Guild Wars 2

In the current state, there is no reason to use squads really.

Try different game modes, I can’t play thief in pve but love it in wvw.

I was once called “inhuman” after refusing to clear the whole tunnel area of the lizards so our guard could get to boss. That’s after I wp’d with him several times to run with him, but hey, everytime he stopped in middle of lizard swarm to staff 4.

OP, man up, if you think your time is worth complaining on forums cos one party decided to rush to boss, maybe don’t play online games?

Start S/F
dragon’s tooth, flamewall under it, phoenix
water
comet
swap scepter to dagger mainhand
frozen burst
earth
magnetic wave
swap focus to dagger offhand
earthquake, churn earth

mix in arcane brilliance and wave where it suits you most. Make sure when you use arcane wave, the mouse cursor points on the flamewall.

cygnus.8913:

The game isn’t all that accessible for fresh blood.

GW2 is the only mmo I’ve played so far so I can’t compare. I regularly pug dungeons and sometimes I join those “all welcome” “noob here” or when they are stuck on a certain event in a dungeon and ask for help in lfg.

The thing is, majority of the new players are not only new to the content, they are utter noobs in playing as a team (aka with other humans). Many times I spent long time with a party only to get to some event/fight that requires a bit more coordination/skill and suddenly people leave party without saying anything, go afk forever or even few times, they flame me cos the strategy I told them about didn’t work on first try or cos they think lvl 80 should carry 4 lowbies entirely.

Yes, it is very frustrating to run dungeons with under lvl 80 character but OP, try to see the other side of the problem, what it might be like for those lvl 80s willing to run with lowbies.

Vargamonth.2047:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Vargamonth.2047:

On the other hand, I also dislike having a reward system that ignores if some content has been under-manned and rewards those who have beaten a greater challenge with the short end of the stick.
In this sense, I see dungein selling as a necessary evil.

This actually bothers me more than having to mentally filter sellers from other parties in lfg. Sometimes we can’t get a 5th if it’s too late so we 4 man the dungeon/fract but still get the same reward. On other hand, if the reward would scale with the number of people, we’d see a lot of kicking before final boss just to scale up rewards. So perhaps instead of reward scaling, they could scale the difficulty.

And/or have reward scaling applicable only at the start of the path, ie, enter with 3, scaled to 3 people and more can’t enter after that.

If the increased reward would be granted based on the amount of players at the end of the instance, then yes, we would see a lot of kicking and thus it would be a terrible design mistake.
It shouldn’t be hard, however, to scale the reward based on the highest amount of players at any point during the instance. With this system, kicking would not make any sense, not more than on the current one at least.

My problem with scaling is that it would still keep the content at the same difficulty level.
I can see it as a great feature for story paths, but for high replayability content I would absolutely prefer a way to tune up the challenge without having to give up rewards or rely on the always controversial path selling as the only solution.

I’d like the possibility of scaling up the difficulty too.

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

So they could just shuffle from time to time and afk while rest is working their socks off? Kicking is necessary in party management and so is the ability to find someone willing and competent to fill up the party with.

I don’t dungeon very often. Are there a lot of players that troll dungeon groups like this? Seems to me they’d develop a reputation rather quickly and get on people’s kitten lists.

Not that many but when it happens it’s very annoying and ofc the people know they can be kicked. If they knew they are safe, there is nothing preventing them from doing this all the time.

I can block the people who troll but that doesn’t stop them from joining my party.

Iris Ng.9845:

Let me tell you one more truth about me: I murdered every single friends of mine who went to watch a movie before I was able to in order to prevent them from spoiling anyways.

I suddenly like you. Lets watch movies together.

Kcquipor.6730:

Since https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsS5TwgbWBo&feature=youtu.be
and http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_Staff aren’t updated, i’m looking at the moment for a new meta build for Staff, i see a few streamers switch Icebow for LH and a few others still playing the same meta

Since the patch i got issues in solo open world adventures when pulling more then 4 mobs at the same time

Not really sure what to say about the 4 mob problems because if you actually have issues with that, then don’t blame IB nerf.

What to use instead of bow? How about you try to think about the encounter? Solo boss with small hitbox, pick signet/arcane wave, big hitbox boss/trash mobs, IB is still fine. Fights like molten duo, deep freeze zerker so your party can dps freely.

Keldras.7091:

Anet giving me the finger and telling me they really don’t care about the players….PRICELESS!

I lost it at this point.

