why is there a cooldown on weapon swap?
To annoy everyone…no other reason…
Be a thief, those are GW2’s bad guys…its a license from anet to grief/troll other players…
You can be very, very bad as a thief…
What was it?
Feel free to name, names…
I think the changes to Ranger (possibly to all the classes) should only apply to PvP…use PvP and PvP only to experiment with changes…that way the 90% of people who don’t PvP wouldn’t care…let the PvPers nerf themselves to oblivion…
Also, does everyone know that PvPers pay NOTHING at all to change there builds?
So big changes? PvP goes to a small area of the game changes all traits for FREE, gets all equipment for FREE, only has to equip 1 piece of jewellery and has some nice test grounds to test it on land and sea. Big changes 5-10 mins later good to go…
In PvE or WvW big changes, 2 months later your still farming equipment for your build, just in time for the next big balance patch…
Only in PvE…
Overall Guardians & Mesmers must be Anets golden children because both have been well balanced and perfectly playable in every aspect of GW2 for sometime now.
All the other classes at some point or another feel the nerf/buff/move everything around bats on a fairly regular basis…
Seafarers Rest is largely a English server, I think we have a Russian nightshift thou., but the Russians are cool…you don’t get any kittening in chat…lol
Hordes of people doing everything on Sfr too…
Never played vs Elona Reach, loving this new random WvW matchup…far better…
Lets see what you got Elona…apparently you put Viz in there place so I have high expectations…
Deso…I do feel for you…but better you have the Viz curse, rather than sfr…
Was great playing against you last week Baruch Bay…good luck with Viz…
Anyone know what “Aftercast” is?
Yes, its the delay before you can activate another skill…
Those, ‘leaked’ notes are internal notes, so are worded differently from the official notes which will appear on the forums soon, they use delay in official notes…
So aftercast = delay…
those patch notes are obviously fake
:facepalm:If they are, and they very well may be, ANet are probably laughing their heads off at this thread right now.
Some of it I hope is true, some of it I hope is fake fake fake.
If it’s false, it definitely took a lot of effort to accomplish.
I won’t deny that it took a lot of effort, it doesn’t change that it’s fake…
It’s just not how ANET balances classes.
The notes are very similar to what they said in the last SOTG meeting…
Anyone know what “Aftercast” is?
Yes, its the delay before you can activate another skill…
Those, ‘leaked’ notes are internal notes, so are worded differently from the official notes which will appear on the forums soon, they use delay in official notes…
So aftercast = delay…
All leaks 100% confirmed true by Anet themselves…
My Ele is very happy…
My Ranger is retiring from GW2…
My Necro was gathering dust at the TP doing all my buying and selling, got the vac out and now shes all hopeful about abit of WvW. Poor sad creature’s never been past Queensland, too dangerous for her…
My other 5 characters are not too fussed by anything really…
I feel your pain, and am already shaking my fist at ANet’s change to Cleansing Fire.
Its actually overall a really good change because they have reduced the cooldown…really, stun break vs cooldown reduction, I far prefer the cooldown reduction. Do more damage faster/remove conditions faster excellent!
Also, your other cantrips have stun breaks, so who cares about losing one?
spvp focused discussion when it’s the weakest aspect of the game. Let them have it, they need it… poor spvp players under the delusion they might still get an esport.
But, the problem is all the PvE & WvW players get effected by the class balance changes that come out of the SOTG and we have NO say in it…
It is like the USA & Russia & China meeting to choose who gets the Falkland Islands but the UK and Argentina can’t have any input whatsoever…
A weird example but you get the idea…
This really destroys my SB/Axe/Horn, condition damage, skirmishing WvW Ranger…
If the SB 1200—->900 range happens, EVERY sensible and clever Ranger will switch to LB/GS power/precision/crit damage build…
SB will be abandoned and forgotton about…it destroys SB and condition builds…
The annoying thing is changing all my equipment, going to need a complete new set of exotics weapons/armour and DON’T EVEN MENTION ASCENDED ITEMS TO ME…
The pet nerfs don’t bother me at all but I would like to ditch my pets completely in return for minor buffs to my Ranger, they are still a useless ball and chain in my opinion…
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Having looked at the new balance changes, they are overall pretty good and may well inspire me to try a few new builds, which I like…
The only sad face for me is the Ranger SB, having its range changed from 1200 to 900. Why couldn’t they just increased LB to 1500 and kept SB the same? You may not think its such a big deal 1200—→900 but I am mainly a WvW player and that will mean my Ranger dies a lot more than now. Which, is annoying, as I had just finally got my Ranger to the point where, he only dies if 80-90% of the zerg I am with goes down or I get jumped by a very skilful thief or outnumbered 2-3 to 1.
