Guild Wars 2

Terra Dactyl.2047:

And thieves have to stealth for theirs or a warrior will just chase them down and keep them in combat.

If a thief can’t escape from a warrior without stealth, ur doing it wrong.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Feyhen.7432:

Hello everyone,

i would like to give my point of view.

I have had problems motivating myself to play Guild Wars 2 for a while know. Here is my personal reason why: I love character progresstion.
I love game with a vast amout of thinks where my character can evolve. I love getting new attacks, getting new ways to combine my attacks, getting new cool weapons and abilitys. Mechanics that opens up while new levels of gameplay.

I am not the gear type, i dont care much about vertical Progression.
I am more in love with horizontal progression and this is,

where Guild Wars 2 lacks.

I play as Warrior and although i have plenty of Alts, my Warrior is my favorite.

But since there are so limited skills and abilities my character can obtain, i dont feel like progressing any longer. I know that i could go for some ascended gear but i am not really interesstet in shiny new armor. I would like to be able to choose my own fighting style rather then only my own look.

As the skill system in Guild Wars 2 is right now, people like me will feel unsatisfied without more abilities to be learned.

Personally i would like to see an enhanced combat system with more ways to progress, with more styles to play. The warrior next to me may have a better looking Greatsword than me, but he will always play like me, execute the same weapon skills with that awesome sword like me, no matter what. I feel like there are not enough ways to individualise at the machinical level.

Hi Fey,

I play a PVT AOE Heal shout War. I have played this role fora long period of time and have never played a DPS War. On top of this I am also easily able to hold agro and support my group. My DPS is terrible but I keep my team alive while they run around destroying everything (-: The reason I raise this is because I would like to know what your role is with you War and I am wondering if you are aware of the different roles that each Profession can play dependent on their traits/skill/sigil/rune and weapon setup?

Note I ‘Look’ like a DPS war because i use a great sword (greatsaw) and a Longbow (Arthropoda). I like you believe that Horizontal Progression should be about role differentiation, however I feel like this system is already very core to the game but that we could do a better job of teaching how it works to a broader audience.

In short there are multiple War and profession roles and thus it is quite unlikely that that War next to you plays just like you.

Chris

Wait… seriously… you’re involved in making this game and that’s how you built a character for pve? Please go do the math and understand that in the game you WORK ON, the pve 1 shot = 1 kill content means that healing somebody else and stacking toughness/vitality means you will still be 1 shot if you fail at dodging/reflecting, you will not be able to keep anybody alive through taking 20k hits, and your reduced dps output combined with a complete lack of defensive utility options means you drag party down. This isn’t about elitism, this is about being useful.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

On top of this I am also easily able to hold agro

That’s not even how this game works…

JJBigs.8456:

Bolts of silk still skyrocketing. Was 80c on patch day and i bought around 5 stacks (Stupid, not enough) Now i see its 1.9s per o.o

Buy 6 stacks, use 2 stacks to craft your damask for the next 5 days and sell the other 4 at the end of those 5 days for a net profit. :P

Pleurodesed.7625:

Watching scarlet events fail all the time because people zerg around the commander tag also upsets me.

It upsets you that people in wvw don’t run the scarlet events that spawn in the little npc camps?… Pretty sure it upsets the other 99.99999999999999999999999% of the wvw population that a stupid pve living story event keeps popping up on the map.

Because it exploding wasn’t solving the puzzle…

How could anybody not have badges? Those achievement chests give so many and there’s almost no point in burning badges on siege these days.

ATMAvatar.5749:

Player Character.9467:

Ok now you’re just not making any sense, your izerker does 3-4k and you think that’s more than 90% of an ele’s hp? Where are these eles with 4200hp? And what does that have to do with 30k eles?

I think you misread the trait. It stops working if your health drops below 90%, not 10%.

If you have 30k hp, he only needs to hit you for 3,001 to bypass diamond skin. The 30k came up because he was working backwards from the low-end of the 3-4k damage to see how high the ele’s starting HP needs to be in order for diamond skin to remain active after taking the hit.

