Guild Wars 2

TRON.1085:

Parlourbeatflex.5970:

The fact of the matter is the game is now old enough for a legendary item to start becoming more and more common, unfortunately it has meant hardcore players with little knowledge of playing the TP (once you have 20g or more starting capital the TP is VERY EASY to play btw, not saying L2P but comon… it takes like 10 mins to flip items) are being left behind a little bit.

I agree with that part, it has turned into trading post wars 2, either that or get your credit card out or diminishing returns wars 2.

Dont hate the game because you cant farm a Legendarie. There are some more important things that you can hate and need to be improved. If people wants to spend their money on stupid things its their choice, nothing to do about you and that you can cry about anyway. Oh now you are seeing too many Legendaries? Maybe they farmed for them, maybe they spend their money on them. So what ? Stop the useless topics because there are some important things that need to be done and as far as legendarys i can only hope they add more because most of the current ones are simply ugly in my opinion.

I hope that my comment wont go deleted so that the mods see that this forum is being just spammed with topic and topics from people who just cant do stuff and just can complain.

Raine.1394:

I think I got my first exotic drop at around 400 hours. I’ve been doing MF pent/shelt/plinx non-stop for a week without seeing an exotic drop. I did have 2 party members who got one though. Got a ton of blues/greens (5 or so rares) though and MF seems to really work for getting more gear, just mostly stuff to be vendored. Reward for play is just low enough to be non-existent for many players. Hope this is something that will improve soon.

5 rares on a week? Yesterday i got 6 rares in 4 events :/ Thats was luck anyways.

Warrior with light armor, funny guys.

You say WoW, i say Fractals.

You say WoW, i say Fractals.

You say WoW, i say Fractals.

Truth is that FOTM is the same grind system as WoW. Funny is that some people hate WoW but they are 30+ on that stupid dungeon. Anet made an error with that one. “No Grind” they said… yeah right.

i actually hated gw1 as well. ok on its time it was good, but playing it right now ? Hell no. I have mates doing gw1 just for the gw2 ach… whatever

Drauger.2158:

Aphix.9846:

This is not arguable – the achievement is just simply stupid, I could think of 100 better ones in a minute. I’ve done all of the JP’s and revisiting them is by far the most pointless thing I could think of tbh. Events = profit (gold, karma), wvw kills (badges and fun), fractal (profit and fun anyway imo) etc…
Now JP’s = Massive 100% braindead waste of time, I’ve done them all and they are NOT fun the 2nd time you ‘discover them’ (lol what the kitten??)…
Truely shows how incompetent some people are, honestly…if I was trying my hardest to think of a really bad monthly achievement – I wouldn’t even come up with that, that takes some skills to make up smth that bad.

I could not agree more. What a pointless achievement. I’ve done all the JPs but revisiting them is nothing close to fun. Do I have to teleport to all the 30 JPs and discover them while losing my precious silvers to tp costs or do I have to run all the way and spend one day just running? None of them are fun. This, my friends, is a proof that ANet is loosing their grip of understanding what is fun and what is not anymore.

What I am afraid of is that ANet may not be reading posts here and realise what we are complaining about.

I hope I am wrong. I seriously do…

Not we, you are.

Oglaf.1074:

Half Tooth.1867:

And then the bonus of having the heavier set would be to have more armor (obviously) and the bonus of choosing the lighter set would be something to do with speed, maybe -0.2 recharge time on skills or 10% faster endurance rate or -5% of skill casting speed.
Something like this would add customization, and a choice about whether ypu prefer speed or taking damage.

Why should Guardians and Warriors be punished for wearing the armour they are designed for?

Because some people think they can re-create a mmo (: Lots of devs here i see… How is that possible? A Mage wearing light armor. How dare you Anet????

You miss being a full healer? Staff Elementalist and Staff Guardian full healing gear and jewels and you are done with. Next

LOL Imagine this on spvp. Elementalist DD with heavy armor. Let him 1vs5.

Ty but no thanks, its good this way. Heavy armor class have more defense because they do more damage in melee range. That simple.

Aevic.9675:

aocypher.9172:

marnick.4305:

Rukia.4802:

Combat may be ‘fun’ or rather, active but it IS boring with extremely limited skills.. can’t deny that.

