Guild Wars 2

#Asurapower

Vaebrae.2345:

This class has two “alignments”, light and dark, one is a dedicated healer/ minor buffing and crit damage, the other is CC and a bit of stealth and condition dmg.
Elite Skills

Dedicated healer, buffing and crit damage and another stance with CC, stealth and condition damage?

Are you for real?

Vaebrae.2345:

Angelic Fury/Demonic Possession
1. Allies in AOE area (ground targeted) will gain “Angelic Fury” buff, showing glowing ethereal wings on the back of the character, providing Protection, Regeneration, Might, Fury, and Quickness for 10s.

0_0 I’m not even gonna say anything. If you don’t see how horribly overpowered that is there is no helping you.

Vaebrae.2345:

2. Enemies in AOE area (ground targeted) will gain a condition called “Demonic Possession”, making their movement controls and skills reversed (WASD is reversed, forward is back, back is forward, left and right ect., and movement skills like Whirling Attack on Warrior Greatsword, will send you in the exact opposite direction) and your attacks have a 50% chance to deal 100% weapon and skill damage to allies instead of enemies for 10s.

This is 1) Overpowered, 2) Probably a mess to code, 3) More like a joke skill for hack n’slash games than a skill for a mmorpg

Vaebrae.2345:

Martyrdom/Sacrificial Punishment
1. 3/4s cast time, you begin taking all damage that is hitting an AOE area around your character while allies in that area are invulnerable, and when your health hits 0% and you go down, allies in the AOE area get burst healed of 150% of the damage you took.
2. All damage done to you and allies in your immediate AOE area is dealt 1/1 to any enemies in an AOE area of ground targeting you place down.

So in other words, if a elementalist drops a meteor shower on your party it’s a oneshot? I think you’re seriously underestimating aoe damage here.

Sorry, but this just doesn’t look like much.

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

And finally… are you even able to turn that anet tag off?
Wouldn’t you like to know. :P We are always watching. . . . always >=)

I know for sure I’ve seen some Devs state that they prefer to play with the tags off. So I guess that means there’s an option to enable and disable it.

My bet is they turn it on when they are in need of attention and want to show, and disable it when they want to relax, play like normal players, or infiltrate the playerbase

Piece of art right there. Thanks for the laugh ^^

Jocksy.3415:

Please, do state true informations:

We all know what he meant, no need to come riding in on your white stallion.
As for the match-up threads not being constructive enough for the CC team: are they even real? How could they be? Giving the enemy server a pat on the back and tell them where your defenses are, so that they can take your keep faster next time?

No, they have always been used for everyday chitchat between players. That includes taunting aswell as acknowledging great deeds by the enemies.

mPascoal.4258:

don’t ask me why they left because Idk why (although I would like to know)

Not giving you the full story, but basicly there were quite a few decent wvw guilds on UW not to long ago. UW was a decent WvW-server. But even then, there was always alot of drama, due to certain people with very inflated egos (some of which are still on UW). This drama led to a few core guilds leaving long before leagues.

When leagues were anounced, UW was rank 18. That meant last spot in Silver league, not a very desirable position, considering that back then we thought we`d get decent rewards. UW could however have just stopped playing for a week, thus dropping to rank 19, which meant 1st place in bronze league with chances of winning it. Some guilds wanted to this, other guild leaders were against this. In the end, UW did not drop to 19th place, and it became clear that they would be last in SL.

This lead some guilds to leave the server, basicly because they didn`t want to get owned in every matchup for 2 months and get the worst loot for it in the end. These guilds leaving left UW in an even weaker state, which means they`d get owned even harder. This in turn, caused other guilds who didn`t initially plan on leaving, to leave. The process continued until there were only 3 wvw guilds left when the season ended. One of these has now lost hope and left aswell, leaving UW with 2 semi active wvw-guilds and a PvE population with no interest in the finer arts of wvw-ing. This again, is the reason i transferred to another server this week.

