Guild Wars 2

digiowl.9620:

Other games needed something like this because they were balanced for PVE initially, and so PVP became a gankfest of massive bursts.

GW2 on the other hand is balanced for PVP.

Can you say that with a straight face?

The MASSIVE health difference is even worse.

Avelos.6798:

Nike.2631:

I think it was absolutely core to the design of this new gear that you GET INTO LIONS ARCH AND DO SOME HEROING to get the shiny. The blade backpacks are for heroes, not the shopping network.

Well said.

I earned the crap out of both of mine, and the third which I will have on Tuesday.

Lol…

Wanze.8410:

dietzero.3514:

It was probably wanze.

I am selling at 36.99s.

You need more transactions.

It was probably wanze.

Pip.2094:

Nike.2631:

I think it was absolutely core to the design of this new gear that you GET INTO LIONS ARCH AND DO SOME HEROING to get the shiny. The blade backpacks are for heroes, not the shopping network.

Meanwhile in Lornar’s…

Make sure you heriocally destroy them.

Would only be viable if it was added to a current Grandmaster fire trait. On its own, it is horrible.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

The cleansing in Water Magic is a bonus, though, not your main target. That’s what I was saying.

The 30 point trait that is taken is entirely condition cleansing, though. Going 30 instead of 20 does, in fact, mean your main target is cleansing.

Xillllix.3485:

kitten , and for once I was looking very much forward to this balance patch.
Finally the elementalist was improved considerably without having builds broken.

My main is an ele, and those changes only cemented eles as water/arcane/cantrips. They did nothing to help anything else, and eles would still have massive baseline survivability problems.

Sylv.5324:

dietzero.3514:

I am glad they were fake. They cemented the reliance of Eles on water/arcane/cantrip,
killed off Mesmers, and buffed spvp Engineers. All very bad things.

Well, at least we know what the faker gets beat by in PvP.

Pretty much. Those changes would have removed Mesmers from pvp and wvw roaming. And buffing decap Engineers to the moon? Wut…

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Why trait water when you can get damage and get all the same cleansing? It’s a two-way street.

The issue with Ele traiting is that regardless of your personal reason for traiting into Water Magic, you trait there because you NEED what the traitline gives. You may say “well, I trait water to get condition cleansing”, but you don’t actually. You trait water so you can get the same condition cleansing and run something else in your skills. This isn’t wrong to do, but saying that you need to trait there for that reason is faulty.

You trait for the needed survivability, which most definitely includes the Condition cleansing.

Stop arguing over stupid trivialities…

The point is, many people like myself now have stacks of these things that are just once again wasting space. Let us trade them or do SOMETHING with them…

I use it from stealth against Minion master necros.

It is probably the nail in the coffin for glass staff in pvp, though. But it did need a circle. Glass staff just needs something else.

I am glad they were fake. They cemented the reliance of Eles on water/arcane/cantrip,
killed off Mesmers, and buffed spvp Engineers. All very bad things.

Hope they are fake, because they are pretty much all dagger/dagger 30 water 30 arcane cantrips notes…

This patch would fail to address the survivability issues of anything other than that.

More people are just not bothering to make Ascended armour, as well.

I see two issues with this armour:

- the inability to dye the blue
- being forced to have the helmet on, due to looks, which further kills individuality

Perhaps letting us dye the blue will fix both, though.

Nope, support gets nothing. Damage half the time gets nothing as well…

It will be a leather sink because all the Tailors will learn Leatherworking to save money on the Gift of Blades…

Not sure it is possible to give each individual meteor a red circle, because of how quick and random they are. Giving the entire AoE a circle could work, though.

WvW loot should automatically go to the right side of the UI, like daily chests do.

hihey.1075:

Tremain.4623:

Wanze.8410:

SSalp.6423:

I think Gossamer should not be worth less than silk. I, personally, am fine with the silk price but gossamer should get something to increase its worth.

The reason why gossamer is cheaper than silk is that lots of people promoted silk to gossamer prior to the ascended armorcrafting patch in december because they thought Gossamer would rise higher in price.

the silk/gossamer prices are a dilemma the players brought upon themselves and i dont know why Anet should change anything.

No the reason is because tons of people craft damask every single day, most of them to sell it, and it uses 300 silk vs 0 gossamer. It has nothing to do with the upgradings, its just much much much higher silk demand than gossamer. Whoever came up with the ascended recipes did a terrible job of balancing the necessary items making t6 worthless, all leather worthless and silk/linen/cotton/wool requirements insane.

