I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Though I do use sword a lot, skill 3 is well worth using and increases might drastically. Using the facets properly lets you use those attacks from them while still holding the buffs during that time. Axe can add torment and chill. Mace torments, poisons, burns, and adds might. Sword vulnerability is nice, but you get a short lived 20 stacks from using the might facet.
There is a rotation, definitely.
If you are proccing facets (thus putting them on CD), you are killing your dps.
Not if your doing the rotation correctly, popping the facets give you more dps, if you pop facets then use UA and immediately swap to shiro while mid UA pop enchanted daggers and against all odds and auto attack, by the time you run out of energy your facets will be off cooldown when you swap back to glint
Lol how is heralds shield the most flashy elite spec weapon?
Rofl omg this is so rediculous, so you got something actually usefull completely free as a gift and now all of a sudden anet is the bad guy because they didnt fulfill your every desire with their nice gesture?
The level of greed and entitlement with this generation is through the roof.
Lol once again people accusing anet of conspiring against the player base to sell hot
The reason anet isnt just adding knee jerk balance patches everytime someone crys is because offten these crying players are just wrong, and also alot of peoples only concern is nerf what u dont play and buff what i do play.
Also anet is waiting to see how classes are performing in raids first so they can make a more informed and effective way to balance things so that they dont fix something in pvp only to make it useless in pve
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The reason why the masterys arnt really needed for too much anymore besides a few core ones like gliding and mushrooms is because people complained that they couldbt complete everything IMMEDIATELY without having certain masterys so after the first week anet pretty much removed all the mastery gateing like needing poison lore to get to certain places, whiners git their way and made parts of the game that were supposed to require progression meaningless
This sounds like a perfect set up for a future elite spec with rytlock channeling the khan ur
The average player doesnt have the choice to list his loot at the same value as me?
He doesn’t have the understanding of what price to list things at and expect to ever make a return on that. Listing things is not free, there is a listing fee, and a time lost. If you know that the price on an item will rise 20% over the next few weeks or months, then it might be a good idea to list it at 20% higher than the current list value. If you have no idea that the price will rise, or even that it could fall further,then you have no reasonable expectation of positive returns, so just randomly listing items at prices well above the current level is not likely to pay off.
There is always risk in speculation, but there’s far more risk for those that lack the wherewithal to predict reasonable market movements.
As I said, it’s like if there were a god-class in the game, but it required a certain level of skill to operate. Not more skill than other classes, just more skill than the average player would be able to display, and the returns for it are far and away superior to anything that any other class could possibly achieve, regardless of the skill applied to those classes.
If I had to pick as to who has the better understanding of the ingame economy, it definately be Wanze over you Ohoni.
He understands how to abuse the ingame economy for his own benefit, that does not mean that he understands how the average player interacts with it. His problem is in not understanding human psychology, not in not understanding economic principles.
No, its because his point is entirely self serving, hes blocking out all long term over arcing factors that effect the entire game and is only focused on making things easier and convenient for his own personal play style.
Quite the opposite. You guys are defending a system that serves yourselves, at the expense of the majority of the game’s players. The playstyle I’m trying to reward is the playstyle that the overwhelming majority of the players embrace, and the “playstyle” that I’m trying to curtail is one that is only enjoyed by a tiny fraction of the game’s players. Don’t try to portray your side in this as the populist angle.
but i dont go around complaining about the players who do these things because im just as capable of doing it too, i just choose not to and i accept that i wont receive the benefits because of my own unwillingness to work at it
That’s a very defeatist attitude, but why do you believe it would be beneficial to the game? Why should players have to employ systems that most of them do not enjoy to achieve that level of returns? Why shouldn’t the most enjoyable activities also be the most rewarding? Why does it benefit anyone to have to choose between “doing the things in game that I enjoy doing” or “being able to afford the things I want to have?”
You dont understand economics at all, the reason these playstyles are so much more lucrative is because they are doing the work that most people arnt willing to do, thats how entrepreneurship works
If everyone is rich, no-one is rich
And the most enjoyable activities ARE the most rewarding, because this is a game, the point is to have fun. If the only reason your playing is to recieve pixelated rewards just for the sake of having them then you have other issues
So you only got bronze on an event that can be done every few hours and you expect what…….a legendary?
