Guild Wars 2

A lot of MMOs do this. ;/

You make way more than 400 gems when you play the game. :o

PSX.9250:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I’m sure birthday rewards will change for the second birthday (other than the booster. That’s a very nice deal).

Wishful thinking.

It’ll change by giving a different account bound mini pet multiple times.

Time to wear a pumpkin head.

If all else fails at least you can run around wvw tagging things with Shortbow.

Used to be nice till they deleted our only 2 skills that kept us alive. Unless you spec into ini increases all the way to make up for the nerf. Now you’ve got to play a certain way on land to be effective in water since builds don’t autochange when submerged. For Spvp I used 2 Spears with energy sigil and ini on swap trait, but I might have to change that since I switched back to dagger and flushed my swords down the toilet in prep for the next nerfbat. Maybe it’ll be better though with the passive ini boost but if they notice it go back to the way it was from that they’ll probably nerf it again.

Speargun does some nice range damage with #2. Actually wish I could use it on land where I can actually use utilities and build around it. The Damage and weapon skills are better than Pistols. 1200 range too, woo. Oh well.

Wet Thieves suck cuz nearly all our utilities get locked, your current build most likely won’t exist anymore, 1 stealth skill (hide in shadow), no stealth attacks basically~ they barely do anything, no elite skills other than venom. Funny how they nerf us but not ranger immortality in water, which is without a doubt, extremely broken.

Also how come Guardian can summon a giant sphere around them, but shadow refuge can’t do the same? Sure it’s ground target but that could be altered to just cast where you are. Warriors can summon banners in water this way~ the ground targeting is disabled and just lands on top of them. o.O

It’s obvious that we are just simply hated and not worth the effort of improving.

Buying gems for gold is extremely expensive and any normal player can still catch up to top gear pretty easy anyways, even if it is time gated it’s still an easy process. They just want the epic looking skins mainly.

Looks cool, but I think majority of battles are going to revolve around knocking the other player off cliff. :o Even in Skyhammer on my Guardian I don’t even fight people seriously, I killed 13 ppl in a row just using shield 5 last time. :s

Cuz it previews as heavy and only heavys matter in this game. They make this more and more apparent as time goes on.

I think Radiant armor did the same thing when they added it and they fixed it eventually.
Good times.

headgear and aquatic headgear fall into different categories and don’t share any skins with eachother so I doubt you can have an underwater gas mask. The land air filtration mask is apparently the same appearance as the starter rebreather so that one wouldn’t matter much.

Also keep in mind Sigil of Generosity procs it’s CD when you don’t have a cond on you, which is unfortunate and wish it was fixed. I’ve never heard of on swap and crit proc sharing CD though, I just tested it with both generosity and fire and apparently it’s true. o.O

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

You suppose to get Trickery 10 not CS 10 and pick up Trickster when it becomes Adept.

Then you can add Roll for Initiatives on your build. It’s mandatory when using P/P.

:P

How so? With the upcoming initiative buff there won’t be a need for R4I, and in this meta the condition removal is far superior. I don’t see anything in Trickery 10 that would help this build or its purpose. Uncatchable, maybe, but if an enemy is so close that you have to cripple them to get away, you’re better off blind spamming them and taking them down.

R-o-I is your stun breaker…

Not even close to enough Stun breakerage to deal with how often other classes can use it for how long the CD is. :<

1-2 years

You only need 1 sigil of energy. You’ll still have that same off-hand pistol equiped when you swap weapons but the effect will still trigger. I did this with the build I used to kill Liadri and light up the dark. Only needed 1 Energy Sigil for 2x P/D.

You should only need 1 generosity sigil as well. Put one solo pistol in main hand with generosity and 1 solo pistol on offhand on other set with energy. The sets merge but still proc weapon swap sigils.

Babychoochoo.5690:

Adine.2184:

I have 2 Norn with medium armor actually . The better solution would be suggesting less trench coats not removing chest armor .

…which is exactly what people have asking for since the game was released. You could do a search right now and find thousands of posts all asking for that exact thing.

Well, it’s 12-13 months later and 99% of our armor choices still consist of trenchcoats.

This game has this severe deep rooted unhealthy obsession with coats it’s literally mindnumbing. When will it stop?

As I’ve mentioned several times before as a Male Sylvari basically none of these coat styles fit correctly, I’d rather just hide it and just show off glow instead of wondering when I’ll ever get armor that’s anything like what I wore in GW1.

evilapprentice.6379:

JonPeters.5630:

Imagi.4561:

BobbyT.7192:

The only thing black powder can’t provide is protection against carpet bombing down targets.
Keeping in mind we can still teleport stomp, with shadow step, but we are still giving up a utility/actual stun break to do.

