Guild Wars 2

Big servers just blob stack, there is no strategy other than who can gather the biggest blob and overwhelm everyone. Blob on all the areas so much that nobody can stop it. Rangers aren’t useless in wvw.. their pets are.

Trust me I wish there was a way, I loved WoW mage, specializing was fun but GW 2 wants you to be ADD with ele. You’ll either have to roll a mesmer which in pve only sword is viable and clones die in wvw zerg or necro which is unwanted pve.

I wish, summoner type would be neat. :/ To bad there isnt a trait for perm pet

shinreigari.7318:

I think it would look goofy if the character constantly waved around with the staff while casting (as it is simply too big, i also don’t really like guardian autoattack for this reason)… i think of the staff as a magical item which helps channel/amplifies magical energies or something, and doesn’t require to be used or moved physically during attacks.

Using the staff as a physical weapon would be a melee type of fighting, like stick fighting.

Guard staff attacks look awkward.. they’re really really bad

How can you make something an e-sport when it’s not able to be balanced?

Down state is easy to learn, it’s the most annoying feature in PVE. Ahhh nothing like going down in pve and a monster slowly kills you while you go get a drink and bake a cake.

Vol.7601:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Vol.7601:

Not sure why people are kittened at Anet. Key farming was here a lot longer than it was supposed to be. Anet was shooting themselves in the foot by having it in game for so long.

It’s about time we have weapon prices that are now in line with the risk of gambling on buying keys. It was a market inefficiency that had to be corrected.

If anybody else said it, i would agree. But not coming from you, sorry. You are richer then most people. You are more addicted to rare skins then most people. And you hardcore farm (wich kinda equals keyfarming in some ways – wanting best efficiency income). If you would give up all kinds of hardcore farming you are doing now, your response would be fair. (meaning every income that was substantially better then the average like blix farming, instantaneously nerfed). But it isn’t since you are hardcore farming Orr or something else atm, and you just can’t stand it, that other people got usefull stuff with keyfarming. And that’s the source of your post. Not anything else. And that’s dissapointing, using that as an argument. You just want your legendaries/personal skin to be more rare. And that’s a selfish thing. If devs would make a game around those incentives, it would quickly get toxic.

Anyhow i rarely keyfarmed. But having the option to do it sometimes was fun. Removing it, isn’t much fun. Especially having 4 scraps, it NOT fun. Because that means with inc nerfs, i will most certainly never ever find 6 more ticket scraps for a full ticket. So they essentially nerfed my existing 4 ones. Ah well chaos skins are ugly to me, and i got my stock of ley line skins.

I suppose it looks like I’m biased but I don’t think I’am.

The difference between me farming gold (which I haven’t done since megaservers btw) and farming keys is that there is an inefficiency in alternatives.

For example, between farming gold and buying gold from gem trade, both are viable alternatives

Between key farming and buying keys, the latter is not a viable alternative. It’s not viable because the price of a key is so high, and that you are more likely to end up paying more in gold value for the key than the skin you end up getting, which would average around 60g.

And so key farming has depressed the price of skins so much that key farming is now the only alternative to getting skins at a fair price.

Anet has also had lost revenue opportunities from those who would rather key farm than buy keys. The lower price of the skin on the TP also lowers the gold/gem rate to the disadvantage of Anet, although that calculation is a lot more complicated and it’s not 100% affected.

Wouldn’t they lose revenue from people buying gems to convert to gold to buy these skins? Not many are going to convert to pay 500g for a skin nor try their luck at boxes so anet loses more money this way.

Didn’t people say that the Chinese stuff wouldn’t ever come to NA side? So much for that. =p

Andred.1087:

Good enough, key farming is stupid, and obviously not something they wanted players to do.

Key farmers allow skins etc to be sold for cheap. Maybe you should think about that.

Ascended crafting is just tedious, I don’t know who enjoys that. Some parts are easy to get but it just feels like a whole lot of effort and gold for something barely worth it.

Wish they made it so you could perma keep up the pets =/

I don’t play my warrior much but it seems to me the only way people will be happy is if the Warrior is a free kill in PvP and insta downed in PVE from boss attacks, people wouldn’t be happy even if they nerfed Warrior HP, healing, dmg and armor. Which is sad, people would rather see nerfs than everyone else getting buffed, to me warriors are how classes should all be, capable of doing anything if speced for it.

