Guild Wars 2

yup the skills are super kitten y, most the time i use them and i lag out and fall or it will show me on a platform then a second later i just die. It’s even more frustrating in the sprint mini game…where landing those skills actually matters…cause ya know…it’s a race. It’s also frustrating that the skills won’t fire right when you hit the button. These skills are a fast paced precision based element…so when they kitten out and fail all over the place it’s just frustrating as hell. Luckily I finished the 16 achievements and won’t be going back to that place.

ilr.9675:

UrMom.4205:

I was expecting nerfs to be honest

This is even sadder… but yeah I have to agree with it given current trends.
Especially after I just found a way to get ALL of my Boon-duration Bonuses over 50% (which is something I never found a way to do with my Dervish’s enchantments in the First game without COMPLETELY neutering it in every other way) and also extended my 10 lousy seconds of Swiftness from Nature’s voice into a full 17 seconds… I honestly expected to get about 2 weeks of enjoyment out of it before that’s stripped away just like everything else that’s ever been creative or viable about this class.

• Too bad there’s still a big Cast-Animation & delay on “Guard” while no other shouts in the game have a Cast delay b/c shouts have NEVER had delays. WTH is that about?? It’s literally the SHORTEST line that any class ever shouts

Yeah no kidding…i made a build last night that gives me perma might stacks…but i wont talk about it much cause i don’t want it nerfed…perma might?….what are you talking about….I was talking about the new weapon skins…………

cool thanks a bunch!

these are just bug and typo fixes, nothing more nothing less.

I did the 10 mystic clover recipe and got 50 mystic coins, i wouldn’t suggest it though as Ryuujin said, you’ll use more coins than receive.

I was expecting nerfs to be honest

One thing i just noticed, it’s probably been pointed out too but if you change the adept in marksmanship in my build to the IV (signets recharge 20% faster) you can achieve perma might.

Prysin.8542:

UrMom.4205:

Here is one I threw together today, no clue if it’ll work or not. mainly for wvw and pve, also have a sb and lb to swap to for aoe and zergin. Any advice or bashing is welcome lol

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMEQNAR3XjEV91JWCWsWCilC94n2jMZ+zzKkIXBUdwqWP-j0yA4LBZCCMRIQJwioxWUBqsMasKdAVDm2MpqzI7PKiWtMArTB-w

a few things doesnt add up, like why you chose 1 rune of the ranger and 5 rune of the solider.

You also seem to be going for a crit-tank setup, but your crit damage is too low to properly utilize the critical damage you produce. May i suggest you add in some Valkyrie pieces in there?

For the runes the last slot on the soilder says shouts remove a condition, but i don’t use any shouts so it seemed like a wasted stat addition, so thats why i have another rune to fill that 6th slot.

What valkyrie pieces do you suggest, currently all the weapons are valkyrie.

Thanks for the input, keep it coming.

Here is one I threw together today, no clue if it’ll work or not. mainly for wvw and pve, also have a sb and lb to swap to for aoe and zergin. Any advice or bashing is welcome lol

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMEQNAR3XjEV91JWCWsWCilC94n2jMZ+zzKkIXBUdwqWP-j0yA4LBZCCMRIQJwioxWUBqsMasKdAVDm2MpqzI7PKiWtMArTB-w

1. the ability to kill your own pet as it’s dead weight
2. fix the year old bugs (sword rooting, swoop bug, pet bugs, etc.)
3. (more so a general wish for the game) for the love of god balance pve/wvw SPERATE from spvp

steam minotaur, f2 as op said cloud of smoke that grants a couple seconds of stealth…i’d be all for this lol

nice, got a link to your build? i’ve been trying to find new wvw builds ever since the patch

Vol.5241:

It’s simply really. Every achievement point counts.

Let’s say you want 1000 achievement points and you currently have 100. You need 900 more to reach your goal.

You do some obscure achievement that gives you 1 pont, and now you need 899.

