Guild Wars 2

Kal Spiro.9745:

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Kalarchis.8635:

^ Preach it Draknar. +1

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

this was just pure chaos.

It’s an invasion. War. If it feels like chaos in LA than the devs did their jobs.

/Agree

War/Invasions are not organized sterile events. The planning of it might be, but the actual reality of it…nope. Loud, chaotic, sometimes terrifying….oh yeah.

The problem is most of the events end so quickly you can’t get there in time to help. All of the escort/rescue events need to ‘wait’ until someone shows up to escort them. Getting around the dark torn up LA takes to long when the events only seem to last a minute or two. I got tired of the ‘save the children’ events which are very long so I tried through one whole invasion to do rescues and spent the entire time running around getting nothing done.

Try coming in from a different door?

I can understand making some of the events a little longer; however, I don’t think they should ‘wait’ until someone is there. Fleeing npcs trying to make it out whether someone is there to help them or not adds to the immersion, at least to me. It makes sense that people are going to try to get the heck out of dodge before they end up killed.

Well if there was a chance the marines where going to show up and escort you would you wait a minute before running for it? Maybe the event could spawn a bit earlier so people have a chance to respond to it rather than waiting around for it, doing nothing?

I could definitely live with a little dialogue before the events, like what happens with the Lighthouse.

“Alright kids, get together, we’re going to get you out of here.”
“Yes sir!”

“Meep, Mott, Mokk, everyone here?”
“Squak!” “Squak!” … “Squak!”

“Keep up you stupid Dolyaks, we’re getting out of here. I’m not leaving any of my wares for looters. If I’m lucky we’ll run over Kiel’s corpse on the way out.”

Then there would be warning that something is going on rather than mobs just appearing and making a break for it.

Now THAT I can agree with.

PeterThomas.7243:

Vol.7601:

You are playing the wrong genre if you don’t like grind. Go play an RTS or FPS…

This game wasn’t this grindy at launch. Arenanet already proved that MMO’s do not have to be grindy to be fun. It was the Living Story that changed the paradigm.

Yes, there were grindy bits in the base game (for example, collecting tokens for dungeon armor) but these elements were not time-limited and you could work at them at your own pace. In contrast, two weeks or even a month to grind 250 heirlooms is simply not sufficient.

A bit of grind is expected in MMO’s but this is just ridiculous.

This is inaccurate, if slightly. You don’t have to grind… you have to grind if you waht the heirlooms and the stuff that comes with it, but you don’t have to get that stuff, and you won’t be losing the game, as all the stuff being offered is cosmetic.

Thus… head in once for the storyline, save the citizens, then go back to what you were doing before. TADA, no grind! And since the gear being offered isn’t necessary, unlike gear releases in other MMOs, you lose nothing.

You know, dont mind them firing arrows and killing me

What I do mind, is they killed ME and a friend, and completely ignored the scarlets minions chasing us. What, they DON’T kill scarlet’s minions? come on!

EDIT: they did… later. wth?

Where is that gate anyway? I can’t recall.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Traveller.7496:

Arikyali.5804:

I’m not even the enemy!

How do they know you’re not the enemy?

He was not a dredge, flame legion, aetherblade, clockwork monster or krait. So yea, they could have easily known.

Aetherblades are human and Inquest (asura), flame legion are charr, toxic alliance includes nightmare court (sylvari), and while there are no Sons of Svanir involved with Scarlet yet, she has recruited just about everyone else in the past, thus not a stretch to consider that possibility.

So, someone comes running up, in a city being destroyed by Scarlet. No matter the race, the possibility is there. So, don’t be too surprised

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

And I would disagree vehemently. I am 57, female, and don’t call me “son”.

I’ve read “High Fantasy” most of my life. This story isn’t, not by a long shot. It is a poorly done episodic childrens story in a “High Fantasy” setting.

Wiki also lists examples of “High Fantasy” along with the simplistic definition. “The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Wheel of Time” Having read them all, I see nothing in the LS story remotely resembling good story or what I would consider “High Fantasy”, much less “At its finest”.

Epic. No, just no. I’m fully aware of the laundry list of barely palatable tripe that you trotted out, and Epic isn’t a term I would use for this, save in combination with “failure”.

Have a nice day.

Seriously?

Books and games are far apart from each other. Don’t compare a book to a game. Compare a game to a game.

And just because you dont like it doesn’t mean its bad, any more than if someone else likes it means its good.

Here’s a bit of info for you: a lot of people are loving it. You don’t. So, what makes your OPINION that it sucks more valid than all those that are loving it?

Don’t confuse your OPINION with FACT. They are not the same thing.

Oh, and like crafting stations, there’s one in each home city too.

