Guild Wars 2

do you know why it is not allowed in sPVP ?

exactly !!!

that’s why full reset should not be allowed in instances.

I mean come on seriously, what is the point of running a build than ?

I hate to do this but….

remember gw1 ? you can reset your build in towns but not when you go out into the explorable world, why did they do that ?

think use your neurons !

because simply swapping your entire build in the middle of a dungeon negates any small challenge the dungeon might have presented.

example

oh crap, I forgot to trait for CC on condi removal, now you’d have to either tough it out or exit retrait and comeback.

if you’re allowed to simply reset your entire build in dungeons while ooc you’d simply go into a corner reset and retrait, negating the little challenge the dungeon might have presented.

I’m 100% against the ability to simply reset your entire build inside a dungeon.

Dalanor.5387:

Why?

Do you seriously have to ask ?

swapping one trait for another within your build is fine, but resetting your build completely kind of takes away from what little challenge the game has to offer at this point.

quote

Refunding traits is free and can be done whenever out of combat and not in an SPvP match.

once you enter a dungeon trait reset should be locked !

Arewn.2368:

I feel they have defiance backwards.
Instead of hitting the target with CC to get rid of a stack of defiance, and then losing immunity to CC when all the defiance is gone, it should be the other way around.
Each time the mob is hit by defiance, it gains 1 stack which has a duration. Each stack reduces the effectiveness of CC by a % until it reaches max stacks and becomes totally immune.

what you’re saying here is partly true and has been suggested by me and many others for over a year now.

I do agree and it has been said for a long time that defiant & unshakable are negating way to much CC. it has needed rework for a long time.

but I also understand it is there to prevent this! from happening.

personally,

if after ferocity, zerker is still the best way to clear a dungeon fast, that’s what I will keep wearing.

if after ferocity, the best way to clear a dungeon becomes (for example) condition damage, no problem I will hop on one of my other characters (i have all classes at 80 and geared for this very reason) and adjust accordingly.

If suddenly necro becomes the best speed clear profession for dungeons, that’s what I will be doing them in.

See, adjust and move on

you do make some gold out of that speculation phase but not everyone can make tons of money out of it, me personally I only made 90g+ from that live stream

Nike.2631:

And lo, the meta is being forcibly rearranged. I don’t think speed runners are wrong to do what they do in the current environment. I think they just better get used to the idea the Devs are going to keep hammering on that environment until that strategy is no longer sound.

even if they nerf it to the ground the new speed running will simply be
let’s figure out which team comp gives us the best possible clear time now that pure beserker parties have gone the way of the dinosaur. (not that that would ever happen)

Nike.2631:

Latinkuro.9420:

as I demonstrated before they can just as easily adjust the coefficient from say 15 to 18 = 1% crit damage, most would be none the wiser as all they see is oh 225 ferocity

Yeah… No.

Amongst the 3 million players in this game there are far more than enough people who are both detail oriented and very vocal that nothing like that is going to slip by unnoticed.

Its not a question of “did or did not a mouse fart in the back corner of Caledon Woods?” It’s a question of “If the mouse’s fart changed pitch by one note, how many seconds would elapse before someone is on the forum demanding to know ‘what happened and why isn’t there a patch note?!??’?”

I hope that is true about the detail oriented people ratio 3:1

and thanks for the colorful example it was hilarious hahahahahahahaha

right now: having 1 person not be zerker is a tolerable DPS loss.
with ferocity: 1 person playing clerics or knights will be a major DPS loss.

possible zerker community response ?

more gear checks less toleration towards none zerker builds to compensate for the HUGE DPS loss !

Bri.8354:

they have stated that conversion rates won’t be equal

in that case the 10% loss is a BLATANT AND DISRESPECTFUL STRAIGHT LIE TO OUR FACES

Nike.2631:

Latinkuro.9420:

true, this conversion has deeper meaning behind it but…

if they were gonna reduce it by more than 10% right now they would not have gone on record and say it’s an overall 10% reduction.

