Guild Wars 2

I have 25% run on all my characters. If they don’t have access to permanent utility skills that provide 25% run (like my Mesmer), I have to buy them traveller or speed runes (depends on what stats I want for the character).

It shouldn’t be like this, but as much as I’ve tried kicking and screaming to Anet about it, still nothing gets done about it. Sure, the Chronomancer will FINALLY give Mesmer a 25% movement trait, but tying something so basic like movement to a trait is annoying. Just give all professions access to a 25% passive run signet and be done with it.

I agree, the hero point icons are extremely hard to see. Even more so when zoomed out! I think they need to be larger, and at the very least, have some sort of outer glow on the icons or SOMETHING to make them noticeable.

Edit: Or like others have said, revert it to the pointy blue chevron icons they used to be.

I just saw this on GW2Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3hq5pi/i_made_a_charr_lichform/

https://juliethomer.artstation.com/portfolio/charr-lich?album_id=20890

It looks so frikkin amazing! Hire her please!

“Only like Overloads”

And probably…

“Current setup better”

Because it’s true. All my trait lines have a purpose, and all of them synchronise and have great damage modifiers. Tempest doesn’t offer the same bonuses. It does offer me something new (overloads), but at the cost of a much weaker trait line. I know what I’d rather choose! I’m sticking to my current setup tyvm. The only thing I’ll be using from the specialisation is that Tempest shoulder skin – that’s about it.

To follow up on from my previous post (because it’s all very well saying what doesn’t work, I should back it up with something that, in my opinion, WOULD work), I don’t really care about the warhorn skills (because I’m a staff ele and dagger/warhorn just aren’t my thing), so I won’t suggest any, but I’ve come up with a couple ideas for Tempest grandmaster traits:

Righteous Resistance:

Become invulnerable while using an Overload. (my reason behind this is that overloads are very short in duration, and there should be a HUGE incentive to using an overload. This would be a great incentive, would make enemies truly fear you and try to avoid you, and would be a pretty good trait, hence grandmaster).

War Caller:

Based on your current attunement, shouts inflict a condition on foes. Gain more ferocity (+150) when using a shout. Shouts recharge (20%) faster. (inspired by the arcane grandmaster trait, elemental surge)

Fire: Burning
Water: Vulnerability
Air: Weakness
Earth: Bleeding

The only trait line I would consider sacrificing for tempest, if I HAD to choose one, would be arcane. But as it is right now, I could never justify swapping arcane out for tempest, because arcane, to me, is much stronger. Arcane also synchronises extremely well with my skills. And here’s why:

When I use my arcane blast utility skill, it not only deals critical damage, but it has a whopping 1500 range, gives me +150 ferocity for 15 seconds (when traited with elemental surge), and synchronises with my arcane healing skill, arcane brilliance. So I can maintain +150 ferocity. This synchronisation I get from arcane gives me a nice damage modifier that tempest simply doesn’t offer me as an alternative.

The only way I could see tempest being remotely enticing for me, is if it had traits, skills and damage modifiers similar to arcane (or in tempest’s case, shouts), that synchronises with my healing skill (so in tempest’s case, introduce a shout for your healing skill), offers me the same damage bonuses (+150 ferocity for 15 seconds when traited, and using shouts), and gives me something extra/new to look forward to from the specialisation, that other trait lines simply don’t offer, like overloads, and the ability to become invulnerable while using them (when traited with the grandmaster I suggested, Righteous Resistance. OR, at the very least, a 50% reduction from incoming damage by enemies, and immunity to crowd control skills whilst overloading).

I want to remain a staff ele because I like the skills and warhorn doesn’t do it for me, but as it is, if it’s not the warhorn I dislike, it’s the tempest traits. It doesn’t offer me anything more (apart from overloads, but that’s not a big enough reason to swap out a much better trait line for), and this is why I will remain using my current build.

I hope this has been good feedback.

My current trait setup is still more powerful (damage modifier wise) than if I were to run with the Tempest trait line (which would actually make me weaker), so still no incentive for me to run with the specialisation, but I’m sure those who like using warhorn will probably like the very few changes that were made.

