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Color change for weapons.

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I would love if this would be added, especially for weapons with glows and particle effects. Its so hard to match outfits with weapons and still use dyes I like.

If armor can change color, why not weapons.

ps. ranger’s pets colors would be awesome as well.

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Make pets sense cloaked enemies.

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Tracking would be awesome too. At least it gives Rangers something unique and effective. And as I remember from playing my Hunter in WoW it was nowhere near OP against the Rogue who was invisible all the time.

But we’ll never get it as a tracking ability would make a lot of (bandwagon) Thief players scream like the world was ending because they’d lose their godmode.

Gods forbid they would actually have to think about what they’re doing during combat.

Them not thinking actually makes killing them possible.

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Tanks and Healers

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Most groups with GCs rage, because GCs fall like dominoes. You can say all you want about increased DPS, but where does your DPS go when you’re downed on a floor and a good support is raising you?

And yet, whenever I fight lupi, first people to die are always non glasses who wanted 0 glasses in party before starting a run. You can tell stories from your perspective, I can tell stories from mine.

maybe its because they are tanking for you kitten

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Any Pet Dungeon Improvements?

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you gotta just put your pet on passive for those dungeons like everyone else until anet realize the pet mechanic is not working at higher levels and difficulty.

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Guild Wars 2 Jokes

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Q: how many thiefs do you see in wvw?
A: 0

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Fun little fact about overcharged shot

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If you’re quick enough you can: overcharge shot ->grenade barrage -> jump shot.

You’re better off running to your target, hitting jump shot in melee (for both takeoff and landing damage), blunderbuss, and THEN overcharge shot to get out of dodge.

I do this all the time. Usually Blunderbuss first, then Net Shot to keep them there for the Jump Shot take off and landing, then the OC shot. Works like a charm.

I do:
netshot, jumpshot for damage and vulnerability, blunderbust for damage, grenades for damage and then overcharge to clear distance. By this this, you can probably netshot again.

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Is it me or has the game come to a halt?

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it takes next to no time to get to high level. They added content for all levels for the events. not sure what you are talking about.

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Wintersday - general feedback

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Wintersday was pretty good except it kinda ended early. I was done everything way before actual christmas.

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Tanks and Healers

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There are tanks and healers and dps.

Its just that this + self heal is balanced.

I have ran dungeons with 4 guardians and myself. It was slow but straight forward. Nearly nobody would die ever and we output consistent damage. Regen from everyone help to keep party healthy and some buffs helped with dps and defence.

I have also done dungeons with gc warriors and thiefs. These are slow and people constantly downed. Most are spec’ed with just enough survivability to keep themselves up most of the time but when 1 goes down, the whole party goes. Most of the time it comes down to trying to kite the boss long enough for people to get back from the wp and not have the boss reset. There is also the fact that the boss is always moving that high dps channeled skills will not work and combo fields are next to useless.

The best combos are a group with decent condition and damage and support while having a few tankier people who can keep agro and allow other members to output damage. You clear dungeons much faster than 5 tanks but don’t die if you team has any coordination. Support from combo fields and people not constantly trying to heal and or rez makes the dungeons much faster.

And pure gc is pointless. you output 2x your normal dps but you won’t have any combos or support for your team. you are more likely to die and your overall party dps isn’t much higher.

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permenant trade post pickup contract cantsell

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Seems like one of two things needs to happen. Either these types of posts aren’t allowed to be made at all (and if they are they result in a temp. ban) or people that scam in this way get punished in the same way and forced to give the money back.

With the way it is currently, people are allowed to post on here in attempts to scam people AND they are allowed to keep the stolen money with no threat of repercussion. That makes no sense to me.

if you aren’t making money by grinding something built into the game then you won’t get banned.

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E-sport Agenda: ETA & Thoughts

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certain builds that render all others obsolete require some serious tweaks to bring more variation into the meta. but more importantly, conquest needs to die in a fire. team DM is the basic game mode u start with and build on. common sense. rankings might bring some people back, but until we get team DM, i dont think gw2 pvp is going anywhere big. relying on conquest to carry spvp was a major, major mistake.

