Guild Wars 2

Even if Ranger’s pet’s were buffed 5x, I seriously doubt there would be a change in popularity. The problem has always been minions/pets = no dodge key, not a lack of DPS on their part. Also they aggro unnecessary stuff and the dont have, a human brain. So this wont affect as much. As for open world, its a known fact Ranger is a breeze so it is possible this is warranted.

Warriors didnt get “Stronger”, in fact they had 2 trait nerfs, much like your haste nerf. Guards unchanged yup, ofc, lol.

You guys know there are such things as rich people, who dont have to work, who will have more money than you “40 hours” people will ever have. Ofc im not one of them but they do exist. There are also retired people etc. There is many many other loopholes or ways to play with or without having a job. Also if you say “get a gf” thre are people who get out of a 4 year relationship, who want to take personal time off so they arent looking to date at the moment. There are lots of people who actually have mental issues, and are able to play 48+ hours at a time without getting bored or needing sleep, are those people somehow inferior? I dont think so, in fact ive had many friends as such. The list can go on..

How about asking teammates to bring revive skills like :

Ele : Has signet that can revive a few people
Necro: Has signet that can revive a few people
Warrior: Has banner that can revive a few people
Ranger: Has Pet and Spirit that can revive a few people

Just because people are greedy and want to tag or bring DPS/Personal survival utilities and not res doesnt mean something is OP or broken. You revive your teammates = they dont rally.

On the topic of rallying off monster NPC’s like ogre’s and stuff, it takes a great deal of precision when downed to target them or if they waste their dps on the npc previous to down instead of the enemy, thats 1 less tag or dps you took. If they manage to kill it before your team can kill them, kudos to them, thats skill or choice. However, if rally was changed to you can only rally off other players, that would be a good step.

why would they change this when people pay real money already for the chance at skin. my friend spent 80 dollars (20 then 60) to get his Southsun skin ticket. Clearly they couldnt sell a guaranteed skin for 80. Way more profitable the current way so although helpful to players, I want more content/patches and if other people are able to support that, god bless them and keep the status quo

Isnt the dodge key what grants survivability and not armor stats, support builds etc?

Get all 8 classes. Youll always have the new meta

3,907 Hours. So far I win!!! Ofc, many many of these were semi afk or sitting in LA browsing forums waiting for G/C or friends to PM for runs etc but none the less.

screen, with 1 cropped part from anz pass but both from tonight around midnight EST in EB. all 3 sides had much deaths and epic lag but good times.

Katai’s idea sounds better than any type of attempt to balance critical hits affecting objects and condition damage affecting objects. I would like to see a little variance though, possibly scaling upon the tier gear possibly since realistically, someone in blues should not kill things same speed as fully ascended. Or variance in a very minor way, but still sticking to the core idea of “Fixed 50 hits”

I dont see why there would be a vastly better skinned armor compelte set than t3 at this point because it costs too much for it to be wasted for a “new” “Cooler” t3 set coming out for 10g more or whatever.

New skins are nice but there actually HAS been new dungeons and HAS been new armor.
Molten Forge, sky pirate one tommarow etc.. for dungeons + AC feels new since the re-vamp.

for armor skins, if you consider backpieces a skin, theres been tons. Southsun ones, molten forge jetpack, fractals, fotm quiver, halloween etc. If not, they did give you new dragon bash helmet skins + the sky pirate path tommarow comes with a BRAND NEW set of gem store buyable armor. thats both of what ya wanted and there are more examples but i cant think of everything atm or want to wiki it but there definatly has been.

if you dont come back to play, you wont find out about the new patch updates and stuff and tbh, you probaly have missed events that give them out.

To Sam: Whether you end up warrior or an alternate class I would like to ensure you that making an alt and gearing it with fully ascended gear is NOT a waste. If you level regularly (mapping/dungeon), do guild missions, fractals, get exotics with dungeon tokens, you dont even spend money, you make money. Realisticly, itll cost you some because youll want some decent stuff for him, but still its great to be able to switch classes to adapt.

I think most people will say, theres not 1 class thats good at everything. Wars bad at spvp, your name it, there will be a situation that comes up where swapping to your non main is a good idea. Also its more fun to master more than 1 class. You cant really consider yourself a “good” at GW2 if you can only play 1 class, even if on that 1 class you can do all content because the game is far more expansive than 1 class or playstyle.

this shouldnt ever happen because:

1. Critical Hits dont affect objects either, making any investment in precision or crit damage, wasted. Power is the only viable stat and at a bare minimum , teams should be expected to have some power. Also these objects die fast to ele aoe’s making ele a good class for them which is nice to see.

