I’ve read that Anet hasn’t changed the drop rate of rares in Orr, but that only means they’re bugged then.
I’m not one of those crazy people who thing OH NO BUGGED cause I’m so unlucky!!! No… I’m looking at trends of past event grinding and now, and I’m getting dramatically less yellows than before.
I’m not the only one noticing this at all. I often see people talk about it in game.
Can you please check the coding for drops in the game, please? Something seems to be wrong.
Evidence is in the Glob of Ectoplasm prices. The spike isn’t from fractal upgrades anymore.
Derek, berserker is not working as intented right now, he is buggy. He has a too high delay after spawning before he damages and his attacks are sometimes missing and do less damage as they should. That results in berserker getting killed before he can do his damage.
They “promised” to fix him.
That’s good to know! But I also agree with the guy above me that mind stab is pretty useless atm :]
I love mesmer, but throughout playing it, I have one real complain and that’s its AoE.
I run a power build, so I use greatsword as my ranged AoE with berserker phantasm as the strongest form of that. Mind Stab is my major complaint.
While the Berserker is good, it often dies before hitting anything so it’s not reliable and Mind Stab’s radius is very small. I understand Anet took a daze out of mind stab but didn’t change anything else with the attack and that’s a mistake imo.
Shatter is also a good AoE but like I said before, illusions often die before attacking esp in AoE situations because of the large amount of mobs.
I would say fixing Mind Stab would be the best solution to this. Increase its radius, lower its damage slightly and make it spam-able. Using your single target on single target should always be best of course, and balance that accordingly but giving Mesmer an AoE like the other classes is needed.
woah… look at that guy’s endurance in the video. That’s a really awful bug. I guess only using the auto attack would be the solution until it gets fixed but I can’t imagine doing that for a long time without my hand falling off.
Yeah, I don’t like it either. I use the same gloves, although lighter in color it’s not as noticeable. Still, once I noticed it, I can’t stop looking at it :[
Seriously though, that doesn’t make sense because condition builds don’t even have to think about it. It’s so unorganized. And the stats I want are available in pve anyway!
So I decided to make a power build in spvp today. It was a disaster trying to gear it. I thought the normal pve/wvw game had gearing issues…
The stat combos aren’t even the same as pve and you can’t get toughness and power without giving up a ton of precision for healing or vitality for some reason. It’s literally the direct opposite of PvE where Condition builds have the biggest issues gearing.
What is up with the gearing in every aspect of the game?
Don’t forget the new “Apothecary’s” prefix, that’s healing/toughness/condition dmg that they added to exotics, but forgot about ascended for some reason >_<
I’m pretty sure they forgot again :/ can’t say I’m surprised at all, just really disappointed.
I’m getting the condition dps stuff instead, but I’m sure they’ll add it later and I’ll have to grind again and spend all my gold. I hate anet sometimes…..
yeah, I just did the recipe for other backpacks in the mystic forge with Karka’s shells
(it’s the item used to get that prefix in crafting) to see if I would get the healing/toughness/condition stats, and it’s not a recipe :[
This furthers my worry that their really is no healing backpack.. This really sucks for support!
I can’t seem to find a healing ascended back piece, and their is no healing prototype fractal compacitor in the new fractal merchant.
I was really happy to have healing/toughness/condition damage in exotics added and was just missing a back piece and now I’m worried that you forgot to add it to the ascended level of gear.
If that’s true I hope the new rings and future ascended gear isn’t missing stat prefixes too :[
On top of that they should really, really considering giving everyone a separate burn/poison stack too – my engineer can already stack infinite burn all on his own, rendering every single other burn from every single other class in the game completely redundant.
Honestly this is one thing about GW2 I really, truly can’t understand. WoW had the same problem with warlocks on release (none of the warlock DoTs stacked with other warlocks) and it was crippling for the class for a few months… only in GW2 it’s MUCH worse because everyone shares the same conditions.
Unless it’s some technical issue it just feels like they hate condition spec and don’t want it to be worthwhile.
I totally agree. I played guardian before my elementalist and I hated the burn mechanic so much. I still have to deal with it on my ele, but my focus is bleeds, like a necro.
If they fix these condition issues, and make condition gear more available like it is to power builds, I’ll be extremely happy.
In dungeons it kinda sucks. Many groups wont let you join them because you’re a Ranger and they already have a Bleed Class. Making a new Damage Type might help out.
Yeah, me and my husband are both condition specs, so when I make a dungeon group, I don’t want to invite another condition class/build.
In the mists, you can get an amulet that has Condition Damage/Toughness/Healing power. Its prefix is Shaman.
Outside of sPvP shaman’s is condition damage/vitality/healing power and not available anywhere at 80.