Nobody balance games on team deathmatch. Name 1 competitive game where they play team deathmatch.

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Thank you ArenaNet

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idk how people even made large amount of money doing this.

the price of the ori and snowflakes were enough to offset most of the profit.

with a master salvage kit( the only economically viable option since there is no way to get large numbers of better kits), you get an average of 1.5 ecto per salvage iirc. Which barely offset the money you need to sink in to make the darn thing.

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Ranger downed state is unacceptable. Discuss

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rangers can’t stop a stomp. 1 aoe daze for 1/2 a second and they are dead. If you are stomping and aren’t at super low health the ranger does no dps in their downed state. The pets are the only thing you have to worry about even then, if you just keep track of them, you can just kill them if you have more than 20% of your health.

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Why ESPORT will not happen.

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Esport will not happen. Anet just doesn’t have enough competence to do it. There are ~100 players in total doing paid tournaments, and it’s only like 2 hours a day. I just can’t see any way of this game ever becoming an esport. PvP will die soon.

There would be more people playing if there was money and more incentive to be better. And the paid tournaments are stupid how they implemented. The prices are small, which isn’t so bad for constant tournies but they also have no easy way for people to access. There is no ranking and the tickets payment is stupid.

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Why ESPORT will not happen.

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As someone with a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in kinesiology/exercise physiology, no, athletes that are pro do not train for 12 hours for a day. If anything you can get away with less training as you get older. They’re just on drugs and have great parents (ie genetics—better energy-producing enzymes, better connective tissue, etc). Take it from a former competitive collegiate and high school athlete. You can only train to your own potential, not whatever the pro level is no matter how hard you try. Accept it now

Perfect practice makes perfect, not more practice. You’ll just burnout/overtrain, and no, exercise doesn’t make you lose weight. Diet does.

korean starcraft players did train 12 hours a day. They do so if they want to compete in the environment. Most are generally naturally talented to a degree but the training they have for starcraft broodwar is insane. The reason why no foreigner are ever able to win Blizzard world championship series for the entire 10+ years of starcraft broodwar is because of the training and work the koreans would go through which was just not something someone who wasn’t that dedicated at the game can endure. When you have so much competition and expectations they had to practice that much.

I’m not disagreeing that people who play video games may play for 12 hours a day. But seriously dude? Don’t call that training like athletics. You don’t know what you’re talking about. That’s not effective, and it’s stupid.

maybe you don’t know what you are talking about. Maybe you don’t know that some of these kids are doing that no western countries would do.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18763_5-insane-true-facts-about-starcraft-professional-sport.html

They get up to that speed by first being born with a Rain Man-like perfect storm of genetics and then training for a minimum of 10 hours a day, six days a week. Teams actually live together in barrack-like quarters, though of course they separate Protoss, Zerg and Terran players into separate rooms. Naturally.

maybe you don’t agree with the training methods but they are effective.

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permenant trade post pickup contract cantsell

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Duke Nukem.6783 This is not cool.

Out of goodwill, I offered to mail you 11 gold so that you can list the item on TP. All I asked for is for you to fulfill my buy order.

You agreed, so I did what I promised, I sent you the 11 gold.
and of cos, you ran away with the money and blocked me.

You must be laughing at me right now…
But is it really worth it to sell your soul for some cheap virtual currency? Is that what your moral value is worth?

maybe that was his plan all along.

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Is this game destined to be an E-Sport?

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Until GW2 supports spectating in matches, I do not see this game making any headway in E-Sports, regardless of what other features are put in place, or whether the game is interesting or not to watch.

Remember, there is a difference between a competitive multiplayer game and an E-Sport. An E-Sport is something that people watch, and that money is thrown at to pay teams and players to participate. If those things aren’t happening, then it’s not an E-Sport, it’s a competitive multiplayer game.

people can always watch from the view point of the players. Its not so hard. Anet just doesn’t have any initiative to market the game as an esport and is too greedy for money.

