Guild Wars 2

So if I suggest that I can very easily do ti with a group of friends and feel it is not challenging enough, should they add more champions to accommodate me specifically?

If you feel it takes more then one group (which I am more then fine with)then so what? There are tons of threads asking for content that requires several groups. Make friends and join a guild, then you can use it as a guild experience as we do.

I know I certainly do not want fun guild content destroyed because it is to hard for you to solo.

Because it is a heal skill to heal you. and does do almost passively. As a trade off, it doesn’t heal itself, nor does an description anywhere suggest it is a self maintaining pet. Honestly, it appears to me that your complaining that it is not OP.

Personally I completely disagree with the Op about accessibility to new players. I personally feel GW2 is one of the most accessible MMO to new players. The fact that you proclaimed WoW as more accessible makes me question the OPs logic as a whole. WoW takes an extremely longer amount of time to reach the level cap, and exponentially longer to learn the end game mob fights. Aion drove me away as a new player to it very quickly, I thought it was just a horrible experience. Rift isn’t too bad but I felt some of its systems were a bit overwhelming.

Not sure I agree with your argument. It is balanced. It just happens to be balanced for a group or more and not a single player. Personally, I feel your being highly unreasonable to sit here and demand they re balance it just for you because you failed in defending it recently while you were solo. Your request is extremely greedy and selfish to ask them to rebalance it simply so you can solo it, while ruining it as group content for the rest of us.

I completely disagree. For one, I feel so many people are ridiculously hung up on the term “expansion”.

I am completely behind new ideas, new thing to do, and new content. But some of you need to get over it and move one, realizing we do not need an expansion for this. If you keep randomly demanding expansions and when one is not in the works, all your doing is asking Anet to disregard what ideas you offer along with it.

You are far better off to offer actual content suggestion rather then randomly spewing the word “expansion” all over the forums. There is no need to demand they do something the “old” way simply because your used to it. You simply hold your own ideas back.

I dunno but your discribing a lot of skills that sound more “ninja” like (refering to it as a profession in other games) as to appear more thief like then engineer like.

Charlie Harper.5063:

As it currently is, dual pistols are barely viable as a spec,

I think it is a very viable spec, and that you are over reacting quit a bit here. to claim it isn’t.

Cold Hearted Person.6154:

Original Explosive shot had exacly 4s of bleed, but this combined whit other effect of this skill and aditional condition duration caused it to be a bit OP, so it was nerfed…to the ground, well Anet always jump from extreme to extreme so it was expected.

If you increased 4s to 8(100% condition duration) you could keep a stack of around 16 bleed on target if combined whit some traits and other skills even up to 20.

I never felt it was particularly OP compared to some auto attacks out there. As well, to reach 100% condition duration, you have to make some sacrifices and make a 30 point investment in one specific trait line that does not really benefit pistol in any other ways. I mean with shrapnel you can max stacks of bleeds with grenades. Leads to the question of why is it okay to do with grenades, but not pistol?

Well it could be a 20s CD for balancing reasons, and I wouldn’t complain.

As for transmute, I feel it is a buff. As with an 8% chance we have now, is random and can go a long time with out procing due to its total randomness. The change would guarantee procs every 15s. As most players tend to either start with a immobilize, or their longest and strongest condition attack, I feel it is a great buff. That is just my take on it.

they both have fairly congruent value in my experience. I tend to favor conditions because i favor the pistol/shield combo over rifle. It really works either way. If I use apothecary, I like to use shrapnel to proc the 12s bleed with explosions and have 50% or more condition duration with rare veggie pizza, making it an 18s bleed.

you might be right. TBH though, your only ineffective by choice to use it to remove 4 conditions, and for how ever long it would take you to scroll through all 4 kits.

Personally, although soldiers heals for less, I find full soldiers gear in that build to be very much more survivable.

fourhim.3584:

Has ANET considered more sources of stability for Engineers besides the 4 secs from Toss Elixir B? That’s a long time to wait for more stability when you’re in a fight like that.

Actually is is the lowest CD AoE stability out there in a utility skill. it is only 2nd to power break in cool downs on stability at all. Except power break is 2s stability, mainly intended as a stun breaker as bar as I can tell, and only effects the caster.

