Guild Wars 2

I love my there are parts of certain sets you can’t change the color of.

My Charr necromancer looks great with his undyable pink scarf for his masquerade set.

Time to get a macro keyboard/mouse to do the spamming for you.

I wouldn’t recommend anything by Razr as they have poor build quality and extremely buggy software.

Thalestis.2058:

I’ve had a good few unforgettable moments in GW2. Here are just two:

The children in Lion’s Arch pretending to be Destiny’s Edge heroes, unaware the the real Destiny’s Edge are meeting above in the plaza :-)

As a level 65 Charr thief exploring Queensdale, standing on the pipes at the bottom of the ridge watching newbies falling off from the pipe vista above: it’s raining men (and women)!

Love it!

What are you going to remember?

Ah yeah, the two kids I wish I could feed to the Charr every time I visit the Lions Arch bank because they will never shut the kitten up! Unforgettably annoying :P

Black Citadel, its free of any overly jubilant cheesy NPC quotes like the ones running rampant in Lions Arch.

I also love the atmosphere and Charr culture.

@Mungrul, that face reminds me of one of my exes when I was younger. Does that make me a pedo even though we were the same age? I was playing video games too at the time, did you ever stop and think that not everyone playing this game is old? Its a video game, the audience is typically younger people who surprise, find younger looking women (but clearly mature) attractive.

Arenanet is pandering to EVERYONE. That includes puritans like yourself and hormone crazed teenage boys. There are all kinds of armor sets, just because you don’t happen to like a subset of them doesn’t make it any more right then people who ONLY want revealing armor.

The arguments for non sexy armour in games amounts to nothing more than “Women in video games are fine, as long as they’re not attractive or youthful looking”.

Mesmer portals.

Mungrul.9358:

Blacklight.2871:

Hmm. That would hurt if I wasn’t too old to be affected by puritanical shame and guilt. I kind of shed that foolishness when I stopped attending Sunday school. Most adults eventually grow out of it. Maybe you will too?

EDIT: And I meant “sexy”. Finding it tough to say that word, are we?

Not at all, I can say sexy ‘til the cows come home, it’s just that the definition of the term in MMO land is, as I stated before, often gauche, certainly lewd and definitely over the top.
Sexy does not necessarily mean absence of clothing.
Sexy does DEFINITELY not mean almost paedophilic, which given the modelling of human female’s faces, GW2 tends to skew uncomfortably towards.

You know what I find ironic?
Fall all of its flaws, Age of Conan, a game famed for bare breasts, has some of the most reasonable, well thought out female armour I’ve seen in MMOs.

ArenaNet could learn a thing or two from that game in regards to female armour.

In closing, take a look at Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor or Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits for some very good commentary on this issue.

When it comes down to it, it’s nothing to do with “Puritanical shame and guilt”, and all to do with practicality and a lack of imagination on behalf of ArenaNet’s artists, with a sprinkling of unease at the idea that they assume that the male audience is only capable of thinking with their crotches when it comes to female representation in video games.

There are a diverse range of armors, some show skin and some don’t.

If you don’t like it just don’t equip armor that shows skin, there are plenty of choices out there for you regardless of armor type. To say all GW2 armor is revealing is a complete lie.

Out of my 3 alts one is a human female and sometimes I like to equip her with a more revealing outfit and sometimes something functional (which can be sexy too).

I think you are overreacting on your righteous crusade for taste when this is just a video game. It is not real life, the majority people don’t exhibit the same behavior between both. To expect them too is just silly, I play this game to take a break from the restrictions of real life, of course I am going to behave differently.

A day spent running around Sparkfly Fen and all I see is more unamed pets.

Out of the 50 or so “Juvenile Brown Bears” I saw there was one guy who renamed his to “Boo Boo” which was kinda cool I guess.

I really think most rangers just don’t care about their pets enough to put up with the bugs that come with keeping them named, its sad really.

Do you understand how layer 2 works?

Routers change the L2 header meaning they overwrite the source mac address.

By the time your packets get to GW2 servers they have a different source mac address (many times over actually).

Also its not difficult to spoof your local mac address if the GW2 client checked for it.

“I just really wish grenades workd on land, as thy do underwater. "

Do you realize how huge of a nerf this would be in WvW? If this actually happened we would have NO viable options at range.

