Guild Wars 2

Smooth Penguin.5294:

RyuDragnier.9476:

…it’s called map chat. MAP CHAT. As in a single map instance’s chat. Meaning the answer is no.

Actually, the idea is called “Map Chat”, as in the ability to chat to everyone on the map, regardless of what server you’re on.

But they aren’t the same maps. <_<

I have a feeling the Reforged Shadowstone will be important to keep, so I chose the Priory. Worst case scenario, we get worse, best case, we’re cured. I’d also rather trust them than the Consortium, considering their moneygrubbing ways.

…it’s called map chat. MAP CHAT. As in a single map instance’s chat. Meaning the answer is no.

Junkpile.7439:

If something makes too much dmg nerf that spec not conditions. If you start to nerf conditions these broken specs will be only viable condi specs and other condi specs will be totally useless. Most of condi specs are already weak.

Or they could just set a passive buff to all people in WvW maps that drops condi-damage taken by a set percentage amount. That alone would fix a lot of the condi problems, since then they can’t burn down people quite as fast.

Rumor has it that the Tower of Nightmares will return as a fractal.

Jacion.6302:

Hmm, never heard a commander utter such. Maybe PVD in addition to only 2 rams

Easier way to close up broken walls and things on kitten filled garri after an epic battle to retake it…while your entire BL has been flipped. :/

Konig Des Todes.2086:

This “salient fact” actually may not be such a fact. It was established in a lore interview with Ree Soesbee that dragon minions fight… but then in a separate interview with Angel McCoy, she said it was “up in the air” and unknown to Tyrian scholars; and in Season 2, we see mordrem right next to branded with… zero conflict.

Wouldn’t surprise me if yet another thing Ree stated in interviews has been retconned by the current “writers”.

Not really a retcon if you think about it. Mordremoth is dead, and his energy is being absorbed by Primordus. His realm of magic was robbed of a leader, and Primordus is absorbing parts of his realm, becoming the leader of it and the mordrem. They’re not fighting because they’re now being led by the same ED. So every ED that absorbs the magic of another ED becomes the ruler of that one’s minions. So when Primordus dies, whichever dragon absorbs the power next will become the new ruler of the minions. So we may have a time where we see Kralky using Branded, Risen, Mordrem, Destroyers, etc under his command.

Ardid.7203:

My commander shouldn’t ever let Caithe close to the egg. My commander would have given her a caring and whole-hearted hug, and then would have put her under custody, with a good team of guards to prevent her from escaping, and a good team of medics and priest to help her cure her terrible wounds.

My commander would let her stay close to Aurene…because if Aurene is the new ‘master’ of the plant type magic, then technically Caithe would be under her control anyway.

Jacion.6302:

Ryudnard.2587:

You can simply resupply from EoTM or other maps and come back. That’s just silly.

Who the kitten does this?

Quite a few servers and guild groups. If we’re being told to resupply on another map and come back, it means all our stuff is low on supply or we need large amounts ASAP. Faster to waypoint to EBG keep and take the 1,800 supply untouched there then fighting over the 100 supply in camps or the 300 in towers.

1. The risen have already been dying out. With no holder of Zhaitan’s power, they don’t really have any way to replenish themselves.

2. Nahh, because then we’ll see outrage like back then about how there’s no Abaddon fractal going to be made.

3. Odds are Marjory is actually playing manipulator. She’s setting up a visible rift that Lazarus can exploit, to see if he’ll take the bait and try to use it. If he does, it lets her know he’s still evil and she can find out what he’s up to. If he doesn’t, then she’s going to keep on that game until he does. Remember, she believes that people cannot change.

Reduce allowable siege amount for SMC, get rid of the buff on the lord. That’s all the changes we need.

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

Would we ever get a true genius Asuran character? One that doesn’t praise himself/herself for being a genius? One that just acts on it while others praise him/her?

We had one…his name was Snaff. RIP

Astra Lux.2846:

TheFantasticGuy.7206:

Alga.6498:

Underwater dragon… which means underwater battles! Yaay!
Finally some underwater combat in underwater, since we barely get any underwater stuff at all these days in underwater!!!!!
Ohh.. did I forget to mention it was underwater?

Ha. Given how few weapon and utility skills actually work underwater … What I suspect is that Steve is going to surface and go on land so that we don’t have to go underwater.

That and the fact that they aren’t making underwater weapons anymore

I have a feeling they’ll bring back underwater combat, but give it a Mastery rank-ish upgrade ala Bloodstone Fen. Special skills useable underwater only. Easier to balance that.

