Guild Wars 2

Shiro/Ventari is super cool for solos. If skills weren’t so wonky (and buggy) lupi would be easier than with guard. S/s staff op
The damage is really kitten, though. Even slower than my ranger solos, and those were sloooow.
… and compared to a chrono in dungeons/faptals… naaaah. BUT I do want to make a stacking team eventually: ranger, warr, rev, guard and some ele. Just to see all dem pretty icons.

aaaand necromanagestobestilltheworstbuhuhuhuh

Talyn.3295:

IrisTheCasual.3742:

deSade.9437:

Talyn.3295:

deSade.9437:

Talyn.3295:

deSade.9437:

I asked for “revenants, ping nude pics on join”.
Nobody joined.
/cries

I would have Joined. My Rev is a big Harry Norn.

I’m not sure if I’m into that ç_ç

but…but…she is cute…

She? I… I… uhm… I’m a lil confused (despite having a trans character in my regular party)
If it’s a she, we can come to an arrangement. Plz send pics to my secretary and we’ll try to find some room for an appointment.

Mr. Gabo would see you now, ma’am.

Big and harry enough for you?

Lol to both, and yummm to the second one.
Dem catwoman.

I’m raising funds to cheer spojski up by buying him a bowl of fiery salsa. He’s heartbroken after trying out the reaper – he won’t even say u wot m8 and drink tea anymore.
Send me your copper offers if you want to partecipate.

I’d be a lil afraid of the power creep, though. Not that’s a big concern, since I presume older instances will be abandoned in favour of fractals/new raids/zergy content/whatever arenanet is cooking.
Afflicted mode all the way… mordrem mobs are cool, perhaps a little too gimmicky.
It’s too late to be put into the game, it’d screw the entire balance to hell so it’ll never (and should never) be implemented, but.. I kinda miss the different elemental/armor resistances from gw1. As a side effect, it made armor-ignoring classes such as necro and mesmer much more desirable in HM. I thought that was a good thing.. but eh. Too late now.
We’re still in time to have mobs that are vulnerable to life steal, though.

Talyn.3295:

deSade.9437:

Talyn.3295:

deSade.9437:

I asked for “revenants, ping nude pics on join”.
Nobody joined.
/cries

I would have Joined. My Rev is a big Harry Norn.

I’m not sure if I’m into that ç_ç

but…but…she is cute…

She? I… I… uhm… I’m a lil confused (despite having a trans character in my regular party)
If it’s a she, we can come to an arrangement. Plz send pics to my secretary and we’ll try to find some room for an appointment.

IrisTheCasual.3742:

SlyDevil.3952:

Malediktus.9250:

You dont waste time by running around. The waves take exactly the same time no matter if you are stealth stacked or running.

Removing the shield usually takes longer with a group kiting instead of a single player.

All you need is one Bear, then you don’t even have to kite around.

Ye-e-e-e-ss.
But you gotta tell Natzster to stop ranging.

Phah! Anyone with fractal knowledge would know that mossie wipes your as knowledgeable and pro party in 2 moves… right!

Talyn.3295:

deSade.9437:

I asked for “revenants, ping nude pics on join”.
Nobody joined.
/cries

I would have Joined. My Rev is a big Harry Norn.

I’m not sure if I’m into that ç_ç

not 100% – then you wouldn’t put your entire party into combat if you forget to use a tonic at the orrian eyes in arah, kittening up the stealth tactic, passive or not (you can always run through the center, but you got me). Or you kitten up simin, because sometimes sparks will walk towards your pet even if you’re ooc – quite a curious phenomenon.
Or you kitten up in ta, since the blossoms do damage even if your pet is in passive – but this is unrelated to drawing aggro. Still, I think it’s worth mentioning.
The ranger has problems. Lots of problems, and anet must fix them. I don’t give a kitten if anyone thinks they’re bad, or terrible, or the best class on earth – they have problems. I want people to keep saying rangers are awful so I can keep pointing out why they aren’t – ok, but they have so many frustrating issues and I want to be reminded of those too (as if I could forget, HAH!).

