Guild Wars 2

Jackalrat.5493:

Warscythes.9307:

Greatsword will probably never see serious play due to its slow hitting nature. Unless you want them to boost the attack speed which kills the theme of the weapon then no, is never going to happen.

I’d like to see the attacks affect much larger areas. Simple solution I’ve been preaching for a long time.

Make the auto attack send out conal frost or shadow effects for another 50-100 units. Up the range on gravedigger a bit. This wouldn’t make the weapon great, but it would be so much better.

I’m thinking something akin to Guardian staff but a power/DPS weapon.

Stays slow. Attacks land more. Good players will still be able to observe telegraphs and react. Everybody wins.

I know this will never happen, but I adore this idea.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Jarvis.9540:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Perry said he has 146, which is reasonable.
+7 basic infusions replacing the +5s on full ascended armor is already something, on top of that you can run +10 infusions or w/e
I’m at 98 with two outdated +5 infusions and three missing armor pieces (21), so I could get 123 easily. Then you can add another new slots to rings, which is another 14 AR. 137. etc.

And yeah rewards looked pretty kitten, like usual. Nothing new here. lol

How are you getting the +7 basic infusions that you can put in armor/weapon slots? I’ve not seen them.

You need to get Fractal Mastery Rank 1, then you can speak with the Master-Golem in the Observatory to port you onto a side-island where you can find a hidden merchant.

Forgive me for being so dense, but how does one go about getting said mastery? I am currently reward level 55.

Edit: Nevermind. Found it. I’m an idiot. Thanks for the help!

I can’t find anything explaining this…

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Perry said he has 146, which is reasonable.
+7 basic infusions replacing the +5s on full ascended armor is already something, on top of that you can run +10 infusions or w/e
I’m at 98 with two outdated +5 infusions and three missing armor pieces (21), so I could get 123 easily. Then you can add another new slots to rings, which is another 14 AR. 137. etc.

And yeah rewards looked pretty kitten, like usual. Nothing new here. lol

How are you getting the +7 basic infusions that you can put in armor/weapon slots? I’ve not seen them.

I’m less troubled by content being locked behind a mastery system, but more troubled by the mastery system being locked behind mountains of xp that require very boring/remedial tasks to obtain.

XP towards mastery levels is way too slow. It would be different if I could gain HoT xp anywhere in the world by doing anything, but right now the only real option is to spam these VB world map events. I wouldn’t mind doing that, but I’m getting about 5% or less per event. That’s way too much of a time sink for that kind of leveling in my opinion. The pace just isn’t fun. Again, I could appreciate the pace if there were other practical ways to level, but right now I don’t see any.

Sylvari Necro – Nothing is working. Tried everything mentioned here.

Agreed. That soundtrack is much much better this time around. Good work ANET.

Do we get these in PVE also? They are not on the TP.

Still not working for me. Did you have to do anything for the scout first?

How do I get this to work? I’ve spoken to a lot of scouts with my wings on, but nothing.

No one else having this problem?

Skills that channel, such as necro dagger #2, do not appear to be working with the action camera. Not sure why. The animation works, but the skill won’t lock onto any target even in point blank range.

Did hexed outfit make its way back this year? I am at work till this afternoon.

Holy kitten. 15+

I would love this. I could finally talk my wife into playing.

To all the people saying this can’t work, I’d like to direct your attention to Final Fantasy XIV. Works, runs, plays, perfectly. It’s also cross-platform.

Edit: And if you think this game has “too many skills” to work on a gamepad, you should see the enormity of skills in that game.

I’m very interested in Reaper. It’s a fun spec. I love the greatsword (got my fractal skin waiting on it), and Reaper Shroud is pure awesome. However, I just can’t find any situation in which I’d use any of the shouts over wells. This is purely from a PVE perspective. What do you guys think?

It stands to reason that we’ll eventually get an elite well skill now that they’ve changed categorizations of the elite and healing skills to match the utilities. With that in mind, what would you guys like to see in an elite well skill? I myself would like damage to enemies + invulnerability to allies inside the well.

I disagree with all of the OP’S points, but happily welcome them for discussion. The antithesis to a lot of your points is the reason I play GW2.

Signed. My necro needs this outfit!

I hate enrage timers. There is nothing wrong with killing a boss through attrition. If you can hose a boss down quicker by throwing tons of zerkers at it, then great. Your reward is a faster kill. Making this a mechanic however is terrible.

I want the hexed outfit for my necro so badly.

That’s true. I should have clarified that I meant ascended jewelry along with spvp amulets. I’ll edit my post.

Someone smarter than myself has probably already brought this up on the forums in better form, but I’ll go ahead and toss this out there.

