Guild Wars 2

It seems that if i stealth when aggro’d by monster and that monster returns to its spawn point then i to stay in combat mode

tried hide in shadows it healed me but didn’t reset the combat status- it took 20 min to reset

The recipes are for the actual legendaries NOT precursor (There is still a staff legendary that the recipe needs discovering)
As i posted on another thread:
It seems silly that you can craft a legendary but cant craft a precursor and that its only a random drop or random forge result. . . . . It’s a bit like being told that you MAY get your xmas bonus (that you’ve worked hard for all year) IF your name is randomly selected (but thats a 0.0000000000000000000000001 % chance)
Getting a legendary should be about the amount of effort put into the whole game NOT down to ANY random drop ANYWHERE
HAVING a legendary at the moment DOES NOT show your prowess at the game – It means you were either lucky enough to get a precursor drop – OR YOU BOUGHT a precursor OFF THE TRADING POST – (NOW that REALLY is legendary)

It seems silly that you can craft a legendary but cant craft a precursor and that its only a random drop or random forge result. . . . . It’s a bit like being told that you MAY get your xmas bonus (that you’ve worked hard for all year) IF your name is randomly selected (but thats a 0.0000000000000000000000001 % chance)
Getting a legendary should be about the amount of effort put into the whole game NOT down to ANY random drop ANYWHERE
HAVING a legendary at the moment DOES NOT show your prowess at the game – It means you were either lucky enough to get a precursor drop – OR YOU BOUGHT a precursor OFF THE TRADING POST – (NOW that REALLY is legendary)

Its happened a couple of times on my engi but its never lasted this long nor as frequent (3 lvl 80’s 2 lvl 40’s and this thief 17 so had a few hours playing different proffessions)

OK so i know that pets and conditions can keep you in combat mode even though all monsters are dead.
As a very low level thief i have no pets and no conditions on me when ive killed the monsters – SO WHY is my health not regenning and skills unchangeable (BECAUSE i’M IN COMBAT) . . . .BUT I’M NOT – i’ve killed the monsters ITS now six minutes since ive killed the monsters AND IM STILL IN COMBAT.
THIS only seems to happen if i’ve used a stealth skill –
This and how STUPIDLY QUICK the monsters regen health when they go back to their spawn spot (when pulled too far away) AND the INSANELY ILLOGICAL targeting system is making combat BIG CAT SILLY
EDIT: 15 minutes now nothings hit me but im still in combat and so have to log out to view the vista

OK so i know that pets and conditions can keep you in combat mode even though all monsters are dead.
As a very low level thief i have no pets and no conditions on me when ive killed the monsters – SO WHY is my health not regenning and skills unchangeable (BECAUSE i’M IN COMBAT) . . . .BUT I’M NOT – i’ve killed the monsters ITS now six minutes since ive killed the monsters AND IM STILL IN COMBAT.

THIS only seems to happen if i’ve used a stealth skill –
This and how STUPIDLY QUICK the monsters regen health when they go back to their spawn spot (when pulled too far away) AND the INSANELY ILLOGICAL targeting system is making combat BIG CAT SILLY

EDIT: 15 minutes now nothings hit me but im still in combat and so have to log out to view the vista

gendarren fields the pit event – this event has enough monster variety to complete the daily

I’ve never had a problem with this area before- BUT last night my fps dropped from 20+ to 8 – I’m glad i only had to get the vista (i was the only player in the caves at the time)

PORTAL GUN

well if you played engi and had no prob surviving thern youll obliterate anything that stands in your way as a mesmer.
Phase retreat = a very fun game
ONLY one thing missing; another form of speed boost (except focus), – but i most prob wouldnt swap out a utility for one anyway- but it would be good to have the option : For more build diversity

i wouldnt of minded the statement about damage reduction to aoe IF they had said they would look at reducing SOME of the single target damage skills.

Tiderus.3861:

What is being done About the Perceived Loot drop issues and all the data collected by the player base? I am sure I am along with many others would like some form of response to this.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Share-your-data-about-perceived-strange-drop-behavior-here/first

any info on loot drops, – why when two people do an on level champion is there only gray item as reward? The champion can kill me with two hits but it takes several minutes for us to kill the champ – for a couple of copper reward
PRECURSER info – easier ways to get, scavenger hunt or similiar

Ziddy.2583:

Please comment on the option to disable rightclicking which selects targets as outlined in this thread and wanted by THOUSANDS of your player base:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-option-to-disable-right-click-targeting/first

YES PLEASE FIX FIX FIX

So on the Twitch livestream they mentioned a damage reduction to aoe in pvp and wvw
they also talked about weapons and traits for the weaker classes that only have a couple of build options. making the weaker weapons and traits stronger/more useful so that more build options are available.

from the wiki: PURE OF VOICE
Does not work for “Save Yourselves!”. The shout will remove all conditions from allies as part of the default behavior, but never converts them to boons. For yourself, it will never remove a condition.

