Guild Wars 2

So wait…you’re a dude!?

Should be a unique reward for each one. Spoon one should reward a spoon weapon, that’s just a no brainer…

Tachenon.5270:

We’ve been hoodwinked — again! Just like the ‘heroes’ of yore two and a half centuries before, today’s heroes are heck-bent on messing it all up for everyone! Fighting for the wrong side. Let me explain.

The dragons are the good guys, see, trying to save Tyria from the Pale Tree. They awaken every time a new Tree takes root and begins to grow, but their awakening was delayed this time around by the kindly but misguided deeds of Ronan and Ventari, whose saintly goodness shielded the budding Tree with a protective aura of benevolence.

Scarlet realized the truth and it pushed her over the proverbial edge (with a little help from her personal nemesis, Caithe), but even so she kept sight of what was important and fought valiantly to render Tyria Tree Free, even though it would mean the end of her race.

The Master of Peas, although infected by the mind control spores of the Pale Tree (courtesy of Aerin), was trying desperately to get Glint’s egg (aka the Ultimate Fertilizer) to Ol’ Mordy, where it would be safe from the Pale Tree’s clutching branches. He might have gotten away with it, too, if not for the meddling of the big brave viewpoint heroes and their friends, swooping in to save the day and in the process agitating Ol Mordy’s minions to the point where they accidentally injured the ally they’d been sent to escort and protect!

For good or ill, the incompetent, careless bumbling of the heroes didn’t end there, but provided Caithe with the opportunity to abscond with Glint’s egg. But what will she do with it? Is she a hero, or a villain — or both!

I personally believe that, following Scarlet’s untimely (and heartwood-breaking) demise, Caithe, plagued by a guilty conscience, has been reviewing the situation and is now not only ashamed (and rightly so) of all those times she tormented poor nerdy free-spirited Ceara, but has become convinced that Ceara was the greatest, most heroic nut ever to fall from a tree, and so she (Caithe) is attempting to make amends by defying the Will of Mommy Dearest. I personally believe she is taking the egg out of the immediate picture, not to O’ Mordy, but to the other enemies of the Pale Tree — the Nightmare Court!

Alas! Contaminated by repeated exposure to bumbling heroes, Caithe is now herself irreversibly incompetent, and does not realize that while the Nightmare Court does indeed oppose the Pale Tree, their plan to corrupt the Pale Tree has been abandoned in favor of a new plan, the Newly Pollinated Evil plan, which, if successful,will replace the Pale Tree with a Dark Tree of their own cultivating! A plan which has heretofore been naught but a dream without a dreamer left to dream, for lo, though they have after great trial and error managed to acquire a Tree seed (alas, poor Malyck), they lacked the means whereby to coax it into sprouting…

…which Caithe is unwittingly about to provide by bringing them Glint’s egg — the Ultimate Fertilizer!

Dark Days are coming to Tyria, forum friends. Dark Days indeed. Guild Wars? Bah. Petty playground squabbles compared to…

The Tree Wars!

PS: On the bright side, just as Marjory is unlocking greatsword skills for necros, Caithe is unlocking pets for Thieves. Thiefs?

Great read. I agree the egg could in fact be a seed.

So called ‘dungeon’ armors were always available in PvP. So they’re not really dungeon exclusive armors are they…

More rewards for winning, yes. That might actually encourage pve’ers to try, and get better at, PvP.

There probably isn’t many ppl like that tho.

Are you serious? Crests are so easy to come by. Do you actually do the events in sw?

I can’t believe people waste storage on this stuff! Just throw it out, its so easy to get if you actually need it.

If this patch was so hard for you that you want to quit…then you probably should.

Rose tinted glasses…all of the ‘new’ armors in the gw1 expansions were redskins of prophecies…and a lot of the new skills were just duplicates.

2 years in gw2 still has more than gw1 did at this stage.

Basically they are adding a tier in between hotjoin and soloq where you get penalised for leaving and are expected to know how to play.