With that information as a comparison, I doubt you will get much sympathy from Anet if you dislike the cool down.

That is essentially what we had with the old kit refinement. Whenever you swapped to the FT or EG you triggered a ability either Flame blast or super elixir, respectively, both of which removed 1 condition in an AoE. At that times I ran 4 kit builds, and loved the engineer.

I still cannot believe they had to destroy kit refinement. They could have moved it to another tier, or nerfed the individual skill cool down anyway, RIP kit refinement, we still think of you.

As the only true condition removal utility we have is elixir C (although healing turret helps alot now), I would love to see the tool belt skill “analyze” changed to “gas mask”. Offering benefits to the gadget sub set of utilities as a whole. This would propose moving the vulnerability debuff to the utility skill of utility goggles making it a fury buff and vulnerability debuff, while making the tool belt skill into a condition removal.

This, in my opinion would give gadgets both a condition removal with utility goggles utility and a stun breaker with slick shoes., somewhat empowering a full gadget build.

This would give gadgets a condition removal, elixirs a condition removal (elixir c) and turrets a condition removal (healing turret), This only leaves Kits.

I would suggest making a grand master trait called cleansing kits. Upon kit swap, a condition is removed. 10s cool down per kit. Meaning if you have a 4 kit build, you could remove 4 conditions every 10s. The trade off of it, is that you are basically being ineffective for a short time, in the time you are cleansing, because your swapping through kits.

A grandmaster in the inventions line. replacing rifle turret barrel and moving rifle turret barrel to a master level trait, to replace Auto tool Installation and simply remove auto tool installation entirely or or better yet, merge auto-tool installation with power wrench

Alternatively, I kind of like K U T M ’ s suggestion. Perhaps remove Automated Response altogether and put cleansing kits there.

Right, they can make clones easy, I get that. All I am saying is that clones do zero damage themselves, and have 40% less HP then most turrets. All of that information is untraited though.

I would much prefer the tool belt skill be more of a buff, beneficial effect, or condition removal, similar to the positive effects we get from the other heal skills. Leave the debuffs and damage skills to the utility skills.

I have 8 level 80s, and at first, I would never have thought I would gear them all with ascended trinkets, and just focused on my main. The they offered so many ways to acquire them, I have multiple sets on all of my characters. I can only deduce that armor would be similar.

Yeah, turrets are

Thumper Turret: 11950 50s
Flame Turret: 8960 25s
Rifle Turret: 7470 20s
Net Turret: 7470 30s
Rocket Turret: 7470 50s
Healing Turret: 5980 20s

Clones also vary

Clone (PvE) 4,096 (WvW)2,304
Phantasm (PvE) 7,955 (WvW)3,332
Illusionary Defender (PvE) 19,943 (WvW)8,354

Looks like phantasms are relatively congruent to turrets. Clones are a bit more paper. 6 of phantasms have 20s CD ( 2 are 30s, 1 is 25s, 1 is 18s)

EvilUeki.7354:

I hate the fact that they are forcing people to craft in order to get ascended gears.

You can get ascended weapon drops in WvW and PvE content, so I think it is safe to assume you will be able to acquire ascended armor in the same manner. So saying they force you is a little much.

This is not the only zone with a champ train. Honestly, what do you care if players want to do champ trains? If you find it dull, just don’t do it.

Compared to a lot of other crafting systems, I do not think this one is bad at all, but that is just me.

Ascended armor is coming, everyone might as well just accept it and move an. I do not see it as that big of a deal personally.

Seras.5702:

A bicycle may not be broken, but you don’t want to enter a race with it against a car.
Working as intended does not change the fact that we are comparatively weaker when using our kits than other classes due to this fact.

I can agree they should change it, but the ridiculous hyperbole is a bit unnecessary.

Geekfox.4267:

Entire population is not in overflows. That’s nice if some overflows killed Tequatl. Unfortunately GW2 API does not track overflow instances, so overflow won’t count.

Exactly my point. Makes it hard to claim you can know exactly how many have killed him when you cannot even begin to know how many times he is actually killed.

Okay, so how would you suggest they promote streamers differently then they do now without putting it annoyingly in our faces?

