What’s this nonsense about RTL needing a target?
Some people just take things too far, heh. It’s like you want to take every weakness you can think of and add it to RTL, in an attempt to not make it comparable to other movement skills but to make it BY FAR THE WORST.
I’d just like to see stats on trait allocation untied from the traits.
i.e have a separate screen you allocate your trait stat points. Have the placement limited to what you can do at x level now. No allocating more than 100 stats to something until lev 40, then max of 200 until 60, then max of 300 from 60-80.
I know I do.
Would like to be able to throw the mass of junk from tourney chests into collectibles.
I wouldn’t want to get rid of it. I like playing both.
Mostly play the 5v5 tournaments but I like goofing around in the big 8 v 8 hotjoin brawls too.
dual dagger, usually fire. Is there any way to get around the survivability problems? Boredom isn’t an issue, it’s being downed every five seconds on what should be trivial tasks.
Theres your problem.
Stop playing like a firebender and unleash the avatar inside of you.
I lol’d
How bout just combining air 2 and 3 into air 2…then giving us an altogether new move?
I mean it’s two instant attacks. One damages and one blinds. Why not just have one ability that does both the damage and the blind.
Could have an air 3 aura, so scepter had an aura too.
Zerk staff is fun in hotjoins, where the extra teammates allow you to not necessarily hang out in the conquest circles as much.
Ride the lightning nerfed to 20s from 15s should have been spvp only.
I think there’s really only one reason that matters:
It’s pretty kitten boring to watch. There isn’t really much to see a good team do. Having people be coordinated and come to the right circles at the right time isn’t exactly something that’s going to keep me watching a stream.
Actual variety in combat in what you can do is so limited. If I watch the top guys play a profession, and I’m experienced with playing it myself, I’m probably not really going to see them do anything particularly interesting. No “Whoa that was really sweet when he did x!”.
Doing well in this game in spvp is a result of coordination with your teammates. You’re rewarded much more for being in the right place than what you do when you’re there.
The actual combat portion of the game really doesn’t have enough variety and options for you to be particularly “good at” once you know what you’re doing. You probably aren’t going to be any better at killing people in your 1500th tourney than you were in your 1000th.
If you figure out the solution, lemme know heh.
It’s certainly an extremely situational build. Of course, if spirit watch is the designated tourney map, and that’s the only one you ever get since it’s set in the rotation, there’s no real reason not to “situationally build” for it, since it’s the only situation available.
Basically it’s “oh, spirit watch is the tourney map the next few days? I’ll take a couple mins and setup for it, k done!”
If the elemental attunement trait is ever fiddled with, the profession completely falls apart.
It’s so necessary and so required, the trait should just be made baseline to the profession and removed as a trait.
Attunement cooldown should be reduced from 15 base to 12 base. 30 in arcane would still take it to 9. Allows people to not feel like they have to go deep arcane just to have playable attunement swap time, while still making it desirable to go deep if they want to.
Want to nerf eles in spvp so they’re still good but a few of them on the same point isn’t nearly unkillable? Here’s something for you that doesn’t kitten the class.
patch note: “Healing ripple, in spvp only, no longer heals allies”.
Can still remove a condition and give regen. Just the direct heal becomes self only. spvp only.
Would make a MASSIVE difference in spvp for good players. Unfortunately people would still complain because they’re busy focusing on complaining about having problems killing a bunker 1 on 1.
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Would definitely like orbs of power to be brought back in some form.
Give them some sort of reward making it desirable to want to take one, maybe just have it be worth a lot of points or something. Doesn’t need to be the stat buff like before.
Don’t really care what it is, I just liked fighting for orbs.
Start an entry on gw2lfg.com, you’ll get your story modes done
Better solution than making some change forcing people to fight a bunch of unrewarding trash….is to make the trash worth killing.
I think a big thing that’s problematic for staff is how elementalists access fury.
For D/D, switching attunements quickly and often comes naturally through normal play, leading to fury from the attunement switch through the arcane trait. The other source being the zephyr’s boon trait.
With staff, you only have your earth 3 aura, rather than having 2 auras to proc zephyr’s boon as D/D does with air 3 and water 4. In addition, switching attunements rapidly on staff to keep fury up through the arcane trait can be suboptimal. If nothing else, staff has some longer cast times so if you’re going to use up some cooldowns in an attunement it takes extra time to do so before you’re ready to attunement switch.
