Guild Wars 2

@thedgeone.9142

This isn’t the event. I would love to see everybody’s face who is complaining about how much they hate what they think is the halloween event right now, come halloween. B**** more now, feel like a bigger a** later.

(Note, I can understand the complaints about the black lion chest skins. That’s about real money. This is about being lazy.)

I must have missed the people saying that the weapon skins were pay to win. One person said that the mad king’s costume was basically a pay to win for the costume brawl. Which after seeing some people dominating costume brawls using them, I totally agree with. That is pay to win.

Yeah, other than the black lion chest fubar it’s been great. But I knew it would be.

@Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981

You’re smoking something dude. It’s harder to see the animations that let people anticipate what you are doing and counter you effectively. For a norn, this is a huge problem (pun intended). For an asura, it isn’t as big of a problem as long as there are other players around. If you cannot understand the advantage of having your animations be smaller, go watch some Sesame Street before Romney cancels it. Elmo will teach you the difference between big and small.

You’re right about the name but it isn’t about spotting you in the distance, it’s about countering you in the flurry of animations going on all around you. If you play a ranged character it won’t make much difference but for melee, Asura are superior to norn and charr, simply because they are more difficult to read when standing in a pile of characters, their various animations and graphic effects. Comprende?

The camera is lower to the ground for asura, which can make it extremely difficult to navigate jumping puzzles. Human and sylvari are actually probably the best for those.

Yeah that’s one thing GW1 did well, it made you feel important. GW2 makes you seem like just some random dude following the zerg from one random encounter to the next (not that it isn’t fun, it’s just not a great story). I think they could have struck a better balance. I do hope Anet will learn from this and focus expansions more on that epic story experience that they did so well in GW1.

I think the number one problem with elementalist is that the cooldowns are just too long to justify the weakness of the skills. All of the other professions skills are on much shorter cooldowns but the elementalist has these long kitten cooldowns and their skills aren’t any better than anybody else’s.

@Kodiak.3281

Sorry, that was meant for incisorr.9502. I just nabbed the wrong name somehow. My bad. I fixed it now.

@Lokki.1092

You’re probably right about the expectation of it being different. I hadn’t thought of that before. Scepters should be the support weapon, they’re lame anyway.

The best way to get it is to buy it with gold. The skin can be traded.

Yeah, I kind of agree with the mad king costume being too powerful. It is pay to win a title. A title I will never have because I refuse to pay to win anything, ever. That’s why I liked GW1 so much.

Some people want to be hand held all the way through every quest. Some people like to read the text and figure it out for themselves. I like to use Google to do it for me. Because even though I am too stupid to figure out the clues, I am not too stupid to use Google before posting on a forum about how stupid I am.

There’s more to come. You didn’t play the GW1 events (I can tell). If you stay for the main event, you will see.

I agree with Outamyhead (probably because I am too). I plan to do the quests but I’m not really into getting everything else. The scythe would look cool on my necro though…

No. They don’t really add anything to game play. There’s some food consumables that give you buffs but that’s it.

The problem isn’t with the players here. It is a miscommunication/misunderstanding, but it was on Anet’s side. If they hadn’t said anything about the new skins, or if they had simply said people would have “a small chance” of getting them, this whole thing could have been avoided. They built it up. Anet made the new skins a big deal. Build up creates anticipation, which leads to expectation, which leads to the dark side… er, anger when that expectation isn’t met. I really have to shake my head in dismay at this. It was a company fubar. They should have had PR in on it and if they did have their PR team in on it, they should fire them and get a new team that is competent.

Xhaiden got it right. After the expectation of these new items was built up and then not delivered upon, Anet loses future customers. Me for one. I won’t be buying any cash shop items now. Not until Anet proves that they are who they said they were and not money-grubbers trying to milk the MMO cash cow. (And by the way, I haven’t purchased anything yet. Though I had planned to tonight before finding out what Anet did.)

I don’t have a problem with having a cash shop. My problem with this is that they said they weren’t like other developers. Then they pull a stunt so money-grubbing outrages that even Blizzard wouldn’t do it. That’s my problem with it. If Anet wants to add new skins to the cash shop, just sell them for cash or for gems. Don’t do this. This is the worst possible thing you could have done. Maybe if you wouldn’t have said anything about the chests and ninja inserted the weapon skins, I could have seen the ultra low chance of acquiring them as being acceptable. Then it’s a bonus. As it is now, it’s an expectation. And that’s why you have PR people Anet. Were they out to lunch when you had this meeting or what?

