Guild Wars 2

Definitely needs a cap for server purposes. However, I hope ANET rewards us for the healing teamwork. Maybe a cap of 20 minions?

They should merge the shield trait and Strength in Numbers, since they compete, and both give toughness buffs.

Just want to say that there are those who love Dragonhunter.

- Traps are AWESOME! Crazy powerful. Procession of Blades is especially a great trap, synergizing with the Radiance line. Thematically, they are similar in concept to Necromancer marks, but use Smite magic fitting for the Guardian.

- The new f3 skills are interesting. While not superior to Virtues, they are different as equals. Their usefulness should not be overlooked. Spear of Justice is vastly superior for a condition build, the Wings are now a great mobility that can be traited for huge power damage, and the Shield of Courage will be incredibly useful for stacking situations due to the ability to apply traited 7s of invulnerability to your entire team. (14s if you use Renewed Focus.)

-The Dragonhunter traitline is very good. There was a trait that let us deal 10% more dmg to cripples foes and made the passive of Spear of Justice cripple, then there’s a trait that makes Spear of Justice make foes take 10% more dmg and applies vulnerability. Then ANOTHER traited that deals 10% more damage if more than 360 range. Altogether, Guardian has traits that grant them 20% more damage for melee, and 30% more damage for ranged.

- Longbow is awesome. The #1 is funny for kiting in pvp, #2 is a Killshot every 4s, the #3 is a great support and offense skill if timed correctly, #4 is a high damage aoe, and #5 is gonna be hilarious in WvW for chipping defiance off enemy zergs.

Remember, ANET. Some of us love the Dragonhunter. I’ll be playing one during my first Heart of Thorns playthrough!

Loving Dragonhunter. Procession of Blades is crazy strong. Test of Faith is a little finnicky though, since it doesn’t damage a foe unless they move on the edge.

Dragonhunter needs a bit more efficient ways of causing cripple.

Aside from that, I think it’s in a fairly good place.

Personally, I’m still salty that Warrior is the only class that uses Axe the proper way.

I want to cleave things. Why am I waving the air like a english-man slap?

Keep in mind this puts your Heal on cooldown. It’s incredibly fragile.

Plz plz plz plz plz let Scythe Staff Skin be available again! This is my dream weapon for Revenant with the Arcane Outfit. DRUIDS!!! <3

Guys, stop suggesting power creep to Nightfall. It’s already an overpowered, huge-damaging blind field, and I don’t want it being nerfed more.

I want to use Pistol. Plz buff Pistol 1 and 2. It’s not fair that it deals such low damage, both low power and condi…

They should change all Corruptions to self-inflicted Bleed or Burn, and make them more about devastating attacks in exchange for sacrificing HP. I want to see Corrupt Boon not only convert Boons to conditions, but also deal a huge amount of damage for each boon on a foe. I mean a zerker doing 10k+ on a Guardian using Save Yourselves. The tradeoff being if the Necro misses, he would take a lot of condi damage. I want to be a kamakaze necro!

I’ll keep my points simple:

Consume Conditions:

- Remove self-inflicted conditions. Conditions on a condi-cleanse makes no sense, and it is completely counter-productive to the whole transfer strategy.

- The Blind is visually annoying, because it makes my screen goes black.

Other Corruptions:

- Remove self-inflicted weakness.

- Remove self-inflicted poison.

- Main skill effects not powerful enough to justify being inflicted with self-conditions in the first place.

- Why no Resistance?

- Why does traiting actually punish us?

Self-inflicted conditions need to be less intrusive. Less Weakness and Blind, and more Bleed.

One consideration is to modify Corruptions to be more like GW1 Sacrifices: Very little cooldowns in exchange for powerful effects.

The GW1 skills “Blood is Power” and “Order of Pain” come to mind for what GW2 corruptions should strive to be. I’m talking that corruptions should high-risk, high-reward. Imagine applying a stack of Burn to onself in exchange for a devastating AoE attack, turning our health into a resource.

How is burning too strong? Most of the skills that apply burning are all-or-nothing skills on a high cooldown. They don’t deal much more damage than Power builds.

