Guild Wars 2

Skipping is intended…
Stacking….well sorta but for sure less intended than skipping.

If you dislike skipping play fractals

First thing….
I noticed recently that lava shaman shots the fire Arrow often even during shield phase…

Obviously a bug, but since when?

Second thing…

I know i should know the reason but there is something that bothers me about the immobilize by elementals.

How comes they bypass personal block/reflect?
Is it due to the ground aoe?
Still i don t think they should bypass arcane shield for example….
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Arcane_Shield

Also did they buff in this fight, multiattacks like ele scepter air 1 post patch?
I can finally strip shield away with less effort.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Where do you play? Where I play (Gandara [EU]) we usually never kick or ask for other professions if 2-3 ‘engis, eles, mesmers or rangers’ are around…

i m from europe too..
Server is not important sice we all use LFG…and LFG provide enough data to prove guardian and warriors balance is an issue for pve.
(i won t even discuss the reason….but the FACT is lfg %).

It will be ignored but its undeniable that too many parties requires heavies only…..or maybe 4 heavies at least.

I’d say way more than half lfg….
nuff said.

Is it possible the data totally ignore food?

Also just adding a couple of precision pieces, celestial will outperform soldier

mage.3570:

I think it’s something else … people don’t kick bad classes if the person has high AP.

Warriors set up offensive support and dps….and they are the only class able to cover so much….

Then there is guardian for support AND dps….

Other professions don t only needs guard and war support, but they are more difficult to play and they are either useless or just slightly good.

So people won t risk….

Finally checking AP after you get to 5000 is useless…
I know people with 10000+ that can t complete cof1.

in the meantime >.> a guild mate gets 4 dusk and 2 dawn in 2 weeks but rng is working as intended…..

P.S. on the other side as a legendary owner i would suggest you to go ascended….

Subject Alpha is as easy from range than from melee.
The problem with the lack of trinity on certain bosses is that from range most of your dps will be lost.

Since the lack of trinity and the PvP balance, bosses have bazillions HP and superspeed….with each of their Attacks oneshotting even tanky builds (you can evade them losing dps).

And that would be cool if they didn t put HP regen on top of that…(last Alpha) just to be sure anything but zerker will have a bad time….

That result in the difference between a 20 second fight and a 20 min fight….and its totally unreasonable if you add the fact that melee has even less risk.

Finally the added grinding require people to be efficient to get the gold they need ….. (500+ golds for an ascended light armorset to play fractal 50 for ex).

Starting removing each dps check in the game would be a good start but seems instead they add more and more…(thaumanova reactor…. -.-).

what do you think about ascended celestial?

Since one of the piece of zerk gies 1% more crit while celestial does not i wonder if it would be better to mix…for ex a valkirie or cavalier pants.

you still need celestial exotic insigna recipe….
Just fyi

to play 50 i need AR 70!!

how many times should i write it?
I don t like to create parties so i play whatever my friend ask me to join….that happens to be fotm 50 ….

And the result as you may know is to be left out more and more….
I already have weapons…(55AR)

+1 piece i did selling insigna i got from dungeons. (60 AR)
But it costs around 70-100 gold per piece

Thus we lost time…
And the fact of needing 3 armor pieces per set is still valid.

50 is not hardcapped you can complete it with 70 AR.
My friend have 50 AR i still have only 60….

If they just let us convert pristines in +1 AR i could avoid hurrying to get the ascended armor….

I juest edited my thread showing as the vid is lvl 49……

Now again..did you really finished lvl 50?

Any vid to prove it legit?
Forgive me if after all this your credibility dropped a lot.

P.S.:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1rmzn6/na_dnt_fractal_level_50/
Vid reference:

• Fractal 49! Eight Legendaries!*

Bread.7516:

LordByron.8369:

Bread.7516:

really? you need 70 AR to get through frac 50? how bad are you at the game? 50 AR does the job.

