Guild Wars 2

Noxu.7203:

I’ve actually found it fun asking for people to join the group for a dungeon. I’m a patient person and can wait 5 minutes for people to join.

I hated the LFD tool in WoW because it just pit random strangers with random strangers who didn’t talk to each other and just ran through to the very end (heck, most of them skipped all the bosses, because if you joined through the LFD, you couldn’t make any choices.)

I do wish there would be a world-wide LookingForGroup Channel, though. That might make things better.

But oh gawd, I seriously hope they don’t put in a dungeon/group finder. The last thing I need, and many others need, is another silent no-word run-through of dungeons just to farm.

Yuck.

Then don’t use it.

I swear if you’re in my dungeon team and you backline with a rifle, I will personally have you kicked out and blocked so I don’t ever pug with you again, use melee for Dungeons it does more damage and hits all around.

You have the highest raw armour and raw HP, if thieves can go behind enemy lines, I dont see why you can’t go front line.

The rifle is your secondary OH kitten weapon like the bow is to many thieves.

Orcinus Orca.8627:

No, not for this kind of reasons.

Why not?
Im awesome at melee, I know when to dodge, where to position myself.

If you think about it, its just an armour upgrade.

See this is why they should put things at GMT

GMT: 12PM

8pm – 10pm oceanic

7 am – 9am American

everytime I see a warrior pull out a rifle and start ranging as an opener, a little bit of me dies.

Morning star counts as a mace son.

I pretty much have enough dungeon tokens for full set of armour and some weapons.

And from what I’ve seen, Anet loves the warrior class. No nerfs since release and the one time they actually touched the warrior class was to beef them up somemore.

So I dunno, Should I roll warrior?

Kinda stuck between warrior and guardian.

spacemayu.4817:

@Echo

Some of us aren’t on Desolation.

Isn’t it annoying when some fanboy goes, my server has no issue, I can’t possibly understand how your server would have this issue when mine doesn’t.

illgot.1056:

I know they are going to put one in, I just can’t believe they are using the “it builds community to use chat to LFG” as an excuse to cover up the rush job they were forced into.

I wouldnt mind the LFG kitten if I didn’t get suppressed.

HAHA PVPonline comic about guildwars dungeon grouping is totally inaccurate.
If anyone can recall they were making fun of people LFGing for healers and the protagonist was like “How Ironic they died waiting for a healer”

Now if that comic was anything like the current situation in Guildwars2, it would be “How ironic they got rid of the specific role mechanic and now no one wants to do dungeons and hence they died waiting for a group”.

Please Anet for the sake of FUN, add a dungeon finder.

When I posted for rights to get quote permissions for the thread, a mod infracted it and gave me a warning saying bumping is not allowed.

Im like, seriously? can you wait like a minute or so, I would have deleted the post myself after being able to quote.

LordYz.8941:

It is 3 am in Singapore and I am staying up for this! Working adult here btw. Juz need to rest well in the afternoon though! =D

Elak one corner lunch break lah bro.

Aragnor.4250:

Indeed I hated when the game pushed us to kill ‘hungry bears’ just because they try to eat some honey. Doesn’t really give a humane feel let alone heroic..

Yeah we dont just kill bears because they want our sweet sweet honey in real life, we call in the animal people who come over set up traps, tranq them and relocate them.

i think its cute

I don’t get what you mean.
Im a thief, this is a profession that’s supposed to be PVP yes?

Yet when I PVE, I provide massive protection to my allies by blinding everything each time I go stealth, I also do quite a decent amount of DPS vs a single target or multiple targets depending on when I use daggers or a bow.

I don’t get how im not contributing to my team :|

LameFox.6349:

I’m in australia and I’ve played on usa and eu servers without having any noticeable ping issues. There’s been lag from other sources (tested and only gw was suffering from it) and obviously if I’m downloading something at our max speed it has problems, but other than that it’s been fine.

Not everyone is on fibreoptics.

