Guild Wars 2

hmm… can see the QQ coming already, from ppl since just one mesmer make it inside → portal → keep lost :P

The thing is, it is so with 99% of the player you HEAR about… but a quite common known fact is also than 99% of the players or so that talk about games a lot are those that dont enjoy/have issued with it, making it often seem a LOT worse than it is in fact

Donari.5237:

Thief has a number of WvW advantages, though as I have never been much of a PvPer my ideas on that will differ from devoted combatants. I really like the whole running away from the fight ability

While true thief indeed has just as strong disadvantages too in WvW, specially the lack of more but ONE 1200 range ability that is then even ground targeted. So if you prefer the keep sieges part of wvw thief ain’t the best

you cant apply major runes on any armor below lvl 29 (and for superior runes the armor need to be lvl 60), so if it is lvl 25 armor only minor runes will work

try turn off “autotargeting” in options

tbh lvling normally in this game is likely about if not faster than getting powerlvled by another character in about any other MMO too. Also nothing prevents you from going down to the areas he can access

Or as i said donate him the crafting mats he need to lvl IN A FEW HOURS to 80

Zonzai.2341:

Lighthammer.3280:

Main reason why people skill bosses or any other boss like foe is not hp, its not time required to kill or difficulty to do so, it is loot. Those so called Bosses have nothing to offer as a reward for 10-30minutes long encounter which makes most player just ignore them and run past them.

This is MMORPG, everything revolves around loot, dungeons are played for loot, people kill everything in their path for loot, and only thing that this game doesn’t have, guess, its LOOT! 90% of dungeons and “end game” content is abandoned because people don’t get loot they deserve, especially for hours long dungeons like COE or arah.

TL;DR: Improve bosses, but improve drops as well. One without the other will only make things worse.

I hope somebody at ANet is still paying attention to this thread. Boss loot is pretty bad. I get a much better time to reward ratio by skipping bosses and clearing maps instead. Fight one boss for 30 minutes or 30 low-level mobs and you’ll get better experience and more cash from the low-level mobs.

… is only a day ago since a developer replayed to this threat even… what you expect? an answer once an hour or what from them?…

LFG tool? yes please

powerlvling mentor kitten? no thanks, really you level WAY faster than in any other MMO out there, hell if you so want to lvl them that fast give them crafting materials and they be able to in a few hours to lvl to 80…

emikochan.8504:

XanBie is right, making existing dungeons play the way fractals do (no res rushing) would fix a lot of the percieved easyness.

aggreed make the normal dungeons loose wp’s and make it like the checkpoints when you wipe completely like fractals/story instances do would do a LOT
Yes it might turn some ppl off from doing it due to them becoming “too hard” but those you do get to play with in tuern would likely be more competent in general too

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Jayne.9251:

You’ll note in your travels to get map completion that all of the orders are included in the poi map count: Priory, Vigil and Whispers. Because Whispers is a super secret order, it makes sense it’s tucked away/hidden somewhere. Chantry of Secrets is the Whisper of Order’s HQ.

I had wondered this — I like Jayne’s explanation (whether or not it’s official “canon”).

it may not be said anywhere direcltly, but the whole way that order works it pretty common sense and shouldnt need to be stated explictly anywhere to be canon really

at the same time, i doubt this will be seen as a priority as really it is just a differnet “skin” of other pets you can get in the game in normal ways, and as such they will do it when other more important fixes have been done (like fractals buggin out, w3 culling etc)

maddoctor.2738:

Bleeding deals damage each second so calculate your +Duration to give a full second for it to be worth it. Bleeds have higher duration so I’d say going for damage is more important than duration, even without duration extention you can keep a lot of bleed stacks.

well ONE stack of bleeding adds 1 pulse per second, but each additonal stack adds one more tick per second, and well 1 stack of bleeding is useless, you need AT LEAST 10-15+ before bleeding become worthwile

what grade of rune (minor/major/superior) and waht lvl of armor are you tring to apply it to?

