Guild Wars 2

Luna.9640:

(unless devs add 1 new continent twice the size of Tyria,10 more well designed dungeons with all their dungeon sets and weapons,17 more fractals,2 real dragon bosses,at least 2 more playable races,4 more classes,11 new weapon types and 30 more weapon combos,Submarines and ships,Guild Hall instance,GvG Arena with ladders and stuff,Mounts and ability to freely fly around,5 more different in design WvW maps and WvW Events,10 more sPvP maps and PvP modes…and so on)

take this * 0.5. this is what an expansion should be.

never hear of stats named like that, lol.
just use beserker and forget about that crap.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Yes, definitely, Wintersday should be released concurrently with Episode 8. That would both make sense (4 episodes, break, 4 episodes) and would provide more content for the Winter vacation time that all companies have around this time of year (4 week break). This would also be consistent with pretty much every holiday/LS release combination of the past.

While I understand company limitations, staff limitations due to holidays, and so forth, I very much feel that this should’ve been planned for well in advance and that releasing them concurrently would’ve been the best.

May I ask why you feel that way? Why have two conflicting or competing things going on in a time period when many people have a lot going on in their lives — family obligations, travel, parties, events — which leaves them with less time to log in to their favorite game? Why not have each release get the spotlight and the player attention that each so richly deserves? And why roll out content (some are suggesting just days before a holiday break) that would be difficult if not impossible to maintain with holiday travel, developer unavailability, etc.? We pride ourselves on addressing issues as promptly as possible, but if an issue arises over a holiday break, it can be very challenging to take care of a problem. (I know this from personal experience: I worked with a server programmer through a full New Year’s Day to address an issue years ago. He was able to get things back to normal, but it was asking a lot to do that.)

Saying “This is what I want” is fine. But is what you want really logical? In my opinion the decision of the two release dates makes sense on several levels.

Since when does holiday mean less time for gaming?

holiday = 16h gaming / day
work = 4h gaming / day

If we had more content for that 4 weeks that would be pretty cool.
you should do some surveys with the community on the forums probably.
Anet asks things – community answers.

Oxidia.8103:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Staff fire ele is the highest DPS in game. It is the go to build for additional eles in a party, with one going scepter or dagger focus for might stacks. Just wanted you to know. You should be pleased when you see a staff ele not attunement swapping unless they need to stack swiftness or want to use their earth blast.

Spamming 1 all the time with 3 signets and not moving at all at boss fights? No thanks.

Staff ele on mai trin? Witnessed today it can’t last literally 5 seconds in a fight.

Staff ele is fine on www when you need to control the crowd with stuns and freezes, but it is useless because bosses go right though it on dungeons.

why do people like you try to explain something they don’t understand?

staff elementalist is a highdps build. if you got the mighstacking already managed that is actually much more dps then scepter or dagger builds.

good staffeles don’t spam 1 only. good staffeles don’t use signets. good staffeles don’t range.
the “staffeles” you are talking about are just noobs and probably don’t have a good build / gear. if you gave them scepter dagger or dagger focus they would still be bad. makes no difference.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Thanks for the note, mahri. Guild Wars is a great game — I love it, as I can see you do!

The actual official release date was April 28th (as it was for Guild Wars: Factions) and it’s a day that we all keep in our hearts, as it was the start of something BIG for all of us at ArenaNet. (I can see from the date you mention that you were in the early start, so thank you for being an early believer in our company. <3 )

expansion for gw2 confirmed! got you!

Sparks The Rescue.5043:

Harper.4173:

Not saying rejection is a problem for me. It is a problem for those getting rejected and I can see how being tossed out of groups constantly makes them bitter and sad. The problem is that they don’t turn inwards to see that maybe they should change and adapt but prefer to fill up the forums with tears.

So if there’s another set that puts out comparable damage as zerker then why is there a problem? Do people not like Assassin’s?

Conditions are broken – I agree – but I doubt anyone can fix them. 2 Years into the game and they haven’t been fixed. I think we all know why – they cant’t.

The problem with people whining about getting kicked out of berserker groups is that they keep joining them. It’s totally and utterly baffling to me how someone can see the efficiency in the berserker groups, and whine because they can’t be apart of them, but also at the same time want to sit comfortably in PTV armor types. I don’t feel sorry for them, and neither should ArenaNet.

Assassin’s armor combination is prec/power/ferocity. It’s the exact same stats as berserker, just the primary stat is precision instead of power. Secondly, conditions can be fixed; this is a virtual game run by code. Anything can be fixed, made, and adjusted.

