there won’t be any knee jerk reaction to buff/nerfs but since thief damage is specifically listed as what they are keeping an eye on, it doesn’t take English major to figure out what OP/ANet is trying to convey

I guess what I’m trying to say is feast of corruption should scale better with condition build than power/crit build

Angry Flying Squirrel.3041:

Onkarunseen.6859:

Completely agree that it needs a change. Chronologist is right , i would say the traveling time does kill the skill. Slight travel time increase and some more base damage. Aoe would be cool too.

Faster Travel speed and perhaps a bump in damage would go a long way, or just faster travel and a slight bump in attack speed. Its never going to do as much damage as an Ele staff 1 attack, due to the LF gain.

I would be fine if they leave it the way it is and bump up the LF gain by 6%. Make it the Condition weapon to gain LF. It would make it feel useful.

I think staff gives good chunk LF (if it lands or pierce)

What I would like to see necrotic grasp change into:

• Travel time 75%-95% of elementalist fireball
• 2-3% more damage per condition on target

Anything more than that I think we would have to give up something

This is due to technical difficulties

In beta, loot used to be on enemy corpse instead of loot bag that drops on your feet.

This topic has been beaten to death since release of game

I am also very disappointed with staff 1 on my necro vs. my staff elem:

Elementalist Fireball

• 27.6% more damage on staff elem #1 skill
• Fast travel
• Aoe on target

Necromancer Necrotic Grasp

• 21.6% less damage on staff necro #1 skill
• Slow travel, 50%~ slower
• Pierce
• Combo finisher 20% chance
• 3% Life force

I think the thing that really kills it is travel speed for me, it travels so slow that people can outrun it (yes they can)

So I’m rocking full exotic with mostly Power/Precision/CritDmg gear on my necro and for the hell of it I decided to use scepter on main hand and to my surprise feast of corruption was hitting really hard.

My highest last night was almost 5k with it on WvW (it was to sub 80)

This made me kind of scratch my head, why in the world is scepter that stacks condition as primary attack have really awesome skill that supports power/crit build?

Well spec is so fun in WvW, I can’t play any other spec in WvW

Lol yeah when this first happened to me vs. thief I was so confused

They can steal something we don’t have and be 3x more effective

pistol necro? what in the world?

I think following items (In the order listed) would make more sense for necro:

• 1h sword
• 2h sword
• Axe
• Double wield focus
• Undead cats
• Live cats
• Pistol

sildor.8203:

Chronologist.9782:

Real problem is their support team doesn’t have ability to restore items and dev team is probably working on giving support team ability to restore items

No dev is posting here because no one knows official date on when they can retroactively resolve this

All the people that are trying to dispute GW2/Gem purchase, really? Did you not hit 80 and play this game?, didn’t gem function the way it was suppose to(conversion to gold or X)? You didn’t get GW2 because it advertised EXOTIC BOX can be purchased for in game gold lmao.. Maybe i’ll go return my car after putting on 100K cause they didn’t advertise gas prices are going to go up

Your argument is flawed.

Say you buy Microsoft points that u then use to buy a game for .. but there is a bug in the system so you wanted to buy GTA4 for 800 Mpoints but u got a Indie game that’s priced 100 Mpoints, then Microsoft says “sorry we can’t do anything about it right now”

its the same I bought Exotic armor box (GTA4) but got Rare armor (random Indie game) ..

so im out of gold (microsoft points) and have a useless rare armor that isent worth anything (random indie game) and no Eta or even a respons to my ingame bugmessage or my support message..

I feel like I have to right to demand that they do something about this, for all of us..

My biggest complain is that it looks like we wont get anything back and that is what everyone tells me ,, like thought luck you will never see thous gold again.
or you should have known that the exotic box was bugged , or just grind the money again and get a new armor..

So dear Arenanet
will we get compensated?

That is so far from what I typed

You purchase games with Mpoints. In GW2, you didn’t purchase Box of Berserker gear with gems, you used gems to purchase gold which went through fine.

Gems are worth $0

You’re comparing cats to toasters

EDIT: on side note, I’m glad people are starting to get gems as compensation

100% world completion is already part of legendary requirement

Casual players can get named exotic skin or cultural T3 weapon skin instead of legendary

Legendary item.. hard to get, crazy concept.

EDIT: also, i don’t know why you did this as Q/A? also I forgot to put in " " " " " " " " " " " " in half of my post, sorry.