OriOri.8724:

RyuDragnier.9476:

If Mesmer’s Signet of Inspiration is the only culprit on the main problem here, then the answer becomes obvious…change it from copying all boons to copying 3 RANDOM boons on yourself to others. This guts the problem while still allowing boonsharing in a form.

SoI is not the only culprit here, nor is it the main one. The bigger culprits are the inherent 50% boon duration that revenants receive from a kittening trait, and the absolute boonfest that elite specs are. The boonshare was never anywhere close to as bad as it is now before HoT came out, which means it is not the fault of SoI. SoI just highlights extremely well the power creep and boon fest that elite specs are.

It’s the copying all boons that makes SoI so powerful now. You have one class that can give out Regen/Fury/Might/Swiftness/Protection like candy, but you’d need 3 Revs just to have all of those stacking.

Prot is an elite which requires you to stop your energy generation (that’s 1), Swiftness/Might/Facet combined shuts down another, and Fury/Regen/Facet combined is the 3rd shutdown. That’s 3 Revs without energy gen before combat stacking this, and that assumes they’re in the same party. That means the last 2 in the party are the Mesmers using SoI to copy everything to other parties in the squad.

So what happens if you change SoI to 3 random boons? You’ve just relatively shutdown the boonshare, because there’s no guarantee that 2 of those boons will be transferred when you use it. This btw is not including the Quickness stacking, but even just the SoI change would shut that down. If they can nerf this for ONLY WvW somehow, we’ve fixed the problem without gutting it in PvE.

If Mesmer’s Signet of Inspiration is the only culprit on the main problem here, then the answer becomes obvious…change it from copying all boons to copying 3 RANDOM boons on yourself to others. This guts the problem while still allowing boonsharing in a form.

Skirmishes are fine as they are, perfect. Server links, on the other hand…let me know when you start that feedback thread.

I thought it was pronounced Jormaggio.

Agreed Pumpkin. As it stands right now, guilds will leave if things turn badly due to not having a server link or a bad link in general since they’re not having fun, and 2 months is a long time to wait. But if it becomes a monthly thing, they will stay since they know they only have to survive the month and things will change again.

For example, one of the guilds on my server is considering leaving due to WvW not being that fun right now. This is the 3rd week of links. If it was monthly, they’d cope for this week and next week, and then be back in the game. But as it stands right now, they will probably leave because they do not want to wait another month before we’re back on the ball.

RNGesus is a cruel God. Even when you get your favor with him to maximum, he will still shun you.

morrolan.9608:

Apart from population disparity itself, server linking and server caps and how they interrelate is now the biggest issue for the mode IMO, bigger than deployable cannons, bigger than further scoring changes.

IMO they should look at how servers perform without links vs how they perform with links, to find out why certain links work and why others don’t. Look at JQ when they were linked compared to now. Before, they were winning against the other linked servers, albeit not by a steamrolling amount. Now they’re being steamrolled constantly, because there’s no link to keep them afloat.

2 month relinking isn’t going to fix this, it needs to be done every 3-4 weeks so you can keep track of the servers and how they’re performing, along with what is and isn’t breaking a server.

Good update. Story was good, map feels like core Tyria while still having that HoT flavor to it, enemies are not overly difficult nor too easy. The JP though…a little too difficult, with some areas being absolute leaps of faith (moreso than they were before).

CETheLucid.3964:

It’s a very hard sell and I can totally see why our PC isn’t exactly quick to trust our new “friend”, even if he did come to our aid.

Moreso if your character is a Charr or Human. The human is unlikely to forget what the Mursaat did with the White Mantle, and the charr is more likely to question it simply because they were raised not to trust “gods” or their followers (Flame Legion does that to ya).

Don’t even need to fly from the top of the JP. Take the tube that shoots you south near it, and immediately start gliding towards it when you’re going past it.

If Primordus moves near the Flame Citadel, that’s likely to happen. However he’s way off in the Ring of Fire atm, so they most likely will not come into contact with him at all.

It was pretty funny. The ‘cowardly’ charr was well aware of how fast he could be killed, since not only was he in front of THE Rytlock Brimstone, who has happened to have 2 dragon kills under his belt, but also because Rytlock has a new power nobody knows the ins or outs of just yet except for Rytlock. He had the right idea, not wanting to kitten the big man off.

That mystery makes me believe that she is in fact a member of the Ash Legion stationed at Black Citadel, and her undercover work is the Imperator wanting to keep tabs on the Commander. Makes me believe that this season will truly test DW’s bonds, since apparently we don’t know everybody as well as we thought we did.

RodOfDeath.5247:

There is but one server who will give you what you want. I speak of the masters of siege, their engineers are the finest at placement and execution.

I speak of the land of Yaks Bend.

