I wonder how I’m supposed to get the ooze achievement with my ele. If anyone has a pure single target ele build that does that much damage, then please go ahead and link it.
You dont need high dps… I’ve done it as an engineer shooting rifle in a tank spec… Just autoattacking… If you ignore the extra adds, you have PLENTY of time to kill subject7 with that way… Just circle around it at close range… Or if you prefer, go back and forth at longer range in a 90 degree arc, and then step in closer once you get oozes in the way… He should be at like 10%-20% hp max at that point and easily finished close range…
The thing is that he heals hard at that point so I can’t kill him in a bunker spec.
The WXP abilities are kinda boring anyway. The new profession abilities will probably be one of the biggest additions to WvW. Somehow I doubt that most PvEers would use most of the new abilities outside of Arah/fractals so you could call that a WvW update
I wonder how I’m supposed to get the ooze achievement with my ele. If anyone has a pure single target ele build that does that much damage, then please go ahead and link it.
Lets talk about zerg v zerg vs. “GvG” you guys talk about skill cause you drop a field here and there lol, You run specific builds lol, and you circle each other lol. This is the normal wvw play in T1, but they do it against larger number, in a strategic environment.
I thought that the normal play in T1 was to gather up a blob under a tag and make the server lag so much that you’re all forced to spam 1.(before you say anything – yes, I’ve been in tier 1 and I changed server, my current server also fills up borderlands but with a smaller queues so I know what huge fights are)
Yeah, we run specific builds, we avoid suiciding in the AoE which actually hurts when you’re not 80 people and we drop proper fields instead of ice fields before a fight and blast instead of throwing random pointless finishers. We also don’t bring under leveled people, random yellow gear and a completely random spec or a build made for PvE.
Also you’re making it sound like you always fight a larger blob in WvW. Guess what, if you’re in T1, chances are that at prime time your blob is just as big as theirs.
I did that achievement the first and only time that I managed to beat that guy. I used the usual 30/30/10/0/0 CoF ele spec with lightning flash, hammer, arcane shield and mistfire. The trick was to knock the dog away every time he went to the meat and run to it or lightning flash. I got to 3 stacks and then the dog died.
I just wanted to mention that zerg vs zerg skills>PvDoor skills.
Enjoy your tower flipping!
Please go away with your pseudo elitism.
Pseudo-elitism? I’m not the one that called GvG “kill trading”.
Also I just want an explanation on what’s so fun about hitting a door for 10 minutes/building countersiege. What exactly makes ramming/PvDooring so interesting? And it’s not like you’re finding out something new by placing siege to destroy other siege. I think that for almost one year all the countersiege locations on the 2 maps that we have have already been found. Or do you enjoy running in a huge blob trying to beat your enemy with numbers? If you just want the loot, PvE is that way → And it’s much more rewarding.
Yesterday my guild went to do PvE because the other 2 servers gave up. It’s boring, unrewarding and slow to PvDoor through their borderlands. I bet all of you “WvWers” would love to be on Gunnar’s Hold right now.
inb4 " That’s how you’re supposed to play the game. GvG is breaking rules!"
I’ve never heard of anyone getting banned for doing GvG. I doubt that Anet would ban a ton of their top active guilds. You can be my guest and report anyone doing GvG if you think it’s abusing/breaking the rules.
I’d like a dark metal staff with a lava chain around the shaft and a big spike for a head. Also a small burning effect on the whole shaft. Oh, also lava dripping from the head.
I guess that they’re going to make a greatsword with those looks just to troll me :P
You’re forgetting one important thing – you can be DPS, support and control while wearing berserker gear. Nothing is stopping you from using CC, applying block or reflects by wearing zerk. That’s why everything looks like DPS – because they deal high damage while also filling other roles.
And about healing gear – please just stop. When the boss hits my 10-20k HP ele for over 5k your +50 regeneration health per tick or +250 AoE heal isn’t going to help. Everything scales terribly with healing power for the numbers that are thrown around in PvE even on ~3k armor.
Oh, I’d also like to mention that I’m not against the trinity. I usually like being a tank or dps.
Instead of creating a thread about every single ability that needs to be changed/buffed, why not have them all in 1 thread?
I’ll start:
Blinding flash(scepter air 3) – only a blind. Needs another effect. Maybe a teleport?
Dust Devil(scepter earth 3) – slow, low DMG. Make it faster and make the damage higher?
Dragon’s tooth(scepter fire 2) – slow, high damage. Should be faster and do less damage.
Flamestrike(scepter fire 1) – too slow casting time for that damage. Maybe make the direct damage higher?
Shatterstone(scepter water 2) – it’s simply terrible. Make it explode faster and make it instant cast. The damage on it is lower than the 1 ability.
