Guild Wars 2

So i did the JP behind the troll cave in Lion’s arch (NE) (forgot the name of the JP itself), from start to finish and even got the chest with loot at end and all, but still my daily JP is on 0/3.

I ahve however already done 5 others daily objectives so already got the daily chest fine.

Was there overflow in one of the zones but not the others? if youa re in overflow you dont get the bonuses from WvW (one of them being a HP increase)

Yes to guild mails, and lifting the mail limitation when sending mails, all the others is a no

Yes something to show it would be nice. Kinda like the idea with actually changing the icons themselves in color, as long as it is done right, and look good thus, it would be awesome. Ofc giving colored outlines would be the far easier solution, but also imo more boring

Yes, is a pain the back to get influence enough for anything usefull as a small guild, where all the big guilds i hear barely even know waht to do with their inf… :S

Yes also would help greatly to find out if you did story already without actually having to port to the dungeon entrance

Yeah really good idea, would be ncie to be able to re-see those cutscences

Islin.1620:

Ele is a clothy class; it’s not meant for melee. Maybe a shield, though…

dagger ele feel pretty meleeish for me already :P

And mesmer got onehanded sword for melee and is clothy as well, even necro the 3rd clothy class have some melee with the dagger

So your argumentation dont really work :P

Zaoda.1653:

I think elementalists are perfectly fine in terms of damage output. If anything, in my own personal opinion, I think elementalists need some seriously buffed up defence. I put as much toughness on my fire ele as humanly possible, and it didn’t seem to make a scrap of difference, and yeah the earth ele is better for defence, but I hate earth spells with a passion (I’m more a fire/water guy myself) so I ultimately have to just hope my fireballs and meteors crush the creatures before they hit me otherwise I get fairly owned. Sometimes I feel like my armour is about as useful as a potato sack.

Armor and toughness is for when you make a mistake in this game, no class can jsut stand and facetank everything, NOT even a guardian can do that forever. The MAIN way of damage mitigation in this game is to avoid taking it in the first place, and ele have quite a few spells to do that, like arcane shield, earth armor etc etc, not to mention the normal dodge ofc that all classes have

Why? because it simply wont work, in terms of control for this game, it is closer to a FPS, than a typical MMORPG, and I like to see you move around in an FPS with click to move… yeah right…

Sound like a wannabe Elementalist to me, those shapes shifts of your sound exactly like their attunemenets, then https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Concept-Profession-Mimic/first#post1581630 is a much better form of something with the similar idea behind

Dasorine.1964:

Linguistically Inept.6583:

1. eles arent super weak up close
2. mesmers arent super weak up close (if thats what the third poster was implying)
3. guardian has a spirit weapon greatsword
4. it doesnt really fit with ele imo (conjures are wielded; they dont attack of their own accord)

- though i wouldnt mind seeing more visually impressive passive effects for ele

I was more talking about the profession that gets a to have a floaty greatsword.

Wouldn’t call it a floaty GS on mesmer, more like it is helm with some kind of energy between the mesmers hands. And it DEFINABLY don’t attack with melee as the OP was talking about

How would you sync it? as CapN said ONE overflow may contain ppl from many diffrent servers AT ONCE, so some might be from whiteside ridge, some from Gandara, some from vabbi etc etc, so which server would you sync it with?

Kaimick.5109:

Yes lets make Fractal level account wide, so when you work on your Level 20 profession 80 then you switch to your other 80 that has yet to do it and has no agony resist that should go over well.

You can still join a highlvl fractal with a toon that yet to do any fractal runs at all if you want currently, but obviously up to the player to ensure you have the proper AR for it (and relics are account bound anyway so not a problem there) so your point is?

Kaimick.5109:

OP you realize that if you farm Ascended for your other 80’s and get AR 15 for them, then it doesn’t matter if your level 1 and go into a level 30 fractals. you still gain level and you aren’t " I cant muster the energy to grind it anymore with the same toons over and over. "

Unless of course level 30 is just so grinding, then why are you doing it.

So in short the fact that Fractal level should be account bond makes no sense, if your complaining about pugs and gear drops then my suggestion stop running in pugs and get a guild run. If you can’t and you insist on running pugs that is your choice suck it up

yes you can join a lvl 30 run, but you wont get lvl 30 rewards untill you done it 30 times on that same toon

Runiir.6425:

I see multiple people responding with “build for this encounter” style…er…don’t pidgeon hole your build? Build to be flexible not to fight specific enemies. A truly good build is good against ALL enemies, not just one type. Perhaps THAT is your problem…the old GW1 mentality of changing builds to fit what you fight. That was NEVER fun. That was tedious and boring. It is far more fun to build how you want to play, what works for you personally against all comers, then just stick with it. Sure…may burn through a gold or two to find this perfect build, but once you find it you will never change it again.

