Guild Wars 2

Oldirtbeard.9834:

One can only hope they bring back the Chainsaw Greatsword, it’s criminal that thing costs as much as a legendary; I wouldn’t be surprised if no ones bought one of those things at that price in years.

you’d be wrong, those of us who want the skin DID hardcore grind for months to buy it.
those of you who kinda-sorta want it but CBA working for it should’nt get it.
if you want it its right there, still very much obtainable, if you want it.

right now i’d say its amongst the rarest weapons in the game, far rarer than legendaries,
you go to a city and you’ll see 12 guys with Eternity, you’ll very rarely see Greatsaws,
if you want to join the very exclusive club then you should have to grind your butt off like we did.

that being said i think Anet are going to make the most “full kitten” decision in their career and reintroduce them after the 3 years of becoming a legendary status item…

you forgot the most important one!
Kasmeer’s Bikini+Sandals
i really thought this summer we’d get the usual “beach life” outfits that most other MMOs do
and if it ever does get added i hope its as armour skins so i can finally make red sonja XD

don’t worry i’m sure they’ll reintroduce and ruin the value of the 2012 skins.
(despite clearly saying that they wouldn’t a few years back.)

Gaile Gray.6029:

you may have noticed that some Halloween-ish items already are appearing in the In-Game Store. You should know that more items that will be rolling out over the next few weeks, and they will include several popular items of the past

i swear to grenth, you better not reintroduce the 2012 rewards…

Supreme.7352:

Greatsaw!

Greatsaw!

Greatsaw!

Greatsaw!

I don’t care about anything else. Maybe the scythe. But GREATSAW!

I don’t care if it’s a recolored version of it or something silly like that. PLEASE ANET!

I was there for Halloween. I tried my hardest to get one from a chest. RNG never gave it to me. It’s literally the only weapon I have ever wanted in the game and it’s too expensive to actually buy on the trading post. The Scythe Skin isn’t even available anymore.

These skins were under a stupid RNG system before and need to come back. Please!

greatsaw is still obtainable for those of you who REALLY want it,
spend several months of your life grinding to buy it like the rest of us did,
but if you decide you don’t want it that much,
then don’t remove its value for those of us that do.

i already love playing around with P/P in pvp unranked matches
i play full glass zerker and chuck out 20k dmg in several seconds thanks to the new fury and quickness traits,
i do miss ricochet, but when i saw that we were getting a 20% dmg increase i was ECSTATIC!
the only letdown will be if they boost everything by 20% except the one and only skill i use! Unload!

ghoust.8591:

1.Hundred blades – to land this powered skill we need 3,5 seconds with out moving, so practically imposible to full skill power land.

Throw Bolas , you’re welcome

its best to have a r80 alt you don’t play anymore loaded up with tons of magic find stuff
put all of your pvp chests in the bank and open them on that alt,
ive got tons of ascended stuff this way

Tapioca.9062:

I think Ranger/Thief would be interesting. There’d have to be some nice synergy there.

oo yeah, “opening strike when you gain stealth” comes to mind
the Critical Strikes line would be great on a ranger

Just some fun light hearted theorycrafting!
But if in the expansion after HoT, Secondary professions were added, (the ability to pick trait lines and use utilities from one other profession) what would you like to play?

I’ll start with the G/E burn guardele!
the standard burn guard, made deadlier!

Radiance:
Inner Fire
Radiant Fire
Amplified Wrath

Virtues:
Master of Consecrations
Supreme Justice
Permeating Wrath

Fire (ele):
Burning Precision
Power Overwhelming
Blinding Ashes

for Utilities i think Signet of fire (2 burn stacks for a whopping 10 seconds) would be great!
also the “Ice Storm” (skill no.4 of Frost Bow ) would trigger a ton of burns!

so what hypothetical builds would people like to try?

i’m looking forward to trying the juggernaught synergy traits with flamethrower
yeah it should kick you right the way to 25 stacks of might, no more reliance on HGH and potion popping!

back before the pvp meta switched to super bursty, super condi based builds i was playing a Stone Heart conjure ele using lightning hammer, frost bow and fiery greatsword,

it was pretty fun, great damage and you could go toe to toe with warriors thanks to having a ton of toughness and being crit immune :P
one of my favourite memories is chasing after a big buff norn warrior with my tiny melee ele and her lightning hammer! XD

not very practical, but fun, it would be impossible in the current meta though :P
for PVE you could probably pull it off, but you’d have issues with running out of charges, in pvp you linger around a point so you’re always by the conjured weapon thats on the ground.