Occasionally I cheat on GW2 with other games. (Before you start to worry, it’s cool. GW2 and I have an understood open relationship.) One such game is Smite. In Smite, they have a store much like GW’s gem store. In this store they sell voice packages for the various gods you can play as. The voice packages change the timbre of the respective god’s voice along with what he or she actually says in a given situation.

My buddies and I play GW2 together on Skype and always laugh about how terrible things like “For great justice!” or “I could outrun a centaur!” are. I think it would be cool to have voice packages that could change what your character says and how she/he says it in a given situation. The options are pretty limitless. The robot backpack that says stuff is kind of like this, but not exactly. What do you guys think?

Has ANET said anything about the possible implementation of Zealot’s stats on ascended pve jewelry or spvp amulets any time soon? I have some niche build ideas for which those stats would be perfect.

FOR GRAPE JUSTICE!!!

Please take my money ANET.

Exciton.8942:

This has nothing to do with f2p. The only thing that hurts the community is the veteran elitism.

This. So much this. Nail on the head sir. Good shot ol’ boy. Jolly good, I say.

It’s very underwhelming. I just can’t see any scenario where I would use it over other already existing builds. How do they fix it? I don’t think they do. The whole idea was pretty ill-conceived. I say burn the house down and collect the insurance money.

That’s all for today. Thanks.

So far, I’ve had best results with:
Celestial D/D Elementalist (Fire, Water, Arcane)
Celestial (or Knight’s) Monk’s Focus/Medi Guard
Cleric’s MM Necro (Blood, Death, Soul Reaping)

Looking for new ideas. I might try Rev tonight.

Hey there guys. Lately I have been trying my luck at soloing dungeons with various builds. I was wondering if anyone has done the same, and what professions/builds they have gotten the best results with. Any thoughts are appreciated.

I find full celestial to perform very well. The damage is very good if you trait/rune/sigil for might stacking.

Tarsius.3170:

Any tweaks to existing traits or skills?

Not a one, I’m afraid.

Quiznos.4296:

katbirdseat.8513:

I really wish I’d made a character I was comfortable with for the beta instead of trying the Revenant. It wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great either. I think I just would have enjoyed the Beta more using skills I’m familiar with rather than trying to learn a whole new character in one hour. I’d still probably try the Revenant again once HoT comes out.

You weren’t allowed to re-roll?

You can. I started Revenant, then deleted it to make a Guardian.

Sneakier.9460:

They are using Celestial Gear, not zerker.

So are the other professions. I made a Guardian (my most familiar) to see the difference in dps, and it is immediately noticeable.

Quiznos.4296:

Hard to pass judgement on it skill wise as we’re only seeing like a fifth of what it’ll have on release.

That is true, but I figured that people who weren’t fortunate enough to get into the BETA would want to hear our first impressions of the new features.

The new traits/skills are not in this round of BETA unfortunately. We do, however, get a full set of mistforged weapons, which is pretty sweet.

The character model during the creation process is zoomed in and off center. Makes it hard to see what you are creating.

Perhaps I will like it when they add the rest of the weapons. The hammer damage is very low, and the axe/mace combo is torment-based which doesn’t lend itself to static pve fights. The traits are interesting, but each tree feels pretty isolated. I feel like other classes I’ve played have more synergistic trees. Also, the energy system feels way out of place in the GW2 universe. I was hoping the class would be more of a shadowknight/death knight/dark knight style class, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. This is only my opinion, of course. Others may like it.

It doesn’t make sense that those 3 weapons got left out. Was it just oversight?

It’s kind of disappointing that they don’t have the effect that the other weapons sport. Especially considering that the staff looks pretty identical to the hammer which has it.

It’s a good one. LOTRO also has very good community.

You simply cannot go wrong w/ Guardian in this game. It may be the best designed class I’ve ever played in an MMO.

I lost Genesis (93g hammer) due to the rollbacks. Submitted a ticket to have it returned. ANET rep told me that they checked their records and the rollbacks were not their fault. As such, they refused to return my lost items. I tried to escalate the ticket. I plan on posting the whole conversation if not resolved.

Why is there not a place on GW2’s website to check the status of your ticket? That is kinda crappy.

I lost a Genesis drop from Maw tonight because of the rollback.

It’s a hammer worth just short of 100 gold. I submitted a ticket. We’ll see I suppose.

Logged in just in time for Teq. Killed him. Got loot. Went to Maw. Killed him. Genesis dropped. Shouted hurray! D/C’d. Logged back in. Genesis gone. FML.

What’s funny to me about this is that this is the only game I’ve ever actually enjoyed and participated in the crafting. (I’ve played maybe 30 mmo’s.)