Guild Wars 2

Loads of profession balances, no point to list them here.

2013 content:
- May 28, Canach’s Lair instance
- May 14, Crab Toss mimigame, Traps in WvW
- April 30, Molten Facility instance, Custom PvP arenas, Spectator mode
- April 1, Super Adventure Box (8-bit world / instance)
- March 26, World experience (wvw XP), Leaderboards
- February 26, Guild missions, Spirit Watch pvp map
- January 28, Laurels, Guesting
2012 content:
- December 14, Wintersday 2012
- November 15, Fractals of the Mists instance, Ascended rarity rings, Infusions, Southsun Cove map, Temple of the Silent Storm pvp map
- October 22, Halloween 2012, Costume Brawl minigame

Here’s all the content/releases you’ve missed: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Releases

Or you could build bunker. That way you will have time to click + move out of fires. Ofc you wont do as much damage as berzerkers, but you wont also die.

Necromancer have two health pools + plague makes you moving fortress (base power is doubled, base toughness quadrupled, and base vitality tripled). My lvl80 necro has a bit over 45k HP on plague, ~25k on normal form and she isn’t even yet fully PVT (power, toughness, vitality) geared.

Nemesis from necro forum has nice bunker build called The Abomination. Here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Necromancer-tutorials/first
This is his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bIqwtB-fw

The Abomination build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQQQNAodWjMaV6haea87JAZGY/80DuHXc4D5C-jwxAoLioRyBIFaIaZvioxWOLiGryGT9SEVLEggxA-e

Two pictures, one from instance and other from wvw:

Are you sure? Like I said I tried to test this with dagger and I think it showed my miss with red text (when I was at melee range but not directly facing opponent).

Your explanation sounds logical and would make sense with added blind on plague, but I don’t think I have seen white miss (or maybe I haven’t looked so closely).

Have you cleaned your PC lately? Do it before handing it for others to check, they will just do that and charge you about it if they see your computer is full of dust.

Over time, the air vent that helps regulate your computer’s temperature can get clogged with dust, causing the CPU to overheat and malfunction. To clean it, you’ll need to open your computer’s case. Buy a can of compressed air (~5-10€), for blowing particles out of sensitive areas, at any computer store.

Clean the vents. Start with cotton swabs or a pair of tweezers, and remove all of the larger dust bunnies and other detritus you see. Follow through by spraying compressed air to chase the rest of the dust out of the vent system. Spray it everywhere else you can reach, too, taking care to keep the nozzle a few inches away from the components and I/O ports (plug holes for various cords). Don’t forget to pop open your optical drives and briefly spray them out.

Obviously, the goal is to remove crumbs and dust, not push them farther into your computer. Be mindful of this as you aim your compressed air.
– Compressed air can hurt sensitive components if overused. Always spray in short bursts rather than a sustained stream.
– It may be acceptable to gently tilt your laptop to encourage difficult particles to roll closer to where you can flush them out, but don’t ever shake or slap it. You could loosen delicate parts.

Also your computer is aging, so if you feel your computer could use a bit more kick when playing you can try razer game booster. It won’t help with physical heating, so do the cleaning as I described above. Gamebooster will just close any unnecessary applications & processes for you when start your game aka putting all your resources purely for gaming: http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

I used it with my old PC, haven’t used it with new one yet.

I am new to necromancer and I am wondering why things like this are happening (see picture below).

I am in plague form and I added blind to plague. Why my screen is full of red “miss” texts? That is me missing, isn’t it? Or have I understood this wrong? I actually tested with dagger and I get red “miss” text when I miss… I am confused. ._.

What if there would not be Power + Precision + Critical Damage gear in game?

If we wouldn’t have pure DPS gear, we would need to build “mini-berserker” sets with Valkyrie/Knight. Would that make game any different?

I have been leveling my sylvari lately and started to wonder where her dance comes. Ofc it was clear that is was some kind of Bollywood dance. From the forums I found the exact dance (links to original dancing couple & music on video’s description)

For some reason wiki doesn’t list this. It only says “Sylvari will dance the Bhangra dance.”

