Guild Wars 2

Faster gap closer is a win in my block any time.. the change of skills.. get a grip, just keybind em-_- not the end of the world.. ppl you need to adapt in every situation.. and this is a minor change tbh.. I understand if they changed the whole concept of the GS.. but they didn’t:)

As pointed out you can just keybind them.. not really a bit deal.. if you change lot between alts, well you must have the time to change that in a whimp as well;)
I suggest that they fix all the bugs first:)

History-wise… would u rather have a flat background in the back? Maybe later personal housing or something like that..

You can get that from lions chest. permanent.. though low drop chance.. so it is already there. mobile!

I think it is good as it is.. more would be annoying.. alrdy now my toon is complaining about his health, even thouh he should know that I will pop the signet in 1/4 sec

A known bug also pointed out in the wiki-page:)

Never used it:) But never been a fan of nerf tbh, no matter which prof it is.. I mean if they nerf thieves they nerf me, if they nerf warriors they nerf my teammates..
Ofc this could make my future sword / pistol build less viable, but hey in a team I still feel like I can do a lot support, in form of taking out glass canons and stealth revive:D
If they nerf that I will just go pure shortow and shadowstep around the map just because I can:D
Nerf that and I reroll warrior, though they have a dull prof mechanism :P

Or “tactical reposition”?

Well for bad players yeah it was op:)..
I don’t think retaliation is OP, fairly small amount of dmg, and as thief you just use big hits instead of PW-spam (nerfed btw:0).
But like they idea of a more active retaliation:)

But none permanent like Sigil of lotus, sigil of shadow or traits if that’s what you mean:) we are on the paper the least mobile class:) but got a few strong gap closer:)

As a warrior I am fine with it, but as any other profession I am not.. Smetimes I take it by accident in the heat of battle (WvW) because I hope it is a looting back, that can be kinda annoying-__-’
I think it would be cooler if they lowered the over all CD, made it stationary (I know even more lack of mobility), widen the range and made it dmg without trait:D
A bit like the spirits for rangers, so yo could in theory have the banners up permanent:) cool for node defence.

Hmm maybe two plate classes: a semi-caster 2 handed brute with attubements like elementalist and a monstrous gauntlet (like nightmare from soul calibur) weilding the 2 h i one hand and changing apperance after attunement.
A more mobile polearm/spear and shield wielding paragon.

One new adventure profession like a bard, heavily depending on music and cords, having shatter abilities like mesmer, but shattering peices of music to destrurb the opponents.

And one new caster profession which are melee (ofc also range but like a cloth thief) with high mobility, enhancing attacks with magic conditions like confuse and blinding, using blink abilities.

Not very creative but jus like e ideas:D

Grumwulf.9602:

Personally I wish no.3 was a block. It would fit the fencing style much better. It could be short duration unlike the blocks of warriors and guardians so that timing would be much more tricky but of course with initiative you could block a few hits in row. Even better would be to have it something like the underwater ability. Cally it Parrying Strike. Flanking strike is a clownish ability in my opinion.

Agree could be nice to block an attack and slice up your opponent for massive dmg>:D
I mean it is a sword.. It can be quit lethal with the right technique:)
And thx for the build ideas, cheers:D

Compared to D/D or just pistol in off hand together with another weapon, yeah I feel it is underwhelming.. But how great is the animation of the unload ability? It is sooo awesome:) GW2 is all about looking good, and P/P looks sexy!

Please stop posting such nonsense here.. If you are worried about a exploid then report it, it you encounter a bug then there is a sub-forum for that as well..
We don’t care about QQ’s so please stop.

Kind regardes

When my gf bout me gw2 I started a guardian.. I actually wanted to play ele.. So I bounced between two of those prof.. Then I tried sPvP and neglected my guardian hating him at end game (I was just bad at playing him tbh).. So I changed to thief and hit 59 (can only play a few hours from time to time).
Love him.. Mobile, high dmg, steal if a nice stun breaker etc…

But with your guide I created a new guardian.. Not only do I love e plate look better than the Ninja, shinobi, gunslinger, lone warder look (they are awesome but), but I love having great sword og sword and board.
So to the point you guide just made me wanna play guardian again, and your humour combined with info is soooo great.

Haters will hate, but you handled it with style (as already mentioned).
Can’t wait for a WvWvW guide from you;) and hope to see you on the field.

Kind regards Izu, Shield Brothers and Guardians of Surmia.

dimentox.6019:

Heres mine…

I love the cowboy / gungslinger look..

Its probably the only medium armor i can tolerate.

