Guild Wars 2

Leablo.2651:

Well, Sci-Fi has become an accepted term, but SyFy is still offensive.

But SyFy makes geeks sounds coooool when they say it…

@Death Reincarnated.3570
I never said its a requirement. To be more effective in battle it is a good idea to sawp between elements. To get the most out of an elementalist, in certain scenarions, it would be wise to make uses of all of the elements. Simple – otherwise might as well go warrior and spam DPS.

Perhaps, he wasn’t killed. We saw him run into the mobs but did not see him die!

Maybe he might make an apperance in later expansions. Would be interesting.

I found that hammer from loot yesterday…will put it up for half the price of maximum shown atm :P

Bag of loot. Perhaps?

The rewards are based on the characters level. So is the cost of travel. Ying and Yang.

Trolorific idea!!!

I think I will finally have to use up my “Call a hero for 24hrs.” token. I’ll give Chuck Norris a call…

Yeah, warrior vs 5 mobs at once…..sure can do anything…might as well call him SUPER-TOON.

Warriors are easy to handle, but it all depends on what play style you are most comfortable with.

Rangers are good from afar and 1v1. If it gets hectic and you’re up against more than one mob, your pet can help you out

Glitch.6849

If you want a challenge I challenge you to run a dungeon Ex in the skivvies!
It’s pretty difficult.

I’ve ran the Griffonrook Run JP in my undies. Trying to get the chest open with the bomb. Fallen so many times and those bloody birds….sometimes they would spontaneously attack me from afar lol.

I should have taken a pic lol…looked so funny getting the loot in undies ontop of a hill…I was KING OF THE WORLD!!! …lucky noone was nearby hehehe.

You are wearing the possesed Arah helm mate…lol no jks

Not sure. could be a bug.

In order to craft, you need crafting materilas, in order to get them, you need to hunt mobs, do events that involve killing mobs, mine, cut and gather…all of which gives you XP!

So really you are already doing several things to gain XP.

:)

Here are my anwsers…

1) Wich is the profession(s) you’d like to play with in a dungeon?
Elementalist – can slow, burn, freeze enemies and tackle several at once. Plus it is a support class for all those warriors.

2) Wich profession(s) you think is/are easier to play in PvE and why?
Ones that mindlesly spam one or two attacks to kill (i.e. warrior, ranger). It takes less thinking, which is ok if you prefer to just spam attack/DPS.

3) Wich profession(s) is/are more rewarding for the skill you show with them?
I enjoy my elementalist. Nothing more rewarding than pulling several mobs at once and pwning them with all 4 elements. But this is a subjective topic.

4) Wich profession(s) is/are the most difficult to play?
Ones that require thinking and movement – Elementalist, Necromancer etc. Basically ones that you need to change your usual gameplay style – which in most part is spam attack lol.

5) Wich is the profession(s) that,in your opinion,shine over the other in PvP?
Subjective topic – IMO, Elementalist due the fact that you wield various elements which cause different effects on mobs, plus you can adapt your play style to PvE, PvP, WvW.

6) Wich profession(s) can draw the aggro on itself/theirselves the best?
I’ve read that necromancers can do it.

7) Wich profession(s) has/have the highest dps capability?
IMO, Warriors since its all about attacking the enemy and survivability of their attacks.

8!) Do you think people should play the profession based on how they like the design (without even playing the game) or based on their ingame preferences?
The game needs to be enjoyable. You may like your character but during game play it may not work out the way you wanted it to. There needs to be balance and it is difficult to make games such as this that move away from the ‘holy trinity’ system (i.e. tank/healer/dps).

You do not really need to visit each area!

Use this – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer.

Go to your map and in each zone tick of the area names against that list – if part of an area looks smudged then it most likely has not been discovered – which may also include a vista!. If, however, nothing was found then you can narrow it down to something particular such as an instance, home world or such.

Based on teh fact you are missing some vistas it is highly likely that both the POI and vista are within each others proximity.

