Guild Wars 2

You know I havent found scarlet that bad, but if it turns out that scarlet suddenly unites the krait and the nightmare court for her army, then it’s just starting to get a little silly.

The krait are not above using other races but they would never view one as an equal. With the story already presented, scarlet herself would never ally with the nightmare court, and I don’t think the nightmare court really care for the krait. So an alliance doesn’t seem like it could happen from any side.

On the other hand, having the krait and nightmare court fighting and then scarlet showing up and joining the fight as her own side, demonstrating exactly how powerful she is (If we’re supposed to actually be afraid of her) and that all forces in tyria don’t just bow down to scarlet’s evilness, that could prove a more interesting story.

PizzaSHARK.2741:

Lighthammer.3280:

Lunatic inquisition is most boring mini game by far. You run around for 15 minutes in a map way too big with way too little people in it, without a goal. I just don’t understand the idea behind it.

I just hope they don’t put it in daily rotation, because it sure does suck.

I think it’s more the fact that there’s almost never any communication or even socializing in the game. When villagers and ghosts are communicating and working together, it’s pretty fun. It’s funny to watch that first lone ghost spend five minutes dying repeatedly to a mob of villagers before he can finally kill one.

Sadly, that doesn’t happen very often because most people are there to play Microsoft Excel and make an arbitrary number grow a little bit bigger in pursuit of something shiny, rather than to actually play the game.

The map can feel too big at times, but I think it’s primarily a communication issue. Ghosts move pretty slow, but traps and teleports make it pretty easy to get from place to place. A more reliable radar to ensure villagers keep moving instead of hiding behind the same 3 buildings all game might be useful.

That ghost must really suck then. When i’m the ghost and I see a mob of villagers running at me, I just laugh. Usually I kill a majority of them before they decide to actually run away, using mad king says to force them to drop their hammers in turn combined with my fear and dodge roll, I don’t usually die.

While the villagers do need the communication, for the ghosts it’s sort of a contest of who can get the most points. The only time I communicate with my team as a ghost is if someone is hiding in one of the spots where they jump off the map and respawn way out of my range.

Ventari is the exception to the rule. On a whole centaurs are a violent race. The ones that arnt for war (and there are a few) are shunned in their society.

Theres a centaur in LA that will tell you this if you bother to talk to him.

Edusd.7893:

@Greyalis the dragon you refer to, is just a representation of the PC’s wild hunt to destroy Zhaitan. You can find threads in this forum discussing this topic at great length.

You saw A dragon, we’re not sure which one. We say it’s zhaitan because that’s how the PS ended, but it could be it is the jungle dragon that you’re meant to defeat. While in the dream you see visions of asura, golems, and skritt. Why would those visions have such a clear form (You could easily tell what they were), yet suddenly the vision of “zhaitan” you have has a nature theme to him within the dream, while nothing else does.

It is very possible to win as a villager, but it requires the villagers to cooperate as a team, which I am not seeing that coordination or even the attitude that they can win this year.

Ghosts don’t respawn at the middle to discourage grabbing a hammer and trying to just kill the courtiers. The game is survival, it’s not supposed to be an evenly matched pvp fight. You can dodge roll to avoid the fear and attacks of a courtier if you time it right.

The only problem I currently see with the game is how spamable mad king says is (and that multiple courtiers using it stacks it so you have that many different emotes you need to do or you fail all of them but I assume that’s a bug), a higher cooldown would do wonders. Courtiers still have traps that I see very few using that would cover the higher cooldown of mad king says well. Maybe perhaps just make mad king says 1 skill that randomly selects an emote for the person to do. It’s nice to have 5 mad king says and there is strategy to saving certain emotes for certain times, like saving dance because it’s one of the longer emotes, but being able to apply it back to back to back to back to back is a little much (and then having a few courtiers on you that all do mad king says)

The radar I have a love hate relationship with. Sometimes I don’t even use it, preferring to just hunt blind, checking the usual spots people hide. Maybe it can be disabled until the last 10 or 5 people? (Just the radar function, not teleporting around the labyrinth) By that point they’re all going to be hiding and it’s actually needed. Though I wouldn’t view this as game breaking if it did or didn’t happen. There’s always the walls that mark people as they run by (Though there was a bug with them respawning, that they didn’t respawn at all, the last time I hit them with a hammer it’s been some time since that so that might have been fixed and i’m not aware of it.)

