Guild Wars 2

Well I do have time – nothing is really pushing me.
My war works very good (with GS/Rifle build lot of “meta freaks” would call sub-par
I am not buying material for ascended on TP so my rate is one Damask a day and will have enough in week or so now…. and I will wait maybe even till HoT but definitely till some balancing will be done (disappointed how slow is AN with balancing tbh )
As for the legendary – if the precursor will not drop for me (LOL) then my target is to have all the materials ready for HoT where I will do precursor quest.

And till then I think it will be more clear if AN is willing/able to break zerker meta or not.

This is actually exactly my plan for now!
Will wait till things will settle and then I will see because as for now I am not quite sure even AN knows what will happen with condi dmg / traits in near future…

Wow Thank you all for answering – did not thought it could get this heated

I would like to explain my reasoning for starting this thread:

- as I have wrote – I have full ascended zerker war – which is fun, but lately bit boring for me

- I am sitting on pretty much all needed materials for legendary craft (minus precursor) and even though I was sure for the long time I want Twilight lately it seems to me it became pretty common item thus it stopped be intriguing for me… therefore I looked for preview of all legendary weapons and found Meteorlogicus which is really cool …. but not many classes is using scepter…. especially as part of main weapon set

- I have got full set of sinister jewelery for free (well technically) as part of luminescence armor grind so …

- my first char in GW2 was my mesmer and I always liked it a lot – just when I have played her last time it looked to me she has to work twice hard to get same result a war…. and also cloth ascended set is so kitten expensive compared to heavy…. so at time I choose war as main

so that is how I have came with this whole scepter/condi/mesmer idea

well from “legendary look” point of view Juggernaut is another I like and do not see on every second toon in game… but then it would not be for my mesmer

but overall – ofc when I will spend kittenload of money on legendary+ascended armor I want it to be top notch gear I use all the time – not something niche

I know – I have finished it
Just wanted to say – do not like to be forced to do AP content for equipment.

I would really like to know if this is bug (usage of male model on female characters) or intention (then what is the reason….)

I have not played my mesmer for a long time.
Now I am slowly hoarding Damask cloth so I will be in 2 weeks able to craft set of cloth ascended armor. Question is – what stats?
Month ago it would be quite easy – Zerker all the way… but now I am intrigued to go condi torment/confusion mesmer… it seems to have lot of synergies in trait lines/signets?

I have zerker warrior and would like to try something different but also do not want to waste resources on something sub-par…. another intriguing on condition build is full set of ascended jewelery I have got as side product of LS….

Maybe someone has experience with these builds? I do mostly silwerwastes and EoM lately… but also open word and occasional daily fractal.

I am one sad panda
Why is female Asura only one without butterfly shoulder on lumi armor set?
I was soooo looking forward for my asura mesmer to have perfect armor

Shinji.2063:

….it is intended for the achievements to be required. That is what makes it special for some people…

Well I am probably not one of these people – for me it was just very annoying to try again and again for stupid “you canot be hit by 3 out of 8 AoE’s in small arena while being stunned/slowed/knock-downed” …. fun …. not.

coat box is not available on vendor
vinewrath is about patience – it is good farm and I am doing it every day even after I have got my lumi armor finished
and truth is – after the long waiting for 3rd box I have already got another 2….

It is kinda sad AN did this big patch to brake Zerker meta only to fail horribly
1 op condition will prolly get shafted, rest is still weak and Zerker is still equip to go…

hmm seems condition/hybrid builds are still not much popular

I am in the process of farming Luminescent armor and part which I hate most is with ascended jewellery.

2 of them you can buy, but 4 of them you have to first finish all achievements in LW2 chapters 5-8… and AFTERWARD these jewelery pieces become available at merchant.

Is this bug? Because it does not make sense at all – if I get these uniques as reward for achievements why would I want to buy them? Also all other items from LW chapters are available at merchants after finishing the chapter – achievements are not mandatory – so you can choose if you want to buy these or grind achievements….

yay 5th run today did it…:)
now ascended trinklets

What would be the best class/build to use free ascended sinister jewellery set you get if you farm Lumi armor? (well free – technically – you have to get it if you want Lumi armor so I suppose it can be called that….

ic ok ty – drop is fine anyway /gold wise/ so I am not annoyed by this ….much….yet
Nate: AFAIK not this box – but all other carapace boxes are buy-able

I was expecting condi dmg to be hit by massive nerfhammer – but it does not seems to be happening… and even in nerfed pre patch state I liked staff-crit-condi builds…. hells it was my first build back after lunch… I used it to level my first char to 80

Anyway – chronomancer included – what kind of build – equip wise – do you think will be “most universal” under these new circumstances? I am now getting slowly ready for ascended equip for my mesmer and tbh I am not sure what stats I will go for ….. and by not sure I mean I have no idea Zerker or Assassin GS-Sw/Sw? Rabid tanky staff?
Sooo many options and ascended cloth armor is expensive as kitten.

