Guild Wars 2

Probably the load model for the ones flying around fighting the ships.

There’s a similar object in the water under ratasum, containing all weapons and players you load.

domxnik.1453:

Right, we are thinking Maguuma or Kaineng, but I want to know how they are in pve. I don’t want dragons to go alive and Orr and dungeons being nothing but contested areas.

Maguuma kills dragons at all spawns, but nobody really cares about Orr.

Most people I know don’t play them because they’re boring.

I suppose they could use a buff though. I ditched my condition sword build on my warrior so my Necro friend could actually do damage.

I believe most of the complaints are about precursors. At least over time you’ll have everything you need for your Obsidian armor, but the only guaranteed way to get a precursor is to buy it.

I left when the game got stale too, got bored of my warrior fairly quickly. After I came back, I picked up Mesmer.

Didn’t think I’d enjoy them that much.

Honestly, you’ll have to see for yourself. I see people asking this question on a daily basis on various other sites. Not a great deal has changed. Fractals are poorly implemented, but they’re dungeons with actual mechanics to them. It’s a step in the right direction. Next patch will hopefully resolve their problems.

Fyrebrand.4859:

The servers go down next week, and development on GW3 will commence shortly. Suggestions for new classes, anyone? I’ve really got my hopes up for a Mathemagician.

The story line for humans will be alternated to, Math circus, and compose of games from the game.

Seren.6850:

Thanks Colin, seems to contradict what you said in the scavenger hunt thread though.

““you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.” – Colin Johanson

To be fair, that reward system doesn’t really take advantage of that open persistent world, at all.

Dailies and Monthly’s Woo.

Who knows, perhaps they have another one lined up. I’ll admit, I’m a bit disappointed with what the system turned out to be. Looking forward to WvW and the resolution to the ascended gear issue.

When will it be changed to cost 1000+ badges, and a similar Lieutenant icon for half the amount, with a large limited map view radius?

Seriously though, probably never. It makes a good gold sink. In that it’s good at sinking gold and not being a good thing.

You get the point.

It’s possible, though It’s more likely the vast population is in WvW, or fractals, or just spread across the world.

Who knows?

Fairly certain they do.

Gotta admit, they look very alike, despite light and dark swords being a common thing in fantasy.

I mean really. The plating at the base of the blade is just so close.

They’ll either be a tier above, or on parr with Ascended items when the full ascended tier is available.

We don’t know yet. Most are just assuming they’ll stay on parr with the current highest tier of gear available.

SneakyErvin.3056:

GW2 has better and more interesting mechanics than any trinity game, and the bonus is no trinity.

It really doesn’t. Not now at least.

Maybe some day.

Everything has a cast time. Just some longer than others. Heals have a longer cast time so they can be interrupted. This is done primarily for pvp, where some classes can nearly top themselves up in just about one cast.

They want to avoid the trinity. However, it still remains if you really want to do it. My Elementalist friend had a high focus on providing boons, along with his passive regeneration aura. He keeps us on our feet. Supporting is boons.

Regardless, it would be neat.

They need to get dungeons, and the Dragons right first.

I’m willing to bet dungeons will always remain 5 man, and all larger scale stuff will be open world.

The Dark Armor Karma set does as well.

Griffon is either a tonic, or an ogre whistle.

Old Dungeon Remake.
Dragons buffed
Better WvW reward system

I’m willing to give Anet the benefit of time to figure out their dungeon scenarios . Fractals are a step in the right direction, not in the way they’re implemented, but the fights inside them.

As people enjoy comparing games to WoW, I can say that back in Vanilla, when the game was first released fights weren’t terribly complicated either. After the update to allow leveling beyond 40, majority of the early raid content was a tank n spank fight with a few gimmicks to keep people on their toes. What made the game hard was poor gear optimization, and a lot of dead weight people who had no idea what they were doing due to information not being as accessible.

