Guild Wars 2

purplepegasus.2791:

As for leagues, I think that only time will tell. Considering how they haven’t even started yet, I think that calling them “fail” is a bit premature- honestly though I am quite excited to see what they will be like.

That’s because you’re on JQ (from day 1 or from band wagon yet to be determined), it doesn’t mean anything for JQ/SoR/BG except whoever comes first now gets shiny. For the rest of the servers it means steamroll/blowout and never get the winning reward because of NUMBERS, same as it has been for the last 4 months.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

I’ll admit it is incredibly funny to picture 5 thieves 1 shotting everyone from a mile away, on cliffs, on walls, picking off a commander in a zerg. It’ll be even easier than it already is for 5 perma stealth thieves to insta gib someone. But that is where the idea ends, as a joke.

To add on this, I, and every other person on this planet besides you 2, do not want to play an MMO where every moron is camping around trying to snipe people. I played FPS games (real ones like Cs 1.5/1.6 not noob cod) for many years, that is where snipers and campers belong, not in a MMORPG.

Of course we could say thieves are already snipers with stealth and backstabs but that is subjective.

But snipers/camping with perma stealth and shadow steps? Oh yeah, great idea! /sarcasm.

And you still can’t seem to grasp the fact that combining noob mechanics with huge range and damage potential will be absolutely game breaking. You will NEVER be able to get near them as a melee. You’re like a mother that thinks its demon baby is an angel.

You will LITERALLY have teams of thieves CAMPING around walls, on walls, on roofs, on cliffs SNIPING OUT A SINGLE TARGET AND INSTA GIBBING THEM, and then perma stealthing away from any remote threat. You gave it 2200 range and 20k damage potential per hit (if not more on both range and damage).

That’ll make for a fun MMORPG, having 95% of the players in WvW camping with thieves trying to snipe each other from cliffs and tower/fort walls. Not to mention thieves would annihilate catapults and ballistas from walls

And please don’t resort to ‘play one to know one’ or any of those garbage ‘you can’t beat thieves’ comments. It doesn’t even make sense when we are talking about a Weapon/skillset that does not exist in game. But as for literal weapons/skillsets I played thief for 3 months straight in wvw and spvp. I now play warrior and win 70% of fights against them, 20% of the time they run away, and lose 10% of the time because I’m slouching low in my chair, eating/jerking with one hand, and playing at 5 APM whilst watching a movie.

This is NOT a first person shooter or third person shooter. I think you are playing the wrong game.

The ‘value’ of the items used, being counted as ‘cost’ is completely subjective and both sides will have a never ending argument on it.

I personally don’t add ‘the value of items used’ into the cost, only what was bought with hard coin, not the stuff obtained through drops/chests or laurels etc. To me, any items gained through a drop is worth 0 unless it is sold.

VidGhost.3215:

Legendary is 1400g and takes 6 months to get 1.

Not true. The price can cost anywhere from 120g to thousands, it depends on the person and how they acquire it. 120g being the base cost for runestones and the craft recipes that every legendary requires.

When I made bolt (9 months into the game or so, RNG finally blessed me) I spent 300-400g not sure anymore. 144g to lodestones and maybe 60g to materials. Rest to base cost.

When I made howler about 2 months after, I spent 410g, 200g went to the precursor, 90g on materials. Rest to base cost.

Kralk chocolate bars during pvd for the karma, -40% Condi outside of pvd

When zergs collide……..

Oh the humanity

^ something along those lines is actually quite a nice idea.

Chris.3290:

but I know a lot of people who are dreading the weeks of tedium if we end up in Silver.

I personally like to get an easier match after a rough one like this week; and if we end up in 6th we won’t have those breaks. However if we end up in 6th it’s because we are the 6th strongest server and we’ve proved it by beating Maguuma 3 times now.

100% agree.

This post is a 180 of the one you removed :p

The general consensus of our server (SoS) is that we will be happy for Mag to get 6th and be steam rolled and curbed stomped and swirlied every week. We don’t want it. We aren’t going to throw matches, but we’re sure as hell happy to let Mag gain points through currently blowing out their weaker opponents this week, to get blown out in future weeks.

We had a nice big talk about it in EB tonight before JQ dominated all 4 maps again.

Fine, constructive feedback:

The fourth skill and fifth skill, and the traits, make me feel like I’m reading the contents of a nooby call of duty game.

The third skill is a massive no. You want mega range/damage 5th skill plus super movement? On top of stealth/shadow step utilities? Lmao.

The fifth skill is essentially a much stronger, much longer, Killshot.

