Guild Wars 2

I believe a mesmer’s portal is actually core to many strategies and speedruns, and I would like to see it stay simply because it’s such a neat tactic for advanced players.

Mesmers are not masters of damage. They are support. Having such utility like this is part of what makes them such a big team player even though their damage is minimal.

I actually wondered this too. Are Karkas edible? What do they taste like?

I switched to a Warrior long ago.

Grenades are cool and all, but they’re just not worth it because your finger will hurt after spamming 11111 for so long. It’s also annoying to have to aim EVERY attack, with a chance of it missing.

It’s understandable because grenades stack 25 vulnerability on foes and a multitude of condition with ease, but I would really love other options.

Hip Shot is lame lame laaaaame, and and Explosive Shot is weak weak weeaaaak!

The Wrench can only hit 1 foe with the final attack of his 1-combo, and his 3 skill. It tries to be a mace-wannabe but instead of the useful weakness condition, it applies vulnerability for a few seconds and goes away.

The Elixir Gun also deals pathetic damage, but at least it gets a plus for being a support weapon in dungeons, and to be fair I do think it’s fairly balanced as a range weapon stacking bleed on a single foe. I just wish Fumigate (or whatever its called) dealt more damage. It’s like it was missing an extra 0 to its damage because 132 damage at level 80 is NOT worth it!

Flamethrower is… Not very useful beyond the 1 skill. The fire field is too hard to use with blast finishers because it’s so small, and the 2-skill (projectile) is unreliable.

Sentries die too quickly and are not mobile. The fact they go into recharge when you pick them up makes it not worth it picking them up in the first place. Making matters worse, they’re squishy too! Why even use them?

Bomb Kit is ok, even awesome, but very risky. It’s actually balanced in my opinion. I just wish the “autoattack” had more range to continue autoattacking.

Anyways that is my feedback so far. I really feel Engineer is an uncomfortable class to play, and not sure what they can do outside Grenades.

So good. Legendaries were ridiculous in the first place.

Since they nerfed Plinx, it makes sense that Karma should be obtainable in other ways.

I’m also a big fan of the dungeon update where each boss drops about 20s total if you use an Omnonberry Bar.

Really, no waypoints should be no issue for GW1 veterans. Broken armor is reminiscent of 60% DP and armor canisters are dp cons.

But what would be nice are more efficient means to resurrect KOed players like we could in GW1.

Oh, and a /resign command to kill everyone. Please. That should solve the problem about players being unable to be rezzed.

I for one like the idea of no waypoints. It makes it kinda like GW1.

I just wish there was a /resign command to kill the team…

Gz! I myself am going for legendary speargun.

What do the special effects of the spear do, by the way?

I really like the idea in this thread about making the auto-attack of hammer a blast finisher. It would grant synergy with the longbow.

Honestly, I don’t believe Ascended gear will take over the game if the stat boost is so miniscule in total.

+40 vitality is just a visual aesthetic because it doesn’t allow you to mitigate anymore damage than another player at level 80.

Enjoy your +30 total vitality.

How many more hits does that actually mitigate at level 80? After thinking about it, I’m convinced the number is so small it doesn’t even make a difference.

It’s like taking 200 damage when you have only 165 HP instead of 150. It doesn’t make a difference.

They might not be breaking their manifesto if they do this right. That is because it is possible numbers will be so miniscule that it makes no difference in level 80 combat.

Finally a way to get rid of my useless bones.

Fixed a bug preventing melee attacks from hitting static objects in the world if the character was not moving. As an example, this should help players using melee in Ascalonian Catacombs to hit graveling burrows, amongst other offending objects.

Thank you for this bug fix, ANET! I have been waiting for this, and my Warrior thanks you!

I for one am pleased with the Bag.

However, what needs to be emphasized now is the fact mobs drop 10-15s (20+ with omnombar) AND the bag!

This means you could make possibly 25s per boss using an omnom bar.

It’s a great change in my opinion. I don’t understand why people don’t like this.

Magic Find is a ridiculous stat in my opinion because it doesn’t make rare items any rarer, but simply prevents us from enjoying our favorite armor and builds when we are forced into it for efficient farming and loot.

I agree the change to healing was bad, and somewhat even unnecessary.

As a shouter Warrior, I cannot reliably heal my allies anymore.

My worry is the way they word it, it sounds like an automated system, and that worries me.

On the other hand, if they do it correctly, it could be very very awesome!

I am very happy about the dungeon changes.

I’m already a fan of dungeon, but all the silver rewards from bosses made it a treat!

I just wish they slightly lowered the level 80 loot requirement to about level 40 because of the importance of Blazerige Steps as a “Dragon Zone”, and I wish the loot chance was 50% or even 75% instead of 25%.

