Guild Wars 2

So did they ever fix that. Cuz the issue was you get nothing unless you have shiro and mallyx equipped before entering the water.

There have been good additions, but for every good one there is 5 bad that shouldn’t have happened unless the developers have amnesia. The overall direction is highly questionable.

I find myself only logging in to work my way through the login rewards track.
Not feeling very motivated to do anything.
My impression is that some really good stuff is ruined by a lack of innovation, lack of interaction, and too much focus on farming/grind.

Sligh.2789:

The “old time” player that has been around since GW1 can tell you how the game has done a 180 since launch.

I hate to think of it, as it makes me sad. GW1’s mechanics were not broken at all, but everything about those mechanics have been completely forsaken in this sequel.

Dawdler.8521:

Oh how lovely that Storm is here.

Welcome… to die!

XD
Someone got to make a magneto character now.

I fought the Golem Mark 2 thingy couple of nights ago. That one was actually fun.

I seem to play in couple of month bursts and then get fed up and leave for couple of years.
Lately been going through my steam library to see how many games I never finished, or even played.

Please don’t tell me it does that if you don’t have enough mastery points. That’s insane.

It’s such a waste.

Nothing to brag about. Or too afraid to hype stuff that inevitably bombs.

I can spend an hour in map chat talking to myself in WvW. It’s hilarious.

Vault has an evade for a reason. It’s best used reactively.

Evilek.5690:

florian.6021:

Seriously what happened with my fav class I am runnung full pvt armor and still I go insta down and what is with the conditions everytime I have just 3stacks of something and already 50% health gone. That seriously make me want to quit this game

What ? Maybe stop play full dps build with berserker amulet.

Just so you know, pvt stands for… ah nevermind.

Topic too long, topic too long. good grief.

I almost finished a collection and decided on whim to /wiki the last item of the collection only to find out it was another collection, with even more exhausting requirements.
I’m making this topic in the hopes that someone at the company cares about how it makes a players feel after coming home from an exhausting shift, logging into ‘A GAME’ and just feeling like the game is designed to troll me.

Brendan.5489:

Yeah, I apparently am a full level away from using my glider, after doing all the follow up story. I’m just walking around this giant zone with shiny things saying I can’t use them yet.

I can’t say I’m enjoying myself. Hm.

I love a lot of stuff about HoT, but everything being gated by xp bars even at level cap, is the biggest downer I’ve ever encountered in an mmo.

Fat finger syndrome. Shoulda got a dialing wand!

You have do enough of a percentage of damage to it’s total health to qualify as taking part in its defeat. I don’t know the exact percentage, but you’ll get a feel for it in no time.

When people are in events that have a lot of mobs they usually tag as many mobs as possible with just enough damage to get xp out of it.

Experience gain is a percentage of total xp needed to reach next level.
So if you are level 10 and kill a drake you could get 10xp, but if you are level 70 and kill that same drake you could get 300xp. Because it’s percentage based.

You don’t lose any xp gain from someone else helping.
You won’t gain any more xp from being in a party.
Only xp bonus you’d normally see is if the monster rarely get’s killed you get what’s called an exploreable bonus.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience#Mechanics

Cryshal.4036:

I only found one Hero’s point on the WvW map.

When you level up in WvW, you get chests. They give random amount of Proof of Heroics. Those are used on NPCs called Heroics Notary. They will take Proof of Heroics and use them to automatically complete a HP challenge randomly out of the ones you haven’t done around the world.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heroics_Notary

It’s definitely the right phase to consider emphasis on fun.

This is how mmorpgs go.
1. This mmorpg is like <popular mmorpg name> but with <whatever is different than popular mmorpg>
2. Can’t handle server population, so get new servers.
3. Focus on retaining server population.
4. Further content requires time/money/work.
5. Changes/additions are focused on grinding treadmills and whatever mmorpgs have done to retain population.
6. Player population drops as players stop having fun and don’t know what they really want when they ask for <insert gives us mounts/raids/and everything popular mmorpgs do>.
7. Expansion time! and/or Free to Play!
8. Repeat steps 3-7
9. <This zone is grey, has anyone been here before?>
10. Somewhere within steps 3-8, games just kind of die.

