Guild Wars 2

Why do they even bother lock threads? And they act like people care or that lockign thread is effective. Then 5secs later a new one pops up.

Devik.9852:

Oh okay thanks for clarifying that. How do I get rings?

There is none. Amulet represents all jewelry + armor/weapon stats.

achensherd.2735:

I’m fine with amphibious animals as-is. Yeah, it weirds me out that something like a feline or a bear can hold their breath for as long as some of my underwater ventures can take, but if I think about how long my own character can stay underwater and the depths that he can dive to with nothing more than a breather (which isn’t even necessary — take it off and nothing happens), I can’t really point fingers at my pets and claim they’re unrealistic. :P

On a side note, Devourers look cool underwater.

Ah but is your cat holding his breath underwater.

capuchinseven.8395:

Actually, cats do love water. Not all cats, but wild cats love water. That aside (because it still looks kinda dumb) I got around it in my head as a roleplayer by seeing my pet as an imortal shape changing nature spirit.

Yes and some cats will bend over backwards to get some water.

Oh lord so much love for ones server people have they think it can do no wrong, But every other server is evil to the core. I wonder how many of the ‘Rah Rah FA is great and pure of heart’ people where recent transfers.

ower.9143:

Odaman.8359:

Evalana.5480:

I’m just stating the facts – We wouldn’t have known about them as a guild, if we hadn’t been hit with one first.

Reset night in hills the first day db was in t3 was the first night I saw golem spam from EA in your BL’s hills. Anyway they’ll be nerfed soon, now it’s just waiting for the pain to go away… =p i’ll be on guardian while I wait though.

Nice strawman, doesn’t change that there’s post after posting point out that it was indeed EA abusing golems and bringing it everyone attention on our first reset with you guys which is fine because it caused them to get tossed out of WvW and you guys couldn’t use them for a crutch that much quicker. I’ll give vegas odds you can probably still find the initial thread about it and not one mention of " bu-bu-bu- we learned it from FA"

Maybe because they didn’t come whining to forums when it happened? Anyway I have never used Golems nor gears so stop saying you guys like you are some child who can not understand that just because one person is member of a certain group(in the case a server) means all other people are just like them.

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But everyone else has one is not a valid reason to give guardians cripple on a weapon. Only one other class can grant protection from weapon like the Guardian can it has 3 different weapons that can provide it.

Durzlla.6295:

awe extender.1908:

So this means you should not hit “Sick’em” and then F2? Because you cancel the “Sick’em”.

But can you use eg. jag’s F2 and then hit “Sick’em”? Do the bonuses add at all?

Yes this exactly, jag + F2 + Sick’Em is the most damage you can do with s pet I believe because the 40% dmg is just universal damage (applies to cries and non cries)

jag + F2 +Signet of Wild + Signet of the Hunt + GS#5 s + + Sick’Em the most damage

Quee.2389:

I would suggest traiting for Illusionary Persona instead of Dazzling Glamours so you get an extra stack of Might every time you shatter.

And also since only running 1 glamour VIII: Dazzling Glamours is kinda wasted. Whole trait slot to blind 5 people imo not worth trade off.

Wizardauz.3761:

How about you rely on the skill you have with your profession then some ridiculous in-game, non-balanced items?

Its one thing to have a tree branch that can stun drop from an Oakheart (atleast im pretty sure) but it doesnt replace the abilities your class has and suddenly outshines them by offering a gimmick to rely on.

I use food/oil. I also use Blessings as well.

I dont use skale venom because i just dont see the good in it, i dont think it makes or breaks your match. But is skale venmon really needed to win that duel? So that crit you just made useless with weakness (or made into a glancing blow) that you got from skale venom allowed you to noob-face-tank that high dmg move he just casted on you, instead of having to dodge, and react accordingly. Yup thats Tooootally skill right there.

Because yes, that is what skill is, not learning how to view battle, when to dodge, and how to go about initiating an attack on someone. Its about spamming buttons and getting as many game mechanics on your side that you know about rather then your opponent.

Wow my level of expectation to the quality of pvpers in this game has now been severely put into perspective.

I don’t get it your post in a thread about removing consumables is a insulting one about how OP(I guess you meant it towards OP because of your use of “How about you rely on the skill you have”) should use skill instead of consumables??? If this thread was not directed at the OP then your should of stated more clearly who you were talking to.

DaisyRogers.6837:

Shiren.9532:

Well with the suspension of belief I give to the game (fireballs anyone?) they really don’t bother me. I like being able to bring my cats underwater, even if my main water pets are reef drake (feedback OP) and salamander drake.

It’s an easily fixable solution, but if they did make cats and bears land only, a lot of rangers would be in for a rude awakening when they first do underwater combat (a lot of people’s first aquatic pet isn’t tamed until after hitting 30).

