Guild Wars 2

You’re mistaking damage for condition damage. Actual attacks like hitting your enemy with your knife does damage.

Bleeding is a condition. So more condition damage means the bleeding causes more damage per second – not how much it totals, but how much HP is knocked off at a time.

Where has this thread been all my time with this game?

It’s beautiful.

Their dialogue and steampunk ascetics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPjwHqc2ZII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-nJmuOd5KA&feature=player_detailpage#t=327s

And because the human characters in any game where there’s other playable races are always horribly generic.

I love the idea of making events unlock more parts of the map. But how could you implement it sever-wide?

Oh boy. I only watched videos of him and didn’t think the teleport in itself was an attack. That’s just punishing.

Honestly, who thought that was a good idea?

Surely a large health bar and instana-kills are not what the majority of gamers consider to be the only criteria for making a boss challenging is it?

It’s the same way on more populated servers.

Everyone’s probably in Orr because they need crafting materials and/or enjoy spending half hour fighting a single enemy with more HP than their whole party combined and multiplied by 10.

Strill.2591:

Shooopa.5632:

Here’s a novel idea:

Instead of a boss fight that isn’t difficult just because it has obscene amounts of HP and kills everyone with one hit, how about ones that involve tactics and strategy more complex than just “Shoot with ranged weapon, die, respawn, repeat.”?

We have one. It’s called “dodge”. You obviously aren’t dodging his attacks.

And you obviously aren’t familiar with video games concepts more complex than “Push button, watch thing happen.”

There is nothing remotely interesting or even challenging about an enemy whose entire arsenal of attacks are just one-shot kill melee strikes. You stay out range, keep out of range, and after 10-20 minutes of rinse-repeat you win. If that counts to you as a “tactic” then you should never, ever attempt to play God of War, Serious Sam, or Shadow of the Colossus.

Endless repetition is not a tactic. It’s a time-waster.

Here’s a novel idea:

Instead of a boss fight that isn’t difficult just because it has obscene amounts of HP and kills everyone with one hit, how about ones that involve tactics and strategy more complex than just “Shoot with ranged weapon, die, respawn, repeat.”?

LazyCanuck.4157:

I think a good start would to make all those mobs spawn with a retaliation buff on them so all the lame kitten AOE class spammers kill themselves when they sit there doing nothing but AOE spam on enemies that are not even visable yet.

So make mobs even more annoying and incapable of doing anything but wasting peoples’ time? Great idea!

No. Just no.

Better thing to do is stop making swarms of minor enemies and instead spread them out over the area.

There’s a problem with upping the difficulty of lower level zones – many players have already hit level cap and are off in higher-level areas leaving a lot less people roaming about lower level zones.

When I go around the 2 starting areas in Ascalon, I can usually count the number of players I see on one hand. Just yesterday there was a grand total of 3 people fighting the champion giant attacking Nagling. On a full sever!

If you do increase the difficulty of anything, you better make sure there will be enough players actually taking part in them to make it possible. Remember your level may scale down, but late-level equipment gives you very larges stat boosts to compensate.

Just cranking up the difficulty will make less experienced players give up on the game because events the game says they should be able to do are suddenly impossible for them.

Narkosys.5173:

THis is After The FIX Patch Last Night:

War master Yulia on blackgate after reset is still bugged. come on please get your stuff together this has become all too common a thing.
You punish me every which way now playing and restrict me in movement and money at least let me get skill points and 100%.
Are you really trying to stop people from playing because it feels like it.

BillFreist.1527:

Update update read all about it!

We’ve finally tracked down the root cause of these missing skill point NPCs and fixed it. This magical fix will be in the next patch after it goes through further testing. This fix will also address issues with missing Event NPCs, too.

We apologize for the hassle these have been, but thank you all for hanging in there while we got this issue sorted out.

-Bill

This is a big game. I haven’t even finished exploring all the maps let alone try any of the PvP. There’s craploads of content they have to work on so give them some time.

If it’s not fixed in the next patch, then you can start complaining because they’ve confirmed they know the problem.

Asura researching skrit:
“We’ve confirmed two skrit are smarter than one. And three are smarter than two.”
“So we’re just measuring skrit for brains.”
“You’ve been just dying to say that haven’t you?”

Flame legion solider you fight in Ash legion story quest Spy For A Spy:
“Ow! That hurt like-I mean, nice shot.”

Char soldiers at Moorwatch Tower:
“Do you think cows migrate?”
“What?”
“You know, like birds.”
“Don’t be stupid. There’s no such thing as flying cows!”
“Maybe it was an exotic cow. From someplace far away.”
“Get it through you thick skull, there’s no such thing as flying cows!”
“Hey you hear that? I thought I heard a ‘Moo’ just now.”
“What?! Where?! Incoming!”
“Hahahah! Just kidding.”
“Do that again and I’ll kill you!”

