There’s the underwater legendary too, because we all know how awesome underwater combat is!
Some of us do like underwater combat.
But some of us do like underwear combat too.
aww, where is the grave of Nicholas and Yakkington? I would like to pay my respects as well.
Right under Gwen’s, South part of Ebonhawke.
Or paying over 7 gold for a set of Superior rune of Lyssa only to find out that the effect that should grant you all boons everytime you use an elite skill only works 80% of the time and NEVER occurs underwater. (there’s no hidden internal cooldown… sometimes doesn’t work with the first use of the day)
It does work underwater.
While underwater, your helmet is replaced by the Aquabreather’s stats(if you dont believe me, check your stats on the right of Hero panel while above and below water, it will subtract your helmet’s stats and add your aquabreather’s stats), and so is the Rune in the Aquabreather. You need to buy an Aquabreather(like the one in Cursed Shores for karma) with a Rune slot in it and put the Rune of Lyssa in it for it to work underwater. Thus, to have Rune of Lyssa’s 6th activation both on ground and underwater, you need to buy 7 Runes of Lyssa and place one in each piece of armor+aquabreather.
It is a gear treadmill because many people spent the past 3 months gearing up to full Exotic believing that would be max stats(no more grinding after this). Now they introduce something with better stats, and our Exotic gear is now not final gear anymore, it is only just below and will get trashed/replaced by Ascended gear. Which means now we have to grind Again for the Ascended gear to be at max stats. Then in 3 more months they will introduce another tier named Heroic gear, which means we have to replace all the Ascended gear, and grind it All Over Again. Then in 3 more months they will introduce another tier named Deity gear… you get the reason why this is called “gear treadmill” now?
You want max gear? you’ll have to do the work for it over and over again. If you miss the treadmill, you become out of shape and cant compete anymore with others until you get back on the treadmill. This way, it will FORCE players to keep playing to acquire the next tier. In GW2’s case however, it makes players give up on GW2 because they were promised something else.
My first 15-22 sword in GW1 is still max stats after 7 years. My first Exotic sword in GW2 is not max stats anymore after 3 months. My first Ascended sword will not be max stats anymore after 3 more months, and so on.
Before people claim how “easy” it is to get Exotic gear in GW2, think about the GW1 counter part.
Max 15-22 Sundering 15^50 sword of Fortitude = easily gotten by different methods.
Sundering mod = 3k
15^50 inscription = 500g
Pommel of Fortitude = 5k
10K max for a max sword. Alternatively, grab a green sword for barely 4-7k on market that comes straight away with max stats. It takes less than 1hour to get 10k in GW1
Exotic right now is actually harder to get than a max item from GW1. It should actually be “AS EASY TO GET”. Max stats should be something easy to achieve and the rest of how good you are completely based on your good skill/strategy, not gear. Having better gear and an advantage in a fight because you play more was NOWHERE to be found in GW1. Playing more did make you better only because you discovered new builds/strategies/combos by sheer skill and practice(interrupts/kds).
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Arenanet, please think carefully about what you are about to do.
Let me tell you what happened to an MMO that i once played:
The mechanics and items were all rather balanced, until the day they introduced 2 new equipment slots and 2 new items to go into them:
1. Devil Weapon(DW)
2. Celestial Shield(CS)
Any tier in DW would deal 1% damage to opponent’s hp(at 100 tier in DW, you guaranteed 1 hitting someone). Any tier in CS would count against -1% damage to your hp(it would counter DW 1 for 1)
Those 2 items alone made any other gear 100% irrelevant to the game anymore. Anybody with better CS than your DW would take 1damage and be invincible, anybody with better DW than your CS would kill you.
Needless to say, people were disgusted and left immediately. 2 months later, they removed that implement and made them just like another piece of regular equipment instead. However, one thing you should know, the people who left disgusted NEVER came back. In addition, the people who invested in DW and CS as gear were pissed that the broken mechanic was changed and left disgusted too. AND THIS IS HOW YOU KILL AN MMO.
