Guild Wars 2

I don’t think the scepter’s autoattack should be so slow you can nearly outrun it with swiftness. Sorry!

It’s such an easy fix… just make it a beam. It’s been recommended time and time again. Similar to our wrath skill or mesmer GS#1, adjusted for damage.

Something though. Please don’t allow this stupid broken weapon design to continue any longer.

The benefit of having bigger raid group (8-10) is so more individuals can actually participate and play together. Dungeons are notorious for splitting individuals and guildmates into small groups; many miss the fun of playing with more people.

I think 10 would be a great middle ground, but would even like to see 25 man raid dungeons introduced!

Guild Wars 2 – The Raids

Party size:
10

Reward system:
Extreme rare skins (drop chance from any mob, encourages full clear, but I’m not talking dredge fractal quantity of mobs here people)
Token/End chest rewards for more reliable pickup of new gear skins (no stat upgrades)
Unique titles for clearing certain content

Content:
Two Difficulty Scales

Normal – Average difficulty scale is higher than current explorable dungeons (harder than Arah). Regular bossfights comparable to Lupicus (Lupi has been SOLOED, not that hard once you know what you’re doing, regardless of prof makeup). Knowledge of boss attacks, in-depth knowledge of profession and movement ability required. Good party makeup makes things a bit easier. Exotic gear is almost necessary, but not required if matched with player skill. Armor/Wep skins and title for completion of certain raid dungeons.

Ascended – Difficulty for the top 1-3% of GW2 gamers. Tough, challenging content. Introduces unique dungeons that focus on less trash/more really tough boss fights. Supreme movement, prof knowledge, party makeup, trait builds required. Possible requirement of Defiance stack management to keep Raid group alive. Very unforgiving, making a mistake will get you punished and you will wipe. Never-before-seen boss mechanics, requiring even skills unknown at this time (comparable to Simin spark-kiting but in other variances). Time to seek out and form a guild of good, skilled people and develop some relationships. Rewarded with unique armor/weapon skins and pristine titles. Legends and memories will be made by clearing any Ascended dungeon content.

Limited Acess/Server Pride/Sense of Achievement:
I would very much like to see limited-access Raid content (similar to SAB) This content would be available for say a month each year, with background and story tied into the opening (it could reappear in later years/months) What this would introduce is a sense of urgency to learning and defeating hard content in GW2, something that currently does not exist. In terms of Server Pride and Sense of Achievement, we need the equivalent (sorry to compare) of Onyxia’s Head; Visual city rewards/buffs that can represent the challenges certain groups have overcome. (e.×. giant Dragon corpse hung in LA, Dragonhead on a post in your WvW Keeps)

Bottom line – No one really wants stat upgrades. We want some cool looking gear, and we want to be challenged. I would like to see the agony mechanic infused with these raids, but the current formula (keep piling on AR) is flawed and unnecessary, make a cap at 20/30/whatever. Then scale boss fights around this point (causing damage similar to FotM Maw at 0AR) whittling someone down ALMOST to the point of death. Pop your cooldowns and survive this time, but probably not next.

my2c

Kumakichi.2583:

Skychef is right and he has run a ton of Arah. When Lup does that attack he sort of flings the poison jars so they tend to land all over the place and not specifically in the center of the circles. At range its easily avoided. Up close you need to use other means to avoid taking damage.

Ehh, not quite. I’ve done Lupi fight countless amount of times and one dodge is enough to escape any damage by snot (as long as you know what you’re doing)

I think what everyone needs to do is just stack some regen before battles.

Disclaimer: This was done without boon duration runes (my lvl 63 engi alt)

Here I stopped being so lazy and I felt compelled to show what I meant by my last comment. (sorry if you have to sit through an ad)

Scepter sucks.
http://www.twitch.tv/georgesteel/b/389646266

Blackhat.4016:

And I thought the ele auto attacks were horrible…

This is just pathetic.

Yeah it’s really disgusting. Worst auto-attack in the game BY FAR. I haven’t really had time to video running next to orbs with swiftness on (still planning on releasing a short clip) but lets just say that running with swiftness -> orb of wrath -> by the time it’s dissipated, it’s only 200 range ahead of you.

This means that if an enemy has swiftness and is more than 200 range away and running, your “1200 range” autoattack will do ZERO DAMAGE.