Server: Henge of Dermini
Map: Caledon Forest
NPC for point (Swift Arrow) missing.

You do know you can detonate the cluster bomb while it’s still in the air? And that doing so causes more damage and effects a much wider area than if you let it hit the ground?

rmBossa.4621:

So what exactly does D/D have over this? (in pvp)

If the Bp>Hs stealth works like that I would at least put it on par with C&D and since 3 and 4 are not used in D/D anyway how is D/P just not straight up better?

auto attack?

Death blossom causes massive bleeding. If you’ve spec’d your thief for condition damage then that’s your number one skill.

Carrioncrow.6872:

As Once you use Black powder then Heartseeker, you are stealthed on the Leap attack and the heart seeker has 100% chance to crit, but because the attack gave you stealth it doesn’t kick you out, so you follow it up with a backstab.

Actually you need to perform heartseeker after black powder to get stealth. The smoke field is an status effect area and heartseeker is a leap finisher.

Heartseeker doesn’t have 100% critical chance either. How much damage it causes depends on the target’s HP. Backstab however will critical hit nearly all the time, and even if it doesn’t it’s very powerful.

Someone also mentioned there was a place where some flame legion guys were discussing what to do after their shaman died and said he’d come back. And eventually realize he’s not coming back and start complaining it’s a waste of time waiting for him.

Anyone know where that is?

The charr and asura are full of funny lines.

Mad Mardine:
“Finally. What took so long? Were you talking to cows again?”
“Cows seem to loose bowel control upon launch… Let’s call it a feature!”
“If a guard shows up here, act like nothing happened.” – Made even funnier by the fact that a guard does show up and argues with him.

Char soldiers at Moorwatch Tower:
“Do you think cows migrate?”
“What?”
“You know, like birds.”
“Don’t be stupid. There’s no such thing as flying cows!”
“Maybe it was an exotic cow. From someplace far away.”
“Get it through you thick skull, there’s no such thing as flying cows!”
“Hey you hear that? I thought I heard a ‘Moo’ just now.”
“What?! Where?! Incoming!”
“Hahahah! Just kidding.”
“Do that again and I’ll kill you!”

Charr soliders at cooking fire:
“Is it done yet boss?”
“No! Stop asking or you’re next on the spit!”

Flame legion solider you fight in Ash legion story quest Spy For A Spy:
“Ow! That hurt like-I mean, nice shot.”

Iron legion marksman teacher:
“Failure to follow all of these guidelines will result in death or mutilation… Yours!”

Clawspur:
“Howl charged off ahead again. He’s going to end up with a knife in his back some day. But not mine probably. Not unless someone steals my knife.”

“I’ve got a flame legion scratch to mur-I mean, scratch.”

Reeva:
“Congratulations on the promotion! We should celebrate! I know! We’ll kill something, and then I’ll make a nice red cake with lots of frosting!”

When starting the Salvaging Scrap quest and aiding the scrappers:
“Call me crazy, but going off alone with a couple of scrappers to do scrapper work sounds… Well, it sounds a lot stupider than you normally sound. No offense.”
- Answer you expect her to avenge you if they kill you -
“Done! One vendetta, coming right up!”

Dinky:
“Awww, now I want a ghost torch too! I’ll hang him over my fireplace and call him Ol’ blue.”

“I’ll remember the code. Well, I’ll remember we have a code. Someone else will have to remember the numbers.”

“So this Soure guy tried to join the flame legion? Can we trust him? They say the friend of my enemy is my enemy’s friend. And the friend of my enemy’s friend is my enemy’s friend’s friend.”

Charr vender and partygoer at Meatoberfest:
“That’s all I’ve got! What do you want me to do, sacrifice a goat for you?!”
“Yeah that sounds great. One nice fresh, juicy goat please. And some smoked beef sticks.
(Disgustedly) “Here have another beer.”

Asura researching skrit:
“We’ve confirmed two skrit are smarter than one. And three are smarter than two.”
“So we’re just measuring skrit for brains.”
“You’ve been just dying to say that haven’t you?”

Asura golem researching aggressive skirt to deer:
“Greetings life-form. I have a questions for research purposes. Question one: Are you a skirt?”
‘No response from deer’
“No response from subject. Likelihood of being a skrit increased. Thank you life-form. Your lack of response has been noted.”

Same golem:
“Life-form has picked up shiny object. Likelihood of being a skrit increased.”

