Guild Wars 2

Hi guys. New to mesmer, but not spvp. I have about 500 games as warrior and am wanting to start branching out to other profs.

I am wondering what is suggested for someone that is just starting on mes. I was looking at the IP builds listed on metabattle, but they seems a little squishy to start with.

Full builds or links would be appreciated. Up to date videos would be ace if possible.

Nvm I figured out the problem

I do not know that I would do both nerfs at once. You might overdo it.

I would go with crits for now since bleeding and poison don’t make a lot of sense on turrets.

Meeting the Asura still bugged for me and my guildie

Having the same issue

Any hope of getting this attended with the next update?

Also missing for me on Yaks Bend

When they started programming for GW2, it was no later than 2007, possibly earlier.
64 bit systems were pretty uncommon at the time.

In Anet’s defense, I do not know of any games that began production pre-2007 that have 64 bit clients.

I have heard that the GW2 engine is based on the GW1 engine but can not remember where. That started production in 2001.

It would be a worthy investment if they can squeeze some performance out of such a change. GW2’s performance is really disappointing compared to it’s contemporaries, whereas GW1 stood above the pack in its time.

Wow this got heated.

I want to briefly point out that, though I believe the origin of the Sylvari was planned since GW1, I do think think that there were problems with how the story eventually got here.

I think they could have gotten to this point in the story arc in 6 months, if they had cut out all of the filler, instead of the 28 months that it has taken.

They dragged us along for far too long and that has caused some rage, at least from me. I still think it is a neat twist.

I do not know if Sylvari of the Pale Tree are sleeper agents. I think they slipped away(partially) from the Dragon’s control when Ronan took the seed away and brought it to Ventari. That was probably not part of the Dragon’s plan.

Now that Mordremoth is awake, it may be trying to re-establish control over them…through dragon mind control or something.

I bet Glint’s egg is important because Glint was able to rebel against her master. It may contain some secret to freedom for the Sylvari.

I think the seeds were to become a powerful army of Sylvari. Consider all the player character Sylvari and the feats they are capable of.

@ Freeelancer: That’s fair. Though I’ll add this post below, by Angel McCoy. It may have gotten lost in the deluge of post patch lore threads
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/ANet-Writers/first#post4691831

The sylvaris’ origins have been part of their design from the very beginning, since well before we launched the game. Kudos to those who figured it out before the revelation.

Michael.8562:

The thing I don’t understand about Ronan is why he took the seed in the first place.

Maybe he sensed something strange and unearthly about the cave and creatures therein, and swiped the seed simply as a curiosity.

Humans tend to do that. We are curious and meddlesome.

Or maybe Mordremoth got into his head? o_O

Jaken.6801:

btw. : Why are the seeds gathered in a cave? wouldn`t make more sense to have them spread? It didn`t seem like they were grown there.

Possibly being stored there since Mordremoth was in hibernation?

Jaken.6801:

There are several plant creatures in game who do not seem to be Mordrem.

Are they terrible plant creatures? The only plant creatures I can think of are treeants, which are neutral.

That said, I think there is room in the GW universe for plant creatures that are not Mordremoth’s as there are undead that are not Zhatan’s.

Besides I just read a dev say in another thread that “The sylvaris’ origins have been part of their design from the very beginning, since well before we launched the game.”

Even the way the cave is described in Ronan’s story is very similar to the caves we go into in the Silverwastes.

Well before the announcement of Sylvari as a race and 5 years before GW2 was released. I felt this should be acknowledged in its own thread.

From PC Gamer’s Movement of the World article in 2007:

This story began with a human soldier named Ronan whom, [sic] while separated from his patrol, discovered a cavern filled with strange seed-pods. This cavern was protected by terrible plant creatures, so he fled, clinging to a single seed to show his daughter when he returned home from war. But, upon his arrival, Ronan discovered the Mursaat had destroyed his village and murdered his family, leaving only ruined houses and mass graves. In agony, he planted the seed on their graves and swore never to return to battle.

Terrible plant creatures? In a cavern underground? The seed that would grow into the Pale Tree belonged Mordremoth all along!

ElysianEternity.6215:

So, in other words the most cited, fanfiction-ish and unfounded theory since beta was supposedly one of anet’s story’s greatest mysteries?

I hope that isn’t something the writers are proud of.

I don’t even really know what to say. Just wow. Lame.

It was foreshadowed in GW1, in 2007. Predating even the announcement of Sylvari as a race.

This story began with a human soldier named Ronan whom, [sic] while separated from his patrol, discovered a cavern filled with strange seed-pods. This cavern was protected by terrible plant creatures, so he fled, clinging to a single seed to show his daughter when he returned home from war. But, upon his arrival, Ronan discovered the Mursaat had destroyed his village and murdered his family, leaving only ruined houses and mass graves. In agony, he planted the seed on their graves and swore never to return to battle.

Terrible plant creatures? In a cavern underground? The seed that would grow into the Pale Tree belonged Mordremoth all along!

