Guild Wars 2

I went into option and rebound my ‘special action’ to shift+R. It works great so far.
Also I use action camera, and no problems at all with using counter magic.

Maybe I’ll post my keybinds in case anyone wants to try it. These are keybinds I settled on after spending the first GW2 beta weekend playing around with how it feels.

E-forward
S-Strafe left
D-backward
F-strafe right

1,2,3,4,5 – Profession mechanic skills

Z,A,Q,W,R – Weapon skills

V – Healing

C,T,Shift+C – Utility skills
Shift+T – Elite

G – Interact

Shift+R – Special Action

Yeah, I would check out any wooden potatoes videos about lore, like Rognik suggested.
There’s a lot of lore to this season. So much going back to cool stuff I remember from GW1.

I think the lesser enemies aren’t hp sponges because they are spread haphazardly around the area and with gliding and aggro range they can become a problem very quickly, unless you use your glider skills.

I liked it because LS3E1 started off slow. I mean we spend quite a while just following a crippled asura around.
And then it takes off like a rollercoaster, and how do we stop this thing?! Slow it down a little?! We don’t! ha haa
Honestly I think the pacing worked.

BTW, taimi is the best. Just wish she gets a prof X hover chair or something later on.

I think it is Dessa. Or I should say I think it is the real Asura running the real mistlock observatory. My gut says that mistlock observatory, and dessa, are a fractal based on one of an infinite number of probabilities the mists draw upon to establish an anchor for the real observatory’s existence within the mists. Okay, hope that makes sense.

If you want dps and healing at the same time then play a tempest or dragonhunter. Tempest if you lean towards dps, and dragonhunter if you lean towards support.
Ranger needs some loving right now.

Druid does have nice mobility though!

Is why I don’t like Living Story, or whatever LS stands for.
Finished my personal story a long time ago, and when I bought HoT and started that personal story it was like so confusing I didn’t care to care anymore.

Nobody can beat Devastator, so you have to hit him hard enough to separate him into the Constructicons and then put them to sleep. XD

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Canach doesn’t need to be on this team. Canach will form his own team. Canach’s team will have Canach and nobody else, because nobody but Canach is worthy of being on team Canach.

So true.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Redfeather.6401:

Path of Exile has an infinitely better reward system.
In that game you honestly leave junk drops on the ground.

I wiki’d it. Does it have a trading post? The description of the economic system sounds very different from this game, to the point where it doesn’t sound comparable.

“Path of Exile is unusual among action-RPG games in that there is no in-game currency. The game’s economy is based on bartering “currency items.”

If it’s barter only and no currency then things that are to much trouble to find a person who wants them will be left on the ground.

The trading post is evolving. You use public stash tabs in your bank to store items you want to sell. That type of tab allows you to set asking price and buyout price, as well as put some kind of note to buyers. Searching the trading post requires going to it’s own website, and buying requires that the player whose selling be online. The game is free to play so it’s still evolving. The searching system will be implemented in-game over time.

It’s the fact that standard currency items, used by both NPC and players, are actually consumables that is great. As each item can be used to buy from NPCs or players, but each type of currency item can be consumed to perform a function. The functions range from necessary, to useful, to luxury. And each tier of consumable usefulness and drop rarity is what dictates their value.

Junk items can be very useful as a crafting base, so players can afford to be very choosy in what they pick up, as they don’t need dozens of crafting bases. A crafting base is a junk piece of gear with a very good base stat. Players then use consumable items to build off that good stat to slowly evolve the item with extra stats and mods that increase the usefulness and value of the item. But crafting is a whole nother pickle. XD

Just for fun here is someone crafting. Turning a junky item into something very good. They are using Master NPCs to help craft, which is an option even though players can do these things on their own to get better results at higher risk rates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjZrgqFVgdo

Path of Exile has an infinitely better reward system.
In that game you honestly leave junk drops on the ground.

Shortbow for mesmer. It summons animated shortbows that follow the mesmer around.
Illusionary weaponry, baby. yeaaaaaah

Ascended Runes would be cool.
Like a rune that changes it so that anytime you would get healed, you don’t get healed but instead summon a giant angry chicken.

Since there are things in the game that can only activate while in combat (like on weapon swap traits), maybe the voice shouting ‘retreat’ could only happen if you are in combat when using the skill.

