Let’s be honest there is no point in fractals after you’ve gotten your ascended backpack (assuming you went this way) and ascended rings.
Hell I’d say half the people in my guild don’t know that it exists or that you can get skill points, 20 slot bags, obsidian shards from the fractal relics.
The rewards for doing levels higher than 21 (the first level available for 3 pristine relics a day) isn’t even worth doing after you get all your rings. Some drops+1 gold+some karma assuming your average pug group time of an hour? I can get more of all this in queensdale sitting at boar. Once you start going higher everything just 1 shots you anyway so you might as well just go zerk or go home.
difficult=/= 1 shot kills/stupidly high health
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Why should a player that is on Eredon Terrance (one of the lowest ranked WvW servers without the population to put up a fight), for example, have to play on Jade Quarry (the top WvW server with full 24 hour coverage) to enjoy the content?
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You don’t. I got 100% map completion on a support ele build with very little help (outside of wvw because lol wvw map%) on yaks bend during the dead hours of early est time (2-5 am). This is more of learn to play issue and avoid mobs you need not even fight. Guesting to higher population servers just makes things easier if you die.
Mapping orr takes significantly less time than other zones unless you suck at jumping for the vistas. 2/3rds of orr is running around grabbing waypoints, pois, channel skill points and mining. I’d say you could probably map out cursed shore 2 or 3 times before you finish mapping lornars.
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I think you have to buy a gem store backpack. They come with 2 items – the actual backpiece (which has no stats but is not soul bound) and the skin for the backpiece ie plush char or whatnot. Then you can Transmutation the backpiece to the blank one, and transfer it to another character.
I think the gem store backpacks are the only non-soulbind on acquire backpieces in the game.
Any of the backpack “kits” that come out of the black lion chests give you a backpack strap. You can buy them off the tp for gold and you can then sell the skin for roughly the same price if you don’t want it.
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That’s what they want you to do…If you want “cool skins” you got to pay them with real cash and/or spend a huge amount of gold…Nothing’s being hand out for free now.
Edit: Just wait for the next perm. dungeon if you want to see new perm. skins.
Black lion ticket weps are perm. They just change in price.
That aside there are some cheap yet great looking weapons that just need to be transmuted thats all.
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Back when you could play any form of pvp at whatever hour you wanted in 2007/8 (less so later in 08) the game was fun and fairly well balanced. RA, GvG, HA aka tombs, Alliance battle, hero battles (when it was there) and team arenas (when it was there).
If they brought gw1 pvp formats to the table in gw2 they’d be far better off instead of this WvW and spvp crap. Both are cap this, cap that, stop them from taking this or that and win. Feels like the “teamwork and communication of tactics” has taken a back seat to “e-sports.”
Nothing was better than going into GvG and seeing you’re paired against a guild of equal skill level and barely winning or going up against a guild that was better overall and you win because of a ballsy plan.
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increase the number of strikes by 10 and increase the spinny speed.
increased radius to 180 from 130. Prahblam Salvd! Now u can Spin2Win!
Mila! NO! just NO!!! STAPH!
ps: Axe 5 is fine… it’s bugged but fine. 4 is completely worthless tho! if they add something decent to it people would run it. something with some range
No one uses axe 5 they do use axe 4 because FURY!
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they should give a change stats for celestial items :|
They’ve already acknowledged the fact that the ferocity change would effect celestial more than any other set and have said they were looking into either buffing all the stats minorly.
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No idea what game you were playing but playing a warrior at release was like taking a knife to a war zone known for using nuclear weapons.
Why would you play a warrior when you could be a d/d thief at release press 4 twice and down 3 WARRIORS AT ONCE? Why play a warrior when you could never die on a guardian bunker against 50 people at release? Why play a warrior when a ranger would just kill you by pressing the 1 key and never using any of his other skills at release? Was having to go through all of this worth it to just press f1 with an axe and crit an ele/thief for 15k? Not really.
The warrior was never a free kill at release. They were an easy kill 90% of the time just like how eles are right now. How often do you find yourself dying to an ele these days? If anything warriors now are more likely to not run away till they find a friend in pvp but run in head first and take some abuse till an ally comes in to help or you kill them.
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you are right because GW2 is not GW.
to tell you the truth, i didnt like GW1, the fully instanced world, the PVP only endgame, and the lack of jump, drove me off GW1.
gw1 has/had more endgame than gw2 does currently. srsly.
