Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Yeah no thank you. You either work for it or you don’t. I put a lot of hard work into all of my armor for the stat increase however small it may be.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
If the stat difference is that insignificant, why not remove it ?
The stat difference is not insignificant. Why do you want to negate my hard work instead of building your own armor?
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
How about a thread where I suggest dynamics events and PvE content in sPvP? Why should I be locked out of PvP from lack of PvE content in there. Why can’t they put nodes in the map for me to harvest while remaining green to all others. Maybe they could add repeatable hearts on the PvP maps. It’s only fair, if PvP gets put into PvE.
If they did that, there would be a lot of PvE people going on to those maps.
PvP(WvW and SPvP) has PvE content in them. It has from the start.
It’s been an abomination too. How well did the living story garbage work in the first WvW tourney?
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
So how will your dueling effect dynamic events? I want dueling but there are problems beyond your “I want it so it’s kewl” arguments.
Oh of course, the dynamic events.
..What?
I don’t see how it would effect dynamic events. What relevance does it have on dynamic events?
There is the flaw in your thinking only about what you want. Scaling up dynamic events when you will not be participating in said event. That is what I was talking about. As I said I want open world dueling but there are plenty of reasons why it is not in this game.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Toxicity is a pretty popular word among you all. Why is there such a negative outlook on pvp, and why is that bias any more valid than one that would suggest that pvp promotes a healthy community? Open world dueling does not mean I can stab you in the back while you’re zerging in Queensdale. What it does mean, however, is that I have the ability to challenge you, and should you accept the challenge, we can spar. No ranks, no downsides. Hell, we can even make it so that we’d have a duel hp gauge, an hp overlay atop our PvE HP pool, so as to not actually cause any real damage that might make you susceptible to fatal damage from a PvE enemy post-duel.
So how will your dueling effect dynamic events? I want dueling but there are problems beyond your “I want it so it’s kewl” arguments.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
One could probably find a sizable group of people under the legal drinking age, that would support having the drinking age limit lowered. I’m not sure that would be a positive.
One could probably (surely) find a sizable group of people that would support raising taxes to enable more community services. I’m positive others would find this a negative.
One could probably find a group of people that would support adding a subscription to this game. Again, I am pretty sure others would clamor that that action would not be positive.
Thus, a group of people/players asking for something does not guarantee it will be seen as, or in fact be, a ‘positive’.
An addition that does not effect everyone else. You blew my quote way out of context. A subscription fee will cause many players to quit. Seeing a player mount run by wont. Raising taxes will upset many, a mutually agreed upon duel won’t upset anyone. Lowering the drinking age? well, that just doesn’t fit anywhere.
I will say that the trading system would affect thge economy negatively, and I had not thought of that. So I retract my argument from that feature.
There is enough flashy excrement in this game as it is. Your stupid flashy oversized speed mount would make me pretty upset.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I don’t want to fight with randoms. I like knowing who the scouts are and what the people I’m fighting with are capable of. Alliances will ruin that.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Then you have obviously not spent enough time on these forums. People will complain about anything. If they announced that SAB was going to be permanently opened the forums would be full of people complaining that SAB is stupid and detracts from their enjoyment of the game because it doesn’t make sense. There are a whole slew of people who find SAB to be immersion breaking and can’t stand the idea of other people who enjoy it being able to play it.
I’ve heard this several times before, but the number of players who’d be angry about SAB having no new content is a fraction of those upset, right now, that it isn’t here. They certainly wouldn’t boycott the game because of it, which people are already doing because of the broken SAB promises.
If you want proof, compare this thread to the reactions to the repeat Wintersday or Halloween content. All people did was grumble a little about the holidays for a month or so. Whereas this thread has been pure disappointment and even hatred for over a year.
No matter how you look at it, it’s in Arenanet’s best interests to just bring World 1 and 2 back if at all possible.
Because Wintersday and Halloween come back each year? And are only active for a month?
