Guild Wars 2

There’s no one-shots in the game, with the exception of Kill Shot and Backstab against really absolutely nakedly squishy targets.

100-blades hits X times. It’s not like it’s something that just falls from the sky and is unavoidable. It has a long cast time. Here’s a solution: Walk away. Dodge. You know it’s coming. You have NO excuses to not do anything about this one-trick pony build.

If you decide to eat the whole thing, then sure as hell you deserve to die.

maddoctor.2738:

Intigo.1653:

maddoctor.2738:

it is intended to be the most useless downed skill ever?

Haha, wow.

I don’t know any other downed skills that can kill the user

I don’t know any other downed skills that can’t be countered at all.

No matter what you do, you’re going to have to wait for the elementalist to finish squirting around all over the place. Only downed ability that simply cannot be done anything about. Not even raw dps will do.

Guild Wars 2 IS for all kinds of players. If you for some reason take 2 hours to do 3 fractals, then you’re obviously not skilled, and there’s other content for you out there.

A game for all kinds of players means it’s POSSIBLE for you to do all kinds of things for all kinds of players. Not that you will, unless you really want to.

Rule’o the thumb:
If you’re in doubt or you’re having a rough time, bring an Elementalist with an Ice Bow and use the Ice-Rain AoE.

This pretty much instant-kills the burrows! Now everyone can be just as effective as the other! Just pick up the bow

Keep him superheated at all times. Win.

DeeTooDee.3972:

Agreed, but to ignore the disproportionate representation or not consider that balance is a factor is naive. “because thieves are cool” cannot possibly be 100% of the reason. I suspect it is that, combined with spam able kill buttons like HS, and also easy to use kill sequences like steal, C&D, backstab, HS, and warriors frenzy HB. Few other professions have sequences as well known, documented and proven to work in sPvP. All counter able by skilled players of course, but effective vs the majority in sPvP. Ranger classes in other games are fairly popular in PvP (hunter and druid in WoW), but not here. Why? I can see Engie being “different” than usual classes in a fantasy game accounting for a lot of the popularity hit. Though I would think that popularity in that sense apples more to PvE.

We can turn it around and say, why does nobody play engineer according to your statistics? They’re mighty fine in terms of balance, one of the best bunkers for TPvP, yet you haven’t encountered that many. I can come up with several ideas as to why, but none will be conclusive. The fact that they don’t have any sort of melee weapon, and are disallowed weapon swaps in favor of kits, limited “real weapons”, can be extremely confusing to some, random elements involved in many skills, so on. All could be true although I doubt that is the case. In terms of style, however, I’m not sure. I’m not digging their style, others might.

I’ve always expected Elementalist, Thief and Warrior to be the most played classes, and that’s usually because of their “style”
Mage, warrior and scout/rogue are very common RPG professions, where as Mesmers and Engineers? Not so much. That in itself has a lot to say as well. I’m willing to bet most people love the assassiny playstyle and general style, and that seems to be true in many cases.

I don’t mind that there’s some professions that are played more than others.
In fact I’m surprised that you have that many warriors in that statistic, I hardly meet any, yet I meet plenty of engineers.

The changes that would be needed to make them more popular would most likely cause them to be less popular with their current players, as the previous style could very well be what they liked about the profession. It’s a tricky one.

DeeTooDee.3972:

I didn’t say buff specifically. I said make more appealing. Make Rangers and Engies more appealing to sPvP players. And yes, your assumptions are silly, until you do them 50 times and document the results, as I did, then you can make empirical statements as opposed to your subjective example. As it stands, and this is subjective, sPvThiefWarrior is not fun unless you are one of them, or have an awesome build to counter them. You do not need yo make a build to counter an Engie as you are unlikely to encounter one. There needs to be better diversity. You seem to prefer keeping sPvThiefWarrior as is.

Never stated what I preferred, so that’s a silly assumption on your half.

It is however absolutely impossible to gather statistical data about what professions are most played, and somehow create a connection with balance. And by impossible, I mean that it’s impossible to conclude anything with this said data and connection.

And no matter how many times you perform this data-gathering, be it 750 times, or enough that you have successfully faced EVERY SINGLE player, it is simply not possible to conclude anything even close to what might be the reason for this choice of profession. And certainly not anything about balance.

