Guild Wars 2

hi,

Is there a link to explain how divisions work?

How do you gain and lose points?

How do you gain or lose 2 points in a match?

Looking for post or something that might explain this.

thanks

thanks, I think that clears it up a bit

My experience so far is I leveled up 4 times in wvw capping camps, and only came across 3 enemy players. two, I’ve had the fun of killing and another that was a settler rat tank , so I just moved on after fighting him for 10 min. My server is totally dead, so it’s a lot worse then pre-patch. I have to admit ; I died jumping off a cliff expecting a glider to save me, lol. I don’t get all the hype of the expansion and don’t get why they didn’t integrate HoT glider’s etc with such huge maps. Add some side games or something where we can advance in HoT crap and keep us occupied . It’s amazing all this cool stuff the game has with the expansion and the lack of using it.

I went threw about 20 or so of them and only have 1 mastery unlocked. What am I missing?

thanks

I agree with the OP.

I don’t know how the servers work but it’s a chore on my server. To continue my story line I need yet another mastery. Every time I finish one I get another mastery needed to continue. What a let down. I’ve done 4 masteries for mission 12 and now its asking for a 5th b4 I can continue. I just want to get back to the story line where I was having a lot of fun, Now it’s grind and wait ,over and over again.

Maybe it’s a server thing, done the forgotten city 5+ times, I’d say on average there’s about 5-20 people on the points. Also killing random creatures cause not enough players around doing other events. I’m constantly at champs and other things either alone or just with a few people, mostly failing. It seems very boring waiting. It’s a real turn off to pve, I was hoping it would be more exciting.

I’m on or waiting to start , “the way in”. I think this might be where the story takes us to rata novus but for last 2-3 days been trying to grind the masteries to do it and already found my way to rata novus. It’s a total spoiler imo.

Not being able to do story line is silly. If you finish a story line part, it should allow you to unlock what you need to continue. The reward system is unrealistic. I’m so far ahead in exploring , doing events that I shouldn’t be , cause the story line doesn’t give you enough masteries to continue. I’d prefer to follow the story line instead of randomly doing events over the map. I’m on a 3rd Earn your… and boringly grinding crap instead of being allowed to get into the story. It’s lame imo, takes the excitement of the story and turns it into a grab bag of events.
thanks

I can understand it in tPvp but in WvW w/ the restructure of maps why it wasn’t implemented. At least a trial of it or an area allowing it would be more then a reasonable request. Zergs are zergs can’t do much about that. I’m in ET and the maps are dead, I don’t see other players 99% of the time, its slow as can be and gliders would be an improvement to the overall game play.

Hi,

I’m in ET atm and current score is 20(DR),40(ET),+635(kain), 8k(DR),4k(ET),42k(Kain). In the past least I could take on a tower by myself or w/ one other. This is long and hard but was possible and done because the pure lack of players on in WvW. With everything fortified it’s just no fun at all. The only thing I can do is take out camps.

Is there any hope for the tiny guilds or small groups ?

thanks for reading

Why no gliders in WvW, you re-did all the maps and didn’t add this as an option?

Replayed it. Any1 else that gets stuck if Braham doesn’t talk to you, just restart it. You do not have to clear the massive mob below – which I did cause the NPC was bugged. After you talk to Braham you just meet up with “your friends” and it ends. Hope this helps any1 so they don’t have to suffer the NPC torture i went threw .

Hi,

killed every creature back and forth threw all the paths, can’t talk to Braham, stuck

any1 else getting connection issues lately in PvP

code=1083:5:7:1595:101
or the error 7?
thanks

Hint;

Look for the Big Shield, but don’t tell anyone I told you, cause it’s so subtle that not many know this.

Arcaedus.7290:

Anyone taken full traps, + rune of the trapper for a spin yet? I played a handful of matches with this build yesterday, it’s pretty kitten dope. You can charge into the middle of a large brawl, lay down your traps, and peel off in stealth/super speed. If no one decides to pressure you, then they can have fun eating 5-7k trueshot crits.

For soloQ I had absolutely amazing results with this. It takes a coordinated or fortuitous burst down by the opposing team to take you out. I found I could hold my own against decent chronomancers, classic PU mes, thieves, rangers, and classic med guards in 1v1s, and it took two gank to be able to take me out using this build! Probably won’t see any play in top tier ranked, but it’s fun as hell in unranked/soloQ!

