Guild Wars 2

Kaschuba.3915:

Skill 1 is bad because it motivates you to have maximum distance while Skill 2 rewards being close with 6 stacks of might (at least in 1v1 situtations).
Skill 3 should simply be a regular target skill not ground-targeted

It was in the beta but that changed that for launch. So obviously anet decided they wanted it to be ground targeted.

Really i’m fine with all the skills, the greatsword is a good weapon if used correctly but obviously meant for Pvp/WvW.

Underwater mechanics are not used as much as they should be in general in the game.

As for queensdale being changed, that’s not gonna happen. Anet have already stated that Orr will never be healed because they don’t want to take the zombies out for people who still are going through the PS. So by that logic queensdale will never undergo that dramatic of a change.

Daroon.1736:

IrishPotato.6327:

Daroon.1736:

During the webcast the Dev’s seemed VERY keen on suggesting that you REALLY want to try and fill you PvP locker before the changes. From the rather knowing looks on their faces I presumed a pretty big change was in the offing and the idea that all the armor in the locker would be useable in PvE makes lots of sense to me.

Re the leveling up, it’s an instanced area so I don’t see any issues – A closer alignment of PvE and PvP and the ability to use all the items in the Pvp Locker would make the current PvP armor/weapon system redundant.

The only issue with this theory is that the armor in PvP is usable in PvE….It’s the equivalents that you find in PvP. If they blended the two together it would take out the entire purpose of the vendors in PvE. Nobody would need to run dungeons for the specific armor or weapon appearances. They could just make it in PvP instead.

True, but the dev’s have already said ‘use all your pvp crafting materials now’ suggesting that ‘crafting’ will be removed from PvP.

Sounds like you never heard that they’re making it so you can use your PvE skins in PvP and removing those PvP only things.

Theres an asura couple in the PS that are married. Tonn and Ceera. You also have two members of your krewe if you choose either dynamics or statics in the asura PS at the beginning.

They had to deal with Zhaitan. He’s dead now. Where are your dead dragons?

The Quaggan ran away from the dragon, even the krait did. The only races we know of that havent run away are the dwarves, the largos, and humans.

humans complaining about clipping lol. Get in line with the rest, except they’re complaining about nearly every armor in the game clipping.

Blurk.6231:

The way I see ley lines is like rivers, they flow beneath the ground. On the intersections, the magic is obviously the strongest. When Scarlet reaches the ley line intersection with her drill, the flow of these rivers will stop and she will probably tap the power from the intersection. In other parts of the world, the amount of magic will drop as a consequence, with maybe some results, maybe not. She will use her collected energy to do something, like awaken a dragon as mentioned before, which will likely kick off the season two.

So what you’re saying is this is 600 A.D. and Scarlet is Magus instead of the Joker. I can get behind this.

Well I do the same things on my minecraft servers. My character isnt op ingame but I still have access to the server console. I’m sure it’s the same thing for anet employees.

Astral Projections.7320:

There is a brand new poi in LA. Could it be that one?

No, with this new update I noticed I am now missing one POI even with the new one in LA. Unknown which one it is but I got map completion awhile ago so it doesnt really affect me that much.

FateOmega.9601:

His wyld hunt contract says he is only responsible for zhaitan. So he brought his fleet of pact airships on a vacation tour somewhere.

Actually Treherne’s wyld hunt was to cleanse the land of orr, and it’s far from cleansed. All that corruption doesnt go away overnight.

selan.8354:

yeah everyone lets reroll this class is not viable anymore and the devs simply dont know how to fix the mess.
we lack aoe

You have the staff and the Greatsword and the sword if you’re clever, as well kittenter builds having AOE spike damage.

we lack condi cleanse

Mantras, null field, arcane thievery. That’s only all of your utility slots if you want.

we lack swiftness

Fair enough but when the game started, no one had a passive swiftness except the ele.

we lack dmg in zergs

Again sword and greatsword, mainly greatsword but in PvE zergs, sword works fine.

we lack build diversity

Only because of your inability to look passed shatters for a viable build. I kill things just fine and I don’t use shatters at all.

we lack group builds

Like I said I kill things just fine, solo or in a group. PvE mobs, dungeon mobs, other players; I only have trouble on things that are meant to be done in larger groups, like champion mobs, and even then I can take some on and win.

selan.8354:

but we get more nerfs and nothing in return for a year now. ill finish my war and main my necro.

