Guild Wars 2

Lol don’t roam on a hammer rev…

You get plastered by condi facetank reapers with marks and shouts then die. And there are more of them in WvW atm than condi chronos.

Actually that’s a wonderful idea. Send everyone who wants to live the good ole days of 2013 WvW to EotM.

So I maybe saw some things I shouldn’t have when I peered into the mists and this is what I saw.

Staff changes

Wave of Wrath,
Restored range to 600. Has 2 new auto attack rollover skills. 2 increases targets to 7, damage reduced by 33%. 3 increases targets to 10, damage reduced by 66%.

Orb of Light,
Now tracks along ground and explodes on impact with a surface. This is to eliminate the “stuck” orb bug.

Symbol of Swiftness,
Increased symbol size to 360 and targets to 10. Causes cripple to allies who leave the area.

Empower,
No longer grants might and healing. Now pulses damage, increasing magic find by 25% per pulse. Stacks up to 10 times and lasts for 5 minutes.

Line of Warding,
Removed target limit and increased line width of the ward. No longer causes knockdown. Whenever a foe crosses the ward they take damage.

Can’t wait to try these changes out! Lootstick restored!

Jelle.7856:

Been kinda torn between which legendary to go for. Which one would you guys pick and why?

I’m going for the shinning blade now I think. For my mesmer ;-)

It will be my third legendary after Flameseeker Prophecies and Juggernaut. Just to give you an idea of my taste in good legendaries.

For staff I prefer lightwards battle staff over the looks of nevermore.

Hi,
I’m having problems getting my marks to do anything so made this suggestion,

Trait: Soul Marks,
Marks cannot be evaded,blocked,blinded,invulnerabled. Marks now grant 5% life force and 750 life steal per target struck. Increases the range to 2000, radius to 450, number of targets hit to 10 and cast time reduced to instant.

Necrotic Grasp,
Now explodes on every foe hit causing a pulsing mark on each one that causes burning,slow.

Mark of Blood,
Now pulses bleed,confusion,torment each second for 5 seconds.

Chilblains,
Now pulses poison,chill,cripple,immobilize for 5 seconds.

Putrid Mark,
Now pulses condition removal,resistance to allies and converts 3 boons on foes to conditions every second for 5 seconds.

Reaper’s Mark,
Now pulses fear,taunt,blind,daze every second for 5 seconds.

I think these changes would really bring staff to an acceptable skill level for us experienced players who have been with the class since gw1 in 2005.
Ty.

STRM + EBAY was such a magical experience during OCX,
I need some chocolate now ;-(

[EBAY] is linked with CD who run massive karma train zergs. If they opened EotM ticket acquisition we would see CD posting about how they don’t have high enough population to compete in WvW.

I mean just think about it,
Crystal Desert
Where does the next expansion take place lol…
Of course this guy is fighting que.

This is why HoD and Ebay are destined to be perma linked.

Vavume.8065:

Justine.6351:

Oh no! 6months for a set of legendary armor?!??! That’s just awful!

How dare they give us long term goals!

I enjoy long term goals, /see rank, but not when those goals are gated to keep everyone in the same boat, some of us prefer to drive speed boats instead of dingys. Personally I think it is frustrating to be chained down in this way, I would prefer the freedom to be able to farm more tickets, but yeah this is GW2 where things are gated to keep you under control, and to be fair 6 months is actually a long time to farm 1 set of legendary armor when you actually want 3 or more sets…

Or just save time and tickets and buy new ascended sets?

jcbroe.4329:

Justine.6351:

Wondrouswall.7169:

Kind of surprised no one else caught the other tid-bit Irenio mentioned in the Guild Chat stream about why Anet won’t allow Ranger to have control over all of the pet skills by default: “Because it would be way too powerful.”

lolwhat? He said that?
Firebrand…

Firebrand is balanced by the fact that Guardian players can’t stop crying about their staff 1 long enough to learn how to push more buttons.

