Guild Wars 2

Maybe cause of the stealth?

Eventually you’ll learn all skills available and have a ton of free skill points (around 80 maybe) if you’ve done all skill challenges, so its a non-issue. You’ll learn everything eventually, and so will every other norn who worships a different animal deity.

If you die quickly with the GS I suggest you go to the tradepost (press “o” and select) and buy yourself a full set of blue gear+weapons with whichever stats you want (knight is nice for damage+survival). It’s always very affordable.

Then go back to PvE and suddenly you’re splitting stuff left and right with the GS.

I like the suggestion to change the active instant healing part into a stronger regeneration. This would make it actually useful.

Otherwise the active is almost always useless. It heals so little that you’re better off trying to dish out a high hit and try to finish your foe. If you can’t win that way the chances are ENORMOUS that the little health it gives make no difference at all.

The times that the active saved mykitten (and I exclusively use this healing skill because of +40 precision trait) can be counted on one finger over 80 levels.

darkwombat.3695:

Love the game but I see some classes could use more weapon choices. Especially with the Warrior being so versatile.

Engineer – Hammers
Guardian – Halberd (new weapon type)
Necromancer/Elementalist – Sword
Thief – Maces (both hands)
Ranger – Rifle

Thoughts?

Engineers and Elementalists have their own mechanic, which is why they get on quick weapon-swap. An Elementalist can wield a weapon and instead of 5 attacks, he gets 4×5 attacks with it (fire, water, earth, air), which is TWICE as much as everyone else ON THE GO.

Engineers been a while since I played em, but they get the backpack/turret mechanic going. I think backpacks can completely replace the weapon skills if I remember right, so they have already their second skill-loadout available without a weapon swap.

I do agree however that some melee weapon for the Engineer might be interesting. Maces might be ok. Maybe with a wrench skin or something.

For the rest:

Thief&Maces: Not very typical and not very subtle or elegant. I don’t like it.

Ranger&Rifle: They’re supposed more the nature-type with their pets. Rifle kind of distinguishes them from Engineers, weapon-wise. Which in return can’t use bows.

Halberd for Guardian: I’d rather see two-handed axes for warriors implemented. :p

darkwombat.3695:

Some weapons like the Necromancer Staff have a ton of “click twice” mechanics. Click or press the spell button, then click where you want it.

Please give us the option of just clicking it once and having it attack the closest foe. At least give us that option. As of now the only other option is to have it cast automatically under your feet. Kind of useless.

It’s not “kind of useless”. And you can activate some sort of quick aoe casting in the options, where it does it instantly under your mouse cursor. It will be faster, but less precise.

JemL.3501:

nah, you claim it, is yours till you loss it.

information of who, would be useuful, so not only the crest would be displayed, may be if you talk to the guild claimer, he could say ‘’hello this keep is under the control of lord x leader of x’’

Nah.

It probably already has been said, but there are non-80ies that do ONLY PvP and WvW. Some people are just not interested in PvE, or in doing it with a second or third character.

So, I return to you, OP: What should they do? Stand around and do nothing?

FedEXguy.8362:

I disagree. If there’s no durability loss, how do you counteract all of the “free” loot and money everyone gets for participating? Then the market would slowly flood and crash. Or the rewards would need to be kittened, and then the incentive to play is lessened.

You’ll be making alot more loot in PvE. I mean really ALOT more. Since there you can nonstop kill mobs.

In PvP you have to kill a player. Even if you kill alot you won’t get that much loot.

I see your point, but having to farm PvE to WvW is simply wrong. The WvW is a pretty big moneysink itself if you buy siege engines and objective upgrades. No need to get punished for dying. Just makes the difference of winning vs losing server even bigger and forces the losers to quit the fight cause it gets too expensive.

Bad design.

Oxnan.2459:

Currently, looting in WvW can be a bit problematic (getting locked into rezing while trying to loot or just missing a lot of bags because of intense fighting). The change that was made in the beta from having loot bags at your feet instead of on the corpse was a nice change but still a bit annoying to keep looting in combat/action. The option to have all loot instantly distributed into our bags until they are filled would be nice. After our bags are full then having them be a loot bag wouldnt be then end of the world.

Second that. I must’ve missed a ton of loot bags in the heat of battle. It bothers me alot, especially now that I’m broke and have to PvE to afford repairs in WvW.

Having to loot in PvP interrupts the flow of combat. The bags often don’t even spawn instantly, but a few seconds later. It’s pretty bad.

AxeX.6481:

Elthurien.8356:

most mesmers have better invisibilty and misdirection options than thieves. Why all the thief hate?

The same reason players hate any melee stealth class in any MMO. Players have grown to hate this class archetype since even before World of Warcraft’s Rogues.

i think the thing is that the mesmer doesn’t do as much burst and his stealths are more of the gadgety kind instead of the invisible-while-beating-the-crap-out-of-you. what you’ll hear about mesmers is their clones and how consufing they are.

but clones are really easier to deal with if you know that all clones will act like npcs and the one jumping and dodging around is the real deal.

I’m at the point where all my gear is damaged, I can’t afford the repair, and I’m forced to quit WvW to farm money so that I can continue WvW..

Is this the way it was intended?

On top of that we’re being farmed all day and night on the spawn point in some borderlands. We can make it close to the first keep at times, and then the tide falls back. Like its some intended farming.

