Guild Wars 2

Focus for PvE. Pistol for PvP. The longer cooldown isn’t really bothering me too much.

It is kind of annoying. For hot join the prep time is too short. For free tournaments the prep time is too long!

They need to find a nice balance.

The only problem I am aware of is that A. the range is a bit short so it is easy to screw up and cast too soon. This is less of a problem once you have more experience with the class and B. if there is a change in grade between you and your target the illusion doesn’t spawn at the target.

This is actually a pretty big issue for PvP and WvW. It annoys me enough that I won’t even use the sword in PvP but other people are so they must be compensating for it.

If you regularly swap your weapons like a good player this change will have little impact. I actually played all night without even realizing it. If you are determined to run around only using your favorite weapon then yeah any kind of nerf is going to hurt.

Great Sword sort of sucks for PvE. Especially in Orr. Switch to Sword/Focus and you won’t have any problems killing things quickly or tagging mobs in DE’s.

But mesmer aside I absolutely agree that the respawn rate in Orr is absolutely stupid and needs to be adjusted. It is actually too fast for most of the zones but Orr is particularly bad.

If you think the mesmer gets screwed with DE loot it means you are playing wrong. It doesn’t mean there is something wrong with the class.

To the OP once you have more experience with the class your illusions dying with their target won’t bother you.

Sabbathius.1465:

The Mesmer is fine. I play an engineer as well, and I prefer my Mesmer. It’s okay if a particular class doesn’t click with you, it doesn’t mean it’s “broken” or in need of changes. It means you should play another class… like your engineer.

Begging your pardon, but a class that gets royally screwed on the loot in DEs, which in GW2 constitute “endgame” cannot by definition be “fine”. This includes both PvE and PvP DEs (WvWvW).

As bad as the female humans are (and most of them are pretty anorexic and awful) the female norn are worse. The fattest norn female model should actually be the skinniest norn female model.

They don’t even look like the same race as their male counterparts.

This is one of the things I miss about Warhammer. Your character didn’t have to look like a pinup or model. They could actually have some character.

Even worse than this annoying fight was the reward at the end of it. I was thinking “Oooh for a fight like this I bet I am going to get something really cool!” instead I get three items that could have come from any Black Lion Chest. =\

I have to agree with the OP. I don’t hate the rainbow and unicorn and bright sunshiney stuff (I’m a gay man after all – I had a good laugh at the unicorn bow that shoots rainbows or whatever and jokingly thought “oooh I need one of those.”.

But it is a really weird direction that they took legendaries for this chapter of the game.

You are going to fight hordes of undead legions and a giant undead dragon oh and your legendary quest will win you this sparkly pony staff.

It just feels a bit out of place and I feel like they sort of missed the mark.

I basically just leveled up cooking to get some levels for my warrior alt because I had hit a leveling wall. But I noticed some of what the OP said and definitely think it is an issue.

I think that any of the base ingredients (like cookie dough and baker’s wet ingredients) should be all from ingredients bought from karma venders. The key ingredients should be the farmable stuff.

Once I have actually finished leveling cooking to 400 I doubt I will use it much. Oh and why in the world aren’t all the base ingredients storable in the collectible tabs? Same with some other crafting ingredients. Annoying.

I think Jormag is the most likely candidate. Which makes me a bit sad because I hate snow almost as much as I hate undead. Even fake in game snow.

So I just finished my personal story as far as the single play part is concerned. I haven’t done any of the dungeons yet. I realize that the reward being talked about in this thread is for the completion of everything including all the dungeon storylines but you might want to look at the reward for the last part of the single player mode as well.

I defeated that eye of Zhaitan boss in what was an annoying (but not impossible) fight. When I realized it was the last fight I was hoping for something really cool. At the very least I was hoping for something along the lines of a level 78 or 80 rare (one of the most recent awards for another part of the story was a rare 78 weapon). Something that would help my new 80 in working toward his goal of getting full 80 rares then working toward exotics.

What I got instead was three items that could just as easily be received by opening a Black Lion chest. Really underwhelming!

After playing Aion I would NEVER play a game with a death punishment system again. Has to be the dumbest system in existence for a GAME and the people who like it must be masochists.

The worst thing about it was the PvP death penalty. You know what I hated about it? The moment you got the upper hand the person you were fighting RAN AWAY because they didn’t want to be penalized. So my entire pvp experience was either dying and losing experience or gold or having the person I was fighting run away the moment they thought they were going to lose. Horrible horrible system. Never again.

I play games for fun. Not punishment.

I’m pretty sure I saw at least one of the eye patch options on another armor set. Go to the pvp lockers and preview the medium armor and you might see it there (which should give you the name of that armor so you can see if it is available to buy or as a dungeon set).

Also be sure to preview all the armor options in your personal story rewards before you choose which one you want. Some of them have nice skins and maybe this one is available again.

Not sure about other classes headpieces though. Like I have the glowing white eyes on my Necro alt which I plan on keeping since I doubt that one is available anywhere else.

Nope. The armor sets are available for preview in the pvp lockers which I have been checking out since day 1. So I knew which ones I liked best. But overall I don’t think this is such a big deal. There are tons of different armor sets in the game. I’m sure you can find something else you like.

I’m amazed that you had a hard time with the queen after clearing the trash. The trash was such a nightmare for me that when I finally got them all down I thought “Oh god I will never be able to fight her” and then she died in seconds with zero problem.

Don’t be deleting any high level characters because you change your mind about the way they look. I’m sure eventually ANet will have an ability to change your looks via the gem store just like in GW1!

