Guild Wars 2

And this is when PvP players thibks the game is only PvP.

Out of PvP, RTL was the defining skill of a weapon that needs to have low cd.
But lets balance the game around the 1%… expecially when PvP means Player vs points.

and give PvP finishers dropping from fotm 50 chest in PvE…..

My opinion Is some servers are doing tactical mistakes

Deso few days ago lost 4 maps only to focus with all their players a T3 home tower in a really long fight against 1/3 or 1/4 sfr.

They won clearly but it took so long the went from 220+ to 50 points ticking.

BB also have a really strong coverage at some empty hours.
Kodash lost to that (sfr stops caring for PPT when they have a good advantage and start just looking for fights), and deso is getting behind to that.

SFR has a really good coverage, but BB is second just from other servers mistakes and few hours of the highest coverage.

They are playing with intelligence.

In my opinion the second place is still more than open.

And at least you don’t have a onesided tournament like Silver League.

Kalen.1423:

Ele’s have the lowest survivability for a reason, because they do incredible amounts of damage. Using beserker trinkets and soldier’s armour you’ll still do more damage than a warrior, but have as much survivability too.

This is a wrong theory.
Ele dps comes from traits.

If you don t take those traits your survivability is BAD and youd DPS is awful.

Now Warrior can also use traits with the difference that a soldier warrior can achieve both a decent dps and a good survivability.
Also mobility.

Mostly because their dps is in their skills differently from ele.

Confirm!
POsted some times ago..
Its nothing new, but sometimes you have fractals with HUGE spikes in damage for no apparent reason…

I could speculate it has something related to rerolling.

Prefractured, for some reasons, (suspect for rerolling for too long) you could find harder version of later fractals.

For example: you got a zerg patrolling dredge stage, or you could have bats in the rolling stones part of lava stage and stuff like that.

Also, you could have some fractals with mob damage incremented by a lot.
It’s difficult to notice at 50, but when you are at 20-30, and every single trash oneshots you worse than 50 is quite easy to see.

Tentacles at maw is another example hitting even for 30.000 (if i remember well i got hit past 50K also).

Its not frequent since i don t play much 2Xand 3X so i don t remember exact numbers but i remember for sure a hugely increased damage.

Could you tell me if there is any balanced versatile WWW build for both roaming and zerging using SW/X or X/SW or SW/SW and any other weapon?

Possibly not too tanky since i like to kill stuff.

Also may i ask if there is any war build using celestial armor or part of it? (not trinkets just armor since i have lot of wupwup boxes).

ty

Just reverting droprate to prefractured would be enough.
I got all skins at that time.

(about 18% at max level).

Its current droprate that is irreasonable and also bugged since really lot of people reports drops being better at lower levels (see also reddit statistics).

Everyone is D/D because its the most fun.
Simple as that…
Its not even stronger than other weapons.

i have spent about 1000 or more to equip my ele…

Then i started to drop wupwup box everywhere -.-

Btw trust me low level fractals drops gloves, shoulders and boots with wupwup in them that is extremely efficient for WWW (central pieces and helm are less efficient).

If you plan saving money some level 20-40 runs could save you lot of moneys.

So i have put aside some ascended stuff and i wonder if i could get a decent equip/build from it.

But i am not sure on wich profession

1 sentinel armor box
1 wupwup armor box
1 malicious boots chest *
1 healers gloves chest*
1 malicious shoulders chest *

• (have wupwup in them)

1 wupwup staff i had already
1 apothecary scepter i had already
1 cavalier weapon chest
1 cleric weapon chest

plus i already have a legendary GS and legendary SW (means stats change for free)
I also have every possible trinket and full ele+mesmer zerk weaponsets.

Could i equip a new profession out of that?
Wich and for what? (i play mostly fractals and www)

Ty a lot

P.S: obviously not a mesmer nor an ele ….

Nice i just got refund for the witch so i am taking bloody prince since it has no bald hat u.u

But how does it work?
Is it account bound?

Behellagh.1468:

TP simply redistributes the wealth in the game, even removing some of it.
.

its the opposite.
It just centralizes wealth…..

That is the core issue.

Its like reverse robin hood takes from poors to give to riches the poorer you are, the most you are in the hands of TP.

P.S: runes and sigil
How many people do you know with STACKS of them…. please….really….API pushes even this non sense.
(did u see the spike during the interview or during the patch? Well there wasn t so MANY viewers…).

I bet that 19 can be harder than 50 >__> from my past experiences….

If they release the TP CDI in MAIN section i guess some players will be really busy to try to defend their economic empires

I’d really like the mad prince outfit hope anet will release it again now that every other outfit is plagued by the bald hat.

aside the fact is totally false and biased.