So what you’re saying is that people complain constantly while it is active, then stop complaining when it goes away. Since it comes back again as expected they don’t have a reason to start complaining about that.
Seems like this is more evidence that I’m right than that I’m wrong.
Not really. The bottom line is the reactions to recycled holidays aren’t nearly as bad as how people are feeling in this thread. So bringing back SAB, even worlds 1 and 2, would be to Arenanet’s advantage from a PR standpoint.
How not really? I have seen just as many people threaten to leave the game for other random nonsense that “breaks their immersion,” as I have in this thread over the ICC. They simply don’t do it for as long because there is no cause to when those things don’t continue for two years straight.
The simple truth is, they don’t have the personnel, nor time to spare on it. They can’t even do what they need to do to fix the HoM so that people can access it again because of HoT, they definitely don’t have the resources to make sure SAB works.
It makes sense to be here if you miss sab or want to talk about ways to bring it back, but why are you always here arguing against it?
Maybe because they don’t want dev time wasted on it. I know I know “just turn on w1 & 2!”.
“wasted” is a pretty mean way to describe dev time being spent making content that players have been asking for for over a year.
vocal minority
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Then you have obviously not spent enough time on these forums. People will complain about anything. If they announced that SAB was going to be permanently opened the forums would be full of people complaining that SAB is stupid and detracts from their enjoyment of the game because it doesn’t make sense. There are a whole slew of people who find SAB to be immersion breaking and can’t stand the idea of other people who enjoy it being able to play it.
I’ve heard this several times before, but the number of players who’d be angry about SAB having no new content is a fraction of those upset, right now, that it isn’t here. They certainly wouldn’t boycott the game because of it, which people are already doing because of the broken SAB promises.
If you want proof, compare this thread to the reactions to the repeat Wintersday or Halloween content. All people did was grumble a little about the holidays for a month or so. Whereas this thread has been pure disappointment and even hatred for over a year.
No matter how you look at it, it’s in Arenanet’s best interests to just bring World 1 and 2 back if at all possible.
Because Wintersday and Halloween come back each year? And are only active for a month?
So what you’re saying is that people complain constantly while it is active, then stop complaining when it goes away. Since it comes back again as expected they don’t have a reason to start complaining about that.
Seems like this is more evidence that I’m right than that I’m wrong.
Not really. The bottom line is the reactions to recycled holidays aren’t nearly as bad as how people are feeling in this thread. So bringing back SAB, even worlds 1 and 2, would be to Arenanet’s advantage from a PR standpoint.
How not really? I have seen just as many people threaten to leave the game for other random nonsense that “breaks their immersion,” as I have in this thread over the ICC. They simply don’t do it for as long because there is no cause to when those things don’t continue for two years straight.
The simple truth is, they don’t have the personnel, nor time to spare on it. They can’t even do what they need to do to fix the HoM so that people can access it again because of HoT, they definitely don’t have the resources to make sure SAB works.
It makes sense to be here if you miss sab or want to talk about ways to bring it back, but why are you always here arguing against it?
Maybe because they don’t want dev time wasted on it. I know I know “just turn on w1 & 2!”.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Keep EotM the way it is. When they killed the QD boss train those players had to go somewhere. I hate the what EotM turned into so—-> I don’t go there. If people want to run in circles not fighting let them if that’s the way they want to play. I don’t agree with that play style but who am I to tell someone how to play.
So now we have tons of PvE players who previously used up PvE server resources (in QD) and are now using up WvW server resources, degrading QoL of WvW players.
If EotM goes away, these PvE players will go to the next best leveling technique: definitely not WvW.
Can you show me where the devs said that EotM uses server resources from WvW?
You think they’re going to give up PvE or, god forbid, PvP resources for what they consider WvW content? Not a chance.
So you have no evidence and an opinion – ok got it.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Virtually everything a warrior, guard or ele can do is aoe and eles can do it from 1200 away.
Good thing my engi can do it from 1500 away, so the ele’s counter-attacks fall 300 short of my position.
