Guild Wars 2

Actully yeah, i never noticed this – it would make sence to have 1 for toughness (and perhaps even vitality).

But johns answer is wrong (well, not quite right), the difference isn’t 20% across the board like he states, the difference is actully higher than that (easily worked out and already stated int he thread john linked).

So again the question to john is, why do we actully pay more than the 20% vat increase?.

I posted a suggestion last night after reading a post in another thread here and it got me thinking, should shield 5 and focus 5 swap positions?.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Guardian-Swap-Shield-skill-5-with-Focus-skill-5

Think about it for a second, focus 5 is a skill that blocks like a shield 3 times or explodes if it doesn’t and it has a visual effect that has big shields appear around you, it’s clearly primarily based around close combat (like a shield). Now take shield 5, it pushes people away from you to put them into range and blocks projectiles using a magic bubble (like a focus would do).

Now is it just me or does it seem like focus 4 and shield 5 go better together, and the same goes with shield 4 and focus 5?.

What do other guardians think?, i love the sword/shield look – but more often than not i’ll take the focus as my shield as it acts like a better shield than the shield does.

Kinda surprised more guardians haven’t spoken on this, guess i’m the only 1 who thinks it makes sence.

Ahh well, back to using the focus as my shield.

Cosmic Teapot.9162:

A dev just posted about this 2 days ago. They aren’t going to change it.

Which begs the question of why they bothed with the whole PVP armor earning, i mean it’s one of the big aspects of sPVP (earning that great looking armor – that’s the rewards!) and yet when you go into a match it all looks blue or red. This is one of the things i love in GW2 (collecting the armor, dying it to how i like etc) and yet in sPVP i don’t even bother now as it all looks terrible due to the red/blue system.

To Anet, Is it really that hard to tell people apart with just red/blues names?, i mean do people really need to have the entire player red/blue just to be able to tell who they are attacking?.

Agreed for 2 reasons.

1. In the heat of running from 1 battle to the next it’s such a hassle to have to open the inventory to have to do the swap – even more of a hassle if you have multiple items with the same image. Simply being able to hit ` (` is my swap button) would be so much easier.

2. Elementals actully have 3 less inventory slots than other classes due to this, as we have to have up to 2 extra items for land combat and 1 extra for water combat. Think about it, a guardian (or any other class) can fit say a scepter and focus and a trident as a 2nd set in the hero panel yet we can’t, it may not seem much but the fact is elementals do infact have less inventory space due to having to store our 2nd set in it.

Think about it, the focus 5 skill is this.

Create a shield to block the next three attacks. If the shield is not destroyed, it explodes and damages nearby foes.

Not only that but the actual animation of the skill is a bunch of floating sheilds.

Now take the sheild 5 skill.

Create a dome around you that pushes foes back and absorbs projectiles.

Doesn’t act like a sheild and looks like a big bubble.

Now, i honestly don’t think swapping them around would cause much issue with each weapon, as the focus 4 skills fits right in with the sheild 5 skills (the focus 4 skills is a ranged attack/heal and the sheild 5 skill is something that pushes people back to range), same with the sheild 4 and focus 5 (the shield 4 blasts a wave infront of you to grant protection and the focus 5 is something that blocks like a shield!).
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So i put it to you Anet, swap them around – it shouldn’t be much work as the skills would be exactly the same so no animation changes are required, no major coding would be needed – it would be simply swap them over.

What do other guardians think?, am i the only 1 who thinks this would not only make more sence, but actully suit the weapons much better aswell?.
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Also, if not then how about simply swapping the shield 4 and 5 with focus 4 and 5?, nothing would actully change other than the fact that the foucs would now look like a shield and the shield would now look like a focus. IMO the focus in general on the guardian is more of a sheild than the actual shield is so it would make sence and look better.

But i’d prefer option 1.

Aramanth.1546:

The only change I would want is to switch Focus skills with Shield skills. It makes no sense that a device specifically made for blocking can’t block, while a cowbell/electric horseshoe can get 3.

This is agree with, well at least the number 5 skills on them. The focus should have the bubble and the sheild should have the 3 blocks/explosion move. I mean for the love puppies the focus 5 skills makes SHEILDS!!! appear around you.

Not only is it more logical (as in the sheild has an actual block!) but i actully think they would suit each other better with the number 4 skills. I really want a proper guardian style look with a sword/sheild, but i go with the sword/focus as it acts more like an actual sheild than the sheild actully does.

