Guild Wars 2

Aten.8046:

Meglobob.8620:

How can people say condition damage is out of control when direct crit damage does 5K -10K+ in a few secs?

Thiefs, Warriors and Mesmers can fairly easily lay down that kind of damage.

Direct crit damage kills you fast.
Condition damage kills you slow.

Well if the enemy hits u hard with crits is probably squishy so u can hurt him badly as well. The problem is when a tanky build can still deal extreme high dmg using conditions without sacrifying survivability.

You could be talking about necros, but also a lot of other can have great survivability + conditions.
I still fail to see how you would solve this, make conditions do even less damage? Make them even do less damage in pve and in zergs because in roaming they can be good?

lordkrall.7241:

aspirine.6852:

Seriously, one ascended item for all. Perhaps 2 or more for the winners. With the ending of the season and the introduction of the new gear treadmill that would have been an ok reward.

Something that could be completed in a week without too much trouble does definitely not warrant Ascended gear.

No offense but you seem to be in the same weird world as Anet that gear needs to be hard to get. I do not agree with that, and also do not agree with the way the rewards are given now at all.

HardRider.2980:

Few rares would of been nice, but as everyone was gonna be getting it… what did people really expect?

Seriously, one ascended item for all. Perhaps 2 or more for the winners. With the ending of the season and the introduction of the new gear treadmill that would have been an ok reward.

I have them all but still leveling an engineer. I cant quite get into the class but this was my least wanted class in whole of guild wars.

I like to play my ranger in wvw because I like the control it has on a distance. What I dont like is the squishyniss my current ranger has. I got a new build from one of the players in wvw but need new gear completly.
I use my d/d ele because it has unique gameplay, nothing in the game plays like the d/d ele in my opinion.
I play necro because in wvw it gives me a build to slowly chip away small groups or solo players. It’s a nice change from burst damage.
My warrior is getting some more love after the 10th december patch because it could change the way you need to gear/trait and play. Dont care for warrior too much right now.
Thief is also fun to play, but for me hard to master. I am noway near as good as some of the thiefs I meet in wvw. But I like to be.
Guardian is on my what to do with this profession list. I have no idea to make it zerg proof or small group proof. Staff or hammer, I just dont know yet.
I sometimes use my mesmer, but not very efficient. Shatter builds look like fun while perplexity abuse looks terrible unfun.

My problem is that I cannot decide what to main and get max gear for. :/

Not for me atleast. I kinda stopped doing living story because they are im my eyes just the same with some monir details variations.
This does not even come close to an expansion like Cantha in gw1.

KyreneZA.8617:

I’mma let y’all finish, but crafting Toxic Sharpening Stones, Maintenance Oils and Focusing Crystals is arguably the cheapest way to get to 500 of all time!

wut wut, are those the recipies that require the spores?

lordkrall.7241:

ArsonSam.1950:

7 weeks hard work for a bunch of crap.
thx anet!

please do the same in pve asap. I wanna see the kittenstorm then.

Just because you had 7 weeks to do it doesn’t mean it takes 7 weeks.
Keep in mind that some (crazy) people had already completed the meta during the first few days.

Or should we start shouting about how much meta-reward for Tower of Nightmare sucks as well, seeing as it is still available and have been available for quite some time?

That was probably because of the JP’s that they got it that fast. I know that my guild at the time just walked with the deso blob and got some things pretty fast yes.

kiwituatara.6053:

Hilt bash needs a buff, can’t hit nothing.

Would be nice if it’s faster and a bit larger range doesnt it.
And if the change is Your next attack does **% more damage. My pets attack is going to miss it’s target by 100 yards anyway.

Viking Jorun.5413:

aspirine.6852:

Probably because the artists cannot create it with the current engine.. Sad because it looks stunning.

As a professional 3D artist, I can tell you that your art is never engine-dependent (unless you’re dealing with interactive cloth and programming limitations for animated textures, etc). You’re free to create whatever your heart desires, and your only limitations are time, talent and how much you’re being paid.

The last two things you said are probably a large factor here

Maybe I would have it by default since i play wvw most of the time. but i would not go for it like in season one, knowing the rewards are utter crap. 10 minutes frostgorge would get me more.

iorlas.6721:

Nohealz.7189:

You’ll see Deso declining from now on since all the pve’ers have their achievements and league is over.

Don’t want to get too close the gold league for the next season eh

Well they are number 9 right now. Good enough for gold I guess.
Makes me wonder why the automated wvw process picked this matchup. Deso is 7 places higher than GH. Would make more sense to have Deso swapped with AM or AG in this matchup :/

lordkrall.7241:

The main issue is that badges are way too easy to come by.
So unless it will take several thousand badges it will be rather unbalanced compared to the other ways of getting said item.

So what, why does it always have to be hard to come by. We/I did not want this gear grind, one of the reasons people bought this game you know.

