Guild Wars 2

Thobek.1730:

how can this even be a tough decision… get the expansion.

It’s not even a decision, he only has half the money for the legendary anway lol.

shadowpass.4236:

mistsim.2748:

https://youtu.be/nqj-yOPEudA?t=2120

One of the GM traits literally gives you a second life if you’re in beastmode when you get downed. looks like an incredibly powerful elite spec overall. as per usual ANet antics, there will be no reason to roll with any GM other than Eternal Bond in pvp. maybe that stance sharing one in wvw.

I hope you’re kidding.

And it is NOT a “second life.” It’s a measly -not even 4k- heal on a 90 second cooldown.

It would be one of the worst grandmaster traits in the game if it stays like that.

You could use it with MDG……………………………………………..

shadowpass.4236:

NemesiS.6749:

Also if you notice, the leader of the pack GM trait its just 360 radius, that is total garbage and useless. If i remember correctly the bad thing about venom share thieves was that the venom sharing radius was 360 and people never got buffed lol. They practically need to be hugging you to get the buff, meeeh total kitten, sound good on paper but will end up been useless. Eternal Bond will probably be the most used, best of them all.

Eternal Bond is reeeeeeally crappy.

As a whole, I’d say our grandmaster traits are underwhelming to say the least. The stance sharing trait would be a lot better if they increased the radius to the size of a point in PvP and set priorty for party members and then the people closest to you.

Also, while Oppressive Superiority sounds great on paper, fighting a class with high sustain and constant damage pressure will mean it will rarely take effect. Don’t forget, we don’t have the same amount of sustain by dropping Druid in favor of Soulbeast. If it were something like “When you apply a condition, apply a random condition on the same target.” with a 1 second icd, it might be more interesting.

Leader of the Pack should be 600 radius like Tempest Auras and not half duration, that is just a complete waste.

Yup, Oppressive Superiority could also be completely useless just in PvE if the health is not a percentage, since it will be totally nullified on all bosses except the last 1 percent.

mistsim.2748:

https://youtu.be/nqj-yOPEudA?t=2120

One of the GM traits literally gives you a second life if you’re in beastmode when you get downed. looks like an incredibly powerful elite spec overall. as per usual ANet antics, there will be no reason to roll with any GM other than Eternal Bond in pvp. maybe that stance sharing one in wvw.

That trait looks good, until you compare it to Dead or Alive on Berzerker.

Also, the Leader of the Pack one, while stance sharing would be awesome, it’s only for half duration, so that’s only 3s….

Oppressive superiorority better be a health % otherwise it is going to also be near useless.

jcbroe.4329:

mistsim.2748:

https://youtu.be/nqj-yOPEudA?t=2120

One of the GM traits literally gives you a second life if you’re in beastmode when you get downed. looks like an incredibly powerful elite spec overall. as per usual ANet antics, there will be no reason to roll with any GM other than Eternal Bond in pvp.

For the GM traits from a different thread, thanks to mistsim. Can’t screenshot right now or I would.

Personally I think the stance sharing GM alone is incredibly strong support, especially given that some of the screenshots imply that you can bring AoE heals and boons with this spec too. Ultimately we’ll have to see how it works, but sharing out Bear, Dolyak, Wolf, and even Griffon stance looks like strong group utility, at least for PvP and WvW.

Same, I’m thinking stance sharing is going to be amazing. Even for raiding/fractals etc, if the condi spec turns out to do decent damage, this will be meta. Stance sharing, Spirits, Spotter and decent condi DPS? Would be pretty cool.

Now that we know the Soulbeast is a condi spec, LoYF could do with a change that would make it work very well with it and make it worth taking over Quickdraw in other condi builds;

LoYF currently -Damage and condition duration is increased for a while after dodging. Short bow skills pierce, recharge faster, and their attacks from behind or by flanking are improved.

Proposed change – Damage and condition duration is increased for a while after dodging. Attacks from behind or while flanking apply conditions. Short bow skills pierce and recharge faster.

No need to tie the flanking bonuses to a single weapon, just make the skills 2-5 add conditions, then it can be used with any weapon set.

chemie banger.9624:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

And if they don’t make new maps? What sort of an expansion would that be?

Fine by me.
Last new map I’ve got was bloodstone fen and only been a few times.
None since.
They chasing the hardcore gamers off a cliff with all the new content that filthy casuals like me are being left behind on.