I totally agree that it is a fun-kitten -build to do in soloQ, With any decent teams though you’ll definitely have problems unless perhaps your in a team that is working around that.
a lot of the new runes have potential, trapper rune is definitely fun and refreshing for classes that have been non-stealth.

DH definitely feels like its in a better place then before. LB feels more responsive. The F1 pull is fantastic.

I think the virtues still need work though. I’m not talking major overhaul just some very minor changes. Any guardian would probably agree that at least the F1 and the
F3 should not interrupt skills while casting. This really changes the feel for setting up bursts and stomping. It’s almost like being a dagger/x thief in stealth and taking away backstab. The change in mechanic just don’t feel right , least in a PvP setting. PvE’rs might not have the same concerns.

Keep up the great work.

Rangers are OP in so many ways vs guards.
Yes the title is right.

It might be possible if enough share their opinion .

Please reply and let’s get our voices heard.

Thanks all and GL when HoT comes online

Still feels totally broke going in solo,
comments?

Let me introduce to you the F4 key , which swaps Dragon hunter virtues to the standard Virtues. This would create a excellent balance in use and need for virtues.
It should address many concerns without any drastic changes in skills.
What do you all think?

Displacement worked against stability and aoe cleave . The next best thing was a mesmer or necro removing stability and interrupting . I felt this new mechanic would be game changer, to encourage Rev’s in PvP. If it came across as to abused then perhaps an increase in skill cood down , which I would be totally for.

thanks for the replies

Please note this is related to PvP

Man , displacement was so freakn awesome and felt like it defined the class in such a powerful way that rev’s where gonna be a required class for pvp , for displacing stomps. I can’t tell you how many stomps I prevented from happening last beta. Now that displacement is outta here I’m just bummed. I wish they never showed the total awesomeness of Unyielding Anguish. Whomever came up with the idea or wrote the code for that should given a raise, cause it was the best unique concept I have seen In a long time.

Let’s face it, the 10% damage reduction is not what any1 care’s about, as a DH we need to be able to get rid of condi’s somehow and to do that remove the ICD and we all would be happy.

The whole ICD’s with several skills we have just don’t seem to reward timed blocks etc. In PvE it’s probably not as relevant due to the high number of NPC’s generally available.

Zoltreez.6435:

or just replace traps with new consecration skills…………
abilities that are actualy make sense as a guard….
and they allready do similar things you mentioned….

I’d be game for that.

Elsewhere in the game traps are associated with a type of field i.e. ranger, i.e. thief, so least try to normalize it in some way.

thanks for the input, all sounds good

DH is PVE only.

There is no way I would add cast times and give up my virtues for DH in PvP.
Traps are 90% of the time a joke in PvP. One would expect at least a field associated with them and/or because of guard class have an associated condi remove/heal or boon.
Heavy Light would only be useful if incorporated in an actual skill i.e " Deflecting shot… and knockbacks players 300"
Hunter’s Fortification shows promise maybe as a minor trait and w/o ICD.
I’ll try to add more but out of time for now…

I like the concept but please remove the ICD.

I think all the DH virtues should be useable at all times. SoC is to long a cool down and with the DH trait, passive effects should be maintained similar to ele’s signet trait.

To play dragon hunter Valor is greatly needed and Virtues/DH is pretty much required. I would like to use traps in someway and to do so giving up meditation is a tough pill to swallow.

All traps should have an associated condition removal and or healing component to make them viable.

PvP rep

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

I I.7359:

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol use and zeal has allot of symbol traits the hammer trait really should be in zeal.

While they are at it they could also really stand to do a good pass over of zeal and merge/shuffle around several of its major & minor traits. As is its kind of clunky.

“Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol”.. your confused at least.
let me be be clear, im not pve but pvp biased

Even so putting it in zeal would open up some interesting choices for builds if that line were cleaned up a bit.

The main reason for radiance line would be to allow for justice is blind , which as you know buys us a split second to get the burst off and a less likely chance of being interrupted. I think it could work in zeal as a general 2 handed weapon trait or replace Blinding jeopardy or kindle zeal. BTW kindled zeal and JiB would be better suited in the same trait line,imo.

