Guild Wars 2

I’ll copy my reply from reddit. With some editing for forum rules.

“Low mmr players that are getting repeated wins are likely under ranked. This is most often because they have a lower sample size of matches. They should rapidly converge to an mmr that gives a 50% win rate. What you’re complaining about is that you already have a large pool of match results so you’re sorted into balanced matches. You would rather be under rated so you have an easy farm. The goal of mmr is to create balanced and interesting matches. Not to let you easily farm rank. For lower mmr players, who are at their appropriate mmr, the difficulty as experienced by the player will be the same. It might be easier for you, but that’s why your mmr is higher… lower players have no long term advantage.

Edit: Typo and clarification on long term advantage. Any benefit low mmr players see will be short term and fall off after they can start to drop rank abd their mmr converges to the point of approximately 50% win rate."

It look so much better like it is now, it’s not even funny. I love the purple. Keep it please.

You know what, I’m totally fine if we wanna make clones invisible to everyone. Free shatter spikes for me.

Coming from games like WoW and FFXIV… you barely have rotation in GW2. Why the heck do you need a dps meter?

At the moment the optimal farm involves opening your wallet and entering your credit card number. This is likely working as intended.

I’m sure this is intentional. Artificially expanding the time required to do anything is a trend in GW2 these days.

Talking about it is the exact opposite than what they’ve done in the past. Ask the people exploiting food at launch how much warning they got. Don’t do it. It takes <3 mins to kill the trash and your account will be safe.

Fay.2357:

Dalent.9358:

MAGpie.7962:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ascended Drop Rates
We’ve noticed some changes to ascended drop rates that are below what we were expecting.

If you tell a computer, 10%, it will give you 10%. If you tell it, 1%, it will give you 1%. Please tell me, how you can “EXPECT” less than the value YOU put in? Are you kidding me?

You know, I would respect you a lot more if you you man up for a change.

Except that’s not how that works. At all.

That’s absolutely how it works. There are many very complex systems in this game. RNG boxes are not one of them, so don’t try and white-knight by pretending that coding an RNG box takes any amount of skill or experience, because it doesn’t.

You literally just slap an RNG with a if check onto every item in the loot table. If RNG produces a number above a threshold, then it appears in the box. This is not complex, and saying that they ’didn’t expect rates to be this low’ is either flat out lying or admitting they literally don’t have the first clue of how either math or coding works.

Exactly, that’s why I maintain it’s a PR move. Over nerf, claim a mistake, un-nerf but put it at a lower threshold than you started with. You get the level set to where you want it AND you get positive spin for “listening.”

TheFrighteningFrenchFry.3275:

ZachAttack.3957:

TheFrighteningFrenchFry.3275:

Does SW still work?

You won’t find any chest trains, but running the meta a few times can net you a lot of rares, especially if you open the masterwork bags of loot and mystic forge the masterwork gear. From there you can salvage for ectos. You can make even more if you get lucky, but that’s the basis of where you’ll make your money.

Why no chest trains?

People are hoarding shovels for guilds. Guild hall upgrades need it.

Ryn.6459:

Glad I did it XD
Seriously, they can leave tyria dungeons in order to farm tokens but also put them into fractals. Boom, a lot more of content that do not imply much work for them.

How is this any different than just buffing dungeon rewards to, while not as good as before, be the same as fractals?

Ryn.6459:

Ideally we should do content cause is fun not for uts reward (game=fun).
Anyway, easy solutuion. Add dungeons into fractals.

So any goal oriented gameplay is wrong? I’ll just tuck away all my shinies…

Aside from gathering, you pretty much have no way. Go to a map and hope you get a decent reward. Other than that, flail wildly and hope something good drops.

For an expansion, HoT sure took a lot away.

Called it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3rmwfr/do_ascended_gear_drops_even_exist_anymore/cwponw9

The skip is obviously and exploit. But just farming that over and over legitimately is not. I doubt he makes that much gold from it though.

Avectius.3271:

Guys, can someone clear something up for me?

Is is it possible to do Precursor crafting without spending gold? Can I farm/craft all the mats needed myself? Cause that was the argument behind why it was so “good” by several players. What kittenes me off about Legendaries is that you not only have to wait a ton of time due to time-gated items, but you also have to spend ridiculous amounts of gold for things. Is the Precursor crafting alternative that much better?

It is considerably more expensive to craft the precursor than to buy it off the trading post for every precursor except 3 iirc. You could literally craft all the mats needed for Dusk, sell it 2 months into the process (assuming you don’t actually use them for the collections) and buy the precursor off the trading post at the buy order. No RNG involved. It’s just veiled grinding and, what’s worse, it’s a means to get you to grind more than they used to. Just to disguise the process.

Part I is great, Part 3 is great, Part 2 would have been fine with a 75% nerf in expenses.

