Guild Wars 2

Rastaman.9015:

I can help but notice that twilight can only be used by my guardian. And considering how much trouble any player goes through to get such a weapon, it should be usable by all the characters possible. Soulbound sucks rear-end especially for items that are considered “once in a life-time”. I know that not everyone has experience with a legendary weapon but what do you guys think? Would you want to be limited to one character? Forever?

I haven’t got a legendary, nor plan on getting one anytime in the near-future. But having to put that much time & money into getting something I definitely think it should be account bound.

Edit for spelling.

For weapons and armor, were there any included in the Lost Shores expansion?

thisolderhead.5127:

Galen.9042:

Given that Oceanic players were unable to participate in the Lost Shores finale, is Arenanet planning to allow us to join in future “one-time-only” events?

Sorry – I was under the impression that were were able to participate (I am Oceanic based also) however we just needed to identify which was of greater importance to us – sleeping and working, or taking some time off to play the game.

Sounds like sleeping and working was your decision, shame it is so hard to accept the decision you made.

Some of us have a life and don’t have the luxury of living in our parents basements getting everything paid off for us.

Oh kitten it’s real expensive lmao, thanks guys

How can I find this in PvE?

This entire game will be a pay-to-win

critickitten.1498:

Tolmos.8395:

Being forced to run dungeons for the best gear so you can remain competitive in WvW is not unique.

I keep seeing this comment everywhere.

Have you possibly considered that maybe you just suck at WvW?

I don’t mean to sound rude, mind, it’s just that I was always plenty “competitive” in WvW at Lvl 80 while wearing just magic or masterwork-level items. I never once felt heavily disadvantaged and would regularly kill other players in head-to-head combat. So, either I’m just that good (which is unlikely), or you’re doing something wrong.

Ergo, I’m inclined to think that if you honestly believe a few extra stat points are going to make you suddenly perform better at WvW, you’re in for a lot of disappointment. Stats help, but are hardly as influential as people seem to think.

Stats help, more stats you have over the enemy the better your chances of winning. Sure skill is a major factor, but that doesn’t mean gear isn’t. As for all the people you killed, they suck & they probably were on same tier gear as you or worse.

DegoLocc.5976:

Basically they like the idea of MMO’s but don’t like the grind. So they want a more arcade type game.

I think they should play games more suited for them, ie: league of legends, and fighter beat em ups, where there is no gear.

They forget, if we all had the same gear out the gate, what’s the point of even having gear? Cosmetics? Yea we’ll see how long that holds your average MMO player.

Skill>Patience to Grind

I played GW1 for 6 years & LOVED being able to come back and still be evenly matched with everyone (gear-wise). If I lost a fight, it wasn’t because I had crappy gear, but because that person was more skilled than me and knew how to approach me. Or they just had a build that made mine worthless (blind spam mes QQ)

A new tier of gear that you have to grind for, who the hell wants to WORK in a GAME? They’re supposed to be fun, and Anet promised there’d be no grind, that everyone will be equal in gear & it would be easy to obtain max gear.

Sigh, if this gets any worse, I’m out. I really hope not though, since I spent $2000 bucks on a new PC to play this game since I LOVED GW1.

I wonder if this thread would be here if you were one of the people that got a pre-cursor. Hmmmm

DieQuex.4096:

Not really. If your opponent isn’t dead you can still spam 2. Or if you screwed up the combo switch to your shortbow and infiltrator arrow away/stealth. It’s generally very easy to escape a fight alive as a Thief. I’ve tried both builds and personally feel BS is easier and more of a gimmick.

P/D is condition build is by no means superior to the D/D backstab build, and the backstab build is also capable of taking out multiple opponents lol. The ability to take out multiple opponents is attributed to skill man, not the build.

Honestly, only an idiot would let a thief get all those heartseekers in & if you try spam HS then try to escape with SB Infiltrator Arrow, you can’t because you have no initiative.

Static.9841:

emanueldst.8049:

Ruufio.1496:

As a Necro I enjoy killing this noobiest of builds in the entire game by standing in their caltrops they drop and throwing 20 bleeds back on them.

wow they must really be noobs…..

This. I haven’t died to a necro yet, you guys are usually fodder.

Kaizer.7135:

With condition thief you just pop in and out of stealth at a distance spamming Attack 1 until they die…

Have you even played this build? You don’t “pop in and out of stealth at a distance” mainly because you can’t, unless C&D somehow works at range now and I’ve missed something, or are have you been ruining your build with stealth utilities? You also don’t “spam” anything, hitting stealth and spamming is instant death. Yeah, you should probably stick to Backstabbing by numbers…

DieQuex.4096:

P/D is condition build is by no means superior to the D/D backstab build, and the backstab build is also capable of taking out multiple opponents lol. The ability to take out multiple opponents is attributed to skill man, not the build.