I play a condition damage/healer/toughness Ranger, the range change on SB and other changes means I am going to after move from SB/axe & horn to LB/GS and to a power/precision/crit damge set up. So I am going to after replace all my exotic equipment and don’t even mention my ascended items…
Probably just put my Ranger into semi-retirement and play my Ele instead…sad face…
There is no “top end PvE players”. PvE is beyond easy in this game. The only difference between someone running FoTM 10 and FoTM 50 is agony resist (literally the only difference is gear). PvE just needs to be balanced separately, but that requires work.
Well, I disagree…
GW2 can be split into 3 main areas, PvE, PvP & WvW. I think top end players exist in all 3 types of play and if you took a specialist top end player from either of the other 2 formats and pitted them against the top end specialist in there field, it would be the specialist top end player in there own field that would beat the other 2 every time…
In PvE for example some top end players are…
1) Those who effectively control or have huge influence on the in game economy, typically have gold in the 10,000’s, control the price of various high end TP goods.
2) Dungeon/fractal runners, can complete dungeon super fast, sometime naked except for a weapon just for a laugh…
3) Collectors have every mini, townclothes, best looking characters, multiple outfits, all the most sort after items. The top end fashion PvE player.
4) JP top end PvE player, can do jumping puzzles under a speed buff, faster than you can complete 1 game of tPvP.
I get a new way to grief other players with my thief? Cool…
Hoping to improve on my current records…
1) Finding a zerg, picking out 1 player on the fringes usually, killing him, then cause I know where he will spawn usually and he/she will want to rejoin zerg asap for loot, you can intercept them on the way and kill them again…
Its evil, but fun and Anet want you to do it…my current record is 7, ie same player killed 7 times in a row by my thief.
2) JP’s in WvW, same trick really but even easier because they are often alone, 2-3 players and next to a big drop…my current record same poor sap killed 14 times in a row, trying to do JP, I did feel sorry for them but still tried for 15…heh a record is a record…
3) Tap a gate of a keep with a thief, stop entire enemy team using WP, so easy, for 3 minutes too…very funny…all those extra long journeys because of my thief…
4) Find enemy zerg, follow enemy zerg, a experienced wvw player like me can easily predict what the zergs intentions are…when you know they are going to assault a keep/sm, deploy supply traps…rinse and repeat till bored…
Whoever the troll is at Anet who keeps feeding my thief I salute you good sir/madam, well done!
Is this a dating site?
btw…
Seriously, has anyone ended up getting married to someone they met in game, a mmo or any other game? Just out of curiousity…and to expand the topic…
1. Then how come the Necro was specificly mentioned in the blog post about the change and a ArenaNet Dev said that if you played the necro you would really like this update.
In the last SOTG, the devs, said necros needed a boost, indirectly admitting Necros where kind of weak. Apparently in beta, Necros where considered OP and got there skills nerfed somewhat before GW2 was released. So, its kinda taken 8 months for necros to be finally given a boost.
At, this SOTG meeting what did the 80th lvl Necro player representative have to say? Well nothing because there wasn’t one…the players present mained Ele/Warrior, Engineer and I am not sure what the other mained but I don’t think it was Necro…
This may also account for the fact Necro was ignored for 8 months…
Ever wondered why your favourite skill/trait class got nerfed/buffed, moved around?
Well, its influenced by SOTG (State of the game) meetings between 2 devs and 4 players.
