just speculation your numbers and i dont wanna waste my time to argue with you about this
BUT
“And forum is here exactly for feedbacks from players to devs so it means a lot.”
no its not
most important “Feedback” for them are the numbers ingame
- How many people already crafted to 500 and how fast.
- How many people have more than 1 Asc. Weapon
- Hows the effect on Economy
- How many use this System and how many ignore it
….. alot more
this are numbers they can work with and not the outcry from 10-15 random strangers
No, those aren’t feedback on whether or not people LIKE ascended weapons. People who don’t like ascended weapons aren’t just going to boycott BiS gear.
Yea they do… because it’s not required gear to have for any part of the game. I know many of people that aren’t upgrading because they don’t need it for anything.
Except they provide a stat advantage. Eventually there will be full ascended, a full ascended character in wvw will have a decent advantage on an exotic geared character.
I think the people that have chosen to not craft that gear realize they are missing that advantage. Fact is you don’t need it, as proven by our success playing the game before Ascended gear was released.
Please tell me of how much you played wvw against people in full ascended before ascended gear was released. I’m quite intrigued.
I didn’t but then again, I’ve played enough mass PVP MMO’s to know that the more people you throw in a zerg, the less relevant any individual’s gear becomes. Maybe for 1 vs. 1, you have a point but for WvW, less so.
Just change it to be similar to the old mesmer confusion- stacks as much as you like but only lasts 3 seconds no matter how many stacks applied.
Then give it a 12 or 15 second cooldown, problem solved- still useful, but no longer OP.
It’s the proc along with the 15 second duration that needs to be fixed.
That would be completely useless, it’s procced by a stun or a daze so a 3 second duration would basically only let it go off from a stunbreak and maybe 1 other skill activation at the MOST.
Either you go zerker/sin DPS or you build for support. Building tank mode is simply not feasible in any group environment since there’s no way to hold aggro and having a lot of armor won’t help that much if you have no way of refilling your health between hits. Building support isn’t ideal for PvE since DPS is king, but at the very least you’ll heal your teammates too so you’ll be adding something.
…“any group environment” infer WvW environment, as well? Wake up, Guanglai……=.=
You’re gonna hold aggro from humans? If I hit a guy with a Fireball in WvW and he takes 1k damage and that doesn’t even register a change in his health bar, I can tell he’s full tank and just switch targets.
Actually there’s an even better alternative, you tag him for your condition spammers, load him up, and epidemic.
As a warrior main, I can’t wait for this horrible cheesy build to be destroyed. They should be showing love to our other weapons such as Hammers and Swords.
Perplexity Runes are definitely on our radar. I talked with our designers about this and you can expect some changes to this rune-set in the near future. I don’t have specific details on what changes we’ll be making, but I figured I’d let you guys know that we are looking at it.
Thanks guys!
You guys really need to start a list of things that you overlook in designing effects. How “On Heal” got into the tormenting runes without an icd really shows a lack of understanding of the game mechanics by people designing things to augment game mechanics.
I want it so rangers know how garbage they are in dungeons and we can stop the arguement about why we don’t like them in dungeons.
Exactly this is the reason why i’m absolutely against dmg meters. People will start to believe that damage is the only thing that matters in this game and we will have even more of those 1337 zerkers that watch the fight while laying in the dust. finish the run before I get through the first trash pull.
I feel like instead of comparing LH ele to fire staff ele we should stick LH ele in fire staff ele’s lava font… it’s too bad that fury trait is on the wrong one tho.
It’s not just fury trait, lava font gains additional tick.
Yeah but it’s the LH ele doing the blasting so the combo of the 2 doesn’t have the fury uptime. Talkin bout synergy.
I feel like instead of comparing LH ele to fire staff ele we should stick LH ele in fire staff ele’s lava font… it’s too bad that fury trait is on the wrong one tho.
just speculation your numbers and i dont wanna waste my time to argue with you about this
BUT
“And forum is here exactly for feedbacks from players to devs so it means a lot.”
no its not
most important “Feedback” for them are the numbers ingame
- How many people already crafted to 500 and how fast.
- How many people have more than 1 Asc. Weapon
- Hows the effect on Economy
- How many use this System and how many ignore it
….. alot more
this are numbers they can work with and not the outcry from 10-15 random strangers
No, those aren’t feedback on whether or not people LIKE ascended weapons. People who don’t like ascended weapons aren’t just going to boycott BiS gear.
Yea they do… because it’s not required gear to have for any part of the game. I know many of people that aren’t upgrading because they don’t need it for anything.
