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hey i’m new to the guild wars 2, and i’m wondering is having double pistols on a thief better then having, say a pistol and a dagger or a sword and a dagger? I pretty much only play PvE.
You cant really say one set of weapons is universally, throughout the whole game better than another in gw2. Not on a thief at least IMO. There are fights against multiple mobs where you can equip S/P, signet of malice, life regen food and just outheal/evade any damage while mowing the mobs down with Pistol Whip. Then there are fights where despite massive self healing the mobs will 2 shot you – there your preferred weapon is the shortbow and cluster bomb. There are single target fights where you can stay on the boss and just keep sticking your daggers in his back for max possible damage and there are fights where the boss just wont let you do that in which case youll want to resort to P/P (8-10k unloads are nothing to sneeze at).
Personally I usually run S/P & P/P swapping to SB where needed.
Its a matter of learning each dungeon – each pull, each pack of mobs, each boss fight. And if you cant, p/p does semi-decent damage nowadays.
I have a counter suggestion. Damage needs to stop on stealth. You stealth and channeled abilities keep hitting you. WTF?
Elder Scrolls Online, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLp0ykvotEI&list=FLNJi0oNtThGb2cGacQxKdyA&index=10, that video cleared most of my doubts about the game. I feel as if ArenaNet wanted to be so unique that they actually created a living breathing cliche as well as a thriving contradiction.
Theres no point hyping yourself up again. ‘Oh a new game is being made! Listen to that PR talk! Its gonna be awesome! The best thing ever! Ill play it for years!’ Then the game comes out and its just another MMO you get bored with after 2-3 months. Like GW2. I dont really expect ESO to be different.
977 hours, 3 level 80s, my main is wearing top available gear… not much left to do that would interest me. It was a fun ride but I guess is over.
Dungeons are suppose to be the hard group content. DE are suppose to be the equivalent to the large group content.
And what is supposed to be the equivalent of hard large group content?
People probably won’t raid if there isn’t some kind of reward.
There are rewards from dungeons… there should be rewards from raids. Would I raid for a bad*** dagger/backpiece skin that makes my character shrouded in dark smoke? Sure I would (not for a My Little Pony shortbow tho… who came up with that idea?! come on…) Having progressed further into the raid than other guilds is a reward too.
Anyway, this is purely academic. TBH I dont see AN implementing raids in the near future. Id like them to do so but Im not holding my breath.
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Its even more funny to see people so stuck in one way of thinking they cant imagine other solutions.
Indeed. It’s funny to see how people cannot accept world dynamic events and dungeons as replacement of “raids” just because they do not meet random criteria that, in the end, boil down to “let’s make a copy of classic MMO raids”.
Nice troll… Try answering the content of someone’s post not one sentence ripped out of context. So… how about them tokens and achievements… do they seem like something that makes your whole previous point irrelevant? A little bit at least?
The 2 criteria raids meet for me are ‘involving a larger number of players’ and ‘being challenging’. I dont feel thats random at all. As a replacement Im offered content that either involves a larger number of players but is not challenging or content that isnt faceroll easy (well, some of it is..) but doesnt involve a larger number of players. Yet again… its completely random of me not to be satisfied with that.
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You can bust through a brick wall with your bare forehead?
What the hell? The guy who wrote this article is clearly a noob. ANet has given us the freedom to play the role we want.
Thats one PoV. You can just as well AN has taken away from us the freedom to play any SPECIFIC role at all. The game only gives you the option to play homogenized (some more some less) hybrids.
GW2 can’t introduce raids. That would require us to actually get good loot on boss drops. It’s forbidden.
Besides, you can barely see whats going on with 5 people spamming particle effects on the boss… 10 people? LOL
It’s time people understand that GW2 is not trying to copy classic MMOs. The game does not have raids, and should not have them.
It’s also rather funny to see people complaining about “OMG, there is too much RNG in this game!” and at the same time asking for content that is just a big RNG for a 0.001% chance to get a good drop from a boss.