“please not skyhammer, please not skyhammer.”

dom.2748:

1) no, it was luck. Not just one type of luck but multiple levels of luck involving getting the correct mats and then getting the correct piece.

omg how can you people be so…
its mind numbing.
there was no luck in getting mats
if you pvped you’d know the sheer abundance of mats you had, after all there were only FOUR different mats, playing hours a day you got tons of them.
its not “getting lucky” when you have a 50% chance of getting EXACTLY what you were after, and an abundance of materials.

dom.2748:

2) Also no, it WAS a PvP only skin, then they said that they were combining skins between the two game types, there was no warning that it would be going away. Don’t make kitten up, it is simply unjustified.

i made up nothing.
“PvP crafting materials will be removed from the game, so be sure to craft anything you want before the April 15 update.” Anet gave you months of warning that all pvp chests would no longer drop and all pvp crafting materials would be removed.
so how did you plan on crafting tribal once there were no pvp mats…

all i’ve done here are state the facts and link their quotes directly,
its you scrubs that are acting so entitled and making crap up.
because you couldn’t be bothered to craft the set when you had the chance.

Dinks.2478:

I’ll correct you one last time
it was pure RNG.

thats not correcting me, thats you continuously claiming that putting the mats in and having a 50% chance of getting exactly what you’re after is somehow unacceptable RNG.
you had a ton of mats and you consider a 50% chance as some impossible RNG barrier?

2. and i can’t believe you’re still not getting this.
IT WAS A PVP ONLY SKIN,
read it slowly, ONLY…OBTAINABLE…VIA…CRAFTING…IN…PVP.
read it afew more times…

“PvP crafting materials will be removed from the game, so be sure to craft anything you want before the April 15 update.”

shock horror, 4 months pass, pvp materials are removed and WOW you can’t get the armour that was only craftable with pvp materials, WOW!
noone would have saw that coming!

honestly i don’t believe you can be so…

Dinks.2478:

Liewec.2896:

Dinks.2478:

Liewec.2896:

Dinks.2478:

You had to get lucky to get the correct parts from salvaging other items

1. you got TONS of mats, your inventory was full of them.

Dinks.2478:

you had to get lucky crafting it with those parts

2. not really, i think it was a crit craft, but it wasn’t exactly random, you put the parts in and you got one of 2/3 armours, hardly RNG, 5 tries tops and you’d get the part you were crafting.

Dinks.2478:

More importantly there was no warning it was being removed.

3. they gave months upon months of warning that the pvp vendors, pvp materials and pvp rewards were being removed, this armour was a pvp exclusive, how does that not translate to “this armour will be unobtainable” to you?

tldr:
it was crafted by those who wanted it, it was a pvp exclusive, you were given months upon months of warning before it was made unobtainable.

You can pretend they gave a warning and that it wasn’t luck all you want but you’re still wrong.

did you just go full kitten? how is it “pretending” if i just explained exactly how it was crafted and that there was plenty of warning that it wouldn’t be obtainable…

Because you’re WRONG. It was RNG both to get the materials and to get the right item when crafting. And there was exactly zero warnings or statement that tribal was going away. All they said was that they were combining the systems of PvE and PvP armor and that all the skins would be shared within the wardrobe.

one more time, and lets hope it sinks in…

the RNG factor was trivial, you had an outcome of either Tribal, or ONE other set.
its not like throwing thousands of mats into the mystic toilet and hoping for precursors, you put in the mats and got either tribal or the other set, thats hardly RNG.
as someone who crafted the whole set with relative ease i should know.
understand that? i hope so.

next “b..b.but i didn’t know it was going away!”
lets look at the facts:

1. it was a pvp exclusive set.

