Guild Wars 2

the only class capable of being stealthed 90% of the time (it’s not actually stealth but more not being rendered) is a thief, mesmers have 1 stealth(on a relativity low cd) whereas theives with cnd can keep it up without ever being rendered

personally i would go with the crossing and the arachnophobia, they’ve stated that the mad king dungeon will only be for 1 more day whereas black lion chests (and mad king chests) will more than likely be available until the end of the Halloween event which i believe is the 7th?

i know the 2 exotics can drop from the labyrinth but that’s only 2 attempts at getting one of them, if you factor in the cost that they take to make which is over 100g a piece(poster above says 150g which might well be true) as well as dungeon tokens you’re looking at a sale of pretty much at least 100g per

edit: wow just noticed that the skins gone up too 70g+, if you’re feeling luckittenep onto it!

word filter kind of broke my last edit.. if you’re feeling lucky, keep onto it

Darkeh.4539:

So they are going for the Strongest Winning Weakest Winning server…..
Excuse if i just ignore your posts from here on nothing personal, but you know what they say never argue with * as they drag you down to there level and then beat u with experience.

Judging from your post you play on SFR to…. please do us all 1 favor…. never buy a commander book.

Thanks.

you’re clueless, if you actually read my post you might understand that in prime time we can fight but in nights they cap everything that we own – hence; going after the winning team(us) and going after the weakest team (us at night) it might be too dificult for you to fathom though but it’s ok if you don’t understand

i’ve got to commend you though for actually taking it personally though, next time take your time to create your next useless post but i doubt that’s going to happen

next week when we’re up against 1 french server do you really think they’re all going to be saying that we’re teaming up against them just because we’re both an english server?

your theory’s are beyond pathetic, they are going for the STRONGEST/winning opponent, they aren’t “teaming up”, they’re just going for the winner/weakest at the time and at night times it’s us, they aren’t going to fight each other when our towers are FREE to cap without any fight meaning effortless points

EVERY week when we’re up against 2 germans/french servers the chat is always filled with “they’re teaming up!” or better yet people come on the forums to complain about this ridiculous nonsense

and you’ve even said it your self that we’re outnumbered, so i’ll give you a rhetorical question;

who are you going to attack? the team who has more enemy’s and people defending their structures or the team who’s outnumbered and probably has 0-2 people defending?

please don’t take it personal, i just get frustrated that people assume that because they speak the same language that they’re teaming up when that’s far beyond the reality of it

maybe because they were winning? and if you didn’t know already, targeting the winning team, funnily enough, makes them not gain as many points!

Buzzcrave.6197:

I disagree with badges only, due to it is easy to get.

Roll a thieves, get full exo, 3 hit everyone else=1/2 badges per person. I’ve actually able to get atleast a stack with a full day on WvW. How? Hop to Kaineng, and beat the kitten out of the other 2 low pop/levels server players.

Maybe 2000 badges+200g+achievement in WvW. That will work.

that’s a terrible suggestion

Scorpio Shirica.1286:

Yeah, armor does not equate to toughness. I run with 2.2k toughness and will rarely, if ever, get hit with 4k dancing daggers. However, when I was squish as this, then yes… that does sound about right.

well i’m still 1465 toughness, just out of curiosity how much do plate wearers get without specing full tank?

2.3k armor and i’m taking hits for 7k? drop my armour down to 1.8/1.9k for normal cloth wearers and they’ll be taking 9k+ hits

also he had 1 orb

it’s a bug and it’s showing it from your spvp armour

KazWolther.4305:

Safari.3021:

3.5g? I paid 6g for mine a month ago :/
I think its a by product of sticking rares into the forge

Any specific rares?

no but it just has to be 4 level 80 rare swords (or any weapon that you want from the forge) and you’ll get either another rare or an exotic

you’re probably better off buying it, i’d only suggest trying this if you have money you’re willing to potentially lose

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Sure, take out repair costs. Then take out events and mobs. Profitable stuff shouldn’t come without risks. The OP obviously wants things gift wrapped for him…

this is exactly what would happen if repair costs were removed… honestly, if you can’t profit in wvw then you’re running solo into zergs and dieing on purpose for no apparent reason

i’m able to use both types of consumables aswell as repair my armor and occasionally order upgrades and STILL come out with a profit

Empyre.2531:

For all you haters trying to twist my words…
I said “a” nightshift not “the”. Come to the lower ranked servers and see what no nightshift means.