I misread nothing

Taldren.7523:

iZerker, Mirror Blade, or iDuelist take well more than 90% as soon as they are summoned.

Would somebody please get SBI a glass of water, they seem to have winded themselves in that weekend sprint forgetting it was a week long race.

(alternative post)

Would somebody please get SBI a little blue pill, they seem to have trouble keeping that ppt up for more than 4 hours.

Taldren.7523:

Player Character.9467:

Taldren.7523:

Silferas.3841:

Took me a while to realize you were talking about wvw dueling. If you however WERE talking about PvP dueling, you must be from another planet than me, since I see almost no other class in PvP duel rooms than dps Guards and thieves.

Also, no matter the game mode, PU condi mesmers (along with all other condi classes) autofail against eles starting this patch. Phantasm builds can still give you a headache but having heavy AoE options on all weapons makes eles one of the best counterclasses to phantasm mesmers. And remember, no phantasms, no damage AND no healing with the new healing skill.

Stop complaining, start playing

Well I play both classes in question here and Diamond Skin is a joke. I can take it down in less than a second and then stack conditions at will making the point investment worthless. iZerker, Mirror Blade, or iDuelist take well more than 90% as soon as they are summoned.

Your iZerker instantly does more than 90% of any elementalist’s hp? Plz stop haxploiting.

Um yeah, I am condi spec … and with my 55% crit rate the zerker usually hits for 3-4k. So lets do some math … if 10% is 3k … then what is 100%? That’s right 30,000. How many 30k ele’s running around?

Ok now you’re just not making any sense, your izerker does 3-4k and you think that’s more than 90% of an ele’s hp? Where are these eles with 4200hp? And what does that have to do with 30k eles?

Um… rifle warrior’s killshot vs staff ele… did you ever think of using fire 4, air 3, or earth 3?… Also while he sits there channeling you can dump any 2 of lava font, ice shard, or eruption on him. Heck, you could use air 2 when he starts his channel and you’ll blind his killshot while hitting him as hard a meteor hits.

Killshot isn’t effortless to perform, it’s even higher risk than meteor shower and at lower reward.

Taldren.7523:

Silferas.3841:

Took me a while to realize you were talking about wvw dueling. If you however WERE talking about PvP dueling, you must be from another planet than me, since I see almost no other class in PvP duel rooms than dps Guards and thieves.

Also, no matter the game mode, PU condi mesmers (along with all other condi classes) autofail against eles starting this patch. Phantasm builds can still give you a headache but having heavy AoE options on all weapons makes eles one of the best counterclasses to phantasm mesmers. And remember, no phantasms, no damage AND no healing with the new healing skill.

Stop complaining, start playing

Well I play both classes in question here and Diamond Skin is a joke. I can take it down in less than a second and then stack conditions at will making the point investment worthless. iZerker, Mirror Blade, or iDuelist take well more than 90% as soon as they are summoned.

Your iZerker instantly does more than 90% of any elementalist’s hp? Plz stop haxploiting.

SnowHawk.3615:

but unlike most classes ele cannot swap weapons- so sigil of energy is

usable on cooldown better than a 10s weapon swap cd class

Fixed

A Massive Headache.1879:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

OmaiGodman.2098:

KyreneZA.8617:

LordArrgh.8073:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Haha omg. Why are all the worst characters Sylvari!? Hahaha.

….and all the best ones are Asura

But yeah please don’t put Trahearne into LS I will do it even less than I do now.

Retire him to Southsun where he can relax on the beach and get eaten by Karka.

There are bad characters of all races. Also we have Sieran, who is the best character. So what now?

Whoa wasn’t meaning to upset you.

I love Sieran. But I would challenge you to find a bad Asura. Heh.

All of them? …do I have to pick only one? Asura and Quaggans need to be extinct

+1

Asurans = Goblins/Orcs in other games.
Quaggans = just plain stupid Seamonkeys

I’m pretty sure the Charr are the GW equivalent of Orcs. Asura would be the dwarves I guess, with a slight sci-fi twist to them.

