Guild Wars 2

Concentration
this boon when removed or runs out heals for 250hp for every second it was active, if any other boons expire or are removed while concentration is up they shatter doing 725 damage for each boon removed in a 450 range around you.

(thought of this kind of like a reverse of the illusion of pain from gw1, and also a way to protect boons/counter boon stealing) the numbers may need to be changed a bit though.

ah thank you for the update I almost never use gluebomb in my rotation so never noticed.

as I stated above yes fire bomb does work that way with steel packed powder but I believe that glue bomb was changed so that it doesn’t apply it the same way quote from the wiki “Bug: as of the June 25 patch, the ticks of cripple after the initial explosion do not proc Steel-Packed Powder or Shrapnel.” not sure about the smoke bomb though.

ah thank you for the correction

Lucey.1452:

coglin.1867:

Xyonon.3987:

Grenades deal more damage than bombs in a team since they stack vulnerability much easier.

Wait…Wha…..I am maxing the cap of vulnerability with bombs. What logic allows grenades to do more damage when reaching the same cap?

Let’s do the math. With bombs 1 explosion every 0.5 seconds. Vuln from steel-packed powder lasts 6.5 seconds (assuming 30 in Explosives). Using precise sights you have a 50% chance to cause 3s (3.9s) of vuln on crits (lets say best case you have 100% crit chance). As such, you will only be able to maintain on average 17 vuln as a bomb engineer. If you also do sitting duck you will be able to bump this up to 22 vuln pretty easily. However with the amount of vuln spam from the other professions in your team comp, 25 should be easily maintained. As such, grenade vuln stacking is pretty overkill, and not needed for most organized groups. Also, the loss of fire fields and blast finishers with running a pure grenade build is something that should not be overlooked.

You aren’t completely correct in your math, as bombs such as fire bomb cause one stack vulnerability per time that it ticks burning, meaning that since fire bomb procs burning 4 times it is effectively able to bump you up to the 25 vulnerability stacks (not sure if smoke bomb still works like this). http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.5g.h1.e.5g.h1h.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e|2s.0.2s.0.3s.0.3s.0.2s.0.2s.0|u37b.0.0.a1.u269|0.0|2c.2f.2e.2u.30|e this is the build I usually run though gives plenty of vulnerability as well as about 15-21 stacks of might for the group just cycle through grenade 2 then grenade 4, grenade barrage, and some bomb 1 spam when not stacking might with firebomb.

as I suggested last time someone asked this, the archivist sanctum [Lore] is a good one Konig Des Todes.2086 is the GL.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.5g.h1.e.5g.h1h.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e|2s.0.2s.0.3s.0.3s.0.2s.0.2s.0|u37b.0.0.a1.u269|30.0|2c.2u.2f.2e.30|e here is the build I run for most dungeons (I switch out different skills and traits for different situations) but this allows for and easy 18 stacks of might for your group (possible to get 21 if u use supply crates blast too), while doing good vulnerability stacking and decent damage.

many people including myself used them as a cheaper means to level weapon crafting from 400-500 as they were cheaper than other tier 6 materials such as powerful blood, so many of them were used and taken out of the market that way. decreasing supply while it was increasing demand, leading to an increase in price.

draxynnic.3719:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

there are quite a few problems with your arguments here,
one, the huge laser cannons that you mention none of them that are seen in game are owned by asura, the ones by tequatl are vigil owed, fort trinity the pact, the thing similar to one used in taking back claw island priory, the one on the glory of tyria is also pact,

A similar argument would be made for a lot of the charr tech that we see in Orr, some of which we’re explicitly told were made to work due to collaborations.

The megalasers, however, are clearly asura technology and made by asura, even if the ones we see have been seconded to the Pact. There are, also, some cases of similarly powerful weapons being used by the Inquest – the test weapon to the south of the Maelstrom zone, for instance.

