Guild Wars 2

I doubt more reward will fix the current issues with WvW atm. Rewards would help but wvw needs something bigger to pull players into it now. When wvw was very popular t1 had 3 server with every map queued during peak hours and Eotm was necessity. With the changes to wvw, its better than it was before HoT but the population is not their due to the other game modes. Raiding is doing very well, Fractals have always been popular (hardcore mode looks very interesting), LS3 maps for casual content and the new pvp updates. That’s a lot to competition, so casual players decide to do something else instead of wvw.

Teanti.2376:

So is the armor attainable in PVP without RNG?

Yes to get the pvp ascended armor you have to play ~100ranked games(60 if you win 100% of the time or 180 if you never win) and you can only get 5/6 pieces this season.

Practice 1v1 match-up in the unranked lobby. Teamplay is about learning when to rotate and using your uh oh buttons to avoid getting burst down. Defend against an incoming player, push a far point or walk away from an uneven match-up.

You have 6 weeks to get this season pvp rewards so take your time. You need at least 60wins,180 loses (both extremes) but with a 50% win rate around 90 ranked games to complete all of this seasons pvp league tracks. So you can get some of the pvp ascended armor or weapons pieces.

Also the candy corn gobbler give the karma boost every now and then. Its cheap buffs for a stack of candy corn. That’s how I been getting the buff daily.

Thinking about chasind idea of 100% bonus for that attunement. Elementalist traits are related to specific attunements so an elite spec focused on enhancing attunements should be based on traits taken. So if you are Fire/Air you would only have access to those attunements but they will be buffed.

The minor traits would have to be improved with the elite trait line. The base trait for this elite should be something that would improve specific attunements over not a direct damage or heal increase. 50% increase to the minor adept trait lock out other attunements based on your trait line gain access to mace skills.

The minor master should effect the other minor master making them effect dodges 10s cd or so. If spec into arcane 15% attunement recharge would improve endurance. Arcane fury would give fury whenever you gain an endurance bar.

The minor grandmaster trait for this elite spec would buff or add conditions based on the normal condition that an attunement has. Something like: take reduce damage from a burning target, chilled targets can be frozen/broken if hit X times after they are chilled by you, proc torment whenever you hit a target that has 5 bleeds, or every 5 vulnerability causes blind. Frozen/broken would be a cc or damage.

Its easy to see how broken some spec would be when buffed this way. Its like a daredevil but more powerful support and AE skills from dodges. Its would be something like dodge AE electric discharge, dodge fire aura, dodge group buffs and with arcane traits dodges would give double cast abilities. This does not even cover the choose of traits the elite spec would have access too

All borderlands have multiple exits. The ones most traveled are normally places were you will encounter people. It is the weekend show more people are playing.

Curunen.8729:

If ele got an elite spec that could focus on one or two elements at the expense of attunement swapping, I might be tempted to make an ele alt.

The main thing I’ve never liked about ele is the non-stop attunement swapping.

Well its just like swapping weapons. With tempest is you do not have to swap as much. Every 6-9sec depending on the situation.

An Ice spec elementalist would be interesting. Chill, vulnerability, cc but with attunement swaps it would be hard to make multiple single attunement spec per weapon. Our main hand weapons already have 12 skills, 20 with 2h weapons. If they made single attunement spec they would have to buff the skills for that attunement for each weapon or allow weapons swap; something like only buffed water attunement but with staff and D/F weapons skills. That is a lot of work and the balancing issues for one class.

Yea comeback are possible with players that learn to adapt. Against a 4 DH team We were down 150-350 but came back after we fix our rotation. Pvp is not just about controlling middle and home.

Well you have a few burst option with scepter. Earth/Air for bleeds and direct damage burst, Fire/air hard hitting burst, or you can do a water/air burst. I have not ran into to many revenant but I do well against the other classes in 1v1 fights with a S/W air/water/tempest build.

Yea so far I love the changes. Glyph is now the best solo heal and arcane shield cd seems prefect now. I consider arcane brilliance, I think that I need a tankier build to use it. Even if I have multiple targets around me for the big heal, I would probably die anyways.

With the update you will have to play the wait and see game for the best builds. Metabattle.com shows some of the common build players are using. It best to pick one and adapt it to your playstyle. Guardians are still one of the best.

