Guild Wars 2

Konig Des Todes.2086:

No they aren’t. The DSD’s minions are never described anywhere.

Only dragon minions in the Sea of Sorrows novel are risen.

I don’t know if you mean specifically only in sea of sorrows, but his minions are described in the movement of the world: “In the deepest waters of the sea, another dragon breathed, twisting the waters themselves into tentacled horrors that rose from every lake and river of the land.”

As it stands, chronomancer can’t use their wells underwater. These are essentially our highest damage aoe skills and there aren’t many other options for underwater combat. This feels like an oversight because necromancers can still use wells underwater.

Also QQ about the sword stunbreak nerf, that was my favorite part of the skill. I think it’s funny how the spear leap still breaks stuns though. RIP underwater combat

Elomite.2396:

I take it those plebs were lying about getting aetherized skins from the chests, this loot is utter garbage tbh

my group has gotten 2 aetherized skins since the expansion dropped. i got the staff and they got the longbow.

you can get the keys for essentially free by trading in the blue ovular reward items in the tab underneath where you pay silver for them. i’d check the exact name of the item but the game is down. you should have a ton of them and no clue what to spend them on, though. that was my case anyway.

Windsagio.1340:

Also, as phys mentioned, it’s not like a 40 fractal should be that difficult, they’re scaled WAY lower than before.

If you can only beat a 40 molten duo by doing a stack’n’burn with an as-optimal-as-possible dps comp, that’s on you.

wouldn’t it be even easier to do with 2 dedicated healers?

Hannelore.8153:

Most fractal bosses can be soloed in a reasonable amount of time. If you can’t beat it with five people in a reasonable amount of time, check your own DPS instead of saying that it was good and blaming everyone else’s build. Fractals don’t scale up or down, so if single people can clear them, you have no excuse to not be able to clear them with a party of five regardless of the makeup of that party.

Its not so fun when others can be elitist too, is it?

idk why you think the full zerk guardian had the terrible dps and not the 2 dedicated healers.

Jiggawattz.2697:

John Smith.4610:

Hello everyone, we’ve been tracking a lot of markets closely and I wanted to make a quick statement about flax seeds. At the current price some pieces of guild halls may seem very hard to get. A lot of people are storing the items up in their banks causing some temporary, artificial price inflation. To help out, here are a couple of ways to easily obtain more seeds:

There’s a secret garden under an Itzel Village that may help.
They’re found all over Auric Basin.
Check out the “Torn From the Sky” Achievement.

Cheers and happy trading all.
John.

The only problem I have with the new economy changes are that you stated in your post that fractals would have liquid gold shifted to them… however you cannot gain liquid gold in fractals at any real rate because you no longer get raw gold… if you open chests you can get trash item, however you guys at Anet saw it in your hearts to set the price of keys at 20 silver per key… and after 1000 boxes the average silver drop per box is 12.7 silver… meaning you open boxes at a loss… which means no liquid gold… which means assuming we do all of our dailies we can bring in about 80 silver a day in trash loot from free keys from doing 9 fractals, equivilant to 9 dungeons which used to give 9 gold. I know you are attempting to combat inflation.. but putting a gold sink where you previously stated their would be a gold income is kind of sore spot for me. Also I wanted to point out that I have fractal mastery… the “bonus items from chest” mastery is a complete sham, I have gotten no greater loot from chests since having the mastery..

you can get keys by trading in those blue ovular things you get en masse, no money involved. the tab is underneath where you buy the keys for silver. i’d tell you the actual name of them but the game is down.

queue queue

i was soloing it and totally thought the mid-air rift would be solid ground. had to reset the fight lolll

lmaooo before the canach fight i was like, i guess i don’t need reflects since he uses melee weapons! jokes on me, all of his attacks were ranged! also the shield at the end did nothing for me so i just dropped it and finished the fight normally.

after that fight i told myself i should probably have a reflect but i decided to go with my stun break instead. i guess i’m just unlucky because the caithe fight had a ton of projectiles as well!