I really think we should get on Anet to swap them around.
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Ohh and yeah, orbs need to be faster.

The only reviews i trust are Angry reviews, i did watch the Zero punctuation one the other day and well, it was the usual funny ZP stuff that isn’t ment to be taken seriously.

I’ll say this, if Anet simply halfed the cost per 800 gems (£to 4.25 UK) or doubled the amout gems you get per £8.50 (to 1600) AND offered a discount on bulk buying i’d be buying gems on a monthly basis. Simply put, the current Anet gem cost is a rip off even if you factor out the £1 to 1 gold that is plastered all over Lions arch.

Again Anet, half the cost or double the gem amout and i’ll buy gems from you every month, right now i will never pay what you are asking as it’s just way to much for what you can get with them.

It’s generally VAT added but even then it’s still bumped up a bit (VAT is 20% in the UK, difference is 30%). The reason why?, no idea.

What i find weirder though is the lack of a discount for a bulk purhcase, no matter how many gems you buy it’s alway £8.50 for 800 (and that in itself is very overpriced).

I have a GTX480 and run it with an X4 PII @ 3.7ghz (not exactly a top of the line gaming CPU), at 1080p with everything maxed out (apart from maxed water reflections – as i don’t like loosing a few FPS when no water is around), the graphics card has never gone over 70% usage – heck i can even run it with supersample but don’t as it’s hard to spot the difference.

Simply put, this game will never use all of your GTX480 even at 2560×1440, let alone 1920×1200 as the game is CPU bound in a lot of areas – so the question is, what CPU have you got to go with the 480?. Will you see an FPS drop?, most likely, will it be your GPU causing it?, most likely not.

Screen grab of my current usage, all maxed out and a custom 2194×1080 res (for better FOV).

It really needs to be an option (or the current system changed), i mean this game has an armor closet and a big aim in Spvp is collecting “cool” looking gear – yet that cool dyed up armor i just managed to get changes from cool to a bright red/blue blob as soon as i get in a match so what’s the point in bothering with the pvp armor collecting?.

Either have 2 options, the way it is now by default and a toggle to have only red/blue names (i had no issue at all in Rift with this), or keep it as 1 setup but simply make it so for enemies there is a red/blue smaller circle under them (this should be fine as everyone is currently a big painted target) and then when targeted a white circle goes around that one and their name gets bolded/underlined/highlighted somehow over their head (so you have a clear indication who is targeted).

I’d prefer the 2nd option if i’m honest, (like so).
I run into battle and infront of me would be 3 of my team and 4 of the enemy team, my team would have blue circles under them and the enemies would have red circles under them, i would then target someone and an extra white circle would go around the red circle under them along with their name changing from normal to on fire (highlighted) so i can clearly see who i am aiming at.

Simples, i get to see all the cool armor and i can still tell who is on my team and who is an enemy and who i have targeted.

If it doesn’t have a headless horsemans helmet that does a big “Huhahahahhaha” at the press of a button i won’t be impressed (dam i still remember getting the sever 1st on that bad boy).

Seriously though, i’m very interested to see what they do and i hope that there will be soulbound on pickup halloween armor drops (that don’t require gems etc),

Favorite = Asura.
I like to play the small people in MMOs with the big burely classes (hence my Asuran/Asurian? Guardian in GW2 and Gnome Warrior in what shall not be named), and well good golly gosh (censor didn’t like the 1st word i had) they’re just plain cute .

Least Favorite = Asura (yes you read that right, the same as above!).
Nearly everything clips , i love to armor/weapon hunt for looks, but i seem to spend a lot of my time trying to find sets that don’t clip with anything.

@Arheundel.6451 (can’t quote), true the ele has traits that last 3 seconds, but that really isn’t the point. The point was they took a trait that was being abused on a specific build and hit it with a 70% nerf on duration that affected all builds uisng it.

In essence they took the trait from 1 extreme to the other, from being way to long (it really was), to being way to short (for how often it can be used) – this is something the 1st post states they aren’t going to do (wackamole balance changes).

“Why just green and orange?”

Think about it, what are the 2 primary colours you see around halloween?.

I’m really not looking forward to the next update for guardians, a 70% nerf on a skill this time (almost making it wothless to even take now), so i wonder how much of a hit preotection is going to get.

