Guild Wars 2

Can’t wait for friday, imma just run around town all day loool (well not really)

Underwater combat is one of my favorite features of GW2, i actually base the fun of a class on their underwater combat skills.

i miss the pvp map that had the underwater point

Fighting the underwater witch queen in kessex at launch for the first time was one of the most kitten, most fun expiriences i’ve ever had fighting a boss in an MMO, and i’ve played everything and been playing MMO’s for 17 years. It was so much chaos and death and we were outnumbered then got reinforcements and eventually overcame her.

please don’t just forget about underwater combat. Re-invent it and make it somehting general public will enjoy, because it opens the possibiility for so much more content and fun.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

There won’t be any underwater for the revenant this weekend. When it’s ready™ Soon™

:( underwater combat is one of my favorite features in gw2, sad to see it getting no love in the game anymore.

please please please make the skills fun well you finally getting around to making them.

if rev has boring/bland underwater skills imma be so sad

I think specializations are actually bringing more people back to the game that took breaks.

i think theis change was needed and will bring a new spark to the game

When i came back to the game and saw there was a wardrobe, i was happy . . .then i saw someone with bunny ears and was like dang i totally missed out.

hopefully these and all old items get cycled in the game so people are screwed that took breaks.

The bunny ears especially

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Kidel.2057:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

DresdenAllblack.1249:

1 second of swiftness? 1? No, really…1?

Impossible Odds is a pulsing quickness and super speed while you are upkeeping the skill.

Does it trigger the cd of legendswap when out of combat? I’m curious to know if we are going to be able to use it (almost) permanently while ooc.

It’s not intended to be constantly used out of combat, but I think in the version you all get to play this weekend that you’ll be able to do what you said..

i can see the backlash now, once u update it, the next time we play after this weekend lol. but this weekend sure will be fun, i love me some ooc mobility.

If when the wardrobe hit you “lost” skins, its your own fault.

If you actually cared about keeping the skin, you wouldn’t of reskinned over it.

you lost the skin yourself , don’t blame the wardrobe sysytem, which by the way is possibly the best feature added to an MMO.

I’m still hoping for rev to have a core class set of utilities that you can swap on any legend.

Nice vid, we need a another beta so we can more of these XD

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Forgotten Legend.9281:

in general in GW2:
IF lifesteal scales: (it doesn’t always. it depends on the skill, food effect, rune, sigil)
~the damage from lifesteal / siphon scales from power
~the healing from lifesteal / siphon scales from healing power

Exactly.

If the healing part of the siphon traits scales off healing power, it would make healing power a decent stat for Shiro/Ventari revenants, since you get benefit from both Legends. Since the damage portion scales from power, it would make Zealots a decent set for that build, having both damage and sustain with group support.

It scales like the necromancer’s life siphon traits; power increases the damage and healing power increasing the healing of the life siphon. You’ll have to wait to play with it to see how it scales.

wee ty roy for clarifying, siphon health is one of my favorite aspects of gw2 and love that rev gets it. now just gotta wait til the next beta to test it

Roy Cronacher.1576:

By no means are weapons tied to a specific legend. Revenant weapons are usually themed in feel and playstyle with a legend to create a comprehensive package if you want to play a certain way, such as sword, shiro, and the devastation line for physical damage. But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t meant to be mixed and matched as well to create unique and interesting builds. There are a lot of really cool builds you can make by trying out different combinations.

when i was playing i didn’t feel like certain weapons worked better for the legends they were announced with minus maybe mace.

hammer is the best weapon for ventari, and staff with jalis is really nice. swords will also be nice on all the legends

i hope for sylvari, even though my real one will be human, for the next beta be fun to play different races, so when its live it feels fresh

The hammer is fun for a ranged weapon, its unique and some some cool skills

It’s also quicker than you would think, i’d say overall its a fun weapon

Ya i’m trying to get the mats needed more the bifrost lol even though none of my current classes are even able to use staff, and i think i have a total of like 10 kills with a staff on my account XD

but i needs it for Rev

Swiftly.2385:

Land Based Spear with Shield. 3 is a ranged attacked. I would never play another class.

