Guild Wars 2

Darko.5873:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Phira has it right. Once we have the key features we need for the core of the game, we’ll look at doing other game types.

20 months later… are the core features here yet?

They consider skyhambow a core feature, THE core feature, so I guess yes!

Oh look, they have closed that “skyhammer change” necro thread, with no explanation!

Thank you Anet for the power of your communication policy!!

Mejiora.9584:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

It does work with cantrip regen

Doesn’t work with Mist Form though.

Ah yes indeed, good point, I don’t usually use mist form since it has been nerfed into oblivion, but heh that’s just one more reason not to use it! gganet

Leeto.1570:

Delete your stupid trash map, just lost game on this garbage map just because i forgot to change one of my utility skills to pull.

And as an ele, I can what … updraft people out of platforms? this map is a joke.

Ezeriel.9574:

Ele = carpal tunnel
guard = boring

Eles may have more buttons to push, but you’ll still be stuck as short range, mid range, or long range… and as far as options go, that makes ele the most limited class in the game.

Roll them both and fool around until after the next class balance patch. Anet may have some major changes coming for both classes.

I’m pretty sure having 1200 range does not prevent you from staying at 1199 range from your targets, let alone 300; and last I checked the attacks of the dagger had 240 to 600 range, which is not melee nor that limited.

Everytime I see a warrior in PvP I sigh a little:
“oh no, boring 45 second fight incoming … again ….”

Most warrior don’t even know how to play, they just spam their skills. If you get hit by a little more than one of them you are dead. Most skills are not too hard to dodge, but it requires a lot of attention to dodge them all, therefore fighting a warrior is like soloing Lupicus all over again: it takes a lot of mental energy!

I hate warbots.

Most PvE encounters are not interesting. Removing FGS will not make them any better. In fact it will only make the bore-fest last longer.

It does work with cantrip regen

And also to tone down our mobility!

Bugfix: if RTL hits a target in dodge/aegis then it properly goes on quadruple cooldown.
New: Lightning flash damages you if you do not hit a target.
New: burning speed now goes backward.

The default keybinds are terrible, here is my advice:

RDFG=move
ETCVB=1-5 skills
Z=jump
SPACEBAR=dodge
S=heal
3456=attunements
W=tab target
YHNJ=utilities
and you have many keys available around this area to map all your needs

Elementalist is the master class.

Well anet still does not understand that the attunement cooldown with 6 points in arcana is not 10 seconds. What can we do if they do not even read the guides I make for them?

That necro killed me. 10/10.

Grevender.9235:

I don’t think there will be any change for Elementalist. The class still relies heavily on water/arcana traits to be viable, the Fire traitline is still bad, and most of other classes get major benefits from minor traits.

p.s: only talking about WvW/PvP

They have attempted to give us defensive options in fire and air: weakness on interrupting foes and blind on burn. The problem is that these grand-master traits are not that strong and their corresponding master tier traits are all weak or rid of synergies.

As for Elemental contingency and Stone heart, even with my greatest mental effort I can not understand what Anet was thinking when releasing them.

It’s way more than just 25% damage reduction because it bypasses crits: weakness effectively reduces crit chance by 50%! Therefore it is very strong against classes that rely on crit procs a lot (mesmers, thieves, etc).

LightningBlaze.4913:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

What’s wrong with lightning touch? :o

I think it is sufficient to say that when playing dagger main hand it is best to use another air auto attack than to cast this skill…

Strangely this skill has a high priority for me (in PvP), the weakness is just so strong!

What’s wrong with lightning touch? :o

Yeah don’t be surprised. On the PvE side of thins a patch called Fractured happened last november; in that patch Anet removed 30 fractal levels, lied about some stuff, and introduced mechanics players did not want. We complained a lot and insistingly. All we received was infraction points.

I hope there are drastic changes for fire and air trait lines. The master tiers are so lacking!

EU will win anyway :p

Well, take a focus, rangers will instantly suicide.

They need to do something with the fall-instadeath concept. Maybe don’t die from the fall and add a way to get back up, so that falling is like a very hard CC.

That, and it is a terrible way to treat the sandwurms.

Underwater combat is a blatant bug dude

Yeah you get immobilised mid-dodge, in the air, it’s massively annoying !

manveruppd.7601:

Wait, why are the sandwurms not eating you dude? AND WHY ARE YOUR EYES SO BLUE???

MUAD’DIB! MUAD’DIB! MUAD’DIB! MUAD’DIB!

I love you

Eurantien.4632:

That facial expression pretty much sums up Sky hammer.

Exactly.

Stop polluting the desert. Save the wurms. Stop skyhammer!

Yo I was strolling, chillin’ in the desert with my sandwurm buddies. I turns out they are getting pretty angry at this whole skyhammer business: they ain’t no dead meat eaters. They want fresh blood, or veggies, but no corpses. I hear they say the feeling of lameness from falling through the glass floors makes the flesh taste bad. Can’t blame them.

#Sandwurmlove2014

Nerf conjures so that everybody uses my D/F build and calls me god

Server time?

Yeah that’s indeed how it felt!

Edit: oh I realise you think I am making this up Well you can check my ranking, as for the rest you are going to have to believe me.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

6. “Warrior is simply OP overall don’t even try to defend it”

They are right. It’s OP. Don’t even try to defend it.