Except they provide a stat advantage. Eventually there will be full ascended, a full ascended character in wvw will have a decent advantage on an exotic geared character.
I think the people that have chosen to not craft that gear realize they are missing that advantage. Fact is you don’t need it, as proven by our success playing the game before Ascended gear was released.
Please tell me of how much you played wvw against people in full ascended before ascended gear was released. I’m quite intrigued.
Yeah this whole time gated on Celestial is crap,it took me 2+ months to make the armor and weapons for two of my toons.
Maybe we should start PLAYING the game and ENJOYING it just for the sake of getting a good time, and whine less about why we can’t get ALL the equipment we want in just one hour…
Really, two months to craft two whole sets of the most time consuming armor doesn’t look like too much effort to me. In other games I had been though almost a year just to get a whole set.
Who said one hour, puckwallow? Thing is, at 5 charged crystals per ANYTHING, to make a full set of gear for one toon, ONE, much less alts, is 30 crystals for the armour, 25 for the jewelry, 5 per weapon, which can be another 30 if you like having multiple sets for different situations. So you are talking 2 to 3 months of charging crystals, for the sake of a stupid, slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, drooling mechanic. And to give prigs like yourself the chance to make strawman arguments in the forums that are pointless and as stupid as the mechanic itself.
25 for jewelry? strawman right there, also you can buy exotic celestial stats on some weapons.
We used to have field tests, they were speed clear videos.
Testing group dynamics is also kinda important because the contributions of others shift the value of things like more vuln stacks or the efficiency of power vs precision food.
I had gathered a lot of gold and mats (with my level 80s) to cover all the crafting I would be doing. But with this change it won’t be nearly enough. Now, instead of crafting 30 disciplines to 400 (6 × 5 characters), I will have to do 45 disciplines to 400 (8 × 5 characters). In addition, eight crafting disciplines will now only yield 56 levels, instead of the 60 levels six crafting disciplines yielded before. So now I will have to play each character to level 24 (instead of 20). The cost in both time and resources is devastating.
Not surprisingly, all this has changed how I view this game. It has been made clear to me that I can not do any serious long-term planning here. Apparently, there wasn’t even any warning that such a drastic change would be coming.
You can do as much long term planning in GW2 as you can do in any MMO, as long as you play it the intended way. That said: each and every MMO is about to change constantly. Long term planning is never safe in MMOs. And… no matter what is or has been possible in this game, no dev will ever have considered a player playing the game in your just quoted way.
And after all, no class is played the same at level 20 and at level 80. So if your strange way to play the game is capped for you at level 76 for each class, it offers you the chance to play each class for four additional levels, to really get in touch which each of them. Sounds not too bad for me either.
How is playing a character from level 76-80 providing you with any more experience with that character than playing it for the same amount of time at level 80? If anything it actually provides you with less practical experience if the character at level 80 is different than it is between levels 76-80.
Well first, you would probably do those levels from 20-24 instead. Second, nobody is going to go out and practice their character for the same amount of time at level 80, they’re going to jump straight into pretending they’re an experienced level 80 so having to do a few levels actually does force you to kill a few enemies outside of the tutorial.
So you want block to drain your stamina and eat hits? So like dodge but stationary? So what’s the point?
The point I’m trying to say is if you add a was to reduce incoming damage with out dodging….your only giving the player more options for combat.
For an example the current TA fight with the Clockwork Oak-heart boss at the end. Stacking under him makes the fight easier… if you had a way to block every time he did his super slams when you do miss a holograph kills to duce his shielding. you would not go bouncing off with each hit and not be knock on your butt….increase your up time and improving damage.
That’s a pretty bad example, that move shouldn’t be counterable by any form of dodging as it’s a punishment mechanic.
First make sure the crit dmg ur taking is actually from optimal sources (different pieces of gear have different efficiencies on stats per % crit dmg).
So what does this mean? Without taking power into consideration, shout warriors benefit the least of the group healers from cleric gear. So unless you’re really lacking heals as a group, go sentinel.
No… it means if a fight lasts over 12 or 5 seconds take clerics because you have had more effective hp in the fight.
Pin down is my only problem. The animation isn’t clear enough and its projectile speed is to fast making it impossible to dodge if you aren’t at max range. If they make it slower and clearer animation and reduce the bleeding damage it would be a lot more balanced
They’re more ridiculous on engis than warriors… engi can spam interrupts while still applying other types of conditions.
Untrue, warriors are capable of much faster CC spam and also can trait to deal an additional 4 stacks of confusion per interrupt.
