Guild Wars 2

Then make this tonic unuseable in combat like all the rest and remove the cooldown. Problem solved. This was going to be one of my favorite tonics but now it’s useless.

Seriously, this completely ruins it. Why even make it a combat tonic if it gets this terrible treatment? I’d rather have it as a normal tonic if it meant I could use it whenever I want!

Oh my god yes, they need to change this! It is horrible having to wait half an hour just to use a tonic again. I would rather have it not be combat and be able to use it whenever I want than this abomination. At least make it always useable in towns for god’s sake.

If evasive arcana was a master trait maybe less than 30 would be viable. But that trait almost doubles our sustain so it is nearly impossible to go without.

For some reason I see a ton of posts in sPvP threads that mention every class BUT ele… I rarely see another class left out when all others are brought up, but it happens with us on a regular basis from what I’ve seen.

However at least in your post engies are left out too… I think he was implying that eles and engies are in the top 6, with warrior and mesmer being the ones left out.

For ele I run full rabid mono-earth with S/F. Start off with signet of fire burn. Lightning flash to the center. Use magnetic wave to reflect a few normal shots at the beginning and begin spamming auto-attack. Use obsidian flesh on the first kill shot and signet of air blind on the second. Other than that just spam earth auto the whole time, and never ever swap attunements. With 40% condition duration food and condition traits you should get almost 20 bleed stacks up along with the burning… he should die by second teleport (he may get you with 3rd killshot but you will rally when he dies of conditions). I can do this with 3 gambits easily (thief is still way better though, and can do 4 with no death risk).

The dog dies so fast without eating that you barely need to interrupt him anyways. I did it with my ele using only one interrupt the entire time (earthquake). Just watch where Strugar throws the meat and run or blink over there while ranging the dog. You don’t even need to beat Strugar afterwards to get the achievement.

Valentine’s day rose is all I want.

High end items are certainly experiencing inflation, since the “median” player doesn’t affect that market much anyways. Precursors and T6 mats/ectos are rising in price at the same time, which shouldn’t happen unless the market for them (rich players) is becoming larger. Storm nearly doubled in price (along with other precursor price rises), and ectos and t6 mats are also on the rise. I can think of no other reason for this other than the right tail of the distribution spiking immensely, and maybe some minor speculation on ascended crafting.

I feel like I’m one of the only farmers who actually rezzes. Even though I would rather have the arena to myself, it’s not worth it to be an kitten just for the sake of a few gold.

Champ trains are fine. Item drops don’t actually add money to the economy. In fact they drain money since the tp takes a 15% tax. Deadeye farm on the other hand is causing massive inflation.

I’ve made my fair share of gold from him, but sadly much of it is being negated by the inflation being caused by this farm. Just look at ectos and precursors to see what I mean.

Agreed on every count. As much as I love the gauntlet, there are just so many poor implementation choices it is ridiculous. The worst ones being the fact it was put in the same instance as lag plaza and requires arbitrarily waiting for other players.

Berserker gear is actually horrible for it imo. Condition damage gear (like rabid or carrion) is where it’s at, since I don’t think squeamish affects it (could be wrong though), and you get vitality or toughness with it. Conditions are great in these challenges since you won’t reach cap without other players, and enemies don’t cleanse conditions.

It is to prevent massive farming. The guantlet actually provides good rewards. Assuming you win, each ticket nets you 12 to 15 silver after selling sprockets.

Finally a reward that actually takes skill/strategy. Liadri may be just about the only mini that I care to show off because it shows I actually ACCOMPLISHED something. Seriously, I can’t think of one other item in game which requires anything more than farming or making money. Even fractals are easy and it only takes farming them to get rings/fractal skins.

That said, I’m glad there isn’t TOO much stuff like this or I would get stressed trying to beat it all.

Mesmers already have probably the best utilities in game, especially for PvE. You have feedback, decoy, signet of inspiration, portal, veil, null field, and blink, among others. Apparently they are so good that Anet valued one at 5g per use. Losing sole access to it would hardly ruin you.