Even if the demand is high, it’s the supply that is important for the final price. A lot of Silk “disappeared” because it was thrown in the Mystic Forge, hence the overall supply of Silk decreased tenfold.
We always knew that Linen+Wool+Cotton would be used in large quantities before Ascended Armorcrafting was out, so I don’t really see the problem here.
If anything, it’s Leather that should be looked at.

The stockpile of silk was enough for like 1 day of ascended crafting. The current prices would still exist.

Justin.7163:

I just hope that we can find some way to maintain the diffusion of long-standing racial biases.

Lol…

They need to die.

hihey.1075:

dietzero.3514:

Wanze.8410:

dietzero.3514:

Wanze.8410:

SSalp.6423:

I think Gossamer should not be worth less than silk. I, personally, am fine with the silk price but gossamer should get something to increase its worth.

The reason why gossamer is cheaper than silk is that lots of people promoted silk to gossamer prior to the ascended armorcrafting patch in december because they thought Gossamer would rise higher in price.

the silk/gossamer prices are a dilemma the players brought upon themselves and i dont know why Anet should change anything.

Ah, no. The silk stockpiles were tiny compared to the silk requirements. No idea why you keep peddling this false idea.

Just check supply for gossamer and silk bolts and scraps in the 3 weeks prior to the asc armor patch and 2 weeks after. I dont know if you were online during that time but prior to patch all the rage was about gossamer, not silk, even though the change to 3 scraps per bolt of silk already happened.

All the silk promoted was still just a drop in the bucket. Without the promotion the price would have just skyrocketed a day later.

You are correct, but we are discussing about Silk being more expensive than Gossamer. One of the reasons Gossamer is so cheap it’s because of the high influx of Gossamer in the game due to promotion. If no one had promoted, there would be less Gossamer overall (and more Silk), making it more valuable.

True. But the main issue is that Gossamer is pretty much useless for most people without a trillion silk to go with it.

Remember, they take a lot of karma and gold to turn into stars.

Wanze.8410:

dietzero.3514:

Wanze.8410:

SSalp.6423:

I think Gossamer should not be worth less than silk. I, personally, am fine with the silk price but gossamer should get something to increase its worth.

The reason why gossamer is cheaper than silk is that lots of people promoted silk to gossamer prior to the ascended armorcrafting patch in december because they thought Gossamer would rise higher in price.

the silk/gossamer prices are a dilemma the players brought upon themselves and i dont know why Anet should change anything.

Ah, no. The silk stockpiles were tiny compared to the silk requirements. No idea why you keep peddling this false idea.

Just check supply for gossamer and silk bolts and scraps in the 3 weeks prior to the asc armor patch and 2 weeks after. I dont know if you were online during that time but prior to patch all the rage was about gossamer, not silk, even though the change to 3 scraps per bolt of silk already happened.

All the silk promoted was still just a drop in the bucket. Without the promotion the price would have just skyrocketed a day later.

You REALLY need to put something about this IN-GAME. This sample size is ridiculously small, as is the time frame. Also, population bias will mean Rangers will get the most votes (though they might deserve them anyway).

Wanze.8410:

SSalp.6423:

I think Gossamer should not be worth less than silk. I, personally, am fine with the silk price but gossamer should get something to increase its worth.

The reason why gossamer is cheaper than silk is that lots of people promoted silk to gossamer prior to the ascended armorcrafting patch in december because they thought Gossamer would rise higher in price.

the silk/gossamer prices are a dilemma the players brought upon themselves and i dont know why Anet should change anything.

Ah, no. The silk stockpiles were tiny compared to the silk requirements. No idea why you keep peddling this false idea.

I just realised, this is the only place we can post this.

If the cloth prices ‘settled’, that would mean everyone just gave up. Kind of like what is happening now.

Wanze.8410:

John Smith.4610:

Given the input/output of materials and their value to players I would hypothesize that players find many outputs of crafting worthwhile for one reason or another.

An example, I pulled the approximate amount of crafting materials destroyed in the time I took to read this post and the number I received was 136,909 items. There’s a high demand and velocity of crafting materials, which I would say is good evidence that there must be something to do with those crafting materials.

Half of those 136k crafting materials destroyed could have been Thick Leather Sections sold to a vendor.

