Guild Wars 2

Rev was supposed to be counter to conditions. But it is not working at the moment.

Expecting ETA on bug fix is unrealistic. Bugs by nature means something unexpected. Some bugs is easy to fix but not always. Sometime bug fixes cause other bugs during test. If your hardware is unusual it would be even problematic.

Hammer #5 is very strong. AoE cc without rooting the character.

So far I enjoy it. And I can see a lot hard work behind all these. Good job.

Attack of Lion Arch used to be difficult and brutal but eventually people learned how to run through it within a month. Unlike living world season 1, the new maps HoT are permanent contents. They need to be more difficult. Otherwise people will get bored pretty quick.

Maybe as a single player game. As for a MMO, crafting in GW2 itself is a puzzle game which requires community cooperation to solve. And the community is good enough to share it rather than keep it for themselves.

Thank you John!

I missed capture signet.

Instead of letting players upgrade and customize their home instance as in other MMO, ANet’s answers are adding these features to a shared instance with guild in mind and known as Guild Hall.

Unlike home instance ANet gives it to everyone with no fees attached, Guild Hall requires guild members to earn it, starting w/ 100 gold. After you claim the land, you can put buildings and structures on it. However, it cost new currency, favor, which could only be earn through guild missions.

So to OP question, you can claim a guild hall w/ non guild members. However, one man guild unlikely can earn the new currency for the upgrades.

If you are solo leader and leave the guild, no one else can access your hall because non-member can only access through ferry using the party or scout UI.

Action camera is an employee free time project, not a planned feature on ANet development roadmap. BTW, Halloween was started as an employee free time project too. This is the culture in this company to allow employee giving something back to the community.

Around a year after core game launch, ANet introduced the first major content update now known as season 1. The major villain in season 1 was Scarlet. The stories spread across several months and each month feature new map wide events. As the story proceeded, the new contents removed and only shown the aftermath.

Season 2 is the follow up of Scarlet aftermath. But unlike season 1, main stories were told through repeatable instance.

Season 1 contents are gone. Season 2 stories could be purchased from gem store.

It is not working on Mesmer for awhile.

Staff comes with healing component. It seems to be a supportive weapon, similar to the ones for Guardian and Mesmer.

I guess not. The map cap seem to set according to hardware limits.

To me this is a feature to turn ground targeted skill in to PBAoE.

Welcome to Tyria. Hope you doing well and let’s have fun.

Even rewrite the engine in DX11 won’t help much unless they also rebuild all game assets to take advantage of those eye candies.

It seems to me that people hate Thief and Mesmer because both classes can by pass an implicit rule in game which govern the behaviors of other professions, i.e. both classes can unload burst damage at players’ will without keep staying within 240 range radius. Even though GW2 don’t have hard trinity, the design of weapon damages rewards flight in melee distance. For weapons based on the power stat, the difference in damages from 1200 range and 240 range are huge. Meanwhile, 900 range weapons usually come with condition components. As a result, players run power builds have to flight at 240 range to get their optimal damage. Those people perceive Thief and Mesmer op because both can unload burst the moment they just appear within the 240 radius and willingly disengage when the flight not in their favor. They feel unfair even though both classes in fact have lower overall dps in comparing to the others.

This goes back to the point that GW2 is designed with group flight in mind and not balance around 1v1.

The introduction of Revenants seems to be ANet attempt to address this problem. Shiro stance add high mobility to heavy armor class. Even 1h sword melee AA originally have range component but now removed because player feedbacks.

It is sad people just look at their build and push it farther rather than look at the rules which govern the whole game.

I suspect the problem is due to, unlike direct damages, condition damages are not affected by distance. Following the high risk high payoff principle, burst through direct damage required fighting at 240 range. However, the strength of condition damages are flat regardless of the distance. In theory, someone could unload condition damages at distance to reduce the other health pool and follow up with a burst. In effect, the overall risk is lower for the playing a condition build vs the power one. In this case, the risk and return principle is violated.

