Guild Wars 2

lordkrall.7241:

^ I have a feeling that the target market for GTAV and MK is not really the same as the one for GW2.

Well GTAV has a wide range of players and is realy popular… Sadly… But MK, I didn’t even think it was a popular game :P I though that title died when they started making it 3D and making bad movies of it

Badwolf.9725:

Windsagio.1340:

The thing with meta/stack is you can always choose not to. If somebody’s an kitten about it ignore them, and ‘meta’ players are pretty good about self-excluding, and are easy to avoid.

I wish I could believe that. Unless I go out and hunt down 4 other RL friends that want to play GW2 over any other MMO (I have one that insists ESO is the second coming…I disagree very much…), which I don’t have, it’s almost impossible to find groups that DON’T run those exploits. Most dungeons/fractals (granted, I’m not a high level frac runner) consist of people running almost like bots with nothing beyond the occasional “hello” at the start of the group.

The issue I have with the meta is how obviously better it is in almost all cases. Most skills in most classes have no real use. Pet skills, for example, are a joke, a bad joke, a bad joke that hasn’t attempted to be fixed yet. I feel like 90% of the skills in the game could be patched out and no one would really care/notice. I look at armours on the TP and wonder, WHO buys “dire” sets? “carrion” sets? “Cleric’s” set? The meta is, overall, a giant dps race, if you don’t fit into that meta (go in with “Cleric’s” armour instead of the zerker meta), you’ll likely wipe your team for it as they can’t afford an extra dodge beyond the first 2. Honestly, the only reason I’ve ever had any interaction with those other sets at level 80 is when I have to craft them to level up my armoursmith/tailor/etc. Outside of that, why are they there? Those sets’ entire purpose is to give you crafting xp afaik. HoT doesn’t excite me because I’m afraid the only difference will be that I’ll go from one obviously “best” skill/trait setup to another >single< obviously “best” skill/trait setup. I want variety in HoT and I, sadly, don’t think the devs can deliver it based on their track record.

Ehhh….

I have got a guild where we play the game for fun, we do dungeons wihtout using exploits and we rarely stack at the iusual places becouse it is so unessesary as dungeons are so easy anyway. Why make stuff boring when you can make the game fun by playing dungeons with 3 players or not stack not going Zerker and more? It is fun, atleast in my opinion.

My Engineer goes With Carrion gear and I find it to be one of the best builds I have ever used with my engi and then I have tried alot of Meta builds at that. I am not going to say that it is better than the meta build but people should try to evolve alittle more from the Zerker mentality. Ofc Condition is bad in a zerg but in a dungeon it can be realy usefull.

My guardian swaps between Cleric and Zerker depending on situation.

My mesmer is Zerker / Celestial.

I havent found any use for dire yet but I guess there are some who uses it.

I have been playing with a few PUGs lately and they have been very kind and they have been pretty impressed with my skills and never complained about me not going Zerker with my Engineer and we have never whiped. So in the end I think it depends on what PUGs you are looking for and what you expect PUGs to do. If you go with a “Exp speedrun” dungeon ofc you will be hated for using something else than Zerker but it is not the only way and alot of players are starting to understand this.

I have alot of stuff to look forward too for the expac, like the new Borderlands, Stronghold PvP, Specializations, Masteries, new maps, new story, new collections, Revenant, fix to Traits and more. But these are stuff I look forward too the most and sure they maby could have made this stuff for free updates every two weeks but I think that it would have taken longer time for us to get all the stuff that is introduced now. I am one of those who said ‘I wouldn’t mind an Expac but I am fine with the weekly content as it is’ and now when I see threads like this I can’t help to realize how different we all are.

Actually I think the first pic is a new invisible wall… I have noticed some places I have jumped before but are now blocked by Invisible walls and I agree I hate them… GW2 Does not have that many (yet) but I guess they put them up becouse of real reasons like glitches or bugs… Like I dunno why they did it but the vista in Mount Maelstrom at the top of the vulcano… I loved to walk up to the highest point there but they have made almost 80% of that mountain an invisible wall.

Well it’s true that you say indeed.

What I couldn’t understand is that a few seconds means so much to you… I would not beleave that Devs would move an NPC becouse a few (I don’t think you are the only one) thinks that Trader is to far away from crafting stations in LA. I can be wrong, I have been many times and I can’t decide what Anet thinks about this suggestion. Do you honestly think that this is something they would do when they have so much to do and the Captain’s Airship Pass is for people who wants convenince?