Also, what might sPvThiefWarrior be? I’ve heard about thieves being a trouble in WvW, but not in SPvP, and warriors? I mean, seriously? Warriors? I think you meant GuardianMesmerSpengineer if anything.

DeeTooDee.3972:

Rika.7249:

DeeTooDee.3972:

In an ideally balanced game, with 8 equally effective and desirable professions, I should have seen 87 of each.

No, you shouldn’t.
Are you expecting people to spread out evenly across all professions, simply because they’re equally balanced?
That’s the silliest assumption ever made.

Who cares if all classes were 100% balanced, if Ranger for example, is just a horribly boring profession with a boring playstyle?

You are agreeing with me while trying to disagree with me. If that were the case, Rangers need to be improved to be equally effective and desirable, as I said.

Except I don’t agree with you, because you want to improve them with no reasoning besides nobody plays them.

Rangers could be the strongest profession and yet be the least played. Those two factors: OP and Most Played are not tied together in any way, shape or form.

A Ranger should NOT be buffed because nobody plays it, if it is just as strong as any other profession. That is not a reason to buff.

Example: I entered a game today with 5 Rangers.
This must mean that they’re overpowered.
Since that is a silly assumption, I won’t make that assumption.
Since there was no mesmers present, that must mean they’re underpowered.
That is also a silly assumption that should not be made.
Does mesmers need a tweak/buff/nerf/whatnot because I don’t see Mesmers often?
No. That’s a silly idea as well.

It’s in a blog post aye, so rest assured that those who worked their butt off won’t need to replace their beautiful legendary.

The stats will be Exotic < Ascended = Legendary

Currently, just the EU tournaments are a complete lagfest.
I don’t even want to think about what a merged server would be like.

Oh the lagfest

/charz

Guild Wars 2 is purely about cosmetics. This has been stated so many times it’s unbelievable.

The reason you make a destroyer short bow over a pearl shortbow is that the destroyer shortbow looks great, and the pearl shortbow looks…yeah.

Also, afaik, only legendary weapons will be promoted to ascended weapons.
Mind you, legendary weapons are also purely cosmetic atm. Everything you find is purely cosmetic with the exception of this ascended gear – which you at one point or another might want to transmute.
Luckily the only ascended gear out now is rings and 2 cloaks (which look awesome).

No, you shouldn’t be able to take one with you in your silly suicide attempt.

Doesn’t work that way. And it shouldn’t ever work that way.

DeeTooDee.3972:

In an ideally balanced game, with 8 equally effective and desirable professions, I should have seen 87 of each.

No, you shouldn’t.
Are you expecting people to spread out evenly across all professions, simply because they’re equally balanced?
That’s the silliest assumption ever made.

Who cares if all classes were 100% balanced, if Ranger for example, is just a horribly boring profession with a boring playstyle?

I couldn’t care less about Mesmers being on top of the game in regards to what profession I’ll play. Mesmers are very (if not too) strong in spvp, but I hate the playstyle and thus I will not roll one.

“I see a lot of this profession in my pug-chaos-fest pvp battles, and I assume that players will always pick the overpowered professions, thus this must be overpowered.”

It doesn’t work that way.

I usually do core to lodestone conversions.

I don’t know of other methods, honestly.

To my understanding, most fractals don’t need agony resistance at all, despite of the level. You just have to be insanely cautious. Agony is applied through boss mechanics mostly, such as Archdiviner’s Initial AoE-damage, Dredge Powersuit’s groundslam, Jellyfish’s nomnom ability.
So AFAIK, you can easily get away with not having ANY resistance at all, if you’re pro enough.

And if you’re pro enough, no-one will notice that you have 0 resistance.

The Dredge Powersuit is easily one of the easiest bosses of all fractals, with the exception of the jellyfish.
Every time you fail, it’s your fault, every single bit of damage is totally avoidable.
The bombs have a max range, you can outrun the bombs the second you see him getting ready to throw them, and the ground-pound-agony ability can be dodged entirely.

I don’t see where the game was a let down, but each to their own I guess.

I like how everyone gracefully ignores the fact that along with spectating, custom arenas will be available, effectively giving you one huge arena to duel in, all you’d like.

Syko.3726:

Khyras.8021:

They want people to spend real money to buy tickets to play pvp.Kinda obvious and utterly pathetic if you ask me.You need 5 tickets to enter paid tournament.Not one.Five.Why ? Because they sell them for real money.Shameful.

