Guild Wars 2

Looks more like heavy armor to me since it is metal plate based. I would be happy to be proven wrong however, for my ele’s sake.

I feel like she was only nervous because of Faren.

Mirta.5029:

In beta of Southsun Cove bikinis were actually for sale on the gem store. Then they took it away because, I don’t know, maybe they’re afraid of feminists or angry parents or something?
Point is, I’ll pay you to get them, so please put them back.

There was a beta? How do you even know this stuff?

But if that’s true that they had them and took them out… I can’t hold all of these wtfs. I stand by my initial assertion that Anet is more conservative than Rush Limbaugh at an NRA convention. Anet: we know you don’t want to be Tera, but this is just getting ridiculous. A simple swimsuit that we can’t even fight in is not going to open the gates of Hell.

Man us “poor” background players will get shafted if you start giving extra conversation options to Faren and the like. My only friend got brutally murdered at the beginning of the game. The sad thing is I played the “noble” background on my first few characters and liked it a lot more, but on what ended up being my main I went for the “poor” background just to see what it was like.

There is no way to get it at this time. Join the party. There is a whole thread discussing this travesty here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/southsun/Consortium-Swimwear-GemStore/first

Happens to my ele when I use Ride the Lightning too, about 20% of the time.

Let’s see, put something which costs 100g on the tp on the gemstore so people can buy it for 20g? How about no.

It’s a prestige item, not everyone and their mom is supposed to have one.

They’ve already created many models of swimwear for ALL the various races that can be seen on NPCs all over Southsun. So I see no reason why “race imbalance” should prevent them from putting these skins on the gem store.

I’ve never used any other visual backpiece so I don’t know if this is unique to the cencer, but when my elementalist uses ride the lightning about 20% of the time on completion of the move the backpiece visually disappears. I have to uncheck and recheck its visibility box on the hero screen to get it to show up again.

It is in your inventory. You can wield and stow it at will (and you get to keep it as a nifty souvenir after the event).

NickChabby.8907:

RyuDragnier.9476:

I agree, why aren’t we getting swimwear?

Because at the moment whenever we dive with our town clothes we switch automatically to our armor, since going underwater involve equiping our breather and trident.

So unless they deactivate that or allow us to equip our town clothes on our armor instead of swapping, getting any kind of swimwear is unlikely and pointless… Except if you want to walk around in bikini on the beach/everywhere else without swimming.

I love how you assume people give a rat’s behind if they can swim in the skin or not. I’ll give you a hint: they don’t. Even if this game didn’t have water people would want a swimsuit skin.

They need to make black lion purchases not count towards the mail limit. The amount of posts I’ve seen on here complaining about not getting items is too kitten high.

Wow, seriously, one-time use? Then it’s totally useless! Who thought that would be a good idea?

The different flavors have different infusion types (offensive, defensive, utility). It’s perfectly reasonable to assume this is the only reason for the different flavors, even though this is not the case.

Yeah this achievement is dumb as hell. You’ve gotta be playing with complete morons for them all to get rolled at the same time (while you are holding the crab no less). At least there is no title associated with it.

Seriously wtf anet/ncsoft. Every other mmo in the business would have jumped on this opportunity and rightly so. But no, this game has to be more conservative than my grandma at a tea party. Stop trying so hard not to be Tera… you are already miles away from them, and a simple swimsuit skin won’t change that.

The fact that there are separate heavy, medium, and light gauntlets is an extra kick in the balls. I feel for you getting only the heavy and medium while aiming for the light. PvP desperately needed the same ticket treatment as PvE gauntlets got (in fact even more so since PvP gauntlets are RNG and not guaranteed). PvP reward treatment is so neglected in this game… they obviously put all the thought into the PvE end and then just tack them onto PvP to shut people up.

At least take solace in the fact that light fused gauntlets don’t really match most light armor well at all.

Eh no. That would defeat the purpose. I DO think we need weapon swap, but it should have this restriction: weapon swap cooldown is tied to attunement swap cooldown. That is, you cannot swap to another weapon until all your attunements are off cooldown. Gives us many more possible builds/tactics/range options (which we are supposed to have as the “masters of versatility”) without making us overpowered and able to pull off ridiculous chain combos.

If you look at the last pic on the new living story page (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/living-world-pivot-point), the two characters in the bottom right appear to be wearing swimsuit skins. The male is wearing a speedo while the female appears to be wearing a 2-piece bikini that is different from the normal underclothing (although I could be wrong, as it is hard to tell from far away). I just hope this isn’t just more npc specific clothing shenanigans.

Mega fail Anet… if this is true the tunnel vision is astounding. Doesn’t anybody think a centimeter beyond the immediate scope of these nerfs? What am I saying, of course they don’t.

