Guild Wars 2

You certainly can make money from crafting, mainly from time gated stuff. Buy enough cloth to make a damask and sell it on the TP and you get 1-2g profit a day even with the tp fees.

You also can make mawdrey components, which are needed if you ever want to make it (it eats bloodstone dust and gives random loot), or you can sell the parts for more $$$.

Doing teq once a day takes like 20 minutes, you have to get in a bit early to get a good instance but otherwise its an easy 2-3g per day. After do the jumping puzzle and some gathering in the SE part of malchors leap on however many toons you can (easy to park them there if you wvw), only takes a few minutes and is another 1-2g a day.

Then level crafting (I know, you have to put in some effort to make gold, wtf!), and make time gated things like ascended mats and mawdrey parts, thats another 2-3g a day at least, depending on when you sell.

Add in converting laurels to t6 mats (as long as you arent an altaholic), which averages another 2g a day, which you can do multiple times if you have spare accounts.

There. Like 8g a day in about a half an hour, and no need to do any dungeons. If you want more do silverwastes for an hour a day, which is at least as much gold/hr as dungeons.

That or just buy gems, a part time jobs income ends up giving like 60g/hour, nothing more profitable than that.

Reminds me of that time I bout $50 worth of lottery tickets and didnt win anything from it, and the guy at the convenience store wouldnt even give me a refund! What a jerk

Sword mainhand and pistol offhand would be sweet. Id totally buy like everything in the gemstore if that happened (well not everything but at least a few new skins)

But as far as reality goes id bet on at least a torch offhand (or maybe mainhand?), since no one else seems to be getting one and itd be easy to come up with skills for.

If its solo roaming i’d go with celestial like you suggested. You can and should tweak your stats with different weapons/jewelery, depending on how much vit/tough you want compared to prec/ferocity. I usually run cele armor, zerk weapon, and mix of zerk/cav jewelery, and change the staff to soldier or valk if I need defense (bifrost is awesome for that)

Anything bigger than solo roaming and cele isnt as great since condi damage becomes junk, but if you arent in a T1 server running in organized zergs, it wont matter that much

That or just go full zerk jihad and laugh at all the 9k meteors and 5k lava tomb crits

If this isnt working for anyone I had to add that line and run as administrator, for some reason either option alone didnt work but both did, and now that its fixed I can open the client as normal like before.

So along with all the balance changes and stability stuff, we also got:

The number of votes required to kick a party member has been increased to 50% of the party. As an example, in parties of five, three votes will be required.

WvW map completion is no longer a requirement for a character to achieve World Completion, and these maps no longer award map completion rewards.

Added an Enable First-Person Camera check box. To enter first-person mode, zoom in again while at minimum camera zoom.

Fixed an issue in which players could take repeated falling damage when running down steep inclines.

Plus new black lion weapons that look kind of cool, AND IF THATS NOT ENOUGH YOU GET NEW FACES! (sort of sarcastic on that, though I guess rp’ers will like new options)

But no, just because YOU dont like the stability change it makes it the “worst update in gw2 history”? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

Go to the auction house and buy a bunch of sigil of bloodlust (the lowest level version), and put one in each weapon set youre using. Also buy armor runes with +10 power for the 1st bonus (you cant use 2 of the same type, but there should be at least 6 types with it for cheap). Gear could also help, you should have masterwork gear (not rare gear, you outlevel it too fast) in every slot thats within 4-5 levels of your actual level, though dont spend all your money on buying stuff every time you level up

Also find the cheapest food for your level with health regen per second on it, as well as the sharpening stone for your level (the gw wiki has all this stuff listed if you cant find it in game). All of that wont cost more than a few silver and will prob help.

This topic has been debated to death (seriously people need to stop making new posts about it and just post in the ones that already exist), but im just going to point out that if you expect to get the best gear in a game in 6 days, mmo’s arent the right kind of game to be playing.

Thats not exactly a bad thing, every kind of game isnt for every player. but if you dont have the patience to work on a long term goal for more than 1 week try playing a moba or fps or a single player rpg or something.