What he said, most of the starter areas have you diving under water well before you find a dedicated aquatic pet. Rangers are kitten without them. It is annoying yes, the cats particularly I am sketch over, but they are definately necessary.

Cats love water.

Furgerat.7842:

just give me a /who #### for the love of god.

Not going to happen, Anet is nto all about transparency. Why do think they did not add a combat log write to text file. Or fact that they don’t even have a sec display in chat timestamp. They just don’t want it easy for players to figure out the math. If they did more people would see that pistol firing speed is broke and many other bugs.

Supersun.4603:

Did you really have to post this?

Now it’s going to be like when Golem-in-a-box was popularized the week before it was banned, and EVERYONE started to spam them.

…except it will be with gears instead >.>

Looking forward to a few terrible weeks of WvW coming up :/

At least he did not post this link https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gear_
which tells people where to get them.

Nuka Cola.8520:

For a shatter condi build is what i prefer with a staff. Illusions are spammable on these two and Mirror blade on chaos storm is more confusion. Spatial Surge is the best auto for you clones to stack bleeds and izerker is great for cripple+ multiple stacks of bleed.

Don;t Forget iZerker also is whirl so throws around Confounding Bolts .

All other replies in here seem to focus on single targets. But in WvW it is better to spread love that is confusion as fast as you can. GS/Staff is actually best choice IMO. Agianst a Zerg GS for getting confusion on the opposite zerg nothing is as good as GS. Due to 1200 range of 2 clone/phat abilities you can get 2 clones(right next to your target) into the zerg fast and shatter them. Most of time unless right in mix getting damaged the other clone options take too long for clone to run in and it usually dies.

So moral of story is it depends what aspect you are playing PvE/PvP or WvW (and solo roaming vs group roaming or zerging it up)

JaNordy.6149:

I dont even own this game, I just post on forums. I am the ultimate forum warrior. Posting this from my Ipad cause I dont even own a CPU.

Well yes you do own a CPU if you are using your Ipad to make posts.

Evalana.5480:

You guys are so mean.

No pretty tame I think considering the OP falsely advertised the purpose of this video. Kinda not really a good recruitment strategy IMO to mislead people that this actually showed any meaning full WvW action.

Pinko.2076:

I’m disappointed that FA is attempting to sabotage our return to t4 where we will meet our lost love ehmry bay. I thought you wanted to go back to t2?

The way stupid scoring system is so hosed FA would need a +600 tick all time to even have a chance. As it is now they are actually losing standing because of stupid system. The system says FA should be wiping floor with DB and Mag so since even though they are winning the system considers them losing.

imagine the clutter mess this sub forum would be if everyone from ever server felt need to give rest of the player population blow by blow of fighting like this thread does. What should be done is like make a new thread each week match up that people could talk about that matchup..What a novel concept.

I would put first 5 points into Illusions to get minor trait Illusionists Celerity"Illusion-summoning skills recharge 20% faster"

All so keep plugging away as Mesmer is hard class to play pre-30/40 ish. Once hit 40 it because a lot easier due to class traits adding so much to play.

Check out stickied https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-WvWvW-Pve-Shatter-Cat/first

He has several different builds that are effective in WvW.

Use Carrion Gear And GS hit fairly well with enough Condi dmg to confuse hell out of players.

Skullface.7293:

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

I predict that the Pet will be fixed in the February patch. The pet will be all over the targeted enemy like molasses! Unfortunately all the Ranger attacks will be obstructed by the new pet AI causing all attacks to miss…

I miss playing my Ranger… well sort of. I miss the Ranger but I’m tired of the bugs.

Yeah same here. There is so much bugs in this class it’s not even funny. They should stop focussing on the other classes for a lil moment and focus on the ranger. Most of the arrows i shoot get obstructed 40 to 50% of the time.

To be honest they have not been focusing on anyone class at all. The amount of Class fixes in last patch all boiled down to them making “charged” effects lose a charge on Blind/miss/evades. And most of patch notes about classes where this.
So don’t think rangers are special as Anet is ignoring all class the same.

(It is just some class don’t need as much work as Ranger/Eng/Necro so it does not hurt them as much to be ignored.)

Your use of the word “You” in title is not right as No Anet dev reads forums except in the sPvP section(And mods who are most likely farmed out to another company anyway.).

Slic.9541:

For those power ranger build fans out there!

- Chronix

Oh Yea!!

Pozmol.5061:

Btw , what do you want to shoot from bow ? fireballs ? -_-

Or they could shoot unicorns if they wanted variety.

Attic.1562:

Given that my confusion never hits for less than 3000 if I land all 4 hits (and more often are in the 3500-3800 range) I think it’s valid. Unless you’re rocking 100% crit I guess.

Don’t offer to bring what you can’t supply.