Samnang.1879:

Wait, Fractals are end game??? Didn’t realize this…

I honestly believe it is intended to be. The main dailies also give tomes, which are for leveling alts.

I like that they act differently more than anything.
It’s fun to have to dodge their charges or look out for their sniper shots.

I have an asura tempest and even though I don’t play him much, whenever I see an asura elementalist or tempest it makes me smile because they are amazing to watch.

They should have an achievement and title for harvesting many, many nodes.
“reaper of worlds”, cuz it fits, and will make you sound like a battle beast despite getting it from never doing battle.

Best: Elite specializations, gliding, new enemy behaviours, those breakbars, the models and animations of everything new (especially the frog people). All great and more.

Worst: I just don’t have the energy to make that list. It’s all small stuff too, but small stuff that plays a big part in how it ‘feels’ to play the game.

I wouldn’t mind new skills and a trait option tied to joining a racial faction, not necessarily being born within one.

Basically I want to see my asura tempest summon a wereworf.
Yeah, that’s right wereworf. I’m sticking to that. So there.

Honestly the dragons aren’t an immediate threat. How come LA doesn’t put security guards around the mystic forge. Because the lionguard are a tragic comedy waiting to happen.

ThePotatoSenpai.6938:

First of all – thanks a lot for this great replies, helps a lot!

After all the time I had to think I’m stuck between Necro and Mesmer.

Obviously Mesmer has a higher learning curve, but still – I like a challenge.

What PRO/CON would you give me for those 2?

And again – THANKS A LOT GUYS! Tons of valuable informations getting by you!

Glad to see that here’s a friendly community, not common these days.

EDIT: Stuck between Mesmer, Necro, Thief and Revenant.

HALP!

Biggest difference right off the top of my head is that mesmer can feel slower paced. Their illusions/clones are summoned and die on a per target basis. Unlike necromancer minions which are persistent.
Mesmer’s learn towards direct damage more easily, and necromancer’s condition damage. But with elite specializations available at lvl 80 I have no idea how that chagnes. I do not have a lvl 80 mesmer yet, and I’ve rarely play necromancer anymore.

edit: In World vs World I’ve seen both a single mesmer player or necromancer player take on a group and do very well with skill. I don’t think you can go wrong with either choice.

Donari is right about thief/daredevil. They can die in seconds if you aren’t built to evade/block on a dime. But is super fun to play. Very engaging.

You can build a thief to heal itself through attacking.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Malice
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Invigorating_Precision

Once you get to level 80 with thief, since you have Heart of Thorns, you can train to become a daredevil which gets some really cool mobility options. Evasion becomes a strong part of their defense.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Physical_Supremacy
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bounding_Dodger
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lotus_Training
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unhindered_Combatant

I mostly play as thief, engineer and elementalist and I prefer thief the most. It’s an untraditional profession in that it doesn’t use cooldowns on it’s weapon skills. All of that is balanced around using up initiative points which regenerate over time. You have to either pace yourself or slip in and out to do spikes, and so long as you have the initiative you can react to situations with whatever skill you want, cuz no cooldowns!

Jana.6831:

Redfeather.6401:

Is that heavy armour? I don’t play a heavy class, but I was wanting to if I can use armour that doesn’t make them look like a construction truck.

It is – both Revenants. I saw a pretty cool warrior in the JP tonight, no idea what he wore but it didn’t look heavy.

hmmmmmm….
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
I just might do it then. I need to buy another character slot! lol

Jana.6831:

Redfeather.6401:

It’s because the cultural amor has some kind of under moob thing. I said moob, you know what I meant, but you can’t censor that because it’s not the word you’d censor.

Yeah.. moob…

Is that heavy armour? I don’t play a heavy class, but I was wanting to if I can use armour that doesn’t make them look like a construction truck.

I really should invest in a scarf one day.

Because in reality, thieves make people live in constant fear. Is why everyone locks their door at night.

Also I saw some talk about necromancer. Necromancer stack might further into a battle because their strength is stacking condition first, then might. Most classes that specialize in direct damage stack might early on in fight because they won’t win a war of attrition.

