Guild Wars 2

keenlam.4753:

- If u aim to improve condition pressure by stacking bleed with greatsword, i highly recommend go for Krait runes. They’re quite pricey though.

89 copper each rune. I think you might be mixing them up with runes of strength? ^^

Hm, I’ve decided to (once more) give P/D condition a try as well. Now today I’ve fought that S/F-ele, and while he couldn’t really kill me because I usually could go and hide in stealth, I also couldn’t kill him. Somehow he almost always managed to run in a way that my CnD wouldn’t hit, and if he didn’t, he surely blinded me. He also seemed to dodge or go invulnerable on my sneak-attack most of the time. Whenever I got him a bit lower, he would hide inside his Swirling Winds and heal up. Not to mention he often had 20+ stacks of might, although some of those might have been from me shooting at him with Fire Aura on. Meh… I just couldn’t really harm him. Eventually, a Thief from his server showed up and CnD’d-steal-ed on me for like 5,5k followed by a 9,5k Backstab… the fight was over quickly after this.

Now I wonder… how do you fight such an opponent?

Hamfast.8719:

Ashabhi.1365:

Alas, Taku is correct. According to the wiki, and the devs, the races couldn’t have interracial relations that produce offspring.

Are you certain? I saw this guy in town the other day, and was sure he must be of Charr/Asura parentage…

Lmao.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

We know ‘no update during ’leagues’, but we also know anet likes to bundle updates rather then do them one by one.

Kaos.9162:

It’s gonna be really sad if we don’t get it in the feature update. As for the whole “no changes” thing, they reneged on that when they added the toxic stuff to the WvW maps mid-season. The pessimist in me is conflicted; do they lie about no changes, or do they delay it so long that the season is over by the time we finally get it?

You do realize that the whole feature patch already is a bunch of HUGE changes mid-season, right? Like, adding new traits, changing crit-dmg, etc. Making wxp accountbound would be a minor change in comparison. Thus, the “no changes thing” doesn’t have any influence on this at all.

muscarine.5136:

Saturn.6591:

muscarine.5136:

This thread is from an other age.

The current thief fotm revolves around S/P, crit/trick, 2 > 3333 > 4 > whichever shadowtep > 33333 and 3333, and in some other cases 3333.

Also, if you need to play defensively, don’t forget 3333.

Please teach me how to have enough initiative to use Pistol Whip multiple times (more than three times) in a row; especially without hitting anyone with it, because all they need to do is to not stand next to you while you’re spamming 3. The only thing you’ll land while spamming 3 is the first half of your first Pistol Whip. Unless the player you’re attacking is afk, of course.

Do i really need to explain this to you ?

a/ It cleaves, and even better, it actually has a bit of reach BEHIND the thief
b/ 2 : Immob
c/ Devourer venom
d/ Haste / Critical Haste
e/ Enemy moves > steal / infiltrator signet
f/ 15ini + 1/s + 1/10s + 1/5s + 3/steal (21s)
g/ Use your last living brain cell to wait one or two second before the next 3
h/ You foe is actually here to fight you, strangely enough many of them need to be next to you to do that
i/ 3 times in a row without a single pause (nor a thought) is already A LOT
j/ I dont care, first comes the l2p, then comes the nerf.

This may work in PvP, but I doubt it would be really viable in WvW. That build you’re describing is most likely 10/30/0/0/30, with the utilities being Infiltrator’s Signet, Devourer Venom and Haste. If you want to avoid having no condition-removal aside from sword 2 and your heal, you’ll have to take Lyssa runes and Basilisk Venom, which means you will rely on Swiftness on Steal to move anywhere in a decent amount of time (or to run away faster when needed). Oh, and of course the only stunbreak you have teleports you right next to your target, which is kinda bad if you want to get out of a dangerous situation. Hm, now that I’m writing about it, I guess it would make more sense to go 0/30/0/10/30 for swiftness on dodge and vigor on heal, while using Withdraw of course. Still looks like everything has to go right, though… one mistake or one thing happening that wasn’t expected, and you’ll decorate the floor with your corpse. Now you could go 0/20/0/20/30 of course to get an additional dodge and Pain Response, but then your damage-output would be a fair bit lower. And I’d still say it’s a bit risky overall. Well, whatever.