The real issue is that Bleed is undertuned.

What I want to know is how to make spirit shards fast? Any tips?

THANK YOU!!!!

And nice job to the programmers. This was a relatively quick fix, since it took only 3 working days. Kudos to you!

Just completely formatted my comp and reinstalled GW2. Still having this problem.

It’s obviously not my computer.

Can we PLEASE have a response to at least confirm this is being looked into?

By the way, out of curiosity, for other users here, did you see this screen before the problem ever started for you?

RS gives might and applies vulnerability, so it may be better for smaller encounters.

I believe this has something to do with Daredevil. Just speculation.

Same issue. Low, low fps. Similar, the game froze upon attempting character creation. Something is off…

Might this relate to the “1 file remaining” bug?

This has more responses than any other bug thread on page 1…. shouldn’t be too long for a response, I hope.

More info:

- tried connecting directly to my modem with a wired connection (as opposed to wireless router), and didn’t work.

- tried restarting my computer. Didn’t work, either.

I still note that before this all began in the first place, I received a message upon opening the client, prompting me to repair, which I did, and it crashed. It’s been like this ever since.

If no responses by tonight, I will attempt to completely FORMAT my computer, reinstall GW2, and then see if this occurs again.

Mrfurlix.8391:

Good idea! But i wouldn’t put spirit shards in a real mastery track, but maybe in some kind of PvE reward track, always active, perhaps enemy faction based. For example, when you slay inquests or complete an event against Inquest, you gain some points that fill the “Inquest enemy reward track”, which could give you, among other things, spirit shards. what do you think about this?

I imagine with the way GW2 is setup, it’d have to be a Mastery, since it involves Experience.

Am I the only one who thinks so, or does Pistol MH need a buff? It feels really lacking in my opinion.

Autoattack: Deals bad Power damage, deals bad Condition damage, what exactly is the point of this existing?

Poison Dart Volley: If it doesn’t miss (most of the time it does. WHY IS IT DESIGNED THIS WAY!?), this skill deals pathetic poison damage, and really bad power damage. The design seems to imply that because it is likely to miss, it is best to use this at point-blank, but there is little payoff.

Static Shot: Admittedly, this is a very good skill, and requires no changes whatsoever.

Traits: Pistol conditions last 50% longer. Why isn’t this baseline?

What does everyone else think?

Now that Engi is getting love with the Forge, this is a good opportunity to examine Pistol.

Any responses from support, at least, yet?

After 6 hours, I just redownloaded all 22gb of Guild Wars 2. I’m on capped internet too, OUCH! (Only reason I tried this is because it’s near end of the month…)

Still stuck at 99%, 1 file left. Mostly 0 KB/sec, but sometimes it goes up then goes down. It’s really weird.

I hope it’s not auto downloading crap I don’t need, and wasting brandwidth?

edit: I set content streaming to On Demand, yet it still managed to download 10mb within a matter of SECONDS loading into Southsun Cove.

This is ridiculous. GW2 is unplayable like this.

edit: 2 minutes. It did 20mb.

The implications of this are horrorfying, and if I wasn’t vigilant about usage, I would probably be charged $200+ dollars in overcharge fees. Make no mistake, I am infuriated.

FIX THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

coax.2951:

No, it’s too powerful in its current form. You can stack crazy amounts of low duration boons (e.g. quickness/resistance) for your party in seconds. It’s crazy OP currently.

Make up your minds, community. Either Tempest is bad, or it’s very good. Augh. -.-

I thinl Lightning Orb is perfect from BWE2. It’s for cheese builds that just like to spam Lightning Whip autoattack, without worrying about element swapping. Sometimes Lightning Orb for burst on recharge.

No changey plz!

It casts too long and has too high a recharge to make it a worthwhile minion OR teleport.

Truth be told, I wish that its overcharge would be to make it teleport to its owner, rather than destroy it. Then I think I might use it a lot as a turret.

Behellagh.1468:

Forum Bug, she’s on it.

What anime is that?

I have a cap on my internet too. Normal GW2 is no problem, but normal GW doesn’t download SOMETHING, whatever the heck it is trying to download anyway?