Meanwhile, the reverse is also true. Direct damages across a distance by design is weaker than the ones in short distance. When a power build dueling against a condition build, the longer the distance between the flight, the relative loss in dps from the power build is much higher than the one with condition builds. Against, the risk and return of playing power vs condition build are not the same.

If this is the root cause of the problem, the question for ANet is how to find a sweet spot to balance both sides.

Very unlike as Action Camera was started as employee free time project instead of being a key milestone on the development road map.

I don’t understand. Does it mean builds specialized in condition damage can generate dps even higher than the ones focused on non-condition damage? Or does it suppose that there should be a gap between the dps from condition damage and non-condition ones and currently the gap is not wide enough?

OP assumes players have to earn hero points in the most efficient way. Buy why?

If you believe that there will be more elite specs coming after HoT, there will more reasons to complete hero points in the core games.

In PvP snap ground target will benefit engineer a lot.

Personally I do not enjoy rolling my ele w/ both water and earth trait lines. But someone have fun with this. On paper when water and earth ele vs chaos and inspirations Mesmer, it probably will last ages and end with a draw. But does it mean OP?

Did you know the dragon won’t attack you while you were under sheath? And you can teleport to avoid the mines. If your class lacks both abilities, there are consumable in the open world you can buy to access those skills.

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a bit too op?? Are you kidding? is just over the top in terms of 1v1, and in team fights offering lot of tools like portals, mass invis to help ress, and lot of buffs.

Aniway would not be a problem if it was only “a bit too op”. Problem is that is also the easiest class i’ve tried in this game. Yesterday it happened i duelled a warrior with my mesmer wich i didnt used for like what.. 2 years? Well i just fell asleep, there was nothing that warrior could do to win, every action stun i made was immediate, every skill and burst is an instant no cast time, it’s too easy to play cuz every single action can be done by pressing a button and it’s IMMEDIATE. Also too many skills available even when i’m stunned i can still phase retreaat? RLLY?? This is ridicoulous.
But what rlly make the mesmer OP is not only their instant skills no cast time no skill needed gameplay, but their amazing traits. I really couldnt chose sometimes, they looked so amazing and well synergizing with each other.

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I am sorry your example is not a very convincing one. Your main is Warrior and your Mesmer has been idle for two years. That means in fact you are an experienced Warrior in soul duel against a low rank Warrior. You should win unless Mesmer is very poorly designed.

Besides, GW2 is built around the concept of paper-rock-scissors. There is always one build to counter another.

Furthermore, if burning is the new meta. Berserker is going to have constant access of burning. Whereas Mesmer mainly access burning through RNG. Obviously Mesmer is in disadvantage.

I found that the opposite is true. The increase in base condition damage of pet plus WHaO buff make ranger so much easier to play. Not to mention the new pets to be added after HoT while Mesmer only have one new phantasm. Furthermore F5 key does not bring new skills to Mesmer at all. And using F5 on Mesmer can be risky if trigger at the wrong time. Mesmer is very difficult to play well.

Very unlike. Until VR becomes a mass phenomenon, ANet unlike will put money on its development.

When the randomness is gone, there is an incentive to unlock the legendaries and sell the account. If someone scripted the whole thing, it might become profitable.

It will cost 2400 gem to upgrade at gem store if you get the standard edition. As the upgrade for core game is on gem store for ages, I suspect the same applied for HoT.

If ANet relatively increases the rewards of new contents, it will essentially decreased the rewards across all old contents. The inflated price on trading post would also made the gold earned from dungeon less attractive.

Probably I shall get Nevermore!

Thank you Joel for all the hard work and your free time.

BTW, programmers usually is not the best one to write documentation because they don’t understand what people don’t understand. It would more efficient to let Joel spend his time on his best in coding and let someone in the community to help the others catch up.

My thinking of the delay for one year content creation was more about clearing out the code base and writing the documentation. I am sure a lot of codes were just duct taped together at launch. But sending a program out to somebodies to run is very different from maintaining it internally. You also need to be careful about let loose of any trade secrets during the transfer. But the overall efforts would be good as laying out more robust code base for future expansion.

