Engis no, rarely, if ever do I have problems with them. Mesmers, the only problem with them I have is if they ninja me from behind and shatter on me while I’m fighting someone else, or when they use one of their multiple escape tools to run away, which honestly is the problem we have with any highly mobile class.
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I think the time gating of quartz and charged quartz, as well the different crafting model of celestial gear in which you need a separate recipe for the inscription/insignia as well as for the weapon/armor piece was just introduced as testing phase for ascended crafting.
ok even so….why is it still here?
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I don’t think I would roll guardian with the op crowd anymore. While it’s utility in a group is pretty much necessary these days, by itself it’s not on top of it’s game anymore. I can usually solo better with my thief than guard. Now talk about warrior…well there’s one op mess of a class for sure. I got so tired of facerolling everything I now run my warrior naked except for my pink helmet with the fluffy plume on it. Not even kidding. And I still ran from the bottom of the tower to the top with minimal deaths.
There’s just no skill involved with warrior anymore. Any class that can manage 20k+ crits and still have the highest hp pool in the game along with the highest base armor rating (same as guards I know, just saying it uses the highest armor category), condi immunity, condi cleanse, massive passive hp regen…. that’s op in a nutshell. While you may not be able to squeeze 20k+ crits out of a full bunker type build you can sure get higher numbers than any other class with minimal effort. And yeah, it sure seems most of the content has been designed around that. While that won’t make it unplayable for other classes, it sure makes it a lot more difficult. So if a challenge isn’t what you’re looking for, stick with warrior.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
Perhaps they can at least raise the daily cap to 5 charged quartz a day instead of 1 so that you can at least create a full set of Celestial armor in 5 days. I think that’d be a decent compromise between time-gating and instant gratification.
The actual solution (to appease the Alt-aholics…..of which I AM one) is to allow 1 per day / PER CHARACTER. That would allow anyone with more characters ample opportunity to get them in a more reasonable time frame and also potentially sell character slots to anyone that wanted to abuse the system. Since they are not (currently) sell-able on the TP, I doubt that would be an issue.
This right here would make a ton more sense. Especially if you’re trying to gear up more than one, the first one will be slowest, and every other following that a little faster since you can devote more alts to making the crystals. Why this hasn’t been changed yet is beyond me. The conversion rate is downright outrageous….
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
This right here is the perfect example of the broken RNG. He’s one of those people that can nail the RNG to a wall everytime. This is the person stealing my chance at a pre lol. Meanwhile the rest of us mere mortals spend 500g and have nothing to show for it. GG
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I will say that while the lack of real skill by FA being hidden behind massive blobs makes this matchup tedious at best, I will commend you CD guys. Your numbers may be low but you fight like rabid lions. Kudos to you and not giving up. I still have fun steamrolling those FA blobs when we’re outnumbered, but it only goes so far when they keep regurgitating them out faster than we can kill them. Eventually the wall of bodies gets so high we can’t walk over them anymore and they push us out lol. Keep up the fight CD and don’t be discouraged by FA. I look forward to more fights with you guys in the future.
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Yeah, if I were anet I’d be trumpeting this to the heavens. The zerg-crippling lag is just… gone.
Not true. Last night everytime we came against Fort Aspenblob our skills would lock up. It only got worse as the night went on. The problem was gone for a little while, I will agree there, but not entirely.
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WvW hacks? Where do we start?
Cross profession skills hack (eg. Elementalist who uses death shroud, warr who uses ele skills.)
Saw that today, an SOS warrior (had two warrior signets showing) using Mist Form.
That’s nothing, I got feared off a cliff by a thief from SoS. Since when can thieves use fear? There was no one else around except him. Also saw a necro yesterday who could use mesmer’s blink.
It’s possible the "steal’ you saw was another gap closer. Thieves can get fear from necros pretty reliably, and are smart to sit on it while roaming, especially near cliffs. Not saying he wasn’t hacking, but good chance it was just misidentified skill usage. As for the necro “blink” as you claimed it, if they put flesh wurm up somewhere, even if it is out of range, they can teleport back to the flesh wurm by destroying it. If it’s out of range though they won’t go all the way to it but it will appear to be a “blink”. A smart necro will also know how to use Dark path on a bunny or other ambient mob to get a free teleport away without going into combat.
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You do know you can upgrade to the deluxe edition with game gold by buying gems right? There’s no need to QQ about “things being pushed on you when you don’t want them”. Simply save up the gold and buy it if it bothers you that much.
