Guild Wars 2

I’m pretty sure the extra day made it already ready (or at last tomorrow), their planning can’t have been more off I think, cause this is first time they delay a well known to be released patch, as far as I know.

I think the bigger problem is, (for wathever reason), they are addicted to releasing the patch on Tuesday, wich will make it 1-2 weeks delayed, but delivered on that day.

Totally not agree with this change. While some shadowstepping spots are a bit extreme, if pvp is like 95% of pve shadowstepping rules (wich basically is, if the upwards location – has a normal run distance (on foot, no shadow steps) of over 1200 range (aprox, and not exactly same everywhere), then the shadow step to the top fails.

In pvp this is mostly the same apart from some extreme spots. The most extreme ones, i guess could be nerfed (2500 walk range, skipping ones). Any other spots and this nerf will obliviate thief gameplay. Completely. Forest of Nilfhell was a map i liked a lot, cause mobility and taking a leap of faith with them there, was fun and risky. If they nerf 90% teleports like op suggest (+ existing bugs that fail teleports so often), then thief is useless in future. Only thing that will still work is S/D evade spam, but nothing to be happy about. Thiefs damage pressure (wich should be superior high) will be superior low, thiefs escape chances will be very low, unless you play runaway coward (but that is against pvp conquest modes nature, to pressure points as much as possible to get points, not stand in corner, cloacked).

Warrior and thief auto attack each other. They don’t use Any skill except auto attack. Warrior always wins, period. Add on that stuns, invulnerabilities, fast leaps, good boons, tons of hp/armor, and they are a way more usefull profession. Sure thief can try to compensate with backstab, but how much of those land.? only D/p build has a chance to land one of them, and they eventually run out of initiative if the enemy can avoid your early schemes.

Just no to this update, except the extreme ones (shadow step to top of Keep in Forest of Nilfhil is a bit extreme, I never even tried it, cause it feels unnatural (wouldnt work in pve most of times, because of the range limit i explained above).

Implement a similar range limit like in pve/wvw and pvp will still be good. Remove all of them even the short ones, and shadow step looses all its values it had, that gave it a slight angle to other leaps/profession mechanics.

People who don’t understand this, definetely played thief to few.

8400 hours / 0 precursors. Expectations remain extremely low for good reason

For leveling condition damage is usually very bad. It’s much more behind power damage, then it is at level 80. Hence i recommend running a power build with rifle flametrower/grenadeS/bomb (choose wich you like most, and use some survivability skills as well for utility).

But honest is honest of all my characters, engineer was the most frustrating to level. Tomes of knowledge helped a great deal, but there were parts that I lvled true, by just playing, and it was harder then most professions.

Turrets might work great also, they distract mobs, but more important, I think they scale on their own, rather then with your stats, this is true for minions at least. If it’s like that (pets are also like that), you can use them as auto leveling, thing, hide behind it, and CC mobs mostly, to safe your turrets.

Make a new character, or so, i think you get the letter. I had to destroy 3 letters, after i completed it, so their must be new sources for letters.

I love current shortbow (and staff also). It’s colourfull, it’s projectile effects really are special (like it or not, but that is a fact), and because the projectiles of thief are so special they are really unique (like exploding cluster bomb, or bouncing auto attack, in conjunction with the projectile). Footsteps are very nice also.

I think you are the kind of person that likes incinerator more? Well lemme tell you, that’s the kind of weapon I don’t like. There’s groups on both sides. I’ll be glad for you if there comes another legendary that you like. However posting your opinion as fact, that legendaries like Bifrost are ugly as hell (and not serious – how do you even determine that), stop it. That’s just your opinion.

8 of my 24 chars have Wvw map completion. I play it a lot, but my most recent chars on this list, i could complete it in 3 weeks, being the worst server of the matchups in all 3. You just have to be clever about it that’s all.

I’ll repeat what i told another wvw completion complainer: You’ll get randomized into a colour (red, blue , green). It may take a while, but EVERY COLOUR WILL BE there at soe point.

You are red? You go to both borderlands, to the only unlock waypoint in extreme bottom corners. Get both camps (bottom mid, and corner), tower, and vista’s if they are there. Same for skill point. kitten easy this, especially if it’s your corner.

