Guild Wars 2

There’s nothing to be confused about MF. You just don’t know what will happen and how they will go about it. Of course that doesn’t stop you from saying that the fix is often worse than the problem, lol

Care to elaborate a little more? Your suggestion is…intriguing.

Considering the fact that GW2 has loads of voice acted dialogue I don’t think their budget was low on that. Some actors are also pretty well known.

Also your post implies that sub-based games earn more revenue, which is something that goes against recent evidence.

We don’t know the details yet. We know only that they are going to try and make the transition as less damaging as possible for people that posses MF gear.

Wrong. If you have no swiftness, it will give you 8s of swiftness + boon duration. If you already have swiftness on you, even 0.5s, it will just give you 1s swiftness per pulse (and it pulses once a second ). I don’t know particularly well the mesmer focus, I may have misunderstood you. This is however how the guardian symbol works.

You could use gw2lfg.com in the meantime. Fast, easy and detailed

Also we can play with everyone from our region (EU or NA) so I really doubt you are going to get grouped only with people from your server.

Ridafyt Whitestrike.8397:

http://youtu.be/1qjXvGd9goI

New Kid Inkk vid: he also sings around 13:30!

Great fun @ reset hoping for a good week folks!

Is my headset dying or is the audio way too low in that video? I can’t appreciate Kid Inkk if he’s not piercing my eardrums.

Arenanet clearly loves China and hates us! QQ

No

@ Esplen: Guardian’s staff works exactly like Mesmer focus :p

Engineers are great duelists. Some of small-scale builds will WRECK people, and I don’t randomly capitalize words often. A well played Engineers is a force to be reckoned, as they don’t have glaring weaknesses. They have decent-to-good mobility, but they aren’t as slippery as Thieves.

That being said, while they have good AoE they aren’t that utilized in organized zergs because it’s either hard to aim (grenades) or self centered ( bombs ). But I may be really wrong on this one, as I haven’t kept up with WvW strategies for a while now.

For PvE, they are regarded as weak but I’m sure that their hard-to-learn playstyle has a big role on that perception. I’m not really experienced in PvE with Engineers though, so take this with a spoonfull of salt

Finally, don’ rely too much on “performance” when choosing a class: a balance patch may come and things may change, you know how balance works.

Mesmers give swiftness with their focus. Guardians through Retreat and their staff. Rangers and Warriors using their horns. Engineers have a random chance of giving swiftness with one of their Elixirs.

Thieves and Necromancers can’t give other classes swiftness, but they could if they slotted a specific rune.

Hell Avenger.7021:

SoLeciTO.3490 and Wolfheart.1938, you do realize you two’s posts comprise most of this thread right? It looks like a lot of pro dueling posts, but they are mostly from you two.

Yes, I post more than I should. For example, I should’ve ignored this meaningless post, but here I go : you do realize that with 25 players posting, this thread means less than nothing?

@ Atlas: well it goes to show that I’m not too lore savvy. Did you know that certain companies force cheap useless components whose sole purpose is to break in their products? I’ll call those “Kormirs” from now on!

@ Morrigan: OoOOOOoooOOOOooh, I see, this is YOUR game I have come to. Well no reason to discuss this any further guys, one of the stockholders says he doesn’t want dueling.

By the way it doesn’t go against any PvE design choices because it’s not PvE I can see why there would be problems with dynamic events and such, but you are dead in your idea so I truly see no reason to discuss this further.

I’ll stop posting here because it fall on deaf ears.

@ ShufflePants: I don’t know, do you?

As for WvW, I’m not really convinced about a system for duels there. I’m more for an istanced dueling arena or whatever, if folks don’t want their PvE experience ruined. Implementation would be the difficult part though.

/off topic
Atlas, you can’t believe in the Alchemy and the Holy Five ( no Kormir plz ) at the same time :P They are mutually exclusive, as far as I know.
/on topic

Panda Shepard.1248:

Wolfheart.1938:

Really, it is positive for people who like it, whether or not some people use it to annoy others. And as many said already, a simple "ignore duels "option would go a long way to fix one of the most common complaints : I’m bothered by the fact that some kid somewhere may think that I’m a coward.

Ah yes, because if I don’t want to fight you I must be a coward.
See? It’s started already.

Hyperdefensive much? I’m not suggesting it, but this line of thinking (unfortunately) exists and has to be taken into account, because it’s what annoys a lot of people.
Well, a simple autodecline option and, if necessary, /block, puts a stop to being you annoyed…forever!

Really, it is positive for people who like it, whether or not some people use it to annoy others. And as many said already, a simple "ignore duels "option would go a long way to fix one of the most common complaints : I’m bothered by the fact that some kid somewhere may think that I’m a coward.