Think people need to start referring to 1 handed spear instead of “land based spear”. i mean a melee staff is pretty much is the same as a land based 2 handed spear.

but i do agree that 1 handed spear should be put into the game it would be awesome(especially if u could dual wield them)

Genesis.8572:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Genesis.8572:

Something else worth speculating. Let’s take the assumption that the Glint e-spec will get a shield as datamined. Shield is obviously an off-hand weapon. But what will the shield be paired with? There are only two options: sword or mace.

Not sure I understand what you’re actually getting at. Are you suggesting another weapon to be introduced along with the shield?

If I believed there was even the remotest possibility that we would be getting a new main hand, I would love to suggest that possibility, but sadly that’s not the case. What I’m getting at is “Which main hand weapon will the shield’s design assume we are using: sword or mace?”

dunno if i’m really understanding what your sating, but i assume its which weapon will shield have more synergy with?

I honestly think it’ll have the same for both, but more people will use sword with it, as mace seems to be more of a condition wep where sword is more of a dps.

think it just comes down to preference.

I really can’t fathom why people wouldn’t want weapon swap, i’m honestly baffled.

I mean if you really dont want to use weapon swap, don’t use it. But for the class to feel viable and not repetitive, while also being able to have the option of both melee and ranged at the same time, we NEED weapon swap.

@Lonewolf kai, we already played without weapon swap and the majority of people said that Rev needs it, thats why the view of weapon swap being good is validated.

But the OP is right, lets just test rev with it before arguing if it’s a good decision or not.

Ya hopefully the next elite after glint will be a main hand, since we only have Mace and sword atm.

I’d want scepter, and hopefully it has some evasive mobile magic type attacks, or some more mind trickery skills.

or pistol, cus not a lot of classes have it as a mainhand.

Dragonhunter by far(for pvp)

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Starting to see a trend with these recent threads.

ya i feel its not coincidence

Braxton.3926:

Gaaroth.2567:

Seasons were regular additions of “personal story like” quests, pulling forward the world’s story. At peak they were coming every 2 weeks ;-)
Season 1 was not meant to be replayable and this disappointed people, that’s why they changed it with season 2 (and that’s why you see it in the personal story panel, but not season 1) they are working to bring season 1 back in the season 2’s format just after the release of the xpac,tho. In the meantime you can catch up on the wiki/utube and play the season 2 after (buy it, there a discounted full pack available) or join groups that are doing it for the achievs (altho if you do not buy it you cannot do achievs too) worth mention they were free to unlock if you logged in when they were live

Thanks, although I don’t quite understand.

With these regular updates, what are they adding to add new things to do in-game?

I’m just curious, as subscription based MMO’s I’ve played added new content with things to do (like quests…), and I’m liking GW2, although if it doesn’t have updates to keep it fresh, I question how people can be playing it for three years like this.

It had updates frequently until the expansion was announced, the game has a lot more than when it first came out. It increased crafting prof, added ascended armors, added Dry top and silverwastes, ect.

The only time sub games add content is when there is an axpansion which costs more money.

Gw2 has added tons of free content the past 3 years, with tons of events. They have added maps and redone systems(upgraded them).

The expansion will bring more maps and content, then tons of free content added later after that.

o and you cant redo LS1, it was an open world event that went on. LS2 was free if you logged in when it came out, otherwise now you have to buy it(so if u actually played the game it was free)

Not to diss the thread but what’s it really matter? You can have any weapon at level 2.

But i do agree with the options u choose, or sword would be fine, anything but mace.

Id rather keep weapon swap and they alter/buff the skills . . . o wait thats exactly why vwe have betas and feedback, that IS what is happening.

If there is no weapon swap the class feels very limited, and we would be screwed in situation where we need both range and melee. With elementalist you can switch atunements and have different ranged skills, engi has tons of kit options. Rev felt so predictable before with it’s limited custimization.

being adept master or grandmaster doesnt effect the strength of the trait in the new system

since u have to pick 1 of the 3, its more about placement of them then if they are in the first set or last set.

My guess is it is to prevent bots and gold farmers.

Puls.5867:

Do you have a back story if so what is it?

No in game backstory yet, I got the game at launch but didnt really get to play it till 2 months ago(and loving it) so im behind on lore and whatnot, but let’s jsut say he’s an adventurer who wandered upon the mists lol

What race are you going with?

Human male

What weapons are really tickling your fancy?

Sword/sword(axe) and staff

going for bifrost so i can knock people off cliffs with rainbows(staff skill 5)

What is your favourite legend?

Shiro

How are you going to make your Revenant look?