Mistlock instability:
50 Agonizing Expedition *You are frequently afflicted with agony (need 70 AR to not take any dmg) *

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony_Resistance

Means:
You die every few seconds unless you have AR70…. (no evasion or invul possible…its just a gear check)

Now you would like to edit your post ….
P.S. people finishing it before ascended armor spent 450+ gold to get to AR70

really now?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/fractured/DnT-NA-Fractal-Level-50/first#post3311130
As the guy said:

“We mostly had 55 AR but many times we swapped weapons in scenarios they were needed to get as low as 45.”

http://i.imgur.com/fJOEosX.png

You are wellcome…
look at image……
I stumbled into the vid…
First to 50… AKA first to complete 49 <====
Personal level 50……the vid is infact lvl 49

You can t complete nor fotm 40 nor fotm 50 without proper AR due to instability….
That suggest me you didn t even try 40

Bread.7516:

really? you need 70 AR to get through frac 50? how bad are you at the game? 50 AR does the job.

Mistlock instability:
50 Agonizing Expedition *You are frequently afflicted with agony (need 70 AR to not take any dmg) *

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony_Resistance

Means:
You die every few seconds unless you have AR70…. (no evasion or invul possible…its just a gear check)

Now you would like to edit your post ….
P.S. people finishing it before ascended armor spent 450+ gold to get to AR70

@bread

I NEED 3+3 ascended armor pieces to keep playing the same content i used to play before fractured patch….

Not even to “best in slot” just due to plain gear gating

P.S: just because seems nobody hear playe fractal:
To play fotm 50 you need AR 70….agony get applied frequently just as a gear check…so there is no workaround…

I manage to use offensive builds….
Yet without 20 water and evasive arcana i find it too boring….

So i keep 0/20/0/20/30
It also is awesome for pugging challenging content….
But that forces me to use another profession for 80% of PvE

Bread.7516

It’s called capitalism, u know the world we live in. except this one is the super toddler version.

Do you even have any idea on how investments, trading, or generally the very least how business works?

I think you would prefer communism.

I will just say that in real an economy like gw2 would have led to WWIII…..
Luckily despite capitalism isn t working at all (see global crysis) in real we have some sort of organization to keep economy incheck against traders (antitrust etc….).

While in game we have even insider trading…..

JJBigs.8456:

LordByron.8369:

The worst thing is seeing a warrior trying to attack people just pointing out a clear mistake in game just in fear of anet reaction….

I ll remember you once again that defending unbalance when it comes in your personal interests, will just end in this game getting worst for everyone…

And someday this unbalance can happen to you….

For sure last months proved GW2 to have changed from the best online community to possibly worst than cod or wow community :| …

I swear i never seen so much selfishness in a game……and when people can t see that behavior will damage them in a mid term run its even worse….

If you are concerned of ANET reaction, just point it out and don t defend a MISTAKE…

Its because of light armor in the past trashing warrior and getting them nerfed:

1. OMG Warriors only in CoF and they wont take my ele/necro/etc… nerf warriors !! (Anet nerfs traitlines focus/zerker power)

2. OMG Warriors are too strong in WvW And hurt my zerker ele – Hammer gets a DPS Nerf

3. OMG Warrior mobility is out of control – Nerf them like RTL Got nerfed!! (Inc. Nerf)

4. OMG Warrior does too much dps without investment (Unsuspecting Foe nerf)

Etc… lights cry all the time, its about time they get dished back some of their own nonsense. and you wonder why other classes fear the nerfbat?!??! do you pay attention to any patch notes?

I can t answer but i doubt you are seriously want to discuss the balance of the game …….with heavies being top tier in every single part of the game ans still getting buffs…..

first would be totally nonsense saying that you are wanting a mistake to stay because as a Revenge for warrior nerf (that didn t change anything).

Second i’d like to not see warriors crying about nerfs while most LFG posts are “only heavies”, and they are the top tier of ANY single part of the game…..that would lead any other game to a serious balance review….

In the meantime ele can win the most dps against an openworld mob OR is viable only with guardians and warriors support.

Would you like to test the speedclears in fotm higher levels (with proper instabilities) between a 5 light team and a 5 heavy team?

Its just the 5th similar posts with players wanting other players to be damaged.

This really makes me think about the future of the game and to what caused the best community to be replaced by what we have now……

Probably a change of target audience…

Azraelle.1683:

Drop rate is terrble. I run 20, 30, 38 almost every day and got only 1 skin since update.

possibly slightly better than it was before…..