You say you don’t want to play wackamole with balance and nerf skills so no one uses them, but you took a trait in the last update from 10 seconds to 3 seconds, that to me sounds exactly like what you said you aren’t going to do.

@ Proteininja, see it’s calling people ignorant that’s not really helping things. a lot of people have posted actual facts as to why what was said is wrong. Yes the hate is a bit to much (all though i fully understand why they’re upset), but most posts are far from ignorant.

For the time being i’m using a custom res via nvida custom res.

From 1920×1080 to 2194×1080, sure it has small bars at the top and bottom – but it requires no hacks and it doesn’t require window mode, simply select the new res ingame (no breach in any rules whatsoever).

Top pic standard 1080p, bottom pic custom 1080p. Given the choice of the current FOV without bars and the custom res FOV with bars, i’d rather have the latter – in saying this though i have a 32" monitor so the bars mean nothing really.

The big deal is, you can get to both (LA and other cities) in about the same time and 1 is free and the other isn’t. Sure it’s not a massive price to go to other cities BUT over time the cost builds up. Sure it’s not that hard to make money in this game BUT at lot of players think “why spend money when you can do the same for free?”.

Simply put, at the moment going to LA is cheaper and just as easy to go to than any other city and as such most people are in LA, this in turn makes the other cities less populated (in some cities unpopulated)- hence the need for cross city chat (why this is missing is beyond me) and/or hearthstones.

@ Naminator.9316
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZUao2jTGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XsPYPGcl0

Perfect videos and explain the problem with GW2’s FOV perfectly, Anet should really watch these 2 videos.

Dead.7385:

But a cross chat channel between all cities would be nice.

This right here, if they don’t add a hearthstone or a portal to every major city in the mists this would be the next best thing.

I actully don’t mind paying the extra fee to RS, but as others have said, it’s lifeless as everyone is in LA becasue it’s quicker and free.

So anet, at the very least cross town chat please.

I’d like to request 3 extra camera options in the menu (well 2, 1 would be renamed) – i’m putting the request here seeing as your discussing the camera.

Out of combat camera, in combat camera and zoom lock.
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The 2 camera modes would be exactly what we have now (left to right, speed) but we would be able to have each seperate – for example i love to have my camera zoomed in and over the shoulder when running around/in towns (gears style) and when in combat i like it to be zoomed out a bit and centered. It’s a hassle to have to manually do it each time and these 2 options would be great.

It wouldn’t change what we have now (as you could just select them both the same for the same effect) and it would allow a bit of choice in how things look in and out of combat.
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The zoom lock would be used to lock the distance you’ve zoomed in/out via mouse wheel. I hate that there is no way to disable mouse wheel zooming as i have a skills mapped to middle click/left&right wheel click and in the heat of battle i can accidently zoom my camera. Either add a toggle zoom lock OR add a way to change the mouse wheel zooming via keybinding.

Thanks.

We all know why it was nerfed, becasue10 seconds was simply to long for it to last considering how often you could make it hapen (if specced for that i should add). However we all know why people are complaining about the nerf, because a 70% reduction was far to much.

I honestly don’t think there would have been that much moaning at a 50% reduction, but 70% was just way overbored and was going from 1 extreme (to long = OP) to the other (to short = UP).

I’d love more weather, wondering around and it’s all sunny and happyness killing your PVP foes then BAM, a big thunderstorm happens and it starts chucking it down with rain and not just blood.

I know the cultural stuff is for looks (i have the achievment as i own the entire light Asura set – it’s AWESOME), but that was kinda the point to why they should cost karma and not gold. I mean the weapons cost karma and they are for looks aswell (certainly not for stats as you can get the same/better stats for a few silver) and yet they cost karma – and the looks can be purhased for a few copper on the TP (which makes no sence at all).

With regards to the gold cost, i guess what’s considered ok for price is personal choice.
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Truth be told, i think they need to redo all the karma weapons looks to actully be 1 offs (looks that can only be purchased at those vendors) and infact make them proper cultural weapons, they then should make all the cultural armor cost karma aswell to match the system.

This way all the 1 off cultural “looks” stuff costs karma and has to be earned and can’t simply be purchased (as in buy gems for cash, convert to gold and buy the cultural armor) – it just makes more sence this way (IMO).