I don’t see this in any case other than the pact airships but I wasn’t including these in charr weaponry, I was including the submarines though which were found in the sea of sorrows book, and in the Iron Barracuda event, on the area of the charr helicopter I might have to agree with you it seems they were close to getting a working model but not quite there yet this video demonstrates this

there are quite a few problems with your arguments here,
one, the huge laser cannons that you mention none of them that are seen in game are owned by asura, the ones by tequatl are vigil owed, fort trinity the pact, the thing similar to one used in taking back claw island priory, the one on the glory of tyria is also pact, and to top it all off if all of these work in the same way that the one on the glory of tyria works it would be a massive failure against the charr siege weapons, as the way they described it was that it sucked in magic from zhaitan poisoned it and then shot it back into him, this same process wouldn’t seem to damage metal.

second, you do an incredible underestimation of organization in military units for a better example please look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War

third, golems aren’t necessarily made for war, and the charr war machines give them the advantage on sea and in the air (as they had working prototypes of both of these weapons before joining the pact)

fourth, birth rates as charr are felines it seems that they would larger birth rates as well as a larger population to begin with (assuming the constant warfare hasn’t killed more than are being reproduced)

fifth, could you please show me your source for perfect logistics because I had never seen anything along those lines and if true that is very interesting.

sixth, transportation this is their greatest strength if they were to go to war with any race, I wrote earlier how I believe that the charr have prepared for this in case of invasion, but even if they did the charr would only be able to prevent movement within their own territory.

seventh, wealth this is where I see an amazing asuran strength is their wealth and possible ability to hire mercenaries.

(may continue the list later)

Kveldulf from guild wars 1 were two headed wolf/tiger creatures that were found in the far shiverpeaks, they were said to be offspring of Fenrir. have they been driven to extinction, as it seems that they would’ve been forced south like every other species to escape the onslaught of Jormag and its minions. Or is this just another situation like the dinosaurs and hydra’s from Gw1?

do we know what state menzies is in currenly, its been 250 years since his army was pushed back in the fissure of woe, was his army destroyed at that time or just forced to retreat, does the in game item the fate of menzies tell us anything about his current status, it looks quite skeletal and on fire (making it seem plausible that Balthazar the half brother he was warring against burnt him to death? after all Balthazar was the god of fire)

spoj.9672:

The funny thing is the the aggressive posts and insults usually come from those that we are trying to give information to first. Ive given really polite feedback before only to be completely insulted on a personal level just because the guy didnt like me or didnt agree with my mind set towards the game. I replied rather politely saying that was uncalled for and he reported me and got me infracted somehow. Some of the people who actively accuse “elitists” of being jerks are far more offensive and insulting and really should take a closer look at what they post. I tend to avoid reporting partly because stuff on the internet doesnt bother me but also because I prefer others to see how rude and deluded those people really are despite not being “elitists”.

hmm remember the example of our sweaty nerdy dungeon runs compliments of the engineer forums…ah good times.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Dungeon-usefulness-list/page/3

Infamous Culverin (charr engineer, formerly known as Aquila Dark of the former dark warband in Diessa plateau) known for his invention of the charged gauntlets, a type of electrified gloves originally made for a way to stun enemies who managed to move into close quarters but later developed into a way to prep explosions to keep the flow of ammunitions downrange continuous.

Backstory:
When the assault of the dredge and flame legion alliance came down from the north both his cub and his mate were stationed at burnt hollow, both were overwhelmed and killed in the early phases of this blitzkrieg attack, his warband was moved to defend the refugees fleeing from the dredge flame legion alliance, one day while scouting the road his warband was attacked and nearly whipped out by a flame legion force led by the Vidius Flame Tribune, the tribune was killed but all of the dark warband was killed save for Aquilla who was left for dead, he was found 13 hours later by Warmaster Buron Threestrike and was nursed back to health by the Vigil, after losing his warband, he gave up his old name and joined the vigil. Infamous Culverin spends his days working as a forward scout and sapper for the vigil, he was given special leave from the iron legion by Tribune Kyranith Steelgrip.

