Guild Wars 2

Nah don’t go back to it now, it’s terrible :P

It was once amazing, but fell victim to being dragged in an awful direction and right now they’re trying to salvage it.

Hell yeah, that’s something that I thought they should have implemented a while ago.

Actually something even better:

On a game I played for a while, Runescape, people started to really get fascinated with speedclearing in dungeoneering. Clans (guilds) emerged where people had to pass trials, people sold/bought floors (paths), went for records and more. Early on, Jagex added a timer that displayed at the end of a path with all of the other statistics such as % of rooms opened/% of mobs killed etc. Here’s an example:

http://i.imgur.com/keSNBcG.png

I’ve thought that this should not only be implemented, but separate rewards based off of the same concept. Your suggestion is basically one in the same. =)

There is no merging bug anymore. It’s been fixed for quite some time.

For someone so highly critical of their programming capabilities, I’d at least expect you to be aware of what’s happening to you to get you kicked to begin with ;P

The only way for you to lose your instance is to either:
a) swap characters while you’re the instance host
b) kick the other person when you’re a host and the party consists of two people (it counts as the party disassembling because when you’re alone, you aren’t considered as a “party,” which is why when you post on the LFG as a lone person your post gets removed within 5 minutes of inactivity… I believe as an anti-spam measure or something?)
c) leave a party when you’re the host
d) get kicked by 2 other people while you’re a host
e) get disconnected/leave your instance without returning within 10 minutes

Once again, the merging bug was removed.

You should actually have to accomplish something or prove to be capable of leading a group of people in some way before being able to use it. SOMETHING to prevent all of these random people that buy gems with real life money, trade it for gold, and think they’re suddenly king kitten when realistically they have no idea what they’re doing.

Commanders in PvE don’t really have to do squat aside from at great jungle wurms where more tactical play is needed, but people on this game have the tendency to stand still sucking their thumbs until they see a magical blue tag to follow around like a lost puppy. If someone incompetent gets their hands on one, they can make events like pavilion nightmarish if they choose to.

As far as PvE is concerned, ele is the best.

In WvW I’d be more inclined to say mesmer if you aren’t zerging. If you are zerging, eles are always demanded primarily for water fields and stacking swiftness in static fields as well.

TheKillerAngel.3596:

We finally gave up on the giants because they have a skill that restores them to 100% hp when they hit 25%. Shout heals confirmed OP. We also would have had to kill a pack of ~30 elites.

I figured that out on my own ages ago when soloing them. It’s bullcrap right? All that effort… to get screamed at.

You still get gilded coffers & such, but the icons on the minimap that appear after certain bosses that represent a large golden chest to loot from will only appear once a day with certain exceptions like Giganticus Lupicus, who is seen on all 4 paths of Arah. From boss encounters like that, you’ll see a chest from them once on each path.

Keiel.7489:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Victros.8154:

LOL, well I have no idea what I’m doing, so I better go with Warrior!

Disregarding troll posts…. in PvE the entire game is centered around DPS. You have to do damage. You will never get great DPS out of a guardian without heavy trade offs. Warrior is simply the complete package, whether people care to admit that or not.

You might want to do some research on that info, cause currently Guardian DPS > Warrior DPS (please don’t show me videos of 80k+ 100b, it’s not proving anything). Guardian has higher survivability as long as you stay active and engage. Warrior play is lazier, easier with good output. Only reason I would take a warrior over a guardian is mobility.

That’s not the case in solo play. Most classes out-do warrior in DPS in optimal conditions, but provided we’re talking about straight up direct damage in a solo setting warrior will deal more than a guardian will unless you’re reflecting some crazy 1-shot mechanic from a boss.

Adry.7512:

Azhure.1857:

@Adry, the OP.

Did you have to start another thread like this? Was THIS not good enough or do you just like being in the limelight when creating new threads?

irrelevant and pointless question. its merely a topic of discussion is all this is. what you asked holds no value and and deserves no real attention.

It’s very relevant actually. You made another thread saying almost the same things 4 days ago. Why is what they asked any more pointless than you making new threads about the same thing?

This will be you once you get to the bonus event before the final encounter:

http://i.imgur.com/Gh1oV1o.gif

This happens when you disrupt the animation of picking up a bundle item from the ground by moving. It will freeze your character because it get stuck in the animation, and you won’t be able to use or do anything until you are either cc’d or downed/killed.

Another Khillbron’s Phyllactery! http://i.imgur.com/EQREB7c.gif

I don’t like that rings are dropped at all. I think they should only be acquired via pristine relics, because as it stands pristines are just about worthless unless you have loads of characters to kit up… as someone pointed about above, there is likely a lower chance of getting the good ascended rings.