Its even more funny to see people so stuck in one way of thinking they cant imagine other solutions. I mean… are you saying you cant have raids without random drops? Would the universe collapse on itself if bosses dropped tokens? What if you unlocked pieces of gear by collecting raid-specific achievements? Would that somehow break the fabric of space-time?
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Melee damage per class > ranged damage per that same class. Design choice by AN. Thats all there is to it. Besides… sword’s initiative dump skill also does less damage than autoattack.
If anything id like AN to look at pistol’s autoattack damage/speed and the usefulness of the no. 2 skill. Piercing on attacks would also be much appreciated.
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Whats so surprising? The armor difference between a medium set and a heavy set is about 150 points. Its mostly your build and the power/prec/crit/toug/vit stat combination on your gear which decides if youre a bunker or a glass cannon, not your armor class.
And would you really like warriors to have even more defense than they already do on top of the massive damage they can dish out? That would be absurd.
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Fair enough. The problem is there seems to be no other source of the skin in game now outside of spvp locker…
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Until today’s patch my shortbow looked like this:
http://imageshack.us/a/img29/5230/oldng.jpg
I logged in today to see it was changed to this:
http://imageshack.us/a/img233/1346/newkgh.jpg
WTF… -_-
So… any idea where I can get my shortbow skin again?
Cliffside fight. Standing on the edge of platform… pressing 3 thinking youve swapped to S/P while you still have your shortbow out…
How is it unfair? They released a product we bought it. Wed like it to work properly.
How can they NOT fix this asap? Spent like 12-14 hours in scale 20 the last 3 days… havent managed to complete it once due to people crashing or DCing. I just cant understand it. Whats wrong with this company, seriously… This should be their priority atm.
just to clear something out, dps means damage over time, so chaining unload all day long from safety does more dps than a hit n’ run burst build (against bosses)
Yeah, but almost nobody uses hit n’ run burst builds in PvE. Even if you could chain Unload permanently (most builds cannot do more than five/six in a row), it is less DPS than melee auto attacks, or even shortbow auto attacks vs. multiple targets.
So for example, Unload is better DPS than someone landing a backstab, walking around for five seconds, and landing another backstab, but since dagger auto attack is better DPS than Unload by itself, chaining those two together (auto + backstab) is going to result in DPS not just slightly better, but leagues better.
I really would love to see a video of someone maintaining a 80%+ melee presence (meaning staying in there to actively dish out damage without eating dirt in downed state every 10-20 seconds) as a glass cannon thief throughout a scale 10+ fractal.
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I say if you are going to spend that amount of gold on a item and the amount of farming you would have to put in in game farming the gold it should match the stats of the current top gear Ascended cuz otherwise why buy it there is better out there
To have a relatively unique looking character?
And what do you say to people who spent the gold on these skins already?
How is losing 119 gold for a few skins a sense of achievement? Obviously we see things very differently.
If you feel they arent worth it, simply dont get them. Theyre merely cosmetic items.
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2 Main Issues:
2) Can use Full zerker build and still have the same survivability and very little downside compared to other classes that have to spec for survivability (at the cost of dmg).
I think you meant the warriors with that one…
This forum disgusts me. It’s ok for some events to be random items (like Karka) but it’s not ok for the FotM to be random? The entire game is one big clusterkitten of RNG.
Get over it or move on to another game. I’ll say the same regurgitated crap that people told the event folks…RNG is RNG. Run it again and again until your group gets lucky. End of story.
I prefer the other option: have enough people express their disgust with the RNG so it gets changed. And it SHOULD be changed as its a pretty kitten bad way to gate progression.
A LOT of people have been complaining about lag but it’s my experience that while there is always going to be some lag in mass events, many people don’t acknowledge that some of that is their own responsibility and the product of the limitations of the hardware they’re running.
So. For the record and for the future, for those who are not aware if you go to Options -> Graphic Options and select ‘Best Performance’ a great deal of this lag can be reduced. Now, it’s not sexy, all the shadowing and smooth edges are stripped away but it is functional.
Thats not reducing lag, thats increasing FPS.
