Guild Wars 2

The culling issue is becoming more boring than annoying: oh hey another invisible army, yeah that’s… who the hell cares anymore.

If you can hit your enemy at max range you’ll do damage for the hit and another hit for the projectile terminating, also if you shoot downward so it explodes on the ground. Most useful in WvW, somewhat useful on stationary targets like world bosses and destructible objects, though those don’t bleed.

I haven’t taken a keep with it, though admittedly I had a little fun with your orb, couldn’t help myself, but at least you got it back.

Oops, silly buttons.

I would have thought 2 weeks ago when I warned you I could walk into this keep without even jumping something might be done.

By the way, for those on Maguuma wondering how I got into your db borderland hill keep, its no hack, there’s a little path from our spawn into the keep that I pointed out I believe 2 weeks ago, shall I take your orb out again in 2 minutes?
Admittedly I didn’t show where the entrance to said path is.

I get the impression I don’t actually take fall damage, I land on all these sharp points.

joykafka.4308:

Nabarue.3290:

I run Tool Kit (seriously, throw wrench is GOOD, and Gear Shield is great in a pinch), and the Grenade Kit, while toting a rifle. I use my kits for about 80% of my fights.

Would you care to elaborate a little bit more how Tool Kit works? I tried a little bit in PvP mode and decided I would never touch it… I have like 130 or 140 unspent skill points…

20 second boomerang, gear shield to block attacks if you expect something stupid incoming, box of nails to cripple enemies, otherwise its a melee kit, which doesn’t benefit from Juggernaut.

I run 3 kits with kit refinement and shield pistol, so I use whatever is most handy for a fight. For the most part I’m lazy so I just use pistol at max range for the double shot.

The mortar serves 1 purpose: infinite stability against world bosses.

Note to self: do not inhale Elixir R.

Jump shot is affected by cripple, at 900 range the dagger storm has as much range as a pistol shot, that plus cripple trying to dodge out of the area is pretty much worthless

Cripple: walk slower than your enemy
Stability: you can’t be crippled
Gee I wonder why no one goes up and hits the guy.

Stiv.1820:

The only thing I can think is probably true that causes these types of threads is that a skilled Thief is more devastating to a small group of any of the following: unskilled, underleveld, undergeared and uneducated (game mechanics wise) than any other class.

If this wasn’t true then I wouldn’t have had awesome win/loose 1 on 1’s with almost every class over time.

I don’t think Anet wants to balance their game around the unskilled, underleveld, undergeared and uneducated. Sorry guys.

“skilled Thief” you mean Dagger Storm? As an engineer I would love a button that makes me reflect projectiles, gain stability, and spam a 900 radius crippling aoe on a 90 second cooldown. Sadly our attacks with radius are barely more than melee range, with bombs literally being less than melee range.

There is one counter, you keep attacking, roots work too. On occasion I’ll net shot a stealthing thief, or overcharged shot, 2 seconds later they’re on the ground in front of me dead or dying.
But that’s perhaps a third of the time, for the most part they open up stealthed or run away with shadow step.
Can engineers get a bit of mobility love besides swiftness? I thought we were supposed to be masters of invention, yet 2 of our gap openers knock ourselves on our butt.

coglin.1496:

WE have bombs, I think most players consider those fairly melee as well.

The blast radius is less than melee range, test it out on the golems in the mist.

Can also do it with air blast, throw mine, personal battering ram, accelerant-packed turrets, thumper overcharge, and big ol’ bomb if you’re really sneaky.
For the most part you’ll rarely get the opportunity to throw them off a lethal edge, but just seeing people fly all over the place is hilarious.

I wonder how long I can sit here and still not see my own allies.

There are 3 invaders in this screenshot. Maybe 2, I fired an overcharged shot but god only knows if they were even hit, combat log didn’t even catch it.
This is after half an hour of a siege with 20 on defense, I would think more than enough time to have loaded everyone, or whatever may be the problem.

Numbers being backwards.
Blunderbuss(100) and bombs(120) have less range than melee(130).
Among other issues.

TwiceDead.1963:

Do like me.
Go reset your traits.
Go full Explosive.
Grab your grenade kit.
Own everything.

I haven’t tried this in PvP, but in PvE it works.

For the most part you can pretty much unload damage constantly, but its ground targeted so as long as your enemy isn’t an idiot they’ll usually be fine.

Perhaps the suggestion of what I could do from there wasn’t obvious enough.

Ptk.2736:

Thenoob.1480:

As others have mentioned, though you may analyze my screenshot carefully if you wish.

Why are you naked?

unrelated topic to distract you of my blunder.

More importantly figure out where I am, and no I didn’t have to do anything illegitimate to get there, in fact I didn’t even have to jump.

As others have mentioned, though you may analyze my screenshot carefully if you wish.

Some of them have insanely large range or no los requirement. I was standing on the back edge of a wall and got pulled.
Kind of depressing the engineer’s pull is only 600 range, barely reaches the walltop if you were to stand at the bottom. I guess thieves are better with gadgets than us, odd as that seems.

Copenhagen Warrior.5861:

Problem is HoD is allies with SBI, HoD can’t beat JQ without SBI help LOL. They won’t even fight each other which is sad. 2 worlds vs 1 gees

Your image implies the opposite.

