Guild Wars 2

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John Smith.4610:

Don’t worry, the economy will be ok. We put a lot of effort into keeping it protected.

John, help us! The site doesn’t list what items exactly free accounts can buy/sell!!!!!

From FAQ:

Can buy and sell items from a selected list.

Supreme.3164:

Forum warriors are an important aspect of every MMO, they’re necessary to maintain the level of entertainment on the forum and in game, don’t you enjoy the multiple usage of the forum warrior elite : nerf pl0x OP hurdurr shout?

Well, but they’re annoying. As if ANet would suddenly nerf cele and burning. They go to the wiki, read ele traits and D/D skills, and give input on what should be changed so cele D/D becomes more balanced.

ronpierce.2760:

Okay well, on this note, I will say one thing. Burning does like 4:1 of the damage of other conditions. For the most part, some issues would be fixed if burning damage went down a bit (even if compensated with duration so the dps didn’t change) and Poison/Bleeding/(and to a lesser extent) torment went up. This would in fact reduce the burst condition damage of Burn Guardian (sorry burn guards, but it is a touch much, even if you are happy you finally made it into the meta), and more problematic, the D/D ele. Almost every other condition class/build relies on multiple conditions, so taking the edge off of burn and spreading it out a bit would be a huge boost to less fortunate conditions and help with the dire burn issues.

That said, Ring of Fire is too much haphazard fire-and-forget damage, and their condition removal/sustain is too high (in terms of D/D Ele).
- Remove the evade of Burning Speed.
- Find a way to nerf how much condition removal water provides without killing it.
- Remove blinding ashes. Just isn’t necessary to have ever more sustain/protection on ele, in their DPS line of all places. Not to mention due to the haphazard nature of burning, its a highly unskillful defense. (RoF, Fire Aura, etc.)
- Ring of Fire to 2 stacks. Less haphazard damage for a 50% uptime ring.

I’d be happy with that. Sorry if it offends anyone but that’s my general thoughts and reasoning.

I don’t think they would do that for Burning Speed, but Blinding Ashes and the rest looks reasonable for me.

Frost.1503:

The signet before gives to us fire aura and might. Now they are pointless. They will do some change to it?

Yes. Tempest. ç.ç

We should create a separate topic to focus on an actual discussion around D/D ele, or this nightmare may never end. Some thoughts we should consider before:

• Nerfing burning damage and celestial amulet (sPvP-related) won’t do any good. There’s a new class incoming, and several elite specs. The OP issue lies in the D/D composition, plus our traits which strengthen it too much.
• There should be a consensus for what is broken weapon-wise: offhand dagger, or mainhand dagger? We know that having both in hands makes eles OP for many situations, and it’s difficult to counter.
• We should provide info on what D/D should actually be able to do, and what skills or traits are changing its purpose unintentionally. We should not be able to overwhelm in every single aspect: survivability, control, and damage (direct + condition).
• We should also analyze 1v1 against most common builds from other classes.
• We should take into account Revenant + Mallyx legend and its ability to be severly boon-hate, paired with some other potential class we could be pwned for good, unless we drop a spec for Earth.

People shout out to nerf D/D eles by asking burning dmg to be nerfed, or celestial amulet. There are other classes which rely on these profession-independent variables. Why not suggest a fix by replacing some skills to prevent power creep, or maybe some durations? Like, why people rant so much without focus? Just rant and don’t give suggestions to fix the actual class?

You know, that’s why ANet just ignores whiners, for all they do is mindless “nerf pl0x OP hurdurr” crying.

rotten.9753:

It’s because ele is OP and it would be really hard to design a decent elite spec. Maybe next time, when ele would be worse. Let’s hope for it!

Poor excuse when you see how they revamped mesmer, and Robert Gee still came up with an awesome elite spec for it.

And taking warhorn or shouts is less effective than anything else core ele can do. It cannot replace anything at all. For these to be worth, it shouldn’t be stronger, but on pair with core ele, which isn’t the case.

Just thought I’d jump in and say eles in general did not like damage increases on tempest overloads. We were actually looking for changes to actual execution of our mechanics. Despite all these apparently big numbers, it’s unlikely tempests will be as popular as eles once HoT is released. This is, IF anyone makes a tempest, as it stands it’s too crappy.

That would be cool.

rotten.9753:

Valento.9852:

Funny, I’m playing Chronomancer, Herald, (possibly) Dragonhunter, and now Daredevil when HoT launches.

Why not this OP monster that is ele?

/yawn
I’m tired of being, OP. Plus, I’ve only been playing ele since March, 2012.