People are already asking (not sure how seriously) for compensation for doing wvw as part of map completion since future players wont need to, and that only took like an hour of running around a zone taking objectives. A change like this would lead to a ton of kittened off players if they find out they could have saved 100g if they crafted their armor a few months later (except for medium armor which now costs more, which instead would anger people who havent made it yet).

That said its a pretty decent idea to standardize the costs, and if ascended is going to be the top armor set in a game thats going to run for 10 years, might as well fix it sooner than later. Though at this point any idea that addresses a 600% difference between prices of materials in the same tier would be a welcome change and would make this games economy seem like less of a farce.

Siphaed.9235:

Randulf.7614:

Report, block and move on. If it was genuinely an accident, then it is one of those things – certainly nothing of significance.

It’s an online video game where this is rampant sadly- such behaviour isn’t worth acknowledging or dignifying.

Andred.1087:

You can’t stop jerks from being jerks. Especially on the Internet. Forget about those losers and move on.

They’re absolutely worth acknowledging. They’re toxic vile that is filling up the community and must be pointed out to be taken care of and removed from the community. Ignoring them or excusing it as “just the internet” only gives the impression that their behavior is tolerated and is allowed to continue.

There is a reason why people punish a dog for peeing on the carpet and eventually dogs learn not to. Dogs that just do not learn are either put outside or taken to the pound (both being a metaphor for being banned).

I guess you never really knew any internet trolls. They do things like this for the sole reason of getting a response. Its like when people post screenshots of stuff like this, and expect that the “shame” of the trolls being exposed will humiliate them, when it does nothing but gratify them.

Block, report as verbal abuse, and move on. It might not make these people go away, but you have a better chance of getting a precursor to drop three times in a row than you have of convincing internet trolls to change their behavior. Excusing them as “just the internet” is exactly what you should do

Fascinating how many time machines people on these forums have access to.

Anyone with one want to lend me it for a few hours so I can use it to play the stock market and make enough money to buy a private island to play the expansion on when it finally comes out?

Pve content involves fire fields, it doesnt “require” them but it makes fights a lot shorter, though its less skill and more running the right build

Spvp might use a lot if a team has staff eles (do people do that anymore?) but its mostly things like d/d eles and warriors blasting their own fire fields for might, or engies blasting water fields, so again not a ton of teamwork involved, but they are used

Wvw seems like the place where they take the more skill/coordination, especially water fields, but I dont play wvw much so someone else could explain it better

It would be really neat if they were more important, or at least if the weaker ones (dark, ethereal, ect.) were more useful, but if youre suggesting future content literally require specific combo fields it would be a bad idea simply because it would restrict what classes you could run.

How are you playing with staff? If youre running 0/0/2/6/6 with tanky gear its going to take forever to get kills solo. If you try something like 6/6/0/0/2, 6/2/2/2/2 or 6/0/0/4/4 (last one for more survivability if you have trouble with the others) you prob will have better results.

d/d builds are doable but with all the cc and aoe everywhere you have to be more careful, at least in silverwastes. In the LS episodes you can run whatever, but I did them with staff because its easy. Sandstorm + frost bow 4/5 and meteor shower kills everything in a few seconds as long as you arent in full nomads gear.

Also always carry a scepter + focus because there is one breach boss (forget which one but i think its the southeast fort) where if you aoe you get yourself killed, you can do it with staff if you stay in water/earth spamming 1 but its better with a scepter.

I got this over chirstmas in like 15 minutes played over 3 days (which is silly compared to mawdrey taking 100+ gold), but I agree with the OP. Having limited edition skins and toys and minis and whatever is fine for temporary content, but something like this being available only to people who logged in 1 month out of the year is going too far.

Putting it in the laurel vendor like the season 1 rewards seems like an easy fix. That or put in a new item with the same effect with the expansion (when we’ll finally get a dragonite eater as well I hope)

+1 to this

While we’re at it can we have an option to hide people spamming /dance? Most annoying thing in game by far.

