Guild Wars 2

Jasta.1094:

going to spoiler it incase people dont want to know anything about it:

Change system clock to April 1st, login to your character select with music turned on.

That has nothing to do with the achievements though, unless that music is what’s going to play when you play the super adventure box.

Where did they say anything about retro?

Anyone else see this new achievement category? What is this for?

World bosses are pointless. The only thing that scales is Health. More people needs to be harder, not longer… Why do the guild bounties have no strategy needed?

Anet during GW1: Hey, lets make a truly awesome game guys!

Anet during GW2: Hey, lets dumb our game WAY down and get people to buy tons of stuff off our gem store for monies!

LunaNosCustodit.1458:

I think you might have entirely missed the point of what GW2 is trying to accomplish.

Take a truly unique MMO system like in GW1 and make it “care bear online?” Yeah, that’s what they’re trying to accomplish

Heijincks.9267:

No, we don’t need a trinity. The last thing GW2 needs is to stray away from its niche and become more like other MMORPGs.

It’s niche was the AWESOME system of GW1….they already strayed away from that and made it MUCH worse.

Kaeden.6952:

There is a trinity,

It’s called:

Damage
Control
Support

ROFL, oh ok. So that must be why I can AFK any boss in the game outside of fractal lvl 30+ This includes all the world bosses and guild bounties.

No, we need a trinity.

Look at all the dungeons, it’s dodging and damaging. Look at all the world bosses, dodging and damaging. Look at all the guild bounties, just damaging.

I mean, it sounds good on paper not having a trinity, but in the real game it just makes it to where all the boss fights are just an easy DPS race. No technique, planning, or skill is required by the groups at all.

Guild missions are supposed to be guild endgame PvE now right? Well then why does it all consist of just finding a mob on a set path, then AFK auto-attacking hum for 5 minutes? This isn’t right at all. Greatly looking forward to having both WvW and the trinity in TES:O.

I soloed it just fine. I think this is a case where we just have to say, get better.

That’s why I’m asking how to make sure lol. And yes, I have gotten the map completion reward and done all the exploration achievements.

So I have map completion and all the exploration achievements and I have 2 questions..

1. How do you turn on the star next to your name?
2. How can you tell if it’s turned on or not since you can’t select yourself?

Razor.6392:

I thought enemy teams couldn’t ascend a spirit in a node that your team owned.

This is the way it should be. Why anet did this, who knows. Anet has been making a lot of mistakes though.

Vayne.8563:

No Walking.6349:

The only solution is this…

• Wait for TES:O to come out

This will fix all of your WvW problems because they’re doing it right and learning from the mistakes of Anet

Right, it will be the perfect game. No one will complain about anything. Their forums will be clean and tidy, filled with happy, non-complaining MMO players.

And because it’s a Bethesda game, it will also be bug free.

This message has been brought to you by the grass is always greener corporation.

All MMOs have issues, including GW2. However…

• Having a trinity
• Having factions
• Having only 1 mega server

These things will insure that their “WvW” area is much more successful.

You get legendaries through money, not merit
You get commander titles through money, not merit

Everything worth having in this game is bought with money, and not earned… This issue isn’t going to be fixed, so get used to it

The only solution is this…

• Wait for TES:O to come out

This will fix all of your WvW problems because they’re doing it right and learning from the mistakes of Anet

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The pre-scouting methods were never used by the testers. Most found it far more efficient to start the mission and the search the map by dividing up our efforts.

Wait… Did you just say that scouting is far less efficient? Lol, um, well… no.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• The commendations, rares, and silver are not awarded. That reward is specific to actual bounty missions.

Anet Fail… Small guilds, you are still screwed rofl. You think they wanted access to the content just to be able to do it for fun? Um no… No small guilds will run this content without getting any reward for it, they’ll go spam dragon events instead.

This happens to a lot of people, be sure you have all of these…

• Order of Whispers hideout (you need to go inside of it)
• Durmand Priory keep (same, go inside)
• Vigil base (same, go inside)
• All of the lost shores, there’s no markings saying how much of it you have complete.