To answer the op, I did see a response from Anet on this saying it was allowed as long as it didn’t play the game for you.

I love fighting underwater on my engineer, its just every other class I have tried it with has felt 100% kittened.

Try an engineer underwater, I often 2 shot things.

Beyreva.8769:

I have a charr engineer and I chose The Vigil, because the chest piece they have it’s not a trench coat.

This.

I really despise the majority of medium armor in this game.

“An option to hide the backpack would be very nice.”

Yes please. Either allow us to customize it our allow us to disable it, don’t leave it in the half finished state it is now.

What mechanics are there that don’t favor the zerg?

We have tiny maps, AOE caps, downed state, no raid groups that can mark a single target, invisible enemies (impossible to judge the size of an enemy force accurately).

Combine all that and you get the zergfest that is WvW, like it or not.

Serebus.7314:

Vistal.2906:

Hey So i seen a Sf exploiting walls and terrain hacking earlier this moning and today and the 3 SF flying hack. What Afraid to lose WVW legit? Gota get out the hackers and exploiters now ? Last 2 days was actually fun fighting over who gets the last orb, but now its a disgrace SF is back to owning most of the map again with the same crap they pulled the 1st day.

So if you saw somebody hacking please share their guild tag and take screenshots next time. And please don’t say things like “What Afraid to lose WVW legit? Gota get out the hackers and exploiters now ?”, It is not the servers fault that there is a few pieces of trash playing on it, and its not fair to accuse the legitimate players of allowing exploiters to use hacks in WvW.

Other than that we had some great fights trying to take the orb from Anvil, keep up the good work guys.

I would say the same thing if they were on our server as well, don’t blame the entire server for the actions of a few bad individuals.

IMO the biggest blame is on Arenanet for allowing rampant hacking/botting and being too cheap to even afford a single ingame GM.

But hey, its an NCSoft game so it comes with the territory sadly… not much we can do about how they run things.

Ever since I first encountered the skritt I thought this would be a great idea. They are by far the most interesting race in Tyria!

Support.

The guy above me summed it up in a far more elegant matter.

Also to put this in context, I have spent over $100 on gems. I would continue to spend RL money as I am pretty well off however I feel I am being ripped off at every turn whether I am converting gems into gold or simply buying items from the shop

All boosters besides Karma need at minimum a 50% reduction in price. Black lion keys need at least a 50% reduction in price. Black Lion Salvage kit needs a 50% hit as well.

Pretty much take all prices and cut them in half and only then will I even consider spending money again.

My ears, how are you?

T2/T3 charr cultural I like a great deal at least on my Charr Necro.

Grenades are great for ambushing / skirmishing / hit and runs / attacking stationary blobs and targets.

Against players that know what they are doing however, they will dodge your nades every time and attack you from range.

Grenades are a very high skill cap weapon and only have good DPS when you make good judgements and choose the right moment to strike. What is that great DPS if all it takes is the target to start moving to negate all of it?

Grenades don’t need a nerf, they are one of the only effective weapons we have. Other things need a buff to be brought in line. They don’t need as much DPS though because you have to take into account the fact that not all grenades are going to hit.

lBANKAll.2183:

I like how the thief jumps up a max upgrade keep. That is a exploit

Had a theif the other day take out our treb at the very top tower of the east keep from the ground with cluster bomb, not sure what to say about that.

If you time your supply drop net turret and utility net turret to alternate, very few enemies will stand a chance unless they can quickly destroy both of them.

Karast.1927:

With full tools the tool belt skill for rifle turret is about a ~7 second cool down. With static discharge it’s fairly nice dps.

Ah ok that makes sense. My build is built more around ganking / holding people down for me to to grenade DPS and allowing me to outmaneuver them when they are moving. I do sacrifice a bit of single target DPS on the rifle for alot of extra CC and mobility but for my play style its worth it.

Istarien.3147:

I spec 30/20/0/0/20 (Incendiary Powder, Explosive Powder, Grenadier, Rifled Barrels, Rifle Mod, Speedy Kits, Static Discharge.) Utilities are MedKit, Rifle Turret, Grenade Kit, Tool Kit, Supply Dump. Carry a Berserker’s Rifle of Air. In full Berserker’s gear, it is hilarious how much mid to long range direct damage you can do.

