Guild Wars 2

Zinwrath.2049:

I’ve asked this since beta 1. I know its brought up before. Never got an answer on it though.

Is it because we have so few weapon options?
But that doesnt make sense…then i would just ask why we have so few weapon options…

Is it because we have access to kits?
But that doesnt make sense….that would mean they are balancing my profession assuming i ALWAYS am using atleast one kit. which would mean i’m under powered anytime i’m not using a kit and STILL over powered if i use more than 1 kit. NO…still wrong.

Is it because of the toolbelt?
Well, gaurdian has access to 3 extra abilities, hunter has access to 4 through its pet though only one can be activated by the player which he can customize by what pet, necromancer gets 4 other abilities through Deathshroud..
No…that doesnt seem right either….everyone else has access to plenty of utility on their profession abilitys…still doesnt seem right.

I cant figure it out….anyone else know?

We can not because such is design decision.

I wish they reduced Slick Shoes CD to 45s untraited. Love this soooo much but dang 60s CD.

Engie> all

simple i won’t drop my engie!

FUN FACT

I decided for engineer as my main ~1 month BEFORE it was revealed as playable class. How? There were many signs he will be a class, from book, lore, etc. I remember saying even to my girlfriend “should i play thief i have decided for now or the sure-to-bo engineer class that they will announce for sure next month?!”

Still happy how spot on i was.

eisberg.2379:

Their mobility app is on hold at this time. They moved the team working on that to work on making fixes for the game. That was the right decision to make. So it is still on their list of things to do, but there are far more important things to do first.

How do you move someone who is proficient at web coding and design and not on game coding? Mainly thinking here about that woman lead responsible for it.

Oceangrave.9657:

I have not been able to finish a single group event in the past 2 weeks because every time im even near the event, the game crashes. When i finally get back the whole even is done, or nearly done, but even if i do some damage or join the last few seconds, i get nothing. This is extremely frustrating. I dont even just get them at events, it happens randomly when im exploring too. Sound goes off, start making a weird alarm type noise in my left ear of my headset and then a few seconds later crashes, and i experience that atleast 15 times a day.

Yes i repaired the game several times and my fps is capped and always at 60 fps.

Since release i crashed maybe 2 times.

Red Falcon.8257:

It’s an exploitable decision.

The boons that matter in pvp are only 3: protection, stability, retailation.
People will simply run with just those and don’t stack the others.
Eles will not use the vigor/regen trait, Guards will not use SY.

Basically nothing really changes, unless the damage increase vs boons is at least 5% per boon.

I disagree with your post.

Fury, Vigor etc, they all matter and have huge impact.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Killyox.3950:

Kaiwen.1520:

Hahah. Really one of the best RP server’s I’ve been on in my MMO career. If I emote after an event, I almost always get a response from another RPer and all of a sudden it ain’t about whackin’ those monsters anymore.

It’s about ze art of makin’ stuffs up!

Yes sir, I come from a long line of banana-cream pie salesman. I came here to save my bananas.

What server? I might have fun as well! Haven’t RPed since UO pre-aos

Tarnished Coast, US server

EU here :S

vinceftw.5086:

Killyox.3950:

vinceftw.5086:

I have tried engi a few times a couple of months ago and deleted it after missing constantly with FT. I made one a few days ago and I don’t miss anymore. It got fixed.

It was never a problem:P For those who at least knew how it worked:> People watched the flame where it was going, should watch where they turn camera at with right mouse button. Still FT is best used without actuall target.

How it used to be was that it shoots where you look at. Thing is,.. looking at where your camera is angled, severely hurts you. I look around for more enemies while fighting, to ensure not getting grouped on, and with a flamethrower, your fire ill just miss. Now, if you target people you can actually look around while fighting.

Did you find it fun that you couldn’t look around while firing while all other professions can?

Once again, I never had problem so I dunno what the big deal was. You could look around using LMB instead of RMB.

vinceftw.5086:

I have tried engi a few times a couple of months ago and deleted it after missing constantly with FT. I made one a few days ago and I don’t miss anymore. It got fixed.

