Guild Wars 2

C’mon you think any of this even makes the list?

How about Allods online, which at launch was pay-per-death (seriously, each time you died you need a cash shop item to remove the penalty and/or prevent it)

I was tempted to start a thread like this earlier but decided to hold off til more folks had time to change or the thread’d get buried.

Your charr definitely looks less kitten and a lot meaner since the change.

When I created my character I didn’t anticipate that the “spot” pattern looks like liver spots when applied to the top of your head – but, no more :p

I feel I’ve been very good this year, having helped liberate (With much gusto) large portions of Tyria from the oppression of larger and smellier bookahs. Sometimes, I even did it out of kindness instead of simply as a byproduct of not being allowed to use humans as test subjects.

However, I am a modest Asura, and I only ask for two things.

Firstly, that the dragons look kindly upon my school of study and stop absorbing all the magic. It’s getting very difficult to continue doing research into mind magic when our illusions are getting progressively weaker.

Secondly, I’d very much appreciate some schematics for an army of steam golems.

With great modesty,
The Incredible Zizi, future Grand High Sovereign of Tyria, alumni of the college of Synergetics, Golemancer, Mesmer and Greatest Asura Since Snaff™

WereDragon.6083:

I assume certain effects look amazing on paper but they also need to be tested. I’ve begun to cringe recently seeing clone-pop mesmers in my pug runs as I know the purple and pink butterflies will blot out my vision. =D

This is what you get for constantly asking them to nerf Mesmers – now the only really viable mesmer build is shatter spec… so enjoy your purple butterflies you’ll be seeing a lot more of them in future

Fundamentally (most) phantasms serve as a mesmer’s heavy hitting ranged attack. Even iZerker, which is (was?) our mainstay spam AoE attack. Spawning them next to a mesmer and setting them off on their way would further reduce our already pretty badly crippled ranged damage as then we’ve have even less ways to shoot back against targets on elevations like castle walls.

Additionally, this reintroduces to some extent the issue of non-LoS casting. Walls were an extreme example, in sPvP another common problem was mesmers hiding behind cover and sending their phantasms out from safety even when reachable; allowing you to cast and then track around corners reintroduces at least some of the problems people had with iZerker in the first place (No way to dodge out of LoS)

Illusions are definitely not pets, most don’t survive long enough to attack a second time, what you have an is an exotic ranged attack; you deploy the attack, it activates it’s ability and then you’re left with a class specific resource, like a thief’s init or warriors adrenaline – for us, it’s in the shape of a clone or phantasm.

You then decide to either:
a) Leave it alive to serve as a decoy/hope that it attacks a second time for more damage
b) Shatter it, and convert it into another skill (Damage, condition, interuppt or defence)

Your proposal might work around some of the bugs, but I’d rather they properly address the bugs, then implement another slap-dash “fix” that breaks more than it resolves.

As per the Hitch-hikers Guide.:

DON’T PANIC

Seriously, whenever the BLTC has some issues this happens. Just be patient and your orders will arrive in due course, just… not instantly. I’ve seen it happen plenty of times before.

Whatever you do though don’t attempt to buy multiple copies of something just because it didn’t come through! – I’ve also seen that happen and it’s never pretty.

Melchior.2135:

Has anyone checked if Unlocked Dyes work with hair accessories using these, or is it still just the starter set?

Still the starter set sadly.

Cod Eye.1632:

There is no stock movement in gems that stimulates the market, the only way the gems are stimulated is by Anet themselves. to believe buying and selling gems through the BLTC has an outcome on gem for gold prices is nothing short of being naive.

What exactly is the basis for this claim?

Plenty of people have spoken of buying gems in order to buy gold to buy T3 armour and precursors on the forum. And tonnes of people buy gems for gold; far more than vice versa

The price of gems coincides predictably with new releases on the CS, and there is some amount of stock trading going on (Typically the rise exceeds the 30% threshold during this kind’ve event), and events like this usually see a drop of price after as people sell gems for gold.

So how exactly does this in any way suggest arenanet/ncsoft is manipulating the market (Which would be a gross violation of consumer trust) over genuine cause and effect.

