Guild Wars 2

I find extremely ridiculous a TP where its clear people put fake offers to push prices.

Precursor X goes under price Y?
Let them put a 100+ gold offer for no reason…..they don t risk much since they are manipulating the price with guilds and friends

If you put something under price K, they buy and relist.

This is called cartel and is illegal in real economy…but in GW2 economy is a bad joke…

P.S: unique sellers…. yeah what about looking at those unique sellers/buyers friendlist?
What i really hate about john Smith is how he gives partial information that leads to wrong assumptions.

Can you STATE there is no precursor manipulation (not monopoly) officially?
I guess you won’t…..

5 chest lvl 50:
nothing (not even 5silvers rings )

P.S: also rare drops decreased a lot.

The fact i pug max level since release and never been booted or said anything suggest me i m doing my job.

The number of people that i saw quitting when we had a bad guardian or warrior suggests me that its not the same for most of you…..

Do you know how much does it takes even to a speedrunner to explain why LoSing ac P2 boss with a mesmer in party is wrong?

The usual answer is “i read on the forum/i saw on youtube you have to LoS so you are wrong”.

They are the product of this forum….
Act like a parrot and repeat the same button sequence forever…

And that is why i can get fun AND rewards, by playing with pugs (both “speedrunners” and less experienced and i never get complaints).
And instead people that can t adapt have blood pressure issues

Only issue is if the groups doesn t use TS (as 99,9% pugs) you can’t suggest (and i don t even want to) tactics too complex.

P.S. To prove that: you still debate on whatever ignoring that i wrote mesmer has a skill that can reposition opponensts without triggering aggro…. (also GS if you miss will Help…but hey “GS is for noobs” so i m totally wrong)

P.P.S: and as i said you can still be one or 2shot if you have 10-15K HP and low armor.

Wait me push a button

Uh maybe i’ll flip a lever

Well i written another page to explain in detail why you are justjumping on the pvp bandwagon without considering differences between pvp and www.

But since you didn t read a word i wrote…i won t discuss this again.

Lets wait season 2 finish and you will see where you are wrong (and don t consider DUELING that is not WWW for a reason…its more pvp).

Just a final thing:
If you argue you can beat what have been considered the 2-3 most OP builds of a gamemode, you either gives detail or don t write it at all.

Ex how do you deal with phantams + conditions from a stealthed enemy that will heal as fast as you stop focusing?

How you prevent the profession with the best mobility and stealth to escape?
“pride” is not even Worth discussing….

Also you might want to read that link i posted some detailed posts about www mechanics will easily answer your points.

Language barriers are a thing in EU.
You either join an international guild or accept the fact that being able to pug with everyone (elitist and awful pugs) on the long run saves time rather than losing hours looking for a Group.

Point was. if i get hit for less 50% i still have a 50% of being oneshot..a risk i don t want to get.

That proves my point.
You are Killing pve players.

Killing a thief only suggests the thief is bad.
Same for mesmers.

They are hardcounters to DD.

Try again in few weeks with season over (maybe some roamer with high www rank).

P.S: losing is a thing… Killing is another.
If you duel your opponent:
-Won t attack by surprise
-Won t flee
-you won t be interrupted
-etc etc.

Have fun
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Best-professions-for-roaming/first#post4064080

You might want to look also in thief section…

Can link you like 30 more….
I www since release and i use ele since release.

L2p are useless posts.

Since you nowaday meets 99,9% of pve achievement hunters and zerg builds you might have gotten a wrong idea about the profession.

Hints:
D/D weknesses are:
1) XvsX (ex 2vs2 or 3vs3)
2) being kited
3) low damage (partially solved by runes of strength)

But i think is better to just try to look cool with a “l2p”….after all forums are not to discuss stuff.

P.S. if you wanna know i think whoever designed professions, designed RTL to be the core of DD weaponset.
They could have nerfed anything but that….but since they balance about Capture point, the problems were never so clear.

