Guild Wars 2

They should definitely raise the drop rates on lodestones + cores.

Aylpse.6280:

Randulf.7614:

The last dragon may be a forest dragon. Deer frolick in forests…
Doomed!!

It is true. Trahearne has studied these hooved monstrosities all his life.

Yes, but Trahearne has studied everything all his life – even ballet.

In one on one fights, I have seen deer kill everything from bears to Risen. They are clearly a threat to Tyria and might even be Dragon minions – for that is the only way they can solo other corrupted creatures so easily.

I for one will not bow down to our hooven overlords.

DesertRose.2031:

Nilgoow.1037:

Is it true that the damage was due to the bouncing bug that, most notoriously, affected Blade Trail as well?

The insane damage numbers you could get on Bladetrail and sometimes Kill Shot were caused by the Warrior’s trait [Berserker’s Power] which gave its bonus damage to some skills multiple times. I’ve never heard of a Thief trait or skill that had the same flawed behavior as [Berserker’s Power].

Dancing Dagger was nerfed because it was OP in Xv2 fights where it hit both opponents twice, dealing more damage against both foes than Heartseeker or C&D plus Backstab could do against one of them.
However there might have been a more elegant ways to nerf the skill, e.g. by not allowing it to bounce back to a foe it previously hit; then it would deal as much damage against 1 and 4+ foes as it did before but the ridiculous damage against 2 foes would have been halved.

Coming from a moba player, bouncing projectiles that work best against 2 targets are NOT overpowered. They are simply a situational tool that punishes the opposing team for being stupid.

No Walking.6349:

Sylvari can’t be corrupted. Figured being so eager to write about the lore, you would study it a little better

That was an oversight. Exam week must have gotten to me.

Ayrilana.1396:

Not really. It’s pretty easy and only takes a matter of minutes to finish. You should try that stealth one in Blazeridge. That was the most annoying one.

Don’t remind me.

Maligne.6182:

I’d rather find out the various Order mentors managed to survive. I don’t care which or whose orifice the story is pulled from; I want it to happen.

No character can make me genuinely smile and yearn to choke her to death the way Sieran can.

I hear you, bro. I miss Forgal, but it would take one hell of a Deus Ex Machina to bring him back, and it would really cheapen his sacrifice.

The problem isn’t that they killed lovable characters – it’s that they didn’t give us new lovable characters to fill the void. Furthermore, they didn’t even mourn the passing of our mentors significantly enough.

Awesome.6120:

Twilight is better than Sunrise so Eternity is a big fat waste imo. Give me a Quip video any day.

I disagree. I find the dark particles of Twilight to be rather ugly compared to the lighter, more painterly effects of Sunrise.

Hello, everyone. As an aspiring young writer, I am interested in seeing the story of my favorite game expand and evolve into something better and more interesting. As such, I would like to bring forth my idea for the future of the Pact.

Trahearne has died

It was a great blow to the Pact when insert next campaign’s dragon here launched an ambush on the Marshall. He was corrupted and inevitably slain by his second in command (the player character). The Pact crumbled under the blow. Each Order blamed each other (and themselves) for his death and separated, leaving Tyria vulnerable.

The Orders Re-visited

Your job, Commander insert your name, is to re-unite the Pact, starting with your own Order. You will inspire new recruits, sway dissenters, go on dangerous missions, and save the other Orders from certain demise, solidifying yourself as a leader that all Orders view as one of their own. You will become the new Marshall.

But you won’t do it alone

You will need a partner. You will need an equal to replace the one you lost on Claw Island. They will fight for you as you set forth to re-unite Tyria against the dragons, eventually becoming your second-in-command.

For the Vigil

Your partner will be Dougal Keane, the hero of the Ghosts of Ascalon novel. Without him, there would be no peace between the humans and the charr. In other words, he is canonically the 2nd most important character in the Guild Wars 2 universe, behind Trahearne (the 3rd most if you count your player character).

Dire times have forced Dougal out of retirement and, as such, he brings his sword, his talents as a Thief, and copious amounts of wit and knowledge to your service.

