Guild Wars 2

Are you part of a guild? How I make my money is simply by playing the game. If you party up with friends and just do dungeons, you will make money simply by playing a game with your friends.

Do a few dungeons per night and you will have plenty of money without sacrificing your sanity. Just have fun.

While I would personally not use them, I don’t see why rabid or soldier couldn’t be a possibility.

So, sure.

Neoheart.2750:

OptimistPrime.9283:

saalle.4623:

Words are of no meaning here…

Judging by the quality of your post, I am in agreement.

For all you know his first language may not be English. He also has a valid point so there is no reason to respond so negatively to each of his posts.

I disagree. First of all, I am not hating on his language. While his word choice is faulty, the quality of the post doesn’t add anything that has not been said already in thousands of topics before. Pets are faulty. They have been faulty since launch.

Quality of post, not quantity.

saalle.4623:

Words are of no meaning here…

Judging by the quality of your post, I am in agreement.

You could probably search this forum for roughly two seconds and find a post just like this one, just worded far better.

Fext.3614:

OptimistPrime.9283:

1. They do tests.

What kind of tests? I have a war, guard and a ranger at 80, mixed asc and exo zerger gear (yeah at the guard, too). What test shall I perform to see how exactly my ranger suck at, well, everything?

1. You seem salty.
2. You can do the math given your stats and damage. It is all there listed. Likewise, you can see exactly how much damage you do in the damage chat. There are many ways to see how much damage you do.

Ranger does not suck at everything.

Fext.3614:

So rangers suck. Anybody knows it and no respectable player would wear a ranger. And if you happen to log your ranger, there is hardly a group where you are not told by one or more morons that you suck just because you are a ranger.

I’m just wondering

1. where this really started and how can you really tell that a class or a player has a low damage without dps parser?
People say that a thief or a war with a bow does more damage than a ranger. How can anyone prove this claim?

2. if rangers are improved, and would perform as a welcome (ranged) dpsers, how long it takes before the antiranger prejudice dies?

1. They do tests.

2. Let me consult my crystal ball.

nagymbear.5280:

OptimistPrime.9283:

How very interesting. I notice that it was posted in July. Do you think it is still relevant?

Errm, I’m not actually sure it is him in the video. Maybe his account got closed on teh youtubez. nvm, it is him. I think it should still work. The gist of it is Dwayna runes and high healing power. Pet damage got nerfed in the meantime though. It will get you slower kills than the condi counterpart probably, but should work still.

Why thank you! I will have to check it out

How very interesting. I notice that it was posted in July. Do you think it is still relevant?

Bambula.3649:

most of the non bow builds are much stronger

Ahah reaaally. I should have assumed, but that is very good news.

I am curious if there would be any sort of possibility for a viable ranger that does not use range as a roamer. Possibly with an emphasis on evasion?

Anyone know if this would even be a possibility? Or if it is already a possibility, whether or not it is already a thing?

As a fairly experienced engie, the fact that the only thing I really find a huge desire to complain about are the kitten hobo sacs makes for a very peaceful forum.

Are things perfect for the engie class? Absolutely not. But I will take where the engie is right now over where the engie was a year ago.

I am very curious. I will try this after work

Solstice.1097:

or this

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/map/1040

however it’s been like this every week for us. sorry for you upper tier guys.

As a DHer, I agree completely.

Would anyone have a build for a viable sPvP bunker?

Thank you for any assistance!

Why post a video of a build without having the build in action actually shown?

Shout out to the, I assume, GoM ranger I was just fighting in the AR borderland. (I was the engie).

Sorry that I logged. My girlfriend is an RA and had a resident emergency so I got kicked out of her room so they could talk.

Fantastic dueling. Not sure how long it was going for, but it could have gone on for a lot longer. As I had to leave, the win goes to you.

And if it narrows it down any, I am going to go ahead and put emphasis on dungeoning, since Yishis’ build covers WvW. Though any suggestions work!

Or a “different than Yishis” build.

Here is why:

I am an idiot. Purchased the Magitek armor from the gemstore, until I realized that I like my WvW armor too much to get rid of it. My solution? Make a new armor set.

I absolutely adore Yishis’ build. But I do not want to make a second armor set that would have the exact same stats. Though I could, as I can afford it.

But yeah. Opinions?

