Guild Wars 2

I don’t see the PvE arguement being that big of a deal, seeing as players already use WvW and the LA portal in HOTM for most of there quick TP and Bank access. It will simply reduce some loadings screens and thats IT. Thumbs up from me!

The post was poorly constructed and also you didn’t really discuss things for improvements etc. Also, have you tried many other MMO’s? Flavor of the Month classes and meta builds have always existed, even when 2 seperate builds for one profession exist, see condi and power based mesmers, whichever fits best within more common composition of team takes precedence.

Happens with most if not all MMO’s my recommendation is embrace it and try new professions builds as they become strong, or defy it by sticking with what you know and love and doing everything in your power to make it work. Don’t expect to be the best all the time, just like you shouldn’t expect to win all the time.

Awesome I’ll keep that in mind romek! =)

@ Romek yea I see what you mean, I did do a written guide in combination with a video for some gold making guides. So something like this romek?

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/86540-gw2-gold-making-tips/

no one is forced to do it anyway…..the stat increase is so marginal 100% of the gw2’s content is doable without ascended gear except for fractals….and guess what fractals isn’t doable because of 3 more power….its solely for the Agony Resist that its NEEDED for fractal progression. Leave it the way it is.

so thieves warriors dont exist? they are quite meta atm, also eles and some mesmer specs…

Serious question, how OP would duo queue for solo q really be? If everyone can do it would it really be that extreme of a downside?

@ dahkeus tyvm man appreciate it and definitely raised a good point

@romek thanks again to you too, what do you mean by video only as in, within the video I make I could include more graphics and explain stuff that way? Or refering to written guides too?

For me personally I plan to make guides regardless of what happens. For the whole elitist thing….I’m going to step away from that whole ordeal, I’m not interested in getting involved. As for WP’s stuff, I’m hoping to cover different material to what he is. Regardless I make videos because I enjoy making videos, and I intend to keep doing what I enjoy! =)

First off appreciate the positive feedback! Thanks man, and I’d definitely love to discuss ideas for other videos in collab etc. I’ll add you in-game or you can contact me etc. I had some ideas of my own for once these stomping guides were finished but yea. Hit me up! =)

Hey guys, I’m currently working on an ongoing series to guides to help out newer guild wars 2 players take their first steps into sPvP. Having started out on stomping guides and with only one profession left to do I thought I’d share these videos here in the hope that they’d find their way into the hands of newer pvp’ers.

With that in mind once these stomping videos are done I want to branch into more in depth analysis of spvp from pre-game tips to map rotations, profession mechanics and more. So to start us off here are the links for content so far. ( Earlier videos came out louder apologies )

Warriors – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXNdcxNr5c4
Mesmers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUR9QX2J7g
Rangers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k93Ck5i-bdw
Guardians – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcYL6oPAX8
Elementalists – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-TUu6vTSA
Thieves – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZN_nMSwy1Q
Engineers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5smxsjJQM
Necromancers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1N5dTyUk5Y

I’ll update this thread when I do the necromancer, hopefully some new players out there will learn a lil something something, thanks for your time and have a great holidays!

What ever happened to these fractal leaderboards? =(

My warrior build has COMPLETELY changed…I think the meta is still the same but everythings tuned quite nicely atm…nothing too OP. At least from my experience.

Even if they did postpone it im okay with that, I know they’ll come out when they are ready. =)

@ magnus….good call I like that =) thanks.

Yea I have a feeling it may just be new different stuff etc…its not that I want whats better so I mays well never go for it its just we know new legendaries are being worked on, we’ve seen pics of the new staff already for example…I’d bet within the next 4 months they’ll come out, I kinda don’t want to get eternity soulbound then not use it thats all =(

Okay so any chance of getting confirmation on whether or not the new legendaries will require the old legendaries to make? Will there be a way to trade to the new ones for a brief time? Completely seperate? I dont care WHEN they come out but Im 1 dusk away from making eternity….and I don’t want to make and equip it if something better looking comes out and I wasted 3000 gold worth.

