Guild Wars 2

I read this suggestion on reddit… players over lvl 18 get turned into mordrems and hunt down newbies.
Plz make it happen. Plz. First intelligent thing I read on there.

Ehh.. rebalance… ok… We’ll see this “rebalancing” /scratches head

i bet they gonna rebalance it together with the drood justyouwait shhhhh.

Problem is, unless this damage applies a -100% healing debuff, ds still sucks as a way of mitigating damage. It’s around 13k full, isn’kitten That’s not a lot.
I mean, does anyone seriously think they’re gonna introduce such high, unavoidable damage (and you supposedly can’t heal, else people would just blast water fields and necro’d be ever more useless) it ticks for say 20-25k so necros can survive it, making them useful?
That’s quiiiite the stretch.
Necro becoming a “thing”? That’s even more of a stretch… They can, sure, but it doesn’t look like they want to fix things? I mean, it’s been 3 years…

P.S. This isn’t a necro thread (pun unintended), but there’s one thing that’s eating at me… they built the reaper around this concept of being sloooow but hard to escape from, correct? Chill, chill, more chill and some hard ccs, coupled with melee-oriented skills. Ok. Then… why does an ele apply more chill with 0 effort, ranged? Why did they give every elite spec but dh – even other reapers – this massive condi reduction? From 33% to 66% chill duration reduction, on top of food + runes.
What the hell?

Murder, she wrote.

Move to eu, Tallinn? <.<

Some devs have a lil more bite than the average (Cleary 1st one that comes to mind, or Foreman). Most though… not so much.

Noooo spojski but guardians are sooo much better, everyone knows it! It’s better for pugs so it’s better period, right? /eyeroll
Expect more harsh nerfs before chrono comes out, tho. And after.

ONE. Ok? I can compromise up to ONE additional gearset for my chars – my heavy one for guard and rev and maybe I may feel like cashing out a light healing/cele set, and ONLY if it’s optional for increased safety/efficiency. That’s it. Deal?
(omg if they bring back tanking I swear to god imma hunt down all the godkitten phiw excuse of people in this thread and end them)

Meeeeh. Don’t you want new content? I’m sure anet will bring back ls 1 and charge gems for it, so you get to play all the chapters in some ls instances.
Do I really have to get ls shoved down my throat everywhere I go? It was already bad enough the first time… Just leave me be, jesus christ.

Well, they survived 3 years, I’d still call it a success… they may manage to agonize through another one, though.

dlonie.6547:

“active in building new content”

Yeahhh. Right.
Just like they were active in reworking old dungeons, just like they were active in including dungeons in ls, and just like they were active in taking care of fractals.
It’s cool though, at least I’m on top of the fractal leaderboards…

And here I sit, wishing for mini instances in which you can solo epic bosses without having to do half a dungeon full of crappy hp bags just to get to your favourite encounter…

6/10 not bad nice try

Sold. Sold, sold, sold and sold.

Shhhh, guys!
/looks around nervously

I’d rather prefer a content where you have to sacrifice traits, traitline and spec into more utility/support oriented builds – skills too. Example: the new guardian bores me, I don’t like the new radiance, I barely tolerate virtues, I wanna be able to spec honor, take that amazingly oh-so-compact symbol trait and feel a lil more like supporting without people eyeing me, muttering under their breath on how I’m missing the 20% bonus of UC (and when do you manage to keep it in low-man fracs outside of molten, I wonder?) or the bane signet trait.
Another thing about radiance: I LOATHE the “new” signet trait you sometimes have to take for the increased effectiveness of bane signet. Well, I hate bane signet too. I hate spirits. I hate banners. I hate any skill that is just there, you see, the kind of skill you lay down… and, well? kinda forget about.
Adding to what I said above, I also learned to dislike defensive stats for the exact same reasons.

I want more ACTIVE content. More dodging, more positioning and trashmobs control (a thing I really see only in arah or fracs, barely…), more utilities that have to be used with good reflexes in reaction to a skill; I also want proactiveness, decision making, cd management (to, say, keep perma stability for as long as possible, or dosing it for the aether fract last boss) and bosses having multiple skills so they’re a little more unpredictable; I don’t wanna be a guardian and go like “well, I don’t need this, I don’t need that, I don’t need anything, lemme just take bane signet”. What the hell is the point, then?

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to do more dps and speccing for full damage, and I completely understand that it’s just a symptom of the content becoming old and being.. not that hard to begin with (even though I feel like high level fracs and arah are in a good spot for a casual game): for these reasons – and for the fact that I’ve always liked playing well, I don’t mind “bending” under the meta. The thing is, I don’t enjoy it that much. I’d like to see the difficulty upped in a way that requires… I’ve already said that. Mostly looots of team synergy, like in gw1.