Every achievement point counts…

not going to lie…i lol’d at this post…simple yet brilliant

I’m in central time zone and take lunch break from work everyday at 11:15, the sky pirates jumping puzzle was already open when I got home for lunch.

Prysin.8542:

If defending castles, i use Spirit of Frost/Spirit of Fire to boost my comrades. Bear in mind, i ONLY do WvW. and while this setup DOES work well in dungeons and roaming around Orr, it is not a pureblood PvE gear. It is meant for WvW.

i must also correct myself on the LB damage, it should be 1200~ish at range (last night i was running in party with 2 guardians giving me loads of might stacks :| )

oh ok cool, i’ve been doing wvw lately and i’m completely lost in builds lol, i’ll have to check this out.

Prysin.8542:

Lately, iv’e been looking into creating the best possible build for long-term survival in WvW. The old BM builds were a great way of obtaining this, but i never really liked the shortbow that much. It lacked a certain punch, not to mention utility in siege against castles and keeps.

So, HP/tank/healing was what i ended with.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMMQNAT8XnEVkkittenFOWwaZAppgTMvniZJWcPGlSJELZTRB-jUDBoLDRGtBjgIQ0HwUBJL7ZIrZRRsIsIasqZAKbYKVLq2gDzlYR1yAUNGA-w

The build itself gives you moderate power, and a steady 2000~ish damage on the LB over range. It also offer you insakittenup support in the form of spamming “Guard”, i also carry with me a warhorn. And the combination of shouts and WH #5 means you can apply permanent Swiftness to a striketeam, or semi-permanent swiftness to a zerg.

If you spec a little different and aim a bit more at evasion, like swapping axe/WH for dagger, the thiefs will hate you due to high HP pool and high regen. You’ll die to a skilled thief, but to be fair, a well played thief can beat almost anything.

One question…why do you have Vigorous Spirits if you don’t use any Spirits?

Pifil.5193:

Djemo.7153:

Ok im more than sure ill get bombarded with comments akin to “ungrateful insert swear” but seriously?
We get 2 armors, 2 armors which are blatantly heavy sets.
How does either of those two fit on a Necromancer, Thief, Ranger?
I dont see it being all that good looking on a Mesmer or Engi either.

It is disappointing.

When first announced I thought it might be adding full sets (infernal being heavy, celestial being medium and so on) instead it’s just three armour pieces that look the same for all three armour types. Like this it feels cobbled together or half finished.

The weapon skins are better at least.

content every two weeks…what do you expect

Lunar Sunset.8742:

You’d be surprised how little time it takes for the WvW tokens, if you follow a zerg it’s about an hour per 30-50 tokens but you should also get to know the jumping puzzles in WvW you can get at least 20 tokens if you do them all each day. The only bad thing is people can still kill you when you do the JP (trust me, it does happen).

lol i rage on pve jumping puzzles…i will not be food for the wvw jp trolls

i’ll agree with others, the wvw badges aren’t bad at all..just find a zerg and follow, tag everything with some damage and pick up all the loot bags, follow the zerg attacking bases, check every week to see what borderlands your server is on so you can get map completion for each. I’ve played very very little wvw (like rank 6 or 7 i think) and already banked like 130ish badges. For me wvw is fun but i’m not the best at the whole pvp thing, so my advice is to ease yourself into it. Get on snag some vistas and poi then follow a zerg for a bit, then after a few deaths head back to pve. Also if you are following the zerg be sure to watch what the zerg does. I’ve had countless times when i’m zergin and then just all of a sudden the zerg retreats and i’m out by the enemies like a worm on hook for all the big fish to chomp into lol.

marnick.4305:

UrMom.4205:

i made a post about this earlier and got pretty much pounded into the ground about it…so prepare for all the negative comments. From what i said earlier, the devs mentioned a scavenger hunt and a way for players to see their progress towards a precursor. Having an entire very large achievement tree dedicated to a precursor fits the bill on both of those requirements. Also as I said earlier rewards from achievements are usually account bound so if the scavenger hunt was hard enough it would help keep precursors in the tp at a relatively high price. It would all come down to making the requirements hard enough and/or time consuming enough to keeping the ones on the tp a better deal.

