Guild Wars 2

what’s wrong with traps? they seem okay to the point of horrifyingly annoying and OP. i don’t play rangers. :P

but agree on thread title. might as well remove 8v8 since it’s zergy and zerging in structured PVP is for farming glory and farming glory is (insert preferred word here).

is it possible that other skins haven’t been discovered yet? recipes or mystic toilet wise. i dunno. not only for staff but for other weapons as well..

Isslair.4908:

Malediktus.9250:

Maybe people dont want to feel like a twink lvl service.

Pretty much this.

Yea, I agree with this.

I noticed that people I invite or join my party instantly leaves when they see my level 51 mesmur toon.

Cowrex.9564:

StevesDad.8213:

Cowrex.9564:

I already have 1 level 80 character (Human Elementalist). I have to say, it took me about 125 hours to get to level 80 (Yes, I take my time playing and not rushing like hell), and in those 125 hours, I enjoyed literally everything about the game. Although saying everything is an understatement. That’s because I haven’t done everything yet. In fact, I only finish 42 % of the map And I still have lots of unexplored territories and regions to cover. I still have dungeons to finish, gear to make, and all the like.

While it may sound grind-y and very repetitive.. it’s not, it’s because there is always something new in this game. Each day, I can always expect something outrageous, funny, epic or just awesome!

In short, the game’s end game (Which is the entire game) is pure awesome!

P.S. The story is actually very good (In my opinion), I like the characters(Yes, even Trahearne, he only seems boring because of his scholarly attitude), the way it was presented, the music, and the choices!

Does arenanet pay you people to write such lavish things? This is a bit unrealistic

Seriously? How the hell does Anet even pay me? Besides, that’s in my opinion anyways, no need to get all kitten about it. It may sound unrealistic but the reason why I can expect something happen each day is because of my friends there, they always do something.

And yes, I have spent more than 100 hours in the game and I only reached 42% of map completion, believe it or not.

Also, I find Trahearne interesting, despite other people thinking that he’s boring. Like I said, the reason why he’s boring is because of his scholarly attitude.

Anyways, what I want to tell you is that this game is just great. It may have a few issues with it but I learned how to curb my expectations from it. In other words, you can say I am just optimistic about the game.

One of the problems you have to deal with in the forums is that some people tend to consider you to be wrong if your opinion is not in line with theirs.

With that being said, I agree with you that the game is great and I am not yet bored of it.

This has been suggested many many times now. I’m pretty sure this will get some attention after they polish some more important things. Many PVP-only players wanted this feature implemented. – a function to toggle PVE gear, PVP gear, heck even Town Clothes in the Character Selection Window.

Let’s just all be patient.

Vorch.2985:

Wish they had time trials for Jumping Puzzles, with best times for each server posted

I love this idea. Actually, I believe the game has a lot to offer in terms of end game content. Dungeons, WvW, JPs, exploration, etc. The problem is that the distribution of rewards and/or incentives for each category of activity in the game need a major overhaul. And this one idea can actually give purpose to JPs if they never want to up the chest reward to become worth it at the end of a JP or any in-game activity. Scoreboards where players see who’s on top and who’s the best at this or that will definitely add a lot more meaning to every single activity you enjoy playing be it PVP, dungeon, WvW, or Jumping Puzzles. Players love to brag. They will do anything to improve their e-pins. Heck, even the upcoming Guild Missions can do with scoreboards so that guilds can prove who’s the best of the best outside of WvW. Popularity, pride, e-pin, purpose.

I believe thieves apparently love culling issues. It’s their advantage in encounters, no?

nerva.7940:

i hope 1v1 goes to free tourneys too. they only said theyre considering it. but there shouldnt even BE frees and hotjoin! 8v8 is garbage, just take it out. put in place 1v1 frees for the pugs, and 1v1 paids.

not taking out 8v8 and the current free tourneys will split the already tiny pvp population.

yea. 2-team single round should be in frees and 8-team in paids. or make both frees and paids 2-team and make 8-team tourneys some kind of weekly or monthly event. XD

nerva.7940:

5 months isnt long enough obviously. i’ll bet anyone the 26th patch will have paltry amounts of prof balancing. but i think deep down we all know this.

I’m with you man. My expectations are not that high with the upcoming patch.

Color me pessimist. :P

I, for one, am happy with the removal or rez-rushing. It encourages proper coordination with your team and map awareness. If the dungeon becomes tedious because of the removal of rez-rushing, maybe you need to up your game a bit.