I like going out on a Friday night and coming back to WvW trashed.

Nothing screams “fun” like a Norn engineer chucking grenades while inebriated

hermescragsniper.2713:

I would be behind this. Simple and effective.

In fact, even simply numbering overflows would solve some organization issues

I agree completely. Their idea is incredibly simple, but it would solve so many issues…

If you could combine the skills from each of the kits and original weapons, and choose 5 out of them to put into a single super-kit, which five would you choose?

As stated by pachex on Reddit , who cannot post this, as they are at work:

“So, I love the new Tequatl fight. In fact, Finally besting the beastie was the best experience I have ever had in this game. That said, I know there are alot of people out there who are frustrated because they have yet to even have a fair shot at downing him. The problem isn’t Tequatl. It’s overflow.

The problem: The overflow system makes it so that coordination is pretty much impossible to achieve for an encounter that demands high levels of coordination. There is pretty much no way to coordinate an overflow via teamspeak, because no one knows which overflow they are in. Also, unless you manage to find a nearly empty overflow, it is nearly impossible to get guild groups on the same overflow. This is why currently your best chance at victory lies in waiting hours and hours to get into a server’s main instance.

The proposed solution: Ala Guild Wars 1, assign numbers to the overflows, and let players switch between them at will. This would solve pretty much every issue with Tequatl minus the AFK. Large guilds would be able to coordinate easier, teamspeak channels would be able to establish easier, and players from different servers would actually stand a decent chance at victory.

Sometimes, the old ways really are the best ways."

No. Of all the things that need to be fixed right now regarding stats, perplexity runes are not something that needs to be focused on.

Wow… I knew he said something along those lines, but I always heard it paraphrased.

To actually see what he said is shocking.

What really got me, however, was his use of “make a bunch of noise”. “Noise” doesn’t simply mean “sound”. “Noise” translates moreso to “a sound that is loud, unpleasant, unexpected, or undesired”.

He wants us to voice our opinions, but just quiet enough to not be heard as we are “undesired”. We, in his eyes, as a player-base, are not wanted.

style.6173:

OptimistPrime.9283:

I notice, especially on the WvW board, that there is a cry for players’ voices to be heard by developers. Likewise, I have also seen forum users to be called the “vocal minority”.

So my suggestion is this – Why not, after a patch, simply put the in-game rating system that beta had? It is crude, but it would allow for immediate proof if the popular opinion and vocal minority are, in fact, synonymous.

The con to this is that the rating system would be biased with popular opinion. For example, the orbs are very negative right now, and bias might skew the results. But I believe biased results of popular opinion still shows popular opinion.

Just my two cents.

Edit: Thinking about it, it might make more sense to wait a week or so and then put it in. Also, I think it would be helpful if the results were public. Can’t argue with results on the forums.

I think this is a fantastic idea. Unfortunately, at least point, I think ANET wouldn’t listen to it anyway.

Yeah… even though it would be so easy, I assume, to implement. Considering it was in the beta.

:/

Banzie.5248:

OptimistPrime.9283:

Banzie.5248:

EFWinters.5421:

Good post, +1.

The problem is that Devon has painted the whole WvW development team in a corner. When he said outright that the forum community was a vocal minority that can be disregarded, he basically told the forum community that they were completely wrong about the Bloodlust buff, as well as the league system. Should these two features prove to be a fiasco, I really don’t think that Devon will be able to swallow his pride and admit that the forum community was actually right. That would set a huge precedent for future updates to WvW.

Now don’t get me wrong, it may indeed be the case that the forum community is a vocal minority, and that 90% of the game absolutely love the Bloodlust buff. However, the general consensus among almost all of the people I regularly play with seem to be a different one. We also see post from people who legitimately never post on the forums, and while I may be biased in this, the arguments FOR having Bloodlust in its current implementation don’t seem to hold water.

Devon can keep talking about how the WvW population is growing under his watchful eye, but until we see statistics on this nobody is going to believe him. Besides, if he actually thinks there is any form of causality between adding something like Catapult mastery and having .1% of the PvE population go to WvW I really don’t know what to say.

He is correct about the forum community being a vocal minority, Because so many people do not post here. HOWEVER, Many people do feel the same as the “Vocal Minority”, they simply dont post. Dont get me wrong here, I agree with many of you guys.

