Guild Wars 2

I regret I missed GW1.
This dervish character must have been a very cool class.

Engineer – It’s not much to ask. Flamethrower improvement DPS increase 20% and range increase from 425 to 600.

Player Character.9467:

“Oh hey I see a ______ up ahead, time to switch to build #X so I’m already perfect to counter him.”

How do you know what build to use if you don’t know the enemy’s traits and items? Do you know how many builds (and hybrids) are available for each class? Until you realize what you are facing, you are already in combat and it’s too late to change. You can’t change skills, weapons and traits in combat (so it was logical you couldn’t switch a whole template as well).

Joystick.4103:

1. Give us Shotguns OR make it so we shoot the rifle like warriors so it doesen’t look like were holding a gun for the first time in our lives.
2. ^
3. ^

Or a Super Utility Steam-punk crossbow

I realized hoe much I miss the FT. I constantly like to change builds and sets… but this is getting really annoying. Arena net didn’t implement a template possibility so I decided to build a second Engineer. It’s the biggest and fattest Norn model available and he will rule the dungeon tunnels with A ridiculously huge Flamethrower. The Charr will remain on SD.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Please elaborate on why the scythe would be a good choice for ANY of the classes (outside of necro, which, as you state, is obvious).

I will try. Go ahead and laugh if u wish

Although GW2 is generally a fantasy game I can’t help but separate the classes intro two main categories: Physical and Spiritual oriented.

So the Scythe just as the Trident have mythological meanings. The trident however has been used as an official weapon (I give reference The Roman Gladiators). But the scythe not except many peasant revolts.

The scythe plays an important traditional role, often appearing as weapons in the hands of mythical beings such as Cronus, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, specifically, Grim Reaper (Death). This stems mainly from the Christian Biblical belief of death as a "harvester of souls. (source: Wiki)

The Necromancer already has a scythe skin for the Staff. He is the death incarnate, the soul reaper and it suits him beast. The elementalist is the game’s sorcerer and the scythe would give him a very dark tone. The Mesmer dosen’t use the weapons in a traditional way (direct hit) but has powerful spells. The scythe could take many ideas initially suggested for the staff.

Gnat.9405:

This is just another example of ANet’s infamous “higher population = higher challenge” philosophy. I can see where it can be bothersome, but after playing GW1 for 6.5 years I come to expect it.

How would you rate GW2 in contrast with GW1?

Engineer Whip Skills:

Main Hand
#1: Body Strike Strike your foe’s vital parts and apply Vulnerability
#2: Go for the Eyes Strike your enemy’s face causing Blindness
#3: Sonic Boom Use your whip to create a powerful wave resulting in a sonic boom. AOE Effect. Foes stroked this way will get 2 seconds of Daze.

Off Hand
#4: Static Entangle Entangle your enemy’s feet and immobilize for 2 seconds. You can pull the Whip resulting in the enemy’s Knockdown.
#5:Whirligig Wrap your enemies plying Weakness every second (3 seconds max). Optionally pull to turn them intro a whirligig and applying 8 stacks of confusion.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

And secondly, style! What whip skins can’t you live without?
I’ll start:

• Standard adventuring leather whip (think Indy)
• Verdant “plant” whip
• Multy strain black leather gothy whip
• Colorful circus whip (similar to Quip)

Oh boy I have to continue:

• A Snake (an actual daemon snake) or a long tentacle whip (perfect for Necro)
• Metal chain Whip (related)

And for the legendary

• Flaming Whip (related)

Static discharge may be good if you play the rifle very well and make a good use of the toolkit. I defeated warriors without a sweat using cripple, overcharged shot, net shot and gear shield.

However an interesting story, I met an engineer recently in PvP and we were 1v1. We started talking and made a deal to have a few confrontations. Whenever a player is downed, the other allows him to get up fund fully heal.

I was using the standard SD build with full zerker items, he was using a knight set with grenades HGH. The final score was 10-2 in is favor. It proved that my lack of condition removal made me very vulnerable. His high Toughness resisted a full combo rotation and he also healed well.

Lupanic.6502:

Rifle+SD is maybe ok for PvE. In PvP I have never seen a top player playing it.

