Guild Wars 2

As Kolisch says its a trait for GS.

But the problem with GS is not survivability, its damage. It has to be the weakest GS in the game.

The damage modifiers are ok, but cast times are all too slow and telegraphed. You can’t hit #### with it, and when you do its an auto attack which hits like a wet noodle, and only every couple of seconds…

Not only is striders defense weak, it is totally unnecessary. Its not like people neglect GS because 20% of projectiles are getting them killed…its because you can’t kill people with it in a competitive environment.

You don’t need it…

Suggesting that anet changed the trait system to drive gem store revenue is ridiculous…

Not only are the traits free from events, they are rediculously cheap as well.

I’m keen to see if there will be some sort of flying puzzle / course.

Obviously the gliders would make a jumping puzzle pointless, but I figure they could do some sort of guild rush through a ravine or something like that.

Sounds great! I have been hoarding my geodes in the hope that just such an event would happen, and I can get my ambrite recipes cheap!

Its still really weak IMO.

20% damage reduction from projectiles, whilst attacking, for 6 trait points in a bad line.

Why wouldnt i just trait for protection in NM?

Makes sense to me.

It would also make sense that a person who plays rarely but wins each time should be higher up the leaderboard.

Poison trap also does the most physical damage, although it is not much compared to weapon skills.

This was always the problem with the living story approach.

ANet knows that now, which is why they are switching to traditional expansions.

The question is, will they ever go back and fix it by adding in LS1 and making the story linear again.

My guess, probably not. Too much time and effort for the sake of new players.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Sube Dai.8496:

Not sure what you want to accomplish from this thread.

People are going to list the skills that annoy them, or that their particular build doesn’t have a counter for, like ranger LB2, necro lich form, mezmer MOA, etc…

But none of those are viable at tournament level so who cares?

I initially worded the thread wrong, and from there it went a bit off-track, I’m more after what abilities/classes people feel have too much output for such little input.

So you’re essentially asking what class is easier than another. Again people are going to list things like ranger LB, lich form etc…

But we know those are not OP because they have counters and top players don’t use them.

For someone to play and win with a ranger in a high level tournament they would have to play significantly better than the other players, even if people consider their skills easy.

We are in a sustain meta so skills like lich form, moa, spirit of nature – are all out of favor due to their long cool downs.

You’re not going to see it in a high end match, but it will annoy the hell out of you in unranked/hotjoin.

Expect this to be the way it is until cele amulet is nerfed.

Not sure what you want to accomplish from this thread.

People are going to list the skills that annoy them, or that their particular build doesn’t have a counter for, like ranger LB2, necro lich form, mezmer MOA, etc…

But none of those are viable at tournament level so who cares?

Zaoda.1653:

I’d like to see a set of black weapons with a bit of red in them, but anything like this concept art from other games would be nice:

I really like the 3rd sword in the first pic (minus the bronze trim), but I REALLY like the black and red weapon set in the 2nd pic. I love the skimpy male armor in the 3rd pic (would suit light class and elementalist in particular, very well) and the 4th pic’s weapon themes are almost like a cross between pact, chaos and vigil – love it!

IMO they all look like existing weapons, and are not realistic at all.

TPG is one of the worst ADSL2 providers, and is consistently slower that IINET in my findings.

However, your lag is more likely a result of the routing through overseas servers.

Try a service like Battleping before you switch ISPs.

I don’t want to see downstate at all.

And im actually starting to think that lord is fine, maybe just buff the gates so that you have more time to get there and defend.

I don’t know why 4-5 ‘good’ players would play practice instead of unranked…

They receive less rewards.

I love how someone can play a 2 year old game for the first time, and then demand that core mechanic be removed.

Such entitlement…

jack.9452:

Signed in just to agree with your statement. There’s almost no 1h sword I like in game. There are few exceptions like Infinite Light as you said. They’re almost all cleaver style, single edged blades with ungodly long handles and/or crossguards. I’m not sure where that style arose from but it’s very unappealing for a lot of us. Not every blade needs to be of the serrated teeth hulk smash type. I’d much rather have something like these (from Kekai Kotaki, former lead artist):

http://i.imgur.com/VUBuVel.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/e6B6hN4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Q2eupO3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qAyzMj4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GwigShh.jpg

Anet, please!

