Guild Wars 2

Djahlat.9610:

dude I’d highly suggest you tag your topic as [spoilers], in case someone else decides to search up on the wiki what XXX is and gets the kittening story spoiled by some attention-seeking lowlife.
seriously not cool

Thanks for the advice.

Lovingly,
Your Attention-seeking Lowlife.

(when a mod comes around, feel free to delete the thread, it was a poor idea, and still managed to go downhill)

That Dreamer’s string is gorgeous, I’m loving it. <3

Swagger.1459:

cafard.8953:

Swagger.1459:

I personally don’t see any issue with skill 1 and 2 needing a target.

Skill 2, whatever, but the 1 needing a target is a major hindrance in large wvw fights.

Iirc, it was changed to prevent exploiting astral force generation.

What is the issue you are having?

Of course, they have fixed AF generation since. The issue was with generating it from healing targets on full health.

Without that, we could shoot straight with a 1200 units long piercing beam. The current implementation forces one to pick a specific potentially moving target, and reduces the beam to the distance between ranger and foe. Shorter beam, less directional control. Bit like if we were not allowed to shoot LB/SB without a target.

It also prevents you from firing at a presumed stealthed foe’s position.

Swagger.1459:

I personally don’t see any issue with skill 1 and 2 needing a target.

Skill 2, whatever, but the 1 needing a target is a major hindrance in large wvw fights.

Tharos.5712:

I just don’t see the point of creating Guild Arenas in their current form. There’s a reason for the strict separation of PvE and PvP. The idea that people wanted PvP in PvE gear is genuinely new to me.

My guild doesn’t sPvP, but does WvW. The guild arena is a great addition as it allows us to fight each other in the same gear/stats/skills as we would out in the Borderlands (with ranger’s pet HP being the main exception). It’s pretty cool, and it’s something we didn’t have before, as in WvW we’re on the same team, and both hotjoin servers and custom arenas are locked to PvP gear/stats/skills.

As the poster above says, this is what you’re after:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Custom_Arena

It’s been available long before Guild Halls too.

rhapsody.3615:

cafard.8953:

Vayne.8563:

cafard.8953:

Ugh, there’s no backpack skin for alts?! And here I just picked the one I was going to use first, convinced I’d get the others soon enough when the alts aged up a bit. I’d have picked another had I known. Meh.

Contact customer service, they’ll probably switch it out for you.

Will give it a go, luckily I haven’t applied the skin anywhere. Cheers.

I’m interested in hearing how this goes for you. AFAIK, Anet can’t delete skins from the wardrobe. That’s why we all got to keep the Flamekissed set after they changed it and refunded our gems. Are they allowing people to keep their first backpack choice and select a second?

Well, it just got processed. My request didn’t go anywhere sadly, as indeed they can’t re-lock skins from wardrobe, so no swapping possible. And with it being a free gift and my own fault for not paying attention, it’d be cheeky to ask for an additional unlock.

I’ll make do with the butterfly flower and forget the cool Norn mountain survival kit. I guess we’ll get another pick next year.

Vayne.8563:

cafard.8953:

Ugh, there’s no backpack skin for alts?! And here I just picked the one I was going to use first, convinced I’d get the others soon enough when the alts aged up a bit. I’d have picked another had I known. Meh.

Contact customer service, they’ll probably switch it out for you.

Will give it a go, luckily I haven’t applied the skin anywhere. Cheers.

How about less armor, more skin?

Ugh, there’s no backpack skin for alts?! And here I just picked the one I was going to use first, convinced I’d get the others soon enough when the alts aged up a bit. I’d have picked another had I known. Meh.

Enrif.7359:

back when it was introduced it made sense to balance the new celestial stat.

No it did not. Just like Viper and all the newer stats. Stats should be balanced in terms of numbers and gameplay, not through being artificially longer or more difficult to get.

Ideally, all stats sets should be equal in costs, time and effort required to acquire. Otherwise you’re simply artificially hurting some class/build combinations that would be a better fit for the more expensive/slow stats combinations.

