Guild Wars 2

Like the title says,
it is now a bit confusing as to when the patch will drop.
free trials says starting the 15th.
while the lost shores event says 16th.

please a bit more clarification would be nice.

The earliest you can get a greatsword is at lv5 crafted or drop.

If you call Warrior OP in PVE don’t even bother trying a guardian I did and it was face roll easy, doing lv16 story while I myself was barely lv7 fighting multiple mobs including elites and winning, this was b4 the nerf to retaliation and the overall GS nerfs.

The kind of stuff I could pull off with a guardian in PVE I could never pull them off with my warrior ever !

so the nerf to GS was well deserved.

Even after GS nerfs I still find the class face roll easy in PVE !

VonFox.2834:

8% better it look’s like

Yes but we do not yet know if the armor can be runed or not so that 8% right now doesn’t mean much.

if ascended armor can be runed: yes it makes a difference in WvW and everyone will pick ascended armor if you wanna win.

if ascended armor cannot be runed: everyone will notice sticking with exotics is far better albeit the 8% more stats, losing the runes would be a bigger disadvantage for almost all classes.

You talk about skillful players being removed because of the new gear, well I hate to break it to you but skillful players are the 1st bunch of players that don’t give it a 2nd thought and are happy for the new gear, almost all skillful players have a closet full of exotic gear and weapons covering all possible builds for their profession to choose from already.

Did they break their word?
imo NO they didn’t, nothing stronger or shinier than legendary quality was introduced.

Did they work around their word ?
Yes they did, and it’s fine because most players were bored and had nothing to do except for legendary hunting which does take ages to get by yourself.
I welcome this new step in-between exotics and legendary.

You forget, they did clarify that legendary is and always will be the highest most powerful item class in the game, if you have a legendary and ascended weapons are introduced your legendary takes on the max stats of an ascended weapon till they finalize legendary stats for good.

I use powerful here conservatively though because let’s face it legendaries are all about the shiny

PVE Warrior: unquestionably the best and most balanced pve class in the game.
PVP Warrior: Nobody plays one, lacks survivability (go figure) and oh crap moment abilities, no clear role in pvp and all professions can do everything better than a warrior.

PVE Mesmer: difficult to play AI always knows which is the real you very squishy.
PVP Mesmer: easy I win abilities and tons of oh crap moment abilities no one really knows which is the real you, tons of survivability (go figure)

There you have it.

fellyn.5083:

Interesting you say that. 450 hours on my warrior. I’ve tried each of the other classes at least to level 16 and got bored and deleted them.

470 hours on my warrior, I tried other classes and got bored to death they are either to slow or to squishy.

In every other mmo I always used to pick magician/elementalist but with this game I fell in love with warriors for the 1st time ever, I think what did it for me was the melee / ranged combination coupled with multiple weapons

Elementalists can also take them on and pawn them good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dlv8-0BGfk

Dee Jay.2460:

Just an observation:

Thieves are undoubtedly the most hated profession in the game currently receiving hate from numerous sources.

Yet the only source not complaining about Thieves are people who actually play PvP competitively (aka. tPvPers). Now you might say it’s because they’re busy complaining about Guardians.

But maybe there’s more to this observation. Maybe Thieves are only the bane of bad players or maybe they’re ability to pray on the unsuspecting is what makes them seem OP.

Just a thought.

In sPVP/tPVP there’s no culling issue.
There’s no capping while in stealth issue.

The 2 main sources of WvW frustration are not present in xPVP !
and even if you get jumped by a thief in xPVP help is always a couple of seconds away.

I seem to remember a force respawn ability present somewhere…

Wasn’t there a force respawn in sPVP that takes care of this ?
so why is this force respawn not present in WvW ?

And it needs to be instant, no long cast needed he already completely lost the fight and the downed fight !

armor hasn’t been seen or added to the game yet, only accessories and those do not use sigils or runes but, if I had to guess I would go with yes they would it only makes sense.

I don’t mind the new gear and all, but to avoid all the QQing and all the raging why not make the stats the same as exotics and the only difference is that infusion slot.

again I don’t mind the new gear type at all, just saying so many childish QQing and whining could have been avoided this way.

Skill capturing is the only idea I do not agree with, it was great in GW1, but doesn’t have a place in GW2 at all, as more skills are introduced it becomes a very bad thing for players that are just starting in the game and know nothing about these skills.

