Guild Wars 2

i used it on my second char which was going to be painful to lvl (necro) and my first char was a druid which i proceeded to never play again

Vayne.8563:

runeblade.7514:

Vayne.8563:

Any change to the meta in AB is going to come with collateral damage. Some people will be unhappy and some of those will leave. Probably not as many as threaten to leave.

On the other hand, it’ll mean more people doing other metas, like TD and VB, which would make some of us happier and, in my opinion, would be worth it in the long run.

The AB meta is something that’s been going on for too long. It really doesn’t help the game as a whole. It helps the types of people that can farm the same event over and over again because it’s profitable. I submit that’s not a majority of the playerbase.

As long the AB meta pulls people from other areas of the game, it’s a problem that needs addressing in my opinion.

Not really. You can do the TD and VB meta while the AB meta is not active. Besides, I seen tons of people playing TD and VB meta just yesterday.

The AB meta fills multiple maps, at least five or six.

When was the last time you saw five servers doing either VB or TD?

sure lets buff both of those to match ab so people will actually have a reason to multiloot them. your ectos will only go down in price because of this. idc because not only do i farm to sell but i farm mats i need also.

they are in there because its proven if you have a bunch of junk and a few high price rewards with a low drop rate people will spend more money to attemp those big ticket items like lemmings off the side of a cliff. tldr humans arent smart.

no mesmer? no thief? no necro? no rev? definitely unbiased. most classes have a cheese build.

necro i still use carrion for my exotic gear. its even raid worthy aparently.

i agree that insta rez kitten is just kittened.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

why don’t you play FPS games?

No seriously, comparing cross class is one of the worst idea in MMORPG…

you are the biggest troll who didnt get called out for it ive seen so far.

TheGrimm.5624:

sophiewhite.3149:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

MC’s have had a stable price for 5 months. There does not seem to be any measurable imbalance. Please provide evidence for this “imbalance” or shut down this thread please.

what are you talking about? they use to sell for only 30 silver recently they got as high as 80 silver.

Showing an increase since June 3 and about the same rate since. Slight dip when they introduced them in the event rewards. See 30 silver back on Feb 14th.

https://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19976

that link shows its been going up and up and up and up.it never stopped going up except for the dips. which is normal for a graph to have however those dips never go back down to the original price.sure it was a slow increase until it spiked. but a increase is a increase no matter what.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

MC’s have had a stable price for 5 months. There does not seem to be any measurable imbalance. Please provide evidence for this “imbalance” or shut down this thread please.

what are you talking about? they use to sell for only 30 silver recently they got as high as 80 silver.

just use guardian.plenty of burst.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

In gaming u either a pro or a nub.

spoken like a true kid.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

nopoet.2960:

I had no idea that HoT traumatized so many people. It’s kind of funny…

Would it make any difference if mobs only went into super saiyen mod when they were fighting level 80 players. By super saiyen mode I mean gain access to 1 or 2 new attacks or gain buff that they don’t usually have.

People are still upset that the cleric in the newest story instance requires you take down her shield in order to kill her.

Does that answer your question?

that was fun though. not even hard. honestly i wish there was a 10 second timer there that would insta kill you if you didnt do it right. and make her do more damage.

Aeolus.3615:

A good player???? ._.

a myth

Fivedawgs.4267:

lol at warrior can disengage and re-engage when they want?

and its around 380 hp, please learn to dodge our F1, it;s very telegraphic. Removing adrenal Hp or even lowering it, would literally kill the warrior class.

and thats why power warrior is superior. besides everyone running cleanses because of this meta. kitten the meta. thats irrelevant.

Ithilwen.1529:

Oh and please get over the heavy bias against Mesmer. Clones once did the same damage as the Mesmer… now that might actually work.

lord helseth doesnt want that to happen though XD he likes afk killing the number 1 warrior.

Topher.5631:

Erm no. GoB is what gets people into WvW like the backpack got people into PvP. If they did that then we would have to add the backpack to WvW and PvE, which would take the prestige away even more

“would have to” no to add gift of battle to spvp you only have to add gift of battle to spvp. those other things are standards you set.