A norn somewhere outside a tavern or small house:
“I could think of 20 different ways to kill you with a biscuit. And still be able to eat the biscuit afterwards.”

Except daggerstorm has this bad habit of not killing everything around you, but just wounding them. It throws daggers in very specific directions instead of covering an entire 360 degree area.

And again, you can’t dodge or do anything else for the entire duration of the attack.

Signet of Malice I’ve found doesn’t restore as much health as it need to in order to be extremely helpful. Enemies will almost always drain your HP faster than it can replenikitten.

…Re-pl-en-ish is considered profanity? Since when?

I haven’t tried PvP yet, still working up to level 80 so my equipment and traits are up to par.

But I can see dagger/pistol working great against lone targets. Its only problem is it only works against single targets. If anyone else jumps into the fight, you need to either switch weapons or run away.

Thieves guild isn’t just for single targets – their best feature is they pull attention away from you while also doing significant damage. Calling them in when you’re in over your head can turn a fight around instantly.

Caltrops are vastly underrated. They’re perfect for events where enemies spawn and run to a certain area like the separatists attacking the charr caravan in Diessa Plateau. Throw them down in their path, get back and then hit them with cluster bombs.

I would not recommend melee against any boss enemy because irregardless of how much armor and HP you have, they inevitably hit hard enough to kill in 1-2 hits unless you’re a guardian with those damage negation skills.

Can it be done? Sure. But unless you’re an ultimate thrill/frustration seeker, I wouldn’t.

Finished Rata Sum about two days ago and it’s the easiest of all the cites to complete. The Grove wasn’t hard either, but figuring out where the vistas actually were so I could start looking for ways to get up to them was confusing.

Divinity’s Reach was designed by a person who wanted to share their hatred of simplicity with us all. So. Much. Walking.

The problem isn’t the character sizes, it’s the camera. It will completely freak out whenever it has to focus on your character in a tight space. This is in no way a problem only the charr have.

It’s baffling how charr NPCs will always stay bipedal and charr players will go quad.

Three more events that aren’t working as follows:

1) Protect The Armory
Location: Plains of Ashford
Problem: The last wave of flame legion invaders never appear.

2) Disguised As A Separatist, Attack Flame Legion
Location: Diessa Plateau
Problem: Evidence cannot be planted.

3) Skill Challenge: Defeat Swift Arrow
Location: Caledon Forest
Problem: Gate is shut, no sign of Swift Arrow in the area.

There’s almost no one in that area or in the Dissea Plateau anymore.

Where everyone’s gone off to I don’t know.

I thought the citadel was one of the easier places to explore. It’s not a friggin’ maze of right angles like Divinity’s Reach.

The entire purpose of death blossom is condition damage, not critical.

You’re supposed to use it to inflict bleeding on enemies and then leave them die of it. I do however believe it would be much more useful if it also caused cripple too.

Blinding and absolutely incredible potential damage against lone targets.

They can also do a few area effect attacks with the short bow, but it’s not as impressive as the ranger’s bow skills.

And if you’re in a group of friendlies, just two words: Venomous Aura.

Well this is an important thing to note! Thanks for noticing this.

Will early det of cluster bomb still apply venoms though?

Like just about everything else, it’s all situational.

Double daggers will make quick work of small groups of enemies who try to swarm you thanks to the massive bleed damage of death blossom. But you don’t get any blind abilities with them. You can hit a literal small mob of enemies all at the same time with blossom and then run away, letting them die of bleeding.

Sword and pistol give you a decent reach, you can hit three targets lined up side by side in front of you with each swing and black powder means for 4 seconds you’re almost invincible. But it doesn’t have any bleed or poison abilities so you’ll have to hit things until they die instead of running off and letting their HP drain. Sword attacks can cause paralysis, weakness, and cripple.

I’d personally find double daggers much more useful if death blossom inflicted cripple too.

We’re not flaming or upset, we’re mostly surprised by that particular decision because its effectiveness compared to most other elite skills is questionable in most occasions.

It’s definitely handy when you’re surrounded and when combined with black powder. But in 90% of situations you’re probably better off with something else.

The problem I’m fairly sure is they did balance the quests – but only for the classes everyone picked – the guardian and warrior. These two classes are the best at handling groups of enemies. Everyone else? Not nearly as much.

So play testers probably said the quests were too easy and AreaNet complied.

It’s nice to see actual staff who work on the game taking time to tell us what’s what.

Report a problem and there’s a decent chance the person who works on that area responds instead of CS rep. That’s what I call real customer service.

There are two instances I noticed a few days ago weren’t progressing thanks to problems with the AI and with the placements of signs.

