Guild Wars 2

pinkglow.3429:

I know the map isnt out yet, thought we were discussing that patch?

My bad. I totally misunderstood your first statement in your previous post. :P

pinkglow.3429:

I might login to check out the new map, but my friends quit the game so I have no team… and since I don’t believe you can solo queue the ranked tournaments there’s nothing else for me in the game yet… will probably keep on rocking planetside2. So, it’s not really the pvp patch of the motherlord, those with friends to form a team might come back but can’t imagine an explosion of returners :P However, a new map is a new map and even ninjaed in a capture the flag… that’s good.

The new map isn’t out yet. Will be released on the 26th.

Darnis.4056:

Who Else is balls to the wall excited?
From the Description it sounds like CTF.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/february-2013/

I think it’s still Conquest Mode with the some sort of CTF for those Spirit-whatever as an added twist or mechanic. But let’s wait and see.

Can i haz some oyur itemzz pl0xx?

They remind me of something else – something naughty – which I rather not say since it might get me banned or infracted.

Rambodacious.7495:

They just made an announcement in the WvW forums that their big Feb patch is now a March patch. I wouldn’t expect anything, at all, for SPvP, until at the earliest, March.

Beat me to it. But I think since WuvWuv has been delayed, it’s because PVP has been prioritized for this month’s patch? (wishful thinking)

TL;DR

WvW updates supposedly for Feb have been pushed to March.

Yeah, I hate Trahearne too. Kill him in the next expansion pretty please?

When it’s ready.

Deroy.2457:

Ned Stark.9356:

Take your time and money elsewhere. I’m moving to Neverwinter Online.

A place where winter isn’t coming?

This made my day. LOL. Rest in peace Ned.

As to OP, PVE wise, there’s a Living Story in the works and we have the prelude stirring as of the Jan.28 patch. It’s not that much YET, but if you’re into stories and such, it looks promising. And there are a couple changes here and there in some dungeons, some might please you while others are disheartening.

In PVP, 1round tourney is in play and being tested in Paids. Devs say they gonna say byebye to 8-team tourneys. No game changing balance tweaks yet, will be up in the next patch which will be really soon now that will make or break the PVP scene of this game.

Expect something coming next week. I doubt that they would let it pass without anything.

emikochan.8504:

I use it to save people that are being stomped, 1200 range is pretty sweet. Would be nice if it followed targets though.

Staff 2 is an aoe blind gall, another saviour on a short cooldown, try using it together with other blinds to mitigate.

I know but meh, cast time wise, it’s not worth it for me. As for PVP uses of 2 and 3, I give you that. But in PVE, I’d rather DPS with auto. Both skills are a bit unreliable for their respective purposes, CDs, and cast times, are very lackluster compared to other attunements skills and do not mesh well with other skills in the Staff arsenal unlike other ele weapon sets. Some changes to these skills are badly needed

Yasha.5963:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Biggest thing to take away – the format is moving from 8 teams to 2 teams. Other changes will also be coming. Watch for the blog.

Great to hear, the 2 team format is fantastic, thanks!

Second this. Can’t wait for feb patch!

The problem lies with events scaling based on number of players participating. It’s fun with a small group, yeah, but a zerg can drain boss’ HP in a minute or two without even realizing what the event’s mechanics were.

kiba.2768:

then perhaps if anet changed the wording to ’ daily evader.’ would that satisfy you? I do see a tangible difference between avoidance and evasion

If i was a good player and I avoided an incoming attack WAAAAY before it lands on me and see the “Evaded!” text pop out, you will see the difference.

The daily achievement counts only on a successful dodge that TRIGGERED an evade, which is good in some cases but this type of scenario will not always work out with all professions and all types of playstyles like what the OP is trying to say. It requires you to do a certain task during trivializing moments which lead to players looking for a specific mob that does a specific attack in order to RAKE IN or FARM evades for their dailies in the fastest way possible.

It’s not quite gamebreaking since they play the game the way they want to, so what do I care? But is it good in the long run? Does it promote better gameplay? Does it satisfy the actual purpose of the Daily Achievement being discussed? My answers are: NO.

Raine.1394:

Some good points here. The dodge daily forces me to dodge, artificially, not to fight in the most effective manner possible. It’s the same with the healer daily, if you are assigned to protect an NPC, it is more efficient in terms of the daily to let him die numerous times so you can revive him. These are examples of brainstorming without a step to evaluate before implementation. The lack of reality-testing is a major missing element in the dev cycle since 11/15.

