Guild Wars 2

They’ll be converted to mystic forge crafting mats if I interpreted the articles and blog posts correctly.

As revealed in the tentonhammer article, and I quote “ArenaNet examples how Elementalists currently have a base attunement recharge of 10 seconds, which will be reduced to 8.7 seconds when the Arcane specialization is selected.”

http://www.tentonhammer.com/news/guild-wars-2/guild-wars-2-heart-thorns-specializations-and-jon-peters-qa

We’re finally getting base 10!

For example, when running through dungeons, my guild, party, and map chat tabs will randomly flash despite nothing having been said on the individual channels. Each tab is named after the only chat channel I have selected and yet they all light up at the same time and seemingly at random.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

RubiBayer.8134:

Most of us play, but very often on private accounts. For example:

So many humans, so few charr

Why do you think there are so many armor art issues with charr?

A 60 second cooldown would be really nice considering the short duration and 3 hit limit of the skill.

I like the toolbelt skill and it would be much nicer if it was a stunbreaker too. As for your suggested changes, I think it was balanced to give off a really big heal, so it’ll stay at 40 seconds. However, I think that if no lethal damage was taken, the cooldown should be reduced in half.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Look like the old Mesmer armors. I’m sure some players will find them appealing. =)

Absolutely, the old Mesmer armors had some of the most amazing artwork back then. It’s only a shame that out of all the old armor artwork of GW1, it had to be the necromancer’s Krytan/profane armor set that got brought back as a classic armor set. The mesmer’s rogue’s armor would have been much better for both genders.

Bleeding turrets? So, what, they leak oil? And poisoned turrets have… rusty gears?

As for how it affects PvE/WvW, I can’t say anything for WvW, but I can say that turrets were never popular in PvE so their “viability” in that situation remains about the same. Though, I think I’m going to run turrets when the changes are out to see how it fairs.

More HP would be nice, but I doubt Anet would have eles with 15k base HP. While it makes tons of sense and would definitely get me out of water magic, the dev(s) most likely looked at it internally and probably found that it was too much or didn’t match the “feel” or goals of the profession. However, 15k base HP is always nice, and I certainly wouldn’t need much if any points at all in water magic with that much HP.

Also, OP, how is 5k more HP more fun for everyone (not including eles)? What would players who don’t play eles and hate facing them in PvP say?

Lyp Sao.1375:

Jinroh.4251:

The map is pretty simple but I wish the world map would flash events in the region you were in, not just the mini map. ….

Like this?

I think OP meant all the events occurring in the map instance you are in should appear on the world map instead of flashing the “nearest” event to the player.

SpudMan.5041:

I have been playing as a thief (dagger main hand, pistol offhand), and have noticed a seriously unfair way of killing high level enemies.

By using the 5th skill, “black powder”, you can make a group of enemies miss all of their attacks for 4 seconds, since the enemies make no attempt to get out of the AOE. During this time, you can land 2 full rounds of auto attacks, and then use heartseeker to go invisible (this happens when you combo heartseeker with the black powder AOE). Then backstab, and repeat.

You can literally do this indefinitely with the “infusion of shadow” trait, since you gain the same initiative back over the 4 seconds as you used. You receive close to no damage from the monsters you are killing because they spend the whole time being blind, hence you are able to kill things way above your level by adopting this very repetitive play style.

I am getting SO BORED doing it because everything is so easy to kill. At the same time, I can’t resist the temptation of using it to level up quickly. Please fix this so there is no longer any temptation! I am making myself get so bored of this game!

Not an exploit. Besides, it used to be that the blinding effect would pulse once per second with a one second duration. Now it pulses once per two seconds with a two second duration because it was deemed too good in its original state.

As for growing bored, you brought this onto yourself by playing that style. You can bring yourself out of it by playing another style.

tramwajarz.2369:

Belzebu.3912:

US states borders are almost all squares too, so what is the issue?

EU borders aren’t. So what?

Just to clarify a few things (not trying to sound antagonistic here). EU borders aren’t square because they all are almost entirely developed along natural landmarks and geographical areas/obstacles (I’m forgetting the correct terms here).

If you look at the US map, you’ll see the eastern states have an almost organic appearance because of mountains and rivers acting as natural obstacles. Once you look at the western side of the US map, you’ll notice the borders begin to look more like straight lines and more block/rectangular in shape.

