@OP you are seriously setting yourself up for massive disappointment.
Elimination of RNG, and better loot drops risk/time vs Reward. That is all i want. I don’t need kitten for gifts.
25 days! Not another grind! /sarcasm
Seriously though,* I hope the new armor will look great. *
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha…….
You’re new to Gw2 aren’t you?
I don’t understand where all the hostility is coming from in this thread.
Must be greatsword users…. LOL
Anyways, it’s common knowledge that GS burst is amazing but as far as sustained damage it will lack dps compared to sword/X. It is a burst weapon, plain and simple and effective at it. Sword does need a bit of time to get the bleeds rolling, but especially now that it has an aspd buff it is much better than before.
I’m no good with numbers at all, so I cannot vouch for those statistics, but I do know that over a long period of time sword should do comparable damage, or even more than the greatsword. There is no such thing as a weapon end-all-be-all. I play pure sword/shield and longbow but I am a former greatsword user and I do know of its burst potential. It’s about comparing two playstyles as the OP stated, burst vs sustained damage.
Thousands of people will return the day Anet acknowledges the loot tables are absolute garbage and fix it so that time and effort is rewarded correctly for things other than greens blues and worthless materials.
After reading that giant mess I feel as if jumping is the least of your worries in this world……
I did enjoy the completion parts of forging a legendary, but unfortunately now I am stuck trying to acquire the rest of the t6 mats and the precursor. I refuse to buy any parts off the trading post so between the 3 t6 mats I pick up every day and the invisible precursor, i’ve hit this massive wall only luck will bring me out of.
Progress is the key word for any sort of thing like this. “Progress” is what people want to feel while working toward something so legendary. Even though it’s very hard to obtain and takes a lot of time at the least we do want to feel like we’re accumulating something that we can stockpile and go toward it. Currently with t6 mats and the precursor, those pieces hardly even come in.
Until I see some living loot and some dead RNG I could give two kittens less about what they have going on for them.
Yess! I got one too! all creatures will lose their homes!
(I wish i bought the pick and the sickle :/)
I think to most people the stats are less than optimal for their builds, why can’t it be at least salvaged is my question >.>
How dare you ask such a question.
Stick to RNG and boxes please.
Market manipulation post in 3….2…..1……
This is exactly what separates the excellent and the inexperienced. Those of us who have stuck it out as warriors and learned counters to the most powerful builds out there. Running berserker’s is the worst possible decision you can make, in my honest opinion. You hear about the lack of warrior sustain everywhere you look in these foul and putrid forums for warriors, yet all of them run berserker gear. Tell me, which class can run full berserker gear and last more than 1 minute in any fight without running away to reset the fight? Figure out what works for YOU. I personally run apothecary gear for the condition damage and heavy healing, as well as the high toughness to avoid burst. Shout heals allow for a MUCH higher EHP.
Find what works, use it to your advantage, master it. That’s what I can tell you. Warriors DO NOT suck in tPvP, and you’ll find that if you put enough time into mastering the class rather than learning to play it, you’ll seldom lose.
Same guy who tells the “glorious” story (as he states it) about how he was running in wvw and casted a mass invis and a zerg of 40+ behind them just ran off a cliff into their demise, as if mass invis worked on more targets than a handful….
Some people just talk, to talk.
What?… so he uses mass invis on himself and you’re gonna call him out saying mass invis has a target cap? last i check it wasn’t less than one…
His zerg of about 30+ was running from their zerg of about 40+ or 50, something much larger… and he casted mass invis and watched as the “entire” opposing zerg fell to their death.
This is exactly what separates the excellent and the inexperienced. Those of us who have stuck it out as warriors and learned counters to the most powerful builds out there. Running berserker’s is the worst possible decision you can make, in my honest opinion. You hear about the lack of warrior sustain everywhere you look in these foul and putrid forums for warriors, yet all of them run berserker gear. Tell me, which class can run full berserker gear and last more than 1 minute in any fight without running away to reset the fight? Figure out what works for YOU. I personally run apothecary gear for the condition damage and heavy healing, as well as the high toughness to avoid burst. Shout heals allow for a MUCH higher EHP.
