Guild Wars 2

I think you’ll be a lot happier if you manage your expectations.

And no, I don’t think they are hiding something big. They’re hiding details, which is to say dragging out the hype on what they’ve got as long as possible.

Honestly, I would like to see “Expansion Races” sold in the gem store that don’t have access to the personal story, don’t sweat having a low level zone, and don’t bog down in a bunch of lore. Just straight up “here it is. you can play them now” without all the stuff that would make them take months/years to set up. Its already a huge effort just to record the various skill sounds, shouts, and grunts in all the languages the game supports.

coglin.1867:

eugenstash.8610:

I feel like cc should have a place in wvw and that an all out get out of jail free as some would claim it was was a bit too overpowered. However, I feel like in its current state, it needs some tweaking; some adjusting if you will. I envision some extreme cc spam that, if that is the case could end up turning the tables the other way. Now I usually raid with a guild group and last night we wrecked both frontline and the back line of blobs. Be weary…..this affects casters too. With that being said stab feels a bit lack luster but perhaps that could be my jaded experience that I knew as stab once was. Hopefully some adjustments overall will come that might balance everyone’s experience but I like the changes thus far. Dem poor pug blobs lol…..

I feel this post sums it up fairly aaccurately. I agree some adjustments are needed.

Agreed. I’m happy to see the Wheel of Fortunes turn, but there are some problematic CC skills that need the same eye given to them as was applied to Stability.

So does ANYONE think there’s a case being made here that the Devs can’t look at the data sampling for 30 seconds or less and say “Nope”? Engineers aren’t over performing and Warriors aren’t underperforming enough to justify anything like this.

Do a better job with what you’ve got.

Marge.4035:

Pretty sure somebody already made something like this before, but oh well. I’m missing my dapper tuxedo.

Fancy!

Doggie.3184:

You must be like Nagisa.

Well, I’m jealous.

Rauderi.8706:

Nike.2631:

Emiko.3217:

I wish they would sell the Shatter wings. I accidentally deleted mine before the Wardrobe feature came out.

Contact Support – those wings are granted by accomplishment of achievements which means there is a permanent record in your account file that you did earn them. Ask nicely and I give you better than 80% odds of them hooking you up .

You think that would also work for my GW2 head-start cap I lost when the wardrobe changed over? >_> Can’t say I’d use it, but I’m miffed it disappeared anyway.

I don’t know if there is a flag in the account file that would verify your eligibility, but it wouldn’t hurt to put in a ticket asking them.

For the most part Support likes helping people. They just need a solid evidence trail so that people can’t abuse their instinct to be nice .

Penguins always look fancy.

The mini will probably come out along with the water dragon or Jormag expansions. Could be a while though.

Emiko.3217:

I wish they would sell the Shatter wings. I accidentally deleted mine before the Wardrobe feature came out.

Contact Support – those wings are granted by accomplishment of achievements which means there is a permanent record in your account file that you did earn them. Ask nicely and I give you better than 80% odds of them hooking you up .

Nice work .

skullmount.1758:

Melee main hand focus would be pretty cool…

Off-hand only weapons are really not likely to migrate to the main hand. They are priced differently than main-hand capable weapons.

Having more armor and HP (compared to an Engineer) isn’t “an advantage”?

Marketing is by far the most advanced, most refined, and most aggressive branch of psychology. Psy op warfare at least waits for there to be an enemy. Marketing attacks EVERYONE.

So does this sodapopping person not have a forum account? I haven’t seen them on here yet.

I’m pretty sure the people watching this game’s profession metrics 24/7 will have a good chuckle if this thread ever oozes its way through the notification process.

Which it won’t.

Maxzero.4032:

No matter what system you use you will never have balance.

Its fascinating what a low standard of expectation is applied to computer RPGs vs. tabletop RPGs.

Its probably the presence of live, thinking gamemasters who tend to stomp the crap out of spotlight hogs and who occasionally present scenarios that can’t be resolved entirely by doing the maximum Damage per Round.

Or it could just be that since tabletop RPGs don’t take 200+ people, 5+ years, and millions of dollars they iterate on their mistakes much, much faster.

LucosTheDutch.4819:

You where saying?

I think they were saying “Oh look, another human. The only race it works right for…”

Wanze.8410:

BLSKs are probably 1 of the most undervalued gem store items by the players.

I always thought they were awesome, but I’m also pretty sure I don’t understand how to maximize their utility. So, out of caution I have probably 4.2 of these banked. I’m starting to get a little bit of an overflow of Exotics in my bank too from sPvP, so it’s likely one problem can solve the other.

Using 1 BLSK charge should net you at least 1g profit, 2g, if you know the market a bit, 5g, if you know how to profit from all the globs of dark matter you gonna get and 10g during short term peak times. So its a value between 25-250g, I have seen exotics being linked in map chat for a lot less. At times, i bought gems with gold and then BLSKs and still made 2-3g per salvage.

Would you mind PMing me with maybe a little more step-by-step explanation of this? Maybe you have a cut-and-paste essay stored somewhere?

IllegalChocolate.6938:

inb4 the tanto and iaito get released in the gemstore.