I do not agree on the premise that I actually use all 10 skills on my bar plus profession mechanic skills, alternate weapon kit, forms and the like. All of those skills have a use in the correct situation.

Compare to any other MMO where you just spam fireball. Oh yea there’s an optimal routine, but just spamming fireball gets you everywhere. WoW fans called GW1 the 8-skill game. The sad fact being that WoW is pretty much a 1-skill game regardless of how cluttered your screen is.

WoW may be effectively be more simplistic (ie: death knights have many skills that effectively do the same thing on different timers), but GW2’s skill selection is way worst than GW1. Just the fact that 5 of your skills (ie: the weapon skills) are effectively locked (although weaponswaps/attunements/kits helps mitigate that), your 6th skill is locked into “healing”, your 7th – 9th into "utility, and 10th into “elite” doesn’t really add as much build diversity as GW1. (well, that and the not having a 2nd class thing). I understand why the game was designed this way (ie: helps with balance issues), but I still miss the flexibility GW1 gave you in skill/build selection.

Except most of GW1’s skills came from future expansions. There wasn’t so many options when GW1 was released. We had about the same amount of options.

People tend to forget about expansions. And yes i agree there is nothing much to do in the game, but there still is something to do. I dont like fractals as well, b ut i do like my elementalist so i want the best equip for him. Still would be better to get those jewels from another source. I also want to equip t3 for my Asura Eleme., still not there. Not interested on Legendary because there are 3 or 4 that are nice, the others are ugly or kitten I dont play everyday like i used to but i still do my things and im not bored at all. To be able to play when i want and be at the level of my guildies that play everyday is something that you wont get on Tera, TSW or WoW.

hugemistake.5317:

We need to be rewarded for doing hard stuff (like killing a dragon) not for mindless farming and grind.

Pointed this on another topic, nice to see im not the only one thinking the same way. We are in 2013, dont turn this in a grind-or-you-get-nothing game or people will more and more leave the game.

Well, if they are going to implement it outside fractals thats a positive note because i hate the grind to get better stats. Ill get Ascalon, COF, COE, whatever dungeon i have to do to get the correct stats + cosmetic but grinding for something so trivial is ridiculous. And despite being 13 Fractals and having an entire guild doing almost only fractals it pains me to death doing it. In my opinion Fractals helped on killing the game a little more. They just need to give us the feeling of “doing anything when we want”. So i want an exotic jewel? I craft it today or tomorrow. I want to run ARAH? Maybe Tonight, maybe tomorrow. With fractals people just have to do them everyday, dont know why tho, because they need those extra stats and they need to say on guild chat “Hey im 20+. Hey im 30+” I want the extra stats as well and thats the only reason i run fractals. And u know what i do after doing 2 path per day? I log off because some of us bought this game because the main message of the release was “No grind, play when you want and you can still play with your friends any day”

I have 780h and i like the game, but i stop reading when you compare GW2 with watching a movie.

Vissarion.6509:

So finally eles are not the worst class in pvp and ppl are crying about it? really?
You are so limited that is not even funny, same traits, same builds, to be competetive.

Nothing to see here.

This. Dont see the reason to make a post to show people that you can play DD… Everyone knows DD will be nerfed because its too strong, godly damage and godly survability. Overpowered as kitten. You feel bored? Put the daggers on the bag and play Staff or SD, or just play another thing. Cant understand all the crying people show here about everything.

i think i dont need the glass cannon build because i can crit with staff auto atack for almost 3k and with sd dragon tooth has amazing 6k dmg

What gear and jewels would you play this tankcat build?

Well bro, having a main that is the Elementalist with over 500h and having my engi that i also like with 300h (and they are the only jobs i can find interesting for my playstyle) i can say that he is right. With Elementalist you have to play with the CD’s very well and ofc DD Elem is not an example because it is simply broken and will prolly get nerfed. I play my engi with Shield + Pistol + Elixirs and i can say that those who press skills number 1+2+3 and repeat the process with pistol are just bad Engis. Engi is also quite hard to play because u have to be smart of how and when to use the correct Elixirs.

So i use my Engi only at Fractals. Did some good WvW with him but returned to my main (Elem.) But doing Fractals i am running runes of the undead (tough + cond) with gear with prec, tough and cond damage and jewels with power, prec and cond damage. Im thinking on changing my runes to a mix that can give me Cond Duration + Cond Damage. What i am thinking is :

2x Lyss (Prec + Cond Duration)
2x Krait (Cond dmg + cond dur)
2x Afflicted (Cond dmg + con dur)

I used this in spvp once just to having fun and i can stack more bleeds with this build. What do you guys think?