Find what works, use it to your advantage, master it. That’s what I can tell you. Warriors DO NOT suck in tPvP, and you’ll find that if you put enough time into mastering the class rather than learning to play it, you’ll seldom lose.
Same guy who tells the “glorious” story (as he states it) about how he was running in wvw and casted a mass invis and a zerg of 40+ behind them just ran off a cliff into their demise, as if mass invis worked on more targets than a handful….
Some people just talk, to talk.
1) Loot drop (Time vs Reward etc)
2) RNG Boxes, RNG Precursor
3) Too much Temporary content, needs more focused on endgame permanent content, more diverse armor. People will be more satisfied with good looking armor skins over weapon skins.
Can’t wait for the next temporary update, hopefully they’ll name it “The Attack Of Gem RNG Boxes.”
This lmfao.
No instructions whatsoever, just randomly jump and try to wade your way through this steaming pile of kitten. Sure you can look up guides but that ruins the experience, however the experience is an ugly mess. And once you make it inside, if you happen to go through a random teleporter laying there it kicks you alllll the way out, hurray!
I LOVE, this living story temporary content. They work so kitten it.
Also the reward? Oh, just some skins we already have and could’ve gotten off the TP.
I love the bleed. With the new animation sped up it has increased the overall DPS to the weapon and has made power/crit builds significantly more viable. The bleed is just gravy and the fact that you can now stack close to 25, (20 easily) by your lonesome is quite overwhelming in itself. I would say the only other weapon that really rivals the sword in any way is the hammer, however I don’t like hammer at all, so I am using sword/shield and it is keeping up VERY well. I am glad I have a CHOICE between using sword now instead of being forced to use hammer or a greatsword due to better dps, or cc etc.
Also, so many of the monsters in this game, especially in the higher level areas have many unnecessary CC abilities.
Knockback, Stun, Immobilize, pull… etc, the list goes on into things that don’t even have anything to do with such a thing and still slow you down.
It’s just a sad way of Anet saying “please please fight our monsters instead of running past them” But at the same time they drop useless kitten like porous bones. Go figure, right?
Not to mention the permanent cripple bug they’ve failed to acknowledge.
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Anet has ignored all threads regarding the precursors also loot drops (risk vs reward) or more truthfully told Reward vs Time played. They are trying to sweep under the rug those topics until they can make any changes and are pretty much refusing to address them directly.
Yeah kittenty results.
The most glorious battle was when I led my zerg of 40 Kaineng to the edge of the cliff by heals, mass invis’d and watched the TC zerg of 80 cliff boss themselves, running through us. ’Twas glorious indeed.
Too bad mass invis only works on a handful of targets and cant invis everyone, otherwise it would be OP.
Nice fake story though. Not sure what kind of glory you really wanted by posting this.
Just in last month i dropped 7 dusk, 3 dawn, 2 legends and 1 carcharias playing olny 2h/day. Idk what u guys complains about ; o
Do you not know because you cannot comprehend? Because that is the only reason I could see why you don’t know what’s going on. Other than that, if you DO know what is going on and are just posting to try and sound cool over an internet game forum over something you cannot prove in your broken english then I don’t know what to say about your life.
The TP is pure kitten really. I don’t know why it runs differently from the rest of the game but it is so kittening bad.
The only suggestion I can offer is to reset the game. Mine will lock up frequently while I play and won’t show a thing, and I will have to close out the entire game, but i’m sure if you’ve tried to fix it that extensively then you already tried that.
Always slow and buggy. Periodically….too often, it will get bugged and nothing will be shown on its layout whatsoever. It takes an entire closing of the game and relogging in. Fix it now.
Yes. This is pathetic and needs to be fixed immediately.
No quiz needed. Nothing else matters other than pvp, and the weakest class is warrior.
In pve, everything is viable.
Are ridiculous. Invincibility, and an AoE knockback that you cannot block against.
What were you smoking when you thought this up? Just curious.
Why spread out RNG averages evenly between 100% of the population, when you can increase the rate for 10% of the accounts, screw the other 90% completely, and have people so desperate to buy gems to convert into gold to help themselves out?
Anyone else having this bug? I click sell junk button but I still have white/blue/green loot in my inventory, even some exotics are still there, what gives?