Otokomae.9356:

Renny.6571:

aspirine.6852:

Can it get more stereotype about Anet devs than this. Desides to play on the winning blob server with the faceroll class warrior. =)

Blackgate bought ANet, dontcha know?

Yeah, people really do underestimate how far Blackgate is willing to go to win in WvW. For starters, we paid for IRON’s transfer back to EU. We also paid several Commanders on both JQ AND SoR to take several weeks off during the season. And after the close finish in Week 1, we sent people to all the other servers in Gold League to stand around in PvE areas, handing out free Legendary Weapons to anyone willing to promise that they wouldn’t contribute to their servers WvW efforts in any way. And that’s not even mentioning the Blackgate strategy of requiring that ALL WvW players have at least 2 accounts each, so that we can have our 2nd account characters on rival servers just standing around in WvW spawn points taking up que space and reading enemy Map Chat out in Teamspeak… buying guilds was just the tip of the iceberg, and most us can’t believe that that’s the thing that everyone’s getting so upset about!

BLACKGATE; we don’t kid around when it comes to WvW…

Well don’t know if it’s true But I heard that blackgate also bribed Veteran supervisors at supply camps to drop RI whenever a blackgate player is around. very suspicious.

I’m not so sure about wildstar yet. Some parts it looks fine, and others it looks like something from the 90’s. I do not like the artstyle for many many places and animations in the game. But yet if I look at the dev’s playing it does have some solid gameplay.

Everquest next also looks like a good contender for my next mmo, but besides a few tech demo’s there is not much to see yet.

And the 5-10 other asian mmo grinders that look great, I’ll see when I get a chance to demo that.

Zaxares.5419:

I’m mainly a PvE’r who’s really only in WvW to map. I doubt you really want me in TS when my contribution will be marginal at best. The most you’re likely to get from me is some assistance in capping Sentries/Ruins, killing Dolyaks, and maybe helping to capture a Camp or two. Sometimes I’ll tag along with a zerg if they’re taking a Tower or Keep and help build siege or attack gates/walls.

That said, I will call out in /t if I see enemy movements, because I know it helps to have more eyes around the map.

Do you have any idea how important that last thing is? It allows the commander to keep fighting and hearing, not reading, that ogrewatch is being attacked by 30+ zerg. So your contribution is not marginal at all.

I came from gw1 and diablo3 to gw2. And had to adjust about the movement in gw2, it felt weird and could not get used to it. For the first weeks or so, now I cannot see myself going back to the old gw1 method. Even if I startup Diablo 3 I feel like that is just limiting my gameplay.

And you are right, I do not get why renaming your char is such an important thing in a game. :/

I have 60/6 and still when I meet a zerg/vs zerg the game almost comes to a halt. Seems like either there is too much stress on the server or this mmo is not designed to be played by many people at once.

Because direct damage should rule zergs/blobs and roaming too. All makes perfect sense to me.

Lord Of The Tree.5249:

Ranger been my main character, the pet is a pain in wvw. Most of the time have to keep spamming F1 for it to attack. The downed skills on ranger suck and cool down for pet is too long. .

The downed state would be ok if Anet could think about it for some time. If you are dead, how high is the chance that your pet is dead too. And on F4 cooldown because they are 99% the first to die anyway.

Can it get more stereotype about Anet devs than this. Desides to play on the winning blob server with the faceroll class warrior. =)

goldibird.6375:

;) was a fun night – really fun night

I cannot imagine that being any fun, but whatever rocks your boat.

Magische Boek.2530:

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edit: makes me think, cant they do something about the website thats selling gold instead of having to change their game?

It’s chinese, so no they cannot do much about it.

I choose another path, did not quit GW2, but quit that boring living story. Lol living, that part is laughable isnt it.

I thought when Anet mentioned new skills it would be weapon skills, not healing skills

drkn.3429:

Transfered to FoW and have had internal turmoil there. No HT on GH right now.

After FoW they went on and changed their guild to PS and left for Ruins of Surmia. Dont know if they changed guild after that.

But Last week I noticed one HT still on GH, just a single person.

jaimy.4108:

aspirine.6852:

*looks at map. Deso holding SM, looks like they made it after all?

Ya be happy the group who wasnt with the commander left map to safe Garri back then dear. Seems you are fully capable to cap when the real resistance is gone!

GG

I’m not on the deso server.

jaimy.4108:

Deso Tactics:

“Hmmm we are 60, they are 20. Lets build:
- 5 Ac’s
- 3 Ballista’s
- 3 Kata’s

Cause those 20 people might push out."

Funny you still wiped each time in SM.

*looks at map. Deso holding SM, looks like they made it after all?

Maybe the Anet ceo sat down with robert kotick about what games should be like

He even says it’s more for zerker geared people. Nice to know they still favor that build over everything else.

fellyn.5083:

Maybe I’m just smarter than the average bear but I don’ think TS is needed to know that you’re supposed to follow the blue triangle around on the screen.

