Guild Wars 2

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Julie Yann.5379:

Has anyone here taken a look at their accounts settings recently. There is an option there to change your real name. lol

What does this have to do with changing display name?

I just think it funny that with Anets stance on display name change that they would allow an option to change your REAL name.

Has anyone here taken a look at their accounts settings recently. There is an option there to change your real name. lol

No buff, just un-nerf my hammer.

On my SS/LB build with LB traits if my timing is right I can chain LB skils 2-F1-3-1-5-2 swap to sword and savage leap (for a fire shield) into a final thrust.

Ambient Occlusion is nice work really well along side gemfx but light adaptation isn’t worth me turning on the fugly in game post processing.

I invented both those builds (I always make my own builds) long before Tarcis ever made them popular (when people were still running frenzy 100b builds). People use to laugh cause I played Hammer or Sword instead of GS. Thanks Tarcis for popularizing them and inevitably getting them nerfed.

I miss my pre-nerfed hammer combos.

Some ktraining in between sessions of basement renovations.

Cause the rewards and the attention Anet gives to WvW is abysmal and I got tired of being left out.

Osu.6307:

Asuran are Finally Useful Week!

Asurans can be loaded into and launched from catapults and trebuchets. Launched Asurans can deploy an optional parachute during flight to mitigate fall damage, but take double damage if they are hit with ranged attacks while the chute is open.

What about cannons? I have six Asurans willing and ready the be shot out of a cannon at someone.

A 2 or 3 second grace period before decay would pretty much fix it for me.

I hate Traeharne cause he stole my personal story and I essentially became Sidehsow Bob.

PvP reward tracks are also a good source of shards. PvE is kind of hit and miss but so far I’m averaging 8 to 10 shards for a couple hours of game play.

Khisanth.2948:

Simpliest solution is to implement filters in the LFG tool but this probably never going to happen because someone is too worried about “splitting the community”.

The thing is, the community is already split.

One way to solve the problems is to limit the kick function to AFKers and shorten the AFK grace period for dungeons. If people don’t like the party they can leave

I’ve been kicked from my own party which I had advertise as non meta by a group of aholes wanting zerker on several occasions. That is why they only time I will pick up a pug is when I have 2 more guildies with me.

eyestrain.3056:

What this tells me is people who hold such an opinion have no love for wvw despite its state of neglect and clearly don’t even think of the mode outside of the zerg- which means there’s a big gap between us.

I have no great love for zerging either but that is the way Anet is pushing us to play. The state of neglect is the main reason why many of us don’t give a kitten anymore. I used to raid 5 nights a week until I got fed up with the state WvW is in and Anet not doing anything about it. Now I roam occasionally, and zerg occasionally, and Ktrain when I get a chance. There is no love, there is no point, all it brings is frustration cause you care more for the game mode than the developer does. Proof, all the serious WvWers are hissing and groaning at this event while everyone who doesn’t care anymore is having fun.

DiscoJacen.1590:

If even Balckgate gets downtime thx to the event the whole WvW is pretty much screwed^^

WvW has been screwed for a long ttime, people are just coming to terms with it.

I was in EB last night, we had 3 of our main WvW guilds on the map. They all refused to use golems and spent most of their time complain about the golem rushes. WvW was not fun at all.

Yesterday morning however, we had more open minded commanders and we ran around in 30-50 golems zergs. Sure there was some mindless ktraining but there were also a lot of really fun mechanized zerg fights.

If you refuse to participate in the event then how can you know whether it is fun or not.
What I find even more boring than a buggy, poorly implemented event is repetition. We’ve been using the same builds, and attack strategies, running around defending and attacking the same objectives against the same guilds using the same tactics they have been using for 3 years now. How can you still find this game mode interesting?

If you thought WvW was serious and was being taken seriously I’m sorry to say that you have been deluding yourself.

Dal.5872:

#Credit goes to the reddit thread for this one. But had to bring it over here for attention by those who don’t frequent reddit.

Paranoia Week – All players are stealthed when out of combat.

Could make for a very interesting week.

That would be an insane amount of fun and frustration. I like it.

The best place for karma farming at the moment is SW, max your buff and run between red and indigo. Kill some mobs at red, escort the yak to indigo, kill some mobs at indigo, run back to red and repeat. You get rewarded for multiple events at the same time.