This all went alot deeper than i described here, but this is the essence of why UW died. Anet`s brilliant league implementation played a large role in it, but there were symptoms long before that.

I thought i was imagining things. This morning an Asura thief with Quip ran past me, he looked like a purple, poisonous cloud.

@Shibotu, you seem to be kitten alot, judging by how you come here to spew out your (plain) sarcasmic insults every time you get killed by more than 1 enemy. Maybe you should play sPvP instead of WvW.

Edit: Wow, you can’t even say behind-hurt on the forums?

And let us see how much damage our phantasms deal while you’re at it.

Just another proof that asura have the absolute best animations in the game.

On another note, it’s similarity to children crying are part of the asura’s problem that they are too childlike.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

wait, WHAT new Legendaries?

The ones anet mentioned in the “What’s coming in 2013” post back in late 2012.

They have said that technical limitations are the main reason for there not being a race change item.

Regarding the personal story and how they said that it’s impossible to change, they said the same thing about account bound wvw xp, and look what happened.

On another note, everybody know that the majority of players already play humans. If they added a race change item, a big part of the unhappy players who chose norn/asura at the beginning without knowing the cons would change to human aswell. This would result in a game with almost excluseviley human players and is certainly not in anets interests.

IMO this is the main reason for there not being such an item, considering the demand for it and the money anet could make.

Judging by some dev posts, precursor crafting is close to completed and will be added in early 2014. My guess is they have different teams working on the new legendaries, but I have yet to see any info about when to expect them.

I used to be happy with a mix of sapphire dye, white dye and hot pink.

This is working as intended. They are aware of the issue, and are working on a solution, but can’t currently reveal any more specific information. Rest assured though, that this is high on their priority list and they are optimistic that it might be implemented as early as the 3rd patch for Guild Wars 3.

We have to face it. It’s too late for UW. I transferred to RoS this week with several friends. I stayed, fought and got steamrolled for two months during season 1 because I believed things would get better, and there were rumours of a population reset/new way to calculate transfer costs to servers. Nothing happened, and even more guilds left the server as a result of it. We didn’t even have a queue during last reset, and there rarely is any commander around, meaning that the PvE’rs won’t even bother staying, as zerging is the only thing they know. WvW was just not fun anymore.
First hours of WvW on RoS was like a breeze of fresh air after being locked in a basement for a year.

Abandon ship while there are still life boats.

vivaelamor.8419:

You missed out that you’re solo roaming.

This is not a DL blob. All 100 of them are solo roamers that coincidentally met at SM at the same time.

Hope this helps:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-content-terms-of-use/

Are you sure it’s on the same target as before? Do you have any conditions on you? If they really reduced dmg by 50%, I think the forums would have been full of it by now.

Obviously because walking through the open gate is too easy. We want a challenge every once in a while.

The most infuriating thing is the usual lack of official responses.

Xillllix.3485:

But this: 10,706 dmg and 15,247 dmg Killshots within 5-6 seconds from a warrior that has more health than my quite balanced Ele, my Ele which takes 5 seconds to cast a freaking meteor that does 4k dmg to him IF it hits at all.

I agree that kill shot might be a bit over the top, but it’s easier to dodge than a meteor shower. Besides, meteor shower is the heaviest aoe spell in the game that absolutely destroys groups in WvW. I don’t see how you can compare the damage of a big aoe spell to the damage of a target skill. Obviously the single target skill will have to deal more damage. And if your meteor shower deals 4k dmg to 5 people, i.e. 20k dmg multiple times, surely 10-15k from a single target isn’t that much.

The problem lies in the cd. 10 seconds for a skill like that is way too short.

Agrios.9071:

Btw to UW and DZ you have to teach some people manners there.

I wish we could. But the players who interrupt duels are the same ones that never answer in mapchat, run headfirst into every towergate even when the commander and 10 other players tell them to skip it, or run after every enemy they see until they either die or lose sight of them.

For some people I fear all hope is lost.

I’m glad I’m not a commander and have to put up with that every day.

