Guild Wars 2

Snow owl griffin please and thanks!

What exactly does opening strikes do, I’ve always wondered.

Runiir.6425:

You can, if you are lucky and get the glitch to happen, to be able to get a soulbound look to be placed onto a non soulind itemw ithout the item autobinding to you.

Sorry about that Eden, so used to races being refered to as factions on the boards.

It’s ok I wasn’t sure what they were officially called, my bad.

MithranArkanere.8957:

It’ll be nice if each expansion gave you the opportunity to join another order. Up to 4 (including Zaishen because everyone wants to join the Zaishen).

This means we need at least 3 expansions.

If that can’t be done, secondary instanced quests you get after certain points in your story would be a neat way to get them unlocked.

It’s a shame not being able to mix and match them, unless you do some blue item trickery.

You can transmute an item from an order to make it account bound?

Runiir.6425:

You can buy any faction’s weapons, they are kharma bought.

Only the armor is racially locked.

I’m talking about the different orders you can join(vigil, durmand priory and the whispers one).

I really don’t want to remake my 80 guardian and I want the option to wear one orders armor and another orders weapons, vice versa. Let us change orders some how(durmand priory, vigil…) maybe do a quest for them or at least let us purchase them by other means.

+1, I would like to see more stat combos and new appearances too. IMO you should have as much diversity in armor if you spend all your time in wvwvw as you do farming pve.

It’s not an oversight, it’s a money making scam.

Guess ill have to try Balthazar. Really wish there would be a more straight forward way to apply burn via rune or sigil.

It was useful, do you havppen to know what the burn on attack rune is?

I would like to see guildmates as gold dots on wvw maps, its hard to co-ordinate guild members when we have more then 1 party, this is guild wars after all

As a conditionmancer, do necros have any way to apply burn on a regular basis?

Green for my necro, blue for my guardian, GO!

My sylvari dreamt of (. )(. )’s.

I used the kit to change the angle of my eyes and still had my glow after.

Ranger: rifle
Guardian: longbow, offhand mace
Necro: duel pistol, torch(ghastly flame attacks)
Engi: two handed hammer, main hand mace, shotgun(takes rifle skills, rifle gets new skills)
Warrior: torch, shortbow
Mesmer: main hand pistol
Theif: off hand sword, shotgun
Ele: main hand sword, main hand focus

Most glaring issue for me is the unreliability of our short ranged channel skills: dagger#2, 3 and axe #2. These skills cast bars break anytime I try to kite people, I literally have to stand still and let my character auto face the target for them to be reliable. There are even times the skills will fire but be put on full cooldown instantly because they ate so finicky.

I went from playing 3 hours at least a day(2 weeks ago) to logging on only to say hi to friends. I think it’s mostly due to the fact that spvp is separated from the other form of pvp(wvwvw), I would be happy if you could earn glory from wvw and have much more wvw earned gear to go along with it(one set is not enough). I just never find myself playing spvp often because it ties too little into the rest of the game and offers no xp.

I dont enjoy pve in any mmo, so I’ve just ended up very bored and started playing planetside 2 which I enjoy very much.

I was in the same boat. I went with a female nord and went the shortest, they are far shorter then the shortest male nord and more slender also(human like). I previewed all the medium armor I could especially norn cultural and it turns out, all tiers of medium cultural look way better on female then they do male. The shortest female norn is about an inch or two higher then the tallest male human, the shortest male norn is still about a foot or more taller.

Been doing more testing, it deffinitly seems faster too.

Kiriakulos.1690:

Not a speed increase, but the range it’s hitting MUCH farther.

Just test it in the mists, compare the auto attack with the mark cast range, necrotic seems to hit at 1400 now.

Minions also seem to be aggroing my auto attack targets now.

Indeed I can hit doors from really far away, hope they kep it this way, doubt it though.

Shooopa.5632:

Patch notes for today say it’s been sped up by 33%.

That was Spectral grasp, the 1200 pull

Does any one else feel like necrotic grasp(staff auto attack) had its velocity increased? To me it doesnt seem as slow any more, dispite it not being mentioned in the notes.

KasNova.8936:

Edenwolf.6328:

Xpiher.5209:

Edenwolf.6328:

I actually loled at this topic title, you want free ascended gear? No. Mmo’s grow, and so will you. It’s a formula us mmo gamers are all accustom to and it’s essential to give the game longevity. Every time new gear tiers are introduced, it’s always funny to see how those in end game feel “entitled” to free upgrades XD.