XP scales with your levels, so that any level content will give you appropriate experience to level you up in a decent amount of time, this includes renown hearts, dynamic events, and PS step completion.

You do get slightly more experience for doing a higher level event than doing a lower level event, but the time:reward ratio makes it better to run lower level events for experience.

The most experience comes from doing dynamic events but don’t rush to 80, enjoy the ride. There’s not as much to do once you reach it.

Riot Inducer.8964:

The female sylvari’s voice reminds you of fem-shep? o.O Honestly I didn’t even know it was Hale at first, the sylvari voice and femshep are worlds apart imo. Part of the reason I like her as a voice actress so much, she has a really wide array of ability.

Personally I really urge you to try and get over your fem-shep comparisons because the female sylvari has the best delivery of lines of all player characters I’ve seen. If you’ve played a female human or norn then the sylvari’s voice acting should be a breath of fresh air.

At any rate as far as class recommendations, if you want to play to the sylvari’s chivalrous themes a guardian or warrior with the “green knight” starting story is probably the most fitting story for any character archetype I’ve seen. Really though sylvari works well with just about anything, engineer might be a bit odd but you’ve ruled that out anyways.

The human isn’t bad and the VA really nails it at points. Though i’ve still yet to hear the norn sound vaguely interested in whats going on around her.

Shadowsong.4820:

Ahlen.7591:

Please god not another JP. Anything but another JP. They were interesting at first but I feel like they’re friggin everywhere now.

That’s a rather odd complaint considering that there were like 5 Jps added to the game since release, which is not an awful lot.

Simple case of “It’s not content I enjoy so nobody enjoys it”.

You know how many new JP have been in the game since launch? Six, and four of those six were temporary. You gotta let someone else have the spotlight once in awhile.

Because treherne showed up and demanded all the screen time (and development time).

But seriously, they just probably didnt consider it, among the many things they didnt consider in the PS.

I think they should add lots of things to our home instance as the PS progresses. Certain NPCs and/or gravestones for certain chapters passed and how those chapters ended( a display of inventions for asura for chapters passed instead to better fit their culture), a memorial to your order partner, a trophy from the final boss (not saying because of spoilers), maybe even some trophies from the PS for the parts you actually did (none of this faren sent me mail as thanks for saving him on a character that never met him) with a crier to fill you in on any story you missed and show you any cutscenes if you would like to see them.

Zaxares.5419:

Yeah, I’m unsure if marriages are something that Asura traditionally do, or whether it’s just a case of Tonn and Ceera adopting the human custom because they liked the thought. Most other Asura I’ve heard discussing relationships in Rata Sum refer to their partner as… well, “partner”.

Lots of asura fall in love, including a lot of npc asura seen in metrica. Even two members of your krewe are in a relationship if you choose the college of synergetics. (It might be dynamics, I don’t remember too well).

It does seem that all asura that are in a relationship seem to be part of the same krewe. Though we can’t say if that’s because they met that person because of the krewe they’re in, they both joined the same krewe, or if that’s asura custom. You’d think though if it wasn’t asura custom we’d eventually see an asura in love with someone not on their krewe though, but i’ve yet to see that.

Maybe it dont remember well enough from last year but it seemed to be on a longer cool down last year.

I play a game yesterday where I was being chased by 5 ghosts and they all used mad king says on me. Whatever, i’m outnumbered, not a good chance I get out of that; BUT apparently they stack, so I failed all 5 at the same time.

Good, we need more JPs for the people that actually enjoy them.

well that’s your fault for not being able to see that person in any other role. I personally love the female sylvari voice. I have a sylvari ranger and a sylvari ele both female because I dont like the male sylvari voice.