Dailies
Play my elementalist in EOTM until my WXP bonus and Birthday Bonus expire
Attempt to finish off my personal story on my elementalist

Shatterer weapons (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/Shatterer-Weapons-made-out-of-Screenshots/)

Celestial weapons (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Celestial_weapons)

Branded armor skin set (see first two pics below for example)

Margonite armor skin sets (3rd pic)

Varesh Ossa armor skin set (4th pic)

Dhuum’s Soul Reaper (5th pic)

More scythe skins in general

Black Dyed Voltaic Spear/Spear of the Hierophant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUbMoBVFO80)

If I could only request ONE thing for any future expansion:

Dyeable Weapons

The black dyed Voltaic Spear/Spear of the Hierophant skin

I know we have the Al’ir’aska, but it can’t be dyed, and it’s missing the animation that the Voltaic Spear had in GW1.

Rauderi.8706:

Faren and Kasmeer swimsuits.
That is all.

I second this. I would pay a good amount of gems for a Lord Faren Speedo Outfit. Just saying. See 2nd pic for example.

Also, perhaps not as an outfit, but I’d like to see an armor skin set for Varesh Ossa. I love her shoulder piece in particular (or maybe it’s part of the chest? I don’t know – the curvy thing around her head looks very Egyptian and regal), and think it would suit the Chronomancer amazingly well. See first pic below.

I haven’t played Ventari for a while, mainly because I just don’t like how the whole tablet thing works. I don’t want to have to drag the tablet with me wherever I go – it should follow you, like Minions or Spirit Weapons.

The tablet, when summoned, should follow you wherever you go, and disappears when you decide to use it.

I’m glad they got a bit of a damage buff since last time, but I’m still a bit sceptical about using Ventari.

After reading it all I still couldn’t get an idea of how Herald will work, but I’m more of a visual person so I guess I’ll just have to wait till the POI to see how it is XD

Loving the shoulder skin of the Herald. Can’t wait to get my hands on that.

By the sounds of it, there still isn’t a ‘permanent’ 25% movement utility though, it sounds more like something that will be temporary via blast finishers or whatever. I hope I’m wrong.

My favourite villains from GW1 were Varesh Ossa (loved her armor too. Wish we had it available as a set of skins) and Abaddon.

Although the fight with Abaddon was short and not that spectacular considering he was supposed to be all powerful and all, I would love to see a return of him because he just oozed darkness, and that’s what I like to see when it comes to villains.

Yeah I wish we had dyeable weapons. It was such an amazing feature in GW1, and there are some weapons in GW2 where I just think ‘man, that would look so much better with this color… what a shame’.

I think it would be a lot of work to redo everything, but it would be an amazing update for the future. If someone got onto it now (or after HoT’s release), perhaps it could be a reality before another GW2 expansion comes out.

I think any extras (like bonus xp etc.) married couples in-game receive would be unfair to those who aren’t married.

If something like that were possible though, I think it would be cool for players to get married to NPC’s (like in the game ‘fable’). You could also have your own home instance through buying it from an agent (this home instance would be separate from the one in your starter zone, and could be relocated to any map you wanted), and place trophies of bosses you’ve defeated on the wall, construct mini portals that could take you to various areas (you could do this by perhaps levelling up a construction skill – which could be trained at a crafting station?), the ideas & potential are endless, really.

Laurence.6751:

It is not totally unreasonable since the other two heavy armor classes do not have a permanent 25% speed boost either; although it sounds weird that an centaur or assassin has no increased speed, remember what human characters say when they gain Swiftness?

I’m surprised that we still don’t have access to a 25% run signet for all classes. Mobility is a basic necessity for any profession, and some have the luxury of a permanent version of it, while others miss out.

Hammerguard.9834:

I would like if Ventari had a skill or two that would effect enemies. Such as an AoE pull toward the tablet. Like the tablet was trying to convert its enemies to be good or something, just incase people wanted it to fit some lore reasoning or something.

I’ve always wanted something like the skill that the Grawl Shaman champ from the statuary in Edge of the Mists uses. It’s like this quicksand skill with a huge AoE, which pulls enemies in and knocks them down with each second it pulses.

Something like that – it could be some sort of quicksand-rift utility skill? Slicing into the mists (or stomping?), creating tears and instability which ultimately pulls enemies in, and knocks them down at the same time. Would be a nice AoE interrupt utility skill.

nicodemus.3812:

A lot of posts about lack of swiftness on Rev so here is a tip ppl may not have noticed.

