Guild Wars 2

Farzo.8410:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

They are not actually forces of nature. We don’t know where they came from, we don’t know what their actual purpose is. etc. etc.

Actually, they wake up every time the magic in the world gets too strong. They consume the magic and everything around it, and then goes back to sleep. The Dragons have risen one time before as told by a Durmand Priory scholar, and pretty much the same thing happend then.

Their purpose is pretty much to keep the magic in check.

But yes, I believe they are evil. The way Zhaitan communicate through his minions like Eye of Zhaitan and Mouth of Zhaitan it makes me believe that his intentions are evil.

Exactly, they will eventually just go back to sleep after enough magic is consumed which is what the Mouth of Zhaitan was doing. Obviously the dragon being awake is a threat.

It’s like an Ice Age for us, pollution gets too high, the earth tries to correct itself with an ice age. Magic gets too high, Tyria tries to correct itself with Elder Dragons.

I don’t believe they are evil though….ask yourself this: What happens if the magic gets too great on Tyria because there is nothing to consume the magic?

Ljiona.9142:

Jordo.5913:

I’ve been REALLY wanting to dual wield swords(just got a Jormag’s Breath and have the Fiery Dragon Sword through HoM)

….and while I do not like Mesmer…and do like Warrior, I plan to use them on warrior….

however, my warrior right now is a Axe/Mace + GS cookie cutter build….and i don’t really want to change all of my gear, but can if it would hamper me that much

anyways….is a Zerker Sword/Sword build viable?

if not, list your condi build if you have it too, and if i should take Carrion, or Ravager(i think thats the other condi prefix armor)

Kinda depends on what you plan on doing. PVE, sPvP, WvW zerg, WvW roaming in small group, or WvW roaming solo.

Then you have to consider if you want to be tanky or dps.

mostly just PVE…..dps

what if we ran zerker armor, with condi jewels…..and 1 of each sword….any chance that would work?

i also think there is a prefix with Power and Condi together….maybe we could run that on everything?

I’ve been REALLY wanting to dual wield swords(just got a Jormag’s Breath and have the Fiery Dragon Sword through HoM)

….and while I do not like Mesmer…and do like Warrior, I plan to use them on warrior….

however, my warrior right now is a Axe/Mace + GS cookie cutter build….and i don’t really want to change all of my gear, but can if it would hamper me that much

anyways….is a Zerker Sword/Sword build viable?

if not, list your condi build if you have it too, and if i should take Carrion, or Ravager(i think thats the other condi prefix armor)

milo.6942:

Yes I agree but this topic is so old and anet is so stubborn that I have lost the will to care anymore.

it is sad but true…..

the one thing i can say about this game, that i can’t really say about others….is Anet is stubborn about what they put into the game….they do listen though as was the case with that light fire armor

it doesn’t even feel like a game for the fans….

Fans want X
Anet also wants X
X is added to the game

Fans want Y
Anet doesn’t want Y
Y isn’t added to the game

it makes no sense…you want your game to sell, and for your fans to be happy so they keep playing the game and buying gems…..but they don’t add what the fans want, only what they want…..it seems like lose-lose situation

all i can hope for is that the “Features Only” patches that will roll out after the end of Scarlets saga include this………………………………………..and hopefully Tengu

no one else agrees about this?

The Problem
We need more skills, but not utility skills…weapon skills for the CURRENT weapons.

While I agree that we do need more weapons in the game for it being 1 1/2’ish years old. We need a revamp of the weapons system first, closer to the one in GW1.

I don’t know how many times this has been requested but I’m here to do it again!

Weapons being tied to 5 skills, well……..it SUCKS!

I for example, LOVE power builds. I was lucky enough that D/D for my main thief turned out to be a good stealth, power weapon.

On the other hand, I alt a Warrior and I love dual wield weapons in general. Dual axes are cool, and its pretty heavily power based, nice. PUMP THE BRAKES!!!!

I can’t dual wield axes because axe 5 completely and utterly SUCKS, and is a huge dps loss. Of course, I could just ignore this and kitten myself on purpose, but I just can’t do that.

