Guild Wars 2

:( we need more wars, not less

Ah k, I don’t reddit and there was no reply on the other thread:D

This would be amazing, and I’d hope would promote more soloq

I love Wild Blow as it is, quite amazing in pvp, just gotta be careful not to miss. I generally use it to knock someone into a wall before pummeling em, or knocking a downed away from an unstoppable rez or similar. And solid dmg.

I agree with savage instinct, was something I was talking to a friend about, comparing it to Rev’s and their ability to break stun on Legend Swap.

For eternal champion, I’d like resistance instead of reduced damage, generally physical dmg can be shrugged off by wars, condis on the other hand…

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Which is a shame, since the day Anet releases these into the gemstore is the day Anet makes a million dollars.

If they ever release bathing suits as armor, you can bet the medium armor will have an ankle length coat and the light armor will have a buttcape.

Don’t forget gigantic NFL shoulderpads.

Asymmetric gigantic shoulder pads. I also am expecting random spikes sticking out from various sites on the bathing suits and ragged hemlines and holes here and there.

And crotch flaps!

Ahem, MODESTY flaps. Cuz I don’t want people leering at my pixel crotch!

This town outfit with its Modesty Flaps, fore and aft, kept people safe from many a rude stare. Naturally any right minded person will expect HUGE Modesty flaps on their bathing suits.

As well as being exceptionally stylish.

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Yea:( I loved those shorts, got em the instant I saw them available, n then it was turned into a tonic…….

Evan, not sure if that system is working correctly then, Lord Helseth has a vid of him losing 2 pips when winning, with 1 d/c’ed team mate, that didn’t log back in within the grace period. Just wanted to bring it to your attention.

1 DH without a team to support isn’t an issue to most people, but I can imagine the frustration of 3 DH’s on mid (probably on comms)

Yea… even without the bug… slow on auto? I think i’ll just stick to droppin aoes and cleaving em down then.

I knew it, druid OP…. :P

Yea I’ve noticed similar when queuing up with guildies, most of whom were pretty new to pvp in general. They had been winning, or at least having even matches til I joined, then we lost a few matches, against players that were easily more experienced than most of my team. So I assumed it was due to my being in the party mostly. Not sure how things went for them after I left the party.

The Mantids burrowed into a leypoint, most died, the survivors were however able to feed on the energy, and in 250 years, have evolved into spitting, laser shooting chak. Maybe lol.

Couple important things you are overlooking:

First, we don’t know how awesome this set will look, I mean, remember the twig armor set elementalists got in GW1? And I personally enjoy mix/matching skins to get my ideal looks. Hell, the pant skin my Mesmer uses is like 5s…..

Second, most importantly, stat change is nice, but what about the rune set? Are you gonna swap from zerk to support with strength runes? I mean, it probably wouldn’t matter much, but still….
Might actually matter a bit more if you swapped from zerk to sinister, using a power based rune set.

And how many people actually change the stats on the legendary weaps? I’m pretty sure most people leave it as one stat lol. Some of my guildies completely forget they can swap stats.

Edit to my prior post, seems the trap areas of effect are the same number-wise according to wiki, probably just the huge animations the guard traps get.
Though damage and effects of guard traps still blow ranger traps out of the water.

Generally if I can see the guard, i’ll know where not to go, but some of my classes I run pure melee, so that’s especially crappy lol.
I have hit random traps though, but none were powerful enough to really do anything, least not on the chars I was using at the time.

But you can make similar arguments for trap rangers, except ranger traps don’t hit as hard, don’t have as many effects, and I’m pretty sure have a much smaller aoe field.

Not quite what I’d call balanced.

Yep, I took my elem to VB first, was rough, doable, but rough, high risk with minimal reward.
So I decided to take my tankier chars, even a zerk guard has an easy time getting through lol. Learned the maps, learned the mechanics, etc, and now I’m taking my ele through.
A lot easier when you know which mobs to focus down first, and where to go/not go.

I think all they really have to do is allow map participation to stick when people swap maps, so everyone not participating in the meta wont lose anything for leaving the maps for the meta’s sake.

Pretty sure the events downscale to an extent as well, though could probably be better.

Till anything is fixed though, just remind people not participating how many leyline crystals they can get for helping out, plus the skins and mastery point locked behind the meta:)

Meh, if it were more powerful than ascended there might be an issue, but as it is, not too big a deal, similar to how you had to do WvW and crafting to make your own legendary weapon.
I’ll also assume anet will be releasing more in time, if you don’t want to do raids, don’t sweat it, unless the armor is that amazing looking.

So perhaps this vial of salt is not full due to the tears of our enemies, but from our own! (Just a joke, I agree this needs a fix)

Didn’t even know the vial was an amulet lol, thought we were gonna use it for the legendary.

