Guild Wars 2

I am for it as a recurring event. It would make a fun diversion, particularly at times where there is no proper event (like april). Every time it is re-opened, it can be expanded a bit, with new rewards and the like.

Game over

This is a great event, but it should remain temporary. However, i would like to see it return in the future, perhaps with more levels and rewards.

This is a build concept I’ve been thinking about for a damage (condition) / support build for a while. I’m going to post it here and see what commentary i can get.

Weapon: Rifle of Perception
Armor: Apothecary’s, 2 Krait runes, 2 Afflicted runes, 2 Altruism runes
Healing Skill: Elixir H
Utility Skills: Elixer B, Elixir R, Elixir Gun
Elite Skill: Supply Crate
Traits
Explosives: 10 (Incendiary Power)
Firearms: 15 (Refiled Barrels)
Inventions: 15 (Protective Shield)
Alchemy: 20 (Invigorating Speed, Self-Regulating Defenses)
Tools: 10 (Speedy Kits)

Explanation
This is, first and foremost, a incomplete build. That is why i am posting it here, for commentary and ideas for how to improve it. My general idea is, for offense, this build would combine the rifles’ crowd and positional skills (and blunderbuss!) with the Elixir gun’s damaging skills to deal damage while staying on the move. This would be further assisted by the quirky combination of Invigorating speed and Speedy kits, which would allow permanent swiftness and vigor. Fury from hidden flask, Elixir B, Maintenance oil/other assorted precision consumables & a Sigil of precision would keep critical triggers for the Incendiary Power & Sharpshooter viable. Combined with the runes and blunderbuss, the Engineer would be able to keep a respectable (but not excellent) number of bleeds going with any hope. The key to this build is it’s survivability, it receives 3 seconds of invincibility and free healing skill recharge when it reaches 25% health. It also possesses 2 AoE heals for supporting it’s party, two throw elixirs (not including R) for additional support, and a solid self heal. Perma swiftness and vigor would keep it on the move always. I’ve done more then a few fractals levels with my engineer, and i can say from experience that a little defense and some fancy dodging can go a long way for keeping yourself alive, even when everyone else wipes. So, yeah, that is just about it. The two remaining aspects, Elixir R and Supply Crate, are overpowered in their own right and should go in every respectable PvE Engineer build.

Discuss.

Ele is a extreamly diverse class. In dungons, all i say is that you should invest into water magic at least 15 trait points, Eles have some extreamly potent support skills, especially with the staff, and even a half support build is still a considerable contribution to a group.

My computer is undergoing technical difficulties (the mysterious shut down issue), so i will likely be almost unable to play at all during this festival. Almost. Will i be able to obtain the final event reward in less then twenty minutes? (Anything beyond that is really pushing it)
Edit: I would like to extend the subject to all untradeable onetime rewards, minus achievements and titles.

I switched back to playing LOTRO, but this issue keeps re-occurring. Methinks maybe theres some flawed or bugged GW2 file? This has NEVER happened to me before yesterday. I’ve played LOTRO for years, and i am now realizing even with GW2’s much better combat systems and char balences etc., LOTRO is still better because of community.

Guild Wars 2 was a groundbreaking and revolutionary MMORPG, but now its falling to new opponents: the vast array of connection issues, the anciant karka chest, gems, and the anciant karka chest. My computer fell victum to some arcane issue 5 hours ago (theres even a post on the connection issues thing area of the forum where a person posted a impressive list of things he did that didn’t work). RIP Gw2.

Anodyne.5497:

What exactly do you mean by rubber banding? I have been getting a problem where there is a significant delay between when I push a button and when my character actually acts, is this what you are talking about?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Input-Delay-Dependent-on-FPS/first#post952921

Rubberbanding means when you do something, and you keep doing it, even past when you want to stop. In this case, walking. Ode to ghosts of games past where you could use a rubberband to hold down a key, and thus have your char do something repetidly or continually.

Rubberbanding has become a common issue since lost shores. My computer just fell victum to some arcane issue that dosn’t even have a proper community name yet. I’m gone from GW2 (now and then at events aside) until they fix these problems.

MrsAngelD.6971:

They Left for LOTRO? (having left LOTRO for GW2) I have to say that would scare me ….lol.