I’ll admit it is incredibly funny to picture 5 thieves 1 shotting everyone from a mile away, on cliffs, on walls, picking off a commander in a zerg. It’ll be even easier than it already is for 5 perma stealth thieves to insta gib someone. But that is where the idea ends, as a joke.

Zacchary.6183:

This is how I know you havn’t read anything in this post and don’t know what you are talking about.

- The only thing that can be spammed here is 1, 2 and 3. They are weak.
– 4 and 5 root you for 5 seconds minimum and require the entire bar to get the best effect.
– And there is a built in weakness: Close Range Combat.

That post was directed at the post above mine.

Regardless, long range plus super movement is even more game breaking than the current melee plus super movement thieves have.

VidGhost.3215:

I think making ascended (pink) items the new top level gear was the right choice to bridge the massive gap between exotic and legendary but to add so many restrictions and not add those same restrictions to the other tiers is wrong.

Just so you know, legendary weapons had exotic weapon stats.

Now ascended is here, legendarys now have ascended weapon stats.

“Legendary” is not a tier, it is a group of skins.

There WAS NO gap to close, and no reason to make this tier of gear, let alone time gate the kitten out of it, killing off alts.

Nybor.9687:

There’s tonnes of other fun stuff. Try getting some cool titles, or try completely all jumping puzzles or getting a new armour set for a new build or doing world explorer or making a new alt or playing limitless games of pvp or making your own guild, do bounties etc or maxing out all the crafts or getting full ascended or playing the living world content or doing one of the Activities such as Southsun Survival or getting Dungeon Master Or collecting all the dyes. And the list goes on.

But I’ve done all that. So have a lot of others. The Random Story isn’t a story and has nothing to do with Tyria, and the Living World is a concept that hasn’t been implemented yet. And WvW is hit and miss with random match ups that usually end in blow outs and being blobbed to death.

You say get ascended for a character, but that’s half the problem. It is so time gatedly boring, the complaints about it are valid.

Alts have been killed off, through WvW ranks and Ascended ‘time-gated’ gear. The complaints about this are also valid. It is implemented to try suck a longer playing time out of people. But when you sit back and look at it, it is disheartening to be forced to do EVERYTHING so slowly, hence the complaints.

Joining WvW with anything but your ‘main’ is nerfing yourself.

Instead of opening up the map, or giving some real Tyria related story, it is just fluff content after fluff content. Don’t get me wrong, it is ok to some degree, but it is not ok to do this much of it when there is so many better options to work with.

Also a lot of the ‘content’ is just making you revisit old areas like JP’s, there is a reason people only do them a few times each, for most people it is only fun and interesting when you don’t know how to do it, once you’ve done it a few times, there’s no adventure left. So what do they do? Put ascended mats in it so people will go back there! The complaints about recycling content is also valid.

I have no real problem with how the game was packaged/released, it is what they are implementing and how they are implementing it, that I find disheartening, which draws complaints.

^ Grow up.

And what is wrong with pistols?

Combined with Runes of Perplexity they can stack a ridiculous amount of confusion on 1-2 targets using Headshot with bounce (Which can also apply blind by shooting through 5th skill), let alone 5th skill is almost entirely anti melee). And unload is pretty decent in terms of constant pressure.

There is no problem with thief, only the players playing it.

But you do come across as being too young to realise that stealth and shadow steps (that can be used while in CC) are in the game to help bad players compete. The class is designed to be closer to the target to deal damage BECAUSE it has those mechanics.

What you are asking for is:
- Long range;
- With HUGE DAMAGE;
- Whilst spamming the same one skill over and over for said HUGE DAMAGE
- While still being allowed to shadow step and stealth

Essentially what you are asking for is a weapon/skill that is the equivalent of dagger Backstab, except with 1200 range.

If you cannot see what is wrong with that, there is no helping you.

Right. I didn’t even realise he meant the ones you trade for from the vendor/voting booth.

Why did I not realise?

Because once you traded the support token in for a rep button, you added +1 to the vote for that candidate, your original support token had served its purpose of allowing you to vote.

What OP and yourself are hinting at, is that people should of been allowed to vote, and then sell the rep button, which I find highly illogical.

People who had left over support tickets, due to not being able to use them in time, had an item that did not serve its purpose in the end. Once you traded it in, its use was finished.

No no no, you’re all wrong.

Replace death blossom with Horns of the Ox (Knockdown).

Make Backstabs stun the target for 5 seconds, plus cripple and weakness.

Dancing Dagger to be replaced by “You’re All Alone!”, which in GW2 will not only cripple and weaken, but give you fury, 10 stacks of might, and regeneration.

