Guild Wars 2

kishter.9578:

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play to have fun, stop playing when the fun stops. how hard is that?

mf infusions stay ingame.

champ.7021:

Just wondering ive seen alot of threads about this, anyone want to tell me what exactly this mini looks like. Right now im imagining a really fabulous looking guy carrying a moot and covered in glitter.

I believe he’s a mini version of Zojja’s Golem, Mr. Sparkles, which have a similar model to an Omega Siege Golem

xephire.8324:

Happyfool.8951:

AEFA.9035:

Ascended gear stats advantage over exotics is 5%. Thats 70% if your enemy have all ascended gears.

i don’t think you know how percentages work. please stop throwing random math around, it just creates confusion in the discussion.

Nice name there….Your post seems credible…

pardon the confusion, i’m suffering from sleep deprivation at the moment. alcohol is not helping either.
i meant ratio and proportion

for clarification’s sake

suppose an exotic piece has +100 pow, then that would mean, by his reasoning that an ascended piece would have +105 pow(5% increase).

if player A had a 6-piece exotic set, he would have +600 pow
now, and this part is important, by that 5% increase, player B with 6-piece ascended +630 pow.

now pay attention, a 30point increase, is still 5%, not 70%.

I didn’t know those dropped outside of their respective dungeons. Are you sure you got them from a fractal run and not from CoE?

AEFA.9035:

Ascended gear stats advantage over exotics is 5%. Thats 70% if your enemy have all ascended gears.

i don’t think you know how percentages work. please stop throwing random math around, it just creates confusion in the discussion.

hah. on the first day of every month there’s always a post like this.

GW2 has been out for a year, have people not learned that the server follows GMT?

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Frenk the Vile.2596:

i’m very happy of this patch. Finally something that can be crafted and can be as cool as a precursor. I think ppl complaining here have a pair of Dusk at the TP
btw: MMO needs to change constantly. when a wow expansion came out, you just throw away ur current gear.
I find fun in getting better equips, much more then showing the same old ones from 2012 ’till the end of times.
And i never bothered crafting before these patch news!

Except getting this gear takes a couple of things called time and effort. And I doubt anyone liked the fact that as soon as Cata came out, their ICC25 Heroic Gear was 110% obselete compared to Cata Green Quest gear, and vice versa. I’m using the Cata example because it’s the one I recall most clearly, but Im guessing you get my point.

How would you feel if you spent a month farming for a pair of Ilyas, a Vision of the Mists, and a full set of Arah Explorable armor? Ascended Gear says “Hi, nice job wasting your time, Come find me m8” and gives you the middle finger and walks away. That’s what people are irritated by. And whilst I don’t recall if Anet intended to make the game this way, I can say I’ve heard numerous people say that they joined gw2 under the impression that they would be free of the shackles of a vertical progression.

but the thing is, those weapons you mentioned are still viable. i mean, player’s have been doing just fine without them. the main thing people tend to forget is that ascended weapons were made for fractals. that’s the only place where it would be imperative to have them.

Morrigan.2809:

Happyfool.8951:

you dont like it? gtfo. oh and mail me your gold.
<— my id.

so nice to see who the target for ascended gear is- thanks mate

nah, tried being an kitten for once. i didn’t like it.

I for one think some are missing the point, ascended stuff is for fractals, I could care less about the stats and I WvW enough to know that skills>stats(in a ascended vs exotic way, not ascended vs greens).

So like I said, fractals, to open up the higher difficult to players. But i kitten hope the higher difficulties are more than just big hp punching bags, with 1hko attacks. Anet needs to revamp fractal rewards. Bump them up a notch.

it’s not that i’ve given up, it’s just that i’m avoiding the dilemma of choosing which legendary to make as i’m a bit of an altaholic. Also the fact the i’m not entirely impressed by the legendary skins themselves(example: I prefer The Hunter[prec] skin to The Predator[legend]).

my advice then to you would be to chill. The scavenger hunt will come. (soon i hope). The legendaries were supposed to be a long term goal. just think of it that way and maybe save for it little by little?

what part of upgrading legendaries made you think they would be adding new ways to get them in the next patch?

as announced a while back, they will be adding new ways to get precursors, ehem scavenger hunt. but they did not say it will be this patch. and the market prices are driven by supply and demand. I know that feeling of having legendaries to be unattainable, and i’ve found a very effective way to cheer me up. I simply have no plans of getting one.