For a simple train perhaps you are right.
For fighting against good organized guilds/zergs that’s not the case. They use TS for movement and tactics and you will have a hard time winning from such a group. If you win at all.

3, I’m not on EB that much.

Kurppa.9473:

Sylli you know… if server A is hitting server B, server C has 2 options. Either hit A’s back trying to sneak their towers OR join with A and hit B because they are already busy defending something else. I really didnt know i have to say that but it seems you dont realize it. And it’s fully up to commander which one of the things he want to do. Sometimes it’s more of this “doubleteaming” you are saying, and sometimes attacker looses one of their towers. That’s the way EB works, so get kitten over it or go to borderlands.

Well that’s how borderlands works too. So I guess he wants to go pvp :/

Southsun one, fastest one for me.

Sandra Martino.3870:

So GH, how much gold did you pay Deso to doubleteam us this week?

wut? You think Deso would listen to us to do that? We will never propose such a thing and I expect to be laughed at by the large deso guilds if we tried.

Also dont know if this has been said, both luxon and kurzick were account bound and with so many chars I got rank 3 I think by finishing the game with my toons. Yes in GW1 you wanted to finish the game because it was pretty good. And vanquishing was one of my favorite things to do, both for drops and locked chests.

Probably because the artists cannot create it with the current engine.. Sad because it looks stunning.

The luxon and kurzick max title was a grind indeed. But doing the deep or urgoz, or vanquising the areas are by no means a grind for me. I did those for fun, long after I got both tiltes maxed.

7th Bronze:
Rewards:
-1 Mini Dolyak
-3 Tastes of Liquid World Experience (came as 2 stacks according to log (1 + 2))
-100 Dragonite Ore
-100 Empyreal Fragments
- 5 Scrolls of Knowledge (5 stackes, each 1)
- 5 Tomes of Knowledge (5 stacks each 1)
- 1 Essence of Luck (Legendary, 500 Luck)

Just got them. And no it’s nothing special. Not something you expect after 7 weeks of battle.

Imbune.5497:

aspirine.6852:

Supreme.4051:

“LFP <Dungeon> full ascended only”

Well Easily answered with yes, there is no inspection in this game

“LFM <dungeon> beserker asc only, PING GEAR”
.

Ah kitten I didnt know that. I avoid these looking for group things like the plague

Supreme.4051:

“LFP <Dungeon> full ascended only”

Well Easily answered with yes, there is no inspection in this game

They do not listen. Moar farming…….

scarlet and the inquest. Scarlet and the corrupted. Scarlet and the kodan.

It matters not, the writers of this horrid living story can never be taken serious after the previous ones.

Well I play WvW a lot, which is also a karma train, and sometimes champ train. Yet I do not get the stuff that I require to make my ascended weapons.
I just wish that there was some really akward way this game rewards you new things, perhaps let’s say how all other games do it by dropping them or rewarding them from quests..

Lol for lolz I am going to see if any of my chars has gotten some mini’s during the last year.

Didnt Nemesis vid and build show that it was fine in fractals? I cant remember what level fractals he did in the vid but I think it was in the 30’s?

Delvoire.8930:

We can agree to disagree on this. At the end of the day though, you can get the mats you need. You just have to want to get them and you have to go and get them. They won’t fall in your lap.

And there lies the problem does it not. You cannot get the gear or weapons by playing the game and having fun. You need to stop that and farm mats.
It’s a basic flaw imo to force people to craft because the drops in this game are so kitten horrid.

Gilburt.9146:

I absolutely agree. I think being able to res players from full death in WvW should be totally removed. It makes death meaningless when someone you just killed is resed by 5 people in 5 seconds.

Requiring players to be out of combat to revive from full death would be an alright fix (at least resing would be impossible within AC range), but removing hard resing completely would be preferred in my opinion. I don’t think enemies should be allowed to res just because you can’t pressure them 100% of the time. That is an unrealistic expectation. If your keep is being attacked by a superior force and you push out and get 5 kills, that should mean something. They shouldn’t just be insta-revived as soon as you have to retreat.

But something needs to be done. It’s often impossible to win outnumbered fights just because some players will quickly res the dead while the rest keep you and your allies occupied. I go through extraordinary lengths not to die, meanwhile other people who play badly (and frankly have earned their demise) don’t get punished for it at all just because they have 50 allies to instantly res them. It just takes away a lot from combat when death is so meaningless.

This is a very good idea. Been typed many times on this forum.
Instead we get more farming mats for ascended junk.

I dont like doing it, but if others do good. Who am I to tell others what to do for fun in a game. I sometimes join them on Desolation either in queensdale or frostgorge and while there has been some map chat problems with people that do not want to train, most of the time it’s just fun in chat.