You’re shooting upscaled 80s.

Namu.5712:

I dont know I run SSD in Raid I highly doubt that my pc isn’t keeping up, im gonna say there is a bug somewhere.

Thus why I suggest the problem might not be on our end, but its a guess.

Could there perhaps be a generic placeholder for characters that are being rendered? No doubt it will look awkward, but at least it would give people an idea of what they’re supposed to be seeing.
Or is the problem that our clients aren’t even being told there are people to be rendered?

A bandaid fix, though it just mutes the game anyways: change the audio device, at least you won’t have to quit the game, but then you won’t hear anything, not that there’s in game voice chat.
And its not just WvW, happens I guess with tons of player activity or something.

I question why people bother defending AB, it is literally the low ground of the entire zone, there is little to be done to trebuchets that rain wall-death on it from safety, yet people still think it is more important than the high ground keeps that rain death on the garrison, long explanation short, our commander is an idiot.

I think they should flip the orb bonus with the outmanned bonus.

Should let engineer tool kits fix siege equipment.

A simplified argument if I may, the encounter is designed around failure: doubly hinted by the fact that the waypoint is extremely close by..
To reiterate: designed around failure.

Can’t reproduce this, not even sure what happened:
I got stuck after drinking Elixir B, my keybinds are such that ctrl+4 is that elixir, and 4 is Magnetic Shield so it may have been a bad mixup in my controls perhaps. Using Magnetic Shield unstuck me, so not a huge issue.
And no I wasn’t actually blocking anything, my character just couldn’t move in any direction, though I could still shoot, was sitting there wondering what to do for about 10 seconds.

I’m not even sure mesmers are the problem now. I was standing on garrison’s wall watching some sort of siege, except I saw 0 enemies, but many shots being fired. That continued for at least 10 minutes, then 2 people would pop in and out of my view on occasion.
As for us defenders, there were probably 8 of us, not exactly a stressful environment.

Skyrant Kangaroomouse.7458:

You are supposed to bring at least one, better 2 guardian, a healer and a combo field/debuffer job. If you can not do that, then Dungeons are not made for you and you have to just find something else to do as endgame.

These dungeons are supposed to be HARD… hard to find a party for.

Funny, I thought the point of this game was to break that tradition. Back to the drawing board.

My pug managed to finish after several attempts, though I’m still not sure how, I think in total we killed 2 mobs, the first smokelord before the second wave and one of his friends just from splash damage I guess, the rest we just tried to kite and corpse ran as fast as possible. Kind of a dumb way to play an event imo. The ranged just slaughter you when you’re trying to avoid 10 mobs, can’t see anything, and can only dodge once every 10 seconds.

+Some of us got 60 tokens, one said he got 20, not sure how that’s working out.

They share the appearance of pve counterparts, so yes medium armor is pretty dull.
Dunno when you can get them, but dungeon and cultural sets are also meshed in there so good luck with those if you like them.

You are doing something wrong, I only worry when it gets up to 6.

I only just noticed combo finishers perhaps 2 hours before the patch, ruined my fun.
Kind of boring that we have so many blasting attacks, but only a few actually count for combos.
Also, I only noticed I could equip kits underwater an hour before that.

A somewhat boring way to run around pve is -30% turret damage taken and turret self repair, my thumper was outhealing veterans. Though maybe that stops working near the end, I didn’t run that build too long, the reset time each time I picked up my turret was just too annoying.

For the timed event, the I guess 2 times I happened to see my group attacking the mobs, we could only kill 1 before the next wave spawned if even that, felt completely pointless.
So, stack that per wave, 2 remaining, 4, 6, 8, 10 you’ve got a mess of a room so people are still kiting around, what changed exactly?

Fortunately I had training for this, heroic strike for WoW warriors back in the day. Tempted to say just make it work like underwater grenades, but that might be overkill.

How about change overcharged shot to a sniper round instead of another shotgun affect, keep the kickback for fun.

Swapping to a kit(losing weapon stats) shows 150 precision is about 8% crit lost for me. since you didn’t max out firearms you’re missing perhaps 10%?

Got this again just now, end of the chain to open the Gates of Arah dungeon.

Rhyse.8176:

I just wish that all the combos weren’t so dependent on the bomb kit. I prefer to stay in the backline.

More like the mine gadget and its toolbelt skill for extra long combos.
The bomb kit just happens to have 2 fields, fire and smoke, big ol’ bomb’s fuse time is a pain to work with.
Kinda wish the flamethrower’s flame vent would deploy a field, but it might be a bit overpowered then.

The only issue I have is with arrow carts los, you can literally fire under structures they are set on, make it a really fast grenade-like projectile or something, us grenadiers already deal with it, can’t throw too far in a cave or I hit the ceiling…
Otherwise its just a really annoying ambush strategy, if you have enough people with supply get a catapult or trebuchet to snipe them. Though there I have a problem with retaliation, in the time it takes to reload shots the out of combat regen kicks in, thus there is no penalty for eating shots, kind of a stupid mechanic.

Karast.1927:

when the bulk of an enemy force doesn’t load on your screen until it’s to late.

I’ve been curious about this issue for a short time, standing at our spawn looking at a keep for 5 minutes I noticed: there are invisible people shooting at our attackers.