Engi CC is also easier to evade.
A warrior carrying pure CC weapons can’t smother their stacks with blind, poison, burn, and bleed (they can weakness, cripple, and trait vuln). When a warrior only puts confusion on you, you CAN remove it, when an engi puts 6 conditions on you at once you can pray confusion gets targeted by removal.
Mag has one good night of PPT and suddenly they are the greatest server that ever lived.
o.O somebody forgot to tell sbi that mag is a weekday server and averages 10x the people in voice chat on weekdays… oh wait no it was already mentioned in the thread multiple times.
It’s Monday and you haven’t had that impressive of a showing given that hardly anyone on SBI is actually doing WvW at the moment. Come talk some more smack about how amazing your server is when it’s Thursday and you’re still losing.
You’ve lost… 8k of your lead in the last 10 hours?
Mag has one good night of PPT and suddenly they are the greatest server that ever lived.
o.O somebody forgot to tell sbi that mag is a weekday server and averages 10x the people in voice chat on weekdays… oh wait no it was already mentioned in the thread multiple times.
Its next to impossible to fight Mag’s EB group which consists of 2-3 good sized guild groups with what we have participating. I assume it will be even more difficult tomorrow after the points are even or we are behind. Tonight I would say I hardly knew half the players, and most of the new players imploded in seconds. I can only imagine what it must look like from the enemy sideline. Initial pushes usually resulted in immediate retreat. Not looking forward to the rest of the week.
um, what’re their tags? I can name where all the wvw guilds were for the last hour and last i checked it wasn’t an ebg blob.
Yeah, SBI has never seen tier 1 numbers or faced them blobs, so yeah we have no idea what to expect. We have actually never faced a sever who has greater numbers than us nor have we EVER had the outnumbered buff on any map. Pvforuming in this thread is just bad :/.
In general we have a lot of new guilds/faces and we need to get more organized which will happen over time. Under no illusion that we can handle TC and don’t really care but thanx for all the attention and concern about our server. You all are precious <3.
I doubt most of the people commenting in this thread about how we’ll fare in Tier 1 and 2 realize we’ve already fought those servers with maybe 10% of our current population. I’m sure we’ll still be outmanned from time to time and our coverage probably won’t be on par but trust me, we’ve already seen the worst those guys can bring to bear.
I doubt there are very many players around here who remember the darkest days of SBI in which we not only played against T1 servers with 10% of our current population but also gave them one hell of a run for their money. FA and Mag talk a big game but I’ve yet to see them do any “superior tactics” other than massive zerg play.
just speculation your numbers and i dont wanna waste my time to argue with you about this
BUT
“And forum is here exactly for feedbacks from players to devs so it means a lot.”
no its not
most important “Feedback” for them are the numbers ingame
- How many people already crafted to 500 and how fast.
- How many people have more than 1 Asc. Weapon
- Hows the effect on Economy
- How many use this System and how many ignore it
….. alot more
this are numbers they can work with and not the outcry from 10-15 random strangers
No, those aren’t feedback on whether or not people LIKE ascended weapons. People who don’t like ascended weapons aren’t just going to boycott BiS gear.
Yea they do… because it’s not required gear to have for any part of the game. I know many of people that aren’t upgrading because they don’t need it for anything.
Except they provide a stat advantage. Eventually there will be full ascended, a full ascended character in wvw will have a decent advantage on an exotic geared character.
When I was rolling my mace/sword + sword/shield build with reflect projectiles, they normally just killed themselves. I would actually let them get the CnD off so that they can use sneak attack on themselves.
Would love to see what kind of build that is (the mace/sword + sword/shield), is it a condition build?
Condi but with 3 block skills, 2 stuns, and a daze.
No. The op means blocking like holding your right mouse button down will hold your shield up kind of blocking. Not the jank block buffs. Some of the more recent mmo`s have this feature and it`s surprising that they didn`t choose to go with a system like that. I think it would have made combat more interesting instead of waiting on cooldowns with mini buffs.
I might be misunderstanding you but the skills I was referring to aren’t boons and have nothing to do with aegis.. You press the button and for 2 seconds the character uses his/her weapon to block an attack. I really don’t see a difference between that and what you’re saying. Just re-bind your keys if you want it on your mouse buttons. :S
I never played a Mesmer actually. But WTF you can hold an active block with a scepter and my guardian cant with a shield?
Again, the dps you get is mostly coming from your trinkets. For one trinkets give MORE stats than armor does so you are more zerker than ptv if you run that mix. You are not running soldier’s at that point.
