Guild Wars 2

nerva.7940:

bwillb.2165:

Not by a long shot. You’ve got Trine 2, Torchlight 2, and Borderlands 2 which all offered significant improvement over their predecessors, against Guild Wars 2, which has taken two steps backward for every step forward and is severely lacking in major areas such as camera options, performance, and risk vs reward balancing.

never heard of Trine 2; TL2 and BL2, as stated by pretty much everyone, simply refine what the first games did. therefore, nothing innovative.

GW2 innovates not on one game, but on the entire genre. it doesnt do one thing differently, it does everything differently. arguably, it does everything better.

That’s great and all, but innovation is not what wins GOTY usually. What usually wins is either a quality product or a popular product, depending on who is rating it.

waiting for gaile’s supposed post on 3rd party apps so I know if I should load up the fov fix or just walk away.

Agree about lag, and that was truly frustrating (and still is), but I mean… death doesn’t really mean anything in this game. It’s not “bad”, its just inconvenient. It’s almost as if lack of any understanding of the game and/or you character’s abilities is just… fine. Yet it’s an MMO, so if you , and everyone else you encounter, don’t know anything about anything and just rush in… well, ok then. Just keep doing that and you’ll win eventually.

This is less about needing a harsher death penalty and more about needing content that requires more than just a zerg attack.

I don’t think it’s a bug, I think it’s a conscious balance decision. You sacrifice the ability to combo to get extra stacks of bleed or cover a wider area. Notice that Detonate Cluster is a separate skill on the chain and it does not have a combo finisher listed in the tooltip.

So Total Barrage… You don’t watch the video, don’t read the other comments, call other posters idiots, and then proceed to say something that has absolutely nothing to do with this thread. What’s your angle?

I have a feeling dragons will be content patches with expansions being the lands that killing that dragon would open up. So for example the first expansion will be Cantha since we just killed Zhaitan, who was stopping sea travel. Then probably a content patch where we fight either Jormag or Kralkkatorik, leading to an expansion in either Far Shiverpeaks or Crystal Desert.

Not so much, no. It’s a game that’s going to have bugs and lag, and you shouldn’t really punish someone for lagging out.

What I do miss, however, is proper risk vs reward balancing. Right now some of the best items come from crafting, which is 0 risk, while uniting Tyria and taking out an elder dragon gets you a few lv 78 greens.

The Game Bugs forum link is now in French for me. I’m in Arizona.

You don’t even need a build just put 90 random points wherever you want. Yeah that’s right thieves are so OP they get 90 points!

Not by a long shot. You’ve got Trine 2, Torchlight 2, and Borderlands 2 which all offered significant improvement over their predecessors, against Guild Wars 2, which has taken two steps backward for every step forward and is severely lacking in major areas such as camera options, performance, and risk vs reward balancing.

Why did you put this in the thief forum when it has absolutely nothing to do with the thief profession?

Human and Sylvari look exactly the same in most armors. They’ve got different cultural armors, though. Sylvari armor is flowy and has a lot of wood, while human armor is more traditional renaissance-era armor, the tier 3 heavy looking like what Logan Thackeray uses.

For those who will start to whine about yeah whatever 10K crit backstabs and so on yeah well thats not WvW and PvP doesnt really feel good in gw2 atleast not for me its way to easy.
WvW is more my style and thats what im talking about here.

What? Most of the people that whine about thief damage being to high ARE talking about WvW. Between those orb buffs and fighting undergeared underleveled players, they get screenshots of huge damage numbers and then claim them as a universal truth.

Anyway, thief is fine. It’s not too powerful, it’s not too weak. The only real problems with the thief class arise from bugs that have been reported but not yet fixed, and game design choices such as the overzealous visual effects that make it harder than it should be to dodge powerful attacks.

Usually to get a better position. For instance on the Forest map I’ll often run away if Keep gets overrun, only to reappear a few seconds later on the top platform raining death from above

Thieves do have healthpool and mitigation deficiencies, but we make up for that with increased avoidance and deception. Unfortunately there are some things, such as overzealous visual effects clouding our view, that can make avoidance a real pain in the kitten :p

Funny thing is that warrior could have done the same thing to you, twice as often if he bothered to bring an offhand axe instead of just running with the greatsword

Initiative can be as restrictive as it can be freeing, but I like it. Forces us to think a bit more tactically on skill use as any weapon skill used detracts from our ability to use other weapon skills, even those on our second weapon set.

Mounts are always kind of clunky. There isn’t really a good implementation of them anywhere in the MMO genre, save maybe Ultima Online, but that game’s style was a lot easier to design and code for.

You don’t need to be behind the enemy, it just gives double damage if you are. But yes, you have to be in stealth. When you go stealth, your first attack becomes a stealth attack based on your main hand weapon.

DanZero.4956:

People need to stop crying over Thieves. I’m 80 and it’s my main character. Make one and try to do anything else than PVP or WvW right now. Most people who actually make one understand that you are more fragile than a elementalist and you have a hard time on the dps side for dungeons.
Not happy with a class, just reroll like I had to do with my Necro.

But they do like 5 million dps with a toothpick!

about 5 gold left … used a bunch on crafting and exotic armor.

Chakuna.6325:

You still run faster in combat than someone without the 25% speed boost. tbh I never really noticed speed penalty in combat with Signet of Shadow on, it’s working properly…
There’s no way you drop from 125% to ~75% run speed.

From my experience it’s about 90% in combat with the signet. Faster than without it, but not as large of a difference

everyone gets a speed penalty in combat, and it seems to be a penalty that almost completely nullifies the signet boost.

That’s interesting. I did it after the latest patch and I got the completion just fine… On an Asura in the Order of Whispers, if that matters. Next step was just to go back to Fort Trinity and meet with all the people who couldn’t bother showing up to the final battle.