Go to your own bl (if you are Blackgate for instance it’s called Blackgate borderlands). Citadel waypoint. Go into everything above the mid of the map (water under garrison). From garri to north camp, cap it all on cartograph machine (map completing aka).

Ready?

Repeat once you are blue and green. More IMPORTANTLY REPEAT THIS PROCESS ON ALL YOUR CHARRS AT ONCE IF YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT COLOUR. Suddenly you are ready for eternity, if it concerns wvw map completion.

Hard wasn’kitten Takes me 2-5 months to farm 2000g required for my legendaries. I garantee you if you take part of that time to do what I say, wvw map completion wont even slow your progress down.

Voila, now you are the master of wvw map completion.

If this bothers you and you want to make the best out of it: Play gw2 normal, don’t pay $ for the S2 chapters. Then when you hit lvl 80, get all your necessary gear, and farm dungeons daily (Cof p1+2 and TA up/fw are easy ones to me, AC is also relative easy). Do that for few weeks. Depending on your luck, effort, you will get 150g quickly, wich should be enough to buy gems, to buy the chapters.

This rune is very interesting, but on most professions it falls a bit short. Thinking about it, yes this rune could be great for ranger. Especially in wvw, if you wanna be more tanky. Just keep in mind, this looses 175 power compared to the max power builds. But the survivability should make up for it.

There’s tons of ways to get fast experience. Get plant harvesting sickle, and farm plants in area. It still give about 0,5% towards a level. (200 plants = full level, not a single other mmo rpg would let you lvl that fast via that way).

Mobs with a yellow name are ‘friendly’ or juvenile so to speak. Most ppl don’t attack them cause the mobs don’t attack them. However if you kill those, you get tons of experience.

Always use a tuning crystal/sharpening stone/maintenance oil + some kind of food. There’s ultra cheap versions of both (low lvl ones). Just buy those, and have them permanent on you. Especially the 45 minute lasting food that grants 15% instead of 10% exp boost.

Just having the game for a long time/playing it for a long time, will make leveling, a hell of a lot faster. So this is the biggest burden, your first char leveling. Now you ask why probably? Every 2500 achievement you earn, you get about 2,5% permanent passive experience boost. Yes that’s right, you read it correctly.

Owning 1 char for a year, will give you level 20 scroll (will make char instantly lvl 20). If you own more characters, that all become a year old, you will get MULTIPLE. It’s a snowball effect, wich is why I encourage making chars first (all the ones you want to play for sure), and only then start playing.

There’s two dailies (and playing pvp) that grants Tomes of knowledge. They grant a free level up. Doing fractals of mist may be hard if your experience is a bit low (there’s plenty of ppl willing to help though), and capturing a keep (daily achievement) also grants such a book.

Exploring helps a lot to get experience. Heart quest may feel boring, but doing them gives a lot of experience.

Part of the problem is that very few people level their chars the way you do atm (at launch, the lvl 1-15 area’s were litteraly overflowed with people). Maybe at expansions launch, with the revenant hype, many ppl will go to new level area’s again (wich means you follow them, do events, and get generally more experience, except for mobs ‘bonus experience’, cause the longer a mob isn’t killed, the more experience it gives. Go to area’s, where people never come. Then kill all mobs there, including yellob mobs. Trust me it’s good exp

With 1500 range, you can just ‘stay away from battle’ but auto attack, and even have your pet, without knowing it, prevent damage, by distracting mobs. That’s how most casual rangers seems to play. No offence meant of course, but I understand this choice as ‘easiest profession to play’ for that very reason.

In wvw rangers used to be rare (especially power). Now with Longbow buff, they are tempting again for a lot of people, cause they act like snipers now.

I like ranger for a lot of reasons, but I think it has a few issues. While their heals are strong, other professions have more efficient heal over time (or bonus effects by the healing skills), stunbreakers is a bit of issue, except in survival skill build, and ranger lacks aoe skills. I mean they are there, like traps, and barrage, but way lower quantity then say elementalist.

Axe is nice, but auto attack is just to slow. They should improve it, otherwise quite potential weapon. Offhand axe is not threatening enough (nr 4 is nice though, but alone doesn’t make it a viable choice imo).

