Guild Wars 2

Angel.4581:

Just remove the critical hit chance and change it to a flat 25% chance (with a 5-10sec CD) to cause a critical with whatever you are using, be it a dmg ability or a healing one where the critical has added effects. Like the new healing skill: E.D.I Shield on the engineer, where is has a chance to heal for a high amount.
A critical should be something that occurs occationally and gives a nice extra effect.

And yes, enemy HP should be lowered as well, since that is the main reason ppl zerk everything, long and boring fights where dodge is key feature. Heck, why not have endurance tied in as well, where you can only swing your weapon so many times before your arm get’s tired.

I agree. Critical chance and critical damage should be fixed and should not ever have been bound to stats.

Nike.2631:

Goorman.7916:

Chrispy.5641:

How does forcing you to play in one of three archtypes instead of play how you want increase build diversity?

Forcing people to choose one of the archtypes is the essence of build diversity. If you are not forced to choose and you play how you want, there are no builds at all.

That is the most banal piece of double-speak drivel I’ve seen in months.

“Forcing you to choose from a tiny pool of pre-defined options is the only way you can have choices.”

You forgot that right now we only have 1 role to choose from.. DPS. How is that freedom of choice? What a disgrace.

^^^what are you talking about???!!!

You only get empyreal and bloodstone. You don’t get any dragonite except from keep lords and that’s just 3 and I think I only kill a keep lord every 10-20 hours of WvW gameplay.

Lol. Rng is so messed up. :P Most players never got any precursors with thousands of hours of gameplay, then some random guy pops 4 greatswords in a forge and bam…
Then we try it with 100x the amount and nothing. This shouldn’t be happening.

Ozoug.4158:

Fix the content not the gear.

This nerf changes nothing

+1 indeed

No, because they gather every kill in a duel or a in a fight against overwhelming odds.

What I see aswell is that out of 10 skills we have, 5 are always dedicated to damage, except on a two classes:

• Elementalist water attunement on staff (1 heal, 1 regeneration) and daggers (2 heals)
• Guardian mace (1 heal), shield (1 heal), staff (2 heals)

Give us more swappable stats on each weapon, for each class, with healing and scale healing power as it should, equal to power. If a warrior can hit 3k with auto-attack, give us 3k heals on max healing power.

That is amazing Orpheal. Would like to see it.

hellsmachine.4085:

Agree 100%. Why should I as a WvW/PvPer be forced to PVE to get BiS gear? Makes no freakin sense! Either make it attainable from WvW or keep it out of WvW!

I agree. It’s incredibly stupid that they bring in some PvE grind armour in WvW. This alone makes me want to go for the next big RvR.
WvW is bad as it is with all the noob zergs… ascended just makes it worse.

The story means nothing… from level 20 it’s the same for every race. And no I can’t be bothered re-leveling a class because I don’t like the race, only because they think “You’ll miss part of the story”. That’s pathetic. If they asked me to complete the racial story, sure. The racial story is pretty good. Post level 20 sucks though, so why make me level 60 more levels? It’s utterly brainless.

Nekomi.9562:

Sirendor.1394:

~100 gold. Zero precursors out of forge, zero precursors out of gameplay.

That is awful! How long have you been playing for? …

Around 1600 hours since headstart. I do spend most of my time in world vs. world.

Still in favor. It’s totally pathetic that you can’t get a new race on your character because of the lame story nobody cares about.

~100 gold. Zero precursors out of forge, zero precursors out of gameplay.

^agree with CoRtex

I’m at the moment thinking about the stats in this game, cause they really don’t make sense. There’s so many random factors in this combat system that it is impossible to balance.

Conditions:

• Some do damage
• Some don’t do damage
• Do damage per second (which is fine)
• Barely need condition duration because nearly every build has 2+ condition removals, which immediately kill your conditions.

Boons:

• Some override conditions
• Some override control (stability)

Damage:

• Uses 3 stats. Crit chance (aka precision), crit damage and power.
• It would make a lot more sense if there wasn’t crit damage.
• Criticals would just mean a constant multiplier; for example your criticals do 2x the damage normal hits do.

Toughness/vitality/healing:

• Scale another way per class, e.g. a guardian can virtually max his vitality and still stay below the normal health a warrior has.
• Armour rate is higher for heavy armour > med armour > light armour, while that is completely out of balance: warrior as a heavy armour class still has the highest dps in the game, where a class like mesmer has maybe half his damage and light armour.
• Casters in this game mean nothing: all the gap closers make casters barely playable. if you want a stable build, you need a weapon with close-range or med-range.

Is there a way to clean this mess? I have no idea.

