Guild Wars 2

What the hell is with the new flame barrier? 20% chance to trigger a 3s Fire Aura? What the hell kind of passive skill is a 20% chance to activate so you’d get it maybe once a minute? That just sounds like a complete joke. 1s all the time when attuning to fire would actually be something you can freaking rely on…

Also, my thief build is toast. Not being able to have reduced CD on deception skills AND condi removal in stealth is pretty terrible. I’m kind of kittened off that we can’t double-up on adept level traits like we can now. That’s just crappy and pretty freaking annoying the number of builds that are burned because of this garbage. It’ll take some getting used to that’s for sure. At least they’re doing some interesting things with some other traits.

That’s too bad for the people who had trouble queueing, should restart game maybe? I had a ton of fun though.

This. From their standpoint though they probably don’t want the pvp interface getting cluttered by a bunch of different queue options but if they did it right it would be amazing. They better figure this out by the time HoT comes out and SH is a thing. It NEEDS its own mode, period.

Short and simple. ArenaNet, you guys are morons if you don’t seriously consider a queue JUST for Stronghold. It’s so much fun that there are going to be loads of players who only want to play that and not freaking conquest. Everyone I’ve spoken to about this feels the same. Forcing players to play custom arenas for purely SH matches is a terrible idea. The only reason I can fathom this could be “bad” is if queue times became longer overall from players “splitting up” and choosing different queues, which doesn’t even make sense because that will happen anyway with a custom SH community. And are you really going to cheat your players and make them get a fraction of normal pvp rewards for having to go custom to play the game they want? Please don’t.

That’s ridiculous, I’ve never heard of anything like that. Maybe they just give up or really don’t take it seriously enough.

Your best option is really just to play whatever professions you main/most comfortable with. You’re going to have to spend a lot more time getting good with professions that you hardly ever play. IMO though, you can’t go wrong with guardian or warrior.

holodoc.5748:

I am bumping this thread once again. There are teams now in ranked which are actively abusing the fact that you can stack five turret engineers and basically faceroll the game. Anyone can imagine how much kitten there is on a cap point with four turrets per engineer?

One of those engis made a decent point. What’s more powerful than you complaining about this is playing engi and getting five more to complain about it.

Shout out to the guy who mailed me a Masterwork-quality spear. It’s nice to know that there’s at least one person out there who gets this garbage in this world full of angry butts.

Seriously, that happened.

OIIIIIO.7825:

What I think is happening.

What you are experiencing is probably a de-sync. Where you see the body on the ground isn’t exactly where he is on the ground on the server.

My best tip is to walk around near the body and try several different stomp positions. I find this often happens when a downed body teleports, is knocked, or somehow moves from the original downed spot.

This. Annoying, but it happens. I usually just dps them down when I can’t find where they actually are.

Gibson.4036:

Hello. My name is Gibson, and I’m terribad at PvP.

I don’t, however, talk trash, and I try to learn from those who are better than me. Which is most of you.

That is all.

I like this guy.

I was in FEAR’s 1v1 arena last night watching a duel in mid when all of a sudden this thief just randomly starts attacking me. No message, no bow, nothing. I run away and tell him to stop but this idiot doesn’t get it. When I respawned he did the same thing over and over again. I told the arena admin about it but he didn’t do anything, and no one stepped in to take him down like people usually do for trolls. Wth? Eventually he left, but not even five minutes later this zerk mesmer starts doing the same freaking thing. He even went to kill me when I was dueling someone else. I even killed him a few times but he just got angrier which is just hilariously sad.

Jesus Christ what the hell is wrong with these kids? Do the rest of you have to put up with this kitten every time you’re in a 1v1 custom arena? I thought people who played this game were old enough to comprehend how it works but apparently not. This crap is absolutely ridiculous. What’s the point of trying to mess around in custom pvp if people don’t even man up and deal with these idiot trolls?

Argon.1563:

If you like it, run it. Nobody has the place to tell you what to run and not run.

Unless its Berserker. If you run Berserker, you’re a bad person, because people with no defence die, and dead people do less damage than ones who are alive.

You do realize that the majority of the PvE community uses Berserker and you’d have to be some kind of moron to believe something as stupid as this. Just compare the price of Powerful Blood to other t6 mats. EVERYONE uses Berserker because it’s good. Simmer down and learn how to play, buddy.

Immortal.3647:

i am SICK of joining a ranked game and having to play with 4 engineers or 4 rangers or 4 WHATEVER which results in losing most of the times. they won’t even swap the class if asked “i am here for the daily”… srsly ?

it would be nice if the achievment was randomized individually for each player.

also playing against a team of 5 rangers is kittening ridiculos and usually ends in steamroll. in that case winning is not even fun / doesn’t feel rewarding.