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Another necro or a zerker thief that melts like butter in the desert sun in a few hits.
If you wanna get into specifics about the necro fights I’ll break it down as I have experienced it in WvW (don’t have too much experience fighting other necros in spvp because I usually don’t see many of them and when I do they aren’t after my point)
Condi necro > MM nero
MM necro > power and/or wells necro
MM necro > or = hybrid
Hybrid < Condi (some of the time)
Condi = Condi if player skill level is equal. It all comes down to who broke under pressure and used their condi clear first
Breaking down into specifics even further:
MM > or = Dhuumfire builds but > terror builds (in my experience)
Dhuumfire > power/wells
Hybrid > or = Dhuumfire if played well
Terror > power
Maybe I missed some but those are the ones I commonly encounter, and again these are from my personal experience in WvW against other necros. I will say though I ran into a roaming DS based type build the other day that was pretty hard to take down. I almost didn’t make it. I tried to party them to ask about it but I think they assumed I was going to troll them and left, oh well. As for other classes, while rangers, mesmers, ect can be taken down, their escapes usually get them away before I can do it. They know I can’t chase them or force them to stay there so they don’t bother trying to fight it out with me.
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I wasn’t at all impressed by that video. Yeah GW2 could use a few more options, but it’s easy to provide as much minor tweaking that APB has when you only have 1 race (read:base creature model). And some of those options were childish and ridiculous at best….hearts for pupils..really? I think all things considering, we have a lot of customization in GW2. There could stand to be a few new hairstyles available without the use of the gemstore, but beyond that, the amount of tweaking we cna do already is pretty good. The only race lacking strong customization would be the charr. But when it comes to visuals, they always get the short end of the stick anyway.
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As one of the least used sigils in the game, sigil of demon summoning needs the restrictions on it removed for PvE, WvW. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about:
After you spend the time building up 26 charges to summon the fleshreaver for a measley 60 seconds, and the thing dies or expires, the sigil is now 100% useless until you get downed, die, or rezone. While this is ok for other chargeable sigils, it’s not ok for a summoning one. Building 26 charges isn’t exactly instantaneous, even in large groups of mobs. To add to that, it only lasts 60 seconds (if not killed first, and they do die fairly easily).
This is what makes this sigil such a poor choice. I can understand the need to limit it in some fashion, but adding an ICD would solve that problem. Something like “cannot resummon for 60 seconds after the fleshreaver expires”. I hope someone on the team looks into this. Thanks for reading.
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If you haven’t noticed yet, the 1 handed weapon scaling was fixed not too long ago..
so, there’s hope!
Sadly my FDS still shrinks when I sheath it
It actually does that on all races, and may be intended for the sword itself. It’s just not as noticeable on the other races. You can see it sometimes on norn.
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I’ve gotten Rox at least 7 times so far. Always love fighting with her. I don’t mind fighting with Braham either, but don’t particularly care for fighting with the humans. They usually spend most of the fight dead anyway.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
Actually considering the aggressive way necros fight and that they take tons of punishment while in battle because of their attrition design, Blood works well for them as well as Ash. It’s really personal preference, but they fit quite nicely into Blood Legion.
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Why are drop rates so awful low on crystalline dust? I honestly get more ectos than dust… Just the other day I got 6 glacial lodestones, but after a solid day of farming bags, chests, everything I could find…..not a single drop of dust.
I have 10 total in my bank right now. What’s going on with this stuff? There’s no way it’s intentionally this hard to get. I must be missing something…
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So once Scarlet is defeated, what will become of watchwork sprockets? They’re used in crafting quite a few things and since we didn’t get a node in our home like the other LS stuff for them, will they just go away, or will there still be lingering clockwork enemies?
I guess my main point and concern is, should I be stockpiling them now in case they go away for good?
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
I would imagine they planned for this, it’s most likely a very very slow process, as in each contribution contributes only a fraction of completion. I, for one am thrilled at this! This is the kind of meaningful changes to the world we’ve been looking for. I still think the bounds can be pushed even further, but this is a good start.