100% agree to that.

but: zerkergear is not everything.
way to often i see guys joining a “zerker-group” → picking up icebow → autoattack with icebow. yes! autoattack with icebow!
that’s like autoattacking as staffguardian.
I kick them instantly and they keep whining about that. (LFG description is something like: expert full zerk only)

Tao.5096:

On serious note.
Zerk Meta?

CoE Subject Alpha w/o stacking behind a boxes, walls, corners, etc.
GL.

haha good one. if you got no clue of zerk-meta don’t talk about it.
we’re running this dungeon every day, killing him on the spot he spawns.
you should try to get a good build and max your gear first.

and then have a look on elementalists icebow. for our team 5 seconds are enough to burst him down to 50% – after that 2 dodges are enough.

Jana.6831:

Hume.2876:

Jana – Zerker meta is about PvE. There is no Zerker meta in WvW or PvP. <g>

Guess what, I also do pve and the rules apply to both of them, only pvp has got different rules.

please introduce us to the new wvw-zerker-meta. i don’t know to many wvw-players that go full zerk with builds like 6 6 0 0 2 or something.

Jana.6831:

Hume.2876:

Soldiers is tanking – two defensive stats. For a thief Zerker gear is the meta. It’s hard but zerkers tend to be the best players. You have to be.

I have been soldiers before april and haven’t been able to do what I was used to do in that gear after the crit nerf: Scouting, roaming and running with the zerg. I haven’t been the best in 1v1 because of that setup (and probably skills) but I wasn’t dead within a second, after the nerf I was. And wasn’t able to run with the zerg anymore. When I went valk/zerkers I could do 1v1 again. And no soldier’s thief has survived me in my current setup. So to me soldier’s thief is harder than valk/zerkers.

What you are talking about now is WvW / PvP which has nothing to do with PvE.
Zerkgear is not always the best in WvW / PvP. For PvE zerkgear is the best – on every class. you can run conditiondamage-gear on some classes in some situations.

But: you don’t need vitality or toughness. there is nothing to discuss about that. if you can dodge you just don’t need it.

By the way: Thief has access to nearly endless dodges – if you manage to time them correctly you won’t get hit one single time cause PvE bosses can’t attack fast enough that you run out of dodges.

Jana.6831:

Doctor Faustus.6372:

Jana.6831:

GrimmR.3541:

Jana.6831:

Taku.6352:

Jana.6831:

GrimmR.3541:

Jana.6831:

GrimmR.3541:

“soloing a dungeon in soldiers takes more skill“ – Are you serious ?
Have you ever soloed a dungeon, have you ever compared berserker to soldiers !? I don’t know what you see as skilled but being able to facetank more hits isn’t skill for me.

Honestly, this one is a candidate for the statement of the year!

Do it and tell me if it is even possible to solo a dungeon in soldier’s.

You can solo in pretty much any gear as long as the bosses don’t have too high regeneration or you don’t fail your evades.

Others have already answered you, I have “discussed” this in several posts. Not really sure what there is left to say.

I have never seen a dungeon solo run in tanky gear and would love to see it – I don’t buy that those doing it have no options to make videos of it. If you know any videos give me the link.

Those who manage to solo a dungeon in none zerker’s gear have more skills in my opinion – I have pointed out why, others have pointed out why. So, again, give me a link so I can be proven wrong.

Not a whole dungeon but shows very well how tankier gear trivialises the content.

http://youtu.be/5-zKXILTkQo

Alright, but I still mean a whole dungeon, not just one part of it =) Thanks though.

Is like this video, just takes longer.
Do you think that dodging/evading takes less skill than simply dpsing ?
So giving up passive defense to do more dmg is less skilled ?
Also, do you think soloing in rabids (f.e.) takes also more skill than in berserker ?

Allow me a question; did you ever solo a dungeon?

I love how people just think that zerkers just autoattack in their solos. Get deeper in the materia and then we can continue discussing.

Have you ever soloed a dungeon or soloed a dungeon in soldiers?
You do’t seem to read what I write, here again: If you don’t dish out max damage you’ll likely get in troubles with your cooldown or with tiny mistakes or things you can’t avoid. So to me everybody who’s able to solo an entire dungeon in soldier’s is more skilled than someone who does that in zerker’s – just read the stuff I wrote, maybe you’ll get my poiint of view and where I’m coming from.
Btw: If soldier’s were easier there would be more soldier’s videos than zerkers and I always see zerker’s.

