Guild Wars 2

Having favored playing ranged damage-dealers / casters in virtually every other RPG type game I’ve ever played, and haved mained an ele in GW1, I was really looking forward to playing one in GW2. Ironically, after leveling one into the mid-40s during the BWEs, I discovered the GW2 ele just didn’t measure up or mesh with my playstyle preferences. I’m not whining about the ele in GW2, but rather pointing out that it plays a lot differently than casters tend to in other games, especially the GW1 ele which may surprise many players.

If you don’t like the GW2 ele, try something else and you may find you like something else better. I’ve never been all that fond of melee classes, but I decided to give the warrior a try. I’m so glad I did since it’s turned out to be an extremely fun class play. It’s by no means a simple class, nor is it one dimensional. To me, the important thing is that it’s really fun to play, which is something I simply can’t say about the GW2 ele in its current state.

Cindas.6149:

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Trait: Last Stand, Line: Defense
“Activates Balanced Stance when you are dazed, knocked down, launched, pushed back, or stunned.”

Does not work at all. Does not activate Balanced Stance ever.

This is definitely bugged, and even if the stability icon appears, it doesn’t seem to be providing the correct benefits. For example, I’ve seen the icon appear after a knockdown, but then I was immediately hit by a 2nd knockdown. The balanced stance should prevent the 2nd one from happening, but it didn’t work – I was knocked down both times. I’ve also seen cases where I was knocked down and the stability icon didn’t appear at all, even when the cooldown on balanced stance was long since expired, or it was the first activation on the map, etc.

I did the Shatterer Event last night and got no credit at all. I got the indication that the event started. I’m level 75 and was down-levelled accordingly. I attacked through the entire battle dealing significant damage (at least I think it was). When the event ended, I got no medal or final chest. There was a huge group in the area, so I am wondering if it might be somhow related to number of players participating.

I had the same thing happen a few days ago in an encounter with Jormag. So far I’m 0-for-2 in getting credit for Big Boss events.