Guild Wars 2

lordkrall.7241:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

They have nothing in common with dragon minions.

As far as we have seen.

I find it highly unlikely that we have seen all kinds of Dragon Minions. In fact we have probably seen rather few of them all in all.

That doesn’t make it inconsistent.

We haven’t seen Tom Bombadil go skipping through the meadows either.

Omad’s machine (and Scarlet, and in fact all of LS1, and some if LS2) becomes unnecessary to the plot when you have Mordremoth taking control of Sylvari without it.

In fact, you could pretty much skip all the living story up to this point, and jump into this chapter and have Modremoth just take control of his minions and have it make no less sense.

Said it before; if I was Mordey I’d be ashamed to have Sylvari as dragon minions.

Compared to Icebrood, Risen, Branded, and Destroyers, they’re just so freaking lame.

What sort of self respecting evil incarnation of destruction has a bunch of namby pamby hippies as minions? Even the nightmare court are lame. Bunch of whining emos with their unrequited love and their mommy issues.

If I was going to have one of the races as minions I’d go for the Charr. At least they look evil, hell, they were designed that way. The Charr know how to be bad guys.

kitten it, even the Skritt would make better minions than the Sylvari.

But it wasn’t Kudu who experimented on (with) Scarlet, it was Omad. And he didn’t intend to turn (or un-un-turn) her into a Dragon minion.

Arguably, the plot of LS2 might have made a lot more sense if it was Kudu who created Scarlet.

Omad’s machine, the Ley lines, and the Breechmaker all seem rather superfluous now.

Koviko.3248:

They go on to give the example of Glint who, after seeing the goodness in the heart of men, chose to assist them rather than destroy them.

Regardless of what the Zephryites believe, or what Glint told them, this is not true.

Depends whether your build had access to might. Condi Warriors ofen use might to push condition damage up significantly.

May as well make bad jokes and empty threats, because the game mechanics don’t support any real action. You can’t actually be a bad Sylvari, and you can’t actually make a salad out of one either.

If the game had actual factions you could back up your hot air (or try to).

But all we have in GW2 is the equivalent of badlands chat, without the option of raiding crossroads.

Just buy some Knights gear and dye it black. Voila.

I deleted three level 80s a while ago. The remaining two have level 500 crafting, or I would have deleted them as well.

It would be nice to have a race change option.

Even though this is a joke thread I can’t help wonder how players should act.

Pretend nothing happened? Mordremoth’s minions are running around doing jumping puzzles and making money in the TP? WTF? Or perhaps some bad roleplaying about taking over the world.

Honestly, I can’t see how a Sylvari player is supposed to reconcile any of this.

Why the focus on condition removal? The extra HP a warrior has makes up for the lack of support. Properly built warriors will usually be the last to fall in any fight.

It could be anything. It might not even be an MMO.

So we could have risen to sweep up leaves, and paint the garage, that sort of thing?

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Wanderer.3248:

Aside from any lore reasons, hybrid minions, like Mordem destroyers and branded undead would be cringe-inducing bad fiction, and should never be given serious consideration.

Eh. Subject Alpha wasn’t bad. It’s just something that needs to be used sparingly- kinda like how throwing colors together just tends to result in brown, breaking down what makes minions distinct could very easily result in something unappealing.

As a one time “what-if” scenario it works. But you are totally right that if it was used all the time it would just be a horrible mess.

Some of the most awful attempts at fiction have been serious attempts to combine multiple monsters into one.

Unload is great on other thieves.

Aside from any lore reasons, hybrid minions, like Mordem destroyers and branded undead would be cringe-inducing bad fiction, and should never be given serious consideration.

Use a shortbow.

You don’t run in the middle of the blob, you run around it. Use shortbow 3 and 5 as well as dodges to avoid direct combat. You want a build with some toughness and vitality in case some enemy ranger makes you a target.

Apply poison fields to the enemy back line and flanks. Do not drop a poison field on your own front line.

Blast your own front line with shortbow 2 often. A single thief should be able to generate huge amounts of AoE might, retaliation and healing. If your commander calls for fire or water blast the kitten out of it.

Use shadow refuge to get downed allies up.

You can swap to d/p if you need to escape and reset. Or you can use it to stealth finish downed enemies.

xDudisx.5914:

Prysin.8542:

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Hybrid melee ranger. Its built to endure and burst. And if that fails, condies will wear your enemy out fast enough.

I was thinking in make a celestial ranger for wvw. The utilities and traits are similar my main problem is get a good weapon set. GS has the best mobility but it is pure direct dmg, Sword also has great mobility but the autoatck chain is annoying.

