Giant Slayer was added by a group of psychologists. They are trying to figure out how kitten up kids head are just to get a +1 on a video game.
+1 is easy! It’s the +6 and up where it starts being a problem. :p
lol +1 doesnt exactly means +1 AP, it means anything that adds any number value to your character/account. Any sense of increment in their virtual belonging (since they don’t have real ones yet) will make kids do crazy kitten like that.
I posted that as a joke but it is true
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
I’m opposed to this, if only because, any tool given to accomadate min/maxers, promotes min/maxing, and creates more min/maxers. The only way to keep elitism at bay is to not give it a rock to stand on.
Min/Maxers are usually players that have experience in the game, are not here just to enjoy it but want to take it to the limit
Elitists are (mostly, in the least pathetic form) kids that have nothing more important in life than play video games, their delusion makes them think everyone is on the same page and call “bad” people who can’t dedicate the same amount of time (or that doesn’t give that much importance to a video game).
Everyone is cool with Min/Maxers since they are most of the times people who give advises or create guides for others.
Everyone hates elitists and their single line troll comments on the forums.
(PS. most elitists are min maxers, not all min maxers are elitists).
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Fractals of the mist do this already, some of the fractals reflects stories from the past like the Charr assault to Ascalon where the humans used to live.
And yes, I’d love to see more of this! (becoming the chosen one in Elona again would be nice )
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
If any, now that i give a second thought to it; id like to see if there is a balance where a player who can stand more hits than a full zerk and dodge less can apply more dps since he is constantly at it. just theoricrafting
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Personally, I find the idea that a single “mystic” location can generate random items AND 100% success recipes very questionable. If the prisoner Zommoros is so chaotic and random with some combinations, why do others ALWAYS work? I get it’s a game, but the 100% recipes should have been handled differently (like another NPC legendary craftsman or djini).
Oh well.. sooo many things should’ve been handled different… starting with the whole legendary and farming a legen.. i mean becoming a farmer… you get it; and ending,… well its hard to stop.
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A damage meter will just show how unbalanced classes are.
Its better to keep the ilusion.
I won’t mind at all if it is working only in the Mists where are the dummies.But atleast we will have something…
I would like to have something for my personal improvement and testing as well but judging by the stupid elitism around the forums revolving around DPS I believe it will do more harm than good to the game and specially to the community and casual players (who btw, have little to no voice in the forums).
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So I wanted to know that does crafting a legendary weapon at mystic forge wield a success rate of 100%? For example if I have 1 Spark, 1 Gift of Incinerator 1 Gift of Fortune 1 Gift of Mastery, and i use it at the Mystic Forge to craft the legendary dagger Incinerator, will it have chances that it will produce some other equipments or does it have a 100% success rate of making the Incinerator?
Yes, after precursor idiotic RNG, if the final legendary was not 100% craft, ANet office would’ve already been burned down.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
What is mature can only be judged by a person for himself, the only thing you can do is accept the fact that others might like spark and fires without being immature or childish. Just tolerate it, dammit
Of course I tolerate it, as you should tolerate my opinion in the forums… at least, you don’t have to pug my opinion on your dungeons as I have to endure those looks on my screen on daily basis. I mean, its the forums after all, if you don’t like reading opinions then you are probably at the wrong part of the internet.
the day I see NPCs on the city wearing those neon wings or other sparky clothes I will stop posting my opinion on the matter (and probably move to another game).
Except for the part where your post literally had nothing to do with the original topic. No one asked what your opinion on flame legion gear was.
He asked if it was dye-able not if some random self important guy thought it should or should not be in the game.
An opinion of an opinion,.. you have to go deeper.
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Clearly zerker gear is OP. Otherwise, why would all the other sets be considered bad?
So… should we start opening threads “Assasin gear is OP!” now? or wait for it? or should we just jump to “Knight gear is OP!”.-
Point is, its not the gear itself that is too good but the content too bad that in the equation of risk vs reward; there is too little risk for too much reward.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Actually, you have tools to CC – it’s up to you to build it. Here, classes can provide damage, but have clear and distinct roles.