i do belive i saw somewhere a mention that the visual rage of spells depend on your characters size

Ashes.6418:

Quality over Quantity.
Gw2 might have 500 hours of value in it, but that doesn’t make it a better investment than an interesting and engaging 3 hour movie. At least there you’re likely to find a good story and some character development.

likewise a movie can just as well have a very shallow and boring story, with no form of character development and with very bad acting, so your point is?

so apparently people complain about there being too much grind as well as there being too little grind… color me confused…

would love to play as skritt too, however it may be fitting i dont think a mf racial would be a good idea no matter how long of a cd, WAY too many ppl would be playing them just for that 10% extra mf i bet

Can only agree, never played DN, but have played Vindictus (and still am a bit), and DN seem to have somewhat similar combat to Vindictus from those vids you posted.

YOu did however forget the imo one and most important feature that GW2 have (and the one thing that imo makes gw2 closer to action combat than Tera), the fact that you can move while casting 90%+ of abilities.

However at this state i fear it is too late to alter a thing such fundamental as the basics of combat, to achieve true action combat in gw2

An MMO with true action combat, and a open world would be pretty dang close to my perfect game

yeah aggreed as well if that is really the case (have only 6 myself though so far), 8 classes you can as other mentions expect a lot of ppl to buy up to 8 slots

Kathe.6304:

That took much, much more effort than it needed too >:( Spent the better part of an hour trying to find out how to get there!

nothing compared to first time i had to find the PoI on top of the ships in LA… used multiple hours to at the end with my guardian found a way to use my leap skills to actually get up there in and “unintended” way xD, only to find the right way and do it in 5 minutes when i did the same on my thief

vitatlity is best agains conditions, where toughness reduce the amount of direct dmg you recieve (thereby indirectly increase the effects of healing used on you). That said guard is among the lowest HP classes, but also one of those sporting the most amount of condition removals, as well as defensive buffs, so really depend on your build, both in terms of traints and waht skills you will mainly be using

Nuka Cola.8520:

GummiBear.2756:

NinjaEd.3946:

Could you explain the reasoning of removing the bleed/poison/burn cap on everything?
I completeley agree removing the bleed/posion/burn cap for big bosses is needed, thats a lot of damage the cond builds miss out on but for smaller targets? 1 good build can maintain 25 stacks alone, who knows maybe more. That is about equal to a full power build and you’re asking to allow multiple people to drain a targets health beyond control. WvW would become very annoying very fast if everyone could stack max conditions on entire groups. As a condition thief, I see no problem with the cap in small scale enviroments. It’s only for large scale events.

And then i ask you, if you could explain the resoning behind capping condition damage, when DD is left uncapped and as outlined earlier in this threat the 2 damage forms deal about equal damage?

Nuka Cola.8520:

Burning, bleeding and most importantly CONFUSION must be completely reworked for pve. When i hear someone saying “spend some points in power for your shatter confusion build to deal higher damage” makes me sad because confusion scales 100% with cond damage not power. Anet, come on now! You did increase its damage since beta but that is FAR from being enough, so, do something. Hopefully in the next two moths these tree conditions will work as they should have since day one.

tbh even if you increase confusin dmg in pve by 100000 times it still wont be enough for bad people, the problem is not really the damage, but that mobs uses skills way too slowly so you need extreme good timing and some luck to get 2 hits on a stack, even 1 hit can be hard at times even

I know that and i never said to increase confusion damage. Unless they increase it to 100% its not exactly damage i want them to increase but proc on all mobs and if during confusion duration it doesn’t proc one, confusion explodes and deals aoe damage equivalent to the amount of confusion the enemy had the most before confusion expiration. Or the easy way would be to increase confusion duration by 200%.

hmm, i like the AoE explosion if not proccing once, (maybe for less dmg to amek up for it) would give a choice whether you want a lot of dmg on one mob or a little less on multiple, and then having to time it accordingly

actually if you wanted offhand pistol in both sets you only need to equip it in one set, but becasue you want it as main hand in one and offhand in the other, that is not possible

EDIT: seems urtona beat me to it xD

Fyrebrand.4859:

I never played Rift, but there must be something to these “artifact” things because this is actually not the first topic about this particular feature. The “scavenger hunt” aspect of it sounds enjoyable enough, and in keeping with GW2’s emphasis on exploration and discovery. I’m sure ArenaNet could put their own spin on this concept and end up with something very enjoyable.