In case you are genuine, try looking up gaming pads (razer has some really good ones but pricey). While gaming mouse suits most, sometimes it can be difficult to coordinate the use of many buttons with mouse movement for one hand. Gaming pads let you use other hand without the need to “find” the buttons like on regular keyboard.

As long as you have enough agony resistance, you can play any level but your reward depends on your personal reward lvl.

People still play the low lvls as well, doesn’t take long to get a party, and it’s beneficial to level up by playing levels close to your personal reward lvl instead of the very high ones because, well, you need learn the content and you need AR. Few times I ran with people that grinded low lvl fracts for ages for relics, then they crafted asc gear and got AR in it, hopped to 40+ and were surprised how much harder the content is in comparison with 1-9.

They didn’t say everyone has to be support.

Wolf Rayet.4073:

Narrrz.7532:

Wolf Rayet.4073:

For those people who are concerned about the scammers, i.e. the groups that kick players at the end of a dungeon and then sell their slots, maybe Anet could block any slot that has been emptied via “kicking” from being refilled. That way only slots that were left open from the begging, voluntarily vacated or as the result of a disconnect can be filled.

Then what do you do about afkers?

Maybe they can “voluntarily” leave the party after a certain amount of time has elapsed?

So they could just shuffle from time to time and afk while rest is working their socks off? Kicking is necessary in party management and so is the ability to find someone willing and competent to fill up the party with.

Vargamonth.2047:

On the other hand, I also dislike having a reward system that ignores if some content has been under-manned and rewards those who have beaten a greater challenge with the short end of the stick.
In this sense, I see dungein selling as a necessary evil.

This actually bothers me more than having to mentally filter sellers from other parties in lfg. Sometimes we can’t get a 5th if it’s too late so we 4 man the dungeon/fract but still get the same reward. On other hand, if the reward would scale with the number of people, we’d see a lot of kicking before final boss just to scale up rewards. So perhaps instead of reward scaling, they could scale the difficulty.

And/or have reward scaling applicable only at the start of the path, ie, enter with 3, scaled to 3 people and more can’t enter after that.

pmnt.4067:

Chpoit.6498:

As someone who mains a PS warrior, I find this silly.
Eles can give might, murder people, heal people, go invicible, warp away, give other boons, become invincible again, burn the hell out of you, and be the best tanks, all by using a single set of gear, dont tell me PS should be removed or that eles can’t do anything other than DPS.
Also, eles stack more might pre-fight than warriors.

Well if you can equip all 5 traitlines and activate all majors, just like in the ele build you described, you can say the same about warrior. You seem just as clueless as OP.

Tbh, if he didn’t mention the “single set of gear”, I’d agree with him. Eles are very versatile.

A chore. That’s just ridiculous, I barely even check what dailies are available for the day and still get them. Unless someone enjoys/farms particular content the whole day, the dailies can be ignored and still done.

Before I had to put attention into doing them for the laurel, now I don’t give kitten and they get done.

[quote=5552110;Just a flesh wound.3589: For me, no longer having AP from doing the dailies would remove a big incentive to do them. [/quote]

This is something I just don’t get. The dailies are tied to activities in the game, you get the daily just by playing. So are you trying to say that once you won’t get the AP for this, you just won’t enjoy the content?

dps is all I want from my main class :/

Behellagh.1468:

I loath those who are only willing to help others for coin. We are suppose to be aspiring heroes, not sell swords.

Doesn’t help their cause when more than a few bad apples take the money and “accidentally” kick the buyer or quit themselves. Oops.

Help? Why do you expect people “help” someone who is too lazy to do the path himself.

Maxed inv when fully opened already covers most of the screen, more bag slot would make it even more messy.

Jana.6831:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Cos 100% of fights, the stomping guy is at 1% HP and has all skills on cd so my knifeee11111 will get him :P

Yeah, that’s why people at teq do that as well “I’ll get this 2 mio k HP guy before I die!!” Sometimes it makes sense to spam 1 in downed state but in most cases it’s a lot easier to use #4 – you’ll get up twice as fast.

I think this is cos in open world pve (non boss encouters), spamming downed 111 is what gets people up, you won’t outheal if mobs are hitting you, unless you are a ranger. Plus many have no idea what the other skills do, reading tool tips is too much (did fract lvl 50 the other day with mes using downed 2 right when anyone started rezzing, fun times).

