Guild Wars 2

any word on a fix for this?

I’m still having this problem. It’s incredibly hard to play like this.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

It’s not meant to be bought with gold. That’s one thing I think should be clear.

A set of 6 runes to be transferred to another armor skin that you’re in the mood to wear that day should cost almost $20 dollar each time?

Can we get something more practical for taking runes/sigils out of armor and weapons??? I understand there are a select few who will need this for their laurel infusions or very expensive agony infusions, but most people just want to take the runes from one set of armor and put them in another. The most expensive runes in the game are about 10 gold. It costs almost 2.5xs more to extract the runes than to buy a new set of runes. C’mon arenanet, this does not solve the problem of people wanting to not spend 65-70 gold to buy a full set of runes every time they want to use a new armor skin.

This isn’t a bad idea, but it isn’t practical for anyone to use the Upgrade Extractor to move runes from one set to another, or just to put one set of runes in storage while you test out another. It is way overpriced for its function.

I can actually clear any dungeon path with people of any class, any trait build, gear set up, and weapon choice of their choosing. So I don’t even care how someone else in the group sets up their character because I know we’ll finish the run anyway. But that’s just me.

I’m having a similar problem. I want to take the traveler runes off of my Phoenix Light armor set and put on my Trickster light armor set. The problem is, the only way to get runes back is to either destroy the armor by salvaging it, or just spending 65 gold on a set of new runes. There needs to be a way to get runes off of armor without destroying it, and it should be practical!

I always thought the endgame of GW2 is all about collecting the best looking armor and weapon skins. I have pretty much settled on being a berserker. I have different sets with other stats, but I mostly use my berserker stats all the time. So I have a few different armor sets, all with berserker stats. I have a full arah berserker set, full CoE berserker set, full phoenix light armor berserker set, full sylvari tier 3 berserker set, etc. The reason I collect sets is not to have a different set with different stats, but just for the looks. I collect armor sets because I like to change my look each day.

So my issue is that each time I want to get a new armor set, I have to spend an addition 70+ gold buying the same runes that I already have on 5 other sets… That is a huge problem. I can’t just use a transmutation crystal to copy the new set onto the old set either, because I still want to wear the old set, just not on that particular day.

In PvE, this needs to be done like the Spvp Armor Locker. So I don’t have to keep buying the the same runes for 70 gold on each new armor set, and I don’t have to use my entire storage on armor sets that have all the same stats.

The endgame is all about collecting skins, but the way collecting skins is implemented, it’s as if you want us to pick an armor set and stick with it forever on that one character. Especially now with Ascended armor, whatever stats and look you decide to have on that set, after spending over a month to craft it, is what you’re gonna be stuck with…..

Please think of a better and more practical way for people who think of character progression as collecting cool skins and want to change between them often.

(P.S: At this very moment I badly want to buy the Trickster light armor set from the gem store, but the thought of having to buy a full berserker set to transmute it on top of and 6 more traveler runes to socket it with turns me off.)

I didn’t have this issue 3 weeks ago. It’s something that just started within the last 30 days or so. I didn’t change any thing on my computer, so I don’t know what caused this to start happening. I don’t think it’s my mouse cause my right click is only unresponsive in gw2.

I’ve been having this problem for a couple weeks now. When holding down the right click to turn the camera and/or my character, it doesn’t respond. Instead the mouse cursor slides across the screen without doing anything.

I actually thought it was a problem with my mouse and I was going to order a new one. But before I did that I decide to google the issue and this forum thread came up.

It’s incredibly hard for me to play like this. I use the right click to position my character and to do sharp turns, about faces, and turn the camera quickly. Since I’ve been having this problem, I’ve been dieing a lot to bosses I could otherwise solo and I’ve been losing a lot of duels in pvp. In pvp, usually after a roll, I will quickly use right click to turn my character and the camera around to start swinging my sword. But since it’s unresponsive, I swing and only hit air, also, the camera doesn’t turn so I lose sight of the enemy and I’m left open to get hit very hard.

If it helps. I’m using Windows 7 professional 64 bit and my mouse is the Razor Naga.

dual wielding two different swords always looks better than dual wielding copies of the same sword.

This is true…. Guild groups are more rude and act very nasty. If you don’t have a regular group of people to run with like myself, then it’s best to join groups with people who don’t know each other.

This is a wonderful idea OP. But there also needs to be a way to change the color of the element on the armor. For example, If you want a fiery armor, you should be able to change the color of the flames. If you want an electrical armor and want red lightning buzzing through your armor then you should have the option to do that.

I bought the Flamekissed set immediately as soon as it came out and I loved it. And after only a few days, I don’t like it so much anymore, because of the flames. I honestly think the original tier 3 is better than the flamekissed because of the flames. I’ve noticed that almost every single person with the flame set, has the EXACT, or almost exact, same color scheme because they need the flames to match the armor. You can’t change the color of the flames, so you have to use dyes to match the flames.

