Guild Wars 2

I love the b-iconics! Jory 4evah \o/

Yeah i guess it will be mantra or signet style. I’d prefer mantras style tho, more active gameplay, especially if there will me multiple “charges”

Killyox.3950:

Treetoptrickster.4205:

I wonder if we’re going to get the Reaper’s chill treatment, but with burning.

Don’t think so. We already got some decent condition options with pistols/bombs etc. Sounds more like a Power/melee/Fury driven spec.

I thinks he means we will be nerfed as necros

SaintSnow.6593:

Evon won’t invest in steroid pumped pigeons to carry your loots to you.

Dat greedy kitten. Love him <3

Xyonon.3987:

Warrior damage on dodge has no cd aswell, and since our endurance is the true “CD” here, there is no 10 sec CD required. This is just stupid… It’s something that annoyed me since the patch.

+1

Edit: also thieves fought hard to have the trait that put u in stealth on 25%, which was most of the time a killer, not a savior. Here is the same. So fuse EPK with TD in GM and remove CD that would be worth GM trait

Im wandering the earth one xD

I’m not a turret fan myself but i see your point. Still they said are going to yoyo balance thing pretty often in order to tweak the new traits, maybe in the next future we can see wome changes

Aetrion.8295:

I do not want them to implement the trinity.

I do want them to implement a system where stacking the support stats makes you just as useful to a group as bringing more DPS to the party.

You knok, is kind hard to have an encounter where whatever you bring will help the party…only way is to dumb down everything…oh wait…it’s the problem we have now
just saying

Meh turret were broken, i’m glad they are no more. Still i agree they have been hit too much hard.
The point of engi is the kits tho, not the turrets. If all you cared about were the turrets i’m sorry.

^ those guys also made good points

Ihrga.8325:

Gaaroth.2567:

I never tackled this topic so far, but i want to write this down, in bullets so you can easly understand:

• manifesto = intents, and you can’t always deliver what you want;
• things changed at release because they had to, not because they wanted to troll us saying A then doing B after a month for the sake of it
• an example is ascended gear, implemented because people didn’t have a goal to GRIND, now they cry about the grind. LOL
• i’m not whiteknighting anybody, but being a dev myself i know that sometimes you have to change what you dream to program, because kitten happends
• they addressed the grind issue saying they do no want people to grind to enjoybevery aspect of the game, and THIS IS TRUE, and do not philophize about fractal 50 not available because of ascended because you’d look dumb. That’s progression, not gear check in a WoW sense. Because look, some dungeons or world bosses require coordination and knowledge to complete, are you saying is bad because you have to grind the “skill” to make them? LOL because to become skillful you have to repeat the content over and over to be good.
  If everything is handed over and doesn’t require some sort of work/time spent, the game would cleared and dead in 1 month…no exceptions, because that’s how it works. Get over it.

Didn’t start like a ranted but i got carried. Sorry. Peace&loot.

So…

• Intents? Really? Check this out: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/manifest

• How about inform people at first sight of such changes?

• Ascended – Weak example showing only that devs do not have imagination for more. Right? Or you find smth else to support this already lost affair?

• Some? Yeah right: triple trouble and Tequatl and THAT’S IT! In dungeons there is a simple thing like stack or run and kite. TWO! Seems like ANet likes that number. =) And as for “skill” term there is no skill in GW2 in true sense of it (mayb in SPVP, but tanky mandatory builds come to mind). You can open any guide, look for some high regen build for ANY class and you are done. For everything PVE wise. And you can F*** up as much as you want. So since when does build and gear composition = skill? BTW repeating content does NOT make you skillful – it trains your memory – thats it. You remember just a simpleton pattern to follow. Nice! Skill at its finest! sarcasm

So no matter how much time and effort this product has gotten it still lacks. Goals, skill gradation, boring quest system, unimaginative world events that are shallow. Seems like the dev team can’t do better. Get over it and stop whiteknighting obvios things!