I absolutely wreck people 1v1 in ways I never could as a condi. dmg. engineer. Even putting on Pow/Tough/Vit gear and Valkyrie jewels for more survivability, I still wreck people, albeit a bit less quickly. You still have the grenades for when you need to clear the walls or defend the gate, but your best single target damage comes from your rifle. All of your toolbelt skills, including your heal, proc lightning bolts. Open with Barrage (which does a terrifying amount of damage as long as you’re holding your rifle), follow it up with Surprise Shot and Throw Wrench. Your rifle autoattack hits pretty hard already; Blunderbuss is even better, and Surprise Shot should be up again to finish the job.

We can do some serious damage at mid range without grenades, and we aren’t completely useless at 1500 m without grenades. However, just like a warrior is required to use a gun or longbow in long range combat, we’re pretty much obligated to use a grenade kit to do our best long range damage.

Why rifle turret? Net turret allows you to hold people down so much better in a 1v1 (and lets face it, holding people down allows you to use your nades on them optimally) especially when you have supply drop down. It also gives you another immobilize on your toolbelt…

Solution to your problems: Stop hanging out in Lions arch, come to black Citadel.

You won’t have to hear:

1. The annoying char cub and the human playing ghosts behind the bank. Seriously, one of the most annoying things EVER.
2. Its a bad day to buy wine… but its a great day to drink it! (If I hear this one more time I might go postal IRL)
3. Everyone from there wants to come here, and nobody here wants to go back
4. If i have to eat one more rotten vegtable Ill scream (ok I admit this is one of the better ones)
5. The banter about Lions are being run by priates

I can outrun a centaur bothers me less than alot of NPC banter specific to certain areas. 60-70 charr area in particular has the worst voice acting I have ever heard anywhere. Some NPCs there get broke and chant stuff like “FIRE FIRE FIRE GO AWAY FIRE” over and over and over. ITS THE EYE!!! OHHH THE EYE!!!!!!!! OOOH OOHH

Can we have an option to disable this terrible banter and cheesy one liners?

I stopped buying gems for money because I realized what a waste it is. The only items that are not overpriced by a significant margin are the karma boosters. You can even get dyes way cheaper on the market by converting your gems to gold then you can buying the dye packs.

Its no wonder people want to buy gems with gold instead of with money and why gems don’t sell for much gold.

Increasing the buying power of gems (give us more for our money or make things cheaper) will increase their value for gold without hurting the people buying them for gold. That will directly net you more people buying them and converting them to gold, stabilizing the price more on the exchange.

Graywolf.6513:

Grenades are mint cos they scale well for both damage and conditions, and they become amazing if you go glass cannon and spec for both power and condition. The price you pay to have 1500 range and immense damage is becoming squish tastic.

Yep, I currently run this spec and I absolutely ANNIHILATE people during an ambush / hit and run. Grenades are the ultimate anti zerg weapon, I can easily stop 4 people from resing someone. Engineer excels at pulling off ganks of all kinds.

Once you learn to not overextend being squishey is no problem. On top of that in one vs one we have so much CC to keep our target in place the enemy just doesn’t stand a chance 9 times out of 10. With perma swiftness + perma vigor, we are truly a force to be reckoned with.

I personally spec 30/20/0/10/10

Currently Gems have very weak purchasing power for the money you spend on them. Pretty much everything in the store costs too much for it to be worth buying gems with money to spend (besides maybe karma boosters and BL salvage kits).

This is also reflected in how little gold you can buy for gems even if it is getting better.

Increase buying power of gems and you increase their value without hurting people who are converting gold to gems.

Clickers are not going to be as effective as non clickers no matter what you have equipped.

I do agree it would be nice to have a direct damage long range weapon. However, I personally have no problems with the GTAoE of grenades. Once you learn to lead your target / properly disable them grenades absolutely destroy.

Katai.6240:

You definitely get funneled into certain builds when playing Necro, and a lot of that is unsatisfying.

My main problem with Condition damage is that it really does not matter in PvE/WvW environments. Large bosses are capped at 25 bleeds, so your bleed basically has no meaning compared to regular DPS. You’re just replacing someone else’s bleed, and someone is probably replacing your maxed condition bleed with their cruddy no-damage bleed anyway. In WvW, most people drop before you can even stack the bleeds. Epidemic is nice, but you’re mostly spreading everyone else’s conditions instead of your own. Also, condition damage does nothing for doing damage to siege or other structures.