Only if I can wear the rest of my town clothes as armor. Just look at that, that’d be amazing as armor.

You dont have to, the option is there but you can get it with dalies, which are PvE based.

As for the PvP items in achievement chests, they’re for the people that do PvP and get achivements

Zaxares.5419:

Just ignore them and draw out the game as long as possible. They can’t report you because you’re playing the activity exactly as was intended, and if they get too abusive you can report THEM.

The damage is still done, they spoiled my fun, because they want to end the game as fast as possible so they get as many chests as possible.

It’s the reason I didn’t want achievements in lunatic inquisition in the first place. Last year the only people there were the people that wanted to play the game, so it was actually a game.

I just had a very long conversation in game that just ended with them calling me names. Because I think that’s all farmers know how to do. They cant actually come up with a good argument to defend their position so i’m just being a big crybaby about it.

Zaxares.5419:

The Inquisition is designed to be a Last Man Standing style, so the odds are supposed to be weighted in the Lunatics’ favour. I do agree that the Mad King Says spamming is too unfair though; I made a suggestion in another thread that I think they should change it so that if the villager successfully performs the action, it kills the Lunatic who initiated it. (Mad King says, “For every winner, there’s a loser, and it can’t be me, so it must be you, my courtier!”) This makes using the MKS a calculated gamble, best used when the Lunatic thinks he’s close enough to close the distance and kill the villager before they can finish the action.

As far as the villager tactics is concerned, you can either try to run off alone and hide somewhere, or group up for survival. This is especially handy if you can keep the ghosts to only a few members, when you can just gang up on the ghosts and use CC skills to keep them from acting while you kill them (and afterwards you run off again).

I’ve seen the Ripper once, but never found it myself. Where does it spawn?

The ripper spawns on the last villager alive, and can’t be found until that point.

SSGroguey.5841:

The only thing I really have a problem with this year (but honestly I still enjoy this activity the most), which maybe it’s just my memory being fuzzy or maybe the lunatics just know what they’re doing this year, the patrols and hammers don’t seem to do much this time around.

I vaguely recalled the imps in particular actually being a great defense, they could deal with a solo lunatic and it usually took a little later into the game where they had a better lunatic force to deal with the imps (at least 2 lunatics would have to deal with the patrols). I saw the veteran imp get summoned just as a lunatic came by and he just dropped like a wet noodle, he was instantly dead. The summons don’t really seem to matter this year.

It seems to be a similar case with the hammer. The only thing that works well is the knockback. The #1 is just a tickle at best.

The mobs were effective but only with villagers supporting them.

This year everyone has the idea to hide. They never win but never try to do anything else.

The idea is you stay away from the ghosts, if theres a wall between you and the ghost, it doesnt work (also it has a range on it.)

The idea is ghosts have their tools and villagers are just faster. The ghosts have more of an advantage because 1 good ghost can do wonders. The villagers have to stick together to survive, they can’t just go lone wolf.

Illusion.1807:

loseridoit.2756:

Illusion.1807:

Thanks for your advice, I will learn more about engineer. My point is not about whether engineer is op, this post is really about my feeling of eles in the current states.

If you feel like the elementalist class is lacking, then you are probably not enjoying the complexity of the class.

I think you spend your time by trying to change skill combination rather than asking the benefits of kit vs attunement.

I do enjoy eles’ complexity. This is why I keep playing eles even I can do better with other classes. Eles’ attunement swap cannot be simply spammed, as you got to know your opponent and timing and positions are all important to eles. That being said, I think I am not the only eles who believe eles is lacking in the current state. In fact, it was completely absent in the recent two big tournaments. Will conjure weapons save the day for eles?

I just stopped using my ele. A pretty much broken class with no fix in sight. Ok in PvP but nowhere else, pretty much being a hassle to the party if you bring one to a dungeon. Attunement swap, while an interesting idea, does not give the same function as weapon swap does, and I can go on a character with worse gear and be able to do more damage while having more survavibillity. There is no reason to be an ele in the game at the moment.