It’s probably one of those you’re missing, check them out.

Or, Rytlock charges at you with a giant hammer that says BAN on it, and smashes you into the ground, with nothing but a little gravestone left with your name on it, that persists for several hours after your banning :P

They need to make it give as much Glory as normal SPvP, that’s the only change it needs.

I’ve been live banned before, and I can confirm that nothing happens except you get booted from the game, and a little notification screen comes up saying you’ve been banned. You click “ok” and then you’re put to your desktop.

Either Anet is getting less creative than they were with GW1, or they’re being lore-friendly because the gods are “gone.”

So everything at the start of that guide is old as hell, and all the other info is scattered through 11 pages of text…anyone just have a link to the build?

And I want to try out this DD tanky healy build everyone is pwning face with. Anyone have a like to this build, with runes/sigils/amulet included?

Totally agree with you. PvP leaderboards and WvW progression are coming luckily, but the rest is totally true and needs to be fixed badly.

The only hard PvE is fractals 30+ The rest is easily doable, making this F ability fail not a big deal. In the parts of the game where balance really matters though (PvP/WvW) they’re significantly worse than every other class’ F abilities.

TankAnyone.5370:

I doubt we’ll see pets become useful in sPvP, even with a fix to F2 timing.

Exactly……

Nobody cares about PvE balancing except the EXTREMELY small amount of players who chill out in Fractals 30+ Balance PvP first…forget PvE, it’ll be easy either way.

TankAnyone.5370:

Now, the delay on a pet using an F2 is meaningless.

Stopped reading here, you obviously don’t PvP.

Darkwolf.6291:

Elementalist attunement swapping is a HINDRANCE, not something you should be using as an argument for why Eles are better than Rangers.

Your F bar gives you 4 wep sets rather than 2…….did an Ele srsly just say they’re underpowered? Um staff eles in WvW? DD eles in PvP?

No, 4 wep sets is a great buff to you guys, and STILL not comparable to the lvl of fail that pet abilities is.

digiowl.9620:

No Walking.6349:

Kryen Lavitt.6051:

No Walking.6349:

Concerning F1-F4 abilities…

• Engineer – instant cast toolbelt skills

These are all the classes F1-F4 abilities, and they’re ALL INSTANT CAST as they should be, very balanced overall don’t you all think?

Wait, what’s that? I forgot a class? OHHHHH that’s right. The Ranger…here

• Ranger – pet paths to target, pet roots, pet begins 2 second cast.

There. I think I covered it all now. Still think it’s balanced? 7 months without a fix to this obvious imbalance rangers have…how nice it is to be ignored.

Please teach me MASTA how to instant cast my Bandage Self!

/fail

Bandage self is one of the MANY different tool belt abilities you get, most of which are instant cast…EVERY one of our pet abilities has a huge pet pathing/cast time besides jaguire which is useless anyways

When did instant become 1 second?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bandage_Self

And again, this is a heal…and it’s the medkit toolbelt skill. Don’t like it then switch to the other healing abilities which DO give an instant heal through regen. Most engineer F abilities are instant, wish rangers could say the same.

killcannon.2576:

Jaguar is useless? From stealth all attacks are crits…You sure you play a Ranger? Plus the ranged pets don’t have to “path to target”. I play a warrior, ele, and ranger all max level, and I find my pets to be very useful in any number of situations, with their skills able to cover weaknesses I may have in my build or things I may only need as a one off. I would say this is a l2p thing, but I’m sure someone will cover that.

Oh ok, so my cat can crit when it’s stealthed, too bad the pathing issues will cause him to hit the target like once.

And you’re saying I should be restricted to ranged pets just to be able to play good? Ranged pets projectiles get stopped by other enemies/clones/pets/summons 90% of the time anyways because their hits don’t penetrate enemies as ours do (only when specced). Still not a fix to this issue.