Oh please. Who do you think you’re kidding? The guy could have gotten gold and he would have received a cache that contains grays. Maybe even a white!
To the OP – Welcome to Heart of Thorns. If you want loot or any gear above the rare category, you better get raiding. That isn’t being snarky either. Get to it!
You do realize that if the game rewarded you with rares/exotics as much as you people are whining for that they would be just as worthless as blues and greens, their value is based on scarcity
Just giving away high tier loot all the time for these extremely easy and farmable events would just destroy the market and you would be right back where you started
Exotics are worthless. They aren’t BiS, they can be bought easily with other currencies that aren’t gold, the only thing they’re good for is salvage material or skins.
But yeah! I totally love getting a random blue item for killing a Legendary mob! Feels amazing!
Your prooving my point, the game has been out so long that exotics arnt even worth a whole lot because the EASE with which they can be obtained
And legendary mobs are just glorified champions, if these things droped ascended at a decent rate the entire player base would be decked out in full gear in a week, and if they dropped a substantial amount of gold, then it would just cause inflation to the point where that gold would have the same spending power as the 2 silver you get from that random blue currently.
This isnt a single player game where epic rewards can be given out like candy without impacting the game, there are thousands of players doing those same activities, if everyone is rich, then no-one is rich
No, its because his point is entirely self serving, hes blocking out all long term over arcing factors that effect the entire game and is only focused on making things easier and convenient for his own personal play style.
I dont have legendarys, i dont have piles of gold from playing the trading post, the reason for this is because the playstyle required to gain these things isnt something i want to spend my time on because i dont find them fun either, but i dont go around complaining about the players who do these things because im just as capable of doing it too, i just choose not to and i accept that i wont receive the benefits because of my own unwillingness to work at it
So you only got bronze on an event that can be done every few hours and you expect what…….a legendary?
Oh please. Who do you think you’re kidding? The guy could have gotten gold and he would have received a cache that contains grays. Maybe even a white!
To the OP – Welcome to Heart of Thorns. If you want loot or any gear above the rare category, you better get raiding. That isn’t being snarky either. Get to it!
You do realize that if the game rewarded you with rares/exotics as much as you people are whining for that they would be just as worthless as blues and greens, their value is based on scarcity
Just giving away high tier loot all the time for these extremely easy and farmable events would just destroy the market and you would be right back where you started
Because he personally doesnt know how to flip stuff on the trading post to make a large profit, its unfair that others do apparently
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My analogy is not inaccurate, your just doing mental gymnastics to make it seem like your paying for the game twice just because other people who didnt play the game for the last 3 years are now able to get it free.
Your seeing people get something 3 years old with added restrictions for free, and now all of a sudden you want a free handout too even tho you have 3 years worth of playtime and in game rewards/ resources that those players will NEVER have
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Once again self centered and envious/greedy people viewing other peoples gains as their own loss
You arnt being “punished” for buying the game at launch, you got to play the game for 3 years
The only thing happening is new players are getting a good deal, if you somehow see the good fortune of someone else that effects you in no way as a “punishment” to you, than you really need to look deep and sort some stuff out with your psyche
Are you being “punished” for buying food when somone gives a free sandwich to a homeless person?
Notice that the zone is called forsaken thicket on the map, spirit vale is just the name of this first wing, that gate is likely the enterance to the second wing of the raid
So you only got bronze on an event that can be done every few hours and you expect what…….a legendary?
Rofl once again ohoni never fails in the entitlement department
your argument is essentially that you want to receive top tier rewards for logging in and doing ANYTHING and that its “unfair” if another players playstyle is more profitable or effective at receiving those rewards than what you personally LIKE to do.
Its essentially the same thing as demanding to make money for watching tv and eating cake because thats what you like to do and saying its unfair people WORKING a job get paid to do something you dont consider “fun”
This is a really bad place to ask that question, this forum is just full of pessimistic people (many of which dont even actively play) who just lurk for threads to spew the same hate speech about the expansion that they were saying months befor release.
I would say look up some videos or something to get an idea of what the expansion is about
And then you also get those who like to preach everything is rosey, everyone else’s opinion is invalid if they don’t agree with the likes of you.
The forum is absolutely the place to ask questions and read others reviews, complaints and opinions –
Hate speech??>>> now who’s is being the drama queen, over the top much!
