Guild Wars 2

You don’t have to wear the pauldrons people, sheesh. Ever heard of mixing and matching?

Demented Sheep.1642:

eh looks ok. Male version look better IMO.

Skirts skirts and more skirts. Will light ever get pants? I mean that doesnt cost gem and look like something a cheap stripper would wear?

Yeah I was hoping for pants as well. I’m hoping they add a set similar in style to the rogue (mesmer) set from guild wars 1 eventually.

Ya I really want just one pair of form-fitting pants for my ele. Is that too much to ask?

I have a jade ticket but I don’t know what weapon I want to get at the moment. Does anybody know if the weapon vendor will remain after the event is over?

Chest plate, blue jeans, leather cowboy pants, and hello kitty sneakers. Good look right thar.

Digging the light and heavy sets

Yes I’d at least like some confirmation that they will never have an event like this ever again. Giving a one time reward in a month long festival on only one random weekend that isn’t even the finale (father’s day weekend no less), and making it so that you have to be in a specific section of lion’s arch in a tiny window that only occurs once every 2 hours (with no timer or notice to speak of ) is just horrible implementation.

I find it especially ironic that they felt the need to send us in-game mail telling us about those stupid living story instances that give nothing of worth and can be attempted at any time, but failed to give us notice in game that there is a limited time reward that you must be around at very specific times to get. Anet’s priorities are mind-bogglingly out of order.

Swimwear, swimwear, swimwear. You already made it (for kasmeer, faren, and various other npcs), so let us buy it.

Elementalists have always been very vulnerable to condition stacking due to our pitiful hp pool and reliance on heals (hampered by poison), but now everything is stacking against us. There is an entire new condition (torment) which will damage us immensely (since eles MUST run to survive) and make cleansing other conditions that much harder, cleansing fire has lost stunbreaker status rendering it much less versatile, mist form has already been nerfed to disallow channeling ether renewal, water condition removal traits have been nerfed, and our boons are constantly converted to conditions by corrupt boon… how in the hell are we supposed to survive against a necro or engineer (much less more than one) now?

Even though we have new possible glass canon builds we will now still be forced to run full water just to cleanse conditions and give us more hp to survive the coming condition apocalypse, especially with cleansing fire out of the running (a skill which used to allow decent condition removal for glass canon builds). We don’t have many escape mechanisms now with rtl and lightning flash nerfs, so we’ll be eating much more conditions than mesmers and thiefs who for some reason have retained their ridiculous escape and diversion capabilities despite better health pool and armor class respectively.

I just have a very bad feeling about our place in the new meta, and feel like we may end up as the punching bags for the forseeable since our primary survival tools (healing+condition removal+escape) have been consistently nerfed and countered into oblivion, all while retaining our stupidly low hp pool/armor.

Wow, with all the buffs necros are getting you are still complaining? ffs, death shroud is getting a new skill with a new massive dot condition (making cleansing other conditions that much harder ) and immobilize, and now you’ll be able to be in death shroud more than ever with life force gain buffs. Death shroud was never meant to be ideal in all circumstances, but just the fact that the class with the highest hp pool gets a whole second health bar that is becoming easier and easier to fill should be cause for celebration. And now that you’ll be able to pwn us in death shroud with torment, not only will you be surviving everything, you’ll be killing everyone at the same time.

0/0/20/30/30 is 10 points too many

30/30/0/0/10 s/d could be quite the glass cannon… but when I say glass, I mean glass. Our base health and armor is so low that we will be obliterated by just about anything, without any class mechanics to avoid it. On the other hand we will have massive fury+might stacking, great offensive stats and repeated switches into air for spike damage. I guess I’ll have to try it myself before I make a judgement. I wonder if it will be decent in PvE too (won’t get my hopes up about that though).

The only problem is I’ve never liked the scepter playstyle that much, but it seems to be the only weapon able to take full advantage of fresh air (mandatory for the new offensive builds in my opinion). Maybe I’ll like it better with the improved auto-attack cast lag though.

I still think the lightning nerf is horrible, but I am thinking fresh air may be one way to bypass the arcana line. With auto-air recharge and the spike damage switching into air (with s/d), all we have to do is switch from air to whatever, arcane blast, and back to air for massive single target damage.