Where did you get that armour?:)

Ahh cheers, i’ll try the so called poison:) though I tried to avoid it;) never liked the 1sec appling and the few uses:) cause Sword really didn’t have tha “finish him!” move:/ so no cheap Mortal Kombat scorpin gimmick here… Except for the wite ofc..
But yeah generally I feel that thieves are two things, single-target burst dmg dealer and roamers.

Still. Love how other professions, and some insiders, complain about these aspects:)

I run a bit back and aoe. Last for 3-4 sec soo:D

Ohh And I tried other " classes"^^ find warriors powerful but boring as OP. Guardians can be like Godmode if played right, but only staff as speedbuff killed it for me (come on necroes and ele got the dagger trait). Ele got such nice aoe (which still hits thieves in stealth).
Engineers I found better than thieves in several aspects, just a bit bugged.
Haven’t tried Mesmer, but my friend kills every prof with it:D he says confusion is the kitten.
With rangers I found the pet to be soulless and dumb:/
Necroes well hated that staff was only marks, but the DS is soooo strong :O

Love that a guardian complained^^ seen one molestimg three people, no sweat.. And powerful heals as well.. 3 times in the fight did he manage to go up to full health:o
Guardiand are able to catch me, but takes timing, skills and knowlegde… Something that is kinda lost in WvW^^ people want a profession for everything with backstab dmg, range as a ranger, support as a fuardian and survivability as a necro xD

And a hint to ppl getting downed by thieves.. Go in big groups:D we can still pick one out, but if you have a guardian or the like we can’t stealth stomp:)

Yeah well I might do it wrong and I know you shouldn’t compare buuut…

A little story from WvW

2 thieves conered me so I had to fight back, they were D/D HS spammer so I was safe.
I tried to play smart with dodge, SR, SW, TG and all my 1-5.
My main issue is that only 4-5 seemed to have an effect. C&D i a no brainer since we were all melee, and funny thing was at they used TG, SW and SR as well but not C&D or dancing dagger.
So actually my off hand dealt most dmg.
I tried to avoid hs by flanking strike, it evaded but nearly no dmg, C&D for stealth and good dmg, but the sword 1 stealth ability was not as good as Dagger thou it diabled them for a second. Then used flanking strike, but really HS is a better and strong gap closer, especially when they refused to give me conditions which left me with no really need to retreat.
Dancing dagger really did the job.
So we kept on fighting reducing them to 10% each, then they retreatet and healed up (maybe I wasn’t aggressive enough). Then a ranger showed up and we finished them.

I just felt like I lacked a great deal of dmg.. My best guess is that sword is more a defensive weapon.
Maybe my spec is wrong. Or maybe I am just more of a dagger thief, though I love the sword. And sword + pistol seems even more lacklust imo:/

So how do you roll sword + something setup? And if you got a good sword+ pistol setup I am really interested:)
Atm I got a lot in acrobatic for survivalbility (still does decent dmg with daggers).
Also not lvl 80 yet, but I know for sure one of them weren’t due to the green arrow, both had elite skills.

Kind regards:)

Ps. Or maybe I should just do as Flamu and go SB xD

Maybe the expanssion will be build around water-combat adding new elites and utility skills.. Hope not though xD even though I love how they made water in form of graphic, I hate the underwater combat :/

I must say that my main dmg abilities was Dancing dagger, cloak and dagger and back stab as D/D. Mostly because of HS high pct miss chance and that delayed animation often ended in multiple HS when you just wanted to use it as gap closer for C’n’D, leaving you without enough iniative for that:/ (could be fixed by being more patient though)

PW is not something I am an of.. Mostly, as many pointed out already, because of the rooting… I play my thief as a mobile profession, that is why I can’t be bothered with Haste aswell unless it is from another profession or trait. Cause the though you might be able to heavy burst a target e can easily dodge, CC, or use other mechanisms to escape, leaving me without my beloved dodge:/

Such a great post:) nice to read!:)

Ohh you could try get immobilising, knock back/down, stun or daze abilities:)
What I love is that profession hetz, cause in theory you can play all the professions, so if one is op then change… But then comes time lvling an up toon(stupid imho why lvling an up toon), learning the profession and be good at its mechanisms, realizing it is not op.. And then back to forums, cause it is easier to nerf goodplayers (though they will adapt) than learn to overcome that so-called OP profession:0

Srry for my harsh words, mocking intentions etc.. Just a bit tired of nerf threads^^ would rather see construtive threads about how to beat X profession with Y profession on Y profession forum:) some ppl alrdy do that, and great job to them:)