Not so much for grenadier , Anet is about to nerf it into the ground. They plan to
reduce the range to 900. which for my application , makes it useless
Mortar is supposed to make up for it – whether or not it does remains to be seen.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Keep EotM the way it is. When they killed the QD boss train those players had to go somewhere. I hate the what EotM turned into so—-> I don’t go there. If people want to run in circles not fighting let them if that’s the way they want to play. I don’t agree with that play style but who am I to tell someone how to play.
So now we have tons of PvE players who previously used up PvE server resources (in QD) and are now using up WvW server resources, degrading QoL of WvW players.
If EotM goes away, these PvE players will go to the next best leveling technique: definitely not WvW.
Can you show me where the devs said that EotM uses server resources from WvW?
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Computer gaming is still steadily on the decline even with steam. It’s irrelevant what people say.
.I am surprised by this genuinely. Never than in this year and the year before have I had people in my environment and in the communities I follow online turn to heavily into building their own gaming PC’s for the first time and gaming on PCs…
Not saying it is wrong, but it goes completely against everything I have experienced personally which is mind blowing.
This is one article:
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/goinglopsided/the-decline-in-pc-gaming-202762.phtml
Have you noticed how so many “PC” games now come out optimized for controllers instead of keyboards.
I know before Skyrim launched they expected to get most of their sales, the vast majority, from console sales.
I know that at least one game has gotten in trouble by limiting the graphic expansion on the PC, to keep in in line with console versions.
Consoles are generally cheaper than PCs, but more importantly they’re mindless. You don’t have to decide what video card you want. And most people are mentally lazy.
Consoles have taken a lot of gamers away from PCs.
Edit: I should mention steadily on the decline doesn’t mean a steep decline. PC gaming has gradually been losing people for a long long time. The only thing that’s boyed it up is Facebook games, which a lot of people play, but it’s hard to think of that as computer games.
The biggest growing industry is actually cell phone games now. That bubble has to burst at some point soon too.
Building your own PC has gotten a lot cheaper in the past couple of years and doesn’t take a whole lot of know how. I’ve converted a lot of console people to PC for this very reason. Instead of buying a new console every 4-5 years you can build a PC and upgrade it as needed. Oh yeah and 30-40 fps on a console compared to 80 on a desktop makes a huge difference. 90% of the people I have converted have straight up dropped consoles.
Cell phone games reach a broader market, are mobile and take far less development time so I don’t see that bubble bursting any time soon.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
When I first started using my razer mouse I thought 17 buttons was ridiculous – now I want at least 2 more but 4 would be better. Oh and I don’t use that synapse software because my computer doesn’t like it for some reason.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Keep EotM the way it is. When they killed the QD boss train those players had to go somewhere. I hate the what EotM turned into so—→ I don’t go there. If people want to run in circles not fighting let them if that’s the way they want to play. I don’t agree with that play style but who am I to tell someone how to play.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I never understood the love affair with steam. Having something that runs in the background eating resources no matter how small will always be a bad thing to me.
Are you playing on a toaster? Steam consuming resources? Geez, I hate to think what kind of computer you have for Steam to be burden on your system.
I feel bad for people who don’t know what Steam is. I have almost 300 games that I’ve never paid more than 5-10$ for and they’re all triple AAA games.
I can understand people not wanting GW2 on Steam. I have no idea why you’re bashing the single greatest factor to PC gaming success (steam) ever. Without Steam PC gaming wouldn’t be dominating the gaming market like it currently is.
And oh yeah, Steam works well with GW2 already. Just add Gw2 to your Steam library.
I actually have steam on my PC that isn’t dedicated to gaming. I don’t see why some people think it is so great to me it’s at best meh. “The greatest factor for PC gaming success ever” I don’t think so.
Look dude. I’m 40. I’ll tell you right now that without STEAM pc gaming would not be even half of what it is today.