Toolbox.9375:

Funny, every other class seems to be saying they’re useless/nearing uselessness, too. I wonder, which class ISN’T dead and pointless to use?

Funny, I’m playing Chronomancer, Herald, (possibly) Dragonhunter, and now Daredevil when HoT launches.

You see? People rage calling OP, and just leave. If you think it’s OP, then offer proper feedback on balance, instead of uselessly ranting.

rotten.9753:

It’s hard to defend tempest after watching daredevil in action. In actually points to the fact that Karl is more than capable of designing fun elite spec.

What was it about? I couldn’t watch PoI. :/

People who didn’t like tempest mechanically/conceptually are giving their reasons based on traits and mechanics analysis, and even giving ideas or thoughts about what could be done. People who hate eles are just throwing fallacies everywhere to justify keeping tempest useless. It’s ANet’s call to decide what is more logical to do.

mrstealth.6701:

Morfedel.4165:

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

Yaaaaayyyy can’t wait to not have a Halloween event this year! Seriously? Ruin the best holiday event in gw2?!

They could always do both at once; especially if they just recycle the previous year, then thats no work at all.

Frankly I think the xpac is more important.

They can’t straight up recycle last year’s event unless they temporarily reverted LA to it’s previous state. But the rest of the event was already mostly recycled last year, from the 2013 event. They’ve probably already got a (partly, at least) decorated LA to host the event.

They didn’t let GW Nightfall interfere with GW1’s 2nd Halloween event with its release just a few days before. The event was even live in Elona’s capital city.

That may be the case with Divinity’s Reach (just like Wintersday).

@Malchior, while I understand your rage, you shouldn’t blindly state Karl is ignoring us. I think he’s kind of sorting out our current situation… we should just wait until the very next time they talk to us.

Devildoc.6721:

CandyHearts.6025:

Is it too much to say “in b4 gib moni plez” ?

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Gib moni pls
or I report u
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

These lines haunt me. -_-

Right now, we know they’ll re-announce:

• GW2 HoT release date
• Raids (Challenging Group Content)
• “Play for free”

… SAB? xD

Oh man, that’s evil. xD

ArenaNet ninja’d IGN! hahahah

Pride.1734:

I don’t think that this is an unknown symptome. When you play the class alot you abviously want the stuff it gets to be great and mind blowing. Also the first things you think about are what you will have to sacrifice to take this spec. Lets take shin for example, he is least hyped by the berserker elite spec, inks said that everything about the dragon hunter feels clunky and slow and that he couldn’t get it to work at all.

Part of these statements is failed expectations but the other half is to rally the community to think as they do so that anet will bend through all the complaining. They all want the thing that their class got to be the best and its natural enough. Everyone wants that but to use it in such a way, I think its pretty manipulative.

You have no clue what is going on with Tempest.

Killyox.3950:

least favorite =/= worst

Logic 101

While that is true, it doesn’t change the fact that tempest are still the worst elite spec so far.

maddoctor.2738:

Torolan.5816:

it´s a remain of the merged thred, Knighthonor, Someone there brought furth the suggestion that raids would go over the whole of a week maybe, wth timers and stuff.

If it takes too long to finish (due to wipes) then a “save state” is a great alternative.
Otherwise you’d have to re-start every time, making the learning process very hard. With a “save state” over a week your team could practice the next boss until you get it, instead of doing the entire run from scratch. Save states that last a week aren’t a bad thing.

This is genuinely an awesome idea.

Dinks.2478:

Valento.9852:

These merging really bugs me. I know the subject is related, but it completely screws the talk.

I honestly think that is why it is done, so the conversation is incoherent and all the important points get drowned out in the sea nonsense.

Me and some others were talking about raids, and then we’re thrown into I-don’t-know-what talks. lol

These merging really bugs me. I know the subject is related, but it completely screws the talk.

Torolan.5816:

Knighthonor.4061:

Raids likely have longe reset period for the group to be able to run it for a week long rathet than all 5 hours in a single sitting.

Huh? Like say I am with you at monday, tuesday, wednesday and saturday in the course of a week, but can´t show up on sunday, so I get nothing?

It should play identical to Guild Missions.

@Pino, you summed up the core ideas, but I’d like to add a bit to the carrot on a stick. Reward-wise, Fractals lightly mimic the idea behind raids more than any other content. You have: a) items obtainable over the course (rings with pristine relics), b) pure random drop skins (the flaw for this one is that the weapon itself is random, and it’s only a skin, it should be a fractal skin box). This is the working scheme for loot in raids a la GW2 IMO.

