If they were going to rig the election why have it in the first place?
Keeps you out of trouble for 2 weeks…
The devs have already said, ‘its not a fair democratic election’ and that there ‘will be dirty tricks used’…so there you go…
You can’t see who is winning…
Because its a rigged election…player votes don’t matter at all…just a pirate con trick and your the poor suckers being conned…
Really, use that gray objest in your head…
Ele’s healing has saved me from dieing loads of times and saves a lot of players running around WvW or the rest of the group…
Its really good, Ele’s healing is probably way, way better than the damage they do in fact…
No, I would stick to thief if you really like that class…
Guardian………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Oh unlimited salvage kits…I will buy gems to get one of those…
Bet its soulbound thou, so you after buy 1 for each character…sad face…
The price will balance out in a week, so then you can buy one safely knowing you are paying the ‘fair’ market rate.
Those who can’t wait will pay over the odds…
Longer term, like months is debatable…
The scraps directly replaced keys in the loot table, so the scrap chance is exactly equal to the free keys you got before…
I have had 5+ BLC’s in a row with keys in before and I have also had loads of BLC’s without any keys so there you RNG, you can be lucky or unlucky…
Not exactly.
Most key drops have been replaced by Black Lion Ticket Scraps.
So they actually have a slight lower chance then what it was getting a key.
Yes, I suppose but keys are now rare, so probably doesn’t make a big difference…
Anyone looking to make a profit by selling the skins, should take the plunge early because in a few days/a week, it will balance itself out pricewise. This means in a week you will be able to buy a skin at true market value with no RNG.
So the speculators can take a risk to make a quick profit…
The RNG haters just need some patience and avoid the RNG entirely without paying over the odds…
The scraps directly replaced keys in the loot table, so the scrap chance is exactly equal to the free keys you got before…
I have had 5+ BLC’s in a row with keys in before and I have also had loads of BLC’s without any keys so there you RNG, you can be lucky or unlucky…
You are getting vulnerability on rapid fire instead…
3 secs of stealth has loads more uses than the vulnerability…
For once its actually a good change…
Not played my Ranger since reading last months patch notes…
But 3 secs stealth on a 12 sec cooldown is probably enough to try my Ranger out again…
But this is just trying to make amends for last months Ranger horror show least we forget…
Rangers have 3 secs of stealth on a 12 sec cooldown…25% stealth all the time or 30% stealth uptime if you trait for it…
Anet sure are determined about making Rangers like Longbow…
Have not played my Ranger since that AWFUL patch last month but might give this a go now with Longbow…
I don’t understand why GW2 is ‘stuck’ on 3 million sales?
A lot of people agree what a good game it is (everyone has there personal issues but overall very good), it tends to get a overall positive vibe across the net AFAIK.
Yet, it sold 2 million initially…3 million by xmas…then kinda stalled…
I know Blizzard are ALOT bigger than Anet but compare that to Diablo 3 for example, D3 got huge, massive amounts of critism, very, very negative internet profile. Yet sold 12 to 14 million initially and is now up to 20 million+…
When you compare official forums D3 is ’dead’ish’ compared with GW2 which is very, very active…
Its weird…why doesn’t GW2 sell a lot more? Is it really just down to the power of advertising?
I ‘like’ sPvP but I hardly ever play sPvP because:-
1) No rewards at all, so it feels like your wasting your time/getting further behind other players just doing PvE/WvW. Just nothing to aim for, no goal…
2) Matchmaking is AWFUL, games often end up 500 to 100, ie… a landslide which shows matchmaking is AWFUL.
3) The more they ‘balance’ the game, the worse/more unbalanced it gets.
4) Conquest is okay, but I far prefer maps like run the orb, kill the beasts, capture enemy base, ie…maps with more strategy/tactics.
5) As you climb the ‘ladder’, others players become more ‘elitist’, unfriendly and awful. Basically you don’t want to play a game with those people EVER…
Levitation – Leap from any height after activating skill, gently float to bottom. Duration could be fairly long but the drawback is that you fall at a third the speed, so takes longer to get to bottom but no damage.
Fly – Move in any direction 360 degrees, so long as no obstacles in the way. Duration would after be short to stop abuse, just enough duration to let you fly 900 – 1200 range.
Thanks guys ! Community here is great !
You can do a couple of the 5 starting areas to give yourself a level boost…
Just click PvP icon then go to the mists, run through PvP land and go to Lions Arch Asura gate. Once in LA, just ask in chat where the the 5 gatess are to racial starting areas, someone will direct you…
I usually do at least 2 starting areas before moving on…Queensdale/Wayfarer Hills always seem to be the busiest.
