What a shame. Magg CoF was the most fun instance out there. I feel like a lot of these dungeons would be pretty entertaining and easy to get groups for if they were around the same difficulty as Magg’s path pre-buff. Something to break up the usual same-y events out in the world where you can grab pretty much any 4 people you want as long as they aren’t complete idiots.
Now it’s back to never finding groups for anything, because you can’t do it with pugs and you’ll almost never get enough people you know together that actually want to slog through a bunch of deaths and frustration for a miniscule bit of progress towards some dungeon gear. I’m in a guild that’s capped out in members and still it’s impossible to find people who want to do this stuff. I bet there are some really neat things that a lot of work was put into in a lot of these dungeon paths. Stuff that’s a lot cooler than “defend this circle against 800 centaurs”. Shame almost nobody will ever see it, and will instead be stuck breaking the morale of more centaurs and risen.
I wish Frostgorge was as good a place to endgame farm as Orr, because I really hate Orr and everything in it. The risen are seemingly designed to be as annoying and tedious as possible, and while Orr itself has a kinda neat underwater theme, overall the place just feels like a Quake 2 map. Ugly, difficult to navigate, and filled to the brim with colored lighting. Frostgorge, on the other hand, is pretty cool.
I cannot stress enough how glad I am that the ring of fire has not returned.
I don’t really find infiltrator’s strike to be all that useful. It takes a bunch of initiative for something that you can almost always do by just running away. If you really, really need to you can dodge or stealth. Infiltrator’s strike also won’t help you get out of there if you’re in the fight for any length of time, since it’ll switch back over to the first skill in the “chain”.
We’re pretty ridiculous tanks with the spear, maybe a bit too much so. Do we really need that many evasive abilities? #3 handles single targets fine, and #5 is perfect for keeping you alive against groups (bordering on overpowered), so I really don’t see much point in #2 at all. Some kind of offensive ability would be nice, because if you aren’t being attacked when using the spear you are utterly worthless. The #4 is also pretty awful as a gap closer, since you can’t do anything for a fairly long time after using it, making it do pretty much nothing to let you catch moving targets.
Really wish we had some form of AoE as well. It’s very difficult to deal with groups of enemies underwater, which is what underwater is almost always full of, without any real AoE. It also makes it difficult to tag enemies before others kill them. Normally against groups I find myself having to slowly, slowly, slooooowly pick them off one by one with the spear #5. The speargun does have some piercing attacks, but the only one that’s actually there to do damage is the #1, which is pretty bad for non-condition thieves and lining up piercing attacks is difficult enough with only two dimensions to worry about, let alone 3.
Thieves Guild really needs to be able to be used underwater. I can’t comprehend why we aren’t able to. I also tend to trait towards being fairly stealth heavy, which is not at all useful underwater and kind of screws over stealth thieves.
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I would love this. Or at least institute a captcha when you try to mail somebody who doesn’t have you friended.
Hey man, crap on healing power all you want, but boon duration is awesome. I wish there were more ways to get it.
Not really a huge deal, but my map completion percentages on character select have never properly lined up with my actual percentage. Now I’m 100% done and it still lists as 98% completion on my character and 97% completion as my highest on the account.
Actual completion on the top left:
http://i.imgur.com/Qehcf.jpg
Character select:
http://i.imgur.com/PSsID.jpg
The dragon in frostgorge is the only one that’s interesting or entertaining.
I play an asura guardian, but this actually doesn’t bother me because there’s little reason to use the shield over the focus.
You get these items from the temples in Orr, but only when they aren’t under undead control. Each of the 5 temples has different pieces. They cost 44k karma each. No weapons.
I just don’t like how bad the #2 detonation is. Detonating abilities is fun, but there’s pretty much no reason to do it with the guardian staff.
If it makes you feel any better, blind immune dredge kitten me just as hard as a thief. Oh, you’re a squishy class that relies almost entirely on blinds to survive? Well screw you, buddy.
A captcha for sending mail to people who aren’t mutually on your friends list would help with the mail spam. I dunno a good solution for map chat though.
Vistas were a great addition and I really like them, but having all of these huge glowing markers all over the place kind of spoils a lot of great views and screenshots. It would be great if we could have the option to turn off ones that we’ve already visited.
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And if Heartseeker was your best DPS against bosses, you should be worrying about something else… lol
Okay, tell me what great and amazing options you have as D/P. You can spend 8 initiative to make a super weak heartseeker through a pointless black powder in order to backstab, but with all the time spent doing that and positioning around to the back I don’t think it’s any better than autoattacking.
in my game there’s this awesome ability called “weapon swap”. i press the ~ key get to use an entirely different set of weapons! amazing!
i’d suggest keeping a set of Pistol/Pistol or Sword/Dagger in your other slot if you want to have a good set to use against bosses.
And my point is that we previously had a perfectly effective all-around weapon set that is now completely useless in a very common PvE situation, solely due to people whining about one ability in sPvP. Which is not great when you have such an incredibly limited weapon selection as the thief.
