Guild Wars 2

I alone have been anointed to spread my boons for you…
FOR I LOOOVE YOU!
Let me show you the power of stacking!
Embrace the powerful hits!

And there it is, friends! The ugly truth.

So, where’s our OP? Did he ‘forget’ about this thread, like the rest of those before him? I’m waiting for some examples, y’know.

Please, give us a few examples where stacking is a problem. I’m sure we’re all dying to find out.

staff guardian

Assuming he’s arguing about PvE. He forgot blinds. No other class can spam blinds like a thief does.

The support a thief offers is limited in variety, but highly effective in quite a lot of situations, I’d say.

The condition cap exists not solely for balance reasons, but because the servers would be overloaded with calculations if there was no cap.

BackbonedAlex.5694:

Lindbur.2537:

BackbonedAlex.5694:

Why don’t players use potions? well because PvE is stupid easy, potions take up space and I just don’t care enough for it.

BackbonedAlex.5694:

PvE is stupid easy

BackbonedAlex.5694:

stupid

BackbonedAlex.5694:

easy

I’m sorry if you feel that this game is too hard for you but that’s not my problem.

I’m sorry that you were stupid enough to bite, but that’s alright.

BackbonedAlex.5694:

Why don’t players use potions? well because PvE is stupid easy, potions take up space and I just don’t care enough for it.

BackbonedAlex.5694:

PvE is stupid easy

BackbonedAlex.5694:

stupid

BackbonedAlex.5694:

easy

obal.3218:

Fall of Abaddon

Unfortunately, no.

Hello, this is the really reclusive [Noob] coordinator speaking. You called?

kamix.4713:

Tman.6349:

Do you realize how silly PvP and WvW would be if nobody could ever die because of ridiculous stacks of regen? Even now, regen stacking bunker eles, rangers, and warriors are pretty stupid. BTW, support does not equal ‘healer’ in GW2.

I dont see why dont people like changes in the game? It could actually be a new meta game in gw2…

It is healthy for the game to migrate in other directions! I could assume that top teams would have at least one player fulled up with sigils and armor atributes with healing power.

I am sure there are way beyond regeneration boon and that this game is unique in fact that every profession has its own healing spell

Do you know how boring it would get if we were all able to start healing for 2k per tick?

And when you consider the extra warrior could be replaced by an ele, or…

gasp

A thief!

:p

I thought of this on the spot, and remember your grains of salt, folks.

LEGIT PATCH NOTES

Following many complaints that fractals were not rewarding enough, we have made the following changes:

• Doubled the drop rate of precursors in the fractal reward chests. Now everyone can get their hopes up for a big letdown jackpot!

• To counteract the increase in precursors entering the game, we have now added dredge to every single fractal. All dredge now also carry death lasers and light sabers, which they will not hesitate to vaporise you with.

• Added new boss fractal: Dredge Vader. Has a 42% chance of being the boss on scale 42 and up. This new boss will repeatedly attempt to tell you he is your father, and to defeat him you must learn the ways of the old Jedi deny him and press 4 to win.

• New control effect: NOOOOOOOOOOO! Inflicted by Dredge Vader if you fail to deny him, causing you to shout exactly that for what may be the longest 10 seconds of your life. Regular dredge have a 1% chance of causing this effect with their normal attacks. Rabsovich has now also been updated to inflict this CC on you every time he says “No no no!”.

What, no legit patch notes?

Get out.

My guess is they roll at the same time independent of each other.

You can now I guess, since they split the cooldowns for all sigils with a recharge.

J Eberle.9312:

Maybe no one will replace her.
I can see it now, it’s going to be anarchy.

-Lilith’s fashion thread will become the seedy corner of the subforum, filled with strippers and inappropriate pictures of asuras and charrs fornicating.
-Iris’s [Noob] mentor thread will become a flame war between the casuals over which is better, ‘tanking’ or healing?’
-That filthy forum cretin Swiftpaw will have her account restored and rule supreme. She will lead a hoarde of zerker scumbags around the various subforums beheading anyone who does not convert to the meta.
-Guanglai will finally lose his sanity and explode. The aftermath is 5 person necromancer parties = new meta.
-Colesy will get a sex change IRL and insist that everyone on the forums refer to him as ‘Lady Sarah Mahariel’* as per request.
-Atse will make a spectacular comeback and write a thousand page thread of haiku’s dedicated to the endeavour of skilled play in a baron and hopeless zerkexploit meta.
-The toxic community will become acidic, and elitist jaguars will prowl the tech support forums, questioning anyone that plays on potato quality computers.
-Brazil will spam giant green hulk-kittens in every single thread.

looks like it’s already started

jaguar elitism, i like

loseridoit.2756:

Cynz.9437:

as far as reflects go, yes, you can reflect her short but then it teleports you to her and you are allowed to eat her cleave

reflecting is a valid counter since her teleport shot does blind also. It should provide enough time to run away from her

Except:
1. Her shield renders her immune to conditions if it has at least 7 charges iirc 5 (thx rainbowchainmailguy) and
2. Enemies with Unshakable only have a 10% chance of missing when blinded.

:)

Deliverance is here.

150 gems pls, thx

fine print: spit not included

Maybe ANet has plans to introduce a new craft called Polishing. Who knows?

:)

There’s a new season? I didn’t watch the series, but I follow up on anything Avatar-related.

Well, if you want to tank I can’t stop you, but the key to surviving as a thief is to use your many evades.

Other than that, I’m unable to provide any feedback since I run glass cannon myself.

