Guild Wars 2

I really don’t know why Anet chose to damage the game for new players. Increasing grind because that is what Chinese players are accustomed to is the only explanation.

We have had no recognition at all from Anet over why they did this, what they expected to achieve, or how/if they will ever reverse it. We have only had some vapid and intangible recognition from the community representative, but nothing at all from anyone of real power.

They killed new character creation for me, and many others.

Probably because of the confusing and unnecessary changes to the personal story, Temple of The Forgotten God appears twice in the personal story log.

The fight is pretty easy but I can see how some classes would struggle. There seems to be nothing for example for Mesmers’ particular skills to bring to the fight.

End of the day, like most content, all you can do is swing your diamond sword… or staff… or dagger.

Because I’m a sperg who can’t think/react quickly enough.

Frebstyx.7058:

I keep wondering what the point of rallying is for, I’m currently banging my head against the wall battling the dragon boss in LS, and find that once I’m down I am dead. I don’t have the time to fully revive before the boss’ aoe attacks kill me. Why allow this at all if I can not find a spot to revive in peace. It just seems to add another aggravation to an already annoying fight.

My suggestion to this is one of three things:
1.) Allow me to revive through damage
2.) No rallying option, where down = death
3.) Rallying speed is increased

Another thing why am I the squishiest member of the team? I’m supposed to be the commander/hero of the story but it seems to me that I am just the member that drags everyone down, with constant downs and always getting focused by the horde of mobs arenanet seems to enjoy spawning at once.

Tell me if you are on EU or US and I will take you through the battle. I have about 1 1/2 hours to do it

Right, I’ll do those changes when I play it again. Thanks!

Seems worse with Ranger than anything else… which is why Piercing Arrows is always a must in my builds.

I am currently trying GS and Sceptre/Focus. The trait changes I made are…

Shattered Aegis to Fiery Wrath. With the Kindles Zeal and F1 that should help with conditions and the increased power helps.

Radiant Fire to Blind Exposure. With Aegis, GS3 and Focus 4 I have 3 blinds I can inflict and this helps damage foes.

Right Hand Strength to Perfect Inscriptions for when I know I will be taking a lot of condition damage. I change my heal to Signet of Resolve at the same time as the two work hand in hand. This was useful in the Aerin fight as a lot of poisons get lobbed about.

Okay, with a few trait changes and more thought about how I use my Virtues, I am having a lot more success. I only use Scepter when I really need the range and have gone back to the Soldier/Divinity Runes armour.

Working through the early episodes of LS2 now and having no problems so far. Gonna have to lay down the gold for a better scepter though (mine has awful stats).

As title. Bloodlust, Perception etc does not stack in instances. Every other sigil does, why not these?

At least 80% of the time, Ranger autotargeting is going for the furthest target available, including with pets.

2 examples:

Sky Peaks, Dredgehaunt Cliffs. Longbow. There are 2 Dredge Excavators and I think a Disaggregator in the first corridor to head up for the vista. I fire, LB hits the furthest Dredge in line of sight, ignoring the 2 in front of it, and pet runs up the corridor and attacks an enemy that isn’t even in line of sight.

Longbow again. Just a moment ago I was in Silverwastes where the last part of LS Episode 8 begins. An event starts. In front of me are 2 Mordrem wolves, another Mordrem lesser mob and further away, a Mordrem Husk. I want to attack the wolves since they are attacking an AFK player. I fire, and both LB and pet go around 1000 distance away and attack the Husk.

This is happening continuously, sometimes on other classes but all the time on Ranger. Oftentimes, my Rangers will ignore 3-4 targets in front of them, and attack something off screen and often behind cover.

Okay, thanks all! I have some ideas to go at

I appreciate all the advice!

There is a soft trinity but its more like an octernary.

Guardian: healer
Warrior: flexibility
Thief: single-target damage
Engineer: AOE damage/support
Ranger: ranged weapons
Elementalist: DPS
Mesmer: distraction
Necro: conditions

My dream of dreams would be an 8 man dungeon where the party can only include one of each class.

Nah, we have new charismatic Trahearne now. That one is old boring Trahearne. They’re twins.

Help!

I am a solo PvEer and I just cannot understand why people like this class! I’m looking for info on how I can improve and actually start enjoying playing Guardian.

Right, I have 2 armour builds. One is all Soldiers (PVT) with Divinity runes. The other is an equal mix of Valkyrie (PVF) and Knights (PPreT) with Strength runes.

I have GS, Hammer, Staff, Sword, Shield, Torch, Scepter and Mace all in Zerk, and all zerk trinkets. The weapons I am currrently using mainly are Greatsword and Sword/Torch or Sceptre/Torch.

I run a 6,6,0,2,0 build of:

Shattered Aegis, Zealous Blade, Kindled Zeal in line 1
Searing Flames, Radiant Fire, Right Hand Strength in line 2
Pure of Heart in line 4

Utilities are healing Breeze, Retreat, Save Yourselves, Hold The Line and Hounds of Balthazar which are important since during my constant downs, they often help rally me!

