Guild Wars 2

@Shinigami It is about the randomness maybe it is just in WvW but 60% of the time I can use the skill and still either be in the same AoE or still in stop range and the invis does not cancel it that is my main problem and it all comes from the randome factor of this skill.

About the engi you are supposed to use the 2 to chain it into his 3 it can disrupte quite a lot of enemys and even knock them down a clif that way also it does interupt the stomp.

It not that is weak. It is great but as I said the randomness is something Riot would call “textbook anti-fun” you either feel amazing with it or you feel like the programmer is trolling you with that skill. with just the simple change that it ports you away from you traget it would give it the feeling of yes it is usfull and strong without over buffing it.
Also dottek wrong the invis does not break the stomp it is bugged atm. You can use 2 stay still and still get killed. Hell one time the guy even turned 90° and stomped me as I was inivisble. But it is true alot go for the illusion frist. I would love to see them punish for that just for the kitten and giggels XD

It is rather bad. You illusions will die far to quick to do enough dmg. I am not sure for what you want to use that build but in PvE it could work everye where else not.

Let see.

Thief can.
Mesmer can.
Guradian can.
Necro can.
Ele can.
Engi can.

Maybe ranger and warrior can aswell but haven’t touched them for a while.

It is hard to fix Arson. They did limit themself to 32 bit and well it did kitten them up so they now come up with something very cerativ to fix it or macke a new client based on 64 bit

It is true that the warrior can be counterd but to do more then then the base hp pool of 4 classes in this game does just sound not right. It should be changed. Also it is not ture that the warrio only can do burst dmg. He has several great condition builds but no one loves that builds becaus you can’t leech loot.

The queue time for WvW are seriously bugged from my exprience. I don’t know why or how but it seems that some people just get high priority for some reason. I could obsorve this over the last couple of days. I and my friend log in at the same time for WvW we both join our own boderlands first and get in instantly. Then we both queue for Eternal Battlegrounds from there. He will have 1/3 of my queue time in 90% of the cases the other 10% we will get in at the same time.

Now would someone explain me what is that supposed to be? We even tried what will happen if I queue 5min befor him he still got in first. I don’t know how the queue time is made and how A-net is setting the priority for diffrent stuff but that is something that should not be. If I queue up befor someone I should get in befor him. Else it isn’t a queue.

The 2# downed skill is strong, but yes it is usless to packa skill with power and then don’t let the player effect anything else then it activation. This would be like give the warrior a 360° 600 range 100b that only hits some targets in range …from time to time.

edit: It also would only work if you see the enmy else it would not go of or if goes invis it stops and does nothing.

Hm…. Bard Class. I could see that. Would need the Warhorn as mainhand maybe. We could also have “singing sword” like playstyle if anyone hows that old comics. Would fit pretty nice into current classes, but on they other hand no class has time for music in times like this would need some nice lore to work.

Portals are fun but they are such big down if it comes to balancing the mesmer. Not sure if I would like to give it up.

I want my Derwish back

You have to wait. A-net did they want to over something like that but they don’t have it ready yet…. soon™

“glasscannon” build that works better then thiefe and ranger glasscannon build and still has more hp and armour… Sure it is blanced. The guy made a long post about it it must be true? Right?

Most ppl blam the Mesmer portal becaus it is the most annoying to respond to. If they want to come through the tower portal just drop aoes on that all the time and you will be fine ( most do this becaus they aoe the gate).

Speedbuffs are so bugged at the moment and some don’t stack with each other over right each other that this can back fire pretty hard. Saw this once or twice happen to a zerg where the last arrived after the first had dided. Sure most of the time it will work but it isn’t as fool proof as the portal press F and spamm AoE.

It is pretty much just how easy the Mesmer portal can be used to achive this. Also it isn’t rendered most of the time like the tower portal. It is not overpowered as a skill it is just annyouing to deal with at the moment and A-net is full of kittens to call it a legal tactic. Abusing server latency in anyway is no tactic but they don’t have a way to respond to it but calling it all good and kitten and giggels does not help anyone.
OH yeah look below .

Soyboy.3548:

I like the scepter as is. People who don’t like the scepter don’t understand how to use one.

