Guild Wars 2

Hope we get an interesting matchup next… Borrrrrrrrrring. So tired of every Kain or GoM guy I see running away from a 1v1. Grow a set! =D

Charak.9761:

There is no esport when you can simply stunlock from 100-0 with no DR on cc, and the ability to remove stability boons

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Star Ace.5207:

Wreckdum.8367:

The fact remains and isn’t up for debate that zerker is the best armor set for the fastest clears of dungeons.

And just because you can’t do dungeons in full zerker and not die doesn’t make it clueless/brainless. It just means other people are at a higher skill level than you that they don’t need toughness/vitality as a skill compensator. womp womp womp

The fact remains and isn’t up to debate that not everybody engages on speedruns, and that GW2=/= speed-running. Speedclears are a fun way to play for many, but certainly no the only way to play.

And making assumptions that players can’t dodge, don’t know hot to play because they use something else that is not Berserker’s is pretty arrogant, because you don’t know these people. Hickeroar, for instance, has many characters with Berserker’s gear and chooses to play other gear too.And finally, there ARE Berserker’s gear users who do so not because they are “leet” and “know how to dodge”, but because it’s “meta” and want a slot in speedrun clears-they are basically players who give Berserker’s gear a bad name by dying constantly over and over, but I feel bad for them because they are just trying to follow math’s “proven” logic and to find a place in the meta rather than playing with gear that would probably suit them better.

What gear would suit a DPS warrior better than zerker? I’m all ears. Factoring in I’m not terrible so I don’t need high toughness or vitality.

There are a lot of examples of lack of creativity in the challenges in this game. The majority of the game PVE wise is based on mobs or bosses taking control of your character away. That is a terrrible mechanic. Especially in a game that does such a terrible job of showing when a mob or boss is about to attack. Taking control away is never a good idea. It’s not fun for the player. You can make dungeons ridiculously challenging while still allowing the end user to play the game.

I know it will make a lot of people mad but World of Warcraft built an empire on challenging dungeons that don’t have to resort to cheap gameplay to provide challenge/entertainment.

I know this video has been posted a million times on these forums but it just makes sense… And it still seems like no one at ANet watched it. While anticipation is good. It shouldn’t be the only form of counter. For instance a thief stealth + backstab. Everyone says oh yeah just block/roll right before he backstabs… That’s not counter play. That is lucky timing.

Counter play would be what WoW and SWTOR have with the Hunter (WoW) Trooper/Bounty Hunter (SWTOR). When you know someone is stealthed in the area you can drop a stealth reveal circle on the ground. You are actively countering another classes mechanic. Although stealth is just completely terrible in this game altogether so even having a class with a reveal would be a fail anyway.

Lack of an esport/pvp community can be directly attributed to lack of counter play. If you think GW2 has a solid pvp community because of this silly low budget tourny coming up… You’re very gullible.

Colin said it’s a mid/low end system problem… I have a high end PC. I get about 20-30FPS in the new pavillion area. I normally sit at a solid 60FPS with vsync on. Still can’t see bosses and read when they’re about to use a big ability. Keep working fellas!

i7 2600
16 gigs RAM
2x GTX 580 SLI

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Hickeroar.9734:

colesy.8490:

The problem is only a problem when brainless/clueless people believe that zerker is the only possible good armor for any and all activities in PvE

It is.

The fact that you continue to refuse to accept that is … well …

Like I said….brainless/clueless.

You keep saying it but it doesn’t make it true…

Sorry but GW2 follows traditional RPG mechanics where the more damage you do the faster a boss dies… Sorry but your mythical low damage armor doesn’t make bosses die faster than zerker.

No one is saying you can’t do dungeons in other stats. The fact remains and isn’t up for debate that zerker is the best armor set for the fastest clears of dungeons.

And just because you can’t do dungeons in full zerker and not die doesn’t make it clueless/brainless. It just means other people are at a higher skill level than you that they don’t need toughness/vitality as a skill compensator. womp womp womp

Somehow I think the words higher tier and higher pop are being mixed and matched. YB is not a high WvW pop server. For some reason I think it’s a psychological thing where every server in this game thinks they are outnumbered. How is that possible?! Because what else could it be?! I can’t ever say someone is better than me at a game. The table must be rigged! I was cheated!

