Seriously, the hate towards classes like Rangers (my main), Engies and Necros (currently at lvl70) is getting out of hand. I seriously love the concept of the later 2 classes and want to fully gear them for dungeons and fractals, but the hate they get is terrible and even their usefulness is very questionable compared to the other ones. Please tell me we can expect something on feb 26th
I do not know if it is this month, but in the State of the game stream, they mentioned during the “We are going to be nerfing the D/D Ele” segment, that they are currently working on Engi’s, so got my fingers crossed.
i agree. just like the warrior, the discription of the warrior is that they rely on heavy armor, power and SPEED. well the only way to passive movement speed is a 10% speed boost when holding melee weapons… ugh.
You forgot perma swiftness warriors. Either spec for it, or spec for massive damage. Either way, you are not missing out.
Dual dagger. Get the 10% from air. Then the one that can give you up to 25% in air. Then the 15% in arcane for having a dagger equipped, then the 10% passive from signet of air. And then have a dagger offhand for ride the lightning and updraft (updraft gives swiftness. However it rolls you away from the direction you are facing, OR your targeted enemy/neutral, you can use things like bunnies to roll you in the right direction, or bind a key to about face, while running press it, then 5 then press it again and voila, you’re running in swiftness without having to roll the wrong way)+
You obviously do not play an Ele, one, the 15% windborne dagger trait is broken. 2 None of them stack. And fastest class is Thief 50% movement speed in stealth.
2 in somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,960 hours open world exo drops. Got one around 400 hrs and one around 1,200 hrs. Hopefully I’ll get another in next 140 hrs.
I find it hard that someone who has at least 1900 hours in game would only have got 2 exotics, ever.
I have almost 600 hours played and have never had an exotic drop. Only exotics ive ever gotten was from dungeon token vendor or karma vendors. However pre-november 15 patch I could do events and leave with my bag full of rares, now I rarely even get a rare.
Bad thing about fraps is it makes several files @3.9g each. Wish it could record in .mp4 format so the files wouldn’t be so large.
Its good if you have a large harddrive. Then just use a program to compress, windows movie maker works fine. Then delete original. A lil more work but good quality.
Yea when I fraps I use movie maker to edit / put together then I convert it to mp4 / 1080p with Adobie Media Manager
This has been there since Beta, I thought it was malicious software too, however some quick searches shows that several gaming companies with Micro-Transaction based systems also use this.
In the end you should be fine. Best of Luck.
Also, this game takes more CPU power, maybe your lagging because of it?
On my laptop I ran high settings during all betas (max). Then they “Optimized” the game and now I have to run everything on Low. Not to mention I was getting real fps issues but my graphics card was barely being used. Turned out my laptop processor was throttling. So I got a program to stop the throttling, and have been running much better in all games.
I posted this elsewhere but will re-post for others to see…
I don’t think you all understand. With loot tables you have a % chance to get a grey – orange. First you get rng for level of item, then also have rng for quality on an item.
Now when killing a champion you have this effect, : Kill champion, RNG Item Level, RNG Blue – Orange (exotic). So now you have a better chance to get a green, yellow, or orange based on the fact that grey and white items are taken away from the table, if not the quality is GUARANTEED to be at least Blue, which sells for a heck of a lot more than a grey or white.
Why don’t you change your build when you go to farm Orr events? I don’t know if necromancers have high burst builds, but…
Sadly, necros don’t have any burst weapons.
BTW, a full set of exotic armor, weapons and trinkets to match the build will run about 50G, which a few more than a few silver. I just speced out and built a MF set.
twin daggers? those things hit pretty hard in power builds.
Noticing a trend on Caster classes and Melee Dagger / Dagger setups being more powerful than ranged in GW2. Maybe that why everyone complains about Thief and Ele. Heck even mesmer sword has that invuln on skill 2. Melee seems rather powerful on all classes. Hope they don’t mess with it too much and rather improve on all aspects of it.
I don’t think you all understand. With loot tables you have a % chance to get a grey – orange. First you get rng for level of item, then also have rng for quality on an item.
