Guild Wars 2

OP has PvE gear in his build so I guessed WvW

If you want to try a power build you can try what I run : http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-V;4sPkl0c-3UFx0;9;4T-9J9296;10;005-5;0S;56TsW6TsW50kr0;2N_-VNVSWXXb2h3n40NWKN370;9;9;9;9;9;9;04-6F

I’ve killed bunker guardians and eles a lot. I’ve even 2v1ed a bunker guard and ele. Most of the time they run one or two stun breakers on a 60-70 sec CD, this build has at least 4 CCs you can chain. And mine has a 15sec CD + the toolbelt skill is a good damage skill if you can use it on them.

Edit: I assumed you were asking for WvW, right?

Specterryu Quipter.8412:

Pizz.3698:

There’s a guy that posted an old sPvP build with x6 guardian with a bunker/cond spec and used p/s and toolkit iirc. If i find the build ill link it here

Are you talking about the STD build? It’s the first thing I think of when I see rune of the guardian now.
Link: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Time-to-see-a-doctor-it-s-the-STD-Build/first#post1370848

Edit: Oh someone beat me to it, oh well

Yeah, I just couldnt remember the name of it.

Essarious Quw.8946:

Things I would have done differently:

Storytelling:
- A cutscene on Pearl Islet letting you know what the flip is going on, instead of Kiel stood about talking to no-one in particular. Accessed via an instance similar to the Braham/Rox cutscenes.

- An instance in Steampipe Steading following on from that cutscene where you kill waves of crazed beasts and then question the survivors and find out whodunnit. Instead of Kiel and a random settler just having a chat over and over again after a dynamic event.

Mechanics:
- Remove Canach’s knockback in the Canach’s Lair instance. It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back and it’s why people hate the instance. It is not fun.
- Add verbal cues instead of spamming the chatbox with yellow text.

- Remove the elementals from the Subdirector NULL instance. It’s the element that makes it impossible for PUGs and any group that’s not mostly guardians. It is not fun.
- Add verbal cues instead of spamming the chatbox with yellow text.

Misc:
- Either stop putting weapon skins in the game for a limited time via tokens gained from chests, or leave them in the game permanently. If I knew that from now until the end of GW2 that I had a chance to get a molten weapon skin or a sclerite skin from a BLC, then I wouldn’t throw so many of the kitten ed things away or sell them on the TP. Just saying.

- The event in Blakestone Caverns should probably have been deactivated for the duration of Last Stand at Southsun. It’s inconvenient as flip.

That’s really it, everything else I’ve enjoyed. I usually play GW2 with my partner and brother, but I’ve been flying solo for the more difficult parts of Southsun as it’s been frustrating them and they’ve just totally given up. There is a difference between elite content and alienating content. If you want to put elite content into the game then please add a “hard mode” option to dungeons rather than making things unplayable for more casual players or people new to the genre.

GW2 was marketed as being “an MMO for people who don’t play MMOs”. This feels very much like content designed for the hardcore.

EDIT: Could you also post an official feedback thread in every living story forum from now on? Since one always ends up getting made, why not just post it and sticky it at the top where everyone can find it?

I’m sorry if you feel that this is hardmode or content for hardcore but it’s definetly pure casual player content. All the hardcore players stopped playing GW2 a while ago and the semi-hardcore ones that still play completed Canach under 5 minutes and NULL on their first try.

Southsun, for me, totalled about 2 hours of content (1 hour and a half to complete all the achivements for the two backpacks without dulfy’s guide and 30 mins to do Canach, find a group for NULL and do NULL)

Also, to those people complaining about failing with pugs…Why dont you try with players you know are decent? ask guildies maybe?

The Legendary Ancient Karka had an awesome fight with different phases, expect the waves of 30 mins of endless karkas thrown at you. But then again, having to do it every day if you want that chest can become tiresome, at least not over half the players can Akitten fight.