Doing daily fractals isn’t challenging after you do it a few times to learn the mechanics so the fact that we’re getting several free rings of the highest tier a day (on average) seems kind of… off. It doesn’t feel like it should be that way to me.

^ Yeah, thanks for that Agony. That is exactly what I meant ^^

I as well consider 65003 the best PUG trait point allocation as well as solo, because it’s only better to camp GS if you’re able to maintain the appropriate rotation. If you aren’t, it’d be better DPS to swap to axe/mace on 100b’s cooldown. Camping GS is certainly the best if you’re able to whirlwind, bladetrail and rush, but sometimes you aren’t able to. If you ever do need to swap, you lose out on a lot more DPS with the 66002 build than with the 65003.

Drakent.9605:

That is the reason why Zerker is such a popular build, requires 0 skills to play , the stats are so OP that it aloud 5 zerker stack together and cleave the hell out of everything in seconds. As I say zerker build don’t spend time reviving there friend but only dpsing

You try the same game play with none zerker build they drop like fly’s, this is why I laugh so hard in the inside when I pug with ppl and they say STACK and is b/c they have no clue what they are doing.

If you guys want this to be more of a challenge you need to change everything but the way how death works b/c is not the problem

1) have bosses move around instead of just standing in spot like giants dummies. make the person work for his damage

2) increase bosses HP, fight are to shorts , a boss with a elite group of players should take 2-3 min to kill not 30 seconds normal group should take 4-6min

3) Nerf zerker build some more

Lol’d.

What a dreadfully ignorant thing to say.

Meluna.1764:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Because bobbles have everything to do with might and magic, and guilds and wars.

/sarcasm

Well in that case you can be happy that Anet expected some people to not like it and made it so that only the people using it can see it. So it doesn’t affect your gameplay at all. Isn’t that great? =D

Yes. I’m so, SO happy that they did that. Probs wouldn’t feel like playing near other people anymore if I commonly saw this crap. -.-

Wethospu.6437:

Every pug secretly stacking passive defense and running away at first sign of wipe doesn’t sound very enjoyable to me.

I don’t think the content would have to be left alone for a fundamental change like this to be implemented. It would most likely be a monumental change. We would likely see mobs and bosses alike becoming significantly easier and people sparingly using their best equipment in dangerous situations if there was a chance of losing it.

Then again since I didn’t specify what I had in mind for loss on death, it’s tough to say. I think a game that I was in had it right— there was a certain attribute that everyone had called “necrostacy” which you always wanted to be 0%. After each death, depending on how the death happened, you’d get a certain amount of necrostacy (falling deaths were 5% added, death from mobs was 1-2% or something like that) and each percentage added reduced your attributes. You’d lose necrostacy after killing some mobs. Something like this wouldn’t be too terrible but I think it would be a decent incentive for better gameplay on GW2.

I actually agree with OP in most of the things he’s said.

It’s the primary reason why I want nothing to do with PvP on this game… there is nothing exhilarating about knowing that I gain nothing and lose nothing on the outcome of the fight I’m in. I want to risk not yawn.

In PvE the fact that you can die as many times as you want with no consequence other than having to waypoint (or wait for the others to get ooc if you’re in a dungeon) leads me to believe that part of the reason there are so many people reluctant to care about getting better at the game is because they’re not encouraged to. Players won’t care about survival if they don’t lose anything from death.

There’s a lot of upsides and downsides to games that have loss associated with failure, so it’s worth discussing instead of immediately dismissing like so many others have been on this thread.

Lmao

I do that all the time too. Also, she dies REALLY fast every time I get to the crystalline entities. Even if I don’t see her shoot them, she magically managed to just p*ss off every single mob in sight. It’s crazy.

I actually don’t like WvW very much and sparingly go there only when there are achievements to do, otherwise it’s just too stale for my taste. I was always using the same PvE build there but with different utils, maybe furious reacton instead of deep strikes for arms adept major. It’s easy to drop people if you play skillfully but you will die pretty fast if you get overwhelmed by multiple people.

If you want to WvW efficiently, I suggest cond builds/perhaps looking elsewhere because it’s not something that I like to do.

As for sPvP, it’s in my opinion about as fun as jumping rear-first into a factory of nails. Worst PvP I’ve ever seen on any mmorpg, ever. Definitely seek information about it elsewhere, sorry. ^^

Warrior is the easiest class to solo with actually.

The guide I put together is mostly targeting people that are already level 80, but it has a lot of information that you could make use of: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Guide-for-DPS-build-dungeon-solos-more/first#post3712058

Generally speaking, get to love the greatsword. For roaming around on your own, you’ll probably want to use greatsword and swap to axe + warhorn most of the time, occasionally swapping out axe for sword for when you want to travel quicker (savage leap).

