Guild Wars 2

Baldrick.8967:

So if a zerg comes along and outman you, it is now completely pointless trying to destroy the catapults they put down as you can suicide to damage them but they will keep repairing, meaning it’s now a guaranteed cap for the larger team, and you’re just throwing a loot bag at them.

I guess all those that stood around watching the wall drop rather than trying to kill siege were right after all, there is no point running out and dieing to try and destroy it when it can be repaired so easily.

This is terrible.

Here’s hoping they add the ‘no use while in combat’ function to it to counteract the problems it will cause. <_<

SkyShroud.2865:

you cant cover up dead timezone, without destroying prime timezone. reason being that all servers that have specific off hour timezone have a healthy amount of prime population. you can’t link in such a way that it don’t overstack the prime and kill it with queues.

as for the glicko, they might need to manually adjust it since some of the glicko gap is too large, so large that it takes a overwhelming victory to move up. however, if they are not adjusting it manually, it can possibile mean that numbers between the tiers are actually significantly different from each other

I forget where the post is, but an Anet guy mentioned that they’re going to manually adjust the ratings on the 29th.

Thorin.9624:

Can we get a boost to power on thieves? I ask this because anymore even a blade of grass or just air seems to be strong enough to obstruct all our attacks . Maybe we need more power to actually be able to get our daggers, swords and pistols to go through the grass and air and reach the person in front of us.

Maybe we need to start learning how to do more trick shots, throwing out copper and ricocheting bullets and arrows off them.

jamesdolla.3954:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Sounds like a T1 problem, you don’t really see this in T2 as far as I’ve seen. Hell, I don’t think I’ve ever seen boon sharing mesmers in T2, all I see is the horde of necromancers, eles, and guardians.

ND GK FOO WvW don’t use boonshare? T2 uses it more than everyone m8.

Don’t know of them. They a SEA group? I’m usually on WvW from 7:30PM to 1AM US EST.

Ardid.7203:

Interesting, really interesting. And the Asura, as always, incorregible and reckless. I love to hate them.

It’s sad, out of all the races, they give me the most to hate about them. But then you have those ‘gems’ within the asura like Zojja, Taimi, and the asura PC that make you like them.

Wolfey.3407:

So what hero would that bennefit?
Shiro? makes no sense
Jalis? would be amusing but probably not
Glint? probable but that’s what shield is tied too directly….
Ventari? nah he’s a healer
Mallyx? Maybe

I can see Revenant getting it as an Elite Specialization weapon, for what legend that would be… i have no clue o.O ….. maybe Jora? (Inb4 the WoW kids cry about a GW1 hero)

Or maybe Pyre Fierceshot? If we’re talking about random weapons being added, like the bow.

OriOri.8724:

Zeivu.3615:

Did you read anything that I wrote? I don’t think you did…. At all. Anyway, You wouldn’t try to put out a gas fire with more gas, would you? No, only a kitten would. Trahearne is a war general. There are always alternatives in war. After his efforts with Zhaitan, he knows what alternatives to aim for. Stop trying to defend Caithe. She deserves some punishment for her incompetence and negligence .

OriOri.8724:

Zeivu.3615:

OriOri.8724:

How is Caithe in any way responsible for that first bullet there? It wasn’t her fault, its not like she could have prevented it

Hello: She knew before almost everyone that Slyvari were originally property of Mordremoth and she let Treahearne and countless other Slyvari go straight into the battle, in his territory, without giving him any warning. It might not have stopped Mordremoth from bringing down the ships, but it could have definitely stopped him from immediately claiming weaker Slyvari, fanning the flames, reduced the causalities, and stopped the racist hatred from being planted towards them. She practically handed the Pact and her Slyvari brothers/sisters to him by not giving Treahearne this critical intel. No general worth their salt would have allowed this risk if they knew of it.

I don’t think that makes it her fault in any way. For one, what would trahearne have done? “Oh I’m sorry guys, I can’t come with you”? That wouldn’t have worked out very well at all. Mordremoth would have attacked the fleet regardless of whether sylvari were on it or not

@Urosh Uchiha.9732 – Oh noes, I spelled an imaginary word wrongs! Get over it.