No, most people who bought GW2 did so because they didn’t want vertical gear progression. We are tired of that mmo model. It has nothing to do with wanting free gear, its not wanting new content to be gated and tied to RNG generated gear.

I’m sorry, “most” people did not buy gw2 for the reason you stated above, that’s quite the assumption. How do you think mmo’s keep people playing long term? People expect new content like dungeons, new arenas to fight in, more epic stats or appearance items to achieve, it’s all a standard feature in any mmo on the market today to KEEP YOU LOGGED ON. Like it or not, the devs are trying to make their bacon, and do so by keeping you logged on. “But I play for fun and not for gear,” well, many people also enjoy chasing carrots(new gear etc..), you expect the devs to cut those players out entirely by NEVER introducing new tiers? If you dont want gear inflation found in every mmo, then you can play spvp where gear inflation does not reach.

You may have missed something, but we don’t pay to log on to GW2. It’s not getting arenanet money to cater to the crowd that lives in the game since they are buying gems with gold, not actual cash.

They don’t cater those that live in the game for money? I can tell you from all my friends and I that log on on the daily, have spent at least 50 dollars in real cash for in game gold, bank spaces, character slots, black lion keys and so on all due to the fact that they have been playing so many hours.

Sad Swordfish.9743:

I want to stress this: nobody is saying they don’t want progression. There is nobody here, who does not want more cool stuff to do! The problem is when you do power treadmills! Why the hell would I be here if I wanted that sort of item progression?

There are lots of other ways to do progression. Horizontal progression. There is much more to it than power. So why not let people at least by playing the game, allow themselves somehow to work towards upping Exotics into Ascended?

I’m completely ok with ascended being on the same tier with exotic, as long as it has more epic looking appearance. I’m not ok with people in exotic expecting free upgrades, when new content is introduced they should do the new content(dungeons etc..) in order to achieve it.

Xpiher.5209:

Edenwolf.6328:

I actually loled at this topic title, you want free ascended gear? No. Mmo’s grow, and so will you. It’s a formula us mmo gamers are all accustom to and it’s essential to give the game longevity. Every time new gear tiers are introduced, it’s always funny to see how those in end game feel “entitled” to free upgrades XD.

No, most people who bought GW2 did so because they didn’t want vertical gear progression. We are tired of that mmo model. It has nothing to do with wanting free gear, its not wanting new content to be gated and tied to RNG generated gear.

I’m sorry, “most” people did not buy gw2 for the reason you stated above, that’s quite the assumption. How do you think mmo’s keep people playing long term? People expect new content like dungeons, new arenas to fight in, more epic stats or appearance items to achieve, it’s all a standard feature in any mmo on the market today to KEEP YOU LOGGED ON. Like it or not, the devs are trying to make their bacon, and do so by keeping you logged on. “But I play for fun and not for gear,” well, many people also enjoy chasing carrots(new gear etc..), you expect the devs to cut those players out entirely by NEVER introducing new tiers of stats or appearance? If you dont want gear inflation found in every mmo, then it’s nice that you have spvp where gear inflation does not reach.

I actually loled at this topic title, you want free ascended gear? No. Mmo’s grow, and so will you. It’s a formula us mmo gamers are all accustom to and it’s essential to give the game longevity. Every time new gear tiers are introduced, it’s always funny to see how those in end game feel “entitled” to free upgrades XD.

ps. I’m wearing full exotics as well and not bothered in the slightest, I’m actaully looking forward to more epic looking gear, ascended then eventual legendary.

I think necro specced into pure conditions having access to a torch(burns) would be too powerful. Necros call already burst condition people down with bleeds and poison, something like 10+ ticks at 120 damage every second.

The slow projectile speed of necrotic grasp makes me cry at night.

I’ve actually decided to give up my pure power build last night to go hybrid and after reading this I can totally agree. I went for a pure power/crit/crit damage build with staff, dagger and warhorn, and I always fealt I was missing out on the bleed damage from staff and the crit trait line.

Last night I decided to switch it up so I picked up a scepter, dagger and staff and went full out power, condition and crit. I put the last ten points into bigger marks, picked up bleed on crit, stacks of condition damage on kill, and bleed those around me on weapon swap for sigils and condition damage/15% duration increase to poison and bleed runes.