I’ve watched Steam for the last 10 years transform pc gaming almost single handedly to the point that other corps like EA and Microsoft have to now finally acknowledge the pc market………………none of that would have happened without STEAM/VALVE.
6 years ago people were saying PC gaming was dead. Good games and STEAM made that complete 180 turn around happen.
Wow dude look I’m 38 and have been PC gaming since I was 10. You can have your opinion and I can have mine. Just because people where saying PC gaming was dead 6 years ago (I never heard that) doesn’t make it true.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Emgis have a nice pull skill but thats all.
And blocks, and lots of protection, and AoE blinds, and and plenty of vigor, and-73 damage when CCed. But ya, your right. That’s just about it.
And are they share it with the party? Necros have pulsing blind field, guas have party might, prot, regen, stability, retal, warrs have party vigor and kittenload of blasts, haste.
I don’t think you play engie or if you do you haven’t explored the possibilities. My engie can drop numerous fields and get at minimum 4 blast on them but I guess that doesn’t do anything for my party.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I never understood the love affair with steam. Having something that runs in the background eating resources no matter how small will always be a bad thing to me.
Are you playing on a toaster? Steam consuming resources? Geez, I hate to think what kind of computer you have for Steam to be burden on your system.
I feel bad for people who don’t know what Steam is. I have almost 300 games that I’ve never paid more than 5-10$ for and they’re all triple AAA games.
I can understand people not wanting GW2 on Steam. I have no idea why you’re bashing the single greatest factor to PC gaming success (steam) ever. Without Steam PC gaming wouldn’t be dominating the gaming market like it currently is.
And oh yeah, Steam works well with GW2 already. Just add Gw2 to your Steam library.
I actually have steam on my PC that isn’t dedicated to gaming. I don’t see why some people think it is so great to me it’s at best meh. “The greatest factor for PC gaming success ever” I don’t think so.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Maybe not more HP but more fight mechanics. Oh yeah and get rid of the ability to afk on the ledge.
Why?
You still get damage and need to do damage to get contribution.
Take damage from what? It’s dead in seconds and there are fewer mini flames or whatever they are called than before. I used to enjoy the FE since I had to dodge and time heals. Just making it a hp sponge won’t make it any more difficult – I mean look at Maw——SNORE.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I never understood the love affair with steam. Having something that runs in the background eating resources no matter how small will always be a bad thing to me.
For me its mostly the sales and the fact that its my primary communication program at this point. I like how I can see and respond to messages while playing a game without any extra steps, as well as access guides the community puts up on steam.
The resources it uses are pretty much a non-issue.
You realize you can do all of the things except for game sales in your first paragraph without steam right?
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Maybe not more HP but more fight mechanics. Oh yeah and get rid of the ability to afk on the ledge.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I never understood the love affair with steam. Having something that runs in the background eating resources no matter how small will always be a bad thing to me.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I have no problem at all zerging with my engie.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Well I just had an odd idea/question…Would the new expansion be added to the Gem store on release? Technically Arenanet will still be getting paid, since someone has to buy said Gems in the first place to be traded for gold, so it’s not like it would really reduce sales…at best it would increase them.
Given I’m sure it’s still a good bit away from an actual release, heck we don’t even have pricing info yet, but it’s something I was curious about. E:3
Anet don’t make money on people converting gold to gems. You will not be able to buy the expansion with gems.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Please post trait changes for HOT. Factual
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: bloodletting wolf.2837
It kinda feels like they are dumbing things down once again to cater to the lowest denominator.
They are making the UI and mechanics simpler, cleaner and more elegant, which is great for newcomers and casuals, but they are doing it by stripping away illusion of choice and troublesome features, and by making options more impactful and meaningful, and balancing easier.
Good game design is a lot more than an unreasonable number of filler options.