And yes, pugs sometimes take whatever bad experience they have and twist it around their heads (“I had a few bad rangers, all rangers I ever met were bad/all rangers are bad period”), or take anecdotal data at face value (“I heard rangers are bad, /kick”) and, put simply, don’t use their heads. BUT, it’s on anet to gather the valuable data given by the few players who know what they’re talking about… and act on it. Of course I wonder: “Why would they care?” /shrug
If anet did the balancing job better, slowly – but surely – pugs would adapt and most reasonable people would start seeing rangers in a less negative light… with at least a 1 year delay over the community, but I’m am 100% positive that it’s not a matter of people being stupid (not entirely…). It’s anet not fixing problems that have been there for 3 years. I see much less discrimination now that when the game started and rangers were so clunky I deleted my norn out of frustration.
If the few decent players set the example and anet wakes the kitten up, I see an opening.
…
… not if they keep nerfing anything slightly better than “acceptable” in pvp cus ezportz, of course <.< looks like they’re terrified of rangers magically becoming “op” in hot join?

P.S. TA archers and Brie. Never forget, never forgive.

I asked for “revenants, ping nude pics on join”.
Nobody joined.
/cries

dlonie.6547:

deSade.9437:

Someday, this month, I got told it’ll rain.
There, I’m a prophet too.

/chuckle

P.S. Can we spare a moment to ponder about how, first time ever in my life, I’m considered part of the [dumb but] cool kids in high school? I’ve always been called brainy, scrawny, nerdy… now I’m a jock, a meathead! As weird as it may sound, I’m flattered.
/flexes biceps

wut do u mean this isnt wow i wanna play heler monk scrw u

i play how i want anet said i can so imma playh monk

It was ok to force adaptation when it wasn’t about spending 500g per set and stacking agony resistance, but I’m still willing to adapt.. if they make it worth.
It’s hilarious that you think sinister will remove this fabled stacking, stealthing and skipping, or mobs with more toughness or damage will completely turn the game around. I’m not even sure how such a genius can extrapolate that I’m somehow afraid of “harder” content from my worries about a dot meta. Even more moronic than I thought; I figured it was only a zerk vs snowflake problem, but this is more than that.

Someday, this month, I got told it’ll rain.
There, I’m a prophet too.

/thinks about gw1

/snicker

:O? when? WHERE?!?!?!

I want to see druid so I can cry, mourn, then bury the grief with my little ranger.

Is there anyone that isn’t a fatass americat and/or plays on EU? <.< not that I don’t love americats, I’d spend hours fluffing their tails and watching them roll on the floor and getting stuck in windows and…

Not prestige, just a lot of patience and time, a functioning brain or lots of gold to buy dungeons/fractals from more skilled player… and gold. Lots of gold. As usual.
Oh, and I bet my cat it’ll be heavily time-gated.
I do agree it’s better than some guy manipulating the tp and making 100k gold, albeit by a very small amount – so go for it, I’m all for the account-bound thingy

Zetsumei.4975:

jheryn.8390:

Raire.7983:

jheryn.8390:

Vesuvius.9874:

lol forced…

I love these threads where people make it sound like someone has a gun pointed to their face to do content. When will they learn?

^This. If you want a legendary back piece then do what is required. No one is “forcing” you to do anything.

If I want a new car, I have to earn money to get one. No one is forcing me to do anything. I am doing what I have to in order to get what I want.

Yes, but in the real world we don’t have silly MMO constraints. You literally buy the car you want. You don’t take a particular job, because it’s required to buy a particular car.

Unfortunately ANet are going more that way because the “I want shinies that represent my achievements” crowd have been so very vocal. Force might be the wrong word, but this approach does make games quite tiresome, in my opinion. Everything gets reduced to a checklist of chores.

