Guild Wars 2

Im pretty stoked for deathwish when I reach 80, then ill work on the crossing for end game. Not happy with the scythe or final rest, at least until they fix the double scythe bug.

Oh, and the crossing isnt a scythe..

Im pretty sure anet said they want to add a way to achieve laurels by other means, im guessing something to do with the live story.

Arale.4207:

Edenwolf.6328:

iZerker doing 1/3rd the damage, that is quite comical. I havnt noticed a single drop in damage at all since patch. Im still averaging 5k crits in pvp, and have seen 7k+, it has been this way for months, nothing has changed. My guildie who mains a mesmer says he hasnt noticed a change either.

Only 5k? o.O

It definitely does more damage, and the devs have already confirmed it in the bug forum thread.

Average of 5k…

Please procede to tell me you average 8k

Na, a power based phantasm doesnt fit torch, its a condition weapon. I like mage for confusion, just needs some tweaks.

iZerker doing 1/3rd the damage, that is quite comical. I havnt noticed a single drop in damage at all since patch. Im still averaging 5k crits in pvp, and have seen 7k+, it has been this way for months, nothing has changed. My guildie who mains a mesmer says he hasnt noticed a change either.

Softspoken.2410:

Jiiub.7135:

Plague form as a Asura does actually have a smaller Radius, the area shown when using the skill is the actual range..

Managed to test this exact thing with an Asuran guildmate from But of Corpse:

The active area of Plague Form on an Asura is larger than the AoE indicator. Significantly so. Enough to make it actually match the 240 radius listed on the skill.

Dalent.9358:

Unless my Blood Fiend can passively heal, or it’s healing from its own criticals, Reaper’s Touch does bounce to minions. I have not been able to actually see if the Blood Fiend or other minions get the Regeneration boon due to the game constantly crashing, but I will get back to you when I have that information.

I still can’t get this to work. I can have blood fiend face-tanking an enemy, use reaper’s touch from about 750ish range, and the spell won’t bounce. The blood fiend receives no regeneration, and the enemy mob still has only 4 stacks of vulnerability.

Edenwolf.6328:

if your going to test, make sure to test in pvp or wvw on players and test multiple times as it works sometimes. Seems to be about 50/50 chance.

Gonna take a moment here to specify something about how I test skills in general:

The reason I don’t test in live PvP / WvW is because there is a lot of defensive options that come up very quickly when you’re fighting other players. There are surprise blinds, aegis, blocks, dodges, invulnerability and evasion frames that I simply cannot control for.

Where I do test is in Heart of the Mists, because I’ve always had it asserted to me that that place functions identically to PvP zones, and the sparring NPCs generally provide enough mechanics and predictability to see if a skill works in a general case.

Edit: Turns out you can use Plague Signet to transfer conditions even while facing directly away from your target, as long as you have them selected when you use the active.

Ok then its even more bugged then I thought, it should send the conditions roughly 90% of the time I activate it. Many times I free cast it on apponents from medium-long range, they have no aegis and im not blinded, and it still does nothinf.

They arnt just flukes, im gonna post a video here if im able, demonstrating the innacuracy of it.

Plague signet sometimes fails to activate even when i let go of my mouse and let him auto face the target. The signet goes on full cooldown but none of the conditions are sent.

This happens sometimes when im directly facing an opponent, if your going to test, make sure to test in pvp or wvw on players and test multiple times as it works sometimes. Seems to be about 50/50 chance.

I want an aoe that is powerful enough to one shot people, from full health to dead…

Quite asking for end game gear/appearances to be cheap, this is an mmo for kitten sakes, pull yourselves together preople.

Nretep.2564:

Edenwolf.6328:

Nretep.2564:

with [Sharper Images] the only thing that counts is the hit frequency. And the staff is our slowest weapon. The GS has highest ranged hitcount since it has triple hits.

For burst bleeding stacks (not really burst damage) iWarden or iDuelist are the best.

