Guild Wars 2

TheWalkingDead.7298:

You’re gonna be waiting a long time for 14/12 to happen, considering there are only 12 months.

TheWalkingDead.7298:

>This is an American company
>You’re on an American site
>Playing an American game
Use the American date structure.

And then you go and say :

In my defense, you quoted the wrong person. Re-read the thread (or my posts, rather) then try again.

Really? You put quite some effort into derailing the thread and then go and say something like that? Real smooth move……

Edit : I’d also like to see an improved visual of at least our flesh golem.It’s counter part in GW1 was chunks of pure awesome, and this now is…meh.

If negative behavior isn’t shunned, then what? Promote it?

I for one like that they don’t put the extra silken gloves when making statements.

1) Increased Axe damage to properly match its mid-range.
2) Increased Staff projectile speed so that it may actually hit something.
3) Minion fix, now they don’t plain suck.
4) Improved DS, now it’s actually more useful than just a temp health bar and lacking skills.
5) Due to its overpower-ness that broke all balance, the Necromancer class has been removed from the game.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Current-Legendary-Skins-Updated/first#post936680

has the answers to your questions.

There is a general lack of visuals for weapons such as staffs, daggers, axes and scepters(tho eye of rodgort is enough for us, I’m speaking overall).

Not only do other weapons such as greatswords/swords/hammers have quite nice legendary visuals, they have amazing exotic variants as well.
But I myself do not see something similar for the mentioned weapons above.Not only do their legendary versions lack(albeit the recent Incinerator visual upg) but their named exotic variants are so lacking as well, it’s disheartening.

Let’s say a person doesn’t like the legendary greatswords, but wants a nice visual – he gets Volcanus.Don’t like Kudzu/Dreamer? – Aether/Azureflame are there.

Frostfang?Sure, it’s nice.If you can spot it.The only thing that may tell you a person has Frostfang is the footsteps.

The game’s focus is not balancing around gear(I think). It’s balance is around visuals.And at the moment they are extremely far from balanced(as in – no type of weapon is lacking in visuals). When you focus around something, you better make kitten sure it’s as balanced as you can imo…..

At the moment, Mjolnir is a better looking exotic than the legendary Juggernaut to the point of shaming it…but yes, apart from sword/greatswords, all other legendaries need quite a bit of tuning up.

Good going for Anet for not shelving this problem!

Has anyone tried the jumping puzzle with the 3 orrian chests? I think it was in Malchor’s Leap and you had these lights you gathered.Then you use them on several points in front of a chest in order to open it when all lights are put on.I only managed to get 2, so I’ve no idea about the big one.Anyone opened it?

Now if only the visuals for certain legendaries get a lil bit of improvement

Let’s hope to see more content like underwater fractal, and we won’t have so much ..reluctance…to make these legendaries.Which imo are pure awesomesauce.

We won’t get even 1/10th of what thieves have, and you can pretty much take it as a fact.They have more mobility and stealth as a compensation for their really weak defensive stats.The balance around that however is shaky…
Had an underleveled thief actually chase me in WvW, closing in using sb 5 two times.
I turn around and smack him a couple of times and halve his HP.Next thing I know, he’s 2000+ range away from me and running.
What we need isn’t new gap closers, but polished already existing.

Nope, you don’t.Also, it counts as separate skills, so if you have both the trait and the skill and you use one, the other won’t go on cooldown.

However, people tend to dislike shrug it off, perhaps because of it’s erratic behavior – sometime it procs when it’s supposed to, sometimes it doesn’t.

OP asked if axe/axe builds are decent in dungeons.They’re not.Now, if you like playing with those weapons, sure, go ahead and have fun since that’s what’s important.
But compare axe/axe to axe/anything atm, and you’ll get a lot more from the other weapon combinations.

