Guild Wars 2

To the topic question. In a nutshell yes.

beelzebub.1289:

Does anyone else feel as though Medium armor is a bit bland?

Yeah, only for about the 1.5 years or so it’s been out…

beelzebub.1289:

[…]and heavy armor has all of the amazing spikes, horns, and such.

Yeah…amazing… Heavy armor is pretty bad as well. Only light have a decent selection.

beelzebub.1289:

Just want to know if anyone else feels like me and wants something more… fancy, elaborate, and eye catching for medium armors.

The ascended armor certainly fits all those criterias, not so sure it makes it an awesome skin

beelzebub.1289:

I mean i know the newer skins in the gem store look a bit better but the original armors[…]

This is all we can hope for now. Better skins in CS (and hopefully in game through LS…), I doubt they’ll do anything about the old skins.

beelzebub.1289:

[…]mediums are really really bland and then each time the light armors or heavy armors get something overly complex and intricate in gem store and it just frustrates me that the medium armors just get some shabby rainy weather clothing

It doesn’t have to be overly complex and intricate, sure they could add some, but for me I just want something different (and that goes true for heavy as well, something else than spikes please). But people have been discussing this since day one, I don’t anticipate a lot of change, Heck some clippings have not even been fixed yet (Charrs know what I talk about).

I…am not sure about this. A lot have been discussed already, and we’ll only have to “redo” it later if we get “chosen”. But what the H…

1. Pet
Needs a complete re-haul, AI, tied in player mechanics, traits….everything. The pet concept is seriously flawed and wants to go everywhere and nowhere. Anything less than an overhaul is a band aid fix.

2. Utilities
A lot of our utilities are just so “meh”. And the ones that do kind of work needs the traits for them to work.

3. Weapons
Need defined roles. And no weapons auto attack should have silly limitations.

Virtuslumen.2541:

The LB may suck in PvE , but its what i like to use.

The defence of every Bearbow, cleric staff guard, shout heal warr and what-not…

1. Ranger
2. Necromancer
3. Engineer

I ran full zerk in the zerg during season 1 because I’m a filthy PvE casual carebear, and I never had any problems…

Ranger, Necromancer and Engineer. (I know 3, but still)

For (s)PvP:
Sure, knock yourself out. It’s a pretty strong point holder with the right traits/utils and weapons.

For WvW:
Send pet→pet dies→run away. You’ll be able to survive running away though!

For PvE:
Definetly not! There is absolutely no reason what so ever to use clerics on any class in dungeons.

For blobbing (both PvE and WvW):
Whatever, here you can basically run whatever you want…Put on full carrion gear and use power weapons, bear, full signets without trait and 14/14/14/14/14…it doesn’t matter…

A human, a Charr and a Norn are out drinking. All of a sudden the human smashes his glass and says:
“In Kryta we have so many glasses that we don’t need to drink from the same twice”
The Charr throws his glass in the air, draws his pistol, shoots it and proclaims:
“In Ascalon we have so much sand that we can make so many glasses that we don’t have to drink from the same twice”
The Norn is passed out…

I’m on the fence about these circles…my primary complaint is that they don’t always render. On lower settings, during the large scale fight of Wurm I only saw the orange circles a handful of times, and never saw the blue one from amber-creeper.

Let’s put it this way. If it did get added I wouldn’t mind. But my stand right now is that we don’t need it, it won’t add much to the game. The only thing it’ll do is bog it down with even more particle effects. I’m trying to imagine (on top of the current scene) the blood fountain that 100b would produce…

To the guys wanting for more:

Most of these notes are simply a summary of what was discussed in the previous Ready Up stream, with a few tweaks based on feedback. This list of changes does not encompass all changes that will occur in the next feature build.

But I have to wonder, why post this summary? Summaries of the stream is already readily available, and I suspect most of this has been discussed in their appropriate boards.
I have a slightly on-topic question though. Will 2 of the same on-kill-increase-stack sigils (like bloodlust+bloodlust) still award 2 charges on kill?