The irony is I made a post in the guardian forums about how to lootstick with Firebrand and they couldn’t understand what I was saying.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Chapter-1-Searing-Spell-lootstick/first#post6705157

You could even run it full dire/trailblazer and all they can think about is how staff 1 is now 300 range lol.

40 days!?!??!
That’s more days than in a month!

Blades Of Fatalis.1279:

which brings up another point actually, 3 weeks of reaching ticket cap for one item for getting the legendary armor upgrade seems ridiculous to me, especially because it takes an extra week to get the tickets for the armor piece itself that is needed for the upgrade. Not a full week of tickets for any piece other than chestpiece, but still a minimum of 4 weeks per armor set, that’s 24 weeks for the whole set, far longer than it would take a pver to get legendary armor through raids, and our armor is almost as expensive to get as theirs is, yet a wvwer makes far less gold in a week than a pver or spvper does.

Oh no! 6months for a set of legendary armor?!??! That’s just awful!

How dare they give us long term goals!

Someone told me its 365 tickets now.

Idk seems like a very nice amount now especially after the +2 pip increase for everyone.

Djinn.9245:

Justine.6351:

How can there still be threads about this…

Like idk what to do with my leather, I end up just putting it on the TP or giving it away to people crying that its so hard to acquire.

You might not craft with leather, that’s great for you. But we’re talking about the prices of T6 leather vs. other T6 mats which I guess you haven’t noticed.

You are right, I hadn’t noticed because I have more materials then I know what to do with because this game gives everything for minimal effort to the players.

Wondrouswall.7169:

Kind of surprised no one else caught the other tid-bit Irenio mentioned in the Guild Chat stream about why Anet won’t allow Ranger to have control over all of the pet skills by default: “Because it would be way too powerful.”

lolwhat? He said that?
Firebrand…

Is there a reason why people want to play facetanking in a pvp format?

Roll a Trailblazer condi reaper or something.

How can there still be threads about this…

Like idk what to do with my leather, I end up just putting it on the TP or giving it away to people crying that its so hard to acquire.

They nerfed the 1500 range shortbow back in January.

Zohane.7208:

Justine.6351:

jheryn.8390:

Having played GW1 since the beginning, I can honestly say I would do it again if I were just starting now. Not just for the HoM rewards, but because the game is awesome. It is a completely different game than GW2.

I soloed it for the whole seven years until GW2 dropped. I have my GWAMM too.

Getting to 30 points and getting all of the HoM skins shouldn’t take horribly long. Getting to 50 will take a quite a bit longer. Titles are the only thing you get after 30, however. It sounds like you want your GWAMM too, however. It can be done solo. I did.

No you didn’t.

Unless you are telling us you farmed all the mats for the armor sets and never used the traders, never bought consumable title points and so on. And then there are the mini, like you telling us you randomly got everyone you need through bday gifts? Never bought a hero armor from another player? Solo DoA to get a tormented weapon?

I mean ya it’s obviously mathematically possible but I find it unlikely your “solo” is applicable this guy’s scenario. Not unless we all login to our gw1 accounts and dump platinum, materials, minipets and consumables we have banked from years of play onto him, will this guy ever have a reasonable chance at 50 hom and gwamm in the next 1-2 years.

The solo part he mentioned was GWAMM, and as we all know, GWAMM has nothing to do with DoA or tormented weapons… Getting GWAMM solo for an experienced GW1 player is in no way impossible. There are a couple of hard spots but they’re certainly doable…

Right because he specifically separated his play time for 7 years to keep his gwamm solo. Not that it matters because farming 30k consumable points and/or 10mil kurzick/luxon points still ain’t happening in a reasonable amount of time. Certainly not for someone picking up the game today.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Guys,

The reason that this particular name is blocked is entirely different than you believe. In fact, we block names that have a space around the letter “G” because that’s the most effective way to block someone from posing as a Game Master. We learned from experience in our own and other games that some people impersonate GM’s in an attempt to scam other players. They might use GM Fred or G M Fred, or they may incorporate symbols that look like “GM” at a glance. Blocking a self-standing letter “G” allows us to better prevent that unfortunate situation.

