No………………………………………………………….
I heard that Rangers gonna get a big buff with the next update, so alot of guild groups would love some upleveled Rangers to tag along with them.
This is top quality trolling…
Not only trying to get people to transfer to SFR to kitten the server up but run Rangers/free enemy loot bags/free enemy rezs as well…
Would be a really, really nasty reward…
OMG! OMG! OMG!
Another back skin…
Adds it to the backpiece mountain…yawn…
Leagues would work IF at the same time introduced a handicapping system, probably a weekly one.
If they did this EVERY server in the league would have a chance at winning and it would be very, very close right up till the last day…
I just play it for the achievement points, NO OTHER REASON AT ALL.
If there were no achievement points, I would NEVER play PvP.
I don’t miss the old match up system at all…
Fighting Viz and Des for week after week, month after month, no way do I want to go back to that…
Just a warning…7th/8th Sep I queued 8hrs+ on both days to get into EB and DIDN’T GET IN, so queues can be awesome at times…
Also, even through ALOT of players have transferred to Seafarer’s Rest, we will not come 1st in the league and get a Golden Dolyak, Vizunah Square will EASILY come first. Once the call to arms goes out on Vizunah they have always been able to CRUSH Seafarer’s Rest 600+ pts to 50 pts. In the leagues Seafarer’s Rest is nailed on for 2nd place…
Filled this out on Reddit, already.
Good survey.
My responses were positive overall.
Looking forward to the results.
I do 50/50 PvE & WvW and there are always loads of people to PvE with on Seafarers Rest.
Scarlets Invasions are virtually always on overflow and plenty of champion zergs in Orr, Frostgorge and Queensdale.
80+ players for Tequatl in the coming update will be a breeze for Seafarer’s, we could probably bring a few thousand easy…
I keep a list of commanders I follow. Good & Bad. Obviously I under no circumstances follow the bad ones and go out of my way to follow the good ones.
At least you are never stung twice by a awful commander.
I know someone in another game who has spent $10,000+ on supporting the game in there cash shop…quite a lot have spent $2000+…you get to design unique items/monsters that are then put into the game…
I would like some ascended food that changes me into a that Mesmer Moa that I always get changed into in PvP for an hour.
Could then practice those 5 moa skills…
Probably run around WvW to see how well I do as a Moa…
Stack them up in my guild bank until I have a complete stack then sell them for peanuts…
Just delete them as a drop or make them as rare as the keys…a useless drop…
I have added every Anet employee I see to my friends list. When I get 5 chests, I email them to them on a rotating schedule.
This is a amusing idea…
I wonder what would happen if every player starts sending there rubbish drops to Anet employee’s…might improve the loot tables somewhat…
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Mines about 50% now, for the 1st week or so, I sold all my blues/greens to take advantage of those who must have high MF NOW and made a tidy profit…
Now the price as slumped, I am salvaging them all, should be at 100% shortly.
Not noticed any difference with my drops, still 99.99% utter rubbish, but RNG has always hated me…
Been playing a year now and still give GW2 9/10.
A lot of the recent 2 weekly updates have been very, very good in my opinion.
Loved Cutthroat politics, Queens Jubilee and Clockwork Chaos and the upcoming one looks excellent Tequatl Rising, across the game boss make over, LFG tool and a big WvW update/change.
Some people would complain on a forum if you give them a million $…no pleasing them…
Here’s a fun fact, one of the dev’s give recently:-
More players play WvW than played the entirety of GW1 at its peak times…
Interestingly, as well more players play GW2 PvP than EVER played GW1 PvP, yet in a lot of players minds they think GW1 PvP was far more popular than GW2, but they are WRONG…
I don’t understand this at all?