Personality:
Quiet charr who prefers to listen rather than talk, with a quick wit. Infamous still considers himself to be an honorable warrior and prefers not to fight weakened or crippled enemies if possible, but he’s no fool and makes sure to never let his guard down.

Quote:
Each scar is a lesson, you must learn from those mistakes, lest you need to be retaught.

This was the best I could come up with on the fly.

Thank you for the response Anthony glad to see you didn’t mean it as an offense, also glad to see that you have laid out the reasoning for why you at anet have decided to implement it this way, maybe to get people to use signets for things other than just their passive effect? but even so with all of this the engineer community in this game feels left out in many areas, as much of the end game is about customization, we lose out on the customization of our back piece, and our weapons generally through the main power of the engineer comes through kits which hide all of these things, we have been left out on the update to damage through kits to upgrade them to ascended level, and now we feel like we are being excluded from more newly introduced rewards to the game (first through different back pieces, but now through stats with a rune set that we are the only class excluded from its “full item set” benefit).

It just feels like the straws are piling up and many engineer’s backs are getting tired.

Boysenberry.1869:

2. Definitely any Asura that tried to gate to the Black Citadel would meet a quick end. But they would use the many gates scattered throughout the world to move supplies, move their tech, move their krewes in front of or behind any Charr army. The Charr can’t guard them all and most likely nobody but the Asura know where they are all located.

3. If anything, I think this is something the Inquest would love to see happen. Hundreds of panicked Asura all arguing amongst each other and sharing thousands of conflicting ideas on how to resolve it. It would be in the Inquest’s best interest to help the rest of the Asura (they need someone to steal tech from!). They have the advantage of having no ethics whatsoever and will use as many dishonorable acts they need to to defeat the Charr. They would be hailed as heroes and might even consume Asura society entirely. Inquest, Asura Overlords!

2) The problem here is that if the charr went to such great lengths to booby trap and have a constant watch on the asura gate I would assume that they have also made preparations to destroy all waypoints in charr held lands if necessary. I just don’t see a militarily based society allowing unrestricted movement through their land.

3) I personally can’t see the inquest as heroes, I find them more along the lines of just trying to save protect or empower themselves, not necessarily the asuran race as a whole, I think this is demonstrated perfectly by Brie in path 2 of arah as she phases out of reality herself but leaves behind all of her inquest minions.

this quote mainly “Breach! Broken! Falling! Screaming! Dying!”

definitions
Breach = a gap in a wall, barrier, or defense, esp. one made by an attacking army.
Broken = having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order.
Falling = move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level.

these first two words in this series lead to falling screaming and dying, my guess would be a security measure was breached causing some failure in some vulnerability in an important component which was destroyed(broken) (my guess would be this component is what held up this floating city) that held up this asuran city like area, I say floating city because for something to fall it has to be above ground level or the ground would have to collapse for it to descend. Also the raving asura ends by saying abandoned, meaning for whatever reasons the fall of this “city” wasn’t documented or looked into, so we may be able to assume that nothing was adapted in Rata Sum to defend against another similar situation happening. (my personal theory is that because of the size of this “city” it was one of the greater underground cities and that it’s destruction may have been caused by primordius’s minions, this is supported a bit by the roots which appear around the structure, but could be refuted by the existence of harpies in the area which prefer higher location to make their nests)

personally I like the legendary shield FSP on my engineer and I feel that it fits quite well, with the pulsating aura from the shield I generally imagine it to be based on sonic technology like dredge weaponry. That being said my current objective is collecting 100,000 piles of putrid essence /shrug.

ronpierce.2760:

Also; Runes of the Soldier, my necro doesn’t have shouts. QQ

but you see this is not the same as three professions have the ability to use shouts (ranger, guardian, and warrior) which leaves out 5 proffessions, while on the other had this new rune includes all but one profession, so if an update comes where every profession other than necros get new skills that include shouts, and necro gets new skills but none are shouts then we can have a comparison…also I believe anet said they were working on getting all profession the ability to use all weapon types, so your necro with great sword may not be as far off as you think.