I’m not going to say that particular statement was a BALDFACED LIE, but lets just say their idea of “the average player” who will suffer only a 10% loss in damage is wholly unrelated to the population of Guildwars 2 . People spec’d for condition damage might be getting off that lightly, but nobody both 80th level and actively geared for power-based damage is going to see losses that small…

if the overall coefficient remains 15 ferocity = 1% crit dmg outside of traits yes it will be an overall 10% loss.

however,

as I demonstrated before they can just as easily adjust the coefficient from say 15 to 18 = 1% crit damage, most would be none the wiser as all they see is oh 225 ferocity

PTS server for:

• Balance builds and feature testing: YES
• Future content: NO

we have enough spoiler issues as it is, with future content on PTS the experience would be ruined

Nike.2631:

If they were content to reduce crit damage contribution from 30 points in the trait lines by 1/3 you’d better believe they’re willing to apply the same coefficient to food and banners… We’ll see when we get there, but don’t think for a moment it couldn’t happen.

true, this conversion has deeper meaning behind it but…
if they were gonna reduce it by more than 10% right now they would not have gone on record and say it’s an overall 10% reduction.

what I’m truly afraid of right now is that this new crit dmg style allows them to adjust the coefficient in secret and most of the population would not really notice.

right now:

crit displays percentage, it is hard to hide a nerf to it, because even if you did a 1% reduction, people would notice instantly.

with ferocity:

they can adjust the coefficient to 18 ferocity = 1% crit damage and since your ferocity value hasn’t changed, unless you were really into numbers you wouldn’t notice.

imagine:

15 coefficient
225 ferocity = 15% crit dmg

a.net guys we need to nerf crit damage further, clever dev says, well just lower the coefficient even further now that it is a stat instead of a percentage we can do that easy (dev laughts evily)

18 coefficient
225 ferocity = 12.5% crit dmg

this is my true fear with ferocity

Bri.8354:

• Banner of discipline (170 precision and 15% critical damage/170 ferocity)
• Spotter (150 precision)
• Food (100 precision and 10% critical damage/70 ferocity)

You’re assuming that the conversion to ferocity is gonna a simple rewrite of values and not a true conversion, you’re also assuming that everything is gonna be nerfed when they have said only crit dmg from traits is going to see a nerf

what I mean is this:

• Banner of discipline (170 precision and 15% critical damage/170 ferocity)
  in proper conversion not just translation it would be 15×15= 225 ferocity not 170 as you claim.

same for food:

• Food (100 precision and 10% critical damage/70 ferocity)
  in proper conversion not just translation it would be 15×10= 150 ferocity not 70 as you claim.

if you do the proper conversion instead of assigning the same value as precision, you end up with only a 10% nerf from traits just as they said it would be.

you people are forgetting 2H weapons are also getting 2 sigil slots.

I plan to test

1 gs with night / force
1 gs with bl / night
1 gs with fire / air
1 with bl / fire
1 with bl / air

see which gives me the best results under which situations.

Carpboy.7145:

Zerker is still the best option. Now its just even more important everyone is full zerk

This is so true, because zerker damage was so high you could forgive 1 person not being pure zerker and still do very very well.

with this change I’m afraid we will see more gear and weapon checks than ever before.

I foresee a whole lot more gear checks for dungeons in the not so distant future

The backpiece that Tyria deserves is:

CAPES

But the charr race is making that difficult !

personally I don’t care about the charr as a gw1 player I hate their guts
so if they get no capes it’s fine by me, as long as all the other humanoid races get to wear this centuries old Tyrian traditional attire.

10% crit dmg nerf is not enough to make me wanna swap to defense or any other subpar gear set.

That 10% crit dmg loss can be covered with consumables, so zerker will still be meta until a whole lot more changes are made to make it necessary or desirable to take someone in clerics, condi or defensive gear.

Nike.2631:

They already describe the trader for blade shards as “she”.

Its Marjorie’s sister, who we will be seeing at the entryway to the new zone.

another great theory that also points to a far off date
I don’t wanna keep all those stacks for sooo long.
I need the space.

Inimicus.7162:

Dean Calaway.9718:

I remember the first time the Bazaar came and I saw silk scrap on the live stream I went running to buy some 4k of the stuff, 2 days later sold for a tiny profit.

If I knew the price it would hit now a days I would have stack up on it $_$

You and me both… anyone who stocked way way up on all those mats are now either filthy rich, or have enough collateral sale material to fill Scrooge McDuck’s money bin several times over Y-Y

I had 50+ stacks of it made a killing

but…..

than I tried to get a kitten precursor from the mystic forge and lost 800g down the toilet.

now….

