I love how in Orr people yell at you to INTERRUPT the Champion Wrath during life siphon, but it cannot be interrupted during its life drain due to 29 stacks of Defiance… Then they yell at everyone saying NOOBS LEARN TO INTERRUPT. GG Anet, you made an AoE Life Stealing Champion who downs everyone during this channel unless the mob is being interrupted by 30 people at once. Same as the Champion Lich in Sparkfly Fen.
1.) I find it cheaper to put rares than exotics, especially if you do your own crafting.
2.) If there ever was an overall profit to be made from forging, the profit would be long gone or miniscule.
I always use this saying
“The successes of the few are paid for by the failures of the many”
As evident in my sig, you can see that my successes have been subsidized by the failures of many
I officially hate you… Lol. I have played since headstart and the most expensive drop I have ever gotten was worth 1g. I currently have 2g to my name. And I can count all the exotics I have gotten as drops in almost 2 years, P.S. It is under 20.
This proves to me that some accounts have INCREDIBLE LUCK compared to others.
First great was WoW? I played Wow for 6-7 years, saw several guilds born and die. I still wouldn’t call it anything more than the right game at the right time. Here are several others that are at least as good if not better than WoW:
1) Meridian and Ultima – both set the framework for all MMOs to come
2) Everquest – Set the bar for an expansive world and raiding content – my personal favorite MMO. Who can forget Corpse runs in places like LGuk or Plane of Fear, hoping you get there in time to loot your stuff
3) DAoC – First to bring real realm war via RvR – my personal second favorite. Biggest rush ws some of the first nights we went out in Emain and had three way battles where everyone was still noobs
4) SWG – great sandbox till they ruined it, loved the gathering aspect of it (especially mining)
5) CoH – great game
In my mind, all of these were at least as good or better than WoW (except Meridian, never played it so can’t speak for it). WoW built on the best of several of these, just like any other game does. GW2 has built a solid framework, they made WvWvW work better than WHOL
1-UO
2-EQ
3-DAoC
4-Shadowbane (Great sandbox- worked skills up, player built/run cities and merchants, destroyable cities, war system, etc… Ruined by No China IP blocking so most wars were Stacked and at odd hours of the night if NA.)
5-WoW
6-CoH/V
7+- Everything else
The new champions in the Living Story and a few other zones use a large Orange Telegraph… This is AMAZING.
As I was running around Orr fighting champions, with all the effects going off, I couldn’t even see the boss… let alone any telegraphs. This made dodging the instant kill mechanics HORRIBLE. No one can see what the boss is doing, let alone see any telegraphs.
Why when mesmers instantly down you from full life to 0 (over 15k damage) It shows up in combat log as PROXIMITY ANGUISH for damage around 3 – 15 damage.
So far a sword and a shield. I did some more testing and realize it’s user error. I was unaware that I have to be extremely close to my target, like almost on top of them lol. I also realized that if I hit the “1” key, they auto-attack will not trigger. I figuring it out now.
Hitting 1 should start you attacking, thus starting the auto attack chain. Make sure there is a Yellow outline around your skill (meaning auto use during combat). If there isn’t you can hold Control and Left Click the skill to target auto-cast during combat. This works for any skill. Even heals and shouts when not in combat, etc. Good luck!
Well there was a big downturn in EU revenue 1st quarter. Maybe they decided to bolster the EU ranks.
Well gamescom is Aug 13-17 and Pax Prime is Aug 29-Sep 1. Now Pax Prime is in there backyard so no big costs there but if they are going to gamescom, just maybe there will be an announcement about something interesting?
They are doing a tournament that I know of… NA vs EU vs China, to determine who is the top sPvP players
90% of time those “friendly” Quaggans are scouts for enemy team… But they so adorable, I cannot attack them. Lol… Just nothing threatening about an enemy so bored they run around as a dolyak or quaggan.
