Guild Wars 2

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sent 25/01/2015

Just have slow also apply a cripple during the duration of the ability if it doesn’t slow movement speed.

1. You don’t know how common this condition will be, or how many classes will have access too it and how readily available it will be.

2. You don’t know how effective (if effective at all) it will be on elite tier’d mobs and above. (Think blinds on champions, 10% effective).

3. If we’re getting this new condition, you can bet your kitten that NPC’s and bosses will be getting it too on a stronger scale.

4. You have no idea what Anet have in store for us with the new content in HoT, there could be many encounters that punish zerker builds and encourage different playstyles.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

This was being posted long before the announcement of HoT.

That’s why it’s called a prediction.

My point was why do we need another thread on this subject?

This was being posted long before the announcement of HoT.

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Sent on the 25/01/2015, still haven’t heard anything back.

It needs to not be a permanent thing as i believe the developers have already stated that they plan to add more specializations in the future.

Sube Dai.8496:

Not sure what you want to accomplish from this thread.

People are going to list the skills that annoy them, or that their particular build doesn’t have a counter for, like ranger LB2, necro lich form, mezmer MOA, etc…

But none of those are viable at tournament level so who cares?

I initially worded the thread wrong, and from there it went a bit off-track, I’m more after what abilities/classes people feel have too much output for such little input.

I feel like i should rephrase my thread a bit, I’m beginning to think i didn’t word it as well as i could have.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

zapv.8051:

YEP deathly claws and lich form are so OP that’s why you see so many teams running power necros… oh wait. This is a massive L2P issue. As others have said there are numerous ways for every single class to deal with lich form. In all honestly if you die to a power necro on any of the meta builds its cause you got outplayed. The build has no burst, and eats cc like its a job.

Except lich form (Correct me if I’m wrong) grants stability, that not everyone can remove. Necro’s also have the potential to get upwards of 50k+ Hp through the use of death shroud and lich form, soo.. Yeah, necro’s aren’t in the greatest of spots, they’re certainly not unviable, the reason there are no power builds is because the fear/condition necro is simply that much stronger and still has insane pressure.

Still doesn’t change the fact that whether it’s an Elite or not, having a 7k damage auto attack that can be cast from range with no cooldown is stupidly OP, where’s my tome for my guardian that constantly crits 7k and is an auto attack?

Tome of Wrath can do that, IIRC. Granted, the damage is split between the Burning and direct damage. You don’t see people doing that because the Stability requires 4 points in Virtues instead of a traitline that gives damage, so those hits are either unreliable (no stability) or weaker.

And Renewed Focus is just great all the time.

Well, thanks for informing me of these, i wasn’t aware it was capable of doing that much damage, may have to try it out now, even if it garbage, might be a bit of fun.

Arken.3725:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

I don’t think you’re understanding the point of my thread, just because a class isn’t used in group setups more often than others, doesn’t mean that the class hasn’t got any problems.

Yes celestial is strong, but so are those that aren’t using celestial, a class doesn’t need to be used more over another in Tpvp for it to be obscenely powerful.

This is why I listed the 3 above. It’s not the amulets/runes that make them strong but rather their trait/skill setup.

I agree, to an extent, for example if you stick a D/D ele in a zerk amulet, they’ll dish out obscene amounts of damage, but they’ll also get wrecked by the blast from a guardians shield of wrath alone.

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

Its the only “Viable” build mesmers play because of its very strong aoe burst damage, boon removal, and portal. CI is also a close contender, but it generally is less popular for some odd reason. Also, if Mesmer was so strong, why doesn’t every team run double Mesmer these days like engi and ele?

I don’t think you’re understanding the point of my thread, just because a class isn’t used in group setups more often than others, doesn’t mean that the class hasn’t got any problems.

Yes celestial is strong, but so are those that aren’t using celestial, a class doesn’t need to be used more over another in Tpvp for it to be obscenely powerful.

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Personally i feel shatter mesmers have way too much going on for their shatters, specifically when in the meta shatter spec.
F3 Confuses, Dazes, Grants might, applies 5 stacks of vuln (per shatter), as well as doing pretty high damage, I think it’s a bit too much, but what do the rest of you think?

First off, Mesmer is fine except for fire/air sigils right now. They need no nerfs. Second, in order to get your super amazing diversion, I have to invest 6 in illusions, 4 in dueling (no mes build is viable without DE), and 3 in domination. Sounds fair?

