Guild Wars 2

That’s totally weird…

Several dungeon bosses seem to be immune to weakness. Their spike attacks, which I can survive if I have the Protection boon, I cannot survive if they have the Weakness debuff.

And isn’t that the point of weakness? To help your team survive stuff?

To be honest…jumping puzzles is the best innovation to MMO’s that Guild Wars 2 has implemented. I really like them, especially the one with the pirate cave that also has a little story behind it.

My favorite puzzle is the one in Eternal Battlegrounds, but I’m sad to see it plays such a small part in the overall fighting, because the fighting that goes on in there gets a whole new dimension with the jumping and such involved. It would be great if there was like, a capturable objective at the top (though I know that may never happen).

However, I would like to give a small bit of feedback: one thing that’s extremely frustrating is when you have to go back all the way to the start several times. Puzzles with rest and recovery points are preferable to me.

The no-res-while-in-combat mechanic has been around for a while now, and I was wondering what people think about it now that they’ve had the chance to experience it in practice.

Basically, what’s more fun to you: running back from the waypoint, or laying on the floor waiting for your team to beat the boss?

According to one of the designers, each non-group event should be soloable. However, this event cannot be soloed because you need 7 golem parts and at most, 6 parts will show up. If you really want to solo it, you need to wait 2 minutes for the parts to respawn.

Also, is it really neccesary for the worms to insta-kill you even in tank gear? ’Wouldn’t the immobilize alone have been annoying enough?

The attack still hits you even if you dodge it and Evade shows up. For some weird reason, it seems to hit twice and as such, becomes undodgable. Which is double annoying because it also kills you instantly.

While I feel the changes proposed by the OP are a bit well…op. :-)…

…I do feel that the earth shield’s in need a of a major rework. Just consider everything it does, compare it to the Dagger/Focus combination…and you’ll see that all its skills are just weaker versions of that combination. It should at least be on par, considering you also give up a lot of versatility you’d get for running Dagger/Focus…and it deals less damage too.

Have any of you guys checked wheter there’s an enemy that wields a weapon that looks like this one? Because if it does exist, chances are high that that’s the boss that drops it.

Even something similar to the Hall of Monuments in GW1 would be cool.

To be honest, I’m expecting it to the point where I’d start demanding it to be implemented. It’s been promised to be added soon when the game was released, before the game was released, and for me personally, it was one of the reasons I actually bought the game.

Because I couldn’t care less about what fractal rank to get, but I’d love to have a personal space.

I don’t understand what this has to do with player housing.

Gaudrath.6725:

Then you approach the kind of percentages that currently exist with RNG, thus keeping legendaries rare and rewarding only those who are skilled enough.

I object to your use of the word ‘keeping’. At the moment, the legendaries do not require any kind of exceptional skill. Your statement that the RNG makes legendaries rewards for skilled players is false.

Also, due to the way random drops work, the process is currently 100% time based. The only difference is that some are lucky and get it sooner, making it cost less time, while others are unlucky and get it later. Precursors can already be bought through the tokens known as ‘gold’.

So hence, the original poster’s suggestion doesn’t differ all that much from the system we already have at the moment.

If you swap attunements regularly, without any boon duration buffs, Sigil of Battle gives you 6 stacks of might (210 power & 210 condition damage). There’s no sigil that comes close to that. With boon duration buffs, it goes up as high as 315.

To be honest, I think they should tone it down a bit. Getting nearly a 20% damage boost from a signet is just crazy.

When it comes to PvPing with the staff, unless it’s in larger groups, you will need player skill to compensate for some of the things daggers have that staves lack.

There are also duration increasing runes, aura boons builds, combos…seriously, the last thing you need to worry about is perma swiftness. There’s hardly any build that can’t get it.

When you play a staff ele, you’ll have to keep in mind that the base damage from attacks is very low. This means that critical hits will do relatively less damage.

Sarcasmic.6741:

No one ever said AC explorable is level 35 content. Regardless of the level you’re scaled to, explorable dungeon paths are part of end game content. They’re balanced around players being sufficiently experienced and geared.

ArenaNet claims it’s doable at that level because they scale down to it. Meaning a group of level 35’s should be able to complete it. It may be hard, but it shouldn’t be impossible. Especially considering the fact that at that level, people are less experienced.

Seriously, I love this game, but the dungeon design is just bad. GW1’s dungeons were much, much better (and the separate Hard Mode played a large part in that).