From what I understand, using IS requires using a utility anyways, or burning your Steal.

Yeah you burn your steal (35-20s cooldown) with it, instead of burning shadowstep (50-40s cooldown.)

Jon

and that’s so powerful it needs to be nerfed?

Steal can be a huge part of a number of builds, depending on how you’re spec’d. It can
-Heal, do damage, and poison
-trigger Might/Fury/swiftness
-restore initiative
-trigger stealth

and sacrificing all that versatility (not claiming all those abilities happen when you steal, just that you can specc’d for some of them) for a stomp, plus 5 initiative is so strong it needs to be nerfed? On the only class that can’t go immune, with no access to stability, and the lowest base Health pool in the game?

I mean, this sounds extremely anti-thief to me.

Yeah, when I down someone on my Guardian I have access to stability in multiple different ways with low CDs, as well as blind, block and shields practically every single time but somehow our methods deserve nerfed. :/

Straegen.2938:

Doggie.3184:

Shadow Refuge completely gives away your location. Can’t really compare that to the actual “permastealth” being discussed here.

And refuge is often a giant billboard that says AoE the hell out of this spot. Even worse if a thief is pulled from it they get instantly revealed.

Dat giant neon sign, always grabs attention of the nearest Mesmer to immediately use greatsword aoe knockback to push the Thief out of it.

Without the stealth clearing condition trait there really isn’t a way. Cloak and Dagger won’t hurt you if it removed the confusion.
Then there’s Signet of Agility, and pre-setup shadow return~ only drops one condition though so you might end up still stuck with it forever and just have to stow weapon and run away crying.

Sifu.6527:

Frenk.5917:

Bazzoong.7145:

I can permastealth with d/d without CnD…

I’m sorry sir, but could you please enlight me about how can you do that?

Smoke Screen + HS = 15 secs of stealth
Then use blindin powder or health for more stealth
Then use Shadow Refuge
By this time smoke screen should be off cooldown and repeat the above

Shadow Refuge completely gives away your location. Can’t really compare that to the actual “permastealth” being discussed here.

QueenHysteria.1084:

I thought Sylvari were going to be like Guild wars version of Elves. Then it looks like they went that route at first then changed it to making them plant people and still keeping the Elven type of ground roots with the being in-tune with nature and the forest and all that jazz. Scarlet actually looks scary, the concept art makes her look subtle. She is a fun villain though.

They didn’t “change” them to be plant people, they were supposed to be plant people from the start. They just made the idea look much more realistic with the redesign to make it more believable that they’re actually born from trees and not just people with green skin.

Kaizer.7135:

IS/SR needed a nerf, it acted as a stun break and a condition cleanse with no cooldown and 1200 range.

Warrior is my second main but he doesn’t even have a third of the play time I have on my Thief because they’re so easy to play. Which makes it really boring imo.

Whats wrong with a class that dies in 2-3 hits having a stun break and condition cleanse; that being the only condition cleanse aside from a signet that drops 1 every 30~ seconds. ;/ Plus using it for cond cleanse shuts off your offensive capabilities.

I’ll trade it though if I can have Signet of Malice be as OP as Regeneration and banner and be able to drop conditions everytime I use my strongest attack. Warrior wouldn’t need IS though with 9000 gap closers that move them faster than any other class.

The camera exploit let thieves stay in stealth for a very long time, if they felt like doing it. I personally found it to be pretty lame and not very fun to use. Sure I still used it in wvwvw, but as mentioned, I got bored and bored of stealth in general and started using stealthless Sword instead, which to me personally is way more fun.

I wonder if anet actually know how thieves are doing that tedious exploit, or if they just don’t know how to fix it and are improvising. Without the exploit though it does take a pretty massive amount of ini just to stealth once with D/P.

When I actually face them on my S/D Thief the battle can generally go either way. He can actually manage to land his backstab perfectly and eventually land a heartseeker to kill me, or he meets the sad fate of running into my sword whether in stealth or not. I’ve actually killed a lot of D/P Thieves in WvWvW with literally 1-2 sword auto attacks because of how squishy they are, and the fact that I can daze instantly with steal or shadowstep away and back from their attacks and usually get them first. Other classes can do the same thing probably better since I only get 1 daze and no KDs, Stuns, Knockdowns, etc, as long as they don’t stand in the black powder like a… you know what.

Yeah, I enter Spvp on my Warrior when I’m feeling lazy and can just stand on a point with my immortality signet and immortality banner and just watch a GC Thief go all out on me and never dent my HP enough to kill me. After a few matches in a row with all wins and 0 deaths I start to feel guilty and just run around talking to people in /say, greeting them and apologizing for being OP as all hell, but it’s just so easy compared to any other class. Free glory points.