Now what is to stop ANet from retroactively adding a 20% chance to mine Azurite Orbs to molten mining pick? It’s not the sprockets themselves, it’s the “what will they do next?”.

Cripple, Chill, Immobilize, if you don’t use any of these you should be aware that poeple are going to be able to escape you…

Well this thread settles it, I was doing Mari on ele, but now I’m going to do it on ranger from here on.

lol, principally flawed or not, complaining about one of the easiest dailes is…nitpicking…

Every server did have equal chance of doing it…it’s not like Deso had double player cap or so. Deso has a really strong server community, that took the time and effort to coordinate all players on the map. They had commanders that lived in Bloodtide Coast for 4 days. Most of the time when I logged on during the weekend I got overflow, you know how that is solved? Party up with someone in main, and persistently spam join to join in when someone leaves. Deso could manage with this. Apart from that they engaged anyone on map, tried to get them on TeamSpeak and make them part of the crew, rather than scoffing them off. I was there mate, we had 130+ people on TS, great commanders leading and great soldiers following. Do not belittle our effort. Every other server had equal chance to do as Deso, but they didn’t…

Atherakhia.4086:

Ranger is jumped by a thief[…]

If you’re jumped by a reasonable thief you’re already dead.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

For some reason everyone gets kittened off if I use my longbow and full zerker. I hitting for 4k with the longbow all the while my pet does around 1k. 103 crit damage + 3.48k attack

People get really kittened if I join their team for an Arah run. Haven’t got kicked for being a ranger yet though. Probably because I don’t use useless bears. Stalker, and red moa for the might and fury stacks ftw.

Longbow AA at max range does comparable dps to GS AA, GS dps is further enhanced by maul and the fact that you share boons with allies. Then on top of that sword is ahead of GS anyway (but riskier agreed). If you’re LB AA dps you’re doing it wrong tbh. What you do in open world is up to you, but in dungeons…

From a PvE perspective:
lol, as if hammer guardians aren’t trolling us enough.

Akisame.9508:

I’m sorry, but all I see is scraps being tossed at us. Think of it, a few months back the dev’s said that the sword rooting you in place was intended and had a function and that they would not be changing it. Now all of a sudden they are talking about fixing the rooting on the sword?

For the last time, sword AA does not root you. It includes 2 leap attacks. All movement skills (ie skills that move your character[leaps, charges etc]) will lock you in animation, this is intended. Now whether or not putting 2/3 AA skills as leaps was a good idea is up for debate. PvPers love it, it allows them to stick to enemies very effeciently. Most PvErs don’t like it however, it poses an unecessary risk. It seems they’re ready to discuss it now (because as said the AA has been working as intended, though for some not preferably).

Akisame.9508:

It’s also funny how they are planning the big patch to be in March instead of February like it should have been. Funny how they are putting the patch just before the release of ESO.

ESO sucks, they won’t have much competition from it

At level 80 you’re looking at a 2-3 silver cost for waypoint and repair, and even lower at lower levels. Get over yourself. I love that a world boss fail have an actual consequence, we need more of this!

Doggie.3184:

They need to buff it to kill all the mobs and wildlife in the zone as well.

Yes, it should wipe everything. Players dead, Friendly npcs dead, hostile mobs dead…critters, you guessed it, dead!

I’m all for more options, always. That’s really all I have to say on that.

Mungrul.9358:

I’d absolutely love to be able to make characters of all shapes and sizes in GW2.
The Saints Row games completely understand the value of giving their players complete creative control over their appearances, which is how I ended up with my lardy, cross-dressing Londoner:
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That doesn’t look fat. That looks like Strongman strong.

A 10 percent drop will mean we’re 90% as effective. Likewise a warrior would be 90% as effective. Answer, we’ll be hit equally hard as other classes, Zerk will still be king in PvE and in 1 month most will not care as that will be the new reality.