Except guild wars already has dwarves.

Yeah, but the gw2 dwarves aren’t the typical dwarves, they’re all stone and I want to say hivemind, but with how ogden is, i’m not so sure. Either way, the dwarves aren’t like other fantasy dwarves.

They turned themselves to stone so they wouldn’t be burned alive trying to fight the destroyers. Asura are goblins, look at the feet, the ears, and the teeth. They also ran away when the destroyers came for them while the dwarves stayed to keep the destroyers underground.

I still say if you’re trying to analyze the value of a build then it depends on what everybody else in that party is doing both to the party AND to the npc. A build that puts out more vuln might do better in a full buffs, solo dps test than another build but the other 4 players could already be capping.

Unless you intend to solo everything, a solo dps test is pointless. Hammer provides spammed blast finishers, staff provides fire fields but isn’t great at blasting it by itself. The 2 together actually make some really nice fury/might uptimes if traited for it.

But it’s also completely ignorable if you gear properly. That’s the value of having more infusion slots. That’s why +20’s cost so much more than 2 +10’s. They want you to get the gear, and they want that to be the value for getting that gear.

It’s not supposed to require skill, it’s their gear check. If you have 55 AR (old cap) you’re still fine in the lvl 40 instability while the lvl 50 instability you will want 70 AR (replace 3 +5’s with +10’s or wait for more slots via armor).

Evalana.5480:

Chris.3290:

Comprissent.3856:

As soon as an even numbered fight happens on sos bl, TC retreats to their tower and sits on ACs. I have no words

Clearly you need torun with a more well- spoken crowd. We wax very eloquent about TC’s propensity for Siege Wars.

You wax very eloquent? HaWt.

Wow Eva, please don’t flirt with the enemy. We’re not letting you transfer again yet.

Pretty sure that you would need 3 phants constantly up for the 2 to be similar.

BeoErgon.9107:

Nice initiative, really…

Don’t listen to those that don’t like it. It seems like if anyone plays different than them they feel threatened by something… I don’t know what it can be.

Yeah how dare somebody want to run differently than you? You get to play how you want and force that play style on every person you meet! God forbid that your conflicting play style result in you being in separate parties!

I don’t get where this attitude came from… never seen it before gw2.

Syprus the code exists so the npc can equip it… there are lots of codes for things players can’t use. The NPC’s are constructed the same way your character model is.

The poster is right… you can do things like make a lvl 2 ranger with over 30khp, 2k condi dmg.

Wow the direction this thread went… well just to correct the posts you non-crafters are making about crafting…
1. It’s not 145g to do 0-400 on all 8, it’s not even 120g.
2. 20+7x8=76, do 400-425 by refining t6 ore/wood/leather will basically finish your leveling for free (sometimes these refinements are even at a profit…)
3. Using a crafting booster does not give you more crafting exp from doing 0-400, it just reduces the materials required to get there.

Waffler.1257:

Already answered.

DevonCarver.5370:

If there is a tie, each server will be awarded the rewards for that place. e.g. if NSP and IoJ tie for 8th each will receive 8th place rewards.

Ya… we really shoulda just made it so every server was 1st 2nd or 3rd from day one :P

Evalana.5480:

IBountyHunterI.4601:

Someone from TG got Dusk to drop tonight, that makes 2 precursors in 4 days kitten , ty Maguuma guess we should of came here earlier since you have blessed us with good luck.

Time for me to join TG.

They’re saying the luck came from maguuma, and to be fair VR had like a 7 week streak of at least 1 precursor per reset night and just recently I got 2 precursors in 2 hours and some1 else got 3 the next day or the day after lol.

Gem store money doesn’t go to ANet so it wouldn’t really matter. NCSoft gets it all.

You could say defektive’s builds aren’t… /sunglasses defective…

For people who don’t understand zelhyn’s reasonings, they want to be useful while the fight is mobile and they want to press more than 2 buttons per fight so they don’t fall asleep. There might be some losses but unless you’re going for records, who cares? It’s still a decent damage build and it’s not gonna cost you much time.