His new role as your partner will increase continuity between Guild Wars 2 and its Ghosts of Ascalon novel. It will also make good use of a character who is criminally under-employed at the current time.

For the Order of Whispers

Your partner will be Demmi Beetlestone. She is not the same helpless young woman that she was when she was saved from pirates and the Ministry Guard by you and Tybalt. Through the Order, she has blossomed into an intelligent and capable Agent who is eager to impress and work with her savior.

Her position as your partner will increase continuity within your own personal story and allow you to see the positive consequences of your own actions.

For the Priory

Your partner will be Ogden Stonehealer. He is the last known remaining Dwarf (and one of the oldest beings on Tyria). He was one of the heroes who defeated the Great Destroyer in 1078 AE. With the ancient healing arts of a Monk, supplemented with the new innovations of Guardian magic, he will prove to be a valuable ally.

His position as your partner will increase continuity between Guild Wars 2 and Guild Wars 1, even allowing for an easy way for Arenanet to introduce non-GW1 players to GW1 events and/or introduce new lore and events that occurred between games.

Guardians, Thieves, and Elementalists would very much love to have this combo in PvE.

I’m tired of Orr being dead. Tired of all of the temples always being contested and never being able to trade in my karma for obsidian shards. Of always being Red in WvW because we just happen to be one of the smallest servers in the game.

In other words, Ferguson’s Crossing simply isn’t cutting it for me. Guild Wars 2 was designed from the ground up to be played with groups – which means that a lower population server will feel even more dead than an equivalent server in any other game.

Where can I go for more activity? I want a server that is able and willing to capture temples, especially Balthazar. A server where world completion isn’t a chore and Orr isn’t a case of “me against the world.”

Any recommendations?

Even mobs don’t care about the Ranger.

Grimwolf.7163:

I don’t know why they nerfed it at all; wasn’t a large part of the heavy damage it dealt caused by that multi-hit damage multiplying bug, which they fixed in the same patch?
The same thing that was giving Blade Trail and Kill Shot such ridiculous damage, because every time they hit someone the next person would take 2 hits worth of damage, then 3 and so on with each person hit.

Yeah, it was pretty much a nerf within a nerf.

The separation between PvP and PvE exists for a reason – so that skills that are relatively balanced in PvE and overpowered in PvP can be nerfed in one side and not the other. Why then was Dancing Daggers (skill 4 on the off-hand Dagger) HALVED in strength in all formats?

This makes the S/D set even more useless and severely cripples S/D, P/D, and D/D Thieves in PvE. The skill was one of the few great skills in a PvE Thief’s arsenal.

Can you please revert the nerf for PvE, Arenanet?

NaturalPortman.9562:

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Personally, I think OH Dagger is one of the best compliments to MH axe. It’s 4th skill helps you close the gap to immediately hit a foe with all 5 axes on your 2 skill. The cripple and frozen chains are also great to prevent the foe’s escape.

how does #4 close the gap??? Not sure if I’m correct here but I thought it has nothing special other than it returning back to you. Personally I think axe4 should work like chieftans axe throw, then I might actually consider using it.

DAGGER, not Axe. Off-Hand Axe seems better suited to a MH sword.

Personally, I think OH Dagger is one of the best compliments to MH axe. It’s 4th skill helps you close the gap to immediately hit a foe with all 5 axes on your 2 skill. The cripple and frozen chains are also great to prevent the foe’s escape.

Division.9618:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Telegraph.7509:

If you trait the off-hand training trait, path of scars gets about a 75% boost in damage. I can hit the heavy golem in the mists for about 1.8k without crits if it hits both ways.

the stupid thing about that trait is that axe main hand is ALL condition, it makes no sense to pair axe with axe.

It’s not really all condition. It’s stuck in the same undecided hole as the greatsword. It has one attack that relies heavily on bleed, but that’s the only condition damage it has, so you never really know how you’re supposed to spec with it.

OT: Personally i love how whirling defense looks. It’s probably the coolest looking skill in the game. My suggestion would be to give it a chance to block. Give us our own more defensive 100b.