My thoughts exactly. It’s frustrating to no end having to spend hours with a class you don’t play or care about to hopefully get a win. It should have a conditional OR: finish three matches with [profession]. Or just be randomized individually like you said.

Troll troll troll?

sendmark.4731:

I enjoy it, it’s not perfectly balanced but if you see it as just aoe and zerging your’re doing it wrong.

• Stronghold however, should definitely be in its own que.

This. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it’d be lumped into conquest when literally EVERYONE who plays pvp will be wanting to try it. And some of us don’t care to dabble in custom games.

Also I’ve only see courtyard come up about twice and it’s never been picked. I really want to play the map but it never gets rolled :/

I’ve been PvPing on and off for a few months now, but never until today have I actually seen someone join a match and do nothing except move every minute to avoid the kick. I’m not sure what’s harder to believe; that there are scumbags who are actually starting to game the system for pvp rewards without putting in any effort or that there is NO OPTION WHATSOEVER to report people who are not actively engaged in contributing to the match.

The player in question was a level 7 engineer named Killhxh (ranked). He stood on the starting ledge in Temple of the Silent Storm and did nothing. After a couple minutes no one on our team even bothered trying to win. If this becomes a habit this will absolutely kill solo-queue PvP.

ArenaNet, it boggles my mind that there’s no option to report players gaming the system and ruining the experience for everyone else. Please do something about this nonsense. An option to votekick a player who doesn’t move for 30 seconds requiring a majority vote would be a start.

Sigh. The more I think about it the more I just can’t understand how somehow could go on a long vitriolic rant about the most creative mission design we’ve seen from Arenanet in a long time. Seriously if you enjoy the story enough to be playing the new content, you should enjoy discovering more about the most important characters to the story. And cut scenes don’t hold a candle to actual gameplay. I don’t get why it has to be any more difficult than that.

Tachenon.5270:

After writing and deleting a vitriolic rant that was not in the least constructive, but boy howdy did it make me feel better, I’ll just say I don’t want to play Caithe or any other NPC in this game, ever again.

I’ve got my own characters, thanks. Level 80 and geared up and built to my own specifications. If you want me to know what Caithe did in the past, please just show me a cutscene.

Thanks.

Seriously dude? A cut scene ruins the immersion of experience the memories of an important character first-hand. I freaking loved it, it was a great change of pace from every other kitten story mission we’ve ever done.

Donutdude.9582:

Evening Tyrians.

As much as I am enjoying the new living world storyline, I’m getting angrier and angrier at the length of the episodes – they’re getting shorter and shorter. I managed to finish this one in about 30 minutes of gameplay. No, I did not intentionally rush through. I read all the dialogue, listened to various NPC interactions and so on.

If this is what it’s going to be like, I’d prefer longer development times and less frequent episodes so we can actually get an episode that takes longer than half an hour to complete.

jesus christ, every time i come to the forum to hear people’s thoughts on something there’s always some kitten guy out there complaining like this. Longer episodes would be great but that would mean them coming out once every month. Or what about two months for even better quality. Not the same as two weeks.

I hardly play the game anymore and personally the length of updates doesn’t bother me. And the story is getting better every time.

WTF who the hell would figure out how to get past the second gate but not figure out how to beat the facet of darkness? The mechanics in the Glint Lair story part are just silly anyway but come on guys.

And really Anet, first you teach us not to run into kitten in that zone because it hurts you. THEN in the second area you force us to run into kitten to progress? Sigh…

but for real thanks for this thread. It boggles my mind why the put in a random mechanic where you have to run into some obscure crap at the start of an area to kill something all the way at the end. You’re supposed to at least teach the B.S. mechanics before you throw in crap like that…

Are the new medics Inquest? I’m not sure whether this is more paradoxical or terrifying.

What are you talking about dude? It’s a hella challenging fight that feels rewarding as hell once you can pull it off.

You don’t get dishonorable after leaving from just one match so your girlfriend was PUNISHED for a reason. Plus, if you have computer issues to the point where you’re frequently crashing you are punishing yourself lol… not to mention the other people in the game.

Can you really “hear” silence? I mean come on, silence is the absence of sound. How does one aurally perceive the absence of sound? Yes I am being a kitten because Arenanet is doing work behind the scenes you impatient kids lmao……… good god the forums are getting more toxic by the minute

devnull.6085:

Title says it all……

An until precursor crafting comes (if it comes), its vaporware…..

Vaporware? Are you flipping kidding me? Lmao…… Jesus Christ what the hell has happened to the forums these days…

I take it from your attitude that you haven’t even tried Mystic Forging or world boss farming which are popular for precursors? I’ve played a ton too, never seen a precursor, and I really don’t give a kitten . If everyone had a precursor, then you’ve got a problem; legendaries mean nothing.