Please allow virtues to be activated while available. It feels like we are going backwards by using the Dragon Hunter with the virtue mechanics. IE, you cannot active virtues if stunned or activating renew focus etc. This is bad.

Please bring back displacement with Unyielding Anguish
.
This is purely for PvP. Players that didn’t like it because it moved npcs out of aoe should be talking to those using it in such circumstances.

Unyielding Anguish used to be an amazing rev only type skill.
Why the change?
Please bring back the teleport foes, it was so different then any other skill from other classes, it felt like it defined the rev in some ways.

as title says. I am unable to equip a shield

please address…
Judges intervention, why the change?
any talk of making virtue effects passive ?

I agree JI is ,for what ever reason, broke with last patch. Glacial Heart in virtues is a joke and I believe many would agree with this.

Pyriel.4370:

PvP wise hammer is dead ever since the JI nerf.

well, glacial heart in virtue trait line does need to be addressed ; please address a solution rather then a complaint. thanks

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol use and zeal has allot of symbol traits the hammer trait really should be in zeal.

While they are at it they could also really stand to do a good pass over of zeal and merge/shuffle around several of its major & minor traits. As is its kind of clunky.

“Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol”.. your confused at least.
let me be be clear, im not pve but pvp biased

In radiance, place Signet of Wrath trait to Radiant Power. Move Glacial heart out of virtues and add to radiance open slot. The open slot in virtues gets replaced with the new skill -“Elite Power” a hybrid of sorts of an older trait that was removed when we lost tomes.

Elite Power – elite skills recharge faster and damage foes while activating.
– FMW , burst damage
– RF , damage tick
– SoC , aoe burn tick

what do you think about this?

Is it possible to have shield 5 block Spatial Surge and have a cool effect like shields getting blasted in star trek or the Special colors wrapping around the shield, that would be sweet?

Assuming the other heal skills are left where they are, it could become a consecration or a spirit weapon. In light of all the skills that are unblockable ; I could see it morphed into a consecration, like a mini sanctuary that’s mobile , similar to the recent shield buff , or a spirit weapon similar to SotA that circles instead of bouncing around overhead. Either one would be pretty cool with some new animations

Hi,

The problem is Judge’s Intervention. Unfortunately they intentionally broke it, and are not telling us why. Any1 that Pvp’s know it was almost required for a burst set-up with mostly 2 handed weaps. It really takes a lot of the fun gameplay out of guard, please revert it back.
ragnarox , virtue hammer trait is just bizarre, totally agree

Pluton.7364:

please keep passive effects when we activate them and increase colldowns if you must…

^^there problem fixed and now we gona see ppl actualy use them

+1
I agree that virtues passive effects should always remain.
This is apparent especially with the dragon hunter.

Why the change?
It took a lot of the fun out of playing a dps guard. I truly miss it when hammer was meta, but that’s a different story.
shield , good work !
thanks

Ranked still broke… , unranked did work though

Ghotistyx

stop trolling and go back to ele forums

Revs are pretty awesome at this time. The game play is quite different and refreshing. Like some other peeps ; I’ll be moving my ascended gear over to rev and be on that as guards are broke atm.

GS/Staff
air/fire, generosity or renew + optional
valor – typical
honorable ( honor staff, WoP) can run PoV and split shouts but run soldiers -for a hybrid shout / medi.
can run zeal if prefer (GS 5% + kitten aeg or sym ave, both decent depends on goals)
virtues – typical
marauder + power(vamp, pack ….)
LoW, 3xmedi, RF – can drop one medi for a optional ie stand u ground…

- good 1v1 build , not the best
- solid team build
- up to 35 sec swiftness on 1 symbol

good luck

Guards are broke

Every other class is so far better and yet again more nerfs to guard.
eles and engies are anet favs, its obvious
thief got a little love, which is needed

Anet if you want to fix guards start off by taking the hammer skill out of bizarro land, roll justice is blind into virtues and make the passive effects of virtues permanent. FMW nerf can’t be justified when renewed focus is almost mandatory. I can’t even get into dragon hunter, it’s just terrible. My four level 80 guards are logging in less and less . GL to all that play guardian, the torch is dim til someone with some balls steps in.