She didn’t even do anything wrong except steal the egg.

Which may be part of her Wyld Hunt, or at least something Glint may have told her in advance years ago (it’s possible, she predicted way too much stuff).

Boogiepop Void.6473:

I don’t think requiring that you have the elite trait equipped to use the weapon and the utilities was a good idea. It basically forced you to always have that trait line equipped, even if you really don’t like the trait themselves, just so your entire class is unlocked. If those were unlocked just by having done the elite, but not with the elite required to take up one line, then it would open up a lot more builds.

But imagine how it will look when there are multiple elite specs unlocked. That’s too powerful, so them setting it up like this may be Anet thinking ahead on it.

OriOri.8724:

I think it means Taimi went missing again and part of the first episode will be to rescue her. There is a reason we started on log #8, someone found it after she was gone.

Why do I have a feeling it will lead to the Mists?

BrotherBelial.3094:

It’s not broken, so don’t “fix” it.

This.

No capes before they give us swimsuits, okay? WE NEED SWIMSUITS FIRST.

RodOfDeath.5247:

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Reh.5986:

What’s outnumbered for FA? Spell mentioned 6 hours a day. That sounds too good to be true? Are there queues? How are the fights?

Between 4pm and 1am EST are the most active hours. After that, it gets pretty slow. Usually a few tags working the BL’s and EBG is neglected unless the keep is attacked or someone feels like committing to taking SMC.

Outnumbered is Outnumbered buff. Early morning, 5am through to 12pm EST is usually when JQ is the largest and we’re the smallest, although we do sometimes have a group rolling around that can compete with them. Most mornings JQ just papers everything everywhere though.

Maybe it’s different in a less top heavy match when the fair weathers aren’t avoiding WvW but in the week or so I’ve been here, this has been my experience.

And things are going to get worse now in T2. JQ gained LGN guild, who will ppt and defend like crazy. JQ has tons of players and the outnumbered buff is just normal operations on FA lol

If you’d like to know something funny, those times between 4PM and 1AM are the times we see outnumbered on JQ.

lil devils x.6071:

What really should happen here is blobs everywhere need to siege the crap out of every little guy who thinks they are going to jump on siege and/ or repair it and show them exactly what this does in the hands of the zerg. See now, those guys coming in thinking, “man it would be nice if I can repair my AC to keep those hooligans off my gate.”. until they have the zerg building MORE acs, balis, rams, trebs and cats all at once and hitting them in the face with it all the while repairing it and ensuring they will never make it back into the structure they were trying to defend again. Currently most zergs go easy on the siege, because it is a boring waste of time, but if they really really want to find out what this does in the hands of the zerg they should show them…

Unless they make it so you can’t do it while in combat. You got hit with an AC, you’re in combat. So that zerg can’t repair it if under AC fire.

Obtena.7952:

I think it’s a massive secret … Sword is ineffective in PVE? Hardly. It’s boring? I guess if you’re just doing AA, sure.

Only problem I have is that it seems #3 uses the shadowstep style targeting. Oh what’s that, your target is just barely on a stairway? Sorry, won’t work.

Sounds like a T1 problem, you don’t really see this in T2 as far as I’ve seen. Hell, I don’t think I’ve ever seen boon sharing mesmers in T2, all I see is the horde of necromancers, eles, and guardians.

Hesacon.8735:

I’m on the fence, but I don’t see the harm since most siege that gets hit is not going to survive very long. AoEs knock out arrow carts and balistas in seconds.

One compromise that could be made is like reviving a dead teammate, repair hammers couldn’t be used while in combat.

This would be the best way to do them if implemented. Oh you’re being hit? Sorry, you can’t repair that siege.

Stramatus.5219:

Wow? 2-3 months between chapters? I mean what kind of content are we looking at for each chapter here?