What i would like to happen with town clothing is, for them to be auto switched to when you enter a town (perhaps a toggle option in the menu) and that anything can be put in the section (to show off that epic armor you have but haven’t updated stats wise etc). So it would work like so, i put my cool looking armor in the town cloths section and tick the box that states “automatically switch to when in a town”, then out farming/questing i’d have on my standard armor and as soon as i hit a town it simply switches over to the cool looking “town” armor to show off.

With regards to the cultural armor, since day 1 i’ve just not understood why they cost gold full stop (and yes the prices are way to high – as are karma weapons), IMO the armor should be for karma and the weapons should be for gold. The reason? – the cultural armor is actully something you can’t get looks wise anywhere else (you can only get that style armor from that vendor), YET the karma weapons can be gotten on the trading posts,/via drops and other vendors (again, looks wise).

And yes, a hearthstone would be very nice indeed for free town travel (on a cooldown), or at least stop making the travel costs scale with distance and level (it scaling with level is just bad).

I first noticed this with hammers on the asura, it’s really quite noticable how it instantly changes in size when sheathing/unsheathing.

And you are right, it’s one of those once you’ve seen it, you alway see it things.

I like the idea, something like an extra dodge button that is a standing block but uses the same energy as moving dodge.

So if i want to dodge away from an attack i would double tap/press the movement dodge button, and if i want to stay on the target i would hit the block button instead.

On point 1 – yes the light armor looks plain weird instead of awesome – it makes you look like some sort of home made superhero or something. First time i checked them out i really wanted the medium for my elemental (tell me that set doesn’t look like it should fit the magic classes!) and was shocked it wasn’t for the light classes, then i looked at the light version and it was just LOL – it’s shockingly bad.

Just purchsed the heavy one for my guardian (earned with gold, not money) and it is fantasic.
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On point 2, you can re-use the skins – you just have to use transmutation stones to do it. Basically the 1st use is free and after that you need to earn/buy stones to keep the look without having to rebuy the entire set again.

Gonna have to agree on this.

Sure it’s not a major thing to have to do after reporting an email BUT, it shouldn’t be a major thing for Anet to do to make it so if i report a spam/seller email it instantly deletes the email.

Basically, if you report any email it should auto delete it, same with reporting players in chat for spam/selling – it should auto ignore them AND auto remove all the posts they made from your chatlog.

It’s one heck of a drop, i’ll give anet that.

Maybe 10 seconds was to long, but from 10 to 3 is just crazy.

I’d maybe understand making it 5 and a half (like most ret skills), but a drop of 7 seconds is way overboard.

Agreed with most, it’s not that big of an issue at all. The big issue if the fact they didn’t change it so people can’t dodge over it.

Thanks for taking over rainshine, i just popped back to see if any devs had updated any info for the elementals and noticed you had the new sticky.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

Why not spend dev time and energy fixing things so that rollbacks don’t ever have to happen?

Well this kinda ties to that, if they make it so roll backs don’t happen then they don’t have to do it anymore. However roll backs are happening and as such players should see something in return for what they loose and this is a pretty simple fix for that.

And i’m pretty sure there are different teams that could do this, the team that fixes things fixes the servers, the team that mans the gem store etc could issue out the boosts.

As per title..

This is a suggestion related to the rollbacks that happen to the servers, why not make it so if a server/servers get a rollback then the server/servers get a boost in everything (XP, money, karma, tokens etc) for the same duration as the rollback.

So if a server is rolled back 3 hours then every player on that server gets a boost for 3 hours when they next log in (rollback 2 hours = 2 hours boost etc), or every player on the server gets a set of the boosters (the ones in the store) free with an amount up to the time (so for 3 hours roll back you’d get 3 of each hour long booster).

Add to this, it would be nice to at least have a message when we log in telling us we got rolled back, a simple “sorry there was an issue and we had to do a rollback” would be reasonable, instead of finding out for ourselfs (or even not noticing what we’ve lost).
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I’m sure some people may think it doesn’t matter all that much, but the fact is people loose time and effort and items when this happens, and so far nothing is given in retrun. What i’m suggesting is a simple and easy fix for when/if a roll back happens and it easily makes up for what is lost.

Same as the other desolationists, logged on today and all the area i uncovered last night along with all the karma, silver, XP, heart quests etc all gone/reset.

What’s most annoying about this is the complete lack of anything said when we log in, something like “sorry there was an issue last night, we had to rollback etc” but nope, add to this the fact that this isn’t the 1st time either.