Then they come pvp/wvw and give thieves a heartattack.

forum bug :/

new fract map confirmed :o

Sinsko.9342:

NoxInfernus.2361:

Rule #1 of MMO’s – Never take valuable vacation time off on any launch day.
The game in question will be:
1) late in launching (towards the end of day
2) riddled with bugs that the testers missed, and will be hot fixed several times – interrupting your enjoyment.
3) the starting areas (in this case verdant brink) will be full of so many people you will miss a lot of what’s going on.
4) server issues will arise lagging out or crashing the game
5) Trolls. So many Trolls
6) All of the above

Save that Vacation day for the following Monday (26th) and treat yourself to a Monday long weekend.

While I agree with the above completely, I cannot say that I agree when it comes to Guild Wars.

ArenaNet does beautiful things with their servers.

kittened up servers till Monday confirmed

Hey, don’t crush his need for complaining, everyone has some from time to time :o

Shadowstep.6049:

why even attack?

Cos 100% of fights, the stomping guy is at 1% HP and has all skills on cd so my knifeee11111 will get him :P

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Elementalist is glassy?

How many eles in pvp have zerker amulet?

Gaming life of a dev:

Lawton “ooo these guild catas are so sexy, the sleek design, I want one too!”
Drops two, one for himself, other for the low ap ranger next to him.

Few hours later gets bashed on forums for having fun.

Kratier.5082:

just bought the game and i was reading in the pvp forums and the class forums and basically discovering my preferred class in most mmos is completely crap… should i just refund the game? seems kind of pointless to play if the class i want to play is garbage

While thief class would do with improvements, most of the “thief sucks” posts are just bitter and over the top. Don’t read forums if you want to enjoy the game.

All while my engi’s inventory is filled with stacks of exotic luck essences, maybe one day Anet will give us “consume all” option, till then, I prefer the health of my hands over magic find.

Rukiichan.4315:

I was pugging fractal 19 just now with swamp rolled. The ele told me to portal the guy nearest to the cleft because he’s apparently the “furthest” away. So whatever I just followed his orders being the obedient mesmer I am. cough cough

A few tries later, the 3 of us made it to the clefts with 10s + left. As I came from the left side I put my wisp on the leftmost cleft and stood there to indicate its filled. Same went with the guy who came from the right side. That same ele arrived with his wisp and proceeded to camp at my cleft. Thinking he couldn’t see that the cleft was filled I targeted the middle one to indicate to him that that one is empty. He continued to stay there until time was up. After that he proceeded to lecture the other guy and me about not putting in our wisps. I could not hold my silence anymore and just told him it was him who didn’t put his wisp in and promptly left the party after that.

Reminds me my first ever swamp run, I had no idea about the wisps etc so I followed some high AP mesmer to one of the wisps. Being dumb, I didn’t notice the time counter started so was waiting for some sort of “signal” from party. Mesmer asked whether I was going to take the wisp, so I grabbed it and ran with it. I think he asked like when half the time was gone cos within few seconds, the time was up. The mesmer stood there doing nothing all the time and didn’t bother using portal even in following attempts and kept flaming rest of party for being noobs.

No cd on wep swap would be like playing beta rev, people spam skills thinking it’s free then suddenly they are screwed cos they have no energy/initiative.

I think OP suggested this assuming the appropriate cds would be adjusted. Fast hands on warr don’t proc it either if it’s under 9s.

Two weapon sets combos.

Stuff like p/d condi thief never having to c&d of his target to use the aa stealth attack.

The truth is, I no longer main thief. Not as a result of some patch here or there, but I’ve been shifting more and more to ele (zerker, no cele) over the past few months. I played thief only for first 1.5year and I think eventually I got bored. Plus zerker ele is way more punishing for mistakes than zerker thief and I like kamikaze builds.

Bloody.2089:

My AP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0HbJ6wn8k

You don’t need to prove your AP to me, if I lfg for lvl 80 and you bring lvl 80, you are welcome in my party.

dutchiez.7502:

Have you ever considered you are the exception, not the rule?

Or he could be trolling.

Amante.8109:

I have played Thief for years and never had a consistent problem with autoattacks interrupting stealth on any weapon but Pistol mainhand. That you can turn off autocasting to “solve” this issue is about as meaningful a solution as cutting off your feet so you don’t have to walk so much anymore.

But sure, let’s resort to name-calling and questioning people’s experience with a profession because they have a different opinion than you. I’m sure Vital Shot (and Pistol) are just fine.

Name calling? You sure jump to defensive really quickly. Ofc ranged weapons will cause more problems, they are ranged and thus have larger radius for autoattack to activate. Considering that even when not in stealth, sometimes not attacking is the better choice, I think having the option to chose when and when not to attack is more favourable.