Thanks, ANET!

Siphaed.9235:

If this ever happens on my server’s match up, I’m going to find my way over, and mist-form STOMP any and all participants. I will find ways to disrupt the entire process over and over again. Why? Because this is NOT Warhammer Online (where they did this bull droppings thing a lot) and this kind of buddy-buddy 1 on 1 is NOT what WvWvW is design for. Because, it’s designed for massive fights between each servers with full enemy in mind (no, they’re not friendly sparing matches).

If you want that kind of 1vs1 fights. Go into the Heart of the Mists and start an empty server with just you and the opponent for the duel. Nobody wants to join a 2 person server, and you get the opportunity to duel. Good luck.

Omg noo! wow!!!! big talker!!!!

Yeah, good luck with that. When we’ve had duel sessions (very respectful, well mannered, also fun) any duel disruptors got promptly teamed on and stomped out, then humiliated.

But yeah act tough then enjoy getting absolutely destroyed. Hopefully they kill you on sight every other time you show up (and when you want to start getting in on duels too)

Takin a cute lil nap with Forest Boar and the this poor Yak’s Invader.

/yawn

This thread is George-approved.

While the video I posted does address the TERRIBLE homing properties of the Scepter’s autoattack, it fails to also show the terrible speed in real-time combat. I’m going to put together a short video in the near future showing how an enemy with swiftness running in a straight line won’t get hit by the autoattack, even while only about 300 range ahead of the Guardian.

ANET SRSLY?

I think the biggest question you need to ask, is why you are getting hit by Bloomhunger’s agony? Clearly marked AoE circles, and they have a projectile travel time.. easiest agony to avoid in the game

Just in case any dev decides to peruse our forum, I figured I’d go ahead and post this video for good measure.

Edit: Here is the video displaying the terribly slow projectile speed of the scepter autoattack – http://www.twitch.tv/georgesteel/b/389646266
Edit2: It seems my video of scepter’s slow orb nearly being outrun by swiftness has been taken down from twitch (conspiracy?).. I will be re-posting another video to demonstrate tomorrow

Is there any chance we can get a confirmation that the Guardian scepter is broken? ETA on a fix? Or we just moving past this issue? Video shows the crazy level of ineffectiveness.

I would really love to hear a dev response to this one.

Enemies are in range, yet strafing simply left-to-right repeatedly causes our projectiles to completely whack out and miss over and over and over.

I doubt we’ll get an answer though (it’s been addressed dozens of times)

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

Guys, I hate to do it, but I have to side with the Devs on this one.

Karl seems to be a popular punching bag around here, but before you beat the dead horse any more try to understand that it is a managment decision not to give the PvP devs the resources they need and that the few brave (albeit socially awkward) guys that they put out there to give us some answers should not be ridiculed for making the effort.

You know why Devs don’t want to communicate with the player base? It is because some people think it is appropriate to criticize them for everything in the game that isn’t perfect, and God forbid they poke their head up for a moment to try and answer the deafening roar of questions, because if they do, then some donkey pit (use thesaurus on previous two words if you don’e get it) will try to take cheap shots and make a fool of them.

What did I get from the SotG? The PvP devs don’t have the resources they need, and management isn’t even smart enough to send a Gaile Gray PR type to help them out in a serious discussion with the community.

Don’t shoot the messenger. It is counter productive.

You’re telling me a professional in a career path can’t formulate sentences about the very game they design and balance? And keeps introducing professions as if viewers were infantile?

Sorry, no dice. There was no messenger in this video – that’s one of the problems. But like I said, all the grief I’m giving isn’t because the middle-school equivalent presentation. It’s also about many short answers with no serious insight and cooperative ideas getting thrown around.

Also: I don’t even play sPvP.

Asmodal.6489:

George Steel.1804:

Just run GS + Sword/Focus in WvW (the only viable roaming build IMO)
Allows two gap closers and really two escapes as well. I don’t run JI but I’m very good at escaping situations <3 pure of voice

its three gap closers actually…

if you care for it you can close nearly a 2000 range distance in 2 seconds… add the 1200 range knockdown and the immobilize signets – clipping/targeting range is the limit.