Has anyone tried to might stack with sword+warhorn/axe+torch or something similar?

You can stack might & ferocity with axe and warhorn, but you lose it again pretty quick if you swap weapons.

Hammer skills are so slow and telegraphed it’s often hard to actually land a hit, especially against a moving opponent. If you are getting chained, it’s probably 2 or three players bouncing you around.

Teleport skills work in 3D. Like when you use a mechanical devourer in EoTm and port straight up on to a rope bridge.

schnitzel.9018:

Hmm… i dont like Pepsi… where can i post this…

On the Mountain Dew forums of course.

Gear is not that important unless you run with hardcore dungeon or WvW players. A cheap set of exotic gear will be fine for all the other stuff you can do at level 80.

Whatever happend to “don’t bring a knife to a gunfight”?

Everyone has five character slots. Just accept than not all builds are useful in all circumstances.

The should be tradable. People who don’t want them can get cash, people who do want them don’t have to grind. Everyone wins.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Anyone done an analysis? Is it even possible to determine how many points come from kills? (I believe you can tell how many come from player kills + sentries + yak kills, but what about just player kills alone?)

It’d be nice to see some accurate numbers, but perhaps some analysis can be done by comparing scores from before PPK and now — of course, that might be impossible because removal of white swords also happened.

In any case, despite its popularity, I’d be surprised if (aside from boosting point totals all around) it makes any difference in outcomes at all.

Even before PPK servers could easily get 20-30% of their points not from tick. So at a guess I’d say that about 10-20% of current scores are PPK.

I have the same bug. Nothing but the pole. And honestly I can’t be bothered with work-arounds, I have enough to manage in WvW as it is.

None of the enemy who have whispered me have ever been polite.

Ever.

OP is probably the only WvW player in all of GW2 who bothers to whisper the enemy to say nice things.

Junkpile.7439:

It’s more fun kill low levels and karma trainers than normal wvw players.

Say what?

Dungeons are such a small part of the game. A Necro is good in open world PVE, in PVP and in WvW.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Kodan are 10 feet tall on average – per The Wisdom and Power of the Kodan – norn average 9 foot, iirc (a head shorter than kodan).

As for physical strength being comparable to height – it’s less “height” and more “body mass” that is important. Naturally, having more body mass, larger races will be physically stronger than smaller races. Mechanically we won’t really see this though, because balance.

It’s not even that simple. Strength to weight ratios can vary hugely between species and sexes, and even individuals in a species. Carnivores are typically much stronger, pound for pound, than herbivores.

Humans are exceptionally weak apes, even for their height and weight. An adult chimpanzee is about 5’6 and about 70kg; slightly smaller than the averge human. But they are much much stronger – some estimates have chimps being four times stronger than humans, and in a hand to hand fight no human could hope to match a chimp.

It wouldn’t be surprising for other humanoid races like Grawl and Dwarves to actually be stronger than humans.

The main advantages humans have in physical ability is endurance (especially long distance running), and coordination. Chimps, for example, are terrible at throwing things. You could never train a chimp to throw a spear or even a rock accurately. They just chuck stuff under-arm. Humans on the other hand excel at throwing objects, and running down their prey; overwhelming their enemies with numbers and hit and run tactics. In many ways humans hunt and fight like wolves.

What this game needs is dueling on mounts inside guild halls inside super adventure box. With no downed state and no AOE cap. And precursors for the winner.

That would tick all the boxes.

And then we could merge four merged threads into one guild-super-dueling-adventure-box-mount-hall thread.

Think swamp gas.

Don’t follow the lights.

The fastest way is probably a dagger-pistol glass cannon thief in full zerker, just use auto attack and use a permanent smoke field to mitigate damage. The only tricky bit is to pull the scouts into melee range, otherwise they are very annoying.

Have you smelt a Norn after he’s been fighting in full armor for eight hours? And covered in blood, and enemy guts, burning oil, and putrid cow that someone fired from a trebuchet?

Or hung around a necromancer? Some of those minions get a little ripe out in the sun.

And rangers. Three words: wet dog smell.

It would have to be entirely optional. Most players can figure this stuff out for themselves, or Google what they can’t.

Tutorials are boring.

Edit: except a tutorial on not knocking back a mob out of another players melee range. That needs to be compulsory.

Scizzor.8137:

Treborlavok.3504:

The main stats/dmg of your chosen weapon would almost never need to be changed.

