Guild Wars 2

I’m almost 100% certain there was a level cap increase mentioned in one of the developer interviews.

This is actually a pretty good idea. It keeps servers that can tick +500 overnight from blowing away the other servers, but still leaves that nighttime effort meaning something to the overall score.

Let’s break down the day into 4 “zones” (maybe more). Score is still calculated the same within each zone, but at the “zone tick” the server in first place gets a gold medal, second gets a silver, and third gets a bronze. 5-3-1 points to the overall match win score. This would blunt the +500 effect some servers have, but still mean that people need to compete.

There is a problem though…this system almost guarantees fights for second in some zones. That server with no Oceanic presence will have to do it’s best to fight for second. It also allows the dominant server to play kingmaker, choosing Server #2 to win tonight, Server #3 to win the following night, to maintain point dominance over both. It bears some thought. Maybe 3-2-1 or 2-1-0 points instead….hmm…

where’s Kaineng

I knew Vengeance was good, but I didn’t know it was this good. :O I don’t feel bad at all about someone not looting my body.

One of our guildies is in another guild, and we see her talking to her other guild while she is repping them in our guild chat once in a while. It is weird.

So what I’m hearing is, “Confusion is bad because it keeps me from attacking.” Isn’t that…well…the point? What other tools do we have? There are no long stuns, no long fears, no mesmerize/sleeps. These tools are how you break groups.

Nothing wrong with groups setting up some special dueling spot.

Also nothing wrong with you and your friends coming and wiping them.

That happens enough times and there won’t be anymore dueling.

Tom.6478:

So if you show up at the last second and get one hit in, you have the same chance at rare loot that someone who was there from the start………..that doesn’t seem fair….

From my experience, that’s not usually nearly enough to gain participation credit at all.

I’m going to do something I hate.

I’m going to compare this game to other games.

Back in the good old days that everyone wants to return to, there was a game called Everquest and a class called the (interestingly to this discussion) Necromancer. Necromancers were the masters of debuffing and Damage over Time abilities (sounds kind of familiar). Guess how many Necromancers you wanted in a 72-man raid group?

One. (Maybe two since they could turn their life into mana for the healers).

One Necromancer could, by themselves, easily slap down 9-10 DoTs and debuffs. Add in the other classes wanting their DoTs to work and you might as well forget an extra damage Necro. Why? Because there was a debuff/DoT cap of 32. “Engine limitations!” the developers cried! In a game where you needed 72 people to beat on things, only 32 of their debuffs and DoTs could count.

Eventually, the developers figured out how to get more debuffs in there, though. It took several years….

On to the more modern age. World of Warcraft. How many Affliction Warlocks did it take to fight a boss? Hopefully not many, because until the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, you could only have 40 debuffs/DoT effects on a target. But the developers figured it out.

And now, Guild Wars. How many debuffs can you stack?

Answer: 25 bleeds (all tracked seperately)
That one sword bleed from Warrior’s sword offhand that isn’t a bleed but works like one (Impale?)
25 confusion
Poison
Burning
25 Vulnerability
Weakness
Blind
Chill
Cripple
Fear
Immobilize

For a grand total of 84. And that’s only the ones that have visible icons (that I remember). So, at launch, we have DOUBLE the number of things being tracked to WoW being launched. This is PROGRESS.

Will the developers make it better? They have in other games, why believe they can’t (or won’t) do it here? Keep up the complaints, but don’t be sassy about it.

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

No small guilds with have AoW5

Our guild is lucky to have 10 people on at once on guild nights. AoW5 was the first level 5 we unlocked….

Where are my scaling ladders and siege towers to climb over your walls. Why can’t my trained Raven fly up there and peck you?

It’s not an exploit. You’ve pushed them back to their spawn, what more do you want? Follow them back to their Lion’s Arch and kill them there too? You’ve won.

raptor.1064:

i always see thiefs throw down some item that spouts a tree when they start losing and run away from me, what is this and please remove it

You must be a Ranger. That’s the ability they steal from you. It plants a tree, gives regeneration, and I think removes a condition. Kind of like a gimped Healing Spring.

They do drop from open world mobs, but since launch I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten a grand total of two to drop that way. Of course I don’t use magic find gear either….

How many people on Tarnished Coast are vampires? I hate vampire RPers with a passion, except in settings where there ARE vampires, where I tolerate them and sometimes even join in.

Illusion AI is better because they don’t have AI at all. They are single target abilities. Once their target dies they die.

So the next challenge is JQ having to beat SoR during NA primetime, eh?

We’ll work on that.

Elementals presence are based on whether or not the temple of that god is taken.

Gathering nodes change every time the server resets.

Statues kick in their debuffs if their respective temple isn’t controlled.

