Guild Wars 2

DragonHunter is about a different kind of support. Vuln, CC, Ya know stuff that makes it easier for frontline zerkers to murder things. It is definitly NOT a spec your gona wana take if your a hard healer/defense booner

LALALALA I cant hear you over the sound of my medi guard spec getting buffed

Did you miss the part where you lose none of that? if you trait DragonHunter and Virtue line you STILL get that from both. Now there might be abit of a question as to how the major and grandmaster traits will interact but those basic boons will activate just fine

P.S. Don’t touch my fire spear, its not even out yet and your trying to touch it. Bad lorde bad

Eh why not Serpent Seeker. It has two S’s

stealth, traps, lack of offensive mobility. Huh almost as if our moves are devised to help us GUARD an area

My only beef with the name is that its more “hunter” than “dragon hunter”. that bow skin is just about the only part of it that’s dragon related from what i’ve seen. Then again with bosses coming up like the wyvern the name might be spot on

I think the names abit odd because EVERYBODY by lore is a dragonhunter at this point. Unless there’s going to be smaller dragons to fight in which case…yeah its cool.

You know how a shout warrior uses shouts for their 789 slots? The way things are going now, that’s soon going to be 67890 and you’ll never see one with signet of rage. Same way signet warriors will always use healing signet, and signet guardian will always use signet of resolve. Shout builds are probably only going to use shout elite and heal skills. Same with the other skill types. As of right now you would be crazy to choose skills from three different categories, I’m afraid that soon the game balance will be set that you would be crazy to pick anything but all signets, or all shouts, or all traps.

Upcoming trait and skill changes, wooo~
Ok, now that I’ve confirmed that I love what the devs are doing I’m going to get to my complaining.
Utility skills have traits. They always have. Choosing skills to go along with your traits is kinda necessary to not be a nerfed build. Healing and Elite skills are being forced into utility categorizations. Who’s going to pick one skill when they can get all these hyped up traits for another? It’s an impossible conundrum. If one skill is so strong that you would use it as opposed to the one your traited for, than 99% of the time people are going to take the build that supports that skill instead. As of right now there are healing skills and elite skills that aren’t in utility catagories. This is going to quickly change from what I’ve seen. We need a reason to still keep those skills that aren’t in the same skillset.

Traits that pertain to utility types need to be toned down abit (hint: as a Medi guard I have never felt the need to give fury to my entire team) , and traits that affect specific effects from skills (such as conditions, boons, etc etc) need to get a double look to make sure they’re effective enough that choosing for example: judges intervention, purging flames, and tome of wrath, is a reasonable combo because u can buff the burning of all of them. From what I saw of the traits that may be possible. However I don’t think I saw anything that would give you a reason to take CC skills in combination like sanctuary, spirit hammer, and signet of wrath or bane signet.(not that anybody ever WOULD take those in combination because no stun breaks but I think you get my point). As of right now I know alot of meditation guardians take shelter over Litany of wrath. If shelter gets changed to a specific utility type its going to get nerfed to balance it out when its effected by that types traits. Meditation guardians will no longer be choosing between two healing skills, they only feasible choice will be Litany of Wrath

The bow is a healing ability…maaaaybe it should go in the healing slot?

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And OP, by making RHS be viable to sword only you are not making sword more powerful, you are nerfing the other 1h’ers.

Yes I am. That way when I face them in pvp they aren’t getting 2 buffs from a trait when I’m only getting 1. That’s called imbalanced and its one of the things we are hoping won’t come with this trait update.

yeah, when i first started playing i was kinda bummed that THE FREAKING SHILED was a weapon with NO FREAKING BLOCKS

Edit: im just gona leave that typo there to show emotion

putting 2 weapon traits in the same slot would totaly bone people who use both weapons, so no

Radiant retaliation won’t be used until 1. it gives a secondary effect or 2. it uses both power AND condi damage. I realize that can be a problem with might but there are ways around that (mathmatical ways). Also yeah its placement is kinda awkward because u cant use that light aura with it.

we CAN burst. Knowing when to and when not to is basicly what makes a good medi guard. I don’t wana hear any talk about nerfs tho because we don’t even really get might stacks. So no its not to strong. And if we can force a turret engi off a point GOOD. make them pay for placing all their eggs in one basket.