Eidolonemesis.5640:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

If you want convenience I suggest you buy
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trading_Post_Express

Your time must be realy precious …

I want a Trading post following me around becouse it takes alot of time to WP to a map with a trader when I need to buy food and other stuff.

btw, I think you even wasted more time making a post here then running back and forth to that TP a few times.

It is comments like these that are the reason why things are not improved in GW 2, in this case, when it comes to towns.

On another note, this entire thread took me maybe a good 10 minutes to put together at best. Therefore, the 20-22 seconds wasted each time I have to walk to and walk back from the crafting stations on the opposite side in Lion’s Arch takes more time than 10 minutes, especially if you have been playing GW 2 since release, crafting throughout that time.

It adds up.

Conclusion? Your exaggeration(s) did absolutely nothing for your argument.

Well maby this is an “improvement” I do not approve so yea ofcourse my reply was a reason to why some stuff doesn’t get improved.

And about the time … I dunno if I missunderstand you or if you missunderstod me becouse if this post took you 10min to write… I am not good with math but I am going to try… 10min = 600 seconds and it takes you ~20sec to get back and forth once so 600 / 20 = 30 … So if you never wrote this post you would have managed to run back and forth 30 times. If a few seconds are so valuble to you I mean.

I think the trading posts are well placed. I have all my crafting above 400 and Hunstman, Armorsmith and Tailor at 500 … I do all my crafting in DR … Nice close WP to crafting and Trading post and less loading time than in LA.

Oh and if you don’t wanna buy trading express stuff… then this is another choice : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Captain%27s_Airship_Pass_

If you want convenience I suggest you buy
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trading_Post_Express

Your time must be realy precious …

I want a Trading post following me around becouse it takes alot of time to WP to a map with a trader when I need to buy food and other stuff.

btw, I think you even wasted more time making a post here then running back and forth to that TP a few times.

Well… I have been playing almost every day since headstart, I have never bought a key but I have level up around 11 characters to level 80 and done most maps on 8 characters. So during my time have have got alot of keys but I have never ever got a Makeover kit from a BLTC… Best stuff I have ever got is one compleate Blacklion ticke.

But if you ask one in my guild he havent played very much and he got an Infinte Makeover kit from one of his first BLTC-

Crrrystal.6845:

Nicholas,

This is a game that many of us play for leisure and relaxation. Why are you trying to dictate what people can name their pets? That’s simply not fair. I don’t log in just to tell you what color to dye your armor. Play how you want!

On the flip side, many people participate in online games as a way to act out things that they are not allowed to do IRL. Take, for example, the erotic role play community. As a side note, that’s who we should really be going after here, not the poor misunderstood Ranger pets.

Nicholas, please stop getting mad at video games.

Sincerely,
Everyone.

Play how you want yes but still you have to follow the rules that made to make the world and the game a place for everyone to enjoy. It does not matter what you say, joke or plead about it. There will always be people out there who will report offencive names becouse they are against the “rules”.

I think a few more have to read it…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-naming-policy/

Artemis Thuras.8795:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Mossman I go with Zerker becouse he is so easy and I can’t remember him hitting hard enough to kill me even as Zerker.

What fractal level and class are you running?

what traits are you running on that class?

I am no fractals runner I am just somewhere above level 25… But this warrior was running at fractal level 9, he had personal reward level 49 but the level he run was level 9. I was compairing to that video and well the question I had was ‘can you go against other bosses than just mossman by just standing still and outheal the bosses DPS? If so I wanna see a video of that too’ (Boss examples are at previous post).

rotten.9753:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

- Remove Zerker and maby Assassin stats.

Don’t forget about sinister gear.

Maby

I am using Zerker on my ranger, Guardian and Mesmer I would not be happy by the removal of Zerker iether but it would rid the Zerker Meta but as I said in the beginning, there will only be a new meta stat.

Looking at the two videos you posted I can’t help to think that Mossman seems pretty weak. Becouse I switch between Cleric gear and Zerker depending on what I fight and what group I play with… Mossman I go with Zerker becouse he is so easy and I can’t remember him hitting hard enough to kill me even as Zerker.

I would like to se a warrior tank for example Legendary Grawl Shaman, Mai Trin, Clockheart, Mordrem Vinewrath Champions and more exactly like he tanks Mossman. Not every boss is a pushover and can be beaten without moving and only outheal the damage.

read OP but I havent read all responses.

I do like some ideas in this thread.

I don’t think removing downed state will help taking away meta it will only result to a new one, what one I do not know yet. But the reason about downed state negates the down side of Zerker is true IMO.

Combined with some ideas in this post with some of mine I have thought about.
Hard Mode dungeons:
Removing downed state and gives enemies more skills to evade and move around.