@Grok Krog re-read my previous post.Just that.If you take berserker’s power(adren=12% dmg) then axe auto attacks do more overall damage than eviscerate(proven by a few forum’ers iirc) and when you take discipline 10 trait for adren=9% crit, eviscerate being used is just a big damage loss…

When game first came out, nobody complained about eviscerate damage, they were too busy crying about 100blades.Now that they learned how to dodge when they see a warrior charging, the crying has lessened a bit.

When the bad players learn how to dodge the telegraphed leap of eviscerate, the crying will lessen as well.

But the sad truth is, scrubs will grab every single opportunity to complain and cry if given the chance.Exampe:
“WHAT?!?!Warrior’s overall damage was buffed by 1% and they had their HP pool increased by 50?!?!? OMG Hide yo wifes, hide yo kids, warrs be stompin errebody now!GG, game is totally favoring warriors, now with their super buffs, nobody can stop em!”

This pretty much summarizes the situation right now.So, whiners be whining…

Axe 4 does moderate damage and gives fury, which you already have as perma buff due to FGJ and SoR.Axe 5 does damage to 5 targets instead of just 3, but it’s damage is such a joke, that it’s only real use is to get a fast adren refill(which is super fast with axe traits to begin with) or to tag mobs quickly in Orr farm events.

So it other words, axe/axe is extremely weak atm.

I’d like to give advice on CoE runners that aren’t really adept at it.

See, alpha is the only real threat in the whole dungeon(all paths). The reason path 1 is so adored is because in path 2 and 3, Alpha does a HUGE aoe attack that can 1-shot you, and that attack isn’t used in path 1.

The trick is, that aoe spawns under you every single time.So, all 5 of you stack on 1 place, and by stack, I mean you literally stand on top of each other like you wanna hump yourselves.That way there is only a slight chance that you will be hit by that aoe – it’s damage has 2 factors.The 1st is the red circles.If you stand inside the circle – ok. If you’re standing on the edges – bad.And, if you are inside, you’ll notice a white patch of ice on the ground.
That is part 2 of that aoe – it has about 1 in 4 chance to hit you with that ice as well, so save your heals and condition removal for that(that ice hit also puts 6 stacks of bleed). If even 1 person isn’t stacked properly, he alone can wipe your group, so care!

Path 3 – skip the fire scorpion before the evolved destroyer.That scorpion is stronger than freaking Zhaitan…now for the evolved beast : easymode is to have 2 competent rangers or eles to range the boss down, or if no such long range class is there, get a person to stand on the platform of the evolved destroyer.Care!! coz that is very tricky to do.You must be exactly away from the shield so it won’t boost you into the lava(most likely resulting in death) and not too far behind to get killed by the lava.What I do : I backpeddle, and when I see for a second that I have the lava debuff(easy to spot), I stop immediately and move an inch forward, or 2 if needed.Also care for the falling meteors – once the damage phase is on, he will cast 2 or 3 times meteors ontop of you, so save your dodges for that time.He casts fire shield on him so expect burn effect on you most of the time too, but that will be the only thing to hurt you if you don’t get hit by meteors or get a lava bath.

This post was brought to you by a nice thief fellow, to whom I own …nothing…and who was the reason I killed the destroyer all by myself while he went afk coz “it is too hard down there!”……wooohoooo………

Well, cheers for the mature response at least

Enjoy your game, that’s what matters.

Dogblaster.6713:

Come on .. stop complaining already

They did the right thing. Everyone see this comming go find you a new way how to abuse the system … It should keep you ocuppied for a while

@skotie .. really? Can you just move along .. No sane person will respond to your posts .. hmm I must be Insane, because I dont undertand why I did ..

Funny enough, from all the comments so far, you sound like a butt-hurt child the most because you probably missed on farming the spot.Or you simply find more value in yourself when others have less and less?All your points so far are a joke that’s not even remotely funny, and you presented them in an even more ridiculous way.

Also, stop putting words in people’s mouths as to who is crying and who is not, and use a quote to show to whom exactly you’re speaking.

evolverzilla.2359:

IF you want to kill only two bosses in a dungeon NOTHING is stoping you from that, except your OWN GREED. They don´t put a barrier in front a boss and said that you need to explore all dungeon then kill the boss. They just take the easy loot from them.