Take for example, a warrior and a guard – both can spec for full damage, but a warrior provides the offensive support role and the steady damage role, either by using shouts such as On My Mark and For Great Justice, or banners such as Banner of Discipline, Strength, Defense, and Tactics. A guard does the steady damage role as well, but provides more defensive utility, such as condition removal either by shout or virtue, area buffing by way of consecrations, projectile denial by way of SoA and WoR, or even clutch healing using Light of Deliverance from Tome of Courage.
Classes can do roles, it’s just that roles are decentralized from the gear, and is based on traits, with gear just improving how your character plays out. Unlike other games where the content is heavily dependent on gear, here the content is most likely dependent upon above, weapon setup, and utilities.
Not dependent on gear?! 2/3 of the stats come from gear!
But gear doesn’t support your role other than boost your dps. Being support in dps gear while other support stats are there crying in the corner with the lights off… design working as intended!
If so, it is a messed up design. If you can do as good support in DPS gear as in non-DPS gear, why have non-DPS gear in the game in the first place? It gives the players a illusion of choice when there is none, and cheapens the game.
This is the whole point of the discussion.
This and people who are against and in favor of giving more importance to other roles. In my opinion it should be done through content improvement (since there is room and potential for a LOT of improvement), other people blame zerk gear being too powerful compared with the rest and ask for a nerf on it (which I believe will just move “zerkers” to the next best dps set and won’t fix the issue).
That pretty much sums it all.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Actually, you have tools to CC – it’s up to you to build it. Here, classes can provide damage, but have clear and distinct roles.
Take for example, a warrior and a guard – both can spec for full damage, but a warrior provides the offensive support role and the steady damage role, either by using shouts such as On My Mark and For Great Justice, or banners such as Banner of Discipline, Strength, Defense, and Tactics. A guard does the steady damage role as well, but provides more defensive utility, such as condition removal either by shout or virtue, area buffing by way of consecrations, projectile denial by way of SoA and WoR, or even clutch healing using Light of Deliverance from Tome of Courage.
Classes can do roles, it’s just that roles are decentralized from the gear, and is based on traits, with gear just improving how your character plays out. Unlike other games where the content is heavily dependent on gear, here the content is most likely dependent upon above, weapon setup, and utilities.
Not dependent on gear?! 2/3 of the stats come from gear!
But gear doesn’t support your role other than boost your dps. Being support in dps gear while other support stats are there crying in the corner with the lights off… design working as intended!
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When you put any equipment into the MF to upgrade it, you get a completely new piece of equipment. You lose your skin as transmutations do not follow as far as I’m aware.
oh…now im not sure about it, 2 different answers…That was my fear, losing the transmuted skin
No, its pretty much the same answer.
If you have (lets say) prototype back ascended and you transmuted it for the Toy Bag from the event… when you infuse it, it will be the infused prototype backpack and you loose the toy Bag skin (at least in theory since the mystic toilet always creates a new item, never tried it)
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This game will simply lose players that are fond to role playing games simply because this game is not a role playing game. Nobody has a role in a group.
Clearly you don’t understand what role-playing games are. The role-playing is you as a human being playing the role of a fantasy adventurer. That is the minimum requirement, of which GW2 fulfills in its entirety.
I’ve had my share of board role playing games as a kid and later on MMOs since ’97. I kind of get what playing roles means.
I disagree, I don’t think GW2 covers the least expected from a role playing game. Not a computer based role playing game. If this was a book game, then we could all RP; but since the nature of computer games is quite different, roles has to be pushed through your role on a group. What is your role? what is your place? what do you do that the other do not? what do you lack of?
This game has the exactly same mechanic as if we were all playing Darksiders online and we all play the same character. The only difference is you cast it purple, I cast it red.