EoTM is also a great place when you have a good pin to follow.

How about a WWZ event for halloween. When a player dies, he turns into a zombie (with zombie skills) which makes him slow but can only be killed by headshots provided by rifles (found in a barrel in towers and keeps.).

DeathPanel.8362:

Julie Yann.5379:

So, how are on swap sigils going to work now, will they get proc’d with legend swap, weapon swap, or both?

Swap sigils never proc’ed with legend swap.

Yes they do, I tested it last weekend and the proc’d every 9 secs on legend swap.

Do I agree with the Golem event? NO, but I don’t see how this could hurt WvW anymore than the past 3 years of stagnation, the seasons fiasco or the latest AoE blob meta. Instead of crying about it why not make the best of it and join the K-trai. Then turn all that karma into gold when it is all over.

Short answer, they don’t care about WvW. The patch notes of the past 3 years can testify to that.

NO! I haven’t sold my over priced Golems yet.

I think the destruction of LA part of LS1 would make for a pretty fun fractal. core could drop there.

So, how are on swap sigils going to work now, will they get proc’d with legend swap, weapon swap, or both?

Seriously, daily takes about 15 mins to complete if you choose the most efficient one and all it give you are the APs. Each individual daily gives loot and the biggest loot comes from simply logging in. I much rather this system over the previous one.

Hammer is good but in PvE a zerk mace/ scepter focus with symbol traits (zeal, radiance, honor) has the highest dps. Especially with Feel My Wrath.

Although it would be nice having a 64bit game client optimized for DX12. Truth is Anet can barely handle fixing the bugs in this current client and giving us new content and balancing. I doubt we will see DX12 anytime soon if we ever see it at all.

Briadonis.8907:

I did map completion for 11 zones in the past 3 days… a bunch of events… killed lots of stuff for hearts… got no spirit shards as drops… I did Tequatl multiple times and Shadow Behemoth. I did a fractal run on the day that the daily was 21-30 fractal… and I did edge of the mists for a couple hours to get a keep the day that was a daily. I only got the 3 shards for daily each day. Not sure what you are doing that is getting you these shards.

I started out with about 120 shards on June 24. I now have 187. I got 5 for a birthday gift on one of my characters and 3 a day (3×20) for dailies. I am aware of 2 drops of shards from champ bags… that would put me at… 187. Wow right on the dot.

I guess the RNG god lady likes me.

Casino rules, odds are always in the house’s favor.

This game has enough stupid rng that comes at no cost, why would I waste gold to experience more disappointment cause odds are that is what the experience will be.

Just played for about 90 minutes. Started with 843shard. I did 1 SW event chain, 1 Karka Queen, 1 Golem Mark II and some goofing around in LA. I now have 849. That is 6 shards in 90 minutes. I wonder if drop rates are affect by MF? I’m usually running with 250+.

Junkpile.7439:

Well if your all melee players stand in one place they deserve die.

If you see us standing in one place I would have you know that it isn’t voluntary. Having all your stability stripped and getting stunned several times in a row the instant your stun breaks are cast while being perma immobilized and burst to death gives you the impression that we are just standing in one place when in fact we are doing everything in our power to not be.

Deli.1302:

Gav.1425:

[b]The death of WvW tank trains is the main thing I’d like to point out. Before the change, boon stripping was effective and trains had counters. Ranged and melee IMO had a balance. Tanks leap in for the tank bomb. Range use positioning and boon strips to deal with it.

Now in WvW, unless there is a very organized group with at least 2 coordinated guardians per party, tank trains are a thing of the past. Groups push and pull with a death zone between like two pirate ships circling and firing away. Often times, even an organized tank train has no chance to make it through the range-chase.

Those all sound like good things to me. It’s rewarding good coordination and punishing mindlessness.

And your last sentence is complete nonsense. Learn2play.

So melee players have to find themselves super coordinated guilds/groups in order to have success while all the ranged players have to do is join a random blob and spam red circles.

How is mindlessness being punished exactly?

Briadonis.8907:

Julie Yann.5379:

But you still get shards, I get them from drops fairly regularly and you get them from dailies as well. Shard supply hasn’t changed with the patch, I just get them differently.