Please in the future remember that you are balancing an entire interconnected game before swinging that nerfbat willy nilly.

Are you sure you checked every last spot in the dulfy guide? Some of them are quite well hidden (like toy soldier was on top of a giant rock for me).

Yeah, wtf is up with the flaps on the cargo shorts on females? I have no problems with them being short-shorts and not actually cargos (in fact I prefer it), but who the hell stapled random cloth to the front and back? It’s like someone thought it would be too scandalous to have normal short-shorts and so decided to make it a caricature of the real thing. Protip: stop trying to design bizarre things for some imaginary runway and make some normal clothing for once.

How to win as elementalist underwater:

1. Use earth anchor (skill 4 earth) on enemy to sink them to the ground
2. switch to water and use skill 5 next to enemy directly into groound

This will cause all hits of water 5 trident rush to connect, causing massive damage and often killing from near full health. Use arcane wave at the same time for added potency. Many times you won’t even have to use anchor since enemies love chilling near the ground anyways. Also this is a good way to get rid of annoying downed people underwater.

Sadly once you’ve blown this combo and burned whirlpool, you don’t bring much else to the table damagewise. Retreat and come back once cooldowns are done.

Proper method when dealing with desirable temporary items:

1. Stock up near middle of event when they are cheap
2. Sell on last day of event when speculators drive up prices
3. Rebuy after prices crash for long term investment

We may have already hit the bottom of the crash, so it’s not a bad idea to buy now. Judging by the most recent rebound of the greatsword I suspect the rest will soon follow and continue to rise as rime goes on.

Also for those claiming the lesser halloween skins haven’t risen much: their percentage rise has still been quite good, most quadrupling or quintupling in price since halloween.

Kichwas.7152:

This just isn’t a game where you are meant to stay in just either ranged or melee.

Tell that to eles. We don’t have a choice. Because of our lack of weapon swap we are locked into either melee or range. Scepter/dagger is the only thing that comes close to giving us the choice, and it still can’t manage a range over 900. Not to mention the fact that if you don’t like scepter dagger you have nothing else to choose from for melee/range balance. Terrible design flaw imo.

They never should have created “primary stats” on gear. It gives so many possible stat combinations that we will never have every possible combination of stats now.

Why don’t you consider mixing and matching legs/chest pieces? Out of those I like HotW the best however.

Arah will have slightly more prestige but be more of a pain to get however.

Please stop ending every one of your posts in unfunny memes. I feel like I’m on a tween’s facebook page.

Epic.3950:

I actually have a lvl 80 war 80 ele and 80 guard. no tears over the ele nerf since it did not affect my play style at all. if you look at my posts you will see i comment about the warrior because they do in fact need a pick me up in pvp. Had no complaints about my ele therefore no need to forum rage on em. Its cute how when you insult eles they call you a troll but every other class including the thieves will give evidence to disprove. So sad it really shows the idiots that play FotM builds.
and btw the thing is that eles dont kill me. because they are to busy running away and healing for full hp

People are not countering your statement because it is so fundamentally incorrect that it is not worth the time to argue with. It’s like if somebody told you circles are square. What can you say to that?

They were talking to op

Lol wow. These bugs have likely been around from the beginning and we are only now being able to see it. People have probably been getting screwed out of MF since day 1, and omnomberry cream has been worthless other than for boon upkeep this whole time.

Just give them their own attunement/weapon slot so we can swap between our normal weapon skills and the conjure at will. The main reason conjures suck so much is because of the opportunity cost of losing your entire skill bar.

I’m only having fun because of new custom dueling arenas, and the fact that our recent nerfs to glass finally tipped me over the edge and made me switch back to a bunkerish build. If I was still playing glass I can assure you I would not be having fun.

Actually it really confuses me that it’s not already… every other one of our non-pb aoe attacks uses ground targeting. Did they really think it would be too op with ground targeting? As if the quarter-century landing time didn’t balance it out enough?

Leablo.2651:

Firebaall.5127:

We should all resolve to buy the $10 option (multiple times), to arrive at the amount you intended to purchase.

Worst boycott ever.

“Hah! This’ll teach you Anet scum! Take this money! And take some more money! Oop what’s this behind your ear? More money! Muahaha, you’re feeling the burn now aren’t you? No it’s too late to repent, just sit there and take it like a man!”

I wouldn’t underestimate the power of poultry either. It may be abundant but the recipe calls for a whopping 4 slabs of poultry.

