Guild Wars 2

Megis.9264:

BL kit for rares is a waste, you can make 1-2g buying exotics and salvaging good runes and sigils.

Not true. Some of us have a bank tab dedicated to storing said kits because we key farm.

3 months later and still bugged. Once again, ALL of my armor is COMPLETELY dyed Celestial in the attached image.

Vexander.9850:

Maybe they’ll add a one-handed version for that. Then Kunai for Daggers.

NARUTO?

maha.7902:

i’m not using the new peasant naming.

Guild Wars 2 is a peasant? We’re talking about how traits work in the game now, not about personal preference. Good luck telling people to put 10 points into a single trait line when the max per line is now 6.

¿Que?

…I couldn’t help myself!

http://esuke.net/apps/gw2be/

Shakki.3219:

So was to kill Liadri and it got a title now.

your point is invalid

I’m pretty sure it’s technically a new (cloned) achievement with a new title…

Astralporing.1957:

Oh please, by now everyone know about the chnneling skills damage display bug already. Troll better next time.

Easy there, Little Buddy. Calm down and relax. I’ve yet to hear say or tell about this supposed bug you mention. If you mean to claim that’s really the case, I’m gonna need some proof. Only you can prevent forest fires!

This ain’t GW1.

We’re all side-characters in GW2.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

You’re trolling right… Since the backpiece has regular Exotic stats and does not have super powers. At least it hasn’t for the months I’ve had mine since it came out during one of the Southsun releases.

Well, I honestly can’t say for certain that damage was from equipping my awesome new tentacle backpack, but it did happen right after I equipped it…

Why would you ascend this thing and risk losing the insane amount of damage it adds? After equipping this awesome tentacle-backpack, I hopped on over to the Svanir Shaman world boss and promptly struck him for over 36,000 damage with my auto-attack. Downscaled to level 11 doing enough damage to kill a level 80 PVT Warrior… FEELS GOOD.

…Working as intended.

I just want the recharge nerf reverted, then I’ll be happy.

Hey, I beat her. It’s an easy fight.

I had no problem with these achievements on my Mesmer at all. As well, the two relative achievements under the Festival of the Four Winds that require you to beat 12 champions and beat 12 champions with an active gambit can be be done simultaneously by simply beating the first champion over and over again with your gambit of choice.

Finally fulfilled the dream of every Japanese man by becoming my very own tentacle monster…

…LOOK OUT, WORLD!

Is this bugged or should I be entering Sanctum Sprint from somewhere other than the NPC near the Sky Docks Waypoint? I’ve done two races now without leaving and the achievement isn’t updating at all. Leaving this Sanctum Sprint instance didn’t update it either.

Jurica.1742:

Make Blink 1200 range
Replace 1200 range manipulations trait with +25% passive movement speed trait

~Monns

I think you just quoted the Bible or something because that sounds like the Word of God.

Just imagine how many more people would be playing Guardian if Symbols were Fire Fields…

Please no.

I love my DPS Guardian for dungeons, and she’ll be permanently sidelined if this happens due to the fact that Symbols are Light Fields.

Pyroathiest wasn’t stating an opinion on the matter. He was stating a proven fact that has been understood since beta.

Tom Gore.4035:

TBH swimsuit would be best implemented as a tonic. I don’t want people running in PvP wearing speedos and wielding greatswords.

The notion of a giant Norn pulling his greatsword out of his speedo and proceeding to wield it against me is certainly terrifying…

Had it been dye-able, I would’ve bought one.

Ranger damage has already been nerfed by 33% across the board since the beta so that overall damage would be more comparable with that of other classes after including pet-damage. Those weapon skills you use (auto-attacks included) used to do 33% more damage.

…Did they ever fix this? I haven’t seen anything on it in the notes for the upcoming class changes! My auto-attack keeping me from dodging is getting me killed left and right!

I personally prefer that all of my armor is affected by lighting and shadows.

This just doesn’t look normal when all of the armor is dyed the same…

Beldin.5498:

Wow .. so your Celestial turns into Purple inside a bar ? For me that would maybe more the real bug.

What? It was evening and I was standing in the doorway so as to show how the shadows aren’t properly affecting the entire armor.

Um… The problem is that the entire armor set is dyed Celestial (there is no other dye used in either of those images) and only one part of it isn’t affected by the lighting and shadows in this game.

Here’s another example image…

ArenaNet,

Thank you for fixing bug I had addressed prior concerning the Exalted armor-set. That said, I’ve found another one. As you can see in the attached image, lighting does not effect the upper leggings of the Flamekissed armor that I purchased from your Gem Store.

This may not be as apparent with other dye schemes, but I prefer this armor dyed Celestial, and it’s very apparent when the leggings remain bright white while the rest of the armor changes shades of different colors depending on the lighting that is affecting it (it’s also very apparent from lighting from fire, for example).

