Guild Wars 2

Darsh.3145:

After all this time, We still only have 1 exotic set of gear? The Invader’s set.. Not only is it butt ugly… but why does it have tanking stats? Power, Toughness and Vitality? What if I play a support / healer in WvW? or what if play burst DPS? I suppose those WvW medals are more or less useless to me.

Other sets are available now (Rabid, Berserker, etc. No Valkyrie, though) for ~1g + 100-200 badges depending on the specific item. Check the Weapon/Armor vendors.

thiagoperne.7340:

The tittles were great choice

This misspelling played a trick on my eyes.

style.6173:

People still play thieves in WvW? I rarely see them anymore.

Can’t see them past the sea of clones / phantasms.

Operation Derail Thread to Nerf Mesmers…Go!

Syn.3459:

Xirin.8593:

Lert.6287:

Xirin.8593:

Syn.3459:

Xirin.8593:

Syn.3459:

nah thieves are fine and totally balanced, probably going to get a thief respond and tell me i was up-leveled or that i suck though

Glass cannon killed by another glass cannon.

Stop the presses.

absolutely

Are you trying to argue that 2300 armor should be considered a defensive-heavy build?

Are you trying to argue that 20k health and 2.3k armor should be considered as glass cannon?

2.3k armor is low. Not the lowest possible (just under 2k), but only slightly above that. Yes, that is glass (maybe plastic).

it isn’t about toughness, if i was a glass cannon i’d be about 15k health and 1.8k toughness and if i was that i’d have died in 2 hits

I said “maybe plastic.” So we’ll call you a plastic cannon.

Lert.6287:

Xirin.8593:

Syn.3459:

Xirin.8593:

Syn.3459:

nah thieves are fine and totally balanced, probably going to get a thief respond and tell me i was up-leveled or that i suck though

Glass cannon killed by another glass cannon.

Stop the presses.

absolutely

Are you trying to argue that 2300 armor should be considered a defensive-heavy build?

Are you trying to argue that 20k health and 2.3k armor should be considered as glass cannon?

2.3k armor is low. Not the lowest possible (just under 2k), but only slightly above that. Yes, that is glass (maybe plastic).

Syn.3459:

Xirin.8593:

Syn.3459:

nah thieves are fine and totally balanced, probably going to get a thief respond and tell me i was up-leveled or that i suck though

Glass cannon killed by another glass cannon.

Stop the presses.

absolutely

Are you trying to argue that 2300 armor should be considered a defensive-heavy build?

Syn.3459:

nah thieves are fine and totally balanced, probably going to get a thief respond and tell me i was up-leveled or that i suck though

Glass cannon killed by another glass cannon.

Stop the presses.

Thrashbarg.9820:

Gankers (I mean, uh, roamers, yeah, that’s the word)

Are you against roamers/gankers? Your comment is puzzling.

This is one of the few instances where a WvW mechanic doesn’t favor the zerg.

Preacher.4836:

Bunzy.8674:

Shout out to [AZRG] on DB

Well played in the small group fights.

Ah we didn’t relize that was ya’ll because we didn’t see any [OG], but yeah we had some really good fights. I don’t know if it was you who we fought by south east tower that ran the tank group, or the fight by the coyotes with high dps. My gut says you were the group with around 2 mesmer+3 thieves+3 dd eles. Either way i’ll tell you some class diversity will go a long way in making your group much more sustainable in longer fights.

Preacher

There were only 3 of us from the same guild: Bunzy, me and one other Thief. The others were just randoms that happened to be around for those skirmishes (we weren’t in the same Mumble as them). I don’t remember exactly what classes they were, but your guess looks accurate enough.

But yeah, we were aware of our lack of heavies and/or a frontline. We didn’t care, though We just wanted to have some fun and you guys were much more challenging than anything we’d encountered that night. Great class synergy you guys had and very good job keeping your teammates up that we’d burst or downed.

Edit: whoops, missed where you were wondering which group we were. We were the group that fought you near the coyotes.

bhagwad.4281:

I think it’s time to pay attention to what should be a rule in multi player games:

1 player should never be able to cause trouble to 2 or more players. No matter what the situation. If 1 player is able to do that, something needs to be buffed/nerfed somewhere.