Anyway my human male characters look awesome. No complaints here. But of course more options so that everyone is happy is a good thing.

I was checking this out on my Asura Guardian the other day and I think the problem is that the Greatsword at least would very badly clip into the ground if they made it any bigger while the weapon isn’t in use. Maybe it is something they could address in the future but I doubt it is very high on their lists of priorities. Anyway it doesn’t bother me too much because I like to run with my greatsword or hammer out since the animation is so awesome.

I noticed that “gold selling” is now an option when reporting people in chat. Is there also a way to report mail? I didn’t see an option for it last time I tried. I have just been deleting them (but haven’t received any with the copper attached yet).

I rolled a female Charr elementalist yesterday and it seems that she is in the same boat. At least with that armor with the wings.

It is super fun. And since there is no gear mill you don’t feel obligated to keep doing it even when you don’t feel like it.

I haven’t been in the mood this week. So I don’t have to worry that I will go back next week and get two shot by everyone because they have better gear than I do.

They did this because female Asura would look weird in the skimpy, sexy little outfits (think about how awful female gnomes in wow looked in bikini style plate armor). It was kind of a lazy way out though. Maybe at the very least they could program it so that female Asura get to wear the shoulder armor of other races but the male bits of everything else. That way she is not stuck in a bra and panties but might have a bit of variation compared to Asura males.

Isn’t it like this for all scepter users? Certainly felt much faster on my guardian.

I was going to go with flat chested for my human female necro but I feel like it looked horrible in the cleavage revealing armor.

I think my least favorite thing about human females is that most cloth and leather armor makes their buts look freakishly big (and not in a good way). The models are just weird.

I am confused by the 200 sp. Doesn’t the entire map have not much more than that? Do you just need to be at 200 sp or does it actually cost you the skill points?

What is bugging me is that it is not as easy to mix and match sets as I thought it was going to be. There are some major clipping issues when you mix some of the sets.

I am also feel like the dye system must have been rushed. In theory it is great (and sometimes is) but there are some sets where for example if you want to dye the metal lining on the edge of your pants to match the metal lining on your coat it also changes some of the fabric panels to that color when it didn’t change any fabric panels on the other piece. Does that make sense. I’m tired and not sure how to explain it other than to say dye needs to be looked at.

It is when you are hit and it makes me giggle every time it swoops down. So ridiculous. (it only lasts a millisecond – I’ve only used the minor one and only during pvp but it doesn’t really do much dmg. the major rune with the blind may be a bit better).

I think one of the problems that leads to imbalance (and one of the reasons I am against a penalty if you leave a match) is the speed in which a new game starts.

First of all you are auto queued for the next match without having to do anything, then when the game is over you very quickly get sent to that next match, about ten seconds later the match begins.

Pretty much any time I need to AFK and leave a match the game has already started. I suspect the same for other players as well and I think this may be causing imbalances just as much as people rage quitting because their team sucks.

It is kind of a weird system. Nice to have instant games but doesn’t really give you a moment to breath between games.

I don’t want the events to be too easy but there are situations in this fight where I personally don’t think it matters how good of a player you are. You are going to have multiple lava wells open up in a row underneath you and you are going to run out of dodges or abilities that will protect you.

I think the boss is actually easier with fewer than 10 people because he spams his OP abilities a bit less.

Is that really it? That is kind of a let down. When we first saw these events I thought there were going to be a bunch of them.

The mechanics of this fight are horrible. Anyone saying it is easy is a dirty rotten liar! I’ve done the event about a dozen times in the hopes that I would improve and I can’t really say that I have that much. I’ve tried “getting off the bridge” as people have said and while I do agree that the bridge is a death trap the problem with going in the room is that eventually you are going to get major ember aggro. One or two I can handle but this evening I had 5 of them all ganging up on me.

Pretty much the only chance I had of not dying was if my dodge and heals were down (I was playing on a guardian and took a lot of support skills) I ran out of the room and waited for them to come back up.

I wouldn’t mind the chaos of the fight if the lava eruptions on the ground didn’t stun then one shot you. Half the time you dodge and end up on a new eruption.

Even though we eventually got it down every time just by zerging our way back after dying it is way too frustrating a fight. Horrible for a starter zone as there was tons of complaining. You won’t want new players thinking that the entire game is like this.

Doesn’t anyone else have a problem with the greatsword phantasm pulling extra mobs? it was driving me crazy so I stopped using it in pve. Haven’t really tried it much in pvp.

For PvP I use Staff and Scepter/Pistol. I do pretty well. Sure the weapon could use a little love but I don’t think it is as bad as people are making it out to be.

For PvE I’ve been using Staff plus sword/focus just because the focus phantasm does a ridiculous amount of damage to stationary pve mobs.

For Pete’s sake how can you have a flavor of the month when the game has only been out a month. I’m sure at this point people are trying out different classes (particularly since it is so easy to pvp with whatever class you want without leveling first). I’m sure many people will find those classes not to their liking and go back to whatever there original main was.

As annoying as it is when this happens to me (especially since every time I try to ninja a kill I can’t pull it off) I think this is a horrible idea. Part of the fun is the risk involved.

I love the pistol for stunning players that are about to stomp my downed teammates. Aside from the great sword knock back I don’t think we have another interrupt tool like that.

They had better not change it now that I am used to it the way it is.

Found the same thing with my thief. I was like “why on earth does this not work for me?”. Didn’t occur to me that it might be because I am Asura.