Guild Wars 2

“Unique”

Why didn’t you look it up in a dictionary or online translator if you did not understand what it meant.

tolunart.2095:

Theftwind.8976:

I received this today in my mail. Obviously a scam as the grammer is pathetic beyond belief. I suppose it loses something in the translation. If it is legit then ANET should use better proofreaders.

You can tell right away it’s not legit because of the bad English/spelling. You should be thankful because if the scammers ever learn proper English then it will be a lot harder to tell the difference.

Alternatively, people can wisen up and learn that ANet will never ask for account information.

I play the game.

fey.5438:

aophts.9862:

According to the wiki, those bags just drop 3 materials, THREE…

Also, Laurels are used for ascended trinkets.

That means you have 30-80silver from 1 laurel.
Yesterday I converted 158 laurels into craftingbags so now I got mats worth about 100G and Im in a half way to my third legendary.
Ascended amulets are better than exotics just by 3% – IMO not worth.

If you’re looking to monetize your laurels, you’re better off getting the coin boosters than T6 mats.

As for ascended amulets, you can get 20% gold find/magic find in them. Better.

“Your face is funny, all squooshed and weird.”

“No your face is funny! It’s like a little raisin.”

Its’ probably just a visual bug on the tooltip that doesn’t show the remaining duration. Happens to me sometimes.

Yep. Here’s some proof.

colesy.8490:

but people do tend to be stuck in their ways (ranger = 100% range guys, kitten )

Yeah … everybody needs to realise they are called rangers as they “range” across the plains.

Please don’t be a Guardian if you’re a bad player and think you can facetank everything. Please. I’m sick of Guardians like this.

Human Warrior. Order is irrelevant.

Howler, Mesmers are slowly getting nerfed to an unplayable state (unless all you like to do is use TW, feedback and signet, and then go AFK)

This really isn’t difficult, me and my buddies do P1 and P2 religiously almost everyday (hallelujah plague recipe!).

The only time you should ever run into trouble is if Brigitte on P2 SPAMS her retaliation symbol like she regularly enjoys to.

But sure, condition removal is nigh on essential, other than that just L2Dodge Riflemen.

Direksone.3867:

Well.. The record is now on like 24 seconds or something. Lupi is a bit of a joke as well if you go full berserker group like.

Eh, it’s barely Berserker that does that as far as I can see. Sure, that speeds it up, but it’s mostly due to the huge RNG luck on the feedback.

COF is far too easy for the reward, but it’s too late to get nerfed as it’ll be too much work on ANets part to deal with the kittens.

Flyingfrenchman.6315:

Rfreak, what dye did you use to match the color of the hellfire?

It looks like either Pyre or Flame. Both are very expensive now.

Astral Projections.7320:

To respec if they nerf your build is much more painful than buying another set of exotics.

If they nerf your build, you should still be running full Berserker anyway.

Celestial sucks.

Sure “stat combos”, but even then it should only ever be a mix of Berserker/Rampagers, which can be fixed by taking Berserker stats on ascended items and Rampagers on exotics. Taking Celestial just makes the player lose the useful stats in exchange for some crap like healing power or vitality which are NEVER useful.

Disclaimer: I talk in a PvE environment only.

I like how whenever people claim they get a precursor drop its always Dawn, Dusk, Legend, Spark, or any of the other ridiculously pricy one.

Flags up to me as “bull….”

Not sure why you wouldn’t screenshot a precursor drop but hey.

For the record, OP, 2100 and 0 precursors too. Not thakittens a reason to stop someone getting a purpz.

I love the longbow, and I’m ridiculously anti-ranged combat.

Not that a low DPS auto attack on ranged weapons matter – there are very few fights that require you to go ranged anyway. Hell, even PUG Lupi rarely have to range anymore.

HOTW.

I farm CM more than most people farm COF. Thank you for your gift Turmaine <3

Path 1 is a pain in the kitten due to difficult trash skips without a Thief. None of my buddies play Thief, and we sure as hell aren’t gonna PUG one.

I used to do P2 more than P3, but it’s a tad slower so we only do it when someone needs tokens “now”.

Don’t even question why people don’t do P4. While I like it, and have done it a few times, people want reward in the dungeon. I believe ~40 minutes is a good speedrun time, so expect a lot higher on normal runs. It’s not worth many peoples’ time when they can do P3 in <20 minutes.

Longbow is better, as direct damage > condition damage. Fact.

I speak strictly for PvE.

It’s funny because 1 Thief is required for optimal speedrunning in PvE, especially with the recent Warrior nerf.

I can’t speak for s/tPvP or WvW.

It’s funny because 1 Thief is now a requirement for optimal speedrunning.

In the whole scheme of things, Thieves get kicked because PUG thieves are notoriously bad.

It’s too late to alter how Legendaries are obtained – at least not with the current ones, but potentially with the confirmed future ones.

Nobody is asking you to farm the 250 T6 materials, or get ~481 Ectos yourself, or get your specific precursor as a drop. The TP is there for a reason – sell what you don’t need, buy what you do.

