Guild Wars 2

So.. I personally don’t like having to pick up and move banners, though their buffs n party wide benefits are great.

So what if, just an idea, banners were mobile, as in: you summon a little asura that carries a banner, and follows you, immune to dmg and what not, because we don’t condone killing progeny.

And maybe, one banner can also provide pulses of stability, perhaps banner of defense.

However, since they’d be mobile, maybe make the area of effect a little smaller?

I mostly just want a bunch of asura following me.

It depends on which backpiece you chose in the first chapter, so if I choose Priory backpiece, i’ll get the priory based straps and such when I complete the quests.
That’s how it’s worked for the 2 characters ive taken through HoT completely.

Anyone can use any of em

Hmm that does look like a bug, and you’re sure that’s the character you chose the priory backpiece with?
@ Inculpatus The part in question he needs is only from completing the story mission, as per the description

no:( none of the shoulders are hidable on outfits

You should be able to preview it from the outfit panel, even if you don’t have it

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

I have seen selected pieces of armour I have enjoyed, but never bought them. Why?..because they are an outfit that can’t be mixed and matched.

I am confident I am not the only one who feels this way. I don’t mind spending money on things I like. It is nice to have nice things so-to-speak.

Hope this feedback helps. I’d rather buy an arnour appearance set that can be mixed and matched for 700 gem, rather an outfit, 5 dyes I already have and a glider appearance I don’t care about for 2000 gems.

Yep, I really like the chest piece for female humanoid characters, but the rest of it ruins it for me (the blades specifically), but I would buy the whole armor set just for that lol

A lot of things go through block where as I don’t think anything can affect you while you evade.

Top 2 things I’d really want:

-Adren degen definitely needs work, either slower degen, or let it generate faster, If I don’t use any skills or traits, and just smack something, it can take quite a while to build up enough adren to be useful (especially for berserker)

-Baseline Piercing for rifle would be nice, considering if you want that you lose a far more important trait currently (imo)

Makai.3429:

An outfit that conceals your face and hair, which comes bundled with a total makeover kit.

That’s our Anet! Coming this fall to NBC!

Pretty sure the headpiece can be hidden, like all other outfits

Pretty sure those who don’t have the home instance node can buy it from the Laurel Vendor.

Throwing mats n gold away isn’t epic either:/

However chopping down trees with herrings….. or, kill the Killer Rabbit of Caer Bannog with a wooden sword (or a grenade made from angel tears)… these would be stories to tell your ingame children.

How much fun anet could have had making these, and how fun these journeys could have been.

Honestly the collections for the 3 pre steps weren’t bad, aside from the time gate.

Well, maybe the cost of getting the balls of dark energy, but hey, this is a legendary, and it will be somewhat more unique than all the weaps, at least for a while.
Pretty sure cost is still no where near making a legendary weapon of any kind.

I REALLY want the chest piece, and just the chest piece (well, maybe gloves too) of the outfit for my ranger:( if the rest of the outfit was less bladed, id be fine with that as well… ah well, guess I keep sticking to the standard T3 human top.

Yea I imagine any future expansions might involve fighting more than 1 dragon at a time. Plus I feel like all the surviving dragons are stronger now with mordy’s death, where at the end it seems the energy he had been collecting spread across tyria.

One of my guildies linked said shards before, didn’t ask him where he got em, if I see him again ill check, if no one else has the answer by then.

EDIT: nvm, he probably only had the base item, and the issue is how to upgrade em:/

Yes, as far as what I’ve gotten from the amount I’ve played so far in HoT, totally worth the $100, and I haven’t even stepped foot in Raids yet.

There have been some issues that annoyed me, but not deal breakers for me.

However a lot of it will depend on what Anet does in the future, such as balance.

Sorry didn’t mean completely unwarranted, but when almost every thread on here is about how kittened warriors are…..

How much did it cost ya? and congrats

Because I have a guard, I enjoy both and both offer different experiences, I’m not saying wars aren’t underpowered compared to other classes, but the amount of complaining ive been seeing isn’t warranted imo. As far as utility, not every class has the level of utility that guards have.

Don’t think that’ll happen for shield, unless anet redoes the programming for that specific issue.

However, I do agree with the idea of weap skins that really change the look, like a GS that looks like a great axe, or a hammer that looks like a stick. Kind of like how we have daggers that are broken bottles.

I see, so every player who hasn’t beat me on my war is bad, makes sense.
But there’s this issue where you think the only pvp warrior that has been and ever will be is zerker/marauder.
I still recall running as a celestial ele when everyone said they were worthless despite my success on it.

As far as the competitive pro leagues, pro players will choose to take any and all advantages they can because it is that competitive, and I agree that other classes currently have greater advantages (which I personally believe to be unbalanced and hope anet does something), but those alone just give them an edge, one that I don’t need.
But to say warriors are in the worst and incapable of being awesome…. when I and many others easily roll face with wars, makes me wonder what people are doing with their wars.

