Guild Wars 2

Jana.6831:

A tricky question:
I’m node-farming out of bordedom and found that my second favourite toon is my warrior – I mean he’s cute, nearly as cute as my main – but I’m asking you: Am I attracted to losers?

Pic to prove how cute he is.

No.

I still got the coffee for you.

I see you display same skill level of spamming staff water aa no matter what just as you did in vids you used for recruitment to your fractal run guild few months ago. nice utilities, perfect for healing others.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

as it stands I feel totally lied to.

This sums it up for me. They presented fractals as the content they focus on, just to make people buy HoT, and all they delivered is old content seasoned with different icons for items (supposedly loot) that litter my inv.

Burnfall posts were hilarious.

Do condis still cause you such a problem in wvw? Seems like less players run condi builds since HoT.

Jana.6831:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Jana, drink more coffee.

Always a good advise but don’t ruin my joke!

Coffee is proven to improve exotic drop rate by 17.43%, but only for 2nd, 5th and 9th thief (I don’t have more than 9 to test further). I suppose, the pigmentation in coffee improves the abyss performance for the thief class.

Perhaps we could test this together, I have a private room in guild TS and the finest Italian coffee ready. Yes, I asked you for a date, don’t be shy.

One of these disconnects made my character log in into a different map that I disconnect in, was there for some time just chatting with a guildie.

I think you can’t find that shape cos those ears on pic are when the character used a weapon skill, they point downward when resting.

If you still want those ears, it’s the default (the one auto selected) ear tip shape, seems like thickness/shape attributes maxed, ear length not sure, with the last option (skin markings) for the colour.

real sparkly weapons for real warriors…. bought 4 of them already :P

kitten widget.9301:

meepeY http://www.twitch.tv/meepeyplays/profile is doing it pretty well himself

30s into one of his vids he talks bs about toughness

Jana, drink more coffee.

Spent 40mins on bl, saw no enemy, suicided by jumping off cliff into some lava river. It was a blast… I mean burnnnnn.

I flip upgraded camps with zerker staff ele, get agro, pull mobs around some corner, drop sandstorm there, earth 4,2 and 3, fire 2 and meteor shower. Clears everything fast even with vets in there, RQ can be problem cos moles </3 blinds.

Die when someone comes around to defend :P

Although few times some smart players try to tank my meteor while standing in sandstorm, those wtf whispers are gold.

Brighteluden.2974:

I’ve put in about 2,200 hours into this game and about 1,700 of those hours have been through WvW and I have to say I absolutely hate the new maps, but honestly that node nerf does suck if you think about it..sure It brought PvErs into our maps but at least it brought players to fight now it’s completely dead.

Haven’t come across a pver on nodes that would try to fight back.

I saw the nodes as a reward for those that scout in towers/keeps but the thing is, they were a pretty good reward for everyone who just ran by. UW had most of EB this week, could just run around in circles, ignoring SM and the nodes refreshed by the time I finished one round.

They should make the nodes refresh rate based on time spent in their proximity.

I miss old fractals, for the rewards and fun too.

Now I spend more time filling up a party than actually playing, most don’t bother even to reply to hi, why should they, 5 mins later they’ll look for another party.

I’m gonna run out of things to do in this game really quickly.

This has been bothering me for past few days seeing how empty lfg is. I don’t enjoy the new maps that much, I barely ever pvp, I used to like wvw and now dungeons are empty.

Yseron.8613:

I can no longer enter dungeons after joining a party. The game seems to think that my connection is faulty althought it appears to not be the case. since the game still allow me to do dungeons alone.

yeah necroing..

I had this issue with my NA alt account (I am EU), some 2 months ago suddenly couldn’t do dungeons anymore due to this error and for the whole time till HoT (they either fixed it or HoT unintentionally fixed it) I couldn’t join a dungeon when in party. When I tried opening the dungeon first, then lfg for people, this resulted in everyone else getting that error msg.

Whole 2 months anet didn’t do anything about a bug that completely locks an account out of dungeons/fractals despite me submitting the bug several times.

yeah wouldn’t finish, well, skritt happens

seems still bugged

From what I noticed on the new maps, the mobs certainly do tons of dmg but on other hand, they die super fast too (trash/vets).

Haven’t had enough time to check so far, the new stat gear has same amount of stats as the old (non cele) or more?

