Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the info! Excited to see what’s in store for PvP.

DeanBB.4268:

Get the whip sword. Problem solved!

So rare that this available in the Gem Store.

Yes, please. So many awesome options here

• Flame Whip
• Morning Star
• Cat ’O Nine Tails
• Thorn Whip
• Plasma Whip
• Braided Leather Whip (e.g. Indiana Jones)
• Ley Line Whip
• Chain Whip (e.g. Ninja, Martial Arts)
• Grappling Hook
• Kusarigama

The world is getting bigger, so the players are more spread out.

I also really struggled against DH and Druid this season. I was not able to find any viable counters to 1v1 a DH on point.

A day/night cycle indicator on the mini map, preferably with a timer of some sort to tell you how long you have left in each cycle.

Edit: I would even take a /time command which gave the time remaining until day/night.

Thanks!

Can we get some stylish boots please?

What runes do you guys prefer for PVE on your Mesmer/Chrono?

A true n00b here and it probably showed at times. This season was my first foray into PvP in any game. I started the season about 2 weeks late as I was just trying to learn the concepts and get to rank 20.

Amber > Ruby.

• 181 games played
• 86 wins
• 6 game winning streak
• 10 game losing streak
• 100% Chrono
• 97% solo queue

Things I remember:

• Some nice folks taking the time to teach me some things
• Some not so nice folks who didn’t
• The intensity of some of the matches
• The frustration of the back and forth wins and losses

Build Saving/Sharing

I would love to see this stickied.

Thank you for posting this! If I may add a few more to your compilation:

• Press B while you are waiting for the match to begin to see the composition of the opposing team.

• When protecting capped points, it is best to stand half way between two points and not on the capped point. For example, don’t stand on Home if it is already capped, stand halfway between Home and Mid. This puts you in a better position to assist your team at either point when necessary. Standing on an uncontested capped point while your teammates 4v5 the rest of the map is not helpful.

• Personal score does not directly affect the outcome of a match.

• Sheathing your weapons cancels skill activation. This action is not bound to any key by default.

• Splits are how your team will divide up among the points. It is denoted as #near(or home)-#mid-#far. So 1-4-0 would mean 1 player at Home and 4 to Mid, 0 to far.

• You can interrupt enemies attempting to stomp your teammates. Additionally, if you have an AoE attack, dropping it on a downed player is usually a good idea.

• If you are downed, do not activate your bandage skill unless you are absolutely sure you are going to recover. This just otherwise increases the time in which you are out of the fight.

Enchanter (formerly Spellbinder)

Specialization focusing on manipulation of foes emotions and perception, mobility, and deception.

Spellbinding Trait Line – gain access to off hand dagger, Phantasmagoria shatter, enchantments, and Doppelganger elite.

Minor Adept
- reduces recharge on skills that grant stealth, teleport, and Portal Entre

Major Adept
- Gain Fury whenever you or an illusion attacks with a dagger
- Whenever a new condition is applied to you, inflict Torment on adjacent foes
- Reduce the duration of incoming Fear, Taunt, and Torment by 33%

Minor Master
- Torment you inflict lasts longer

Major Master
- Whenever you receive stealth or teleport, gain Swiftness
- Increased critical hit chance against foes affected by Torment or Confusion
- Your phantasms inflict Taunt when they attack.

Minor Grandmaster
- You take less damage from foes afflicted by Confusion or Torment

Major Grandmaster
- Shattering illusions grant you stealth (1s per illusion)
- Lose a condition and heal a small amount whenever you gain stealth or teleport
- Whenever you shatter at least 2 clones, summon a Phantasmal Assassin

Healing Skill:
Succor – Enchantment. Heal yourself while this skill channels. If this skill fully channels, a nearby downed ally is revived. If no allies are downed, remove a condition for each of your active illusions from you and nearby allies.

Utility Skills:
Fevered Dreams – Enchantment. Daze target foe and apply Torment and Confusion to foes nearby. Daze: 1s. Torment (x3) 5s. Confusion 5s. Damage 180. Number of Targets: 3
Clumsiness – Enchantment. Knockdown target foe and inflict Weakness and Vulnerability to foes nearby. Range: 900. Knockdown: 1s. Vulnerability (x5) 5s. Weakness 5s. Damage: 180. Number of Targets: 3
Illusion of Grandeur- Enchantment. Nearby foes are Blinded for 3s and you gain Stability and Resistance for 2s. You and nearby allies gain a stack of Might for each of your active illusions. Breaks stun. Number of Targets: 5
Hypochondria – Enchantment. Stun target foe. They lose Resistance and gain a copy of all conditions on foes and allies in the area. The duration of these conditions is increased by 7% for each of your active illusions. Damage: 100.