Constructive criticism. YB does it too but not to the extent I’ve seen Kain and GoM when tabbing through zerg targets. Stop bringing alts to WvW… I haven’t seen so many upleveled free kills in a loooooong time. Not saying that’s the main reason you’re losing but it sure doesn’t help when 50% of your zerg is dead from 2 hits. lol

Thanks Rx guild from Kain. You guys had me laughing for almost an hour. People get so mad when you /laugh at them. =P

One of these days you’ll get SM. Just not this week. Tee hee

So play in August then come back next August when the only (supposed) good update since launch returns. All over it!

inazuma.7021:

DeadlySynz.3471:

I’m quite surprised Ellen won myself. Everything I read, it should have been Evon by a landslide. Something is fishy.

Why? It just meant the Evon supporters were louder and more excited, but fewer in number.

I think he’s referring to the fact that all Evon’s campaign promises were good things with an awesome story and all Ellen’s were things that will make no difference and a story that will be a snooze fest.

Something is definitely fishy. But it’s really not. All the botters and grinders want cheaper WP. Duh.

How does this not have a dev response yet? F’ing hilarious. Also, frustratingly accurate!

I think GW2 would greatly benefit from borrowing the aiming/telegraph system of Wildstar. There’s no shame in adopting a superior system. Tab targeting is skillless in a game that is built upon “skill based action combat”.

An example would be if I were playing one of my ranged classes in WvW I can be standing facing a zerg and press tab and have no idea where my target is. As long as I’m facing in a 180 degree arc in his direction I can press any ranged attack and it will fire directly at him.

The Wildstar combat mechanic is superior because you don’t get free hits just by tab targeting someone. The only benefit of targeting in Wildstar is to see the enemies health bar. All attacks are aimed by the player not by the game. For instance on a ranger if I were to press my 1 key it would fire arrows in a straight line from my character hitting the first enemy they come in contact with. There is a similar system in place in GW2 where projectiles will hit the first player in contact except you have to have someone targeted so they won’t fire straight in front of you. Having telegraph fields allows so much strategy rather than just press tab then attack. You can set up lanes with overlapping fire. It would bring so much to WvW.

Also it would bring a lot to melee. Right now in WvW ground targeted AOE is king. But with the telegraph system packs of melee infantry could make pushes without having to have a specific target. Sweeping their weapons and pushing lines back the way it’s supposed to be.

I have a lot of time invested in GW2 and I want to keep playing it. Right now I see Wildstar’s combat system to be superior to GW2 on every level. There is no shame in evolution. I highly doubt anyone would criticize it as “copying”. After all they are borrowing a lot of GW2 features for their game.

For anyone not familiar with the Wildstar aiming system here is a video.

Rezzet.3614:

here’s the thing theres no real issue with MF players elitists just never admit their failures so they blame MF build players

if me and my guildies went all full MF build all 5 members and beat up to lvl 30 fractals without the use of any voice program and what not how would ONE player with mf screw up a whole dungeon run on his own? other than obvious lack of skill/knowledge of his class wich means the said player would yield the same result in any other gear.

I don’t think people blame MF gear for dungeon failures. They just agree that someone bringing MF to progression content is selfish and hurting the group. That’s not a debate… You’re bringing less stats in the hopes of an increased .01% chance of getting a yellow.

Hamfast.8719:

Horny Elephants.8437:

Add Inspecting players/profiles so we can see their build and or items

I have no problem with people inspecting me to get the SKIN names of my items, so they can hunt for the pieces they like for themselves. Let them see “Gladiator’s Helm” or “Feathered Boots” – the name of the skin. But not “Berserker’s” or “Cleric’s” or anything that will give them a reason to pass judgement on my playing style.

As far as BUILDS go, a total idiot with the build you think is “best” can be defeated by a good player with an oddball setup. The only way to truly judge someone is by their performance. Guild Wars 1 and 2 are about SKILL, not items. You are looking to pre-judge people, and prejudice hurts everyone. You may miss out on a good helping hand if you refuse to team up with someone based solely on their build.

This only being true in this game. Any other MMO I would disagree. Content is so easy in this game a 50 year old house wife could do it without even spending any trait points.

Now in a real MMO build discrimination would and should be enforced. There is a term called min/maxing for a reason. Most hardcore MMOs won’t allow someone just fooling around with traits to progress very far.

Kal.4987:

Astral Projections.7320:

People who help others keep their problems are called enablers. You are not helping him by enabling him to remain afraid of a harmless image. You don’t help people with phobias by helping them avoid the phobia. Especially phobias that involve harmless pixels on a screen. If you really wanted to help him you would work with him on desensitizing him. Have him bring up the air elemental for one minute in LA then remove it by waypointing to the mists and back till he can stand seeing it. Then 2 minutes, then 3.

