Guild Wars 2

Will do so when I can

Saweth You Him.9047:

Esoteric.5490:

Saweth You Him.9047:

Esoteric.5490:

Saweth You Him.9047:

Esoteric.5490:

Saweth You Him.9047:

This is a time consuming aside for the real issue: icoa. icoa = BG. BG = icoa.

What does this even mean?

-.-

It’s a serious question.

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Ok, that’s fine. You can be cryptic with statements that have no context.

The logic is so sound and decisive it warrants no explanation but if I must:

This symbol ‘=’ expresses equality. What is on one side of the sign is equal to what is on the other side of the sign. The symbol links what is on either side in a statement. So what is on one side is equal in some essential form to what is on the other. The law of identity states that a thing is what it is. So what is on one side of the sign ‘=’ as it is identified by the law of identity is in some essential form the same as what is one the other side which is identified by the law of identity.

So for example: icoa =BG states that the identifier icoa which states that icoa is what it is-is in some essential form equal to BG an identifier which states that BG is what it is.

‘icoa = BG’ forms a complete statement.

“This is a time consuming aside for the real issue:…”

‘This’ is an identifier which represents the essential meaning of the sentence which came prior, the first sentence of the paragraph, the key sentence of the paragraph, the sentence that gives the paragraph its context. The key sentence or the sentence which gives the paragraph its context alludes to the nature of the posts in the thread which are of an aristocratic nature and are moot statements.

“…a time consuming aside…”

The moot statements require time to address as does every statement that is addressed which comsumes time. Since they are moot something must trump. Thus they are an aside to the trumping issue.

“…for the real issue…”

already explained above.

“… icoa. icoa = BG. BG = icoa.”

This is the trumping issue.

= is assignment
== is the same as

Jayne.9251:

Ruin.3461:

Having a ton of fun fighting against TC on our (Blackgate) borderlands! You guys are persistent, I love it.

I’m curious … do you guys on Blackgate think we’ve improved at all since we last met?

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done wvw, as I’ve been fairly busy. I try not to look at the overall tactics (it would be far too tempting for me to backseat command), but I’ve had some great small scale skirmishes with only a couple on each side. Last time I fought you guys I sort of thought of TC players as an easy mark, and that’s less the case now (though still a little bit as I’m pretty good about picking my engagements).

Having a ton of fun fighting against TC on our (Blackgate) borderlands! You guys are persistent, I love it.

I play a thief, my friend (who I often dungeon with), plays a warrior. We usually fill our group with 3 randoms. We have had no trouble with the new CoF, or any of the new fractals. One of the things we do that you may want to consider is might stacks. Longbow on the warrior can lay down a fire field, and with cluster bomb from a shortbow, can get like 18 stacks of might off of the 1 field. That’s without any assistance from any other party members. And it’s aoe. Up your damage for defending magg, get some aoe. The best crowd control is making sure nothing is alive to fight back.

I pugged 28 the day after the update…

I’ve read so many posts about how people think Thief is over-powered and not fair because of the high spike damage Thieves can dish out. (Can – has the potential to but only possible with skilled players and builds.)

The people who don’t have a problem with it don’t complain about it on the forums; the people who do have a problem obviously haven’t heeded any advice they’ve been given, so why would they stop?

Name: Shard of Midnight
Type: Dagger
Appearance: Black dagger that looks like it’s carved from obsidian
Effect: Swirling mists around the player
Reason: The current dagger legendary is incredibly flashy. We need something a bit more stealthy.

Still a decent concentration of resource nodes. It’s a really easy place to get the 20 gathers for the daily.

Excelliate.7914:

Half of the greatswords are so large even a Norn or Charr would have trouble with them — some of them look like they weigh over 200 pounds.

Swords are actually made to be as light as they can be. All those really big swords you see from the Middle Ages, the giant two handed ones? They’re like 10-12 pounds.

angan.6572:

Tried Sorrows Embrace path 2 and Citadel of flame after this patch. Is nearly impossible to complete them with random groups. If you don’t go with full dps group how do you expect to kill the adds to protect the NPC until it charges the bomb at 100% ??

CoF path 2 is a joke now. It’s far easier than it used to be, and if you can’t kill the trash spawns, then I don’t know what the problem is. Did a pug group after the patch and cleaned that path with 0 downs from anyone.

This is a bit of a niche case but here goes:

I was in a fractal run a short while ago, and was dropped from the game. This occurred after the 3 hour patch window, which was announced while my party was in fractals. As I was dropped from guild wars 2, I then had to patch my game before logging in. After logging back into the game, I was unable to rejoin my party in fractals, presumably due to them being on a previous version of the game. This occurred during the Jade Sea fractal.