Dagraan.2854:

Behellagh.1468:

Dagraan.2854:

the farming community is actually pretty nice, its like a pool of gasoline running a machine.
but then the matches(anti farmers rich elites) come along and light the gasoline and guess what kitten explodes.

the toxic players aren’t the farmers who just want to make money and not have to be some TP warrior who drive the prices up of goods for their own gain so they don’t have to farm to pay for the increased prices of goods.
the toxic players are the ones preventing people from making money and having a good time.
what do you think happens when you stop a farm? people go do other events? no they sit around and wait or go find something else to farm.
ending farms just kill the map and bring it back it its regular dead self.

They don’t need to be rich.

no but who profits the most from stopping goods and gold from coming into the market and dragging the prices down?

TP flippers and people that know hidden farming spots always try to stop new farms from showing up.

What makes me mad about pets in GW 2 is they made combat pretty fun, redid a lot of stuff and made it more fast.. then they take the generic starting pet system from vanilla WoW and add it to the game. Seriously WoW and a few other mmos had pet issues for yeeaaarrs.. yet they don’t even bother to overhaul it in GW2.

What they should have done is these things for starter..

When you dodge your pet gets a dodge buff for a few seconds technically dodging attacks, allowing your pet to avoid boss damage.

No family only abilities, these are stupid, as if a bear is supposed to do less damage than a crow? Come on. Players should be able to mix and match pet abilities like their own skill bar.

Reduced NPC aoe damage and a trait to reduce AoE damage in pvp/wvw

Pet skills should be faster, some should be instant.

Pets should be aesthetic, you pick where to put their points, want a tanky bird? Max armor points, want a dps bear? Max strength etc, some pets can keep their natural starting atributes over some pets, like bird can have higher crit and stuff than a bear but you can still make your bird tanky.

There is also no real connection with pets, only a few skills buff pet damage and it’s all generic. Should be activating sword skill 3 makes your pet do poison damage on next attack, longbow 5 makes pet attacks aoe for a few seconds. GS maul makes your pet do extra damage and stack vulnerability and bleed etc..

Can’t think of how they’d be useful unless they give passive stats.. seeing how you’d be giving up buffs, condi clear and other stuff to even put 1-2 on skill bar. Unless they make it you can add one more skill instead of an elite.. gawd elites are garbage

I want a game without needing hour and hours to play. I’ve lost my interest in most games mostly because they never deliver what they say they will. MMO’s now are hyped and pushed and released before ready and that just forces the devs to play catch up, this is because it’s not games made for people who love games but corporations looking for easy bucks.

Only thing I dislike is that jory’s sister was an obvious red shirt. not playing much of the LS though.

Honestly you’ll find RP by looking for RP guilds, RP servers never work unless it’s enforced. Every game I joined with an RP server without GM support ended up being terrible and full of drama and trolls because sadly that’s where those types of people tend to flock. It’s just like if you go to smaller anime conventions.. half the time the people that show up are gawkers, creeps, idiots, people who dress up just to dress up and make it about them and couldn’t care less about the theme.

Just gota ask around and you’ll find some good RP guilds.

WoW is bigger and WoW even has mounts, GW 2 didn’t include mounts so the maps feel bigger. What feels like a larger city? One you drive through or one you’re forced to walk through? The problem with exploration in this game is that it’s not natural. There are POI which if you miss by a foot don’t give any credit, POIs should have been small areas you find by walking around or getting to a place by trying to do a heart, you can do one heart and miss the like 3 POI’s around it easily because it all can be done right at the heart. There should have been less POIs and more hidden treasures for people to find, caves, old homes, lore books etc which would be hidden in zones and not part of some crummy map check list.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Sunshine.4680:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Cantha WILL NOT be in GW2. Sorry peeps, the Emperor has closed off Cantha when the Dragons rose and Orr was brought back up from the depths. It is part of the lore of GW2. Also, the Tengu left Cantha because of that.

Maybe Cantha would be in GW3.

Since when does Anet care about lore?

They have built the lore. Also – there are hints all over DR as to why there will be no Cantha in GW2. Find those and you will understand.

Yes they built the lore and they changed it many times, the person who had the issue with Cantha is gone.. with GW2 over in China is seems silly not to have Cantha eventually added. They made the lore and they have shown before they’ll change it at will.

The shield doesn’t even block.. >.>

Shield actually being useful.. focus works better as a shield than the shield does.. it’s like they got the skills mixed up at launch.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Cantha WILL NOT be in GW2. Sorry peeps, the Emperor has closed off Cantha when the Dragons rose and Orr was brought back up from the depths. It is part of the lore of GW2. Also, the Tengu left Cantha because of that.