My biggest issue with torch 5 is that nobody cares about it. Even the new torch trait is basicly giving more love to torch 4, because torch 5 is so highly situational that to buff it would just seem weird. It needs to be given some other functionality besides condi cleanse

Dear Developers,

Right now I’m playing GS/swordXtorch + meditations. It’s great fun, however I’m taking traits from all 5 lines, and with the new system I’m going to have to rely on radiance line for most of my damage. (R.I.P fiery wrath but I don’t wanna grab all that symbol stuff with you.)

Plans are to make right handed strength to be changed to the go to sword trait. Great! I’m going to love having a powerful sword trait. I would not love however to be punished for using a sword/GS combo. Its hard enough with only having symbols on half my weapons(and feeling silly if I take zeal), please don’t make me feel nerfed any more for using these two weapons together. Make it a sword only trait, and take out the buff to other one handed weapons. Right now its the only weapon trait that affects things other than itself. That would be fine if it wasn’t the only one but it is and from what I can see right now I would be gimping myself if I didn’t go scepter/sword.

Also I’m finally getting a cool torch trait I’ll be using (praise Balthazar!) however I’m going to have to choose between that and a basic dps buff when using retaliation. I -always- have retaliation on, this is gonna hurt me(You know, on the inside). The big issue here feels like its making me pick between setting things on fire and going offensive with my retaliation up. As it is right now these things go hand in hand for me. They have always gone hand in hand for guardian. Set them on fire, pop my retaliation, go to town with a blade big or small. If this choice has to be forced for balance reasons, I understand that, but right now conceptually it feels weird how a person is being forced to choose between raw damage output/realiation and burn capability when so many other traits are made to fuse these things into a hybrid.

Also, nerf that third minor trait. That’s to much crit.

P.S. It’s going to be nice only having to use 3 trait lines for what I want. Thanks ahead of time for the update.

So what your saying is you dumped condis onto a medi guard, he popped contemplations, and then you all forget to dodge, is that right?

….why in gods name would you use battle presence with zerker gear?

Pro Tip: Check the wiki and see how stuff scales with healing power. if it has a high scale rate you shouldn’t be using it with anything offensive

Other tip: Don’t bother with ANY of the aegis traits

Super duper tip: if you wana heal you allies grab the healing symbols

Nah Guardians are still way different from Warrior. Our medi build is probably the most similar thing and its a lot slipperier than warriors utilities are. Medi build is also currently abit op, but it doesn’t have a real role in the current pvp meta (otherwise we’d be EVERYWHERE). also don’t listen to these people, medi guard is terrifying. Its just lucky that almost nobody knows how to play it right :P

The last two games I just played both had two turret engis. TWO. turrets were raining from the sky! Its like they were using the buddy system! Im a medi guard. I could fully heal myself just by using litany of wrath and my greatswords #2 there was so many of the turrets. Its nutterness. We need a new super meta bunker.

The day you manage to dodge roll into a zerg and hit shield #5 is the day you weld that thing to your arm and never let go.(This is of course assuming your something other than zerker)

What:Perma Retaliation on Guardians
Why: I would like to face a thief who occasionally tries to use a pistol against me ^.^
More serious
What: Sigil of Fire
Why: It gives away a thieves position if I hit them with it while they are stealthed. I’m not sure if this was meant to be but does kinda give me abit of an edge fighting them that I don’t need

I’m not telling you to learn to play, but if your not stealthed and you get sniped. I’m Sorry. I play a guardian, I use judges intervention to gank lighter classes all the time. That’s definitely a drawback of thief, and the upside is that your class is supposed to be able to use its speed and stealth to be able to disengage a fight whenever you want. Also don’t listen to all the “l2p” dorks around here. Half of them are just regurgitating “meta” stuff they’ve read and can’t actually pvp. If you feel your class is specifically weak in a certain area your probably right. pay attention to it. Learn about it. Do what you can to overcome it. And wait for the next balance patch

Hey guys I don’t know jack about thief and I was wondering if a solo venom build was applicable for pvp. I know that its amazing for support but I’ve heard its kinda nerfed solo to compensate for that. This true?

Attacking is a basic thing, it works on 7/8 classes, it even works on rangers when they are not downed. This is not balanced. Nerf.

Im full damage stats with a giant greatsword, should I REALLY be needing anything more to kill a downed ranger?