I can’t say I’m in love with the “randomly generated” aspect of it, though. These zones are already huge, and if there’s no rhyme or reason to where a given piece might appear — or even if it’s there at all — it’s going to turn off a lot of people. Who wants to waste a lot of time running around a zone, just hoping the RNG gods have blessed them today? But, maybe I’m not familiar enough with the concept and it’s not as bad as I imagine…?

If i remember right (quite long since i played rift) the artifact location were somewhat static, but the actual artifact you got was random

backpedaling is usually not efficient in combat as other pointed out however there are times when it is needed, like defending a keep shotting stuff down at enemies from top of wall and well they begin shoot back, you might want to consider moving backwards a bit with backpedaling OR maybe even dodge backwards, which you wont be able to either if you unbind it

Yeah the artifacts in rift is a really nice way to tell some background story, or just some fun “fluff” story etc about the area you are in

NinjaEd.3946:

Rin.1046:

If condition damage is the same as direct damage, there is no need for any kind of cap. Let’s imagine that there is no cap and that the highest bleed stack count that can be achieved by one player is 30 stacks. Now if the damage output of this build is equal to the damage output of the best crit build, why do we need a cap? They deal the same damage, just in different ways.

If one can be built with better defense than the other, then this is a build balancing issue, not an issue from having no cap.

But like I said, so long as both builds output the same amount of damage in all situations, I don’t mind what they do. But as it stands now, condition builds suffer severally when in groups. This includes WvW. Let’s say you have 3 condition builds running around and the majority of their damage comes from bleeds, which if uncapped they could achieve 60 stacks of bleeding. Now any foe they attack will only ever take 25 stacks of bleed damage. Now picture the same situation with 3 uncapped crit builds. Which group do you think would defeat their foe fastest in most situations?

Whenever you have 3 or more condition builds running around together, you will have lost damage potential, while crit builds do not suffer from this at all.

@CMF – Defense against direct damage is armor, protection and evades/blocks. Defense against condition damage is condition removal skills (which removes almost all of your damage output) and condition duration reduction. If this is not equal then these things need to be balanced. Using the cap as a means of balancing things is very unbalanced in groups and not very efficient..

Makes sense but as you pointed out simple raising the cap wouldn’t solve much. Removing the cap would probably just get out of control though. In the sense of lost damage, they should rework condition removal skills rather than just let you stack more because what is the point of stacking 30+ bleeds if 1 skill/trait can remove it. Perhaps they could make condition removal work a set amount on stacks/duration rather than completely removing it like:

Bleed- removes 10 stacks.
Vulnerability- removes 10 stacks
Poison- removes 20 seconds
Confusion- I do not have a profession that uses this so I couldn’t speak for those who do use it.
Burn- remove 10 seconds
Stun/daze/knockdown/fear- simply removes.

Thats just an example btw. I’m sure there could be a better approach but still, I don’t believe increasing the cap of bleed or w/e will solve much for smaller targets. Champions and legendaries are easily approached by raising the limit since they don’t normally remove any conditions.

could work for intensity maybe to only remove some of it, but could again make stacking conditions a bit too effective, however for duration stacking conditions if you only removed X seconds of it trying to remove those with condition removers would be all but useless tbh

Gehenna.3625:

The game is bland when you are used to games where choices do have consequences and I don’t just mean MMOs. Games in general. If I make a necromancer here or a warrrior really doesn’t matter. Some may see this as great freedom. But for me if choices make no difference, it means nothing to me. And that’s what is the case here and why PvE is so uninspiring. In my view of course.