2. On world bosses, while conditions continue to tick away as normal on them (Meta Group Event bosses like Dragons, FE, Wurm, Etc..) again, they are immune to critical hits, making precision and critical damage utterly useless, while power and conditions still work.

have you tried gw2lfg.com yet? TA isnt the most popular but at the minimum U/U is ran enough to get a group. Unfortunatly, I do not run it enough to be of use in your goal to get teams but this website should help.

Also, if you have tried gw2lfg.com, I suggest guesting to “Jade Quarry” server for NA, and asking in LA Map Chat for a team as this server has a high PvE ratio. If no luck on there, try guesting to “Tarnished Coast” and form a TA U/U team there, as TA U/U is the most popular.

That stands for Up/Up. After that F/F (Forward/Forward) Is the next “fastest” puggable path

LoS isnt exploit as spider queen still can hit you and team members do take damage. it forces people into melee and constant dps (besides healing) which takes her down faster then most people would think vs spreading out, dodgeing ranged etc. Yes, bad teams will still wipe. I would blame the puller, as i have had times where she is pulled excellent almost in the far back corner, and other times where she comes around and almost into you (bad).

Also if someone moves, even a little after the pull – this causes epic problems.

Sorry to tell you. Condition builds being bad have nothing to do with condition stack as rarely do stacks hit 25. Maybe warrior teams with 25 vuln, but removing that would make encounters only more lulz. It has everything to do with power being way better than condition damage. So removing the 25 limit would do nothing to change the meta.

GW1 Arguments:
You dont need SF for UW/FOW.
You dont need VoS over 100b War for FoW.
You dont need VoS to solo tower when team can spike it. (FoW)
You dont need a Rit to solo tower when team can spike it. (FoW)
You dont need to pop P-Cons to be good at runs

-Yes true to the above, but why would you want things to take longer if they clearly arent that hard to pull off, as shown by the abudnance of players who did it perfect every time once they spent the time practicing.

GW2 Arguments:
You dont need specific classes.
Engi/Ranger are better than guard/war
You dont need reflects for lava bird fotm level
(Insert the many youve read on forums)

Does anyone else see the same logic employed but yet still not accurate portrayal ?

Again, repost of my last post to the poster above. Why is there an abundance of video proof showing otherwise but these super pro necs never have any proof? Why are the people who are considered most efficient/pro in game by the community totally disagreeing with your opinion. Please help me understand this and I would would be vastly more willing to accept this.

You say no wipes, but again, the warrior teams dont wipe either and do it in less time with less hassle. Ofc you can do it with any class, there isnt a trinity. If you couldnt, the game would be broken. But that doesnt mean warriors are worse.

Its like my moms logic. Ants = your eating too much at desk while playing PC. My counter argument, theres ants in my bathroom too but i never had food in there ever.

someone posted while i was typing. comment @ 2 posters above

Rysinsun.7306:

Ironic really that a game which boasts not having a trinity system to make dungeon running “easier” is now plagued with people demanding that you have an exact set of gear to even be part of the group. Now I know that there are always people like that in these kind of games, and I avoid them like the plague because they tend to lack social graces and manners…

OP they did you a favor as others have said. Being kicked for having one or two slightly different pieces of gear is laughable and simply proves that one or two people in that group are indeed looking to be carried by “properly” geared players.

I always take the player over the profession/gear any day and wouldn’t you know it, I have little to no trouble finding dungeons runs as I have made friends by following this approach. Almost all of them go very smoothly too.

TLDR: A little kindness goes a long way. So my advice is to start making your own groups and expand your friends list, not only does it make future runs easier but the runs themselves easier too.

By group looking to be carried, your actually thinking the opposite.

You want to be carried by good players by wearing subpar gear, not choosing proper utilities, playing lulz classes, by other people who spec properly. Not vice versa.

Also remember, their runs go smoothly too, in fact smoother than yours. Also takes less time.

Remember “smooth” =//= efficient

Why are you running medium armor in the first place?

If your that lazy too tab out or willing to find a guild that has enough active people to run with, I highly doubt your motivated enough to play or do much of anything to contribute to the game community.

Title says it all. Not much need to explain….opnions? just curious
Imo..

Boon : Aegis
Condition: Torment? JK. Idk ive never felt the need the inflict condition but i guess the one i hate the most inflicted on me is poison since it reduces healing. (DO NOT count agony in your decision please)

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Razeor.6271:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

I’m only level 60 fractals, but I would take a Guard, Ele, Necro any day over warrior. Especially on shaman. I leveled through the 50s with eles, guards, necros and rarely warriors. I would take a good necro over a good warrior any day of the week.

And I’m only level 80, have been so for 4 months but I would still take a good war over a good necro any day of the week. Even with level 79 shaman, two guards is all you should ever need.

Level 60 or 80, they all have as much significance as that lol dungeon master title. People can get carried/inch their way to 48 despite being bad, and they can do the same til level 80.

