Ranger is not weak, and they would be your best bet to play sword/dagger as an evasion playstyle. They also have some evasion built into their great sword I believe. A thief is pretty much required to use stealth at some point, flanking strike is very brief evasion you would be better off playing death blossom but we all know how terrible that build is. You could play without stealth, but you won’t be as effective in melee.
To be fair unique has a lot of different meanings, a unique item can just be unusual / uncommon. It can be limited to a single outcome, limited occurrence, or it can have no equal or exist as the only one of its kind. GW2 makes all these definitions very … uhh.. confusing because it doesn’t really follow any of them imo.
But hey, we’re just magically supposed to know right? I personally knew from playing other MMO’s but it isn’t fair to people that haven’t before. Would it kill them to just add a “You can only equip one of these per character. Are you sure you would like to buy?”
I mean… it’s a freaking text box similar to what shows up when you delete / buy certain items.
Well designed quests, strategy, real challenge, excellent story, enjoyable combat, awesome pvp with tons of modes, healing and protting, rewarding pve & pvp, costumes I can combat in, heroes, Cantha and Elona. Glint, Palawa Joko, trolling RA with frenzy mending and heal sig, hamstorm, epic voice acting so bad it’s good, running people for dem platz, power trading in spamadan, vanquishing, my Assassin, guild alliances, watching Dhuum own people when they get banned http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fFYug8nXcM
That’s target nearest enemy, not player. For example if we had the option, it would completely ignore minions and target that necro straight away. Pretty much a must in pvp, and all other MMOs I’ve played have it so I’m dumbfounded.
It’s like they want combat completely chaotic and messy.
I absolutely agree. I very much enjoyed doing all of the southsun achievements – did it all in 1 day and the whole rewards built into achievement idea is very nice. I hope we see more of this, and I really hope this is how they implement the pre-cursor scavenger hunt.
The problem is it’s just taking way too long and I and many others are simply losing/lost interest. Southsun revamp was a breath of fresh air, but now it’s back to the same old grinding and mostly useless loot. Waiting patiently for this better design… please less RNG.
Never underestimate the power of cash shop – rift is going to be copying this exact model on june 12. Sub fee is just an old unneeded model that was only required back when sever costs were insane. Now they’re dirt cheap.
The JP is easy enough, if I see a portal up I’ll take it but don’t tip since I’ll do it myself if there isn’t one.
I did it for my first time a couple days ago and only screwed up a couple times but never fell off. It’s like 5 min long if that. You can avoid the steam if you stand on the very edge of those rocks.
Easily the 5 point trait last refuge in shadow arts for thieves, that stealth at 25% health kills you far more than it saves. It’s a free revealed to screw you over.
The game is missing a ‘target nearest player’ which is a major downfall. So you are forced to click target which is absolutely horrible, ever tried clicking a bosses name or player when things are around it? You can click right on the health bar and literally nothing happens. I too have problems with the targeting in this game..
ANet finally realize they designed the thief horribly and should have went with a more Assassin from GW1 approach, that’s why they are forcing everyone into the S/D dodge meta, with stealth being rarely used. I suspect we won’t even have stealth at some point, what sucks is it’s our only survival vs any decent player and they are doing nothing about certain traits being completely useless with the new anti thief traps.
Best thing to do is just quit this game / class until they make up their minds on what they want to do.
So far I haven’t witnessed a single use of those traps in WvWvW. In fact nobody was even interested to visit that trap selling merchant.
The area of effect of the trap is really small, considering the price and time to set up the traps (15 badges = 15 silver, as 1 badge = 1 silver when buying siege). I guess nobody bothers and still buys arrow carts instead.
Thieves can continue to roam without any fear. At least here in EU tier #1.
Of course roaming is fine, but what about us that actually play objectives, these traps are PERFECT for putting in front of gates and roads leading up to capture points. We will spend most of our time running away for revealed to finish than actually doing something useful. Don’t tell me a thief can survive without stealth..
And all a fellow thief need do is SR and put a trap down to make another useless. When a person see’s a thief coming towards them what they will do now is put a trap down. Just give it time. As if a thief would even go near them after that, causing most fights to be stale mates and each party just walking away… what a lame mechanic imo.
I would convert it to a “Flare Trap”, or something with a similiar name. When triggered, it explodes loudly and fizzles like the end of a sparkler, brightly lighting the area. Stealthed enemies become silhouettes, identical to what a player looks like to themselves, but with more refraction/shadow from the light.
You wouldn’t be able to target them, but you can still clearly see them and hit them with anything you want, be it melee cleaves, AoE, whatever.
The key would be the sound and bright light. It would become a “LOOK HERE, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO SNEAK PAST” trap, instead of a “completely shut down any player trying to use stealth until they die or run” trap.