So the armor now looks like a uniform to me, since everyone wearing it, is wearing it the exact same way. Your idea is great and I really hope they begin to implement armor with different elements. I’ve heard people say so many times in the last few days they’re sick of flames on everything. People want to earth armor, lightning, water, wind, shadow, holy, void, etc. Whatever you can think of.

Arenanet, give us more options than un-dyable flames please.

If having more toughness suits your playstyle, then get it.

I actually started off with a lot of toughness, and slowly I started to switch pieces one at a time with no toughness on it until I felt like I had the perfect amount.

I love the original. I already bought and used a total makeover kit, expensive dye, and a full set of superior traveler runes, and i had to spend 1400 arah tokens to get the stats i wanted…. And it looks so good on my sylvari.

I already bought a bunch of dyes and used a total makeover kit to make this flamekissed set work on my sylvari….

I like the set the way it is and I’m sad to hear it’s going to be changed. For everyone that already purchased the set, we should have the option to keep it as it is, or change if ONLY if we want to. I don’t want a refund, I like my new look and I’d like to keep it. Being forced to update to the new art isn’t a good way to treat the people who love set and already adjusted their characters to look good in it.

For people that already bought the set, the options should be:
1) Keep it the way it is, or
2) Update to the new art, or
3) Refund gems.

The problem of the aura not showing up sometimes has come back.

I just wanted to say that I’m happy the Flamekissed Set is in the trading post. I’ve always liked the human tier 3, but I play sylvari so I had no chance to get it before. Having as many armor skins to choose from is something that keeps this game fun to me. I like to change armors like I change clothes each day.

I do have a suggestion though.

It would be great if it were possible to dye the color of the flame. I noticed the animation of cinders coming off of the armor also which is awesome. So if it were possible to dye the flames black, and have black cinders coming off that would be amazing. Or even a blue flame like the icy dragon sword, or w/e color people wanted. You know everyone likes their armor to match their hair color and it’s even better to have the glow parts of an armor match the sylvari’s skin glow. And fire is one of those things that looks more awesome in different colors.

With that said. I wouldn’t be offended at all if I saw a human wearing a sylvari cultural tier 3 set, because it doesn’t take anything away from me.

I like the armor set on my sylvari, but my skin is blue and my glow is white. It would be a huge plus if players were able to dye the color of the flames on the set as well. Black flames, or even a blue flame like the icy dragon sword would be amazing. So arena net, make this happen plz :-)

This would rock my world. Using bolt should make a huge charge of lightning hit the target as soon as the flag is planted in them from the sky. This has my vote!

The transmuation splitter is pretty expensive so I didn’t want to go that route. I didn’t think of using a black lion salvage kite, but even so I wouldn’t want to risk not getting the run back since each one is 10 gold.

So I’ve tried to transmute it again with the transmuation stones, and half of them worked. I was able to transmute the chest, legs and gloves. For some reason, it’s not allowing to transmute the helm, shoulders and boots.

Yeah, I bought the crystals from the gem store tonight for 5 for 200 gems, so I"m pretty sure I’m using the right ones. I’ll try again when the servers are back up. thanks for the replies.

Am I unable to transmute an item that has already been transmuted?

I have the Light Armor Phoenix set I got from the gem store that was transmuted on top of the arah berserker set for the stats. I also have the sylvari tier 2 light armor set transmuted on top of another arah berserker set for the stats. The tier 2 set is now complete with 6 pieces of traveler runes. Traveler runes are very expensive. So instead of buying a full set of traveler runes for the Light armor Phoenix set, I thought it wise to just transmute the new light armor phoenix set (already transmuted with arah gear) on top of the tier 2 set, so that i will have the look of the Phoenix armor, zerker stats and the traveler runes.

i hope that wasn’t confusing.

I don’t want to buy another set of traveler runes. So i bought the transmutation crystals, and I’m unable to transmute the two sets. Is this intended?

Take out the target that can’t be kited first.

I hate salvaging now. It’s a huge chore. I don’t enjoy salvaging items for luck… and to max my luck, I will have to salvage everything… forever. It’s tedious and I don’t find anything fun or interesting about it. I don’t have any solutions for this. Maybe some members of the community have better ideas to go about salvaging and getting luck.

I play melee 100% of the time, but I force anyone else to melee. Every fight in arah can be done as melee or ranged. Everyone has their preference and has to deal with the risks of each. If someone who prefers to range, died while ranged, they would have probably played worse as melee cause it’s not their preference. Let people play the way they want.

I honestly hate when someone who doesn’t melee ever, follow me into melee range just because they see me doing it, and die repeatedly cause of it. And I hate when someone tells me to range cause they don’t think melee is possible, cause they can’t do it. Just let people play the way they want and deal with the risks of their decision. Then again, I’m also someone who doesn’t get mad if someone dies or if the group wipes, and I don’t see it as any more of a waste of time, than actually playing the game is.

I learned to melee from watching Wethospu’s solo vid.

I’ll let you in on a secret, all classes are OPed in the right hands.