Professions can already stack might up to limit, including thief. But the key is they can’t flip a switch to get to 25 instantly, and they can’t keep it at 25 for long. It’s like a rage mode. Gotta be careful how many sources of might each profession is given to keep it this way.

I hang out in LA and try to start map chat discussions.

It’s because the cultural amor has some kind of under moob thing. I said moob, you know what I meant, but you can’t censor that because it’s not the word you’d censor.

kult.3465:

I think he’s cool. But I’m biased.

I like it. Looks mysterious.

I haven’t’ been a guild player since I started. Just last night I was thinking about it to help get some ascended accessories using guild commendations. So I’m still considering whether I should join one.

I don’t do raids, but I use daredevil in PvE and love.
I’ve done HoT up to Dragon Stand, and WvW and fractals with daredevil.

Who knows what this means.
In the past servers went from full to medium because capacity was increased. I know because it was written about. Here I don’t know so I won’t assume anything.

Honestly it’s the choice of upgrade components that are more powerful than the next tier of rarity.

Solid Gold.9310:

There’s no place in an MMO for this sort of dross.

I agree, but only because I prefer mmorpg to lean towards immersion and less towards theme park.

Hakuryuu.8634:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revenant
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Got it. Elite specializations can’t use the same terminology as any existing core profession. My mistake. But at least I had fun.

Another topic made me remember an elite concept I had and wanted to share. Cuz is fun!

So it’s a magic thief, tied to the mists.
The profession mechanic replaces Steal with summoning an agent of the mists.
Once summoned the mists agent swoops through the opponent disabling one of their weapon skills for X seconds. For a limited time they attack the opponent as a shadowy clone of that opponent.
Their attacks do not target the opponents health, but instead attack their endurance. You can choose to use the mists agent’s stolen skill by pressing another key, similar to ranger pet. That skill will behave exactly as it should meaning it will physically hurt or heal if that is the skills mechanic.
The mists agent has a limited duration before it retreats back into the mists and goes on cooldown.

The heal skill is a glyph. If used when there is no mists agent active it is a combo skill that starts with channeling. The channeled skill uses up the player’s endurance and converts it to health and will grant alacrity to the player, helping shorten the cooldown of utility skills, elites and the mist agent summon. Pressing the heal again while channeling will end the channeling it make it go on cooldown.
If the mists agent is active, the heal skill will consume the mists agent and both heal the player and restore any endurance the mists agent stole from attacking the opponent.

One utility skill is a simple swap move with the target. You swap places with them. It is a glyph as well. It will perform the swap if your opponent is not using a skill. If they are using a skill, it will make you do that skill against the opponent instead.

Another utility skill is a stealth skill that remains in effect, but drains endurance the entire time you are stealthed, it will end when you run out of endurance or are revealed.
It is also a glyph and if you are already stealthed when using it, the skill will instead grant alacrity at the cost of endurance.

The elite attack summons another mists agent to follow behind you like a trail. It will repeat every move you do essentially meaning you will do double attacks for the duration of the effect. It is a special boon, but can be stripped like regular boons.
No surprise, but it’s also a glyph. If you have a mists agent already active this skill consumes the profession mechanic version mists agent and grants fury/might/quickness to the player.

That’s all I can remember so far.

I want the next elite to be a magic thief. Last night I came up with the profession mechanic and utility skills and everything. Maybe I’ll post it someday when I’m not dead tired from the holiday craziness.

I used to hang out on the guru.
Under the same user name too. Think my avatar was an old martial arts master.
Oh, and I hung out on gwonline. Wonder how that site is doing.

If you started playing after Living Story 2 happened don’t fret. Just forget. You’ll be fine just as Stitch said.

Azure Prower.8701:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe you should look at that before you say too much about the Guild Wars 2 cosmetic selling store.

The Guild Wars 2 gem store is far from just a “cosmetic” selling store.

Bank tabs. Bag slots. Time saving items. Upgrades. Quests items. Extractors. Unique and valuable items hidden behind gambling mechanics.

Yeah, stuff like the repair canisters, revive orbs and teleport to friend items are pretty questionable things to sell in a cashshop if you don’t want the game to give the impression of being pay-to-win. Even though we can get those items from login rewards every week, it still iffy.