There’s a guy that posted an old sPvP build with x6 guardian with a bunker/cond spec and used p/s and toolkit iirc. If i find the build ill link it here

Lopez.7369:

This is partially inaccurate. The developers definitely had to deal with time constraints like any project in any industry does, but there was a whole team dedicated to the efforts.

From what we’ve heard, the same team involved with the efforts is also the main dungeon team — or at least includes the main dungeon developers. That should trouble anyone who wants a bright future for Guild Wars 2 because it shows the quality of boss design isn’t improving much, if at all, within the dungeon team.

On the bright side, the quality of boss design seems to be improving elsewhere. So maybe the leads for those teams should be brought over to the dungeon team.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Iruwen.3164:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

given the time the designer had to work on the instance, I think he did a great job.

Hm, all you’re currently releasing is living world content as far as I’m aware of, and most of it doesn’t seem to require a lot of work except the Molten Weapons Facility. How can he not have had enough time to work on this, and why did he have to do it alone? Makes you wonder how many designers there are to begin with.

There are multiple living world teams, each with assets from all departments. The initial scope for Canach’s instance was as it is now – we had a shorter time table to build things, so we just wanted to plan for a story boss fight (easier) and a multiplayer boss fight (harder). The designer accomplished what we planned to do with it, but we never really considered it a dungeon – that was just a bit of a marketing mistake that set unrealistic expectations as a result of calling it a dungeon on the heels of MF.
He did it alone (or as alone as we all develop things as a team) because it was only a couple bosses in a small area – he didn’t and shouldn’t have needed any assistance with it, and it was finished within the scope of our initial plan.
I can’t give estimates on how long our team was developing this content, but it was an accelerated dev cycle for our team. Thankfully due to the schedule of our release, our team was staffed with some of the fastest iterative folks from the company to get something good out in a short time.
Our next schedule is much more relaxed than this one is though, so I’m very eager to see what we can do with it.

plz dont, most guild missions require coordination (Half-baked, Ascalon puzzle, the challenge with the barrels or the one with the crystals to name a few). Adding pugs to it would only increase the rate of failure.

Lucky Shot.7650:

Vayne.8563:

Lucky Shot.7650:

Yes, they do play the content, for the two hours required to clear the achievements. Or if the content is farmable.

I bet they’d play more and permanently if, for instance, dungeons had better scale rewards.

I don’t think as many people would welcome the dungeons as people that would do the living story. Those who love dungeons can’t understand why people might solo an MMO, but there are tons of people who do solo. Tons who don’t like dungeons, or any kind of challenging content. Tons of people who just want to hang out in the open world and be given stuff to do.

This is a good point, a really good one in fact and it answers my initial question: I’m disconnected from the playerbase. And also it worries me: if people consider more important and fun LS content than dungeoning, pvp and wvw I’m afraid this game will always give priority to those players, leaving us to wait for better balance on these features.

They… uhm… should add super easy dungeons? I mean, dungeons are far easier than wow raids, where if a single raider doesn’t do his job the whole raid dies (dps failing to dps=enrage, tank failing to hold aggro=everyone dies, healer failing to heal=tank dies+everyone dies) but sure they’re not a cakewalk either.

GW2 dungeons are enough of a cakewalk that you can clear most of them (except the ones with high regen bosses) naked(no gear, no accessories) with exotic weapons without any major difficulties.

I’d say TC is probably the biggest PvE server. Most of the time they have dungeons open and Orr temples open.

Note that the Southsun Living Story team had few people (it’s what I could get from the few statements given by devs or CMs). For example, Canach and NULL were programmed by a single dev. And the overall content for the Southsun arc was done in a really restrained amount of time, apprently.

As for RNG boxes it’s been discussed in many threads.

RNG = more money. There seems to be more people willing to gamble on RNG items than farmers/hardcore players to beat hard content or farm ‘’hard-er’’ content and receive items for their achivements.

GW2 is now a casual player haven. So, RNG is a better system.