Just because others see the bad things the game delivers or the poor execution of what is put out, the poor communication they provide (unless its to support an issue with revenue stream).. try reading some and actually looking at those opinions from both sides…
No one is forcing you to agree with anything, but neither are they pushing out hate speech. In fact its more likely that they want this game to be so much better because of their fondness for it, that they take the time to put out their feedback an opinions in the first place in the hope someone might listen at ANET one day…rare occurrence I know, but not unheard of.
No this isnt a good place to ask this. A majority of the player base doesnt even use the forums, especially people who are really enjoying the game and spending their time playing it. Its usually the disgruntled player who is unsatisfied that constantly lurk the forums complaining. People even went on a crusade to make people spam 0/10 reviews on meta critic minutes after launch without even playing it. People are putting down the ENTIRE expansion based on 1 or 2 things they dont like ad then using extreme hyperbole to criticize it
The forum is a cesspool of negativity, because misery loves company
And notice i didnt even say anything about the expansion, you just started putting words in my mouth.
This is a really bad place to ask that question, this forum is just full of pessimistic people (many of which dont even actively play) who just lurk for threads to spew the same hate speech about the expansion that they were saying months befor release.
I would say look up some videos or something to get an idea of what the expansion is about
This comparison isnt even related. In the example the people are being GIVEN something while the others arnt, when it comes to legendarys in gw2 no one is getting free handouts while others arnt, people who put in the work get the reward, and those who dont complain its too much work. Those players complaining have just as much access to those legendarys, its their own choice not to work at it
Imo this is how COMPETITIVE pvp should be in every game. You shouldnt get undeserved victories just because you have twice as much stats, it should be about who PLAYS the best
Seems to to me that the people who are upset with this kind of system are the players who just like to gank lower geared people to compensate for being pushed around in real life
I think its still possible we might hear from malyck, in tangled depths in the south east corner you can see a constant stream of mordrem marching east towards what would be the blank area between tangled depths and metrica province which may be added later with living story srason 3
I have multiple theories on what this group of marching mordrem are doing
1. They could simply be marching to central tyria
2. They could possibly be fighting a HUGE chak hive in that area
3. They could possibly be fighting a renegade group of sylvari led by malyck
4. Maybe trehearn wasnt the only one mordremoth planted a mind seed in, maybe mordremoth has a backup blighted tree, the one malyck came from, and is sending reinforcements to that tree in anticipation for the attack comming on him in dragons stand which he may have wanted to happen
You dont have to counter EVERY SINGLE move they make. Your going to have to facetank some damage. Double dodging unrelenting Assault is a total viable counter and if your so worried about not having a dodge for another attack, then just dodge half of it
Your not supposed to never take a single hit, all you need to do is kill them befor they kill you, sometimes you have to know when your better off just letting them take a chunk of your health out if it will allow you to win in the long run
The problem isnt anet not catering to casuals, the problem is casuals demanding ever aspect of the game to cater to them. For 3 years pretty much all content has been catered to casuals and the hardcore players never got content catered to them. Now that anet is adding content for hardcore players a whole horde of casuals are demanding it be tuned to them when it wasnt for them in the first place.
Not every single game mode has to appeal and be catered to every single player. There is plenty if content for casual players, but not everything needs to be. Let the hardcore have their parts of the game and leave it alone.
You people keep saying to “FIX” hotjoin when its not broken. Hotjoin is working exactly as intended. All these things about hotjoin that you want to change/remove would defeate the whole purpose of what its for in the first place, if you started locking teams and not letting people join if it made the match uneven it would completely kill the whole quick joining with no queue functionality and just make it a more clunky version of unranked
The problem isnt the systems in hotjoin, the problem is YOU stubbornly refusing to use the correct game mode for competitive pvp.
Try using the LFG. There are ALWAYS successful meta maps going on, (except for tangled depths)
No one is claiming that unranked matchmaking is perfect, but 99/100 times its better than any matchmaking you will get in hotjoin. Sure getting matched a full premade when your solo is frustrating, but nowhere near as frustrating nor as frequent as getting uneven teams or getting auto swapped to the losing team right befor you were about to win like with hotjoin.