I’m not opposite to mild healing at all, but first I want zealot’s gear to be made less ridiculously expensive <.<
kitten tanking. Seriously, kitten tanking.

Oh dood, i f we have to wait for gw3 we’re screwed… i want a refund for my like 40 expensive dyes… and a plush griffon..

I kinda don’t mind being kicked, just not int he balls… I prefer to be the one doing the whippimg, tho. Right, raids.

Erm, drood not being so bad it makes me delete all of my ranger’s gear again (but this time I’ll move ascended to my other chars), make it usable in raids.

New pets. Buff to pets. Bla blal bla that stuff you know.

More ascended dropss. More ascended stuff. More ascended.
More ascended skins.

More muhsrooms. Lots of mushroms everywhere. and tigers.
Stop being drunk.

O_o
/counts charged crystals
… kitten!

butch.8136:

Its been clarified on reddit.

By Colin:
“You can swap between each encounter in the raid, or after a failed run – you cannot change your build mid-encounter by hanging on the edge of the encounter and getting out of combat. We’ve disabled that.
I think either Larry misunderstood my response, or I misinterpreted his question.”

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3j4313/pax_prime_2015_guild_wars_2_is_never_getting_a/

Well that is one way to settle things and shut people up.
/awkwardly crawls back into coffin

bladex.9502:

1 guard, 1 mesmer, 2 warriors and 6 elementalists hype

Ohhh, I’m so, SO excited for this huge shake to the meta.

…necro?

And rev could get stuck with 2 random legends, picked by consulting an astrologist. How is it a good idea? As long as it doesn’t influence eles et similia, huh? /shrug
Not that I could see rangers ever stepping in a raid, with an aa that, ahem, is so unique; and even presuming you go condi, your spirits and pet are gonna die in 2 aoes anyway. ‘Cause why would we give them aoe dmg reduction/immunity in pve, huh? Why would we, I wonder, when that other game does it… it wouldn’t be unique, special. Right?

They just can’t be bothered to do something the hard way, can they. They always gonna wiggle through, avoiding the scary thoughts of… Gaaah.
[/ramble mode off]
Exploring. Ok. Let them explore various scenarios and possibilities. I’ll be monitoring. As long as I don’t expect anything but (barely) harder, longer, more annoying and more gimmicky dungeons, it’ll be fine. As long as it’s new content, it’s good. Even if the ignored classes will keep being ignored… as long as they make rev viable in these “raids”…
Did they say if these raids will be long (à la gw1)? or extremely short corridors full of enemies that can be cleared in 5-10 mins?

Spoj was already planning on making 50 alt accounts for the daily log-in rewards and daily leeching.

Well, I’m glad I got a spare ascended knight armor in case things turn sour…

I liked build locking in gw1, but gw1 was a different game. Completely different.
Funny how they take only bits and pieces of the original game, and nothing that really fits… skills are weapon locked, traits are locked, this and that are locked.. what’s next? permanent combat state. Next step is..?

Lendruil.9061:

Also some classes rely way more on being able to switch around than others.

At this point, don’t think they give a kitten about it

Revenants are gonna be hit so, so, so, SO bad by build locking. Like, so bad. Wow.

Wut u talking about? I can’t be bothered to sift through all that pointless non-info. They locking trait and weapon swapping, aren’t they?
I would’ve BET they were gonna make them super easy and accessible.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Chronomancer says hello.

It still wouldn’t be required in old dungeons <.< unless you’re such a sphincter about it you probably are either in an overzealous guild already (so no need/don’t want to play with the op in old content) – or you’re forced to pug because you got no friends. Only these 2 types of people would force not-that-hot players to cash out 45e so they can be 10% more efficient, omg, arah p4 so hard.

Element Two.7316:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

A PVT P/P Thief with Scorpion wire :P

and without any trinkets iirc

And no weapon swap. And he didn’t use his utilities once – signet of shadows and sr btw

People will tell you “this is better than x”. No one can force you to run what is best, though. Suggest? sure. Enforce? nuh.Only tryhard pugs and a few overzealous guilds would ever enforce full ascended or HoT traits on old content, seriously.
I bet not even the new content will require any of that. If it should or should not, that’s up to personal opinion.

P.S. Yeaaaah, “impartial”. Ah-hah? /forced i-bit-a-lemon grin
P.P.S. Opinions are like cow pies.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

It’s almost as if you prefered the typical abandoned forum / dungeons/fractal scene :P

Well, but I do? I enjoy festering wounds and feeding on them, like any good ol’ toxic troll…
No, I just don’t like the clashing of 2 groups of people that are SO FAR AWAY in mindset they’re in another kittening GALAXY. That’s pretty much it. The convos following this epic battle for the right of being… Right… are never fun to read and completely pointless. I want either fun and offtopic or unfun but interesting, not unfun AND pointless/hateful/anti-zerk/whatever.
So, I don’t like vocal phiws in the trashcan. Yeah? Yeah.

