Honestly not a big deal to reroll (if you can pay for a char slot.) I’ve done it several times now. If you’re willing to pay a lot for it then just pay for a character slot instead (obviously don’t delete the character with the 500 crafting and 100% map comp.)
You don’t need 100% map completion or story completion on the new char. Ascended gear is transferable. 1-80 is near instant with tomes. Getting the important spots on the map takes less than a day. Seriously, after buying the character slot (I just did this yesterday) you could have your new character up and running and functioning normally in like 4 hours. Not the 60-90 hours your’e (probably) thinking.
It is very worth it to be the race you want. Really makes a difference.
Depends. Some classes it worked very well on like guardian, elementalist, and mesmer. I feel I can pick any line and there are useful traits through out to choose from.
But other’s like engi and thief (ranger I think) feel pigeon holed into specific builds, have decreased diversity (even if say thief got stronger). I think they just need more work.
Overall I like the system, they just need to add more variety or something into some of the lines.
I need to buy episodes 5, 6, 7, and 8 to be able to do achievements? Would just like a confirmation before I buy to unlock. That I can’t piggy back on someone elses instance to get the achieves.
Oh and that’s 800 vs 1100ish for the full season. I won’t suddenly need the full season for anything else will I? Note I hate LS and don’t care about story. Just want the lumi cosmetic option. But I don’t need episodes 1-4 (or w/e I’m missing) for some other cosmetic I don’t know about do I?
How long between setting the stage and the battle of claw island?
I’ve got several characters I of course got the first two black lion key rewards for in personal story but am debating if I should run it to the battle of claw island (they are already 80 with decent map completion) vs continue key farming 1-20/delete/remake standard way.
That make sense? Should I get all 3 keys on all personal stories on all 6 of my 80s? Or just key farm the normal way?
Zerk takes 3 stats, Power, Precision and Ferocity to do damage, Condi takes only 1 and it ignores armor.
why do ppl that blindly scream for condi buffs ignore that part?
You could also argue condi takes “3” – condi damage, duration (any traits left? but there’s utilities (mesmer) and/or food and/or sigils, etc), and the opportunity costs of using condi weapons (they have lower base damages.) Many condi builds also need precision/crit for procing bleeds as well…I’d count some combo of that at least 3…
Further the opportunity cost of ramp up time, as well as the cost of gaining access to all types of condi (having to take a trait or weapon to gain access to burn for instance.)
I’m not saying either way that condis are under or overpowered. Just apples and oranges. You can’t simply say direct damage/zerk has 3 times the stat cost when there are plenty of other factors in builds and costs in builds.
uhm you know you could just NOT visit the websites yourself, not copy what others are doing, and continue on this journey of unknownness. edit nm i get it now ignore me
Except for people who don’t give a kitten about their effectiveness and level of power and just wanted to have some fun, trying out a lot of different stuff.
Happily uninstalled. Finally. After 2 friggin’ years. Free.
For those people lots of new builds were just added because of the changes + “new” traits (semi combined/moved etc.) So…..for those people a bunch of new builds just opened up to play with. Like 100s of new ones.
For you you have a problem with the game of some other kind. Its fine. Move on. We don’t need your salt in the forums though.
You people have no idea what dumbed downed means or how to apply it. This update increases your actual choices. Less is more with MMO talents. Having a lot of talents just makes it a nightmare to balance, and most of it is false choice anyway. Now ArenaNet can balance each talent directly with only 2 others, rather than dozens of talents at once. If anything this change will increase the diversity of builds since you don’t have so many horrible traits.
Its really the predictable factor. Not matter how difficult a fight is if you know whats coming it will be farmable in no time.
Everyone hates doing mai trin because its (mostly) not predictable. The cannon shots, her teleporting (ya I know you can stay in melee but someone always goes too far) trying to get her to sit in the fields….
ofc mai trin sucks to fight because players have little control over the randomness. as well as there are multiple layers of it that can make it a real PITA.
