Guild Wars 2

I have a confession, sometime when someone aggro mobs, and we have to kill them, which usually takes 2-3 second, I ask myself, is it really worth saving those 2-3 seconds I mean skipping is easy for those who have done it before, but every time a pug struggle at skipping I feel like it would have been easier to just DPS them in 3 seconds.

Behellagh.1468:

I average two to three gold a day and I don’t do dungeons, boss trains, farm or play the TP. This is from going around killing things and selling their drops. What are you doing so wrong Trice?

I make 50-75 gold just from my PvE content, just like I made last year even with all the nerf, and market price are about the same for most of the things.

Lukyromero.6780:

Trice.4598:

To be fair I think Anet is making a great job at keeping the market stable.
Even with all the change they made to “farm’able spot” in the first 3-6 months of a game, inflation is normal, but if you look at GW2 in the last year, price haven’t changed that much.

Are you crazy? Nobody wants to forge for a precursor, and that significantly impacted a huge money making method, now the only thing left to do is flip, and that takes god awfully long.

That’s not what I meant, I meant Dusk was 800 gold 1 year ago, it’s 1000 gold now, and I average about the same amount of gold per day as I did 1 year ago, but I mostly do dungeon.

But I see your point and I hope Anet change their mind on “farming” as it is the part I enjoy about MMO.

If the instance creator stay in the party on the same character, even if he’s off you won’t get kick. If you kick him or he change character you will. It’s sad because you will have to 4 man the last boss.

When I first did map completion, Hylek were REALLY bothering me, so now every time I see a Hylek village, I make it my duty to go on a genocide.

Fixing stacking won’t fix anything, Guardian GS pull or mesmer focus pull and no one even care about stacking being fixed.

2300 chance 7 favor of pavilion 2 chaos of lyssa recipe 1 mini toxic hybrid

Post patch. I still think 1 in 3000 is a ok drop rate, getting 3000 chances is pretty easy if you have ticket, the long part is getting the ticket (even though you make money while getting ticket)

To be fair I think Anet is making a great job at keeping the market stable.
Even with all the change they made to “farm’able spot” in the first 3-6 months of a game, inflation is normal, but if you look at GW2 in the last year, price haven’t changed that much.

maha.7902:

Line of sighting isn’t even a problem, if mobs didn’t LoS we would literally just pull them together.

Here’s what trivialises dungeons:

1. Fiery greatsword
2. Ice bow
3. Reflecting fully projectile-based bosses

#1, the fiery noobsword can literally be removed from the game and I would be jumping for joy, #2 needs to be nerfed because if #1 is removed people will just spam more #2, and #3 is simply a case of bosses having weak mechanics.

That sums up my views of GW2 state.

50% of the time, my group won’t even bother LoS’ing mobs, it’s much faster to go up to them and pull them together. Same goes for some bosses, AC, SE P3, Arah P3. They could “fix” LoS’ing and it wouldn’t change anything to speed clearer (maybe 30 seconds longer path?)

Fiery Greatsword makes bad players look like good players and problem with both Ice bow and FGS is the same, overpowered #4 skill.

About reflects, they are just too strong in most cases, maybe reduce the reflected damages (Deadeye Dunwell does that and it works great)

Evan Lesh.3295:

We absolutely want to make build templates. They could work similar to GW1, but there are more components to a build now. Using the old string-code method may prove to be unwieldy.

Things that must be in a template:

• Weapons
• Sigils
• Rune
• Amulet
• Skills
• Traits

What could be in a template:

• Skins
• Dyes
• Outfit
• Finisher

Things to consider:

• Sharing (chat links? codes? urls?)
• Viewing (seeing some else’s vs. seeing your own)
• Saving (notepad vs. local vs. account vs. web)
• Building (one spot in UI vs. multiple spots)
• Websites (third-party sites should work with in-game)
• APIs (Could expose an API to third-parties)
• PvP vs PvE vs WvW (each mode requires different configuration options)

How would you like to see any/all of these work?

You’re officially my favorite Dev, we should date.