Check this vid to have some idea about how much stealth a thief can maintain.

NA or EU?

My guild claimed the guild hall with 10 or 11 people, you don’t need that many more and I think it also scales up with more folks?

Cook something nice for next week.

Long overdue nerf.

For super duper arah experience I have my wvw guildies. One (he never did any arah) knows I’ve been trying to learn the dungeon so he asked me last weekend for help with arah. He was reluctant to get more people in from lfg so we duo’d p2 till lupi where we died like kittens, partly cos I have troubles with lupi myself and partly cos he to this day doesn’t believe me that the mesmer traited reflect actually reflects.

Eventually we filled the party with other guildies, so 3 complete arah noobs who never stepped in there before, me and one (ranger) who only remembered about arah that lupi is PITA. And we died and died. Took us over 20 tries to kill it. I switched to my thief at some point cos skips very pain but we finished the path somewhat okay. They wanted one more path :x

P1, I stayed with thief but our ranger went ham on lb 2 after stealthing and oozes didn’t like the pet sniffing around either and all my 4 guildies died. We finally skipped, killed ooze and tried to skip to entities, ranger ran out of SR and pulled everything. WP’d, skipped with 3, ranger died somewhere again and went afk to get cookies to calm down.

With ranger guildie dead and afk, I decided to kill entities. Entities dead or very low, I suddenly saw our ranger ran a bee line towards me followed by everything you can agro there :x After oozes kitten d him, he rage quit and left.

Surprisingly we killed lupi on 2nd try (and only 4 of us) but the skips after lupi …. I cried. It was either someone downed from stepping on a corpse or one agroing everything and others tried to rez (wvw’ers afterall) and died. Finely we got past risen, guys ran to the gorilla champ with “the boss!” and died :x

They still want to do p3 and 4 sometime in the future, I am just hoping it’ll be long future.

cam.6850:

I find it very interesting that very few socially orientated given the nature of the game being a massive multiplayer. Obviously the sample size is far to small so more posts would be required, however it seems like A-net really hit the Explorer and Killer on the head. Achiever is probably the most difficult one to pull over in the modern games market given the number of titles which all have a reasonable strong achievement aspect.

I would be interested to see the results of a game wide test.

PvP/WvW are somewhat attractive to killers, otherwise gw2 has very little for killers outside its fluid combat system.

Guards, guards, guards, best are those that gear up for support cos kitten zerker meta and then they complain about stupid game mechanics after getting knocked by fract harpies (utilities too meta to use too I suppose) or about stupid party members such as squishy eles for not rezzing them. I mean his staff 111 (this one was special, not even empower or speed symbol lol) out of the skill range was a super precious addition to the fight.

A lot of people in wvw pay no attention to the squishiness/tankiness of different people in enemy group, they still try to go ham on that fat norn guard in massive T3 while his dps buddies are killing them.

Plus if you got a non-stealth class with 2 stealthies, he’ll get focused no matter what when those 2 stealth up.

Guard would be really nice for a 3 man group, especially the thief would appreciate it.

If you picked dwayna cos they are cheap, try water runes instead, they have 20% boon duration, not as good as 45% on might with strength runes but still a lot better than dwayna.

No Walking.6349:

Everyone saying the reason for OS was the loot have probably spent very VERY little time there. The reason for OS was to have a challenge trying to get to the top while being able to fight other players in environment influenced PvP.

They NEED to make it cross-server like EotM
They NEED to make the reward worth the climb again

+1

It still lands.

If you are not even sure which one you like more, why get a legendary then? There are many other skins, which look good and imo, they suit melee more.

Amurond.4590:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Amurond.4590:

For those running with Staff meta (or DEKeyz change from water -> arcana) with Glyph of storms, what are you guys using to keep DPS up while stuck in air attune? FGS? Ice Bow?

Don’t get stuck in air with staff.

So do you not use Glyph of Storms at all or do you use it at the start/end of a fight?

Use it at start, usually earth 2, air, storm, fire 2. Then cast fire storm during a fight but if you need to leave fire for some reason, feel free to use storm in air. If ele leaves fire, the dmg goes down a lot so preferably you should stay in fire during a fight.

Thobek.1730:

well if they want the game to succeed then they need to develop something that allows the average person to enjoy the game and not get abused in that way.

