Guild Wars 2

you dont need to hold ctrl for anything if you just enable in the options that all object & enemy names are always shown by default

a still prayer to everyone who found their first precursor after over 3 years today and will lose it

i feel your pain

i definitly agree on this

There are many runes that could be fun / interesting to try out and to mess around with outside of the usual meta runes/sigils but too many really do have nonsense overly long cooldowns

Anet should reconsider the cd of every Rune and Sigil if they can
That would be awesome

Ethan Mccloud.3218:

Orangensaft.7139:

Why would you need 7000? that makes just no sense to me

1) you can get a full set at 30k points so you should only need 2k
2) if you chose the wrong pants at 27k then you would need 33k to pick the other ones and in that case you would need a total of 5000 more points

but in no case would you need 7000 points.. ?

i think 2k more is doable with a bit of patience

work on PvP and WvW achievements if you havent dont that as those really give a lot of AP
Else just wait for more living story and slowly work on what you havent done

Once you reach 30k you will be happy and feel like it really is something special that only a veteran player can achieve
(and newer players will also be able to get it … but only after a lot of time just like people who started at release who have already spent that time .. so it is 100% fair)

on the cap for 15.000 daily AP
that was a very good decision from anet
1) like you said it allows newer players to catch up (even though they cant catch up on some one time only events)
2) it definitly shows enough dedication to get 15k daily ap… and would just be more AP without meaning since daily AP are basically free
3) it definitly releaves AP hunters and stops stressing them so they dont feel forced to do the dailies everytime without an exception

We will just agree to disagree-

disagree on just everything i said?

then please still explain to me how you need 7000 more points because i really couldnt figure that out^^

Why would you need 7000? that makes just no sense to me

1) you can get a full set at 30k points so you should only need 2k
2) if you chose the wrong pants at 27k then you would need 33k to pick the other ones and in that case you would need a total of 5000 more points

but in no case would you need 7000 points.. ?

i think 2k more is doable with a bit of patience

work on PvP and WvW achievements if you havent done that as those really give a lot of AP
Else just wait for more living story and slowly work on what you havent done

Once you reach 30k you will be happy and feel like it really is something special that only a veteran player can achieve
(and newer players will also be able to get it … but only after a lot of time just like people who started at release who have already spent that time .. so it is 100% fair)

on the cap for 15.000 daily AP
that was a very good decision from anet in my opinion
1) like you said it allows newer players to catch up (even though they cant catch up on some one time only events)
2) it definitly shows enough dedication to get 15k daily ap… and would just be more AP without meaning since daily AP are basically free
3) it definitly releaves AP hunters and stops stressing them so they dont feel forced to do the dailies everytime without an exception

Mike O Brien.4613:

[…]
The hacker was able to use Gaile’s GM access to manipulate guild trims, but mostly he handed out Gaile’s personal items that she had collected from years of playing GW1.
[…]

Mo

sooo does that mean some other players now has the unique frog minipets from gaile? :O

Josa.5067:

This is especially annoying on hairstyles that have 2 colors on the actual hair, and the other color is from the accessory color.

yeh mostly for charr hairstyles this can be so stupid…

they really need to add more color options to hair accessories pls

EnderzShadow.2506:

Orangensaft.7139:

Necros dont need shovels! they use magic

but yeh it was a pretty annoying change though

movement on ele didnt feel fluid anymore for such a long time before i got somewhat used to the change
I also dont think there were any serious glitches with RTL in PvP/WvW

It was just druid because he could basically leap very far with gs and then have another leap skill while already being far in the air

Explain what you mean about druid.

‘in the air’— what are you talking about?

You could use skill 3 of staff on druid (Ancestral Grace) in midair (for example after leaping of a cliff with Greatsword 3) to “jump” even further and this allowed druid to glitch into several towers or keeps in WvW
you could get into both Lordrooms (over outer and inner wall) of the Desert Borderlands with this glitch for example

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancestral_Grace

Anet then changed it so you couldnt use Ancestral Grace in midair anymore but that also changed it for RTL from ele which wasnt really a problem because you fell down far quicker then on Ancestral Grace which let you leap further in a straight line if you could aim at the right spot

i think it would be ok if applying conditions to an enemy reveals you

but if you then want to stealth again and the enemy has just 1 stack of bleeding that does 1 more tick while you are in stealthed and you would get revealed from that?
that would be nonsense

Phibes.4128:

Add a trait to change all guardian light fields into fire fields.

thats a nice idea yeah

the trait should maybe have some other bonus too though and ofc Anet needs to take care where to put it in and which other traits you cannot take when chosing this one to not make it sacrifice important other stuff