ITS no different than a ranger going afk and their pet auto attacking everything. Its not botting unless your using macros/3rd party programs. But anything with a “pet” can be more exploitable.

MOST people will take the easiest/best reward.
Have the loot from trash mobs drop bags. that can only be opened when the boss is defeated. Or the bags can only be opened at a certain location.
multipart reward system is already used within the game adapt it
Have it so that clearing mobs increases the loot tables for the final boss

I Shelve my engi to level a mesmer and guardian. . . .then i find this thread. . . . . AWESOME
methinks time to shake the dust off and get burning. . . . . invite please
Can this thread be stickied so it appears at the top? and can the numbers per servers be put in a prominent position and kept updated (please)
I’m on the desolation server, with friends and guild perks so wouldnt want to leave- unless maybe enough engi’s wanted to “take over” a low ranking world?

if u havn’t messed around with gear whilst lvling then. . . .pick the element that u like/feel u cant do without and kit yourself out with a full set of m/work . . play with that set and see how it feels and then u can change the gear to suit your playstyle if needed – then you know what sort of exotic set/s u might need. . . .if u get downed lots of times then u need tough/vit/heal but if u win the fight on full health without using #6 then u need more power/crit etc
if u dont know the gear check the wiki : jewels insignia inscription

ALSO SY does not cause pure of voice to trigger- known bug

are you going by the tooltip or buff icon when u gain regen/prot (keyboard skill mouse hover icon when u do) – some tooltips are showing different than actual durations when ability gained.

Also Burning only causes damage for every FULL second. So a 4sec burn would need 25% increase duration, 2 sec burn would need 50%, 1sec burn would need 100% duration increase.
Personally i think you lose out on other things if you go condition duration . . . . unless (maybe) a confusion build ?

I had this problem in the past but its becoming increasingly more frequent
ONE of my characters gets stuck on the (and ONLY) lions arch loading screen. ALL my other characters can get into lions arch . . . after a day or two i can normally get that character into lions arch. . . . .
. . . . . .AND ITS REALLY STARTING TO (BIG CAT) ME OFF

Mira.4906:

Oglaf is right, you lose the speed buff when entering combat. I also believe that it isn’t a bug since they dont want you to be able to out run everything on the maps to gather nodes or skip content.

Engineer

FIX the BUGS – SOME are a YEAR OLD – DISGUSTING. . . . . . . .Then re-evaluate the proffession
Sadly i personally believe no dev cares and there wont be any real fixes for engineer. . .unless it helps thief or warrior. . sigils on kits greatly benefited thieves

There’s one ghost “working” on desolation. What i found was that if you can protect the logger (after he’s returned to his body) from 3 spawns of shadow fiends (one each time) then the next spawn is 3 shadow fiends.Only had to do this a few times to get the heart.

Theres a problem with weapon swap sigils that provide a buff- they’re not working as intended
Weapon swapping Sigils that give a buff(Doom, Intelligence, Leeching) don’t work properly with kits.

The 30 points for 50% endurance regen does not stack with vigor. Vigor is the quickest regen for endurance. As I’ve said before for 20 points to get perma swift and vigor- i believe we are the only proffession that gets it that cheap?
Personally i would just love Flamethrower and Blowtorch to hit the Big Cat Target without having to move camera angle

lol true you have to spend 10 points in a trait (and equip a kit) to get it – but at least that is an option
“Or a master trait in inventions iirc (30pts) to get what every other profession gets as a basic signet.”
– Basic signet – can you please show this signet to mesmers and guardians ! -

@Wasdclick +1
Sums it all up Totally agree – get a job with NCSoft it’s the only way the proffession will survive – the devs have a BIG LACK of vision/care/understanding of this class (I’ve often wondered what dev plays engineer in pvp)
SADLY engineer is a very broken proffession . . . and when kicks start happening PURELY because of proffession it raises the question: are engineers misunderstood or totally understood?

SERIOUSLY ???!!!
WHY waste a slot on a signet skill when we get swiftness from equipping any kit ?(perma swift) AND with another trait : swiftness triggers vigor.
This (in my eyes) is about the only redeeming feature of this proffession- it allowed me to mine in areas 20 lvls higher (with turrets purely for diversion/delaying) very handy for my low lvl jeweller alt

Permaswiftness isn’t that great really. Lots of classes can achieve it, including necromancers and warriors.?
What proffessions can get perma swiftness AND perma vigor with 20 trait points and 1 skill AND its caused by equipping/de-equiping ANY kit not some kitten useless skill/weapon

The OP has allready said that they’ve had other proffessions and find fun in levelling, so i’m presuming that they’ve allready explored most of the map, so speed is very helpful when going between skill points/ hearts

Lifelike.5862:

If you’ve already played an Ele you should be at home with how Engineers work. Rather than being super mobile and squishy though, you’re more of a stationary fighter with a lot of self-sustain. I recommend leveling with a pistol or rifle alchemy build. Put points into explosions, alchemy and firearms and it should carry you easily through most of the game’s pve content. Once you get enough trait points to start experimenting, you have a loooot of freedom in what you build.