i managed to get through them both with only downing once or twice but the mordremoth fight was just crazy, so much random damage piling on as the fight progresses. i was doing fine until i assumed a rift floating off the island would be solid ground for me to walk on but instead i fell to my death. the fight is so annoying i don’t even want to try it again until tomorrow lol

did none of you read the comments before posting? it’s part of a collection achievement and you don’t need it to get the upgraded version

have you done a lvl 50 fractal yet

CorrynnStarr.7942:

It also depends on whether they recycle old items already in game coughcough"staff"coughcough… that staff has been in game for years, infact it was December 2013 it was datamined. all they did was particle effect it a bit and threw it in the legendary generator program they got to determine components needed to make it. the pistol looks like a smaller reskin of Predator with bolt/meteorlogicus lightning effect added to it. While the axe is unique in its base form, it is using the blue section of space from twilight with incenerators sleeve wrap. The vast majority of these feel copied and pasted IMHO. Im not knocking the artists or anything, but this seems less original and more hastily put together. I would rather they take their time and make new skins for them , than do them every 1-3 months with reskins of old weapons with new effects etc…

sorry you accidentally stepped on your glasses :/ i know they can be expensive

maybe he fell off the edge of the earth

you can’t use gliders outside of the HoT maps and i think SW/DT

Regimentz.3471:

Att is still a thing?

they’re more of a thing than ever before since i joined

Torolan.5816:

How is raiding for hours exciting? How is stumbling around in a three layer maze with either relatively powerful or mob wusses exciting? How exciting is turning a close combat class into a bowman, or an archer into a staff wielder? How exciting is it to have a PvE map camouflaged as a WvW map?

Quick answer: it isn´t. If it were not for fractals, precursor aquiring methods and new pets, HoT would be pretty skippable in my opinion. Getting mastery xp for actually playing the game is the least of my worries for HoT to be honest.

that all sounds pretty exciting to me. i guess i won’t be running into you.

and then what? they take over the world?

Turbotef.9203:

Eh, cancelled my preorder. I was only interested in this game because it didn’t feature raiding and was more about open world challenges and pvp. It came out as my interest in raiding in WoW after 8 years was starting wane (still managed to beat Seigecrafter Blackfuse 10-man before nerfs before quitting static raiding completely though). Its bad enough this expansion looks like a glorified patch and I still don’t like the dependence on crafting to get cool kitten in this game.

Long story short, Imma just stick with Wildstar (open world and pvp) and Final Fantasy 14 (HM 4-mans and casual raiding) as both feature systems that get me cool gear without crafting and automated grouping tools that respect my free time and still net me great gear (FF14 LFR gear is 10 ilvls below the actual raid but majority of the playerbase is super casual so yeah, makes sense).

I’ll come back if raids fail or Anet gets the common sense to finally add in automated grouping tools.

Sayonara!

you realize nobody is forcing you to do raids right? have fun aggressively ignoring the other 96% of the game that’s still available to you i guess

The boss we faced in the beta only takes like 10 minutes to kill if you do it right so it’s hard to imagine a raid taking 40 hours to complete.

from what i’ve experienced as a pvp player, the elite specs that people complain about just have a kitten ton of CC. this isn’t a problem in a 1v1 but in a group fight it just destroys classes without an invuln

after the 3 minute long survival timer you need to kill the boss and talk to rytlock. i’ve never had it bug on me after over 20 times doing it. and if you leave during it you can go to the silverwastes to reenter.

Larynx.2453:

It is removing skill play

Yeah, as we all know the old meta was very skillful and deep.

rip learning to dodge?

isn’t there already a raptor mini pet

Kirschsahne.2081:

Sorin.4310:

Kirschsahne.2081:

you shouldn’t have zerker gear from beginning.

if you decided to abuse a system you have to pay for it later. this is how life works

Seriously, what are you even talking about? Like are you trolling? They chose an armor stat and now they are abusing the game? You cannot be serious.

What do you mean by trolling…

When everyone is choosing one single stat from millions available to “skip” or “outsmart” the game how it is intended to play it’s abusing the system.
Dungeons ringing a bell???

there are videos of people afk auto attacking bosses like lupicus to death in cleric gear with things like heal signet or signet of restoration. it takes hours. how is that more skillful than learning a boss’ animations to know when to dodge/block? but by all means continue to get bent out of shape because some people are able to play the game better and more efficiently than others.

