Guild Wars 2

Swiftness is 33% speed. Signet is 25% speed. If they have swiftness buff more often than you do, you will fall behind.

For example, I am permanently under the effect of swiftness. If you only have swiftness for 11 seconds out of 30, then I am going to be pulling ahead for 19 of those seconds.

Also other skills such as leap of faith can cause people to pull ahead.

Using “Sell” was a bad idea. People will think you mean selling for real money like people frequently do with accounts which is against the EULA.

Instead, the problem you are trying to change is because you buy bag slots on a per character basis instead of an account basis.

I’m not sure that it really matters much. I haven’t needed more bag slots on any of my characters. There’s plenty of easy to obtain 20 slot bags. (Fractals especially)

They could change the bag slot purchases to account bound, but there will be a lot of people who would want refunds because they bought multiple bag slots for their characters.

Too much hassle in my opinion.

I got the exotic zealot armor smith recipe from Mari’s chest. I got the ascended weapon smith recipe from one of the lockboxes.

This is a bug that I am quite familiar with. It occurs a LOT in WvWvW.

It happens when you try to pick up a bundle that disappears before the animation is completed. For me it’s always the freaking warrior banners when I’m trying to loot. Fiery GS’s and Ice Bows are also common culprits.

The only way to fix that I am aware of is to force your skill bar to change. Either by using a piece of siege, switching weapon sets, or picking up another bundle.

With the amount of time the event has been live and the amount of guides available that describe the encounter entirely. There really shouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t know what’s going on anymore.

In that situation you really need the person who has the agro to position it correctly.

Basic tank procedure in other games. One that is lost in GW2 for the most part.

Rift had very good raid encounters. Marionette reminds me of those encounters. It’s a good thing.

Wurm however is just a clusterkitten.

Again, overflow wouldn’t be the problem if after a disconnect you went back to the server where you were participating in the event so that you could continue your progress and get your rewards for the effort. Instead of throwing you out to a random server where the event is over and you cannot gain any rewards for your efforts.

I would just like that when you start an event and if you get disconnected you go back to the same overflow/server you were at so that you don’t lose your place and progress.

Overflows suck. You only end up there when you get disconnected from your server that is actually winning only to land in an overflow that failed 2 minutes into the event and have to constantly click “Join in Lornar’s Pass” hoping that someone else disconnected as well and you can take their spot.

Overflows suck. I’m tired of doing most of the fight, only to get disconnected by some random lag and have all of my hard work thrown out the window and get no reward like I wasn’t even there.

Dragonbrand completed it. RIGHT AFTER I GOT KICKED TO A KITTENING OVERFLOW.

And disconnect and get stuck on a stupid overflow you should get FULL CREDIT for the completion of the event.

I am getting sick and tired of getting disconnected during the fight and getting stuck on an overflow.

WASTE OF TIME. Then you waste more time waiting for the event to start again just so you can get stuck in a useless overflow yet again.

I was just in a marionette fight. It was on overflow and we failed. I got a chest for beating a warden and the spare keys bags.

However the event didn’t progress, and neither did the Boss Thumper II Achievement.

Am I reading those wrong? Do we actually have to beat the event for it to progress?

It won’t change zergs at all.

If they delete all their characters they should be able to transfer for free.

Throw a sigil of ice for good measure.

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Skill_template

All they need.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Deceptive-Evasion-nerf/first#post3512400

I’ll just leave this here for those who haven’t heard yet.

Dynnen.6405:

@ Kumu Honua: Just because there are a lot of Guards out there that use hammer isn’t a reason not to fix it.

I didn’t say that it was a reason not to fix it. Just that it must be doing something right to be the most used weapon. I think that hammer is mostly fine. I do agree about the Z axis issue with mighty blow however.

The hammer really magnifies the problem with Guardian’s inability to keep people in melee range and I think the changes I mentioned will give them better chase ability.

Hammer isn’t really a chase weapon though. Greatsword and Sword are the chase weapons.