This is like asking for a sandwich. Recieving one with white bread, but then because you prefer wheat bread over white. You ignore the white bread sandwich and continue to eat moldy bread and complain you have no sandwich.
Yet another thread where someone demands anet change hotjoin to be exactly what unraned is yet for whatever reason refusses to play the game mode that has exactly what they’re asking for
STOP PLAYING HOTJOIN its a practice mode, not actual matches
I think the problem is they designed the warrior to be extremely basic and to the point, it worked out early on in the game because they made up for lack of special tricks by being very well rounded and having a good mix of offense and defense
But now that the game has changed since launch especially with elite specs it seems like they put all kind of cool bells and whistles on all of the classes that fit thematically with thier magic/abilities but because the design of the warrior is essentialy just a normal guy who is really strong, they kind of ended up with an extremely limited template to create new abilities for and they always end up getting really bare bones versions of abilities other classes get because they have no magic to justify any added conditions and effects
Hotjoin maps ARE just for practice and testing things, they’re just public. They are designed to be a place you can hop into immediately without queueing and do some quick testing or practice, they are NOT ment to be fair balanced matches, if they were the game wouldnt start unless both teams were full to begin with
We keep getting people asking anet to put features in hotjoin that already exist in UNRANKED/RANKED.
Stop playing the wrong mode, hotjoin are practice servers not actual pvp matches
Lol at people still thinking marijuana makes you halucinate and trip, just a perfect example how masses of uneducated people can be made to assume something just by seeing it portrayed a certain way on tv and movies repeatedly
Because the last thing we need is another immortal passive condi bunker
Dont play hotjoin, and improve sPVP
Ive always thought it could be possible that quaggan could be deep sea dragonspawn in tadpole form yet to be “activated” but there are risen and icebrood quaggan which kind of contradicts that theory
However, i dont think it has been specifically stated by anet that dragon minions cant be corrupted by other dragons, thats just something people assumed because if the risen/sylvari thing but it is possible that was only a specific case, like perhaps each dragon has a corresponding dragon who is their weakness and counters the other
Ive seen this happen in dragons stand too about 30 mins befor the map was supposed to reset, people were making their way to the final gates and then all of a sudden the entire instance just swapped to a fresh map with 30 mins left on the clock still and everyone was standing exactly where they were befor and map chat just blew up with "wtf"s all around
Stop running glint like everyone seems to insist you must. Class is plenty viable withou herald. All herald does is rotate deffensive cooldowns without any thinking required, very borring
Except people run Glint because it’s just too good to pass.
No people choose glint because its so easy and passive to play, and they can survive burst without havinhg to do anything but rotate blocks and heals.
People just like easy mode press 1 button builds
Stop running glint like everyone seems to insist you must. Class is plenty viable withou herald. All herald does is rotate deffensive cooldowns without any thinking required, very borring
Ive prefered offhand axe over sword since the first shiro beta test. Axe does more damage, has a gap closer and an aoe pull with a large range, especially since the cooldown was added to phase traversal, the blocks on sword and shield are nice but i dont find them necessary with how much evasion you can have if you know how to manage energy and endurance and use your sword and hammer 3 more defensively than offensively
People who keep saying base revenant sucks seriously need to learn to play without camping oh kitten buttons. You people are way to reliant on long periods of invulnerability, learn to dodge and time evade frame attacks for more than dpsing
I think the root of the problem is quickness and slow and how they glitch out the actual animation of stomping. Basically you just have to not pay attention to the animation anymore because they never sync up correctly, just watch to make sure there is a cast bar and the stomp will eventually go through after like a second of delay even if it doesnt sync up with the cast bar, just dont move
I think people are using glint too much as a crutch,
Ive been running a shiro/jalis build with all the chance on hit heals and siphon traits and i actually find it has FAR better sustain than herald. Herald only beats jalis if your enemy attacks you durring the heal, otherwise vengfull hammers through evade frames and an on demand heal with condi cleanse keeps you up far longer and lets you apply offensive pressure way better than herald can
People are too addicted to blocks and invulnerablity
The floating shadow face that mordremoth appears as looks exactly like the mouth of mordremoth, why are you trying so hard to deny that its mordremoth?