This is completely untrue, they eliminated the biggest sources of “shards” skill/hero points and level ups. I rarely get shards as drops… either my character is bugged or people are thinking they get them as drops more than they do. I have only actually noticed 2 shards as drops in world since the patch. I’ve opened hundreds of champ bags and have only gotten 2 shards so far. Haven’t noticed any dropping from random mobs, and if they have there couldn’t be very many since I do dailies every day and have pretty close to the number of shards I’ve gotten from dailies.

Maybe it’s the type on game mode. My in game activities are pretty much PvP, Fractals, WvW, SW, World Bosses (in that order) and I have no shortage of shards.

I agree with the OP. Since the changes to stability melee builds have been hurting in zerg fights. Now with the buff to conditions Anet might as well just gives us a suicide emote that rewards the enemy with badges and save us the time of running across the map.

What Anet could do is put a limit on how many fields can stack on each other or buff our stability skills to something that is at least somewhat viable.

Wanze.8410:

Julie Yann.5379:

Did level after 80 really have a point before the patch? Seriously, I had hundreds of skill points that we never used before the changes. Now you get shards as drops, I still have hundreds of shards that probably will never get used. I don’t see why people are making such a big deal out of this.

Because clearly other people consume skill points/shards on a more regular basis than you.

Last year, i made an average of 3g profit for skillpoints by promoting t1 common mats and used up thousands of skill points in the process. Some people craft superior siege for wvw on a regular basis, craft lots of legendaries or ascended gear.

But you still get shards, I get them from drops fairly regularly and you get them from dailies as well. Shard supply hasn’t changed with the patch, I just get them differently.

Wanze.8410:

Julie Yann.5379:

I’m kind of glad I filled my private guild bank with quartz months ago.

Congratulations. Assuming you have a fully upgraded guild vault, you are they proud owner of 62.5k quartz, less than 0.8% of the supply that vanished from the tp in the last 180 days. If you wanted to, you could satisfy the daily demand for maybe 2 days, i doubt though that you will do it, unless you are in immediate need of gold.

I will wait for the price to rise some more, I paid next to nothing for them so I don’t mind risking it for huge profits.

Wanze.8410:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

For me, it’s hard to grasp getting Dawn from 3 random Exotics and a Mystic Stone. Several months ago, I was dumping random Exotic weapons and ended up with Venom, but that was after a bunch of tries. I’m thinking that maybe it was due to me using expensive Exotics? Genesis is quite pricey… Or it could be that I used Exotics with skins I didn’t discover?

I don’t have enough spare Exotic weapons to test this out, so I was hoping for others with valid claims from people not using their Beta slots (i.e. pix).

The chance to get a pre from exotics is the same at every try (about 0.7% according to research). It doesnt matter if:

• you use a mystic stone with 3 exotics
• you use named exotics or not
• you use level 75-79 exotics or lvl 80
• you unlock a skin through the forge attempt
• you forge in the morning or during prime time
• you use a low level character or level 80

You forgot,
*forge facing east at sunrise(ingame)

I’m kind of glad I filled my private guild bank with quartz months ago.

Did level after 80 really have a point before the patch? Seriously, I had hundreds of skill points that we never used before the changes. Now you get shards as drops, I still have hundreds of shards that probably will never get used. I don’t see why people are making such a big deal out of this.

Bunuka.3154:

I am a glass LB ranger. Even in team fights I don’t drop in 1 second (a really good blindsiding from a good mesmer is an exception). So I am guessing you’re a thief or this may be an issue of not understanding other classes mechanics.

Or maybe because as a glass LB ranger you are not in the team fight most of the time but fighting from the side lines where you take less heat and it is harder to catch you by surprise.

When you are on point in amidst all the particle effects the odds of not seeing a tell and getting locked down and inst-killed (even on the tankiest builds) are much higher.

I would first like to state that this is not a dungeon build or party support. I made it to farm open world events, world bosses and temples and such. It is designed to get around, tag and kill as much stuff as possible and as fast as possible, collect loot and move on to the next event. I also carry a rifle for the odd time where range is better (MegaDestroyer). I also carry a mace for if I do decide to join a dungeon party I can easily swap to GS-Axe/Mace meta build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsXRjMdQdH23BGeAnIGKCKbAegA4GjO4n1uI6jCA-TxBBABYp8DgTBQN7Pkn+gAeCAVq+zZKBBA-e

Enjoy!