4 New zones – They are very deep and as hard as old Orr. 3 levels of exploration in each zone. With a map meta for every zone that happens every 2-3hrs. Tangled Depths is the hardest zone to explore.

3 new LS zones, more LS3 zones will come out before the end of this season. They are the best zones A-net has put in the game so far. Each LS 3 map has ascended gear that you can farm for.

A new profession Revenent its plays similar to a thief/elemental
9 new elite specs – a slight power creep in your normal professions. Adds a new mechanic and weapon for each profession with a collection to make a ascended weapon for that elite spec.

The mastery system – this enables extra progression, give you the precursor crafting, and quality of life improvements to the HoT maps(jumping mushrooms/gliding so on).

HoT Raids – 10man difficult content for cosmetic gear (legendary armor comes from raiding not int he game yet but the precursor for it is).
HoT 2nd legendary set (only 6/18 legendaries are in game atm).

Guild Halls – Just a place to group up for guild mission, decorate, and their a farm their(+50 gathering items when maxed upgraded).

Notary system in wvw – enables you to get easily get HoT map rewards/masteries by gain wxp level and spending it on the vendor(unlocked with wxp).
New HoT Pvp Tracks – same as wvw enables you to get HoT reward in pvp. Spvp season 5 update soon with a lot more this week. Not sure if you can still get the legendary backslot in spvp after this year.

Well lightning whip still scales better than arc lightning but the dps comparison is very close with the change. Scepter lacked enough burst to finish runners so they had 2 options. Increase the burst damage or AA damage.

Their are town portal scrolls permanent item, but they are expensive to make. The LA one cost ~1000g. The only one I have is the rata sum one it is the best city anyways :P. Also if you are feeling adventures you could buy a few twisted clockwork portal devices. They will port you anywhere. Sometime they will port you to places they are very difficult to get to, they are expensive and consumable.

Arc Lightning: The damage of this ability has been increased by 25% in PvP only.
Arcane Shield: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 60 to 40 seconds in PvP only.
Final Shielding: The cooldown of this trait has been reduced from 75 to 60 seconds The health threshold for activating Arcane Shield has been increased from 25% to 50%.
Glyph of Elemental Harmony: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 25 to 20 in PvP only.

Never used arcane shield at all in pvp but it did need a cd reduction. The buff to Arc lighting is very nice. Scepter builds AA normally does 25% less damage than dagger. After this buff it will be more about if you can get the full cast off with scepter or stay in melee with dagger.

The supply has stayed the same, but no one is buying crafting materials as much anymore. This is due to some player having everything that they want. The players are trying to sell materials as fast as possible causing the prices to decrease. Look at silk for example it has been steady decreasing for awhile. Whenever A-net introduces new items that’s when the price of stuff drastically change. Also some of the older players have been build stockpiles of mats waiting for the next legendaries to drop.

Yea but EB have been around for awhile. It not EB that I want to replace since it has always been the most popular map. I just want a BL map that would be able to compete with EB in popularity.

Because of DBL A-net will create another wvw map. Hopefully it will be more zerg focused, instead of roaming focused like DBL. Frost themed, where towers can treb keeps, and it should be more compacted to get to the action faster.

One of the unique builds. If they camped earth its probably a condition build. If not then its earth/air or earth/water if he was doing mostly condition dmg then it the earth/arcane.

The Watchknights.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Watchknight

Yea it is the best way to get the skin. When I completed the track on the first day(saved wvw tack potions), I was thinking maybe I would get some berry as the track progress but nope. Its easy to farm berries with alts than use this track.

The events on a map are random unless you are talking about HoT maps, they reset after the meta-events. Event timer on gw2 wiki show you when the HoT meta event are about to reset. Some event chains only get push if someone start it after a meta-event. So if you are waiting for the blighted tree to get that legendary item you have to start the event chain yourself and tag-up to get people to help with it.

There was a large thread about this before. Its not going to get nerfed anytime soon. I thought a nerf would be in the works earlier in the year but it has continued. Its event better that before with the salvage all option. It keep people playing HoT content. Its still better to spend money on gems than farm gold for gems. Then again it depends on what you value more time or money.