So…I have finished last chapter the day it came out.
Also killed Vinewrath 1 or 2 times (do not remember it was quite long time ago).
Shortly afterwards I I have pretty much stopped playing GW2.
But now I have much more time so I am back.
But…
From the January I had heavy and light carapace coat unlocked. AFAIK box should drop from chest after Vinewrath kill right?
I am asking because I have killed it 15times in last 2-3 days…. but NO freakin BOX(((

Stupid bug with barrage + OP burning.

First is easy to fix and second has to be reevaluated completely (and it is not issue just for Engi) and I am quite sure not many people wants to have 2 versions of bleed in game with different names nor kittenin zerker meta for another years.

Honestly – I do not give a rats kitten about Tequatl.
Killed him like 50+times
Got lot of spoons.
Not interested anymore – have better use for my time.

Just to clarify my previous post:
- I hated zerk meta, to me it is poor game design where one kind of equip is used in 90%+ builds
- I do not want AN to nerf anything, I want them to BALANCE so there are viable various builds not enforced single equip meta
- if I want to play OP class it would be np – I have 4×80, 6slots and enough tomes to insta 80 whatever I want – but I do not want to – it does not give me any pleasure to create ridiculously OP build thanx to the poor balancing&testing
- so pls AN do your iffin job correctly and make us all happy pls

Problem is in requirements:

Direct damage build needs 3 dmg stats to max dmg – ie Zerker equip – thus forcing you to be glass cannon.
Condition build needs only 1 dmg stat to shine allowing you to be incredibly tanky in Dire set.

Also defense against power dmg is quite straightforward – mitigation + dodge.
But defense against condition damage requires cleanse, which some classes have bad access too and some has to do big compromises in their builds to have some. Also as lot of conditions is spammable, so cleanse can be quite impotent sometime.

Current situation is nor funny nor fair and as for myself I do not play much till at least some balance will be established. Also hell would have to freeze over to see me paying for HoT while game is in this state.

Only thing I HATED was loosing gun on death – choosing wrong maw in shark cavern for the last jump (it is looong time I was there last time) autorespawn i place before the jump…. without gun…..AAAAAH kitten HATE

do not know which game are you playing, but my low level PVE is as easy as aver – my zerker war is cutting through everything like hot knife through the butter (3veterans, 7normal mobs together – np)

AN did terrible job on balancing – if there even was some – condi dmg and especially burning is absolutely insane.

sharkmaw is really easy JP tbh took me few minutes even with my kitten charr

lol no you cannot change armor type between L/M/H

noone will answer you now – balance is completely borked after patch and we can expect massive balancing to happen in following days

Guardians burning everything alive in matter of seconds
Necros in Lich form hitting for 7000+

Yeah balance…. returned 2 weeks ago with idea of buying HoT…. well not so convinced after this balance incompetence fiasco

Also – if your idea of changing skills/traits interface was “lets remove smooth working interface and make this complicated and hard to understand” then grats – you succeeded!

tbh….
I am happy hobo sacks will be gone…
But…
What I have seen on stream was not much better

I would like to see luncher-like weapon which would change visuals depending what rarity of weapon you have in hand – ie LEGENDARY would look COOL.
It is kinda sad engi is only class where crafting legendary weapon does not feel so great…

Engineers? Even on mounts???

Are all the skills/traits going to be reset and skill points refunded? Or will skills/traits I have now stay as they are and new system will catch up from there?

ie – should I spend skill scrolls on alts so they have everything unlocked? Also should I use tomes to get alt to lev 80 or are these going to stay untouched?

I tried to read some of the posts about this, but I am not sure how it will work….

To me it seems so:

better range
bigger aoe
fields
elite skill without annoying long recast

I have always liked ground targeted aoe skills – and from what I have seen Mortar will be my choice….

tbh – it does not matter anymore what tier of trait it is – you will always have full trait line filled when lev 80

however I agree it is extremely annoying to proc on hit instead of use….

All this whine because of one short sentence “contains core game”.
You know this is common in MMORPG industry? (SOE, Blizzard do the same – even more they give a newcomer 30 free days and old accounts get nada…)
Would you be happy if someone who wants to buy a game would have to buy base game & expansion?

Simply:
- current players are buying an expansion
- new players get bonus of not having to buy original game in sale for $1.

You can whine about $50 for expansion being too expensive – well for me it is normal price of expansion of AAA title.
I will probably go for $100 package which is actually quite cheap when you count in price of gems&slot in the package.

Well I am probably not kitten as many of whiners here and simply looking forward for great fun in the game which is sooooo cheap in terms of time to $ ratio…. $100 every 2 years for countless hours of fun I have???

Shut up and take my money!

mtpelion.4562:

The base game has 5 character slots. HoT is advertised as including the base game. The Deluxe and Ultimate editions are advertised as having an extra character slot.

This means there are two scenarios:

1. Buying the Standard HoT gives you 5 additional slots while Deluxe and Ultimate provide 6 slots.

2. Buying the Standard HoT gives NO additional slots while Deluxe and Ultimate provide 1 slot. This would constitute FALSE ADVERTISING as all three versions would NOT contain the base game (since the base game has 5 character slots).