The current problem is due to the higher the population in a server, the more the total of dps in that world. Players move to servers with more wins and low rank servers have fewer players. It becomes a virtuous circle.

To work around this problem, there should a cap or upper limit of total dps per server. The more the server populated, the more diluted the dps per player. In this way, small guilds will have incentive to move to less populated server because of the dps bonus.

I can’t remember whether my key bind is default or not. I press C to target the nearest enemy and press Tab to cycle through to the ones in the back. At the meantime I check their health bar so that I won’t waste the iberserker on something almost die.

I put sigil of frailty or strength on my GS to stack vulnerability or might. I have sigil of fire to get extra aoe.

AA on long range weapons always come with low dps. Guardian staff 1 can tag five targets but only at 600 range. Elementals fire staff 1 have aoe but very slow. The best one is Engineer mortar kit at 1500 range with aoe. But every thing on it is ground targeted and no AA. And it is an elite skill.

BTW, Mesmer GS 1 works on target beyond 1200 range but you need to manually press 1 to maintain it.

The spike in traffic will be the real test for the server farm. Hopefully the core game runs on a different clusters. Even if HoT bugged out, we could play the elite spec on old contents.

Apparently Chinese version of GW2 is not owned by ANet because of government policy. Otherwise why having two versions which cost extra money to maintain.

I found the GS1 in Mesmer is way better than Engineer Rife 1. Ranger LB1 need trait to hit multiple targets but by default in Mesmer. Guardian scepter 1 and Elementals staff 1 are very slow. As a long rang AA, Mesmer GS1 is not bad at all.

GW2 is built around its combat system which have a lot of depth in it. It is not something you can just pick up to do a quick match. ANet does very little to teach the combat to new players. Even if they want to, they simply cannot do it because there are too many combinations. Even skills rotation change if you run a different build. On top of that is the active defense and damage mitigation mechanic which require you to read the animation of your opponents to react accordingly. Not to mention how to trigger combo all by yourselves, the learning curve is very steep but rewarding.

If you don’t like the aspect of taking time to learn a class and how to get the last juice out of it, GW2 is probably not for you.

Imagine somewhere in Mist there is an island occupied by Champions from all over Tyria where you can solo them all to earn a title Champion Slayer. Does it sound cool?

Too good to be true. I am afraid this will become another “We heal as one” overnight nerf.

If raids and new legendary weapons are the solo reason for you to buy HoT, I hope you can get the refund.

In GW1, new campaign made the old one solo friendly. I suspect the same is true for GW2. That could be one of the reasons to nerf dungeon gold drop.

I wonder whether the shout in Privateer works with Tempest.

Might be what you said is true. It is totally ANet faults. Then what?

I think it is simply because ANet haven’t figure out how to create a good dungeon. Share your feedback on which part of the dungeon you have fun with and what make you enjoy them. When there are enough feedback, they might be able get the idea on how to create another good one.

If I was the designer and put together some interesting encounters in the dungeon. But what players want is to skip the encounters as quick as possible to get gold in the shortest time. How can I get motivation to keep developing contents for dungeon?

Dev are humans who need appreciation and have fun. When heart was broken, it would be too late to do anything to change people mind.

I suspect the main reason behind the shift away from dungeon development is how seriously ANet toward the development of narrative. Each dungeon itself need a backstory behind it. Besides bosses mechanic it also involves a lot of resources to develop including script writing and voice acting. When they remove those story elements in dungeon design, that is what we get in current raids and fractals.

Condition damages ignore toughness and armor. Therefore condition damages usually come with smaller values and usually reduce health over time, with exceptions of burning and poison which stack over intensity.

Condition damages can be mitigated just as direct damages. In GW1, there is a tactic to use weak conditions (hex) to cover strong conditions to render condition cleanse useless. In GW2, condition specialized builds can constantly applying number of conditions to exhaust any cleansing abilities. In GW2, active or preemptive defensive like dodge, blind, block, interrupt, and sheath are preferred in combat over reactive healing and cleansing.

ANet should use a non-linear function to calculate stacks. Having diminishing return will solve a lot of balance issues.