Guild Wars 2

i do NOT support out of combat weapon swapping for engies, (or ele for that sake) only, what i do support is weapon swapping out of combat for ALL or NONE classes, really ele and engi’s have the least amount of different weapons, any of my characters i don’t have problems filling up and almost max size invisble bag with weapons and consumable, using about same amount of consumables i can barely fill same invisble bag size barely half, so a consumable hotbar as well as out of combat weapon swapping for ALL classes would be nice, but not if it is restricted to only one or a few classes

TheDaiBish.9735:

Protection is the only way to reduce Condition Damage.

By nerfing Protection, and buffing Toughness (which does nothing against condition damage), you’re actually reducing the only protection against condition damage, while making players more susceptible to it.

its not the ONLY protection against it, you know this thing called condition removal?, but it certainly is a very good protection against it no doubt about that, and toughness yeah only affect direct dmg, and as someone said earlier too, most condition build mainly use precision/toughness/condition damage (aka Rabid) both for added protection against direct damage dealer, but also becasue there is ways to make toughness give a condition damage increase as well (tuning crystals and traits for some classes, as well as 6 undead runes), in fact on my condition damage mesmer i rarely ever get hit, so my toughness is used more for extra condition damage than for protection really

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

GummiBear.2756:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

GummiBear.2756:

even if you seperate wvw and pve i promise you ppl will still complain with reasons like “those who do both wvw and pve get double laurels”, and thus they feel it will be “mandatory” to do both

that would be their problem then.

those who work more will get more rewards of course yes?

my point is it will be quite some work for the dev’s and wont change the current situation one bit

hmm well true. well them dev can always make any new changes slowly gradually and not straight away though.

what do you will not change the current situation one bit?

anyway, nowadays people complain too much.

they already do changes slowly and over periods, this suggestion just seem to be a waste of time (and this money) for ANet if you ask me, but ofc in the end it is up to ANet to decide that

Don’t really understand the "what do you will not change the current situation one bit? "

and too true, i certainly pity game developers these days, if they done one things ppl will mass QQ, if they do the opposite, sometimes even the same, and if not other ppl will mass QQ instead

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Cures.7451:

we get laurels for PvP dailies atm?

nope. just one spvp tournament ticket and one spvp glory booster.

but i hope the spvp daily would give laurels one day!
it would be so nice!

might probably get more players to try out spvp too.
spvp is not that hard or scary actually.

GummiBear.2756:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

based on a 30 day month,
those who play all PvE, sPvP and WvW can earn at up to 3 laurels per day and 30 laurels per month.

those who insist of PvE only can earn 40 laurels instead.

This part is why ppl will NOT be happy with it, since “those that play both spvp, wvw, and pve will get more laurels” and thus ppl will feel it is mandatory to do them all…

Beside laurels for spvp? why? they got not use for a spvp only player

why? well, to reward spvp players!

imagine, after spending so much time in spvp and able to earn laurels to pimp our characters for pve! it is so awesome!

well, thats just me but i believe there others like me out there.

i just need to reach out to them!

then give us a way to get reward from pve that applies to spvp too as well… also by “forcing” ppl to do spvp for laurels you end up if you are lucky in game with 1 good player and 5-6 bad ones. People that are interested in learning to spvp already do it, and ppl who don’t will just do it to get the daily and then not anymore, never becoming a good spvp player

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

GummiBear.2756:

even if you seperate wvw and pve i promise you ppl will still complain with reasons like “those who do both wvw and pve get double laurels”, and thus they feel it will be “mandatory” to do both

that would be their problem then.

those who work more will get more rewards of course yes?

my point is it will be quite some work for the dev’s and wont change the current situation one bit

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

based on a 30 day month,
those who play all PvE, sPvP and WvW can earn at up to 3 laurels per day and 30 laurels per month.

those who insist of PvE only can earn 40 laurels instead.