I agree with you on this. The dev’s intent is there. Their vision or goal or whatever in implementing certain things in the game are good in theory and in paper but there seems to lack execution. One cannot just say that it’s not the devs fault but the players ’ faults because for the system to work in accordance with the intention the devs had in mind and for it to be definitely effective or successful, they should have considered players’ way of thinking and/or behavior to reduce if not eliminate the drawbacks and faults within the system itself. It’s just poorly implemented. Other prominent examples of poorly implemented systems are the Legendary Weapons. Players will ALWAYS go for the most efficient and faster route with the least resistance, be it farming or grinding for hours, exploiting or going around the system itself. They should always consider this and do something about it. I myself have no suggestions so sorry.

And guys, please take some time to read the OP before replying. Most of you don’t actually know what the OP was talking about. He was talking about certain drawbacks or poor implementation of this particular daily achievement and advantages of certain professions with regards to evading. OP was not crying about how to do Daily Dodge as fast as you can. Please, read. -_-

I actually never use that skill. Also number 2. I don’t even know what the name of that skill is. It’s just Air4 for speed buff, Static Field if CC needed, and just spam 1 while in Air using Staff. #2 and #3 air skills need major overhaul IMO. THEY SUCK.

If you want something, you have to work for it. It’s called perspective.

I’m thinking 5 asura mesmers with very similar names. has anyone encountered one yet? I’m imagining the chaos and confusion. :O

What if when an enemy starts to channel the buff, and you try to channel it yourself, his channel is cancelled and yours will start. Of course he can do the same to you making him start all over again on his channeling while interrupting yours. It will be a never ending cycle unless one is killed or stops trying to channel the buff. At least with this, those invul skills and portal gimmicks can be countered and might even be considered useless while channeling the buff?

The new stats section on the Hero pane does seem to provide more information about your toon but it looks HORRIBLE compared to the original. The font, the indention, the placing of icons and all are a mess – sooo ugly. I know it’s minor and all, but oh god please make it look remotely visually pleasing and more organized.

Strickland.9086:

Cool.

I just saw my first commander yesterday, just that was pretty cool for me lol. (Still not sure what a commander is but he appeared on my map so I assume he’s a kitten.)

That was not a commander icon. That’s Arenanet’s logo. It’s a dev. I played my very first fractal run with an Anet dev too days after FOTM was first released. He was also playing an Engineer. And i was also able to sPvP with another dev. He was playing Engineer too. And people on the opposing team was like “Kill the dev first!!” They loved stomping him.

Very happy to play with game developers. My fractal run was smooth and fun since the dev gave such nice tips in order to finish each dungeon. Too bad I got no screenshots on those occasions but i’m pretty sure i’ll encounter another dev one of these days.

Biohazard.4196:

kurtdg.2370:

I’ve never really been a fan of daily tasks honestly.

If it were up to me, dailies would be totally based upon what the player wants to do.

Say you log on, and all you want to do is check out the TP, or maybe you want to go run a couple dungeons, no prob! If that’s not your cup of tea, no worries. You could do some map exploration, level some alts, or play some pvp. Anyone could do any of these and still be credited with daily rewards, and it’s really pretty simple.

Currently, the average daily shouldn’t take more than an hour for even the most casual players. So, instead of making dailies requiring to do x, y, and z…just simply make them time based.

You log in and play for one hour, and do what YOU the player wants to do. Congratulations!! You just earned your daily.

Problem solved

So the solution to the “Daily Problem” is a one hour timer? Logging on completes the daily? Unbelievable.

Other MMOs actually do that. LOL

Tim.9850:

These new “dailies” are actually a hidden/disguised nerf to the dailies in my opinion. They made them harder to complete because they don’t want anyone getting any karma.

Crafting 10 items daily? That is ridiculous.

Of all the new dailies you have to complain about, you gon complain about crafting which takes less than 30 seconds? Seriously dude? ._.

Well, Tyria isn’t 100% explorable yet so expect so see that in future expansions when they open up new maps and they introduce the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik.

When it’s ready.

How dare you find loopholes in these well thought out Daily Achievement?! This is masterpiece! It does not contradict certain mechanics of the game. It improves your gameplay and makes you play the game the way you want to play it!

Czar Peter.7961:

I have nothing against dailies and monthlies per se. It’s just that a non-fractals player has to log in everyday for 3 months to get maxed gear for one character. This is f2p Asian MMO level game design. Of course it’s possible that ANet has further updates for ascended item acquisition planned, in which case it’d be nice for them to comment on it or something.

Exactly. It’s either content gating (run fractals) or calendar gating (complete daily and monthly for laurels) in order to get Ascended. It’s good that they another option to obtain Ascended through dailies, but it still feels rather unfair and more forced if you compare the two available means of obtaining Ascened gear currently but it’s a start. I believe improvements on the current Daily/Monthly Achievement system is on its way and we will definitely see additional means of obtaining Ascended. (This is me being too hopeful.) Patience is a virtue so they say.

Garambola.2461:

People who run around as much as our heroes do, do not stay overweight very long.