The CoE chest is a random loot, so running to only one chest just to have a chance to get lodestones is not a big problem to be nerfed. BUT the first boss on the dungeon almost ALL THE time give the loot.

Stop trying to change the thing to other problems. Stop shouting random similar situations to justify your greed.

The context of that statement was meant to be towards the phrase “killing just the 2 bosses is not the intended way to do this thing”. The intended way is what you alone choose it to be.Simple as that.

And greed?Whose greed?Please either re-read my post or just learn to read altogether.
And if by any chance you meant my greed, then I would kindly ask you to give some proof that I’m one of this bug’s offenders.If you can’t provide it, then shut the kitten up.

Edit: Just to clarify before someone nitpicks about me using the word “bug”, I used it because this situation was clearly not intended by the devs, was a mistake that was corrected and thus I cannot give it a better name.

I’d add my POV to this already insane thread.
To me, the saying that killing just 2 bosses in a dungeon is not how it should be (meaning you should just finish it) is just bull.You play the game however the hell you like.
Some time ago, there was a dude who made a party for farming CoE chests for charged lodestones.For that purpose, to save time he and his fellows didn’t finish the dungeon, just farmed the easier to get to chests.Was it nerfed?I don’t recall it being done.
I do agree of course that this method devalues gold and is bad.Yet, Arenanet failed.Big time.

I’ll tell you guys how you failed.You knew for a fairly long time that the problem was there.You suspected that it might evolve into what it is now.Yet you did nothing till it happened.Now, there are 2 angry groups – those that lost on their favorite farm spot, and those angry that they missed on such a good chance, while others used it(early game godskull exploit says hi again).

And your next big fail, is that you didn’t provide upfront info on it.You answered only after the question was asked, you didn’t openly say that it was a problem creating multiple other problems slowly destroying the game.Most of the hotfixes like this are not something you people say, you simply do it behind the scenes.And even if they are an accurate(somehow) decision, it is still aggravating to do it behind our backs.

An advice – be more upfront about such matters.Say what you mean and don’t be so covert.It feels like you’re afraid of your own actions.And that does not bode well.

Hope is wasted on the hopeless.

Twilight Arbor?(mistaken for Harbor)
If it’s something else, then dunno.

Hmmm…I considered what legendary to make on my warrior.Had thought of Bolt, but due to the boring weapon, I started to think of a hammer.So, Mjolnir it is!!

Just FYI, that hammer has a better skin than the Juggernaut.Go figure.

Also a tip: use the weapon sigils that give swiftness on kill.At low levels the weapon sigils are quite weak and you won’t feel a difference to damage, but it is an awesome boost when you kill 3 mobs at the same time and get a 15 sec swiftness.Makes moving to the next mobs/event so much faster and pleasant (guess that’s why this is one of the more expensive sigils..but for low levels it’s a few silver only, so no biggie)

Life steal food is the best food for dungeons, especially on a natural high hp/armor class like warrior.It’s pure gold.

@Nerevar
Dual axes are worthless outside of Orr event farming.Either get a shield, or mace(preferable mace). It will not slow down the auto attacks and will provide a ton more.(mass knockdown?yes please!)

I wanna join the circle jerk too! This looks like a lot of fun

Edit:

Talk about Elementalists in their sub-forum. This sub-forum is about warriors.

So it’s not like every class and their cat came here to cry how OP warriors actually are, and how noobish we are not to see it?Yep.Point taken.

It would cause too much trouble.What happens to the people who spent tens of golds on the MF items?And what happens to existing items?

Once you hop on this train, sadly there’s no going back.

It might come as sort of a necro for a finished thread, but I just wanted to share an idea that popped into my head just now.

We all know and agree that MF in dungeons is just bad, and we all want a proper solution.
See, the way titles worked in GW1 was, you get a next rank and with it, a little bonus to it.EG: treasure hunter asked you to open(a freaking ton) elite chests with 13% chance to retain your lockpick.For every next level of the title(250-500-1000 opened etc) you get another 3% chance.