Maybe they have a wheel-of-fortune thing in their office and whatever gets chosen gets nerfed =/
Its a dartboard actually…
Jon Sharp is a fantastic darts player but has total hatred of Rangers, a Moa pet pooped on his best shoes…
Expect a new line of ‘trenchcoats’ for medium users and for other classes, a look that resembles your character walking around with a duvet wrapped around them…
Anet have not got a clue about fashion or what looks good…so whatever skins they use will be pig ugly in all likelihood…
Really…watch some Milan/London/Paris fashion shows, give yourselves some interesting ideas…
probably more entertaining to predict what bugs will be produced in the next patch
Even more entertaining than that is seeing which class got nerfed more and is going to cry the most…
Reasons not to play a Ranger:-
1. They are bad/worst class in dungeons because in any ‘hard’ fight your pet(s) end up dead and on cooldown within secs, you just lost a huge chunk of your dps and any skills involving your pet are now useless.
2). They are bad/worst class in WvW because in any ‘hard’ fight your pet(s) end up dead and on cooldown within secs, you just lost a huge chunk of your dps and any skills involving your pet are now useless.
3) Your pet is hard to control and will often bring ‘extra’ aggro down on you ie…neutral foes like a pack of moas for example it just on its own got into a fight with. You pet is also fantastic at drawing foes to exactly the place where you don’t want them.
4) Rangers are decent/good in spvp which the entire game is solely balanced around so Rangers are always going to be nerfed never buffed.
5) Rangers are the most used class for botting so the devs will never allow the Ranger to be good/powerful, they are always going to handicap Rangers.
The engineers 1500 range AoE grenades always hit, its Ranger its kitten…
Its 999,999, once I reached that amount, could not deposit anymore…
I wish all Ranger pets in GW2 would disappear permanently, forever…they are a utter waste of space and the main reason why Rangers are such a joke class in GW2.
New skills are a welcome addition…BUT
1) 60% to 70% of all skills/traits currently in the game across all classes are useless, subpar or uninspiring/boring…what about fixing/replacing/jazzing them up?
2) Judging on past history any new skills/traits that are added that players like/use a lot will very quickly be nerfed to useless/boring…so like whats the point?
3) You have a strict hard limit on skill use ie 1 healing, 1 elite and 3 utility, so will it really make more difference?
I think Anet are just giving up on trying to fix the old skills/traits to make them more interesting and just shoving a load of new ones into the game instead. Avoid any hard work, go for a quick fix…then NERF it…its a Anet trait…
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I loved GW2 when it was released it was a awesome game and the open world zones, dynamic events, WvW, sPvP and JP’s still are…
However, rather than spending all there time building on those and making them increasingly more awesome month by month. I think they have gone off on a completely new direction…
The direction now is lets create something new which lasts hardly any time at all but creates regular gem sales, which earns us $$$…
I so wish they had continued to concentrate on the open world, going zone by zone, adding new unique features and constantly improving WvW and sPvP.
They say what they are doing now is a experiment but it failed some time ago for me…ruined a great game…leaving 70-80% of Tyria as a deadzone…very sad…
Asura – Small characters have the advantage in GW2, both with JP’s and PvP combat.
Guardian – Most balanced playable character class by far/decent at all aspects of GW2.
Vigil – Just because I am a Guardian really, no other reason.
You see money falling from the sky, you know somethings not right what do you do?
You stuff it in every pocket you have and anywhere else you can fit it.
Ha ha…
This kinda happened to me once…
Walking down the main street, suddenly notice people moving strangely all over the street. A shop owner’s bag of cash he was on his way to bank had been blown out of hands by high winds. Notes all over the place…it was bedlam…
A lot of people got the money and give it back to the shopkeeper btw…proving the vast majority are honest…
The local paper covered the story and he only lost about 20% of the cash in the end, probably the wind took most of that.
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Its so funny…
The poor devs can never win, no matter what they do…
There has been loads of threads moaning about the lack of mini-games, so Anet listen and give the players a few mini-games…
Then, guess what? This thread…
Its so funny, if any dev tried to make every player happy they would end up as mad as a hatter!
lol…
Do you like new content every 14 days?
If you do, come back and play it…
2 days since last big patch…
12 days till next big patch…
If the bugs didn’t exist in the first place there would be no exploiting…
You just made me puke a bit inside my mouth.
Urgh…go see a doctor about that if I was you…
You’re basically saying that if a store owner forgets to lock the door to his store and someone see’s this. Then said person is free to enter the store and take anything he likes as the one at fault is the store owner for forgetting to lock the door?
No…you said that…it came from your head…look the quotes prove it.
I hope you really know the difference between bugs in a computer game and theft…
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What intentions have Anet about thief?
They are pretty weak in PvE and average in sPvP that everything is balanced around, so they are planning to buff the thief considerably in future patches…
Anet have said WvW is not mean’t to be a balanced in any way, so doesn’t count…
Hope that answers your question…
Not sure about C rated…
But loads of people I know call GW2, Jump Wars 2!
About 10-20% of GW2 is a glorified platform game really…
They have probably relaxed the policy…because they don’t want to lose players…
When GW2 came out, they had hordes of players, so could make harsh examples of some of them…
If the bugs didn’t exist in the first place there would be no exploiting…
Before you got nothing…
Now you get something and are disappointed?
Really?
Mesmer Portals should be disabled for JP’s or the Mesmer portal nerfed so it is harder/impossible to use in JP’s.