It was never a problem:P For those who at least knew how it worked:> People watched the flame where it was going, should watch where they turn camera at with right mouse button. Still FT is best used without actuall target.

TBH i amm rather surprised they gave us Elixir X and not some Elite Turret, Elite Kit or anything else.

Supply Crate needs absolutely no changes. It is alreadyp retty good actually, stun, dmg, healing, turrets.

I always wondered what is the problem with people missing really. I was never missing with it since beta really. Exception to that is when aiming at static objects but that apparently has been fixed as i am having no problem with that anymore as well.

Few more tweaks to FT and it’s gonna be decent/good. Maybe even very good.

I hope so myself because I love it and would love for it to be viable in pvp.

Actually. Kits could be made very useful with very little changes really.

I also miss Backdraft for FT and Napalm Wall that besides burning also blinded.

Kaiwen.1520:

Hahah. Really one of the best RP server’s I’ve been on in my MMO career. If I emote after an event, I almost always get a response from another RPer and all of a sudden it ain’t about whackin’ those monsters anymore.

It’s about ze art of makin’ stuffs up!

Yes sir, I come from a long line of banana-cream pie salesman. I came here to save my bananas.

What server? I might have fun as well! Haven’t RPed since UO pre-aos

Snow White.9680:

Better questions:

Why do I have no control over where my clones are placed?

Why do my clones run into melee range and get themselves instantly killed when their abilities have 1200 range on them? o.O

Because they are in enemies mind :P

Daviez.4913:

Lokheit.7943:

You need a mind to play your trick in. Clones don’t exist and alwaya go for their target. They’re supposedly just in your opponents imagination, and you’re able to hurt them through their minds. With no enemies you can’t play the trick on your crowd.

yeah I know that, and after all why can’t I play with all the minds around me “who see them”, with this then how can Necros summon their minions if they are made from bones and stuff from rock, stones or on the street through concrete? I’m just saying that mesmers should be able to summon clones too in out of combat

No, minions are actually summoned from underworld itself and shaped by necromancer. Thank Grenth for that.

Clones and Phantasms do not exist. They are mind tricks. With no mind to play with you don’t get them and using it on friendly NPCs is illogical.

Terrahero.9358:

Napalm is dreadful. Long cooldown, virtually no damage, for a fire combofield. Seriously? Thats just kitten poor.
Smoke Vent has only 1 strengtht, it works even when CCd. But its melee range, and has a long cooldown for what is otherwise a pretty basic effect.

Napalm is actually decent. It lasts 10 sec, people in organised play can easily blast it for AoE 3 stacks of might per blast and other useful combos (flame shield, burn etc).

When you also down someone you can put it under his kitten and ignore him for 10s + and be sure he won’t be healing himself unless he has downed movement skill ready.

Smoke Vent can also be used while stomping, start stomping that ranger or warrior and blind their daze/hammer.

Smoke Vent could use a minor buff imo, either radius or number of blinds.

Napalm is good, but i wouldn’t mind giving it BLIND it used to have in beta.

It’s ok for pve along with rifle. Double blast bug from flame blast is actually pretty good and seems to strike 5+ targets (aoe cap). With +15% dmg trait it is decent when mixed with rifle (for net shot, overcharged shot, blunderbuss up close) to secure flameblast dmg.

Air Blast is pretty good with mild cc and projectile reflect.

In PvP it needs still a little help imo. It’s just not that useful.

Imo shorter Flame Jet channel and bit buffed #5 would put it in great place.

EDIT: and also they need to fix bug with Flame Blast never exploding when hitting solid obstacles, like ground, walls etc. This is really game breaking.

In Hot Joins you can often troll entire groups @Keep point with aimed Flame Blasts every 4,5s or so

I remember all the promises of additional tools akin to WoW’s armory and mobile armory being available on website and for applications for android and other popular systems.

