Guild Wars 2

jcbroe.4329:

@Durz;

That’s exactly my point though lol. Two rangers who put in decent time into a game and with combined experience, shared playstyles in almost every way except which bow is getting used.

What I’m indirectly suggesting is that the test be repeated with the Shortbow and see if rangers are truly getting kicked for playing a “ranger” (bow using) playstyle, or if that it shows that a group is actually kicking players because those groups actually understand how poor of a choice the longbow in itself is for group play.

Because I can concede that a bow is what most people think when they think ranger. But not longbow haha.

I use a longbow and have yet to be kicked, hell I’ve even got 3 longbows on my character at all times, I even run a brown bear in most scenarios in PvE (dat condi cleanse and meat shield) lol.

shrugs idk why I’ve managed to dodge getting kicked, maybe it’s cause I don’t come off as a “baddie” in my HoM gear or something xD.

Granted even though I haven’t been kicked I’ve sure as hell butted heads (and have hijacked groups) because people would try and skip/exploit stuff which I just don’t out up with lol.

Xae Isareth.1364:

JeffHardisty.1926:

Entioch.6594:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Shall we give Kits to all other professions so they can properly utilize Rune of the Engineer?

BUURRRRNNN

I dont really care about this new rune but I wil point this out

(6): +5% damage while holding a bundle.

Warriors banners and Elementalists conjure elemental weapons count as bundles, as well as and weapons you can pick up (e.g. planks). Even thieves have a trait that increases bundle damage “Improvisation – Stealing recharges all skills of one type (venoms, signets, traps, tricks, or deceptions). Deal bonus damage when wielding a bundle” http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Environmental_weapon (bundles in other words)

I beleive the point that people are trying to make is that this is the frist rune that can be fully utilized by all classes, but one. Other runes like the Rune of the Soldier can be used by selection of classes, and leave the others out, but no other rune I can think of leaves only one class out like this new one does.

I’ll give you conjured weapons. But, have you ever seen anyone fight with a banner, or any environmental weapons?

And frankly speaking, the rune doesn’t just leave engis out, for example, on a Mesmer, if you’re gonna run a sigil build, prepare to be utterly useless.

Yes i have…. they’re these really weird professions out there called rangers, you know who are balanced around kittenty scaling with power… but my god, you give those kittens a wood plank or other such environmental weapons (which have scales with normal power scaling, not “pet handicap” power scaling) and you will be hitting as hard as everyone else and have your pet ontop of it…. it’s nice… sad, but nice

Ross Biddle.2367:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWhT8Cftz8

20s, watch as the warrior suddenly poops his pants as i pass his bleeds back to him and he has 23 on his kitten .

lol it’s even better when you pass his torment and burn over to him as well and then hit scepter 2 and really watch them cry themselves into a coma.

Chokolata.1870:

I really wish people stop thinking that moving spirit and Nature voice will make for a good support build . * IT WILL NOT * . Why ?

1 – Spirits are not pure support tools , because spirits give a bit of of offense and support the only way to make it worth it is to run 2+ utility spirits and the elite

2 – You will still need to trait spirits 2 times to make them usable . The Adept spirit trait could might as well come as default as it is a must for spirit users , it could be already given to spirits to begin with and replaced by another trait that benefits something else

3 – Nature voice may be a decent trait , but its problem is that shouts in general suck . So in essence you are using a shout to trigger a trait …. thats tier1 designer poop right there .

In essence you will end up with a barely functioning clunky support build that people will say works good when it is in fact the very opposite of fluid and intuitive

but haven’t you wanted to bring Guard along, you know that totally lack luster shout skill we have, so you can have perma swiftness and regen!?! rolls eyes

jcbroe.4329:

Star Ace.5207:

Indoles.1467:

Why spend an hour doing something that can be done in 20 minutes? I don’t know about you guys, but I stay busy enough so that when I play Guild Wars 2, I want to get the most content done as quickly as possible.

I bet you all the money you want that no “bearbow” will transform a group’s experience from 20 to 60 minutes, unless he/she is intentionally trolling the group. It would more likely be everyone else’s fault at that point, not the Ranger’s alone.