Lastly, some of you keep pulling in Pro pvper’s for your arguments, if I’m a college level math student, of course I’d probably get schooled in a math competition against a doctorate. But in my matches, I’m playing against people of my skill level I believe for the most part, on average, and I do well.
(Maybe you should ask one of those pro players to make a war build and see how they do with it)

What I originally thought precursor crafting would be like:

1 – get a base weapon, maybe a unique crafted item, comparable in cost to any standard crafted exotic, or more expensive, cost here doesn’t matter

2 – Apply various things to weap, to temper it, to strengthen it, to improve it
a – Maybe you need the waters from some specific place combined with ore’s that have been imbued with magic. (Maybe you have to have said ore and you have to put it into lava, several times, gated by time, because you do it too often too fast and the blade will shatter)

3 – Carry this weapon with you, doin various events or dungeons or fractals, or killing world bosses, further imbuing it with magical power. (anyone read the manga Berserk? where Guts’ sword has become imbued with power from all that he has killed?)
Maybe get struck by lighting several times for zap lol.

Imagine having to kill Zhaitan with a lvl 10 greatsword, that’d kind of be hilarious and awesome to me.

4 – and so on…..

Something like what we did to make Mawdrey, or the Black Moa Chick in GW1, but on a more grand, legendary scale.
Sure, there should be costs, there should be time invested, and maybe it still would cost a lot even with this method, maybe to smother the weapon with melted ectoplasm or something.
But to cost as much as buying outright + the time invested… because time “should” equal money… that doesn’t make much sense.

To make a real life example: Cleaning your house – costs a little money for supplies and the rest is time spent, OR hire people, you go n do your thing elsewhere, come back home and your house is clean for $100.
With Precursor crafting, you’re cleaning your house yourself and buying all the cleaning tools and what not for $100, to clean it once. Because you only buy things in travel size when you clean, who buys bulk anymore???

Id rather we just use Unbound as a precursor, throw in a Gift of Fortune, Gift of Mastery, and 10000 crystalline ingots. Oh wait…..

I’ve seen plenty of wars in all HoT maps, I don’t know if they’re all doing well or not but they’re there.
As for pvp, I usually do unranked and HJ, and yes, I do run into a good number of people who don’t play their classes well, or perhaps they’ve forgotten how to counter a warrior since so few of us exist apparently. But, I’ve run into plenty pretty good players, as does happen in a game mode like pvp. I’m usually among the top scores, and I don’t find myself any more disadvantaged than playing my other classes (Ele, guard, mes, ran).

(didn’t realize the forums automatically censored with “kitten” lol, thought people did that on purpose)

You have to click the first one for the rest to be clickable, also have you completed the instance at least once before?

erm, why/how did you not unlock the elite spec after 4 maps? you just let your hero points pile up? I mean, all you needed to do was put in 30 points to start the collection.

So, all I’ve been seeing in the warrior thread is how underpowered or useless their warriors are, and I’m here to say that I still think my war is solid in all aspects of the game, and does well in all aspects. And I’m wondering if there are any others out there who think the same?

I deleted my first war when she hit her 3rd bday, and remade her a few months after. Gave her my guardians spare set of ascended armor, which was a soldier’s set for WvW. Had plenty of zerk trinkets n such so those were no big deal, and had a few weap boxes so made a hammer and sword, also zerk.
With those, I’ve run around solo through HoT and through fractals, and have had a blast.
In pvp, I was a little wary since I did feel war was a bit underpowered compared to what they were. But… few matches go by, and I’m still rocking face, the only players able to effectively shut me down are pure condi, and those are easy to get away from usually. But even when I do stick to and fight, knowing how disadvantaged I am in that fight, I still do quite well. Many times I’ve fought against great odds, whether being outnumbered and/or being “outclassed” and still putting up quite a fight. And theyre fun fights.

Maybe I’m a little weird though, I don’t like running classes/builds that are considered OP as much, I like fighting against the odds.

Anyway, my ramble is kind of over, I just want to leave you guys with some advice, for those who feel like they can’t do as much with their wars, try something different with your wars, I didn’t think switching up my full zerk build for a hybrid soldier’s/zerk build would work quite as well as it has, but it has kept me playing my war.

PS – I still run core war in pvp, but pve I’ve been liking Berserker a lot, and might start tryin it in pvp some day. And it always feels good winning against DH’s, Chronos, DD’s, etc

I have fix-r-upper but I prefer the smaller “precursor” to it, looks more like something you’d find in a garage when getting assaulted by zombies lol.
Might be due to my character using it being asura, and the precursor looks plenty large on her, even if it isn’t shiny.

Id say any situation now when you need time warp, you also need to break a bar, so moa does seem a lot better, at least to swap to for big boss fights.
It’s amazing how some bars barely budge even with full F3 and double gravity well, but Moa just crushes it.
And keep in mind, mobs are more vulnerable to dmg with a broken bar.

Yea due to the amount of things you can actually reflect and not, I prefer sticking to mostly zerk with some assassin.

Haven’t tried it, but wouldn’t a pure zerk dps ranger with lots of immob be helpful in a raid? With CA as a backup heal if things get dicy?
I saw that some of the mechanics would be perfect for the amount of immob a ranger could put out, and I don’t think ranger dps is that much lower is it?

As a DPS role, not the heal spot, btw.