It is more that is bugged. Nothing works with any traits besides the #3 and if you want to run a shatter build and you clons come slower out then they should so that you can reach the same clone genration with a 2h sword why bother with that thing?

It is just the normal case of “A-net did balance around sPvP and don’t care about other modes”.

Yes when we are in fight we have one of the highest mobilitys and distration for the enemy. This is great in sPvP ppl barly can down me and if they do it still takes them 2-5 to kill me ( yes I don’t play much sPvP ppl still don’t look what they finish).

How ever in PvE and even more in WvW you are the slow duck. Out side of a fight all we got to get fast from point A to B is blink and temporal curtain. But the last one is bugged so if you use it in a WvW you will either make everyone walk slow becaus you reduce ther buff to 10sek or you fall behind becaus you don’t get the buffs others give. Combine that with both 1h weapons being a bit buggy and you get a pretty kitteny spot to be in when chased.
So again like other classes the mesmer suffers from the we focus on sPvP and care about everything later start A-net made.

More then that. I QQ quita lot but I love the game . I mean srsly if you want a mmoRPG ther is no way you can dislike this game!

That little Asura girl and the Norn in the hous near LA.

I forgot ther name but they are both so sweet.

I want this to be fixed befor I get my. Just another bug in the long list .

Arah pretty much everything that thing is hugh,

Crucible of Eternity all the one 1h weapons some don’t even show throug the pants and end of 2h while moving,
Honor of the Waves same as CoE,

Citadel of Flame most 2h stuff while moving that helment bro and some 1h swords,

Sorrow’s Embrace everything I saw so far clips with the pants,

Twilight Arbor same as Arah,

Caudecus’s Manor you can’t see most 1h stuff becaus the pants are over them
and Ascalonian Catacombs are the only one without issus but it is ugly.

edit: talking about light armour btw.

It is not like only the femal Asura have this problem. Ever saw an Asura in in any of the dungon sets? they look stupied on them ALL.
Either they don’t fit them, are very unproportional or clip so much if you and your weapon thay you don’t want them. A-net still didn’t give out any kind of statment about it which mackes me very sad T.T.

I tried to mack my Mesmer something else then an Asura after my first Asura hit 80.
I could do it. I even spend 1 full day of leveling and palying on one and at the end of the day I deleted the toon and made and asura mesmer. Pretty happy since then.

I would like the see it removed. It is pointless in a game where everyone hasto care for himself. Mack selfheals scale with main stats like power con dmg etc and every heal of the class scales witha diffrent stat. Of course the scaling would be just as bad as healing power atm but it would be much better to use.

Well I think it is becaus clons also remain after the fight for a bit( you see them as green dots on the map you even can ress you down clone for quite some time after his modle is gone). Now the wapeons aren’t hidden. Showing how long it stays there( for my about 3-10 sek most of the time).

Skills should be captured by mobs: -1
Other: +1

Didn’t they say a long time ago that you could unlock skills an such stuff from various spots in the in game world? I know that they stepped back from it to mack if fair for everyone, but I would say it would be a nice touch if you could find some extra skills (maybe PvE and WvW only) in the world. Like the racial skills in Gw1 they could involve a quest chain ore something. I really would enjoy to find a random guy and orr talk to him and start an event chain that will lead me to a new skill at the end. This would also increase the reward for people following the quest line from the start in contrast to people that join at the last boss( to grab a chest or loot).
Other options could be that you can craft stuff and when you give it to certain NPC’s or lay it down/wear it at the right place something is triggered. E.g the triforge pendant needs to be brought to a weird looking sylvari with red hair . If you do so a Human boy with blond hair will show up they will fight over it and then you get chicken armour ^^

I am against the getting them from Mobs. The hole idea behind killing something to learn from it dead corps how a skill worked seems a bit off. Even more in a open world game like Gw2 where bosses despawn quite fast.

