Guild Wars 2

This was promised before the release. Then it was revealed that they weren’t quite ready to be implemented on the release.

But is it unreasonable to ask that something that was once showcased as one of the cooler features, to at least be worked on?

To be honest, I was expecting it to happen within at least 6 months of release. It’s one of the main reasons I went for this game. So reading an interview response from Izzy that staes it’s not even worked on is well…let’s not get into that just yet.

Please start working on it? Pretty please?

Guild-Wars2.info: Are there any plans to create special merchants, quests, mini-games, events, daily activities, etc. in the home instance?

Izzy: Yes, we do have some plans to improve these but we’re not actively working on this right now.

This is actually a bit insulting. They were among the things advertised as best features in the early works of the game. They were also once claimed to ´not be ready on release but added soon´.

Now we hear they´re not even working on them? What a slap in the face.

The personal home instance was in fact one of the reasons I picked this game…

The fact that I could easily level to 20, get ‘perfect gear’ and could focus on getting my build and playstyle right. The fact that gear wasn’t ever an issue made that player skill mattered a lot, and I really liked that.

In Guild Wars 2, with each update I’m stuck crossing my fingers hoping they don’t add yet more junk to gather before I can start playing the game again.

Manticore Five.9867:

Have you ever seen a necro trying to support with those dinky little 3-second protection buffs per well? That’s just sad.

Agree with pretty much all of your post, but wanted to make one little footnote on this part.

Yes, on its own, it’s hardly worth the trouble to cast. However, what makes boons so uniquely useful in Guild Wars 2 is how they stack. If you have 5 people all casting their 3 seconds protection, it translates to 15 seconds of protection. Which does matter quite a bit.

It’s one of the things I feel people often overlook. Skill on their own are often weak, but thanks to thestacking mechanics that other games lack, boons and conditions become worth using. It’s actually one of those small, hidden gems of brilliance that I like so much in this game. Abilities are no longer standalone, they actually work together in some way. But I suppose that’s a whole different discussion.

They may not have special effects, but I’ve found that the Priory daggers look very appropriate for a melee caster.

Mahanaxar.1386:

Not really. A mesmer is nothing without its clones. It’s integral to the mesmer’s gameplay and if you were able to rally by finishing off the piddly hp of a clone it would not be a viable class at all. A conjured elemental, however, is just a utility skill that you can choose or not choose to utilize.

Yes, but like Strang said…if that’s true, it basically makes summons utterly worthless in WvW. Even more so if enemies rally whenever it gets repositioned if you move to far from it.

Most of the ideas mentioned here are too complex to be implemented. Why not try working with what’s already out there?

Like maybe, an elite version of the Ice Bow? Or a controllable elemental á la the powersuit (only playable)?

Cantrips in general, are ok. The fact that they break stuns make them pretty much musthave skills, and on paper at least, Conjure Flame is a great skill. It can remove all snares, roots and stuns, which are basically the main threat to any elementalist. However, I realize that in practice it gets outclassed by the other cantrips. But to be honest, I wouldn’t know of an easy fix. Especially since cantrips can be boosted so much by traits.

The main issue with your conjure idea is, I think, that Anet has been working very hard to lessen the potential number of skill combinations. A change like that would increase them again, and I feel they might be unwilling to do so. Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea…but I fear it goes against Anet’s overall plan, and thus is unlikely to happen. Personally, I’d feel that if they made some of the weapon skills slightly better (stuff like increased range, maybe a wee bit more damage) they’d be viable for use.

Signet of Water…the condition removal idea may be ok, but an active regen would be added on top of all the other active regens we already have and could lead to potential stacking abuse.

As for the elites, I like GoE so much that I’d probably keep using it regardless of what happens to the other two…so I’m not the right person to comment on them.

It totally depends on what you measure too. It’s already been established that the displayed skill recharges are inaccurate, and that the actual casting sequences take longer (Fireball fires every 1.4 seconds for example, even though its tooltip shows a 1 second recharge).

The one thing we can all agree on I think, is that assuming Fire deals more damage than an attunement swapping elementalist, the difference will be small enough that the extra support and boons more than make up for it. That means that it’s not totally unviable to go for full fire. But it also means that going for full fire won’t neccesarily be better than swapping either. Just different.

And let’s leave it at that…

Yeah, but mechanics wise, they’re the same thing.

In my opinion, it shouldn’t count for any summon…

It does? That’s odd because the same doesn’t seem to apply for mesmer clones…

To be honest, this constant fear of bans has again put another dent in the fun I’m having.

What if I get a precursor for a legendary item my wife wants, and I send her to it? Will we both need to buy new accounts? It sounds so rediculous you’d almost think it couldn’t happen, but frankly, it’s a real concern to me these days.