Why don’t you set up your traits for WvW and the do the easy PvE with those traits. Its what I do. All open world PvE can be done with whatever traits you have for WvW, no problem…
OR
Have multiple characters, use 1 foe PvE, 1 for WvW and 1 for PvP if you wnt, no problem…
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Four of the main reasons Charr are unpopular have nothing to do with bugs:-
1. They are UGLY.
2. Moving around on all 4’s is rubbish and can drive you daft with how annoying it is.
3. Charr are the worst race to jump with, Charr can’t jump.
4. They are too tall/big, present too much of a target and take up too much of the screen area, no matter how much you zoom out.
On the Engineer, I think your plain wrong, the Engineer since the few months of release has done nothing but improve as a character class and now is in a good place. If they get the 15 Oct balance changes, they are going to be in a very, very good place. Getting to the point where Engineers can be viewed as one of the best classes to play in GW2.
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I was going to go through your points Jon, giving my feedback but actually I found my self saying, ‘great/welcome change, a big thumbs up’…so I will just say that about the whole thing…
One thing about Runes/Sigils, you are planning on reworking them which is cool BUT have you considered instead of doing that, bringing out level 80 Runes/Sigils?
If you are going to work on them why not ‘kill several birds with one stone’ and create new lvl 80 Runes/Sigils. The advantages are:-
1. Gives players more to strive for/work towards.
2. Means all players equipment will be level 80 now, instead of runes/sigils being level 60.
3. Gives another reward option for players.
4. The current Runes/Sigils can be left alone.
Also have you ever considered ideas like those (a major shake up, I know):-
2 ways to shake it up in a major way (without NERFING anything) and bring back LOADS OF FUN again are:-
1) Open up the Elite only skill so you can have any Elite or Utility skill in there. So you could have 4 utility skills no elite. You could be even more DARING and open up the healing slot too. So you could have the choice of any 5 utility skills, still restricted to 1 heal/elite but you could opt to have no elite/heal and have 5 utilitys.
2) Make the 5/15/25 traits part of there respective 1/3 of the trait line. Thus allowing people to choose 6 picks of traits from one trait line when you invest 30 trait points in it. No longer have 3 traits ‘forced’ upon you.
Both those would have a BIG effect but also bring back a lot of FUN.
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I have been involved in a few epic siege battles that have lasted hours and been something like out of the book Legend by Gemmell, both defending and attacking BUT it is a very, very rare occurance.
WvW is best played as a 30-40+ zerg or a 5 player group or a solo/roamer/scout.
The zerg will get by FAR the best rewards, probably 5x what the 5 player group would get and 20x what the solo player would get.
But all 3 roles are needed by a server to make tier 1 and stay there. The hardest roles to fill are those of solo scout/fortification guard because they are fairly boring and unrewarding roles.
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Companion’s Defense: Protection now occurs at the end of the ranger’s dodge-roll, instead of the beginning.Buff. Ranger used to have about .75 seconds of that protection ignored as they were evading during that time period. Rangers finally receive the full duration of the protection and the pet still receives the full duration as well.
Okay your correct on that one, its a buff then…but bugfixes or not everything else I posted is still a nerf.
Also, it will feel like Rangers have been NERFED because all the other classes seem to have been buffed…
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All those are Ranger NERFS:-
106.
Nature’s Voice: This trait no longer carries the effects of Evasive Purity as well as the on-shout swiftness and regeneration.
108.
Companion’s Defense: Protection now occurs at the end of the ranger’s dodge-roll, instead of the beginning.
112.
Vigorous Renewal: This trait now grants vigor to the ranger and nearby allies when the healing spring skill is cast and not every pulse.
This is the AoE NERF:-
5. Aoe spells with that have a maximum number of targets will now count combatants that block or evade the attack towards that maximum
That will NERF staff Eles and effect Ranger barrage and every other weapon with AoE. Less tagging, less damage, less loot.
There as been a patch notes leak before and it was 100% spot on…
Just saying…
The 400 gems could be a belated 1 year birthday present, there were a lot of complaint threads about the 1 year presents being rubbish after all…
Just read the patchnotes on class balancing and they look real to me.
