Guild Wars 2

I need ascended bacon.

I can name a couple of these:

Bar = breakbar (the blue bar that sometimes appears below a boss’s health). This bar can only be damaged with hard and soft CC (hard-CC = stun, daze, knockback, launch, pull, float, knockdown, etc… Soft-CC = cripple, chill, weakness, slow, fear, blind, etc…)

Not sure about pot, but “prot” is short for the boon Protect: a boon that reduces incoming physical damage by 33%.

Acrisor.8097:

Razor.9872:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1LVwbgWrMM

Thank you for that video. A few months later (a few days ago) he moved away from GW2. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/120344507

I’m aware, but his point stands regardless. It’s important to realize why he moved away: it was due to a lack of A-net supported tournaments. Also, he’s gone idefinitively, not permanently; he and his team will return if A-net creates a true competitive tourny system.

Having 5v5 ranked did not accomplish this. The tourny system would need to be more structured.

Personally, I rest on the extreme side of the spectrum of “I love it.”

I deeply enjoyed HoT, and I have lots of fun with pretty much everything A-net puts out. To this extent, I’m not sure how qualified I am to make criticisms.

This game was advertised as one that revolves around one progressing their skill, rather than one progressing their gear. HoT zones are a compliment to this philosophy.

Also, this is an MMO. If you find yourself in a situation that you are having difficulty advancing on your own, there is a legion of allied players willing to help. All you need do is ask.

Substance E.4852:

Druid heals did save my butt a couple times in the final room but it wasn’t really that hard.

People are just mostly terrible at the game to be honest. Hell, doing the bloodstone golem events makes me feel like I’m the only one throwing shards at it while everyone else is dying around me to easily avoided damage trying to melee the kitten thing.

It’s not hard to see why many people find it to be “too hard”.

You can’t heal stupid. :P

Ayrilana.1396:

The drops just need to be randomized more so that it gives other tiers than primarily T5.

Agreed. Imo, it should be dropping every leather from kitten T6.

Lord Drekar.4619:

This leather farm is a great idea. Making it impossible to complete map exploration in this area without heading into it, is literally the worst thing that could have been done. Unless you are a thief or can stealth/survive a ridiculous level of punishment, you will not be able to solo map exploration here (or even do it with a 5-man party).

One of my guildies used 10 res orbs to get to this PoI just so she could finish map completion. Lined walls of snipers that can one shot you? assorted champs and veterans and elites in a huge mixture? a wall of charging centaurs pushing you back constantly? Map completion should not be locked behind a material farm. I love GW2, but honestly, this feels like pretty poor map planning.

I solo’d it with zealot Druid using:

Staff 3 & 5
Greatsword 3 & 4
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Troll Unguent
“Guard!”
Signet of Stone
Signet of the Hunt
Snowleopard form (but “SotP!” would work just as well in a different way)
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Fern Hound
Brown Bear
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Primal Reflexes
Strider’s Defense
Quickdraw
Oakheart Salve
Shared Anguish
Wilderness Knowledge
Primal Echoes
Celestial Shadow
Lingering Light

All other profession can build to easily get up, as well.

Zavve.8205:

I can’t wait to find more easter eggs in this new content. Finding stuff like this is so fun!

I can’t remember which emote it was (either salute or bow, I think), but if you do that emote to Shadow the cat in the queens chamber (I think only the second time you are there?), the cat will cheer for you or something like that.

“Hackers” pretty much are only able to manipulate their positioning on the map in unfair ways. Using impossible skills, or manipulating numbers are not possible.

Props for taking action. I’m not sure what the nature of these accounts were, but It’s good to hear they won’t be doing more harm.

Chasind.3128:

I’m only t3 gold, i dont have a friend but could use one :’D

I’m also T3 gold. I’ll be your friend <3

I’m Gold and I agree with the OP.