And lastly, while EVERYBODY’s real-life time is limited, that’s no reason to assume that speedrunning GW2 is the playstyle everybody should adopt. Every other player’s “slower” approach to the game doesn’t mean they have “little” to do so they like to “waste” time-they are just enjoying the game differently than you do (in short, people can be different than you, and that’s fine.)

Segueing, just like the OP is assuming that the longbow is considered the iconic weapon of the ranger, when in reality the vocal community seems almost literally split between a pure archer/aragorn viewpoint, beyond that many don’t specify what bow type a ranger should be using, even if they envision bows.

It would be like saying that mesmer, being a caster, has the iconic weapon of the staff or scepter, and that because those are the iconic weapons, they should be the ones that do the most damage, when in reality that just isn’t the case.

There are no primary or secondary weapons in this game. There are just weapons. Also, there isn’t a single recognizable “classic,” or classically/traditionally styled class in the game. Every single class has their perceived “quirks” and subtle nuances that overall make this game different from others.

That being said, I recognize the point being made by the OP. But the truth is that a group saying “no bearbows” and kicking a person for a using a longbow is just as bad as assuming that ranger needs to proficient with the longbow because it is the “iconic” weapon (I played guild wars 1 for a decade as a ranger in every single aspect of the games content and never once used a longbow. Recurve Bows, Shortbows, Scythes, Daggers, Hammers, and Staffs, but never a longbow).

My bow of choice in GW1 was a longbow, but then again i had a ton of points in beast mastery so i didn’t really want, nor did i need to be, near the action, i just sat in the back spreading conditions and yelling at my pet lol.

That or i used a staff, daggers, hammer, or if i was running solo (IE petless) with a recurve… but mostly longbow i’d say. Or Hornbow, those were fun >=D

Yeah, sigil of torment is A LOT weaker than sigil of fire if you’re a power build, the only real reason to use sigil of torment is if you want a cover condition or if you already apply torment and you want to add a little bit more ontop, it’s really not that strong of a sigil….

Might be pretty good with the runes though if you’re say, a thief with withdraw…

I play ranger A LOT (i tend to play my ele more in PvE stuff like fractals because ele staff is really fun in PvE), and i gotta say everytime i group with another ranger i just cringe, i tend to give them the benefit of the doubt, but all my friends on skype always laugh and say, “Just tell us when you decide he needs to go durz.”

shivers so many bad rangers…. so many dead pets… so much stupid….. so much stupid….why must so many pug rangers be so stupid?!?! WHY!?!? Why do they do this to us!?!? curls up in the feeble position and cries.

1) Ranger, eles have a really good set of tools and all that but the other profs just do everything better than them, since they’re the jack of all trades, and are easier to play. Others need to go down so ele can be “in line again”

2) I’d say Ranger if anyone, but more likely neither, they’re on pretty even grounds.

3) In this meta? Ranger, in a normal scenario? neither

4) Necromancer, no questions asked

5) neither, both are incredibly strong in the right hands (granted harder to be so as ranger), if it’s in terms of group support though ranger would be buffed, because we suck at that kitten, but guardians wouldn’t be nerfed.

6) Thief would be nerfed, although i think rangers have an advantage over thieves…. but that seems to be just me…

7) Warrior would be nerfed

Swagg.9236:

Durzlla.6295:

Only thing I hate about ele staff is that our autos are lack luster, hell most the time I won’t even bother casting them because they’re so bad., they should just lower the cast time on them, or make them have A LOT faster travel time, either one (or both) would make me happy.

The auto-attacks on staff are incredibly balanced yet effective.

Eh, i’m just not a fan of them, earth and water are the only ones i feel are strong enough to spam, all the others i might throw out once or twice before i swap and use my other skills, which are significantly more useful imo.

Narcemus.1348:

Many people, like myself, find it extremely unbelievable that the krait would listen to Scarlet or the Nightmare Court. Their xenophobia has been so far reaching that it states in one of the explanations of the race (old blog post) that they think themselves far superior to any race. They believe that once their prophets return they will swallow the world in ocean and all other inferior races will be destroyed or be their slaves. So why would a race that believes they are superior to all others listen to some plant people who say they can give them a god.

I think the biggest problem comes from the fact that we have had no interaction with the krait Oratuss (religious ruling class) but from what we’ve been told, their reaction should not have been what we got.