Just all AoE has been NERFED and of course Rangers, who of course ALWAYS get nerfed. Pretty sure Anet just NERF Rangers as a running joke now.
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Suprised by Tequatl’s Headline Grab?
No, PvE will always get the headline, its the most played part of GW2, around 70% play PvE, a lot of those play nothing else…
PvP has 10-15% and WvW 30-40%, the cross over is players who play all 3 or 2/3.
So Invasions will stay forever?
I hope so…really hard to catch atm thou…only managed to do 3 since they stopped being every hour…
What was left in your wallet? Its a new feature that contains all your gold, tokens, karma etc… Look at the bottom of your inventory.
Perhaps, you were hacked by someone who just wanted to play GW2 for free, without paying the ‘box’ price?
Or perhaps it was used to bot in lower level deserted areas, where your item levels don’t matter…
Was it a Ranger or Warrior btw? Those are the most used botting classes.
This part of the forum is for discussing the living story which are regular 2 weekly new content updates…
Now SFR is super stacked again and I heard they got queue to EB even at 8 am in the morning (can somebody confirm this?).
Yes, there was a queue in the morning around 7am-9am, it was only a short 10-15min queue. We like to get the day off to a good start, a coffee (or 3) and a golem rush…
Seen WvW guilds recruiting as follows:-
Experienced WvW players only, must have full exotics, full ascended trinkets, must use teamspeak, ping gear…
Only a question of time before full ascended required…
This last weekend I queued for 6 hrs+ both Saturday and Sunday to get into Eternal borderlands and never got in…yes I am on a tier 1 server too.
Going to get worse when the leagues appear…
2750 armour provides 33.33% direct damage mitigation, a lot of people consider it a waste taking toughness higher than that.
But protection buff does that too reduces damage by 33.33%, my ele uses 2 armour of earths (1 utility, 1 traited) instead of bothering with toughness. Rarely dies and once went straight through a 100 strong zerg (on her own) and survived.
Yeah, Anet always get 9+/10 for artwork/graphics in my book…no complaints there…
I don’t think any of the others will be as grand as Tequatl, that’s why he gets the trailer…
But, yeah it does look like a lot of the others have got a decent makeover…
Don’t want respec option that costs gold but one that say costs 250 badges of honour, yes that would be good.
This is the fundamental problem with Rangers and why I would never play my Ranger in WvW.
I vote NO.
But I would like them to put more ways of getting ascended gear into the game.
Its a bit of a mess now, you after do this to get your trinkets, this for your weapon, something else for you back piece and no doubt something new for your amour.
At some point I would like to see all ascended items brought together with at least 3 different ways of getting them, then no one can complain there is not a way they can have ascended gear if they are willing to put some time/effort into it.
GW2 = zerker or nothing.
Toughness, healing are by and large worthless stats.
Vitality useful upto a point.
Have you ever seen the devs play GW2? They die once every 2-3 mins, that’s how your mean’t to play apparently, death doesn’t matter, therefore defense doesn’t matter.
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Today in sPvP.
I was on the map with the 1 underwater point. My bunker guardian loves this point and can pretty much bunker it all day long vs multiple opponents, which usually results in a win for my team.
I was so good at this that one of the opponents messaged me saying:-
“Thanks for the video, sending it with a report to Anet on you for cheating.”
Apparently I am so good they thought I had to be cheating…lol
I did kill 3-4 of them several times in a row.
I disagree.
Mainly because I really like everything in this update.
New/updated bosses.
LFG tool.
WvW major update.
A new 80 player raid with Tequatl.
Fantastic…going to be playing loads from the 17th vs not playing at all those last 2 weeks of SAB.
Its all PERMANENT too…yippee…
Also, the ‘story’ in living story is there really one? Or is it a bit of a excuse to sell you new stuff in the gemstore?
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Looking forward to this Living Story, LFG, WvW update and bosses updated, lovely…
Just hope Tequatl doesn’t go the way of the Karka Queen after a couple of weeks…ie being viewed as too much effort for too little reward.