Example, Gw1 I started playing not so long ago maybe a year and the sheer number of skills I didn’t have was a turn off from the game, not to mention some of those skills were absolutely necessary to clear certain area or bosses.

Rottaran Owain.6789:

dank.3680:

Sure but also remove the ability for every class in the game who can either stealth / invuln or stability stomp.

Hint: Every single class has one of these methods. (maybe not necros, dunno never played necro).

Necros can gain stability from death shroud, immediately leave it, and stomp an enemy, though it requires a grandmaster trait. Not sure if they have another way.

something that every class has access to (stability Stomp) doesn’t need to be removed LOL !
on the other hand only a few classes have stealth, and the only one that is broken as hell is the thief.

The thief has been a problematic profession from the very start, they should’ve scrapped it and come up with something new and original. Stealth/rogue classes are always a pain to balance and it’s the class that is always picked by the ones that think or want to feel elite to grief and harass people.

I believe the Nov. 15th patch will make thieves and mesmers in WvW very miserable simply because they will have to compete on even terms with everyone else.

No more infinite portal transport, no more bypassing keep defenses with your little portals even when out of LoS, no more perma stealth, no more capping while in stealth.

Now if they can also just fix the culling problem.

Thieves are not OP at all, you can’t kill them because the player is to skillful for you !
Thief players are to skillful, they don’t need to exploit game mechanics to win !
Thieves will never run from a battle like a yellow chicken even if they are losing !
I can see a thief coming with his 20K back stab from a mile away !
you can stun lock a thief !

He’s a moron, with a seed for a brain and he is boring so boring I mute the game and read what he is saying while pumping some trance music, worst endgame companion character ever ! In the companions department SWTOR totally beats GW2 I’m sorry to say.

dungeons are cross server mate !
add some peeps to your social list and you will have no trouble with dungeons.
every time I find decent players while running pug’s I talk to them and add them to my list, now whenever I need to run a dungeon I always end up having to tell people sorry full group next run ok ?

Such a contrast from the initial launch A.net dungeons are to hard nerf them make them more accessible. Oh the Irony !

Now it’s please A.net make them harder !

A.net should just not listen to anyone for the 1st 2 months of any new content feature that is introduced, except for bug fixes of course.

Lore base, skritt are to stupid to function as single individuals much less as a hero.
you would need to run around in a pack to have enough brain power to function as a hero, essentially making it a pack class.

Zinwrath.2049:

They also suggested 200 new recipe’s etc….i wonder if there might be “while expencive” other means to aquire this new end game armor via tradeskill/mystic forge.

I suspect jewelers will make a killer profit in this patch !

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I noticed on the latest blog about the new update that under the infusions there was an infusion labeled as:

“Unused Defensive Infusion Slot”

This seems to me that the piece of armor in question is used for a “tank” role as it can not be made to hold any other infusions.

Does this mean we are going to see a move towards the traditional Tank, Healer and DPS roles from other MMOs?

I personally don’t think this is a good idea, the basic premise of this game was “play as you want” so that there would be no set roles. Has that changed?

Aren’t you forgetting something ?
there is:
- def. infusion slot upgrades.
- off. infusion slot upgrades.
-omni infusion slot upgrades, which can be added to any kind of infusion slot !

Mexxer.5096:

not many people are embracing this change and I can see why. Sorry to say, but I don’t see Arenanet changing the update just because the forum community disagrees with it :/

but needless to say, you do make a valid point lol

I haven’t really made up my mind about ascended gear yet, I’m more of the let’s wait try it and see kind of person, who knows it might be just what we need and just don’t know it.

I just thought it was an interesting point to bring to the table.

Fractal of the Mists is an infinite never ending dungeon that becomes more difficult with better rewards the deeper in you progress.

Sounds an awful lot like raiding, and here follows why.

Translation:
Nov 15th 3 pieces of ascended gear, agony mechanic and infusion slots are introduced, essentially limiting how far down in difficulty you can go, Welcome to T1 raiding.

Dec. 2 more pieces of ascended gear are introduced enabling players to add more agony protection and by definition allowing you to go deeper into the dungeon in difficulty and as such reap better rewards, welcome to T2 raiding.