I went full cleric armour + boon duration runes + full giver’s jewelry + knight’s weapons (with some variations on the sigils, on trinket upgrade slots). Had 1,5+k healing power with stacked ‘Life sigil’, 2,1k toughness and 1,5k vitality. My power went down to 1,4k and precision 1k.

In the beginning it seemed worth running, using Mace/shield + Staff for ~2,5k heals with Shield’s #5, Virtue of Resolve, Mace auto-attack (chained #3), Mace symbol #2, Staff #2, Staff #4. I also used Healing Breeze for 3k+ AoE heals. Hold the Line for regen and protection (as well as Shield #4 and Mace #3), Stand Your Ground for the stability and the elite Tome of Courage for 30k+ aoe heal.

What I noticed was that in doing this, I gave up all my own survival. I didn’t have quick escape ways. I didn’t have many blocks and nearly nothing to keep enemies off me. I relied on the team for that. My dps was extremely weak, though crits managed to get me some damage. My health was rather low, but the toughness made up for it.
All in all I could do extreme healing if I timed it right and keep our group up most of the time.

One time we made a heroic last stand with 5 in a tower against about 30 people from enemy server. If you decide to go healway though, you need to go full out for it. Greatsword is useless for healing.

This won’t hurt the PvE DPS meta a single bit. Worst possible fix. Instead of revamping the PvE encounters they think they can fix it by making crit damage less effective? lol?

Entirely too easy. All you need to do is transfer to a tier 1 server and spam #1 in a zerg.

The people I have respect for are the high rankers on lowest tier.

Vabbi took a big hit after leagues. Some of the bigger guilds transferred, others stopped playing WvW altogether (mine included). A couple are back now though. We started playing WvW and generally GW2 more again since this week.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Times like this I’m glad I run hybrids…

Anyway, the thing with power builds in WvW is that it depends on both the philosophy and the circumstances. For zergs, many people way to run with PVT gear as to avoid being killed or downed by stray enemy fire. This is a defensive philosophy, and it often overlooks the flaws that come with it: in PVT, your stray fire does less damage and is less likely to down someone. A defeated player works as a rez for your own team, so the quicker you can defeat a player, the more quickly you can rez your own team, and the more overall health that gives the zerg.

I personally follow the offensive philosophy: If you get immobilized and run over by a melee train, or if you get focus fired by a small group, you are going to die really quickly no matter what gear you are wearing. By contrast, by having high damage you have a high deterrence rate for being attacked, and make a larger immediate impact on the field. You become less influenced by retaliation and confusion, since you perform more efficient attacks. Hopefully, you’ll be engaging enemies in a position of power (in the train, on the wall, at superior range, etc), where defense is handled by superior positioning and tactics instead of passives.

The problem being that, since I am much squishier, should I find myself in a compromising position, I’m more likely to go down due to ambient damage. Unfortunately it is a tradeoff that works best when assuming Fabian tactics, and always trying to engage at a point of power.

True. I’ve noticed it a lot. Blobs don’t care about how much armour you have… they cleave through it with 30-40 people auto-attacking. The only thing blobs care about is not dying. So if you manage to hit them hard with AoE, they break. The best defense for a small scale roamer at the moment is through high offense and high mobility.

ANET: we need the aoe cap removed.

Juba.8406:

PvP gets heavily balanced
PvE gets heavily balanced

WvW …….. whats that ? …….. ahhhhh, just copy paste our PvE dungeon balance for them.

sincerely,
Balance team

/thread

When is the time they will finally split WvW from PvE?

Delete PvE gear from WvW and just let us use our skins. Change all skins to a WvW version and fix what is broken. Fix traits in WvW.

Natronix.9827:

I’ve always wondered… whats the story on Vabbi? Seems to be the emptiest server since I played WvW

We have a couple of guilds active at the moment. Took a huge drop after leagues but it’s better now. Mostly getting zerged by some higher pop servers though. Good thing is, we still have enough numbers (in guilds with 5-15 people groups) to pose a fight most of the times, but when the zergs come we just try to delay/hinder/annoy and then make a last stand or slip away.

I think Vabbi is one of the only servers who doesn’t do PvD and doesn’t blob and still uses tactics, basically the best server to be on if you like quality fights over steamrolling.

I’m going to add to the discussion. I play a PU mesmer, but not with condis, but direct damage through greatsword and sword/torch or sword/focus. I hear a lot of chat that PU mesmer is OP, but in reality it’s the condition mesmer with PU, no other builds.

By nerfing the trait so you don’t get more clones if you already have 3, they made the trait useless really, but what they should have done is nerf not this trait, but another, chaos V I think, the one that gives conditions to enemies when your clones die (and by spamming them stack conditions).