With as less bulk as i can, not a fan of heavy armor. my current main is a warrior though so i got use to it.

Is it now going to be your main or just an alt?

Main all the way, rev is everything i’v felt missing while playing the other classes

We should also speculate on the name, glint is just the legend for the elite, right? not the elite spec name

I never played gw1 so don’t think i’ll be much help since all i know is glint was a female dragon lol

I want some underwater combat lol

and anything above exotic wouldn’t work unless its on its own beta server. If it’s on the live server like last time, it would be really unfair for all the revs to have the best stats in the game wehn they can go to wvw and such.

plus all u gotta do is have ascended gear in your bank(as long as the account screenshot is reset) and theres your asended gear.

Ryan.2758:

Zev.3407:

Zdaive.9302:

I say it again & again :
Warrior Elite Spec = Pistol Off-Hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3EFNAUNSaA

Watch this video and look at the Sword & Pistol guy fighting the Nuhoch.
Don’t you recognize the Final Thrust animation ?

woah nice catch, i think he does a kick(warrior utility) at 0:25

i mean what classes atm can use sword pistol combo, just mesmer and theif, and neither of them have a stab like that.

Hopefully more people don’t ignore this footage lol

I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

But that video doesn’t mean squat because they are clearly npcs.

What them being npcs having to do with it? If anything that’s MORE of an indication that warrior will get pistol.

Ragion.2831:

Its cuz its new, we all like new and shiny things. I know im going to play Rev but its going to be a second main. First being Necro, too much history (and waypoints) for me to just dump the class and switch

for some yes for others No.

I’ve always felt something missing from all the classes i’ve played, Rev fills that void

Rev just seems like the class i always wanted to be in a game. gameplay and look wise

I also fell this way lol, my warrior just doesnt do it for me now, need some of that rev lovin

Zdaive.9302:

I say it again & again :
Warrior Elite Spec = Pistol Off-Hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3EFNAUNSaA

Watch this video and look at the Sword & Pistol guy fighting the Nuhoch.
Don’t you recognize the Final Thrust animation ?

woah nice catch, i think he does a kick(warrior utility) at 0:25

i mean what classes atm can use sword pistol combo, just mesmer and theif, and neither of them have a stab like that.

Hopefully more people don’t ignore this footage lol

you level fast plus their is downscaling.

If a game is going to have levels, i hope for more not less.

plus i hit level 80 in like the level 40 area, 80 is fine.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

A sub won’t speed it up
A sub won’t make for better content
A sub won’t make for more content
A sub won’t make for free expansions
A sub won’t even make for cheaper expansions
A sub wouldn’t give you any of those gem store items, it would just be $15 a month on top of everything else

It’s a profit model, not a charity. And while you can say well we have X million users so its an automatic X million times $15 a month how much awesome could they do with that?
But that doesn’t account for how many people would walk away
Or that much of that would end up in the pockets of investors/stakeholders, not the dev cycle.

That said I agree that “there’s no sub” is not a valid argument against someone’s opinion that HoT is priced too high. It’s a matter of value for dollar, and that’s highly subjective.

exactly this, if you wanna pay a sub buy $15 of gems every month.

This game has more content and more active content getting added to it then any sub game out there. plus sub’s always add a cashshop anyways now adays and ussually becomes p2w

anabasis.7346:

^^ Exactly. There’s many people in this thread that want to play how they want while not wanting zerkers to play how they want. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Not only they won’t accomplish anything because they are basically fighting human nature, which is futile, but they are making matters worse by revealing their true exclusive nature towards zerker players.

There is hypocricy both ways yes

but mainly this issue is when one side joins a group of the other side and tries to force that group to play their style, but verbal, or physical(kicking) ways.

both sides of the coin are guilty

just dont try to force or expect people to play the way you play, because everyone is different. Your way is not the best or right way, its just your way.

I’d rather buy the gems i need for the item i want then feel forced to buy more gems, just to get the discount.

Plus the way the gold/gem exchange is the system couldnt do discounted bundles.

It’s better this way, plus you can buy gems with gold . . .how many of your long video game list can you do that in.

Rev will be my main also, i loved it even with the low dps, the only thing i wish would be added was shortbow

so i could go Bifrost(staff) and Dreamer(shortbow) rainbows and unicorns all day, on a class that most people will have emo colors on lool.