A phobia doesn’t necessarily make sense, nor can they all be dealt with in the same way. By “severe arachnophobia,” I mean “hyperventilates, has a panic attack, screams and throws computer across the room.” No, I’m not kidding. :/ Telling him “it’s just harmless pixels on a screen” is akin to telling him that the giant, venomous spider snoozing on his bedroom wall is harmless just because the wall is across the room from where he is. I know you mean well, but he literally cannot do what you suggested, and yes, he has tried a number of things in an effort to move past it; if it were this simple, rest assured he would have done it already. Whether the spider is virtual or not, the trigger is very real, and phrases like Zorby’s “this is such a 1st world problem” come across as very demeaning to the person who has to live with it.

sinzer.4018:

Wait, the spark’s a spider? It’s got like 4 legs though.

I know. It’s not the number of legs that triggers him; it’s the very realistic way they move. When he played WoW, there were some spiders outside the city of Shattrath that triggered him so badly that, when he had to kill them for a quest, he had his ghoul pet beat on the things while he looked at the ceiling and occasionally peeked at his ghoul’s health bar to keep it topped up.

Your friend is a danger to themselves and others… I think they need to stop playing GW2 and seek immediate psychiatry.

Ok yeah I got a little emo there towards the end. I love the concept of the hammer but the execution is just wrong. And having invested so much time in getting the Juggernaut sometimes I get a little over passionate about the issue. lol

And I agree that’s why I stressed the word inconsistent so many times in my long winded post. If I could stomp my foot while saying it I would have. =P

Am I being crazy or does ANet need to take a major look at the hammer compared to almost all other warrior weapon sets? I have a thread on the suggestion forums and I’d like some real warrior input. Please no weekend warriors. Only comment if warrior is your main and you’ve had a lot of experience with the hammer.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Warrior-hammer-change-PLEASE/first#post2432613

Staggering blow on the hammer is godawful. It has been since launch. Not only does the root get buggy where you have to let go of run then press it again to actually keep running but it has MASSIVE ability delay. I’m not talking about swing animation. I get that he should have to do a tell before he swings. It’s inconsistent but sometimes it can be up to 2 seconds before he even starts the swing animation. Like if I’m running he will take multiple extra steps before he stops and starts to swing staggering blow… I’ve tested this outside WvW in low population areas multiple different times. I’m not lagging, staggering blow is just unresponsive.

Ask any warrior the worst part about the hammer and it will be the delays. Even earthshaker does this sometimes. The best part of the hammer is the control… But it being so unresponsive it’s not viable to use as an interrupt. Unless you press the button before they even think of casting an ability then you just got lucky. You should be able to see an ability being cast and actively interrupt it. Not play the anticipation game. It’s like playing cards then instead of chess. I have to predict what you have instead of reacting visually to your move.

I say a fair compromise if you’re going to keep the massive ability delay on staggering blow is to allow the warrior to keep moving while waiting the 10 minutes for it to go off. A perfect example of how much of a fail move it is would be if I am running on top of my enemy and I press staggering blow, the amount of time it takes for the game to register I pressed it then start the animation he has already moved outside of the knockback radius.

I get that you want the hammer to be slow cause it’s a big hammer… But again you’re inconsistent. Greatsword does far higher damage and has faster response times on all abilities. Hammer gets a 1 second knock back a 2 second knockdown and a 2 second stun yet all of them are next to impossible to use effectively unless you are support and the enemy doesn’t know you’re targeting them. Then you have the damage which is next to trashcan… Please improve response times on hammer. If you need to lower damage WHO CARES. No one is using hammer over greatsword for the massive damage. We’re using it because we’d like to be the kings of control on the battlefield.

Please don’t flame saying hammer is omg the best weapon ever and I’m doing it wrong. I’d like to hear from actual warriors with at least 1000-2000 hours logged. Not people who played a warrior once and want to preach about things they know nothing about.

More inconsistency… Elementalist updraft does a bigger knockback than staggering blow… No ability delay. Get it together.

Ok the real motive behind this dire need to get hammer improved is because I grinded out Juggernaut sometime back in Februaryish. It’s been sitting in my bag for a month or two because it would just gimping myself to use it. Mace F1 key with paralyzation sigil is 3.kitten stun on a 7.75s cooldown… That one ability alone makes it better than all the hammer abilities combined. Please do something! I want to be the terminator!