Sometimes 1 player has more skill than 2 players combined.

I do agree that the mechanic needs to be changed. 1 player hitting a door a few times should not contest an expensive and time/resource consuming waypoint.

shadowbrk.2438:

what class is op right now in wvwvw?

Every class except the one that I play.

Linkisdead.9647:

How many times have you gotten face to face with a ranger and he just sat there and did his LB AOE? I don’t even bother to dodge out of it, just quick combo him down.

You got a legitimate laugh-out-loud from me with that because we have all been there dozens of times. LB AOEing while being melee’d is always funny.

Linkisdead.9647:

What I’ve mostly learned from this thread is people do not understand how to play ranger.

Good Rangers are a pain to fight. They’re up there with bunker-style Engis, etc. Just hard to put down.

I think the issue is that most Rangers don’t even know their own class. Seems like almost every Ranger in WvW uses LB almost exclusively. My guess is that LB+SB Ranger appeals to a lot of players due to the ease of play (you see a lot of threads asking “What class should I play if I’m not good at video games?” Ranger is always the most suggested due to pet tank + ranged attack). You don’t even see Warhorn+1h anymore after the Signet of the Hunt buff.

I’m always shocked when a Ranger doesn’t swap to a melee weapon when you’re right on top of them. They keep spamming LB while trying to frantically turn to keep up with strafing and dodges. That might even be a reason why GS/Sword Rangers are so hard to fight for many people…they’re so rare that no one has much experience fighting them.

BBMouse.6510:

SpedalFlux.1520:

you think we havent tried? we got 30man zerg camping the gate, he still slips pass… he hits the gate and instantly restealth… you cant even see him, the npc guards dont even have time to react…

Another post reagarding OP class in WvW. I just talked about stealth is OP, and there you are a good example XD. 1 vs 30 and nothing can be done. :P

Those 30 players should be embarrassed.

Strippling.3524:

[10,000,000,000,000 × 10]^10 times sorry

Why are you multiplying 10 trillion (10 billion in the long scale) by 10, before raising it to the power of 10?

Why didn’t you just write 100,000,000,000,000 ^ 10 ? Or why not just 1×10^140 ? I’m just curious, not trolling…I am bored at work this morning.

I’ve seen you DD guys roaming around, nice to see other roamers

Kronyx.2570:

Xirin.8593:

I couldn’t care less about the PPT/coverage/whatever argument. But this made me raise an eyebrow:

Kronyx.2570:

Also, Maguuma’s roaming groups are compromised of 100% mesmers, thieves, or D/D eles.

Is it surprising that roaming groups would be made up of the classes generally considered to be the best at roaming?

You mean best at running =P

No, that isn’t what I mean. You didn’t answer my question.

I couldn’t care less about the PPT/coverage/whatever argument. But this made me raise an eyebrow:

Kronyx.2570:

Also, Maguuma’s roaming groups are compromised of 100% mesmers, thieves, or D/D eles.

Is it surprising that roaming groups would be made up of the classes generally considered to be the best at roaming?

ixl.7190:

I saw that. Im sure it also sounds unsympathetic when I say that Anet communicated in advance the date and time, explained the one-time nature, and that staying up late, getting up early, getting the day off are all personal options that individuals could have taken. But even then, comparing a one-time event to a 30 day event is still a bit excessive.

A one-time event requiring someone to wake up at 3:00 AM (and I believe this was on a work day, Monday) in oceanic/asian timezones, is unreasonable and unnecessary.

How is that comparison excessive? Both events involve (potentially) one-time-only content and/or events. The Karka event will never be experienced again. The current SAB skins may never be obtainable again. They are not perfectly equivalent, but if you cannot see the overlap here then I cannot help you.

ixl.7190:

the Karka event was unpopular…not because of the limited time.

Did you miss the flood of posts by non-EU/NA players who were unable to participate in the final event because it occurred in the middle of the night for their time-zone?

Shinki.8045:

I disagree. In the new players mind it may demonstrate that the game has cool, one time only events with neat visual rewards. This, for me at least with GW1, made me more likely to try the events.

The general reception of the Karka event shows that one-time-only events are not desirable in the current MMO climate.