Granted you are not doing something as radical as the example i gave above, but people here are TELLING YOU: We are disgusted by Ascended Gear, this was not what was promised. If we leave disgusted, no matter what expansion/new content you add, we WILL NOT BE THERE TO EXPERIENCE IT. We will not come back, and neither will our wallets.
Once you realize your mistake and remove it, people who acquired it will get pissed and leave too. Again, they will not come back either. Do you know why i did not go back to that game even after they removed the stupid mechanic? Because i was not even reading the news for the game anymore to know they removed it(i quit).
You are about to kill this extraordinary MMO that you took 5 years to create. We are about to leave this extraordinary MMO that you took 5 years to create…and never come back or hear from you again.
Signed: Player who has played GW1 for 5 years and has been to all your open betas, all stress tests and headstart for GW2. You were a part of my life for the past 5 years, it pains my heart to tell you goodbye.
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That’s a scepter, not a mace.
Mine is fixed. Problem happens in anywhere where there is a lot of players (30 or more). Problem happens when taking a Keep in WvW too.
How to fix:
step1. Change Sound Quality to Fastest
step2. Change VOIP Ducking to 0.
Nobody buying dye packs anymore? Have to lower drop rate and pass it as a bug?
This “bug” was not hurting any players, but rather was hurting Arenanet’s pockets. It had to be fixed and on high priority, it even got its own patch JUST for it.
P1 does 500dmg per second with Burning
P2 does 300dmg per second with Burning
P1 applies burning for 2 seconds. P2 then applies burning for 3 seconds. P1 then applies burning again for 2 seconds(all of this in less than 1 second)
Target takes the following damage each second:
1. 500 (from P1)
2. 500
3. 500
4. 300 (from P2)
5. 300
6. 500 (from P1)
7. 500
In other words, during 1st to 3rd seconds, P2 does NO condition damage through Burning because P1 applied it first. During 4th and 5th second, P1 is doing NO condition damage through Burning.
Most Played: Ranger with Juvenile Brown Bear
I agree. Since we dont have the patience to level another character to level 80 though, they should simply allow our new character to be instant level 80(much easier) rather than class changing another character(harder to implement). Also since we can all agree we want max gears and legendary weapons but dont have the patience for it, we should have those instantly as soon as we buy the game too.
Right?
No matter, we still have the Lion’s Arch Asura Gate inside WvW.
Really? So you could have a sigil of bloodlust on a sword, a sigil of perception a torch, kill 25 mobs, switch to a hammer with a sigil of life, kill 25 mobs…and then be walking around with a near permanant +250 to healing, power and precision?
That seems like it would be awesome for pretty much any and all pve content. Too awesome, infact. Am I missing some hidden drawback?
You can only have one “stack” of one thing at a time. Maximum number of a stack is 25. So if you have 5 stacks of Bloodlust, and you switch to your weapon with Sigil of Life, You stay with 5 stacks of Bloodlust and gain no stacks of Life. If you go downed, you lost the 5 stacks of Bloodlust, then kill an enemy you gain 1 stack of Life(In other words, you will not gain a stack of X if a stack of Y exists)
Hello,
I have done my whole personal story already.
When i view my story in the Hero Panel, It will first show me(Victory or Death), but then when i scroll down, it shows everything empty below Estate of Decay(Note that i cannot even click on Victory or Death at this point to read the story). If i keep scrolling up and down, my game crashes(and asks me “send report to Arenanet” and “include email address”).
Magic Find affects this:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting_material#Rare_crafting_materials
you get more of these.
(Of course since this is forums, this is an entirely baseless statement without any sort of backing with numbers. Someone is going to test it while farming destroyers and will back it with numbers for us in the near future)
Thank you all, for framing the issue for me and showing me all sides. It’s helped me see this for what it is — a horrible customer service failure.
This was mentioned in an Interview(i think it was between Eric Flannum and Colin):
“- Guild Wars 2 has an extremely large live team to support this game (in form of support and new content). The game is a service and ArenaNet aims to provide the best service possible.”