Some other “fixes”:
- Can’t ress by killing a target (But regen when OoC).
- Stats effects downstate more like, Healing power gives more healing, Vitality gives more starting HP when downed, Thougness, Precision, Ferocity, condition damage and Power is ofc pretty clear what they do.
- Enemies will avoid stacked players and AoE push/pull skills when there are 3 or more players in a stack to long. (I am no programmer so I dunno if it is possible)
- Make healing power better than protection buff wich require no stats.
- Remove Zerker and maby Assassin stats.

Hmm… Sounds nice. I think some players will feel cheated if they get the chanse to start the LS for free and then it is locked behind Gemshop. But I guess it will be better for sales in the end… I think atleast.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Taking 2.5 or 3 years to rework Zhaitan (something they’ve announced since release) isn’t exactly rushing, is it? And I’m sure they could’ve done that faster.

Not saying you lie becouse I think not. But I have googled and tried to search for this announcement after I read this… Can’t seem to find it. Maby you(or someone else) know where to find it?

Have you ever tried to find a 2 year old post when you don’t even know wether you read it in the german or english forum, let alone what sub-forum?

Edit: All I found was someone else who remembered the statement about a year ago. Can’t find the original ANet-Statement though.

If I recall correctly they acknowledged the issue and stated there were plans about revamping it… haven’t heard about that for the longest time.

Anyways, Borderlands final boss fight was worse because it failed even on a graphics/scenery level.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/The-Zhaitan-boss-fight-is-frustrating/first#post2363168

Ty. No I havent but some people save statements made by devs and companies so I hoped you (Or someone else) had done that.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Taking 2.5 or 3 years to rework Zhaitan (something they’ve announced since release) isn’t exactly rushing, is it? And I’m sure they could’ve done that faster.

Not saying you lie becouse I think not. But I have googled and tried to search for this announcement after I read this… Can’t seem to find it. Maby you(or someone else) know where to find it?

nyctalopia.4735:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Though I think Canach could be a cool addition to DE 2.0 though, I like his Rouge style.

I, too, love the way Canach applies his make-up.

Aww! Cool, I thought I was the only one :P

What irony, I kinda knew I spelled it wrong I thought ‘is it Rogue or Rouge hmm… Owell whatever’ and I had the feeling that this is something someone will joke about. So I am not gonna edit my error instad I will have people laugh about it. HA HA … Meh

I just skimmed through the story so far but if you would go only for what it says there then Rox and Kas isn’t a part of DE 2.0 …

I beleave Marjory, Taimi, Braham and Canach is the ones that can flip (as it is said) and make the situation worse for our Heroes.
Though I think Canach could be a cool addition to DE 2.0 though, I like his Rouge style.

Merchant Of Shadows.1526:

I’m the BIGGEST fanboy for anet. I’ve met the artists and devs in person, own the CE of gw2 along with the CE strategy guide, own multiple posters that are up around my room, have the Guild Wars 2 dragon t-shirt, and have done everything in this game possible without grinding for hours on end.

This kinda bugs me… I mean what does meeting devs in person, done everything in the game and owning alot of GW2 stuff have to do with being a fanboy… And the BIGGEST at that? So by being the BIGGEST fanboy gives you the upper hand doing ‘whine threads’ like this? Anet will listen to you more than us becouse of that? Doubt that.

What Anet have done at the time I guess is that they have released information on the most yummiest parts that is finnished enough to show us, so in time there will be more stuff but do not expect cooler things than a new class, Boarder for WvW, Masteries, PvP map. What we can expect information on (when Anet is ready to show us) is Guild Halls, Specialications and some more stuff I guess.

I do agree about bad content since Expac was announced but that is the prize for wanting an expansion. I in no way blame Anet for not be able to be working on two games at the same time. I also thought and hoped that SAB would come last patch and I got disapointed that it didn’t but again I can’t expect them to do wonders every day.

Hello!

I usually start my posts by saying I am probably a white knight or fanboi to GW2, so here it is again. Well I may be or I may not be, but all I do is that I try to be realistic or what do you call it? Open minded? Owell…

I also bought a Infinite continue Coin and I am a SAB fan and it is a realy shame that they have put SAB on ice. When I bought the Infinite continue coin I was expecting SAB to return each 6 months or even after a year but I never expected it to be put on Ice. Sure I have used my Infinite continue coin and I am glad I bought it since it helped me alot allready so I am not gonna whine about it and as for a refund. Still it is hard to say that I do not feel betrayed, everytime I open my storage and see my SAB stuff I am thinking about throwing it away… Will it ever come back? As a few have said here allready, even if the Devs says it is coming back in the future I still can’t say I trust that for what I have realized in the MMO business is that nothing becomes what you have expected.

ofc, transmugation charges is a way for Anet/NCsoft or whatever to earn money. But on the other hand I have never ever bought any Transmugation charge from Store and I still have about 65-ish left. I change looks alot at that but I also do World compleation, PvP and Daily log ins so I get a fair deal of transmugation charges.