Kryen Lavitt.6051:

No Walking.6349:

Concerning F1-F4 abilities…

• Engineer – instant cast toolbelt skills

These are all the classes F1-F4 abilities, and they’re ALL INSTANT CAST as they should be, very balanced overall don’t you all think?

Wait, what’s that? I forgot a class? OHHHHH that’s right. The Ranger…here

• Ranger – pet paths to target, pet roots, pet begins 2 second cast.

There. I think I covered it all now. Still think it’s balanced? 7 months without a fix to this obvious imbalance rangers have…how nice it is to be ignored.

Please teach me MASTA how to instant cast my Bandage Self!

/fail

Bandage self is one of the MANY different tool belt abilities you get, most of which are instant cast…EVERY one of our pet abilities has a huge pet pathing/cast time besides jaguire which is useless anyways

infrequentia.3465:

still funny how he is comparing class mechanics and still hasn’t figured out the ranger gets a 2nd auto attack for freeeeeee

An auto attack that isn’t even useful in WvW and sPvP because the pet never paths to the target correctly unless they’re rooted or crippled. Still nowhere near being as useful as ALL the other classes F abilities.

Jemmi.6058:

And then instantly explode?

If I got to summon another pet in half a second like mesmers summon other clones, then yes… it would be a buff.

Jemmi.6058:

No Walking.6349:

infrequentia.3465:

i wanna see a mess instant shattering tho >>
or a war instant bursting,
or ele instant attunement swapping
last i checked those all have build up time or need to be close in the case of ele its their wep swap

Mesmer’s shatters are instant once clones get to target, every play a mesmer?
Warrior’s f1’s are instant besides rifle, ever play a warrior?
Ele’s attunement swaps are instant, ever play an ele?

I think he means…

Mesmer build up = creating the clones/illusions/phantasms
Warrior = gaining the adrenaline
Ele’s = do not have a weapon swap, also switching attunements gives a cool-down on the other attunements briefly.

And rangers have CDs on their pet swap, and CDs on the pet ability…that’s the same for all classes, I’m talking about the CAST TIME once the ability is ready. Rangers are so far behind all the other classes’ F abilities it’s sad.

stof.9341:

No Walking.6349:

Mes shatters are instant, every play a mesmer?
Warr f1’s are instant besides rifle, ever play a warrior?
Attunement swaps are instant, ever play an ele?

Funny, I’m pretty sure those mesmer clones need to run to their target before they shatter. At least for Mind Wrack and a couple others.

Do clones run up to target, then take 2 seconds to shatter once they get there? Because if they don’t then you shouldn’t compare it to ranger’s F abilities. I would love it if my pet ran up to the target then instantly cast their abilities.

infrequentia.3465:

i wanna see a mess instant shattering tho >>
or a war instant bursting,
or ele instant attunement swapping
last i checked those all have build up time or need to be close in the case of ele its their wep swap

Mesmer’s shatters are instant once clones get to target, every play a mesmer?
Warrior’s f1’s are instant besides rifle, ever play a warrior?
Ele’s attunement swaps are instant, ever play an ele?

Concerning F1-F4 abilities…

• Ele – instant attunement swap
• Engineer – instant cast toolbelt skills
• Guardian – Instant buffs/heals
• Mesmer – Instant shatters
• Necro – Instant health bar
• Thief – Instant Steal
• Warrior – Instant Burst

These are all the classes F1-F4 abilities, and they’re ALL INSTANT CAST as they should be, very balanced overall don’t you all think?

Wait, what’s that? I forgot a class? OHHHHH that’s right. The Ranger…here

• Ranger – pet paths to target, pet roots, pet begins 2 second cast.

There. I think I covered it all now. Still think it’s balanced? 7 months without a fix to this obvious imbalance rangers have…how nice it is to be ignored.

Why exactly is there only 1, 1-round map per week? I mean what is the justification behind this? It’s the most annoying thing ever being forced to play a single map all week. These maps should at least be rotating daily, there’s no reason at all to trap us on 1 map for 7 days, especially when you have so many maps now.