I made a video, just for fun: http://youtu.be/zZTPK9NDUWs

My glow color is honey with max intensity. She is necromancer.

DragonXRose.8534:

Well in this doe has been stuck for quite a while now, i saw it on 3 different character over a timespan of maybe 2-3 weeks
it’s in Lornar’s Pass, near venison Pass

Quite a funny sight actually

That is just The Derbut: an Elusive Beast of Lornar’s Pass. Here is the study of the Derbut: http://oi45.tinypic.com/2zh0exd.jpg

XD

Anyway, I do have something to report. Again I found walk trough wall. This time it is on The Grove. I added location picture, but it is as informative as child’s drawing so here is video for the location: http://youtu.be/_CJOpXL1gAc

This is beautiful.

I found your songs when I was playing wow. Nice to see you have also found GW2 and sing about it too.

RainbowSyrup.4130: hard to tell which are new, but it is nice gallery.
Vesper.3176 Really nice action shot.

Couple of pictures from sylvari starting area / city. I have new necromancer so I have been playing that area now.

rasmataz.2309:

Defora.3694:

Fellow necromancers, here is new one to join into your lines. She is only lvl11, but I really love her colors.

Nice necromancer Defora, all your toons are really thought out and it shows off.

Ty, this must be one of the nicest things anyone have said to me about my toons. /hug

Fellow necromancers, here is new one to join into your lines. She is only lvl11, but I really love her colors.

My necromancer. I really like her colors: at day she is yellow with green details. At nigh she is greenish with yellow glow.

Really nice pictures since my last visit. Keep them coming people.

Here are some thief action shots and couple of pictures from CM.

First night as thief in wvw (I have been playing my ele, just swapped profession). Had fun scouting at the AG border. Thanks for both allies and enemies.

I still need to learn when to fight and when to run. That D&D ele near Astralholme kept me so distracted that I didn’t see your big group going into camp. After getting fellow thief from Hills with my call “2 at astral” we both got rolled over by your group of friends. XD It wasn’t 2… it was plenty.

And that necro at EH who feared me off the ice bridge after luring me there with “oh I am so panicked I just run around”-play. That was good one. I have pushed people off to their deaths from there with my ele, but for some reason I didn’t see it coming at all.

Me, melee group & pink portal slave watching RS moving by:

Here is my thief, I wanted something different than human T3 that everyone seems to be running with.

Gear & dyes:
Priory Coat: Midnight Rust(x2), Orange Shade
Falconer’s Shoulderpads (T2): Midnight Red, Pitch
Falconer’s Gloves (T2): Midnight Rust, Pottery, Pitch
Ascalonian Leather Leggings: Umber(x2)
Heritage Boots (HoM): Midnight Rust(x3)

This is not “bug” it is feature… very unwanted feature. For some reason you can change target with right click. Community has asked removal or making it as option for long time. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-option-to-disable-right-click-targeting

PS: your melee skills wont miss just because you target something else than the thing in front of you. You don’t need target at all to hit things.

Here is video showing how combat mechanics are different from wow: http://youtu.be/B_zMPcT2jgc

Non-solid / walk-trough wall in Harathi Hinterlands Hidden Ourobon.

I don’t know where shadow abilities come. In original Guild Wars assassins had those too.

I think thiefs are “Mo Zing” assassins: Mo Zing is an Old Canthan term for people who have no master, or guild, that they follow. Mo Zing either choose to be unaffiliated from the start as a mercenary or bandit, or have defected from a group they no longer support. Zenmai is a Mo Zing, having left the Am Fah when they began treating the Canthan Plague like a “gift of the gods”.

Here is what original Guild Wars has to say about assassins:
The Assassin, called Tahkayun in Old Canthan, is a profession that is unique to Cantha which is looked down upon by many individuals. They are viewed as simple mercenaries or coldblooded killers, and while some are like that, the Assassins on a whole are not. Similar to the Canthan view of Rangers, which protect the balance in nature, the Assassins’ purpose is to protect the balance in society, taking out justice against those who view themselves above the laws. Because of this, many Assassins take their job very seriously.