What the hell? Cleansing fire will be useless now! Who even thought it was overpowered? Most eles didn’t even run it but I loved it for dealing with those kitten engis and necros. Armor of earth and mist form were my least favorite cantrips, and now they are the only good ones…

And with lightning flash nerf that’s another nail in the coffin for our mobility. Mesmers get stealth, blinks, and clones to escape almost anything, but now our blink won’t do kitten. We don’t have clones and stealth to augment our blink like mesmers… we needed that stunbreak to survive.

I guess s/d could get interesting with fresh air though…

Where did you get this info anyways?

lol, by Anet logic 1.27% chance is apparently common, since only in regular dragon coffers are they “rare”. I guess compared to .06% chance in regular ones but still, really?

But anyways, I think everyone realizes the rich coffers are a ripoff at this point. The normal ones at current prices on the other hand can usually get you a ticket using somewhere in the range of 5 to 25g, which isn’t that bad all things considered.

Missed it too, because they implemented it horribly. I can see the developer’s meeting now:

“Let’s make it so everybody has to wait around doing nothing for 2 hours in order to get their helms. Oh but that’s not cryptic enough, oh please give them more. Make it so there is no countdown timer and you have to be standing in arbitrary sections of Lion’s Arch AND make it so they have to watch the finale. But wait that might be too easy. Make it so they can only do it on one random weekend that isn’t even the finale. And to top it off, let’s give absolutely no notice in game, and instead opt to send mail to let players know that they ABSOLUTELY NEED to participate in this SUPER EXCITING living story quest that rewards NOTHING and can be completed at ANY TIME until June 9th! That after all is much more important to be aware of than a one time extremely limited time reward right? Right?”

In conclusion, it’s all a bunch of bull poop.

Got one after 500 coffers… about 7 gold after selling. Incredibly reasonable compared to the previous ticket debacles where you could only get one with hundreds of gold converted to gems or real money.

What the hell, this event already happened? How the hell was I supposed to know you needed to be around in a 5 minute window at specific times? I was waiting for this supposed firework show to happen since dragon bash started but assumed it was delayed for whatever reason since nothing was ever happening at the fountain, only to find out I already missed it. I thought it was going to be available for the rest of the event, but apparently not. Horrible communication. For your own sake you should give everybody the achievement for free as it was terribly implemented (not to mention a boatload of people already got the achievement unfairly at the beginning of dragon bash for doing nothing).

I love how the gift says it is given for “participating in the dragon bash festival”. My kitten . I’ve been participating in this festival for the past week and just because I miss some random fireworks (that don’t even happen on the finale for god’s sake) I get jack kitten. Fix this anet.

John Smith.4610:

You put up an order for 22 shards, 3 days ago.

Big Brother is watching

Azylir.9137:

Well, I love the helm. One thing though, why does it have to remove facial hair? I would rather have a little clipping with beards than go baby faced.

Yeah it’s really dumb that all helms remove hair. I will never ever wear a helm in this game because I can always tell that my character is bald underneath (since you should be able to see the hairline for most of them). The sad thing is I remember in the beginning some helms came with hair (that did not even clip), but were changed for whatever reason.

lordkrall.7241:

Jabberwock.9014:

If you want to farm 100k taffy for one pair of wings, I pity your intellect. You can sell those 100k taffy on the tp and buy 10 wing covers.

Why can’t you simply accept the fact that some people prefer to earn stuff themselves? Abusing people just because they don’t play the game the way you do is quite silly.

Where did this notion that using the tp isn’t “earning it” come from? Why is it any better to buy from an npc than a player? If you are willing to spend 10 times more just to get your reward from an npc you deserve to be abused.

If you want to farm 100k taffy for one pair of wings, I pity your intellect. You can sell those 100k taffy on the tp and buy 10 wing covers.

Not to mention you could just farm cof for 3 and a half hours to buy one wing cover, compared to farming 24/7 for a month to get 100k taffy.

I seriously don’t know why they create such convoluted ways to get items and then add them as random drops as well. The same thing happened at Halloween… it cost 100g+ to craft a mad moon shield but then the shield randomly started dropping from a chest so you could buy one on the tp for 10g, rendering the recipe to craft one completely pointless.

At this point you’d have to be remarkably stupid to spend 100k taffies (200g) to make the wings when you can buy them directly for 22g (and falling).