None of those things are locked early game other than traits. You can get through most of the NPE in an hour, and if new players dont have that kind of patience they shouldnt be in a mmo to begin with, while old players can skip it with level tomes. Or if you just want to pvp all you had to do was to lead him to the asura gate in cities that lead to the pvp lobby and he could be in a match in under 10 minutes. That or skip it all with crafting, which you apparently did, and yet still needed to come here and complain about this.

The NPE is a crummy system (though its not worse much then before), but misinformation like this is worse.

The solution to silk prices is to build a time machine and go back to the launch of the game, and hire someone to oversee the economy so massive fluctuations in prices dont happen (like when silk went from a few copper up to 2s when ascended armor came out). Seems like most games have someone in a position like that, no idea why we dont.

So you state an opinion (aka you dont want this in the gem store), and then you demand that people refrain from using the most common argument against your opinion (aka anet needs to make money somewhere)?

Awesome way to start a discussion.

Every mmo expansion ever made in the history of the internet has had content that you could only access if you bought said expansion, which is why its called an “expansion”. If everyone could access the new content without paying for it, then it wouldnt be a paid expansion, it would just be a patch. So its not like theyre doing anything groundbreaking here.

Also id guess halloween/wintersday/ect. will still be in cities, and something will probably happen in lions arch, plus pvp events and wvw tournaments, so its not like the old zones will be a ghost town.

No idea why they put so much work into the megaserver and it doesnt save your spot for 1-2 minutes if you crash. I played games 10 years ago with instances that saved your spot for a few minutes if you crash, so it cant be that impossible.

Would be sweet to have this updated in the expansion

Drow.2081:

It’s not an unreasonable complaint. Get off your high horses and stop looking down you noses at the OP. If it doesn’t bother you to open up chests then just say, “hey, doesn’t bother me.” Being insulting is called trolling. And it makes you look stupid you couldn’t figure out a nicer way to talk.

I agree it seems a little silly all the chests and chests and chests. Mostly I wish they’d back off the anti-mod policy and allow UI mods thru so we don’t have to look at dailies, chests, or fancy fringe borders, etc, if we don’t want to. Nothing game changing just allow us to have whatever UI we want. And minus constant popups if we chose to. Or make it an Option Menu thing we could check off.

I agree it’s not super important but I’m not going to crit the OP for pointing out it got on hisers nerves.

Bro, he is complaining about having to click 2 times after every game. Thats like an average of 1 click per every 5 minutes played, if you win enough matches to get a reward chest every 10 mins.

Seriously, complaining about something that actually negatively effects your gaming experience in one thing, but this thread is just silly.

They might be legendary to YOU, but not to everyone. What if one person considers profane armor legendary, and another zodiac, and another flamekissed? So all of these would somehow have to be taken out of the gem store, which would lose money, and more people would have to be hired to create new content for them, which would cost even more money.

Doesnt seem likely to happen unless they put in a monthly sub or something to pay for it all, which is even less likely.

Welcome to f2p gaming.

Its not a great idea in pve. But if you already have it for wvw (its great for wvw, though better with traveler runes and zerker/valk jewlery instead of 100% celestial) and dont want to carry more than 1 set of gear you can use it in casual runs and wont have a problem. Ive gotten dungeon master and done enough arah runs for 3 legendaries in celestial and no one ever mentioned dps being too low.

Just dont join groups that say “full zerk wars only ping gear 10k+ ap will kick on down no noobz pro players only” (though if you want to troll these people, do the run in celestial and keep 1 piece of zerker in your bag to ping them if they ask, and then tell them at the end of the run what you really used)

I cant imagine what other gear sets could be put in game an ele could use. The only things they have left would be some weird remix of gear we already have, like toughness + vit + condi damage gear or something

Either way you could always refine the quartz now so you have it ready when the patch hits and you can decide then, so if they do put in something good you only lose what the quartz cost

The unsteady ground one is the only one that seems fair, especially since it only lasts 3 seconds.

Besides that the only change I would like is for gust and shockwave to actually be able to you know, hit targets that arent standing still.

