Guild Wars 2

The buff is server-wide.
You’ll notice it on your bar on any map.. Looks like a little sun

I hear ya, leap of faith+JI was my personal favorite.
Feels like a lazy fix

dancingmonkey.4902:

Dawdler.8521:

DeWolfe.2174:

Such a small percentage of time should never outweigh the other 87.5% of the day.

And with the exact same argument, such a small percentage of players should never outweigh the other 95% of the players. Why should the PPT worth of 10 players completely unopposed equal that of 200 players fighting same numbers?

Any evidence to support your claim that is a small percentage of players? My experience suggest that the larger player count logs in through those times, only it is more spread out so that less are on at any one given moment.

Jade Quarry, yes?

Random.4691:

That has been the problem from day 1, they chose a system that is not intended for this type of match making and tried to twist it to fit. There are so many more adequate systems out there that would have worked for this type of match making it just boggles the mind why they went with glicko to begin with.

Matchmaking also isn’t the problem.
Lack of matching server populations is.

Puck.9612:

LetoII.3782:

Puck.9612:

Kodiak.3281:

Puck.9612:

My only problem with it is they can nerf rangers in less than 24 hours but they allow something that is completely broken like the gun flame bug to last all weekend.

How is rangers being able to stack boons a higher priority than warriors literally 1 shotting people?

Because Rangers shouldn’t be able to stack boons like that. If you want to play a class that can stack those boons, play one, but Ranger isn’kitten

Let’s ignore the fact that you completely missed the point. Please take into consideration that rangers have been the bottom of the barrel profession since launch and then offer up the logic behind this comment.

We just all hate rangers

There, secrets out. It’s literally a conspiracy.

Happy?

When was that ever a secret?

Well, I figured nobody told the rangers <,<

Puck.9612:

Kodiak.3281:

Puck.9612:

My only problem with it is they can nerf rangers in less than 24 hours but they allow something that is completely broken like the gun flame bug to last all weekend.

How is rangers being able to stack boons a higher priority than warriors literally 1 shotting people?

Because Rangers shouldn’t be able to stack boons like that. If you want to play a class that can stack those boons, play one, but Ranger isn’kitten

Let’s ignore the fact that you completely missed the point. Please take into consideration that rangers have been the bottom of the barrel profession since launch and then offer up the logic behind this comment.

We just all hate rangers

There, secrets out. It’s literally a conspiracy.

Happy?

mrstealth.6701:

I think this entire weekend has shown the need for a PTR. These things do need to be beta tested, but doing so in the live game is not the right way to go about it.

My guess is the biggest reason they are testing on the live server is because the beta is limited to HoT pre-purchasers. That group might not be big enough to provide the testing/stress they want. Having a PTR beta test for all existing players, or even an open beta, would give them the population they need to test it without the negative impact on the live game.

I agree, but was under the impression EoTM was their testbed.
Maybe I misunderstood what manner of testing was to be undergone

Dream In A Dream.7213:

Off hours issue has to be fixed for wvw to improve. The easiest is to have a number of time zones with their separate score, saved upgrades etc. So DR in NA timezone will start from x:xx , last till y:yy when all the scores/upgrades are saved and moved to x:xx next day. same for the OCX,EU, etc.

Still have weekly matches, but 3 or 4 different timezone matches within that week.

Seems a great compromise

Considering it’s a PvP game, I’d like to see points per kill be a bigger factor.
Maybe a modifier for territory owned.

Wait til you’re sober to post Kushie
<3

Didn’t one of the devs already state they intend to address this issue after hot launch?

Wryscher.1432:

LetoII.3782:

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

Players who would complain about being instantly sent back to respawn on death are appeased. They can still linger on the ground as a corpse – watching the battle

This is actually another issue.. Dead men should tell no tales.

Im not quite dead yet!

I’m feeling fine, think I’ll go fer a walk!

Simple.
They’re trying to average out populations between servers, not intra-tier.
There’s 6 gold league servers in NA, the top 3 will likely stay closed until the least of the 6 gets reasonably close in population to the most populated.