Atm everything is kind of balance around somehow working in sPvP every other mode got dumped in order to achieve this until all bugs are fixed.
The major reasons for this are A) that A-net really really want Gw2 to become an e-sports title. Gw1 was kind of a e-sports title but never became like tournament level for big Lan events. They want to change that because that brings money ( look at Riot and LoL)
B) The game probably still didn’t pay for itself. While over 2 mio sold copies are awesome it is about 110mio dollars. That sounds like a lot but the game has been in development for the last 8 years. Gw1 maybe paide some of the costs but surly not much. So they still look at a big pile of money they have to pay back.
C) NCsoft. They are a big publisher and want the game out. It does not bring them any kind of benefit to wait for A-nets when its done philosophy. They want a running game that brings money anything else is secondary for a publisher( of course no one would ever say that and both sides would rather use lame excesses why the game is bugged at its very base of its coding).
And lastly D) A-net smacked them self with the amount of bug that are still in the game. They lost costumers that won’t spent money on gems and they lost the trust of the players in matters of new content ( I won’t finish the story of any future update until I get form someone that it is bug free and my rewards at the end are not bugged as well). People don’t forget some stuff like that that fast.

The only thing that is in A-nets side is that the game is truly awesome and will reach legendary status once every bug is fixed and the game is balanced. But until then people will rage and QQ about the work the testing team didn’t do ( and don’t tell me they can’t check everything. The main story should always be checked. It is the core of the PvE game play. You don’t leave something like that unchecked and hope that it works).

I can’t tell you why things are like they are atm. But we can’t do much about it. A-net needs to deliver it they want GW2 to to better then SW:TOR. But they can’t give out any statement other then we are working on it because we players are pretty pick about promises. If a publisher tells use he is working on something we want it the very next patch or we get cranky.

I kind of lost the topic in-between , but the base line of what I wanted to say is: Lot of bugs atm in the game and A-net wants a Spvp focused game until everything is fixed the other stuff won’t get as much love.

My problem with Badges is that you also can get them without doing WvW. There are lots and lots of people that only come into WvW to do the jumping puzzle every day ( don’t ask me why people that don’t play WvW do a puzzle to get rewards used in WvW)

Or you didn’t get loot.
Champions are pretty cheap on loot.

1. I would say make major citys free that would be more then enough. And a hugh reward.
2. Every running. I don’t want to see all the places where I can start the hidden ones. That would be no fun.
3.Nope. Does not work. The event does scale with everyone in the area. But I would like to see all areas as hard mode versions like in GW1. But would be kind of hard to put into the game.
4. Yes. Yes please. and while we at it also enable all story stuff you characters have seen. Like the thing im the Eye of the north.

A-nets statment to this is
We can’t handle the topic so we declare it is a legal tactic while saying it is Op and needs a nerf so no one needs to be banned becaus that is out of our reach to do.

They didn’t say it word for word like that but it is pretty much what they said.

@Berserker:
A very good idea. That would be way better then my idea I agree.

@cesmode It is not about talking order it is about him letting you know what he is going to do. If he wants to attack something and lets you know you will hit it and help sooner rahter then later.

@deriver: While the idea is nice supporty people would be pretty low in the rating. Atm people are not willing to suppprt( which also is a big problem) making a leader would just lead to even more dmg greed among the people.
How ever uf you could “upvote” players for ressing you, supporting doing a good lead etc. it would be fine

Which leads me know how to fix the stuff.
Note that I am aware that all problems have multiple ways to be solved but those options are the ones I prefer the most.

I think that there should be a vote system coming with the compendium. Either to vote every time you want to turn the commander on or people should be able to give the commander title to people they trust. Of course this would mean that people that spend 100g on it and don’t get voted to be commander are kittened. But on the other hand everyone should be aware on what he spends his gold on. It can’t be that people can’t turn on their commander just because some others think they need that shiny icon above there heads. In the end commanders are supposed to be leaders for the servers and not shiny icons.

Which leads to the next point. We need to make the commander-system more usable. At the moment all it does provide is a shiny icon and a chat channel no one uses. The commander does not have any idea how is following him and who just happens to be running the same way.
I think the best would be to “upgrade” the commander.
Give him a interface ( viable via the hero panel) that gives him the basic informations who is in his squad, how many are still online of them etc. Also give him 3 basic ping’s that everyone in his squad can see. Something like “Look there!”, “Back out!” and “Attack!” would be more then enough and actually make the commander a commander and not a random zerg magnet.
Another quality of life change would be to colour the people on the squad so he would gain a visual feedback of what he is leading and what is running randomly around with him. This would give him a nice amount of control and allow him to spread informations quickly. Because lets face it there is no need to give out a global position information but not something the commander see near his squad. It is not like in war a commander would take his time and go to every solider and tell him there are enemy’s coming from the east.