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How to ^.^

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roamers and bunkers

bunkers sit on points and support the roamers near them. High defence and good support skills, make sure they can sit on a point and not die to 2+ people attacking them for as long as possible.

roamers assist where ever they are needed. They need high dps and a decent amount of dodge skills, also good to have is interrupt skills.

any class can be built as either but some are better.

3 type of class is just a mesmer and its always good to have a good mesmer for portals and general support and damage.

guardians are obvious tanks

thief and warriors obvious glass cannons.

engi, necro, ranger than play w/e they want but don’t excell as much as the others. necros are also better used as bunker support than dps.

d/d elementalists are good roamer/bunker hybrid and are good all around.

guardian, elementalist, thief, mesmer and anything else is a good team.

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Help with ranger build

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well 20/0/30/20/10 is decent from what I can tell. Which is what I run and I use sb and gs ( mainly sb ). I use healing/toughness/power accessories and conditional/power/vitality armor and conditional runes.

I do good conditional damage and am very survivable.

Ummmm 20/0/30/20/10 is impossible but I use 20/30/10/0/10 and im a power/prec/crit ranger using Knights armor and accessories. Knights works perfectly giving me toughness prec and power. Obviously berserkers would be better but I would be full glass cannon then making me no help in dungeons. Try getting exotics asap. You can buy cheap masterwork 80 armor while you work on exotics. I think the dungeon armor is probably the easiest to get.

ops I meant 20/0/30/10/10

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Why ESPORT will not happen.

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Esports scene is still possible, the infrastructure is coming. It will need help and plenty of support from both players and developers.

Saying LoL is a joke of an Esport is a bit rich though. It’s the number 1 watched game on Twitch and the world championship, which had big money prize pools pretty much broke every twitch record there is. We aren’t playing LoL here though, we are playing GW2.

An Esport in its infancy. It has to learn to crawl before it can walk and then hopefully run. GW2 also fits nicely into a niche, MMORPG. There a players out there, plenty of them, that don’t like MOBA, FPS or RTS games for PvP.

LoL’s low regards as esport mostly because the skill level isn’t there yet compared to sc bw. Even sc2 has much more people playing competitively. They train harder and play on a scale much higher than the general public comparatively to LoL. It is getting more and competitve and more and more skilled players are emerging but compared to starcraft its still in its infancy.

I am not saying LoL isn’t an esport. Its just not as competitive as starcraft. Its getting there with each large tourny. More and more skill is being shown for the game.

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Why ESPORT will not happen.

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As someone with a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in kinesiology/exercise physiology, no, athletes that are pro do not train for 12 hours for a day. If anything you can get away with less training as you get older. They’re just on drugs and have great parents (ie genetics—better energy-producing enzymes, better connective tissue, etc). Take it from a former competitive collegiate and high school athlete. You can only train to your own potential, not whatever the pro level is no matter how hard you try. Accept it now

Perfect practice makes perfect, not more practice. You’ll just burnout/overtrain, and no, exercise doesn’t make you lose weight. Diet does.

korean starcraft players did train 12 hours a day. They do so if they want to compete in the environment. Most are generally naturally talented to a degree but the training they have for starcraft broodwar is insane. The reason why no foreigner are ever able to win Blizzard world championship series for the entire 10+ years of starcraft broodwar is because of the training and work the koreans would go through which was just not something someone who wasn’t that dedicated at the game can endure. When you have so much competition and expectations they had to practice that much.

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Lack of interesting armor sets below level 40

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1. Transmutation stones
2. Do you really expect to have amazing looking/fancy armor at the lower levels? That makes very little sense to me

Play the game and stop coming on the forums to whine.