Unfortunately, JQ is “grandfathered in” and will have to shrink down to size over time through attrition

mordran.4750:

Burn guard is a topic of itself. Incredible stupid build and for the low skill cap absolutely amazing damage, but that´s another story of the arenanet balance team fails. But at least you can see a guardian attack and you can do something about it to counter, condi clears, -40% condi dur food etc.

Power Necro is a topic of itself. Incredible stupid build and for the low skill cap absolutely amazing damage AND sustain, but that´s another story of the arenanet balance team fails. But at least you can see a Necro attack and you can do something about it to counter, swiftness, blind, burst from the flanks when they’re not in DS, etc.

Stealth has counters.
You can lead the horse to water…..

srsly guys how much do they need to nerf thief before you’re happy?

Big fishy eat lil fishy, circle of life

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

Players who would complain about being instantly sent back to respawn on death are appeased. They can still linger on the ground as a corpse – watching the battle

This is actually another issue.. Dead men should tell no tales.

Your ferocity doesn’t really warrant a high crit chance.
If you’re taking a lot of heat, soldiers gives you power primary.. That’s what you really want, power as high as you can get it. Soldiers gives you that maximum power and also a higher vitality pool so your Hoelbrak runes have time to work.

If you want to add a bit more whacking power, consider bit of Berserkers to add both precision AND ferocity. Crit damage around 210% and crit rate of 50% is more standard for a damage oriented build… But that’s not really optimal for zerging.

If you’re just looking to proc vigor once every 10 seconds, you don’t need much precision, or any at all for that matter. You could consider a Magi’s staff and sigil of battle (first 2 hits after weapon swap guaranteed crit, I believe) on your hammer. The hammer then needs have no precision of it’s own to get a nice few taps and proc your vigor every swap.

Knights in general should be used sparingly, it has lower power and no ferocity.

Also, 0 healing power is common in Altrustic Healing builds. Support builds use healing power, but much, much more than 600. But support guards aren’t really for zerg work, up on the front line you want to be REALLY survivable and rely on your group for healing.

Eolh.5436:

becouse i need healing power, but also vitality tough and precision. most of the guardian trait scale 1:1 with healing power

ummm.. no
Not even close.
1800 heal power guard here.

you’ve gone from what, 70 to 72 heals per boon with AH there, yes?

McFribble.2349:

Dawdler.8521:

McFribble.2349:

Physical: Press 1, deal 2k instant damage
Condition: Press 1, deal 800 damage over 8 seconds

Or in the case of a condi Guardian, press a few buttons and cause 8,000 damage every second for 10 seconds.

You where close though.

All of which can be wiped clean with the press of a single button. Anti-condition is flooded in this game, and no one seems to want to use them despite endlessly complaining about their presence. The trade off is that you are now more susceptible against zerker builds (shocker!).

Also, if you think a full Zerker build isn’t able to deal more than 8k dps with a few button presses, you are having a massive case of confirmation bias.

This.
In a max dps guardian I play both power and condi.
I’ve seen people die in seconds from a condi burst, I’ve downed people in a single attack with power.
Difference: The condi victim had a second to think about it

I think getting stomped should force instant respawn.
Right now, players can rez in less time than it takes to stomp them

Why the cele trinkets?

There’s a large group of people that switch to whichever class is most overpowered at the moment.

Didn’t think this was a mystery

It’s only a dilemma if you wish to add to an already overstacked server.

Aren’t they shutting down the bottom tiers?
Kinda late to recruit

La Deesse Feline.4572:

Some precision are needed.

ventusthunder: he’s willing to spend the time with someone who consents to dying.
Yes but apparently you didn’t read me.

ventusthunder: I’ve been Platinum before he was even Gold rank, I go to T2 for a month and a half, I get back, bam, he’s Platinum Colonel. Props to that.
Obsidian Sanctum no WXP

ventusthunder: Pretty lame but hey, this player can’t kill someone in a real fight.
PvP Tournament over 5k win.
My main PvP Garden Of Spirit http://www.twitch.tv/chaithh/c/6448910

Oh hey!
An Abjured said your name O.O
autograph plz

With less than a month to go, I very much doubt anyone at Anet is doing anything that might risk breaking anything else… Which big changes tend to do.