your theory here has a few problems
1) the charr have access to the sea and already constructed shipyard (if it still exists) in the area around mount maelstrom I believe is where warband from the gw2 book sea of sorrows came from.
2) While if asura were to ever try to go on the attack you will notice that their asura gates are monitored and ready to be destroyed if necessary.
3) the asura are united through their krewes, but they are not a united military force (their best chance at forming a defense against a charr attack would be from asura possibly former pact members, or veterans of the mist war), this is an incredibly important issue as the charr are a military culture with all the discipline and training, not all asura are prepared to fight in a war either through training, mental state, or experience.
4) the capital city of the asura rata sum is in a precarious predicament, we have already seen that in the uncategorized fractal that these floating asuran cities have a very real weak spot that a well aimed attack could end the war right as it starts. (made me think of the death star)

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

yes but the Khan ur was alive before the year 100be meaning the last time a charr nation was uniting all four legions was 1426years ago, while it has been longer since the Macedonian empire under alexander the great (2346 years), I don’t believe anyone today would call a war between Greece and Egypt a civil war (even though they were both united under alexander the great as part of his Macedonian empire), there has been too much time that has pasted in both situations to consider either one to be united kingdom.

There’s a huge flaw in your argument. That flaw is that Greece and Egypt are not the same nations as those which Alexander’s nation divided into. The charr, on the other hand, are the same nations – and they were also united under the Flame Legion for 200 years, though that’s probably more comparative to an empire with its vassal states having usurped the main nation.

Ok but then the argument could be changed to a war between Iran and Iraq, wouldn’t be considered a civil war…I also don’t see how you say that my earlier argument is flawed if you don’t mind explaining in more detail, also the flame legion never truly united the other legions and established a new khan ur they came close but they failed, similar to Edward III, and the black prince during the first part of the hundred years war. (there are far better examples but with the exodus of the bloody prince and Halloween I couldn’t pass it up)

When using elixir X as an engineer if you get rampager you can pick up and use Fiery Greatsword, Lightning Hammer and other such conjured weapons.

just as a point I believe 3 classes have access to shouts (warriors, guardians, and rangers who everyone forgets)

Durzlla.6295:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Shall we give Kits to all other professions so they can properly utilize Rune of the Engineer?

aren’t conjured weapons also considered a bundle item? meaning it is not exclusive to all but one profession, while runes of resistance are inclusive to all professions except one…?

Runes of the ranger work on every prof but warrior (only prof who doesn’t have a “pet” option), you were saying?

true if it were working properly that would be the case…but its not and you get the 6th bonus no matter what…so currently no profession is excluded by it rendering your point void, if you come back and tell me when the rune is no longer bugged and doesn’t give everyone that 5% damage bonus I’ll agree with you.

Phineas Poe.3018:

Dharknite.7906:

There are runes that will clearly benefit certain armor types more so than others and state so in the name( Rune of the Soldier, etc.) There are runes that benefit specific professions and state so in the name (Rune of Ranger etc.) I do not think that is problem.

I do think it is a problem when they add a new rune that the requires a signet to use the 6pc bonus, and engineer don’t have signets. With the exception of Rune of Soldier(which oddly enough gives the most benefit to soldier classes), runes that have a skill use proc use either heal skills or elite skills which every profession has. An on demand aegis can be a good defensive tool, and depending on cooldown of the proc, OP for players who use mulitple signets already.

Shout runes aren’t the only ones. If you cannot self-stack Might, Might Duration runes are useless to you. It increases the duration of Might that you apply, not those from your allies. The same goes for any boon runes. Rune of the Forge is one of the best runes available in WvW for a FT Engineer. Increased Protection from Protection Injection, increased burning, and an AoE Fire Blast. It’s pretty useless for most others.

The same can be said for a lot of condition duration runes. Would any Guardian grab 2 Runes of the Centaur for +15% Bleed Duration? Of course not. There are a ton of runes in this game that are outright useless for certain classes. For once we’re on the receiving end of it, after already having made excellent use of one of the most recent additions: Rune of Perplexity.