IF, and I mean IF, you have not found them then it is most likely a bug…unfortunatelly – I would start with the Orr region first since many players are suggesting there are lots of bugs there.

GL

A warrior has a simple task – spam the hell out of the enemy with his sword
A Ranger has a simple task – spam the hell out of the enemy with his bow

The other classes I won’t commnet since players tend to compare an elementalist to the above – always talking about DPS/damge/etc.

An elementalist is more versatile and requires more thinking, rather, than spamming one attack style only – thats what a warrior or ranger is for.

For you guild, maybe have something that depicts the four elements?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Guild_emblem_background_21.png

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Guild_emblem_155.png

Those who wish to persistently use only one attunement (i.e. don’t want to “attunement dance”) should go play another class.

There is a reason why there are four types of attunements:

Fire – power
Air – movement
Water – healing
Earth – defense

When you decide to presistently use one of the above you should really focus on the role it will serve. During soloing you can use all 4 but usualy FIre is enough. The emphasis on using an Elementalist is in comabt where it involves more then 1v1. In PvE you can pull may mobs at once if you use all 4 elements, while in WvW you can spam the entire field with attacks to cause havoc for the enemies.

Furthermore, the playstyle changes with respect to what setup you use (i.e. weapons and traits). So really there are tons of ways to play an elementalist – people just don’t like to use all of its abilities…pitty.

@akamon I’m on the Crystal Desert server. Since I am from Australia I have found that this server to be fairly good – I’ve done some research prior to figure out which server would suit my position and playability.

Yeah I have read a fair bit on Orr. Sounds like many people dislike the last three areas. But, like you said, a small group (guild) would be a good idea – perhaps, those areas are made for group/guild play rather than trying to solo.

zippo burntfur.9307:

Imo the biggest screw up they did was limiting how you could get ascended gear, making running FoTM did not score much imo. If they would have made craftable version’s, and pvp version’s from the get go, I think alot of this firestorm could have been negated or atleast deminished.

ANet initially introduced Ascended gear via the FotM. They have written that this, perhaps, was the wrong way to go about. However, this new gear tier will roll out throughout the game; which will mean it will provide more accessible ways to get it.

Melchior.2135:

Found the screens of my male human. Enjoy!

That aint no human…he looks “too short” to be human

IMO there should be more incentive from players to gather a group and win over those contested areas.

LOL heck I might make a guild and call it…

PWNAGE (Power Wielding New Age Guild of Extremists)

Or

PWNAGE (Power Wielding Noble Aristocrats Guild of Empowerment)

Their main focus is to own Orr and win over contested waypoints.

Yeah, I like the sound of that….copyright that for sure

Yes, I also have noticed this. Not as severe as 12fps but some distortion.

drifter.8453:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

I’m making my way towards the Orr area – 6 zones left to complete the world explorer.

Sounds like people just hate this area because it’s too difficult. Maybe that is the reason – it’s a challenge?

Challenge nahh. It’s more of an annoyance then a challenge. Go Fight some Karka for a little while, then go back to Orr. Then tell me if you rather be in Orr then Southsun Cove.

So it’s quite annoying going against the mobs in Orr? Maybe too many players try to solo those areas and fail. Perhaps, those areas put more emphasis towards team work (guild).

I will let you know how I go in Orr soon enough

I’ve found this to be helpful – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer

There are some areas in the zones that don’t have a POI but are an area itself. Double check with the above link that you can see all of the area names on your map.

You are missing 3 Vistas and 2 POI but looking at that screenshot, have you considered instances and visit all 3 orders headquarters?

P.S. In your OP you mean 263/266 Vista?

Arent these zones meant to appease the hardcore players? Or perhaps its just too hard for them so they went to FotM.

Players complaining about Orr and now complaining about FotM. It sounds like its either too hard for them (Orr) or too grindy (Orr & FotM)…You just cant satisfy them…sighhhhhhhhhh

Gehirn.8796:

Noviere.7309:

Dostoev Sky Peak

I will never forget this name. LOL

Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaa…(cough)…that hurt my throat.