For a better looking version of this recruitment post, go to the following link.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/75908-liar-looking-for-friendly-gamers-7-years-running/#entry2094168

[Liar] was originally a GW1 guild with a 10 year history and we are now expanding our roster for GW2 on the Yak’s Bend Server. We are looking for friendly, teamwork-oriented gamers, ages 17 and up. We are a diverse group that strives to be inclusive of women, LGBT people, people with disabilities and people of all ethnic backgrounds.

MISSION STATEMENT

[Liar] seeks to create a friendly, social environment where people can play together and enjoy anything cooperative gaming has to offer, especially in Guild Wars 2. We seek active, friendly people interested in meeting and playing with others rather than recruiting based on experience or hours played. We recruit from all stages of gaming experience including people playing through the game for the first time to those seeking advanced content. Whether you are new to the game, a gaming veteran, or returning from a break, you’ll find a helpful guild at [Liar] dedicated to improving your social gaming experience.

ACTIVITIES

*Fractals at all Levels
*Metas
*PvP Dailies
*Dungeons
*Living Story and Current Event Achievements
*Raids
*WvW

VOICE COMMS

Our guild is centered around voice chat. We are not one of those guilds that has dozens of people in a channel, but we encourage everyone to come on and chat with each other from time to time. Please have Discord installed and make sure it is working before applying. Please visit our http://discord.gg/rvENckg

HOW TO JOIN

Visit our website at http://liarscheatsandthieves.org/ and click the “Apply Here!” button on the left to fill out the application.

With the living story update out, we have been delving into the new content. We have a lot of lore junkies in the guild, so this has been a fun one.

Halloween is here and we helping each other with the meta. We managed to kill the Lich several times with 5 player parties.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Palador.2170:

I think they’re going to muck it up and do something stupid with the LS ending.

That’s the spirit!

. (-:

Chris

LS will be ending? EXPANSION CONFIRMED!

/jk

PS – When I say ‘content’, I don’t just mean soulless MMO amusement park gameplay for players to chew through and consume. Anet really fleshed out the world in interesting and creative ways.

They really took their universe to imaginative places in those two and a half years. I just wish they can recapture that magic again.

kyubi.3620:

maybe we should compare between gw 1 developement and guild wars 2 development

Gw1 transition from prophecy to faction
20 or more new maps
tons of new monsters
2 new class
tons of new skills

this took about 1 or 2 years

GW 2 over 2 years
Redesign of the game questing and lvling
Redesign of wardrobes
1 new healing skill
1 new map and 2 new dungeons
redesign of lion arch
constant new story arc

In the end on a developement timeline its prety much similar but they have shifted focus elsewhere then on class themselves.

Corrections:

• Exactly 1 year from the release of Prophecies(GW1) was Factions

• Only 6 months from the release of Factions was Nightfall

• 10 months after the release of Nightfall was EoTN

So it only took 2 years and 4 months after the release of GW1 for all of that new content.

In 2 months, it will have been 2 years and 4 months since GW2’s release.

And then we can really compare.

May be a bit late but here it goes.

1. The Halls should fit within the world’s themes and there should be at least a few different ones to choose on the first release, much like GW1’s varied selection.

2. They should be fleshed out visually and seem livable. Examples: dining hall, sleeping quarters, training areas, war planning room. And maybe a ship if you go the route of making every guild hall an island a la GW1.

3. Traders and bankers so that the hall will have a practical use and give guildies something to do as they form up between runs.

We have been growing at a steady pace. Gearing up for Halloween.

We had this problem just recently. We had to restart the dungeon and it worked on the second go. We also ran into some other bugs later in the dungeon which I will type up later.

Overall pretty broken. I would not recommend it. :\

Our guild just got this again just now.

Acotje.5689:

jingkangtan.6752:

6/2/2/2/2 tons of damage tons of modifiers
staff

Because Stone Splinters is so great for world bosses like Teq!

Does it not work against TQ? I am usually within toe-range.

Does anyone have a good Pvt build for large world events, like TQ?

Thanks.

Penguin, what would you say is currently the strongest of those builds? Been running Hambow for while, thinking of switching.

We are recruiting again!

CureForLiving.5360:

Lucky.9421:

Oh man I can not wait for Guild Halls. I still log into our guild’s guild hall in GW1, just for the nostalgia.

Isle of the Dead. Ascolonian Pre-Searing catacombs theme.

The feels man, the feels.

Well as the CDI inherently a discussion among players and developers and in no way a commitment on the side of the developers to do any work… Well unless guild halls have been in development for a while now I’d say we won’t see anything for at least 6 months (very optimistically) if at all. Although that being said, I’m rather excited at the prospect myself

I know. I have been playing Anet’s games since 2005. 6 months won’t kill me.(Though I think it should have been there at release)

Oh man I can not wait for Guild Halls. I still log into our guild’s guild hall in GW1, just for the nostalgia.