Pains me to say, but they may be the last true community left in game.

Other than that, anet made sure to dig the dagger deep. 2 inches is required btw to hit a major organ. At least that’s the Italian way. Moving on…..the megaservers were the start to killing communities, then we mvoed onto linking.

I suggest you move to YB if you are looking for support, having a feeling of contribution, and a more welcoming feel.

I for one will spend my days on SOR, in which I absolutely don’t know anyone.

You mean the server that treats anybody who did not start there as crap? The server that treats anybody who left there and came back like crap? That ain’t a community.

IMO the server linkings should be reserved for those in T3 and T4. T1 and T2 usually don’t need these.

What Rognik said. For example, look at Glint and the Pale Tree. Both went against their masters wishes, something a minion cannot do. Champions are most likely independent agents that have a link to their dragon, though what keeps them linked may be some sort of strong bond between them. Said bond could be anywhere from familial, to friendship, to love.

This would also explain why the ED go absolutely insane whenever their champions betray them, because it’s a betrayal they absolutely cannot accept. Then again, could anybody ever accept their family, their friends, or their lover to betray them on that level?

Jeknar.6184:

When PPK is active, people say others don’t fight because they will give points to the enemy server. When PPK is innactive people say others don’t fight because it’s not worth it.

Please make up your minds.

This. IMO people don’t fight nowadays not because of the PPK, but either because they’re bad or they’re afraid of dying in a game mode where YOU WILL DIE ALL THE TIME. It just gets ridiculous.

It’s more like he found out something bigger, or he can use a certain Legend from history he’s more than ashamed of…like say, a certain Flame Legion Shaman from GW1? Or maybe he sees the power to be similar to what the shamans can do, and he’s outright ashamed of it?

SteepledHat.1345:

The issue isn’t from active abilities. It’s from all the defensive stat creep in HoT. It’s the same thing that happened in PvP during season 1. A bunker meta. They “fixed” it by removing the broken stat options. Nerfing a classes PvE and SPvP effectiveness is not the answer to WvW balance.

No, it’s definitely from active abilities…namely the ones used for Permaboon Sharing. Have you fought a group that has it yet? It’s ridiculous, you feel like you do nothing while they truck you and your zerg down due to 30+ seconds of Quickness and Protection. There ARE counters for it, but the permaboons can come back on faster than you can get rid of them. The second Permaboon Sharing is gutted, you’ll notice a difference again.

Sir Mad.1092:

I did it several times (for the achievements) on my Staff Daredevil too and that was a piece of cake. Only the Destroyer of Hope is a bit of a pain. For the rest, make sure the mobs are grouped, and Bound+Vault onto them: they die in 2 hits and you have perma-evade… Only 2 things did put me in danger: the AoE at the end if I’m out of endurance (or more accurately if I’m not reactive enough when I must use Signet of Agility to refill it) and picking the pustules when there’s a bad spawn and the trash mobs attack me (maybe I should kill them first since it literally takes 1 second and a half).

Long story short: if you play a thief, use a weapon with a better AoE (staff), don’t go full berserker if you’re not a pro player (use marauder) and learn to dodge.

Extra tip, use Signet of Malice if you have to, Caltrop, and Dagger Storm. So many enemies pop up that your health WILL top off just from the Dagger Storm’s procs on SoM. The procs that Caltrops gives is a bonus.

That’s the Overload ability while in Air Attunement on Tempest, the Ele’s elite spec.

Since the tablets are found around a fortress used back during GW1, it means they were written AFTER the Mursaat came back, meaning after the Sea became the Crystal Desert. There’s no inconsistency.

I kinda understand this one, because some of those achievements ARE hell to get. Skip Up the Volcano being the biggest offender.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Straegen.2938:

their pets eat buffs

no they don’t

Correction, not anymore. They used to count towards the 5 target limit for boons and heals, so as a Ranger your pet could have gotten something that was meant for somebody else, so it got frustrating. But since the fix to targeting to where it prioritizes players over NPCs/Minions, they no longer do this.

It’s possible this could be our ‘ending’ for the game in the far future, if they don’t make Aurene evil or kill her off. She ends up becoming the last dragon, keeping balance of magic for Tyria, and the Commander is basically made immortal to serve as her Champion forever.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

mrauls.6519:

Did anyone else have a WTF moment when Marjory spoke her mind? I wanted to hit her with my greatsword so bad. What’s got her attitudinal?!

Definitely. A lot of folks are theorizing that (a) she’s focused on bringing Belinda back to life (and is blind to any reason this might be a bad idea) and/or (b) Lazarus is influencing her to make “poor life choices”. (Or in this case: poor death choices.)

