Guild Wars 2

So THAT’S how you get those daggers, the best dagger skin in the game in my opinion. That’s a kick in the teeth.. I mean, I understand that they wanted to give GW1 players something cool, but it really sucks that alot of the best skins are not available to us that didn’t play it.

So yeah, any servers?

Thanks.

Are there any problems with amd cards in gw2? I’m on the edge of buying one just wanted to be sure I won’t face any problems, I have nvidia now and no problems there.

So i just disconnected 4 times in a row in the mossman fight. What is going on? My internet works fine seconds later but every time i disconnect.

Awesome! Thanks.

Antipode.2518:

Lifeson.4352:

Antipode.2518:

I’m surprised people still boast about questing in GW2. It seems like a clear case of the emperor’s new clothes.

I recently tried to pick up GW2 again and got instantly bored of collecting apples, trapping fish, and killings spiders. Removing a quest giver doesn’t suddenly make boring quests more interesting.

Tera: Horrible quest text, but combat makes the quest activities fun.
WoW: Bad quest text, but quest activities much more varied.
SWTOR: Great story cutscenes, but quest activities boring.
GW2: No quest text/bad story cutscenes, and boring quest activities.

Add in that GW2 has the least amount of leveling progression (very few ability upgrades), I get bored faster than any other MMO I’ve played. I do want to hit max level eventually, and appreciate the lack of sub, but I can’t stand the leveling in this game.

Let me introduce you to the 5 D’s of questing: Deliver, Destroy, Defend, Drop, Discover. Wow has them, gw2 has them, there is nothing different, except for the odd bombing run or whatever in WoW. What seperates wow from gw2 is that gw2 got rid of some of the quest text and having to run back and forth to an npc.

Sure, but that’s an oversimplification. There clearly are games that have worse leveling than others despite having the “5 Ds”.

I still remember cool quests like the Titan quest chain in Stormpeaks, or the quest that has your invade Undercity alongside your faction champion. The activities that you did during those quests felt relevant to the universe.

There are alot of DE event chains though that are relevant to the universe, I feel you got to include events when you talk about questing in gw2. And talking to the NPC’s related to what you’re doing can have quite alot of text involved. But sure, epic quest lines like in WoW you won’t find in gw2. I too miss them sometimes.

Antipode.2518:

I’m surprised people still boast about questing in GW2. It seems like a clear case of the emperor’s new clothes.

I recently tried to pick up GW2 again and got instantly bored of collecting apples, trapping fish, and killings spiders. Removing a quest giver doesn’t suddenly make boring quests more interesting.

Tera: Horrible quest text, but combat makes the quest activities fun.
WoW: Bad quest text, but quest activities much more varied.
SWTOR: Great story cutscenes, but quest activities boring.
GW2: No quest text/bad story cutscenes, and boring quest activities.

Add in that GW2 has the least amount of leveling progression (very few ability upgrades), I get bored faster than any other MMO I’ve played. I do want to hit max level eventually, and appreciate the lack of sub, but I can’t stand the leveling in this game.

Let me introduce you to the 5 D’s of questing: Deliver, Destroy, Defend, Drop, Discover. Wow has them, gw2 has them, there is nothing different, except for the odd bombing run or whatever in WoW. What seperates wow from gw2 is that gw2 got rid of some of the quest text and having to run back and forth to an npc.

I miss going outside Orgrimmar and watching some duel action when I’m bored.
I want to be able to go to the arena in Black Citadel and watch duels from the stands. :P

I’ve been searching around but can’t find any. Does it exist? If so, why not? It would be easy to make since all gear got the same stats just different allocations. I would make it myself if I had the skill involved in doing such a thing. :P

That’s why I would like to see them add 5 or so skills to all weapon sets and have us chose which ones we want to use, like utilities. I don’t care how hard it is to balance, just disable it in sPvP. Fun>balance for me in pve atleast.

SuLor.2840:

A fun moment for me was when I was doing the jumping puzzle in Mount Malestrom, the one where you have to kill the keeper of winds to get in, and I had just gotten the very last element and was trying to take a shortcut down and I fell to my death. I was despairing about having to wp and kill the keeper of winds again when I was in view of my final chest. Just then a friendly soul raised me and I offered my thanks. She accepted and added jokingly that I should do the same for her. We partied up and I spotted her as she made her way up and did indeed fall to her death as well. I was happy I got to repay the favor and get her back on her feet. Then she got the chest, we thanked each other and parted ways. But it was all the same a fun spontaneous moment of friendship.