Another game I had a lot of hope in success was Wakfu. I gave them the benefit of a year to get their act together, then after a pretty long while after I quit, they’ve finally gotten their act together on class balance and boss mechanics. The Ultimate bosses actually require a good amount of teamwork and understanding of class mechanics to beat. Well, that and an hour of your time.

I’m willing to give them that. Though if I were to kitten about any immediate encounters. Please improve the drops in the dragon chest, and make all of them harder.

Tequatl could poison the area around himself, and summon a huge amount of Risen near the cannons. Hylek could have devices that clear a small bubble of poison, allowing people to attack him at close range. But they would only last a few seconds so people would have to ferry them over. Alternatively you could just kill the bone wall and stun him with the laser as was intended.

Shatterer. Have the Crystal prisons instant kill on failure to be freed. It can be dodged so if people pay attention it won’t be much of an issue. Anyone killed during the encounter would have a Branded champion version spring from their corpse to attack the group. Give the group a reason to protect the Cannons. I don’t have any ideas though, since you don’t stun the Shatterer.

The Dragons just need to be more difficult.

Doesn’t Line of warding also stop them from shooting you?

There’s also small groups with bunker builds who can rip apart Zergs simply by being good with their builds, and proper use of boons.

A large blob of people only has so much power. They can typically only be in one place at once.

Dwayna Temple is in Malchor’s Leap, yes?

That one can be cleared either alone if you’re careful and use a ranged weapon, or 3 people.

A lot of people just want to look cool, and care very little of what people think of them.

I’m personally just starting my journey for frostfang. Certainly not an expensive one, but it’ll be fun.

And the next day.

I really wouldn’t mind monsters at least having a numerical health amount.

Don’t you have to throw exotic Greatswords into the forge?

So.. give the great sword more mobility, and make it so people can’t stop hundred blades other than dodging?

The trinity still remains to a degree. I build durable so I can take a few hits in succession and so most bosses focus on me. The damage output of my group is usually better without having to run around.

An elementalist friend of mine focuses on applying boons, and regeneration to the group. With the trait passive adrenal health regen, Water aura, and regeneration I can typically stay toe to toe in anything but high level fractals.

If that’s not enough, the health regen signet doesn’t hurt either.

It’s just implemented in a different way, which unfortunately means they’ll have to get clever with dungeon design. Fractals are a step in the right direction so far, so I’m hoping they improve on that. Punching a wall of meat for 10 minutes with 0 threat to your well being isn’t exactly fun. That said, hundreds of gib mechanics aren’t fun either. Counterable skill sets are.

Prime example is that first boss in Ascalon Catacombs. He’s a simple boss, who’s skill set can be countered by stability, projectile reflection, or just dodging.

Grunties.6841:

Zerg v Zerg not my cup of tea
No incentive

I’d have to disagree. Maguuma is a relatively low populated server by comparison to who we normally face, and thanks to our mumble, we can move the right amounts of our small force where we need them.

WvW is more about supply control, moving quickly, and positioning.

Not mashing zergs against each other.

I can understand ground mounts, and though waypoints sort of defeat the purpose of everything I’m about to say, flying mounts won’t happen.

What flying mounts did to WoW was take away the sense of scale. Gw2 has a wonderfully crafted world, however ugly the map is. Flying above it sort of defeats the point of exploration.

Ground mounts, perhaps some day. WvW needs something in that regard. Perhaps a trade off, if mounted you cannot carry supplies.

TonySu.7942:

How do you get 1 condition removal on For Great Justice. On the tooltip it only mentions fury and might. Also for shake it off, it says only remove 1 condition on you and one on your allie? Is there a trait I need, or is the tool tip wrong ? Thanks

superior rune of the soldier

6/6 Shouts remove a condition

Asura so I could be a Warrior.

Vekk was one of my favorite characters in Gw1. Snaff, and Cranxx in the books.
So in general, I like the Asura.

