Guild Wars 2

runeblade.7514:

No Walking.6349:

runeblade.7514:

No Walking.6349:

The Charr think guardians are cowardly…yet you still can make a Charr guardian.

Citation needed.

The only Charr NPC guardian is Dinky,

And Commander Siege Razor.

I’m gonna go out on a ledge and say he doesn’t count, considering he is purely a PvP npc and doesn’t have any involvement in the GW world or lore.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I can see sylvari converting to the faith of the human gods. But why would asura, charr, and norn?

Norn already have their diety-like figures and they don’t question the existence of the Six Gods. They don’t worship anything, but do revere their Spirits of the Wild. They already view the Six Gods as “Spirits of Action” and call them by what they represent: War, Death, Knowledge, etc. rather than by names like Balthazar, Grenth, and Kormir (reason being: names for deities are such quaint, human things – paraphrasing Jeff Grubb). Why would they convert to follow the Six Gods, if they already have powerful beings that guide them and consult with them – and have far longer than the gods – especially when the norn consider the gods to be on par with the Spirits of the Wild?

The charr seek to KILL the Six Gods, on the whole. While there may be some religious charr, they are either Flame Legion (thus seek to bring Gaheron into godhood… or whatever it is they seek now that he’s dead and the Eternal Flame is destroyed), or thought to be Flame Legion by all other charr. They have no reason to worship the Six Gods, and their return would only entice hostility, not converts.

The asura revere something greater than the Six Gods, even if the gods were to show up in front of them they’d still go “yeah, you’re great, but your just a cog in the Eternal Alchemy still, even if a big one. No different than the Elder Dragons in that regard.” Why would asura convert to merely worshiping a piece of what they already worship?

On charr guardians – nothing says they think charr guardians are cowardly. I don’t know where you got that. They don’t trust magic users, and this includes guardians, but I’d imagine guardians to be amongst the most trustworthy, since they watch their warband’s back.

If the Norn already see them as spirits, it isn’t too hard to believe there would be those Norn who would follow them

The Charr like you say already have those that are religious despite most of them not being religious. So Charr dervishes are possible.

Asurans could see becoming a Dervish as a means to an end, becoming a dervish to get the power that comes with being one. The gods are part of the eternal alchemy, why not use them to gain power to defeat the dragons? Not any more crazy lore-wise than Asuran warriors or Rangers are.

runeblade.7514:

No Walking.6349:

The Charr think guardians are cowardly…yet you still can make a Charr guardian.

Citation needed.

The only Charr NPC guardian is Dinky, and he’s picked on all the time because of being one, this is stated in the Wiki too. The Charr are offensive, and view someone who buffs the party and hides behind spells as weak.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dinky

My main in GW1 for years was a Dervish, and I absolutely love everything about the class. A lot of crazy stuff is going down and there’s some talk about the human gods returning. I’m sure that if they add new classes to the game, Dervish will be one of them. I’ve heard a lot of reasons why people think they won’t come back and here’s my answer to them.

Issue 1: But the human gods aren’t here.
A: If they come back in the plot, perhaps to help in the fight against dragons, or because they’re summoned back in some way, it’s a good time for the Dervishes to come back too.

Issue 2: Dervishes wouldn’t make sense because the other races would never be dervishes because they don’t follow the human gods.
A: The human gods coming back and helping fight the dragons could heavily influence the other races beliefs. Gods coming back and making an impact in the world, I see no better reason for the other races to want to worship them and become dervishes themselves. The Charr think guardians are cowardly…yet you still can make a Charr guardian.

Issue 3: other classes would be put into the game before dervishes.
A: What other classes? Assassins are covered by thieves, paragons and monks by guardians, rits by engis… Dervishes are the only one not covered by another profession already in the game.

These are the only three rebuttals I’ve heard against the return of Dervishes, and they’re pretty easily thrown out of the window because of these reasons. What do you think, return of the Dervishes in the future?

Sounds event breaking, not game breaking….

You need to learn what game breaking means.

So you bought an item, used said item, and now you want a refund, even though you used it?

Why the hell do you have so many character slots in the first place? You do know there’s only 8 classes right?

You made the mistake, deal with it.

It came with a trailer too!