I’m 4/6 on my ascended and I’m out of silk !

zenleto.6179:

Why do you hope he’s wrong? Sounds handy.

sounds handy but it means we gotta wait quite a while, that’s the problem.

someone on reddit came up with a very real possibility for this new blade shard trader, and I truly hope he’s wrong on this one but i doubt it.

blade shard merchant will be in this year’s bazaar of the four winds update.

think about it, what does bazaar of the four winds do primarily ?
take useless or otherwise excess materials from the playerbase in trade for other items.

Sound familiar ?

there mystery solved.

Vol.7601:

Now normally I don’t mind making things harder, but 250 of each ascended refined mat is pretty insane.

consider coding time and implementation, by the time they do implement it a lot of people would have an insane excess of such materials, lowering the amount would make it to easy.

EDIT
also for consideration is the fact that a TP precursor costs in excess of 600g.
to keep that option viable precursor crafting has to be laborious yet attainable for those willing to pursue it.

Just posted it to reddit read it give me your thoughts, concerns and input please.

http://en.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/210e4t/my_idea_for_how_precursor_crafting_could_work/

My LFG post for AC:

p-1-2-3,zerker,80,speedrun,heavy,stacking,no kohler.

pretty straight forward right ?

guess not,

What I got was a bunch of people wishing I didn’t notice they wanted to be carried.

got,

• a guard that doesn’t know how to use wall, didn’t know how to lure boss in p2 or lure spiders in queen fight, I’m like WTH ?
• got a warrior that didn’t know how to stack, kept dying all over the place and didn’t read party chat when I tried to explain so we could salvage the run.

after a bit I politely said, this is not what I was looking for and to please read the LFG post before entering party to avoid awkward situations.

some things were said to me, I brushed them off, leave party and proceed to block both the guard and the warrior.

I post my LFG again.

same warrior keeps trying to get into my party, I request a kick, it is granted after I explained what was going on to other party members, but this guy just keeps applying to the party on the LFG over and over, we had to kick him like 5 times before he gave up, I’m like WTH !

I say when you block someone they should not be able to apply to your LFG posts at all !

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

I would rather see cloaks and capes, go figure >>

i second this motion

Aveneo.2068:

Trading
Rumors tell of a merchant interested in items from major events in Tyria’s recent history, including Blade Shards. Players are encouraged to hold on to these items if they are interested in trading with her when she appears.

So how long do you intend for us to keep these stacks as useless clutter in our bank? It’s nice that there’s going to be a merchant and all, but I was hoping it would come sooner than later.

if it was gonna take days for the stupid NPC to arrive why bother putting that info in the patch notes !!!

kittening people off !!!

Farzo.8410:

Faowri.4159:

Latinkuro.9420:

Just this alone has me jumping and squeeling all over the place imagine all the other goodies this update will have

• The button to instantly refund all traits, previously seen only in structured PvP areas, has become game-wide.
• Refunding traits is now free across the game: refund your traits any time you’re not in combat or in a competitive PvP match!
• A minus button has been added to each trait line directly below the plus button, which allows you to remove a single trait point at a time.

Plus acquiring traits out in the open world via actual activity sounds a lot like skill capture in GW1, which was awesome <3

The sad part, but I guess it’s needed, is that you can also buy the skill instantly from the trainer if you want to.

provided you have enough skill points and gold and whatever else they decide to ask for :P

DarcShriek.5829:

I wonder if will be able to save profiles like we were able to do in GW1.

I was just wondering the same thing now that would be awesome

Just this alone has me jumping and squeeling all over the place imagine all the other goodies this update will have

• The button to instantly refund all traits, previously seen only in structured PvP areas, has become game-wide.
• Refunding traits is now free across the game: refund your traits any time you’re not in combat or in a competitive PvP match!
• A minus button has been added to each trait line directly below the plus button, which allows you to remove a single trait point at a time.

this horse has been beaten to death !
the short answer is NO !

Time to close this thread hint hint !

Dagoth.6278:

Yah i know that….but man we didn’t want to face role anything.
We just wanted to get some exp and maybe…just maybe enjoy a little story.
Seems you need to be elite player or something to kill some spiders.