The eruption change would be bad, the cripple on churning earth is ok since its a melee channel but with eruptions 1200 range that would be too strong. Static field is already really good as is too, not sure why youd want to buff it.

Atherakhia.4086:

krixis.9538:

give every one 250% crit dmg base line and boom zerk gear is no more and we are free to use any stats we wont.

most other mmos have base line crit dmg that’s flat even across the entire board.

and modify it for the SPVP ppl so its balanced and equal.

omg I just fixed the game

all hail me hero of GW2 design

250% crit damage is why they nerfed it in the first place. But yes, crit damage should have just been removed from the game entirely when they had the chance. Replace it with traits being the only way to raise crit damage above the base 50% . The game would have been much better for it.

Totally disagree. The only reason crit damage is king is because the dungeons are designed so poorly you dont need any other stats because you never take any damage.

Even if crit damage was removed there would still only be one or two viable sets, mainly ones with power + prec as the stats, and even then condi damage/healing power/ect. would still be useless.

Also id love power + toughness + ferocity gear (cav but with power first). That or power + healing power + ferocity.

Sane.5072:

punkinkatt.4823:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

You pretty much have to wait for your server to rotate to the right areas and for off hours. Otherwise, I agree. WvW needed for map completion is a terrible idea.

However, rumor has it this might be changed in the near future. . . .

I appreciate the input. But I was in Eternal Battlegrounds and my server is currently Blue and I was in Blue territory, trying to get the skill point. There simply wasn’t enough people from my server there to defeat the invaders and they are incredibly vicious. They chase you down even when you don’t fight back and/or are just trying to get away. I know they want loot and whatever points killing enemy players gets them, but seriously… to be THAT vicious. That’s why I do not like any kind of PvP what-so-ever.

It was bad enough that there were natural enemies there too (hylek, krait), and I was pretty much alone.

And yes, I agree… making WvW a part of map completion was a TERRIBLE idea.

I never understand this sentiment. So what about the WvW people that don’t like PvE? Should they be forced to go into PvE in order to do map completion?

Thats right, they shouldnt have to. Spvp players should also be able to get it from a reward track, and you should also be able to get a gift of battle through pve or spvp, and you should be able to get the dungeon item from doing only wvw.

It would be nice if that were made possible in the expansion. I got map complete pretty easy a year ago, but I can imagine how much it would suck to be on a high pop server and have to go through this. Hard to say if thats more difficult than a wvw player being forced into pve+dungeons, but it doesnt really matter which one is worse since the whole system is poorly designed.

Its a conspiracy by the devs. They log on their alt accounts and play the market every night to hoard silk (ideally while laughing at us in teamspeak), and we have to play twice as long to make anything. And with us so busy farming mats we will never have time to notice them putting more and more items in the gemstore, and they will be able to get away with slowly turning this game into a pw2 game, nd with all the money they get they will be able to buy off enough politicians to make #esports the national pastime so they can make even more money!

The amount of time spent in making this thread could have easily been spent on making an alt for bag space. 5 minutes to make the alt + ~10g for 4 18 slot bags (less if you make them yourself) would give you 92 slots.

Even if youre capped on alts (since if you filled a 5 extra bank tabs in 10 hours you must be the worlds fastest mmo player and probably have 5 level 80’s by now), its still more effective to buy character slots and use those toons as bank alts than it is to buy bank tabs themselves, especially if you buy those slots when they are on sale, which happens every few months.

The more you know!

There has been nothing to state that taunt will function any different for a full zerk toon than it will for a full sentinel toon. A "tank" in these instances could just as easily be a class in zerker gear specced for max amounts of cc instead of speccing for max amounts of % dps bonuses.

The only thing that could make a tanky "tank" required is if a new dungeon was somehow designed to require it, ie attacks that hit 1 person and have to be tanked and cant be blocked/dodged/ect., which is never going to happen imo.