I ran 30+ (thank for the reset anet…) 10 times….got a ring
PrePatch only decent source was 48 btw

Sad to say….every time i am about to buy gems with real moneys i stop and think if its ethic or not to support it.

I saw Electronic Arts ruining videogames in few years, since there i support only ethical companies.

ArenaNet was possibly the most interesting company with their manifesto etc but the bait and switch turned from the most ethic company in Online rpg it into EA 2.0 for me…..

Since then we saw any way to force players into gemstore….(just look at the increase in gems cost….and the release of skins)

Competition is just too near to keep waiting….

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

Ascended creation time

We had a lot of discussion pre-releasing ascended armor to make sure the time to make ascended doesn’t blow out, We pull a lot of data and are watching how long it takes players and like we do with everything we will keep and eye on it but with anything with progression there are always a lot of tradeoffs when you make changes but we’re always looking at it.

really hard to believe this looking at the LIGHT VS HEAVY mistake….
Unless you can provide a reason why light armor players needs 11 days more….

I’d add that when you see a dev saying ascended armors are a to provide a midground between ascended etc…and another dev says ECONOMY needed another goldsink….

It gets even more confusing…..
But mostly….why didn t you tie a personal story or istances instead of putting up a system that is pure grind and 0% fun?

If i want to have fun i would like to do something interesting…gaining gold isn t for dure what people consider having fun…..

600+ gold for a single ascended armor or 200+36 days= NOT fun

In the end ….i really read this thread as damage control….and not as “CDI” since whatever we said on ascended get IGNORED or DELETED SINCE NOVEMBER 2012

Quite easy:

We are the only profession with 4-5 downsides to our core mechanic.

I mean…did you ever seen downsides for stealth, or for adrenaline etc?

Nobody said “you got adrenaline you deserve your dps reduced….”

Someone instead had the brilliant idea to think:
You have 20 skills then you need:

-DOUBLE cooldowns
-LOWEST armor
-LOWEST HP
-awful DPS
-LOCKED into 1 range with no weaponswap
-awful autotattack

And so on….

If ele wasn t just an endless pile of nerfs on a possibly strong class mechanic maybe would be strong :/

Toroxus.9256:

Stars.2179:

Keep them for legendary trinkets and precursor crafting if ascended armor is not enough of a reason. I still need over 19,000 of each and I only have 7 characters.

You NEED ascended armor? For what, might I ask? Going to do a Level 100 FoTM and need the AR infusion slots?

You may want to check prices of +10 infusions…
If you find a cheaper way to get to 70 AR tell me….

Not to mention the 7+% difference in stats (consider infusions…).

The worst thing is seeing a warrior trying to attack people just pointing out a clear mistake in game just in fear of anet reaction….

I ll remember you once again that defending unbalance when it comes in your personal interests, will just end in this game getting worst for everyone…

And someday this unbalance can happen to you….

For sure last months proved GW2 to have changed from the best online community to possibly worst than cod or wow community :| …

I swear i never seen so much selfishness in a game……and when people can t see that behavior will damage them in a mid term run its even worse….

If you are concerned of ANET reaction, just point it out and don t defend a MISTAKE…

I d like my server (SFR) to cross WWW EB with a zerg of doliak tonics >.> i ll ask them….but maybe they are too serious for that.

I already tried in the past on another server with moa tonics but they removed them short before we could

ricochett.5761:

Hello, i found myself complaining about almost everything on GW2 but i am still playing it. Maybe its because the rainbow color legendaries or the mini pets or the quaggan backpacks? Something is wrong with me or am i the only one that also like some kitten armor, backs or weps? And why anet released ascended armor? Probably they must stop the living world and do what we really need?

Its how mmorpgs works .

When you decide you are having no more fun, its still incredibly hard to leave fiends you met in a mmorpg, and to leave a character you invested so much time in…

That is why people have a hard time leaving a mmorpg even when they start to hate it.