As for the dungeons revamp promised, I’m sure Anet is taking their time not to drop the ball on this one. They didn’t exactly say that the revamp will come out on March though, rather part of their 2013 plan of moving the game forward. I’m expecting these changes to hit by the end of the second quarter, if not later.

For the class balance issues, the upcoming Feb26 patch will be the expected big changes to every class. My hopes are not that high with this one though. I’d rather see a long list of bug fixes to skill and traits first in the patch notes. The tweaks on numbers can come much later.

Cast bars: no

Mini-map improvements: gimmeeeeee nao!!!!

dreztina.4820:

TGSlasher.1458:

What’s your Elite?:
What Elite do you have? Do you remember to use it? I’ve fought a few eles recently that used no elite at all. My elite is the Fiery GreatSword of great justice. Lighting flash with this baby will rock your world (if you have some nice might stacked up, or have zerkers like me). You want to use FGS 3 then teleport back to where you started as you pass your foe. This takes a lot of practice as your character and camera move quite quickly. But if you pull this off you will hit for 2x more damage with the whirl. If you deciede to take the Elemental Elite don’t forget to use it.

Thanks for this tip. I never liked the fiery greatsword before, but now I rather enjoy it. Finally have an elite I want to use.

I still can’t pull this technique off. Ugh >.<

You don’t need a gaming mouse to be competitive. But yeah, the default keybind is horrifyingly awful for the tons of skills and utilities you need to press. That is a fact.

Just find the right keybind setting for your left hand. I personally would suggest moving the movement keys to WERD instead of WASD. And then work around your utility skills around those keys for easy access. Weapon skills I set to the default 1-5 keys.

just wait for the 2-team matchmaking system thingy that’s coming our way on the 26th. i’m pretty sure that that’s gonna be on frees. and you won’t be 65 about a week from now are ya? XD

pullnointer.1476:

“While carrying the Orb, the player still has access to all of their skills, but has a 40% movement speed penalty and is unable to stealth or gain swiftness. If they teleport or become downed, they will drop the Orb.” well they CAN be dropped. now whether that means it’s destroyed or can be picked up is debatable. they said it’s ctf so it might disappear, and that’d make sense too.

Yeah, can any dev confirm? Can we pick up the dropped orb like loot or does it disappear from the former orb carrier and reset in its original location? XD

I am not aware that there is a confirmation from a dev that the orb can be dropped and then picked up.

Xolo.3580:

From looking at the video the map seems to have a lot of corners and stairs sets, so who knows how good RTL will really be.

I’ve stated this before but some people just can’t get enough of RTL bashing. It’s not like you can actually RTL away anywhere anytime. One wrong move, a stone in the way, a slightly uneven terrain, a cliff, a staircase, all of which seems to be heavily abundant in the map preview and you’re basically a sitting ball of flashy VULNERABLE light for 3 seconds or just RTL into your death.

There must be a logical reason behind allowing RTL to be usable when carrying the orb. Can we not wait until the map goes live before we go cry OP?

But hey! Maybe if we qq some more, RTL might actually be changed to unusable when you’re holding the orb. :O

Nooooooo! Pistols suck! And boring! Unless eles use them to whack enemies with magical elemental powders in a highly unconventional and flashy way, I really find it lame and boring seeing the same exact pew-pews coming out of pistols and bows. Adding fire or icy effects on those bullets will still be boring and sucky as hell and lame.

I think it’s not right to say that DEs are too easy when some of them never really Fails even if players don’t intervene. I think it’s more likely a flaw or a bug in the mechanics of the DE itself and not the difficulty. I believe a some events need some tweaking on the mechanics of the events itself in order to create a more dynamic feel to it, i.e. the possibility of failing if certain goals are not achieved or if there are no players participating in it. But the difficulty should however properly scale in order to cater, say 1 person trying to succeed in the Dynamic Event or a zerg spamming auto attacks and AOE in a particular DE. So basically the OP technically is pointing out a flaw in the DE itself which I think does not necessarily affect difficulty of the said DE, per se. Bug fixes to DEs like this and proper scaling of DEs based on the number of players participating should be looked at.

Aveneo.2068:

If (apparently according to ANet) kit-backpacks are here to stay, at least give us some racial variety. This would also apply to our turrets.

Imagine an Asura with a medical kit that actually looks like it was engineered by an Asura. Or a Charr with a metal container and sharp edges. Or a Sylvari that uses a gourd to carry around her items.

