Guild Wars 2

Asuran’s create a holographic projection of the old LC and you get to visit it again.

There, lore fixed.

I’ve been trying to learn Rev recently. Tried the Shiro/Glint metabattle build. Every time I switch to Shiro I just get bombed by condis and die.

HOW U DO DIS?

Astralporing.1957:

CptAurellian.9537:

Bloomy is one of the best encounters in all fractals.

That’s debatable.

Is it really? He said it is one of the best, which is as far reaching a comment as you can get. What’s there to debate about that? He isn’t saying it is the definitive best.

The developers should rarely ever have to dumb down a game system for people who choose not to adapt or participate, because even with difficulty reduced there can still be other people who call it out for being too hard.

But Soul Marks do exist and the only other real contender for that line is SR adpet 3 if you have spite GM 3. I actually think marks are great for burning someones dodge. By the time you’re actually fighting on point they can’t really dodge it anyways since it’ll go off instantly.

I actually thought about the ‘mechanics’ behind it. And I may be wrong here, but wouldn’t selecting equip all basically run a ‘equip’ script as though it would if you double clicked it manually. This is why I think the idea is doable.

Its not supposed to be a build template, its a fast equip. And I totally expect some weapons to get into the wrong slots and whatever, or a both hand item getting into the wrong hand. It’d probably screw up equipping accessories and rings too <_< god i wish we only had 1 slot for accessories and rings.

If you weren’t a chrono it’d probably refuse to equip the shield, or do what it does now, keeps it inactive.

Why do I need to make my own concepts? It’s not a forum rule and you posted it here, is open for anyone to scrutinise. And i choose to scrutinise. You can choose to ignore me, that does change the fact i think the concept is fanciful and not well thought out. What, do you only expect people to come here with praise?

Look at how your ‘bullet system’ will interact with the five core traits, oh that’s right, it pretty much won’t. Anything that’s to do with initiative gets thrown out the door.

As far as concept specs go I’ve seen far better.

Gear doesn’t really with like that in this game. There are popular gear stat combinations that works on a number of classes, and it’s in your best interest to obtain gear that can either be used across several characters or are consistently valid for end game. Anything before level 80 is transient salvage trash, and you shouldn’t spend time accumulating it.

Choppy.4183:

perko.8309:

Oh dear. Check the date of the patch notes. April 1st .. get it?
They are just posted for a laugh.

I’m pretty sure he knows that and is just adding to the joke.

But OP isn’t even funny…

Do you have HoT? Any of the HotT map ones are good because they can contribute towards an ascended trinket. The dungeon tracks are kinda lack lustre

Orpheal.8263:

@ Ramoth:

Please think first then comment. Thank You.
Naturally would end up using one of the Core Class Weapons under the Gunslinger in returning to the Classical Initiative System.
The mentioned “Bullet System” should replace the Initiative System only in the case, where you play also ONLY with gun weapons – so Rifle and Dual Pistols.
However, your comment lead to the point, that I realized that I forget to mention the conceptional Dual Pistol Skills under my Gunslinger and to include them also in the Traits better, cause I posted only the stuff for the Rifle – so in this case had your comment something good to remember me on this missing part.

So heres the missing part for Dual Pistols (Using the Spec will replace the Initiative based Pistol Skills with them)

Stealth Skill
Silent Snake – You will shoot out with both pistols from stealth a salvo of venomous bullets, that will hit in a 180 degree angle all targets in front and at the sides of you
Hit targets will get several stacks of Poison and will get stunned also as well if the added Poison hits target that suffer togeher with the added Poison on more than 3 conditions

Weapon Skills
1) Critical Eye > Lethal Shot > Deep Impact
A series of 3 Dual Pistol Shots, the first being always 100% critical and unblockable, followed by a Lethal Shot that causes Weakness, finished by a Deep Impact, a blast of both Pistols at the same time that causes Bleeds in 2er Stack Steps so lesser the Health of the Target is. 2 Stacks at 100-80%, 4 Stacks at 79-40%, 6 Stacks at 39% and lesser