This is a known side effect of mmorpgs….

light of dwayna can t be mailed either….its not only the TP

Damaskinos.1263:

The OP is one of the most generous people I ever experienced. And his ability to be happy for others is unmatched. A paragon of virtue…

P.S.: It’s a game. Seriously. Nothing you do or achieve here really matters. It’s only for fun. If you hate what you do, stop it…

After what happened with flamekissed armor i think being generous with this community is a total mistake…

By a player giving many exotic and many other stuff for free since he got to 80…..

With the recent patch we saw the total shift in the community… So now winning means other should fail :| compared to the first months of the game where people would pay money to help Others >.>

Metixo.5086:

Thirdly ascended armor should not matter to you unless you do fractals lvl 50+ because there simply is no need for it and no noticable upgrade. Weapons give you much more of a damage increase then the full armor set will ever give.

This is wrong and we owe the existence to ascended tier to this…

Since release we have people saying “its only a ring….less than 1% in performance” then “Its only a necklace less then 2% performance” etc etc etc.

Reality is:
Armor is 5% more efficient then the corresponding exotic armor
And to that base 5% you can add WWW infusions for another 30 stats.

Ascended is a tier not really different from what is the difference between rare and exotic.

A full ascended player will deal about 5% more damage while suffering 5% less.
For fractals its also +30 AR

They won t give your previous armor back ….
The refund is random from only 800 gems to anything more (i read even 2000 gems or T3 back) depending on support operator you will have..

that makes me really fear to ask the refund…

That is why i hope they will be fast dealing with this issue :<

DiogoSilva.7089:

Elementalist boards

• Our profession sucks! All other 7 professions were buffed and ours wasn’t. Reroll!

Any of the other profession boards

• Our profession sucks! All other 7 professions were buffed and ours wasn’t. Reroll!

Other professions boards:
Elementalist sucks…

And we know when this happens it means we are far worse than it seems.

I think i souldn t want :/
even outnumbered, or with 2VS1 in my server i Always feel we have a chance

Something i didn t see in lower tiers.

Chrhal.4983:

One fractal, which took 30 min, gave me way better loot that the 5 hours of WvW I played. How can that be?

Its called LUCK

Fractal gives the worst reward in game even compared to WWW…..
And a decent level fractal run will take 1 to 3 hours…

you can complain of the reward of www but if you tell fractals have good rewards you will just lose your point.

How i say often…
What about few click from Lions arch giving You dozen-thousands golds?
Even champ trains are far behind…..

What i really don t like is the cost of sieges and upgrades -.- that makes no sense….

Upham.6137:

So you can say that it isn’t acceptable, but the guy in charge of that part of the game said it is.

1) I think you could want to Google “gw2 economy review” rather than accepting to hear the dev in charge of it, all is OK:

2) Few data:
Precursors 200-300%+ increase (with crafting announcement, increased drop, easier access to exotic/rares to forge etc etc etc otherwise would be 1000%)
Gems 600% increase

T6 30% + increase <=== this duering a moment of heavy speculation and demand due to ASCENDED armors and lvl 500 crafting….proving how increase of rare items is way worse….

As you can see the more rare an item is the higher the increase in price…demand is not even taken in account since T6 are way more demanded….

“the dev is an economist” is a really poor answer since it said many times he cannot give us ANY data…

And the fact we are seeing the heaviest gold sink mechanics (ascended ARMORS/WEAPONS) at cost of losing many players, only means economy is not healthy as you say…. (not that it needs an “economist” to undestand).

Oh and where people really try to balance an economy, just put some risk in market flipping…something that he refuses to do….
Only time they did was with crystalline dust

P.S. instead i think damask prices are fair….just the fact the light armo costs 11 days more is unfair ……but i bet they didn t think of it……

Mbelch.9028:

Hey elementalists.

It pains me to even suggest this, but perhaps we should together go on a boycott of our elementalists. At least until they buff our class substantially, they should know they aren’t worth playing.

Did u see pax?
Despite the 100% Boycott we got more nerfs… ._.

Kirec.2394:

The price would rise, regardless, due to the demand.

Money available to players are limited in a single moment…the DOZEN THOUSANDS golds speculators have doesn t magically appears from nowhere while they just click ……

They comes from farmers and buyers….they are just parasites….they give nothing and they are useless.
They subtracts gold from the economy..