This inconsistency is very annoying. Another worse issue in the same topic is that the only crafted gear with condition damage also has power and *Power does not effect Condition Damage* So you’re kittening condition builds that would much rather have literally any other stat besides power.
Also you can’t put exotic gear in your back slot, and a lot of accessories are missing a lot of good combos as well for a lot of specs.
Why is this happening? And why hasn’t Anet responded about this. I’ve seen a ton of threads on different forums about itemization in this game being bad for a very long time, so I’m sure they’re on this forum too somewhere.
Every power combo should be available to condition combos and vice versa.
I think they want to change this, because it’s so obviously bad, but they can’t because they still have that bug that some people get their own dungeon instance.
like… you guys know that saying LOL use a guild not PUG is probably the worst response ever? But idk what response I’m looking for other than yeah it’s stupid and annoying cause that’s all it is.
Can the lack of the big picture end, please? If it can happen easily, it happens often, and a lot of people are annoyed by it, then why wouldn’t you support it being changed?
So I finished a dungeon, and I stayed in the last cut-scene a bit, and my husband left right away cause he saw it already.
He was dungeon leader… So when he left, we all got kicked and no one but him got the tokens or time to get the treasure. I don’ blame my husband at all, he felt bad too, even though he shouldn’t.
It is the dumbest system I have ever seen. I’ve also experienced trolling with it in past dungeons where the leader was having a bad time and he was like HAHAHAHA and just left and kicked us all out after being in there an hour.
This HAS to be changed. It doesn’t even seem on purpose. Really clunky and stupid.
I wanted to do Arah last night – Can’t.
I wanted to do Arah tonight – Can’t.
I want to do Events now, but Cursed Shore is going to be crowded and have only minor events so… Can’t
I was about to make a post about this. I thought they got fixed for a little while, but turns out my server just got lucky and now all the major chains are bugged again.
It’s really frustrating to see this happening every week. Cursed Shore is the only 80 only zone, and it’s packed even with everything working. So when one thing bugs, let alone 3 major event chains, everyone is crammed into one spot, and it becomes totally worthless to go there cause you can’t even tag a mob.
I got really excited to see new stuff coming up on the 15th. Now that I see these same bugs again, I’m actually frustrated that new stuff is coming before these bugs are fixed.
This is just one kind of bug type too. HotW’s path 2 boss doesn’t even seem tested. But I don’t even care right now! The non-instanced world should be your top priority!
Why do people think that if they can’t do something in a video game, it needs to be changed for them?
I like difficult things in this game. Makes me enjoy the game a lot more than single player games too. It’s what I’ve been wanting a very long time and I’d be disappointed if they DID change something like this.
The jumping puzzle is perfect. If you can’t do it, that’s fine. It’s not on the achievement so you don’t HAVE to. It’s a fun mini game.
-edit- I’m an asura, with the smallest model it can be. I endured the charr and norns on top of me. If you can’t get use to where your character is, you can’t do the puzzle fast enough anyway.
I transfered to Blackgate a couple weeks ago with my husband and waited the rest of the round out of WvW to get bonuses. The next round my husband was getting them and I wasn’t.
Just to see, I waited a whole round of WvW again to see if I was bugged, and I’m not getting any bonuses again.
There are a lot of bugs with abilities and traits for pets and necromancer in general.
The one that’s been bothering me lately is the siphon heals allies doesn’t effect pets. Also the focus weapon skill Reaper’s Touch never goes to minions. I actually wouldn’t like it to if minion’s were designed better and didn’t die so fast, but right now when regen on them is very important, it’s a big disadvantage not hitting them.
@Mammoth I think it’s a bit more than that obviously. I think it needs a play-style change, like a revamp of the entire spec and pet functionality. But I have been playing an elementalist, and I use the elemental elite, and the only one that seems worth it is the earth elemental because it can actually survive some aoe. Stupid being so limited like that.
I enjoy Elementalist, but I feel like I’m putting Minion Master on hold until they fix it up :[
@striker: What I meant by it was in gw1 it was like it’s own style of gameplay of running through as fast as you can and keeping your army alive and clearing a map. It was tedious, but it was also fluid. Now in gw2 they’re clunky/tedious as in no fluidity. You can’t resummon until they die, some have degen even though the cd doesn’t reset and is lacking general playstyle. It’s just a badly designed spec atm.
@Seras: Yes in gw1 you used them as meat shields and didn’t control them much. You could actually make a focus target though, if you looked in the control options for pets, which is more than you can in gw2. Besides that point though, gw2 is an entirely different game and the fact you are very limited in the number of minions to have out compared to gw1 makes them ineffective meat shields. Also they aren’t effective damage dealer’s now either because you can’t have them focus anything along with limited amount/unable to re-summon immediately after they die.
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