/Seriously

Jinks.2057:

So originally SoS players were angry at DB for “tankin” thus SoS now having to be 6 seed.

Now that Mag wants Gold SoS is talking about wanting Gold and talking kitten to boot??

Very confusing

Different people have different opinions.

I know, it really is hard to understand.

And the ‘tankers’ could say they were busy with life, or ‘enjoying’ pve or playing a different game.

Not to mention some servers are losing guilds so they obviously will drop ranks.

Tanking can’t be proven because this isn’t a sport career/team, it is a game, where what a player does and participates in can change in a blink.

Even in professional sport it can’t really be proven, Google “Melbourne football club tanking saga” (Australia). In the end they were charged with ‘bringing the game into disrepute’, not with ‘tanking’. Personal opinion: they weren’t tanking, just an incredibly terrible team in terms of the people managing it, coaching, and playing for them.

Ghoulina.2976:

going to JQ after a hiatus because my friends went there = bandwagon jumping.

Lmao, that’s a perfect example of the definition.

DrWhom.3105:

However, in such a hypothetical showdown Maguuma would obviously win as we have the highest population of sad losers who would take a week off work and defecate in a sock to make it happen.

Does it make me immature the have laughed uncontrollably at that for a good minute? Gold!

Ghoulina.2976:

Gotta love the DOAC comments.. and that game is still hugely successful, am I right? Hmm, musta been some crappy stuff about that game that drove people to other games.

As for tier matchups, meh, they did that, it was boring. This at least has the option of good fights one week, level an alt another. Being locked for 7 weeks though, is just stupid.

It is an old game, all old games lose players regardless of how good it is, and young kids don’t appreciate old really well made games, purely because they need GRAPHICSZSZSZSZSZSZ which means old games (no matter what game) will NEVER gain players over time, your point is illogical and flawed to no end.

If I am not mistaken they’re making a new game, titled Camelot Unchained?

+1 to tiers, they were, and always will be, the best possible match ups.

Trading post.

And why do you have more than 1 of each?? A failed flip attempt? Seems like you created your own problem.

Wait, you actually want to be steam rolled in gold league week in week out? I for one do not, not that I want us (SoS) to stay in silver… that’ll be a steam roll as well, and we know that is boring… I just want the old tier match ups. Not the blowouts of the last 4 months, and not leagues, just the old tier fights.

@2nd post
T1 experience means nothing when you have 1/5th the number of players now, and 1/8th (or worse) of the top 3.

• Sea of Sorrows: 32 964
• Jade Quarry: 123 684
• Fort Aspenwood: 39 552

With DB on the decline (due to anets poor decisions), SoS will be pushed up into gold league and we’ll get curb stomped every week (we won’t get a single week with a win or even second). How thoughtful of you ANet.

Judging by MOS predictions, SoS will be 6th next week and DB 7th. Guess I won’t be opening the game for quite a while now.

Even if we stay in silver, we’ll curb stomp the servers lower than us, there’s still a huge gaping hole in WvW match ups.

FA/Mag is the most fun we can hope for…. and the leagues will mean that match up will never happen.

Lol have a look at EU match ups
- T1 is servers 5, 7 and 9
- T2 is servers 1, 2 and 11

?? What garbage.

• Sea of Sorrows: 32 415
• Jade Quarry: 120 925
• Fort Aspenwood: 38 545

Just noticed our (SoS) match up this week… haven’t logged in for the last 8 days for pretty much this reason. Sucks for FA too.

Looks like I’m missing out! I’d better start playing again! /sarcasm

I honestly just want to verse FA and Mag every week, it is the only match up that is the most balanced for us. But noooooo, ANet has to listen to the idiots who wanted to verse different servers and create the poo storm of the last 4 months that has now turned into the new poo storm called leagues.

You can name a piece of poo, in the end it is still poo.

I think the bug when attacking is a thief thing, I have one on a warrior and I don’t get it doubling up on attacks. Haven’t heard or seen any Mesmer or rangers complain about it.

When transitioning underwater sometimes it leaves one floating in the water behind me.

Sometimes when weapon switching it leaves a duplicate floating in the air.

I can easily overlook those 2 issues as it is quite rare, it would suck to have it on every attack though.

Edit, just noticed that bump.

Roe.3679:

Did people here not see the blog post on the launcher?

There will be 3 tiers in NA now: top 6 tiers are gold league, next 9 are silver, and the be t 9 again are bronze. It’s right on the launcher when you’re starting up the game.

I would of if I had opened the game this week…..

Well I guess that’s SLIGHTLY good news?