Mik Hell.8206:

If I change my character’s gender I do not want to have a Hulk-sized male named Cherry

Why not? – It has potential

Paul.4081:

Anyone know?

Yes, there is. You can freely close the makeover window and come back to it later.

The kit is only consumed once you click the button to confirm, and even then it opens a second prompt double checking before applying the changes.

In principle. No, not bannable.

In practice, people’ve been banned for receiving gifts because arenanet flagged it up as possible real money trading. The same people were unbanned fairly quickly though once they appealed

Calcifire.1864:

isn’t synergetics more physicsy stuff and the things that are more likely to leave behind some sort of spacetime problem, than a puddle of slime or a nice crater if when it blows up

Yes, synergetics is essentially comparable to physics and other studies of the underlying mechanics, but even in the real world fields are not mutual exclusive.

An engineer building a bridge must understand how forces are transmitted through the structure, while a chemist in a lab needs to understand how an NMR spectrograph works (and how to maintain and tune it) in order to ensure accurate readings.

An expert in mind/machine interfacing, would need to know a thing or two about the machinery he plans to interface even if his real interest is the science of how to interpret the signals from the brain.

Calcifire.1864:

also, the dynamics storyline specifically mentions that snaff was a golemancer and the point of their entry to the snaff prize was showing off a perfect mind-hardware interface to keep in the spirit of the competition

It is odd that dynamics is depicted as essentially improving on Snaff’s designs in GW2. But being a golemancer doesn’t mean they are dynamics; Zojja is a golemancer too and we know for a fact she is from synergetics.

The portals cooldown is too long and duration to short to do it in PvE; again as usual they handle our PvP OPness by slamming PvE with a sledgehammer. -_-

In PvP though it works, or can be used as a planned escape route in a daring attack in WvW – if you watch some of Osicat’s videos he uses portal to great effect in WvW skirmishing

I suspicious how anyone manages to obtain an item worth 305g, and not understand how the trading post works strokes chin

Honestly, when the game launched I was surprised the baseline conversion rate of gold to gems was so good, most games the gold/cash shop currency rate is much higher.

At any rate it’s now beginning to rise to a more “normal” level for a game with gold/currency conversion. I expect we’ll see it go higher still, as much as it sucks the price of the currency is defined by the top 50%, if you’re levelling, newly 80 or just not a regular player then affording nice stuff for gold will not be easy, this is the nature of player run economies.

Almost certain it was synergetics. Again I’m not sure exactly where I read it, pretty sure it was in game some place during the synergetics story arc (Zojja responds slightly differently to you if you’re in the same college – “We synergetics alumni need to stick together!”)

His line of work fits synergetics as well; people think of him as a golemancer but all colleges utilise golems; dynamics merely specialises in that sort’ve gadgetry. Snaff’s speciality was mind-hardware interfacing, and that is very much synergetic’s bag

Goodbye blotchy complexion and tiny mousey ears :p

(Be interesting to see people’s before and after pics)

I love how people always come to the forum complaining that a traited ability is too powerful. In order for warden and curtain to reflect projectiles you need to sink around 20 trait points into it.

People also complain about shatterers (30-60 points), pistol users (20-30 points), and staff bunkers (40 points); and they do so as if you can run all of these builds simultaneously; well here’s something to consider: You can’t.

If a guy is packing a traited temporal curtain or a bunker build, he probably can’t perform an 18k shatter spike and vice versa; if they’re running a full on shatter spike build they’re going to lack a lot of defensive and control utility

Do your research before you file for nerfing

Got mine for 5 gold, has it really shot up that fast the gem prices? – Anyways, I’m a super happy Asura now

For those wondering, the options are basically the same as at character creation right now. No new colours/models/etc. That goes for hair accessories too they’re limited to the default palette which is a shame. The kit isn’t consumed until you make the change, you’re free to open the kit and experiment in the preview panel and then close it and come back to it later.

The full makeover kit even allows you to change gender if desired (but not race)

“Dear” depends on geography, for example “dear” is simply a term of endearment in the UK (literally, it’s the root of the word).

But Rytlock seems to see something in it which Zojja then echoes later on. Often that kind of foreshadowing/recognition is very deliberate on the writers part and isn’t likely co-incidental.