Yeah that map can be annoying but once you learn the ways it helps. I actually love killing the dredge. The mining suit ones spawn littel rascals so just focus on the big one and they all go down as well.

Servanin.5021:

…Elementalist don’t seem to have any utility that reflect…

Yes they do. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_elementalist_skills

Staff – Magnetic Aura (Earth-3)
Scepter – Rock Barrier (earth-2)
Dagger – Frost Aura (Water-4), Shocking Aura (Air-3)
Focus – Fire Shield (Fire-5)

Any skill that ‘blinds’ (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blind) or ‘chills’ (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chilled) foes helps too.

I’m making my way towards the Orr area – 6 zones left to complete the world explorer.

Sounds like people just hate this area because it’s too difficult. Maybe that is the reason – it’s a challenge?

Slowly getting the map completion done. All thats left is:

- Timberline Falls
- Sparkfly Fen
- Mount Maelstrom
- Straits of Devastation
- Malchor’s Leap
- Cursed Shore

I’ve been reading that the finaal zones are empty/bugged and such. Hopefully this won’t impede my progress much and once that is done I might start focusing on doing dungeons.

@everyone Welcome to a fantastic Guild.

I loled at this thread and I loled even more that it has generated such a discussion.

How about we take this one step further and generate some quotes using this word:

- To the battlefield…my TOONS
- It’s over 9000 TOONS?!
- To TOON or not to TOON
- TOON in to the next episode of…
- Who TOON’d this kitten?

Might be tedious but using http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer tick off every area. If the name from that list doesn’t show up on your map then it has not been explored.

Also check for blurry parts of the map as this might indicate an area that has not been visited.

Looking at this map – http://gw2cartographers.com/

Ruins of Orr (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ruins_of_Orr) is an area of Tyria which combines the following explorable zones:

- Straits of Devastation (lv 70-75)
- Malchor’s Leap (lv 75-80)
- Cursed Shore (lv 80)

It can be accessed south of Sparkfly Fen or west of Mount Maelstrom

@Selo.1250 regarding the below response from you

Selo.1250:

2) Complete all achievements Thing you should do on the side, shouldnt be the main game
3) Finish all Jumping puzzles Thing you should do on the side, shouldnt be the main game
4) Obtain lv400 in all crafting disciplines Thing you should do on the side, shouldnt be the main game
5) Craft unique items using mystic forge For whatever reason? filling your bankslots with crap youll never use?
6) Level up all character types For what reason? clawing your eyes out?
7) Join a guild and beat all dungeons pathways already done that
8) Fill all crafting slots with 250 items lol..yea..nice endgame
9) Get all mini pets Thing you should do on the side, shouldnt be the main game
10) Have fun! almost none of the above is fun, fun is subjective gear grinding to most is fun picking flowers, watching clouds and playing dress up doll is not fun for most

So you are saying that all of those things are not part of an MMORPG game? So what IS “the main game” in your opinion?

The point im trying to make is, there are lots of things to do within this game, HOWEVER, people tend to oversee this and focus only on some aspects when they finally arrive at “the ends game”.

All is NOT lost people!

OK here are SOLO scenarios I was put in that basically describe why an Elementalist is a powerfull profession when used correctly.

Place: Righteous Hoofmoot (centaur camp, lower right of Queensdale)
Mobs: Approximately 10 centaurs + 3 Veterans
Aid Used: Hounds of Balthazar, Glyph of Lesser Elementals.
Weapon: Staff

Basically, I pulled all of them together (the 3 vets as well). Started off with ‘Meteor Shower’ in the area I will pull them to and when they were there I used ‘Flame Burst ’, followed by ’Lava Font’ and ‘Glyph of Storms’. Attuned to Earth, used ‘Unsteady Ground’, ‘Magnetic Aura’ and doged to pull them along that path, and then used ‘Shockwave’. At this point I doged back and attuned to Air. Used ‘Static field’ to stun them and ‘Windborne Speed’ to get swiftness. Doged out of the way again and attuned to Fire. At this point I had 3 veteran left with less than 50% health. Used ‘Flame Burst’ again and ‘Lava Font’. Switched to Earth and used ‘Unsteady Ground’. Then finished it off with ‘Eruption’.