Ack! Where IS the trait retrainer?!

There’s one in EotM if you need one right NOW, but still.

So, I see some people around with the ankle and manacle symbol we often see on slaves and prisoners in other areas.

So… is that what they are, prisoners? I expected to see some kind of dialogue, like “we caught these aetherblades and are taking them back to vigil keep to be interrogated” or some such, but nothing.

So, what am I missing?

(Side note, I almost typed violated instead of interrogated. I dont know what Freud would have said, and perhaps I don’t want to know lol)

Amen.

Am I the only one that, after two runs of this, felt mentally exhausted? That hasnt happened before to me, I had to take a break from the mental exhaustion of dealing with it, lol!

But I agree, this is how it should have felt, it being an entire invasion.

And I haven’t lagged. Not once.

GW2 has a dedicated fan base as well.

I ADORED GW1, but unless I want to fight AB or FA, I don’t bother going back anymore. GW2 is a far superior game (IMHO obviously), and I feel no need really to go back.

Besides, things change. Think any modern country today looks at all like it did 250 years ago? Same thing. The world changes, particularly when you have Elder Dragons trying to destroy it.

Frankly, I LOVED it when I found the remnants of Temple of the Ages… sunk under a swamp. I thought that was awesome!

Nausicaa.9563:

Rubble resets every hour

Does it? I went and tried to look the same rubble a couple hours later, and nothing

Well, that depends. Is he going to take punishment for an adventuring group, or is he going, for instance, shield children as they run for an escape?

The former is a tank, the latter is a hero

Look at the dialogue Heal-O-Tron has with Evon Blackblade. He-ro-Tron is coming, just needs some black lion trading post upgrades!

So, I was escorting the children, second or third time… and I didn’t get a medal, nothing. I followed the entire length, killed quite a few things, and nothing.

Same thing with Marriner, except I’m not entirely sure I killed anything this time, but regardless, was there entire escort, and nothing.

I’m not the only one, others were talking about it too. Is it just a once-a-day thing?

If you follow the rescue of the dolyaks inside Lions Arch under attack, you will see how much of a jerk Evon is.

Yeah Kiel’s a bit of a jerk too, but he’s far worse, hehe

And now he’s also corrupting poor, innocent Heal-O-Tron….

I love all this nerdrage. You arent going to miss anything, its a living story, not that old Karka fiasco. You’ll get to “witness” it like anyone else, just a little LATER than you planned, that’s all.

Geez, game is about to update, and guess what i’m about to do? go have dinner with my girlfriend, and come back LATER to play

Don’t get so worked up, you aren’t gonna miss anything.

Ah, nerdrage at its finest.

Trying to get into EotM, a lot of the time I get a load screen, and… it stays on that load screen, permanently. Other times I get into the map… supposedly. I run around, I try to wp and cant, I run around and see nothing going on, then… I either die for some mysterious reason, or I flat out disconnect.

I’m not sure if this is a game bug issue, tech support issue, or known issue a lot of people are dealing with, so… I figured I’d post it here and see whether I’m alone or not with this.

And if not, I need to solve it. I have heard rumors of DDoS attacks, but I also see people playing just fine, so I’m not sure what to think.

Exactly. But after two games, I think its time this mystery IS solved. A mystery is intriguing; a mystery that goes on unsolved forever is just an irritation.

ah thats too bad!

I’ve been trying to get in there. Just now, I got to the bottom of the city, and no arrest!

I’ve been trying to get into prison, with no luck; i’m on the bottom of rata sum now, and I’m still a free asuran!

Sorry, naysayers, I love it! My ONLY issue is that they need more waypoints, or something. Maybe allow revive orbs to work heh

Viking Jorun.5413:

NSKaneda.1026:

I’d love golem elites to be like necro minions – once summoned remain in game till destroyed. After all there’s all kinds of golemancers out there and it’d be pretty lousy one to make his creation last so short…

That’d be awesome. Nobody runs the golems due to the short duration and already lackluster AI skills and timing, so I don’t see the harm in making them like necro minions.

EDIT: they could even increase the cooldown on the defensive golem’s shield bubble and nerf the duration to accommodate. I still don’t think it would be worth running over normal elites for real gameplay.

That’s not entirely true. I run the Series D golem all the time.

first, it can manage some agro in pve. Not usually necessary, especially since I’m also a mesmer, lol, but the option is there.

However, secondly, it also generates a reflective anti projectile bubble, at least once. In, say, wvw when we are taking a fort defended by arrow carts, that bubble, short as it is,, can help deflect some of the attack and allow flame rams to survive longer.

Heck, the D series can generate that bubble up to 3 times if it survives it’s full lifespan.

I find it useful… sometimes.