And screw australia, we need an Oceanic server for people from the Eastern side of the world.

Wise game publishing company once said…

Piracy is a service issue, if you provide better service people will come to you instead of the pirate – Valve.

Look at they’ve become from lowly Half Life to now…

Anet… lacks.. customer service.
Sorry to say but it feels that way.

Undocumented nerfs.
Updates go up on reddit first then on Guildwars2.com

LAFF
Its the same cosmetic look as the duelist stuff.
WoW here I thought we would start looking like mad king’s couriers.
I got the same impression when got the Aiden leather top, I was like, OO Ooooh maybe I’ll look like Aiden from guildwars, nope, look like duelist.

indeed last i checked game is called Guildwars2 not Reddit2

My mailbox wasn’t full at the time.

And I’ve just received it

lensor.9684:

Erm… we got loads of costumes already. Pirate outfit, Cook’s outfit, Sunglasses etc. At least these are costumes to me. Non-stat things that you can wear just for fun. And they do not work as non-storage-hogging unlocks for the account, which was my complaint.

Also, being able to wear town clothes until the very second you take damage is hardly the same as being able to wear them all the time. But as as I said, this is not the main reason why they are not really convenient, and thus not as enticing as they could be.

Totally missing the point, guessing not a guildwars player.

Guildwars; Costumes you buy is unlocked account wide, via visiting Costume NPC and acquiring the costume you bought.
Guildwars2: Costume you buy is account bound and single use. That means if you delete it, its gone and you’ll have to buy it again.

Guildwars: Costumes can be used in combat.
Guildwars2: Costumes cannot be used in combat.

this is what the OP is saying.

But it was not delivered…

Burrid.4739:

And you know, together with signet of malice, a thief can’t be killed during those 8 seconds. You can say: yea but if you go melee they are a sitting duck.. NONSENSE!
8 seconds of invulnerable damaging god mode.

Me and a team mate just got a thief to low hp, he popped dagger storm together with his passive signet of malice and his hp got so fast to full I couldn’t believe it :/

wow thats amazing considering signet of malice does horrible healing.
or maybe he had such little hp it looked like signet of malice is op.

Ill go for the later.

maybe they should nerf whatever attacks it is you’re using.
considering dagger storm glass cannon or not does pretty crap damage and if its hitting you for a lot it means your range is being reflected back.

so yeah, nerf whatever ranged abilities it is you’re using

yup they need to fix this, how the hell do you continue to channel a spell if you cant see your target.

especially in pve it gets annoying

LOL Kryta isn’t Greek, its South east Asian, Houses on Stilts, fisherman villages, brown skinned people.

But yes i would require sources.
If sources are true, I would be in an uproar at the decision to exterminate Cantha, its as much my homeland as it was Mhenlo’s

Agreed with OP.
GMT is the mean time
MEAN TIME.

Im from Asia and im GMT +8 and I still prefer things on an international basis to be GMT

Not on PDT Not on EST not on DST but GMT.

First off, we dont call it guildwars ONE.
It’s just Guildwars.

Secondly, Pistol Pistol is kind of not as good because you’re not as mobile as you are on a short bow, Pistol Pistol however, is very blind spammy, which can help you if you’re going to rally someone in the middle of a combat field.

Theres no real far superior weapon per say, just weapons that fit your play style.

Since I use D/D as well I use the shortbow to stay mobile with skill 3 if need to get out of the place quick.

And my favourite trait is shadow arts.

Then again its all because I like being sneaky and confuse people

BabelFish.7234:

In terms of the bonuses, Shadow Arts. But because condition damage blows due to its max of 25 stacks I’m finding Deadly Arts to be the more useful trait.

Shadow arts: Stealth = 2 stacks of might

Im not just restricted to being white.
And by that I mean your stereotypical MMORPG human lore which focuses around western medieval cultures.

The humans in Tyria(The world) are pretty well diversed in their cultures.