And i’m saying this with full celestial gear and tons of unused charged quartz crystals in bank. That gate shouldn’t have been there in the first place and it’d be a good idea to remove it for newer players.

Diovid.9506:

The thing sleeping in Drakkar Lake is Drakkar (duh right?) a champion of Jormag, not Jormag itself. Jormag had been sleeping to the north of the GW1/GW2 map, though he is pushing south.

See: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Drakkar

Makes sense, it was a bit on the small side to be Jormag.

You can see bits of what might be Kralkatorrik in a GW1 map in the Blood Legion Homelands. It’s a huge spiked hill ridge likely to be the spine of the dragon:

Same regarding Jormag, you can see a frozen dragon in Drakkar Lake, in the Far Shiverpeaks that might be Jormag or one of its minions:

Norn T2 Cultural Armor Medium Pants. That’s right, us male Norn Rangers/Thieves/Engies can wear shorts and dye them.

I’m afraid I don’t have a shorts-only screenshot at hand, so here’s one with the rest of the Fairybear Priest costume, which shows off bits of the pink-dyed shorts:

Snoop (Dog)
Lawn (Moa)
Kameha Moa (Moa, duh…)
Sir Loin (Pig)
Domesticated Bush (Fern Hound)
Lung Cancer (Smokescale)
Bulbasaur (Bristleback)
Charizard (Salamander Drake)
Ac Dc (River Drake)
You Know Nothing (Leopard Snow)
Mr White (Raven)
Mr Black (White Raven)
Bowbear (Brown Bear)
Not A Brown Bear (Black Bear)
Albino Brown Bear (Polar Bear)

I’d happily buy gems for a “HoM repair/refurbish contract” that’d fix the place a bit and add all those services to the main room, while keeping the tapestry room as a sanctuary. Actually, maybe the scrying pool could act as the Mystic Forge. The current locations don’t have the same emotional connection.

Ah, i remember that one. Couldn’t find it on my 100% completion main for ages. Read about the renown heart thing, switched to an alt that didn’t have it completed, and got the item in 30s…

The GS is great for disengaging! Untarget, 3 to get away, dodge, 4 to block the projectiles/pulls, dodge, and 3 should be close to available again for more distance.

Eloquently put argument. I’m convinced.

I’m not even playing regularly these days but wanted to say thanks for that one… sheds a tear

anduriell.6280:

• Can we now please increase the range back to 1200?

Even just that and i’d be in heaven.

To add to your list, and though it’s not SB exclusive: retaliation damage scaling with the damage that caused it, please?

Have a look in there, you’ll find guides and players:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars/

Or take a page from GW1 and give a stats buff (flat celestial buff or % of current stats) if you don’t have an elite spec equipped.

I ping my stack of black peppercorn.

GW1 had a stats buff in pvp when you didn’t have an Elite skill equipped. Maybe GW2 could try and have a pvp stats buff for builds that don’t use an Elite spec? Either a flat celestial buff or a % bonus on the equipped amulet.

You know what I’d buy from the store? A permanent hair styling contract and infinite transmutation charges. But for some reason, a cosmetic-based game doesn’t sell them.

So, any more bright ideas?

oshilator.4681:

Typical Anet. Another patch, another round of ranger/druid nerfs.

Could we get some Redname explanation for the nerf to Seed of Life?

And for the reduction in damage on the Smokescale’s “Bite” skill?

e-sports.

Old habits die hard…

Shoddy work by the maintenance krewe, Thistlereed Waypoint has been broken for ages and no repair worker in sight…

That’s what you get by contracting Asuras.

StickerHappy.8052:

cafard.8953:

And how about the pet benefiting from the currently active food/oil stats buff on the ranger?

This would only benefit WvW and Pve though, how bout PvP pets? They will be still subpar.

That’s just one thing among others that could be fixed. It’s a non-issue in PvP since the opposition isn’t using those buffs either.

And how about the pet benefiting from the currently active food/oil stats buff on the ranger?