If you want to change the looks of your gear and don’t wanna do world compleation or PvP or whatever stuff you get charges from then go ahead and buy them, but it is your choise. There are atleast pretty easy ways to not buy them for real cash so in my opinion this is not a cash-grab.

Also while we are talking about cosmetic things, OP should be bothered with Total-makeover kits becouse they are pretty hard to come by in-game without spending gems. There are a few ways but not easy. But I would rather have cosmetic things in Gem shop than Pay to Win stuff and since this game is free I happely spend a few Swedish crowns a month to support GW2 and get some neat looks. But the best thing with GW2 is that if I can’t afford it, I don’t have to buy it and I can still play every part of the game.

I don’t realy get some of you.

How can you claim that you have to grind to get to level up your Maserie? Well it is like how you have to “grind” to get to level 80 in this game as people say. Well ofcourse you grind if you go to EoTM and Farm with the zerg over and over again. But if you explore the world, play the story, do the events that you pass and enjoy the game for the fun parts you eventually hit level 80.

Now I havent tried HoT ofcourse so I dunno how hard it is to level Masteries, but I am pretty sure that if I just play the game and enjoy it’s content I will have most masteries max leveled. I am pretty sure that I won’t get a new mastery and then I go grind same mobs over and over again just to level up the mastery, I will brobably do fun stuff and level up the masteries while doing it. Just as I have when I leveled over 10 characters to level 80 without leveling tomes and grinding.

As LanfearShadowflame.3189 said, you gain XP for more or less everything in this game… I don’t see why some people have to grind.

I am not gonna say it is good or bad until I have tried it but it does not sound like grinding to me.

phys.7689:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

I havent done Fractals that much but I have done quite a few so I have learned some ways to do most fractals. I have been doing Fractals with my old guild with someone leading us and now recently I have been doing Fractals with my own guild where I have been leading us. One day we was short on one player so a Guild member had a friend who had fractal level 47 or something who we let join us. So we played on Fractal level 17-ish and what was so fun was that this player (Who is realy good, kind and helpfull) played the fractal as if it was fractal level 47, he wanted us to stack in a corner becouse if we didn’t mobs would kill us and the fun part was by doing this it all took longer time. It was a slow but sure method.

The point with what I said is that some players learn how to play a Fractal the best way and the most easy way and also they think that is the only way. maby it is the only way at Fractal 40-50 but at 10-19 it is not that hard. In our Guild not everyone has AR yet but we let them join for 10-19 runs anyway becouse they are easy. When we first tried fractal 10 there was only one player who had AR and we managed without much trouble to get to just this boss OP is talking about but they did to much attacks with agony so it was impossible for us to manage a perfect run :P

Anyway in OP’s scenario… If his team would have just scrapped this stupid tactic to stack and reflect they could have done it without OP alive even. It was Fractal level 10-19 not 20 or higher (Not even at 20 it is that hard).

ar requirement scales per level, taking 12% per tick on the molten duo means, you almost die every time you start the fight, unavoidable agony. it means getting downed= death (because you can no longer dodge aoe, and take 12%hp extra damage with every hit.

Its not impossible, but its pretty unlikely unless you are experienced, and even then its difficult. Since he basically died fast, he was not good enough to play against that level of agony.
just putting 1 agony infusion, which costs 175 fractal relics would reduce the damage by half, (instead of almost dying at the beginning, he wouldnt even go down) 10, would have made the agony portion 1%, and negligable.

like i said, AR isnt a skill check anymore, its basically a gate. sadly, its most gatelike only when you reach the last fractal. (if its not jade maw, which gives you plenty of time to recover from guaranteed agony)

Short on time now sorry, so I am just gonna answer the first part.
Thats why the one without AR stands near his/her team to be rezzedas soon as he/she goes down in the begining. At first try there will be an intro wich let’s you rez before the fight starts. I managed to survive that fight with no AR and I dont think I am that good but also as I said we got that fight with a team of five where only one had AR and we failed that becouse every player has to make a near perfect run :P I am well aware of that. But in OP situation it should have been only him with AR0 and by that the team should have been able to handle it at Fractal level 10-19 if they werent so dumb to think they had to stack kill that boss.