every single night i’ve been on we’ve had the outmanned buff and i’m talking at about 2-5am gmt

so whichever way you look at it, the sfr nightshift folk, if they excist, are playing against a bigger group of nightshift enemy’s so that’s hardly an excuse you can use

enemy can’t see anything you say whether it’s /m or /s

i’m not 100% certain but i’m guessing the range of /s is until the next part of the map has to render (basically viewing distance) and i have no idea what the range of /team is but that’s a very good question that i’d love to know the answer of!

guardian seems like it would fit you nicely, it has quite a few support and healing traits aswell as being a tanky class

thank you both for the pictures, they all seem to be bigger than most normal weapons which is REALLY nice to see!

i’m just wondering what they look like on an asura, so if you have any screenshots please share them!

i’ve searched for a while now and couldn’t find anything and don’t want to waste 25g/40g on the skins if i the items are barley noticeable

you’re dieing to go see him, deal with it pal

GoldenTruth.2853:

The 2 chests from the mobs in the labyrinth have a chance of dropping the items (I got a Crossing from one)

i have to say that’s great to hear, the whole event was a massive flop but now people who don’t have the hours to grind for ~150g worth of mats(or even not have to participate in the event because there craftable at any time..) can now grind the events in hopes of getting one of the weapons

i call bullkitten that you think you got an increase, every attempt you make gets worse yields until you hit the bare minimum

and i’m not sure how you figured out that t4->t5 is equivalent to t5->t6 though but forging t6 mats get you lower return than others

gossamer scraps, going from a max of 35 and gradually dropping to 15 within about 4-6 forges

don’t tell me it’s a coincidence that it just gradually dropped to the least amount and even when using the forge again 2 more times i yielded 15

some of you may already know that there is a diminishing returns on the mystic forge and i was wondering, how long is it?

i really don’t want to do guess work as i’ve already lost about 15 philosopher stones at guessing!

i just disabled avg and then to my amazement it worked… i’ve not yet had this problem with my firewall yet so it’s odd that it only happened this morning

it might seem like an obvious solution but as i’ve said, i’ve never had to disable it to download a patch before which is strange! i hope you 2 and any others with the problem get it fixed!

just logged in this morning to a 5.32mb update, i start dling at 1mb/s and then it just gradually drops to 0.00kb/s without actually downloading anything so now it’s stuck with 0% downloaded

i’ve reset my router multiple times and that didn’t fix it, has anyone else had this issue?

so after spending 100 gold for 30 slot party space i get to realize that it’s an invisible party that you have no control over, what’s worse is that when sending in a support ticket you get told that they know 100 gold is hard to come by but they won’t reverse the transaction

you could just post here saying “you should have checked what it was” but that’s beyond the point, they shouldn’t just be telling the people “it sucks that you wasted your hard earned gold but it’s now out of the economy so we aren’t going to refund it”

i have to say that it does seem VERY pointless, in a week i can log in when the events over and then purchase the weapon skins and anything else which is terrible as i don’t even have to participate in this “event” when the main selling point of it is buying keys to unlock chests

Chris.7653:

They said October 22nd, if they do it at midnight that would be October 23rd…

The Anet post I saw was a response to a forum thread, I will look for it.

Even though, isn’t it after midnight GMT anyways?

yes it’s 3am

it’s a consumable that disappears whenever you zone/die, not the typical food buff

it’s actually gain power/condition/precision equal to 4/5/6% of your toughness and vitality and that’s it, they don’t get crit from it but you can use the normal food buffs along side it

yes, clones created use the weapon’s auto attack that you were using when summoned

“The clone attacks using the weapon skills from the “1” slot equipped when the clone was summoned" taken from the wiki

Xandax.1753:

Umeil.5384:

Doly should never be able to be soloed. NOT EVER.
The killing of supplies is way too easy in the game. Solo Doly should need at least 3 people to have a chance and escorted should need 10+ do do any damage.

To take out a supply chain with 1 person is in itself completely stupid. My Guardian can take out a supply camp solo … I rely doubt that that was intended.

Having them soloable increases the motivation for guarding them.
An unescorted Dolyak should never present dangers to anybody as it’s basically just a truck. Escort your supplies if not wanting them busted.

you quite clearly haven’t read the first post

Asum.4960:

Syn.3459:

my first post was about 10 mins ago saying that any class doing 13k damage is unacceptable

You are right, we should nerf Rangers, Elementalists, Warriors, Mesmers, Guardians, Engeneers and Thieves right now.

I mean, the only class that can’t burst out that much dmg in 2 – 5 seconds when speccing full on glass cannon is the Necromancer.