As for the precursor, I’ve never understood the whole mystic forge thing. If you could expect to get, say Dusk, in 200g, the precursor wouldn’t be the price it is now. Granted I refuse to try, as the precursors I have “needed” have all been “cheap” in comparison and clearly not worth the gamble.

I browse the forums every now and then and people complain they can’t get a Legendary in 20 hours of leveling an alt or something as ridiculously simplistic as that.

Again, as many people have repeated. They are LEGENDARY. Sure I don’t 100% agree with how they are obtained, but at least they require significant effort to get.

Farming COF and TP flipping are the only way to get them? Nonsense, I’m sitting here with … well I’m not going to brag now … and I have NEVER TP flipped, and do maybe 2-3 hours a week of COF at most.

Come on guys, get with the program, stop expecting handouts.

Few people are asking the benefits of increasing the skillcap.

One very good reason … more trait points to spend.

A lot of people, me included, believe they will release a new batch of unlimited tools with different effects.

We can’t say for certain, but all you can do is wait.

CM.

Plague recipe says hi.

swiftpaw.6397:

Whilst I dislike cof, and think his post is pretty funny.. There’s one thing I can relate to with this guy. Once you’ve gone through hundreds, sometimes thousands of pugs, and time after time you see the same stupid kitten, bad builds, poor gear sets, doing stupid crap in the dungeon and wasting your time… You start to get really kitten ed off.

This is why you don’t PUG.

Axe/Mace & Axe/Axe switching as 30/0/0/10/30 is now superior to GS and Axe/Mace swapping.

It is impossible to pass up on Empowered Allies with the buff it got. 150 Power to party? Yes please.

I think they are fake.

1) Excluding the few “general updates”, everything else are profession updates. No WvW notes, no PvE notes, no PvP notes, no content notes. Very unusual and likely a reason to consider them fake.

2) Updates to traits have been separated into subsections of the corresponding traits lines. To my knowledge, this hasn’t happened before.

3) There is too much rebalancing and too many changes to the professions.

It is something I used to do, and allow my friends to do.

As for PUGs, if they let us know I’m fine with it. If they don’t tell us and log when the boss is still up, we conjure a swift kick.

You won’t get kicked if you pull your weight.

Drop the Wayfarer and pick up Zerker.

Sigil of Night, with Sigil of “X” swaps in inventory for those “X” mobs (i.e. Sigil of Justice in CM, or Sigil of Undead Slaying in COE/Arah).

I can accept having multiple weapons being a pain, but definitely get Sigil of Night at least, as (5) Dungeons & (5) Fractals are night. Have a Force weapon for daytime places, as Force > Fire for single target (bosses).

Can’t take the legendary “grind”?

Don’t do it – it’s an aesthetic upgrade only for a reason.

If you want a “goal”, go for a lesser weapon. For example, I have a buddy who believes a Legendary is out of reach so is aiming for Volcanus instead.

ANet just want the ingame gold to be worth kitten all and funnel everybody into COF farming.

This bugs me, as someone who runs dungeons (NOT COF 1) entirely for fun, but allows me to purchase shiny purpz as a result.

The rate this is going, there is no “reward” for my character from doing what I enjoy. Not cool.

cinemapaula.8673:

Flissy – you just proved my point. You don’t know what a good ranger can do, since you’ve obviously never played with one. The good ones DO NOT play the way you describe. =) Nice try. Find a good ranger. Team up. Stop being so unfairly biased towards the profession before you know whakittens all about.

Sword/X is highest DPS for a Ranger, while either bows are terrible. Not sure what MMO Ranger you’re on about.

Overnerfed. I feel it was only nerfed this hard due to glamour builds. Maybe nerfing the glamour build itself, while only altering confusion to … maybe 75%? … would have been better.

Helping a friend get her Moot now. Pretty just the T6 mats left, should have it in a week or 2.

This isn’t even a debate.

Guardian, Thief and Mesmer.

The only “debate” is the situations where Warrior > Guardian, and that is where no reflects are “needed”.

I lol’d at your build. You use GS and have neither GS trait.

This is why I dont PUG COF. Most people think being a Warrior is enough.

THIS is a better build for COF and outside COF. Swap Frenzy out for Strength/Disc is the group needs it.

Of course, use powerful flame legion potions.

Theftwind.8976:

Flissy.4093:

Yes, but is very situational.

2) A second Necro/Engineer. One of these hogs the condition limit themselves, having another is a big drain. I will, however, ask the Necro if they are a power build before removal.

I often kick others for weapon choice as some are objectively bad, but thats another story.

I am puzzled by this one point. What does it matter who places the conditions on a mob? If one person puts 25 stacks on he is not “hogging” the limit for themselves, it is after all for the good of the party. If you have extra condition damage that cannot stack due to the limits then it is wasted damage but in no way can it be blamed on “hogging”.

I didn’t mean “hogging” in a negative term. Its just my way of saying they can nearly max out bleeding/vuln on their own so having multiple people “specialise” in that role is a waste.