I think I might use this trait while I’m running with a zerg. It might provide decent survivability in addition to SoM.

muscarine.5136:

This thread is from an other age.

The current thief fotm revolves around S/P, crit/trick, 2 > 3333 > 4 > whichever shadowtep > 33333 and 3333, and in some other cases 3333.

Also, if you need to play defensively, don’t forget 3333.

Please teach me how to have enough initiative to use Pistol Whip multiple times (more than three times) in a row; especially without hitting anyone with it, because all they need to do is to not stand next to you while you’re spamming 3. The only thing you’ll land while spamming 3 is the first half of your first Pistol Whip. Unless the player you’re attacking is afk, of course.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

I read the terms and asked what if I time it so the macro presses at the average rate of a person, around 10 clicks a second max.

Lol; I really want to see how you click 10 times a second manually. If I click like a madman, I get like 5 and a half clicks at most in a second.

Make that one doubleclick each second, and I would agree that it wouldn’t be an unfair advantage. It would allow you to save your finger and your mouse, while being a little bit slower than doing it manually.

blackoil.2673:

We assume that they won’t put that in it until season 2 is over because making account bound WXP implies a trait reset (What would happen if a char has different/same traits than another one… how do they merge? The easiest thing is just to reset them)

I don’t see how that would be a problem. If the total earned wxp on all of my characters together makes for lvl 70, promote all my chars to WvW-lvl 70. No need to reset any spent points for that. You would just get a bunch of additional points on every character. So I really don’t see how you’d get the idea that resetting WvW-perks is needed or makes things easier for implementing accountbound wxp.

blackoil.2673:

and the mail that you get just after logging in tells you that we won’t get any more trait resets until the season is over.

So either:
-> We really won’t get account bound WXP at least until june
-> The mail text it’s a copy-paste from Season 1, and they will reset the traits again before the next season starts.

Hm, I’ve never gotten such a mail. Not before season 1, and not this time. All I got when I logged in after patching was a note in the chatwindow which said something like “Your spent wxp-points have been reset.” No mail at all. The only mail I got was from Kasmeer, inviting me to celebrate with her and the others.

Renzar.8312:

Tyvm for the reply Saturn! A gg to you sir ^^

You’re welcome.

^You’re forgetting a couple of WvW-related bugfixes. Oh, and opposing players will not be able to recognize your commanders anymore.

Fairytayl.1035:

Lorewise, my wonderfull norn ranger was born from a human father and a norn mother.

Wow; what a player.

He must also have quite a big self esteem and self confidence. Impressive. ^^

(Talking about the father here of course.)

It usually takes a while until new stuff is added to the gemstore after a patch (e.g. new skins and stuff). Thus I conclude that the trading post generally updates a bit later than the rest of the game… including the maximum amount of collection expanders you can purchase.

So yeah, everything’s okay. You’ll be able to buy more of those a bit later.

Are you sure that the trait makes you (in combat) faster in stealth than swiftness? I’ve always thought you never get more than +33% speed (which is what swiftness gives), and the 50% of the trait only are better than swiftness if you are under the effects of chill or cripple.

Arganthium.5638:

despair.1385:

Narcarsis’s build: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-c3RV;1Rwk0-7-FOFd0;9;49T;0T2;025A;446B5NW4;2Ewk2Ewk25By

Is this for WvW or sPvP?

Can be used for both. Not sure I’d credit it to Caed though, think somebody else may have created the build. Not sure though.

Anyhow, my analysis on different thief builds (based on weapon sets and trait distribution)…

Weaponsets

D/P and S/P- both ridiculously overpowered for what incredibly little skill their builds require. Easily the two best thief weapon sets the class has. Great for bursters.

S/D- far more difficult to play than D/P or S/P, though certainly no more difficult than any other “difficult” build in the game (and all of the most “difficult” builds in the game that aren’t completely UP are pretty easy to play anyways). Good for bruisers.

P/D- just a terrible weapon set (though not as bad as P/P). This weapon set will never be good in any game mode. Won’t even grace this abomination with any more of a description.

P/P- won’t even grace this disgusting nonsense with any description whatsoever.

Trait setups

25 30 0 0 15- the build that nobody uses any more. It’s still pretty good, but its damage focuses more on stats than trait allocation, as is the case with 10 30 0 0 30.