I made this back when I first got the hammer… God it is the best looking legendary effect in the game. Please give me reason to keep using it!

LOL @ anyone from DB saying YB or Maguuma only fights with superior numbers… We’re in this bracket with less population… What’s your excuse? Roasted

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Burst mastery is a flat 10% increase. But if you are taking cleansing ire, burst mastery works against this trait by causing you to only spend 2 bars of adrenaline therefore only two conditions removed.

No it doesn’t. Test it before you make an assumption. It still removes 3.

Nukk.3492:

Because this game has some of the most AoE spam I’ve seen in any competitive PvP title, the AoE damage in this game is over the top and Warriors have to wade through all that crap to do their jobs.

No amount of trait changes, skill tweaking or other such nonsense will change this fundamental problem.

Someone forward this to the head of the Arenanet balance team. They are completely oblivious to this fact. AOE damage is out of control in this game.

I’ve never played a PvP game where AOE played such a large role and was often the most used attacks by some classes. It should be situational and a small amount of damage to a lot of people. Not your primary attack in a 1v1 fight.

Daecollo.9578:

Warrior has a higher skill-cap to play then most classes because we can’t screw up…

^ this

And also… Why is bulls charge still buggy as all hell since launch? I pressed it in a hot join today and it literally took 2 extra seconds to go off. I wasn’t lagging and didn’t have any conditions on me. The game is just inconsistent. The next time I fired it off no problems. Also the pathing is still atrocious.

And rush… Come on… Can we trade that buggy piece of garbage that also has never worked since beta for the guardian greatsword #3 attack? Their leaping greatsword attack is exactly what a warrior needs. Why that even went to the guardian is beyond me.

I think the OP is wondering why they changed the knight’s amulet from the regular game to spvp mode. Why didn’t they just leave it the same?

In the regular game it’s power, precision, toughness.

In spvp it’s power, precision, vitality.

Aegis.9724:

the problem is stealth, not the damage.
GC thieves 3-shotting tanks with crits are fine. What is not fine is their ability to engage and disengage at will, making up for the weakness of glass cannons build, that every other class has to live with, by dodging, popping heals, invulns, and choosing carefully who to engage and when.

Stealth is one of those mechanics that NEEDS hard counters to work properly. Without them, it’s just a crutch for bad players, allowing them to get kills and live even after making big mistakes.

500x that. There are way too many crutches making mediocre thieves and mesmers look like pros.

Elricht Kaltwind.8796:

Have you ever-
Been so bored that you played Guild Wars 2 on a Radeon 9600 Pro?

BAHAHAHA THOSE GRAFIX! What is that an Intel onboard graphics chip?

Jesiah.2457:

Came back after roughly 7 months … took me two weeks to be completely bored of SPvP again, and I’m only a lowly rank 42. The game just feels too full of cheesy annoying build possibilities as well as ridiculous burst damage that feels so strong that it limits true build diversity.

I actually wanted to play condi thief more than anything, but after countless hours of weapon / trait / rune / sigil combination testing, I’ve found that condi is truly kitten compared to simply changing the gem to zerker’s and playing “condi” as if it were burst – without even having to re-trait into a more burst oriented spec.

That to me … feels boring and like kittens are out of place.

Agreed. TTK is way too short in this game. Longer fights are more strategic fights. Not to mention it completely eliminates newbies from picking up the game.

I’ve talked a few people in to playing this game and they won’t even give it a chance. Unless you already know what you’re doing or have been playing since beta you don’t stand a chance in hot join or tournaments.

Higher TTK would give new players a better chance of rolling with the punches and not getting 2 shotted. And pro players would have more strategic fights and not get fluke blown up because their internet hiccuped or they had to scratch their butt.

But that’s not saying TTK is the only problem with this game. There is a laundry list of things that make PvP a less than rewarding experience. Over abundance of ground targeted AOE that are the same size as the objective. Terrible stealth mechanics. Bunker builds.

This is one of those games that you can immediately tell the PvP is bad as soon as you start playing it. People say you need to play it a long time… Good PvP is good the minute you start playing it, not an acquired taste. I’ve been PvPing in MMOs for over 13 years. I have 1,400 hours played in GW2. I still haven’t found the fun in their PvP game.

