Guild Wars 2

+1 :d Wish armor would fit (female) norns a bit better.

Most ppl agree that the ascended armor skins are not exactly top tier :-)

I cannot wait to get this on my ranger. :d

Maybe if the sword auto got fixed already… :d
Ofc i’m happy for the dmg boost, but it’s not like a sword ranger was all that far behind a warrior, with the unique party buffs we were already better than a second warrior in a proper speed-clear.

With the new outfit system any class can wear plate armor, or anything really. The forthcoming ceremonial outfit is a good example for that.
Is there any reason why we cannot transmute light armor skins onto plate armor, or etc? Lore wise I don’t think it really matters anymore. It would be great for the extra transmutation charge sales as well. It would also sort of fix the art team’s difficulties with creating decent medium armor sets. (I don’t suggest that they are bad artists, rather that sticking to leathery armor things with the gw2 gfx engine is anything, but effortless)

They haven’t mentioned sword auto, so I wouldn’t expect any change…
And the balance pass comes at an “undisclosed time”… xd

SAAAAB, SAAAB … me wants.

Taku.6352:

April 15th patch:

Fixed a bug that caused the Howler to endlessly loop its trumpet animation at night.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-15-2014/first#post3896042

It was never supposed to do the moon animation all the time and especially not keep howling even when sheathed.

I don’t think that’s true. The bugged animation thing happened when you used a horn ability & then the animation got stuck with the howling noise & the movement thing, it only happened at night. It had nothing to do with the stowed night state, if you think about it right now the moon thing is not even visible when you blow it it only appears for like half a second in front of your toon …

Lindelle.3718:

Boy I hope I am wrong….

I just returned after a break for a few months when the first season of the LS ended. It’s been a few days and I had kept thinking maybe I was just always on daytime maps, but even on night maps I am noticing that my Howler does not animate, show a ghostly moon, or howl any longer. Obviously I can’t really post a screenie of the animation itself or the howling… but this shows the moon that no longer seems to appear. This is going to totally break my heart if its true.

I looked back in old patch notes while I was away and don’t recall seeing anything about it, but maybe I’m wrong. Anyone have some clarification? Thanks!

Same story for me with getting back to the game for LS2. It’s real sad…

This should be a high priority fix, since WARRIORS use warhorns too for the blast finisher in PVE!

I just got back to the game after nearly half a year and my hard earned legendary horn is broken….

I would rather not long on than play wvw or spvp..

They could at least enable SAB till then, with the old stuff..

My regular team had also really bad drops since the patch running daily 49, although our sample size is probably not big enough.

Bolt has no aura when wielding it in the off-hand :/

It was worth it for the screenshots, but its kind of annoying —> so no fractals for me today :-)

(I personally would have preferred if the dev that made these would have been working on clipping issues instead)

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Medium armor full ascended vs. guardian+warrior+ele alts …. :S

Some sort of refund for multiple copies would be nice, for all duplicate skins, not just legendaries…

None of these have any significance in pve, whilst warriors are getting buffed again :-)

So I purchased the new shoulders :-) and it’s off a bit on my big lady norn. It’s as if they are floating above my toon’s shoulders.

(it looks fine when previewing it on female human toons)

Allie Murdock.8152:

Perhaps just fixing some of the issues with the AI could be enough for people to feel better about the lack of permastow.

-I feel some form of active defense is needed for pets (in Pve). If it’s not permastow then something else, perhaps a button that puts their appearance into downed petmode & then saves them from dmg for 2 seconds, or a trait that makes pets dodge when we dodge :-)

-What would happen if pets would become immune to all red circles in pve? What’s the risk in that?

-An idea to make permastow less off a problem for the devs (aka to not go against the basic ranger design philosophy): Punish the player heavily for stowing the pet in combat, like 75% dps loss while stowed, or 75% movement impairment – pets are heavy! This would still be useful in some situations, but it would prevent it from being overused for sure.

-Pet dies to red circles?! Np, the ghost of the pet could keep attacking with different ghastly abilities in a weakened state.

Specific Game Mode
PVE
Proposal Overview
Trait changes

Proposal Functionality

-Piercing arrows need to go. Maybe change bow auto attacks to pierce by default.

-Move Spotter to skirmishing. It just makes sense.

-The 5 target limit rule on boons make Fortifying bond too important. This is not good for variety.