Make it random + skill in reaction (like dodging jade maws death attack with out crystal.) That will make content difficult.
“To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.” -Regina Buenaobra
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No. Nothing is free. This isn’t the 1950’s. We all know buy one get one free, is really pay double for one, and the illusion of the second free.
Your customer’s aren’t stupid. If the new player’s aren’t paying for it, then the veterans are.
If its truly free then make the core game free to download now. Or more realistically give vets a second account key with purchase of HoT to do with as they please.
OP your math is wrong. It just doesn’t line up to my experience in game. I’ve played a long time and fiddled with tons of armor. In the end what I wear had little effect in damage or defense.*
*armor only, if I changed trinkets and weapon too that made a much bigger difference.
Seriously try it. Wear your zerk gear. Then put on some exotic soldier armor. You’ll barely notice a difference……
not the best example since, better one but one most won’t have access to is cele vs zerk. If I wear all cele armor I barely even notice the loss of power/dps. And the diff between asc and exo is goiing to be less than say the difference of dps from cele/berzerker
And this is why we can’t have nice things i.e. why they don’t release information early normally. Because most of you are so immature and melodramatic you can’t read something and reflect rationally and wait to see how it will actually play out.
I Iike it I think. And no I don’t have asc armor yet. Gives me something to work toward. Before saving up (I had just started it before I read about this patch) had felt like a waste with how expensive asc armor is. Now it feels like it’ll be worth it.
I have like 14 chars, dont think I will see the day that even one of them is running in full ascended.
I have 6 but I really only tend to play one in 80 content. I can practically say you do the same. And it’s not soulbound. You really only need 3 sets. Not 14. Beyond that its always nice to not be 100% decked out. Drops are fun.
The majority of the stats come from leggings and chest. So really for 6 pieces you could have all 14 of your characters well enough covered.
I have 2 accounts, and except for my mesmer I play them all. Condi, power, cele. I need way more than what you suggest.
You joking? Why should I care? You also get 2x log in rewards. are you actually saying…I don’t even. Its your own fault for having two accounts, no one cares.
Well, for those saying you can get 3 sets to cover all your chars, do remember that if you have a particular look on each char, you’ll need 6 T charges each time you move the set from one char to another. You’ll also need to remember what color combinations you choose for each char. In addition, cultural armor skins won’t transfer so if you are, for example, transferring a skin with a Sylvari cultural skin to a Norn cultural skin, you’ll first need to transmute the look to something noncultural, switch, then change the look to the Norn cultural.
if you care more about looks then stats why complain? Although I would 100% be for an option to simply unlock ascended stats once you craft them and have them available to all characters. Don’t get me wrong.
It wouldn’t be the golden carrot then would it? Full ascended armor increases your stats like 1-2%. Ascended weapons are worth the coin, I argue if armor is.
next patch asc armor will increase stats by 10%
Not quite, all equipment stats will increase by ~30%
The gap between exotic and ascended will increase from 5% to 10%
I Iike it I think. And no I don’t have asc armor yet. Gives me something to work toward. Before saving up (I had just started it before I read about this patch) had felt like a waste with how expensive asc armor is. Now it feels like it’ll be worth it.
I have like 14 chars, dont think I will see the day that even one of them is running in full ascended.
I have 6 but I really only tend to play one in 80 content. I can practically say you do the same. And it’s not soulbound. You really only need 3 sets. Not 14. Beyond that its always nice to not be 100% decked out. Drops are fun.
The majority of the stats come from leggings and chest. So really for 6 pieces you could have all 14 of your characters well enough covered.
I Iike it I think. And no I don’t have asc armor yet. Gives me something to work toward. Before saving up (I had just started it before I read about this patch) had felt like a waste with how expensive asc armor is. Now it feels like it’ll be worth it.
I play all forms (pvp wvw pve dung open world fractals) and enjoy them all. I have 6 80s and consider at least 3 of them mains.