Everything is also lackluster. Minions are useless. I’ve not had a minion who didn’t die right away at level 80. I’ve actually resorted to using seed turrets (and Take Root) in place of minions because they’re overall more reliable than our minions.

AOE sucks compared to other classes. Marks do not trigger on enemies who are Downed. They also don’t trigger on siege. They also don’t trigger on allies when you want the condition removal and regeneration buff to proc. Wells have a shorter range than staff spells, which makes it really annoying to use. There’s also only two wells that do any sort of damage. They also don’t have as much reach as other AOE spells (other AOE can reach siege on walls without any effort). I’m also pretty sure wells are Power based, so condition damage doesn’t even make these any good.

The only way I’ve felt useful in WvW/PvE is a Healing/Power build. We have a lot of healing going on, to be honest. Mark of Blood and Well of Blood is staple. Death Shroud can also be spec’d to heal as well (during Life Transfer, and against when leaving DS). No one notices healing (healing in general is pretty transparent and unappreciated), but I’m definitely keeping people alive here. You also get additional Mark of Blood while evading, and an extra Mark of Blood when reviving if you trait it up. I’m aiming for Runes of Mercy to buff my revive/healing utility, though it is still to be determined if that will do any good.

This is how I built my Necro. Its a Healing/Boon well build and its very effective in PvE and WvW. I win almost all my 1v1s and often even 1v2s. I often get up to 20 stacks of might and almost always have more than 10. My Well of Blood can heal for 1000 HPS (counting Dwayna rune proc) and gives everyone 4 1/2 seconds of protection (all the wells do). Blood is power and the trait that gives might on Life Blast constantly leave a large amount of might stacks on me, allowing me to do both power based damage and condition damage in a much more effective manner. 1.85K toughness and 23K HP + Death Shroud make me very hard to take down. Plague form gives me the ability to perma blind groups of players after teleporting to them with dark path allowing my group to push in and decimate them (well of darkness works well here too). Dagger is able to put out respectable amounts of DPS and I have alot of different CC at my disposal including an AoE fear which is amazing in WvW.

We should make a list in here of the dishonorable guilds who exploit this.

Of course the thread would be closed by Arenanet and we would be told to report them… yeah… report their corpse that is no longer there.

Cannot tell if serious or trolling.

Guardians have some of the best condition removal abilities in GW2.

My guild actively avoided pushing on important Anvil Rock supply camps and objectives and for the most part we didn’t see Anvil interfering with us either.

Though we did gank a few groups and get ganked a couple times ourselves

Even though there is no formal pact I feel like this is the best option for our two servers to at least make an effort to avoid taking eachothers important objectives or making a sandwhich out of anyone who is not SF (and we made a kitten fine SF sandwhich earlier when they were assaulting your tower)

Lots of good fights were had tonight @ SF borderlands.

A zerg is an unorganized mass of players who relies on nothing besides their numbers to achieve an objective.

Very little strategizing, teamwork, or planning happens in them. They typically tunnel vision an objective and either it dies or they do.

Seems like there has been no shortage of action so far. Friday night had some great fights leading up to us taking Anvil Rocks orb (but it was gone in the morning).

Lots of ganking targets wandering about in SF borderlands as well as packs of 10+ bots farming krait which my guild took the liberty of exterminating

Looking forward to the action tomorrow and throughout the week but it is pretty clear SF has a strong population around the clock that will be tough to match. I will see if I can have my guild focus on SF but I seriously doubt either Anvil Rock or Borlis Pass will be able to organize any kind of non aggression pact if two weeks ago has anything to say about it.

Also, dirtyklingon and Plok need to get a room for kittens sake

You can’t hold an entire server responsible for the actions of one who could have just transferred here to do exactly this. I don’t know if said Orb hacking actually happened but if it did I am sorry for those it affected. None of the guilds on our server condone cheating.

This is getting stupid quite frankly and I am tired of hearing it. Blame Arenanet for not fixing it and the orb hackers for taking advantage of it, not entire servers.

The only use I can find for Axe is in WvW when I am in a group bigger than 20 or so people because then the vulnerability will increase damage to more then what I could do normally.

