I like those but the 2, people will avoid the problem by going on a server where it’s open and jist like tequatl, there is 4 empty server and every one in the one that succeed it almost each time but always on a 3 layer overflow and you queue there an hour before to get a spot.
Full support on 1 3 5.
Mixed feelings for 4, I kind of like the way it is now, where is the point to do a legendary if it fast ? Every one will get one and it will mean nothing ! But the vision cristal for ascended craft is annoying and need s you to “grind”, but I find the grind time kind of ok, but it might be a problem for people who can’t or don’t want to play as much as me.
Since the population of gw2’s forum is crowded with casual whiners anything that is challenging will get 9 out of 10 post something like “too hard, neeeeerf !!!”
“You said we could play how we want, now you force me to do something I don’t like and bla bla bla bla”
You get the point, not very encouraging for the devs to go for vertical progression. Though I totally like your idea !
There is the VIP square in human hometown, but you have to pay a pass with gems for a limited duration of 2week per pass.
Portable ones exist from guild crafting, you get your hands on a black lion express and golem bank with gems and here is your suggestion.
If they make you pay gems for the VIP square they won’t be any cheaper than it if it’s portable…
Hhhhh still hoping for a aquatic expansion for bubble the AD with ascended water breather that looks good on charr (right now my charr don’t have one because it’s ugly) and less chaotic combat mechanics. Though i like the current pace, it’s just we are not used to water positionning, train yourself in water combat and be the next Largos’ leader.
It’s usually in the prime time in europe, when people get back home from work/school.
Mainly for charrs who gets 90% uglier armor than other race. T3 colored in wheat and brick with some touch of abyss suit very well the ascended zojja weapon, since the ascended armor have 90% chance of being ugly on charr, I already bought it for later transmutation.
My 80 warrior, has a very limited pool of interesting abilities besides running passive builds which I dont like out of Signets.
What are you saying ? Signets are for egocentric children. Shouts, banners for team are excellent, physical skill are great in PvP and the stances are great for situationnal use or in PvP.
On the other hand they already announced new skills but it would be aquiered through quest or quest chain, with or without a monetary counterpart.
The last two weeks content is permanent, only a part of its achievement is temporary (to get a stupid backpack skin that only looks good on engi), as the content of the previous two week exept for a part of its achievement which was temporary (to get tequatl wings as a back skin). So if you want to experience those two living world content, you can today or two weeks later, you only “miss” a part of its achievement and its reward.
Since you are not after the reward, you miss nothing, the achievment was something like (do TA at least once for 10 day or get 10 achievements from the permanent achievement). So if you do it afterward, you will do it all.
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My glass cannon Thief can hit easily -10k with #2.
My semi Berserker Warior deals ~11k with 100 Blades.My full cleric Guardian deals ~4k with #2 (1000+ heals, 3300 Armor).
There’s a big difference indeed.
No content, except Tequati, in PvE encourages you to not to run full Berserker.
11k with 100 blades is NOT nice. 11k/3.5 = ~3.14k/s which kinda sucks for a warrior since a berserker warrior hit more than 3.14k/s with spamming the 1 on the axe.
Standard 100 blades on berserker war is 35k without optimisation and around 50-60k optimised.
And yet you have as much armor as a full cleric necro while you being in berserker.
Cleric necro does tons of healing ~3000 per life transfusion, 380/s on staff heal, 850/s on wells of blood (you can make 2 at a same time if you rez someone), 380/s on focus heal. Blind, protection and weakness to prevent damage, condition reverter on staff, condition converter on wells of power, very good at stacking vulnerability…
The only point of using a guardian instead of a necro is for his stability, projectile protection/reflection and aegis.
“nice” damage… Define nice.
Nice is 10 000+ damage per second of effective fighting.
I’m for the use of berserker with parsimony in WvW (For roaming or kamikazing BEFORE bus collision), but i’m for abusive use of berserker in PvE since you can’t be more effective than a well dosed dps/support team. By well dosed i mean minimum support for maximum dps.
While some very good players can bypass support most groups need a minimum support to not become uneffective because of the skill factor.
You launch 3 Kamikaz Elem full zerk in an ennemy bus, you let them hurt every one and die, ennemies use heal and some CD, you ram in with your bus. WvW, how to 25vs100 for dummies, lesson 12.
