Guild Wars 2

Stop asking for more particle effects in a game that is already over flowing with them. This game is already a stupid cluster f*** of effects. It is hard enough to see what is going on as it is without 30 people running around like the sun.

Because some of theses people still believe there is a competitive screen here. Believe or not, some would actually call themselves “pro”. Top 100 rank leader board solo queue #yoloswag.

Arganthium.5638:

That’s not evidence that those players are bad. That’s evidence that they were complaining about a class that they think is OP.

There’s no logical connection between those thoughts and those players’ being bad.

You are the type of person that would say…

“Well they are not bad at math, they just have trouble adding fractions.” Yeah…

There is a connection between complaining about something that is in no way remotely over powered or even good and how bad the player is at the game. Stop trying to sugar coat kitten and maybe you won’t end up with diabetes.

I have also fought a Guardian and downed him just to have him teleport 3 times away form my stomp then randomly get up with full health while no allies were around.

Arganthium.5638:

Vanthian.9267:

Amitabh Bachan.4385:

ITT: bad players defend easy mode specs while calling other classes they don’t play OP.

Hence the Warrior complaint threads.

Or, perhaps, that is the cause of a self-perpetuating belief among the members of the warrior community which would state that the class does not need nerfs because all of the people who complain about the class are bad players, while all the players that support the class are the good players. If this was in fact the case, then the same argument could be made about all classes, and as a result the gMe would never be balanced, simply because the “bad” players are ignored whereas the “good” players are always being paid attention to.

The real problem, however, is being able to prove that all of the players that are complaining are “bad”. Furthermore, that breeds other problems: how do you define “bad”? Why should “bad” players be disregarded? Why should players that are happy with their respective classes be considered “good”?

This is the general state of the spvp community in guild wars 2 at the moment.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/13k-Eviscerate/first

Most of you are horribly bad.

google.3709:

13k ?!?!? Baby damage… js!

oh yah, and mesmers OP still

Photo taken on the potato.

Amitabh Bachan.4385:

ITT: bad players defend easy mode specs while calling other classes they don’t play OP.

Hence the Warrior complaint threads.

aspirine.6852:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Vanthian.9267:

aspirine.6852:

Thats a heavt class compared to a lower armour class. How can you even compare that. The fact is that warriors should not get away so kitten easy. It fails every logic.

Who would have thought that a trained battle veteran could out run a scholar? Logical fail.

Thieves are supposed to be trained in agility, endurance and cunning. A warrior wears armor that weighs his own body weight and expects to be able to outrun someone in armor that barely weighs them down?

Dont even try, they are so keen on their precious war and it’s insane skills they will never admit the thing is broken.

Because stealth is fine and dandy.

I would much prefer to fight someone who has immunity (condition, damage) every 60 seconds for 8 or 4 seconds instead of a person who can vanish in thin air literally every 4 seconds.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

I have no qualms with the GW2 level cap as long as it never increases.

Dreams shattered!

http://www.gamefront.com/guild-wars-2-level-cap-raise-confirmed-for-future/

aspirine.6852:

Thats a heavt class compared to a lower armour class. How can you even compare that. The fact is that warriors should not get away so kitten easy. It fails every logic.

Who would have thought that a trained battle veteran could out run a scholar? Logical fail.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

Fact: Thieves have the best mobility

Fact: Warriors have the best land speed (Point A to Point B )

You cannot argue against those facts, because you are simply wrong.

You also need to understand that mobility and land speed are not the same thing.

Mobility:
- Shadowstep
- Dodge roll
- Stealth
- Flanking Strike (thief S/D)

These are things that cause quick and erratic movement whenever you want, wherever you want. They also hamper enemy melee severely, also causes the player to lose focus on you. Thieves do this the best.

Land speed:
- Swiftness (Or speed signet/trait where applicable)
- Leaps
- Charges
- (Insert an obvious one I probably forgot)

These are for covering distance only, either to get to a target, or run from a target. They always go in a straight line, and take time to get from Point A to Point B, which is very obviously telegraphed (Susceptible to daze/stun). Warriors do this the best.

You need to remember that mobility and land speed are completely different things.

Also, thieves complaining about another class resetting a fight? You honestly cannot be serious, because that’s just stupid.

A well timed Headshot or two (or scorpion wire), when these types of warriors use Savage Leap or Rush, will be their death, considering most warriors with this weapon set up will attempt to disengage at low health, it is easily predictable, so get your interrupts ready.