Anet, loosen up on the control freaking both ingame and on the forums, or suffer less gem store purchases from terrified players that are scared to lose their investments.

It seems you don’t understand that while Ice Spike and Eruption do take a while to activate, they only take a fraction of that time to actually cast them. While they’re busy, you can move on to other spells. Their damage is actually higher than fireball, and if you spend the same amount of time casting them, who cares if they activate 5 seconds or 10 seconds later? You still get more damage for the same amount of time spent casting.

What you’re saying equals not casting anything until Flame Burst’s burning is done…that makes no sense right? So why on earth would you wait until Ice Spike has landed? Go on and cast somethign else as soon as you’re able, the ice crystal will drop just as well without your attention.

And with all that might stacking you’re doing, the damage from your bleeding won’t be insignificant at all. So why not use it and make eruption do truly massive damage because it can benefit from both bonusses your might stacks give?

NightyNight.1823:

Swaping attunements takes time ,a LOT of time.

Agreed. My main point wasn’t to show you that you cannot deal dps as fire. My main point was to show that you could deal just about equal dps and still cycle through your other abilities too.

No I’m not taking bleeds into account , at all. Already said why.

But you should, because it’s still added damage. Unless you got a team that exceeds 25 stacks of course. Then you’d be right.

You do realise you can’t do damage while you’re supporting, do you?

Disagree strongly with this statement. If through support, I cast vulnerability on a target, or might on my allies, the extra damage is a result of my abilities. So while they may not show up on my damage monitor, it’s still damage caused because of me.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to add one thing…swapping attunements gives you 2-3 seconds of Fury each time you switch. If you swap quickly enough after casting Meteor Shower, it can easily get +20% critical chance through its entire duration.

NightyNight.1823:

In the time you cast Ice spike you cast 2 auto atacks in fire.And you don’t have a cooldown.And fire auto atacks are 3/4 damage compared to Ice Spike .So Ice spike , not that great.

The casting time is similar to fireball and you can switch on to the next element while casting it. Also, the cooldown is irrelevant because you’ll be moving on to the next attribute and thus the next spell. Finally, the vulnerability will increase both your own and your team’s damage by a bit. So the total damage due due to Ice Spike will be quite a bit higher than fireball.

Eruption takes long until it explodes and the raw damage isn’t that great.And the bleeds are slow.Same goes for Shockwave.

The time they take doesn’t matter much for any fight that lasts longer than 10 seconds. The finisher effect however, does if you cast Lava Font after it again and buff up a teammate with might.

Those Fire autoatacks are pretty strong , and keeps your might stacks up too.

So does Sigil of Battle when you swap attunements often enough.

The key to the whole thing is not to linger in any attunement for any length of time, but to cast the most powerful spell(s) and move on.

They’re both versatile, but where the engineer picks something before the fight starts, the elementalist basically makes their choice during the fight.

Which also means that if an engineer truly wants run cc, they will do it better than the elementalist. But that same engineer will heal less than that same elementalist. Etc.

Think of it this way: imagine for a second you’re using the staff. Now, you can spam your auto attack to your heart’s content while remaining in fire, or you can go to each element in turn, starting with Fire and do something like this:

Lava Font/Meteor Shower/Lava Font
Ice Spike
Blinding Surge
Eruption/Shockwave
Lava Font, etc.

With the right setup, you’d be casting high damage spike skills from the other elements instead of Fireball. Seeing as how they deal more damage than Fireball, your dps will be higher.

It’s a very basic example of course, but I think it shows the appeal of using the other elements as well. Skills like Ice Spike, Blinding Surge and Eruption simply do more damage than Fireball. So if you switch, you get acces to a few more high damage aoe spells instead of your basic auto attack.

Zenith.7301:

I know you can use runes in wvw to stack boons and have more diverse stat spreads for effectiveness in wvw, but that is not a representative experience of actual competitive pvp.

You can’t use mixed types of runes in PvP?

Wait, does ‘expansion-like content’ mean there’ll be an increase in the level cap too?

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;-)

Mustaine.9357:

Get over yourselves ~ GW2 isn’t priced any differently than any other PC game

Again, I’m not the one who promised stuff like minigames in cities, personal home instances and guild halls for the same amount of money. Anet did. The price of the game is irrelevant. Where I come from, if you say you’re selling 2 cows, you’re not getting away easily with delivering only 1 cow.

To be honest, you’ll likely be asked to take both cows with you as we cannot house them in our apartment, but that’s another story altogether.

The post from Collien stated that a good chunk of infor on the next few months of updates will be released within the first few weeks of january. To me, that’s until the 21st. So lets wait out that first, and then complain again.

Note that I still stand by my previous post, but I do believe Anet has been clear on when they will hand out more info.

Levistis.8356:

Why people? Why? It’s perfectly legitimate.