Saying playing what and how you want to play, stop and smell the roses with your friends to have a fun and relaxed time, etc is one thing, warrior being objectively better than necro in pve is another. What matters is whether OP asked about the latter or former.

Warrior is only objectively better than Necro in SOME PVE. I’d argue that in many places, including some fractals, a good Necro is objectively better.

The problem is Ive never heard of you, and the best dungeon’ers with video proof of experience beg to differ vastly. So your opinion doesnt hold much weight with me. Also personal experience shows otherwise

who saw the “I am outraged” thread a while ago about naked asuras" best malfunction evar

its not learning to dodge because when you melee him he insta drops the aoe and u literlaly dont have time to dodge. also u haev to stand to do oozes’ and he chases and does the attacks + multi aoes. you will be hit guaranteed. fact remains its level 35 recommneded and to expect pug groups to live to him isnt really in line.

Why is : HotW P1, CoF p1 (level 75+ dungeons) easier than a level 35? Regardless of “l2p” mechanics

omg yes i even posted on the bug forums about the golem thing. i dont have golem armor yet occsaionally a golem will randomly pop out from my mesmer. i think its just a animation bug and its technically just a clone, with golem skin. ive seen it as a ranger pet too, again i think its really the pet, with the skin of a golem as a bug.

dagger storm, im not sure of as i h avent noticed but its possible it could fall along same buggy lines as golem

which is best. ogre/frogs/dredge to have on your side?

ok so today i joined a lfg group, like many posts “AC P2 @ FINAL BOSS NEED 1 MORE HELP”

so there was a level 35, 700 achivement points (probaly his first character), alevel 39, and two level 80’s with 6k+ achivement points, and me as warriror.

so i figure, ill help these people, some newbies to game, and beat whats considered a hard boss.

they end up wiping constantly (lowbies + one of the level 80 thiefs) and clearly i cant duo. guardian ends up raging out, leaves dungeson and screws everyone out of tokens. i wasnt that mad since i joined at end but seriously to give new players this type of view of the game is ridiculous.

honestly no need for it to stack so much vuln, do so much dps, and HEAL. i think the main prob is heal. i went to go back a little to try to not die while he resses and it just resets, making everyone freak out.

i try to do a good deed, it ends up backfiring and having a new player possibly not like gw2 because of this. no need for ghost eater to be so difficult…

does anyone even remember when anet SWITCHED vapor form on ele downed from the non insta cast to the insta cast skill? they WANTED it like this. why would they reverse their own decision?

yes cut your losses, honestly its not that bad. i have 3 characters in fully ascended gear (all 6 pieces) and just started of my 1st assescort for 4th alt as of todays missions. its not that hard if you play enough and you do guild missions every week. unless you plan on playing gw2 for only a month longer, clearly you will get enough commendations, laurels from monthly, considering its almost july etc…

eventually you/most people should want all level 80’s 8 classes with full gear, full skins, full ascended etc so just consider you did it a little skewed order, but if you like playing nec, its not really a waste. but ya you need a alt class

i made my ele first in full exotic mf gear, mapped to 60 percent, never play her. deleted a 80 asuran mes fully gear 40 map complete, etc.. it happens. it wont be a waste if you still play nec, but just dont use him for the high level organized runs maybe. you can still casual or farm or w/e you do, guild events with ur nec its not relalya a “Waste” to gear up a alt warrior

aha this is hilarous

ilr.9675:

Threads like these show exactly why none of the other classes feel sorry anytime you guys get nerfs. You guys just don’t understand how DPS is a team function. There’s more to it than just who popped the biggest number on some trash boss.

really like what? using CC on a boss that has defiant? using a class dedicated to chills when full DPS teams do it fine without it? sounds like you have never seen strifes videos

yea i would like to see him promoted and back with a team

I love spellcasters/mages. In the past RPG’s i always play mage. They have always dealt massive damage. However, after making several stumbles in gw2 on bad classes I finally decided on a warrior main. Simply, Warriors are the best PvE class and even good in WvW. Why make yourself work harder for less dps/survivability? Call it “fun” but I dont see many other competitive sport’s going "Aww man we worked hard, lost, vs those superstars but it was fair and f un.

I.E. Movie Space Jam. – Was Bugs Bunny happy to compete vs the Goons?

Dont be tricked by people trying to recruit you .

WvW= SoR.

PvE= JQ.

If your looking for EU, no idea. Those are real and without influence.

TC IS NOT WHAT YOUR LOOKING FOR .

idk what happens in everyone elses wvw. but for me, i tend to see many open field fights with AC’s or when we defend a point, the enemy has AC’s.

ive noticed lately who i res, its ALWAYS thief who dies to the AC’s over and over. i res one guy, blew all my invuln and heals etc. he dies literally 10 secs later to the same AC. got a bit annoying. theres usually enough other blast finishers that you dont need a spammable one from a thief unless maybe your wvw particpation isnt too big and your taking it with a small team maybe. ive never heard anyone on teamspeak ask a thief to do anything though. definatly not a requirement

rangers are a must for taking keeps for the water field if theres not enough ele water fields to keep up but besides their heal, sadly i dont see any other skills being useful to the team, just themselves.

all other classes are a neccessity and without giving away all tactics, they definatly all get called on in teamspeak to do jobs. if theres not, big problems.