But hey… its the same everytime…even after the cantrip nerf i had so many posts like yours…

Streaks are so common in any part of this game that i bet if anyone started working on big numbers, would be undeniable something is broken.

It have been done already many times.
Surprisingly every attempt resulted in anet admitting something was broken.

So its not complottistic theory.
(a guildy got 7 dawn/dusk in few days at forge, i got enough streaks of IDENTICAL fractal chests to know its too unlikely).

Miroe.2054:

LordByron.8369:

Or play fractals and get an ascended celestial set for free .-.

Never heard of this I have.
Tell me you have to.

Be with you may the force.

In fractals you drop different armor boxes.
Piece and primary stat is specicfied.

For example you get a Healer box of ascended pants, or malicious box of ascended gloves.

From the first you can get any type of pants (heavy/light/mid) with Healing as stat.
From the second you can have any type of gloves with condition damage stat in them.

Guess wich stats are present in every chest?
Wupwup..aka celestial ascended.

Got almost 2 sets already (chances are slightly more than 10% at higher levels).

That works only for armors though.

Riss.1536:

I don’t know why people misunderstand that having a precursor equals having a legendary. There is still a lot of mats to grind even if you have the precursor…

But you can get them easily and without feeding people that play to ruin your game.

i think they will just give the same reward to tied servers but aren t telling to avoid ranking manipulation.

50% chances you get hit for 100%

But i m gonna ignore you until you prove to me you can actually solo PUG and do the stuff you suggest. (3-4 friends and rest pugs is not pugging).

Gewd.8125:

laokoko.7403:

Gewd.8125:

You don’t seem to understand the concept of inflation and purchasing power. I would suggest you read up on it before making any more claims.

ya sure if your definition is there are people that didn’t triple their gold investment, there definitely are.

So by your definition. TP is high risk because people can’t stop playing for a year and triple their gold. It is high risk.

I suppose that’s why people complain about the TP. Because they can’t farm money fast enough to people who simply invest.

Nothing you say about this matters until you understand what inflation is. And from your comments you obviously don’t.

Inflation is caused by gold generating activities. Playing the TP takes gold out of the system. Farming monsters creates gold out of thin air.

Gold is inflated because the average players went from 2 g/hr to 6 g/hr from champ bags, queen’s pavillion farming, and the removal of repair costs.

This means higher risk in playing the TP. If you cannot make as much gold as you could farming monsters you have purchasing power.

This is so wrong it makes me cry.
Gold generated by people mostly disappears in account bount/soulbound stuff
In leveling crafting disciplines
In www food

There are tons of gold sink, TP is the only that does more harm then benefit since it push gold inflation while lowering farming item value.

It just push anything nice in this game out of reach.
It just lower quality of life rather than improving it keeping economy in check.
The opposit a good economy should do.

So stop pretending speculators/manipulators are not economic greedy leeches.

Gokil.2543:

LordByron.8369:

Mbelch.9028:

LordByron.8369:

No the issue is Killing something without being full dps.

Once you burnt RTL you are done.
Now achieving permaswiftness requires to put half of your skills on cooldown.

You can t say that fire 2 + rtl is mobility.
You can be outrun by a mesmer with no effort.

Zergs are not an issue.
If they follow you, you already won.

In all truth that’s a you problem. I’m not saying l2p or anything, but I don’t have that issue. I can escape just about anybody to the point that they give up. And that’s without FGS.

Its more L2read i guess

P.S. alt+f4 i guess if you can escape thieves and warriors.

What exactly are you saying?

If you read the thread i m saying you can t prevent your opponent to flee in WWW.
PvP is a different story.

Unless you go burst.
But even so you have really to be perfect…

If you are one of those celestial/Knight mixed XXX46 DD eles you won t kill any decent:
Mesmer
Thief
Warrior
Engi
Guardian
Ranger (didn t see last nerfs but they used to outheal your damage even in Zerk+celestial…unless they mess up).