Yeah, you are right, this is very true. At most I can contribute on group battles since the static discharge will bounce into more enemies but on 1v1 it is very difficult. However, keeping a distance while playing the Rifle skills and Tool Kit right you can defeat any good adversaries.

Rozbuska.5263:

JubeiTM.5763:

My Rifle + SD build already hits more than a Zerk Warrior except 100 blades. But yet again 100blades is a close combat, stand-still skill and anything will interrupt the combo. While we can dance around the enemy throwing whatever we want.

No you dont zerg war 100b hits for 37k

My English writing may not be very good since I m still learning but your English reading is terrible…

JubeiTM

hits more than a Zerk Warrior EXCEPT 100 blades

Gnat.9405:

Usable By: Necromancer
Warrior
Ranger

Ow Common!

Only classes suitable for a Scythe would be

1) Necromancer (obvious best choice)
2) Mesmer
3) Elementalist

I also converted to damage. It’s the only path. Armor is not balanced enough to match a zerker. Why would you run Toughness/Vitality when u can kill any monsters in 5 seconds)

pics or it didn’t happen

Things are going down quickly. In the past months you could have seen crowds of people everywhere. The lack of new content once you reach level 80 is driving good players away. Now it’s only empty lands. There are a few constantly roaming the dungeons for a legendary item but unfortunately when they’re done there won’t be anyone to see it.

My friends already quit. I’m sure an expansion will NOT bring them back. Lucky I found a nice guild but it also seems to have only 5% of it’s members online

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

Pareidolia

There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good- will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. —David Hume*

Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct. For example, in the discolorations of a burnt tortilla one sees the face of Jesus. Or one sees the image of Mother Teresa or Ronald Reagan in a cinnamon bun or a man in the moon.

I see what you mean http://saveyourself.ca/resources/images/pareidolia-peppers-l.jpg

My Rifle + SD build already hits more than a Zerk Warrior except 100 blades. But yet again 100blades is a close combat, stand-still skill and anything will interrupt the combo. While we can dance around the enemy throwing whatever we want.

uknortherner.2670:

How, exactly, will it bring more people together? I know that the first thing I’ll be doing if anyone tries spamming me with duel requests will be to block the sender.

Well I’m sure you won’t have to block the person if you have the right options from the start:

• “Available for duel”
• “Not available for duel”

Superior Charr Sigil: + 10% damage vs humans))

+1
Good good, we are on the right track.

Excellent idea, I subscribe! I play at least 20 dungeon runs every day and not having an option to skip all cinematic it is painful…

Subscribe please

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/SUGGESTION-No-more-manually-changing/first#post2098574

Devils.3679:

Maybe we as players can become trainers as like a commander , a PvE title we can buy the rights to be trainers.

and charge a percent out of each player who changes? (just kidding)
Ths idea would still take time. A button that memorizes stats and gear is better.

1. Fix the Turrets by increasing HP/Toughness, make them immune to condition combo fields (they are metallic ffs). If none of this will happen, at least put them on a single “Turret tool Kit” so we can have space for other things.

2. Keep the engineers rifle hip shot position. But understand that sniper looks ridiculous and we need other legendary rifle skins: a Crossbow or a Shotgun.

3. Increase Flamethrower range from 425 to 600 and increase damage by 20%. I know it’s a utility kit but thousands of players prefer to use the Flamethrower as a main weapon. Let them do so!

Jigain.8231:

Kain Francois.4328:

If we had an extra slot for utility skills rather than an elite, that would be great. Especially since we waste so many utility slots equipping weapon kits.

We do. We have four, actually.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tool_belt

He ment Utility not Tool belt.

Indeed it would be nice to have 1 extra slot. Or at least to be able to choose any skill in place of Elite. This would boost versatility up.

So basically this build meankittenting the best skills out of each Kit in a rotation. I don’t mind swapping kits like crazy

I will try it as soon as I get home.

Amadan.9451:

i like the idea, not the fact that playing there is a must because people would leave the world to take care of their town.
what if guild members can have their own house inside the guild homestead?
wouldn’t it be nice?