More than likely they’re rushing to get all the PvE bugs addressed before the big day. Knowing all the uninformed masses coming to pewpew the new world content will care far more about a broken quest chain than if their spec sucks in PvP

Did they nerf it again?
They’ve been hammering away at vigor for a while now, also slicing away at our area of effect… But last I checked full clerics still rolled for around 2500, but I haven’t had that suit on for a month now I suppose.

Black Box.9312:

It’s always been pretty weak by default, but just scales really well with healing power. It’s been nerfed slightly, but can still be pretty effective. The only problem is that healing power isn’t good for anything else.

It also scales fairly well with staff skills, just for the record.

Obtena.7952:

Is that what Anet thinks, or what players decide makes sense to them? Again, Anet determines and owns the concept of the class. What players decide/interpret/think has likely little to no influence on this.

I disagree here.
Guardian threads asking for Dps used to be common untill we got meditations buffed.
Guardian threads asking for a better long-range weapon were also common… Dragonhunter.

Very little noise has ever been made about our lackluster healing. consequentially, it’s gone through 3 years of “in a good place” backsliding through power creep.

Ghotistyx.6942:

We won’t be a tank in the traditional sense

treads are for sissies

Doing that a quarter million times is worth an achievement

EDIT: next time you see em try getting a tap in.

What’s Devonas Rest?
Grats on getting there a year after the achievement hunters.

It’s much easier, and less paperwork to list what isn’t considered cheese by someone somewhere.

This isn’t an awful idea.
But instead of 2v2 I’d suggest 2v2v2, Highest/lowest server in a group paired together.
1st and 24th, 2nd and 23rd, 3rd and 22nd.

Don’t look back now YB ppl, this is your dream <3

Aeolus.3615:

LetoII.3782:

Aeolus.3615:

i was playing mace/shield – scepter/focus with condi guard.

Well, there’s your problem right there.

Very true, i usually use hammer for the ring, but i doubt i could even trap him, since it is a range “blinker”, i dont know if he was using packet editors, but one thing i noticed for shure, that build avoids (at least that player) was invisible most of the time, like avoiding the thief stealth Revealed when he atacked en entered in stealth at the sime second.

hammer or gs would not matter in that case, i didn even had time to put WoR in place.

(edit) almost forgot that Anet want us to play medi guards atm…

…Why would you use slow striking weapons and no torch on a condi guard? O.o
Focus and hammer really belong on power builds.

Aeolus.3615:

i was playing mace/shield – scepter/focus with condi guard.

Well, there’s your problem right there.

They did this in Aion too… It was awful.
Every fort battle was a zergfest, and the open world was empty between scheduled fights.

Amins.3710:

Don’t agree at all anymore. Sure, 6 months ago. But Zeal is nice for Raw Dmg.
Firey Warith +7% Dmg
Zealous Blade +5% Dmg
Symbolic Power +10% Dmg
Shattered Aegis = gg.

Agreed.
Zeal turns Greatsword into a monster, and has a ton of other great offensive options too.

Ragnarox.9601:

Its good in pve try it in pvp or wvw…you will get slaughtered in miliseconds.

See there’s your problem!
No Dragons to hunt in PvP or WvW.
I finally get the name O.O

I want dual wield shield

Gudradain.3892:

My idea was more to help everyone get to the desired result faster, it would be a tool to help players, even if they decide to use it for “evil” stuff…

Fluff trimmed for users in a hurry

It’s hard to justify necroing a thread complaining about pre-patch thief.
Hijacker has l2p issues

Gliding-chase open world PvP was the best part of Aion.
Falling to your death and having to run back from respawn is one of the worst parts of EotM.
I think some kind of midair recovery mechanic might be a great addition.

tyrellian.3706:

Of course they will.

The sheer amount of JQ people (barring Xylia of course) raging in these threads…
Really just is the greatest reason TO do this

Your parents and TV lied.. The world actually turns because of money

Me and 200 of my friends all have cousin on YB, we demand to join Ktrain!

Me and 200 of my friends all have a cousin on JQ, we demand to join Ktrain!