Guild Wars 2

Masternewbz.4953:

Making it easier for people to react to stuff makes only the game ’ s skill cap lower.

Well, making it easier for people to react to stuff and buff damage/X duration from it will only make this game’s skill cap higher. For now 90% of players are using dodge just in hope they’ll dodge something serious or to proc some effects at the end of the dodge (guard/ele). Delaying cast times or/and making animations more visible and different for each cast (no chance as long as asuras are still in the game and there is no option to change all models in pvp to human male for example) will make this game much more competitive.
Now we only have op who thinks that this pull was designed to be instant cc ability and didn’t even think that it is possible to place wall and delay pull, what a shame.
Hey op, are you using asura mesmer?

Masternewbz.4953:

u know how hard is to pull 4 ppl?

I lol’d. Hard to pull 4 ppl, he said. It should be easy, he said.

all could be fine, but facebook is so kitten~ty service.

Something like NxN arena’s and CTF (i mean, pure ctf, not just 3 points+orb) would be fine.

ahuba.6430:

you’re trying so hard to get into the troll

lolwhat, just joking. don’t understand why are you taking it so serious. the only reason for you to be that serious might be that you’re doing exactly what i said and think that this is the way it should be. |:

ahuba.6430:

You know whats even more brainless than s/d thieves? this thread.

Dis thieves actually cannot into irony.

1. Take sword.
2. Take dagger.
3. Take sword in main hand.
4. Take dagger in off hand.
5. Press 3.

Video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPd29MlHpg
No need to thank me.

best technique i’ve ever seen – 666DIABLOMONSTERSATAN1998

RoRo.8270:

The best option someone mentioned in another thread was to have a game option that when toggled changes the models to something like human, but looking at anets track record this might take a few years for them to come out with

Guess that was my suggestion. Hope anet will listen to it and do something.

I have some ideas about necromanser’s traits.

Spite

III – Spiteful Removal
When you kill a foe you lose three conditions.
change to
When you kill a foe you and nearby allies lose two conditions. (mb with some cd).

VII – Spiteful Marks
Marks deal 10% more damage.
Well, this trait is actually useless because marks deal very small amout of damage. Something like +50% would be much more useful and still not op.
But i would like if this trait will be reworked.

VIII – Signet Power
Activating a signet gives you three stacks of might for 10 seconds.
With that high cd on signets 10 seconds of might just not enough.
So, i think that it should be at least 20 seconds. At least.
or it would be a good decision to combine this trait with signet mastery and leave it with 10 or 15 seconds of might.

Curses

Barbed Precision
Critical hits have a 66% chance to cause bleeding.
First of all, description should be at least more detailed. It give 1 stack of bleeding for 1 seconds, and it is simply not serious.
1 stack for 3-4 seconds would be tolerably.

III – Chilling Darkness
When you blind a target, you also apply chill for 1 second.
1 seconds is definitely not enough.
Necromancer has blind with
off-hand dagger (Deathly swarm, 18 seconds cd)
Signet of Spite – 90(!!!) seconds cd
Well of Darkness – 60(48 with trait) seconds cd.

Thit trait only synergise with Well of Darkness, but 1 second of chill for each applied blind is just not serious, lol. Give this trait 3 or even 4 seconds of chill.

Blood Magic
IX – Deathly Invigoration
Heal in an area when you leave death shroud.
If the base amount and scale is like this: Healing 267 (0.32), then it should be greatly improved. It’s master trait and it should be much more powerful than 500 hp for using ds. I think it should be like 1200 + 0.4 healing power.

XII – Vampiric Rituals
Wells also siphon health every time they pulse.
At level 80, heals the player for 10 health per enemy affected (up to five targets), per pulse, per well. Unaffected by Healing Power.
Well, 10 hp per tic for grandmaster trait is… Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhould i compare this to elementalist’s heal from just 1 dodge in water attune with Evasive Arcana? Guess not. I’d say this trait should heal for at least 30-40 hp per tic.