So you don’t care if there are new maps, fair enough.
So you have not logged in to get the LS maps and the last one you got you have hardly been to, fair enough.
You feel as though you are being left behind? If you did not even log on to get the LS maps and have hardly been to the one you do have, then yeah, you are going to be left behind with regards to that content. It hardly takes a “hardcore gamer” to take advantage of these LS maps or the expansion maps.

Calador.2804:

I would think that the legendary purchase will eat away at your mind knowing that the object you hold in your hand was not earned through sweat and tears but rather by flipping burgers at McD’s… Get the expansion and earn the Legendary if you really want it.

edit did not think about it but working at McD’s is aweful… get the legendary :P

Both are just time investment. One will be more efficient than the other.

Where’d you see the shots of the weapons anyway?

I took jcbroe’s screen shots and cut the tooltips out of them…

Fluffball.8307:

He specifically opens that video with “turn this off if you’re a ranger, I don’t care about rangers and didn’t look at the elite spec with my time.”

Am I missing something?

I immediately skipped some of the beginning when searching the 3hr video and yeah, nothing on Ranger found….

Sorry for the bum steer.

My local pizzeria introduced a new Pizza last night and offered it cheaper than their previous pizzas. I have bought two of their pizzas previously and enjoyed them, they should give me the new pizza for free.

Wooden Potatoes

/bug

Ravenflame.5890:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

However tyria and ESPECIALLY TOWNS, Mounts are (for some ppl) massively immersion breaking.

How is it breaking your immersion?

I don’t get how it is either. To me it is far more immersion breaking to imagine that Tyrian civilisation has existed for thousands of years and nobody thought of using animals for transport. Nah, the Charr have made tanks and there are airships and helecopters, the Asura came up with a frikken teleportation system but other than that, let’s just walk everywhere.

LezardValeth.9453:

…Fun fact: Power creeps will exist no matter what. At least with this option you have more of a variety.

It’s too much to try to balance, too many variables. Won’t happen.

I think it will be F5 to meld, then pet skills will become F1-F4 and you will gain some stats or passive effect based upon the pet family type.

Irijia.6073:

The unused pets still won’t be getting a boost as you will only be using them to absorb their abilities…

Got a source for that?

Twilight will cost you $200USD.

Skya.9263:

Hi guys, I’ve been away from this game since the start of the year.

What have I missed?

Is it too late to catch up and is it worth coming back? The latest trailers have been really enticing.

A question like “What have I missed?” is nigh impossible to get an answer for, since it would take someone a full day to type it out.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s an expansion; it’s going to, you know, expand the game. It’s specifically for post-L80 gameplay, so I doubt very much if there will be sub L80 zones. Most veterans are going to be in new zones, so I doubt those will be underpopulated.

Besides, what’s your suggestion for how to do it differently? No new zones? No post-L80 gameplay? Split the player base even more so by including sub-L80 content instead?

Haha, perhaps they should remove 5 maps as well as adding new ones, then we wouldn’t be spread out so far LOL

Arnox.5128:

Hybarf Tics.2048:

All ideas are welcome but seriously and obviously too late, the game is already coming out September 22nd. The only option for the anti mount crowd is to take a hike, I mean walk, until you need to cross a valley or reach a high plateau, then pray for a mount to pass by and give you a lift.

That’s the beauty of this though. As I said in the OP, all ANet needs to do to make a Travel Mode is just to copypasta a bunch of running/jumping/teleporting animations and then slap the mounts code on it and call it a day.

So, you essentially just want to not be able to see the mount?

Yeah, it looks like it has definitely taken inspiration from Ritualist. The shades being tied to lifeforce is a great idea imo, so they would be limited time (?) and obviously a limited amount of damage taken, if they take damage at all. It seems like it could be really cool! Plus, a torch? Nice!

As per the title, I’d like to pre-order someone the expansion, can I do this online? It asks me to login so I feel like it is going to just apply the purchase to my account automatically, whereas previously it supplied the serial number I could give to a friend to apply.

Also, is there a way to increase the number of additional items I can purchase through the checkout? I mean the BLKeys, the Additional Bag Slots etc? There does not seem to be a quantity box to change, not that I can see anyway.

Thanks in advance.

Smokescale form is going to be pretty epic, as is Jaguar, Siamoth, Murellow, Electric Wyvern, etc. A lot of the pets that never get used may make for interesting additions.

I agree the preview was somewhat lacking, I was loving the rest of the preview and it was almost like when they got to Ranger eSpec, it was “oh yeah, Ranger has one too” and that was about it. Hardly showed anything compared to the rest. Anyway, it has potential, here’s hoping eh?