Why??
Because it makes jumping achievements pointless, ie…no achievement at all really, for the Mesmer who did the JP and all the players mesmers portal to the end.
Mesmers often demand payment as well…which causes trouble…
Also, Mesmer portal has been abused in loads of different ways and its one of those skills Anet have trouble designing content around because of exploits from Mesmer portal…
Everyone should do JP’s by you know jumping…they will get a better sense of achievement when they do…
Why do you care? Not trying to be insulting. I seriously want to know so I can understand why they should do this.
Well personally I am not bothered…
But it does make new JP’s rather pointless and makes the content trivial. Also, all the JP achievements that you can complete with Mesmer portal are seen as worthless because everyone will just assume you used Mesmer portal…
But if Anet are happy for players to do this then I am not bothered by it…
Its, partly, stopped me playing GW2.
The updates are just too fast for me personally and its started to feel like a 2nd unpaid job.
I like playing a computer game when I want, on my own terms timewise not on someone else’s timetable.
I just play WvW now and do the festivals, like Dragon Bash, Halloweon, Winters Day. I purposely ignore everything else. Play other games in the mean time…
Did all the LS upto Dragon Bash, then did zero Sky Pirates and will do zero Bazaar as well…
Mesmer Portals should be disabled for JP’s or the Mesmer portal nerfed so it is harder/impossible to use in JP’s.
Why??
Because it makes jumping achievements pointless, ie…no achievement at all really, for the Mesmer who did the JP and all the players mesmers portal to the end.
Mesmers often demand payment as well…which causes trouble…
Also, Mesmer portal has been abused in loads of different ways and its one of those skills Anet have trouble designing content around because of exploits from Mesmer portal…
Everyone should do JP’s by you know jumping…they will get a better sense of achievement when they do…
Mesmer Portals should be disabled for JP’s or the Mesmer portal nerfed so it is harder/impossible to use in JP’s.
Well for what you want it is Warrior, no ifs or buts, they out dps every other profession by a wide margin…
Thief has high dps too but its for more effective vs other players and not much good in PvE…
You now have living story content every 14 days…so never more than 7 days away from a new content update…
Endgame wise, still the same old stuff, WvW, CoF1, Meta Events, s/tPvP and the 80th lvl zones.
There is the Karka Queen on Southsun a new meta event for all those who want really hard/challenging content, 2 rares reward but no one ever does it…
WvW & combat system & the lovely looking open PvE world they created…
Until this last patch I believed that Anet would not drastically unbalance a class then, in their next discussion, basically blow off complaints about the unbalancing. Basically, I have lost faith in the company.
I have no faith that Anet will not just off and nerf this class.
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This is exactly how I feel after the last balance patch!
I have not played since I saw the patch notes, unlike the player above me, I just can’t see the point of playing any game where the devs/Anet will just destroy a players character…
So I have since been playing Path Of Exile, which I am enjoying quite a lot…
I will read the news/updates when they come out and if they have a change of policy and stop nerfing characters in PvE/WvW then I will probably start playing GW2 again. Until then, no thank you…
However, on the topic of PvE, GW2 with 2 week releases of PvE has probably/will have the most PvE of any MMO out there in the not too distant future. Really, 50-70% of the game revolves around PvE.
So political correctness gone mad then?
I bet 99.99% of those Asian cultures would not have been bothered at all…
Just like 99.99% of us in western countries don’t care about mixed cultures…
Its no one to host it that is the problem…
The devs(and guru) were willing to do a monthly or bimonthly SOTG for both PvE & WvW but no one would host. Only sPvP found a willing host…
So, its not surprising they balance around sPvP when the PvE & WvW community are not interested…
looks like someone is bitter about that patch :P
what are you, a shortbow ranger? ;S
I was…
They wanted me to play longbow Ranger but I now play Path Of Exile instead…
GG Anet…especially that fantastic ‘balancing’ team you got…
Don’t be too smug every class will get it in the neck sooner or later…
Heya,
I heard that ArenaNet were reworking the reward system, which is great. I’ve felt since the game launched the rewards for killing mobs are greatly out of sync and don’t give you any incentive to take on bigger foes.
A WORD OF WARNING!
Everyone seems to be assuming reworking the reward system = more loot…
This is not the case some areas the rewards will be nerfed, others buffed…
So don’t get hopes up too much…Anet after keep the rewards balanced so players continue to buy gems…
A balled up zerg wins 90% of engagements vs spread out enemy…its the way gw2 combat works…its also why melee weapons are so superior to range…you always want to be close to your allies for buffs/heals etc…
A good rule of thumb never be greater than a dodge away from your allies…
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Can’t see a expansion happening before 3rd-4th quarter 2014…so long way off…expect a zillion more expansion threads before then…lol
You have new content every 2 weeks, like they say never more than 7 days from new content, what more could you want?
Hope the new guys read the feedback memo’s from us players saying what we like/dislike…
Oh wait, the original team never read those memo’s…
DOOM…