Also…why are you writing it down? You cannot remember 7 traits or 3 numbers? Not that hard to remember…and I deal with number all day long, ontop of theories and psychiatric work. Your memory should not be so bad that when something works you forget it very easily.

Also to add on to what Fred said, there is NO WAY you can make a build that is good against every single enemy in the entire game (both openworld, dungeons, fractals, WvW etc etc)

Nay of the Ether.8913:

evolverzilla.2359:

Even in GW1 you have to be on an outpost or city to respec your toon. So the same applies to GW2, i don´t see the point here except for not having a fast gear change or build saving.

You also had to be in towns to make your parties, use trade chat, access your bank, ect so your point is moot. An instanced game cannot be compared to a persistent open game in that way. Quick load builds , however are a different story. We’re only using the methods in GW1 as a reference because I can’t think of any other game that allowed you that kind of flexibility. Here the restriction would be not being able to change it while in combat, which would be fine and still far superior to the current method. If pvp/wvw was a huge concern, Just lock them out of changing it at all in matches like they do already and for wvw make it so you can only change it in your home’s immunity area (which would honestly make it the same as it is now for wvw since the npc is right there, so I stepped on my own foot on that one).

RIFT, had something similar, you could save 4 builds from start (was later changed to 5, dunno if you got even more now a days don’t play it anymore), that you could change between as long as you were indeed out of combat, EVEN inside dungeons and such, and that worked pretty well

Wolfheart.1938:

Too bad you don’t get the benefits ( rune included ) of an aqua breather unless you are underwater, Mr. Mogturmen.

And likewise you dont get the benefit (including rune) of you normal helm when underwater

Clones run in straight lines towards their target and spam one skill only, so as soon as you see someone circling you, dodging, or uses a skill that is not a #1 on a weapon, you found the real one

Sirendor.1394:

I doubt you would have much advantage from those transforms though:
Consider the case of the owl you used. You say we can use 3 aspects, can we you all 3 at the same time or only 1 of the three at the same time?

- Head: beak… solely useful for melee? What about adding visual effects too: watch through the eyes of an owl?
- Torso: wings… overpowered?
- Legs: talons… not much use if you can’t use them combined with wings.

he did cover that part:

redrex.9634:

For example, if you happen to meet an Owl, you may study it to be able to mimic its beak, wings and talons. Owl wings, unlike eagle wings, will provide different effects when you mimic them, and the beak and talons will each provide separate effects.

Similarly, drakes will provide you each with a different mimic, fire, ice, reef each providing you with a different effect. Fire Drake’s head might give you burning damage, whilst Drake torso will give you extra toughness and drake legs might grant you some stability.

You can also mix it up. Have a Drake’s head, Spider’s body and Lynx’s feet?
Mix burning damage with poison immunity with swiftness? sounds like fun!

Looks interesting i must say, would deffo be trying this out if it got implemented

Like Creld the ways it could work with shifts would be either as utility skills (in which case they would become very similar to engineers, or you could do it with F1-F4 skills but then it be much alike the attunements of an elementalist, so OP if you REALLY want this, you gotta come up with a way to do this, that makes the class unique and an outline on how then main class mechanic would work exactly

multiple gearsets, alts etc?, not to mention i also can get rings while i work on amulet as well, so by the time i have the amulet i also have have the rings already

Heard about the word FUN? Beside you still can’t get ascended backpiece outside of fractals, and getting rings in fractals is WAY faster, in get like 10 ring in fractal by the time i can get 1 with laurels

Esplen.3940:

But not with a single skill that was on a potential 4 second cooldown.

can you say cluster bomb? and as someone said no 4sec cd only on it either, where cluster bomb i spammable a 5-6 times and after ini is out only a few sec cd as well. AND is the highest raw damage skill on thief shortbow as well

Esplen.3940:

Master of Timespace.2548:

Anet wants you to play only 1 weapon set. The kittenness of this game is just getting worse and worse.. Scepter was already a quite bad weapon.

But double blasts could give you 100% uptime on 2 AoE Might/Retaliation if blasted on Fire/Light fields.

Like there is no other classes that can do 2 blasts in a row? :rolleyes: and they can do it with weapons that are otherwise viable…

Yeah, sure it may only be a few silver, but if you go change trait several times a day, it adds up, ohh and you might make a missclick 2-3 times as well having to respec again, making another couple silvers on top too

You get reward based on your own level, so yes you ahve to be lvl 10 or above to get them

Would SO love that old login screen was simply AMAZING. I was SO disappointed when i loaded up the game the first time the new launcher was introduced…
WHY did you do this to us ANet?

matemaster.2168:

this game is about skins so maybe anet will introduce the old login screen in the gem shop for like 5000 gems so you can buy it

The problem with that would be that purchases in the gem store is bound to your account, this screen would be appearing BEFORE you even login

Might be an idea to use a mroe up to date build calculator to show your build too though? now havnt palyed ele much so dont remember how its tratis are but looking at the mesmer in same build calculator you used, just taking a quick look over the minor traits several of them where either wrong or at wrong places (due to balance changes that obviously been done since)

bri.2359:

I build my own desktops, and the rule-of-thumb I follow is AMD/ATI or Intel/Nvida.