Soloq is then the solo ranked option within compete.

Its a great change. But it requires more players to work well.

Time to buff PvP rewards…

Game is more balanced than ever.

Yep great idea, for pristine relics at least

I agree. Would be a good way of getting pve’ers into PvP as well.

I would like this for fracs in particular. My situation means I can’t ever really commit to 1+ hours of continuous play anymore, so I won’t burden a group by joining and then having to quit.

At least if it was solo mode I wouldn’t feel guilty for quitting half way through due to RL commitments.

Point 1. Legendary will always have the best stats in the game, even if they introduce a new tier above ascended.

Point 2. All weapons have different strength numbers to each other. The fact that your staff has higher strength than your greatsword has nothing to do with the fact that they are ascended/legendary. All staffs have higher strength than the same tier greatswords.

Point 3. Weapon strength alone does not determine damage. Weapon strength plus skill damage modifier determines damage (plus other things). If you look into these numbers you will see that greatwords always do more damage per second over staffs.

Point 4. You should not have taken your guildie’s word at face value, and you probably should have looked into this before investing a lot of time and money.

Point 5. Quitting the game because of this would be ridiculous…

There is also materials that don’t have a spot in the materials tabs like Firefox clusters…

I play all game modes and frankly wvw needs more love than the other two…

Op your post is self centred

Did you watch all the recordings? I don’t believe it.

Gabe.6810:

Sube Dai.8496:

The question is what is GS actually best at these days?

Frontline zerging?

That’s it, that’s all I can come up with…

Dispatching three or more mobs.
Moving quickly.
Blocking projectiles while moving.
Control
Quick vulnerability (10 stacks instant with opening strike)
Staying at max weapon range.

It’s a good utility weapon. S/X+GS isn’t a bad weapon swap setup.

Yeh but lb + s/d is superior in every game mode. That is my problem which GS atm.

Its damage is not up to par with other melee weapons.

No nerf, they are talking bs. There won’t be any major balance changes until march.

The question is what is GS actually best at these days?

Frontline zerging?

That’s it, that’s all I can come up with…

+1 for daily bounty hunts

How about we remove blues, greens, and yellows instead?

Plus one.

/15 char

Op is correct that the game allows stacking to be the most efficient way of doing pve, and it is the boss encounters themselves which need to be changed.

It has also already been discussed many, many times…

The worst thing is that they didn’t even nerf it that hard…but the zone is so empty you can’t complete the event.

Total over reaction from the player base.

Infernia.9847:

How did they not see this coming when they programmed a disparity between locations? I mean the wisest thing to do would be to make sure each location provided the same rewards and make the chest spawns dependent upon successful defense or completion of repairs.

Exactly…

I put in one ticket and I am pretty sure I am going to get a scythe.

I have that feeling you know…

So I will let everyone know when I get it.

I would agree that medium ascended armor looks very average.

I’m not going to grind for the stats but I would grind for the look if I wanted it.

Lucky for me I don’t…

Living Story season 1 was poor, but season 2 is much, much better in comparison. The two new zones they have added also have interesting mechanics that make for longer lasting play.

I am enjoying the Mawdrey scavenger hunt so far.

Ceimi.1063:

Why can’t you just enjoy how it is right now? To be honest, there’s a reason why these kinds of things become insanely popular: because looting the chests is more profitable then doing the actual events. No one cares about the events because they give us nothing. We waste a lot of time for 3 piles of sand and a couple of bandit crests. Until they start making events more enticing, obviously more people would rather the chest farm. I’ve been playing this game since launch, and have had so much trouble making money that doesn’t involve me having to spend hours and days and weeks to rack up a decent profit. Once the chest farming started I was able to finally build up some gold at a decent rate without having to spend a ton of time. In this game, the rich get richer, and the poor stay where they are until something comes along that can boost them out of that. I’m not saying it’s a good thing that people abandon the events, but just remember. The shovels will start to run out quickly with most people just doing chest farms, and when they do run out, a lot more people will be more inclined to do the events again for a while until either the next part of the story comes out, the farm gets nerfed, or everyone finally starts to lose interest. So yeah, the way Anet is providing content needs to be rethinked, but until then, just join in and enjoy it while it lasts. Unless of course, you’ve got 500g and a full armor set already and just play the game for new content. There are a few lfg maps that state they’re event only not farm maps, maybe you should hit one of those up if you’re looking for story and not farm.