Well that’s a boring reason ;-(

MOAR CONDI MOAR GOOD!

jheryn.8390:

Having played GW1 since the beginning, I can honestly say I would do it again if I were just starting now. Not just for the HoM rewards, but because the game is awesome. It is a completely different game than GW2.

I soloed it for the whole seven years until GW2 dropped. I have my GWAMM too.

Getting to 30 points and getting all of the HoM skins shouldn’t take horribly long. Getting to 50 will take a quite a bit longer. Titles are the only thing you get after 30, however. It sounds like you want your GWAMM too, however. It can be done solo. I did.

No you didn’t.

Unless you are telling us you farmed all the mats for the armor sets and never used the traders, never bought consumable title points and so on. And then there are the mini, like you telling us you randomly got everyone you need through bday gifts? Never bought a hero armor from another player? Solo DoA to get a tormented weapon?

I mean ya it’s obviously mathematically possible but I find it unlikely your “solo” is applicable this guy’s scenario. Not unless we all login to our gw1 accounts and dump platinum, materials, minipets and consumables we have banked from years of play onto him, will this guy ever have a reasonable chance at 50 hom and gwamm in the next 1-2 years.

Limodriver.4106:

Aurora why no extra infusion slot? consider its so time consuming and expensive to get this item

Idk if you are aware and no one else specifically stated so,

Rings: max 3 infusions
Backpack: max 2 infusions
Amulet: 1 utility infusion
Accessories/Earrings: max 1 infusion

Aurora is an accessory/earring.

Or their marked aoe skill disables gliders also.

Reaper probably still for boon corruption due to axe/focus/gs/nothing can save you.

It isn’t worth it in your case because you only been with gw for a couple months. The skins are nothing super special nor are the titles.

For someone who has been here for 5years or something it may be worth it though as something to do and some back lore.

Gw1 is an entirely different game play. Good, but different.

Staff so bad that wayyyy too many Necromancers use it.

100% projectile finisher, fine
Remove regen for 1.5k barrier, fine

Rest just no.

1200 range on-point aoe attacks don’t need to be improved/buffed.

MOAR CONDITION MOAR GOOD!

Because you are going to need dots to kill all the foes in PoF that have high toughness.

I actually like the background of PoF but I like the HoT theme more.

EvilSardine.9635:

Sons.5493:

Tbh, i hope they keep it that way, You can reflect #2 but all the other skills not. Considering the amount of random kittening ass reflects theres is everywhere it will make no sense to even try to snipe someone, ull just get your ass kicked by random reflects.

On the other hand, i can see why they will do it and i guess ill just deal with it.

Lol poor baby doesn’t want to think when using such a high damage attack? This is a L2P issue. Just don’t shoot when there’s reflects

Lolwhat?
Deadeye is currently a bad glass cannon. If it gets changed to reflectable projectile then nobody will play it except maybe bearbows who want option to perma stow pet.

Ya the weapons really are not as tied to the elite spec as people claim as a defense for keeping them the way they are.

I made a post suggesting unlinking and that’s the level of debate I got back lol.

“But but but the -20% weapon trait is in the elite spec traitline!”
Yes and the core weapons’ -20% cdr does not forcibly dictate which traitlines people choose now, so…

Once it is unlocked it is unlocked. Not really seeing the problem here. Dwayna forbid we have to earn the elite specs through a little character progression.

If you are really worried then go WvW some proofs of heroics.

Kidel.2057:

Justine.6351:

It’s been less than 2 days, on a weekend.

I’ve looked at the last 10 pages in this subforum and there is no dev post. I’m sure I could go on for many more pages, until HoT release.

The DEMO has been out for 2 whole weekend days.