#riseofthebearbow

Eurantien.4632:

No Walking.6349:

Eurantien.4632:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjEq0wa/Kusw1ag9gadAUAndregdGMChwFbUVF-TpBFwACuAAIOCA12fIxhAoaZAAPAAA

Thanks for the build. Do you think the survivability you lose by putting that last 10 into skirmishing rather than wilderness survival is worth it? That extra vigor on heals and protection on dodge rolls is a massive help when melee gets in close.

Also, why runes of the Pack?

Pack runes boost power and precision. They also give fury and swiftness which are both things you lack while camping in longbow. I personally find Moment of Clarity to be amazing and don’t like giving it up.

I have heard the best runes for DPS are ogre followed by pack. For what pack gives, I would go with pack.

Been trying it out for a couple matches now, liking the damage a lot. I may have to stick with it this way. I’m still using signet of the hunt though for that opening strike on maul. The speed is nice too.

Eurantien.4632:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjEq0wa/Kusw1ag9gadAUAndregdGMChwFbUVF-TpBFwACuAAIOCA12fIxhAoaZAAPAAA

Thanks for the build. Do you think the survivability you lose by putting that last 10 into skirmishing rather than wilderness survival is worth it? That extra vigor on heals and protection on dodge rolls is a massive help when melee gets in close.

Also, why runes of the Pack?

Fluffball.8307:

I think the SotF build is way more useful for conquest, and I think the SotF build is not very useful for conquest.

Huh?

Spiderwick.1879:

Why do you have shortbow equipped?

Meant for it to be LB, just changed it.

I wanted to get opinions on SPvP builds now that the new patch is here. This was actually the build I was using before the patch. I was very pleased to see how many insane buffs it has gotten. Here is the build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjMq0yaDLGsw1ag9gadAUAndze4FYOwjwJvqSrA-TJBFwACeCAA3foaZAAXCAA

Most of it is self explanatory. But here are the points I like pointing out with this build.

1. Bear for condi cleanse and survivability. I never have both pets down just because the bear is so tanky. That condi cleanse is too good to pass up too.
2. healing spring because the field is great, especially with Greatsword number 3, which provides additional healing if cast in the spring
3. Fire and Air sigils for obvious reasons
4. ranger runes, because more crits are good and that constant +7% damage is great
5. 4 into wilderness survival for survivability, shared anguish and hide in plain sight have saved me way too many times to count.
6. Eagle eye and Read the wind for range and accuracy. Piercing arrows is nice, but in SPvP you’d be surprised how little it matters when you’re focusing a single target as you should be. That extra range is more important, and the damage boost is good too.
7. I use signet of the hunt not only for the speed boost which is great, but if I cast Maul on the greatsword, and then cast Signet of the Hunt before it lands, it does MASSIVE damage. It’s a multi-purpose sigil that is pretty amazing to have

Any advice or variations you’d like to share are more than welcome. I’m just wanting a topic where people can list their recommendations to what’s most likely the new ranger meta.

I try to bring this up here from time to time because OS used to be my absolute favorite part of the game, and used to contain some of the best PvP. It’s sad that Anet removed every incentive to go there for some reason, and it desperately needs a face-lift. To draw more people, the reward for Obsidian Sanctum (OS) needs to be MUCH higher. A place that used to have some of the best PvP battles in the game is now totally dead. I used to be able to hop in and spend hours there in fun fights, and now there’s just silence all day long, at all hours.

It was nerfed when the chest became account bound. It was nerfed when they took it out of WvW, thus making it impossible to tell people you were offering ports. It was nerfed further when badge farming became easy in EOTM. Now it’s just dead.

They need to do 2 things to fix it.

1) Make the loot equivalent to a world boss chest

2) Make all red/green/blue servers go into the same OS map, EOTM style.

Do these 2 things anet, please, and bring back what used to be a great part of this game.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

The upper most backpack is level 78 not 80. You need a level 78 or lower upgrade.

Wow that blows…..

Pyx.1906:

They are upgradable, like recent event backpacks; you use the lesser backpack as an ingredient to make a higher level one. Yours is probably not a fine enough level to accept upgrades. As usual, a good guide on Dulfy.