Ascended armor boxes are technically valued as the total cost of all the materials needed to craft it. However, its actual worth is based on the player and the build(s) the player has equipped. In the rare situations that I get an ascended armor or weapon box with a stat that I have utterly no use for (Magi items, I’m glaring at you), I tend to unlock the item skin so that it counts for the collection and then I toss it out. It’s a shame the items can’t be salvaged for materials for crafting other stat combos.

The aura based on the divine fire from the last season 2 episode also creates an amazing effect.

I unlocked GWAMM a long time ago and it felt like a major achievement. At least in GW1, titles had a sense of prestige and wasn’t thrown around as a reward as easily as in GW2.

Crafting a full set of light ascended armor for my ele was irritating. The one bolt of silk weaving thread per day wasn’t too bad, it was the material cost of silk itself that was painful. Now I cringe every time I think about crafting light ascended armor due to the cost of silk and linen.

Chris Cleary.8017:

Hey all,

We have been fairly relaxed since launch on players purchasing wealth from “Real Money Traders”, but that stops now. We will be taking a very active stance against RMT buyers from here on out.

The purchasing of wealth from these “Real Money Traders” violates our Rules of Conduct. These traders are often a cause for fraud, hacking, and identity theft.

Repercussions from purchasing wealth can result in removal of wealth and continued purchasing could result in action against your account including temporary suspension or permanent ban from the game.

I’m confused here. You guys handle gold spammers swiftly, but why weren’t you guys handling RMT customers in the listed manner swiftly from the outset? What was the overall mindset behind the initial (and I know it’s a bad analogy but I can’t think of a better one), “slap on the wrist” approach?

That sounds like you’re trying to combine the mesmer and necro into a single specialization.

One problem I see with fishing is that mining, logging, and harvesting can be done on any map—fishing technically can’t be done on every map. Fishing requires a source of water— and maps without sources of water typically mean adding sources of water and populating with underwater creatures, structures, etc. On existing maps with little water, that would mean the fishing nodes would be effectively limited to possibly small areas. I’m pretty sure that conflicts with the overall goal of making gathering spread out throughout a map.

If by leg issue you mean the weird curving on the left foot, I reported it as a bug in the past but nothing has happened. Since it has been in the game since launch, I suspect the leg is posed like that on purpose—despite the ugly twist that causes boots to be warped.

Adelbern won’t be a channeled spirit as it conflicts with the dungeon storyline (and we all know dungeons won’t get major changes). It would make more sense to channel Rurik since his spirit is in the mists and his corpse is probably near the same location where he was last seen— the Ring of Fire Islands. Also, Rytlock is wielding Sohothin, Rurik’s sword, compared to Magdaer, which is supposedly in Eir or her blacksmith friend’s possession.

Underwater combat is probably being looked at or will be looked at. As for the lack of underwater content, there needs to be improvements over the current system for new content to be made.

For the moment, I would say pretend that the verticality of the HoT maps are what we can expect if there were more underwater zones.

I suspect that the sheer amount of verticality in the HoT maps are actually part of the base game maps by default. Specifically, maps such as Frostgorge Sound with its crazy deep underwater trench-like areas prove that the artists can create some really deep maps.

On a serious note: maces already fill the “blunt one-handed weapon” role so I don’t think a melee scepter is needed.

On a semi-serious note: Forget about a melee scepter, we need a scepter offhand!

I just hope the new legendaries don’t have the whimsical/toy like quality of some of the gen 1 legendaries such Quip and Dreamer.

… I want the resplendent curtain but I’m not in the beta

Toxsa.2701:

It benefits monsters way more than it benefits players. Confusion is still useless thanks for it’s scarcity in applying them, yet monsters often stack confusion like crazy (5 stacks per hit, easily build up to 25).

This so called “buff” just doesn’t make sense, and make monsters with insane confusion stacking ability to be overpowered.

To be fair, players can also cleanse conditions more easily than monsters. However, I do agree with your point that applications of confusion are scarce and I would also add that durations for confusion on most skills and traits are also short. Most of the skills and traits that apply confusion last about 4 seconds without duration condition modifiers. Considering the slow attack speeds, that’s about 1-2 attacks. Sadly, this renders confusion very lackluster.

I’m pretty sure it was stated somewhere in the previews and by the devs that gliding would be available anywhere within the new expansion pack’s regions. As for gliding outside of them, I don’t think it will work.

