Guild Wars 2

Joonks.7501:

OP: “Be a decent human being.”

spvp Forum: “wtf who r u 2 tell me wut 2 do?!?! U work for anet,kittenwe have a RIGHT to be toxic/terrible/immature”

I wonder what the average age of this forum is.. I’m guessing somewhere around 15. A whole lot of insecure, awkward teenage angst being unleashed on Anet in these forums.

Lol I’ve wondered that too. I truly believe that over 50% of the community on the forums is 18 or under. It really makes sense when you read it with all the immature posts of rage and such as well as all the self entitlement. But I definitely agree OP. I’ve been mentioning how people are so disrespectful on the forums for quite sometime. But they are young, you can’t tell them they’re wrong. =\ If only they would listen and the forums could be a better place. Being respectful and offering constructive criticism definitely makes someone reading it with a different point of view more constructive in that you actually might change their opinion with a light debate instead of telling them that they are bad at the game and need to learn to play and all the other more hateful personal attacks that will only make them angry and in no way change their mind towards your point of view because they lost sight of that and can only think of a way to get back at you.

All Ele builds plus more builds to play with

That’s really a great point that I hadn’t really thought about too much. The fact that warriors have such a high hp difference to other classes make it so that they don’t “have” to spec into more defense to survive. It’s an option rather than a necessity for a different build for a different role. The other one you mentioned about certain classes having a lot less weapons available meaning less skills also makes more builds less available. If certain classes base hp/toughness was increased as well as the amount of weapons they can use there would be a lot more options. Good point. I like it.

Reanne.5462:

Sounds like there are as many trolls in this post as their is on that server.

Probably about 90% of the forum community is tbh. Just hateful people. I would suggest writing on a different gw2 forum if you’re trying to contact a gw2 community about this because most the people on this forum are rude heartless people to begin with who probably do what you experienced.

Ariete.6509:

Well, but it’s. easy to control right? Like if you know you placed a fire field first, your blast is a guarenteed might. Apart from the odd ocasion when it can happen a split second missed oportunity, the “First come, first serve” basis, still offers a reliable combo.

I can appreciate a first come first serve basis but it would be nice if your personal combo field overrode that for yourself only if you get what I mean. And blasting combo fields that aren’t mine happens quite often on a cap point in spvp and also in the middle of zeeg battles. A lot of the times people lay down these fields on a cap point or zerg is just to get that extra damage effect they offer instead of thinking that they might be taking away from a much better field for that time such as guardians light combo field on staff that gives damage while its down will help them tag more people for bags in WvW.

I really feel that your own personal combo field should be prioritized for you first. I really hate when laying down a fire field as an Ele and blasting it with something like churning earth, that has a long CD, only to get something like retaliation instead of my might upon detonation which makes my attack a lot weaker than it was going to be as well as puts 2 of my skills on CD. This has happened to me on plenty of occasions and unless it’s a bug that happens on the occasion and they are prioritized as yours first then it should be changed. Thoughts?

They need to be extremely toned down in sPvP. Either that or some of them need to be removed from the game. There’s no need to have 6 different conditions on you at the same time. Why make it so complicated. I’m sorry but I really don’t think that by letting people be more aware of conditions earlier in the game in “PvE” that it will fix anything at all. Conditions in PvE are useless as is and thus generally ignored even in endgame PvE.

I don’t understand why people have to post hate posts and say people are bad at the game if they don’t have the same viewpoint as you. Forums really show who people really are which are just hateful disrespectful people. It doesn’t take much to respond with respectful criticism although I’m sure you don’t know what that is. =\ If you would like I could give you an example and turn amy if these hateful posts into one. You get angry when he asks you for a duel and post even more personal attacks at him when the reason he probably even posted that is because you put him into a position where he felt he needed to defend himself. I guess you got what you wanted.
Oh and when it comes to the moa, if you know how to use the skills it really isnt op and I’d much rather them use moa than passively kill me with their phantasms even more while stealthed. PU mesmers are so annoying.

style.6173:

@OP:

Elementalist needs help in PvP. It does NOT need help in WvW. It is already one of the 3 most important classes to groups, and has good roaming skills. If you are getting killed quickly, it is you.

