Guild Wars 2

I’m going to have to agree with Kal that Kiel is about as far from a pirate as you can get.

Soooo I guess this means he was fighting an engi who used elixir x and got tornado, so he thought it was an ele?

It doesn’t completely negate it, but it does significantly reduce how strong it is, which makes sense since meta game runs counter builds. Honestly that’s rather expected when you put every resource into doing one thing, no matter what the game is. If a build like that were to have it’s full potential no matter how the enemy fights against it, then the build is too powerful because it lacks a viable way to counter it. Moderate counter play is good.

As for the specific situation being discussed, having your whole team zerg in one place is usually bad anyway (I’m assuming you mean normal pvp, not wvw)…

@StinVec So after reading what you said, I realized this all may just be an intricate anet ploy to discover the weakest faults in their game while avoiding heat from players as they argue amongst themselves.

Lets say you used only 1 high ini req skill > Your all skills effected including other weapon set.

This happens regardless of chill though, since thieves basically have a shared cd on weapon skills.

Your solution basically means you can ignore the effect if you don’t spam your skills for a few sec while chilled, which is indeed a draw back if you choose to do it, but it still ends up being an innate resistance to chill.

Chill reducing initiative regeneration is exactly like increasing cd. The only real argument is that thieves aren’t really strong enough to warrant a change like this.

It decides the fractal, so it has some meaning to me.

ilr.9675:

Navzar.2938:

Thalador.4218:

if you vote for Evon, you support bribery which may result in more money in your pockets.

Fixed that for ya. I’m fine with taking bribes

Trickle-Down economics is a myth.

Oh trust me, it won’t be trickling down. You want Gnashblade cash, you have to work with Gnashblade :p

Rammie.2843:

Purgatory Fire.4057:

Anyways I think casuals have more than enough content already

…I am not a casual, but I find your comment elitist and ignorant…

…I for one think casuals should be able to get most achievements, especially the story ones. T4 gets ridiculously hard, especially for anything larger than a duo…

…It wouldn’t hurt your progress in any way. A high AP score doesn’t mean anything, you know that, right? It doesn’t measure skill in any way…

Some people enjoy hard content. If all content is for “casuals” (you’re also using it as unskilled), then no content is for said people because it’s too easy for them to enjoy. So having some optional hard content that isn’t friendly to less skilled players isn’t unreasonable by any means.

Why should most achievements be doable for everybody regardless of skill? You even said it yourself, that the not getting the achievements doesn’t hurt you in anyway, you can still complete the meta event without it, and you lose no story line. They just show that you did something harder. Which is as you said, bragging rights. (You can’t really do something for bragging rights if your only proof for doing it is your word.)

Also hardcore mmo =/= hard content. Hardcore in an mmo sense usually means loads of grinding.

hannie.8963:

Most people I come across are voting for Kiel because ermagerd bewbs and ermagerd lower wp costs.

Double facepalm all the way.

QFT
And because she’s human.

I enjoy fractals, that’s the only reason I do them.

I don’t see how having a sad back story shows any credentials to deserve being in a council seat.

I meant evades as in the mechanic, not manual evading through movement and movement skills.

Elementalists with bombs…I don’t know if this is a troll post or not, but if they get up right away after they’re downed, then either an enemy they tagged died, or they used Glyph of Renewal in fire.

JuniorSB.7089:

When playing in WvWvW you can use Tornado to massively up your damage because of the buff that Tornado gives you. You don’t even have to move in the tornado. Just find a semi safe spot, cast meteor shower and then immediately cast tornado so your meteors are buffed like crazy. >:)

Wow, thanks for posting this. I can’t believe I hadn’t realized you could use it like this before, even though I knew this works with might.

evilapprentice.6379:

Stealth doesn’t reduce the damage you take…

LOL Are you really arguing stealth isn’t a defensive mechanic? You also neglected to mention the evades.

Also, skills you have already used are still affected by chill regardless of what class you are.

Lopez.7369:

Retaliation needs a 0.5-second inner cooldown.

Where do you get this information? I’ve seen nothing to support that claim, and if it were true skills like fiery rush wouldn’t be so suicidal.

edit: I tested it by rushing against a wall while somebody popped retaliation and stood on top of me. I took 52 hits of retaliation over 4 seconds, so there definitely isn’t an internal cd.

Also, a duration of 1 second seems pretty low for blind. For pulsing blinds or ones that can be constantly be reapplied it might be okay, but many blinds outside of thief skills aren’t like that.

Caffynated.5713:

covenn.7165:

Pretty much spot on with that…. stars aligning on another player. Not in full zerker gear as I still have around 20k health with guard stacks, but umm yeah.

Meteor shower does over 50% more damage than fireball. WvW is full of uplevels.