We NEED something to be able to stay in fighting range.
Lacking that, evades and stealth will just give opponents easy opportunities to kite you or escape even when they messed hard.

FGS is a fleeing option (Slotting an elite with the purpose to escape is not a winning mindset …..).

Won t help to stay in fighting range.

Can a mobility specced thief or warrior catch up to you? Yes. Can they kill you?

If you say no, you never put a foot in WWW.

Thief has many builds, a couple of them are DD ele counters…
So what you say is the usual “l2p i can kill everyone and everything” that doesn t add anything to the situation.

No. Elementalist mobility is absolutely fine. .

Not in WWW.
In that broken absurd mode that is PvP capture point, maybe… in WWW Always struggled since they nerfed RTL.

And at least, differently from you, i provided reasons..
Cya

P.S: for now not taking in account traited air.

Saint.5647:

LordByron.8369:

With usual numbers u see on Fractals 50, a 33% less damage won t change anything unless you are a warrior maybe.

Arcane shield saves you from 3 hits.
Protection will save you from 1 at most.

But still i can t see why you have Always to be the keeper of truth.
Your way of playing is not the only one or the best.

May be in your party….
If you want to do a pug run with me one day, i will gladly see your theories applied and if it saves time or not (i will do my part).

For sure you can’t say you have more pug experience than me.

u wot m8?

Protection doesn’t save you from one hit. I’m guessing Arcane Shield is your “Oh kitten!” utility. That’s fine. Protection however is a flat 33% damage reduction boon.

Since i use an ele, protection doesn t save me from anything.
I have 12K HP (need 2 in water for vital striking).

Wonder what happens if i get hit once?
I’m mostly at few HP.
If i get hit with protection?
I am at low hp anyway.

Both cases i get hit twice, i die, thus i need to cure to full every single hit i take…..protection doesn t help me.

With mesmer is not that different.

If at 50 i can kill many with icebow4 + a fast rotation while the few npc we have are tanking, why should i try to facetank stuff?

If with mesmer i can pull small groups of mob, why should i risk to be hit?
remember that despite all mages use their opening attack at the first time, they are followed by warriors.

NPC aggro many groups…
That means you either have a coordinated Group or your protection is useless in ascalon fractal.

I asked many time to join me in a PUG run.
As i said i think that some players have their groups, and lose the contact with pug reality where explaining a tactic, may be longer than a Whole fractal (and pugs at 50 are mostly experienced) and you don t have a voice chat.

I still ask you to prove your points doing a full pug run.

P.S. weakness has 50% of reducing the damage not 100%

Mbelch.9028:

LordByron.8369:

No the issue is Killing something without being full dps.

Once you burnt RTL you are done.
Now achieving permaswiftness requires to put half of your skills on cooldown.

You can t say that fire 2 + rtl is mobility.
You can be outrun by a mesmer with no effort.

Zergs are not an issue.
If they follow you, you already won.

In all truth that’s a you problem. I’m not saying l2p or anything, but I don’t have that issue. I can escape just about anybody to the point that they give up. And that’s without FGS.

Its more L2read i guess

P.S. alt+f4 i guess if you can escape thieves and warriors.

With usual numbers u see on Fractals 50, a 33% less damage won t change anything unless you are a warrior maybe.

Arcane shield saves you from 3 hits.
Protection will save you from 1 at most.

But still i can t see why you have Always to be the keeper of truth.
Your way of playing is not the only one or the best.

May be in your party….
If you want to do a pug run with me one day, i will gladly see your theories applied and if it saves time or not (i will do my part).

For sure you can’t say you have more pug experience than me.

Playing the TP is not bandwagoning for desperation that is causing this game economy.

First rule of TP playing from about 2 year ago and repeated at least 1 hundred time in this section:

differentiation

That is the trick to avoid any risk.

Why people attempt to play the TP even if they are not informed?
Because nerfs + speculation is pushing the game out of reach of normal players.

Maybe because people who DON T play the TP need moneys to PLAY gw2?