Man this isn’t my first time in raiding i’ve raided in WOW and Aion and Tera and even Lineage 2 back in the day and it was fun……This isn’t sadly.

This kind of talk reminds of when the game 1st launched, so many people saying dungeons are to hard, now they are faceroll easy why ?

you should know the answer to this if as you said you’re a raider.

it comes down to class and mechanics knowledge.

let me postulate this:

imagine you’re new to wow, aion and tera, now go into raiding in those games as a new player and see what happens, you’d get your toosh handed to you in seconds why ? because as a new player you wouldn’t know all the class and mechanic intricacies to be proficient at raiding, that takes time spent learning the game and it’s mechanics which you wouldn’t have as a new player.

Same principle applies to gw2.

you say you’re a raider yet you expect to face some of the arguably most difficult content the game has to offer without learning the intricacies of the mechanics or the classes, please give me a break !

you should’ve kept the fact you’re a raider to yourself, you kinda embarrassed yourself there.

This makes me angry beyond my limits (censoring myself to avoid unnecessary infractions)

Why should I have to farm gold and then give it to some (beep) who only happens to have gotten lucky with RNG ?

How is getting lucky with RNG translate into legendary ?

Stop placing bandages on it, it needs stitches !

Let me spell it out for you, having precursors attainable via RNG only is NOT acceptable any longer it has been more than 1 year already.

You know what, I’m done with this (censoring myself again) !

Why do I even bother ?

I will enjoy the game for what it is, when I can’t take the (censoring myself again) anymore I’ll just quit and look for greener pasture.

if this suppose to be one of those gw1 type travelling merchants they better say so and not waste my time.

I’m tired of waiting when will this magnificent new merchant make it’s appearance ?

I have to agree on the love story, it came out of nowhere and makes absolutely no sense
it’s more like they didn’t know what to and shoehorn that in there.

the only word I have to describe most of the LS story is: AWKWARD

PeterThomas.7243:

DarcShriek.5829:

So Peter, I see you made it out of Lion’s Arch.

Yes, but I skipped the grinding and zerging and decided to just kill Scarlet in the instance. I wanted to see if Arenanet managed to put a satisfying end to the story.

The verdict? Not so much. But like I said in my original post, at least they didn’t make the mistake of killing off these awesomely written principal characters at the hands of Scarlet. That would’ve just made me sad.

Now at least they can go forward and be involved in something better.

I feel sorry for yah, you skipped one of the best fights the game has to offer.
when I 1st logged in and got to stomp scarlet straight away I was like you gotta be kidding me I was disappointed, than I did it the right way and man that was epic.

The idea that you need all 3 buffs from all the asura colleges to deal decent damage was genius it kept the beserkers like me at bay.

the whole fight was just very well designed and properly thought out, going forward I’d love to see them evolve the game mechanics like this again.

EDIT
Tbh, the whole Idea of allowing people to skip the fight and go straight to stomping scarlet just because they had an aetherblade spinal blades back piece did NOT need to be in there
it cheapens and marginalizes the content.

Cloudwalkernz.1328:

Sadly, BG, TC, and JQ are all full. So I am wondering which server in NA will be the next big server.

Wrong question !

Transferring for such a reason will backfire on you in the long run.

1 picture is worth a 1000 words.
thank you a.net I’m primarily a dungeon runner and now I can show my halo while enjoying the content I like playing.

Moshari.8570:

Latinkuro.9420:

next, when the beserker crit damage changes drop they will ask for them to be reverted because they didn’t know or if a.net decides to make say gossamer bolts cost 3 scraps instead of 2 they might wanna get it reverted because they have a ton of gossamer scraps but hadn’t gotten around to making them into bolts with the argument that it is unfair to them.

Or when they suddenly nerf Karma jugs and then don’t revert those when people complained about not seeing the announcements….oh…wait, they DID revert those for an extra two weeks because not enough people saw the announcements…

you missed the part where it was an unintended change that was NOT suppose to go into effect as of yet ! which is why they gave more time.

next, when the beserker crit damage changes drop they will ask for them to be reverted because they didn’t know or if a.net decides to make say gossamer bolts cost 3 scraps instead of 2 they might wanna get it reverted because they have a ton of gossamer scraps but hadn’t gotten around to making them into bolts with the argument that it is unfair to them.

