Guild Wars 2

i use it in my SD build, but thats only because the other grandmasters are also fairly lackluster, imho it was better when it granted boons.

6k honestly isnt a lot, the “no target limit” could be a problem, but 6k every 5 seconds is nothing out of the ordinary

fire staff ele deals 3-4k per tick with lava font while hurtling 3-4k fireballs, and that is constant,
throw in meteor shower hitting for 6k a hit (with a total potential of 24 hits) and suddenly 6k once every 5 seconds seems fairly laughable.
(side note, this is the build i use in pvp with pvp gear/no buffs)

so from a WVW standpoint i’d be far more worried about 2 fire staff eles than 2 warriors dealing 1,2k dps.

fused would be my overall favourite set,
but of all the skins i’d say Phoenix Hammer that thing is HUGE

but Bound and staff 5 are so much fun
SMASH ALL TEH THINGZ!

it works but as wargame pointed out the number isn’t very visible,
side note with a zerker build you can expect to see 3k+ dmg!

the longbow auto is ridiculously weak, specced full zerker its critting around 1,5k which is really really low, especially considering the slow rate of fire.

and as people have pointed out, traps in their current form still don’t hold a candle to meditations.
the damage from the traps should be increased by a fair amount.

currently between utilities that shouldn’t really be picked over already existing ones and a fairly lackluster weapon the “dragonhunter” seems fairly unimpressive at the moment.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

while yes we have had 3 years to save up for one, no one wants to pay that kind of a price for it…

thats what you’re not getting WE ALL DID.
we chose to save up and buy a skin rather than a legendary.

if you really wanted it then you’d do the same grind we all did, you’d join the small group of people who worked their butts off to EARN the skin.

but instead you’re here asking for it to become a commonplace Halloween vendor item, or even more hilarious a gemstore cashgrab…

CorrynnStarr.7942:

I don’t understand how you can say a grand total of 20 skins across all the Halloween skins from the original event is a “market”… it’ll kitten off a grand total of 20 people in game and give thousands the chance they’ve been waiting for for years now.

I say reintroduce the skins, if anything, make them a gemshop item or tie them to the candy corn cob token system.

you mean the people who have had 3 years to buy the skins but have chosen not too?
i wanted the skin, i grinded like crazy and i bought the skin. (back when it was 1,3k, but gold was a lot harder to come by)
right now the skins are around 4k, spend afew hours playing and you can easily get 40g, thats 1% done already, do that each day and you’ll have the skin by december 10th.

THE SKINS ARE STILL AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO WANT THEM.

the fact that there are still skins available but none of you are willing to buy them speaks volumes about how much you actually care about them.
they’re there, go get them if you want them, otherwise stop trying to devalue it for those of us that did the grind that you CBA to do.

i’m happy aslong as they don’t cave and fully rerelease the 2012 skins.
this one could be the one though…
with HoT coming out all of their attention is on the expansion so they’re definitely going to do a rehash of one of the years,
and people who don’t want to save up and buy the skins have been nagging for anet to destroy the market.

Lamu.8453:

Liewec.2896:

I just want tribal armor..
i just came here to voice the exact opposite opinion
(as someone who earned tribal and now likes that it is a past-reward, just like your PVE past-rewards which you all seem fine keeping to yourselves.)

what? Sorry, but tribal being available only for first months doesn’t make it challenging to earn, you just had a luck. I am GW1 and headstart player, I just focused on playing with my friends PvE at beginning – specialy because structured PvP during first months (or year) totally sucked.

and thats why you don’t have the unobtainable PVP rewards that i do
and i don’t have the unobtainable PVE rewards that you do.

ironically you’re calling ME selfish while you’re the one trying to get peoples rewards devalued because you couldn’t be bothered to earn them when you had the chance.

i didn’t earn wings of sunless, shattered wings, air filtration device or any of the other PVE rewards i would have liked,
but you know what? i didn’t earn them so i don’t have them.
because thats how things work.
perhaps i should endlessly nag for them to get reintroduced, it seems to have worked well for you guys.

Draknar.5748:

Liewec.2896:

it sucks, but its a necessary evil, i’ve not read the limitations but i’d hope its level-gated.
all chat (except whispers) should get enabled at lv 5 or 10 or something.

note i’m not counting guild chat/party chat etc, they should be enabled from the start.