The issues aren’t so much the dungeons, as it is that each dungeon consists of either:

-auto attack snoozefest
-instagib kill machanics

There is no middle ground. Either you get stuff that kills you instantly, despite wearing tank gear, or you get something that’s so mind numbingly easy that even at 10% hp, the fight lasts too long.

And then there’s the stuff that’s plain broken, like the CM path 2 powder keg run. Stuff like that is simply impossible for inexperienced players without glitching.

Of course, another issue is the fact that at level 10, the fractal mechanics change suddenly. It would have been nice to get a heads up about that. Would have saved us quite a few wipes.

So about that barrel run…it’s of course easy when exploiting, but so far, it’s been impossible for me to do it without glitching.

Yet I wanna learn…how am I supposed to do it without using exploits?

jobah.7241:

People in here are pathetic.

Maybe you should ask yourselves: what is it exactly that makes me mad, dissapointed and so pathetic? Is it A-net telling me that they are going to look at a few AoE-skills? Or is it perhaps because im investing too much time playing games and need to get a real life?

Please take a deep breath. You know NOTHING about what A-net is going to do. They probably don’t even know themselves yet.

But sure, A-net only exists to make your life miserable.

You saw what they did to Evasive Arcana. We’re just trying to make sure they won’t make the same mistake again.

What you should also consider is that many peopl love to play the staff, even if it’s clumsy for actual 1v1 fighting. Since AoE is pretty much all the staff has going for it atm, taking that way would be a disaster. And that’s said to people who already feel (somewhat justly) the staff’s burden of not being able to keep up with other weapons both on eles and other professions. They get outranged by rangers, out dpssed and out aoed by warriors, and outbuffed by guardians. Taking away AoE leaves us with nothing.

Personally, I don’t really mind losing AoE but I would like to see some compensation or other. Turning the staff in something similar to the longbow, with AoE area skills and single target burst skills, would certainly go well with me.

It’s not a weird thing to have concerns about things. Also, it’s not a bad thing to point out potential problems. If Anet has already adressed them, fine. If they hadn’t thought of it yet, they may be able to alter things before the patch comes out. But giving no feedback doesn’t make anyone happy, and doesn’t benefit the game either.

Squa.8107:

Not sure why they decided to make this change and ruin a great skill. There was certainly no bug or oddity on the mechanic which required a split

It was bugged so much that it stopped being funny. Be glad they decided the best fix was making the skill more versatile. You can still get the old effect (which will only cost you 1 click extra) but you can also get just the ranged immobilize if for whatever reason you do not want to get close.

And 2 finishers…to be honest, it almost makes me feel jealous (being a staff ele and all).

It worked for the stone eye too. THANK YOU FOR FIXING THIS ANET!

magic fly.2041:

Bean.1247:

Waraxx.4286:

Omniwar.4985:

Fishbait.6723:

Waraxx.4286:

please inform me of how d/d can get double the mf that a staff provide?

Perhaps through two daggers, both having MF on them, as opposed to one staff having MF?

Sigils of luck do not stack so its only 3% more and youd have to be a savant to notice a difference in drops…

^ now, there is a player with logic, common sense and knowledge.

3%+3%=6% on each weapon and every little helps if you are going to use it, Also if you are using two weapons you can run SoL on one while having 6% on the other then swap out when your stack is built.

Two important things to keep in mind when talking about sigils:

Same type sigils do not stack.
Sigils with a cooldown share the same cooldown with other cooldown sigils.

No, you don’t get twice the effect, but you do build stacks twice as fast.

However, what I was referring to in my original post was the fact that 2 single-handed weapons can get twice as much Magic Find as 1 double-handed weapon. However, it was of course a joke, as I realize it won’t matter that much in practice.

You forgot the damage update to our conjure weapons. That’s a mjor thing too, imho.

Thank you so much for adding it! It’s my favorite ingame item, and I would have kept it regardless of stats because I like the Zelda reference so much. But being able to get a max stat version of it…that’s such a great surprise! Thanks!

Junkpile.7439:

Sure, but every noob can dodge those.

Every noob except NPCs. Where in the original post did it say anything about PvP? In PvE and dungeons, the staff does plenty damage.

If you’re going glass cannon then that means you’d want your target to go down sooner rather than later. With that in mind, going for precision/critical damage seems more logical than condition damage (spike vs damage over time).