I run intel core I5 2500 with ATI radeon HD6950 with no problems

Also being a guild leader of a small social guild when i see my members sometimes make new characters tehy plain out forget to represent(why you dont automaticaly represnet even when you onyl atre in one guild is beyond me though, but that is another topic), untill i remind them in a whisper and yes many of those out of choice do only belong in my guild, but as long as thay rep with jsut one character we are fine with that

Just get the other ring with EXACT same stats, but different infusion slot, beside it does say quite clearly in tooltip “Unique” is that word so ahrd to understand? and if you dont really know waht it means you could look it up on wiki or something. What did you expect that word means?

Sound like you should go play a necromancer minion master

and well it is called ELEMENTAL attunements, pets is not an element, beside ele already have like 2 or 3 pets they can summon

akamon.2769:

while we’re at this.. trying to understand a bit more about ascended, infusions, etc..

so if i infuse a, say ascended ring, the newly infused ring will be the same, but with an inherent +5 agony resistance. and an empty infusion slot?

so can i slot in another infusion, for e.g. a versatile mighty infusion, into the infused ring? i.e. the end result would be the ring +5 power, +10 AR?

and i know that everytime you infuse a ring / ascended item, you’ll lose any existing infusions. so if one were to plan to upgrade any given ascended item, they should always only slot in the infusions AFTER reaching the final most upgrade version?

lol sorry for all the questions. and thanks in advance

Yes, as for slotting before infusion or not, well can take quite a lot of time to get the vials/globs/shards of condesnced mist essence, so you may have to slot before you infuse to get the AR you actually need for the moment

savints.6281:

BioFringe.7945:

At first I was like “you can already do that” but then I re-read and better understood what you were referring to. Well done. I won’t use this personally because I like the zoom on the wheel way too much but for those that don’t, this would be perfect for them.

If anyone is concerned with this program…don’t be. I’ve been using it since it first came out like a decade ago and use it with the utmost of confidence. It’s easy to use, low profile and efficient.

You can still keep the zoom on the mouse wheel by binding the zoom keys (that are found in game for key binds) to alt+6/7 which in this case would be the mouse wheel as well, so pressing alt+mouse wheel up would result ikittenoom, I mean how often do you need to zoom in an and out.

Ehmm i do zoom in and out quite a lot, althoguh not of the gameworld, but on the map, both the mini-map and the big world map.

And yeah i dont use this, though sound a lot like what my G500 mouse drivers can do by itself, not using the scroll thiough as i love it too much on the map as i said, but do have my dodge bound to tipping my mousewheel to the right(which my drivers thinks im actually pressing the V key), makes for a fast reaction possibilty there much better than any key on the keyboard can give me

That does sound a lot similar to the “Scavenger hunt”, they said they will do as a way to obtain precursors, to me, so yeah something like that is already planned

LunaticChaos.7138:

While I think Yalan is on the right track there, I think that’s the wrong way to do it.
What I think should happen is that if someone on the home server is zoning into a zone, and that zone is full, it should kick a guest in that zone and put them into an overflow to make room for the person from the home server. Obviously enough if there are no guests to kick the person who’s home server it is still goes to an overflow.

In normal maps this is not going to cause a problem at all and likely never activate except in places like Lion’s Arch. But for world bosses it should make it so that only members of that actual server will likely be attending the world boss, this makes it even less likely people will abuse the guesting system. As I can see trolls just staying in these zones to take up spots on the world bosses (and likely not even participate) just so that people from that server don’t get to participate in the world boss.

I do like this, ppl that has it as home server should have some kind of priority, to solve some of the problems other ppl mentions, with guest that is actually playing with friends, maybe have it kick guest that are not in a party with a member that ahve that server as home server, before those that are.