What makes you think they wouldn’t accept help from a lesser race who wants to help them bring forth a krait prophet? If they’re right, and the prophet comes back, there is absolutely no downside for the krait, and so long as there’s still a plus for the race being wrong there’s literally no reason to say no.

Most people that don’t believe it seem to think xenophobic = too stupid to accept a good deal.

I normally just throw in Clerics, Celestial, Soldier, Rabid or Zerker and call it good lol.

Only thing I hate about ele staff is that our autos are lack luster, hell most the time I won’t even bother casting them because they’re so bad., they should just lower the cast time on them, or make them have A LOT faster travel time, either one (or both) would make me happy.

Tricare.2946:

I’ll give you necro, but Mesmer can just blink or stealth out of it easily. Ele can be done, but not against a well played one.

Mesmers and eles can both be caught in entangle for at LEAST 8 seconds if you time it right, you can’t just in in like most rangers do and go LOLOLOLLOLZ I GOT DIZ GUYZ!! And pop it while they’ve got all their CDs up, mesmers have limited access to stealth and condi removal, and their teleports still have CDs, just catch them in it right after they teleport and after they’ve exhausted their stealths, or use it to force them to stealth (like after you just wiped out their clones).

Trust me, I play Mesmer a lot, and even though I run blink, scepter, and staff ( both weapons 2 teleports you out of entangle) I’ve gotten completely kittened over by a well timed entangle, same on my ele.

Granted it’s rare, (as I said most rangers blow their elite waaaaaaaaaay to early) but it’s doable.

urdriel.8496:

Durzlla.6295:

urdriel.8496:

Durzlla.6295:

urdriel.8496:

Coarr.3286:

cafard.8953:

If the opposition’s dumb enough to stay in the roots for 7s, you probably didn’t need to pop an elite to win the fight…

they have no other option when all their stunn breaker and condition removals are on cd

press 1 until vines break……

As great of a suggestion as that is… If you aren’t using a Melee weapon you’re not even going to be able to hurt the roots…

change to a melee weapon???use a teleport/aoe attack/roll…

if you know how to deal with it, entangle is a bad elite,

If you were an intelligent player you would catch them while their teleport/condi cleanse is on CD and after they weapon swap to ranged… Not to mention you can’t roll while immobilized….

dude, you CAN roll with entangle, you have videos of people walking out from entangle, and if you use stealth entangle dissapear,a warrior can destroy entangle with bow#3 and a ranger with longbow#5, ofc, you can kill noobs with this supermegaElite.

You can not roll while immobilized, and I tend to drop a muddy terrain ontop of people while the entangle is up to ensure they’re never escaping my roots by walking out, and it gives a cover condition….

You can kill noobs without even popping an ulti, just because you have no idea when to use entangle doesn’t mean it’s a bad elite, it still forces CDs or at least lasts as a ~3s immobilize.

roamzero.9486:

I think it’s a fair tradeoff. Entangle is really weak against some classes like thieves, but a well placed entangle can totally wreck a Necro or Mesmer.

Or ele, catch an ele right after they heal and swap out of water Attunement and they’re toast.

For those of you that don’t know why, eles are like sharks, once they stop moving, they die.

Romo.3709:

Zanthrax.6538:

Romo.3709:

I got SUPER excited when I saw the trailer, then I read the info page about the release… Not so excited anymore…

What do you dislike about the information?

Personal level reset, Account bound reward level. The list goes on

No, personal level is not reset, it just drops down to 30 if you were above that, and there’s really not much on the list of negatives…

Simplicity.7208:

Mladi Bojevnik.2517:

so if you have 5 bunker guards on team ( 25 points ) and none of them is AFK you are invincible. I think your math is wrong.

For Solo Queue, that’s exactly how it works. Try to win that match with PUGs. They’d all have to be very terrible guardians for you to even have a chance….or you’d have to have all necromancers. I feel like all necromancers team counters all guardian team with all those conditions. Regardless, both situations are exceedingly unlikely and thus outside the realm of applicability of the calculation.

Or you have a Mesmer who built around boon stealing and destroying, ever see a guardian covered in conditions and 100% boon less? Yeah, they don’t live very long bunker or no bunker.