I do i expect armor to look good all through the game, other mmo’s have no issues with it, why can’t GW2 a supposedly AAA title…

If you use crafted gear, you get a few tiny changes, but weapons stay the same from 1 – 80, sorry that just doesn’t cut it for me to be a AAA title…

This game needs a lot more variation for free and from level 1-80, just look at merchants in this game that just screams rushed content and laziness to me..

there is tonnes of skins. Im not sure how you guys don’t find them. The karma skins and the cultural stuff are all good skins for low levels.

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Help with ranger build

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well 20/0/30/20/10 is decent from what I can tell. Which is what I run and I use sb and gs ( mainly sb ). I use healing/toughness/power accessories and conditional/power/vitality armor and conditional runes.

I do good conditional damage and am very survivable.

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Make pets sense cloaked enemies.

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right now it impossible to fight a thief with 60% cloak uptime. the pet is useless and you can barely hit them. Even if you get a good burst going, you will never kill them. Best it will end is a draw if you are full speced into healing and tank and condition removal. Its just stupid.

They can be hit while they’re in stealth… the sooner you realize this the easier thieves become to take down.

I do pathetic damage to a thief compared to my pet if Im spec to actually survive an encounter. Please do tell how Im going to kill them in stealth when my gs swings does 800 damage per cut while they can be anywhere. Also do tell of how a thief is going to be standing still getting smacked by a tooth pick until he dies?

Every 3rd attack you evade, as long as you hit a target your #1 skill moves over to the next skill, smash the #1 skill until they come out a lot of thieves will either hold back trying to wait for your evade to end, or they’ll try to jump in and back stab you ASAP so they don’t miss their window. Both of these options hinder them because it gives you the chance to evade their backstab or to hold back for to long and miss their stealth all together.

and 800 damage per hit is a lot to a thief, they have the LOWEST health in the game, if they’re a glass cannon there’s going to be no way they’re going to even want to deal with an auto attack especially after they waste their heal to get into stealth.

It’s very easy to find a thieves general location with a great sword, just swing your sword around like an idiot and keep moving around in circles as long as your auto attack keeps moving forward.

EDIT: Just throwing this in there, projectiles (when they don’t pierce) will stick into mid air when you collide with the target.

Easier said then done. I do 800. They do 3k. They have 15k health, I have 20k. What does that mean? I die before they do.

Thiefs can evade with their attacks too when they aren’t cloaked and since they do more damage, they will win. I don’t get to time my attacks either since they can blind me whenever.

and there is noway to consistently hit with projectiles when you are fighting someone who keeps cloaking.

How much armor do you have that causes you to get hit for 3k? on anything OTHER than their backstab? they don’t hit -that- hard, and a thief can only evade with their #3 if they’re a d/d. And when they aren’t cloaked -you- should deal more damage, because you have both you and your pet mauling them.

PS: It’s not that hard to his a thief with a projectile while they’re stealthed, you just hurl your projectiles in the general direction they stealthed in, if they change direction you’ll know because the projectiles are traveling further.

I have 2.5k armor, which is decent but not full tank. Each heartseaker can do 2k damage and BS can do 8-9k on a decently glassy thief. The numbers are a bit exagerated but they do more dps than me.

Anyways d/d thiefs aren’t problems which this thread was made for. 99% of them are horribad and can’t kill me because they like to smack into my counter attack and let me burst them afterward.

The problem is a thief with condition and evade and cloak. The pet is useless and your damage alone is just pathetic. The only decent weapon is the sword and I really do not like the style of it. And even if you use the sword you won’t win since they do more dps.

If by projectiles you mean targeted AOE, then its 50/50, if you mean by auto attack on a bow, I don’t know how thats even going to go remotely in the right direction.

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Why do PvE bosses seem to equate to...

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roll a glass cannon party.

then try the bosses.

It doesn’t take nearly as long. Mostly because you’d probably be dead due to the challenge but you can take bosses down in half or a third of the time.

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Most satisfying things in PVP

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running away…

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Make pets sense cloaked enemies.