The main problem with this game is that it was getting stale. I am just super SUPER happy the meta is going to be flipped on its head finally and we are getting different builds to tinker with. I don’t even care if nerfs come with it. Seriously, lighten up, we finally get new toys and a change to the system we’ve been playing with for 3 years………
If you are so super upset with your class getting “nerfed” (before you’ve even tried the new changes, rlly?) then roll a new main. There are lots of great professions in this game.
Thanks Anet. Love the changes as a whole. I am so excited I can’t wait. I havn’t been this excited since the game first came out.
It wouldn’t be the golden carrot then would it? Full ascended armor increases your stats like 1-2%. Ascended weapons are worth the coin, I argue if armor is.
But would enough “more people” be willing to buy them for it to break even?
I think so. I’ve spent several hundred dollars on another game (and money I consider well spent.) Because I kept spending here and there over months and months on things I considered affordable and worth my purchase. A weapon skin costs a few bucks (tho there are also much more expensive ones) and if you trade for it right you can get some even cheaper (50 cents for the least desirable ones.)
Know anything in the BL store cosmetic that costs less than a buck and is permanent…..?
Guess how much I’ve spent on GW2 gem store? 0. None. Its too expensive. Anything worthwhile is at least 10 bucks and, especially the unlocks, are often not account wide which just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and want to support them even less. Even though I’ve spent over 1,000 days playing gw2, hundreds of hours (prob over a thousand now) in game. (just as much as the other game I spent 200 bucks in)
Yep would be nice to know. I’m and old player and just made a new alt. Horrible experience… like I get it…it seems good in theory…but in practice………..maybe if buying them was 10x cheaper than it is from trainer (like 1 skill pt 10silver)
Whatever problems I may have, gw2 is hands down the best MMORPG out at the moment. Been playing since day one. Best PvP, best WvW, best everything. I just wish there was newer content (especially PvE.) Which we should be hopefully getting with HoT. I say hopefully because we still don’t know what the challenging “group content” is.
Gold sellers occasionally exist. I see them about once a week maybe less. I think they ban them quickly.
eh unless we get a rage quit 95% of my matches have been 5v5 and balanced classes.
Whether its a good match up or not is iffy. Maybe 1/8th of the time I’ll run into a clear premade and get stomped. The rest of the really bad match ups are just dead weight players. They AFK at spawn (not really, they complain the whole match, I can’t believe how often this happens) because we lost mid at start or something silly we might be ab le to come back from normally if they’d just play ><
Engi’s can’t do everything at once, aren’t the best at anything, but aren’t bad at anything either. In a game with no real trinity system this is actually really nice.
If anything, I feel as though PvP and WvW are lacking. Love the combat system and over-all balance, but hate that there really aren’t any unique rewards to work for in these game modes other than personal skill. But I suppose a discussion along these lines belongs in the PvP/WvW subforums.
Don’t they both have weapon skins or armor for winning the championship? But for the average player, ya I don’t think there’s anything unique other than the titles. edit- balths backpiece unique to pvp? that’s fairly cool
Well diff things interact with bleeds vs burn (dmg mods) and bleeds tend to last a lot longer (~4-14 sec vs burn ~1-6 sec. )
Edit are we also certain we will be able to stack intensity our OWN burns? or is it just others? so if i cast two burns will it just go up in duration and then someone else casts a burn which makes it go up in damage? Or if i cast two burns it goes up in damage?
Honestly gw2 end game is pretty average. Maybe a bit above because of PvP and WvW (actually certainly above average because of it). For PvE About the same amount of content as most MMOs.
More content for one without any expansions but less than most 3 year old MMOs (w/ expansions already as most get one at 1.5-2 years) if that makes sense. Hoping it catches up when HoT releases.
Edit – to be clear I’d still put gw2 as one of the best MMOs out there (depending on taste ofc) games like EQN may pass it up but they aren’t out for awhile yet.
