Guild Wars 2

Kasteros.9847:

• The other way is to check out time that player spend at WvW.

I wish there was a /wvw age command to check that out, more out of curiousity than anything, would be fun though.

There should just be a reset all WvW traits button same as there is for pve traits and spvp traits, I personally find it annoying when they reset my WvW traits since I then have to fill them all in again (Max) on 12 characters.

Holland.9351:

Ranger Nature’s Wrath 10% healing power added to power

Just go healing power Druid, then I wont have to watch my back for flowery arrows of doom :P

I hope not since that would only increase the ultimate dominator title farm.

Gratz on the grain of sand m8!

Rauderi.8706:

Let it be one of the PvP dailies and have it award PvP track progress.

If this was the case I would do activitys again.

Character : Vavume.8065
WvW rank : Diamond Invader
SPVP rank : Legendary Champion
Acheivement Points : 22k
Played Time : 9k hours

Ah well its worth a shot :P

Ive been using a Logitech G13 for many years now, approx. 4+ and its still running perfectly even after 9k hours played in GW2, I would never buy a Razor product again after experiencing the terrible build quality of their keyboards (Had a Razor Lycossa).
I could not play without my G13, it is far superior to a keyboard.

Mf @ 268% which I have slowly built up along the way just salvaging everything I loot, I have never tried to speed up the process and no I would not recommend doing so unless you really have gold to burn. At 268% I sure do get a lot of rares drop and exotics here and there but its not a ticket to instant riches, I would say just let it happen over time, at some stage we are all going to cap it out anyway.

Sealreth.1425:

I know many of you will I say I should just adjust, and honestly I can not agree more.. but there is a limit to that, what is happening here is a cool system with tons of options, being trimmed down to a minimum, a shell, a shadow of its former ways. (unless I miss interpreted it all.)

~ \(._.)/

Its not a shadow of its former self at all, the system we are using now is the shadow, this new trait system will be much better, how can you not want 9 majors instead of 7, 3 GM’s instead of 2, and 6 lines to choose from instead of 5. The whole thing is expanding. The SA line which we both know you love is going to be very strong, although I wont be taking it, I have other ideas that I cannot wait to try, personally I’m excited for the new trait system, and yes you just need to adjust, which you will.

Mareak Humner.5672:

Give them a longbow, fine, but leave the hunting, ie fierce velocity and traps to the experts, the Rangers.
-IMHO.

I agree but I think its prob to late now to change, but the name would still be easy to change at least. Voting Dragon Knight.

Zackie.8923:

i have no more hype left… my guardian in hot is gonna be ranger hunter taming dinosaurs with traps

Now it all makes sense, rangers have been asking for years to be able to play without using pets… so Arenanet thought… right we will give them Guardian Dragonhunters….

Dawdler.8521:

They might as well skip all the hassle and combine everything to one proffesion – The Necrarriogineerguardiefrangemesmentalist. Specialize as you want!

So much this ^ they basically made a plate ranger, they even copied barrage, so much thought must have gone into that…

and that vid… I fired an arrow, I fired an arrow again…

Dragonhunter sounds much more like a ranger specialization to me, and yeah it does not fit Guardian whatsoever imo.

@Zackie, yeah that sounds more like it.

Funny enough my 6 year old nephew who has been taking swimming lessons recently asked my why there is no backstroke in gw2.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

While it’s true that we can’t always tell exactly what the devs will do, they do have some precedents from which we can gauge an outcome from.

Yes like the re-stat after MF gear was removed, and this is why I personally expect they will allow stat changes with the new trait system, since they have already set that precedent…

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

There are no words…. there just aren’t.

NO they aren’t “refunding” your armor
NO they aren’t “replacing” anyones armor
NO they aren’t going to give everyone a free stat reroll.

How do you know your gear is “soon to be useless”? Have you seen the finalized changes? Do share.

How do you know that any of the things you posted will not happen? Do share, oh that’s right you don’t know do you. There is a very high chance that they will allow a re-stat to ascended gear and maybe even exotic, but that is just my opinion, nothing has been confirmed at this stage so please stop acting like you know, because no one does except for Arenanet devs.

RoRo.8270:

I think the op suffers from paranoia. This doesn’t even make sense to me someone following you around? Maybe for a few hours but from what I get the op makes this sound like it’s been happening for weeks. So you’re telling me this person happens to login exactly when you’re on and always follow you? Why exactly would this person go out of their way in a video game to follow you? Are you some sort of online celebrity or did you get into an argument with em?

