Guild Wars 2

ensoriki.5789:

possibly a temporary fix until they can eliminate the source bug, but that might take awhile.

Nothing of the sort has been said, we can expect the delay is here to stay.

I’m glad about one thing. Now people don’t have a cop out for when they lose to a mesmer. Now when you lose, just go cry somewhere else, okay?

Yay, guardians and thieves reign supreme! Lol, this game is so far from balanced it isn’t even funny. If there was a bug, and I’m not convinced there was, I couldn’t reproduce it. On top of that, they didn’t even really fix the bug. They just stuck a cooldown on shatters and called it a day.

Israel.7056:

I’m not surprised but I am disappointed. Perhaps this means that complaining on forums will get things done which means that if we complain enough about these changes we might be able to get them undone.

You’re just realizing this now? Every change they’ve made seems to have been done at the behest of thieves, warriors, and guardians on the SPvP forum.

They seem to go with whatever changes are most called for on the SPvP forums. Honestly, it’s like lock step with them. That makes it hard to balance. Balancing PvP and PvE are very different things, I’d think. Not sure why they won’t just split them

No, this build was good before the might so that’s probably nothing. The cooldown might cost you a few fights, but it’s probably livable. I just think it’s funny that, rather than fix the cause of the “bug”, they just give us a global cooldown. I just know this is going to be an issue. I’ve yet to play after the patch so we’ll see.

Lysico.4906:

SO you want all our abilities AND 25% base run speed and/or perma swiftness.

Come on guys be real.

Plus I rather have my runes of centaur that help me in other ways then give up a VERY valuable slot for a passive run speed trait.

Without focus I have 99.9% uptime on swiftness with my runes of centaur. Again, without focus!

What more do you all want??

All our abilities? You mean portal and the creation of clones?

Those are the only things I can recall that mes can do that no other class can replicate. Let me think on it a sec see if I can remember a few more.

Runes of air and spam heal.

Wow, it’s off topic to say the devs seem content with the situation? Okay, fine. Prices are high and they’re going to stay that way. Devs aren’t doing anything and have said nothing about doing anything about it. See I’m answering the guy above me?

Yeah, I’m not surprised. >.<

The quote someone above found…
“Legendary Weapons are the end result of an epic adventure in Guild Wars 2. You’ll travel all over, collecting items and amassing materials to build your Legendary Weapon.”

That’s what I remember being sold on. Not this. That’s why I’m upset.

Kain Francois.4328:

So what about all the people who transmuted their legendaries to use berserker stats? They wont be reverted back to legendary?

Oh, I’m sure Anet will remedy the situation somehow. However, I always wonder about their timetables. It might now be immediate, you know? With something as large of an investment as a legendary, it’s best to play it safe imo.

This thread, right here, this is why no one takes PvP in this game seriously.

Come now people, we can do better.

I just see a well played mesmer that got very luck in timing and crit damage coupled with a thief that got a taste of his own medicine. But we can keep debating forever…

I’d wait. You might be shooting yourself in the foot. (Pun intended.)

Lol, hilarious. These forums are getting ridiculous. Wouldn’t consider a re roll if they wouldn’t break so much each time the “fix” a bug in our class.

Wethospu.6437:

Me and many others want this game to be skill-based, not work-based. If you can’t do something answer should be get better and not farm harder.
I want to show-off my skill, not wealth. Pretty much whole PvE is already about wealth so is it too much to ask that something stays skill-based?

And by the way, having played GW1, I can assure you that this is not like in GW1. In GW1 you actually need some skills to pull it off because you are forced to do it with non-full team. In GW2 you just play as usually and get more rewards with very little extra effort.

All I hear on these forums is the same stuff. People insult me for wanting to distinguish myself from the rest of the playerbase. Do I consider myself better than other players because I’ve done X dungeon? No. Do I consider is a sign of my ability as a player? Yes. Do I think it shows my commitment to the game and my dedication to becoming a stronger player? Yes.

It’s the same situation as selling legendaries imo. They were supposed to show your commitment to the game, your experience with the game, and your time with the game. They don’t now. You can just buy one of the TP. I mean, they can buy the dungeon diving title and their legendary weapon. What’s next? World completion too?