All these things change after a server side patch. It’s not a ‘stealth’ fix, this is how it’s been since the game launched. Tighten up those tinfoil hats. :P

Since you aren’t aware of this: Thieves only unstealth when they successfully hit their target. If you dodge or block, they don’t unstealth, although you have made them waste initiative.

Pretty sure if I almost kill a veteran, then get downed and respawn, then someone else comes and kills the veteran, I get the loot, not you. I have seen this on many events.

Demand exceeding supply is not inflation. It is market correction.

Yes, I am absolutely sick of people not knowing what ‘random’ means.

I’m sure ANet will give us an option to turn it off. Just like they added all the UI customization in Guild Wars 1. Oh wait…they didn’t EVER do that.

thor.3904:

Kinda sad that there is no Berserker type of jewelry added.

You can make Berserker jewlery. It’s the Ruby stuff.

This is the source of this weapon, most likely.

Stop being whiny babies about dying to unicorns. :O

I play a ranger who is wearing mostly the cash shop armor with all the bones and fangs on it, with the skull facepiece, and the skull shoulders from the Halloween event. I had wanted an Arachnophobia for him as well but haven’t got around to making one. But when I saw this bow being used….well….

HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE

Since one of the devs spilled the beans that the dailies you see are shown to you based on your computer’s time setting, you could just set your computer to Feb. 1 and check them for yourself. Of course the server is what determines your actual progress on those achievements so you can’t actually do them.

Mackdose.6504:

Open your eyes, you’ll see, your eyes are open.

Wear no disguise for me, come into the open.

Traits don’t exist in a vacuum. That same line includes 33% more duration on all conditions applied by a scepter. Also necromancers have a 66% chance of getting a 1 second bleed on criticals. Making Hemophilia stronger would just make it all too easy to make that a 2 second bleed, meaning larger stacks of bleeding and much higher DPS.

Hmm….actually…that sounds pretty good…:)

Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly

I seen all that too
I seen a peanut stand
And heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye

But I’ve been, done, seen about everything
When I see a ranger pet fly
What you say?
I said when I see a ranger pet fly

But seriously, our pets don’t fly, they just look like they do.

Translating the translation:

I am writing to you because it’s snowing here in Russia. I’m using Google translator. I have played with my guild since release (10 players(I guess?)). At the start, it was said that there were not the standard three archetypes (tank dps and healing) and each profession can be a healer and a tank and DPS, as the player chooses. But in reality, the only way you can play is to DPS.

I love playing healers, those who protect others. I like to play a tank, the one who stands strong through attacks and monitors the battlefield. But here I do not have such opportunities, contrary to the developers statements.

I tried all the profession as a healer, even a thief. The most productive were Engineers and Guardians. But even they are not able to heal the incoming damage received by others with their abilities. Most healing abilities have a range of 600 feet. As a Guardian they also effect only 5 players (shouts for example). How to play my healer, I do not know. I have become uneasy when asking for (party-wide?) healing, but currently there is nothing useful. I rolled over and shouted and used a staff and mace attacks, used aura, everything except dancing with a tambourine. The range of heals is too small and the power is too weak.

As a tank, I found that my armor did nothing against conditions or most regular damage. For example, a shield should increase protection. The amount it increases, at 61 def +90 from skills (for a total of around 150), is not enough. There is a block ability, but I’m sorry, the cooldown is about 30 seconds and blocking last for only 3 seconds. Why does a shield have an attack? Why not put in place more defense? Why not give it a property with a certain chance to block damage? And why, when blocking with a shield, does it works in all directions? Does a warrior’s butt reflect attacks? I am a historian by profession and I do not remember a single battle where a knight bent over and saved his kitten from a blow aimed at him.

Control abilities are strange and weak as well, only working for a very shot time, then on a long cooldown. Now I am against a player being able to lockdown or fear a player forever. But, if the player has decided to play as a controller, give him a chance, let him do his damage but put in a system of diminishing returns (Diminishing returns system is well done in Warhammer Online, for example).

Why not allow a combo field to have tangible protective properties (that last while standing in it), or to give a significant increase in damage?

To go over my main points again, heals being too weak, I can not heal. As a tank, I can not maintain control without dying. But being a DPS I can kill. It’s not fair.

One more request. Do something with the gate to the keeps, they are like cardboard. Yesterday it only took two of us (I and some other guy) to capture the fortress, it is not normal.

My guild (Imperial Guard) focus on pvp. We spent dozens of hours of tests and inspections in attempting to deny that this combat system only has room for DPS, and have now took a break in the game.

Please do not let the game die. Many good games started to fail because of their developers and their unwillingness to compromise.
With respect Anton Alekseev.

Fooo, Quaggans make armor from teeth and skins of enemies. Haven’t you heard quaggan say “Nice teeth” or “What an interesting shell”?