F2P accounts have no access to /map ever. If you want to type in /map, then you need to buy the game.

ah, well that sucks then, blocking it until a certain level would deal with alot of the gold selling annoyance.

it sucks, but its a necessary evil, i’ve not read the limitations but i’d hope its level-gated.
all chat (except whispers) should get enabled at level/rank 5 or 10 or something.
maybe whispers could be enabled at a higher level/rank.

note i’m not counting guild chat/party chat etc, they should be enabled from the start.

Iavra.8510:

Even better, if someone reflects your Ether Clone, there is no limit to the number of clones (unless that person is a mesmer, too). I once planted an entire forest at the entrance of Obsidian Sanctum.

haha! XD

why?!

what was it?
It was a fun little pointless trick, using scepter auto attack you could activate a tonic while the “Ether Clone” bolt was flying to the target, when it landed it would create a clone in the form you were using.
it would then follow the target and spam costume skills!
it wouldn’t deal any damage, and you couldn’t get costume brawl achievements from fighting them so it was’nt exploitable in any way.
but you could indeed fight them! it was fun!

why was this fun little gem removed?
people can still exploit to make gold in many ways,
and a harmless fun thing was patched away!

i hate it when fun is unjustifiably patched away in MMOs.

R.I.P quaggan army!

Lamu.8453:

I just want tribal armor.. They said it will be back, when if not in wild Maguuma?
It is not “new”, I think they should convert it to other armor types (medium and heavy) and put in Heart of Thorns.

i just came here to voice the exact opposite opinion
(as someone who earned tribal and now likes that it is a past-reward, just like your PVE past-rewards which you all seem fine keeping to yourselves.)

but the sad fact is that anet will indeed pander to you folks that want everything to be easily available, and they almost certainly will ruin tribal by selling it from a vendor in HoT.

do you have any of the old unavailable awards? like wings of sunless? shattered holographic wings or Air-Filtration Device?
if so then thats an achievement, and something shiny to show you’ve been here awhile!

one of my favourite things to do in MMOs is collect the things that won’t be around in the future

well you can “kinda-sorta” skip the starting instance, just walk to the boss fight.
(you don’t need to talk to any of the quest NPCs or anything)
if you’re in the human area you don’t need to go through the keep, you can go around the side.

nice! agreed, it is a lot nicer mixing sets to come up with a unique look rather than just wearing a whole set, its a shame we’re quite limited on some choices though, skimpy medium tops for example, all you have is human T3!

heres a few of my mixed up outfits too

Gaebriel.3754:

Liewec.2896:

they’ve already said that they will pander to you folks by re-adding the pvp past rewards in the future…
because prestige means nothing to the devs apparently.

i’d hope its a long way away so our pvp prestige rewards can remain special for a little while longer, but i doubt it, it’s probably going to be vendor bought in HoT.

Lol, there’s nothing prestigious about those skins. I pvp once in a blue moon (I like it, but I just don’t always take time for it) and I was lucky enough to obtain some of those sets. It had nothing to do with me being super skilled or dedicated. These skins aren’t meant as pvp exclusives and were likely removed as an oversight during the wardrobe transition, hence why they were confirmed to be returning in the future.

oversight or not, very few people have them, they’re relics from the old pvp material system, if you can’t see how they’re prestigious then the whole concept of MMO rewards might be lost on you lol.

they’ve already said that they will pander to you folks by re-adding the pvp past rewards in the future…
because prestige means nothing to the devs apparently.

i’d hope its a long way away so our pvp prestige rewards can remain special for a little while longer, but i doubt it, it’s probably going to be vendor bought in HoT.

i doubt they would make it F2P after all, how do you sell character slots and bank spaces when someone can have a thousand alts to store stuff on?

not to mention the daily log in rewards, that would be insane with a dozen accounts.

yeah, its highly unlikely.

