Guild Wars 2

Skill 1 is almost continuous protection when used over and over. Plus if you use skill 2 after all of #1 have hit, you get a decent amount of retaliation.

I thought the same as you at first, then I played with the hammer builds properly and saw the combos and found a lot of strength in the weapon that isn’t as obvious on first glance

What….what did I just watch…?

FrizzFreston.5290:

Some people here seem to a bit early to toot their horns.

Who is not to say the warhorn will blow our minds.

Either way it will sword itself out.

It’s all a storm in a teacup anyway

Excellent news, was very much hoping for warhorn. It will obviously depend on the skills, but it has potential for an interesting concept.

I was struggling to equate sword to Tempest or how it would bring something new to the class.

Dunnot.8437:

So,In other words Anet hasn’t provided any external info about the release date to retailers. This “fake” release date has been set for advertising reasons to encourage people to buy the game before a certain date, that is 31st december. Am I correct?

You are correct

Ive said since early on map exploration should get a few extra rewards. The rewards from zones are fine, but unless the Gifts have other uses, then maybe an extra round of exotics or laurels or crafting mats etc could be added.

I think my preferred option is to widen the uses for the gifts

Third party sellers are not going to give accurate info before Anet releases a date themselves. Anything they release is speculative and as said above, placeholding. Its an extremely common and widespread preordering tactic used by many retailers

The Skynet Guild off to war eh

They did update us in a thread. It hasn’t been started yet, so there is no further news to give.

There have been plenty of topics on this, they just drop off very quickly. I think after high expectations previously, there are no expectations for this year

The wings were 1 day sales as part of (I believe) a preview of future HoT BL items. A little baffling in why such a thing existed, but I doubt we will see them til post launch now.

Hwarang.4789:

Healing power scales so bad in this game that tanking and healing just isn’t an option.

I singled this out for being the least accurate part of your post. Tanking and healing are very much an option. I have a very tanky warrior and a guardian who essentially keeps a continuous cycling of heals from regens, blocks, shouts and meditations. The new trait system only improved his healing solo and group.

Healing power is tricky to balance because if it scales too much it can quickly become over powered. It may need tweaking, but it is no way as bad as people claim.

As for viability, well no one will deny dps is outclasses all, but that doesn’t remove the option for support – they often prove safer options for groups, even if not faster.
This is precisely why they are working on content in HoT to overcome this and utilise a greater spread of styles and skills, where support will apparently matter. Time will tell if that will be the case.

There are good examples where they are working towards this already:
Mordrem have show that they are going in the right direction with conditions over raw power. Including non-damage conditions like cripple and blind. Ive some massively effective healing in Fort protections at SW
Karka are obliterated by reflects
Support helps a lot with Guild Bounties

Testing the waters of change, but signs nonetheless

Good luck!

1) there is no concrete anwer to that – I never experienced this, but there have been optimisations since fractals first launched, so you may be OK.

2) if you mean does Ascended stats exist? Yes across jewellry, armour and weapons. They are now gained from boss drops and crafting, so it’s not really fractal dependant anymore. The stat difference is so marginal it will never give an advantage in wvw. Some of it can be very grindy, but it’s lack of essential need counters that.

Beyond that, a LOT has changed since the end of 2012. 2 seasons of stories in pve, a new wvw, a really good pvp reward track, new wardrobe systems, overhauls to trait system, re-balances amongst many other things.

A major and complicated bug set in a few months back. It’s closed whilst the fix is being sorted
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Instant-God-Walking-Amongst-Mere-Mortals/first

I ran a whole weekend of SE with warrior pvt mace and shield. No one commented or kicked me. In fact everyone was remarkably tolerant and friendly. This was against the grain of expectation, but the difference from previous attempts was paying attention to what the lfg groups are after and ensuring tactics are followed. After that, i could have been an axe wielding apothecary necro for all anyone cared…

I agree the zerk thing can be annoying, but its a symptom of poor dungeon design and prob why no dungeons have appeared since TA valiantly tried and failed to recitfy that

Got to say, as someone regularly on the defensive teams, it’s extremely rare for me to see this. The only time I saw the defence completely ignored as the actual tactic was during the bugged period recently, otherwise there’s always a dedicated team at each turret set.

I think people find the turrets a bit of a turn off due to the reliance on them and if they aren’t doing the right thing, players start yelling over and over in map chat. That will put people off. But, in general it always seems to work itself out in my experience.

Id overlooked the past, present, future mechanic to the mists.

Id love to channel my GW1 self. Impossible in game terms, but would be incredibly cool.

Danikat.8537:

The daily is not supposed to be a challenge.

It’s supposed to be quick and easy so people can do it when they don’t have much time, or as a starting point to get them playing, then they get into doing other things after that.

This entirely. Should challenging content have appropriate rewards? Yes. Does it belong in dailies? No, dailies exist for the purpose as stated by Dani,at above

Well as i said before, the most obvious legend is missing

Astralporing.1957:

Randulf.7614:

Whilst this is good news, where was the info’s source? Was it the POI stream?

Yes. This and other changes should be posted on forums soon.

Cool. I look forward to reading them in due course

Whilst this is good news, where was the info’s source? Was it the POI stream?

DPDude.7205:

Randulf.7614:

Except many of the posts in the bug subforum have come from the main QA/bug team actually fixing it and explaining the issue.

Your anger is not really necessary. Its a complicated code they are working with and a complex problem for them to solve. They jumped on when they dont take time to fix a bug and jumped on when they they do take the right amount of time.

