Guild Wars 2

There is an internal cooldown on stealth. IIRC it’s 1.5 seconds. If you use an ability that is supposed to stealth you during that cooldown it will fail (but the other part(heal) will work).

I think this is what’s happening to you, I have seen no issues with it not going off on either ability.

“I use the curtain, and tag mobs to get clones out to run faster with a trait. End up zig zagging from mob to mob. It costs me a weapon slot and a trait slot which i then change out when i get somewhere.”

Doesn’t this put you in combat? Which slows you down? The trait (by tooltip) wouldn’t return more speed than you lost by getting into combat.

Or am I missing something?

“Thief’s Infiltrator Arrow used to cross gaps.”

Um, no, it doesn’t.

OP,

No…

The problem isn’t hitting the gate with weapons, it’s the fact that you got zerged.

Yeah, the commander implementation was not good at all.

No actual functionality, Warband party, Warband options, leader chat, map chat, invites/kicks etc, etc, etc…

It’s not an actual show of leadership, just the ability to buy/make money

and iirc you can’t “turn-off” the arrow. I wouldn’t want to always have people following me around a map/know my location.

I am sure they will fix this at some point, but I’d guess that’s 6-12 months out at this point.

+1

Not statistically accurate, but I think you’re onto the real base reasoning.

No, I think he’s talking about the rendering problem. And he’s right.

I can steal into the middle of 15 or more people, get a kill, stealth back up for the stomp, switch to SB and pop, pop, pop back to safety.

I do it every single day.

The culling/rendering needs to be fixed ASAP.

80 Ele/80 Thief

EDIT: Look at it this way, if they DON’T fix the culling/rendering. We can expect to be nerfed into the ground. I’d rather they fixed that.

Yeah, it sucks to 1v1 someone and they log to avoid the death.

Please implement a while in combat no log routine ASAP.

GW2 shouldn’t be used in the same sentence as the steaming pile of dung called Warhammer…

@ OP, Simply… NO.

Wow, this has been one fun as hell week so far!

Great fights all around!

GO GO NSP! Need to catch up again!

Best matchup I’ve seen in the game so far, BY far!

deleted… I think I was mistaken.

Well, I am not a “pro”, but I’m pretty good. I think you have a great idea for giving people the BASICS. But the community is so split on what is good and what isn’t. For instance, I play a condition damage P/D build and I wreck with it… BUT others swear by D/D HS Spam or S/P, or… etc etc. Then opinions will vary between Spvp W3 and PvE as well.

I’m always willing to give game play tips though, I mean I see so many people that say something like, “repair costs are so high!!??” Or, “Dungeons are to hard!” Or, “I can’t do my story line!” etc, etc, And I think to myself, “why the hell are you even dying?” This game is sooooo easy to play if you know how it works. If you don’t know how it works I can see a lot of frustration in your future.

If there IS anyone that has some game/class questions that they want to discuss with me PM me and I’ll send you my vent information. Once again, I’m not Team Legacy level pro, but I am a good player and can pretty much discuss anything game related with at least some level of intelligence.

I’m gonna add to this, if you really want to, and you install ventrillo (because I refuse to type the amount of information that you will require), I’ll come to your world and walk you through the basics of the game. I’ll get you going on the right foot. Or even better, if you can transfer to Northern Shiverpeaks. I will help you with gear and play tips all the way through 80.

Up to you,

Mark

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say, with all the love in my heart, “quit now and save yourself the frustration of trying to learn an MMO.”

You just don’t get the basics… I mean the VERY basics. Like as in the, “I can’t figure out how to breath.” basics.

I wish you all the best.

Cribbage.2056:

3) Stop saying kitten every other sentence. In a few months when the cool kids have moved on to another fotm phrase, you’ll look back and feel stupid.

You realize that the forum filter switches any bad words to “kitten” right???

Maybe you can “look back and feel stupid”

This post made me chuckle.

OP is whining about thieves when he was WITH TWO…

Sorry, but I gotta add my “l2p newbs” to this thread.

Lemmi spell out why you lost so miserably
DPS gear…
No Stun Break…
Standing in group…
Didn’t strike first…
No movement…
probably a few other factors as well.

Honestly I’da been too embarrassed to come here and post this kitten. LOL

Well, I’m on NS, and I have to say:

Please don’t lump all of NS together, generalizations like that just make you look whiney.
I and my guild would never do that.
Anyone who does needs to get the boot.

Heck, I haven’t even stepped out in the lakes with the unfair numbers. Just PvEing until server reset.

I feel for ya, that’s pretty cheesy play. I am sure Anet will EVENTUALLY get around to making this better.

I would think it would be OP if it were in combat as well.

Kiting SB build with this and stuff like shadow step?

Ouch.

Keldrath.4735:

Musty.3148:

I know this isn’t what you’re suggesting but, I would suggest a different way.

To lower Queue times instead by:

1) Allowing free transfers ONLY to lower populated servers
2) Stopping free transfers to ANY of the top populated servers (say top 60%)
3) Allow guilds to keep their upgrades when guild leader transfers guild
4) Switch the Orb buffs with the Out maned buffs.

I think that would even the population out a lot! I know people HAVE to be tired of the long queues on those top pop servers and will gladly move to lower ones if the incentive is given properly.