Obtena.7952:

DancingMad.8504:

Assuming you don’t want to buy and want to gather all your mystic coins from your log in reward, you will have to wait 1 year for your legendary. 1 year. This is a ridiculous amount of time for a shiny weapon that it’s only merits are ….sparkling.

That’s why Anet gave us the choice to buy or collect. There is nothing ridiculous about purposefully avoiding to buy coins, then having to wait a year to ‘earn’ them from log ins. People are complaining that they don’t like any of the options they have, so they want yet another option that suits their liking … talk about feeling entitled. Sorry, MMO’s don’t work that way. You don’t get to dictate what you’re willing to do for a reward.

people are making suggestions and voicing their opinons. voicing your opinions does not equal dictating. talking down to people isnt needed. you can remain productive without it.

Zintrothen.1056:

How about we nerf everyone else instead… It’ll take more time but it’ll be healthier for the game.

whats the difference? most classes already can die in about 10 seconds. would you like to cut that down more?

i dont play ele at all. i have a friend that does. they are really easy to kill on most classes and its unfair for them.i think we can all agree they are very weak this season.

i 3 man que a lot of times sometimes 4 man and go against pugs all the time. now yes it will prioritize premades to go against us first if there is any.

Yasha.5963:

Static.5723:

Yasha.5963:

I find them overall to be the easiest class to kill, even with non-HoT builds.

Yeah right lol. They can outheal the damage of 2 pure DPS classes, and if it does get to be too much they can just disengage the fight and return 10 seconds later at 100% health.

I honestly cannot understand why people have trouble fighting druids. Most of the druids I come across are almost free kills, and I don’t even have HoT. Here is a video of how to beat them I took last season in sapphire and ruby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BboUpdAtR94

Its the same this season. 90% of druids I face I am confident of killing 1vs1. I can’t say that for any other class. In fact some classes, like warriors and ele, I might only beat 10% or 20% of the time in a 1v1 if I play at my best and the enemy is not very good.

I also find druids extremely easy to beat when I play some variant of a non-HoT burn guard.

When I see a druid on the enemy team it makes me very happy, because I know from experience that only about 1 in 10 are likely to put up any resistance. It might be different in diamond and legendary tiers- maybe all the great ranger players are in there- but from ruby down imo druid is by far the weakest class (the easiest for me to kill or for a team to focus down).

And it cracks me up how confident some of these druids seem. They think they can decap far like an engi or warrior and they can’t even hold it/take it against one non-HoT player.

You can see that in the first fight of the video- I don’t think that guy got one attack off on me, totally crushed. And you can see the same overconfidence in the second last fight where one druid left the point and ran to mid leaving me to 1vs1 against the other druid. He lasted about 5 secs, and that’s even with me kittening up by not dodging his knockback. No other class goes down that easily- not even thief.

thats the video where to stomp a bunch of crap players in saphire. wow you posted this before. still havnt got footage from ruby yet?

cyberzombie.7348:

Rifle warrior with signet mastery and might signet is my go-to counter however, rifle is a backline weapon.

the issue with this build is you have to play really offensive. sure it counters dh but it doesnt do much against everyone else.

sephiroth.4217:

People still use plague signet?

plenty of metas use condis. if your going against a mesmer you could just 1 shot the mesmer with his own stuff.

dragon hunter is definitely the weakest this season.

i thought pocket raptors were enough.

Zintrothen.1056:

Rousing Resilience doesn’t stack. If a Warrior breaks a stun 3 seconds after breaking a previous one, they still only have 8 seconds of toughness. It’s disadvantages to break stuns too quickly, or else they won’t have a CD up once the toughness is gone.

That is, this would be the case if Outrage was balanced. 10 second CD stunbreak is way to low. 15 seconds is better. And if you think that’s imbalanced because Daredevils have a stunbreak and a block on a 15 second CD, do you really think that’s a problem with the warrior CD being too long? Or could that just maybe be a problem with Daredevils having too short of a CD?

honestly until im seeing 5 man warrior team im just gonna say its fine. its obviously only a problem to a few sucky people. if the class was so cheese it would be super popular. which it isnt.

get on a druid and drop a trap on point and leave. the thief will run thinking hes safe if he didnt see you drop the trap and it will one hit him every time.

people get kicked out of dungeons alot less than something like raids ive learned. if you want to do raids good luck. even the new willing to teach noobies guilds require experience.

honestly im surprised no one has complained about pvp having the only real option to farm mystic clovers.

