Guild Wars 2

performance issues and griefing concerns make this 100% unfeasible.

If you’re mostly playing solo roam, Spectral Wall has no business on your bar.

Blood is Power, Corrupt Boon, Epidemic, Well of Power… these are all much better options.

reign.2369:

The only real gap closer we have is dark path, the #2 skill in death shroud, a slow moving projectile that will teleport you to the target if it hits and chills them. It’s hard to use but after a while you’ll become skilled with it and be able to land it more.

The problem I have with Dark Path’s projectile speed is that it’s never gonna connect with someone you wouldn’t be able to catch otherwise.

..which tends to make it non-functional as a gap closer, and generally useless as a skill.

What if everyone could just pick one NPC to have as their designated alert guard.. whenever that guard gets aggroed, the player is notified.

interact with any other guard to switch. this way you’re in control of what messages you’ll get and it still encourages team co-ordination since you need a network of players to cover a whole map.

Dagger is Scepter’s natural companion, while Focus goes with Axe.

by “winning”, do you mean you personally succeeding or just your server’s score at the end of the week?

if you mean server score: JQ will be perfect for you

if you mean accomplishing things on your own, and those accomplishment actually mattering to your server’s score: go to lower tiers.

If you want to look at it that way then why bring any class to anything? Better off using Warrior.

Assuming that it works like the invasion notifications, it wouldn’t interrupt combat or require any clicking to dismiss

Ethics.4519:

Also, if this is mainly for fractals, why isn’t fractals the only source to get it?

because “mainly” is not “solely”.

you’re forgetting the 6 extra infusions.. that could be an extra 24 Toughness/Vitality and -6% dmg from guards on top of the armor itself.

Pelopidas.2140:

With Hemophilia you cannot exceed the 100% duration.
@flow explained like a boss ;p

Darn, I always thought Hemophilia worked on the base value like Lingering Curse. I’m already at 90% without it so I should probably drop it for something else

Ralron.8124:

HEy check this guy out:

LOL

btw, “this guy” is Nemesis =)

Ethics.4519:

Yes, shame on you customer for wanting to know what to expect in the future. How dare you expect them to live up to advertisements they make. Could you imagine a world where we held people accountable for things they say? It would be toxic madness!

The problem is mostly that any comment made by the devs in any context is automatically jumped on as being a “promise”, something that is instantly “owed” to the player base and where any failure to meet that expectation is automatically written off as the devs being malicious, lazy and/or incompetent.

The gods took everything with them when they left.

flow.6043:

1. Plus 100% duration is the cap for all conditions.

2. The “33” comes from Lingering Curse which only increases conditions applied by scepter skills. No trait or sigil procs, just the auto attack chain and Grasping Dead (Feast of Corrution doesn’t appy any conditions).

3. Lingering Curse modifies the scepter’s base durations, that’s why it seems like an exception to the 100% rule, but it really isn’t.

4. The tooltip of Lingering Curse is wrong: no condition is increased by 33%.

What about Hemophilia?

Memphisjz.1405:

the hard work of a dedicated group of people to escort dolyaks

vs

some dude had nothing better to do than tag it all day long.

Why is your dedication worth praise while his only receives your scorn?

Ynot.8397:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

random idea I just had:

remove the waypoints, but add a tunnel that runs from citadel to the bottom of the cliff under the garrison vista.

That would be fine if they block off that tunnel if the garri was captured. A tunnel that worked well would be impossible to defend against.

The tunnel wouldn’t open into garrison, it opens up at water level below it. That way it speeds up access to the southern half of the map but doesn’t make access to the keeps too easy.

random idea I just had:

remove the waypoints, but add a tunnel that runs from citadel to the bottom of the cliff under the garrison vista.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

Yes i am certain i used a different character as were they for the golem.

It’s once per day per account, not per character.

I think you’re misunderstanding something here…

-If your win ratio is above 50%, that means you’re usually playing against weaker foes.
-If your win ratio is under 50%, that means you’re usually playing against stronger foes.

a 50% win ratio is what you get if you’re mostly playing against players really close to your skill level.

btw: I happily play Skyhammer whenever it comes up, whether I am on my necro or my ranger.

OP, however, actively dislikes the map and his use of “troll” implies to me that he’s not joining it in good faith but simply to grief other players because they “dare” to play/enjoy the map that he does not.

He wants it removed from his queue, I told him the most simple way of accomplishing the same effect.

Well, last year they added one new zone and it’s completely deserted most of the time. many of the other zones are also very sparsely visited.

It takes a LOT of work to generate a zone’s worth of new content.. and the player base will be “done” with it inside a week, so it’s just not a good use of dev time.

best necro escape: jump into water.

