Guild Wars 2

It /should/ be fine from what I see here..

You can also burn out on multiple characters between level 10 – 30. Because low level = not many things you can do.

Well, your first goal is to get to lv 80 with a profession that you love.
To get there, you can do heart quests, personal storylines, gathering and crafting, dungeons, exploring, and so on. You can also do some wvw, though you will not be so good at it at all for awhile.

Also, join a guild.

I love internet trolls. They let the community unite as one. They subtly teach us that; we can put our small petty differences aside to fight against one common enemy; the trolls themselves.

I like the intereaction between the Vigil Mentor and me.

Me: So I guess old dogs can learn new tricks afterall.
Mentor: Ha! Watch it pub. Or I will clip your tail off.

and the like.

Whisper Mentor is also pretty funny in general.
One time you go on a mission to rescue someone with him. And in the process, you get drunk. After you find the person to save, you gotta make an escape. She asks what’s the plan; and you, still quite drunk, say ‘It starts with RUN! and then it goes down hill from there.’

WHAT doesn’t fit in the game ? Boobs ? Underboobs ? Revealing clothes ? A tiny bit of nudity ? What doesn’t fit in the game ?

I don’t know about other people, but solely because of that armor piece alone makes me so want to have a lv 80 in either a Thief, Ranger, or Engineer.

So, I made Engineer, I deleted engineer, I made ranger, I deleted ranger, I made thief, I deleted thief, I made ranger, I made engineer, I deleted engineer, I made thief, I delete ranger, I made engineer.

Now, I have lv 60-ish Engineer. (almsot there !!)

Now, if you don’t like it. Well, that’s sad. Because it’s everywhere in your life. Either you will cut yourself off from it, or what, is up to you.

And because wearing a bra is totally fine, but underboob is wrong ?

I had the same dilemma 1 wk ago. I decided to go with Engineer.
So far, I like my Engineer. At lv 55 atm or something around that. I like being jack of all trades.

If I remember correctly, Queensdale rotation gave me about 15% [boar, troll, oak, spider] and it took about 11 minutes per rotation. Obviously you get more if you do Bandit too. And once awhile you get Wasp as well. Or Behemoth. It is not that fast… though. But it helps.

The way I see it…
Activate the heal skill.
Option A: Get healed after 4 seconds for a certain amount.
Option B: If your Health drops to near death before 4 seconds, you get big heal.

I think it’s like ……… ‘Ohhhhhhh, shhittttttttt! No you don’t !!!’ press button

Someone might want to explain the ‘tactical’ terms as well.
Like “stack”, and a few others.

Can’t say much about PvP, but I transfer from US servers to Gandara EU (main reason is to be with my guild). And I have been happy settling in. Players around in PvE maps, and also people in WvW when I play as well.

I would actually like to see constant big changes on skill revamp.

Like, ‘Whooops, sorry guys, seems we have buffed Engineer traits too much this time around. We will tone it down a notch next week. Also, seems like a bad idea to switch Necro’s staff from making Marks to 2 gap-closing skills. We will change that next week too."

I think we people just want changes. Doesn’t have to be right changes. Just change it. And something good might come out, if not, change it again. And keep changing.

May be just me, though.

I think more Utilities will be the easiest, most wanted, and biggest impact to the game/community. They should prioritize it

Then why must we pvp to lv up alts ? Why not WvW or PvE or Fractual. Why Glory, why

I don’t PvP, what’s Glory ;(

lordhelmos.7623:

-Tool tips for traits and skills are frequently wrong or omit certain key elements of skills. I understand this is being worked but its the miniscule details about a skill that make it confusing to new players. For example, take a new player trying to use the ranger sword. There is no warning on this weapon about the self-root or that it is an advanced weapon, or that it even operates differently from other melee weapons.

Takes less than 10mins to try a sword on a ranger. If you like it, awesome. If you don’t it cuz you can’t control your ckitten’t use a sword on a ranger. That’s how I learn. No big deal.

lordhelmos.7623:

-Stat weight is complex in this game and difficult to understand. Namely, many people do not know that toughness is tied to mob aggro. A player might build with toughness thinking he wants to be more survivable but constantly dies because he is repeatedly being targeted by mobs and has no idea why. Even veteran players struggle with what the perfect stat balance is. Even worse, stat weight is different for every game mode. In PvP you need toughness to survive spikes. In PvE it draws aggro on you and makes you a tank. Players need better guidance on how to gear up.

That doesn’t sound like something new players have to be worried about. Pick a build. Play. See if you like it. Cost so little to re-trait. It’s no big deal.

lordhelmos.7623:

Tool tips need to be improved to clearly define attributes. Attributes that are more important to certain classes need to be flagged (precision/crit dmg for thieves and rangers, condition damage for engineers, toughness and healing power for guardians, etc.).