Meglobob.8620:

Condition damage kills you slow.

5k/sec condi necro dissaggrees.

Yeah, skill lag was fixed almost entirely. But today both me and my guildies experienced heavy lagging (both skillag and “normal” lag) multiple times.

Zento.8527:

Thank you guys for the hundrets of loot bags

np, we kinda owed you after the lootbagheaven in SM

please come again

careful what you wish for

The somewhat overused but still classy mesmerlook, paladin-ish guardian and my asura ranger.

The thing is, Anet originally planned to have worthwhile rewards for the servers finishing in the top spots. However, several (justified) forum threads about the injustice in such a system, with most scores already set before the match-ups even started, made them see the flaw in that. So instead of giving top servers good, and the bottom servers bad rewards, they gave the bottom servers bad, and the top servers slightly less bad rewards.

Meglobob.8620:

Disappointed…thought we may have got a few exotics at least…

I feel sorry for people’s transfergems.

9th in EU silver league:

1 rare
3 Liquid wxp
Mini Dolyak
68 Empyreal fragments
5 scrolls of Knowledge
5 Tomes of Knowledge
Essence of Luck (500)

Would like to see the rewards from someone who finished first.

Well, you can always immobilize them. Wait, mobility skills break immobilize? Now that’s a strong trait. Luckily mobility skills are pretty limited. Wait again, warriors have 3 of them no matter what build they are using? Well kitten.

I really hate the mobility more than everything else on warriors atm. Everytime one is about to die they instantly put 2000 range between you and them, with no chance in hell of you catching up.

Nemesys.7251:

that are like 20 red name u have many more green dot on your minimap:/

Maybe, but 30 unorganized and partly upleveled players with next to no pvp/wvw-experience against 20 veteran players with stacks and treb/ballista support still ain’t much of a fight.

The thing about those players is that they don’ react to anyhting you say. Frankly, i don’t know if they can read at all. So even if you ask them to come to a side exit, they won’t listen. Surely, you could still form a small group with the few decent players that were there and leave through a side exit, but what then? Go knock on the t3 veloka you see in the background? You’re lucky if you manage to kill a guard before you get stomped by a 20-man group. Believe me, I’ve lots of experience with this the past couple of weeks.

Quitting without fighting isn’t something I like doing, but at that moment there wasn’t much point in staying.

Logged in To EB —> saw this --> stayed for a while to laugh at the players rushing out into ballista and treb fire, only to die, respawn and run out again —> Realised it was actually sad, not funny --> Quit EB, decided to check out this nightmare tower —> realise it’s kitten --> quit the game —> played pokemon instead.

Thanks for the WvW season Anet, it’s the main reason i can now call myself Pokemon Champion.

coglin.1867:

I am baffled by this thread. How is it that just after they added an area specifically for GvG, you get folks making threads demanding GvG?

Because the arena is a makeshift solution. People can still troll matches, there are no official rules, no leaderboards etc. The fact that they have added an area where GvG is possible, does not mean they have implemented it in a reasonable manner.

I disagree. Mesmer portal is currently one of the most powerful skills in the game, especially in WvW. There should be some risk involved in using it.

For the record, the range is one minimap radius when it’s zoomed in all the way.

They have already said that they are going to revamp the numbers sometime in the future, but no ETA yet.

I think a dev once stated in a thread a looong time ago that the numbers were never intended to be that high, and only were “placeholder” numbers while they developed the game. However, for some reason they never changed them before release.

Several hours into the match-up and we still have Overlook in EB.

Warrior. They are GW’s jack of all trades.

This is about the 34th thread about this issue. Do you people even try to do a search before starting new threads?

Because, as I said, it only matters when the items enter your inventory. After that, any euipment that’s in your equipment box is unaffected by “compact” because most people use these boxes to store alternative armor sets. If they were to spread across your inventory when you press " compact", it would be alot more complicated to switch armor sets.