I had a similar situation there when both me and my friend got killed by one of the veteran earth elementals. But after lying there for a while waiting for someone to come along I noticed a revive orb in my bags. So I revived, and pulled one of the tree elementals onto the earth elemental so I could ress my friend who was lying right under it. Felt quite epic ressing my friend while two veterans battled it out right next to us.

That’s the last straw, I have to reroll my elementalist now.. bah. Not seeing race change coming anytime soon either. I’m 80 in full exo aswell.

Cool vid, will be a nice starting point for me, though I really like traps, even in zerg fights in WvW (I run with a fairly organized group). I was using flame trap, spike trap and muddy terrain tonight and it seemed fairly good. I’m only a low level and I got so many badges. :P
Anyway do you think a hybrid setup could work for something like that, with say Soldiers armor and rampagers and/or rabid jewelry. Using SB/GS. Was thinking a 0/30/30/5/5 build.

I remember the day of the patch, my first 2 chests had nothing in them, nothing.

I don’t care for new weapon sets, I want to be able to customize the existing ones with more skills added to them.

I’ve been leveling a ranger from 1-40 now using GS as a main weapon, it’s been fine not too slow I thought, I turned of autoattack so it’s more involving. But then last night I thought I should unlock my shortbow skills. My jaw literally dropped as i autoattacked mobs to death so fast! The GS is crap, it hasn’t even got comparable damage to 1200 range weapons.. ridiculous.

Anyone else get this? Random parts of things in the world will just have a weird white texture on them. Here are some examples:

Normal: http://0o2471.net/50467
Weird texture: http://0o2471.net/50468

Normal(note one of the trees far away by the lake): http://0o2471.net/50470
Weird tree: http://0o2471.net/50471

A weird rock: http://0o2471.net/50469
And finally another one of these hut thingys: http://0o2471.net/50472

GummiBear.2756:

Lifeson.4352:

Really? 80 fps in a massive zerg? Is that cpu really that much better compared to an i5 2500k? I only get 20-30 in a huge zerg on max settings.

well i use i5 2500 and get up towards 100 fps when doing nothing and with normal action at least a 60-70+fps huge zergs i don’t really have time usually to check my fps, but im rather certain it not below 30 likely quite a bit above that too, since i deffo dont experience any slowdowns in them, so my geuss is it is not your CPU that puts you so low

What gpu do you have? I’ve been wanting a new one but didn’t think it would improve fps in huge zergs.

And what resolution? 1920×1080 I assume?

Really? 80 fps in a massive zerg? Is that cpu really that much better compared to an i5 2500k? I only get 20-30 in a huge zerg on max settings.

Thanks guys you gave me alot to think about. I won’t give up and I’ll test out alot of different stuff in the mists for sure.

One thing I noticed is that greatsword damage is pretty bad, which is a shame cause I just love the animations for it. And why does the counterattack throw root you in place? Got to be the worst weapon ability in the game! A chain attack and Maul damage buff while getting rid of that stupid non-sensical root would be great.

I’ve been messing around with a melee ranger lately, I really like the ranger sword and greatsword skills alot more than warriors, so I’ve rolled one. I’m level 22 or something right now but looking ahead at how I’m gonna build when I’m 80. I mostly do wvw roaming and occasionally join the zerg.

Anyway, i tried it out some in the mists and damage wasn’t great so I guess I’m dependant on my pet? I was using soldiers armor to be tanky but still got kitten by thiefs and whatnot in hotjoins. I was thinking a build like http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMIQNBhYDbEpKwuxyyi1OQ0ewJLhJmC+bIniR5JA, or should I go more BM focused? Two-handed training also seems abit meh. Does a melee ranger even work at all? I need some input here before I waste my time.

It’s a trait to make traps ground targetted, I guess you missed that one. :P

What do you mean is it idle?

Anyway, you can join a fractal level 10 group. I did a level 10 run and I was only level 4 myself, it got me leveled to 5 and I got some extra reward chest from it. I assume that’s the daily thing? So can I get ascended rings when I join a level 10 group without being level 10 myself?

Red Falcon.8257:

Lifeson.4352:

And how many of those 65 skills are in a preset of 5’s which you cant mix and match?

And how many skills you use at the same time in GW1? Eight.
In GW2 you can use 16 to 20 skills during combat, and still swap them when not in combat.