Lopez.7369:

If this portion of the living story is what they put their “best” dungeon team on for a month or so, yikes. They should have used the Molten Facility team instead.

There was only one dev on this and on a restrained amount of time. (The two ’’dungeons’’ that is)

Kaos.9162:

Shame on a certain three people camping the cage room in tkitten jumping puzzle….not for camping but for actually letting me up and killing you all.

The only thing to do when that happens is join/invite their party and have a good laugh

Fractals is doable in Beserker gear up to like 40 where it becomes harder. At least I’ve done it. Though a full beserker group requires some good dodging skills. My group usually had a PVT guard and 4 beserkers. Note that I did fractals on my necro, but we had a Beserker Engineer(edit: i forgot the engineer part :P) (with valk accessories) with us.

If you want to maximize your dps, use grenade kit from 1300 range in full zerker, or bomb kit in melee range for dungeons like CoE. Always go for full zerker in PvE theres no point to gear otherwise.

FT is NOT a good weapon in a power spec since FT#1 has abysmal damage. Same thing goes for Tool Kit, it’s not really usefull in PvE since only #3 has decent damage.

Spec for swift/vigor(on crit or swap) and use Elixir B and keep that perma fury.

No on repairing siege, Tool kit is fine, plznot2touch.

lilcoffeebean.3149:

HippoLogic.2519:

Well looks like we are going to get the same match up again next week unless DH manages to climb up about 20 points in the ratings. Hope everyone is ready for another week of the same kitten. Oh and if you dont believe me look at the update for the wvw match ups.

Taken from the MOS website which is what most use to find the matchups “With these changes, currently we can only predict new ratings and rankings, but not next matchups. I hope Arena.net will provide the random roll (through the API or leaderboards) before the end of the matchup. With this knowledge, we would then be able to predict next matchups.”

So no, the odds of us having the same matchup are extremely low although possible. This also assumes these changes won’t have bugs…..which I’m skeptical about =P

We were hoping to roll out the new matchup system for the next matchups but unfortunately we ran into a few snags. We are working hard to get everything working 100% correctly and tested and should be able to start the new matchups once we’ve checked everything. I’ll make sure to be back to let you all know as far ahead of time as I can. My apologies for the inconvenience.

By DevonCarver

Not sure if this is the right section, but does anybody know if there’s any non-living story content schedueled?

While it is great that Anet is appeasing the casual crowd, I’m starting to see most of the semi-hardcore I know leaving the game. Even though it is a buy to play and coming back is easy. I’m wondering if there’s anything planned to try to keep the semi-hardcores and maybe get some of the hardcore players back?

Fractals were a step in the right direction since they offered ’’harder’’ content and skin progression, but they’re getting highly redundant and for those of us that are not liked by the RNG god it’s also getting highly frustrating.

TL;DRIs there any hard content with horizontal progression planned in the near future?

P.S. Seeing as Karka Queen is only coming out next week, im guessing the Dragon Festival will not come out on June 4th? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

BlackDevil.9268:

DevonCarver.5370:

Cottage Pie.6215:

you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.

1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.

It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it

Wont do.

Corrected it for you. devon

You still need Laurels to buy them..not just badges.

blackgoat.5172:

Pizz.3698:

Some lame dungeon to appease the casual crowd with easy content.

I get that some people don’t have/won’t put the time into a game, but I’m just so tired of these crappy, easy mode “MMO’s”. Does anyone make a truly epic, work you’re kitten off for real rewards, game any more? or has WoW ruined the genre for all time?

You say that now but during the first months of the game the forums were filled with complaints about how hard and unachievable the dungeons were. (I’ve had the chance to complete every single dungeon with green gear and the lowest lvl possible on my first try, but i guess i had a good group)

While Fractals were a good step in the way of making dungeons that offered a certain amount of challenge, I agree with you that GW2 is in big need of truly hard content with some epic skins (no RNG plz) that only a select few will be able to get because they were able to clear it. Sadly, Canach and NULL felt like a step backwards.

azazil.9541:

Just because a designers is not telling you what to do does not necessarily mean you are going to be lost

Except the yellow text in your chat box that tells you his shield is up and that you should try to make him walk on a mine.