My favorite pvp map. Funny thing is, in 8 vs 8 that match was quite balanced in hotjoin at least, the end scores suggest so. It was almost always a right till the end with 5-100 point difference at the end. There was some abuse of underwaterbuilds, but if you are clever enough you can counter those easely.

They mention often a rifle for thief, but I hate the idea. Unless they superior surprise me with a whole new concept of rifle, then the current impresison of how the weapon works on Engie/warrior (especially auto attacks), really blows me off.

Rather have offhand sword, EVEN if that’s only two skills.

Also i hope the nr of new skills is not unbalanced. Necro gets 5 new skills for certain, same as Ranger, but what about shield mesmer? Only two?

BrunoBRS.5178:

oh, i figure i’ll drop a question too.

Q: Will the core professions get new utilities and reworked skills to embrace the new tech we’ve seen with the revenant, or will we have to specialize to have access to those new toys?

+1 This question is very important to me. Cause putting the new (resistance boon etc) stuff behind specializations, will make the old ones feel inferior, utility wise. Can’t let that happen imo. Old profs (non specialization) still needs ‘looking after’.

Interesting, does the personal story provide two leggins? Cause i was at 2/3 leggins, before i started to farm SW hard to get rest of pieces. Coat i know only drops from Vinewrath chest.

I got quite a lot of boots, but less so leggings, wich i still needed. It’s random wich you get, pure luck. Stack up the crests and pay 1000 of them for specific chest, if rng eludes you.

aha so that’s the nice song i heard friday.

Call to Anet: Either add soundtrack to Collector’s edition including this song, or put a seperate physical one on sale, (and not just in NA but truly in EU). Seeing how the last one is hard you should keep fans close by just adding it to CE box imo.

i’m 42/50 and 29/30 for GWAMM. I really want that gwamm title tbh. The thing that makes me most afraid is the ‘money costing titles’. They are the barrier between getting Champion of the Gods. If gw1 is as abandoned as i hear it is, Ecto price, etc will go true the roof.

Tbh i had it all set out to get gwamm, but ONE Thing prevented me to get it. Legendary Elite skill hunter prophecies. My money ran out on stuff like mini’s, so i had to farm them. The problem being: certain mobs spawn at superior far side of Ring of Fire, and only randomly (you might get instance that doesnt spawn it). I tried 9x in row (took each an hour to get their alive), and each time failed to summon the witch at end of map. Then gw2 launched. I hope Elite tomes earned in pvp are cheaper now.

SFR is the only server perma locked (95% of time) to green. Any other server changes to the 3 colours often enough to get their share of map completion.

The problem is everyone that wants easy eotm, Ktrains, easy wvw tournement victories, easy achievements (tournement, eotm), etc, goes to SFR. This creates an overstacked server, with 99% garanteed win, massive glicko scoring advantage, and thus the probability to become green is way higher.

No offence meant, but tell your server to recruit less people, and it might get solved on it’s own.

also If you are sfr, you should one day when you can, log in wvw 4 am – 6 am. Being one of their opposing server frequently, I can tell you then they cap a hell of a lot objective, meaning map completion is a peace of cake. Even in EB. Sure not the best hour, but hey its something.

Well look at the top achievement hunters in EU. They are all Seaferer’s rest now almost. It used to be only 1 SFR 1,5 years ago. Why do they do this? Simple: like the poster above me they need/want, the achievements linked to eotm. And to do those, you need a good karma train. These days, anything BUT Green has good karma trains. SFR is 95% of time Green, so transfer to SFR = win win.

I need those achievement myself, and I like eotm, but Blue has no place in eotm anymore. I joined 8 times yesterday at differnet times, and it all was empty, no commander, just the green cap rush. Only thing i can farm a little is reactors, cause i can solo them, but Ktrain is more efficient, gives more loot, and progresses other achievements.

And this is just one kind of players, that’s rather rares, that changes how Eotm is balanced. Anet needs to make the matches balanced, so that at least blue/red can have decent numbers too.