Now when killing a champion you have this effect, : Kill champion, RNG Item Level, RNG Blue – Orange (exotic). So now you have a better chance to get a green, yellow, or orange based on the fact that grey and white items are taken away from the table, if not the quality is GUARANTEED to be at least Blue, which sells for a heck of a lot more than a grey or white.
See! And everyone said we were crazy… Conspiracy theorists they called us, well we just happened to be right… Area 51, you’re next! Lol.
Also, they damage % that needs to be dealt to get loot is approximately 10%. I wasn’t receiving loot credit for Tower Lords in WvW but was getting exp credit. Someone then told me I needed to do atleast 10% damage to get loot. So I switched from doing Condition Damage to Raw Damage (mixed build). Sure enough I started receiving some whites from them. Not always, but quite a bit of the time.
At this news I may start playing again come March.
Gold is farmed by CoF path 1 ad nauseum or ori nodes farming(?).
Why can’t I just play the game and be rewarded? I wanna just play WvW, and maybe get 1g (selling junk from bags) after an hour of playing, and not worry about trying to maximize my bags by tagging as many people as possible in zergs. The issue here is with tagging in WvW probably. And TP inflation.
I’m rambling. This isn’t the first time I’m revolted by the game because of the grindiness / economy.
I want to do one simple thing. Get some alternative stats gear to try out a build. I don’t think I want to grind 50g (exotic armor/runes) to get the pieces from the TP to try out a build.
I know where you are coming from Frega, however, others on these forums who are oh so lucky to get exotic drops all the time to sell do not realize that WvW players are lucky ever to see an exotic. Over 500 hours played and I’ve yet to see one drop in-game or through a chest. All exotics I’ve obtained are either dungeon token or karma based.
Even if they’d up the Badges of Honor dropped by players would be an improvement and add some more Variety to the Invasion armor to include different stats than PVT.*
No one wants to do the Jump Puzzles for badges. Sad when you get Badges of HONOR for jumping over rocks. But not for Killing Enemies and SAVING Friendlies.
So all in all,
Add More Badges for Killing Enemies and more variety to the items you can get from the Badges.
That way WvW gold can be used to Upgrade and buy siege equipment.
Seems to me that the AOE nerf is MAINLY for the Ele class. Why Anet?
When Anet put in treadmill progression into this game (ascended gears) I was rather disappointed and stopped playing for quite a while. I don’t do dungeons but who doesn’t want their characters to have the best gears?
Then my friend invited me to join him in WvW and ever since, I have been logging in everyday for hours. And I started to spend money on gems again.
Just a few days ago, I read news of Anet is going to nerf Ele AGAIN, I have stopped playing since. I shall wait and see before I decide to pick up GW2 again or move on to upcoming MMOs.
I am tired of being hit by the nerf bat. Again and again. Really.
They claim it is because everyone is complaining about the Ele… What about the freaking THIEF… This class has been sooo overpowered since Release, yet Ele gets nerfed more and more into the ground… The devs must main thief / warrior / mesmers. Maybe they have a secret sPvP team, cause the AoE complaint came from sPvP.
I would just like something nice to drop in the first instance. To date I have levelled to 80 and completed map 100% and still not had anything of real value drop for me. I have even spent hours in Orr and the Karka Island and still nothing, (how the hell are you supposed to get legendary pre-cursors)
I must be the most unlucky player around.
:) Don’t feel bad i’ve never seen an exotic drop or from a chest. All mine are from dungeon tokens / karma. 3 Day headstart and Beta
The game is mostly done solo. The only grouping you’ll do is in dungeons and even then, it’s very shallow because of the lack of distinct roles and the poorly designed skill system. The personal story is pretty much solo as well, no group missions like in GW1. Grouping is pretty much a novelty feature in this game. So yeah, mostly alone. When you do manage to find other people in the open world, though, they’ll just zerg the closest event with you and then run away. Not much to it, it’s the most impersonal and shallow experience i’ve ever had in MMO gaming.
Actually, if you wish to go to a higher level zone on a lower character, say 10 levels higher, if you group / party with them, it will increase your chances of getting exp / better loot due to Risk vs Reward factor. I’m not completely sure how this works now since the 11/15 patch, but prior to that, I could join a guild mate or 2 who were 10 levels higher, do the events and leave with bags full of rares only. Now of course I can only dream about 1 or 2 rares a night.
