Guild Wars 2

Khristophoros.7194:

If you want to support them because they did X, Y, and Z, that is a great reason to preorder and they don’t need to push you to do it. You were going to preorder anyway.

What I’m upset about is they’re only including the character slot for preorders so I feel bullied into it even though I much prefer not to preorder. I don’t like the concept of preordering. I want to decide after the product comes out if it’s worth the price.

In this case just start saving up for gems in game. If you don’t buy the expansion you can spend them on something else and if you do you’ll have your character slot. It’s not abnormal for companies to promote prepurchasing and brand loyalty.

Your final option is once the expansion goes live it will drop in price about a year or so later, at that point you can just spend the money to buy it when you think its at a fair price. Supply and demand is great and so is brand loyalty. The economics of this fiasco is fun to analyze.

My guess is on or near GW2 3rd birthday.

Anet is also not giving a free copy of GW2 until HoT comes out. Then the game+HoT will be $60 and HoT+Character slot also $60 this sounds good no? why do you need more? There’s already a built in function in the game for you to start saving gold to save $10 not a lot of games allow you to spend in game money to save real money be thankful.

Khristophoros.7194:

I think this was all planned to get away with charging 50 dollars for it. It’s not worth 50 dollars unless the guild halls are absolutely incredible because the amount of content appears to be very low for a 50 dollar expansion.

And it’s really annoying that you are trying so hard to get people to preorder. If it turns out to be good people will buy it after it comes out. Don’t push the preorder this hard. Just make a good product and it will speak for itself after you release it.

I ended up preordering but I’m not happy about it. I felt like the only way I’d get a good value is by preordering the ultimate edition. I felt bullied into it. I may have done it, but I’m not happy about it.

They came out with much more than $60 worth of content with GW2 + living story + Events + Every patch ever. I’m more than happy to give developers more money then subscription games for the expansion. The reason I was hesitant to prepurchase is the fairness factor of the deal that new players got compared to old players. Its like having a game %25 off for some but not for others.

I prepurchased as soon as that announcement came out. I was really willing to pay whatever they were charging as long as everyone was getting a fair deal out of it.

Now people who prepurchase get a $10 game or a $10 character slot. Good PR response Arena Net, please remember to continue this in the future.

AXEL.8362:

I already have the game. Do I get a second one? Can I purchase the expansion without having to buy the game that I already own again?

ok here’s what to do. Pre purchase HoT on a new account, transfer all your money and sell everything from your old account to the new one. ask your guild to invite the new account. Delete all your characters and make them on the new one so you keep the funny names. Sell your old GW2 account that’s rank 80 in PvP and rank 50 fractals with 4 sets of ascended gear and 8 ascended weapons, 9 character slots and 5 bank tabs for $150.

Congrats you made $100 got both GW2 and the expansion and created a great way to rediscover the Universe of GW2 by leveling all 8 classes again.

also this is sarcasm. you can do it but i just wrote it to point out how dumb the price with GW2 included.

Vicariuz.1605:

D best.3547:

tell them to preorder HoT and then they get the whole game free with the preorder. Anyone who already owns the game however should not preorder HoT.

You mean pre-PURCHASE, not pre-order. sry had to address that because it is indeed a very critical thing.

yes sorry english is my second language I am not sure of the difference. Also is sry a developer? i havent seen his name.

I like many others feel like we are getting slightly ripped off by not having a discount for already owning the game. I think a free transfer would be a great thing to include for players who already own the game and want to meet up with their friends.

tell them to preorder HoT and then they get the whole game free with the preorder. Anyone who already owns the game however should not preorder HoT.

now with the megaserver system, PvE and PvP players, don’t have server loyalty. Servers now only matter to WvW players. Is that how the cap on servers is determined? Currently Darkhaven and Dragonbrand are full but they are 12-13 on the leader boards for WvW. Why is this? How is server capacity and size determined?

I am very excited for Heart of Thorns and so are all my friends! Some of them haven’t played in over a year and now we are all on different servers. We would all like to be on the same server again and play both HoT and WvW together again. Will we get a free week or so to transfer once HoT comes out?

since early may the leader boards for PvP have not updated point data even though it says it has updated hourly.

At least of the defenders chest box ventari’s gear is not there. Might be planned in the future but I just wanted to let you guys know.

Team Wicked Schemes is recruiting. We play from 5pm pacific till 9pm. This is our preferred lineup.

Guardian – Me
Thief – EnVy.3819
Engineer – Open
Warrior – Open
Other – Nortask.8351

Don’t give up hope if you still wish to join our team but play a filled role we are proficient at playing all classes and are willing to change up roles. These are the requirements for joining. feel free to mail me if you want to join.