While balance is a different issue, why do I have to pay to fight the fight against impossible odds?

The reality is pretty simple. There are VERY FEW people doing WvW in those borderlands. For one because its pretty much pointless if its 3 vs 20, or 10 vs 30 with all the PvP guilds on the OTHER side, and for the other because we’re basically wasting money to get massacred.

There should be NO REPAIR COST for deaths in WvW, or a free repair guy in those zones. It’s clearly NOT FUN to HAVE TO FARM money in PvE so that I can continue in WvW.

On top of that I do actually manage to get kills regularly in WvW, but the loot isn’t nowhere near the repair cost. Not even remotely close.

A dwarf. I know there are still some around. At least one. Which I can play. :p

You can still get a very high crit chance as warrior if that’s your primary concern.

I usually report those as scammers, which they are in my opinion.

Funny all this whining about how people outside of the guild shouldn’t be able to use their precious banners.

Think about the great advertisement of a banner. If you click it, it pops a nice text saying something along the lines “please enjoy the accomplimentary service from our guild”. Some people will think about joining it, others just get a positive impression.

Going “NO, THIS BANNER IS OURS!! ITS ONLY FOR US!!” seems very immature, egoistical and elitist. WvW (and that’s where you’ll see most banners) is about working together, helping each other.

This “join or guild or go to hell”-mentality is pretty sad and you should be ashamed of yourselves.

There’s also other things than banners that can only be used by guilds. The two types of guild vaults, the awesome banner display on weapons and armor. I suppose these don’t count and if you can’t have a banner only for yourself ITS ALL WASTED AND THERES NO REASON TO JOIN A GUILD.

Very mature.

And yes I’m part of a guild and I’m glad we can extend the banners to other people. We’re not steamrolling the other servers 24/7 and if we can boost our server’s combatants its a pretty good thing.

It’s been the case over several zones now, on the Desolation server. Currently in Sparkfly Fen and the last couple of zones have had only bugged escort quests. I’ve been doing the zones starting with the lowest and going up from there, you should be able to tell which ones were the last ones for me, if even its a matter of zones.

The bug that happens during those escort quests is that the NPCs stand still at a certain point and there’s no progress, ever. All over the maps I found escort quests with NPCs just standing around, doing nothing, while the objective said “escort xx to yy”.

After coming back an hour later, it was still the same.

Coming to think of it I found also a couple of quests where I needed to defend certain places, but no attackers spawned, ever. It stayed like that for hours (ever) as well.

Either its a problem with Desolation server or otherwise with the game. I can’t tell if it was suddenly broken after a certain patch, or after a certain zone, since it was suddenly just like that.

It’s pretty annoying and requires an emergency fix IMHO.

It’s pretty annoying, I have this happening all the time. As suggested before giving looting its own keybind would go a long way and should be easy to fix.

Always having dialogues pop up is very annoying.

you can use the look of that equipment and put it on something else with power if you like.

for ARENA-NET, a suggested fix:
make it so that if a player HOLDS DOWN the left mouse button, no target is selected.

as others have stated you get only slowed if something hit you, or if you attacked.
to break out of pvp battles you need to equip skills that let you flee beforehand. stuff that gives swiftness, teleports you, makes you invisible etc.

to be actually able to use that skill without getting slowed/etc. you need to premeditate combat and learn to tell when the tide’s coming your way. that’s when you disengage and start running. don’t let them come into range.

Gareni.3297:

idk, at lv70, a few hours of killing stuff in various high level areas seem to give me a lot of coins for my efforts. if i am lucky, 2g + a lot of various crafting goodies.

after 50 times “a few hours” you’ll have enough

I think its abit much as well. but i don’t care that much about looks. i usually prefer simpler looks and not the exagerated stuff.

its simply a matter of supply and demand. i think there’s nothing broken with it.

sure often you’re better off salvaging/vendoring items, but that’s just what it is if nobody wants to buy it or if there are already 150k of those on the TP.

there ARE items which are selling well. its not that hard to find out which ones.

RageGaming.9450:

Not here to rant or poke holes at the game or anything. This game is awesome and it’s the best PvP I’ve ever played, having done WoW arena for 3 years. I just can’t shake the feeling that once I have the armour set I want there’s nothing to aim towards in PvP. I enjoy the PvP and right now I play just to play but that will wain in time.

So glory rank is simply time, Free Tournaments are just another pool of gear looks. The one thing I don’t know about is Paid Tournaments, is there/will there be a ranking system? Some way of checking which teams are really good? While I hate to compare, something akin to WoW’s arena rating system. I enjoy a game much more if I having something to aim for, whether it’s looks or rating.

I know I’m going to get a fair few “just play for fun” responses, but that dosn’t cut it months after launch.

Thanks, Rage.

you probably don’t want to hear this but you can play other games or start another character and just occasionally play gw2. after all you have to pay nothing to log in once a while.

longbow/rifle combo can be great in WvW. rifle does alot of single target damage, longbow is for AoE. you might need the increased bow range, and rifle piercing traits for it to work well.

good thing is you can stay on range and pretty much wreak havoc if you got decent gear for your level.

there are attacks dealing similar damage which don’t require your enemy to stand still.

simple counter to hundred blades: dodge away. the range is extremely short.

if you’re stunned use cc-breaker skills. if you don’t have any equipped its your own fault.

bottom line: damage is great, the utility in pvp is mediocre at best. practically useless vs skilled players.