Up until now for pve I was running full zerk greatsword build, but now with the new traits I am finding that GS is lackluster. I am LOVING my new sword and I always carry a shield so my preferred set right now is pretty much sword/shield + Rifle for anything ranged.
Now I jump in and out of pve and wvw about 60-40 so of course I would like something that can be played in both realms. For us warriors, it can easily be done now since I am using a more balanced build with traits that compliment my sword and shield, as opposed to running a pure glasscannon for pve purposes, I have found that my traits are working well no matter what I am doing and there is no need for swapping! Great!
Cleansing Ire and burst mastery are so fun.
What do you fellow warriors suggest I wear as far as gear goes? Currently I am wearing full Zerk armor with valk trinkets and it seems to be working alright. I am not very good at crunching numbers however and although I can play effectively, my stats may not be as effective as they should. I much prefer going a power build for sword, and do understand that sometimes toughness > vitality.
Everything is up in the air for me at the moment. Trying to balance my build stat wise the best I can between Crit chance/Damage, power, toughness and vit. Cant have it all, but I can sure try. I have seen a lot of people running hammer now and have listed some armor to supplement that, but I dislike that thing so much and really prefer sword/shield.
Chests for meta events that drop 1 random t6 would be nice. Good idea.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed myself today doing arah p4 for the first time with 4 others who have never done it, but spending 3 hours in there and getting 2 rares and 60 tokens same as the other paths that are three times shorter doesn’t make it very rewarding. The biggest selling point of an mmo is progression or at least the reward, gw2 has nothing other than a lucky precursor drop which most of us will never see.
My team was great, it required the utmost coordination and patience. Jesus that one was tough but so fun.
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Wtf is a “toon”
Gw2 will never be what gw1 was.
I spent hours in that game doing so many things that seemingly were not “diverse” but was content with it anyways.
Hell, I know I logged thousands of hours in iself just sitting in town trading and interacting with other people during my summers in high school. So fun. The game was very charming, and much more enchanting feeling.
The only things I like about gw2 are the graphics and the fluid combat system, but even then it’s not perfect. This living story content that comes out kills me slowly because it feels like a slap in the face compared to the reason I got into all of this in the first place.
I hate how loot in this game is like grinding in the real world. We are basically picking up gold and buying things with that gold that are so rare most of us will never see it drop. In gw1, even though we had to “grind” we did so and if we got lucky, we would see an awesome rare skin/item. Also, there are certain places these things would drop over others, ie frog scepters/ dragon bone staves whatever they were… so cool.
Not many dropped but the feeling they did was great, not something we can experience here in gw2.
You warriors are aware you only get substain when you actually gear for it right?
This has nothing to do with gear. No matter how you gear, warrior sustain will never be how it is for other classes, it is how we are built. Play another class and you will understand the versatility and sustain you have in a large fight (think WvW) and compare to that of a warriors. Currently we are are burst class, overall. Anyone and everyone can survive longer with the right armor and standing back waiting for cooldowns.
This is not a discussion for try hards, kiddo.
Judging by your signature trying to show off your “Ranger PvP movies” you have no kittening clue what you’re doing. How was that ranger nerf today btw?
I will continue to wear my Zerk gear and make endure pain/whirwhind passes at giant zergs until next balance patch. Crossing my fingers.
I play warrior.
Zerker traits regarding pve needed to be changed. Saw that coming.
Lots of odd changes to sword that I enjoy, but nerf on leg specialist was uncalled for. Was hoping for a really big change to warriors to bring them back into some category of usefulness, but so far all I see is all the other classes specializing in something the warrior can do, but better. So we are still subpar and do not dominate any one field of play.
Sad day. Still waiting for entire warrior re-build as a class, so poorly designed for pvp. No sustain.
Is the hysteria here as bad as it is in the warrior sub-forum? The patch notes look pretty good to me; but those guys are losing their minds because their precious ’zerker greatsword build took a bit of a nerf, which of course means the world is ending as we speak.
You must not have been reading. In the warrior forum a lot of people knew the trait changes to the zerk greatsword build would be changed. That wasn’t the problem, in pve we are still almost as effective as we were, we lost a bit of damage, but just damage.