X X 30 X X- just a completely unskilled build that’s only good for noobs in WvW that have ascended gear and would otherwise wimp out with any other build.

X X (Anything other than 30 or 0) X X- see above. Slightly less wimpy, but still pretty unskillful.

10 30 0 30 0- an S/D setup. Pretty easy to play IMO.

0 30 0 30 10- another S/D setup. Also pretty easy to play, though not as much as
10 30 0 30 0.

10 30 0 0 30- a setup that can be used with S/D, S/P, D/D, or D/P. Probably the more skillful than 10 30 0 30 0 and 0 30 0 30 10 (assuming you’re running S/D), though S/P and D/P builds with this setup are just… Ridiculous. Any D/P or S/P build running these traits is probably going to be the best thief build the profession has at the moment.

10 0 0 30 30- another S/D setup. Roughly as skillful as 10 30 0 0 30, maybe slightly less (but more so than 0 30 0 30 10). These S/D builds are fun and solid but ultimately worse than 10 30 0 0 30 D/P or S/P.

tl;dr of Arganthium’s post: Thieves are either overpowered or underpowered. There’s only one main weapon-set that’s okay, and even that one doesn’t require a lot of skill to play. If you build for anything that has decent survival, you’re a noob. Also, playing a Thief doesn’t really require any skill at all (except maybe if you try to win with P/P), even without Shadow Arts. With Shadow Arts, they play themself, since you are invincible.

And now excuse me; I have to decide if I should laugh, cry, facepalm or all of them.

Karolis.4261:

Also gotta mention that D/P has double Shadows embrace and shadow rejuvenation ticks every 3 s for every leap through smoke field u did and that I consider a bug.

Huh; what? o.o

Please explain.

Tikitaka.1340:

RedSpectrum.1975:

Tikitaka.1340:

Red, this shealt is the automatic in art shadown

Yeah I know, I was making a point of how for once it did its job and not got you killed

??

What he means is, that often (especially as a D/D-Thief) this trait will put you into stealth while you’re attacking someone (usually with autoattacks). Because you are attacking, it will give you the revealed-debuff and thus you can’t stealth when you actually would have wanted to stealth… depending on the situation, this can get you killed. This time (in the video) however, it worked as intended and did save a life instead of taking it.

I daresay there’s no best Theif build. There’s also no best Thief build.

But yeah, it depends on what you mean with “general playing”. PvE? WvW? Or maybe sPvP?

Gwalchgwn.1659:

Ghostwolf.9863:

Thieves used to be the same about a year ago, but after all nerfs and minor buffs thrown around, we are now stuck with 10/30/0/x/x, there are other builds out there that are fun to play and personal, but often they are underperforming and doesn’t feel competitive enough, and I don’t have this feeling when trying builds alternate to the meta builds on the classes I mentioned.

I haven’t seen a 10/30/30/0/0 build in quite a while honestly.(N.b. you don’t have to type x since with that setup, you don’t have room for more trait points). Most people run alternatives now since shadow arts is crap in pvp …

You do realize that his example has 0 in Shadow Arts and thus typing x makes perfect sense, right? ^^

I’ve had the “pleasure” of fighting you guys a couple times this week. So annoying. ;P

Basically, it’s hard to focus you guys down because you’ll just run out of sight in stealth if you get low. And if we get one of you downed, there will surely one or two of you to get him up in Shadow Refugee. Makes for some looong fights. I remember when we were once fighting over a camp and I eventually died, I was like “screw that” and went to Hills instead, which was being attacked. It’s very hard to get rid of you guys, even when outnumbered. But I guess that means you’re doing your job well. ^^

Oh, and I’m on FSP, in case you’re wondering.

Envy.8093:

Stun with pistol whip.

If you can land it. That’s actually not as easy as it seems, because targets tend to move.

Envy.8093:

Large aoe damage with Pistol whip.

IF you did hit with the stun, about half of it will hit the target, assuming no stunbreak is used.

Envy.8093:

Evade with Pistol Whip.

Well, yeah. You can’t get hit during the flurry. However, using it defensively often will get you killed, because it does the stun-part first which doesn’t evade… an during that time, whatever was coming at you, will have hit you already.