Preacher.9018:

Jabberwock.9014:

But unlike sPvP, there is really little way that individual skill or effort can make up for a team that won’t stay together.

You cant be further from truth.

I’d like to see you win a game when all of your teammates are individually getting picked off by a mob of 5 enemies. Or beating a group of 5 enemies on your own for that matter. Yes you can win by telling your teammates to stick together, but that hardly equates to skill.

Yes, dragonball blows. It is the first PvP minigame released that I don’t like. It’s a zergfest pure and simple… the team that stays together wins. Halloween, Wintersday, and Southsun minigames were all a blast (crabtoss was the best for me).

Ironically I had an easier time winning the indivdual crabtoss (I had like 95% win rate) than this team based game which should theoretically be easier to win since half the players win every match. But unlike sPvP, there is really little way that individual skill or effort can make up for a team that won’t stay together. The zergier team will win every time.

Kincaidia.3192:

It shouldn’t be easy, but it should be either

1) A badge cost – 250 badges to reset
2) A set interval – perhaps the 1st of every month

I consider myself a normal to high WvW participant and I have 55 points. And it’s been what, 2 months? That barely scratches the surface of some of the trees. I too am nervous about spending points – I only actually put them into AC Mastery when I heard they were working on a reset. Now that it’s been reset, I’m not spending them. Especially because Anet has announced that more abilities will be coming.

It’s just not “fun”. It’s stressful. It’s forcing you down a play style path that will take literally 3-6 months to back-peddle from.

SO MAKE A RESET OPTION. Make it painful. Make it cost 25G. 500 Badges. 250,000 Karma. 20 Laurels. I don’t care.

Just don’t stress me out over the decisions, because then I’m just going to avoid it and resent you for causing me stress.

Exactly. Rather than being fun, ranks just add unnecessary stress because you could be irreversibly ruining a character you’ve spent a thousand hours on. The only safe way to use them is not to use them at all until you can max all trees (which may never happen, especially if they add more trees). We can change everything about our character, even name and gender, at this point, but for some unknown reason we are not allowed to change WvW trees, ever.

There was an exploit with the mystic forge. People were throwing in 4 holo risen knights (worth 4g) and getting back rare and exotic minis (some worth 100 gold or more). If you look at gw2spidy you can see the price of all exotic and rare minis tanked for a couple hours last night because of this, until all recipes involving the knight were disabled.

edit: 100g not 100kg lol

The reset today begs the question of why rank points aren’t ALWAYS reallocatable in the same way class traits are. As it stands, you can effectively ruin a character for a very long period of time if you don’t allocate your rank points wisely in the beginning. I for one am refraining from spending ANY of them for fear of wasting them, as I know I will likely never reach the the point where I can max all trees. This really isn’t the way it should be. Maybe it should be costly (like 50g and/or 1000 badges) to discourage constantly changing to suit the situation, but in my opinion it should not be impossible to reallocate rank points.

I wholeheartedly agree. I don’t know why they keep introducing and removing all these actually fun minigames while leaving in the completely mundane keg brawl. The halloween and wintersday minigames were a blast, and crabtoss is even better! Honestly I’ve almost had more fun with these minigames than ACTUAL sPvP, but Anet keeps removing them for who knows what reason.

Fenrir.3609:

An ANET dev will watch this then nerf Orr some more.

It’s sad how true this statement is.

Sacrifice a child to the great Zommoros. This increases your odds of receiving a ticket 1000-fold, to a whopping 5%. Offer good for one supply crate.

Wrong. People are almost certainly still buying them for use. I bought one a few days ago for my main and am buying another for an alt today since I know this may be the last chance. Many other people who may have bought different varieties of FF dyes a month ago may be trying to add missing colors to their collection at this point before it is too late. It is really amazing how much that new bl trading post preview can get you drooling at the different possible dye combos.

I probably got dropped 20 to 30 crates during the course of the event and no ticket. Thankfully the skins are quite ugly.

I’m making bank on these FF dyes, but unfortunately in my surveying of dye prices I fell in love with a few of the more expensive FF dyes I don’t have and am paying out the nose for a couple (They really look amazing on heavy armor btw… something I didn’t notice at first since my main is an ele).

And yes, there is some monopolizing going on, but given the low, low supply remaining that really is to be expected. You are going to have to pay an arm and a leg if you ever want a chance of getting a dye at this point.