Story of my last 2 years. Byebye.

AcidicVision.5498:

You all forgot the Black Lion Trading post being fully stocked with Wintersday items!

- Unidentified holiday red dye
- Unidentified holiday green dye
- Unidentified holiday dye pack
- Two costumes that will take up twelve spaces in bank storage
- Toymakers chest with candy, snowballs, tonics, a chance for a holiday hat and gloves, rare weapons skins and minis (weapon skins < 5% chance, minis < 1% chance)

/smh

I hope I’m wrong about all of that.

Scritt IQ Test Subject: gasp You read miiinnndddssss!!!’

…when you look for a period and 4 numbers at the end of every name you see.

When you start overusing the word ‘Shiny!’ (fyi i’ve been using it in that context for years, origional idea came from FFVI’s Gau)

Hmmm… lots of technical problems lately, i’m gona try going back to LOTRO as well. maybe.

Myself (and others – been looking through forums now and then) have been experiencing a slimier issue. For me, when i log on i usually get 5-10 mins of perfect connection, then a period of latency starts which compounds over the next half hour at the most, ending with my computer shutting down mysteriously. THIS IS NOT A OVERHEAT PROBLEM. If anyone could figure out exactly what is happening to my compute… and find a way to fix it. Guild Wars 2 isn’t unplayable yet, but its spiraling down there.

I’m having the same issue with my PC. Just started today. Any know exactly what the problem is? I can play maybe 20 mins at a time, which hopefully will be enough to participate in non-world event festivals. However i wish to see this resolved before any more world events.

My problem is that after logging on (3-20m after usually) my computer begins to lag, which gradually becomes worse until it shuts off unexpectidly. My guild says it is probably a memory leak (i got plenty of fans). Is this probably the issue, or are there other possible explenations?

I’ve had weird luck with keys. Right now i have 8 (the last 23 days worth of keys) saved up for wintersday. The best way to get them is map completions.

…beacuse it continues GW1’s tried and tested tradition of offering only non tradeable, cosmetic rewards from world events. Oh, wait…

The engineer mainly focuses on charr tech right now. Asura tech offers skill possibilities that would allow the engineer to grow in power as the other classes undoubtably will in full campeigns of the future.

If anyone cares, a really good thread started by RedBaron got put into the poll thing.

Worst Crow.3972:

Iarkrad.8415:

Worst Crow.3972:

please refrain from flaming and having discussions on here
this thread was intended for data gathering only
so please just answer the survey

They merged a discussion thread into this one. So looks like you’re going to have to put up with me and Red.

then create your own thread

Red might create another one. I’m gona go look. Who knows, maybe when they merge it, they’ll do it right this time.

Worst Crow.3972:

please refrain from flaming and having discussions on here
this thread was intended for data gathering only
so please just answer the survey

They merged a discussion thread into this one. So looks like you’re going to have to put up with me and Red.

Who didn’t see this one coming?

mulch.2586:

RedBaron.6058:

Why not giving a chest to whomever did not got 1 today by mail?

Any sense of the history of this fiasco would lead to the prediction — they could spend weeks on it, execute it, and not only would it crash the servers, but it’ll distribute to all the wrong people all over again.

I think them fixating on the chest/loot isn’t helping assuage the disappointment.

Better to apologize and move ahead.

Can anyone find a page, interview or forum thread on these forums or fansite’s where anyone even semi-official gives a blunt apology? Bonus points if they actually admit what they’ve done wrong or even that they did something wrong.

Red,

This is my idea of a compromise. This gives everyone a fair shot at the game-breaking chest while minimizing the impact on the economy. It far from perfect, hell its far from fair, but it will make everyone slightly happier and hopefully the devs won’t make this ‘kitten’ again.

PS: nice points earlier in this thread. I agree with you on almost everything.
PSS: My sympathy to whatever part-time broke gamer gets two Dusks and can’t sell them.

End this madness. Send everyone else a chest (preferably with ALL of it’s contents auto bind to account) and agree never to award tradeable or non-cosmetic items from world events again.

Did not attend
Purely out of low expectations

I can’t give a unbiased opinion of this fiasco, but i can say that i am deeply insulted.

Lande.5782:

Wait… people who didn’t even attend want a chest for doing nothing? Seriously?