3800 on stack of 4 = 950 per stack. How much condi dmg do you have? Or are you lying.

dreztina.4820:

It is weird that one server would have more than its share of hackers, but it seems like DB somehow does. Just watched an ele doing some pretty impressive speedhacking. Sadly, by the time I realized it wasn’t lag he was far out of target range.

Oh i have seen at least 10 on Mag and 15 on FA. It is just I don’t run to forums and postabout them to general public cause I know that nothing anyone can do. So I just report ones I can in gave.

Or maybe on your server there are more thief hackers than say Ele. Harder to tell when a thief hacks.

Kazhiel.8194:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Blind on glamour trait actually only occurs when you first place the glamour. You get 1 hit of blindness this way. With the confusion on blind trait, this provides 1 stack of confusion for 5 seconds. The confusion on glamour fields trait causes 1 stack of 4s confusion every time someone enters or exits the area. These effects are applied independently of one another.

Thought that confusion on glamour trait caused 5 secs of confusion. So what you’re saying is having both traited to confuse would cause 9 seconds of confusion? I played glamour mesmer using kylia’s build for a while but that’s been a long time ago, it doesn’t seem like I remember people getting confusion lasting that long.

Confusion stacks in intensity not duration.

“30 = V+XIII+IX (keys of the build, dont touch).”
Think you mean 30 = V+VIII+IX (keys of the build, dont touch).

Seige.4862:

Mesmer is the best choice imo.. Currently a Mesmer can do almost anything. I hear that people have issues with leveling, but I never did. I have played a War,Ele,Guard,and an Eng. Nothing compares to the mesmer once you get decent with him. (IMO before the forums warriors descend on me)

But a BIG draw back to mesmer in WvW is swiftness. And even self swiftness sucks because unlike 99% of other classes ours does not stack in duration like theirs. So most time mesmers are the caboose even in a zerg.

Just putting that out there for OP.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Aye LB is harder to learn to use for shirmishing. To many people want it easy. Think thats the problem with the class as a whole. .

Balancing a weapon should not be based on someone having ego issues causing them to put down others.

Teamkiller.4315:

ower.9143:

Teamkiller.4315:

There’s a white haired engineer in Orkin Squad that likes to dance on people’s bodies after winning a 5-20v1. If anyone from DB or FA sees him, please give him my kind regards.

Edit: He fell off a cliff running away from one of my guildies and died. It was hilarious. Props to whoever it was for being so bad

you sound mad.

Maybe…a little…it’s all good though. I targeted him and hunted him down when we took anz. Then I danced on his body while he was being finished.

See maybe he had someone dance on his corpse and was just getting revenge too. So you are just perpetuating the “issue” and yet I don’t see him on here make a forum post about it all “ugh me stomp little puny dancing man”.

Majik.8521:

if they put anything like this in they would need to add the ability to view the WvW maps and number of friendly players for each map at any time. this way a guild team could see where they are need. if a team is going to be stuck in a map then they should be allowed to make an informed decision.

And this would never happen be cause Anet refuses to allow players to see anything remotely like numbers in this game. Very tight lip on game “numbers” I mean who makes a MMO and does not add in any type of log function or who command.

Anet can not even staff enough coders to fix bugs. And let’s not even mention the tool tip errors across the game. How in hell would anyone ever think they could redo a class.

Adaneshade.2409:

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2.) The current rendering issues (mistakenly called culling) make it impossible to tell exactly where the “front” of the pursuing zerg is. This makes it nearly impossible to effectively “kite” the whole zerg.
…

Please don’t call culling a rendering issue as they really are two separate things. Culling is part code Anet is using to limit the amount of bandwidth sent to each client. Even with superfast computer you will still have culling due to server only telling you info for 25 players out of 50.

People who have no issue with culling are ones running with zerg. More players you run with better off you are. Even in zerg vs zerg you are proably getting culling it is you just don’t notice it as 50v50 when 25 enemy is culled is not as bad when it is 50v10. 10 is at such a hugh disadvantage because 50 people see them right away but 10 only see 5 then 10 then 15 till the 50 kill 10 and even then takes a few seconds for server to send data.

If don’t believe that server is doing culling watch your data rate on your pc. It will be pretty much constant from a 20v20 to a 50v50. Because Anet is trying to save money it limiting amount of data sent to each client. And excuse they gave was that they had to limit it due to “slower client connections” Which is bull spit because game minimum requirements are broadband.

Oh gee a really useful thread.

EnRohbi.2187:

ViperWire.4261:

People need a break, Kaineng put us on overtime, we are humans and have lives outside of GW2 and need rest. FA and DB get an easy week because of these factors.

Have you forgotten that DB was right there fighting Kaineng in the same match as you? :P

How do we get an easy week when we had just as much trouble with Kaineng as yourselves?