You know what is an acquired taste? Food and drinks that taste bad and you force yourself to like them.

Rerroll.9083:

Don’t judge by forums. Most of the users are low ranked players that complain when they are killed in hotjoin.

Also everyone cries about how weak his class is because everybody knows Arenanet listens to QQ

And because warriors have sucked since launch, one trick pony. Still remains to be seen if tomorrow will remedy that situation. I’ll be a good sport and hop on tomorrow and find out.

Are they nerfing the range on the pet? I had a ranger pet on me in WvW today when I was standing at the door at Bay keep. The ranger was almost all the way over at the supply camp and the pet was still attacking me.

AlBundy.7851:

So the damage is slightly reduced on one of the most easy mode brain dead classes in the game. Sounds like a step in the right direction that didn’t go far enough.

Maybe they will add more mechanics to mesmers that let the AI play for you more.

I’m dying. LOLOLOL God I hate how PVE some classes are in this game. So much player versus ground targeted AOE circle or player versus AI controlled pet. They really missed the mark on structered player versus player

All I know is GW2 has until that other NCSoft MMO releases this year to get their stuff together. After that I’m out! Nexus here I come!

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

The goal is not to reach the max rank, it’s the journey to it.

And currently the journey is boring and tedious.

Wildstar is at the most only 6 months away. There is still hope for PvP!

And why can’t you just use your burst skills to clear off your conditions? That’s why they added it.

If anything wait until the patch and experiment with different builds before you start this sob fest.

I’ve been theorycrafting with a ton of different builds assuming the leaked notes are accurate. Really looking forward to Tuesday.

Where is the damage nerf?

A simple question. I saw these supposed leaked patch notes and a lot of hammer abilities have lowered “aftercast” I’ve never heard this term in an MMO before.

WTF does “aftercast” mean?

My suggestion is stop making these monthly update limited time weapons only attainable through mindless grinding or buying off the item store. Give us a task to accomplish or a dungeon boss to get a weapon claim ticket.

I come back every update and look at the new skins and most of the time they look awesome. I refuse to spend a million hours mindlessly grinding away for them though. I’d rather do a dungeon or something like in a real MMO to attain my cool skins… Add more vendors in LA and make it like the other dungeons. I don’t mind running explorable modes a couple times and saving up for one item. But I refuse to farm trash in the open world for a full day and get nothing because of RNG.

And before someone says buy them on the item store… So what is the point in playing the game if I buy the gear on the store? Then what? Just stand around in LA and model it for people?

I’ve put at least 200-300 dollars into that gem store since release so I really don’t want to hear any nonsense about not supporting the game either.

Thank god Wildstar will be out this year! I’m done with melee in this game. Everything I see about Wildstar shows it’s exactly the game I THOUGHT GW2 was.

Moddo.7105:

Wreckdum.8367:

ROFL I go to sleep and we are all out OWNING… I wake up to see we got night capped and sent to last place… ANet needs to make actual region locked servers. Clearly for WVW only. I don’t care if you have North American friends. That’s fine. Guest to them for PVE dungeons. But this whole flimsy system for WvW is just plain bad.

I play on a North American server… During North American primetime we dominate. Then the oceanic guilds get on a NA server and we lose… I’m living in the twilight zone if I’m the only person who sees the flaw in this system.

I’m not completely bitter. I’m happy to see Yak’s stepped up in T3 during NA primetime and was destroying. Way to represent. =D There is no shame in losing to oceanic when you play on an NA server. We need tougher immigration reform! Vote for me!

Yea those dam Aussies need to play on the dam oceanic time zone servers and leave NA alone. Oh wait.

And Owning you do during NA is same thing them owning during oceanic/SEA time slots. DB NA people are not numerous same as YB oceanic. How think DB oceanic feels when they lose everything to NA time slots. It is not their choice to play on NA it is only choice other than picking a EU server that is 3x distance away than NA ones. But I rarely see oceanic/SEA people whining on forums about all their owning when during their prime time is for nothing.

And BTW Even in NA people don’t play just at same time you do, so why should they be locked out of WvW because they work nights.

You’re acting like your server has no NA presence. It’s an NA server. We fight big battles and win them all day. You ghost cap everything with no opposition. Not a very good comparison.

gmanual.6519:

Wreckdum.8367:

ROFL I go to sleep and we are all out OWNING… I wake up to see we got night capped and sent to last place… ANet needs to make actual region locked servers. Clearly for WVW only. I don’t care if you have North American friends. That’s fine. Guest to them for PVE dungeons. But this whole flimsy system for WvW is just plain bad.