If it’s how it sounds the cap will not be 50 anymore because people could build up enough AR to survive the agony dished out on the boss fight.

I’d also imagine that armor will drop in the high level fractals (probably higher than the weapons), I’d also imagine that achievements will totally be added, I mean c’mon, we just got 3 new fractals and 2 new boss fights, no way we won’t be getting some new achievements.

I wouldn’t count myself as a hardcore fractal player (only like lv 13 or something like that), but my god that trailer was epic!! If I didn’t get the kittening frost fractal EVERY TIME I’d probably play them a lot more…. Maybe with the addition of the new fractals and boss fights they’ll be more appealing, oh and now my ele (and soon Mesmer) will be able to play at the level I slowly got to as my ranger =D

I still think entangle should be a big AoE that’ll cast the roots (with less health) every second they’re in the field… IE: create an area of zone denial.

urdriel.8496:

Durzlla.6295:

urdriel.8496:

Coarr.3286:

cafard.8953:

If the opposition’s dumb enough to stay in the roots for 7s, you probably didn’t need to pop an elite to win the fight…

they have no other option when all their stunn breaker and condition removals are on cd

press 1 until vines break……

As great of a suggestion as that is… If you aren’t using a Melee weapon you’re not even going to be able to hurt the roots…

change to a melee weapon???use a teleport/aoe attack/roll…

if you know how to deal with it, entangle is a bad elite,

If you were an intelligent player you would catch them while their teleport/condi cleanse is on CD and after they weapon swap to ranged… Not to mention you can’t roll while immobilized….

urdriel.8496:

Coarr.3286:

cafard.8953:

If the opposition’s dumb enough to stay in the roots for 7s, you probably didn’t need to pop an elite to win the fight…

they have no other option when all their stunn breaker and condition removals are on cd

press 1 until vines break……

As great of a suggestion as that is… If you aren’t using a Melee weapon you’re not even going to be able to hurt the roots…

skullmount.1758:

Man, I’ve yet to have any of them, other than Logan (and that was once). Granted, I’ve only done about 8 chambers (got molten beserker twice, and I think the rest have been the vet clockwork nightmare thing). To do your mentor/Trehearne, do you have to have complete the PS? (farthest character so far is on the Arah step)

The mentor requires you to have completed the first Claw Island event (so I’m told, I’ve also heard you’ve had to have just complete meeting your mentor), for Traherne once he makes you commander is when he can start showing up…. Still haven’t fought Traherne =(

Fafnir.5124:

People would you agree arah is harder so this level of difficulty should probly be considered intermediate and not hard at all.

Arah is absolutely harder than this, and AR was harder than Arah (the hard modes), and Liadri is absolutely harder than AR…. So this tower is nothing if you ask me…

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Durzlla.6295:

Vanthian.9267:

A lot of you people equate difficulty with massive amounts of mobs. Having 15 mobs swamp a player is not difficult nor fun/challenging in anyway. It is lazy design.

Nothing in this game is truly “difficult content” it is all Zerg Content.

If you are not running through trying to skip anything there is absolutely no scenario you’ll get swarmed by more than 5 mobs, let alone kittening 15!! The only time you’ll get swarmed by 5 is if you get unlucky with a patrol anyway.

I might not be running through, and only fight 5 foes, when somebody else runs by and bring the other 10. Oh, and why should an elite spawn when I’m all alone in an area? I thought those were spawning when you have a zerg (so the zerg doesn’t spawn champs all the time).

On the bright side once you get to where the second nightmare pod is on floor 3 most the idiots that train mobs are dead! But yeah, that’s probably the worst part about soloing, the idiots who kitten you over by leashing mobs onto you…

Vanthian.9267:

Durzlla.6295:

If you are not running through trying to skip anything there is absolutely no scenario you’ll get swarmed by more than 5 mobs, let alone kittening 15!! The only time you’ll get swarmed by 5 is if you get unlucky with a patrol anyway.

Try to do a Siege Commander Offshoot solo. Then come back and tell me you only agro 5.

I hope you realize siege commander offshoots are designed to be group events, not to mention not a single kittening siege commander offshoot is in the tower, so I have no idea why you mentioned this.