With your defensive set, clerics does pretty well because it combines reducing incoming damage with stronger heals. That means you will get less damage per hit and also fill up your health more quickly, making it relatively easy to keep yourself alive during longer fights. Vitality on the other hand, helps preventing spikes to take you down instantly (and is much more powerful than toughness in that respect).

As for the sigils, keep in mind that any sigil with a cooldown shares that cooldown with other sigils (regardless of the type of cooldown). Which unfirtunately, severly limits the amount of possible combinations. :-)

katniss.6735:

There’s no good reason not to let us have weapon swap in WvW. None.

There’s a very good reason: game balance. And it’s not a bad reason solely because nobody has thought of a way to abuse it yet. If in combat weapon swapping would get implemented for the elementalist, the abuse would come soon enough. :-)

Enkidu.5472:

Brown 2 is without question the most beautiful available human skin tone. Honestly, I wish I saw more dark-skinned human players instead of the usual pasty majority, especially considering the lore that the humans of Kryta are a historically multiracial people.

My character is from Canthan decent. It’s pretty cool to see how much tilting the eyes a little, and picking the right hair, can do for your character.

As for skin color, I chose something not to whitish. There’s nothing wrong with a little tan, even on ‘white skinned’ characters. If anything, it makes them look more real, not less.

Obsidian.1328:

As a history major in college(which obviously contributes to my angst here), I am very attuned to the folly of modern writers when they try to portray the past in a light that doesn’t try to get as close to the truth as possible.

As a history major, you of all people should know that history, in no small part, is based on the perspective of the person tellign the story. It has been so for humans in the past. It’s even true to some extent for humans nowadays. And there’s nothing stopping the Guild Wars humans from seeing things from their perspective, especially at the time when they had little contact with other species. And even then, seperate belief systems existed. The Great Dwarf wasn’t part of human culture, and the Dwarves didn’t revere the human gods.

And on a side note, why would it be so impossible for omnipotent beings to represent themselves in the way best suited to aid their followers? For all we know, there could be an omnipotent being that shows itself as ‘the humand gods’ to the humans, as ‘eternal alchemy’ to the asura, and as ‘not existing’ to the charr. With beings that can virtually do anything, such a thing would very much be possible.

And furthermore, they meant it to stay a human-centric game otherwise we would have seen more races in the first two expansions.

We get the Tengu and the Centaurs. There’s also the Dwarves. All of them are more or less civilized races. The main difference was that, unlike the humans, they weren’t as advanced and expansionistic in their goals. As for the Charr, can you imagine Adelbern admitting that the Charr aren’t violent brutes with the intellect of a pea? Of course not.

Astralporing.1957:

ThiBash.5634:

Ok, so it’s not added as a gold sink. The reason I asked is because unless you know it’s coming, you’re pretty much a repair bill waiting to happen. But you guys are sure that a second time, it is dodgable?

The second time you do know it’s coming, right?
…and the first time it’s not going to kill you, just down you.

Well, some pointer on how to dodge it would be nice.

As for the guys stating that I started a rumor, what makes you think I did? just because it’s not on the official forums doesn’t mean it’s not whispered ingame…

Ok, so it’s not added as a gold sink. The reason I asked is because unless you know it’s coming, you’re pretty much a repair bill waiting to happen. But you guys are sure that a second time, it is dodgable?

Junkpile.7439:

Problem is that staff have like one good dmg skill and it’s meteor shower. Other skills are just crap.

Ice Spike and Eruption deal plenty of damage as well.

Seeing as how you can get double the magic find on daggers, I’d say your assumption is pretty valid.

It is rumored that the ‘instant party wipe’ mechanic at the end of the Jade Sea fractal was added as a gold sink. Is this true?

insidiane.9570:

sanestar.8731:

I very much agree that ele elites are rather useless, …I would take any other class’s elites over the ele ones in a heart beat. … A golem that lasts 60s and really doesn’t do too much in wvw for having a 180s CD (though this is the best elite we get IMO)

Couldn’t agree more with this.

Then you’re both doing something wrong. First of all, the glyph has a 120 seconds cooldown (96 with trait) which kicks in the second your elemental goes down. Second, even if you disregard all the other options your elite skill has, your Air Elemental can spam a ranged stun every few seconds. Tell me, how is that NOT useful in WvW?

It’s probably bugged. I get the same issue, though on rare occasions, I do get an animation.