1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – 8
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – 6
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – 5
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – 2
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – 2
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – 1
7)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – 2 (too long)
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – 2 (too long)
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – 2 (Ive seen worse… like one… maybe. The lag just made it unplayable. How can you enjoy 3 hours of looking at your screen not being able to actually do anything?)
They must know jay wilson. Anet took grinding then doubled it. Its insane how much it costs to level a craft let alone even craft items.
w/e taking a break and currently installing rifts new xpac.
Too bad I cant even look at the stiff, clunky combat in Rift after playing GW2…
Fantastic event. You guys keep complaining that everything is too easy and that you can just zerg stuff. Well now you get what you want and you do nothing but kitten.
Man up. Kill stuff. And stop complaining.
I would. But you cant kill stuff with 20s-1min lag.
Yes its unplayable due to lag…
If you read the notes, you’d see that in the patch they nerfed every build APART from Backstab.
It’s like the only build we have left.
Deal with it or take your whining somewhere else.
So instead of having all your weapon-sets viable, you rather one broken, OP one?
And Thief players wonder why they got such a bad reputation…
Really? You expect thief players to prefer having all builds equally broken?
Really? Noone at AN realized this might be a problem?
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Can someone please shoot that asura…
Well personally I love it. A challenge (hopefully) and a reward.
I’m only level 59, haven’t had a chance to play for a few days and have 21g. If you’re that broke playing many hours a day you’re doing something wrong.
Biggest lie in this thread, especially because you purposely ignore the reason for the thread and give your non-sense 2 cents that doesn’t help anything.
The cultural prices are way way too high. No one is ever going to spend that much on a full set, which is why after months of playing this game I’ve yet to see ONE player in a full-cultural suit. Not ONE.
I most certainly will. Got about 60g put aside now.
Is using a shader injector like http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=368880 a bannable offense?
I don’t log in anymore either. I don’t see any point to this game. It was fun until I realized there really isn’t any reason to play somehow.
I can’t put my finger on it, the game is great and all, just totally bland and uninteresting to me.
It’s a fine MMO, but it lacks any kind of “hook” for me. Whenever i think about p[laying, I’ve changed my mind before the character select, “meh, why bother”.
Thing is… the gameplay/story aspect of almost all MMOs is bland and uninteresting (IMO). They just dont have the same level of intensity a single player game has. In exchange they offer continuous character and content progression, social interraction and the ‘omg! we did it!’ moments in challenging group pve content. Those things give you long term goals, a bond with your character and your guild. GW2 decided to move away from all that.
how do you bleed a log?
only one i can see making sense is burning.
Just rename the debuffs when used on objects. Poison becomes acid, bleed becomes structural damage, burning can stay as is. There. Problem solved.
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Real boss encounters.
Not just spam & dodge.
This.
…also challenging content for bigger groups (zerg events dont count).
As expected… game crashes, login servers cant cope…
Well let me tell you something.
Neither the world, nor the game revolves around your little halloween skins. It was a gamble. You knew it. You lost. Deal with it.
It revolves around money. And things are quite simple in this case. You really dont want to kitten off your key customers – the people with jobs, who dont hog server resources playing 24/7, have disposable income and are willing to drop $50 on some colorful pixels in your game.
If anyone lost in this situation it was AN.
I’m not entirely worried though since I’ve long moved away from thief being my “main” since I foresaw a lot more kitten qqing and getting unnecessary things nerfed. You may want to roll a warrior/elementalist/necro/ranger. Those are the core characters of GW, and there’s a very high possibility that they will rarely ever be nerfed per say.
Ahahah… that was funny…
This is a video of a raven trying to attack the golem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5DiFJAtWQ&feature=plcp
Im pretty sure there was a similar video with a cat… but cant find the link to that one atm.
‘yea, but see thats auto attacking, thieves auto attacks do the same damage but bounce from target to target, and its cluster bomb can hit for 5-6k on squishies, and its aoe.’
As far as autoattack goes, remember that theres no piercing shot trait for thieves. Cluster bomb is very nice tho, even if a bit slow.
I honestly would try another class.
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