Also, for Warrior I see I have the option for dual swords. STOPPPPPPP!!!!

I can’t dual wield swords because they are heavy on condition damage, I could still run a power build on them, but I would be taking a big hit in dps, and purposely gimping myself. Automatically out the window, even though dual wielding a fiery dragon sword and icy dragon sword is my dream come true.

An Opinionated Solution
I think we need to add more skills to the weapons themselves, and let us do a pick and choose type method, more along the lines of GW1.

In GW1, for those who don’t know. Weapons had a plethora of skills, as is the case for the Axe for Warriors.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Axe_attack

However, you could not use that attack unless you had that weapon equipped.

Hypothetically if GW2, had this same table for the Axe Weapon table, and lets make elites your 5 slot for that weapon, 3 if you can’t use it as an off hand…..

for a power build i could take:
Executioner’s Strike(Raw Dmg),Keen Chop(Raw Dmg),Penetrating Chop(Armor Pen Chop), Furious Axe(Raw Dmg, Off chance effect), Decapitate(Raw Dmg)

Condi Build:
Dismember(Garaunteed Deep Wounds Condi), Axe Rake(Apply Cripple), Axe Twist(Apply weakness), Lacerating Chop(Bleed if KD), Eviscerate(DMG, Deep Wounds)

then there are AoE skills and interrupts(traded off for KD and stun in gw2?) that you can interweave in there if you want

now i get to use the weapon i want + the skin I want…

they don’t even have an excuse because they came up with 20 skills for each weapon for the elementalist, albeit, tied to attunements…….however the only drawback is with this class….since elementalists have such an abundance of skills and access to power+condi+CC+AoE within a weapon already….there are 2 problems:

1. Why would elementalist’s need more skills? What do we give them so they don’t feel lonely with every other class getting more skills? We can’t give them more weapons because the other classes start crying(even though other classes have significantly more weapons choices, except maybe engineer), what do we give them?

2. If we would add more skills per each weapons attunement and let them pick and choose for each attunement, how do you deal with someone just having 20 straight power based skills, other than nerfing the damage into the ground for each spell, but then penalizing others who put CC and some condi into their build?

that is a problem for Anet to figure out, as I can’t do everything for them!

this fixes some things for you Anet!

- Build Diversity
- Sell more skins since people get to use weapons they wanted to but couldn’t use
- could bring back the skill cap system from GW1 to capture or maybe “learn” those elite weapon attacks
- delay the time table for having to add new resources to add new weapons
- combat being fun again along with the unknowing of what build a person is running in PvP based on seeing what weapon he is using
- weapons getting boring, switch from condi to power and play a different way but with ur same favorite weapon

i would +1 this change

you do not run dungeons for exotic gear; well you might, but you should have enough gold to do wonders with when you hit 80

you run them for the looks….getting one piece each, and then having to to pay irl cash to transmog should more than suffice Anets money hungry ways

the fact that Scarlet is now used in the same way Chuck Norris jokes are used…kind of shows how lame she is

TheJokester.4672:

Jordo.5913:

im definitely calling Tengu are coming around March 18th, right after Scarlets to be R.I.P. date March 4th

if you are right……Will you marry me?

you a dude or chick?

Invest dat money….

100 gems = 1g 22s 21c or 12221c (Dec 2012)
100 gems = 6g 39s 48c or 63948c (Dec 2013)

that’s in increase of 523% in one year…100 gems would equal 1749163c (174g 91s 63c) in Dec 2015 if the increase repeats itself for 2 more years….and of course…with easier gold acquisition, price of supplies goes up!

the game kind of has to stay relevant though….though i guess if the game tanks and they get desperate for gem shop purchases, they’ll jack the gold you get from gems regardless just so you can buy anything you want in the game

Thank Balthazaar.

im definitely calling Tengu are coming around March 18th, right after Scarlets to be R.I.P. date March 4th

no joke…i got my precursor on Xmas of last year

the thing that got me thinking was that “It’s Xmas, maybe they snuck a drop rate increase in just for this day”…it took me 7 forges to get twilight, after not trying for about a month and a half

could be dumb luck…which im sure it was…but maybe Zommoros was just in the giving spirit since Anet nudged him to be a little nicer

Juba.8406:

yep , i guess we will see a spike in DPS guardian roamers .

as for the warrior heal the only place i think it will be useful is WvW zerging.

idk…i could def use another “oh kitten” button on my GS zerker with endure pain

man could you have imagined that guardian heal on a GS zerker though, oh god the healz

LOL @ everyone farming legendaries!

bout to be in the gem store for 20 bucks!

