Guild Wars 2

Not only faulty, but kittenty as well. Many, many people buy gaming systems and decide to save money on stuff like the PSU, because 600W is 600W right? Wrong. There is a huge difference between quality made PSUs and cheap china stuff. The PSU is one of the most important components in any system.

Same thing if the CPU is overheating. Every time someone says they are using the stock cooler because its “good enough” I loose hope in the future of mankind.

Sigmoid.7082:

It’s actually entirely possible just highly unlikely. Unholy martyr+shrouded removal+ vital precitance = 4% lf gain every 3s as long as conditions are right. Again unlikely but not impossible.

4% every 3s doesnt help when enemies take 20% off every second you know.

Due to the nerf of CC and buff to wells, I have opted to run well of blood and condi cleanse well on my wellomancer (before it was CC and an optional third skill). When traited WoB is 32s cd which is good enough compared to the new 30s CC… and it give 4s of protection instead of the stupid 10% more damage taken – which I could live with, it doesnt last long. But the cooldown on top make it pointless. I do miss old CC.

EremiteAngel.9765:

i think speced rightly, a necro can stay in shroud forever. perma tank ftw.

That’s impossible. LF regen from skills within DS is minimal, it will always drop from damage or skill use. You can drop in and out of DS for an extended period of time if you are fighting another bunker that hit like a wet noodle, but chances are you cant hurt him either.

azizul.8469:

can’t blame them. there’s an old saying “if it’s red, it’s dead”.

But Quaggans are mostly blue?

I saw a hills wall with the scouting buff.

The hills have eyes I tell you…

A single Thief has been able to do this for 3 years, what make 2 Mesmers so much more OP?

I find it hard to believe that a little condi cleanse on shouts would be better for tanking than the protection proc on wells (as well as everything else you get by speccing wells).
From what I can tell of the Reaper, its for aggressive damage/condi specs, not tanking.

I didnt think it siphons counted as a normal “hit” (ie something that can proc on hit effects like retal). If it did, a siphoning wellomancer would instantly kill himself on anyone with retal up and tbh, I never noticed that.

Someone can surely test it out though.

tboneking.2531:

Dungeons rely on max dps so lifesteal itself isn’t that useful.

With traits no longer being tied to stats, which three trees give you max dps? Which skills?

Is not two wells a primary source of PvE dps, which mean you want blood magic… Which pretty much force you into full life siphoning?

Fluffball.8307:

Tigaseye.2047:

Fluffball.8307:

Seriously, if you think rangers command with a LB, think your posts through a little better.

I think people know they, generally, don’t.

But that doesn’t change the fact that some classes are just inherently more suited to it than others.

Well you’d hope, but some people have posted in this thread that rangers can’t command because they stay at 2100 range…

Anywho, there are 3 things that make a commander:

1) Knows how to play WvW and thus makes good decisision (i.e. will abandon a fight at enemy T1 Bay lord to save his T3 tower.)

2) Is a good leader of people (i.e. doesn’t swear at people when his team loses.)

3) Doesn’t die.

EVERYTHING else is irrelevant. And every single profession can bring some very useful utilities like fear walls, stealth, water fields, etc.

Problem is those 3 points completely ignore a certain factor I like to call “The Will Of The Zerg”. Which is to blindly run straight forward furiously pushing 111111 while ignoring the commander on TS. It is also the thing that make a commander loose half his zerg because they decided for a pitstop at a nearby guard circle but the commander is too pro to lower himself to such menial tasks.

This factor heavily favor a strong melee commander. Because the zerg generally dont listen to tactics.

If you have a good zerg, then even a dead commander can lead them.

Randulf.7614:

What does the fox say?

I believe its yiffyiffyiffyiff…

Anyway, I’m not sure I want to see more silly costumes. I guess its content in the gemstore, but at some point its going to be kittened and start to distract from GW2 lore. Sure its not a hardcore realistic MMO, far from it, but its already walking a very thin line with stuff like unicorn bows, silly pets, costume transformations, wings, animal hats and the like… A majority of players still have “traditional” gear (ie heavy armor and a flaming greatsword on a Warrior instead of a swimsuit with bunny ears and a pink fluffy baton), which is great. I dont want to see GW2 become another silly Asian MMO where a battleground look like a My Little Pony episode.

AshleyLynn.6814:

Is it okay if I started an openly pro-heterosexual guild? Because equal rights.. Right?