1 word answer as to why it wont be bad:

Pvp

Well its not one word but you get the point

Also there are only 2 mordrem with cc abilities and both have clear tells. If silverwastes wasnt at least an attempt to put new mechanics in pve mobs then I dont know what possibly could be, especially since a lot of other games (that focus on pve too) dont have anything more interesting either.

The problem isnt so much the afk timer, its more that all the rewards in these maps is concentrated at the end. Even though afk’s dont “hurt” people (though it sucks to be in a full map and only find 3 people at a breach boss) its still a design flaw.

Give people a reason to stay in maps and play actively and that stuff will slow down or stop completely. Instead of a 50% mf buff from events that stacks 5 times, make it a 10% buff that stacks up to 25 times. Instead of keeps being max level 2 let it go up to 5 or 10, with increased rewards/difficulty as it goes up. Or something like that.

Ascended armor isnt needed for anything but fractals. Which means you are basically mad that the gear required for the game mode you dont want to play is hard to get (and its really not that hard with patience, 2-3 hours of play a night can get you a full set of light armor in 36 days).

Also that 10% you looked up is from full ascended armor + weapons (much easier to make than armor, though it takes some crafting) + jewelry (bought with laurels/guild commendations so 0 crafting), so not having ascended armor itself is only like a 4-5% stat difference.

But whatever, good luck in wow, if you manage to get top tier gear there it might be bis for a whole 2 weeks before another expansion comes out and makes it obsolete!

If they do it will be a gemstore item and people will complain for months about the devs being greedy and turning the game into p2w, so for every person that would get use out of it thered be one that would rage about it.

But since people complaining arent paying anything to keep the game going anyway, +1 to this.

Exeon.4358:

I think many don’t get the meaning of pay to win, basically a game is pay to win if game developers give any unfair advantage to players that are willing to spend money on the game, generally things that cannot be obtained otherwise or nearly impossible to obtain otherwise.

Bank slots and bag slots pay to win? if you really think so you have never ever experienced a real pay to win game, or worse, a game that wasn’t pay to win, but became one over time.

But but but… if you throw those bags at someones head in pvp you might knock them out long enough for you to kill them, and then thats pay to win! WTF ANET SO UNFAIR

On a side note if you havent been paying attention to the expansion news, there are going to be new legendaries (and probably new precursors for them). And there will be precursor scavenger hunts which may or may not end up being easier to do than grinding gold to buy one. So unless you really really want one now its probably a better idea to save up your gold/mats until the expansion hits and then decide.

dietzero.3514:

Dasenthal.6520:

This is not a NPE thing, it’s been in place since launch.

You can’t send more money than you have looted at a time. (Not TP, not vender, not dungeons, straight up looted a few copper at a time)

That is absolutely ridiculous.

And totally made up. It goes by a set time limit, at least 2-4 weeks, but its been so long since I had a new acc no idea what it is exactly.

It is stupid, but think of how much 10g was back at launch, when precursors were selling for 30g, and back then it probably was doing good at holding back gold sellers. It wouldnt be a bad idea to increase it especially if there are a lot of new+returning players in the expansion that might run into this problem.

Btw if you really want to get around it have him buy 10g worth of crafting mats or food or whatever (ideally stuff you will need in the future so you dont pay the TP fee reselling them) and transfer them to you through a guild vault.

When I was leveling my alts the only thing I would do sometimes is take them to higher level zones. Nothing challenging like trying to kill things in cursed shore with a level 60 toon in greens (though I mostly just skipped what i could to get map complete asap for some easy gold)

I guess if you wanted a challenge for leveling you could just make sure you always play in a zone at least 10 levels higher than you are.

The kind of people who would harass you for not having your gear open to inspection are the kind of people who already harass people now for not pinging a full set of ascended zerker gear at the start of a run. Not to mention that those are also the kind of people who would rage leave a group if you kill a boss 3 seconds slower than the “meta”, so its better to find out who those people are at the start of a run so you can block them and find a new group instead of finding out halfway through.

If people think pugging in this game is some magically egalitarian place where no one is ever kicked from groups and there are no kittens demanding everyone play a certain way, and that adding an inspect feature would suddenly ruin that, then you people havent really played this game much.

