Guild Wars 2

I actually really like this idea. +1

Fred Fargone.3127:

Wait wait wait… So, lets throw the entire BLTC into a garbage bin?
You can’t do anything that radical with the costliest items in the game, the economy would take a major hit. There would be players leaving the game, some might even riot at Wall St.
What is even worse: “of your choice”! C’moon, this is just asking to make the game easier for ya. It’d completely ruin the Legendary part of Legendaries.

Sounds like someone that is working the precursor market.

The exit is that way bro —-→

Look up combat mode. Google it.

JJBigs.8456:

Ok yes, guardian can technically heal others.

Why should i waste my own surviviability on others, when usually after spamming my virtues, i end up dying since i mis-timed a heal.

Everyone always expects me to buff them but really I need my heals for myself otherwise im not tanky.

What do you say to people who ask your guardian for heals constantly?

My suggestion is to stop grouping with noobs who dont know otherwise

This game has no trinity, therefore they should dodge roll more :P

Norjena.5172:

I play my Guard with 253% Critdmg (no ascended items). On a 0/5/30/30/5 build. Im sure i will deal more dmg then every “ZealBuild” (Zealdmg Boost is rly low, most of the Traits are rly weak) and im harder to kill because of AH.

253% crit damage? what the???

I didnt know this was possible..

Zerker gear? ruby orbs? zerker jewlery and weapons?

Norjena.5172:

U will fall like a flie in melee Combat. And Warrios will laugh about your dmg.

GC Guard is Fail, u can´t reach warrios dmg, and will lose everything what a Guardian makes to be a Guardian.

Painful but true, more then 10 Points in Zeal is a waste, a rly big waste.

Pretty much this is true.

Oglaf.1074:

Kahrgan.7401:

Oglaf.1074:

Who in their right mind would spend Gems on the keys though?

I have before, it’s not the best system, but this is a micro transaction game, get used to it.

Really? They’re really bad value for you Gems. I’m not questioning buying Gems, but I am questioning spending Gems on keys.

That’s the beauty of it, if you don’t want to spend gems on keys, don’t. I want to support the game, and I wanted to gamble with some chests.

You can also trade gold for gems, you know that, right?

Oglaf.1074:

Who in their right mind would spend Gems on the keys though?

I have before, it’s not the best system, but this is a micro transaction game, get used to it.

I want a GS and a Hammer skin, and Ive gotten Sword, Spear, Trident, 2x Axe, shortbow, shield, and rifle..

I Agree with op, this needs to be less RNG, more effort based.

This is coming from someone with over 800 fractals done.

Over 1400 hours, and I’ve only ever looted one, and that was last week.

It’s to encourage buying gems.

Ready for valentine’s day, like a sir.

Xaryo.2603:

Oxious.4601:

My Guardian how he looks like now. A little bit like Logan Thackeray :-)

How do you get a tabard?

That’s human cultural armor.

I never cared for retal, seeing as it’s counter productive, and clunky by design.

How about a dmg pulse instead of a thorn mechanic?

ArtisticMess.1067:

I can’t get over how ridiculous his armor is.

What shoulders are those ?

I win. WHERES MY TITLE?

DaedalusDragon.3754:

Ok, I knew of those debates but I saw a lot of debate over vitality without regards to other stats often enough to warrant this. There was a lot of debate over a lower vitality being more effective due to higher percent heals…. I swear I saw that all over the place and it kind of bugged me.

Our heals arent based on percentages. So that doesn’t make any sense.

If you have 20k life, or 16k life. your 9k heal is still going to heal for 9k.

OMG YES.

+1+1+1+1+1+1…

It’s about the ability to ignore vitality as a stat for the most part, and have those points elsewhere (healing power /toughness/etc)

The only people I see complaining about guardians, are the people saying “why are people complaining about guardians”

These troll threads are getting absurd.

Bloodgruve.6038:

The standard builds are 0/10/30/30/0 or 0/0/30/30/10.

lol wut?

the two standard builds for dps/support are

0/5/30/30/5 and 0/15/30/20/5

Both magi and cleric’s are a good way to go.