What I believe they need to do is put in a rating system each update IN THE GAME, NOT THE FORUMS for the new content each time, Release the system perhaps 1 week after each patch once people have settled into the content instead of just rage quitting first day as releasing it immediately would skew the system results instrumentally (I.e. First day ragers: SAB, Scarlet, Bloodlust, Teq). If there are bad reviews after the 1 week rating vote, Either implement a change next patch or get working on one ASAP, Alternatively you can EASILY revert to previous version of the content before the update until a fix can be implemented. Good idea, Yes/No? Criticism welcome.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Bring-back-in-game-rating-system-from-beta/first#post2864907

Ahh I didnt see that post, my bad. But I dont agree with the immediately after patch, as that is skewed results and doesnt allow people to learn and get use to the content. (Im speaking widely here, not about just bloodlust) 5-7 days after a release would be good imo for an honest opinion.

I agree completely.

Banzie.5248:

EFWinters.5421:

Good post, +1.

The problem is that Devon has painted the whole WvW development team in a corner. When he said outright that the forum community was a vocal minority that can be disregarded, he basically told the forum community that they were completely wrong about the Bloodlust buff, as well as the league system. Should these two features prove to be a fiasco, I really don’t think that Devon will be able to swallow his pride and admit that the forum community was actually right. That would set a huge precedent for future updates to WvW.

Now don’t get me wrong, it may indeed be the case that the forum community is a vocal minority, and that 90% of the game absolutely love the Bloodlust buff. However, the general consensus among almost all of the people I regularly play with seem to be a different one. We also see post from people who legitimately never post on the forums, and while I may be biased in this, the arguments FOR having Bloodlust in its current implementation don’t seem to hold water.

Devon can keep talking about how the WvW population is growing under his watchful eye, but until we see statistics on this nobody is going to believe him. Besides, if he actually thinks there is any form of causality between adding something like Catapult mastery and having .1% of the PvE population go to WvW I really don’t know what to say.

He is correct about the forum community being a vocal minority, Because so many people do not post here. HOWEVER, Many people do feel the same as the “Vocal Minority”, they simply dont post. Dont get me wrong here, I agree with many of you guys.

What I believe they need to do is put in a rating system each update IN THE GAME, NOT THE FORUMS for the new content each time, Release the system perhaps 1 week after each patch once people have settled into the content instead of just rage quitting first day as releasing it immediately would skew the system results instrumentally (I.e. First day ragers: SAB, Scarlet, Bloodlust, Teq). If there are bad reviews after the 1 week rating vote, Either implement a change next patch or get working on one ASAP, Alternatively you can EASILY revert to previous version of the content before the update until a fix can be implemented. Good idea, Yes/No? Criticism welcome.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Bring-back-in-game-rating-system-from-beta/first#post2864907

Chopps.5047:

Well, I do know something about programming. This calculation would have to constantly recalculate based on the people on the field and dynamically update stats on some time period. In other words, it would probably have to recalculate everything stat related on every frame for every player. Unless someone could figure out a clever way to simplify the number of calculations required.

If I remember right, there are computational difficulties with ranger pets recoginizing aoe and then reacting to it in real time. Pretty sure a dev commented on that. So ANET is working under some tight technological contraints with this game. Also, they came out and said maps size and borderland populations cannot increase for similar technical constraints.

Not a bad idea, really, I’m just looking at it from another perspective

To be completely honest, I appreciate your perspective immensely. It is a voice that is very needed in these grandiose idea topics.

Since outmanned adds a few buffs not based around stats, would the stress be lightened if the stats granted by Bloodlust under this new system were simplified as well?

For example: If instead of all stats, just say… toughness and vit?

Or would that be still an extraneous point to the amount of strain?

Chopps.5047:

Can the server handle more calculations given skill lag complaints?

This is a good question, though I am not sure why it can’t piggy-back off of the already implemented “outmanned” buff.

Though I know nothing of coding and lag, so I could be very wrong.

Absolutely not to invincibility. Though swiftness is a fantastic idea.

However, with the current issues and bugs, I wouldn’t want to risk adding anything to the already fragile yak code.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Make-Bloodlust-inversely-proportional/first#post2874577

I agree with your post, though I do believe Bloodlust has very overt flaws that should be accounted for.