Moving to the last point. The easiest and most efficient solution would be to make an extra compendium to form a small squad that works like his big brother with out the global icon.
This would be a huge improvement for organised play in WvW. And I hope that is what A-net wants to see because I can see Zergs in SC as much as I want.

Almost done let me give me some final notes to wrap everything up.

The problems may not be major at the moment, but I rather have them fixed before they get out of hand. Why let something get worse if you can fix it before hand.

To those are my 2 cents about the commander-system in WvW. Feel free to bring up other ideas how to improve it at the end we are all working together to make the game better.

Also I would like to ask the modes if they want to move this to just look it and send me a message to post it in another topic. Moving threads makes them die most of the time.

As a final note bare with every spelling and grimmer error on my side. English isn’t my first language.

TL:DR SHINYS? DO YOU LIKE SHINYS? SHINY! IF YOU LIKE SHINY BLUE COMMANDER ICON READ NOT SHINY TEXT

So the game is out for about a month and despite the limitation of gold farming from A-net more and more people start to get the commander which brings problems. At the moment the system works fine for most parts. One person has the blue square over there head and leads the pack. Most of the time there is a TS/vent etc. in which said person sits and talks to the zerg. But most just follow the blue square without caring about anything else. It is a random zerg magnet if you want to say so. As long as only one person has it there is no problem, even with two you will get away most of the time because the amount of players is still big enough to function and the confusion level of two commanders that know what they do is near to non.

However with more and more people reaching level 80 and gearing up it is only a matter of time until you will find random persons with little to no knowledge in WvW using the Commander-system. The system is capped at 5 players which is really nice but has several major flaws.
Let me elaborate:

First of all the limit. While having a limit is something very nice to keep the confusion level low, it has a major flaw a lot of people already saw. The commanders can be five random guy doing nothing and knowing little to nothing about WvW shutting down one way of communication for others that seriously want to lead a squad or zerg. Hymnosi did make a nice post about the topic of getting the commander on reddit.
For the most parts I agree with his point of view about getting the commander. It can’t be that a big WvW title can be achieved without making a step into one of the battlegrounds.
The point of the System is not to give five people a shiny blue Icon over the head, but rather to have some form of organisation for the people playing together.
WvW is at such a huge scale that chat and party systems can’t cover it efficiently.

Which brings me to the next point. The Commander-system does not do what it should do. Even given that only the right people use it and no troll try to confuse the people it does only provide a blue icon and chat channel. The icon does only let a lot of people see where the commander is , but it does not give him or the people following him any kind feedback. I do understand that WvW is war and informations are valuable, but cutting all short is a bit over the top. I do also understand why A-net does not want any kind of raid interface, but I come to solutions later.

Moving to the last problem. While the commander-system does cover the big scale action and the party system the small groups pretty well. All medium sized groups got the short end of the stick.
If I want to help my server and run around in a 10-20 man group I either have to form multiple party or turn my commander on. The last option will almost certainly cause confusion and even worse attract random players that will blow the cover of said group. Also it hinders the quick information exchange. Even with a using a Voice over System it is much easy to ping the spot for everyone then trying to explain.

A sure where rushed. Nothing to do about atm. Just spamm a-net with stuff if you want it to go slower.

All.

The one who getting good loot for doings Thife, Ele, Warrior and Ranger becaus of there direct dmg AoE. DoT does not give loot, supporting does not give loot.

Sorry to tell you bro but the ppl hate you server becaus it is full of exploit and hack users that think they are the best becaus the use stuff like that. The proabably would even beat on you if the french beat on them( assuming the french would not beat on you aswell)

/agree but if I may quote myself from another thread

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A-net just did not think i through like may things.

My signiture is relevant."

A-net just did not think i through like may things.

My signiture is relevant.