The problem with Whirling Defense is that it’s a kittenedly long channel – double the length of similar skills. Even with a pet-swap Quickness combo, it’s still a kittenedly long channel. It simply will not be a viable skill until it is either A) Mobile or Condensed into a shorter channel time.

Also, with its current numbers, I found that I was consistently dealing more damage with Quickness MH sword autos than Quickness Whirling Defense. This really shouldn’t be the case.

NaturalPortman.9562:

Telegraph.7509:

If you trait the off-hand training trait, path of scars gets about a 75% boost in damage. I can hit the heavy golem in the mists for about 1.8k without crits if it hits both ways.

the stupid thing about that trait is that axe main hand is ALL condition, it makes no sense to pair axe with axe.

Main-hand Axe has ONE condition-inflicting skill and it isn’t even particularly good, quite frankly. Sure, the auto-attack sucks too. But that’s the thing – the only reason to take the MH axe is for the Off-hands, most of which are solid.

Pendleton.6385:

Seetoo.9316:

Total face palm when I noticed that spirits receive the buffs as well.

By default, a ranger counts as 2 bodies at least (you + pet). That means you can only give out spirit buffs to 3 other targets. Call out 1 spirit then your ranger counts for 3 bodies (you + pet + 1 spirit) with only 2 other targets to buff. Call out another spirit and your ranger now counts for 4 bodies (you + pet + 2 spirits) with only 1 other target to buff. See the pattern?

I read somewhere that spirit users tend to use ax/horn since your job is that of a buffer. Guess what, your spirits will eat up those buffs essentially wasting them.

So, basically, if I have out three spirits … my pet, 3 spirits, and my character will keep the rest of the group from getting any buffs?

Is this a bug or was it on purpose? Wow, that is so bad it’s almost funny. I hope this gets fixed if it’s a bug.

Are there many lvl 80’s running a spirit build? I would love to but I hear it’s not practical due to their health and so forth … especially if this is true about the buffs.

The elite spirit is the only one I’ve found to have practical applications in PvE – namely for it’s active ally revive. It can allow Ranger players to solo group events that have plentiful npc’s around.

kokocabana.8153:

I think the hammer for engineers is a great idea. There would finally be something to use with bombs which is essentially an exploding melee weapon. I hate using bombs right now because everything else I use is ranged

Bombs are also a pretty good kiting weapon. You run while planting bombs to hit your pursuers.

You know you want them. The ability to swing the most aesthetically-pleasing weapons in the game with fluid, one and two-handed Swordmaster motions.

This weapon would emphasize rapid auto-attack damage, freeing up initiative to spend on utility 2-5 skills such as a stealthing gap-closer (that costs 6 initiative), a backwards leap that evades attacks, and a skill that imbues the Thief with protection and swiftness (2 boons that currently lack an on-demand source for them).

I was thinking that the stealth skill could be a large AoE cleave that also bestows Aegis onto the Thief and nearby allies.

In other words, this would be a dps, support, and tanking weapon, rather than a burst one, and fill in some niches the Thief currently doesn’t have covered. And well… it’s a Greatsword. If Arenanet is going to give GS’s the best skins and legendaries, everyone should be able to enjoy one.

Dahkeus.8243:

The spear is fine. Hitboxes and underwater combat as melee is what needs to be fixed, lol.

Maybe you’re right on that regard. That’s still a very strange thing to nitpick, though.

It’s no great secret that the Ranger class could use a little help right now. We’re held back by the very mechanics that we’re supposed to be aided by.

As I see it, these are the changes that should EVENTUALLY be looked at. Don’t get me wrong. Every profession has a long list of issues, so we can’t expect to see a whole lot of these any time soon, but Guild Wars 2 hopefully has a long life ahead of it.

Traits

The Marksmanship line as a whole needs work. The minors are borderline worthless on a Ranger as they imply a burst role – in other words, they are misplaced Thief traits. Opening Strike is really only useful in short fights, such as those in open world PvE. They fall off quickly against decent players and bosses. The majors are largely lackluster as well, considering they emphasize Signets – which need work.

