Guild Wars 2

Caffynated.5713:

There are two main problems that have driven people off.

1. Poor game balancing for the general public. ANet has made the decision to balance the game around the < 2% (RNG stat, but I doubt if it’s far off) of the player base who do paid tournaments regularly and now everyone is shocked that many from the other 98% are unhappy and have largely quit playing. Did you really think a bunch of newbs/noobs were going to take being told “L2P” by a dev without consequences? Worst design decision ever? I would say, it comes in second to making Frogloks a playable race.

L2P noob. Or go play single player or casual games like call of duty.
If you can’t take any game that takes skill you might as well go play mario kart. You are literally suggesting they give less reward for being good. Every class is viable with 20 apm at the level 90% of the players play. If you don’t have 20 apm, you might as well be sitting there twiddling your thumb.

Your first point was bad enough. Im not going to even comment on your second point. It made an already ignorant post just that much more ignorant.

Game is dying.
You are dying too.
To live is to die.
The game is just dying faster than than a person.

Simple thing like how my server isn’t filled to the brim with player any more is enough to suggest that people are leaving. All servers well full of people when the game was new, now only a few servers have very many people outside of LA.

Sometimes I swear level 10s try to 1v1 me in wvw. I don’t get it.

Why not complain. Things get done faster when you put effort in to tell who ever isn’t doing their job well the facts. If you buy something and it did not live up to your expectations, you can do nothing or you can do something about it.

WHY THE KITTENS WOULD YOU NOT TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF?

Sleepy.2647:

I can understand a pet getting oneshotted, but claiming that “my pet dies to 2-3 boss AoE attacks” is a joke, if you know the next attack it’s going to kill it…just swap the pet, use heal or make it passive until your swap cd is back…quite easy, isn’t it?

It’s like saying that I die to 2-3 boss AoE attacks because i refuse to dodge.

so your pet is either useless in passive mode, might as well be dead.

or you swap a pet in just have it die in 2-3 aoe and you wait to repeat.

or you heal the pet and let it get off 1 more pathetic attack on a boss before it dies.

Maullus.1273:

I’m seeing a few mixed replies about this build with respect to sPvP. How does it fare with the lower Confusion damage?

Its not very good. Might as well take another kit since all you can do with this build is to tank otherwise and you still lack any sort of support. It is rather hard to kill you but you won’t kill someone unless they are ultra glass cannon and you hit them perfectly. Running a build like this with a bomb kit might be good but you do lack some of the traits.
you won’t do much when its 2v2 because as soon as they see you are spec to tank, they will kill your partner, you won’t have enough control to stop them.

I would love more game modes. Just need some balancing and Im all for them.

Liewec.2896:

necro – warhorn + spectral walk = near perma swiftness.
ele – traits / glyph / air staff/dagger OH = plenty of mobility
engineer – trait for perma swiftness = perma swiftness
warrior – GS / sword leaps and charges = great mobility
guardian – “Retreat!” / staff 3 / “save yourselves!” = perma swiftness
ranger – GS 3 / warhorn 5 = fairly decent mobility (though worst of all classes imho)
mesmer – blink / temporal curtain / portal = great utility speed
thief – signet / shortbow = amazing speed

all classes can move quickly.
granted some quicker than other but guess what? they’re different classes!
each class will have different qualities, thieves should have higher mobility than guardians but guardians should be harder to kill.
i’m a little disappointed with the “ranger” however, the name alone begs for a high mobility scouting class.

problem is, some of those classes utterly destroy others doing a speed build.

lots and lots of candy corn

its so easy to roll and dodge the killshot its not even funny.

Sleepy.2647:

Esrever.8613:

pets die in 2-3 aoes from any boss. It doesn’t even matter how you control them because it takes them like 30 seconds to run back to you if you press the button.

Its gotten to a point where I just don’t care about my pet any more in dungeons.

You forget that players also die to 2-3 aoes from any boss…even to a single aoe, your point is? If your pet dies to 2-3 aoes from any boss…why let it die if it’s not getting oneshotted?
Even in high lvl fractals pet don’t die that often if you use them well even when they get “oneshoted” by agony.

you can roll yourself. your pet just sit there looking dumb.

maybe you should spend $20 and actually buy the gems.