You can kill him under 2-3 minutes he’s super easy and it feels like there only was 1 or 2 devs on this. Some lame dungeon to appease the casual crowd with easy content.

Start praying to the RNGod

HawkMeister.4758:

Added new island-wide meta-event where players defend and liberate the new settlements across Southsun Cove. If players hold all four settlements, merchants will become available with unique items, and there is a chance that an Enraged Karka Queen boss will spawn.

Added new Canach single-player story boss encounter.
Added explorable multiplayer variant (unlocked if you defeat Canach).
Added new single-player instance for the culmination of the story.

So apart from the meta event, this is basically all for now.

So effectively the “live show” ends here, at least for anybody who can´t finish Canach single player or simply can´t be bothered to jump through ANets hoops like a trained monkey.

Karka event is only coming out next week and isnt really part of the living story since it’s a premanent Dragon-like meta-event

Enjoyluck.2618:

Pizz.3698:

At least MF provided a bit of a challenge…

4 berseker warriors and 1 mesmer.

You can complete it under 30 mins with any party set-up, im just saying it provided a bit of a challenge as in a small amount still over zero. Compared to NULL.

At least MF provided a bit of a challenge…

So we’ve got 15 minutes of new PvE content and that’s it? Is there anything more than Canach & NULL?

DisplayName.7802:

I dont know who you are, but I will find you, and kill you

I always see him in EB at the spawn waypoint or our garrison’s waypoint or in DHBL.

iCryptik.1496:

The counters to stealth are stuns, fears, and aoe damage. If you are having a hard time against classes that stealth, you may be playing a class the may just be weaker, or you may need to look at your utilities. Warriors and necros by far should never have a problem against thieves.

The problem with stuns as a counter to stealth is that you can use blinding powder while stunned providing you stealth. Fear last at max 3 seconds if you’re in melee range of a warrior and 1sec for a necro. The best counter to stealth is life leech. You can semi-track thieves by seeing yourself get healed as you’re wacking air, assuming you’re attacking one without any endurance or initiative left.

Hopefully this one will provide a bit more of a challenge than Flame & Frost, while enjoyable the first 30 minutes you take to clear it, it is so easy you could run it without any gear on, same thing for most of the permanent dungeons out there. (Trust me, my guild has done it on multiple occasions)

Edits: grammar/spelling

Well, small group from [Abys] I guess you finally were able to capture Redlake in DHBL after calling in some reinforcement. Congratz.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

eggs.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=entdjK1kFpg

Too much time in T8.

Gear Shield + Super Speed aaannndd….. you’re gone

Server: Sorrow’s Furnace
Wayfarer: Working
Diessa: Not Working

Let share the infos so people can guest and get their things done :P

Jed The Dog.6908:

server: dragonbrand
wayfarer foothills: no snow covered objects or mysterious devices
diessa plateau: yes snow covered objects and mysterious devices

Verified

juno.1840:

Speedy Kits is significantly better because:

1. It provides +33% instead of +25%
2. It works in combat (whereas the signet passive does not)
3. It does not consume a utility slot on a signet with a horrible active ability

It does come with the down-side of 10 points in the class trait line but that seems an acceptable trade off for the advantages listed above.

Combine it with the vitality trait for “Get vigor when you get swiftess” and now you have perma-vigor. Pretty awesome.

Engineers have very little to complain about here — we may have the best swiftness option of any profession.

A lot classes get vigor on crit (guard, mes and ele come to mind) whereas engis need to trait for either swiftness on crit or speedy kits and then trait for vigor on swiftness to keep swiftness up. I wouldnt count that as an advantage.

Also, with something like 20-30% boon duration you can keep perma swiftness with Drop Stimulant and Elixir B.

I’d still move Armor Mods to an other tree, it’s so random where it’s at right now.

