Guild Wars 2

you should play thief a bit, to find out how other warriors will chop you up =) then come back to warrior and do the same for opponent thieves

Vandaeriel.9012:

It is affecting my gameplay because less people want to do dungeons in a traditional way. It isn’t against the rules yet, but it should be. I don’t play this game for numbers (yea, those dungeon tokens and achi points are just numbers) but for content – meaning for example challenging and interesting boss encounters. Moreover, most people tend to forget that it is a MMO Roleplaying game. How am I supposed to roleplay a dragon-slaying hero when I see folks jumping across walls in undead-haunted city to get a shiny chest once a day?

i beg to differ

those who buy ‘tokens’, or paths for DM title, probably wouldn’t do those dungeons anyway

tho i agree that people don’t get what playing is all about – having fun – not ‘working’ to hoard shinnies to ‘have’ smth to show off

its the little things that matter, like:
Aetherblade Fractal – hey bob watch out for mines
bob: what mines?
kaboom
teamspeak laughter overflow

GlowSticks.9734:

Hi, I was wondering if setting your AOE LOOT key as a macro was ok?
I play a lot of wvw, and hate worrying about my loot when I’m trying to stay focused on the opponent.

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it’s not ok. but if you do, no one will notice. and your fingers will thank you

plants are map specific (same plant have different loot table for each map/region)

thats how dungenz work in gw2. one learns where is safe and not safe to stand only after dieing few times

every time i see norn thief, i just cannot help myself

personal story armors are not unique – they can be found in karma vendors, or can be crafted

argos-soft armor gallery had info for each armor if they can be found in personal story, unfortunately that site is currently down

site archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130516034245/http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/

i’ll assume you are writing about pvp only

power, prec, crit – multiplies, so max cond does not equal max zerker

my thoughts, about their counters:
cleanse and reduced condition duration vs condition build
protection, toughness vs power
vitality, movement, positioning, dodge, heal vs both

current meta is kiting opponent while damaging with conditions

but lets say, if you are somehow limited from kiting and/or imobilized, then power build would have advantage

because they have common short handed ancestor

follow the blue taco (commander tag) get exp for capped(captured) stuff (stand in capturing circles, no damage dealing involved)

if there are no commanders and enough ppl following to cap stuff on your usual playing hours then sadly no exp from wvw for you

don’t try roaming (running alone or in small groups to cap lesser objectives) with underleveled character if you are new to wvw/pvp (frustration unavoidable)

P.S. there is new trend lately – on fridays some wvw maps turn into karma train farming – when 2 zergs from diff servers run in a circle and capture all ze thingz w/o defending – thats because on fridays winner is often already decided and everyone want some easy karma and wxp (world vs world experience)

Galtrix.7369:

I laugh at all berserkers like you, because I buff myself and heal myself while I watch you people basically throw yourselves at the enemy and blow yourself up into a thousand tiny pieces.

P.S: Keep going berserker in PvP, I love the free one-hit kills.

i might be in full berserker in most dungeons, but that’s because i can avoid all fatal hits and step out of red circles. i buff and cleanse not only myself but my group too. i charge in first and taunt foes to waste their initial strikes on me, while avoiding damage and chopping them to pieces

got to dissapoint you, but i change some of zerker gear to celestial for wvw

if you are on NA servers – invite me, and we can go kill some stuff together, its more fun in game than in forums

there are no trinity roles here. and game was advertised as such

and there is no reason to buff healing, as it would have negative effect on pvp and wvw

imo – in pve healing is just for learning purposes – learning not to get damaged

and don’t bother ‘saving’ someone, you are doing bad favor for them. if you constantly save them, they will never improve

P.S. and you should specify that you mean ‘healing support’, because support in general is awesome in this game – 25might stacks, fury, swiftness, vigor.. etc, and it makes huge difference

from my experience:

mesmer – any champz – but slllooooowww

warriur(gs+lb) – easy & fast (not all champs tho, and some can be difficult and/or nearly impossible)

TexNorseman.8531:

Thanks for the responses guys, downloading the client now, seems like it’s taking forever, lol. Do servers matter? I’m looking for one with a medium population.