Its so easy for people with 300g to buy gems and thats why prices have gone up.

we should form an agry mob.

people are sheep.

Loki.4871:

Esrever.8613:

pets die instantly in dungeons

Spec into beastmastery, don’t treat them as a fire and forget missile, and remember to use your F3/F4 buttons and they’re usually fine. This is from someone who melees with them by their side

pets die in 2-3 aoes from any boss. It doesn’t even matter how you control them because it takes them like 30 seconds to run back to you if you press the button.

Its gotten to a point where I just don’t care about my pet any more in dungeons.

pets die instantly in dungeons, all you can spec in pvp is dps or dot. You don’t really have that great number of viable play style really once you get higher level.

In pvp, pets are next to useless have the time and generally rangers are squishy and don’t really have much control or much speed.

on top of all that, arrows miss so much for this class that sometimes you just get pissed off because of it.

Ahlen.7591:

Esrever.8613:

Ahlen.7591:

Esrever.8613:

I have no idea why people say coated bullets are a must. Its really not that good unless you are fighting AIs

Mesmer Illusions, Ranger pet, necro pet, Other Engi turrets, Guardian spirit weapons.

There are a lot of things that you have to shoot through pretty often in PVP.

Coated bullets is a must.

can just take a kit.

Good players will avoid most kits fairly easily. Grenade kit and bomb kit are super easy to see coming/dodge unless they’re touching you at the time.

all it matters is to hit the pets/illusions/turrets. You can fight the person once all those are gone. Most people won’t be able to dodge bomb kit well and if you have swiftness, grenades are not really dodgable at close range.

Ahlen.7591:

Esrever.8613:

I have no idea why people say coated bullets are a must. Its really not that good unless you are fighting AIs

Mesmer Illusions, Ranger pet, necro pet, Other Engi turrets, Guardian spirit weapons.

There are a lot of things that you have to shoot through pretty often in PVP.

Coated bullets is a must.

can just take a kit.

Just to clarify, Im not suggesting that every class should be the same but spec into switfness for some classes is easy and goes very well with their builds but others not so much. This isn’t a huge problem but you get classes like thief which is just extremely mobile and able to take down people in 3 seconds or fight anyone and run away, it makes for very high dps+ survivability+mobility and quite frankly, I don’t see the balance here. Cloaking is just broken if you move faster than the enemy 90% of the time. There a reason spys in tf2 don’t run as fast as scouts, So they can actually be killed.

Elementalists are up there as well, not as much dps but much more support and arguably slightly more mobile. They can be spec’ed for survival, burst and mobility as well as just general control. None of its very OP or anything but together it makes the class much better than say necro.

engineer is the third class that is quite mobile not quite as fast as ele or thief but at least for engineer you aren’t really high dps when you spec it. you are a bunker with mobility and healing. Maybe some support. Still an amazing class because of it.

I don’t really understand enough about some of the other classes but
Classes like necro, ranger, mezmer are not very good in these regards. Necros aren’t able to ever catch a theif and killing a ele as necro is a pain from what I can tell. Ranger is just not a great class in general in my opinion. Mezmers have their uses and can stall and protect a point and run away quite well but is still outclassed by eles and theifs.

Kigeruse.2704:

im asking cause im getting 16 to 20 fps no matter the settings i use in game

and was wondering what cpu should i upgrade to

if you don’t change motherboard, getting a i5-750 and OCing it is the best thing. It will get you from those fps to 20 – 30 fps probably.

In regards to this, you might need to just OC your cpu and see how things improve.

the cpu is a bit weak but it pretty good.

I have no idea why people say coated bullets are a must. Its really not that good unless you are fighting AIs

Erewolf.3648:

Do you know what stores in particular and if these are commonly stocked? (In Canada specifically?)

bestbuy has them

buy them a card.

nldixon.8514:

Esrever.8613:

nldixon.8514:

Esrever.8613:

if you miss with the muddy terrain you are screwed is what I saw.

He missed a couple times with Muddy Terrain and still won the fights. Not sure what video you were watching.

attacking glass cannons from behind doesn’t really count for anything.