My role is a Sylvari guardian, born from the whatever tree, here to help stop the Risen/Zhaitan and/or any other threat to Tyria. That’s it. That’s all it needs to be.
What was my role in Aion? I’m a daeva like everyone else and I fight the badguys/opposite faction. What was my role in WoW? I’m an Undead priest, who needs to fight the bad guys/opposite faction like all of the other people and I go on quests to help random NPCs or do a dungeon instance that has very little back-story. At least GW2 tries to explain dungeons via Story Mode. Why was I running Shadowfang Keep again? To kill the nameless bad guy? What was my role in Asheron’s Call, or UO? I was a guy that wandered around killing monsters or other players and leveling up. That’s it.
GW2 is no different from any other MMORPG as far as RPing goes. You make it what you want like any other game.
We will never get an agreement here… you are talking about your role as in a board role playing game. I’m talking about your mechanic role in a party as a computer role playing game. You are trying to use the back story which is shallow and already written for you unlike really role playing games as an argument to justify that is fine if we have no mechanic roles in the party and we all play the same character. With that concept (and I agree here, this is kinda true) you can role play Mario Bross if you like but we all know that is not a role playing game (though you can turn it into one in your head). Computer role games relies on mechanic roles to support the character class and background as in the old school pioneers like Gauntlet (1985).
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Aion has flying combat, this one has underwater… they are both the same and I like them both but the cosmetic is different… (thus my previous comment for taking this underwater from a different approach).
a question for those who don’t like underwater… Would you like it better if it was flying combat?
As an ex-Aion player I definitely appreciate the 360degree fights. They mechanics are very similar. Flying was awesome though, except it was only usable in certain area and required actual management so you didn’t run out of Flight Time. Nothing worse than a heated fight only to have your wings drop and you fall to your death in the Abyss
lol I remember trying to keep a fight within those circles that recharge the wings… cant remember the name… but going back to topic both are the same. If you could see like the matrix and just see green numbers… both combats are pretty much equal. So I was wondering, why is people more fond with flying combat rather than underwater combat.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
tired of 1 hour queue times when you’re a DPS using the duty finder.
That’s the problem (and lol look at my sign). After 15 years of MMO I can tell that almost everyone always wants to be full DPS in every game but its because game designers lacks the skill to make other roles (not tanks and healers necessarily) appealing.
Just to think about it… Warhammer Online (even though it had LOTS of bugs and bad things to mention) never had that problem even though it had a party set up of TWO tanks, TWO healers, and two dps…. You never had to wait in that game for a healer or a tank… simply because tanks and healers in that game were amazing classes to role with and people enjoyed playing them.
What if I told you I actually enjoyed playing a Prot Pally in WoW?
Of course you did, thats why I said almost everyone as I did with my healing shaman and tank warrior
Are you going to tell me now that tanks and healers are popular classes in wow? because… the whole 2 spec thing was implemented just to deal with that issue.
True! But all classes in there can roll DPS and only some heal/tank so obviously it will be less people.
Because the party ratio was 1,1,3. Something else that can be add is that even those tanks or healers would many times choose to roll dps trees playing “hybrid” builds, what increases even more the population of DPS.
Roles are always hard to balance and make fun but it is the meta of a role playing game. Removing roles completely might sound nice for most dps players but its a killing decision to players that actually love to play mmoRpgs.
(disclaimer, i dont want tanks and healer in GW2, I repeat… I do not want tanks or healers in GW2… but I do want to have some kind of roles in the group and more class/build variety)
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Aion has flying combat, this one has underwater… they are both the same and I like them both but the cosmetic is different… (thus my previous comment for taking this underwater from a different approach).
a question for those who don’t like underwater… Would you like it better if it was flying combat?
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
tired of 1 hour queue times when you’re a DPS using the duty finder.
That’s the problem (and lol look at my sign). After 15 years of MMO I can tell that almost everyone always wants to be full DPS in every game but its because game designers lacks the skill to make other roles (not tanks and healers necessarily) appealing.