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right now it impossible to fight a thief with 60% cloak uptime. the pet is useless and you can barely hit them. Even if you get a good burst going, you will never kill them. Best it will end is a draw if you are full speced into healing and tank and condition removal. Its just stupid.

They can be hit while they’re in stealth… the sooner you realize this the easier thieves become to take down.

I do pathetic damage to a thief compared to my pet if Im spec to actually survive an encounter. Please do tell how Im going to kill them in stealth when my gs swings does 800 damage per cut while they can be anywhere. Also do tell of how a thief is going to be standing still getting smacked by a tooth pick until he dies?

Every 3rd attack you evade, as long as you hit a target your #1 skill moves over to the next skill, smash the #1 skill until they come out a lot of thieves will either hold back trying to wait for your evade to end, or they’ll try to jump in and back stab you ASAP so they don’t miss their window. Both of these options hinder them because it gives you the chance to evade their backstab or to hold back for to long and miss their stealth all together.

and 800 damage per hit is a lot to a thief, they have the LOWEST health in the game, if they’re a glass cannon there’s going to be no way they’re going to even want to deal with an auto attack especially after they waste their heal to get into stealth.

It’s very easy to find a thieves general location with a great sword, just swing your sword around like an idiot and keep moving around in circles as long as your auto attack keeps moving forward.

EDIT: Just throwing this in there, projectiles (when they don’t pierce) will stick into mid air when you collide with the target.

Easier said then done. I do 800. They do 3k. They have 15k health, I have 20k. What does that mean? I die before they do.

Thiefs can evade with their attacks too when they aren’t cloaked and since they do more damage, they will win. I don’t get to time my attacks either since they can blind me whenever.

and there is noway to consistently hit with projectiles when you are fighting someone who keeps cloaking.

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Lack of interesting armor sets below level 40

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I don’t know what your problem is. There is tonnes of different stuff…

also classes are somewhat different looking with different races.

You can’t seem to get better items then its you not the game.

Please be more specific in your posts.

every 15 levels or so you get a new craftable armor set for a armor type. You can also find items that are different levels of different sets in the open world or buy them from the tp. Dyes change colors and you can look different, spend money on them if you want to look different.

Leveling from 1-25 is the same speed as 25-50 and 50-75. 75-80 is very fast. You are just not playing the game optimally from doing that.

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Lack of interesting armor sets below level 40

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I don’t know what your problem is. There is tonnes of different stuff…

also classes are somewhat different looking with different races.

You can’t seem to get better items then its you not the game.

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How do rangers feel

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ranger is a meh class.

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Make pets sense cloaked enemies.

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right now it impossible to fight a thief with 60% cloak uptime. the pet is useless and you can barely hit them. Even if you get a good burst going, you will never kill them. Best it will end is a draw if you are full speced into healing and tank and condition removal. Its just stupid.

They can be hit while they’re in stealth… the sooner you realize this the easier thieves become to take down.

I do pathetic damage to a thief compared to my pet if Im spec to actually survive an encounter. Please do tell how Im going to kill them in stealth when my gs swings does 800 damage per cut while they can be anywhere. Also do tell of how a thief is going to be standing still getting smacked by a tooth pick until he dies?

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When Does DX11 + Nvidia Patch Come Out?

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The engine is built on dx9. The money needed is too much to change it. I would doubt any major things like this to be release until an expansion.

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"Balance" = some builds are better at 1v1?

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mobility, survivability, damage and being able to 1v1 basically needs to be all balanced on the maps and for the right team size.

many classes have the all in 1 package which is why they are better than the other classes. Some classes are just no good at some things so their builds are forced to be a specific spec and to only play 1 role in the team.

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makeover kit sale scam

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you can makeover all your chars.

also you will eventually want them if you play this game enough.

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Make pets sense cloaked enemies.

