Guild Wars 2

Glyphic pistol = best pistol.

Am i crazy or did you change sex at one point?

LumAnth.5124:

I always thought the kit was cute for saying those quotes

I use it hundreds of times a day, it was cute the first day :P

Then just play more, there isn’t a build that is going to turn a bad player into a good one.

EthanLightheart.9168:

You obviously don’t craft legendaries then or u’d know what we’re talking about.

I’ve crafted a legendary, blew a million karma on orrian boxes and however much it costs to get 250 obsidian shards for ascended crafting and still have about 1.5 million left. I also quit the game for seven months.

There is nothing you need to buy, you can easily gear up for 50g or so, so there is no such thing as poor. The grand majority of players can buy absolutely everything they need without much effort. Saying the game revolves around the trading post is absolutely ludicrous, hell you don’t even need to touch the trading post if you don’t feel like it. You can easily gear up using karma/laurels/dungeon tokens/wvwvw badges if you want.

It’s quite annoying.

I’m very surprised the end reward for this living story was not a home instance gathering node for this item. The prices for it are already through the roof as the things you can craft with them are fairly useful, I can’t imagine what’s going to happen once the event ends and supply dries up completely.

SaltyDave.7346:

• Buff Shadow Embrace to remove a condition every 1.5 seconds, making 3 seconds stealth (blinding powder, cloak and dagger) remove 2 conditions.

Shadows embrace removes a condition instantly and another after three seconds.

The worst part about this post is that now there at least one thief out there thats going to think pistol whip is awesome.

That’s a trait not a skill.

HS spam kills noobs, there are tons of noobs, therefore there is tons of HS spam.

If all the Karma you are getting comes from doing the daily you are never going to have a legendary. I have no idea why you feel that is all you need to do to get karma, go out and farm it like everything else.

Last patch gave us cancer.

I want part two!

Alrik Vas.3507:

Apparently some people are still doing well, i don’t know. I’ve always been a little slow on my thief, so i can’t say personally. Though i also don’t play any of the builds that got “nerfed” (i use quotes, but i agree they did get smacked hard), so I’m not sure how much harder it is, other than from the complaints on these forums.

Sorry your experience was so crappy.

Good players will do well with any class because the grand majority of the player base are horrible players. That doesn’t mean the class is fine or balanced, only that there are tons of sheep for the wolves to feed on.

Nope, windows client.

On the payment option screen, i pick credit card and hit next and nothing happens. Not even if i type in my billing country.

They should just balance ascended crafted so the material requirements are even accross the board. That would be the fair thing to do.

At the rate the mats are tanking affording ascended armor won’t be much of a problem.

Well thieves guild by itself is a whole lot of dps, and your armor wouldn’t help against conditions at all. Most p/d builds are usually about sustain rather than burst dps though, not sure what he could’ve been using to drop you so fast.

Yeah, there was no reason for anyone to stockpile ancient wood. Not when prices were so high to begin with.

Clark Skinner.4902:

Popularity isn’t high on my list of priorities. I said it was my personal belief that limits like that should be in place to prevent abuse of the economy. If it was a fair sampling of players, it might be extremely popular.

The risk vs reward idea is more relevant if people are just predicting. The risk is very little if you take control of the market with a group of people acting together.

Hitting 1 over and over again in PvE for 30 mins gets you at most 1 world boss kill. You need to do a lot more than that to make any money, it requires movement, heals, 1+ attack skills, checking an external site/app, making sure you’ll get there in time, waypointing, making one’s way to the boss. No one can get 750g in 1 hr of work in any other aspect of the game unless they get a precursor drop.

And yes, there actually is a limit in PvE activities, called Diminishing Returns.

I do agree prices will not return any time soon if at all. Since there are no precursor armor pieces, we don’t even need to use exotics in the forge for something better.

There is never going to be any limits on trading because it keeps inflation down by removing money from the economy. Without that prices would simply spiral out of control. And you are absolutely wrong if you think a few people can control any market, there are hundreds of thousands of players (if not millions, i actually dont know how well the game is doing) that all use the same auction, it is impossible to control markets. All you can do is predict, and as you just saw sometimes (i’d say most times) those predictions turn out wrong.

It will go up again. The massive stockpiles people are dumping are finite, the demand is not.

Hot join pvp is packed with thieves, this is true.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

roughryder.6071:

Tremain.4623:

Oh god so much math. You need like “conclusions: wear THIS”.

I second this notion! I appreciate your dedication and effort for finding out these values, but Im lazy and reading numbers sucks. Could you please have a summary section that describes/explains your findings in language only? Thank you.