Dante.1508:

Flissy.4093:

cinemapaula.8673:

Flissy needs to play with some good rangers apparently! Ive never seen such a bad attitude towards a profession.

Im always welcome in groups – and my primary is a ranger. Ive NEVER had anyone complain, or have issues with my damage or playstyle.

I do love how people blame all fail’s on rangers though – when its not always the case. LOL “We suck, blame the ranger!” Yeah… these groups usually suck WITH or WITHOUT the ranger – while a good ranger can help dramatically!

Geez…

A “good” Ranger would be a lot more useful as almost any other profession. Fact. We have to assume random players are all of equal skill level.

Not to mention, I’ve never actually seen a “good” Ranger. They always like to sit at max range (out of range of group buffs) doing low DPS while providing limited support with their longbow or shortbow instead of getting up-close and personal doing decent damage with a GS or Sword/X.

I would sooner kick every Ranger and be labelled elitist than to carry a bunch of bads hoping for a Ranger who’s trying to be useful pop up once in a blue moon.

Obviously you’ve never done CoE, rangers are the go to class in there, Alpha cannot kill good rangers in there and part 3 is almost aimed at rangers..

You could not be more wrong. I do COE daily – usually multiple times.

No way are Rangers a “goto” there. Their pets screw up Alpha’s AI (or used to, as I said I don’t take Rangers in groups). As for P3, I’m assuming you mean the destroyer? Traverse the platforms and melee it down in 2 “passes”. Used to be completable in 1 before quickness nerf, not now though.

Your example is horrid as COE is likely the least Ranger friendly dungeon. It’s the dungeon that high DPS makes it notably easier, more so than any other dungeon. We KNOW that Rangers are a low DPS profession, this is not news. Combine this with what I said earlier.

x per fection x.2096:

Flissy.4093:

SkyChef.5432:

Maybe you show us a video of your team playing, we can tell what’s wrong with that?

They have 2 Rangers & no Guardian while having no experience with the path.

There’s the problem, we don’t even need a video to say this.

I’ve done p4 many times and I’ve never had a guardian in the group when doing Simon, I usually guard up until Simon and then swap out to War. There really is nothing wrong with their comp, they should be able to do it easily.

The War, Ele and Mesmer should be able to do most of the work if they were properly spec’d. Add in the 2 rangers in zerker gear and doing melee instead of auto attack w/shortbow and they should be able to do it no problem.

The problem is either they sucked at running sparks or people were lying about their gear.

Guardian isn’t necessary, but it’s foolish to not have one in Arah when the group is unfamilar with a path.

I can pretty much guarentee the Rangers were maxranging with a bow, instead of using Sword/X. Still yet to find a Ranger whos at least trying to pump out mediocre DPS.

shimmerless.4560:

Flissy.4093:

shimmerless.4560:

it’s just not really anyone’s business what I decide to run,

Of course it’s those in your groups business to know what you run. You could essentially be totally wasting their time in PVT with a bad build that you call “creative”. Why should they carry someone who is a dead weight and is providing no meaningful contribution.

If they wanted my gear they were quite welcome to request a ping, and even if (for whatever reason) Zerks didn’t satisfy them they can ask me to leave,

Players can “lie” about their pinged gear. They could have a Zerker set in their bag while using PVT set with the exact same skin and you have no way of knowing.

shimmerless.4560:

it’s just not really anyone’s business what I decide to run,

Of course it’s those in your groups business to know what you run. You could essentially be totally wasting their time in PVT with a bad build that you call “creative”. Why should they carry someone who is a dead weight and is providing no meaningful contribution.

Valion.4638:

Flissy.4093:

You expect this to change when you can be on par with everybody else in PvP by just making it? This is why a minor gear treadmill does need putting in place. Nothing major, just to put a line between those who have been playing the profession and those who just pick the flavour of the month.

Before the 30th April, you’d see this just with everybody and their Nan being a D/D Bunker Ele.

skill is what the line is.. not time. sorry

Eh, it would be nice to be able to agree. But there’s still a clear “X class is superior to Y by any metric”.

SkyChef.5432:

Maybe you show us a video of your team playing, we can tell what’s wrong with that?

They have 2 Rangers & no Guardian while having no experience with the path.

There’s the problem, we don’t even need a video to say this.

You expect this to change when you can be on par with everybody else in PvP by just making it? This is why a minor gear treadmill does need putting in place. Nothing major, just to put a line between those who have been playing the profession and those who just pick the flavour of the month.

Before the 30th April, you’d see this just with everybody and their Nan being a D/D Bunker Ele.

Auesis.7301:

I crafted Incinerator, Bolt and Quip, and I don’t expect a bright spotlight to somehow appear above my head wherever I walk with a big sign that says “APPRECIATE ME!”

They’re just skins.

But you come on the forums to gloat that you have not just 1, but 3? Gotcha.

You could have just said “I crafted mine and don’t feel the need for a big sign”.