Soul Reaping

V – Speed of Shadows
Move 15% faster while in death shroud.
This trait is seems to be completely useless. To compare with other traits it should give at least +30%ms or swiftness.

IX – Master of Terror
Fear you inflict lasts 50% longer.
Hmm, 50% is fine, but for master trait it’s not enough. I think that it should be combined with trait Terror(from Curses)
(Fear deals damage, and it deals an additional 50% damage if the target has another condition on them.)

yeap, i have the same issue. but currently i’m not playing gw2 that much, so i hope they’ll fix it soon. soon, if you know what i mean.

Agree with 14-16 seconds cd. May be buff some unused skills. 2 sec damage+evade with 10 sec cd isn’t fine anyways.

Once again, thread about crying ele.

holding
ele 7/10
engi 8/10
guard 10/10
necro 8/10
ranger 7/10

capping
ele 5/10
engi 10/10
guard 6/10
ranger 7/10

roaming
ele 10/10
engi 6/10
mesmer 5/10
ranger 5/10
thief 10/10
war 6/10

teamfights
ele 10/10
engi 10/10
guard 10/10
mesmer 7/10
necro 5/10
ranger 6/10
thief 10/10
war 5/10

That’s how i see it.

Mighty Favazz.1546:

Honestly, how does something like THREE traits (one of them grandmaster) get through the QA guys?

You think they are real? O_O

Well, as Scolia said, the main problems is that you can not cancel skills which are already in skill queue, dodge for example. In PvE and WvWvW it may not be that bad, but in sPvP situation may change significally at any moment and skill queue is a problem.

I’m talking about giving us option to turn it off, not about deleting this feature, because it may be helpful for new and unexperienced players.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

The usefulness is that you don’t have skills misfire because you pressed it a tiny bit too soon. it helps ensure that tactical decisions play a larger role than twitch reflexes.

nothing would be gained by removing it.

So, you think that people should focus on just timing? We can, of course, but everybody will get nothing but useless numbers in theirs heads.

Usefulness of this feature is very questionable. I hope you will listen to the opinions of players. Most of them who noticed it don’t like it.

Anet dont like to talk about their mistakes.
/thread

1)Stop doing hidden changes.
2)If you’re adding new feature into this game (i’m talking about skill queue right now), then add a possibility to turn it off.

Xsorus.2507:

You won’t reroll Ranger, Because it actually requires some amount of skill to play one.

I’m feeling how skill-based rangers can be when i’m running away from 2+ people or just from zerg. I’m feeling it in my back. Pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew.

True.
15blablablabla.

Kit Refinement trait: Now displays on the player’s buff bar when it is out of cooldown.
Hahahahahaha, oh you.

Stealth.9324:

Let me draw out a situation for you to understand. You say, one skill of yours equivalent to 20% ok, now it would be fair if we miss one skill we wasted 5% of our skill.

1vs1 Eles using Dagger and Warrior using Snife GS.

First, War spot Eles. He use his Auto attack to get 1 hit in. Eles realize he getting hit, and he spot War near. Eles uses RtL to approach him. (5%) while War (0%). War see RtL coming and he is good, he dodge backward (0% skill wasted), Eles miss (5% wasted and put on 40s CD). Since War is so far away, Eles can not use Lightning Lash to attack. So Eles change to Fire (RtL wasted and on 40s CD, 5%, and put Air Attunement on 10s CD). Meanwhile War still get some free shot at Eles ( 0% wasted). Eles use Burning Foot to approach again (10% wasted, RtL and Burning Foot). War is good that he predict the skill coming, he dodge backward (0% wasted and 2 dodge being used). Eles still can not hit the War due to the range of Claw was too short. More Free shot for War. So far Eles has used 10% of his total skill (RtL and Burning Foot), put Air on 10s CD while dealing no kitteno War. War used 0% of his skill in total and 2 dodge and some free hit on Eles.