Staff offers decent support. It sets up good combo fields. It can be used to control the zerg with AoEs. It has uses for a bunker elementalist. It can be used to kill WvW scrubs. Nobody has ever said otherwise. I thought this was all understood and didn’t require umpteen million regurgitations. I’m shocked to see so many people think that the staff is a good DPS weapon (though I will no longer correct people on this matter because not correcting them is more advantageous to me).

@Daharahj.1325

You disagree? Okay. You’ve convinced me. I take it all back. Staff is the best elementalist weapon in the game, the zerg never eats elementalists like they weren’t even there in open field WvW and I am less likely to beat a staff elementalist than a dagger elementalist. I hope to meet you in the field.

@incisorr.9502

You like it the best, therefor it is the best. I’m not here to argue preferences. I would actually prefer it if elementalists never used daggers and always used staves. So we can at least agree that I too prefer that you use a staff.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find elementalists to be more of a chew toy than any other profession, and among elementalists, I find staff elementalists to be the chewiest of them all. Granted I do run into the occasional bunker elementalist. They’re tough but harmless.

I think this conversation is pretty much over at this point. I hope you all convince many noobs to play staff elementalists.

I have been an Anet fanboy for a long time. Sure, I’m honest enough to tell them when I think they’re wrong but I’ve trusted them to know better than I do, because they did so much to earn that trust in GW1. That is all gone now. I’m retiring my fanboy badge. This was a disgusting act of greed. I spent hundreds of dollars on GW1 but in protest to this status-quo sort of MMO greed, I will never spend a dime on any services, no extra characters, no bank slots, nothing. You’ve lost my trust.

Well it looks cool and all but for 500g I’ll pass. Too bad.

I’m not disappointed by the costume brawls. They rock!

@GekoHayate.2451

Your entire post proves what I already said. Staff is good in keep defense against scrubs. Please keep using your staff and touting it’s glory though. It makes you easier to kill when there is absolutely no chance that you will be able to kill me.

It means you will die 50% less once you are downed. You will still be downed in 90% of fights though. (I just calculated those numbers in my imagination. I’m that good.)

Necros are in bad shape. The rangers, even though they didn’t get anything out of the patch, are still worth playing.

Warrior, guardian, thief and mesmer (great for PvP). Anything else is really a waste of time right now. Maybe ranger, they’re good, just plentiful and boring.

This happens to my engineer all of the time. There is some kind of bug that makes them get aggro when they shouldn’t. It doesn’t happen to my warrior or necromancer, ever.

No hammer skins either. I was hoping for a new skull hammer.

Looks awesome. How many chests did you have to open to get that? One guy reported only getting 2 items out of 81 tries. I’m not willing to spend hundreds of dollars to ensure I get a scythe.

Wow! Where did ANet go? What happened to you guys? You have to do better than this. You used to be the company that was different from all the money-grubbers. This can’t be the same ArenaNet that built the first Guild Wars.

The part that made me laugh was the elementalists. Poor ele’s got screwed again. At least they fixed their down state some. To be fair, they were mostly bug fixes and a couple of nerfs… okay, it’s still not fair. Suckers!

That’s a bummer.

I would rather pay a sub than buy items from a cash shop.

I plan to sell my chests during the event. They’re a waste of time and money. I’ve gotten two keys in a hundred and fifty hours of playing GW2.

@robinsiebler.3801

When you become internet dictator, you can make the rules about what kind of armor Anet can or cannot make. Until then you will have to live in a modern society where we all have to compromise to give others what they want, so that we can have what we want too. That’s how social contracts work.

My complaint with you is that even though Anet has done more than any other MMO developer ever has to provide you with a wide variety of great looking, full-body concealing outfits, your complaint is that there are ANY sexy outfits at all. No matter what they do, somebody is going to kitten at them for it.

It’s really bad as an Asura. I can barely see where I’m going half the time.

Deathmatches were the staple PvP of GW1. It’s really strange that they left it out of GW2.

I like that bit about mocking your suspension of disbelief. There is this one door you can find with a room full of plants. You have to fight your way down there through a field of instantly respawning difficult mobs, only to open the door and find… that you can look at the plants but never enter. There is an invisible wall preventing you from picking them. And then poof everybody you just killed has respawned and you die. It’s almost as if somebody did it on purpose…

I don’t play female characters but I do play MMOs. Anet has done a better job of providing a variety of concealing and revealing outfits than any other developer I have ever seen and yet all you can do is complain? I’m not a GW2 fanboy but show some respect for what the art team has tried to do by leaving nobody out and providing such great variety.