[ Edit ]
I forgot to mention, that staff clones don’t get the additional bounce trait. If they someday would, it’d need a recalculation of hit frequency.

I thought sharper images only effected illusions, your making it seem like sharper images effects mesmer weapon skills when you describe the hit frequency in our weapon auto attacks. Perhaps your refering to bleed on crit sigil?

Also, ddoes sharper images effective illusions AND phantasms?

Phantasms are illusions.

Clones only attack with autoattack (MHWeap #1-1). The faster your autoattack, the faster are the clones. The faster the clones the more often they trigger bleeding.

Oh ok I see what your getting at now.

Nretep.2564:

drongas.4189:

for bleed stucking u must use iDuelist or iWarden. when i was young i use rampager full set (100% crit chance), iDuelist + i sylvari and use elite racial skill. so i stuck with it 25 bleed

You’re right, I really forgot the plants, since I barely use them anymore. The Sylvari Ulti (the six seed turrets) also triggers sharper images, but they don’t get your condition damage. You easily reach 20+ bleeding stack with those.

Edenwolf.6328:

Nretep.2564:

You have to separate “Bleeding Build”s with “Condition Build”s for Mesmers. Condition builds are based on staff with condition duration (Domination) and condition damage (Illusions). Bleeding Builds are based on (Great-)Sword with critical chance (Dueling 15+) and condition damage (Illusion).

If you really want a bleeding build, grab the GSword (or just Sword MH), get at least 15 points in dueling and full rampager build. You’ll see the bleeding stacks at once.

So why do you suggest greatsword or main hand sword, they dont seem to be condition related?

with [Sharper Images] the only thing that counts is the hit frequency. And the staff is our slowest weapon. The GS has highest ranged hitcount since it has triple hits.

For burst bleeding stacks (not really burst damage) iWarden or iDuelist are the best.

[ Edit ]
I forgot to mention, that staff clones don’t get the additional bounce trait. If they someday would, it’d need a recalculation of hit frequency.

I thought sharper images only effected illusions, your making it seem like sharper images effects mesmer weapon skills when you describe the hit frequency in our weapon auto attacks. Perhaps your refering to bleed on crit sigil?

Also, ddoes sharper images effective illusions AND phantasms?

Nretep.2564:

You have to separate “Bleeding Build”s with “Condition Build”s for Mesmers. Condition builds are based on staff with condition duration (Domination) and condition damage (Illusions). Bleeding Builds are based on (Great-)Sword with critical chance (Dueling 15+) and condition damage (Illusion).

If you really want a bleeding build, grab the GSword (or just Sword MH), get at least 15 points in dueling and full rampager build. You’ll see the bleeding stacks at once.

So why do you suggest greatsword or main hand sword, they dont seem to be condition related?

I’m just starting a mesmer and have been wanting to rock a condition spec utilizing mostly bleeds and then burn/confusion/poison. Of course I want all forms of conditions to have the most uptime as possible, but I want to squeeze the most bleeds from the class as I can.

I’d apreciate some good videos, your builds and tips on how to achieve this. Most importanly I want to know how many stacks of bleeds am I looking at on the mes?

Guest to low pop servers.

My whole guild during ac last boss laughed hard in vent when I tried to pull the boss with scepter auto attack. The boss was basically crawling and my light orbs never tagged him for a solid minute.

This is when my guildies said to me “your right man, scepter auto attack is junk.”

What they need is proffesion based armor, in 3 tiers similar to the cultural system.

Flumek.9043:

Wery nice and clear display of our dps. Poeple find it hard to believe that
dagger #1 is equal to lich #1

Definitly not the case, lich 1 hits 4/3 as hard and always crits.

Cof gear does not look good on necro, we are not pyro mancers. It woukd look epic if we could change rhe flame colour to green.

Best looking armor for necro hands down is the arah dungeon set, it was practically built for necromancer.