Pifil.5193:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

There’s a booster that auto-spawns a vendor NPC if your inventory is full; it doesn’t require a troll.

I would guess that this is what’s happening, I see the same thing all the time near random Winterberry nodes.

It’s a minor inconvenience that’s easily worked around so it’s hardly a good “troll”, just a waste of a BL Merchant if that’s what they were using.

I thought that was only after harvesting, not just because your inventory is full. “Summons a Black Lion Merchant If Your Inventory Is Full after Gathering (20-Minute Cooldown)”. Perhaps opening a chest is classed as gathering too.

Rikimaru.7890:

…You would think a God of War no less would be better at strategising…

Actually I would think that he couldn’t care less about a working from the shadows strategy since he just absorbed the energy from a Bloodstone and is the most powerful being besides the Elder Dragons on Tyria.

Kalendraf.9521:

I’m extremely happy to see that they finally yanked out the ToKs. Those were worthless drops for me. I’m ok with them removing the unid dyes as well, considering I don’t need any of those, and the items they’ve replaced these with are more useful to me. Each Mystic Forge Stone is effectively a free exotic weapon/armor for purpose of a mystic forge attempt. Meanwhile, the new Black Lion Booster is really nice since it stacks with both the celebration booster and exp booster, making it incredibly helpful for speeding up wvw ranks, and wvw/pvp reward tracks.

My thoughts exactly, especially since you can obtain hundreds of ToK multiple other ways just by playing the game.

Meanma.5623:

I’m actually disappointed with the removal of tomes from the chests and stopped purchasing keys as a result.

I loved using tomes to crank out those last 10 to 20 levels and get to fully customizing a character but outside of black lion chests I’ve barely ever got any. My server does very poorly in WvWvW (despite its population shifting between high and very high) so there’s no progress to be had on the reward track and whenever I tried to play Edge of the Mists in the past months it has been empty so nothing to be gained there either.

This leaves me with the daily login rewards and, well, that’s it.

Let me get this straight. Because you cannot get ToK from chests anymore, you stopped buying keys? Implying they are the main reason you buy keys. You think it was good to pay 35g and get two level ups at best? So, for your 20 levels, it cost you 350g at least to do it with ToK? You can level from 60-80 in a couple of hours.

Edit: Out of interest I checked how many ToK are on accounts; The mean is 193 per account, the median is 59, the maximum is 9144.

You can get the Zealot trinkets and back item from the LS maps, pretty easy to get a set, then with the Zealot weapons and Magi armor, you’ll have a bit over 900 extra power than full Magi. That’s a significant damage increase. I just prefer full Zealots.

I hate to think of the amount of clicks I have done promoting materials in the forge…

Instead of a “repeat last” I’d like a dialog box to pop up and ask “how many repeats would you like?” and then you select the amount and hit go, with a confirmation.

Hyomea.9702:

Ye, but the bot pet is permanently chasing after you and it does it perfectly, since its algorithm is designed like this. Is a warrior or a thief permanently on your heels? Probably not…

LOL!

If you are being perfectly chased and attacked by a Ranger pet, you have a lot to learn. The only pet that is actually capable of Melee against a decent human player is the Smokescale, due to Smoke Assault which is on a 20s CD. The rest of the time you can just run in circles around and the pet will rarely hit you.

Two Handed Training – Could do with some love, if you compare it to Forceful Greatsword. At least the CD could be reduced to make it work with Remorseless better.

Poison Master – It’s pretty lack lustre when compared to Potent Poison on Thief.

Storm Spirit – Could have it’s effect recharge reduced significantly and Nature’s Vengeance also could give something other than Swiftness for Storm Spirit, it’s pretty redundant with the amount of Swiftness around and especially since the spirits are stationary.

All spirits – 0.5s cast time.

Signet of the Hunt – Could give a flat damage bonus or Power increase (as passive effect) instead of the movement speed, since there is a lot of Swiftness access already and Natural Stride. The CD could be shaved by 10s to give more synergy with Brutish Seals and Might generation, AoO on demand is OK but when compared to Cruel Repercussion on Revenant with a passive 15s CD and you are giving up a utility slot, it’s not great.

“Sic Em!” – Teleport the pet to the target and give it Super Speed.

Spike Trap – Give it the same 30s recharge in PvE as it has in PvP.