This post seems to be the most revelant imo.. Sadly

The amount of people who haven’t even entered SPvP once in this thread is very high.

You get tickets everywhere. You can’t do anything in SPvP and not get a ticket for it.

You CAN see how many kills you had in a game.
You CAN see how many matches you’ve won.
You CAN see other players’ ranks (although this is only possible at the end of a game)

Milennin.4825:

They are hard in a combination of the following things:
-You and your team don’t know the dungeon.
-You and your team are unskilled at the game.
-You and your team are severely undergeared.
-You and your team are severely underleveled.
-Your team is unwilling to communicate.

This, and a question:
What does dungeons have to do with encouraging players to buy gems?
I really don’t see where this silly idea comes from.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Rika.7249:

If you’re casual, you expect to get an achievement?

Yes. I expect all of the items in the achievement lists to be doable.

Any other stupid questions?

That being said, I’m certain it is not “Tournaments finished in 1st place”, but “Tournament fights won.”

You have it right. So, do you see the source of my frustration?

I got 2 wins tonight finally, but then our wannabe elite did a rage quit at losing the 3rd match (and losing the tournament). I’m actually working harder and staying in longer at this than the wannabe elites who can pick their parties.

It’s annoying.

So you essentially expect to get an achievement without achieving anything.
How’s that for a stupid answer?

Because all achievements certainly are do-able. This is an issue with you, not the achievement system. I could understand if it was bugged. Then fair enough, something needs to be done. That’s not the case however, you’re just not winning the fights.

I’d just like the ability to completely remove commanders from my map in the PvE world.
I really don’t see why I’m forced to look at a cluster of Commando signs on my minimap in Lion’s Arch.

As for all the suggestions, isn’t this sort of already tied into the chat-system? Most players look for commando-icons on the map, quickly get the name of the commander and tunnel-vision reads everything that the commander has to say, and follows it (blindly?)

The entire point of it being separated is that we get rid of the “Lol, I raided 25man Icecrown Citadel, and I have shadowmourne, free top 50 arena-team lol!”

You should NEVER be awarded with PvE stuff from PvP.
You should NEVER be awarded with PvP stuff from PvE.

Cosmetics? Sure.
But never ever anything useful for the other gametype.

How is Hundred Blades not okay?
It effectively roots the warrior to the ground, simply walk away and all the damage has been mitigated.
Pistol Whip was nerfed because it was / is spamable, with a stun attached.
Hundred Blades is just Hundred Blades, and the warrior has to effectively give up an entire utility slot, maybe even 2, to land a good Hundred Blades once every millenia.
This is a non-issue.

Here’s the problem:

Casual players.
Achievement.

Pick one.

If you’re casual, you expect to get an achievement?

That being said, I’m certain it is not “Tournaments finished in 1st place”, but “Tournament fights won.”

If you cannot win a single fight in a tournament, I don’t know what to say.
Well, maybe. Achievements imply achieving something. If you can’t win a tournament fight, you haven’t achieved the required achievement. So that’s all fair and dandy.

Dear Robert: First of all, FotM is a huge success. My jaw dropped in almost all of the fractals, because I was simply amazed by the clever design!
However, there will always be things to improve, and here’s what I think you could improve:
The Krait underwater fractal’s final boss, the Jellyfish, is very underwhelming. It has no real abilities to be aware of. I suggest increasing the damage of the lightning around the cages by a lot, so there’s some sort of danger. The spin-daze attack could use an increase in lethality too.

The Frozen wasteland fractal is excellent, with the exception of the beginning. I want to fear frostbite, but it’s not lethal enough. There’s also the issue that you can shorten the run to the major bonfire by a lot, just by jumping off the edge. The last boss could use some more dangerous moves too.

And the Uncategorized fractal: I like it very much, up to the final boss, where I’m absolutely confused. What is the raving asura doing there? Why do we not get to attack him? What is the purpose of the last cutscene? Does he kill himself or teleport away? The cutscene is really vague :P

How about no.
I suffered for 2 hours. I couldn’t care less about those who DC’ed. It is unfortunate for them, sure, and I hope they might get some compensation. But I should not be punished because of their unfortunate DCs.

It should be based on what guild has the most upgrades ready.

