Guild Wars 2

Archer.6485:

No one is saying we should be showered in gold or that we should be able to afford a giant repair bill.

But it does feel a bit bland that those giant chests spawn after bosses and the only thing of value you ever receive is the tokens…

I’m not saying it should spawn The exotics from the vendor in LA but something more substantial would be appreciated… Maybe some crafting mats if not gear?

Well as far as Aion goes, at least here you get a guaranteed reward of tokens and not an eternal string of bad luck runs.

I’ve gotten at least a piece of gear every chest in addition to the tokens, granted that gear goes straight into the salvaging pit but still… maybe you’re bugged or something? Cause none of my friends have said they’ve never gotten gear from a chest either…

dronzer.8392:

explorables aren’t really cost effective if you think about it, the time spent for the rewards gained is very little at best, for the more difficult ones you’ll be more likely to lose gold due to the sheer amount of repairing.

of course my reply is to those who are doing full runs, not those who are just farming a single boss endlessly….

GASP! Here’s a suggestion!! Die less!! OMG WHAT A WONDERFUL IDEA!! Seriously, if you get through that entire instance however many insanely large amount of times it takes to get a full set of explo armor and still are spending GOLD in repairs your REALLY REALLY bad at both learning speed and reaction times…

And as someone else said you get gold….

@OP Yeah, i’m not seeing grind yet… (grind is doing something you don’t enjoy over and over again) and i’m just loving the game, then again i spend most of my time roaming Orr because it’s depressing as hell and always has something worth doing/finding…. i’ve also gone back to a few of my favorite lower lv zones and did DEs… so idk what to say to you…

Maybe just find a group of friends and change up the explorable modes a bit more or something? Idk….

Oh no! You can’t get ectos easily! Anet is clearly making you buy gems in order to make money now!! Because you know selling orricalchum anything or any of the super fancy lv 400 crafting matts wont make you ANY money at all!!

Seriously, stop screaming that the skys falling because they fixed the drops on Ectos, the fact they were dropping so awesome just screamed “Not working as intended” especially if you take the first games ectos into consideration…

Banewrath.5107:

Pinkys Brain.7480:

Banewrath.5107:

Oh it`s worth it for a group play. you will just sacrifice one thing for that but it will benefit everyone. I took the trait that lets my dodges heal nearby allies. Just doing 2 quick dodges adds over 1400 hp back to them. Was around 650 per roll before I upgraded. Every bit helps and counts.

You went from 650 to 700 healed per roll … maybe if you’re in a zerg that’s worth it, but when there are only 4 other people every little bit of healing counts as an opportunity lost for taking something good :p

Normally I would agree with you if this was a traditional statbased game. But since success is determined by relexes and evasion, The sacrifice isn`t all that much. So every extra little bit that heals that can help a teamate from getting the downed state is worth it for me.

Yet toughness and vitality add a SIGNIFICANT buffer for how much you can take before dying… I’m sorry, but your logic is flawed beyond all belief, you’re saying that because you’re supposed to evade attacks that you’re not supposed to be able to have any buffer? With your logic we might as well trash Vit and toughness because they let people not avoid as often….

Maybe healing power could just be renamed Compassion (like it originally was) and make it boost the effectiveness of boons as well? IE with 2k compassion your vigor gives 75% increased endurance instead of 50, or port reduces damage by 50% instead of 33% (those are examples not the exacts of what it -should- do) so then it’d truly be a support and defensive stat allowing you to heal better through skills and mitigate damage better through boons!!

What do you guys think?

PS: I don’t think boon DURATION should be fused with healing power.

If healing power stays as is they should just scrap it, roll what it currently does into vitality/toughness and add something else in its place… Because currently healing power is useless for anything other then increasing Rez speed, everything else is just meh at best…

I know you’re supposed to dodge, but why even have it as a separate stat if it’s not going to give much of anything? Even like an additional 1000 added to the heal would be nice whereas with 2k healing power you don’t even get that much bonus!

Not to mention healing power USED to scale pretty well on your non self heals, but now it doesn’t even do that, with how it I now they should have it just say “increases Rez speed”

ATM healing power is VERY lack luster both in supporting allies, and keeping yourself alive, can we please get some love to this stat so it’s not fairly useless at everything other then rezzing people? Granted that’s helpful but even then it doesn’t make it that much faster nor does that make it very appealing for most people….

PS: Thought this would be proper place to put this, if not just say where!!

Verheyen.9127:

I just wish search and rescue was more reliable. Do I want my pet to run and start the rez on the 0 damage low level character (as nice as that is), or do I want it to rez the really cool badkitten damager.