Thief burst is actually only the 4th highest in the game (with Warriors > Engeneers > Mesmers taking the lead).

The only question left is:
Why do we see so many Thieves running burst builds, compared to other classes?

Short answer is: because the Thief can’t do anything else (effectively, compared to other classes).

Want to play support? Nobody picks a Thief for that.
Want to play control? Why would you pick a Thief?
Want to be tanky? Thief is probably the worst decision on this you can make.
Want to be mobile? Thief is good here, but not the best. But being mobile alone isn’t doing anything.
Want to do damage? At least the Thief is pretty good here.

The only reason the Thief profession stands out for it’s damage is because you don’t see a variety in roles.
If every Engeneer would run burst, it would be worse than Thieves.
If every Warrior would run burst, it would be worse than Thieves.
If every…

If you complain about people not getting the whole picture, you should probably check how biased you are yourself.

You complain about Thief burst, only because every Thief bursts you.
You dont complain about Warrior burst, just because not every Warrior bursts you, even tho their burst is higher (while having much more defensive at the same time).
Same goes for Engeneers and so on.

That paired with Assassins (stealth bursts) being pubstompers, and noobs crying the loudest in fourms etc. (while pros just search a counter, if they have a problem at all), just gives a wrong, small, picture of a class.

It’s simply psychology, and if anything, then Thieves are lacking in role diversity and surviveability (besides the noob trap stealth).

Again, they only gear, trait and skill for full burst because thats the only role they can play really effectively, while not even being the best in that role.

[And btw, if you want to simply beat someone who is fully geared for glass cannon, it’s only fair if you have to gear for fully anti glass cannon]

If any 2 classes aren’t OP, then is has to be the Thief and the Elementalist.
While the Elementalist has the ultimate role diversity (but being a master at none), the Thief is only really good at one thing.
Both is lacking.

Giving the Elementalists some more health would nearly fix his problem, since then he would be kind of powerful with all the roles he can play (at basically the same time), without dieing when someone looks at him.

The Thief, while also desperately in need for more base health, also really needs a buff to his (atm) uncommon weapon sets, and probably more viable weapon choices added, which should support playing different roles.

That would also thin out burst Thieves by a great deal, making them not standing out as bursters all the time any more, which would fix the problem, and elevating them to be on par with the other classes (not standing out for one thing, and one thing only, getting much attention).

if you’re going to reply to me read my post before commenting, don’t just nitpick at parts taking them out of context and i haven’t even bothered to read your post because of it but what i said was;

“i’ll go over what i quite literally just said a 2 posts ago and went over again in this post; doing that much damage in 1 hit is unacceptable”

no clue why you’re defending classes that can do 13k damage in a single hit though but i think i’ve got the gist of it from seeing how much effort you put into wall of text

it’s never going to happen

you can suicide into a zergs siege and take it down 1/5 or maybe even 1/4 before they get to kill you, you think that’s fair? there is no strategy when dieing comes at no cost

Ravnodaus.5130:

Joriel.1530:

Coffeebot.3921:

Hey, thought I should enter this here, be warned… there’s simple maths.

If you do 1000 damage and your base crit damage is 150% then you would hit for 1500 damage. However to compare crit damage against normal damage we must consider two situations, first is increasing damage by 50% and the second is increasing crit damage by 50%.

Increasing damage by 50% would lead to 1500 damage, on a crit a person would deal 150% damage, as such the total damage of a crit would be 2250.

Increasing crit damage by 50% would lead to 200% crit damage, on a hit of 1000 damage the person would deal 2000 damage.

Based on these numbers we can see that a damage increase creates more over all damage (crit and non-crit) than just increasing crit damage alone, this leads to a situation where increasing damage is ~15% better than increasing crit damage by the same percentage.

Based on this information we can conclude that Superior rune of the Scholar which gives 8% crit damage, 165 power and 10% damage while health is above 90% is the single best rune for backstab thieves based on the fact that it provides the single largest damage boost of any rune/gem combination.

ya but u wont have much crit chance as it is in my build = less dps

165 power is roughly +18% base damage. Just throwing that out there… pretty sure it won’t be less dps. Unless you have a heavily crit proc dependent build or something crazy.