Use the dwarf road then use Hammer 3 and 5 blast finishers to put out aoe swiftness with 100% up time.

A bit of a pain and you need to use hammer and dwarf but it is there.

You shouldn’t have to though, for something as basic as movement speed. It’s also unfair that some classes have access to permanent swiftness, while others don’t – and furthermore, have to rely on using combo finishers, or skills that give temporary swiftness, or resort to sacrificing the runes they want to use, by swapping them out for runes of the traveller or runes of speed just to keep up with everyone else. It’s unnecessary.

Mobility is something that should be available to everyone. Anet just need to give a 25% run signet to ALL professions and be done with it. Shouldn’t be that hard to do IMO.

style.6173:

I doubt they are doing another revenant announcement. If so, they have a horrible marketing group. It’s a bit of a groan at this point with the amount of revenant stuff lately.

Ummmm… Revenant’s the new class though. Compared to all the other classes who have been here since the beginning, and the fact that we don’t know every single detail about the Revenant yet, it kind of deserves the right to be talked about more often, lol.

I hope in the future we get to see more of our characters with our weapons and backpieces in cutscenes. It seems odd cutscenes don’t include them.

One has to ask the question… where DO our weapons and backpieces go during cutscenes? The mists? The Abyss? Who knows…

I tried using a tome of knowledge in the BETA, hoping it would gimmie mastery point. Just gave me spirit shard. I guess it’s only fair to get masteries the hard, grindy way.

I’ve never liked the legendary greatsword hilts to be honest. The colours of the hilts don’t look good with the special effects IMO.

Edit: Just did some editing in Photoshop, and placed dwayna’s greatsword hilt over the top of the eternity greatsword hilt (with a few extra wing bits from dwayna’s hilt and changing of a few colours here and there). This looks much better IMO.

chronometria.3708:

The Asura ones are lovely.

Seeing as the current likely wedding couple is going to be Kasmeer and Marjory…which one of them is going to wear the male outfit?

Sorry but that just sounds really ignorant. What makes you think one of them has to wear the male outfit? I know we live in a heteronormative society, but just because it’s 2 females doesn’t mean one has to be the ‘man’ in the relationship. Maybe they both want to wear dresses?

I like the crown, shoulders, chest and gloves on the male human, don’t really like the legs and boots though.

Female asura looks the best out of all of them in my opinion. Very wedding-like.

Male norn looks alright, but I can’t help but think he looks more dressed for winter, than a wedding.

Would love to see what the asura male looks like with crown instead of whatever it is that’s on his head.

The rest are meh.

Wish I could have that crown on males as a separate helmet skin. My warrior would look very dapper with it.

Khisanth.2948:

I hope that is actually the incomplete version for sylvari. It looks like someone forgot the textures.

Yeah especially the sylvari male. Hideous! Though many armors and outfits for males don’t look good, so I must say I’m not surprised :-/

Edit: Changed my mind. It seems rather balanced when I look at it overall.

I reckon the candy corn gobbler should consume 50 candy corn at a time though, and provide a random Halloween transformation AND 30 minute boost to the XP buffs they provide now. That way 2 stacks of candy corn provide 5 hours of bonuses, but require a hell of a lot less clicking.

Pros:

• With boosts being combined, this causes less icon clutter for your screen
• More balanced xp based boosts across the board (good for levelling alts when you kill stuff)

Cons:

• Way less WXP-specific boost duration (I would say many bought the gobbler because it mainly gave WXP boosts over other boosts), so not very good for WvW’ers in this regard.
• Lowered durations for boosts

Overall when I think about it, it’s pretty balanced now I guess. And I do like the fact that there aren’t as many icons taking over my screen. Heck, at times I couldn’t even see how much WXP I had, let alone be able to see if I had run out of food or oils.

I used 204 pvp potions the other day with 603% magic find, and got no ascended stuff.

Used same amount during the BETA, but with only 300 or so magic find, and I got an ascended ring that I couldn’t keep :-(

#storyofmylife

After that, I’m not convinced magic find works for pvp reward track loot. Maybe I was just extremely unlucky (Probably the case. Darn you RNG).