Which is why he said this was an example of when the stars align.

I agree, but it’ll have to become a large red ball that’s half the speed of guardian’s orb of wrath and make ominous noises in text bubbles as it approaches.

Let’s just go back and delete any mention of fiery greatsword 4 throughout our post history. Then speaking of it will be forbidden, and it shall become a dark secret of the GW2 elementalist sub forum in a vain attempt to combat the nerfs. Really though, retaliation slaughters it.

BTW, is this going to be compiled into a master list or something?

I just switch on of my utilities to signet of air for pve travel if I’m not perma swiftness. Then I just change it back before any serious fighting. No need to bother with a trait for that.

^True, we don’t know what he does with his profits. It’s could be going towards charities like orphanages, refuge shelters, and animal shelters for all we know.

BlackBeard.2873:

From the first page:

Signet of Arcana

Oh whoops, sorry. I’ll just delete/change that seeing as that suggestion better anyway, on top of coming first.

Also, I love that all storms in one place Apocalypse type idea Ptolomy. So much structural and wvw damage in there

I guess it’s time for anet to double their servers again.

Rework it: One With Air- lightning flash, signet of air and lightning hammer grant 8 seconds of fury

or cause x seconds of weakness

or cause x stacks of vulnerability for x seconds

You get the idea :p

Treborlavok.3504:

Ptolomy.6984:

Uhhm mistform is a stunbreak

It says it is but i still think its broken, ive been rooted and crippled before/during mist form too many times to count.

Immobilization, cripple, and chill are all conditions, not stuns.

Stuns are knock downs, knock backs, stun, daze, and fear (which is also a condition as well).

earthquake—> start churning earth—> arcane wave with elemental attunement as soon as they get up from earthquake —>CE finishes

Nice for catching a group of players and getting a hit with CE somewhat safely.

fire grab + cleansing fire before the grab hits

Burning speed/Churning Earth/Fiery Rush + lightning flash on top of enemy

TheGuy.3568:

You could have just bought the skins off the broker and call it a day.

Then he’d have even less skins :p He actually got a good amount more than he would have if he sold the gems for gold.

The whole point is to see how chaos energy affects the Mists.

It probably doesn’t. That was just a guy with an anet tag teasing, only as serious as the “Kiel is responsible for nerfs” comment.

tl;dr calling the Fall of Abaddon irrelevant to the Guild Wars universe is like saying the French Revolution is irrelevant to French history.

Fixed

As for the “current” thing. No abaddon=no undead hordes in Orr. That’s a very current impact, along with the whole no magic thing.

That’s from attempting too many listings a minute. I think the number was 25 or something. It’s to prevent an overload of orders.

Gery.2718:

Personally I think ppl vote for Kiel because it’s “against RNG boxes” and not really because of cheaper waypoints. On the other hand, most Evon supporters are voting for the fractal, which is more stupid imo, maybe Abaddon sounds better, but it doesn’t mean it will be actually better.

Voting for what sounds better is stupid? And you think it’s more stupid than voting based on something that isn’t actually tied to the election?

KorKor.9452:

Grimwolf.7163:

RainbowSyrup.4130:

why do I have a feeling 80% of the ppl voting for kiel only votes for her for the cheaper waypoints?

More likely, the majority of people voting don’t use the site and have no idea what either is actually offering, and simply like the person they know and view as the “good guy”.

A very sad truth and part of why waypoints should have never been allowed as a factor.

Speaking of which, they still never told us how much the price reduction is on either side yet huh?

Thalador.4218:

if you vote for Evon, you support bribery which may result in more money in your pockets.

Fixed that for ya. I’m fine with taking bribes

Well it’s a rare level drop, yes, so it should be increasing your drop rate. I don’t actually have any evidence to support that though, since I don’t use MF.

Oh, and in terms of the thread topic. I think you’re underestimating the influence of lower waypoint costs on the general population, and over estimating the power of cheaper RNG chests.

Wow the nerfing came down faster than I expected.

kyrioscyrus.2857:

The consequences of it blowing up screwed up with the space time continuum of the world.

It doesn’t affect the whole world, only a few parts of it.

I agree that we probably won’t see the gods though, unfortunately. Even though it takes prolonged staring at them to go blind and we saw Kormir in god mode, I still somehow doubt they’ll go to the trouble of making them.

Also, RNG chests have nothing to do with whether or not players vote for Evon. The only thing that influences RNG chests is people buying RNG chests.