Same with the turrets basically. We see a lot of Asuran turrets everywhere, but when an Asura Engineer puts down their turrets; they look like some pretty generic human turrets.

Diversity is key. And whilst I do mind when my T3 Cultural Asura is forced to run around with a leather backpack that was clearly made by a human, or a flamethrower that looks like it was made by Charr; I would be a lot more forgiving if he was carrying some form of symmetrical contraption with glowing crystals on his back that would scream ‘Asura Tech!’.

Makes you wonder why everyone apparently shops at Engineers ‘R’ Us.

Yea this would be cool. Right now all Engineer backpacks are colored dead dull brown like rags. I don’t want my Engineer to look like a poor hobo everytime I use a kit

xiv.7136:

ok that’s probably the best indication of what’s to come for RTL then

what he already knows and isn’t saying, is RTL either has a long cd or a much shorter range, or both, which is why he clearly doesn’t consider it an issue

Or maybe the map isn’t RTL friendly with all the verticality and obstruction with the terrain as what I have noticed in the vid preview. Maybe RTL will do more harm than good in this map. We don’t know yet.

TGSlasher.1458:

Because CTF would = wows CTF, fight in the middle.

Why not 2 CTF, 2 Conquest and 2 TDM. Or even random game mode as the map changes in its standard rotation

Because conquest is so much fun and revolutionary we need 10 moar maps with this mode until they decide to introduce other modes. Yay

Such awesome thing created and then dumped into the garbage bin. Pity.

Maybe terrain would be a major issue that’s why RTL will still be allowed. With all the verticality, closed spaces, left turns right turns and all those shizz just to caryy the orb to an altar, I don’t think RTL would really be an advantage. I would worry more with skills that grant Invulnerability rather than RTL. But we’ll see.

Oh and I don’t know if this was answered somewhere though. If someone drops or loses the orb, does it reset back to its original location at the center of the map or can someone else actually steal it like some loot lying on the ground? XD

NevirSayDie.6235:

So it’s basically like old paids, except instead of beating two scrubs before playing one of the other top three teams you just wait, and then play one of the other top three teams?

Sorry, matchmaking can’t fix that. If anything, over a period of time, matchmaking will help it tremendously because new players will stick around instead of leaving.

I think I agree. We shouldn’t be blaming the system. It’s not the matchmaking system’s fault if there are just a handful of good teams getting matched up with each other over and over. It’s because of a very low PVP population that even tries queuing for tourneys which is caused by the lack of direction and incentives to new players to try out the tournament system. Heart of the Mists right now is not very newb friendly.

TGSlasher.1458:

Now eles are getting nerfed for hiding in their “we don’t get 1 shot anymore” build.

i LOLed but it’s sad that this is pretty much true.

I have a funny feeling this map will suck more than Raid of the Capricorn.

Color me pessimist.

Ayestes.1273:

Not to take away from the issue at hand because I do think it’s a valid issue to be talked about, but you can solo queue free tournaments and get into 5v5 fights as well without spending tickets. You should of course, be able to do hotjoin 5v5 if you so wish without this much hassle though.

Yea perhaps I could do that. But hotjoin is hotjoin. There’s no queue or waiting time there. It’s just continuous matches. I worry about my tickets but the queues worry me more, come to think of it and should have stated it in my post. XD

Fjandi.2516:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Raijinn.9065:

Just the result of a game with a terrible lack of features

I applaud those duelists who innovate the current hotjoin servers to cater their dueling needs. But yea, if players want to duel, they should be able to do so without compromising others who also want to do conquest modes on those hotjoin servers.

How the hell should I know if the hotjoin server I am about to enter was meant for duelling anyway?

Oh well you can always join another server can’t you?
I agree a dueling mode should be implemented. Atm the only option we have is to join empty servers.

Yes I can join another server. But won’t it kitten you off if you enter another dueling server and then another one and have to join another one AGAIN and AGAIN? My patience can only go so far..

I was thinking maybe reducing max number of players a bit in certain farm zones so that overflow servers are used thus reducing culling issues with massive zerg farmers in PVE?

When I first played GW2, I used it a lot but now I don’t. Based on experience, fast-cast ground targeting AOE really does have an impact on precision especially in uneven terrain. I find it harder to practice fast-cast targeting personally. But the time it takes to manually target AOE gets significantly reduced with practice though. It’s much easier after some time.