Vayne.8563:

Any change to the meta in AB is going to come with collateral damage. Some people will be unhappy and some of those will leave. Probably not as many as threaten to leave.

On the other hand, it’ll mean more people doing other metas, like TD and VB, which would make some of us happier and, in my opinion, would be worth it in the long run.

The AB meta is something that’s been going on for too long. It really doesn’t help the game as a whole. It helps the types of people that can farm the same event over and over again because it’s profitable. I submit that’s not a majority of the playerbase.

As long the AB meta pulls people from other areas of the game, it’s a problem that needs addressing in my opinion.

no it will mean everyone will go back to silverwastes which already provides the most gold per time spent. only reason people dont do it now is because its such a boring grind. ab is actually kinda fun.but hey if people want to make ectos rare as hell again thats fine by me.

Equilibrity.9152:

Zero.6592:

Cynz.9437:

I don’t think i could ever play like this – i feel like the cam promotes tunnelvisioning.

Same, seems like a severe handicap.

I think it’s better then constantly pressing rmb to rotate cam.

same but i also have the button to turn it off on my alt key so its right there when i play a thief or something to teleport but i almost always play a warrior so i dont really need to turn it off.

Zania.8461:

Kolly.9872:

3k hours on thief I have 50 vs 50 chance against a lot of ppl at my level skill
2 days on guardian I have about 100% win rate vs the same ppl
Guardian is so easy to play that it is embarassing

Thieves have second to non mobility, and thus are largely used for decaps and adding on to an existing fight to spike down the enemy.

Guardians have crap for mobility and are used to face smash enemies and/or to bunker pressure people off points/hold points.

…
I am not sure why you are surprised that you find it easier to kill things on a guardian.

Also after certain amount of time of playing this game, you learn mechanics well enough that swapping classes does not handicap you too much. Can you go from never playing a guard to being best guard ever? Likely not. But if you invested 3+k hours in the game you will not start from the bottom of the pile either.

so your saying either thief needs a buff or gaurdian needs a nerf. what your saying is hes either so good hes making a terrible class good and is really good with a decent class or gaurdian is op.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

R O C.6574:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Nerf all classes with R in their name………….woo par for the course.

But then Elementalist/Tempest will be OP

Crap forgot there was 1 class that doesn’t have an R,

Relementalist/Rtempest, new name fixed now we are gtg.

what about thief? oh wait. its not a balance patch if thief isnt nerfed.

Briars.1425:

you can totally raid in exotics. you can totally do fractals (up to i think end of tier 1) in exotics. there are plenty of ways to get ascended gear aside from crafting

thats cute. now go try it irl and watch it never happen. no one will take you. no one.

Xcorpdog.2840:

It’s really simple, dungeons are old content so fewer people clear it. Add on to that, people for the better part of 3 years farmed it to death. And the fact that for them to be a good source of income takes knowledge and practice which most of the community lacks at this point in some capacity. Then throw in things like the ab multi loot and the jaded community created by anet when they nerfed them literally to get players to stop playing them.

With knowing all that it’s easy enough to say dungeons are “dead” due to a jaded lazy community.

and ascended gear are basically end game. nothing the dungeon gives will help you progress that. fractals will though.

Aeolus.3615:

yeah but condi warrior is the only solution to play?
I think we need more rifles warrior ganking DH’s.

the main issue with rifle warrior is that it counters dh but its very vulnerable to everyone else. it lacks sustain really bad. with mace if i play it right i can tank just as hard as a bad gaurdian and still take other the other 8 classes.

onevstheworld.2419:

sophiewhite.3149:

oh now i see most of the ways to get it are from living story season 2.

Nomads and sinister are the only stat sets available from LS2 achievements.