You mean the build that pretty much every mesmer in PvP is running because of how strong it is, how’s that any different to saying

“If i want to get x i have to put x into x”?

zapv.8051:

YEP deathly claws and lich form are so OP that’s why you see so many teams running power necros… oh wait. This is a massive L2P issue. As others have said there are numerous ways for every single class to deal with lich form. In all honestly if you die to a power necro on any of the meta builds its cause you got outplayed. The build has no burst, and eats cc like its a job.

Except lich form (Correct me if I’m wrong) grants stability, that not everyone can remove. Necro’s also have the potential to get upwards of 50k+ Hp through the use of death shroud and lich form, soo.. Yeah, necro’s aren’t in the greatest of spots, they’re certainly not unviable, the reason there are no power builds is because the fear/condition necro is simply that much stronger and still has insane pressure.

Still doesn’t change the fact that whether it’s an Elite or not, having a 7k damage auto attack that can be cast from range with no cooldown is stupidly OP, where’s my tome for my guardian that constantly crits 7k and is an auto attack?

Just curious as to what the community considers to be broken builds.

I don’t mean broken as in not viable, or unplayable, i mean builds that simply have too much damage output for how much effort is invested.

For example, Eviscerate doing 9k+ Damage with one button press, is this balanced? As a medi guardian i have no problems with axe using warriors, it’s easy to tell when the evis is coming, thus making it easy to avoid, and i have a plethora of blocks to also deal with it should i have no evades, If i’m caught without either blocks or evades, then that’s my own fault.

But I’ve seen a lot of complaints on the forums about LB Power rangers, Celestial Engineers & Ele’s, the Celestial warrior build (to an extent, though this isn’t talked about as much i feel).

So, what class is genuinely broken and needs a look at?

Personally i feel shatter mesmers have way too much going on for their shatters, specifically when in the meta shatter spec.
F3 Confuses, Dazes, Grants might, applies 5 stacks of vuln (per shatter), as well as doing pretty high damage, I think it’s a bit too much, but what do the rest of you think?

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Edit: I am specifically asking about classes that can be too effective for minimal effort, such as 1 or 2 button presses, ranger lb #2, necro elite #1 in a power build etc, these sorts of things.

I said Mesmer f3 because while it involves setting up, it is still only 1 button press and i (This is my opinion, don’t roast me on this) feel it does too much for 1 press.

Just pushing to get this back onto front page.

Points 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all your opinion, not fact.

If you don’t play the game for a story, why do you care about the way the story is handled? Many of us happen to love the way Season 2 went, and can’t wait for it to be expanded upon.

SAB Could easily fit in with the living story.

Have it be an adventure ground for young Asuras.
Boom, lore made.

Everything is subject to change depending on what sort of skins we get in HoT, but this is what i plan to rock, I’ll be donning rytlocks mask if it’s available.

Definitely going to be maining a Rev, I’m addicted to heavy armor classes, the feel of the class alone has me gripped and I cant’ wait to play one, I’ve already got a placeholder character that i’ve been messing around in the wardrobe with to get an Armor set going, and now I’m working on collecting the pieces i need, also reserved a name.

Shinato.3167:

Thanks I will post there, however the fact that thread was created almost a year ago and has been active ever since lends itself away from being able to attribute the problem with current new players due to the recent sale and announcement of the expansion. It appears that it is more of an ongoing issue.

The majority of those posts are people looking at getting their account unbanned, I wouldn’t really assume they take priority over people with actual issues.

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Getefix.9150:

the artwork for it on the website looks like hes holding a type of bow? longbow maybe?

It’s a sword.

Donari.5237:

Interesting on the precursors. What if someone wants to make more than one of the same Legendary for some reason? Will the new system allow that?

I’d imagine precursors will still be a chance from the mystic forge and random drops.

THIS IS NOT MY WORK

This is something i just stumbled across and thought it was worthy enough of being shared with the community, props to the uploader.

They mentioned 3 Biomes, not 3 zones.

You don’t need new minion models, the current ones are fine as is, now their AI, that’s a different story.

PirateApache.4591:

How about instead of your minions die in the downed state you sacrific for full hp.

And this is broken beyond belief.

Just thought i’d throw my build out there for you to try if you feel your guardian is lacking a little bit of damage.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVEQNAsdBlsApVIODhfIKiHosGjtfoF1FAMfy/B-TRCBABVq+zZKBl4IAglSMc2fAgHBQWKPyTfDDnAAiAYnA-e

This works great for me in PvE, both solo play and dungeons, It’s the build I’ve been running for a long time now.