If we’re lucky, new maps. I’m willing to accept a 2-3 month wait if it means new maps, whether in fractal/dungeon/openworld form. Since that gives us one new playground to do stuff in and bide our time with until the next part hits.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Pretty much the situation is the same it has been since Season 2 ended:

Some devs want to bring Season 1 back, but the person/people who make that decision is saying no at the moment (and if neither Bobby Stein – a team lead – or Colin could before the latter left, the one who makes that decision can only be Mike O’Brian).

I cannot fathom at the decision behind it, truth be told. It’d be like telling the original Star Wars trilogy with only the first and third movies.

There’s a way to do it, but it’d take time and resources. If they make instances for everything, it can be done, but it would take a long time, especially since quite a few of the early LS chapters could be turned into 4-6 instances on their own.

Example, Frost and Flame. Instance for talking with Rytlock, instance where you save refugees and fight off flame legion and dredge, instance where you do the nursery saving with Rox, instance where you meet Braham, instance where you save his hometown, and finally an instance where you do the Frost and Flame dungeon thingy, except it’s now set as a permanent place you can enter on the world map (as a story dungeon).

That’s 6 instances they have to make, which is easily enough to be a LS chapter of its own. Sure that’s only a very early example, but now imagine they take everything we did and do something with it, including adding new dialogue and story to flesh things out. This includes saving the characterizations and problems originally there, such as Scarlet. Imagine, we beat her minions in the ‘invasion’ subsection and fend her off, only for her to say that thanks to us she now has battle data for her watchwork minions as well as their current weaknesses, so she can improve on them.

Diovid.9506:

I very much doubt they would destroy LA again. That would mean too much work for the developers and too much annoyance from players.

What would be fun to see is LA being attacked and (thanks to the upgrades) staving off the attack for once.

This. DSD’s champion attacking, and then it turns into an epic battle where LA manages to get through with barely any damage on it, and little to no casualties. You play a key role in beating the dragon, but much of it has to do with the defenses set up.

I WOULD like Rata Sum destroyed though (I dislike Asura). On a different note…where does that one asura gate they’ve been building in Rata Sum since LS1 lead to? It’s not operational yet, but still, it’s something I’d like to know.

I’d personally love for each borderlands to be a different look altogether. Alpine for blue, jungle for green, desert for red. Make them similar in design to alpine (places to have fights on even ground, some height places, ruins, yada yada) and we have gold.

Balthazzarr.1349:

So this is what is has come to?? I have an account on FA … and was on there tonight in EB. I got killed by about 15 YB near OW.. no big deal… 15 to 1.. easy kill.. and I watched them as they took the tower… oh wait! It wasn’t just YB.. it was JQ as well… At they ran over my dead body I counted no less than 40 JQ running WITH the YB group amongst them. They weren’t fighting… they were working together.. By the time I picked my jaw up off of the desk I realized I didn’t even hit record. Seriously? JQ needs that? YB needs that? I have to say I’ve heard of these things but it’s the first time I’ve seen two servers really running TOGETHER like this.

Seriously I agree with many of these posts.. it’s time to chill from wvw…

You sure about that? I’ve ran some groups that will let one group break into something and then we end up wiping them the second they do to take it for ourselves. Vulturing, it’s a thing.

Umm…15 v 40 is still possible. I see it constantly. Though I agree the CC is over the top nowadays, and I’m still wondering why Immobilize still isn’t considered a CC, you can’t move while it’s on. Diminishing Returns…we need it for CC.

I don’t think it was delayed because of Raids. What did we get back when Living Story Season 2 started? New Maps. That’s probably why it’s being pushed back, they’re working on new maps for the game and they’re trying to get out all the bugs.

Vlad Morbius.1759:

I would be thrilled if it was in the Far Shiverpeaks especially now that we are able to glide. I think you hit the nail on the head, far too many hints for that considering the paintings and all. I think it will be the snow zone because I believe that is the target for the next expansion, just a gut feeling.

This makes me wonder…if they add something new for masteries, what would it be? A grappling hook, wall climbing, what?

Too bad we’ll have to wait between 2-3 months per part of the Living Story updates. :/

If I were to ask for anything on thief, it would be a buff to group support in some way. Whether that’s buffing venoms to be actually useful (and automatically hitting the party without the trait), or adding shouts of some kind.