Yeah the lack of utilities makes the Revenant feel really limited and almost restrictive. I love the Rev so much, but this is what was so frustrating for me during the Beta. I hardly use the current utilities mainly because they either don’t help my build, or cost too much energy, or aren’t what I’m looking for in that moment of battle, and I kept thinking to myself, why aren’t I enjoying Rev as much as I should be? And this is the reason. Lack of utilities and choice.

There’s a reason why I main elementalist, and that’s because it has so much freedom when it comes to skills, traits and utilities. Rev only has two of those (skills & traits). Rev just needs a bit more polishing and a bit more love in the utility department, and a 25% run signet, then it’ll be on par with the other professions.

I REALLY want to see a new grandmaster trait for the Revenant called ‘Rift Lord’. I came up with this a few weeks ago actually. The name was inspired by the Guild Wars 1 Ritualist skill ‘Ritual Lord’. And here’s what I think it should do. Similar to how the Guardian’s grandmaster trait ‘Writ of Persistence’ works (which improves symbols), Rift Lord would, you guessed it, improve rifts.

Rift Lord could make rifts last longer, be larger, and become unblockable.

I also believe that, to polish the Revenant to perfection, they need more utilities that we can swap out and choose from (because Revenant is the only profession that doesn’t give you any options when it comes to utilities). Utilities don’t HAVE to be legend specific – most utilities are class-specific anyway and don’t revolve around legends, so you could have, say, a few rift skills, a few signets (a 25% run signet would be nice), a few crowd control skills, stun breaks, maybe 1 or 2 healing/health regen skills etc. etc.

Edit: I also think there should be a trait which makes rifts ground targeted. For example, I want love to place temporal rift (axe #5 skill) on the sides of towers, so I can pull enemies off the ledge. Right now I can’t, and it seems such a waste because rifts have so much untapped potential.

Inspired by the thread ‘8 missing skills’ (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/8-Missing-Skills/), I figured I’d start this thread for people to suggest what utility skills they’d like to see the Revenant have.

Currently we are forced to using certain utilities tied to specific legends, and while that’s all very nice and unique, because of this, it can actually be extremely limiting in terms of build diversity and all-round enjoyment of the Revenant.

Here are a few reasons why I think Revenants need utilities that we can choose from:

1) They have no real ‘permanent’ swiftness skill or trait – not even a 25% movement speed signet, for example. This means players have to sacrifice what runes they truly want on their revenant, for runes like traveller, or speed. I’ve been saying this for a long time, but I think all professions should have access to a 25% passive movement signet utility skill. You don’t have to use it, but at least make it an option for classes that don’t have movement as a basic luxury that everyone should have access to.

2) What happens when, let’s say one of the Revenant’s utility skills are bugged (and it will most likely happen sooner or later), and it can’t be fixed for a while? This limits their already very limited utility skills we have available to us.

3) What if the utilities you have no choice in choosing from, aren’t even ones you want to use? I can’t be the only one that doesn’t use all 3 utility skills on the Revenant?

There are probably more reasons, but I just feel that, in order to polish the Revenant to perfection, and bring it up to the standards of all the other classes, they NEED a bit more variety in the utility department. The fact that we can’t choose our utilities makes the class feel very limited and, to me, extremely frustrating at times. There is a good reason why I main staff elementalist, and it’s because there’s SO much skill, trait, and utility variety to choose from. Revenant currently only has skill and trait variety.

Anyway those are just my thoughts on what the Revenant needs to feel complete. Feel free to pitch in your thoughts, or suggest any utility skills you’d like to see etc.

Yeah I think all Anet needs to do now, to polish the Revenant, is give them more utility skills that we can choose from (not be forced into using), and give them a 25% passive movement signet for one of their utilities. I had to put superior runes of speed on my Revenant in the BETA just so I could keep up with the zerg in Edge of the Mists, ultimately forcing me to sacrifice runes I would have preferred to use, like eagle, infiltration, or wurm.

As it is, I feel so limited in terms of what I am allowed to use with the Rev. Sure I can choose Hammer and Sword/Axe for my weapons, but I literally have no say in my utilities, and some of them I don’t even use because I don’t need them or they require too much valuable energy. It would be nice to have utilities that we could choose from that aren’t legend-specific. Utilities don’t HAVE to be tied to a certain legend, they can just be tied to said class.

