Guild Wars 2

Exciton.8942:

Riku.4821:

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A good power shatter mesmer has slim chance against an equally good power warrior.

‘A warrior can run up to you and one shot you. But if you dodge it, they lost the fight.’ This is complete lie. You must have not played the GS A/S warrior at all.

‘If you added up the damage of you and your phantasm dealing a crit at the same time it would be closer to that 8-10k dmg.’ This is true. But that requires landing GS234 and F1. You will probably do 15k+ damage. But is is very rare to land all of them since even the slowest reflect can dodge a portion of the damaging skill. The worst part is that after that burst, the mesmer will have absolutely no skills left to do damage until the F1 CD is back up.

Yes I don’t tend to play warrior much, I’m glad that’s clear, I guess? I do play PvP from time to time, but I’m that garbage player you see running condition Mesmer, your welcome for the free wins!

I do agree with your point, well balanced 1v1, the warrior will most likely win. But if the odds are ever in the Mesmer’s favor I think the slim chance is much higher. This technically can be said for any match up, skill always plays a large factor.

My reasoning for the added dmg, is say you have three phantasm’s up, they roughly do 2k min 5k max? It’s easy to dodge them so lets say only 2 hit, that will probably end up being 6k~ damage, would you agree? If we’re lucky that is. Then combine with another skill or lucky auto attack chain. I think it’d even out into 8-10k. Then add f1 burst into fact and you add 6-15k damage depending on crit and lady luck.

I suppose that is my reasoning for saying all that and this was because the OP was complaining the Mesmer does poor damage compared to the warrior. Mesmer gets damage from Phantasms and combo rotation, while warrior gets damage mainly from self buff and two or three skills and strong auto attacks. IN MY OPINION strictly speaking from a class mechanic stand point. To rephrase what I said once more, Mesmers need to use ALL their class mechanics while warrior only needs some.

PS: As I said at the start, yes I mainly do PVE and have knowledge of PVE related subjects. Keep in mind this is in General Discussion. Where we all have the freedom to our own opinions and thoughts.

As the two above me. Mesmer involve carefully placed burst with shatter. Mesmers also have a power of 40/60 for themselves and phantasms. So you hit lower with your weapon to make up for having phantasms. If you added up the damage of you and your phantasm dealing a crit at the same time it would be closer to that 8-10k dmg.

That in mind. Mesmers aren’t a pure dmg class either. They are more utility with burst potential.
All my opinion of course. But it is balanced. A warrior can run up to you and one shot you. But if you dodge it, they lost the fight.
Mesmers have so much utility that you would rather fight a thief with permstealth.

The CPU can be a huge problem. CPUs handle AI management and all computing. The older it is, the worse it does.
In terms of needing to use low quality graphics, that’s the GPU. GPU handles all rendering of textures etc.
You wont really get much for $130. Well not something to make the game look great and play smooth.

I agree on waiting for next Gen to drop the prices.
But I say save up and get a new PC all together. As if you have a really bad CPU, and a good GPU the pc will handle poorly and bottleneck.

Oxidia.8103:

Ok. Limit your framerate to 30, disable shadows and all that jazz, removing nameplates helps also, and if you are really desperate, lower your resolution. That should help to peel off a few minutes off loading times.

Building off what he said. I suggest running both on maximum performance and do some tests there.

Alternatively, try cleaning both systems with anti virus and ccleaner
Even for me this is an interesting mystery. Could also try a clean install of windows 10, it might be a faulty install? Hmm.

Buying one off the trading post: Fast and instant gratification.
Crafting one through collections: Slow guaranteed way to get the one you wanted.
Drop table: Roughly free but long RNG way to get one.

It was never said, crafting would be cheaper, faster, or better. Nothing beats buying something off the trading post. But for those who don’t have 1200* gold to buy Dusk or something similar, right off the bat. Crafting seems more possible as its 1100-1400* gold in a sustained amount.

• prices don’t reflect actual price, just simply numbers for example sake.

The staff that checks support tickets isn’t the same staff who develops the game. Or at least it shouldn’t be!

Hmm. I think I rather have a prestige system. But then everyone would ToK the way up, more so then now, unless they make them useful for the first 80 levels.

I promote this message.

Look up woodenPotatoes channel he has a video from a few months back about reshade that should help.

Or be like me, craft your first set, be broke, craft and collections the second set, be broke. Spend $50 craft the third set, not be broke. o/
I play fractals and never got a box before, but I know people who have dozens of unopened boxes.
Raids are a way but will take a long long time. To the point where it might not be worth it.

Sadly it seems it will only be a April event.