Just curious what method even if it is completely seperate from old legendaries I don’t mind just want to know whether to bother with this eternity etc =)

yea where are they =S

sounds good to me….but unfortunately that gives way to much credit to ANET and I’m losing faith in their story telling ability to be honest. Until such times as they prove me wrong I still feel as if they are writing story around content not content around releases….as such it gets the " writing as they go along " feel about it as if there was no story or plan at all…=S If this is all apart of her plan and that happens to be spot on then they did a kitten poor job of delivery that storyline.

Where I DO feel for them is I understand this endeavor is huge and this first exploration of this idea of living story….once scarlet is done I think ( hope ) we’ll see massive improvements in their story telling =)

Cassio.9507:

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you don’t find the content compelling enough to do, don’t force yourself to do it just for the achievement points. It’s better for you and it’s better for Anet because you won’t mistakenly get counted in their metrics as someone who loves the content.

This is a very interesting argument actually. I just hope that ArenaNet finds a better way to measure “fun factor” than AP accumulation and time spent.

Zanthrax.6538:

have you guys ever considered that ANET are still learning what works what doesn’t etc etc….there is literally no other MMO out there or has been out like GW2, elements have certainly appeared before but GW2 is completely a unique MMO.

Indeed, and I really think they are learning. Hence our feedback! To any company, no matter what business they’re in, spontaneous customer feedback is extremely valuable. (Or should be that is.)

Zanthrax.6538:

What if the next year they take all they have learnt after killing off scarlet ( yes they have confirmed scarlets story arc has a definitive end ) and make the next year of gw2 amazing!

Let’s hope so! But nothing we’ve heard or seen teasers of hint at a change, and that’s a bit worrisome. If we just knew what’s on the horizon, or got some feedback ourselves about what Anet’s thoughts are on the 2013 progression of the game.

Zanthrax.6538:

Just bloody relax ay, if you don’t find the game enjoyable at the moment fair enough I get it, but theres no harm in taking a break, everyone in this thread seems to feel rushed like omg 2 weeks must get everything done OMG! Seriously? they are achievement points? Are you an achievement whore? Why do you feel forced to complete them? They gain you no statistical power above others so wheres the problem?

A big part of me knows that you’re right in what you’re saying. Problem is that I still love the X factor of the game, and every time I take a small break from it I hear I just missed the best temporary content so far…

Yea I get the drive….I feel bad when I miss a daily or cut it close on a meta achievement, but to be honest I feel these metas are still EASILY doable, most of them I can do within a day or two and if I have the release night off I smash the entire thing out in that one play session for the night.

I do think two weeks is fine, especially given that its actually a month….they are starting to appreciate the overlapping of each new release to make it last a month etc. I think we just need more engaging and thought out story telling =S

have you guys ever considered that ANET are still learning what works what doesn’t etc etc….there is literally no other MMO out there or has been out like GW2, elements have certainly appeared before but GW2 is completely a unique MMO. What if the next year they take all they have learnt after killing off scarlet ( yes they have confirmed scarlets story arc has a definitive end ) and make the next year of gw2 amazing!

Just bloody relax ay, if you don’t find the game enjoyable at the moment fair enough I get it, but theres no harm in taking a break, everyone in this thread seems to feel rushed like omg 2 weeks must get everything done OMG! Seriously? they are achievement points? Are you an achievement whore? Why do you feel forced to complete them? They gain you no statistical power above others so wheres the problem?

After season 1 is done, could we have 1 week where scores are hidden until the end of the week so no servers gets discouraged by score….we can have a real ". Would be awesome.

Thought, why not make some of the more prestigious titles like god amongst mere mortals or fractal titles ( if /when they come ) make them NOT grey….perhaps even with an effect around the letters? I can envision some of the higher achievements like veteran of the mists or champion shadow etc etc having some cool unique effect with the title to make it stand out from the sea of grey titles.

I would have used it without the stupid writing =( sorry

what bagel said….I too have recently learnt that ascended items vs exotics in wvw have hidden systems in place to balance the margin between ascended and exotic far more closer than it actually appears " apparently " lets assume that ISN’T true….we talking about? +4 of a stat? +5 of a stat? aka power instead of agony resistance? Seems futile to bother in my personal opinion, besides don’t forget….the only way to true progress fractals will be to have AR in ALL slots so we talking kitten-60-70 AR etc etc.

competition in PvE is imperative to facilitate growth of the game….most MMO’s thrive when their " end game " PvE content warrants competition with other guilds / servers and it spikes enthusiasm and drive. If you say GW2 isn’t that type of game thats fair enough but I argue….look at tequatl…the first time this game actually had some competition people were slammed with some decently difficult content for once and when the first group downed Teq that moment was all =O omg.