Now, I’m not exactly sure how Guild Claiming works at the moment, but I do know one thing: I see far too many keeps and towers with absolutely no guildbonus, while claimed.
Now, I don’t know if you can “kick out” a useless guild from a keep by claiming it for your guild with bonuses active, but if you can’t kick out useless guilds, there should be an option to do so.
If some random person just goes “lol claim click!”, he’s potentially draining away 10% more hp, 10% more healing, 40 power, and so on from the structure, and what is the good guild supposed to do about this?

Does anyone know if it works this way? If you can not in fact kick out a useless guild, then there’s the next must-have feature of WvW right there.

I took the liberty of translating OP’s post:
“I do not like to use money on traveling, because I prefer spending my money on useless stuff. Please make it easier for me to maintain this wasting state of mind. This is the poison that kills me slowly, for I cannot ever understand how a waypoint travel can cost a total of 1 event reward! Like seriously, do you expect me to PLAY THE GAME!?”

Here’s the fun thing about achievements:
They are not made to reward you for doing something you like.
They are achievements. Not minute accomplishments because “meh, I don’t like to get my clothes all dirty in Battle of Khylo”
Want to achieve something?
Then do it.
A star next to your name? Earn it. If you don’t pvp, you haven’t earned it. Simple as that.

Can you salvage dungeon gear, and if so, does it award a lot of ectoplasm?

CelticWish.2314:

Asagi.1405:

What’s the difference between a PUG found through a dungeon finder, and a PUG found by spamming map chat? Oh that’s right. None.

Stop pretending WoW’s dungeon issues had anything to do with the finder rather than typical MMO fatigue.

Correct. Don’t be a LFG tool hater.

I’ll be a LFG tool hater as much as I please.

Tool-generated groups are, as seen in all other games featuring the tool, the reason you get Donald in your group. Maybe a whole pack of Donalds! What are you to do about it? Nothing. If you leave, you’re punished for it. Try to kick him? Might get kicked yourself. Punished for that too.
“Hurr so make your own group lol”
With whom? The people who once used map-chat are now using the tool, because how else would they find a group? And why should I make a group myself when the game directly discourages that by shoving an unnecessary dungeon finding tool down my throat? It’s there. You find many more groups (quantity), but how many quality groups do you find? Seeing as the groups are just mushed together, chances are you will find at least one Donald. Maybe even 2. Or 3. The horror.

Donald gets groups because the tool lets him. It trusts his ability to do the dungeons with no evidence. You, the skilled player, will end in a group with him, and will suffer 2-hour runs with him.

Those are pvp items I believe.
I didn’t know there was legendary armor so I assumed there is none.

Yes, this is made for elitist players who want a challenge.
No, it should not be nerfed because you refuse to play in an optimal manner.

BAMFZILLA.1850:

Rika.7249:

I don’t have a problem with finding people just by doing /map in Lion’s Arch/the zone where the dungeon is located.

I’d rather not have a tool to find people for me world-wide. It’ll just turn into World of Warcraft, which we all know had terrible dungeon systems.

So a tool to find dungeons will make the dungeons terrible? I don’t see the logic behind this except for the fact that world of warcraft did it and we all know everything WoW did is blasphemy and should never be spoken of.

Yes. The logic is explained further down, but ignorance is bliss, and who am I to judge you? O wait.

Asagi.1405:

What’s the difference between a PUG found through a dungeon finder, and a PUG found by spamming map chat? Oh that’s right. None.

Stop pretending WoW’s dungeon issues had anything to do with the finder rather than typical MMO fatigue.

The difference between a pug found in the dungeon finder, and the pug found by spamming map chat is that I can select who I want to join my group. I cannot select that if there’s a tool, as no-one would use the map chat to find groups anymore.

If I can avoid foreigners who can’t understand a single word of english, then I shall do so. If the tool is implemented, I cannot do that.

That being said, I would totally be up for a tool that allowed for cross-server LFG chats.
I do not want a tool that generates a group for me though.

So yes, the dungeon issues had lots to do with the dungeon finder. In fact it all fell down as soon as it was implemented.

Mathog.3157:

Terrible dungeon system or terrible dungeon finder system?

Both.

The dungeons had to be kittendedly easy, so even the weakest link of a group couldn’t bring it down, because of the horrible system that wanted everyone to be able to find group members quickly, absolutely disregarding the skill of the player, or the ability to communicate. I’d rather not see dungeons being dumbed down more than they currently are.