There are so many possibilities with utilities for Rev.

I found it really grindy too – killing monsters in particular, to level my gliding. I think it will be better though once HoT releases, because then we hopefully won’t have bugged events (and events are usually where the best xp for levelling the masteries comes from).

But yeah it doesn’t really make sense in regards to levelling gliding by killing monsters and doing events. It’s like going to cooking school and somehow getting experience in architecture. Ah well, many things don’t make sense in games so I don’t really care lol.

This is kinda old info. We already knew we were getting Glint and Shield for Revenant. Nevertheless, it’s good to get confirmation from the teaser.

I’m intrigued by that shoulder skin. Looks nice. We haven’t seen that before, so if anything, that’s new info :-P

I think I’ll be away on the anniversary of GW2 too, so I guess I’ll have to miss out on anything they do for it :-(

Yup they’re account bound. Once unlocked, it’s unlocked for all your characters.

I found gliding itself really fun. Only thing I didn’t like about it was the fact that it could only be used in Heart of Thorns areas. Kind of a waste to implement such a great feature, and only have it available to use in certain maps.

Other games have it so that certain features, once unlocked, can be used anywhere – like flying or whatever. So in that regard, that’s the only thing that I found really disappointing. I want to glide from the heights of Malchors Leap!

What the OP has said was exactly what I found confusing in BETA too. The only way to level up Gliding Mastery it seemed, was me killing monsters and doing events (most of which were bugged and couldn’t be completed anyway). It was really slow, and even when I managed to accumulate 2 or 3 mastery points from various areas in Verdant Brink, I wasn’t able to spend them, and all the icons for gliding were locked. I thought to myself – wait, what is the point in getting these mastery points when the only way to level my gliding is through killing monsters and doing events?

Found the whole thing really confusing.

I thought the masteries would be a system where you could select a mastery track to train it, and obviously gain xp for it via killing monsters and doing events etc. but if you wanted to fast-track it, you could go hunting for those mastery points and, once obtained, spend them on said mastery to make things go faster.

I think there should be a new chat line (that you can toggle on/off like all other chats), which announce events in that particular map, or even the world. I remember in GW1 we had world announcements and it gave everyone a good idea of what was going on. Even NPC’s would let you know, so there was no way to NOT know about what was going on.

Also with masteries, I found the whole thing a bit confusing. I found myself killing monsters to gain xp towards my glider mastery, but when I gained mastery points from various areas, I never seemed to have enough to upgrade my glider mastery – it’s as if the only method to upgrading it was through killing monsters or doing events, rather than gaining mastery points all by themselves and spending them on said mastery. I managed to get 2 or 3 mastery points, but still couldn’t seem to spend them on my gliding mastery. All the icons were locked. So in the end I had to kill things to level it, which was extremely slow, but yeah, it made me confused as to what the point of getting mastery points was if I couldn’t even spend them and had to level them by killing monsters and doing events instead.

I wouldn’t be counting on an update anytime soon. For the past 2-3? weeks we’ve had absolutely nothing. Not even a new black lion weapon set. So don’t be holding your breath on it.

Expect something to come once HoT releases → sometime before December 31st.

I just find armor repairing a nuisance.

At least make it so we don’t have to interact with said anvil by going through the ‘repair armor’ dialogue. Let me just interact with the anvil once, or be near it, and have it automatically repair my armor. Perhaps this could even be included in the Pact Commander masteries as a sort of Quality of Life bonus/mastery? Just be near an anvil and have it automatically repair your gear.

Or better yet, just remove it completely :-P

Yeah since the skill point to spirit shard conversion update they are definitely harder to get. Though embroidered belt pouches from champs in EOTM I’ve found to be really good.

Rhea Ravenseeker.7105:

Ah, but you could take back garri pretty quickly

Hmmm true. Surely Anet could put in some measures to make certain areas un-glidable though?