I knew I liked you. People calling that a katana had my teeth itching.

Ballads.2509:

I notice lots of people against the change but only like 3-4 people who claim it was good. They attack others with L2P insults, telling them not to speak their opinion, and to wait for the meta to adapt. Maybe i am missing some of the other “pro” change posters, but i am sure am getting tired of the same voices championing it while attempting to suppress those who don’t like it.
Many of us don’t like the change, our opinions are just as important as yours.

Pot, meet kettle.

Opinions aren’t that important, period. Actual results in play are about 10 million times more important. Feel free to have an opinion, but that’s not what drives decisions at ArenaNet.

Cazamar.7148:

Because those that are having problems are going to be louder than those of us with only minor issues. I am willing to bet that for most players the update was fine. All I have had go wrong is random voices coming from no where and that is easily ignored.

Those “voices” are actually coming from your character – you can see their lips moving when it happens .

Gee, if they’d just been released as proper mix-and-match pieces for the 6 slots we wouldn’t be having this problem…

Kodiak.3281:

Healing isn’t viable because there’s no amount of healing in the game that will counter or even mitigate the amount of damage available in game. The numbers just aren’t there even blasting Water fields. Largely this is because +Healing is garbage because it’s been overly nerfed in SPvP which translated to nerfs in the rest of the game as well.

I find it a little hard to accept that dedicated healers have actually been tried recently in any significant numbers. Certainly not since the patch. Blast fields barely scale, but ArenaNet has been trying relentlessly to upgrade outgoing healing effects to the point where they might actually do something. Blasting water fields is cool, but honestly that’s the minimum possible investment in healing…

Eis.6984:

Only in an MMO could an ability that simply lets you reliably control your own character be considered overpowered.

Only in an MMO could people pretend that one button push cancelling 20-30 other player’s button pushes isn’t overpowered.

You’re acting like it was ok, even good, that a power was so arbitrarily binary that it made other people idiots for even thinking of playing with CC skills.

I see people lose their minds all the time that Signet of Stone is a whole 6 seconds of immunity to one aspect of play. Old stability stacked duration! Its always been ridiculously powerful and all this hand wringing and trying to claim otherwise is kinda pathetic.

Sorel.4870:

My bet is on some sort of camel. Boy I’d like that!

Seems fitting given the environment .

ZeftheWicked.3076:

I want a specialization. I’d prefer druid but it matters little. As long as I finally get to see how much new vs base class they actually bring.

And they know you want it. So count on them coming very near dead last .

Gaaroth.2567:

Nike.2631:

Off hand-only weapons are cheaper than main hands – they’re not likely to suddenly get swapped to the main slot.

What about axes, swords, daggers, maces? They both MH and OH for many classes.

And cost more than Off hand-only weapons. Drop by a dungeon token vendor and see!

Brehn.6483:

yes, but shield is only offhand, so it costs 210 token instead of 300 (mace, axe, …)

Ninja’d!!

Good fix!

The more I read, the more I think the new meta is “Bring some healers”. You’re gonna have to soak some damage to make decisive plays.

And possibly bring a few folks with accelerated rez speed. Somebody has to lightning rod the 10,000 CC skills that everyone assures me now rules the field

I bet you the WvW devs just sit and laugh every time they hear that using stability is skillful and using CC is mindless…

I suppose some tanky types with healers watching out for them could step forward and deliberately bait many types of CC, saturate their stability, get CC’d, attacked, healed, killed and then rezed as their side sweeps in.

Would be funny for healing to actually be a thing, finally.

skullmount.1758:

New dolyak skin/model too (at least on the new borderlands).

I saw that. I suspect animal appearance that it’s by route (and local microclimate). Some routes will be Dollys, some the new goat, and likely a third pack beast we haven’t seen yet.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Asura make for naturally bad legend choices, because, while other figures possess legendary abilities through themselves, the only legendary strength of an Asura lies in their technology.

“Revenants make for naturally bad heroes, because, while other professions go out and build a new legend through their own effort, the only legendary strength of a Revenant lies in copying others.”

Just struck me as a strange argument considering the core mechanic of the profession itself is about relying on the strength not your own…

2 scraps in 12 tries is very good return in my experience. People say things like “it’s around 20%” but I don’t believe for a minute its that high.

Maybe I’m just (mildly) unlucky.

Aomine.5012:

You can go feed Anet your money to this fraud RNG, I do not care.

You think I’m crazy? I don’t buy those things. I pick the colors I want up off the TP early before the prices really settle in . When I buy dye packs its strictly on a lark and frankly I go in expecting to get trash.

Nafeasonto.8925:

The kittening store says you are getting SHADOW DYES.

Read it again. Go on. We’ll wait. Read the whole thing this time. Cogitate on it for a few seconds. There’s no rush.

You should get what you are buying not some random chance.

You got exactly what you were buying. You bought a random chance.

That is absolute BS.

As opposed to not reading the product description and flinging money into the void then coming on here to complain about you not knowing what you were getting into.

Like people do Every. Single. Time.