I think I remember that thread where I pounded you for saying something along the lines of;
- precursors should be given at 5000 points
- I have 6000 points

Which reads as “I want a free precursor”. Such an argument obviously doesn’t hold.

I’m not against the idea of precursors for achievement points, but it should be implemented correctly. A rather large gold+laurel+karma+commendation pricepoint sounds reasonable. At the 10k AP point.

please find that post because i most def didn’t say that. I literally have been saying this over and over again…but people seem to not understand what i’m saying. It would only work if it was 1. account bound, 2. really hard to achieve..that way it keeps the rng precursors in the tp worth something but also gives players a chance to achieve it on their own and not at the mercy of rng.

i swear to god..if you people complain about an “issue” and get the sword nerfed in some way or other i’m going to rage so freakin hard. We all know the more attention we get the more nerfed we get…can we go back to complaining about nerfs that have already happened..

all of them are easy…just use aoe and ranged weapons often, tag every single mob you see. See someone fighting a moa, tag him and help him finish the mob off, boom xp. I hit level 80 with my ranger super fast when i first joined and was roaming around with my small guild, simply because they were all melee and i was range and i could hit everything. It sounds kinda cheap (i did contribute to the fights though) but it honestly does work.

what if instead of precursor FOR achievement points, it is precursor FOR completing the precursor achievement chain. Make the chain extremely hard/time consuming/etc. and have it where you can only do those particular achievements. That way veterans wouldn’t have any advantage over newer players.

Awe.1096:

Perhaps. But dear god, not for 8000. More like 50,000. Yes, I am serious. Legendaries should be legendary. There is already way too much of them in game at the moment for the time GW2 is live. IMO way too many people expect to get their legendary NOW. I dont get what is wrong with long (and I mean VERY long) term goals. If you are not willling to get that far than your are not “legendary” enough. Its just a kitten skin, not something that will make you overpowered.

That’s what i was getting at with the achievements would have to be hard to get, something very long term. Just giving players another means to get it…because currently with rng it is very possible to never get a precursor ever (not including buying them).

lol it’s all good

i made a post about this earlier and got pretty much pounded into the ground about it…so prepare for all the negative comments. From what i said earlier, the devs mentioned a scavenger hunt and a way for players to see their progress towards a precursor. Having an entire very large achievement tree dedicated to a precursor fits the bill on both of those requirements. Also as I said earlier rewards from achievements are usually account bound so if the scavenger hunt was hard enough it would help keep precursors in the tp at a relatively high price. It would all come down to making the requirements hard enough and/or time consuming enough to keeping the ones on the tp a better deal.

I’m in the same boat, signed up for the free trial weekend they had a few months back and within one night of playing it I already purchased the game. I use to play a lot of shooters, planetside, bf3, etc. but since this game i just haven’t been in the mood at all. Love the pve, and man when you get into wvw it will send you on another crazy journey. There are a couple things i have gripes with but that’s just because i’m passionate and want the game to be even better. All in all though the game is simple amazing, and with all the new content coming out (now on an every two week release schedule) this is a great time to be in gw2!

bloodletting wolf.2837:

1. Lions arch usually has banners up at peak times and it’s worth the silver to jump there to get the buff.
2. Keep food buffs up.
3. If you camp the boss events don’t just stand there waiting – farm until it starts.
4. Kite as many mobs as you can handle into a blob then aoe them.
5. Use speed buffs to get you to the next mob quickly – the quicker you travel the more money you make.
6. Don’t just farm one area or for one thing – stay ahead of the DR.