Zero Day.2594:

Paponzi.1637:

Try read again what i wrote. Also, you are ovbiously talking about WvW: since when has it been balanced around duels?

I’d like anyway to see this math, for informative purposes.

Oh sorry i said something against you. Both in dungeon and WvW it will make a difference (especially when comes full asc armor), just a 10% increase in damage.

I think the thread was called Ascended Gear to Kill Builds and Alts… either way read around why people are complaining… and if anyone is really supporting their idea.

and let me restate: the time gating is just unnecessary.
what’s the point of time gating?

duels in wvw, 1v1 i agree, rarely happens… but when you run away with a sliver of health… now that sliver will drained by someone running higher gear then you.

Paponzi.1637:

Why should you have it handed to you immediately?

No, the question is:
Why should things be time gated?

oh? it will make a big difference in dungeons? how big? i didn’t know dungeons were impossible to do without ascended, holy kitten. i must be pro as i’ve done dungeons with a mix of exotics and rares! having ascended will only make it easier, not make the impossible possible.

as for WvW, those who say it will make a big diff need it for their kittens. some people have argued that someone with exotics will be beaten by someone with ascended. i call BS. 1vs1 rarely happens in WvW, and when it does, it’s usually the roamers who are built to kill stragglers. that’s a biased encounter right there. then comes the argument that it makes a difference in small group encounters, i call another BS. no matter how geared you are, if you are outmaneuvered you’d still lose.

stats is nothing if you play crap.

and those who need ascended in WvW for 1v1 are bs. they just need bigger kittens.

there is, but you need to have a ticket to enter.

AndrewSX.3794:

10/30 in Zeal/Radiance is the starting point for DPS builds. RHS + Fiery Wrath are too good to pass off.

The last 30 pts are totally up to you, how much you want to unbalance towards dps or tankyness, what your team needs, and so on.

I really want to try a sword/x dps build because the anchor build has become a little stale for me, so i’ve been experimenting with different dps builds. I’ll try this build in the mean time.

also, another thing that’s holding me back is that I can’t put down my Cobalt without finding a decent skin replacement for sword.

Tom Gore.4035:

Maybe you could tell us what your guild is about and how you came up with the name? That could help a lot.

Hades Death Crusaders already says a lot.

sure, harder content, but the rewards are only slightly better than the regular content as to not create a gap between the casuals and the hardcores

toughness is already a factor to aggro mechanics, read up on the wiki.

as for healing, there are certain classes that when traited and geared can be pretty close to a healer playstyle.

Daecollo.9578:

It would be nice if there were more abandoned houses (people could RP in.) and more secret areas and jumping puzzles we could use and explore! Even a minigame where you go around finding secret gardens and such!

“Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.” – JRR Tolkien

Secret areas that only open up during a time of day would be cool too!

secret areas would be cool, but there are a few of them out now, you just have to find them.

also, the time element would be a problem since the game is international

Shoulders: Tier 2 charr cultural
Chest: dredge (SE)
pants: dredge (SE)
gloves: kodan (hotw)
legs: armageddon (orr temple merchant)

you people talk about race change like it’s as easy as flipping a switch

i play the mf, no, not throwing in rares for a chance for a precursor. i’m doing something with a much lower risk and a steady stream of income rather than the jackpot prec.

on a good day, i can have 50% my capital in profits. on a very good day i double my money

go to the pvp locker, you can preview most of the available skins there.

it’s highly unlikely that those were trial accounts, they were probably accounts bought with stolen credit cards.

no, do not remove the tags, rather, anet should change the way they are acquired.

the karma gear sold in genderran fields have a gladiator look to them

Archon voting system from RF Online.

players vote for racial leaders to lead them in the game’s chip war.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Kareth.6572:

Everything in this game can be bought with money, why you want the last thing that involves some ppl work instead, to be the same?
Actually its one of my few little hopes that this game can become something ‘fun’ instead ‘pay and get anything u want’

Because i have 16 fractal skins that have no use. I’d prefer giving them away for free than let them rot on my storage character

destroy them and be done with it.

just think that you gave them away

it should be the other way around, legendary weapons should be account bound.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Purging_Flames

zengara.8301:

Happyfool.8951:

and why should you get loot when you lose?

