Guild Wars 2

Open World is cool for exploration and pewpew particle effects, I like that for that matter. Difficulty, on the other side, belongs mostly to a well-planned, medium-sized party content like dungeons.

I wonder if they’ll ever give an utility to those recipes we drop from dungeons, dare I say they are rarer than precursors!

I can take RNG in all things in the game (even the crappy drop rate for fractal skins), but for a beta test… weird.

Just lower health threshold. It’s hilarious because ele’s HP goes up and down in a blink of an eye since it’s a light armor class with poor HP scaling. It can maintain survivability with boons and healing, but it cannot stay above 90% (HP scaling too low), so it becomes kinda useless and offers no synergy at all, mainly in pvp. Not to say most condition-applying skills also deal some damage high enough to grab 10% of ele’s HP.

The key fundamental mechanics for eles are the attunements, I sort of agree with the above comment. F5 could unleash attunement-specific effects (like glyphs) on a very synergic fashion, and tempest would have a brand-new resource.

Maybe casting fire (or staying in fire) would build up Heated Winds which resets upon swapping elements, tempest would unleash a powerful effect when activating its F5 skill based on such built resource (burst skills inspired). Maybe they could add even more complexity and allow for multiple resources to be stored and unleash an effect based on a mix of stored elements, creating creative, effective, and cool environmental effects.

Blanche Neige.7241:

Valento.9852:

You enjoy farming? Good for you. I do not. I was looking for a beta portal. I don’t enjoy farming because it is too repetitive, I even vary how I play to avoid repetition.

And you think you would have enjoyed a beta with very limited content?

lawl

Yes, I would, why? I think I missed the point.

GrandHaven.1052:

Valento.9852:

You enjoy farming? Good for you. I do not. I was looking for a beta portal. I don’t enjoy farming because it is too repetitive, I even vary how I play to avoid repetition.

Understandable.

MAKING something repetitive fun is still very possible though.
Met some of the coolest people throughout my 18hour binge command of Indigo, some people stayed on map even after dropping their portal so much fun we had.

It’s a little more complicated. I did meet cool people and had fun, but playing SW for a beta portal since it became available and specially a full weekend got me burnt out.

The reason why I played so much and admittedly didn’t take breaks during this weekend is because I got a full-time job, and I will not be able to spare time playing GW2 this week. Oh well… I’ll pray the RNG gods to choose me from the newsletter subscription, though I’m not feeling that lucky.

GrandHaven.1052:

Valento.9852:

I’ve gone sick of farming. It is not fun. Tried switching maps (Dry Top, SW) but no luck. I’m not even interested in participating in beta anymore. Only regret is that I felt like I lost my time the entire weekend.

Why? SW netted me a ridiculous amount of ecto, silk and resource and raw gold over the course of my farm, how is it a waste?

You enjoy farming? Good for you. I do not. I was looking for a beta portal. I don’t enjoy farming because it is too repetitive, I even vary how I play to avoid repetition.

I’ve gone sick of farming. It is not fun. Tried switching maps (Dry Top, SW) but no luck. I’m not even interested in participating in beta anymore. Only regret is that I felt like I lost my time the entire weekend.

Oh, nice! /15charrs

How effective it is to farm in Dry Top since there are no chests upon event completion? Do you get by killing mobs along the event chain?

Plot Twist III: Signet of Illusions will not work the same because they’re not stupid to allow for infinite castings.

ronpierce.2760:

Valento.9852:

Plot twist: F5 activation will not revert F1-F5 skills, I’m sorry if you thought you could spam perma-revert with infinite skill usage.

I don’t think people are understanding him….
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Illusions

This resets Shatters.

Continuum Split, signent heal resets split, and the return resets the signent heal that resets shatters.

However because it is a 2 part skill, I don’t think split will be resettable in that time frame. Might be a non issue. We’ll see.

Plot Twist II: F5 will not be a shatter.

Thypari.9043:

phys.7689:

f skills probably wont be considered to be spells.

Doesn’t matter signet of illusions resets shatter skills.

Plot Twist: F5 will not be a shatter.

Plot twist: F5 activation will not revert F1-F5 skills, I’m sorry if you thought you could spam perma-revert with infinite skill usage.

Whiners… whiners everywhere.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I use an alias, though not with GMail, and I get newsletters on all my accounts. Now, the Devs have specifically stated that no confirmation emails will be sent, so…

Have they? Because when I used the non-aliased e-mail I indeed got a confirmation e-mail.