Kelo.4370:

coronbale.3894:

For my small group players

Never in my life have I read something so packed with irony, truly it is a marvel of this world.

Would like to point out that he was addressing three distinct groups, small group players, solo players, and fair weather players. He was not saying that his guild were small group players, just that he was calling out to people outside his guild that were. If you’re going to call someone out, please read carefully before doing so.

Human! I just started a human elementalist, and it’s awesome.

I like the asuran t3 shortbow

If you’re on Blackgate send me a message and you can run with me if you want.

One thing to note when playing WvW, is you only have to deal a bit of damage to another player in order to get kill credit when they die. If you move around with a zerg, you can just throw some damage in and let your teamates do the real killing. When someone dies, if they drop loot (not guaranteed), it will be dropped at your feet, not at their corpse.

RedSpectrum.1975:

I prefer the non coaty gear, which pretty much leaves with with the duelist set on my female sylvari….. #sigh

TA Armor

Personally I don’t like seeing rangers. They aren’t even trained in ranged combat, only the warrior is.

I’ve never actually bought any of the cultural armor or weapons. Do you need a character of that race to get them? The T3 asura stuff looks pretty nice.

Tulisin.6945:

I assume you’re wanting to use it in WvW? Power-based glass D/D doesn’t have much of a role outside of jumping onto people in WvW and assassinating them, which it admittedly does very well.

It also works to dagger storm zergs.

I play a pretty pure glass cannon thief, and I have very little trouble in dungeons. Part of this stems from the fact that I pretty much always run with one of my friends, who uses a shout warrior, and we compliment each other very well. The other part is just learning engagement timings, and using your mobility to avoid hits.

Honestly I’ve never had many problems in dungeons as a pure damage thief (Just need to learn timings). I do agree with a lot of your points about PvP, but I must say that Dagger Storm is incredibly good in WvW, if only because there’s a large population of players who are unwilling or unable to counter it.

Honestly, Culling is a bug in the game, not with the class. This is something that should be fixed, regardless of whether or not it’s causing gameplay or balance issues. It’s just sloppy optimization.

In regards to your damage nerf/defense buff, I would have to disagree. What makes classes unique and interesting is that they can specialize in certain styles of play. Changing thieves in this way could possibly make them more balanced, but it would also probably make them less interesting.

So as this forum seems to have become (read: continued to be) a pit of unrelenting complaints, I thought I’d lighten things up. Post your favorite dagger skins, and maybe stuff you’d like to see anet implement.

Currently, I’m using the TA (http://imgur.com/EhoZT) daggers, which are the best ones I’ve found. Personally, I’m hoping they add some obsidian ones (someone please let me know if these exist).

It’s not that I didn’t understand your point, it’s that your point is flawed. The amount of damage a skill does is irrelevant if the amount of time it takes to deal that damage is prohibitive. Would you prefer a skill that deals 1000 damage in 1 second, with an 8 second cooldown, or a skill that deals 1000 damage over 8 seconds with no cooldown? You can’t look a the total amount of damage a skill does, all the while ignoring other factors such as duration and channel.

Would I rather whirlwind in a 1v1 than dagger storm? Hell yes.

You do realize you could be spending that extra time performing other attacks, don’t you?

My thief in Halloween colors

http://imgur.com/meFZx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ui2Sq.jpg

Redscope.6215:

Ichishi.9613:

80% people are still blowing their ranged cooldowns onto a spinning thief.
And do mind that it is an elite with 90 seconds cooldown. And unless you are actually shooting one, its damage is far from warrior’s or guardian’s spin. And what is cooldown on those?

By “guardian’s spin” I’m assuming you mean Whirling Wrath. Yeah DS does more damage than Whirling Wrath if you’re standing next to the player on both skills. And if you’re referring to Whirling Axes on the warrior, DS does just about the same damage with the exception of being able to CC the warrior.

The only “Whirling” attack that DS doesn’t do as much damage as is Whirlwind Attack on a greatsword warrior. And only because that’s a 4-hit, straight line, uncontrollable movement skill that lasts all but .5 seconds.

I’m not going to argue for or against DS, but I hate when people bring up random unfounded arguments about balance based on falsehoods and completely irrelevant information.

Except Dagger storm lasts far longer than any of these skills. Let’s look at Whirwind Attack, which “lasts all of .5 seconds” and does more damage than DS during those .5 seconds. That would be 16 times the dps even if the damage was the same. Going by your statement that the damage of whirlwind is far higher…

Do note that I’m not arguing for or against dagger storm, just pointing out that this argument is flawed.