What happens when some players get enough wealth to make the difference in limited resources?

That you get them sitting on the pC with their API (and many also bots…) to buy all the runes of strength possible when informations are released.

And that means ruining the game for thousands players forcing them to play stuff they wouldn t want to get gold.

But the best part is when that part gets NERFED just to add insult to injury.

TL:DR due to people like you IF i want to play WWW i need to farm gold FIRST to feed the market leeches…..
If i want to try some new build even worse…
DOn t act as White Knight…you are clearly the cause of a % of people quitting.
(i personally know 4 that quit seeing what happened in TP post patch)

@OP
do you want a fractured 2.0?

I’d better have devs working on some AI for their istances so maybe they can give us some sort of challenging 5PlayersVS5CPU to start with….and then start designing more complex mechanics.

Also that work could be reused for PvP and mostly WWW guards etc.

As you said in most pve situations phant strength is better ._.

I almost never use disenchanter save for coe.

I think phant haste got less needed when they gave us the signet.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

There areONE big things that help a market resist manipulation

that is balancing developers action on supply scarcity and oversupply rather than just tutelate flippers by never helping supply scarcity and create it from oversupply.

That screams “try to manipulate everything you can….John won t do anything about it and you won t risk anything”.

i wouldn t leave blade training for no other skill….
expecially not for phantasmal haste.
If anything i would choose between a pure reflect build:

0-4-0-6-4 and the balanced reflect phantasm that offers nice dps paired with good reflect uptime.

2-4-0-5-3 that is what i am using now.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAR8dnsISZa2pGuqB1aIR1QObxhorLpCUyOlA-e

As weapon i put the GS since i use mostly for fractals pug..but you can use sword or pistol or even torch according to situations. (torch for skipping only even a White one will go).

They shold put back prefractured weapon % plain and simple.

They were easy enough to provide an incentive to run high level fractals without giving them too easy since you had the random skin.

That were 18,something % at 48 of a random skin (and 0% at 10 really -.- NOBODY ever dropped one at 1X prefractured…….and i ’d lower slightly to 15% since now there is the wardrobe).
Against a rough 5% now….

@Ominibus..
It took a year to me to get the one i needed.
They are skins and the only rare skins in game not gold related…they should be reasonably hard to get since you can play without them.

Oh you can do it without a thief…if you look at how it works…
That is totally a type of gameplay that would get AWFUL reviews in the past since there is no tactic, reaction or anything..

Just try and fail until you memorized stuff with no hints…at that point its just boringly easy.

50 is definitely bugged.

Its impossible you never see any drop other that uninfused and infused rings while 30 is raining ascended chests….

3X is boring and annoying unfortunately…

Agree with OP.

Nowaday you hear daily at least 3-4 map chat about the broken economy…..
That translates in people quitting.

You get gold on people leaving in the end.
Macroeconomy is still good…even i know people with 30.000 golds, an eternity and much more….

Its a game true..the game is not TP Tycoon, so playing it will just ruin the game expecially with nobody taking balanced actions.

TL:DR You hurt the game…if only anet made a survey on uninstalls i bet economy would pop out quite a lot…..

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Masquerade_armor

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Balthazar_Carapace

Also some weapons

To start with lets do a fractal track were agony hits players every 10 seconds and if you don t own a full ascended equipment you die….

That is gear + time gated content…..

BulletNG.7069:

I’d return to FOTM if they added this. I quit last year when I realized RNG hates me nearly 300 fractal runs later and not a single weapon skin dropped for me or anyone else I partied with. But then I hear about people who played 20 fractals and got exactly the skin they wanted. WTF?

I also think they should add a similar ‘Rewards Track’ to WvW!

Can you post a pic of your 291 pristines?
its nearly impossible to get 0 skins from 300 runs if at proper level…
Unless you start dividing them in 4 (4 fractals = 1 run) and then remove 9 +40 with lower chances.

That would made something like 21 level 50 runs.

Its quite common for players to look at their fractals completed number and forgive they are not “Whole runs” and then complain about receiving 0 skins.

Dual.8953:

LordByron.8369:

•Being stuck in the same combat patterns over and over again.

This one stood out to me. True, we aren’t really stuck per say (In the same way that can start a mission in GW1 without a monk or ritualist, or take an MM to a mission without exploitable corpses), but unless you’re clear with your intentions and your party is okay with it, you’ll likely end up having to suck it up and employ to the game’s universal optimal attack pattern. I think we’d see a lot less of these Zerk threads if that was addressed.

Do you know that a non existent PvE issue already harmed WWW badly?

Even if its true zerker didn t lose much dps due to runes and sigil buffs, its even more true that there was a huge power creep for bunkers and conditions.