Still without the full context of the book it’s hard to say how representative it is.

As others have said, mesmer can melee extremely well due to the number of block/invulnerability skills they have.

Blurred inscriptions + Signet of Illusions + Sword + Sword = x6 blocks, x3-9 dazes, ~18-26s distortion/minute

Definitely bit of shipping going on here :p

Majority consensus is teacher/pupil growing into father/daughter relationship over the course of the book. While there’ll always be a few people who read things between the lines in writing in this case it’s probably not intended given how few seem to think it’s anything more than a close platonic relationship.

Of course, I may be wrong, so go ahead and post the relevant passages if you think people’re overlooking the true meaning.

I can understand RPing, I often Rp racial prejudices for laughs

Sadly one of our guild genuinely hates Asura and never stops nagging me over chat and has even blocked me from parties on the basis of my racial choice – he feels that all the “stupid gnome rip off” don’t belong in “his game” and feels they should never have been introduced in EotN

So he kittenes and moans and kicks Asura out his party so he doesn’t have to share the same space with them.

Svarty.8019:

SoggyFrog.4170:

17-20 points – Asura; HAHAHAHA I HAVE OBTAINED SECRETS OF EXTRAORDINARY POWER BEYOND THE MINUSCULE GRASP OF YOUR BRIAN.

Who’s Brian?

I’d tell you but it’s beyond your minuscule grasp

I proposed the token system for chests to place a hard limit to the number of chests you need buy to get a specific super rare item a long time ago but it fell on deaf ears. General consensus was that that won’t do that because they get to sell more chests to gamblers and fools this way.

Remember the cash shop is overseen by a former Nexon manager, I wouldn’t expect the slightest care or quarter given. Nexon got where it is thanks to RNG cash shops.

Let’s be clear.

The apparent overpricing is a transitional state. When GW2 launched blue craft mats typically sold for around the 1 silver mark, subsequently 1 gold wasn’t really all that much, even a relative lowbie had a few gold before they left the starter zone.

Bots crushed that and drove the same materials we used to trade for 1-2 silver down to 10-20 copper. People complain the T3 gear is too expensive, but this only because the value of your gold is subject to inflation/deflation.

The market is now returning to it’s “normal” levels; this sucks for us because we used to trade items for way less so inflation has kicked us in the pocket. However from now on, all those T5 and T6 materials you find can be sold for way more and the equilibirum is restored. And as an added bonus that T3 cultural gear everyone claims is stupidly expensive is suddenly a lot more attainable.

In the pawnbroker scenario you put forward it is an agreement between a buyer and a seller.

But in the BLTC it’s thousands of buyers and thousands of sellers competing for their deals. The very fact an item is available for X price, or the fact a buy order for Y price is getting filled at all is because someone, somewhere decides that to them it is a fair trade. Taxing buyers is a terrible idea; the buy order system is essentially a bidding system, imagine an auction-house where the bidders were taxed every time they put in a bid… it just wouldn’t work. Almost nobody’d place bids if there was any risk they’d be out-bid and have to make a higher bid.

If you want to finger a REAL problem, it’s not the fair market price or anything; but rather inflation and it’s time-lag effect on item pricing.

Take for example 3 weeks ago there were several hundred amulets for sale at what worked out at around 15% markup on current material prices. Today the market has inflated considerably, by more than 15% – items that are still listed at the original price are now technically selling for below crafting cost. As long as that backlog exists, then new sales cannot be made at a more reasonable price.

This is the real flaw in the system; but besides finding a means to invigorate the economy so people actually buy that backlog I’m not sure what can be done besides playing smart and branching out instead of putting all your cards into a single business strategy.

It seems to go in waves.

Anet bans a metric butt-load of bots; the market begins to recover all is well. Then you start to see more and more of them re-appearing, the market starts to deflate again…

All the traders start getting nervous and groan at this…

…then suddenly BAM. All the bots spontaneously combust and we’re back to bot-free sweetness again, at least til they hack more accounts/level up new accounts

#6 on this list

They did a good job of that one. Looks like they upped the eye squint and moved the eyes out a bit

The humans are very much the “comfort zone” of GW2. They have nothing outwardly unusual or special going for them, their homeland is incredibly average and dull being generic ye olden day farmland, routinely raided by generic bandits and populated by average characters.