Instead of new sigils and rune effects, I think reworking and improving existing runes and sigils are more important. As it stands, there are only a very small set of runes and sigils that are most commonly used and many sets go unused or rarely used except for testing or experimentation.

kybraga.7103:

… That’s a rifle that is for all classes… Just a environment weapon… Sorry.

That’s the joke.

We’re going to at least get a blog post or announcement of some sort if it does make it into HoT or before then, right? Because this is a big deal when it goes through.

While I do agree that the break-bar sounds more like a small patch-up to a large problem, I do think that we should give it a chance and see how it works in a live environment first.

Sure, the usage of the break-bar means that CC is now reduced to numbers and makes them feel less special, but perhaps it’ll work really well live?

Right now, all we have is what it will do on paper, some small scale previews of it working in a controlled (new)environment, and not much else to it. I would really like to see these changes first hand in a live environment coughPublicBetacough.

I get a game crash about some sort of windows pure virtual function call when leaving groups from dungeons since the camera update. I’m not sure if my crashes are related to your crashes though.

Livestream your playthroughs! Or record them if you can’t livestream, that’s cool too.

ReaverKane.7598:

Wouldn’t mind something like a “toolbelt” for consumables, or even for a spot where you can keep track of that one material you’re trying to farm.
3-5 Keybindable slots where you can just drag and drop stuff from the inventory wouldn’t really kill the game, and would be a good QoL improvement for using foods/tonics, and simply just keeping track of how many of a certain item you have on you.

In terms of having keybinds specifically for consumables, I’m pretty sure a dev once said that having the option would make players feel like they are forced to always have consumables since the very option is there. While it is certainly a good QoL improvement, I don’t think we’re going to be seeing bindable consumable buttons.

Coalwhite.2571:

This has to be said.

I haven’t played GW2 for about a year, maybe a bit more. I reached end-game back then, played around and after a while gave up because I got bored and lag was pretty bad back then (this was also around the time the trading shop was down for a few days for Mac users only). Then ESO was announced and I was like: suck it ArenaNet, Bethesda is going to take all your players.

Believing in pre-release hype is bad. Really bad. You got suckered in by the hype from a studio you had very little knowledge of.

In any case, fast forward almost a year and despite seeing tons of new and exciting GW2 news I decide to buy ESO Online now that it’s finally B2P. This thing costs 60$, and there’s no refund – but I think: hey, how bad can it be – it’s from the guys that made Skyrim.

No, it’s not by the same guys who made Skyrim. That’s a very common mistake and I think ZeniMax was hoping people would associate ESO with the single player elder scrolls games. It was made by a studio that is part of ZeniMax, the parent publisher, but it is by no means made entirely by the same team that made the the single player elder scrolls games. I’m pretty sure Todd Howard, the brains behind Skyrim, wasn’t personally overseeing anything about ESO but I could be wrong on that part.

ESO is so darn uninspired it made me upset! I’ve logged 25 hours in the game, around 13 of those are install hours o_O

Battle is a drag, the in-game world is boring to explore and the skills are not adding to the battle at all yet. Lore is great though, I’ll give them that. But really, there’s no strategy and hitboxes are deplorably bad. After about three days of frustration and boredom I can no longer force myself to play it, and am downloading GW2 as I type this.

Maybe because I’m older or have just played more games, but I look back on my time with GW2 and I remember excitement, mystery and great, challenging combat. Glad to be back, let’s hope the magic hasn’t faded (…. and that they didn’t stop working on the Mac client!!!!)

Anyone else come here from ESO?

I did not come from ESO, but I will say that when I found out about the reveal of ESO, I personally found it generic from the beginning—especially when prerelease, it was revealed it would all be in third person but due to fan demand, first person mode was added in.

That and having played Oblivion and Skyrim, I could tell that while the universe was deep, the setting felt pretty generic. An MMO relies pretty heavily on the setting and another high fantasy, swords/sorcery with relatively low level technology MMO wasn’t something that I think was necessary.

Oh, and don’t forget that there are plenty of reviews. I generally check out a few reviews not to see the final scores, but to see what parts were disliked by the reviewer and consider if I would dislike it.

We need to have Shiro’s swords in GW2. The most important thing is to make sure that this time, unlike in GW: Factions, the in-game model of Shiro’s blades/swords actually matches with the swords he wields in the Factions trailer. I was so disappointed back in GW: Factions that the daggers/sword wasn’t exactly like the one seen in the trailer/wallpaper.

metaldude.4132:

DanteZero.9736:

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I have so many taking up space that it’s driving me crazy. I would love to have an option to stack them all up into one big kit that is similar to the mystic salvage kits and their 250 uses. Or maybe being able to mystic forge them into 100 use kits and then mystic forging those 100 use kits into 400 use kits. I need that space!