They equal out in survivability, one having vit and one having toughness doesnt matter much… With toughness you take a little less dmg until you can heal it back up with a lower health pool, and with vit you have more of a buffer until you can heal.

They are practically the same for guardian as far as survivability.

The major different between magi and clerics is the crit. That’s it.

Going full support in PVE is almost pointless, mobs still need to die, unless you are with some amazing dps, it’s a war of attrition, and you wont win not being able to do any dmg.

Nevetz.8306:

Kahrgan.7401:

Nevetz.8306:

My Charr Guardian

What leggings are those?

It’s full Tier 1 Cultural Armor

Oh ok, with the angle I couldnt tell which they were.

Just finished my sword

Nevetz.8306:

My Charr Guardian

What leggings are those?

The animation for a chart male jumping forward while holding a hammer is very much bugged. Their left leg swings forward and clips into their leg. Not to mention the bugged animation looks completely silly please fix and I’ll send you cookies.

I want an axe as a guardian if thats the case!

NoizeMaker.8367:

MF doesn’t effect a build or character in away that it will hurt the so called “team” Stop whining and get better lol

If you pick up an MF set you are losing 1 stat from your gear. which means it effects your character, and therefore hurts your team.

It’s not a matter of “getting better” it’s a matter of selfishness.

It is a completely selfish stat, that goes against the whole point of the game, “teamwork”.

I as a player shouldn’t feel compelled to be selfish to be rewarded more than the next person.

I have always tried to avoid Magic Find stats on my gear, and have the worst luck when im not wearing it… Recently I have donned my MF gear and set myself into dungeons, not helping my team as much as I could to get more loot. Low-and-behold, I find myself getting rares, and more loot more often, making 2-3x the money I did before.

Please, get rid of this stat, and re-adjust loot parameters to reword players for their teamwork and effort, NOT LUCK AND SELFISHNESS.

Only a guardian thinks 1000-1200 crits is great damage.

I agree that this ability is clunky, and makes me not want to use a 1h sword.

The CD is too long and the “block” doesn’t work.

Yaki.9563:

Kahrgan.7401:

Yaki.9563:

Kahrgan.7401:

Yaki.9563:

And just how you are going to support your group if you’re downed or dead?

But nice troll post

Why would I be downed or dead?

Bad build is bad, sorry if the truth hurts. Heck you didn’t even take EM which is one of the main synergistic traits with AH.

With the lack of crit in this build, taking EM would be a waste of a trait in my experience. And I appreciate that you have the right to your opinion, but try not to be so aggressive with them, especially in such an immature way.

While we are discussing opinions. Vitality in my opinion, is almost a completely worthless thing to stack, the precision is nice from Magi’s gear, but vit for the most part is something I avoid sans 1 weapon to get above 16k. You get enough from the trait lines in this build to be hard to kill with the amount of toughness and survivability.

and for clarification (I stated survival while helping your group, not that AH helps your group, but 2 birds 1 stone).

I agree Vitality is somewhat wasted but EM is one of the best ways you can enhance your group. This is what I hate about Cleric’s gear, power is almost totally worthless when you aren’t gearing and traiting for damage. WTB Pre/Tou/HP gear.

I would love some pre/tou/hp. thats for sure.

Yaki.9563:

Kahrgan.7401:

Yaki.9563:

And just how you are going to support your group if you’re downed or dead?

But nice troll post

Why would I be downed or dead?

Bad build is bad, sorry if the truth hurts. Heck you didn’t even take EM which is one of the main synergistic traits with AH.

With the lack of crit in this build, taking EM would be a waste of a trait in my experience. And I appreciate that you have the right to your opinion, but try not to be so aggressive with them, especially in such an immature way.

While we are discussing opinions. Vitality in my opinion, is almost a completely worthless thing to stack, the precision is nice from Magi’s gear, but vit for the most part is something I avoid sans 1 weapon to get above 16k. You get enough from the trait lines in this build to be hard to kill with the amount of toughness and survivability.

and for clarification (I stated survival while helping your group, not that AH helps your group, but 2 birds 1 stone).

Yaki.9563:

And just how you are going to support your group if you’re downed or dead?