The problem is the loosing server normlay camps the jumping puzzle. Which would be fine if you still could get passed it .
They would limit the free stuff the enemy get, but wait you can buy them for Medels making camping noting but a pain in the kitten for ppl. It is no tactic it is Anti-fun. Maybe A-net should talk to Riot to unerstand the concept. If something only gives the user fun and take it away from everyone else this concept is lacking in an multiplayer game. NO excusse. If everything is fair in love and war then why can’t my guardian use is tp skill to get close to high enemys.

Dude. A guy on your server said it is totaly ok to use exploits like use the mesmer portal to force the server slow/not loading models and then one of you complains about night capping? This either must be a very bad joke or I miss something.

Also pretty much every server has a decent night activ player base ( mixed servers even more) you ppl just don’t want to play at night. You can’t blam the face for playing when they have time.

@jonesbones: That my point. But some ppl that abuse it just can’t take it to be blamed cheaters.

@Shizzlenit: ALL just dmg limitation. They can’t do kitten about it. How to handle the abuse? You will punish ppl that did nothing. I mean who do you bann? The Mesmer? He probably will say his team told him so or that he never wanted to use it that way or some other kitten like our friend from shiverpeack. Take the ratting away? Again you hurt ppl that did nothing. The servers that will get matched with them will have a lame week and the get big WvW for the kitten they did.
Bann everyone that used a Mesmer portal? Well with the jumping puzzle in WvW you proabaly will bann 60% of the WvW players this way.

A-net is kittened pretty deep in the butt becaus of ppl like sarmatiko. Thay are the reasone we can’t have nice things.

You can only read what you want don’t you? The first post is damage limitation. If they would say it an exploit they would need to ban the ppl that used but how the hell they are supposed to do that? Bank all ppl that used portal? Only the Mesmer?

The second post obviously shows a- net want to fix this so called tactic and even nerf it.So try talking down will you can hide behind an exploit.

Finally. Sorry to be rude, but that should never ha slip past the quality control.

Well it is much harder to pull a 10 portal sync jump then a “EVERYONE RUN INTO THE PORTAL AND SPAMM AOE” tactic.

I mean I personly stoped using the portal near enemys just to prevent that from happening ( it seems like if you drop the portal and user it in fight it can cause rendering issus aswell) and it would just feel lame to win by such a cheap trick.

Yes there are and that’s why I said take it out till they fix it. But how ever A-nrt seems either to think the statement “we are working on it but can’t tell” from the other threads us enough or they don’t see it as an issue.

Maybe I should post a how to. Maybe then a-net gets it on there dev tracker.

At all oit works 100% of the time with a total amount of 100 players or more and with the current zerg tactics( which pretty much will stay if DAoC is anything to go by) it means if you sige anything you will get kitten over by this.

wait so focing the server to not load all models in time is a tactic?

edit: I mean not that the Mesmer portal is the problem it is the not loading just to make it clear. When the sort out the problem with the loading they can put it back in but in the current state of the game, with all the loading issus in WVW, i is abused more then used.

Basicly it is like the using the runnig around a corner with a loot of characters bug just to the max . While you can play around the other bug by doing a slow siege and tapping to see if you get a enemy into tap, this totaly breaks the encounters. You can spawn a hole zerg into the enemy and they won’t even see them till they unleashed all there AoE spells.

I know you work on it A-net so pls just disable the skill in WvW. I play Mesmer myself and I rather loos a skill then to see players go down to such a low level when they lose it is just a shame.

Btw. The issus is manily used atm by Kodash and Seafarer’s rest I don’t know about the other servers or other ppl even on my server ( elona reach) but I am certainly bugged by this.

Well they are not more violent then the other races. They often use other races as test objects. But compare it to the other races. Humans are in a constant war with the centauers and Skritt. Charr are enrage about pretty much everything you can find near them. Norn kill stuff for fun … all kind of stuff. And the Sylvari hate all kind of bugs and abuse them.

A sura armor wasn’t done with love and time. They rushed it and simply reused for 99% of the human armor. The only armor made for Asura that fitz them is their cultural armor and it would be a joke if they didn’t do that.

But a bit off topic did A-net ever make any statement about the Asura armor issue?