Also green keep is to strong, position is crazy good, and it’s by far the furthest from all keeps, if you look from mid point, yet when running from green to mid, you loose LESS time then enemy team. The ergonomics of the green border are by far the best.

Let ppl queue from anywhere. But more importantly: if you leave a matchup, get transported to your last pve designation, and not stupid HoTM like now. When i’m up for some pvp, and my guild calls me for pve event, i wanna be instantly transported to la, divinity reach, wherever i was before pvp. It used to be like this, now it is no longer, and this thing doesn’t affect the load screen/click yes for queue time pop problem.

Secondly, i Agree on the ‘queue from anywhere’. Isn’t there a way anyway to make the queue pop over the load screen? F11 (option) work while in load screen, so there is some code that allows for it.

I don’t like that the new shiny stuff is only on specializations, that could imply that existing professions will be a hell of a lot weaker then the new ones. I mean c’mon, a ranger possibly geting resistance (for instance), and what in the base ranger prof heh? Nothing to interesting condi removal wise. Wich will mean druid is must have prof. I really hope i’m wrong about this, but feels this way.

Or it will be, new spec = op for month, then they over nerf it, and old ones take over. We’ll see.

Revanant almost has warrior status stats (just a bit lower hp), so in essence a revenant cannot be made as strong as an elementalist (skill wise). Cause if you make revenant, stronger then ele, mesmer, necro, then they are essentially op, with their hitpoint/armor to back it up. Something to keep in mind.

Every serious ap farmer (top 30 now) is SFR almost. Why? SFR is only reliable ‘green’ source for eotm, and can farm the achievements ‘easier’. Time to put a stop to this unbalance to that red/blue can farm achievements too (or just have fun in eotm).

A counter voice to all the Jumping puzzle hate, I love them, and for me they are an essential part to guild wars 2.

Digital wishes:

Extra char slot
Maguuma themed elite (like mistfire wolf skill is now for base CE)
Some sort of royal terrace but in Maguuma access
Beta acces! (almost forgot, but definitely a wish cause the launch CE had it also)

Physical wishes:

- Statue of Caithe (I like her, and sylvari + her are major theme, it’s gotta be, Rytlock already has statue so Caithe it is).
- Sound Track! Oh man I keep wanting gw2 soundtrack but it’s so hard to get (physical) in EU. Site of Jeremy soule is not to EU friendly. Should have bought on amazon when it was launch price but hey that was superior short, and i’d like to think before i purchase something. Please add all scarlet living story + other new gw2 themed songs onto a disc and give them with this Edition plz, if not for NA, do it for EU as a courtesy for how hard it is there to get physical copy of it.
- Another book like the Gw 2 CE book. A little deeper behind scenes, and since we know a lot of devs now, interviews would be nice too.
- Similar metal chest like gw2 CE in Maguuma Theme.
- Posters like gw2 CE.
- etc.

Uhm no. I focussed quite a bit on magic find (but via the free ways, not pay to get it ways), and i’m still only at 229% (+ achievements) At this rate it will take ages to get 300 via normal playing. That you got cap is YOUR fault, not ours. System works as intended.

Tons of recipes use skill points at the moment how are they continuing that (and not destroying the market), when mastery XP takes over normal EXP? i don’t get it. Big problem in the makes. What with existing skill points? I got loads on my chars and i don’t feel like giving them up… (or making them pointless for when I need them).

The current system ain’t bad except one big flaw: The goals seem simple on paper, but are very hard overall because: Event requirements, pre-events required, non bugged events required, map exploration required (like going to Breaktooth’s waypoint, for the puzzle chest, for trait – you need to completely explore the whole line towards that wp on the map, a big job imo). Also a lvl 80 fully geared can do these easely, while not truly hard for blue equips/no trait chars to do this, it makes it a bit more tedious. Like a lot of professions cannot run faster without traits (engie, except that one elixir), so to get the trait you must slowly walk towards it firstly, sounds a bit lame.

Imo Compare it to some of the more challenging heart quests (for instance in sparkfly fen, where you got to shoot burrows, then kill the grubs). One trait should take exactly that amount of time. Not more, not less. And most importantly: no unwanted conditions like ‘plz don’t bug event’, ‘plz start now event’ ‘plz let the pre-event be done’ ‘plz let there be enough people for this group-event’.