Molch.2078:

You play a heal guardian with no AR at a low level fractal with randoms and you are surprised you got kicked when things went badly?

I agree that kicking someone at the last fractal isn’t nice, but you are not entirely innocent here. The meta is there for a reason.

Thats funny, so you say becouse he play the way he wants he deserves the kick? As I just said in above post, fractal level 10-19 isn’t that hard so Zerker isn’t the only viable stats for this. As I havent got higher than 20-29 Fractals I can’t comment about if you only need Zerkers for higher fractals but I doubt that.

I havent done Fractals that much but I have done quite a few so I have learned some ways to do most fractals. I have been doing Fractals with my old guild with someone leading us and now recently I have been doing Fractals with my own guild where I have been leading us. One day we was short on one player so a Guild member had a friend who had fractal level 47 or something who we let join us. So we played on Fractal level 17-ish and what was so fun was that this player (Who is realy good, kind and helpfull) played the fractal as if it was fractal level 47, he wanted us to stack in a corner becouse if we didn’t mobs would kill us and the fun part was by doing this it all took longer time. It was a slow but sure method.

The point with what I said is that some players learn how to play a Fractal the best way and the most easy way and also they think that is the only way. maby it is the only way at Fractal 40-50 but at 10-19 it is not that hard. In our Guild not everyone has AR yet but we let them join for 10-19 runs anyway becouse they are easy. When we first tried fractal 10 there was only one player who had AR and we managed without much trouble to get to just this boss OP is talking about but they did to much attacks with agony so it was impossible for us to manage a perfect run :P

Anyway in OP’s scenario… If his team would have just scrapped this stupid tactic to stack and reflect they could have done it without OP alive even. It was Fractal level 10-19 not 20 or higher (Not even at 20 it is that hard).

Vod.4728:

I just bought this game a few hours ago, I hope this isn’t the norm.

No this isn’t normal but last weeks update realy messed upp the game with alot of bugs and laggy game. I bet this has to do with this and I guess they are working as hard as they can on this. So once again, no this is not normal but sadly they made something bad last week.

Stuff that people have saved a few stacks of are now Account bound on aquire and that results in that you can not combine them with new stacks.

For example: I have 40 revival orbs, I picked out 10 from storage and used a few. When I was going to put the rest back they where now Acoount bound and the old ones in my storage is Account bount on aquire.

This goes for almost everything that is account bound like, Skill points, Boosters, mystic forge stones, Prestine fractal relics, Level up tomes, 20 level tomes and more.

To “fix” this I have figured out that you can Split the stacks and then one stack will be Account bound and not account bound on aquire. So finally there will be 1 that will be account bound on aquire and the rest will be just account bound. But for one of my buddies this was not very fun as he has no room in storage and he got a new Black lion ticket scrap and he has another 7 but as these now are account bound aquire and the new scrap he got is just account bound he can’t but them in the same stack. With my “fix” this will not help as the result will be reversed. One stack will then be account bound and there will be one left that is Account bound on aquire.

Pls fix this fast becouse it takes alot of space.

Devildoc.6721:

Mirta.5029:

Devildoc.6721:

But anyway I’m rather frustrated with Anet right now because they’re literally expecting to hold our attention with Esports tournaments until HoT.

having played other MMOs I kind of expected it… The closer you are to an expansion, the less updates there will be as your main working force is focused on the expansion. The way that I see it, it’s a prime opportunity to get all the achievements that you haven’t, or play some other games

yeah, as I said before I’ve mostly been using this time to play ESO.

I can understand that as I have been playing HoMMVI alot now, but I have a guild to manage too so am pretty active in GW2 anyway. But what you say about updates is not very true.

Since Expac announcement we have had:
- Dragon New year festival ( Worst festival ever ).
- The removal of Dragon New year festival ( Not a very fun update as it was more all about the removal of the Festival and nothing more ).
- Delayed Feature patch ( Buggiest GW2 update ever ).

So in 7 weeks that should have been six weeks there has been 3 updates and that is no different to what they have had before. An update every 2 weeks. Sure I am a little sad that there are no more new story until the expac but they havent put everything on hold just becouse of the expac compaired to other games. Other games that announces an expac usually goes totally silent with only minor bug fixes here and there. I still hope for a SAB run before the expac but thats way to much to hope for.

This bug was supposed to be fixed. But this post should be in the Bugs forums.

Before they fixed the bug you had to go to your friend list (Y) and make yourself invisible and then Online again and then you can talk in Guild Chat again but you had to do this with every character you logged in with.