2) Pistol Reloader – Same as like Rifle Reloader, but in this case slightly faster
3) Ammo Exchange – Allows you to exchange the Bullet Skills as “Packs” quickly, where you have to do it manually with the Rifle for each Bullet, with Dual Pistols you get Ammo Packs so that you can shoot faster Bullets of a same time in a row.
4) Evasive Stance – Lets you Auto Evade the next incoming Attacks for the next 5 seconds and restores Endurance, if you evaded within that time enough attacks
5) Desperado – Unload all your Bullets into all directions to hit anybody around you Equilibrium Gun Kata Style like making this Skill a clear specialized superior version of Unload which can shoot simply only in 1 direction.
A little movie to show it Its always better to see it, than to describe it ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-giO15yKik

Will adapt to this now the traits a bit.

@Jana:
Id rather hear to my Concept of a Gunslinger this Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2ABSAMVno

David Guetta ft. Skyla Grey – Shot Me Down

So awesome and relaxing at the same time at its more calm passages This in an endless loop when you in a gun fight with an other gunslinger
This or when I’m in the mood for it that as alternative ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfuAukYTKg

just love David Guetta Good Music for any Situation!

Please think more before making especs. So if you ran out of initiative you can just switch to a gun and reload? Pretty hilariously OP.

Gawd, I can talk about the need for tutorials til the cows come home. I think one of the major issues with the lack of tutorials is also the UI is not very good for SPvP. The minimap for example: complete lack of consistency across all maps, some have too much detail, some are zoomed in weird and even after they updated the minimap ping they gave them all these useless icons.

Look at Dota2. You ping an enemy tower and it gets a sword icon on the minimap. You ping your own tower, you get a shield icon. Simple messages for attack and defend.

Doam.8305:

Kruhljak.2705:

Ramoth.9064:

I found a definition of Anet in a dictionary and it means ‘to not follow through with plans’

That definition applies to every business that’s ever operated, to one degree or another. Plans change, resources change, outlooks change, needs change, statistics change, etc.

Every MMO and every game dev is known for something and Anet/GW2 is known in MMO circles are known for it following through. The peter molyneux of the MMO world this is the image GW2 carved out for itself and it’s the image people hear about when comparing Anet to other devs because it consistency is way beyond normal.

Heck the second red weapons were announced doom and gloom hit across this forum and Reddit because the player base is well condition to expect the worst.

Bolded for truth.

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A BETTER DEFlNlTION OF WHAT lS AFFECTED BY STUN DURATlON?

STONE/REAPER’S FROST/JADE. ETC. KTHXBYE

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Bring your staff reaper to spvp ranked, see how far you go.
I said clearly – necro has easy entry (hp, ds, minions, staff too if someone loves it). But getting good on necro vs opponents who know their stuff, that’s another story.

Er, staff is quite often taken to SPvP on necro. It is great utility.

I’d like it if it wasn’t just a passive damage boosting effect altogether; like

When in shroud all attacks are unblockable.

Ithilwen.1529:

I can see the value and attraction of teams. The problem is that teams got placed against solos and abused it heavily.

Now, “pre-made” is a term of insult. This is the fault of the teams who steamrolled solos and often verbally abused them in the process.

C’mon Ithilwen, I’ve been in games with you and you are no stranger to the trash talk. This isn’t something that only applies to teams.

I agree with most of what OP said, maybe except for number 6.

Your April Fool’s cool down still has another 363 days mate.

Ok, since Arenanet just won’t give us build templates, this might be a good solution.

The stretchable equipment bag [SEB] is an equipment bag with the standard features of the invisible bag and the equipment bag and one more: it has a variable limit.

Here is the caveat, it will only take bound items, and only one of each armour piece, 2 accessories, 2 earrings, 1 amulet, 1 back piece and up to 4 one hand weapons or 2 two hand weapons.