2. they gave you months of warning that pvp rewards were being removed from the game along with all pvp reward chests and all pvp materials used to craft pvp rewards.

they first waned you in december 2013

they then elaborated on it in February 2014 and they were crystal clear that all forms of pvp rewards were being removed.

they even warned you again in march

the patch didn’t come until late april 2015, you had close to half a year of warning.

it was made abundantly clear that pvp rewards would no longer be obtainable.

so please don’t come at me with that hilarious “YOURE WRONG” nonsense.

Dinks.2478:

Liewec.2896:

Dinks.2478:

You had to get lucky to get the correct parts from salvaging other items

1. you got TONS of mats, your inventory was full of them.

Dinks.2478:

you had to get lucky crafting it with those parts

2. not really, i think it was a crit craft, but it wasn’t exactly random, you put the parts in and you got one of 2/3 armours, hardly RNG, 5 tries tops and you’d get the part you were crafting.

Dinks.2478:

More importantly there was no warning it was being removed.

3. they gave months upon months of warning that the pvp vendors, pvp materials and pvp rewards were being removed, this armour was a pvp exclusive, how does that not translate to “this armour will be unobtainable” to you?

tldr:
it was crafted by those who wanted it, it was a pvp exclusive, you were given months upon months of warning before it was made unobtainable.

You can pretend they gave a warning and that it wasn’t luck all you want but you’re still wrong.

did you just go full kitten? how is it “pretending” if i just explained exactly how it was crafted and that there was plenty of warning that it wouldn’t be obtainable…

i’d guess norn thief, noone wants to make a sneaky giant.

Angra.1405:

Liewec.2896:

Haleydawn.3764:

Items are added and removed from many games ALL the time, people need to just deal with it. You missed an opportunity, oh well. Move on to the next fad.

yeah, exactly!

theres plenty of amazing PVE items that i missed because i’m a PVPer,
and i’m perfectly fine dealing with that, while i envy them for having things like wings of the sunless, they earned their reward, they can keep them!

BULL you knew those PVE items were going to be missed after the event and chose not to get it. Most people who wanted tribal didnt know it was going to be fully removed fro the game once they made the changes. I admit if i knew it would have been fully removed i wouldve spent abit more time in pvp

they gave you MONTHS of notice that the pvp vendors and all pvp materials were being removed, so how did you not realise that that means a pvp exclusive skin will be unobtainable?

the moment they announced the removal of pvp rewards i crafted a full set of tribal.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

People who get enjoyment out of other people not having things they already have are the worst kind of people.

i disagree, i think the worst kind of people are those who can’t be bothered to earn rewards while they’re obtainable and then head to the forums years later to nag and moan that they want them now…
i can’t believe anet are actually pandering to you lot.
if you can’t understand the appeal of one-time-only or limited-time rewards then you shouldn’t be playing an MMO.

JediYoda.1275:

Armor sets will be gotten in game only

all two of them. :P

got this gem last night, laughed my butt off!

Dinks.2478:

You had to get lucky to get the correct parts from salvaging other items

1. you got TONS of mats, your inventory was full of them.

Dinks.2478:

you had to get lucky crafting it with those parts

2. not really, i think it was a crit craft, but it wasn’t exactly random, you put the parts in and you got one of 2/3 armours, hardly RNG, 5 tries tops and you’d get the part you were crafting.

Dinks.2478:

More importantly there was no warning it was being removed.

3. they gave months upon months of warning that the pvp vendors, pvp materials and pvp rewards were being removed, this armour was a pvp exclusive, how does that not translate to “this armour will be unobtainable” to you?

tldr:
it was crafted by those who wanted it, it was a pvp exclusive, you were given months upon months of warning before it was made unobtainable.

Dinks.2478:

Liewec.2896:

Malediktus.9250:

Why should I not use the most rare and precious trophys I own? Only rare and exclusive items can make you look truly unique.

haven’t you learnt by now? the GW2 community hate you having unique past rewards that they could’nt be bothered to earn or weren’t playing the game to earn.
screw the rewards you earned, they want them!