And then maybe the skill can be changed further for outside, or in combat. Like the skill does more swiftness and no aegis if not in combat. But if in combat the skill does exactly what it does now.

When I’m playing my Charr, I adopt a very surly attitude and talk to NPCs. Sometimes another player notices and gets involved and then we have fun with it.
I don’t do this, RPing, with any character but the Charr. It’s weird. Like I feel compelled to as the Charr.

I found an HP train in LFG, but got absolutely slaughtered just trying to reach them. huge sigh

Good environments, artwork, sound, skills. Some masteries are nice too.
Just should have been priced like an xpac, as much of the content is “grindy bloat”. I’m going to use that term now often. “Grindy Bloat”.

onevstheworld.2419:

Redfeather.6401:

I bought an episode of living story season 2 for the mastery point. But then I realized I had to complete the episode again to unlock the achievements, which when all completed unlock the one mastery point. I said “kitten this”, and that’s the end of that. 200 gems gone, but lesson learned.

You actually unlock one MP for completing each chapter, then a 2nd MP for completing each chapter’s achievements.

What angered me was that I did it all again on an alt because the achievements were now unlocked, but never earned an achievement doing it, even though I was doing what the achievement screen asked.

They’re awesome, and I love that PvE has them. It’s just a huge pain to open inventory panel to use one. I would love an open item slot in the UI, but for now Danikat’s suggestion will do. TY Danikat.

Matt H.6142:

How about if the spirits become astral wisps and circle the ranger, making them mobile and passive/active effect centered on the ranger? Circling wisps are certainly doable in the tech. Animation can be minimal or non-existent, allowing sun spirit’s blind to be instant, like it should be, and frost and earth actives dropping under the ranger for ice combo field or to help in escapes.
The wisps could each have a colour indicating the type of spirit, and Spirit of Nature would be larger in size.
To spread them out, I’d suggest sun and storm around the shoulders, (sky) and frost and earth near the floor (ground). Spirit of Nature floating around the head maybe.

Beautiful! :O

Deep Sea Dragon. Ring of Fire. Magic Eight Ball. I have the sight. No, really I don’t. I’m only guessing.

IndigoSundown.5419:

For what it’s worth, I believe the central Tyria Masteries are examples of what Masteries ought to be than the HoT ones. They’re nice to have, but unlike some HoT Masteries, not having them does not hinder getting around.

I think the worst masteries are the ones that unlock vendors. HoT locked vendors just to make people farm xp to unlock them. Gating stuff that way, like with the karma vendors was as far I would have ever gone.

Here’s what I think spear skills should be.

1 -> Channeled skill (you can move while channeling)
Throw spears in quick succession. The last spear cripples it’s target.
You could use this skill to attack multiple targets by sweeping action camera around, or tabbing to different targets, etc. Or focus all the hits on one target.

2 -> Charging Impale move
Similar to scapper’s Shock Shield move… you can freely control your character as they run forward. They will impale and hold every enemy they come in contact with. After the charge is finished they kick the enemies off the spear.
Just the thought of gathering up enemies and then knocking them back sounds fun. I haven’t seen a CC skill do that yet.

3 -> A 3 part Skill Chain
The first attack throws a spear that causes bleeding
The second attack throws a spear that causes torment
The third attack is a melee attack that low sweeps the spear knocking down targets
First two attacks would cause conditions, while third attack would have a high power coefficient. The recharge of the skill will be very high, but only if you complete the chain. Performing just the throwing attacks, but not performing the third, will lower the skill’s recharge by 66%!

I bought an episode of living story season 2 for the mastery point. But then I realized I had to complete the episode again to unlock the achievements, which when all completed unlock the one mastery point. I said “kitten this”, and that’s the end of that. 200 gems gone, but lesson learned.

I like the idea.

It’s like how the GW2 launcher works. You can start playing once your bar goes past the playable part, but if you wait for the bar to fill up completely then you won’t have to worry about downloading content as you play.

Fill your mastery xp bar to a point, and your character unlocks that mastery. Fill the bar up completely to unlock the mastery for your whole account. It’s so simple and easy.

Raine.1394:

The mastery idea itself is great, the implementation unfortunate.

Agreed. I did really like gliding mastery and how it gave me incentive to revisit zones, and using gliding in central tyria is awesome.