Would you like to defend your post? Or would you like to stick to your post that proves nothing?

I told you already I have one piece of evidence that beats everything:

I’m rather experienced in PvP (top 200 or so), but I’not a great player. I play with friends in the top 100. The other day I told them I wanted to train with my ele main against warriors as point defender. So we fight and I lose a lot (or declare loss, in the sense that getting hit by any eviscerate or pin down puts my life so low that I can not reliably hold the point anymore). So my friend, who is skilled and experienced with all classes tells me I should play warrior to try. Therefore we swapped classes: me on warrior, him on ele. I did not look at him, I had my eyes fixed on my skills, I did not dodge even once, but I wrecked him. I had no idea what I was doing and I wrecked him. We proceeded to do this against other classes and I wrecked most of them too.

So if a noob like me who has never played warrior even once before can destroy an experienced player, how is this class not bloody OP?

6. “Warrior is simply OP overall don’t even try to defend it”

They are right. It’s OP. Don’t even try to defend it.

Yeah Guang but you see that’s an issue: I don’t doubt that you have the mental abilities to be decent at computing DPS if you work a lot on it, but you have zero speedclearing experience… This is why you use completely wrong assumptions every single time. As a result, your calculations are useless. So even if this was all about DPS, you would be wrong. Tough life, is it not?

That’s very interesting my dear Guang, so you called me a bad theorycrafter without even knowing if I have numbers to provide? Sounds like someone has been talking too fast

It turns out theorycrafting is not all about computing DPS. What a surprise heh? I don’t doubt you have certainly become better at maths since the last time I took your own spreadsheet to correct its myriad of mistakes, but this is not what I was talking about. I was saying that despite their damaging potential, engineers are not good for speedclears.

Anyway, maybe you would like to explain to us why you say engi is 2nd best DPS while DnT says it is 3rd? Their numbers look quite different from yours … who could be wrong? I wonder

There is even RNG in the forums

inb4 someone says just dodge it

“Just dodge all LB skills while staying in LB burst, dodge pin down, then dodge eviscerate, what’s your problem???”

Well as well all know Fractals were plagued will a disease that sucked all loot out of it. It seems the plague has spread.

Now compare eviscerate to Elementalist’s Fire Grab.

Caution, the abuse of facepalm can lead to serious health damage.

LordByron.8369:

Only issue is the mandatory GUARDIAN.

What?

Indeed and now I’m known to be a bad theorycrafter, my life is sad

Edit:

Probably the same reason why you use runes of the traveller on your engi build

Why would you use blasting staff ? :o

nearlight.3064:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Are you really that hung up over the cancer thing?

Also just so the convo doesn’t derail too much, if you think engie isn’t 2nd DPS, maybe you’d like to tell me what you think it is.

Yeah I am in case you didn’t notice.

While I’m all for people respectfully disagreeing with others about certain things and standing up for their beliefs and opinions, I was really deeply hurt and offended by your comment and that you made no attempt to apologize.

I work in a cancer research center, its a big deal to me. I understand that you’re very opinionated about your beliefs, but I feel like much of your comments, especially the one’s previously directed towards me and the necromancer community in general were particularly hurtful and spiteful.

You really should not pay any attention to what Guang says. He had credibility once, but he switfly lost it, a long time ago. Now he just posts everywhere with his opinions that everybody in their right mind disregard. He is still a bit of an issue because he gives bad information to new players. But on the other hand he gives us really good laughing opportunities

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Azure.8670:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Speedrunning is not all about DPS. Engis are bad for speedrunning. You certainly got that idea from Guang, and it’s a bad idea.

Not like there’s anyone else in this thread who knows anything who could tell him better.

kitten just got real

But you know what’s not real? His lengthy speedrunning experience among a famous high-end guild :p

Yet I still manage to do Arah P2 without wiping.

Are you trying to imply that I die in arah p2?

Warriors are not exactly OP, it’s more like it takes zero skill to do what they do.

You can see that from my example of me creating a warrior (never played this class before) and winning 90% of my duels without looking at the screen.

Warrior is not OP, it’s automatic:
-Longbow burst= easy cheap and strong way to win in conquest
-stances= one-button perfect counters
-signet= we gave you the highest health and armor so we though it would only make sense to give you the best regen skill with zero drawback
-eviscerate= leap, homing, low cd, hurt like hell, no resource cost on miss, enormous synergy with traits … yeah why not a hamburger and fries with that as well ?

Warrior is not fair.

The thing is, at high level of gameplay warriors are not that strong because players will have trained so much to counter them. But one moment on inattention and you are dead.

Azure.8670:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Speedrunning is not all about DPS. Engis are bad for speedrunning. You certainly got that idea from Guang, and it’s a bad idea.

Not like there’s anyone else in this thread who knows anything who could tell him better.

kitten just got real

But you know what’s not real? His lengthy speedrunning experience among a famous high-end guild :p

Miss a dodge against a warrior = you are dead

Warrior stands still without dodging = signet will heal it up without you having to do anything

I don’t want dungeons, I want variants of the volcano fractal.

Volcano fractal with skritts
Volcano fractal in blue
Volcano fractal in winter
Volcano fractal by night
Volcano fractal all the way

Legendary grawl shaman

But I enjoy this fight so much! It’s the best designed encounter in the whole game

Edit: or more exactly the only encounter that has a design