For Open World PvE it doesn’t matter what you run. So except for that what is it you like to do? Build from that and just run that in OWPvE. You can carry a PTV armor set for world bosses, but that’s about it. As for bows sucking, it’s that they lack dps, so you wouldn’t use them that much for dungeons, but as noted for OWPvE it doesn’t matter. Greatsword is so-so, it’s the closest substitute for sword, but nowhere near it in terms of dps. Axe main isn’t the greatest, it’s ok for trash since you can get that bounce, but it’ll suffer on bosses, it can be used as offhand in some occasions.

I’m backing this if I can get rank finishers through PvE.

jubskie.3152:

Anyway, I’m more interested in the double sigil thing than the ranger changes. Particularly, double Sigil of Force for another +10% damage for power rangers.

Pretty sure you can’t stack 2 Force, it does not work with 2 1h weapons so there’s no reason it would work with 2h. The only sigils you can “double up” are stacking ones.

nagymbear.5280:

I’ll definetly try air+fire on my zerker longbow ranger…. mmmm

Air sucks. You’re better of with any of Force+Night, Force+Accuracy, Force+Fire and similar with Night.

Aridia.3042:

Unless you’re filthy rich, I would not be hasty to jump the gun on trying double crit sigils.

Together they cost less than 4g, filthy rich…lol

Aridia.3042:

Anet has confirmed they want to remove bloodlust stacking when you unequip weapons[…]

I watched the stream and can’t recall that, can you provide a source? (Not saying it’s wrong, but want to see some red swats).

Fomby.4295:

(You’ll want to place them out of the stack so they don’t get 1 shotted by AoE.)

It really depends on the fight. For Subject Alpha you want to place the frost spirit on stack. Since Alpha does mostly AoEs the players will cap it out, and placing the spirit away might create problems with circles. And for trash mobs it doesn’t really matter, the buff should linger long enough even if the spirit dies.

Gray Fox.9178:

For the life of me, I cannot understand how 9 measly ores a day you can’t make anything useful with which leaves you in an eternal sinkhole is convenient. With the gold you would get from $10 , you could purchase more ores than you would need in months, if not a year.

I can’t understand how these measly 9 ores are so important to you that you need to rant about it…Even though you are appalled someone else will think it’s worth it, they’ll buy it, and I can continue to play this game for free. I’m not really seeing the problem here, you don’t like it you don’t buy it.

This is the most rewarding dive to perform, do not ask to nerf it! A few hints for the home stretch, you can put on the goggles from the pipes sticking out of the platform and it’s better to simply walk of the pipes rather than jumping.

The TL;DR is sufficent, with maybe a few more lines. No need to use that many words.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

The overt zerker dominance in PVE hurts everyone. Even zerker users in the long run.

How?

Prioritize own will only solve the issue for you. There’s still the situation where 1 player can put down a beneficial area and another a not so beneficial area and the rest of the 3 party members will still be unsure what they will blast (on top of that player #2 in this example is guaranteed to never blast the beneficial one). List is by far the superior option I’ve seen suggested here. Instead of one player messing for potentially 4 players (prio own) 1 player will only ever mess up for 1 player, itself. Granted, both options are still improvements and there’s no reason they shouldn’t be able to work in tandem. So for example I can have fire as #1 but also always blast my own first, so for normal use I’d blast might but for clutches I could throw down water and blast-heal.

In certain fights (I’ve had this against golem in CoE and archie 2 in Cliffside) when you swap pet your newly swapped pet is already downed. I don’t know why, but it’s kind of annoying.

Tweek.5391:

Adrianna.3092:

i agree with the weapon part.. however.. then it leads to complicated situations.. what if they had 2 2-handed weapons? like a greatsword and a hammer… they both fit the same area.. they couldn’t possibly both show at once without being inside of each other and looking weird.