So, make some dungeon achievements give dungeon only magic find.Better yet, make the story mode give a little more!So if 3 paths completed give 5 MF, make the story mode alone give like 2-3.That kind of reduces the problem as of late of story modes being ignored!

Then post these wrong design decisions so that they may be discussed if it’s not being done in another thread.
That way maybe we will find the right way to turn things around?
We’re all human after all,no one is immune to falter.

@Tinni and KyleQuest

Do yourselves the favor of rereading just this one page.

Do you know how it looks when at this point you present such arguments?
It’s like when some people are debating over taxes, and you two take a microphone and shout in it “I LOVE CHOCOLATE!”.

There really isn’t anything more to say.Your arguments have been discussed and beaten.And jealousy?Really?The mere fact that you don’t like being slowed down by xxx amount of time just because someone is deliberately slowing the group for loot is jealously?I don’t even…

Ojike.3179:

And i might get Flameseeker Prophecies, but not as it is today, it needs some more oomph to be worth it imo.

You kidding me mate?Compared to the greatswords and Bolt, every single legendary needs a major rework.

I mean, what is the main reason to have a legendary weapon?To show off, to brag about it.And that happens when you get noticed.
So how the heck can you get noticed even when using Frostfang, when you disregard the footprints?Does it give a frost-like aura to your hero?…

I mean, the pinnacle of show-off-innes should be the legendaries.Should.And atm, the best looking hammer is not juggernaut, it’s Mjolnir, exotic craftable….

Edit: If some of the devs actually reads this, then it should be noted as a freaking good idea to make legendaries also account bound.Just saying.

Mate, did you see what the dagger looks like in a video?If you like it, then good for you…imo it’s outright terrible.

It’s the choice that makes such people greedy.This evening I ran some fractals with guildies, 2 of which had half MF gear.The reason I didn’t say or do anything at the time was simply because those were 78 rares and they just didn’t have any other gear.

If you can run a dungeon with normal gear, yet you choose to slow the run down, by choosing to use a weaker set for personal gain, that is by default greedy.
And, I try to be kind to people.And I succeed….most of the time….

Rakuren Kenshou.7689:

Sleepy.2647:

Rakuren Kenshou.7689:

Either way, I’m not a weak link in my party, and someone using MF isn’t by default a weak link either.

That’s being a leecher want it or not. Bad players are not leechers, people plays better or worse…that’s a fact, but if you are not giving your best without the need of spending anything that’s leeching your party.

Most of the time bad players are simply not “giving their best”.

Your computer sucks? You’re not doing the best you could. You could buy a new computer.

Your internet sucks? See above.

You can’t dodge or kite properly? You need to spend more time practicing. Time is money. Take a day off work, practice.

They aren’t giving you “their best”.

Do you have facebook open and chatting while playing? Are you on your headset chatting casually with a friend? You’re not giving “your best”.

Are you eating while you’re playing? Are you worried that your girlfriend is going to break up with you? You’re not doing “your best”. You are distracted.

If I could have my MF AND max gear, I would. I don’t play bad on purpose. I want to use MF, and I don’t fail at contributing to my party. I really don’t see how this is a problem. Unless you start refusing people for all the above reasons too, which some people do. And that’s sad, and probably turns a lot of people away from gaming.

Well, you are really one of those people that can’t be reasoned with.
I’ll give you the word that describes your behavior: selfish.
Definition : concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one’s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others.

When you are in a team situation, with support playing a major role, you choosing items that not only contribute to you alone, but also lessen your overall performance, that is simply selfish.Dress it with references and pretty words all you like, it changes nothing.

It’s not even close to a convenient way to run a dungeon for more money, with magic find.As was said, time=money.Well, guess what? If you’ve ran the dungeon with normal gear and used the MF gear to grind events in the time you spared, you’d get a lot more money for your time.
You run with mf gear for cash, yet the increase is so little, that it barely can be called proficient way of making money.