Overblown.

This may be overblown but the reasoning is that there are other runes that a majority of classes(but I don’t think there is any other example of 7 proffessions being able to use a rune or sigil that the 8th couldn’t) can use but it becomes strange and engineers start to feel like the odd person out when every other class can take advantage of the highest tier of this rune other than them…also all classes can stack might by themselves so I’m not sure where you are getting this from with the might duration runes.

Couldn’t is too strong of a word but that all of its functionality wont work for just one profession.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Shall we give Kits to all other professions so they can properly utilize Rune of the Engineer?

aren’t conjured weapons also considered a bundle item? meaning it is not exclusive to all but one profession, while runes of resistance are inclusive to all professions except one…?

yes but the Khan ur was alive before the year 100be meaning the last time a charr nation was uniting all four legions was 1426years ago, while it has been longer since the Macedonian empire under alexander the great (2346 years), I don’t believe anyone today would call a war between Greece and Egypt a civil war (even though they were both united under alexander the great as part of his Macedonian empire), there has been too much time that has pasted in both situations to consider either one to be united kingdom.

Also I suppose that yes the separatist could very much be considered a civil war against the ebon vanguard, although it seems they are far more focused on their enemies in the charr. On another matter would you consider Ascalon to be a city state now or do you consider it to still be a nation because of the ascalon settlement in gendaran fields(seems like it is under krytan rule but I believe there was a noble or senator of sorts that didn’t consider the settlement part of their(krytan) nation and didn’t deserve protection from centaur attacks or something along those lines.)

Bombsaway.7198:

Keep it simple. Look at the game in whole versus in parts. Comment after on which parts/balance led to one class getting the nerf over the other.

sorry saw this now after I had finished my long edit, I can delete it if you would like.

This depends a lot for different kinds of content WvW, spvp, open world pve, or dungeons

Dungeons

engineers can keep up 25 stacks of might for the group but not fury, they are great at condition removal from allies, and vulnerability application. the engineer is unfortunately lacking in the area of projectile reflection and destruction, as bugs often cause skills like toss elixir u to fall through uneven terrain and have no effect at all (no smoke wall or reflect wall appearing), you can learn how to place it more effectively but its still a problem. Engineer also has limited use of stability, and many combo fields with tons of blast finishers for different situations, such as stealth, might, area heal, ect.

engineer vs. elementalist (I believe ele wins this one)
elementalist can keep up high to max stacks of might and fury for the group by themselves, they also have conjured weapons, and a large area field that destroys projectiles, higher damage through FGS, and LH. Can also give plenty of boons through aura sharing.

engineer vs. guardian (I believe guardian wins this one)
guardian can take all conditions from party members, strong in stability, reflects, and projectile destruction. guardian is a good source of blinds, might stacking and area healing. Also good for area control against trash mobs. also group quickness through the tome of wrath I believe. also has strength in numbers trait for extra group toughness(never see anyone run it though).

engineer vs. Mesmer (I think Mesmer wins this one too)
Mesmer, great reflects through a traited focus, group quickness through Timewarp, decent vulnerability application through shatters, also has group steal similar to engineer and thief (I think Mesmer is worse then both thief and engineer at group stealth personally). Mesmer also has a bit of group stability and condition removal through mantras and null field. can have bad damage if phantasms are all their damage and getting destroyed too frequently. It also has portal to speed up certain dungeons or get people past difficult areas.

engineer vs. necromancer(I believe engineer wins this one)
Decent vulnerability application, plenty of blinds and protection from enemy conditions. hard to get cleave damage (don’t feel that staff really counts but it is similar) [my knowledge on necro is limited if someone else would like to add]

engineer vs. ranger (I feel this one is the closest but I give a slight edge to ranger because of its unique abilities in spotter and spirit of frost that no other profession can do)
able to stack a small amount of might but a ton of fury through warhorn, and the moa(think its the red one) spotter trait for 7% extra crit chance to your whole party, also giving 7% more damage to the party through traited spirits, as well as protection, and a full party rez with the elite spirit could be similar to warbanner.