This is actually one of the most glorious achievements I’ve seen so far in the history of GW2.

In regards to a few people commenting a few posts earlier on asking why the OP wasn’t using EA etc…

I think his trait point allocation is fine, not the weapon choices though. You guys already covered that, so I won’t elaborate ^^

I stay 65003 almost all of the time. Much more fluid gameplay with fast hands and especially in pug groups, you’ll have a much more difficult time soloing without it. From personal experience, that’s just what ends up happening; people wiping.

I’ve tried 66002 plenty of times but I never was actually able to solo anything faster with it before. I can see this being more useful in groups, but I already swap out arms I to arms V when doing group content anyways, so meh.

As for EA… I’d never bother with that unless I was like, going for a record 5-man speedclear time or something, which I never am doing.

But to compare 66002 with 65003 (assuming you keep deep strikes as the adept master trait)…

With 66002, you get +50 more precision and either provide an average of what, about 3ish vuln stacks on bosses. With 65003, you get +50 more ferocity but can swap weapons twice the speed.

I think it’s only practical to take 66002 in good groups or if you’re soloing something like Belka or Abom in Arah P2 or just easymode bosses tbh. I’d rather have energy sigil on demand, and for the record it’s only best to camp GS if you’re able to use bladetrail, whirlwind (especially whirlwind) and rush as well. Sometimes some of the skills aren’t practical to use or you just aren’t able to, in which case swapping to axe/mace or whatever during 100b cd is actually better. It’s very situational.

Either way, camping GS with 66002 is technically better over time than 65003 but not really by much to justify the loss of fast hands… at least in my opinion.

To the people discussing whether or not CM is good for linen, it’s mostly for cotton and wool indeed and if you want linen drops head over to TA. Loads of it there. :P

Watching DBZ and occasionally browsing forums in between episodes and soloing Arah. A few hours streaming here and there, sometimes doing other things but mostly just that.

This was a while ago and I dunno if we’re counting stuff like this or the first 50% of Brie or anything like that, but big numbers are big numbers.

Aleth.9630:

They should not facetank bosses and elites for 10s -60s (and some of them even heal themselves), it makes no sense for that to happen.

Lmao, Randal Weyston #1 tank EU.

Spent over 20 mins trying to get him to die to Lupi once. He’s also survived through all 3 phases in solos of mine SO many times without going down. His AI is particularly bugged because he resets every few seconds lol. It actually makes it easier to control him than Varra since he attacks with some kitten sword instead of a rifle.

P.S. I estimate that these NPCs are responsible for over 90% of all harpy feathers and spykits used.

Enough is enough.

I will pay gems if I can have her disappear. LOTS of gems.

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4432217

On a more serious note, despite the fact that there is no dungeon team at Arenanet what do you think would be more difficult of a task for them to implement…

Improving their AI, making it so that NPCs can’t attack or draw aggro from mobs at all, or giving us the option to tell them to stay put?

Other dungeon NPCs that have outstandingly dreadful AI annoy people on an hourly basis. It’s crazy how much better of a job that they did with mobs than the NPCs and even those people are complaining about lol. I just don’t understand the point of stupid kitten like this or making Agent Spire move at the pace of a turtle encased in jello in CoE, same with the dredge NPC in SE p2, etc.

Varra, however, seems to be the most aggressive of all dungeon NPCs. Every single one in any dungeon path typically waits for you to engage in combat or to be attacked before chiming in… Varra just shoots EVERYTHING. I don’t get it… why!?

What’s even worse— dungeon NPCs in Arah actually buff elite risen hunters and the wraithlord hunter in P3. Permanent immobilization + axe bouncing (over 5x damage buff) just for the NPC being present… and they CHASE you. Why are the NPCs assisting the enemy mobs, hmm?!

#DownWithVarra

Tamps.6125:

Warrior was made for people who are not very intelligent and who like to faceroll through GW2. ofc everything is kitteny, because so are u if u still play a warrior.

So much ignorance in 2 sentences. How did you do it?

EDIT: Ah, nevermind. You must have been taking lessons from this person:

Beleth.8249:

Anyone who can’t beat a warrior is not intelligent

You answered yourself for #2, and Errant’s answer is correct for #1. To avoid melee pushing while still being either inside of the mob’s circle/right by it, you need to be attacking in the opposite direction against a wall/object with the mob against it.

As far as I’m aware, you would have to pay hundreds of thousands of gems to convince them that this is an issue worth fixing.

http://i.imgur.com/rpX28Yh.jpg

^ Yeah that’s pretty much what I mean.

If you’re still on the forums, you haven’t quit this game.

In a less hostile way I agree with wads… no mobility and no blocks at all. You basically are defenseless here… I like to roam in full zerk if I ever go too, but I’m always equipped with movement skills/shake it off/etc.