For utility I use ground target wells and blood is power to skyrocket bleeds and power based alike, getting 90+ bleed ticks and scepter 3 can crit for 4k. This build also allows me to use DS effectively in terms of dps where life blast hits for 3500+ and #4 up to 5000+. All in all I feel I’ve been missing out all along on the full potential of the damage this class can do, I can keep up many stacks of bleeds on multiple targets, then blast them away with wells and staff skills, especially putrid mark.

The crossing is one of the most amazing necro staffs in game, I’m sorry you can’t experience it. Also, I think the spider bow looks silly XD.

Im surprised that we can’t craft permanent, low level, blue and green tier weapons(lvl 25 blue staff for example). The lvl 80 exotics have stats on them, equal to that of similar lvl weapons, which I thought was the main reason behind the high manufacturing cost.

I understand the need to keep us playing, or collecting during the length of the event, but this is just rediculous, your literally cutting off 95% of your player base from recieving any long term event related items(a big deal for any mmo fan). I think your approaching event items the wrong way, these items should be achievable BEFOR the event ends, through effort into halloween related events and by at least 70% of the population trying to ENJOY the holiday. I’m ok with working hard at special events to recieve rewards or even farm for that matter, but by no means should it drag on far past the length of the event. How do you propose we collect MANY rare items needed to craft gifts and weapons after the event is over, buy them from trading post? They will skyrocket in price, again cutting off many players, and will eventually deminish in time as they only dropped during holiday.

There is no other explanation for how they approached the rewards for this event, they want your real life cash, and lots of it. I’m ok with this, however, NOT ON HOLIDAYS.

People saying players in 80 exotic gear have the same stats as lvl 35 players in greens is laughable. Even when I ran ac explore on my 35 gaurdian in greens, the jump to 64 with all yellows, runes and more traits made a world of difference!

AC, the first dungeon, is rediculously harder then CoF, I find this mind boggling.

Life transfer does rediculous damage, but I do think life blast could be bumped up a little, 4500 crits is the highest I’ve seen in spvp. If specced into full power/crit/crit damage, I would expect 5500-6000 the sweet spot.

If only this would work in spvp, highest I’ve been able to achieve is 4,500 with 2100 power, 45 crit chance, 65 crit damage, 20% damage under 50% health and blood is power. I believe that it’s possible to achieve in a wvw however given the access to much higher stats. 7k life blast sounds awesome, and 10k sounds even better, quite excited to level my necro one day.

Omg 15/20 people don’t know how to read, he said HUMAN MALE, and yes it does look like he’s conjuring a giant kitten in his pants, and to celebrate, he does a fairy leg tuck at the end.

Shooopa.5632:

Their HP.

A thief has the second-lowest amount of HP in the game. If they fail to kill you or escape, they will die. Period.

Thief is on the lowest tier of health(out of 3) and on par with elementalists, around 14k with little to no vitality stats.

Sounds to me like your describing what every rogue career does in every mmo, we must be right on target. Like in every mmo, people will whine the hardest when they get gibbed in the back by one.

First of all, in my entire career of gw2 and playing mainly wvw and spvp I have only been hit for 10k backstab once if not twice, literally. You guys realize the 150% damage boost can only be used once and is on 60 second cooldown? A typical backstab usually crits me for 4-7k, I have been hit by a good ele fire grab for that much so these numbers are not entitled to thief alone.

In every mmo I have played, people fear the rogue class, for if your eyes are not peeled or you forget they are there, they will backstab you to death.

About you complaining over the elites, you can’t knock them simply because they are effective when others arnt, those are separate issues. Secondly, theives guild and dagger storm are cercumstantial, if your stuck with dagger storm in a 1v1 against any one with a melee weapon equipped its wasted because dagger storm usually misses against a single target, you can’t cancel it with abilities and only reflects projectiles. On the other hand, if your stuck in a group situation with theives guild, again it’s wasted as they will die quickly to aoe and not focus fire intended targets.

The only problem i see is the latency issue in some instances where they appear to be attacking many times while still stealthed.

It doesn’t make sence as a spectral skill what so ever. If anything it would be under corruption or blood magic, the heal is fine as is.

I’m specced to apply buffs and retaliation to allies when I pop the skills, so I use justice off cooldown to keep groups might up, and the heal and aegis virtues when my allies around me are taking extreme heat. The heal and aegis virtue grant regen and protection to allies around me and myself, this greatly improves our survivability and I use renewed focus as an elite to refresh the virtues as needed.