Just to think about it… Warhammer Online (even though it had LOTS of bugs and bad things to mention) never had that problem even though it had a party set up of TWO tanks, TWO healers, and two dps…. You never had to wait in that game for a healer or a tank… simply because tanks and healers in that game were amazing classes to role with and people enjoyed playing them.
What if I told you I actually enjoyed playing a Prot Pally in WoW?
Of course you did, thats why I said almost everyone as I did with my healing shaman and tank warrior
Are you going to tell me now that tanks and healers are popular classes in wow? because… the whole 2 spec thing was implemented just to deal with that issue.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
tired of 1 hour queue times when you’re a DPS using the duty finder.
That’s the problem (and lol look at my sign). After 15 years of MMO I can tell that almost everyone always wants to be full DPS in every game but its because game designers lacks the skill to make other roles (not tanks and healers necessarily) appealing.
Just to think about it… Warhammer Online (even though it had LOTS of bugs and bad things to mention) never had that problem even though it had a party set up of TWO tanks, TWO healers, and two dps…. You never had to wait in that game for a healer or a tank… simply because tanks and healers in that game were amazing classes to role with and people enjoyed playing them.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
hahaha man don’t call me out like that! nah, i’m not mad.. I recognize my catharsis on the forums (as I post from my office at work most of the times, its a needed therapy) but I wouldn’t call it mad… its like granpa simpson kind of mad, you know… in my days we asked for things clearly! we didn’t say we wanted something we truly did not!
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
This game will simply lose players that are fond to role playing games simply because this game is not a role playing game. Nobody has a role in a group.
Clearly you don’t understand what role-playing games are. The role-playing is you as a human being playing the role of a fantasy adventurer. That is the minimum requirement, of which GW2 fulfills in its entirety.
I’ve had my share of board role playing games as a kid and later on MMOs since ’97. I kind of get what playing roles means.
I disagree, I don’t think GW2 covers the least expected from a role playing game. Not a computer based role playing game. If this was a book game, then we could all RP; but since the nature of computer games is quite different, roles has to be pushed through your role on a group. What is your role? what is your place? what do you do that the other do not? what do you lack of?
This game has the exactly same mechanic as if we were all playing Darksiders online and we all play the same character. The only difference is you cast it purple, I cast it red.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
What is mature can only be judged by a person for himself, the only thing you can do is accept the fact that others might like spark and fires without being immature or childish. Just tolerate it, dammit
Of course I tolerate it, as you should tolerate my opinion in the forums… at least, you don’t have to pug my opinion on your dungeons as I have to endure those looks on my screen on daily basis. I mean, its the forums after all, if you don’t like reading opinions then you are probably at the wrong part of the internet.
the day I see NPCs on the city wearing those neon wings or other sparky clothes I will stop posting my opinion on the matter (and probably move to another game).
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
They should remove all fire armor/weapons from the game. They look childish. Just let us throw water buckets at them.
Childish? Not unlike saying something is childish because you don’t like it therefor it should be removed from the game?
the whole concept is childish, what are you? the new born satan? I understand a necro with rags but whenever I see (example) a ranger with cof armor is like… what is that? a ranger? on fire? with fairy wings? and a lightsaber? kitten is this game? is everyone a demon or a fallen angel?
It’s called fantasy? As in no basis on reality? I’m still failing to see how something is childish just because you don’t like it.
If we play by that rule you are being childish right now. See where I’m going with this?
Of course its fantasy, but even in fantasy we all accept certain rules… if spiderman starts flying you would call it out. So im calling out people on fire in this game.
Besides, I’m quoting this part of the manifesto trailer which was one of the things that lured me into this game:
Daniel Dociu: “The look of Guild Wars 2 is stylized. We’re going for a painterly, illustrated aesthetic. Everything in our world feels handcrafted and artisanal. We treat our environments as if they are characters themselves.”
At this point we are just one step away of that asian free bad looking mmo with floating crystals bonded with lightnings…. oh wait!