Hmm…

It sounds fishy becouse I do get alot of money from playing PvP and I am mostly not selling any mats but I do sell the expensive stuff I get. From playing WvW you should get the everage amount of gold as a PvE world roamer. What you compair against is Dungeon farmers and other farmers, but you have to consider that you do something you enjoy and the farmers are doing something they hopefully enjoy but it is a repetition and it usually gets booring pretty quick. If you wan’t eccesive amount of gold then farm, if you want to have fun and earn some gold now and then and continue with what you are doing. Also, you could always buy gems with real money. Spend a day at work and earn more gold than spending a day farming in GW2 :P Comes from a guy who is an unemployed musician :P

Most importantly learn to save your money and that is nothing we nor A-net can help you with.

Olvendred.3027:

So it gives a notification the moment you make the kick request, rather than once it has gone through? Hmm.

I definitely think that there should be a notification of who is responsible for kicking someone, once that person has actually been kicked. Whether it should come up before then, though… it does seem more likely to cause toxicity if it does. If you want to get rid of an individual from your party, then you probably don’t want to give them a greater opportunity to cause drama. And if the kicking was improper, they still have the information they need to submit a report.

Yea, this I agree with. Didn’t think about that but it is so true. No notification untill player is kicked is better.

I think I have seen a post like this before… But even so shouldn’t it be in the bugs section?

Many.8419:

There should be a party leader system with party moderation privilages for the leader.

kkthxbye

What would that change in this situation?

Maby it is becouse of the ammount of bug reports the bug reporting is buged XD I mean, it’s so many bugs you can almost cry, I’d cry if I was a dev in this matter :P I feel sorry for them.

I think it is a good thing that you see who kicks who.

Now I didn’t understand how this bully was able to annoy you? I mean you blocked him right? That’s what you do to people who annoys you and also if they harras you in anyway you also sent a report on this guy/girl.

So I am sorry I do not get your situation… I would rather be able to report someone who abuses the kick mechanic.

Atleast my opinion.

Venomous.7683:

Oh come on guys the game can’t be THAT balanced. Clearly there’s gotta be some classes that way outshine the others in most areas.

Well in one way you can actually say that. Most classes in GW2 is pretty good balanced and it is pretty hard to say what classes is the best. In PvP guards and Engineers is pretty favored classes as their Metas are pretty easy to play but a player that plays an Ele, mesm or thief good will blast the conoolas out of the Guard or Engi metas.

So for PvP there is always a counter to every build and in the end it is up to you and your skills to decide what class is the best.

Now for PvE and dungeons and so on. It is more the same as I said about PvP, learn your class and you can solo almost anything with every class. If I would have to choose a best class I would go for Guardian för PvE but that is becouse I play guardian the most. My GF would say Necro becouse she mains a Necro after her Ele build was nerfed. One of my friends would say Ranger becoue his main is ranger and he does not do as well with other classes.

So, now it is up to you OP to try the classes and choose for yourself. And BTW why do you have to play the best class? The only thing that will await you is a nerf and then there is another best class, so go for the class you personally like the most.

Well for some classes it will be a good change since some skills goes on CD if your target is too far away and you “fail” your skill.

I have one idéa for your question….

Roll a mesmer, create a clone and finally Target clone

But actually I realy miss that I can’t target myself. There has been times I have said to my group ‘Stand at my position’ and their reply is ‘Where are you?’, so many times I have wished to be able to target myself.

^ S/he said much of what I have been trying to say.

phys.7689:

This is actually a pretty big issue, the actual point of the thread isnt what you think it would be, but its a big thing.

Its something that has always been a problem in GW2, but now its something they are sort of going to have to commit to.

How are they going to keep people in these old zones, but at the same time freeze them in place?
How can they expand the world, if they want to keep it tight and small?

I think the best overall strategy is to have the base GW2 not as pact tyria, but as the everchanging tyria, and make the expansions the part that is more locked into certain times/stories

its a bit of a sticky wicket no matter how you slice it though

I am pretty sure they won’t throw out the old game.

As Vayne above me says, there is still so much to do from the Vanilla game but sure I expect Zones to be pretty empty the first days maby weeks but then we will have new players, old players leveling new characters without tomes, 100% Map Explorers and also the new mastery system has it’s own usefullness in the old zones so people will still be there. World bosses is still active and events will be running over and over again. Farming this and that will still be a craving for some players… We have Jumping puzzles, collections, Mini Dungeons, and if I have understood Colin right I think that Adventures will be implemented in the old maps too.