So if waiting is part of your game, is instead what prevents to play their game.

I said and i still say it.
Something is strange about your screen.
Even the volley damage is extremely low.

Neos.1834:

….

Before openeing thread about dungeon mechanic and rewards, you should know how dungeon works.

Expecially if you suggest changes.
What you asked for wouldn t change the gameplay at all.
And before even questioning to do anything about dungeons they need to do something about TP.

Gold production plummeted
Prices skyrocketed (even on crafting materials).

People is leaving the game.
You still are greedy and don t see that your gold is useless without people playing the game.

Yes.
Get in an organized blitz and get whatever you want.

I don t like pandas so much (its not a cat, nor a doliak nor a moa… so not interested).
But i took:
mask
Obelisk
Candy corn
Baloon
Doliak tonic

With just few hours of organized guild Boss blitz.

Gold production goes down
Item costs goes up.

What a silly inflation.

I can t explain why you take so low damage.
What i can say is its not what usually happens.

I suspect that sometimes you get some fractal scaled wrongly for some reason.

I got in fractal 50 for a week got less than 15 gold.
The thing i needed to craft now costs 130 gold more ._.

I lost 115 gold succeeding at what is considered amongts the most difficult pve contents.

Also i can t play fractal and other stuff at the same time.
And i need to log in the game to play fractal.

Whatever you do, if its not TP you lose 100%.

Wethospu.6437:

LordByron.8369:

Wethospu.6437:

Mages also have an autoattack.

Healing Area is only that high because of Might stacks. But I think that one should be toned down (fast animation & big area).

Mages hit more with their auto.
Might stacking can t be interrupted since as the skill starts they already have 25 so doesn t matter.

Here you go: 3.7k Fireball and 2.8k Firestorm tick.

And 73 damage from volley?

Too low.

Maybe where you are there are some offcourse mobs that hit lower, but even volley hits me for way more.

Try mobs you are supposed to kill.

@Haviz you don t pug.
You should know that is hard even to ask to let you aggro.
You can t position.

Protection is useless in ascalon with pugs…attack rate+ damage is too high.
I pug fractal daily since release…and i never found myself in a party trying to do this fractal in a tactical way.

At that point you need something extemely easy.

If you consider few groups let you do the pull train when they have 2 mesmers (requires only to let mesmers aggro), you can see why what you say won t work.

Vol.7601:

Soa Cirri.6012:

You forgot the Trading Post.

TP = highest risk of all

edit: all other avenues have zero risk. You don’t lose gold doing dungeons or champ trains

False.

The self called TP pros Always try to avoid mentioning easy stuff like inflation.
They used for years the excuse that generating gold caused inflation.

Now that gold lowered, prices keep skyrocketing due to them.

So Whatever you play outside TP you are losing money even if you succeed.

Ex.

You were farming gold for a precursor?
Gratz you lost all your play time because the price got higher than what you farmed.

Same for anything in demand.

As said many times you had your time, you were too gridy, and you can t hide problems anymore.

This game will either die by its economy or will be forced to change direction soon.
You can t pretend economy is fine.

No the issue is Killing something without being full dps.

Once you burnt RTL you are done.
Now achieving permaswiftness requires to put half of your skills on cooldown.

You can t say that fire 2 + rtl is mobility.
You can be outrun by a mesmer with no effort.

Zergs are not an issue.
If they follow you, you already won.

There are several actions and behavior that would balance TP.
We had pages of that.

Yet there is no will to do that by the economic developer.

Balance lack of supply when it becomes critical as you do for oversupply maybe.

Give players alternative ways to obtain stuff (like it was on release when exotics were top tier).

Remove the tools to buy/sell and check prices outside the game.

And so on.

Every single action instead is favouring TP (see reward nerfs everywhere but TP, and defence of speculator assets)

Pristine is given at level 10.
You have reasonable chances to get a skin (given they fixed the droprate) at level 41-50.

As it should be.