Ride the Lightning(dagger air 4) – fix how blocks, evades and blinds work. If I use it as a gap closer against a guardian at the start of the fight it’s automatically 40s CD even though I hit my target. Really, fixing dodges and blocks needs to happen also because of stealth. Also make the cd 20 seconds out of combat.
Fire grab(dagger fire 5) – misses too easy because the cone doesn’t turn as fast as the camera while casting. Make it instant cast?
Lightning touch(dagger air 2) – same as fire grab.
*Magnetic grasp(dagger earth 3) – projectile is buggy. Just remove that part?
Freezing gust(focus water 4) – long cooldown for the effects. Lower cooldown/buff chill duration+damage).
Gale(focus air 4) – long cooldown. Lower it?
Flamewall(focus fire 4) – low damage and low burn duration. Buff both.
Fire shield(focus fire 5) – CD is too high. 30s would be better IMO.
Burning retreat(staff fire 4) – CD is too high. 15 seconds would be better for survivability?
Lightning surge(staff air 2) – cast time is too long. 1 second would make it feel less crippling.
Gust(staff air 3) – too slow. Make it faster so that it can actually hit players.
Shockwave(staff earth 5) – same as gust.
That’s all I have for now. I’ll post stuff about the underwater abilities soon.
Edit: underwater abilities. Overall most of them need better damage.
Magma orb(fire 1) – slow, small radius, low damage. I think buffing all three of those areas would help it a lot.
Boil(fire 2) – radius too small, people instantly move out of it.
Steam(fire 3) – cooldown too high for the effect.
Rocky blades(earth 1) – damage too low. Increasing the bleed stacks would help in that area.
Tybalt isn’t dead, he’s actually hiding, he’s the real head of the Order of whispers
Trehearne was working for Zaitan all along
Tyria is actually Earth 2000000 years in the future
Logan doesn’t love the Queen, he ran cus he was actually scared of Rytlock’s love
A-Net plans to add 20 new Great Sword skins and nothing for rifles and pistols
The Gods are actually the dragons
Zojja built a Time Machine to save Eir, went back in time that resulted in Snaff dying
Kodan are irresponsible, and blew up their iceberg home to get rid of trashpile
Logan is Braham’s daddy
Rox and Braham totally did it after blowing up weapons facility
Guild Housing is coming soo,n A-Net swears you guys
You missed that your herald is a dragon that’s trying to get you killed by sending you to dangerous places.
It would definitely be nice to have a trait like that in arcana. You would still have 4 ability bars for weapon abilities but you’d be able to switch between melee and ranged.
I liked the approach Dragon Age: Origins used. If you wore heavy armor, you drew the most agro. If you wore light, you drew the least. They left it up to your play style and gave you a bonus if you wore the complete set. I still explain DA:O to people that never played it as “DA is an MMO without those pesky other people” LOL
I think total armor already is a part of aggro in GW2.
Also I still haven’t figured out why DA doesn’t have a coop mode :P
Why can’t I +1 a question? It wouldn’t really make a difference if I wore heavy armor. Even if it was skin only I’d wear t3 human heavy armor. At least that isn’t a 120 gold bugged skin like the light armor.
What is your opinion on addition of WvW Levels and perks? What could they do to make WvW better?
Here’s an idea for WvW: make a new different map or at least reskin the borderlands. From a swamp(green side) you get into a snowy mountain? It’s like they made borderlands to fit only the red side.
Yep, that was a looong fight in millers hills. Why did you rush out in the end BTW? To get the people AoEing/using dragon’s tooth through the wall or just a last attempt to wipe us?
I just wanted to ask a quick question to the people that are still in WSR. Are the PvEers still trash talking about how bad WSR is in WvW? Because it was funny to argue with people that had never really entered WvW. “Our server is so bad in WvW”… when the server’s WvW population is actually tiny and we got matched up against servers tiers higher.
Anyway, GL with winning FoW. Maybe you’ll finally get out of t9 for a week.
There’s a tiny line that’s empty between the legs and the chest part that’s a “hole” in the skin. I can see through my character. Anyone else noticed that?
The reason people flock back to WoW is because it doesn’t require a top-notch pc ,whereas GW2 does.
I’ve noticed that the goes-back-to-WoW crowd always flocks back to WoW no matter which game it is or for what reason. What they really want is WoW with better graphics.
I think that’s what a lot of the GW1 players wanted too. People should stop wanting the same game in better graphics. It won’t come out, every new game is different in some way. The most that you can expect is that game’s developers to work on the graphics(for example that was supposed to happen in WoW with the last expansion but then they took that off the list for some strange reason).
Well, it’s either that or some people just like to go “oh, that new game is totally worse than the old games that I’ve played”. I’ve seen in happen even with cases like Heroes 3 and 5 where 5 was basically a clone of 3 with better graphics, better balance, some extra options added in the last expansion and it had cut scenes. Some people still said that the older one was better without really giving a reason.