Vanthian.9267:

A lot of you people equate difficulty with massive amounts of mobs. Having 15 mobs swamp a player is not difficult nor fun/challenging in anyway. It is lazy design.

Nothing in this game is truly “difficult content” it is all Zerg Content.

If you are not running through trying to skip anything there is absolutely no scenario you’ll get swarmed by more than 5 mobs, let alone kittening 15!! The only time you’ll get swarmed by 5 is if you get unlucky with a patrol anyway.

Couldn’t be a trait, an elite skill maybe

You left out the most life saving advice there is…. USE THE AIR FILTERS they will allow you to get out of combat and actually regen up to full health, this makes it significantly easier than trying to claw your way up constantly in combat.

Also, if you lack a good condi cleanse bring that new heal, it can save you, that was advice from my warrior and thief friend, I play a ranger and healing spring works fine.

I gotta say, it’s A LOT easier to do when it’s 100% solo and you don’t have bumbling idiots constantly training mobs into you…. The only section of the 3rd part that becomes difficult solo is near the end if that kittening group event portal is up and you gotta cleave your way through watch works, AND aetherblade AND toxic alliance members…

Also, 100% fight your way through, and more importantly stop and rest at EVERY air filter, kill as many mobs as you can while standing on the air filter too, it makes it a lot easier.

Beardmonger.4692:

Ah man Durz, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong then. I’ve tried testing the effect about 20 times now in both PvE and in the mists, and couldn’t get it to trigger even once. Even did the old re-equip swap in case it still wasn’t applying.

Keep in mind if you’re in zerker gear the 10% health is a tiny threshold, the best way to get it to trigger is fighting how you normally would IE using fernhound and spring for regen etc, that’ll normally allow you to hit 10% slowly so it’ll trigger rather than just skipping from like 11% to dead or so.

Narcemus.1348:

What didn’t change about human god lore? They did(n’t) create magic. They did(n’t) create the bloodstones. They did(n’t) create the world. That right there brings the gods down from being these much more monolithic beings to something a bit simpler, even if they are still massively powerful.

Well they never created the world, it always sounded like they just migrated to Tyria with their humans.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Obsidian… From the perspective of the characters, that (my example earlier) is what happens more or less. To them their history is one thing and is recorded as such (with view being that of the writers’ as it always is), and a thousand years later their records become something else almost entirely.

I feel like this may be off topic a bit but could you please provide links to the changes in the Human God lore? Because I haven’t seen like any changes on it (other than their belief in them is fading which makes sense).

Terra Dactyl.2047:

KOPPER.1458:

It would be nice if all mini’s even account bound ones could be forged as to get rid of extras.

My 17 mini risen priests of balthazar like this idea. Even forging them into trash gray items like broken hooves or spikes would make them less useless.

I was just about to comment on this lol, i’m almost positive that i’ve got over 20 of those kittens just sitting in my bank being useless…

Beardmonger.4692:

Is the Vampire rune set’s 6th bonus still bugged? I tested it in PvE and it still didn’t trigger for me.

It’s not bugged it triggers now (and is actually mist not LAWLZ say goodbye to your skills!!).

Dromar.1027:

Durzlla.6295:

@Dromar there’s actually a PoI in Arah that we can not physically get to called The Dragons Lair (can be seen in game), so my bet is they literally ran outta time and rushed the Zhaitan fight into being only 2 phases instead of something much larger, I mean even the cutscenes make it seem like more is supposed to happen.

hmmmm… maybe there was supposed to be 1-2 more phases after you knock him off the tower.

That’s what i was thinking myself, not to mention i’m almost positive Glint said you need to use part of the elder dragon to do any real damage to it… which i think we were going to do during one of those other phases.

CHIPS.6018:

1) totally reliant on her technology – Nope. She just demonstrated her knowledge in biology and genetic modification though that Krait/Sylvari hybrid. She knows much more than just engineering and technology.

We don’t know if she had any role in the actual making of that creature, for all we know that is a seed that came from the same location as The Pale Tree, and Mallycks tree and the Krait and NC had influenced it.

She gave the impression that she was done with the tree before it even “birthed” the hybrid which would imply that’s not why she was there, and thus not something she was after. This leads me to believe that was the doing of the Nightmare Court and the Krait, not her.