Are you surprised? Forget about rangers, they’ve been ignored for 7 months with NO signs of improving AT ALL!

swiftpaw.6397:

No Walking.6349:

- Gs auto attack does 5% more damage
- ranger pets now benefit from agony resistance
- Sb attack speed has been reduced
- spirits now have a 10 second duration before disappearing
- healing spring no longer removes conditions
- traps can no longer be laid on top of each other

Probably something like this, wouldn’t surprise me at all given how much Rangers have been getting screwed over the past 7 months.

Oh and ‘we found an animation problem with the longbow, the autoattack now has a 10 second cast time!’

And rapid fire can now be interrupted by being attacked.

- Gs auto attack does 5% more damage
- ranger pets now benefit from agony resistance
- Sb attack speed has been reduced
- spirits now have a 10 second duration before disappearing
- healing spring no longer removes conditions
- traps can no longer be laid on top of each other

Probably something like this, wouldn’t surprise me at all given how much Rangers have been getting screwed over the past 7 months.

Chopps.5047:

No Walking.6349:

They talk about all the bugs necros have
they talk about engineers for like 10 minutes
they talk about eles and the nerfs they need
they talk about mesmers at length

They get to rangers…and spend 1 minute talking about how pets in fractals will benefit from your agony resistance…and how great sword needs a buff.

WHAT ABOUT SPIRITS
WHAT ABOUT LONG BOW
WHAT ABOUT OFFHAND AXE
WHAT ABOUT PET PATHING
WHAT ABOUT PET ABILITY DELAY
WHAT ABOUT THAT kitten SB NERF THAT WAS A “GRAPHIC FIX”

The state of the game today was nothing but proof that they don’t care about Rangers at all…

They buffed offhand axe before and I think, at least, it’s awesome in PvE since I had already been using it in nearly every dungeon. I do agree that GS needs a boost in DPS and I’m really happy to hear that.

Keep in mind that just because they ran out of time in this talk doesn’t mean they aren’t working on it. Ranger pet mechanics is a complicated, difficult issue and it’s just fine that it isn’t always discussed.

Everyone: relax!

Big ranger change 1: BIG nerf to our ONLY good damage weapon, the short bow. They said it wasn’t even a buff.

Big ranger change 2: GS gets buffed…….a weapon NOBODY was asking to get buffed

Big ranger change 3: Now we get GS buffed again, and pet agony resistance?

Sorry, but they’re totally ignoring rangers. I mean TOTALLY! Not only do they skip us in EVERY patch, but they refuse to ever talk about us. We’ve been saying “relax” for 7 months now and it’s STILL not fixed…..so no, we shouldn’t relax. We should all roll Ele, Anet obviously wants us to play them.

Sanis.1096:

Zinwrath.2049:

To be honest, i like spirit watch. Reminds me of eye of the storm on world of warcraft which was vastly more popular than warsong gulch (atleast it was up untill i quit sometime during burning crusade expantion).

it was popular because it was new and CTF does not really fit with the classes in game

It fits just fine….it works in the new BG with the neutral flag, it would work in a pure CTF map.

Everything you ever need to know is on

gwguru
gwwiki

Why would you ever buy a very limited, very lame guide?

What? Capture the flag is a PvP thing….They have it in most MMOs, including GW1

Please give us a pure capture the flag map!!! No nodes, no neutral flag, just 2 bases, 2 teams, 2 flags, mes portals unusable while carrying flag, and a score that goes to 3 or 5. Please I will love you forever!

Which title is the least common out of all the champion titles? Obviously Champion Shadow or Illusionist are the most common (I see a TON of illusionists). But just wondering which is the least common?

I’m thinking it is Hunter, because nobody likes rangers in PvP for some reason lol. I’ve been working on my Champion Hunter title for about a week now and am up to 70/150

tpvp gives you cool titles and better gear.

/thread

It’s called the PvP browser man…that’s pretty much random arenas. You join a match with no control over who is on your team, that is randomly joinable by any number of people.