It could be because of other traits you have or an ally using AE condition removal. Still that trait was an logical answer. Overloads are stun breaks, can proc a aura, that gains regen and that will remove a condition.

Yea I tend to save my wvw reward track potions for whenever we get a new track. I can just pop 80 of them and get the item.

Yea I remember those times too. I had to take my alts through for map completion it was horrible. I just wanted map complete getting killed by roamers. Anyways

GoB now: 6hours with booster, 8 without, 10 if you have no clue how to get wvw reward track pts fast.

GoB before the change: Daily JP in Eb and 3 bls ~45min a day for ~35badges, 3 wvw dailies 40badges ~45mins. About 7 days.

OriOri.8724:

Must I reiterate this yet again? People did read the patchnotes. But whether or not they did does not change the fact that the patch notes did not give any indication of a date, whatsoever. The only notice of an actual date when this change would go live happened after the patch dropped. Not giving players access to the date clearly means that ANet was trying to let this fly under the radar.

A warning would not have been given months in advance if it was trying to go under the radar. You can only guess when the next update for it will happen but you know it will happen. Knowing that GoB was going to change gave players an opportunity to get the item before it was changed.

This was big issue over a minor part of the legendary grind. The 800g precursor is not the item people are complaining about but the GoB? That does not make any sense. If that was the only reason you wvw and you did not get it after you had enough badges that’s your own fault. The amount of time it takes to get the new GoB is compared to the old way. Instead of doing JP and dailies they can just afk or play wvw for a few hours during a week.

OriOri.8724:

They actually went through quite a lot of effort to not let the general game population know about this change. Whether or not you agree with removing the vendor, you cannot state that they made a fair effort to let everyone know when the vendor was going to be removed. They just didn’t.

Their was a warning I talked in my guilds about the change to it. Anytime their a big patch, reading the patch note should be something everyone does as they are downloading it. It does not take a lot of effort to read the patch notes :P. The players I saw complaining were ones that did wvw for that item and did not buy it when they had the badges to get it. Even thought that was the only reason why they did wvw.

reddie.5861:

wasnt gift of battle just 500 badges before all this kitten?

Yes and any wvwer that was going for a legendary bought some of those before it was stopped. Its the pve that did not read the patch note. They got all upset after it was taken out because they did not see the warning.

First part no their a limit for a reason it make all servers have a fair chance on that BL(during primetime). EB is the only battleground most servers can queue and that’s only during their primetime or reset. BG is the only server that should have multiple maps queued during the day.

The second part I am not sure what the map limits are. They have changed a lot. During old school wvw, we had a server meeting. It had +100 people on a BL spawn area talking about general tactic and stuff. I know EB has a higher map limit than the BLs and that’s about it. Their are a few tagless guild groups running around in EB at times. The character model limit graphic setting, effects the amount of peoples seen. DO NOT SET THIS ON HIGH unless you have a top of the line computer. Its easy to crash in EB when its on a high setting.

As for the reward track on the overflow map. I am not sure I stopped bothering with that map shortly after it came out. I heard it gives less wvw reward track pts.

The trait is worth taken because the other traits are worthless. Main reasons to go earth traits is for protection on auras and stability when you are about to stomp. The ICD makes it so you can not remove any conditions that matter after condi bombed.

Water/arcane/earth will enable you to have multiple blast finisher in your water combo field. Dodging in earth, staff earth 2, and you can use arcane wave for blast finishers to combo off of water field. Use cantrips for defense/regen and you can dodge in water for a heal. A tempest/water/arcane spec can put out more direct healing because of aura heal/regen and overload water.

Its not the best to go full support on an ele. Eles love celestial its a balance of every stat you need, so you can swap roles easier. You gain enough stats to be a healer/damage dealer/tank.

Nope camps are fine. Newer player should be able to contribute in wvw without having ascended gear and guard killer/defense traits to take a camp. Not everything should be focused on team play in wvw.

DH → Kain → TC. I love the tier 2 atmosphere better than tier 1. Tier 1 is the best for zergs not roamers.

