Guild Wars 2

Condition damage is a wasted stat in PvE. Too often bosses get capped with different conditions and leave you sitting there with your subpar direct damage. For soloing stuff conditions are acceptable but running with a group they are more of a burden.

OP just sounds like one those guys who thinks everyone should be able to get everything.

There has always been and there will always be content that is dedicated to those who put the time and effort of reaching them. In GW2 those happen to be legendary weapons and other pricy skins.

It is a warrior with mainhand sword and offhand axe wearing draconic crafted armor set.

The leap at the start was sword skill #2 and at some point she used axe skill #4. And rangers can’t permastow their useless pets.

Scaling works fine it’s just that most people like to go afk after tagging the boss thinking that the rest will finish it.

RitaRitaRitaRita.1806:

Exsequens.3147:

My level 80 Mesmer (Cloche Pastalie) from Ar Tonelico ^^. With Arcon Garb from the Dwayna Temple transmuted to different exotics and mystic weapons.

Anybody know the colors for this one? And the helm and gloves?
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/3471/gw002.jpg

Can’t help you with the dyes but the headpiece and gloves are from the crafted feathered set.

What happened to the play how you want ideology?

All i see is OP wants everyone to play like he does so he can afford more expensive skins/materials.

Works with every trait that alters a skills functionality. And frankly it’s not that big of a deal since you can’t do it in combat.

Kaiiku.2917:

KarlusDavius.1024:

Finally finished my shield and it looks AMAZING!!

Now for frostfang…
Gift of mastery done.
Time for farming dem T6!

curious to know how “farming” mats (and/or lodestones) is still a thing right now..

Also known as doing Gates of Arah event chain, Grenth temple cleanse, Melandrus second beacon and dolly farming for champ boxes and moldy bags.

Doing the temple runs gives around 60-90 moldy bags if you have some MF and a good group for tagging.

/endthread

Are they still bugged so that incoming dmg is increased by 10% instead of being reduced by 10%¿

It’s a graphical bug which occurs randomly when you interrupt a spell and swap attunements at the same time. The dagger itself is just a normal iron dagger.

Ele ice bow is so lovely in AC. <3

Sadly…

Main-hand sword
I just want to clarify for good that main hand sword is currently working as intended. All movement skills cannot be interrupted by dodging and this is currently intentional. It has a very specific play style, and I would like it to remain. I understand that rangers want a one handed melee option that is more mobile, but that will have to wait, as I know there are a mix of players who also like how this weapon plays and I do not want to take away one of the more unique playstyles that we have and replace it with something that is fairly common.

Thanks,

Jon

Not to mention dumb as rock pet AI system and the inability of the devs to even try to fix it.

Lendruil.9061:

When you use the transmutation stone on the legendary and the white item, do you then have to choose the skin of the legendary or the skin of the white item? Or doesn’t it matter at all?
Also, is there any statement whether ANet sees this as an exploit?

You choose the skin of the legendary and stats of the white item. And part of the reason why Anet made splitters was so that people could move their legendaries and other valued skins around. Not going to bother looking for any red posts on that due to the forum search engine being what it is.

Can’t wait for aetherblade and molten fractals with their anti ranger mechanics that make the whole class ability useless.

I do love the fact that longbows actually look like longbows but then stuff like guild GS which is huge on a human ends up being just gigantic when wielded by a norn.

+3k hours and +600 gold shoved into the toilet and the only notably good drop has been Crystal Guardian from a champ box, whereas a friend of mine has got 2 precursors from the MF by dropping in daily world boss rares and she looted The Bard from a Twilight Arbor chest yday… >_>

Monsoon. Nice and simple.

Thanks to the account bound fractal levels I can finally shove my ranger into retirement until they actually figure out what to do with its broken class mechanic.