However, having watched several of them, it has several flaws that should be addressed…
1) Not all 8 classes are represented. Some classes in particular like the Ranger, Necro for example never have a voice because no one plays that class…so anything the devs say, the players say nothing on because lets face it they don’t main them classes so are not interested…
I think the format should be changed so its 2 devs + 8 players, with 1 player having as there main each class, so all 8 are represented…this would help balance more and avoid a particular class getting unfairly nerfed…
2) All the players are top tpvp players, so all the changes just revolve around tPvP play, with little to no thought about the effect in PvE & WvW which the VAST MAJORITY of the GW2 player base play…
More thought needs to be paid to the effects of those changes in PvE and WvW.
3) Top end tPvP is a million miles away from the way 99% of GW2 players play the game, should those players really have so much input into skills/traits? Especially, as the 99% via gem store purchases probably pay all the bills atm…
I think this very much deserves to discussed…
Why couldn’t they have increased LB to 1500 range and kept SB to 1200 range?
With this nerf, they have destroyed my Ranger in WvW…
Fortunately, I have all 8 characters classes, so my Ranger will retire until such time as a viable build comes out and I will play my thief and troll/grief as many zergs, players as possible. Basically, I will play exactly like Anet seem to want/force me to play…
Its about time we had some buffs…
Half the skills/traits across the classes are totally useless and never used…
Also, there is a lack of build diversity, you can only use perhaps 1 or 2 builds per class, if you use anything else, you are purposely underpowering yourself…
I welcome buffs, makes a lovely change from the endless nerfs…
Nerfs make me not want to play that character…
Buffs make me want to play about with different builds, experiment with skills/traits, you know play more and generally have fun?
On your 1st point, its possible, Anet seem to always be looking to ‘improve’, try new stuff…
On the 2nd point, the forum won’t get more constructive, forums are a place where all the people with a problem/negative outlook go by and large. Also, the longer any game is out, players take current content for granted or get bored of it or get burned out with the entire game, so adopt a more negative attitude…just the way it is.
GW2 forums overall, aren’t too negative considering the games been out nearly a year…I know loads of other forums that are, ‘dripping in hatred’. Also the amount of hatred seems to relate to how big the games developer is, small/indie companies tend to have little to no negativity, well Blizzard gets huge heaps of hate. Anets medium to small, hence the not too negatve forums…
Yes, but it has to be available in WvW…
For me after 1,000+ hours and playing since day 1, its:-
WvW, I really like it and will keep playing it for years to come off and on, as long as Anet don’t mess it up…
Secondly, laurels, just to equip all my 8 characters…
That’s it really now…
The holographic dragon pretty awesome…
I really like dragonball…but other players (NOT Anet), have spoiled it…
Fireworks…
The wing back items…
Dragon coffers dropping in WvW…
Also, I got a weapon skin ticket!
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Yes, I agree, its exactly what I do…
My staff ele does WvW…
My Ranger does PvP…
My Asura Engineer does all the jumping puzzles…
My Warrior facerolls PvE…
My Necro stands at the TP doing all the buying/selling, while wishing she could actually do something else worthwhile or possibly be a proper Necro…
Guardian/Mesmer do whatever they like cause they are both awesome at everything, except jumping, nothing beats a Asura…
My thief trolls/griefs other players, probably making loads quit GW2…
Stealth stomping,is it fair?
NO.
Next, I like the easy questions…
Remember the Mad King’s Clock Tower? That’s the way to reward people… Imagine if the chest a the top rewarded one of the dragon weapon skins… I’d be ok if you could only do it once per account. Right now, getting a weapon skin all about luck.
You would get a storm of protest from the 9/10 who couldn’t do it…
A lot of people would quit with GW2 being renamed Jump Wars 2…
I walk normally through the stargate…
Always end up in Tyria…still…
Have you or are you considering laurels as a reward for the winning server?
I think +1 laurel for everyone on a winning server would be a incentive, without damaging the economy at all. Those are time gated rewards so a lot of players would like additional laurels just to kit there alts out…
The issue with that is that Laurels are primarily a PvE currency, which would mean people that wouldn’t even bother with doing WvW would get more useful rewards and those that actually won the match.