This part is why ppl will NOT be happy with it, since “those that play both spvp, wvw, and pve will get more laurels” and thus ppl will feel it is mandatory to do them all…

Beside laurels for spvp? why? they got not use for a spvp only player

even if you seperate wvw and pve i promise you ppl will still complain with reasons like “those who do both wvw and pve get double laurels”, and thus they feel it will be “mandatory” to do both

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQNAsdWl4zKqnUzhGa9IyJFQnzh6B25dfXJF82FC

that is my build, the sig of inspiration+lyssa+timewarp is quite neat, and then just with a 5sec cd only on staff clones i dont really need any other clone generation other than phase retreat and then just keep them up. Is a build a bit on the supportive side yes but still with a good amount of condition dmg. the 2nd weapon set focus varies what i use thoguh most often torch(for blast finisher mainly) or focus, in wvw it is always focus, nothing is better than pulling a poor sod or 2 down from the keep wals into your zerg with focus 4

yeah its not exactly written anywhere in the game that it has a max range… is it that hard to put the same red bar under the skill if you are too far away from your entre?

Anymras.5729:

Looking at the Item Nomenclature page on the wiki (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cleric%27s#Triple_attribute), it looks like the answer to this one’s a ‘yeah, if you craft it.’

yes you can, unless for some reason taht the craftable medium armor have different stat comboes than light :P

FateZero.8536:

I knew there will be people like you. I’ve prepared in advanced enjoy.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-27-arenanet-holds-frank-reddit-debate-on-guild-wars-2-loot-grind

If you had been truely prepared, you would ahve put your source in the very post where you actually said that statement, not waiting for someone to ask for it

FateZero.8536:

Yup, people should definitely make sure they are up to date with the latest news before contesting others where they based it from. Lol.

If i had to chase down every single news of gw2 all over the internet (as a lot of it is not posted on this official site for some reason) i would not ahve any time to actually play the game, in which case chasing down the news would be redundant, so i stick to checking the official site

FateZero.8536:

Actually you can expect a level cap raise but I bet that will come with an expansion and not content update. GW1 could not raise it’s level cap due to limitations as stated by one of the developers.

and what exactly does you base this one? I honeslty dont think nor hope so, one of the selling points of gw2 is that it should be accesible by anyone, by raising the lvl cap you do the opposite of that, and no matter how liniaer the lvling curve is it will eventually be very long time consuption to get to max level

As Woldcode said, you should file a ticket to support at least asking them if you are allowed to use those items to your benefit or not, since it could very easily seen as taking advatage of botting done with your account even if you didnt do the botting personally

when the groups are asking for ppl in full zerk gear, within specfically mentioning exotic, im often tempted to go buy some cheap white lvl 60 zerk gear and join with that… well it would be without their requirment (and that is while playing a normally condition specced mesmer :P)

Morrigan.2809:

I don’t think it is content in terms of what you are thinking of- but more in the line of polishing the existing content balancing and some changes to how the open world plays. As well as fixes and expansion of wvwvw and pvp.
This is great as far as I’m concerned and I would much rather they do this now before releasing even more content.

this is what i think too, they did indeed say they will be focusing on making what they do have more solid, so dont expect new classes or area, but maybe more and better DE’s in existing areas, maybe some major changes to existing professions and stuff like that

Fernling.1729:

I know originally we were told to expect the patches that have so much content that it would be equal/comparable to as much content that someone would see in a paid expansion in Jan and Feb. I know that it was changed to Feb and Mar, but can’t find any actual information on what the content is.

we were told from january to march as far as i know, with the jan patch only be laying the “foundation” for the feb and march patches

well i geuss not having that option could be seen as an incetive for those ppl that like using the mouse to actually learn to play, say what you want, but you will NEVEr get the same fast reaction on skill use using your mouse as if you use hotkeys for it

Panda.1967:

Grizledorf.5290:

GummiBear.2756:

Indoles.1467:

While not much of a conspiracy theorist myself, I would believe that the purpose behind the 250 stack cap (other than being a practical number under 256) is to keep players buying bank expansions with gems. Plus, using them once you get enough to buy an item is preferred if you need storage space. You don’t ever need to stack thousands of them unless you have ocd and need to buy the entire set at once. And even then, I say, suck it up or give in.

or what if you just like dungeons, but don’t have anything to use the tokens on?