I never played gw1 so i can’t say anyone from there(but i’m sure they all will be fro mthere.)

But i’d say Tybalt for the engineer legend, if they ever do it.

draxynnic.3719:

Zev.3407:

In the Elite spec news thing it says Revenant will get an elite where all the utilities are the same kind

I haven’t seen this elite spec news thing. If it’s fan-made, I suspect you’ve just unknowingly made a circular argument – people think they’re all the same type of skill because of the similarity in appearance. If it’s official, it could well be a dev having fun at us: they are all the same type of skill. They’re all Legendary Dragon Stance skills!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-two-reward-tracks-and-elite-specializations/
scroll down where it says “New skills”
says clearly “Revenants will gain a healing skill, an elite skill, and a set of utilities of the same type.”

Glint will be all signets.( or atleast the 3 utilities will be)

In the Elite spec news thing it says Revenant will get an elite where all the utilities are the same kind

which by those symbols it would be signets, only thing that really makes sense since rev has no core utility and types(yet?)

Donari.5237:

If I do female human I’m fairly enamored of this look. It would finally be an alt to use some Carapace on. Heck, I might use it on a sylvari, even. Suddenly I feel I have to make a whole cadre of revs just so I can have all the looks I want … (the bunny ears were just for beta though, I promise, unless some RP reason springs to mind for her wearing them. Maybe she does it in a misguided attempt to seem friendlier to children, or something).

your char looks awesome!

Also did anyone have the bifrost and do the 5 skill? Was it beautiful?

GlitchyBat.3682:

Heart Attunement or bust

YES!

I reme,mber reading they want you to say you are an “inser elite spec name here” over the main class name if you choose it, but i don’t think it’ll actually say you are or give u a different symbol

mostly on how easily and quickly u can switch off it

I think the biggest problem i’ve seen is elitist people join casual groups and expect them to go fast and rushes everyone. I think that’s where most of the issue is.

I know shield was datamined (but so was ele sword), but i thought they said no same weapon would be used for the elite

mesmer is already getting shield

i plan on going staff without ventari

most likely shiro/jalis(maybe glint)

with sword/sword as my other weapon set

staff is super fun

Zalladi.4652:

Tyrian jumping puzzles on console controls.

For some its easier than a keyboard, people who think a controller cant work just never have had it work or dislike controllers and consoles. I’ve seen controller’s used in tons of games where people said it wouldnt work or would make u less effective, and those game had way more keys needed to be bound to play.

In gw2 you only need like 16-20 keys bound which is nothing.

But GW2 won’t be on consoles, all we can hope is gw3 will be eventually, since mmos are making it work to a broader audience now.

Hyble.4271:

Bump in support of this because visuals are really important here. Red feels a lot more vicious. Green is associated with nature and healing. It doesn’t fit.

a lot of shiro is about life stealing and healing himself plus most of his skills are named Jade which is a green gem.

or just maybe Shiro’s favorite color is green :p

DarkSpirit.7046:

Vayne.8563:

I won’t accept help, even though it’s freely offered. I won’t be part of a guild that can help me. I insist on playing the squishiest profession.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with playing an elementalist if I like to play an elementalist. And story instances that are designed to be solo should be solo-able, not take 8 minutes to kill a veteran in a party (from DaveyC)!

Sure, my internet connection may be crap now but it is due to change soon. The fact that HoT is too difficult as the Revenant is too weak is also brought up by DaveyC and many others in his thread:

Goo.7926:

Sure…..! So let’s leave the revenant that way! It’s cool enough (sarcasm)! 2 legends is more than enough! Don’t even need water weapons anyway! (SARCASM)

You big butt suckers! HoT is crap right now! Don’t try to defend A.net! They sucks right now!

I would wait and see if they have really fixed the issues with HoT before buying. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Too bad even if some of the fanboys here disagree with me that I should wait and see before I buy, by denying that there is a problem with the living story and HoT.

lol pretty sure no one has agreed with you at all in this thread. . . .and you cant judge a difficulty of something based off a class in beta that isnt balanced yet. What that have to do with HoT and the current classes.

Something was too difficult just for you and you gave up and think everyone else must feel the same way and now your trying to get people to not pre-order Hot cus u werent good enough to beat one boss in one episode of an instanced story mode that isn’t part of the open world.

Let’s just all enjoy the game and work hard for the things we want to accomplish.