Of course my pet will probably not do any of that, it’ll get half way, get hit with a stun, and forget what it was doing.

Actually stuns, knockbacks, dazes, etc etc do not stop your pet from rezzing, SOMETIMEs it’ll bug them and they’ll stop healing their target despite trying to rez…

@spoodigity

5) Yeah i did some testing again too and guard was nerfed so they -do- get revealed while attacing from stealth, the jaguar (i think that’s the cat with the stealth…) does NOT get removed while attacking from their F2 stealth though, so there is that!! And what i normally will use the “Guard” for is if my pet is being mollywhoped by enemies and i need em to go somewhere, OR if i need him to defend an area that i can see mobs going to in the distance.

One other thing i noticed while using it is SOMETIMES he’ll regain the stealth and protection every 5 seconds or so, and then other times it’s every 15 seconds, and then other times he just never regains the buff so it makes me wonder, are those just freak bugs that cause him to regain those buffs? Or are they actually supposed to keep regaining them?

NOTE: Those ONLY happen while he’s in combat and i have yet to see them happen while out of combat!!

3) After looking at spirits again their range seems shorter then last i used it, granted i still think they’re good untraited (obviously significantly better once traited!) but i do think they need to roll that health buff for the spirits into just being there naturally because how fast they die is kinda ridiculous!

4) Well for starters Signet of Wild isn’t a “burst” skill it’s a “kitten Deal With It!” skill, it makes your pet un CCable, increases his damage, and makes him take less damage, it’s essentially the WoW Hunter skill with a passive while it’s unactive! WELL worth the 2 min CD (not to mention once activated your pet will continue to regen health until the duration of his rampage is at its end)

As for the Sic’Em the whole thing behind it is it lasts longer, and it makes your pet unshakeable, THAT is the reasoning for it, it’s a pressure skill not a burst skill (kinda like signet), sure you can throw that pet around and CC em but they’ll be determined to get to your target and maul their face off until that duration fades away, it also allows them to stay on their target with relative ease seeing as how they become faster then the target even if they have swiftness, the ONLY way your target can escape is if they have that thief signet of movement speed + a swiftness boon, and even then it’s not by much!!

What do i bring? That highly varies, NORMALLY it’s quickening zephyr for the absolute versatility that skill has, i can rez faster with it, i can burst with it, i can get a long cast pet skill off quickly with it, etc etc.

I don’t think any of our utilities are -bad- or lack luster, but we do have -some- that aren’t as simple to use because their point isn’t as clear as others, however i do think spirits need to either A) have an increased range or have increased health, their range used to be 1200 and that made it really good for them being so squishy, but now that’s gone and they just die if you put them to close to the action!

Buttercup.5871:

My absolute no.1 favorite pet of all mobs I’ve encountered thus far is:

The owl griffin.

Bloody awesome animal, kudos to the designer. Agree 100% with above posters to please please please please make this a charmable pet?

Pwetty please?

On a sidenote, I agree raptors are cool too. In PvP, it’d be friggin scary if one of those babies comes racing at you with 30% increased petspeed. Add a nice roar and half the work is done.

I can see it now… the raptor would grab someone and start dragging them back to the fort and the enemy team would be yelling “Shoooooooooooooot her!! Shoooooooooooooooooot her!!”

Vondz.9807:

Well I usually use pig and spider xd

YES!! PIGS!! They’re so awesome lol!!

Ragnarok Vein.7240:

I like to use the hyena for its summon ally. As a Char; this ability aloong with my summon warband ability allows me to go from a party of two to a party of 5 in an instant. The summon ally also seems to have a shorter cooldown than some of the other pet abilities. For tanning I prefer to use salamanders.

The Summon Ally has a shorter CD because Hyena is designed to have a second Hyena up at all times IE 2 full strength hyenas were so powerful they cut the hyenas power a little bit to compensate for having 2 out.

I’m a HUGE fan of the hyena and if i can find one i’d probably start bringing him around either alongside my fern mastiff, or -maybe- instead… not sure…

Jenosavel.1756:

Durzlla.6295:

Loki.4871:

Grintch.6172:

What in everyone’s opinion are the 2 best pets to use for PVE mostly? I usually use one tank-like and one ranged. What’s is optimal do you think for the beginning, middle and at lvl 80?

Depends entirely on the situation. For example, the birds (owls, ravens, ect) do the most damage, so they’re very good for mauling single targets. The Drakes hit several foes at once, so they’re good for chomping up a group of pve mobs. The bears are designed to take a walloping, and especially with signet of the wild and points in beastmastery, can really take a beating before being defeated.