Since release that has been over half a year ago we have not heard a single word about it.

There was supposed to be seperate team for WWW and such feature that would not affect other game features developments.

So ?

Read forum guidelines before posting threads that automatically fall under “lock”. It’s not them hiding behind mod. It’s you that is unable to adhere to the rules and constantly break them.

Kamahl.3621:

People are assuming burn on every tick would be OP.

What if it was a 0.25 second burn on every tick?

Would result in no burn because it needs to be 1 full sec. Same with +condition duration, you need to gain full new ticks otherwise it is useless (with exception to control condis like immobilize, cripple or only one dmg condi, confusion that benefits from all +dur)

bleed burn need + full ticks

Rank doesn’t mean anything beyond time put into game. Friend has rank 63 because he plays a whole lot. Anyone playing that much would have 55+ certainly.

No.

I will support the game AFTER i deem it worth and find value in it for money. I won’t throw cash so they MIGHT make something.

They should do things first to satisfy us and we then can decide whether it was enough or not with our money.

No. Don’t want. We need tweaks to kits, not new weapons or kits made weapons.

It’s fine the way it is just need to adjust skills.

Goopy.7185:

I understand that the Sylvari as they are do not have a second form, my question is why does that have to be canon forever? Things can change and evolve in a story and the Sylvari are probably the easiest story in the game to edit. I mean, they have magic physiology already, who knows what else they can do?

Because if there would be new type then it would not be sylvari. Same way like dwarfs are dwarfs, human humans, norn norn, elves elves and so on. It would be a new type and thus with a new name for it.

Blacklight.2871:

Killyox.3950:

Blacklight.2871:

Linguistically Inept.6583:

i thought it was either because…
the pale tree seed was influenced by ronan carrying it (i believe this is what is stated on the wiki… but am too lazy to check)
or;
it was planted on a human graveyard; and emulated what it found

Those are the most accepted reasons for why the sylvari look like they do, dating back to forum discussions years ago. There’s also a theory that sylvari can’t exist without an imprint to replicate, so they have no “natural” form, and another theory that the Pale Tree is a type of dragon, or they are the antithesis of dragons. Basically, dragons embody entropy and these trees (there are more than one) embody renewel. Together they form an engine of change in the world that keeps Tyria turning (metaphysically at least).

Personally, I expect we will see new Pale Trees (although they may not be pale, specifically) with their own unique sylvari populations, introduced with each major expansion, right alongside the new dragon threat.

We already get info about other Pale Tree in the game, up in the maguuma jungle regions and we get to meet 1 sylvari from the other Pale Tree. Thing is; he does not know nightmare court nor does he know any teaching like velen’s but he is honorary.

He does not know what a “Pale Tree” is until you explain it to him. They also look human like but don’t have anything nightmare court like. He also does NOT have a link with his own Tree like our sylvari do. We can assume there are others too.

I have a theory about that too. That individual is a left over from the last time the dragons appeared in the world.

He can’t be because he was born 2 weeks before that’s why he has no memories and you can see the seed or whatever that he came from by the river.

No. And this will not happen.

Except exploration and puzzles are NOT PvE exlusive by design. Want it? Do it like it’s designed to (since it is working as intended). You don’t HAVE to have 100% map.

Quite frankly it will not happen.

Their form is whatever they look like. It’s not like ny other form exists and not like they can change their form at will.

Anything that does not look like sylvari is simply not sylvari. That’s why sylvan hounds are not sylvari ;p

Oglaf.1074:

Killyox.3950:

This is their true form.

Pale tree observed humans while it grew for a very long time and learned how humans “work” and emulated it and created Sylvari.

This is their true form. For anything else Pale tree would probably need another 100-200 years looking at different life form and thinking how to emulate it.

Also there are many Pale Trees.

You forget that the Pale Tree also creates Sylvan Hounds which are entirely different than the Sylvari.

Please provide source because Sylvan Hounds afaik are not product of Pale Tree.