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right now it impossible to fight a thief with 60% cloak uptime. the pet is useless and you can barely hit them. Even if you get a good burst going, you will never kill them. Best it will end is a draw if you are full speced into healing and tank and condition removal. Its just stupid.

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Why ESPORT will not happen.

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Since there is no competition in this game, the skill cap is so low someone can take the game and learn it for a week and be better than the top players in the top teams with the right training and strategies.

I say this because you need to train like koreans to be good at any esport since thats how real athletes train for sports. Practice with a strict routine for 12 hours a day with a couch and a number of other professionals.

Because of the very little competition and number of people playing there very littl reason to watch someone else play the game because you already learn everything in a few videos. There is hardly things that the “pro” ( I use pro here not because anyone actually can make a living off gw2 but the people who claim to be good) can do that the person who just play ladder can’t except have a good team with him every time.

Teams in LoL are pretty much in a joke of an esport compared to starcraft but even that is infinitely more competitive than GW2. GW2 has no spectators, GW2 has no real dedicated teams. GW2 has no sponsors. GW2 has no price money. GW2 is a pathetic failure as an esport unless Anet can get off their kittens and get involved.

Anet needs to sponsor free weekly tournaments with decent sized price pools(>$1000). They need to sponsor bigger LAN tournaments every few months ( > 10000). This is just to get the game off the ground. More tournies sponsored by others will come as more competition grows.

Anet doesn’t understand how esport works. Its not a game where money just comes if you have a game. Its putting money in and making a game last and then have rewards later. With money, comes players, with players come spectators with spectators come sponsors and with sponsors comes self sustained competition and more money and players into the game from the advertisement.

Also helps if the game gets more balancing once skills of teams actually reach a point where balance actually matters enough to keep people away even with a lot of money.

For LoL and dota 2 to become esports, the companies that made them respectively sank millions into tournies, marketing and teams. I don’t think anet understands this or is too greedy to care. This is why GW2 will never be seen as a large competitive esport.

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Guru-State of the Game is a joke

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Since there is no competition in this game, the skill cap is so low someone can take the game and learn it for a week and be better than the top players in the top teams with the right training and strategies.

I say this because you need to train like koreans to be good at any esport since thats how real athletes train for sports. Practice with a strict routine for 12 hours a day with a couch and a number of other professionals.

Teams in LoL are pretty much in a joke of an esport compared to starcraft but even that is infinitely more competitive than GW2. GW2 has no spectators, GW2 has no real dedicated teams. GW2 has no sponsors. GW2 has no price money. GW2 is a pathetic failure as an esport unless Anet can get off their kittens and get involved.

Anet needs to sponsor free weekly tournaments with decent sized price pools((>$1000). They need to sponsor bigger tournaments every few months ( > 10000). This is just to get the game off the ground.

Anet doesn’t understand how esport works. Its not a game where money just comes if you have a game. Its putting money in and making a game last and then have rewards later. With money, comes players, with players come spectators with spectators come sponsors and with sponsors comes self sustained competition and more money and players into the game from the advertisement.

Also helps if the game gets more balancing once skills of teams actually reach a point where balance actually matters enough to keep people away even with a lot of money.

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Total failure as an e-sport

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

It is crazy to argue posts like “dodge the invisible man who I have no way of bring out of stealth?” or "now to mention they can steal and backstab at the same time. And if I am able to dodge it, then dodge it again, I have no more dodge. The thief still has all his moves. " Yes, because a thief can stealth without hitting you with cloak and dagger (well he can use a heal or shadow refuge, but that is a waste imo) and steal has a 0 sec cd… Also reading posts like yours makes me feel such a great player, since I can kill the GODLIKE thieves with only 1 stunbreaker&well of darkness as my utility and the necromancer I play is not a bunker, nor he is a burst – conditions stack slow and not hit that much (113 per tic). So what is this paradox that I have created?

Its just a l2p issue as it was with 100b wars during beta or early live in forums.

you must fight really bad thiefs if they at all die to a necro who isn’t a bunker and doesn’t have teammates next to them.