Reward updates:

You will be able to receive a special daily chest for finishing a boss fractal once per day. This chest will contain a number of items based on your current fractal level:
Empyreal Fragments
Fractal Relics
A Pristine Fractal Relic
Gold

This boss chest will also have a chance at containing a number of other rare rewards. As your fractal level increases, so do the odds of obtaining these items:
Fractal Weapon Skins (starting at level 10)
Ascended Rings (starting at level 10)
Ascended Weapons (starting at level 10)
Infused Ascended Rings (starting at level 20)

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-changes-for-the-fractals-of-the-mists/

Hsin.5294:

It would be so cool if i can still have the all functions of legendary weapon provided!
Thank you!

If you use the transmutation splitter it will be the exact dame legendary weapon with all of its properties that it had before transmutation.

This case reminds me of the Sylvari cultural armor change. Sudden change to your characters aesthetics without any sort of communication.

With that said I actually prefer the new running animation above the old one provided that my staff didn’t swing like a hay in the wind (much less clip into my t3 sorcerer dress).

Skady.5916:

If you camping 1200+ spot you not getting any party buffs and not providing any buffs for party. This is the reason to be insta kicked in a good group. Any weapon that can only be used at 300+ range is very selfish by nature and useless in party from a team play perspective.

You can blame players but imho blame is on you, and I used to main a ranger and kinda know what I’m talking about

This.

You are using one of the most selfish builds in this game and playing with pugs “just for fun”. And then you wonder how rangers have managed to get such reputation.

Even if you put down your frost spirit in range of your groups melee players then either A they’ll be missing out on your spotter which is one of the 2 unique and useful party supports that we have because you are camping at +1000 range or B you are in range with spotter to support your team but then your LB will do a subpar DPS and you might as well be in melee range with your sword/warhorn & dagger to provide the max possible amount of DPS available to us.

Devs have said that it’s ok to sell dungeon runs if they were done legitimately. It has been done since GW1 and frankly I see no reason for them to suddenly change their viewpoint on this.

Also if there is demand there will always be supply.

Hyena and Ogre runes let you have 3 “pets” out at the same time. Add Hounds of Balthazar with them for the ultimate dog kennel experience.

Equipment needed: 1 Legendary weapon (we shall use a Bitfrost for this demonstration), 1 white staff, 1 transmutation crystal and 1 transmutation splitter.

1. Transmute your Bitfrost to the white staff using the transmutation crystal thus making it account bound.
2. Transfer the new account bound weapon and the transmutation splitter to your other character trough your bank.
3. Use the transmutation splitter with the white staff on your new character to regain its legendary stats and properties and making it soulbound in the progress.

If you want to work your kitten off to be useful then pick a ranger, otherwise just roll a guard.

Where can I buy a set of those Lord Faren stamps?

allire.3984:

Lysis.7849:

My Elementalist, Lysis!

Hey, may I ask how do you make this kind of a screenshot? I can’t get rid of the GUI elements on character selection screen.

Press ctrl+shift+H.

It should disable the UI until you press them again.

Zenith.7301:

Shaman is Toughness primary, healing power+condi damage.

It wouldn’t be so terrible if it didn’t have the healing power, which is a completely useless stat for any condi build that isn’t a BM bunker ranger.

Basically my only real option is to use it on a spec that’s only somewhat good for roaming on WvW, terrible for team GvG WvW activity, and outside that has no use whatsoever.

I’m not sure that prismatic understanding WvW stealth prot spam mesmers run shaman, I think they just go for rabid since most condi builds rely on it. Even the mesmer prefers rabid because Sharpened Images means more bleed uptime.

Anyways, it’s just outright depressing that on a very small chance jackpot, the game spits in your eye by giving you an obsolete item.

I left it in its box hoping someday Anet will start using their head within the next decade and make anything non-berserk, let alone healing power builds, be useful.

But I played ele in GW1, so I know what the odds of that are happening, let alone when.