And yet the only issue is not healing….is the fact that WARRIOR and GUARDIANS (<== even support) are monopolizing LFG in PVE.

Now that war got back with even more dps than before and mesmer is bugged even more a fast look at LFGs will tell you what is the real problem of PVE.

Nobody told anything about prestige….

Your prestigious farmed ranks are no different.

What changes is the effort needed.

You want pve staff for free but you don t want to give up PvP stuff in Exchange… easy as that.

You don t know much about pve… and since you feel the right of judging it i will just ignore you.

Sublimatio.6981:

I don’t know if you are in the game for a long time, but let me inform you these skins have no prestige as before 2013 november update, fractal weapon skins vere pretty common and I dropped bunch of them as a casual fractal runner with ~30 personal level at that time. None of them I wanted (mostly staves, scepter and warhorn), but they dropped pretty often.

i keep reading this since fractal release… ._.
Maybe because it wasn t so easy.

From release date of fractal took me 1 year of 2 daily fractals to get the skin i wanted.
I guess it wasn t “so easy”.

You want it balanced?
1) Put AGONY in PvP….so everyone without 70 AR dies istantly (gold barrier+timegating+forcing annoying dragonite grinding).

2) keep the track as they are and give 5% to get a fractal weapon as reward.

3) give the same random access to rank finishers in fotm.

There you have your balance.
P.S. prepatch was about 18% at max level of a random statless fractal weapon that needed a trasmu Crystal to apply.
Also it was way harder considering the AR wasn t enough, meant 1 agony attack would kill anyone mostly.

1)people with several legendaries are mostly TP players.

2)fractal rewards are awful and were even worse.
For one year i run fotm getting less silvers than cutting a couple of trees…

3)if a fractal player is a PvE player than a WWW player is a PvP player….

4) you don t have to spend several hundreds gold to play PvP.

I am using this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJAoYhMM6ZW5wzBdEBPACtfj6ILQ5qJfC-TVCFABls/gSKloU9HAeAAXpE0hTAQSKDsSJTa6JCAgAwO35Ov5NvZpAEVYE-w

DD is pigeonholed mostly in 30 arcane….that makes people say everyone is using daphoenix build ._.

Even if the gameplay is totally different….

sorrow.2364:

To all the players saying that in PvE you can’t get ranks:

- Can you in PvP get legendaries? No.
- Can you in PvP get exclusive champion bags skins? No.
- Can you in PvP have a gold income comparable to a PvE player? No.

yes via gold
Getting a legendary in PvE is as easy as buying it via PvP rewards.
TP flipping earns those things

Also you get more gold thana fractal player

- Can you in PvP get an amount of achievement points comparable to a PvE player?

You get more than a fractal player.

Ranks is the only think left to PvP players and it has been severely inflationated in the last patch.

Fotm skins are the only think left to PvE players not accessible via gold and it has been severely inflationated in the last patch.

Gimme finishers in fotm and i accept you to have fotm skins.

Hard to believe in rng when you get oneshot by anything in a Whole low level run…
I think its more due to some hidden mechanic…

Like those harder fractal (for example when you get more dredge randomly or random bat spawned prefractured in lava stage etc etc etc).

no its all mobs for all istance…

Unless they suddenly get 90% crit chance.

Is there a hidden mechanic that push the damage of mobs randomly in some istances?

Sometimes mob hits for way more than they usually do..

Its hard to explain but if you run lot of fractals you usually know how much damage each attack does…sometimes they have a 50% boost or more for no reason (no related instability etc).

Anyone eperienced this?
What triggers this?

I once said instabilities were unfun…

A dev replied people loved instabilities.

My latest picture of the lfg tool says otherwise.

Can a dev confirm that people still have fun with instabilities or my opinion they avoid isntabilities as much as they can is now confirmed?

P.S. outflanked should not exist in a “lag friendly” (cit.) game.
Expecially when you get a frontal attack dealing 4X intended damage.

May i have dragon finisher by reaching level 50 fractal?
I could also pay 500 pristine relics to unlock the Whole finishers….

Why can’t i get pvp stuff from pve but pvp players wants pve stuff from pvp?

Soo….
If there was an oversupply of silk…

John Smith said he would “fix” it and just pushed demanded silk to 3X other materials (i would argue lot more since silk is used even on heavy and can t be gathered).

What are his plans for sigils, runes and precursors?

Let me guess…. nothing!

Also stop calling legendaries skins since we had a dev in www stating they added stat change to make Legendaries MORE THAN SKINS.

A poor player can in WWW achieve something like 20% less efficience because lacks several hundred golds…..

This makes economy BAD.

They nerfed profession and skill dps.
They buffed runes and sigils by a lot

You can compensate with tools available to anyone…

People is shouting OP at every rune and sigil but they reduced something to buff something other.