For build diversified, I suppose. I mean, everyone can use more Power. If your build goes around conditions, well, more condition duration. If you want more Crit, then more Precision. If you want more healing, well, healing power then. It’s almost common sense.

lordhelmos.7623:

-No standard build templates or in-game recommended generic builds to help new players. Build templates helped immensely for new players in Gw1. Players need a starting point to begin so that they can better understand why some trait/gear/skill combos go together and why. Players have to go to third party sites to get this information. There isn’t even anything helpful on the wiki.

Build diversify. Otherwise, Google is a kitten good place to go to. Every gamer should use Google.

lordhelmos.7623:

CLASS ROLES ARE NOT CLEARLY DEFINED/NOT BALANCED:

While the game has tried to move away from the tank/healer/dps idea, players become confused on what role their class is supposed to play. New players try to do too many things at once and become frustrated with weak builds. Players are omitted from parties because they picked the “wrong class” (IE not a guardian/war/mesmer).

There is no holy trinity. Roles are supposed to be blurred. Again, Google will help you here.

lordhelmos.7623:

Certain build combinations allow players to do multiple things too well (guardian with tanking and support). New players frequently become frustrated with their class if it is not easy to play (i.e., PVE thief, ranger, engineer). Some classes are too easy to play (faceroll on heavies).

I agree on Class Imbalance.

lordhelmos.7623:

Again, build templates would help with this. Better balance as well (I.E. clearly defined paths to roles for classes such as control, damage, support, healing). While each class does not have to have a clearly defined tank/dps/healer role, the purpose someone is in a party should be made clear (I.E. im here to kill stuff, drop boons like crazy, be a combofield bot).

Maybe skill ratings should be added to classes, such as what was done in TERA (Guardian 1 star, Mesmer 5).

Eh, just google stuff.

Not bashing you or anything. But the game comes out so long already. A bunch of information is already out there. All it takes is to look it up. Why don’t people look things up ? I started looking the crap out of any game I play, or plan to play. In Ragnarok Online days, I looked up Assassin skills and build. In WoW, I looked up builds for Druids. In XCOM, I look up Let’s Play. In Civ 5, I look up gameplay. Why don’t people look up something they’re interested in ???

That’s why I deleted my 1st lv 80 char… to move Region.

Are there any unique armor only from storyline quests ? I have yet to see any.

or you won’t be able to WvW with your friend.

Those are there to make it harder for spammers and gold sellers and what not. So, it probably will not be changed easily.

Once you get the golds going, use more of the ingame Black Lion Trading. And it’s not so hard making gold in this game.

Good luck out there “)
My guild and I are on EU server. (I deleted my lv 80 char to move from NA to EU <_<” )

Irony :P "My Engineer kicks your engineer’s kitten " <_<" Is that a joke ?

Very few skills/abilities involve both hand weapons.

If you want a key, make new alt is much faster approach.
If you pick a Human Commoner, then choose to save the Hospital. You get a key within 20mins. Pick a class that have range attack or aoe, since there are allied NPCs to help out.

If 1 Key is 125 Gem. And you get 3 keys an hour. Doing this is nets you the value of 375 Gem / hour. Which is around 18g/hr value. I think.

I want bunny ears for non-town clothing.

Clipping issues. Takes too much trouble for them to make different version of the same hairstyle for different headgear equipped. Solution = Remove Hair.

I’d say… you need a good guild to call home.

I stay with my guild for 7+ years now.

I am trying to get into Elementalist. So far, unsuccessful. Just haven’t found the right play style yet.

Anyway, I am wondering about Conjuring weapons. Are they important ? Are they good ? Are they big parts of builds for WvW or dungeon runs ?

Or are they just for PvE fun that most ppl don’t use in serious gameplay.
Thanks

Might help if you post up stuff that you can do as a concept artist.

And I don’t think we can delete post/thread ourselves.

This is actually pretty good portraits you draw. Great job
Right now I’m broke in game, so I don’t have your commission fee ;P
If you have DeviantArt or Facebook Page for your art stuff, I’d love the link.
I can’t draw well at all, no kidding, so instead I do 3d sculpting/modeling instead.

1. Lack of the Holy Trinity. The tactics we use now is ‘KILL EM ALL BEFORE THEY KILL US !!’. I would like to see Soft Trinity.

2. Weapons and Weapon Skills. 5 skills over and over and over. In some classes, same weapons don’t function the same. For example, Warrior, Guardian and Hunter, Greatsword is mobility. But Mesmer’s GS has no mobility.

3. No cross-classing skills like in GW1. That was the BEST part of it !!!

4. WvWvW is too zerg-focused. 40ppl zerg is unstoppable, unless, well, by bigger or better zerg. WvWvW should be like battlefield. Pincer attack, flank, cut their supplies, attack them on 2-3 fronts, holding key positions. Not saying it’s not happening, but now it’s one zerg train doing them all one at a time, instead of small groups doing all at the same time.