These are my general rules when I actively farm, hope it helps.

good tips, i’d also add bring a ranged weapon, in areas with many players it can be a lot easier to get hits on more mobs than a melee weapon.

Also how long does it take for the DR to kick in when farming an area?

aight quick clarification, 1 i’m not “waiting” for it, 2 working on other pieces of the legendary right now, 3 just got the game a couple months ago so i’m no where near established enough to even remotely afford a precursor, 4 the devs have already said multiple times that they want to work on another avenue for players to obtain a precursor, i’m assuming if they added it into the game BASED on what they’ve already said it would fit best into the achievements rewards. I’m also assuming it wouldn’t be a few easy achievements…it would probably be a whole slew of them that took a lot of time to get. Having the precursors account bound would also not devalue the ones on the TP.

while i agree with some posts arguing against the living story and some arguing for it, i have to agree with the folks arguing for it. It’s a living story, the world is alive, stuff happens and the world moves on. Here is a real world example. You’re living in your town/city/whatever and there is a month of events coming up for the fourth of july. Parade’s, festivals, sports events, etc. However you have made plans to go to Europe for the month of July. So obviously you miss all the stuff that happened. When you come back you have to catch up and find out what you missed, in forms of story telling, people sharing memories, etc. Same thing applies here. If you miss some content, so what there is more coming every two weeks, I missed the flame and frost dungeon, but i asked about it in LA and heard some really great stories.

Also look at it from the business model, they have a game, that is almost one year old. An MMO needs people in it, hell any game needs people playing it. With this model, the feeling you are feeling right now, the feeling of possibly missing some content that you want to play, is exactly why they are doing it this way. In attempts to get you to log in daily, weekly, etc. and play their game.

At the end of the day, if you like playing the game, play it. If you don’t then don’t play it. Miss content? so what it’s not the end of the world and there is more coming in two weeks anyways.

as a ranger…this dosen’t surprise me at all

Here’s a hunch that I have, tied into the new achievement point rewards, will be an entire achievement tree dedicated to precursors. They said they want to introduce a scavenger hunt for precursors and a place where players can see their progress. Both of those fit in the achievement point mold. Rewards from achievements are account bound so that would keep the precursors somewhat relavant in the trading post also.

what do yall think?

question…will the mystic forge take 4 of the exact same rare? or do they all have to be different?

lordkrall.7241:

Ah.
But should we really take methods that are breaking the rules of the game into consideration?

No, it’s just annoying when people come on here complaining about wanting more content, when they simply port past the newly released content.

i honestly don’t git a kitten where or what it is just as long as they don’t nerf the ranger again -____-

lordkrall.7241:

UrMom.4205:

Too late, mesmers can portal the end chest yay for a community that exploits all over the place (sarcasm)

Not from the start though. You do need to do quite a bit yourself before you are within portal range.

nope mesmers are exploiting it, portal at chest, tp to waypoint, run to the mountain drop the portal, bam tp to the chest, rinse and repeat. There is already a youtube video on here showing how it’s done.

Vaine.2381:

The Jumping Puzzle was hilarious.I find myself raging and laughing at the same time from falling to much.When I fell and died at a certain cliff where no one can rez you back there was like 8 other ppl in the same position as me and just laughed so hard.We were all stuck on the cliff and I just asked every1 about there day since we were all stuck there and then we got lucky some1 dropped down and rezzed us.HILARIOUS!

“glad you dropped in, welcome to the ledge”

lol i didn’t even think southsun was still in the game, learn something new every day

Ayrilana.1396:

Hopefully the end isn’t within portal range. Looks like a fun puzzle!