I’m sure if players start spam zerging it down too fast they can hot patch an adjustment to it so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
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This has been an ongoing problem for me for months now. In fact I’m sitting looking at the loading screen for Hoelbrak for coming up on 5 minutes now. It’s not just loading times either, massive skill lag, sometimes in the realm of 20 seconds before activation, location porting of myself and other players while moving around, and inventory lag. BLTC doesn’t seem affected (but pretty sure it’s run on a separate server anyway). Occasionally I’ll get an error code of 7:11:3:191:101 which I’m pretty sure is a routing issue. Only happens on this game and I too can ping anywhere in the world and get 0 packet loss and a maximum of 69-79 ms at any given location. About the only thing I can reliably do anymore is wander around killing ambient creatures…. The problem with me sending in yet another network diag file is that this only happens on my EU account, my NA one isn’t affected and I don’t know of any way to test how it’s routed only for when I use the EU one.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
Unless we get to see stealthed enemies while we’re in DS show up as green outlines in a “spectral” sense then I don’t wanna have anything to do with this.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
Still have the same problem I’ve had for months. Extremely long skill activation lag and latency lag. I’m living in the US playing on EU servers. Today alone I got disconnected 8 times within an hour. I have posted my network diag several times in these threads. I also have run a pingtest.net traceroute to a server in Frankfurt, (where I was under the impression the Anet Eu servers are located) and had zero packet loss over 20 tests and average 120ms ping with 2 ms jitter tops. So if my connection is that stable why am I still getting disconnected and lagging constantly?
I would also like to note that I do have an NA account and I don’t have these issues at all. No lag, no long skill activation lag, no high latency ping. What else can I be doing to provide info about this problem? It’s been months now and no fix. I can’t actually do any real playing of the game other than mild farming, because I never know when the game will kick me out or cause my death or my team’s death due to skill lag.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
this still applies btw ^ there’s still no incentives (other than some miniscule wvw point increase) to make you actually want to escort dolyaks. it only takes someone with ranged damage to waste them in a matter of seconds, and then they can just scurry off and you have wasted a good 5 minutes of your time (if it was one of the long runs) for absolutely no reason. There’s no benefical buffs you can do to make sure those paper armored dolyaks make it to their destination.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
You saw me saying it has been this way for months right? I can get about 10 solid mins of playtime in and then it’s skill lagg from hell. by the time the lag catches up, I’m either: dead or missed the whole fight entirely. (Or just plain D/C so then I load back in dead with a repair bill). This has been going on for months and I feel like they just don’t take it seriously. I have submitted all the data I can possibly submit and that they asked for…I’ve even contacted my cable company and paid an unreasonable amount of money to have them come out and test my lines and connection to their servers. Nothing. I really don’t know what to do from this point on
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I hate to say it, but your card may already be fried and it’s just limping along. Those temps you posted aren’t in danger levels, in fact they’re pretty close to what I see all day. But I have a suspicion that having run it hot for so long you might hae already fused a few circuit paths in the processor core of the gpu and/or memory of the card. Since they are not stand alone units like a motherboard processor, but instead are soldered in as circuit components, heat affects them very quickly. There’s not really much I know to tell you to do, I know there are hardware stress test apps out there, but idk if they can test vid cards specifically, but you can look.
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It’s been doing this to me for months and still no fix. In fact here’s tonight’s latest fiasco. Btw it doesn’t do this to me when I play on NA servers, only on EU…. tonight it was a different error message than the usual though
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Up till the last boss, the dungeon was creative and fun, but Mai was nothing resembling fun. And yeah like most said, it was really the cannons that did it in. I didn’t mind having to trick her into getting her own shield blasted off, I found that kinda funny. However, the rat race around the room dodging spammed cannon blasts for a inappropriate amount of time was just bad, boring, and plain out anti-fun. The reason anyone ever died on it wasn’t that it was too hard, it was just too tedious, and when you drag out pointless parts of a fight like that people get fatigued and lose focus, at that point fun went out the window and jumped a bus to south america. I say this a million times over: fun and challenging is not defined by 1 shot mechanics, excessive endurance fights, or endless high hp trash mobs . Leave those things out of a dungeon and put in clever mechanics similar to the laser golems, or heck even the molten dungeon in it’s entirety, and you have yourself a fun dungeon. Just go back and read the feedback over the last few months. Speaks for itself.
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That is a good point. I’m on win 7 × 64. I do still have an old XP system laying around but it can barely play the game due to old outdated hardware so unfortunately I doubt I can give an accurate test
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I’ve been crashing repeatedly as well. I don’t get any error messages except that “the game lost connection to the servers, please try again later”.