And even if this portal was more affordable, and it cost “only” 5s to make a portal you would be saving 5s every use of your portal skill (and you still have free reign in WvW), so it would hardly be a “waste” of a utility slot.

Apparently Anet’s motto is “Go Guardian or go home”

Holy kitten it’s a joke how bad the daggers are. They both look like level 0 basic skins. It really is incinerator or bust at this point (and even that is nowhere near as polished as twilight/sunrise/juggernaut). And don’t get me started on the staff… it’s like they just extended the tsunami scepter a few feet.

Makes me laugh that the most noticeable weapon (GS) gets the most particle effects. Because we have so much trouble seeing them right?

On a side-note that dark 1-h sword is pure sex.

lordkrall.7241:

So you would rather have a cheap item that would invalidate one of the Mesmers main uses?

It makes me question why they would even put it in the game in the first place. Better to leave it out than get our hopes up and spit in our faces.

sbr.8170:

I am glad it is that high, I was afraid of what would happen in WvW if everyone was able to portal everyone else everywhere. What a nightmare.

They made it pve only.

According to patch notes, the new personal portal costs:

5 Orichalcum Ingots, 1 Master Tuning Crystal, 1 Charged Lodestone, and 75 Watchwork Sprockets.

and is one time use. Might as well just tell everybody to roll mesmers because a price tag of over 3g on a one use item is pointless. I would be wary of spending even 5s on a personal portal, much less this much.

So these players spent thousands of gems to transfer to your server? And then spent thousands to transfer back? All to destroy a few golems which will likely have no lasting impact on the week’s matchup which provides almost no reward for winning anyways? Sounds plausible.

Low supply items like monocle and ff dyes go up faster after event. High supply items like sab skins go down.

However, these skins may be low supply but imo they are too atrociously ugly to rise, especially given they are never actually going away (= no prestige and less limited supply). I just don’t see there being any demand, and feel like speculation is the only thing keeping prices high right now.

It’s still possible I’m wrong, but way too risky for me to invest any gold in.

Khalic.3561:

They should at the very least allow fiery greatsword to be cast while moving.

This is badly needed. I’d rather have lightning hammer as the elite just because of this.

Biggest gold sink by far is tp tax, not T3 armor. But anyways, there will be a lot more casual players making beaucoup gold now, so it will be interesting to see the effect. I personally have about half of my wealth in gold and half in items/gems, so I should be relatively protected.

Coat, Legs, and Masque are the best stat-wise, and due to having the most crit damage complement zerker gear the best. Those are the only 3 I am using currently.

Honest question: Are you trying to ruin elementalist?

If it homed there would be issues with accidentally hitting the wrong target (d/d ele excels at dealing damage to people other than current target) and when trying to escape accidentally going back to hit your current target. Happens to the best of us (however rarely) with rtl, and it would be even worse with burning speed since I often use it to get some quick breathing room before making a full escape.

Warrior whirlwind also doesn’t track. I don’t know why you conveniently ignore abilities like this.

Sign me up.

/15 charrs

I do think a gold (or god forbid more) per path is excessive. There might be deflation of high end goods like precursors (since not as many cof farmers who are able to make that much money quickly), but more inflation on everything else.

Queensdale by a longshot. If only the end game zones had as much love put into them as the starter zones.

I don’t see how they could kill her given she is prominent in the human personal story.

Made a thread of this near the beginning of the event. I knew Kiel would win just because she is an attractive woman, human, and the good guy, while Evon is a stereotypical evil charr. Fractals got tied in with this stupid rp nonsense, and even though the Abaddon fractal was far more popular, it stood no chance because the vast majority of casual players don’t give a crap about fractals (or even knew the vote affected them, since as far as I know there was little to no notice in game, outside of perhaps a small optional dialogue when talking to the candidates).

Human female magitech skirt has horrible clipping with the hips, especially with the curvy body types. However, even with body type #1 (not curvy) there is clipping.