Specific Game Mode
PVE
Proposal Overview
QoL utility skill improvements

Proposal Functionality

-Reverse signet functionality. Active effects would work for the ranger by default & while traited the pets would benefit as well.
-The fire field duration provided by the flame trap is too short. I propose to change to trap’s fire field to last at least 8 seconds, to offset this change to cd to 30 seconds.
-The cooldown on Rampage as One is too long. I feel that most of the time the very long stability is not all that usefull in pve & this skill is just overall inferior to warrior’s elite signet. (warrior’s can benefit from the active effect 50% of the time & the passive effect is also good-ish)

Specific Game Mode
PVE
Proposal Overview
QoL pet improvements
Goal of Proposal
Improving pet functionality
Proposal Functionality

-Make pet stow available at all times, no dmg compensation required imo. This would be a great mechanic to save the pet for certain boss abilities & remove the annoyance that the pet represents at certain places(for example Jade Maw)

-Aggressive/Passive hotkey option

-Adding a new ranged dps pet, available in pve only. This is missing in my opinion. The governing attribute for devourers is toughness & vitality for the spiders if I recall correctly. I’d like to have a low health ranged pet with higher dps than spiders (10-15% stronger), for example a bird that bounces between the ranger and it’s target.

-Fixing f2 ability fumble + quicker execution of f2 abilities There is no reason why a jungle stalker cannot roar much faster. (shorter animation for it would be real good)

-Quicker reactions to F3 & maybe a speed boost that lasts until the pet is back at the user (maybe make it impossible to cancel, if it’s quick enough why not)

-Ascended Pet stats. Make all pets roughly 5-10% stronger in pve.

It’s a good idea, anet could do this with just adding flame effects to the existing t3, like with the old flamekissed skin.

Specific Game Mode

• PvE

Proposal Overview
Improve certain weapon skills

Goal of Proposal
QoL improvements.

Proposal Functionality

Shortbow
Autoattack changed to a 2 component attack, one doing the same dmg as the current crossfire with bleeding on it (no flanking) and the second component doing 30% more raw dmg with no bleeding. To offset the power increase & to differentiate it even better with Longbow, range could be decreased to 600. Would be nice if at least one of these attacks could pierce all the time.

Sword
Dodge should work without any delay. Leaps shouldn’t happen at all below a certain distance, like 100-150. (it’s no fun when I cannot dance around my mob like with a warrior)
(The current sword 2 skill is a great mobility skill, also it encourages skill based play, I would keep it as is. )

Axe
Currently I feel that main-hand axe is very nearly useless for aoe-ing mobs. To fix this either change it back to how it has been pre release hitting 5 targets, or increase the damange substantialy. It would be interesting if it hit 5 targets, but by each hit the dmg would get lowered significantly, this could lead to a usable single target utility as well.
Winter’s Bite: This skill could be changed to the pet causing aoe weakness at its location.

Would be nice if we could move around while channeling offhand axe 5.

Longbow
Rapid fire could pierce all the time. (if both shortbow and longbow had a partial piercing ability the piercing arrows trait could be removed entirely)

I plan to write 3 more proposals on utility skills, pets & traits at a later time

Pwnzor.5682:

arent there any longbow skins that look like a real recurve bow? cause al skins are so lame..
even kudzu is more a flatbow the a recurve bow

I believe the Zenith Recurve Bow skin qualifies lol!

My warrior alt.

Can anyone pls post a zodiac medium skirt on a female norn backside pls?

“- Huge balance update for all classes. (Ranger mostly)”

I largely doubt it, based on the balance preview.

Accodrding to Dulfy “Cannot be used inside dungeons, fractals, sPvP Matches”. -_-

I think it would be the best if it stayed on until turned off, even while changing maps etc…

I think the more likely scenario is this: The reward team created the new potion not knowing anything about the bug & so this went unnoticed until the patch hit live and since it suddenly became a problem it jumped the bug-fixing que.

Is this fixed or not -_-

Frostfang as an offhand :I

It’s hmm interesting on charr, but especially the female medium (as usual) is really bad -_-

bound ~~15 characters~~

Finger’s crossed for a cool set of medium armor in the gem store today :P

edit: -_-

RoyalPredator.9163:

Viper: No thanks, I’m straight at sexuality……..

The viper leggings have some utility on female. Although I’m pretty sure it’s not what the art team has intended. I’ve been considering a similar look for a while, but it feels a bit weird to hold my massive weapons wearing this :-)

minstrel and kraitkin

Ryoki Hokishami.2756:

Doggie.3184:

Ryoki Hokishami.2756:

I dunno man. I prefer medium armor to all other armor classes. Heavy is all just plate/mail for the most part. Medium is mostly coats. Light is mostly robes. That’s how it goes.