I could see it being a problem with map breaking though yeah, that’s probably why it won’t happen :-( though that’s already happened in Verdant Brink where you can glide to the bottom (https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3gad08/beta_things_i_found_under_creeping_crevasse_and/), so idk… >shrugs<

Most WvW people already knew that you could make a profit by buying and upgrading siege…

Yup. Also, if you have tons of badges of honor, and especially when there’s a temporary Golem Rush event that Anet announces, the golem blueprints can be quite nice profit. I think about 50k badges gets you roughly 200g (based on blueprints being around 45 silver each, minus tp fees and all that, so say 40s per blueprint, profit). 1k badges of honor = 10 golem blueprints = 4g per 1k badges x 50k badges = 200g.

Though at the moment, I don’t know if Anet are going to give WvW any new rewards for when Heart of Thorns comes out, so you might wanna hold onto your badges until there’s confirmation.

I would say Embroidered Belt Pouches from Edge of the Mists. I have over 1700 spirit shards now (though all I do is EOTM really, so…), and most of them were from before the skill point > spirit shard update, however you still get them far more easily from these embroidered belt pouches obtained from champs in EOTM than if you were to try get them from monsters in PvE.

You also get 3 from doing your dailies too.

Edit: reworded ‘champ bags’ to ‘embroidered belt pouches’ for correct terminology

Yeah in the BETA on my ele, I went to malchors leap and jumped off a high area and was sad when I just fell into the water. No glider. Nothing :-( makes me a sad panda because gliding is so much fun. Just a shame it’s limited to HoT areas.

Malediktus.9250:

Here are what I would find realistic requirements for the final tier of the WvW achievements – based on my 4 digit hours I spend on different activities in WvW:

Realm Avenger: Kill 50,000 players (that equals tagging and destroying 1000 – 50 men zergs) – down from 250k kills
Yakslapper: Kill 3,000 enemy supply caravans. – down from 1m dolyak caravans
A Pack Dolyak’s Best Friend: Successfully escort 1,000 supply caravans. – down from 500k escorts
Repair Master: Spend 25,000 supply on repairs. – down from 1m supplies
Take Everything in Sight: Capture 10,000 objectives. (Eotm reactors and special objectives count towards this) – down from 1m objectives
Going Camping: Capture 2,500 supply camps. – down from 100k camps
It’s Quite Roomy in Here : Capture 2,500 towers. – down from 100k towers
All We See, We Own: Capture 1,000 keeps. (keeps take more effort to capture and less available in total) – down from 100k keeps
King of the Castle: Capture Stonemist Castle 500 times. – down from 25k castles
Stay Out!: Defend 3,000 objectives. – down from 1m objectives
Walls Get in the Way: Defend 500 supply camps. (Camps are tricky to defend and no walls you can repair for easy defense events, event often does not trigger even if you killed agressors) – down from 500k camp defenses
Stopped Them Cold: Defend 1,000 towers. – down from 500k defenses
Nice View From Up Here: Defend 1,000 keeps. – down from 500k defenses
Stonemist Stands Firm–Again: Defend Stonemist Castle 1,000 times. – down from 500k defenses

I think these requirements would motivate more people to play WvW – and more importantly do all aspects of WvW including dolyak escorts and defending. I expect with these requirements it would take about 2000 hours (= 5.5hours per day for a year) for the average player to max out WvW achievements.

I think those are realistic achievements. Fully support.

Will they announce WvW Legendary backpacks?

Doubt it. PvP and Fractals always seem to get way more updates than WvW. Wouldn’t be surprised if WvW doesn’t get any legendary backpiece.

I’m resigned to not expecting any new rewards for WvW to be honest. My barrel of hopes and dreams for WvW is empty.

I really loved gliding in HoT, but one thing I was disappointed in was the fact that we couldn’t use gliding anywhere else, except for HoT areas. I think if we could use gliding anywhere in the world (once unlocked of course), it would make GW2 frikkin amazing.

There was one part in the personal story where I entered this cave-like zone (before you walk up the stairs to face the boss), and there was some enemy archer. It 1 or 2 hit me (can’t remember but it was so quick), and I was like WTF. My Revenant was wearing ascended celestial too, so for the enemy to 1 or 2 hit me, I thought was quite OP.

Other than that particular enemy, and despite thinking the little raptors deal quite a lot of damage, I think it’s fine, because I can kill the raptors with my elementalist with ease, and if I have trouble there surviving, I can always use a different character.