Guild Wars 2

I don’t care about the animation, I just expect it to be used like a harvesting sickle and not like a mining pick. Because I’m actually harvesting, not plowing a field.

Eheh, ANet nerds. They’ve probably never been in a garden at all.

Maybe a new Naga if it worked fine for you? Or a Logitech G700?

I don’t, actually that wasn’t directed at you I probably should have quoted it:

It could be named crap tossing. The minigame sucks and the rewards suck even more.

It would be better if s/s didn’t mean that you’ll rely on two leaps, which is probably one of the most broken mechanics in the game.

We abandoned all tactics and nuked him Friday, with 8 people iirc. It was less problematic to down him than to stay alive, you just need a lot of condition removal. Shaman Arderus was harder.

Ping.5739:

I thought Jon gonna try to post a pic in one day?

Probably tried but didn’t succeed.

Isn’t time a component required in building effective gear? What if I don’t have much? Will make it even harder to find a dungeon group for people who don’t have much time to begin with.

I switched from tough/prec/cond (rabid) to full zerker and never looked back. In dungeons, you’ll have to evade anyway. I wikitten was fun to play something else, but they obviously didn’t manage to balance the different options. Even in WvW I’m doing way better with that combo.

Advert Paperer.7059:

If/when Ascended gear is released, I expect it to be automagically upgraded.

They never answered the question if this will happen when the item was transmuted, which still annoys me. I don’t want to rely on support, because they’ll just say “sorry, can’t help you with that”.

I agree, it should have one.

I’ve been in SAB once, didn’t like it and never returned. I’ve played crab toss for many hours and loved it though (and still do). Tastes differ, deal with it. Nobody forces you to play it.

I’m having a lot of fun there watching players getting killed while away in dangerous areas, reviving them and watching them die again. Stupidity has to be punished.

I’m more concerned with some attacks being hard to see before it’s too late, but Southsun has always been a bit harder than other areas. I agree that mob placement is quite dense and the respawn feels too short at times though, somehow like old Orr.

Chopps.5047:

I always advise my guild—particularly the players who dislike pvp outside of wvw—to get in on mini-game achievements early. Because after a few days the only ones still playing are the people who enjoy the game. And those people tend to have lots of skills.

Although that sounds logical, I played a few rounds yesterday again and hardly encountered any players who knew how to play. Maybe during the week.

I like crab toss, it’s a lot of fun once you know what to do. I actually exclusively played it for several hours yesterday.

I’d instantly buy one so I could change my name.

Just look at the PvP forum, there you’ll find plenty of CoD players. Most of the words I’d need now are unfortunately censored...

So they removed content by giving players an option to change weapons or utility skills? Eh... I’m sure it has balancing implications, but that logic is just twisted.

+1 for a separate (optional) loot key. Or just change the loot system so it works automatically in WvW.

You didn’t really explain what you mean when you say "weight". Reducing attack speed reduces overall speed of gameplay. Increasing numbers on the other hand doesn’t really change anything (well, except numbers). And the animation always touching the character doesn’t work because of a) lag compensation and b) scaling, all characters share the same hitbox so asura don’t have an advantage over norn or charr.

I agree, especially when playing both WvW and PvE, having to retrait all the time is just plain stupid. Even if there wasn’t an option to quickly switch builds, they should be separated for the game modes, just like for PvP.

According to the wiki, it’s an in-combat reduction.

JubeiTM.5763:

In Quake Arena speed could be obtained in various ways so keeping a speedometer on screen was important to understand the mechanics. This was optional of course and could be very easily implemented in GW2.

I guess you misunderstood his request. And while it may be easy to implement, it would be completely useless in GW2.

Carighan.6758:

Wouldn’t it make more sense to simply make each Sigil on 1H weapons only affect abilities by that weapon? For Engineers, only the Mainhand should affect kits I suppose.

What about weapon swaps? What about “on kill” sigils? That would completely break the current system.

I’m missing apostrophes, and forced capitalization is the worst idea ever. I’m playing a nobleman and would normally be called "Forename von Surname", GW2 makes it "Von" though. Also I guess many French names don’t work at all due to the lack of apostrophes. From a roleplay perspective, that’s devastating. But GW2 isn’t an MMORPG anyway as it seems, so...

I’d say bye bye low level zones then. They’re already not really lively, that would completely kill them. And most people don’t go the crafting way because it’s too much effort. Such a one-click-item would be massively used though.

Want mounts? Want to fly? Try WoW.

Yaro.3251:

BTW WvW is part of PvE realm and inherits PvE balance. Another piece of design not everyone would agree with.

They abandoned that concept with the latest separation of PvE and WvW.

It’s not required to get 25/25 achievements, just like the JP isn’t required to get 10 samples. If you can’t do it, well... then you can’t do it.
And honestly, it is actually quite easy to achieve. Just like Ambrecombe already said: grab the crab and #3 through the giant karkas. Also don’t always run around at the outer side of the arena but dodge and #3 through the middle. I automagically got it in my second round and since then it happened countless times without even trying. Usually when I see people asking for help to complete it, they don’t even try to play the actual game at all and are ranked last.

PS: if you’re a "clicker" you’ll have a hard time, using hotkeys pretty much is a requirement for crab toss (like any PvP activity).