Moshari.8570:

Latinkuro.9420:

DaFuzz.3790:

Also, from a lore standpoint…why would the vendor disappear AT ALL?! Would these lost belongings and heirlooms that quite obviously were for the citizens of LA that lost the them all of a sudden not be wanted by the people who owned them?

if the vendor was suddenly removed w/o a warning like the mistake that happened with karma boosters some time ago I would be inclined to agree with you but……

everyone had in one way or another at least one way of finding out about this change with ample time, forums was NOT the only avenue, twitter also posted and was linked to the original warning, so was reddit.

As someone else posted already, it wasn’t on twitter…I can’t speak of reddit since I don’t go there either…but that still leaves only ONE avenue…the forum….and only ONE avenue within the forum…“news and announcements”.

Like I said earlier….had they actually made an effort to get this out there to the public….had they posted it on all the relevant forums, posted it on facebook, twitter, reddit, as well as on the logon splash screen…I would agree with you. But a single post on a single forum that is not even linked on the main forums is not taking advantage of “every avenue” to get the information out there for their customers.

I’ve seen companies make much more of an effort (and still fail to reach their customers)….but at least they made much more of an effort than this.

- I’m always on reddit, twitter and forums to keep me up to date on things.
- it was posted on reddit, twitter and forums, all linking to the same dev post. I don’t know about facebook since I use it only for personal stuff and 3 avenues of information is more than enough.

DaFuzz.3790:

Also, from a lore standpoint…why would the vendor disappear AT ALL?! Would these lost belongings and heirlooms that quite obviously were for the citizens of LA that lost the them all of a sudden not be wanted by the people who owned them?

if the vendor was suddenly removed w/o a warning like the mistake that happened with karma boosters some time ago I would be inclined to agree with you but……

everyone had in one way or another at least one way of finding out about this change with ample time, forums was NOT the only avenue, twitter also posted and was linked to the original warning, so was reddit.

Aerinndis.2730:

This event is not a recurring event. That one is. I am eagerly looking forward to their return as well. I do sincerely feel sorry you lost out on this event. It took a lot of work to obtain objects and heirlooms.

You Sir. or Madam have hit the nail squarely on the head with this one.

all those trophies and currencies are all from recurring events hence the merchants are still present or some other merchant is accepting them.

The Lion’s Arch event is a one time only event hence the merchants are now gone.

Thank you, it is true some people are better at communicating and conveying information than others.

You missed out on X limited edition item, now move on.

hahahahha kudos for the reference I love that movie
to put that example into context.

- Planet earth (heirlooms & belongings) will be destroyed on the 18th make sure to make arrangements for your escape (trade in) before that time thank you.

- but, but, I didn’t hear about this anywhere, can’t you please extend your doomsday plans for a day or so please ?

- The news of your planet’s destruction was posted on every intergalactic news mainframe we could reach (social media) it is not the galactic empire’s fault you do not like social media or were unable to access it.

- the galactic empire plans are not put on hold for any one individual or minor planet.

- if you have complaints or suggestions please submit them to the intergalactic network mainframe after the 18th.

Tseikk.9032:

Because in your opinion it’s justified to nullify the effort of people running around gathering heirlooms just because they don’t visit the forums, but like to play the game instead.

you haven’t been reading which shows why you lost out, it wasn’t just the forums telling you about the heirlooms and the blade shards !

JustTrogdor.7892:

Look, you were given a window to spend heirlooms. It was advertised and promoted in the last week. Just because you were or were not thinking about what to spend them on does not matter. You didn’t spend them within that window, sorry you lose out.

what he ^^ said

ok, here’s a compromise.

bring back the ability to turn in belongings but NOT heirlooms or
who knows you might be able to turn in belongings at the new merchant which would make this discussion moot and pointless.

but… heirloom turn in for thoughtless or selfless is a big no no.

it’s the same thing !
asking for the merchant to be brought back is the same as asking for the heirloom to be brought back why ?

it will give you the ability to turn them in so you can get the now rare selfless or thoughtless potion.

the only reason they removed it i to make the item prestige go up now introducing it again nullifies that prestige.