There’s always the possibility that the Fractal experiment is what destroyed the unidentified Fracal in the first place.

Sylvari are capable of learning to the same capacity as Asura.

The rest, I suppose could as well, over time.

There are things to do in Gw2, so long as you’re willing to put a carrot on a stick, and do whatever is enjoyable as a means of getting to it eventually. We’re fairly punished for trying to grind out things we want directly, so we have to do dungeons and such.

In all honesty, the only reason I don’t play WoW anymore is because I played for 8 years. Time to move on. Some still enjoy it, that’s fine too. Both games are catering to different groups of people.

I recently found myself joining my Server on mumble and coordinating for WvW. Quite fun. My long term goals are to get the Legendary shield, and eventually learn enough to be a decent enough commander.

to each his own.

To be fair, we only destroyed everything in your borderlands because you did it to ours.

</3 Maguuma.

Of course, that’s why your lead is so far ahead, so I certainly don’t blame you.

WvW is gross amounts of fun when you actually use a chat program to communicate, instead of lone wolf roaming, or blindly following the person with the most gold.

We have a mumble on Maguuma for each borderland, and people work with each other. At least, that’s how I’ve been getting by.

In the end, my carrot on a stick long term plan is getting the Flame Prophecies legendary shield. It’ll take time, but that’s something to work toward.

Dang. Every Morning until we like it. You’ll be winning this round if you keep this up. Simply because on the final day, we won’t have time to catch up.

I completely agree with forcing to look at a world map. I’ve used my corpse to spot treb shots, on a heavily fortified supply camp.

That’s an impressive lead. Wow. When did that happen?

morrolan.9608:

Rhyis.7058:

If they means Mag, yeah, that’s exactly what happened. ’Cause Yaks got golem rushed.

Ah I see so those people using exploits to get through the gates on Hills inner, Garrison and Sunnyhill before they were down didn’t happen. Yes I personally witnessed it happening, yes I reported some for it.

If you’ve already reported it, then drop it. Complaining here will accomplish nothing.

Anyway. how’s the score looking guys?

The Warrior health pool is already massive, you can easily drop it for other stats without much loss to your defensive ability.

That makes so little sense.

If the Winner gets knocked down, what happens to the other two teams?

Come on guys. Keep it Civil.

I’ve been having fun in East Keep Dragon brand Borderlands. A Solitary Monument to our stalwart defense, and ability to ferry in supplies from other worlds.

God bless that waypoint. It’s the only thing allowing us to hold.

A Dragonbrand mesmer made me sad today.

No gates breached. Constant sweeps around the structure. Found later attempting to scale the southern cliff face again. Not cool whoever you were.

I am however proud of the group that rushed us with 5 alphas and 1 omega. We had just finished notifying the other world groups that we were fine, and then BAM. Golem Central.

It happened to us again today on Dragonbrand borderlands.

A mesmer jumped up the cliff face on the southern end and made his way inside. Then ported his team in, while we were fighting them on the northern gate.

I am running healing shouts. Should I go for knights gear straight up, or should I go for the rurik set with power, toughness, healing?

and thank you.

As an Asura, I find my defense golem elite more useful than my other elites for taking down pve content myself.

So when I hit max level, I went straight for a condition based Sword and shield build, focused mainly on stacking toughness with undead runes.

My goals aren’t too high, I’m just aiming to stay as a viable asset in wvw, and pve.

I typically go
10 arms
30 defense
30 tactics.

I also use a longbow on the side. Is a power build with a sword much stronger and worth swapping over entirely?

Prophet.1038:

Lol Mag gave us a fight last night, something we needed in EB. Thankfully we gave them a fight too. At the end Yaks Bend won.

Yeah, by the end of the night we only had 20 people left. Commanders figured we’d give it one last crack with 9 golems moving from your base to the inside of the keep in 3 minutes flat.

It failed, but it was fun.

Nice response time.