Sounds kind of reminiscent to WoW and raiding guilds getting server firsts n stuff doesnt it? Its a good thing trust me. There is no threat that this game will have the gear grind repercussions that WoW has because there is no gear treadmill once ascended armor gets implemented. The PvE content that is difficult would purely be gated by skill. That way competition would be even better!

yea I did consider the downside of them as well but hopefully this could spark the fuse to make some awesome design changes that promote better pve and wanted to touch on how they’d positively affect PvP

Hey guys, Im just going to jump right into it.

We have defined roles that differ from the traditional MMO of Tanks Healers and DPS, some people miss the idea of filling their role and seeing visible contribution to an outcome, however that doesn’t mean GW2 has to ditch its idea of self sufficiency, you can have your cake and eat it too!

What if…
The roles we DO have defined being Crowd Control, Support and DPS actually had visible impact?

I think theres a difference between everyone can do everything….and everyone can do everything at once….GW2 would benefit from distinct seperation of hybrid builds into these 3 roles.

How can we do that? Heres an example….what if hammer for warrior or guardian had its damage cut in half like the physical damage on the weapon cut from 985-1111 to something like 420-580….using that weapon has little damage relevance but is all about the cc, …. now what about support?

What if the only way to gain certain boons or even all boons or perhaps even stacks of boons above 3 ONLY via support weapons like staves. Lets say on your own you can get 1-2 stacks of might via traits n stuff but to hit 25 stacks of might you NEED support orientated professions look at guardian empower….perfect example.

What if aegis was a boon that was ONLY available from support weapons? Suddenly they have a more prominant role, that clutch aegis stopped x ability or x mechanic in PvE.

Now lets take a look at the PvP and PvE applications….PvP I’m pretty sure would improve 10 fold, CC has no damage but sets up damage dealers….support gives out the boons to provide more meaningful burst tertiary heals things like that etc etc. Dps can’t give themselves boons or crowd control and rely on their teams for that….PvP would be epic!

PvE you can now start to design encounters AROUND these roles instead of the individual avoiding mechanics like stand out of red circle. Heres an example….What if just one of the mechanics of a particular boss was that he spawns an add far away from him and that mob takes 10 seconds to walk to the boss, upon reaching the boss he explodes giving the boss a massive damage buff wiping the raid. Now lets say if he doesnt reach the boss after 20 seconds he explodes regardless and leaves a little aoe on the ground that damages players. Here is 2 key awesome mechanics….CC is paramount as you want to lock down those mobs ( they don’t take damage but can only be cc’d ) ….so you need to CC them for 10 seconds worth of travel time. The AoE they leave on the ground further acts as a dps timer….as more aoe crops up the fight gets harder and harder etc….

This puts emphasis on those support roles maintaining high fury uptime and stacks of might. Its okay Anet I know I’m awesome I accept your job at arena net as a content designer =P….but in all seriousness what do you guys think? Do yas see where I’m coming from?

Ask if those people on achievement leaderboards get bombarded, this is silly imo. Leaderboards are pointless imo but your concerns feel even more silly to me.

Doomdesire.9365:

Why does BG always say this? JQ/SoR playing dead? We aren’t playing dead, we just don’t have the coverage you do. We still have coverage gaps. There are times when we don’t even have a commander online, nonetheless 20 people in teamspeak. We don’t even have a power house EU guild anymore. Maybe if you tried to even out the population instead of stacking we would have a more healthy T1 competition…

It’s like 70 people zerging down RIOT and when RIOT leaves the map, they ask, why is RIOT playing dead?(Sorry RIOT, had to use you guys as an example)

I want to see 1 major wvw guild from each t1 server pick a partner guild from same server but differing timezones and leave to a random low tier servers…would be awesome balance to multiple servers but it definitely won’t happen =(

Love the " you bought guilds " thing….everyone that I speak to from JQ and SoR both mad at BG and non mad at BG say yea we know JQ and SoR at some point have bought guilds…and then the mad folk still act hypocritical and say yea but BG does it more and blah blah blah blah…it’s almost amusing.