2) her alliances are all extremely volatile – Now you are just making stuff up. Did you ever hear any of those mobs saying they hate Scarlet behind her back? Gets your facts straight. Some players WISHED that the alliances would hate Scarlet and betray her. It DIDN’T actually happen.

I said Volatile, as in they aren’t built to last, they’re built from races that wouldn’t really align after all. The only one that i could imagine lasting longer than the life of Scarlet is the Aetherblades, and that’s because i have a feeling it’s more of a “business agreement” than a true alliance AKA: Pirates give the inquest money and inquest give them tech, i mean seriously, the inquest don’t even fight with the Aetherblades which shows how little the inquest cares about them.

We could see from F&F that the MA does NOT like each other and they’re doing so out of essentially necessity than anything. I get the same feeling from the Krait and NC alliance as well, Krait want their prophets, NC want to cause nightmare, and this section is likely the power hungry section from TA explo paths so they’re probably after that too. Once those are achieved god knows how long they’ll still play nice.

3) her plans fall to pieces within 5 minutes of being revealed – You have to understanding that 5 minutes of game play is NOT 5 minute in the world. For example the Nightmare Within can be done in an hour. But in the story, that siege could have taken months.

Sorry, i really was over exaggerating, i didn’t literally mean 5 minutes of in lore time, just that once we figure out what the plan is we put an end to it really quickly. I’m not gonna lie, she does a really good job of hiding them, but that’s kinda what she’s banking on, if they get found out a little early they’ll come crashing to the ground.

4) she’s arrogant as hell – When has her arrogance led DIRECTLY to her failure? So far all her failures are failures of her “useless” underlings and puppets. When her 100 minions cannot kill a party of 5 players, it isn’t really her fault.

I will give you this, her arrogance hasn’t been a flaw, yet, but she does give off the sort of arrogance where it’s only a matter of time before she starts to feel “safe” and ends up getting burned for it. When or will that happen? I don’t know, it may not, it just seems like it will to me.

5) she’s easily deceived – Logan, champion of humans and a member of the legendary Destiny’s Edge, had protect the queen day and night for years. But in truth, he ended up protecting a fake illusion of the queen for years (LMAO). The queen was NEVER there. Think about it! Who was more “easily” deceived, Scarlet or Logan? Once again, you have to keep things in prospective.

Oh don’t even get me started on Logan, he’s such a bumbling idiot it drives me insane… not to mention he gets furious at Anise for not telling him the plan when he would’ve totally ruined it because of how stupid he is… So happy he was in a nightmare chamber….

That aside, She still was pretty kitten ed that she didn’t get the queen, she keeps referring to it, so i’m imagining that she did kitten up on that one. As for how she uses portals, you are the ONLY other person who thought the same thing as me on that lol. I was trying to explain it to my friends who was saying she was using them very poorly, i’m upset that she didn’t use them to port a ton of mobs into DR and raze it while we were off in the far shiver peaks trying to save a few kodan and wildlife!

That may play into her arrogance though, that or she just really dropped the ball on that…

Stooperdale.3560:

“I only see that she’s smart, and use that intelligence to be a great engineer, and then is good at making promises of power to power hungry people, which any idiot could do.”

Not believable. If that’s the mistake that the writers have made then the living story is totally doomed.

You must really hate ironman then huh?

@CHIPS, she is totally reliant on her technology, her alliances are all extremely volatile, her plans fall to pieces within 5 minutes of being revealed, she’s arrogant as hell, she’s easily deceived (I mean c’mon who WASNT expecting an illusion of Jenna?)

Now how about you answer my question and stop beating around the bush.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Considering how much effort they put into making the game more like Ghosts of Ascalon (going so far as to add in towers to Ascalon City), and Killeen making mention of the golden fruit bit (as well as an NPC in-game I believe), I’d be surprised if they changed it for blue for… no real reason, by all given information.

I figured that they are golden most of the time and turn blue when they ripen and are about to drop sylvari because it does stare several times that the fruit do lower from the upper branches when the sylvari is about to drop.

CHIPS.6018:

Erukk.1408:

CHIPS.6018:

-She was born smart.
-She was born smart.
-She was born smart.