I planned on getting T3 Human for my elementalist human upon reaching level 80, but now i’m going to get it at half the price, plus it’ll even look cooler with the fire on it!

Don’t ruin this for me!

captaincrash.6528:

Nothing but new stuff for the last 2 patches (maybe 3 I hardly remember) and one patch to really improve parts of the game, whelp, time to hit the forums.

This patch was needed, and was promised to Fractals players months ago, some stuff in here I can see them getting excited about. More permanent content too, isn’t that what all people want?

if they had made the dungeons permanent in the first place…we wouldn’t have to have this re-hash of a patch

then we could maybe have gotten Thaumanova plus 2 brand new fractals

Master Yi.6129:

People asked for this. Clearly you want more scarlet

hate scarlet…want more elder dragons

panzer.6034:

Exhibit came by and said he wanted to pimp my ride. I said “No, thanks, that’s just a revamped version of my old car.” I then yawned and exited the window.

that would imply this patch is as cool as getting a pimped out car…which it is far from

nice try at a simile though

Moka.9641:

I also yawn at your thread.

man..must have been doubly worse when u read the release page

yeah its permanent content but it going to be another ppl run the three new fractals and then they are going to go right back to being a thing no one wants to do

LostTemplar.6271:

You have free content every 2 weeks.

yeah its free…but im not gonna play it if it sucks

you can get expired food for free…are you going to eat it?

severe lack of content

revamping an old patch
1 new fractal
2 old dungeons that shouldve been permanent
2 old boss battles that will likely be the same or slightly different
still a giant grind

revamping and using so many old resources and i would assume we were talking about WoWs cataclsym expansion

i simply yawned and exited the window

i thought since the team was done having to make resources for holidays that we would “really see” what Anet is capable of…so far its been more boring than last year

No Walking.6349:

This thread was totally needed, because Anets plots are usually very deep, well thought out, and always catch you off guard……..

thanks :<

Kasmeer – “Ow! Oh, fudge, that hurt.”
Marjory – “What’s the matter? Are you okay?”
Kasmeer – “Yeah, It’s just a thorn, I’ll be okay. Keep moving.”

everything in that kitten tower was corrupt and she gets poked by a thorn releasing a toxin into her blood?

Kasmeer boss battle inc!

Neoheart.2750:

Peow peow.2189:

I saw one if the best spvp thiefs playing warrior the other day was surprised.
But thiefs get hit one way or another each latch, I’m out if this game until they actually do fair balances. Enjoy the condi spam meta

Sad but true. I’m waiting for my eso beta invite then it’s another 30gigs free on my ssd.

i can’t really say anything because of certain circumstances other than….you’ll be as disappointed in elder scrolls as you were with gw2

wildstar on the other hand is lookin pretty legit

noooooooOOOOOoooOOOoooOOOoooo!!!!

So about 4-5 months into release there was a spec called hundred grenades…

is there a still a spec out there like that?