So the guild becomes a village?

What if this class gets F1, F2, F3, for different battle stances?

F1 – Judgement stance The current weapon(s) offers an array of offensive attacks

F2 – Protector stance Defensive and Support abilities.

F3 – Manipulation stance Various monster control and other CC abilities

With cool-down on switch, just like the Elementalist.
Blade dancer has also been proposed. This could be a mix of both.

Knight.1084:

- Opinion to turn the auto feature On or OFF in the settings menu.

This. Should be up to the person. Although 90% would stay on auto-switch and more people will develop interest in good town clothes. Arena Net, this will be a great add-on and a way to sell more town clothes.

DarkSider.1079:

I would completely agree here, I’d spend real money, aka gems, to unlock an extra armor slot so I could quickly swap, same for extra weapons etc too. Make it so it’s only possible out of combat (such as out of combat + 10 seconds so we aren’t gimping anything or being OP). Just like we have costume setup, another armor setup. I think a flat rate of 1000-1200 gems would be reasonable. Anet, if you’re reading this, you could make a killing off this, and most of us would gladly put the real money into game for a convenience such as this. Longterm, it allows us to play multiple specs (if you combine the armor swap with ability to retrain talents on the fly), it means a more viable game, people dont feel “locked”. I hate to reference that ‘ol “wow” game, but the convenience would outweigh the cost, as long as you don’t price it out of this world high.

Also for retraining, it is quite annoying having to go to trainer and respec each time. Yes, add in that option to the character and charge more for it for the convenience. Instead of it being 3s, charge 5s or something to that effect. So it is still cheaper to go to trainer but faster to do it the more expensive way. It doesn’t change the impact the game negatively and changes constantly, save time, effort, frustration. Yes, I want to try other builds, swap armor, but at times it’s too annoying having to click drag everything…that is not fun, and defeats purpose of trying anything else.

+1 this if you agree with my above statements. These changes could single-handedly bring back people who’ve left the game due to the feeling of being stagnant, and generate a good sum of money. For example, if you get bored with dps, swap over to your other armor and other talents. It shouldn’t be “work” to have to switch this stuff out, which it is currently. It shouldn’t be work to have to retrain talents, which it is currently.

+1 man you have the gift of words. I think everybody should read the above post.

everywhere? Summary clothes maybe. But I’m not sure about a naked skin. Do you know how many naked female characters you will see EVERYWHERE?

I didn’t play GW1 but your idea is amazing.

Hi, it’s a great idea to improve things players can buy with gems or gold. Buying a personal House would be an enormous improvement.
It doesn’t have to physically occupy space on land. It can be an instance where friends can visit in party mode. The house should offer the next possibilities:

Choosing your own furniture - either buy it or craft it. Maybe a huntsman should craft it. Maybe tailors could create rags and leather-workers could make hide carpets out of animal skins. Furniture and Wall paint from dyes, depending on how fancy you want it. Wall paintings should have their own art vendor.

Newspaper delivered home To view upcoming game updates, view events or rumors about dragon assaults and the time of happening. If we can have this content ingame we would wonder less on external content. (Why not, for maybe 1Gold/month)

A bookstore To store and read any in-game book volume already discovered.

Asura energy crystal ball To review vista points already visited. (Could also b a photo album).

Encyclopedias! One for each domain. To read about races, a bestiary, Artworks, history lessons of Tyria’s past. Hell i want more information on Iron Legion battle steam-machines.

A personal Journal and a classic quill for simply writing own notes.

A wall of achievements! That actually contain ingame trophies. Supposed the player killed 100 spiders, there should be a pair spider fangs hanging on the wall and mentioning the achievement on click or mouse over.

A Closet/Drawer for town clothes and armor sets so the player can quicly equip the set he desires. (it won’t eat space from your inventory or bank).

Other Objects Could be anything. Stuffed animals, miniatures, musical instruments (and yes, visit houses in Ebonhawke, there is an Organ you can play with keys from 1-9).

You may say that some of the information above can be accessed on the GW Wiki pages and third party websites. Still, I think it’s better to just have them in-game. Feels more “natural”.