Every month or two, 1 or 2 new pieces of ascended gear are introduced, welcome to T3-T6 raiding.

couple of months later, new dungeon with new mechanics rinse and repeat above steps, welcome to Guild Wars version of Raid progression.

It is for sure an interesting Raid concept, I’ve never been a Raider before but this sounds much better than any raiding I’ve ever heard of before.

Disclaimer:
I haven’t really made up my mind about ascended gear yet, I’m more of the let’s wait, try it and see kind of person, who knows it might be just what we need and just don’t know it.

Easy double click your EotN inventory item problem solved no logout no dying it’s an instanced area only for you. when you comeback double click it again and it teleports you to the spot you were before.

Warning: only Gw1 HoM players have this item.

Hocofaisan.2593:

It’s been brought up before, and I think its right to bring it up again.

With the coming of the new Ascended gear, that has a real effect on how a player performs in end gae content, Guild Wars 2 needs the ability to inspect other players gear added sorely.

Players will want to know if a player they are adding to thier team is equipped well enough for the run planned through FotM. It will avoid situations where players mislead and waste people’s time. A inspect option will make group forming much smoother and better all around!

With Ascended gear being a requirement for deep runs into the FotM for ELITE rewards, an inspect function is a necessity to ensure you are playing with Correctly equipped teamates.

Not needed, though I can see why, still a simple ping your ascended gear in party chat request will suffice.

All I’m saying is, anonymity is a very important very exciting part of WvW Why for the love of G would you want to ruin it. It’s not just the traitor mentally I’m concerned about. Like you said enemies irl abuse each other verbally, that right there is one of the things I do not miss at all, the verbal abuse is already out of hand on your own side if all of a sudden you could speak to the enemy it’d turn into a flame swearing war every time someone loses a duel or is ambushed by a thief the swearing starts. And loads of people will get banned because of it.

So in summary NO we do not need to speak or know who the enemy is.

One other thing, eventually when full ascended armor is introduced it will make exotic dungeon/crafted armor obsolete, this is a big concern. Maybe when they add full ascended armor gear they should also rework all dungeons to include agony mechanics.

Awesome.6120:

Right click -> report -> get account name -> message

if this is true it should be disabled….!!!

because in real warfare you do not speak to the enemy you hunt him down and kill him. if you were in WW2 would you stop to ask: hi there, what’s your name ? nice weather we having today huh ? NO you would get shot or stabbed before you even finished saying HI !

because in real warfare you do not know who you’re fighting his name or rank and no soldier cares to know these things about the enemy, only thing a soldier needs to know is: there is the enemy go destroy him and claim victory for your homeland.

Just imagine this, we all have friends on different servers so you go to WvW and you see him and instead of killing him you cooperate with him. That right there is just wrong for WvW, and creates a lot of traitors !

So, no, we do not need to speak to the enemy or know his name or rank, only thing that matters is, he’s your enemy destroy him !

xeph.8410:

Latinkuro.9420:

Ascended gear is welcomed with open arms, people complain about gear hamster wheel but they do not see that ascended gear is just in between exotic and legendary, now if they add something like godly armor as higher than legendary THAT right there would be a gear hamster wheel.

It constantly amazes me how many people think that Legendary items are better than Exotics.

Your signature, by the way, is very apt.

Yes better as in they have more pleasing aesthetics and cool effects.

I’m a casual player and even I have 4 crafted exotic sets, 1 dungeon armor set, full compliment of exotic weapons usable by my profession, world completion is at 56% only.

Ascended gear is welcomed with open arms, people complain about gear hamster wheel but they do not see that ascended gear is just in between exotic and legendary, now if they add something like godly armor as higher than legendary THAT right there would be a gear hamster wheel.

Most of the people complaining, I see them as the part of the player base that never even touched guild wars 1 and have no idea about infused armor, how it works and how it is NOT part of a gear hamster wheel.

Releasing such a big update patch notes together with the update is not good.
if it was a simple weekly patch It’d be fine, but….

5+ pages long of game updates and class balance, specially the class balance and bug fixes are some of the things I would like to read completely before playing the update, in order to adapt my build accordingly, not just playing and finding out that all of a sudden one of the core build abilities has been nerfed to the geound for example.

I say release the patch notes at least 1 day in advance, give us the time to read, understand and adapt our builds and play styles accordingly.