You’re not “running zerker”, either, though, are you? You’re running a mixed gear build of the kind that is actually pretty common on Warriors -snip-
And that isn’t the topic of this thread. The thread is comparing ptv to cleric, saying ‘well i put zerker in my ____ and that makes me hit hard in my ptv gear’ doesn’t mean anything because the same tiny dps difference between cleric and ptv exists between ptv/zerker and cleric/zerker.
And then there’s the fact that none of the mix posts in this thread even attempt to make the correct substitutions when mixing gear with and without crit dmg. The amount of stat points you give up per % crit dmg isn’t always the same so stop blindly making swaps.
Anyways, I am quite curious to see if Mag can overtake FA for 2nd place. They are really chipping at FA’s heals now. I would normally root for the underdog, in this case Mag, but it is hard to root for a server that has so many Kittens.
Tequatl already is a raid and it drops ascended loot. It’s just an open world raid target.
And look at it. People are already moving on from Tequatl and there were people from the very beginning complaining that the rewards were “subpar”. Heck, there were even some individuals who were asking for guaranteed ascended items for successfully killing Tequatl.
So how far do they have to push the rewards until it’s “up to par”? A rare chance for Ascended with guaranteed champion boxes? A rare chance for Ascended with guaranteed exotics? Common ascended drops with guaranteed exotics? Guaranteed ascended? Because let’s be honest, by the time the rewards are “up to par”, they will also be superior to other sources of acquiring whatever the rewards are.
And the best source for the best gear in the game being a raid is bullkitten. That disrespects just about everything else in the game.
Everything else in the game gives ascended weapons too. There were plenty of day 1 ascended weapon chests popping up in my chat window that didn’t involve tequatl.
They wouldn’t need to raise the odds on drops if it was a guild run because players don’t have to sit there and see 2 randoms get it every single time, instead somebody actually in their guild would get it (of course the loot system for gw2 still makes it a pretty decent chance that whoever gets a weapon chest doesn’t use the stat set they get at all and can’t do anything about it). Teq is still run enough that the teq guilds all run on multiple overflows.
just speculation your numbers and i dont wanna waste my time to argue with you about this
BUT
“And forum is here exactly for feedbacks from players to devs so it means a lot.”
no its not
most important “Feedback” for them are the numbers ingame
- How many people already crafted to 500 and how fast.
- How many people have more than 1 Asc. Weapon
- Hows the effect on Economy
- How many use this System and how many ignore it
….. alot more
this are numbers they can work with and not the outcry from 10-15 random strangers
No, those aren’t feedback on whether or not people LIKE ascended weapons. People who don’t like ascended weapons aren’t just going to boycott BiS gear.
Ruins did break up the BLs by blocking the lake. It does make it a little bit harder to zerg around.
But that’s about it.
I’ve only found it makes it harder to spot zergs moving through. There are still straight lines to get thru and even water channels that you can have everybody swim along the bottom of to be very hidden. The maps really shoulda originally had terrain+the structures break up the map so that owning nothing prevented you from running to the opposite side of the map in a minute and capping a keep.
though I bet they didn’t because it didn’t actually happen, did it?
Ah how I adore you. Whenever there is an evil little voice at the back of my head wanting to say the most obnoxious thing possible, you beat me to it. <3
Is it weird that I just had to double check because I thought swift did write that original message?
Onshidesigns.1069, I am in one of the biggest guilds of the most popular European server.
A good server for a large guild to guest in. A low populated one.
Highest populated one -> find empty overflow -> quickly fill it -> twiddle thumbs for an hour until it spawns.
Making these ‘raid’ type events they want to include in gw2 instanced would be a QoL improvement for everybody including making a 15 minute kill not take over an hour to do. Randoms would still form the teq tickling guilds they have currently and run it anyway.
As a long time pve warrior and recently a wvw warrior I find that outside of pve and battle standard there is little to no incentive for a warrior to waste a skill slot for a banner. And was wondering if there was a 30 point trait which allows the warrior to wear one banner samurai style for the duration of the skill would be interesting. What do my fellow battle brothers thing about this?
I think you meant outside of pvp instead of pve.
I think that would be really OP because it would essentially give the warrior two passive aoe boosts for a gm trait. Right now the passive aoe boosts are considering too powerful in some areas for being what they are. The warrior one is getting moved up a tier for how strong it is. Doubling that would mean that the banner buffs would need to be seriously nerfed (hate that because I love my banners).
No he means outside of pve, in dungeons banner buffs are meta.