It will be opened when they have resolved the issue. There isnt really any more on the matter

With the HoM being disabled for this long, and everything being behind a korea style level lock now, there really is no reason to start a new character, ever. I guess the guy’ll have to sit idle for the rest of his life. (or until i collect enough tomes of knowledge to not have to deal with the level lock)

Just played through a new alt last couple of weeks and didnt encounter any Korean style level lock at any point. Hope that helps relieve your concerns

Except many of the posts in the bug subforum have come from the main QA/bug team actually fixing it and explaining the issue.

Your anger is not really necessary. Its a complicated code they are working with and a complex problem for them to solve. They jumped on when they dont take time to fix a bug and jumped on when they they do take the right amount of time.

It will be opened when they have resolved the issue. There isnt really any more on the matter

Yes it is taking that long due to it being extremely complicated. THey cant just “turn it on”, if that was viable, it would have been done. We all want it back up and running, them included.

We also have no idea of Jalis ’ fate down there

Leaderboards in pve really dont appeal to me, nor are they naturally something that fit. Overall the adventuring looks really well thought out and implemented though. Looking forward to them.

Revenant will be getting underwater skills
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/Thank-you-for-Shiro-Dual-Swords/first#post5287887

There was a lore book I believe before launch which they canned. Last time someone mentioned it, they said it wasn’t something they were looking to try and re-implement. It was hotly discussed during the CDI’s as well.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Randulf.7614:

It will get UW weapons since the PS contains UW content. It’s just they chose to not announce that info.

You’re assuming that they won’t just remove the UW portions of the personal story. Since they removed the underwater portions of:

PvP zones
WvW zones
Starter zones
weapon sets released in the last year
a few mid-level zones with scarlet

I don’t know why you would assume they would suddenly design additional skills and traits for a new class for UW content. The logical conclusion is that HoT will remove the remaining water.

I think when they say complete they mean complete. This is their covert announcement that HoT will be removing UW content I guess.

I would be immensely surprised to see any further adjustments to the PS and it is FAR more work to remove the entire amount of water from the game/story and re-terrain it rather than add a set of skills for a single profession. To remove all that for 1 profession is far, far more illogical.

Tentonhammer said there will be a POI on Friday in their article

It will get UW weapons since the PS contains UW content. It’s just they chose to not announce that info.

It is bizarre they are deliberately overlooking the issue. Revenants will need UW combat since they will be starting from lvl 1 and some story parts have UW combat.

I lovethe addition of UW dynamics to this game. Sure it needs tweaking, but it’s just annoying to see it overlooked at times. I guess we’ll have to wait for launch or maybe a beta weekend to find out what the Rev is like UW

Crovax.7854:

Will there be a lifestream showcasing this legend like with the others?

From the article:

If you want to see the new revenant legend in action, you can watch it this Friday when Roy Cronacher joins host Rubi Bayer on Points of Interest at 12 p.m. PDT on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel (http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2).

I like the Jade Wind mechanic, that’s a nice touch. I hope Shiro won’t make some of the other legends obsolete though. Or devalue them too much. That would be a wrong step for the class.

5 or 6 I think the vendor unlocks or where u get an automatic levelling reward of mining equipment

None. I throw my rare weapons from loot/bosses. That has netted me 2 precursors in the last 9 months and cost me no money in doing so.

I used it for sharkmaw last night, but that’s about it. It was that or buy a new monitor since my fist was coming rapidly close to going through it…

The daily system I am rather on the fence on. In essence I actually prefer the new system, however, many of the even more casual members of my group barely play anymore because they enjoyed the daily/monthly system that existed o much more. It’s not even the achievements points or the rewards they want, they just enjoyed them for how they were.

To be honest I doubt any further changes will be made. The daily system has been changed 3-4 times since launch and I’m not sure if they’d find it fruitful to keep putting resources into changing it again, knowing they can never please everyone and it is such a small thing in the grand scheme of the game.

There can be some harm as it increases gold sellers etc. I think trials work better in sub games, whereas i suspect anet had huge success with their 75% off method earlier in the year

I thought we knew about skill scrolls well ahead of time?

fruitycutey.9057:

We gettin’ our update today? Been hype for Tuesday. Dulfy said Butterfly Wings and that ugly outfit are today. :O Soon, yes?

I thought she said they were found datamined, but didn’t have an exact date?

Gw2 doesnt really work like that due to mergaserver technology, merging servers for pve.

Wvw is the only place a server matters. I cant really answer that since I dont wvw much.

Farzo.8410:

Evans.6347:

What I find refreshing is that the OP actually thinks the game will last long enough to get to the ‘final boss’.

It’s the little things in life, like that.

Has any MMO ever reached the “final boss” stage?

Anarchy sort of did it with a fi al raid and Lotro is likely to have some sort of finale by its very nature

To my knowledge, no. Afaik Anet do not involve themselves in such disputes as a matter of policy (It would open the doors to many more problems if they did), so the situation will remain as it is as I understand it

Well hints are that mordy is more powerful than primordus. So that leaves

Mawdrey. By that time itll have guzzled enough bloodstone to be immortal. Only by riding our new mount Priincess will we stand a chance…

John Smith, seventh elder dragon of trading and commerce

Gaile’s Frog, ruler and mastermind of all Elder Dragons

Legendary trident is awesome!

You aren’t paying full price for the original game. The expac was $50. They then included the core game as a free bonus, albeit for new players only. This their business model for all future expacs and they have clarified this in threads and news announcements.

Whatever way you look at it, the expac is $50 with or w/o the core game.

The details are unknown on that, but it is expected that having the expac is required for future content. Thats fairly standard

People are completing world map in a week. The market would be flooded by them