Some people take these situations seriously and won’t log in, then the ripple effect of their friends leaving as well.

I’ve always seen GW2 in having the best community in any MMO I’ve played, and easily better than any FPS or Moba game. I hate seeing people like that in the game I choose as my main source of gaming entertainment.

Anet certainly could improve many things but they are not responsible for babysitting and if some people decide that getting kicked is enough to keep them offline, perhaps better if they don’t play online games.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Even lowbies can get lvl 80 exotics (in pve) so I assume rank up chest work same. I think only your chance to get better stuff (exo/asc) is lower with lowbie.

The only level 80 exotics you can get as a low level character (as a drop) are the special leveling exotics (ones that are exotic but, like, level 10, 20, 30, etc.) or champ bag exclusive exotics (Arc, Crustacea, Cobalt, Genesis, Bonetti’s Rapier, etc.).

I lvl’d several of my characters on running AC/CM/TA stories, and I got few lvl 80 exotics including armour on them that weren’t from champ boxes (my lvl 80 opened those).

Life is like a box of chocolates so always carry spare pants with you.

My very first character (thief) took me roughly 2 weeks to lvl up to 80. gw2 is my first mmo so back then I had no idea how mmos work and I was running in starting gear till like lvl 15 lol.

Get 2 daggers, sword, pistol and bow, and try all possible weapon sets to learn the class.

You don’t need to join a guild just to do a dungeon, although it might be the better option long term if the guild is big enough (to get 4 others in party) and they guys are competent.

Dungeons seem hard to everyone who doesn’t know the encounters so once you go through a path few times, you’ll be familiar with what to expect and it won’t be that bad. The fact that some veteran players are not welcoming new players doesn’t help much either. You can use lfg for particular dungeon and ask for “all welcome , help needed, new player here etc”. If you’d like to learn dungeons/fractals a bit more, check this out https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Mentors-Noob-v2-0/first

Dungeon vs fractal, tbh, I found fractals easier than dungeons explorable but to complete whole fractal run takes a lot longer (many new players find it too much at once) and some of the mechanics can be very tricky.

Even lowbies can get lvl 80 exotics (in pve) so I assume rank up chest work same. I think only your chance to get better stuff (exo/asc) is lower with lowbie.

First trinkets, then asc weapons, then asc armour.

You can tell what gamemodes people play by the responses :P

Beldin.5498:

Some days ago i watch a player beeing AFK for over 2 hours and beeing constantly
killed by spiders and rezzed by other players .. when i first saw him he had full armor
in the end he was full naked.

I still wonder how people can go AFK for longer in spots with constant respawn
of mobs.

If there is something urgent irl, who cares where they afk, it’s a game afterall.

Amurond.4590:

For those running with Staff meta (or DEKeyz change from water -> arcana) with Glyph of storms, what are you guys using to keep DPS up while stuck in air attune? FGS? Ice Bow?

Don’t get stuck in air with staff.

For thief, there aren’t that many staffs that look melee enough imo. Somewhat a massive staff looks fine for a caster class but with thief :/

I really like bloody prince with my ele but for thief, I’ll probably use guild pillar or molten (I just wish molten was slightly bigger). The staffs on pic are all my favourites ones and except for the shadow staff, I’ll consider all for thief, depending on overall look.

left to right: molten, guild pillar, toy staff, bloody prince, adamant, shadow, vigil

Troll the troll and get a stealth trap.

Dane is worst for tunnel vision, that’s why I stopped stacking them behind the iron thing, always got rekt cos I didn’t see inc.

I stack them on the side hill from quentin side but I don’t think that would work that well for a warr. Go kill froggies.

Imagining combat log with ~310% crit dmg.

Relying on meteor to rally, that’s staff ele’s life :P

Even with bugs, LR and tempest defense are great, the aura saved me countless times, LR is just priceless vs squishies, especially thieves.

OP, you can try setting up big dmg and then cc people into it, ie meteor then air 3. People generally don’t expect that and if you air 3 actually connects, the burst is awesome (with LR) and they must be super lucky not to get hit by meteors.

Dps staff ele is awesome and since I do the pve side of wvw as well, I always complain about lack of dps when I go back to thief. Nothing can flip upgraded camp with vets faster than staff ele.

Been a while since someone insisted on stacking under the pillar.