Definitely not what we asked for, but if it were handled better, it would be just fine. Great, in fact. If the highest population were to recieve smaller to no bonus from Bloodlust than a lower population, then it would be absolutely fantastic. But right now, it just feels… imbalanced and incomplete.

The new additions are visually stunning.

But yeah.

Just my two cents

Been suggested before in a topic, but in all honesty, this is the BEST idea that could ever come from Bloodlust. I agree 100%.

Top population gets no rewards, but has to protect it so others do not get rewards
Middle population get little rewards. Just a tiny boost. Maybe +25 points instead of +50.
Lower population gets most rewards. Enough to combat outnumbered. +50 points bloodlust

However, I think it should only combat outnumbered, not make up for it. If a server has a low population, it shouldn’t win due to bloodlust. It should just get enough of a boost to make it a bit of a threat.

To be completely honest with you, it is whatever you want to roll.

I roll Yishi’s build too. He generally calls for grenade, bombs, and EG, right? I roll TK and rocket boots with bombs. It is COMPLETELY whatever you feel comfortable with.

foundling fox.9054:

Engineers: How do you get ANYTHING done?!

Simple – We make the best of it. We are absolutely wracked with bugs, and believed mediocrity compared to the other classes. You can roll a bad thief and still do okay. Likewise, a bad warrior could probably still get a few kills in. You cannot survive as a bad engineer.

Because of this, I almost see our believed mediocrity as a blessing. I KNOW my class.

Probably makes no sense, but that is just my opinion.

Absolutely not. Necros, personally, are well balanced at the moment. They can be a bit difficult to face if you do not understand how they work, but I wouldn’t say they are OP.

But that is just coming from an engie, so who knows

Tvvat.8401:

Not so much OP, but countering a Necro is not like other classes. If your first reaction is to boon up and unload all your conditions on the Necro, you are gonna have a bad time. The Necro (if speced for roaming) will first turn all those boons on you into conditions, and then transfer any conditions you have applied back onto you. Once this happens you have most likely lost the encounter.

To counter a Necro you must first understand its greatest weaknesses; we have no escapability, vigor, and limited healing if you don’t stack us up with conditions. Focus direct damage and stuns initially. DO NOT pop boons unless you are sure that you have the upper hand.

Also it is worth understanding how our Plague form works. Plague essentially buys us 20 seconds of time to let our cooldowns reset. It mitigates damage through increased toughness, vitality, and blind’s once per second. It removes all ability for us to remove conditions. If you are within the Necro’s plague form DO NOT blow any spells with cool downs as these will miss due to blind. Confusion is extremely effective against Plague because Plague recasts spells every second. Other conditions are effective as well if casted early in the Plague form. The Necro either has to leave plague to cleanse, or just wait them out.

As much as I hate giving advice on how to fight the Necro, I’d rather people learn before Anet gets out the nerf bat. I currently have an 80 s/d ele, 80 condi nec, 80 d/p thief all with full ascended minus the weapon. Since the elementalist RTL nerf, I have strictly roamed WvW with my Necro.

Precisely. After my engie, my necro is my second favorite class. It isn’t that they are OP. It is that people assume they work just like every other class. The opposite is true.

And thank you for this explanation. I would rather have good fights on my necro than to sweep from people not knowing what to do.

Gyuforce.8291:

FREE BUFFS! COME AND GET YOUR FREE BUFFS!
just remove bloodlust, guard leech, applied fortitude, and keep outmanned the same.
if the devs want to add “buffs” for the team that takes the time to do random kitten, add wxp bonus to everything. and not some kittenfoot 10% add like a 50% or higher, make players want that kitten

While I do not agree with removing guard leech and applied fortitude (in no way “free buffs”), I would agree that ANY bloodlust bonus should be WXP bonus-based, and not stat-based. It doesn’t make sense.

If you have a huge-as-kitten zerg and can steam roll a smaller server, then sure, enjoy getting mass WXP. The smaller zerg still has a chance to take over with enough effort. Adding stats makes that impossible.

I notice, especially on the WvW board, that there is a cry for players’ voices to be heard by developers. Likewise, I have also seen forum users to be called the “vocal minority”.

So my suggestion is this – Why not, after a patch, simply put the in-game rating system that beta had? It is crude, but it would allow for immediate proof if the popular opinion and vocal minority are, in fact, synonymous.