Then Eles switch to Earth (put Fire on 10s CD and Air right now say, 5s CD still), using Magnetic Grasp with the pray that please hit him (15% skill wasted and still no dam). War getting hit and being immobolize (0% skill Wasted, while waiting for endurance to refill). Eles approach with Magnetic Grasp and hit War with dams. (15% of total skill being used, Fire and Air put on 10s CD and the result is tinny bit Dam from Magenic Grasp). Eles proceed with Ring of Earth and War get hit and apply Bleeding, then Earth Quake to KD War and Cast CE like normal (in total of 30% skill). War oh no, I am being KD, and his endurance has been refill for at least another dodge. He dodge the CE at the very last second (2.5s when Eles start to cast) cause CE to miss. Eles best burst skill has been missed just like that.

OK War decided to still keep distance with Eles because he know Eles has no more Mobility skill (RtL is on 40s CD, Eles can not switch to Fire due to Fire still in CD), so he start with Cripple Shot. Eles being cripped and start slowing down. Now Eles has two choice, either use Cantrip to clear condition or Tune to Water to clear condition. Eles decide to go to Water (Put Earth on CD while Air is off CD). Then Eles go to Air but because RtL is still on CD and with Switfness from Arcane, he is barely able to catch up to War and War decide to change to GS and use Rush and Whirlwind Blade to keep a distance. Then he switch back to Snifle and keep getting free shot at Eles, not to mention all other skill with Snifle and Aimshot. Eles approach too close, ok here go Snifle 5 to knock Eles back and hey Cripple him, and keep getting free shot hit.

In short, that is what happened. Please tell me if anything in this sencario that I overlooking and that you can not pull off in real fight?So how many skill Eles has to be wasted to be able to hit War just once and not even stratching his armor a bit? (15%) + Free shot from War compare to your 20% skill wasted, I would take over 20% skill wasted + Free shot hit anytime.

Conjure GS, I believe that is what you are talking about. It take 2s to Cast and can not cast while Moving. The only reason Eles pull of the GS like you said is to run away which means Eles already out of option and that is the last resort. But being stay still while low health, any class can finish Eles in just 2s and there you go, Eles never get a chance to get away.

Kittan Lol’d. TEXT PVP FTW.
What a funny guy you are, bro.

Stealth.9324:

Don’t tell me you can not kite a Melee class?Sure we have RtL,sure we have burning foot and Mganetic grasp, only RtL has 1200 range and all the other has the range of 600.And most of the range weapon out there can shoot at 1200 range. Sure to approach you, Eles will need to use all mobility skill. Don’t tell me you can’t get some free hit on him while he doing this?And the shortest CD is 8s on Burning foot or Magnetic grasp (not so sure though),once he use all his mobile skill, he is your target shooting for the next 8s. What stop you from doing so?

What an awesome wall of contradictory statements.

Stealth.9324:

What I aim is War can force a burker to out of the point and capture it

Well, at least you are funny.

Stealth.9324:

, same with all bubble and KB from Engine and guardian.

Cold story.

Stealth.9324:

My conclusion is I am just wasting my time to explain to someone who does not even think a bit what others say. Then why I bother.

Yes, you can stop trying to troll me and pretend that you’re into this game. It’s a waste of time.

Stealth.9324:

2s Stun from Earthquake. Oh dear, are we even playing the same class in the same game? Earthquake does KD, my ignorant Dinosaur, unless you think stuns and KD is the same which is..laughable at your game mechanic. With stun, you Can Not do anything, with KD you can still Teleport away and get back up right away. Too bad you don’t know this. You are too full of yourself.

Lol’d. Nice try. I knew that you will say something like this.

Stealth.9324:

Kite Eles and you already got a free hit…Guess kite is so hard to you after all.

Wait wha… Oh, now i understand. KITE ELES HE SAID.

Stealth.9324:

Op Long bow,well I would not call it Op though.

If you’re fighting for point, i have a bad news for you: warrior have no any adequate bunker build which can compare to guardian, ele, engi, etc. If you’re going to say that condition war deals too much dmg against your ele even with cleansing water and cleansing waves on dodge then, i think, we don’t need to talk anymore.