Well according to people on their class forum the necro is very underpowered too. And Rangers. And Engineer. And Thief. And Ele. So your choices are warrior and guardian.

I have played mesmer since launch, as my first character, it’s one of the best off classes. Maybe in this future patch which I havent read about but for right now, mesmer is one of if not the best class in the game.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Maybe a “Hero of Lion’s Arch” is awarded in one of the following updates… as of right now, LA is still deeply in trouble, after all…

Well it’s not like Evon walks back into LA every hour. One Cycle is the entire event, after that LA becomes too toxic to enter until we find a way to counteract the aetherblade miasma.

The reason you can repeat the event is because anet has experimented with one time only events before. A lot of people, including me, couldn’t even make it to the event and a lot of people got angry.

Yes, BUT, LA is still deeply in trouble (I highlighted this in your reply) So we may have rescued some NPCs (particularly happy that some of them were known characters such as Urmaug and his buddies) but have we saved LA itself? Nope. So a title could potentially come up in the future.

Well I assume the people who arnt saved die. We need to get back in to confront Scarlet but as far as the people, there would be none left to save. We saved Evon, his supplies, a lot of soldiers and civilians, and I even revived Marjory once.

Evon dooms people to die by taking the only working asura gate out of LA and then shutting the portal off behind him. Atleast Kiel tries.

Toxic alliance mobs by far. They’re not hard, but just annoying. Immobilize, torment, cripple, every condition in the game that makes them annoying to run by if I dont want to fight them.

Xandror.2356:

I realize Arenanet employees don’t play Guild Wars 2, and I don’t blame them. However… Every day, for every character I log in, the same cut scene appears of Lion’s Arch being attacked.
Ordinarily the new “content” is easily avoided but this particular patch is being very intrusive. (I know the remaining fanboys will say “hit skip, its not hard”.) I don’t think Anet actually intended us to watch the cut scene 50 times. I realize bugs simply don’t get fixed so I don’t expect that to change, just next time please make your living story patch less of a nuisance. Thanks =).

They said why they did that. The cutscene flags for you to be transported to gendarran fields. so characters logging in when it was once per account were just logging into death in LA.

So basically you’re saying anet not forcing you into playing this content is forcing you into playing this content.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Maybe a “Hero of Lion’s Arch” is awarded in one of the following updates… as of right now, LA is still deeply in trouble, after all…

Well it’s not like Evon walks back into LA every hour. One Cycle is the entire event, after that LA becomes too toxic to enter until we find a way to counteract the aetherblade miasma.

The reason you can repeat the event is because anet has experimented with one time only events before. A lot of people, including me, couldn’t even make it to the event and a lot of people got angry.

First of all let me say, I really like this update, the system of giving us rewards based on tiers passed in a cycle of the event is rough, but a good idea and a system that is still new but it’s good anet is trying something new.

But this event seems out of place. This should’ve been the event to introduce Scarlet; give us a taste of just what she is capable of. Beaming down into a city and killing a few people? A lot of people are capable of that. Taking control of a new force of robots and capturing a few people in a controlled space of divinity’s reach? (Which since Anise was so well prepared and Scarlet failed, it didn’t give Scarlet the entrance that she needed for us to take her seriously as a villain.) Impressive maybe, though it was never explained exactly how Scarlet got every watchknight programmed that way, but again not the terror we’d expect from a serious threat.

This event however, we see Scarlet take a city down to its knees, not just any city though, but Lion’s arch. The main hub city connecting many of the races, heavily populated and defended with their own airships, as well as where a majority of the strongest people spend most of their spare time(The players). We’re sort of familiar with Scarlet now though and it doesn’t have the same effect.

You all are really complaining that the mesmer is weak? It’s one of the strongest classes and has been since launch.