All the aa’s could move faster (especially chain lightning, i mean seriously, since when did lightning move slower than someone can run)

Water and earth aa’s could also use some love considering theyre slow casts and single target, but not too much. Maybe up the water aa damage by 10-20% and add a 3s bleed to earth.

Lightning surge could have a little faster cast time, and itd be nice if it didnt go on full cd if its inturrupted. Itd also be neat if it could hit targets behind you, but thats unlikely

Gust could obviously be better at hitting moving targets (and shockwave), thats probably one of the most desired changes.

Ice spike could also be made a little easier to land, not sure how without making it too good, maybe lower the delay a little

Id love for the radius increase from blasting staff to be built in so we have more room to play with other traits, but thats just more wishful thinking and probably shouldnt happen anyway because itd make us imba as kitten in pvp.

Otherwise staff is in a pretty good place, just takes getting used to. Kind of boring that the way to play it in pve is sitting in fire hitting nothing but 1+2 over and over, but at least its always challenging in pvp/wvw

Fully organized groups doing speedruns (like you see in those videos) are almost playing an entirely different game than pug groups are. Yes, it is better to wear more offensive gear to get yourself ready for being in those kinds of groups, but if you dont know the behavior of every boss then there is nothing wrong with wearing some defensive gear. Believe me, 99.99% of players who yell at the top of their lungs about people having to be in zerk gear 24/7 would never ever notice if you are in their group and doing 8k dps in your mixed gear instead of 10k dps in full zerk.

If it gets worse, like +7 infusions next patch, and +10 ones the next patch, and +15 ones the next one, and so on, then it will be a problem like you say. I cant imagine them doing that for anything other than agony resistance though.

Also youre doing something wrong if you spend 1000 gold on infusions in the current game. You get either the +5 ar ones you buy with fractal relics or the wvw ones with laurels depending on which game mode you do, neither cost gold. I guess if you want both youd need 2 sets of armor which would be a lot of gold, but then youd need 2 sets of armor anyways since both game modes need different stats.

Cheaper upgrade extractors would be sweet too but i wouldnt cross my fingers for them, the best you could hope for is waiting for them to go on sale and then buy them.

The problem isnt so much being locked out (since you arent locked out, though having to run through cities is annoying when you want to try out a new class), its that you cant get the new traits and certain rune/sigils in pvp without gold. One of the big selling points of this game used to be that you can buy the game, go into spvp, and immediately have access to the same exact gear everyone else has, and thats not true anymore.

Not really a big deal since new players dont need generosity sigils or anything in their first pvp match, but its still dumb.

Seems like a bug or something, you should have a minimum of 3 level appropriate pve tasks to do every day. I have a spare account with no toons over lvl 10 and there are always 3 dailies in the low level zones. Maybe you have to be level 5 or something higher than 3 for them to show up, but if they still have the same problem in a few more levels then submit a bug report.

Also you can do wvw/pvp dailies at any level, its not going to be fun for a new player but its not impossible.

Farzo.8410:

Eleri Tezhme.3048:

Danikat.8537:

There’s a lot Anet does right.

Very much so. They’re not going to make all the players happy all the time, because that’s impossible- but I think the overall of GW2 is a positive, enjoyable experience, both from an IC and OOC perspective.

Kind of different for me.

While there’s a lot ArenaNet does right, the way they are handling the Living Story, the missions there and the constant gaze over the cash shop, I think it’s getting rather unpleasant.

The Living Story missions are short and while the story written is pretty alright, they cut it off so randomly for another ‘rest’ until January. It’s stupid the way they handle it.

Then of course there are soooo many things appearing in the cash shop that looks great as ingame rewards from other sources than the cash shop, or you need to farm ridiculous amount of cold to convert for a ridiculous amount too.

Besides the fact that any f2p game releases skins/toys/ect into their cash shops to get revenue (ofc this game doesnt have to be like “all those other games”) and anets staff needs to be paid, if you hate that model how about suggesting another way for them to come up with revenue without the gem store. I have yet to hear one thats reasonable but it would be interesting to hear one if you can.