My problem is… I just don’t seem to be able to deal enough damage, take enough damage, manoeuvre efficiently… anything. Right now, I just can’t get this class to do anything at all.

It is a grandfathered character so I have all traits available. Please help!

I struggled the first time… beat it with 4 attempts.

One look in here told me I could kill the extinguishers and now I can beat it easy as pie, even carrying others who are struggling. It really is not kittence you know how it works.

Situation has changed for tonight, but I will try to help anyone with LS8 tomorrow afternoon from 3pm GMT till 5:30pm GMT… or between 10pm and midnight.

Add – Yoshiko Minamoto (GuzziHero.5104)

I have been very negative. My experience with LS2 has been very positive. That is partly why my demeanour has changed.

The other reason is that I have been so critical that I had both my forum accounts either suspended or on time-lock because I thought the best way to express myself was with sharp, unwitty digs at the hard working development staff, and being continuously negative and downright abusive. I am trying to change my ways.

When they turn Friendly Fire on… then you worry. Till then, the OP is churlish and immature.

For me, she seems to have loosened up from her disjointed, analytical manner of speaking, and that is what has changed. Doesnt sound like her anymore with her distinct mannerisms.

Also, with the revelation about Eir having a son, Zojja would NEVER have admitted that she didn’t know something before. It seems out of character.

I didn’t like her way of speaking much before, but having been accustomed to it, she sounds wierd now!

Out of my 3 Sylvari (2 of which I don’t actually have on my books anymore but are still relevant to my RP):

Spachiana, who is of the Dream, is currently in the Priory researching. She is safe.
Rhubey, soundless, is trying to find her connection in the dream in the Grove. Safe.
Leveillei, airheaded Dreamer, is more at risk. She could be easily turned. I’m going to have her locked up for her safety.

It took me 4 deaths and some frustration but I finally got it.

I never realised I could attack the shadow things, and didn’t even realise how to get Divine Fire to start with. Should be a lot easier now I know the mechanics.

It also didn’t help that when playing on my US account, my heals and elites cancel 70% of the time.

Not just Logan but the storyline and the improvements in character and voice acting for Logan and Trahearne in particular have really impressed me in LS2. The Wynne scene… without giving spoilers, had a greater effect on me than any game has before. Brilliant!

Everything in this season in my mind shows an enormous improvement over LS1.

Well done to all at Anet for delivering such great stuff! I’m really looking forward to whatever comes next.

Sarie.1630:

I seem to be at 532 Mb with one file remaining. Have been at 1 file remaining for 20 mins now…

Edit. Restarted the client and downloaded a further 15 Mb or so for that last file.

Yeah, turns out it was that for me too. Thought it was a bug. That was a BIIIIIG file!

Managed to play the first part. Loving it so far.

Stalled on 1 file remaining! I now have 30 mins left in which I can play.

Absolutely gutted right now.

I only have a short amount of time today to potentially play this. Went for a shower because I was bored of waiting. Came back: New patch. And now this.

It will be at least tomorrow if not later when I can play this now :’(

Fave: Engineer, andd prefer medium professions.
Hate: Elementalist though Mesmer is also boring. I really dislike all the light professions.

I deleted a load but now I am saving them just in case I choose to make another character later. Unlikely, but you never know…

The ranger targeting in general is awful. Prioritisation seems to go like this:

1. The target off screen
2. The target behind cover and out of line of sight
3. Enemy weapon installations (dredge turrets etc)
4. Yellow name creatures
5. Something else you can’t even see
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10 The enemy right in front of you.

This goes for pet AI and bow targeting. I’m sick of my Ranger always targeting everything but the obvious thing in front of me. Today I saw my pet run past 2 Dredge in a tunnel ahead of me, and attack one round a corner I wasn’t even aware was there, or in Skypeaks, running down 2 tiers of a tower, past several Dredge, to attack one way below me.

Engineers are the second fastest class in the game if traited with Speedy Kits, the fastest is shortbow Thief.

Warriors have a traitable swiftness when carrying certain weapons.

There’s worse…

I used to play LB SB but I found the SB redundant, plus some mobs can reflect projectiles.

Now it is LB GS, with traits for Opening Strike on me and my pet. Can lay down 20-22 vuln on any mob before I really start combat. LB #2 completely melts most mobs in <40 zones on my level 80.

Allelya.6830:

I already have 100 of these! Ugh. :/

Now you have 101.

Its free! Don’t be ungrateful!

So I am not an uberplayer, with some coordination and critical thinking issues, and I like to have a mix of valkyrie and knights with all zerk weapons and trinkets so that I have a little more survivability in my build.

This would automatically exclude me because I choose to run a build that helps deal with my personal, unfixable, flaws.

So basically the OP and others like him would exclude me from the game.

Cheers.

Well, that’s kind of what I mean too. When she launches 100B and it looks like she is being thrown about by the sword’s momentum. Jumping with the cartwheeling arms. When you stop suddenly when carrying a heavy weapon and she has to balance on one leg till the momentum stops etc.