Envy.8093:

Interrupts with Pistol (and Blind if used in field).

Other classes have interrupts too. Also, if you use Blinding Powder and Headhshot right after, you will have burnt all your initiative without doing any damage.

Envy.8093:

Aoe blind with Pistol.

Almost completely useless for defense outside of PvE.

Envy.8093:

Whirling Axes Blind spam with Pistol Offhand. Reflect with Whirling Axes. Whirling Axes doing large aoe damage.

It’s a stolen skill from Warriors and can only be used once. And if you’re using it while standing in Black Powder, you’re stupid. Because if you do, you will hit nobody with it at all, unless that someone is even more stupid and autoattacks you with a melee-weapon during the cast. And the reflect is easy to avoid as well… don’t shoot at the Thief. Especially not with Killshot.

Envy.8093:

Large kitten teleport. Clears 3 condis. Can be used to decap and still rubberband back in time.

You forget that this skill has a cooldown of 50 seconds.

Envy.8093:

Can teleport in, spam EVADING pistolwhip that STUNS and teleport out. Rinse and repeat.

Can’t do that very often, due to initiative-cost. Also, a staff Ele standing at range and casting AoE’s on you would be much more dangerous in this case.

Envy.8093:

STEALTH – The concept of getting the first hit (that blinds -_-) is kittening OP.

Dodge or use any skill that lets you avoid an attack. Also, there are no stealth-attacks that blind you, so the “kittening OP” thing doesn’t even exist.

Envy.8093:

Poison field from shortbow, doesnt break stealth either (wtf?).

It doesn’t do any direct damage; that’s why. It’s not really relevant for anything either. Unless you get killed by Thieves who shoot poison fields at you while in stealth.

@urdriel:

Sorry, I wasn’t aware that you and Liza are the same person.

So okay; you’re now saying that spamming stealth is OP then and there’s no counter to that. Well, hint: There are plenty of counters. You can find them explained in countless threads all over the class-forums.

And since you’re so focused on sPvP: Most (good) Thieves there do not spam stealth. It’s bad, because you can’t contest points while being stealthed.

Also, give the people a break. You said Backstab is OP and you said other classes can’t do such damage on such a low cooldown. You were proven wrong, and then you said “PvP or WvW” and the answer was “it’s possible there as well” and your reply “you lie it’s not possible in PvP”… uff. You know… Backstab also does less damage in PvP than it does in PvE or WvW.

urdriel.8496:

Saturn.6591:

urdriel.8496:

where i said that initiative need a counter?? what need a counter is stealth…….

There:

urdriel.8496:

what is really OP is no CD skills, and a initiative mechanic that let thieves spam skills.

And there:

urdriel.8496:

No, i said that the “possibility” to spam skills is a design flaw of game mechanic.

This is the first game where a mechanic doesnt have a counter, and one class is able to spam it, and this, is clearly a poor designed mechanic,

You’re welcome. And now excuse me; I need to facepalm really hard.

Learn to read.

where i said that initiative need a counter??? , the mechanic i was talking about was STEALTH, and a thief can spam stealth due to initiative.

Oh sorry, I wasn’t aware that stealth lets you “spam skills” and makes skills have “no CD” and such. Which btw in turn you said it doesn’t have a counter and is bad design. YES YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT INITIATIVE RIGHT THERE, SINCE STEALTH DOES NOT HAVE ANY INFLUENCE ON COOLDOWNS OR SKILL-SPAM AT ALL! Gosh. YOU should learn to read. Seriously. Learn to read what you yourself wrote.

I start to believe that you’re trolling, because you can’t possibly be THAT… uh, I better don’t say the word. You’re not worth getting an infraction.

urdriel.8496:

where i said that initiative need a counter?? what need a counter is stealth…….

There:

urdriel.8496:

what is really OP is no CD skills, and a initiative mechanic that let thieves spam skills.

And there:

urdriel.8496:

No, i said that the “possibility” to spam skills is a design flaw of game mechanic.

This is the first game where a mechanic doesnt have a counter, and one class is able to spam it, and this, is clearly a poor designed mechanic,

You’re welcome. And now excuse me; I need to facepalm really hard.

diversecape.1465:

Awesome information, thanks a bunch. It was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunate though some of the kittening that went on, some people will complain about any little thing.