SkylightMoon.1980:

Nury.3062:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Nury.3062:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Players simple want this.
A standard quantity of content(gw2 is subpar right now)
Something different than 30 minute personal story instances and an open world map per 3 months

I do not say that more content is nice,but coming with an expansion it will dmg more than help the game,if the stuff is realeased likethe LS,every few LS a new map….or after finishing a season,a race/class,map….whatever…but adopting the expansion (once every xxxx months content) will not benefit the game.

“I do not say that more content is nice” You say this as if we have a lot of content already lol. Well however you feel, you are of a small minority who is okay with the small amount of content. For people who have 2 hours a week to play, it probably feels right.
An expansion can in no way damage the game. It would only make ti grow. It will bring old and new players back.

One thing is for sure. What is happening right now in gw2 is hurting the game. Thats evident from the NCsoft reports on Anets quarterly income.

Not sure where do you see that i “say this as if we have a lot content already”…maybe you have a point of view that can see stuff i don’t want to deliver.
And i played daily since november last year,before that i played but with breaks.I know the content this game has.
It’s true,it might get back the old players…but for how long?How long will stay those players after the content is consumed knowing that you ahve to wait anotehr xxxx months or an year for a new content? In the long run this will dmg the game,it will get some players back but for what price?I know i will get bored to wait that much time and i’m sure i’m not the only one.
And you say “Minority”,that’s so wrong,the players who are happy with the game are playing the game,not checking the forums,the ones that are not happy are on the forum creating “We need an expansion threads”…minority on the forum….

You’re the minority because statistics show so. Reddit gw2 had a poll of some several thousand participants. Nearly all agreed to the need for an expansion. Why? Because of the lack of content delivered. Its that simple.

No, several thousand participants who use the forums/reddit/ect. have agreed they want an expansion. There are thousands and thousands of players who never check the forums, so you can assume they dont check reddit either, giving a poll like that a terrible amount of bias and making it useless.

To answer the thread, yes. I wouldnt mind an expansion (in the distant future), but their release of content so far, while a little disappointing in its size (and also in ignoring things like dungeons/fractals/wvw/ect), has been decent and FREE, so if you dont like it you arent losing anything.

The LS team is only like 20 people, so there have got to be other people working on other projects (they kitten well could hurry up with them too), and if its an option of choosing to hold all that content back for 1 year to release it together as an expansion, or to release it over feature packs spread over that year, I would pick the latter

I can only imagine the threads if a paid expansion comes out though and people can no longer “play how I want” without buying an expansion and so on. The forums will probably crash from all the whine threads when it comes out, which is another reason id rather get the content in feature packs than an expansion.

In pvp celestial builds do more of their damage from burning than anything else, that + the defense/healing is why theyre so good at holding points. In wvw youre facing people with entirely different specs and gear, so itll be harder to get kills. Someone else could give you more complete wvw builds, but i’ll at least say you shouldnt run both celestial accessories and armor, you just wont have enough offensive stats to take down the higher hp/armor people will have.

Also try running strength runes + battle sigil, melandru arent going to help you very much and the might stacks will help keep up your power to make up for the celestial.

Go human or sylvari. Both have decent cultural armor and dont have the clipping issues of the bigger races, and they dont look ridiculous like asura.

Both also have pretty decent racial skills. Humans have an elite with poison/chill (one of our only ways to get poison) and hounds of balth which is a decent summon in pve, as well as a utility that cleanses if you find some reason to need more cleanses.

Sylvari have an grasping vines and healing seed, which are decent in some situations, as well as take root, which is neat since it lets you pretend to be an engy (and the turrets do solid damage too).

Asura also have decent racial utilities for condis and one that dazes, but you need to deal with playing one all day long, and if you dont think you like them now you probably wont after 100 hours playing one.

Norn are alright but theyre too tall, and their racials arent anything special.

And charr are just silly looking, but at least you arent considering them.