It’s impossible if you wipe once. A ton of recluses spawn that can’t be reflected and never despawn. If you fail the first time you might as well restart the dungeon (terrible design I know).

Magitech skirt clips like none other. Would have been a unique choice if not for that obvious flaw.

So for 1.7 million karma (months of active play worth of karma), you got an hour of cof farming’s worth of gold. Seems legit.

Absolutely do not buy them. They are a trap to suck away all your karma for very little gold return. That karma may have accumulated naturally just playing the game but what happens when you want to make a legendary (or two)? You have to consciously farm back 1 million karma.

It’s not a bug, it’s an oversight. But did you seriously contact support over one ecto? lol

I just wish we would get massive vitality and toughness like necro’s plague form. What use is bonus precision when our tornado skills are weaker than our normal weapon skills and people are flung out of our aoe anyways?

That said I’ve found it is a great skill in skyhammer. But only in skyhammer.

Well if you like roaming it’s faster getting around with D/D ele than mesmer in WvW at least (significantly so if you use fgs), and soloing camps is easy. Additionally you can use the same build and just change to staff for zerg battles. However in open world 1v1s, eles have fallen far from grace. Fighting a fully geared and skilled phantasm mesmer is an invitation to get curbstomped lately with all the zerker ascended gear, and presumably this will become even worse when ascended armor is released. D/D eles on the other hand will likely become even worse comparatively, since they don’t benefit nearly as much from the holy stat trinity (power, prec, crit damage).

Duke Nukem.6783:

White Dragon.5429:

The splendid chest isn’t even that much better than the regular chest (if at all). I haven’t noticed any difference in drops between the two at least. My brother got the back piece from a regular chest, too.

what does that have to do wi th this topic at all?’

i want to win for the intrinsic value of winning not some chest, and i dont wana lose to cheaters either

Getting splendid chest for surviving is Anet’s way of telling you that you won. Points mean nothing. You say you care about intrinsic value but apparently all you care about is what people think of you.

And the splendid chest provides about 5s more than the normal chest, an extra vote token, and more karma, for what it’s worth.

Azure Prower.8701:

Dragon Ball > Aspect Arena.

Haha, that’s a good one. Zerg Ball was the worst mini-game to ever grace GW2.

Thankfully highest score doesn’t actually win. Only survivor gets a splendid chest.

Probably one person with 6000 bids at 1 copper. And that person is probably you.

It would be “neat” if it was a direct vote on issues. Not this unnecessary candidate gimmick.

And based on my in-game time, Ellen is a shoo-in to win. I’ve seen probably 50 ellen buttons but 0 gnashblade buttons since this content launched.

It seems really stupid in my eyes to give us different fractals based on a fictional candidate choice. A new fractal is an important and lasting change that will have an impact on many a player’s daily routine. However, most players are just picking candidates based on npc likability/rewarded mini, and Anet has sabotaged Gnashblade’s chances by making him out to be some cartoon villain (who is not attractive as a mini either). For this reason I have yet to see one person sporting a Gnashblade button. . I’d personally rather elect Ellen as well, but I’d also much rather have the Abaddon fractal versus some lame Asuran plant explosion that will probably end up a half-clone of the harpy fractal.

If you just made a direct vote on fractals I’m sure it would tell a very different story from what we are seeing now. There is no need for representative democracy in an MMO where direct democracy is so easy to implement. Candidate choice should be a purely story-oriented thing.

I did it solo on my zerk ele after patch today, but the mobs did seem more aggressive than in the video I watched, and I died several times before getting it. Immobilize (signet of earth) is a must.

Call of karka sucks. I have a hiding spot where people can spam it right on top of me and the karka will just chill there because it can’t see me. Then again the traps don’t do any good either since I never move once I get enough rations.

They are milking it even more with these scraps. If you get a couple of course you’re going to want to blow more money to get 10. And with this “half-off” period they are really banking on people blowing all their money trying to get 10 scraps before the “sale” ends.