As I said before, in the real world, just like the MMO, there is a cost to get a car. That cost is money. You have to provide money to get the car. You don’t have the “option” of paying in gum wrappers or pine cones. Similarly, you have to do fractals to get the legendary back piece. That is part of the back piece’s cost.

This is about cost of an item, not options of where to get the item.

No, your analogy is completely incorrect. A better analogy would be saying I have the money to buy a car but only a lawyer is allowed to buy this particular car that costs £XXX. In order to buy the car I must earn £XXX as a lawyer and pay with that money even though I have earned the required amount of money as an engineer already.

People are saying hard-core fractal runners would say only they deserve a legendary backpiece, sure but what about hard-core pvpers or hard-core wvwers?

About being forced to do dungeons and wvw map completion for legendary weapons, again the thinking is completely wrong. You were forced to do ALL game modes content, what would be unfair is if for twilight you ONLY had to do wvw map completion and for incinerator you ONLY had to do dungeons etc.

Where exactly is it stated that you ONLY have to do fractals to get the legendary backpack, and ONLY that? Care to quote it for me?

Been toying with it for a bit after rumours of burning being so strong… fast but meh at lupi, p2 is a dodgefest like warr and p3’s stupid condi cleanse drove me insane, but the damage was so much more consistent throughout the dungeons – and you can kittening DODGE FREELY. (I did notice some fumbles while using axe 2, but it may be my connection). Not unlike engi, you have an initial burning burst that is pretty amazing… if they nerf burning, tho, it’s gonna be kinda crappy.
Strong contender to zerk if they don’t, and I’m curious to see it in hot: no more need for the suicide sword in high level fractals and all the mobs will be huge toughness bags cus anet can’t balance anything so woohoo conditions.
Right, I forgot it’s disgustingly boring to play and I hate playing stupid condi.
kitten, why can’t I stop hurting myself, I hate this godkitten class but I can’t stop playing it
…druid help me. Be awful plz.

Enko.6123:

MarkPhilips.5169:

They talked about consumables too.

Maybe you can get extra agony from food.

500 Cooking go go go!

NOooooOOOOoooooooooooo no no no noooooowwwwwwhhhhhhh….
…
Crafting in fractals? I have some ideas: put a crafting station at the bonfire in snowblind fractal… 1 has to channel the crafting for 1 min, let’s say he has to build an explosive rocket to melt the ice wall, and the others defend.
Like? :o

Aleth.9630:

In fractals: Aegis. It lets eles channel their Meteor Shower and Ice Storm without having to interrupt with dodging. Usual Aegis value is anywhere between blocking a 6-14k hit and CC/conditions. Mesmer can’t top that convenience.

There are these things called “signet”; you can do lots of funny plays with them post-patch. At melandru, in faptals, at lupi, wherever. Shud look it up. The aegis mantra is a lil shakier…
We’re getting closer to what anet wanted: guards are faceroll-bruteforce-carrypants, mesmers are bust-your-kitten -to-make-it-work-ball of awesomeness when it does.
Now, if some encounters were less anti-phantasm…

Feel my wrath is completely out of line and should be at least 45-60s cd. BUT I don’t think it’s op in pvp (?), so there will be no changes there. Ezportz.
TW should be 144. Definitely. But again ezportz.

I think lots of what they do will depend from the amount of whining. If the whining reaches a certain threshold, they do x; they do y if it doesn’t.
I’m curious to monitor the levels of whining when they introduce the fractal masteries.

I think people prefer the mystical dragon style. Do something for 5 mins without bothering to log in, BAM, reward mailed to you.