You may think, lv80 in a lv15 zone is easy. So here is another scenario.

Place: Otyugh’s Kraal (lower right of Field of Ruin)
Mobs: Champion Chief Otyugh
Aid Used: Hounds of Balthazar, Glyph of Lesser Elementals.
Weapon: Staff

Similar method as before. Using dodging where required and combo summed up bellow:

Fire(5,3,2) → Earth(Glyph of lesser Elementals,4,5,2) → Air (5,2,4) → Water (4,2) → Rinse and repeat.

The aid here is to use the Earth Glyph of lesser Elementals ONLY to keep him occupied since that glyph can take more damage. When he summons his minions then use Hounds of Balthazar. You will need to be able to dodge well and there were moments when my health went below 25%, but use healing ASAP when it goes down by 25%.

I have been playing around with all of the elements and it when used correctly it really makes Elementalist a powerfull character – problem is people just prefer to spam one element and be in a static position. That is why, I think, Warrior-based characters are used so often – just spam attack from one spot. Notice how many characters in a zerg-fest event attack the boss head-on…

I’m sorry about the dead centaur bodies. I did solo their entire camp at ‘Righteous Hoofmoot’ yesterday. I was like…wooooow that was exhilarating.

I did come across some centaur invasion though. It seems that the ‘Cave Troll’ and the one with the bandits attacking the farm events happen very often.

As people leave the game and move on to others, servers will become less populated. There is not much that can be done, other than getting more players to come, moving servers, OR joining guilds.

As pdfrod.1948 pointed out, it is a tic for tac situation. Too many players, its bad, too little players its bad.

LOl…

These are quests that reward the player. The way its done is via a letter ‘saying thank you’ and your reward.

ANet could have just showed the money into your bank account upon completing the heart quest, however, this way you get more involved with the game – if you wish to.

Don’t feel ashamed. I took me couple to days to figure out what to do with the letters. I didn’t want to delete them as I thought I might need them or something lol.

The reward (money) increase with higher level quests.

Just adding another quote from that discussion.

[–]ArenaNetTeam[S] 17 points 58 minutes ago

Hi Chair,

Thanks for taking the time to post and put forward your feedback.

The requirements for some of these items are currently under review as are certain items/areas that were released on launch. Personally i feel that aspects of the game ARE too grindy and we are working through these areas to correct our overall direction moving forward as well as taking some of our current progression systems and rewiring them for want of a better term for example different methods of acquisition related to the way different players like to play their content.

To be frank the ascended gear was designed to be earn able outside of the FotM and unfortunately we were unable to deploy this prior to the update. This (i hope) will not happen again.

At the end of the day we want to make fun content for all of our different player types to enjoy, in which they can earn the same rewards as other types of players, through activities they enjoy playing the most. This is not PR this is a fact. It is an extremely complex and exciting design goal that we aim to achieve with the help of our community.

Chris

Leablo.2651:

Weapon crafting is pretty terrible. I’m still trying to figure how to squeeze past 50 in Weaponsmith and Huntsman without converting my gold into vendor trash. If that’s how it is all the way to 400, I’ll just stop here until Anet fixes it.

Use the ‘Discovery Pane’ as often as you can, rather than craft the same item over an over – you get more XP for creating new items.

Also when you refine, refine a large bunch at the same time – for some reason I tend to get more bonus XP when doing this.

IMO, its most likely an exploit using some kind of a bot.

What suggests this is the following (as you stated):

- Nonsense name
- Appears suddenly on the node
- Quick gathering and leaving

@glitch

Just accepted your guild invite. I might need some time before I learn what this is all about – especially the use of influence.