Go play GW1 if you prefer it, no one is holding you here.

I’ve never played GW1, that has nothing to do with it.

Airala.8629:

In GW1 I ended up getting every elite and every normal skill available. I used maybe 20 of them. Ok, 25 if you count the ones I’d toss on specifically for things like Vaettir farming and otherwise never use.

As an Elementalist in GW2, I may be limited to five skills per attunement & weapon combo (Staff, scepter/dagger, dagger/dagger, scepter/focus, dagger/focus x 4 attunements = 60 skills), but I actually use them. All of them. I switch attunements in the midst of combat and even have various skill chains I that start in one attunement and end in another that are very, very effective.

That’s without counting my utilities or elites – which I rarely end up using (except my heal which I have auto-casting).

That’s also without counting the additional bonuses and effects I have firing based on how I allotted my points – like the fact that with my heal auto-casting, I essentially have an endless 33% speed boost whenever I’m attuned to air and usually for a full 60 seconds after I leave air.

My point being – I end up using one heck of a lot more of the skills available to me under this system than I ever did with the near endless pool of skill combos available in GW1 – and as an added bonus, I’m effective when playing my own class… I don’t have to essentially pretend to be a Ritualist just to survive harder areas or to farm. I can do it as the class I actually CHOSE to play. Imagine that.

It’s ok if you don’t like the system… it’s ok if it isn’t enjoyable to you… but for others, it’s working out to be a great deal more fun than GW1’s system was.

Different strokes for different folks.

Elementalist is one of the few classes they got right in my opinion. Should have been the template for all classes.

Red Falcon.8257:

Yeah in GW1 we had 200 skills… Except:
1) At least 50 were exact clones of other skills, i.e. Penetrating Blow and Penetrating Chop.
2) Another 50 were useless.
3) Another 50 were bound to primary attribute which means using them as secondary class was useless.

So you were left with 50 useful skills to pick from.
GW2 Warrior has a total of 65 skills none of which is useless.

But I guess for some people it’s enough to see “new iconz!!111” rather than have a properly done skill pool.

Also, I assume you’re talking of GW1 with 3 expansions?
GW2 is vanilla, if you haven’t noticed.

And how many of those 65 skills are in a preset of 5’s which you cant mix and match?

They really really need to add more switchable weapon skills. For me this is what’s boring me most about this game. I care not for gear and bullkitten they add that have nothing to do with combat. Give me more combat options and I’ll be happy with how the game is right now!
I can’t even get another class to 80, I get bored of the same 5 skills around level 10. And progression stops around 30 when you get your best elite and then your set to grind out 50 levels with the same boring ‘rotation’.

PS: Never played GW1, came from WoW.

Imagine a world where magic find doesn’t exist, and drop rates are adjusted to full magic find level. Everyone gets to use their armor and not have to screw around with a second set that clogs up your bags, everyone gets equal drop rates. That’s why I hate magic find, cause it’s pointless and annoying.

Willis.1789:

I noticed that I had Vsync on (which is why it never went past 61 FPS). When I turned it off, I got around 70ish but rotating around caused it to lag a bit. I went back to Vsync because of that, and it seemed to make the game smoother. Soon I’m going to get a Asus vh236h monitor with a 2ms response time and see if FPS improves.

Also, this is slightly irrelevant, but does anyone else’s GPU have coil whine? Mine does. >o>

I don’t think fps is tied to your monitor.

Btw does anyone think I’d get better fps in big zergs with a new graphics card or is that mostly tied to cpu? i5 2500k, 560ti 448 cores atm.

Crafts are character bound.

Get a steady 60 just out in the world on my own, drops if i move the camera around real fast(is this a common thing in gw2?), 20-30 in a major wvw zerg vs zerg battle. Around 30-40 in Lions Arch.
i5 2500k 4.2 ghz
560ti 448 cores
8gb ram

Yeah I remember, but i was thinking about a full dota map with lanes and creeps and all that jazz.

Hello everyone.
I’ve actually never played a moba game but I know the basics and have watched streams and vods etc. I just thought it would be really cool if they made a dota map for gw2. You could have unlocking of skills during the game like in dota 2, farming gold with last hitting/denying, items to buy in shops and so on. So kinda like that 3rd person dota game.
I don’t play alot of spvp cause I get easily bored with conquest all the time and I just need more game modes to get into.

Maybe some dota players have more input on this idea.