Plus medium armor gets what in my opinion is the best armor in the game. Thanks scarlet! (for once this is serious.)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magitech_Medium_Armor_Skin

Here’s some pictures of me with that coat, human t2 pants, and some pieces from the toxic update and TA update. You can get pretty creative with medium if you try.

Except light gets robe-less non racial outfits and heavy gets several non-armored outfits~ both of which get skirtless options for both genders.
Medium gets 0 as a male character. Absolutely 0. Not 1, not 0.5~ pure 0.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Falconer%27s_armor
Armored, instead of leather.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sorrow%27s_Embrace_armor
metal, also non-leather

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scout%27s_armor
No long coat at all, pants.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Viper%27s_Medium-Armor_Skin
No long coat, similar to light armor.

Definitely not 0.

You are right ofc, but these are not exactly majestic looks. Just look at the new flame kissed light armor, it’s amazing, leaps better than anything we medium users got in my very subjective opinion.

Let’s form the anti trench-coat movement! :-)

Taku.6352:

And kudzu footprints and projectiles are still bugged.

I have Kudzu, but I haven’t noticed any bugs with footprints :o

Behellagh.1468:

And the price. $10 versus 100+g.

I don’t see how. Gold → Gem conversion makes them pretty much the same.

Minos.5168:

Sina.9208:

Minos.5168:

It’d benefit ANet in many ways…

Either it’d decrease the amount of gold in the economy… Or people would buy gems to convert to gold for the T3 armor.

Marvelous idea.

This is about getting a flame kissed type of update available to all the existing T3 skins via the gem store .. :-P

I understand that…

But I recall that a lot of outrage with Flamekissed was that it made Human’s T3 available to anyone for just 800 gems.

People were complaining that they’d spent 120 gold and it was now much cheaper.

From my perspective, ANet could just as easily add a Mystic Forge item to the Gem Store that you combine with the T3 armor…

That way you pay like 200 gems for a single MF item (or 800 gems for a set of 6)…

Then you buy each piece of T3 armor that you want.

For ANet, this would be pure win.
T3 still costs 120g.
T3 + Flames (or Ice) would then be 120g + 800 gems.

Mostly the outrage was about non humans being able to wear their cultural armor I think.

1. ranger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Minos.5168:

It’d benefit ANet in many ways…

Either it’d decrease the amount of gold in the economy… Or people would buy gems to convert to gold for the T3 armor.

Marvelous idea.

This is about getting a flame kissed type of update available to all the existing T3 skins via the gem store .. :-P

xenon.3264:

I’d gladly pay 800 gems to make my Minstrel playable.

i do not want to waste and additional bag slot for another harp when i have one i my hand the whole time.

let us play it.

anyway if u compare minstrell to others legendaries it sucks.
shortbow, greatsword,sword, pistol they all have much more interesting effects. each legendaries is uniqe in its way so why a harp could not be played?

EDIT: what about letting us put minstrell + new harp + 250 bloodstone shard + 250 dragonite ore in mystic forge to give minstrell the playable effect?

Minstrel has a nice effect, looks great when paired it with bolt. Frostfang on the other hand doesn’t even have an aura. The footfalls don’t really matter, if you have a legendary main-hand.

CrashTestAuto.9108:

Do we really want what would become the “Best in slot” aesthetic in a game focused on aesthetics to be in the gem store? Isn’t that, and I hate using this phrase given how often it is used, kind of the definition of Pay to Win?

T3 armor without headpiece (most of us don’t display those) = 100g = 800 gems. If T3 was really at the pinnacle of aesthetics no one would buy those gem store armors. How can a skin be best in slot, or how is this pay to win? Does it matter if you need to give the 100g to the npc or to just simply covert gold to gems?

Fluffball.8307:

Howler drives me insane that I have to swing my sword every time I use it or else listen to that 1.5 second sound loop forever. I still like the horn, I just wish they either varied the howling noise or made it stop right after you use it.

I heard ppl complain about my howler (this guy plays with his game muted)

Starwind.1069:

Just hope this actually gets looked at as my entire guild would pay out the butt for this type of booster lol. Since my guild almost always pays real cash for gems to show support for such an awesome game they would make atleast $1000 or more on just my little group probably more since i would spend about (if it was say about 20$ for a booster) $200. Now if it was $50 worth of gems for the booster it would cost me about $500 though that would mean i would have to buy them over the course of a few months since i can’t just drop $500 on a game in one month lol, but i assure you i would still pend that much on this type of booster for T3 armor.

This would be extremely profitable for Anet, one set is already made too.