server matters only for wvw (world versus world – massive 3 sided server vs server pvp). being on higher population server has huge advantage

for pve you can always use guesting system to play with friends or other ppl on other servers (exception EU servers cannot guest/play with NA servers)

for dungeons servers doesn’t matter (exception EU servers cannot play with NA servers)

imo dynamic leveling is one of the best things gw2 has. makes lower level content a bit more challenging
if you have a problem with ‘i get hit i die’ then you have a lot to improve in the ’don’t get hit’ sector. tip: gw2 allows to attack while moving, and moving is #1 damage avoidance mechanic

LordByron.8369:

For jumping puzzles is totally the opposite….
You would like to read the old clocktower thread XD…
Where enormous Norns and charrs totally covered asura and even humans and silvary

in some jp norns and camera don’t do well, hence advantage to asuras
and imo jp’s aren’t smth meant to be zerged to cover each other. you took one of 2 exceptions – time limited jps (clocktower and last years wintersday) where players starts as a group – and say “For jumping puzzles is totally the opposite”. wat?

warriur

races are not important ability wise, but they matter from size perpective
asura are the smallest. and being small gives advantage in jumping puzzles and pvp(harder to notice smaller animations)

when you do a story mode and return to dessa’s lab, there is still long dialog between dessa and keel. if you leave w/o waiting for the reward, then you didn’t complete story

don’t rush, do stories properly

P.S. when i did story, 1 player left too early, like 1 min later story reward poped up. the remaining 4 of us had a nice laugh and the poor rushing soul who will have to repeat it

well healing(some percent[100%?] of health) downed ppl is exactly how warbanner works, if downed player has low health and some healing effect reducing debuffs (like poison) ,its possible that he won’t get healed enough to get rezzed

e.g. you have like 10% hp while downed and poison on you, warbanner will get you to ~76% health (+66% hp instead of +100% because of poison)

P.S. afaik agony reduces healing too

well its offhand.. and mainhand leggies get all the goodies (like auras and footsteps)

The Minstrel was my first legendary. no regrets

after seeing title

expectations:
jumping puzzle competition

reality:
portals

P.S. as for time, to prevent confusion – give server time, or hours to/past daily reset

Protoavis.9107:

^ pretty much

I’m surprised they didn’t also do t3 med human for all…you know that armor would have sold to pretty much every med norn female

well they gotta save something for christmas skins

demonboy.4153:

Once again it happened tonight, I ran 38 and 28, my personal reward level is 28, BUT why then would I receive it for 38? I received it again for 38 today.

if your personal level was 28, then doing 38 rewarded you with 28lvl chest(your level) and your level increased to 29
doing 28lvl on the same day won’t reward you chest because you already received 28lvl chest

that’s what personal level is for (if you are level 10, and you do lvl9990 you still get lvl10 reward)

or to rephrase, why are you doing 38 and 48 if you are only 28? ( you won’t get level 38 and 48reward)

OP if you are joining and leaving the groups you don’t like, then it is great that you get blocked for joining. because you are using the tool wrong

Keiel.7489:

I’m glad you find it annoying. I find it pretty annoying for people to join, have a full group and one person leaves. I basically have to open up the LFG panel, hit advertise, and hit OK again.

^ instead of causing this

Upham.6137:

That’s what descriptions are for. If you want something like “lvl 80 experienced dps only” that’s what you should be posting instead of spamming groups with descriptions like “any path” or something like that.

^ do this

Pyrasia.9281:

I think it would be interesting if most damage come from direct damage. Conditions should not happen oh so often. But when they happen, they should be important and special. Not just spamming Bleeding and Burning and Poison and Cripple and Chilling and what not.

Same with Boons, actually. Protection, awesome. Swiftness, sweet. Aegis, great ! Stacking Might is meh. Instead of maintaining and spamming Might and such, when Might happens, it should be the time for Burst. When Fury happens, it’s time for Chained Attack. Instead of just spamming all boons on your team and spamming conditions on foes all the time.
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TLDR version !!