I DISAGREE !!
FAR from stationary
Alchemy – Invigorating speed 10pts
Tools – speedy kits
Whenever you equip a kit you gain Swiftness AND vigor for 5 seconds With no cooldown on kits means you have perma swiftness and vigor (1 skill used and 20 points spent- well worth it)
This combo is far more effective than the 30 points spent on the grandmaster trait Adrenal implant
The only thing that should be stationary about engi’s are their turrets
mobility is the key

Engineer kits will work with sigils

i interpret this as meaning that the sigil you have on a weapon will work with a kit equipped. . . and as we cant change weapons that would rule out any proc on weapon change being effective
sigil of bloodlust (or any other stat stack on kill) is good, put it on a ‘spare’ weapon get the 25 stack then the swap the weapon for one thats got a different sigil (earth/fire/ice/lifesteal/whatever) . . you’ll still keep the bonus from the stat stacking sigil AND you have the benefits of the other sigil/s

I change my weapon/utility/elite/trait skills soooo much, depending on the situation (and my mood). Engineers are most probably the best proffession for having such a varied possibility of playstyle

Elixir gun skill 5 super elixir is a light field . shooting at a mob and hitting them (in close proximity) removes condition, blast finisher (we have lots) gives 3 seconds area retaliation or leap finisher gives 5 seconds personal retaliation

Engineers ARE great fun and very versatile
F/T worst scaling weapon? who gives a fried chicken? 4 AoE attacks per second EACH one capable of critical. . . . and thats only the first skill !!
Paper and maths are all well and good but its the usage that counts. . . . All i’m going to say is try everything then pick what works best for you for the situation/s that you might find yourself in.

They’re working on a gem store appearance change package. . . hilarious how they can devote resources to this but not major game flaws

movement IS capped at +33% but most skills allow duration to be stacked.
I too have noticed that condition damage and specific condition damage do not seem to stack and give the extended duration for both. 6 second burn with +50% condition damage and +50% burn damage = (should be 12 seconds or even 13.5 seconds) but its only 9 seconds.
Ever had someone time you when you use skills(with/without trait bonuses) , to when you can next use and actually activate the skill?. . . (or the timing of weapon skills on auto attack) . . . . . . . .its interesting

do you use the right mouse button for camera? theres a tendency for targets to be dropped/changed by right button use. The worst is Anet KNOW about it (-just add it to the long list of bugs that they are aware of).
personally i find bugs annoying – the trouble is a lot of the things wrong with the game go beyond bugs (I would call them major game flaws). I spend a lot less time playing gw2 now – not because i can’t, but because i dont want to. . .why should i spend my time playing a game that frustrates me (when it shouldnt)?

same happened to me dc’d – lagg was terrible i mean totally unenjoyable- then forever to log back in. . . not impressive

YEP and its a bug that affects all classes so it should be fixed . . no excuses

if everyone filled out a bug report EVERY time the bug happened (instead of accepting it) then MAYBE it would get fixed quicker. we as players shouldn’t have to use workarounds to deal with such fundemental bugs, but we do, and because we do it doesn’t get the fix thats needed

i’ve only just started playing a mesmer- engi’s my main – but you talk of fixing/changing the skill,
THATS NOT THE PROBLEM
sorry for shouting . .. .Anet NEED to fix the invulnerablity bug and NOT find work arounds for it

sure engi is fun- who else get to wield a flmethrower?
but after one nights grinding with a mesmer (no pun intended) i realised how OP they are –
and yes to some people, that might seem boring “killing things with one skill use instead of a multitude of skills”
but some people might also view “why waste time killing mobs doing content when it can be done soooo much quicker with another character”
When i solo’d champs on my engineer it takes me 30-40 min , knowing what i did wrong last night i feel confident that i could do it under 10 min- or stack loads mf gear and still do it quicker than my engi.
I’m at end game – i thought farming was ok on my engi but after last night i realise how much quicker easier it would be with a mesmer . . . so faced with hours of running round burning things for the drops with engi or doing it quicker with a few boring key presses with a mesmer i know what im choosing (less time farming means more time for dungeons)
i do love my engi for the versatility and choice and the mesmers only lvl 25 so long way to go yet