Eh, that’s why I said they could make +5 infusions drop from fractal dailies/chests/mobs at 51-100… since I don’t think those levels will be hot-locked.
Still, the fractal masteries will be locked, if I’m not mistaken? I presume hot players will be at a slight advantage in acquiring ar, or maybe there will be strong consumables to ease the grind.
This is all up in the air, either way.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Legenday-Backpiece-Worry/page/2

For whomever wants to bathe in some phiw’s tears…
They’re good for your skin. I promise it’ll look all soft and shiny once you’re done

Erm, you know, most content is anti ai or pet mechanics, and consequentially anti-mesmer, at least regarding damage. Just sayin’.
You think you have it bad? I wish I could shatter my godkitten pet, believe me I do. Shatter, break, DISINTEGRATE it in a burst of green butterflies.

Isn’t a 15 agony infusion something like 1500g? How could anyone think they’re gonna keep the current system in place without something else to support it – as in, fractal masteries and fractal infusions reward tracks AND 2/5 infusions dropping at 51+?
Really? Come on. It just can’t work like this. Gold grind sure, but not even anet wants you to die to amass enough ar.
And… well, at the cost of sounding like an kitten, they have to sell HoT someway. Just sayin’.

kittening hell, this kittened forum. If I have to edit one more time to fix my post I’m gonna shoot a bird through the window.

Yeah, fractal keys. Noticed them on the second read… and it’s already giving me the creeps.

I’d like more colours.
I like colours.
Anet plz?
:(
/sad kitty

Wethospu.6437:

Arantheal.7396:

I already have a full ascended sinister gear-set for my engi, because of WvW…
My body is ready, and i welcome this change.

They specifically announced that group-roles will be more distinct and support gets a bigger role. And to defy the zerker stack-meta, it’s only logical to mess with their dmg output directly by scaling up toughness.
On the long run, this will also allow Necromancers & Rangers easier access to Fractals, since both are lacking in group-support (welp, spotter is still kinda nice), but come with powerful condi-builds, hence get better dps than guards, warris & eles against high values of toughness. Ele might still be high up in terms of dps, since they can stack burning the easiest currently, but it wears down as fast as guardians’ and leaves them with almost no condi-output. Not to mention that their attunements lock them out from effectively combining their condi-dps, due to short duration of both their bleeds & burns.

So yea, engi becomes more than just a supporter, and necros & rangers will suffer less discrimination at higher fractal levels.

Could you explain how the condi stack meta is better than the zerk stack meta?

A beautiful example of zergburger meta hate, mixed with “this change doesn’t bother me, so I don’t care if it could be bad for you, for the game or for anyone else”. Who gives a kitten if people may have to spend hundreds of golds in ANOTHER ascended set, possibly on multiple characters if they have to switch profession often, and all of this on TOP of the gold grind for agony resistance? He’s already got it!

Honestly? I pray the meta won’t shift to 4-5 sinister because I hate DoT playstyle – it disgusts me even more than full tank. At this point, I’d rather play healer, and I’m not joking.
I probably will, if feeling cornered.

My hope would be to see variety in mob packs (Afflicted!) as to favour both glassy playstyles and a good, varied instability system that doesn’t destroy some classes completely…
… but I know this won’t happen and we’ll get some hp bag mobs with crazy toughness and 25k aa on crit with aoe so that it kills pets and phantasms in a sec okthxbai

/choked sob

/sigh

Haven’t they said that dailies will be static? That means we’ll sometimes get swamp in the daily, sometimes we won’t. You’re not forced to follow the daily, but you get more rewards.
About the “what disincentivizes us”, well, that ^ more rewards… and boredom. Not even the most callous grinder will survive multiple sh— mossmen.
People may go: easy fractal, daily, daily achievement – something like that. Won’t be swamp 3 times (I presume).

Oh, and we don’t know if there will or will not be another fractal length/difficulty adjustment.
Can we stop and hold our hyppogriffs for a minute until we have heard more of it, huh?

Jerus.4350:

That said, I do hope they don’t make the toughness increase a blanket effect over everything in higher levels otherwise it’ll just knock power builds out of contention.

Do you actually hope that is not going to happen or you’re pulling mah leg?