I also agree with this. And saying “P/D is amazingly strong” (above) is a bit ridiculous, no it’s not, 2 weapon attacks make up its bread and butter, it’s the build and the player that makes it what it is.

Guess I worded it wrong, but stealthing in and out is what makes that build strong, it’s the best defense. It takes off conditions and gives HP back every second you’re in stealth, if you run that with Shadow Refuge you get an additional heal. Spamming attack 1 stacks your bleeding which is what this build relies on for damage now that C&D got the nerf, unless you bring in caltrops which makes it even easier to use.

I’ve killed 4 people at once in WvW with conditions, sure I can do it with BS as well, but with condition build I rarely drop to 10k(max hp=19k) hp.

it did 11k damage to me, plz nerf it’s OP thx

In GW1 I loved farming so I could get those awesome looking armor pieces and weapons, getting various pieces from different sets and then putting together the combination I liked the most.

In this game, in my opinion, all the armor I have come across is lackluster
Medium armor consists of mainly trenchcoats and heavy armor is either too bland or too over the top.

Do all you people that played GW1 feel the same way? What made you keep going back to GW1 and would you want it in GW2?

emanueldst.8049:

Dude Kaiser u posted somewhere else how u where dominating pve and having the highest dps of ur group…. whats the point of this thread then?

So everyone can stop QQing about backstab builds when Condition builds are far superior, you have control over the entire fight, not to mention you can take multiple targets at once with it.

Bluebird.1890:

Kaizer: How exactly do you know you were the highest DPS?

Well when I wasn’t hitting the mob HP would go down very slowly, after I get in it goes down relatively quick, not to mention I take big chunks of their HP with Heartseeker when they;re under 50%

Much easier to play than Backstab thief, with backstab thief that C&D>Mug>Backstab is your only combo, if you miss that and your target doesn’t die you’re pretty much dead (unless they’re REALLY bad).

With condition thief you just pop in and out of stealth at a distance spamming Attack 1 until they die…

I dominated Solo PvE with my thief before the patch and I just finished doing Fractals with a group and I was the highest DPS.

tjockis.3798:

havoc.6814:

It better not be the last. I don’t want to spend the next years stuck in the same gear just because you’re too lazy to work for the new stuff.

i so much agree on this.

and to the “lazy” ppl: you dont have to get the new gears. its not like someone force you. dont find it fun to get new items? dont do it then! i normally dont do thing i dont like, but i might be uniqe in that… i dont know…

We are being forced though, especially those in Wv3 that want don’t want to have any kind of dis-advantage. I didn’t go for legendary’s, those are optional because they didn’t increase stats. Why didn’t I go for it? didn’t have time for it & even if I did, I wouldn’t spend it endlessly grinding.

havoc.6814:

It better not be the last. I don’t want to spend the next years stuck in the same gear just because you’re too lazy to work for the new stuff.

Usually I’d say “Well you bought the wrong game” but if you like WORKING in games then so be it.

Also, I’m not lazy, I play sports and go to school, but when it comes to games that are supposed to be fun. I don’t go into it expecting a grindfest.

deSade.9437:

Ask yourself… can they stop?

I think they can if they listen to us, but I don’t know if that’d be enough. I love this game, but not if it’s gonna go in this direction

Right? RIGHT?!!!

Please Anet tell me you’re not going to make any new tiers after this, because if you are I’d like to know now so I can quit and never look back.

BroScientist.9875:

Were you there for the Halloween event act 3 “one time event”? It was just a real-time cinematic that everyone in the vicinity watched together, only lasted a minute or so. It’s really not a big deal and there’s absolutely no way to set it up so everyone can see it. The content will still be there for you, you’re just going to miss out on some epic cinematic that will be available to watch on Youtube shortly after. Stop crying, please.

Then don’t attend the event, it’s easy to tell people not to complain when you yourself aren’t going to miss it.

Don’t open up with heartseeker, heartseeker is more effective the less HP your opponent has.

Xirin.8593:

Hyde.6189:

DesertRose.2031:

W3 counts as PvE

Really? Can anyone else confirm this?

WvW falls under PVE. Anywhere you bring your PVE / regular gear is PVE.

Anywhere you use PVP gear is PVP.

LOL I thought it was where ever you Vs other players it’s PvP

Vaderlander.1094:

LOL.. guys be reallistic. Thieves were doing way to much damage in PVP. and you know it. There was no class the thief couldn’t handle. Burst was way to high and you know it.

But they didn’t fix the burst

I’m not, Thief/Assassin has always been my main in every game I can play that has those kinda classes.

Everytime there is a large patch this thread always manages to pop up, just be patient, everyone is downloading this at the same time. Go outside or read a book or something until the queue dies down..

This is near the tengu walled off fortress thingy right?

Yeah, it pretty much turns into a rant thread.