Basiclly arenanet seems to have correctly assumed that people rolling human are looking for something familiar. In contrast, the Asura are deliberately over the top, as one of the Arenanet devs had to say (paraphrased) “Anyone who’s ok playing a 2ft tall genius with a napoleon complex is probably on-board with us trying outlandish things already”.

So, if you want to play a snarky genius with massive architeture, magitech computers, giant mecha suits and laser guns. Asura is for you… if you want to hide in your comfort zone with swords, farms, cow tipping and thees and thous, human is for you.

Rellow.7364:

Wait what
Where do you get that hat

Zojja wears the tier 3 asuran light cultural armour set which you can buy in Rata Sum. The full set though wills et you back a cool 120g though.

Still, that settles that question – the general consensus was that zojja’s ears are unique, you can’t access them.

But you totally can; those are the same ears my character has, their length is reduced right down to minimum, and the angle turned up so they look a little bit like cat ears. I have mine set up almost the same way

I also know where her hat went

It’s little from column A and a little from column B.

Mesmer is a powerful class, they’re up there with thief and warrior for the ability to set up massive (frequently instant-kill) burst combos.

But they’re also offset by the fact they’re a “weird” class, they don’t behave in a way that fits normal MMO class archetypes. Many players dive into PvP without exploring the mechanics what they’ll be facing and when presented by something as alien as a mesmer have no idea how to respond, leaving themselves wide open to a killing blow.

If you understand what you’re facing, a mesmer is (arguably) just as easy as any other class to drop. Whenever I’ve ended up in a 1 on 1 situation with another mesmer I usually take them down just as fast, if not faster than any other opponent.

Good examples of “real life*” focii include things like voodoo dolls, an exorcist’s crucifix, a fortune teller’s crystal ball etc. Basiclly paraphernalia used by “practitioners” of magic.

* Not implying magic is real mind you

Not all of that 11000 posts was negative. Positive and supporting threads were rolled into it too

Key question:
Is this strategy working for your enemy?

If the answer is yes then you need to stop looking for an honourable fight on your terms while complaining your opponent isn’t playing ball, and start thinking of counter-strategies.

As I always like to say – the only time you should find yourself in a fair fight is when your strategy has failed.

I suspect it’s intended. Once the mesmer hits shatter the clones are essentially projectiles that home in on the target to deliver the selected skill, the mesmer has no further control of them.

Preventing the mesmer using any phantasm skills until the projectiles hit home would be very unfair on them, no other class has to “wait” for a projectile attack to land before they can resume using their relevant skills again. Many classes can set up a projectile combo so multiple hits land simultaneously

Xolo.3580:

If we’re talking about effectiveness I’d say Mesmer giving 50 people quickness for 10 seconds. I feel like a god when I pop Time Warp in a big zerg and everyone’s DPS almost doubles.

Time warp, like most AoE’s only affect up to 5 people at a time

@Varn: Far as I know, crafted exotics like the pearl set are not found in the loot table, only crafted. people crafting won’t usually sell for a loss, which places a lower limit to the price of those items.

In contrast, named exotics only drop from the mystic forge and in the loot table, they have no “minimum value”and will sell for as little as the seller allows. With the deluge of exotics from the loot table over the weekend it’s no surprise those markets have slumped hard.

Morrigan.2809:

Wintyre Fraust.6534:

If what you find fun is the ability to max out characters and suit them up with maxed out gear and dress them up cosmetically and take them around the world doing stuff, playing with different builds and weapons, then – especially as a casual player – this game can no longer be fun, because in order to have a maxed out (stat-wise) character we’ll have to do nothing but gear grind – which is not what we do for fun.

thank you!
concise and to the point- good luck with getting that across in this tread.

I think the post also sum up an issue with people’s thinking, one I see too in the legendaries.

Note that he considers himself a casual player, and yet he feels he must have ascended items before he is complete. I consider myself pretty hardcore, but even I am in no hurry to chase ascended gear, while vastly cheaper than legends, they are insanely more expensive than exotics.

Is this some kind’ve throwback of “other MMOs” where people assume that they both must and can get the top tier of gear in the shortest time possible?