actually 30 power is about 1% damage increase, not sure how you calculated that 9 power = 1% damage but you’re way off (and i know my calc isn’t perfect either)

you should have your posting rights removed, you have no idea what reality is but if you enjoy trying to make a “name” for your self then i’ve got nothing to say to you other than i feel bad for you

i have to agree this is beyond a joke

you can also use ruby orbs for 12% crit damage, 84 precision and 120 power OR just replace your 1 rune of air for a single ruby orb (2% crit damage, 20 power and 14 precision)

so for 42s you get 12% crit damage, 4% crit and a about 4% damage increase (if my maths right, that’s what 120 power converts too)

ruby orbs are such a great cheap alternative to runes

elementalist; seems like a class with a high skill cap, if not played well you’ll struggle against almost any opponent but can deal massive aoe

ranger; not as squishy with good mobility, easyer to play, nice aoe and single target dps

mesmer; lacks reliable aoe and mobility, amazing 1v1 class, moderate skill cap (timing of skills etc) but can still be played “ok” by an average player

if anyone want’s to correct me please do

just a small suggestion to you, on some classes (guardian, necro, warrior and i think rangers) i would recommend you f4 your illusions to give you distortion so you don’t get feared/dazed

this is coming from the 4 minute mark where you went from 10k health to 4k as well as eating the fear(could have turned out badly!)

what server are you? we might end up seeing each other next match up

nice video though, goodjob

Daecollo.9578:

Syn.3459:

Daecollo.9578:

Syn.3459:

Daecollo.9578:

Syn.3459:

Daecollo.9578:

Hes investing his gear into kill you, but you don’t even have the common courtesy to invest in gear to make sure your living?

Get 4 pieces of “Rune of the Earth”.

that is NOT a solution, people shouldn’t have to re-gear to deal with a single class… the game is flawed if that has to happen, i haven’t ran into any decent thieves yet (apart from hs quickness spammers) but from seeing a *13k hit *, that isn’t balance whether it’s on a glass cannon or not

Thief has to gear to kill you that way, otherwise he could not, its not like the rune is useless against other classes either, its a very good set.

Don’t complain about a class if you don’t want to fix yourself to beat them.

you’re so ignorant it’s unreal, get your head out of the mud and look at the bigger picture

Oh i’m sorry, I just don’t understand your logic, your complaining about an easy counter and NOT doing anything to help yourself besides posting on the forums like a child.

I use Runes of the Earth, I never die to one-hit wonders like 100b and backstab builds.

my first post was about 10 mins ago saying that any class doing 13k damage is unacceptable, if you think that’s “like a child” then i actually feel a little bad for replying to you because you obviously don’t quite understand what’s going on

i’ll go over what i quite literally just said a 2 posts ago and went over again in this post; doing that much damage in 1 hit is unacceptable, whether on a glass cannon or not.. sugar coat it all you like and post around saying to counter not taking a 13k hit you have to go defensive and take a 9k hit instead but the fact remains that damage that high isn’t fair to any class

You expect to live against someone in full berserkers whilst being full berserker yourself and having no defensive gear or vitality, against a class designed to hit hard and fast with multiple strikes?

Genius Bro.

i’m beginning to think you haven’t actually read any of my posts, i’ll just leave it here because you’re obviously a thief that’s defending a class that makes him compete with others

when you get the time to read it all let me know and actually comment on it rather than talking about nonsense

Daecollo.9578:

Syn.3459:

Daecollo.9578:

Syn.3459:

Daecollo.9578:

Hes investing his gear into kill you, but you don’t even have the common courtesy to invest in gear to make sure your living?

Get 4 pieces of “Rune of the Earth”.

that is NOT a solution, people shouldn’t have to re-gear to deal with a single class… the game is flawed if that has to happen, i haven’t ran into any decent thieves yet (apart from hs quickness spammers) but from seeing a *13k hit *, that isn’t balance whether it’s on a glass cannon or not

Thief has to gear to kill you that way, otherwise he could not, its not like the rune is useless against other classes either, its a very good set.

Don’t complain about a class if you don’t want to fix yourself to beat them.

you’re so ignorant it’s unreal, get your head out of the mud and look at the bigger picture

Oh i’m sorry, I just don’t understand your logic, your complaining about an easy counter and NOT doing anything to help yourself besides posting on the forums like a child.

I use Runes of the Earth, I never die to one-hit wonders like 100b and backstab builds.

my first post was about 10 mins ago saying that any class doing 13k damage is unacceptable, if you think that’s “like a child” then i actually feel a little bad for replying to you because you obviously don’t quite understand what’s going on

i’ll go over what i quite literally just said a 2 posts ago and went over again in this post; doing that much damage in 1 hit is unacceptable, whether on a glass cannon or not.. sugar coat it all you like and post around saying to counter not taking a 13k hit you have to go defensive and take a 9k hit instead but the fact remains that damage that high isn’t fair to any class

Daecollo.9578:

Syn.3459:

Daecollo.9578:

Hes investing his gear into kill you, but you don’t even have the common courtesy to invest in gear to make sure your living?