Well, since I haven’t watched any of your PvP videos, I can’t really comment on the difference in skill levels. However, I feel like making a glass cannon run away from you instead of waiting for the res timer to hit zero definitely counts for something.

I never really said I was better or anything. I just meant it as a general comment.

Why can spirits die in the first place? I mean its bad enough that pets die in 2 hits in dungeons.

staff is easier.

I get them about twice or so a month for doing dailies everyday.

I think birds could use more wings.

the tokens will be the same tokens as level 80. Depending on your build, you should run which ever dungeon provides the token you need to buy the armor in lions arch.

depends on your build and what you are farming. grenades are good but you might be swarmed depending on the enemies.

Engineers are pretty good for solo, but farming speed isn’t fast if you want survivability from my experience.

you’d want level 80 exotic as a goal. You should either be doing dungeons for tokens or farming karma to get exotics which is the easiest way.

it wouldn’t be impossible to make a bot zerg, would be pointless with no returns.

10g a day is more reasonable and even then its pretty much playing 8 hours. Grinding for gold doesn’t work.

people are just hording the rare items.

did you disable Cool n Quiet and any power saving features?

you should be able to get higher than 4.2. If you are at 4.2ghz, you should try raising the base clock slightly to get better performance. run something in prime95 to check stability.

moving in an oval is all you need to do to make up to 30% of the arrows miss and the pet to do nothing. so 50% of ranger dps is gone. great stuff.

There needs to be a progression system as well as some effect on playing wvw. Some things I would like:

Capturing points should give tokens that you can spend on gear or buffs in WvW and PvE. Not just drop from kills. Ascended gear in WvW.

Heres how my server population is divided in WvW, our borderlands = full, all other borderlands = empty, eternal battlegrounds is full.

This is just stupid, means the only place with anything is eternal battlegrounds. The borderlands are just the defenders overwhelming any attacking force since they hold the whole map. Anyone on the map can only capture camps. The design of eternal battlegrounds makes it a boring map since you are contained onto your corner most of the time unless you have overwhelming numbers.

its just what happens when people control the market.

rgrwng.4072:

the ability to take them bags of silver, and throw them into the forge to get a bag of gold would be nice, too…

that would be a dumb idea. for it to make sense it would have to be close to 100s bags to 1g bag. If that was the case, it would just defeat the whole purpose since you can just open them.

Account.9832:

Esrever.8613:

Velocity.4950:

well please explain to me why a gold bar cost less than a gold?

why toilet paper cost less than an thousand dollar bill?

Are you saying it’s possible to make dollar bills from toilet paper? Hm… if anyone calls for me, I’ll be in the toilet… getting rich!

the toilet paper are more comfy than money so I think its better if we did print money on toilet paper. It can then be dual purpose.

Tiny dunk!

I want to see some large dunks!

The cooling should be there. It also depends on your motherboard and ram. Sometimes you also get a low OC chip.

if 4.2 is all you can do, you will have to live with it.

Velocity.4950:

well please explain to me why a gold bar cost less than a gold?

why toilet paper cost less than an thousand dollar bill?

The thing with eles are, they can pop mistform at any time. Even if you lock them, they still can run. The down skill they have allow them to run again, means fighting any decent ele takes a while even if you can effectively keep up with them and kill them.

If classes are build to be fast, and able to evade other players, they should have considerably less dps or much more risk for them to strike. They should lose 100% of 1v1 fights if they can move faster.

nldixon.8514:

Esrever.8613:

if you miss with the muddy terrain you are screwed is what I saw.

He missed a couple times with Muddy Terrain and still won the fights. Not sure what video you were watching.

attacking glass cannons from behind doesn’t really count for anything.

if you miss with the muddy terrain you are screwed is what I saw.

I love how useless melee pets are.

buy a better cpu cooling setup and overclock your cpu to 4.5ghz. Your game will then run the best as it can on an AMD cpu.

Teabaker.9524:

… ? Just switch to a warhorn real quick and give yourself quickness?

many classes have constant swiftness with nearly no draw backs. Also cloaking to run away and traverse is another huge imbalance in terms of mobility.