You either make a content use all of your skills in the appropriate moment, or continue with this max. dmg bs we already have. ANet’s call.

Torolan.5816:

Valento.9852:

Raids are expected to be much more difficult instanced content than dungeons, but without pushing gear treadmill. It’s a matter of playing the game to its maximum, and making use of every tool you have at your disposal. If it doesn’t touch gear treadmill, I am all for it.

Expecting something 5x harder than a Season 1 Marionette.

Lol, you know how often Marionette bombed, sometimes hard, sometimes closely? 5 times harder would maybe enable 5% of all people to do it^^

Yeah, it was run by a lot of people who didn’t know each other, or the challenge itself. It was unorganized. Now you have instanced raids (a much easier way to coordinate a pre-defined group of individuals), and since then people have learned a lot about the game and the skills, so overall folks have learned to master their classes better.

Raids are expected to be much more difficult instanced content than dungeons, but without pushing gear treadmill. It’s a matter of playing the game to its maximum, and making use of every tool you have at your disposal. If it doesn’t touch gear treadmill, I am all for it.

Expecting something 5x harder than a Season 1 Marionette.

This is when we realize devs have feelings too. —’

I am going to see what they do to overloads execution, and damage increases simply isn’t going to buy me (and many of existing eles). I am sorry, devs, too punishing and trait line is too lacking. :/

I don’t want to admit that, but sitting and re-thinking eles (just like mesmers) should be an ultimate need. I’m afraid, though, that they will never ever going to do that, in 5 years or so they might change our elites, or maybe when GW3 is released. Unfortunately, they don’t want the extra headache, or maybe they simply aren’t able to review the class as a whole.

About elites, you guys know what I think it’s a real slap in the face? The engineer can have more skills than any other class, including ele, and yet he got an F5 and another elite skill was reworked to quickly become part of many game modes and builds.

I think we should voice our opinions and don’t take ANY of our current elites for granted. They should be tools worth the cooldown, but aside from Glyph of Elementals (which has its uses in sPvP and PvE), all the others simply don’t fit. Tornado and the GS became too much meh, and breaks any rotation taking place.

Huge step in the right direction!

Gosh! OP, why you do this? I thought you had a preview of a raid named “Forbidden Run”. I’m so mad at ya.

Seriously, guys, whatever they do with raids, it will be another option amongst all other stuff you can already do. And, it doesn’t mean they will simply forget about casual stuff EVER. GW2 has been heavily casual-oriented since launch. Seeing hateful posts against raids is simply too selfish behavior, when you already have a plethora of easy stuff to do.

I think warriors should get stealth. And attunement swapping too. The class lacks in every department. Sad… /sarcasm

Zahld.4956:

Put limited f2p on separate servers and no one paying for the game will care.

A sound solution. #winwin

Someone at IGN seems to have leaked this info, and also confirmed raids…

Do not make GW2 F2P… please. ç.ç

@Lawton, use this instead.

MadRabbit.3179:

Oh yeah and I do actually find myself stacked out with every condition available and need that extra condition removal from the regen. When people figure out what you are doing and see you heal your entire team to full, they start to put some heavy, heavy pressure on you.

I find it a lot of fun! I will try your build when I get home.

@MadRabbit, that looks so much fun! Would you mind sharing your build? ^^

Jski.6180:

The overload effect it self not so much but the other effects you can get when overloading or after you overload yes. So auras and -100% movement condition duration. Now only if they would add a bit more to the overload it self i love to see fields or more finishers.

But overloads are the first issue with tempests. Shortly after we got a bunch of useless/non-synergic/non-worthy traits. Other elite specs get a lot of yummy and hard-to-choose traits, and we get a lot of useless traits and we have to strive for the least worse among them all.

Casting a melee spell for 5s without stability breaks the purpose of having an overload act like a “pressure skill” against enemies.

@Edit
“Breaks” the purpose hahaha :P

@Sirbeaumerdier, you couldn’t have phrased everything better. Those are exactly my thoughts aswell.

Iris Ng.9845:

Put an LFG like this: [Scale xx. No Mossman Underwater.] 80% of my pugs are surprisingly decent. 20% automatically left after their first death – which is just perfect.

People wouldn’t need such LFG if that bug was actually fixed.

Derigar.7810:

What boggles my mind is why you do not add polls in-game after completing an event, or after a combat encounter. It’s strange why you don’t do this.

Strangely, they did. For once. During first GW2 closed betas… it was simple and helpful.

It’s going to be awesome + unique skins varying with each elite spec. Can’t wait.

Because Dwayna wanted so, and she’s the first, so we don’t disobey her.