To be honest, everything you got is okay. Nobody will ever gearcheck you because Exotics are more than enough to do the current content and because there isn’t such a large gap between someone with full exotics and someone with every ascended piece currently available.

That being said, dailies can get you all the ascended equipment minus the backpiece, but there are alternatives to speed up the process. You may want to get the rings and backpiece through fractals of the mists (search the wiki to see how it works) and the earrings through guild missions (you have to be in a guild). Also if you have any excess Badges of Honor (WvW currency) you can use them to buy ascended gear from a WvW vendor that has discounted prices on laurels. Basically instead of paying 30 laurels for an amulet you have the option of paying 25 (I don’t recall the numbers) +250 badges of honor.

Sorry for my poor writing skills. Hope this helps.

@ ProphetSword: autodecline option, already mentioned multiple times. Thanks for your feedback though.

@ Darkace: I’m no alliance scum so I don’t know what happens in Goldshire when I’m not raiding it on the way to Stormwind, and that was… 7 years ago? I suppose people met there to duel each other just like it happened outside Orgrimmar? I don’t see any problem with that, I only see people having fun. If the “clutter” bothered you, we could fix it with specific, istanced areas like an Arena in LA or whatever.

@ blakdoxa: Arenanet developers aren’t kittenes, I’m sure they wouldn’t balance around duels just because duels exist And I’m totally fine with imbalances, I want PvE dueling just for testing and fun purposes.

Ascended gear is superior to exotic so your gear is not really optimized anymore, although the difference isn’t that big of a deal for anything but Fractals of the Mist (a particular dungeon released in November). Currently there are no ascended weapons or armors, and the ascended jewellery can be gotten through a mixture of dailies, guild missions and fractals of the mist.

Consider Thief/Guardian only if you want to build on the tanky side. Most people will try to go for the thief but as soon as your friend uses a teleport/stealth skill you will feel all their anger redirecting at you

I know this from personal experience.

I was suspecting that, but I’d rather have the opposers speak for themselves. Because that’s a pretty selfish reason to deny others their fun.

Oh and I do have duels in SPvP, but sometimes you just want to test gear or try out how my PvE builds fares in duels. Or heck, play in a different area, such as a JP.

@ Morrigan : custom arenas were never put there to substitute duels, but to allow teams and guilds to organize matches, scrims and tournaments with different rules than the standard ones. Also duels =/= ganks.

Bah, by the same logic instruments shouldn’t have been released because people could’ve used them to annoy others, and the map chat shouldn’t exist because some use it to spam.

I say we forget about bug fixes, culling and the SAB. (ç_ç what did I just say)

You should bring each type of weapon in your inventory. Other than that, play as you want and don’t let other players spoil your fun for you.

Never read about open world duels coming to the game, but hoping nonetheless <3

Also I fail to understand why people could be against it: just have an autodecline option and you are set. It’s not like people can’t already ask you to duel them in a custom arena if they want to bother you.

Yes, the game is really solo friendly. Avoid group events and you’ll be fine. Have a go at them if you are well-geared and know how to play, I’m sure you can do at least 20% of them.

I feel like people wanting to move faster are crybabies.

Echoing what MurderousClown said.

Here’s mine. Oh noes, a full set of armor, the horrors!

Would be a great idea, and not too hard/time intensive to implement.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Wolfheart.1938:

Racial skills are supposed to be weaker then regular skills to avoid forcing specific profession/race combo. I understand your message now, nerf Prayer of Dwayna.

First…tell that to the asura. There is a reason you need to make one of them for certain builds.

I’ll let the Asura know, although it’s not my job as I’m merely stating what Arenanet developers clearly stated in the past. Please don’t make me look for a quote that could be 6 months old

Actually I think the block function should also prevent you from hearing sounds made by blocked players. Otherwise when a good player hosts a concert, a troll can simply come by and start spamming notes, ruining it for everyone.

I was being sarcastic. I play a norn Guardian too and I’m fine with having weak racial skills. If, as you say, Prayer of Dwayna isn’t weak enough, the answer is simple: nerf it

Also worth noting that if you are a norn Guardian you get access to stealth and a huge dash through one of our transformation elites. This comes extremely useful in WvW. So roll a Norn if you want to be a Guardian that plays WvW

Racial skills are supposed to be weaker then regular skills to avoid forcing specific profession/race combo. I understand your message now, nerf Prayer of Dwayna.

Totally disagreeing, especially for WvW. HPs aren’t the only thing worth taking into account.

If anybody turns sour or venomous against other player because of their favourite candidate I think they should see a good doctor.