Trap traits need to be moved from Skirmishing to Wilderness Survival. Feel free to change the name of Survival utilities and move them to Skirmishing in return. It simply makes no sense for a condition damage utility to be in the critical line. In addition, the Grandmasters need work (Moment of Clarity), The

Axe trait needs buffing – add some Cooldown reduction to it or something. Even better – why not make the trait Precision + Prowess in reasonably generous numbers?

Sharpened Edges and Companion’s Might both suck. Sharpened Edges inflicts too little bleeding to be relevant and Companion’s Might gives such a short Might duration that it is impossible to stack to any significant number.

Wilderness Survival is borderline perfect as is.

Nature Magic sucks because spirits suck. Combine the spirit-based traits more – such that we have 2 large spirit traits, as opposed to 4 small ones. Use the additional room to add in non-spirit traits.

Beast Mastery majors need improvements or outright reworks.

Pets

Improve their attack animation. The easiest fix would probably be to have them leap into every attack, much like the Ranger’s Sword auto-attack. In other words, make them difficult to kite. Adjust their damage accordingly.

Separate their stats between PvP and PvE. Use the resulting opportunity to beef them up for PvE and WvW, where they need it the most.

Utilities

Increase spirit health drastically and improve their traits.

Move Traps from Skirmishing to Wilderness Survival.

Rename Survival skills and move them to Skirmishing with improved trait support.

Improve shouts and trait support.

Improve signets. Combine traits.

Weapons

Buff damage of all weapon types, especially MH axe, Greatsword, and Longbow.

Fix the Sword rooting mechanic on the auto-attack.

Drastically improve under-water Spear. It’s really bad in its current state.

FIX OBSTRUCTION BUGS.

Give us more options for Direct Damage builds. Longbow is currently our only Direct Damage focused weapon (all others being hybrid weapons) and it blows.

Vlejundo.6271:

If reliability is the sole factor here, I would advise selling the rares as your backup. They are in pretty high demand and you can guarantee the gold of about 1 ecto per rare. Buying BL kits with gems involves either A) Spending real money or Buying gems with gold at their new high price, heavily cutting into any profit you’d make by salvaging the rares in the first place. As for Master’s Kits…. 25% just doesn’t cut it.

Using master salvage kits, I’ve been averaging 0.8 ectos/rare over the last 100 something salvages. With most rares selling for 22-25 silver and ectos selling for 30+s, salvaging rares ends up being more profitable than selling rares directly.

Magic Find gear?

Nile.9563:

so if getting BL kits from dailies isnt reliable enough, then i go back to my original post and question. What do you guys do

If reliability is the sole factor here, I would advise selling the rares as your backup. They are in pretty high demand and you can guarantee the gold of about 1 ecto per rare. Buying BL kits with gems involves either A) Spending real money or Buying gems with gold at their new high price, heavily cutting into any profit you’d make by salvaging the rares in the first place. As for Master’s Kits…. 25% just doesn’t cut it.

Isslair.4908:

Is this a recent change?

I’ve never gotten a bl kit for daily =\

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily

From my experience? Probably about once a week. It’s really random, of course, but that shouldn’t make a difference unless you earn a LOT of rare items.

Hoard your rares on alts + bank and keep doing dailies until you get a BL kit from that.

I get a relatively reliable supply of them from dailies.

THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!

Deified.7520:

Ever since release it seems Anet has shown favoritism to classes in all aspects. Not just the attention they pay to them, but items also. Now playing mostly as an engineer I’ve always felt left out. They have yet to (though they say are) make us up to par when compared to other classes. But it is not just the gameplay that I feel that they are paying favoritism it is also the following.

1. Armor. Have you seen heavy armored compared to the rest? The level of detail and pure coolness of it was amazing. It seemd to me that they spent a lot more time creating the armors for them and making each unique. When looking at Medium armor they all seem to be very…lame. Don’t get me wrong, they are some really cool ones. But here is when the other problem arises, the armor seems to go with speicific classes. Most of the medium armor looks like it should be with a ranger (Such as the WvW armor, Arah armor, etc), then the other half seem to go great with thiefs (just about all the starting armor, commando, whipser, etc) while engineers get the dredge armor.