Ilias.8647:

For sure Revenant gives you the feeling he needs more weapon choices. He has access to only one ranged weapon which is slow with no condi functionality.

On the other hand Revenant needs fixes and augmentation to the existing ones. Some of its weapons use is so… flawed I should call it?

I’d like a scepter along with a Flame Legion-ish legend…maybe Hierophant Burntsoul? Or should we go something more heroic, and take Pyre Fierceshot and a bow?

On another note, if we get a greatsword, I want Kalla Scorchrazor as the legend. Or Gwen Thackery. I miss you little Gwen. T_T

Cirian.8917:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Maybe now they can explain who this Duchess Chrysanthea is. She just suddenly appeared at Dragon’s Stand, and we have no clue who she is, in terms of character. I don’t recall her being anywhere else ingame.

Right! Duchess Chrysanthea’s there out of nowhere. I like her, but I wish there’d been some story setting why Faolain had come to Maguuma with her Nightmare Court, what went wrong with her being captured by Mordremoth, how this new duchess came to be here and what her agenda was (perhaps she betrayed Faolain in a power grab?).

It was interesting that the Nightmare Court didn’t side with Mordremoth in the end. They became a true rebel faction like the Soundless.

I have a feeling that it, and several out of the way areas that seem to pose no significance to the main story but seem like they could have, were cut products from what they wanted to do with the story. Would have been really nice to have her play somewhat of a good role in the story, explaining what the Nightmare Court were doing there, what they planned on doing, and what they will do now.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Faolin — I think she had to die in order to do anything interesting with the future of the Sylvari and Nightmare Court — she’s just too doctrinaire to allow for the possibility of compromise (real or pretended) and the Sylvari have a lot to discuss now.

Incidentally, I’m not surprised that Faolin “sucker punched” Eir, but doing so in a way that put her own survival at risk seemed completely out of character — you want to run faster than your “bait,” not leave it dead on the floor so it can be jumped over.

Maybe now they can explain who this Duchess Chrysanthea is. She just suddenly appeared at Dragon’s Stand, and we have no clue who she is, in terms of character. I don’t recall her being anywhere else ingame.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Ven Zehn.6573:

Yea, sadly for my guild of 250 people, we only have 70ish clouds, most of which were mine lol /cry

I agree, I’m mad about SAB All those clouds came from me, myself and I :p

Here’s some screenshots from the top. It was nighttime today, I’ll have to go back at daytime to make more…

Now dive to the water at the bottom. Record it, it will be the GW2 record. The drop will be so long that you will have to check your watch to see how long it’s taking.

Vikkela.7261:

Full, unrushed and uncut storyline. It’s just awkward when for example in DS there’s a bunch of NPC’s helping you out against Mouth of Mordremoth but there’s no story involved why they are there etc

This. Who is that Countess, where did she come from, why did she appear from nowhere? Was there supposed to be a story quest explaining her, was she supposed to be important, where was she prior to this?

Then ask them to change Black Powder (Pistol #5) to a Dark field instead of a Smoke field. Still gives the blind to people who enter, but prevents the BP → HS spam combo you see all the time, which is the thing that makes the set a little too powerful, at least IMO. Not to mention such a change will give P/P some love by allowing it to have some sustain through leeching health.

Xillllix.3485:

Can’t believe you’re working on adding gliding to dead PvE zones when WvW is in such a critical state.

Looks like you only have 1 thing in mind: Making Free-to-Play players buy HoT.

You just explained why. WvW is apparently still living with this wording while PvE is dead.

The news makes me giddy. I’ve been going on and off with GW2, waiting for new things to bring me back to the game…you have not disappointed me. I have high hopes Anet, PROVE TO ME YOU’VE LEARNED GREATNESS!

RubberDougie.2750:

Bugfixes first before this useless addition. Aviator’s Memory Box still does not work with gliding. Some daytime missions still get stuck in VB.

This ain’t useless, this is gamechanging.

Rainbowsand.2438:

Guard haves a ranged revive so why not give a thief ranged stomp? With same duration but ranged?