Hmm, there is always those small features I forget about. I could list where every heart is on some maps, but I’ll forget you can swap genders. x)

Thank you for the opinions everyone.

Hmm, letting people know you’ve been reported would be a good way of saying “hey, cool your jets”. It would really depend on how many players care about getting reported and if they value the negative effect being reported has on their account.

I’d prefer there be less things on my screen, especially my minimap. As stated we already have a system where the heart pops up while in range and away when out of it.

Hmm alright, maybe one day I’ll use him again eh? Thanks for the inputs. I should probably keep better control over my wallet, make these decisions easier.

In terms of birthday presents, I have 20 characters, And he is going on to his fourth birthday, of 4 other characters also on their fourth.
I have two charr warriors and then him a cash sink norn haha. Here is a screenshot of him.
Edit: I just don’t like the big muscle mass of a body builder that they are, I suppose.

They were level 80, almost outfitted in full exotic. But spent over $30 cash in make over kits and STILL don’t like their looks?

I am so indecisive!
I have a male Norn warrior, which makes up my only male norn and third warrior. But After all the make over kits I still can’t manage to enjoy the male norn looks. In terms of time investment he was leveled to about 30-40 then scroll’d to 80.
But spending that much money seems wasteful to me to delete him, even though I don’t ever use him.
Opinions?

Hmm. I’d agree that Arena Net should probably look at their art bible once more.

They wouldn’t do that, they have postponed legendaries for the time being.

I’ve brought this to their attention. Hopefully they can figure it out if it is a problem.

Generally I log in once in awhile, remember I have nothing I really want to do then log out and read a book.

Dinks.2478:

Riku.4821:

Dinks.2478:

Just build multiple sets of Ascended gear, using Legendary gear for multiple stats will be extremely limited as you’ll still be burning gold replacing runes over and over.

If it works like weapons swapping legendary armor wont burn the runes?

Power runes won’t work for your condi set, etc,etc,etc

That’s true. I was thinking purely of one way oriented weapons for some reason.
Thank you for informing me.

I’d like revamped content or gameplay bi-monthly released. Or at least that is what I think right now.

Dinks.2478:

Just build multiple sets of Ascended gear, using Legendary gear for multiple stats will be extremely limited as you’ll still be burning gold replacing runes over and over.

If it works like weapons swapping legendary armor wont burn the runes?

Hmm interesting. I’ll try to bring this to their attention.

I’d save everything for legendary armor depending if it works the same as legendary weapons. I’d also find a build and stick with it instead of wasting gold to switch it.
I’d also wish I didn’t have 20 alts and no mains characters. x)

Just kind of wish they’d get nice skins and not smaller version of longbow skins.

Waiting for Bunny Ears, I am assuming for March 27th.

Yeah voices and body really make it hard to have an older appearance.
You can have a older face with greying hair, but they will talk as if they are in their mid 20s. Got to make due with what you got.

Give this man a prize! This made my day 110%.

I love this idea. But I must disagree with the “post must see places” aspect. Mainly for the fact, that only you, can determine what is truly a “must go to” place.
For example, the floating castle in Kessex is one of the best places in the game for me. But not for others.

I’ve always wanted to do this, When doing map complete find 3-5 places per map and take a filtered screenshot, make a sort of picture book. That way we can all enjoy the small areas the developers put their love and creativity into.

I just need to have a character that is close to 0% in order to do this with, haha!

1. Hard time understanding the solution. You can keybind skill 2 as key 5 I you wanted it instead of skill 5. Just change it if need be for each character you play, or get use to that set up.
It is a lot of work yes, a lot more than pressing a button to have it do that. But it is a lot less work than programming that into the game engine.

2. Solid QoL change but I don’t see that being done in awhile as that is a subjective change.

3. Something would be cool, but while trying to reduce visual clutter I don’t think that solution is a good one. Perhaps better audio ques.

4. No please. If you die to quick sit back and watch the next time. Or maybe a YouTube video, or ask around answers are out there.

5. A rebalance of the entire game would be lovely to be honest.

I will pre order but I will wait until I get a release date.
I might not get the $100 version again.

I’ve deleted a charr engineer, and thought about making a human engineer lol.

I happen to run in to problems like this. Just need to shorten the title a bit. Ultimately Gaile and the first response summed this up well.

Any other thoughts? Agree, Disagree?

I personally find something this as not needed, but I’m happy they are working on it for those who want it. Meta doesn’t change much and it isn’t to hard to redo traits. But for those who for some reason change it often I hope this comes soon for you. Knowing me I’ll probably use it anyway, haha.

Randulf.7614:

I liked how the old system not only teased, but allowed discussion between devs and commnity, especially on balance concerns. It was strange not seeing that this time around, it could have given the community a chance to help address balance issues before live.