I agree, much like the flare ability that hunters have in WoW, it reveals you so you have to run out of it to stealth again. What we have now is way too OP and completely dominates any stealth build, traits, etc.
I don’t want to be infracted again but honestly, did any thought go into this trap? Can we get some dev insight on what is going to be done? Do you just not want thieves in WvW at all?
Yeah… definitely not entering WvW with thief. 30s revealed stays even after leaving the trap. On the up side, this will remove all thief QQ and we might not be nerfed into oblivion anymore… oh wait lol
Berserkers gear, the blind on stealth and constant dodges keeps me alive with almost 15k health. I also keep shortbow in my bags and change my elite to dagger storm for big AoE fights. So be flexible, the traits are easily changed out depending on the fight.
They were sold in store separately. I have no idea if the original game was required or not but they were displayed side by side like other PC games with expansions.
If the original game is required to play them, then it’s an expansion.
They aren’t, they’re stand alone campaigns, they are connected yes and expand on the game but technically not expansions. Only EoTN requires 1 of the campaigns to play, therefore only true expansion.
anet have no other way to generate income beside box sales and cashshop, and most people who wanted the game already bought it.
Last time I’m going to bring this up, then I’ll leave you guys to acknowledge or ignore it to your heart’s content.
In Guild Wars, players lined up to purchase items from the cash shop. Because the items weren’t hidden behind RNGs chest, the players got exactly the items they wanted. And ArenaNet got the money they needed. It was a win/win. It was both customer friendly and profitable at once. This method may be profitable, but only a fool would argue it’s customer friendly.
I’ve been saying the same thing to people since they started with this RNG bullkitten. In GW1 I was happy to drop money on the latest addition to the cash shop. Why? Because I knew what I was buying, and additions happened every few months – not weeks.
I will not pay another cent to Anet until this stops, which is unfortunate because I really love Guild Wars and loved ArenaNet in Guild Wars 1 times.
Nothing in the GW1 cash shop was RNG either. I bought every single costume because they looked awesome and you could combat in them.
I haven’t spent a dime on GW2 cash shop either, nor will I. Not even for costumes.. because sitting in town being the only way I can show them off is pointless to me, and RNG is an ugly beast.
My bro put some gems on my account for my birthday and I got the halloween costume set, I was so disappointed that it’s just for the lame version of costume brawl. 800 gems totally wasted, but hey I can be OP as hell with the best brawl set in the game and just annoy people. Yea… fun.
This is why I favor small, tightly knit guilds. While there are lulls in the conversation at times, people will always say hi when you get online, or come help when you need it because they know that you would do the same for them.
Exactly, and the multiple guild feature makes things much worse. Why they didn’t just implement alliances like in GW1, I’ll never know.
1200 gems? Thats 15 dollars >.> Is it just me or are the prices going up?
Everything about GW2 is turning into a cash grab…I am rapidly approaching the “uninstall” point.
Everything? really? Or do you mean random “skins” that do absolutely nothing game-wise? A chance to get one can be purchased with cash, gold or looted from mobs… I see no difference then any other MMO I have played other than they offer more ways to get them and they are not needed in the least.
You people crack me up IT’S A SKIN! lol
OHNOES RandomPlayer01 has a different looking sword and I wants it! /quit /forumwhine /threatenuninstall
Remember before release how everyone was all happy that GW2 would have stuff that would be sold as novelty, and nothing would be pay to win?
Well look now, there are people complaining for the sake of complaining because they can’t get their novelty stuff for free or for cheap.
No, people are complaining about RNG on that novelty stuff. Can’t deny RNG is ridiculous in this game all around not just the gem store.
If you don’t know Vayne, you don’t read the forums.
fanboy right? I haven’t been here long and noticed this immediately. Every forum has a few that blindly defend even terrible things about the game
Most GW2 ‘famous’ players are not famous for much in-game. We have 1 blogger and 1 loremaster. Neither pve or pvp are competitive, popular, or fun enough to have any one individual gain mass community respect or attention like people from WoW can.
Any class is easy to play, but to master a phantasm mesmer is as simple as sitting back and watching some TV while your NPCs do all the work, so I’d say mes.
Well that’s how thief is designed, if he has to run you won the battle. Don’t bother chasing just cap the point or do something else if in WvW. Most likely he’ll come back and try again, possibly make a mistake then you can /dance on his corpse to feel manly.
Yeah they aren’t very exciting. Try an Ele they are extremely active as you must switch elements constantly although they aren’t hard to play. Eng is in the same boat, takes more skill to play an Eng though.
I agree, I hate entering the thief forums and see everyone cry about how ‘OP’ we are instead of going to their own subforum and asking how to counter one. I’ve never once posted in another classes forum to complain, I know certain classes are totally broken right now but tongue in cheek. I’ll continue to L2P while getting facerolled
Mesmer is pretty faceroll just go phantasm and let NPCs do 99% of your work.