There should be a way of distinguishing players in the playerbase. Something to work towards. A destination. You want to go through that transformation from newbie to vet. You want something to show that you’ve gotten there. Something new players can look forward to and vets can be proud of. But in GW2, you just buy everything with cash.

All that’s safe are the SPvP titles, the world completion star, and the fractal weapons. Then again, I’m sure people are selling those too, somehow.

Without even looking, I’m pretty sure Bolt costs more. Either way, the doubloons cost way way way way less than charged lodestones.

I thought this was intended all along. If it isn’t, it should be implemented. It’s not like you’re forced to talk.

Emanuel.9781:

I guess it’s time to rev up that guardian, again.

I’ve rolled one just in case, lmao. Crazy how we have the same idea.

Ranc.7192:

Doesn’t this thread violate the TOS, in calling out Anet employes? Glad to know that TOS doesn’t matter then as long as its good feedback.

Lmao, stop trying to get Tallis in trouble. A particular dev was relevant to the issue, probably why it got through. Everyone gets moderated eventually, take it in stride.

I sometimes have issues finding old posts by devs, so I would like to see better search functions that could sort by date and name.

I’d love to know how to do this, but my laser never goes thorough anything and my clones are useless in a siege.

Also, is it intentional that a elem can spam AoE through a door or that a ranger can hit you without LoS? Probably not.

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

Having a legendary means that you have participated in every aspect of the game, pvp included.

That was what they used to mean. Now you can just buy them on the TP. Everything they said about legendaries when they launched is now undone.

Just let me sell all my medals. I’ve got plenty you can buy. /sarcasm

Malediktus.9250:

EVE is a horrible game where being a crook and scamming is encouraged. So dont take it as a positive example for GW2.

Oh, but wouldn’t it be fun if we could just outright gank people and take all their gold. I’d certainly have less of an issue with market players. /sarcasm

In no way would I want this game to develop the community that EVE has.

I suspected this might be the case. Then anything that makes botting easier I’m against. It think this idea would probably make it easier.

They shouldn’t be botting it. Are you saying people bot the TP? Guess Anet needs to start taking a hard look at DR on the TP.

I know the run bots. :P But they’re still running them on mobs. That’s what I meant by “farming mobs,” but you’re right there’s a big difference. What I meant to say is why aren’t they using TP bots.

And yes, I’m aware that GS get a lot of their cash from hacking. But you know that’s not the only way otherwise we’d never see bots.

Why not just flip items on the TP. There’s not DR. There’s not chance your character will get KO’ed. And you will never get reported for it. Is Anet looking out for this kind of farming? Are they going to implement DR on mass trading? I mean, if you’re hard core you can hit DR in PvE with easy. Perhaps hardcore trading needs it too.

It’s essentially playing a slot machine where the casino is able to change the payout rate instantaneously and does so constantly. Mystic forge is all server side.

Mystic Toilet is just a means to keep rares and exotics valuable. They pull them from the economy. For the most part, people using it are just doing Anet’s work for them.

From the “Is it okay to sell a legendary” thread, it’s apparent to me that there’s a very vocal group within our community that has no issues buying (or selling) their bragging rights. That is what mmos are about, bragging rights. So, yeah. This game is going to have issues if it doesn’t start fixing things that undermine the player experience. But no one seems to agree with me on the legendary situation…

Anyway, at first I didn’t see how selling dungeon runs is an issue. But then I realized how they were doing it. If I understand it correctly, the buyer doesn’t even go though most of the dungeon. They just come in at the end for tokens, cash, and credit.

That’s not okay to me.

Clearly I’m the only person with this view. Or perhaps, everyone that agrees with me is just tired of arguing with market players. I think I’ll take a queue from those people.

jalmari.3906:

GS is near the edge of being ridiculously powerful in pvp and you guys think it needs a boost?

A lot of good feedback indeed. :P

Lmao, guardian forums are that way —-→
Mesmer GS is well balanced if you consider it only has 4 skills that are commonly used.

Hm, I guess you really can buy everything in this game. There’s no way to prove progress.