Actually the clocktower was all in the same map, just separated into segments, the waiting room, the actual puzzle, and the reward room.

You could find them all looking around below it. The water below the map was a joke, as all games do that pretty much, but they still didn’t put anything below the clocktower in the portion we were supposed to be able to see.

Orr is the end area of the game, it should be hard. I was upset over the original nerf of it TBH.

You missed it, though I feel for the people that couldn’t do the one time events last year. Thankfully anet stopped doing that after a lot of players couldn’t attend the ancient karka during the first southsun.

Though I wouldn’t be opposed to new titles for new years, but that title should be unique.

Only problem is the clocktower is surrounded by water. And there was nothing surrounding it last year when I was looking around. You say me getting outside the area and swimming around was not intended? Maybe but they still didn’t put anything under the clocktower in the section we were able to see.

Though Konig is correct, the mad realm is a section of the underworld that mad king thorn just sort of took over, but Grenth still rules over it.

position on the map should be taken with a grain of salt, these big maps have to actually be put somewhere in the world, but sometimes they cant fit where they actually are within the lore of the world.

Faowri.4159:

Last year it took me 2 hours to get it done, but obviously this year I did it a lot more quickly. Did it again today as well, first time. So it’s not that it’s easy, but once you’ve memorised it, you’ve kinda done all the hard work.

To increase the difficulty, I think it’d be more beneficial to keep adding ‘levels’ to the clocktower that get more and more twisted the higher you go. That way you aren’t removing content, but you can climb onto the next bit, which would obviously be harder.

I’d like that, maybe put multiple chests at the different levels for a unique armor set? but the achievement for doing the clocktower still gets ticked for just reaching the room after the first level?

It’d be nice to actually have some unique rewards for the people that actually enjoy the JP

I miss the charr cub that ran around outside the TP last year yelling “It’s holler- hallor- IT’S CANDY DAY”

Not everyone is good at JPs. Also Hard =/= fun.

Take BOT4W, that entire map was one big jp, and it was so fun. But I wouldn’t consider it hard.

The only thing that takes the fun out of the clocktower is I enjoyed racing my friends up the clocktower, which I cant do now. Heck I can’t even see the other people now which added to the difficulty as well.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Yeah. It’s hard to outrun ghosts if for some reason you’re inherently slower than many of the other villagers.

It’s also hard to manage the Hammer Patrol that keeps the ghosts at bay and defends the innocent.

Well maybe you’re in combat?

Also last year traits worked in the game for a passive speed buff, not sure if that’s fixed or not.

You’re also essentially in PvP so maybe they set PvP up for speed?

DaMunky.6302:

This thread’s title made me think of the guy from “Reading Rainbow” being a member of the Power Rangers. I lol’d.

GO GO READING RANGERS <theme song commences>

Ironically my ranger is a sylvari named reading rainbow

anyway, you see this on every subforum, everyone thinks their class is under powered. Try it, go to any subforum and you’ll see a thread about that class being the weakest. Ranger is a pretty powerful class already, I use S/D with a trap build and I can kill things very effectively.

The only one that i’d really consider actually broken to near unplayability is elementalist. Even then you can make an elementalist work if you really try at it, but it’s mechanics are broken on such a base level that you really have to just work at it to use your class feature as little as possible. (And even then someone can do whatever you’re doing much better).

This has happened since release, you can tag an event but not do enough damage to the mob to tag the mob itself, which is what the achievement is for.

I got the horror and lich on my first try but had to beat the viscount twice to get the achievement for him.

They get a speed boon every time they kill a player.

The game was fine last year but there has been a few bug fixes that actually just broke the balance of the game.

It’s that villagers now get put in combat if they even throw anything at a courtier, last year that didn’t happen and now villagers have no chance of getting away if they try to fight back.

The other is last year while courtiers did get the speed boon for killing a person, it didn’t actually have any effect.