So you say i can make a warrior get to know him well and all max him out, and then make a necromancer and i will be able to play him just like that warrior i had and still be a good necromancer?

NinjaEd.3946:

Could you explain the reasoning of removing the bleed/poison/burn cap on everything?
I completeley agree removing the bleed/posion/burn cap for big bosses is needed, thats a lot of damage the cond builds miss out on but for smaller targets? 1 good build can maintain 25 stacks alone, who knows maybe more. That is about equal to a full power build and you’re asking to allow multiple people to drain a targets health beyond control. WvW would become very annoying very fast if everyone could stack max conditions on entire groups. As a condition thief, I see no problem with the cap in small scale enviroments. It’s only for large scale events.

And then i ask you, if you could explain the resoning behind capping condition damage, when DD is left uncapped and as outlined earlier in this threat the 2 damage forms deal about equal damage?

Nuka Cola.8520:

Burning, bleeding and most importantly CONFUSION must be completely reworked for pve. When i hear someone saying “spend some points in power for your shatter confusion build to deal higher damage” makes me sad because confusion scales 100% with cond damage not power. Anet, come on now! You did increase its damage since beta but that is FAR from being enough, so, do something. Hopefully in the next two moths these tree conditions will work as they should have since day one.

tbh even if you increase confusin dmg in pve by 100000 times it still wont be enough for bad people, the problem is not really the damage, but that mobs uses skills way too slowly so you need extreme good timing and some luck to get 2 hits on a stack, even 1 hit can be hard at times even

time warp for sure, is among one of the elites in that game that increases your groups dps the most (and likely is in fact the ONE that does it the most). essentially in a 5v5 you pretty much make it a 10v5 in terms of raw dps

as for in WvW thiefs are good and capping supply camps etc as part of a small groups or even solo if you are good, however if you want to participate a lot/mainly in keep sieges (both on defence and offence) thiefs is kinda lackluster there having only a SINGLE 1200 range attack (shortbow #2, aka cluster bomb), that even have to wait till it hit or you manually detonate it (usually a bad idea on offence in keep sieges), before you can fire a new one. And 900 range constantly is just too little for sieges. Mesmer can be quite nice in keep sieges though, giving quickness to allies with time warp or confusions and feedbacks on enemies (impressive how many ppl jsut eat feedback bubbles and confusions whole

Flaux.7154:

If you’re going to wait until you upgrade your PC, you may as well hold onto your GW2 game, since it will still be there when you’re ready to play it again.

this

that is the beauty of gw2’s buisness model, once you got the game you won it for life (or at least until the servers should shut down :P, which i ofc don’t expect to be anytime soon)

yeah i can agree with this

Rin.1046:

If they introduced items, traits, etc. that increased how many stacks you could maintain, then I would assume they would add things to increase direct damage also, to compensate. If they keep the cap then introduce items to allow you to stack beyond this, it would be highly inefficient.

in a way vulnerability already does that for DD builds

DathanielCHR.6453:

Alas, nope, Conversation Zojja is still without her cute hat. sigh It’s been a known bug for how long now? A month? Two months? Three? And they seemingly refuse to fix it. Granted it’s not exactly a game breaker so I imagine it’s not exactly high on their priority list, but I wouldn’t think it would be that tough to fix, would it?

a month or so only, deffo not 3, it was not a bug there were present since launch

think it would be quite a lot of hassle making it depend on each players timezones (though not impossible since they have things like nodes being harvestable for all clients etc), though ofc i don’t know for sure how easy or hard it is.