Would be great if you could add Skelk Venom info to the post.

Some of this data has changed since then. Maybe someone updates it in a separate post, though.

The last post in this topic is from one year and three months ago. And the last post of Kindread is from 11 months ago, so he will probably not be checking this thread anymore.

Travlane.5948:

so a thieves usefullness lies in the dmg it can do. thats it. nothign else really. caltrops is the only skill they ahve that can put pressure on a point… and thats not enough without pulse dmg too. so if they cap crit dmg thief loses its edge on dmg….

They already stated from the very beginning that they will not change crit-damage in PvP, as they feel it’s in a good spot there already. Thus, it will not affect Thief (or any other class) in PvP at all.

^It wouldn’t make much sense, though; unless they rename it to “smoke grenade”. Smoke from blackpowder will logically always be created where the gun is fired, and not where the target is (unless you are standing close to the target of course).

aspirine.6852:

Either the writers got some help, or they gotten a lot better. Whatever it is it’s working

When the Nightmare Tower was introduced, they’ve actually stated in a red post that they’ve shown to the story-guys how to make basic NPC’s and stuff. I guess that’s one of the reasons why we’re seeing more of those lately.

Travlane.5948:

Saturn.6591:

Believe me when I say that whenever I’ve tried to facetank someone who’s not an NPC while standing in Black Powder, I’ve not done so for very long before I had to dodge out and heal up. And I’m NOT full glass. So I guess you must be trolling.

Dear Saturn,

you wrote;

“. . .facetank someone. . .while standing in black powder, I’ve not done so for very long I had to dodge out and heal up.”

Can you tell me, by this statement, if you are the thief or the guy attacking the thief? ah you can’t! Please learn to describe what you mean before you attack somebody for misunderstanding what you MEANT and not what you actually WROTE.

thanks
everyone on the forums who reads/writes english

Dear Travlane, I’ve already exactly explained you why it’s obvious. Also, you should read the full sentence. And again, if I (= ME) try to facetank someone in blackpowder… how would blackpowder have ANY effect on my ability to faceTANK someone if I would be the attacker? That alone makes it VERY obvious. And now go improve your understanding of the english language. Or at the very least, that thing called “reading comprehension”. Thanks.

calavel.6249:

Saturn.6591:

Let’s see… imagine you run over your curtain 4 times in a row:

4 × 6 seconds = 24 seconds
4 × 12 seconds = 48 seconds

Whoa, deja vu.

Just because you wouldn’t do it (I guess you refer to your post in the other topic where you said that you wouldn’t want to do that), doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be possible to do it.

Travlane.5948:

they way you stated it you could be the person casting BP or the person who is inside it trying to kill the thief. think about it

So first you claim that you were not talking to me, when you actually quoted my post and wrote your reply below that quote. Now that this didn’t work, you claim that I could have been the guy attacking the Thief in my example. Again wrong, and I’ll explain you why:

“Believe me when I say that whenever I’ve tried to facetank someone who’s not an NPC while standing in Black Powder, I’ve not done so for very long before I had to dodge out and heal up.”

1. I’m mentioning that I could attempt to facetank NPCs while standing in Black Powder. However, the only NPC I know of who uses this skill is the Thief NPC in the mists. You need a big amount of fantasy to even assume that I’m refering to that NPC.

2. If I would not be the Thief in this example, Black Powder would have no effect whatsoever on my ability to facetank someone. On my ability to do damage, yes. But not on my ability to facetank, since that’s about receiving damage and not about dealing it. Thus, it’s obvious that I’m the Thief in this example.

You should maybe mention if you’re looking for EU or NA. ^^

Just saying.~~

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Anyone else really hate when their character says their line for getting really good loot only to find out it was not actually an item? I get all excited when opening bags from events and hear that only to find out it was some stupid crafting material I will never use. I be all like “Sweet an exotic!” Nope just more worthless Bloodstone dust let me add it to the 15 other stacks I have collecting dust on an Alt. Its like Christmas morning. Get all excited then BAM! dreams dashed.

The less you expect, the less you will get disappointed. Seriously.