There are three things i change often with this build:

The trait in Virtues: Master of consecrations to improved spirit weapon duration, depending on the encounter.

Mainhand sword to Scepter and back again, depending on the encounter, focus always stays.

and my second Utility slot, this is normally retreat unless it’s absolutely mandatory that i bring something else, normally it’s wall of reflection, if not, I’ll normally just stick with retreat for the swiftness and that sort of “mini-dodge” i get from the aegis.

Don’t take what Zoltreez said seriously either, guardians definitely do not hit like a wet noodle, they aren’t among the top tier damaging classes, but they’re certainly not far behind.

http://gw2dps.david-reess.de/

Take this website as a grain of salt, but it’s good to get a general idea of things, keep in mind that while their DPS may be lower than other classes, they also offer a lot more support than those that tend to be doing more damage, and a guardian will always be wanted in a group.

Just curious, because I’d already buy it.

I’m just stockpiling as many dungeon tokens, gold and mats as possible in preperation of the new class.

Darmikau.9413:

She, not he.

And it’s less of a question and more of a demand for playable Tengu. Heartbreak if we have to wait another three years for them.

I feel a bit daft now, cheers though, edited the thread a bit!

(Sorry Gaile!)

Saw recently that Gaile was stockpiling a bunch of questions into a list that i assume she plans to ask the higher ups at some point, so i thought we’d help her out.

Post some of the questions you have here that you’d like Gaile to ask, and we’ll make her job a little bit easier.

Don’t forget to check out https://help.guildwars2.com/home to make sure your questions haven’t already been answered though!

My question is this:

We’ve seen some classes in the new trailer getting access to new weapons, is this limited to an extra weapon per class, or can we expect more?
E.G In the trailer it’s very clearly seen that an Engineer is using a hammer, is that all we can expect, or will there be other weapons available too?

Uhaen.9876:

You’ve got an external link warning going to your own websites. =)

It’s built in to the forums, it’ll do it on any link.

I can’t stop watching the trailer, never been so hyped up for an expansion before.

This is HUGE for Gw2.

Engineer hammer is at 1:40 in the trailer.

Whoa, this is the hardest stuff to get? kitten , I’m sitting with about 2000 of em in my bank just doing nothing, already got the ones i needed for ascended gear.

I was hoping this thread would’ve been something about giving them another use or something like mawdrey

No, not exactly.

The people that you mention were banned for buying an Item that was priced wrong, i believe it was meant to cost 63k karma, but actually cost just 63 karma.

Unable to find the thread that it’s apparently based on, could anyone send me a link or fill me in on what this is?

So you basically just want a class that plays itself for you?

I don’t get random frame drops, are you sure it’s not a problem on your end?

Took this off reddit.

Install MSI Afterburner and HWiNFO.
Setup OSD to show, at least, “GPU usage” and “CPU core usage” (not total!). Things you may add: FPS, temps, voltages and clock rates.
Play normally. When you get an FPS drop, look at usages. If something is close to 100% that’s your bottleneck. The optional items may be useful to troubleshoot other problems, like for example an NVIDIA driver getting stuck on a low clock.

I think that is a special t-shirt meant for the employees only, unless a third party manufacturer (or yourself) put one together.

I only get them when i afk in places like Divinities reach while doing some food or something.

Saw the question being raised about a guild wars 2 table top game, and the first thing that popped into my head was a Guild wars 2 based game akin to Hearthstone.

Would anyone play this?

I personally would relish and support the idea, I’d love to play a card game based around Guild wars.

Decks could be anything from the different races to classes as well as factions.

Explain please, what do you mean by “short sell”?

You failed the event because you were just a bunch of bad players, it had nothing to do with those that were dead, because the event (as previously mentioned several times) eventually de-scales to accommodate for them not actually contributing to the event.

Also no, this is a terrible idea, it’s not needed, the event failed because you and apparently many other people were not performing up-to-par, it had nothing to do with the people that refused to respawn.

spoj.9672:

Thats an old article.

Because this is an old thread that someone necro’d.

NinjaEd.3946:

Not really, only a few skills work on downed allies and have long cooldowns tied to them. The downed state imo isn’t properly represented across the 8 professions with some having obvious advantages over others.

That’s why i made this thread.

The sad thing is that people are still falling for these types of scams even WITH the message at the bottom..

Please pay attention to the entire message, look at the bottom.. It’ll explicitly state that it was sent by a player..