On topic, the sharing via chat code would be really nice, same goes for API but that would require more work, and I’d be fine with just the basic.

People seems to believe that Berserker meta is about doing as much DPS as possible, it’s not exactly true, the meta is about doing as much DPS while being as useful as possible. This is why Guardian and Mesmer are still used in every dungeon run (or almost).

If I invite a guardian to my CoE run, and he’s running 0/0/6/6/2 with triple shout, I will kick him unless he’s willing to change his build. He’s not bringing reflect, his damage are negligible, his heal from AH are for himself only. He’s going to spam his Shouts to heal himself instead of using them at the right time (Retreat for Aegis, SYG for crystal).
He won’t be blinding trash mobs, he probably won’t use Greatsword pull if needed.

If crown’s pavilion taught me something lately, is that the average player is not willing to give an effort. When I’m the only one melee’ing Wiggins on 12 players, all on the ramp using nothing but auto attacks, while I have to dodge/block/tank all of Wiggins attack and also get him back when he goes to middle every 25%.

People aren’t using bad build because they like it, they use it because they don’t want to actually give an effort. (Of course this doesn’t apply to everyone)

Snowmoon.1758:

I don’t get it.

They can simply solve it by splitting the 3 stats (power, precision, ferocity)
Or maybe allowing maximum only 1 or 2 pieces of zerker stat gear.

Is there a reason why they are still allowing zerker gear in game?

It’s rather toxic to see a party list that does this:
lvl80s zerkers only, ping gear, >10,000AP only

Then imagine the poor just lvl80 new GW2 player who joined the party only to get kicked without knowing the real reason why.

If he’s level 80 he know what AP are and what Zerker is, there is no reason he should have joined that party in the first place. How about joining a party that says nothing.

Andred.1087:

Jerus.4350:

It’s just one of those things that you have to learn “ugh xxxx doesn’t count as a kill… well I’ll know for next time”.

Yeah but that sucks. For all intents and purposes, it’s the same as getting a kill, but you don’t get the benefit from it because of a technicality in the code. I don’t see how that’s acceptable.

More and more monsters are starting to be like this which is really annoying for guardian since Renewed justice is probably on of our best trait. Fractals are a good exemple, I can barely spam blinds anymore

Just go with a title the fit your character or one that you like. I have been using The Emperor forever, not because I want to show off how money I spent on a stupid title, but only because it fit my character and look dam sexy in German Der Kaiser.

The Blazing Light, The Sunbringer, Avenger and even Golden sound pretty nice.

Shen Slayer.3058:

Funny…we need to join an elite guild to kill Teq. Anet really failed!

No offense to TTS but it is not an Elite guild by all mean, it is for people who actually care about succeeding those large sale event. Everyone is welcome in TTS, all they ask is for you to listen to the instructions because you will need them.

A big problem right now is that no one want to step up and organize in open world PvE, and when someone does, the full map either don’t care, don’t listen, don’t answer or try to join a TTS overflow.

If people would put a minimal effort instead of trying to be carried by TTS, Tequalt could be done in any map with 100+ players

half the time you have 200 players trying to “join in” in a TTS overflow when they could easily organize one themselves.

#JustHanging #kittenes

Hodgins: Ah, the reliquary of the king’s guard. My notes are unambiguous. There’s a scepter here.
Hodgins: It’s…it’s not here.

This one never fails to amuse. Hodgins is so dramatic

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Lucas.9157:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I’m bumping this because it needs to continue

Updated, just for you sweetie

\o/

I’m okay with sweetie in this context.

Get out

maha.7902:

new page

http://i.imgur.com/fQR3CfQ.jpg

^vote left, middle or right

Hot, Too skinny, Is that a man?

maha.7902:

FITE U

IRL

it’s getting worse with time

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Wellllll…. she looks 15 now………

Barely legal Lilith Edition

Laar.5476:

But Teq time, I need smoky glowing things.