I think most people are confused by what Arenanet means by ‘best service possible’
I think Arenanet has succeeded in providing the best service possible.
The best service includes:
Boxing Gloves
Primeval Armor Skin
Fine Transmutation Stone
Black Lion Merchant Express
Magic Find Booster
Bag Slot Expansion
The best service excludes:
Replying to over 450 posts of massive negativity towards a specific nerf
Banning botters/cheaters/goldsellers/hackers
Restoring Hacked accounts
Ensuring you get your Gems when you buy them
Fixing bugs
Ensuring balance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-udk3CEtc7E)
Arenanet’s service is at 100%. I would even say 110%
Superior Rune of the Earth not working for Hold the Line/Symbol of Protecion
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The best way to try out if a specific Boon duration(such as +20% Might Duration) works without a stopwatch is using “Save Yourselves”. It grants you every boon for 10seconds.
Tested:
If you have 2 superior runes of earth (at 0 virtues and no other +boon duration)
your skillbar STILL says 10seconds on the tooltip
but when you actually use Save Yourselves, protection lingers a bit longer(2s) than the rest of the boons(which means it works as intended).
However, if you are using 2 superior runes of water, your tooltip itself will show an increase in every boon to 11.5 seconds on Save Yourselves.
This game is completely balanced. Izzy is not needed anymore. After seeing this video, you will understand why this game has no more need for balancing:
(Note that if everyone runs this build, then everyone has an equal chance, then that means the game is 100% balanced)
So do I get a refund on the gold I spent on my GS and Sigil?
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ANet listening to their playerbase? Listening sure, replying no.
Crewmember: Where is my birthday cake?
Captain: …
The Captain is listening to the Crewmember. The Captain heard the Crewmember. The Captain did nothing for the Crewmember? Ah, there’s our problem?
Over 30% of Guardian playerbase is asking for ANet to at least comment on the GS change(so far, ANet has definitely listened. They heard us. We voiced our feelings out. What we get though, is silent treatment)
Over 90% of Guardian playerbase is asking for ANet to change the GS layout back to what it was.
Over 60% of Guardian playerbase is asking for ANet to change the symbol nerf back to how it was because Greatsword feels like an auto-attack-only weapon.
OP is not getting a refund for his Greatsword, but I am saving a LOT of money here. No more need to go for Sunrise/Twilight/Eternity because Greatsword is not a good weapon for Guardian anymore. Lucky I have not crafted it yet, or I would have ragequitted(Imagine crafting and soulbounding a Legendary Weapon that becomes auto-attack-only-useless weapon one week later)
I read that thread earlier, and I’m aware of that problem. I do agree that the change has negatively impacted Greatsword users who didn’t take advantage of retaliation, but I am once again only getting it out there that skills are ordered in order of cool down from shortest to longest, which people don’t seem to realize. Many people that don’t take advantage of those traits are just complaining about the skill order and constantly asking for the old skill order.
Not even true. Mesmers had their recharges changed on staff with Chaos Armor and Chaos Storm and that did not even change position on the bar. Invalid argument.
Here is how it works:
If you miss one jump and fall off a jumping puzzle and die from falling damage, you pay waypoint cost only
If you are defeated after entering downed state and someone rez you, you pay repair cost only
If you are defeated after entering downed state and nobody is there to rez you, you pay both waypoint cost and repair cost
They cannot remove the charge to travel in same zone because if you died from falling a jumping puzzle, there would be no punishment to try again. This concept comes from SuperMario. 100coins = 1UP = try again because you died from falling into a pit when you missed one jump. You must be punished for missing that jump. Except that here, they just removed the 1UP and do 100coins = try again. (1silver = 100copper, waypoint cost to closest waypoint is a bit more than 1silver at lvl80).