Their entire group can jump me and all I need to do is just hang out with Mr. Banner and Dr. Signet and aoe the ground and swing my sword around randomly to kill their entire team with the huge amount of damage I’m somehow able to do along side the sustain of perfection, with or without my allies. It’s such a shame how much of a **** that build is.

Arganthium.5638:

I also now have to run 3(!!!) stun breakers as well + shadow return along with immobilize/cripple/chill breakers via Shadow Returns, Withdraws, and Roll for Initiatives at suboptimal times. I still run my 10/0/0/30/30 build, but the amount of effort in order to get anything done is almost ridiculous. Furthermore, guardians have now become so ridiculously difficult to kill that I usually take only two or three stabs at them before I decide to simply walk away. I’ve seen groups of 5-10 people in WvW unable to take down a guardian easily because of how stupid they are right now.

But no, ANet, thieves, of all professions, are completely OP.

Funny thing is pre-sword nerf #40 in Spvp or whatever number of times it was, when they reduced the boon steal. Even with stealing 2 the Guardian would still be impervious to full zerker sword damage and keep full healing and shrugging it off like it was nothing.

Sword will probably be even worse off now in Spvp, I already dropped it and went back to a boring suicide GC dagger build. Much more effective, but so much for playing my way. And I get to hear people constantly **** at me and call me a noob everytime I instakill them. At least evasion sword could be seen coming but they brought it onto themselves.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

There are so many restrictions that really hurt the game, and they would be so easy to fix.

1. Allow us to hide everything except pants.
2. Remove armour restrictions so we can mix and match all armour types.
For example you could use medium armour pants, a heavy armour breastplate and a light armour hood.
The choices would be endless.

These two things alone would create more variety than you could imagine.

I’d love all of that. God, I just want to escape skirts and coats so bad on my male Thief. Only heavy and Light get that luxury. A lot of heavy armor doesn’t even look like it suits the armor tier and should be medium anyways. Braham’s armor for example could easily fit all armor types as it’s mostly cloth, fur and very little metal.

With the addition of the universal Radiant armor (and Hellfire) being heavy yet usable on anyone (was so disappointed when I found out no body/legs to it existed) it makes me wish they’d just drop the whole system and let us skin stuff however we wanted to.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

DC Universe did a lot of things wrong. One thing they did right, was their customization. Which GW2 could take some lessons from…

I absolutely loved how DCUO’s armor system was, it actually allowed you to build a huge collection of skins you could change at any time and even hide anything you wanted to. It was amazing. Their F2P cash system sucked hard though, I’m perfectly fine with Transmutation stones in GW2 if need be. Hell, they’d even sell more if there were no armor type restrictions.

I also liked being able to hide my weapons in DCUO when using brawler/martial arts so I could pwn people barehanded. <3 Oh how I miss H2H combat. My Martial Artist pretty much looked like a monk and didn’t wear a top and the rest was clothed.

I generally only play male characters, it’s unfortunate that developers of pretty much any game always put more effort into female design and armor than male.

ohai old thread. o.O

Considering they nerfed it without any further information I guess they just implemented it incorrectly. Still no idea if they’ll be used for anything else in the future. Just leaving my entire bank box worth on my least played alt for now.

Male Sylvari are cursed.

Majority of the armor doesn’t fit correctly. The HoM heavy leg armor is awesome though and most heavy chest pieces. I hide shoulders on my Sylvari Guardian, although they’re nowhere as bad as on your character, they aren’t as oversized on skinnier builds.

99% of Medium armor doesn’t fit. My Thief cries himself to sleep every night. AC Body, Guild Armor and CM armor are like.. the only ones at 80 that fit decently.

It’s like we have an invisible frame over our bodies that is larger than we are and armor bases itself on that instead of what you see.

Guys, stop pretending you don’t like it. I know you do.

I thought the spiders were meowing then I thought naaah, someone must have the white cat mini or something. But there were no fluffy kitties anywhere to be found.

I like her ugly. I assumed it was on purpose to make her more interesting/unique.
That is a cool artwork pic though.

Wethospu.6437:

I would like to hide my underpants.

Wait, how can I delete this?

Lul, it’s possible. Just wear the apparent invisible clown suit.

Reminds me of the JP in Mount Maelstrom. :o

Ellewind.9640:

Erick Alastor.3917:

Let’s speculate
(I think it’s something inside the tower, but that light like a clear and open sky is strange to me >.>)

My bet! >

This would explain and justify all of Scarlet’s actions. What she saw was Cantha and she became so enraged by not being able to reach it that she went insane trying to figure out a way how. Clearly combining magic sources from many different evil factions allows her to create a gateway powerful enough to reach Cantha.