Weapon Skills:
Dagger 4 – Deceptive Stab: Teleport to target foe and stab them, crippling them. If successful, gain access to Deceptive Slice. Damage: 450. Range 900. Cripple 5s.
Deceptive Slice: Slice and teleport away from target foe, inflicting bleeding. Damage: 250. Range 900. Bleeding (x3) 10s. Leap Finisher.

Dagger 5 – Phantasmal Assassin: Summon a phantasm behind target foe which has stealth and initially attacks with Backstab and applies Poison. Subsequently attacks with Double Strike.

Elite Skill:
Doppelganger
Phantasm. Your Doppelganger has the same appearance and attributes as you but with 50% of your health and wields your active weapon set. If your weapon is ranged it is summoned at your location. If your weapon is melee, it is summoned at the targets location. The doppelganger will attack with the primary weapon skill. Shattering the Doppelganger casts Mirror Images.

Shatter:
Phantasmagoria – shatter all your clones and phantasms, inflicting Fear and Torment on all nearby foes. Damage: 100. Gain additional stacks of Fear and Torment for each illusion shattered. The shatter affect also occurs at your location.

EDIT: Fleshed out remaining Utility Skills.

Never heard of this “50%” win system.

Carighan.6758:

Phantasmal Double – elite skill
Summons a Phantasm to attack your target using your currently equipped skills and weapons. None of its attacks have any effect, but they do produce all spell effects and attack animations.Furthermore, this Phantasm is indistinguishable from you and will react to damage by dodging and strafing while attacking.
The Phantasm has increased health and toughness, and if destroyed via shattering will resummon a Disenchanter and a Defender with limited duration.
Cooldown: 45 seconds
Duration: Until destroyed
Phantasm’s health: 50% of your own
Phantasm’s armor: 100% of your own
Replacement duration (PvE): 45 seconds
Replacement duration (PvP/WvW): 10 seconds

I like this idea a lot but would like to offer up some suggestions:

“Doppelganger” would be a cool name for an elite phantasm like this imho. It would even be a bit of a throw back to the original GW.

Instead of none of their attacks doing any damage, how about if if they spawn with whatever weapon set you were wielding at the time you cast it, and then they did the main hand 1 attack chains only. Then there would be some subtle skill to determining which weapon you want your Doppelganger to have. It’s power, condition damage, precision, ferocity, and expertise would all be the same as the casters.

I like the idea of it doing something special when shattered, but don’t forget that the Chronophantasma trait allows phantasms to respawn after the first time they are shattered, and for this reason I think creating two more phantasms would be too much. Maybe once it is shattered it creates two clones instead, a la Mirror Images? This would create a full compliment of illusions after the first shatter.

Lyp Sao.1375:

Phoenix Glider

FYI – This is available right now!

Yes, that has happened to me on several occasions. I am not in combat, but my weapons are drawn and I cannot change skills or map travel. I have to kill a mob to break the cycle usually.

Llama Finisher!

Chain whip sword please

More tight pants for female light armor.

More options for light boots. I would even pay gems for some new footwear for my Mesmer.

Guild Capes.

Just curious, but why does the mesmer not have an elite phantasm?

I agree with the scepter and sword block changes, and the changes to Signet of Inspiration.

I would like to see the sword skill Swap break stun and a finisher for the Scepter.

Scepter/Shield is my current preference in PVP.

EDIT: Since this post I have ditched the staff for Sword/Shield + Scepter/Torch

Lady Cordelia Anne

Nevermind, figured it out. Thanks for your help!

FogLeg.9354:

I go around in HoT maps with my mesmer and look out the Snipers just so I can put Feedback on them and the laugh loudly when they kill themselves.

Feedback and Phantasmal Warden with Warden’s Feedback.

You need reflection in HoT.

Mesmer can do a serious CC spike.

Signet of Humility and Signet of Domination, though they have long recharges, but you can use Blurred Inscriptions, Mimic, and Chronomancer’s Continuum Shift to reduce this.

They also have Mantra of Distraction and the shatter skill Diversion for Daze.

As for weapon skills, Focus’ Temporal Curtain pulls, Pistols’ Magic Bullet Dazes, and Greatswords’ Illusionary Wave knocksback.