Eles need to trait for 25 charges and are MUCH more squishy than Warriors.

They also lack Earthshaker, For Great Justice, Signet of Rage, and so on.

So I decided to sheath GS/Rifle in order to pursue a more supportive role. I want to try out a knocklock/stun build for a frontliner role.

My current weaponset is mace+shield/hammer.

Problem is, how should I spec my traits? Generally I go 30 Arms because I LOVE crits, and to get the trait “crits grant extra adrenaline” and 30 Discipline for “20% faster burst recharge”. That leaves me with 10 Defense.

So at the moment I’m at 30 Arms, 10 Defense, 30 Discipline.

My strategy is to spam as much burst skills possible by abusing the Fast Hands trait (when it works…)

Does anyone have advice how I can improve my traits setup? In addition, what sigils should I use on my mace, shield, and hammer? I was thinking of +5% crit chance…

To be honest, I am actually quite excited for Ascended items.

Accessories were a messy line in the first place, so it’s good to see a standard for them finally being set with the ascended tier.

As for Ascended weapons and armor, considering all the feedback, I’m sure ANET has something in mind so as not to make our exotics obsolete. My guess is an armor “upgrader”.

Hey ANET. A lot of us GW1 fans REALLY miss the Stormbow from GW1.

If you ever need ideas for new mystic forge longbows, please consider the Stormbow! Thanks!

Bubbles might make a cameo in a one-time event, I have a feeling.

Something tells me Ascended gear might actually address this eventually. Which is why a a part of me is actually excited for their release.

Zaxares.5419:

Going back to the OP’s post, the auto-upgrade of level 80 Dungeon Exotics (both armor and weapons) being automatically buffed to Ascended status is something I would support. (I also support the same happening for T3 Cultural armor, but for some reason people don’t seem as keen on it.)

At the same time, there already exist several items in the game that are extremely expensive to produce, but are not quite Legendary status, like Mystic Weapons, the Triforge Pendant, Infinite Light, Foefire etc. These items should also be buffed to Ascended status, or even made into new Legendaries.

Heh, yeah.. I hope offtopic posts here get deleted..

I’m pretty sure items like Volcanus and Foefire should deserve ascended status though, since they cost about 300g+ to produce. Even t3 cultural… (But ANET wanted us to buy transmutation stones…?)

I really want to applaud whoever designed HoTW Exp. This is by far my favorite dungeon I’ve had more fun in than any other dungeon.

I just wanted to voice my praise for this dungeon. Although it was challenging at some points, it was never too hard to make any of my teams quit. I especially enjoyed the addition of underwater fights (though unfortunately some do not share my enthusiasm for underwater combat…)

Overall, HoTW was a very fun experience as I was going after my dungeon armor, and I wanted to give the designers kudos for it.

I have these very same questions. Thank you Irrodesia for the very diplomatic post.

With all due respect, I thank Chris White for trying to clarify the issue. However, we would really like to know whether or not Ascended will be the final new tier they introduce, and if dungeon/42k vendors will sell Ascended armor instead of Exotics?

One way to make the Ascended tier fiasco be more fair is to convert all current Exotic dungeon armor into Ascended.

That way people could continue to play the dungeons they like for the stats and skin they want, as opposed to “isolating” them out of older content.

I hope they have guesting up in time for the trials so we can play with our newbie friends.

This part of Chris White’s post is a relief:

We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.

Because of that quote, I am assuming ANET will not add a new tier of armor (But I also worry they may spin it because of the “every 3 months” thing…)

However…

We are also working on other reward and progression systems for the game that tie into current and new content and features.

This part has me very worried…

I would really like ANET to re-assure us there would be no more tiers past Ascended.

Before I hold off on buying the exotic I wanted, I just want to confirm for sure whether or not this update (or a soon-after update) will contain Ascended weapons? Or just accessories and backpack?

The engineer was hyped up to be THE master of guns profession inspired by the Commando.

It’s really a slap in the face he hip shots The Predator…

So I decided that since I didn’t like any of the legendaries currently in the game, I will craft myself Volcanus for my Warrior instead.

Does anyone have any tips for crafting it as a longterm goal?

Ingredients:

Vial of Liquid Flame
250 Ghost Pepper
_100 Molten Lodestone
100 Destroyer Lodestone
_1 Gift of Baelfire

Volcanus
1Eldritch Scroll
_100Mystic Coin
1Vial of Liquid Flame
_250Molten Lodestone

Accessories arent as big as a deal due to the scarcity of them in the first place.

The problem arises when they apply ascended to armor and weapons.

What if the Ascended gear was even easier to get than Exotics? Just wondering.

What if we had an NPC who, for 1g each armor piece will soulbound and upgrade any piece of exotic armor to ascended?