If the introduction of Ascended armor is any indication they would have to increase lv cap for next expansion.

I want more info about these ascended armor sets, are they token based or RNG based drops ?

If RNG based shame on you A.net !!!

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Why are so many people on full servers avoiding wvw?

I got one word for yah mate

culling

other than that zerging, supply camp cap exploit by thieves and permastealth due to culling.

Added some of your great suggestions to the original post, I specially like the access to the protection boon.

I’d love to see bug fixes for:
-vengeance trait
- fast hands trait
- Stability proc from trait
- endure pain proc from trait
- stance duration trait 25% is a joke and doesn’t work Grok krog
- discipline burst dmg component 0.1% per point is a joke needs rework Hobocop

I’d love to see skills for:
- introduction of stealth detection skills (all classes)
- better utility skills or elite skills
- trait lines overall rework to make more builds viable.
- Protection boon access through skills or utilities for warrior Grok Krog

Nerfs I’d like to see:
- mesmer portals specially for WvW.
- bunker builds solution sPVP
- moa elite needs longer cast time for such a powerful skill to be almost instant is overkill.

Mechanics changes I’d like to see:
- point and supply camps capping mechanics rework
- Stealth mechanics rework to perform the way it was intended, (if not stealth detection)
-WvW culling issue.

I have a dream !

This is one of those bugs that has been known for a long time now
I hope to see vengeance and fast hands fixed in the nov 15th patch fingers crossed.

interesting,
I laughed so hard at the end, where the thief complains about the whirly axe
I mean come on, if you couldn’t beat a warrior using the OP stealth, backstab and forced target drop you do not deserve to win the downed fight either jajajajaja !

Mogar.9216:

1 v 1 is all about who is more tanky. In every pvp mmo it has always cae down to that. The tanky guy will in the end wear down the less tanky guy.

Not true sir, damage mitigation skills are king in this game, a skilled mesmer will tear you to threads no matter how tanky you are.

Dee Jay.2460:

I want to take a moment to discuss the vast discrepancy in base HP between the various professions. At level 80 that would be.

18372 for Warriors and Necromancers
15082 for Engineers, Rangers and Mesmers
10805 for Thieves, Elementalists and Guardians.

And yet 2 of the 3 bunker almost unkillable classes in the game are tada ele’s and guardians followed by mesmer.

So you see higher HP pool doesn’t mean as much as you think it does.

tryklon.7384:

I dont want LFG websites, it’s just not practical. I want a better in game LFG system.
As such, I will not use or endorse any system that is made to replace what should already be in game

This idea is a bad stopgap measure all it does is make what is ingame even harder to do instead of promoting this outside the game tool why not get more people to use the systems in place.

I’d hate for it to get to the point where people are actually only trying to find groups outside the game how lame and how bad is that for the game? very very bad.

piitb.7635:

I wish dungeon mobs health was decreased by 30%.

There is no gear grind, therefore, mob health will stay relatively the same.

dungeon mobs die relatively easy already when the people doing the dungeon know what they are doing, but hey I don’t mind it would mean finishing a dungeon like CoF in less than 10 minutes

Skill capturing NO thx. it may fit gw1 style but not gw2, for simple reason it was a prohibitive system, it made my life hell until I could get specific skills that made it so much easier to do a certain task.
gw2 map system is infinitely better than gw1 so NO thax, gw2 map system is ions ahead of anything gw1 ever had.

I do agree with a comeback of zones like underworld, sorrow’s furnace and domain of anguish.

OR you could use your brain and make a unique password for each account you have minimizing the risk of being hacked.

we already have tons of waypoints even if mounts were introduced they wouldn’t be used for travelling at all maybe only for looks I’d say.

travelling costs are not really that high and tbh why would I ride a mount for 5 minutes when I can instant travel there via WP.

There’s this funny game almost no one knows called WoW, go there they have tons of brainless archaic raiding already, gw universe does not need raiding.

dual shields is kind of silly, but main hand shield makes sense I mean a shield can be used for offense, Troy anyone ?

Dungeons are a ton of fun if you do them with people that:
1- know how to play.
2- they communicate with each other.
3- know how to have a good time.

Sometimes we all end up laughing so hard on TS we can barely continue we take a break to calm down because of some hilarious thing that happened in the dungeon or on TS.

moral of the story is play with people you actually enjoy playing with.