Okay. Are you stupid or ignorant or both?
I’ll try to explain:
People who can actually solo dungeons DO NOT USE soldier gear!
Everyone who can solo it with zerkergear can do it with soldier too – you just need longer. So why would you do that? explain.

also when soloing (bosses) you don’t use zerk gear cause of your cooldowns, you use it to be faster. the cooldown thing is only for trashmobs.
players who can dodge will use zerker gear. you don’t wanna face lupicus for 15mins if you can kill him in 5mins instead. if you can’t dodge his attacks you will die with nomads or soldiergear. if you can dodge you will survive with zerker gear.

What is the problem with you guys? I initially said that someone soloing “anything” in soldier’s has got more skill in my opinion maybe that’s because I main a thief and can’t survive if I don’t put everything into offense – I don’t really play warrior or guardian or even ranger. Nonetheless it’s my opinion and you’re free to “educate” me on that but what makes you tell me that I’m stupid?

Edit, and for everything else you just wrote: there are plenty of posts from me in this thread in which I explain why I have got that opinion. Just read them.

so what?
you say you don’t put everything into offense cause you cannot survive it?
you think you are more skilled when useing soldiers and surviving than a thief who uses zerk, is two times faster than you and can still survive while also being faster?!
that has nothing to do with any opinion. it’s a fact that you need more skill when useing zerk gear.
basically you say you’re a noob cause you need that tanky gear to survive. you still think you are more skilled than a player who uses zerk gear who is two times faster AND able to survive. think about that pls. only 1min

Jana.6831:

GrimmR.3541:

Jana.6831:

Taku.6352:

Jana.6831:

GrimmR.3541:

Jana.6831:

GrimmR.3541:

“soloing a dungeon in soldiers takes more skill“ – Are you serious ?
Have you ever soloed a dungeon, have you ever compared berserker to soldiers !? I don’t know what you see as skilled but being able to facetank more hits isn’t skill for me.

Honestly, this one is a candidate for the statement of the year!

Do it and tell me if it is even possible to solo a dungeon in soldier’s.

You can solo in pretty much any gear as long as the bosses don’t have too high regeneration or you don’t fail your evades.

Others have already answered you, I have “discussed” this in several posts. Not really sure what there is left to say.

I have never seen a dungeon solo run in tanky gear and would love to see it – I don’t buy that those doing it have no options to make videos of it. If you know any videos give me the link.

Those who manage to solo a dungeon in none zerker’s gear have more skills in my opinion – I have pointed out why, others have pointed out why. So, again, give me a link so I can be proven wrong.

Not a whole dungeon but shows very well how tankier gear trivialises the content.

http://youtu.be/5-zKXILTkQo

Alright, but I still mean a whole dungeon, not just one part of it =) Thanks though.

Is like this video, just takes longer.
Do you think that dodging/evading takes less skill than simply dpsing ?
So giving up passive defense to do more dmg is less skilled ?
Also, do you think soloing in rabids (f.e.) takes also more skill than in berserker ?

Allow me a question; did you ever solo a dungeon?

I love how people just think that zerkers just autoattack in their solos. Get deeper in the materia and then we can continue discussing.

Have you ever soloed a dungeon or soloed a dungeon in soldiers?
You do’t seem to read what I write, here again: If you don’t dish out max damage you’ll likely get in troubles with your cooldown or with tiny mistakes or things you can’t avoid. So to me everybody who’s able to solo an entire dungeon in soldier’s is more skilled than someone who does that in zerker’s – just read the stuff I wrote, maybe you’ll get my poiint of view and where I’m coming from.
Btw: If soldier’s were easier there would be more soldier’s videos than zerkers and I always see zerker’s.

Okay. Are you stupid or ignorant or both?
I’ll try to explain:
People who can actually solo dungeons DO NOT USE soldier gear!
Everyone who can solo it with zerkergear can do it with soldier too – you just need longer. So why would you do that? explain.

also when soloing (bosses) you don’t use zerk gear cause of your cooldowns, you use it to be faster. the cooldown thing is only for trashmobs.
players who can dodge will use zerker gear. you don’t wanna face lupicus for 15mins if you can kill him in 5mins instead. if you can’t dodge his attacks you will die with nomads or soldiergear. if you can dodge you will survive with zerker gear.

just remove level restriction on ascended armor and do the thing with stats adjusting to the level. easy as that.