Logun.2349:

So have some empathy for those players out there that don’t play the game exactly like you

I don’t have any empathy for them not because they don’t play the game like me, but because they are exhibiting the symptoms of serious psychological illness. You should be able to function as a normal human being regardless whether your video game avatar has a specific piece of clothing that is 5% more powerful than your current gear and not lose sleep working out how you can obtain it the fastest.

There’s a lot of crazy powerful skills but used on their own any given skill isn’t usually a game breaker, provided you are paying attention.

Hundreds blades can dish out up to 22k damage in PvP, but you’d have to a prat or deeply unlucky to not get out of the way.

Moa Morph is essentially a 10 second daze with a twist. But you can still run, dodge and hide during this time.

People’ll likely name stuff like backstab but backstab on it’s own is simply a skill, things like backstab or shatter combos are just that; combos. Not singular OP skills.

We needed them early on when the trading post was broken for the first week or two of the game; it reached a point where I had out-levelled my gear by over 20 levels and had to resort to using white junk.

But, yeah seem more like a curiosity.

They could be upgraded to sell blues and maybe even greens provided their asking price is fairly high so as to not cut the crafters out the market.

It’s because by default right click is both select target, and turn camera and you have auto-attack turned on.

So you are turning your camera and accidentally click an NPC, auto attack kicks in and your open fire. Just toggle off one or the other in your game options

Loumy.7841:

Ryuujin.8236:

Can someone just clarify this for me: What changed?

People are saying the game is no longer fun, but the game that existed before the patch is still here. They simply added new content.

“They simply added new content” o_O

Well they did. They added a few new rings and back slot items (Let’s be clear there is no ascended armour or jewellery, ie. most of your gear slots) that have stats a few points higher than the rest which house infusions which are needed to participate in level 10+ fractals.

Having an extra 5-15 stats points isn’t going to turn you into a demigod or render someone immortal, and you only need infusions if you do level 10 fractals or higher. If you hate grinding fractals then you don’t need the infusion anyway, if you do like grinding fractals what’s the big deal? – You’re doing what you enjoy xD.

The triforge amulet has far higher stats than any other item in the game, even more than ascended items yet nobody has batted an eyelid to it. Why the out-rage about ascended gear but not a peep about the triforge?

Can someone just clarify this for me: What changed?

People are saying the game is no longer fun, but the game that existed before the patch is still here. They simply added new content.

If the old content was fun, why are you trying to do things that are un-fun? Why not stick to the stuff you find to be fun? (I personally hate sPvP so I don’t sPvP. Problem solved, if you don’t like fractals or the karka, don’t do them)

They have specialised uses but not enough to justify traiting them IMO

Mantra of resolve is good in specific scenarios where you’re expecting to receive a lot of conditions. Mantra of concentration can be useful in some situations like jump puzzles where stability would be helpful. Mantra of distraction (especially if you’re using a sword or pistol offhand, and diversion) to chain-stunlock a target. Mantra of pain can be used in tandem with other direct damage abilities to land a massive damage spike.

Downside is each of these require having forward knowledge of the situation and preparing in advance. Mantras individually just arn’t worth carrying about “just in case”

Looking through my screenshots folder I thought it’d be funny to document the evolution of my character’s appearance over the last 4 months :p – from spunky neophyte mesmer to certified savant and krewe leader.

javi.2670:

This is my Asura :’)

Oooh, that’s classy and a great shot.

Indeed OP. Someone earlier asked me “What do at 80 now they removed plinx” to which i could only respond “I didn’t used to grind plinx even when he existed”. I just dont… I explore, I tinker with builds, have fun, mess about do dungeons, trade.

I don’t get the obsession with loot at all, and it seems like I’m enjoying the game much more than the people who are :/

Xpiher.5209:

I’m not doing it, but not playing the game anymore. The game is no longer fun, to me, with the introduction of this patch. Is that so hard to understand?

Then go play a game you do enjoy. This isn’t a skinner box.

The list of bugs with mesmer’s skills/traits is 3 times longer than this thread and ours isn’t even the most buggy class. Still doesn’t stop them nerfing us every patch though… how can you balance something that’s inherently broken? >.<