All in all I like the virtues, I just think the heal and aegis need to have their cooldowns slightly.

Rage posting over how you stood in the way of 7 death blossoms and died should be a ban-able offense.

Unload and stealth skill 1 are a nasty combo, especially combined with the attack haste on crit. I’ve literally dropped people in 2 seconds with that combo, and I’ve seen a single unload hit for 12000. I cannot part with my duel pistol.

The daze on the pistol is also quite useful, it can be used to lock someone down from using skills, or to stop people from rezzing their downed allies. I enjoy the vulnerability debuff when others have stacked theirs first, but 1v1 it’s pretty bad concidering you can only keep 5 stacks on someone, when you apply it to 10 stacks, it jumps down to 5 almost instantly.

As for dealing with unload downtime, I’m specced to gain initiative on steal, have 15 total initiative, gain some on using a health skill and use stealth skill 1(unload with bleeds) as often as I can as it costs nothing.

Seems like the base of a lot of arguments stem from the ideas that greatsword is now useless, does no damage or doesn’t pair well with many of our weapons. I know for a fact greatsword still does awesome dps with a smartly placed SoW and whirling wrath and pairs well with mace and shield, and is my primary build for tourney pvp.

Turns out the change hadn’t effected me much at all concidering I swap weapons often. The time it takes me to switch to mace, apply all my support and heal spells and switch back to greatsword, symbol of wrath is already off the 20 second cool down. This goes without saying for my other toons as well, swapping weapons is an integral part of getting the most out of your spec.

There is rarely a time I stay in greatsword for more then a full skill rotation, like I said, a well placed symbol and whirling wrath do massive damage.

Scepter auto attack kills it for me, hard.

Now a couple days have past and here I am forgetting the change ever happened. That’s right, I’ve gotten used to the changes! Trust me, I thought Id be scrapping greatsword and possibly guardian forever, instead I gave it a shot.

I admit, at the time 3 seconds of downtime on a retaliation buff on top of a stronge aoe damage source was a little much. Now I find myself actually using the ability the way it should have been, at the right time, at the right place, rather then spamming whenever possible.

All the flaming about the rearranged skills is far overdone. It’s been two days and I’m already used to it! It only makes sence to follow suit and place them in order, according to their cooldown.

Because scepter is a hybrid weapon. The auto attack and skill 2 both feature direct damage on top of the dots.

I also vote for 300 range, if not cleave, at least let it hit as hard.

Devinchi.2756:

Nekroseth.5186:

So basically you ppl hate him, for wanting to have an option to play his class in a aspect he would love.
Without caring that it wont even really efect the game. Its more of a plus content. Or so to say an OPTION to the players that want to costumize there combat a bit.

And you would take the OPTION from him, only becosue you dont like it….thats EXAkittenhe reson mmos didnt evolve.

I perfectly understand what and why he wants it and i agree.

Wont fit? Yes so thats why there are sniper rifle skins. They even have scope. And death ray canons fit the game……Seriously. IN a game where you have a floating cube city, undead dragons and shape shifting norn, flamethrower and toxic granades a sniper rifle wont fit?

On the other hand, if not a sniper rifle kit, but a normal rifle kit would be totally needed. A lot of palyers dont like the shotgun like Rifle. And dont have an option to use it “normally”. Its mostly the reson i rerolled from this awesome class.

It’s not that some of us don’t like the idea. This is seriously like the 5th thread on this forum wishing for engineers to have a sniper rifle that plays extremely similar to skills on the warrior’s rifle. The same weapon across various professions play entirely differently, and such is the case with the rifle.

There are 5+ threads on the matter and more due to come because it’s a popular issue with engineers, we’re simply wanting a void filled that is a long range option. Im guessing a lot of people who aimed to play engi when the first tidbits of info for the class were revield(including using a rifle) were dissapointed that they could not play a long ranged turret/stationary build popular in many mmo’s.

I’m sure some will say, “Anet is doing right by starting new trends” but the fact of the matter is, you still have your typical classes demonstrated in most mmo’s(warrior, paladin, assassin, ranger, sorcerer etc..). The difference here is that they give every class different ranged options and healing.

Tuomir.1830:

So… What you want is the Warrior rifle on Engineer?

They won’t add a shotgun to swap our rifle skills too so this is the only other option.