But I don’t like the blade training. Like I said, I want to be able to flip weapons however I want, and blade training makes me feel stuck with using swords.

that being said, I did for awhile run with both Blade Training and Chaotic dampening, with sword/sword and staff, with illusion’s Celerity; having 20% recharge and 40% illusion recharge on all weapons, including all aquatic, for only two trait skill slots, was rather fun for awhile

Its for all the above, heh, I do just about everything. Between that and my serious ADHD, I wanted a flexible all around build, heh

Ok, so I’ve been tweaking and retweaking and reretweaking a build, and I catch myself going around in circles.

Basically, I have a suit of celestial exotic armor… which I’m going to replace with ascended (grumble grumble grumble) and get some celestial ascended weapons too.

I thought it might be fun to have a completely balanced build to go with the completely balanced stats.

So, I came up with the following, so far, in traits (not finished yet):

Domination:
Dueling:
Chaos(15): Illusionary Defense
Inspiration(15): Mender’s Purity
Illusions(15): Compounding Power

What I’m looking for is a set of traits that balances offense and defense as evenly as possible, while not forcing me to take any one weapon set. I want to use whatever weapon I feel like (or the situation warrants) without feeling obligated to take any one weapon. I also want to have max flexibility between using shatters, phantasm assaults, etc.

I realize its the jack of all trades being the master of none, but that’s what I want to do :P

So, what would you suggest for my 25 trait points?

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Thanks for the feedback guys, there were some good points brought up here. This is why we wanted to discuss these future changes so that we had time to adjust to your feedback.

We’ll be discussing this change more internally. Most likely we will make some adjustments or look at other options such as replacing clones not triggering Debilitating Dissipation so it does not impact mesmer play as much which wasn’t our intent.

Seems to me that replacing clones triggering conditions are just fine… but then, I change my builds so often, I wouldn’t know for sure.

If you are going to nerf clone replacement, let phantasms trigger the other two on death traits as well rather than just DD.

If you suspect its a server wide crash, always check the website. If, as it did last night, the website doesnt come up, you know its not just you.

I wish there was somewhere to check on an official response though. I keep thinking I’ll see an announcement here on the forums when this happens, once the site is back up, but I don’t really see anything.

I’ve made my own flavor of stunlock before. In the past, I’ve had troubles facing groups, but one-on-one I almost always dominated unless they got a long lasting stability up. At the time, I didn’t consider using null field to strip that off them… now I know better

In wvw, if i’m running in a giant zerg, I dont need speed buffs most of the time.. I just stay in the middle and aoe speed buffs hit me all the time.

If I have to catch up, I’ll switch to a focus and/or blink til I catch up then switch again.

As for pve and pvp, it really depends. Having the extra speed for point capping can sometimes make a real difference… but meh. If I’m not on a “clock” of some kind I just enjoy the trek

Thedenofsin.7340:

Here was another, this time out of team queue:

The smart guy left before the match was over.

I never leave, no matter how bad the matchup; in fact, in a match already in progress, I’ll either join random or join the losing team

Funny thing is, last time I joined the losing team, it autobalanced me to the winning team almost as soon as I entered – and the score difference was significant! I just chuckled and shook my head. I tried lol

On Maguuma server, looking for a large, friendly guild that does everything. I’m seriously adhd and dont like to stick to any one thing for long in terms of activities, so I like to do a little of everything.

I’ve been playing since beta, and I’m a decent, friendly player. Not a pro, but decent; I’m in it to have fun, not be one of the top ten etc etc.

Let me know if you’re a guild recruiting people like me. Thanks!

I want to be the “naysayer” here; I’m enjoying pvp, quite a bit. Just because there are some people here saying they hate it and it’s awful, doesn’t make it so. I like it, and I know others that do as well.

Doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement – there most certainly is! – but saying its terrible isn’t true. Saying its terrible FOR YOU might be, but don’t speak for us all.

Justin ODell.9517:

Aza.2105:

This might be worse, you may get communication sure. But Team Arena it seems like its more geared towards a dedicated group of pvpers.

The fact it is geared toward more dedicated pvpers is why I think the OP might enjoy it more. Though, I agree… there are some very good players in this arena and it can be very hard to win.

Aza.2105:

Between 4v5, skyhammer, being grouped with rank 5s and other clueless players….its frustrating. I can understand the OP perspective.

Agreed. We’re working on all of the above.

Aza.2105:

The worst part of all, your rating is tied to your wins and losses. But how is it your fault if you played well but everyone else did not? It would make sense for a static team to have a group lose and win ratio. But solo needs something better, like overall stats.