J Eberle.9312:

It is the dawn of a new age my friends. Peruse if you will upon the LFG, for it is now warm and inviting. Long gone are the days of elitist scumbaggery, this new gear set has changed everything. The eradication of the exploit meta has finally become a reality and all around casuals rejoice! Rejoice I say! The mighty gods of arena net have truly cleansed this toxic community once and for all. The zerker filth has been flushed out and Old man ’Hrouda’s venus fly traps are left withering and dead in the Dry Top sun, long forgotten.

GW2 LFG:

Ascalon catacombs:
P1/ P3 – KNOW HOW TO RANGE SPIDER QUEEN OR KICK

Caudacus’s Manor:
1/2/3 – Everyone is welcome, ELITISTS NOT TOLERATED.

Twilight arbor:
Aetherblade path ONLY- Tank and support classes or kick.

Sorrows Embrace:
Path 2 lfm ranged classes and hybrid necro pls

CoF:
tumble weed

CoE:
LF1m staff guardian to go, MUST have strength in numbers and know how to cc/control the fights.

Honor of the Waves:
Path 3- lfm PVT and Nomads players, must be an ele for underwater healing skills at the end.

Arah:
Path 4 arah- Need dungeon master. No skipping/exploits- Nomads+Soldier runes ONLY. Ping gear or kick.

-GMB

All hail the GMB!

Necromancy is unethical, y’know. Denying the dead eternal rest and all.

So, from a game world perspective, anyone who uses shouts to grant boons now has to bellow at the top of his lungs so his friend on the other side of a mountain can hear “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” and gain boons.

Gameplay wise, others have already given the reasons why this is a bad idea.

Hmm. Intriguing. Maybe I should return to my kitty.

Somehow I feel that devs are simply too scared to try anything radical with dungeons. :x

Gambit.7836:

This mentality is a real disease. Stacking is just an excuse for being lazy. Guild Wars 2 was designed with the dodge mechanic in mind; to ignore it is contrary to the whole point of the game.

Blessed be your soul, uninformed and ignorant as you are. I am merciful, and thus I shall grant you my wisdom:

You can dodge while stacking.

Azreell.1568:

Combat is very one dimensional and somewhat shallow in the game.

In pve zerker meta and pew pew something stacked until it’s dead.

Pvp you have a few more options but everything in this game is indeed judged and rewarded by how much dps you do.

All else is an after thought.

Says the guy who accepted Dub’s challenge and never showed up for it, hm?

ZeftheWicked.3076:

bearbows are great if used correctly

Cotser.7015:

I am totally okay with asura day if they’re all as cute as that.

:)

BHB alert?

You piqued my interest, and so I went to look at that thread. The words “umm ok” just kept floating around in my head while I was there. This thread just does it better, heh.

That’s what he meant by rob a bank, acquiring blade shards in bulk is a gold/time sink.

Urejt.5648:

Some bosses ad objects are rounded, they can not be backstabbed.

Wrong. All attackable entities have a “back”, even if you can’t see it.

No female charr yet?

Alright.

6/6/0/0/2 for max DPS, 5/6/0/0/3 for 3 extra initiative at the cost of a little bit of DPS. These two builds are the meta builds (as far as I remember). You could also try 5/6/0/3/0 if you need more dodges available to you.

Traits taken:
Deadly Arts:
VI (Sundering Strikes, critical hits have a 50% chance of applying a stack of vulnerability, no ICD)
VII (Improvisation, bundles and conjured weapons do 10% more damage and stealing recharges a random type of utility) or IX (Dagger Training, 5% more damage for dagger skills)
XIII (Revealed Training, +200 Power while revealed, taken only if you go 6 into this line)

Critical Strikes:
III (Side Strike, 7% more critical chance when attacking a target from the sides or behind them)
VI (Practiced Tolerance, 7% of your Precision is added to Vitality) or VIII (Signet Use, activating a signet regenerates 1 initiative and all signets have 20% less recharge time)
XI (Executioner, targets below half health take 20% more damage from you)

(5/6/0/3/0) Acrobatics:
III (Vigorous Recovery, gain Vigor when you use your heal, base duration 5 seconds)

(6/6/0/0/2 and 5/6/0/0/3) Trickery:
IV (Flanking Strikes, 5% more damage to enemies you attack from their sides or behind) or V (Thrill of the Crime, stealing grants 10 seconds of Fury, Swiftness and 1 Might to you and nearby allies)

You can swap traits around as the situation changes. Have fun with your Thief! :)

The stereotypical pug rarely understands why they stack, tends not to use appropriate utilities for the situation, and when something goes terribly wrong they promptly pick a scapegoat for their class and kick him rather than reflecting on their own incompetence.

And when you tell them what to do they never listen.

Lian Olsam.9541:

Till dps will be the betterand faster way to complete contents this game will never stop with those sh*ts… if for example condition should applyed only if u have >= x condi dmg cindi classes ( so also necro) will have a chance for be usefull, if an healer ( with new stats we can have it) will be the only way for do a content we will have other profession usefull, so 1 condi, 1 healer, 2 pure dps, 1suport etc etc

Translation please?

If you want to play how you want, that’s fine. Just don’t be a kitten and join groups that request specific gear/whatever if you don’t fit the bill.

PS: hai grandmaster

I feel very out of touch with this place. Someone please save me. :(

Hey, hey, I’m popping in to play peacemaker. Break it up, you two.

I guess people can now play the ultimate waiting game where they just wait for the mobs to die of boredom, heh.

Unrelated to dungeons but equally (if not more) blasphemous: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dear-Arenanet-Show-me-the-money

:>

Most critters you encounter are level 1, but the deer are level 80 for some unknown reason.

Do you mean the Inquest?