Aomine.5012:

I bought 5 of them, and ended up 4 blues and 1 green.
Anet said there’re 10 new dyes out of 25 choices lol…
But instead of having 10/25 chance of getting the new dye, I bet the actual percentage to get those new dye is like 1%.

Nowhere and I mean NOWHERE does it say all dyes are equally weighted. And if you’d looked at the results from ANY previous dye kit you’d know they aren’t and never have been.

Totally a fraud!

Totally a delusion conjured up by your own mind.

Anet, thank you for tricking your customer, that I’ll never fall to your RNG fraud again. I will never spend a penny on those RNG related things you have created.

If you managed to learn that lesson here, it may actually serve you well in the rest of the world where odds tables aren’t published either.

ToSatellite.8295:

You say “use stability in opportune times”, but failed to realize that 25 stacks of stability can be broken in less than a second in wvw.

Alternatively, you may be failing to realize that when you dump 26 CC skills into someone in the space of a second SOMETHING OUGHT TO HAPPEN to the target…

ShroomOneUp.6913:

first of all since when is it illigela to palce siege weapons until the map bursts? also since when is depliting supllies illegal? i can understand that with kitten behavior its jsut anyoing and disturbs the fun of WvW but why is it OKAY to ban people for building numerous siege weapons but not for acting like kittens?

Since about the same time it became ArenaNet’s privilege to put you on a watch list.

Well done.

reikken.4961:

Do we have an ETA yet?

No.

Until they announce a date, its ALL teasing us.

Funny. All the staves in the real world are melee weapons .

Off hand-only weapons are cheaper than main hands – they’re not likely to suddenly get swapped to the main slot.

BarnabeJonez.6023:

Heck, even 4% might be a high estimate. Who knows if all the dyes drop at an equal rate?

We know they don’t and never have. The dye kits appear to roll a rarity tier check then roll for specific color within that rarity. The second check is uniform distribution. The first check is far from it.

I spend money in the gem store. I NEVER buy outfits. Doing my part to make them a small enough percentage of total sales that finally encourages ArenaNet to STOP MAKING THEM.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

25 dyes, 10 are shadow. So each pull is looking at a 10/25 or 2/5 chance of getting shadow dyes. But being random, it isn’t unrealistic to get less than that is a small sample size, or get get lucky and get more…

Um, the special dye packs have never had uniform distribution. Your odds of getting a shadow dye could be considerably worse than 2/5…

Eudaemons.1596:

My armor…isn’t bulky enough. NEED MORE ARMOR!

And rocking a little Infinite Light there, I see.

phys.7689:

Nike.2631:

Get over it. Literally, that’s all there is to say about that perception. You’ll still have 5 weapons skills. 5 new skills is not better than 2 new skills and the ability to mix and match your choice for the other 3.

5 new skills is better than 2 new skills, if you are looking for new playstyles.

And three proven skills can be better than 3 novelty clickies, if you are looking to succeed. And 1h weapons give you more choice when tuning a load out than 2-handers.

But the real bottom line is since the specialization will likely be introduced in waves (of eight) there’s simply no percentage in a designer locking themselves into every specialization in the wave having the same main hand/off hand/two-hand weapon design.

As far as other class mechanics, traits, etc, yeah everyone else is getting that too, AND 5 new skills versus 2.

The other possibility, and one of the things we talked about in the horizontal progression CDI is that subclasses/specialization are a window that allows old weapons to be used in new ways. Its possible that when a chronomancer uses a scepter, it has 3 skills entirely unlike what happens when a Mesmer is using a scepter. Poof! 5 new skills from one new off hand. We’ll just have to wait and see how much work the Devs wanted to take on.

Morsus.5106:

No, it’s something like each specialization has 10 skills (or more, but likely the same number throughout). Druid would get 5 from staff, 1 from healing, 3 from utility, and 1 elite. Shield!Mesmer would get 2 from shield, 1 from healing, 6 from utility, and 1 elite. Just my understanding of what’s been said.

Or 1,000 times more likely the specialization don’t all have exactly the same number of new skills in the same way the base professions don’t have exactly the same number of weapons.

Even the most symmetry-obsessive designer would probably be satisfied with having the specialization lose access to the same type of weapon (e.g. gains shield-off hand, loses pistol off-hand). So Engineers gain 2h-hammer (5 skills) but lose rifle (5 skills) while in that specialization. Done. Symmetry upheld.

So, about a year ago in a CDI thread I said~

I very much like the Dolly’s as they give me worthwhile targets when I’m out playing solo.

…That said they are way, way too easy to kill while live player defenders are present. Dolyaks need something like a 2000 point armor buff per allied player present in a radius of 1,000 or so. If three people are escorting a dolyak, it should be IDIOCY to try and hit the dolyak first. Make dealing with those human guards first a tangible priority.

Today I read~

Dolyaks have gained a new defensive ability. As long as an allied player is near the dolyak, the dolyak gains an effect called Protected Caravan. While this effect is active, the dolyak is greatly resistant to both damage and conditions. Undefended dolyak caravans are just as vulnerable as ever, but if players are escorting a dolyak, enemies are now forced to either deal with the players or spend significantly more time attacking and wearing down the dolyak to ultimately kill it.

That would be something like. I’ll take it .