And lower the skill points costs, just a bit. It’s simply to high now, and the gold cost is already high, but I can live with it/understand it (though I also think it’s a bit high).

242% (14 from achievements). I play a lot and salvage a lot. When there’s cheap ways to get luck I usually focus a bit on that farm (like wintersday) get some MF boost. Though now it’s only 30k per lvl, 71 levels still. I’m not rushing this, 242% is comfortable and close enough to max for me. Though in the far future i would like full MF, by just playing the game.

And btw Vayne, you should read Gaile’s posts more often. She repeatedly said ‘we notice a lot of player repeat their opinion, even go in a fight over it, to hope their opinion would gain more value, but fact is, it still remains 1 opinion’. Maybe you don’t get the meaning of this yet? You have probably more posts then any forum member, but you still are one person and your many posts won’t turn you into a clone system.

Cause it was just after Ellen Kiel’s ellection (and all the achievements linked to their respective activities like southsun survival, etc), when the hype for the new ones was still hot, and people learned them because daily ap, that they were a bit more popular. Secondly, Anet wanted activities on fixed days i think, and they needed to discard one of the activities for dual days. Keg brawl was discarded because it was temporary less popular then because the other ones were hyped/fresh because ap.

And please stop trying to turn numbers in your favor. It’s making your posts loose value. There’s a lot of ‘I think that it’s that much players’ ,‘I think it’s a niche’, ’I’m pretty certain it’s a bigger number then you think’ wich quick ‘So this matter and that doesn’t matter’ conclusions in your posts. Seriously they don’t go together, and especially not to back up your opinions. Metrics players posts are just that: impressions, and not conclusive. Turning them into your own favor thinking your post gaines value with it, is just not really constructive.

Every problem in gw2 is worth discussing. Even niche player ones. Stop trying to play the god of the forums and discard all niche players problems cause you feel you are better then it. Sorry but this has to be said. You are also acting like re-enabling keg brawl more days, would hurt anets time. I wouldn’t. The mini-game is finished! all they have to do is change schedule or re-enable npc in hoelbrak. I’m not saying it won’t cost time, but definitely not as much as you make it out to be.

Vayne.8563:

Tom Gore.4035:

Serelisk.6573:

I don’t know if I understand your overall point. My argument is that they could have did everything they did in the activity rotation update (namely move the NPC to where he is now, in Lion’s Arch) but keep all the activities open 7 days a week where the Activity Daily would be for a specific activity. So Keg Brawl will have increased population on Sunday instead of only available on Sunday. You know, the exact same way they’ve been incentivizing content since Guild Wars 1

So all activities available every day, but activity-specific dailies (and preferably one every day)? Not bad. I like this suggestion. It would be like the best of both worlds, really.

I don’t think it would change anything. I still think like six guys would love Keg Brawl and it won’t make a bit of difference to anyone else. I’m obviously exaagerating, but it’s really a non-issue.

This thread should be closed, anyway, because this is all off topic. The OP got the answer he was looking for.

You are acting like your opinion is the only opinion in the world. First of all, you don’t have the metrics, so you don’t have the right to use them as a argument for discussion. A lot of players play Keg brawl. Empty maps happen often because of a bug with merging maps, leave and rejoin, and lemme tell you, you’d be surprised how often you get a full run.

Keg brawl is the most discriminated dialy activity atm, all activities goes TWICE A WEEK, and KEG BRAWL ONCE. Not fair. Keg brawl should at least go twice a week as well.

If your way of ‘closing an argument/thread’ is the way to go, then lemme go offtopic for once: You like NPE, 90% dislike it. Your opinion doesn’t matter, the other 90% wins hands down and Anet can only focus the 90% and not your niche. See what I did there? Used an argument to win in a cheap way. Just stop it already Vayne. If you dislike Keg brawl, you shouldn’t be wasting time here. It’s like you’ve been wanting ages for Keg brawl to be removed, and now this thread appears you are jumping on it… A person who doesn’t like keg brawl, doesn’t post here, doesn’t play and and that’s the end of it.