engineer vs. theif (I give this one to theif because of it’s higher single target damage and its ability to give group vigor[I’d say this one is up for debate though])
Thief has tons of invisibility, and blast finishers (through shortbow 2 skill). very high single target damage, good at removing defiant stacks if needed. can provide group swiftness and fury with a small amount of might and group vigor all off their steal skill.

engineer vs. warrior (I give this one to warrior)
warrior has tons of banners, blast finisher, vulnerability application. it has a group res (warbanner) and can stack a lot of might and fury. has a unique trait in empower allies.

Now all of this being said I still run a majority of dungeons on my engineer, and the difference between rank one and rank eight isn’t insurmountable.

oh I wasn’t saying it was a bad thing I just was thinking of if I got them that was the way that I might use them…and that others may complain about thieves blocking while stealthed.

“New Dungeon! Enter the Fractals of the Mists

Introducing a dungeon experience like no other—Fractals of the Mists! You’ll be pitted against a series of unique “fractal” mini-dungeons that get harder and harder as you progress, giving you unlimited levels of challenge! With great risk comes great reward, including new weapon sets, a back-slot item, new Ascended loot, and much more!"

This is the quote form the official page when it was first released, so in fact it wasn’t stated that there was a hard cap at fractal level 50 but rather the opposite…

interesting had forgotten that part at the end of crucible of eternity, thank you for that. but I don’t think the war between the flame legion and the other three high legions could be considered a civil war, as they had been allied for a time but their period of unification under one strong government(the Khan-Ur) was so short that they can’t legitimately be considered one nation state or republic, it is most certainly a war I just don’t think it falls under the definition of a civil war.

…but really what do you think of the new runes from fractals, with aegis on signet usage, I expect to see some thieves in wvw using this rune set with assassin’s signet for safer and still high damage backstabs. Any other ideas for its usage?

oh I can already see it backstabbing thieves who pop assassin’s signet before a backstab now get the bonus of a near no risk backstab through use of aegis.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The seers fell during the previous Elder Dragon rise, and the mursaat fell only in 1072 AE – over 11,000 years post the ED going to sleep. The mursaat fled the world during the previous ED rise, thus preserving their species.

And as said, the dwarves’ fall was not due to the civil war. The Stone Summit lost the war in 1072 AE and got exiled into the Far Shiverpeaks. Within 50 years, they had returned and reintegrated with Deldrimor, before the race underwent the Rite of the Great Dwarf. What caused the dwarves’ fall was that ritual, not the civil war.

And one can argue that the Forgotten have yet to fall – they, like the mursaat had done – merely went into the Mists. It seems their race split into two groups during the Exodus – one remaining with Glint, the other going with the Six Gods. Those who went with Glint have by all our knowledge – or rather, lack thereof – has probably died off during Prophecies by the hands of the PCs during the Ascension tests. But the other group likely, again by all our (lack of) knowledge, still thrives in the Mists.

I don’t really see the modern races following this path. And if any group were to go the route of the Forgotten, it would be the humans. Reason being is that they already have a history of making wars with other groups (centaurs, themselves, charr, tengu, etc.) and they are the most likely to go to the Mists after their time has come – following after the Six Gods. I also cannot see the norn falling to civil war – they’re too independent for this, as are the asura. Furthermore, the only unitedly hostile group of norn are the Sons of Svanir who’d die off with the threat of Jormag. The other races… well, I cannot really see any one race dying off except possibly humanity, to mimic the seers, nor do I see a race fleeing into the Mists to save their own hide (unless you count the Inquest as all asuranity). And on top of this, all playable races have threats of civil war (Renegades/Flame Legion; Bandits/Separatists; Nightmare Court; Sons of Svanir; Inquest).

very interesting points everyone and thank you, but I do question that all races have the threat of civil war, because as far as I know
1) the inquest is a legitimate group in the eyes of the arcane council, their morals maybe different but they don’t go outside the law (or maybe they just pay off the right people)
2) the four high legions seem to be more like countries then states, as they were only ever completely unite by one monarch like figure (the Khan-ur).
3) I suppose most separatists would be considered Ascolonians, so that would probably be considered more along the lines of war/terrorism, but if there was a bandit uprising I suppose that would be a potential civil war.
4) the other two I agree on.