I am smoky and glowing

50 views, dam tease, if you’re gonna take a look at the thread you better be joining

I just hate how most of people who join my Berserker speed run, think “they are exaggerating, they won’t notice my PVT gear” yes we do, and yes you slow up the whole thing. If I ask for melee lupicus, melee it. Most of the time my LFG are plain and I don’t ask for anything in particular, but when I do it’s because I don’t have much time and I don’t want to deal with a kitten bearbow or staff guardian.

Also there is a huge influx of shortbow camping thieves recently and it scares me.

Essence Snow.3194:

Trice.4598:

Taygus.4571:

boss blitz dont have “tons and tons of health” unless you’re doing it wrong. In fact a party of 5 can effectively take a boss down.

I quite enjoy boss blitz btw.

This event is once again a proof that the average player is bad. A group of 5 can take any of the boss in 3 minutes . 6 good group of 10 can take all of them down in 2 minutes. Yet every server takes 1 hour to finish it unless it’s a well organized guild like TTS. (I see mesmer using Greatsword auto attack to kill turret at boom boom)

Along with that people don’t listen, it takes forever to organize. Don’t blame the event, blame the players.

I think it’s a great event but it’s not fit for game where we don’t have control over who is joining.

P.S. Actually let me clarify, I don’t think the average player is necessary bad, I think a lot of them just don’t care or are too stubborn to listen to others.

Actually makes me think that there is more of an issue with scaling than anything else.

They do scale better for smaller group, but we tested with a group of 40 Players using Berserker gears and still manage to kill boom boom baine within a little less than 5 minutes. But again the whole purpose is to get you to spread, that’s probably why they made them so hard to kill with bigger group they want to punish us for Zerging.

They want to push us into the right direction, there is no way you can get gold or silver with Zerg.

Taygus.4571:

boss blitz dont have “tons and tons of health” unless you’re doing it wrong. In fact a party of 5 can effectively take a boss down.

I quite enjoy boss blitz btw.

This event is once again a proof that the average player is bad. A group of 5 can take any of the boss in 3 minutes . 6 good group of 10 can take all of them down in 2 minutes. Yet every server takes 1 hour to finish it unless it’s a well organized guild like TTS. (I see mesmer using Greatsword auto attack to kill turret at boom boom)

Along with that people don’t listen, it takes forever to organize. Don’t blame the event, blame the players.

I think it’s a great event but it’s not fit for game where we don’t have control over who is joining.

P.S. Actually let me clarify, I don’t think the average player is necessary bad, I think a lot of them just don’t care or are too stubborn to listen to others.

Or we could just have boss that slowly loose health over time, while everyone does 0 damages and receive 0 damage. This way it would always take the same amount of time, and everyone would stay alive.

I’m sorry though I don’t mean to be rude, but I hope you see my point XD

Maybe it’s a trait that changed or you equipped the wrong gear, best way to test this is to refund your trait, remove all equip and look is your base hp is right.

It will be either
10,805 (Guardian, Thief, Elementalist)
15,082 (Engineer, Ranger, Mesmer)
18,372 (Warrior, Necromancer)

RoyalPredator.9163:

Looks like everyone has been nerfed between 1-3k HP.
Did we get a single note about this? I did not found any…

World versus World offer a Health bonus which get reset when the match up change. So every friday we loose the buff and through the week we slowly get it back.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Trice.4598:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Sam revives me just so he can see moar of this bod.

Fear no more Lilith, the Staff Pug guardian is here!

That scares me more than dying because my under leveled tush is graveling fodder.

Oh so I did a level 49 fractal with our prophet, FenrirSlakt (I only joined the group because I saw him in it) and we had 6 minutes until reset (we wanted to finish after reset). So we get Mai trin to her final phase and we have 6 minutes… so we kite her around not hitting her but our staff guard is.

The prophet whispers me “if he were hitting her with something other than staff I’d we worried”.

The prophet has spoken and thus it shall be known: bring staff guards if you need to kill time.