Part solution proposal: Make all activities go on turn including keg brawl, wich is locked to sunday now. This will rotate all activities every week to different days, and keep a fair ‘every 4 days on diff day is my favorite activity’ schedule.

Perfect solution: just re-enable keg brawl in hoelbrak.

I disagree with removing Wvw form map completion, since the random colour granting (nr 1 no longer is permanent green), it’s a peace of cake.

Step 1 Take all your char to your bl, and discover the top
Step 2: Take your chars to the bl of the enemies. The corner where the wp is, is what you need to explore. Ready with that? done.
Step 3: Discover your side of EB, and if you are feeling lucky strong, discover other parts. EB is one of the most shifting wvw battlegrounds, and one of my chars completely discovered it without switching colours in two weeks. Then again, I used to play wvw often that day.

Repeat this once for every char, and every time your server changes colour. Done!!!! man how hard was this? It wasn’t. It just took organisation, willpower and a little time/patience. Especially that last part is lacking on people. Farming 3000g (the way I do it, play a bit of everything), takes way longer then the above method. And the above method creates TWO Legendaries, not one. Stop complaining. It seems like most of you people buy your gold, and have no intend for effort anyway.

If wvw for any stupid reason is removed from map completion, Add a special reward to it’s own map completions please, Anet. And implement this for southsun cove, dry top, and Silverwaiste plz (not add to global map completion, just give it a singular map completion progress bar/end goal).

If SAB comes back, please re-enable all old SAB achievements, like Tribulation mode, normal mode etc, it would be nice for people who missed it to get it back.

So one conclusion can be made for certain: Lazaar Plays on NA server.

Correct? XD

Sunshine.9528:

I always watch on the official site and yes that site is legit.
It’s an official site were you can bij games.
I just thought It’s strange that they already know.
I phoned them and they say that the release date isn’t annoced yes but wil be this year.
That is why the date is saying 31-12-2015.
They think It’s earlyer it is just so you can pre – order it already.

What Sunshine said. I used bol.com quite often, and this is how it mostly works. They want to make pre-order available, but with titles like guild wars 2 and HoT it’s a bit hard. To do so, they still put it in website, and guess a date (most of time to late, cause they learned that if they do to early it kittened people off). I think we all pretty much expect it to release this year, so 31-12-2015 is pretty accurate as far as ‘not dissapointing people but giving an indication’.

Costumer support responses i always get BUT gw2 news i haven’t gotten for a while. I remember every time new item come in TP, I got a mail in the past, but not the recent months. Could that be in issue? I never signed off on the newsletter. I also often check spam folder, and gw2 is never in it (apart from those pishing mails).

Wvw is so easy nowadays, especially with the winning server of your bracket (in glicko score), no longer has permanent green. The loosing/mid server get their way into the other colours too. So you basically sooner or later will get everything.

If you want to speedclear map completion, well then be dissapointed. But hey it’s map completion… Every time you are green, you do your corner of bl and of EB. Do same for every colour and tara… succes. Peace of cake. Just took a little time, but hey it supports TWO Legendaryies.

Just learn the map, how they work. But then again, some people don’t wanna learn wvw, and I guess that’s bigger issue then map completion.

Wow so you need 20-25k champ bags, to get Legendary equivalent t6 mats… More then I expected.

So are you the source of some materials, like Charged Core, getting undercut so fast, so hard, that the buy order/sell listings are 1 copper from each other?

psizone.8437:

BrunoBRS.5178:

unfortunately, nothing caithe has can be salvaged, because they’re not really original ideas, just amped up regular skills.

That’s fair enough, though at least that running forward evade attack could be salvaged.

I disagree. While caithe is in a way an overpowered version of thief, there are some unique aspects, that in a toned down, balanced version could work. For instance, skill nr 2, i love a lot. If you don’t aim it correct, it’s not good. But if you aim it well, oh boy, lovely damage. Secondly her stats are Sinister. While we can play with that now too, here weapon/utility skills are much more tied to this stat choice, and maybe a thief specialization can focus on sinister stats for example. Having longer evasion on skils (and perhaps lower damage), could also be option, skill nr 3 at the moment. I vastly think current death blossom is very bad. 0,2 sec evasion is impossible to time, especiall with before/and after cast.