If you think there are debates, arguments, and fights over balance now, this idea would blow that out of proportion. Pupi and his friend try to gank some lowly Engineer. Said Engineer has skill and kills Pupi and his friend. Pupi spams the forums with Engineers are OP thread.

Monkeys with machine guns are cool too. That doesn’t mean they should put them in the game.

Shanks R Us.2489:

coglin.1867:

I dunno. A lot of players like the full footage and not just highlight reels when it comes to fight. And seriously, what is wrong with almost dieing against 2 attackers at once?

As to the dolyaks, I can agree, that is the sort of thing you may wish to edit out.

I meant him + his ally against 1 enemy.

LOL, Oh my bad. In that case, yeah, that is not good.

No actually it absolutely does not. I have killed Tequatl somewhere in the upper teen amout of times on organized overflows, somewhere around 19ish They are not tracked on the site you use. Lord knows how many other times overflow kills occur. We even have guilds on my server that advertise in LA about organized overflow kills.

If you need evidence, just go to you tube or twitch and do a search for “Tequatl overflow”

So clearly your leaving out an entire population of Tequatl killers. To throw your terms back at you, the entire hole in your math is pretty basic.

I kind of thought that was what the entire Fan based content sub forums was for.

Essence Snow.3194:

coglin.1867:

I do. It means they made something that is too difficult for all the care bears to kill. Successful indeed.

Got a link to your numbers? I think your being dishonest in your representation of the populations percentage. Prove it.

Done…next time do a lil research yourself b4 calling someone dishonest

http://gw2dragons.com/dragons/leaderboard

All you had to do is look at some of the other Teq threads to find the math posted.

Wait, what? This post doesn’t even make sense. I called someone dishonest who was trying to speak for others. What does anything on dragonbrand have to do with representing the population as a whole?

Oh never mind, I see what is going on here. You are using some oddly small sample size to assume you can base that to make up numbers with no real facts. Now that is what I call dishonest.

Amon.5042:

not being able to search by armor type (light, medium, heavy) on the trading post is an unfortunate overlook.

I almost forget about this. Glad you mentioned it. This is something, that I honestly cannot understand what it wasnt there at release.

Correct, I do not know. That was my point. Because neither does he. Unlike him though, I do not attempt to suggest I am speaking for the community. Which is what I felt he was attempting to do, thus I made a counter argument based on the same limitation.

Well let me ask you this OP. Based on the devs class balancing philosophies seen here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-December-14-2012/first#post999247

How would you describe your proposed profession along those lines, in comparision to the other professions?

Fair enough. Let me ask you this. If you would have received one of the unique items available from only Tequatl, would you feel the same way about the encounter?

Honeslty, for me, the majority of the fun, is doing this encounter with friends and guilds, as is almost everything I do in GW2.

I would hope not, this is my alt and banking account with my 5 toons parked at key, difficult to reach chest for daily farming. It would be really wierd if any of them were ranked.

Do you have anything on topic to discuss or are you just trying to continue an kitten demonstration?

Regardless, there is no harm in having another daily to receive items for accomplishment for things I will do in my daily play anyway.

In a comparison to other mobs in this game, how many of them offer you a guaranteed reward? What percentage of raid mobs in other MMOs offer you a guaranteed reward?

I am asking because it appears to me that this wouldn’t be something you would expect. Guaranteed rewards are not the norm, so I do not understand how you can dislike an encounter because it does not guarantee rewards.

I have never had to invest more then like 30 minutes. if you spending 1-3 hours, that is an issue with you as I see it, not the encounter.

Honestly though, this is what a lot of us asked for. Not everyone can completely enjoy it, as with every encounter, it will have it fans, and those who do not like it.

I think he is suggesting that the functionality of summon type sub sets of utilities suffer more the other utility sub sets for cast times.

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

haha,good story bro. at least I’m good enough to be in the top 300 of the tpvp official leaderboards when fighting opponents on a fair playing field unlike you WVWer.

Winning against lvl 2 players who are doing map completion in wvw is not something to be proud off.

At least beat me in the TPVP leaderboards before talking as though you know something about PVP.