You have a point with FotM. Let’s hope it stays that way.

I’m not bitter. Just frustrated with hearing the same arguments from market players. I still enjoy the game. Just trying to save it from itself.

The Blue Ace.2850:

Ath.2531:

The Blue Ace.2850:

I would welcome a system for dungeons that saw them become useful again, such as catacombs tokens used to buy charged lodestones/cores and corrupt from honor of the waves.

Because after you have your exotic armor/skins that you like tokens are useless except for the gift for your chosen legendary, but that is it.

And I’m talking like 500/1000 tokens per core/lodestone here, nothing easy just something to get people doing dungeons again and off the overcrowded fractal train.

your 500/1000 tokens per core moves us from one grind train into another. Thank you very much but just NO.

Currently, it takes 1-2 hours to farm a lodestone directly by killing sparks and around 1.5 hours to farm the gold for it.

Which psychopath would to 9 or 18 runs of a dungeon for 1 lodestone? Not me, that’s for sure

Atleast its more interesting that grinding the same mob again and again for 2 hours and at the end of it you atleast 100% sure you will be rewarded.

Plus you could throw the dungeon gold back into lodestones.

Well, don’t hate me, but I hope they nerf the heck out of your method soon. Not against you personally, but just overall.

Grind dungeons for cash or flip items on the TP. The latter is the only viable method atm.

It’s bullkitten, I know.

Not the fact that you have more, but that you don’t have DR on your method and that your method isn’t dependent on grouping up with people, and that your method requires not waypoint costs or armor repairs, and that your method is insanely fast….

Should I go on?

Is it just me or is the game screaming at me to not really play it?

There’re way bigger issues that the price of silver doubloons. Lodestones, precursors, culling, dungeon balance, Fotm kick/can’t reenter, and about a billion other things.

You’re still getting off way cheaper than most legendaries.

It’s not the way the game was intended to be played. If it was they’d advertise it as such. You’re just performing an activity that most people find tedious and reaping the benefit of it. I wouldn’t care except that you can basically buy the “endgame.”

Kills it all for me. Thanks.

Nothing to work for in this game that you can be sure was earned not bought. Sure, dungeon gear, I guess, meets that criteria. But it’s so easy to get. This’ll be the death of this game.

It’s because it is directly contrary to the point of legendary weapons. All that crap the devs said about respecting someone with a legendary is pointless. There is no way in PvE to distinguish yourself from an 15 year old with an insane allowance that buys a legendary from a GS. They should’ve been Account Bound from the start.

It’s not jealousy for me. It’s the fact that it undermines the whole process.

This is pretty much why everyone hates the market players. But I appreciate your being transparent about manipulating the whole thing to your advantage.

Why change traits if your build is already optimal for the dungeon. It’s this one trait and it’s bugged nature. No reason for the clone to go rouge. It should attack the mob you’re targeting. And I do change traits when it’s necessary. It just shouldn’t be in this case.

I’d prefer the aoe of GS3 be made much larger with multiple GS spikes. This would be great to allow us to actually do something in a siege.

Not in the dungeon fights, but along the way it’s a pain. Take a prime example, in HotW the first and third paths have that area where you cross a bridge with mobs underneath and dogs that are nearby. Often groups will kill the dogs and ignore the mobs below the bridge. No problem. Kill the dogs and everything is great. Then you get to the last enemy. A mesmer dodge rolls. A clone runs across the bridge, down the stairs, below the bridge again and attacks a mob.

>.< Why? Rouge clone, why!

This needs to be fixed. It’s silly. I’ve gotten to where I remove the trait now in a dungeon. Too much trouble.

It’s a useless skill. Might as well replace it with a suicide button. It blinks you into an enemy most of the time and if it doesn’t there’s a big red arrow over your head letting anyone with a brain know that you’re the real mesmer.

Waypoint back to spawn before you log out.
Problem solved.

I’m so sick of hearing this stuff. Turning items on the TP is not what the game is about. And it isn’t kittening legendary. If I was going to do that, I might as well trade real stock and make real cash. Then I can use that to buy the legendary with gems! /sarcasm