The shovels don’t run out, you get them for doing the defense events…

I just wanted to drop in here and say that battleping has solved all my problems.

Download it and give it a go. Best app ever.

If you were playing during the sandstorm then wait for it to end and you will be able to see clearly.

The first 30 mins are normal and then the second 30 have the sandstorm.

Its an awesome map…

Yep all sounds good

It will definitely get towned down. Just enjoy it while you can.

Yeh I figured it was a reference to mawdery ii.

If they were to add some sort of recipe I hope it includes dragonite and emperyl fragments. I have just as much of that crap…

Yep loved it. Will try and talk my friend into coming back to do it.

Torsailr.8456:

Strong in this one the necro is.

Oculus would work with 3rd person view, it would just appear to be a larger screen that takes up your field of view. I think it’d be nice but nothing really special. Now first person view with the Oculus and GW2 art? Oh hell yes.

Well no, in gw2 the camera rotates around your character. You couldn’t do that with a rift on.

I’ve got one and tbh I can’t see how it would work for a 3rd person game.

The would have to add a first person camera view first…

Kuldebar.1897:

Sube Dai.8496:

You must be new here. Before eotm wvw had already descended into a karma train. Frankly eotm saved wvw by removing all the people who just want to k-train.

That’s a neat and tidy story, but although it is true that regular WvW could be distilled to the “train” paradigm prior to EotM, EotM has taken it all to a new all full freakin level.

And, yes, there’s plenty wrong about WvW other than the EotM’s inception.

Yes but so what. The people in EOTM don’t want to do regular WvW. So why do you want to force them to do it?

EOTM was not what any of us wanted it to be, but a particular group of people have grown to love it so good for them.

The rest of us still want updates for regular WvW, but destroying EOTM is not the answer.

You must be new here. Before eotm wvw had already descended into a karma train. Frankly eotm saved wvw by removing all the people who just want to k-train.

Yep, put everything in there.

To be fair there plenty of medium pants, but there is only one chest piece that is not a coat and that is the new PvP armour.

Gobhoblin.7582:

Sir Chan de Stroy – my crusading Knight Hospitaller.

Outstanding. I love realistic looking gear/weapons.

So which pre-cursor were you going for? Dusk is currently 1500g on the tp and Dawn is 1000…I’d say you made a huge mistake…

Lake sucked. Ruins are much better.

Well like I said I do run regen bunker, with natures voice. We’ll see. I am going to try celestial again as well.

I’ve had quite a few ascended drops, but since they can’t be traded they arguably have no value…

So my best drop would be a couple of exotics that were worth about 4g each…

I would argue that they only decent drops in the game are pre-cursors. and we know how rare they are.

alvarez.3159:

What I don’t like about celestial is the waste of most of the power stats, because unlike ele, engi and warrior, the standard weapon sets (a/d and s/t) have horrendous powerdamage attached to their skills. As it stands now, I feel like Settlers does everything Celestial should be doing, just even better.

I agree. Settler has so much more sustain than celestial, AND more condition damage. Plus you can still try and stack might with it if you want to.

Celestial is a good amulet, just not the best for rangers.

To be fair if you never spvp then you probably don’t know the maps or the mechanics, and you should probably be doing hotjoin until you do know them.

But PvP in general has no tutorial what so ever, so how are new players supposed to know?

Anet could help a lot here by improving the npe for PvP.