First up, the instance where you’re supposed to help skrit steal parts from an Inquest lab. The skrit just stand motionless in front of the lab when they reach it.

Second, infiltrating a separatists’ base disguised as flame legion and planting symbols. Killing 10 separatists is doable, but only 4 out of 5 symbols can be planted.

Attached are a screen shot of the skrit quest and 3 of the separatist one.

That’s one of the reasons I picked charr. I wanted to at least see some of those vehicles in action. Big disappointment.

Yeah… I’m not happy about the personal story difficulty because it’s called personal story which logically means you can play it alone, but dungeons are purposely made to be for groups.

What they should do is include a party in-game voice chat so pick-up groups are actually functional.

Uzl.1987:

1. the “large HP pools + massive hits = fun” thing as a design philosophy is wrong. dungeons need to be challenging thru mechanics and forcing people to keep an eye on what’s happening instead of going all out on the mobs.

My thoughts exactly. Are you reading my mind?

A challenging game isn’t challenging because it’s testing how patient you are, it’s about how you respond to what it does. See the attack, move out of the way. Enemy activates something that makes them immune to projectiles? Get in and hit it. Enemy becomes immune to melee? Get back and shoot.

Real simple things like that would make all the difference and be a lot more fun than just “here’s an enemy, it has lots of HP and kills you in one hit. See you in 10 minutes!”

Quasi Mota.7390:

Daggerstorm: I shouldn’t have to explain this one.

Yes you do. Because it’s basically death blossom but with much less bleed damage and the tendency to pull in enemies you can’t even see on your screen yet.

Thieves’ guild is a better choice for nearly all situations.

It can be useful in some cases – it’s basically a free status-effect and easy way to get into melee distance.

shaktiboi.5194:

To Ruien (who typifies the “elitist jerk” stereotype so perfectly and ironically), and to all the others agreeing with his viewpoint on this and other threads, here’s what you’re all missing.

No modern MMO can survive or thrive if it locks casual players out of entire sections of content. It’s that simple. Want a current example? Look carefully at the financial woes of The Secret World, where casual players are completely brick-walled from participating in the end-game progression for purple (epic) crafted gear, in a game where gear stats are everything.

And before you say anything in rebuttal, consider the fact that dungeon tokens, many many many of them, are needed in this game not only for dungeon prestige armor skins, but also for legendary weapon crafting components. So if the casuals cannot do dungeons here, then they are effectively locked out of both of these types of “end game” goals/content.

We’re not asking for the game to cater to less skilled players, but for it to actually require some kind skill instead of just patience. The most viable strategy for most bosses is to get a ranged weapon, set auto attack, and then leave your computer for 10 minutes. Is that really what you’d call fun?

OhTeeSee.3870:

Ruien.9506:

When does my mentality get a game?

You sir, have clearly not tried playing Dark Souls, which I would suggest, as it sounds right up your alley. I promise you wont have to deal with all the lesser mortals scumming up your gaming environment there.

He’d hate that game, that game requires planning your approach, paying attention to visual ques, and having reflexes instead of just spamming a single button for 20 minutes. He wouldn’t have time to wipe the cheetos dust off his fingers in time to dodge enemy attacks.

Pretty much.

Every boss encounter seems to come down to picking either a guardian or warrior for melee with them, or for everyone else ranged attacks.

The most successful tactic for dealing with a champion enemy in this game is pick a long ranged weapon, get just close enough to use it, and then set auto-attack while you leave your computer to do something else for 10-15 minutes.

That’s not fun, that’s tedious and boring. Where are enemies that are challenging in more ways than just having one hit kills and ludicrous amounts of HP?

You need to tell the devs exactly what’s happening when you play it that way they have an idea what they need to adjust. For example, they recently discovered an enemy was regenerating its health way too fast for anyone to kill it and are fixing that soon.

My problem’s with the Defending The Keep mission – the undead come in way too many at a time to fight with any tactic and the NPCs are useless at fighting them with me.

This is incredibly annoying. It’s one thing to have adjusted damage so it’s not instant death in PvP, but when you miss completely stationary targets…

Absolutely naff.

Not only do you have zero skills that can hit multiple targets, but you don’t have any useful status effects aside from bleed.

The shortbow is the only way to go for ranged fighting because:

1) Its default attack hits up to three targets with one shot
2) It does more damage and has the same fire rate
3) Its cluster bombs can be combined with your venoms to hit multiple enemies.

Hahahah, oh those silly flame legion morons.

It’s a glitch in the new anti-farming system AN just implemented.

Most of the complaints are from people who are something other than warriors or guardians.

Which made for an interesting post hypothesizing that because those were the most popular classes, AreaNet balanced the quests for them and forgot about the others.