Talyn.3295:

Kinda feels like all my work to this point is going to be invalidated in a few days of this going live. Which is really annoying, I liked that fractals was one of the few places were the bads, the casuals and the PHIWs stayed out of. But for a while at least its gonna be a flood of them to get the new “shines” its like holding a carrot in front of them, they won’t be able to help themselves.

Which will bring back the threads like how doing fractals to get those 5 pristine relics that were needed for the back piece was such an inconvenience.

You shouldn’t worry about that: (we) they’ll be out of fractals in no time.
Run fractal 51: “omg this is too hard!”
Complain on the forum
Go back to SW
or
Run fractal 51, 52, 53, 99: “meh, ok, I got my new shiny”
Go back to afk’ing in LA

No need to worry, really. Gonna be fine. Well, gonna be shorter, gonna have less stuff to do and probably gonna be more frustrating with insane instabilities that force you to freak out on ascended gear (“WHERE’S MY ASCENDED KNIGHT ARMOOOOORR”) – and don’t forget! it’ll also be a huge money sink because of the agony..
But other than that, it’ll be fine.
I suppose the freaks with inferiority complex will scramble to appear on top of dem leaderboardz, omg ezportz.

Ok, that sounds even suckier than I thought.
/sigh
I don’t care, I’ll get my golem mini then gtfo out of there.

Well, what can I say? It looks like a lot of smoke, with no trace of the steak. Phiws may have already eaten it.
… anyway… I wasn’t expecting any attention towards fractals, so it’s a huge surprise. It’s also a big worry…
And yeah, they managed to make the fractal gs even uglier.
I wonder if they have a guy working on it specifically.

P.S. The only steak I can see, though it’s probably turkey (ew): can do something with the few rings I have kept and cat golem minis. Nothing else, since I’m not interested in the backpack (no, not spending 1500g, thanks a lot!) and I got all the fractal skins I want.
kitten the record scene, I want more skins. I hope that awful golden thing isn’t the only colour available?

sephiroth.4217:

could play a different role that wasn’t just DAMAGE DODGE DAMAGE DODGE DAMAGE WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT DODGE NOW BURST WE WIN – no team play/role needed except standing in the same spot and rezzing eachother who were downed.

This is the summarised, pure, clear, unadulterated ignorance of this game’s phiw community.
When you hit such a brick wall, you realise that your words are good for nothing, no matter what you were trying to explain, and you feel bad for the developers that have to deal with bullkittenters on a daily basis.

Card.9704:

deSade.9437:

… can I report someone for using too many smilies? Why isn’t it against the code of conduct, conduction, conducive or whatever

That could be in this week’s vote

Great idea

Gah.
/beheads barbiedoll

Leo G.4501:

Mind you, Quickness is a thing and the more slow casting a skill is, the greater effect you net from having it. While Necro might not be able to achieve lots of quickness itself, if we’re looking at a PvE scenario, that just makes such support all the more useful and desired.

Riranor.6315:

with good teammates and smart actions you should be able to set up for some massive blows.

That’s the biggest problem I see with necros, and why I don’t like having them around.
What does a necro bring?
No, damage isn’t everything in this game.
A great player on ele, a great player on necro. Which would you pick… well, I let them play what they want, if they’re friends, but I don’t like carrying people I don’t know.

Necros are kittened up, and it’s all anet’s fault. Just as most of ranger’s traits and weapons are kittened up; just as pets are kittened up. Doesn’t mean necros are completely useless, thankfully, just as rangers aren’t.
Still…

What’s insulting: necros used to be at least great at vuln burst (bad at maintaning it), but now they gave vulnerability to kittening everyone and their mothers: tar—-dragonhunters will stack 25 by themselves, engis maintain 15+…
Let’s not even talk about torment, hah.
The most insulting thing, though: they’re not even the best at condi damage. Warrs and engis are miles ahead in that regard.
It’s stupid.