We do not need a return to the days when ele was overly OP. That will just get it nerfed again.

Lol no. S/F might have one good combo that can instantly burst someone but that’s it. All CD’s after that if you miss that one huge combination of 20 skills at once and you’re dead. No stealth or mobility like a thief for protection. But then we’re just talking about one weapon set. What about D/D? And staff is only good for zerging with nobody attacking you.

Simon.3794:

from your post, its more like a l2p issue then an actually class balance issue.

lol, I don’t know where that came from and how you came to it. He said nothing except saying that Ele’s are in a horrible place in PvP right now (which they are) and about why warriors haven’t been nerfed yet (probably just adding it in because of his frustration of how many benefits Warriors have comparable to Eles)
I agree with him. Let’s hope this patch is a good one.

Thief just seriously needs to be redesigned. I mained a thief for a long while and it got so boring it was stupid. There is no diversity within the weapon set at all. ZERO. D/D and D/P all rely on backstab. CnD/Backstab or BP/HS/Backstab. Everything else is completely useless when it comes to damage. Then you have S/P which only relies on Pistolwhip while everything else is useless for damage. You can’t really blame thieves because that’s all they have for damage so it is the only thing they can use to survive and win and not to mention that they have initiative instead of CD’s. I mean if Ele had intiative instead of CD’s you know everyone would probably be just spamming “Burning Speed” in D/D instead of using combos and certain tactics. Then we go into how broken stealth is in this game. Or maybe it’s not broken but the fact that thieves have to rely on it so much makes the class broken. D/D and D/P (especially D/P) extremely rely on stealth because of two reasons.
1. It’s what gets their only decent move off (Backstab)
2. It’s the only way they can survive
Stealth just does not have a counter. I don’t want to hear, “oh you can swing your weapon or AOE the spot the thief stealthed in, dur” as some excuse for a counter. The fact that you can’t see or target a person in stealth at all and that you are just blindly guessing at what the person is going to do is not a counter. Countering someone is like seeing their weapon animation thus you know when to dodge or using a cleanse on conditions.
If Anet redesigned the class to not have to rely on stealth and a single move to survive/win I would probably go back to playing my thief. I have since rolled an Ele that I main and love because of the diversity it has, and still has the burst even though it is the worst class in the current PvP meta. I so want to play thief again, but only when it is fun by not having to do the same thing over and over and over again which is what makes other classes fun. They have different damage abilities depending on the situation. I could keep rambling but I’ll stop. I hope someone got something out of what I tried to say.

EDIT: And in no way am I saying things such as D/D are OP. D/D is probably one of the more difficult thief weapon sets because you actually have to have and hit a target to get stealthed but it goes along with my argument being the fact that it is boring and repetitive because that’s all you can do.

I completely agree. It’s much more satisfying and exhilarating to get a drop of the item you want rather than paying for it with gold. And who is talking about vertical gear progression? The OP has not stated anything like that. You can still have gear/weapons drop in the game without vertical gear progression. One of the biggest design flaws in this game imo, the fact that you aren’t playing the game for the gear more than the gold you need to get to purchase it. This game is all about grinding for gold if you want a specific piece or set. GoldWars2 for sure. I mean who actually defeats bosses and champs and dungeons, etc for a certain precursor? Nobody.

Is this a new trend? People deleting their op out of shame? Lol

Are people really saying condition builds are underpowered compared to damage builds? L O L

That’s not the point though. What the op is talking about and what I think is aggravating as well is that Ele is not viable in “competitive” PvP. That means solo roaming, small group roaming, and sPvP. WvW zerging, although may be fun on the occasion is just not competitive in a way that makes you shine as an individual player. I do have high hopes for this upcoming patch though as the devs have singled the Ele out by saying that they are excited about what they are doing with the class here shortly and it should improve it. Also, when people complain about saying that we have to do so many things at once like a piano compared to other classes, that is what we(or at least I) love about the class and don’t feel that the class should be put to easy mode like the others but more so that they should be put more on our level as well as some more survivability for the class.

LOL. The things people come up with nowadays just to troll and start a flamefest against the devs. Epic fail my friend. Epic.