If only it was as easy in reality. I should really drop some kilos.

Good point.

The problem with the Daily/Monthly is that the fixed achievements you need to complete will definitely include 1 or 2 tasks that will be hated to do or feel forced to do by some players just to complete it. This is not “Playing the way you want to play.” The idea of having a list of, say, 8 or 10 Daily/Monthly Achievements and then only finishing 5 of them in order to complete it would be so much better since at least, we now have the option to skip those that we really hate to do or are just a pain in the kitten to complete. We will have OPTIONS. We will not be forced or gated to do certain things if we ever want to complete the Daily/Monthly. I think they mentioned this is how they want the Dailies and Monthlies to run out eventually. Just like the Halloween Event and Wintersday Event Achievements. I got both titles and in both instances I had enough OPTIONS of Achievements I can complete and ignore the things I don’t want to do. I just wish they implement it ASAP.

The problem with the new Dailies is that the 5 achievements will definitely include 1 or 2 tasks that will be hated to do or feel forced to do by some players just to complete the Daily. This is not “Playing the way you want to play.” The idea of having a list of, say, 8 or 10 Daily Achievements and then only finishing 5 of them in order to complete the Daily would be so much better since at least, we now have the option to skip those that we really hate to do or are just a pain in the kitten to complete. We will have OPTIONS. We will not be forced or gated to do certain things if we ever want to complete the Daily. I think they mentioned this is how they want the Dailies to run out eventually. I just wish they implement it ASAP.

Sabull.5670:

You should aim for 250 stacks of Heavy Loot Bags and work you way up from that.
Full stack of Globs of ectoplasm is harder to come by but will bring you more profit.

made my day. lol

Vasham.2408:

The story is bad. It’s universally accepted as bad. When the Transformers movies have a more coherent plot than a game who’s developers say are proud of their storyline then you know something is wrong.

I couldn’t agree more. The voice overs, the cutscenes, the effort seemed wasted because of an incoherent plot with too much cliche as toppings.

Lure mobs to seafloor (or wall or any obstacle).

Use water4.

Then water5 towards the floor (or wall or any obstacle) .

Profit.

Incoming Water5 nerf!! You heard it here first.

Collect these for that. Collect those for this.

Pretty but messy. Karma, gold, laurels, gems, tokens. They’re all over the place!

Yea, anyone should die when you want them to die.

Gems, Gold, Karma, Glory Points, Laurels, Dungeon Tokens, Fractal Tokens. This is too much for me to handle. It feels messy and clunky. I wish they come up with a more unified, cleaner system than this. It’s chaos!

I will stop trying to fix what ain’t broken.

coglin.1496:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

However fire attunement skills for an ele seem necessary since it’s a fundamental mechanic of the class. And weapon skills =/= utility skills.

Elementalist have attunements. We have kits. Those are two comparable and unique mechanics to the two professions. I do not understand how you can justify why you think its okay to penalise engineer in this mechanic and defend elementalist in it.

Well, Conjures are elementalist exclusive but do not have underwater versions, yes? When I said mechanic, i meant attunements for eles, and toolbelts for engineers. Kits of engies, similar to conjures of eles, are UTILITY skills.

I do not mean to flame and I do not think it is okay to penalise engineer for not having an underwater version for flamethrower. You are putting words in my mouth. I was just trying to make a justification on why flamethrower has no underwater version. Do you get my point?

hharry.1967:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Red Falcon.8257:

Currently the D/D build has the same burst power of a Thief, same mobility as Thief, same survival as Thief (through damage reduction rather than stealth tho, i.e. backstab hits them for 4-5k).
Considering it’s a melee spike build it’s fine tho, the real problem to me seems to be overpowered healing that comes with it.
Getting from almost dead to full in seconds is the sort of thing tends to get a lot of hate like WoW Paladins.

Anet wants to nerf AoE dmg but honestly it seems wrong to me. AoE is ok.
Healing on the other hand should be like it was planned to be, i.e. your heal skill is your only reliable heal everything else is flavor minor healing – if your health gets low and your 6 is used, you either escape or die, you don’t reset a fight.

Also, if a nerf is to be handed to Eles next patch I hope they will get staff buffs in return.
It’s a joke that against a melee Ele it’s a tough fight and a staff Ele is a free kill, find some balance Anet…

They don’t have that much burst. They have sustained DPS. And the amazing healing plus high regen/protection uptime is a great benefit for attrition fights which this particular ele spec is quite good at. Balance the class all you want, just don’t destroy it like what you did with Engies.

A lot of healing? The healing is pretty LOW, nearly crap, the difference is that eles have so little hp that even a small healing looks like a lot “oh wow he went from 10% to 90% he healed alot” but people fails to see that was like just a 6k heals.