Please stop these nonsense posts. This is a l2p prob from your side. We are not durable, that is why we can escape.. Guardians can lock you down and survive more that is why they are less mobile, even with meditation skills.
Also I don’t think movement speed bonuses stacks tbh:)

A: as a stealthy fast and hard hitting class I always expect a nerf^^
guardians seems to be the only prof that can nuke a whole team, heal full up three times and support in every aspect without ppl QQ

Also most mmoes seems to make warriors the most balanced prof/class/role/job, I mean as prof/class/role/job, not compared to others:) just my opinion though xD still dull xD
Love my thief and iniative + steal, just wish for a permanent mug>:D

swilkers.5938:

Thief class-

All you should get are daggers and swords. You can do everything the rangers can do except have a pet. Rangers can’t even stealth.

Pls explain a bit on how thieves and rangers are nearly the same (red. Can do the same)?
Thief is but a name I guess.. I don’t see us a stealthy type, you can do a build completely without it, the effectiveness of this build can be discussed.
I see it more like an assassin. A killer, but using technique instead of brute strength:)

Well fleeing like a chicken Oo
The brave dies an honest death, the cunning lives to tell the story.
Is it not hack’n’slash and soack up dmg:)
You have to be on the move:) avoid getting hit, kite and position yourself:D
It is a very dynamic prof, but yeah sometimes I feel I missing out on something:/ but the again seen a lvl 80 thieves take out a bounch of us.. A warr tried the same, but he was easy to. Escap from.

He is using my escape technique:O sometimes I feel like we are useless.. If we kill 1v1 as we suppose to, ppl whinne. And we are squishy.. Give me a guardian with iniative xD hold on forever, able to kill a group and no whinning for other professions because they are forced to be bluish xD

Initiative is what keeps me on my thief.. Without it I might as well roll, guard, war, engi or ele:) but now when I tried it, it is hard to go back.. And I find steal to be strong, and not as dull as the warriors adrenalin:)

Don’t expect us to search google for it:D

Many of the names made my smile xD
I love how the westen support freedom of speech and how we talk about tolerance.. And still use censorship and get offended by names :b
I get that you shouldn’t try to offend people directly, but also sometimes ppl needs to lighten a bit up^^ I often come across racial comments, but hey calling a toon “Black man” and make him black is not offending, just lack of creaticity, maybe even dumb:) “black man” making him white is just a cheap shot of irony.

Any reference to Islam should not be allowed… Why? Because we know that they are more serious about their religion and it really offend them, so we shouldn’t poke the bear here tbh, even though it contradict what I might alrdy stated, some ppl don’t got humour when it comes to certain issues..

Like in my country we kinda make it a sport to find the limit, if you heard about Jimmy Carr well you know he got no limites, it is from ambusing child, kitten and religion.. Sme say it is stupid, but the way he deliever it is great:)

On topic
I haven’t seen any fun names:/ think they got forced to change name (another victory for freedom). I myself use more racial names and therefor mostly roll humans cause kitten Azura names I got no glues…
Also should I name my toon “Moss Roam” it would just annoy me:/ but like to see other ppl come up with clever or dumb reference:) if I find it funny it is a win, if not well others might:D and that is important, not the names, but that you enjoy most aspects in the game^^

ohh kinda wish my thief would get forced into change name.. Kinda hate the name I gave him-__-’

For attack I use shortbow:) and scorp wire to pull people down from the walls.
Also shadow refuge is a good stealth reviver:)
Pls don’t sit back and wait, even though our support is minimal, minimal is still more than nothing:)

Yesterday I was playing wvwvw and actually had a blast.. I mean yeah it is okay to roam or zerg.
But here we did as intended, coordinated attacks, reincforced camps and towers with upgrades and seige, it was actually funny to hunt the germans down (can’t remember server name) for once and not be totally overruled by their shear numbers^^
so thx for that, and good job to the one at eternal battle ground who conquered a lot there as well.

The score was great motivation. We might had lost it now, butkittenit was fun while it lasted, and we will take it back:D

Pls share your great experience in WvWvW if any:)

Ruin of Surmia:)

The mod is illigal, several posts stat this as well as a reddit post.
Asked for the controller.. Got enough bottoms:) and would feel more like an action game.. But yeah maybe more a disadvantage than a advantage, but for fun it would be nice.

Is it allowed to use a controller to play gw2? (hardware like ps3 or xbox controller)
Tink it requires a mod or a file.
I would like to know this just so I can try it out, I feel that the combat is a bit stiff as it is:) yeah you can dodge, but feel a bit clumsy:)

I would like that. But postet before:) also would like to play with a controller

Wait so the azura who are servicing them won’t get paid any more???