Here, gifts are given on holy eve. However, I don’t expect to get any, and thus I’m not disappointed at all if I don’t get any. Last christmas, I’ve actually gotten a small one, and it was awesome (because I didn’t expect it at all). First christmas gift in like 12 years!

Also, it doesn’t matter WHAT it is. The gesture is what counts.

Seriously, if you get all excited and then disappointed due to a line your character says… how old are you again? (And no, this is not meant as a personal attack or something… I just have a hard time understanding your complaint.)

Edit: Btw; crafting mats are items too. ;P

I’ve gotten some heirlooms from alliance bags as well. Not many, but some.

digiowl.9620:

I must start playing with headphones, as trying to pick out that sound from all the other battle noises (never mind the constant electric crackle from strikers and taskmasters) is virtually impossible.

Well, apparently it’s not. Also, how would headphones help with that? You would still hear the very same sounds; just closer to your ears.

I really should stop reading this thread. It makes me want to facepalm harder than my head would be able to bear. Some people really will put on tinfoil hats and complain about anything, just for the sake of complaining; no matter how ridiculous the “reason” actually is.

IF, and that’s really one big “if”; IF I would really need to run around between bank, TP, mystic forge, dungeon vendors, laurel merchant and guild commendations trader like 100 times in one or two hours… IF that would be the case, it would be faster now than it would have been in LA. This due to shorter distances and less/shorter loading screens.

And now excuse me; I need to convince my hands to not move towards my forehead with increased speed.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Anet buffed curtain swiftness duration in the past. Why revert it? So stupid.

To make it stackable instead.

Let’s see… imagine you run over your curtain 4 times in a row:

4 × 6 seconds = 24 seconds
4 × 12 seconds = 48 seconds

48 seconds of swiftness with a single skill on such a short cooldown would have been way over the top. Thus, this change didn’t look THAT unlikely.

Edit: Btw, adding “no offense” to an insult doesn’t make it less of an insult. And before you ask… I did not “believe” them. But I considered them to actually be possible, even though I didn’t really like them myself.

Travlane.5948:

can i just say when i played warrior for the first time i put 2 engery sigils up and had a -4 swap time. idk that seems pretty strong and OP itselftoo? no?

Those energy sigils have an internal cooldown of 9 seconds, so they don’t activate more often than they do for any other class.

Hm, I’ve never seen the transformation expire myself, and I’ve done all the rushes multiple times.

Try staying behind the mob. Also, try dodging (in the right moment).

^You can also write it down in a .txt-file and save it on your desktop. That’s what I did for the invasions.

However, for the events this time I didn’t need to, because when I’ve actually noticed that achievement, I remembered which of those events I’ve not done yet; simply because I knew “Hm, I’ve not even seen Lawson Marriner even once since I’m playing this game, so I know I did not escort him yet”. Or “I’ve done children and Dolyaks multiple times, but I know that I didn’t escort any Moas yet”.

Easy. If those two people are elite, you have to be Chuck Norris. Otherwise, you won’t win. This rule applies to all classes; not just Mesmer.

All classes I’ve lost against are clearly overpowered. All classes I’ve lost with are clearly underpowered. Therefore, all classes are overpowered and underpowered at the same time.

(Okay, I admit I did not play all the classes vs other players yet, but that doesn’t change my point.)

And to also provide the answer to the seemingly absurd statement I’ve made above: Skill. That, and the situation.

But yeah, crying overpowered or underpowered is so much easier than thinking about what went wrong and how to become more skilled.

No need to feel sorry; otherwise you also need to feel sorry for them that they can still be hit by attacks while in stealth.

You cast the clone before the Thief enters stealth —> the clone leaps to their position --> Thief enters stealth during the leap and doesn’t dodge away from the clone that runs to the last known position of the Thief —> you swap with the clone and the Thief gets immobilized and then killed --> the Thief obviously made a mistake and thus died.

Mistakes happen in most fights, because if two players play 100% perfect (and on that skill-level I just assume they also have decent builds) and also do not get interrupted, it will end up being a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery long fight. One that only ends once one of them really needs to go pee and goes afk. Or gets distracted by that pressure so much that he makes a mistake… oh wait. ^^

Travlane.5948:

Saturn.6591:

Travlane.5948:

Saturn.6591:

Believe me when I say that whenever I’ve tried to facetank someone who’s not an NPC while standing in Black Powder, I’ve not done so for very long before I had to dodge out and heal up. And I’m NOT full glass. So I guess you must be trolling.

who me? bet 25g or something nominal in the range and ill make a video showing you how silly you sound.