Living Story rewards needs fixed!

we need more rewarding stuff for completing meta achievements rather than home instance nodes, back pieces, and miniatures

for instance, you guys are adding what we assume to be 3 really cool items already or soon…..yet give us a instance node, and scroll of knowledge(WTF) in the achieves

New Sets of Armors – Gem Store
Dreamthistle weapon skins – Black Lion Keys – Gem Store
New NPC weapons(Marjory, Kasmeer) – Probably Gem Store

it seems like your nickle and diming us for all the cool stuff, instead of earning it in game(technically you can by doing gold>gems, but who wants to champ farm all day)

one of the things…. new armor skins, NPC skins, or Weapon Skins…needs to be an actual reward through playing instead of getting a Scroll of Knowledge/Krait Obelisk Shard

i think the meta reward for each update that gives new weapon skins should give a Black Lion Claim ticket for a free weapon of choice….more than likely people who care about cosmetics(basically everyone who is still playing) will then buy Black Lion Keys to try to get a weapon swap weapon of the same type, or an off-hand AND a weapon swap…..i know i would for sure, i cannot stand non-matching weapons

i know you guys need to make money to fuel the 4 development teams worth of jobs, and to avoid layoffs but at least give us something to make it feel like your not just sucking our wallets for all we’re worth

anyone else like this idea?

Jeff.4680:

Cierdwyn.4675:

Zaxares.5419:

You know… If ANet revealed in the next update that when Scarlet peered beyond the Dream, she actually gazed into the dead face of Abaddon and THAT’S why she went mad… All is forgiven.

Agreed!! I mean it IS a hybrid, but a hybrid of what and what? .. and not much is more “toxic” than Abaddon’s energy, anyone who explored the Realm of Torment area’s could see that. That eye pattern is also on the Margonites .. and there were facial changes on Varesh as it went along (though didn’t make it that far). Does make you wonder .. and hope just a little. lol

What an awesome spin that’d be! Definately forgiven .. and given a pass on alllll previous LS/W. lol

Ahhh .. happy sigh .. We can dream.

Nahhh man. The problem with that, is that that would be actually interesting.

I can assure you its some kitten-baby of a Krait and Nightmare Court Sylvari.

Why? I don’t know…and I really wish Anet would stop with this crap.

Again, my 4 year old niece could think of something better.

yeah…i wish the devs would stop being so hell bent on creating new lore, and just build upon lore that is already established, or throw in a curve ball with something that is from GW1

man…the abbadon stuff could be soooo sweet….

the reason i like it so much is…because in gw1 enemy monks could rez friendlies in their group…this kinda gives that feel of having to finish off mobs to avoid rezzing

but what do you guys think that thing is behind her!

Sore.1406:

No F2P game will ever work that way sadly.

but gw2 isn’t f2p…is b2p and they have sold 3 million copies roughly amounting to 180 million dollars

so they have a cushion in their back account to maybe let some skins be given free

Krait Obelisk Shard and a Scroll of Knowledge? Really?

one of the things…. new armor skins, NPC skins, or Weapon Skins…needs to be an actual reward through playing instead of getting a Scroll of Knowledge/Krait Obelisk Shard

i think the meta reward for each update that gives new weapon skins should give a Black Lion Claim ticket for a free weapon of choice….more than likely people who care about cosmetics(basically everyone who is still playing) will then buy Black Lion Keys to try to get a weapon swap weapon of the same type, or an off-hand AND a weapon swap…..i know i would for sure, i cannot stand non-matching weapons

i know you guys need to make money to fuel the 4 development teams worth of jobs, and to avoid layoffs but at least give us something to make it feel like your not just sucking our wallets for all we’re worth

more bang for your buck A-net! you’re welcome!

So the little picture preview we get of the next patch in line is up…and it pretty much confirms Scarlet’s involvement, since the next patch will probably have us heading into the tower.

The question is, what is that thing behind her?

Did the krait prophets actually return?

Is it a massive Nightmare Court boss?

in all honesty….and it pains me to say this but i do not think i would buy gw3…at least not at launch

this game was advertised, and promised to be very different than the incarnation it is today

i just do not think i could trust Anet to stay true to it’s promises

i do like gw2, but i do not LOVE gw2, if it were to re-release or if an expansion comes out, i would probably just move on from the game

I hope with all my heart that the wizards tower will respond to this tower being built so close to them.