Because of the above 3 explanations, the readers are 100% convinced that the Lore Slayer’s background is legit.

>_>

I hate to break it to you, but some people are naturally born smarter than others. It happens. It is used often for villains because it sets up their superiority complex mentality so well, and it is used to explain how they are able to achieve their accomplishments.

A better question would be, if Scarlet wasn’t born with her superior intellect, how would you explain how she is able to do the things she’s able too?

But the audience are not buying the idea.

Of course villains being smarter is ok. But not a thousand times smarter than the smartest Asuras in absolutely everything without any solid explanation.

Take a look at group Akatsuki from Naruto. Its made up of ten very powerful members, with S-rank abilities. However they each fight with different skills, and no one knows the abilities of the other members. Each member spent years training to master their one single field of S-Rank skills. They interact with each other and they team up with each other to get things done.

Scarlet is pretty much all 10 members in herself. She does everything and is good in absolutely everything, with no weakness whatsoever. She knows all 10 fields of S-rank abilities or more. She is the whole Akatsuki in herself. That’s the problem.

Please list everything scarlet is good at, I only see that she’s smart, and use that intelligence to be a great engineer, and then is good at making promises of power to power hungry people, which any idiot could do.

So what else has she done? Because most of the stuff happening isn’t even scarlet but are her allies, which you CONSTANTLY confuse for being her.

CHIPS.6018:

RedStar.4218:

I have a question : played the new content yesterday and tried to really pay attention. Correct me if I’m wrong.

The Krait got their brains messed up by the toxins. They didn’t knew they were working with Scarlet or even the NC. Instead, they thought they were their prophets.

If I didn’t get that wrong, at first glance it doesn’t bother me too much. What however bothers me is what it really implies :
-Scarlet didn’t need to Krait to create those toxins, nor does she have any further plans for them since she let’s us kill her creation.
-She (maybe) only needed them to release massively the toxins.
-And the worse : what if all of this was a lie ? Maybe she didn’t have access to the toxins the times we met before, fine. But in the future, that thing touched everyone, everyone ice broods.

Does anyone else think that Kasmeer getting hurt by a torn is something that shouldn’t be considered trivial ?

And do we know who was the mesmer behind the cloaking spell ?

The gameplay itself was very well done. I enjoy going though part of the tower, then enter a mini dungeon, and then keep exploring the tower.

Unfortunately the lore was broken once again. Our engineer Lore Slayer just added bio-weapon, genetic modification, Resident Evil to her resume.

We have to keep in mind that the Lore Slayer was an engineer. She is a mechanic that works with technology. The part about her being the best engineer ever lived wasn’t believable, but for a second let’s say the readers accepts this. This explained how she created the Molten Alliance and Aetherblade technologies.

Yesterday the Nightmares Within was released. And the final boss wasn’t some kind of Krait/technology mix. The boss was a Krait/Nightmare Tree hybrid. This is a bio-weapon, a product of genetic engineering.

Scarlet is an mechanical engineer. She shouldn’t know anything about biology. So the lore is once again broken.

A necromancer or a ranger, who worked with biology and organisms, should be the ones who made that hybrid.

Discuss that here: >_>

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Scarlet-is-an-Engineer-not-a-Biologist

Uh…. scarlet didn’t invent the molten alliance or aetherblade tech that’d be the dredge and inquest respectively… I’d imagine that the Nightmare Tower is just her getting her hands on a seed of the same kind as the pale tree and using sylvari magic (which is well known to be good at growing plants) to get the thing growing at super speeds, and since it was planted at a krait location instead of an old human town it may have taken the krait as inspiration in appearance instead of humans .

Zenith.7301:

Durzlla.6295:

Levetty.1279:

I don’t know where this myth that SPVP players are talented has come from considering the SPvP meta seems to be ‘go on forums and complain about all classes that aren’t yours, doubly so if class has pets’. Though they are very skilled at that I guess.

PvP players tend to be better than PvE players because if you kitten up in PvP, even just a tiny little bit like missing your cripple, it can be the difference between victory and defeat so PvPers tend to be a little better at the game as a whole.