‘people’ that didn’t attend chose not too because of the disappointing previous live events. I am among those who were prepared to happily ignore it. There are also many, including my brother, that could not attend due to real life obligations. This chest breaks with a tried and proven tradition of Guild Wars to shy away from excessively difficult/expensive to obtain or tradeable valuables. A twenty slot chest (granted, one i would’nt use in a thousand years, but still a valuable item to most people), a celestial accessory (probably taking at least 70g to get now) and PRECURSORS!

Those traditions have now been blown into a thousand pieces. The best solution is to let the dissenters and those who couldn’t attend have a shot at the chest as well. I am not concerned in this because of wanting the box or the accessory. I would probably destroy both within a week for various reasons. They were also bound, which was considerable foresight for a otherwise vary impulsive looking loot table. Precursors though, might stand to create a new tradition that would be incredibly destructive to the game’s economy, akin to the impact of gold sellers.

Oh, and all the people who tried to attend, but for various reasons couldn’t get in. I can’t imagine exactly how it would work, but i really don’t doubt this.

If they are tuely gone… i know a alternative, you can buy a consumable after a event in the oily lake in southeast fireheart rise. The consumable, when used, creates a ‘Ember’ summon. The ember should be well known to anyone who fights flame legion much, they fly around and create a lot of fire fields, but do relativity little damage and are sorta frail. Still vary useful for certain skill points and with orrians.

Argis.7049:

The racial skills are worse than the profession skills by design. It’s not going to change. ArenaNet made it this way on purpose so that what race you picked did not have any influence over how powerful you could be. It’s done like this for the sake of cross-race balance.

This idea is all and well, but (nearly) every race has vary real good skills. Human’s only one is hounds. Asura get great condition damage utilities and golems, particularly on engineer. Sylvari get plant allies things. Charr get Charzooka, hella fun to use in WvW

Keep them – they’re far more imposing than any spiky armor.

Ironically, thief is pretty much the only condition build that dosn’t combine precision and condition damage.

I want the tengu to become playable. Largos? Sure.

What made me shine away from humanity is our resemblance to norns.

The Centaur war is more or less a part of the situation in Tyria and has been for some time (over 5 years at least). However, It’s significance is that the Human PC faces and defeats the high lord of the centaurs, Ulgoth the Mighty, in combat. Ulgoth is a elementalist of great power, and while the PC is not initially able to slay Ulgoth, he shows the potential to end the bloody war. This later happens in a meta event, where Ulgoth is faced again, and slain.

Ranger – Night – The sun and magma burnt the earth, but one cavern was spared. In that cavern was ten thousand seeds, which grew and bloomed into a world of pale branches.
Necromancer – Night – A black hole vanquished by six stars: one white, one yellow, one bloodred, one blue and two green. Yet from that hole came one small shard of onyx, which grew larger until all the sky was devoid of stars. The onyx was unshakable and absolute, yet one crack began to form in the southern sky.

You nuke Orr in the 75ish priory story. Satisfying, but sadly not lasting.

Do the hounds inherit their summoner’s full condition damage score and are they generally good in condition damage builds.

You need a vial of condensed mists, 250 of a fine crafting material of the max tier (which one you use will determine the stats of the object you create), 50 ectoplasm and a whole lotta crystals or philosiphor stones (which one you use determines whether you get a bow or book, as well as determining if the object you create has a offensive or defensive infusion slot)

I’ve been looking at the Whisper’s Secret Weapon set both on wiki and the equipment preview. The wiki says that whispers’ axe and dagger ‘fold’. Can anyone actually tell me what this means? Also, if anyone has a Whisper’s Pistol, can anyone tell me if it’s silenced?

Right now i’m using P/D (shortbow for groups) and D/D with both mainhands using doom and offhand using corruption. I plan on getting nightmere runes, and my utilities are hide in shadows (yup), caltrops, blinding powder (shadow refuge for groups), signet of shadows (Infiltrator’s signet for groups) and Thief’s guild (yup, major distraction = major survivability boost, great for large mobs and skill point bosses). I haven’t got the points or manuals to trait vary far into trickery yet, but i can already manage 24 bleeds on anything that manages to stay alive long enough. One disadvantage of carrion equipmenting (although right now i have to split between pow/prec and cond/prec) is my enemy dosn’t usually live long enough for the bleeds to stack up vary far :P.