then you make a mule.. a long standing MMO tradition that you should be proud to carry on

Mules work easier when characters have individual banks, but when the bank is shared account wide it become tedious, and many MMO players are altoholics… thus a mule character is a wasted space

considering the cost like 1g for 18 slots (or even 10g for 20 slot bags) mules are not very convienet and end up costing more money than they are worth

Indoles.1467:

While not much of a conspiracy theorist myself, I would believe that the purpose behind the 250 stack cap (other than being a practical number under 256) is to keep players buying bank expansions with gems. Plus, using them once you get enough to buy an item is preferred if you need storage space. You don’t ever need to stack thousands of them unless you have ocd and need to buy the entire set at once. And even then, I say, suck it up or give in.

or what if you just like dungeons, but don’t have anything to use the tokens on?

you forgot that MMO is only the first part of the genera of GW2, the whole gener is MMORPG whihc according to here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game means “is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world.”

EliteZ.1682:

However, I don’t really see this changing as the more items we have to store in our bank or bags, the more money Anet will earn through people buying extra bag and bank slots with gems.

Why not, they already made rare crafting mats collectible, and if you rightclick at least dungeon tokens cant remember if relics too, there is a greyed option for deposit collectible there too, so looks to me as if they got something up their sleeve for those things too imo

Rainu.6871:

Cooking is great for the daily crafting one. I generally make omnom bars, it’s 4 steps so I usually make two full batches and 2 extras of one ingredient which I save for the next time it’s included in the daily list.

i can do it WAY faster on say jeweler, by refining say 10 gold ore in one go, since each concurrent craft of the same time takes like half the one before it will be like 5-10 times faster than your multiple item stuff

@Gnashor then tell me WHAT did the monk in GW1 have that you desire so much in GW2, im rather certain we can tell you were then which class have it already in gw2, other than the abbilty to keep everyone else alive singlehandely

The Angle of Deth.2985:

Why not a cartographers tonic available through the gem shop? While under the influence you can’t rat out/ spy on the other teams as you would be unable to communicate. You would not be able to participate in combat. You’re simply there to map and deal with the hostile npcs.

How would you prevent that? you would ahve to disable bot /t, /m, /s, /w, /g to totally prevent it though ingame means and even if you do taht there is out of game voice communication like TS, vent, mumble, etc or even jsut chant out of game like on steam, xfire, MSN etc. So the only way to truely be not able to spy on enemy would be if your screen turned black while doing it… which kinda ruin the whole point anyway…

Thapaintrain.9546:

Riselight.3695:

No.

• Regular PvE players are forced into PvP
• There is a server vs server system already, it’s callen WvW

You Sir are a Carebear and shouldn’t play MMO. Feelz sry for U!

you know it is called a MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) not a MGO (Massive Gank Online)

@vysaek: hehe, as i like to say “mesmer, fooling foes and frineds alike”

id like to know taht too, i need one with precision/toughness/condition damage for my mesmer

i can agree with this 100%

if those 550 is at lvl 80 then no taht is really bad, very few classes/builds benefit from both power and condition damage, you either take one or the other, in whihc case you should get atleast 1200+ preferably 1500+ condition damage total

JJBigs.8456:

and they expect me to seemingly melee when im the only one and they dont use support on me, since most light class support must be used on themselvs to live, I always end up dying.

then they are a bad group and you shouldnt jsut blindly obey to them, but do waht you can to survive and help the group (and you rarely help the group by tanking in melee 24/7)

And this is coming from someone with a thief that i built a little too squishy for my own taste, and is trying to redo a bit, and a mesmer as my lvl 80’s even and i would never expect the only warrior in my party to be able to melee all the time

rightclick them wheny ou got them targeted and report them… however how can you be sure they used a macro even? hell of all places spvp would be the alst place you would use a macro, since the combat is so dynamic no set sequence of skill uses would win all situations for you

Lord Aargadon.4135:

Im just trying to make the point that it should be all or nothing, there isn’t a reason why power/prec and condi/prec based characters should get benefits, while me sitting here specced for bunker, using attrition to win fights, with low prec, power, and condi but higher healing power, I lose out on even more because Im support. I guess it would have been better to put it like this.
Damage>Control>Support=0 still

if you dont sport any power or condition damage at all you are a dead-weight already for your group, everyone is supposed to do all of the 3 “roles” (damage/control/support) so if you dont avhe any offensive stats at all you are doing it wrong

Gnashor.9287:

If you want to play a panda that can kick and punch then go play wow.And if you want to play the diablo 3 monk then play Diablo,its simple

And if you wanna play the GW1 monk, go play GW1

many of the aspects of the GW1 monk is already there mainly in the guardian

okay sorry about that part with server vs server i see waht you mean now, but was kidna bad word order, that could be understood both ways.

Still doesnt change my stance though, roaming around picking targets in wvw is gonna do the exact same thing as if you could do it in pve maps, except there ppl accept they can be ganked if the run alone by being there, if you play in PvE maps you do it to PvE ONLY

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Warrior 3rd bow skill – hard explosion.

and how is that an atomic explosion? there is no radiation after that skill, whihc there would be if it were atomic…

and waht if you are not intresting in PvP but only have time to come online at the time when rifting is enabled due to work/school/timezone etc?

And how can you say wvw is NOT server vs server? wvw is 3 servers piatched against eachother for control of the wvw maps, so that is indeed server vs server.

Beside i geuss you took your rifting concept from the mmo called rift, where rifting is in fact NOT server versus server but rather faction vs faction, which means wvw in its essence is more server vs server than rifting orginally is…

SerMahad.4813:

SYS is a personal boon gain for the guardian though, I think the real boon gain for the party in that situation came from the Ele’s aura multiboon sharing (fury, swiftness, protection, elemental attunement one) and shouts like Stand your ground (retaliation and stability, works wonders with high-power parties O.O ) and Hold the Line (Prot-Regen). Plus, one of them maybe had 15+ points in Virtues and… more retaliation, more protection/might/regen. On top of that, a possible party-wide Might on crit from Empowering Might… 6/8 constant might uptime.
There you are. Boons orgy.

Just saying, if that Ele knew what he was doing, he was giving almost more boons than the guardians.

oops my bad, geuss it too long since i played guardian really, but still the point stand taht guardis can if specced for it give out a TON of boons still, jsut not with taht particular spell :S
Dont know enough about ele’s to comment on that but if what you say is true that just stupid sick many boons then :S

Riselight.3695:

No.

• Regular PvE players are forced into PvP
• There is a server vs server system already, it’s callen WvW

couldnt ahve said it better, short and to the point, and sums up my thiughts exactly as well

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

GummiBear.2756:

look at it this way, if you are blind you likely miss covereing the WHOLE area with fire or whatver you cast there, and this is then the spots where your enemy stand (from a pure technicaly wievpoint i geuss it would be a LOT harder to code the aoes to work different for blinds than single target attack, not to mention this game would ahve a lot of “grey area” skills that can debated if they are aoe, or single target, like swrod swings usually hit multiple targets in front of you, so is that aoe too?)

GW2 logic – you can dodge sword swing easily, and atomic explosion too.

well even in Rl at least dodgin sword wings well while not exactly easy, is very doable by a skilled fight (and I aussme our chracter are pretty skills fighters at that) atomic explosions… how do you even know? doesn’t really exist in gw2, hell does it even exist in the world of tyria?

maybe it is something so scary the refugee’s themsevles dont dare to even think about it, let alone tell anyone even the vaguest hint, and thus even the heralds wouldnt know

well with 3 guardisn taht should not really be hard, if all of them use a save yourself and time it properly and all avhe the shout recharge reduced by 20% that meana a cd of 48sec on saveyourselves and considering the boons last 10sec from save yourselves, that is 30sec uptime and then 18 sec downtime only with ONE skill from each. And from waht i see save yoursevles is a rahter popular skill for guardians :P and considering that not their only boons giving skill i would be more surprised if 3 gaurds didnt mean a almsot full uptime on most boons. Even with 1 guard only i expect a rather high boon uptime

look at it this way, if you are blind you likely miss covereing the WHOLE area with fire or whatver you cast there, and this is then the spots where your enemy stand (from a pure technicaly wievpoint i geuss it would be a LOT harder to code the aoes to work different for blinds than single target attack, not to mention this game would ahve a lot of “grey area” skills that can debated if they are aoe, or single target, like swrod swings usually hit multiple targets in front of you, so is that aoe too?)