Phlogus.2371:

Hickeroar,
Thanks for the response. We are pretty solid on taking camps towers and bloodlust

Wow really? Your full queue blob is good at taking camps and bloodlust?…

NICKEZ.3671:

No. You can’t karma train if there is no enemy to back-cap towers and keeps.

Wow… trying to get other servers to engage in PvP match manipulation with you? Stop violating my game mode.

NICKEZ.3671:

Any of you SoS or Mag commander want to start a proper karma train in one of the BLs?

o.O you’re looking to xfer off tc for a karma train? wow o7 CERN

iAmTheDuke.6201:

IBountyHunterI.4601:

Luvpie.8350:

I had fun leading SoS today in EB morning against tc militia and Sosbl in evening against STUN/NAGA etc. Nice to see TG again hope you guys enjoy it on Mag. If you guys want you can let us cap all of SoS and keep hills we can keep meeting north of hills at camp for fights for rest of week instead of running around

Thank you for leading that huge army of pugs lol, took us awhile to get into gear / enough people into WvW to really combat you guys but once we got the ball rolling it was pretty fun. I hope you had as much fun as we did bashing into eachothers groups.

Same goes for the STUN/ NAGA stack was fun fighting you guys.

Speaking of people having The Hunter drop, we had someone from TG get it to drop aswell…get your hunters while they are hot?

i SHOULD PROBABLY RUN SENT NEXT TIME INSTEAD OF FULL BERSERKER.

rIP gRATZ ON THE HUNTER DOH

mAGUUMAS lEWDEST COMMANDER na, iAMTHEDUKE.
<3 iLOVETHEDUKE

sorry, lewdest commander would be commander colhearth

Because there’s 3 wvw dailies every day and 49 days in the league?… Mag says key didn’t require much effort. You had that hard a time with your inflated server?

Palador.2170:

But if the lack of an actual LS update this period upsets you so badly, it’s easy to fix. Just pretend that you’ve heard that Scarlet is running around kicking puppies, and dash all over the map to try to stop her. In the end, you’ll do nothing useful at all and she’ll show up next update as if nothing has happened. See? Just like a regular LS update!

How is this not an actual LS update… the fractal story mode was about ellen kiel and scarlet.

What? You mean you don’t want to spend the gold on making 6 +20’s for your armor, 2 +20’s for your weapons, and 6 for your back/ring/earring/necklace. You don’t have 100k gold sitting around waiting for you to make your AR multiple times what is necessary?

This week, bunker guard vs bunker guard. Next week, canceled due to unfinished guardian duel after 7 straight days.

CMstorm.8679:

Axe5 is viable with 25 bloodlust and 25 stacks of might, empowered/empower allies. It’s decent with 25 bloodlust + a few stacks of might +empowered and Destruction of the Empowered, but there’s nothing to stop u from using it. If u figure something out that makes it worth using, by all means, go for it!

“If we compare max buffed axe5 to unbuffed axe1 then-”

wat?

Chris.3290:

Has Maguuma decided to not play on whichever map I decide they should bring their people to because they can only man 1, maybe 2 maps for part of the day but somehow they don’t get a tenth of our score and were even winning during reset when populations are closest to even.

Orange swords on SMC for 90 minutes straight, not a peep. TC takes their towers, not a peep.
We tap their keep, zerg shows up because we finally poke something that takes 0 effort to back cap anyway so they zoned in from another map for 30 seconds to take care of us.

If you were going to play why didn’t you buy guilds like the rest of us so you can support this terrible server stacking philosophy?

fixed

What? You expected the +5 to become a +5.0625?

morrolan.9608:

Warthog.6870:

I just ran into plexies significantly more often when matched up against your server. Mesmers I’m actually fine with – they’re supposed to dish out confusion – your thieves on the other hand – bleh. I’m not going to type what I think about perplexity engies.

Engis apply confusion as a fundamental part of the class like mesmers.

Except engis can also interrupt you ever 4 seconds.

Retsuko.2035:

Kovu.7560:

Now if it starts interfering with wvw, that’s something else entirely.