In huge blobs Axe doesn’t have the range and in small gangs it doesn’t have the damage.

In small gangs the dagger far outshines the Axes potential for damage and in large scale engagements you are best off using staff.

Axe seems like it will be a very niche weapon until it gets more damage, though it definitely does have its place.

thunderblaze.3802:

So, a Commander on Borlis Pass has a spy on Anvil Rock, and most likely Sorrow’s Furnace too. Always nice when your commander icon is giving away your position and you then have to split up into two teams…a decoy team and a real team.

I suggest you leave your Commander icons off for now and limit map/team chat.

PS: Don’t ally with them, they double crossed us, go figure.

I was about to take you seriously then saw your were in CRFT.

chuckles

No, I really wasn’t going to take you seriously with a title like that. This kind of thing will keep happening until free transfers go away and even some after they do. No point complaining about it here on the forums.

Ive actually come to like Axe for my support build. The damage isn’t that bad and the vulnerability stacks really scale well. Make sure to spam 2 though if you need life force as ability 1 generates none. With a boon build Axe #3 is even nicer than it is already.

Chaster Sharpshooter.3640:

Do go enjoy with BP hacking and cheating with bots =D

Bots are a disadvantage because they take up room in the queue. As for the orb hacking, I can’t even name one server that hasn’t done it at this point. With free server transfers hackers just go from server to server trolling whoever they can. I seriously doubt you will have many if any established guilds/alliances using cheats of this magnitude.

Ultimately its up to Arenanet to fix it and in the meantime there is nothing us legit players can do about it. Yeah it sucks to see everything you worked for get hacked away in a second but there is nothing we can do but wait.

Anyways, some good fights tonight in Anvil Rock borderlands

The only thing it affects is regeneration and well of blood from what I can tell.

9/10 rangers I see running around the world don’t seem to care to rename their pets. Most of the time I see “Juvenile Brown Bear”. Often times I see entire groups of rangers exactly like this running around and scratch my head.
While this may be nitpicking doesn’t it seem rather silly that you have the ability to give your pet a cool/funny name but don’t.
As a necro I would kill to be able to give each of my minions names, what gives rangers?

Demand is down because many people have completed their first exotic set and supply is up due to “Juvenile Brown Bear” infestations.

If you wan’t to DPS don’t play a Necro.

Otherwise its a pretty good class all around besides its damage output / itemization.

Why don’t these accessories exist outside of sPvP?

If they are balanced enough for sPvP are they not balanced enough for PvE/WvW?

Did any devs ever comment on this issue?

Agree with this, you can’t expect a Dev to be perfect at all aspects of the game.

He seems like a pretty bright guy and regardless of how well he performed with some silly build he was having fun with it doesn’t mean we should personally attack him.

I for one am happy Arenanet/Jon is mostly letting the metagame stabilize and bugs get fixed before making big changes. Attacking him won’t get us anywhere.

Axe is outdone by every other Necro weapon in every way besides life force gain (imo).

Name something Axe does good, another Necro weapon does it better besides its #2 which is only good in niche builds.

Dagger mainhand is actually a solid DPS weapon (in the context of our other weapons besides condition scepter)

@Enerjak Yes, Axe is by far our worst weapon. Its range is barely any better then dagger with less than 50% of the DPS. Its #2 can be useful for lifeforce builds and #3 can be useful in niche situations / builds but its effects are hardly unique to necros. It also doesn’t change the fact that #1 hits like a kitten and its vulnerability is worthless compared to focus. Its a shame, because it might work outside a tiny niche of builds otherwise.

DoctorWhy.3847:

I will clarify: We CAN be good, but other classes do everything better. What can we bring to the table, that other classes can’t?

Wasn’t meaning to attack you if that is what it came across as. Yes I agree with you there, there are many classes that can and do outshine us in diversity of builds.

IMO there are more then two viable builds, but again that is just my opinion.

As for what we can bring to the table that others cannot is much higher base survivability as well as DS’s added utility.

My other char is an enegineer btw but I still think there is alot Necros can do that they cannot if you compare them side by side.

I find it hilarious whenever I kill a bunch of forrest critters that can fight back!

It also makes me think about what attacks I should be using and about positioning myself and my enemies.