I keep coming back to the thought that our lack of viable build variety stems directly from our lack of weapons and weapon swap. Save engineer, all classes can mix and match their weapons in SO many more ways that we can, resulting in many more varied and unique builds, many of which even the developers haven’t thought of… not to mention being able to mix range and melee effectively. When it comes to us though, we are pigeonholed into only FIVE possible weaponsets: d/d, d/f, s/d, s/f, and staff. When I’m playing ele, I feel like I’m forever limited to the narrow combos that the developers thought up when they made the class, while other classes are always discovering cool new ways to combine all their skills effectively.

The worst thing about this is it is much much harder for us to adapt to new metas than the other classes… since really, what can we change? It is looking more and more like once D/D becomes countered by a new meta (which Anet seems happy to hasten the arrival of), there will be almost nothing left for us. At this point I feel that we are in desperate need of not one but SEVERAL new types of one handed weapons in order to provide us more potential weapon combinations. Personally I would prefer at least one of them being a one-handed long-range weapon (magic pistol?) so that we can emulate the ability of other classes to carry both long-ranged and melee weapons.

Honestly though I think weapon swap is also something that should be looked into… maybe if there was a requirement that one of the weapons had to be staff? That would at least solve our range/melee conundrum, and honestly, if weapon swapping cooldown was tied to attunement cooldown I don’t see how it would be overpowered.

Traitlines of course exacerbate the problem with our complete and total reliance on the arcane traitline… but that’s for another post.

My personal opinion: you should stop trying to keep your rank. It’s only going to make you more and more crazy as time goes on and it’s really not healthy setting aside hours every single day that you MUST play a video game just to keep up. Unless you plan on playing this game forever you will eventually get knocked off at some point anyways, so just quit while you’re ahead. Take a screenshot of your current rank and move on.

Raze.8467:

They’re still probably better than anyone at getting from point a to point b. Nonetheless I’m surprised it wasn’t a pvp specific nerf.

Only with fiery greatsword (which as an elite has a long cooldown). Without it, thief and warrior blow us out of the water. Probably ranger too.

Nonetheless, our mobility in PvE was one of our major selling points, so anet’s going to have a lot of angry customers on their hands with this completely unjustified PvE nerf. I’m chalking it up to laziness and unwillingness to do the work to split the skill (you’d think it would be an easy change but who knows how poorly designed their code is).

majortato.7125:

this is the most terribly thought out nerf. The most OP part of RTL was it was used as an escape tool. Here’s the problem…..I only need 1 RTL to escape after being in combat….so it does nothing to address that. The extra CD does nothing to prevent this.

All this nerf does is make traveling slower. Who cares? We’re not nearly as fast properly spec’d thieves/warriors. It’s just PvE anyway.

Want to make RTL more about offensive focused and gap closer? Up the dmg, reduce the range, reduce the CD. It should be a 900 range skill on 15s CD. That way, it doesn’t get you out of trouble as easily. It’s still great gap closer. It’s still useful for travel.

I agree with this 100%. I’d much rather have a good damage gap closer that I can use more often than the abomination it is now which fills almost no role. Seriously, if anet wants us to only use it in battle then why can’t they make it USEFUL in battle? As it is now if a player so much as dodges my rtl I can kiss it goodbye for the rest of the fight and then some.

I honestly think Anet will lose a significant amount of players over this nerf. 40 sec cooldown on rtl with DRASTICALLY decreased ranged = GG mobility (even in PvE and WvW).

Next time think before you nerf anet. At least give us something in return before crippling us.

I feel like it’s the other way around: when a bid and sale both disappear, it means the bidder got sick of waiting and so sucked it up and payed the ticket price. It doesn’t really make sense to take off a listing considering the enormous listing price. And anyways legendaries sell pretty fast: I sold an incinerator for 2250g last month in less than 24 hours.

There are so many things wrong with the answers given regarding eles in the recent SotG that I barely know where to begin. Everything they say is such a giant contradiction that by the end I was starting to wonder if it was a joke. Here’s a brief rundown:

“Speaking specifically… of cantrip ele”

Ok, cantrips are WAY to make or break for us eles, to the point that no other utilities hold a candle. I would hope for a buff of other utilities to compensate however.

“We don’t want to overdo it so we made smaller changes”

Nice, very reasonable. It’s definitely a good idea to tweak things slowly since large changes while adding counters (eg boonhate) and buffing other classes at the same time can have massive and unpredictable results in a meta that is already learning to deal with bunker eles.

“…however some of them are actually somewhat big.”

Ah, so the previous statement was a lie. Good to know.

“This is a BIG change… the elementalist is going to no longer be able to use utility skills while mist-formed.”