Hi fellow PvP players,

I just hit rank 60 yesterday as a champion paragon top 300 tPvP. I have a problem, my mechanics are close to perfect I can even 1v2, I find myself loosing to players when we win all the fights because I lack knowledge in rotations. I don’t want to feel like I am a burden to the people I’m playing with so I am asking for help. As a bunker I’m always told staying mid is best, but what about when the enemy 5 man rushes home? I need someone to explain to me when it’s ok for a bunker to go to a fight. If anyone can give me a guide on this or contact me it would be greatly appreciated.

My friend EnVy.3819 and myself are starting a team of experienced players. We practice from 5pm pacific till later. This is our preferred lineup.

Guardian – Me
Thief – EnVy
Engineer – Open
Warrior – Open
Other – Open

If you are a thief dont give up hope EnVy is also a very experienced warrior. These are the requirements for joining.

• Champion Title for the class you wish to try out as
• Knowledge of every class and their abilities, what you are weak or strong against.
• Proficient at rotations
• strong team fight mindset.

any rank above 30 is fine as long as you show significant skill in playing. If you do not meet some of the requirements feel free to apply and depending on performance there is still hope.

There were no condition builds in the finals because a condition only build is weak in team play. Instead many people will use celestial stats do deal both some condition and raw damage.

CoE because charged lodestones and weapons to put in the mystic forge.

I was watching a stream of a warrior, Kyle, in PvP with 5 signets taking effect even though he only had 4 on his bar is this a hack does this need fixing?

So I love the new wardrobe system and I cant wait to see the new skins that will come out in the next living world. So I bought 25 Black Lion keys and opened all the chests. I got 1 black lion tickets and 9 scraps from these which seems like an ok deal with all the extra stuff, however as a PvP player I have no use for everything else but the transmutation charges.

here’s what I got
Repair Canister – they don’t work in PvP
Revive Orb – they dont work in PvP
Merchant Express – the mists are filled with merchants and they don’t work in games
Metabolic Primer – I would love this if food worked in PvP
Boosters – they don’t work in PvP and I got ALOT of them

so I’m sort of disatisfied with the contents PvP wise but I still want the tickets for cool skins I can use in PvP. Though I don’t think I can ask for a support ticket or anything. Any suggestions on what to do with all this useless stuff (especially boosters) any one know if there are mystic forge recipes using any of the above items?

So I have always done my guild missions with a guild from Blackgate though I reside on Sea Of Sorrows. This has worked before when I would guest to the world and participate. Now I have to fist get in a party with my fellow guild members just to get on the same map, and after that I didn’t even get rewards from all my hard work. Should I submit a support ticket? Does this mean I’ll never be able to do guild missions with my friends again? Should I look to join a guild on my server instead for these?

I think it is a daily limit pace Anet is giving you an anti addiction. welcome to the Chinese client.

RoyalPredator.9163:

I would like to see the SKIN’s NAMES clearly. As was before!
For example, “Azureflame” instead of “Zojja’s Greatbow of Fail”
Guess I’m not alone with this… Please support me! w/+1

I’m sorry to say this is literally impossible the name of the original item must be kept here is an example why. In PvP there is a skin which shares the same as the precursor “The Hunter” the only ways to get this skin was through PvP before or by owning the precursor. If the name of my rifle was to change back to the name of the skin I would have a precursor which I never had.

You guys are late to the party. I had a post about this a month ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Can-we-Change-Item-Stats-with-Ferocity-Change/first#post3817438. Basically because you min/max by using accessories you lost a lot more crit damage than you thought you would loose. However if you had weapons or armor that now has ferocity you would have gained about 10% crit damage. I wanted people to ask for stat changes to ferocity items like with magic find but no one spoke up about anything. Start saving up for knights stats is all I can tell you now. Sorry.

swaffman.3679:

We are looking for 1 last member for signup deadline in 2 days. Must be able to play the next few nights at 10 mountain time. Just pm IGN: I Da Ho D. Must be skilled in pvp and have the confidence to beat anyone.

What classes do you have? I might try to join I’m a bunker.

Weakest Guardian and ele. A bunker guard is at the mercy of his teammates and the ele just really shines in team fights which happen more in tPvP than sPvP. The best are probably warior and engineer, decap or Condi are both annoying and strong specs in 1v1 or 1v2 hambow is able to deal with literally anything fairly well and even 2v1 easily.