Maybe Cantha would be in GW3.

Since when does Anet care about lore?

Pvpers deserve some armor for their success etc, fractual players get the skins.. wvwers well get nothing really etc. Just pvp down the track I guess. Most games with pvp tend to have different armor for pvp.. WoW did.

And no matter what Anet does GW 2 pvp will never, evvveeeeerrrrrr ever, ever, ever.. be an e-sport. It’s unbalanced, never will be balanced and they cannot fix it. Time to give it up and just make it a celebrated part of the game without trying to hard to make it catch on.

Who is saying they won’t work for it? They just want an alternative way to accomplish the same goal. People need to learn to read and stop trying to force everyone else into accepting something they don’t want to do.

Vayne.8563:

Sunshine.4680:

The only thing worse than doom and gloomers is the eternal optimists this community has. So easily entertained and needing justification and vindication to enjoy this game. GW2 is fairly popular yet many of my friends quit, my guild has seen a loss of lots of players and sees an influx of more. The ebb and flow of the game changes with time.

If the game was full of people, they wouldn’t have put in megaservers now would they? People were complaining about empty servers and lack of people for events. Even with them some zones are void of people. I think the game is at an okay spot and will always have a spot where it’s not the top but never the bottom. GW2 has it’s perks and a long way to go.

I like the fast paced game play and how the game does it’s quests… hope more future mmos do the samething. Although I’m currently taking a break until class reworks are done, can’t be bothered with doing dailies now. I hope this motivates the GW2 team to really bring their a game to reach the top. Also hope they give up on the whole e-sports thing, let’s face it GW 2 will never, EVER, EVER be an e-sport but it can be a top MMO for sure.

Your post is correct except for one bit. The bit about why mega servers were put in. The thing is, a lot of people guested to the three busiest servers, causing those servers to overflow and other servers to be empty.

There were often multiple overflows on TC but no one on the servers causing the multiple overflows. TC people complained all the time (Blackgate people too) about not being able to get on their own server because of guesting.

This distributes people in a fairer manner.

Well I also read posts on here from players complaining they HAD to guest in order to complete world bosses or events. It wasn’t by choice so if their servers were full they wouldn’t need to guest in the first place. I think it’s a little bit of both because I believe an Anet employee posted the servers were so more people could occupy maps that weren’t very populated.

The only thing worse than doom and gloomers is the eternal optimists this community has. So easily entertained and needing justification and vindication to enjoy this game. GW2 is fairly popular yet many of my friends quit, my guild has seen a loss of lots of players and sees an influx of more. The ebb and flow of the game changes with time.

If the game was full of people, they wouldn’t have put in megaservers now would they? People were complaining about empty servers and lack of people for events. Even with them some zones are void of people. I think the game is at an okay spot and will always have a spot where it’s not the top but never the bottom. GW2 has it’s perks and a long way to go.

I like the fast paced game play and how the game does it’s quests… hope more future mmos do the samething. Although I’m currently taking a break until class reworks are done, can’t be bothered with doing dailies now. I hope this motivates the GW2 team to really bring their a game to reach the top. Also hope they give up on the whole e-sports thing, let’s face it GW 2 will never, EVER, EVER be an e-sport but it can be a top MMO for sure.

Won’t fit charrs so won’t get put in. Anything that cannot be put on charr’s won’t get put in do to anet’s everyone gets a trophy stance when it comes to armor. no race left behind! (Even if it totally doesn’t fit that race.)

Effects are nice but the weapons themselves look lazy.

Make it a 6 month account ownership requirement, leveling for me is just so tedious and I just eventually stop playing because i cannot be bothered doing the grind all over again. Sellable tomes etc would help alt a holics or people who need to switch classes again. Not like you learn your class lvling 1-80 anyways, upgrade armor every 10 lvls and spam 1. Wow I just learned my class!!! You actually don’t need to learn anything until 80 really. Chances of you getting an actual dungeon group are nil and dungeons are pointless anyways.

I’ve never found map completion very rewarding or fast for what you put in. Dynamic events and Etom are best ways of leveling.

Open world bosses are bad design for the loot they give.

Change sword with hammer! Not enough classes use hammers. :<

HorridForm.5926:

I would want to keep the great sword with some range since a Necro is still a light armor class, but not so much range that it would overshadow the staff.