Blacklight.2871:

Linguistically Inept.6583:

i thought it was either because…
the pale tree seed was influenced by ronan carrying it (i believe this is what is stated on the wiki… but am too lazy to check)
or;
it was planted on a human graveyard; and emulated what it found

Those are the most accepted reasons for why the sylvari look like they do, dating back to forum discussions years ago. There’s also a theory that sylvari can’t exist without an imprint to replicate, so they have no “natural” form, and another theory that the Pale Tree is a type of dragon, or they are the antithesis of dragons. Basically, dragons embody entropy and these trees (there are more than one) embody renewel. Together they form an engine of change in the world that keeps Tyria turning (metaphysically at least).

Personally, I expect we will see new Pale Trees (although they may not be pale, specifically) with their own unique sylvari populations, introduced with each major expansion, right alongside the new dragon threat.

We already get info about other Pale Tree in the game, up in the maguuma jungle regions and we get to meet 1 sylvari from the other Pale Tree. Thing is; he does not know nightmare court nor does he know any teaching like velen’s but he is honorary.

He does not know what a “Pale Tree” is until you explain it to him. They also look human like but don’t have anything nightmare court like. He also does NOT have a link with his own Tree like our sylvari do. We can assume there are others too.

Boring ;p
/15chars

This is their true form.

Pale tree observed humans while it grew for a very long time and learned how humans “work” and emulated it and created Sylvari.

This is their true form. For anything else Pale tree would probably need another 100-200 years looking at different life form and thinking how to emulate it.

Also there are many Pale Trees.

There is no 0%

There is always some chance. You just don’t see it.

You may have 0,05% chance of finding exotic for example by default. Now if you get +100% mf it becomes 0,1% chance.

If there was 0% chance then getting 128512938429% MF increase would result in….0%

Anything * 0 = 0

RoyalPredator.9163:

Sirendor.1394:

No they don’t. A ranger isn’t a shooter class, it’s a “nature” class. The bow has always been the main weapon of rangers. Rifles are for ‘developed’ classes, such as the engineer.

LoL at you…. Its *RANGE*r. Not “nature” class, even if some hippie or arenanet thinks that.
It would be good if we can “snipe” with rifles. Only problem is that it requires no skill at all. Bows neither

You are wrong. Ranger is exactly wat ArenaNet thinks it is, says it is etc. If they say it’s nature class then it is nature class. Period. They design the game and apply their ideas to the game, not you. The sooner you accept that this is their vision come true and not yours the sooner you will feel better.

Also it’s not “RANGE’r”. This has completely zero relevance. Just because some word is in another does not mean anything. Read up on who a ranger was/is in RL.

Just because there is “Straw” in “Strawberry” does not mean Strawberry has Straws or is about them.

139+ atm and already used over 70 on stuff

Rookni.2469:

Killyox.3950:

Jackums.3496:

It’s amusing how people can get so offended by a tier list.

People on the Internet get offended by the notion of anyone having different opinion from theirs.

People on the internet also make lists about listmakers that are good at listmaking

What happens with the list if DD ele gets a major nerf and people actually starts to understand the necro? Will take forever for DD to get “lower tier” cause of the acne crew raging over their Red Bulls!

You already have one such example. Ranger with traps. It’s been the same since release really and only now people tried it widely and noticed he is powerful.

Also those lists are not too good because some ppl rate based on 1 working OP spec and other overall capability.

Med.6150:

Let me Head Shot you a few times and tell me how you feel on that subject again.

Yeah come do this please. Tell me after how does it feel to be dead and not doing any dmg because you burned all ini on head shots

Doesn’t stop me from using Kits either. Also this in particular is thing only thieves can do.

Do you think headshotting me is worth more than killing someone with your dmg in that time?

Never. Too expensive and too little benefits from opening a chest.

I once opened 5 chests with 1 key because every next chest contained key.

Still, imo, it’s not worth it.