The illusion of choice? You mean like being able to wear tank armor with zerker trinkets/traits or the other way around? What troublesome features? All I see is Anet once again dumbing the game down for players that don’t want to take the time and thought to properly build their character. I will reserve my final judgment until it actually launches but if what they have done in the past is any indicator this is going to end up being a mess and screw over veterans.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Please post trait changes for HOT. Factual
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: bloodletting wolf.2837
It kinda feels like they are dumbing things down once again to cater to the lowest denominator.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I hate the forums after they have a game sale.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Well, I say that like if you have someone in your friendlist but the friend’s server is against yours then you cant contect him while he is in WvW as well as it just says WvW in the friendlist, so just take that mechanic for the GvG.
And what you mentioned about people harrassing you in lower lv, all you do is get a friend in the guild to come kill him or divert him to another location using deception.
You must admit that WoW’s open world pvp was very good, like if you flew into a goblin port with your human then they will kill you and kill you fast.
WoW players would get this: I took my lv 90 worg war and flew other the wall with my priffin to the tauren’s starting area and killed all the tauren; including the higher lv gaurds/wardens, and espesialy the new tauren players and no one could stop me MOHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!
You then go on to say “It was really fun YOLO”. This is the main reason people don’t want this here. I want dueling and/or open world PvP too but problems other than a troll attitude exist. What about scaling up an event you are fighting near and don’t participate in for an example? What I’m really hoping for is for some sort of pvp to be tied to your guild hall but I’m not gonna get my hopes up.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
We’re all aware of the Ele and Engi’s capability of being a jack-of-all-trades. I think what the op is trying to get across is his concerns that the Ele out-shines all other professions due to having a vital role in literally every game mode meta out there, where as other professions will shine in some game modes and lack in others. Level of skill required is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion and let’s be honest, often over-exaggerated.
This is true only for necromancer. Every other profession is viable in every game mode.
Viable sure. Vital to the meta, no. Can an Engineer play a role in a WvW zerg? Sure. Will he be as effective as an Elementalist? No. Just an example.
Why can’t he be as effective? Engis are very similar to elementalists.
Similar, not the same. And not going into depth and off topic with that discussion. Just search the WvW forums for information on the GWEN meta that has existed for quite some time.
Gwen died when they changed stability/stab.
On topic Ele would be op if they had more blast finishers. Party composition for me in WvW still requires an Ele most of the time but they have to be protected by the rest of the party is things start getting ugly.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I would like to know this as well.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
The new meta is terrible and boring
The old meta was terrible and boring. Move along.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I, too, would love a mute function for minis. I’m surprised how much I agree with and have done and felt exactly like this:
The SAB banana mini has, on multiple occasions since its introduction into the game, forced me to mute the game. I’m not even joking, it was so grating I flat out stopped playing for a week or so (I assumed it was a fad like the crow wings, and would be rare a week after release). It’s still a sound bite I have to listen to several times a minute whilst camped at any bank or TP. At this point, I’m willing to sacrifice all other sound effects just to avoid it. It bothers me that much. It’s just so, so annoying. PLEASE remove it, or diversify the sound options. It might sound petty, but it’s really ruining the game for me.
Mute the stupid talking back packs as well.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Information, and the lack thereof
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: bloodletting wolf.2837
Looking at the post history of negative forum posters is very informative. Most of them rarely have anything nice to say.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I’m actually confused as to why Mounts haven’t been implemented yet.
We’ll implemented proper anyway we have the Flying,Carpet, Drill, and Magic Broom all of which are Cash Shop items and they’d make a killing if they added a Cash Shop Horse for instance in the same guise as the others. Mounts are mainly a cosmetic choice for instance WoW has hundreds of Mounts but the speed is still the same speed regardless. They can even make them unusable in towns for all I care.
Basic point they already have mini mounts in the cash shop and if they implement real mounts they’d just be primarily cash shop items. So that’s a guaranteed revenue stream even more so from loot crazed collectors.