I think you should be able to fight with town clothes, but with the restriction that it provides no armor/protection. That way you can have a little fun, but nobody will end up wearing them in serious fights.

Least useful? I think logging axe is the MOST useful one. Trees are the most plentiful node and I only really bother with nodes because of the gathering daily, so axes run out way faster than the others.

Eh, ok they are referenced in lore, my bad. However, I have little doubt that they were originally conceived as convenient gameplay constructs and half-heartedly worked into lore after the fact. In my opinion this never should have never have been done, for the exact reason this thread elucidates. Asura gates are just too powerful as plot devices, much in the same way the eagles in Lord of the Rings are (a major plothole in the series is the fact that the ring could simply have been flown by eagle to mount doom).

Hm, now that you mention it… what the hell? Are there going to be some scelerite enemies in future living stories or did they just completely forget? They dropped tentacles all over the place hinting at some mutated beasts awakening but in the end we just get normal karka with “crazed” status tacked on.

The answer is that lore-wise the Asura gates shouldn’t even exist: they were merely put in for player/gameplay convenience. If this wasn’t a video game you can bet they wouldn’t exist, so it is probably just best if you consider them as non-existent for lore purposes.

Curo.2483:

Wait, how could it be easy to be instantly buy at a low price and instantly sell at a high price, at the same time? Is that not contradictory? Who would ever buy instantly at 4s when they could instantly buy at 2s40c?

Some speculators with tunnelvision thought the new weapons/armor that cost karka shells would cause them to go up in price. They forgot to consider the masses of people participating in all the new karka slaying events who began dumping all the shells they found. So for a brief time low buy orders were being filled (by event participants) at the same time speculators were buying high sell listings.

Anyways, I agree they need to hurry and release the swimwear. Info on them has already been datamined, so hopefully they will be released soon. But I really cannot begin to understand the logic of releasing swimwear skins AFTER an entire living story plot taking place ON THE BEACH.

According the Reddit swimwear should be released at some point: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1euooo/upcoming_gemstore_items_may_edition/

Ya, dude is posting in every subforum he can about this. No doubt he bought hundreds of them himself.

hm, maybe that’s because you bought 300 of them and are now sitting on them hoping suckers fall for it, hm… I already saw you post in the black lion subforum this exact post, so I hope you get banned for using the forums to try and scam people.

Where did you see mention of it becoming available?

It will take a long long time for them to rise in value since there are so many. Only very limited quantity discontinued items rise quickly. Just sell them now and invest in something else.

I wouldn’t buy this crap for 10 gems much less 100. Hell I wouldn’t take it for free… it takes up a valuable item slot after all. I’d rather use the slot on something more worthwhile, like crab meat.

Rigging crabtacular is understandable since it is completely luck based and has no title. I myself rigged that one. However, you don’t really deserve the crab toss champion achievement or title if you can’t win even ONE GAME on your own. And crabgrabber is an inevitability if you just play the game normally for a small while, so I have no sympathy for anyone too lazy to get it the legit way. If I ever see anyone rigging any of those two achievements all I can say is: looks like noob is back on the menu boys!

What ever happened to achievements being achievements? As soon as an achievement comes along that has even the tiniest skill requirement (like these ones), lazy people go up in arms that they aren’t given everything just for logging in.

Still no official response?

I just organized a crabtacular fest and even when all of us were standing stacked in the center some people were having trouble getting it. At least I managed to get it, and it gave me a chance to improve my leadership skills a bit.

Jamais vu.5284:

panzer.6034:

No more than everyone standing around in city in their underwear, which has been an option since the beginning.

Yeah but no one does that. If you pay 800 gems, you want to show that off, like happened with all the previous pieces of cash shop skins, especially if it’s a skimpy bikini, which would probably become the most popular of them all (also you don’t have to manually remove 6 pieces of armor every time).
That wasn’t very good argument.

Nothing is stopping anybody from equipping nothing for their town clothes. Instant underwear swap if you chose to do so.

But anyways who cares if people run around in a bikini while out of combat. This game needs to lighten up.

With the consortium boost and omnom I get anywhere from 3s to 5s per drop (even on trash), which is the best this game has ever seen as far as non-dungeon-boss gold drops are concerned.