So yeah, now D/P thieves need to take along another weapon to deal with champions/bosses. But they already needed to take another weapon set for AoE, and I’m pretty sure Arenanet didn’t just add a third weapon set slot. The only setup that adequately satisfies both of those requirements is S/D, but hey, now you don’t get a ranged weapon.
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And if Heartseeker was your best DPS against bosses, you should be worrying about something else… lol
Okay, tell me what great and amazing options you have as D/P. You can spend 8 initiative to make a super weak heartseeker through a pointless black powder in order to backstab, but with all the time spent doing that and positioning around to the back I don’t think it’s any better than autoattacking.
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I’m mostly bummed out about this for PvE. It was justified in PvP, but mobs don’t care if you spam the 2 key over and over, and against very weak enemies it was often the best option to take them down quickly and move on. It’s not like the damage was super crazy or anything anyways – a warrior will do far more and in an AoE. As a D/P thief I’m also basically worthless against champions/bosses until they get under 50%, because unshakable means black powder/head shot do almost nothing and heartseeker does next to no damage. Not much to do other than autoattack.
it may be ineffective, but it is alot more fun now.
This is very true.
You get put in combat when you take damage (including fall damage), but you will not be put in combat if you block due to something like aegis, or the enemy is blinded and misses. You also get put into combat when you damage something yourself.
Sheathing your weapons does not take you out of combat.
This already kind of exists, since you can travel to the mists, take the portal to Lion’s Arch, and then have all of the city portals available to you. But that is a whole lot of load screens. Why not skip all that and just let people take city waypoints for free, regardless of where you are? Might disperse people a bit more as well, allowing all the cities to get a little use rather than just LA.
Jokes on you, the tooltip is wrong. It was nerfed awhile back and only lasts 3 seconds.
Too many banner thieves: Make Banners able to be picked up by group only
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It’s me. I am the banner thief.
P/P is significantly weaker than other weapon sets because of how insanely good unload is with combo fields.
How so? On average you’ll get a bit over one proc per use, and it’s definitely one of the weaker types of finishers. For 5 initiative and a long cast time that doesn’t really strike me as “insanely good”.
If the stealth attack hit multiple targets instead of just one I would think the set is pretty decent. It works okay enough in PvE against one mob, since you can keep chaining CnD to daze and proccing blind each time with the “blind while stealthing” trait. But toss in multiple enemies and you just get rocked, which is something any offhand pistol set does not need to worry about. And D/D has evasion spam with death blossom.
The 3 is still pretty bad but with just that one change I think S/D would be worth using sometimes.
If they’re going to be copy+pasting a billion messages you think they’d run it through a spellchecker or something. No, I’m not interested in your “diblo” gold, no matter how many times you say “pkease”.
I saw this topic title and immediately thought of the Queensdale swamp. God help you if there are a bunch of other players around destroying the portals before you can get to them.
The 25% thing is a bummer. Wish they’d just nerfed the high health damage to stop heartseeker spammers and left the rest alone.
You guys are forgetting one incredibly powerful thing: Superior Rune of Lyssa. The important part is your bonus for having all 6 runes:
When you use an elite skill lose all conditions and gain all boons for 5 seconds.
With 20 points in deadly arts, you can get basilisk venom down to a 36s cooldown. This makes that skill extremely powerful.
I’ll agree, it’s not the world’s best. However, try combining it with that rune and you’ll be very happy with the results.
On the other hand, you’re giving up all of your rune slots (360 stat points and 12% crit damage with runes of divinity) as well as an actual useful elite to get this.
Some of the heavy armor helms in particular make them look just like Krogan.
Leveled up leatherworking to 400 on the way up to 80, but never really made anything worth using during that time. Ended up actually wearing maybe 3 pieces of what I’d crafted total, and they weren’t very good items. It seems nearly impossible to keep your crafting level up with your character level unless you buy lots of materials off the trading post (which didn’t work at the time), but at that point, why not just buy the items themselves? Or just don’t bother at all and wear what drops because it isn’t really worth it to blow tons of cash on something that will be outdated in a few hours.
I did end up making myself a couple sets of level 80 yellow gear but it didn’t seem much cheaper, if any cheaper than just buying that stuff off the TP. Hell, I could have gotten 78 oranges for about that price, which not only have very slightly better stats but also don’t require the high end transmutation stones.
But hey, at least I can make stuff for my engineer alt, right? I’ll just put together this set of level 20 greens so I’ll have something cool waiting for me. Wait, what’s that? My level 21 engineer just picked up a level 21 blue with significantly better stats than the stuff I just made? Well then.
I melee probably around 80% the time as a thief, be it in general PvE, dungeons, or WvW. That giant event in particular kind of sucks though and nobody should ever do it. It’s actually pretty easy to dodge his attacks but it’s like a ten minute slog and you’re bound to slip up eventually. Not worth ranging it either. Ten minutes of plinking away for one DE reward? No thanks. Screw that guy. There are similar ones in harathi and orr that should also be avoided at all costs.
I agree, the email spam is almost as bad. have to say Ive never experienced that in any other game until now.
Simple fact, if any character is found to be gold selling, close their account immediately. Hopefully at least some of the sellers will quit once they have to keep purchasing new accounts.