Another alternative could be simply having say 50% of the slots of a map not be able to get used by a guest in first place, should increase the chance that you get on your own server as well

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

GummiBear.2756: 10 stack only? im runing a condition build focused mostly on bleeding, but if i want to do a confusion spike i can usually get at least 12 maybe 15 stacks, and i know there be ways i could get more if i alter my build, but it would suck for pve most likely
i dont run a confusion spike because i dont like the idea of having to hope that the enimie uses a skill especally in PvE cause AI dont spam attack skills like players do.

that the thing a spike is a burst of damage YOU decide when is going to come, so you can time it to hit right as the mob actually does an attack. and also im getting those 12-15 stack with the ONLY major trait that enhances confusion is Master of misdirection, which have nothing better for that slot, i can use, but need to get past it to 10pt for the extra bounce on staff. So yeah im doing 12-15 confusion stack with no sacrifice done for it

Ehmm this IS like WvW, INCLUDING queues (or in fact even worse outright blocking you from participating if the area is already full), so please come with a PROPER argument on how this is not WvW…

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

well the most confusion i have stacked on as a single mesmer by myself is 10 stacks of confusion but if i have a ranger with me i can slam on 25 with the help of TW. the enimies take close to 5k in damage from confusion. in my mind if my party is able to hold 25 stacks of conditions nothing survies from the damage out put and condition damage.
but if you want a super buff from 25 stacks of a condition then what about the dragons. players can easly get 25 stacks of a conditions and the dragons thanks to the update and guesting abuse would be just way to over powerd in my opinnion.
just my 2 cents

10 stack only? im runing a condition build focused mostly on bleeding, but if i want to do a confusion spike i can usually get at least 12 maybe 15 stacks, and i know there be ways i could get more if i alter my build, but it would suck for pve most likely

Kharegim.2846:

We hate him because for anyone not playing sylvari he popped out of nowhere halfway through our story and then became centre spotlight forcing us into the position of sword lackey. never mind the choices we made about the characters we recruit, never mind what personality we chose for our characters (which never made a difference anyway), never mind the deadpan voice acting, consistent whining and his gall at stealing caladbolg from us. not to mention the fact that hes clearly just a mary sue character. I think in future they should rename personal story to trahearnes story because really? I sure as hell didnt feel like it was my story seeing as none of my choices mattered (it particularly annoyed me that none of the choices you made in character creation did anything beyond the first few missions).

TBH i was GLAD to get rid of caladbolg, the mission where i actually wielded it SO didn’t fit the way my character was set up and all in traits etc, making that encounter unnecessarily more difficult than my normal weapons would have had

Agree getting weakness from might, and bleed from vigor always seemed like the wrong way around to me. Though maybe give burning to fury and blind to aegis would be better too imo, blind is pretty much the exact opposite of block

Aiden.6209:

Chuo.4238:

Nice guy, but not hero material without the player. Yet somehow he’s the hero and not the player.

We can’t be the hero, we the Marshall has to be someone who is not apart of an order so they all feel equal and doesn’t cause fight’s within the pact.

But i do agree with everyone, i hate this guy, the voice acting, the stupid comment’s, and just the way he is!

Yet he appoints the player, part of an order, as his second in command, that imo kinda undermines that statement, as the player is then put above the order, kinda raising the order of the player above the other orders if you ask me

marnick.4305:

Which stat to take is also up to personal choice. I would recommend +precision to trigger more on-crit effects. In the end, that is more useful than raw damage.

Precision imo is the worst to take, since at lvl 80, you need 21 precision to get 1% critical chance extra, meaning you need 4 slots with +5 to be sure to get up 1%

(source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Precision)

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Fred Fargone.3127:

I’ve never seen that happen, but if you see such strategies being utilized, why not just report the players involved? I think selecting the player and rightclicking their head works?

Because there’s nothing against the rules about doing it?
It’s just a terrible design choice that you can’t do anything about it.

I cant imagine being able to ress through a closed gate is working as intended, and a such would be a bug, and doing it would be bug-abusing, which is against the rules.

Sure, lets make the rich richer, and the poor even poorer (comparatively)
(Note: Sarcasm may occur in above line)

Maybe not 70% darker but really i dont even notice if it is day or ngiht when i play, there is so little difference…

Arvid.3829:

Also, all the current offensive and defensive infusions come with +5 agony resistance and +5 in one stat.

This is not entirely true, you can get for some laurels (forgot the exact amount) infusions that give only + 4 to a stat (no agony resist if i remember right though), though imo both those and the + 5stat/+ 5agony resist is FAR from worth it both takes a LOT and i mean a LOT of grind to acquire for a measly 4 or 5 extra stats… those 4 or 5 extra stats not gonna make or break any build tbh

Oglaf.1074:

You realize they are pretty much overused as they are now? If they make AoEs any better, I’m quitting WvW for good. AoE needs to be toned down, not up.

well did you read his whole post? you could even argue he is asking for a nerf in fact

O_o what the hell is going on there? i NEVER seen anything come even close to that, not even in open world meta events/wvw zerg vs zergs, and taht SS is from a dungeon O_o. The one dungeon i done the MOST in fact. (and i doubt it can be just bideo setting even as silver suggested, since I have mine on highest on almost all settings.

Saraya Bloodrain.1284:

Sorry, but to me WvW is PvP to me. I guess I would just like more options.

sorry, but to the game WvW is PvE.

Seriously as Chorel says it is ONE out of a total of 9, where you only ahve to do 5 to get your daily, so what is the issue?