Guild Wars 2

Sicarius.4639:

Try Warrior.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmFiSdT9HbU

Yeah, I’ve tried this over 10 times and it’s a perfect storm technique. Don’t waste time with it. I’ll admit it is funny though, just not practical.

When Danicia said to not delete them, I’d say a good percentage of us held onto them. I held back and only crafted one Asc back piece too. There’s been a lingering theme of Legendary Back pieces coming out, who knew is this would not have been an ingredient.

This is just one more example of a very low value update.

lordkrall.7241:

Why do people ignore the fact that less gold being created (less extreme farms) the less stuff will cost, and as such the less people actually have to farm.

Icy Runestone’s wanted to say hello JS is still setting the pricing of items by setting the volume and type of base materials used to create it. Even if the economy deflated, it wouldn’t make it “easier” or “faster” than it is with items like Icy Runestone and their set prices in the mix.

Right now having players spend time on the pavilion, with such spare material drops, is actually going to increase mat prices on the TP. As they’ll be less supply being generated at the moment.

There is an aspect not yet discussed and that is player protection. I believe Arenanet should have implemented Voice Comms and given worlds their own sub forums on here. This is mostly from a perspective of WvW and when PvE had it’s own instances.

Faerun.3091:

So playing in zerg where you just spam #1 skill is fun?

Okay….

Actually yes, yes it is. Playing with a large group of people is exactly why I bought an MMO. If you’re such a baddie that all you have done in the past is spam 1, that is your fault. Besides leeching, you are just wasting your time and the time of every other player by making every fight last longer.

wait…. wait…. wait…. on my sever we treat each other pretty well. Our Qd champs trains were fun and inclusive events. One could always find banners, buffs, and foods.

For negativity, there was far more against the people in the train. There are some players that like nothing more than to cause suffering. Players that are jealous of others and will do anything they can to disrupt them. Those are the individuals that are caustic. How or better yet why, the Dev’s gave into them, I have no idea. The game will continue to diminish if they continue to give in to those individuals.

For rewards in game, they yet again buffed FotM. I don’t understand why the dev’s want to promote instanced play so much. I specifically bought an open world game. Yet, the open world is the least economically rewarding place to play.

This isn’t about being casual, this is about an individuals desire to be special. To do so, they wants to deny others.

Was thinking, since the Mega Server kittened over all resemblance of our worlds, how about we reclaim a little bit with World Chat? We have say, guild, and map, chat. Let’s add one for world.

Considering the numerous contested way points now, I’m for mounts. Way too much mindless, joyless, and time wasted running. There’s also a lot of ways one could use mounts as a companion to your character. Building upon our personal story beyond Zhaitan. Because if anything is beating a dead horse, it’s adding more enemies like Dragons. We have to build our character’s, our cities, our our personal space. Not define them by “lulz.. kitten .. we’z kill’d that.”

Branden Gee.2150:

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Full of win… your post is just full of win! TY

I’m just going to say EotM is for fun and loot. Stating that you want to demoralize another player is taking EotM and yourself, way too seriously. If you want that kind of game play, take it to a BL please. Though even there, demoralizing another person is taking a video game way too far.

I think Anet did a great job with EotM. It gave players a greater diversity of game play to choose from. Having some choices is always good for a game. EotM should remain lighthearted and fun as it is. Leaving more competitive play to the regular maps.

The whole concept of Leagues is poorly thought out. It’s a video game and no ones going to get married to video game league lasting 24/7 for 9 weeks. People want to log in, enjoy themselves, and then log out. Beyond that, what is a world now that we’ve all been consolidated into the Mega Server?

Burnt out or just over it, I can’t say for certain. Though after Season one, I and many others, expressed a desire to never see a season 2. Now before even Season 2 ends, I’m hoping to not see a season 3.

What method are you using OP to analyze and define “Easy”? I find a lot of players confusing frenetic pacing for difficulty. P/D has a slower more methodical approach to combat. Being condi based, it takes a little bit longer to kill than say D/D or S/D. Which gives more room for error. Now I too have complained about this build and instead of complaining further, I rolled one for WvW. Funny enough, I find myself doing more search-n-rescue and scouting on the battlefield than any 1v. So, are the builds cheesy and trolly or are the players themselves using them?

btw… before this build my thief sat at level 30ish for a year. Never liked D/D play style.

Totally agree as we’ve been asking for this for too long.

Axialbloom.8109:

I am curious about the story behind your signature. Jed?

Thank you for asking! My signature references some folks I’ve run with on Jade Quarry

tom.7468:

Before the patch i could on average hit 8-9k backstab now 5-6k and that dosen’t sounds like a lot right?