Looking forward to doing some team oriented events and stuff

Don’t tell me…you annihilated them after their copulation moment…

Alberel Leonhart.9640:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

There are other things besides FotM (Fractals of the Mist). People have this mentality that MMORPG’s are all about having the best gear. There are other things that players can do in GW2:

1) Help other players
2) Complete all achievements
3) Finish all Jumping puzzles
4) Obtain lv400 in all crafting disciplines
5) Craft unique items using mystif forge
6) Level up all character types
7) Join a guild and beat all dungeons pathways
8) Fill all crafting slots with 250 items
9) Get all mini pets
10) Have fun!

The point is people pay too much attention to getting the best gear, which Anet has provided via FotM and Ascended gear – but you are still not happy about it because it requires grinding/commitment.

Most of the stuff on your list there would also require ‘grinding and commitment’ so that’s a pretty weak arguement.

When better gear is made available it is optional in the same way that levelling is optional. You don’t technically have to do it but if you want to have full access to the game’s content you will eventually be required to. The blogs by ANet staff have made it clear that they are planning new content based around ascended gear. That means if ascended gear is ‘optional’ to you then you’re not going to see very much of that new content.

Most players understand this, which is why they feel forced to run fractals. If you genuinely don’t care then good for you, but don’t deride other players for being frustrated about having to do content they don’t enjoy just to keep up with future releases (a situation this game was promised never to have).

1) You say, and I quote, “…being frustrated about having to do content they don’t enjoy just to keep up with future releases.”. So you don’t enjoy doing any of the points I mentioned above? Couple this with the Ascended gear related content basically leaves a player with nothing to do. There are lots of other things to do in this game, however, players don’t want to do that but prefer to get better items – hence why FotM and Ascended gear was introduced.

2) Grinding, IMO, is doing the same thing over and over untill its done. Yes, my above points can be taken as grinding, however, one can switch between them so the process doesn’t feel like grinding (i.e. tedious, boring and/or annoying). People are annoyed with Ascende gear because they can’t find anything else to do within the game or they don’t want to.

3) In all honesty where did people think that end-game content would go. Afcourse it would go in the grind directon, with perhaps some extra jumping puzzles and events. However, overall it would be lv80 related.

There are heaps of nodes that don’t have mobs next to them but killing a vet/champ and seeing that rich node in the corner is icing on the cake.

A dedicated player is one who never leaves the fap cave.

There are other things besides FotM (Fractals of the Mist). People have this mentality that MMORPG’s are all about having the best gear. There are other things that players can do in GW2:

1) Help other players
2) Complete all achievements
3) Finish all Jumping puzzles
4) Obtain lv400 in all crafting disciplines
5) Craft unique items using mystif forge
6) Level up all character types
7) Join a guild and beat all dungeons pathways
8) Fill all crafting slots with 250 items
9) Get all mini pets
10) Have fun!

The point is people pay too much attention to getting the best gear, which Anet has provided via FotM and Ascended gear – but you are still not happy about it because it requires grinding/commitment.

I’ve been using staff only. Initially it is hard to control the attacks but once you learn to use all of the elements – man ooo man it causes damage to several mobs at once. I have soloed many champions – not the highest end level ones but up to mid level.

What people are used to is spamming the same attack over and over from one spot. In this case if you can learn to move and attack at the same time it is an awesome technique.

This is one long chain combo I started using but it works well.

Fire (3,2) -> Earth (4,5) -> Air (5,3,2) -> Water (4,2) and back to Fire again.

Having the ‘Elemental Attunement’ and ‘Elemental Surge’ in the Arcane Skills makes the above combo pack some punch.

For the elementalist there are weapons which favour team gameplay (i.e. DE and WvW) and solo (PvE and PvP). Why on earth would anyone use an AoE mainly weapon whilst PvP? That is why this character can also go D/D – it’s a more personal face-to-face combat build.