Tyrians are made of 2 cultures
Ascalon – European themed
Kryta (250 years ago) – South east Asian themed

Cantha has 3
Keineng – Chinese themed
Luxons – Mongolian themed
Kurzicks – they’re just weird but they remind me of Japanese kabuki themes.

Elona also has 3
Istani – Egyptian themed
Kourna – African themed
Vabbi – Arabian themed

And of course theres Arah, they have a pretty close cultural similarity with the Vabbians.

How many MMORPGs have a human race with such a diverse ethnicity?

You people do realize that Elona is under control of Kralkatorrik and Palawa Joko right?
And the human population is almost if not nearly decimated in Elona.

Cantha is ruled by a tyrannical racist Emperor that exiled non human races.

Humans used to populate almost every corner of Tyria (the world) and now they’re reduced to just Divinity’s Reach and Ebonhawke with no word from Cantha or Elona.

Dont squander all 30 points on power, all I’m saying

Shadow arts is a pretty darn amazing trait line.

whats your favourite?

Could be worst, You could have been a ranger, now theres a sad lot
I was one, I unshelved my thief after the disastrous 4ms nerf

Mrhaas.8241:

Thanks Rizzy for being the only one who answered with a brain

Well, first of all im not another mesmer whining … The mesmer is OP which I allready stated. I play warrior these days anyways, and it’s not me whining, is our 5 guys actually playing thiefs who said all this. Maybe read before commenting?

About DD, forget the mesmer situation, im talking about different classes that gets downed in second when thiefs jump them with DD, and the more people the better … It just needs a nerf to damage. Condition removal? You just got hit for 10-12k damage and the thief jumps you right after. Their targets go down within 2-4 seconds … I say again, condition removal?

Well, 120 second in wvw is nothing, maybe in sPVP you feel its a long recharge timer. But hide behind a rock? Haha, is that your solution to counter the skill? So what if there is no rock come on, at least be serius.

Maybe tjeck your facts —- > http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Shadows

I don’t say this often, but learn to read before you comment on a post. I have no problems with thiefs on my mesmer, this post comes only from 5 guys who play thiefs themselves. Sigh!

Well, thanks for trying and failed, but this post is mostly for ANET to see. I don’t really care about brainless comments or qq threads … Give me good answers to work with instead, if you want to state your point.

Oh even better you’re a warrior complaining about thieveswhen your 100blades does mad crazy damage and your rifles stack bleed better than a ranger, good one aye.

Different situation classes huh, Lets see Rangers. They throw DD at me bounces between me and and pet, drop down healing spring, Crippling shot, Quick shot strafe and circle around, throws another DD, and follows with stealth steal, Quick shot run about count to four look behind and resume attacking.

Yeah I play a ranger, this is how i counter thieves, hell works great against any melee specced idiot who doesnt know how to use their closing skills.

Warrior:
Greatsword: Rush
Hammer: Earth Shaker
Axe: Eviscerate
Sword: Savage Leap
Shield: Shield bash

1000 damage you say?
“SHAKE IT OFF” Clears conditions + HEALS.

What are you a 5 signet warrior, if you are, well jokes on you and you deserve more face rolling.

And as far as Signet of Shadows goes, My bad.

ZLE I got an idea, lets make Moa Morph breakable with a stun breaker!
HEY! that be awesome.

Dont squander traits in Power line.

Another mesmer complaining about thieves when they have an equally cheap mechanic called Clones.

Good joke right?

Dancing Daggers is not a sustainable form of AOE for thieves it costs 4 initiatives, you do think I wanna wanna waste more than 1 shot of DD on someone, dont like DD dancing on you and your clones, dont make clones.

Dagger Storm, 120 second recharge, really is just too hard to as you hide behind a rock when you see a thief spinning around isn’t it?

Signet of shadows makes me run 25 percent faster?
Funny last time I checked I ran 20 percent faster with it.
How is that OP for a medium armour class who is somewhat expected to be behind enemy lines, we got one closing skill that takes 45 seconds recharge untraited, another one Infiltrator’s signet which recharges at 30 seconds as opposed to other classes with more spammable gap closers.