In conclusion… I’m not even surprised that now you’re nitpicking.

Stealth.9324:

I compare RtL with Warrior Rush because they acts at the very same way, gap closer and a mean to escape with no need of target. Why only RtL getting this bs nerf?

Stealth.9324:

Again, why eles is the only class has to think when to use mobility skill?

If you prefer to ignore what i’m saying, i’m okay with it, my lovely hotjoin tiger.

This skills act the same way, but:
20 spells with possibility to swap whenether you want (excluding recently changed attune) against 10 spells (5+5) with 10(or 5 with trait) seconds cd.
Ele’s have more spells and have no problems with swapping attunes -> ele’s spells must be weaker than other’s classes similar skills.

Stealth.9324:

It is not just simply as you think that now Eles need to think of how to use it?

Before this nerf there was no any reason to think about it.

Stealth.9324:

D/D offhand skill Fire ROF, Burning Grasp, Water Frost Aura, Cleasing wave,Air RtL, updraft, Earth, Earthquake and CE. Which you say AoE 2s Stun again?

Earthquake does not stun? Oh boy, here we go.

Stealth.9324:

And sorry you are wrong again on attument CD, 15s without trait and 9s CD with 30pts in Arcane.

Ele’s have 1 sec cd on swapping attunes and can swap whenever they want. Yes, you can not swap to the attune you were attached before. You can also blame ANET for this and say that ele’s are too weak.

Stealth.9324:

Proof is the change in RtL. I bet they think that is just a “slightly” tweak but in fact, it is a class broken adjust.

My god, he said it again.

Stealth.9324:

Have you ever seen an Engine stack 5 conditions on you instantly?

Yes, and so? With your crying about HGH builds you can go to other threads. I’m sure you just didn’t play engi in spvp tournaments at all.

Stealth.9324:

Or a War with his Longbow does the same

Lol’d. That OP LONGBOW WAR. That op longbow war has only 4 stack of bleeding and easy to dodge burning which will only apply 2 seconds of burning every 6 seconds if you’re staying close to him and can’t use dodge properly. Don’t say you can’t go out from longbow’s burst skill.

Stealth.9324:

Sorry, to you who don’t play Eles could never understand about how hard this Nerf hit the class. And No, to an outsider,these Infos could be not much but to us Eles, that is a huge impact considered we only have 1 or 2 viable build out there.And regardless of what the build is, unless you are super skill, we all have to trait in Water and Arcane combine with our healing power and mobility Just to keep us alive long enough to be useful. We are a cloth class with meele Attack play style after all.

And here is your mistake – i have played ele a lot, may be more than you. On the other hand, it seems that you didn’t play other classes at all or at least not enough to talk about their strength.

Stealth.9324:

RtL 20s on hit and 40s with no hit,way over the top. How about Rush in Warrior (20s CD and 1200 Range), Whirwind Blade (8s CD 600 Range).

I lol’d. Now try to count how much spells do you have with attunement swap.
20 spells with possibility to swap whenether you want (excluding recently changed attune) against 10 spells (5+5) with 10(or 5 with trait) seconds cd.
Dagger in offhand also gives you 2 seconds AOE stun and 1 sec evade+blowout.
You still want to compare ele and warrior, my dear rabbit?

Stealth.9324:

And No, I did not say War is OP, just a simple comparision how RtL is difference to Rush skill in Warrior.Now, Eles take the hit, but it would be no wonder all similar skill will take the hit later due to after Eles, there will be another victim for this matter. Hugely a direct hit to ALL the BUILD, even in PVE.

The only thing they did with rtl is that now you should THINK when it should be used and when it shouldn’t. If you’re not using it mindlessly to just move faster – you should be okay with it.

Stealth.9324:

Signet of Restoration: Passive heal slightly reduced: Another Hit to our weak already defensive, make us now has to go even more Defensive just to SURVIVE.