400+ Hours played, never seen an Exotic drop, not even from a chest. Still got my fingers crossed though.
I noticed a large difference. I run typical dungeon build on my ele. Used to go back to charr lands to feel overpowered while waiting for an AC grp. Now I find the xmall events much harder for my char. I actually find orr easier than a level 1 – 15 zone… Funny eh :/
Because we had about 10 people spread out in the 1 area… And he literally just dropped out of combat and vanished. I explain most of this in previous posts.
What is driving me nuts is I have seen about two dozen of those chests and they seem to have the exact same crap as the bags. I really don’t need any more spikes. Come to think of it I haven’t hit an orange since the patch and only 6 or so yellows. I have also been on a server running the out manned buff which I think should create better drops.
Try never have gotten an orange to drop, wvw, pve, dungeons, or fractals. Tis sad indeed.
Honestly, it’s not that bad once you get the hang of WvW. I always log out with more coin than I logged in with after repairs nowadays. It takes some time to get familiar with things but once you do it won’t seem so bad. Pinky promise!
Ditto to this. I used to run a 0 10 0 30 30 build as an ele, way back when… Before daphoenix put a lot of Ele’s to shame. Yet I still died over and over and over, losing all my money really.
Now I am wearing all Yellow items, Full Berserker Gear, with 10k base health and making roughly 75s – 1.5g, depending on the night and how many players / enemies there are.
I however am on the server where we don’t have large numbers and always Outmanned, so we fight zergs, which sometimes works in our favor until it because 20 to 1 odds.
No hacks. Check thieves you fight for the infiltration buff, if you see it, know that while it’s up, they can teleport up to 1200 feet away instantly, behind a rock, or a tree, even to different elevations. And they don’t even have to stealth if you have no idea where they initially dropped the teleport point.
I am aware of this as well. I only came to forums to see if others where having the same issues, or at the least noticing it. As my server has been facing the same 2 other servers for almost a month now, you start to notice certain tags / players doing things repeatedly, that is not explainable through in-game skills.
Guess I’ll just ignore it and hope they find a way to secure their clients better. Maybe a checksum / fail-safe to make sure the client is not modified upon login.
[cut]combat mode is only broken by putting distance between you and your enemy.[cut]
this is not completely true.
Combat also ends when the target is defeated.
So if this Über-thief pops out of stealth kills 2-3 opponents, finishes them before everyone can react and hit him, after the third stomp he will be out of combat and can use waypoint.
Obviously this thread is based upon ignorance of a bad player that instead of learn mechanics prefers to ask for nerf.
@Lamefox and Daendur, first of all, I am far from ignorant when it comes to the games mechanics. I and several others have witnessed downing someone by 1 keep they disappear while under conditions and re-appear in lord room of a different keep that our allies happen to be seiging. Second, I know thieves have some “teleport” skills, i.e. Shortbow 5, but, nothing that lets them completely teleport off map / screen. If the players were Rage quitting the new system would automatically kill them. However, when you have several people swarming a thief since they are the last alive, and all the sudden vanishes mid-immobilize / stealths and everyone attacking / aoeing the area of the Shadows Refuge. Not to mention I save my Knockbacks for these situations. Albeit, it doesn’t work when they are immobilized.
Teleport hacking is a MAJOR problem in this game. I have recorded several proof videos and sent to exploits@arena.net or w/e it is. Saved in my email.
I have even posted vids on here, but have been infracted for them and having them removed due to “Character Assassination”. Teleport hacks are and continue to be a real problem. If you are unaware of that, then obviously you do not pay attention.
I just wish they made badges drop more frequently. I play WvW for hours at a time and come out usually with 6 – 10 badges at the end of it. Most kills = no loot bag at all. So almost at 250 badges, still not enough for 1 piece of exotic armor. /sigh
I have been noticing this a lot more as of late… A full glass cannon thief will come out, kill 2 – 3 people super fast, stealth and then Waypoint out for safety.
Can we get some sort of No using Waypoint while in combat and/or while stealthed fix… I know we cannot just roll in, unload all we have on 1 – 3 players and then port out because we are “in combat”. Why then should a thief or anyone with stealth be able to?