Are you perhaps in the area of a world boss? Those events give you larger max zoom out.

I don’t know what’s changed on their team since GW1, but they really need to unchange it. The Lich, Rurik, Shrio, Abaddon, even bonus bosses such as Glint… These were all memorable fights.

But Zhaitan? Flies around uselessly while we fight yet more faceless undead to protect Zojja while she preps the laser gun that really should have been prepped before we even flew in. Gets practically cut in half by a single laser blast. hangs onto the side of a tower just waiting for you to finish him. Falls down after 20 minutes of generic turret fire. The only threat he ever posed was summoning undead, and they continue to exist and spread after he’s gone. Plus we have thousands of necromancers that do the same thing and no one ever bats an eye. Why did we even bother with him? He didn’t even really go offensive until we started building a force to attack him…

FarFarAway.6579:

Should never be able to boot someone from a dungeon group during a boss fight. That’s just terrible. lol

Never, huh? Not even if they grief the group by doing something that makes the boss immune to damage or something like that?

Play what you like. The game is pretty well balanced, no matter how much people whine. Different classes just require a different approach. Try out both classes and see which one feels more natural to you.

You can’t eliminate grind from an MMO, not with the current setup MMos follow at least.

But that’s exactly what ArenaNet set out to do, break from the current setup that other MMOs follow.

You can’t eliminate grind from an MMO, not with the current setup MMos follow at least.

But that’s exactly what ArenaNet set out to do, break from the current setup that other MMOs follow.

You can’t eliminate grind from an MMO, not with the current setup MMos follow at least.

But that’s exactly what ArenaNet set out to do, break from the current setup that other MMOs follow.

I’m afraid to watch it… I just know it’s going to show some glaring issues that I’ve overlooked and I’m not gonna be able to unsee it.

Stab does too much damage. This is the skill you get when you equip just a sword. With 300% crit damage, 9001 power, 50 stacks of might, and 100% crit chance it does minimum 8000 damage, sometimes even as much as 24000 against me when I’m naked and level 1. That’s a one-hit kill and nothing should ever one-hit kill. SO I implore ArenaNet to fix this glaring issue as that would finally bring thieves in line with other classes.

Celeras.4980:

You can do cross server dungeons? o.O

Yes, when it works

QSatu.1586:

I have a feeling they can’t say that they allow such tool b/c then it opens door for other harmful programs, but I seriously think they shouldn’t ban for this. That would be ridiculous.

Yes that’s why I’m not asking them if they allow the tool, but rather if they forbid this specific behavior in a tool

Tried to start Sorrow’s Embrace explorable earlier. The group consisted of one person on server 1 who had done story mode, two people on server 2 who had not done story mode, one person on server 3 who had not done story mode, and me on server 4 who had not done story mode. The person on server 1 started up an instance with explorable mode. The two people on server 2 were brought in with him. Myself and the person on server 3 got a popup inviting us in, but pressing the button to join did not result in entering the dungeon. Going through the portal for both of us only gave the option to start a new story instance. We tried all sorts of combinations of having people relog and reforming the party, but it kept having the same results.

I’m not sure what the intended behavior is (if we should be pulled into explorable without doing story or not) but it was exhibiting opposite behaviors for the two halves of the group so at least one of the two behaviors is incorrect.

Personally I don’t think there’s much constructive conversation to be had on balancing until some major bugs are fixed. It’s impossible to get an accurate view of where classes stand when you have bugs such as player culling and teleport exploits (exploits that allow you to teleport, not teleport skills) muddling the mix. Pretty much all balance threads at this point are just people running into something that seems stronger than it is because of a bug or because they don’t understand it and assuming it’s a balance issue. Hell, just fixing the kittened camera issues would solve a lot of the problems I have facing off against certain class abilities.

I think Kralkatorrik will be the last. GW1 players and Destiny’s Edge all have a very personal grudge against him.

They’re visible by default. you know, they say 1 2 3 4 etc. Change the primary keybind and it’ll change what button is listed.

Nope. You’re stuck with whatever choices you make.

You could check that sticky thread that says “Post Your Build Thread”

You’d have one attack every 3+ seconds and be doing nothing the rest of the time. Sounds like it would be both fairly weak and extremely boring.

If the fight’s anything like the Zhaitan fight, I hope we don’t touch the other elder dragons. Leave them a little dignity.

Can’t say I know of any decent builds centered around heartseeker… It’s just a finisher, what you really want is a death blossom or backstab build.

FOV of 65 is OP nerf plz, I heard low FoV makes thieves stronger so nerf it and make it 90!

Zhaitan actually is soloable. Only the dungeon leading up to him needs a group. You could kill Zhaitan one-handed while having your eyes gouged out by a midget luchadore.

Oh, dancing dagger… Dang, my money was on Sneak Attack.

All of the servers in the US except for three of them are currently at HIGH capacity, including Jade Quarry. The other three are at MEDIUM. And this is in the middle of the night. If you merged servers, most of them would be at FULL and you’d end up having to queue for everyhing, likely ending up on an overflow that has the same situation you’re seeing now.

It sounds like you’re just not on a very world-PvE-focused server. Perhaps try switching servers while the transfers are free. I’m on Borlis Pass and it’s got a pretty healthy zerg at most events.

I think the problem is this game is so good ppl just don’t want it to end.

Yeah… That’s not it. The problem is that the game has good potential but fails to capitalize on it at every turn.

All of the races are racist, except maybe the Sylvari. Asura think everyone else is dumb. Humans think Charr are dumb and smell bad. Charr think Humans are weak and whiny. Norn… I dunno, something about the sylvari, I forget what they say :p