Because you asked, that sounds incredibly too high to me. I’ve always complained about burst in PvP settings. Damage to defense ratio’s were off to begin with. Fights shoudl last longer than a few swings and a rotation.

The few people, including the OP, are coming off as nothing more than grievers looking to justify their actions. No matter if it’s out of jealousy or malice, it’s just grieving. For EotM itself, if a high majority of players want to choo choo around the map, then that is what the game mode will be.

The games participation level is continuing to diminish. You few grievers, by lessening the fun of the majority, will only make participation diminish faster.

btw… OP, you really do not sound like a “new player”. Either that or you are just regurgitating things your guild lead said. Which is funny since I don’t know a single WvW Guild leader whom has any concerns about what goes on in EotM.

“OP” is either used on the spot or after repeated experiences with said builds. It can be used by both the victor or the loser of any encounter. It’s mostly used to infer that something appears out of balance. Mostly, it ends up being what are the current Meta Builds. Because once a build is created/derived it’ll be copied several times over.

Words of similar meaning and use to OP would be cheese and troll.

That video is gold! Let’s be honest, this is broken. Though, PU clone builds are equally broken. Just that PU is the polar opposite of this.

killahmayne.9518:

I’ve been playing Mesmer quite a bit lately and I can’t just figure out why alot of people elect to use the greatsword.

In PvE, where there is a lot of places where stacking provides the most optimal DPS, snip

See, I didn’t even have to read beyond this point. Like many, I play the game for fun and pick the weapon set that I enjoy the most. If I wanted to optimize my build, I’d go PU to troll in WvW like every other Meta chaser does. Instead, I pick what I like and work it for all it’s worth. Though it’s still a ranged weapon and I swap to S/F when stacking. Now if only the IWarden would reflect all inbound projectiles as it should!

btw… GS Auto does extreme range, pierces, and is not reflectable. So it has uses in getting enemies stuck in combat.

They need to upgrade the amount of cloth drops in game. Thank God I went and farmed linen right before the Mega Server hit. The Mega Server ruined any chance of farming events for cloth mats. Which was a large supply chain of them that’s now been removed from the game.

TheGrimm.5624:

After burning thru way to many gaming mice

sigh, some of the buttons on my Naga epic are already starting to feel sluggish. It’s only a year old Though, how… how.. how.. are you having THAT many essence of luck? Must be some serious TP use going on there.

I haven’t seen one made yet. There’s just no justification for that cost. You’d have to have an entire map of power builds only. Teq, hard capped might be the only use if you had everyone on map pool resources.

Can we get dowels moved to their own tab? Planks and ingots together is fine, dowels though is annoying. Especially when you AREN’T refining but creating (mostly) from two base items. Also, for safety, would be great to have them separated. I think we’ve all accidentally started creating dowels.

It’s also annoying that you can’t even search for say “plank” to eliminate the dowels too.

As someone whom ports often, We’re all providing a service to our fellow players as an act of kindness. If another Mesmer wants to share the burden and take some of the workload, I’m more than happy to see it. No need to say anything at all, just start porting!

Players would eventually harass each other. Just look at the level of hate and trolling that takes place already. Dueling would more than likely make every inch of Tyria vial and hostile. Which would probably kill the game.

/no

Best advice for leveling a thief comes in four letters, EotM Level 80 in 24 hrs of play easily with boost’s. Only annoyance is having to upgrade gear so often.

I hate thieves, I really do. That’s why I rolled one last year but, stopped leveling it in the 20’s. Well, last week I said the heck with it, time to level it up. Popped a B-day booster and EotM zerg leveled to 80 in 3 days. Been in hot join sPvP for about a total of 4 hrs when a Warrior called me “the most annoying thief ever!”

Admittedly, at the time I was trying out a p/d condi build traited for stealth. We were in Sky Hammer no less and I just couldn’t resist focusing this warrior the entire match.

Bhawb.7408:

And there is no good way to combine EU/NA. One group ends up with ping issues, and while it might not always be an issue just in queues, you can’t have a competitive tournament where “half” of the teams are forced to play with 150-200 ping.

It’s pretty simply actually. Have the final fours of a tournament play a set of matches while alternating the server locations. Even if there’s an advantages, as long as it’s balanced across the set, then it’s fair. You just can’t do it with single elimination.

To the OP, you might want to watch the dev’s Ready Up Episode 11
They know and find it as interesting as the rest of us.

I’m all in favor of more game modes other than a pvp mode. Fishing, farming, building, something, anything…. other than another trolly pvp game mode.