DevonCarver.5370:

I’d just like to make a note of one thing that I think people aren’t considering when they transfer to stacked worlds. You will not, repeat will not, be able to receive the reward based on overall world place in the league, unless you achieve the meta achievement for the season. If you aren’t able to get into WvW much, you won’t get the rewards. So it is absolutely taking a risk to transfer to a world that has a large WvW population.

Stack tier 1, don’t get reward
Play in your home server from day 1 (not rank 1 or 13), don’t get reward

So what’s your point??
More importantly, what is the point of these stupid leagues and the rewards in the first place then? Pull your head out of the sand and fix the numbers problem, until then put the matches back to tiers, as that’s the best balance we can hope for for now. Thank you.

Wait why am I bothering talking to a brick wall?

Basket of Boxes.1976:

Some of you are such babies, there is no way I am reading 17 pages of people crying about this but from the several pages I have read I am sure that’s what most of this is. People are making a way bigger deal of this than they needed to, I asked earlier why they didn’t just kill the guy and continue on and apparently they did so why everyone is so kitten I don’t understand. All the people threatening to leave the game please do, and stop posting while you are at it.

You’ll wake up to the ‘play as we say’ fact one day.

Glad you’re still enjoying it for now though.

What a ridiculously unprofessional situation.

And then a separate employee ’apologizes on this behalf ’?

Excuse me?

He needs to apologize himself, for HIS actions. Having someone apologize for you means NIL.

Haven’t played for a week, been playing other games…. I really do miss how epic of a game GW1 was compared to GW2 (hands down one of the very best games ever created in the history of video games), and things like this are just another nail in the ‘play as we say’ coffin they’re constructing.

It is an attitude like this that shows why orbs were brought back:

- Players “No. No. Please. Please do not bring stat buffing orbs back, it only allows the winning team to win even more. No. Please. Stop. No. No, no, please, please listen to us, please?? We do not want orbs of imbalance back in the game. Please no!”

- WvW team “HAHAHA this is MY game and I will force something on you that no one wants.”

And server imbalance:

- Players “Please stop giving us stupid match ups like rank 1 vs rank 10, we just want to have fun based around relatively competitive fights, not get blobbed to death by people with no server loyalty who band wagoned to the top ranked servers.”

- WvW team “Sorry we’re introducing ‘leagues’, it is the same match ups just repackaged under a different name, and the server at the bottom of the ‘league 1’ will get consistently worse match ups than they’ve ever had before. Hope you like it! Oh and we’re going to reward the rank 1 server for coming first again, reinforcing the server stack mentality. Oh and your server will never be rank 1 at the end of the ‘season’ due to server stack imbalance, so enjoy never getting the rewards the band wagoners will get.”

And here I was going to make a 50 word post…

battle bud.9764:

Most blue and some green items I have salvaged with the o-Matic doesn’t give me Essence of Luck. Unlike the Basic Salvage Kit which gives me Essence of Luck everytime green or blue.

Do your research before trying to spread misleading information.

I’ve salvaged (with basic salvage kits) upwards of 70,000 blues/greens since the luck patch, probably way more. Blues and greens DO NOT ALWAYS give luck when salvaged.

It is not dependent on the kit used.

Great post by the way.

I like all but one thing.

The screenshot of the weather in Orr. I personally think it is cheesy and takes the atmosphere away from Orr.

Right now it is desolate and foreboding, and you can see a landscape that was destroyed by powerful magic and hundreds of years of being at the bottom of the ocean.

If you add thunder and rain and mist/fog to it, you lose all the above elements, because there will be too much going on, a sensory overload.

On the other hand I have mentioned in another thread that Orr should be regenerating and slowly turn into an entirely different zone. Trahearne started to cleanse Orr but nothing has happened since then (sadly), maybe once the land regenerates the climate/weather can return to this devastated area too.

The problem is, I get the feeling this game is trying to capitalise on the $$$$ revenue from casual players, and short term players, not the long term players. The content updates reflect this heavily, and it is disheartening to see them chasing dollars.

Guild Wars 2 takes everything you love about Guild Wars 1

This is the only bit I have a problem with. Because nothing from GW1 exists in GW2.

If anything, the things they did take from Gw1, which were perfectly done, have been done terribly in gw2, like the targeting system (it is garbage in gw2)

RIP GW1, you will be sorely missed.

My money is on Sea of Sorrows, our players refuse to gear up properly.

wow…. sea of sorrows is garbage in comparision, our players are too selfish to gear up properly to participate properly, its quite a toxic culture over here.

thefantasticg.3984:

Won’t be a problem, imo, for me

You seem very optimistic. I was too, a few weeks ago.