It also appears that the majority wish for the SAB not to be removed at the end of April. I presume this is due to players not being fond of having deadlines in their fun (gaming), since deadlines drive the rest of their lives (work, school, etc.)

drongas.4189:

he can escape when centaur/air rune with phase retreat, teleport, MI and decoy but not all mesmers use it.

drongas.4189:

pick prof without good escape skill. like mesmer

It’s also pretty hard to drive a nail into wood if you choose not to pick up the hammer.

drongas.4189:

pick prof without good escape skill. like mesmer, it real chalenge when u cant escape.

Geikamir.6329:

Personally, I really like one-time skins. They are just cosmetic and it’s a good way to show prestige for vets of the game in a few years.

It’s also a great way to alienate new players. It doesn’t affect me personally. I have 4 skins via Baubles and have been lucky with an additional 4 skins via chests (opened about 100 chests I think).

I’m just thinking about little Johnny Gamer who picks up GW2 this summer, sees someone running around with the Super Greatsword and says “Oh wow, I really want that! How do I get it?”

“Sorry, Johnny, it was a one-time event. You’re out of luck.”

Not the greatest experience for a new player.

Xar.6185:

One time skins are bad. Very bad.

Agreed. Please reconsider if this is indeed what is planned.

Aveneo.2068:

Xirin.8593:

Neither of these issues are important enough to warrant your level of dissatisfaction.

An exploit is an exploit, plain and simple. My ‘dissatisfaction’ becomes warranted when devs pretend the issue has just recently come to their attention when it has been reported to them -in detail- quite some time ago.

How did Devon “pretend the issue has just recently come to his attention?” He simply stated that he would look into it today. Nowhere did he state that he had not been previously aware of the issue.

DevonCarver.5370:

We’ll look into this today and likely get a bug in on it, as that seems like something we’d prefer not to have be the case.

Pedra.4381:

Xirin.8593:

Neither of these issues are important enough to warrant your level of dissatisfaction.

Do you have an example of an exploit that should warrant dissatisfaction?

I said his level of dissatisfaction (which is apparently very high). Not any dissatisfaction.

Aveneo.2068:

Good to hear you guys are finally going to look into this; considering that not only did I send a very detailed report including video to exploits@arena.net on the 15th of febuary, but also sent it directly to Habib and sent you the same one 12 days ago because nothing was being done about it!

And while you’re at it, please also look into that exploit where people can abuse those warrior banners and the like to instantly revive dead Keep Lords over and over again (for which I also sent an email to exploits@arena.net on the 16th of febuary)

Neither of these issues are important enough to warrant your level of dissatisfaction.

Brilliant. Got a legit lol out of me.

1UP

More options is always desirable.

Your client is rendering way more models than it was prior to the culling change.

What is your WvW character limit and character quality set to? I would personally recommend playing around with the WvW character quality setting. Most people have mentioned that “Low” (not “Lowest”, as it doesn’t show character animations) results in much better performance without much of a noticeable reduction in character model quality (compared to High or Highest).

Also, turning off Shadows and/or Reflections will help quite a bit.

OmniPotentes.4817:

This post by the dev makes me believe that new worlds will come with new skins. Or else what would be the point of running a harder world if the same reward can be gotten with less effort.

Fun / challenge / achievements / titles / experiencing new content?

If they did make skins available only via different Worlds (I doubt they would do this), you would get this as a result:

Greatsword available from farming W1-Z1 (very easy)
Pistol / Dagger / etc available from farming W2+ (much more difficult)

Not very equitable.

Brother Honeycutt.8629:

Can’t believe we took it all.

I couldn’t care less about PPT and the overall score.

All I care about is ganking upleveled rangers finding random duels around the map and flipping camps and other such mischief.

Kyrime.6958:

Please excuse my awful graphics settings!

Looks like you’re WvW’ing in Super Adventure Box.

iCryptik.1496:

Yarrr, if ’dis be true, ’den rangers finally be good ’fer something in WvW.

Ah, I’ve missed the Pirates’ posts from the BG/SOR/TC matchups.

My love for these posts aside, I agree with the Pirate. Personally I couldn’t care less if Rangers are able to buff siege damage. In my opinion, Rangers need some serious help when it comes to WvW, and if this makes them even slightly more desirable then more power to them. Of course, their core issues should still be addressed.