I usually find a place off the beaten path if I need to afk, or I port to the start WP if it’s gonna be a while. Not hard to find safe places generally, ones where even intentional pulls probably wont make it before the mob is tethered.

Sometimes if I’m running around n I notice someone apparently afk in my path, ill stop n kill the mobs chasing me then move on lol.

I bought all the unique skins I could, forged em all, not cost efficient generally, but you get skins and a chance at makin bank via the forge. It also burns through karma fast lol.

As for the long way, converting karma into mid level mats: not worth the time in my opinion, the time spent doing that could be spent doing more fun things, like running circles around LA.

Yea the loss of the pvp skins is what makes me sad, one of the cooler potential rewards of reaching milestones. They removed those and did nothing to really replace it.

As far as achieve points themselves, it used to be easier to get a lot of AP, when we had nothing complete, but most things we did actually gave a substantial amount.

Now, a lot of the new achieves we get, give us 1 AP, some don’t even give any AP, that with limiting daily AP to 10, those who have played a lot and finished a lot of achievements have hit a plateau.

Only anet knows how long we’d have to play to even start seeing a completion of the armor skins, and now the backpieces. How many years are we expected to stick to GW2?

You might look into redoing your elem’s gear, if you’re running a high dps setup, then yea, it’s gonna be rough until you know enemy mechanics and such. Definitely a lot of enemies that can drop you instantly, if you don’t pay attention to aoes/targets etc.

As for other classes, I took my zerk ranger through with no issue, probably the easiest of the classes I have (zerk guard, hybrid war, zerk mes, zerk rev etc lol). Especially once you get druid unlocked, the immobs n heals are quite nice.

Exalted glider with the ascended backpiece would’ve been nice, but the only other backpiece that has a glider associated is the pvp legendary (and i’m sure the fractal legendary), both of which take a lot more time/effort/investment than the Illuminated collection. And if they locked that glider behind more grind, you’d get a whole new lvl of complaining from players lol.

Or there coulda been no ascended exalted backpiece, and instead just make that 2nd collection work towards the glider alone.

I WAS fine with the number of sets available with the HoT release, thinking living story and future patches would bring more..

But then they unload all these outfits galore, not just for armor, but for gliders as well….

(Then again, maybe the teams designing gemstore stuff are just more productive than the other design teams lol)

My guess is when they finally update fractals, with the bug fixes n such, so sometime this month maybe?

I think you do need to use at least 2 classes though, as one of the achievements is to complete 2 of the class achieves, not sure if this is part of the 11 total needed though

I’m 3 n 3 so far, so 50/50 rate lol. Played my war n ranger. My war actually did pretty solidly generally, until I ran into a team of 2 condi mes n another condi war lol.

Plus the shackles from Halloween?

Would be nice if they were even available ingame yet, since a lot of people are coming up on their last dailies soon to finish unbound, not to mention those that already have it done. Hopefully, when the fractal update actually hits this month it’ll include the final step and its components.

Go try them all, or watch youtube vids n see if any playstyles pique your interest, relying on other people’s opinions will help you the least.

Just did a run last night, failed by an infinitely small %, like, Gerent looked to be at 0 lol…. I blame it on myself:( Died in a donut, and had to run back lol.

Ive always preferred running a heavy phantasm build on my mes, but I still shatter, because shatters provide a lot of additional dmg/utility, and with chronomancer, it’s even better now.
One of the issues before was being able to get enough phantasms up quickly, and have the phantasms available for the next target when your target dies.
Another issue is that I don’t think phantasms hit as hard as they used to.

Before, I used illusions (I think) to reduce cooldown on illusions and phantasms, so you could get them up rather quickly, but that’s now been replaced with alacrity and resummoning traits of chrono. With the right traits in chrono, you summon an illusion when you shatter at least 2, and your phantasms get resummoned the first time theyre shattered (awesome).

For long drawn out battles, a phantasm build is solid, so more noticeable in PvE, but in WvW/PvP, you’ll still want to shatter more than phantasm imo. Maybe if you chose to run a tankier Mesmer, so you survive longer, don’t hit as hard, but have more time to use all your phantasms.

Ive really enjoyed all zones, have gone through them on 6 characters. The events are fun enough, and the difficulty of the metas is a nice change of pace compared to central tyria.

Class elites specs have been a nice addition to my builds, and while I was hesitant on some, after playing with them more they’ve grown on me pretty quickly.

Overall, story content was a little lacking (in length) though content itself was fine. But remember, Anet has been expanding a lot on story via Living Story, so this is just the beginning I hope.

Guild hall has been solid, definitely made our guilds more personal, more important to each of us. But the way some things were implemented… Our guild had no issues due to our numbers, but we can all see how badly this was designed for smaller guilds.

There are little gripes here and there, particularly with balancing and bug fixes, but overall, I’ve enjoyed it.