Assassins, sentinels, carrion and magi are only obtainable from dungeon collections.

All other non-HoT stats are freely for sale at the various vendors (Laurel, wvw and guild).

deleted the op. i got my answer thanks people. mods can trash this xD

OriOri.8724:

Ascended trinkets are easy to obtain, and are enough to get into T2 fractals, which do have ascended drops (even though it is a low rate). There is nothing stopping you from crafting your own ascended weapons/armor, and you can always run guild missions for guild commendations which can be used to buy ascended trinkets.

Running the daily fractals also gives you pristine fractal relics which can be used to buy ascended trinkets. There are loads of ways to get ascended, laurels just happens to be the easiest since it doesn’t require playing the game

to be fair you need laurels to craft your own ascended gear. recipes cost 5 per or guild commendations if your cool with waiting for rng.

sephiroth.4217:

Please remove the PvE crap from PvP, thankyou.

Otherwise don’t change Khylo, it’s the only map where I can go strait to enemy treb, kill the stupid map mechanic and just have a game against 5 other players with no PvE clutch bullkitten.

Better yet

How about fixing the clock tower? Camera angles get whack inside that thing because it’s so enclosed, people accidently throw skills on the roof and then there’s targeting and path obstructions from sitting near the windows.

Then there’s also unfair pathing that people can abuse with blink and many other skills that teleport you from GROUND FLOOR to the roof of clock tower.

Hammerguard.9834:

Fix your classes first. And I’m not even talking about balance, I mean build diversity. Give me terror necro and sword/dagger thief back.

Terrormancer is still a thing isn’kitten You just need to time skills a little better rather than spam fear and to rely on boon corruption timing a bit more.

until its a thief on the treb who repairs within 5 seconds of it being destroyed. meaning one of our players has to go off point to take it out again. and again and camp it.

you can also go to bloodstone fen and work on your ascended backpiece. do pvp for again your ascended backpiece with a chance of ascended drops of all kinds. you can also earn some gold in ab and sw since you want to be doing crafting youll need it. you could also work on your masteries or world completion since i doubt youve finished either atm. you could also do lower tier fractals for gold and ascended drops. level a new character fight world bosses or go play in wvw.

Kuya.6495:

I think the realistic way of cutting down on the dominance of dh on low tier pvp is to lower damage specifically on procession of blades, dragon’s maw, and symbol damage from sword 2 and scepter 2. I don’t think the damage on test of faith should be touched because that’s the trap used for higher tiers of play and it actually requires the DH to watch for stab before combo, and then perform, in order, a specific set of skills depending on enemy positioning (if enemy is outside circle, you pull with f1, if they are inside, you push with either lb 2, hammer 4 or shield 5). I don’t know if you need to increase the healing from symbol trait on honor line to compensate for symbol damage nerfs on sword 2 and scepter 2.

I know lowering the damage on those two symbols wouldn’t necessarily put symbolic out of meta, since the build doesn’t just use symbol spam to damage but also to maintain a sustain cadence along with aegis and dodges. As long symbolic still maintains its shield 5 knockback, daze on trap, heal on aegis, cleanse on block, it still serves its purpose even if symbol damage is lowered on those specific one handed skills. So symbolic might survive damage nerfs on symbols for higher pvp, but just become less useful in low tier pvp.

Please also increase speed on mace 2 while you are at it, it’s too slow for what little it offers.

i agree with this. im fine with classes tanking like no tomorrow. sure it sucks in conquest but its doable. its when they start doing mad damage too. so agreed kuya

i mean even triple trouble one of the most abandoned difficult events still is completing it. so id say the pop is fine.

megilandil.7506:

PierPiero.9142:

Which are the classes better for going in solo and try to carry a team ? I played only engineer, my main , chronomancer and elementalist. In this season i find
- chronomancer ( strong in 1 vs 1 … good mobility , good support and great tactics with portal.. if well used you can support 2 points )
- scrapper ( always great even if after all the nerfs it is not so simple to win some 1 vs 1 .. for me condi warriors with all their cc remains hard ( at same level of player)
- elementalis ( in this meta i played only some matches with freshair for fun … not the best build for carry imho )

warriors and dh , from what i see , are really in good spot and if not stacked, i prefer a warrior in my team rather than a dh .

carrying a team is a delusion, only and only if you can win a match whith the other 4 members AFK you are truly carrying the team.
you can be the MAN, the MVP or the name you prefer but not carrying a team.

this is someone who doesnt understand common definitions

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Aren’t trinkets available from a variety of currencies and/or methods of acquisition?