I play on a North American server… During North American primetime we dominate. Then the oceanic guilds get on a NA server and we lose… I’m living in the twilight zone if I’m the only person who sees the flaw in this system.

I’m not completely bitter. I’m happy to see Yak’s stepped up in T3 during NA primetime and was destroying. Way to represent. =D There is no shame in losing to oceanic when you play on an NA server. We need tougher immigration reform! Vote for me!

I’m about to go to sleep, don’t you go and night cap me too hard now.

Point sailed right over your head. You should have your own server if you’re Oceanic. If you’re European you should be on a European server.

If you’re North American sleeping you have nothing to worry about because it is a North American server. Prime time will have you covered.

The only reason SoS oceanic team took everything during the night is because they had no opposition. They sit at the bottom of the scoreboard all during NA daylight hours then jack up to 600 potential points at night because they get a free sweep.

Flawed system.

ROFL I go to sleep and we are all out OWNING… I wake up to see we got night capped and sent to last place… ANet needs to make actual region locked servers. Clearly for WVW only. I don’t care if you have North American friends. That’s fine. Guest to them for PVE dungeons. But this whole flimsy system for WvW is just plain bad.

I play on a North American server… During North American primetime we dominate. Then the oceanic guilds get on a NA server and we lose… I’m living in the twilight zone if I’m the only person who sees the flaw in this system.

I’m not completely bitter. I’m happy to see Yak’s stepped up in T3 during NA primetime and was destroying. Way to represent. =D There is no shame in losing to oceanic when you play on an NA server. We need tougher immigration reform! Vote for me!

tom.7468:

No matter how easy you think it is to do guild missions. Don’t tell me it take skills to win in wvw. its all a numbers game. If they made some drastic changes so wvw was about individual skills then i would love this but its not like that. Permastealth theif is the only counter to coward sheep herd play in wvw. And therefor so many come on the forum and want it nerfed. but right now the game favor numbers over everything else in wvw and the rewards should be there after period.

Tom your argument is weak and invalid. Guild missions are a worse offender of a numbers game than WvW. WvW is spontaneous and both sides can be liquid and the battles can flow all over the map.

Guild missions (bounty specifically) you fight a boss in a confined area where it uses the same tiny skill set over and over. Just like all other ANet open world content you just zerg him down and collect your ascended gear.

Like I said. Your argument is weak.

EDIT: I still don’t understand why people play anything other than WvW in this game. It’s the only thing that is truly GW2 (even though it borrows heavily from DAoC and Warhammer Online). Everything else has been done by someone else and better.

But if that’s your thing, more power to you. However, WvW shouldn’t be held back because faceroll PvE wants all the good rewards. And I shouldn’t be forced to go roll my head across my keyboard day in and day out on some snoozefest PvE content to get the gear to be at top level in WvW.

One shouldn’t affect the other. And if you can only get ascended in PvE it shouldn’t be allowed in WvW. Easy compromise. Some PvE champion with 0 player kills shouldn’t be more powerful than someone who’s spent 6 months in WvW and never tried PvE.

tom.7468:

I knew this thread would be another ant walk around in wvw and want a full ascended set for it just No go work for it you can always get ascended items for laurels.

Last time I checked you need player kills to get badges of honor. Last time I checked it takes longer/harder to farm 300ish badges (whatever 1 pieces of gear costs.) than it does to run a fractal 10+ daily or knockout your daily laurel…

You can fight it all you want but ANet already said ascended gear will be just as accessible to WvW players as it is to PvE players. I mean it’s not even PvE gear. It’s just gear. It’s not fractals > WvW. It’s fractals = WvW.

And how is getting a laurel work? lol I can knock out the daily in under 30 minutes… You won’t even farm 50 badges of honor in 30 minutes. WvW is actual work. Laurels are casual play. A casual system built for casual gamers to put in 30 minutes a day and get the best gear in the game.

So sad the direction this game chose to go.

Leadfoot.9071:

Dude, it’s not just banners maan!!! I am in the middle of a zerg spamming my F key for the loots next thing you know i’m picking some carrots and getting pwnd by a thief!!!!

OR REZZING SOMEONE! Loot needs to have it’s own designated hot key that does nothing but loot. I hate getting stuck in an animation like gathering, rezzing or picking up a banner and getting killed because of it.