Korossive.7085:

Skins will never be P2W. Obviously you’re misusing the term.

Quoted for truth.

Substance E.4852:

Read the Ranger CDI and I feel you will change that opinion very quickly.
Hell, we had 2 pets that we’re exactly the same model with the same skills for over 6 months before they found out. After we told them directly.

Quoted for truth.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Full Zerker teams are actually the safest way to do the harder dungeons (CoE and Arah) because you kill the bosses so fast the mechanics that make them difficult for everyone else never come into play (for example, that 7.7 second Lupicus kill. There was no risk involved there. Yes, I am aware of the coordination and planning needed to pull it off).

I fail to see the connection here with “mediocre zerk parties” – but this is certainly an interesting display of a 180 on your prior claim stating “I have no issues with highly skilled zerk parties blasting through content”.

No risk? There’s a difference between no risk and no mistake. If you make a mistake, you introduce risk. If you don’t, of course there isn’t going to be a risk. Perfection is without flaw; expecting it to be otherwise and trying to use that as justification for an argument is utterly nonsensical.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

That is one of the biggest issues right now. Zerker parties finish the fights so fast that they simply aren’t subject to as much risk.

Of course skill is going to supersede risk. That’s the way it works. I don’t understand the reasoning in arguing against logic itself, but maybe you can enlighten me here…

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Yes, most PvE content is easy, but when what should be “high-risk/high reward” gear turns into “negligable risk/high reward” gear, there is a definite problem. The problem is, of course, in the enemy design. Bosses are too reliant on infrequent attacks that one-shot or nearly one-shot you regardless of your stats.

…Thanks for reiterating and furthering my point? I don’t see how that helps your argument (whatever it may be now).

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

This is clearly the case since in WvW and PvP, there is no “zerker meta”. Why? Because players have higher offense than active defense. The risk inherent in the stat set becomes very relevant then.

I’m not touching that subject. Those game modes have a whole other set of issues that don’t even involve Berserker gear, so I’m not gonna stray off-topic by forgoing relevance.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I have no issues with highly skilled zerk parties blasting through content without much trouble. I do have issues with mediocre zerk parties blasting through content without much trouble. Right now, the NPC design is such that active defense on players is greater than the offense from the mobs and bosses. It’s a simple change that’s needed.

That’s a pretty terrible justification made by a pretty terrible generalization. Mediocre parties can certainly blast through easy PvE content without much trouble, but in Fractals of the Mists (and Arah to some extent), it’s a completely different story. Just because regular dungeons are a part of the PvE meta doesn’t make it alright to ignore the fact that they are easy even without Berserker gear. You can just as easily get together a full Cleric’s group and take twice the time to stack and kill a boss in the same way and still have an easy kill without anyone going down or getting defeated. If you group together easy meta PvE with the only meta PvE that actually requires some amount of skill, then you flaw your entire argument.

That said, the fact remains that furthering upon active defenses can still enable players to survive endlessly against dungeon bosses. If two dodge rolls isn’t enough to keep zerk parties alive through a speed-kill after losing 8% DPS, Superior Sigils of Energy giving them that third dodge roll is. If that gets nerfed, players will just look to their survival utility skills to replace DPS ones.

ArenaNet can break this game as much as they want trying to cover up the real issue, but it won’t take long until the majority of the player-base catches on and they start to catch the bad widespread PR they’ve been suspiciously able to avoid so far.

With a background of years of playing the original Guild Wars, I love this game. It is currently the only game that I play… but my eyes are wide open when it comes to all of the problems it has and how ArenaNet has thus far decided to deal with them. The Living Story was the worst thing to happen to the fruition and growth of Guild Wars 2, and the game desperately needs its dungeon team back.

Terrahero.9358:

They are also nerfing zerker a bit, wether intented or as an added bonus, it makes sense. Because it was scaling to far out of reach in pve damage.

PvE zerker-meta is due to how terribly designed many of the mechanics of this game are. Zerker gear is intended to do the most damage (as stated by ArenaNet), and people using the right organization and tactics can better take advantage of ArenaNet’s poor game mechanics with it. Nerfing Critical Damage while introducing Ferocity is just a blanket to cover up ArenaNet’s refusal to distribute resources to fix its game mechanics.

If being able to kills bosses and trash-mobs faster makes PvE content easier, then zerker will always be the PvE meta. Why would anyone run a full or partial support build if it isn’t necessary? Why would anyone run a condi spec if a power build can better sustain DPS on more targets or even a single target? The problem isn’t zerker; it’s the way this game works. What did people expect with no trinity?