Really depends on preference, I think. XD

I love your tips. I wish I can pull them off though. Thanks!

Raijinn.9065:

Just the result of a game with a terrible lack of features

I applaud those duelists who innovate the current hotjoin servers to cater their dueling needs. But yea, if players want to duel, they should be able to do so without compromising others who also want to do conquest modes on those hotjoin servers.

How the hell should I know if the hotjoin server I am about to enter was meant for duelling anyway?

I also think it all practically comes down to builds countering builds. This is how a balanced game should work. And yea, most QQs on certain specs of certain classes as being OP don’t even think that maybe their build is getting owned by that specific build because it is a counter to their builds and maybe coming up with a counter build to that build that beat them might be the solution to their QQ.

But sadly, somes build meant to counter the currently dominating builds of some classes still needs improvement IMHO for them to become competitive. And it is definitely better if each class have multiple EFFECTIVE viable builds available to them.

This is a QQ.

With that said, I love playing sPVP hotjoins. I don’t like 8v8. I like 5v5. So I always enter the 5v5 rooms in hotjoin. I am aware that some rooms become duel servers wherein players do not play the conquest mode but just fight 1v1 with other players of the opposing team until the timer of that particular match runs out. When I see that no point is capped and people are chatting in the map, I leave and move on to the next room since I know it’s a duel map. I get it.

But when you enter 5 different rooms with people dueling in all of them can really kitten someone off sometimes.

Please don’t tell me to join tourney’s instead. I don’t want to waste my tickets. I just want to have fun playing conquest mode the way it should be played in hotjoins. Am I not allowed to do that now? :/

So I just want to let this out. And hopeful the upcoming custom arenas (I don’t know if that’s gonna come in on the next patch though) should do something about this or JUST IMPLEMENT DUELS SO THAT EVERYBODY IS HAPPY!!

pahldus.1678:

Saturn.6591:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Also scepters. Maybe adjusting the attack speed of these weapons so that it doesn’t stack a bajillion stack of confusion with infinite duration when 3 clones are up and attacking one target.

Wait, what? Please show me how to do that with a scepter. As far as I know, scepter can only inflict 5 stacks of confusion every 18 seconds (15 seconds cooldown + 3 seconds casttime); provided that the target doesn’t get the idea to just dodge or interrupt your cast. I mean, you are probably refering to the trident like it was before the patch (I guess), but then you say “also scepters” and continue talking in plural. So again… how would you possibly do that with a scepter? If it would be possible, I’d actually use one, cause then it wouldn’t be completely useless anymore. ^^

Back in beta, the scepter granted one stack of confusion on chain 3 as it created a clone. I would prefer they got rid of the clone and just gave us confusion even if it was only on the third attack like the clone is now. If you go to the wiki it still shows the scepter description as it was in beta.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scepter

Wut he said. Thanks man.

Beta Scepters are a lot more useful than its sad sad state now. As with the trident, I’m not so sure if it ever got the chance to work as what is stated in the tooltip though.

Justin.7163:

^ My scepter still says that it iniflicts confusion on the third hit, yet it doesn’t.

It got gutted before it even went live. I kinda miss those Confusion on the third Auto. But with 3 clones up doing the same thing on one target, it’s OP so they removed it. :P

SlimGenre.6417:

Slasher,
not asmodal, but I use it, so I’ll tell ya how. I run s/d, drop dragon’s tooth, ring of fire, phoenix, swap to earth and hit Arcane Power – Dodge Roll Back for CE (1), Earthquake (2), CE (3), Arcane Wave (4), swap to air, and lightning bolt (5). That’s 5 guaranteed crits in the middle of my might stacking chain for 18 aoe might.

The one on Arcane Wave is wasted because it crits anyway. My other option would be to try and drop it after ring of fire but before phoenix, so it crits on phoenix. I’m going to start working on that timing

If I were running d/d, I’d use it before Burning Speed (1), Ring of Fire (2), swap to earth, dodge roll back for CE (3), Earthquake (4) and CE (5). 12 Stacks of AoE might and 5 guaranteed crits on each.

Those skills are multiple hits like Burning Speed and Phoenix. Arcane Power charges are consumed per hit made and not per skill I think so it will be long gone even before you swap to Earth most of the time.

zTales.4392:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Can’t we make a merged thread on these “NERF ELE” topics? It’s getting out of hand IMO. Now, hotjoins are becoming more of d/d ele wars because of bandwagoners. Ugh -_-

D/D Ele wars? XD

What do you mean? Most people are playing them now? (I don’t really sPvP, so I don’t know.)