Lol at this! Literally none of these swords are in the game are they…

Agree with everyone. The only 1 handers I use are bonettis, honour, and the basic skin (surprised no one has mentioned it).

Yes I have transmuted the basic skin on to many, many exotic swords

I also have the chain sword but that is for my space marine norn.

A Massive Headache.1879:

Chimppossible.1829:

For warriors i would love..

1. a pistol
2. a poisoned spear

or go creative and exotic a bit and give the warrior something unique.

3. a boomerang,
aimed at one person but also has an option to do a group opponents circle strike before coming back to the warriors hand.

4. a poison dart pipe lot of native warriors used that has some range and poison stacking strong, think about curare paralysing the opponent etc.

5. a Sai that can be thrown like sword, can block melee and can strike short range.

no new weapon types for this expansion, this has been confirmed.

I didn’t see that.

So it has to be pistol, shortbow, dagger, sceptre, staff, or focus.

Here’s hoping its pistol.

My space marine norn wants a pistol…but I think warriors are more likely to get a land spear.

I’ve stopped chest farming already. The bandit bags seem to be worse than the seed pouches.

Personally, I like a bit of meat with my salad.

Signed

Charr

I see your point but a lot of players, perhaps most, dont even know about the guides.

A friend of mine has only been playing for a few months and was totally blown away the first time he came across jormag.

Lfg was literally flodded with sellers today.

Maybe the free text field needs to be replaced with an expanded drop down…

I also struggle to get it to hit reliably.

Range increase is a good idea.

Zero need for this, the current system is perfect.

Also gw1 had free trade and it was a mess. Anet learned their lesson.

I’d like to see more medium trench coats.

Is this bugged? I never see it active.

Can’t get the firefly essence for the luminescent shoulders…

So hang on, you won and you are complaining?

Lol hambow in courtyard?

Some people obviously can’t adapt to the death match game mode.

Personally I love it.

Jana.6831:

No, zerker is fine, we already figured that those saying otherwise don’t know too much about the game. And I hope anet won’t listen to them, rather give me some more NPEs or whatever so these threads won’t pop up every other day.

+1

Op is obviously new.

Stop opening these threads…this is like the 3rd one today…

Seera.5916:

As to commander tags. There is no rule that says a commander has to command in order to have the tag up. Common courtesy on maps like Silverwastes to not tag up if you aren’t going to follow what the majority of other commanders want to do? Yes. But not punishable if you choose to not follow the other commanders and keep your tag up.

This is no rule no, but why on earth would you tag up if you don’t intend to lead people?

Because you like the colours on the mini-map?

I just can’t understand those people…

I was wondering about this too. Treasure hunter is more expensive than buying a pre cursor…so they dont want to make it that hard.

pdavis.8031:

Laarn.7014:

How on earth is that an unreasonable request if you play an MMO?
And you seem to have never organized an event if you don’t know how the ratio of organized and random people is on a SW map and you seem not to know the effect of random commanders..
Also you seem to suggest that we had millions of people in TS, which logically wasn’t the case.
But hey, maybe someone of Anet sees it and has an idea to fix it. At least they know of the problem. And yes it is one.

I do not care for commanders on random maps. But on eventmaps with big events it is not an optimal thing.

Would it be reasonable for someone to ask you to stop using a paticular mini? Or maybe a certain weapon skin? Or title? A commander tag is essentially the same thing…

True I have not organized an event, but I have been part of many. If it was organized, even with a bunch of randoms on the map, someone should at least be announcing in map chat the TS and encouraging people to get on, or to follow a commander and follow squad chat. So if even 1/4 of the people on the map were doing so, randoms or otherwise, the presence of a few extra commanders wouldn’t make that much of a difference.

Its not the same thing at all! The commander tag was specifically created so that leaders could coordinate players during difficult events/wvw.