There are 7 classes in the game that have cripple on their weapons, 1 that doesn’t. There are 4 classes that have direct application of chill on their weapons, so I don’t think chilled is all that prevalent. Giving symbols the ability to chill will allow the Guardian a little measure of control in a fight by keeping people in it. Plus combining the traits will give Guards a reason to go into the worst trait line for the Guardian. Also leaving banish as it is really hampers our CC. We have so little of it and this would be a perfect place to add it. You bring up an interesting point with the cliffs however, its one of the things I dislike about the Guard, and it follows this formula.

X ability is garbage or decent by itself. But X ability + Y ability = Good ability.

Adding chill to symbols would cause the hammer attack chain to not only provide permanent protection but permanent chill simply by traiting in symbol duration. Symbol size makes it easier to snag your opponent and since it’s a symbol it’s an area of effect. That’s rediculously powerful. No other class has that much access to chill as far as I know.

As far as your comments on scepter…I just don’t get it. Yes, its lackluster but we shouldn’t have un-reliable damage based on poor weapon design. For scepter 2, I’m not sure you know how it works. The entire area that is the aoe point doesn’t get hit with the fists flying in the air, its a portion of it that gets attacked. So you can literally walk around inside of it and avoid most of the damage thanks to the RNG.

I made a post recently about how smite can be traited to deal quite a bit of damage. You can read that here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Cheat-Or-is-it-a-real-build/first#post3505883

If you change it so that it strikes up to 5 people at a time then you make it capable of striking 75 times, which is a LOT of pressure on a zerg ball. It’s a 6 second recharge, not dealing full potential of it’s damage is still a damaging skill.

And for scepter 3, look at other things that apply immobilize. Look at their cooldown, if they are AOE, and what other conditions they apply. Ours is the worst.

And look at the classes that can do such things. They are designed for such things. Elementalists, Necros, and Engineers for example. We are not a CC heavy class. In fact we have about the least amount.

We have more sources of block than everyone else. Doesn’t mean they should get it.

ArchonWing.9480:

These changes sound like trash. I hope that’s just not it. Nerfing the vigor with nothing to compensate?

“Hey, x class is too reliant on y. Let’s nerf it w/o giving alternatives!”

The vigor change isn’t limited to guardians. All similar traits will get the same treatment.

Oh dear god the stupid is strong with me today. Just a massive brainfart. Nothing to see here, move along.

Thank you =)

My necromancer alt has just hit 357 days old but I don’t have the birthday mail for it.

Is there a delay? Did I need to do something to trigger it? Am I losing my mind?

I’d like to get the “Level 20” book thing to give it a jump start.

Well in a perfect world, Smite does amazing damage.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUUQJArdlUgiDXGSLEf4ESWhCs6R8MP6z1DKKiaIA-jwCBYfBEZMZkfAEEgkFJLzsIasFXFRjVXDT5iIq2ebIa2cpWKgIGDA-e

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Smite

The above build was thrown together just to illustrate that a 1 trick pony can be made with a guardian and if all the planets are aligned, they can deal out ridiculous damage.

Take into account:

+10% Damage for scepter.
+10% Due to JI setting target on fire.
+10% Due to being above 90% health.
+10% Damage at night time.
+20% Damage for being under effect of Aegis.

Imagine 12 stacks of might from staff pre buffing and 3 more from using virtue of justice + 25 stacks of bloodlust. Since this is wvwvw imagine also having 100 power from Guard Leech. Don’t forget 129% damage for crits (FoodCrit Damage) at 62%% chance (Meditation gives fury + Guard leech precision).

I’m probably missing some possible variables and am probably unoptimized fully, but there you go.

Not saying it wasn’t a cheat as it’s described rather odd and without any proof. But do know that it’s quite possible to deal a lot of damage with smite.

wut?

I can’t really agree with most of your observations.

Hammer – Hammer is already one of the most prevalent weapons for guardians. I don’t see much need for changes.

Hammer 1 – Reducing recharge on skill 1 would make it possible for permanent protection without symbol traiting.

Hammer 2 – I wouldn’t mind seeing the Z axis issues fixed for Hammer 2 (As well as Sword 2 and GS 3.)