That’s what they said about a salvaging a certain crafting recipe too. I’m not taking any chances with this game anymore.

To continue with the bread/baker analogy, the problem is that we’ve bought a bread expecting to get a whole bread. Instead, we got half a bread with the baker’s promises that the other half would be finished soon (guild halls, home instances, minigames in major cities, etc.). It’s not unreasonable to ask for more information, especially since the last few slices we got seem to belong to an entirely different type of bread.

Mind you, the price of the bread is irrelevant. If the baker said you would get the entire bread for $0.01 then he’s still obligated to supply you with the entire bread. Especially if you’ve already paid for it.

I’m all for trusting, but I’ll admit that the guild hall update had better appear within the next two months. Because so far, I haven’t even been able to play half of what was promised on Gamescom.

Wintersday was awesome, the random drop buyable boxes with heaps of minis in them were not.

Next time, please make the minis buyable directly (and no, that doesn’t mean that there should be costumes as a random drop instead).

pulsecodesgnl.3470:

Boon Duration affects any boons you apply. That being said, there is no way to keep the actual regeneration buff up 100% with an Ele.

There is actually. Healing Rain + Elemental Attunement + people firing through the healing rain with projectile finishers. If you use a boon duration build, all instances of regen are extended by up to 80%, making perma regen possible.

I’ve done some googling and it seems it’s not as common as I thought it was (I played on a roleplying server back then so I guess it was kinda server related). That means it’s probably a non-issue and as such, I think the word’s ok.

/w Logan Thackery “Dude are you there?”
The player you attempted to whisper is currently Away From Keyboard.

Very well. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. It’s much appreciated.

Not sure if I would change anything at all. You basically get 2 skills for each utility slot…that’s quite powerful in itself. Of course they’ll need to be weakened a bit to compensate. Compare it to the warrior or thief, who only get 1 skill…or the elementalist, that needs traits just to get skill effects at all. Or the ranger, who gets a pet but still gets 1 skill out of it in total. Or the mesmer and guardian, which get 3 unchangable skills instead of 4 changable ones.

A healing/toughness based build can be very resilient…but it revolves more around keeping yourself up than keeping your allies up. That’s just a bonus. ;-)

If you use a boon build, you can give your party a lot of regen through both Soothing Mist and the Regeneration boon.

My wife collects minipets and since she cares so much about them, I’ve long ago decided to help her expand het collection instead of building up my own.

There’s an achievement related to collecting all minipets, and I’ve been meaning to borrow her collection once she gets them all to get the achievement as well. But with the recent uproar I’ve been thinking…is that allowed? Because it does reek of exploit…would I be better off not doing it?

The same thing also applies to the banking achievement…2 players could temporarily pile their gold to get it…but I take it we’d best not do that either?

Erasculio.2914:

The fact it had such a higher return than the other recipes you admittedly knew about, and that it was different enough that you actually tried crafting a rare jewel instead of your usual options (daggers and warhorns) shows how you understood it was not the same thing. In other words, how it was something in a different order of magnitude from other recipes in the game, which you quickly tried to make a profit from, even if you failed.

In other words, how it was an exploit you tried to abuse.

This is one leap of logic that has a hole in it. If you are looking for scales, and you find that naga drop them more often, so you start fighting naga more often…by your resoning, that’s an exploit?

To be honest, I didn’t know it also meant that. The reason I asked wheter it was allowed is because it’s also a common abbreviation for dirty arotic role-player and I’ve seen people use it to harass role-players in previous games I played.

However, if you feel it’s ok then I know enough. I only wanted to know wheter I should report players with the name. I don’t want to clog up your inboxes if I don’t have to. :-)

The thing is, I can totally understand why the troll thing is an exploit and I even consider it to be one…but it’s hard to find a team these days that doesn’t go for it…and I’d rather not get banned for something my team does. Though admittedly, I have also done it the past…but even if I’d stop doing it now, there’s still 4 other players in my team that do it.

Ok, I was hoping for a serious answer here, especially since I tried contcting support over a different issue this morning and had trouble getting the mail delivered.

If someone could tell me the name of a mod ingame to contact then I’d be happy to do so and leave the forums alone.

Is it against the rules to buy materials on the Trading Post, crafting runes with them and then selling them in bulk? The whole snowflake incident has made me very concerned about it.

The fact that it’s just 200 of the 2 million accounts doesn’t soothe me, in fact, I find it strange that such a statement is used to justify this at all. Unlike the karma trader incident, this may not have been as apparent to people, especially considering the fact that the return chance was high but not 100% guarantueed.

So the least you can do to ease my worries is to answer my question.

Kuruptz.4782:

there is small chance some ppl got banned not knowing that is a exploit but I’m 99% sure the majority knew this was an exploit

To be honest, I still don’t get why this is considered such an obvious exploit.