LOOL I got the alpkitten filter again. Yay! And good advice, I guess. Just… I don’t think I’ll play. Like, I’d rather not play than pug, and looks like I have to pug… if you know what I mean.

… trying to listening to music on these godkitten earbuds reminds me that I can’t pick a decent headset (I can’t decide); over ear, very light, comfy. Suggestions? I know, I know, offtopic… erm, RAIDS! woohoo! Need good headphones to enjoy the.. the.. afking in LA… waiting for someone to log in… ugh..
/tears up

Look, as long as they’re fun to play? Do they really have to be sooooo kittenly 10% of the population can complete them? I mean, I still have fun low-manning arah or faptals <.< and you can’t say those are legendary type of hard.
No, that’s not what worries me. At worst, raids will be more gimmicky dungeons, but since I enjoy old dungeons, I’m ok with it (hopefullyyyy, god, the doubts). It’s the STINK of f2p that is invading my nostrils and making me choke; THAT is what worries me.
f2p garbage… Puah.

Oh, it’s gonna be so painful in the following 2 months. Our trashcan will be filled to the brim and beyond…
AND THEN the flood of “omg this is too hard nerf” threads… and “community is toxic”… and “we want the rewards”…
I already know I’ll want to carve my eyes out of my head before this is over. No, before it even begins.
/sighs loudly

Ok I Did It.2854:

Im guessing this will be a enter raid now button, and you get assigned 9 other random players.

Well, thanks SO MUCH for giving my tonight’s nightmares the fuel not even horror movies can provide.
You’re on my list <.<

The problem is I don’t have 10 friends…

Ohoni.6057:

I’d hate to see raiding corrupt this game’s culture.

What?

Ok, didn’t read anything about what the hell happened today.
HIT ME, DUNGEON FORUM

Omg, is it seriously going f2p? Jesus, Jeeeesus, JEEEEESUS, I’m so worried. Jesus.
/freaks out quietly because people are sleeping

Beuh, runs are smoother. Slower if everything goes perfectly, cleaner if there are fails involved. Since I play with spoj, fails were ensued so sometimes it’s cool to rp as a paladin-tank-saves the day whatever. But there’s no need to go so freaking defensive tbf… a few defensive stats in the armor and you can almost facetank the mossman.

What is a drood? Can you eat it?

Great, did my usual daily arah p2 and dced after brie died and someone was watching the cutscene so didin’t get any reward. Yayyy.
/ragequit

I should seriously roll monk.. but if I’m gonna go healer, it’ll be ele or rev. My guard will always be a knight!
Orrr I could just stop playing like everyone else. But then again, dyes are so pretty.

I actually learned pretty alright to evade lupi’s aa and bait his swipe in p2 with that kittened skill (could be due to all the learn-or-die stuff I had to do on ranger) – but it took a rather extreme amount of deaths and lots of anger. Still, it only works when my connection is stable. My occasional lag spikes made it impossible to use it as a habit… I was also heavily frustrated by ring of earth and its strange delayed animation. Let’s not even talk about winds, even tho I really liked ring+winds combo, when I could use it.
Well, hopefully I won’t do it again while caffeinated and sleepless.
I won’t do it again period. I’m back to classes and characters that LIKE me.

/thinks about all the lfgs with worsploit
Yeah, right.
And some of the usual suspects (mean zerkers) discover tricks/exploits first because most PHIWs couldn’t discover their own kitten s with both hands
:)
And then, 6 months later, pugs and phiws memorise those tactics and start using them with no idea why they’re doing it or what’s going on; in the meantime, the zergburgers had quite likely moved on.
:D

… just keep the bat for when they announce the drood.
Or until I try to beat some stupid record on my ranger again. God, worst idea ever. The things my imaginary pride makes me do… “gotta solo this and that at 5am to prove that you can!”
Caffeine! I hate you.
/goes to sleep

Useless piece of kitten skill on a (not useless, alas) piece of kitten profession. I wish it weren’t this strong because I loathe it with all my heart. I confirm the sentiment I’ve been having towards elly for over a year now: excruciating. Solo done, not gonna touch it again with a 100feet pole.

Next time I complain about ranger dodges being unreliable and clunky? remind me of this moment. And hit me with a baseball bat so i remember better.

Why is burning speed so kittening useless?

GiftUngiven.7854:

Btw i used to sell 3 paths a day back in the days (got to craft my bolt like that) and still do sometimes. If you need a mentor/teacher i’d gladly help you out.

…wot? Just sayin’, I barely play anyway. I go up to lupi, solo it and then log off O_o