Despite this overarching purpose, some Assassins are hired simply to eliminate a rival of their employer. Most Assassins answer to an employer – be it a noble, a guild leader, or the emperor himself. Originally, most Assassins worked for a single client but as time moved on, and as the demand for Assassins rose, they began to organize themselves into guilds and now work for multiple clients; those who do work for a single employer now often work for the highest of Canthan nobility.

Have you considered that other professions need to spread their traits according their profession mechanic and they also have traits that they do not want or traits that they want/need but that are not in optimal trait line.

- Elementalist need to juggle attunements and do combos with his/her own fields to do max dps. It is not option, it is what you need to do. And you also need to be able to adapt to the situation not just roll trough attuments and spam 1-5.
- Mesmer needs to keep producing clones to feed shatters (btw, shatters are pretty much mesmers only real form AoE dps) and their shatters are useless if AoE keeps breaking clones. They also need to sacrifice their phantasms (max dps illusions) for shatters.

But these things just define how professions plays… they are different ways of play. We don’t want every profession to be same with different names (see what happened for wow classes, that is not good). Thief may have only one button and initiative but our steal can serve many purposes even if we don’t sink any trait points into the mechanic.

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Firstly, Steal is a stun-break. There are a lot of mobs in PvE that enjoy knocking you down and keeping you down in stun-lock. Steal enables us to break-stun absolutely freely. No wasted utility slots, no wasted initiative. Get out of Jail free card. Wonderful.

Another great thing about Steal is the fact that the cooldown initiates the second you activate Steal. So you press F1, you acquire an item, you can keep this item for the whole duration of the cooldown, use said item and then use Steal again straight after. Obviously this has it’s advantages, specifically when dealing with a tricky set of mobs.

Whenever you acquire an item from Steal don’t use it directly. If it’s a good one like Feathers or Cyclone Axe save it for later as opposed to wasting it.

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Then there is the initiative system, that is the one you usually need to think when you select your traits as thief.

From the devs point of view the initiative system means that you need to balance the Thief’s ability to spam the same ability multiple times, against the fact that it’s the only class that has all it’s abilities sharing a cooldown system. The former requires that you tone down the ability’s potency, so a Thief can’t just instantly spam kill things; while the latter pushes you towards increasing an ability’s potency because the Thief’s options drop significantly faster compared to other classes. These are two juxtaposing needs which need to be balanced very carefully.

Other thing affecting to the initiative system is that there are several situations in which you are not activating skills at all, i.e. dodge rolling, using your 1-chain, being in stealth, being dazed/stunned/knocked down, being not in range of somebody at all for an attack, using utilities, dagger storming, stomping/reviving, etc.

This game isn’t about a Warrior and a Thief standing toe to toe and spamming abilities until one of them runs out of cooldowns and loses WoW-style. Breaking it down like that makes it seem like Elementalist is easily the best class in the game and there’s no point playing anything else simply because they have 20 moves to fire off in rapid succession.

That was actually subject of quite long talk on forums when we got fist betas, female body types the game has to offer. At that time I even made gif picture of bodytypes (see below or use this imgur link http://i.imgur.com/lDoa1yI.gif if forum is slow with attached gif). I also added comments to body types 1-5 since I think those are the most used for casters.

I use number 1, I used to have number 4, but the rib cage thing makes her look like she is holding her breath all the time (compare side views on character creation). Number 5 is nice too if you can handle those tiny feet and stink narrow arms.

See my album http://defora.imgur.com/ if you want to see pic of my ele, thief or mesmer on various armors. Thief has body number 2, so it is basically the same as others.

This is my thief’s current armor. I wanted her to look covered but agile (and different from human t3 / duelist that everyone seems to be running with).

Here is my thief, finally I have look I can run with (I don’t really fancy T3 underboob or duelist for females… just too skimpy for my tastes). Hood colors are not final, I don’t have matching dyes yet.