Thief isn’t that hard either and it’s my main, in fact no profession is except maybe warrior since you have to be top of your game to excel with one in pvp. You get a challenge and the up side is you’re OP in pve.
Obviously you never ever went tpvp with a thief (Or never went tpvp at all)….low risk yeah, just make a thief and go for a tpvp midfight and see how thieves are so low risk….you’re going to die even before you realize something happened…this is not stupid wsvw you don’t have a zerg covering your back so you can just go here and there killing random nubs with maybe 30 levels less than you…thief is the most killable prof and the one that needs the best positioning and timing in order to survive..you have no cond removal, you have crap armor and healing..all you can do is going stealth but ppl are not so dumb to not spamming aoes killing you anyway…decent players actually know where the thief is even if he went stealth..or you’re one of those who think that ppl in stealth just vanish and you can’t get them until they’re visible again?
Who plays D/D glass cannon these days?
S/D is one of the most played build and they are far from squishy or easy to kill.
Fact is that Thieves have only to put 20 trait points either in Acrobatics or Shadow Arts to have incredibly effective defenses. Plus, S/D is a defensive set by itself.
Feline Grace + Vigor on healing + Withdraw are more than enough to grant amazing defenses. Same is for Meld with Shadows + Cloak and Dagger + Shadow’s Embrace + Infusion of Shadow.
I wonder which profession, excluding Thief, is capable to get good defenses only by spending some traitpoints in a specific traitline.
Don’t lie saying that thieves are squishy. The time when people ran full glass cannon with 0 defenses are past. Now thieves still run berserker, but at least they now know that they have to spend some points into defensive traitlines.
This is partly true, landing a C&D on a skilled opponent is hard as hell. I miss half of mine in tpvp when I don’t have a closer up then if I get CC’d I’m dead instantly, thieves only have great defense vs bad players. Our defense is trash, I’d much MUCH rather a source of protection than relying on stealth 24/7.
also i wish quest giving was better, i hate just running in to area to have the quest just appear, id rather go to the npc involded, accept the quest and learn about what im going to do. maybe if they added some epic quest in it would be better. i mean can any of you tell me quest that made you go, “oh wow that was one epic quest”, instead of, " wtf is that all the xp i got for that :’( "
Yes. Linneas and the vicious tacklin’ rabbits.
whats the story for that one ?
No real story, you are collecting fur while getting knocked down by bunny rabbits, quite annoying I thought. Leads to an event that you kill a veteran jotun.
you see, thats not a quest, thats a task,
now imagen you had been given the quest to save a womens daughter from a jotun up in the mountains and you had to sneak up to its cave covering your scent with the fur of rabbits, but while escaping you get corned by the jotuns brothers and have to defend this girl from being killed, after returning her safe you discover she had be promised to the jotun as part of a deal when she was first born but the mother had changed her might after she was taken, the girl find out, leaves her family and demads you take her to LA where on the way she insist you show her how to fight as she wants to join the lion guard but was never aloud to (as she held at home by her mom for the day to be handed over to the jotun. <——-
now thats what id called an interesting quest. do you lot have any remakes you would rather see?
Maybe you should should be on quest design. I enjoyed just reading that, imagine all the story in between. I definitely don’t think of the events as quests, nor do I feel like an adventurer. There were a lot of cool quests in GW1 that had this type of design.
One of my favorites from WoW is where you talk to the ghost of a girl whos father died in the war and you collect her doll parts, put them together and give them to her. She doesn’t know she’s dead and asks that you go find her father, it goes on and is really sad. Things like that really connect you to a game, so I’d like more of it of course.
Another example is one where you kill a zombie that is harassing a graveyard and you get a book telling how he got that way, he went off to fight in the war and came back to see everything in shambles he asked everyone in town of his family, he went to the graveyard to see his wife and 2 daughers names on tombstones, started flinging his sword in a fit of rage and ended up killing the 2 keepers of the place IIRC, killed himself after realizing what he had done and you get his sword that glows at the end. Another sad quest and those are relatively early in the game.. oh the memories.
also i wish quest giving was better, i hate just running in to area to have the quest just appear, id rather go to the npc involded, accept the quest and learn about what im going to do. maybe if they added some epic quest in it would be better. i mean can any of you tell me quest that made you go, “oh wow that was one epic quest”, instead of, " wtf is that all the xp i got for that :’( "
Yes. Linneas and the vicious tacklin’ rabbits.
whats the story for that one ?
No real story, you are collecting fur while getting knocked down by bunny rabbits, quite annoying I thought. Leads to an event that you kill a veteran jotun.