The dev link isn’t working but I see the song in the OP’s link naow, if it wasn’t there before.

btw I love the song.

I like the music, and the trailer is fine as in.

I just wish my Thief had some sexy armor based on Dynasty Warriors to go with it.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I love metal, but I don’t think it fits the game. The contest makes this even harder. I’d love to use some awesome GW2 music for one of my videos… but the metal simply doesn’t fit. Shame about that nice guitar though, but this type of music simply belongs in a different kind of video.

At this point in GW’s time, Scarlet could easily invent Metal music just to troll the world further and recruit more crazy.

They hate us for using stealth, and hate us for not using stealth and want us to go back to stealth.
It’s so confusing. It really is.

it was obviously a troll post to poke fun at bloodstone dust..

She’s your housecarl. :o

Don’t forget loss of accuracy (shortbow #1 nerf).

Didn’t think people would hold onto a pile of bags anymore after the whole Crown Pavilion incident. :o

Switch.4892:

What if you’re asuran?

idk. stay up all night and eat after midnight so you can transform into a powerful reptile ninja?

Unintentional? Sad Panda.

Cuz it’s too huurd for them to make a full set. Not sure why when it doesn’t end up fitting my race properly regardless.

I’m still waiting for Radiant Chest, Legs and Boots. :<

If you’re a Charr Thief your reason to live is to creep people out with your beached whale Death Blossom.

I remember Runes of Magic~ that old F2P MMO, had a hide option for every armor piece. People were pretty normal about it and someone running around naked was pretty rare. XD Unless they lost all their stuff from excessive PKing. ;x

lol this reminds me of yesterday when i was running around in a zerg in wvw and noticed a female human running with us completely naked. I asked why there was a naked swimsuit model running around with us and someone said it was our mascot. ;s

It’s not enough till there’s a hide chest toggle. :P

It’d save my thief from all the awful medium armor and u’d be able to see him glow bettah.

The portal will take us to the Realm of Torment. ;o

Slither Shade.4782:

/stack
/where train

kidding

You might be onto something there.

Don’t worry, they’ll nerf the utility Shadowstep too, eventually. :<

I also still won’t be using Hard to Catch. I hate it as much as Last Refuge, but at least I’m not forced to use it.

Let me repeat that clearer actually.

I Hate Hard to Catch.

I HATE Last Refuge.

meow.

You could always go full zerker scepter guardian. You’re basically a light elemental mage that does tons of dmg.

WTB /flex

My Sylvari wants to show off his wooden muscles.

Maderas.9741:

I don’t think the gas mask drops from glory boxes, people just assumed it did because of the air filtration device. I’ve seen the latter drop, but not the former… and I know a few people trying to acquire this skin.

The Air Filtration device is the one I want. The other one covers my sexy too much.

You forget about the condition removal on shadow return. It saves me plenty of times in WvWvW with the huge landslide of conditions that cover me, even more so if I’m retreating and double tap 2 without a target. Signet of Agility doesn’t help at all VS conditions as it only removes 1, which usually isn’t the one hurting you most. S/D doesn’t and shouldn’t have to use Hide in Shadows, as stealth isn’t and shouldn’t be an aspect of this playstyle, aside from CnD to stomp someone w/o instadying.

Keep in mind I’ve used S/D in SPvP a lot and use it in WvW and I don’t use the shadowstep stomp, so you’re going to hurt innocent people who don’t use it without compensating it with anything.

It wouldn’t be as bad if both Infiltrator Strike and Infiltrator Return removed a condition or we were giving condition removal elsewhere, such as Signet of Malice every 10 seconds or on use, or improving steal to reverse pickpocket conditions to enemy for example.

I’ve personally found a lot of fun using S/D with 10/30/0/0/30 in wvw as I love the Steal ability and want to make the most of it. With that I’m completely 100% reliant on Vigor and Shadow Step for avoiding damage. IDK if this playstyle will be possible with the proposed changes.

As for using Stunbreakers, I do have some, but I’m thrown right back into stun after using them against most classes. Against a stunspam Warrior the only thing I could do against them would be running Roll for Initiative to escape stun and then run from battle as fast as possible, because further engaging him will just get me stunlocked again. Shadow Return breaking stun would be the only possible way to stand a chance against them.

Also, just throwing this in there again, but please do something about Last Refuge. I honestly don’t care what you do to it, as long as it stops killing me when I’m using a shadow arts build. I wouldn’t even mind a blank space at shadow arts 5 instead. This trait should not be forced as it is now.