my engineer is my main. got a (boring) ranger, a (squishy) ele and a mesmer i just used for crafting- (lvl 23). Mesmer? – It’s like OMG – i solo’d a champ (15 min) and i didnt even have the right skills/traits/knowledge that i should of . Being able to wipe the floor with a champion while i was a noob to the class is OP. Its made me realise what engineers missing- some form of get out of aggro skill- sure we got knockbacks but that doesnt drop aggro- we can get stealth but it takes 2 skills and some good timing- too tricky to pull off when your in that “oh cr@p” moment- 2 skill uses to drop aggro would be ok if it was instant and guaranteed. . . . . . for some reason i seem to be taking a lot of the aggro in small groups and find myself in a “not so liked” ‘tanking’ role- but i cant tank cos of my armour so ive got to dodge to avoid being squashed – i feel more like an acrobat than an engineer

Jmcdg.8706:

Holy SMOKE you guys…. YOU GUYS…….. People need to read this because there is so much QQ about this patch that I think is great and put GW2 into the RIGHT PATH.

First of all, first time I went into fractal, I went in with ONE other player, a friend of mine. We nailed it. Took long but we 2-man’d fractal (the charr vs human battle, the blizzard area and the asura lab) and yes maybe those were a bit easy and also take into consideration that we did it in Scale difficulty 1 because yeah.. it was our first time.. WE STILL 2-MAN’D that.

As my friend logged out and left me hungry for more as I knew there was more than 3 path (that were awesome by the way) I asked a few friends to come and try it. They didn’t really like doing dungeons in the game and one of them is a full berserker glass cannon warrior that has NEVER done ANY explorable and my other friend was a Necro that did a couple EXP.

We went in, difficulty scale 1 still (because they hadnt done it before) and as you figured probably, we didn’t bring ANYBODY else with us, meaning we did 3-man that.
Again I will have to say and precise that it was difficulty scale level 1 nothing to brag about but that is not the point which imma get to in a sec. These are the path we got: The underwater path with the dolphins, the dredge cavern path and the captured collossus path. The underwater was quite easy, with 3 player it took a bit of time to kill the boss but nobody really got into a dangerous situation during the run, the second path was the dredge cavern which was HARD with 3 people and we figured we got lucky that we were 3 since you can’t actually do it with less than 3…. it is literally impossible since you won’t be able to open the doors… but we managed to open each doors and get to the last boss which took us about 20 sec to realize how it worked and about 1 hour of try and fail to kill him WITH 3 PLAYERS. The collossus path took us less time to complete but was rather hard too with 3 players. Would’ve been a cakewalk with 5 (AGAIN.. it was difficulty scale 1 so it’s kinda normal to finish it without too much trouble).

My point is that you said the mechanics were badly designed and this is where I think you’re wrong here, the dredge boss is awesome, there is everything you need in a boss fight, a specific role for someone and a important one at that (the one activating the cauldron of lava), dpsing while moving and dodging trying to squeeze every bit of dps into this 30 sec of vulnerability the dredge beasty machine get and a need to survive at all cost. OP, if I/We did it with 3 people, which one of them never did any explorable before and was fully glass canon, I think the problem wasnt the encounter, it was YOU/YOUR GROUP. It may sound a bit elitist or something and have that flavor of ’’L2P’’ but in that case, it is the truth and you have to face it. You also said that the hammer was not always working but thats probably because you didnt understand how it worked in the first place. You had to kill a chanter with it to get a charge to be able to smash the seals (not needed to have the killing blow but at least ‘’tag it’‘). Normally I’m not the one saying those kind of things as I hate to be ‘’THAT GUY’’ but for real…PEOPLE….. sometimes when you cry on the forums… we just want to say one thing: GET GOOD

Off topic: The fact that you can’t rez(use a waypoint or checkpoint) until your whole group is dead is AWESOME too, no more graveyard running. 5/5 for me on that one.

EXACTLY +1
Good communication within the group and knowing what the others can/will do is essential. The holy trinity may have gone but group co-ordination hasn’t +1 to anet for making it that way and not another zergfest

i loved the challenge- especially as it was all new so there were no “spoilers” anywhere.
the mining suit boss was fun – took us a few times but we did it- its so obvious whats got to be done – just dont be greedy(pull n burn)
and in some encounters. . . .well lets just say its not all about doing damage (we wiped once till i figured that out)- but what a good feeling it was when i did figure it out.
the jungle wouldve been good if it wasnt for the invul bug on that mass of spiders – sorta spoiled that 1 for me/us
Seems good content so far (just baaaad lag)- good job. . . . . After the event can the programmers please help out the two overworked ones that are assigned to class skill/trait bugs pls. . . . and fix the invulnerability bug pleeeease – get them to drop aggro when they’ve returned to spawn site and healed – so we can be out of combat and heal ourselves-

hes not there on desolation but was on the overflow