Guild Wars 2

Vayne.8563:

aspirine.6852:

Vayne.8563:

I didn’t love them in Guild Wars 1 and I don’t think I’d love them in Guild Wars 2. Sure I did the all once (in the case of FoW a couple of times), but yeah, I don’t suspect that most of the playbase will embrace something as unforgiving as the Underworld.

But it’s not suppose to be for most of the playerbase.

It’s a lot of work and time to put in for a small percentage of the playerbase though. That’s really the issue. If you create content and spend real time on it that say 20% of the population do, then you’re not creating content for 80%. I’d think that would be a tough call for a developer.

But you played gw1. UW hard mode and DoA hard mode was not for 80% of the players. Same as UW, Urgoz and the deep. FoW was a bit easier but still I have met many players that only stepped into the place to get the armour
but if it wasnt a problem to make elite dungeons in gw1 it should be no problem in gw2 imo.

Oh no that vid from TA doesnt look fun at all. I was never a fan of the hammer/melee train but this yarrrrrrr combat was left to the caster class.

Gaab.4257:

aspirine.6852:

Gaab.4257:

So, standing in front of the other zerg and throwing AoE. Very dynamic, much adrenaline.

On the other hand you had a zerg that just went through every possible AoE you can throw at them and they didnt even blink. Is that so much better?

No, it did not go through all possible AoE. Boon stripping was always a working and actively used technique and stability was not making you a god. You made a mistake and your group was quite possibly going down soon. You still had to deal with CC just you were still able to pick up the fight against the odds. It was letting smaller groups able to deal with bigger enemy forces while still give a good, active, dynamic gameplay that was actually enjoyable.

I see what you mean, being cc-ed do death is not fun for anyone. Melee needed that stability to make the hammer and lootstick train work I guess.
I have a slight feeling that this was not tested very well, and just made for the HoT expansion. Could be wrong I guess but…..

Fenda.1398:

Everyone who has lags, first check if only GW2 is affected. If yes, then proceed to try Pingzapper, WTFast or something similar. Lagging GW2 is mostly not caused by overload on the servers but rather because of routing through bottlenecks. Using a VPN will help resolving this kind of issue.

If you want further details – funnily enough the skill lag that occurs only ever affects yourself. In reality, your skill DOES get executed, but whatever information is being sent from the server to your client doesn’t get through. tested it with two PCs and two different accounts, characters standing next to each other. Everything the normal routed character does gets instantly displayed on the client being routed through a VPN while actions of the VPN’ed client don’t come through to the client without VPN.

Of course there are way more possible issues and symptoms of skill lag, but for me this is always the case. o i can only suggest: Use a VPN. Test it.

What if your whole server has it. And streamers on twitch like chemso also quit because of the terrible skill lag.

Well I tried WvW yesterday and my whole server thought of it as something for the worse. It was so unplayable that it went from queus on all maps to almost no players in a few hours.
perhaps it is a lot better in pve, I dont know.

Stolen from another topic in the WvW forum, thanks for the vid btw.
https://youtu.be/gMocOT_O6ig
I suppose people could already do this when playing zoomed or whatever they do to make it work. But I find it hard to believe that people would think of this as a good thing for WvW and defending.

Ventari elite skill is grow some lettuce?

Gaab.4257:

So, standing in front of the other zerg and throwing AoE. Very dynamic, much adrenaline.

On the other hand you had a zerg that just went through every possible AoE you can throw at them and they didnt even blink. Is that so much better?

I thought it was a sign I played this game a bit too much.

MailMail.6534:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNArfWlknpRttpxQNcrNCrBh6rslfSyEEgS2hrB-TJRHwAC3fIZZABnCAAPBAA

You’re welcome. I never have issues against cele ele or cle engi 1v1 using this build. Maim the Meta.

The only thing besides thief (or a good condi ranger) that will give you trouble is cele Warrior, but that’s only if your 4 teammates completely suck. With this build, your shatters alone will be on par with their condi cleanses. Better yet, you’ll be ripping ungodly amounts of boons from them, which will render them pretty useless at being “bruisers”.

Edited to add:
I’ve noticed that Elementalists seem to be go into panic mode when you return that nasty burn they have such easy access to right back at them! Make sure you steal some great upkeep of protection and vigor while you’re at it! It forces them into water really quickly.

Oh I gotta try that, there go my badges again.
On the other hand it could be that you just are a very good mesmer player, in that case changing my build wont help me much =)

I could not test any changes, wvw was way too laggy yesterday. On paper the changes dont sound that bad. Stability in zergs where always a pita for a caster, but that is from my point of view. It could very well chance the meta for the best, people are very inventive in this game. But what we dont want is to stop people from playing because their favorite play was just nerfed.