It seemed out of character for her not to defer to “the boss” on something like this, which is directly related to the mission of Dragons’s’s’s Watch [sic]/

You forgot © Jory is manipulating Lazarus to reveal what he’s really up to by showing a possible (nonexistent) “rift” between her and the Commander that he can exploit. She IS a detective people, so manipulating people isn’t out of the realm of possibility for her.

Exciton.8942:

surprised to see JQ so low on PPT.
They even have more total kills than YB. At what timezone do they gain that many kills? It has to be NA right?

Combination of EU and NA. YB’s pugs are pretty weak, and when they aren’t humping siege all the time, they’re easily wiped. They had the gall to try to spawn camp us too, but were easily pushed back into the keep. They had 8 trebs, 12 arrow carts, and 6 catas in there…half of which were on inner. A reminder of what a PPT only server looks like.

We’re all hoping YB gets sent up to T1 along with Mag and we get to fight TC for a week, it’d probably be a better match in general, and far less boring.

lmperdigao.2567:

I really, really, reeeeaaallly think that giving rewards attached to server’s performance is a bad idea. Remember the bandwagon to winner servers before the WvW tournaments.

To add to this, servers still do this. Look at YB and Mag. Mag got an influx of bandwagon people just this month for nothing more than to push Mag into T1. YB has similarly gotten an influx of bandwagon people and currently has everything flipped in T2 to their advantage (meaning it’s all their color), pushing to be sent up to T1 as well. They do this for the hell of it, you don’t get anything out of going up tiers nowadays.

Imagine that, except taken to a whole nother level.

Cecilia.5179:

ugrakarma.9416:

I remember that in Personal history, they using more the classic trick: puy u to create connection with someone and then kill your little friend later lolz. poor Apatia, that was cruel, i miss her: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Apatia

Apatia’s story was actually sad. Her death was foreshadowed, but telling the norn her story was one of the best parts of the personal story.
Belinda was more like “Hi, I’m Marjory’s sister,” and then she died, and we were supposed to be sad about it, but we barely knew her.

Yeah, they need to do more like what they did with Tybalt. Get us accustomed to the character over like 20 instances, make us like them, love them, and then have them killed off. Much more of a player punch. Imagine if they killed off Rytlock…dear god the amount of tears.

Just like how a living person could be turned undead by Zhaitan?

The only thing I could see being used in ZvZ warfare as a Druid would be the traps. That’s AoE right there that could possibly take down a lot of enemies or at least slow them down. But weapon side…outside of Greatsword and MAYBE Staff, most of their weapons wouldn’t do much. And the pet would just be a burden. :/

I’m sorry to say…but get good. I say this as a Thief who was in soldier’s, using D/D and P/P. I was mostly in D/D because of the amount of mobs. Shield never went below 30%, health never dropped below 50%, mobs were cleaned up easily. If need be, switch to Signet of Malice as your healing skill and just let the Death Blossom’s tagging heal you. If there are 3 or more enemies around you, that’s 9 ticks of healing. Spam it 3 times, and you just got 27 ticks, and possibly 0 hits on you.

Actually…doesn’t that mean that Caithe may have been given the job by Glint? She already had been giving the Commander visions, it’s not outside of the realm of influence that she did the same for Caithe. She may only be able to do this for people she has met or have touched her realm.

WarriorOfAsgard.3705:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Scipio.3204:

Couldn’t Kasmeer find out his intentions? I mean she is supposed to know whether people lie or don’t

If Kas shows up anyway. Her, Rox, and Braham have been surprisingly absent for everything going on. It makes me wonder what they’re up to.

Braham appears to be dealing with the Jormag side of things in the Shiverpeaks.

Which leaves Kas, the only one unaccounted for. Is she having to deal with stuff on the nobility side, or did she and Jory get in a fight, and that’s why she hasn’t shown up?

The dead corpses were being used to create life…husks, from them. Raising the dead, in a sense.

It probably won’t, and with the LS going on right now, it’s actually worth paying money for HoT now.

Straegen.2938:

Zergs want players that have strong overlapping skills/traits particularly boon centered builds. If they don’t have those, they go into a fight at a disadvantage.

If you are on a non-q’d map it typically isn’t an issue. If you aren’t facing another q’d map, it typically isn’t an issue. However when on a q’d map against other q’d maps, commanders want the strongest possible zerg. Rangers, thieves, etc are sub-optimal.

The odd part is that Druids are currently very strong in the small scale meta so complaining about being less effective and generally unwelcome in certain zergs is kinda silly.

Well it’s not fun if a class can’t play with others. It means you cannot play what you want. I’d hang up my Rev in a heartbeat if I could use my thief in a zerg and actually contribute.