Too late, mesmers can portal the end chest yay for a community that exploits all over the place (sarcasm)

I died many times, i think it’s pretty challenging lol. I died on a ledge where no one could res me but we had a nice view of everyone falling which was hilarious.

it’s kind of a shame that the community does these kind of exploits. I tried the puzzle on my lunch break and it was pretty challenging i fell a bunch of times, got about half way through it before i had to go back to work. I don’t understand why people complain about content being SO easy when they are exploiting to cheat through it.

kitten housing how about a fix to the ranger class that they completely screwed over with this last patch.

kitten more nerfs for the ranger? why not just take it out of the game completely. jesus christ.

I’m relatively new to the game, me and a party of guildies ran a few dungeons last night, pet was dead 90% of the time…i just put him on passive mode and used him for the condition removal and heals.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Pets are a mechanic, not a skill. Like the Engineer toolbelt. The Theif steal and Initiative. The Elementalist Atunement.

It’s not meant to be turned off, it’s meant to be always on and it’s supposed to be something the Ranger depends on.

Well then it needs to be drastically over hauled or fixed because if your a ranger and you depend on your pet in a dungeon, or fractals, or wvw….you are straight up screwed.

Fact of the matter is pets are broken to kitten right now and every update makes them worse, so having the class “depend” on the pet pretty much handicaps the class by 30%.

instead of handicapping the scores…why not just automagically turn everyone on the top performing server into rangers…

ok seriously i like the idea, thats the one thing i hate about wvw is the ridiculous land slide matches we’ve had recently. Makes me not even want to play honestly.

Just as the title says, I would love to see the pets completely reworked and made into a traitable option, or even a utility skill. Kinda like the engineer’s turrets, because currently the way the pets drop so fast they are already kinda like an engi’s turret. Then they could rework some of the weapon skills to have more of a “wildlife animal” vibe/animation like some of the ones we have now (warhorn #4 flock of birds, great sword #3 swoop, sword #3 serpent strike, etc.). That way they could keep the fundamental idea behind the ranger class, animals, wildlife, nature support, yada yada, but also have the option of pets and their support also (i’m going to be honest pets are sometimes useful in pve). When a pet utility is equipped it could be like 30% of power is transfered to pet or something. The pet could be set up like a signet, where if its in your hot bar they run with you like normal, will attack here and there, but if you activate it it will attack more and use it’s special skill. Those skills could get nerfed or buffed for the sake of balance. I don’t think it would be op because in the long run you would hav to give up a utility skill in order to use the pet. Everything would just have to balanced based on the change and there would be a lot of stuff to work out. This is just an idea and think it would open up a ton of new builds. This would also allow players that want to do dungeons and stuff where pets are more of a handicap than anything the ability to actually be viable.

I’m curious to thoughts on this from the community.

I still am in just utter shock as to why they don’t balance the game separately for pvp and pve/wvw. Everyone knows the builds and balance of the game modes is completely different. Its so kitten frustrating. Also what they did to rangers is beyond me. After a stunt like this every profession should be scared as hell that they’re going to be next. Hell i would be. I’m extremely close to literally blowing all my gold on zytaffy, eating it all, then uninstalling the game.

Sennheiser pc360’s….my god my ears love them

I had turtle beach before these and the reason i changed was the turtle beachs were too bassy, uncomfortable and hot. Sennheiser is a more audiophile oriented company so sound quality comes first. Their pc360 model is geared towards gamers so its the best of both worlds. They sound amazing and are super comfy. They feature an open earcup design (which means the outside of the ear cups are vented which makes them breathe better, my ears never get hot). They also have a cool feature when you move the mic up into its upward position it auto mutes the mic. Makes it super fast in muting the mic as opposed to looking for some inline mute. Downside is they are pricey, but hey you get what you pay for in headphones.

This is so dumb, it shows how broken we are in dungeons when our pets get one shotted at the start of a boss fight. I really wish they would make pets a traitable option and just make all of our weapon skills have some sort of animal element to keep the nature theme (example: warhorn 4 calls in birds, GS 3 makes you fly with a bird animation, Sword 3 makes you evade and poison with a snake animation…just have every skill do something animal related)