Hammer 3 – Telegraphing abilities is added to quite a few skills and classes. Killshot for Warriors for example. Being able to immobilize 5 enemies is strong enough to warrant the telegraph in my opinion.

Hammer 4 – AE on this skill would be too much. It really is more than just a troll skill. It causes guardians to be deadly when near cliffs. The skill combined with JI makes it also very strong in 1v1.

Hammer 5 – Hammer isn’t a chase weapon as it is. This skill is better as choke control. The channel isn’t that long. We also have access to JI for skill synergy. The channeling isn’t too much of an issue.

Scepter – As our only long range weapon choice, it really needs a little looking into.

Scepter 1 – They already increased orb speed once, but it could really use a bit more. It’s a single target attack as it is with no additional effects. Missing with half your orbs just makes it lackluster.

Scepter 2 – This skill is already potentially the most damaging skill in the game. Adding 5 AE limit would make the pressure that a group of scepter weilding guardians can place on a zerg to be rather freaking high.

Scepter 3 – The cooldown is only 20 seconds, It is also not only an immobilize but it also applies vulnerability and can be traited to give even more vulnerability.

Mace – You can’t compare our version of the mace with another classes version. It just doesn’t work that way. The lack of CC is the tradeoff for the defensiveness of the weapon. If you want CC you use our other options, if you want defense you use the mace. That’s how the choices work. Each weapon has pros and cons. That’s the pro/con for mace.

Focus – My favorite off-hand.

Focus 4 – I could see being able to target an ally as useful. You can use it untargeted to force it to travel over your ally, but it won’t bounce. Could see a use while running away to help cleanse your allies.

Focus 5 – Reducing the recharge by 5 or 10 seconds would cause a traited focus to be on a 28-32 second recharge. That’s far too low for a skill that blocks, can be traited to provide might stacks while doing so, and if not broken it does a decent amount of damage as well as being one of our few blast finisher abilities.

Shield – Many people tend to try to add too much to the shield. While I agree that it could use some help. Skill 4 is especially problematic when you factor in honorable shield.

Shield 4 – 24 second recharge 3 blocks (Exactly equal to focus 5) with increased defense after the 3 blocks with up to 6 seconds of protection to 5 allies. Puts focus 5 to shame. And you further suggest the possibility of leaving the damage component as well.

Shield 5 – I agree that this skill has a recharge that acts like the shield blocks people from moving when it actually only launches nearby enemies. It doesn’t help for choke points like ring of warding, line of warding and such which have the same recharge. It could use a reduction of recharge or act like warding as well as the other skills that are similar.

Torch – I really don’t like torch myself.

Torch 4 – This is a skill that is intended for PB range. No need to increase it. You are setting yourself on fire, the enemy should be in PB range to be affected. The throw however is fine. A torch traited is already really quick on the recharge at 12-18 second depending on use.

Torch 5 – Removing conditions on yourself I can agree with. Adding 10 pulses of burning on top of decent damage on a short cooldown is too much.

Staff – Another popular weapon for wvwvw guardians.

Staff 1: One of the few weapons that can hit through doors. It hits up to 5 enemies. It’s one of the reasons people like it for wvwvw. The bags are plentiful with this ability.

Staff 3: Traited this skill produces more swiftness than the recharge on the skill. You can stack a lot of swiftness with the skill.

Staff 4: You really shouldn’t be using this skill before the charge you will replace the fire field blasts of 20s might with 10s mights. It’s better used after you hit the zerg as it will rebuff might as well as heal allies.

Staff 5: The cooldown is the same as all the warding skills.

Symbol traits – Combining the traits would cause them to be a bit much. Especially exposure and power together. 10% more damage as well as vulnerability. Chill on symbols would be a bit much as well since we can litter a field with symbols it would be like permanently chilling enemies. Chill is rather strong as it is without making it so prevalent.

Wanze.8410:

Your inclusion of 508 days makes your post kinda suspicious.

508 days is what you have if you started on pre-release.

For example:

I play mostly WvWvW (Except recently since I’m on terrible wifi).

