Guild Wars 2

If i could avg 50-60 ping in this game I’d cry. I avg 80 ping and its good so if it was any lower it would be buttery smooth. Anything above 100 can show though and it is extremely annoying in pvp. You will get a dusting of salt, trust.

I want more individual skins. Hell at this point I don’t care if you don’t bring back the old glasses from years ago but it would be nice for new head items like glasses even if they are new. New back items that are actually minimalistic and interesting. Maybe gloves, boots, I don’t know, something that’s of worth and looks good. Can’t stand outfits at the moment and the current style section is clogged with old stuff.

lol..

not. at. all.

Just one question, looking at you with the odd/ridiculous display names that beg for a change. Why did you input that name to begin with?

malus.5894:

Zalladi.4652:

malus.5894:

Still waiting for the butterfly wings that EU have and we(NA) DON’T. But yeah, I think I’ll buy that outfit…

Well, I am on EU servers and we don’t have them either.

Good to know. Now I have one question: How that guy from Orange Logo was wearing them at WTS?

Seems some people are confused about the reason why some players at the recent WTS had certain skins that were otherwise unobtainable in the game currently. The reason was because the event was hosted on a LAN server which had every skin, including legendaries, discontinued items and of course items that haven’t yet made it to the actual client available in the wardrobe to the players for use to say “spice” up their character during the competition. Unlike last WTS’s where they were stuck with basic default attire. Just a minor perk for making your way into a tournament such as the WTS, special wardrobe accommodations from Anet. Nothing you saw at the WTS was permanent on their characters.
Just a side note.
Cheers

What I’m so surprised at is how this whole wedding dress/attire blew up harder than Hiroshima. I’ve seen more topics on this outfit alone than I could imagine.

I just wanted to state that a minor thing that should be changed is that Terrify on RS 3 interrupts casts and because of this it also breaks resurrections on downed allies. This gets a bit dicey when you pop it for stab to res someone in pvp and then happen to break the res to get in that crucial fear to interrupt a stomp. Doom on its DS counterpart is instant and does not break cast times and therefore resurrections as well.

It’s actually really good after the condition changes to poison and the chill is nice. In condition builds for wvw (as it is allowed there still besides pve) its an interesting swap over plague. It’s actually one of those racial skills that sort of synergies well with necs.
On reapers, poison can stack insanely high giving some interesting outputs from a reap condi build.

I was actually just thinking this for the past couple days. Really the only reason Soul Reap is taken is for vital persistence (degeneration decrease mainly). If this became streamlined, so many builds would open up for optimal play styles. Especially with the introduction of the reaper, now with more melee oriented play, life force absolutely just gets chewed through with out it, even with blighters boon.

It’s not like there arn’t somewhat viable builds that don’t need it but most do as it greatly boosts survival. I can easily find myself playing without Death perception and I haven’t used FiTG in ages (or dhuumfire..cough). With this baseline, it would really allow the necro to branch out.

cast times sure would be nice on 2 and 3 but mainly increasing the cleave to 3 targets would be best just like everything else.

Junkpile.7439:

Peacekid.1463:

vaans nice gud player…but for me its alkore who stands best … 2nd is ROM 3rd tarcis

Alkore is best. Even i know who that dude is. Never heard of these rom, vaans and other nonames. Is sthis ROM old runes of magic player?

BAHAHAHAAHA. I knew there were people like you out there. Oblivious.
Oh btw ROM and Tarcis are MILES AHEAD OF ANY ONE OF THESE OTHER WARS THAT ALL OF YOU SPEAK OF. Both mechanically and technically.
/endofthread
(no seriously, they are.)

The MVP goes out to the dark lord Nos. He had a stunning 27 downstate’s in the first match alone. One small step for Nos, one giant leap for Nec kind.

From hardest to easiest:
1.Ranger
2.Necro
3.Thief (at top tier)
4.Warrior
5.Guard
6.Engi
7.Mesmer
8.Ele
This is based on the class in the current meta, not on my personal play level.
I can play any of these classes competently and others much better. (I have maybe a total of like 2 hours on Ranger as I just dislike the class but to play it in high tier pvp is extremely difficult)

I find it bit over the top with the slow and the shield kittens so dang hard. Its also annoying how the wells dont have red rings so they look like ally wells (at least with the elite well).