Gaile Gray.6029:

A message from the PvP Team:

In order to ensure the league leaderboard maintains a display of healthy competition, we will be enabling a new minimum games requirement. Players who do not have the minimum number of games required to stay on the leaderboard will be removed each time decay is calculated.

The current season is more than half complete, so the games threshold will be set to a lower value than what we expect future seasons to use. The current minimum is 40 games. Future seasons will ramp up the minimum game requirement over the length of the season and a UI component will display this value.

We are excited to see how fierce the competition gets as the season comes to close. See you in The Mists!

Thanks! Can’t wait for the update — it’ll do good.

Mike O Brien.4613:

This release will also include a new, challenging group-farming spot for leather.

/Pops fingers
/Flexes neck

My Norn is ready.

Randulf.7614:

Razor.9872:

Randulf.7614:

Yeah T6 are much easier to get now and the TP prices have halved since I last made a legendary last year.

- Open world drops in the LS3 maps are pretty good for T6 mats
- Map rewards make farming so much easier
- You can convert 1 laurel to 3 random t6 mats (not lodestones though)
- The item you get at the end of HoT can generate lodestones and other t6 mats daily

Adding them in as dungeon rewards might work, or it might trivialise their gain and crash their prices even further (which is good or bad depending on your perspective I guess).

Are you talking about:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ley-Energy_Matter_Converter
?

Yes, although I mis-remembered how you obtain the item. It’s not guaranteed or a major source, but trophy bags and heavy crafting bags do appear fairly regularly.

You must be one lucky goose; I get heavy bags twice a month, tops. :P

Lordrosicky.5813:

Phineas Poe.3018:

steelheart.7386:

Phineas Poe.3018:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Phineas Poe.3018:

suffish.4150:

Spoichiche.1290:

“Tell me what’s the point of playing?

1. It clearly isn’t fun".

The post should just end here. There’s no point in playing if you don’t enjoy it.
I don’t believe anyone with half a brain would play a game that they don’t find fun, or enjoy in some way.

If you truly think this then you are not a competitive or really an ambitious player. I have played over 650 games this season already and, trying to be as accurate as possible, I would say 70% of those I really, REALLY did not want to play. I have spent over half this season absolutely hating pvp and feeling like quitting the game after many of my losses. But I don’t just stop playing because I don’t enjoy it. I don’t play this game for fun. If I did I would not even have half of the 5.2k hours I have invested in this game. No matter if it is pve or pvp, I play to achieve a target and I will not stop playing, however much I hate what I am doing, until I have done what I want to. To be honest, I WISH I could think in the way you do, it would make me a lot happier, but me and many other simply can’t.

And it is not just me who thinks like this, I know that many people would keep playing when they hate this game like I sometimes do just so they can achieve what they want. When you see a thread like this with someone saying how much they hate the game yet they continue to play, it means that they are a person who thinks like me and will keep going even if they don’t like what they are doing. Pvp, especially this season, does encourage people to think in this way more than ever.

That, or they have literally nothing else to do with their life. Or both.

This sounds like incredibly destructive behavior and was honestly very depressing to read.

Video games are a hobby. Unless you’re a YouTube content creator or a Twitch streamer, you’re probably not even making any money playing this game. It’s a good and healthy thing to always strive for improvement when it comes to your hobbies, whether that’s gaming or otherwise. My wife is a ferocious knitter and always challenges herself by taking on more ambitious projects; I too play video games with much the same energy, and am always striving to improve as a player.

But at the core of that ambition is the pursuit of play, not work.

I hope your life turns around at some point and you eventually see the error in this approach.

His view isn’t destructive in the slightest. You are just saying words with no understanding of what you are saying, talking by cliche.

His enjoyment (FUN) is to get better and achieve something in the game. So the end goal is the fun.

That is something a lot of people do, people who are DRIVEN to succeed in various aspects of life. It is not destructive at all, it is a personality trait he has and it is a desirable one in some ways.

Do you think climbing Mount Everest is “fun” whilst you are doing it? Or do people do it for the end goal, hoping in the end they will achieve something which gives them satisfaction.