So let me get this straight… in order to nerf cantrip eles, you are making it so we can no longer use utilities in mist form. I’m sincerely dumbfounded. How in god’s name does this make any sense whatsoever? Why on earth would a cantrip ele want to use another cantrip while in mist form, other than to cleanse conditions (which is being nerfed anyways). On the other hand, now you can no longer use arcane wave or glyph of storms or whatever while in mist form… so non-cantrip eles are harmed while cantrip eles are unaffected.

The major thing though is that you can no longer use the utility heal in mist form… seriously? This hurts non-bunker builds FAR more than bunker builds, since non-bunkers don’t have access to as much healing through other means and thus NEED to be able to get off a heal, considering our game-worst hp and armor. Another misguided nerf.

“Ride the Lighting… it goes up to a 40, but if you actually hit somebody with it it’s just going to be a 20”

Why, just why. What are you guys thinking, 40 seconds?! Being mobile and able to disengage easily is a VERY necessary component for our class, and one of the reasons why offhand dagger is our only viable option. I’ll repeat, ele has the GAME-WORST armor and hp-pool, and if we can’t get away or heal we can get bursted down incredibly fast. Non-bunker builds are harmed even more by this nerf since they don’t even have much healing to compensate for the lack of mobility.

More importantly, our roaming is now crippled. I hate being a bunker guarding one point all day, so thankfully rtl allowed me to get to other points relatively quickly. Now however we will have some of the worst non-combat mobility in the game.

And let’s not even talk about PvE/WvW… I shudder at the thought.

Alright, so don’t know if it is just my current build or what but condition engineers always seem to ruin my day. Most other classes I can usually 1v1 successfully but I just fall apart against a good condition engineer. Is there a good strategy or build for dealing with them? They can lay on conditions so fast and frequently that my condition removal is rendered inadequate, and my tiny hp pool melts so fast to conditions (poison doesn’t help since it limits my healing). Furthermore I usually can’t burst them down fast enough due to all of their invulnerability and stability skills, and presumably beefy build (which complements condition damage). Is this a known bad matchup or is there a good approach to dealing with them?

As for my build I’ve been running d/d with standard 0/10/0/30/30 traits, and berserker amulet (at least for hotjoin, where I don’t feel like just guarding points). My utilities are mist form, and 2 of earth armor/lightning flash/arcane wave.

Ursan.7846:

Eide.4965:

The recent Flame and Frost dye kits are another example of Arenanet applying random chance on purchased items. The same was true for example at the time of the Mad King events with the random chance of gaining event related items from Black Lion Kits.

I am not certain what the motives of Arenanet are with these choices, but I personally feel it’s a horrendous decision. I assume Arenanet wants people to spend actual money on the game. I fail to see how making a lottery out of buying items positively influences this. I would assume people would be more likely to spend money if they knewn they’d be getting what they are paying for.

I hope this is a policy Arenanet is seriously considering changing.

Buy them from the TP.

The Molten skins (account bound) was a stupid decision. But every other RNG item so far have been purchasable through the TP, where a value will be assigned to them befitting their rarity by the general population.

Tell that to the endless mystery tonics.

If fear was much longer it would probably be too easy to keep people off of control points in spvp. On the plus side it is not affected by enemies stacking condition duration decreasing food and runes.

Oldgrimm.8521:

oh my, so there will be a point that it will be more “RARE” than the legendary itself in the long run?

in in this premise more expensive in a long run?

PS. i should have not used my skins (sob sob)

Don’t worry you can still profit off of the next SAB month… I know I can’t wait. Just make sure to build up a decent amount of gold to invest before then.

Anyways as far as prices dipping after the month is over, I’m not so sure anymore. The Halloween skins dipped a bit after the event ended but that was in part because the skins unexpectedly remained in BLCs for a week or so after the event ended. Christmas skins also dipped after the event ended but I’m sure part of that is because there were just SO MANY of them that only a negligible amount actually got used/soulbound by people. Also many of them were unremarkable.

On the other hand, the super skins are DEFINITELY gone after the 30th, they are not too bountiful, and because of their awesome particle effects a HUGE portion of them are being soulbound. So they have the potential to just keep rising. Honestly not sure what to do.

Well that post is only 3 hours old so it was not the cause of this spike which started last night. HOWEVER I suspect that his re-confirmation that they will never return will cause an even larger spike shortly.

Hmm, interesting. Could have made a fortune on lemongrass if I had bought it in January. But of course there was little way of knowing the soup would be popularized so much.

I doubt anybody is manipulating. This rise was inevitable and is a result of people speculating that the skins will skyrocket after the event ends. Rushes like this happen all the time, since people see tons of skins being bought up they think it will keep rising and so panic and buy a ton more hoping to profit (or simply get a skin they want before it becomes unobtainable). My only concern is whether prices will crash enough to justify selling now, or if I should hold on hoping for another spike near the very end of the month.