Higher HP would do very little for the class, it needs more defense, active and passive. Why do you think other classes got stronger after the patch, yet their HP pools are still same.

This is not a thief specific issue or specific to p/p.

If you’d play thief for a considerable time, you’d know even melee weps would reveal you if you keep autoattak on. Even other classes toggle this off so they wouldn’t get into combat. There is a simple solution to your problem, don’t be lazy and use it.

The downscaling, I often park my ele at the Ashford wp and there is a skill point so when I see a lowbie killing it, I usually help. Before the changed downscaling, lvl 80 just evaporated the npc, now it feels more like negative dps. But if I buff the lowbie (fury and might from blasts), they kill the npc real fast.

Lowbies lack traits/dmg modifiers but their dmg isn’t that bad when buffed.

On other hand, OP, most lowbies are learning the class (even high AP accounts) and they are more likely to do mistakes. If the account is low AP, the chances the player is learning the whole game is very high and he’ll more likely do many mistakes.

While it’s super annoying to get kicked from party (my low AP alt account gets kicked a lot on joining a party), I understand why people do that. And imo, joining a party with requirements the player doesn’t have, it’s kinda disrespectful and a sign the person doesn’t even bother reading lfgs/party chat, which I personally see as a big problem. If I lfg for lvl 80 and you’d join with a lowbie, I’d kick you too.

Hi,

Unlike you OP, I can’t get myself to delete any characters that are over like lvl 10 or so.

This resulted in me spending in game gold to purchase gems for char slots and kittening my bank card. I haven’t made a single legendary, nor have 100% map complete on any of my characters. I have only 1 full zerker set of trinkets on my main account.

I often play a character of my fav class so much, people who meet me first time during that phase, call me by that name. Then I make a new character of same class and any new friends use that name.. confusing, hella confusing.

Even same class characters but different characters, tend to have different characteristics, ie, my tiny asura ele is all flirty and always trolling around (married half the server by now that little gold digger), while my human male ele is a moron. If I duel someone with my girl thief I’ll lose more often than if I play my male thief.

I tend to copy looks of characters of same class across my alt accounts, few times I met my friends or wvw foes who were just confused who this twin of someone they know is.

All my lvl 80 eles have all dungeon stories (yes, including the arah borefest).

Due to some recent events irl, I decided to spend less time playing gw2 and I already got called anti-social by my guildies :/ Anyway, I used to enjoy the low lvl part of leveling before Anet kitten up the game so I don’t create new alts as often now.

I got 31 × 80s (of which 8 eles and 9 thieves, my most fav classes), 10 low lvls and 0 gf.

Go figure :/

Gokil.2543:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

I am wondering why you chose LR over other air gms (not cos of bugs, just in terms of d/d cc’s).

I can’t get to a computer for a while so I can’t copy+paste my reply. It’s in the comments of the 4th vid in the series, and another one on the metabattle discussion page, if you’re curious enough to look that far

The long and short of it is: Why not? What’s not to love about lightning rod? Fresh air is nice but with the new 8.5s attunement recharge there’s honestly no need. Bolt to the heart doesn’t really come close if you do some maths, even if you miss a couple ccs with lightning rod. I’d advise reading the comment though.

As for the lightning rod bugs, I’m aware, and not all too bothered. There’s a new issue that’s been popping up where my lightning rod doesn’t proc at all sometimes though. Haven’t found what’s causing it, but removing and selecting the trait again fixes it.

I checked that comment. It is true that LR adds a burst, I just often find myself wishing my air att. was off cd when playing d/d. Air auto is sooo good vs thieves. And very often I miss the cc skills, especially earth 4, so maybe when I get better with d/d, LR will be better for me.

Jana.6831:

SA had a good sustain, but if you got hit while stealthed you got hit hard.

… stuff…

So whatever you do, you have to outsmart him, because he is a lot stronger than you- that has been different with the old SA- and I liked that. And that is my point.

Any dps thief hit in stealth got hit hard, not only you with SA lol. This pretty much shows why you think other builds are better than yours, I met few people with this mentality and there is just no point in giving facts.

Parties usually have problem with spider queen because they don’t know what is killing them (small spiders) and that their attacks can be reflected or projectile blocked. Once these little buggers are dead, killing queen is easy.

I find it easiest to leave out the small spiders on her spawn spot as last, clear the rest and fire thingies, then kill the last baby spider when the party is on the spawn spot. When the new small spiders are spawned, that’s when people should use reflects on her spawn spot (staff ele magnetic aura), guard/thief (wall of reflection/smoke screen, you need to stand inside of these), mesmers have tons of reflects too but I found that most have no idea what it is or when/how to use it.