Sword/Warhorn + GS also sacrifices a lot of damage.:
- Rush misses its target 98.1337% of the time. (This skill is broken, the only use it serves is to run from fights and across the map)
- Sword Burst, does terrible damage outside of condition builds.
- GS Burst, no one uses this, EVER. It is garbage. (So the warriors class mechanic is essentially being wasted with this weapon set up)
- Savage Leap rarely hits, it might bring you near the target, dealing damage/cripple is purely luck.
- No real CC. (Only Immobilize from sword burst, and Leg Specialist (If the trait is picked))

Remember.. leaps and charges are always well telegraphed. Shadowsteps are never telegraphed. Players will always lose direct focus when fighting a thief, but never against a warrior, because warriors cannot stealth themselves, or instantly teleport, you can ALWAYS keep your eyes on them.

My lord man… using logic in a forum battle about a game… where are you from?

(Least everyone forgets about it the Thief can also stealth and gain 50% movement speed out of combat (and is currently bugged to only give 33% in combat)! He can also chain this stealth and speed as long as he doesn’t attack a target as well!)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fleet_Shadow

redslion.9675:

But… but hammer feels so OP…

I’ll get even worse than I actually am if I use it(

Warrior weapons have literally been the same since the launch of the game except for the sword which had a minor switch up a few patches back along with the stun on Skull Crack getting a 1 second increase. They just recently lowered the damage on Hammer (didn’t change any skills minus the mobility aspect of 4) which effectively did nothing.

People just wanted something to yell at and Warriors are the easiest to hit since we don’t’ have perma vigor. We might have immunity to things every 60 seconds for 4-8 seconds but that doesn’t compare to being immune to everything for 1 second every 5 seconds.

Allow me to try my hand at translation, ahem:

“Hello fellow Warriors. I have a quandary I would like to propose to you all. Do you believe that it would be viable to have a Sigil of Intelligence (the 100% critical chance on swap) on a duel set of main hand axes? So that one could figuratively swap from Axe/x to Axe/x and then spam Eviscerate? I am not sure if this method of play is fun but it would seem to need a lot of critical damage to be sufficient. Best regards, Curby.”

Sororita.3465:

I dont know about that, i was spamming one for a good few hours, nearly had to press two…very stressful.

Then you should never leave WvW… I hear in Spvp you have to push in the upwards of 5 buttons.

But without this mechanic in place how could they reliably gear check your character? I mean, we can’t have skilled players walking into a fractal who knows how to dodge all the boss agony attacks… that would just be…agonizing to watch!

Smooth Penguin.5294:

And you saw how quickly the population fully gear themselves in Exotics, and ran out of end game? Anet even admitted that they underestimated how quickly people would be getting all Exotic gear. This is probably one of the reasons behind the time gates now.

That was, and still is, the stupidest thing I have ever heard for why they put in ascended gear tier. They had the gear grind in mind well before they launched the game. They chose to lie to the Guild Wars 1 player base to get a decent population to start then roll out this sorry excuse.

You would have to be pretty thick headed to believe that “reason”.

“Our whole game is end game!!!”. Fast forward 3 months after launch. “Our players are running out of end game too quickly!! Have to make a new set of gear with better stats so they have something to do!!”.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Look at the tower and what is consists of:

- A storyline which makes no sense or lead anywhere
- RNG low droprate grinding for a key which gives you a RNG chance at a RNG chance of getting rewards you want (yay 5 Infinite Toxic Krait recipes!)
- Zerging everywhere, with very little actual mechanics even in instances
- Bugs out halfway through the event, resetting everyone’s progress
- Took a ton of effort to make, looks awesome, but vanishes in a few weeks.

It embodies everything wrong with the game.

But then look at what happens: we destroy it at the final LS update of a year filled with complaints, in an amazingly artistic cutscene, and now it lies in ruins as a terrible but passed memory in the middle of one of the most beautiful zones in Tyria; the poisoned sky purified by the first rays of light after an endless night.

We can take our (character’s) children to Kessex someday and say to them ‘look at that, this place used to be in ruins because of that thing, but look at those hills now…’

Now…. is it just me or is that rather symbolic of what’s to come in 2014?

(Yes, if you can’t tell yet, I’m very bored)

I can’t hold my breath long enough to go where you like to swim.

I know my entire pvp guild of Guild Wars 1 vets left fairly early on due to how bad PvP is/was. What really pushed a lot of my old Guild Wars 1 friends out was the announcement of ascended gear. They didn’t even have it in the game and the rest of the Guild Wars 1 vets I knew quit on the spot after the first interview about it.