I am in the same boat as others here, since head-start have had bad RNG. Went several months with no WvW bonuses due to bugged accounts. Then after months of complaining about Permanent Diminished Returns and ANet calling all of us conspiracy theorists, they finally found an ERROR in their code. Which they said they fixed, however, I still get far less drops than others. Players are always talking about getting 3-5 exotics drops a day… After about a month I just received an exotic drop in WvW. I was soooo excited to see that Orange name popup in my drop list in right side of screen. So I immediately went in to inventory… Level 76 Rampagers Mace, FML and this RNG. At the very least I would like something other than “Truth”, “Guild Defender”, “Trosas’ Shortbow”, “Exterminator”, but alas those are all I really have gotten over almost 2 years of play now.
I’m a level 8 ranger stuck in Rata Sum and I’m wondering which is the easiest way to get to these pets.
Please reply if you know
Look up their locations and go for it. If I can take a level 10 ranger to southsun cove for a salamander, you can take your character to the level 40 zones! GL
The RNG system in Guild Wars 2 has been messed up since release… For example, for a long time my account and several thousand others did not get WvW Bonuses. If I see an exotic I about die because they are so rare to me. I have more fingers and toes than I have seen exotic drops since I started playing during head-start. I know people who get 5-15 exotics a week, and I can play for hours, several times a week, with over 100% magic find, + magic find food, + banners + communal boost, and still not get exotic drops. It is very discouraging to do world events and get all greens while everyone around you is linking Exotics, or worse, Ascended armor/weapon chests. It makes me want to quit all the time, but there is nothing close to GW2 on the market atm, so I stay and play WvW. Even though I get crap, I at least get to kill people and take frustrations out on my enemies. GG Anet.
Meh you win some you lose some, in the off chance I get an exotic drop I get sooooo excited, because as people are linking 2-3 an hour that they are getting as drops, im lucky to get 1 a month. So don’t feel to bad.
I just bumped a thread from April of 2013 in Necro forums, but see this as a better place to put the topic.
Dear ArenaNet, for the good of ALL Necromancers… Some of us would love to play non-condition builds in a melee setting, but you have made Necromancers the ONLY CLASS WITHOUT A CLEAVE! Even if it is just 3 targets, please make our Axe or Dagger a cleave attack. Or allow Necros a New Weapon… Maybe Scythe’s a new melee weapon for Necro.
Dear ArenaNet, I am bumping this thread for the good of ALL Necromancers… Some of us would love to play non-condition builds in a melee setting, but you have made Necromancers the ONLY CLASS WITHOUT A CLEAVE! Even if it is just 3 targets, please make our Axe or Dagger a cleave attack. Or allow Necros a New Weapon… Maybe Scythe’s a new melee weapon for Necro.
Never seen an answer on this, and it just happened to me. Thought this was fixed. Combat log shows Proximity Anguish 5 damage x 3 and instantly lost 15k life. Wtf?
Looks like you are headed toward a bunker power build. You keep dropping the condition damage you will get to a point where you don’t have enough damage to kill certain builds other bunkers.
I have no worries against Bunker builds as it is. It is other eles, especially those running Diamond Skin. I just want enough power to break through it and then will be putting points back into Condition Build.
I would say this is a currently a Hybrid Bunker build.
Using Sharpening Stone and Coi Cake my stats are:
Power: 1,418
Condition Damage: 1,371
Health: 17,162
Armour: 2,967
Power and Condition damage get a 100increase each with 5 stacks of Guard Buff. I am kind of tempted to reduce Vitality a bit as i can gain Guard stacks for 2,500extra health. I am hoping that my current Power is enough to break through it. Though i am going to guess that only Bunker/Condition/Hybrid ele will be using it as it is high in the defence line.
With Sigil of Battle i will have at least 210 increase to both Power and Condition damage as well during combat.
That was a good video Ash, I should share with you my Condition build. I like to fight 3v1(very tough) or 2v1 (not so tough) with my condi build anyways nice video!
It was 5… Each meteor that falls had a chance to hit 5 Players each. It was probably nerfed to handle the Tornado + Meteor + Magnetic Aura + Arcane Shield + Armor of Earth in WvW…
Elementalist.::: Is it not supposed to add stacks if I am using a Dagger of Force in mainhand and a Dagger of Bloodlust in offhand? OFFHAND Sigil is Not Working.