You guys are so disrespectful. Grouch reads the forums as well as Allie. Really hope some people just get banned for acting like children. You all are reacting to the patch that doesn’t have balance changes that I’m dissapointed in too but guess what, grouch was the one who made the honest mistake. And you all are blaming Allie for it.

I wouldn’t mind it since map completion is probably the most tedious and time consuming and repetitive thing to do besides getting ascended gear. I mean I don’t mind exploring but doing hundreds of heart quests gets extremely boring.

kokiman.2364:

Ehm, it’s an mmo these “tools” have no infulence what so ever.

That made no sense.

Otaur.9268:

Tyrian.1874:

This is getting silly!! I can see that I am not alone on this issue! I have checked ALL my drivers and they are up to date! I have no problems running other games.. it only crashes when I play GW2

I am really sad, I love this game.. but I can not play it in this state It even crashes when i turn the GFX setting to optimal performance! And it crashes all the time when i try to do my personal questline.

Module : atiumdag.dll <<< This shows you are using an AMD card to run the game. There are settings to set default graphics card (you are currently using the one built into motherboard and not the GeForce Card). Try checking under your advanced display settings for a Detect option to make sure it is set to use the NVidia card as Default for all gaming, etc. Best of luck.

Edit: uninstall Direct X, Re-Install. Check nvidia.com and maybe pick up the NVIDIA GeForce Experience program, it is helpful for keeping drivers for Nvidia cards updated.

I was thinking this as well. You probably have not gone into your bios and set your graphic card to your nvidia card instead of the onboard video card. When you purchased this video card, after you put it into your computer, did you open up your bios menu and switch it so that everything runs through this one instead of the onboard video card?

I as well thought this patch on the 18th would be updated with class balance regarding the ready up stream. It just seemed that when they said this would take place after the living story ends that the 18th was what they were talking about. I am pretty dissapointed that after waiting forever for the 18th to come I now have to wait several more months after that for my Ele to be playable (hopefully). I just hope that after months and months of waiting they will have something really good for us.

Congrats on your purchase! This a great game. Prepare to be flamed.

I call Goku! We just playing Dragonball? Or DBZ? If DBZ I pick SSJ4 Vegito cause OP.

Grenth gear ftw. I will take it all.

Bottom line man, if you purchase that laptop you’re really getting ripped off IMO in terms of price. Like I said, I built a top of the line high end PC for around the same price. If you’re purchasing it for gaming you’re going to be extremely disappointed. If you want some advice on what to purchase within your budget in more detail please pm me. I wouldn’t mind at all helping you out and saving you a poor decision

I would love two of your choices.

• Detailed match report
• Build templates (this would be my main)

So while it will definitely run GW2, it won’t run it the greatest. I’ll throw some stuff for you to ponder:

• That laptop seems extremely expensive for the parts that it is coming with although I don’t know much about laptop prices
• 2.2ghz on a processor will not run GW2 that well with that many people on your screen. This game is very processor heavy. You can always overclock it but I’m not sure if you could get it up to 3ghz or not.
• Laptops aren’t the best idea for gaming because of two reasons in my opinion. The first one being that overheating is a big issue, when a laptop overheats it’s done for. So you’re basically using the laptop for a select time period till it’s gonzo and you have to get another one if you’re using it primarily for gaming (this is also a reason I don’t know if you can overclock your cpu because it might kill it 10x faster than normal) and two, you can’t just replace the parts in a laptop because they are glued together basically. It’s not like a computer where it has slots for each part to slide into which is also why if it dies, it’s dead.
• The operating system is Linux which at this time is the worst operating system to get until they get more support. I would suggest a Mac over that =/
• Lastly, 4gb of ram is really low for gaming nowadays. I wouldn’t suggest it at all. It’s just not enough memory. I run 16gb ram which is a bit overkill but I would suggest at least 8gb.

All in all, I would suggest building your own PC. I build mine for about the price you’re getting your laptop and my specs are as follows.
Intel i7 4770k 3.5ghz processor
16gb corsair vengeance ram
Nvidia Geforce 770 oc edition graphics card
2TB hardrive
Windows 8.1
With a top of the line case, mouse, and keyboard

That laptop is priced way too high imo and isn’t worthy of your money.
Hope I helped!