I’m rather happy anet has the mentality of buffing things up to our level instead of nerfing us down to their level.

So I have a theory on Scarlet that I’m not sure if anyone else has thought this. I havent gone though all 15 pages of this thread and though i’ve seen it, i’ve never really followed it, but here I go. Scarlet isnt a bad guy.

After gathering a large army, including a disposable force she can easily replace (Twisted minions), Scarlet starts drilling in LA for a dragon resting below the city possibly Primordus, in a fight against Primordus not only would a army made up of 5 different races and a force of disposable minions be useful, but the flame legion who are a mastery of controlling fire and the dredge with a knowledge of the underground. As well as Scarlet having her own personal brigade of airships to fight a dragon.

The same could be said about the krait with a knowledge of the sea if Scarlet wanted to also take on the deep sea dragon. The sylvari with the immunity to a dragons corruption would be useful for most dragons except Primordious who isn’t known for corrupting living beings anyway.

Some groups of enemies are hard to kill and have no reward except getting passed them. The same reward comes from just running passed them without taking the 5 minutes to kill the group of mobs.

Stacking doesn’t always work in dungeons, I was playing a dungeon the other day where we tried to stack and wiped 3 times so we had to try a different way. Stacking is the simple solution, which most pugs understand, it’s easier than relying on random people knowing what they’re doing. I happened to luck out that kiting and attacking with that group, we all had an idea of what we were doing.

Before GW2 came out anet talked about how their dynamic events will create a sort of living world, and the world will changed based on those events.

With nobody ever gaining ground in these dynamic events, it quickly became apparent that the world was stale and unchanging.

So then came the living story, an update for at first a month, with a few one time events and eventually evolved into this 2 week cycle we have now. But still nothing changes, the game world doesnt change except introducing temporary areas that we can no longer access, not quite the same as losing something.

Is anet finally gonna make good on their promise and actually take something away from us? Is LA just going to be a crater where the city stood after this is done? Obviously it will be rebuilt eventually, it already has from being completely destroyed before; but we need some reason to believe anet is willing to do this, some proof of this.

Or just have a tier’d achievement for overall citizens saved in a single cycle that counts for a cycle you’re at the end for that ends at 1500, with the title being at the end.

You do get some saved for completed escort events though, so both are necessary.

Anet is rolling out a new system of rewarding based on the progress done in the event overall, it’ll take awhile for it to get through a zergs head.

On the other hand theres an event in orr to weaken risen and then drag them to an npc, that has existed since launch, and people still don’t get it.

Props where props are due, the system is a good idea, and well executed on their end, the zerg mentality just hasnt learned to take advantage of it yet. Anet should go the route of neverwinter, atleast for event zones, the max player cap in zones is lower so there isnt people for a proper zerg and it’s more about everyone knowing what they’re doing.

Depends on the situation, sometimes people are just jerks, but sometimes i’m in a situation that i’ll die if I stop to help someone. Really it was that way with the tower sometimes too.

lordkrall.7241:

I would say that the pain of loss is a very good opportunity in the coming chapters, and that will be much stronger if there is an actual partnership between the two characters, and there are already hints that something will happen to Kasmeer.

It’s anet, when you start to like a character, they kill the character off.

There are mini dungeons around the world that do this. Theres just no achievements for them. There really should be more of them, theres only about 4 in the game.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini-dungeon

The wiki lists a lot more then I would due to a lack of actual puzzles to figure out.

Vas.7306:

Austin Powers isn’t that old…… is it?

1999 man, it’s 15 years old.

Necro has no real AOE besides staff which is rather weak in a straight up fight. While necro is not weak that makes them sort of undesirable for a dungeon but they can do open world PvE good enough with the right setup. Though like every class you can make it work if you try hard enough.

xithorN.2380:

1. Mesmer downstate. More often than not the blink puts you further into danger than helps you. Sure it is an almost guaranteed way to avoid the first stomp, but that’s just delaying the inevitable.

2. Lack of sustained pressure.Dont get me wrong, our power / condi burst is some of the best in the game, but i find that our sustained pressure is quite low and if you miss or have your burst dodged / negated it leaves you in a bad spot.