Yep, just try to get on a Tier4 attempt map. All bosses get killed almost every time, though some cut it pretty close.
Last run I did, killed frogs n booked it over to axe since usually that one needs help, but it was long gone lol, and we killed frogs pretty quickly.

Yea, the first fight…. I’ve only tried it once so far, on a pure zerk pure melee guardian lol….. let’s just say that was rough and put me in my place lol. (We didn’t get past the first boss)

And I wouldn’t say I’m a bad zerk guard either, solo’ed the mission in normal mode with no deaths, first time doing the mission, and regularly did fractal50’s per-HoT with no issues what so ever.

That would be nice, if only I hadn’t already thrown away all of them lol, finished one collection and working on the last 2. The armors were no big deal, but the weaps… that’s a lot of money being straight up thrown away:/

I know, but you don’t get the map rewards once the map rank reaches the end of tier 3 I think it was, which is like 15 leyline crystals every 10-15 min or so, the bouncy chest.

The events themselves don’t give as many crystals, if at all iirc, almost all crystals come from RNG loot, and map rewards for each step of tier completion.

You don’t need a full map to do events, and even if the Gerent event fails you should be getting 75 crystals as a map reward when gerent starts on top of all the other sources. Assuming you actually get 200% participation. If I start from some time after gerent ends, I can usually get over 250 crystals in an hour or so.

Only thing I don’t like is the long lull between completing all events, getting 200%, and waiting an hour for gerent to start.

Guard for me still, that golf swing….
War is 2nd

Engi was ok but I didn’t like the lack of any sort of knockback or knockdown
And range hammer… it’s ok, but I don’t pick up a hammer so I can stand in back.

I run LB/GS with my druid (dps not heals per se) and can build it up relatively well, but I generally cant go into avatar form twice in a fight unless it’s a long fight. Troll Unguent and dmg is pretty much my only source of AF I think.

According to wiki, it was built hastily after Asura were driven from underground, pretty sure they weren’t driven out till after GW1 events. Wiki has it occurring 250 years ago.

So maybe instead of a precursor to Rata Sum, this Rata was an attempt to make one to replace Rata Sum.

I like the staff n sword personally, wish the made the GS a little thinner.

Rename it to Firebolt and make it move faster:)

I still roll around with my war everywhere, PvE is still cake even with full melee, PvP is a little tougher, I can’t go full zerk or anything, so end up doing a hybrid soldier’s build, which does quite well in Hot Join and Unranked.
For WvW….. stab gets strip instantly, there is so much dmg from physical and condi that you have to take 2 stances to counter both, and those don’t last long…. (in zerg fights) and most frontline wars are running melee/melee, so…. yea lol

Ive had the VB potions work once, but never again, and none of the other potions work for me either.

completely forgot Rox was a ranger lol…..

I think who ever will be the leader, they’d have to have been present in Maguuma, I doubt the pact would choose to follow anyone, no matter how high ranked, if they did nothing during the events of HoT. So that kind of narrows down our choices I’d imagine, no sylvari for now just because of potential dissidence. I do think some or maybe all of Destiny’s Edge have a good chance, why have 1 leader if we can have a council?

Beyond that, I can’t really think of anyone else in particular, none have shown exemplary leadership skills during these events that I’ve noticed.

For the most part I enjoy here dialogue, sometimes though, it gets too much, especially earlier content.

Not sure exactly Tink, but there should be areward track in pvp, that if you complete it, you get a box.
You might have to do a step to open the reward track though, perhaps doing the DS meta or something like that.

EDIT: Maybe not:( just checked wiki, the only HoT armor box track is for the bladed gloves.

In the past, and somewhat now, I’ve found one of the best ways for dealing with mesmers is a lot of aoe dmg, aoe stuns, etc. And knowing when to avoid their incoming spikes. Is it perfect? no, but it’s a start.

Hammer stuns and aoes are great, especially if the mes stays close to his clones/phantasms, just be ready to dodge out.

Phase Retreat can save them against stunlock though, so try to watch for that and don’t burn all yer attacks in one go if you think you have em locked down.

A little late to the topic, but I’ve always assumed that this was the precursor to Rata Sum.

That Dessa seems to know of it, and maybe even know of the Asura in there, it should be relatively recent.
My guess is that when the Asura first set about making a new city, they decided, what better way to show off their intellect and power, by having a gigantic floating city.
However the reactor, the power that would be needed to keep the city afloat, would have to be insanely powerful. And perhaps something happened causing the containment for that reactor to malfunction, thus, “Breach!”
This would fall in line with the other fractals as well, where a large gathering of magic energy occurred, thus locking it in time.
And for abandonment, I’d imagine the Asura not on there, for the sake of their own safety, decided to shut down any gates going to the Rata.

Also, the golems are of recent design, not sure if that’s intentional, but we do know the golem designs changed radically between GW1 and GW2.

Our BL maps didn’t have queues primarily due to the lag, not that people didn’t like them, seems the central event causes insane lag for some reason.

I, and many of my friends, love the new maps, but the combat is what kills it. Stability being stripped off the entire frontline the moment it goes up among other things. But then again, maybe we just need to fully shift to a different playstyle to counter it.