(sadly not applicable in most areas)

since when does “condi-mancer” refer to engineers? :/

Azala Yar.7693:

It’s not necessarily burn out, just boredom from doing the same old stuff over and over and over.

That’s what burnout is. like, it’s the literal definition.

…and it’s natural, you don’t have to emotionally turn on the game because of it, just stop playing for a while and come back when they add the new stuff you’re interested in or if you just miss the game play.

been really impressed with both FC and AR so far, much tighter competition than I was expecting this week.

ya, because before they added Skyhammer, there were never any troll/cheese builds in pvp.

:/

Everyone having a 50% win ratio would mean this is the most perfectly balanced matchmaking ever.

ppl are too busy playing.

since they added forced respawn, ppl rarely have spare time to just chit chat.

Stievie.6128:

im getting sick of relogging onto troll chars whenever the que says skyhammer.

Seriously? just refuse the game and stay in queue, Skyhammer avoided!

switching to “troll chars” makes you part of the problem, not the solution

I think something missing from your comparison is the frequency at which those cripple-inducing effects can happen vs the chill ones.

ie: it’s waaaaaaay easier to spam cripple.

I thought it only gave you the win if you started on the winning team OR if you got moved there through auto-balance.

Because I’m fairly certain if you’re on the winning team and you get auto’ed to the losing side, you still get the win… so I assumed it worked the same both ways.

removing keep waypoints in borderlands has a pretty big impact on defensive roaming.. if you’re in the bottom half of the map and you die, always having to run back the whole way down from citadel would get really tedious really fast.

It’s not even the balance side of it, it’s the QoL.

that is the point.

you’re basing your whole OP on this assertion, it would help to explain why you think that performance issues are no longer a concern.

Zaoda.1653:

it is the loot that appears after I die that I’m talking about here.

Let’s be honest, you died AND you lost the fight, do you really deserve loot in this case? :/

Facing the same choice I looked at the following: which of the two will trigger the most often and/or remain active the longest.

axe training: applies pretty much 100% of the time you use an axe.

chill of death: will normally trigger only once per fight, for a one-time effect whose impact varies based on how many boons happen to be on the target when it triggers.

conclusion: if you use axe, pick axe mastery. chill of death is way too situational.

Nope, no mounts of any kind. Not now, not ever.

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

lag is gone.

What makes you think/say that?

the Chill effect is just fine.. there aren’t that many ways to apply it and they all have short durations.

Alex.5349:

several people have apparently reported me for using Macro’s.

How do you know about these reports?

Did you submit a detailed support ticket or did you just come to rant with your knee-jerk diagnosis?

VaticanIscariot.1732:

-Towers/Keeps worth more the longer they are in your possession and resets when taken over.

This would make night capping an even bigger issue than it already is

VaticanIscariot.1732:

-Tower/Keeps should give guilds that claim it some kind of buff for pve outside of wvw.

This unfortunately encourages guilds to pop in to wvw to claim an objective and then immediately pop back to pve to take advantage of the new bonus.

70 vs 70 is hilarious enough to begin with, trying to make it happen with preset teams just guarantees you will never get a single match of this off the ground.

also, generally speaking.. if we wanted to play a moba, we’d be playing a moba.

nicolas.9045:

My questions are simple: what are the most pve/mcm usefull build a the moment?

What’s “mcm”?

/15 chars

KOK.2650:

I doubt most of the ppl who use zoom exploit using window scaling.
1)It is hard and take lot of time to get it right

I’m fairly certain that stretching a window is a lot easier/faster than finding and installing an untrustworthy 3rd party app.

I don’t know which targeting option you have mapped to ‘tab’ but I’m fairly certain that none of them ever target ambient creatures.

they’re not cheating, they’re just using a different aspect ratio than you are.

Anet has stated they won’t punish ppl for it.

Bhawb.7408:

only going to matter if your group is constantly maxing out on bleeds

I mostly play solo and I often max out bleeds even without the sigil of earth(not sure why you mention geomancy as it’s not really comparable).

the reason torment makes a superior covering condition is that there’s condition removal that ignores it(ex: Hide in Shadows).

I don’t understand why someone would prefer 19 bleeds to 18 bleeds + torment.

Kalan.9705:

E.g. if you do wvw you get exotic armour and weapons for wvw.
If you do pve you get ascended armour and weapons for wvw.

The only ascended weapon I have is the one I got from a WvW rank chest.

Bhawb.7408:

It is the only reason it is useful for us.

it makes a great cover condition and it’s much better than just another bleed that doesn’t get used because the target is already stacked out anyway.

there’s nothing more passive than standing there stun/immob locked.. so blame the summer of hambows for pushing the meta to migrate to builds that still work even when you can’t do anything.