Almost all BS thiefs are bad. I have not seen a really good one in a while btw. Stealth is the broken aspect, if you fight anything thief with a steal build, watch as all your necro skills be useless while they output more conditional damage than you.

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Make stow pet permanent if required

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

Stow? You mean put the pet on peace mode right? That actually works sorta alright with the grawl, praying that the pet does not wander too far from you as you move through the boulders.

But it is so terrible with the unknown fractal. You have very little wiggling room for mistakes during the obstacle course, and if your pet happens to be near you when he gets hit, you both go down. It’s very frustrating. I wish you could really “stow” and make your pet disappear for that area.

No, I mean stow, we do have a stow button, and if you’re not awful at the puzzles you won’t get hit more than once, another option is telling your pet to “Guard” somewhere and then just swap pets (or stow+ recall) boom no issues, geez you people need to think a little more before screaming about how it’s broken and blah blah blah.

or maybe they should just put an easy option in instead of having to jump through hoops to do anything. If your argument is it breaks the ideals anet set to have an easy stow option, which means if you do that stuff you describe, you are actually exploiting the game and should report them as glitches or else you should be banned.

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Any of you guys play with AMD a 10 5800 K?

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

you might be better off using a pentium and a 6670 instead of the a10 since this game prefers intel to AMD cpus. It will give playable framerates.

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Do passion flower still drop?

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Esrever.8613

from my general experience, 1/50 will have a passion flower.

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Why is there no report for hacking?

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well it seems like this guy also had a name hack cause his name changes to someone else’s when you try to report him in the report screen. It has been changing between a few names in the report screen. Sometimes the name is someone else’s name in the game sometimes its something else.

Reporting him is no good.

Its some guy playing on an asura mesmer named “sux to be you”

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Why is there no report for hacking?

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This guy in spvp was moving around at 300% speed, he can do this under water and thus impossible to kill. Im pretty sure its not a mesmer down skill underwater that allows you to move at 300% speed.

I had to report him for either:
botting
inappropriate character name
spamming
verbal abuse
scamming
selling gold

Where is the report for someone using a hack?

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Q: Engineer's Dmg Output

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

I agree with the OP, as soon as we can burst damage like the other classes the better off we’ll be but in order for them to fix this class so that it will work properly we’ll need a rehaul of the trait system to include buffs that traits for the ranger/thief receive, we’ll need kits to scale damage output with our gear, we’ll need our heal abilities to actually scale with our +healing properly otherwise we’ll continue to be second to everyone and that’s just not right. It’s not honest to expect 1 class to have the combat issues we were told no class would have.

How much damage do people think they can pull off with the overcharge?

If someone lets me use my netshot, jumpshot, overcharge shot grenade barrage and then flame kick, then overcharge shot, I can do a good 15k-20k or so damage in a few second the burst isn’t too bad. Just we can’t survive at all as a gc and that the burst is a few too many hits and people can usually react and dodge it.

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Q: Engineer's Dmg Output

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

I can do 8k damage from my jump shot.

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Any investment during the Wintersday event?

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

Ill just let you guys on a hint, a lot of people are hoarding skins now. And someone is going to sell sooner or later. And prices are going to come down a decent amount. Its probably not worth buying now.

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Are these exploits?

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Esrever.8613

Having gold on your account means you exploited. Unless you bought it with gems, prepare for bans.

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How to kill the thief in WvW scenario

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

get rid of the ability to autotarget things with the game’s locking system. The distinction is subtle, but important, and far too many players still don’t understand the difference.

they should make just make thiefs visible but untargetable then.

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Make pets sense cloaked enemies.

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

I think pets need this. They are so useless against anything that cloaks. Even the AIs.

Maybe make it a trait or something.

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Guide to beating an Engineer

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Posted by: Esrever.8613

Esrever.8613

don’t forget fighting a naked engy:

he probably got tired of paying all his repair fees and you should just end his misery.

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