The only content in this game I would consider end-game is fractals lvl30+
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The problem is with how “difficult” the content is not where it is. I can honestly say I haven’t touched tequatl on yaks bend since he was revamped. I can say I haven’t touched the wurm since the first day because they decided to make content that was impossible to do with an average mindless zerg. I think we’ve proven as a community that content like the wurm is a bad direction with world bosses. Making a boss so stupidly difficult to do is just silly.
Outside of an exploit for wurm has it died since it was fixed?
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8% is deserved, but anything more would be to much. People asking for a bigger nerf are stupid. I have read many threads about this subject and I agree that Anet makes a good call on this one. ICD of 7s for cleansing ire would make us perfectly balanced. Like one of the most balanced classes there are.
You’ll notice 8% but not in such a degree that it will ruin builds. And please don’t compare single out heals with each other. There are a ton of different factors you need to take into account. So many I don’t even bother to list them unless requested.
I don’t think a cool down on cleansing ire is required, not all, but most adrenaline skills hard terribly difficult to land.
Again here we separate the bad players from the good ones. I land 80-90% of my eviscerates except when playing against a s/d thief. But ye that is obvious to why.
People complain about the hambow removing too many conditions and I agree. The longbow F1 is to easy to use and in teamfights you build adrenaline up so fast you can use that one and the hammer F1 on cooldown, meaning 6 conditions removed every 7s. That is a bit over the top and is why the hambow is so so strong in spvp. Removing 3 conditions every 7s would bring them more in line with the rest.
And F1 skills were never ment to be randomly spammed and assumed to hit. The burst skills are there to be carefully set up and worked to, so you could finish off your enemy. You can even hit every earthshaker if you wanted to, just count their dodges and know which invulnerability/evades/eagis/blocks they have. Kite those out and earthshake, do full combo and you’ll most likely finish them off.
If you’re building up full adrenaline in 7 seconds with a hammer/bow combo you’re either hitting 5 people at once with your hammer or you’re pulling this number out of your butt. Longbow burst does not grant adrenaline (srsly it doesnt). The only way to build adrenaline this fast with a hambow build is to use signet of fury which has a 24 second recharge if you’re traited for signet recharge. The only way to remove 6 condis that quickly with f1 burst is to use signet of fury and use both your burst skills. Then if thats the case you’re better off just using signet of rage with lyssa runes.
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PVT isint viable anywhere … It has a worthless stat which is vitality and it lacks the second most important stat which is crit dmg. Stacking armour isint good because it becomes weak after 2800 which is 33% dmg reduction. So if you want the best offense while being fairly tanky you can either go
1) full zerk gear + cavalier trinckets
2) knight gear + zerk trinckets
Don’t forget to be well protected from condis with melandru or Lyssa runes . If you’re using a stun based build you can ’’cheat’’ your stats by replacing the useless precision with crit dmg or toughness because of unspec foes that gives you 50% crit .
Hi I’m vitality and I’m the indirect counter to condition builds. Hi I’m condition removal with vitality and were here to tell you that CONDITION METAS ARE LAUGHABLE.
Sincerely vitality and condition removal.
If you think vitality is a worthless stat in pvp I’ve got some bad news for you. No matter the awful form of pvp you’re playing vitality isn’t meaningless or useless.
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hahaha spirit weapons suck now? They have sucked from the word go. They have never been a viable build for a Guardian in any situation. Proof? No one uses them . . . Fortunately I believe I read that Anet are addressing this in the upcoming patch. Fingers crossed anyway, would be a nice mechanic to play around with if they were viable
There was a point in which people used the hammer on guardian in pvp because it would knock you back every 4 seconds. But that’s since been fixed.
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No that trait isn’t worth taking on an ele in pve. Take any of the other adept traits because they’ll be more useful (other than fall damage) about 90% of the time.
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I like the idea. As it is, the meta has warriors almost never using their burst anyway due to traited +15% damage at full adrenaline. New bursts would be a nice way to incentivize players to use the burst. Burst skills should be like signets. A passive bonus for adrenaline shouldn’t always be the better choice activating it.
Take that trait out and Warriors will use their Burst skills
Why bother to run that trait in pvp? You should be using your bursts in pvp for cleansing ire making this trait irrelevant. Only time afaik that trait is being used is for pve and I run 30/20/0/0/20 and take sharpened axes and just use my burst and get back to full in a few autos.