Of course, less fury means less dps.
If the arcane fury trait gave 4 seconds of fury with a 3 second Internal cooldown, rather than 2 sec of fury with no cooldown as it does now…it’d probably leave D/D about where it is now fury wise (not looking to nerf D/D here)…but be a help to staff which needs damage assistance.
Another solution would be having staff air 4 give 5 seconds of fury in addition to the swiftness given. Which would actually be a really nice change.
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If someone reads “looking for someone experienced” or something similar and can’t connect the dots to mean that the group wants someone experienced in the actual content they’re attempting…that person has bigger problems than not joining a dungeon group in a game.
To my knowledge, anything that can drop a tradeable level 80 exotic can drop a precursor as well.
Avoiding the argument of using MF hurting your team etc…
I’ve never really been satisfied with the returns I’ve gotten from MF in this game. Many drops aren’t influenced by MF at all and chest drops aren’t influenced by it at all. Outdoors, DR hits MF and quickly kills it. Combine that with the fact that drops are only a portion of my income, as I flip on the TP too, and I’ve just come to the conclusion for myself it was better to just wear normal gear for the best combat effectiveness.
I miss the easy AC dungeon.
It’s not that it’s way hard now but I liked being able to just jump in on one of the many groups running it for something to do occasionally.
High end fractals have a pretty good chance of giving you an infused ring, higher the level the better. Yeah you probably have already gotten a pair of rings, but eh there’s always alts or maybe you’ll get one for a different stat layout you want to play.
You do get more fractal relics for doing higher level runs, which is nice for loading up on 20 slot containers for your main or for alts, or buying skill points/obby shards. 2850 relics total to make the glowy fractal backpiece as well.
Better chance of getting a fractal weapon skin.
Just depends whether or not that stuff interests you. If none of it does, then don’t bother. Course you’ll usually make a couple gold on average out of doing the full run too.
You can make the backpack without being on FOTM 10+.
The obtaining of ascended accessories is independent from FOTM as well, so you can get one of those with laurels/guild comms and then put one of the +5 AR infusions from the vendor in one.
That said, I wouldn’t sweat it and run FOTM 10 anyway. Agony on 10 isn’t really a big deal even with 0 AR. On Jade MAW if you’re full on hps when he does the agony attack and you have no AR at difficulty 10, just casting a heal on yourself during the ticks is enough to stay alive.
If it does down you, it should do just that, down you. Not kill you. Be in that “safe corner” people like to hang out at (Just to the left of the entrance) when the agony is going off so if you get downed people can get you back up without any problem.
Only time people dying at jade maw annoys me is when they go and die in the middle of the playing field, or up by jade maw or something. If you go down near where the party is hanging out, people don’t really care.
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Considering the amount of dungeons and fractals I’ve run without once being kicked, all through pugging via gw2lfg.com, I say if someone has a problem with repeatedly getting kicked…it isn’t because they’re a victim.
I don’t sit silent most of the time either. If there’s a problem with people dying, I just state the mechanics of the fight in neutral fashion so people know what’s going on, without calling people out.
Main problem is the profession is designed such that you are to use your #1 attacks as little as possible…yet to make this happen you have to go deep in arcane to lower the attunement cooldown.
Weapon 1 – 5 = keys 1-5
Movement = WASD
Utilities = ERT
Elite = G
Attunement swap = ZXCV
I don’t have a fancy mouse but it does have two side buttons. I have the one my thumb rests on bound to dodge.
That’s what I do.
The less you attunement swap, the more you’ll be using our crappy #1 attacks on weapons, so I don’t recommend it.
Can you? Sure, the game is easy enough that you can handicap yourself and still succeed in most things. It’s a bit like asking “Can I play GW2 if I only equip one utility skill and no elite?” though.
I would like the thing more if it at least had more charges.
15 isn’t enough base, neither are conjures good enough to warrant taking a trait that gives them 10 more charges.
Aren’t they already doing this?
There have been a fair number of balance changes for professions that have been sPVP only.