I would like to see an elite spec that has an active defense.. Major traits like: attacking a target with burn while in fire attunement grants 3-5s regen and regen stacks, attacking a target with bleeds when in earth gain 1s stability or protection and attacking a target in air with vulnerable weakness the target. Hopefully the next elite spec will be burst or condition damage base making fire/arcane traits optimal with a low cd elite skill unlike the ones we have. Fire traits have always been the low rank outside of pve.

In wvw I would use arcane wave instead, the shorter cd and more direct damage. In pve their are better choices for dps. Still technobabble help with cc in pve.

Well you can substitute arcane for air. Arcane/tempest with earth or water for defense. You will have more endurance/boon duration but less steady damage. D/D for burst damage or D/W for boon duration/sustain. You can use the old tanky build arcane/water/earth.

I just realized after getting my computer back from the repair shop it they downgraded my graphics card(old one died). Is their a way to lower my graphic setting at the start up menu so I will not ctd? Otherwise I will have to wait until I get a new graphic card.

Well server linking was a quick fix to stop wvw from completely breaking. Wvw has been in a decline for sometime. We no long have 3 t1 server with full queue on all maps during primetime. A net trying to fix the leaks in wvw now with all of the interaction we have been getting with them. Still wvw need something to pull players into it.

The volatile of this system is suppose to reset after each server relinking. So some mashed up servers can move up and down easier.

It seems like they are trying to stop players from leaving wvw, instead of bringing players back. WvW has always been unable to keep players in it. A-net will probably introduce some high end reward for wvw after they fix more of it issues. Wvw gameplay has not changed much at all since the beginning. I can not thing of a way to change its gameplay to make it more casual friendly for newer players.

They will work on another borderland since DBL is permanent now. Hopefully the next BL is more like alpine bl with towers being able to siege some keeps. I wish they would work on high end rewards for wvwer (legendary backslot/siege or the ability to upgrade hero/triumphant armor into better looking gear).

I hope they will make a way to improve the looks on the triumphant armor too. So we can have special looking weapon/armor. Right now I want any type of unique reward for wvw that would encourage player to play. Their are no high end rewards for wvw.

Its not the best dps for eles. When Glyph of elemental power was bugged after the patch a group of eles could easily get +30 stacks of burns. Yes its only a pve build since condition eles lack sustain in pvp.

It would be linked to some achievements, a reward track and probably wvw map completion. The lists of wvw achievements varies with how you play. Roamers tend to have more camp/dolyak kills than anyone else, Karma trainers have a lot of caps but few kills, and Zergs have high kills. A-net will not make legendary armor for wvw but a back slot item or something else.

As for the skirmish rewards their should be a small reward for playing and winning a skirmish. Something like come in 1st during that time get 3 wvw reward track potions. Only if you have max participation or if you gained 500-2000 reward track pts during the skirmish showing that your participated.

Well condition eles got some love.

When I looked at the requirements for the hot legendaries I was frustraited that it required max masteries. Since LS 3 it is easier to get max masteries without having to do all of the adventures. I always tell people that HoT legendaries are harder to make than the old world ones.

Yea your time played says it all. If can be maxed but with a lot of time playing casually but it takes more time than most will invest in the game. Buying stacks of greens to salvage daily (you can make a profits since some materials are worth a lot) is the fastest way.

Still having an option to use excess Luck for consumables, a unique Lucky aura or Lucky armor/weapons set would be nice. Like a stack of exotic luck and other mats to craft a unique skin set. Even if A-net added that it would be similar to the achievement skins only a few players would have the full set. It would be another goal for players even if they do not care about luck.

I maxed magic find a few months after it came out. 225% mf is the half way point in terms of luck and it takes about stack of exotics luck per 1% after that point. It costed 1500g in green or 3000g in ecto(taking into account TP dust) at the time I maxed it. I doubt max magic find can be maxed by casually doing events, so casual players do not have to worry about it. The hardcore one have nothing to use luck for. Still if their was a lucky based skin, aura, or consumable that would be a nice item for players that have maxed magic find.

I play a fat thief and the footsteps are not noticeable. If I was not shooting tigers other players would not know I had it. The footfalls need to last longer.

Some players are hoarding for the next legendary update. If A-net put in 3-4 legendary in the next update that most players want, then those stockpiles will disappear. Their are not many long term projects left for some of the older hardcore players.