There’s a mount in the game that any player can climb on top of.

It’s called Mount Maelstrom and it’s a giant volcano in one of the zones near Orr.

Magische Boek.2530:

well i already had an awesome name for my ele and i had to have it before someone else did. named it Toversletje and later turned out to be offensive.

That’s because it IS offensive in the language of the country you’re from. Quite more than a bit offensive actually.

To be honest, I think I would like it if the ele staff were changed to be more like the ranger longbow. As in, some single target burst skills, and some larger aoe skills.

I can confirm that it does in fact proc. However, it’s so rare that it’s not worth basing your build upon it, and even when it does proc, the effect is so weak it’s pointless.

insanemaniac.2456:

escorting the lionguard in southsun cove

What’s also an issue is that by the time they get to the western part of the island, downing the Veteran Karkas that aren’t part of the event takes so long that the NPCs hardly move forward. They just end up beating the veteran, running back to their designated path, aggro a normal karka, run back, aggro another normal karka, and by then the veteran has respawned.

So doing that event is literally pointless, because unless you’re with a large group, you can’t get the npcs to the end of the event chain.

Ok, so I just did the same trick with the elementalist starter headgear…it became account bound, not sould bound.

ArenaNet, if you could fix this bug for me somehow, then I’d be much obliged.

EDIT: Managed to get it account bound. The key to it is to transfer the skin onto a white item. It will become account bound instead of soulbound. However, given the nature of this issue, I strongly recommend that some fix for this will be implemented in the future. Also, moderator, please move this to bug reports.

And on a side note, why not remove sould bound altogether and replace it with account bound?

Just bought a Whisperer’s Secret Staff on my alt, to be used on my main. However, it was soulbound on acquire.

No problem I thought, I can just transfer the skin to a non-soul bound staff and then use it on my main.

However, the staff I transferred the skin to also immediately became souldbound. Unlike in the past, where you could transfer the starter headgear items to different skins.

Seeing as how this bug just cost me 5 gold + a fine transmutation stone + 3 gold for an exotic staff, I was wondering if there was:

a) a way to fix this so I can still use the staff.
b) the possibility to warn players for this in the future, and to make it so that professions cannot buy weapons they cannot use (in this case, a staff soulbound to an engineer)
c) a refund of the gold I’ve spent.

I know c isn’t an option, and a will be a longshot. However, if b could be implemented, I’d be happy with that.

Also, given the massive amount of dragon champions seen in the air during the final battle, it may be that it’s simply not safe enough to go anywhere.

Sure, maybe with a 100 airships, but that would be quite a venture and it doesn’t seem like the Pact has much airships to spare on such a ‘pointless’ mission.

And then again, only the Tengu and Humans really know that Cantha exists. The Charr, Norn, Asura and Sylvari have never been there.

If the fractals are any indication, there’s still some plants left in Ascalon (the inner courtyard has grass for example). Also, I think mushrooms in caves were still ok, and they could of course hunt. No reason they couldn’t eat devourer eggs either.

And nowhere does it say that ALL of Ascalon was hit either…

The Pale Tree pales in comparison to Melandru. It’s just a tree. Melandru makes trees grow.

These threads always come up again every other week or so. But incombat switching isn’t gonna happen…ever.

The reason for that is that Anet designed GW2 with specific restrictions on skill combinations, to avoid having too many potential combos to balances like the did in GW 1.

Wheter the suggestee can imagine potential abuses or not, is really besides the point. It goes against the design philosophy of the game, and hence it will not happen.

As for the out of combat swapping, Anet has already stated they’d like to implement it some day, but as part of a larger trait/gear swapping functionality. There’s no ETA on it yet though.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

If a boss can’t attack you back due to terrain issues, he/she/it will go invulnerable and reset like before.

Is there a chance that, when a boss pushes you to a place where it can no longer hit you, that it doesn’t reset?

Because seriously, this game mechanic would be top of my list if I could ever have something removed from the game. Nothing like almost beating a boss only to have it bug out and resetting…

Awesome.6120:

On my warrior I can normally solo the chains until they get to the mainland and you have to capture a beach. Those events are hard even with a couple other people.

Those are exactly the events I’m talking about. It’s not so much that the fighting is hard, it’s that even if you kill all Risen in sight, you still fail the event because you cannot actually capture the beach quickly enough before you run out of submarines.