You have no idea, man. The horrors. o___o

One time I entered using Staff, then one said: “Hey look, someone is still using the Staff! I thought those were extinct!”

These forum discussions bout how OP d/d ele is are causing such massive bandwagoners for the flavor of the month. Same thing happened to thieves with all those Heart Seeker OP QQs few months ago. It’s crazy. These forums need more moderation, IMO. They affect the game in more ways you can imagine. Mob mentality is stupidly powerful.

Can’t we make a merged thread on these “NERF ELE” topics? It’s getting out of hand IMO. Now, hotjoins are becoming more of d/d ele wars because of bandwagoners. Ugh -_-

I can manage with Staff when fighting other classes 1v1 except thieves. I prefer to own thieves using D/D.

But staff is a great support weapon in group fights or 2v2 scenarios. Actually, the best support weapon for eles.

I don’t like farming. And I’m not rich. So the answer will be no. :P

I switch to D/D when I get instagibbed by thieves when I use Staff in hotjoins. Only then do I feel like it’s an even fight.

Precursors should have been account bound, obtainable from a long line of epic quests, and not solely based on loot or mystic toilet RNG and how much money you make from flipping items in the TP.

Pennry.9215:

Well the question was “better” loot, but they did describe more as well.

I don’t think the quality of loot is dictated by being in a group or playing solo. He means more if you read his post again though.

I am not aware of the the ruling of getting credit for kills of your party mates when you are in a party though. If that is the case, then it is really generally better to party up especially when you are in a zerg since the chances of tagging mobs or enemy players in WvW is higher while in a party.

Karizee.8076:

Think about this for a minute.

If you were locked out of doing the event for a week at a time, I could see them upping the drop rates on rares and exotics, but with the event resetting every couple hours it really doesn’t make sense.

There are lots of meta events with big chests – there are ~170 dragon events alone each week. If they all dropped rares and exotics for everyone we’d be vendoring them the way we do blues and greens now.

Maybe what we should be asking for is an event with a reaaaally long reset timer that drops better loot

THIS.

They can’t just make every chest spat out Rares and Exotics. There’s too much of them going on with a short and FIXED reset timer. Either they up the rewards BUT do something about how big world event chains reset or apply some sort of DR for every chest opened per day or per a certain time period OR they can even make these events more CHALLENGING and not predictable. And when I say challenging, I don’t mean a zerg which can totally ignore and make the mechanics of the boss fights obsolete and just spam auto attack on the target while watching the Grammy Awards.

I want an actual dragon fight. I don’t want just an eyecandy dragon that stands there waiting for me to shine up his shoes. Some sort of time limit in the event itself wherein if you fail to slay the dragon or prevent a dragon’s objectives, the Event actually FAILS. A much more engaging combat for a massive ZERG and not an event which only dynamically scale for 10 or 15 players.

Do you really think those dragon event’s wherein you pedicure the dragon’s foot for 5 to 10 minutes every 2 hours or so is worth an exotic gear? Seriously.. -_-

Guess I was so used to the Trident on ele since it’s the only underwater weapon for that class XD

Anyway, let’s just hope for the best on the 26th. More bug fixes and more improvements not only on tridents of mesmer but on all skills of all classes.

The over exaggeration of some posts here is astounding. /grabs popcorn

Winds.3087:

More reason to actually use trident in pve as swap weapon. Also they ninjafixed trident’s illusionary anchor that was previously causing target to reflect any projectile.

You mean we have the ability to weapon swap underwater? I never knew. I always used Trident. XP

Old confusion stack is OP..

New Bleed stack is mooaaar OP.

Mesmer get’s my Underwater Combat Daily done in no time.

I love it

But yea,confusion is more suited to the Trident and Scepters waaay better thematically speaking. If what they did was an attempt at balancing, I’m baffled. Can’t they just revert it back to confusion and just reduce the attack speed of Trident a wee bit? Also scepters. Maybe adjusting the attack speed of these weapons so that it doesn’t stack a bajillion stack of confusion with infinite duration when 3 clones are up and attacking one target so that Confusion stacking wouldn’t be so OP. This would have been a better solution I think rather than completely removing Confusion on scepters and changing confusion on Tridents and making it Bleeds. Like, say, 33% slower than Staff auto and causing 1 stack of 1 or 2 second Confusion. I’m sure they can do better.