This.

To the ground!

Move it to 5 points in Air, then you can nerf it.

I believe Anet stated that 170 million greens and 1 precursor will be spewed out, with the precursor going to a trial account player.

And salt the earth when you are done, Scarlet.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Axialbloom.8109:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Gummy.4278:

I understand the need for a tax for Listing an item and the tax for the actual sell. I do not want to remove these as I see them as necessary.

When you are selling to highest buy order, you the seller have to come up with a listing fee and you do not list the item at all.

I think you don’t understand how the TP works. When a player fills a Buy Order, he “lists” it at that price, and the order is filled FIFO. It’s not a matter of selling it directly to the other player. All transactions MUST go through the TP, so anything that gets sold first has to be “listed”.

That’s the price you pay for using Evon’s services. You do have the option of doing “Gentlemen Agreements”, where you and the other player agree to a price, and trade directly via the in game mail system. Keep in mind that if you get scammed this way, Anet will not help you get your money back.

What are you even talking about? The same fees would still be paid, just all in the back-end. Did you deliberately ignore most of what he said?

Same goes for you, wanze.

Why should the fees be placed on the back end? If you don’t have the money to pay the LISTING FEE, then you can’t sell the item.

Calm down. He knows exactly how it works right now. He suggested a change to filling buy orders only, where there is always a transaction. Next time if you do not understand a suggestion, just ask someone to explain it to you.

I am sure some crazy people out there will like these hideous skins, so please let us put them on the TP.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sovereign_weapon_skins

Because you pretty much cannot stop the warrior res skill, while the others are easily shut down.

Karl McLain.5604:

Hi all!
Once again, thanks for the feedback!
We’ve been discussing elementalists quite a bit recently in PvP and one of the things that’s brought up constantly from feedback is the internal cooldown from Cleansing Water. This is something we feel is out-dated and we’ve been playing around with removing the ICD totally from PvP. We’ve got some concerns, but would love to hear some feedback on this.

In general, we’ve got quite a bit more stuff coming. As before, we can’t say what these things are just yet… But there’s a bit of stuff that will shake up the meta. We’re really looking forward to it!

-Karl

The ICD needs to be removed for everything except Healing Seed. Then eles might actually survive conditions. Of course there is still the MASSIVE PROBLEM of being forced to spec 30 water for condition removal, on top of the mandatory Arcana points. You really need to actually give eles (and others) more options.

ThiBash.5634:

You’re also conveniently forgetting that eles often have Soothing Mist and passive regens up as well, which the warrior doesn’t get from themselves. Then there are the healing skills (which appear on any weapon but focus) and if they bring a signet, they can trait for it not to lose the passive if they use the active heal.

Overall, I’d say that we should first look what this change will do, and then complain about it.

Lol@30 in Earth. Stop trolling.

8% will have very little impact…

Bread goes stale. You can hold things in GW2 for all eternity, with no decay.

Celestial always seems to get nerfed by these things. First magic find, then ascended armour, and now ferocity…

Anet will not compensate, as usual, and Celestial will become even more worthless.

We should kill all the Sylvari and Asura, to make sure this never happens again.

It is probably less ‘people finished their sets’ and more ‘people stopped bothering due the ridiculous cloth prices’.

morrolan.9608:

Disdroid.6109:

No. Silk is not the problem. The Devs didn’t put the large requirement of silkscrap in the recipe so they could fix it’s prices for now. They want silk to be at a price expected from a T5 crafting material in 6months and onwards.

This is supposed to be a free market.

Ahahahahahahaha…awesome joke :P

JonPeters.5630:

The biggest problem is IMO is actually the active heal. If we reduce the passive without doing something to make the active useful, we are just creating a different problem. Truly the active on this skill right now is in the following place. When I see someone press it I think “No No No don’t do that!” We are discussion some options here so if you want this to be constructive give suggestions towards improving the active. Reducing the passive is easy to do but we will not do it without solving the other problem. Also we will not greatly reduce it because it is giving Warriors a sense of sturdiness that we want their profession to have. Without strong heals, Warriors feel too much like everyone else. Setting them apart with strong heals has been good for changing their playstyle feel, but we agree it needs some tweaks.

Jon

What exactly are warriors NOT supposed to have? And what defines the Elementalist?

I am really losing faith in the balance team, especially when I see posts like this…

Agreed.

You should change sigils to signets :P