By their very nature they attract people to you on a map. That is what they are supposed to do.

Idiot trolls who run around with them on, whilst real commanders are trying to coordinate, should be stopped.

Anyone who tags up and doesn’t lead the fight is a troll…

Azhure.1857:

Sube Dai.8496:

Non-zerk gear can be a real problem in timed events.

When you are in sivlerwastes trying to kill Husk in 5 minutes and half the people there are wearing nomads…

How do you know what they’re wearing? Just because you feel like there is a decrease in DPS at your events doesn’t mean the cause is because of gear alone. But you know what? I can play your game.

Zerk gear can be a real problem in timed events.
When you are in Silverwastes trying to kill _________ in 5 minutes and half the people there are unskilled zerkers that end up dying and laying there the whole time.

See what I did there?

People in zerkers fail because they were not skillfull enough to dodge.

People in defensive gear fail because they never had a chance.

Non-zerk gear can be a real problem in timed events.

When you are in sivlerwastes trying to kill Husk in 5 minutes and half the people there are wearing nomads…

If you want to spend 3 hours doing a dungeon run in defensive gear fine, but there are open world events which require a certain amount of DPS.

It needs to enable a new support build in PvP.

We have plenty of damage for side point, skirmishing…but if we want to see rangers back in top teams then it needs to provide support above what a spirit ranger can currently do…

And hopefully the staff will do just that.

style.6173:

Community: Eles can stack might too easily
ANET: Cool, let’s nerf might for everyone

Engis were OP before and will be even more OP now (relatively speaking to other classes). This game really needs a balance team. Right now, it does not appear that one exists.

They won’t be more OP. This is a positive change for builds that don’t stack might.

There were other classes who could stack might though (like rangers). And rather than bring them up to the same level they have made them completely un-viable.

So in a way this patch also hurts build diversity, which is a bad thing.

Doesn’t look like there were any more changes other than what was listed in the preview…

Pretty poor balance patch I have to say.

DavidH.7380:

These threads always make me wonder if the OPs would go to a shopping center with McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys, and Subway, go to the Subway, order a sandwich, and tell the owners, “Sandwiches are okay, but what would be really good is if you sold hamburgers… and french fries…. and maybe chicken nuggets. Yeah, Subway is pretty good, but if you sold hamburgers, and french fries, and chicken nuggets then you’d really have something great.”

Lol spot on

So you thought a content expansion was going to change the most fundamental aspect of the game, ie. Combat?

Poor anet, these are the kind of people you have to deal with.

Non-zerk gear is only useful in WvW. So they might as well remove it from PvE all together, forcing noobs to learn how to play, and this debate will be over once and for all.

Kaamau.5341:

I GvG and there is A LOT I can tell that is going on, you don’t see individuals, but that is because its large scale team play, you don’t need to be skillful as long as you can work well with others. More or less you can see certain groups single players. The Necro are a single player, the gaurdians and warriors each comprise a single player, the eles another, and the gank comprises the last spot. Every player in every group have a role in mind, just like in a 5 man pvp match each player has their role.

It makes teamwork imperative rather then individual skill. Each group is only as good as how well they can work together.

That might be true but from a spectator’s perspective it is one giant fuster cluck…

I believe anet wants a more spectator friendly game mode and that is fair enough.

Its a stupid change. Ele can stack might better than anyone. So they are nerfing might for all classes…

Too bad if you play might stacking on any other class…

Weapons so far appear to be:

1. sword
2. staff or hammer (1:37 in trailer)
3. Bow (revenant section of the HoT homepage)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome

Biome = region = multiple maps.

Maguuma Wastes and Maguuma Jungle are probably a given.

My bet for number 3 is either IoJ, Crystal Desert, or Ring of Fire.

It took people 6 weeks to realise rangers weren’t op…sorry 1-2 weeks is ridiculous.

You put far to much faith in the player base.

Roda.7468:

Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Mordremoth?

Lol

In other news, Pan fried spinich is my new favourite thing.