I knew there was a reason why OP posted only pictures and not videos, compared to sword version, graphics is a bit lacking

Bifrost animation:
http://www.twitch.tv/xalkyriez/b/334383531

Sword animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWI7WQD_TA

Sword changes how spells look when wielding, staff does not. I thought basic attacks would turn into rainbow or something, how disappointing.

This definitely changed my mind about getting it, grats on all your hardwork though

As I was looking through some gear in the bank, I ran across lv.55 axe, it is identifical looking to seraph axe that is on under cultural weapon http://www.gw2db.com/items/59825-light-axe

I was wondering if anyone know where to get rest of seraph gear at lv.55 range

Delsaber.1562:

followed the guide on here and took me just over an hour to get 1-400 and gained 10 levels.

Kira’s suggestion is better if you would rather save gold though

Can you tell me which guide you used to get cooking from 1-400? (post september patch) ?

Staff auto attack for necro seems much less dps than elementalist(fire attune)

Am i missing something here? maybe faster cast speed?

I have 80 elem ankittenrying out necro

• Same distance with ranger/engineer 1500 with proper traits
• Downed state ability (one that can interrupt stomp)
• In-Combat weapon swap with heavy downside (lock out from attunement/swap for 10 sec)
• Reward for glass cannon (why does war/ranger does same/higher single target dps and have more defensive stats?)
• Elite ability that is worth something (seriously I would rather have another utility in elite slot than elite ability, it’s total crap)

I rerolled warrior and facerolling with rifle, it’s so great walking around with almost double base hp with much more defense and getting 10k crits. One downside is it’s boring as hell, please fix elementalist so i can come back!

I support this thread, on blackgate

Richard.8207:

Here’s one of the original discussions of WvW: http://www.arena.net/blog/mike-ferguson-on-guild-wars-2-world-vs-world

Please note I’m not saying the OP is correct in his opinion of what Anet said, just providing the blog post I assume caused the opinion.

tl;dr

I found an article related to WvW but contains nothing to support OP

Kerfilicious.5862:

I’m close to quitting my ele, not cause of the class, but because of you people and your eternal bickering, and the lack of support from the community to solve some of the obstacles.

What… do you work at some sort of PR office or something? Is this your first gaming forum you ever seen?

Corian.4068:

Are MMO players trained to play for progression rather than for enjoyment?

Subscription MMOs have, over the years, used inflating gear rewards to keep players in the game, because progression is exciting. There’s no denying that, I think everyone likes seeing their character get stronger.

However, I think in recent years we’ve come to a point where we see a growing number of people who play solely for the purpose of seeing their progression. Once they have the strongest gear with the prettiest text color or whatever, many of them simply stop playing until there’s even stronger gear to progress towards again. We all know players like this.

I question if these players even like the game they play as opposed to the feeling of getting something newer and shinier.

And why I bring this question up, is because I also question whether or not this kind of player is worth attempting to retain in the GW2 community as they are.

I would hate to see hard work on the part of the developer go into content that only a small fraction of the community will do, and even then only for about a week until they’ve progressed past it and go back to complaining.

To answer my own question in the title bar, I think the modern MMO player is trained to play games they don’t enjoy as long as there’s progression. So here’s another question: how do either the developers—or us as a community—break players of this mindset, and remind them that, well, gameplay can actually be enjoyed on its own? That exploring and playing the game IS doing content, even if there’s no gear progression? How do we make these players get it about Guild Wars 2?

Or can we at all?

Progression =/= Gear

Yes, MMO players want progression, humans in general want progression whether it’s transparent or not.

Haha that’s funny, we did the same thing to a guy. Guy that got kicked called out old school MMO players from UO/Daoc/EvE baddie cause he didn’t evade one move (guy that didn’t evade is serving in Iraq)

I propose they change voting to 3 people instead of 2, mid-fight kicking seems fine to me

willwill.9318:

I cannot find the article, but Arena.net said WvW = casual Spvp=hardcore

These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.

Agree with bugs but lmao S/D is arguably closest to balance out of other weapon combo

Banwave

That’s how Dad did it, that’s how America does it, and it’s worked out pretty well so far.

Mog.1589:

Hey folks we have a discussion about this topic going on in my guild forums and and on GW2Guru forums. I thought I would bring it up here for us to discuss as well. I will not give a TLDR summary, so don’t bother commenting if you cannot read and offer up a real discussion on the topic.