In GW1 the log in screen changed with every expansion, and I hope GW2 does the same. Would be nice to have something new to look at like the beautiful scenery in the first game.

My dad only plays for a few hours a day and he has multiple ascended sets and 4 legendaries. He probably just has better time management skills than you.

Tomer.4098:

Testudo.4620:

it depends on the stats on your gear as well as what area of the world you’re in. some maps are lower level and restrict your damage. some armor stats allow you to deal more damage than others while some armor sets allow you to tank more damage than others.

Well those numbers are constant, the archer never could deal nearly as much damage as the necro

they’re only constant if you’re testing your damage on the same mob in the same map wearing the same armor

it depends on the stats on your gear as well as what area of the world you’re in. some maps are lower level and restrict your damage. some armor stats allow you to deal more damage than others while some armor sets allow you to tank more damage than others.

How many Hero Points for Elite Spec

SlyDevil.3952:

dlonie.6547:

Element Two.7316:

If you think any of that is exclusive to that boss then you’re not playing the same game as us.

But it is! Name one other boss that is near a wall, rock, pole, fence, or has a large hitbox. Betcha can’t.

Crusher/hunter, the second boss of arah p3, lupi and the wraithlord. kitten that’s a whole path. Wait wait, that’s like, one dungeon path right? Arah p4, balthazar, lyssa, lupi(large hitbox, whatevs), dwayna, bloodstone, one boss wasn’t. Wait, that’s just arah right? Coe all start mobs. Alpha if you want, the golem if you want(not recommended, boons and stuff), the next alpha, bjarl for p1, the last alpha. That’s 2 boss on p2/3 that aren’t faster on a wall. AC? spider queen, kholer, last bosses. CM?? PLEASE CM SAVE ME??? barn boss, victoria, frost, thief dude in p2 who is leashed to the other 4 elites in the salon, the OP symbol guardian outside starts with a B, Tremaine, the optional boss, seamus, the other grenade boss, vallog. kitten, only 1 boss wasn’t on a wall there.

Edit: kitten dlonie you filthy elitist

sarcasm is hard for me too sometimes

okay? sorry. 15 chars

so many bads in this thread salty about raids they don’t think they’ll be able to complete

i noticed, when i created a warrior, that it had its elite specialization’s signature animal themed torch in its inventory. i quickly made each of the other specializations and didn’t find the same in theirs. is this a mistake or are warriors just getting some special love? :\ i’m desperate to preview the chronomancer shield since it hasn’t been datamined yet

i saw nemesis naked and now i can’t log onto gw2 pls help

Iason Evan.3806:

Ticky.5831:

Yeah, PUGs are going to gate it regardless.

Take away the ability to see AP and Multiple locked stat raid armor and weapon sets that everyone has access to and you eliminate that to a large degree.

omg will having better gear just make them a naturally better player too? i love science

Iason Evan.3806:

Palador.2170:

flog.3485:

You must also understand that there is no gear treadmill in this game, it is all about cosmetics and crafting you gear up to ascended is just an objective that people set themselves (I personally have never bothered to finish the collection of ascended armors and so far I have never felt underpowered, having only one set of ascended for my mesmer)

Rather, there wasn’t one. I suspect soon that we’ll see something that, while not a treadmill, might be still seen as a grind.

Let’s say that the first raid is doable just fine in Berzerker gear. Lots of people have it, no need to grind for more. But the second raid suddenly requires you to take a lot of hits that you can’t avoid, and survive them. Do you have Soldier gear? No? Go earn a set, then come back. Oh, look, it’s raid three. Conditions rule here. Time to go out and get a set of Sinister. And in raid four, we see an area where you need buffs on you constantly. You have Boon Duration gear, right? No? Well, guess what you get to do!

This is also why I don’t think they ever adapt the PvP gear system for raids. Yes, it makes sense in a way, and I personally would be more willing to consider giving them a second look if they did that, but they won’t. Getting you to go out and do things to get additional sets of gear not only adds time, gold, and effort invested into a raid, but it also makes you want more storage for all this gear. Bank Tabs and Bag Slots, available now in the Gem Store!

