Guild Wars 2

Oglaf.1074:

The Trait comes with a few hidden bonuses though:

Dual Shot becomes a guaranteed Projectile Finisher instead of the 20% chance by default.

Fan of Fire becomes a Projectile Finisher.

Smoldering Arrow becomes a Projectile Finisher.

kinda sad though. the wiki states them as “bugs” hopefully these wun be fixed.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stronger_Bowstrings

Bugs:
Dual Shot’s damage is reduced by 10%.
Dual Shot and Fan of Fire become guaranteed projectile finishers.
Smoldering Arrow’s radius fact becomes hidden.

the teams are always balanced.
well, somewhat.

in the above case, some of red team players decided to leave the game.
some of blue team’s players will be balanced over.

in the original guild wars 1, people can PvP together with PvP only people using their PvE gear, not sure why this is changed in GW2 …

Ratty.5176:

It’s not at all about balance though. A free for all with no rules is just that, a free for all.

What it does allow is for a mate to go, “I have real problem with X class in WvW/PvP, you play that kind of build, want to pop to the arena and let me try some ideas out.”

Or a guild to go, “lets all go to a the Arena and play circle of treachery” (last man standing, normally very funny as what generally happens is the weak players team up on the strongest player, but you are never sure when they are going to stab their “compatriots” in the back.)

In other words, it allows the community to run fun events, without many restrictions.

this would be nice.

also, make players read and sign some message stating that “no balance requests” will be entertained in the arena blah blah blah etc.

Curunen.8729:

Unless they increase the amulet/jewel combinations in pvp, I’d be interested in this too.

If it’s more pvp style maps, then perhaps as one poster said no broken armour?

they could make it such that 5 vs 5 or 8 vs 8 casual non competitive PvP but using our PvE stats right?

and “balance” complaints will be disregarded generally since everyone is using PvE gear which means not everyone will be in “top gear” quality gear.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I’m going to have to agree here.

I have no issue with 1v1 arenas. I have no issues with people opting to use their pve gear instead of pvp gear in that arena.

However, because the game isn’t balanced around 1v1, you’re going to quickly see some class inequities, which are going to make the players kitten, and loudly at that.

“Why can’t x class beat y class? y class is over powered, nerf it!”

At which point 1 of 2 things is going to happen:
1) Anet is going to ignore it (because that’s not how they balance), and people are going to get POed.
OR
2) They are going to try to ‘adjust’ to make that player group happy and make everyone else POed. (and potentially throw things all out of whack)

They are kittened it they do, kittened it they don’t.

well, i see that no harm will come from the 1) option.

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

no. actually this is why i bought this game. it was the same in gw1. if it changes im not doing pvp. why would you want this?

nothing would be changed.

it would be optional.

well, i’m asking people if they want something like this.

people are already pvp-ing in PvE armor inside WvW.

i was wondering if the people who browse the official gw2 forums would want something similar outside of WvW.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Temple_armor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Exotic_karma_armor

try mix and match from various temples to get the
++ power
+ vitality
+ toughness

armor sets

what would your play style be?

thief = stealth
mesmer = illusions

hamsteak.1368:

you don’t even have to kill anything in a hotjoin to get to the top

uh. u only scored 100 though.
it is a rare case in which everyone else in your team scored less than 100 points.

kokiman.2364:

Well if A.Net made it official they would be held responsible for balance issues. You can’t balance professions around 1vs1, sPvP and WvWvW at once.

what if, they would not need to be held responsible for balance issues?

it would be a “take it as it is” basics.

actually, based on my experience, the drop rate for badges has been increased tremendously.

if you join zergs and come out alive, there’ll be lots of loot bags around, with badges too.

do you want to stack WvW rank up chests?

as in, keep them in the bank,
not “forced to” open them immediately upon a WvW rank up.

so, when they have updated the WvW rank up chests to have better rewards, then open them up as you see what?

so what say you all?

Dawdler.8521:

I have suggested it before: Hybrid WvW/PvP maps. Smaller maps where you can skirmish over objectives beside the “main” borderlands and EB.