If the size of the mounts never got bigger than what we have in the gem store and didn’t have a speed buff then I don’t care. Give me the option so I don’t have to see them as well. The problem is that a lot of the pro-mount people want huge screen cluttering 100% speed boost mounts and will scream their heads off if they don’t get them.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Could be a one off… should be able to place it on the lip, but not half way up the wall. I’ve seen flame rams placed half way up the gate too. Think its just buggy once in a blue moon.
EDIT: You may want to be sure to blank out the chat log next time you post a screenshot displaying inappropriate language fyi.
Rams half way up the gate is not buggy it’s glitched siege to make the kill box on the siege smaller. I glitch ac on my towers but I’ve never been able to get one that low. I’ll try to recreate it tonight.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
If you want to not run gwen it comes down to your party composition. Design your party for a specific job within or near the zerg and you will get a lot of success. You can make things work just running solo in the zerg but it’s a lot harder and chances are you aren’t contributing as much.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
But that’s not the question nor the topic of this thread.
Just cause you can command or participate in WvW it doesn’t mean you isntantly belong to the meta. The meta is what is best and engineer isn’t in there for WvW. That doesn’t mean you can’t make such profession work, but it’s just not as good as the profession you would replace.The meta is what is perceived to be best. Every time I hear someone preach GWEN I shudder hoping they aren’t on my server. GWEN is optimal most of the time but there are some builds and strategies that break the meta.
That… is a contradiction. You cannot counter every possible scenario anymore than you can do open field 20v80 and expect to survive. GWEN however is optimal most of the time as you say, hence its the best composition. Strategy can break any group so that isnt really a consideration.
Same reason the thief is considered the best roamer, except he pops like a balloon if he meets someone built to counter it. It doesnt change the fact he is still the best roamer.
How is strategy not a consideration? To run your GWEN you use certain strategies yes? Create a party with 2 engi, 1 ele and a thief. Follow the zerg but split off when the zergs hit heads. Use the terrain and where your tag is at to unload your aoe while the thief keeps stragglers away from you. As long as you don’t get caught in bad positioning with no way out you just bombed the enemy zerg with stupid amounts of damage while able to maintain pretty much any field you want.
This is what I meant by what is perceived to be best. I’m one of the guys who doesn’t understand why I rarely see a ranged and a melee tag in the same zerg. I don’t understand why more players don’t party up to split off from the main zerg staying with it and damaging the enemy zerg while being self sufficient.
Wat?
You just described a ranged party in a GWEN setup except you use a weaker class combo. Replace the 2 engies and thief with 3 necros and you got far more devastating bombing potential.
GWEN is not mindless zerging. Its melee parties (GWN), ranged parties (EN) and focus parties (thieves, mesmers, rangers, whatevs) working together. Having the ranged party tag up is common so you know where where the primary backline is (or focus party).
Sorry I’ll keep my 4 man composition. 13 blast finishers and almost every field we could want. I understand that GWEN is not mindless zerging – been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. I stand by my statement that the meta for the most part is all in your head.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
But that’s not the question nor the topic of this thread.
Just cause you can command or participate in WvW it doesn’t mean you isntantly belong to the meta. The meta is what is best and engineer isn’t in there for WvW. That doesn’t mean you can’t make such profession work, but it’s just not as good as the profession you would replace.The meta is what is perceived to be best. Every time I hear someone preach GWEN I shudder hoping they aren’t on my server. GWEN is optimal most of the time but there are some builds and strategies that break the meta.
That… is a contradiction. You cannot counter every possible scenario anymore than you can do open field 20v80 and expect to survive. GWEN however is optimal most of the time as you say, hence its the best composition. Strategy can break any group so that isnt really a consideration.
Same reason the thief is considered the best roamer, except he pops like a balloon if he meets someone built to counter it. It doesnt change the fact he is still the best roamer.
How is strategy not a consideration? To run your GWEN you use certain strategies yes? Create a party with 2 engi, 1 ele and a thief. Follow the zerg but split off when the zergs hit heads. Use the terrain and where your tag is at to unload your aoe while the thief keeps stragglers away from you. As long as you don’t get caught in bad positioning with no way out you just bombed the enemy zerg with stupid amounts of damage while able to maintain pretty much any field you want.