Granted, this is only for competitive PvP players that are doing tournies regularly and are in it to win it, a hot join hero is gonna be about as good as your average zergling, and then there’s also some REALLY good PvE players too and etc.

Just by and large most PvPers tend to be better than most PvErs, but again there’s A LOT of different factors that play into it so don’t worry about it too much (like there being significantly less PvPers than PvE players).

You come to high level fractals or Arah/Aetherblade achiev/seed runs and manage not to get kicked within the first 10 minutes. Then you get to say PvP’ers are better.

It’s completely different skillsets.

I got every single Aether blade retreat achievement on a lv 40-50 staff ele in the equivalent of that levels zerker gear, I’ve almost finished everything in Arah (one path left more of a time commitment than everything, so far only boss we’ve wiped on was Melandru and even then it was stupid easy once I kited the gorillas around in another room), and speed clears are hardly a testament to skill, usually just builds that take advantage of the mechanics.

PS: I also killed Liadri

After thinking it over a little I think it’d be fine if it was for bear pets only, I mean kitten you give up so much by taking a bear it can at least serve as a point holder!

I was happy to get to put him down myself! God Tybalt bugged the crap out of me… by Sieran….why Sieran?!?! Anet have you no heart!?! I’m going to enjoy killing scarlet for that…

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LumAnth.5124:

I had to kill Tybalt on my mesmer

Oh god, it’s true. I was wondering when I faced Forgal if the other mentors were there if you were in a different order.

ANET WHY.

I had to face Sieran =(, it was even more depressing than Claw Island, although i will say i’ve never wanted to cause scarlet as much pain as i do now!!

Sube Dai.8496:

I think traiting skirmishing for the precision and bleeds on crit could be interesting. I might try these runes/sigils on a 10/30/30.

Let me know how that works!! I’d recommend trying that with both rabid and Rampagers gear too btw!

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Durzlla.6295:

jcbroe.4329:

Oh, and you could get pets to stick to people and do tons of damage. I had enemy bunny thumpers hit me for like 100-123 of my health, in a game where my health pool was like 565. I mean, the base health was only like 480.

Not to mention the deep wound and daze they throw on you too lol, or at least that’s what my bunny thumper build did!

Exactly lol. I played Guild Wars 1 for a long time, running interrupt ranger competitively even, playing/sidelining for some pretty decent guilds, and I can say that in all of that time, the only thing I feared on my ranger was a bunny thumper haha.

Warriors couldn’t spam their skills enough to hit me through my block stances, nor could most other classes, and interrupts countered the ones that could hurt me. But those darn bunny thumpers in RA man, so much pressure on such a short cooldown with such a scary pet lol.

It’s such a shame the builds I’m describing don’t exist in GW2 the devs killed my favorite class in favor of something that I really don’t think will ever be as good or as fun as what I had in the original Guild Wars.

I actually have started playing very similarly to how I did in GW1 (fight in unison with pet, each bringing something) however what really threw me through a loop was that unlike in Gw1 where my pet brought damage and I brought the control I had to swap those roles, which is seen a bit in the build I shared lol.

I do miss my bunny thumper and strike as one builds though =(

@jcbroe it’s normally not someone willingly taking the shot lol, most of the time it’s someone (like me) who will run behind their allies or a pet or something to force it to take the interrupt for them so they can get off a skill. And I’m a bit biased, I just despise EB as a trait, the condi removal is good, but the cost is way too high imo, normally I’ll dodge the big condi hits, and dance in and out of my spring to get some cleansed off. We really do need better condi clear though, condi necros give me the most issues.

@saalle the stats from skirmishing would be nice, but other than that there’s nothing I need or even want from that line, I’d be giving up so much utility and survivability by going in there for only a minor amount of damage and healing. The crit chance I have is ~35% and if I’m fighting on point a barrage will be ontop of them and the fight will normally be over shortly after barrage ends (especially if I’m kiting them through it) so I’m not too worried about the damage.

jcbroe.4329:

Oh, and you could get pets to stick to people and do tons of damage. I had enemy bunny thumpers hit me for like 100-123 of my health, in a game where my health pool was like 565. I mean, the base health was only like 480.

Not to mention the deep wound and daze they throw on you too lol, or at least that’s what my bunny thumper build did!