Guild Wars 2

Troponin.4081:

Zoid.2568:

Troponin.4081:

Zoid.2568:

It depends on what build you use. I’m currently going 20/30/20 and i’m happy with it.
I set up traps from a distance, they get 600 range and twice as big radius.

I use Axe + Axe and Axe + Horn.

There’s also another build you can trait so spirits gain more health, they follow you around etc. Really good if you are support with the elite spirit skill.
Yep, ground targeted. You can press the button key twice and it will activate, it makes it easier to aim it on the ground.

But as other have said, some of the skills are bad and pets still have some problems.

I am curious. How do you gear for a/a and a/h? The axe has very little condition damage, correct? My ranger is still only level 35, so I haven’t gotten really far in to the traits yet.

Most classes are bad at low levels. Wait till you are atleast 60 and you will see a big difference, at 80 you will feel entirely different than what you did at 35. Traits do alot and also sigils + runes.

I use the second skill for bleeding ( the closer you are, more stacks), Flame Trap for burning, Spike Trap for bleeding and slow and Viper’s Nest for poison. Also you can get pets with conditions.

That sounds pretty interesting. Do the traps become ground targeted? I am terrible with being speedy with ground targeting. :/

Yes, ground targeted. You can press the button twice and it will activate where you aimed it on the ground.

The back slot have had some fun with Halloween and Wintersday and now the Ascension items. You need to add more of these, like dragon skulls,capes, wings,dragon tails, monkey tails,fishing rods etc.

These items could be added in the gem store.

If it was put in the back slot and you floated above the ground and the wings waving it would work.

Yes i agree! same with dungeon weapons.. 1 handed is almost as expensive as the two-handed weapons. It should be half the price of two-handed weapons.

I use Viper’s Nest but i agree that it need a combo field, most AoE spells do.

I’m using Flame Trap, Spike Trap and Viper’s Nest for my Ranger + Entangle as elite skill. Trait into traps and you get 600 range + reduced recharge time and double radius of traps.

Troponin.4081:

Zoid.2568:

It depends on what build you use. I’m currently going 20/30/20 and i’m happy with it.
I set up traps from a distance, they get 600 range and twice as big radius.

I use Axe + Axe and Axe + Horn.

There’s also another build you can trait so spirits gain more health, they follow you around etc. Really good if you are support with the elite spirit skill.

But as other have said, some of the skills are bad and pets still have some problems.

I am curious. How do you gear for a/a and a/h? The axe has very little condition damage, correct? My ranger is still only level 35, so I haven’t gotten really far in to the traits yet.

Most classes are bad at low levels. Wait till you are atleast 60 and you will see a big difference, at 80 you will feel entirely different than what you did at 35. Traits do alot and also sigils + runes.

I use the second skill for bleeding ( the closer you are, more stacks), Flame Trap for burning, Spike Trap for bleeding and slow and Viper’s Nest for poison. Also you can get pets with conditions.

Drake for AoE damage, Bird like Raven or Eagle for singe target damage and hounds for knockdown and cripple and bleeding.

Pets are good but they die too easy in tougher content and they execute their skills way too slow.

I’m mostly using Drake or Bird pets for my damage dealing builds. Raven + Eagle for single target damage and Drakes with lightning breath and poison for AoE.

It depends on what build you use. I’m currently going 20/30/20 and i’m happy with it.
I set up traps from a distance, they get 600 range and twice as big radius.

I use Axe + Axe and Axe + Horn.

There’s also another build you can trait so spirits gain more health, they follow you around etc. Really good if you are support with the elite spirit skill.

But as other have said, some of the skills are bad and pets still have some problems.

I’d rather have two pets summoned if i specc into beastmastery and going pure beastmaster build with some nature magic and wilderness survival.

New Trait: Leader of the Pack
- Two pets summoned at the same time which are controlled as one.
- The pets damage is decreased.
- The Swap Pet button will have the same cooldown but will restore the pet/s to full health when used.

The undead in GW2 is called Risen.