What I’d love to see is more servers have far far far less disparity we need tier 1 guilds to filter throughout lower tiered servers…thats what would benefit the game the best. Each major wvw guild from tier 1 picks 1 partner from differing timezone and picks a unique server

It’ll never happen but that would make wvw so much better.

Lheimroo.2947:

I’ll just pop in – this is one of my bigger beefs with the game at the moment.

Certain classes in PvE are fundamentally easier than others. I’m not talking about having to use tricks to survive as an elementalist – I’m saying your tricks run out, go on long cooldowns, and then you die to what a warrior would soak easily without cooldowns. It’s extremely, extremely frustrating. I really get demotivated on my elementalist. I go survivability gear, survivability cooldowns, and get little return for really terrible damage.

Do you feel if warrior and ele had the same base armor health and heal that warrior out shines ele in defense maneuverability and defensive utilities? Or that Elementalists outshine warriors in defensive movability and utilies etc?

Off the top of my head warrior has endure pain gs evade shield block.
Ele has shield block ( earth focus ) immune like endure pain ( mist form ) another block ( arcane shield )
Warriors use shouts to cleanse condis and heal….eles use water attunement every weapon has some sort of additional heal. You can even use lightning flash to position better and kite etc.

Yes its unfortunate that warriors if they make a mistake can facetank some damage that otherwise might kill that ele, but its an MMO every single MMO ever has balance issues thats a fact. But to me emphasis in pve is damage mitigation by avoidance by reading animations / tells not outtanking content. As such don’t complain until you are the best ele you can be. Not saying warriors aren’t imbalanced but don’t forget to look inwards at your own performance, every single player in this game can improve in some fashion. Elementalists have plenty of tools to avoid damage.

Why do people say stacked when theres a limit of how many people can be on a server queues happen when X server has 100 on the map aka 300 map total across 3 servers….and yet I know for a fact BG often has no queue times during OCE and EU, by the same virtue I’d assume JQ and SoR have no queue times at times too fair enough.

But at the pinnacle of week 1 I’m SURE that all 3 servers had queues on all four maps….BG won that week, how is it " you have more numbers " if we won week one against JQ and SoR when all 4 maps would have been capped out at the 300 members 100 per side. Think about it.

IMO doing invites guild based was silly, =S just my opinion. But thanks for the update grouch =)

xar i actually want to make babies with you….tytyty

Can you make public that model viewer you use? Please?!?!?

Elbegast.6970:

Zanthrax.6538:

Romo.3709:

I got SUPER excited when I saw the trailer, then I read the info page about the release… Not so excited anymore…

What do you dislike about the information?

There’s nothing in that release for solo players. I don’t group and have never set foot in a fractal nor dungeon. So, yeah, another two weeks of nothing.

Theres a story instance where we’ll find out scarlet did bad things to make reactor go boom….hate to say it but solo play in an MMO….=S….yikes…what lonely gameplay that is….

Romo.3709:

g e o.2589:

I know but some people, obviosuly ones with #NOLIFE #FARM4EVA, do several daily, I know one player who does it like 4 or 3 times a day to do all dailies, imagine if people like him had a chance to get unlimited daily chests……

Each fractal run normally takes about an hour and a half on average (higher levels at least). Three or four runs would end up being 4:30- 6:00 hours long. Which is not really a #nolife status during a weekends or a holiday breaks which we will be getting a lot of this time of the year.

But now since it’s an account bound thing, there really is no reason what-so-ever to play fractals more than once per day.

The whole idea of creating a new character is why fractal levels should remain character-bound. Because frankly, there are some characters people just don’t know how to play on and some characters that they’re actually good on.

So your saying this game should cater to those that are on holiday break and only want to experience fractals and as such require a purpose to play gw2 daily for more than 2 hours tops? You are aware you can play other things in the game yea? Could the game benefit from some completely not required reward thats cosmetic that simply requires 200 hours of your time therefore having some sort of prestige for those no lifers? sure….but I mean cmon….this change is fine….if you log on to gw2 and expect to be entertained for 4-6 hours a day doing fractals only then regardless of the rewards you are gonna get burnt out quickly.