Isle of the Dead. Ascolonian Pre-Searing catacombs theme.

The feels man, the feels.

Reflecting certain mobs, or swarms of mobs, can be fun. Try the shield recharge+reflect on block traits.

Tequatl is not hard gameplay. The gameplay is just following rote keyboard rotations; a problem with many MMOs.

The difficulty is in logistics. It all falls on the few that recruit and organize the run.

If we want to make The Shatterer more fun, we should really look at the gameplay. Throw in some randomness to his attacks, so we are not just stacking and DPS.

And those who say TQ is not a ghost town. Not now. It pretty much was for a long time, except for one guild that did it primarily. It is much better now that we have megaservers.

This is good news for Anet’s long term viability, and consequently, the Guild Wars IP.

Which makes me happy.

Wanze.8410:

You can already use Bloodstone Dust in Toxic Nourishments, which can be sold for profit

They all sell at a loss, except for the oil which is only a 6 silver profit atm, which will probably dissappear after this post.

They need to reduce the non-dust ingredients for those consumables. They make it too expensive.

This can be pretty lame when it happens.

However, the wolf pups in TA give no loot but do give xp and on kill benefits. So the code is there to fix this, if they just want to avoid loot farming.

His antics could have been a charade. Don’t you think it was just a little too much? A little forced?

Galphar.3901:

I seem to remember also reading that most of the original GW team/Devs have left the company.

Careful you’ll get your post deleted for saying that.

Galphar.3901:

I seem to remember A-net stating that their Dev Teams are working on BOTH LS content and expansion content. It’s no different than they did w/ GW where they had 1 team working on Sorrow’s Furnace and another on Factions. When they released Sorrow’s Furnace that team moved on to Nightfall and when Factions released that team moved to EotN.

Yeah… that Anet is gone. Don’t get your hopes up.

LW is all we got.

Edit – Oh btw Anet only worked on SF and Factions at the same time. After Factions most of the team were on NF. After NF most moved on to EoTN.

Some concept and design people were always ahead of the bulk of the development team though, so that when a release went gold, the designers had some materials to look at for the next project.

It was a good system. Anet was so much more efficient in those days.

Also if you are a necro make sure you are using a dps weapon in the mainhand. Axe or dagger?

Karizee.8076:

Speaking of crashing….
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/8/8a/Kite_final_concept_art.jpg/800px-Kite_final_concept_art.jpg

And is this a kite city battle?
http://i.imgur.com/ZZl3beO.jpg

If those are relevant, then they planned this waaaaay before the release of GW2. Those are really old pieces.

PS – Actually, I don’t think it was their plan all along, but it is cool that artwork is being utilized.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I got those from the Gw2wiki pages Ronan and The Pale Tree. Though none of those texts have an actual source confirming it. So take it with a grain of salt.

That is found in the movement of the world article which I linked above, written by one of Anet’s writers.

Also can be confirmed in dialogue from the EotN expansion for GW1. See bellow.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ventari

What was the original citation for Kryta being colonized by Elonians? I see it in the wiki but don’t recall where it is in the cannon.

Oh and btw, for more about Ronan and Ventari, and much more about the time between GW1 and GW2, check out this article:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Movement_of_the_World

It’s a great setup for the story of GW2.

Yeah that was foreshadowed in the GW1 games Prophecies and EoTN.

I am just glad, as a longtime fan, that this was one loose end they actually followed up on.

If you ever had any idea how much stuff they foreshadowed between 2005-2007, and then simply never resolved, you would… probably know how I feel.

Sigh… 7 years.

Must be how Half-Life fans feel.

Someone needs to make a video like this for Guild Wars.

I saw that after making this post. It is a good one. Good lighting. Good sense of scale.

That’s an old Dociu piece. Come on, let’s see Anet flex their artistic muscles!

This means the next update will have to be something extra spiffy. You are committed now.

Raeysa Penrose.8450:

sigh So this whole issue is a result of human inability to get along. As usual. This is why we can’t have nice things, etc. etc.

Maybe in time the old wounds will heal. Those with political power in China/Japan/Korea are still old enough to remember or are only one generation removed.

Give it another 10-15 years. They’ll retire and the 2nd/3rd generations will come into power(Gen-Xers, Millennials). Then things will get better.

Yeah, it kind of sucks that politics gets in the way of gaming. Our next generation should probably do its best to avoid wars or something.

Zeefa.3915:

How exactly would they make pixels feel pain? Would it not lead to an ai so advanced that it would be somewhat imorral to use them for our entertainment?
How do we know if they feel pain or not? Maybe they already do?

Maybe you mean that they just add mechanics that make them act like in pain when hit by conditions and all that… in which case it is may be considered emergeing for some, while others might feel it is too much… betya more PETA people complaining that it is possible to kill innocent animals in a game.

What if that is all we are?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlPr2KHSFo&list=PL8407FAE1DDDA0A31&index=36
O__o