Chuck.8196:

I LOVE PRECURSOR CRAFTING TOO!!!
Especially the fact that you don’t have to purchase a single thing from the TP to do it. the fact that you can casually farm everything you need and eventually get your precursor is great. It only takes 2-2.5 months and casual play and daily crafting and you got your precursor. Plus, the adventures some one them put you on and the collectibles you get really add story behind their creations. Such as spark and combining all those different things to make the Ever-Burning fuel.

The only problem is the bugs and broken collections. Bugs bugs bugs. 90% of the game.

100 deldrimor is 100 days is more than 2.5 months.

Soon in the gem store…. Pallet of All Colors.

For 1600 gems you can buy a “Pallet of All Colors”
Combine in the mystic forge with the gem store back item of your choice, 50 Charged Quartz, and 100 Deldrimor Steel Ingots to create a dyable version of your gem store skin!

Get one today!

I LOVE PRECURSOR CRAFTING <=> I LOVE GOING TO THE MALL!!!

It’s glorified shopping at stage 2. Just kills me that this is acceptable. Stage 1 and Stage 3 seem balanced. Maybe a stage 2 of a quarter of the grind would have been fine, but it’s ridiculous to think buying gold and grinding out time gated materials is fun. It’s just work.

The problem with DPS checks in gw2 is that dps is simple.

1) Know what your highest dps weapons are.
2) Use them
3) Know what your highest dps skills on said weapons are
4) Prioritize highest dps skills first when dpsing

Utility > DPS when necessary, but often it’s not necessary. So it’s burn and done. It’s not like in WoW or FFXIV where an optimal dps rotation might be quite complicated and require maintaining stacks of a buff. It’s just stack might and spam.

So dps checks are pointless and, in my view, the focus should be on group mechanics.

Yeah, the best part is that lovely shopping list you get in part 2. I feel so epic as I browse the trading post and grind for gold in magumma… or as I open my wallet and buy my way to glory.

The first part was good. Second part has been the Tyrian equivalent to a trip to Target.

You get a free glider from the npc in verdant brink if you wear your wings and talk to him. The scout near the first waypoint.

Just another in Anet’s large bug collection. QA is overhead guys, we ain’t got no time for that.

Blade and Soul’s character design is quite…. juvenile. It’s depiction of women seems a bit in bad taste imo. But more power to you if you enjoy that kind of thing.

radioAspen.6829:

I’d love to be enjoying it.

Unfortunately I decided to make The Chosen, which is blocked by an accountbound level 300 Scribing item before you can even start working on the collection

I feel your pain. I have Sunrise and all the other components for Twilight. Dusk collection has been bugged from the get go.

I can confirm they know about it, and have for at least 3 days. I doubt you’ll get a dev post on this. I’m frustrated about it myself. Bad enough we had to pay for it when it was promised with the base game over 2 years ago. But now we’re sitting here waiting for, what seems like, a trivial bugfix.

Dante.1763:

Well i was enjoying it, up until i wasted the recipe for step one of the legend on my weaponsmith because the recipe said it could be used on that crafting profession..

You can repurchase it from the legendary crafting vendor iirc. I think it only costs karma.

kiwituatara.6053:

Psychedelic.1603:

I know that the power infusions are very expensive and I believe that ANet should allow players to convert them into +7 power infusions, but the extractors are extremely cheap (they’re only about 20 silver a piece). If you can afford power infusions, you should be able to afford the extractors.

Wait, don’t you need the extractors from the gemstore?

Lol, now I understand the rage. I was like, he can buy the +5 power ones but not a 20s removal tool.????

I was loving it until I got to the end of the T1 dusk line and it bugged out. Now I’m sitting here and wondering how long it’ll be before they finally patch in the fix. That way, I can enjoy the scavenger hunt that I was promised with the base game I bought 3 years ago… the scavenger hunt I had to pay another 50 bucks to access. Yes, I’m now salty.

Evapor.6849:

As someone that hasn’t bought the expansion what the hell am I supposed to do?

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say they want you to buy the expansion.

Look guys, interrupt builds are faceroll too now.

Same for me on the US server Northern Shiverpeaks, 9:50ish Central time in the Eternal Battlegrounds. Massive lag spikes and delay when pressing enter to submit text to chat. (Not when actually typing.) And noticeable delay in combat and when moving inside of keeps/forts. Cost me some fights. QQ

AVG just called it malware for me. Just fyi.

While I can see staff/GS phant builds being viable (I’ve run one myself for quite a while although I still prefer double ranged shatter.), I would recommend two changes to your build. One, swap persisting images for menders purity. Two, swap mantra of resolve for disenchanter. This build will have major issues with boon heavy classes and will be stopped cold by well played dd elem or non-dps guards otherwise. Those two changes give you the ability to strip the boons those enemy builds rely on without weakening yourself significantly to conditions.

I would even go so far as to suggest moving one point from chaos or domination into inspiration. That passive regen trait is beautiful with this set up. Esp since you go 15 into chaos. You can actually use it to get on demand protection simply by controlling your positioning with regards to your phantasams. Anyway, just my two gold.