Seriously, what is the client attempting to download?

1. Revenant Shield requires wasting an entire Specialization Traitline. This severely limits a Revenant in trait choices, as opposed to a Warrior, who has much more versatility and defensive traits.

2. Warrior has defensive utilities and superior condition removal.

3. Revenant can’t move while channeling his defensive skills.

4. Warrior shield can freaking stun people and deals great damage. Revenant has a kittenty bird that flies and restores 2k hp.

5. Warrior shield can be traited to REFLECT!!!

The selling point of Heart of Thorns is “Not the ending, but the journey.”

That, in my opinion, is the worst marketing slogan I’ve ever heard. It tells me that the ending is kittenty, and that it has no endgame.

The irony is that it is exactly the opposite of what Heart of Thorns is actually promising to do, endgame content and raids.

At first I hated it, since I really loved the previous name of Forge…. But after I learned about Charr lore of Scrappers and the high concepts, I really began to like it more.

It’s similar to Dragon Hunter, minus the silly.

You know, something I really miss about GW2 is the old post-80 leveling system, where we could level past 80, and get a Skill Point/Spirit Shard.

Some of us actually had good uses for skill points, and it was a joy to WvW or play in Cursed Shore because of the ability to level easily and get those Spirit Shards. The best part is that I can go to low level zones, help out newbies with events, and still feel really rewarded for doing so because of the Skill Point/Spirit Shard.

However, with that system removed, the only efficient way to farm Spirit Shards currently is either Champion Farms or Silverwastes Chest far. Both are incredibly tedious and monotonous.

Keep in mind that after HoT is released, and people quickly max out their Masteries, people will again be left with nothing to level.

Because the removal of Skill Points removed such depth for post-80 leveling gameplay, I am going to suggest that Spirit Shards be added to an Infinite mastery track, so that we may farm them again.

Please consider this suggestion!

Thanks!

What if… Keys were a PvP track reward?

Same problem. Also Canadian.

What happened to the Axe changes?

To clarify my nerf suggestion for Chill on other classes:

Ice Bow. PLZ NERF ICE BOW.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Frost_Fan

2-4 people using this, 20s of chill on a boss, without much of a dps loss, AND the strongest burst in the game.

Controversial suggestion: Can you please nerf the other classes applying chill?

Currently, Necromancer kind of needs a niche. Chill itself is a very interesting effect that can make a difference (66% less super attacks), but the reason it’s not wanted in pve is because other classes can apply small amounts of chill just by their normal damage rotations. In group settings, where 2 elementalists and an engineer are all using their chill skills, they are able to maintain a lot of coverage with chill, and this kind of makes the Necromancer’s chill application incredibly unneeded.

Great overall. I can finally see Necro becoming Meta.

However, Chilled to the Bone is still REALLY weak as a 2s stun on 90s cd, and Soul Eater still needs adjustments, since there’s not enough reason to use it over Decimate Defenses.

Warhorn is in a really good place. My only complaint is that Banshee’s Wail competes with Vampiric Aura, and usually people will take Vampiric Aura. (I honestly wish it was a grandmaster or adept instead of master.)

Champion Anything-But-Ritualist.

I want Ritualist to be a future specialization.

I’m going to wait just one more day before buying anything else from the gemstore…..

Hoping for some confirmation please.

Is this the last day of the anniversary sale?

Staff is underpowered. What reason is there to stack a bunch of marks on the ground if they barely do any damage?

The ground effect of Facets is way too distracting. Even the legendary footsteps of Eternity fade away if you stand still.

Would it be possible for the Facets to have their ground effects modified to be less distracting?

I like Staff, but not a fan of the “no hands!” third autoattack.

How does Mace generate a lot of might? I could only proc 1 blast from skill #3.

150 Ferocity IS 10% damage. So it makes Ferocious Strikes kind of useless.

Love the effect, hate how it’s sustained. I’d prefer if it appeared only when casting, then fade away.

Hi,

Does Mace have any use in a Power build? I find myself having a lot of trouble coming up with a use for it, since the damage seems low.