The topic is the Scoreboard, yes that’s right the end all be all to who is 1st, 2nd or 3rd. That arbitrary number that says hey your winning or hey your a loser.

Why do I bring this up, well its killing morale across the game. This number that dictates all basically is a psychological killer for those that are losing tremendously and puts the stop to WvW fun for those that are winning. So let me ask you folks this.

Does it feel good to see your server taking a beating? Do you feel like jumping into WvW and playing when your server is down by 100K+ pts or hell even 50K pts? For the most part I am sure a lot of you do not want to.

For those that are currently in match ups were you are getting stomped on and destroyed are many players in your server queuing up and trying to rally and fight back? Are the maps pretty devoid of your server mates?

For those that are winning by a huge margin do you enjoy jumping into map only to find no enemies to fight or do battle with? Is that fun?

I think many of you can answer that above with a simple yeah it sucks.

I am sure many of you have experienced this already over the past couple of weeks. You log into the game check the score and see your losing by 100K pts so you say kitten it I am not gonna bother to jump and play some WvW I will just lose money on repairs and lost siege. This acts as a cascade effect that results in many players not bothering to play resulting in very very boring WvW match ups.

Now I am not one of those people that thinks everybody is a winner. I am not preaching that at all. I believe there should be rankings and match ups and some rivalry. I think A.Net should rank the servers and should post scores. So you may now think wtf is he saying. Well the solution is simple.

Hide the score until the end of the match

This solves the issue! Servers can then duke it out aggressively throughout the week because nobody knows exactly who is winning. This will promote a frame of mind that yes I can jump in now and contribute. Maybe what I do know will help us win at the end of the week. This is a win win scenario for ALL. It removes the psychological killer and keeps the action going for all.

Doing this also will result in a one hell of climax at the end of the week as thousands upon thousands of players across all servers sit at there computers hitting thatkittenreload button waiting for the FINAL SCORE every Friday! When that scores appears and your server wins what do you think your reaction will be? Oh just think of the bantter this will create, it would be glorious!

So what do you think my fellow players!

Nope.

What….. the…… kittens…

Where did you read ANets point of view on this? their WvW system is inspired by Daoc RvR where hardcore players didn’t sleep at night to take watch at keeps or look over relics for possible stealth raid.

Real problem is their support team doesn’t have ability to restore items and dev team is probably working on giving support team ability to restore items

No dev is posting here because no one knows official date on when they can retroactively resolve this

All the people that are trying to dispute GW2/Gem purchase, really? Did you not hit 80 and play this game?, didn’t gem function the way it was suppose to(conversion to gold or X)? You didn’t get GW2 because it advertised EXOTIC BOX can be purchased for in game gold lmao.. Maybe i’ll go return my car after putting on 100K cause they didn’t advertise gas prices are going to go up

Hello fellow GW2 players,

We are looking to recruit some fresh blood to our ranks!

Who I am:
MMO player for 12+ years, UO Minax, Daoc RR8, WoW Vanilla HWL/Glad etc.

Who we are:

• Only 8 players in guild
• 3-4 of us log on every night
• Used to be hardcore MMO players
• Likes to WvW
• Age group 20-40
• N.A. timezone

Who we are looking for:

• Mature player
• Alcoholics
• Veteran players who doesn’t want to deal with idiots competing for kitten or digital cookies

We are looking to recruit handful of people for WvW and what not

This isn’t a job interview, there’s no application process – message me in game

This skill in WvW on lagger is horrendous, I sometimes end up about 500-600 range off from target on open field, feels like playing warrior in vanilla WoW again

I also ran into this bug, had haste/quickness on my elementalist for a while.

I’m almost certain this is related to guardians spell, was fighting 3v5, me (staff elem) + guardian who used zealot’s fervor + ?? and after we wiped out 5 people, I noticed I had perma haste/quickness (but no icon for boon)

I would like to see WvWvW website with statistics on it:

• Real time data of how borderland is doing
• Other intersting stats?

Hopefully this is not a repost, what do you guys think?

So basically consistent and long queue = high ranked server? lol

I think question to ask is, how is loot bag and loot bag containing badge of honor drop chance calculated

I have 1000+ unused badges? All siege plans purchased and purchased only 1 WvW item

I am in full berserker gear aimed for aoe and lots of dps, maybe contribution for a kill is a factor in getting badges? I don’t even stomp people, I just dps when they are down.