Actually, cats seem to do the most damage, however they’re very frail and not very evasive so they die faster then ravens and thereby do less overall damage…

Birds have quite a bit higher single-hit damage, but cats hit faster. If you start trying to track raw DPS against immobile targets cats do come out ahead. However, I don’t know if both are able to hit moving targets equally or if birds’ bizarre animation helps them at all in that respect.

Birds seem a little more fragile than cats in PvE, but sometimes confuse players in PvP and might not get targeted as much.

Overall they come out pretty close to one another.

Actually birds are SUPER fragile in both but they evade with every attack animation which makes them a lot harder for both players AND npcs to hit and kill then a cat which has no such evade, as for the moving targets thing i’ve never seen my bird have issues hitting a moving target, however the cat will not be nearly as good as if they were standing still but would still dish out a lot of damage. And cats with the 20 pt rending training or w/e it is that makes them bleed on crit makes the cat a lot better due to their high precision and attack speed.

Loki.4871:

Grintch.6172:

What in everyone’s opinion are the 2 best pets to use for PVE mostly? I usually use one tank-like and one ranged. What’s is optimal do you think for the beginning, middle and at lvl 80?

Depends entirely on the situation. For example, the birds (owls, ravens, ect) do the most damage, so they’re very good for mauling single targets. The Drakes hit several foes at once, so they’re good for chomping up a group of pve mobs. The bears are designed to take a walloping, and especially with signet of the wild and points in beastmastery, can really take a beating before being defeated.

Actually, cats seem to do the most damage, however they’re very frail and not very evasive so they die faster then ravens and thereby do less overall damage…

I wish i could tame a warg… especially since the Sick’Em ability has a picture that looks like a warg….

However, i don’t see how cliff bats should be tameable… but ogres have raptors so idk why we can’t…

Fern Mastiff, and Blue Moa i love the support they bring for the group as well as them both being really survivable!! Not to mention i’ve been having my Fern Mastiff with me since lv 1 =D!!

Taihaku.8412:

Any definitive answer to this?

Sadly not yet, hoping we’ll get one soonish…

Yeah i’m having this problem too, but it’s really just a minor inconvenience, nothing more, nothing less

So, My drake pets were using their Tailswipe ability through ALL the betas, however he’s no longer using it… no blast effects are ever going off, he’s leaving no crater like he used to, and he’s not doing that REALLY cool animation underwater either…

Did it get nerfed or something? Or is it actually bugged and not launching?

PS: I haven’t noticed him gaining health back from his other attack but that may just be me not paying attention!!

lemmie.4218:

I noticed something odd whenever equipping a flamethrower using this trait. The trait reads: “You gain 200 Toughness while wielding a Flamethrower. In addition, you gain might for 15 seconds every 3 seconds, as long as you remain in this weapon kit.”

This means, my toughness should go up by 200. My base amount at the moment on my engineer is 655, and when I equip the flamethrower, it increases to 817, which is only an extra 161 toughness. Am I missing something here? When I first noticed something was wrong I was only getting a 150 buff. I apologize if this has already been talked about, it was something I saw and felt this needed attention.

Thank you for your time,
Lemmie

Question, are you lv 80? If not then that’s why, because i know all the skills that say give X amount of Y stat will scale depending on your level, so if you’re NOT lv 80 then you wont be getting the full bonus until lv 80, however if you ARE lv 80 then i have no idea why you’d be getting less…

Taihaku.8412:

Durzlla.6295:

That’s the main reason i refuse to do it myself, i don’t want to soil it by doing a broken version (if it is broken) i want to experience Zhaitan for what he’s intended, however i also need to do crucible of eternity and the underwater one before i even think of doing Arah… not to mention that from personal story alone it would make absolute sense as to why he is how he is in the fight…

Same I still need to do all the dungeons past TA but I would like to see the fight fixed if it needs to be once i get to that point!

Well Sorrows Embrace and The Citadel of Flame are both really fun instances, so i can totally recommend doing those, i’ve ben INSIDE the other two, but not much else from there, but i can tell you that they look pretty in the first room xD

Uder.9187:

Durzlla.6295:

Uder.9187:

Where is that RUne from anyways? None of the crafters can make it.

Armorsmith makes it, just because it hasn’t been discovered and put onto the wiki yet doesn’t mean it hasn’t been found…

oh that´s good to know, do you know which component it needs?

no clue, my armorsmith friend just told me that he was able to make them, i can ask him tomorrow if you want to know though.