Edit, changed the colors little bit. Third picture added with new colors. Is it better or worse?

Staff 0/25/0/25/20

My ele is running PvE & WvW with this build. I like this because this does not limit you to one attunement like fire trail line does.

Damage:
- Critical hits cause vulnerability (60% change)
- More damage (2%) per each boon on you
- 20% more damage to foes with less than 33% health (all attunements)
- Extra 10% damage when health is above 90% (all attunements)
- Fury + attunement bonus boon from attunement swaps (boons = more damage)
- Glyphs recharge 20% faster (heal, elite & utility are glyphs)

Support:
- Remove a condition from you and your allies when attuning to water
- Heal nearby allies when attuning to water

My gear is PVT with 50% boon duration runes (2x monk, 2x water). Trinkets are Berserker. Staff is either Berserker or PVT (depends how group is doing, if things are hard I swap to PVT staff). See Buildcraft link for more detailed armor.

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImmbwx0gjDAUGmgikRFWUUMzOA
Buildcraft (armor): http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.1g.h1|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.1c.71g.1c.71g.1c.a7.1c.a7|2s.d1e.2s.d1e.3s.d1e.1g.67.1g.67.2s.d1e|0.p36.0.p56.k58|2e.7|1m.1u.1s.23.29|e

0/25/0/25/20
My ele is running PvE & WvW with this build. I like this because this does not limit you to one attunement like fire trail line does.

Damage:
- Critical hits cause vulnerability (60% change)
- More damage (2%) per each boon on you
- 20% more damage to foes with less than 33% health (all attunements)
- Extra 10% damage when health is above 90% (all attunements)
- Fury + attunement bonus boon from attunement swaps (boons = more damage)
- Glyphs recharge 20% faster (heal, elite & utility are glyphs)

Support:
- Remove a condition from you and your allies when attuning to water
- Heal nearby allies when attuning to water

My gear is PVT with 50% boon duration runes (2x monk, 2x water). Trinkets are Berserker. Staff is either Berserker or PVT (depends how group is doing, if things are hard I swap to PVT staff). See Buildcraft link for more detailed armor

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImmbwx0gjDAUGmgikRFWUUMzOA
Buildcraft (armor): http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.1g.h1|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.1c.71g.1c.71g.1c.a7.1c.a7|2s.d1e.2s.d1e.3s.d1e.1g.67.1g.67.2s.d1e|0.p36.0.p56.k58|2e.7|1m.1u.1s.23.29|e

Link of stats from Buildcraft with Berserker and PVT staff:

My elementalist with her “medium armor”.

Sometimes I do not want to run around with human T3 bikini armor. So I now I have medium armored ele.

Nimmi.1650:

The problem with the skull theory is if you draw the skulls of all the faces we have for Charr, they are all different. Since they all draw different inspirations from various breeds of felines. Worgens on the other hand, I’m not too familiar with WoW so please correct me if I am wrong, have the same shape of heads for all of their presets from what I remember? Aside from gender that is.

Charr skulls have minor differences, but they are all “big cats” (the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, etc). Rox is not really cat anymore, her eyes are so large that she starts to look like prey instead of predator.

About worgens: in wow you can not change the body/skull shape. These huge differences between genders are called as sexual dimorphism. I you want to read/see how much wow has this see: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/07/14/gendered-fantasy-sexual-dimorphism-in-world-of-warcraft/

Here is picture of predator and prey:

I already posted to charr forum about Rox, but I feel that this might be better place since this is actually the living story forum.

Have you seen that new charr female…. Rox… that model’s face is just wrong. Charr females were supposed to be fierce and strong. This one has freaky huge eyes + eyeliner. I do not wan’t that. She doesn’t even look to be same species with other charr. Her skull must be so much different with those eyeballs.

Whose idea was it to make her look like that? Who accepted that idea? Were you thinking that would make her somehow more appealing to players. What next, fyrry boobs?