Vayne.8563:

I didn’t love them in Guild Wars 1 and I don’t think I’d love them in Guild Wars 2. Sure I did the all once (in the case of FoW a couple of times), but yeah, I don’t suspect that most of the playbase will embrace something as unforgiving as the Underworld.

But it’s not suppose to be for most of the playerbase.

We just had a big fight on gunnars hold bl. Garrison was crowded with players from AM and DL. I think in the end they just went away because noone could do anything but skill 1.

I didnt notice the changed in wvw, becuase there is so much lag it’s unplayable.

The lag, omg the lag its almost unplayable again. Nice going. press 1 wait 10 seconds and you can press 1 again.

omg that patch note.
“Fixed an issue in which players could take repeated falling damage when running down steep inclines.”

i cried a little when I read that.

nekretaal.6485:

Aspirine s thinking of the realm of Torment. DoA was post campaign.

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Yep i know it was post campaign, but atleast it had ties to the main campaign story. To introduce such a thing now would be weird and I would def. not like it like that.

Palleon.1657:

aspirine.6852:

Stop zerging very small groups then? Why would you even want to kill a 4 man group when you are in a 30-40 one? Or solo players for that matter. Did you expect a “well done” message from that player?

Im not aware we “zerg’d” anyone to be honest. I joined a group with a commander, we took over a castle, then the other server attacked what I presume is our main base so I went and defended, then got messaged. I just presumed this was normal play.

Im more than happy to run around on my own though if thats “how its done” in WvW.

In that case it was a very weird message to you. If they expect a keep to be defended by just a few. Of course a zerg comes to help when their keep is attacked.
I was refering to entire zergs defending camps/points/dollys that are attacked by a small group of lets say 4.

Would not do it for me, I love loot. That is my main issue with this whole game, the loot is so kitten rare it makes all other games shined imo.

Underworld was boring as hell though(no pun intended). DoA was much better but that was tied into the Elona campaign story. It would be weird to get that in gw2.
I also liked the two bigger dungeons in Cantha, the deep and urgoz. I would rather see dungeons like the last one introduced.

Shadow.3475:

Finaly i remembered the ss i had for this:
The first is a Catapult hitting 5m infront off wall, 2 is a treb hitting between 2 walls and ofc damage both, 3 is a ram that its imposble it can hit the gate.

The ram placement is annoying as hell for defenders imo.

Justine.6351:

After watching your vid I thought I recognized that warrior.
http://youtu.be/pMbZ46jqIVE

;-)

Power lb trapper rangers op mate ! Although I use Madking runes instead of trappers ;-(

Nice vid, I loved that last comments in the vid

The upside of dying too much in the beginning, you can only get better
Really, by the time you are lvl 80 you will be a dodging and attack machine.

MrForz.1953:

aspirine.6852:

CobOfCorn.6352:

Because killshot is the most telegraphed skill in this game and anyone with half a brain dodges it.

Wow you have eyes in your back too.

I wouldn’t ignore a Warrior that is within a radius of 2000 units. Or any enemy actually.

I am not good enough to see 5 or more players in one split second and see what everyone of them is doing though.

They also have lots of trouble to get that one waypoint working again in LA.

It’s a good idea but runes and sigils also make an ok gold sink. Not sure if Anet wants to do this
Also would help the amour and weapons bought with badges of honor. Because once you cannot salvage or change them. Wich makes them a bit more expensive than I first thought.

Wut? If there is an afk person in my game i will leave too.

Why the leeching sigil though? Does it heal that much when you swap? I would have thought that Torment would be a better offensive choice?

Stop zerging very small groups then? Why would you even want to kill a 4 man group when you are in a 30-40 one? Or solo players for that matter. Did you expect a “well done” message from that player?

What makes me think they are defenders is that they do something and not stand still.

FrouFrou.4958:

StickerHappy.8052:

Dont mean to be offtopic but whatever happened to Osicat?

He and few others got bored of the stale wubwub and went to play WoW instead. They will be back for the expansion tho :>

Because wow is all exiting ???

DarkSyze.8627:

aspirine.6852:

I play ranger myself, but with this ridiculous range it’s just no fun. It is way too much imo.

Other player are report that ranger can exceed range even to 2000+ range with evidence, it make 1500 range a joke.

2k, man that cant be good for anyone. We dont want to get overnerfed like they did thieves.

FalconOSeven.2364:

I don’t understand the issue with the “pve” that some people are complaining over. You say you want them to remove pve, but then what is there? Towers with no guards that enemies can walk into and instantly cap? Or a boring flat map like the area in OS with endless fights that grow stale after 1 day?