You all sound like a bunch of spoiled children. I’d say that you should be ashamed of yourselves but this is the internet, where nobody has any shame.

Apparently my original thread garnered me an infraction because I used “Anet” in the title (must have missed that in the forum rules). So this is a redux. To everybody who had previously posted in the thread I apologize. I did not have the chance to rename the thread, it was just deleted. Hopefully there will not be any further problems of this nature as I do believe this is an issue that should be discussed.

ORIGINAL POST

I don’t know what you were thinking Anet. When someone trains a row of mobs into me and they suddenly heal after I’ve almost killed them all and then become invulnerable while they continue to fight me, it really makes me want to rage quit and uninstall. Stop making mobs turn invulnerable while I’m fighting them! It’s ridiculous to have them sit there and kill me while I am utterly unable to harm them. It was a terrible idea and I can’t believe that you let it get past alpha testing. Find another way to deal with kiting.

THREAD DISCUSSION

The original reason Anet included this “feature” was to prevent kiting. Frequently when underwater, when many small objects are on the ground or any other time the mob cannot find a direct path to the character they heal completely and become invulnerable despite still being able to deal damage.

It was suggested to have mobs not be able to deal damage when in this mode. One poster commented on how using the terrain to your advantage was heralded as one of the features of GW2. The majority of other posters all agreed that the mechanic was bad. A few seemed to have never encountered it.

QUESTION

Have you ever been killed by an invulnerable enemy? What can be done to prevent this from happening in the future?

Nick, you should prep Obama and Romney for their speeches tomorrow.

Elementalists are in an awful state right now. That’s just the reality of it. Once Anet fixes them, something other than a D/D elementalist will be useful. I will admit that a staff ele is useful in defense against scrubs.

Good thing you staff eles don’t play on my server though. We’re not going to stand in your AoE. Hell, we probably won’t let you get off more than one spell. Staff eles are zerg food.

There’s plenty of male armor that shows skin and the tattoos do look good with them. If you roll a norn you’ll get tattoos and skimpy armor. Problem solved.

Conditions are a big deal in WvW. Chances are that if you are in melee range you will be hammered with them.

@Kana.6793
Here’s a list of just the LIGHT ARMORS that show almost no skin. So that in the future you will know what you are talking about. Anet purposely added a wide array of armors ranging from skimpy to prudish. (Guess which ones are for you?)

http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Heritage_%28Light%29
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Magician
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Country
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Student
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Acolyte%27s
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Devout
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Dry_Bones
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Cabalists
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Seers
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Rubric
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Ascalonian_%28Light%29
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Noble%27s_%28Light%29
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Dredge_%28Light%29
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Flame_Legion_%28Light%29
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/Researcher%27s_%28Human%29

All I know is that it can make for some very hectic battles. They just keeping spawning right on top of me while I’m in the middle of a fight!

I like the idea of imposing a limit on how many items can be listed at one time. That is a good way to prevent flipping.

Good guide.

I rarely use frenzy on my hammer warrior though. It’s not really needed against most PvE mobs and a death sentence in PvP. Also, you can bull’s charge > staggering blow into a cluster of enemies. The damage isn’t much less (on the knocked down mob) and it can really help your event score. It’s really nice if you can set up combustive shot first and then bull’s charge > staggering blow into it. If it’s a melee crowd sometimes they will come running back and then you can hit them with earthshaker or stomp. On even level non-veteran mobs they’ll all be dead very fast, especially if you are in a group. Hammer warriors have so many great ways to control a fight.

I’m not for binoculars. They would become a requirement for successful WvW.

There are plenty of sexy male and female armors.

Fildydarie.1496

The problem isn’t invulnerable mobs, it is the poor detection that leads to mobs going invulnerable when they shouldn’t. If you’re trying to exploit the terrain, there are two real options. Either the mob walks out of your range and gets a bunch of friends to build a cannon with which to shoot you (my preferred solution), or they stand there invulnerable because they can’t effectively path to you. This behavior is a band-aid for all sorts of hacks and exploits and, while being a band-aid is bad, I’d rather suffer the penalty and prevent the exploits.

It’s a terrible system. What pisses me off is that the mobs sometimes turn invulnerable and then kill you on top of that. They should have fixed that before the game launched. Anet talked about not releasing the game until it was ready. Clearly they didn’t have it completely ready.

I like hammer. It allows me to control the flow of the fight.

The only elementalists that almost scare me are D/D. Even they are usually dead meat.

I’m against this. There are far too many gold sinks in this game already. It’s one of the few really crappy things about GW2. Why would I want to be even more poor than I already am?