It is similar in a ton of games and all areas of life. For some people the end goal is so desirable that they will go through an non-fun portion to get to it.

I am actually kind of like you in my outlook on life. But you have to realise that not everyone is the same.

Not sure what you’re rambling about. He literally said in his post “I don’t play this game to have fun.”

You are making a judgement call on someone motivations for playing based on your own and thats pretty presumptious of you. People play for different reasons whether you find them valid or not. Thats what he is saying I think.

Just because people play for different reasons that doesn’t mean they’re all defensible. Someone could boot up Guild Wars 2 simply to troll other players and make everyone else have a bad time around them.

Besides, I am not “presuming” anything. His actions and opinions are quite defined and obvious. He literally says he doesn’t play the game to have fun. I personally find that to be incredibly destructive behavior.

A judgment call is absolutely being made here, but the evaluation isn’t based on conjecture. I am stating an opinion and you are welcome to disagree with it.

This is a dumb conversation, so you’re welcome to continue it without me.

For some people the fun is the end goal and not the process. That is the whole point. This is why games like WoW were so successful. It is also why people get competitive in games.

It is a dumb conversation on your side. Now you have had logic thrown in your face feel free to back out

Actually, Phineas Poe was the one being rational.

Auroraborealis.7310:

Razor.9872:

Symbolic Guard’s hard-counters are Druid and Reaper; Druid due to their multi-hit burst dps w/ sustain, and Reaper due to their unblockable boon corruption w/ interrupts.

True, the mace Warrior is a bit tougher, but they are not indestructible. They perform much better in 1v1’s than in teamfights, and they are very vulnerable to unblockable boon-corrupt along with good condi-clear.

I do agree that Necro, and Druid are counters to DH, but its only Soft counter.

And my argument about Warr isn’t with its condi based builds, but rather the GS/Mace Zerk amulet burst build that is only recently popular with S5.

I agree with you that Condi Warr offers some degree of counter-play, however the power version is where the true issues arise.

Condi Warr’s condi burst isn’t exactly overwhelming, and its justifiable, and seemingly balanced to some extent, despite being perhaps a lil too tanky.

Oh, my mistake, I misread and thought you were referring to condi-Warrior. Yeah, the power-Warriors nowadays are pretty monstrous. But then again, if they didn’t have their over-tuned stats, what else would they have? Their attacks are easily telegraphed, their mobility is “meh,” and often the difference between them losing or winning a fight is entirely dependent on landing the adrenal burst.

What profession do you normally play? Maybe I/the-forum could provide some tips on how to beat them?

Symbolic Guard’s hard-counters are Druid and Reaper; Druid due to their multi-hit burst dps w/ sustain, and Reaper due to their unblockable boon corruption w/ interrupts.

True, the mace Warrior is a bit tougher, but they are not indestructible. They perform much better in 1v1’s than in teamfights, and they are very vulnerable to unblockable boon-corrupt along with good condi-clear.

Randulf.7614:

Yeah T6 are much easier to get now and the TP prices have halved since I last made a legendary last year.

- Open world drops in the LS3 maps are pretty good for T6 mats
- Map rewards make farming so much easier
- You can convert 1 laurel to 3 random t6 mats (not lodestones though)
- The item you get at the end of HoT can generate lodestones and other t6 mats daily

Adding them in as dungeon rewards might work, or it might trivialise their gain and crash their prices even further (which is good or bad depending on your perspective I guess).

Are you talking about:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ley-Energy_Matter_Converter
?

I was going to comment on the fun I am having, but apparently that is just me lying to myself? Kinda put me in a box here.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Razor.9872:

If you recall, before HoT, the majority of Ranger players were being ostracized from (meta) dungeon groups because we “didn’t bring sufficient party support that another profession could bring better.” So, A-net heard our pleas and gave us the Druid spec; we are now about the best supporting profession in the game.