We were one of the weakest classes in pvp, especially wvw, we lack sustainability and are outshined in any role, and none of that was changed, instead we have a lot of different defensive traits that supposedly would help us but really did not push us to increase our strength in any given area. The warrior itself needs a giant rework.
Yeah, unfortunately I love my warrior so much. I’ve worked very hard for her and all she has and time after time looked the other way as far as her weakness/sustainability in WvW pvp but there is nothing that she shines at, that other classes cannot do better. Rerolling guardian unfortunately and going to stock up on transmutation stones to bring my skins over :/
And then continue to wreck cof p1? cant tell which one adds up to be more damage in the long run
4.) Zero personal progression and a severe lack of “Reward”.
Fractals level?
PVP Rank?
WvW Rank?
Achievement Points?
I find it pathetic when people try to make a point with things similar to this. Clearly the OP is trying to explain that there is no enriching variety of endgame play. Grinding for achievement points or a higher rank/level in the exact same thing over and over does NOT count as a good variety of endgame. That makes no sense. Some people are completionists, most are not. If you decide to post your two cents, think about forming a proper rebuttal next time, this is juvenile.
So you DIDNT support the better predecessor of the game, that was absolutely worth playing, yet you want cooler titles that have no effect on gameplay. Hmmm…..
Im sorry, so supporting their current game (I bought a lot of gems as well, probably more money spent on gems than it takes to buy gw1) shouldnt be rewarded? Oh thats right, I should be REQUIRED to buy an old kitten game (no matter how good in some peoples mind) and play it, in order to get a halfway decent title in the game I am currently playing and paying money for?
Think about it this way: if you DID buy GW1, you’d be supporting them anyway.
Most of the titles in GW1 are hilariously easy to get anyway… most of them.
And why are you so opposed for putting in attainable titles that are good in gw2? I DONT want to buy the previous game, its not a MMO to me, just a multiplayer game. Now I am not saying its bad, but gw2 is my passion, and I would like some good titles no associated with gw1 linked accounts thanks.
See if gw2 is your “passion” then you don’t deserve any good titles. I don’t see why this discussion is going any further than this.
Sea of Sorrows Scavenger Hunt—Begins June 25
In this new permanent content, retrace the steps of Cobiah Marriner. Twelve plaques have been set up to honor the history of the city and its founder. You can find clues to the plaques’ locations in Sea of Sorrows. Complete the scavenger hunt to earn five skill points.ya their alredy got a scavenger hunt and you get a wate for it …….wate for it……. 5 of the greatest itoms in the world…..SKILL POINTS!!!!! omg yes we have been answered we have a scavenger hunt that rewards the players. (player chimes in) but what about precursors. ahh yes those itoms that everyone wants and needs for a legendary. well WvW you have a chance to get them and Zermous is always likely to give you one and also you can go fight dragons to get a chance to get one.
and yes I’m at 2.5k hours and still nothing i clock in everyday for 3-12 hours in hopes I can finally get mine.
Did you even think before you wrote this? I am trying to decipher it but it is so horribly written that I don’t even know whether to take this piece of garbage seriously or not.
I had to throw it out because I didn’t have enough slots even though I wanted to keep it pretty badly but these days I am at that point where anything completely unnecessary and cannot stack in my storage is just too much.
So you DIDNT support the better predecessor of the game, that was absolutely worth playing, yet you want cooler titles that have no effect on gameplay. Hmmm…..
There is an RNG chance that we will receive it soon.
Oh oh oh, I have a lovely one.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
RNG.
Exactly. And still have yet to update. Hours and hours later for the simplest fix.
Obviously some kind of game is being played to delay the shatterer wing covers being handed out, for whatever reason.
Yes i’m sure delaying a statless cosmetic item by 24 hours is a conspiracy to make the game fail and steal all your money.
It has nothing to do with stealing money. It has something to do with the stupid skin being all kittened up and lopsided so theyre buying time for the artist for some reason.
It is cheaper to buy it in a sense that you don’t have to grind for materials or work hard at all. Not talking about real money.
Just run CoF p1 all day, all night, You can be relatively lazy, but as long as you can bear the thought of the grind, you will have a legendary in less time it takes to make one yourself doing all the other aspects of the game