Giving skins to level 10 (that is indeed easier than most dungeon) is not a good idea.

Lishtenbird.2814:

2. “I want others to play the way I want!”

• Playing the TP has “playing” in it for a reason.
• Playing on TP requires a lot of skill in researching markets and managing resources.
• People who bought 7 accounts have financed the game 7x times more than you and are at the moment giving you more new content in a B2P game.
• Flipping stabilizes markets.
• Flipping sinks gold a lot (15% each transaction) and stabilizes economy.
  .

Huge lies.

-Playing the TP is free PvP.

-Is as annoying as if you let PK free to roam home cities.

-They can attack your profit playing the way you like, any time.

-They are the main reason for gold inflation of EVERYTHING in demand (EVEN if gold is scarce… you NEED to get past TP anyway).

-Most of them are gold sellers

-Its not skill and as everyone knows its almost about using bots.

-there have been proofs of insider trading also

-its off scale as rewards..

-you can t realisticaly play the game without feeding the tp (you can t farm your mats for crafting etc)

-but more and everything HAS LOW RISK…since your patron john Smith Always intervenes when there is oversupply, but almost never the opposite.
And even the few times he is forced to he spread informations in order to tutelate speculators assets but never to help other players.

Economy is the worst part of GW2 currently and luckily it got so bad that everyone noticed at least.

P.S: how many thread about this did we have lately?
30?
You can t hide the mess TP is forever.

Well doliak calf with lightning hammer is too good to ignore u.u

And i wrote something about pugs, explaining and time.
Also two easier brainless tactics.

well doesn t take any work to say if the rarity is intended or not.
Just an answer please.

Btw i still don t like it and would sell it istantly even for few golds…

Yes but this is a game breaking bug.

You can t change a fractal so a profession is unable to damage with his core skills.

and stability needs to be reapplied every second.
Its too easy to strip it and then stun.

The human male version looks good
The female is not so good.

Carighan.6758:

That’s also why the complexity space of fighting games is very low compared to even the smallest MMO though, Byron. MMOs are a wholly different beast to balance. Consider the billions and billions of combinations of:

• Player
• Class
• Trait for each individual trait slot
• Gear bonuses
• Runes
• Sigils
• Weapons
• (do the above for every member in the team, multiply it)
• Circumstances
• Timing
• Initiative
• Existent cooldown-state.
• Existent condition- and boon-sate.
• Map-state
• Map-location
• (For WvW) Team-size.
• (For WvW) Momentum
• (For WvW) Siege context and state (winning isn’t always the most desirable outcome of each encounter)

It’s quite surprising that any MMO is as balanced as they are.

No its surprising the game is so clearly unbalanced.
They broken any possible balance rule and they seems to try changing numbers empyrically rather than with logic and foresight.
Also with a dash of bias towards some profession (healing signet nerfed 8% ele signet nerfed 50% to tell one).

Also is not about variables.
Is about controlling variables.

When you have a solid subset of balancing rules you may add any number of skills/traits and utilities and everything will still be balanced.

If you instead work on every single skill/trait (or even worse introduce LORE in balancing) without any general rule you end up like GW2.

Build the skills around the rules and you have a balanced game.

If variables are too many just reduce their weigth…example reduce trait impact to a 5% and push sigils and runes.

What is sad is GW2 has a base of skill similar to make a set of balancing rules possible.

Wethospu.6437:

Mages also have an autoattack.

Healing Area is only that high because of Might stacks. But I think that one should be toned down (fast animation & big area).

Mages hit more with their auto.
Might stacking can t be interrupted since as the skill starts they already have 25 so doesn t matter.

Rag.3258:

People seemed to be getting showered in asc drops during the first days after update,

Are you suggesting that as really lot players suspect since release of the game, drops are better after major updates?

.-.

That is even really easy to see in salvaging for ecto on big numbers, and mystic forging.

I would suggest some experiments on this but i m currently too poor.

P.S. play WWW and drown in dragonite.