I love your ideas. I would like to see them implemented.

sounds like an awesome idea

Mabon Market in Caledon Forest has a really beautiful crating station, but it doesn’t have a Black Lion Trading Post. It needs a trading post, other wise it’s a useless station. It’s a shame to have such a nice station go to waste.

That sword is called Elucidator. There are a lot of people would give all their gold to dual wield Elucidator and Dark Repulsor, including myself :-)

good read. thanks for sharing your views on it, OP.

If the clone from illusionary leap spawns next to the person, we could probably use it on a player above or below us if we have them targeted, and then switch places with it to a higher or lower z-axis, as long as it’s within the 600 range. My guess is that’s the dev’s main issue for not fixing it already. But that change would literally rock my world and make me very happy.

This issue with the aura has been fixed for me since the last patch on 9/3/2013.

I don’t look for ways to give boons, utilities skills, and such to the group. I do what I do well. I kill. If it turns into a clash between two zergs. As a melee mesmer, I stealth and teleport my way to the back of the enemy zerg and pick them off from behind while my realm’s zerg rushes the front. That just seems like the smartest thing to do as a character that can stealth. That’s what I contribute to a zerg.

ahh okay. thanks

How do you search specifically for Back Items in the trading post?

I have always used swords in both of the main hands of my weapon sets. It’s works very well for me despite the shared cooldown. I do it because it appeals to me aesthetically. I just love swords.

http://www.youtube.com/user/zero450571

that’s my youtube channel if you wanna see any vids of it.

Illusionary Leap is extraordinary. The only issue with is that it doesn’t jump the full distance when on a steep hill or stairs. but even with that issue, it is still extraordinary.

I do it all the time. I always kill the scouts first. Their cripple and blinds are the worst. I try to kill them while kiting the melee in circles. Then I kill the warrior guard cause of his immobilize. But after the scouts are dead it’s pretty easy. In the last few months, I’ve gotten better at soloing the camps and I feel more comfortable getting closer to the scouts to kill them faster, but remember to move if the melee are on top of you.

I would like for Phantasmal Swordman to give the party fury.

I would like for Debilitating Dissipation to have a chance to apply poison on clone death.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Revelations.3154:

and then go as far to try to demonstrate it on Video? Maybe you have maybe not but honestly you blame individuals like this of some self righteous crusade to support their build when all they are trying to do is debunk the hypocritical foolishness this mesmer forums have become… /rant

It’s mainly this guy’s attitude that’s drawing so much ire. For example, I’d imagine he’d have seen a lot more positive responses if he’d said something like the following:

“Hey guys, I know Manta builds are looked down upon but I like the spec, so here’s a video of my dueling people with it in WvW. I won some, I lost some, but overall I’ve had good success with it. If anyone has any suggestions for how to play the spec better or how to shoot videos better I’d be happy to hear them!”

You know, rather than the puerile nonsense he actually posted.

What attitude is everyone talking about? I re-read his post and I don’t sense a big ego or bad attitude coming from him. This is the internet I guess. People come here and look for any reason to bash people.

And OP, I’d love to duel you for fun. I don’t think I’ve ever faced off against a mantra mesmer before in 1v1. I don’t think my server is facing yours this week though.

Revelations.3154:

The problem is who here in this community has the right to judge anyone for their playstyle or what level they are playing it? Just a bunch of hypocrites measuring ego’s…

No one falls and in this category more than the “Talking Heads” of the Mesmer community. It’s super hard to get good footage in WvW. What is good footage? Not you just winning but demonstrating all the facets of a build GOOD and BAD! Do you think it’s easy to take up a build no one plays frequently or for that matter has mastered? and then go as far to try to demonstrate it on Video? Maybe you have maybe not but honestly you blame individuals like this of some self righteous crusade to support their build when all they are trying to do is debunk the hypocritical foolishness this mesmer forums have become… /rant

wow. I couldn’t have said it better myself. I totally agree. I felt the same way, but I couldn’t find the words so I didn’t talk about it. But this is all 100% true.

nice vid. I enjoyed it. And I like to see people branching out to play their characters differently from the masses. I like to think I play my mesmer differently and I sometimes I get a lot of hate from it. But, if you can make it work and it compliments your playstyle, then that’s awesome. Keep it up.

this would be awesome

Why isn’t set up so you can just create a game with your friends when you want to play. The person who starts it is the host and choose the customization options and password lock it. But when everyone leaves the game, the room closes. It seems silly to me to even keep a room open 24/7 when no one is even in it. With that said, I honestly don’t think we should have to pay for this feature. I really think it should have been a regular feature of the game from the very beginning. But then again, when there isn’t a subscription fee, I guess we have to pay for some basic features. I will be getting an arena and making sure it stays active though, despite my opinion on the matter.

The Black Reaper

This change greatly saddens me. And I’m never one to ask for nerfs or buffs, or complain about class balance, but this change is going to cripple me.

my mesmer is pure melee and I don’t have any problems. There are some fights that are more challenging as melee, but it’s not impossible.