On a side note, Please allow the Salvaging of WvWvW Weapons so I can get all my now useless Sigils back…
Pretty much the same build I used as well. I haven’t played in a month myself Gnomez. To busy with work / school / life. Have fun wherever you may go. Only thing keeping me around GW2 is the no monthly fee.
What i would do if i was a dev/Arena.net, i would completely remove all conditions from the classes, except for rangers.
Seriously ,
-what relations between conditions and warriors? Absolutely, None
-what relations between conditions and mesmers? Absolutely, None
-what relations between conditions and guardian? Absolutely, None
-what relations between conditions and engineers? Absolutely, None
-what relations between conditions and thieves? Absolutely, None
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-what relations between conditions and rangers? Survivability
-what relations between conditions and necromancer? Blood Ties
I love how Elementalist is in such a bad state it is not even listed among the professions. Lol
Great now precursor price went up to almost 1k (atleast when it comes to dusk/spark/legend) You just cant afford on buying with gold and keeping up with the price.
With the announcement of account bound legendaries / ascended, I saw this coming… To bad the most gold I have ever had was 50g… Which was given to me! Lol.
With the reduction of champion loot bags, will WvW see some better loot for once? Can we get an increase of Badges of Honor in regular WvW compared to EoTM… The difference is ridiculous.
He actually gets hit by Rush, which is notorious for being buggy as hell, not to mention very telegraphed
At the end, he takes almost three full rotations of the hammer autoattack. That’s a good 4+ seconds of just taking hits to the face without doing a thing
In all of this, the OP only got 3 hits in
That definitely looks like a l2p to me rather than a warrior being OP.
I thought it was obvious that a glass ele with 12k life would be doing nothing during those hammer attacks because he was in downed state. Only took 1 8k earthshaker and 1 4k hammer swing. If armor of earth would actually proc at 50% life, but it doesn’t. Also even without the stun, that is a ton of damage for a weapon that was “nerfed”. The point of the post was to show a defensively built warrior was doing more damage with a support weapon than the “elite” of the elementalist.
Anyways tomorrow is my last day at ANet so you won’t be seeing this face on the forums any longer. Hopefully this forum visibility helped ease you guys over. Sorry for all the issues we never got around to I did my best to get as many bugs cleared in the last few months as possible.
~see you in game!
Soon there will be none of the original team left… If sales are doing good, why do they keep getting rid of the people who are at least trying to represent ANet and keep customers informed here on the forums.
I’ve done a lot of personal testing between a guildie’s warrior and my ele in sPvP. We mostly make our builds as similar as possible to the builds we use in WvW but I usually love to build my eles as various hybrid builds, as eles hit like a wet blanket when full or near full bunker and glass just folds over in like 2 hits… My guildie also built his warrior as a hybrid but more on the DPS side using hammer/GS whereas I made a more offensive 0/15/10/15/30 D/D build for my ele. The result of many of these fights wound up being ties, though not to discredit my guildie, as he does play a great warrior, in some instances I was able to get great bursts on him that could get him down to maybe 25% health at times, though in order to sustain my damage to keep him from healing it back with his heal signet, I’d have to stick around in melee range auto attacking (which is only fairly effective in air attune, and even then doesn’t impact warriors that much unless it crits) until my burst skills got off CD again (in which most of us know ele weapon skill CDs on their biggest burst skills are just so long!) 90% of the time I can’t keep that pressure up because I’m so busy trying to avoid the retaliation of hammer stuns, and usually if I got caught in a full hammer chain, I’d be down to about 25% to 40% health from around full health so staying in melee range would be detrimental so I would be forced to kite and read his attacks. Unfortunately by the time I feel the hammer stun chain is over, he’s already recovered his HP back to about 60 to 75% health so I’d have to setup another perfect chain burst, which is too far and between for eles. I can forget about fighting and winning against him if he makes a build that leans more to the extreme bunker or extreme DPS or even extreme condi as I usually don’t last long as I can’t pressure the warrior hard enough without me taking gobs of damage as collateral.