Next on the shopping list is a solid dps role. I urge you be to patient, as it will likely be coming next expansion.

Solid power DPS role. condi ranger builds are doing well in both theory and practice.

^ Yeah, true. That’s what I meant

Evan Lesh.3295:

FWIW, I’m looking into other possible stacking issues after dissecting the crap out of the substitutions problem.

Haha, I like how you phrased that. Best of luck! I know it isn’t easy (understatement) perfecting these matchmaking algorithms/mechanics.

If you recall, before HoT, the majority of Ranger players were being ostracized from (meta) dungeon groups because we “didn’t bring sufficient party support that another profession could bring better.” So, A-net heard our pleas and gave us the Druid spec; we are now about the best supporting profession in the game.

Next on the shopping list is a solid dps role. I urge you be to patient, as it will likely be coming next expansion.

I prefer A/T – S/D or A/T – /D, myself.

Healix.5819:

Razor.9872:

I think an indirect form of this will come with Build Templates; by swapping builds, your pre-made look will change along with the gear you set.

With that in mind, any extra clutter such as outfit creation would only bloat the UI and mechanics.

Build templates would only save what you had equipped, not your wardrobe. Even if they did implement wardrobe templates, it’d only be a macro to apply skins.

To implement an outfit-like wardrobe, the modifications to the UI could be as simple as a small row of buttons to allow for multiple pages. Pages would be sold for gems of course, where each page would store a set of skins, working exactly like it does now. There’d probably be 5 to 10 pages at most, only 1 free, meaning that many outfits. Activating one of those pages would freely apply all of those skins to your current gear, but for a better implementation, skins should equipped instead transmuted, to prevent the problem with cultural armor.

Which is why I stated “indirect.”

Blue.1207:

kdaddy.5431:

Blue.1207:

nothelseth.4621:

Care to show us a recording of your gameplay?

If shadowplay isnt available for you then use the local record feature of OBS, takes very little stress on your fps – you dont need top notch quality.

Three matches would be great.

From my perspective you completely underplay the ‘’yeah I make mistakes and I know them’’
No, you’re silver. If you’re silver then you make far more mistakes than you realize. Hell, even at my level I constantly make mistakes that I don’t understood during the game. That’s why I always recorded my scrims when playing professionally to ifnd them.

I’d be very impressed if you could properly kitten yourself and you are in reality better than everyone else in your division but the only thing keeping you down is that you get awful teammates and good opponents every time.

Like, genuinely amazingly impressed

500g level impressed.

I had something MUCH longer initially typed up, but anet’s servers decided to log me out while attempting to post, so TL;DR re-do:

Firstly, I’ll say thank you for making an effort to look at my game play and see where I went wrong, I appreciate that. However, I just don’t care enough anymore man. sPvP for me (and apparently my entire guild/friends list) just isn’t fun anymore. Maybe In S6 I’ll give a kitten enough to record my game play for reviewing.

see this is why no one can get any where.

You come to the forum to complain about the game and then dont actually want to discuss your game play.

My constant complaints have been about match making/ the leader board and rating system.

I post pics of the people i play and there rating and say what is this?

Your posting a cry thread and to be honest you wanted to say what you wanted and walk away since you dont care about the end game matter.

If your gonna write about broken ELO match making, you could of at least attempted to argue it, everything you wrote was circumstantial.

For every argument or scenario I could possibly post there will be some individual who will post “well if you did X then you should have done Y”. I’m not going to entertain hypothetical what-ifs when I’ve clearly stated what I intended in my original post. I already said I carry my own gameplay just fine (inb4 that’s taken apart piece by piece) and that my teammates have continued to disappoint throughout my matches.

This is a big reason you are in silver; if you are unwilling to analyze yourself deeper, or have others present constructive criticism, what do you expect to improve? Your teammates? But the same rule applies to them as does you.

To put myself as an example, I am currently ranked Gold. I think I could be Platinum — but only if I dedicated myself to critique and further practice/study. I don’t come to the forums to blame others/the-system for my own shortcomings. As I am right now, I believe I belong where I am.

