Guild Wars 2

Hold the phone, i dont even see a light or medium variant amongst those icons.
Only those 2 heavy set part from the screenshots.

So help me god if they only bring in 2 heavy sets…

Shame on Bob, only 50 critters.
He should have killed 1k like i did, shame on him and his family.

Let me enthrall ye denizens of Tyria with a story most bold, of courage, experience and adventure of finding oneself i had experienced a whole 5 minutes ago.

I was at a bank, storing some gold for my alt. When suddenly i got 10 ac points.
GASP i exclamed, “dare i venture forth down this road of peril?”

With a shaking heart i placed 100g in the bank. With a glorious shower of power and glory of my deeds Balthazar granted me another 10 points.
“Tis’ a day for glorious deeds!” i exclaimed across the mapchat, filled with the confidence of a thousand brave men.

I was then dared by a jelaous sage to test faith once more.
“Dare ye put in 200g in thine bank mortal?” he said with a grin so foul.
I knew this was a test from the gods, and i knew i had to accept.

With sweat pouring from my forehead like the waterfalls of the Timberline Falls i paused before doing the deed.
As i did my beard grew tenfold. My arms once minute norn ones now resembled trees in girth. I smiled at the sage as i took another 10 points from the gods, rightfully making me the hero amongst heroes of Tyira.

From that day all of Tyira would know my name, the Golden Retriver and i would be bathed in all the praise of this realm.
Unlike that plebeian sage who only did dailies.

TLDR: I got 30 pts from placing gold in the bank 3 times, THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST!

And what did you achieve bruno?
Killed 1k centaurs or something? Whoop dee doo.

As it stands, almost nothing in this game tied to achievemnets is worthy of any special note, especially Slayers and the like.
Now soloing Lupicus is something, and that doesent even give achievements.
Yet people still do it, you know why? Cause they dont give a rats kitten about achievements.

Please bring the crying hurt new player or players into this thread.
No please go to LA if you cant find them on the forum and bring them here.

None of them think like you, at least i havent seen anyone.
So please present this damaged party.

SynfulChaot.3169:

Djemo.7153:

Not necessarily in PvE?
Where pray tell then are you implying one should get them?
Is there a magical part of this game we are all unaware of?

As it stands the majority of it is in PvE.
This isnt a PvE patch hence i dont see why it should adhere to the PvE community.
Its the patch for all of us, and the armor and weapons hidden behind these achivement checkpoints are not legendaries, they are just another skin.

A skin that dedication in whatever way expressed to this game should be rewarded to.
And as it stands theres enough e-kitten items in this game, the achievements and the skins related to them need not be another of these.

Must I repeat myself yet again? Ok. Here it is:

SynfulChaot.3169:

Like I said before, I am aware that WvW and PvP achievements are not on par for points as PvE and would need to be fixed as to be in line with PvE.

I know that WvW and PvP achievements are not in line with PvE. Anyone who has ever looked at them knows. Now if they remedy that, then this argument is entirely moot.

Yet when they “remedy it” (read remove dailies and monthlies) PvE players will be faaaaaar ahead of the PvP ones, due to all the achievements they did.

Even if they make our WvW and sPvP achievements easier and more sane it still doesent change the fact that you already have tons of them done, while we, even with these changed achievements dont have them done.

Isnt that the same injustice you people are crying about when it comes to new players not able to catch up?
How will we catch up to PvE? Are we forgoten here?

Not necessarily in PvE?
Where pray tell then are you implying one should get them?
Is there a magical part of this game we are all unaware of?

As it stands the majority of it is in PvE.
This isnt a PvE patch hence i dont see why it should adhere to the PvE community.
Its the patch for all of us, and the armor and weapons hidden behind these achivement checkpoints are not legendaries, they are just another skin.

A skin that dedication in whatever way expressed to this game should be rewarded to.
And as it stands theres enough e-kitten items in this game, the achievements and the skins related to them need not be another of these.

@Zudet

Except you know, 90% of the community doesent give a rats kitten about some stupid leaderboards and play this game to have fun, something you appear to lack.