The thing about dungeons is that when you are slow, you slow down 4 other people.You fail – they fail.It’s no longer a single player experience like in events where there’s 50 other guys killing left and right with just a mean stare
You go in there trying to be as good as possible, because you expect others to be so too.That may sound like elitism, but to me it sounds more like common sense.

Pretty self-explanatory – do we have weapons that make you go “dauym! that thing really rocks!!” ? So far in the legendary section there’s pretty much nothing, at least nothing even remotely comparable to twilight, and other melees can go for bolt, which too is pretty darn awesome.
I simply won’t go into bifrost on necro and so on…

So, do we have weapons with visuals that really make us shine?And I don’t mean just the dark gritty air around us..(my necro has this ice-queen feel with all the sapphire dyes and all).

Just…do we have weapons that will make people stop in their track and say "wait what? /gasp " ?

And just a fair question, what would you nerf in the warrior class as it is?
Something that won’t make all players shelve the class for indefinite amount of time?

I’d like to ask people to do TL;DR, because I (and perhaps a lot more) didn’t read the long walls of text that surely contain good arguments.

I’d also like to add that GW1’s system was quite different than 2’s.
What I’m talking about is the instancing of most of the (if not all) places in the game.
After that, you had vanquishing, hard mode dungeons, elite missions, titles that gave you nifty bonuses in the corresponding areas, and titles maxing as a whole.Dailies much more engaging…

Funny enough, the only thing axe/axe is good for, is farming Orr.
Why?
Axe 2 and 5 don’t have the usual max target of 3.So when an event mob group of 5+ appears, you can damage em all and get easy credit for the kills.

So yes – axe/axe is good for farming, and I myself can go to say it’s the best.

Edit: if you’re a charr, equip shrapnel mine as well!

LameFox.6349:

Am I the only person who plays thief and warrior and doesn’t think either is OP (besides bugs)? Reading these threads makes me feel unnatural and weird.

I feel ya.The moment they fix the “extra stealth” issue, things with thieves will be much better.Same with warriors – no bugs and we’ll be awesome.

Warrior with 2 exotic sets, 1 skinned from cultural T2 charr, other a mix of CoF, SE and AC with MF runes.Full exo jewels.Have exotic sword, shield, axe, mace, longbow and greatsword.

So far I’ve focus played(not counting afk and pointless TP skimming) an average of 2-3 hours/day, with some days not playing at all.Getting exotic gear is a joke.

They will be adding items at a pace.
Jewelry comes 1st as far as I’ve read, then armor, then weapons.
So you’ll have plenty of time to get the items even with your exotics.

Just FYI, I’ve made with a warrior(full rares-wep,armor,jewels) just about all there is to do in the game aside from 2-3 dungeon paths.And I didn’t have much, if any problems.
So no, exotics won’t become trash.

TheDuck.4526:

Honestly, the fact that ANet made dungeons so kitten faceroll that you can get away with running 5 signets is enough to show that they’re “viable.”

Sure, you could accomplish more if they chose to run banner of disc. or FGJ to give their fury-less (save for “Save Yourselves!” or the Inner Fire trait, but who the kitten takes that?) guardians some fury. But if you get through the dungeon successfully, I don’t see why it matters.

I’m not advocating the use of a 5 signet build, as it has been stated previously so many times that the amount of bonus damage you get from deep strike is paltry in comparison to some of the stuff you can give your group. Yes, you see bigger numbers for yourself, but one extremely buffed person does not outweigh 5 moderately buffed people.

Beyond that, if you’re running precision on your gear and you have perma-fury— that bonus precision is kind of… excessive. But whatever floats your boat.

What I’m curious about is how people are running berserker’s gear.

Now I know you’re all going to hop on and call me a bad, but hear me out. I run a full Knight’s set with ruby orbs and ruby / emerald jewelry and a zerker weapon. So I have a decent mix of offense / defense.