Why not? A guild of manly men and womenly women talking about men and women sounds fine with me.
I mean I wouldnt join it because it seems kind of gay but whatever. Each to their own.

The “problem” with the wells is that they need to have some spike to actually do something. Its way too easy to dodge them. This means that the blind well in particular is utterly useless. Even if you do apply a blind, its so short its gone when they have dodged out. Even double that – 6s – would be pointless!

It really need something else indeed. Either more stacks, shorter cooldown or just plain damage on top to warrant the cooldown.

That said, at least it make the well selection in full well builds simple.

They should just scrap it and make the Well Of Darkness a real Necro skill – an elite well. Yeah I said it. A kittening elite well. Lets say… 12s duration, wide AoE circle (like Timewarp), cause blind and randomly convert boons to fear every 3 second. They could even increase CD to 90 seconds or something.

And when the first condition slide off to the enemy that’s just about the time you realize that 2 of your unguilded teammates went far for no apparent reason and both died to a peglegged thief halfway there, another is running around in circles around a mob and is about to die and the last one is AFK in spawn.

Oh and you are already loosing 100 to 400.

It really depends on your targets. I dont play much PvE, but to compare a recent WvW camp scenario I had, tier 1 + 5 veteran dredge. Thats about 12 NPCs if you count 2 dollys.

When I attack with my Warrior, I didnt even kill one mob before I embarassingly died.
When I attack with my Necro, I wellbombed the kitten out of them while regening so much HP I could simply facetank all mobs at once.

My Necro isnt even a DPS build (have 1600 toughness and 1400 vitality I believe). Full well siphon and bunker traits.

When I duod with a friend on the same build, the two of us could wipe a t3 camp in a single wellbomb.

So yeah… It should work perfectly fine in PvE

1111111111111 with dagger.

Yep its that simple. As a Necro you dont stomp people. You suppress them with marks and then you kill them with stabby stabby. If you are lucky, someone will try to res them thats not full PVT so you can get a two for one for free. If they are at range and you cant get to them, DS autoattacks usually take care of them.

When I activated the serial, it got stuck as well.

But I waited like 15 minutes (surfing anyway, heh), saw it still spinning, closed the window and… Instead of showing GW2 with HoT optional, it just show HoT. Got my gems and stuff after that.

Lord Kuru.3685:

• If a level 80 and a low level character both fight the same monster, the 80 sees it with 1,000,000 health and the low level sees it with 200,000 health (or whatever). The health bar of the monster does not have to change as it shows percentages. The level 80 hits for bigger numbers, but that is compensated for by the monster’s bigger health (and armor, etc.)

Lulwat? That’s complicated as all kitten and would require mobs to literally have 80 different HP bars (one for each level). What’s next, adjusting HP by using the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics?

They really just need to get the numbers correct with the current system.

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

Now you know why its called “Feel My Wrath”.

Maybe the Anet guy that thought GvGs was ruining his gameplay mode finally got an opportunity to shine by making the new Guardian elite?

Firelysm.4967:

I think aNet forgot to test +5 people cap.

More like they forgot to test, period.

Stuff like this is noticed within minutes in high tier WvW (and now its totally broken). Anet must have only tested in PvE with single players or something.

yanniell.1236:

I felt invincible.

Funny, I felt the complete opposite lol…

The strange thing is, the build I use after patch is stronger than before… in theory. Much better traits. But in practice, I went down like a rotten tree no matter what I faced, lol. But I think its more that the zerker meta seem to be even stronger than before for all the other classes (I run hybrid). Thieves I usually dont have a problem with, but now it was a death sentence to meet them.

Bleh need to get used to the patch.

Rich Fuel.7253:

DUEL WIELD TWO HANDED GREATSWORDS!
nuf siad

200b, insta-kill worldbosses.

Anti-aliasing is pretty much only used on the 3D plane. The UI is slapped on top of this just as a set of composite 2D images, I’m guessing. The reason its noticable is due to the hexagon shape and its bright border on the dark background. In the old trait panel, all borders where black. Poor design choice perhaps.

I find that my “hybrid” builds are only stronger, at least on my three main classes I use in WvW. Rifle/hammer Warrior (rifle trait now has synergy with hammer since its in the same tree), sword/torch/staff Mesmer (I can trait for all three weapons on a defensive spec), bunkerish Necro zerger (defensive yet still get targetable wells… and siphoning/protection wells rolled into one).