This is what I meant by what is perceived to be best. I’m one of the guys who doesn’t understand why I rarely see a ranged and a melee tag in the same zerg. I don’t understand why more players don’t party up to split off from the main zerg staying with it and damaging the enemy zerg while being self sufficient.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I actually wish they’d just increase everyones’ movement by 25% and remove all the signets and passives that raise movement.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought this in game. At least on my Ele the signet provides a nice 25 second CD stunbreaker, but on my thief it’s just a wasted utility slot so that I don’t go insane from running so freaking slow.
Seriously, if you ever use the 25% speed increase signets it is virtually impossible to play the game anymore without them. The game just FEELS so much better with one of those signets on your bar than not; it feels as if it was the default movespeed originally and they nerfed the default by 25% to add the signets. It would be great to actually get that utility slot back on my characters.
Instead of using the signets or runes you could use your team. My ele engi thief party was able to consistently stack 40 seconds of swiftness last night using static field and finishers. I will admit I don’t play my guard and to a lesser degree my Mesmer as much because of the speed issues if I don’t have a party.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Honestly unless you are going to buy gems to get gold ignore the armor, it doesn’t make a huge difference. Concentrate on weapons. I play pretty casually now and I can still manage to poop one out every couple of weeks and I play 95% WvW.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
But that’s not the question nor the topic of this thread.
Just cause you can command or participate in WvW it doesn’t mean you isntantly belong to the meta. The meta is what is best and engineer isn’t in there for WvW. That doesn’t mean you can’t make such profession work, but it’s just not as good as the profession you would replace.
The meta is what is perceived to be best. Every time I hear someone preach GWEN I shudder hoping they aren’t on my server. GWEN is optimal most of the time but there are some builds and strategies that break the meta.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I’m impressed that this is only the 19th topic with the title “mounts” (stripped of non-letters, judging by the URL). I would have expected more.
That’s only the single-word ones though. In total, there have been well over 50 (I stopped counting a year ago).
I wish ANet would just make a sticky:
Title: Mounts
Body: No.
That would be hard. They’ve already added mounts to the game. Or at least things that act exactly the same as mounts in that you get a permanent speed boost that has absolutely nothing to do with your class/skills:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crystal_Shard_Kite
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prosperity_Mine_Kite
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ventari_Follower_Kite
Yeah I see those everywhere people must have really liked them.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Google Guild Wars 2 mounts and read the bazillion pages in the merged thread – which is where this one will be soon.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
is there any one logged in nsp? lol was there a few hours ago outmaned in 3 bl’s and noticed like 6-10 players (the usual ones) in eb and 1-2 in bl :<
Yeah, NSP is in a tailspin. This week’s match up with Mag may have crushed what spirit was left in all but our diehards. We can’t compete with that kind of server coverage.
I don’t know about a tailspin but getting a break from the meat grinder that we’ve been in since November or December. I know that after the expansion was announced our guild decided to play less so we wouldn’t be burnt out at launch so maybe a few other people are doing that as well. With all of that said I can’t wait to roll a good match up (not stomping into dust or being stomped) so I can see all the vets again. Fraggle I love NSP.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
If the forums had their way there would be no food, siege, towers, traps or (insert name here) op class. It makes me sad that there are so many bad players.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
Maybe if you recruited from the lower tier servers it would get better.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I have been waiting for a penguin , toucan, parrot, badger, duck, goat, brace of ferrets, raccoon and possum.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
I wouldn’t be against being able to toss the box in the forge with some other materials to get the stats I want.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
He is saying “HIDDEN”.
Not Banned. If he doesn’t want to see it, he can hide them, while you can have them.And yes, those wings are hideous and suddenly everyone was running around with dark wings.
This ^^^^. You can have all the stupid flappy immersion breaking (for me) wings you want but give me the option to not have to see it.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]