It is a risk free situation for them when stealth breaks combat and they start their regeneration process. Please make them unable to waypoint out in the middle of a battle.
Sincerely, players everywhere… (This trend appeared, im guessing, due to culling being somewhat fixed).
Edit: As some have pointed out, just stealthing does not remove combat, thus leaving me to the impression that these players are using the same hacks / teleport mods that the bots and sPvP teleporters are using.
15% of those people find it fun because they can convert their in-game gold to Gems and buy special stuff for their characters without spending real money. I however, cannot make gold for the life of me. Lol
When I logged in today, the game was, well, blurry. Like a video shot slight off focus. Which resulted in a headache after 5 min online. It doesn’t seem to be there on “best performance”(but…can’t be sure, was already feeling sick when I checked it), but, frankly, the game looks horrible like that and I want my fluff. Is there a particular tab in the options that’d focus it better?
Check in graphic options for Render Sampling, if set to Subsample set it to Native. That should fix the problem.
It is a grind for those of us who have a Permanent Diminishing Return. Some accounts are bugged. Just like I did not receive WvW Bonuses until about 3 weeks – 1 month ago. The DR system has bugged out on some people, causing their drops to be, needless to say, worthless at all times. We are lucky to get 1 or 2 yellows in a day, and have never even seen an Exotic drop, besides for group mates. It makes gathering gold quite horrible, and one of the only ways to make money is by farming material nodes all around the world or WvW. Heck I make more gold in WvW than anything because permanent DR.
Well logged in this morning and Claw of Jormag part 1 was going on… SO i decided to drop in and do Jormag. Well, event over, everyone linking all the yellows and stuff they got. I got all blue green and trash. Yet again, discouraged to keep playing this game. Getting so kitten tired of this kitten. SOOOOOO TIRED ANET, FIX IT PLEASE….. Permanent DR is ridiculous and unfair. I haven’t played in days because of work, and first event I do I get crap? UGH!
EDIT: Ran FoTM with full explorer + Explorerer accessories / trinkets / backpiece, 5 pirate runes (50% MF) 1 Noble Rune (10% MF), omnom bar (40% MF) and MF booster from Gem Store (50% MF), Plus Superior sigil of luck, 25 stacks. Same story, greens and blues (except 1 yellow in very beginning), including chests. (I know chests aren’t affected by MF). Around 200% MF seems to have made no difference, while all my group mates were getting yellow rares from all the chests. I got one. It was called “Shield” that’s all, nothing else, just “Shield”. Still think I have perma DR.
Prior to the 11/15 patch, I could take a level 45 char into Sparkfly or any zone around 10 levels higher, and the Reward was so worth the risk of dieing. I could do the Risen attack village followed by Griffon quest (dont remember zone) and as long as I did enough damage, I would get tons of Rares because the game was designed to offer Reward for greater risks. However, back in the first month, rares only sold for merchant value, unlike now. And after all the bots / DR to help stop botting, drops for me = 1 yellow in maybe 3 – 4 days play time. Never have I seen an exotic, even tried running high Magic Find. Going to try again as soon as I can make enough money for a Masterwork MF set. Which may take another week of gameplay.
hahahaha even letting 7 year old kids in to MMO’s like GW2 wow etc…
Bad times ppl, bad times
I started MMO’s when I was 7… Diablo 1, then Ultima Online when I was 8 also with Everquest. And I might add it taught me quite a bit about math, reading (story lines / quest) and how immature adults are
On topic: Any game can be learned, but your granddaughter may need help and time to understand the concepts of combat and travel in this game.
I honestly dont understand why the Deployable Turrent Trait is still broken… It works in PvP, someone at ANet Please COPY AND REPLACE the PvE code with the PvP code…
Played since BWE1, just recently started getting the WvWvW Bonuses, never seen an Exotic drop. Get loot from normal mobs my level about 1 in 15 kills. Always junk. Rarely get loot from champions or vets, when I do it is crap Trophy / White / Blue. Went on several dungeon runs, all my grp mates got Rares / Exotics from chests. I got White / Blue / 1 or 2 Green. Went into fractals even though I have been avoiding it. Recieved 1 green, all blues. While groupmates got rares and exotics again. They were not running MF and this was from chests, so MF doesn’t effect it.