“There’s no grind in this game”

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

You people are missing the entire point behind the new tier.

Infusion, only available through Ascended gear, will be required to survive the Agony condition, that will be present in new dungeons. Thus, you’ve got gearscore, required to participate in content.

Nobody cares about your runes anymore, because they’re just pointless. They will all be replaced with newer, more powerful infusions on your newer, more powerful Ascended armor, that will be required to grind the next tier of infusions for the next tier of ascended armor.

So how powerful are these infusions then?

I hope to GOD there are none because I just finished spending 15g on them and I’ll be VERY pissed off if there are going to be Ascended Runes and Sigils

I hate the Skritt, but I wouldn’t mind if they became playable, I just wouldn’t make one. Ever.

TENGUUUUU

Articluna.4509:

Ones in WvWvW Borderland maps do, 3 of them for 5 to 8 characters a day. Plenty of badges.

Not sure if eternal battleground jumping puzzle also gives badges, “but it has been always too contested for my taste to actually complete it.”

WvW Eternal Battlegrounds chest gives the most + siege and few items

Edit was for not including EB :P

Assassin was my main in GW1, high DPS low HP/Def has always been my fave class though. But only if they were melee, I hate ranged classes or mages…

Alex Sanchez.6792:

Dude, if you wanted to play a single player game then why are you on an MMO?

So because I want to play only ONE part of the game (my personal story) alone, you presume I want to play the ENTIRE game alone?

1g for dailies? No, that’s way too much for such an easy task

LOL that’s awesome hahaha

Drazharm.1829:

Kaizer.7135:

Drazharm.1829:

I soloed my personal story without problems with a warrior and a condition’s based ranger ._.

I don’t know where you see the difficult.

You got past the last quest in personal story even though the beginning of it requires 2 people because there are 2 pressure plates that have to be stood on at the SAME TIME to fill a gauge. A gauge which depletes faster than it fills if one person gets off it?

Okay ._.

Ah, you are refering Arah. Man, that’s a dungeon, even if it is story or not xD

I did it on duo with a friend, btw. Not so difficult. I mean, if you know someone, tell him “Hey, man, let’s do this!” and that’s all. Dungeon are suposed to Coo-op, not to be soloable. For this, go to a single player RPG. NPC’s are just that, NPC’s (Excepto destiny’s edge), and chars are heroes, but even the heroes needs help. Have you seen on any book/movie a hero who could do ANYTHING alone? Nope :P

We have Destiny’s Edge helping us in Arah.

EDIT: Also, could you tell me how you cleared Arah with just 2 people? I’m very curious, because I can’t find anyone willing to do this quest. Thx

xtorma.1283:

I guess they figure, by the time you are at the end of your story, you have probably made a couple friends here and there.

Yes because this game is very social when it comes to PvE (not).

How much communication do you see when there are events? none.

Algreg.3629:

yes, I can totally understand your pain and I think having to team up for 2 hours in your entire game time in GW2 for completing the story arc is a gargantuan outrage. Those blackguards at the game design department, curses! There a lines that are not meant to be crossed and this aggression will not stand!

You missed the point, I don’t care how much time it takes, I just don’t want to play with other people in MY story and I especially don’t like playing SM Dungeons if I’m not leader because then it isn’t MY story.

Drazharm.1829:

I soloed my personal story without problems with a warrior and a condition’s based ranger ._.

I don’t know where you see the difficult.

You got past the last quest in personal story even though the beginning of it requires 2 people because there are 2 pressure plates that have to be stood on at the SAME TIME to fill a gauge. A gauge which depletes faster than it fills if one person gets off it?

Okay ._.

Thorgal.1287:

wait… one step back..
“why can I solo all my personal story?”

(I loved how in GW1 you had to team up to advance though next mission.. and I am really missing that aspect now)

Well not solo every quest because some of them you are given NPC teammates, in GW1 you could solo every mission with hero’s…

I mean, I know it’s a dungeon but it’s MY story. Why do I have to find other people to help me when they’re not even acknowledged at all in the cutscenes? Also, why can I solo all my Personal Story quests until the last one? Why do I have to party up for that one when the rest I could do by myself?

Mainly my No.1 skills, I’m not killing as fast as I use to? Nothing in my build or equipment has changed, is it the same for any other thieves playing?

EDIT: Btw I’m not complaining, I can still kill if the player is bad or better than me. Just want to know what I mentioned above. Thx

Which do you find more annoying?

EDIT: In PvP ofc

Well I’m expecting pretty much what everyone else is (loot, armor, weapons, quests and hopefully no risen). What I hope for though is more background on the Tengu, or even as a playable race (OMG PLEASE!).

Sounds great, especially the modular weapon customization. But I don’t think that’d be easy to put into this game through an update..

Well if I got a GS legendary I’d rather have the skills I’ve come accustomed to instead of new skills.