Something about gambling and games.. Can’t remember but blizzard had it up.

If the xpqnssion is soon. I would like this to be in a patch though:)

Just a Q: you can’t be banned for this? Better safe than sorry, but really want to play wi controller and the crossair function;)

I just want more keep upgrades:D even though we are in the bottom, I would like to reclaim a keep and totally fortify it xD

Thesilentflute.8761:

You guys are right thieves and rangers should be nerfed
Thieves – one shot vit tough builds
Rangers – one of the highest range classes with second highest burst

I completly agree guys Anet nerf Thieves and Rangers soon before they cry about not being able to do everything

Stay on topic--’ the nerfing a rebalancing is in procces:) Like making the utility skills more lukittenll for the players to use. And remember it is a fairly new game:) so most ppl are not used to the professions:) but it is coming slowly, just heard about a staff elementalist in the higher sPvP ranks owning ppl --’ unbelievable, since elementalist are the weakest link imo.. But I guess I am just a nub when I play on them-__-’

On topic, I think more weapon would be fun, it would not make them OP as long it is kept down and balanced, but give us more options to costumize our thives after need..
Also wants just a few more weapons for the eng.. Yeah I got tool kits and cool flamethrower, but still, what about dagger or two handed mace >:D

Ohh my whip suggestion did post:/

Well well might do that another time.

Throwing star utility, trickery: throw four stars in a cone in front of you causing dmg snd bleeding. 600 rng, 45 CD.

Blowing gun utility, deception?: fire a poison dart at the enemy causing poison and daze, do not break stealth (as if it matters -__-’). 900 rng, 45 CD.

Sap utility, trickery: shadowstep to the taget dazing him and entering stealth. 900 rng, 60 CD.

Engineer got lesser weapons available.. That being said I see bandits with rifles and torch! I want that as well.. Axe, not a bit fan but could be cool.

Torch should have a dual skill were you blinded the foe and then stabbed him, scourge the ground in front of you burning the area in a small PAoE cone for burning, throw torch set the foe ablaze and shadowstep to him stabbing him:D
S/T obscure the vision of your foe blinding and adding blind while sladhing him with the sword for bleed.
D/T set the torch in the ground greating a smoke field, and evade behind him for a backstap ( not the stealth version), combo field smoke, last 1-2 sec, not more since it shouldn’t replace pistol offhand.
P/T set the foe ablaze and shadowstep backwards finishing him with a barrage of bullets:)
A/T hit the foe with the torch dazing him for 1 sec and slash him several time with a axe i a PAoE cone causing weaknes for 3 sec.

S/S Parry the next incoming attack and kick the foe turning him around, finish with a back slash.
X/S 4: deep wound, drill the sword deep into the foe causing heavy bleeding and weakness
5: slash the foe in a PAoE cone in the face causing bleed and blind.

Precision shot: shot the foe for dmg, 1200 rng, shot the foe again shattering his armour, cause vulnability, 1200rng, shot a finishing shot at the knee cap, putting an end to him being an adventure, cause cripple, 1200rng.
2: Flare: ground target, shot a flare that burn the area, combo field fire.
3: Penetrating shot: Shot a focused penetrating bullet knocking back the first target.
4: Scatter shot: fire several bullets hitting multible foes in a cone causing bleed.
5: Infiltraters resort: Shot a sniper shot at target dazing them, evade back and stealth.

Mig be a bit OP some of it.. But think it can easily be balanced by removing, adding or changing some of it:)
Tbh I don’t care if it becomes UP, just like to have the option to walk with a riffle or a torch (why do I keep wanting to add an “u”-_-’)

There are some:) just bought the soundtrack Oo

I suggest pets! Yeah good idea.. Yeah atm we got minis.. And I hate them-_-’ I like the pets i wow more.. Because they are not miniatures (well mostly not) of some persona.. An åd they are more alive! Move around with animation(yeah new feature but still). Love it, it works, steal it!
let us get pets with soul since we have to gåbuy gems to get em.. Let them have idle animations, even interactions, might even kill critters.. Make more beast minis instead of miniature humanoids imo..

Make them duel in that arena in Lion’s arch. I know a lot of ppl was against the whole pokemon thing in MoP, but tried it in the beta and works very well.. If you don’t liked it you could easily ignorer it:) I guess it is the same for minis, so until they live a bit more up I gonna ignorer them:)
Oohh and duel and inspecting could be fun features:)

Again a great idea;)