To make matters worse the BLTC went nutty aswell so i ended up with 8 of an item i wanted 1 of and i a lot of silver gone for my trouble.
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Anet, you really need to start letting people know when you’ve done a rollback (it shouldn’t be hard to put a little notice on login) and you really need to start giving people something for the lost time/effort/gold etc they loose. Something like if a reset is done, then the servers affected all get a 50% XP/gold/karma/token etc boost for the same lengh of time as the rollback (rolled back 3 hours = 3 hours 50% bonus for the ENTIRE server).

Just make the scepter 1 attack a bit faster and make the spirit bow a spirit scepter (no change to any of its attacks) and i’ll be happy.

I want the spirit bow changed as all the other ones (sword, hammer, sheild) are weapons we can equip, having the bow makes no sence as we can’t use one ourselfs.

They work fine for me, my only gripe is the fact you can only buy them in sets of 5, it’s annoying when there is 6 armor slots!.

I just want to be able to buy 1 for 30 gems.
Make it, 1=30, 5=125, 10=225 etc.

Just to add to this.

I know a lot of events are stuck etc, but is it just me or a lot of them also not awarding XP aswell. I did around 5 events the last time i logged in and not 1 of them gave me the XP in my bar that the medal area said i’d earned.

After the 1st time i noticed it i made sure before the next few events to check what my XP was before the event, in every case it had only risen the amount of the kills and not the 1000+ XP i earned from the events themselfs.

Sorry people, after todays notes i have now given up on the ele. I may come back and update the thread again if the class starts to get fixed/adjusted properly but for now i just don’t see the point – the class is more frustration than fun.

In regards to this, maybe someone can start a new thread and copy everything in the posts and keep it updated?.

I suggested this back before the self help disable email authentication was activated.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Request-Enable-Email-Authentication-system/first#post27011

Can you please add this feature, seeing as some of us had to disable the authentication because we weren’t getting the emails, it would be nice to re-enable it to see if it works now.

We really should either have a self help to enable it OR have an option in our accounts to enable it. We shouldn’t have to contact support for this as with all the issues this game has we would just be adding to the workload.
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Frankly, this should have been added the day the disable authentication was added.

So you don’t want to do 100% of the game, yet you want the achievement for doing 100% of the game.

The PVP area is part of the world and as such if you want the 100% world completion you have to do it, if you don’t then you haven’t been to 100% of the world.

Sorry about not keeping the 1st few posts updated as much now, at the moment i’ve given up on the elementalist and rolled a different profession and on top of this the ability to actully edit the posts keeps going missing..

I’ll still check back now and again to update the bug list as and when i can.

2. Seen people openly gloat at elementalists horrible survivability and damage in map chat.
3. Seen people point out repeatedly, how I should have chosen another profession to play (again, in map chat).
4. Had people jump onto a veteran I’ve been killing for half a minute, finish off its remaining 50% health in 2-3 seconds, say “lol ele” and leave.
7. And I saved the best for last. I’ve had people refuse to take me into their dungeon groups because I’m an elementalist, and they are apparently “useless”.

Unfortunatly i have seen all of these ones.

@Chilly – I understand things can take time, the thing is a number of these bugs have been in the game since the beta and a number of them shouldn’t really be all that hard to fix IMO (glyph of fires range, arcane powers crit amout etc).

The thing that i find disheartening is the lack of fixes for our broken skills while other classes are actully being buffed (guardians got buffed in a recent patch, warrior in this one). Considering it’s pretty much agreed we are the weakest class (well hardest to play some would say), it’s just kind of weird to see buffs for other classes while our class not only needs a buff to get us to the same level as them but also a lot of fixes are needed aswell.

Also stated that Anet are going to fixed progressionblocking/exploiting bugs first.

I would have no issue with this if they stopped buffing other classes before actully doing that and fixing broken skills. Fixing any classes broken skills should come before any general skills changes/buffs/nerfs.

I just want to point out that your opening skill that gives 5 crits (Arcane Power) is actully not giving 5 crits. Currently the skill is broken and gives at most 2 crits, as such i suggest dropping the skill as it simply isn’t work the slot for 1/2 crits.

lol, i do like the random trait points and not even bothering with the 10/20 point skills at all.

It is quite shocking to see how easy certain classes can be played and still get kills (like your num 2, num 2, num 2 etc).

It’s quite disheartening to see not a single one of these bugs was fixed in the latest update.