I’m leveling a character now that’s in the 50’s and finding it very difficult. As mentioned above, it appears with the trait updating, they forgot to adjust level scaling. Because even in the best gear you can get, on level, it doesn’t come close to what an average exotic level 80 has. Even with the full 2 points into toughness, toughness/vit earrings, and all stat runes in Rare armor (best available), I have less total armor than a fully glass specced 80 would have in exotic gear. The scaling is that poorly done now.

Shonie.5297:

It’s amazing to me that someone would go into EOTM and expect to face no opposition.

I’m just going to pull this quote and shove it right up every guild group that goes into EotM. I mean seriously, you’re tossing around a double standard here. Uplevels are a close equivalent to having no opposition. That’s why guild groups running in EotM have become the laughing stock and veritable comedic punching bag of any match they enter. Doesn’t even matter which side their on either, you’re getting laughed at and don’t even know it.

By “running around in there” it’s loosely defined as actually defending structures and hunting for the karma train. If you are a guild group and part of the karma train, then it’s ok.

btw.. if you are in EotM hunting bags as a form of gaining wealth, you are gaining wealth in one of the least efficient manners possible in game.

Seras.5702:

Light of Dwayna
Holographic Dragon Wings
Shattered Dragon Wings
Wings of the Sunless

On top of that we have the Spinal Blades backpacks that have a mechanical wings feel.

I think we have enough.

About the only one that even is close to being acceptable is the Holographic Dragon Wings, if they were dyeable. So yes, we need at least one GOOD set of wings. And, this would be the point where I complain about the game having a very narrow artistic vision. Stifling player creativity and overall losing out on QoL.

In all my time playing, if I used one or two repair canisters to actually repair, that would be a lot. The same goes for revive orbs. They just go into the bank and sit. I have 41 repair canisters

What would be great would be to change the icon. It’s shared between the air strike grenades which get’s a bit annoying.

Completely agree with both posts. Season’s promotes and/or exacerbates poor behaviors in players. What’s tragic is that it actually affects those that care the most about WvW and the game.

If the majority of players in EotM wish to cooperate with each other and choo choo around the map, then it’s a good thing. Beyond learning the benefits of cooperation, they are engaged in the game. Which is always good for Anet’s bottom line.

Right now, aggravating…. highly aggravating

They could always just remove the score counter and remove seasons. Then people could just play for the sake of playing.

HAHAHAHA…. I was just writing my own post about this issue too! My solution is to have a new zone, the Palace or whatever they want to call it. They already used most other names I could think of off the top of my head.

I asked for a staging area in WvW long ago. As a gathering/training grounds with Golems to attack and structure that reset. Just like the Golems in the PvP lobby are for the sPvP players.

With the Mega Server annihilating our individual Worlds from all zones in PvE, I suggest we get a new zone in the mist. We can call this new zone the Palace, since the Citadel name is already taken. Speaking of the Citadel, Anet could simply reuse the Citadel structure from the Border Land maps for now. This new area could be considered a staging area for WvW players. A place to group up, craft, forge, test gear, and generally hang out with our favorite community of players. Consider it as the new LA! Minus any interlopers whom used to guest over and now, from this Mega Server.

I wonder if a staging area like this could in some way help with reset issues too?

A long time ago I posted my concept of how WvW should be a level of organization above worlds. Where worlds were where we gather and build a community. Then, we have an alliance level above worlds were we can join for epic large scale battles.

What seems to have occurred is that WvW is now the alliance level and the Mega Server is where we all gather about. Because when you think about it, the worlds have been eliminated from all zones except the BL’s and EB. Which is a shame really….

If they nerf EotM, we’ll just have to spend that much longer in there instead of regular WvW.

btw… the only thing that stops going choo choo in WvW are small minded players. Regular WvW maps have a faster circuit which yields the greatest rewards.

enzo.7823:

Should there be a carebear mode

ZOMFG!!!!! Does it come with a Tonic? Then heck to the YES!!!
:)

For me, they just need to tone down burst.

BAITness.1083:

That is just it. BG didn’t do anything.

wow…. that really say’s it all right there. I now see the futility in any of us engaging in this conversation any further as it falls on deaf ears.

The best part of S2 is probably going to be this: http://tinyurl.com/lxzfa6m

Completely agree, the CD on this was, is, and has been ridiculous.

My apologies our “drama” keeps spilling over into the official forums.

^You would have to reset the maps completely too. Because one time zones T3’s would roll over and create a clear advantage.

Would like to see this too…