Happy holidays all!

Get a different build then. You can build a mesmer for sustained damage and it’s pretty effective.

Unless they changed it for this year, you don’t get it from the bell choir, just presents. I got mine last year.

Everyone always underestimates conditions in PvE, for any class. Even though they’re so powerful if used correctly.

It’s a closed beta so even if people have gotten in, theres probably a NDA.

Nike.2631:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Rangers are already pretty strong, you just have to discover how they’re strong.

Just because your build was nerfed doesnt mean all builds were nerfed.

Who says my build was nerfed? I think the basic pet AI has been uniformly rubbish since launch .

And is it good design to have ‘pretty strong’ be hidden under a rock somewhere? Especially when the class description in character creation sends you in the complete opposite direction…

That I can agree on, the pet mechanics arnt the best. I’ve seen pet mechanics done better.

As for hiding the better builds, it’s a double edged sword. Sometimes it’s fun to play a class a completely different way and make it effective. Like a dps guardian that still retains it’s hardiness, or a mesmer that doesnt use shatters.

Dawdler.8521:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Exactly what I say about it. Go up to any girl and ask her to do her best impression of a guy, you’ll get the female norn voice. Or something close to it.

Considering this is exactly how Claudia Christian sounds – and she’s quite female – that’s a pretty big insult.

Fun fact: She also voices Aela The Huntress (and several other chars) in Skyrim.

What I said it sounds like a girl trying to do a male voice, not that it sounds like a male voice. Difference.

I’m not saying the VA is bad (Though i’m not really familiar with her work to say one way or the other), i’m saying the direction was bad.

It’s an incentive to buy keys. You have these chests you cant open. Keys are also rewards from PS steps and very rare drops from enemies.

Nike.2631:

Azure.8670:

I cant believe this thread got TWO responses from a dev but the Ranger forum itself is crying and screaming for attention and theres nothing

I can’t believe you think idle chit-chat from a community moderator has ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE to do with solving the design problems the Ranger labors under…

I’m perfectly happy this kind of posting DOESN’T happen in the Ranger boards because we need working Solutions not hand-holding Attention…

Rangers are already pretty strong, you just have to discover how they’re strong.

Just because your build was nerfed doesnt mean all builds were nerfed.

1. All NA servers are based in the same place so as long as you stick to a US server, you’ll get the same connection to all of them.
2. Which server to choose depends on what you want to do in game. WvW (server vs server), PvP, PvE, roleplaying, or whatever all have different servers though none are official. Guilds can be joined cross server, you can join more than one guild(Though guild bonuses are , and you can play on other servers freely by guesting; so a good start would be one of the larger servers; if you already created a character you can delete it (or them if you have more than one already) to be able to transfer to another world for free.
3. For high burst damage as a caster, you’ll want a mesmer. The class mechanic of shatters allows you to do a good amount of spike damage or you can make a good build that doesnt use shatters at all if you decide you don’t like that.

As for tips:

• No class is made to be a tank, some can just take more hits than other, everyone needs to learn to dodge
• Learn how to play your class, every class plays different and no class mechanic can make up for not knowing how to play. I play every class and switch characters fairly frequently, but I still have a class that I switch to when i’m having trouble that i’m better with than all the others.
• Wait until you get into the traits (Level 11) before deciding on a class. Traiting into something can change how the class plays completely.
• Dont be afraid to remake your character if you arnt feeling the class by around 20-ish. Leveling goes pretty fast and theres a ton of experience to go around. The last class I tried ended up becoming my main.
• You get an extra reward for completing a map (Doing all the renown hearts, vistas, POIs and skill points in a map)
• The starting areas are designed to have just enough experience to get you to where you need to be so if you find you’re outleveled with nothing else to do, go do some crafting or do your personal story.
• Experience scales with your level, while you wont get as much experience for an event in the starting areas as an event in the end game areas give, even at level 80 it will still be a decent amount of experience for doing an event in queensdale (The human starting area.) So play whatever zone you want, instead of just going wherever it says your level should be.
• While you can sell the junk that drops from mobs at early levels it’s more efficient to use a salvaging kit (Available from any in game general merchant) to salvage it, to get crafting materials.
• Humans have the only decent racial skill (Hounds of balthazar) It’s not so good it makes or breaks a battle but just in comparison to the other races racial skills

Thats about all I can think of right now.