Since the new zone is so dependant of the new mechanics I can’t realy see how HoT story would be logicly open for non-HoT buyers but other MMO games I have played have had their Story free for everyone but all other content locked if not owning the Expac. Anyhow about the living story I think that the Mordremorth Season 2 ends with HoT-Expac and that the next comming LS will start with a new Epiloge and thus will be availeble for the non-HoT players. Atleast that would be a wise decision as long as players are not required to journey into the new Maguuma zone to continue the next LS.

And actually the once who realy complains about the HoT-expac locks out vanilla players.. I mean who will not get the expac sooner or later if they realy like GW2? Why not atleast one more time give them a few bucks for their hard work.

I dunno… I feel ashamed becouse maby I am one of these evil players…

Like today I was at a capture point and I was attacked by a thief who was named after a skill wich he/she used over and over again outside of the capture point. I was so amused by it so I decided to stay and capture and heal up since the skill didn’t do mutch damage. well after about 30seconds of repeated skill use outside the cap-point I guess the thief got tired and went ballistic and used elit skills and a lot more skills so I was so unprepared and I died. I said on the map chat something like ‘A theif using the same skill over and over again isn’t that good’.
And when I get about 3 or more players against me while we have all capture points I usually go ‘Zerging won’t win you this battle’ but they won today actually and I whent ‘gg blue team’ meaning I may moan and cry as people call it but I always keep it professional in my opinion.

I dunno, it feels kinda good to make people know whats on my mind :P

Oh and I never use foul words.

Outfits: Good Vs Bad

The good

• Can be changed without the cost of transmigation charges.
• Doesn’t change when you get new gear (Wich means it’s a nice thing to have when leveling.
• Helmet piece can be hidden.

The bad

• Can only be coloured in 4 different colours for the whole outfit.
• Can’t mix and match.

In my opinion, Outfits are nice but I would rather haver gear to mixand match becouse I like that alot. But as long as we can get new mix and match gear for playing the game I am ok with millions of outfits in the store becouse I don’t have to buy it if I don’t like it.

Lazaar.9123:

I’m surprised no one has talked about signet of vampirism.

And

Bran.7425:

As healing skills go I think Signet of Vampirsm and Water Spirit might need to be looked at as they make litany look tier 1

I wouldn’t mind if Anet made Signet of Vampirism better becouse that is my favorite and best healing skill on my Minion Master. It’s atleast way better than ‘Summon Blood Fiend’.

phys.7689:

Tribio.8531:

shifted.4086:

They either provide enough space or they don’t.

And for most people 1 tab is enough space.. Just not for you.. :p

1 really isnt enough for most people, out of me and 6 friends, im probably the only one who didnt get more bank space by some means, so i think its enough for a minority of players, its just that many people are ok with spending more money or game time on tabs

Depends on how you look at it.

I mean, I filled my bank in a few days/weeks don’t remeber and then I bought me an adittional bank tab and then another and now I say it is enough and well it is enough… I still have room in my bank, I had room before and I would have had room if I never bought these bank tabs but I do have alot more stuff and this stuff I have in my bank… Well it does not have to be there it is just that I choose a convenience to be abloe to save more stuff. It does not have an impact on the game and I dunno what to do with half of the stuff I have in the bank, like why am I saving 5000 Bloodstone dust, why am i having alot of SAB stuff in there?

DeathPanel.8362:

Shiyo.3578:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

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I mean, what other games has a whole bank specified to crafting mats? What other games has a button to store crafting mats in the bank without having to go there?

WOW does

WOW also charges you 15 dollars a month. That much money can be used to buy more bank slots in GW2 with ease.

Well that is sadly besides the point of my question… If now WoW has this feature then I rest my case. They didn’t have it when I last played it atleast.

Compaired to other MMO’s I think GW2 is pretty much on the OK part of this me thinks.

I mean, what other games has a whole bank specified to crafting mats? What other games has a button to store crafting mats in the bank without having to go there?

I have always had an overflow of stuff in MMO’s, I always fill upp my storage no matter how much space I have. I collect Junk until it is filled and when it is I get rid of the least valuble junk I have and so on. Since GW2 is my favorite MMO I would gladly pay once in a while instead of paying once a month just to be able to play.

But as I have to complain about the storage I will have to complain about this increase of stupid tokens that isn’t bound to the Wallet like bandit crests and Geodes. Or atleast have a new specific bank slot for them or let them stack to more than 250, becouse it is needed many and we get many.

Wethospu.6437:

I really hate those people who put something like “p1” or lfgs at all. What if I want to do p2 or even a different dungeon or just don’t want to see your lfg? Why people are so picky and force their ways on others?

Are you serious or are you just trying to mock me? If you are trying to be funny… Well then you didn’t understand my post at all, as many other posters seems to do.