Since the fee is so moderate and it soulbinds items on upgrade, this could function a lot like weapon customization in Guild Wars 1.

Wouldn’t an upgrader NPC like that resolve all the conflict currently created by Ascended items?

This would make it so exotic items are still of value to players and really solve all the problems in my opinion.

Defektive.7283:

Sigil of Earth has an internal CD? A number of times I have been able to stack 3 bleeds at once with one attack, back to back.

Can anyone else confirm this since it’s not on the tooltip?

One of the warrior minor traits has 33% chance to bleed with NO cooldown! (That I know of…)

I can confirm sigil of earth, on the other hand, does have a cooldown, of about maybe 3 seconds. It’s still my sigil of choice however.

LemurTron.9261:

Runes

It seems a bit hasty to conclude that the new ascended gear are a “must have” for situations other than ones where baddies can inflict “agony”. Looking for the positives here – I don’t think Anet will make exotics obsolete (and clearly piss nearly everyone off) and force people into a gear treadmill for “must-haves”.

The Ascended gear does not account for set bonus given by runes. If anything, perhaps the Ascended gear might become a “third set/fourth set” that one wears for specific instances if they choose to do them (when bored with Plinx, etc). MF set, wvw set, now Ascended set for Fractals.

Many seem to be jumping to the conclusion that the difference between, say, an Exotic coat or pants vs the Ascended coat/pants will be of X% such that Ascended will necessarily make exotics obsolete. We simply do not know this to be the case yet, escpecially considering the lack of rune options on the Ascended.

Considering the explosive feedback, this is a very good idea.

I love Rune of the Soldier on my Warrior. This would be a great way to not make exotics obsolete.

So I’m trying to give my friend a free trial. However, as he downloaded the client and is trying to activate his account, it says his serial is “expired”.

Will this be fixed on the 15th, or is something wrong?

No to power creep.

Yes for new content (and farms!)

A more optimistic question: Will we be able to buy and craft Ascended gear on the trade post like any other armor?

Furthermore, will we be able to obtain stats like Power+Vitality+Toughness?

A minority of us prefer to grind Risen in Cursed Shore, and don’t actually like dungeons..

Again, I really want to repeat my suggestion that ANET please do not add ascended armor or weapons.

Guild Wars 2 endgame is supposed to be about appearance over stats, as was GW1.

Accessories do not matter because they are not visual, and backpacks were so few to begin with.

However, many players are currently very attached to their armor and weapons, especially those who spent countless hours grinding in dungeons. We would literally have to transmute every item we have to the “ascended” stats.

And many of us even worry that the new “ascended” armor will not have the stats we want! (Such as Precision+Toughness+Condition Damage…)

Please do not change the armor or weapon system. It is fine the way it is.

Thank you!

Let’s hope they reconsider, and keep this only for accessories. I mean, accessories were already weird when it came to stats anyways. (Triforge anyone? Backpacks?)

If this will be the only progression, then I don’t mind. I’m hoping they do not do this for armor or weapons because it would mean we would have to use transmutation stones for literally EVERYTHING!

33 pages of QQ and not even 24 hours.

Cmon, ANET truly wont create a gear treadmill, will they?

gwawer.9805:

Agreed. Hope they add in some good looking ninja-like costumes or Metal-gear-solid power suits.

This is actually a VERY excellent idea!

A military-inspired spy suit would fit both the gadget-slinging Engineer and the stealthy Thief.

I dearly hope it’s just a “versus X” buff rather than forcing us to change armor entirely. Kinda like the Versus Demons +10% damage buff for swords in GW1 (But who actually used it in DoA or even knew it existed?)

Mordramoth uses earth though. Bubbles is water. Unless he’s like the god Poseiden who uses earth to control ater?

Also, slightly offtopic, but where are people getting the skill names for enemies? How do you know the names of attacks which subject alpha uses?

I really don’t see why not the Dervish since people love em.

A light armor class which utilizes various buffs to fight alongside Heavy classes in melee.

Utilizes staff (and staves with a scythe skin) as a melee weapon.

Does anyone hope they actually keep the nickname Bubbles for the dragon?

He’ll probably have some epic, dangerous name when they finally reveal the Deep Sea Dragon, but would an NPC taunting him with the name “bubbles” be so much to ask for?

MyR.5028:

Nope does not seem so

…… Q_Q

Sniper Kit with The Predator skin, mebe?

Cmon ANET, give us a real gun!

I think Orr is a mixed bag. Clearly, Malchor’s Leap and Straits of Devastation are desolate wastelands full of annoying mobs and no players.

However, Cursed Shore on the other hand is an events amusement park with great loot and farming. I like hat, because it actually succeeds well as a high end area.

Endgame SHOULD be an events amusement park because one of primary objectives of endgame is farming.