Another annoying thing is this minor trait:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Virtue_of_Retribution
“Gain retaliation when you activate a virtue. Retaliation you apply lasts longer. "

it is just bad that you cant use that full traitline for support in PvE fracs because you are forced to go with that minor trait when wanting to use this traitline

Necros dont need shovels! they use magic

but yeh it was a pretty annoying change though

movement on ele didnt feel fluid anymore for such a long time before i got somewhat used to the change
I also dont think there were any serious glitches with RTL in PvP/WvW

It was just druid because he could basically leap very far with gs and then have another leap skill while already being far in the air

Mido.4920:

The problem with Tempest isnt that it was nerfed. Its how it was nerfed.
They took away the fun of having a smooth and fluid dps rotation.
Instead of messing with the cooldowns they should have reduced staff fire dmg by 10% or decreased Lava Font’s duration.

So yeah, Tempest is still a good choice for a Raid Team but many Tempest players already stated that they dont want to play Tempest anymore since the fun of it was ruined.

This so much!

Anet should has killed a lot of utility for ele too with the nerf to cooldown reductions

And the damage rotation is just bad too now… not being able to cast Warhorn Air 5 before another overload etc…
…just feels bad when having to use autoattack so much more often than before

I would have had no problem with more direct dmg nerfs (5-10%?) on some skills but messing with cooldowns was just a bad way of dealing with Ele damage… :/

I hope anet rethinks that nerf and adjusts it so the dmg nerf is the same but cooldowns and utility dont get messed up

I also think the Tempest Healskill should still have 100% of the old heal value for the Ele himself while having reduced heal for all allies!
a 4k heal at lvl 80 is just not enough sustain for Ele

ele has been nerfed in traits and skills

what was the reason to remove the cleric amulett then?
has been no problem for almost 4 years

you not complaining about the fact that he just gave himself full hellfire armor on real servers even though he has less than 900ap?

(PS: i dont mind it xD)

Keys should just go into the wallet
That would be the best solution

Anet should have done that change long time ago
Having to carry around 5 different keys at all times is just so annoying … and the need to have those 5 slots reserved on every character that you ever plan to use in any of those maps

catch them with CC walls like Hammer 5 Ring from guardian

If you cant hit your direct cc make them run or dodge into the CC themselves

that one second that they get knocked back from the wall has to be used to burst and if you can CC more

Sartharina.3542:

Orangensaft.7139:

you need to have

Chest
Pants
Boots

everything you can disable by option anyway can be unequipped too
They just dont want people to run around without armor

But why not?

too many human females in underwear destroy immersion ?

you need to have

Chest
Pants
Boots

everything you can disable by option anyway can be unequipped too
They just dont want people to run around without armor

give the infinite salvage tools an option to set them to:
- dont salvage any ugprades -

that would be awesome

because any sane person that would want to salvage an expensive upgrade would only ever use the black lion salvage kit
for everything else the upgrades you salvage feel like 100% useless junk to 50% of the community… (and 100% of people that i know)
any efficient playing person is more annoyed of those salvaged upgrades than happy about those few coppers that are by far not worth the annoyance in my opinion

You can always go to the Players Helping Players forum ans ask for help in GW1

i have seen several posts where multiple people where always willing to give a lot of helpful advice or offer their help directly ingame
Many others offered to give away minipets and other stuff to help people with their HoMs

just ask nicely and be willing to invest a bit into GW1 and you can easily reach 30 HoM points (without tons of grinding or massive gw1 knowledge needed)

You forgot Destroyer Scythe, Primitive Pike and Primitive Pillar

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Destroyer_Scythe
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Primitive_Pike_
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Primitive_Pillar_

My Solution Idea:

Anet should just give us a reward track that rewards 1 PvP-Legacy-Token in the end reward chest
And then add a merchant that offers 1 out of ALL of these skins for exactly 1 of those new tokens

no need to come up with tons of different reward tracks or add many different skins to many different merchants or boxes…
(Although you really had good ideas where to add the currently unavailable armors/weapon where they would fit^^)
Everythign would be easily understandable and easy to manage like this

Thats a perfect solution without much work needed …
just change the current PvP Legacy Reward Track to give that token in the end instead of the Legacy Chest and then implement that new merchant (maybe where the Bank & TP used to be previously)
Everyone is happy and it wouldn’t be much work for Anet i think

ele or mesmer i guess

Ele with the tons of defensive traits combined is very hard to kill and has a lot of healing

Primitive Pike and Destroyer Scythe are also still unavailable…

they should have just included all those other old PvP only skins in the reward track…

and now the big mass of players that cried for tribal armor is silenced so they will probably not do anything for ages (or ever again…)
:/