Interestingly enough, I am ranked over 19 slots higher then you on the tpvp official leaderboards. You make inaccurate assumptions to suggest that because I disliked your rude and uninformed comments, that I am not successful there. Since you were throughing PvP rank around as if it means something here, does this, by your standards make my opinion have 19 points of value more then yours?

I do. It means they made something that is too difficult for all the care bears to kill. Successful indeed.

Got a link to your numbers? I think your being dishonest in your representation of the populations percentage. Prove it.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

coglin.1867:

So if you do not watch the news or read the newspaper, it is the worlds fault if you do not know what is going on in the world around you??

Newspapers are constantly reporting to each other what articles I read, or which advertisements I respond to? To an extent that I simply refuse to buy those newspapers?

Or are you apologizing for the state of the internet today?

Do you drink a lot when you browse the forums? I was making a new reference using specifically the newspaper and the television, and you make an illogical comment about the internet.

So tell me, how do news papers know or communicate what articles you read? They are made out of wood pulp and slightly inanimate.

Why do you have to worship a god it wear similar clothing? That doesn’t make any sense. I do not believe in the Easter bunny, that doesn’t mean it should be illegal for me to wear bunny ears.

cranked.3812:

coglin.1867:

Septemptus.7164:

But the second step made me to write about it.
Making people who support the game and gather those special minis (fortunately I’m not one of them, but still…) to buy 4k gems in order to get 1 mini that most likely they miss is like kicking someone below his belt.

The second you suggest they are making anyone buy anything, you no longer have any credibility.

Technically, he is correct. If the only real way to get something in game is to buy it in the gem store, they are “making” you buy it. He didn’t mean it in the sense that anet is forcing players to spend money.

It appears you do not understand what making or forcing means. A lack of basic understanding explains so much about the irrational comments around these forums.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

One definition of support would be to name those streamers, here, on these forums.

I don’t do Facebook, or Twitter, and I don’t reference Twitch TV channels unless I come across a useful link, usually on Reddit, but never here.

I come here for useful information. It really is too bad that I continue to be treated like a member of the vocal minority.

So if you do not watch the news or read the newspaper, it is the worlds fault if you do not know what is going on in the world around you??

Lord of Rings.5371:

Noobkaka.5067:

Like I wrote, it just feels like something is missing in guild wars 2…

What’s missing in Guild Wars 2?

Players.

How so? My server is packed. Perhaps there is simply a lack of awareness not populous.

Tequatl is great, there is nothing to address. If they are not killing him on other servers, how is that Anets fault.??? I mean, you can guest to any server, so I have difficulty accept any argument that suggest “no one is doing it” .

Thaladred.1406:

Just wondering why Anet has never given support to any streamers?

You mean other then promoting them on various internet sites and naming NPCs after them in game?

Septemptus.7164:

But the second step made me to write about it.
Making people who support the game and gather those special minis (fortunately I’m not one of them, but still…) to buy 4k gems in order to get 1 mini that most likely they miss is like kicking someone below his belt.

The second you suggest they are making anyone buy anything, you no longer have any credibility.

morrolan.9608:

Chris.3290:

Some corrections:

• TC adapted to larg zerg tactics very well, as they now blob just as badly when the situation calls for it (I’ve witnessed two 70+ blobs over the last two evenings).

TC has always blobbed, I faced them on Yaks Bend a long time ago and they blobbed even then. They were known for it.

Which one are you trying to be here? The Pot or the Kettle?

Skeletor.9360:

The solutions are easy and I personally could implement the coding change in a weeks time. (I’m giving myself 39 hours padding!)

Given this problem is so easy to fix yet isn’t makes a person wonder what the problem could be.

I doubt you even have a reasonable solution that everyone will be happy with, much less the ability to do this.

If your server is out manned, then get off your duff and recruit players to come to WvW and train them. It is not Anets fault they are not filling the space available.

Svarty.8019:

No. 1st place should get nothing. The honour of coming top is reward enough.

The best rewards should go to the bottom teams, to boost them!

Also:
Reward-hungry people would transfer to low servers who need people, leaving the top ranking servers and freeing up the queue.

WOW, talk about a bass akwards mentality. Punish the winners by making them see the losers get rewards. Sorry boss, but that is a terrible idea.

Sounds like fun. Out of curiosity, where does “Dii” come from?