If you count binding blades a closer yeah.. but only two gap openers (best you’re gonna get with a guardian). I guess you could run JI (many people like it) but I’ve had a fantastic time running 3 shouts (SYG, SY, HTL) without any problems closing in on people.

I’ve dragged away DOZENS of mindless zerglings and still survived. It’s awesome

Is that when I’m roaming and poor fellow guardians run hammer/staff and try to ward me in anywhere, I pop SYG or VoCourage and briskly walk out.

Sorry, bros.

I had heard some things about the “State of the Game” video posted on March 14th, and I just saw it for myself.

And let me just say, wow. How disappointing. For people who haven’t seen:

I don’t expect the devs to be elite communicators, but watching this discussion was painful. The amount of issues that didn’t get addressed was painful. The way the information was vocalized was really painful.

On top of it all, this was a balance discussion (focused on sPvP) with two experienced guests (Nero and Xeph). Why was it necessary to give a description of every profession before discussing them?

I’m just a bit shocked, to be honest. Watching this makes me very nervous looking into the future.

Jax.5261:

George Steel.1804:

Show me how we can cripple an enemy, and I’ll send you in-game gold.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Grove

> : )

kinda cripple

But not a cripple, and also not a Guardian based ability.

Show me how we can cripple an enemy, and I’ll send you in-game gold.

If you want to focus on WvW use the healway build or a variant. 0/0/10/30/30

It’s seriously unkillable and you can still put people down. I take on 3v1’s regularly, and oftentimes end up stomping out all three unless they’re a thief/dd ele.

GS + Sword/Focus
Two gap closers + openers the only escape you’ll ever be doing (minus JI, but that’s got quite a cooldown in comparison)

I’m sure as hell in love with it.

1. Stand your ground
2. Save yourselves
3. Binding Blade

1 – stability, stunbreak, low cooldown. Traited = awesome.
2 – Every buff in the game. Coupled with my buff duration and again shout cooldown reduction, just phenomenal. Also a stunbreak
3. Great CC ability on GS. Ability to interrupt foes (unless +stability) 5 targets and does damage over time. 24 sec CD traited.. wowza.

Just run GS + Sword/Focus in WvW (the only viable roaming build IMO)
Allows two gap closers and really two escapes as well. I don’t run JI but I’m very good at escaping situations <3 pure of voice

Waffler.1257:

Dam son, first 1v2, then 1v3, now 1v8 against CD. At this rate you guys will be able to 1v20 us by the end of the week.

I’d be glad to set up a 1v1/1v2/1v3 with numbers in your favor.

As long as it’s all peeps from CD (total fodder)

Seeing as all your entire server can manage is +80 points, this should really be of no issue. How about every CD in Wv3 vs me?

Solo defense approx 1AM on EB versus poor Crystal Desert.

Literally a 1v8 (only one or two upleveleds), dragged some back to guards, ended up stomping out about seven total.. too bad the others ended up rezzing and running back to zerg me

Anyways, was fun owning you poor CD’s…..

Actually what the OP makes a lot of sense. I would prefer these AoE abilities to have an unlimited amount of targets in WvW (exclude PvE) to deter people from grouping and playing with a zerg.

Smaller, more mobile groups would be pretty much unaffected by this change.

The funny part is the only reason they release the means of acquiring skins like this is because individuals like you waste real life money and dump crazy amounts of gold in. If you want it to stop, simply stop participating in the system and encourage others to do so.

Personally, I think these skins looks like kitten.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Doctor Orderly MD PhD DDS.7625:

If reflects is what it’s all about why don’t we at least love rangers for their whirling defense?

We do when they use it, even though it’s not nearly as good as skills like Feedback and Wall of Reflection and Smokescreen. More often than not, though, bad players playing Rangers simply spam Shortbow for hours on end.

Seriously, this. I just made a ranger who’s really low leveled, and upon trying whirling defenses I can already tell this is an amazing skill to have on a secondary weapon set swap.

The worst thing is, I have never seen a ranger use this ability in PvE content. Not on lupi, not in fractals, literally never.

Sad

I really don’t mind if people aren’t experienced but can listen to directions and read chat. I’m more than willing to type some stuff out and give direction and advice (did this many times at Lupi in Arah)

However, if you die over and over again, make dumb mistakes, and fail to read/address chat, I will votekick you.