I can understand your irritation. However, I implore you take a moment for modesty.

Foefaller.1082:

Anyway, my personal take on it:

Bronze- Below average. Probably a player new to sPvP who likely thought their PvE build would seamlessly transition to fighting other players, or simply terrible. Has only the most basic idea about what’s going on, and what matchups their profession has any chance of winning.
Silver- Slightly Below Average-Average. Has a pvp-specific build and have a decent (though by no means infallible) idea of who they should avoid, but either their build or their ability to play it is at intermittent quality. Is aware of most of the quirks and tactics of each of the maps, but still only so-so at rotation, abandoning points that needed them or failing to spot where they’re needed as a +1. Also easily distracted by the shiny map mechanics.
Gold- Average-Above Average. Player is competent enough to discuss the finer points of PvP without being dismissed by the “pros” but still has some quirks to iron out before being a “Great” player, whether that’s finding a better prof/build(s) for their playstyle, understanding the point rotation better, learning alternate professions for when the matchup is terrible for their main, et cetra.
Platinum – The players that are good-great at sPvP. They know their builds (yes, plural) and when to swap because of the comp. when it comes to rotation they know when to stay, when to go, where to go, and what to do when they are there.
Legendary- Best of the best. Whether that’s best at actually playing GW2 or best at gaming the rank system is something I’ll leave for you to decide.

I personally find this to be the most accurate and reasonable list.

I think Dragonball is fun…

14.7 fun to be exact.

In addition to the healthbar, it would be nice for there to be an option for in-party/squad character-models to glow more and more red as they near death. It wouldn’t work very well for those who choose to color themselves red, but it would be a nice addition all the same.

I think an indirect form of this will come with Build Templates; by swapping builds, your pre-made look will change along with the gear you set.

With that in mind, any extra clutter such as outfit creation would only bloat the UI and mechanics.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Anyone who purchases dyes within the first 24 hours they appear is not usually looking for a discount.

I must have all the colors.

Spartacus.3192:

inb4 Can I have your gold?

Haha, you beat me to it (I have to be faster next time >:)

Hello,

I just thought it would be amusingly punny to Necro the relatively oldest Necro thread.

Carry on with your Necro-y selves.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

DeceiverX.8361:

Only on the context of PvE for the power build. Otherwise every other build was massively nerfed for PvP.

Sorry, you’re right. It was silly of me to just assume we’re talking about PvE in a topic labeled “Thief in raids”. This is obviously PvP related stuff.

Your /kappa needs a nerf, lol.

To be fair, the moment a thief stops evading they just melt/blow-up.

Oh glorious kittykittymeowmew — We Are Not Worthy!

Diederick.7906:

When I read this I thought it was written by helseth. Then I realized that simply can’t be true, cause his name is nothelseth

#DefinitelyNotHelseth

onevstheworld.2419:

Is one of your infusions on a weapon? You only get AR from the weapon set you’re currently using. The inactive set doesn’t count.

^ I’m guessing this is the issue.

sephiroth.4217:

Razor.9872:

Sooloo.1364:

Razor.9872:

So, it’s match-class-balance that you want? Fair enough, that could be improved.

But do you at least find the skill of your fellow and opponent players to be better than before?

I’d say 60% of the time my team hasn’t got a clue or the skill to win.
That isn’t a claim by me that im better than everyone else, but when 4 die to 2 its a given.

60% of the time? Is that hyperbole? In the past 50 or so games I’ve played, I’ve only seen that happen 2 times.

This might come as a shock to you so you might want to sit down, but the 2 of you are different people with your own opinions and experiences.

I’ve seen it quite a bit but the games evened out a lot after 150 games.

Na, I understood that already. I was just engaging in discussion while providing my own point of view.