I’ll reply with this: They’re fine.
You just haven’t figured out what you should do with your elementalist in spvp yet.
You’re one of the most mobile classes, with the ability to switch from great damage to great defense by the press of a button.

I meet many bad elementalists.
However, once in maybe 20, I meet that one elementalist that makes me want to smash my screen in frustration, because he’s absolutely impossible to down, even with uneven fights like 3v1 in our favor.
That one elementalist knows how to use his elementalist to its full potential. And that one elementalist is the reason people want elementalists in their tourney groups.

Stealth does not mean immune.
People seem to forget that.
Guardians will stop us from stealth-finishing.
Eles will stop us from stealth-finishing.
Thieves will stop us from stealth-finishing.
Aiming in the general direction of the thief will stop him with all other classes (maybe with the exception of necro and ranger.)

Let’s take a look at Ele’s mistform, and warrior/guardian stability.
Good. Now we’ve realized that stealth-stomping isn’t even half as threatening as those 3.
We’ve also realized that stealth-stomping is one of the few things thieves are good at and should be able to. I agree with quickness that shouldn’t affect the cast-time. Stealth shouldn’t drop though. We’re squishy enough as is, we don’t need to be even more squishy.

I’ll be honest, I’ve done Leurent with 2 elementalists, a mesmer, me (thief) and an engineer.
None of us were tank-specced. It’s all about timing your dodges.
I will say, however, that the pull is way too hard, and either the knights standing around him need a nerf, or they need to be spread out so you can pull one at a time.
I have yet to see anyone be able to just rush in, kill them all in one go, without resetting /wiping.

ryokoalways.3450:

I don’t know when TA was changed as it was not in any of the patch notes. Hopefully it is stil relevent.

I feel that TA has been made far too easy. Here are the changes that I noticed

-Blossom are much larger. This is a good change; It allows more professions to hit them with ease.

-Blossom Spawn rate was decreased significantly. Now blossoms do not operate as a unique mechanic specific to TA. It’s a clear once and forgot about it thing. Fights where blossoms are present no longer require much attention.

-Blossom damage was decreased significantly. Now instead of continuous damage, the damage comes in pulses, and they do not hurt at all. It took a blossum 9-10 second sto kill a player standing next to it. This makes them extremely non-threatening even if accidentally triggered. Additionally, with how the blossoms are now, it’s even easier to speed clear/bypass most content as being careless with blossom sweeping is no longer fatal.

-Nightmare Vine spit damage was decreased. I found 5-6 overlapping circles, and was able to stand in them for 4-5 seconds before I reached 10% HP. The damage before could kill me in 2 seconds easily. This makes paying attention to positioning in the nightmare vine fight no longer important.

Overall, I was extremely disappointed with the choices made with TA. Now it feels like a very bland dungeon.

Thank you,
TJL

I agree somewhat, but I feel it’s like Sorrow’s Embrace path 2.
At first it was far too easy, now it’s far too hard, working on finding a middle ground.
TA: First was a bit too hard, now it’s far too easy, should find a middle ground.

I semi-sort of agree, but only semi because I kind of like the medium armor set, with the exception of the helmet.

I don’t have a problem with finding people just by doing /map in Lion’s Arch/the zone where the dungeon is located.

I’d rather not have a tool to find people for me world-wide. It’ll just turn into World of Warcraft, which we all know had terrible dungeon systems.

Sorrow’s Embrace Path 2. A bit too long, but tuned alright, until the end.

You get to the end. You get instant-killed by Mark II’s electric field. No, seriously, instant killed.
It seems random to me, but sometimes I can stay alive for a full second in the field, other times I just instantly DIE.

Something seems off.

My friends and I were doing Twilight Arbor explorable, forward forward path.
My friend disconnected a couple of seconds before the tree was killed.
He didn’t get any reward, because of this.
That blows.

Lightrayne.7829:

Wait for it to be fixed.

A dev has addressed this issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/SE-path-1-infinite-waves-intended/first#post540371

But does that mean the entire path 1 from the very beginning is bugged?

I mean my group can’t even make it to the first robot.

Is this humanly possible?
The waves keep coming endlessly right from the start, and close to impossible to progress up to the first robot.
Tips?