……… stealthbump……..

Love all the thumb ups in this thread. Looks like more of PvE is coming into SPvP… keep those mindless farmers in their dungeons please. We’re fine with them not playing PvP. Shoo.

It’s not PvP. It’s not PvE… It’s PvD.

Wawh this is a real show of being a good zergling. Kudos for you sir. I would nearly think you guys are using tactics! o_O

Alright that’s a lot clearer now to me.
It might work, but still would require a mkitten of work.
Kudos for the post though!

Well. I read your whole idea and … I think I’m actually liking it. Some parts do seem a little problematic to me:

• Power stacking… well it is still possible that a player will simply stack all his points in power/precision. All the buffs you provide would make him beyond strong, stronger than the zerk warrior we see today. Would that mean he loses his healing skill? Can he then equip an utility in place of the heal?
• Variety… seems something which will be restricted by making skills dependent on points spent.

All in all it’s a nice try, but it would involve a mass of work to redo the traits, and won’t mean a fix necessarily. Zerk warrior would most probably still be the best because he gets all the damage and support isn’t really needed in a dungeon, whatever you change in traits.

If you delete dodging, conditions, healing skills and every form of support from zerk warrior… what did you just do? You went back to the trinity. I don’t think the trinity is bad, but it isn’t a fix.

Lagg has always been there for me. Depends though. Sometimes it’s lagg free, sometimes it’s unplayable.

CMstorm.8679:

What if there was a week where Anet made it so every class was able to build 30/30/30/30/30 just for kicks?

Which classes do you think would be best/most fun?

Classes I would gladly play then: Guardian & Elementalist, but I think I would just enjoy playing more cause I wouldn’t be restricted to look what stats I get combined with what traits.

I think I would have a big problem: not enough utility slots! Nooo I want to keep my meditations, noo the consecrations, oh god shouts… sigh. Same goes for ele: Cantrips? Arcane?

Vayne.8563:

I always see players on Tarnished Coast. No idea what server you’re on. And that’s at all hours (since I’m in Australia).

Tarnished Coast is the official PvE server, so I hear. Not really remarkable that you have a lot of people there. Compared to other servers… the only players I ever see in PvE are standing at waypoints going for dungeons or new players in zones 1-15 and 15-25/30.
WvW in Vabbi is active mostly at prime time and reset. SPvP is empty, but since it’s cross-server it’s still possible to get a match every now and then.

Vayne.8563:

So, instead of debuffing one profession they should raise all the stats to that, and make all the content in the entire game trivial and meaningless to everyone?

If something is out of whack by being two powerful, it’s not only less work to debuff that one thing, but think about it.

If you increase everything you also have to increase the power of all the enemies. Do you know how much work that would be?

Actually no. They should just encourage players to add less full damage people to their group. What if a full zerk group was a guaranteed wipe? What if you needed at least 1/2 people with a little more backbone and maybe someone providing group heals?

That’s mostly the way it is in small scale for World vs. World. We run roles and try to balance our teams around them. For example, we have 2 thieves, that run a mostly zerk build. They try to stay out of AoE as much as possible and pick off enemies from the rear, the flanks. I sometimes run my tanky guardian, holding off 2-3 people while another runs a hybrid healing engineer and yet another a tanky warrior with conditions and control.

That’s what PvE needs… tactical encounters. It needs bosses that require you to work together, not dps dps dps. It needs to revolve less around damage and killing things, and more about puzzling things out, supporting eachother, using your brains.

The solution given by ArenaNet is horrible.

Lol. Another mess apparently. Anet =/= balancing.

noname.4231:

this game does not make sense…

Hell it’s good they nerf dps gear, but the problem is not with the gear, the problem is with the fact that stats are bound to gear. Why the hell do we need 5 different sets if they always nerf one to make another better?

Just let us change our stats out of combat on ANY armour, not just on stupid legendaries.

Nice idea anyways. It would make traits a lot more userfriendly.
That gets a +1 from me.

Getting A Legendary… [is impossible]

Ascended Gear is catered to the % of players that want to grind. Sure, most people hate grind, but those who don’t… well they’re happy. I do find that they don’t belong in this game because Guild Wars 2, as a sequel to Guild Wars 1, was supposed to be no grind.

Mhmm from drops… I think less than 10 exotics overall ever dropped from a mob. A lot more through chests though. Rares I’d go with ~100 (estimated) from mobs.

Charlie.1726:

Pointless endless debate about gear in this game.