Ps. That kitten staff guard got a fractal mace, but he already had it. -.-

Oh and then the prophet soloed 5% of the aetherpath final boss for us. Hail the prophet!

nice, I love mace, so much support. But staff is better because I can stay ranged and support, while doing almost as much as a full meta berserker build**

• - Source : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Damage-Meters-and-Inspect-Commands/page/3#post4055465

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Sam revives me just so he can see moar of this bod.

Fear no more Lilith, the Staff Pug guardian is here!

Einlanzer.1627:

Trice.4598:

Einlanzer.1627:

I was actually having a reasonably good time doing the crown pavilion even with the crappy loot. It’s nice they listened and buffed them!

They didn’t listen if they believe that’s what people were complaining for.

It was. Are you referring to the anti-zerg? It’s been getting more and more coordinated and it’s actually very refreshing to do small group coordinated assaults. People were hating on it at first because it took forever and gave garbage loot, but that’s less the case now.

coordinated open world is the worst thing Anet tried, it doesn’t work. People don’t listen, guild have to create overflow because they don’t want to deal with random people. 6 champions bag for 10-30 minutes? which will most likely be greens and blues.

Last year pavilion was much better, I remember farming destroyer and bandit and actually getting something decent and having more fun than those annoying bosses ( when people killed 5 bosses and are all scaling the last one with all the buffs.

Looks like the only decent way to make gold is still dungeons and selling arah.

Einlanzer.1627:

I was actually having a reasonably good time doing the crown pavilion even with the crappy loot. It’s nice they listened and buffed them!

They didn’t listen if they believe that’s what people were complaining for.

I actually found it went better than before, I didn’t have stupid npc messing up the aggro, the boss took a little longer but the rest went smooth , it was only a lvl 38 though

Also, maybe it’s just me but the wern’t that many mages, only 2-3 at a time (not the usual 7-8 mages group that instantly ohko your party)

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Anierna.6918:

Dungeon forum new LFG tool? 0.o

Wanted better than pugs. Got better than pugs ^^

wow, shots fire

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Trice.4598:

xallever.1874:

I did receive a Scarlet slaying potion from Lilith!

#truestory

Legend says Lilith is 10 foots tall, has 4 arms and 12 tentacles and can knot cherry with her lady part. Can you confirm any of those things?

I can confirm that this is factual.

Now, time to find a use for that information!

xallever.1874:

I did receive a Scarlet slaying potion from Lilith!

#truestory

Legend says Lilith is 10 foots tall, has 4 arms and 12 tentacles and can knot cherry with her lady part. Can you confirm any of those things?

deSade.9437:

spoj.9672:

I dont like the non combat puzzles but atleast dredge takes a reasonable amount of time to complete now. So i cant really complain too much.

Come on, you were literally dying of joy while doing the puzzle. You adore it, just admit it.
/pings panda
<3
… I really like the new dredge. Now it’s on line with others length-wise…
I still prefer Cliffside though. That scenery.

Cliffside, my favorite fractal. I kind of like the puzzle without fight but maybe it’s only because I like not having to fight dredge. But I’m the kind of guy who want jumping puzzle in dungeons XD.

People are intimidated by your RP’ing skills

Nike.2631:

Trice.4598:

The fact that this is not a rich people controlling the market doesn’t change the fact that something is wrong, it’s been over a year since we’ve been promise precursor crafting and right we need more than ever.

Seriously, I wish people had to link to actual red name posts/interviews/blogs with the words “we promise” or eat a ten day ban every time they claim they were promised something.

“Looking in to” does not mean an infallible DESTINY of delivery.

Ok, the word promise might be a little strong here, but they did say we would see it by the end of 2013 but Iv’e learned to be let down by Anet. they have a great game but they don’t listen, just look at the dungeon forum, the community is ignored over there. (Took over a year to adjust Dredge fractal)

Vol.7601:

Leamas.5803:

tolunart.2095:

The market is player driven and the value of an item is set by the players, not Anet. They set a minimum value (vendor price) to most items, but the maximum value is whatever any player is willing to pay.