I guess I’m stuck at this. I’ve just subscribed with the non-aliased e-mail, though I used the alias to register my account back in 2012. It’s likely I’ll miss a chance at participating in future HoT closed betas nonetheless.

I’m still on first screen (not the fancy login one). Is this happening to anyone else?

I’ve already contacted the support (GM Skull Knight is awesome btw!), but I thought about further posting it here. E-mails with aliases aren’t receiving newsletter e-mails.

How do I know? Tested with mine that I’ve used to register the game, and did not get any confirmation e-mails. When I took off the alias, it worked.

I’m worried that using the non-aliased e-mail won’t give me a chance to enter next closed beta. So please, make aliased e-mails to work.

If you don’t know what an e-mail alias is, it looks like this: dude*+crazy*@gmail.com. The +crazy part is an alias.

Many fire creatures have burning immunity, but you are right. I’m also a pre-purchaser.

Are you guys allowing turrets to receive bleeding, poison, torment, and confusion? If so, this is the first game that I have ever played that turrets bleed, get sick, have mental disorder, or pain.

But then, again, who cares about logic?

Lol. They need to pay the bills. I don’t get why people want stuff for free when the game is already B2P.

I found this fanart in reddit, it is not mine but I thought it would be cool to share!

Link

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Inverse.2967:

Please reconsider adding more vendor tabs to the Black Lion Specialist to keep all sets available, they are staying in the game data anyways.

You’ll just have to wait and see what’s in store

Oh, I’m so happy to read this.

Rich Fuel.7253:

Those are traits for guardian not elementalisy

You didn’t get it. Having a trait that has an effect depending on the number of burning stacks the target has is just a confirmation that the target can receive a number of stacks. This means it will be able to inflict stacks of burning, so any class having acess to burning skills can inflict stacks of burning as well.

Thought it was clear. lol

If this is a thing, I’ll be pretty much happy with my elementalist!

There’s a simple solution, just like many combat-related stuff in Options panel, add an option to automatically cast ground-targeted skills centered on the player.

You’re forcing changes down our throats. I find it unlikely you’ll change the most fundamental nerfs you’ve done, but I have to say: shame on you, ArenaNet. Fire isn’t that popular or offer enough synergy, by nerfing arcana and air you’re slowly killing the class in PvP.

Air:
Bolt to the Heart vs. Fresh Air.

Arcana:
Elemental Attunement vs. Evasive Arcana.

First, elementalists are well-known for having low toughness and a poor (by design) HP scaling, so it relies HEAVILY on boons (protection, regeneration, swiftness) and healing to keep alive. Arcana is destroying many builds and screwing D/D like never before.

Second, PvP is fast-paced. You are crippling damage dealing by forcing us to choose between the most synergic trait found in a LOT OF builds, the “Fresh Air”, and “Bolt to the Heart”, a well-known “finisher” trait that helps pure damage builds (S/F, D/F).

I don’t care about fire in PvP, its use is quite limited. Buff it all you want, I still don’t care.

As a headstart ele, I use Sandstorm pretty often because it has one single advantage over thief and necromancer blindness AoEs: it is not a combo field. It doesn’t mess up might stacking, causes bleeding and is a constant AoE blindness. I do use Glyph of Storms with all attunements (except fire) in different ocasions, air for bosses, earth for groups of mobs, and ice for situations where slowing down is very important (e.g. Archdiviner’s last two phases).

Ragnarox.9601:

I think necromancers will get shouts because they don’t have supportive skills at all and shouts might be usefull to them in PVE events and dungeons.

Uh? Wells? Spectral Wall? Pulling conds from allies with a signet?

Bovan.9481:

Valento.9852:

Yeah! At least we can see different types of zerker, this 6/6/x/x/x crap was long overdue. +1 Anet

It’s not going to change, now you will be fully locked into the trait lines which give the most damage multipliers. You will be fully locked into 3 trait lines instead of being able to deviate a little and go 4/6/0/2/2 for example. Now if you need a certain minor trait for something, you either can’t pick it because you have to give up too much from a different trait line or get a flat out worse set of traits just to get that minor thing.

I’ll wait till I see everything before judging, but I’m a little worried to say the least. I can see the good sides though, and it’s good that some of the current issues are getting fixed.