When you go to your mailbox and proceed with link sent by ArenaNet tick the “remember network” and then allow access.

MysticRoots.5463:

I played a lock in wow as my main, im now playing a Mesmer and it is a fantastic class, very fun and high damage but nothing at all like a warlock, more shaman if anything i would say. Worth checking out though as im having great fun leveling it up

Friend had the same enthusiasm as you do. Now at 80 and after 100% map etc he curses left and right for playing mesmer in pve :>

In PvP mesmers are still too one dimensional with shatter spec

SilverWF.4789:

Look at this video (my own)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GZsiUqlgt8

Ok, I’m noob, lamer, bla-bla.

Here is another FT vid, from RG Engi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjC6fJia4Jc
RG – another very skilled WvW players.

Look at DPS – it’s pathetic >< 200-300 damage per tick with CRIT! >< Lol.
Even retaliation hits harder ><
Any guardian laughting at it and saying they can do more damage with 1st skill of staff. And I know it by my own 80 guardian too – his 1st staff skill have more radius (600) also it’s conic AOE, it have more target limits (5). But guards have more group support skills…

WvW holds no power for balancing. sPvP is what matters. And for sPvP purposes changes i mentioned are sufficient.

How many hours on engie you have and what is your win % in tournaments? PvP rank? How much you invested in playing sPvP?

This puzzles me a bit. There is a confirmation question after you choose order asking you if you really want to choose it. Did your mouse slip 2-3 times ? (talking to right NPC, choosing you wish to join and then confirming it) ?

Caatalyst.7289:

I’ve lived with my girlfriend for nearly four years. I guess the novelty of real life lingerie has worn off.

Dunno. I see the sexiest and newest lingerie made. All the kinds of fishnets and so on. If i were to give every kind to my girl she would need to get new one daily.

Caatalyst.7289:

Im 25 mate! Just got a passion for sexy lingerie

I’m 27 soon ;p still i was speaking in general, not directly about you:)

I see sexy lingerie every day for 8 hours. Might be the reason I am indifferent for it in-game.

SilverWF.4789:

Look at this video (my own)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GZsiUqlgt8

Ok, I’m noob, lamer, bla-bla.

Here is another FT vid, from RG Engi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjC6fJia4Jc
RG – another very skilled WvW players.

Look at DPS – it’s pathetic >< 200-300 damage per tick with CRIT! >< Lol.
Even retialation hits harder ><
Any guardian laughting at it and saying they can do more damage with 1st skill of staff. And I know it by my own 80 guardian too – his 1st staff skill have more radius (600) also it’s conic AOE, it have more target limits (5). But guards have more group support skills…

FT only needs some tweaks i mentioned. Cutting channel alone will dramatically increase DPS. FT also has added burn, can proc a lot of stuff “on crit” even with low crit chance due to frequency, has 400 range unlike melee weaps.

It’s not bad. It just needs quicker channel on #1. Rest as mentioned in my earlier post.

Flame Blast for example hits like truck with proper build but is really buggy (as in i did 8-11k crits with it and aoe)

Tbh this topic should not exist.

Duels should be in. Period. Question is Duels – why NOT?

It’s easier to experiment with friends, theorycraft skills and practice it to see how it works and just to practice vs certain classes and races.

I think it is very bland atm.

Why are there no requirements like:

Interrupt 20 enemies
Do X damage in a single hit.
Knockdown 20 enemies
Knockdown 3 enemies with one skill.
Launch enemy from capture point
Survive with less than 5% health
Remove/Convert 50 conditions from yourself
Combo with 15 players

etc

These would actually encourage people do learn the game

CachoDm.4639:

If you play ele you know what getting interrupted feels when doing CE xD js

That’s a single case:) Even then it is hardly that much rewarding. Minor annoyance

Jackums.3496:

It’s amusing how people can get so offended by a tier list.

People on the Internet get offended by the notion of anyone having different opinion from theirs.

Engie in A group imo. He still has strong builds.