But nice troll post

I wanted to post the build I have been having a blast with in 26 and 30 fractals and explorables, mostly because I’m bored, but also to help those that want to play group support but haven’t been pushed in the right direction

The concept for this build is that a guardians damage is kind of lackluster compared to some other classes (coming from a war I feel most times like im hitting with a pillow for a weapon). This is not a bad thing of course, I love this class, and I love what it brings to the table when it comes to helping the group. I wanted to create a trait and stat build to still do decent dmg, but be able to survive most things, and help my group.

THE BUILD:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mMccMmzM0maNvmmaNvm9MxxaosqMmqm

30 valor:

Altruistic Healing, this trait is the best utility we have in my opinion. Survivability while helping your group, you just cant beat the un-selfless builds.

Honorable Shield: 90 free toughness, along with the native stats by having the shield on to begin with, and reducing the CD on your knockback (and heal; number 5) along with your protection buff (and cone dmg, number 4)

Retributive armor: this one is optional, but with as much toughness as we have in this build… free crit is hard to pass up. I think i gain around 6% when traiting this.

30 Honor:

Pure of Voice: This is one of the other best traits we have. It removes conditions from the group, and synergizes with altruistic healing (because it applies a boon when removing a condition, it will trigger an altruistic healing tick) It’s group support at its finest.

Protective Reviver: this one is optional, but I really like this because me being the group support, I take it to be my job to help those downed players. With me also being the toughest to kill in the party, it’s easiest for me to take a beating while helping the downed player up.

Superior Aria: This one should be a given, reducing the cd of your shouts by 20% makes AH and Pure of voice even that much more fantastic.

10 Virtues:

Retaliatory Subconscious: This is of course optional, but I find it nice to pump out a little dmg when you just got stunned or snared (Grants retaliation). Not a requirement, but I prefer it due to not a lot of options available in this tree.

You will not be topping the dmg with this build, this build is meant to help your group and for survival.

THE RUNES AND SIGILS:

RUNES:

6/6: http://www.gw2db.com/items/49474-superior-rune-s-of-the-earth

These are a personal choice. I prefer a high toughness build (even though some people nay-say about toughness, I find in my own experience I can take a beating like no other with 2100 toughness+.

The 6/6 is for the awesome effect on this rune; Magnetic aura reflects projectiles back to source. It’s like an extra “oh kitten” button. When you go below 20% health you gain this buff. It’s fantastic.

Otherwise, this set of runes adds a ton of toughness and a protection proc chance when hit (-33% dmg intake) along with a longer duration on protection (which is applied by a Virtue, a shout, and now this rune.

SIGILS:

I chose to go with Sigil of water (30% chance to heal allies, you know since im group support and every little bit helps) and Superior sigil of life (25 stacks = 250 healing power) I think these are obvious choices when it comes to support guardian builds. The water sigil can be changed up of course, but life is a must.

GEAR:

Full Clerics armor, weapon/shield/focus, and accessories, with infused rings of sun and moon (all around stats)

http://www.gw2db.com/items/71382-lunaria-circle-of-the-moon-infused
http://www.gw2db.com/items/71383-solaria-circle-of-the-sun-infused

enjoy

Not really a necessary change imo.

Silver.8023:

None of the things you’re grinding for are either forced upon you or necessary to enjoy the game.

No, not forced, but I dont PVP, Ive done explorer on one of my toons already, there are no raids, im already at the highest difficulty for fractals that I want to be at (30).

What else is there to do? I dont mind farming, but farming and not being rewarded for farming is just non-sense.

Rei Hino.5961:

Hm I read the whole thing and the only thing I seen that really got my attention was what TheDaiBish.9735 “Well, considering that these coming updates are supposed to improve the game, I’d leave the QQing until then.” When is Guild wars going to get a major overhaul to fix these bugs I have not seen a major patch in going on a month the guesting system is still not working (My friends I wana play with but can’t are all but about to move onto something else soon) but yes I have seen these teleporting bot’s they littely appear and disapear before you can click on them to report (as even if you click on them once that move off your screen they are unselected as moved out of range)

Well, there is a major patch at the end of january, but given that the game has been out for 4 months and not a whole lot has been fixed or changed, I don’t have much faith in anet.