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There is dragonite in dungeons… I got 22 out of CM story mode…
yeah, if dungeons is what you like and dragonite what you need you can get it your way. Now,… if what you want is to get everything farming only 1 spot in the game then change your tittle.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
They should remove all fire armor/weapons from the game. They look childish. Just let us throw water buckets at them.
Childish? Not unlike saying something is childish because you don’t like it therefor it should be removed from the game?
the whole concept is childish, what are you? the new born satan? I understand a necro with rags but whenever I see (example) a ranger with cof armor is like… what is that? a ranger? on fire? with fairy wings? and a lightsaber? kitten is this game? is everyone a demon or a fallen angel?
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
This game will simply lose players that are fond to role playing games simply because this game is not a role playing game. Nobody has a role in a group.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Will I get my second legendary? Hell yeah. Do, take in consideration that to do that, I will have to plan 3 months ahead of time to:
1) Do champ trains for 2 hours or less
2) Do one Scarlet invasion
3) Do fun stuff or just sell stuff and log out.
In 3 hours of game play i can make between 10-25g including mats that I save for gifts
Don’t expect to get a legendary any time soon by doing things which do not contribute towards it.
Don’t want to take it personal against your method. But that is not toward a legendary. That is toward a fat wallet and if you think about it, conceptually, they are both two very different things.
Your method is the clear proof that legendary weapons have nothing legendary after all and are not the reward of someone who did much in the game but rather grind much the same 1 or 2 things.
Again, your method seems pretty effective but it would probably be better if the weapons were attained by doing a variaty of things instead of plain farming.
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Its not up to me… I did my part. The stupid system (RNG as a main mechanic, loldesign) has to do its part now.
I don’t want to work hundreds of hours in a video game for something that was not worked on and lazily placed in RNG. If they ever (really) implement precursors ingame as a reward for anything, I’ll play (note keyword, play) my hundreds to get it.
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
Have to chime in one the side of being a GW1 vet who doesn’t feel betrayed, abandoned, forgotten, etc. … are there aspects of GW1 I wish were in GW2? Sure. But, by the same token, I wish there were aspects of CoH (RIP) (costume creation and flying) in GW2 and even aspects of PotC in GW2 (owning a ship and sailing to Southsun would be awesome). And I don’t feel my experience with GW2, or the time I’ve spent playing it, have been wasted because it lacks those aspects, as it brings so much else to the table.
I know this isn’t the answer for everyone, but if I truly longed for Cantha that much or Elona, or EotN, then I’d just log back into GW1 and go wander around those areas. I know no new content is being developed or released, but what I did enjoy about it is still there. But, as another poster or two mentioned, the few times I’ve logged back into GW1, it wasn’t long before I was logging back out again because I wasn’t enjoying myself the way I do in GW2.
The big question to ask is:
Would so many GW1 fans buy this game knowing there were not going to be any additional zones so far? Knowing the atrocities their “art” team is doing? How the lore of the game is being put aside for lame excuses to use the gem store?
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it would be a nice addition but it is “the mordor of the game”… I prefer they add this at the end when there is no more land to add rather than have another empty beach map. I trust their creativity no more and don’t want them to invent new hazardous maps in the future.
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…absolutely fantastic. The amount of dedication, passion and soul put into this game (let me complete this for you)
Ended last year after release and sell revenues.-
All the rest implemented was in the vast majority cotton candy for the teenage eye (lol fairy wings), more grind, treadmill and gemstore cosmetics.
Nothing really new was added (they just fixed/balanced/improved some content) to the game except for a dead beach map with alien monsters that doesn’t that almost everyone hates.
Judging by the new art (biggest asset the game had at launch to lure people in) implemented since launch, this game has a counter on its head.
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Heavy armor its not even finished… if you look it from the back, it barely has armor protection at all. I don’t know if this is laziness or poor judgment from the “artists” (if there is any left at anet).
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as I did with my healing shaman and tank warrior