See what I’m getting at yet? Best of all this bag has the feature: equip all, where it will equip all items in the bag and unequip all currently equipped items and put them in this bag.

the feature is already available, its called guild wars 2 wiki

JTGuevara.9018:

Meh….I think we’re better off with 5v5. OP, I suggest advocating for a new game type, like TDM, if you want 4v4 or 3v3. Here’s why. IMO, the simplicity and format of TDM can easily allow team-scaling. Conquest, on the other hand, contains a key factor: capture-points. Any team-scaling or reduction can easily throw conquest off-balance.

Example, two bunkers: 1 home, 1 mid. With two bunkers, you don’t even need far. Just have the other 2 rotate between home and mid as needed. With this, you can pretty much lock down the opposing team. This is why you need that fifth player to tip the scale.

Besides, you say 5v5 is hectic? Ha! Try 8v8. Yep, I played since those days. Even though it was fun, it was a MESS lol.

Looking back, I’d say 5v5 is the sweet spot for conquest.

Well, by that argument, you can still have 3 bunkers and do exactly the same thing in 5v5. The meta is phasing out bunkers anyways, so I don’t think thats a problem. I was around for the 8v8 days too.

The balance will be better simply because there are less things to balance. Its like how in GW1 balance became a nightmare because the pool of items that interacted with each other got too big.

It will happen Soon™

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DemonSeed.3528:

Speaking of which, now with the change to the way traps work, does it synergise well with revealed training? Is there no icd for revealed training?
Update: yes it works :x

Hmm interesting, put down a trip wire, backstab, they trip, you get buff, 111111oneone1 profit

lorndarken.3702:

sustain , condi damage , fleeing , cc , condi removal , health regen , pets ,

practically every skill a necro has at their disposal is out done by some other class .

the on going trend that people keep telling themselves is that necro is an attrition based class , yet you can have that in the guardian .

so . here are some solutions to fix that ..

abilities that do self harm need to be buffed and the self harm removed . disagree

the casting times for skills need to be quicker . maybe on dagger and focus 5

pet health need to be increased . disagree

fear needs to be over all changed . instead of being a skill that does damage , remove the damage and increase the time for the fear itself as a proper cc . strongly disagree

over time for snares and roots need to be increased . disagree

life siphon needs to be increased indifferent

condition transfer needs to be increased from 3 to 6 disagree

and death shroud skills need a speed increase in cast , projectile , and recast of duration needs to be lowered . what?

So overall, I don’t agree!

It’d be nice if all spectral skills had the life force per hit taken buff like armor and walk.

Please?
/15 char

I tried to make a ‘bunker’ necro build work in spvp yesterday, like back in ye old days. Got melted every time

Gw2 was seen as a wow-killer to no-one but Arenanet. Sad but true.

Datormenta.5018:

GWMO.4785:

common sense says around average patch time which is about ~6 hours from now

Did it occur to you, that i might not know when patch time is?

It occurred to me you didn’t read the patch notes, which states when the festivities will begin.

Well since you know what arenanet are doing in the next 30 years you should also tell us if they are making new races and classes, you seem to have 30 years of their game plan in your books.

Alex Shatter.7956:

Gretzel.6790:

Alex Shatter.7956:

I think the real problem with PvP is much more severe: the game is old and people are bored. This game released in 2012-ish and the adrenaline is gone. PvE is expected to age gracefully because it attracts long time fans and casuals, but PvP appeals to short term players who have by now discovered other, newer, better competitive games.

WoW released in 2004 and still has tons and tons of players. Many many more players than GW2 does.

WoW is also one of the most infamously popular video games of all time. That and Starcraft were the League of Legends of their day, and will always have fans. Gw2 never, ever had or was expected to gain that much momentum. All I’m saying is, it isn’t completely Anet’s fault PvP is dying. A lot of it is just natural death

It is there fault. People don’t get bored if your game is good. People still play Dota and the original Counter strike today. However, arenanet seem completely clueless as to what the problems in their game are. Look at the ghost thief debacle, whether it was pure coincidence or not, the fact it gets fixed a couple of weeks after someone abuses a raid boss with it instead of when heaps of people bring it up in wvw just leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. Not only that, they fix it with the most inelegant solution too.