Akkeros.1675:

set up a lemonade stand.

Hey, got any grapes?

Sabull.5670:

rosetintedclasses

Mesmer is one, but is there any other?

I’d [Point Blank Shot], because it’s just the appropriate thing to do in any situation. \o/

Better than Moon Boots.

Faux Play.6104:

Guild alliances are the main driver for WvW success. Why not scrap the concept of servers.

Because glory-seeking server-hopping guilds are causing the population balance problem in the first place. Making it easier for them to stack on the same side is the last thing we should be aiming for.

In addition to the ones mentioned here, you may want to give a try at the Drakes too. They’re tough, cleave on auto attack, have a big burst on tail swipe which is also a blast finisher, and the river drake’s F2 is very good (big bouncing channeled damage, so will keep hitting foes even if they go in stealth).

Dante.1508:

Nuggi.7861:

The 500 gold hedge as seen on the picture here. Never enjoyed anything so much in my life. Was worth all the effort. Tiny, but green at least.

Now you can make 25 of them for the same price.

Why on earth would you make a 500g hedge?

Hedge fund?

Zombie Scarlet.

Behold the power of laziness:
- Celestial armour
- Celestial trinkets
- Rune of the Traveler

Never change a piece of gear, pick any build you fancy, anytime, and don’t bother with swiftness anymore. And when you get told your stats are kittene, /shrug to show them how much you care. :p

wQnxy.7529:

cafard.8953:

wQnxy.7529:

When i am doing MYSTiC CLOVER recipe, i dont want to get t6 mats, gossamer, orichalcum or kittening mystic crystals. I WANT TO GET M.Y.S.T.I.C.C.L.O.V.E.R.S.

That’s why you craft the mystic clovers before buying the T6 mats for the respective Gifts. It feels annoying not to get those clovers, but you end up getting them, and the road to those stacks of T6 mats has been significantly shortened.

I can buy myself twice more t6 mats from TP for that money.

Fair enough. If you’re on a rotten streak and keep getting gossamer and venom sacks, it quickly becomes pricy.

wQnxy.7529:

When i am doing MYSTiC CLOVER recipe, i dont want to get t6 mats, gossamer, orichalcum or kittening mystic crystals. I WANT TO GET M.Y.S.T.I.C.C.L.O.V.E.R.S.

That’s why you craft the mystic clovers before buying the T6 mats for the respective Gifts. It feels annoying not to get those clovers, but you end up getting them, and the road to those stacks of T6 mats has been significantly shortened.

bearshaman.3421:

Note: WvW I am not very familiar with. I would lump it in with PvP in terms of what skills it would get, since the same balance issues apply.

Not really no. Take the pet leash range nerf as a case in point. That was due to sPvP points being close to each other, and it killed a lot of the beastmaster fun in roaming.

If anything, WvW should be going back to the original vision: a glorious massive chaos where you get to play with all your imbalanced skills against plenty of other players.

Very neat. The progress feels a bit slow but imho, that’s how it should be, or wvw maps will become the new EotM karma train. These rewards should remain a side bonus, not the core incentive.

Or take a page from GW1 and give a stats bonus if you don’t have an elite spec equipped.

TheGrimm.5624:

cafard.8953:

TheGrimm.5624:

1200 range and a 90-120 cool down would have worked as well.

Or better, no change at all for PvE/WvW, and whatever the mob requests for sPvP since it’s only a problem there.

That would get confusing if they acted differently in different game modes.

You mean like our pets already do?

TheGrimm.5624:

1200 range and a 90-120 cool down would have worked as well.

Or better, no change at all for PvE/WvW, and whatever the mob requests for sPvP since it’s only a problem there.

seeingRed.8253:

Yeah, a range indicator would be nice..

Cut out a square of sticky tape, stick it over the skill icon and write “NOPE” on it. There you go, S&R range indicator. \o/

All maps queued last night on Piken. Guess it shows that for all the complaints about balance, population, night cap, desert BL, etc, at the end of the day, it was all about loot…