DragonSlalyer.5786:

Selling change display name can be very profitable for Anet actually. Few years ago, people who were playing Blizzard’s games had complained about this for a long time. And many people of them wanted to ‘buy’ change their name(battle tag). Even though Blizzard chose one-time change policy, I think selling change name will not be seen like “We are trying to earn more money from our policy.” Even it will be a great convenient product like many account-upgrade products.

And the policy has a definitely right reason for being the policy, but ironically, it neglects many other reasonable reasons. I think Anet already has collected those reasons from many support tickets. So I hope their right judge will come soon for supporting people who are feeling inconvenient.

Isn’t it always the case with policies? Inconveniencing a lot of good people because a handful of aholes could abused it.

champ.7021:

I pretty much agree, I don’t want the holy healer/tank/DPS either but I do want to see support and CC actually mean something in PvE. What is the point of cripple, chill, knock downs and knock backs, and immobilize when boss are pretty much immune to all of it? Now we have taunt/slow which could have some interesting applications if content is design properly.

When I spoke of aggro management I wasn’t really picturing a tanky meat shield I holds it for an entire fight soaking up all the damage. I was think of something more active like distracting they enemy for a few seconds at a time.

I think what we see here with the Revenant is only half the picture. I’m pretty sure it will have a DPS spec but Anet is focusing on showing us and testing out it’s support abilities. Like you said, it does feel like revenant hasn’t an actual place in the game st the moment and that could only mean 1 of 2 things. 1.The game is going to change 2. Revenant need to be reworked to fit within the current game.

Like adding an different effect to your AA chain depending on which legend you have active. Also, having some choices in utility skills would be nice.

Khenzo.2465:

I’m not argueing for a direct full support role (as in going balls deep support or what ever)

I’m just saying, if you think protection really has no use, or doesn’t help you, or if vigor doesn’t help you, aegis doesn’t ever save you etc then you must be playing on god tier level.

Please, don’t act like you’ve never been helped by any of this.

Just stop.

Do they help? yes
Is that help really need? Not so much. How else do you explain people soloing or 2 manning dungeons?

All this started when I said the looking at the revenant and other professions masteries that it seems like PvE was going to shift away from the current DPS meta and that support roles, whether it be healing, CC, or agro management might get a little more spotlight. As it is now they are overshadowed by DPS. I hope it does change.

Khenzo.2465:

Julie Yann.5379:

timmyf.1490:

Mmm. So if none of that is support, what is support? Just healing? Ventari tablet woosh woosh and PvE is magically fixed?

I didn’t say it wasn’t support, I said that in the current state of PvE anything outside of more DPS, wall, and occasional stability isn’t needed or isn’t meaningful and the I hope things will change with HoT and builds other than pure DPS will have more importance.

Soooo….the condi clear in some dungeons isn’t meaningful?

So the aegis that just saved you from being downed by Archdiviner isn’t meaningful?

The protection that was the sole reason you wasn’t killed by Ginva auto attack isn’t meaningful?

The vigor you have that enabled you to dodge a Mossman axe isn’t meaningful?

You get my point, right?

Condi clear? Every class has enough condi clear to cover handle those without losing much DPS. Having a support build on you team to do it for you isn’t needed.

People complete dungeon runs without guardians or access to aegis all the time so it is irrelevant.

Protection, if you get kill by AA you need to l2p.

Vigor, if you know what to dodge and not randomly spam it, you’ll have plenty of endurance to dodge the axe.

You get my point?

Currently, support roles have no real importance.

timmyf.1490:

Mmm. So if none of that is support, what is support? Just healing? Ventari tablet woosh woosh and PvE is magically fixed?

I didn’t say it wasn’t support, I said that in the current state of PvE anything outside of more DPS, wall, and occasional stability isn’t needed or isn’t meaningful and the I hope things will change with HoT and builds other than pure DPS will have more importance.

Why doesn’t Revenant have choices for Legend utility skills is what I am more concerned about. Very limited build diversity.