I think maybe you have lived a sheltered life or something because I can tell you these things happen to many people, its not even funny. I was stalked and harassed for weeks in game and the guy only stopped after he received a final warning from support.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

From 2 years ago: Too easy to stalk/privacy concerns

Snow White:

It is FAR too easy to stalk someone in this game.
-People can add you to friends without your knowledge or permission and see everything about you.
- Even if you BLOCK someone, they can still see if you’re online, (via their friendslist) what toon you’re on and where you are in the world.
- There is no option to sign in invisible. So if an unstable person has friended you, and sees you log in and then quickly switch to offline. They start sending you in-game mail calling you out.
- If you appear offline, people can still watch you and see if you move locations.
All this stuff needs to be corrected!

I propose:
1. There should be a way to LOG IN invisible. And when you’re invisible, your location should NOT update!!!!!
2. No one should see your account name until you add them to friends. They party userface kind creeps me out.
3. When someone wants to add you to friends, IT SHOULD ASK YOUR PERMISSION before they are allowed to see your account name and every toon you log on.
4. When you block someone…they should see you as offline. Always. They should have NO information about you ever again until you unblock them. Not even what server you’re on.

Anet, I’m begging you to please do something about these major privacy issues.
Thanks for reading guys, let me know if i missed anything.

Response:
Moderator
“Hi everyone,
Thanks for bringing your concerns to us Snow White.
We will forward your concerns to the team so they know about them and have them in mind to improve the game.
In the meantime, please keep the discussion constructive and friendly.
Thanks for your understanding.”
_________________________
Sooo, they know about these concerns OP, and will address them in their proper time.

lol I assume you are being sarcastic about them addressing it in proper time, seeing as that post is 2 years old :P but yeah I agree completely with everything that snow white said.

Having thought about it a bit more they may well extend a re stat to exotics, since after all they did that with the magic find gear, so why not I guess.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Vavume.8065:

I think they really need to allow all ascended gear to be re-stated, like they did back when magic find gear needed to be changed, however I think allowing exotic gear would be a step to far, exotics are not expensive these days.

This really frosts my gourd.

Why? Because one of the selling points when Ascended was shoved down our throats was that it was not required, and that exotics were almost as good. Well, guess what. Some of us stuck with exotics because we didn’t want the whole re-gear thing that others demanded. Now you want to stick us with re-gearing again while you play the “Ascended is too expensive or time consuming” card?

You know what. To heck with that. If ANet doesn’t want to offer a re-stat to everyone at L80, then I say no re-stat for anyone. So you “worked” or spent on Ascended? Big deal, that’s why it was put into the game. If you don’t want the same courtesies extended to all players, I hope no one gets a re-stat.

You do sound upset and tbh I don’t see it getting any better for you, I really do not see them allowing exotics to be re stated, a full set of exotic armor is around 15-20g which is not a big deal, ascended however is more like 300g, the qq that will be seen on these forums if they do not allow for re stating ascended will be on a massive scale, and arenanet will have to give in to it, like they have on many occasions when there was major qq on the forums. The amount of people qqing about exotics though will be small in comparison and tbh does not hold much weight.

I think they really need to allow all ascended gear to be re-stated, like they did back when magic find gear needed to be changed, however I think allowing exotic gear would be a step to far, exotics are not expensive these days.

Offair.2563:

Whilst on it, make it so you cant whisper people that you have on blocked. Raging kids in wvw and u cant fuel the fire…

Edit: I am stalking you too but then on followers tab ;p

lol yeah I know, you and like 250+ others, but that’s alright and I agree they should do something like that, but it would prob annoy your GM since he whispers pretty much everyone he fights and calls them every name under the sun while having them blocked so they cannot reply.

penelopehannibal.8947:

If you are being harassed in-game, I recommend you submit a ticket to support by clicking ‘Support’ at the top of the page and explaining in detail what has been happening.

Also, since you know which two people they are, if you block them in return they will no longer be able to see when you’re online.

I did report them, but as for blocking them so they cant see me online, no that does not work.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

How do you know they are ‘following’ you around? How do these nefarious ‘stalkers’ know which IP map address you are on? Did they send you a message stating so?

If so, you surely took a screenshot, and sent it to the CS Team, yes?

I knew cos they are on same server as me and every time I changed wvw border they changed at same time and proceeded to follow me around, and yes as stated I contacted support and they did deal with this guy, so fairplay to CS they did fix this issue for me, however the tool these people use to stalk you is still in game a.k.a the blocklist.

Take it in turns to play.

It came to my attention recently that I had 2 people stalking me via THIER blocklists, what I mean by this is that they blocked me so that they could then see my location, instead of friending me to know my location, they did this so that I would not know they are following me around from map to map. I really think this needs to be looked at, a simple solution would be that anyone you block should then have UNKNOWN as their location. Make it happen please Arenanet.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I know people are complaining about the drop rate/people getting more than one, but I’m wondering how many people think this is a good idea and hope ANet do something like this again.

Yes I think it was a good idea and I would do it again for the next expansion after HoT, if they do it again for HoT though I think that maybe pushing people a little to far to soon. The people that got in now should always get into all future HoT betas.