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The patch notes are fake. There’s a sticky in the prof balance forum.
All leaked patch notes to date have been correct.
But ArenaNet said they’re fake… ArenaNet wouldn’t lie to us now would they?
For fear of being “warned” for the hundredth bajillionth time. Most of the “leaked” patch notes I read from game to game about 90% of the “leaked” changes make it into games.
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Playing on a laptop currently with a 17.3" screen and my resolution set to 1600×900 needless to say finding wallpapers in that resolution is kitten near impossible.
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lol! Well, if we’re playing Top Trumps, there’s the Vigil Keep instance right outside the airship full of burly, well trained soldiers and a reasonably priced kitchen menu.
But, I’m talking about what’s inside the areas for your convenience, so you have everything in one place when you double click the ticket which is what both the Royal Terrace & The Captain’s Airship are designed for.
To be honest neither are really worth what they charged for merchants and everything to be right there. Not like running/porting around towns costs you anything anyway other than 20/30 seconds. Shameless money grab tactic is all it was imo.
That aside they should probably add the higher kits to it. Might have been a slip on their part and no one has caught it (however unlikely) till now.
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Long answer- You’ll be at a disadvantage to people who have been playing and have full ascended but getting a full exotic set is relatively cheap for a few characters these days and you’ll do slightly (i say slightly loosely) less damage.
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A time gate is simply some activity where a countdown clock in one form or another prevents you from doing the same activity again within the time frame. Daily server resets at around 4pm pst (i think) is a time gate on daily achievement points, weekly guild mission resets, things that can only be crafted once daily, and the “daily rare” chest from world bosses are all examples of a time gate.
It is just an attempt by the devs of any game to force some things to take longer for the ultra wealthy, in GW2, they would have had all their ascended weapons and armors done on day 1 without time gating for example.
Except they already did and only slowed down the less wealthier players thats all it did.
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Please allow us other avenues of aquiring ascended armor and weapons without crafting. The same way we can aquire trinkets through laurels.
RNG drops are not sufficient.
Some of us do not enjoy crafting at all. We don’t want a second job, we just want to log on and kill stuff and have fun. Do we not deserve BiS gear?
what if you had to buy the ascended parts from a player, but could combine the final recipe (with more materials) via an npc, say after a dynamic event chain oe in a dungeon.
For example:
buy from tp
elonian shoulder guard padding
elonian shoulder guard panel
ascended insignia
1 bolt of damask
1 elonian leather square
Marionette can be done with a large guild of say 80 people. Same for tequatl.
Wurm? How many total wurm kills across every server are there? No more than 15?
The reason why people are leaving servers and going to t1 servers is because of the amount of players available at any given time. How many people are guesting to blackgate to kill tequatl? How many to “try” to kill wurm?
I’ve been saying this since the rework of tequatl. If they continue to re-vamp world bosses and make them harder people are going to stop doing them because of the time it takes to organize and do them. I can’t tell you the last time yaks bend has killed tequatl but I’m willing to bet it was around the time he was reworked. Making stuff harder? Sure. Making things more difficult than they should be because you want people to have a challenge in pve that requires the other 100+ people in the same server/overflow is just bad content design. Especially for open world stuff.
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Keg brawl is once a week because 2 can’t be gotten into other than on those days(sprint and survival). You can play keg brawl and crab toss from hoelbrak and southsun cove.
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I can’t stand all the repetitive sounds of combat so I turn the sound right off. I am kind of sad about that though, since I understand the actual music of the game is supposed to be pretty good. I can’t even remember what the game sounds like anymore. Even if I go on TS I turn game sound off so I can just hear teammates.
You can turn combat sounds off then turn the music up. The music is fairly nice.
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I find it kinda sad that we’re getting all these LS updates, yet key features aren’t completed after even a year of the game’s existence .-.
They’re either extremely under-resourced, or their priorities are just.. odd..
They’re under-resourced I remember reading something that they could barely test any of their live-story stuff for bugs because they don’t have the manpower. This might explain why they have multiple bug fixes on the same day.
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There is little to no reason to go and do the less populated areas after you’ve gotten map completion for other than world bosses.
Only time I’ve seen overflows outside of boss trains for zones that don’t get much traffic was during the first few months of the game when everyone was racing to get 1/2 characters to 80 as fast as possible as cheaply as possible.