Balancing:
For every ranger/non zerker/condi damage in your team you get a special buff that gives your team +2000 Power to make up for lost DPS for not taking all warriors/mes

Great post!! I had that today where some newb lowbie thief was in over his head in metrica province during an event, he was one level lower than the mobs. I ressed him, helped him kill the first wave of mobs that were camping and essentially halting the event, then I left. I didnt come back to see what happened after but figured at least I helped out.

whats the TLDR for people bad at maths?

does crusher use warrior mace #5 skill is essence?

yup my friend killed all my excitement when he told me “I had to buy 180 keys” for a fused ticket skin.

also another friend told me he spent 40 dollars gambling scelerite skins, failed, dropped another 50 and finally got 1 skin. 90 dollars irl cash vs me farming gems for gold in game? Noooo ty

Also have had TWO friends quit after gambling 700G in the forge of greatswords and fail to get dusk or dawn,.

Jemmi.6058:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Jemmi.6058:

I am not a fan of the idea, as it will encourage people to akitten around dynamic events to farm materials.

These creatures do die fast, so I can see how it may be hard to tag them; however, I do not think you need to do a lot of damage to get the full loot.

Which profession are you playing? Perhaps I can suggest a skill for mass tagging.

It really doesn’t matter which profession I’m playing (Mesmer, Ranger, Elementalist, Guardian) since those heavy-hitters (not one alone, 2- a group of them) kills everything alive in an instant.

Recommend you play Ele and throw down lava font to tag, probably the easiest and fastest way to tag a bunch of mobs.

It might be my server or time of play, but i was on for hours yesterday and did not have any problems. In fact, I solo’d most of the hologram things that I found.

Actually a warrior would be. GS-1h/Warhorn. Thats perma swiftness with the two GS rushes and the leap on 1h. If I run this in WvW no one has caught up to me and been able to kill me yet. There is more mobility on warrior then ele imo and since the holo’s are about “Getting there fast and quickly”. If its about aoe then you could just use axe #6 since it has no AOE cap limit, while lava font i believe is capped at 3? Just because eles have aoe doesnt mean they are better at tagging. melee weapons cleave which is in essence an AOE Melee Strike. We have to be closer but if you really have to be ranged, which i never have to do cuz im there and leap in with sword, then by all means use Longbow #3 or heal beforehand for full adrenaline and fire field f1.

How is lava font better than a necro well or engi nade? These mob so low HP i seriously doubt you need the damage of a ele lava font (lava font > nade > well) to tag.

id take a naked warrior over a zerker light/medium armor with the exception of a pro mesmer.

I dont see the problem with being too slow and missing loot. Surely you can make the money back if you hit 1 holo after. Part of the game is yes, losing. Everything shouldn’t be free loot. This would skew the economy. Part of the gold sinks are that people will WP, and fail to get anything.

Boston totally doesnt belong in forums. It belonged in LA, where it was constantly discussed. Sorry if your server was too “low pop”

this is a common problem. SM outer wall repair trolls. they will repair outer as its being trebbed and cata’d from enemy towers when its clearly going to break anyway or the commander says to wait and keep supply.

if i spend my time escorting dolyaks just to help someone farm achivements/wexp……not cool bro

This is like asking people in pre nerf cursed shore to stop holding mobs, etc. This is like asking at Lyssa for people to stop standing in middle and goto ledge. In my experience, any high population server will be as greedy as possible. There was a huge differnce between ex-server JQ CS/Lyssa Farm and my previous servers. JQ was ruthless but honestly it makes you better. You learn to get to them quicker. It was pointless to try to convince people and in a way

This might not be your playstyle, but they might have limited time or want to farm it. Or they want to do it fast etc. To the early bird, gets the worm.

The Kape.3672:

screen and build plz

Puandro.3245:

30-25-0-0-15 if you have 3 buffs or less. 20-25-0-10-15 if you have 4+ buffs.

this agreed ^. since 4war/1mes teams have fury/might basically only, i run the power build.

tinyurl.com/dpsgw2

notice the boons

for 4 war/1 mes (cof p1/coe) i had 30/25/0/0/15

yup

RIP molten pick, fused weapon and crab grabber for me.

what do you want from them. they had little time to respond since lyssa nerf. if they made a huge change now it would be rushed. let them plan it, and bandaid for now.

Very inspiring indeed. Ty for the translation.

What does he mean by “port” because only asura can make it and hes human so he cant “make” one.