Definitely wasn’t a “nerf” was a fix to an exploit method of killing a boss.

I really hope your group tried it and died though!

Yeni.3507:

Zenith.7301:

The only bad PvE classes are necros and rangers. The rest can get by pretty well, although the engineer is just overshadowed in utility and everyone else is overshadowed by the warrior for speed runs.

Disagree about necros, they provide great DoT Dps and offensive support on mobs.

A pro epidemic necro can significantly speed up a fractal run.

That, plus, permablind with their elite can really help out a crappy pull situation/grawl grub situation

JJBigs.8456:

If 1 person does something, it means everyone can! By your logic, you should be a nuclear scientist or the president of the united states, “just” because someone else did it, who was a underdog? ……Right

No, it’s more like I got invited into a fotm 38 group with this comp, manned up, played like a boss, and finished it with one wipe. And it didn’t take us that long either.

And yeah, I should be both a nuclear scientist and the president. If someone else can do these things, I think I’m more than capable.

I get it, and in a sense you’re right, assuming they’re both of equal skill level. A warrior at the meta will always do more damage than a ranger, and a Guardian will dish out superior support compared to an Engi.

However, it’s still doable – and evekittenome of the hardest points in the game. Too many people drop everything and give up because they don’t think X comp can do it. It’s more about how good you and your party is IMO.

At the same time as I did have two thieves (which many deem desired due to smokescreen, one of them did use it as I recall) I still had two players on the “worst profession” in the game.

Also only having 1 heavy is not really desirable by most groups. However it was still a pretty smooth run.

Not having a Guardian would make it more difficult, but not nearly impossible. The difference is people need to play at a better level without that group support. For example, having a well/plague necro makes grub phases trivial through aoe blinds and dots.

Projectile reflect in regards to the fractals we had:
Bloomhunger: I don’t use any projectile reflect since this fight only requires you to dodge AoE circles, and if you can’t manage that then you deserve the agony (I melee him and do just fine)

Uncategorized: Reflects work wonders for getting past harpies, but besides that the rest of the fractal is trivial anyway. Tom is kitten easy, and the last boss shoots three slow moving electric balls that are easily dodged by anyone with decent vision.

Grawl: Projectile reflect only beneficial on legendary imbued (I dont use it on the grawl boss) However, reflect isnt neccessary if individuals know how to dodge flaming arrows (turn your sound up, SO easy to dodge every one) and have a team mechanic to help with grubs (reflect is a big help, but so is AoE blind, slows, daggerstorm, etc)

I think it’s more of a Learn2Play issue.
I also don’t think EVERY group comp can work, and thats fine. But most will, as long as people are good.

it’s a great ability for lupi’s aoe phase. my ele buddy always used to take advantage of a traited swirling winds and we would safely sit in it DPSing lupi down.

ironically, other (dumb) group members would just dodge OUT of the swirling winds and into the AoE.

i think the problem is many eles dont use the ability :P

Completely infantile mechanic to help ANet “balance” the game. Hilarious that after all this time, THIS is what the great minds have come up with.

So, the description of the Guardian they just gave maybe 2 months back “Powerful with boons, feels pressure and weakness without” they are going back on, because instead, it’s "feels pressured with multiple boons, feels pressure without’.

How about you go back to the drawing board, take a look at how the professions function at a core level, where the most weakness lies, instead of “Well, dem bunkers and boons. Counter boon? Boon hate? Done.” (FYI NECROS CAN DO THIS ALREADY)

I have to admit though, I’m glad I started building my glass cannon Guardian set. If they really botch the game with boon hate, I ain’t givin boons out anyways. Time for selfish meditations. Say bye team support

This is basically to address the issues of “you need X comp for Y”

I’ve never had a group comp I couldn’t manage with… yet..

Group comp?

Guardian (me)
2x Thief
2x Ranger
Group collaborated from gw2lfg on top of that

Bloomhunger
Uncategorized
Grawl

Yeah we wiped once on legendary shaman, but we revised our strat and worked it out.
(and we got the chest, too)

The bigger issue at hand: The game needs some difficulty like 30+ fractals.

Then the baddies would all be dead and the smart players would continue to have fun and kill kitten (and people might play more supportive roles)

I don’t remember if I exited GW2 or it closed out on me, but one second I’m playing, the next second some “gw2 data repair” thing is running.