As a simple example: A map with a central fortified keep. No not SM, more like border keep size and 2-3 camps. Each server has a player limit of say 30 but there are also more and stronger NPCs than in the usual WvW keep. The server that hold the keep get +10 points in WvW (supply camps dont count in this map).

maybe we should have some new smaller WvW battlegrounds map?

seems like not much feedback for this.
perhaps the general discussion forum is full of PvE people that does not PvP? O_O

where else should i post this kind of question?
the WvW forum?

it is actually 25,459 health healed over 95 seconds.

which translate into 267.989473684 health per second
rounded up to 268 health per second

each banner tick adds 4 seconds of regen buff with 268 / second to 5 allies within range of the banner.

Lopez.7369:

I think the best fix would be visible enemy cast bars, preferably under nameplates.

this was present in gw1.
why was it removed in gw2?

ooooOooOoooOoo i remember reading anet stating that they want players to look at the actual playing field more …

ah, hope they fix it soon, for underwater

Vayne.8563:

Find a guild of like-minded players, not just for the fractals. It will make the entire game much better for you.

aye, i believe that the bulk of the complaints i see in the forum comes from people who are not in a guild.

MrSmiley.1543:

To answer above no I am not in a guild I have joined a few and none of them turned out to be any help in anything other than being a chatroom so I am not having much luck on that side either

so, what kind of guild you are looking for?

what kind of things you are looking for in a guild?

would you mind sharing that with us?

Astralporing.1957:

I do not want any more ascended gear – just as Palador said, this is a very dangerous precedent, that by it’s very existence completely changed the core play style. If they will be introduced anyway, though, i’d rather have it through crafting than some timegated methods like laurels (or access gated methods like guild missions).

Also, if the currently existing ascended eq is to stay, all the missing stat combinations should become accessible as well – that includes the ones that can be acquired only through drops, temple vendors or dungeon tokens (like magi or shaman).

yeah, we need more reasonably priced alternatives !!!

and why can’t we craft soldier’s insignia?

eh, by the way, if we use master’s salvage kit / black lion salvage kit
on exotic:
- sorrow’s embrace armor
- ascalonian catacombs armor
- honor of the waves armor

with soldier’s prefix

do we get the soldier’s insignia from them? no? why not?

cesmode.4257:

So when I say, keep it cheap. I mean keep it cheap. Ascend my exotics to ascended stat equivalents via..some small amount. Do not charge me 50 ectos, 40 laurels, 30 commendations, 20 vadges, 10 obsidian shards.. Poof.

for me, laurels is still ok. since they just cost time to obtain.

ectos are expensive though
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721
say average 23 silvers per ecto.
50 ectos = 1150 silvers or … 11.5 gold?

as of now, ascended accessories are still “cheapest” via guild commendations.
12 guild commendations + 5 gold is still cheaper than xx laurels + 50 ectos.

for me, that is.
my guild does guild missions everyday weekends so getting guild commendation is not an issue for me.

but yeah. we should have much more affordable alternatives to upgrading our equipment.

MrSmiley.1543 are you in a guild?

offer up nice sexy female announcer voice for sale in gem store.

i’m sure there will be sales.

Palador.2170:

/jranger

((Old CoH joke. That means “No.”))

ah thanks for the feedback!

well i dun like ascended stats for all 6 pieces of armor either but we all know how nexon ncsoft anet do things …

they force it down our throats!

i recommend doing in face to face in real life.

i.e. “guild wars 2 gold” on delivery.

get 2 laptop computers.
meet up in a place with wireless internet connection.

and use the guild vault to make the transaction.

based on my previous question: “do you want ascended armor?”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/do-you-want-ascended-armor/2044142

it seems obvious that those who frequent the official gw2 forums, who replied do not want more ascended stats. anyway, lets try something different now.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gossamer_Insignia

instead of ascended, armor pieces, do you want Intricate “Ascended” Insignia instead?
i.e.
you take the Intricate “Ascended” Insignia and then craft your own armor with ascended stats.

so … what say you all? just a general question …

Striker.9413:

I just transmuted a soulbound item to a blue and it is no longer soulbound (just account bound). Still works.

aaah glad to hear that. so this is a false alarm then.

thanks for sharing!