Darknicrofia.2604:

modifying the spear as a mainhand only ranged wep could allow us to still use focus or shield while giving us a reason to use GS or Hammer again in pvp

I think spear/shield would be awesome.

Hopefully once the gem store has a lot of selection, the gem store prices can be lowered.

I barely make gem store purchases as the prices are too high, and the selection is too weak.
Boy, that sounds like the death-knell of any retail establishment. XD

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

Plus we need to stop the spread of mange and fleas.

Politics aside, that is very good advice. We are friends now.

Searing was the result of an extremist sect within the charr, they got a lot of support as they were of course taking advantage of all charr wanting their freaking homeland back!
Yeah, it’s complicated.

I’ll check it out later tonight. Haven’t done it in a while and it might be fun.

Nero.8047:

My idea has been and remains to be a spear. (yes that ol’ beaten horse.)
I’d prefer it to be a fast condi-focussed weapon combined with plenty of gap-closing options.

Right now Guardians do not fare well as condition-dealing class and as you said who would give up DH because of the ranged damage?

A ranged option is great but a solid gap-closing option could work as well especially if combined with a more reliable method of granting increased movement speed to oneself.

If the new Elite Specialization would make the Guardian’s mobility greater the desire for ranged combat would be lesser.

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For the utilities I think a lot could replace the traps.
Traps aren’t too interesting. You place them, they get triggered, the effect triggers.
Almost no mindgames possible there.

I’d personally like supportive skills which focus on boosting the performance of allies over yourself.
If you’ve played GW:Nightfall think of something along the lines of a chant.

“for 10 seconds you and your allies deal …% more damage with their next … attacks.”

This type of skill wouldn’t be useless for a solo Guardian but would shine in multiplayer combat.

It’s funny, as I love the idea of spear being used on land for a class, but I also think of GW1. Heavy armour class with spear was paragon, and it EXCELLED at granting movement speed. You may get your wish for Guardian. XD

I think Spirit Weapons need a buff on their own. No need to tie the buff to DH. So I feel same way as Nero.

You might want to consider a stat combination with condition damage too.
If you are up close to mobs, might as well hit them with burning and bleeding.

LittleHorn.6728:

My Sweet Lily.1952:

(For Fractals/Dungeons)
Don’t think of Druid as THE healer. You are just like the other players, there to DPS… plus you can heal if need be.

Tragic Positive.9356:

I made my way to 100 with Cleric Daze build extremely safely and much faster than probably other Pug individuals who went for MetaZerk logic.

I am stuck between these two positions on Druid… Go Zerker or go Cleric? The question “How does one Druid properly” has been bugging me as well because it seems that most people who you come across in GW2 is all about DPS, you don’t really hear much about healing. I was thinking about going full Cleric armor and trinkets to take advantage of all the healing Druid offered but… is a healer role really necessary in this game? Or should we all just be trying to DPS?

I wouldn’t worry about the healing stat. Only 2 druid skills really take advantage of it. One is lunar impact, which you have to be in CA to do, and the other is Ancestral Grace. Neither of those skills are bad without healing stat.

eNeRgOo.5463:

Are we going to see Malyck once again?
Will we ever meet another Sylvari Tree? If so – is it going to be female or male tree?

My gut tells me there is a relationship to the Path of Revelations quest from GW1, something a couple of us asked about here.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prophecy#The_path_to_revelations

From what I hear Malyck was to play some role in HoT, but due to resource constraints did not participate. So is possible that he will return soon! And maybe The Path of Revelations riddle will be made clear. :O

Scott, were you on board when this quest was created?
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Path_to_Revelations

And would you know what the ending of that quest means?
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Path_to_Revelations#Reward_dialogue

It feels so niche, I honestly only use it for a few traits.
Honestly I think Druid should have been an elite they released way down the road, when there are other elite options already released. Definitely should not have been the first elite released for ranger. Just a bad decision IMO.

You were probably using Hydromancy on the staff because of it’s synergy with primal echoes and ancient seeds. Replace it if you want, as you are no longer traited to benefit from the sigil, but it’s useful for escapes when traited for it.

I’m using a SB on my condi ranger.
In PvE it will slow everything down as the dps increases as the fight goes on longer, and most mobs are trash mobs meant to be killed quickly.
So to compensate I use a power-based pet with burst damage.
Once that pet’s skills go on cooldown, regular PvE mobs are close to death and my conditions start to kick in and finish them off.