They slightly fight inflation but the damage to PLAYERS economy is way worse than inflation itself….
While promotiing a HUGE inflation when it comes to really rare items

Proving that even the smallest thing they could be useful for isn t working.
(iinfact account and soulbound are for example better antiinflation mechanics….)

You are insinuating that you know better than an economist how to run an economy.

Did you run out of arguments?

Let see the universal answer to ANY post on the forum:“you are insinuating you knows better than a game developer?”

Aerlen.5326:

Ahhh it WAS too good to be true! I got a few completing the Dolyak protection thing and I hope Anet doesn’t take them – I have no crystal node and I’m saving them for crafting projects.

You know you can join a player home istance to farm your daily quote?

i like minis a lot…
i totally hate wintersday reward minis expecially if they are the same from the 2012 event….

my fave are doliaks, moas and chauncey von snuffles III obviously…

Diviner.7405:

It is so EASY to power trade on the TP, and yet so many people complain about it.

Where are you pulling this 30% from? I can make up numbers too.

If you buy and reselll in order to create demand and gain a margin you have to get past

15% taxes that the “farmer” will lose
15% sell taxes

And your profit…

Obviously its not 30% (because the prices are different and the second 15% has the first 15% transaction cost added)i simplified it.

So instead going from
Farmer +15% taxes => player needing it
with benefit of both final user and farmer we will have

we have
farmer +15%=> TP flipper => buyer that will pay 15% more and then also your profit.

Proof of this system inequity:
It will work only if FEW do that ….when too many tries instead the system fails (see gossamer)

I bought about 20k Gossamer scraps at what…. 1s a piece back before weapons were released and then sold them for 8-9s a piece the week before armor came out? What a mistake!!!!!

The best part of gossamer incident is that bad flippers paid your revenue in this case was even worse:

Farmer=>flipper1=>flipper 2=> late flipper…..=> sold with loss of late flipper…..

Even i bought my gossamer cheap…..but i bought the amount i needed for my personal use…and didn t resell any.

This system would be only acceptable if TP war was the main part of the game and you could win by dominating the TP….its not in a game called guild wars 2 based on Killing stuff.

if they are like the old..

The doliak only tranform you in a doliak

The other randomly transforms you in one of the 4 toys OR the doliak.

That means you have to spam transformations if you want the doliak ._.
(but at least it was 1/4 the price of the gift doliak tonic)

condition damage is situational for pve…
not totally useless.
Expecially since last updates.

Unfortunately confusion is still bad….

D/D + evasive arcana is fun ._. that is the only reason….

i just trasmuted an exotic fotm sceptr to an ascended one…..
it could be a bug.

1) removal of ascended equipment and legendary changes
2) the end of the pvp oriented Balancing
3) TP flip revenue balance
4) removal of living story in Exchange for permanent stuff

mostly those 4….

let see…

Last time we had something too cheap >.> they removed it from the TP, and said they would get it away from people that bought it legitimately ….

Now …i crafted charged crystals for 60 days….i wouldn t normally complain about Others getting something that doesn t damages me…..yet i can t forgive the community reaction on the matter that leds me to lose something i like….

So let me see…. in 2 Patches i wasted:
1 year on fractals (level+skins)
800 gems on an armor
60 days on charged crystals

will we see any sort of equity or will this be the usual double standard? ._.

squee obsidian shards aren’t free.

Did you hear about www infusions?
means you get another 30 point in 1 stat

Or +30 AR for fotm needed for lvl50 (you can also buy the +10 infusions but they cost even more).

in WWW i find cantrip mastery to be good >.>

i still use mistform and lightning flash.

Jacks.5367:

Wow.. Guys. Thanks for the cries. Anet actually nerfed it so that you will quartz crystal instead of charged.

what if they even removed those you got? ……maybe also remove from your character anything you could have crafted with them?
just to remember double standards of this game…

Aside that i think everybody got their charged by now….the drop rate was really too high.

I did have all my charged before this patch but to tell the truth i didn t mind them to be easier to obtain…

Juan.4569:

That cant be their intention? There is no reason for this to be like this. My Mesmer weeps

i play mesmer and ele Q__Q what should i say?
4 months to get my armors?