You can, you just need to change the amelioration slot (there is a empty one on WvW and one with a kittenty rune on dungeon one) you should have bought from tp when ascended armor kikcs in. The price of crafted armor will drop insanely. I looted a exotic head (Mhenlo) it’s only 1g now and only 80s on demand, so I recycled it and got some ecto.
With gw2stuff i manage to get ~170 Dragonite ore in 1h. You set yourself : 1 temple a day and you get your 500 in no time (17 days).
And don’t craft it if you feel bored, because it brings nothing more, a mere 8% stat bonus, compared to exotics. Exotics are already good enough for all gw2 current content (minus fractal 50+). If you optimise your build you can win way more that 8%. (I tweaked my build and now instead of 30k 100b, i do ~45k 100b and close to 60k in perfect condition)
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I am quite confortable with their direction, you can sell all the crafting component to someone but the vision stone, which i think is normal, who need an ascended weapon when you have exotics ? When we were all full exotics, nothing was that hard, it’s mostly for fractals who gets harder and WvW for maximal stat, so if you can’t get 500 of each T7 raw mat, you don’t need it. Though the dragonite is a little annoying when you lag/freeze/crash a lot.
Living story are event that happens in the same time as we fight the dragon, we are actually still fighting Zhaitan and his zombies in Orr until a new story mission comes.
Guild wars, from the lore, was before the searring, it started to end in gw1, so you can presume, from a lore point of view, there won’t be guild wars, the title is just to show the continuity between gw1&2.
Gw1 was initally 100% pvp, then lore came with pve, then more pve and more pvp, but in lore, it’s less pvp, and even in cantha with the faction fighting, in lore, you kinda united them. All the lore pointed towars unity against a bigger threat.
When data mining, people found something like a hard mode but in the style of the liadry arena, handicap they found are those : 50% of hp, 4men run, unusable 6 7 8 9 0 skill, one life without even downing through the whole dungeon without people joinning (you hit the floor, you can no longer play and have to watch your buddies end it or die trying)and run with a lvl 70 or less.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1nit7b/data_mining_upcoming_features_from_twilight/
But it may only be for the halloween dungeon, so don’t get your hopes too high
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Crafting cost you a limb nowadays, best option are the armor exchanged for dungeon tokken, it takes a little more time but it’s free and you will get loot and nice rewards for doing dungeons, but go with your friends or guild mate or it will be more like a chore than a game if you are unlucky with the groups you find.
Necros are op, two necro is a perma blind on ooze, just pack the group on the boss and kill them while keeping the ooze in the back of the group.
Ooze.marked guy.team.bosses, but close enough to get blinded and clear all the oil.
2 necro cycling blind, 3 war zerk them down without killing the ooze, when someone have the mark, he move the ooze on the back of the group in the blind zone. Necro are both cleric healer, so the blood wells are keeping the zerks alive.
Arah p1 or p2 (the one with the abomination boss) have already been soloed by mesmer warrior and guardian as far as I know of… Mesmer-guardian is a very good duo if you coordinate well, but why not just take pick up for dungeon ? They usually are not that bad, sometime they are but, it’s not as often as that.
Jeeha what do you think of the ATM?
I think you can set to only show players name, not even the template will be shown. But I’m not sure…
Hmmmm every one is talking about hello kitty online, is it that great ?
If you want more, “I shall stand still and take hit” you should have taken the necromancer class, which is oddly one of the easiest “tank” while your wife rains down arrow with a ranger that is quite neat for dps yet behind the necro. Guardian is more of timing the block and buffing group than heal or tank. Elemantalist is not like in the other MMOs, it’s a multitool class, that do everything well enought.
If you don’t like challenge : walk on a random map and try to record every thing each npc says, when and why. It’s fun and not hard at all, you can go 1h, gather some lore, go sightseeing and that’s absolutly not frustrating. Some times when I get bored I go to a random map and seek npc to know their dialogue, some are quite funny !