And every newbie that voiced himself in this thread and the others in this subforum agreed it was stupid to even think that.
Cause everyone sane knows you should not penalize loyal customers for their way of enjoying your product. Its like everyone thinks people come in, do a daily and leave.
We go do other things, which dont include “kill the same mob ad nauseum”

Ok let me close this cause you cant see it from my perspective.
Your good intentions are directed towards yourself, and your likeminded PvE loving players. WvW players have nothing to gain from your good intentions, sPvP players have nothing to gain either.

Only thing they will gain is frustration when they realize they have been shafted for the innumerable time again because they like a different mode than their fellow players. PvE players just have to get over the fact that theres a big part of this games population who does things differently, and they will not change this unless the PvP players themselves want to.

I go to PvE when i want to help a friend, a guildie or when theres some content that came out and peaked my interest. Other than that theres not a single good intention in forcing me to part from my fun so someone else can have their way.

Riddle me this:

What is all the WvW players petitioned that every single person that didnt have a set amount of time in WvW helping their server prosper be denied all the buffs that you so freely and carelessly enjoyed for whatever time you spent in this game.
Now imagine if we could replicate this experience, all of your dungeons, all of your gathering on any node, all your HP/healing power boosts, all your crafting critical successes.

Gone, just gone.
Why? Cause we felt like shafting someone who isnt even related to us or is in no way threatening to our playstyle.
If we dont promote stupid things i would implore the other half of this games community to do the same.

I wont, repeating myself for whatever time, WONT do slayers.
And a removal of dailies/monthlies from the pool will be found with a not so pleasing response from a huge part of the games audience.
Which trust me will hurt more if people just pack their bags then if people find it in themselves to weed out that seed of jelaousy for everyone who has the same armor as them.

The current system is fine and well, if people want to try something they will.
Forcing people into something on the other hand just so they can get a reward is definately not the way to go.

And cause you and others of your train of though wouldnt care about butchering your points doesent mean people of mine would agree on those terms.

Cause in the end when we are stripped of our dailies and monthlies the PvE players, who are already far ahead (you seem to be one) will still be allot less phased then WvW and sPvP players would.

If you take your time to read the WvW achivements you should realize just how ridiculous they are compared to “sit in Harathi Hinterlands and punch a set amout of centaurs in the face”.
So my 4.7 points could well be something like 2k or whatnot, and thats just not right for someone who played 2.5k hours. I deserved those points no more than someone who isnt arsed to do Slayers or puzzles. So are the rest like me which are a huge part of this game.

It would still hurt the people who spread their attention across all aspects of the game yet excel in none.
Dailies/Monthlies are the only things keeping any achievement score up for those people cause they dont play a single aspect of the game zealously enough to achieve an achievement attributed to the individual aspects of the game.

@Synful

While an noble endeavour its in a small part a greedy one as well.

Myself i have 2.5k hours spent into this game and only 4.7 ac points.
Ive spent time in every aspect of the game.
Ive owned in sPvP. Since every single one of my dungeon runs was a pug group i had countless times in my quest for the Arah sets been forced to finish off Lupi alone (not bragging).

Ive done jumping puzzles, ive done living stories (MF was kittenawesome and i hope for more) and in the end of it all i settled in WvW. Hence why with such a huge playtime im really low on the points.

If someone enjoys one aspect of the game (i have friends who only sPvP, and its their right to continue to do so) then i say let them.
If they are unwilling to go and kill 10k ogres they should not be bloody forced to.

So what we are left is people who are disgrunted that their aspect of the game is in shambles (reffering to PvE) and are trying to get people back into doing things in PvE aside from these occasional living stories.

Cause we all can agree whole areas are barren and devoid of players, but we the players of WvW or sPvP or the whatever else people do in this game should not be penalized cause we dont coform to your ideals of farming NPCs or jumping around in a cave.

Its the devs who need to make PvE areas more compelling and worthwhile (which they said they are working on in that new video in the news).

Its not elitism to deny people points from something just cause you dont deem it worthy enough to be counted?
Yeah case example of elitism right there.

And i was reffering to the people that flaunt their Slayer achivement and the like (jumping puzzles? seriously?) as something that is somehow a better and more rewarding experience. Hence i say its not, cause it takes no skill (hence why should it differ from dailies) to kill a set amount of brainless NPCs.

