Guild Wars 2

Combo Fields you cannot control is just dumb design. It could overwrite your water or fire fields by accident.

Tested it out. Sharpening Stone does NOT bleed with your pet.

Also, WTF is wrong with Smokescale? It has a horrid autoattack, and barely, if ever critical hits.

Is Jaguar still the only semi-viable pet?

I want to delay doing the Personal Story for a few weeks while I work on my Elite Specializations.

However, I’ve been shying away from Dragon’s Rest because I heard the map has major spoilers for the final boss fight.

Is this true?

Revenants aren’t new. They’re called Ritualists, and Tyrians have been communicating with the mists since GW1.

Now, the magic Rytlock uses is considered new because he has the ability to literally conjure Glint as a projectile.

Technically, “Herald” is the new magic.

I don’t mind the horizontal progression grind. I just think that it should be balanced sensibly for solo players, and not spawn champions during skill challenges.

I do not want them to reduce enemy difficulty too much. Furthermore, I am okay with the amount of skill points required to unlock the elite specialization.

However, the skill challenges themselves are too difficult. Some, such as one on the broken airship on a canopy, are completely impossible to complete due to the boss regenerating health.

Uhm… Even in groups, it takes a whole 4 minutes in an event that only gives me 4:30 to complete the event.

How is that not overtuned?

Some of the Hero Point challenges are overtuned. One boss heals too much (6k hp per second), and another has so much health, it takes over 4 minutes just to kill it.

Is this intentional?

Look, if fractals are reduced to only one encounter, then it better kitten be challenging. Grow a pair, and fight Mai Trin without abusing infinite respawns.

Here’s a tip: Try using stealth and Brown Bear to tank Mai Trin.

During Cannon phase, have 1 person bait the cannons, while rest of team stealths.

It’s just 40 jungle points… If you bought the expansion, you’re going to be spending a lot of time in the jungle anyway.

Besides, do I have to remind you again that you will be getting rewards in WVW that auto-boost them?

I know you’re anxious because the patch is taking so long to download, but try out the new system.

I’d like to see Master Togo, for the sole purpose of having a Ritualist elite spec. Seriously, I want Ritualist back!

Once you finish masteries on your account, traveling the Jungle will be with ease, and it should be very easy to obtain the elite specialization on anyone.

Plus, you can get the potions from WvW.

What exactly is the issue here? You guys survived without the Elite Spec for 3 years. Now you finally get to work for it.

Needs its CD reduced to 60 or something, and maybe it’ll be usable.

Hi,

Does the ingame option for “Streaming” set to Max download the whole .dat while I play? Or do I have to remain in the login patcher?

Rytlock is the only tolerable one in Destiny’s Edge. Quite the contrary, I like Rytlock a LOT!

Keep Rytlock. Toss away the rest of Destiny’s Edge.

I’d actually really like to see it return too. I think it’d make an awesome fractal, so long as it is tuned properly.

To me, the idea of a mobile boss fight is a really awesome idea.

If not for a Fractal, I would like to see it return to Open World in some form. How cool would it be if the entire purpose of a map was one big, huge boss fight? (Rewards could be given for each “segment” completed, rather than the end, in order to be more fair and respectful to people who cannot endure hour-long boss fights.)

How would the tail clipping look as anime?

Soon, the game will be full of Reapers and Revenants.

Who’s ready for the Necromancer Uprising in just 2 days?

Screenshot speaks for itself.

Lava is green in Fireheart Rise, near the vista.

Will they let Bone Minion explosions crit yet?

Hi,

Underwater I find myself doing drastically lower damage on land, and I’m having trouble with the DPS rotations, and I’m dying a lot.

Any Underwater Guardian tips?

Yashuoa.9527:

Maybe give the function gyro a third use?

1. Finishing downed enemies.
2. Res downed teammates.
3.

What could be the third?

Maybe it could attempt to heal us when we are down? Using Bandage will summon a gyro. That way it has some sort of selfish effect.

Maybe the gyro could “carry” us, letting us move while down?

It’s fine as is. I don’t want any excuses to nerf our damage.

Gonna use a level 30 scroll, then level up in the halloween zones. After that, I might use crafting and my tomes.

I’m just going to come out and say that Scrappers have no profession mechanic.

Function Gyro is mostly useless in PvE. Very few enemies can be Finished, while its other use is to help res Downed allies, but because a foe is usually attacking a downed ally, the Gyro is useless if it’s destroyed.

Regardless, I’m not sure I want our profession mechanic to be a rezbot on 15s cd. Especially when it does nothing beneficial for ourselves.

I’d love weapon swap, but I worry it would take recoding the entire inventory system just to make this possible for an elite spec.

Shadow Form.

You become invulnerable to all damage and cannot be inflicted with a condition.

It was a GW1 skill.

It was a GW1 skill.

Are there any plans for joypad support?

Artanis.4963:

Dark Saviour.9410:

Should just be a raven that spits out a laser.

Are there even any flying-types that can learn solarbeam?

Moltres.

Also, Cryogonal. And Butterfree, and Arcanine, and Mr Mime, and Tauros, and so on….

There’s been a lot of power creep, you know.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Solar_Beam_%28move%29

Why doesn’t Blast Gyro crit? It felt very weak in the beta, and engi isn’t exactly lacking CC skills.