If gw2 pvp is heading to the grave, arenanet are holding the shovel.

Winning is trolling?

Yeah, its allowed. Arenanet can’t force you to finish a game.

There was a time when blighter’s boon benefited from allies, and they just fixed being able to leech through shroud, AND the healing amulets were still around. Those sweet few weeks, unholy sanctuary was awesome.

Eddbopkins.2630:

that q poped in 30 seconds

And before the update, a game of a similar quality might’ve popped instantly! Hows that for an improvement?

Working as intended mate. What the update does is it will now spend longer to find you a game that will be stacked anyways.

Symmetry sucks.

I got two freshwater pearls within 15 harvests yesterday. Stop exaggerating.

Scipio.3204:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The Devs have just recently referred to this blog post: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-the-super-adventure-festival/

Nothing (about development) has changed at this time (according to the recent statement).

Good luck.

Yes I’ve read that , but this isn’t just about current development, but also the indefinite future. Back in 2013 they said they plan to do four world altogether, and they also said world 3 will come with red weapons and 4 with purple.

Now that red weapons entered the picture without W3 being added, I fear they permanently decided to cancel all future worlds. Now despise this, there is still a chance W3 & 4 isn’t canceled, but if they are, I don’t want to get disappointed each and every year.

I found a definition of Anet in a dictionary and it means ‘to not follow through with plans’

Burst down the blood fiend and watch the necro perish.

So when you switch to your d/p weapon set all you can do is auto attack because no initiative. Hoorah!

Shaogin.2679:

Ramoth.9064:

Your first sentence of the previous post was the strawman. And for some reason you’re against anet forcing standard models on naked people, which would only be the trolls anyways.

I’m afraid you’ve misread then. Also, never said I was against anet imposing standard models on naked players. I stated I did not want to have to turn on the standard model option, which shows every player as a standard model, to avoid seeing naked players run around in matches.

You said, even if the armor wearing was enforced trolls would find another way to troll. If that isn’t a straw man, lol.

Cerby.1069:

Ya i’m really happy……now all thiefs are going back to basilisk venom and 1 shot power builds. For sure…..that’s just soooooo much better than ghost thiefs…..for suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. happy* tm

It’s almost like stun breaks don’t exist!

Jski.6180:

Ghost thf is still going to be there as perma stealth did not get nerf only the abitly of ghost thf to stay perma stealth and it being able to do a lot of things. So you can still condi ppl out side of traps with other non dmg effects stealth cantrps and be annoying but a ghost thf cant kill ppl unless they revial them self with a trap or a hard hit.

Thieves now have cantrips. Ok.

They are ashamed that they have revive orbs on sale. That’s why it got removed.

Your first sentence of the previous post was the strawman. And for some reason you’re against anet forcing standard models on naked people, which would only be the trolls anyways.

Shaogin.2679:

Even if Anet made it so that you didn’t need to wear armor at all in pvp, those trolls would still find another way to troll you. I’d rather it stay as it is now so I don’t have to play pvp with a bunch of naked people, which would happen far more often if people could play without armor with no consequences. Also, using the standard models option is a horrible solution since I do enjoy see other players’ armor and even recognize some players by the armor they wear.

So, I’d say Anet did a good job on this one, and would love for it to stay the way it is. Again, if they change it the way you want, then the trolls will troll another way, only then there would be an increase in naked players and my only option would be to tolerate naked players everywhere or stare at boring standard models……no thanks.

That’s a strawman argument. They have a plentitude of ways to enforce wearing armour, yet they choose the absolute worse. Could’ve stopped someone from queuing if not wearing armour. Nope. Flat armour rating for nude players. Nope.

I’ll say it again. Worst of both worlds. Naked players and hand ruining.

Yet there were people paying ranked in season 1-4 when there wasn’t an a list of ascended items to begin with?

What???