Not saying i agree with some decisions, i honestly do not. Heck i’m really kittened off by some of them (ascended is prime example). And don’t make me speak about comunications, because i could make rain fire

What I do not get is all this anger towards a good
type of grind (yeah that exists) that keeps people playing. It’s totally different from any othet game, you pick a goal, you work for it, for the sake of the goal. It’s a GOOD thing, you do not do chores in order to make raid A to get gear to get to raid B and so on. THAT is kittened grind, and THAT IS NOT in the game. That’s all i’m saying.

:)

Seasons were regular additions of “personal story like” quests, pulling forward the world’s story. At peak they were coming every 2 weeks ;-)
Season 1 was not meant to be replayable and this disappointed people, that’s why they changed it with season 2 (and that’s why you see it in the personal story panel, but not season 1) they are working to bring season 1 back in the season 2’s format just after the release of the xpac,tho. In the meantime you can catch up on the wiki/utube and play the season 2 after (buy it, there a discounted full pack available) or join groups that are doing it for the achievs (altho if you do not buy it you cannot do achievs too) worth mention they were free to unlock if you logged in when they were live

Until announce of the xpac there was a fair number of updates with living story season 1 and 2, festivals, SuperAdventureBox. Now they are working kitten the xpac because people so loudly wanted it. After that, since the whole xpac is made in order to allow them easy extensions (think of masteries and specializations) the regular content will be back, son’t worry

To scream, and shout, and let it all out?

I agree on the instant cast, but not on class restriction

I never tackled this topic so far, but i want to write this down, in bullets so you can easly understand:

• manifesto = intents, and you can’t always deliver what you want;
• things changed at release because they had to, not because they wanted to troll us saying A then doing B after a month for the sake of it
• an example is ascended gear, implemented because people didn’t have a goal to GRIND, now they cry about the grind. LOL
• i’m not whiteknighting anybody, but being a dev myself i know that sometimes you have to change what you dream to program, because kitten happends
• they addressed the grind issue saying they do no want people to grind to enjoybevery aspect of the game, and THIS IS TRUE, and do not philophize about fractal 50 not available because of ascended because you’d look dumb. That’s progression, not gear check in a WoW sense. Because look, some dungeons or world bosses require coordination and knowledge to complete, are you saying is bad because you have to grind the “skill” to make them? LOL because to become skillful you have to repeat the content over and over to be good.
  If everything is handed over and doesn’t require some sort of work/time spent, the game would cleared and dead in 1 month…no exceptions, because that’s how it works. Get over it.

Didn’t start like a ranted but i got carried. Sorry. Peace&loot.

glehmann.9586:

Everyone keeps assuming we’ll be getting another class’ utility skill type, but I’m not sure that will be the case. Our existing utilities aren’t shared with any other class so far, and I wouldn’t be surprised if our elite spec added an engineer-specific new skill type as well.

Well, now that you make think about that you may be right! Still i’m hoping for a signet like type of skills

Back in the days I was poor and had to make a choice that would support my gameplay for a long time, so i made my ascended armor a celestial one.
then i swap trinkets/weapons on my needs, which are full berserker or sinister. Imho sinister screams engi so much and currently i’m trying to find the build that suits me perfectly ;-)

Carighan.6758:

Marjory and Kasmeer.

Their interaction is a lot of fun, though I used to like it a lot more before they made it “obvious” that they’re a couple. It was always pretty obvious, so it felt a bit soap opera that they had to harp on it so much because apparently some players didn’t get it.

They’re awesome.

Since that’s first and second place taken, third is I guess Frostbite, as the pillar of the second NPC team and the only one not constantly standing in AE stuff.

Jory: you’re saying your clothes are an illusion and you are actually naked?
Kas: yes. Is that a problem?
Jory: not at all!

:-D

After completion, infusion is your only option…500FR aren’t that hard to get ;-)

If you liked nades/elix try them again.
the new alchemy trait is good and HGH is back to sweetness.
i really like hTurret/nades/elixU/elixS/mortar atm swapping thing around depending on situation
explosion/alchemy/inventions
Is good in high end pvp with pugs.

Openworld i’d stick with FT ^^

No plz. I want those drones/signets so badly!