I play a Dragonhunter as well, but I never used Rune of Trapper on them. I don’t need to because DH traps do so much power based damage, plus apply defensive boons, and overlap well with each other, that they don’t need stealth.

Also, I don’t want that to change. It’s honestly the only thing that keeps me awake while playing a guardian. Just wished ranger trap build felt more meaty. I am new to ranger, so maybe I’m missing some perfect combination of equipment and traits. I don’t know.

I use it in regular PvE for the wispy woo travel skill. It lets me travel faster and avoid enemies, and is cool to land on combo fields created by the pet.
Natural Stride is good too, as I don’t need the signet anymore for movement speed.
Still haven’t found a place for celestal avatar and I hardly ever use it.

I wish they worked like Ritualist spirits. Specifically the ritualist spirits with strong effects that sapped the spirit of health every time the “chance on hit effect” was activated. The spirit dies faster if it’s bonus is used a lot. Is how they kept those balanced.

I like the trapper runes in pve, because it lets me lay the traps + drop aggro. I just don’t know how to make traps work in a fight unless I lay them untop of the enemy and the breaking stealth immediately is a drag. The stealth from the runes is incredibly short anyway, so I wondered why it did that on ranger.

Condi Ranger needs mobility.
I think SB 3 should flip forward 900 units and fire a downwards 5 arrow spread of poison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5M53KFzI_0&t=42s
And yes, SB 3 makes the opponent explode in flames while the ranger does a flourish.

I switched my main to ranger recently and was shocked to find that now traps are breaking my stealth. Does ranger have some kind of dexterity problem. lol

edit: Okay, I see that all traps do a tiny bit of direct damage and that is making stealth skills pointless for a trapper build. And it’s useless for my stealthy condi ranger.

Now I see why people call ranger the red-headed step child. bleck

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Redfeather.6401:

Dimi Gravedancer.1463:

Redfeather.6401:

Ain’t gonna be another GW. The dinosaurs won. Evolution is just a gimmick.

This Seriously just made my night

Hey, I was being serious.
For example GW attribute system was steps ahead of GW2 stat system. It’s like Anet woke someone from crygenic sleep who only thought of stats as something you see in rpgs, like tabletop D&D, and had no idea what something like MtG even was.

Yeah. Another of those “things you loved about gw1” that didn’t make it into gw2. It was a great way to have individualized professions that was tossed aside to put in old style armor stats instead.

That really must have been the reason, and the only reason. The current system is a drag, and I wouldn’t have chosen it unless I wanted to making respeccing a huge pain in the kitten . At least they were smart enough to use amulets in PvP, knowing the system they have for PvE is something no player in PvP would tolerate.

Obtena.7952:

Redfeather.6401:

Dimi Gravedancer.1463:

Redfeather.6401:

Ain’t gonna be another GW. The dinosaurs won. Evolution is just a gimmick.

This Seriously just made my night

Hey, I was being serious.
For example GW attribute system was steps ahead of GW2 stat system. It’s like Anet woke someone from crygenic sleep who only thought of stats as something you see in rpgs, like tabletop D&D, and had no idea what something like MtG even was.

That’s right and I think that’s a conscientious decision … it’s the market they want to target; casual players that don’t want to do hours of math to determine what the best setup is for their character … it works too.

Now casual players get to farm 14 pieces of equipment to heal better, and another 14 pieces of equipment to do more damage. XD
Attributes didn’t require hours of math. It was a streamlined system governing the effectiveness of skills. It helped close the gap between build making in PvE and PvP so that players could transition between the two with ease.

I switched from thief to ranger this weekend. So I’ve been looking at ranger/pet synergy and noticed some of the pets have charge attacks that knockdown. And I was wondering if you could use that in tandem with ranger attacks to trip up a thief?

I’m just getting into the class, but even though pet commands seem really clunky it kind of feels like Carl Clover from Blazblue and I dig that.

Fluffball.8307:

Mesmer GS sound is tied with guard staff for most annoying SFX in the game. They’re both deafening and extremely repetitive.

I don’t mind the druid staff, it’s fairly quiet. I can’t really hear it/notice it unless I think about it.

Add necromancer sounds to that list for me. Those 3 sound effects drive me up the wall.