LA is “Lions Arch” the main city hob
hmm FOTW, dont you mean FOTM?
if it is FOTM you mean it usually in gw2 would mean “Fractals of the mists” a scaling dungeon located in LA, however if you meet it in any other mmo it more likely means “flavour of the month” ie the most popular build/class currently (and thus usually the most OP one (OverPowevered)

marnick.4305:

For what it’s worth…

Starting area vendors sell salvageable weapons for 40c. If you’re short a few at the end of the month, you can do it that way. The full track would cost you 2g but by playing the game you should get it for free.

Also, since crafting is a daily anyways, level one of your crafts and salvage everything you make. Easy.

for the crafting daily i say most ppla re just gonna refine 10 mats rather than craft something you can salvage :P

Lifeson.4352:

GummiBear.2756:

Lifeson.4352:

Really? 80 fps in a massive zerg? Is that cpu really that much better compared to an i5 2500k? I only get 20-30 in a huge zerg on max settings.

well i use i5 2500 and get up towards 100 fps when doing nothing and with normal action at least a 60-70+fps huge zergs i don’t really have time usually to check my fps, but im rather certain it not below 30 likely quite a bit above that too, since i deffo dont experience any slowdowns in them, so my geuss is it is not your CPU that puts you so low

What gpu do you have? I’ve been wanting a new one but didn’t think it would improve fps in huge zergs.

And what resolution? 1920×1080 I assume?

1280×1024 (higest my monitor can support) and a XFX Radeon HD 6950 grafikkort – 2GB

Halanna.3927:

I don’t know. I mean they can add something in the future to allow you to hide it, but it’s really just a green star and the word Monthly next to it and a %.

How distracting is it really? Not very on my screen. What size monitor you using? I don’t even notice it.

aggree with this, and im pretty sure im using a smaller screen than most ppl with a SDM-E96D (90 inch screen, featuring a resolution of only 1280×1024 at max)

@Edge: So a 4-5 lines is a lot you say? and that would be including a DE in the area (since you can collapse of of those things to 1 lines (some DE’s takes 2 lines due to long titles)) don’t seem like a lot to me

Zookeeper.2513:

This is one fight that I wish Anet would change to make it where you CAN’T skip him. He’s an easy fight, plus it’s a waste of 9 Tears and 3 drops of karma when you do skip him.

can only aggre on this, i often have to ask my group to actually do him, if i dont they rather skip him, and not only dies he drops tears and loot, but he gives a wp that can be usefull too, more so on some of the paths than the others, the one with the graveler burrows down some staris with firetrap right beside kholer that wp can be really nice to have specially. Hell i almost argue its harder to get up those fire trap stairs than it is to kill kholer :P

Doomguard.5094:

Yeah most elite skills I saw were pretty useless considering their cooldown, especially on warrior and elementalist. Either make them stronger, of make their cooldown a bit shorter.

… refer to the latter part of my above post please… warrior have some of the best, ele i cant comment on though as i haven’t even been able to get one to 30 (i just cant find a way to play it that fits me i guess, and yes i do inf act have both a thief and a mesmer in lvl 80 and played since launch so in not some newbie that don’t get the game at all)

ehmm seems logic to me the other way around would seem couter-intuitive for me, as it is the finisher that activates the actual attack, not the field

Clouded Judgement.7834:

Why does this topic get recreated daily. I didn’t realise its part of the daily.

0/1 – Create a new thread titled ‘less experience from dailies’ despite the fact there are now 50 of them created the day before.

Yes we lose ~40% exp per daily. But you know what do a few more events and you will make up for it.

haha would be the most epic daily ever, would actually be hillarious if the devs made that as a daily at 1st april or something (being an aprils fool, so not really needed to get the daily reward :P)