Urr durr entropy, me smash u eles!
Im striving for aetherized one…saving like a madman

Defiling Treekiller.1632:

first off I’m old, have 4 kids etc so my ideas are old school. The point of this post is trying to understand this whole notion of ANET needing to instill trust with players or the attitude that people can simply complain endlessly over trivial matters, or that some how the game developers owe the players anything at all besides a few hours of fun. In the real world 50$ is worth 1 hour and 15 minutes of my time as a mason, 7 minutes of time to a lawyer, 30 minutes to an electrician , would pay for half an evening out on a date etc. these forums are filled with abuse and complaints that have very little to do with a balanced state of being when they should be filled with helpful insights for those looking for answers , well thought out suggestions for future content or work arounds for common bugs. The games is decent , our player base for the most part is decent and it is time that these forums reflect this

Even if probably is a lost battle, as many have pointed out, I like you for stepping forward and saying this. Thank you sir.

ProtoGunner.4953:

I like:
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Trahearne

Not sure if troll or…

Azure Prower.8701:

Tybalt.

#FeelWars2

Wanze.8410:

because someone made a song about it

And what a song!

Rich Fuel.7253:

Since the last beta stopped and the POI a day afterwards with Shiro.

I just cant play any other classes, they all seem boring to me.(except for the Revenant of course)

Any1 else has this feeling?

Same. My engi still satisfies me but the cheesiness of the rev might make me switch main

Yo gauge! I really like the build and im running something similar. Do you see it viable in high end tpvp?

For WvW probably, in PvP everything is insta-unlocked, since forever

Remeber folk that you’ll have to complete 2 tracks:
1 for the traits, that will require more than 60 HP (current ones require 60, but elite ones have something more, like skins, etc etc)
1 for new skill type and that depends but i’d say around 60 too ;-)

Easiest solution: buff icon so we cen manage it and full refresh when the buff runs out (= we haven’t used it)

So basically you can sorta keep it up by dodging until ready to use, having a mild synergy with traits requiring dodge or low endurance ;-)

I agree with you, i’d really like to have a bit more utility in the heal area…and dat medikit bail, too

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I do hope they will have the original icon and the new icon side by side. If they continue adding elite professions, at the rate of one set of 9 each year there will be 18 to remember with this expansion, in another year there will be 27 profession icons to remember and 36 icons in 2 years. It won’t take long for people to need to carry a cheat sheet with them to determine who and what the players are.

My exact thought

ProtoGunner.4953:

Genavelle.9516:

Sell it to me, Anet, players, anyone. Tell me why I should spend my money on the expansion.

Be cause 50 or even 100 is not much for an MMO with no subs and you got 2-3 years of content usually for free aside from cosmetic fluff.

Pretty much

Zaoda.1653:

OMG I’ve been wanting warhorn for sooooo long on the elementalist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not really.

But…i actually had!! =_=

Oreithyia.3064:

It’s like playing a violent Santa. :I

Made my day xD

Laraley.7695:

BlackBeard.2873:

Laraley.7695:

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Apparently I’m the only one excited to the a warhorn storm generator

Yeah, so great if only ele couldn’t summon storms with 7 skills already. Next please.

I’m quite mad at myself for buying the xpack. I thought ANet would listen to the ele community, but I should have known better.

Hahaha, did you REALLY think ANet has a CLUE about the ele community? You have to know better than that. Regardless, it is good that your hope is dying, as now you can be more real with your expectations.

As a general rule, I expect complete ineptitude, and am pleasantly surprised when they do something competent.

Well, in my defense they were listening about other stuff regarding the rev, EA before…so I thought they might actually visit the ele forums for once. I guess that’s a good strategy, but they’re losing customers by not caring about their opinion at all.

“Hey Anet I want my ele to be a supersayan and have a melee staff that grows on my command to cleave people!!1!1!!1!!” Not getting it? “Anet does not listen to us!!11!1!!”
Cmon, i use ele to, lets see before how turns out, then judge. You know, like reasonable people, not kids.
If it turns out bad than you have all the rights to complain.

