Guild Wars 2

I lost count how many times this has been brought up.

I’m not sure. I would like to know this, too.

Two people able to kick anyone is a bit unfair, to be honest. I haven’t experienced this since I have yet to start fractals. Everyone is ahead of me so I’m waiting for the next patch so I’m able to play with them. Anyway, it’s best to find a guild or a group of friends that do FoTM or dungeons until they increase the amount it takes to kick.

FAQ says “No it will not. All the displays are provided by ArenaNet and presented as-is and no modifications are made to Guild Wars 2 at all. GW2hud is not affiliated with ArenaNet in any way though.”

Personally, I don’t think there is anything in this program that would cause you to get banned.

Zeivu.3615:

If programming it is possible, would it really unbalance the game?

I don’t think it would effect the games balance at all. I think the only thing that would happen is elite skills becoming obsolete, but they are already. lol

Majora.6028:

Domxnik, I disagree. The time it takes to res a truely dead player is a lot of time. Now, if they are just “down” you have tons of time, but if they really die, it takes forever to heal them.

He said nothing about them being fully dead. If they are, don’t even bother reviving them because a waypoint is usually close by.

Kelos of Dray.5769:

Queensdale Troll Champion: Typical low/newbie zerg smash. I see another player, suddenly become downed…and I really want to help rez, but when I do I miss out on getting gold achievment, but then I feel like a !#$ if I dont rez him/her.

There was a post about this a while back, and I agree. I hardly use the elite skill at all in pve. I would like to have an extra trap or something in it’s place.

That’s endgame pve for you.

It’s best to find a guild that runs dungeons. But it will get boring.

It would depend on what percent of health the troll would be at so you can get enough damage in to get the highest reward. If he’s full health or even half you still have a lot of time.

They shouldn’t be the way they are in the first place…any of them. You have a lot of money, you get a legendary. That’s how it works, right? Where’s the story/lore behind it like there should be. Send the player on a quest or something.

They need more skills, in my opinion. You have five weapon skills and for some professions weapons sets you end up spamming one the majority of the time, in group events at least. Solo could be a different story.

I have a general idea, but I’m not 100% sure. Does this game have loot tables for each mob, or is it truly RNG? I know drops from dungeon chest and bosses guarantee the small loot bag with karma and some silver.

I have a general idea, but I’m not 100% sure. Does this game have loot tables for each mob, or is it truly RNG? I know drops from dungeon chest and bosses guarantee the small loot bag with karma and some silver.

Right, we are thinking Maguuma or Kaineng, but I want to know how they are in pve. I don’t want dragons to go alive and Orr and dungeons being nothing but contested areas.

US server only.

Is this a good server pve wise? I see it’s going up nicely in wvw, but I would like some pve activity, too. How is this world? If there is a world currently that has both good wvw and pve, please let me know. Guild is looking to transfer but don’t know where to.

Long bow, in my opinion, would be the best. Better damage, vulnerability, knock back for interrupt or just to knock back, and a good aoe skill. Only thing I’m not a fan of is the damage at range mechanic, but it’s not all bad. For solo I would recommend short bow though, mainly because it has a cripple and shoots faster. :P

They said they plan to increase the chance to get your level items in lower levels zones, but I don’t know about those loot bags. I can see it happening, but then high levels would farm lower level bandits or other “humanoid” creatures, since they would be easier to kill. So yes and no.

I currently have power/precision/toughness armor with power/toughness/vitality rings and accessories with power/crit damage/vitality gems. I don’t have the best gear and could use more toughness, but it works decently. But like Durzlla said, no condition damage can suck, and having no healing power is iffy at times, too. But if you want more vitality, you can change the power/precision/toughness gear with power/toughness/vitality gear and use Rune of the Ranger to get around the same amount of precision you had and have some crit damage also.

I’m having a difficult time choosing what I want with my ranger. In the end, I’m probably going to end up with every gear combination possible. Lol

This game does not need addons.

Hmm, I don’t know. In my opinion, the glass cannon with a lot of vitality still might not be as effective since you have no toughness to back it up. I’m trying to make a build that has good survivability but also has good damage, but in the end I think you always have to sacrifice something.