The image used for dice on the new black lion menu are wrong. Six sided die are arranged in such a way that the opposing sides add up to seven. So the six and one sides being adjacent is not correct. Or is it a different tradition in Tyria? Please feel free to pull resources from game balancing, alternate SPvP gamemode development, and precursor crafting development as needed to fix this issue as soon as possible. I’m sure I speak for the community when I say that this die controversy is a far greater issue.

The most obvious thing I see mes not do is use their illusions defensively. Standing behind them can block single target attacks/missiles. Mes with IP can use diversion mid res to interrupt a stomp without having to stop ressing. The only other big thing I see is people not realizing that you can use most insta cast skill mid channel. So when you try to MI, channel a mantra, or heal… blink/phase retreat mid cast as necessary. Strangely enough you can’t decoy mid cast. Technically it should fit the bill but idk. I’m assuming it’s the stealth effect that cause it to interrupt. Anyway do those things.

If you’re roaming in WvW with staff/gs I recommend you take a hybrid set. Aim for about 900ish condi damage. Gives you enough ump to burn down stubborn targets with condis if you can’t land shatters. I suggest 4/4/0/0/6 with interrupt damage, boon strip on shatter/longer manipulation, clone gen on dodge/compounding power, illusionary elasticity, Illusionary Persona

Interrupt damage trait is far and beyond better than the mind wrack bonus.

Man, the TP is enormous. You just don’t comprehend the magnitude of trade on this thing. I’m not trying to condescend. It’s just that’s the root of all these misunderstandings about the BLTC.

Soloing the spider queen is the easiest fight in the game. >.>

Staff is a wonderful weapon in power builds with the interrupt trait, but it’s value isn’t damage it’s the boons and movement utility. The only changes I’d want to see are the recovery of always protection on Staff 4 and a fix for when the staff auto attack moves so slowly that it pops you out of stealth. Auto attacks, stealth, auto attack finally hits target, you now have revealed. :/ It’s manageable but annoying.

Milamberr.1705:

SteepledHat.1345:

Double Ranged Shatter mes was on EU champ team.

Hey you would be able to link where you saw that? Was it twitch? I can’t seem to find it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2471ry/tourney_of_legends_tcg_builds/

There ya go.

Double Ranged Shatter mes was on EU champ team. Power build. I use something similar for roaming in W3 with Traveler’s instead of strength runes. It’s still very viable. The QQ train is starting to cry about PU so don’t get comfortable with it. Run 4/4/0/0/6.
II, VII on line 1, I, X on line 2, III, VII, XI on five. Classic and still strong.

For PvE it should be S-S/S-F all the way. Berserk or Assassin depending on fight and traits vary as well. Most still take the mantra and warden reflects.

jportell.2197:

No., Anet has said it will never be fixed because it’s a terrain issue not a mesmer issue. (so they say.)

IL was a terrain issue. IE is just a lack of concern for mes.

Mystogan.4157:

decoy does not give any of those only with pu

I think he’s saying the mes is using decoy for stealth and chaos armor for the boons.

lvis.3824:

this is normal nowadays – look at this img …. crazy, this happend in 1sec

So you failed to dodge two attacks from his phant and failed to not attack while he was blocking. Yes, so OP. :/

1) Has High burst damage
Dodge
2) Has High condi spam, mainly confusion, bleed, burn
Dodge
3) Has protection/aegis on and generally reduces any non-condi damage by half
Boon strip
4) Constant Stealth
Prediction
5) Constant Healing (while in stealth)
Boon Strip
6) Million of clones no matter how many AoE spam there is
Don’t kill the clones
7) Uses GS
Stay as close as possible
8) Constant Condi Removal
Lol, please tell me how this is done on mesmer
Edit: Eh, is perhaps he’s running mantra heal and mantra cleanse. With condi cleanse on heal. If that’s the case. Condi Pressure would be my tactic. Exhaust his charges and interrupt.

Putting aside how having all these things is impossible on mesmer. That would be my strategy.

I like it. Tried something close in SPvP. They dropped like flies. Great for roaming.

Nope, clones aren’t really clones. They inherit very little from their master but appearance. Sigils don’t work for them either. Yet you can dodge them like any other skill. :/

I love everything about staff mes. I can’t wait for the day they make condi viable in PvE so I can finally roll staff/GS and not bring down a party. Until then, staff/sword-sword or sword-focus/sword-sword all the way. My poor sunrise… so under utilized in PvE.

They aren’t going to fix IE. I just know it. Feel it in my butterflies. I expect a revert on the illusions it does effect and a “Working as intended” stamp.

“He”… maybe you’re just fighting a really good mesmer. Ever thought of that?

Side note, your rage is working against you. If I were fighting you I’d exploit it like crazy. Mesmer metagaming.