They didn’t earn kitten, they just got lucky with RNG when it was still available.

i keep seeing you folks say that, but you’re dead wrong, first you had to grind your way to rank 30 to earn the wolf tokens, then you had to use pvp mats to craft it in the mystic forge.
there was also warning before hand that it was getting removed which is why i crafted the full set.

side note, i think its really bad that alot of players in GW2 don’t recognise the value of limited time items in MMOs, imho they’re one of the best ways to add meaning to a character, GW2 is already lacking them, i grinded for the season 1 rewards only to be disappointed when they were added to the laurel vendor for a couple of gold…

but don’t worry, you nagging folks are getting pandered to…
they’ve already said that they will give you our unobtainable pvp rewards.
and with a jungle themed expansion coming i fully expect to disappointingly see my favourite pvp heirloom rewards sold en-mass by vendors for a couple of silver.

hope it happens in a live stream tournament, as the massive crowd of 12 watches it happen and anet finally feel like fixing it :P

Malediktus.9250:

Why should I not use the most rare and precious trophys I own? Only rare and exclusive items can make you look truly unique.

haven’t you learnt by now? the GW2 community hate you having unique past rewards that they could’nt be bothered to earn or weren’t playing the game to earn.
screw the rewards you earned, they want them!

i called “nature based staff wielding ranger” over a year ago

my theory is that it will be support based, thorny/viny CCs, maybe some bleeds thrown in.
and some healing support skills, maybe in the form of growing flower pods,

i think the utilities could be stances (as a call-back to GW1)

i hate cheesy map gimmicks like cannons,
i hate underwater combat,
i hate NPCs in pvp.

this map had all 3, and one of the bases was underwater so you had no choice, someone on your team had to endure it.

if the map voting hugely favouring Forefire and Forest should show anything its that we don’t want gimmicks, we want simple maps.

they’ll all have their strengths and weaknesses.
i can see how every engi in their right mind will want Scrapper tree in their build (for the double stability finisher every 30 secs), but that doesn’t mean they’ll all be using hammers.

i don’t think berzerker will replace current warrior for much of anything, the primal skills just seem too random (fire on greatsword, wtf?)

i do think we’ll be seeing a lot of reaper though

were you watching the same stream as me?
triple leap finisher evade,
block attack, reflect attack,
tons of daze from lightning fields

500 health per second from super speed (and lads of access to it),
250 per second from swiftness
(lets hope they stack!)

tons of stability

lets not mention that every 30 seconds you and your finisher bot can both stability stomp.

its gonna be very fun trying different builds!

Human Necro Reaper (of Grenth!) gets my vote :P

generally racial skills are pretty bad,
but i was trying out a human reaper last BWE and since necro elites aren’t the best i grabbed Reaper of Grenth and it synergised really well with Reaper

a long time? its been a few weeks.

also as someone who went through the trouble of grinding it out to get tribal
(there was plenty of warning before it was made unobtainable)
i really hope they don’t add it for a long while.

unobtainable, past rewards are a crucial part of MMOs it gives players something to work for that they know will have some prestigious value down the line,
GW2 is seriously lacking in these kind of rewards, and those few we do have constantly have people like you trying to get them re-added to the game…

key farming died for me when they made you jump through the hoop of getting to lv10.
i had key farming down to little over 10 mins, it was a fun way to pass the time and a challenge to see if you could beat your quickest time!

shame they nerfed it, and now are totally killing it.

for a company who once used the slogan “play your way” they seem to be very keen to control how you play XD

i was kinda hoping for boxing gloves to make a return too,
still i’m not too bothered, they didn’t have to do anything atleast there was a sale so people could buy some stuff for cheaper.

imho you can’t be “shafted” when you get given a bad heal but you also have the best heal in the game, Healing Signet.

one thing i will say though is i think “Litany of Wrath” and “Defiant Stance” were added to the wrong classes.
Defiant stance seems perfect for a guard, and thematically it works the same as an old Monk elite from GW1 (and many monk skills were given to guards)
and Litany of Wrath seems pretty perfect for a crazy zerking warrior, fueled by battle and dealing damage.

heard this one while jumping around the branches in HoT beta, seemed really nifty and fitting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNntOfvU1fE

imho Fear Not This Night and the Norn theme are very hard song to beat though!

cute :-3
now if you can down them from 100% and also finish them with one skill in 6 seconds i’ll be impressed XD

lots of armours! (2 new armours is ridiculous!)
sexeh armours!

side wishes,
the option to turn off subtitles in cutscenes. (its so hard trying not to read them!)
moveable, removable, resizeable UI! (like gw1)

i think its very viable,
Radiance and Virtues are pretty mandatory (imho) but if you don’t mind sacrificing another tree then by all means grab dragon hunter.