Play Elementalist and not using ALL attunments is like playing a mage in other game and not using skills…

I Use PVT Gear and Weapon with berserker jewels. If you are going full PTV you are wasting your Elementalist. I find myself good with what i am using right now.

I Agree. I Use staff, i get loads of damage and i still can help my team with CC and combo fields. Some people dont understand how important it is to stack vulnerability Different with staff and sd is that u dont have the burst but you still have great damage.

Yep my mistake

I was using power tough vita. The major reason for that armor was the jewels. I was using the knight that gives u Power Prec and Tough. Now i changed to berserker, and omg what a good change. I have more power, more prec and 55 more crit dmg but my armor is now only 2200 wich is ok for an elementalist i think. NOw im stuck on runes only, divinity would be great, ogre and scholar sounds fine for me as well.

Like i said on other post, im changing build from 30 Fire, 10 Air and 30 Arcana to 30 Fire, 20 Air, 10 Water and 10 Arcana. Im also going to change my jewels. Was using Knight, gonna go with ruby. More dps sounds good.

Changing build from 30 Fire, 10 Air and 30 Arcana to 30 Fire, 20 Air, 10 Water and 10 Arcana. Between runes of scholar and eagle, what do u think i should use on my ele?

Kolisch.4691:

This is like power build players asking ANET to remove toughness.

True.

Dunno why people are never happy. Cmon Anet remove conditions cleaner and toughness from the game and had more 200% damage to all jobs!

It so many, “Now does less than 33% damage” it seems u want Anet to delete this job.

wertyuio.8630:

it all depends on what build you’re using. if you’re using knight’s gear, i believe you should have something around 30% crit. if you’re going full zerker, it’s easily 50-60% crit. if you’re using full soldier (power/vit/toughness), you should have 0% crit.

you can factor in the fury + swiftness boon from your arcana trait line… that’s another 20% for 3 seconds after attunement swap.

that being said… crit chance isn’t a major factors for eles to consider. it’s more of a niche more suited for glass cannon warriors and thieves. instead, you should be asking yourself how much power, toughness, and vitality you have.

Numbers on WvW:

15k HP
2700 tough
3300 Atack
29% crit chance.

I have this doubt as well. I use staff as well but i dunno if i should go all berserk or stay with more vita and tough

Well i played with that setting from the pre-launch because Ele is hard to master and u really have to move and dodge and see what is happening on the map. But now i think i have to make it some changes, on set and runes probably.

Sigil of fire here

Asura and working on that great t3 armor

Im picking PTV because its the build i have on my ele but i may switch it for full berserk just to try to compare de damage outpunt in wvw. But its ur choice mate, i wouldnt go cd with staff. Power or Healing power ftw

I was runing power tough vita ele from the begining of the game but mght try a glass cannon build.

I’ve done 5 or 6 since the pre-launch xD Nice chance to doing them for me

I play Staff Elementalist as my main, first class i uped to 80. Have an Engi and Necro as Well, like them both but i consider ele my main. And as my main i use Power tough vit on set, major runes of flame legion (might change them to scholar) and sigil of fire on staff ( might switch to +250 atack bonus). I play as a AOE Damage dealer, sometimes switching to SD but staff is so cool on WvW that i cant switch it Well i use it to everything: wvw and farm.

engi with the correct gear, traits and runes is the best condition dealer of the game with pistol + shield

Staff is great for aoe cc and aoe damage. I cant understand why people wouldnt want to use staff in a dungeon. But it depends on your playstyle tho. I always use my staff ele.

My Elementalist is full power tough vita, and i cant see the lack of survability… 3300 atack, 2700 tough, 15k hp. Not the best build for pvp but its cool on dungeons and wvw. Gonna work on asura tier 3 armor and bifrost next

Play what you like and adapt the class you are playing. U cant play an engineer or a ranger the same way u play an elementalist.

For now ill just mix Arah and TA on my Charr Necro but my end game armor will be the tier 3. Its so kitten good I already have deathwish but for dagger and scepter i have no idea what to farm. I want something different from the dungeons weapons