In PvE shaman stats are Vitality as main then condi dmg and healing power as minors whereas in sPvP shaman stats are Toughness as major and healing/condi dmg as minors.

The PvE equivalent of sPvP shaman stats are Settlers gear.

Silly how they can’t name them the same way in both game modes.

Does a mesmer using a GS or a sword make sense?
Does an engineer using a shield make sense?
Does an ele using daggers make sense?
Does a guardian using a scepter and a focus make sense?

Common sense and rationality are thrown out of the window as soon as you start playing a fantasy game. Not everything has to make sense in a world filled with talking rats and magic flying about.

Aah… A thinly veiled “Plz nerf Frostgorge champ train” thread…

I don’t get it why people are so opposed to having a rifle or a pistol for rangers.

I mean what difference would it make for you if it’s there as a choice for those who prefer using them over bows?

In fact I wouldn’t mind if every class had access to every weapon out there. That would help bringing more diversity in this game.

Just learn from Wethospus youtube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTj6IHLTMuY3dF1fP8XoZvQ

Bright.9160:

Syn Sity.5826:

Dromar.1027:

Phadde.7362:

Dromar.1027:

If they make fractal weapons easier to get after a year of grinding fractals I will simply walk into mordor.

Well, would you rather have it stay the way it is? It would be a huge improvement, right? If you already have a Fractal Weapon, the fact that you’ve fought for it more than most is still true.

It would have been a huge improvement 11 months ago but knowing what I know now about the direction of the game I would keep it the same. The problem in the game is skins are not rewarded for challenging feats but a combination of cash or gold. RNG fills the gaps but people are kitten ed because it was done so wrong by making everything drop everywhere and including it in black lion chests where a large majority of decent skins go now.

Fractals is the closest thing we have that shows players did something challenging that doesn’t include a solo 15 second lupi kill.

Nothing would quite compare to a 15 second lupicus solo.

I think it would have been possible using Descent into madness.

• Use portal on top, push him to the door, use portal, jump, portal jump etc and hope you burn him a good chunk into p2 by hitting him in the middle of an animation before he phases.

• Use clockwork portal device on top.

• Repeat jump – portal procedure.

It might have been possible.. But I guess we’ll never know.

Except you can’t use watchwork portals when in combat.

Almogfrd.9270:

Taku.6352:

Do you have camera shake turned on?

Because I think that causes them to disappear.

OMG IT FIXED IT!!!!
you just made my life so much easier
i love you forever now! <3
could you tell me what im losing by turning it off? just so ill know what im giving up on.

Only thing you’ll lose out on is a little camera shake when some bigger hits/spells are used. Functionally it makes no difference.

Do you have camera shake turned on?

Because I think that causes them to disappear.

I on the other hand wouldn’t mind hearing the chant every time I charge the mantra. :X

BlueZone.4236:

Alukah.2063:

Are you talking about an old update? I’ve been around here for like a month and a half and those electrical fields have always been there.

Before your time, Golem had no electrical field.

Golem alwyas had electric fields but before the update they did like 300 dmg per tick.

And then comes the dredge… :[

If only it had a dye channel so we could decide how we want our eyes and the corruption around them to look like.

Seems like the next update will be revolving around new fractals based on the preview image on the releases page.

It’s just so much easier to craft it personally. 21k karma for the recipe is nothing and buying the mats separately is cheaper.

Yay for more time gating!

Don’t forget ascended gear scaling, wvw rank buffs and all those lovely statistical buffs that give us less benefit compared to other classes.

Oh and also gameplay mechanics that completely nullify the class core mechanic. (I’m looking at you Arah p2 end boss and Aether retreat.

Leap finishers are personal heals so having your dog jumping in the spring only heals itself. Blasts and whirls can give party healing.

SoR should be one condi every 10 sec as passive just like it’s now and active full condi cleanse. And when traited it would also affect your pet. Wouldn’t be OP because warriors already get a full cleanse with signet of stamina active.