Wethospu.6437:

Or 4k a oneshot?

I use light armor professions.
Never seen an hit for 4000.

Lowest hitting attack is 6000 (ranger autoattack and warrior autoattack).

Most Attacks will go for 10.000 + like the healing area and similar.
Imho with pugs best tactic you have is pure, raw, straight DPS.

No need to lose 20 min explaining tactics nobody will follow and you can wipe mages reasonably fast with one rotation.

This way you can kill most groups before npcs dies and spread the Others, so you can clear sieges.

Or you can have 2 mesmers and chain their pull to get mobs where npc won t charge to the center.

P.S. their flameburst hits behind walls for some reason.

I am keeping an eye on the data from LoD…

Seems almost nothing changed, lower levels are still better for time/reward.

Also….
RNG or not the number of healer chests is really silly…. like 90%.
You never see raider instead and i saw many chests (also have 1.5 full HEALER set chests, 3 cleric weapons, 3 malicious armors boxes, 1 raider, 1 cavalier weapon).

Not to mention the usual same chests streak and identica fractal combination streak.

If anything i’d say rng is broken as Always but anet won t ever admit it.

Fine tuning=
reverse every single change made to the fractal
You have boss harder and the rest more reasonable.
Another example where “fixing team” just messed up a perfectly working fractal.

P.S: if possible keep pets and illusions immune to agony Attacks.

Ele:
This makes the fight easy
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJArdhUM6ZW5wuBd0ANACxhzEOJQ5sNnC-ThRGABA8AAGS5HZ6BM4EAAo6PSpEkUARMMC-e

The reduced cooldown on air lets you have (with earth too) lot of projectile absorb.
Plenty of condition cleanse (evasion in water, and earth 4)
Fast Damage with air 1-2 and air attunement.
Lot of CC
Invulnerabilities on medium cooldown.

You can almost sleep with that build if you can use your rotation/cd wisely.

You could even attempt the 8 orbs with that build.

Does doliak have any costume brawl skills?

Its a bug probably, yet it’s so ugly i m not even mad.

You can t have a PvE build working for WWW.

For WWW you can go 02246 or 03236 but the latter is really risky

DON T use windborne dagger.
ex build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJAoYhUM6ZW5wzBdEBPACtfj6ILQ5qJfC-T1AFwAOeAAp1DA4EAAA-w

This has more attack, but will los to any condition damage build
If you use 02246 you can use condition cleansing wave and do better.

Playing with this build in full berserker equip requires experience, really few people goes to www with full berserker in roaming.

On the opposite Pve requires full berserker equipment.
And a more offensive build that would be a suicide in www.

Runes:
Strength would be good but they cost a lot.
So rangers are good also and less expensive.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Carpboy.7145:

Xae Isareth.1364:

Why don’t you use ‘Shake It Off!’? Shortest CD, stun breaks and removes a condition.

Because it doesn’t grant stability and so is worse against multiple CCs.

Well, I cant think of any dungeon where you get constantly CCed.

Ascalonian catacombs.
Twilight Arbor
Arah
Fractals of the myst
cof2-3

Also queen gauntlet

and many more
Most common complaints by newbies is how mobs play ping pong with player chaining CCs.

I can go with a stun break but shake it off for 1 condition makes me puke
I’d rather have more precision and stability.

So i m keeping my signet hoping to not have to explain pugs why i use it :/

P.S. months ago Stunbreak used to work as soon as you touched the ground against launch attacks.
Now it simply work whenever you use it… because they needed to make it simpler (_ doh).

Damage is balanced around:
Tell
Range
Tracking
Aftercast

The more a move is damaging, the more is reactable and punishable.

That is why you don t see stealth in fighting games, also your evasion is limited.
In gw2 you never pay for mistakes with some professions.

What they did last patch was the right thing.
Reduce profession effectiveness to push rune and sigils.
They should do the same reducing trait effectiveness in favor of skills, and then balance skills.

In really few games you have almost forced builds and party comp, like this.