Mine is exotic, it just won’t take ruby orbs or crests

1. I’m not able to add an upgrade component to any of the new backpacks I create, anyone else having this problem?

1. What do they mean that the backpiece can be used as a crafting ingredient?

1. Why when I select stats, one of the options is Berserker’s and Valkyrie, but it only shows zerker stats?

I’ve been ranger since launch, and it’s been my main since launch with over 900 hours played on my ranger alone.

I’ve endured nerf after nerf, shoddy update after shoddy update, and more promises broken than I can count. I’ve dealt with bad DPS, bad pet AI, and a bad reputation in groups.

But now…

Oh my fellow rangers, now….

Faster LB with more damage, new evade on GS with more damage, 12 seconds of invuln with protect me + signet of stone without needing to be traited for it. Stealth on traps with runes, might with the axe. Been playing SPvP all day and nothing can touch me besides other rangers.

Now… IT’S OUR TURN!!!

Superior Rune of Evasion:

• +25 Ferocity
• When executing a dodge roll, you gain 3 seconds of swiftness.
• +50 Ferocity
• When executing a dodge roll, you gain 3 seconds of fury.
• +100 Ferocity
• When executing a dodge roll, deal a crippling strike to nearby enemies.

Superior Rune of the Trapper:

• +25 Condition Damage
• The duration of conditions you apply last 10% longer.
• +50 Condition Damage
• When you use a trap skill, gain 3 seconds of super speed.
• +100 Condition Damage
• Gain 3 seconds of stealth when using a trap skill.

Holy hell, am I right O.o

I’ve done almost every achievement for every release since launch and only have 13k AP. If someone has 20k it’s not because they got to get all the content release achievements, it’s cause they have no life.

Just found this on Reddit, the original Charr intro video.

I offer the suggestion that every copper, silver, and gold that goes into upgrading a supply camp, tower, keep, or castle will earn progress in a repeatable achievement, where every time 300g is spent in upgrades the player earns a tier in the achievement, and a commander tag color on their account. Once all the colors are earned, then the achievement is completed.

It offers good motivation to get players to spend money upgrading what their server has, as well as giving players a way to earn a tag through actually playing WvW, and not just having cash to throw around.

IT’S TOO HARD AND I DON’T WANT TO GET BETTER, SO IT’S HORRIBLE!!!

Elxdark.9702:

Dude I don’t want to sound rude but How long till you get good at this game?

Like really, every I mean EVERY kittening thread/post from you is about whining, nerf this nerf that buff this buff that, balance these balance those STOP already.

And why people still think S/D is broken, IT DOESN’T.

What brought back S/D again into the meta? new runes/sigils.

Do you want to see when S/D was OP? let me find some random video from Jumper when s/d was beyond op when 2 was a stunbreak and had not cd when FS stole 2 buffs instead of 1.

In those times S/D was broken, OP, strong, or w/e you want to name it. S/D is good in this meta only for the buffs to runes/sigils.

EDIT: The only thing I will nerf would be Feline Grace.

Those were the good days of S/D thieves That’s when I got my champ shadow title. So many lulz were had.

vincecontix.1264:

Just video of some duels I had after encountering a guy(Mgorem Morningstar) in Soloq. He actually wasn’t to bad and got me a couple of times on his condi/fear chain necro. In the video show how I deal with necros condi/poqwe and lich form read the chat for extra entertainment enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNEAqkpVdaQ

kitten his keybindings are weird as hell….

Evan Lesh.3295:

So a match history? What kind of information would you want to have in your match history?

• Teammates?
• Team scores?
• Personal score?
• Stats?
• Profession?
• 5-10 previous matches?

All of those stats look nice, but the more stats the better! Also if possible, it would be nice to have those stats for not just the 5-10 previous matches, but to have lifetime account/player stats instead, covering all the games you’ve played.

Now I wouldn’t have guessed this until the very last line of dialogue in Entanglement, but in your very last choice you have a dialogue selection that is basically.

Choice 1) We need to go warn the Pale Tree together

Choice 2) I have to go

I thought it was an interesting way to end Entanglement simply because it’s an odd place to make a choice like that. The first choice is what your character would normally say during all the plot points so far, and the second choice is more like you’re turning away from your friends and going to walk your own path, much like Scarlet.

Your character went into the machine like Scarlet, and I think this may be a hint that you will be able to choose whether to keep your character on the sane path, or go down a darker route, like Scarlet.