I don’t mind no new underwater legendaries for now, but I hope they eventually look back at underwater combat when we fight Steve.

Keep the leap, but let us dodge during it.

Why not both?

Male Norn animation is awesome, because it looks like an actual slashing animation. But the Female animations on Norn, Sylvari, and Humans are awful. They’re like… waving a wand, or something.

They should change all the animations to resemble slashing, like the Male Norn.

Rikkado.7321:

Kain Francois.4328:

I think Revenant staff animation is fine, personally.

Revenant staff is “fine” but this thief staff is amaaaaaaaazingly aaaaaaawesoooommeee.

I like the spinning on Revenant. A lot of their abilities are all about spinning and twirling their staff, and it is a really great homage to the Dervish.

I think Revenant staff animation is fine, personally.

I want something that looks good with the axe legendaries.

The new animation is REALLY good! Can’t wait for a Nevermore!

I think the Daredevil is finally ready.

Rich Fuel.7253:

now fix revenant’s staff melee animation

Plz don’t. It’s fine the way it is. I want at least one class to use spinny animations.

Reaper got an amazing, powerful autoattack that auto-generates might, and can be traited to apply vulnerability, dhuumfire or have a +50% crit chance, and replenish itself (essentially a life-steal)

Skill 2 skill blocks projectiles, does an immense amount of damage, and leaps the Reaper forward a huge amount.

Skill 3 is on-demand stability.

Skill 4 is THE best Whirl Finisher in the game, and applies 20+ stacks of Poison, for huge condition damage.

Skill 5 is a great execution skill that chills foes.

I think Reaper is in a good place, much more-so than other classes.

Hey ANET, can you please consider increasing the Quickness duration by a second or two, please? It’s really way too short at the moment.

Why mp giant eye for killing Eye of Shaitan?

SHHHH (Don’t let them hear you!)

Keep in mind, you need an entire traitline to equip bow, one in which some the community considers inferior to Virtues and Honor.

The weapon itself is an extension of that traitline. It SHOULD be powerful!

WTB GW1 Barrage and Splinter weapon.

sigh what has become our profession? Back during GW1, Ranger was supposed to be the class that got stronger when outnumbered. Now it’s Reapers… :’(

Stealth nerfed.

Hey Karl, is there a possibility for Staff to be examined?

With Druid and Revenants getting really cool healing specs, the Staff Guardian feels really left out in the dust.

It’s be great if Guardian could get its own healing spec too, considering we are supposed to be the successor to monks.

I want to see the healing of Staff vastly improved to compete with Revenant and Druid.

I mean, for pete sake, Guardian is the successor of MONKS and we have the healing cross as our class icon!

We should be up to par with the other healers just by virtue of being a Guardian.

I wish Legendary Armor could be Obsidian Armor. That’d make my day.

Black Box.9312:

PvE meta is virtually all melee-range. You will lose more damage and support running a ranged spec even with extra damage modifiers.

Not for immobile bosses. You just need to be in enough range for allies to receive boons.

Scepter does more damage than Greatsword on certain targets.

edit: the 10% damage bonus is also relevant for Zealot’s Flame, when entering combat and approaching a foe.

Kicast.1459:

That would be fine…but please tell me the support it provides ?

Wall of Reflection, “Retreat!”, Shield of Absorption, Shield of Judgment, Binding Blade, Symbol of Protection, and more Aegis out the kitten than anyone could ask for?

Kicast.1459:

Block with f3 => revenant hammer is far superior.

Why are you comparing a separate class, and not the Guardian’s traitlines? Besides, Revenant has its own issues.

Kicast.1459:

Control ? => no way the longbow 5 is efficient enough. there is no longer and more telegraphed control skill in this game. in top of that it roots you an eternity.

Why are you talking about only Longbow? You’re asking about what Control the Dragonhunter has, and that includes Greatsword, Hammer, Bane Signet, and everything else the Guardian could do. But since you’re asking about LB5, the context it’s used is in WvW, and it can destroy Zergs.

Kicast.1459:

Cripple…so subpar to the soft cc a necro can bring.

Cripple on Dragonhunter is supposed to be subpar. It serves no other purpose than to be a requirement for damage buffs, making it very efficient for team fights.

Kicast.1459:

Boon sharing => classical guardians and rev do it much much better.

Which boons? Dragonhunter provides the same boons as Guardian.

Okay, people here keep saying how “DH is bad”, but just one question:

How is Zeal/Radiance/Dragonhunter so much inferior than Zeal/Radiance/Virtues?

DH inherits almost everything a Guardian has, except the f1 is slightly difference, and the 20% damage modifiers have different requirements (mantain cripple on foe + cast f1 versus mantaining aegis on yourself)

I argue that a Dragonhunter can maintain the 20% damage bonus easier than a Guardian with Aegis.

Oh, and if you are more than 360 range from a foe, you get an extra 10% damage buff. Altogether from traits, a 30% damage buff for going DragonHunter during ranged situations. This means for enemies like Old Tom, where you spam Scepter, it is superior to use DragonHunter instead of Virtues.

It feels like people are talking about Dragonhunter like it’s a completely different class. Is it?

Agreed. Why doesn’t it crit?

Even if it did crit, why waste a skill slot on it? Its toolbelt doesn’t even do anything interesting.