Also whoever thinks thief is bad against a bunker doesn’t do it right. You poison the guardian over and over and then DPS and repeat once all his condition clear is gone he’ll be dead due to reduced healing.

The point of all this was to prove that Going into Power for all ranger weapons but longbow is a waste of time. here is my final data. (all from PvP)

with 0 power a ranger auto attack using GS is about 300 on a critical hit.
with 0 power a warrior auto attack using GS is about 400 on a critical hit.
with 923 power a ranger auto attack using GS is about 650 on a critical hit.
with 923 power a warrior auto attack using GS is about 950 on a critical hit.

the 100 damage difference became tripled when the power was added to the build. This means for ever stat ranger put into power the warrior will deal 3 times more damage. People who believe power ranger is good believe it because the base damage of Longbow is fairly high (about 550 damage with 0 power) but in reality other than the ranger power stat is worthless for all PvP purposes since most fights happen mid-close range.

Atherakhia.4086:

Those crits you mention aren’t common. 2k is common. To get 3-5k we’re talking about popping trinkets, 25 might stacks, vulnerability on the target, food, bloodlust etc.

full zerk in PvP you get 1 k crits on GS and Sword on warior you get 2k with GS. Might actually makes this difference greater because of the power coefficient being greater.

dancingmonkey.4902:

Define viable?

I just love when folks use abstract terms to try to define a subjective idea into concrete limits.

Viable in terms of GW2 profession balance is being able to have a similar DPS/healing/“whatever subject is discussed” to another class. the limit I am setting as my subject matter is the Warrior, this is because warrior DPS is regarded as one of the best and Warrior is the most played class in GW2.

This is not a whine post, only observation. The ranger is an extremely viable class but only when using conditon.

problems

1.The power coefficient for all ranger skills being so low as seen in this chart. to put this into perspective a warior’s auto attack power coeficient in mele is from .6 on sword to .9 on hammer. the other skills power
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2. Rampage As One is simply lackluster in comparison to the warior’s Signet of Rage.

3. One cannot reliably dodge while using the sword auto attack. This doesn’t allow the ranger to dodge at critical times like when an eviscerate is coming.

analysis: The power ranger is and always has been complicated due to the extra damage pets give. However the ranger power spec does less than 40% damage of a GS warrior. Investing in the pet trait line will simply make this number lower for the ranger.

Possible Solutions:

1. a 0.1 increase to ranged weapons and 0.2 increase to power coefficient. This will actually give the ranger some reason to go into power while not upsetting all the balance in the game. the ranger would then do 60% of a Warior’s damage and could hit up to 1500 on critical auto attacks from GS.

2. half the cooldown of rampage as one and make it a shout so it can possibly have a 45 second cooldown like signet of range (shout makes sence because it affects pet mostly, like “sic’ em”). lower the stability and might on hit duration 10 seconds. this would allow for a closer balance of fury and swiftness.

3. The bug has to do with the leap ability just make it not a leap and the chain not root the ranger.

closing thoughts I hope you guys like these ideas/observations if there’s anything else you think could make Power Ranger a viable PvP or PvE spec feel free to say so here.

I am a big fan of boon duration on ele, guardian, and ranger. On all of these a set of 2Monk, 2traveler, 2water could be used in order to sacrifice raw stats for boon duration. However with the incoming patch will players be able to reach 45% boon duration from runes or will this no longer be a valid option?

From the lack of answers I am assuming no announcement has been made on this. So for now I shall assume that we will get to keep our now useless crit damage accessories.

I love the idea of the ferocity stat and I think it will great incentive for PvE players to try a more tanky aproach. However here is a story…

Deep in the world of WvW we have been using Damage dealt against damage received ratios tfor the battles of 300 brave souls that happen in the mists. For the longest time it was know far and wide by the WvW community that Crit damage on accessories are the most valuable(about 8 stats per 1% crit damage while armor can go up to 16 stats per 1% crit damage). So the players fought long and hard until obtaining their desired ascended bezerker accessories and tanky armor. And thusly the players had the 44% crit damage from their accessories and they rejoiced. And it was so until a storm apeared on the horizon, this storm threatened to turn their 44% crit damage into a 22.15% crit damage making it no longer worth the ratio of damage dealt to damage taken from before. And now my children here we stand, the storm at our door and about to rush down on us in just a few days, but will all our hard work have been for naught? will this change destroy the the beauty that we had before… OR will the deities be merciful, allow us to change our accessories, as they once did for what was known as Magic find?

So anyone know? If the story was too much the question is the title.

Hi So I’m in top 300 both NA and EU and I am looking for a group of people who want to tPvP. I have over 1,500 hours on guardian but have experience with every class. send me mail to contact me.