Tried couple hours ago and still getting lots of badges, maybe I’m just really lucky or I tag a lot of people

EDIT: I just realized I have almost 10k kills in WvW, so I guess it’s about 1 badge per 10 kills or so? (I don’t do puzzles or other crap)

This thread makes me laugh.

Why not make an MMO where everyone is lv.1 and have everything unlocked?

You know you got to level 80 by playing this game right? don’t you think that’s too time consuming as well? it’s easier to get full exotic than to level 1-80 lmao

The sooner people stop having to go through the pointless gear treadmill to get their exotic gear, the sooner these people can start playing the game to have fun.

I don’t even know where to begin with that statement, what is fun for you? it sounds to me like all you want to do is get best gear (yeah just say it, don’t say “even playing field”)

What do you plan on doing with your gear? it certainly sounds to me like you don’t want to do PvE exploration cause you know, that would be “an enormous grind”. How about WvW? setting up siege? NAH MAN that is a grind getting badges and gold

Here are list of games that you will enjoy:

• Bejeweled
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Team Fortress 2 (Oh not this one, there is item unlock! zomg grind!)
• Tetris
• Peggle
• Farmville
• Bejeweled 2
• http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Casual/
• Scrabble
• Sudoku
• Angry Birds
• Bejeweled 3
• Monopoly (I have to warn you, this may be a grind for you)

Making this reply was an enormous grind and too time consuming for me, I’m going to go play on Etch-A-Sketch now.

Daecollo.9578:

“1” Rifle Shot. (0 Initiative.)
1200 Range (this is basicly a regular rifle shot.)
Instant Cast Time
Does Damage
Applies x1 Stacks of Vulnerability. (8 Seconds.)

“1” Assassin’s Blast (If stealthed.)
300-2500 Range (Cannot be Fired in Melee Range.)
Does Massive Damage.
3 Second Cast time, if enemy goes into melee range, you are interrupted.
Applies x8 Stacks of Vulnerability. (8 Seconds.)

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“2” Weakening Shot. (3 Initiative.)
300-2500 Range (Cannot be Fired in Melee Range.)
Does Damage.
1 Second Cast time, if enemy goes into melee range, you are interrupted.
Applies x4 Stacks of Vulnerability. (8 Seconds.)

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“3” Sniper Shot. (4 Initiative.)
300-2500 Range (Cannot be Fired in Melee Range.)
2 Second Cast time, if enemy goes into melee range, you are interrupted.
Does Massive Damage.

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“4” Quick Getaway (5 Initative.)
300 Range
Instant Cast
Does little damage
Gain Swiftness (33% Movement Speed for 20 seconds.)
(You pull out a dagger and stab the target as an animation, if you do not damage the target you do not gain swiftness.)

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“5” Mark a Target (6 Initative.)
300-2500 Range (Cannot be Fired in Melee Range.)
Instant Cast.
Applies x10 Stacks of Vulnerability. (8 Seconds.)
Your next attack does 150% damage. (8 Second boon.)
This attack does not do damage.

This goes very well with traps, especially because they give vulnerability, however the bad thing about it is.

Pros:
- High Vulnerability.
- Massive Damage.

Cons:
- No AOE.
- Cannot be used in melee range.
- long cast times.
- Aegis (because you only fire one shot per blast.)

2500 range
Does Massive Damage

Pro:

• Tiny character (If you are into that)
• Animation is flipping around

Con:

• Camera pivot too low to ground, looking up is difficult
• Smaller Aoe (Not sure if intentional)
• You won’t see many of armor/weapon graphics

How are engineers in WvW? I have 80 elem and war, full exotic and they are hella fun to play in WvW, elem for aoe and war for sniping. Looking to trying something new, ranger or engineer, engineer looks way more fun

• Is there effective long range build 1000~1200+ for keep defense?
• Can engineers burst effectively? close/long range etc.
• What kind of roles can engineers play well in WvW?
• How are engineers in general for WvW?

I think everyone is on board with you for this idea, in BWE, badges would be on characters body instead of loot bag next to you, now it’s loot bag that drops next to you.

I read somewhere that this is difficult to implement at the moment. Regardless this should get moved to suggestions forum