I’d like to get some clarification from someone who has bought it as to which of these is the actual situation.

lol…. just lol

What Ascended armor are you going to craft for HoT?
With the prices of materials I am not willing to do more then one….

I have bunch of tomes and scrolls – what will happen to these in 23. patch?

rabidsmiles.5926:

What purple/pink dyes do you guys think closely match the phantoms? I am trying to match my mesmer’s colors up to those but I am having a hard time finding the right shades.

Here is my Mesmer now – primary color is Electro Purple secondary Glint’s Rebellion.

Thanx guys
I did some testing yesterday I found out Electro Purple is what I want for my main theme with some smaller details darker (not sure which one but not that important

Which dye best fits purple of the mesmer spells?

When creating alt I have to unlock tons of the waypoints to be able to actually fully enjoy the game. Thanx to the sheer size of the game it takes a lot of time and for me it is source of huge boredom and anger.

How to fix it? Easy – make WP unlock account wide.
Please mind I am talking ONLY about waypoints – NOT points of interest, SP, hearts, vistas – ie this will not speed up (much) Gift of Exploration grind. But it will make playing alts much more fluent experience!

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

•Player bundles (kits, conjured weapons, banners, etc.) will now scale damage based on the rarity of the player’s equipped weapon. – quoted

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-15-2014/first#post3896059

Under Profession Balance and Bug-fixing

Thank you – this made me bit happier

So I decided to create another alt and because I wanted to try something different (have 80 war, mes, nec) engi seemed like a right choice – especially grenade kit seemed appealing to me – full AOE with ground targeting and huge range is about something completely different /© Pythoon Monty/ then all my other chars.

But I have found out 2 dreadful things about engi kits:

1) These do not scale with base weapon quality/damage AT ALL … so you are crafting that nice Zojja’s Rifle? Hehe dummy there will be no difference in dmg you just spend $$ for nothing…

2) All kits when equipped have identical (incredibly kitten) look from lev 1 to lev 80 …. so you are crafting Mawdrey? or even Predator? Haha dummy you will look like homeless hobo (with bowel problems in case of nade kit) for 99% of the time. YAY.

……

OK – I really do not understand this. GW2 is game where endgame consists of hunting looks (and tiny dps advantage) with Legendary/Ascended equip . So why is there a class which has no reason to do so?
Quite sad experience for me tbh – but my engi is now sitting shelfed and this will not change till these issues get fixed

I want to craft Mawdrey so I was going through this guide: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Fey_Zeal/Mawdrey_Guide but I have problem with special items for Tier 2.

Namely:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chaos_Orb
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Ley_Line_Dust

As these are rewards for Living World chapters which are currently locked. For itemes in Tier 1 it is possible to buy them for Laurels in Dry Top oasis.

Is this intended? Or am I missing the vendor for these somewhere?

Thanx
so it seems I was quite lucky – this sale came like 3rd day I even checked gemshop offers

as for the salvageomatic – after reading some eorum threads I am not even sure if I will go for it – definitely not silver one and even copper is not that tempting…

will probably wait for extra bag slots sale or if some really amazing skin will come to shop I will get it (even though primeval armor + T3 helm looks fantastic on my Charr war

tldr: are 40-50% sales for infinite gem shop tools frequent?

So I have decided to spend some E on gems – mostly because for last 2 months I play GW2 for few hours a day and I really think AN deserve money for a great game they build.
Funny thing happened though – they came with amazing sale for exactly the items I was looking for – infinite harvesting tools. So I have grabbed the package for 1850gems instead of 3 harvest-trons for 3000 together.

So my question is – are sales like this frequent? Because as for now I am quite happy… but if I have bought what I have originally planed I would be quite opposite to happy

As for now I am going to get probably cooper fed salvage-o-matic (I want to spend gems for convenient items – not costumes nor converting to gold) and I am not sure if I should wait for discount on this one

If there is problem with syncing animation/target then just change it to teleport like skill which actually hits (if you have target – if not it should just work as teleport 1200 forward) and I will be happy…
ofc to do not make it OP there should be a delay in teleport with exactly same length as is now the animation.
It is really quite annoying to have the skill with longest recast working with RNG to hit.

… then knockback spamming.

Whenever I play melee char I really really hate rangers spamming LB4 on timer.
And believe you me… if there are two rangers around at least one of them will use it. From safe range. Not being damaged by mob. Just to annoy all melee people at the mob.

So please THINK before using LB4.

I just hoped there is some reliable condition build on condition heavy class. Unfortunately it seems there is not.
(btw this is not negativity towards what you wrote – I am thankful you did – it is negativity against game design/balance where out of the 16? different combinations of stats 1 is so much better that every class is using it. Seems to me to be quite sad.)

TBH this is not what I wanted to hear
btw wouldn’t the celestial set be good for necro? seems to me it is a real waste not to boost condition damage on class with so many condition dmg possibilities….

:) I kinda like to play all the aspects of the game with my toons – but I hate to change equip/builds frequently…
Anyway as for now I am spending my time following way (descending order of importance): Silverwastes/DryTop – WvW zerg – WvW roaming – PvE boss events – exploring – Fractals/Dungeons – sPvP