It appears sarcasm is lost on you.

y warden dun atk sumtimes ?? dis supposed 2 b liek or wat ???

oZii.2864:

There is no difference conditions and direct damage

u wot m8

how i zrek tace-fank hambone and won ?? many stronk

much wow so kitten (=^o_o^=) (=^-_-^=)

Replace “5K+ AP” with “DM title” and you might have a better qualifier…

Or maybe “5K+ AP & DM title”? Nah… That’s asking too much.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Infinite reward dungeon? Did I miss something?

I just logged in and purchased this skin. I’ve been taking time off from this game lately (minus lurking on the forums), so I would’ve definitely missed it were it not for this topic.

Thank you.

Recreate the deleted character and then use the splitter with said character.

Devata.6589:

There are a few of those items (themed as you name them) already in the game. For example the mini Cobalt Great Jungle Wurm Head is such an item and it’s not soul-bound. The sunless are.

Yeah… The Mini Cobalt Great Jungle Wurm Head is NOT something you equip unlike the Sunless weapons and the Living Story themed gathering tools.

Devata.6589:

It can be but does not have to be soul-bound. Just like pretty much any drop can be made soul-bound or not. There is n specific reason it has to be.

See above. While there may be no specific REASON, there IS a specific pattern.

Devata.6589:

Living story rewards are achievements, they are more linked to your story thats why they are soul-bound (your story). Thats something else. In my example I also talked about quest-rewards, those would indeed be soul-bound (your quest) but most of this sort rewards do not have to be soul-bound at all.

The problem is that it’s NOT something else. All of the themed gathering tools are based off of the Living Story and were/are made initially available with said Living Story. That’s DOUBLE the justification for them to be bound items as they are rightly so.

You’re making very vague blanket statements about “there being no reason” for such and “does not have to be” or what have you, but it’s very evident that ArenaNet is of the complete opposite opinion based upon their own given pattern for what they decide is bound and what isn’t.

I’m going to break this down a bit:

Devata.6589:

That might in some cases also be boring by itself (kill one type of mobs 1000 times) but I have fun in it because I am chasing that thing I want and every time have the feeling will it drop?

Fact is that if it was available in the game-world it would still also end up on the TP (probably a little more expensive) so you could still get it with the money you earned doing fractals. So in that way it would not interfere much with your game-play like it does now with ‘my’ game-play.

Right… so you can do the Karka train killing the same type of mob thousands of times with a chance for any precursor to drop. Say a precursor DOES drop: You can TP it and convert for more than enough gems for the new mining pick more than double over. Say it doesn’t drop: You can still sell the multitude of Karka Shells and Vials of Powerful Blood you’ll be stockpiling on the TP for gold to convert into gems.

Point in case, it’s still the same pie no matter which way you slice it. If it had its own specific in-game grind to acquire it, it’d probably be soulbound or account bound on acquire based on majority examples of other likewise THEMED items (Living Story equipment, Sunless weapons, etc), and that’d be far more limiting than what you’re trying to argue. Heck, you can’t be certain you’d even like the grind!

As for having it as a random drop like the Permanent Bank Access Express, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever given that is, in fact, a THEMED item.

Devata.6589:

Velimere.7685:

ANet doesn’t need to respond to this because nothing they ever put in their gem store will ever be P2W as long as gold can be converted into gems. If I don’t want to spend X amount of real-world currency to obtain 1,000 gems in order to acquire the new mining pick, I can just convert a sum of my copious amount of stupidly easy to amass gold into gems to get it.

Haha yeah nothing is P2W because you can convert gold to gems. Of course. But everything is a gold-grind. That is already the case.

You know in most games that are very infamous for P2W you can earn the items also in-game. It usually just takes a long boring grind.

You say boring, but I thoroughly enjoy perfecting my speed and Fractal runs with my friends, and earn a lot of gold in the process. I average about 2 hours of gaming a day in GW2, and I’ve spent over 800 gold since December (and I’ll be spending another 200 gold this week to craft my Light of Dwayna). If anything, it’s far too easy to come by in this game, especially when you take advantage of converting all of the various currencies into gold as well. I mean what else am I supposed to do with all of these dungeon tokens but make more gold out of them? Haha.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Thief: Highest single target damage in the game.

I’d like to see any Thief out-DPS my Elementalist on a single target; Cloak and Dagger into Backstab has absolutely nothing on Lightning Flash into Fiery Rush.

Why don’t you just use something cheap like a Spineguard?

ANet doesn’t need to respond to this because nothing they ever put in their gem store will ever be P2W as long as gold can be converted into gems. If I don’t want to spend X amount of real-world currency to obtain 1,000 gems in order to acquire the new mining pick, I can just convert a sum of my copious amount of stupidly easy to amass gold into gems to get it.

Simply reverting the nerf to Mist Form would make the Elementalist viable again.

I received a Fractal Harpoon skin last week and a Fractal Warhorn skin this week. I don’t know if Magic Find affects the rate of getting these things, but I do keep a Birthday Booster active on the character I run FotM with.