And yet if not for the clock/steampunk styling, I and many other I am sure, wouldn’t even have picked up the game. I admit that some of it feels a little forced and anachronistic (aetherblades) but mostly, in my opinion, GW2 strikes a decent balance.

Why not?

This is why not…

Devildoc.6721:

Asura Warrior is awesome actually. Best warrior animations in the game.

This.

My cute little min size female Asura warrior is so adorable!

Trevor Bennett.3691:

:p They’re trying to get us more involved in the forums. I was just looking for an excuse to talk about Asura Master-Race

Not to be nasty but… if they have to try to get you more involved with your customers…

Nice to see you anyway!

Basaltface.2786:

its actually a mythical creature from germany\austria. Called mostly " Wolpertinger " or some other rather similar names here, even in the german version of the client the norn woman that follows it while we protect her from jotun refers to it by this name. Quite surprising that they are actually where put into the game, in fact i find it charming. That in the attachment is a painting of one by Albrecht Dürer.

Then I demand we have drop bears!

Side note, you know the Aatxe? They are from Basque mythology. I’m really quite impressed how well-read the creature designers at Anet are.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Guys, you must have time… and no money. Why in hell would you just delete a level 80 to make room for another one instead of just buy a character slot? I never deleted any of my 80ies. I deleted once my norn mesmer for an asura mesmer in the beginning. It was around level 20 or so. Was back in 2012.

I didnt.

On my US account I had my basic 5, bought 6 extra slots, filled them all with level 80s… and then deleted 6. I hate light armour classes and found that my spare ranger, warrior and engineer were being played exactly like the other of each of those classes. So I salvaged what I could and nuked all 6. Thinking of deleting my guardian and thief, too. So now I have 6 empty slots on that account.

My EU account has never had more than 3 on anyway. I would like to transfer them all to my US account… but I know that it will never be possible.

Astral Projections.7320:

About Tengu, I suspect the area above Brisbane (where there are bandits working on a bridge and there is a visible portal to the north) was their original starter zone. Brisbane already connects directly to the Asuran and Sylvari starter maps and to humans with a jog through Kessex. If the wall gates were ever opened, the portals could send you to their city out there and the Brisbane portal to the starter zone.

Well, they guard gates in the south-west of Lions Arch and east of Caledon Forest, making the Dominion of Winds somewhere in the Sea of Sorrows, so that is unlikely.

But still, I maintain that Tengu are not coming for a very long time, if ever.

Well, in hindsight, I guess it would explain why they are giving out tomes of knowledge like candy. But what depth does that bring to any new race if there is no story? Living story is.. feasible I guess.

Ah well, I fold.

8 NEW RACES COMING BY EASTER!

sigh

Vayne.8563:

Maybe the new race wouldn’t have the personal story in the same way. It could have something completely different.

Which is why I am saying a new race won’t come before a rehash of the entire story

I deleted one at 72 because it was an Elementalist and… well I dont like them.

Then I deleted 6 level 80s in full exo the other week because alts are a liability in this game now, and they were all light armour, or duplicates of classes.

Sarie.1630:

Why would it require completely new personal story? Level 1-20 section, sure…but other than minor tweaks to the dialogue where it refers to the players race, I don’t see why the PS needs to be “completely new”.

I’m not particularly pro or against new races, but I’m not sure it’s your place to say that there’s 0% chance.

….unless you work for ArenaNet. o.O

…do you?

If you do, then come stand in front of me and watch me throw a tantrum because there’s no Cantha yet!

Im guessing you didn’t read my post fully or properly. Try again.

There is an almost 0% chance of a new playable race coming to GW2 in the forseeable future. This is not negativity, but is almost certainly the truth.

A new race would require a completely new personal story, from start to finish. If a new race were to be introduced, it isn’t just a matter of making a new version of the Race Arc.

With references to the defeat of Zhaitan as far back as Dragon Bash, any new race would have to have a story that did not include any Zhaitan references at all. Why would the story developers create a retrograde story arc?

If a new playable race is introduced, it will not be until there is a completely new personal story in place. Sorry, but there it is.

Since most of my characters see duty in offline RPG as well… human. I only keep a Sylvari and an Asura around because they are cute and cannot stand Norn or Charr.

If Tengu comes around I will play what I need to to unlock their personal story achieves and then delete.

Rethmar Stokestrike.1927:

Oops! That was a typo. I meant to say YHWH. It’s the proper Hewbrew to English translation of the Tetragrammaton. We just write it as “Yahweh” to make it easier to use in modern English.

Ah, I didn’t know that (it isn’t a big thing in the UK). I guess its like those Jesus fishes with the ‘IXOYE’ or ‘icthus’ lettering in.

Cheers.

Rethmar Stokestrike.1927:

Grow a YHWY given beard, slip into your union suit, and put on your Viking war helm!
It’s going to be a cold one!

You seriously acronym Yahweh?

Cue Monty Python ‘Jehovah’ sketch here.