There really is no reward once you get 100% map to bother going into lesser populated zones again for other than world bosses/dailies/guild missions.
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They can’t balance WvW like sPvP for the simple reason that you aren’t dealing with the same numbers 95% of the time.
And I doubt WvW players are bothered by dailies. You can complete your dailies from the comfort of WvW. The main complain from them is that Ascended equipments “forces” (because I don’t think it’s such a big deal) them to play in PvE.
The main complain for PvErs is that they hate WvW with a passion.
You can get all the crap you need to make ascended gear in WvW. It’s just far quicker to get all the needed materials in PvE. So saying it forces you to do something is just silly.
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Nothing of any real value was gained in this patch for most of the WvW players anyway other than the fact that they can now not have to wait in a queue for 6 hours.
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There is not even a good logic to craft a Precursor… To fit logic let people be able to craft precursor replicas (Only cosmetic) and as OP says make a great story of it so there is something to work for rather than craft for. Crafting is not fun and I want fun.
Great post OP.
Except there are already are. (seriously precursors aren’t their own skin except for rodgorts flame and the hunter which are unique to themselves.)
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It was added because achieving full exotic gear was to easy to get on multiple characters. Needless to say they wanted to give hardcore players some form of a grind other than legendaries.
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I don’t oppose that warriors need some changes to some of their abilities and what not but what people suggest sometimes is just flat out ridiculous. Like nerfing healing signet to 200-250 HP/S.
You mean back to what it was when it was useless and adrenaline surge was the only heal you’d ever use on a warrior?
If anything this patch is just going to prove that healing signet was/is not the problem with warriors and that cleansing ire is just stupidly strong for a 20 point trait and it’ll get moved to grand master.
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Armour balances versus Exhaustion
The tougher your armour, the slower your endurance regenerates.
HP balances versus Endurance
The classes with low base HP have naturally high base Endurance pools, and vice versa. So Warriors, being heavy and high-HP, would have only enough endurance for ~1,8 dodges and regenerate it slowly. Elementalists, being lightly armoured and low-HP, would have endurance for ~2,4-2,5 dodges and regenerate it quickly.
I’d go one step further: Physical size balances damage absorption versus agility
Larger characters (total size, so depends on race and designated size) would take slightly (smallest Asura -> tallest Norn should be ~5%) less damage. On the other hand, smaller characters dodge farther. Tallest Norn -> smallest Asura should be ~25% extra distance covered.
This would just make asuran necros completely and utterly broken. Leave the endurance as it is and not take races/armor/hp/character heights into this. The game seriously does not need something this “complex” of an idea to it. Vigor is easily obtainable by most if not all classes and there are other ways to get endurance back with sigils/traits/food.
Leave dodging/evading the same as it is now.
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It started out as a bit of flavor, and to give certain profession their strengths and weaknesses.
But after a year and a half of balance blundering, its lost all meaning. Warriors were suppose to be balanced around having natively high armor and hp, but theyve been completely overbuffed.
Now there isnt really any reason why a full zerker warrior has more hp and armor then medium armor professions who dedicates stats to toughness and vitality.
Inversely, Elementalist were suppose to draw their survivability from healing and boons, but had their healing and boons nerfed quite harshly over several patches that it doesnt justify the low armor and hp anymore.
Its one of those things that were suppose to be a part of balancing professions, that very quickly got forgotten entirely and never changed. I dont recall any changes have ever been made to a professions base hp/armor.
Let’s be honest here. Warriors were complete trash at the start of game for sPvP. Now they’re great because of buffs to them. Slightly over powered though. Eles? Great at the start now trash after nerfs over a year and a half.
Needless to say balance will find itself eventually and classes will be forgotten about for a while. Name 1 online game that balanced in a day, month or year. No game has been or will be100% balanced be it with new additions of skills, class additions (gw1 assassin, rit, derv, and paragon threw the game out of whack for a bit), new weapons (not skins but new weapons) or new stat combinations.
It takes time to balance. Now let me just throw this at you but if you ever played PvP in gw1 you know of a skill called smiters boon. The skill was just to good at what it did, now it’s a useless pile of crap thrown into the scrapheaps. Any build built around this skill was thrown into the dumpster and made over from scratch. It spawned a new term “smiters boon’d” for when a nerf was coming to skills. The skill was nerfed so bad that the devs haven’t touched it since it was nerfed.
Balance comes and goes and classes will be crap here and there. It’s how balance works.
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