I don’t like using these build websites too much because there is no pve gear, so I don’t think you can get too much of an accurate build. Someone really needs to make a pve build tool.

Is there any good rangers on Youtube that upload videos regularity? I would like to see some PvP but a mix of both doesn’t bother me.

Those talking about the aoe nerf; I hope you know they aren’t going to “blanket nerf” all of the aoes, they are going professions by profession, weapon by weapon.

Stay out of red circles and look for enemies “channeling” their big attacks. There will usually be a special effect on their weapon or somewhere, or the enemy will just stand there taking forever to attack. Those are the ways to tell.

Also, I recommend changing your dodge keybind to something easy for you. Mine is R, I forgot what the default is.

Let us have more than one build. It costs to buy a extra trait or costs to switch between them. Add more than one armor set to toggle between for those who have more than one build. Where the buttons are to toggle armor and town cloths, something like that. This could also help you save room in your bags for those players who have multiple sets of armor.

Yay or nay?

Thanks for that post, Dulfy. I was looking for a better write up.

Here is the video for those who didn’t get to see.

Well I was hoping they were going to go into this more on the recent live stream on mmoprg tonight, but they didn’t, even though I saw a good amount of people asking. Maybe another time. /:

Yes, finally some new questions. Still nothing on Guild Missions though.

I wouldn’t mind it if it didn’t move on it’s own.

Are these coming in the 28th update? I would like to know more about these. I was hoping they would talk about them in the latest stream. Does anyone have any ideas what they are going to be like?

I’m not asking this to be like other games when it comes to particle effect, because some do overdo it. I’m just saying add more armor with some sort of effects like Citadel of Flame gear. I’m not a fan of most the armor in this game because it just looks too bland. Needs to be more bad kitten

Sadly, I have to agree with you on some of these things.

The combat does get pretty boring. Most professions you just spam the auto attack and occasionally some other skills, but most the time in pve, that’s not needed(That’s coming from a rangers prospective). They really should add more skills that you can pick like you can with your utility and elite skills, or just add more bars for skill overall. I am glad to hear they are working on dungeon bosses and events, though, But we’ll see.

The story is pretty bad. Most the time there seemed to be no emotion at all. That’s the thing that bothered me the most.

Yes, the whole economy thing is ridiculous. I honestly miss the loot systems from past games. I feel this game is too dependent on rng and DR. It’s near impossible to make a decent amount of money without flipping things on the TP or having magic find gear. Which is another thing. Magic find gear…in an mmo. I’m not a big fan of that.

Anyway, that’s how I feel about the game. I have only been playing for a little over a month with a little over 300 hours across my two characters.

Well, that’s warriors for you. I can’t think of one game that I’ve played were warrior seemed to be able to do these kinds of things.

I’m going to watch it, but I feel it’s going to be the same old, same old.

I don’t really mind the speed, It’s the amount and how close they are to one another that kills me.

Nihevil.8024:

Stop being babies, elitism is not as big in this game as other games nor will it be if armor previewing was added. Why? Because the content is not challenging at all.

I’m pretty sure there is some elitism in this game, as there is in every other game out there. If this is added, there is a high chance more elitism will come with it. There is no reason for this.

Sounds like a good idea, but I would like to just see more armor with particle effects in general. I’m wondering what ascended armor is going to look like, if they or when plan to release a whole set of armor.

hharry.1967:

If the last video wasnt enough, here’s another one, warrior solo lupicus! Yes nerf Aoe please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-WJP0LR5VU

What are you trying to get at, dude?

SoPP.7034:

domxnik.1453:

I don’t think you get this whole thing at all.

Enlighten us then.

This was suppose to go to someone else in another forum. Some reason my reply was merged with this one…

I don’t think you get this whole thing at all.

Valento.9852:

What can a staff elementalist expect as almost all skills are AoE?

Same for most of our skills (scepter, mh dagger), seriously I won’t re-roll and anything, I’ve always played mages cause they are known for their serious nice AoE capability in exchange for their survivability, I have this feeling as of now for eles, if they nerf AoE too much then what is left for this AoE class? lol

If you actually read Jonathan’s full post

JonathanSharp.7094:

Mirta.5029:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Just wanted to let you guys know that we’re reading this thread.