Simplest of simplest solution/s
Revert the change, then one of the following:
1. Symbol of Wrath has 20s recharge in PvP and 10s recharge in PvE
or
2. Retaliation now does 75% damage of what it is now in PvP(stays the same in PvE, or you can even change it too, we really could care less about Retaliation in PvE)
or
3. Symbol of Wrath changed to Symbol of Vigor. Vigor is also a defensive boon that Guardians cannot give to allies yet, and it also stacks in duration. We can still give Retaliation to allies through other means(Stand your Ground, Light Field Blast/Leap etc). Symbol of Vigor would not be overpowered because it would “require you to stand in the symbol to get Vigor”, the irony that Vigor is used for dodging(hence not staying still in the circle). Or choose other boon.
or
4. Symbol of Wrath duration becomes 8seconds(12seconds when traited), Recharge is 20seconds
or
5. Symbol of Wrath keeps 20second recharge, but boost our symbol traits(double the damage for all symbol damage, double the damage from “symbols do more damage”, 2 stacks of Vulnerability instead of 1 from “symbols apply Vulnerability”, double the healing from “symbols heal allies”, double the extra time from “symbols last longer”, but “symbols are larger” stays the same. This would make people use symbols more intelligently with higher recharge but higher reward.
Of course ArenaNet will not listen to any of these suggestions nor comment on any of this change(silent treatment thinking we will all calm down and come to accept it and adapt to it within a few weeks, this tactic known as IzzySmitersBoon has always worked in GW1) even though there are over 90% of Guardian players who are angered by this change, some of which are begging them to revert this change, rerolling Warrior instead, or even logging off for good.
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Just to be sure people understand something (the people saying it’s not that bad), this is all the traits this GS nerf affected (just to apparantly combat the retaliation aspect of GS).
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Symbolic Exposure – Symbols apply vulnerability to foes.
Symbolic Power – Increases damage of symbols.
Writ of Exaltation – Symbols are larger.
Writ of Persistence – Symbols last longer.
Writ of the Merciful – All symbols heal allies.All the above traits have had there usage halfed on GS because the symbol doubled in cooldown, add to this the loss of DPS on the GS itself due to the cooldown. So due to the above, do people really think a 5 second less cooldown on leap is worth it? – i sure don’t.
This nerf affected a lot of builds THAT DON’T USE retaliation.
The simple fact is, Anet either need to revert the cooldown or double the symbols duration and damage to make up for the cooldown.
Dont forget that this also affects Justice virtue passive, which is a lot less hits now that the symbol has double cooldown.
Change Symbol of Retaliation and make it Symbol of Might while you are at it?
Easy fix. Change back the CD and make it so the GS symbol gives might instead of retaliation.
I’m happy someone(and many other posts too) agrees with me. Making the Symbol grant 5s of 1 stack of might per tick(hence 5 stacks of might for 5s each) with 10s recharge would not be overpowered at all. Or Symbol of Fury since it also stacks in duration rather than intensity, at 1s Fury per symbol tick.
There arent many other boons as option.
Symbol of Stability(power creep), Symbol of Vigor(game breaking), Symbol of Aegis(OP if it renews aegis every second).
Change Symbol of Retaliation and make it Symbol of Might while you are at it?
I have murdered hundreds of Quaggans ever since this bug. The little one who appears to be sleeping on the “Down for Maintenance” screen is the one who stole our money. I will keep murdering his kins until he agrees to give us back our money, he is the owner of the BLTC afterall. I will not do a single DE that involves helping Quaggans, let them be captured and sacrificed by Kraits.
I have lost 10g while placing orders on trading post. I had trusted Arenanet for 4years during GW1. They now have lost my trust completely because they did not even make a single announcement about whether we will be getting our gold/items/gems back.
I will get over it, but when fans of Arenanet and GW2 will claim the game is perfect, I will remind them of this day 9/5/12, where everyone who traded lost their gold and Arenanet just did not even acknowledge that there was a bug and money disappeared(they acknowledged that the trading post is a big buggy, but no mention of lost gold/items/gems)
Can they roll back servers? There’s bound to be thousands of players who lost Gold, Gems, Rare Items and what not here. I lost 10Gold here which is equivalent of $80-100 worth of Gems.
They need to roll back servers. this took my money for purchase(twice) and gave me nothing.