Stalvros.9217:

Just wanted to know the stats :p.

State;
- Number of toons you have
- Number of lvl80 chars you have
- Number of 100% map completion you have

Here’s mine
- 10 toons
- 9 lvl80
- only 2 has 100% map completion
(Still trying to find the motivation to complete 100% on all)

100% on all? Whoa why? Unless you LOVE playing all them that much there isn’t a reason to go that far lol… that’s a ton of work.

Personally I have 7 80s, 2 with map completion. Never gotten an engineer to 80, that class just doesn’t click with me I guess.

Aww I was hoping for a cleverly sarcastic OP based on the thread title but nope, literally just spewing out more discontent lol… I hear ya though, but I mean can you blame them? What the hell dude lol they have to make income and encourage people to buy gems and make gem store purchases, is that thinking too far above your comprehension level?

If you don’t like stuff they post on Facebook then for Christ’s sake you DON’T have to look at their Facebook page! It really is as simple as that. I don’t get how that’s so complicated for people lmao ..

Seriously though, PvE farming will always, ALWAYS be more profitable than PvP. There’s a huge problem if that’s not the case; PvE will be regarded as trivial. Nuff said.

You already got your new PvP rewards buddy, what the hell more can you expect? lmao

Free Ferrari reward track in PvP? Works with me.

Given the number of skins that aren’t available anymore, I wouldn’t be surprised if they made PvP-only skins unavailable now.

300+ views and not one reply? No “I hear ya”, “no way dude” or “happened to me too”?

2s fear = instant death? wat?

If you’re that concerned about fears, you should be packed with stun-breakers and/or stability …..

I don’t really play engi myself, but in WvW grenade condition engis are always pretty scary. If I had to pick an engi build I’d want to try right now if I had an 80 engi, something like 6 / 6 / 0 / 0 / 2 with the new traits is what I’d go with. Combined with the new Grandmaster trait in the second trait line which creates a mine at your feet whenever you crit, there just seems to be a ton of potential for being a nuisance against other players. Full rabid gear, burn on crit, chance for explosions to cause bleed, swiftness on equipping kit, the works.

Hope something in there was helpful heh

Astral Projections.7320:

As far as I can tell, ANet wants to limit making gold from sources like karma or badges. (Refer to the chili popper exploit, where people found out how to turn karma into gold. That was quickly removed from the game and suspensions handed out). Since you bought the bows with badges and not gold, if you salvaged them you could get luck, dark matter, ectos and T5 or T6 mats, worth a fair amount of gold. I suspect that this would be too close to an exploit for ANet’s liking and that they will never allow salvaging for this reason.

If so, you might as well delete if you are never going to use them.

Yeah, but the huge problem here is that because of the new wardrobe change there is absolutely no way to transfer a rune you had an a WvW piece of armor to another piece of armor. The only way to get your runes/sigils back is to use an upgrade extractor, which is ridiculous imo.

Even if they had to put a monetary cost on all WvW equipment or increase their costs, I really feel it’s in their best interests to make them salvageable at some point. And so players like OP don’t run into these issues. They could even randomly patch it in so people can’t buy up a bunch of equipment with badges and profit from it.

I’ve been maining mesmer for months now and loving it. Guardian is pretty fun too, pretty popular in PvE and PvP from what I’ve seen.

Spoiler warning for those of you who haven’t ventured into Heart of the Mists and seen the new “PvP Build” interface: the new amulets they announced with the patch? You actually have to pay to use them. Ten gold each. But that’s not what I’m here to discuss.

I’m jumping around HotM having a grand old time. I looked to the bottom of the new amulets list, and out of curiosity I clicked on the greyed-out icon for the *Valkyrie Amulet. A window popped up showing me that it cost 10 gold to unlock the amulet for my account. Then it went away. And I lost 10 gold. I had hit spacebar which auto-confirmed a purchase of 10 gold.

Arenanet? What. The. Hell. Are you flipping kidding me?!? I’m sorry but what the hell is wrong with you people? This nonsense of spacebar randomly being auto-accept for some options needs to stop. You can’t even hit spacebar to say “yes” to joining a WvW map. You have to click the kitten thing.

Then WHY THE HELL would you guys make an auto-accept for a ten gold purchase? I… what… how does that even… Jesus Christ…

Look, getting 10 gold back for the stupid Cavalier amulet I am NEVER going to use in PvP would suit me just fine, but seriously, this is what NEEDS to happen:

Arenanet, make it so that when a “yes/no” or “accept/cancel” window pops up, hitting the spacebar ALWAYS results in an automatic press of “yes”, or make hitting spacebar NEVER result in an automatic “yes”.