Frost Trap – Make it scale better with Power so it can be used in Power builds, should really be similar to Procession of Blades. Compare PoB’s damage calculation (Damage (10x): 1,460 (5.5)) compared to FTs damage calculation (4x): 468 (1.76) and you can see it is woeful, it has a longer CD and no boon on activation. The Chill is a decent effect though.

Muddy Terrain – Could use some hard CC instead of the Immob, like a KD to let it see use, Slick Shoes on Engineer has a 2s KD with a 40s CD. A 1s KD perhaps?

Signet of Renewal – Could use some Resistance on the active for the pet, so it’s a bit easier to swap it before it dies. Also gives some play with WHaO for the Ranger.

Lazze.9870:

…Make spirits ground targeted on summon AND skill activation with an in-built teleportation on latter. Quicker activation times, and the boosted health from the trait baseline…

This would be awesome.

Cristalyan.5728:

…For a clarification – I don’t give even a penny for the skins. When crafting legendaries I take in consideration only the functionality.

Same, I just want the stat swapping. Here’s hoping they add legendary items with standard skins that still have the stat swapping functionality. If they were considerably cheaper to craft than a flashy legendary, then it would be a great option, including for those that just want a duplicate legendary for the account bound ones they already own.

Maybe just make a forge recipe that requires 4 ascended weapons of the same type to be thrown in and it gives you a basic skin legendary of the same type. Would be about 280g value to make one then, which is fair imo, or a sink for those with bank tabs full of ascended item chests from fractals and raiding.

Well, it’s been two years, but I was really happy to see they finally removed the ToK from the BL chests! There is much more incentive to actually open them now with the increased value from the change. To me, that is.

Anyway, looking forward to opening chests again.

Thanks, ANet!

Pretty difficult to answer your question if you do not let us know how you like to play Ranger. Ranger is versatile, in that, you can play as Power Melee & Ranged, Condi Melee & Ranged, Healer or a hybrid of any of them and for Solo PvE any of them will work perfectly well, except perhaps the pure healing builds.

If you have carpal tunnel syndrome, I’d suggest going with Power (Berzerker) LB/GS initially since those weapons do not generally have a rotation. The skills are used situationally, positioning is more important than pressing buttons in the right sequence. For GS, the only rotation is using Maul on cooldown (after the 3rd auto attack gives you evade) and make sure you use it before Hilt Bash so you instantly recharge Maul.

I don’t really get why people think Legendary weapons should be account bound so that you cannot trade them, there is very little actual “work” or “effort” that goes into “earning” one. You can just buy 95% of the effort (materials) on the TP anyway, it’s only a collection that takes a couple of hours total that separates the tradeable ones with the HoT ones.

I also do not get why people think it takes away from the prestige of owning legendary items. Well, actually I do get it. It’s because they made the weapon to show off to either those who also have legendary weapons/armor etc, to be accepted in the “club” or to those who do not have legendary items, so they feel they are better than someone else. For those that cannot just purchase their legendary items with RL cash, it is their chance to have something the “haves” may not be able to have, for once in life.

If you built a house for yourself, would your sense of satisfaction and achievement be diminished because the bloke next door just paid for his with cash?

TESLA.7415:

…I have done PvP very little and found that while my level 80 hits people for about 20 damage (yes 20), they hit me for 4000. I can’t for the life of me figure out why there’s such a discrepancy.

You don’t have an amulet equipped.

NotASmurf.1725:

…Abaddon is dead and the devs said years ago that they regreat killing him.. so maybe they thought of a way to bring him back? CM is unrelated I’m pretty sure, but Abaddon’s got his fair share of spotlight these days.

They did find a way to bring him back. Well, not him specifically but a naughty god. Enter Balthazar.

At least it wasn’t a Mesmer portal.

Perhaps they could place a check in the activation code for BLMerchants that asks if there is a chest nearby…

Potato.2567:

…What kind of “Warrior” runs around with a dagger?

There are lots in popular culture if you think about it. Plus actual fighting style.

Choppy.4183:

GunnarMare.9218:

Sarnax.8357:

I hear you. Dagger’s are little small in the hands of my Norn War. But is there precedent for Wars using Daggers in GW1?

Yes. In Random Arenas there was build where warrior knocked target down with hammer and then swapped weapon to daggers for several quick attacks. This was basically one-shot combo if the target did not receive support. Here is link to the wiki page (similar to metabattle). http://gwpvx.gamepedia.com/Build:W/A_BB_Dagger_Warrior

I stand corrected. It wasn’t a warrior weapon in gw1, but I forgot about the class mixing midweek the game used. As noted, a warrior could use a dagger if assassin was the subclass.