Dahkeus.8243:

If you want to get to 80, you can probably just buy a bunch of Tomes of Knowledge.

As for picking a main, from what I see, I would suggest ele. Ranger is ok in dungeons, but a S/WH is really the only decent build that can keep up with the current meta. Eles, on the other hand, do well using a Staff fire build, a Scepter might stacking build, or a Lightning Hammer build, so you have a lot more flexibility.

In WvW, ele AoE is really good for zergs and small fights with just about any weaponset. Eles aren’t really ideal for roaming, but that’s something done best by thieves and warriors anyways.

Eles are ok for roaming and be pretty good if you’re good enough. They are also buffing eles next patch so I’m hoping for the best. I play d/d as well.

I did the exact same thing as you man. Only did PvP for a good while until I got bored and decided I’d like to maybe roam and work towards some of that gear. I had a mesmer and thief leveled to around 40 already. I will say that after leveling my thief to 80 and getting good gear on him I got bored extremely quickly since they really have no diversity and you’re doing the same 2 attacks over and over again no matter which weapon set you pick as I switched between each one when I got bored. I finally decided to go to Ele and haven’t looked back so far. Ele just has so much diversity when it comes to your skills switching between attunements that it is great fun so I’d recommend that one. Hope I helped!

I believe we all would love for skins and weapons and armor and trinkets to all be account bound. But unfortunately I don’t think we will ever see it happen. It would take some gold sinks out of the game as well as you can already do this in a way by giving Anet money by purchasing transmutation crystals and splitters. It also might mess with the economy. But I agree with you, I would love for them to be account bound and I would actually pay a gem store price to make Aj item account bound if it existed.

Well they are buffing elements lists on this next patch and they specifically mentioned staff so you have some hope. Also they are making it so you can have 2 sigils on 2h weapons.

0 0 10 30 30 kinda works too :p

Its not bannable to get paid gold for it at all. Click the Arah dungeon lfg. How many people do you see selling the dungeon. This has been brought up multiple times and Anet has decided to not take action against someone selling a dungeon for gold.

Yes, according to the report function I think it says they check chat logs. And they were obviously abusing the report tool if they did report when they were obviously trolling so I’m sure they should be the one worried and not you.

I’d rather have a whole new set of legendaries before a minor fix to an existing one.

Not saying I don’t agree with you, I do. But if they made it so no abilities were allowed you’d then see people complaining that its not fair because Ele has low HP and necro and war have highest HP so they are only ones able to carry orb efficiently. The only way to make it completely fair is to have no abilities and have everyone who picks up orb have a set HP level. Oh and then people will be complaining that wars have higher toughness and that’s not fair and the list goes on……lol

Reesha.7901:

Cush.4063:

Ya, the leaderboards right now are meaningless and really don’t lair you up with the right people atm. Let’s just hope that that these new ladders Anet is implementing will be worth all the hard work they’re putting into them and actually work. I’m excited for all the new changes coming, I just hope they aren’t too far away.

I sure hope they will look into fixing the match making system.
I played with 3 guildies and a random today. None of us are even on the leaderboard. We got paired with a team in the top 30.

In solo q you have to endure the 4vs5 and 2 maps that should not be there.

I would love to see a fix to this tbh. Without a fix, the leaderboard will imo continue to be pretty meaningless.

Ya I’m expecting the matchmaking improvements to go hand in hand with the ladders.

Ya, the leaderboards right now are meaningless and really don’t lair you up with the right people atm. Let’s just hope that that these new ladders Anet is implementing will be worth all the hard work they’re putting into them and actually work. I’m excited for all the new changes coming, I just hope they aren’t too far away.

I think it would be a great option, however stuff like cultural gear is another bumb in the road. But besides that, I would love to have the option to change. I would probably change once every month or so, lol. To spice things up.

This game’s RNG is so bad because the economy solely rests on the TP unlike other games. Which is awesome that the economy is stable unlike most games I’ve played, and that we have an awesome TP, but loot is horrible.