I feel terrify on reaper shroud needs to have a range increase. like at least 600 like “fear me” not the current measly 360.. I have to practically be in their pocket to fear them

do what you want, beta characters will be deleted regardless. I have 3 necros all 80, if you like the class then its up to you.

cast time needs to be reduced and the stab needs to be pulsing. if you hit up to 5 foes with it, yea 10 stacks of stab is useless if its just stripped instantly especially in the current boon strip heavy meta.
Prob was supposed to be pulsing but it isn’t atm

Feels too clunky. Auto attack needs decreased cast times for how much damage it produces, just not enough. Gravedigger needs a lower cast time as well and less after cast. Its decent but not there yet. Death spiral is fine I think, a bit wonky and looks like it misses but then hits, its odd (it says its 170 range but it maybe more idk but 170 is definitely too short). Nightfall needs a shorter aftercast, definitely not as fast as mes mind spike like Robert Gee said. Grasping Darkness has some pathing issues, its very inconsistent and misses frequently. Other than this, it has potential but definitely in need of some tweaks.

Another thing is that when you currently go into reaper shroud for the #3 stability, if you leave shroud you do not get the full duration. I feel one should get the full duration of pulses even if you flash shroud for the stab.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

champ.7021:

dreamthistle skins are back why not bunny ears too!!!

Can you imagine the firestorm on here if they started putting skins like the bunny ears at the Black Lion merchant for claim tickets?

I’d still be fine with that. As long as they were back in the game and obtainable.

Dagins.5163:

@Ithilwen
Just because mesmers have been somehow underpowered for long time (were they?), it doesn’t mean they are free to become overpowered now. This has nothing in common with balance, and we would like to play a more-or-less balanced game.

Devs took a big step with new trait changes, what created tons of new problems, not only with mesmers. Hopefully they could bring a balance patch soon to stop people from facepalming and quitting PvP.

Mes was never underpowered, it just had a direct hard counter with thieves since day one (which tbh sort of kept them in check)

We have a position in the meta to counter a class that has been a bit over the top for a while now. We have a build that focuses on what we are meant to do, corrupt boons. I’m fine with that. We counter and have counters, that’s what it should be. We have to think about our fights instead of blindly rushing in, thought process is good. This game needs more of that.
Yes we may lack ways to escape a fight easily but that’s because real men commit to a fight. Henceforth, nec is a man’s class, always has been.

you know what would make mes have some counter play is if you dodge, say at the time of the izerk cast time, that mes won’t create the zerk at all. With this there there would be some sort of thought going on.
I find that mes has always really been a class that doesn’t have to care about people dodging things because that phant or clone will be created regardless. Another thing is mirror blade has a fairly low cd so its not a huge deal if you miss it (or arbitrarily toss it from range) because it will be back up soon. For a skill that stacks might and vuln excessively and unblockable as well, I always thought the cd was just a bit too low.
I know the topic is mainly about PU and it doesn’t make much sense why they increased the stealth duration. Buffing a trait that was already strong doesn’t make much sense from a balance perspective. But then again Anet has always made odd changes since day one.
Basically the mesmer doesn’t get punished really for just spamming a skill with no actual thought process. The risk/reward factor is even less now after the changes.

Couldn’t say this more, but more beards for human males. None in 3 years time.
Beards for everyone to be honest, I don’t think the other male races got any either and of course asuran have none regardless.

Also to prove you wrong, I made a random guard for messing around (literally only like lvl15 tops) in pvp like 3 months ago with the name “Counters”, no accents. Clearly all names whether they be original or not aren’t taken.

Those wings sorta suck but idc if you bring them back. I’m honestly all for bringing stuff back such as old discontinued gem store skins prior to the wardrobe and maybe old achievement skins but of course you need to do the achievements to get it. I’d also like to see some more skins like the jetpack get re-circulated, I know you put more of the Halloween skins back in and some of the packs with that last Jubilee or whatever but its always good to bring back more so that the don’t completely disappear from the trading post.

From a pvp perspective this has always been annoying. A method I used was to tone down the bloom effects through turning off post processing. This is what gives all your skills and areas that blaring light that can really cover up crucial skill animations that signal a skill you should dodge. In extremely large scale fights such as in open world or wvw there will still be an excessive amount of visuals but at least it wont be so over the top blinding as well.