Major Domo.9250:

I see this as a perfect opportunity for a PvE/PvP skill split (gasp!)

- Introduce a new mastery line for race-specific skills, increasing their efficacy with each rank ala the Factions allegiance, Nightfall promotion, and EotN reputation skills
- Add a new racial-only skill slot in PvE only beside the elite
- Each race would gain mastery XP in their home territory
- And some final mechanism to allow all races to use all racial skills once every racial mastery is maxed. Sounds strange, but remember GW1 Humans had no problem using the animal totems and Asura tech skills in EotN

I get that Anet wants no one race to be mechanically superior to another, but this seems like a good way to utilize a very large untapped aspect of the game, as well as revitalize core Tyria.

/ramblingonandon
/loopycoldmedicinehead

A race specific mastery line is a great idea! This is a perfect way to keep it balanced and give the Norn the shapeshifting abilities we all want.

I concur that the fire elemental needs a buff. The battle is over much too quickly.

Personally, I think GW2 is a much better game now than when it was released. I struggled to enjoy it for the first 6-8 months. I really wanted to like it, but it just didn’t have what I loved so much about the original guild wars. Fast forward to HoT. I bought it, having not played GW2 for almost 2 years, and found the whole game to be much overhauled for the better. I can’t stop playing now. There is so much content, I will probably never complete everything there is to do.

That said, of course it’s not perfect. There are some things that could be better, most notably the dungeons. I feel like I missed the era of the dungeons. The pendulum swung too far on these. A reconnect to your map feature is also very much needed, and a build template/saving/sharing feature would be fantastic.

The HoT maps were frustrating for me at first, I died a lot and got lost, but I modified my build to survive, and slowly learned how to get around. Now it’s not so bad. PVE stands for player vs. environment after all, and the maps are the largest component of the environment. Stands to reason that they should be more challenging in the higher end content. I don’t mind content being “locked” behind masteries. As I have stated before, it reminds me of old school gaming concepts used in Zelda and Metroid where you had to unlock skills and items to advance in the map (I.e. The hook shot, bombs, and double jump). It gives you a sense of progression without power creep and raising the level cap with each expansion. I love the addition of gliding to the core game, too.

Donari.5237:

I’m sort of liking the dashing highwayman swashbuckler feel, I guess

Definitely something sleek and flashy. Platinum white and gold. Maybe even something like the sword of dancing from old school Dungeons and Dragons, where the sword is animated apart from the character wielding it.

Redenaz.8631:

Correct, you’d lose the special effects. A legendary rapier might be neat, and might make a good contrast with Bolt, which is a fairly wide and elaborate sword blade. Might be a little tricky to design, since the blade is so thin, but there are possibilities there.

I agree! It would be a challenge to design, but I think the Anet artists could do it justice.

A few ideas for themes off the top of my head:

• Time themed with distortion/blink effects
• Whip/Serpent themed
• Spirit/Phantasm themed

Thanks! That is definitely a rapier. Hearts are not really my thing though.

The chain whip sword looks awesome. Wonder why they removed it…

There’s Lord Faren’s Rapier in the gemstore, bonnetti’s, and what’s the third?

Correct me if I am wrong, but if you reskin a legendary don’t you forefeit all the cool visual affects, which is what I thought legendary weapons were all about, since they have the same stats as ascended weapons?

Thanks!

First, let me just say that big, hulking, menacing swords are great. We have a lot to choose from in this category.

That said, I would like to see a few more rapiers. Bonnetti’s Rapier is my favorite sword skin. It’s perfect for light classes like sword wielding mesmers.

A legendary rapier would be fantastic!

Thanks for listening!

The build editor/templating in GW1 was a great feature. I would love to have this in GW2.

Thanks everyone!

I would love to have access to a light armor skin that is worn by the NPC Trillia Midwell:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trillia_Midwell

Does this already exist? Thanks!

HoT reminds me more of old school gaming like Zelda and Metroid, where content is locked until you obtain the right skills or items to advance. It’s a very old school gaming concept in my opinion with a new twist in the mastery system.

The time until night fall and sun rise in Heart of Thorns is very useful.

Some sort of in game identifier for game time and the day/night cycle in the rest of Tyria would be very helpful, too. In some zones, it is difficult to see the sky clearly.

A small sun/moon icon on the mini map for instance, or even a “/time” command which gave you the current game time and additional information such as dawn/day/dusk/night, would be great to let players know what the game state is where they are in the world, especially since it is more than just aesthetics and can actually affect game play.

Thank you!