It’s the nature of the beast. PvP is a team sport, and that may sometimes suck in solo arena but do keep in mind other players are being treated the exact same way. I’m experimenting with ways to compensate for this as far as MMR and matchmaking is concerned, but I wouldn’t expect this to change for rewards or ladders.

Aza.2105:

Hey Justin, I’m currently in another 4v5 whoooooo! And it will count against my overall record.

Why are you posting on the forums during a match?! Get back in there and stand on those circles!

You know what I hate? Starting a match, starting to win, doing really great, then the other team starts to ragequit, and I get autobalanced to the losing team.

Happens all the time, ugh… LOL

So, I just hit level 80, and I need to get the perfect cosmetics for him. I already know what armor stats I want, and I have plenty of transformation crystals.

So, his name is Nicholas Kringle, and he is a heavy-armor-wearing Norn warrior. I need something that looks as close to Santa Claus as possible. In heavy armor, that looks pretty difficult – maybe I should have gone with a medium armor class, but too late now!

So, what would you suggest?

Nretep.2564:

I still wonder why they haven’t fixed that bug yet.

In short, when you wear a full dungeon-set, some “on-hit” effects of the original runes are still present, even after replacing them.
The gamebreaking thing was that each illusion could summon its own golem on being hit …

I use a full set of golemancer runes, and I’ve never had that happen. Too bad, I’ve always wanted to run a dedicated golemancer, and I’d love that for the cosmetics alone! LOL!

In other words, for buttery asura golemancer goodness, this would be pure awesome win! wish I’d had that happen just once, lol!

Kyla Jane.6138:

I never used any runes or sigils that would summon it. I have only used divinity, scholar, ogre,air and perplexity so far.

But did you get some armor that HAD these runes, even if you replaced them immediately without wearing them?

I left using the portal before countdown ended and was just fine.

Is the story instance for Nightmare is Over not possible to group, because we can’t figure out how to do it.

I just wondered, since we have a new healing skill, Antitoxin spray, which among other things eliminates toxic pollen, is it here to stay? Or will it be recurring?

I’m curious… how would you do stealth differently?

like i said, I wanted a set with divinity runes and a set with traveller runes.

Maybe that’s crazy. But that’s how i roll… lol

Lord Krall, I’ve been working on two sets of celestial armor, and I’ve also had other things: not everyone can play every day. I am a divorced father whose kids live 4 hours away, through no choice of my own; when I want to see my kids, that’s time lost there, just as one example. Charging quartz, and playing, every single day just isn’t possible for everyone.

I think my real gripe is this: most exotics can be forged immediately, with the acquisition of the materials. BLTP or whatever.

But you can’t do that with celestial. You can only charge 1 per day. now comes along ascended armor; its mats will most likely also have a limit, just as ascended weapons have. So, I reach level 80, and see I have a daily limit to make exotic celestial armor, or ascended celestial armor?

With the other exotics, I could just buy the materials if i have the gold and forge it in a small amount of time. But I can’t do that with celestial. I have to take my time. which I also have to do with ascended.

So why bother with the time investment with the charged quartz?

Ok, so I’m frustrated about this. I’d heard about the ascended armors coming out, but I was under the impression it was a long way off. Alas, it is not.

I spent my time working on a suit of celestial armor for my divinity runes. And I have been doing the daily grind of working on the charged quartz for a second set for traveler runes (for my wvw set).

And NOW, I find out ascended isn’t as far off as I’d thought. My concern is celestial armor is now going to be- well, as worthless as any other non-ascended exotic armor. And considering we haven’t had the charged quartz nodes all THAT long in comparison, that you can only get one a day, etc, I feel a bit like I just wasted time.

Unless, of course, there isn’t an ascended celestial ascended armor set. I’d be torn on my view of that.

ok, so i’m working on a new armor set, specifically for conditions necro. I already know the stats I want, everything else.

I just need help with the looks. I have plenty transformation stones, and I have the headpiece already decided on: the gas mask from tower of nightmares. See, I envision this armor as looking like an environmental suit.

thing is, I may not be able to actually achieve that look. Does anyone have any ideas for an armor set that might go well with the gas mask in looking like a protective suit against hostile environs? I saw a great one that used magitech armor, but of course, that’s medium armor, not the light armor us necros use

Thanks in advance!

sakurals.7143:

I like this idea, and i can add that maybe that slot can work as the rangers pet’s one, where you can see all your collection and choose the mini u want to be with u at any time =)

+1

Lilith Ajit.6173:

It would be nice if the slot kept it activated all the time. That way you wouldn’t have to keep activating it at every area.

I just came on to post this, and yes I agree!

Wait… wait….

I want a nonelite racial skill. Bomb Golem, from COE. Or, a new elite, swarm of bomb golems.