This is the main thing I’ve been noticing.

They improved with this new quarterly update. But they need to push past the boundaries once more. If they go back to this I think that just might get them to where they need to be in terms of feedback and information distribution.

It generally seems like Guild Chat is used for that. As stated above.
That is their new live stream with Rubi and developers on Fridays, I believe its 12 pm PST?

For those who played this game for a long time, you probably remember the huge feature patches we got for a few months.
For those who didn’t or don’t remember.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/feature-packs/

I for one liked this system a lot. What it did was in my opinion much more than other delivery systems have.

To sum it up. It went like this.

• Huge list of what will be in the patch. Nothing was left out.
• A confirmed date of when the content will be announced.
• A long detailed blog post was released and didn’t leave out any information.
• Once all of the posts have been released feedback was taken and the patch was released.

To me this sounds great. But how is that better than the Quarterly update system?
What that does is simply put.

• Teaser page released with main points, in example: shatterer, and gliding in tyria.
• Small blog post on changes to come on a few main points.
• Guild Chat talking about the update before it launches.

The main common point these share are time between announcement and release.

What the Feature patch does better is the fact that there is one topic released, time for feedback, and then another topic released. And with the FSP here now, this system could help gather more feedback.

Any thoughts and opinions on the subject? I’d like to hear them, just please be constructive with your post. If this was all gibberish to you I’ll do my best to explain.

I agree with your idea of 1+1 =/= 2.
If the next dragon awakes we will all know we kill it. Perhaps a non logical story is the wrong idea, perhaps just a curveball.
We all go to the next dragon almost defeat him then he swoops up destroys a bunch of our forces and gets away and flies north/south and we pursue.
Something different then Cat and Mouse.

The entire armor system in the game would have to be rebuilt.

I agree! I think what we have now is boring and I’d love to play Fear Not This Night.

No. No. God No! NOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!

With that aside, please no pay to win features. That goes against the marketing theme of the gem store, and ruins incentive to buy expansion packs.

My advice to those “I only play PvP because I think the game is stupid” or what have you.
Think of it this way. You don’t want to pay $49.99 because you only want the elite spec.
If you’re a veteran player, you paid $59.99 for guild wars 2 only to play PvP. It is the same principle.
Disclaimer: For the F2P users, you’re missing out just go ahead and buy it.

NoxInfernus.2361:

Well, I’m in before deletion
Mostly agree with OP, but …
Two quick points
1) B&S character creator beats GW2’s hands down. The stock faces/bodies are plentiful, the randomiser is useful for helping to start you off, and the Slider menu has many, many options that allow you to play and create the character you want.
2) OP – if you are wearing faction gear, and then choose to open NPC dialogue, you are asking for a beating. Sorry, that’s the way it is, it’s effectivly going AFK for 30+ seconds. Faction gear is for when you actually want to participate in open world PvP.
Yes, there are trolls who will look for easy kills, then remove the faction gear before you can get retribution. These folks are found in any aspect of PvP everywhere, even in GW2. The methods very, but the troll remains the same.

I’m guessing none of you got beyond level 20. If you weren’t feeling it, no problem. No sense in grinding a game you don’t like.
I’m finding B&S to be a nice distraction, but after an hour, I finish my gaming night with GW2. For me, B&S is fun in small bursts.
Guild Wars 2 remains my #1, but it’s nice to stretch your legs once and awhile.

Personally I don’t think it is fair to compare gw2 creator and any new game creator for characters. Gw2 was made way before these games came out back when 2d creation was top notch. Like skyrim for example( granted it is a single player game). Fallout 4, BnS, Etc all have 3d model creation engines now.

And to be honest BnS was terrible for character creation. But it might just be the terrible resolution of the models for me. ( even though I was playing on 1080p and tried DSR 4k. Still terrible looking.)

If you want a character creator that blows every single competition out of the water. Say hello to BDO. Just don’t expect to much from the games content department.

I also tried it in my down time. Got past tutorial on two characters and it was bad lol.

There isn’t a bug with the updraft, not to my knowledge. I beat the fight after three attempts. Sometimes I think the hitbox is to small, sometimes I think I missed it.

Well lets hope something gets fixed this time around. Because this is ridiculous.

Rash.6514:

Riku, I said I filed a ticket on my original post and I’ve mentioned in the ticket that I would post a video in the forums.

I meant an in-game version and not support website.

Well Belinda’s Greatsword was lore reasons, so are the outfits, excluding ninja, to an extend. The others you speak of are out of context I suppose.
If they waited till cantha then they could have the full design focus of oriental skins. While now they’d just have limited focus.