All other devices in my house that use my network and internet work just fine and I can also continue to stream music on my own machine if I happen to be doing it at the time, so I doubt it’s my own connection. This has been happening for the past week. Also experience high latency lag during gameplay (usually, but not always, followed by disconnects)
ATI coolers are notoriously inefficient, get an upgraded aftermarket cooler and I’m betting your problem will go away. Also might want to install a fan control app and manually adjust the fan while you play (some apps allow you to set a profile to do it automatically when you start the game)
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When tagging veteran karkas for the kill credit, if you don’t do massive damage on both parts of it’s death (armor death then real death) you get zero credit, also you cannot rally off of death #2 even though you might not have used a rally on death #1 and if you’re downed when it dies regardless of how much damage you did, you don’t get credit for the kill. I confirmed this multiple times and am able to repeat it fairly easily. This seems to be mainly a karka problem, haven’t had this issue with any other mobs on the island yet and have done far less damage on some of them because they die so fast and yet still got full credit for it.
It’s happened to me once on necro, but after that never again. Haven’t seen it personally on other classes but people in my party were complaining about it, mostly on eles and engineers.
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If your gpu is running at 70’s you might want to invest in a better cooler for it. On max settings mine never gets over 62-65 but I usually run it on medium because I don’t really want to work my card so hard and it never gets over 55. Just because 70’s isn’t a critical temp doesn’t mean your card is gonna be happy with it. Start with lowering the gpu temp first and see if it fixes it. The fact you said it only occurs when they heat up points to a heat issue. If it was another hardware or software issue it would most likely do it all the time.
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I’d like to see the PvP Locker, concerning gear, be like how Sigils and Runes act. When “extracting” a Rune or Sigil out of the PvP Locker, the item is duplicated into your bags. Why have the hassle of having multiples of the same piece of gear when we could just have it act as a reusable skin? I don’t see many downsides to this and it’ll make gearing alts much less stressful. No more juggling around extra sets of gear that you want for your alts but don’t have the quick convenience of PvP Locker to store your goods.
=)
I like this idea, +1
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So why is there such a high reward and low risk for taking out caravans? Most people don’t even think about going after them specifically. If you’re close, you swing by, take 15 seconds out of your time, melt the caravan (guards or not, any braindead monkey can smash their face on the keyboard and kill the caravan) and go about your merry way. There is no risk vs reward it’s all reward. Now for those people trying to escort or defend the caravans: You can’t really speed boost them, yes they go a tiny bit faster, but overall it has no effect. Any protections you put on them are wasted because the NPC’s die so fast anyway, and in the end, it boils down to you just trying to keep yourself alive and no longer able to keep those flimsy caravan members alive. So on the defender side, there is an extremely low reward (sometimes no reward at all, even if you escort them from the very beginning, not sure if it’s a bug or not) and extremely high risk for a significant amount of wasted time that could have been spent better elsewhere. If the speed boosts actually had an effect and the NPC’s didn’t have such low health, or low armor, whichever it is that makes them so squishy, then it might be worth trying to defend them. Then the defenders might have a chance but they could still be easily taken out by a small team if there were no defenders. I know they shouldn’t be walking tanks, but as they are now it’s like trying to sail a paper boat in a maelstrom.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
I use it in my DS build and I enjoy it, but I only use it because I happened to be going 15 in that line anyway, and the 5 points were best spent there than anywhere else. I’m not sure its worth 20 points any other time though.
Yeah I can see if you’re going a full on DS or spectral build, but if you want any flexibility at all-and let’s not kid ourselves, there’s many places a full DS or spectral build just don’t work well- you have no room to change it around because it kind of boxes you in to one or two viable builds. Maybe I’m missing something here, but so far it seems more a snag to my builds than a help.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
Am I the only one that thinks Spectral Attunement either needs to be moved to the 10 point trait skill, or to another line entirely? It seems to out of place there and makes it so very hard to work into builds unless you’re going glass cannon. If it were in the 10 slot it could very easily work perfectly with a DS based or spectral based build, but at 20 it’s far too limiting, in my opinion anyway. Anyone else feel the same? I love the trait, just think it needs to be moved to be more streamline.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
I just heard from a legitimate source that it’s Kilroy Stonekin, back from the dead. He already punched his way through all his foes, everything in the afterlife too, and now he’s come back to knuckle sandwich our noggins into peanut butter taffy just for kicks. I for one welcome a good fist full of whoopazz even if it is aimed at my swollen melon.
“Come to me and die you stinking whoresons. For I am Druss, and This is Death!”
Gaheron Baelfire comes back in the form of a possessed dredge kit (or w/e their little puke filled spawn are called) and follows you around like kid Gwen did in GW1, except he randomly trolls you and thwarts your fights by doing his little “charge/kd/immobilize” attack on you right when you’re about to heal.
You can thank me later for this leaked information
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