CC Danicia.1394:

Doggie.3184:

For some reason nearly all Anet players I see are Rangers.

I’ve been tooling around on my Ele & Necro today.

Thank god we need someone on our side for the ele.

Yes just use the trick to unsoulbind an item.

Buy a white or blue item
Transmute this item with the skin of the order’s armor; this will make it account bound
transfer it between your characters through your bank
Transmute the stats you want onto it; This resoulbinds the item so it will need to be on the desired character.

The only racial worth looking at and considering for viable use is the human hounds of balthazar elite. The rest of the racials are terrible in terms of damage and/or utility. As an ele your FGS is your only good elite, and as a non-human ele you should never change it out. Tornado sounds cool but it doesn’t make you invulnerable so you will just get shot down by putting a big target on your head. Though Tornado is the only elite you have access to underwater so you might consider getting it for that.

I see a couple all the time at new releases. Benefit of playing on a large server like jade quarry.

I think his name was blood fiend.

johanwikstrom.2304:

Sounds like a woman who tries to sound like a man. I’m not very fond of it..

Exactly what I say about it. Go up to any girl and ask her to do her best impression of a guy, you’ll get the female norn voice. Or something close to it.

My other problem with the female norn voice is it always sounds so bored with everything.

Grebcol.5984:

She has no Depth,she is no Shiro and she is tooo childish(pokemon like).There is no authenticity behind her and her actions.

Please, pokemon as a game is actually surprisingly deep and complicated in its mechanics when you peel away the top layer. IVs, EVs, natures, breeding, hidden abilities, pokerus; a lot of these mechanics a normal player will never know about, little less see.

With Scarlet we’ve just been told she’s the best at everything and she knows everything. It would be nice if everything were defined though. What exactly does she know that’s important? Why is it important to us? These are basic questions that need to be answered in characterization. Why is this character important? Scarlet has been here for about half a year, and about the entire year if we count from flame and frost on. Yet we still don’t know much more than we knew then. You’d think by now we’d know a goal for her.

It’s not the fact that they tell us we can’t win. Villains in games always do, it’s the fact that we never really seem to bother her. In most games theres a point where you kitten the villain off that they just snap. Not scarlet though, she doesn’t show any emotion, either anger or joy. That makes her boring. In other games even if you have a robotic villain, they still show some type of emotion. We cant connect to scarlet at all, not because she’s perfect (though that doesn’t help), but because it’s like she’s not human (or sylvari in this case).

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.

Your main should be the class you enjoy and/or know how to play. My first character I played was an ele, my main ended up being a mesmer. Though my first ele was made during beta weekend 2 so there wasn’t enough time to raise it to 80.

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.

Kudu. He’s got the the typical anet villain disease. He’s evil for no real reason at all except to be evil.

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?

CaptainVanguard.4925:

Based on a piece of concept art I imagine she may attempt to pair up Centaurs and Sons of Svanir:

http://images.mmosite.com/photo/2009/10/09/gw2w31680x1050_centaursY55L68JK38.jpg

It could just be me but these guys look like Icebrood Centaurs.

That could easily just be dragon corrupted centaurs.

I’d rather them finish off scarlet first. Do you really want her popping back up in the middle of an elder dragon story?

Alora.6841:

The issue here is not always, that players are not good at movement/dodging. I haven’t done this phase in fractals, but I did it a few times during Sky Pirates of Tyria. The cannon phase always slowed down my Computer, my frame rate went to hell and it really felt like WvW-Mega-Zerg. Under these Condition one simply cannot avoid the circles properly.

And no, I don’t have a computer thats too crappy. But Mais cannon phase is worse than most of the world bosses.

I play on a 5 year old computer and it was fine for me. Maybe it’s time to check your video card drivers?