Edit: ATM i’m primary PvE. I do PvP, but not often. Still, PvP builds are often the best in PvE as well.

Bite the bullet. I already did fractals monthly, with the assumption that i will almost certenly not do any more FotM during this month. I’m going to endevour to finish the WvW monthly (which has been a long standing part of the PvE monthly) before the wintersday begins.

Tripwire issues.

If you’re anything but condition build, its defenetly shortbow. If you are a condition class, shortbow is still good in WvW due to Carrion Condition builds having lots of power and condition damage, which fuels the thief’s damage. Shortbow / P/D is arguable in dungeons, just bring both and switch time and time again. P/D is hands down better in solo PvE.

Stealth should not be removed. I use a thief that is not overly reliant on stealth and am satisfied with the thief as it is now.

^ Right what it says up there. The Whisper’s Secret Pistol has a visible silencer, but is it silenced?

This is vary intriguing. I’ve played condition builds on nearly all the other classes, but the thief works a bit differently… Carrion instaid of Rabid? Intriguing. I’m going to try some of these ideas out myself. If anyone else could post some more of their own condition thief builds, i would be grateful.

I have a lot of experience running condition builds, but with the thief it lacks a lot of the tools and toys other classes have that allows them to excel in a condition build. For the time being, i’m going to stick with crit build (a first for me) but i will still consider the condition thief.

What the thief DOES have that would excel in a condition build
Traps: Traps always excel in any condition build, but they are always situational
Venoms: These provide a great amount of debuff/cc as well as a single terrific condition skill: one that adds poison to attacks. This makes such a build potentally viable, particularly with Lotus Poison
Serpent’s Touch, Lotus Poison: A terrific boost to your hands down best condition skill, and a great controll addition to one of the classes most seen assets. Traiting far enough into Deadly Arts is a must for any prospective condition thief.
Steal: Most of the skills stolen from enemies are terrific condition based skills. Although it would take heavy traiting into trickery to make the most of it, it has considerable potental
Sundering Strikes: Most of the best condition builds, in my opinion, have high precision to take advantage of earth sigils, as well as many built-in chances on crits. While the thief’s sole trait chance is underwhelming, it does go well with rabid gear
Shadow Arts, Acrobatics and Stealth: This unholy trinity makes the thief a lot harder to kill then nearly any other condition build could be, if used right.
Shortbow: Great AoE and two amasing condition skills. This weapon, however, is weighed down by the fact that it’s auto attack has no base condition. However, use cluster bomb enough and… maybe it will become truly effective. Cluster Bomb in particular is a great skill and can really punch up the shortbow’s damage to the greatest of condition weapons, but its far more tedious then even grenades to use well.
Dagger: The auto attack has poison, but no bleeds or confusion. This will trigger Lotus, weakening your enemy to the point where being in meele range to begin with is viable. Death Blossom is nice, but with all honesty i havn’t got enough experience with duel daggers to make a informed opinion of their effectiveness for condition spamming.
Pistol: Finally, something that looks like it belongs in a condition build. The auto attack inflicts bleed. A ‘survival set’ of pistol and dagger will keep you alive with great efficiency.
Harpoon Gun: Another good condition weapon, the only one in the entire class that, at a glance, is built around conditions as a source of damage.
Dagger Storm: I don’t have a lot of experience with this either, but it appears to be a potent condition skill.

What Thieves DON’T have.
The simple fact that Thieves only possess one terrestrial skill capable of inflicting bleed on the auto attack, as well as the lack of a critical trigger trait that causes a damaging condition, weigh this class’ viability as a condition damage dealer down tremendous. This is a shame, because otherwise this class has a tremendous of potential for the task.

Discuss

Edit: Removed items from my list weighing to the idea of a critical/condition thief as a source of extra bleeds (as is so common with nearly every other class’ condition build).

This idea has potential, especially considering that the necro and Mesmer would probably receive some use of this as well.

Btw you should’ve put this on the ‘suggestions’ forum.

1) How do i obtain Final Rest?
2) Does it synch with the Necromancer’s inherit reap shadow?

Final Rest