Procession of Blades is an AoE that hits 10 times, imagine all of those burns?! XD
Light’s Judgement also hits 10 times and applies a ton of vuln, meaning more condi damage!

i’m not sure i’d bother with the longbow though, imho staff Scepter/Torch are a better combo, giving you both awesome single target and aoe options.

Asmodal.6489:

Rune of the mad king are for the #6 effect whcih will cause 3 birds to swoop down, everyone delivering 16 hits to a target. so essentially this could cause 16 stacks of burn on three targets close to each other.

woah i hadn’t thought about mad king runes for the birds :O
also nice build

it used to be 8v8 and yep, it was awesome

the idea of a rifle ranger reminds me alot of hunters from WoW.
i think GW rangers are supposed to be more nature attuned though.
(especially considering the new Druid spec)

still, some very cool skill ideas you have

as the title says!

at lv 80 how does a staff wielding burn guard perform in event zergs?
where tagging mobs is important.

i’ve played around in pvp with a Permeating Wrath / Supreme Justice build and the burn stacks are insane, but i’m wondering how a build like this fares in pve event zergs.

i’ve got enough tomes of knowledge to instantly get afew lv80s and i’m wondering if my guard should be one of them!

thanks in advance

i’ve been exclusively a pvper since beta and i’ve always loved whirling axe!
imho it was better when you could dodge while channeling it though,
the damage is still great now (i regularly see 12k+ in spvp), but throwing in evasion and 7k extra damage (2 reckless dodge crits) it used to be EPIC

IndigoSundown.5419:

The statement that armor would be in-game rewards and outfits in stores was quite recent. Iirc, it was made somewhere around the SW release. It was a change announced in response to complaints that there were too many armor skins coming out in the store and not in game.

i don’t think people were complaining about the amount of armor skins, if this thread shows anything its that we’re hungry for new skins!
i think the issue was that people who didn’t put money into the game were seeing all of the gemstore armor skins and wanting more armours that they could achieve through gameplay.

i like rangers trait that lets them be permanently invisible to devs.

Teniz.5249:

Daddar.5971:

Armor > Outfits

Time need to create 5 pieces of armor < time need to create 1 outfit

Efficiency bro.

And as long as ppl buy it they won’t change it.

I know it’s sad but welcome in real life…

not really,
for existing outfits its not “creating 5 pieces of armour” its just slicing it in to bits, we see alot of already ingame armour is crudely sliced up,
so in reality all they’re making extra is a doodle for the icon and give the parts a name.

for future outfits it would be just as simple as making current outfits, they just don’t join it all together. and then give each piece a name and icon.

and then rather than being able to sell that onepiece to a select few that have no imagination they will sell the outfit to the people who just want the gloves, people who just want the boots, people who want just gloves and boots,
and people who want any of the other 717 mix and match possibilities.

take the easy route and sell to a market of 1.
put in a little bit of extra work and sell to a market of 720.

imho its madness NOT to make them into armour skins and reel in the cash.

edit: i should also note that many of the existing outfits were around before the outfit system so they are already separate parts with icons and names, so Anet wouldn’t even have to put work into them.

with summer on the way out i think we’ll have to wait for next summer before they consider adding swim suits! and when that happens i hope they make them armour skins!

i totally agree, “all or nothing” is just crappy,
if we could use just one part of the outfit i’d have likely bought ALL of them by now.
as it is now i don’t feel like buying any because the parts i want are glued on to 5 parts i don’t want.

dancing emote voices, especially asuran.

you learn to spot the knockdowns (some are easier)
then its just about avoiding it, i like that there is hard and punishing CC in the game.
it keeps you on your toes, lets not forget HoT is endgame content,
and plus if you do die there is no penalty.

whats worse is that druid was THE FIRST elite spec that they revealed,
you have to scroll back 14 pages of news to april 23rd, since then, absolutely nothing.
what the hell happened?