Sometimes when I’m bored or afk in game, I wander over to the forums to see what new useless discussions are taking place. In 3 years it has never ceased to deliver.
10/10

I have had no problem with AR but I could care less if it goes. If it does though any infused gear i have and infusions should be changed to extra stat increases. At least I can be stronger than I already am.

Necro’s not being average to bottom tier would be nice too. But I mean, “as long as my class is good then all is good in the world” right?

<3 Glaphe Best dub short bow thief world. Never forget.

Oh noes naughty language in a game, I’m so offended. So not professional, oh wait because it’s not a profession but a game.
/nope

Sylent.3165:

This angers me very very much!!!

I was not aware of this and have been trying to buy one for weeks!!! So my offer in trading post finally got me one for 800g even though if I knew they were back I just would of bought the thing with my claim ticket!

Talk about losing 800g when I could of got free! Anet really needs to let people know about this stuff sooner

Well now you can have 2! eyyyyy \o/

Playing coy gets you no where you hooligan.
Worst attempt at gaining attention.

If you still had any of those Ultimate Wintersday gifts laying around you can pick what you want from them and that is one of the items. I got a bunch in pvp I just have them all sitting in the bank for later use or whatever. Sadly many people didn’t know this and blew a lot of gold on the giant gifts to get it.
Other than that yea, wicked rng on the giant gifts. So up to you if you really want to take the chance.

use overwolf.
That’s the closest to a ingame boss timer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/36ca19/be_reminded_ingame_when_a_boss_is_about_to_start/

Dl links are in this post.

nope, no spikes in the market for precursors, no increased amounts of them so no I don’t think it’s raining precursors.

Jackalrat.5493:

… … …hmm.

Let’s nerf necros.

10/10 makes sense.

But he ain’t a rapper though.

If anyone here is actually leaving and not bluffing then can I have your stuff? Seriously, them dreamthistle skins are back and I need the gold.

Wow and I thought I had alot alot of total hours at around 5200 or so. Made me feel better about myself thanks m8 8/8.

Slin mes was a bit over the top and you know it. Un-avoidable blinds were aids.

Lmao if 3 necros were an “auto” win then that would be the team comp meta and all you saw in pvp matches.
But it’s not. Please learn the game and the classes before you make yourself look stupid in the future. Accusing a bottom tier class of being op, I swear these forums are literally a kitten show.

Good, engis have been hard countered by necs since the dawn of time. Rather them be your allies.

a fairly long time. The winters weapon from 2012 are still 1 ticket each.

Annette.6278:

I haven’t read the whole topic but i can say that i have left the game several times in the past because i’m a mesmer and it was impossible to fight for me on PvP. And i think that it was hard not only for me. Maybe i should cry abou it in the past and make many topics here too? Now i feel that my skills really work how they must work. But you all cry here like mesmers became gods. But they have became just like any warrior that can fight and win or die.

So you’re saying getting blinded from mesmer shatters regardless whether you are blocking, invulnerable or dodging the shatter is intentional and working properly? Good to know. That’s just the icing on the cake regardless not taking into account the streamlined traits like extra bounce and shattering on yourself oh and of course buffing halting (which already hit like a truck) and PU which already was really good.
Basically Robert Gee just blatantly over buffed his favorite class.

Evon won’t invest in steroid pumped pigeons to carry your loots to you.

Glad I bought howl before the ele hype train funneled in. I’m sure it will be attended to now that one of the most popular classes in the game can use it no doubt. Only good looking war horn skin mainly because its a bit larger and somewhat noticeable. Would be nice if it had a bit more effects going on in the howler aside from fixing the current issues with it.

nah its a much needed change to the focus along with cast times on both focus skills that would greatly boost the focus into use as it has been significantly weak compared to dag and horn.

Yea I never understood why they made it very chill oriented because you’re a “movie monster” class (lol that gets me every time) and then they go and nerf chill so that it doesn’t stack more than 5 and dash skills completely negate it. Anet still isn’t on-board with each others thought processes after 3 years.

edit: Guess that jagged horror shout will be too good /sarcasm

+1 agreed with everything stated by OP. Exactly what needs to be done.