Your logic, reasons, anecdotes and ideas are being listened to. Also keep in mind, that as I said yesterday, a skill can be a balance problem in one area of the game, but underpowered in another. That’s the nature of using one set of #‘s to balance across all areas of the game. So we’re keeping that in mind as we look at this. We may need to do different tweaks in different areas of the game.

We’re also not going to make a knee jerk reaction to this. We’re still gathering data, watching player trends, and having meetings on all possible ramifications from possible changes.

thank you for the answer, it calmed me down. If you think there’s a problem with AoE in WvW, nerf it in WvW, but not PVE, because nerfing AoE in PVE when some classes already have problems would effectively kill off engineers and staff builds of mesmer, elementalist and necromancer.

No prob. Some classes have a ton of AOE, while others don’t have as much. So we’re not just going to do a blanket nerf to all AOE – that’s not fair to all classes. We’ll go on a class by class, weapon by weapon basis.

And as I’ve said, we may need to tone something down in one area of the game, but it may be totally fine in another area.

For some weapon sets, the AOE options may be too strong compared to the single target options, which is what we aim to address.

JonathanSharp.7094:

For some weapon sets, the AOE options may be too strong compared to the single target options, which is what we aim to address.

I agree.

I believe they worded wrong at first with the new system.

As said here

Just to clarify, you’ll no longer be able to use waypoints when a party member is in combat inside a dungeon. This is prevent people from using waypoints to rush and kill bosses or clear areas, which is not intended game play.

All other forms of res remain unchanged.

If you’re in combat (fight bosses/mobs) and someone fully dies, they must be resurrected if you’re in combat. Once you are out of combat they can waypoint. I do, however, agree that those skills should revive both downed and dead players, so in some situations where you really need someone, you can get them up without having to kill yourself in the process. This could be a problem in pvp though.

Well first you must learn when to use the dodge mechanic in the game; Watch enemies animations. Sometimes timing can be tricky, but you mainly have to get out of red circles and watch for their long “channeled” abilites. Examples: I boar will pull his head and body back a bit to basically ram you which will knock you down. Basically, if the enemy is taking a while and not moving, they are charging a hurtful skill.

As for which traits, weapon skills and all that to use, You have to know what you’re aiming for in the game first. Are you looking to be support, damage, or both. Then I feel people will be able to help you out more.

Traits are basically your skill tree. Runes are basically armor set bonuses, but they work the other way. You must have five runes of the same kind on any piece of armor instead of having the same type of armor.

But yeah, let us know what you’re wanting to roll or your play style in mmo’s and people could probably give you a better explanation on which weapon skills, traits, ect… and why. It takes some time getting used to if you never played a mmo, or you played another game for a long time.

I don’t see what’s wrong with the new system.

They have it. It’s a flag icon at the bottom right.

“One of the issues brought up a lot in WvW./sPvP is AoE (Area of Effect). We feel like they are too strong at the moment and a lot of people in WvW are gaming the system using AoEs.

For people that don’t know – max targets for siege weapons is 50 while max targets for AoE is 5.

Reducing AoE effectiveness to bring them in line with the single target damage skills.

Major update coming to all the AoE skills – make classes that are good at single target damage stand out a bit more.

Same thing with dungeons – right now if you have a lot of AoE you can past encounters by just spamming AoE which is not what we want."

source

The resurrecting thing was clarified.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just to clarify, you’ll no longer be able to use waypoints when a party member is in combat inside a dungeon. This is prevent people from using waypoints to rush and kill bosses or clear areas, which is not intended game play.

All other forms of res remain unchanged.

I would like to hear more on guild missions. What kind of rewards are we getting, how many people will they allow, ect..

Just got done watching the livestream and was a bit disappointed. Most of this stuff was already talked about in some detail in the blog, like how fractals were going to work and the new reward system. I wanted to hear about Guild Halls, more information on guild missions and other stuff, not things that have already been talked about.