Because he still tagged people in the end, which leads to him getting rewards for tagging people….. lol?

there, fixed it for you.

is loot the only reason you(the OP) go to WvW?

your client doesnt really know if there’s an overflow of a particular map until it commences the map transfer and attempts to connect you to that particular map.

and adding a feature like the one you suggested would cause additional server load, and you are not the only player, there are a lot of players trying to connect to the same map(in this case, because of LS), it would bog down the server

and why should you get spoils when you lose?

has anyone actually used this rune or has faced off against someone who has this? or are people just panicking about facing something that wasn’t the norm before they introduced this?

Daishi.6027:

Mattargul.9235:

RGN is RNG? The anecdote about you not getting anything and the other guy getting 2 is pretty much what RNG is all about.

And hating that pre’s are dropping via RNG.., well, how else would you like it? No drops, but you can buy them for gold/gems (really the same) at a merch? Then you’d hate on the people who trade a lot or farm a lot, or buy gems. If you get a pre when your char turns 1yr? then you’d hate on people who have been playing longer than you. Just give everyone all the pres at any time? Yea, not so legendary anymore.

Dropping via RNG at least gives you that “cool, I got sweet loot” feeling.

Remember also that legendaries were supposed to take you a loooong time to get. Of course, ANet, like any other MMO company ever, underestimated the tenacity of their players.

I’m sorry you haven’t got lucky yet, but you are in good and plentiful company.

Know what I wouldn’t hate on? Hard challenging content that proves your own tenacity, or skill that is based on an individual (so you can’t just get carried) that has a guaranteed level 80 exotic drop for your class, with a chance at a pre.

Gimmie a mad kings clock tower style jumping puzzle where it is timed and really keeps you on your toes, but even more challenging! then at the top a boss fight that’s like Liadri but tougher mechanics instanced (so you don’t need to deal with a mass of people near by) bigger room maybe even a bigger intense 3 phase boss fight with tons of instant death for standing in the wrong spot. The kind if thing that makes you yell “COME @ ME BRO” knowing that not everyone with every build is going to be able to clear it.

then people who feel entitled will complain, i mean, look at liadri.

Mystic.5934:

there is no streak-breaking code. I’ve rolled 5 superior sigils in a row before (from majors).
to answer your question: you’re missing some info.
first, those people who show you the 3 precursors they’ve had thrown at them by Zommoros don’t tell you about the 2,000 other rolls that gave nothing, or the 1500g they paid to just buy them and make you feel bad, or the [&AgHddwAA] they copy/paste to display a item even if they don’t have it.
second, random is not even distribution. there are going to be clumps. If there aren’t, it’s not random. I may of had 5 successes in a row, but you better believe that the next 30 rolls after that gave nothing.
If someone tells you, for example, that it takes about 100 rolls to get a precursor, know that that is average. some people will get it in 2, and some will get it in 198 (note that the average between those two is 100).
RNG is not broken. what you expect out of it is. go ahead and hate it, but what you describe is a successfully implemented random number generation.

pretty much this.

Galtrix.7369:

There’s a spider queen in Harathi Hinterlands (I think) that is never even spoken of anymore. Mostly that’s due to the fact that the spider heals if it touches any walls, which is freaking impossible because it’s located in a cave. I think this is a bug that Anet has yet to fix and it’s been there since beta. I literally sat on a rock for 2 hours spamming that the spider queen was up and nobody showed. That’s when I knew it was completely pointless.

the spider queen full healing is not a bug, it’s her mechanic, each time she loses 25% of her max hp, she heals herself as well as summon little spiders. her encounter is basically a dps race because of her timer.

speaking of harathi, no one does Kol anymore.