If you’d have a 100% chance to get your materials back + ectos, then yes, I’d agree it’s obviously an exploit.

But a 90% chance still means there’s a good chance at a failure…so I honestly don’t get why it should be an offense worthy of perma bans? Why not simply remove the items, give a warning, maybe a temporary block and be done with it?

Why must players suffer the loss of their account simply because Anet made a mistake? Just so everyone can see how tough they are as a gaming company?

See? It gets censored.

Thing is, I did report the player but no actions were taken…2 months later they still have the name. But if I use the word word should appear here

This questions is asked because I do not want to get banned for doing things I didn’t knew were bannable offenses.

Is it allowed to buy mats on the Trading Post, crafting with them and then selling the crafted items for profit in bulk (around 50 per day)?

Is it allowed to trick the Troll in Ascalonian Catacombs into fighting Lt. Kohler for you?

I’m sorry, but I do not understand this…

There was a recipe that you could salvage to get ectos…and you could do it multiple times. Am I the only one that understands why people might not see that as an exploit? Is it the player’s fault that a recipe drops the wrong stuff. And does that really deserve a permenent, irrevocable ban?

And on a related note, is buying materials, making a rune and selling it for more an exploit? Can I get banned for selling 50+ runes a day? Because that’s basically the same thing. I’m making money that’s essentially free money for me by crafting and selling stuff in bulk.

Is making the troll fight Kohler an exploit? Can I get banned for that?

Seriously, should I just block my account myself? Because from what I’m reading, I could get permanently banned for just about anything any minute now…and it may very well be that I didn’t even know that what I was doing was actually wrong. Because nobody’s gone tell me in advance that something is an exploit…only afterwards.

You can probably make a great condition build through the use of a scepter and switching between earth and fire for dealing damage. I believe that someone once calculated that your dps would be higher than fire if you remained in earth.

However, you would basically throw all the versatility that an ele has out the window. And seeing as how the profession is built around versatility, you will be debying yourself a lot if you rarely switch.

However, I think that a condtion-based build using the scepter’s auto attacks can be done. But I would still recommend switching a lot. At worst it’ll save you a utility slot that’ll now be available for something mroe useful than signet of fire. And if you do that, you might wanna reconsider condition duration.

frodamn.3706:

…if we REQUIRE ranged, but we are D/D we cant. Im not saying we need a gap closer, im saying, you NEED to be ranged…

There is a boss in CoF normal (i think) that does a lot of damage if you are within melee range, I didnt know this and I had D/D equipped and literally became useless to my team…

The water auto attack has a range of 600. That should be more than enough to circumvent that issue. The alternatives are running Frost Bow or, if neither of those are acceptable, hit and run attacks.

The price you pay for having higher damage is less flexibility with your range. I can understand why this may sometimes be an unacceptable issue, but think of it this way: if you normally deal twice the damage of a staff ele, and melee damage now limits you to attacking 50% of the time…your dps is still on par with the staff ele.

haviz.1340:

There are a lot of traits and sigils proccing on critical hits that increase your survivability more than stacking toughness/vitality.

Yeah, but they share a cooldown with Sigil of Battle, which is hard to pass up on. 315 power & condition damage or 30% to gain 370ish health every 10 seconds? Hmm…

To complicated. A trait that removes charges however, could be interesting.

MistyMountains.3751:

So been playing my ele for a while now, and some things i’ve noticed is the lack of options we have for a given situation because we can’t weapon swap in combat.

-Examples: D/D and S/D are both around melee range, so in wvw and vs a large majority of bosses via dungeons/Fractals, they become near useless…

Thoughts on the subject?

My personal thoughts are that the elementalist’s weapons aren’t defined by range as much as they are by role. A staff is just as effective at short range as it is at long range. Daggers have many gap closers, and are great at staying alive. Scepters are a bit inbetween, but 900 range is plenty for what they do.

Instead, staff is a support weapon, scepter a control/conditiondamagespam weapon, and daggers a power/burst weapon. The range is actually the least important aspect of the weapon, and when played well, can be ignored almost completely.

So no, I don’t feel that you need to add range. If you really do need the extra range, there’s conjure weapons, air elementals, arcane blast, glyph of storms and of course the water auto attack.

And on a side note, a build/equipment template style swap is in the works.

Taril.8619:

It’s a known bug and they’re working on a fix.

Great to read that. Would mean a 25% or so dps increase for my staff build. ;-)

For staff, I’d use power instead as your base damage is pretty low so multiplying it will do relatively little.

On daggers, I’d say 19% is decent. It’ll translate to almost 40% with fury and that seems a decent amount to me.

However, they can force you to change your name if it’s against the EULA. So why don’t they just follow that procedure? A few days of block seems preferable to having your account stolen, and this is a special circumstance…