You don’t even know how much did they reduced passive heal and you’re already SCREAMING. “OH MY GAWD THE NERFD MAH HEAL NOOO”. Why do you act like a little kid?

Stealth.9324:

Cleansing Waters: Now removes 1 condition with a 5s CD. In PvE, it is not bad of a hit. In PVP it is a Huge Hit. Come with this, I would like to see Condition not flying everywhere in PvP, pls

While the other classes carry it, you’re whining.

Stealth.9324:

Nice Job Anet, you just kill ELES, not just bunker but ALL the VIABLE Build out there. Remember why we have to go BUNKER in the VERY FIRST PLACE.

I lold so hard. With such a small amout of information about nerfes at all you are just yelling like a baby.
They should have done it much earlier. So you should thank them.

Guild Wars 2 Chinese Closed Beta Announcement

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-Wars-2-Chinese-Closed-Beta-Announcement
Guess now this thread should be bumped.

NevirSayDie.6235:

On swiftness, speedy kits is definitely the best option. It’s certainly not the only one—if you’re an elixir build you’ll have pretty high swiftness uptime just from H and B drinking/throwing. I use med kit without speedy kits or runes, and that’s only 50%+ uptime obviously. However, you can drop your stimulant before the match starts, or while you wait for a point to cap, etc. I end up having a much higher swiftness uptime than 50% because I can drop the stimulant before I need it.

Its pretty sad, but, for example, stimulant does not give you only swiftness, fury from it is very useful sometimes. As i said, using elixir B or H just for swiftness is unreasonably, because when its on cooldown you become much weaker when it’s not. Using utility skills and even heal for just swiftness (random swiftness from elixir H!) is actually not what i want to do playing engineer.

hackks.3687:

the 20s GCD made (a little) sense before they redesigned the skills. Now with the 20s GCD on top of these new (weaker) skills it’s like ANet is saying “we really don’t want you to use this”…

I agree with it. Even giving us 20s gcd made this skill much weaker.

Sprawl.3891:

it’s easy class in that its easy to pick up and kill bads

Its easy class in this things too. And it does not contradict to what i said.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Kit refinement is certainly not worth taking any more in multiple kit builds, but it’s still possible to get a similar playstyle to the old kitmaster builds.

Exactly! But not only with multiplie builds since we have no any option when it should be activated, because they removed possibility to not proc it in air. Engis only way to stay mobile is using speedy kits as much as they can, and it definitely has no any synergy with kit refinement now. We even have no traits nor utilites giving us movement speed when out of combat (i didn’t count leg mods just because this 10% are useless). Using elixir B just for swiftness is silly, and its toolbelt skill gives random effects. Actually, we HAVE TO take speedy kits in ANY build, if we want to move faster than turtle. The only alternative is to use full set of centaur runes and med kit.

wookie.8934:

mesmer is “easy to play”

Yes it is. The only easier class to play is thief, lowest skill caps in whole game.

Cero.5132:

why do you post it in the pvp forum instead of engi-forum? O_O

Well, i dont know where i should post this to get wide publicity of what anet is doing, because i’m sure that i’m not the only one who think that nerfing something that is not ele/mesmer/thief is ridiculous. I played those classes and i know what i’m talking about.

teh 15 characters.

daydream.2938:

Thiefs and mesmers are NOT op. mesmers are pretty strong. And eles are indeed a little bit strong.

I didnt even say that they are op or not. It is still obvious that this classes are much easier to play than others. And yes, i’ve played all classes, just except necro.

So, about kit refinement nerf.

EG: deleting super elixir proc is obviously one of the main targets of this nerf.

Grenade kit: we had funny and not actually viable build. Now… we have useless mine which can be used once per 20 seconds.

Bomb kit: this is the only kit refinement proc that was actually was buffed.

Flamethrower: until anet will do something with endless misses while atacking moving targets, nobody cares. Except some condi-bunkers, may be.