Instead of Spellbreaker removing boons outright,

-Work in a stacking debuff (max 10) that reduces boon effectiveness (10%) as a core mechanic.
*Static on/off boons only negated at 100% (stability, resistance)
-Add in a trait that causes your attacks to carve off 1sec boon duration from foes dealing X-damage per boon affected. 1sec CD unique per foe.
-Trait that causes debuff to increase damage target takes from all sources.
-A dagger attack that removed all debuff stacks but does X-effect.
-A trait that improves debuff and related traits by 100% but reduces max stack count by 30%.
-Trait that gives you %chance to evade attacks, from foe with debuff, per stack.

Idk this kind of stuff, just thinking less conflict with necromancer corrupts.

Was saying this before the weekend. Taking a Spellbreaker could actually be a bad thing as if built for it, they could boon starve the Necromancers.

Muchacho.2390:

Justine.6351:

Idk,

I have celestial on my reaper ankitten ot even tempted to run it as scourge. Scourge doesn’t really make huge use of healing power from I’ve seen. Barrier just doesn’t gain much from less than 1k healing power afaik.

Not sure how people are running it as power even. Has to do like no damage in anything less than full berserker gear.

I think scourge+bloodmagic would work well with cele (atleast better then other nerco builds). You can use all the stats. I probably would run staff+ dagger and some offhand.

Sure if you want to do zero damage and zero corrupts.

Kidel.2057:

I remember the days back when HoT was in beta. We had Roy listen and respond to almost every feedback, including great suggestions (like the smoke effect on dodge or the weaponswap independent from legend swap).

This silence from the Elite Spec team is terrifying. Can we have some feedback from the devs, that they are at least looking in our direction?

It’s been less than 2 days, on a weekend.

Wait and find out?

Always thought of the reaper as the dervish.

I took a glance at the name and figured it out in an instant. Maybe write support and ask them to clear it or something idk if they can do that.

Should put this in the deadeye demo feedback thread you created.

Idk,

I have celestial on my reaper ankitten ot even tempted to run it as scourge. Scourge doesn’t really make huge use of healing power from I’ve seen. Barrier just doesn’t gain much from less than 1k healing power afaik.

Not sure how people are running it as power even. Has to do like no damage in anything less than full berserker gear.

Another side idea had was to put the next raid into the mists as the next wvw map. That way pvers and wvwers could work together on their legendary armor. Maybe even have the ghost of scarlet as the main boss.

I don’t understand what they are supposed to do. Stationary petless longbow ranger? half-hp killshot warrior?

https://youtu.be/o39bUliqy-8

I went into ebg and there were like 3-4 daredevils and deadeyes ganking people. Went in and it was a massacre with hammer rev lol. That immobile kill shot on a low hp class is lolworthy.

Mimterest.4639:

Justine.6351:

It’s 600 range.

In the 8/8/2017 patch notes it specifically stated the Staff 1 has been changed to a wider cone at 110 degrees at 300 range. I see no indication of it having changed in the Beta build with Firebrand

kitten …

the new firebrand tome spells, f1, spell 1 is 600 cone.

RabbitUp.8294:

Isn’t it 300 range?

You might as well spam axe 1.

It’s 600 range.

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

This is normal. I have 3300 toughness reaper and get hit for 7.5k CoR and I’ve been hit for 11k on Phase Smash. The Rev hammer is just insanely overpowered for it’s range. Arenanet normally has a rule that ranged weapons = less damage (aka risk = reward). For Rev hammer though they’ve thrown that out the window and rewarded low risk play with high damage. Poor design.

And another “hammer rev op” thread is born…

Pretty much anything that 360degree 600range aoe spams out party buffs is paragon.

Warrior
Guardian
Revenant
Thief
Ranger
Ele
Necromancer
Mesmer

Could all be considered the successor of the gw1 paragon if built to full fill that role.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chapter_1:_Searing_Spell

Build around that with firebrand tome traits, permeating wrath and renewed justice,
rake up the loot.

Radiance:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Renewed_Justice

Virtues:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Permeating_Wrath

Firebrand:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Archivist_of_Whispers
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_Lore
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Loremaster

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