She’s secretly an earth bender and needs to be barefoot in order to feel the vibrations on the ground.

Galtrix.7369:

Zacchary.6183:

Then thieves should have their thief summon’s durations set to “until killed”.

Apparently you haven’t seen how little damage the Elementalist’s summons do, otherwise you wouldn’t be making that argument. The only thing the Elementalist’s summons is good for is to switch to earth and let your golem tank for you.

A thief can use his summon skill to completely obliterate an entire army in half a second, so there’s no competition there. I completely agree with the op on this one.

i’d love to see a thief do that in WvW

Galtrix.7369:

For being a casual game, Anet is sure catering to the grinders and the boring content doers. I can’t run a single Fractals without being completely bored out of my kittening mind. Holy crap, I would rather play pong for 24 hours straight than play fractals twice in a row.

Yeah, I tried to get the Fractals backpiece too. I got so bored I actually quit halfway through and filled out my subscription for WoW. Haven’t played in 3 months, but I check the forums every once in awhile to see if anything has improved. Once they do I’ll gladly hop on, but for now, cya in another 3 months.

Anet is trying to please everyone. that’s what Fractals was suppose to be, for those who want BiS gear/grinders. then the casuals complained that they were being left out of content because who’d have thought you needed to run fractals to get ascended gear? nope! the casuals wanted in without much effort, hence ascended gear through laurels and commendations.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Happyfool.8951:

turn off auto attack, ctrl+right click on skill 1

Seriously, if you every have time to click on a skill during combat ,you are doing something wrong. While it’s not a huge deal in PvE, it’s a bad habit to get into.

actually, i meant toggle off auto attack entirely, not keep switching between auto attack on/off.

if you’re min/max’ing in GW2, you’re going to have a bad time.

turn off auto attack, ctrl+right click on skill 1

probably a stat that’s not in the current stat sets. like boon duration, condi duration, even movement speed

1. Know your strengths and weaknesses(personality wise), understanding yourself will help you fit a specific role if need be. Do you have aggressive tendencies or are you the patient kind? These kind of things can help determine what kind of squad you will lead.

2. Ask experienced commanders for tips, they’ve been commanding a lot longer than you, follow them around(tag off). Take note of any strategies they employ.

3. Build a name for yourself first & learn the ropes(reference to #2), people are more likely to follow your commands if they know who you are and what you can do. You can start by leading a squad with friends or guildmates.

the ele has one of the higher skill ceiling of the professions. Also, it would help if you told us what weapon set were you using for your ele? also, playing as an ele often requires kiting around mobs while continuously switching between elemental attunements.

Leo G.4501:

I think many of you guys have it backward. It’s not hard for the game to change your skills, stats and to which armor you can wear is likely as easy as flipping an on/off switch like how they did with armor preview (not saying it’s easy though). I mean, the game changes your stats and skills by picking up environmental objects, transformations or participating in special events. Changing what your character can do is easy.

Changing races is likely not possible though. Not only does it change the character model/animations, it changes NPC interactions, stories, home instance, etc.

That said, I don’t honestly care for either option.

and what of profession type specific gear(heavy/medium/light) that are soul bound to a particular character you want to change profession with? what of the used skill points? some of personal story rewards are class(or armor type) specific too, including the starter gear.

yes it IS possible, but is it easy to change all those variables? NO.

Also, with how ArenaNet is so proud of their personal story, i don’t think race or profession change is going to happen.

it was mentioned that if a new class would be introduced, it would be a heavy

it’ll be removed in a few hours

Namica.2951:

Blegh, now that I think on it, they liked casters too in WoW. So Necromancer and Elem. Though from my understanding, only viability for Elem in PvE atm is thunder hammer.

every ele weapon set is viable in PvE, it will depend on the purpose.
scepter mainhand deals burst damage
dual dagger for more sustained damage
staff for large AoE CC’s and support.

the lightning hammer is when you want to feel like a warrior and 11111111111 your way through content