To me the new trait system is win some loose some… But personally I won alot more than I lost.

The only bad thing is that one have to rebalance gear, since the traits no longer give stats. So if you had something bunkerish before but relied on power/precision trees for offense, you are now all bunker instead.

Yep, its a thing now. Go Guardian or gtfo of WvW. Yay for class diversity!

Permaquickness and 1111111111 while running straight forward going “lolololololol”.

ArchonWing.9480:

Well, every time a new toy is put out, there’s a surge of people trying it out. Rapid fire patch was a good example of it.

This patch has a lot of new toys, so it may be for a while, but I think things will quiet down in a bit.

Thats not it.

WvW zerging is completely broken since the patch

Everyone has all boons and perma quickness (ie +50% on all actions). A zerg can breach and cap a 2 door borderkeep in less than a minute… without any siege. PvD on a whole new level.

Why? So that they can sell GW2 for $50 again for a year.

Yeah, its that simple. It doesnt matter what HoT contain, its not even about HoT. Its all about GW2. You can only lower the sales bar so much.

Exciton.8942:

Dawdler.8521:

This seems to imply that iLeap was ever fixed since 3 years ago?! Man I must have missed the big event

Yeah, it was working pretty well since they changed the clone spawn to be next to the target.

No it wasnt, the new insta-spawn just broke it in a different way than the run-to-target, it was still unreliable as all kitten -_-

Imagine if hitting 3 just teleported you to the target and immo them while leaving a clone at your original position instead… iLeap fixed to work just like the Thief shadowshot. But nooooooooo… Anet just had to come up with another unreliable broken teleport unique to the Mesmer because reasons. Just so they can get the opportunity to break it further, I guess?

This seems to imply that iLeap was ever fixed since 3 years ago?! Man I must have missed the big event

Just tried as well and seemed to be working (only tried red though, in mists and home border)

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Hard to say about Archeage from the outside, but all games lose a large percentage of their population after launch. Even WoW lost 3 million rapidly after their last expansion and Guild Wars 2 also lost a large number after launch. It’s one of the reasons they put in Megaservers. My whole guild that came over from Guild Wars 1 essentially died, and that’s a common complaint I’ve read. However from what I’ve read about Archeage, they may well have lost more than was typical due to company shenanigans.

Yeah, but Archeage was quite noticable when it was hit. At first, you couldnt find land anywhere. Then, it became a small rush to take over expiring plots. Then… no one cared anymore. Land became pretty much worthless. Zones that ones where full of farms and houses just lost them all. Zones that could go to war every day took weeks to go to war. And I was one on of the bigger PvP oriented servers. Problem was that Archeage was big, impressive and had lots of fun detail (ie physics) but once you settled in and started going about your daily buisness, it was just shallow and pointless. The eqvivalent to sPvP in particular was complete and utter kitten in Archeage. The only fun was open world PvP with guilds, but player counts was dropped so rapidly even that became pointless. It was insanely fun in the beginning to almost bring the zone servers down with 200+ player battles though, lol. Even if we ignore the money grubbing in each patch that just plain ruined it, the actual content that was added was kittened for lack of other words to describe it. Castle sieges was broken and still was when I left. The guild had so looked forward to the castle mechanics and when it came… meh. Cant even play.

Lucius.2140:

Pd5: This is a simple and fast analysis, not gonna spend much time in something semiaceptable -.-

Oooooor… one could just argue that if you where going to buy gems anyway, you get HoT for about the same cost as basic anyway if you dont value the fluff very highly. No mathematical analysis required. I got ultimate edition because I really need to expand my bank tabs/inventory space so I have some QoL and that’s about that (So. Much. Gearsets. Argh!).

HoT is not something you download or “pre-load” especially for GW2 – it is GW2. Your game will update as normal, on a tuesday most likely… and then you’ll have HoT. Even if you didnt buy HoT. Access is just that, access. Anet update servers are well established and its unlikely that there will be a massive rush of new players, so it shouldnt be anything special even if the HoT patch is sizeable. Keep in mind that GW2 already contain some HoT content – the beta event was just to create a character and play.

serenke.4806:

They’re not forcing you to pre-purchase. You can choose to pre-purchase.

Just like you are not forced to play meta builds.

Exactly, you can can choose to be one of those lower class people.