So apparently they can implement sh** * cough * things like that but can’t design Legendary Armor or Trinkets for a so called “feature patch”. remember last featurepatch.
Can’t understand why they can’t stop wasting time on things nobody needs (minipetthing, the new maps, now that mailcourier.) instead of designing things everyone needs: Legendary Armor, new map to complete, new dungeons (Addon!)

Yoroiookami.3485:

Superior Rune of Trahearne(6/6)
(1): +5% Damage while in Orr
(2): Follow a random player while AFK and remind him/her of your superiority constantly.
(3): +15% Damage while in Orr
(4): Talk in a incredibly snobby manner.
(5): +25% Damage while in Orr
(6): 100% Chance on Existing: Remind your teammates that you’re the boss.

OP! +45% Damage in Arah! Wanna have that! ANet pls!

so sad that this feature isn’t implemented yet.
they brought two feature-packs to us now:

featurepack 1 – was a good pack with nice changes (skinsystem)
featurepack 2 – full of crap nobody asked for, not even worth to be mentioned.

I don’t get it why a feature like trait / gear / weapon – tab isn’t implemented .
If you wanna play PvE – WvW – Open World – Other Dungeons – solo – groupplay – you wanna switch your gear and traits all the time.
Since two years they didn’t get it at Anet.

Hey all together!

In the last weeks I thought about a 3D-print of my character and was googleing quite some time. what i found was pretty much nothing!

no guides how to 3D-extract my character or how to make an easy 3D-sculpt.

What I did find was “ZBrush” – a programm which is perfect for the work i want to get done. My problem is, that i have no idea how this works and i do think there must be a much easier way.

question 1: does someone probably know a way how to get my character 3D-ripped out of the game?

question 2: is there someone on this forum who is a pro on ZBrush and likes to sculpt random things? probably you’d like to sculpt my warrior?

please excuse my english I am not a native-english-speaker.

thank you for reading – I am waiting for some answers!
CYA ingame

I want this set so badly! Please ANet – do something and bring it back!

restructured sellingpost for easier information and less wall-of-text.

Vlad.1739:

Your prices are very high. If and when I buy paths i kittentainly get almost all at half or less your quoted price. As any person with a sense of thrift can find much better deals on LFG. Good luck with this to anyone who wants to be client of them you should seriously negotiate better prices. I will not even bother to negotiate anything they seem out of touch. Dungeon tokens are not worth enough and gold rewards do not offset your prices. I can easily buy CM runs for less than 3G which is one example of your wacky prices. If anything your prices should be lower than random LFG sellers since you want a steady clientele, the ideal being you run dungeons fast and no selling downtime but no crazy prices. Do not buy you can find better deals in which buying the run is actually profitable to self not just the seller.

that has nothing to do with high prices – when we sell in the morning people usually buy it instantly! and when people pay it we offer it for that price – that’s the idea of free market economy. so we’re offering for that prices in LFG and also on demand and we got our happy buyers.
nobody needs to buy it! but if you wanna be sure not to be scammed – then we’re the guys you were looking for!
[Lorbeerfraktion] stands for fast and safe selling! no buguses / safespots / scamming!

updated prices since more players want to buy and less people are selling.

New Path available: SE p1. ~ 20mins | 4g

New Dungeonpath for selling: hotw p2. ~30mins

Since we found a legit way to duo SE p2 we updated our thread. We think that some people might have trouble with the endboss(es) – we sell this “new” path for 10g / slot.
video will be on our channel soon!

Please stay at the topic guys. This is not a discussion about how we do it – if you want to watch us doing solos / duos just follow our youtube channel. Some more videos coming soon!

spoj.9672:

You should probably make it clear EU or NA.

Theres no point accusing people with no proof. Wont get you anywhere. :P

topic updated. we’re on EU! ty

we can duo arah p4 fully legit – there are enough videos on youtube of how to do it.
every dungeon we solo / duo we’re doing fully legit! we’re not useing bugs / kicking pugs!

Hello EU-Guild Wars 2 Community!

As you all know, selling Dungeon Paths in Guild Wars 2 is a usual business. We from Lorbeerfraktion [LF] made it to our task to provide you, the community, with fully legit played runs for easy acces to level-ups or dungeon tokens. The basic idea we came up with is the following:

We provide you a list of dungeons we can solo/duo for you and you sign in if you want to buy this path.

If you’re interested feel free to klick spoilers!

We are looking forward to see you guys ingame, till then have a nice time playing Guild Wars 2!

Lorbeerfraktion [LF]

My Norn Warrior!