Looks like the usually unaccessible north of Dry Top
But actually before it was changed to be just a giant flat area

Zedek.8932:

FF14 on a controller is terrible. I don’t know how people play that way. So awkward.

i can confirm

i tried both (even tried FF on console first) and the PC controls just feel 100x easier to handle and more precise
Not even considering the fact that you can switch to stuff like Teamspeak or your browser easily and manage that or look up stuff like guides on fanwebsites / wiki and switch between game and website all the time without taking longer than 1 second everytime you switch
Inventory management is also the HORROR to me on consoles
not being able to draw and drop stuff super quickly … i hate that

but still i would have no problem with Gw2 coming out on consoles or getting controller support on PC

I just think if it comes out on consoles it MUST have its own servers
because console players would get rekt in pvp
(just alone teleport skills get aimed and used in a split second on PC which is not possible that fast on controller)
They would drag down other players in PvE groups too probably

And i think it woul djust make their own game experience worse if every PC player is better than them… therfor separated servers needed in my opinion

Brother Belial with trollpost and Belial falling for it?

must be same guy with 2 accounts

they should add stuff like

- T6 mats
- Obsidian Shards
- 1g per Ticket
- Ascended Armor/Weapon chests (for something between 50-100 tickets each?)
- Ascended Trinkets (for 20-40 Tickets each?)
- PvP Arena Tokens
- Unidentified Dyes

similar stuff to Laurel merchant would be nice i guess

the limit also shouldnt apply if both people are in the same group as often group members send food & slaying potions to their other members when doing dungeons etc…

fashion is personal opinion

but i really agree on making backpieces dyeable!

At least make the backpieces dyeable where Anet already has the exact same skin with dye channels for Glider (for example the Butterfly Glider/Backpiece combo)

the option to dye the glider is just 99% useless if we cant match it to our backpiece Anet :/

Anet should just reduce PvP-GM time but make it only count while in the matches

you checked if you have the option to disabled ground target rings disabled?

yes pls change

bump

The trait is still bugged :/
Glyph of Elemental Harmony still has 25 seconds cooldown when you take the “Inscription” trait in Air Traitline
Same for Glyph of Elemental Power – it doesnt get reduced cooldown with the trait

Just filed an ingame report too (but forgot to add there that Glyph of Elemental Power is bugged too)

Just wanted to know if the devs at least took notice of this bug?

The Glyph of Renewal bug with the ((697125)) showing in the description is gone

Tregs.1598:

Orangensaft.7139:

Yeh show anet how to fix it all so we cant have fun with it anymore…

Guys like you need to find VJs instead of crying. If you cant, go back to farming and collecting your trinkets. For us, we have countless stories of having to keep up with silent patches you all never see in release notes as we deal with it without crying.

what are you talking about??

what does having farming and collecting trinkets got to do with anything of this??

Look my point is this:

1)
half of the fun in map glitching is finding the glitches yourself and the fun challenge of “beating” the devs and knowing that you yourself have achieved the breakout

i think you guys should just shows a video where you teach techniques of map glitching (relog bug or jumping to kitten in the map or with teleport skills etc) with 1 example each maybe
Then people could go out to all the maps and have fun with that newfound knowledge and search for more

2)
By just showing everyone how it works without showing the glitchspots directly they cant still have that fun in searching and finding them and you make sure Anet doesnt fix them so easily
I know anet usually doesnt take map glitches too serious as long as they dont lead to critical exploits but i still think its not that intelligent to shove a video of all the glitches right to their face

yes pls

or give us an option to make the infinite salvage tools get a chance of 0% to salvage upgrades

if there is an important upgrade to salvage any sane person would never use anything else but black lion salvage kit
on the infinite salvage kits though this is nothing but annoyance (and everyone i asked personally agrees on this)

Yeh show anet how to fix it all so we cant have fun with it anymore…

Can you vote 1x for english and 1x for german? (and 1x for french and spanish too)

Or only once for only one of those languages per account?