I want a living undead(risen) horn that is soaked in blood, that spews black liquid and when i blow it it splatters on the ground leaving a pool of the black liquid and it also drips everywhere i go leaving a trail behind. The pool is endless and hollow, the living undead(risen) holds his heart, which is spewing the black liquid.

Vasham.2408:

Rannulf.9417:

Vasham.2408:

Nurse.1085:

I realize Anet must have done something to increase the cap or filtered it out or something, since the other week they all went from Full to Very High.

However, now they’re filling up again and I can’t get on the server my husband and Guild transferred to (which is Tarnished Coast). Neither can my sister-in-law.

Are these servers stuck at Full? Every time I look, it never moves from Full. Any Tarnished Coast members know what times I should be aiming for to camp the World Select screen?

Server status is based on the number of accounts tied to a server, not the number of players actively online. Even if Tarnished Coast was completely empty of players it would still read full. Shame Arenanet chose to lie about their subscriber numbers like that. : /

Not sure if serious or trolling. anet doesn’t have subscribers, and the server status do base on number of players online.

One of the community managers admitted to it being based on number of accounts. Denying the truth won’t change it. It’s probably all Arenanet can do to prevent NCsoft from shutting the game down after it failed.

The game hasn’t failed. There are players everywhere in the game and the guild i’m in have 50+ members online at the same time.

I’d say Guild Wars 2 have 1.500.000 – 2.000.000 players . That actively plays.

They will let you change stuff in your home instance and build stuff. I hope we get it in the January and February update.

Elementalist and Guardian seem to be the only classes good at healing yeah.

Other classes can support in other ways, for better damage,defense,conditions etc.

Trehearne is starting to take effect at lvl 50 and then all the way to 80, 30 levels with him is pretty painful as he’s not a very fun or interesting character. I liked Sieran but you know what happened to her.

There are some great battles in the story and interesting missions, but the lower level missions are too short, it feels like you’re running an errand for someone all the time.

I agree, Harathi Hinterlands is a very good map for Dynamic Events. They feel very connected to each other and are on a larger scale. Alot of veterans and champions and longer fights.

I don’t like using third party-sites. This will do until ArenaNet adds something better ingame.

I hate it when people want to skip 80% of a dungeon..like in Twilight Arbor.

Right now it’s very hard or near impossible to find a group for low difficulty fractals. There’s already a great function for the old dungeons, if someone in your party have done Story Mode everyone in the party can join in Explorable Mode. You could do something similar with Fractals of the Mists. Like a tier system.

Tier 1 Fractals: Difficulty 1-9
Tier 2 Fractals: Difficulty 10-20
Tier 3 Fractals: Difficulty 21-30
etc
etc

Within these tiers, if you have completed any of them and someone in your team are on a higher difficulty within that tier you should be able to join them.

Let’s say i only completed difficulty 4 and my friend is on difficulty 8, then i can join him and if i complete difficulty 8 my difficulty will raise by 1 and then be on difficulty 5, i can still join anyone for a higer difficulty within that tier but my difficulty will only raise by 1.

The Personal Story is a small part of GW2 and you can bring other players, though many does not.

What i don’t miss from old mmorpgs are people telling me what to do when themselves are noobs and less experienced.

What GW2 community don’t need is players that don’t accept people lower than level 80 for low difficulty fractals, when they are scaleable. If it’s above difficulty lvl 10 in fractals i understand, exotics are pretty much needed.

What GW2 need is better communication between what proffesion builds you bring into a dungeon, so you that way can get the most out of your group.

Dungeons are the best way to get gold.

ah ok, sorry!

15characters

Logged in just now and saw that Major Sigil of Water has been nerfed from 30% healing chance to 20% healing chance. That’ change wasn’t really necessary.

They should have added more active stuff there and make it worth killing the mobs. Would have been fun if they added alot of bosses and champions for chance to get good items.

^ As he said.

MF makes you less effective and slows your group down. Use runes and sigils that are usefull for your build.

Moose skill can be good.

F2 Skill – Rush toward enemy, enemies in line get pushed toward targeted enemy.

Yeah those buffs are way too low..you really don’t have much use of it at 25% hp when you’re dead 5 seconds or less at that point.