I don’t say this often, but Learn to play your class and learn to counter other classes.
The reason you die is not because another class is OP its because you’re just a bad player. I know its hard to swallow but hey in Guildwars when I first started mesmer, it was insane, I had to learn what Monks and Elementalists do, I had to actually watch the Icons of their spells pop up over their heads because it didn’t have a thing that tells you what your target was doing yet.

And as a thief that meets many of these thieves that uses the skills you mentioned, I have no issue dispatching them.

Im sure many good thieves here will agree.

Problem: Signet of Shadows
Solution: Snare.

Problem: Dancing Dagger
Solution: Condition removal

Problem: Dagger Storm
Solution: Line of sight or Roll towards them and unleash a flurry of Melee, they can’t evade whilst Dagger Storming you, As a mesmer you have a skill with sword main hand that does that.

How come the range on my dagger attack is now 130 like CnD wasn’t it higher before?

Acelerion.6820:

Also looks like CnD initiave cost is 6. I seem to remember it being 5, could be wrong though.

Nah its always been 6, i remember its one hella unforgiving skill to mess up that and it was the only with 130 range.

Warrior
Battle Standard: This skill no longer goes on full recharge if it’s interrupted while being activated.
Brutal Shot: This skill can now stack vulnerability up to 2 times.
Forceful Shot: This skill’s damage has been increased by about 70%, and its activation time has been increased.
Stomp: The responsiveness of skills used after this skill has been improved.
Tremor: This skill can now be activated while moving.

Anet hates Rangers more.
Its true, go look at the creation list for humans, every other professions get cool looking end game gear, but ranger get a normal starter looking one.

And the shortbow, thats… barely of any use now

Doomdesire.9365:

Doesn’t matter we backstab thieves just got nerfed pretty badly.

the patch?

Nurse.1085:

Leather armor is terrible in GW2.

There’s only a few good sets that aren’t trench coats. If you don’t count Cultural Armor that is race specific, then we’re down to maybe 2 or 3 sets (not counting lowbie armor)? You see most Female Medium wearers in Human T3 and Duelist.

The Medium armor in GW1 was much better.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ranger_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Assassin_armor

This is coming from a female player. I personally hate the trench coats.

As a male player I agree, I hate trench coats too, the AC exotics were the only things that were not trench coats that I could fine, aside from the human T1.

whats it look like

Panacea.4927:

Engineers can do it too, Warriors can do it too.
Its not only the thief who can instagib players, its just the class with which it is pretty easy to do it. But on the other side there arent much viable playstyles for thiefs. You cant support much, you cant fight proper on range, you cant heal, you cant control others… basicly only the dmg role is left for them.

Thieves can blind… like a lot lot… but thats about it for control oh aside from crippling also but yeah in terms of support is lackluster

I may be a kleptomaniac in the game but Im not kleptomaniac in real life I respect ownership of property.

But why would we need to pick locks?
BLTchests?

yes they can, an elementalist can basically nuke you to death in about 1.8 seconds if you dont move out of AOE range.

Also try to use Death Shroud more often considering you’re a necro and don’t specc as a glass cannon, go condition + vitality

Conditions are the number one enemy to thieves and so are things with high HP or HP recovery.

Zhead.2675:

Twitter. And they didnt say it would be up at midnight GMT. They said to not expect it until midnight.

Which is what expecting it at might night would mean :|

TrickSmartly.7391:

It’s not the others that don’t understand, it’s the op and his ilk who are the true believers, the same disposed men of faith that pack the pews on sunday with their tired diatribe of righteous belief. Just like the true believers they lack the rationality to understand any criticisms slanted toward thine lord (anet).

HAH! This is laughable.
I’m no Anet fanboy son
Trust me theres a lot of wrong in this game, but this one aspect the game did right.