The progress bar was frozen, so I x’ed out that window. Only to find out that now when I click GW2 launcher, I have 200,000 files left to download (which I’m guessing ISNT a patch.)

Any reason or workaround? Not looking forward to reinstalling the entire game AGAIN (game files mysteriously disappeared before on me)

My favorite/permanent dye set for arah heavy

I’m usually not interested in doing dailies for the “laurels”.
Dailies were one of the reasons I weaned off WoW (back in the day)

I maximize my daily “to do” bar, scream like the goat in this video, then minimize it and go back to having fun ingame.

AwwGee.5628:

For a game with microtransactions, it really is boggling how there is only 3 armor skins on the gem store. Would bet that players would tear holes in their wallets if new skins were released once every few weeks.

This. It is just incredible how they haven’t devoted manpower to creating awesome sets attainable through the gem shop.

It’s a loss for ANet, more than anything.

Does it work? Yeah.
Does full GC work? Yeah.

The issue…

I often face myself grouping with players of “less than desirable” skill levels.
So, what does my cleric+soldier outfit do for me?

Answer: I can carry these people through a dungeon. Literally. My dodges AoE heal for 1300. My shouts transfer conditions to boons. My regen and groupwide VoR tick for monstrous amounts.

While I can definitely stay alive and do amazing damage in full GC gear, I can’t really offer my team anything besides damage. Yeah, maybe a little regen, might on crit, but nothing sustainable. But the problem isn’t about me staying alive, it’s my party.

And tbh, I didn’t roll a guardian thinking I wouldn’t support my team.

This run is now easier than it was before.

I completed it with people from gw2lfg.com – our comp was
2x Thief
Elementalist
Mesmer
Guardian

We ran sparks in 6 rounds before she went down.

I keep reposting the same crap response to these stupid threads, because let’s face it – my group had ZERO warriors, and completed it with a Guardian in 1400 healing power who never attacked the boss, just worked tears (making sure no one was petrified more than 1second).

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(not all content was designed to be accessed by all players)

azureai.9764:

George Steel.1804:

You also can’t claim the weapon was “designed to proc VoJ” when GS, Hammer(symbol included) and torch all have multi-hit abilities rivaling sword.

And those greatsword skills have a lot more cool down than Sword 1. (I have no idea what multihit hammer skills you’re talking about.) Also, part of sword’s benefit is it can be paired with torch unlike hammer and greatsword. Even without torch, just start a mob on fire, and sword 1 with Virtue of Justice’s passive will keep it there until the mob is dead. Steady, quick attacks (which proc Virtue of Justice’s passive) is what every one of sword’s abilities scream.

GS + Hammer symbols both proc VoJ. But I digress.

If you are not using VoJ on cooldown, you are doing it wrong. Whether or not the weapon was “made to proc VoJ” is all redundant. In the end, sword’s skills are lackluster due to the many reasons others have stated. Having a mobile ZD and reworking Flashing Blade to do some actual damage would alleviate many concerns.

First off, if you guys are not activating VoJ and entrusting 1h sword’s multi-hit autoattack to proc burning.. You’re doing it wrong.

VoJ should be used ON COOLDOWN as you will(should) have 15 traited in Radiance for refresh, and at least 5 in virtues to provide you(and) your party stacks of might as well. (I run 0-0-10-30-30 and always use VoJ on cd)

You also can’t claim the weapon was “designed to proc VoJ” when GS, Hammer(symbol included) and torch all have multi-hit abilities rivaling sword.

In terms of hammer being our best weapon? In PvE, it is. But it’s hella boring. In PvP though, I have to say I’ve had a lot better time with the GS + 2h mastery. I just cannot deal with the kittenedly slow cast on 3rd chain auto swing. Yeah, MB is nice.. but not as the only source of damage.

Wowza, that was some MAD clicking.

I almost puked watching this. Now I know to stay away from T8 servers.

saiyr.3071:

George Steel.1804:

If anyone cares to duel .. I’ll be at southsouth supply by windmill @ maguuman borderlands.
-no interference
-no stomps

come have fun

(im the beefy norn in arah gear)

Is your guild new? Since you are kings, does that mean Yamma X is your leader?

Yes, my guild is new.

I have no idea who that is.