“the something other” is more balanced since its not profession/build related but universal.

beGreen.4190:

Lack of Diversity is bad for every game, especially massively multiplayer one.
Before i get to QQ let me introduce myself

I’ve always played as healer or support in every kind of RPG game so when i started playing GW my first class of choice was guardian – just because it was labeled as a support and team player. -

I think you bought the wrong game:

Originally Posted by Jon Peters, Arenanet

Everyone has a dedicated slot on their skill bar where they must place a healing skill. These vary greatly and are an intimate part of the Guild Wars 2 build-making process, but ultimately they are your most efficient and reliable way to sustain yourself in battle. Why did we do this? Because we think it is a more interesting way to create sustained encounters for solo players AND groups while keeping players focused on themselves and their surroundings.

That is why we want to eliminate things that we felt were burdens on the game such as:

•Group LF Healer/Tank…
•Party wipes when you lose the wrong person.
•Watching the interface instead of the world.
•Playing with people because you have to, not because you want to.
•Being stuck in the same combat patterns over and over again.

If anything i am totally complaining about the ele new grandmaster traits that is totally against design.

Last time we had a post like this was from old school mmorpg asking to change game design for them and we got ascended equip….
No TY this is GW2.

P.S: also you are totally wrong.

Healing in PVE is useless since there are 1HitKO everywhere…
Zerkers in WWW are already subpar and underpowered.
So they are in PvP.

NinjaBreadMan.8926:

I use a similiar build but main difference being sub 10 earth for 20 air. It has higher crit chance/crit damage at the cost of non optimal protection uptime. Its a bit glassier variation
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0%7C8.5n.h2.8.5n.h1h.0.0.0%7C0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0%7C1n.7d.1n.7d.1n.7d.1c.7d.1c.7d.1c.7d.0.0.0.0.0.0%7C4u.0.31j.0.311.0.311.0.31j.0.3u.0%7C0.k19.0.k35.u28b%7C2m.2%7C1n.1q.1s.1u.28%7Ce

i guess people goes 10 earth for the 10% damage bonus….i run 0-20-0-20-30 for ages….but the 10 air doesn t outdps earth trait.

You can get back your crit+ferocity via equip

Ele is fun but mobility is lacking….gets nerfed more every patch (see boon duration this time) we are reaching mesmer slowly….

@aero actually DD ele is a really good dps 1vs1….not better than thieves yet really good.

Its good:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQFAWhMM6ZW5wzBr0AOAGxgQNQcEIA8CLuFWCA-TVCEABJcBASZ/BnUGhp6PbpEkJlCapkpNdEA8gACAgAwNv5Nv5NvZpAEVYE-w

Staff interrupts are quite reliable if you use it when zergs collide (needs timing).

I recommend:

Frozen ground just before they collide => static => MS+tornado (tornado interrupts itself) => unsteady ground.

Kyon.9735:

People can discredit and insult him however they want but the fact will remain that no matter what D/D build you run now, it will always be a deviation of the build he popularized.

Mostly because every time you use ele and use few points in arcane and water (even 10) you get labeled as classic DD even if you are full zerker….

Daphoenix build was centered about surviving and attrition ….something dead under a pile of nerfs so NO today DD builds are totally different.

They Always stealth change stuff….it surprise me nobody said nothing about the mandatory dredge buff XD

I wonder if they know they have a troll in their dev team.

You mean…
The problem is any combination of power-crit damage in wich power was not the main stat.

I.E. celestial and assassin

So since 3 times in gw2 history happened an item lost significant value (that will be regain also in this case, and even ignoring the fact it was easy to predict as you can see in many posts in this section), it means TP has significant risk….

There is almost no risk…don t pretend there is because there isn t any unless you are really unexperienced with both economy and this game….

I’ll ask you again.

How many veteran flippers EVER lost significant money?
How often?

The poins is 99% transactions have a low margin that becomes lot of money depending on the gold invested.

Then there are medium risk Investments prepatch that gives 100-500% margin…

And finally few risky Investments that gives 5000+% margin but have 40% risk….

If you differentiate you can t lose money.

No
It means it simply is written in a different way.

Only thing that was nerfed was crit damage

And even that is written differently since they added the base 150%

P.S: infact weapon power is still about 1000 so you still have 2500+1000 but you only see 2500 written

NB Weapon power is the same on any weapon of the same tier Soldier has the same base power than zerker, that is 1000 then you add stat bonus.

they removed weapon power from the count…
But it shouldn t affect final result

Crit damage was nerfed not power

Its more a tooltip change.

If you want to calculate difference you should look at crit damage-150% X crit chance.
(don t forget to add food and buffs)