Fractals have been out for a while now, getting rings for AR has gotten easier, but if you are getting them from daily anyway, then you really dont need “an easier way”.

Make purchasable fractal weapons with relics, for one.

Change the way precursor are received (and people can still make money on them)

Change lodestone drop rates, or make them purchasable. (with fractal relics perhaps?)

Rei Hino.5961:

Hm I read the whole thing and the only thing I seen that really got my attention was what TheDaiBish.9735 “Well, considering that these coming updates are supposed to improve the game, I’d leave the QQing until then.” When is Guild wars going to get a major overhaul to fix these bugs I have not seen a major patch in going on a month the guesting system is still not working (My friends I wana play with but can’t are all but about to move onto something else soon) but yes I have seen these teleporting bot’s they littely appear and disapear before you can click on them to report (as even if you click on them once that move off your screen they are unselected as moved out of range)

Well, there is a major patch at the end of january, but given that the game has been out for 4 months and not a whole lot has been fixed or changed, I don’t have much faith in anet.

Fractals have been out for a while now, getting rings for AR has gotten easier, but if you are getting them from daily anyway, then you really dont need “an easier way”.

Make purchasable fractal weapons with relics, for one.

Change the way precursor are received (and people can still make money on them)

Change lodestone drop rates, or make them purchasable. (with fractal relics perhaps?)

On top of that, people buy from chinese gold farmers, pay less, and get more gold, and in turn are able to get what they want in the game. More so than giving your ripoff gem store money. I have chosen not to do this, and support your game, and look at what I get in return, a whole bunch of nothing. A buggy game (btw the 3-4 bug reports ive had in, some being over 2 months old, have still not been fixed), and a bad loot system.

Oh and warping bots are back again, still not banned. Even though I reported them 3 days ago.

Why should I support a game company that doesn’t appreciate its own customers.

I may just be the unluckiest player in the entirety of GW2, but there is far too much in this game left to “luck”.

40+ daily attempts at fractals, no fractal sword or greatsword.

400+ attempts at dusk/dawn from MF, using either rares or exotics

40+ hours farming lodestones, 2 charged and 5 (or 6, i lost count) corrupted. (Yeah, thats it)

So what do I have to show for my work put into the game?

A bunch of useless tokens, all my gold gone to gambling trying to get a precursor the only way I can (hoping for a drop from a chest, and also MFing it up)

I have 15 shards of crystallized mists essence. Can’t use them for a SINGLE thing. 46 Pristine fractal relics, that I can purchase rings that I cant salvage, mf, or sell to other players.

A gift of ascension, that I cant even use without 250 ectos (which is ridiculous imo).

Not a single precursor, not a single fractal weapon I want (and in 40+ dailies, only one fractal weapon, and it was a rifle (which I cant even use)). This is further insulting when I see people walking around with 3-4 of these.

So how am I being rewarded? I want to accomplish something in the game, and I have put my fair bit of time and effort into it. I have given you lots of RL money for gems. Why should I keep playing, and keep giving you money anet? Please help me out here, because I am having a hard time feeling as if I should.

(yes, this is a QQ post I guess, but I need to vent after another lump of money has been wasted trying to get my precursor.)

Brandstorm.7650:

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have some sort of a “hard mode”-setting for dungeons and general pve? I’m thinking something in the lines of lowering your lvl a few lvls extra, and letting this trigger the bonus loot you only get from killing higher lvl mobs.

So we get 4 greens instead of just 3?

Dutch Rental.8360:

i think this never will gonna happen
why? = because of ur personal story line i mean it just doesnt make any sense when u play norn till X-lvl and then u change race and get another story i also think it wil be hard to create a system like they also could reset storylines but not the lvls the player had gained just my thought although i would love to see it in the future

You know what’s funny? Everyone seems to spew this same answer. As a programmer myself.. I will have you know, this is a very easy thing to accomplish. Not more than 2-3 days work, maybe a teensy bit more, depending on how they have everything set up.

use an aegis or dodge. not everything can be reflected

Twill.6217:

they won’t make rings drop ectos even if they become salvagable, imo. because it is too “easy” to obtain.

anyway, i recently had to create a brand new alt for the sheer reason that i needed someone to hold all those relics… oh the drudgery.

please anet, let me spend my relics on fractal skins. even if it costs something ridiculous. like 3000 relics or something! i need to spend all those tokens somewhere useful! (not going for legendary either, just like OP)

At the very least, make the rings go into the mystic forge, and pop out an exotic.