That toxic stuff or whatever was actually interfering with dolyaks.

It also interferes with the wvw season achiev to get merc camps, no1 ever bothers to clear them out of ebg so you can’t get the merc camp.

Why would anet update the wiki…

Will you pay for transfer?

robocafaz.9017:

Chris.3290:

Props to folks on Maguuma who actually show up to fight (INC, VR, Pyro, Ark, etc).

That’s Maguuma’s entire WvW population you just listed.

wow deany, you’re now #1 on the de|rp hitlist

MAUS HOUS.8047:

goldenwing.8473:

Solo dungeons did not end up being particularly popular in RIFT.

If you have more detailed information regarding ideas for a dungeon to solo (outside of stories), please post in the suggestion forum.

That is not an endorsement of the idea, just a pointer to the correct forum for the thread.

I think you’ll find this IS in the suggestions forum, now stop trying to be uptight because the OP hasn’t really expanded on his idea, you made no attempt what so ever to add an idea or refine what he said apart from synically ask him to move the post to the place where it already was!!

You’re replying to a post from june, the thread was likely moved.

For everybody else, the game has plenty of solo dungeons.

Their toughness scaling is horrendous?… it’s the same as every1 else.

Zord.6130:

Gossamer Scraps prices have been from 4.2 to 4.6 silver each for nearly one month.
Then, yesterday, there has been a HUGE increase (6,8silver at the moment) in the price.

I remember Ori and Ancient Wood did a similar thing when Ascended Weaponry was about to be released, with prices starting to skyrocket 2-3 days before release. Will this be a sign of Ascended Armor coming next patch?

EDIT: price is 7.4s right now lol

o.O I’m not sure you understand how prices work. The price going up doesn’t mean we’ll get ascended armor soon. Nobody from anet is sitting around waiting for the price to hit some threshold before releasing the patch. Getting ascended armor soon is what makes the price go up.

Cause→effect

Redenaz.8631:

Player Character.9467:

Ok sure, just give me 8 more weapon sets for my warrior even if they’re only OOC.

These QoL threads that only help the OP are always amusing.

Yes. That is exactly equivalent and not at all a silly exaggeration of what’s being suggested.

It actually is, elementalists carry maybe 8 weapons in total at the most to cover all their weapon sets. On warrior I have 30 different weapons.

Fossilized Amber.1352:

I play the thief exclusively in dungeons. I have been kicked once because the group wanted a “berserk only” party. Whatever that action amounts to is insignificant compared to the utility a thief can provide.

I run this in dungeons:

D/D (one dagger has superior sigil of corruption (condi damage on kill))
Superior Rune of the Antitoxin (-24% condi duration, +183 condi damage, might (x6) on poison or torment)
Apocethary armor (healing, +condi, +third attribute)
Signet of malice (works very well with death blossom)
Caltrops (good aoe bleed and cripple)
Signet of Infiltration (for init regen)
Blinding powder
Dagger storm

Traits are 0/0/25/30/15
Some of the traits are “assassins reward” (heal on init use), caltrops on roll, lose conditions while in stealth, ..

So the utility I bring to a party is superior bleed application (with death blossom), caltrops, and caltrops on dodge. I can also grant regen to allies using blinding powder (which also acts as a cover for a quick ress). Dagger storm is a great skill to block ranged attacks and give the team cover.

Don’t underestimate us.

even if i overestimate that build you’re still slowing down the party…

foofad.5162:

Fair warning, if you care about getting the most out of your stats, two handed weapons have poor conversion of stat points into critical damage. If you mix survivability gear into your loadout, your weapons should be some of the first to be swapped into survivability stats along with your chestpiece.

This statement is completely false…

2H weapon – 10% or 134 stats (13.4 stats per % )
Chest – 5% or 72 stats (14.4 stats per % )
Legs – 3% or 48 stats (16 stats per % )
Helm – 2% or 32 stats (16 stats per % )

and actually
1H weapon – 5% or 67 stats, 2H weapon – 10% or 134 stats
they’re identical