The main problem eles have against warriors I feel is that eles lack much in sustainable damage (Mainly in auto attacks compared to almost all other classes) to really outDPS the regen of a warrior, as burst damage from eles usually aren’t enough. Even worse is the class’s direct lack of access to poison to be able to counter that problem. Perhaps if some of our earth skills incorporated some poison mechanics into them, warriors wouldn’t be as big of a threat to eles as they are right now, and it could also open up some viable ideas for condition build elementalists as well.
Not to discredit you and your guildies tests, but sPvP is very limited compared to WvW stats
Ok to answer some of your questions. 1) I have 2300 armor and already told you my Attack / crit chance / crit damage. 2) I do 2-4k with lightning whip versus EVERY target EXCEPT Warriors. They are the one of 2 classes who can 2-3 shot my Ele. Thief being the other. To stop CC i had used AoE, + AoE traited for the extra protection and stability. However the amount of damage his CC abilities did 7-8k Earthshaker is over 50% of my health. I have almost 14k Health. Why is the Warrior the only “bunker” who can take a glassy builds damage and face tank it while out healing it, yet any other bunker can be killed. A Warrior even in the worst players hands can just run his/her hand over the keyboard and still wreck havoc on any Elementalist.
For clarification my crit damage is 92% and my crit chance is 50% Attack is 3600-3700. I should NOT be doing 400 damage with FGS to a regen warrior who is built all defensively and out healing all the damage he is taking without even using his heal skill. Give Warriors Signet of Restoration and give Elementalists healing signet for 1 month, see how fast your Warriors cry foul play.
Glass Elementalist only doing 402damage versus a Warrior who hits for a lot more damage with a hammer while fully out regenerating the damage? This needs to be fixed, and not in a few months, but like now… This has gone on for to long and it is quite pathetic that every time I see a Dev playing the game it is on a Warrior… There is a reason why Warrior is so overpowered, stop playing the Warrior and try an Elementalist for 1 hour and you will QUIT your own game. Go full bunker if you’d like, still will not help you live versus that regen. 8% Reduction is not going to be enough, you need to nerf the warrior down to Elementalist state, actually nerf ALL classes to Elementalist state. sPvP community got Elementalist nerfed, how about they get other classes nerfed now?
Un-do all the nerfs you whack-a-moled onto the Elementalist because people kittened and complained about how the Elementalist was tickling them but wouldn’t die.
I wanted to find out what the general consensus states about a low-level running through Edge of the Mists and Eternal Battlegrounds in order to level at a fast rate.
Are the lowbies seen as worthless, leaches, ect. like the dungeon community sees them, or are we welcome to run with the zerg as long as we try our best not to go down?
If you gear yourself appropriately and know how to play. You will kill many level 80s on your own. UpLevel stats are powerful, if you know how to use them.
Edge of the Mists has a whole host of differences from the WvW maps that we built before launch. One of those differences is the number of waypoints. Not only does each side only have 1 waypoint, but they can’t even capture and use the waypoints at enemy keeps. Do you think that the amount of travel that you have to put in makes the maps feel better? Does it feel like there is a consequence for dying and that you can whittle down an opposing force?
I’m curious what your thoughts are and if you think it would make the fighting better or worse in the borderlands and EB.
In all honesty, this would be good and bad. With the way zerging works in this game, the players who have the most “hard rezzers” would just whittle down any defending forces. However, if something were done to control zerging, then less waypoints = more caution and tactics.
I don’t understand why most all Thief weapon sets get QQ’d and raged about. And I said “Most” not all.