Stigma.7869:

You forget to show all the Ascended rings you’ve gotten through the process that are useless and sitting in the bank as well.

No offense to Anet, but I don’t believe the whole Fractals dungeon idea is considered complete (Even though it is my favorite dungeon and all I do in GW2 now).

Fractal relics are taking up space even after completing the infamous fractal capacitor back piece.

Ascended rings drop at a pleasing % due to players’ requirement to build Agony tolerance but end result is a bank full of ascended rings that are soulbound. I wish we can throw them into mystic forge to get random Ascended weapons or armor.

Fractral Weapons are skins?! I’m sure we all wanted actual Ascended class weapons and not skins. The whole idea of Ascended gear isn’t fully realized yet.

It would be nice to be able to purchase an Ascended weapon with those fractal relics even if it were let’s say 3000 Fractal relics. Not directly of course because those 250 item slots would fill up fast.

I rather have purchasable Fractal Ascended weapons than skins that can be crafted via Mystic Forge using large amts of relics.

Yes, these… and make these rings salvagable please!

Erebus.7568:

okey as a player comming back and even worse for newer players, the information system is just utterly horrible in gw2.

a simple question as “hmm wonder how i get the best gear in the game” is not simple in gw2, its hours of researching through 3rd party websites trying to figure out what is the best gear, then figure out how to get it, then how to get those items, then how to forge it.

its a freaking nightmare to do this and all for a extremely simple question which should ankittenhe most simple answer in EVERY other game ever made.

answer is normally.
“craft it AKA: lvl your craft and get the recipies”
or
“do dungeon x and get it as drop”.
and this info is normally very easy to get… while in gw2 it is crazily hard to arquire within a reasonable timeframe…

comming back and checking up thinking.
hmm there most be new gear: yup there is, ok it seems like i need some fragments for some of it, its from an instance i got told when asked. ok and some of it is crafted from mystic forge, seems to be no recipies or info on how to arquire these if these exist. hmm some of the items needed, where do i get everything, okey some are crafted out of other items in the forge which there is no info on where to get, then others are just named no info on where to get either.

the fact i even have to sit and research on a site outside of the game for extensive periods of time to find something this basic out is the worst information setup you could ever have in a game.

if you want something as kitten as the mystic forge to be the last crafting type station then at least have the decency to have REAL and good info on what exactly can be crafted, what is needed and where to get it and have this info easily accessable INGAME!

so the suggestion:
get some decent people to sort this kitten out and get that information into the actual game so its easy to access and get hold of.

in addistion information on basic stuff like “unused infusion defensive slot” what is this ? how is it different from unused upgrade slot?!
unused armor upgrade slot o.O
there is NO information on this in the game, its pure trial and error, and you need to search quite a bit to get a basic understand of what exactly this is and how it will althor your stats considering what you can use in them….

as soon as some one have to leave the game to check out wierd websites to figure out basic things which is importent in the game the developer have failed, and failed HARD…
so again this should be fixed.

I don’t agree with a single argument you have. Everything in gw2 has been pretty straightforward. A little bit of your time to research things is not going to hurt you, and if it is taking you 3 hours, well that’s not Anet’s fault.

Because ATM, this is only taking up bag space… and they are utterly useless (I’m not going for a legendary)

Seriously, please turn her back on. I am sitting here with commendations that I cant even use, taking up bag space.

CureForLiving.5360:

Personal story and cultural armour are most likely the big sticking points, I guess they could just wipe most of those things out so that you’d have to start over again from scratch with your personal story, they could even perhaps convert the armour. But still seems like a bit of effort, programmatically speaking.

Speaking as a programmer myself, this would be fairly easy, actually.

Danson.1094:

I like to mix and match armor… matching sets just don’t do it for me.

Does anyone know what chest piece this is?