Only 1 of them have returned and I barely play now as well. I honestly just lurk the forums to see if they ever fix anything and/or go back to how they did things in Guild Wars 1 (skill >>facerolling). Sadly.. that day has not come and I fear it won’t.

VidGhost.3215:

Zojja’s Berserker ascended HAS THE EXACT same +Crit as Exotics!

So i don’t see much point in moving to ascended Berserker as the stats are next to NOTHING … its really strange Berserker ascended has a lower upgrade then any other ascended armor stat now because it missing out on any +crit increase.

I would wager that it is the inherent +5% damage boost just from the weapon damage…
Also, ascended two handers get +1% more critical damage than exotics.

This is a brilliant suggestion. I could see around 400 glory each. I would also like them to do something with the rank finishers while they are at it. I have around 40-100 of Rabbit, Deer, Dolyak, and wolf finishers just rotting in my storage.

I just find it funny that some of you honestly think the Charr would even stand a chance. For all the talk about their “tanks” and their mobility you forget that they have a capital that has 0 protection from a aerial assault from stealth airship. They could easily just charge up the batteries for a laser hop on their ships fly over to the Black Citadel and goodbye Charr. Not a portion of the city, the entire city would be gone.

This is not even to mention the Asura weather controlling device. Nor the fact they could easily cause earthquakes to render their precious tanks useless because guess what; the Asura capital is in the air. They have a untold number of things over the Charr and have built far more complex and sophisticated things than they can even fathom.

Yet some of you believe they will over whelm them with iron and steel?

Anyway, no I am not a Asura fan. I actually do not enjoy them as a race because they could basically wipe Tyria clear of all living things without any opposition. And to those who say the “Mega Laser” is pack technology… it is borrowed Asura technology, much like the gates everywhere are not Tyrian technology. The Asura are kind enough to let other races use their inventions.

CHIPS.6018:

Lasers are hard countered by mirrors. It only worked against elder dragons and minions because they do not have mirrors.

Lasers must have line of sight. Artillery shoot in an arc, from behind a mountain or trench.

Lasers don’t kill instantly. It needs to heat up. So the user must aim at one spot for at least a few seconds before it starts doing damage. So they are only useful against large stationary targets, or target moving along a trajectory like a cruise missile. Anything that can run will quickly move away from the laser or hide behind something to prevent further damage.

Laser produce heat. Charr tanks runs on steam, which needs heat. The Charr might find a way to take that energy to fuel their tanks.

Love them Charr harder.

You are confusing what we have in real life vs. what they have in this fantasy game. Any laser that is hot enough to melt and instantly vaporize metal would also melt a mirror from heat alone. So no, fancy mirror tricks would not work.

They could theoretically build something to “catch” the energy, but they just learned how to use black powder and steam in recent years. I highly doubt they are anywhere close to building something as fancy as a Thermal Battery device.

Pretty simple question. It just seems that that the Charr lovers wish it was different. Laser beam technology vs. bullets. Giant mega death laser vs tank… Gee I wonder.

Not even 250 years ago the Charr barely had the concept of armor down. Now they are about on average with human technology and you want to pair them off against the Asura? The one race that has been literally studying science and advancement at the core of their racial structure for untold years…. You should know how that would turn out.

Heta.8629:

Why not just post the video on Friday instead of making this thread?

The art of anticipation. Much like what Anet did with Guild Wars 2. I have a feeling the video will not be good…

Dagins.5163:

PvP community here is normal, or slightly above averange.

In terms of skill? That is absolutely not true! Guild Wars 2 skill level is far below average.

As usual lower skill means more hurt feelings which goes to more trash talk.

Epic.3950:

if you are challenged to a 1v1 accept it. 1v1s are not only a show of skill but also honour bravery and all that other crap denying a fair 1v1 is like chopping off your manhood and handing it to the other server player in a small guilded back embroidered with the silk lettering: im a coward.

Because the professions in this game are balanced around 1v1. Gee, you are smart.

Why do you people want dueling so badly in a game that is so blatantly horrible at 1v1 balance?

All you would ever see are Thieves and Mesmer asking to duel with that horrible stealth build.

Malediktus.9250:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Achievements advancing from personal score instead of rank points is a bug. When it is fixed, it will be retroactive unless some horrible code demon prevents it. I wouldn’t stress over getting personal score to advance the achievement right now.