CindyKa.6137:

It’s funny how people who want to sell by mail ask you to trust them, when they refuse to trust you to send the gold after the item is received. Not that I would ever trade by mail. I trust no one, not even my kids when they want to explore on my account. So bought them their own.

I always just put the risk on the seller. Personally, I always follow through on my word. If they want to sell an item to me, I’m all for it. But they will have to be the ones to initiate the trade. It’s kind of like the Burden-of-Proof law, but with sales.

Cynz.9437:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Ialdir.8726:

The Game Slayer.7632:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Everyone knows it.

Time to act. All fair minded players need to support this initiative. For too long have these professions kept the others down with their op kitten.

Thief = way too much sustain and evasion for the mad dps. It warps the game and is way too good.

My proposals:
Reduce pulmonary impact damage by 25%. Passive dps should not be so good when thief has a spammable insta cast ranged interrupt. Like really…

This is the most dumb idea I’ve seen on the forums in a long time. ‘Like really.’ What you want to be nerfed isn’t pulmonary impact, but it is the ricidulous amount of dodges a staff thief or acro thief has. Remove the evade frame on #3 for staff, and nerf acrobatics, and now we are getting somewhere. I mean, do you really want this to be bunker wars 2? And speak for yourself, next time please.

I couldn’t agree more. Not PI is the problem, the vault spamming build appears to be a bit out of order.

OT: I like how a necromancer complains about passive procs (which PI obviously is not btw).

Pi cannot be countered. It is a joke. Fix needed.

PI is procced if you successfully (key word here) interrupt target. Interrupt can be easily countered by stab, blind, block, invul OR simply not attack (stow weapon is your friend) for sec and watch thief waste ini…. take a guess how you deal with PI as a thief that has 0 protection, blocks, invuls and crappiest healing capability in game?

They have 1 block :P

Starbreaker.6507:

Anecdotal evidence versus anecdotal evidence.

Who will win this titanic matchup?

/15Charrzookas

Sooloo.1364:

Razor.9872:

So, it’s match-class-balance that you want? Fair enough, that could be improved.

But do you at least find the skill of your fellow and opponent players to be better than before?

I’d say 60% of the time my team hasn’t got a clue or the skill to win.
That isn’t a claim by me that im better than everyone else, but when 4 die to 2 its a given.

60% of the time? Is that hyperbole? In the past 50 or so games I’ve played, I’ve only seen that happen 2 times.

So, it’s match-class-balance that you want? Fair enough, that could be improved.

But do you at least find the skill of your fellow and opponent players to be better than before?

The Game Slayer.7632:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Everyone knows it.

Time to act. All fair minded players need to support this initiative. For too long have these professions kept the others down with their op kitten.

Thief = way too much sustain and evasion for the mad dps. It warps the game and is way too good.

3 is supposed to be an evade. It’s 5 that’s a bit evade-crazy.
My proposals:
Reduce pulmonary impact damage by 25%. Passive dps should not be so good when thief has a spammable insta cast ranged interrupt. Like really…

This is the most dumb idea I’ve seen on the forums in a long time. ‘Like really.’ What you want to be nerfed isn’t pulmonary impact, but it is the ricidulous amount of dodges a staff thief or acro thief has. Remove the evade frame on #3 for staff, and nerf acrobatics, and now we are getting somewhere. I mean, do you really want this to be bunker wars 2? And speak for yourself, next time please.

3 is supposed to be an evade. It’s 5 that’s a bit evade-crazy.

Spartacus.3192:

because the salt overload would be epic.

everyone would be oh I lost because MM put this guy or that guy on my team.

^ This. If people think PvP is salty now…they would be forced to drink the ocean with this change.

And I rushed for nothing. Silly me :P

demitel.1340:

I never understood scammers and their way of thinking.

It’s so easy to tell the most of the time if someone is trying to scam items or gold, like this guy is this story. Twilight only for 1000g? He didn’t even care to check how trading post works.

When scammers fail, they starts begging and name calling. They are either young or stupid.

/15Charrzookas