FA was going to win this week anyway, DB hasn’t changed a lot since our last fight with FA so it was pretty easy to predict this week’s outcome.

I think they call it The “Victim” Syndrome!

Tuluum.9638:

Minion of Vey.4398:

Certainly would be nice to be able to use the weapon swap hotkey out of combat though.

I want that more than any fix on any class I play. Out of combat weapon switch. I completely understand why it is not available during combat, but it IS available outside of combat (just isnt even remotely convenient!). Why not just streamline it a bit?

It seems completely reasonable to me.

Yea this would be a great addition on all but my Eng class as on all class out of combat swiftness is usually on weapon one does not want to fight with.

Nischana.2036:

btw Ranger Greatsword 3 is really good for running too.

Yea but then you are really hurting yourself because GS sucks as weapon.

Ian Kennedy.4563:

I agree with you Kirby. And, really LT. Google? are you really complaining about our ability to RUN AWAY? Why would anyone complain about someone running away, to me, it sounds like you’re just upset that there is finally something/someone that you can’t kill easily.

Reason being is that with all but 1 other class if you as player commit to a fight and are outmatched by other player you die. With thief and D/D ele can be a crappy player and still get away. Why I play my D/D ele when I am solo and Eng with my guild group. my d/d ele does not have to worry about me being seen by a zerg because I can just run away.

plasmacutter.2709:

strip their boons and keep stripping them, whittle them down and they die.

I don’t know about you but when I fight someone that strips my boons I just run away. Any D/D ele that dies in fight is just being too over confident.

skinnyb.5920:

1) It gets much better at level 80.

2) You do not lose all of your power with p/t/v gear if you know how to keep up fury and stack might.

EDIT: 3) Yeah, guardians are pretty solid and kind of nerf-proof.

I think you meant warriors. Because guardians have gotten several nerfs since launch.

Eviator.9746:

For what it’s worth I’ve spent several hours in WvWvW this week on DB and have not once seen anyone say in chat “don’t kill X defenders/invaders so we can take down Y.” I think the current scores accurately reflect the number of players in each world, not any kind of cross world coordination.

Of coarse you haven’t it is just delusional minds that think this every single freaking week server after server. Kinda silly that people need to justify losing by making some crap up when the fact stands Mag/DB are losing cause of pure numbers.

Them not having this option(or a text field) makes me wonder if even checking the reports. I mean if someone uses scamming as option then they are looking for scamming if none is found then have to either watch person who review logs to see if person was teleporting/speed hacking(which probably they don’t even have logs for.). Seems kinda a very convoluted process when it would take 2 seconds to add another option, or at least add a text field to the report.

stereoblind.4736:

I really wish they would just merge ET and FC and go from there however it would cause a lot of people pulling the whole “uh-oh server merges Anet is in trouble people aren’t playing the game will close in a month now!!!!!111!!!!!” But really, I would love to frolic down the road between Anz and Speldan holding hands with the Ferglings and outsmarting SF zergs of 30+

Edit: and if merges are impossible then it’s back to spamming Queensdale chat with “need moar aussies in my lyfe pls”

Problem with this is that WvW population does not = overall server pop in all cases. So if then combined servers it might be more than server can handle.

Xsorus.2507:

Moddo.7105:

Ha I see you are using the GS as I suggested in other thread. Works good huh?

Rofl ya, I was like “I’m going to make another NN video doing that”

It sucks when I get caught outside of a keep, mainly cause i’ve not gotten good with GS and it’s damage is kitten poor compared to my other weapons, but man..that 50% damage buff on a low cooldown is hilarious

That warrior fight is a good example, If I was using my regular setup (not even PI) i would of kittenon him in seconds….but GS damage is just awful for my build..

It’s really a Power/Condition Damage weapon….Just having Condition damage doesn’t work well with it.

Yea same here run cond/tuff and GS I just only use when doing sieges.

Ha I see you are using the GS as I suggested in other thread. Works good huh?

Oozo.7856:

Again, the complaint isn’t for zergs it’s for less than 5v5s. Why do you think Anet nerfed confusion damage in sPvP? Let’s assume that they felt it was OP. You do all realize that confusion does a crapton more damage in WvW than sPvP, right?

Do 5v5s or less ever happen in WvW? Yes, they do. Doesn’t this automatically mean that confusion mesmers are OP in 5v5s or less in WvW by Anet’s own standard?

The skillbar is set higher in WvW than sPvP in many instances, which seems backwards to me. For example, you are punished harder by thief damage if you don’t avoid it in WvW. You are punished harder by confusion damage in WvW if you don’t avoid it. There are other examples like this since the rules for WvW and sPvP abilities are different.

If that is your justification why are you not also championing for the save changes to Thief and Guardian that are in sPvP and not in WvW?