You may as well ask why Confusing Enchantments is in domination. Or Cleansing Conflagration. They probably made it that way so you cannot make the perfect build without sacrificing something, i.e. it’s for balancing reasons.

Funny that people are still using that static guide when there’s gw2crafts.net which doesn’t even include dill (currently). Do people really always choose the first google hit? :p

Tyr.1963:

Iruwen I don’t see how you can be happy with a chance at maybe a crappy blue.

Hm, where did I say that? I usually don’t kill him at all unless I’m coincidentially stumbling into that event.

Jirafe.1305:

I have never had issues with this, and I have played 2,100+ pvp games on mes. The only time this happens is when I lose a target (it dies or goes invis) which in that case it auto targets and my clone attacks the target that auto target chose.. Maybe it would help if you actually clicked the thing you wanted to attack rather than thinking your clones will read your mind

Probably the most ignorant post I’ve ever read on these boards. You may want to try and go out of PvP to the “real world”, either WvW oder PvE.

You actually convinced me, so I’m voting for the addition of that title now as well

Only thing I agree with is that he either has way too much health for that area or that the NPCs die way too fast and thus do little to no damage.

Xavi.6591:

In my opinion, it is more of a pvp trait than pve and therefore working as it should.

As a PvE focused player, I strongly disagree. If they split it so it works differently, I don’t care. In PvE, it’s heavily broken. And in WvW it also only makes sense in very few cases. And it’s inconsistent with the rest of the game. Anyway, I also0 wouldn’t even care if it only aggroed hostile (red) enemies. In PvP modes, everything’s red anyway. Aggroing yellow mobs is broken in any possible case though.

That only tells me that they want to do it quickly and not wait for it. I almost completed all achievements now and it happened numerous times, even within one single game.

Is this supposed to happen?

Don’t know if this is a bug or working as intended, but when I attacked that tuna without being in the water, it didn’t turn red and basically did nothing at all.

Hm, I never died a single time when fighting it, and I actually even fought it alone. Just stay ranged, that’s why they gave every class an option to do so. There will be other mobs that onehit glass cannons later once they get in melee range, so better get used to some ranged action.

I’m having a problem with this because it’s counterintuitive and annoying. Also the patch notes say "summoned creatures" which to me sounds like it includes clones, so I filed a bug. I see absolutely no plausible reason why a clone should attack and aggro a nearby yellow mob, especially when it’s something like those veteran tree things that immobilizes you forever (just forgot their names).
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Clones-aggro-enemies-that-have-no-aggro-yet/

From the patch log: "Summoned creatures and pets can no longer draw aggro from enemies that have not already aggroed on their master."

This is still broken, at least for mesmer clones created by dodging (deceptive evasion trait).
Reproducing is easy: attack any mob to get in combat and then dodge next to any other non-hostile mob. The clone will attack and aggro it. See screenshots.

This is counterintuitive and annoying and can also be dangerous when it happens next to those veteran tree mobs capable of immobilizing you forever for example.

/e: yeah, Oakhearts I guess.

A suggestion with more than 500 replies and yet ANet doesn’t change this. Just shows how much they care, why even bother making suggestions at all.

It’s much easier to get crabtacular than crab toss champion, it’s just not worth a title. It just depends on luck and you’ll easily get it when playing against rookies even without ever winning.

darkshame.6025:

http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/ – This is the one i use & it’s pretty accurate most of the time.

You obviously didn’t read or understand what this thread is about…

Never heard of Oklahoma, is that somewhere in the northern Shiverpeaks?

People seem to forget (ok, ANet doesn’t really shine in that regard) that this still is an RPG. ANet doesn’t even really intervene in cases of scamming, except for rare cases. Simply because it’s your decision to trust somebody instead of using the TP, or in this case use a portal instead of doing the JP yourself. So no, it’s perfectly fine. Unless you mean real money :p

There are tons of items that have never been discovered simply because they’re not in the world but only in the data files. Those can be found on gw2db.com.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/The-state-of-Necromancer/page/3#post2062970
Maybe... just kidding, won’t happen.

Dastion.3106:

fufu.8345:

So it seems that I was misreading how the tool tip worded mind wrack. I thought each clone got a higher damage, but it was as a whole the damage was greater for each clone that was used. Thanks for clearing that up for me and taking the time to explain it to me. I just think its so strange that i can get with two clones a 3900+ crits but once i add another clone in there the crits go to 2400+

This is called non-linear scaling. Our other Shatters scale linearly, meaning the effect is the exact same per Illusion, so each Illusion adds 1/3rd if the potential max effect.

Mind Wrack scales non-linearly, most of it’s potential effect (approx 50%) comes from the first Illusion whereas additional clones add less. You deal more damage overall, but less per Illusion until eventually at 3 Illusions you’re at the max damage and each clone is dealing 1/3rd if it.

IP works by mimicking the per-clone effect of your shatters. Since normally this doesn’t vary it doesn’t matter, but with IP the damage per clone varies. So since a single illusion shatter does slightly less than 50% of the max effect this means that a single illusion Shatter w/ IP deals nearly as much damage as a 3 Illusion Shatter does without it.

In the end, you’re only adding 33% to the max effect which is comparable for a Grandmaster trait, but the boost IP adds for the low-end of your Shatters is incredible.

Huh, so many hours on my mesmer and I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.