As for where to actually buy it im sorry i forgot, is not one to really buy that kind of fluff stuff myself, though you can get it as a chance when you use one of those gnawosh box of fun or whatever they are called, i had a spare i got from a daily i think or something like that i put down when i saw a bunch of ppl a bit after midnight dancing in LA, you have a chance to get i think it is 6 or 9 fireworks uses when using that but other than that im sorry i forgot

EDIT: i quick search on the wiki turned up this http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fireworks

Durian.5419:

Nightmare Armor from Twilight Arbor would look the closest. The vendor for it is in Lion’s Arch.

chest and head i would agree somewhat not for the rest of the pieces though

is fine as is… you know just throw and AOE dmg skill on top and anyone in there will be forced to either leave the circle and unstealth or eat the dmg, as soon as ppl leave shadow refuge they be unstealth as long as it is up, only after the duration of it is up can they move freely in stealth for a couple seconds

O_o didn’t know that, i do wonder if it would be possible for them to actually make it possible then to actually PM ppl in gw1 from gw2 and vice versa, could be kinda interesting if you could

also if you are blinded, or the enemy dodges/blocks etc illusions in general wont summon either

known bug that already had countless threads… and it happens everywhere, the one reason i cant get myself to actually level my asura characters, as she looks so stupid when she bald, where she is normally super cute

first of a well times block can be the difference between life or death sometimes, if done right, like blocking the bosses really big attack, but this is no easy no require rather good timing specially if you don’t want to loose too much time by begin to block only a ½ sec or so before the actual attack.

seconds as gimme said dmg depend more on the skill than the actual weapon strenght when you compare between them.

As for the mace… well mace is not supposed to be a high hitting weapon for the warrior, but more of a control weapon, almost every single one of its abilities have soe kind of control in it, like stuns or daze etc. And sword is more of a condition weapon than a DD weapon meaning the weapon strenght means that much less there

so plenty of reason to use other weapons that GS

and then comes the question, of whos timezone of new year should they do the fire works exactly?

Also i do think to remembering that there is somewhere ingame you can buy fireworks, so you could make your own fire works show already

actually conditon dmg and precision makes a lot of sense together since most if not all classes have a trairt that give a chance to proc a stack of a certain condition (usually bleeds) when you crit (i know necroes have a 35% chance to apply bleed on crit as a 5pt train in one of their lines, and mesmers have a trait to make their clones apply bleed when they crit)

same seems to apply to you and mesmer, lets say feedback, null field, or time warp to mention some of the most obvious ways mesmer contribute beside portals

if you want correct grammar discovered should at least be with small d, the other 2 words can be argued, whether they are normal nouns or a proper noun

as other said very situational if that is right or wrong what you says. in fact in most situations in dungeons what you say if not viable, even if the whole group focuses one mob there if they all at about full hp there no way you get him in time, and in 90% of cases there it would inf act be faster for ONE person to go revive so that person can help kill at full speed after those few seconds it take to revive a downed player. (things like TA blossoms and such are an obvious exception ofc)

mesmer: 8sec cd is a LOT longer than most immobilizes last AFAIK, usually only a 3-4 second durations at the longer ones, which in this game can be quite an eternity (also phase retreat may sometimes teleport you outside the terrain making you useless in the fight, but that is a whole other issue, and granted not as bad as it used to but still happens now and then)

as for thief granted the inf arrow don’t have a cd, due to how thief skills work, however having to move around with it in combat, will quickly drain the thiefs initiative since it cost no less than 6 initiative, so a 2-3 of those and there is no initiative left for attacking back, so now the thief is more or less dead meat for the taking. Ohh and thief is supposed to be the most mobile class so ofc they have decent counters against immobilize

well most of these professions is a bit in the lower end of condition removal from what i seen tbh. And those skills do usually come with a cooldown, so is like not more than 1 maybe 2 times on very long immobilizes they can do it

well there is simple party UI, that doesn’t take a lot of space, and in options there is a interface size you can set to small. the chatbox you can make transparent, just click the little chat bubble thing in lower left of the chatbox, those things together sound at least almost like what you want