EDIT: I also like how a lot, if not all, events and meta tie into the personal stories themselves.

Well, if anything, the 2 lanes that most commonly fail from what I’ve seen are Nuhoch and Scar, the other 2 are really a nonissue usually. As such just focusing on how to succeed at those 2 regularly is the important part imo.

Yea, it’s kind of weird that the breakbars work differently for Gerent than from other bosses/champs, that take increased damage with their bar broken.
I mean, you’d think breaking the Gerent bars would be the goal, with the way Anet has set it up.

I’d say it’s enough of a guide, most of us have been trying these long enough to understand most mechanics, but I think OP gives more insight that can be useful, especially if you want to try to organize an attempt rather than relying on luck of the draw.

And yea, having to rez downs definitely hurts DPS more than anything else.

I’ve seen people with the Illuminated title, so it has to be doable. I think the items you get from the chests have to be specific collection items, in otherwords things that can’t be used as crafting mats. And one of the chest items looks like, and is named similarly to the material.
As for the merchant items, make sure you have high enough mastery, if any masteries are needed.

I’ve had mostly runs with no drops, but have had a few where multiple would drop in one run. Also remember to take into account that 4 runs nowadays would equate to 1 ran preHoT, and even preHoT, I’d get maybe 1 every 3 full runs?

Yea, cc’s tend to do less damage too, so you’re wasting valuable DPS for a cc that wont really increase benefit you/everyone.
I think some people just activate every skill that’s not on cooldown thinking that it’s better:(

I’ve been running my ranger as a DPS druid using LB/GS, the root on cc is lovely.
At the moment she’s mostly zerker, with soldier’s rings, might swap em for zerk again, especially if I take her to raids.
In pve, it’s been amazing, the amount of roots you have access to makes everything a breeze, plus the occasional burst heal as you need it from CA.
Marks/BM/Druid are the lines I run.

Yea had a successful random pug run, I was on my DH, pure zerk in SCAR, and we had about 20 on each lane give or take. Lots of icebows and people actually using the bows

One of the commanders made the comment for SCAR; It needs the most pure DPS out of the lanes due to not having any lane mechanisms that increased the Gerent damage taken. Just passing what I heard, dunno if it’s true, as I always go scar or nuhoch.

I had another run with 15 max at Nuhoch, failed because of the bug, while every other lane killed it:/ So maybe we’d want more there to burn it down faster to prevent bugging?

Icons are unique as well, if your graphics are too low to see the aura effects.

Magnetic is brown with rocks floating around the shield, Fire is orange with flames on the shield.

Most of my chars get by with 1 or 2 stunbreaks, though some definitely lack condi removal. Some have a lot more stunbreaks available though, like my pure melee classes.

But stunlock has existed since wars have existed, though now more classes have access to it. (I think wars are still king of stun chains though)

I guess my idea with making the banners mobile, and no longer an item you can interact with stems from the idea of engi drones, spirits unbound (don’t remember if that still exists for ranger) or a revenant’s buffs. Something you can summon, and kind of forget till cooldown is done and you can summon another. (only reason for having asura carry it is to make it something practical as far as looks, you could instead have the banner summon n attach to your back, like those Japanese standard bearers)

As it is, people generally don’t pick up a banner unless by accident, there just isn’t much reason to, except maybe the blast finisher. Damage on banner 5 + banner summon would be nice though.

because it wouldn’t be an effective selling point if at the end, we lost

Yea, I use the T2? sylvari cultural on female for light armor, with certain leggings you have invis shoes, but limited to race/sex. (luckily for me it’s the only char I want invis shoes on) Thought more of these boxes would’ve dropped by now as more people got stealth detect.

Like evil Gods that want to be reborn and destroy the world, cept that was done, and dragons are suppose to be stronger than gods.

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Don’t be silly, humans can’t be male.

ps. nice photoshopping in the op

If you mean removal of the UI, that’s not ps. If you leave the mouse alone for a bit, the screen becomes that, focusing on whatever char you have chosen. Great for screenies:)

Traps: I avoided all on the first set, triggered 2nd set but kept going forward, so mobs weren’t aggro’ed, which worked for some reason.

Controllers: make sure you target each wolf while on the pad, your 1 skill is what kills them, but requires a target, each wolf should be one shot.
If it gets hot, get off the pad, heal up, get back on.

As for untethered, pretty sure pets don’t matter, but it is definitely buggy.

I just got the achievement this past weekend, didn’t get hit by any vines, but I DID get hit by mobs.

Make sure you don’t hit the water below at all, as the vines also spawn there (in the same path, not all of the water, but I’d avoid all water just in case)

You should get the achievo when you reach end platform, so Faolain fight doesn’t matter.

I just ran along edges of one side, ranging things down or meleeing the walls from the edge.

I did it this way twice, first time didn’t trigger the achievo.