The new map looks fun and anything that helps to try and move away from the full map zergs we have today is a positive imo. Pretty much all I do is roam now (with the occasional zerging on my guard) and being able to have these smaller objectives that mean something overall for the rest of the server I’m on is great.

Pve event in the middle, shrines. Sounds too pve for me.

Nothing wrong with how it looks, once again the designers made a very good looking map. But events on a bl map? why…

I play ranger myself, but with this ridiculous range it’s just no fun. It is way too much imo.

Johje Holan.4607:

Why do they make it so hard to find the videos? I can never find them on the website.

www.dulfy.net

Almost looks like pve?

Well it’s consistant, they did they same thing in GW1. Make things easier and easier to get with every patch/build.
Gwamm used to be something to work for, untill they patched the game so everyone and their mom could get it.

Whenever i see these kinds of request it makes me wonder what the big deal is about fishing in a game. How do you see this, sit by a lake and throw our a rod and wait? Why would I even want to do that?

This looks like a terrible roaming build. You almost go down on one player, imagine a camp vet jumping in. Or in some cases even a deer can kill you
Very brave to be roaming with this build imo.

DarkSyze.8627:

what frustrate me is how this is the first mmo i ever play in my life where mobility is extreme. I mean, this is an mmo, no fps game. A thief profession, A Elemental Profession and A Warrior Profession having this extreme mobility in a mmo-un heard of in mmo history.

Well good news is, Arena net is make serious change to this because it is rapidly destroying fun and destroying challenge in this game and is fault for pushing many player out to find fun somewhere else. Fun keep player motivated an in return; they will invest more for challenge content and fun content. Player Investment is important for Arena net growth and prosperity.

I expect thief, ele and warrior extreme mobility to be nerf by 40%-55%. Again this is a mmo-challenge and fun: not a fps game or not a racing game.

I hope this rumor patch is true because us player is very frustrated of play hide and seek with these class.

The classes you mentioned are suppose to have that mobility. I always make fun of nike warriors in wvw but it would kinda suck is they didnt have that. I’m affraid that mesmer will get hurt more with these new changes.

If you whine enough as pve player you get what you want.

I doubt an expansion for gw2 without dungeons would sell really well. It would be a big mistake not include normal dungeons and a few elite ones.

CobOfCorn.6352:

Because killshot is the most telegraphed skill in this game and anyone with half a brain dodges it.

Wow you have eyes in your back too.

I wish you could buy things like foodbuffs with karma for instance. I dont make a lot of money in wvw, but the food is kinda expensive.

Hello there Anet,
I’m a bit of a karma hoarder right now. It’s because I’m kinda chicken to get some gold now from the Karma I have, only to see it more usefull in HoT.
So is there anything you can say about karma being used in the expansion?
Thanks.

A hoarder.

Snakq.7324:

I have next question about servers. Anyone can tell me which server will be better? Seafarer’s Rest or Far Shiverpeaks? Looking at queue to battle, WvW, people, economy etc etc?

seafarer is the better server there, but with that top spot come the ques. I watched stream last night and there was a 100 man que for Eternal battleground :/
FSp is a great fighting server, but I’m sure even they have ques.

Hamster.4861:

You guys are freaking out. RELAX. Falling damage can kill you when you jump off of the keep walls too.

. Facing YB or Germans, and you’re utterly screwed.

It’s not that kind of falling damage that bothers me. It’s the annoying bouncing falling damage you get from walking downhill and even sometimes from walking of stairs too fast. Still not fixed.

King Noob IV.3560:

lol he’s gonna get bored once he reaches level 80 especially considering that he gets gifted a crap ton of glod

You might be right about that. He has more gold than me and my friends playing the game for years
Nice to get so much but nothing to go for, I dont know how long he will enjoy it.
From his stream I learned he likes to pvp, but not sure he is into the pvp gw2 has to offer. I have seen some WoW pvp but that was so extremly boring I dont know why people would evn consider play that, or even like it.

Snakq.7324:

aspirine.6852:

Top servers are good, but have ques. That is the thing you have to be prepare to deal with.
What is your native language skaq if I may ask?

Ofc you can mate My native language is polish And what is that servers tier? It mean the tier 1 is elite server, the most “professional”? And tier 9 is the lowest for casual players etc, right?

Ah there used to be a great Polish guild on our server Gunnars Hold called INC. I am not sure if they moved or disbanded but they could kick kitten .
We still have a Polish guild on our server and from Twitch TV there is I think a large Polish guild on Seafarer’s Rest. I cant remember his name he is not live right now. He usually playes necro. He always answers questions.

Have fun fighting.