And I feel the class are quit balanced, every one have edges…
I don’t get it, why would they put that much water in a map that don’t have water ? I fell in this huge ocean thingy in the ascalonian fractal where there is no water and anyway, the water level was like 5-6 meter below the floor…
Anyway, people should stop using “hardcore” for “It’s hard for me”. I’m pretty sure a lot of casuals would agree with me if I say that there are things that’s hard but it gives us a challenge, yet doesn’t take me that much time. Because the difference between casual and hardcore gamer is mainly the time they spend on the game. I know a 9k+AP friend who is clueless on dungeons and needed my guidance several time, while I have some below 1k AP and play only few hours the week end beating the kitten out of rank 60+ in sPvP.
Gw2 is a lot about fairness, that’s why in sPvP every one is max lvled and can have every gear he wants. So was the PvP in gw1.
Open world PvP is more like, look he have lvl 20 gear on, let’s’ beat the crap out of him for fun. Skill set for pve and pvp differs a lot, very few build are effective on both at the same time, so nope. But a FFA arena would be fun, GvG too…
Make a thief spec perma stealth, they will never bother you.
Yeaah a game where hostile mob gives you speed buff so you can explore faster, how about looting 250 of tier 6 mat on bunnies? Ow and how about getting the legendary with a quest that is basically you talking to 3 guy in LA ?
Omg darkness acheivement and map completition are sooo not casual that I’m impressed, go get the rank 80 in pvp and the dominator in WvW…
No, seriously, we are judging no one, we are just saying that it’s not pointed toward hardcore… (Rank 80 and dominator are hard core but, if a casual play 1h each day he might get them one day…)
By the way casual means you play casually not that you are bad… That’s why a rank 10 can beat the kitten out of a rank 70. Things you might feel hard might not be hard for a good casual player.
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You can donate gold to me, I’ll give you a nice mini pet once I got 100g.
By hard I mean challenging when you go there alone, 3 level under the recommanded lvl.
I have 4 char 80 with the personal story done, the only challenging one I remember of is one whith my charr with limon and ghost, but I just called out for help on map channel and 2 guy came help me. I usually do them when I have 10-12 lvl above, then continue on till it’s above my level then go xp.
There is not much for hardcore player, fractal are repetitive, sPvP is fun but I would prefer team death match with no respawn, WvW mainly depends of the number…
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Personal story are meant to be hard alone and quite trivial with friends so you make some friends, casual one.
The escort quest is meant to be that hard, you are not alone, it is meant to include at least 10 person, and it’s quit trivial when you are around 80-90.
Fractal 1-9 is casual friendly, so stop complainning that fractal is not for casual, 1-9 is way easier and faster than arah 1 2 4. And arah have been done by countless casual pug.
Gauntlet : CHANGE YOUR BUILD!!!! It’s affordable by anyone, and let casual try out new build against set type of ennemy. Gw2 is about you, changing your build to adapt. There is some very effective build, but the one you make are viable too! Just try out new things, casual doesn’t mean brainless, if you see that your build don’t work, just change it, the instructor is near the wayppoint.
If you applied for an optimised group then you are just jerking around, if not, they just forgot to mention it to you and you are being a jerk now.
Most group take every one without even bothering to ask you how you play since they will deal with it. They would kick you on 4 main reason : you are just a decorational flower and do absolutely nothing productive ; you don’t tell that you never did it causing several wipe, but you keep silent and refuse to read what they wrote ; their guild master or a female guild member just “asked” them to kick you so he/she can join ; you are a total jerk.
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Eatherblades and watchknights are from humans… It don’t look renaissance era at all…
Hmmm not sure if sarcasm or he is very high. Ccing a wolf for 3 minute usually let you loot it … But it shows that you are very wicked, why would you bully a wolf ? He just wanted to feed his family with your flesh, why do you bully him?
I am a necro full cleric, I worth nothing without my buddies… Not every one goes full zerk DPS…
I like to wander in the open world helping people that needs my insane heal and condition cleanse on group event.
I was lvl 43 when I met my friends who were around that lvl too, we teamed up and sticked together and formed a guild, 7months later, we are still together with a 100 men guild that goes sPvP, WvW, dungeons, guild missions…. And we keep chatting on TS as friends and dreamteam.
So yeah, you can lvl up in a group and be very good friend with them in gw2.
The ascended gear is given one part at a time, random stat and piece as anniversary gift to your character and soulbound.
That would be fun to see how people will react to that.
I like better my ATM but it’s a personal opinion… Yours looks neat too…
Though mine will never realise, it takes too much time to make all those skin for 1 item that probably only a few will have.