Thanks for the answer. It only took 471 days to recognize this as a bug.

Only 1,239,781 to go if you don’t’ include profession bugs!

(jk jk)

Bad Thieves turn into bad warriors at Dec. 10th I take it? That will just make you a easier kill. Can’t hide in stealth as a cover with Warrior.

Deified.7520:

Something you need to realize with this game is how they created the skills. They went kind of casual heavy. What I mean is that they have a lot of AoEs, Condition/Burst spam, and passives. Killshot is one of the few skills that I think is made pretty well. Reason being is that it has a very obvious animation call and you can’t spam it. Unlike the thief backstab that can be cast a lot quicker, you can’t see, and does the same amount of damage.

I keep saying this, but if they reduce screen clutter from combat animations and reduce AoEs, skills like this wont be nearly as complained about.

Reducing general screen clutter will not increase the general skill level of the population. Bad players will be bad no matter what they do. The only difference between a kill shot warrior and a backstab thief is the warrior doesn’t have stealth to cover his butt.

Also, to everyone stating it wrong. Kill Shot is not 1200 range, it is 1500 range.

Majic.4801:

snip

This guy knows whats up. Former Rank 95 until I realized there are no true achievements in this game. I stopped playing for 2 months or so and now I am no longer on the leader board. Oh well!

Flissy.4093:

Vanthian.9267:

Zanshin.5379:

MiLkZz.4789:

People seriously still complaining about healing signet? How many months does it take for someone to counter it? Bit of poison and you are done for.

How can I apply poison with my guardian?

Sigil of doom. You can keep poison up 50% (if on both sets) of the time if it is not cleansed. That is without condition duration or added affects.

It’s a pretty broken system if you need to be running specific sigils just to counter one profession.

Nothing wrong with HS, but the poison argument is pathetic. Why do other Warriors forget the level of cleansing a Warrior has (Cleaning Ire, mostly, but not to mention the usual rune/food set)?

Guardians are the one class that have almost no conditions. They also have no bleeds nor torment.

Whereas, the Warrior has no defense boons per say. They have very limited regeneration & vigor and no protection.

Certain classes are restricted to certain rolls but can branch out to new rolls through sigils and runes. I am not saying it is the best out of everything in the game, but 50% up time on poison for having 0 skills that have it is pretty awesome.

MiLkZz.4789:

People…click…skills o.O

How did you make it to lvl 80? Even in the second one he clicks his skills, could have been under 6seconds if he didn’t

PvE is in a bad state it seems.

You have just witnessed the highest skill level of the Guild Wars 2 common populace.

Zanshin.5379:

MiLkZz.4789:

People seriously still complaining about healing signet? How many months does it take for someone to counter it? Bit of poison and you are done for.

How can I apply poison with my guardian?

Sigil of doom. You can keep poison up 50% (if on both sets) of the time if it is not cleansed. That is without condition duration or added affects.

Zero Day.2594:

(took the curtsy of uploading the picture, for those that don’t like clicking on links….)

That is not He-Man, this is He-Man

Proven.2854:

Nope, sadly. So now my characters are going to have constant glory boosters for the next however many months and maybe I can use them up before they’re obsolete. Maybe.

I don’t think I could use all of mine if I tried. I have a stack in the storage bin and lord knows how many on my main…. I am pretty sure I could use one every 30 minutes and go for a couple of weeks straight.

Requiem.8769:

Fashion does not dictate morality.

No, but it implies certain morals depending on the style/looks. That is why you have key words addressed to many of clothes; such as “sexy”.

I do agree that the armor makes the character look like a hooker (not solely the under boob’s fault, but it is a huge contributor) but if you want your character to look like that, be my guest.

Trying to say, “Wear whatever you want. It has no effect on how you are seen!”. Is rather… unwise. I would recommend watching the Chappelle stand up comedy where he does a skit about clothing and uniforms. It is pretty spot on.

If Queen Jennah finally waged war to take back Ascalonian soil that might be enough to finally bring me back to actually playing this game in spite of all of its failures up to this point (aka Horrible new lore, mainly living story, horrible class balance, non-existent pvp, etc.).

I would literally live in the zone if I could kill PC Character charrs. Would love every minute of it. It is all I would do day in and out. I would never trier of killing the charr. I use to farm the northern wall in Guild Wars 1 and I would gladly do the same in Guild Wars 2.

Chris.3290:

poor reactions (outside of 100B, is there anything to it?)