5. Combat. Too much/spamming of conditions. Conditions and Boons should ONLY come from Combo Fields.

I think it would be interesting if most damage come from direct damage. Conditions should not happen oh so often. But when they happen, they should be important and special. Not just spamming Bleeding and Burning and Poison and Cripple and Chilling and what not.

Same with Boons, actually. Protection, awesome. Swiftness, sweet. Aegis, great ! Stacking Might is meh. Instead of maintaining and spamming Might and such, when Might happens, it should be the time for Burst. When Fury happens, it’s time for Chained Attack. Instead of just spamming all boons on your team and spamming conditions on foes all the time.
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TLDR version !!

Imagine if the only way to make Boons or Conditions is through Combo Field. No more autoattack cause Bleeding. Or Staff#4 give 12 Might. I think this will be fun. And more tactical.

How about a Mageknight ?

I think you can. I heard ppl get Thief’s hood onto Ranger or Engineer.

Look into SweetFX ?

I think I just have too much free time :P
I used Warrior’s traits as template.

But this gonna change a lot.
18 Total Minors. They come in pairs of ‘either or’.
6 Adept Minors. 12 Master Minors.
There are 3 Adept Majors. And 12 Master Majors.

Every class has 3 main branches / trees, they are Damage, Support, and Control.
Each branch will break into further 2, resulting in 6 subbranches
Each class will have slightly different 6 subbranches.

For warrior, they are
Weapon Skills and Utilities for Damage.
Trigger and Boons for Support.
Conditions and Weapon Procs for Control.

Anyway, this mock up will explain a bit. Though I run out of ideas/lazy to put all in and make up some more :P

1) Arah Heavy sets. (early concept)
2) Heavy Priory
3) Sylvary C2 Heavy
4) Norn C2 Medium
5) Norn C3 Light
6) No frigging idea

I am probably wrong, but that’s what I am feeling.
I feel like I don’t get to use my Utilities often enough. And when I do, it doesn’t really help that much… I play mostly for PvE, and WvW, though.

I do own a lv 80 Necro and so did a Guardian.
So I know I can pop this Uti to get rid of my Conditions, and AoE damage 5 targets nearby. Or, pop this other Uti to drop a Well that will Heal me, and cripple others and damage em as well.

But I don’t feel like that with ranger’s utilities.
What are good ranger’s utilities for roaming, or zerging, or simply killing shlt faster, or getting out of ‘oh shlt’ situation ?

Thanks.

Will probably want to disable its autoattack, and use Immersive Combat mod instead. Just saying.

“Where do we go from here”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwxMGyZ_umA

Tybalt is my most fav NPC too Everything about him is so adorable. My first char I joined the Vigil, and I quite like the Mentor there. My 2nd char joined Priory, and the Sylvarian mentor is annoying at best. But Tybalt, my 3rd char’s mentor is so cool. I was his friend, and he mine. He changed my life as much as I his.

@gamemaster.7154 I just followed you on DA because your art is pretty good. If you have Facebook Page for your art, I will follow that too !! Thanks for drawing him

Chopping woods ^ ^:P

There’s no pleasing you, is there ?

Hammer and Axe for melee weapons.
Engineer = builds stuff. Hammer and Axe are important tools !

I have some questions about contributing to the WvW objectives.
I notice sometimes I get the reward for capturing keeps or towers when I don’t make it to the Lord in times, and sometimes I don’t get anything. Usually I don’t get to touch the siege (I heard if you poke the gate you tag the contribute already.)

So, question is, if a player melee DPS the gate, and just run off killing enemy players, does he get reward for the objective (tower/keep etc) ?

How important is staying inside the cap zone waiting for the tick ?
Thanks.

Sadly, this isn’t Mass Effect <_<’
I know. Sigh.

I notice that some classes using skills 2-5 are better than AA. (for more dmg, more conditions, etc etc.) While some classes many of the 2-5 skills are optional, while AA is the dmg dealer.
Like, Necro using Dagger. AA is nice dmg, while 2 is Drain, and 4 is Cripple/Immobile ?
Or Necro using Axe. AA is great for building up Invul, while 2 is nice dmg after you stack awhile.
Wouldn’t work the same.

IMO,

Level 10-19 char, of any class, gain +5% Movement Speed out of combat. No trait. No skills.
lv 20-39, it becomes +10% move spd.
lv 40-59, it becomes +15% move spd.
lv 60-80, it becomes +20% move spd.
If you want +25% or +33% Movement speed, you trait or equip skill for it. That depends on your class.

Greatsword for Necro should be about Mobility and Power.
1H Sword should be a blend of Dagger and Scepter, so Power and Condition.
Torch Offhand is pure Condition.

Awesome.