To the OP, I guess the best I can tell you is that your experience is extremely uncommon.
I do the kill 10 invaders daily regularly. I tend to just do as you did and pop in, find the zerg, and run with them. Doesn’t take long before a brawl happens.
If the problem is your server running away, that’s a player problem on the server, not a WvW problem.
Honestly, in any MMO I’ve played with pvp, I can’t recall a single time someone threw those kinds of gaming slurs around and was actually a good player.
So just kill them and play on.
Only thing I call into question is why they are account bound this time around.
Let people sell the skins like they did for the other stuff
When i read the title i thought it meant there was going to be pvp in the SAB lol
A lot of world 2 (especially the music) references the game Wizards & Warriors for the NES.
I thought the whole thing has a wizards and warriors feel to it.
All it needed was someone going by on a skateboard in sunglasses
I’d like to see SAB be available semi often, but not all the time.
Just so when it opens up, it’ll be easy to group up for it. Like after april, close it for 2 months then reopen it in july for a month etc.
Save up money, and buy it with a buy order. Prices on them go up and down last month or two. I bought a spark for 550g with a buy order over a month ago and it has gone up and down since then but around that neighborhood.
If you’re short on money I wouldn’t go messing with the mystic forge. I mean yeah you can get lucky early on but you’re more likely to kitten yourself off when you spend 200g or something in the MF and don’t get anything.
Ignore the sell prices on precursors. Buy orders get filled (several a day, if you watch gw2spidy)
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Try guesting to one of the high pop servers.
I’m on Tarnished Coast and queensdale is always mobbed, even at like 3 am on a wednesday.
Might have seemed less crowded cuz everyone was jammed into rata sum checking out the new super adventure box
I like downed state, leave it as is.
I kinda like the disorganized chaotic hotjoins and play them sometimes knowing that’s what I’ll get when I go in. The big brawls at main points can be fun.
And play tpvp too also, just depends what I’m looking for in the game.
Honestly, I don’t spvp all that much so I doubt I have a high rating. I can’t say I’ve had a consistent problem with joining tpvp solo and running into nasty premade teams. Mostly it’s just usual stuff and I win or lose normally, with losing efforts still having 400+ points for my team in most cases where it was a fine match.
when i mess around on my spvp thief I haven’t really had a problem with this, but if HS is queueing up like that, yeah it should be fixed. I’ll check it later.
In the meantime, not much to do but just press the button carefully.
‘ve done world completion to 100% several times now. It gives alot of exp but it doesn’t give you enough to get to 80 from what I’ve seen.
If you were diligent and just did exploration and that’s it, this really shouldn’t be particularly difficult.
Some of the cursed shore skill points you might end up asking for help for in map chat, but that’s not a big deal.
Legendaries account bound even after being equipped
Ascended being account bound even after being equipped.
Two big things making long term players want to alt less.
Soon as they do this, I’ll start having fun with alts. If they don’t, eventually I’m gonna get bored and leave. I like the game but I don’t like it THAT much to grind another fresh set of legendaries and ascended.
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Both legendaries and ascended should be account bound even on use.
Like the karka shell accessory, which even stays account bound when you put a jewel in it
I remember the list where us elementalists were bottem tier lol
And eles were stronger then than they are now.
Let people play and lose some, and figure out what’s going on. sPVP isn’t hard, they’ll figure it out.
I think it’s good to get people in spvp any way possible, whatever the reward might be.
I mean some of them are gonna end up hanging out more becoming regularly spvpers, some not. But in order for spvp to survive long term it certainly doesn’t hurt giving people a reason to keep showing up.
As for them being weaker players, that’s fine. Need people of all kinds. Maybe sometimes they’ll be bad and you might lose, you’ll live. Also it’s not like people that keep showing up are going to be terrible forever. It’s not like it’s some super elite activity that’s hard to pick up and play at an intermediate level.
Yes there is, which is pretty silly.
I mean if someone actually di that ridiculous grind and got to rank 80 in spvp, displaying that title would just make it look like you got some GW1 Hall of Monuments points.
I’ve always found jumping quite easy in this game compared to most MMOs honestly, mainly because if you jump forward and then stop holding forward…you immediately stop all forward momentum and land at exactly the spot you stopped holding forward at.