You guys need to read it at least because even if you skip the math you’d find this;

wish.1027:

Just get Berserkers weapons and Trinkets and Assassins Armor I guess, w/ Scholar runes, Butternut Curry Squash Soup, 5 Power/1 Precision infusions, and Toxic Maintenance Oil for when you have max buffs, All Berserkers when you don’t have them

Thank you, he blinded me with science so i completely missed it.

Oh god so much math. You need like “conclusions: wear THIS”.

At least skelk venom is better than advertised.

This time he is actually right, for the most part we don’t have worse than most classes. The point remains, it is still a problem, it is just a game wide problem not a thief problem. Condition stacking is out of control compared to the condition removal alternatives of ALL classes.

Should i start blowing through my glory boosters? cause i got tons.

This question gets asked every few weeks. Celestial is about the worst set for thieves. Mix in some soldiers or valks if you want survivability. Don’t ask which is better, it just starts a nerd fight.

I got two during the original scarlet invasion events. But that was non stop champ killing, they probably have much better drop rates.

Go to the wiki, read about the fights, keep quiet.

Lanfairya.9724:

Tremain.4623:

I don’t understand the Scarlet hate. She is no worse than treahern or kormir or shiro or rurik. People act like she is ruining some incredible story, newflash: it already sucked just as bad before. This ain’t lord of the ring folks.

Just because GW1 story sucked doesn’t mean that this has to suck and why shouldn’t I expect improvement? I would think that they would have learned something from making their first game. That is a terrible excuse. I do think, that we should ask for Lord of the Rings. There are games out there with incredible story lines: Arcanum, Homeworld, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger anyone? We should be asking for those stories, that level of writing. Even given a bad background from GW1 it was probably still salvageable. Then they just decided to throw in Scarlet a Saturday morning cartoon character who is responsible for EVERYTHING. At risk of given Angel anymore terrible ideas: In the next patch, we’ll learn she has a time machine and is actually responsible for the elder dragons. No! She is an Elder Dragon! She’s the legendary dragonborn that devours the others and becomes ULTRA, UBER, MEGA ELDER DRAGON! Seriously, I wouldn’t bat an eye if this happens because that’s how ridiculous the story is becoming.

So after 10 straight years of sucky stories you expect something good, that seems a bit unrealistic.

Zero chance i would ever buy an npc action figure. Very high i would buy a figure of my character with their armor/dye/weapons matching what i have. There was a company that would do this for your WoW characters.

I don’t understand the Scarlet hate. She is no worse than treahern or kormir or shiro or rurik. People act like she is ruining some incredible story, newflash: it already sucked just as bad before. This ain’t lord of the ring folks.

Traps need to last for a set amount of time to be useful, as one shot deals they are horrid.

Vargamonth.2047:

You can do it better ANet

1- Scarlett needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine (I see you’re working on this).

2- Whenever Scarlett is not on screen, all the other charcaters should be asking “Where’s Scarlett?”

I don’t think this post has gotten enough props.

Err, condition clear from signet use which is basically the same thing in this discussion as the signet use grants the aegis.

That’s a bit silly. We get damage, heals, condition clears from aegis. This clearly benefits guardians more than any other class.

Will the new rune set next patch make this viable? its a toughness based set that adds aegis on signet use as its sixth piece bonus. That’s basically a ton of aoe damage and healing from shattered aegis and pure of heart, not to mention a solid 20% dmg bonus from unscathed contender that we could keep up very constantly. You can also get condition removal on signet use. I know signets for the most part are crap, but getting aegis on use is a pretty nice bonus for guardians specifically.

Champion farm trains happen in maybe three zones in the entire game, pro tip: you have 90% of the world to do what you want in.

Fall damage trait is pretty much a must have in world vs world, going without it is severely limiting.

You are not getting 5 initiative on anything.

black powder, it trivializes leveling.

Sword/pistol, sit on blind field. hell anything/pistol works, but sword is aoe.

Unsuspecting foe: 10% crit. That is decent enough and comparable to other classes traits, like thieves extra crit from behind which is actually 7%. And the passive in signet of healing needs to be about half, buff the active to compensate.

With zero experience playing a warrior i started using one (standard hammer/LB) in spvp and my winning percentage shot way up. Not just that but the actual effort required to play was a mere fraction of what i had to put in as a thief or engineer, the two classes i have the most experience with. Warriors are popular because they are very very strong and require very little skill to be good at.

It’s an incredibly lame event, there is nothing inherently more fun about winning it than farming champs. Remove the farm and you will have nobody there.

p/p needs a good auto attack.