Also, sorry but wtf @ the sigils. I can’t even fathom using a sigil of fire on a hammer tbh. Two battle sigils also…? It has a cooldown longer than your weapon swap, you would benefit much more from using different sigils than this. Also mace offhand is kind of terrible in WvW/PvP… tremor has a long cooldown.

Meh. All the people you fought were really terrible, but it was pretty entertaining of a video. :P

FGS is the most powerful weapon in the game and I’d be devastated if I couldn’t use that again on my ele, and Signet of Rage is an amazingly powerful elite. Dunno what you’re on about.

It’s pure stupidity to run together unless you’re all blasting stealth + using shadow refuge. I always ignore pugs that demand that I go with them in Arah P2 after Belka if they refuse to listen to me when I say that it’s better to run individually.

It matters a lot less when you’re on a warrior because it’s really hard to die with by comparison to the more fragile classes, but sometimes all it takes is one mob to apply a movement-impairing condition to cause a chain of bull that ends up overwhelming you. Most of the time, this tends to happen as a consequence of being near others that draw aggro/get attacked.

…if the target audience is those that have quit this game, do you really anticipate for them to likely see this thread?

Good. Lupi is a jerk and deserves it ^^

Sykper.6583:

What an selfish, naive idea to completely ruin GW2.

OP, and anyone else actually agreeing with the suggestion to add a subscription fee to this game just to ‘remove’ diminishing returns, I seriously recommend you reflect on it far more than now.

Not only would it annul a rather large majority of players from the game from the subscription alone, but the economy as a whole would take a sharper dive than ESO on release.

Seriously, the worst suggestion I have read on any game forum in a long time. Wow.

Well put.

Hard to believe a post like OP’s is serious, but whatever.

Because he wants a tangible reward symbolic of something that he achieved, which there is none of.

I have a challenge that I would love to see someone complete. During a fotm 50 run I was in, Goku turned into a reindeer (ruminant tonic) during Mai Trin cannon phase and made me laugh irl, and I did the same and it turned out to be hard as kitten to survive. I want to see if anyone can complete a Mai Trin solo using ruminant tonics during cannon phase, meaning you can’t use any weapon skills to save yourself. Just run around disguised as a reindeer.

GOOD. LUCK.

Waldir.2571:

I have a plan to get an internship at anet, on my first week I will pretend to work through lunch but in reality I will be fixing the search function. Once that is fixed I will walk out to never return. If successful, I will apply the same measure to other anet related issues.

Please make Lupicus un-skippable. Thank you.

I understand why you don’t like it and I feel the same way about a lot of things on here. When it comes to equipment there’s not much you’re able to do to make yourself stand out besides getting legendary skins… which are also pretty unimpressive considering the wardrobe system and the fact that people are capable of buying gems with real life money and converting it to gold (lol, makes me cringe at the idea of people doing this but it does happen).

Well at the moment there’s a ton of people ‘farming’ the Crown Pavilion Boss Blitz events because of the rewards it yields (lots of champ bags). This will be around until July 1st as far as I’m aware, but if you’re interested in other sorts of things you could do dungeons (in groups or even try to solo them for fun) or world bosses.

Alrighty. Enjoy your freed up character slot.

Hammer is good in PvP and WvW but really one of the very worst and least useful weapons in PvE. In fact, even the notoriously terrible rifle is more useful in PvE than hammer… that’s saying a lot.

So, the answer is unfortunately for you no. Sorry.

Regardless of what you decide to do, it’s a mistake to use GS without Forceful Greatsword (Arms X). If you really want to stick to the same trait point allocation, I’d suggest maybe Defy Pain instead of Rousing Resilience and certainly not Cleansing Ire because the burst skills for both GS and mace aren’t ideal for it. Cleansing Ire works extremely well with longbow’s combustive shot as it doesn’t require you to actually hit anything for it to work.

A few practical alternatives that you could benefit from instead of Cleansing Ire:
Shield Master, Sure-Footed (if you’re using stances), Sundering Mace, or Last Stand.

I personally think that if you are content with the weapon choice and trait points, you should go with Sundering Mace with the above options.

I honestly don’t really think it’s worth it to use GS with 0 in strength. I’m assuming you have 4 in arms for Forceful Greatsword, which is nice, but with a build like this you aren’t going to be able to burst anyone down unless they’re a total noob. GS has fantastic utility but its a weapon for builds focusing on direct damage, and going 0 in strength for that is a mistake in my opinion.

I’m looking forward to it. ^^

It doesn’t sound like returning to GW2 will be very fulfilling for you then. Everything you’ve mentioned is true and generally speaking you have to go pretty far out of your way to make the content challenging after you’ve done it at least once.