Story lines? As in personal story? If so you should be able to do it by yourself… now if you’re talking about dungeons, then you’ll need 5 players

I’ve noticed that i’ll get the effects of what ever one i equiped/put the sigil on first IE if i had bloodlust on my offhand and precision on my main hand, as long as i applied the bloodlust first i’d get that one, kinda disapointing because i kinda wanted to have a snowball weapon set for my ele =(

Uder.9187:

Where is that RUne from anyways? None of the crafters can make it.

Armorsmith makes it, just because it hasn’t been discovered and put onto the wiki yet doesn’t mean it hasn’t been found…

Taihaku.8412:

Durzlla.6295:

I know i’m not wanting to fight him until i know whether he’s been fixed or he’s never been bugged in the first place, i’m hoping it’ll be the former… because what i’ve heard and seen of his fight (i refuse to see anything else in the instance including the story parts before and after Zhaitan) it looks kinda… well…. lack luster…

This though I’ve tried to keep away from various vids and focused on what people have said around the forums. I really would like confirmation either way since this is the last final epic boss and I’d like to see it how it was meant to be seen.

That’s the main reason i refuse to do it myself, i don’t want to soil it by doing a broken version (if it is broken) i want to experience Zhaitan for what he’s intended, however i also need to do crucible of eternity and the underwater one before i even think of doing Arah… not to mention that from personal story alone it would make absolute sense as to why he is how he is in the fight…

i’m going to guess it’s bugged… especially if the first two gave boon duration…

I know i’m not wanting to fight him until i know whether he’s been fixed or he’s never been bugged in the first place, i’m hoping it’ll be the former… because what i’ve heard and seen of his fight (i refuse to see anything else in the instance including the story parts before and after Zhaitan) it looks kinda… well…. lack luster…

I use search and rescue…and signets…. you’re not putting them in a very good light, so i’m assuming you don’t know how good they actually are….

1) Signet of the Wild might as well be a second Elite, firstly you and your pet get health regen that scales REALLY well with your healing power, not to mention the activation makes your pet deal more damage, take less damage, gain a bigger hit box, and have stability…. Yup, totally not worth the 2 minute CD…

2) Signet of the hunt buffs you AND your pets movement, and it’s more noticeable for your pet then it is for you, and it DOES stack with swiftness, as do all other movement boosters, and the CD on that thing is like 30 seconds, 1 min tops, which is nothing for a good 50% boost to your pets attack, especially if you pair that with a drakes breathe attack, that alone will bring any kitten to their knees because it buffs the whole attack not just the first shot.

3) Spirits aren’t bad… there are 2 main ways to use them 1) use them for their passive and place them somewhere that they wont be fought that much or 2) use them for their active and/or natures vengance, and put them in the thick of things, both work really well even with no traits, i personally prefer the former but i will use them for the latter when the need arises.

4) Sic’Em is amazing, significantly better then quickening zephyr, why you ask? Simple! You can 1) continue healing with it 2) your pet deals quite a bit MORE damage with it, 3) it prevents your pet from being taken off your original target unless they stealth, break combat, or kill your pet (yes illusions don’t break pets target).

5) “Guard” Is great when you know what you’re doing… it gives your pet stealth (which it can attack in without breaking it) and protection, making them sturdier.

Just because -YOU- don’t know how to use the skills doesn’t mean they’re bad… L2P before screaming “We’re Broken!” plox.

PS: Only elite i’d say we have that’s even CLOSE to lack luster is spirit of nature because it’s really not worth the 2 min CD, then again, i’ve yet to see it not live that full minute duration… so there is that.

Ryan Diederich.8179:

A fix for part b) is in the works. This should also help mitigate the issues of part c) since you won’t have to mash F2 so much, though I am also aware of this issue.

Part a) varies depending on each pet, so perhaps a list of the ones that are particularly troublesome could help to get them looked at =)

First and Foremost is the Jellyfish family… my god it takes them freaking years before they finally use their F2 skill and by the time they get it off the moment of wanting it used is long gone…

Drakes -can- be bad but are usually fine…

ilJumperMT.4871:

Is it me or rangers do lack in sPVP, espically tPVP.

Since nerf of Spirit build, only roamer works. Other classes fill the role of roamer better

Yeah… spirits weren’t nerfed… and i’ve been rocking support ranger without taking a single spirit, i will say that Quickening Zephyr is AMAZING in tPVP though.

I have to agree… it looks totally bugged, he even does animations that look like they’d screw you over but absolutely nothing seems to happen…

to be honest… i haven’t been getting that much more butter then other things (now i mean butter/chocolate coming from bags not the total amounts of both).

I personally like the changes to the whole cooking matts, saves me money…

Now, if only the blue matts drop more often then they have been.