Get 4 pieces of “Rune of the Earth”.

that is NOT a solution, people shouldn’t have to re-gear to deal with a single class… the game is flawed if that has to happen, i haven’t ran into any decent thieves yet (apart from hs quickness spammers) but from seeing a *13k hit *, that isn’t balance whether it’s on a glass cannon or not

Thief has to gear to kill you that way, otherwise he could not, its not like the rune is useless against other classes either, its a very good set.

Don’t complain about a class if you don’t want to fix yourself to beat them.

you’re so ignorant it’s unreal, get your head out of the mud and look at the bigger picture

Daecollo.9578:

Hes investing his gear into kill you, but you don’t even have the common courtesy to invest in gear to make sure your living?

Get 4 pieces of “Rune of the Earth”.

that is NOT a solution, people shouldn’t have to re-gear to deal with a single class… the game is flawed if that has to happen, i haven’t ran into any decent thieves yet (apart from hs quickness spammers) but from seeing a 13k hit, that isn’t balance whether it’s on a glass cannon or not

BlackRabbit.1259:

Although I agree entirely that thiefs need work, particulalrly HS spam and WvW rendering issues.

you will survive longer if you invest more in tough/vit. both through skillpoints and gear.

I am also a full exotic zerker glasscannon with 15k hp (not thief). But I can also melt stuff when left alone.

1/2 ltp
1/2 thief issues

case closed m’lud

lets assume he stacked toughness, it wouldn’t even be close to negating 50% damage and even if it did… a 6.5k hit is FAR too high compared to every other class

if its any consolation they log in dead so have to pay almost 1s40 for the way point and then more for the repair costs, so anyone doing it is pretty much brain dead considering they will also have to queue up aswell

masquerade     

Thobek.1730:

Daish.6139:

Daish is almost up to 800k Karma / 248 Skill points

I’m from SoS and the only reason people can’t stand you is all this third person speak. cut it out!! I sieged a keep with you once and I thought this commander is ok, and has some smart tactics. then you do this third person rubbish and it suddenly feels like I’m following some fool around the map.

Do yourself a favour and stop talking like a nutcase. The only thing you will be remembered for is the idiot that talks like this.

you just made me cringe now that i know he types like that in game, how have you not blocked him yet? he’d be the first to enter my block list if i saw him spamming chat with 3rd person jibberish

LameFox.6349:

TBH, even at lvl 80 with full exotic gear, repairs don’t cost a whole lot. I think it’s mostly just a psychological thing. I’m less likely to engage when I’m unsure of the outcome because I hate having to repair my gear. Hell, if it wasn’t for that, I’d happily just charge headlong into losing battles a lot of the time.

this is correct, it’s only 1s60c for 1 death (unsure if it increases with multiple pieces of damaged gear) for full exotics which isn’t a lot at all… you get 1s for killing a sentry which takes no effort at all even solo but like this guy said, no costs = suiciding, deaths should come at a price

if you see a zerg use your utility skills, as it’s what there used for to escape before you get put in combat

i run solo/duo in wvw 90% of the time, the other 10% it’s either for big coordinated or raiding supply camps and i’m making more money than i can spend

i hate it when i’m fighting 1v2/ but like it when i’m fighting 2v4 (with a competent ally)

some classes (mainly melee) have aoe on almost all attacks, not only would the melee be cleaving there own melee but also both teams ranged classes would be hitting them causing melee to blow up from 3 sources of damage

peach cookies all day

also i wouldn’t buy vendor food, you can buy stuff A LOT better than vendor food for cheaper (you can filter the ah to select level 60+ consumables then sort by price) you’d actually be amazed at how cheap it is

Azure Prower.8701:

Syn.3459:

/me is used for doing your own emotes and as you may (or may not) know the enemy can see any emote you can do, so just add anything after it and it comes out in the emote style text

“servername invader <text>” is what it shows as

/me emotes don’t work unless they’ve recently changed it. All the enemy sees is “Servername invader gestures.”

That’s it.

I once had an enemy desperately tried to communicate with me using /me to no avail.

well that’s made me look silly, i just assumed it would work like the emotes but haven’t tested.. really disappointed that it doesn’t