This made the game more about a courtier outsmarting and out maneuvering a villager instead of just plain outrunning them, using their skill and tools to take out opponents. It was still very possible to do last year and against someone who was a decent courtier, the villagers already didn’t stand a chance. Now it’s just sort of sad that I just run faster than a villager if they lay a finger on me.

The rewards already encourage villagers to stay alive. You get 3 bags if you win as a courtier, 5 bags if you win as a villager, and 10 bags if you are the last surviving villager and you win.

For a new player there are some things to keep in mind

1. Everyone thinks their class is under powered if you read their forums; most classes are fine, shining in some areas more than other. (Elementalist is the only one I consider broken on a fundamental level but you can still even make that work) I suggest you really try a class and play around with it before choosing a main, and keep in mind not every play style works everywhere. PvE, PvP, WvW, and dungeons are require different play styles.
2. Consider the WvW rankings when choosing a server WvW earns your server serverwide buffs, it doesnt matter if you do it or not, as long as your server does in general everyone gets them. Stormbluff Isle or Jade Quarry would probably be good picks, they’ve been strong since release and are still strong, other servers seem to change with the tide but those two are almost always near the top. (I am on Jade Quarry which is how i’m able to watch the servers that are at the top, the listings arn’t posted anywhere i’m aware of)
3. Some people are try hards, they won’t like you because of your play style for some content Don’t get discouraged by these people, knowing how to play the build you pick of your class is better than playing some build someone says is better that you have no idea how to play effectively. I personally come up with all my builds myself, sometimes they’ll be exactly like an established build, sometimes they wont.
4. Don’t worry about classes in high demand, most classes can do everything, anybody who wont take you for a party because you’re x class is just a kitten anyway. (Also the forums censors any bad word to kitten so use your mind to fill in the blank)

You cant, we’ve wanted that for a year now.

We’ve been told they’re working on it but it’s not as easy as we’d think it is.

Seeing the other people was part of the fun. Anyway it took me a few tries to get back into the swing of it but since i’m already a clock tower veteran… Well one of my guild mates was doing the clocktower since the patch, I got on, and beat it before he was finished about 2 hours later.

The clock tower isnt a race, the goop comes up at the same rate for all players, it seems a little faster this year though (still doable though). You’re simply too slow.

So today I played lunatic inquisition for the first time in a long time. I loved this game last halloween, I was so sad when it left and had to actually tear myself away from playing it to actually complete the events for the halloween meta last year.

This year, i’m disapointed. A few little things have been changed, but they ruin the game.

For example if a villager throws an item at a courtier they get put into combat, while it was not this way last year. This made it so the courtier had to simply outsmart the villager, instead of a villager having no chance of getting away as it is now. Maybe it was a bug last year that the villager didn’t get put into combat, but it made it more enjoyable that you had to outsmart the villagers as opposed to having an easy kill if they so much as touched you. The courtier having the tools of the fear, mad king says, traps, and that leap attack, it was still very much doable to catch a villager.

On the courtier side there isn’t much new that breaks the game, though the speed boon a courtier got didn’t work last year (though it showed up) which contributed to having to outsmart the villagers instead of winning by brute force. A villager in combat and courtiers having a speed buff ensure the villager can not get away.

For the sake of the game i’ll list the other bugs i’ve seen, which isnt a lot but

• When walls are smashed with a hammer they do not respawn
• villagers now have downed skills when they are killed
• The black goo still does not work (no blind)

I got 3 bags for a win as a courtier.

Haven’t won as a villager yet.

Last year it was 3 bags for a courtier, 5 bags for a villager, and 10 bags if you’re the last villager left and you won.

Azure Prower.8701:

Maybe he’ll wield twilight and sparkle.

You know vampires existed before twilight, right? They’re far more interesting too.