… so why not “The Mechanic”?

Pistols, definetly. Main hand (so one can use pistol/warhorn in WvW), offhand (Warhammer style, oh yeah) and dualwield of course.

It would fit the Warrior perfectly. In fact, a 1 handed ranged weapon is the only thing the Warrior lack in terms of weaponry and he cant very well use scepter. A pistol is pretty much the only weapon that make sense. Another two handed magic range weapon such as a staff definetly would not fit the Warrior.

While torch would be great (I have legendary torch, heh), I dont see it as needed due to other offhand weapons. Unless of course, its a ranged mainhand weapon. Throwing torches at people wouldnt be all bad.

Wolfeng.3784:

101 pages of people discussing the multiple issues surrounding the pre-order deal.
Multiple other threads, and yet Anet silence remains.

If a company can’t come up with an official statement after a week, I guess it’s time to pack and move to another game. Sad, I really loved this one.

You do realize that the Anet official statement is already in the thread, posted 5 days ago? Expansion is $50, period. Its the answer to the thread. Just because people dont like it or choose to ignore it doesnt make it any less of an official statement. What came after is as you said, 101 pages of people discussing stuff.

When you stealth you go into an alternate dimension with no light and no air (that’s why they cant stay in there too long).

In other words its like space, so around -100 degrees celsius. Bring a scarf.

Dastion.3106:

So any name you make could have a title type name like “Illustrious George” or “George the Illustrious”, etc.

Cactus The Prickly?

lordhelmos.7623:

Rifle will be deader than dead after patch, hammer train PvT warrior will live on.

I run hammer PvT Warrior… with rifle and +25% runes.

I hope more people dont discover just how flexible Warriors can actually be in the current meta. Then we wouldnt be able to slaughter melee only when they rush in through a rain of piercing shots followed by hammerstuns inside the defensive wells

No dont do this!

If rifle use where to double or even triple, devs are going to nerf it to the ground.

And we’ll have 2, maybe 3 very unhappy players.

Entenkommando.5208:

If anyone deserves to die within the story it is Trahearne .____.

He is just too much of a cliche.

He cant die. Traherne is like a virus, try to kill him and he’ll just mutate. He’s already replicated into an Asura (Gatt I believe he calls himself). He may be able to hide his appearance, but he cant hide his voice.

Wouldnt it be hilarious if they learned from Eve? Everyone moving in slowmo during zerg battles, lol.

In case people miss the Amazon thread:

Anet certified retailers appear to be selling HoT expansion only €10 cheaper than the HoT+GW2 pre-purchase version

Note that I say appear. I have no idea what’s going on, lol.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Pre-purchase boxed versions will arrive in stores (not online stores) on June the 30th.

But havent Anet said that there will be no boxed version?

Its all really confusing.

Webhallen, the Swedish store selling HoT as expansion only for €35 (they specifically note that GW2 is required) is listed as an Anet certified retailer.

I find it odd that Webhallen would have the wrong info available.

Does this mean that the pre-purchase version of HoT sold here on the webpage include GW2 and is more expensive than the pre-order version that is expansion only?

Wait wtf? Why couldnt they have told us this?!?!

You know what it means.

Tiffany.8576:

tbh, necros are right up there with warriors in terms of the best class to command with if you know how to theorycraft a good build and you know how to play.

Most definetly not. Necros can probably build to survive in the middle of a zerg as good as any commander, but they are not “up there” with Warriors or Guardians simply because they have little in the way of tools. Necro dont even have a viable blast finisher. They offer almost nothing to the zerg except sporadic mark/well stuff (problem is, this is often used at range which means the friendly interactions like regen/condiconvert is mostly wasted).

That said, I dont think I have seen a Necro commander so my opinion is a bit biased.

Linken.6345:

No it aint only anet is selling hot at this moment.

The strange thing is… I see it available for pre-order in lots of stores. Well respected ones at that, not shady internet sites. The largest hardware stores in Sweden are all selling it and state its HoT expansion only, the cheapest going for around €35.

None are selling deluxe/ultimate though.

I would love to have an Anet reply on this because its kind of important.

The price is just an effect of recent changes in the gaming world, where you get less for more money and buy into early access promises and kickstarter ideas. This is the age of overpriced DLC, where Anet could have sold 1 new sPvP map for $10 and it wouldnt even have been strange.

Trying to put a value on HoT will only make your head explode.