Chain 1: Weaken Armor
1/2 second
Damage: (.6)
Vulnerability (2): 5 Seconds
Number of Targets: 5
Range: 500
Chain 2: Defile Flesh
1/2 second
Damage: (.7)
Poison (2): 2 Seconds
Number of Targets: 5
Range: 500
Life Force: 1%
Chain 3: Necrosis
1/2 second
Damage: (1.1)
+10% damage per condition
Number of Targets: 5
Range: 500
Life Force: 3%

Skill 2: Malaise
1/2 second
Cool Down: 10 seconds
Damage: (.7 per hit)
Number of Impact: 2
Weakness: 2 seconds
Number of Targets: 5
Range: 600
Combo Finisher: Whirl
Life Force: 4%

Skill 3: Shadow Strike
3/4 second
Cool Down: 15 seconds
Damage: (1.2)
Blindness: 3 seconds
Chill: 2 seconds
Life Steal: 10%
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 180
Range: 600
Combo Finisher: Leap

Skill 4: Rending Strikes
1 second
Cool Down: 20 seconds
Damage: (.5, .6, .7)
1st target removes 3 boons
2nd target removes 2 boons
3rd target removes 1 boon
Number of Bounces: 2
Range: 900

Skill 5: Desecrate
3/4 second
Ground Target
Cool Down: 30 seconds
Damage: (1.2)
Convert 1 boon to a condition
+10% Damage per boon on target foe
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 180
Range: 900

Necros have a crappy ranged melee weapon, it’s called an axe. -.-

I’m looking for a p/p build without nades too x.x

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you think you can go into a real MMO, where your intentionally being useless will actively cause the team to fail and wipe and be forced to restart the dungeon from scratch, and not end up on the personal kitten list of everyone on the server, you’ve got another thing coming.

Go on and try it though. I’d love to hear how it goes.

When did the OP say they were going to run a useless build?

Honestly even on wow it wasn’t this bad. in dungeons it did suck when DPS would sign up as tank etc but raid wise, pvp and standard pve it wasn’t an issue, some builds were better than others but some stuff worked well. GW 2 just attracts a whole heap of jerks, the community is more toxic than D3 or any moba game and that tells you something right there.

Elitist.8701:

Lol P/D thief…what a joke. Like, it’s so hard to kill nubs in wvw that you have to go full condi bunker. WvW is becoming a joke but the developers don’t seem to care because they let perplexity runes and condi food run rampant. But go ahead, get carried by your build. At least I won’t see you people in PvP. Although, if you do run condi thief in PvP please be on the other team, it’ll increase my chances of winning.

-Teef Teef Teef Teef, that thief that’s better than every P/D thief in the game because Ive learned to play instead of getting carried by cheese.

Ok?

I like a few of them, hate region exclusive crap.

I have strength runes laying around but wondering what’s the best for p/d build. Anyone help? :o

Switching pets is already something silly, rather than fixing the problem with pets they added a switching mode and adding to that just further compounds the problem.

Other pets need buffs, omg bears need huge buffs.

Great! but want some pet love both in utility and useability some are still pretty weak or bleh. I want customizable pets with stat allocation and me choosing what skills it uses. These are good buffs tho, just feel pets are so weak.

Sellers aren’t the problem. Game is just so easy to grief in or harass at times.

Good heavens are people always trying to suppress someone else all the time? Some people want more realistic weapons, myself included and there are people crying about it? Why? It’s obvious up close what most people are using or by animations. It’s a stupid argument and the worst part is there is a ton of huge, fat swords and goofy looking stuff in game already. Let people have some realistic look skins or katanas or whatever. The last few weaponsets have been nothing but gaudy stuff so you anti-realistic weapon weirdos can be happy.

Pet switching option is stupid. This is why pet’s cannot be buffed or customizable because of the dumb switching. The fact that family skills trees even exist is beyond dumb. The pet system for GW 2 is so outdated it’s not even funny. Pet family tree skills shouldn’t be locked, there shouldn’t be tank/buff/dps pets, it should be how YOU make your pet.

Equip a sword and now your Ranger is an NPC along with your pet since it auto plays for you.

Bears, seriously why are bears so weak DPS wise? Bears could kill like 95% of the animals we can tame. I’m unsure how a bird out puts more dps than a 800 pound animal that could break bones with a bite and can swipe with massive paws etc.

Take off zerker gear, roll a squishy class, play with the least effective weapon. There you go, hardmode.

so many people crying about keeping an armor unique that they don’t even use most likely. Isn’t there enough temp content in the game already? It needs to be brought back as either gem store or pvp gained armor or for a huge amount of wvw badges.