Since when a score was given based on number of kills in a timed challenge

I love the minigame, but agree with the excessive power given to dead characters. The scoring system is a mess, too.

pullnointer.1476:

Wolfheart.1938:

pullnointer.1476:

Wolfheart.1938:

Wow boring, I thought you were going to actually fight the enemies instead of using this lame excuse of a strategy.

Also glad I didn’t roll a silvary female Guardian, that retreat makes me cringe :<

lame excuse? I do not control Anet’s implementation of instances, I just play optimally.

I like Jennifer Hale a lot personally.

Well soloing Lupicus isn’t playing optimally, but some people do it for the challenge. Yes, the implementation is poor, but it’s not a reason to call tier 4 easy.

soloing Lupi and doing everything right is playing optimally in the context of a solo run. you were referring to my strategy but now you switched to talking about me soloing. poor logic.

No not really, poor reading comprehension. I never mentioned YOU soloing. I said “soloing Lupicus” as an example of what people looking for a challenge might want to do. If you were looking for a challenge too, you’d avoid camping the spawn points and possibly try to get at least silver.

What I’m trying to say ( excuse my poor english ) is that you can’t use a cheap strategy, get bronze and call the content easy. Get gold, try to actually fight a bunch of enemies and succeed, then call the content easy.

And no, I’m not blaming you for that “shortcut”. It’s something Arenanet should’ve prevented.

pullnointer.1476:

Wolfheart.1938:

Wow boring, I thought you were going to actually fight the enemies instead of using this lame excuse of a strategy.

Also glad I didn’t roll a silvary female Guardian, that retreat makes me cringe :<

lame excuse? I do not control Anet’s implementation of instances, I just play optimally.

I like Jennifer Hale a lot personally.

Well soloing Lupicus isn’t playing optimally, but some people do it for the challenge. Yes, the implementation is poor, but it’s not a reason to call tier 4 easy.

Wow boring, I thought you were going to actually fight the enemies instead of using this lame excuse of a strategy.

Also glad I didn’t roll a silvary female Guardian, that retreat makes me cringe :<

All of Elona Reach players use only autoattack because they are so used to skill-lag meta they don’t know other skills exist!

Well I can use the exact same reasoning with Heroes of Newerth or Dota if the stigma LoL has is too strong in you. Yes, I know those are MOBAs while GW2 is an MMO, but you can’t deny those games have depth and a pretty healthy competitive PvP scene, with most champions having 4 abilities + the odd item with an active.

Stop complaining about UI’s that are not loaded enough, it’s pathetic ( see what I did there? )

If you keep on insisting that it is “Impossible to find” when in reality it’s really kittening easy I’m not sure I can take you seriously. Not to mention that they’ve been pretty good at not alienating non-80 characters

To get there, follow Lordkrall’s suggestion. The first time you have to go there like you did with Southsun Cove. You are supposed to know that place already has you were directed there (through the ship NPC in LA) with the previous patch.

pyrotikk.4620:

Not enough skills peroid.

30 skills should be the BARE minimum.

Yes the number of skills directly determines the difficulty or ease of play of any proffession, if you think otherwise your kidding yourself.

Not sure if troll…

Skills that you use only in PvP or PvE just clutter your screen. Filler skill that you just use in a rotation or once a week are just that, filler. Orianna has the same number of skills that Master Yi has (I’m talking about LoL), so by your logic they are equally as difficult to play. LOL. I could go on…

I’m totally for more options with the introduction of more weapons/utilities, but the limit of 10 skills available at the same time is what this game is designed around and it’s definitely not gonna change when it works for a lot of players.

Yuvos I think we will be able to do world 1, but I’m not sure about the achievements. Maybe there will be new ones regarding world 1 in hard mode. Anyways, it only makes sense that once completed and released permanently (will it ever happen?) every achievement is available, especially because some are pretty hard.

Looking forward to the new songs, the new weapons, hard mode and the boss fights that are probably far more entertaining then the ones you do with your character skills

Impossible to find, really? Just read the kitten letter you receive every once in a while or just click “show me” if the option is available. Not to mention the special event icons on the map.

In fact, there’s no need for level progression at all. Levels are just arbitrary numbers used mainly to give direction to players and to avoid overwhelming them when they are just starting off

For example, a great (niche) MMO game called EVE online has no levels at all.

Valanga.5942:

Wolfheart.1938:

This comes from someone that plays mainly Guardian and Necromancer, the two slowest professions I believe.

Guardian slow? Wut?

Staff + retreat + save yourself = Usain Bolt.

So what? There’s more to mobility than swiftness, and most classes can achieve a similar result with a simple +25% movement speed signet

And I’m not taking a skill that’s useful only for swiftness when I could have something like AoE protection or stability, just like most Necromancers aren’t considering taking Spectral Walk (30s swiftness) over other utilities

Edit:
darnit I should really stop going offtopic everywhere I post