What weapon/playstyle do you think is missing, if it were my decision, id choose a greatsword for a long range power build.

After recent changes to staff, ive actually encorperated it into my zerker build. You can go a number of ways here, I always use staff first to charge up my dps skyhigh with empower, throw down symbol and even orb of light (can crit for 5.5k ). Scepter/torch, greatsword or hammer all bring great dps to the table, I’d argue that greatsword does the most.

I cant take you seriously, pretty much 1 out of 8 classes can do a decent confusion build, even then to deal with it is as easy a 1-2-cleanse.

Some serious rage in this post.

Its bothering me more and more and I was very much looking forward to getting this shield.

I suggest being able to buy a legendary husk from a vender that sells them in all stat choices(I suggest being free in cost but must require owning a legendary.)

You buy the husk, which is of legendary status, then simply use a transmutation stone to transmute the stats of the desired husk onto the appearance, keeping legendary level stats and purple colour.

Ruprect.7260:

It is near impossible to do a major world boss event unless you get there an hour early. There are too many people from other servers there and I end up in the overflow unable to complete the event. I should not have to stand and wait at a dragon for an hour to save my spot.

Miss post

Just a big bunch of phony promises so far this year. So far the 2 patches have yet to exceed the gerth of either winter or halloween on their own, certainly not a EXPANSION worth. I wont be surprised to hear that spvp and wvw wont be recieving updates until april/may or beyond.

Have to say, I barely used staff befor patch, but now I use it as an offhand all the time! Empower is boss now and the ward spell is rediculously awesome, well done anet.

All I need is scepter auto attack to be given some love and for shield and focus 5 to be swapped and im my guardian experience will be complete.

Oh and dont forget longbow(fingers crossed)

Yes to all and especialy capes, I kittening miss capes.

Gosh dang them charr, stopping us from having capes!

akamon.2769:

here you go buddy.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guardian-aegis-and-shields/first#post1507941

i don’t think it looks THAT that that bad.

Awesome thanks for link, I have mixed feelings on that picture.

I’d like to know befor I start working on the legendary shield wether the aegis will appear over the shield, I would not want the shield if this were the case.

I’d really appreciate some photo evidence with you having aegis up and shield in hand, and just photos of your legendary shield in general, because its so epic Close ups are always nice!

I saw omnom ghost getting nerfed from a mile away, your fault for getting too attached and letting it run your build.

I use s/p in spvp and love it, ive had pistol whip crit for 11k without any food. Relying on omnom ghost for healing makes me lol.

@ elmuerto sword is designed to keep your opponent standing still with you(stuns/roots), its just a different playstyle. Just because you cant make it work doesnt make it a bad option.

169%

I got 5 rares and 2 charged lodestones from an hour and a half of farming. Without it im lucky to see 1 a day.

Setun.4368:

Just because you’re bad with a scepter doesn’t mean it’s broken. You’re just bad with it. Scepter is an awesome ranged weapon, it just takes some actual thought to use as you have to plan enemy movements to maximize Smite. Also having an instant immobilize on someone is borderline OP. If you’re that desperate to have ranged maybe you should play a class that is more suited to that role.

Can you please teach us the way of the psychic so that we too could use “actual thoughts” to increase the velocity of auto attacks and to change their directions mid flight.

No one is saying smite is a problem, its that the auto attack, one of the most crutial aspects of a ranged weapon is absolute kitten.

P.s. can I haz guardian longbow?

Sorry double post.

Gakesupo.4152:

Everything that was listed will come out tomorrow, but February was supposed to be a big wvw patch. The wvw content has been delayed.

Kitten, thats dissapointing.

Big update? Well, speculation is that its not as big as the devs stated months ago and that the majority of the content promised is being pushed back to march april.

The price is fine as is. Epic looking armor should have the pricetag to match. Id rather not have everyone running around in such epic looking armor, this is comming from a player who cant afford it yet.