I play PvE, sPvP and WvW, but i play WvW the most.
I have 3 characters in Arah sets, and the rest in SE.

And unlike most here i dont give a rats kitten if someone gets those sets the way he wants. If its dailies its noones kittenig buisness to tell him otherwise.

I think me and my guild (and ofc similar experienced people) fending off 2v1, 3v1 or even more odds in WvW against competent players time and time again is more of a skillful achievement then you killing GASP a thousand brainless NPCs.

Get your head out of your kitten. Your NPC farming for achivements is no more epic than a dude that logs in every day and does a daily.
Hence this elitist bullkitten is pointless.

No this is bad my friend, this is what plagues WvW as we speak.
If someone wants the dungeon set he needs to part from WvW for days (or like a day if you have alts like me).

I should know, i have 2 fully geared in Arah, 2 in full SE and 1 in CoF. I can post pics if you want.
I had fun doing that, but i have more fun WvWing.
And i would probably not like to go back to PvE if my needs dont drag me there, and i dont like that.

You can see in the WvW forums about people complaining about needing badges for a legendary, imagine if sweet new armor showed its head as a WvW exclusive.

Our and their goal should be to strive for everyones happiness.

By all means give it to us for badges, im more than sick of my 8k badges making a mess of my bank.
And we until not that long ago had only one set look which was crud (its not an opinion, noone kittening wore those sets, noone even does now).
And even now after the “boost” we dont have any really special WvW sets, while the PvE crowd has more than enough dungeon sets you cannot earn in WvW.

But im not advertizing WvW specific sets (cause you know, i give a kitten how other players i share this game with feel) but these new sets are in no way PvE specific.
So theres no ground to shaft us for again.

This also came to my attention a few days ago.
We all by now know who Scarx is irrelevant of our chose in the part of the game we enjoy the most.

And while i dislike him and his guild these 2 images kinda draw on my point.
http://imageshack.us/a/img560/3914/s6c6.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5139/8gf0.jpg

Notice how much achivement points he has, also 2560 hours spent into the game.
Is he not entitled, like many of us to have this armor?
So i repeat, shafting the WvW population (which you are stupid to think isnt a massive part of the playerbase just as the PvE crowd is) will only lead to the outrage of a big part of the community.

And its not like theres really a lack of people leaving this game or threatening leaving.
Oh and dont forget the people that leave then return in hopes of something to their liking, then leave again disappointed.

Dem folks wont come back a second time.

Okay so to start off im positively hyped by these new armors (2 heavy screens, means prolly 2 light/medium, gib tentacles and gaping maws light armor plox).

But i wonder how us diehard WvW players will be hit here.
To elaborate ive got only 4700 acc points atm, and 2207 hours put into this game which is far from a small amount of time.

Of that time about 500 hours were PvE, the rest was WvW and exclusively WvW.
As we know you cant really progress all too fast in the achivement department when you play only WvW.
Also ive seen some of these threads and the elitism they try to breed and im positively revolted.

How many have toiled on WvW so your PvE loving kitten can get all those bonuses?
Ofc im not trying to put this in a light that anyone should build us a memorial plaque but if there was a way to replicate all your experience of this game but remove all the HP/healing power boosts that aided you, all the Exp from creeps and crafting, all those nodes that yielded more than they should without the boost….

I seriously hope there isnt a big enough group of such self centered people to pull the tide in their favour, and i hope Anet reads this or is thinking in the same way.
Cause seriously just cause you want to be a little special flower you are shafting all of us who dont play like you achivement junkies.

So yeah Anet, make sure you balance that junk so that WvW players dont get shafted once more like we did with how much we waited for Ascended gear and many other issues (AoE loot, thank you but ffs! Took you long enough).

Ok hold the phone… we only get Torment with DS?
How in the kitten am i supposed to epidemic this?

I feel somewhat betrayed really.
And can anyone give me a reason why anyone will use Life Transfer over DS 5 now?
Since this one targets EVERYTHING in its radius rather than just 5 like Life Transfer.