2058 deaths, 1900 hours. 508 days.

Yep, it’s actually better to sell your silk now and wait a while if you aren’t in a hurry to get your ascended armor. Wait for the price to drop back down and then buy back silk you need and keep the profit.

You have played for an average of 9.55 hours a day for an entire year.

I’m also in that group, but I know the reason. I run 3500 armor. They love to target me. I get to be the one that has to survive a determined tower lord as we wait out the buff and so on. Without fail.

Why it would target your rogue/ele? I have no clue. Probably because I’m not there…

Doh. Wrong post. I hate celestial. Lol. Sorry.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fUUQNAR7dlUgSDHHyMEf4ERli4dPMFVMjXPgIFbIA-jADBIjERzUEQkFCZ0IwpmDZM7MqVSFRjVZDT9CWDbIq2bDRzmL1CBobMA-e

I have been playing with the possibility of moving from shouts to meditations, this is the build that I came up with.

Mostly for WvWvW so it has a focus on survivability via armor and a decent health pool to make rogues cry.

Lohre.9031:

What if they made it so when a warrior was charging killshot and they had you targeted, some sort of tell was shown on your character? Kind of like heartseeker from LOTRO.

Ex: If a warrior targets you and activates killshot, a red dot (like a laser scope) or crosshairs appears on your character for the duration of the channel.

It might help in those situations when you can’t see the warrior in the mass of the zerg. /shrug just throwing it out there for funsies.

NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED!

Talk to support, but learn to read a bit more closely it will save you grief in the future.

Without better loot options, at least let me bind my F key to all of my attack keys so that every time I use a skill it also loots…

WvWvW matchup forum being gone makes me sad.

I like that they moved the General discussion to the top of it’s section, but having living world above game discussion is silly.

I suppose I am biased because I only ever really look at wvw forums, class forums, and general discussion but that’s my opinion.

Now if you will excuse me I have to set down to memorizing yet another account/password for the external forum I have to go to because anet took away wvwvw forums =/

I agree with this.

There are many times where dolyak support is actually important, but hardly anyone is willing to do it because it has no rewards.

The karma train is already far better. Give the defenders a bone!

pandora eight.9451:

My retailer claims that is Arenanet prohibition specifically for certain countries. Of course I believe it, not the discriminating company.

They told you that to get you out of their hair. It’s complete and utter tripe.

I wouldn’t sweep that, the stakes are too high.

Looks fake, no official ties, nothing on the main news page, nothing on facebook, no advertising of the event at all that I can find.

Yeah, no thanks!

Sweepstakes are nearly universally unable to be completed by those outside the country of origin for nearly everything under the sun.

It’s just how these things work. You can thank the laws of your own country for the lack of inclusion.

If you want the true support Guardian. Play in WvWvW where a guardian with 3500 armor and 3200 attack with soldier runes to remove all the zillions of conditions can really and truly shine.

Retaliation is fine.

Fire shield is fine.

Confusion is fine…….even though I abhor it.

Yeah, i’ve seen them in many locations. Frostgorge has quite a few.

Thank you. That’s pretty much what I thought.

I know that you can get 1 mini from the meta achievement.

Is there any other way to obtain them this year?
Is the endless tonic recipe something that I can buy now and actually have the materials to complete?

I don’t find any information on these things in the wiki other than old information with the frames cogs glue and such that doesn’t seem accessible this year.

I’ve never really had problems with mobility with the sole exception when I am solo roaming.

In a group you can spam swiftness enough to have 2 mins or more on the swiftness buff. Blast those static fields man!

So I would certainly LIKE a speed boost skill, I can live without one.

Due to the bad matchup it’s just a big karma train for DB. 15 hours of CHOO CHOO last night and this morning.

(They started before I went to bed, and were STILL AT IT when I woke up.)

The TS was hella funny in the morning I tell you what…

Same here. Error code 58:11:5:512:101

Melchior.2135:

BobbyT.7192:

I don’t get it

Even though it showed poorly in the box office, it became a cult classic on VHS…

You lost them right there.