This needs to be addressed NOW and acted on quickly !
I really doubt they’re purchasing new accounts so much as they are stealing accounts, vendoring everything and offloading all of that person’s money, and then using that account to spam and/or bot until it gets banned.
This is kinda how it’s been in nearly every RPG I’ve ever played. Didn’t really stick out as particularly bad in this case for me, even if it isn’t particularly impressive either.
Turning off map chat was already a good idea. Now it’s even better.
Really just depends on the area. Most of the time it’s fine but some areas are a bit over the top. Underwater tends to be particularly bad. Between the low damage most professions do underwater, the fast respawns, the ease of aggroing underwater, and the mob density, it can get very unenjoyable very quickly.
Does retaliation still deal damage if your opponent misses due to blind, or is blocked?
But I’m going to be using my combo finishers all the time anyways, so being able to position myself into a combo field to get extra benefits is great.
Two important points there:
1 – No thought. You were going to use your abilities anyway – there’s no tactical reason you’re using combos. Just because “they exist.”
2 – While you’re busy getting into position (and the already short duration is clicking away, in most cases before you get there or have to dodge out of the way) you’re also not doing what you’re supposed to be doing which is a) killing things and b) staying alive.
Is the tradeoff to get into a 1 second combo field worth it? My math says no.
Most of the time “getting into position” means “circle 3 feet to the left around the mob I’m attacking since people drop combo fields on top of monsters all thekittentime” so I’m not sure why you feel it isn’t worth it.
I don’t really feel this way at all as a thief. With extremely easy access to cluster bomb and heartseeker, I can constantly be making use of other people’s combo fields. One of my favorite parts of the class, really. Is it so powerful that I specifically plan to work with others to make use of them? Generally no. But I’m going to be using my combo finishers all the time anyways, so being able to position myself into a combo field to get extra benefits is great. And sometimes it is worth focusing on combos just for their own sake. During certain boss fights or WvW situations I’d be doing a hell of a lot more good hitting friendly water or fire fields with cluster bomb to heal or grant might to others than I would anything else. And heartseeking through your own black powder is pretty much the cornerstone of the thief dagger/pistol weapon set.
Black powder by itself is one of the best support skills in the game. There is nothing else that will mitigate damage as well against non-unshakable mobs. Shadow refuge and the thief’s ability to easily get out of danger and stay alive for long periods of time also make us one of the best ressers. Blast combo finishers are the best kind of combo finishers and nobody can put them out like we can with the shortbow. Spamming cluster bomb into certain combo fields can do wonders.
Best part is you can do all of this without even having to spec your traits into it.
I bought it for underwater combat but I don’t even use it there.
You could be purely S/D (also possibly a ranger) and people would still complain that you’re a noob heartseeker spammer. Who cares what they think?
Mount Maelstrom is pretty cool. I don’t really like risen either, but Orr is at least something interesting and different. And yeah, I really like Frostgorge Sound.
Mediocre, single target only damage at the cost of all of your initiative. And the other abilities don’t really mesh well with unload. The basic attack is mostly condition damage, which is a problem considering unload is all power/precision based. The #2 is total garbage. #4 is decent, but using P/P you’re gonna be starved for initiative. And #5 in particular just takes waaaay too much initiative for an initiative-starved weapon setup, forcing you to spend a lot of time doing weak, nearly useless #1 attacks.
If you want to do single target ranged damage there are plenty of classes who do it far better than thief.
It is pretty dumb, but the spear doesn’t have much else going for it except ridiculous, imbalanced evasion/blocking. Weapon could stand to be looked at in general.
It’s even sillier in PvE because you steal eggs off most underwater mobs which give you all of your initiative back.
Some of the smaller, lower level weapons looks a bit dumb, but I’m actually pretty okay with the scale because a lot of the more impressive weapons in the game are comically oversized on other races, whereas they look pretty alright on Asura.
This is mostly a problem for me when I get a slight bit of lag, which happens here and there. I’ll press a button, nothing will happen, I’ll press it again, and suddenly the first heartseeker finally decides to work and kills my target while the second also decides to work and send me off a cliff.
Shortbow does not do bad damage. Running in point blank and spamming cluster bomb is probably our best AoE option. Cluster bomb spam into friendly combo fields is also extremely effective, depending on the combo field. The utility on the #5 is also just fantastic, and while the single target dps may be lackluster you can kite for ages using the shortbow.
I don’t really like P/P. If I want single target damage I’ll typically go with a melee build like D/P or D/D which don’t have to sacrifice every ounce of initiative they have just to deal some single target damage, and can instead offer a little more utility without dropping their dps down to negligible amounts. P/P is also just incredibly boring.
Typically your gear gets better as you level, making your crit rate stay about the same. You’re just talking that the completely broken warrior trait that gives +40 precision per signet regardless of level, making you an absolutely ridiculous god of death and destruction for the first 60 levels of your character’s life. Precision does not need to be remade, but that trait does need to scale the same way signets normally do – by giving you less of a stat the lower level you are. No need to change the whole system when a single tier 1 trait is to blame.