You are sitting on a gold mine there buddy..use them to salvage 80 exotics for insignia’s (as said earlier by someone) or ecto’s to obtain Crystalline dust (the ratio of getting Crystalline dust by BLSK is quite rewarding is my experience). Also obtain some luck on the side

Am I? Because it can only be a gold mine if there were enough exotic drops (not dungeon token weapons) to actually use them on. That’s also assuming we’re talking about exotic armor pieces with high value runes.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I have so many taking up space that it’s driving me crazy. I would love to have an option to stack them all up into one big kit that is similar to the mystic salvage kits and their 250 uses. Or maybe being able to mystic forge them into 100 use kits and then mystic forging those 100 use kits into 400 use kits. I need that space!

Erukk.1408:

My guess, given that the different legends being supported by the different trait lines..

Shiro: Power and Condition Duration
Mallyx: Precision and Condition Damage
Jalis: Toughness and Healing Power
Ventari: Vitality and Boon Duration
Glint: Class Mechanic and Ferocity

I can easily see Ventari being the support legend. Time will only tell if we’re going to be able to spam boons with his trait line though.

The stat combos make the most sense given that the many existing classes have similar if not the exact same stat combos across their trait lines (or all of their trait lines). Of course, Anet could pull a fast one and switch things up a bit, but we’ll have to wait until we get closer to the beta I guess.

On humans: faces with the sole difference being makeup isn’t something that I would purchase a makeover kit for. As for the sylvari faces, some of them look nice, and one of them looks suspiciously similar to Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones. The norn faces all look better than humans in this update and as for charr and asura… Nope. Nothing that I like. Still, better something than nothing right?

The possibility of using Impossible Odds! YES!

I can only hope the elite skill is his Jade Wind.

I finished patching. The FoV takes some getting used to, but wow do I love it. The camera changes have made me want to explore southsun cove on my necro. Luckily, he hasn’t explored that part yet, so it should feel like new. As for the shadow weapons, eh, I’m not a fan of the asymmetrical horns and bones poking out from the left and the right.

I’m still waiting on some gallery updates so I can see what the three new faces are for each race before I plunk down some gems.

Oh, and I’m getting guild chat updates in guilds I’m not repping. So that was unexpected.

Zoltreez.6435:

Power.2957:

Careful, all the RP kids are gonna come in here and whine about “immersion.”

im not an RP player yet i HATE seeing stuff like these in the game.

that freaken unicorn bow already burns my eyes out every time i see it……

You forgot the bubble gun known as Quip.

Better late than never! Though it’s more than 2 years too late for me (I already played the game of “follow the exclusively blue dorito” back then), at least new players won’t have to go through a map where other players can mess up your chances of reaching particular places.

Jski.6180:

It sounds like after the stab changes (not sure when) nado may become nearly unstoppable and a realty good stab stack remover.

It’s too easy to be immobilized and you move really slow. Also, the damage pulse from tornado happens once per three seconds (not talking about the whirl+lighting field effect and the three tornado skills).

Tornado needs a bit more than just the stability change imo. Perhaps adding pulsing resistance in addition to possibly pulsing stability. As for the pitiful damage/CC pulse times, well, if it’s reduced to 1 damage pulse per second with 1 CC pulse per 3 seconds, it might be something nice.

Rarely do I ever see my fire elemental survive longer than 30 seconds. It would be nice if the non-earth elementals weren’t so ridiculously fragile in pve. I would love to hear the dev’s views on why they view some skills, elites, and traits as balanced.

Elixir X shouldn’t have a random effect. I think it should be more reliable and grant something useful to the party (not AoE targeted) such as pulsing stability and resistance for a short duration (maybe 10-15 seconds).

And here I was hoping the camera changes would be ready for release since it would change the way I looked (heh) at the game’s environments.

I have two reactions:

1. How on earth did the devs overlook that?!?!
2. That’s awesome!

But seriously, how on earth did this get past QA???

Fermi.2409:

For $500 I’d opt for something like this; OC the CPU and you’re good to go, it includes windows, and you don’t spend loads of extra money on things that don’t need it.

Very nice build! However, wouldn’t a quad core CPU prove more effective with GW2 being more CPU focused?