Arcing Slice obviously. Too op, need damage nerf.

Best group buffing? How can you even remotely be serious about that comment?

Best healing? Again, just a severely uninformed comment. Have you never seen a Guardian AOE BURST HEAL FOR 14K+?

They have more dodges…? How dense must you be about the classes in this game to ever begin to have this thought? Guardian, Mesmer, Elementlist all have perma vigor through critical hits! Rangers have +50% endurance regen for 5 points. The Thief has more teleports and evades on their weapons than a Warrior has access to dodges (Please notice I didn’t even have to include the Thief dodges to already outshine the Warrior. The Thief also recoupes 15 endurance on dodge if traited properly)!

Are you people so inept at this game that you honestly believe the Warrior is the strongest? They are decent, yes, but they will lose to any mildly skilled player of any other class (except for maybe a Elementlist at the moment, even then it is iffy. The Elementlist could easily one shot a stun Warrior if they do their rotation right).

People wonder why the skill level of the general populace in this game is so horrible. You have 0 clue about what class you play or fight. Yet you still call for nerfs and buffs when the vast majority of you have never even played more than one class. Pathetic.

You are spouting an uninformed opinion on a class almost none of you have played (at 80 and geared, because lets be honest, hardly any of you are actual pvpers) formed by a person who got destroyed by the class because they are not good at the game/pvp in general.

Celtus.8456:

Too lazy to create real difficulty, so ridiculous DoTs are added with gear-gating grind attached.

Indeed. Gear gating just like every other major mmo raids (Guild Wars 2 stat increase is just smaller).

Marna Nindar.8120:

skillful play

Ah yes, skillful play. Something that has not been in or around the Spvp, PvE or WvW in Guild Wars 2 in over a year. Truly legendary if you can acquire this… skillful play.

Requiem.8769:

Counter argument? I need an argument to counter first.
Imagine taking a class, putting it in sPvP and going AFK to make tea. If I came back at the end of the game, and it had died, then your “argument” would qualify this as balanced – even if, most of the time, I would live. Clearly (I hope?) this is nonsensical in the extreme.
My recommendation: Provide numbers. Stats. Analysis. Comparisons. But saying “I run this and it sometimes dies” is mindbogglingly ineffective.

I had something similar happen to me as well. Finished level 30 fractal then ventured back in to complete the daily 28. Only received the level 30 chest, nothing from 28.

I chalk it up to a flub up in the game again. I assume they will patch it whenever a big enough group starts to yell.

Sharkinu.8096:

Here’s an idea. wait for it…

Frostfang…..with flames!

I’m a genius!

Flamekissedfrostfang

Guild Wars 2 pvp was a failure on launch due to the following:

1) Class balance— Absolutely horrible in every way (still is after 1 year and some).

2) Game modes: Only conquest for pvp (seriously?).

Black Box.9312:

Honestly, I’m of the opinion that AR should have been account bound anyway. The whole idea of being able to sell it on the TP is kind of silly IMO.

In my opinion, in a game advertised and sold as a horizontal progression game having gear checks is pretty kittened and completely defeats the original purpose of what they said. This gear check crap needs to go or it will get out of hand like these horrible story tellers they have now.

Olba.5376:

Do what I think, not what I do.

Before it was moved to GM, both of the traits were 12%, not 15%. In fact, even as GM, they were 12% for quite a while.
.

Nope… Heighted Focus was only 9% max when the game first release. Berserkers was 12% though. Also, the move to Grandmaster also changed the values for both. They never sat at Grandmaster with their original values. The changed happened June 2013 and you can see for yourself that the move to grandmaster and the number change happened at the same time.

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-June-25th-2013

Hype.8032:

I was getting a chuckle at your satire until I realized you were being serious.

I felt the same way about all of these threads until I fully realized the majority of you actually think “One Hundred Blades” is a good “burst skill” for pvp. Or better yet, that Hammer Warrior is unbeatable. Such a joke, any decently skilled player will still kill a Warrior, it is just harder to auto attack him to death. Might have to use those utility skills, oh no!

Olba.5376:

We’re talking getting 250 Precision worth of crit chance for a 5 point investment. Ditto for the Power.

You shouldn’t make a habit intentionally remembering something wrong. Those habits tend to stick.

It was a 10 point investment. They were Major adept traits (as in you have to choose them) not the minor traits you get for 5 points.

Also, it is more or less around (21 × 15 =) 315 precision for 10 trait points if you keep max adrenaline.