Some of the posts don’t even make sense. They list probably every MMO that the poster knows and some of them aren’t even out yet. I guess that for some people the best MMOs really are the ones that aren’t out yet.
Also comparing GW2 to games with a vertical progression(WoW, SWToR, I played those 2 myself for some time) is like comparing StarCraft to Heroes of Might and Magic. Both series are Strategy but one is RTS and the other is TBS. I doubt that they have much competition between each other simply because they’re extremely different.
Guild Wars 1 w3as originally a DX8 game . Took them until Factions’ release to make the game DX9 .
No DX11 is a crime against any computers built after 2009 .
MMO or not, not having DX11 support in a PC EXCLUSIVE title released in 2012 is a joke especially when games run better in dx11.
Having it in Direct X 11 would upset people with Direct X 10 cards, which there is still a fairly high number of compared to DX9 cards now. I could see this game going as far as DX10 for now but not DX11 and I highly doubt GW2 will upgrade to DX10 to begin with. If there is a ‘Guild Wars 3’ game in the future, maybe it will use Direct X 11. But it doesn’t really matter though, the game looks great either way.
Also wouldn’t this topic be better suited for the Tech support forums?
Why would it upset anyone? DX11 support doesn’t mean DX9 won’t be supported anymore… DX11 would be for those who own a gaming rig and DX9 for those gaming on a computer from Bestbuy lol
Bestbuy? I run GW2 on a freakin’ TABLET and I have DX11.
on a tablet? lol wtf. What’s next? DX12 when played on iphone?-.-
I actually tried that on my nexus 7. Worked almost perfectly. I need to find out how to make AoEs work properly. Other than that I have to somehow fix the inventory because when I tried equipping items it didn’t work. Also it melts your battery. I did get a bit of lag but that was because my PC was lagging from the windowed mode.
Back on topic: I’d really like to see DX11 in GW2. I doubt that WvW is a problem since you can always make it set everyone else to basic skins with a blue/red/green color. Maybe if/when they’re done pouring money into living story content and make an expansion we’ll see some improvements on the code, DX11 and proper use of good CPUs.
Because devs have a talent for nerfing fun :P
Seriously, it shows some things that might seem overpowered like the fiery greatsword 4+lightning flash behind to stack the fields thing. I doubt they wanted to make the ability like that.
Hope you all get a good matchup, WSR looks like your losing points there
I aint gonna lie, we’ve grown huge in WSR as a guild but yeah theres just no potential in this server when everything just relies on 2 WvW guilds. We’ve headed out to a stronger WvW server so we can grow stronger and get more experience.
I’d like to thank all the WSR people who supported us by growing stronger with us in raidcall during public raids and everything.
To all our raidcall haters, thank you making us a kittening legend!
Anyway that’s me for this thread and server, cu all.
Haha, you’re welcome. Might WBC be willing to tell where they’re actually tranfering to? Anyways thanks for bearing with WSR for so long and good luck for those who still remain there.
I guess it’s kinda weird that an ability with the word “blast” in its name isn’t a blast finished. I guess that’s anet’s style. We’re also playing a game called Guild wars 2 which is made by arenanet and it has neither arenas nor gvg. The names they make up usually are connected to the last thing you’d think about
Back to the topic. RTL gets a 40s CD if it doesn’t deal damage, not if it doesn’t hit. So watch out for a dodge roll/block up when you use it and never use it when blinded.
You can be immobilised in mist, not sure about rangers roots but think so.
Oddly, those same forum warriors never once cried about Palad…I mean guardians ability to bubble & heal, or go invulnerable & heal, or their far superior elites & heal yadda yadda yadda…..
Don’t forget the mass lay on hands!
There’s a bug with stun breaks and knocks ATM. If you’re in the air and use a stun break it won’t work.
Well, I think it’s official. Transfer wins with 97,3% on WBC’s site.
Still going to leave it to someone in a higher position than me to explain the details though :P
Edit: 97,6%… OK screw this. You get the situation lol.
There’s a lot of other good WvW players on the server so we’re not the only ones considering a server transfer. I’ll let the guild leaders explain it. That way if there’s any sort of misunderstanding I can use them as human shields
Also it might end up being more fun if WSR’s WvW guilds left. That way WSR wouldn’t be jumping between t8 and t9 and FoW and Vabbi would finally have a relatively even matchup.
Fire grab’s scaling on a burning target is 2,5 BTW. That’s the same as heartseeker on a low HP enemy.
Also he either did get a lucky crit or used all his utilities for that burst.
Whooooah 12k fire grab DMG. You’re veeery squishy lol.
That was basically the ele throwing his lightning flash+ a 45 sec cd fire grab at you+earthquake(40s?) for CC.
About condition damage – we only have 2 damaging conditions and we usually have a hard time keeping them up. In PvE all conditions are pretty much useless because of the cap.
