Guild Wars 2

Starbird.4029:

How exactly do you ‘nerd’ a class?

Also – if you have an opinion about balance and can phrase it in a coherent and constructive manner, you should post it. Worst case scenario – someone tells you why you are wrong.

You forget…no one is ever wrong on the internet!

chronometria.3708:

Wildstar online is making a big thing of its housing. It will be interesting to see what impact wildstar has on gw2.

From what I’ve seen of Wildstar not much of one at all…

My main reason is that I find dungeons more of an interesting challenge than the open world. (Drops aside which is not my primary reasoning) while alot of events can be fun for a while or at least the first time they lack depth in comparison to dungeons.

While changes have been made to some they are usually overly simple and end up being zerg fests which for me and I’m sure many others is no fun.

Please note I’m making these comments soley comparing the different aspects of this particular game with each other.

DEs to me are meant to be the primary way of spreading story and lore but they feel rather shallow in that regard. (At least the vast majority of them).

If DEs were better used to tell lore or provide a challenge I know I’d defintely spend more time doing them than dungeons. As for now dungeons and fractals is an ok enough substitute.

When you level up

Elementalists are a boon focused class similar to guardians >.>
Thieves have their stealth
Mesmers have their clones
Necros their conditions etc

If you don’t know how to counter boons already (though I will admit protection can be an annoyance, however guardians can get more frequent access to that) then I’m not sure what else to tell you. What I find funny is that you’re dying so quick :p flame grab is easy to avoid if you see someone using bunring speed on you lol.

More customisation? Yes!

Mounts? Not needed and just would add clutter.

Ummm I don’t know about you but when I’m out pvping I’d target the higher ranks first and leave the lower ranks till last. Get rid of the greatest potential threat before dealing with the rest, logic no?

Arena Net….if you bring Cantha to Guild Wars 2 I will love you forever

Guilds are there to be more than just another friends list or to be used when they are granting member buffs. They are a group of like minded individuals who get together to form a community to play with and socialise with. To group together to tackle content. I’m no fan of the multi-guild system, I can understand it to an extent and have used it to a lesser extent as a hap-hazard alliance system.

It’s hard to form a solid guild if people are jumping between several others. It breaks that sense of community it doesn’t build on it.

Personally what I would have preferred is to have an alliance system as they had in Guild Wars 1 rather than the multi-guild system. Because that would truly bring together multiple communities and not just random individuals jumping from one “friends list” to the next.

Fay.2735:

(I come from the Jedi Knight series of games and am female so I remember when coming across another female gamer on there was fairly rare).

I’m sorry but that sentance right there unloaded a whole lot of nostalgia on me thank you very much =D

Cantha and Factions to me, were everything right about Guild Wars 1

The key lesson to learn here is self control.

Malady.7810:

Balthazar open on Borlis Pass!

D: should’ve saved my guesting slot for that

Temple of balth event seems to be starting again on JQ so anyone who is willing to help come on

edit: nvm someone started it early so it failed

Nejul.8415:

jade quarry is open right now

Just checked…jade quarry is not open

D/D mainhand has faster attacks generally while being mostly in “melee” range while sceptor has ranged attacks that are slower it’s meant as a form of compensation. However I will say that sceptor needs some love and even more so the focus.

Sceptor is still capable of incredible burst if you check out this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Elementalist-Scepter-Dagger-WvW-1-Vid-4-1-13/first

I personally rarely use sceptor in pvp but that could be taken as more of a personal taste I like getting up close and personal.

Yea I ran into this issue myself with someone activating the rally point npc before we had all the reinforcements done

Stark.1350:

Almost all world bosses need to be tuned in difficulty. Shadow Behemoth goes down in like 30 seconds. The temple bosses are fine.

Sadly the temple bosses are mostly ignored I hardly see people do arah events anymore ever since the dragon bosses and the like got buffed loot :/

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Only thing left for me to do for my legendary is buy the Shards for my Gift of Mastery. I’ll love somebody forever if they’d kindly inform me in-game of when anyone’s Temple is uncontested.

Same boat here :/ haven’t seen any open temples in ages…

Trying to gather people to take temple of balthazar on Sea of Sorrows whisper me if interested

(Nobles got the escort will try again later this week, thanks for those who came)

Seems temple of balthazar is never open these days (at least during oceanic prime times :?) going to be impossible to finish my dagger lol

Any NA servers got an uncontested balth?

Saraneth.6021:

catqeer.1954:

OMG vanity items… that are luxury items and have no impact on our ability to play… They must be stopped from doing what they told us they would do with vanity items we want…

No. They never said kitten would be hidden behind RNG! Why can’t they just do it like GW1?
Makes me sad I will never get some of this stuff since I refuse to play there little money grabbing game. Also means they will never see my money.

I’m sorry what?

Gw1 had no rng? Well lets see….

Ectos were rng,
rare weapon skins (aka voltaic spear) all rng,
inscriptions? all rng

That’s just to name a few, gw1 was far from rng free…infact I know not of one single mmo without some element of rng even many single player games have it.

Doesn’t mean I like it but lets not put on any rose tinted glasses here.

You sir just made me smile thank you

Easily one of the most interesting boss battles in the game to be honest :P

Single greatest addition to the game aside from Fractals, I’m glad they added it in my guild and I have had many hours of fun inside there

Hope they do more things like this!

This is classic!

Ectos will likely not increase much more than they have staying around 26-30s roughly.