I have to disagree on armor completely. In my opinion, about 90% of heavy armor looks mediocre or outright terrible, with a few great looking sets inbetween (CoF, Vigil, Priory, Arah, Koda, some cultural armors) that tend to be popular. Medium armor, while lacking in diversity, usually looks fantastic. Just off the top of my head: Stalwart, Whispers, CoF, Conquest, many cultural armors, Noble, Rogue armor, the skin used by named sets, etc. all look great.

Dear Toymaker Tixx,

I’ve been a good Sylvari this year. I led the pact, let Trahearne have credit for everything, and shoved a war blimp up Zhaitan’s kitten

For Wintersday, I would like:

My personal story back.
Bug, trait, and balance fixes for all professions, but especially Rangers, Necromancers, and Elementalists.
An increase in the supply of T6 mats and ectoplasms in our economy.
An epic quest line to get pre-cursors.
Tengu and Largos to join us.
Gairwen and Caithe.

Sincerely,
Aidan Blackrose, who DID simply wake up and go fight a dragon.

The Mystic Forge doesn’t seem to want to accept the recipe the wiki has listed (1 vicious fang, 5 crystalline dust, 50 large fangs, 5 philo stones).

Was the recipe changed or removed?

Sera.6539:

Greatswords for Necromancer. Maybe even all classes. If I can use Saladbolg during Sylvari story, and Trahearne (a Necromancer) can use it later, why isn’t it for all? Not to mention ANet seems to love greatswords, let everyone experience it.

Yeah, every profession has animations for the Greatsword already, so I see no plausible reason to not give the most aesthetically-impressive weapon (in regards to legendaries and skin choices) to every profession.

It was just lighting, though it was very strange that the effect showed even with the lights turned off in character creation.

Come to think of it, I’d love to see floating orbs (such as those seen on PW magic classes) as a main-hand for Elementalists, Mesmers, Necromancers, and Guardians.

cargan.5689:

Guardians can already do every thing with the weapons they have, they dont need more
.

False. Guardians do not have a single condition-damage oriented Main Hand or 2h weapon. Condition damage Guardians have to rely solely on burning and sigils.

I would propose the MH axe as a bleed-stacking weapon in the Guardian’s arsenal.

While a dungeon finder can reduce interaction, increase anonymity, and hurt the community overall, a system that merely advertises your character for all to see would be relatively harmless (so long as you leave gear out of the preview).

Basically, it would just be a board where you apply for a certain dungeon or even multiple dungeons at once. Potential parties would see your name, your level, and your profession – and nothing else.

This would help to alleviate /map spam and make finding groups easier while keeping a level of basic social interaction. Because joining is not anonymous, it would not encourage toxic behavior like an automatic dungeon finder might.

Guild Wars 1 had a similar system. It was basic and didn’t filter out different types of messages well enough (it combined LFG functions with trade functions, making it difficult to sift through). The lack of direct player trading in this game should make the search board more accessible should you decide to include it.

Who would get what weapon?

I would give:

Torches to Warriors
Axes to Guardians
Rifles to Rangers
Hammers to Engineers
Greatswords to Thieves (wielding in the style of Fire Emblem Swordmasters)
Greatswords to Necromancers
Torches to Elementalists (as both a MH and an Off-Hand)
Main-hand Pistols to Mesmers.

They need a melee option that isn’t a kit. I’d like to see a Hammer Engineer. It makes sense thematically and would add in a third Hammer-wielding profession.

There are players that WANT stats and gear-grinding to feel a sense of accomplishment and purpose in this game, and then there are players who do not want this and would prefer a cosmetic grind. To the latter crowd – the horizontal progression crowd, if you will – the release of ascended gear felt like a betrayal of everything Guild Wars 2 stood for.

My suggestion is simple. Remove the offensive/defensive/etc. infusions that can make a large difference in gear stats. Replace them with a few new infusion options:

“Magic Find Infusion”
Increases magic find by x%.