1. Stabbing a person in the face while they are down is common sense not a mistake, it works for every other class, it -needs- to work for ranger. Downed stills are for stalling for time while a buddy comes to heal you, not to completely mitigate another players DPS because your healing 15% of your hp a second. The way to counter this skill should be either to CC the pet or nuke it but unfortunately pets are balanced unlike players to have no active defence and just a big hp pool so they don’t suffer from the same danger that players do while standing still to revive somebody. This is obviously a problem when i got fury and might stacks on and this critter isn’t going down, and the rangers hp pool aint going down either. Also from what I’ve heard you can knock them back and they’ll just get right back up and go to healing
2. Arron, please use the forums for -constructive- criticism
3, Back to my original plea, we all know its broken so wheres the nerf?

Just tried to kill a downed ranger without stomping him
Spoiler alert: Im -very distraught-.
Can we get a nerf already?

Updating the dailies to be more quest like would be amazing…
Pros:
More chances to implement npc dialogue. Could lead to learning some more about these guys than “Hi, my name is guard, I guard stuff” (Not that all the npcs are like this, far from it, but you know what im talkin about)

Make the word seem less cycleish. GW2 is far from stagnant, but after you play for awhile you realize everybody is in this creepy pattern of advancing forward and falling back shiver even the people in orr depsite the fact that you’ve killed zaitan

Cons
Obviously this would take time and development, which Anet seems to be crunched on already (because they’ve decided to fill their plates with such big challanges)

If a quest included something like “Go kill this boss” EVERYBODY would be there waiting for it, now i’m not sure if this would be a good or bad thing honestly, could be fun for the community, or could lead to some really unsatisfying bossfights.

Not sure if anybody’s said anything about this skill before, that wouldn’t surprise me because most people don’t notice it, because most people don’t use it. Lemme break it down real quick for you. 20s cd, give allies 5s aegis when you block, 360 raduis

1. Its radius is crap. its double that of a symbol and if you compare it to another grandmaster buffing trait like Phalanx Strength that’s a 240 radius difference. The reduction in distance is meant to nerf it which would be ok IF (onto the next one)

2. it has 20s CD. This is ridiculous, an extra aegis for your team every 20 seconds, commooooooon is that REALLY going to stand up to the 25 might stacks the other team has from their warrior spewing might all over the place? I’m pretty sure a single aoe would take out all that aegis, and then some, heck a GUARDIANS SYMBOL would take care of that grandmaster trait on its first pulse, and its got a heck of a shorter CD than 20s
-Reduce the CD-(Try 5 seconds).

V Here’s the big issue.
3. For people who read the wiki entry and actually paid attention, here’s why its balanced the way that it is. It has no limit on the number of people it can effect. No ally cap. It is made specifically for zergs, which means we will never see it in dungeons or pvp. That’s not ok, there should not be a trait made specifically for wvw, because then that means EVERYBODY should be running it to be optimized, and that leads to sad times for the other builds.

They fix this trait, we might actually see Aegis based builds in pvp, till then, NOPE

Don’t forget the bottom tier health pool.

I could talk about the story, or the mechanics, but I’ll keep this to one thing, probably the SADDEST single thing I’ve seen in the game. I was cruising around drytop and somebody made a guild recruitment message on mapchat saying “come join us, LGBT welcome” and i was like “dude that’s silly, that’s like saying you take -insert minority here-” (expressing how silly it was that you would even have to specify that you take ANY minority, because you know as a society we’re supposedly past that). and he talked to me in PM and told me that a lot of people (himself included) had had bad experiences with discrimination in previous guilds and wanted people to know it was a safe place to join, and i was like……………but…what the…………….our games story line is based around lesbians!

Also lets not forget all the professions in this game are based on what type of magic a character uses (or in the case of engineer none at all), not what weapons they use

Find a guild with enough influence and ask them to start one of their own

Yes because getting money short term instead of working with your community long term has never bitten anybody in the rear ever

The whole point of PvE dueling is so that you would be able to fight people, on i don’t know, ONTOP A VOLCANO, or in some other epicly placed area, FoTM, any dungeon, it would be an amazing tool for RPers

Gemshop armor already clips itself anyways, So i really don’t see a reason why they would avoid capes, whats so bad bout a little more clipping if we get capes with it?

I didn’t bother reading any of this, just the title. And all i have to say is..who here enjoyed scarlet?