Why in the world wouldnt they implement this?!
Is this some cruel joke?
kitten Anet…

How does one buy stuff in bulk?
I want to exchange all of this Zhaitaffy for Koi Cakes (got about 2k taffy) and i always get that message, “Are you sure you want to buy?”

Dont tell me i have to press the kittening “ok” button a million times, cause thats just the worst design error ever!

Sigil of fire in the otherhand is something i havent considered, an AoE within an AoE.

Guaranteed proc ON A SINGLE TARGET, its really a waste on anything aside from a scepter imo.

because i was looking into enhancing my AoE ability, a single stack more on a single person cant trumph sigils like 5% dmg, or corruption.

Well that sucks, then its pointless for the staff, thanks anyway.

Cmon now dont be shy :P

How do these sigils that proc on crits act with staff marks and wells?
Does only 1 person get the proc on them or do all 5 persons afflicted by the mark get it?

Does noone seriously know?

Anyone?
Would really help a guy out :/

I was contemplating getting one of those sigils that proc on critical hits on my necros staff.

What id like to know is, since staff marks hits up to 5 targets at the same time, will only a random person be afflicted by the sigils proc, or will all 5 of them get hit by the sigils proc?

@sternenstaub I dont want to adapt, why should i? Other classes have tons of viable builds that they can use, and still be useful without adapting (read being forced).

@Mammoth If they actually did something and werent ignored by everyone then that could perhaps hold some logic. I dont know where you got those ridiculously stupid numbers from but they all die to a breeze in a bigger WvW fight, so i call bullkitten.

@Kale The little jaggies? How would having more of these help? They die to a fart.
If perhaps we were actually given a skill akin to the Liches 5x jaggie summon that could perhaps help, but i doubt it.

@Zenith I agree completely, all summons of all classes should justify their presence on the skillbar, but thats the battle the other classes must fight for themselves in their forum.

@Xsorus While the pathing is a horrid broken thing indeed it would be far from enough for WvW. They would still die too fast, and their single target nature would still make them be the last thing you should use on your skillbar.

Also i would request a sticky or whatnot (im not too familiar with forum stuff) so more people see it.

Okay so we have all figured out by now how terribad a MM necro is in WvW.
And im not talking about 1v1 or fewvfew, im talking about zergs.

And lets face it, the majority of the WvW players will eventually tag up on the tail of one of these.

So heres my suggestions on how the devs can make this build a viable one in WvW (considering my huge guild always runs with like 20ish people it pales in comparison to a well build for instance):

1)Give minions cleave

In part Bone Minions can be considered as having cleave but the other minions are so pathetic on the regard of usefullness.
While i dont propagate that every minion get cleave (Blood Fiend cleaving? ololololo)
i would wish to see the Flesh Wurms bile attack function like an exploding attack.
To clarify, the target that is struck with the projectile gets dmged and up to 5 or so people around the target do to. We can see this with Engies Rocket turret which does the same. This would greatly increase the use of this minion since the basic attack dmg is nothing to scoff at.

On to the Bone Fiend. This fella should be able to do a fan attack if you will. Instead of firing at 1 person, the bone fiend would fire 3-4 projectiles in an arc. To compensate for the decrease in DPS (instead of 2 projectiles hitting our target, now only 1 could ever actually hit the same person) perhaps the cripple proc should be increased. The immobilize should stay as a skill and affect everyone hit in this arc (every missile will imobilise the individual stuck).

On to the Shadow Fiend/Flesh Golem. Both should get a cleave attack, period. As it is now, even if you port/charge these minions in the lines of the enemy they wont pay it much heed since it will only pester a single person. Now if the Fleshy, which hits quite stongly mind you, were to start cleaving in a blobed up group that would be noticed and would require an action from the ones pestered by one. As for the Shadow Fiend, his blind attack should be an AoE one, so that when you port him into the middle of an enemies group he wont only cleave them but also do an AoE blind which would be far more potent than a single target one.

2)Make minions actually able to withstand big engagements

This idea would help bring purpose to the Deathshroud aside from its OH SHI nature that is has now (and only nature it has sadly). So here is how i would go about this:
Give us an F2 button (sacrilege i know, how dare i ask for a fix, we should get more bugs) or if you can think of something better which i cant now.