EDIT:
On a different note and this needs to be said, thank you so much for showing something we can at least somewhat work with arenanet. I’m genuinely happy we get to see some updates of the actual game instead of just cosmetic stuff or recaps of things we already know.

Don’t worry, I’m confident the PvE will work out how we need to adapt our builds. ANet cannot fail us after almost 3 years of live game.

Yeah! At least we can see different types of zerker, this 6/6/x/x/x crap was long overdue. +1 Anet

Haahhah Colin all the way!

GW2 – The ACTION MMO that you stack and burst down mobs, so much fun! pew pew

I find it funny how many meta-mentality players think zerker stacking is the ultimate playstyle for dungeons, and other equipments are just a ladder until you get “pro”. This is completely wrong, how come you trash all other gear in a game that has no treadmill? Cleric should have its place, it should be wrong to have a full zerker party. It simply trashes all itemization, which is a core fundamental part of RPGs.

Have all creatures in the world to take half damage from critical hits. Problem solved. You’re welcome.

The only inviable conditions are damage-based.

Forum bug?
/15chars

It doesn’t matter what mechanics game developers come up with, people are trashing them with zerker stacking, they need a way to fix this. Mind you, balancing stats/damage mitigation are integral part of the process of developing challenges. I wouldn’t complain if zerker stacking was part of some encounters, but it happens too often to accept.

Watching zerker runs is as boring as kitten, and is just a showcase of how ridiculous gameplays can become if you dumb down the game AI/mechanics. Zerker stacking invalidates mechanics because it’s just a matter of melting HP, this must frustrates game developers who worked on planning mechanics just to see them trashed.

NikeEU.7690:

Do the people proposing “solutions” realize that there is no actual problem here, and thus no need for a solution?

Right. Just develop my suggestions above into 95% of the bosses. Let’s just have funs with mechanics, k? If there’s no problem, zerkers will get over it.

Just to ensure everyone reads it: STACKING IS A BAD BEHAVIOR BECAUSE IT DUMBS DOWN THE GAME. #kthxbai

There are so many things to solve stacking:

• Displacement: Give the boss a unique mechanics to lock people out of the fight for a period of time. Archdiviner from Fractals lock people in jails, whereas TA’s story mode Cadeyrn phase people out of the fight by turning them into sylvan hounds which HAVE to kill other hounds to snap out of the transformation. This effectively “disables” party members.
• Harmful debuffs: In SE p1, one of the golems in the trio encounter shoots a lightning debuff that keeps ticking. The receiver gets a little damage, while other party members are badly damaged, so stacking is harmful. The blue cat golem from Uncategorized Fractal applies positive/negative charges to players, staying close to equal (I guess?) charges damages the players.
• Revenant’s upkeep: Since revenants have a unique skill mechanics called upkeep, bosses could use this too. Upkeep are a skill mechanics in which the caster uses a skill and has to “maintain” it with a limited resource (hence upkeep), bosses could have harmful effect around themselves to discourage stacking.
• Risen Abomination rage: Pretty classic. You encounter this in many places, for example CoE p2 and p3. Whenever the Risen Abomination hits someone, it gets a rage stack that greatly increases speed and damage. Try facing it with 25 stacks for the funs, you will learn how important it is to dodge/CC/evade moves!
• Main Trin: Should I really explain how you have to think a bit in this battle? Sure you have to stack to lure her into lightning fields, but reflections play a role, and standing there can kill you. To solve the puzzle you must time your movements correctly. (disclaimer: I know, she is bugged atm, teleporting to awkward places)

Other things can be thought of, there ARE solutions but they require more thinking and smartness.

GW2 is definitely much better than any other MMO to this point. It’s a collection of much desired gameplays and systems. Obviously they lack a lot, but the core game elements are better designed than anything I’ve found.

To each their own.

Dang, I’ll only have the money after April, 15th.

I love eles, just can’t get enough! <3

They could highlight background color to distinguish better, all of them are brown-ish. Light could be pink-ish, medium yellow, and heavy red.

I dropped a raider’s chest of ascended leggings yesterday. Actually, most of my ascended come from FotM.

Why don’t they split into two clientes? One for older computers (x86) and another for brand-new PCs with higher capabilities (x64).

Seriously, they should cap it at then and rework slotting. This might get pretty expensive to acquire if they develop further into fractals-related systems (which is likely, as per fractals masteries seen in HoT betas).

I’m dying to create an asura warrior to use this!

For some reason I remember the plethora of capes in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night from PSOne.