It’s not a bug, it’s supposed to do this. That’s why it’s an equipment box, not a normal bag.
Afaik the rarity of the equipment box doesn’t matter at all, except prioritizing what gear that goes into it first. I.E. if you have an exotic equipment box with one free space and loot 1 exotic weapon and one green weapon, the exotic one would go to the equipment box, while the green one would go to your other bags. Same with green boxes and green weapons, and yellow boxes with yellow weapons.

Do you three absolutely have to kitten about each other in every single match-up thread? This isn’t the place to battle out whatever problems you seem to be having with each other. I’m sure you guys know what PM stands for. But I’m gonna tell you anyways, because your behavior proves me wrong. It stands for PERSONAL or PRIVATE MESSAGE. So if you have any personal issues with someone, send them a PM. Stop turning every match-up thread into walls of QQ about what you think of the other and his actions.

Chris.3290:

Hopefully it’s a ballot we can cast to vote if there will be a season two.

They will rig it to make it seem like people actually enjoyed season 1.

Yes, it is indeed a very old topic. People have asked for this countless times, and each time the answer from Anet has been no.

They think WvW xp should be some kind of progression for each individual character, not for the account as a whole.

Every single player probably disagrees with them on that, but there’s not really much we can do about it if that’s what they think.

DevonCarver.5370:

Oren.1736:

Community concern is that incentives will be high enough to draw players to transfer up the tiers, killing even more low tier servers, over filling silver tiers with players and so forth for gold. Can you comment on any plans to address community size issues?

I can’t comment at this time as we haven’t finalized anything. (…)The rewards for finishing 2nd in the Bronze League will be markedly better than the rewards for finishing 6th in the Gold league.

So alot of people cry about how Anet killed the hammer warriors with the upcomming nerfs to 2 of the skills, and some indirect nerfs through traitmoving.
Personally, I don’t think we will see less hammer-training warriors just because their favorite leaping 8-sec cooldown aoe cc initiate/escape tool now deals 5k aoe damage instead of 6k.

So what do you guys think? Is it really that much of a nerf, or are people overreacting?

And also, when calculating chance of getting ori you shouldn’t count the total amount of ori you got, but the amount of times you got ori. I.E. salvaging 10 scrap metals and getting mithril 9 times and 2 ori 1 time, doesn’t mean there’s a 20% chance of getting ori when salvaging, even though you got 2 ori out of 10 scrap metals.

This has been asked a lot of times. I think you will find some answers in this thread on the first page: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Willing-to-share-WvW-details

Hannelore.815:

Hammer damage is weak. It only does about 3-4k crits on full Berserker with maybe 10 stacks of might buffed

Wrong, a zerker warrior with 10 stacks of might will easily hit 6k+ with earthshaker or fierce blow.

Hannelore.815:

That kind of damage is also impossible on any weapon in “one hit”. The maximum I’ve ever heard of was a 10k crit at a boss fight with the person having 25 stacks of might and something like 3,000 power (Signet, Bloodlust, etc.), and several % bonuses.

Wrong again. It’s not unheard of that eviscerate or killing shot hit for 15k+. I even saw a video of a necro getting hit by a 21k killing shot.

As for the 20% damage nerf, we will see how it affects actual gameplay. I personally don’t think we will see less hammer-training warriors just because their favorite leaping 8-sec cooldown aoe cc initiate/escape tool now deals 5k aoe damage instead of 6k.

RonBeg.5190:

But you forget that a big part of the money you make from dungeons and champions farm and the gold amount you get from it remains the same..

Yeah, that’s a fair point. But both of these are relatively new ways of gaining gold. Dungeons were hardly worth doing when you got 26s at most from them ( except farming CoF until your keyboard breakes), and champs were mostly ignored. So these are actually examples of Anet adding new ways to make gold more accessible as a currency, and a bad example for how you get less gold due to inflation.

I would also discourage you from using more than one period after your arguments. You asked for opinions, I gave them to you. Using “…” is disrespectful and signals that you think of my points as stupid and idiotic. Nobody can stop you from thinking that, but you don’t have to show me what you think.