While you’re at it with nerfing line of warding why don’t you nerf reflection so that only reflects 5 projectiles? Oh wait cause then it woul be useless in anything above 3 people.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

A single guardian can keep a whole zerg from entering a stairwell so long as their mesmer or necro buddy rips the enemy zerg’s stability boon.

The boonstrip has an AoE cap on it so it is literally impossible to keep the entire Zerg with stability from entering a stairwell with only 2 people.

Finally if you come from higher ground just jump before running over the line and it does nothing.

Basically utility AoE such as a wall or reclection cannot have a maximum or it’s utility would be rendered useless if these skills did damage or a knock back (such as sanctuary) the AoE cap would be fine.

If you want to break the AoE cap using a guardian use this build for Killing larger groups http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJAWSlcg6CnHyMEmIFRmiRKSLFAMgYK0YGvKkQA-jECB4hBigAgABK1sIaslhFRjVVjIqWlEzauIa1SBMqwI-w

So when I got to the end I couldn’t kill scarlet. I just left the instance because it didn’t feel right. Now scarlet is forever fighting with Kasmeer. Here are my reasons for not killing Scarlet.
1. Taimi’s dream of meeting scarlet would be crushed. Taimi is my favorite character in the living story right now
2. Though Scarlet has had harsh methods no character I cared for was ever killed by her.
3. Scarlet is always trying to accomplish goals but All we ever do is beat her down for it. It feels like we’re bullies.
4. Scarlet deserves to see the fruits of her labor even from a jail cell.

I always liked choose your own adventure books which is why I was fond of the character stories however we have been put in a situation where we HAVE to kill scarlet to continue the story. Unless I am wrong. Are there other ways of completing the end instance I am unaware of?

Mada.5319:

No queues except on reset (short) or if a whole lot of guilds are on one map.

Thank you for being the only person so far who knew how to spell. I was ready all the other posts thinking “que es un que” (Spanish for what is a que) but prom now on please spell queue as a queue not a que.

Most satisfying build people just bounce around and you lol. http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJAWSlcg6CnHyMEmIFRmiRKSLFAMgYK0YGvKkQA-jECB4hBigAgABK1sIaslhFRjVVjIqWlEzauIa1SBMqwI-w

Zergs are the heart and soul of WvW and should never be removed. The AoE cap is fine or necroes and eles will be the only things in WvW (and Maguma does AoE zergs very well already). The reason you see so many rage posts/“suggestions” is that Anet has been looking for ways to give smaller groups a better chance against larger ones.

Removing AoE cap won’t work because then the enemy Zerg will also have a lot of AoE cause it’ll be OP and the will just spread out to mitigate total overall damage rather than what they do now which is ball up so that the ticks are spread evenly across all of their zerg. Your attacks can only hit 5 people but they will hit 5 people whereas no AoE cap and 100 people spread out a lot will only hit 2-3 players per AoE

Edit: I forgot to tell you appreciate zergs they give lootbags when you kill them.

Straegen.2938:

Narrating why certain skills are activated, mistakes you make, mistakes the other player makes, etc are what makes a video good/bad in my book. You had some of that in here but not enough. You should elaborate more on your attack/defense process before, during and after an engagement. Yishi videos are awesome at that style of narration. Video and sound quality were both fine.

Excellent point if you are going to narrate record it after you film. To make sure the narration is constant enough to keep viewers interested(you had like some long awkward silences in there). Still great for a first video.

Slininstien.7546:

anyone know of good guilds to watch or some vids w/ comms like the old RG ones did? :o

Ya this video is very accurate to what true roaming is half the time you’re just tring to split up groups of people to get 1v1 or 1v2 and if you notice even RIOT videos they don’t fully commit to killing unless others around are confused and looking for them. That means not much more than 1-2 people will attack them at anytime. Your build seems cool ad different too looks like you went in the acrobatics line which isn’t done usually.

for WvW I would be ok with sentry turrets going into normal WvW with the rest of the traps vendor.

It has been stated that arena net was trying to create more powerful runes making it better to collect rune sets at rune 4 and 6. This will take allot of balancing and as we have seen with things such as perplexity runes it sometimes turns out too powerful.

This is how I suggest rune abilities are based it is simple fast and easy. Use cool downs and abilities of an pre existing trait/skill that may work similarly.

What this would do is it means you get another skill use for free once in a while. Using perplexity as an example, receiving an engineer’s crowbar to the face is good in fights however a crowbar confusion only lasts 5 seconds and the cool down is 15 seconds. If perplexity runes had been based on this skill from the beginning there would be no need to go back and change the runes.