How about see how frigging works before be upsetti eh?

ronpierce.2760:

I’m not sure… It’s between:

Sikari Ashfield
Sikari Ashgrove
Sikari Mist

I’m always Sikari, but usually with a title… Time to give it a surname but I’m not sure I’m ready yet to settle.

If anyone has a preference of the 3 let me know. I could use a nudge. :P

Ashgrove if running sylvari

ronpierce.2760:

Kidel.2057:

faster is not better if it means going backwards. Also I’m pretty sure they’ll add a cooldown on that if people use it this way. I’m sure they don’t want to see that in the game.

Mobility is mobility. I use Ranger’s sword 2 backwards for mobility, and I certainly would this as well.

You’re dodging around the issue. Our best mobility is exploiting our back-step stunbreak, simply because otherwise our OOC mobility is terrible, INCLUDING “exploiting” Impossible odds, it’s “exploiting” to manage 90% swiftness uptime… That’s kinda sad lol.

While I agree is tricky i wouldnt say it’s exploiting: 50% energy reset is a mechanic intended to be used for this kind of stuff, is an emergency 50% energy card ;-)

Still i’d like to see shiro#8 used like ele’s Ride the Lightning

If you want fit the lore: you get hit when you exit the mists to strike

^ /15preorders

Oh god are we still talking on this? -.-

I hope to try out charr, not because of Rytlok (which is the kittenest of em all) but because i so love the race, even with all the clipping/trenchcoats on my engi

skowcia.8257:

Gaaroth.2567:

You pretty much replied urself, green rappresent jade and looking at jade burst he did on his dead I say that’s probably the most iconic color/concept.

About the contrast , yeah, u may be right. But you know GW2 fashion is always a bit over the top

https://youtu.be/PBAxPYq0WYw?t=2m4s

Where do you see green from his “jade burst”? I agree red/yellow would be much better.

Yeah you are right, i remembered more green xD
still, since the jade is the theme i see green fitting, but is my personal preference

You pretty much replied urself, green rappresent jade and looking at jade burst he did on his dead I say that’s probably the most iconic color/concept.

About the contrast , yeah, u may be right. But you know GW2 fashion is always a bit over the top

Since they are solo-instances, they hardly will be challenging GROUP content
Anyway i’m looking forward to see them too and will be a fun and interesting addition if well made!

DeWolfe.2174:

Great, now maybe they can restore my up levels to there fully unlocked state prior to the patch? The patch where all of a sudden all the skill point scrolls I poured into them turned into unlocked “training” I may or may not have wanted. Then turning the excess skill points into Spirit Shards instead of more Hero points. Because thousands of spirit shards are so useful, right? #smh

It’s an improvement but, they should have not gated Hero points. Allowing us to convert all our skill point scrolls into Hero points and/or Spirit Shards.

You haven’t lost any scroll used.
Hero points are given levelling up (a lv80 gets all HP to unlock anything “core”) and doing Hero Challanges (previously Skill Ch.) So the amount of HP you have is the combination of level and HCh. done on that character.
Anything else as been converted in account bound spirit shard at 1:1 ratio, togheter with Skill Scrolls.
Saving or spending them would not have change a thing ;-)
Basically they have done the best convert ever, where AT LEAST you got what you had before, but often end up with more ;-)

LS2 difficult? Q_Q
Like during first hot closed beta people complained for enemies moving out of AoEs… geez… we’ll never have nice and diffucult stuff :-(
Anyway that chapter is easy and last boss is the combo of previous one. I made it with my engi and even with my ele not fully exotic equipped too. Cmon.

Appreciation threads tend to be scarce in forums but this time I absolutely had to write this down.

This last patch is absolutelly FANTASTIC.

First of all new LA is gorgeous. Gratz!
It finally pulses life, color. New JP is very good and the exploration achievment for dragonite eater is just the cherry.

I really looked forward to the new trait/skill system and I’m not disappointed. UI is brilliant and the overall system is finally clean and ordered.
Also the fact that we have to some extend to re-descover our classes gives a breeze of much needed fresh air.

Overall? 11/10 for me. If this is the level of work that will come with HoT my decision to get the ultimate edition was well made.

<3