Nike.2631:

These backpacks look to have come directly out of the CDI dicussion, with the ability to take the same item and promote it in stages until it gains endgame stats.

Its an experiment, and on the whole I think it’s been a lot better received than the process behind the Dyana/Grenth back pieces. Hideously rare recipes which still called for a vision crystal and 15 bolts of cloth (with NO alternatives for using leather or metal) and demanded 7 of the most expensive lodestones and 50g in the form of Icy runestones.

I loved upgrading my Temporal Blades back piece! It felt like progression and like I was evolving my own piece(which I was). A good way to keep them imo.

You can be sure of it. I was curious once after people mentioned farming bots in Orr. Made a simple search and there are plenty of forum communities making these programs and others and selling them. Was a lot easier to find than I expected which isn’t a good thing. Though I don’t know why people would buy such things when it will only get them banned since obviously they aren’t good enough to make it themselves thus most likely don’t know how to do much else after they get banned except for cry that they wasted $40 on a game that they cannot play and however much they paid for some buggy/might not work program that they can no longer use to get them something such as gold that they could’ve just bought through the game to support Anet. ^.^

FlamingFoxx.1305:

It’s called making a new character.
Sorry, I don’t mean to be rude, but this idea literally sounds like it replicates making a new character – just without making a new character. So you may as well make a new character and use your level 80 for WvW and PvP etc.

When you make a new character, you don’t get better loot or gold or harder difficulty.

Sounds like a cool idea.

I definitely agree that RNG in this game is absolutely horrible. It’s something that needs to be fixed asap. Buying something off of the TP when you have enough gold is definitely not near as exciting as getting a drop of it. Not even close. It feels like cheating in a way. I wish there was a better system to the loot here. The current system is to get enough gold to purchase it. I don’t think that anyone, or maybe 1% of the game, actually do events hoping to get a particular item or to get an ascended item. It’s just not reasonable enough to think that way. So everyone in the game basically just plays for gold. If anyone gets a precursor drop, or exotic drop, it’s not because they were shooting for that, it’s because it just happened. Sucks =/.

Nike.2631:

Cush.4063:

Lol that tells me what time it was put up a couple days ago but not where :p

Look at the post date on that – it’s NEXT Monday (the 24th) not last Monday .

And regarding the balance profession CDI threads, I still need some info. Thanks though.

Good luck!

Ok, thanks. I just saw a post from a dev saying the 17th. I just hope I can find the info on the balance CDI’s as its kind of hard to find and search for information on the forums. Thanks again.

Lol that tells me what time it was put up a couple days ago but not where :p
And regarding the balance profession CDI threads, I still need some info. Thanks though.

EDIT: Saw your edited post and that helps some, thanks! Although when they say Monday, they were talking 5 days ago? Do you know where I can find the thread?

• Where is it posted? I saw that it would be posted on the 17th, this last Monday but can’t seem to find it
• I know that ranger got voted for the first class balance CDI thread:
  How long will the thread last?
  When will it be put up?
  How long before the next class gets picked and put up?
  Are we trying to get all the classes in discussion on CDI before the next balance update?
  If not, how many class specific balance CDI’s are you trying to get in before the patch?

A dev official response to as many of these as you can would be great. Once answered, you can lock the thread. Thanks!

Like this pic. Just looks so epic.

EDIT: @Rift, that’s exactly where I was and what I meant when I mentioned it lol. I was underneath it.

Is the most beautiful designed place in all of Tyria. I love the music and the art that went into it. It makes you think of its past like going into the Cathedral of Eternal Radience and seeing all of the structures. It gives you this aw of the glory of what it was before the destruction. If only more people were here and it had a better purpose. I would hope Anet has some plans to make Orr a more populated place to explore sometime in the future because it has so much potential. Sucks that the place that was the focal point of the personal story that made it seem like it was where all the big endgame content and stuff was is empty except for the occasional world boss event. Please Anet, incorporate the next living story into Orr, and make some changes to it to make it more profitable to explore so people will actually go there.

Looks cool but would have never expected something like that in a fantasy game. Its not even steampunk, its futuristic even for our time.