Penguin.5197:

Just transmuted my chainsaw greatsword onto a white, its account bound now. Whew don’t scare me like that >:O

so … which one is it?

i mean, false alarm right?

dear anet,

i can finally unlock pvp apprentice set.

thank you for fixing pvp apprentice set.

ah, hope we get to see fa jq styled pvp in gw2 one day …

usually they put up patch notes a few hours before patch goes live.

i really hope they would put them up faster though.

could we have the patch notes in advance please

patching day soon

thanks

Lil Puppy.5216:

It’s already in the game, have you not been to Black Citadel? They have an arena already and it has the traditional animal cages, multiple tunnels for several players/monsters, and even drop cages for the really nasty surprises.

But like most of the activities, it is not implemented.

aye thats real sad. how much longer must we wait?

errr i am not sure but i think you will receive as long as you are representing that guild?

the previous people plant the trees so the current people can enjoy the shade.

it is just that simple.

some new maps for WvW would be very nice!

maybe 3 “in-between” borderlands? perhaps?

at the moment, we have.

eternal battlegrounds (3-way battle)
green borderlands (green’s home land)
blue borderlands (blue’s home land)
red borderlands (red’s home land)

lets add in …
cyan battlegrounds (in between green’s and blue’s home land)
magenta battlegrounds (in between blue’s and red’s home land)
yellow battlegrounds (in between red’s and green’s home land)

if eternal battlegrounds would be a 3-way battle then the cyan, magenta, yellow battlegrounds would be a 2-way battle.

i.e.
for cyan battlegrounds (in between green’s and blue’s home land) :
- green and blue each get their own keep kinda like in eternal battlegrounds where each color have their own keep though that keep can be taken over by others. same case here, their keep can be taken over.
- red will not have a keep
- etc

hmmm what about this …

our [land weapons] get new [under water skills] when submerged and

our [under water weapons] get new [land skills] when on surface? too complex? O_O

if i went into a public server with 2 players, then there is a high probability of the 2 person are dueling inside there, so i will avoid those servers.

so if i went into a public server with more than 10 players, i will expect it to be a normal game, not a server full of people dueling.

i looked at the pvp browser, it was a public server.

the name is “server <some 3 digit number>”

around 13/20 players. (8 vs 8 game with spectators)

i went inside only to realize all of them are dueling.

please stop this madness.

i am sure it is a public server.

the name is server xxx

if your guild fills up the empty servers i.e. 10/10 or 16/16 and outsiders are not able to join, then that is fine.

i look at the browser, see a server 13/20 then went inside kitten everyone is dueling.

Quick Mouse.7635:

Are you sure you aren’t joining the custom arenas? I don’t think this is a problem.
Since my guild doesn’t have a custom arena, we like to join empty servers to practice and duel.

please do something about this thanks.

Sunflowers.1729:

Guardians don’t get everything in one tree. Shout cooldown and shout condition removal, both of which are extremely important, are in another tree. A popular trait build for Guardians is 0/0/30/30/10. 60 trait points devoted to survivability. Of course, Thieves can build something like 0/10/30/30/0, but it’s not particularly common. Almost any trait distribution that takes some form of survivability will put 30 (or at least 20) points into SA (Edit: into SA first. It’s extremely uncommon to put points into acrobatics before SA)

are you comparing [guardian] and [thief] ?

[guardian] = [heavy] armor + [low] health pool
[thief] = [medium] armor + [low] health pool

basically,
[guardian] = boons, support, etc
[thief] = stealth, burst, etc

you cannot compare them.
it is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

hmmm yeah this will definitely make orr a better place.

i want this!

perhaps it is working as intended? [hidden assassin] has been behaving like this since day -3 is it? i dunno. i did not play a thief from day -3 so i cannot confirm on that.

unless they change it in the future patches i would say this is working as intended.

noobftw.9654:

I am pretty sure when dev put together the sa trait they didn’t realize that minor 25 can be spammed by leap through the same smoke field. If u have two thieves working together you can spam leap finisher nonestop and its quite possible to get 20 stacks or even more in wvw, with a wall and some helps from runes you can even get full stacks.