Now you have guardians, with 20k+ hp, and their heal recoves like 10k.

When I said amazing healing I meant that ele’s don’t actually have to rely on their number 6 heal skill only for a burst heal. Water attunement on d/d, or s/d have 2 skills that heals. Signet of restoration, which I think most d/d eles use, seem minor but when you add that up together with a high regen uptime, it’s amazing. Eles have a LOT of options to heal themselves up.

Lunar Corporation.5720:

Does this post actually have anything to do with February … ?

Maybe OP pertains to upcoming pvp changes in feb. But I think no, not really. It’s just a catchy thread title. Expect “Mine Kits in March” next.

I’m not sure if it’s listed but whenever I am holding a Conjure Weapon (specifically Frost Bow and Greatsword), and enters mist form (utility skill), the Conjure dissappears from my hand after mist form. Is this intended or a bug?

Jae.9682:

After re-adding the blast finisher to evasive arcana – earth, evasive arcana – water no longer triggers at all.

I feel that this is the case too but I think it’s just the animation that’s missing, but EA on water attune still seems to heal though. Not quite sure. Need more testing. Can anyone confirm?

Genesis.8572:

Vekthor.8914:

Flamethrowers don’t work underwater (for reasons not difficult to deduce)

I find it ridiculous. If fire-attuned elementalists get special underwater fire-based skills, what is so far fetched about the flamethrower being converted into a similar device for underwater usage?

It is not far fetched. It’s just that it’s easier to put an X on a utility skill rather than having an underwater version of it. However fire attunement skills for an ele seem necessary since it’s a fundamental mechanic of the class. And weapon skills =/= utility skills.

Maybe it’s in the works. Maybe not yet. Who knows.

Psilo.3764:

I think this has been fixed as my Storm Eye is now showing when it wasn’t before.

Really?!!! Can’t wait to try it out!!

It’s possible that some stuff that weren’t supposed to go live yet (hence not in the patch notes) slipped through like that star icon on the upper right corner of the screen.

Elementalist had their Dagger 3 changed in a way and that ain’t in the patch notes. So…

I finished my dailies in under 30minutes or so. I got lucky I had no craft this kitten or kill a couple vets or underwater kills or combo stuff and other lame and somewhat forcing daily tasks. Just the revive, dodge, kill variety, event, and gatherer.

I hope they just give us a complete list of ALL possible daily quests, then from there, you get to choose to finish 5 of them and you’re set. As of now, this new dailies system make me pray to the six gods to spare me those crazy new daily tasks they’ve added and give me easy ones.

Firegoth.6427:

Waltz into any battle, not a care in the world for number of opponents. start bursting, troll with healing and sustaining damage at the same time.
Hmmm… seems like the battle isn’t going as planned, panic Air #4, Fire #3.
Can’t be CC’d, can’t immobilize.

gg.

Yes, thief does have a great stealth survivability, but the battles are much shorter, and once he goes down below 20% he’ll have to step back and either recover completely or walk away.

you stay in place when you RTL or Burning Speed when immobilized. FYI.

Osicat.4139:

@wise, haha put up like that its kinda amusing how complicated the 2-3 sec combo sounds. But al fair Mesmer is a more elegant and complicated class than sya Ulrich the warrior.

Ulrich the warrior has hammer!

-Ulrich has hammer, urich want to smach
-Urich smach 1 2 3 1 smach smach
-Funneh ulrish pro killing

/Osicat

I hardly understand what you’re saying here but it left me smiling after reading it though. Anyway, thanks for the tips. I, too, am trying hard in mastering my mesmer toon.

Red Falcon.8257:

Currently the D/D build has the same burst power of a Thief, same mobility as Thief, same survival as Thief (through damage reduction rather than stealth tho, i.e. backstab hits them for 4-5k).
Considering it’s a melee spike build it’s fine tho, the real problem to me seems to be overpowered healing that comes with it.
Getting from almost dead to full in seconds is the sort of thing tends to get a lot of hate like WoW Paladins.

Anet wants to nerf AoE dmg but honestly it seems wrong to me. AoE is ok.
Healing on the other hand should be like it was planned to be, i.e. your heal skill is your only reliable heal everything else is flavor minor healing – if your health gets low and your 6 is used, you either escape or die, you don’t reset a fight.

Also, if a nerf is to be handed to Eles next patch I hope they will get staff buffs in return.
It’s a joke that against a melee Ele it’s a tough fight and a staff Ele is a free kill, find some balance Anet…

They don’t have that much burst. They have sustained DPS. And the amazing healing plus high regen/protection uptime is a great benefit for attrition fights which this particular ele spec is quite good at. Balance the class all you want, just don’t destroy it like what you did with Engies.

Die to 100b Warriors.

They hate eles bunker spec and survivability. Eles are NOT allowed to survive!