Tool kit: we had caltrops that were useful for retreating, now we have… 2 seconds of double speed. Well, it might be usef… oh, 20 seconds GCD. Now i think that it cant be useful on any maps except spirit watch. Thanks for this awesome balance, i win 90% of games on spirit watch now.

Medkit: magnetic aura with 20 seconds GCD. Hmmm. No.

Do you like GCD guys? Why elems do not have any gcd on their skills? On attune swap? On elemental attuning? On elemental surge? On evasive arcana? Hmmm?

Conclusion: single trait was nerfed to the ground and there were not any trait that was actually buffed. Elems… were not nerfed.

Because Anet want cripple to affect for example, warrior’s whirlwind and, of course, not elem’s rtl/mist form, because elems may feel that they are too much underpowered.

Want to do something against elems/mesmers/thieves without playing piano masterpiece on keyboard – play elems/mesmers/thieves. Its obvious, and its what ANET want to see in this game. They also prefer to delete some posts and themes discussing about this problem.

>they won cause they had more points than you
See kaplis’s post. May be in situation like this blue team wins by default? Did red team win any game with 500-500 score?

>more likely they got 500 a 1/10th of a second before red team did.
Well, we got 500-500 not because of kills, both teams earned them at the same time for holding points.

>Blue team wins because they have more points.
There is no reason to give them win since it is still 500-500. Its a draw. Both teams should have their rewards.

500-500 aaand… BLUE TEAM WINS. ANET, why are you so bad?

Empiren.6401:

Its boring, its uninteresting, and it makes the game less of what it could be.

No, no, and no.
Thank you for your opinion, dont come back.
/thread

Zodian.6597:

-kind of like how WoW used to work with their random bg queue (can queue into games that have already started).

I’m sorry, but you definitely didnt understand. Im absolutely against leaving the game when it is already started, but… I just want to give people opportunity to see if there are some groups in roster and concretely which players are in these groups. Also, anet MUST give people ability to see guildtags in roster and to leave the roster before game starts. After they leave, game should be cancelled and then system will search for a replacement player. I might bring a bit sad news but NO ONE wants to play against 5 people team. For as long as anet do not correct matchmaking system, I will just leave any game against 4-5 people with same guildtags.

If team of 5 ppl join roster – they must fight against other team of 5 ppl. Roster with party of 4 ppl must fight against 3-4 ppl. 3 against 2-3-4, 2 against 1-2-3. This will be the best solution.
Also, i still dont understand why i cant leave tournament when its going 1×5, for example. If current system will continue to exist, you MUST make people able to not join the game if they were matched against 5 ppl team. It means that people should be able to see players which belong to the same group, and leave before game starts without any penalty. That’s the way to balance it.
I am very disappointed with the current state of affairs.

Lags after about 17:00-19:00 (GMT+6) till night in sPvP, dunno about PvE or WvW. After one of the early january patches. Definitely ANet… ok, may be miraculously routing in europe problems, checked ISL, in other games all is fine, burn in hell.

CellFishy.3896:

I haven’t actually thought about that, great tip. Once he comes over I will do that immediately. Thanks for this idea

Interesting. Dont forget to post result here.

Guess not a bug, just a random. Fox example, see “minor rune of the monk” – binds on acquire. Superior runes of the nightmare, monk, forge, sanctuary, etc. binds on acquire.

Dunno. ANet keep silence, im not sure if they are watching this forums at all.
This thread, for example:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Network-Lag-Merged/page/19

19 pages, but only gw2 team post is the first one. No any instructions what to do to check what is the problem.

You can read this:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FAQ-Frequently-Asked-Questions-Compilation/first#post1095406
But this is just FAQ and most likely it will not help.

For example:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_Engineer_bugs

I dont play WvW, but in sPvP i have very annoying lags and spikes whole time, but at night its a bit better. It started about 3-4 days ago. In PvE all is ok. In other games all is ok. So, please, fix it.
Forgot to say – i have some disconnections too, every 1-4 hours.