Why do people keep trying to deny that the mouth of mordremoth IS mordremoth, its pretty obvious that it is mordremoths physical manifestation, i would say the only reason its specified as the MOUTH of mordremoth is because technically all those vines in the jungle are also mordremoth because he is massive and this is essentially his actual head, and mouth of mordremoth sounds better than head of mordremoth
You guys keep saying that the Pact was destroyed and what not, but you are all being confused with the wording
The pact was not decimated, the pact FLEET was decimated, meaning their airship fleet they used to assault zhaitan
The pact is still intact, although they probably did suffer heavy casualties when the fleet was taken down
I think the next dragon will be primordus for a couple reasons,
First, anet has made some brand new models for tengu with hot (one particularly awesome one inside the guild hall) and we all know that the tengu are fighting destroyers in the dominion of wind, so this could be anet preparing for whats next.
Second, during s2 of living story there were npcs that felt like something else was behind the maguuma wastes drying up and that it wasnt mordremoth, could be primordus
And third, (and this one is really pushing it but whatever, tinfoil hat mode activate) the 3rd year birthday finsher with the gold sword when used starts as a purple dragon, and then transitions into red, modremoth has been associated with purple being the elder dragon of mind abd such, maybe this was a subtle hint that we will go from purple(mordremoth) to red(primordus). But again this one is very unlikely
Im going to guess they will either make the player character the leader of the pact based on all the “stealing muh gloryz” complaints about trehearn or they will make rytlock the leader, because fan favorite and seems to kind of taken center stage in HoT
Anywhere a theif can teleport with their shortbow, you can also teleport to with any other blink like ability. You just have to know where those spots are and it depends on where your standing
In hindsight, it becomes obvious this was really the Pale Tree convincing you it was Zhaitan so that you’re left in the dark about Mordremoth
Only because ArenaNet made the Shadow of the Dragon be Mordremoth’s champion.
Remove that from the equation, the hindsight obviousness disappears.
@Kayberz: Heart of Thorns is a finished story.
Raids are based after HoT and have been confirmed to be about the next plot.
The overall story of GW2 will carry on, but the story of Heart of Thorns and Mordremoth is over.
There’s never going to be a reason to delve into the difference between Nightmare and Mordremoth’s call/corruption ever again. There will be too little reason if any to look for Malyk’s tree ever again. Unlike the sylvari are dragon minions thing, there is no reason to delve into these. That plotline is closed.
Unless they decide to bring back Mordremoth thus making the entirety of the HoT plot (and S2 plot) irrelevant and pointless.
Except your wrong. Heart of thorns is NOT over. Obviously if you completed tge last story mission you would see it ends on a major cliffhanger and it NEVER officialy said mordremoth is done for and over with entirely, again thats more people ASSUMING things and jumping to conclusions based on extremely vague cinematics.
Any living story release from here until the next expansion including raids is still heart of thorns, whuch obviously will soon start to be released over the next few months/years. What we have now is essentially the beginning of heart of thorns, even if mordremoth is dead these other plot points are still relevant and can still be explored in the future living story updates which ARE still part of heart of thorns
Again people complaining about unaddressed lore points in an UNFINISHED story. Same thing with living world season 2, people expecting everything to all be explained NEXT EPISODE and when it isnt they complain as if story is alrdy over. Its pretty clear by a lot of the things that happen in hot including the last story cinematic that what we have so far is only the BEGINNING of this arc of the story.
People made their own assumptions about the lore through endless speculation which resulted in them having this whole outline of what they THINK will happen while trying to conveniently connect ALL the underlying plot devices together at the same time expecting it all to be resolved and fit their assumed narative without considering that this is an ongoing story. Hot wasnt the “end”
Its pretty obvious anet plans to continue the story and connect all the things that have been happening since season 1 with living world updates post Hot, i saw the hot story as more of a setup for more living world plot. Others seemed to assume hot was just going to be its own self contained story and would wrap itself up completely at the end and then move on to something entirly new and unrelated to the previous living story releases
Just look at the whole sylvary dragon minion thing, that was planned since befor launch and it took them 3 years to come full circle on focusing and flushing out that plot device. Anet is thinking big picture, not 1 episode at a time
The time limit is to prevent people from exploiting to kill it, such as getting the mob stuck somewhere or something and then aoeing through walls to widdle it down or useing mesmer clones to kill it while you hide somewhere unreachable