(No, no tin foil hat here, really. It’s just common sense. These raids will take a lot of dev time to make and adjust, they want the people that do them so invested in them that they won’t just leave the game once they’ve done them. Getting them to invest time and effort (and maybe RL money?) into them is one way of doing that.)

You hit the nail on the head. It’s on players as well. People say they want challenging content but that’s only part of it. They want content they can do that others can’t. I want the challenge. I want a level playing field as well. The way to handle hard content isn’t to scale it up each time you add a new raid therefore making players go out and get better gear each time(gear treadmill). It’s to give everybody uniform-statted gear or a pool of a few different types from which they can pick from.

I would imagine the player that isn’t actually looking for a challenge in raiding by having an equal playing field is also the player that goes back to new-ish player zones in games with open world PvP on their max level character and spews all sorts of vile garbage as they kill people that don’t stand a chance simply because of level.

I am tired of the garbage. We should all be raiding because we want a challenge, we want to hang with people in game, we want legendary armor, and GW2 is fun. It’s not like the Raid-issued armor sets would cover up the armor skin you are wearing.

why would you want legendary armor if it’s useless because the game is a level playing field anyway?

this game has swords, i wish it would be a little more original.

idk why this game has stats. it’s so hard for me to understand :/ what does power do? is cleric gear good for my thief? i wish they would remove all stats and have all skills do flat amounts of damage so that i can finally play with my sewing club.

ummm i don’t understand why i don’t get to play a game i didn’t pay for?

people that complain about not wanting to play hard content for exclusive gear just remind me of soccer moms asking to see the manager

use blinds and blinks next time

Lyger.5429:

Daddar.5971:

I want glitter and rainbows on my Chronoprancer toolbar.

O.o what does that have to do with time/space theme of Chrono? XD

his bar should be piles of salt instead

you had fun transmuting?

why am i physically able to run? shouldn’t my kitteny body just take me places quicker with less effort

Also i deleted all of the useless dungeon ascended accessories

Violently Urging For, or VUF for short.

i feel like i’m walking past the hot topic at the mall

i had one of each race at one point, all lvl 80, but i ended up deleting most of them and now I only have a sylvari and human

i deleted the revenant but i don’t play the tempest either

-when i use my glider my backpiece is still visible and its flapping clips through the glider

-if i’m not standing still and directly on a jumping mushroom, i can fly in the wrong direction or bug out and get caught spinning midair until i waypoint. the former can cause me to clip things and fly in the complete wrong direction and die. also, if the mushroom is sending me downwards i take fall damage and more often than not i straight up die

-the tempest’s warhorn skill water 4’s knockback begins behind the tempest and never manages to hit a moving target due to that and because it’s very slow. besides a couple cc’s, the weapon has very little damage mitigation and i find myself dying with it far more often than with other weapon sets.

-for chronomancers, why would i want my clones to get superspeed after i shatter? so they can run to the enemy faster? not a very good minor tbh it seems to lack pretty much any purpose. everything else is wonderful and i love it and i’m anticipating the nerfs

-why can’t dragon hunters just not target things behind them with their aoes like other bow users can? afaik other skills will just turn you around to use them if you hold still or you just straight up shoot the arrow behind you. weird that guardians can’t even target behind them and often i have to awkwardly turn slightly because the target is just slightly too far to my left or right

-still not comfortable playing revenant but i think it’s the circumstances. the skills that root you in place but show you somewhere else ruin you in aoe and enemy heavy environments like the new map. still seems like very little damage mitigation compared to the other classes and i’m not quite used to that yet either

-i fought the wyvern at the end of the hylek city event chain and it melted surprisingly and disappointingly fast. i would have liked to see it 1 shot more people than it did compared to how fast it died.

-the game isn’t out yet and i really want to play chronomancer without losing rewards

-the map has emptied quite a bit after the first day and i suspect it’s because some of the events seem to be very difficult to complete or are just bugged. i just assumed there were masteries that would help finish much faster and left people to argue in map chat while i explored and tried to outrun smokescales

-after 8k hours and no precursor drop i’m scared my time will finally come during a beta