I thought that was Shadowstep.

Gorani.7205:

Although I like the idea of gliding in central Tyria, I am a bit sceptical how maps, that were not made with verticality in mind would be adapted to the gliding. How many invisible walls will have to be set up to prevent map break-outs? How many new issues will arise with those? Will up-drafts be put in old maps? Will gliding be on top of the Ley-Line gliding or a new mastery track? How will it affect players without HoT?

I have a sneaking suspicion that there will not be updrafts, ley-line gliding, or anything short of actual going down gliding. This will prevent a lot of bugs from happening, prevent the trivialization of JPs and other open world content, and if they want to avoid people going off maps, invisible walls like they already have would work for this for the few areas where gliding off large stuff could possibly lead you off the map.

Ephemiel.5694:

And every single jumping puzzle in the game just became trivialized and you can bet countless players will find ways to skip most of the hard parts.

GJ.

HA. No, not trivialized. You still have to climb UP. You can’t glide upwards if they don’t include updrafts into the old stuff.

Finally…I hope this is all over the game, it’s badly needed for those of us coming back from the HoT areas, we’re too used to the glider. Now if they could put it in…dare I say it, WvW?

I’d prefer Longbow for Thief, it’s easier to make unique and balance. Such as giving it conditions like burning, torment, chill, and confusion so we actually have a full condi weapon for once.

Rifle on thief? You TRYING to get us nerfed? Stealth + Kill Shot type skill = OP, period.

IndigoSundown.5419:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Anet didn’t want to shoehorn us into roles or the like to begin with, but is now doing exactly doing that with the enrage timer

They’re doing so because of player demand.

So the players demanded harder content that they can zerk in? The joy, especially considering zerker is so braindead easy to do to begin with. Though I do give credit for figuring out how to hold aggro on the bosses, I thought that would be pretty hard to figure out without an actual aggro meter.

I do apologize btw for sounding irritated by the forced setup for raids, I do raiding in FFXIV and expected Anet to try something out of the box for it, not stick with the same old same old you expect from standard trinity MMO raids.

Only thing I don’t like about the raid is the enrage timer. I get why it’s there, to prevent people in full tank gear from owning the place easily, but you’re trading out another thing for that…time. The playerbase alone already sets their own standards for completing things. People who don’t like a dungeon ending in 20 minutes and instead wants to lower it to 18, people who want to make runs faster, easier. This raid should be no different, the players should be the ones adding their own idea on how fast a boss should go simply on their own requirements for a raid.

Anet didn’t want to shoehorn us into roles or the like to begin with, but is now doing exactly doing that with the enrage timer, something I don’t like simply because I play this game to be able to challenge myself to complete something with my own setup, not one somebody else wants me to have. If I want to deal with an enrage timer or a set stat build for a raid with set class roles, I’ll log into Final Fantasy XIV and do some of Alexander Savage mode or any number of the Extreme bosses. But not here, NOT HERE.

Go see Warframe’s store if you want to see bad. The prices are outrageous and you can buy almost anything you can get ingame there. Meaning the ultimate stuff that takes a while to grind? You can buy it. The worst part is that you oftentimes WILL buy stuff from that store just to carry more items, power up your stuff, etc.

LastLetter.7938:

Well, what makes it no risk? if its the stealth, reveals have something to say about that. The health pools of thieves pose no problem at all for other classes. Do thieves get some kind of invulernability with D/P im not aware of?

Most thieves nowadays are sticking to out of stealth survival with Daredevil from what I’m seeing, so what’re the odds you’ll encounter an enemy who is using something with Reveal (which is often on useless skills to begin with)? Considering how much Reveal in general is useless outside of fighting thieves…pretty low. So it’s not that D/P thieves get invulnerability, it’s more that nobody takes the tools to stop one simply because they don’t expect to fight one. Think about it…would you expect a D/P Thief in sPvP?

Nahh, Caladbolg is broken, so thus is the curse. The problem is if we get it reforged, THEN we may be in trouble.