In other MMO’s map duels were very constructive. I remember that many players assisted to this fights outside major cities and compare build efficiency, fighting techniques, etc.

This is a great idea that will bring more people together.

Guild leaders should have the option to upgrade the Guild Hall in many ways. Some should be practical and influence the embers others should be purely aesthetic. Some ideas:

• The Guild’s wall of trophies for each guild achievement, guild missions compleeted, etc.

Artisan Objects that influence players in various ways:

• A Frost Shield hanged on walls: All players +5 Toughness while fighting in Snow maps.

• Mystic Endless Torch: All players gain +% speed in nighttime

• Golden Laurel: Completing a Monthly event gives +1 extra laurel.

• Ancient Frog statue: +5% money gain when farming reptilian creatures.

• Cartographer table: +2% Experience gain from visiting new way-points.

• Commander’s office! A member overview room. Here a commander can see player stats, online time, how much each player contribute, etc. This way you can give responsibilities and titles to those who are most active. I think an experienced commander should also see what equipment their guild members are wearing and also their trait choice. This way he can advice the players on their builds and armor choices.

There are a lot more but I made my point so no need to fill 50 pages.

Toast.6459:

JubeiTM.5763:

Toast.6459:

To all the people saying “this idea is brilliant”, one question for you. Are you so pathetically lazy that you can’t even play a game anymore? I do truly hope you people aren’t of my generation, because I would be ashamed to be grouped with you.

Oh and little something for ya’ll to think about, this ain’t WoW, the game is the leveling. It’s not 80 mindless grinding levels and then some boring endgame raids you spam over and over. I would think that would be obvious, but considering this suggestion is here and even being supported, it must not be.

Are you serious? The leveling is only a part of GW2. I manually leveled 2 characters, and I have seen the maps and events twice. If somebody wishes to change his character must he do so in a few weeks? Should his friends be punished and wait for him this much? For some of us the game consists in the real challenges that happen at level 80. Please learn to respect other people’s opinions. It’s a primary skill for any “good generation” i’m sure yours is included.

That’s your problem for deciding to use the same race, there’s different stories and different maps. Your failure to notice that does not warrant an item that you can click and amplify your laziness to a whole new level.

Is this bad idea weekend or something? I honestly can’t tell.

Hahaha OMG. Where did I say the race thing)? You don’t only judge people poorly but put words in their mouth as well.

Ummm… actually each of my character is a different class with a different race. I do so because I want to see and the story for all of them. I want to get the most of the game. But I don’t think that revisiting the same maps over and over is ok.

This auto-leveling option should only be available under the next circumstances: The player has at least 1 level 80 character with 100% map completion.

Theftwind.8976:

It does not take “forever” or even that long to level an alt to 80. A week ago my engineer was level 23, today he will hit 80 as he is currently at 79 and a half. That was accomplished with a blend of crafting and questing and making 10 levels a day is easily done so 8 days is not forever.

As the wife and I level our characters together this will be our 6th level 80 character set with 3 more sets to go. What was interesting is that we selected a different story line for them and experienced some new stuff that we had not seen before with our previous 5 sets.

So I currently have as level 80 characters:

Guardian
Thief
Elementalist
Warrior
Necromancer
Engineer (today)

Left to run through:

Hunter (2)
Mesmer (24)
Another Thief (43)

Good job on you characters but the point is some people don’t want to manually do it all. Right now, you can do it in a single day by crafting. So instead of this why not have a direct option. Level 80 is where another chapter starts – the one most of us want.

PS: I wish I had a wife as cool as yous.

It used to be auto-target a while ago but the devs thought it was too powerful. It already got a -30% reduction on first skill. So i guess that in order to stop the damage nerf even further, they made it more difficult to use.

Penguin.5197:

JubeiTM.5763:

I bet you 10 gold it’s not going to happen this year. Anyone?

Ha fine I’ll take that bet

Fine! By change it means an actual modification. Not a bug fix (not working with certain traits, or not shooting strait, etc).

You will hear from me in January 1 2014

This is for a future character: the Blade Dancer.