Also picking up banners is so buggy that if you’re running in a direction and pick up the banner you keep running uncontrollably in that direction for a few seconds and don’t even pick up the banner.

That bug has been there and been reported since beta weekend 1 with no fix.

Elementalist updraft. Instant cast longer knockback and an evade. GG

GW2 is the most balanced game out right now.

EDIT: And unless you play a hammer warrior, don’t add your opinion. I live for the hammer… I took the time to grind The Juggernaut and have over 1300 hours on my warrior with at least half of that using the hammer. It needs work. Fixing staggering blow is just a start.

Kaimick.5109:

Wow cynical I can respect that,

That is because the mentality is that Exotics are above yellows therefore if I have Exotics I will melt my opponents face.

Example
I play a warrior in all ( at the time ) 70 – 78 yellows that stacked MF ( as I was farming on that toon ) but I needed Map completion so off to WvWvW I went. I came across another warrior that had the full Arah gear on ( exotics) and Twilight ( legendary). our first confrontation I won it was a close battle but I won. I ended up in roughly about 3 hours of running around seeing him a total of 5 more times ( or at least someone that looked like him ) and won 5 more match ups on him 1 v 1. Now I am not saying I can do this to every player in the game that player just sucked is what it boiled down to.

By all means, and by most players mentality that other warrior should have melted my face off before he could take his 5th breath. but because my skill was better than his regardless of my gear I still won every match up.

Gear is cosmetic, Ascended gear is mainly aimed to Fractals and nothing else, as it has infusion slots in it which you need for agony resist, ergo there is no real need for it in WvWvW. Not saying you can’t use it in WvWvW just there is no real reason why you need to make a system to gain ascended gear through WvWvW. I mean Luarel Ascended gear is boarder lining the fact of not needed, but at least it is a closer simile than Mass PvP.

Fun anecdote! But I prefer statistical facts. Someone with full ascended is X% stronger than someone without.

I think it’s awesome that you defeated a PVE champion in full Arah armor in a Player vs Player battle. That is very relevant to the topic.

The fact of the matter is someone who is naked can beat a terrible player in full ascended gear. We don’t care about that. We’re talking about top tier WvW where the skill bar is about even. GEAR MATTERS.

Nikkinella.8254:

Kaimick.5109:

that is because Laurels were not meant to be the primary way to gain ascended gear, but if you so wished to do it that way it would take you a while. They want people to still run fractals as a main source of gaining ascended items.

the only way to get ascended amulets right now is through laurels.

And also the guild events are the only way to get the accessories. So I’m forced to join a guild I don’t want to be in because I can’t just join a pick up group for a bounty… Awesome.

Anyone who participates in a guild event should get a commendation token. Since you want to make it more beneficial to guilds make it so guild memebers get 2 tokens (current system). Non guild members get 1 token (new system). It will take non guild members twice as long to get the accessories and will still incentivize being in a guild but won’t force guilds on anyone who doesn’t want to join them

I just realized today when I changed my spec I would have to get all new ascended gear… It’s almost enough to make me not want to play the game. I know that sounds like a crybaby thing to say but this system is so bad.

The neck is the worst offender. I have to wait another month to build my new trait set of gear because of the mandatory wait time to get my laurels… If I have the time to play a lot I should be rewarded by getting gear faster than someone who plays 1 hour a day and only does their daily.

The current system seems to punish the people who play more because now I have more hours logged and less to show for it. Someone who plays 1 hour a day and gets a full ascended set was basically more efficient than me because I spent all these extra hours only to achieve the same goal.

I’m just saying their needs to be more options other than the casual daily reward for 1 laurel. At least add necklaces and accessories to the fractal chests as a chance to drop or something.

Some people may be fooled but the rest of us know that the system is designed to keep log in numbers up for every day of the month. Most people only log in to do the daily because you really gain nothing else by putting time in to this game.

Also how do you expect to push people in to trying different builds when it will take them months to gear their characters for them to even be viable? You say you want more build variations but you make it an uphill battle that isn’t even worth the time.

Or they could just start your personal story back at level 1. It’s not like you get much XP for doing a level 1 personal story at level 80 anyway.

@Florgknight why would someone make a new human thief when they already have a level 80 charr thief? It’s completely pointless and you waste all the karma and gear you earned on your other character.

Race change is a key feature of modern MMO’s. It needs to be there.

WvW is so boring no one has posted in here for over 9 HOURS. lol Awesome.