If you would have taken the time to actually READ my post, you would have noticed that I don’t feel like blackpowder is overpowered at all. Thus, my post is obviously directed at those who say it is… which is not what you are saying. But judging from the fact that you instantly start to challenge people for no reason and want to bet for gold, I shouldn’t be surprised that you’ve missed the point of my post.

i was talking to all whom think BP is OP. if that includes you then yeah,….if it doesnt then i wasnt talkuing to you….if u read other’s comments….

Now that’s a lame excuse. You actually QUOTED ME. And if you quote me, I take it that you’re talking about what I’ve written in that quote. I mean… that’s the purpose of quoting, right? To make clear to what you are responding to. So my point still stands.

Just for evidence:

Travlane.5948:

Saturn.6591:

Believe me when I say that whenever I’ve tried to facetank someone who’s not an NPC while standing in Black Powder, I’ve not done so for very long before I had to dodge out and heal up. And I’m NOT full glass. So I guess you must be trolling.

who me? bet 25g or something nominal in the range and ill make a video showing you how silly you sound.

Elricht Kaltwind.8796:

All the services in the game are available between Vigil Keep and Rata Sum for free. For someone whose computer meets the recommended specs the travel time from the mystic forge in Vigil Keep to the crafting tables in Rata Sum is barely any longer than the time it took to run between the two points in Lion’s Arch.

This. So much this.

Enundr.9305:

Mirta.5029:

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

You now have to pay waypoint costs, whereas you didn’t before (openworld -> WvW = free, Asura gate from WvW -> LA = free).

Vigil’s keep -> mystic forge -> asura gate to Rata Sum. You can repeat the process in reverse too. No costs for anything. Also Vigil’s keep -> WvW free and WvW -> character select -> vigil’s keep free

yes cause i totally want to spend most of my time in the loading screen rather then doing stuff in the game ;-)

Loading screens for waypointing inside LA often were longer than the ones you have between Vigil Keep and Rata Sum. And there’s no loading screen at all for waypointing inside Rata Sum. Add to this that everything is much closer together in those two places than it was in LA (which saves a lot of running time), we now actually have MORE convenience than before.

I was surprised that we actually went for citizens when I joined LA this evening and got into the main map. We’ve gotten around 1300 or so saved, which was really nice. I’m very glad that I was at least once present when this number is reached. Makes me feel like we’ve really done our best and that we’ve successfully saved all (or most) of the people that were still alive.

Frostfang.5109:

Saturn… I dont want to join any squad! I just wanna do my thing, see MY party members and not a thousands of commanders… If I’d join any squad, it would be anyone from my Guild most likely, not just some random to get rid of most of the tags…

Toggle off commander tags! Easy, dont have to type things every single time u enter a map…

You don’t lose anything by joining a squad. You don’t need to run with that commander. He also (as far as I know) will not even know that you’re in his squad, unless he uses a command that he probably doesn’t even know.

It’s not hard to tell what happened. You used skill 3 while the Thief was still visible and created the clone. The clone leaped to the Thief, crippling him. In the meanwhile (right after the clone was casted), the Thief went into stealth. Then you swapped positions with the clone, which triggered a small AoE-immobilize that hit the Thief because he didn’t move far yet (because you swapped positions so fast). Then you’ve hit Sword 2, which downed him. Working as intended.

Travlane.5948:

Saturn.6591:

Believe me when I say that whenever I’ve tried to facetank someone who’s not an NPC while standing in Black Powder, I’ve not done so for very long before I had to dodge out and heal up. And I’m NOT full glass. So I guess you must be trolling.

who me? bet 25g or something nominal in the range and ill make a video showing you how silly you sound.

If you would have taken the time to actually READ my post, you would have noticed that I don’t feel like blackpowder is overpowered at all. Thus, my post is obviously directed at those who say it is… which is not what you are saying. But judging from the fact that you instantly start to challenge people for no reason and want to bet for gold, I shouldn’t be surprised that you’ve missed the point of my post.