So if you die a lot in this fight:
1. ask others in party if they have reflects/projectile blocks
2. don’t rush killing the last spider
3. as warr you are melee so learn queen’s attacks

Also, it’s a good idea to stack might away from last spider, then kill it.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

I’d love to have quaggan guards at the door.

+1

fivestar.7830:

I have been kicked from party’s doing all 3 paths at 1 time because i didn’t want to do it in case i could get banned. So is running all 3 dungeons path at the same time on one run ban or not?

Parties usually lfg as doing the run merged, haven’t come across a party that would advertise p1 for example and then insist on merging the paths. So I think it’s fairly easy to avoid these parties.

Btw, merging AC paths seems way more common in NA then EU.

Jana.6831:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

They lose SA survivability to gain that offence if you don’t realise this.

Before the SA gm minor might stacking allowed SA thieves to stack enough might to be on same/higher power level as DA traited thief without signet might stacking. Pure offence thief had dps advantage only at start of a fight, all without SA surivability.

I think that was stupid design.

What survivability did and does SA have?

And it wasn’t the same level – it was still lower.

Edit: But true, no one gets power from that line anymore – I just wish that things were a bit more balanced.

SA did have excellent survivability + offence without the need for going full signet build. With strength runes, it was normal to have over 10 stacks of might during a fight, that added to 2pts in DA for mug, provided enough power to go over 300stat pts DA provided. Almost everyone in wvw ran with SA, that’s how good it used to be, far better than speccing full DA instead of SA. If you think old SA gave you “chance” to kill full offence specced thieves, then your skill level is kitten and no wonder you need old traits back.

Thief is kitten especially in pvp with point capture and if you know how the class works, any advantage the thief might have, is gone.

zinkz.7045:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

The fact that people favor blobs is a result of game mechanics and normal human characteristics.

Why split and do my part in a small group if I can 111 my way to loot.
Why split and bear a lot bigger part of responsibility for any fail that might happen. No bad feelings in a blob.
Why split when I feel safer with 50 others behind me.

That is more of a playerbase issue, as a PvP format, WvW has by far the least “PvP” playerbase of any I’ve played (when I say playerbase I don’t mean entire playerbase for most non-PvP MMOs, I’m comparing to say the playerbase of a PvP server).

I’d also say ironically enough given the limited gear progression in this game, that overall the playerbase in this game is full of more Skinner Box zombies more concerned with loot rather than gameplay than any game I’ve played, alleged PvP players (as in WvW players) go on more about loot in this game than players do even in PvP MMOs where there is full player looting, the playerbase is tragic, and it has gotten worse over time has the number of actual PvP inclined players have left WvW / the game.

Wvw as a gamemode has became unpleasantly rigid, people either blob or don’t play. So there is nothing to do for the pvp oriented players.

Jana.6831:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Can you explain why you think that SA thief should have same/nearly same offence capacity like a full offence traited thief?

Because now you stand no chance against someone who’s build pure offensive. They could 3 shot you before the patch, you had your stealth and if they failed the first time around they didn’t have good chances to survive. I think that was pretty smart design.

They lose SA survivability to gain that offence if you don’t realise this.

Before the SA gm minor might stacking allowed SA thieves to stack enough might to be on same/higher power level as DA traited thief without signet might stacking. Pure offence thief had dps advantage only at start of a fight, all without SA surivability.

I think that was stupid design.

I am wondering why you chose LR over other air gms (not cos of bugs, just in terms of d/d cc’s).

Mryul.8165:

TehHobNob.4687:

I play thief. Was asked again to please switch out to different toon. Every middle armor class is always asked to leave. This has been said before. Never has it been addressed. GWEN toons are a staple in wvw. Mes being the exception. Its well known. Please give everyone a role that means something.

Ask your server to stop blobbing. Every class is viable as long as you don’t blob. If you want to blob and take part in no skillful play what so ever, bring one of the four blobbing classes to blob with your blob.

It’s more or less required to have multiple thieves in WvW groups that don’t blob.

And how do you do that? Call out in map chat and hope those xx numbers of people suddenly realise how bad they are for zerging? The fact that people favor blobs is a result of game mechanics and normal human characteristics.

Why split and do my part in a small group if I can 111 my way to loot.
Why split and bear a lot bigger part of responsibility for any fail that might happen. No bad feelings in a blob.
Why split when I feel safer with 50 others behind me.

All this while the game supports people stacking together.

But hey, lets advice others to tell people to stop blobbing.