The ‘overpowered’ damage of course should not be copied, but I think that is a given.

Wanderer.3248:

Tseikk.9032:

Fact is population needs to be nerfed. I don’t even care how it would be done, but seeing some servers can afford having 10 man dolyak defending squads it’s quite ridiculous.

I’ve never seen that happen even when all maps were queued.

And a ten person yak escort sounds like ten bags waiting to drop.

You never fought vizunah square I guess, or SFR a few months ago. They both do this. 5+ ppl per ‘important’ dolly (like the dollies that reach garrison from north camp).

Guild wars 2 is one of the best price/performance (value for money/bargain) games out there. If you disagree, go ahead, and fine another game to replace it with similar value for money, but you’ll have trouble. Only games that can compete are single player games like skyrim, and upcoming witcher 3.

I’m not saying Gw2 is holy, there’s a lot of things since launch I disliked about it, but fact is, no other game has this good relation between money and what you get.

Pet’s have 0 condition damage no matter what, except for a few traits giving minimal condition damage boost (like +350 one).

Basically it’s the damage it does with a power build. I must admit though even with that reef drake always felt lacking. I sometimes buffed it with full might, and it will did laughable damage, so i wouldn’t put it past anet for having pvp damage on the pet.

Is it me or is today ‘The Dreamer’ (projectile sound) fixed? I did a few fracs and such and it all sounded normal again.

And the patch notes suggest so! (several audio bugs introduced with patch fixed).

Thanks Anet for fast fixing.

For you maybe. If we count feature packs ‘anticipation’ moments, Anet sometimes gave us no living story (at all) for 2,5 months. If we remove ‘event’ living stories from the list (like gold pavilion, wintersday, halloween, wvw season), then it has been 4 months or more we didn’t get living story ‘episodes’.

Given the expansion hype is there now and sticky, I think Anet wouldn’t mind risking a 5 month period downtime. They will however probably add some mini living stories. Perhaps the Ls team will keep us busy with a stand alone LS that doens’t impact mordremoth. After all LS is seperate team. Maybe SAB will see it’s comeback.

Launch, feature pack, all were released near augustus. It’s a date Anet likes.

I’m pretty certain he didn’t make up september at the moment of the question. He read it from his screen. He’s eyes where focused on the screen, and it was very clear that he was reading something loud when he said september. Maybe the head office (the shop is a chain, it has shops in a lot of cities) had some date guess inserted on the computer already. But he definitely read it from his screen.

Its your right to take this with a grain of salt, but for me now, the game has a 60% chance to launch in september. 40% still open for another date (may, june, july, later year).

It’s September I think. I went to my shop, to pre-order the best edition (and knowing Anet only a limited amount of collector’s edition will have beta access.) Seeing my shop had only TWO copies before launch (beta access), i was really frustrated. So to prevent this Expansion I went to the shop.

Heart of Thorns was not in their computer yet he said (when I asked to pre-order, so i suppose it’s just not in the order list yet (no editions confirmed yet, but i think it is somewhere else on his computer, see ahead). But then he looked on his pc, and I suppose cause he was looking, reading some info about it and said ‘aha, yes it’s that title’ probably due for september’. Didnt ask further where he got his info, but hey he’s a game only shopkeeper… He has to has some inside info. So here you go, I shared it.

No, you nailed it inferno, unless there is some bug we don’t know about that might screw this up. But for all intends and purposes, that’s how it is now, sinces Tuesdays patch.

It was first thing i noticed after FGS update patch. And still not fixed. Damage is Hugely to low. It’s not even a matter of balance anymore but viability. With all damage skill doing mediocre damage, Ele’s need at least one decent/burst damage skill on FGS, and it’s the promised 2,4 damage increase on fiery rush. Fix it already anet. You promised it Karl Mcclain…

StickerHappy.8052:

debbie downer.

And what would that be? I only know a Debbie from True Blood. I guess it’s a person named Alcide or Sookie?

On a more serious note: I learned to keep my expectations low on Anet. For instance, hype train just started and they already managed to destroy my favorite legendary sound. My dreamer is a WEAK OLD, and they destroyed the projectile sound. Seriously :o