But none of that defense really matters in the end. Yes, I dodge. I dodge a LOT and I use the dodge button meaningfully. But that doesn’t matter either. Why? Because I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have aggro.

I’ve run every single dungeon and I find that I’ll have aggro in 90% of encounters. You can only dodge so much before autoattacks do you in.

So 5 signet warrs / zerker wearers, what’s your secret? You always say dodge will save your life, but you only have two, and for attacks that will one shot you. What do you do when you have constant aggro like me and can only stand so many auto attacks? I can kite, but I signed up for a game with no holy trinity.

I guess you can consider that the saving grace of 5 signets.One of the major aggro pullers is in fact damage dealt(among others ofc). But the damage provided by the build is so little, that as I said, most of the time they’re non-factor.As soon as a 5 signet gets targeted by a boss or even 2+ veterans for more than 3 seconds, they die.The build just sacrifices utility like stun breaks and condition removal for the sake of damage.
Even if you take signets that somehow do this, they have far too long CD, and you lose the damage bonus as well.
Skill can get you far, but at some point you just need to have good cards dealt to you.

Edit: if you want easy time in dungeons, get life steal food.It’s awesome!!!

Funny how the misunterstood things and half truths are just what you yourself explain.
The fury stacking can be done very well even when not specced as support, but for aoe fury not that much classes can keep it constant(with a moving party ofc).
Somehow there’sa misconception here that since I bash the 5 signet, I somehow promote full support builds.Never have I said nor mentioned something of the sort.
What I say is that there should be moderation.I myself contribute by 1 banner and FGJ, not more.
It’s rather confusing atm, coz the situations where you pug and where you make a guild run have mixed a bit, but w/e…
Just…don’t take advices no matter what the reasoning, and enjoy your fun single player.
P.S : good points laid nonetheless ravnodaus.Props for that.

For me axe/mace is the best set for dungeons. Hits hard, stacks vulnerability with a good aoe knockdown.The off-hand depends on what you prefer.I use sword/shield for the block and burst skill(immobilize in dungeons is priceless), but I do believe longbow is the same if not more viable.When you use it, drop adren skill+3 to give party-wide 3 might stacks!
If you want to really be loved in dungeons, drop 10 points in tactics for Inspiring banners and equip banner of precision.Try to position it where the fight is going on, but it does take some time to master it to do it fast.

What I wrote, and what you should have read, is me saying in over and over and over again that this build is bad in dungeons and is sub-par.

And what I did(at least what you put out) is not lose the convo, but present my point.The reason I posted here was to say exactly what you make out as my failing point.
So…one loses a conversation before it even began?Sounds logical.
What I see is a better way for things to happen.A way that promotes learning one’s class over using simple and selfish skills.What you’d naturally do is try to share and promote others into bettering themselves.That’s the whole idea of a community last time I checked.If you don’t like the fact that others have an opinion on what you do and use, then don’t play an MMO.
And, how does play hours make a difference?I’ve 600 hours, most of them just sitting afk.I don’t think saying that makes my points more valid tho.It’s silly.

I hope A-net does something about precursors that involves jumping puzzles.
The most amazing and thrilling part of the game for me is so ignored or not much bothered with that i don’t really know…

I hoped that there would be some connection made, but if not, I hope you guys make jump puzzles more interesting(bear with me for this derail) like adding a token for a puzzle made and making a puzzle master armor set or some thing.

Do note that this is THE glass cannon.Which means you’ll deliver a world’s worth of punishment, but you’ll be very easy to kill.

How is it possible that thieves have more longcoat armors than warriors??
NERF!!

There are a few solutions to this, not just one.One of them is what you said, other is what i say.

But let’s end it at that.I’m honestly too tired of wordplays right now
Night.

You don’t like breathing dirty air(due to cars and factories)?Don’t breathe.Simple.

This argument is simply flawed.If you encounter a problem, you don’t just leave it and turn the other way, you try to solve it.At least, most people would.