/shrug

The problem with cutting off free transfers is what if say someones in the situation I was in the other day. I have been on henge since day 1 heck minute 1 of headstart release, I came with Titan because I have long time friends who are in Titan and I wanted to make sure I would be on whatever server they were so I could play WvW with them. And I have a Real Life friend who finally got the game the other day, he couldn’t even pick my server because it was full. He had to keep trying to transfer here for a couple of days before a spot finally opened up and he got in. So whats your solution to cutting friends off from playing with each other?

Take your friends to a less populated server. That is what I’m trying to say. Make it easier for friends to go to the servers that need people. Make the incentives (no queue time, retain guild perks, etc.) viable so people such as yourself can make a new home on a great server that actually NEEDS you. Because, lets be honest Henge doesn’t need anyone else. And anyone going there is doing a huge disservice to this game in my humble opinion.

cubed.2853:

Yeah that is another problem and sure is also a reason, but if transfer cost money I think it will calm down – just a matter of time and if not anet will make a lot of money and that’s ok for me. ;-) I for myself and also others would never switch the server just for WvW and the problem even with very expensive transfer will still exist on some servers.

My suggestions are more related to give guild a opportunity and casuals players a timeframe to plan with.

Yeah, I understand, what I’m saying is that if you get the Queue to be non existent then you don’t NEED to implement the ticket system.

Self delete…

Charlie, relax man. This isn’t the end of the world and I’m sure they are working on it. You are not helping.

I know this isn’t what you’re suggesting but, I would suggest a different way.

To lower Queue times instead by:

1) Allowing free transfers ONLY to lower populated servers
2) Stopping free transfers to ANY of the top populated servers (say top 60%)
3) Allow guilds to keep their upgrades when guild leader transfers guild
4) Switch the Orb buffs with the Out maned buffs.

I think that would even the population out a lot! I know people HAVE to be tired of the long queues on those top pop servers and will gladly move to lower ones if the incentive is given properly.

/shrug

aaron.4317:

I think it is intentional. Anet has said (Mike Ferguson said) that they, “don’t want players just farming eachother”

They want you to take objectives. And if your small man is rolling zergs in open field, that’s gonna interfere with objective farmers.

The downed state ensures that “zergs of a certain size” can not be defeated in open field, and can safely move from one objective point to another.

That depresses me…

I wasn’t aware of that comment.

Do you happen to know around where that came from?

Obviously too hard…

So you’re complaining that someone used strategy to beat your zerg?

Good for them.

Hint: Use other siege against them.

EDIT: And ya know something else? If the shoe was on the other foot then people would come make posts about how keeps are not defensible…

Just can’t win.

Working as intended.

For me, I would say the absolute minimum would be 7 so you get weapon swapping…

But yeah 30 will get you all of your skills.

No Queues > High score.

I’d transfer DOWN if I were on a winning server with hour long queue times. We actually started on a lower pop server to make sure we didn’t have the problem.

Gankfest.4965:

Oxnan.2459:

The option to have all loot instantly distributed into our bags until they are filled would be nice. After our bags are full then having them be a loot bag wouldnt be then end of the world.

This has been discussed before on the Beta forums, and Anet’s answer was that it is a matter of coding and not possible anytime soon. So as I agree with you that it’s a pain to keep trying to get your loot while fighting 40+ people. It’s just something that isn’t going to happen soon.

I can’t even see this, I mean there may be something I can’t see. Although I don’t work in the field anymore I do have a degree in computer programming and I can say it wouldn’t seem to be THAT hard to implement.

The system to loot is already in place, all you would have to do (if I understand it properly) is do a check and activate the “loot” routine function on kill/loot drop. then if the bag check full fails go to drop bag routine.

I mean, yeah, I could be missing some weird detail but it sure as heck seems simple to me.

/shrug

I really would like to see it implemented.

Ya know, looking at these posts It is one of the ONLY posts on ANYTHING that EVERYONE agrees on.

Use a piece of paper…

I see both sides of this. I can go into a dungeon and “assess” the players in there and know after the first couple of pulls if it’s gonna be worth the time.

I’ve seen people going into dungeons and pulling all kinds of trash then sitting there running around in a circle using the #1 skill. I’m sorry but I don’t wanna bang my head on the wall for 3 hours trying to put up with that level of skill (or lack thereof).

You will probably be dissapointed if you are looking to “be a healer” in this game.

Everyone can do a little healing, a couple of classes get an “extra” heal or two, but none are really healers per se.

HykCraft.4610:

Just from my previous 30+ years of gaming experience… since when was a MAGIC class supposed to be a tank or have a high amount of health? Stop whining. Learn to play better.

When they have daggers at melee range? Duh…

Eles aren’t “Terrible” but they do need a little bit of help.

It’s not the sky is falling, but I’d say they are on the bottom of the food chain at least in PvP.

yeah, this is a fun one. Did it last week.

Don’t know if it was mentioned but there is also a karma vendor at the end with lvl 40 karma weapons.

It is my opinion that ALMOST all of the people that want a Gear Based PvP experience actually NEED that gear to compete.

I’ve seen soooooooo many times that if you level the playing field that the same “elite” PvPr is actually a scrub that played tons so they could get ahead on gear and used that as the balancing factor for their lack of skills.

There, that’s my gross generalization for the day.

This LACK of gear based PvP progression is one reason why I’ll be playing this game for akittenlong time!

Hang onto your butts kiddies, this is a new world!

This game is a giant step forward in a ton of respects. It’s not perfect by any means. But they sure did put together one hell of a great gaming experience.