Yes, the market is player driven, but the supply is manipulated by ANet through various means. Saying a 10g item is worth 1000g because people will pay that for doesn’t make it worth 1000g. It points to a supply problem and this IS controlled by ANet.

Manipulated by what? Going into their database and saying that it should have a drop rate of 0.025%?

What if they suddenly increased it to 20%? Would you start to say that Anet is ‘manipulating’ the price, considering that is now conveniently cheap for you to buy?

They do manipulate the supply, they keep nerfing every possible farm, remove drops from monster, bring champion down to veteran status so they won’t drop champion bag anymore. They keep bringing the supply of everything down. They also played with the mystic forge recently, and even though they said they didn’t change the chance to get a precursor, there is a 50/50 % chance they messed it up.

you have to type the name of the item to destroy it, which can’t be an accident :P

mtpelion.4562:

Trice.4598:

The fact that this is not a rich people controlling the market doesn’t change the fact that something is wrong, it’s been over a year since we’ve been promise precursor crafting and right we need more than ever.

I know you guys monitor the market and can’t control how much people are selling/buying them for, but you have to admit something must be done.

Most people don’t want to gamble, they want a safe alternative. ( I am not one to complain I have gotten over 12 precursor in Mystic forge for an average of 200 gold )

I fail to see how a rare luxury item being a rare luxury item is “something wrong”.

There are three ways to get a precursor:
1. Gamble on the Forge
2. Maximize your Kills Per Hour with buffed Magic Find to gamble on drops
3. Buy it on the Trading Post

We already have a “safe” non-gambling way to acquire a precursor. That safety comes with a high price tag though.

The precursor is not a luxury item, the Legendary is.

Also I don’t consider precursor from drop to be a way anymore. With the diminutive return, Anet nerfing every possible farmable spot you can’t go and tell yourself “I’m going to kill mobs until I get a precursor”. It happens to people sometime, but a lot less with all the nerfs. I know a lot of people with 3-4k+ hours of gameplay who never got one. And a lot of them are the kind of people who don’t waste a minute afk’ing in town.

Charak.9761:

Liadari by herself is pretty easy on her own.

For people who have been playing for 2 years, and have already beaten her when the camera and AoE made the fight harder, Liadri is easy. But for players who don’t have ascended stuff, still struggling with their (as well as china’s release) it’s still hard.

Also people are all hyped about defeating her, they all spend hours fighting her. Giving it for the 8 orbs wouldn’t change much because people would have an incentive to do the 8 orbs and would actually do it until they get it.

John Smith.4610:

:)

Time frame is since 5/20/2014 00:00:00 UTC

The fact that this is not a rich people controlling the market doesn’t change the fact that something is wrong, it’s been over a year since we’ve been promise precursor crafting and right we need more than ever.

I know you guys monitor the market and can’t control how much people are selling/buying them for, but you have to admit something must be done.

Most people don’t want to gamble, they want a safe alternative. ( I am not one to complain I have gotten over 12 precursor in Mystic forge for an average of 200 gold )

You can use Wall and Shield of avenger to “block” the meat, it’s not as easy since you don’t get the buff from the meat since it will disappear once reflected but I found it easier this way. You will need a good dps build if you try it this way though.

Let’s not forget how cheesy the tactic for bomb actually was, Stealth, put down 5 bombs, portal back, then suicide rush the last 2 bombs.

Xae Isareth.1364:

I still prefer Sunrise on its own to be honest. Eternity has the same problem for me as Bolt, particle effects overload.

Just my opinion though, everyone has different tastes.

I agree, but the Golden Aura really makes it hard for me to go back to sunrise :P.

I’m glad they fixed it, even though it made the fight more interesting :P

I’m really glad about the change they made, they didn’t nerf her, they only removed the annoying dome (thanks for listening Anet!) and made the AoE more clear.
I am green/red colorblind and the little red AoE (colorblind setting would be great) on the cage made it barely possible for me to do it the first time, ands the 8 orbs was pure agony, I had to memorize the pattern and time and I had a clock in order to do it.

Got the achievement on my first try, took me a couple of try with gambit though.