This B.S. is absolutely ridiculous, and needs to stop. You’ve got my gold, now fix the rest of your flippin “yes/no” pop-up boxes.

Edit: someone saw this post and mailed me 10 gold. I can’t thank you enough dude. Nice to know there are still awesome people out there. I’ll pay it forward when I get the chance.
Edit2: It was the Valkyrie amulet. I’m not an active PvPer, I don’t look thru the list that often.

W T F …. the biggest problem with this is that for non-salvageable armor like those bought with badges of honor there is NO way to transfer or remove the runes in those pieces without buying the God-awfully ridiculously overpriced upgrade extractors which is just insulting to make us buy. Arenanet, you guys need to fix this kitten ASAP.

Make EVERY armor salvageable. For Christ’s sake.

It’s been out for a while now but I just wanted to say this: thank you for Edge of the Mists. I don’t play as much GW2 as I used to but what will get me hooked for hours on end is WvW, specifically the new map. It’s an absolute pleasure to command in that map, plan the best routes through objectives, and even after all the hours I’ve spent in Edge there are always new obscure paths I want to check out to see how it all fits together. And the four hour match length is just perfect for getting a fresh start. So really, hats off to the design team for this awesome map, I love it.

Happy WvWing!

Mal Violet

dis balance dat balance

all balance is balanced dood

What the kitten there’s a chest for the Prime Hologram fight?!? Yeah that seems idiotic to not place it in proximity to the door to the story instance. I’m finished with the meta and bored of the update now otherwise, so I won’t be farming that or anything. Still that seems pretty kitten stupid :/

I noticed that with this patch the Breachmaker has gone further deeper into where it’s drilling, which is a nice touch. But that got me thinking of the last (and only other) time we saw the giant floating ship, and that was for the Marionette boss fight.

So, the point of the Marionette was for Scarlet to test a powerful new weapon. This is the conclusion of the story, and we encountered neither Marionette nor the weapon being tested. Leaves us wondering, what was the purpose of the Marionette in the first place?

Seriously…. just wtf anet just wtf………. I want to fsking kill Scarlet too lol. Honestly silly mechanics after a boss fight like that, bugs or no bugs, are just clutter and unecessary. And the freaking bugs to top it off, godkitten it :/

Your understanding and cooperation during this difficult time is appreciated.

RLDragon.1738:

If you beat this monster, let me know. How many of you did it take and how long?

Unlike the spider queen who is difficult, but was taken down by my character and a large number of other players, this wurm queen seems to me to be unbeatable.

Oh God, was a serious poster and not a troll lol xD was like whoaa. But yeah, dodge the shockwave by jumping and any class can solo easily in a matter of minutes.

RNG is RNG dude. Its dumb and sucks sometimes but it happens, deal :/

This is an open letter to the Orders of Tyria.

On behalf of the Moletariate, I would like to bring to your attention that our people have been massacred for months now by silly adventurers after our precious supply of linens to craft their silly pink armor. We kindly request that you incompetent whelps start making your own kitten linen.

Thank you.

Any plans for another “open world dungeon” like the Tower of Nightmares?

(absolutely LOVED that update – probably my favorite for 2013)

Orpheal.8263:

Jumping to false conclusions.. jumping to false conclusions …

that will surely not happen with the next patch .. stay realistic…

We are getting only one of the last two LIVING STORY Patchs .. not any kind of Feature Patch… the big Feature Patch(es) will come just at the Middle/End of March, once the first LS Arc is finally over with the over next Patch coming 4th of March whats 2 weeks after the 18th February

Sigh… fell for the troll hook line and sinker.

Seriously though, if you look at GW2’s Facebook page it links to an interview in which they say that all the major functionality unique to Lion’s Arch will be move to Vigil Keep. We are escaping to Vigil Keep… because Chantry of Secrets is pretty secret and stuff and, well who would want to escape to the Durmand Priory right? Such a long cold walk and all the quaggans would just freeze to death.

What if any changes to condition damage builds have been discussed? Specifically, related to the fact that virtually every condition build is significantly more dependent on food (for increased condition duration) than power builds are for their respective food? Personally, it has been months since I’ve seriously played a condition build on a character because the constant reliance on food for such a big part of condition damage potency has always felt like unfun clutter to me.

i.e. the ability to pick up and play on all my power build characters does not compare to pick up and play with a condition build because I feel compelled to use food. And quite honestly I have always felt that up to 40% condition duration increase is such a huge factor to condition damage that feels awkward having to come from food to get to 100% duration increase.

Bottom line for my opinion: temporary player enhancement mechanics such as food should feel like a boost, not a defining factor, to a player’s effectiveness in combat. Thoughts on this?