Pets are very weak in dungeons or in group events and enemies with AoE. They almost die in an instant. They need to take reduced damage from AoE and how much damage they can take in a single hit.

- 60% damage reduction when hit by AoE
- Can only lose 15% of hp in a single hit

Something like that has to be done..because now pet die to easy and are pretty much useless in dungeons and harder types of content.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

If thieves get axes, Rangers get mainhand daggers and stealth.

No, i want hammer for ranger.

Yes, this happens all the time.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Zoid.2568:

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Zoid.2568:

Gehenna.3625:

Zoid.2568:

Gehenna.3625:

Level to 80 without any story line quests. Then do them all in one go. Then be depressed about how short and crappy the story actually is.

I know the story is short but that is not what this thread is about.

Be on topic.

It is on topic, because the reason you can’t just do personal story only is because there is too little of it. You said yourself that you don’t want to do “other stuff” in between….the reason you have to do other stuff is because there is too little story…or in other words:

It’s too short.

get it?

You didn’t read my first post? they could use their scalesystem to scale you to the same level as the personal story mission. To say that the story is too short is a bad excuse and irrelevant to this thread, write on topic.

People shouldn’t be forced to do something that they don’t want.

He is being on topic, you are just failing to understand what he is saying.

You are still going to be forced to do regular content outside the storyline. The reason being is that the storyline is too short.

Even if you were scaled, you wouldn’t earn enough experience by the time you finished your storyline, to be level 80. You would end up around level 30, maybe level 40. That is 40-50 levels you still will need to get by doing regular PvE content. Because like I said, even if the storyline was scaled so you could do it at any level, it is too short and doesn’t provide enough experience to level you to 80.

If you only want to do story you wouldn’t care if you end up being lvl 30 or 40 and to blame the story for being to short is not a solution to the problem, i asked for a solution to the problem not the problem itself. Captain obvious. Stay on topic.

No YOU wouldn’t care if you ended up being level 30. You don’t speak for everyone, so don’t act like you do. I’m sure there is others out there that would care if they were stuck at level 30. There is probably people out there that don’t want a random level 30 on their account that they will never play because they only did the Personal Story and it wasn’t enough experience to get them to level 80.

And in fact, you are limiting yourself to only one portion of the game and expecting Anet to only cater to you because you only want to play that part of the game. Your solution for scalable Personal Story would only help yourself, not anyone who doesn’t like that approach. I have offered my solution, but you only seem to be focused on yourself and ignoring anything else.

Edit: And it seems this was moved to Suggestions now.

As a suggestion, I don’t like this idea. As was said by Gehenna, this would allow low levels to get rewards for high levels easily. It would become a fast farming method and be abused to the point it ends up getting nerfed like everything else.

As well, making it scalable would be terrible as it still wouldn’t get you to level 80. Thus leaving you to have to do other content anyways to reach max level. So if you only wanted to level off the Personal Story, you would still be forced into other content anyways to reach max level.

If you’re only going to do the story and you get scaled for every mission there’s no reason for you to be lvl 80, you only wanted the story.

Fuz.5621:

I’m against mounts too.

Why? are you against free cookies too?

Next time someone offers you something you’d like for free, please say no.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Zoid.2568:

Gehenna.3625:

Zoid.2568:

Gehenna.3625:

Level to 80 without any story line quests. Then do them all in one go. Then be depressed about how short and crappy the story actually is.

I know the story is short but that is not what this thread is about.

Be on topic.

It is on topic, because the reason you can’t just do personal story only is because there is too little of it. You said yourself that you don’t want to do “other stuff” in between….the reason you have to do other stuff is because there is too little story…or in other words:

It’s too short.

get it?

You didn’t read my first post? they could use their scalesystem to scale you to the same level as the personal story mission. To say that the story is too short is a bad excuse and irrelevant to this thread, write on topic.

People shouldn’t be forced to do something that they don’t want.

He is being on topic, you are just failing to understand what he is saying.

You are still going to be forced to do regular content outside the storyline. The reason being is that the storyline is too short.