Can you vote 1x for english and 1x for german? (and 1x for french and spanish too)

Or only once for only one of those languages per account?

wait im seriously confused:

Patchnotes:
“The spawn locations for the three teams have been moved farther apart. This was done to reduce kill trading and spawn camping.”

but they removed invulnerability at the spawn points AND made them accessible for enemies too
this actually makes spawn camping much more possible than it was before…
which was what they wanted to stop ??
….this change just makes no sense at all
enemies can now just stand on the enemy platforms (you can easily reach them with leap skills) and spam AoE if they want
…and anyone who is respawning will not be invulnerable at the Waypoint as far as i see?

marking as junk doesnt help during dungeons/fractal runs where you dont have access to a merchant all the time

your inventory still gets overfilled with them

the only solution is to add an option to NOT salvage the upgrades on the infinite salvage kits
(or maybe a merchant that exchange the infinite kit that you have for a version that is the same just without saving upgrades)

in fractals tier 4 it is pretty normal to get 1 or 2 shotted depending on which attack is hitting you

You really need to dodge the 1 shot attacks and have good group synergy where you share heals (for Ele definitly use Tempest heal!) and rez allies quick or target and kill a low health enemy so that the downed group member can rally

Things like blinding bigger groups of normal enemies can be essential too
(Glyph of Storms on Earth is very useful here! – and when you dont need the blind you use it on Air for the dmg + vulnerability)

Just try to learn the animations of every boss and remember to use the skills i said above …. the rest depends on your group and not on you

usually it is not cheaper

but some collections offer you bonus items like the new chuka and chumpawat shortbow offers you the option to get tiger cub holding onto your back that you can switch on and off

this shows how bad the situation is… someone asking if a macro for deleting those is allowed

Anet please just give us an option already to remove the chance of salvage kits to salvage upgrades… or maybe a merchant that exchanges the normal infinite salvage kits to a version that has 0% chance of salvaging upgrades
most people i know never want the upgrades to be salvaged unless it is an exotic rune/sigil but then they would use the Black Lion Salvage Kit anyway where the chance is 100%

and anet even buffed the chance to salvage runes /sigils on the infinite salvage kits…
very annoying and probably only 5% of the playerbase actually enjoy getting minor/major runes that are worth so little

And dont tell me even the tiny things make profit…
People bought the infinite tools for convenience! And then the convenience is taken away by being forced to delete tons of worthless minor/major sigils and runes
People already gave away 800 gems for the salvage kits so they cant tell me they wanted it for profit …. because then they would have never spent 800 gems on it when being able to get the same results with the normal 25 use kits
They want convenience and the convenience is ruined by those lower tier runes/sigils

a change for this would be really nice

edit: EdgarMTanaka.7291, your idea to go to GH and back just to sell worthless junk upgrades that shouldnt be filling your inventory in the first place is a bad solution to the problem in my opinion…
it even takes more time to load to GH and back to your zone for most people than just deleting all sigils/runes manually quick
Not even considering the fact that you cant do that while in an instance…

when you have your weapon drawn it gets very shiny i think

When using the Elementalist trait “Inscription” to reduce cooldowns of all glyphs
this has no effect on the Heal Skill Glyph “Glyph of Elemental Harmony”
and on the Glyph Skill “Glyph of Elemental Power”

All glyphs will still gain the effects of extra boons according to the Attunement you have but it wont give the 20% reduced cooldown that this trait used to give to all glyphs

Another bug with Elementalist glyphs is that “Glyph of Renewal” just shows the numbers " ((697125)) " as decription when attuned to Water

need something like this for PvP area too

crashes are happening everywhere in the game atm it seems …
from own experience and guildchat i know it happened in:

HoT meta maps, WvW, Fractals, Raid

i guess it could be done … except that all hero point challenges wouldnt reset or you would lose those hero points … which you do not want i guess :P

Ranger is nice for open world content and when playing solo

just for effective dungeon runs ranger doesnt have a top spot in the meta
if you just plan on playing casually you will be fine with ranger too
and if properly equipped and properly played the damage difference to other classes is not big
(you can check the builds metabattle.com for the current suggested top builds for your class and the game part you want to play in (PvE / PvP / WvW and more specific places within these)

Elementalist is my personal favorite for PvE
in open world it can destroy hordes of enemies easily with the strong AoE dmg that it has access to
Elementalist also deals the highest possible damage to big targets with a large hitbox where every hit from skills like Meteorshower, Icebow 4, Lightning Storm, etc. hits
I have to say that i too didnt like Elementalist at first and i sticked to playing Warrior as a main for a long time before starting to like Ele… once you get used to the Attunement swapping and know exactly what which skill does it is a really nice class though

Anyway.. unless you really want to go for the 100% best setup and have optimal dungeon / fractal runs etc it doesnt really matter which class you chose so just chose what you like playing the most
And remember you can start playing another class at any time if you feel like it

Full ascended nomad thief perma dodge

High stealth uptime + stealthregen can be “good” too
But dodging is probably more fun and you can actually contest points with it and be a bit useful

Once the enemy just ignores you These builds have no use though… Trolling only works if the enemy players want to kill you

Not too much skill needed either but i recommend not flaming when already running such a cheesy build