John.8507:

Know how you feel, and reports of newer accounts being luckier, and some accounts getting multiple portals is very worrying, it seems they are not rewarding players correctly, or fairly!

lol stop the tinfoil hat theories, there is no such thing as lucky accounts, luck is just luck, you either get it when you need it or you don’t.

Here is the bottom line, not everyone is supposed to get into closed beta, that is why it is actually difficult for most people to get these portals, there already exists far to many methods of buy your way to what you want in this game, I’m happy that this time you cannot, either keep trying to get lucky or wait for open beta.

Finally got mine after about 20 hours grind and 3k+ geodes from a random Skritt in Dry Top. Going to continue grinding this zone now till I finish the amberite wep collection, see you in beta!

KickzNGigglez.4958:

Maybe you all should do something to keep your mind off it like making lumi or amberite set for idk funsies.

This is what I decided to do, the old 2 birds with one stone routine, farm geodes for the Amberite weapon achieve while I farm for the portal.

I’m happy to see I’m not alone in my thinking with this trait, however we certainly need more thieves to support the idea of removing this trait to get it done. This trait does not deserve a place in the new patch and this is the perfect time for it to be removed once and for all.

It is prob baseline, it always made little sense to me that a thief can only steal from 900 range without traiting for it, whereas a guardian can teleport 1200, at the very least steal should be 1200 also.

Been playin power DD since release, 2 and half years now using only 4 out of 5 skills, best option I can think of is to have some kinda skill choice for weapons just like we have with utilitys, maybe give combo skills 2 skill options that you can choose from, that way I can actually get a power based skill in that slot and condi DD’s can still be a thing.

I find it strange that after spending nearly 4 hours on an organized SW map NO ONE looted a portal, and now I come to the forums and I do not see anyone posting that they got one? Whats up with that?

Eethy.6421:

n00b question.

Main hand dagger, 1st attack in chain is Backstab.

The summary says…

Stealth Attack. Attack your foe from the shadows, striking for double damage if you hit from behind.

I tried sneaking up behind some Ogres and attacking with Dagger 1, but just did Double Strike/Wild Strike/Lotus Strike.

So I’m guessing I need to be in stealth in order to Backstab?

What’s a good way to get into stealth, or just how do you Backstab in general?

Click my sig, much backstabs will follow.

Sadly it was just a Mesmer portal…

dietzero.3514:

Too. But yeah, we need more details.

Fixed, thx, I think :P

mango.9267:

Vavume.8065:

mango.9267:

No, the trait is fine. Has some niche uses in WvW and is pretty good in PvE. If you dislike it, just don’t take it.

Niche uses in wvw? please name one.

Two groups are pirate shipping in a choke. You get caught and pewpew’d to death. Concealed defeat gives you a smokescreen that lets your team quickly res you without getting pewpew’d as well.

You get bursted down, drop a smokescreen, and let the other thieves on your team blast for stealth to get you up or to leap through for less costly stealth.

These are just a couple of examples of niche uses in WvW. It might not be the most optimal choice for every build/comp/scenario, but it’s not entirely useless either.

Well I don’t know about you, but I never trait for being downed. Your examples are indeed very niche and honestly I would /laugh at any thief using this trait for those reasons.

Firstly I think its great that we are able to earn our beta spot through play but..

Could you please tell us the exact TIME this event starts and finishes, and also will the previous beta testers be automatically selected for closed beta or not, thankyou.

mango.9267:

No, the trait is fine. Has some niche uses in WvW and is pretty good in PvE. If you dislike it, just don’t take it.

Niche uses in wvw? please name one.

lukejoe.1592:

what do you use this for? so far I have found one gap that I can avoid going around but besides that…not really seeing the point.

Goto wvw and try porting up cliffs and rooftops with it, there is 100+ spots that it is useful like this.

lordkrall.7241:

Rather interesting way to get into beta as well.
And a rather good way to guarantee that people in the beta are actual active players.

Totally agree, gj anet, this makes things rather interesting.

This has always been a terrible trait, whenever I down a thief and see the smoke screen pop up first thing I do is whisper them out of the goodness of my heart and tell them to change it, as they are obviously new to playing thief and have no idea how this trait is working AGAINST them in pvp/wvw. For anyone that does not know why this is so bad, its because it gives away the fact that you are downed and your position.
I would like to see this trait removed completely from the game, its prob worst thief trait ever created, and bundling it together in the future patch with the 20% reduction to deception skills trait is just going to kill the Master of Deception trait for anyone that wanted to use it.
Anyway, who is with me that it should be removed completely?

MidoriMarch.8067:

Cloaked In Shadow is *MUST have trait for D/D thief. and moving that onto GM trait is just way too unfair for D/D

I’d pick CiS over RoS as D/D anyday..