Might be too much to ask for from an MMO, but it certainly seems at least possible.

I come back here every once in a while to make a post like this in the hopes that Anet will read it one day and make it actually happen. OS was nerfed when it was removed from WvW, meaning you couldn’t call people to it in map chat. Then it was nerfed again when the meager chest reward became account bound. Both of these contributed to making OS the wasteland it is today. There are 2 things that could be done that would keep OS balanced, and massively increase it’s population.

1) OS needs to be cross server (all the reds vs all the blues vs all the greens)

2) OS needs to have world boss level loot, plus many more badges considering how easy badge farming is in EOTM.

OS IMO has some of the best PvP available in the game, PvP that I’ve immensely enjoyed and become very good at over the past 2 years. I think it’s a shame that OS is always so dead now days, and I feel that making these 2 changes would both bring much needed life into OS, as well as keep the reward balanced.

SapphireGrace.7123:

I know they call it hotjoin because they want people to be able to join it at any time, but I wish you were “locked in” so to speak (kind of like GW1 RA; you would get Dishonor for leaving too many times).

What I see all the time is that we are winning really hard in hotjoin, and they just ragequit the game entirely and someone gets autobalanced. You still get the points I’m pretty sure but it’s still irritating.

I fully agree with you. People should be able to spectate a match from the start, or from joining, without penalty. However once you join the action, if you then leave the match or spectate you should suffer a penalty like in GW1. It would do away with a majority of the problems that are in hot joins.

You know, at first I was going to come here and complain about the engineers who can 2v1 with their eyes closed, or make their build so that they can just kite all day, decap without breaking a sweat, and never be killed. Or that they get turrets which never die over time, have as much HP as a player, which never miss, and which can perform multiple tasks. It’s cute how rangers get 1 mobile pet which is totally useless…and engineers get 4 of them which turn out to be the most OP skills in the entire game! Balance at it’s best!

But then I remembered hammer stun/condi warriors, and was going to complain about them instead. Lets forget their high HP pools, their free 350hp a second, and their mass amount of stun breakers, invulns, cleanses, stability, etc. On top of all that, they do the most damage in the game, condition wise, and power wise. Oh and btw, they get a great condi ranged weapon too..cause why not.

Yeah…I was going to come here and complain about those things…but then I remembered. That no matter how poorly I play, no matter what class I play, hell, even if I go cap a point and go AFK the whole match…..I can still get a full 500 points just by spectating, waiting for auto balance, then spamming the winning team! Which undoubtedly is full of warriors and engis.

So thanks anet. I was mad, but winning is so easy now! I can just spectate an engi or warrior all match and see some massive ownage, then swap to the winning team in the end for my points! I’m loving spectator wars 2, keep up the good and balanced work anet!

Necros have been made totally useless this build… They don’t apply conditions anywhere near as well as warriors or engis, and they have NO stability at all, making them easy targets for the MASSIVE AMOUNTS of decap engis and warriors infesting PvP.

My average match spent as a necro either consists of having the pitiful amount of conditions I can lay down being instantly cleansed, or being stun-locked into oblivion because of no stability. Anet is forcing us to play a warrior or an engi to be good at all…a team with 3 warriors and 2 engis will beat ANY team it goes up against simply because of how stupidly OP these classes are.

And no, 1 second of stability on a well, and stability on elites don’t count at all. Especially cause stability in Lich form is usually stripped from you in the first 5 seconds.

What happened to this map? It was awesome, and was also the only map where we could fight using water skills. It seems like it’s just totally disappeared from history…but it was one of my favorite maps in the game.

Any word on them bringing it back? It’s frustrating that we can’t even select it in private servers any more.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

No Walking.6349

Maybe a world boss chest with a single random account bound superior siege blueprint.

Not even close to “enough”.

These days we burn down the karka queen in seconds. Why should I bother with a jumping puzzle that can take hours, for a siege blueprint that I can make in the mystic toilet?

Cause karka queen is once a day…… Maybe people want more than one chance at world boss loot buddy.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

The loot would have to better than a champions chests to get me in there.

I hate jumping puzzles.

I think world boss quality would be perfect. Maybe a world boss chest with a single random account bound superior siege blueprint.