Elemental overcharge: Create a large combo field that deals damage and inflicts a condition at your location based on your attunement. 30 sec cd
Damage:400
Radius 450
Fire:Fire field: Burn 2sec
Water: Ice field, Chill 1sec
Air: Lightning field: 4 stacks vulnerability 5 sec
Earth: Weakness 3 sec

Master level trait for the fire line- Putrid Flame- whenever you burn a foe, inflict an equal duration of poison.
or causes x seconds of poison when hitting a burning foe. But then it would need an internal cd that’s per target, or it’s be kind of weak.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

We will not make both fractals.

Thank you for confirming that. Kiel voters were trying to tell me other wise earlier so I wouldn’t vote based on the Abaddon fractal -.-

I’ve been there

I’d be nice if you could just spam a few to have the duration stack.

Remember that blog post just a while back saying there would be a new tier of resources that requires all resources tiers to create?
Notice how many resources shot up in price immediately following that post.
I’d say a large amount of player speculation had to do with it, along with the zephyr boxes of course.

Thaiseeran.9243:

For some reason i have this… weird feeling, that it’s actually NCSoft pricing gem store and not ANet.

Probably because the GW2 monetization manager is the same guy who made the Maplestory many of the cash shop items.

At time of posting
4500 gems=105.1695 gold if selling
4500 gems=145.5705 gold if buying

So if you consider the price of weapons, you made out pretty well. You could even sell the weapons, buy back all the gems with gold, and still have a profit left over.

Not much reason to complain seeing as you didn’t even lose out.

Shiren.9532:

For $50 someone should be able to get a full set of weapon skins. You can buy the game for $50.

Seems kind of extreme for rare weapons unless it was some sort of bundle pack. There are 19 weapons to a full set. Just take a look at the gem store winter weapons. People found those fair, but a full set would still have been 9500 gems if they had one for every type.
Heck, even a full set of berserker’s pearl weapons is 84g.

I play it once in a while. It’s pretty fun, the 1v1 control is nice, and the survivability and anti condition is very strong on it, which is very useful these days. Still, it feels a little lacking in damage and overall, but maybe I just need more practice on it.

Enundr.9305:

Navzar.2938:

Enundr.9305:

say that vs a group of condition cleansers MightyAltroll…..lol have i ever seen a condition necro ever feel so useless…..and like i said , a perma stealth thief does insane burst dmg , and can go stealth and come out full health……yea …….sry but conditions are nothing if they cant actually kill , and these thieves prove it every day , and dont even get viewed as remotely OP

What, a group of people specialized in condition cleansing can own your condition only builds? So unfair!

show me a group specialized in killing perma stealth thieves…..ive seen one take 2 of us on easily. and lol you just made me think of this one WvW battle , on defense at bay and there was an entire wall of gaurdians charging us…..o god the condition cleansing……so….flipping….USLESS to be a necro that day XD

Those are called bunkers Perma stealth thieves are either extremely squishy, or deal low damage. So a bunker using fury can kill them fairly easily if they’re the squishy type. If they’re the low damage type, then then wont be bringing that hp down at all. Either way, it owns their build.

And as you know, popular bunkers such as as elementalists and guardians use aoe heals and support, so they’re even stronger as a group. So a perma stealth group has little chance of winning.

khani.4786:

Free travel to the character’s home city would be awesome.

Agreed. We can already go to LA for free, and by extension any of the home cities with just a few extra seconds by using the free way point to the portal area.

So I think they should have a warp to LA button and a warp to hometown button. That or a menu similar to picking your wvw map, but with the major cities instead.
As it is right now, the hometowns aren’t active, so this would help them gain some popularity.

It’s because guardians are sort of a golden class that are great in both pve and pvp. This is because they have good damage mitigate, heals, control and stability available.

In pve, what most people with preferences want are heavy classes, warriors for damage and guardians for support.

In pvp, guardians are a strong class as well because they make good bunkers, which is good in the conquest pvp system.

Yes, we dont’ really know much about either of the two. But you should also keep in mind that this is a fractal, so it’s not going to directly tell you much lore wise anyway. It’s just about how epic people think the battle will be.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If the discounts are significant then that heavily favors Evon (again). The keys can be bought in any amount in that short time, thus making it more appealing, as well as having a chance to get multiple rare and unlimited items worth 100’s and 100’s of gold.

That’s not true. Many players don’t care about keys. The majority of new/casual/hateslionchest players would definitely care more for discounted waypoints.

Anyway, now that the new update hit, I don’t recall the % being revealed, or did I just overlook it?

Enundr.9305:

say that vs a group of condition cleansers MightyAltroll…..lol have i ever seen a condition necro ever feel so useless…..and like i said , a perma stealth thief does insane burst dmg , and can go stealth and come out full health……yea …….sry but conditions are nothing if they cant actually kill , and these thieves prove it every day , and dont even get viewed as remotely OP

What, a group of people specialized in condition cleansing can own your condition only builds? So unfair!