Remember way back when we had that election, remember when Anet was all “we want the players to shape the game!”…yeaaaah

Comon folks, its not like we can expect jumping puzzles to be a major part of the game…

We need picket signs

Dear Anet, Put picket signs in the gem shop.

Edit: Wow is nobody with me on this one? Seriously you all know you would buy it. And it would probably be a million times better a response to the raging portion of the community than just pure silence.

The community was actually pretty quiet, We were all willing to sit back and wait for updates because lets be honest, These last few LS have been pretty awsome….aaaand then they dropped SAB. Something they already made, and that just blew our minds. A lot of players aren’t just raging to get what they want, they’re raging because things that they like in the game get removed and then…ya know what? Posting on this forum probably doesn’t even matter I’m going to go play (Insert some older retro game with jumping).

I’m saying this out of concern for the game community. Half the reason of playing is always the other players. When players leave they leave in chunks. I literally thought I was gonna lose half the guild i played with when (insert other MMO here) came out, Thank god it boned, all but one of us are still here, -this time-. But we lost a person, one guy who enjoyed PvP as a ranger, both things which at the time needed some serious love, and that was one guy out of about 30 active players. I’m not sure how that percentage reflects the total player base, I hope it doesn’t. But when this game came out it advertised graphics, WvW, Pvp, all sorts of gameplay features other games didn’t have, quality of life kidna things, we didn’t come here for the grind. That may be what gives us something to do but its not what keeps us from getting yanked over to other games -just like how Anet got us to come here-

I think they are letting the majority rule their decisions, and i think that’s a HORRIBLE idea. Speaking as one of the majority, I always go after the latest shiniest thing, that shiny thing is always game play. If I see another game with better gameplay in a certain area, like oooh I dont know (EDIT not gona drop another games name thats not cool) with its apparent -shipbuilding and sandbox gameplay-, I’m tempted to go over there and check it out, don’t get me wrong, I’m not gonna leave gw2 but my time will slowly start to get sucked off to other games that advance in certain areas while gw2 is still…giving people something to grind over to keep people here….yup.

And yet they admitted that PvP attendance jumped 40% with the simple addition of pve rewards in it, oh and a new map, but that’s not even part of the normal rotation. Soooo yeah I think listening to players paid off there, I mean analytics cant show you what players want when -they aren’t doing it because it currently isn’t there-. It will show you what way to best perpetuate the current data. We keep doing LS kuz they keep dishing out LS. We keep grinding kuz we keep getting stuff to grind for. WvW attendance is down because jee whens the last time it got some love? The meta there has been the same since I started playing, Its been probably half a year I think since they admitted they wanted it to be less zergy. And the answer is apparently multicolored tags that are going to cost players more than they have. I’m sorry I didn’t realize our inability to read was what was preventing us from splitting up into different groups and having interesting tactical battles

They can analyze all they want, its most likely not going to match up to the combined perception of a fanbase of players who spend hours on the game every week.

Remember when they said they wanted to be transparent about updates…Yeaaaaaah. LS is kept secret to prevent spoilers (understandable), balance updates secret to prevent economy flux? I’m guessing. They don’t give us much of a heads up on that. Any other kind of new items/new content has to be kept secret to prevent mass speculation and economy shift. Well alteast we know they’re working on precur- wait whats that? That’s out? Well crap…guys I have no idea what Anet’s up to, lemme know when you figure it out.

Edit: Don’t get me wrong, I like most the content Anet dishes out, and I get that they always try to improve on it from last time, but isn’t it kinda counter productive to leave something in the dust when players still want it?

Well I was hoping we could all talk about how awsome SAB was and so on but I guess I have a pitchfork lying around here somewhere…

Edit: Or for real instead of rioting we could all just make ALOT of memes about this, I call dibs on the dos equis guy

I’m sure there’s already a million threads by now, But I recon I can make this one more than the words “SAB OR RIOT” posted over and over. We all love SAB, it was one of the coolest things in the game that was there solely for the fun of it (and a few skins), no economy involved. I think We’d all be happy just for the ability to play the previous levels, no new content. Abuncha people pressured me to take a screenshot of us ontop the SAB and post it here, but i have no bloody idea where on my computer GW2 Screenshots go so instead I’m going to attach this picture of an overly fluffed sheep in hopes that it warms the developers hearts to our plight.