There was also the shield skin that was a dagger.

I’d prefer they use their time to adjust the pets we already have, a few tweeks here and there and we’d have a lot more viable ones. An adjustment on the cast times of skills etc.

Just removing the cast time from Quickening Screech (Screech being a shout?) and changing the boon to something useful (like Quickness, coz “Quickening Screech”) would Make Birds Great Again.

That said, any of these suggestions would be pretty cool. Instead of an Osprey, can we get a massive Golden Eagle?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

…If folks don’t want to pay 1-2k for a legendary trinket, they don’t have to. There are plenty of ascended options out there.

It would be nice to have a stat swapping option that is not tied to more obnoxious effects and a 4 digit price tag though too.

Payne.1250:

CaptainVanguard.4925:

Id hope not.

I want E to be male because theres already too many female characters in GW2, we need more males that are iconic and leading the story for a change.

Man, i thought the same yesterday, there is actually no balance at all

Anise
Livia
Rox
Taimi
Marjory
Kasmeer
Caithe
Zojja
Jenna
E (Eive ?)

And now male characters ;

Braham (gone)
Rytlock (afk since 8 months)
Logan (afk lake doric)
Canach (gone)

It’s like Game of Thrones this season. It’s all women of power and handicapped males.

Doam.8305:

… This is precisely why the old saying if it isn’t broken don’t fix it exists.

A silly saying, if everyone followed that maxim, we’d all still be living in caves.

I don’t know that I like there being so many different mechanics, but it is nice to have something different. Being able to utilise the 3rd dimension is pretty cool.

Zephyra.4709:

I am ready for the bag of salt to be poured upon my head amongst the wrath of hatred from the nay-sayers but…

…I really don’t like auras. It’s distasteful. Cringy to a point where I believe whoever spawns these ideas of auras must have the mind of a 3 year old, “COOL stuff MUST be GLOWY and SPARKLES!” with the, as you stated, current ‘trend’ with MMOs.

While some players manage to make a theme work with one or two infusions it starts to get really visual clutter when you see the biggest Norn waltz by with his Moots out and mega chunky extra T H I C C wings backpack and lord knows what else amongst the unwavering assault of every-possible-aura-infusion he’s clad in.

If I could have an option, ONE option above all else to choose from it would be a toggle to disable auras.

TLDR: Don’t like auras. If game wants to release more, keep them behind content like collections, raids, achieves and release option to toggle auras on/off…

Same, they are cheesy as hell. I’d like to be able to turn them all off completely.

FYI, you can turn off “Effect LOD”, turn down “Animation” in Options to help with particle effects and some auras.

tyu.9470:

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Legendaries are meant to serve a different purpose.

No they are not. Free to swap stuff on them was added AFTERWARDS. They were not made by this in mind and they were never “meant” to serve such a purpose.

Legendaries were always about skins and the effects and still are.

I had no intention of ever making a Legendary until they added the stat swap ability. Now I have 5 based on that.

Durzlla.6295:

toffin.5032:

Bunny Thumper! GW1 people would remember them… Just give us a hammer and let us go wild!

Give me a hammer and some physical skills and we will have a party!!

Bunny Thumper with Physical skills and a CC theme would be amazingly fun!

Durzlla.6295:

beatthedown.2651:

Pvt Frosty.6973:

Staff 2 is really strong in pvp ^^

Can you explain how? Hitting multiple targets in the first midfight with staff one seems way more efficient. You may start off with 2, but it’s still a very very forgettable skill. Reflects suck too.

Yeah, staff 2 is cool in name only, I wish the whisp did more, or like, did anything noticeable really…

Such as inflict burning?

Exciton.8942:

Let’s be honest, the convenience factor on legendary trinket is overrated.

How difficult is it to change to a different set of trinkets? And I am sure veteran players all have piles of trinkets of different stats already.

Armor/weapon works a bit differently as there are runes and sigils attached to them.

And lastly, there is no such thing as ‘overpriced’ for legendary items. If they make them relatively cheap like legendary armor, then I am happy. If they decide to make trinket as expensive as the backpiece, I am also fine. Both cosmetics and equipment convenience are something they can make costly on without breaking the fundamentals of the game.

I’d much rather being able to stat swap with one set of gear, as I mentioned above, I’m already using 50 inventory slots for gear on ONE character. I’d be perfectly happy with a stat swapping ascended/legendary item that came with no aura and no skin.