I’m on 191% now, salvaging a couple thousand things each day… yields 3-4%. The relisting of the amount of buy orders I’ve been doing takes about an hour if I’m concentrating, a lot longer if I’m not.

I’m definitely burning out on it, I might have to stop for a bit and gain more % by ectos, sure i’ll lose money that way but hey its way faster and definitely simpler.

The journey will crush you :p

Scratch that, it does say it gives karma bonus. It never used to, I think it is a bug from a recent update.

RagingDragon.9475:

Has one of the Dev’s posted if MF cap includes the MF from Achievements?

Of will Achievement MF be added to the existing cap of 300%?

Luck goes to 300%.

Infusion, guild buff, banner, food, boosters and achievement MF will go over it.

I’m up to 183% luck now, 190% account!

Still no word on whats going to happen with daily and monthly………

This was meant to be fixed months ago.

You join a game or the map changes after a match, and your signet passives are not working until you switch the skill out, or sadly die and respawn.

Maybe we can get this issue resolved finally.

I get this stuff as well, since the start of the game, I’ve learnt to stop using the skills, because its a kittening joke.

-> you use bull’s charge
-> target gets knocked down and damaged
-> you are now 500 range away from your target, and have to WALK INTO MELEE RANGE OR USE SAVAGE LEAP AND THE kitten ED TARGET IS NOW ON THEIR FEET DOING STUFF BEFORE YOU CAN HIT THEM IN THEIR 2 SECOND KNOCKDOWN.

Why hasn’t this been fixed? Seriously.

Perplexity runes have been a plague on the game since they were introduced. Why they were even added to the game, let alone without any testing, is beyond me.

There are HEAPS of rune sets that ABSOLUTELY SUCK. But they keep bringing out new runes and sigils? Fix the old ones first instead of making overpowered trash like perplexity.

As bad as’ stat orbs are, perplexity runes are still the number 1 issue that needs to be addressed.

(couldn’t put those 2 words together so chucked an apostrophe in, stupid over zealous filter)

Thanks for the book Mr E-Psychiatrist

Another night of trying to play WvW, PvP and PvE and watching myself, and others glitch and teleport around the screen and skills not work properly.

It is REALLY selling the game for me, I would DEFINITELY recommend this game to other people. Who wouldn’t want to play with this fun friendly mechanic called Super Teleport Glitchy Lagstep?

Along with the lack of a comment on the matter of course!

Not sure how many more nights I can bother pushing through this unplayable lag.

While technically not a bug, I feel the name needs to be updated for the sake of accuracy.

Guild Assassin Backpack (5 gold from Guild Armorer or Commendation Trader)
+20 power
+14 precision
+1% crit damage

The new ‘Assassin’ stat combo is precision primary not power primary, so this item should be changed to Guild Berserker Backpack for the sake of accuracy.

Well played sir.

Pack Hunter.6103:

Melandrus Resilience. I loved sitting in the lava, being set on fire and crippled and still regenerating health and energy. Gosh i loved being a ranger in guild wars 1

How did I forget about that!

I read this somewhere… I forget where.

“DLC is great, it allows you to release a game then make it later”

Something along those lines.

I’m happy overall with the game… but there is a lot of things that have not been fixed, and some mechanics that feel old and outdated. While the same mechanic in GW1 felt, and still feels, perfect (Target Nearest, anyone?)

TriggerSad.2597:

Yes! Why wasn’t the warrior given “Charge!”?
It would have been amazing to use it Wuvwub right as a way to engage enemy zergs! xD

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Charge_

Ignite arrows – So much nostalgia tied to this skill from all those years ago when I first got GW1. Exploding arrows and an awesome sound effect, what’s not to love?

Penetrating Attack – Epic sound effect on it

Choking Gas
Frozen Soil (Players cannot be revived, there were a few exceptions in GW1)
Keen Arrow
Needling shot
Burning Arrow (Elite)
Distracting shot (Extra recharge on the interrupted skill)
Blackout (Yourself and target cannot use skills for a few seconds)
Throw dirt (Anti Assassin chain, would work great on thieves and warriors, it would be a pulsing blind of course)
Predatory Bond (Shout, you get healed when pet attacks)
Serpent’s Quickness (Your skills recharge faster for a small time)

Edge of Extinction (When a creature dies, all creatures of the same type in the spirits range take X amount of damage) Imagine this in WvW… mmmmmmm. Make each race count separately

Lets just say I miss Rangers being awesome…

Bumping for the sake of buried.