Darklander.1937:

Exactly, as long as i dont bot or hack , Macros change the way I play the game. If i am more effective than you are, this does not have to do with macros, it has to do with the hours i have spent playing the game and all the parameters in the gameplay equation (skills – equipment – setup – timing …etc). And even if , we assume that due to a macro rotation , i play better, why does this have to bother you??? If you use advance gaming equipment, such as advance multi button mouse, anatomic chair, …etc which makes you enjoy a great game more, and maybe gives you an edge over me, should i be bothered?

I totally respect the no-macros allowed rule and i understand why it is there, however i am 100% sure that Macros Cannot Make an inefficient gamer , efficient. Macros (not botting or hacking) affect personal game experience.

Thank you … i will not debate on this anymore

I will continue becouse I still do not agree.

Well what I am saying is that even if it is not effecting players to become better or worse it still makes another way of playing. By using Macros you are creating a new way to play the game, you are doing something others who do not use macros can’t do. It is hard to say that it makes you better or worse but there is still a possibility and well let’s face it, people want macros to execute skills and manuvers easier.

About this mouse yadayada, well it is still one button one press even if the buttons where to be placed on your mouse or keyboard. There is no program playing the game for you even if you have ergonomic chair, a multibutton mouse or whatever. But macro is a program made to input multiple commands in one press, that means the game plays it self for a while (yes I mean even for 1 second).

Darklander.1937:

Macros cannot make an inneficient gamer efficient.
Mastering a game requires same amount of time with macros or without.
Macros affect only personal game experience.
The reason that game companies forbid macros are 2 : BOTTING and HACKING. If macros are officially allowed , a huge percentage of gamers will take advantage of it and use it for botting or hacking.
Nobody cares if you spam 3 skills using one button(this will not make you a better player). I ve been using macros mainly in PVE and i never had any problem ( i am playing mmos 20 years now).
If you want to use macros , respect other gamers and the game(not botting or hacking) and find a safe app to avoid serious problems.
I reccomend this https://www.youtube.com/user/FingerzGames (the best there is)

There is a reason to why we cannot have Add-on’s too, is that becouse of hacking or botting? I do not think so.

In whatever way you look at it. Macros and Add-on’s change the way you play they game, if you have macros you play the macros and when someone finds a good way to play with a macros many others will use this method and in the end it will be a “need” to copy and learn to play with that macro to utilize for example a specific build. Just as if there would be Add-on’s in the end poeple would require you to play with specific add-on’s to join in groups and whatever.

I have also played alot of MMO’s and I have had to use macros in some of them to be effective. To do the last boss(At that time) in one MMO I had to download an Add-on to keep track of what Pots I had to use in the correct timing. I also in the same game had to make a macro to be sure not to press the wrong sequence.

And macros are not allowed in GW2 even if you don’t use it for botting or hacking. It is also for not giving someone an advantage over someone else. Just as we are not allowed to use First Person camera that won’t make us a better player but it will make us worse players.

• Femenine Male.
• 33 years old live with my girldfriend who is also a fan of GW2.
• From Sweden.
• Musician and Composer.
• I love to draw, compose music, create RPGmaker games, Write, more or less everything I create connects to my own fantasy world.
• I like most kind of music.
• I can’t live without animals but I can’t live with them (Allergic).
• I have two Corgies! (I have to mention them!)
• been playing games since I got a nintendo with Zelda (I was about 6).
• My first MMO was Ultima Online.
• I just love fantasy and Sci-fi.
• I am a shy person but I love to talk about myself O_o

Edit:

Jasmine Salina.3609:

• My favorite band is Crush 40

Oh yea thats an awesome band!

Well the thing I have been trying to say is that I do not complain on people who kick people when they do not qualafy for the requirements of that LFG.

If someone joins a ‘p1 exp rush’ and expects to get help is plain stupid and I do not question this behavior I accept it as it is quite clearly explain what players they are looking for.
But in those cases some of the poeple I have talked too they have constantly been kicked from LFGs that has been like just ‘p1’. In my opinion this means ‘I do not care who joins as long as you do p1 with me.’.

Today I (For the first time in a long long time) started my own ‘p1’ LFG. It went well but just as we entered the dungeon one player was rushing through the dungeon like he had ants in his pants and another player stayed behind and didn’t know a thing about the dungeon he was like ‘Uh, what now?’ The rest (me included) was trying to keep up with this first character but also not rush in to a safe death. Well… To me it looked like the first character though I had typed ‘P1 exp rush’ I dunno. Not gonna complain at this guy as he later realized that there where some who hadn’t done the dungeon and he started to guide and help instead.