Toast.6459:

To all the people saying “this idea is brilliant”, one question for you. Are you so pathetically lazy that you can’t even play a game anymore? I do truly hope you people aren’t of my generation, because I would be ashamed to be grouped with you.

Oh and little something for ya’ll to think about, this ain’t WoW, the game is the leveling. It’s not 80 mindless grinding levels and then some boring endgame raids you spam over and over. I would think that would be obvious, but considering this suggestion is here and even being supported, it must not be.

Are you serious? The leveling is only a part of GW2. I manually leveled 2 characters, and I have seen the maps and events twice. If somebody wishes to change his character must he do so in a few weeks? Should his friends be punished and wait for him this much? For some of us the game consists in the real challenges that happen at level 80. Please learn to respect other people’s opinions. It’s a primary skill for any “good generation” i’m sure yours is included.

This was a bug fix not an actually worthy change that would make it viable

Rezzet.3614:

dual speccing would be a massive change in wvw it would enable me to have my Roaming build and quickly swap to my tower attacking/defending build or a support build etc ect. +10

Constantly swapping means constantly money spending. About 2-3 silver. I’m sure it’s still worth it. And it will prove a money sink as well.

100% Agree with pex. He posted the reasons why 5 of my friends quit after 3 months of intensive gameplay.

JoshuaC.1320:

I’ve been playing engie since I got the game, but mostly in PVE with my own “build” and once I got to 80 I quickly lost interest once I started on a guardian. I tried your build out and I absolutely love it. It really makes him fun to play again.

What armor/weapons would you recommend for it? I’m currently wearing stuff spec’d for condition damage mostly with the COF armor, but that doesn’t seem to apply to this build as much.

Congrats! I think most engineers were disappointing initially and tried other classes. But none is so geeky and fun. In terms of armor It is a good thing you play COF since you can get the Berserker set. So, go with full Berserker Gear + Ruby orbs. Before you buy the orbs from Trading Post, you can check your collectibles to see if you stored any along the way.

Rings: Ruby Orichalcum Ring of the Berserker

• Ascended rings can also be purchased from a laurel vendor or obtain from Fractals once you reach level 10

Earrings: Ruby Orichalcum Earring of the Berserker

• Or can be obtained by completing guild missions

Amulet I use This one. I got it for 30 laurels.

In terms of weapons I recommend the Rifle. You can also get it from COF dungeon weapon. Just get the exotic berserker one. If you keep farming cof leave the original sigil since it enhances damage vs Flame Legion. If you go all round style you can try Superior Sigil of Force. It adds +5% damage.

PS: remember if you feel too squishy get a little bit of toughness on one of your gear. Sorrow’s Embrace dungeon for example gives Toughness-Power-Precision. It still has the important attributes for this build so It will blend very well.

good luck

What about Dual Shield – only for Engineers

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6639/dualwieldshieldsweb.jpg

Do you have any idea how awesome this would be? This means main hand shield with 3 new abilities.

Oni Link.4621:

This attribute got a big nerf and currently it absolutely useless. I want to to suggest a rework to it to prevent it from being overpowered but still be useful.

New attribute name would be Burst Ability.
It will increase the Burst Skill effectiveness, from 0% (no point in Discipline) to 30% (30 points). The effect will change for each Burst Skill

• Sword: Increase Bleed and Immobilize duration.
• Hammer: Increase area of effect.
• Longbow: Increase detonation damage and area duration.
• Axe: Increase leap distance.
• Greatsword: Increase damage.
• Mace: Increase stun duration.
• Rifle: Increase casting time.
• Spear: Increase area of effect.
• Harpoon Gun: Increase damage.

Those are just some ideas but transforming it from a raw “increase damage” to a more interesting “increase effectiveness” would be great

There is a thread dedicated for warrior already.
Here you go: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior
You’re welcome !

Knight.1084:

wait no mounts in the game, it would rune it.

These… are empty words without backup. Please bring an argument or stop spamming the forums.

Fror.2163:

JubeiTM.5763:

A player can unlock over 20 bag slots in his inventory and carry thousands of items…

Actually, 8 is the current maximum.

Thanks. I didn’t need 8 slots. But I need 3 slots to rapidly change my gear sets and traits.