Nah…laurels are not a PvE currency…you can do ALL PvE content in GW2 in just green/masterwork gear…while having a bit of a snooze and not really concentrating…
Laurels are used to get ascended gear which gives you another slight edge over the opposition in WvW…really its only WvW ie…other players that challenge you at all after a certain point in GW2…
We would like to have a system that rewards servers at the end of a matchup based on their performance and are working out all we’ll need to do to make that happen. Ideally it will give extra rewards for winning while still rewarding everyone for participating. All that being said, it’s hard to know what form the final version will take. Hopefully we’ll have something to get everyone excited to fight for victory.
Have you or are you considering laurels as a reward for the winning server?
I think +1 laurel for everyone on a winning server would be a incentive, without damaging the economy at all. Those are time gated rewards so a lot of players would like additional laurels just to kit there alts out…
People only dispute the game is dead…not certain zones are dead…
In various parts of the game there are hordes of players…
But in zones 20-70, well there are few if any…so those zones are fairly dead…
The living story doesn’t really help because it only brings zones back to life well the living story is there…as soon as living story goes away they return to being dead…especially as the living story is always temporary content…leaving nothing behind…
Bringing heros/henchmen back at some point especially for new players would probably be a good idea…
The rewards in the chest such as silver, badges and siege are very welcome…
But to keep the promise of ‘lots of ecto’s’, they should change it to a minium of a rare or just give +1 ecto each and every chest or reduce the cost of the ascended items that cost ecto’s…
Otherwise, they kinda got our hopes up and let us down…
How about everyone on the winning server, gets +1 laurel for that week.
I think it would be a real incentive, as getting laurels is a slow business, but wouldn’t upset the economy, most would be spent on personal gear/minis/cat tonic…
With ALL computer games there is a law of diminishing returns…GW2 or any other game is no exception…
When you first get a game, everything is new, each mouse/keyboard click uncovers something new and your character leaps and bounds ahead getting increasingly more powerful…
After a couple of months however, progress pretty much comes to a grinding halt and you have pretty much seen, done everything…
At that point, to get that initial, ‘buzz’ back you are probably going to have to buy another game and begin again…
Loads of people playing on my server, Seafarers Rest, also from the hordes of Viznuh blobs in WvW, they run around all 4 maps with multiple 100+ blobs…really…
I play a staff ele and if you look through all the weapon skills, not many do condition damage, I think theres about 2 that do reasonable condition damage but no where near as good as Ranger/Necro or Engineer…
Your all about direct damage really…so Power/Precision/Crit Damage will do the the most damage…however because your squishy you after trade off between that and Power/Toughness/Vitality.
Try mixing them up until you find your sweet spot…
Also, play about with mistform/armour of earth skills, those make you survive better, just 10 trait pts in earth btw gives you 2 armour of earths…something to consider…
Also, 10 trait in air gives you a extra 33% damage vs opponents, no matter what attunement your in…
Well play WvW then…
I got 2 tickets in the 1st & 2nd chest I opened…
Just BUY the normal dragon coffers folks…
Wings backpiece, mini, other goodies too…
BUY THE NORMAL DRAGON COFFERS, BUY, BUY…
Although, for WvW the best option might be to just have the loot pop into your inventory directly as a ‘bagged’ item, and those bags then stack.
This is the ideal solution in WvW…
The current loot system in PvE perfectly fine, its WvW that’s the problem because the choice is loot or kill enemy…
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Supply is very important in WvW but they have made it totally overpriced in relation to the other skill…
Welcome!
But, I hope the radius is large…
Also, in WvW this does NOTHING to solve the problem of when you die and are surrounded by dozens of loot bags…none of which you will ever get…
I have had plenty of dragon coffers, even got a mini in one of them…also some fireworks that don’t appear to work…errrm…
I think AC’s are still very, very good to OP…
I had 2 disconnects yesterday and 4 today…
(server SFR)
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The salvaging ecto to dust is a very clever solution…well done to whoever thought that up…
The Wxp reset and another slight nerf to ac’s in WvW is good, but ac’s still might be OP, we will see…
The new rock formation in Gendarrin Fields…errrm…big DRAGON BOSS coming out to play? We can only hope…
All the Dragon festival stuff looks/sounds fun…