Search for ebonhawk short bow, its one of the best. The bow is as large as a long bow and is all black.

Wow some people are thick, a person to person trading system has nothing to do with mail. With the system we have now, if you want to trade item for item with someone (dawn for dusk or powerful venom for powerful blood for example) your taking a huge risk. All you need is a simple system seen in many other mmos:

Right click, trade, a window pops up with slots tied to each player, each player shows or places item in slot, both players must accept trade indevidualy for trade to finish. If one player hasnt agreed to that trade, that player cancels and items are put back in their respective inventory.

Nothing to do with mail, TP or gold spam, its on the personal level similar to right clicking and inspecting players or any other options your used to.

C.O.D. doesnt solve all problems, unless your able to demand specific items and not just cash, which would be unlikely.

What I want most is longbow guardian, sniper rifle thief and greatsword necro for a long range power build (also so I can use twilight with him).

+1, career specific armor would be awesome, have it in 3 tiers just like cultural armor, the third set being escpecially epic. Some classes, engineer in paticular dont have many engineerr-esq appearances to look forward to.

Many times my guardian uses the downstate knockback and enemies are not effected by it, even though they do not have stability.

xCrusadentx.2784:

Edenwolf.6328:

This feature should be implemented, opinions of “no” dont matter if you have the option to allow inspection or not.

Warhammer online had the perfect system, one could choose to stay anonymous or allow others to inspect them by the check of a box, but they were not aloud to ever look at their stats, it was quite simple and perfect.

Allowing inspection only brings players closer together which quite frankly, is lacking somewhat atm.

Elitists and Hardcore players would force you to turn it on if you pug. If you refuse they’ll kick you if you’re not spec’d the way they want. Regardless of how often it would happen, it would happen; and its not fair to those people. Not everyone is such a nice soul. Is it so hard to type “What armor is that?” into the chatbox? Its 4 words and a question mark. Not that hard.

When you run into these people, they will force you to link your armor regardless of having an inspection system or not. In the hundreds of dungeon runs I have done, I have never been forced once to link my armor.

This feature should be implemented, opinions of “no” dont matter if you have the option to allow inspection or not.

Warhammer online had the perfect system, one could choose to stay anonymous or allow others to inspect them by the check of a box, but they were not aloud to ever look at their stats, it was quite simple and perfect.

Allowing inspection only brings players closer together which quite frankly, is lacking somewhat atm.

This is a feature used in ARMA the military sim, so it cant be too much work to implement.

I would love to have this.

Amityel.5324:

this armor is from beta test…….you can have it but you cannot dye flames anymore which is lame I think dunno why they have changed it really…

:( this makes me one sad panda.

ticket number:
130201-002586

My account was hacked nad you restored it quickly, but a more imortant problem has arrised. the hacker stole all my gold and my most valuable possessions and cant continue playing knowing that i have a chance to have my account will be rolled back.

I updated my ticket but no response in a while, I’d like to have my account rolled back to the state befor i got hacked ASAP so that I can continue forward this weekend. Thanks.

I’ll start off with saying thank you Anet support for getting me my account back so quickly, but I’m unsure of how to continue getting help with having my account rolled back to befor the incident.

I updated my question as soon as the hacker was kicked from my account, stating that the hacker took all my gold and my most valuable possessions, and that I would really appreciate some help with the new system you introduced on december 1st that rolls back accounts to previous states.

I havn’t seen a response since, and im wondering if I have to fill out a new question. I’m also curious of the hours that the support works, do they work over the weekend? I’d like to have my account rolled back asap, as any progress I make will just be erased.

Playing a couple hours everyday, im looking at 50 a week.

They will add all kinds of objects as we continue forward, if you dont want them dont buy. 100 laurels for an UNLIMITID amount of tonics is fair, in fact, im quite looking forward to purchasing it myself. For some people, an infinty tonic would be just as valuable as acended gear ect…

Anet if you are reading, please we can haz this, I are needing this