Romo.3709:

Zanthrax.6538:

Romo.3709:

I got SUPER excited when I saw the trailer, then I read the info page about the release… Not so excited anymore…

What do you dislike about the information?

Personal level reset, Account bound reward level. The list goes on

So to me, personal reward reset doesn’t matter because everything you currently do level 48 for you can get at 30 the weapons etc etc. I don’t see the downside apart from some people think that a number of 48 49 or 50 vs the number of 30 means anything. If they had of said okay the new cap is 70 and the race is from 50 to 70 seems like you’d be happy with that yet theres no change in that compared to the option they are giving you.

Account bound reward level, so now we are talking getting a shot at fractal and ascended weapons once per day as opposed to as many times as possible if you had multiple toons? May I ask how many people actually have 2 seperate toons at fractal reward level 48 that run both those toons daily at a chance to get fractal weapons?

achievements I figured yea…they had to be in there….as for AR cap iunno man if I recall the Agony damage once u hit 50 goes up so exponentially you actually can’t physically complete fractal 50 like at all….the reason some were able to were you had to do odd number fractals that didn’t have the boss encounter that forces you to get agony resistance….apart from that boss ‘technically’ all abilities that give agony damage were avoidable.

So now that all levels of fractals have that boss encounter iunno man…if the agony still skyrockets at 50 we suddenly have that hard cap again and leaderboards kinda lose all meaning after a few weeks.

but isn’t there a repeatable chest? that you get over and over?

Romo.3709:

I got SUPER excited when I saw the trailer, then I read the info page about the release… Not so excited anymore…

What do you dislike about the information?

yea i’d love to see some revamping of older fractals but should be interesting….the only thing i dislike about fractals is the 1-2 hours it takes to do em with pugs…bit pricey =S…i’d rather a per fractal basis as in completing 1 fractal thena boss fractal and thats your daily done….not 4 total ( as in 3 then boss fractal ) would save time…

also I feel they need to lock out players from skipping fractals, whatever you get you gotta deal with.

the story instance definitely has scarlet….sorry but you mays well prepare for that now….its obvious

kk lets just jump right in.

1) Can you stack infusions higher than 5? You mention 1 AR plus 1 AR with the thaurma reagant will give 2 AR etc….can this be used to increased a 5 AR infusion to 6?

2) If so whats the cap? 10 AR? Infinite?

3) Are there new achievements for fractals?

4) Will the leaderboards show just fractal personal reward level? If so is the cap still 50?

5) If the cap is still 50 are you aware that that isn’t very prestigious? 6 months down the line lots of people will be 50 are there plans to mitigate that potential lackluster purpose for leaderboards? Have you thought about a decay system?

6) When ascended armor comes out on december 10th oh yes i went there….will that also have a chance at dropping from higher level fractals as weapons currently do?

Im not even a hardcore fractal player but kittening hell that trailer was awesome….haha….love how they don’t screw around with the gritty stuff….loved the shaman throwing the human into the fire part….was epic!

Was it just me or was this trailer video friggin epic….holy crap that was entertaining…what was your opinion on the video trailer?

hmmm good point I did think about how small those patch notes were, you have convinced me so! Either way we’ll find out in approximately 9-12 hours. My body is ready for the release page!

so I just saw pastebin link of potential update stuff….turns out I was right, ASSUMING they are correct of course….could be way off

http://pastebin.com/LmC1PKLm

I’m a little saddened that PvE’ers can’t xfer their legendaries directly into PvP =(.

Alas heres to hoping tonights ( im from australia ) blog confirms those 2 big ones.

Hey guys Killchain here, made a PvP montage just practising editing skills getting back into the flow of things….but there is something I want to touch on

DISCLAIMER: Cheesy editing, I love making these kind of videos but they aren’t for everyone you have been warned. Content itself, not gonna lie skullcrack warrior and some of the clips are pretty kitten average, I’m just doing this as fun cause I love making these videos as well as practise, however yea, some clips are pretty meh apologies.

However, regardless hope you enjoy it or have some constructive feedback what you liked what you didn’t like etc. Plan to make many more montages of growing quality. Quick update as well I’m currently working on that next WvW series video looking at small scale group play in WvW. So stay tuned for that over the few days to a week. =)