Seen a thousand+ of those threads…Anet love it, constantly congratulating themselves on creating such a good money sink with the MYSTIC TIOLET…where players flush there gold down every day…
I don’t really lose much from the mystic forge. I throw in golds every now and again…and never got a precusor. But I’ve gotten some very cool exotics that aren’t percusors. It’s not really all that expensive when I do the math. I’m close to breaking even.
And since I’m only using drops, and event rewards and such, it’s not like I’m spending gold on it.
Well, you are spending gold really because you could have sold those drops for gold couldn’t you? So if you factor that in, you will have lost with the mystic toilet unless you have a considerable amount of luck and are one of the few who get a precursor or valuble exotic from a low number of toilet flushes…
Its actually for more effective to farm pure gold, save up and just buy what you want. Rather than risk the mystic toilet.
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I am kinda looking forward to ‘farming’ those achievement hunters and other noobs with my Thief…does this make me a bad person?
Seen a thousand+ of those threads…Anet love it, constantly congratulating themselves on creating such a good money sink with the MYSTIC TIOLET…where players flush there gold down every day…
Wrong week, I think?
Isn’t that due 17th?
A far bigger issue is Guild vs Guild in WvW.
Essentially big guilds are organising big open field battles in WvW, particularly at the weekend.
So they are not interested in scoring points just open field combat. The BIG PROBLEM is they lock out all players who want to WvW for there server, like me.
Last weekend I queued for hours (6+) on both Saturday and Sunday to get in Eternal Borderlands, no success and that was because a big guild vs guild was hogging Eternal Borderlands all weekend…
I use a staff Ele in WvW. Works really well.
Basically, all my equipment is out and out berserker but all my utility skills help me survive. I run Armour of Earth, Cleansing, Mistform. Those keep me from dieing. Obviously trait wise those are all cantrips, so take every cantrip trait. Also, you can get a 2nd Amour of Earth from just 10 pts in Earth trait which is nice. Also in Air is a low cost trait which does 20% damage to foes of 50% or below health (or some such) which helps kill opponents. Bigger AoE on staff is also a good trait.
I usually run Greater Elemental as my elite, because the Earth elemental is good at tanking camps for you, so you can solo them and Water elemental gives group healing, Air elementals not too bad for the stuns as well.
I posted this in the PvP section but think it deserves to be in the suggestions part of the forum too.
2 ways to shake it up in a major way (without NERFING anything) and bring back LOADS OF FUN again are:-
1) Open up the Elite only skill so you can have any Elite or Utility skill in there. So you could have 4 utility skills no elite. You could be even more DARING and open up the healing slot too. So you could have the choice of any 5 utility skills, still restricted to 1 heal/elite but you could opt to have no elite/heal and have 5 utilitys.
2) Make the 5/15/25 traits part of there respective 1/3 of the trait line. Thus allowing people to choose 6 picks of traits from one trait line when you invest 30 trait points in it. No longer have 3 traits ‘forced’ upon you.
Both those would have a BIG effect but also bring back a lot of FUN.
I agree with the OP. I love playing about with builds but I have not done so in ages. Why? Because its so restrictive, that 99.99% of builds have already been discovered and everyone knows the ‘best’ ones.
2 ways to shake it up in a major way (without NERFING anything) and bring back LOADS OF FUN again are:-
1) Open up the Elite only skill so you can have any Elite or Utility skill in there. So you could have 4 utility skills no elite. You could be even more DARING and open up the healing slot too. So you could have the choice of any 5 utility skills, still restricted to 1 heal/elite but you could opt to have no elite/heal and have 5 utilitys.
2) Make the 5/15/25 traits part of there respective 1/3 of the trait line. Thus allowing people to choose 6 picks of traits from one trait line when you invest 30 trait points in it. No longer have 3 traits ‘forced’ upon you.
Both those would have a BIG effect but also bring back a lot of FUN.
I vote Vizunah…recently noticed a dev with the title…French liason officer or some such…