Vanthian.9267:

I will be looking at a Thief with a backstab damage build.
20/30/0/0/20

Traits to consider in damage calculation:
Dagger Trainger: 5% damage
Executioner: 20% damage below 50% health
Flanking Strikes: 5% damage when attacking from back/sides

Constants:
Light Armor: 1836 (no added toughness what so ever)
Medium Armor: 1980 (no added toughness what so ever)
Heavy Armor: 2127 (no added toughness what so ever)
Skill Coefficient: 1.2 if hit from the front
2.4 if hit from the back/side

Exotics:
When using all berserker and all ruby orbs and a completely damage build for Thief:

Weapon Damage: 924-981
Power: 2089 without food buffs or bloodlust or might
3156 with food buffs and 25 might but without bloodlust
Critical Chance: 63.24 without fury or food buffs
66.57 with food buffs without fury
Critical Damage: 86%

Standard Damage of Backstab on target without Critical hit: (all will assume max Weapon damage/Skill Coefficient)

Light Armor: No Food Buffs/Might/Bloodlust
Damage: ( 981 × 2089 × 2.4 ) / 1836 = 2,678.835
With Food Buffs/Might but NO BLOODLUST
Damage: ( 981 × 3156 × 2.4 ) / 1836 = 4,047.105

What if we critical? Critical Damage is +86% on the normal 150% so we have 236% damage. Without buffs would be…
2,678.835 × 236% = 6,322.051
With Fodd buffs and such…
4,047.105 × 236% = 9,551.168

ASCENDED

Same set up only with ascended trinkets, back, ring, amulet and weapon.

Weapon Damage: 970-1030
Power: 2309 without food buffs or bloodlust or might
3376 with food buffs and 25 might but without bloodlust
Critical Chance: 69.24 without fury or food buffs
72.57 with food buffs without fury
Critical Damage: 112%

Standard Damage of Backstab on target without Critical hit: (all will assume max Weapon damage/Skill Coefficient)

Light Armor: No Food Buffs/Might/Bloodlust
Damage: ( 1,030 × 2,309 × 2.4 ) / 1836 = 3,108.849
With Food Buffs/Might but NO BLOODLUST
Damage: ( 1,030 × 3,376 × 2.4 ) / 1836 = 4,545.464

What if we critical? Critical Damage is +112% on the normal 150% so we have 262% damage. Without buffs would be…
3,108.849 × 262% = 8,145.184
With Fodd buffs and such…
4,545.464 × 262% = 11,909.115

Comparing the two:
Exotic with buffs & critical: 9,551.168
Ascended with buffs & Critical: 11,909.115

Percentage damage higher? 9,551.168/11,090.115 = 0.861
Then 1 – 0.861 = 0.139 which is…..

13.9% difference in damage when buffed and landing a critical hit on a light armor target with no extra defense when welding currently available Ascended items over Exotics.

Also, please note I did not take into account the trait damage multipliers since they are the same with or without Ascended gear.

You can follow the above to figure out any of the other armors types or whatever you choose. I also done this very quickly so my numbers might be a little off, but I do believe them to be accurate.

Have fun!

took this from another thread

TL;DR – My Brain Hurtz – Important Part:

Comparing the two:
Exotic with buffs & critical: 9,551.168
Ascended with buffs & Critical: 11,909.115

Percentage damage higher? 9,551.168/11,090.115 = 0.861
Then 1 – 0.861 = 0.139 which is

13.9% difference in damage when buffed and landing a critical hit on a light armor target with no extra defense when welding currently available Ascended items over Exotics.

if that person has a higher ping, slower internet, slower computer, slower fps, doesn’t know proper skill rotation, isn’t traited right….then that overall dps increase starts taking a hit

though if that person was in full exotics, he is probably performing less than being in exotics in the first place, thus me being glad he is in ascended gear

also….all current end game is balanced around rares…so if anything, if they were to increase the difficulty, they would balance it around exotics first

Buttercup.5871:

My guess is that the tower will be an open world PvE instance where you can not only get ascended armor as a reward (similar to weapon chests), but where you need a fair amount of good armor as well to survive – giving you an incentive to craft ascended armor. And where you need some good (read: ascended) weapons to take the bosses down. A tough place, perhaps comparable to the UW of GW1.

the thing is….there is like a 2% increase in dps for each ascended item?

if you can’t make up for the lack of dps with skill….your playing gw2 wrong

lordkrall.7241:

Thobek.1730:

(just look how a few things have sparked more interest than scarlet ever could).