Bifrost rainbows might be pretty cool too when you’re whirling it around everywhere

i got the endless kuunevang tonic on the first day of the GW 6th birthday,
it was the most epic day in GW ever

no, past rewards should stay just that, past rewards.
Anet have already caved to the people wanting tribal armour who didn’t earn it in PVP when they had the chance,
they’re re-adding it (probably in HoT) so there goes one of the rewards that some of us worked for.
stop trying to ruin the rest.

i want endless combat tonics! (and not 5 minute duration with 30 minute cooldowns like the crappy watchwork one)

if i could pick the birthday reward in afew days i’d want the endless combat tonics from GW1 to make a comeback,
quaggan elementalist nuking some instances! :-3

its a little unfair that i earned tribal set and you didn’t?
while i was pvping you were pveing and earned your Wings of the Sunless,
i guess its a little unfair that i wasn’t given that, Anet should mail me it…

please folks stop trying to get the very few old rare heirloom items made commonplace.
there isn’t much of value in this game, legendaries are all over the place, go to lions arch you’ll see 20 people with Twilight.
the Tribal set is one of the few things that i’m happy i have because of its scarcity.
you folks just want everything to be worthless and commonpool.

Destiny’s Edge was the best team,
well unless we count Cynn, Eve, Devona, Aidan and Mhenlo!

the new team just seems too forced,
not a fan of braham (could be the hair, could be that he’s supposed to be Eir’s kid, not feeling it!)
rox isn’t as interesting as Rytlock.
they tried to hard to make taimi cute and silly, zojja got the balance better.
and majory and kasmeer…dam hiccups…i’m all for LBGT pride but their relationship just seems awkward in this game.

do it! big norn warriors are the best warriors!

you can already make one using Orian Armour and Grenth’s hood

early in the game many quests had bugged NPC pathing, and whenever you needed to walk with an NPC they’d sometimes screw your mission up and waste you hours.

it was always Traherne.

“MOVE DAM YOU!”

i agree that the infinite use salvage kits and tools are great, but it kills me that they aren’t simply unlocked across your account (in the same way hellfire/radiant gear is)
it’d be sooooo much better if you could open a tab and get it rather than having to remember which of your 13 alts was using the tools last, and after all that relogging you need to head to the bank twice to put it in and get it out. >_<

just let us have them on all our chars!

maddoctor.2738:

The rest of you worked on them? How exactly did you work on them? buy a lot at 70g and then wait 3 years until they are 4500g? So much work there!

no, i spent months of hardcore grinding world bosses nearly every day and in-between that i was gathering ore and omnomberries…
it was mind numbing but well worth it,
because if you really want something extremely rare and it is still available in game that is what you do.

Ashen.2907:

Picassos prestige comes from the mastery exhibited by the creator.

ofcourse it does,

send me your millions at once and i’ll draw you a blue square on a white triangle.
like this masterful work from picasso.

fact is if you showed someone this “art” they wouldn’t be impressed, but if you told someone you had an original piece of Picasso’s work they’d realise its value.
because only a finite amount was made, and a long time has gone since it was.

also i’d call the Greatsaw a far more beautiful piece of finite art.

Malediktus.9250:

4500g is not out of reach, that is the cost of buying two cheap legendaries

this^

would you want to do a very very very long quest and then craft the skin?
because you pretty much can.

craft Eternity, sell eternity, congrats on your new skin.
they’re still obtainable, but i doubt anyone wanting skins to be reintroduced is actually willing to work for them.
(the way the rest of us worked for them)

maddoctor.2738:

Re-adding skins every so often will be good to revitalize those items.

its not a plant, you don’t need to revitalize it…
its more akin to a picasso painting, immensely valued because of its rarity.
it was made a long time ago and no more will be made, this make them prestigious.

asking to have old one-time rewards re-added is like asking to reanimate Picasso and get him to churn out paintings so you can buy them in your wallmart for 1,99.
farewell prestige.

Loki.4871:

Liewec.2896:

Loki.4871:

Liewec.2896:

i don’t know a single successful MMO that doesn’t have prestigious one-time rewards.
WoW does a great job with them.

Guildwars 1.

until GW2s release gw1 had different rewards each year for the special events like halloween.