“So my question is, why do people gain the pleasure of killing other players that are trying to complete this puzzle when you like 5 minutes away from completion?”

Because we like it when you die.

You meant Darkened Vine, not Shukov’s Launch Codes. Darkened Vine’s recipe is in Twilight Arbor, somewhere.

1) Awesome! Tixx gave me exactly what I wanted!
2) It was okay. Needed more Grentches.
3) What? There was an event?
4) Wintersday went splat. Giant ANet lied to us.

I am somewhere between 1 and 2, personally.

I’m going to correct you because you are wrong. Traps are awesome, because when they trigger, you know a thief is there.

I’d personally like to see a Golemancer class like the Puppetmasters from FFXI. Basically a class where the pet IS the fighter and all the player does is support and control it’s actions.

Also there is still room for a class that really manipulates boons, stealing them from enemies, reapplying or adding time to current ones, maybe doing the same with conditions, differently than the mesmer or necromancer. This class could wield a big scythe, and I’d call it the dervish…:O

Ritualists are in a sense covered by Engineers in this game, with similar mechanics between turrets and spirits. But I could see a return of this class as well.

Let’s see. It’s 30% chance on critical, right?

So, 30% of the time, you’ll get a might stack, and the other one will go on cooldown as well (all ‘on critical’ sigils trigger each others cooldowns when they go off). 70% of the time, you won’t get a might stack from the first sigil. So, 30% of those times you didn’t get one from the first, you’ll get one from the second.

30% + (30% of 70%) = 51% chance. I think my math is right.

Now, the other way it might work is that it checks both sigils at the same time, in which case it’s still 30%. I’m not sure how this game checks sigils.

Nightmare Armor from Twilight Arbor would look the closest. The vendor for it is in Lion’s Arch.

Syrele: “What am I supposed to do in Orr?”

Risen Subjugator: “Return. Die.”

I love the footsteps in WvW, leads me right to someone who can afford the repair bill.

This attempt at creating a forum meme is just a blatant move by Arenanet to get more people into the cash shop.

You understand WHY there is a downed state, right? It’s because there are no healers. Downed state = someone healing you. If there was no downed state, then there would need to be much better healing implemented. Then the side with more Elementalists/Engineers would win, instead of the current side with more numbers in general wins. If that’s what you call “skill” then so be it.

They are on vacation, or did you miss those posts.

Some fun fights in SoSBL last night. I was running around on my new shouts heal Cleric-geared Warrior, trying to decide if that was viable or not. After fighting for like 5 minutes against 20 SoS with a group of 10 before we all finally fell down, I’m moderately pleased, although I like doing a bit more damage. So when everyone else logged, I switched back my Ranger, and we ran around 3-manning camps for a bit before the rest of JQ left for bigger fights and we were left defending Hills against a big MERC/TSym zerg by ourselves, practically. Just went ahead and jumped off the bridge and logged for the night.

Highlights:
The massive fight at the north supply camp. No way we could take it but it was fun.
Some MERC ranger who wasn’t impressed with my greatsword. He actually stood there and let me hit him (maybe a lag spike?). Very bad mistake. But he was the advance party for the rest of his team so I booked out.

I shoot them with my bow. Sometimes I hit them with a greatsword too.

Kids these days and their questions…:)

But seriously, what are you really asking with “how do I beat a Mesmer?” Are you having trouble being bursted down by clone shattering? Can’t catch them?

In the Grove there is an argument between an asura male and a sylvari female where the asura accuses the sylvari of messing up his golem by asking it too many questions.

“The question about turtles in the desert was bad enough, but then you had to bring up it’s mother!”

This is a reference to the Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner.

I would prefer a bit more options in play, but I am mostly satisfied by the speed of PvP. Now that I actually wear gear with toughness, I don’t get two-shotted anymore and have time to dodge, jump behind obstacles, break line of sight, try to interrupt heals (which is trickier than it was in GW1 for some reason), etc. etc. etc. I much prefer deliberative play than insta-gibbing and being insta-gibbed. That 20 minute fight you had, I would have killed for that opportunity.

I’m all for fixes but it’s not helping on my (sadly sub-par) system. Now I can see neither friends NOR enemies until it’s too late, sometimes. Sometimes it does seem to work. I was able to see a big zerg push up to a tower where I was manning an arrow cart. But when I pushed back into the same tower to try to back-slam their capture attempt, I couldn’t see either allies nor enemies, which put me at the top of the ramp right amongst all their players wondering why I was taking so much damage.

Please please for the love of the Gods make it so I can at least see enemy nameplates. Then I would be a little less likely to one-man charge things. Well…a LITTLE less likely.

Nope, nope, let’s take it back to Guild Wars 1. When you have a pet skill equipped, you get a F2 ability, Blood of the Master. Take some damage, maybe even a short self-bleed, heal all minions and give them regen for a short time.