Yup, you can compare zhaitan to an elite army that won countless war, but once they got starved, cut out from any information and we ambush them with advanced technology weapon that goes through their armor like butter, while you have plenty of supplies and numerous spies reporting to you, with your army equiped with armor they can barely scratch. That gives you an easy win.
That’s how you figh an Elder Dragon, not rushing in front of him waving your sword hopping that might scratch him since he is quite invincible with the constant magic supply from all his mouths.
They are working for the separatist !
Huhuhu, friendly fire in dungeons would be fun… But that would never happen…
We are talking World boss class effect like u use the necro staff mark, if it trigger half the map will know. And no droppable or craftable precursor, it’s bough with 2500 tokken of every dungeon and 10 000g. Luck won’t be that much of a help.
And how it would ruin anything ? You can get the same power through many other way, just this one is more bling bling. You can’t afford it? Don’t try, just like the legendaries. It will give a long term goal for those who play a lot while enjoying the living story.
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That could actually work… But to unlock the stat you have to craft with a lot of that stat material and make a tokken with it and other stuff and give it to the NPC. And it works the same to unlock a weapon type. And you have to upgrade it through the forge for the 2nd weapon set, once more for the 2 underwater weapon, once more for the armor and 3 other time for all the trinket.
Every upgrade and unlock cost around the price of a legendary in term of material and time. I shall call it “The adaptative technologic morpher” or “the ATM”
Good luck farming that…
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What if instead of morphing randomly, you morph it via a NPC where you can choose what weapon it is and the stat and the sigil. The weapon skill is the same but with a brand new animation. It morph into 2 one handed weapon if you choose a one handed weapon, so you don’t have to get 2 of them. The color change depending on the stat chosen, the particle effet depends on the sigil chosen.
That would be neat if you actually choose 2 set of weapon to morph, so you get one of these you no longer need any weapon but it. You also have to choose the stat and the sigil on underwater weapon… And hell, the armor too !
You get it you get everything but the trinket. What am I saying, you get the trinket too !
You farm that and you won’t need to farm anymore, with each addition of new stat/tier you just go morph and TADAAA you have it. So you can spend more time with your family.
The only problem is : will there be enought colour and particle effets for all that?
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If you are talking about who have the highest burst it would be the war, if all the odds are with you your 100b get easily over 40k damage, but in pvp you rarely land it. But the rifle do a decent burst around 20k with the F1, without all the odds, I only tested it with a few might and vulnerability.
Someone said above that necro don’t have much team utility, I play as a necro support-tank and with my staff, I have 2 wicked team support spell and my wells make my warriors team mate near immortal, making fight like lupicus, alpha all 3 path, the ugly tree all 3 path… Bieng us standing still and beating the crap out of them (with some dodge on the lupi and the tree).
If I remember correctly there is the script of the cutscene on the wiki but very few or even none video.
The healing tank necro is the way I play my necro but it’s quite dull and you are worthless with out a team, but : your heals are insane, your F1 is insane, your elite “epidemic” makes you nearly unkillable with the AoE blind + double your toughness and add a big chunk of hp, close to 3000 heal/sec AoE with all your procs, AoE debuff converter, AoE debuff transfering…
Neat but a bit dull whereas the El where you have to handle the affinities to do the right combo at the right time, or the Me where you have to know what procs when and when to shatter to maximize output.
They are like the riddle (not sure if it’s called that) of the lions : you throw a piece of meat in a cage with x lions. When there is 1 3 5 7… Lions, they rush to the meat and the one who eats it goes to sleep while the others stare at each other, but on cages with 2 4 6 … Lions they just stare at each other. The rules were : lion eat lion, once it has eaten he must sleep leaving him defenceless.
If one start a fight and win he will be weakened and thus be an easy prey for the others as they gather magic since millenia, that could take decade or even centuries to recover. And unlike the riddle nothing garantee that once takken down to 3 or 5 they won’t get “eaten” since they would be way weaker after the fight, they you be like a piece of meat without the sleep obligation, or just a little sedated but still give a hard fight.
Edit: I remember now, it’s a math problem and the question was, then what if we puted x piece of meat with y lions, make a formula where the outcome is the number of lion that are sleeping.
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Let’s refocus, I think the aetherblades and the watchknights look quite neat, I would say late 19th century.