Having so many different armor attributes in an MMO is absurd anyway…

(almost) all other MMOs: wear 1 Set of Equipment, works perfectly fine, much less grind

GW2: 20 (twenty !!!) different armor attribute combinations…. grind multiple gearsets, buy the gems for transmuting off the Gem Store (which is a must because Exotic/Ascended lvl 80 gear is objectively ugly…) = have fun grinding and spending lots of real money!!

The way you play should be defined through your Skills/Traits.

- They could just make it so that whereas now a trait point spent gives you 10 of a certain stat (Power, Precision etc.), it could give 20 or 30 or whatever.

- Have 1 armor attribute combination (doesn’t even matter which one it is in the end – just make it useful to all)

- Whether you’re an offensive dude, a defensive dude or a healing dude is defined only through your Skills/Traits

=
Much less grind, no need to carry around multiple armor sets, balancing encounters is easier as well. No dumb debate about gear.

I agree. Stats are a horrible idea.

Swagg.9236:

HOW TO FIX GEAR STATS IN GW2
Step 1
Step 2

• Reduce trinket options to 4 slots (amulet, ring, ring, backpiece).
• Normalize trinket option slots between PvE and PvP (they both have the same number and type of slot options now.
• Normalize stats between PvE and PvP (all stats granted by trinkets are now
• Remove all stats from weapons and armor.
  consistent with current PvP-level stats).
• Adjust current legendary, elite and veteran hp throughout PvE to compensate for the overall player stat-reduction in PvE.

Step 3

• Add bonuses for each stat set akin to rune set bonuses.
• Tie these set bonuses to specific, non-spammable activation-bound abilities (i.e. specific skill activation such as a healing, elite or utility skill, combo finishers, swapping weapons, interrupting an opponent, successfully evading or blocking attacks, etc.).
• As a hypothetical example off the top of my head:
  • Berserker (1/4): Swapping weapons grants you might (1 stack; 15 seconds; 30-second cool-down).
  • Berserker (2/4): Whenever you combo with a fire field, you gain fury (5 seconds; 30-second cool-down).
  • Berserker (3/4): Whenever an opponent blocks one of your attacks, you gain might (3 stacks; 15 seconds; 30 second cool-down).
  • Berserker (4/4): If you strike a foe with stability, you destroy up to 3 boons on that foe (90-second cool-down).

Woah. That is revolutionary and very very interesting. If they did this, I would certainly go with it.

You should really make a new thread with this as a proposal and multiple examples for other things like Cleric, Valkyrie… that no longer provide a stat bonus, but a skill effect.

Breaks my heart to see everyone vs. Vayne, it’s like World vs. World in the forums. O_O I’m sure Vayne will come out on top though.

Malediktus.9250:

if Berserker is nerfed it wont be the best anymore, so it deserves a stat change

Nor will anything else be “the best”. That’s the objective of the adjusting. They want to make everything equal.

This guy rocks. :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Adjust-Equipment-to-Fix-DPS-Dominance-in-PvE/first#post3507667

I’m going to stick with brilliant as Chain. No matter what you zerker fanboys may cry about… the world isn’t about you.

IVIUIEI.9631:

Meglobob.8620:

2 new bosses, 1 permanent, 1 temporary, a list of achievements to do.

Nothing other than living story till April.

That means no new:-

Quality of life stuff.
Nothing for PvP.
Nothing for WvW.

Plenty of Scarlet thou…

Nooooooooooooo……. it’s not true…… There has to be more.

By your answer, you sound surprised!
“Mission accomplished.” High five all around the dev table.

CarmelChocolate.3915:

So, I have no idea what to do at 80 now that I’ve hit max level.

Afking in LA. Most people do it. I hear it’s extreme fun playing this game… oh wait.

Wombatt.2546:

It feels like the dev meeting went something like this:

“How can we get almost everyone to stop doing Jungle Wurm?”

“Teq it?”

“TEQ IT!”
group cheers and hearty back-slapping

Sounds very probable.

Me sad quaggan. Me wait till april for real content. /crytosleep

I doubt I will be doing it. More zerg content sucks. I avoid champions, world bosses, Tequatl and temple events to stay away from zerg content, then they keep on throwing more of it in.

//The above in memes//

*So Dev vs. So grind
*Much wow vs. Much troll
*Many living story vs. Many other mmo

Well… Expecting and Wanting is something different.

I would want:
- New PvP game mode
- Accountbound WXP
- A new class/race
- A few new maps
- More engaging dungeons
- Combat templates
- Stats removed from gear
- Skin database
- Housing
- Guild Halls

I expect…:

• EoTM
• Accountbound WXP
• Maybe second PvP patch
• 2 blues and a green

If the latter is true… I’m armed with my EQN:L beta code.