Guild Wars 2

No reward? Please tell me about the rewards for playing a video game.

Fellknight.4820:

I agree 100%, everything in the game seems to be setup to defeat any form of skill from pro solo pvper’s. Even if you could kill 2-3 players by yourself you’d never get rewarded for it because you’d never be able to stomp them with the way downed state is setup.

If you can down 3 players but not stomp them then you’re doing something wrong.

I’m not quite sure what people are agreeing to here. The only thing that made sense to me was the 1v1 duels.

Steal and backstab are fine since they are not 1 hit ko skills. Steal has a long cd and backstab is a hard to land hit (relies on other skills).

The biggest problem is that heartseeker is spammable.

20fps is totally playable.

I think the dragons will be in expansions.

I don’t think this is imbalance. My guardian dies more than my elementalist. Both classes play very differently – eles should not be standing still when killing mobs.

The description of the back brace says it can hold 2 upgrades. Does that make it better than a backpack which only holds 1? I know backpacks will be preferred if you want something visible on your back but which is better in terms of improved stats?

I was in a spvp match today where a warrior was doing over 16k damage with 100b. Why is it that people like to justify glass cannon warriors by saying they have no defense while glass cannon thieves are still considered op? A backstab is harder to land than 100b.

Doesn’t warrior have condition removals? Also, don’t they have access to the most weapons? Don’t rifle skills have 1200 range? I need to pvp with warrior some more but I’ve had worse experiences with mesmers than thieves.

how does an elementalist struggle to kill a thief in a 30 second fight? By that time he wasted all his burst damage and stealths all while you were regenerating hp and dealing damage.

People complain about condition thieves now? They are like the crappy version of crit thieves.

I think the max a thief can burst out with death blossom is around 9 stacks of bleed. Also, DB is easy to avoid with a dodge roll.

If you know how a thief can stack 15+ bleeds in a single fight and chain stealth then please tell me.

I actually agree with the op. I just had an ele run in the middle of 4 of our team members and hold us off for a LONG time. It was insane. And it wasn’t like the had low dps either.

If he had the help of at least 1 other he could have taken us down.

I seriously have a problem when the supposedly weakest class (in terms of defense) tanks better than the tankiest class (guardian).

How does everyone else have such nice screens while mine looks so lame?

Chris.7653:

Yeah I mean, thief is so under powered barely anyone plays it….just look at the red team rolls eyes

I am sorry but this went on for to long and I can see how it has effected the population….or what is quickly turning into the lack there of.

It looks like you just got outplayed because those guys are using thief summons and basic pistol attacks to get kills…

What if I told you that games are not meant to be substitutes for lives? How many hours have you clocked in already?

Also, please edit out the part of your post mentioning Hitler.

So basically op is saying that he always wins 1v1 with his warrior but this thief killed him with a well executed combo and that signals a cry for nerf?

It took some shouting to get 3 players to fight one of those giants. After about 20 mins we finally killed him (after he reset once and with a lot of deaths for the low level player helping out). Not worth it.

I was thinking about a similar thing for bleeds: whose bleeds stack on the enemy? My bleeds may do more damage/ have a longer duration than another guy’s so is each stack calculated separately?

I actually dislike the designs of most of the legendaries.

I’d recommend somewhere in lion’s arch and recruiting guild members to participate. I don’t think forums members will be entirely reliable, especially since they’re all on different servers.

I use dual pistols on my thief and I like the style of play. Personally, I don’t like melee very much in gw2.

I logged in just to +1 this topic. I never pay attention to quest stories – I just do whatever I have to do and move on.

Well GW2 confirmed my theory that all sequels are money grabs.

Why make the least popular dungeon even less popular? At least my set is almost complete (just need gloves). I guess I can only do path 3 now…

I can barely find people to do paths 1 and 3. I’ll probably never be able to do 2 -_-

I wonder if people realize that this doesn’t make things much better since it’s still linked to Black Lion Chests which are linked to the cash shop.

After playing several hours since the event started I only got 2 keys, 1 of which was for clearing an area. I am saddened when people actually spend money on keys and get no reward.

How about no pistol skins!!!!!!!!

I just got one so it’s there now.

I think it might be bugged. It seems to happen when there is a lot of data to process (heated battle for example). The skill should state in its description if it is interrupted by anything (there is no such indication).

Did they run out of time to make skins for all the weapons?

I don’t like the way ArenaNet decided to link the event with the cash shop. That’s the way f2p games operate.

Was this skill nerfed at some point? It only stealths me around half the time I use it; the other half I get a ‘revealed’ debuff. I never noticed this happening before…

You could just go to the npcs in Lion’s Arch and preview all the equipment.

I agree with everything the op said. While the gameplay is great and the community is large, the communication is poor. I can’t recall the names of any popular/ active players; I don’t know any enemies/ rivals etc. I’ve actually played f2p mmos with smaller but more vocal communities. Hopefully ArenaNet will change this soon.

That looks good. Too bad I can’t run on max settings

I just spent over an hour on path 1. We could only get 4 players and made it up to the fire golem. We had to get a 5th to finish it.

I’m guessing the armory

It’s hard to get a SE party on Darkhaven and only a small group of players run it. I just managed to get the coat today and while I want some more sets I’m not sure if I can get parties to do it.

congratulations on outnumbering the enemy?

I just did Sorrow’s Embrace story mode and it was a terrible experience imo. It was much harder than explore and took us probably 1.5 – 2 hours to clear. Why should I bother with story when explore is easier (and more fun imo) and has better rewards?

I don’t know if it was a good idea to separate story and explore modes. I’ve only completed about 3 dungeons in story mode and I probably won’t ever do the rest.

So basically you’re saying to make all dungeons harder.

I don’t think damage should be increased anymore because glass cannons already go down extremely quickly.

I never said Necromancer and Engineer were bad; I said people think they are bad when they are really quite good.

Edit: About the StarCraft 2 balance changes: Most complains were about stimpack and the terran bio ball, which wasn’t nerfed. They even ended up nerfing Protoss Void Rays and Zerg Ultralisks.

It’s funny people people complain about one thing but the stats show something completely different.

^ Well I guess that proves my point

My recommendation to ArenaNet is to listen to complaints on the forums but don’t act on them yet. In every single multiplayer game, players complain about class imbalance and they are almost always wrong about it.

When Starcraft 2 first came out, everyone was crying that Terrans were op but Blizzard did not rush out and nerf/buff everything in sight. Eventually players developed new strats and learned to use their units to maximum potential.

The same applies to Guild Wars 2. I see a LOT of complaints about certain classes on these forums, particularly about thieves, mesmers and guardians. The solution isn’t to nerf them and buff the other classes – this will create a huge mess.

I play mostly as a dual pistol thief and I am on par with any other class in a 1v1 situation. Heartseeker and Pistol Whip are problems right? There are ways to avoid these.

Guardians are hard to kill depending on their build but that’s the point of the class! If they have a super tanky build they can’t out dps you!

Most players would agree that Elementalists, Engineers and Necromancers are weak classes right? I fought an Ele in a 2v1 (in my favor) battle multiple times and couldn’t take him down, even when I was playing as a thief.

I’m seeing more and more Engineers and they are dominating. I have a friend who plays as a Necromancer and actually plays it with a high level of skill. He could take me out in a 1v1 confrontation for sure.

TLDR: L2P.

I guarantee you that soon enough people will realize necros are one of the most powerful classes in the game.

The problem might be daggers and sword + pistol since my dual pistol/ short bow thief has crappy dps and struggles against the average player.

Wow I probably only have around 100…