The point still stands-apart from the pre-order/collectors edition, the west didn’t get any ingame onetime events.

the point kinda doesn’t stand though lol,
pretty much all of the ingame event had one-time rewards.
for seven years you’d get unique one-time items every xmas, halloween and dragon festival.

back then players just learnt to accept that if they weren’t playing for an event then they wouldn’t get rewards from that event.

its actually a good hook to keep people playing, play so you don’t miss a one-time item you want and then once you have that item you want to play more with it because its rather special since noone will be getting it in the future.

Loki.4871:

Liewec.2896:

i don’t know a single successful MMO that doesn’t have prestigious one-time rewards.
WoW does a great job with them.

Guildwars 1.

until GW2s release gw1 had different rewards each year for the special events like halloween.

Kruczek.3865:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

One-time awards like this are terrible for the majority of players. I hope ArenaNet never creates more one-tidme content like that. What I recommend is making an epic scavrnger hunt where players go out into the game world and do stuff to earn said skin.

I don’t agree with that. Imo it’s awesome when there are some extremely rare items in game and their amount is finite. I have Mini Karka and i love this item – mainly because it’s pretty rare. If there would be 1000 crows(black winged skinny thief human females) with Karkas in DR i would sell it instantly. Rarity of items makes you want them.

When Grinning Shield was relatively cheap(i had one but sold it :S) noone cared, it was just another skin. Now when it’s price is 4000+ k gold and the only way to obtain it is to pay that much – everyone(my friends and guildies) talks about this item and how badly they want it.

finally someone gets it!
i don’t know a single successful MMO that doesn’t have prestigious one-time rewards.
WoW does a great job with them.
its just a shame that GW2 can never seem to do it…

i have the Tribal set and Greatsaw and i know its just a matter of time before both become utterly bland and commonplace, just like the “legendaries” that everyone has.
i’d even place my bets that Tribal becomes a generic vendor armour set in HoTs.

i hope they don’t re-add the 2012 halloween skins.
what they should do is add NEW one-time rewards.

if they ever made the skins obtainable again i’d feel so disheartened with the sheer lack of prestigious items available in this game.

one-time “i was there” rewards are a very good thing in MMOs.

yeah i’ve got almost 200 tomes of knowledge, could make a hardcore char, instantly level to 80 and then farm world bosses with zergs XD

you forgot zaishen keys too! i used to make a fortune from pvp thanks to those and the coins

yeah gw2 pvp isn’t really very lucrative, we used to have our own currency and our own vendors who you could buy dye packs from and sell the dyes, i sold several celestial and abyss dyes

now you’ve just got to pray to RNGsus that you get a precursor or something.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

pdavis.8031:

Marjory and Kasmeer are getting married!!!!

Why do I have a feeling that one of them will be horribly murdered right before/after the wedding?

rains of castamere!

less “outfits” in general, more armour skins!
let us pick and choose to equip however much of an outfit we want

there are so many outfits i would have bought by now if i could just use a small part of it.
that being said, i’d love more old GW1 armour, scar pattern, 15k druids, 15k gladiators etc

remember how their excuse for not converting town clothes to skins was that they didn’t want to confuse people by having warriors wearing cloth?

how many dresses and plate set outfits have they released now?

Wolfey.3407:

Liewec.2896:

if thats true then we just need to get Suckhammer gone and pvp will once again be great!

Or we can just get rid of every map with any objective and only have:
Conquest:
Forest of Nifhel
Legacy of the Foefire

All the other conquest maps have some easy objective on par or a little below par of sky hammer with the added bonus of direct points being added.

Strong Hold
though if some people had there way it would only be the two maps above lol.

honestly i wouldn’t complain if it was just the 2 best maps,
but khylo is fine once you break the trebs, temple is fine, even spirit watch is tolerable :P

skyhammer is just too cheese.

Donari.5237:

I spotted this fellow yesterday when I went to the first WP in the Brink:

haha it looks just like him! XD

i really hope they DONT re-add them,
it would totally ruin the prestige, not to mention the market.

i like that there are actually some rare items in this game,
weapons that are supposed to be special like Eternity are all over the place.

if thats true then we just need to get Suckhammer gone and pvp will once again be great!

i’d say d/d ele or condi stealth mesmer for most faceroll.
multi kit engi for hardest to play.

D/D is godmode again currently.
staff is fun for messing around, but D/D is superior.

note: my first and favourite char is a staff zerker ele,
but D/D plainly is superior.