There’s always a chance, even if it’s 0,0000000000001 % or less. The only certainty is death. The rest is up in the air.

… can I report someone for using too many smilies? Why isn’t it against the code of conduct, conduction, conducive or whatever

/puts snowflakes outside on the balcony at 2pm

That’s why I made eternity. The only reason. Then, on occasion, sometimes I’ll still go like “hey guys, this fractal is day, yeah? is it day?”
“Look at your kitten greatsword, moron…”
“Insert [another] dirty joke here”

spoj.9672:

Yeah see i dont really regard planning type games as challenging. They have to have some action reflex element.

Play gw1 as a monk! Infuser. Pvp especially. Very twitchy.

….
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/One-Month-Feedback-Broken-Build-System/page/2#post5324292

How do you cope with such bullkitten? How? How do you do it?
I think I’m taking the 20094th break from the gw2 endgame [forums] to move onto the metagame [sitting idle in lobster’s arch playing with dyes]

(Gonna get banned anyway so who cares?)

Judging from the stories I’ve been told by WoWzers, there’s also challenging content in the form of positioning, skill building, decision making, and some gimmicky encounters.
Of course, it’s such an old game and we all know where challenge goes after a few years…
firstandlasttimeyoullhearmedefendwowEVER

doddbox.8153:

If Necromancers had similar mechanics to their Guild Wars counterpart they would be extremely useful in PvE while retaining the mutually exclusive elements to maintain the all important versatility of team comps.

Repeat after me: necros can’t get mobility and active defense because they’re not supposed to be mobile; necros can’t give boons because they’re supposed to be selfish; necros can’t pump out unique conditions because.. you got chill and torment, right?
“But revs and mesmer have torment on aa and we have it on one sk—-”
“SHUT UPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!”

a wild x class with condi cleanse and -y% condi duration appears

/sigh

Talk about versatility! I doubt there’s a less versatile class than necro.
And the removal of hexes also removed a lot of complexity to the slower-controller type. Oh, also the dumbing down of interrupts didn’t help.

Anyway, even if the game were like lol – with 4 fixed skills per profession, people’d still get kicked for one reason or another. Most proffs got simplified with the recent trait update, but people still kick necros or ranger. There always is a reason, and no, the why rarely matters.
Making one or more selfish classes doesn’t do the game any good. What kind of design is it? Weapons that don’t let you dodge, classes with no vigor and blocks in such an active game environment… Phah.
“But we like the concept”. Yeah, right.

Condi ranger isn’t bad… used to love it at lupi, but I’m kittened at the indirect torch nerf.

Yes, it’s 300…. weird.
But then again, they don’t kittening care enough to put an icon for fracs’ portal and dungeons’ merchant, the little kittens.

Sergeant, sir, I require backup; the phiws are rampaging freely. Hoping they’re trolls, sir.

Genlog.4983:

lets say it different my English is not that great but i try my best

problem what i see is stacking all together that there can be a mistake in your team
with that all can die in just 1 blow

that’s why i play more in the back row if something go wrong i can mabye get them up again its a 50% change but its worth the shot ??

also am a ranger and always have 1 tank pet with me i can send him to to get them up fast or use his taunt skill if it works on bosses ?? never try it but ok if i can get my tank pet to argo the boss i can get my team up

i wanna play it on the save side then try all stand together and hoping we kill the mops or boss or they kill us all -.-

so for me i think for a party 3 close range and 2 long range for back up ??
and if those spirit mops i can use have a very long range i can help my party to with buffs and keep my spirits save

Sir, I don’t have the authority to deal with such bullkitten, sir.

(I need to do the laundry then movie time)

Best thing I’ve seen in a while 7/10

Make boons have crazy range=/=revamp auras and combo effects. Where u at?
Eles use staff and isn’t strictly in melee range, just in proximity to give everyone boons – no, 240+ isn’t melee range. Where u at?