Such as Laurels, Badges of Honor, Pristine Fractal Relics, Bandit Crests, WvW Tournament Tickets, Blood Rubies, Magnetite Shards, as well as rewards from different content.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_trinket#Vendor_acquisition

wow i never knew i could get it any other way than commendations. i thought only rings could be bought with other currencies oh now i see most of the ways to get it are from living story season 2. which like the mastery points are behind a large paywall. which i find extremely annoying.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

If I google “weeabos,” will I regret it? o.O

~EW

a weeaboo is a person who makes a complete fool of themself trying to copy Japanese culture. according to urban dictionary.

skowcia.8257:

AegisRunestone.8672:

skowcia.8257:

xarallei.4279:

What is up with some people and their insane hatred of anything Japanese. It’s very bizarre. Are you a hipster or something?

I play western games, not east one like Blade & Soul and for a good reason. Why people bringing up anime stuff into my territorial when you can move out to your yet another anime junk and enjoy car ears, naked people and other lame stuff? My pic sums it up and i say no to this. We have enough of it already.

One could argue that this isn’t your territory, for one. Two, I believe a Korean game company has a hand in Guild Wars 2, so I’ve heard. Three, not all anime is about cat ears, naked people, and ‘other lame stuff.’

Generalizations = bad.

However, I’m not for cat ears myself. They would just look weird, IMO.

Yeah, Korean company that doesnt want AN to open up Cantha – weird huh?
W/e you say but im not visiting east games asking for west stuff and many people doesnt either. You saw what you picked up, so yeah pushing stuff which is outside of this game, in this case anime stuff is in fact a violation of territory. Try to release that stuff in games like lotro and watch this game burn down day one. So again..your eyes saw what you bought, dont push anime stuff here.

And just to clarfity..i dont mind them on it own as much as they dont make them look similiar to the pics OP posted

btw. i have never seen anything from anime that looks “normal” yet.

tl:dr bunny ears are perfectly fine but the second SOMEONE ELSE wears cat ears i just cant stand it… selfish.

i dont like the treb for the same reason i dont like the lords.

Kuya.6495:

Supreme.3164:

Purification* a bit, 10k aoe healing at 0 healing power

???

the wild gaurdian is confused.cant comprehend that no other class gets healing like that besides druid.are you going to play the “learn2play gaurdians are so weak a ele can beat them” card this time?

Malediktus.3740:

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Malediktus.3740:

You need mystic coins only for prestige items and some overrated guild hall upgrades. So even if they would cost 10g per coin it would be totally fine in my eyes.

No, they’re also required for a number of low-end weapon skins too (or at least, they used to be low-end), including the mystic weapons required to get the elite spec weapons.

They are prestige weapons since you can get the same stats cheaper in other ways.

so all it takes to be prestige is be expensive nowadays? sheesh maybe i should buy up all the vegetables and relist them really expensive so they can be “prestige vegetables”

Ragnarox.9601:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Ragnarox.9601:

1 dodge eliminates traps…why its so hard to bind dodge key?

1 dodge doesn’t eliminate a trap especially in a game where standing on point is required, dodging only helps activate without taking the activation daze and initial damage.

wtf..dodge eliminates everything. Only PoB is still active cause its aoe whirlwind attack.

Standing on a point gives you nothing if both of you are inside, you dont decap anything….you should already know that….if you are pvp player.

Thats the problem of pvp, ppl are rushing into DH traps and die and yelling NERF NERF but they don’t know fundamentals of PVP at all (capping and decapping a point).

so youve never fought on a neutralized point to keep them from capping it? wow….