Oh?
I am quite sure there were MASSIVE amount of interest around Scarlet before The Queens Speech.

yeah but after the queens speech and i found out how annoying she was….zero interest in any future update with her involved

but a LEVIATHAN would be amazing!

i mean think about it:

Lake Viathan? Le viathan….i don’t believe in coincidences

jweez.7214:

I think that they have pressure from the community at large to redo the fight. I also think they know that was cruddy end to the first chapter in gw2. We do know that they have said on record that if they go back to do a major revamp to a dungeon it will have to make sense to the story to go back.

So I offer that if you believe that arenanet will go back and redo the zhaitan fight because it is kittenty, then you should also believe he is alive because they will not revamp unless they can connect the changes to the story.

uhhh…Tequatl update made zero sense and was out of left field…..the patch after it nor before it had anything to do with undead, dragons, or Sparkfly Fen

the living story literally took a commercial break for an update

Clockwork Chaos – “Hi, I’m Scarlet and I’m here to kidnap your Queen!”
SAB – Jump, Jump, Jump, Jump, Jump, Jump,
Tequatl – btw, Tequatl is stronger now…..for funsies
Twilight Assault – “Oh hi!, Scarlet’s back, sorry you did random stuff for a month!”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/No-Risen-Karkas/first#post1156321

Mathew Medina states:

“Canonically, yes the Lost Shores weekend and lead-up was set after the events of the Guild Wars 2 personal story and the defeat of Zhaitan, so this is partially what made it possible for the karka to establish a clawhold on Southsun Cove.”

The huge thing was stating….that if Zhaitan was still alive somewhere, somehow, there is no way the event with the Karka storming Southsun Cove could happen. Also explains why there are zero risen Karka when we kill them.

i believe you get to have the opposite skins that you didn’t choose in the 1-10k range

so if you chose radiant…at 18k you can choose all 3 pieces of hellfire at once

Shiren.9532:

nihavel.6592:

No, Zhaitan is dead, devs annunce his death in some interview.

Why would anyone source WoodenPotatoes on this? Not only does he not work for ArenaNet but he’s been wrong in the past. This isn’t an attack on WoodenPotatoes more an issue of people putting him on some kind of pedestal simply because they are too lazy to read the text inside the game themselves.

I’m not sourcing WoodenPotatoes voice…i’m sourcing what he did in his video….talk about lazy, sheesh

You guys do know that the video I posted shows Zhaitan’s dead body, floating in water?

He’s dead. You can see so for yourself at 11:05 in the video

i’ll even re-link it for you guys with the time in the video

im really sorry if this bursts your bubble kind of hard….on a topic im sure you put a lot of thought into

but………

i think they also have said that they are revamping the fight IN the dungeon, to make it a little cooler and more of a finite death

i level to 38 and do most of the personal story up til then….

and then craft 6 professions to get 42 levels so i can skip that part

This thread shows you what the power of developer responses can do!

The first couple pages were not that good, the hate was beginning to flow in. Now that you are responding? The feedback is tremendous and the last 10 pages have been nothing but love of finally being heard and some great, great feedback!

Get that going across all sections of the forum and this forum will begin to purify itself just like the land of Orr!

I applaud you Chris Whiteside and I hope that what you say about developers interacting with players more on the forums stays true!

The biggest thing on my list? Make the game more alt friendly across the entire game, just like GW1 was!

nethykins.7986:

than communicating with the community and relay information back and forth.

then they don’t have those people that we need!

i don’t care about facebook posters or twitter posters

i care about people saying “Hey, your absolutely right and we are in the works to fix this soon!” or “I’ll pass this along to <insert dev here> who is responsible for that” and then coming back and telling us his or the collective dev communities response

half the time in the rare chance they say they will pass this along….we get zero response to it afterwards never knowing if it got lost in the ether somewhere down the line