I feel like my account is flagged for Permanent DR. As everything I try to farm = low loot / low gold. Taken me a week to farm about 6 – 8g playing hours a day now.
Tried getting MF gear, but it made no difference and only gimped my character. Leveling my 3rd char now, and finding the same situation.
To the Thief on Darkhaven [Abys] Tags, god I wish it showed names of enemy players. Next time I run into him I will report him. But teleporting is not cool and you shouldn’t use hacks. Downed you by HoD Overlook, and you teleport to AP Tower Lord room while my server was taking it.
Was dumbfounded that you just disappeared while downed so i continued attacking that spot, but u never re-appeared. I run over to AP and there you are, dead in Lord room. Then I see you again by bridge at AP, attack you and poof, you teleport away to god knows where. When I see your guild tags, I will be sure to Screenshot it or Fraps it. Until then… Lets keep the hacks to a minimum.
To the rest of Darkhaven, thanks for making these last 2 weeks a challenge! It’s been real fun.
Until you get a screenshot do you mind not falsely accusing my guild/people on the forums?
Lets continue to keep it clean.
Thanks,
Leone Di Cieli
Commander and Guild Leader of Seventh Abyss [Abys] / Everlasting Abyss [Abys]
P.S.
I don’t recruit or invite hackers in the guild and they will be kicked for improper activities upon proof of evidence. I have zero tolerance for that kind of game play.
^_^ I understand your sentiment, and as I said, when I see the player again I will report him. I was infracted for my post, although I did not put the “ForumName.1234” on it.
At first I thought I was going crazy. But after it happened again I was sure. Even a few others who were there with me were like WTF? He just disappeared. I was told to Report him, but alas, you cannot select “Defeated” players. Otherwise I would have reported then. All I know is it was an Asuran Thief, and if I happen to run into them again, I will Fraps it. The rest of your Guild I find to be a great and fun fight.
Mesmers are sneaky.
This is the best explanation I can offer.
iBerserker attacks pretty quick, and often gets shattered right afterwards. It’s possible this happens before it renders.
It is not uncommon for me, if I see a battle going on nearby that I don’t really intend to participate fully in, that I will launch a phantasm and then continue on my way.
That was one of my thoughts too. Maybe culling has an effect on it, There was quite a few enemies just appearing on my screen, It is possible the mesmer / phantasm both had not come out of culling.
On a serious note, isn’t Imagined Burden a monster only skill? You’re probably talking about Phantasmal Berserker I’m guessing. I haven’t noticed any issues with them being invisible… either ones I cast or those that hit me.
Imagined Burden is the skill the Phantasmal Beserker uses, which I put in my OP. However, everytime I am hit with it, there is never a mesmer clone / berserker around me. This last time only a warrior was chasing me when I was instantly downed. I check combat log and Imagined burden 3x @ 2100 damage each. (50% of my life)
Only a WvW player would understand “kittenING THIEF! RUNNING LIKE A LITTLE kitten!”
Love it…
Only a WvW Glass Cannon Elementalist knows the glee at the expense of a Glass Cannon Warrior who tries to Snipe them when they hit Earth 3 (staff) Magnetic Aura.
/laugh at Warrior who 1 shotted themself.
Constantly hit with this on walls and in field, no Mesmer clones around / visible. Is it just me or are Phantasmal Berserkers bugged and invisible. Everytime I am hit by this, no Mesmer’s are around me.
Been this way as long as i can remember… Just went into the mists to test it out. It applied once every like 5 mins. Something definitely not right with it.
Really all about preference… Try them out, find one you like and stick with it. If you get bored, try another. I level an Ele from 1 – 80, played sPvP, WvW and logged quite a bit of time on him. Finally rolled an alt (Warrior) just hit 80 and bought all Rare / Masterwork gear, been running around as glass cannon in WvW picking off targets with my rifle. Quite a bit of fun. Again, to level I was defense / shout specced, really made things easy, but lacked the damage i wanted. Best of luck to ya!