Wrong forum subsection

Unintstalling Gamer OSD worked for me also. Thx SEM

We’re still looking for more players as the OP stated, T6 has a lot of people during that coverage so you wouldnt join a no-man’s land. You’d have some competition and fun times in our bright community, so join today !

Aytrix.4059:

Pizz.3698:

Don’t you guys see it? Anet’s slowly trying to shift WvW from Zergdomination to a population spread out on the map with cumulative small changes. I guess QQers will stay QQers.

So people are supposed to spread out and sit in every objective and just wait for it to be attacked? And once its attacked you don’t pvp you just jump on an ac and watch them melt. That’s not fun.

If they want to keep the timer then it should be as follows:
30 seconds on keep contests
15 seconds on tower contests
0 seconds on camp contests

No, but if you force doesnt consist of one massive blob, then the reaction is way smaller since your travel time is also smaller. If WvW consisted of multiple smaller battles over the map instead of 1-2 or 3 Wxp trains, then the 30second on camp flag wouldnt even be a bother.

Aytrix.4059:

Pizz.3698:

The community asks a way to shut down zerg, they get it but now they want the change reverted?

They can do way way way better then this ac change…

It’s still a start and is part of a bigger picture. I seriously think Anet’s heading in the right direction.

NA seems to look better and better ever since SF was set free from his ghetto shackles. At least you see way more fair fights in T6-7-8. When, if ever, SF reaches T5, you’ll have about half of NA not complaining about their server matchup.

Don’t you guys see it? Anet’s slowly trying to shift WvW from Zergdomination to a population spread out on the map with cumulative small changes. I guess QQers will stay QQers.

The community asks a way to shut down zerg, they get it but now they want the change reverted?

Same issue here. Tried -repair twice and reinstalling the .dat. Both didnt work. The patcher also crashes when I change language.

Zenguy.6421:

Thanks for your post cero. We do work hard to make the most of our smaller toys . . . cause the gods keep taking away our big ones.

That was why the Kit Refinement (KR) nerf hurt so bad – ANet went to remove one big toy (KR burst damage on Grenades) and in the process stomped all over a lot of small toys we’d been working on. Still, indications are they’re being more cautious with Eng’s in this upcoming patch so maybe they’ve learned some from the KR debacle.

If only KR had any use right now I think most people would’ve only complained about 100nade and 2x Super Elixir.

Entropy.4732:

A nerf this big is like saying, “Just kidding guys! We were dead wrong. Our original design was just an April fools joke.”

They actually buffed Confusion in PvE (and WvW at the same time), they’re just reverting the buff.

Lucky Shot.8740:

SF started as a strong PVE server. Thanksgiving through early January we had the Mad King events, Wintersday and that’s what people were doing. Right when you left, wvw people started heading back and PVE players started to branch out. It wasn’t an overnight thing, it took a couple weeks to get it rolling and a several months to build.

Also, once the fractal fever ran out, a lot of our PVE players started exploring WvW. SF is still a strong PVE server and will probably stay one. The lack of any major PVE content since wintersday is a major reason why we have such a huge WvW pop. It’s also one of the reason why I laughed at server using SAB as an excuse for their low pop.

Also quick shout to [SE] [FURY] and [BURN]. You guys were fun to fight last night !

Dawdler.8521:

Wait, did you just argue for or against it?

Because confusion is everything the Mesmer has and its easily cleansed by condition removal, unlike an P/PEngineer that apply so many conditions you get dizzy.

Corrected it for you. I think it does way too much damage as is, though it’s only overpowered in fights while easy to counter as a singular thing. So in theory yes, you only need cond removal, but in practice you need to pray the RNG god or only be facing a mesmer in a 1v1 and outcleanse him, but we all know WvW barely ever consists of 1v1s and have 4+ conditions during a fight is more than common.

Mainly it’s not black or white. It’s often too strong in actual combat, but the nerf wont make it useless, just less powerful.