Elementalists can no longer use vapor form to get through tower or keep doors in wvw.

5/6 pieces can come from karma. But yeah, 2 pieces from AC for the monk runes and rest karma is what I did. And get the wvw daggers if you do that sorta thing. They’re only around 250 badges.

Thanks for the updates, Mike.
I’m just wondering, are new/better maps on your agenda? Bigger maps(but same player cap) with more room for maneuvering and tactics?

How about adding a bank in there, that’s stopping me from living my life in wvw.

Oh, and to the guy who wasn’t sure, yes you can get exotic drops in wvw, I got one a week ago or so, my first world drop exotic. It came from a supply camp guard or supervisor.

What I use:
1-5 weapon skills
Shift+1-5 profession skills
Q = healing
E, R, mouse5 = utilities
G = Elite
A+D set to strafe left and right

So, where can I find this blog?

And risk getting abusive messages cause you didn’t help some poor sod? No thanks. :P

I’ve heard alot of people say that they don’t wvw cause they’re computers can’t handle it, so why would you base it off those systems, when they get 5-10 fps anyway in a big fight where culling matters the most?

Anyway, great news none the less.

My friend and I found this awesome portal thing down in Mount Maelstrom. Upon entering we had to gather 4 things of different “elements” so to speak, and use them to open a chest. After gathering 3 artifacts we were suddenly slaugthered by an unfriendly veteran rock elemental. All hope was lost. We couldn’t resurrect anywhere, there were no waypoints on the map we had been teleported to, and couldn’t find a way to ress outside.

That was when I remembered that thing called “Revive Orb” I had previously gotten in a chest. I used it, but my friend was dead next to this rock elemental that had earlier almost one shot me. I preceeded to call upon our friends the neutral veteran treefolkthingys, and pulled it to the rock elemental.. they fought out an epic battle while i ressed my friend.

That’s my story about revive orbs.

vespers.1759:

wvwvw is in desperate need of mounts.

I was just thinking the opposite, that the wvw maps are too small and it’s too easy to get across the map making zerging the dominant strategy.

Sigil of Battle and Energy share cooldown so you can only run one of them at a time. I’m not sure about fire, doesn’t that share cd too? I run Battle and Force at the moment.

I’ve got the same dilemma too, clerics accesorries or go for more damage output.

I think the combat is fine but lack of variety in weapon skills can make it boring. They need to add more weapon skills and make them like utilities where you can pick and choose which 5 you want on your bar. 10 skills for every weapon would be great.

Thanks for the input, everyone. You have convinced me to go for clerics jewelery. Might start getting some berserker gear once I’ve played about abit to see how far I can push my damage.

I switched from a thief to an elementalist maybe a month ago, wasn’t aware it was the go to flavour. I just like having more flashy skills to use, thief got boring. Now I’m in love with D/D skills. Not cause we’re OP, but cause of the awesome flashy skills and playstyle. I don’t feel too OP, maybe a little, I dunno.. most people can’t kill me 1v1 (talking wvw here, cookie cutter tanky build with P/V/T gear), but I don’t deal amazing damage or anything. I once crit 6k with a churning earth on a lowbie.. hurray! And my other hard hitter misses more than it hits(fire grab). I’m really struggling vs mesmers though, I usually have to try and run away vs the good ones, I do know very little about them, except that they blow up their illusions and stealth alot, me=confused lol.

I’m more thinking along the lines of in a 1v1 battle, would healing be worth it over going for something else like condition damage or more vitality. I have power/vit/tough armor and weapons, so this is for jewels I guess. Fair point about healing doing more over the course of the battle compared to vitality.

Also when I’m in a big zerg I switch to a staff most of the time. When someone blasts in my water field, is it my or theirs healing power that counts? Also looking for some numbers on regeneration. When I give someone regen by switching to water I assume it’s my healing power that counts?

Does anyone have any numbers on how healing power affects our dagger heals and ether renewal etc?

I’m on the fence here, I don’t know if I should stack more healing power or get even more vitality, so I thought I’d start a debate; is healing power worth it? Or would you take more vitality? I mainly play a WvW roaming ele, sometimes in zergs, where healing would be useful for my team.

When I heard gangnam style I had to fast forward to see if it was some kind of joke.. I mean.. really?!

Perma-swiftness. Air 10 point trait zephyr’s boon, auras give fury and swiftness. 2 auras with D/D + updraft. Boon duration from arcane trait bonus and runes.