They could make it look like an X type of deal, the hammer angled one way and the sword angled the other way.

Simpler set1 like currently and set2 crossing. And for hip stowed weapons set1 could hang slightly in front of set 2.

As for the bags, aslong as the bag-thingy is an option sure! Would kind of like this on some of my characters but not so much on others.

Two things the ranger class could use

Direction→Overhaul

And according to the devs (will link to post in edit) that mess is so messy that they can’t be asked to fix it…

Want to know a game that is p2w? Star Wars: The Old Republic! As a f2p user you can not equip the best gear in game, you either have to sub or buy “permission” in the CS, oh and you can’t convert credits to cartel coins either.

Protoavis.9107:

Shockwave.1230:

If you really wanted to make the game pay to win, you could pay someone to play the game for you!

Game over

Well, I can buy gems to get gold to get legendaries, to get the dungeon master title via path sellers, to get carried through fractals, to get wvw commanders to carry me to all the poi in wvw for map completion, etc….just saying.

And yet you can’t pay $ in the cash shop to gain 100% extra power (not talking about the stat, literally dealig 100% extra damage), go into wvw with said power and completely tear up roaming. And even less so in structured PvP. And someone who spend nothing in the cash shop and only a small amount of effort in game will be on equal footing…how is this pw2 exactly?

• Ranger pets
• Ranger pets
• Ranger pets
• Ranger pets
• Ranger pets

People think gw2 is p2w?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M

This again? Dyes are not Pokémon, you do not have to collect all. If you still want to do it, then that’s your choice isn’t – it, nothing the game has to take into consideration?

We get these kind of threads every patch…Salvage no less than 1000 rares, then you have a bare minimum sample size, 10 is not enough.

Solandri.9640:

They said 80% of 2v2s had a ranger in it. So 0.8 * 0.25 = 20% of players were rangers, which is pretty close to what their 1 year anniversary stats said (19% if I remember).

What the H is this? 80% of the 2v2 were rangers and they constitute 1/4 of the playerbase → 20% of players are rangers? That makes no sense…

solrik.6028:

Not being able to interrupt it with dodge or others skills is the bug.

No, that is the intended part. A leap is uninterruptable by design. There is no bug with sword 1, it is like Jon said, it works like intended. That’s not to say that putting 2 leaps in the auto chain isn’t kittened though…

And you can interrupt it. Using any off-hand skill will sneak that skill into the queue and allow you to dodge. And the games ultimate hard interrupt weapon swap will even interrupt mid-leap.

Incoming nerf to ranger proximity. Whenever multiple rangers are close to eachother their dps is divided proportionately to how many rangers there are. “Close” is defined as 10k radius.

1. Normalize lbow auto attack to max range damage
2. Add a Killshot

Ando? :O
This needs to happen! At the very least switch sides of assymetric gear (Olba’s “suggestions” aren’t that bad either). It’s prevented me from using several pieces if armor, most notable Norn medium T3, why is the bracer on the draw arm and not on the bow arm?!

Cerai.9741:

Exposed midriff seems a bit counter productive[…]

Most medium armors are made out of cloth, leather or both. Nothing that would stop a swinging blade or flying arrow, exposed midriff or not. Likewise Some heavy sets are made out of thin plate metal, again nothing that would stop an arrow. I’m not saying covering is wrong though, the more options the better, but it’s not that illogical to not cover when the cover would not protect.

@OP The coat is the only piece of that armor worth it, somewhat due to the fact of the underboob (but also in great deal to the assymmetry and cloth piece at the side). It’s also one of few pieces of medium armor that isn’t a trench coat which greatly adds to it’s value. Your suggested fix doesn’t ruin the armor that much, on that I do agree, but then again I don’t agree with your standing on the original armor, showing a bit of the underside of the boobs isn’t much worse than showing a bit of cleavage to me.

Urmaug’s here as well, it’s easy and inside LA.