Change my legendary stats when I switch from WvW to PvE. Which is daily

For the cost of the legendary you could have multiple ascended weapons.

The only downside I’ve seen is that you get groups that hole up in briar with buttloads of seige for the sole purpose of farming kills. That’s EoTM levels of gameplay.

If you know anyone with the game in your area it might be quicker to copy the game on a USB stick.

(Yes, this does work, I have done it twice myself, and you’ll still need a key to activate it).

This thread is pointless.

The artists behind this game have something called _taste_* and aren’t going to throw in a bunch of glocks. It’s not going to happen. No matter how nice you’ve all been this year.

The art style of this game is pretty obviously influence by Renaissance through to Victorian era Europe, with a dash of Da Vinci’s notebooks, a piece of Jules Verne, and some oriental spicing . Where fantastical machines are introduced, they have a very retro styling, the sort of thing you would see in works of fiction of that era.

Did everyone forget the April Fool commando class, and the uproar it created (when people took it seriously)?

*although, some of the backpacks… shudder…

Offair.2563:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

If anyone doubts this is the reason for the recent changes to the daily achieves, I suggest you look at the WvW list today.

“Kill a Veteran Creature” is on the list today.

Obviously, in our rush for PPT and PPK, we haven’t been killing Henry or the Harpy or Warg often enough.

I have been killing tons of veterans before i found out there was a veteran creature daily still sitting on 0%. Turns out to be a pve achievement in wvw.

Whats next, daily wvw champion killer which will be the spider?

90% of the veteran PVE mobs (like the wolf near umber glade) don’t count for the achievemt either.

Let’s hope they don’t add the grub.

Lil Puppy.5216:

Permanently banned accounts should have their names wiped, but just inactive ones shouldn’t.

Yeah, but the banned accounts always have names like ididurmom and ysomad, so it’s probably better not to have them available.

What difference does it make anyway?

I think a lot of what goes into the game is just because it looks cool, than because it makes any sense.

Warriors in heavy armour and swords vs automatic weapons should be a total no contest, but some players would have a fit if they couldn’t play their favourite archetype.

This will get worse with tomes for dailies.

Palador.2170:

Wanderer.3248:

None of those are being used for business purposes (by the players), so Disney or whoever is unlikely to be able to sue, even if they wanted to. Especially since it’s obvious that the players are not mice, and are not affiliated with Disney.

You might be surprised. Here’s a bit of history for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Heroes#Suit_by_Marvel

The important part here is that if someone makes a copyright copy character in a game and it’s found out about by the copyright holder, they might feel they NEED to sue to protect that copyright, even if such a lawsuit is not reasonable.

As a fun side note, on one server there was a character named “Harry Dresden”. He had his name taken from him more than once, and had to file with support to get it restored each time. It seems Jim Butcher didn’t like having his personal character renamed.

All the trademark claims in that suit were dismissed, because there was no commercial use.

It’s correct that companies do need to enforce trademarks, and often sue just to avoid losing trademarks.

Ironically, what was eventually settled in the lawsuit were some copyright issues, and you don’t actually need to keep suing to avoid losing a copyright.

Phil.7903:

Is it against ToS if I buy second account and run 2 clients at same time, getting double dailies, 4-manning dungeons and inviting my secondary account to get dungeon daily chest, crafting daily ascended stuff twice and basically moving all wealth to my main account?

I wonder how long this would take to pay off, compared with buying gems with the cash you would have spent on the second copy of the game, and then converting gems to gold.

Togashi Jack.9531:

Gaile – the problem is that the event is actually kind of bugged. The daily just requires participation, so you should be able to go in, miss every note and still get your daily. I had gone in, hit notes, and was ejected for failure about 4 or 5 times before the daily recognized that I had participated.

I think this is working as intended. The achievement is for playing, not winning.

Ayrilana.1396:

It could be that you do not know when to play the notes. There’s very little reason for there to be lag in that instance.

I’m sitting on 300ms to the ANet servers most of the time, just because of the speed of light. That’s enough of a delay to make a difference. When your listening to music and the timeline is nearly half a second out it doesn’t even sound like music.

Games like Rocksmith actually have to calibrate for the delay caused by the console and TV, and that’s usually less than 50ms.

None of those are being used for business purposes (by the players), so Disney or whoever is unlikely to be able to sue, even if they wanted to. Especially since it’s obvious that the players are not mice, and are not affiliated with Disney.

The stuff in the ELUA is just kitten covering, in case ANet decides they want to ban a name. ANet probably has a million character names flagged for attention, they have better things to do.