The con to this is that the rating system would be biased with popular opinion. For example, the orbs are very negative right now, and bias might skew the results. But I believe biased results of popular opinion still shows popular opinion.

Just my two cents.

Edit: Thinking about it, it might make more sense to wait a week or so and then put it in. Also, I think it would be helpful if the results were public. Can’t argue with results on the forums.

I have a dozen stocked up, and I cannot unlock much, but it seems like a waste to just let the points sit there.

I was thinking maybe guard attack/defense, as the final tier offers fantastic buffs. I am an engie, so I was thinking the fortification would be a bit useless, as I could use condition damage more than vitality, if I had to assume.

Anyways, I am open to any and all opinions! Thanks mates!

I enjoy a good zerg here and there, but I like to run around WvW solo pretty often as well.

Are there any good builds that you might recommend? Thanks!

I am curious if there are any necro bunker builds available post-patch, or any at all.

With a second health pool and fear, I am curious by the necro’s bunker possibilities

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

OptimistPrime.9283:

I accidentally unclicked the “remember password” button on the launcher and completely forgot it. So I click “forgot my password”, get sent to the account page, only to get the error “Password reset failed, please try again or contact support”.

Luckily, my password was saved on the forum log-in.

Any ideas around this issue? Or should I just wait it out?

If your password is saved for the forums, you can open ‘tools’ on your browser and find the saved password there. =)

You are a saint. Thank you so very much!

I accidentally unclicked the “remember password” button on the launcher and completely forgot it. So I click “forgot my password”, get sent to the account page, only to get the error “Password reset failed, please try again or contact support”.

Luckily, my password was saved on the forum log-in.

Any ideas around this issue? Or should I just wait it out?

Frost.2908:

Yes the same thing has happened to me on the instigator chest, I participate in the event get a gold medal but cannot see or loot the chest… yet I can jump on top of it.

I’m not sure whats causing this but it has happened a lot of times over the past few days… please fix it so I can get my loot!

Ok now this is really off… 6 events in a row gold medals and still no chest spawns for me?! I relogged multiple times and still it wont spawn for me but everyone else is looting it! -.-

Precisely my issue. And it is difficult to explain “it is there but not exactly there…”

For some reason, after four events in a row, the instigator chest is not spawning. I tried logging after the third, and exited the game completely, but for some reason, it is still not appearing after the event.

Any idea why JUST my chest isn’t spawning? Everyone else seems to be just fine.

It seems to spawn, but it is invisible and unopenable. I can jump on top of it, and seem to hover in air. So it is there, just not… there

Thanks for any and all help!

I am curious how empty WvW was during The Walking Dead. I sure wasn’t online.

Dark Aidget.3879:

Ya know, it just occurred to me that the last time we faced DH was just as all the Wintersday events were starting, so we all had low turn out. This time, we have all these new guild events and it’s the same thing. Weird timing.

~conspiracy!~

Dark Aidget.3879:

OptimistPrime.9283:

The DH zerg is just a honey-badger. It doesn’t give a kitten.

So noted. T6 knows how to deal with that…

With hugs and quiet whispers of “shhh, shhh, it will be okay” while stroking our backs?

Yes.

You know, we had that issue in the lower tier too, of claims of having a vendetta.

The DH zerg is just a honey-badger. It doesn’t give a kitten.

I like it, personally.

Debois Guilbert.6413:

Bllade.1029:

Earlier today WvW bugged, many of you probably noticed. I went to DH borderlands to actually find myself falling from the sky in someone elses borderlands.

It was Blackgates.

I get on map chat, and there were not only HoD but GoM with me as well.

AND TOGETHER Tier 7 Servers united in killing all of the Krait clearly working for Blackgate. TAKE THAT BLACKGATE! Tier 7 FTW.

Interesting. In vale today we had an Unknown “friendly” who seemed to be able to rez the hostile camp supervisor. The rezzing seemed to be happening too fast to be a stealth rez by a thief. I kept doing death blossoms over the supervisor just in case. We thought it might be a hack, but apparently not.

So… beware of friendlies who can rez hostiles… in addition to Greeks bearing gifts.

In all fairness, before all of the murdering started, it was a pretty cool horse statue.