-Boss mechanics are predictable and boring. When the whole or the majority of a fight relies heavily on reflects as a counter, that’s not very creative or fun.
-It’s not that some classes are Over Powered. It’s that other classes are Under powered.
More like unfinished lol.
If you know the mechanics and have quick reflexes there’s usually no point in using anything other than zerk gear.
Healing=useless when the bosses usually 1-2shot anyone.
Toughness/vitality is kinda useless since you can’t really keep up your high HP. It also slows you down which makes you take more damage. Evading/blocking is much more effective.
Condition damage… Yeah… They need to do something about condition stacks in PvE.
Also you can support in zero gear. Support!=healing. You can apply boons and conditions just as well with full berserker gear.
Maybe it’s because the sun is shinning on your armor, and since it is silver, it reflects back the yellow light, making your armors more yellow-y than the preview?
its not silver, all the armor is dyed CELESTIAL (THE WHITEST WHITE)
I REPEAT THIS IS ALL DYED CELESTIAL
If you want to get what you see in the Hero Panel / Preview window, turn off the Post-Processing effects
And no, I’m not kidding
The preview you see in Hero Panel and Preview window do not take into account Post-Processing and Shadows. Turning off Post-Processing will remove the hue effect around your character
That actually works? Thanks, gonna try it for my abyss when I can!
good luck those t9 server ppl, i know its hard for you. i visited vabbi yesterday after reset no one was at lions arch anet should give a hand those servers. they are not just servers ppl live there and they need more to enjoy playing anet’s game.
Is it just me or is everyone overdoing it the last few days? Vabbi’s WvW population can always move, they apparently want to stick with their server. What’s left of them definitely has my respect for trying to put up a fight.
It might not be only WBC though. I won’t say anything else in case the rest want to say something themselves :P
Also if we’re going to do the moving thing we already have decided on a server. It’s not FoW, sorry.
This thread just yells “NERF US”.
Here’s some from me: fiery great sword 3 or burning speed when chilled/crippled in melee range. Fiery great sword 4 without a target -> flash back.
Also here’s a tip: tornado increases your stats and gives you a ton of crit chance. I’ll let you figure out some good uses for that :P
There’s the same discussion in the ele forums about Tornado. Both transforms are kinda useless most of the time.
What was suggested there was more damage, shorter cooldown , duration increase, extra toughess and some other stuff that really wouldn’t work on rampage. Think that any of those would be useful?
Mind suggesting a good ele fire trait rework then? You don’t even need to think about it, just copy-paste some good looking buffs for the trait line in the ele sub forum
Back to the topic: what if low-HP classes got balanced like warriors and necromancers? TBH it’s more fun fighting something that just has a lot of HP/effective HP to melt through than something that has an HP that bounces up and down like a basketball. It’s not so much regeneration that makes that effect, it’s heals with short cooldowns/having lots of ways to heal. Regen is just another passive way of healing up and slowly gaining a few thousand HP.
I got a reason better than “but balance”. Ever thought what would happen if duels were made official? A bunch of qq posts would flood the forums about how imbalanced this game is for 1v1. Anet are just saving themselves from a huge headache. 1v1 the ability for eles to instakill/instadown people would be OP. Mesmers would be ridiculous. St unlock warriors would be just lolmode. At the same time those are relatively balanced in the rest of the game.
Sorry, I don’t get your first sentence. As it seems to be contradicted two sentences later, but the Pro Duel people are right. Just look at the WvW forums. The cries for nerf are already there.
Do you really think people have a problem with thieves in WvW because they are amazing in sieges? Or because we have so much utility? Nope, they want thieves nerfed because 1v1 they are one of the best.
I have played just about every major MMO ever and most of them had the option to duel.
Were they balanced for it? Nope.
Did people QQ on forums because they got smashed by a class better suited for 1v1? You bet.
Did I see the horrible game changing things alot of people in this thread are saying will happen if this is implemented? No.
So really guys… Let them eat cake!
As you said there’s already a LOT of imbalance threads caused by people getting owned 1v1. The thing about this game is that you have a ton of build options. For example I have an ele build that uses a 3 min cool down to burst down a single person from full to dead. There’s only a few professions/builds that can do anything about it fast enough to save themselves. Can’t make a video of it and show you atm but it’s basically abusing the hell out of fiery greatsword. In a team it’s completely useless but 1v1 it’s a complete shutdown to some builds. At the same time there’s CC warriors but there aren’t that many “OPOPOP” posts about them because there’s usually a whole team to help you. And mesmers… I don’t really have to explain this, do I?
The game is barely balanced for its “main” mode, adding more modes would just increase the amount of qq. If people really want to duel in their shiny PvE gear that much then something like dueling people on your friends list for training would be OK I guess.
anet should give a hand those servers. they are not just servers ppl live there and they need more to enjoy playing anet’s game.