Interesting Ideas, but there are a few problems

1) there were actually 5 titan battle quests in Gw1 all five are listed HERE it seems the one you failed to mention was the quest that would’ve been very close to the great northern wall (probably in southern Iron Marches, or southern Diessa Plateau) [could be wrong on the location cant check atm]

2) While the titans did come from the Realm of Torment, its only partially true that the were servants of abbadon, as I believe The Fury a general of Dhuum that was also imprisoned in the realm of torment created the titans within the foundry of failed creations by twisting tormented souls.

3) I never noticed the titans to have 6 eyes, and the six eyes I always just attributed to being demonic, from abbadon’s servants in the margonites and himself, to the oni being servants of kanaxi, and finally I believe the greater darknesses also had 6 eyes and they were servants of Dhuum.

edit: as a side note lions arch was not destroyed when orr was sunk by vizier khilbron (undead lich), but later when Zhaitan rose orr it flooded lions arch and was rebuilt later by cobiah mariner.

looking back at the 5 elder races of tyria, we have the Jotun and the Dwarves both of which greatly damaged their civilizations through civil war, then we have the Mursaat and the Seer the two elder races who fought each other, and finally we have the Forgotten who didn’t battle against any of the other elder races but have fought against several of the playable races in GW2 (charr, humans [margonites and elonians], and demons).

Unfortunately it looks like the current 5 playable races could easily fall into a similar pattern if they are able to defeat the elder dragons, the truce between the charr and humans will most likely be broken and follow the path the mursaat and seer took before them.

The sylvari and norn I would assume are the most likely to fall to civil wars once the dragons are defeated, the wardens against the nightmare court, and the wolfborn against the SoS (I cant see the SoS allowing their “spirit animal” to be killed without a fight).

The asura match up with the forgotten, their problems seem to be more of creating enemies of other races (many of them through experiments [ex. skritt, charr, ect.])

ah thank you for clarifying

So are you in a guild because it is quite possible that your guild had this buff running “+10% Magic Find for 72 hours” it is only a 36 hour build time so your guild could potentially have it up most of the time and it does show the difference in your hero panel if I remember correctly.

My guess would be you had a 94%magic find from achievements and your essence of luck buildup your guild had the buff up to knock you up to 104% magic find, by the time it had worn off you had consumed enough essences of luck to gain another percentage point, so when the 10% buff from guild went away it dropped you back down to 95%

RaynStargaze.6510:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

4) make a good kit refinement trait, even if it has to be moved up to master or grandmaster level.

1+2+3+4

not sure if this is making fun because I said 4 and then went and broke my own rule or if you agree with this idea?

Incurafy.6329:

a t s e.9614:

The people that hate skyhammer refuse to adapt their build . Bring CC and stability , I know you give up on some stuff but knocking people off the cliff is fun . Skyhammer is my favourite map and I don’t want it to be removed it from the game . I always win on skyhammer , 75% W\L ratio on that map , it’s where my build shines , a full CC warrior

Please remind me where my CC and Stability comes from as a Thief? I seem to have misplaced them!

Incurafy.6329:

Writetyper.1985:

Incurafy.6329:

a t s e.9614:

The people that hate skyhammer refuse to adapt their build . Bring CC and stability , I know you give up on some stuff but knocking people off the cliff is fun . Skyhammer is my favourite map and I don’t want it to be removed it from the game . I always win on skyhammer , 75% W\L ratio on that map , it’s where my build shines , a full CC warrior

Please remind me where my CC and Stability comes from as a Thief? I seem to have misplaced them!