Pistol/Dagger -Condition Spam cheese “(P/D Thieves are so cheese)”
Dagger/Pistol -Perma Stealth (Which is justifiable to an extent)
Dagger/Pistol -Perma Blind
Sword/Dagger – Perma Evade, too much base auto attack damage output
Sword/Dagger- “Larcenous Strike boon steal OP”
Sword/Dagger- “Infiltrator Strike/Return so Cheese”
Sword/Pistol- Perma Evade/ High reward/Low risk
Sword/Pistol Semi-perma Stun/Daze lock
Shortbow- Evade,Evade, Evade
The Only sets that has yet to be talked about continuously and cried about are D/D and P/P. I just don’t understand why I hear more talk about Thieves weapons being overpowered than any other class. All I hear is " He’s using (Insert Cheese Weapon here), thats the only reason that Thief won"
I have over 3.3k hours on my Thief. I’ve seen it all and heard it all. Thief is my only class since beta. I get so cheesed seeing so many people cry over Thieves weapons sets, and then Anet starts noticing, and then there goes another incoming Thief Nerf. What should we do fight with our fists? I don’t play S/P Thief, I play P/D. But i have experienced and used all the sets. I have excelled in most all of them. In my opinion Thieves weapon sets are the most controversial than any other classes. (And yes I know it’s controversial due to our no CD’s but rather Initiative system). I just wanted to get my thoughts out. If any of you agree with me, than that’s cool, if not then feel free to post QQ here. I will hold your hand.
Now go play an Elementalist versus Thief class and you will understand where all this “cheese” is coming from.
People complained until Elementalist was nerfed into the ground, now they will do same to Thieves.
Good lord those graphics look so nice… Even when you are recording I see no skipping, Lol… I need to get rich and build me a PC. This laptop on lowest settings will have to do until I manage to win the lotto.
Seriously, 4 thieves and a condition engi on enemy team? 1 thief just spammed immobilize, 1 constantly used blackpowder and hs / backstabbing and another was using condition spec as well. Was targeted repeatedly 3v1 as an Ele because we are “so weak.” We cannot remove conditions as fast as anyone can plant them on you. 800 Burning damage a tick? Seriously guys, even with Vitality, that’s only about 18 seconds to die just by Burning. Now add in all the other conditions being spammed followed kittenain immobilize thief and no one can live that. Cannot get into sPvP as an Ele main. I have played Elementalist since Beta weekend 1, before the nerfs and all through the nerfs up till now. ANet if you want people to play this game in sPvP, balance it for real. 1 balance patch every 6 months – 1 year is not going to work. Also, maybe give people a choice for their glory boosters, make them WvW WXP Boosters, don’t just remove them.
Hey again, the the .log file i posted earlier was not mine.. looks like i uploaded someone elses that i had downloaded :P
I tried fullscreen and window mode.. same thing happens
Anyhow, here is the results from the Guild Wars 2 testing :
Again to make sure you are up-to-date on graphics drivers, you should check out NVIDIA GeForce Experience (available at nvidia.com).
Edit: Also I would remove that GW2 Test.txt and only send that to the Support Team through a ticket as it lists information that people may use harmfully. Although it may have been up to long now anyhow.
This is getting silly!! I can see that I am not alone on this issue! I have checked ALL my drivers and they are up to date! I have no problems running other games.. it only crashes when I play GW2
I am really sad, I love this game.. but I can not play it in this state It even crashes when i turn the GFX setting to optimal performance! And it crashes all the time when i try to do my personal questline.
Module : atiumdag.dll <<< This shows you are using an AMD card to run the game. There are settings to set default graphics card (you are currently using the one built into motherboard and not the GeForce Card). Try checking under your advanced display settings for a Detect option to make sure it is set to use the NVidia card as Default for all gaming, etc. Best of luck.
Edit: uninstall Direct X, Re-Install. Check nvidia.com and maybe pick up the NVIDIA GeForce Experience program, it is helpful for keeping drivers for Nvidia cards updated.
Hello guys.
So I wanna buy a laptop and I was wondering if this laptop link can run Guild Wars 2?
If not can you suggest me a laptop for like 350 Euros that can run Guild Wars 2 ? The details can be on low it doesn’t bother me..
I wouldn’t count on medium to low settings… I have a beast of a laptop and run a comfortable 30 – 60 FPS (in WvW) unless its a large 3 way battle then some times may drop to 15 – 30 FPS.
anyways nice video!ENJOY!