Mepheles.2087:

Um, I’m not a lore nut… but If anyone has played through one of the sylvari personal story pathlines, we meet a Sylvari who is not of the Pale Tree. And it is shown that there may be more Groves elsewhere. The Alternate universe theory may be sound, but maybe she is of another Tree, or maybe even the SAME tree as Malyck. I don’t know if anyone has brought it up, haven’t reread this thread in a while. /shrug just thought I would add something to help with the mystery, if it helps at all.

The only reason of the alternate universe idea is there is because scarlet has steam creatures in her army, which are confirmed to be from an alternate timeline.

There is however no evidence to support Scarlet is from an alternate universe and even evidence against it as Vorpp recognized her.

Not everything needs to be insanely difficult. As long as it’s fun.

Armor of earth has been broken for a few patches. Ever since the gauntlet, where sometimes it didn’t break a stun. I guess it’s just got to the point where it’s reliably not working.

Well like I said theres only two things that bugs me about the female norn voice.

1. There’s no emotion in any line, she always sounds bored
2. It sounds like they asked the voice actor to do their best male voice, as that’s what girls sound like if they’re trying to imitate a male voice. (atleast any one i’ve ever heard doing it)

Atlas.9704:

Mathias.9657:

It’s not appropriate to have such a deep voice when the game allows me to make a really cute norn, seriously it just don’t fit. I could understand if I made one with the scarred face and made her ugly.

You should really watch Venture Bros if you think the Norn are a problem.
The Norn woman voice is nothing compared to Dr Girlfriend.

But Dr Girlfriend is a joke, and supposed to be a joke. It’s a comedy show.

We’re supposed to take the female norn seriously.

Give longest range to a class with high mobility, multiple escape skills, stealth, and can do the highest spike damage?

Why not? I see no problem with this.

The pale tree never mentioned scarlet because anet didn’t have scarlet planned at launch.

Sometimes somethings require a little suspension of disbelief. This is one of them.

I think you’re reading too much into all of this.

Why arnt all dredge considered part of the molten alliance? Or all flame legion?

Scarlet is taking these small parts of these larger groups and combining them together. She doesn’t have the entirety of the dredge, flame legion, nightmare court, sons of svanir, and inquest at her beck and call. She has a small group that defected into her forces.

Besides I haven’t seen any inquest since Sky Pirates so i’d say they were only working with her, and not for her.

Molch.2078:

Chaotic Storm.2815:

Molch.2078:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

The only viable build with the staff is support/healing.

Besides anyone who thought “dps all the way” left ele a long time ago.

Thats funny, because Ele is #1 dps in PvE.

No, thats warrior your thinking of. Their 100 blades pretty much hold the highest dps count.
Note: Not sure if the 26k dps is still possible for 100 blades or not (never pays much attention to other class nerfs)

You don’t really know what dps means, do you? Warrior are quite average for damage dealing in PvE.

DD and DPS are two different things.

Damage dealer would refer to burst damage, high spike damage but low damage output in that downtime.

Damage per second is the classes ability to constantly deal a set amount of damage with low or non existent downtime.

That high downtime the ele has on damage dealing abilities kills ele in WvW and PvP in a larger group. Eles only do good 1v1 and PvE, and with more and more things becoming immune to conditions which kills half our damage (and no extra damage in a party anyway since everyone bleeds), Ele is quickly becoming an obsolete class. It already has no place in dungeons or world bosses, and is only good for support elsewhere. Even if you wanted to argue FGS makes it better, it’s really not worth the 3 minute cooldown for 30 seconds of increased damage. I can understand the other elites having a very high cooldown, they’re there to save you in a pinch, but the FGS cooldown would need to be lowered before it’s even considered as a serious weapon for ele

If you’re pumping out more dps than a warrior, then he’s doing it wrong, very, very wrong.

You’ll see some people in a few days, for a new release people always just do that. But you’ll never see as many.

Also once they update the other bosses to be just as hard as tequatl, tequatl will be back on people’s to do list. Right now people are saying jormag and shatterer are much easier so they’ll do that. Really what anet should have done is if they were going to do this update, they should’ve done all the bosses at the same time.