Thieves next to engis are the main offenders of the annoying “lel scorpion wire into imob on glass panel” kitten.

That’s literally the ONLY utility that we can use to abuse the terrible design of this map, and you still haven’t pointed out where my Stability to counter the “insert word here” players who do that comes from. :P

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After playing for a few hours and getting mostly Skyhammer, I’m done. From this point onwards I will be leaving every single Skyhammer match I get, regardless of whether or not this created 4v5s, I refuse to waste 10 minutes of my time praying to FSM that the match is a quick blowout so that I can leave.

For goodness sake, Anet, we love the fact that you tried to improve the map, but the map itself is just so horribly flawed that it should NOT be in Solo Q; you removed it from Team Q for a reason! ;\

for stability I believe you could start your dagger storm and then cancel it…sorry been a while since I played thief don’t know if it still works

ran a guildie through arah path 4 to get her the second to last thing she needed for dungeon master.

actually I got another one, making our skills not have such large aftercasts and making them “cast” in the time it shows for them (ex. Grenade Bomb Tranquilizer Dart, while bomb and grenade are shown to be 1/2 second casts they are closer to a full second while tranquilizer dart is 3/4 second cast but is really 0.83 second cast, meaning out 3/4 second cast is faster than our 1/2 second cast…huh?

Banumiel.1926:

Infamous Darkness.3284:

personally I’m more worried about the buff to healing bombs being too powerful and resulting in future nerfs to be honest.

Interesting use of a braveheart reference

A warrior hits for 1k+ AOE with autoattack, a engineer heals 350. Where is the buff? Elixir-Infuse Bombs is a trait for n00bs.

except you seem to be missing that this is not the only form of regeneration engineers can get (calculations assuming 1200 Healing Power) regeneration (130+[0.125*1200]=280)+ backpack regenerator(117+[.05*1200]=177)+ elixir infused bombs (145+[.15*1200]/.92=353)+ mango pie (85) + dolyak runes (30)= 925health regained per second without using your heal skill or super elixir. I just imagine that this could make for a powerful bunker what I imagined I know there are better options but I was trying to show max regeneration while still allowing allowing a lot of defense through blocks (ex gear shield and static shield) and plenty of dodges through the sigil of energy

edit: forgot to add the buff to bombs

personally I’m more worried about the buff to healing bombs being too powerful and resulting in future nerfs to be honest.

Interesting use of a braveheart reference

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Keep in mind that ‘love’ does not always have to be romantic in nature, and the sylvari as a race are extremely young. This could simply be implying that Logan, though he considers you a friend, wouldn’t be there when you need him if Jenna where in trouble. Similarly to how Logan made the choice to abandon Destiny’s Edge to return to Kryta to save Jenna.

just a slight correction I believe he returned to ebonhawk to save Jenna, (ebonhawk is in the far southern area of ascalon)

you can salvage you globs of ectoplasm into crystalline dust btw, just incase you didn’t know.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Wow, I had no idea certain/all Legendaries or any weapon changed your skill animations. Is it mentioned on the weapon description? Or just ‘common knowledge’?

sorry but not all legendries change skill animation for example FSP for engineer your #5 skill still throws a wooden shield at your enemy and shield 4 is same animation as always.

Can it still communicate and influence the rest of the members of its hive mind? It seems like this would be an incredibly quick and efficient way for Jormag to create a small army(pun intended). They may not make the strongest of troops but there are a fair number of them, plus I assume among all of their shines they would have some artifacts with magical power that could be gifted to the dragon.

just to add to your engineer point I would say if you are running through there before you start the run you can help yourself and your group by dropping a BoB, followed by smoke bomb, then thumper turret(overcharge it detonate it than use its toolbelt rumble), you can then overcharge your shield 4 if you want to(too much might stacking that it has become ingrained) this will give your whole group a bit of stealth and you can switch out bomb kit for elixir S or something else while you are running.