Even if you were scaled, you wouldn’t earn enough experience by the time you finished your storyline, to be level 80. You would end up around level 30, maybe level 40. That is 40-50 levels you still will need to get by doing regular PvE content. Because like I said, even if the storyline was scaled so you could do it at any level, it is too short and doesn’t provide enough experience to level you to 80.

If you only want to do story you wouldn’t care if you end up being lvl 30 or 40 and to blame the story for being to short is not a solution to the problem, i asked for a solution to the problem not the problem itself. Captain obvious. Stay on topic.

Gehenna.3625:

Zoid.2568:

Gehenna.3625:

Level to 80 without any story line quests. Then do them all in one go. Then be depressed about how short and crappy the story actually is.

I know the story is short but that is not what this thread is about.

Be on topic.

It is on topic, because the reason you can’t just do personal story only is because there is too little of it. You said yourself that you don’t want to do “other stuff” in between….the reason you have to do other stuff is because there is too little story…or in other words:

It’s too short.

get it?

You didn’t read my first post? they could use their scalesystem to scale you to the same level as the personal story mission. To say that the story is too short is a bad excuse and irrelevant to this thread, write on topic.

People shouldn’t be forced to do something that they don’t want.

Gehenna.3625:

Level to 80 without any story line quests. Then do them all in one go. Then be depressed about how short and crappy the story actually is.

I know the story is short but that is not what this thread is about.

Be on topic.

I’d like mounts because they look cool and you “wanna catch em all”. With the dungeons and races that exist ArenaNet could make really cool mounts for each race and dungeon and even legendary mounts.

Off Topic: I want new pets for Ranger, more epic looking like the Rainbow Phoenix in GW1. Hard to get and it looks epic.

What if i want to do ONLY the Personal Story and nothing else, i’d like to follow my story without having to interrupt it with WvWvW or PvE. I want to see ArenaNet do something about this. Why not scale your character to the same level as the Story Mission or what solutions do you have?

It’s annoying to have to do other things that interrupts my story. "Sorry you need 2 more levels, go do some dynamic events for 30-40 minutes. NO. Let me play the game like i want. I want to do my story.

Attended/Looted/No Mail

Might want to skip the sarcasm and write a serious post. It’s not readable.

Morrigan.2809:

Just to get this straight OP- are you complaining about not getting a precursor? Seriously?
Oh you spent 3 hours at an event and now you feel you deserve it?
What about those players who spent 100’s of Gold and months of their time and still don’t have one?
If every single person in the game had a precursor how rare do you think legendary’s will be?
I still have no chest and would rejoice if I got a box, accessory and some rares out of it. That is if I get a mail. If not, so what?

Those who spent 1000 gold in the Mystic Forge got ripped and defentively deserved a Precursor.

I’m whining because some people get 1g and others 400g, not that i didn’t get a precursor. Who doesn’t want a precursor?

This thread is hardcore.

You don’t seem to know that you are whining more than the whiners. You are whining on someone whining, it’s called the chain of whining.

SquallofBalamb.8973:

Zoid.2568:

Mimizu.7340:

Zoid.2568:

Kethryes.5712:

Karka bag = 10 gold
Karka earing = 1000 Karka Shell = 40 gold +
2 rares + 2 trash exotics = 2-5 gold

minimum reward from chest = 50 gold

That’s what i got. Sucks not to be on the lucky precusror jackpot winners side, but I’m not gonna complain.

And it’s not as if 300 threads like this were already created from the Karka event

You can’t count in the karka bag and earring, everyone get those.

um, no, everyone didnt.

still waiting along with hundreds of others that didnt get mail.

Everyone that open the chest get one. Everyone doesn’t get a precursor worth 400g.

Check your numbers, Precursors are currently 250g MAX

They were worth 400g a few weeks ago when they were looted from karka chest. Also, people didn’t only get precursors, they got other named exotics like Volcanos that are worth 400g or more.

Mimizu.7340:

Zoid.2568:

Kethryes.5712:

Karka bag = 10 gold
Karka earing = 1000 Karka Shell = 40 gold +
2 rares + 2 trash exotics = 2-5 gold

minimum reward from chest = 50 gold

That’s what i got. Sucks not to be on the lucky precusror jackpot winners side, but I’m not gonna complain.