Imagine if the only way to make Boons or Conditions is through Combo Field. No more autoattack cause Bleeding. Or Staff#4 give 12 Might. I think this will be fun. And more tactical.

if you have protection, aegis, no might and no boon stripping, and your opponent have ‘only’ ‘meh’ 20+ might and fury… surprise surprise you will get killed by direct damage (is this guardian vs warriur in wvw?)

as for pve – most damage comes from direct damage

pve dailies promote traveling around tyria and doing stuff. that dailies favors casual adventurers, and doesn’t cater to burnt out farmers

imo dailies are fine as they are. and they are adding more and more of them as time goes by, which is awesome

• B2P
• freedom to start doing anything you want at once (oh well except wvw queues)
• ability to buy everything for gold (even digital deluxe edition)
• combat while moving
• norn

its not the destination, its the journey that matters. everything ends eventually, so just enjoy it while it lasts – savour the moment

as for me, i spent most of my time secluded inside dungeons, with few exceptions to come out do some guild missions, wvw or ls if i feel like it. i like the tower btw, because there are always lots of players that need help there and helping is fun

tip: if you don’t have gaming mouse with extra buttons for keybinding skills, then its recommended to change WASD to ESDF, to get more buttons on the left side (imo WASD is only good for first person shooters where you don’t have many different skills)

this:

• keyboard turning
• double tap dodging (as opposed to direction keys+dodge)
• not using ground instant casting
• having skills on far away buttons (like 9,0)

is like participating in 100meter sprint with crutches, you can do it, but don’t expect to win

tooooo sloooow, could disengage anytime i want
pop – shake it off, whirl with gs and press rush for hyperdrive – no stability involved

Carpboy.7145:

… Sigils of hydromancy in both swaps so that even when they aren’t stunned or knocked down, their skills will take forever to recharge and theyll be slowed really badly, …

are you sure you know how chill works? because 3 sec won’t have much effect on cooldown – if you stay chilled for 3 seconds, couldown is increased only ~2 seconds (that is cooldown instead of tick reducing 1s per second, ticks only 0.33s per second)
factor in typical solo roaming opponent is likely to have -40% condition food too, bam.. no effect

also you don’t seem to have any ability to escape if you encounter more then 1 opponent in open field – something that is a must have for any solo wvw in my opinion

Trixie.7614:

MastaNeenja.1537:

why do i get the feeling this trailer was made almost a year ago? They didn’t show any upcoming fractals only the original ones.

It was. The video was origionally planned to be released with FOTM itself, but the movie makers coudn’t make it to the release, so they waited for a patch to release it with it.

^ this

dev post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/fractured/Best-trailer-ever/first#post3227234

8 profesions, 6 elites, so total 48 new elites? :o

i want more deluxe version elites like mistfire wolf. could be mistfire unicorn

if there were no farmers, i’d have to run around like madman and chop those ancient logs myself. now i can enjoy dungeons and buy as many logs as i want

i’m amazed how inaccurate and vague those bug descriptions are

Citadel Of Flame
1- The invisible fire balls
are caused by lower graphic settings and high quality character limit settings, as those fire balls don’t have generic placeholder skin for lower settings

Twilight Arbor
1- Weapons not Swapping
it has nothing to do with twilight arbor. its general bug with cinematics. if you are swaping weapons when cinematics starts, it gets disabled. ‘fix’ for that is going to hero panel and pressing button to switch weapons there. this bug existed since day 1

3- Nightmare Tree AoEs
i suspect you get damaged by his slam attack, which doesn’t have any aoe circles

4- Force Fields
why is this even a bug. they are supposed to toast anything that touches them. i’d say it’s a bug that you can dodge roll with aegis into them

Ascalonian Catacombs
1- Getting Stuck
you get pushed away if you are standing on burrow when its destroyed, and that ‘push’ ignores walls

npc skipping in general – npcs are not scripted to support every possible skipping scenario – so when you skip you do it at your own risk – have fun micromanaging those npcs

Khisanth.2948:

Which profession is this? There are only 3 discoverable artificer recipes and 1 tailor recipe. The rest are learned automatically or requires a recipe sheet.

not true. there are many discoverable recipes for each profesion. artificer have dozens of potions and sigils, tailor got dozens of runes, specialized bags, etc

as for crafting materials not showing in discovery page – they don’t show up if you can no longer discover anything using them

normyp.8671:

…I think we’d all like a PERMANENT explorable area added to the game…

you say players want permanent areas, fact that Southsun Cove is empty determined it was a lie

i still get shivers when guild gets missions rolled there

i’m curious how you handle targeting ground based skill-shots while moving forward holding both mouse buttons. because you cannot change mouse location on screen while right mouse button is pressed

if it was mesmer that caught you, then distances wasn’t that great – their effective attack range ~2400, if they use traited blink as opener

my guess would be that thief caught up with you and slow you don’t so that others can catch up. but thieves can do that only with certain builds and wasting all their initiative

P.S. from my wvw 1v1 experience guardians are easy prey if they are far away their towers, keeps and allies, as they lack mobility to escape

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Superior-Rune-of-the-Golemancer/first#post1256111

posted same 10 months ago. no one even noticed

what are your camera and targeting settings?

just to make sure you are not trying to attack ‘targeted’ mob behind your back

you can shoot only in the direction your character is facing. also regular shots are not ‘homing’, so if target changes movement direction you may ‘miss’ and hit something behind it, and with autotarget on, your target would change to the last damaged

when you help someone else, and it matches your personal story level, at the end you get option to progress in personal story. by accepting to progress you changed your story line. congrats. you may proceed order of whispers story-line and get medal on your wall, but in your heart you will stay priory. and btw order of whisper agents won’t accept you as their own

hurray to wrong choices in life

kill all ze thingz

i’m guessing you are talking about right clicking someones name in chat

you get options to invite/join only if you are located very close to the player or if player is on your friend list

you claim that you want to help complete runs faster, but fact that you have almost no offensive support apart 1 utility(str banner) and empowering trait, determined that was a lie

in any decent pve group this would be hindrance, because it provide almost nothing besides permanent regeneration while dealing negative damage (no offensive weapon nor offensive support)

in beginner groups it would increase survivability a lot, although without contributing anything to end fight faster

leave the defensive support to elementalists and guardians, but if you still insist then at least get warhorn with trait to cleanse group, while at the same time it provides permanent vigor. cleanse and vigor are a lot more important than regeneration

as for tanking, anyone with aoe burst will get agro away from you, and if you somehow manage to keep agro on you, you don’t have any survivability beside 2 dodges
also you don’t have any stunbreaker – why? – shake it off would be good choice, as it can cleanse party members too

hammer – no no no why would you want to knock enemies in pve

rifle – salvage it, and get longbow for ranged option instead, you can provide fire fields and aoe might combo with it. longbow’s fire field is most kittin field in game

banner choice – only disciple and strength banners matter – not to mention having 4 banners is just wrong

i would recommend to have only 1 or 2 banners, replacing slots with “for great justice”(offensive support) and “shake it off”(defensive support & stunbreaker for self)

from my perspective if you want to make runs faster with warrior you either have to go full dps or dps mixed with offensive support – with 80-90% might duration you can easily keep 12-21 might stacks on your group – from fgj and longbow firefield combo. if you setup your traits to include empower, and equip str and disciple banners then you provide everything warrior can – con of that build, that its counter-productive to have more than 1 warrior built like that in group

any of those?

• waypoint costs;
• 15% trading taxes;
• forgot to withdraw failed orders;
• too many items queued on trade post withdraw window;
• bought something and forgot about it.

can you make short video of the problem, or at least some screenshots when its happening

if you choose not what you want, but what others tell you – you are gonna have a bad time

Astral Projections.7320:

Romek.4201:

i trie to read always what “devs say” and i cant remember they said somethign like this

you have a source?

A quick google gave me this

AnthonyOrdon
Game Designer
I’ll be the source. The invasions are sticking around until the Scarlet storyline is complete. Telling you exactly when it will end would probably spoil a lot of stuff. You can at least count on them regularly occurring through the end of this year.

plot twist – never ends

while you are at it, ask for new title purchasable for 10000g, or maybe 100000g in case 10k won’t make you unique enough

papryk.6273:

yeah but the weird thing is that it was sent by noreply@guildwars2.com… that belongs to anet.

i don’t wanna be rude. but you are wrong, and probably don’t even know how to check who the sender is. email fields ‘from’,‘to’ are optional and easy to spoof if you have your own email server

if you wanna find out the real sender, open up email source and look up sender server ip and intermediate servers