Here she is

My character is still standing at commander core. I could not believe what I saw. (If you look at my posting history you can see that I rarely comment anything negative. I like this game, but this failure was just too big to go unnoticed.)

Rox… that model’s face is just wrong and awful. Charr females were supposed to be fierce and strong. This one has freaky huge eyes + eyeliner… No! I do not wan’t that. She doesn’t even look to be same species with other charr. Her skull must be so much different with those eyeballs.

Whose idea was it to make her look like that? Who accepted that idea? Were you thinking that would make her somehow more appealing to players. What next, fyrry boobs?

Here is the picture of similar failure that wow has with their beastial & ferocious race and female charr faces that we are used to see + one rox

My elementalist and dyes per attunement.

Some dye combinations with elementalist’s attunements (and changed hair)

More dragons: Tequatl the Sunless, one of Zhaitan’s lieutenants and his champion.

Auesis.7301:

One of my favourite captures.

I have almost same picture, but I was sleeping (to hide my toon).

Also mega picture about all elementalist’s elements.

Hair change and some elementalist skills:

I couldn’t run around with that pure white hair. So I changed it again and took some skill pictures (I like to dye that armor).

Edit: air picture added.

Still doing map completion, some pictures from journey. And elementalist got human T3 armor.

I have some concerns with ascended gear. Reasons:
1. Gated content leaving people behind. In original GW I could take a break and return after moths without being less powerful.
2. Not alt friendly: collecting ascended gear takes time and forces you to focus on one character.
3. Not multi-spec friendly: collecting ascended gear takes time and forces you to focus on one way to play. With exotics you can have gear for power, conditions and team support, with ascended you need to choose one way to play.

Last two points will be fixed with time when everyone has so many laurels/guild tokens that is doesn’t matter where you spend those. But first will not go away and it will be problem with new players.

I really hope anet has long time plan to make this work also for new players. New daily system is already much better than the one they had first with laurels (the one where you couldn’t choose what you want to do). I actually stopped playing for a while because of that. I got the feeling “if I log-in I need to do that daily and I do not want to do it again”. It was grind and I hated it.

With new system sometimes it just happens automatically and sometimes I do not get it (I get 4/5 then log off to go something and next morning I remember I forgot to go last part of it). It still annoys me but not as much as the previous system. It still forces me to play at some certain way.

Actually, now when I think it might be better when I get my 100% map completion. I am currently working with it and because of that I do not want to go maguuma to do “4 events in maguuma” when I am working to get Fields of Ruin done.

While waiting our WvW team to get ready, I took pictures. Ele’s glyph heal.

Now I have it too.

New look for my elementalist:

Khrums.3765:

Ty guys for great fights tonight on PS.
Dzieki XT za fajne akcje

Well play [DYE]nice tactic on open field gg.
And battle at Bay, you have crazy zerg – AR ^^, really hard fight but lucky for us this time.

good luck guys, good match

Open field fights were fun, before those things were a bit frustrating for us. Like MorkZe.4321 said, well played.

Checking Bay: there are too many for us. (Also the chat Do you only enjoy dead/beaten bodies?)

Today my ele found some cauliflowers and started to pick them, this dude didn’t like the idea.

My eles adventures with drakes

Mesmer vs veteran risen shark and same shark when I was looking up from the bottom of the ocean.

Why I am only one posting? I want to see more pictures.

Today I met Shadow Behemoth while doing dailies. Was nice to see him/her/it again. I really like the look and sounds of that boss.

I still remember how epic it was to meet it at the first time on beta. I was couple of levels too low level and I saw it over the tree tops from hill. Had to run trough swamp full of skelks to get into the fight.

Today I only have 2 shots of Blightghast, the Plaguebringer

Genophix.3098:

Defora how have you displayed three images on one post? I’ve tried attaching more than one image but it always just replaces the last one. I’m no expert at these things

Add image, preview, add another image, preview, add third image…

Preview uploads the picture to the cloudfront, it is the place where all the anet’s data is.

Todays screenshots.