There will still be guaranteed rares coming in and the general world boss chest loot aside from the one guaranteed rare had been improved :P

le sigh more bandwagon guilds

lol, no more are people carried by quickness :P

Stupidly easy dungeon path is still stupidly easy though

+1 to quickness change

-1 for no duration buff currently

People used to complain about the swamp fractal just as much, now it’s considered one of the easiest and most preferred, give it some more time to get used to the new mechanics and such

Though I’ll admit I have an intense hatred for those gravelings playing ping pong with me lol

Remember as some of you have mentioned wanting a hardcore/easy version. Explorable is supposed to be the hard version and story mode the easy version. Maybe asking for better story rewards would be more to your liking?

And thus comes the advantage of a solid friends list and a good guild

Never have to pug again.

If you want a jack of all trades in a dungeon :P better to take an ele than a ranger

What about getting celestial accessories only whilst being in PVT gear with offensive/defensive runes(depending on your taste I prefer runes of the pack when using my pvt set)?

I see a chance at more amazing blue loot!

Yes it’d be nice. Not sure if they’d put in the effort to do it. They’re adding stuff sure but at the same time they’re not really “adding” stuff :/

Great idea then I can show my secondary weapon on my ele!

…wait nvm

Regardless like this idea at least as an option like they have for the backpack/helms etc

Rainzar.6905:

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Its this and that’s the truth and that’s final! Now stop complaining shut up and play the game as usual please or go play another game! Its getting tiring!

complaining about people complaining… irony.

its a forum why else are people here?! to complain, the end.

more loot = good, less loot = typical anet nerf.

It’s Rainz! Hello Rainz!

That said I’m indiferrent about this, yes I used alts, yes it will affect me. Did it need a change? Probably….but was this the best change? Not likely :/

please, Deimos you’re just embarrassing yourself now….

I remember back when it was an event hardly touched and I’d solo it still nice to see others enjoying it even if it’s mostly for the loot :P one of the better open world boss battles I’d have to admit.

I love the changes even though in some cases things may seem easier (to those who run with experianced groups like I do) despite that I can say I love that the boss battles are actually interesting and while not overly difficult the difficulty is not tied to one spam ability (colossus) or a snore fest of beating up a barely responsive boss (ghost eater) I’d have to say path 2 was the most interesting change to me.

Tengu hmmm Teungu and maybe some more Tengu? :P

To be fair:

1. Tengu
2. Largos
3. A race that hasn’t been shown as of yet (perhaps from a different continent i.e. Elona/Cantha)

Seems like an interesting idea, I’d imagine less people would complain about stealth too…one would hope that is :P

Cantha was what I liked most in gw1 it got me hooked on that game, I’d be sold on gw2 if they were to add it, defintely the most intricate and interesting of all the continents.

hmm I get plenty of laughs…does that count?

Defintely looking forward to this new dungeon. I’ll leave my opinon on the ascended armour for now and see how it works out ingame.

I two was in this group and while I still am a bit wary I agree with the OP. Defintely like the look of the new dungeon so far looking forward to running it with guildies.

At least this way exotics will remain compeditive and ascended gear will remain useful for it’s apparent purpose with infusions in that one dungeon you’re adding.

I’m sure more than a few players would be relieved if this were the case, I know I’d be one of them.

Aedelric.1287:

Spoiler -

I will try not to be too harsh, but it is hard to do when he literally does everything I am about to type.

He is a horrid glory thief, constantly takes credit for the players hard work. Has a position of authority that he did not earn and at every corner he shows he is not capable to lead.

Firstly Claw Island onwards is Trahearne’s personal story, not the player character, which instantly irks anyone who is paying attention to what is going on around them. Seriously, this is meant to be my (your) story.

I honestly thought I was back at school when he asked me to quiz the pack people what they thought of him, what is he fourteen? He steals credit from the priory in regards to the cleansing ritual as stated above. He comes right out of left field and acts like he is the player characters BFF, without even earning it like Forgal and the rest do, he even completely forgets you met before if you have the Sylvari origin. He rarely makes any decisions as the leader constantly relying on the player character to make almost all of them.

He states multiple times how hopeless the situation is and that members of the pact are throwing their lives away, while they are right in front of him, seriously bad leadership. His speeches are delivered quite flatly, not entirely the voice actors fault, it is correct for a Sylvari to be emotionally impared as most seem to be, but the speeches all lack that `Commander Shepard´ special something. As for his use in combat, he is pathetic but that would be nitpicking.

I must say it really was a feat of writing, but Arena Net did manage to create a character more disliked than the glory thief Kormir, who stole Godhood from us. That is not a good thing by the way!

It boggles my mind that anyone can find any endearing qualities in the character.

This sums up my opinion of him perfectly

Personally I’d have preferred if Destiney’s Edge had played a larger role in the personal story and not just in the dungeons. I could have easily seen them leading the pact rather than some random dry character such as Trahearne :/ I felt a complete lack of connection to him and still wonder to this day how he managed to get in charge instead of someone else.

All that aside I do wonder if the pale tree had just set this all up so she’d have her roots in this because we all know Trahearne and almost any sylvari would do anything for the tree.

If the pale tree and here’s a possible spoiler Or Pale Trees as shown in the personal story there are more than one and not all guided by the "dream" where to be as some have speculated an elder dragon champion of sorts seeing how there is most likely going to be another Elder dragon (see the crucible of eternity and their studies of the elder dragons they have one for the deep sea dragon and another area full of plant life possibly hinting to an earth/nature themed dragon?) Could this mean it was simply to gain control of a pact capable of stopping the other elder dragons and removing comeptition for the one it “may serve?”