“Gold Find Infusion”
All enemies are guaranteed to drop at least x gold. If they would have dropped gold regardless, add the minimum gold to the number.

“Karma Boost Infusion”
Increases karma gains by x%.

“Experience Boost Infusion”
Boosts experience gains by x%.

“Gathering Boost Infusion”
Increases chance to gather extra materials.

With this change, Ascended Gear will offer a sort of “advantage” to players that own it without affecting stats.

Shadowlancer.7102:

The reason why NPCs die quickly is so players cannot afk while NPCs do all the work.

This can be abused by Bots for easy quick loot, easy experience, and all they had to do is leave the instance before the personal story is complete.

This thread has no purpose.

Not if you make them do next to no damage.

If it took Destiny’s Edge npc’s like 3 hours to kill a boss, then there would be no purpose in abusing them.

Seriously, this is your A-team? They all die extremely quickly in dungeons – often being defeated in regular trash fights.

Just give Destiny’s Edge members “Determined” invulnerability and reduce their damage to a pathetic number so that we can at least pretend to be fighting alongside Tyria’s “greatest heroes.”

Those Who Remain.1987:

I can’t say I have seen that much skills that are ‘OP’. It is far from a huge flaw, but could be addressed if there are some unpredictable, too strong spells.

I honestly think you are overreacting a bit.

Let me ask you this – have you ever fought the Krait Witch in the level 1-15 Sylvari area? You know. The one that two shots people with a ranged auto-attack? Or insta-gibs multiple players with an instantaneous no-telegraph version of Lieutenant Kholer’s pull?

This kind of cheap design is prevalent in a lot of PvE bosses. Too many of them – instead of having challenging and/or interesting mechanics like a GOOD boss fight – rely on being overpowered forms of regular mobs.

Dustfinger.9510:

Pattern color, maybe?

Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Tried it. :/

It’s also affecting the hair. I can’t seem to give a Sylvari necromancer black hair. It comes out as dark green instead – midnight ice and midnight fire do the same.

Zeefa.3915:

Profession should not affect the look of your character (other than wether you can wear light, medium or heavy armor) so no idea what it is you are talking about.

http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt39/Chris_Lionheart/Necrosylvari-badgreen.jpg

http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt39/Chris_Lionheart/mesmersylvari-normal.jpg

Notice the difference? Sylvari Necromancers have a very ugly, pronounced green secondary color, whereas Mesmers have a barely-noticeable purple that blends right in.

For certain professions (such as Necromancer) the default uses these awful green tinges around the eyes and lips that I can’t seem to get rid of. It means that if I DON’T want to use the generic green skin, then I’m locked into the few faces that don’t show the green lips + eye details.

Any clues? I’ve tried just about everything.

Sure, you can nerf Mesmers a bit. If you compensate them with buffs to their lacking areas (Torches, many utility skills, no swiftness outside of the Focus, which has a really bad Phantasm, etc.)

Frankly, Arenanet needs to stop nerfing professions and start fixing traits and underpowered weapon sets and mechanics in general. We NEED more viable build paths on every profession. Period.

There is no reason why AC explorable should instantly invalidate builds and entire professions just because of the way burrows mechanically work:

1) There is no reason why condition damage should be unviable ANYWHERE. AC is no exception.

2) There is no reason why damage should be the only important factor in a dungeon. AC paths 1 and 3 are both races against the clock. If you don’t have high damage professions, you are at a significant disadvantage.

3) There is no reason why players should randomly “miss” burrows. The thing didn’t move. You’re aiming right at it. So why did you miss? Hell if I know.

4) There is no reason why the dungeon should be explicitly designed to be a Mesmer’s worst nightmare. Enjoy having little AoE, save for those phantasms that die instantly from the dozens of graveling hatchlings that can spawn.

Honestly, I despise this dungeon just for the mechanics behind it.

And then Arah Story Mode comes up and Logan is a good guy again.

Yes:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Sell-Obsidian-Shards-at-all-temples/first#post841508