Speed Demon: not me. i go slow.

Explorer: yeah. but i’m slow. highest world completion is 65% and i started from day -3 sooo yeah. go casual slow!

Power-monger: hmm yeah i like this as well. but not in a hurry.

Casual Completionist: i would like to complete all PvE stuffs … one day!

ok, i guess i’m a casual-want-to-do-it-all-eventually gw2 gamer.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hidden_Assassin

Gain might for 15 seconds when you go into stealth.
— In-game description
Notes
This trait actually grants two stacks of might for every 3 seconds in stealth. This is relevant for stacking, such as when using Shadow Refuge.

so you are trying say that, since what [hidden assassin] actually does (gain x2 might 15s every 3 seconds in stealth) does not matches with [hidden assassin]’s description (gain might 15s upon entering stealth) so [hidden assassin] is bugged?

well, i hope they fix the description soon to match what [hidden assassin] does.

the new description should be:
Gain might for 15 seconds while in stealth.
— In-game description

yeah we know how vague they can be with in game descriptions right?

noobftw.9654:

Toughness is actually way better than vitality when you have spamable cleanse and healing. SA is quite a sweet spot there . Not saying its op because of that. If u read my post you will know its the bugged minor 25 trait when it’s abused in dp build.

well u did mention “So yes, I think the tree is OP” as in your opinion the thief’s shadow arts trait line is over powered.

i do not agree that the thief’s shadow arts traits line is over powered.
i tried to “defend my opinion” that the thief’s shadow arts traits line is not over powered due to the thief having only [medium] armor and [low] health pool.

while you went on and highlighted how good the trait line is etc.

Sunflowers.1729:

Look what I said in my post

Sunflowers.1729:

realize that the SA tree != Thief class as a whole so one trait line being amazingly good doesn’t necessarily mean the class is overpowered.

In any case, I honestly don’t believe the Thief sub-forum has any grip on what actual ‘balance’ is. Play another class for a while, see how good you have it. We aren’t even that bad in PvE.

why not?

perhaps it would be over powered if the thief has [heavy] armor and [high] health pool but this is not the case.

given how the thief has [medium] armor and [low] health pool i would say the shadow arts traits line is not over powered.

more vitality means more health is always good against conditions though. and helps to survive lag spikes.

low health pool with high defense value (toughness + armor) will still succumb against conditions.

That doesn’t have anything to do with how good the SA tree is. Elementalists have an nice tree too (Water), and they have even lower armor, and the same health pool. Yet they are still a viable class. Their tree that gives healing even gives vitality, which (personally) I think is kind of a useless stat past a minimum level. Toughness from the SA tree is much better.

you forgot to mention that thief has medium armor and low health pool.

Sunflowers.1729:

If you look akitten in a vacuum the SA tree has amazingly good synergistic traits. Compared to acrobatics, it is the obvious choice for survivability.

It has condition removal, initiative regeneration, longer stealth, health regeneration, might stacks, and an ‘oh crap’ skill (albeit one that doesn’t always work properly). You can even get all of these at the same time, which is what everyone does. The tree even gives toughness, and healing power, both of which work well with all the traits in it.

I don’t know if there are any other classes that can get everything they need to survive in one single tree. It just has so much good stuff condensed into 30 points (I won’t say ‘everything you could ever need’, because it doesn’t have endurance regeneration)

So yes, I think the tree is OP. Before the entire forum jumps on me and says “noob L2P” or whatever, realize that the SA tree != Thief class as a whole so one trait line being amazingly good doesn’t necessarily mean the class is overpowered.

(But to any Thief that thinks we are in any way underpowered for WvW right now, I would vehemently disagree and tell them to ‘L2P’)

this is working as intended.

please do not fix what is not broken.