This button would be called Fatal Bonds (or whatever really) and whilst activated it would bind your Deathshroud with your minions. To clarify, while this is active (it should be a toggle on/ofkittenda skill) your minions dont take dmg, but instead a precentage of your DS pool is shared throught your army (im not good with math, but each minion would suck a certain precentage).

So not a piece of HP would be drained from the minion (bar perhaps the Bone Minions since they suicide, but still perhaps it would help them actually live to see the close embrace of an enemy blob) until your have any lifeforce left.
This in turn would make you choose, save your OH SHI button or make your little puppets actually survive on the field long enough to be usefull.
It would also open a build akin to 20/0/20/0/30, getting all the attribute traits for your minios and expanding your DS pool by 30%.

This is what i came up, numbers would need to be crunched and allot of balance would have to be made.
But i firmly believe that this is the right path towards making the MM even a pale shadow of his GW1 glory and majesty (no the current one cant even hold a candle to the old one in any department bar sPvP, in which i rule with him).

EDIT: Would also popularize skills like Spectral Armor and Signet of Undeath more since it would help with lifepool maintenence.

Good to know, thanks.

Cmon anyone?

Clean and simple, do transactions i put on the trading post ever run out?
For an effin 15% of the profits they better not kittening run out.

Hmm, got kitten …
Well this is gonna be one tough decision…

So the wise thing to do would be to sell now right?
Im not good with money…
Also add indecisive as kitten.

Wait, MF will return?!
Where did you get this info?

That would mean id need to consider the mini as well since it can reoccur again.

Okay so i just found out while browsing the bank that my 120ish hours in MF werent for naught (i only got 1 mini for all that work…).
I seem to have stacked up 8 Insignias and 16 Inscriptions.

What i would like advice about is should i sell or save them?
For all i know there is no other way to get this from anywhere else, also no hint from Anet of making it available.

Yet im afraid that they might just pop out with that little suprise (which i guess they should, and im ok with that cause i count in the countless people that arent rich in this game nor have the time/patience to be so).

If that happens then the prices will melt and this ~150g (which would be the first time i even saw that much dosh) would be gone, and that would make me a sad panda.

So what should i do gents, save or sell?

Serbia here, though im not sure the rest of the folk in this thread and https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Keeps-disconnecting-Help-required/first#post2162489 are all from the Balkans.

Perhaps we can help them pinpoint it more region wise?
I dunno im guessing we arent all probably close but this “hobotnica” fellow is probably from the Balkans like i am.

As stupid as i might sound, perhaps a nationality soundoff?

Theres already a thread.
But the more threads the merrier.
Fix this.

Same here, 10 mins max before i get this error and am booted to the character screen/log in screen.

Didnt have this issues and i was here from the start, actually started today an hour ago.
The rest of the day i was PvPing comfortably.

As ive quoted in the above, it seems the currency will be Karka Shells.
I bought 300 just to be safe while they are cheap.

VKP Butcher.2751:

It’s not what you’re hoping it is, sadly. It’s just basic armor with the same stat arrangement as the new trinkets… http://www.gw2db.com/search?search=settler

Hate to burst your bubble but there it is, more than likely at least :/

Wait, no. NO!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOD NO!

If they do this i will be so kittening kitten ed.
It will be the hype train all over again.

I hoping for something sclerite too, so it goes well with the shell backpiece.

Noone is interested in this?

“And finally, there is a new merchant who will appear at Pearl Islet as a part of the map-wide Karka Queen event that starts on June 4. Visit this merchant to purchase two new potions as well as some special weapons and armor.”

Holy crud, could this actually be a new set of armor?!

In the following link to their guide:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/a-guide-to-last-stand-at-southsun-cove/?utm_source=client

Something interesting caught my eye, so to quote:
“Four settlements (Point Pride, Kiel’s Outpost, Steampipe Steading, and Camp Karka) are integral parts of trade on the island. If all four camps are held by the players, a special merchant will appear on Pearl Islet to exchange armor for karka shells.”

Am i crazy or does this mean we get a new set of armor?
I dont recall any note of this before.