I guess I’m just trying to warn the balance team that the game’s skills are already fairly balanced and could be a good basis for anything else you would like to add in.

Heezdedjim.8902:

I am wondering if spending some time dying over and over and over in sPvP every day would make me any better at 1v1 and team fights in WvW. Or is the meta different enough that the setups and skills don’t overlap much? Will I learn as much (eventually) from just sticking to WvW, or should I consider “cross training” in sPvP to try and develop some sort of “fundamentals” as well?

YES

PvP is the best way to get better. the fights are slower due to damage reduction allowing it to be easier to get the basics down. It also allows you to learn the class basics for nearly every class. Here are a few things you should try while training in sPvP

keybinds: mess around with these see what works well. personally e is my heal and q is my dodge because those are the things I don’t want to be slow at using.

Conditions: seeing them and removing them when necessary. Often when fighting a condi class you must be able to remove conditions well. ie Engineer you have rocket boots and healing turret as your only condition removal and have cripple, imobilize, chill, bleeding and poison on you. (I hate necros that do this) Your first reflex may be to use healing turret in panic then removing only 2 conditions, but with practice you learn rocket boots will clear all the chill cripple and immobilize and then you can use healing turret to remove the other two conditions

dodging: practice getting out of red circles to avoid huge AoE damage and whenever you use a dodge make sure it says evade at least once, if not you basically wasted a dodge.

Surviving: failure to survive in a zerg fight rallies enemies so even when full glass spec always know how to position yourself in comparison to enemies to survive (use line of sight for attacks and stuff).

Stun breakers: sometimes when you are out of dodges you get stunned and the enemy gets free damage on you this is when you should use stun breakers.

for all of these things start in sPvP and then go to WvW and do them, you will be a better player.

Nick.6972:

“We don’t care about PPT, we play for fights.”
Is a great excuse when you’re losing.

Quite bad one too.
You and your team run around an empty map, doing absolutely nothing to contribute your server while your opponent is smarter and camps/defend towers.

I agree with you but at the same time there are two types of guilds. Those who play for ppt and those who play for fights, though both types of guilds may clash those who are more experienced in fights should always win.

This doesn’t mean ppt guilds are bad because it is those guilds that win match ups. They are in charge of running supply buying upgrades and setting up/manning siege. They have the potential to do well alone but they must play defensive against a fighting guild.

A fighting guild on the other hand is dependent on the ppt guilds to win a matchup. The ppt guilds tell the fighting guild where the enemy are and the fighting guild’s job is to wipe them. The fighting guild is also best suited to harass enemy territory.

No server that is in the top 3 tiers will only play for fights they will always be a hybrid or more lenient toward points. So in that sense you are correct, however both fighting groups and point groups are needed in a successful server.

Latest Vid from EP http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIfNDwy87W0&feature=c4-feed-u
If you don’t know who the guilds are read the description the author did a good job of describing recent achievements of the guilds.

Engineer – deus ex machina (god from the machine) AoE 360 Balthazar comes down and detonates the target area for a knock down. CC duration .25 seconds for each enemy hit caped at 5 seconds.

Warior – Anti standard opposite of battle standard. finishes all downed players in an area on landing strips swiftness fury and might (and Regen if traited).

Guardian – channel AoE 450 summon a. Giant ring of warding that shrinks into a radius 180 dragging anyone in it to the small radius. (Used to support other moves as well as easy AoE target)

There are three types of commanders I have sworn to never follow.
1. Thieves they stealth and teleport to much to have a good feeling of what their group is going through
2. Mesmers for the same reason.
3. Rangers wielding a long bow. Often if the ranger is double bow you won’t get movement as it should happen in a group fight. Rangers are fine other than that.

Favorite types of commanders
1. Wariors are in the damage and provide great utility with healing shouts and stuns
2. Guardians same as warrior.
3. Necro you don’t see a lot of necromancers but the ones I have seen are pretty amazing.(as long as they don’t use flesh golem while commanding)

I am willing to up the ante 10,000 badges of honor and 10 gold and 25 laurels and 50 ectoplasm and 1 gift of battle for a single ascended weapon of choice. Here is why.

Ascended things take work to make and a lot of materials. 10,000 badges takes 1-2 months to get so it makes sense that 1 months hard work goes toward 1 ascended.

Arena net has always promised its players max level gear will be available to everyone no matter what game type they enjoy. People do not enjoy the crafting game type it is very boring and tedious (like the day lies before they got changed).