And it’s not as if 300 threads like this were already created from the Karka event

You can’t count in the karka bag and earring, everyone get those.

um, no, everyone didnt.

still waiting along with hundreds of others that didnt get mail.

Everyone that open the chest get one. Everyone doesn’t get a precursor worth 400g.

Kethryes.5712:

Karka bag = 10 gold
Karka earing = 1000 Karka Shell = 40 gold +
2 rares + 2 trash exotics = 2-5 gold

minimum reward from chest = 50 gold

That’s what i got. Sucks not to be on the lucky precusror jackpot winners side, but I’m not gonna complain.

And it’s not as if 300 threads like this were already created from the Karka event

You can’t count in the karka bag and earring, everyone get those.

SquallofBalamb.8973:

Dear God Zoid, do you have any idea how much of a whiny, entitled little… “child” you sound like? “Oh, I got disconnected, give me a pre-cursor! Wah wah wah! It’s not fair! Why were there so many people online for this one time event in the same areas?” Seriously! I get that you feel annoyed about the disconnect before you finished, I would have too. But whining that you deserve a pre-cursor for not even technically finishing? I am one of the lucky ones, I’ll admit it, but In my entire instance only two other people seemed to get pre-cursors, and I was stacked to the brim on magic find. I know that if it had happened to me I would be miffed, but I’d also just be thankful that ANet said “Yeah, that wasn’t fair, give us a bit and we’ll send the box in the mail.” And if you were wanting one so you didn’t have to buy it, atleast the prices came down after the event to make it more manageable. I’m not even sure that it was just because it was a 1 time event boss, they’ve always said that they can be found in high level area chest, and it is a level 80 area and that was a rather rare chest, it’s just that there were so many people getting to it (most probably doped up on magic find like myself). If you don’t want the chest, shut up and give it to someone who couldn’t even make it to the event because of work or other commitments, we don’t want or need whiny, self-entitled children here.

I didn’t read your wall of whinetext.

Calsifer.6079:

This thread is going to get locked.

You can’t complain as it’s all chance. Chance is the fairest mechanic in a game.

No chance is not the fairest solution but if you do it right it can be fairer than it is. They could have atleast handed out rewards worth a minimum of XX gold from the chests.

Example

Minimum reward from chest worth: 50 gold

Maximum reward from chest: 400 gold

That would have been fairer. Some only got items worth a few silvers or 2-3 gold.

You’re not supposed to farm in GW2 by doing the same thing over and over, it ruins your experience. They want you to explore every corner of the map, run dungeons for armour and craft etc. Play on your alts.

Hi ArenaNet i didn’t get a chest and i’d like one with a precursor in it, spent 3 hours at the karka event and got only 1 g worth of items. Some people got the chest twice with precursors worth 200-400 gold. Some of these guys spent 20 minutes or maybe 1 hour and they get rewarded with a precursor 200-400 gold? ok that’s random.

You should be able to chose whatever guild you want BUT staying in a guild for a long time should reward you for your contribution. There’s no real contribution system in guilds at the moment, the influence and upgrades are so small it doesn’t really make a difference and any guild can get them.

Once ArenaNet add guild halls, GvG and better upgrades and rewards people will feel more connection to their guild. Guild rewards is really important for guild members, it encourages them to keep playing in the same guild.

WoW has a great guild rewardsystem, the longer you play in a guild the more reputation you will earn and you can unlock and buy new rewards like mounts, guild armour and other stuff like banners.

It’s really important to show what guild you are in and how much you have contributed.

It’s also up to the guild and the people in there to encourage new members to stay and play with them. Some are not the most social players and tend to leave as fast as they don’t get attention.

Doctor Orderly MD PhD DDS.7625:

@ Zoid What does that do other than delay the rng?

The entire $250 argument would only be convincing if you could swap your gems for real $. Which would be absolutely ludicrous and hilarious.

Because then everyone can get a named weapon. Read my post again. RNG among named weapons only. Then you are 100% to get a named exotic.