I can see the lack of appeal from an sPVPers perspective when it comes to ZvZ. The only times I run with a zerg is when I’m too mentally exhausted to handle solo/duo roaming, or if my guild is doing organized WvW.

But WvW doesn’t only offer ZvZ. You can choose to roam solo/duo/trio if you want. In my opinion, nothing in sPVP compares to a spontaneous 2v2 / 3v3 in open field (say between Garrison and Bay, or the area between NW tower and North camp in the BLs) with highly skilled players.

OP: did you intentionally misspell “maltodextrin” in your username?

Mesmers are more annoying (imo) and I make a beeline for them, as they are the most challenging class for me to fight.

Different strokes, I guess.

Dueled a few Mesmers and Thieves last night. Didn’t notice any sort of culling/rendering issue. It’s been flawless for me since the new system was implemented.

ChapDev.7650:

I don’t understand Dragonbrand sometimes, I was stood outside South West tower yesterday, alone on the bridge with maybe 10-15 DB in the tower stood on the walls looking at me.

They proceeded to call in 2 teams to attack me from Ruins in groups of 5 which failed because “lol” thief. Then they built a Ballista and started shooting at me. Dragonbrand, color me confused?

I’ve noticed this too. I roamed with one other person last night and this situation occurred a few times. 5+ in a tower staring at 2 of us. If the situation was reversed I would have Leeroy Jenkins’d it up. Are people that afraid of dying that they won’t engage unless they outnumber at least 3 to 1? Is 2.5 to 1 not enough?

ParaldaWind.4523:

Also, score update for those at work/school?

rhodoc.2381:

DevonCarver.5370:

To be clear, assuming we make this change, it would have basically 0% to do with world completion. While that would certainly be a side effect of the change, I’d like to do it because it will add a small amount of variety to the matchups, nothing more and nothing less.

I think you get it wrong with color rotation. You may also lack of knowledge about this. At the moment in SM

1st rank is green and always located at the bottom left
2nd rank is blue and always located at bottom right
3rd rank is red and always located at top.

This is a fact and valid at all matches. What people want is that being able to located at other locations even being at first rank always. The color is just something representing word of locations. And this helps %100 of map completion.

He stated the primary reason would be variety. How did that lead you to believe he doesn’t understand how this works? Your post is baffling.

scootshoot.6583:

Xandror.2356:

My framerate on my high-end PC reduced to about 5 fps and I noticed about a 2 second delay between what I was doing and what my character was doing.

I have seen others post their “High end” pc specs and it was anything but high end and I wouldn’t even label them as average. What’s your full pc specs?

Exactly what went through my mind when I read this.

I run a 3570k @ 4.2, 7850 @ 1000, etc. I wouldn’t even consider this high-end and I never hit 5fps. Even in the largest zergs, I never drop below 15-20 fps.

OP, please post your specs.

Gab Superstar.4059:

I know, I am just saying that there are very valid reasons for having DST in many parts of the world. To not keep it uniform would arguably complicate it a lot more than having to adjust your clock twice a year.

His initial response was tongue-in-cheek. I highly doubt he feels that WvW reset-time-induced-confusion is important enough to base DST decisions on.

declan.3968:

Xirin.8593:

urzen.7096:

I thought warbanner only worked on downed, not dead, things.

NPC “death” is equivalent to PC downed (for NPCs who retain a corpse that can be revived). This is also why the rez speeds are similar, if not identical.

This is not true for stuff like Elixir R and Signet of Undeath.

I meant equivalent in terms of their mechanics, not skill interaction.

urzen.7096:

I thought warbanner only worked on downed, not dead, things.

NPC “death” is equivalent to PC downed (for NPCs who retain a corpse that can be revived). This is also why the rez speeds are similar, if not identical.

EverQuest replaces their character models with stick figures. Pretty good imo.

No different than Churning Earth + Blink, stomping + any blink, etc.

ITT: OP making thread about dungeon requiring 5 people, without first verifying that said dungeon doesn’t require 5 people.

PS: me and one friend beat the Frog King last night. I’m sure some people have soloed him.