Aidan Savage.2078:

RyuDragnier.9476:

DBZVelena.5186:

I am absolutly convinced that Faren is E.
Its such a scarlett pimpernell thing.
(or for the uneducated here, a bruce wayne and Batman thing.)

i mean ya can’t survive all he has and be unskilled.

He could have made Lady Luck swoon over him constantly. The guy survives stuff with his luck to the point where he could survive encountering an Elder Dragon simply because our group runs into him when he’s in danger. The man is the living proof that some people have the utmost luck on their side.

So….Faren = RNGesus?

You are correct. BEG HIM FOR YOUR PRECURSOR DROPS!

Takato.4976:

I’m curious about this no risk, medium reward thing.
Do explain.

Cuz I’m having a great time running around with High risk/Low reward.

D/P thief, zerker build. Good luck killing a good thief player using it, you won’t. Backstab doesn’t do as much as it did, which is why I said medium reward.

Xenesis.6389:

I think players are more on to community or guild loyalty than server loyalty at this point. Too many servers have already been destroyed by players moving away, and sometimes multiple guilds will move together to another server because they like playing with each other. Just like what we saw when some T1 guilds moved to YB to ride them to T1.

Megaserver tech definitely hurt recruitment and defense call outs for wvw, which is why they should have left LA as a server based city and not put every single zone on megaserver.

The eotm system could work, it’s just a matter of whether or Anet wants to put the work into making it work properly. What they need to provide is something else to rally behind instead of server identities made by the players. Besides guilds, players need a bigger purpose to rally behind, the other games that do this actually make it a war with distinct sides, which GW2 just makes it a war with servers.

I’ll use examples that they could use, world of warcraft alliance and horde sides. Both sides are distinct, they have lore to back it up, and there are players who are fiercely loyal to either side. Warhammer online, also 2 distinct sides that players were fiercely loyal to. Remember Dark age of camelot? the game that wvw was insipred by, same concept with 3 sides. Same thing another game called Planetside features, 3 distinct sides in lore to fight behind.

What Anet needs to do is create 3 new alliances, let’s just use this as a quick example say Durmand Priory, Order of Whispers, and the Vigil. There’s a lot of lore in game to back it up, there’s distinction between all 3 sides that players can support and rally behind, the rewards for them could also be unique as well.

Let’s take it further and use the Gods as sides instead:
6 gods that players are matched to from their character creation, Balthazar Dwayna Grenth Kormir Lyssa Melandru. (Option to change one time upon implementation).
So basically 6 separate pools of players (instead of 24-27 servers).
3 sides of 2 gods alliances, so 2 gods randomly matched into alliances every week.
You want to transfer? pay 1800 gems to transfer and get a prayer book back piece as a blessing to your new god, lol.
Offer new wvw season rewards with art/fashion that match the sides you’re playing for, such as the lyssa balthazar and dwayna outfits.

What we don’t need is 3 faceless sides, green blue red to fight for, or the stupidity of putting all the green ranked servers (usually the top server of the tier) player pools together. Nor do we need player made mercenary alliances filled with 3 guilds and 300 players to fill maps for a week.

I agree, we need new figures to rally around for WvW, especially with the 3 Orders. Maybe having it so the Mist War is an alternate reality where the 3 never compromised and instead ended up in a bloody war? If it was a 2 side conflict instead, we could have used the old Kiel vs Gnashblade for good effect.

Because in this game it used to be if you built thief right you’d have no risk high reward. Not something the devs wanted, so they nerfed us to where we can have no risk medium reward. They still haven’t figured out high risk high reward yet.

Gray.9041:

Zero Day.2594:

Quite honestly though, isn’t this normal guys? Why are we still bringing it up?

just because something’s normal doesn’t mean it’s acceptable. if we just accept the stat of thief it’ll never get better.

Problem is that if any buff they do effects us in stealth, we’ll be almost immediately declared OP due to the fact that you won’t see us when we strike. Short of them changing up one of Daredevil’s traits so we’ll get a stacking damage buff outside of stealth the longer we’re out of it (possibly capping at like 10-20% more damage), don’t expect a massive change in power.