The reward for Obsidian Sanctum (OS) needs to be MUCH higher. A place that used to have some of the best PvP battles in the game is now totally dead. I used to be able to hop in and spend hours there in fun fights, and now there’s just silence all day long, at all hours.

It was nerfed when the chest became account bound. It was nerfed when they took it out of WvW, thus making it impossible to tell people you were offering ports. It was nerfed further when badge farming became easy in EOTM. Now it’s just dead.

They need to do 2 things to fix it.

1) Make the loot equivalent to a world boss chest
2) Make all red/green/blue servers go into the same OS map, EOTM style.

Do these 2 things anet, please, and bring back what used to be a great part of this game.

Before the patch we were able to simply log into PvP, and our pvp weapons appeared in our hands. Now we need to carry around a couple of white weapons in our inventory for when we hop into PvP, it’s pretty annoying.

Any idea if a fix is in store for this?

I really wanted to keep my guild tower shield and guild pistol because they’re not the easiest to get and the shield looks amazing, so instead of ditching those weapons, I ditched the gauntlets. This is a bit of a bummer, but not being able to change the color of the lava/glow really was messing up the way my armor looks. I chose a different pair of gauntlets and went with a new dye scheme instead, I’m very pleased with the results

I would choose fused in a second. You’re right though, too pricy

I’ve been trying to find a good combo for this armor set forever. I can’t change the color because the gauntlets have a set color.

Any ideas anyone?

Started from the bottom now we’re here!
Started from the bottom now my whole team kitten here!

Ranger: Read the Wind
“Ranger: Your arrows are swift and deadly, but in some scenarios they are not as fast as they need to be and your enemies can dodge them easily. With Marksmanship’s new Read the Wind, your longbow arrows will fire at twice their base velocity, allowing for supreme accuracy at long range.”

Taken from: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/traits-unleashed-forty-new-traits-and-more/

I was laying in bed, and when I read this immediately went “oh my god!” Ranger is that class that started out at the bottom and over the past year has been working it’s way up in OP’ness. As a person who has had a ranger as my main since launch, I’m so happy to see updates like this!

Worth investing in? I saw the price skyrocketed today, assuming it’s only going to keep going up. Especially after the event.

Just the devs making a boss fight harder. There’s no additional lore attached to it.

Rocky skin, rocky looking teeth, it’s Kralkatorrik.

No crazy theories here, we’re gonna go fight Kralk now. Not sure why Scarlet was so crazy to wake up Kralk, or why there was such a build-up when we all knew we would go off to fight the other elder dragons some day, but whatevs. Was nice killing Scarlet.

Any pictures? Also how do you farm the items needed to get them? I’m surprised people already have 250.

Don’t chat with her, Eir. Dispatch her!

~ Rytlock

Siobhan.3582:

Because as of now, everyone just goes there and ignores the battlelands

this ruined WvW. Everyone is now piled into a map smaller then EBL

Good….the borderlands and EBG sucked. They’re so stale now days…no point to even playing in them unless you’re zerging around, which is totally mindless and boring. EotM Is amazing though, the more people it takes away from the other WvW maps the better.

LA is going to get destroyed. Or at least severely altered, Stormwind/Orgrimmar style. Who’s with me?

Hopefully this will lead to mystic forges in all the racial cities, with a shared city chat channel between all 5 cities

You think you have it bad… After all this time I’ve had no precursors, 1 ascended weapon drop (can’t sell, can’t salvage, was useless stats). And the best drop I’ve ever gotten that I could sell was an Abyss dye.

Not right Anet…not right.

Again all you guys are talking about is condi removal….as in the lack of that makes a class totally useless or something. You have good condi removal without speccing into it, and all the other things I stated in my original post. No getting around it…

K U T M.4539:

Cero.5132:

What build are you even talking about? Are you just hating engineers in general or do you have anything to back up your request for nerfs?

He doesn’t have anything to back it up other than engis are better than rangers at applying conditions.

Putting words into my mouth. Typical strategy for someone losing an argument. Hop into wvw any of you and go roaming. You’ll see kit engineers playing with 2v1s like theyre fighting PvE mobs. I could do math…or you guys could actually open your eyes and see the state of engis in roaming wvw.

But I guess if you did that you guys wouldnt be winning all the time. No wonder you’re all flocking here to defend the build.