CiS is only blind we can access for us d/d thieves… and that is really really helpful.

I dont really care about other weapon sets and traits but moving that CiS to GM trait is just killing D/D

and CiS , SoR those 2 are like core for those SA D/D and its the only survival we have taking those 2 away means just quit D/D

You are right about cloaked being needed for DD, but moving it to GM trait is not killing DD at all, its just giving the a choice between 2 powerful defensive traits, but really cloaked in shadow is all a DD needs imo.

Impact.2780:

Last refuge should be an adept trait making it optional to take, and concealed defeat should be the minor.

No thankyou, I agree with the last refuge as a optional trait but never in a million years do I want to get stuck with concealed defeat, its like an alarm bell screaming your position, whenever I see noob thieves running this trait I always whisper them out of the goodness of my heart to tell them to change it, as it is an awful trait for any form of pvp.

babazhook.6805:

Vavume.8065:

babazhook.6805:

>>You lack power if you are using assassin gear to get the high crit rate you first spoke of… secondly I play a DD burst build, all my damage is up front and I can burst 23k in literally 1 second. It would take you some time to build up your might, whereas my power is ALWAYS there.

Actually no. You are not lacking power in assassin build. I use it and not lacking in power.

There is crit food out there that gives might on crit with no ICD. You can stack might easy. Again you predicate your own build on attacking from stealth. That certainly a valid choice but a whole lot of damage can be laid down when NOT stealthed and so that trait of “hidden Killer” is not doing anything in your build when you are not stealthed even as IP heals .

Of course all remains to be seen when we look to the gear/trinket changes as stats move to gear.

Assassin lacks power, not going to argue any more over it, its main stat is prec, I play full zerk. I also stealth and have access to hidden killer every 3 seconds. Anyway, we have totally diff play styles, you play PP its like comparing apples and oranges. GL with your build, its vastly different to mine.

I used p/p as an example of a set that takes advantage of IP.

I play three different thieves and on d/d preferred executioner over hidden killer all while using assassins. Assassins armor set loses out some 90 points power easily made up for with 3 might stacks or an extra trigger of a proc on crit like Air sigil.

The current build i focus on I use assassins armor d/p and focuses on high boon uptime. There no lack of power in the build as i can so easily generate might stacks and run with perma fury and 57 percent base precision. This base precsion ios with NOTHINg in the CS line. In intense battles I can get might stacks to 20+ and added to my stacks push the total power well over 3000 in WvW with the skills I decide to take. this is not a lack of power while ensuring beter crit chance for those procs. More power is always easier to get in game them more crit chance is my own philosophy.

Compared to my build it lacks power… I have 3.1k without might… and that is always on from the first second of an engage, anyway not going to continue going around in circles here.

babazhook.6805:

>>You lack power if you are using assassin gear to get the high crit rate you first spoke of… secondly I play a DD burst build, all my damage is up front and I can burst 23k in literally 1 second. It would take you some time to build up your might, whereas my power is ALWAYS there.

Actually no. You are not lacking power in assassin build. I use it and not lacking in power.

There is crit food out there that gives might on crit with no ICD. You can stack might easy. Again you predicate your own build on attacking from stealth. That certainly a valid choice but a whole lot of damage can be laid down when NOT stealthed and so that trait of “hidden Killer” is not doing anything in your build when you are not stealthed even as IP heals .

Of course all remains to be seen when we look to the gear/trinket changes as stats move to gear.

Assassin lacks power, not going to argue any more over it, its main stat is prec, I play full zerk. I also stealth and have access to hidden killer every 3 seconds. Anyway, we have totally diff play styles, you play PP its like comparing apples and oranges. GL with your build, its vastly different to mine.

babazhook.6805:

Vavume.8065:

babazhook.6805:

Vavume.8065:

I’m still favouring Critical Strikes over Trickery, I consider Hidden Killer to be the foundation of my zerk dd build.

Take your base crit chance up way high and you do not need hidden killer. My p/P build used a base 80 crit chance with near permanent access to fury.

This might be even easier to do with attributes pulled from the trait lines.

Then you lack power, no thankyou. I crit 13k backtabs due to my power 3.1k+ (WvW), and thats the way I will be keeping it.

No you do not lack power. Power/crit no longer come from trait lines. You can make up some of the disadvantage from the gear with might on crit stuff. (my current build I can get 25 stacks might easy)

Further to that while your backstab might get 13k that does not mean more damage over all. It takes several seconds to setup a backstab. In that time a person with a high crit rate will be getting a crit on every hit including his heartseekers

You lack power if you are using assassin gear to get the high crit rate you first spoke of… secondly I play a DD burst build, all my damage is up front and I can burst 23k in literally 1 second. It would take you some time to build up your might, whereas my power is ALWAYS there.

Whenever someone qq’s you are doing something right.