Guild Wars 2

Honestly gadgets having passive boosts would be great (and make sense, since you can wear many of them), I wouldn’t even mind it being a trait like kit refinement (since we’re missing gadget traits)

Kinda like how every ele has to take the attunement boon trait.

I’d imagine if we get a portal it’d be a turret :p

Go travel, there are plenty of skelks on the island. Why do farmers just want to sit in one spot spamming tab and 1?

Sunflowers.1729:

emikochan.8504:

All sigils of the same type do not stack.

So all swap sigils, stacking sigils, flat bonus sigils and %proc sigils don’t work with eachother.

So take one from each group.

That’s not…exactly true.

There are two kinds of sigils – ones that have an internal cooldown, and those that don’t.

Sigils that have internal CD
-Effects that proc on crit (e.g. Might on crit)
-Effects that proc on weapon swap (e.g. Chill foes on weapon swap)

Sigils that don’t have an internal CD
-Flat bonuses (e.g. +5% crit chance)
-Gain stats on kill (e.g. +10 power on kill)

And here’s how it works: if one of your sigils is on cooldown, then any sigil that also has a cooldown cannot activate.

So you are safe to take any combination of sigils, unkitten th of them are in the first group.

Edit: If both your sigils are in the first group it won’t work. And now you’ve learnt a new rude word.

Two 5% sigils don’t stack, two stats on kill don’t stack. Anything from the same class of sigil doesn’t stack with others from the same class, but you did explain why better than I.

All sigils of the same type do not stack.

So all swap sigils, stacking sigils, flat bonus sigils and %proc sigils don’t work with eachother.

So take one from each group.

I’ve seen some very big crits from the “lightning strike on crit” sigil, and the attune change bolt and 2 bolt are both instant, if that crits the sigil can instantly happen too.

Eles do love the valk gear :p

Daecollo.9578:

Elementalist are getting a huge buff soon.

haha good one :p

having elites for all ability types would be great, for all classes.

I’d love to see arcane, cantrip and signet elites.

apparently thief builds need 30 in critical strikes too.

Dark stories are good

I’m loving the change, and I’m glad it’s helping out the colourblind folks too

rng is rng, one result doesn’t affect the others, it should average out to almost 1 ecto per rare.

Well we have pretty much proven our mercenary nature :p

As characters we’re on the side of the laws, even if they may not be above board, it’s an interesting situation really, terrorism vs indentured servitude.

I do very much enjoy the living stories

I think you’re the only one. Also you can’t farm in a small area of the DR kicks in, you need to travel and take part in events to reset the DR :p

Honestly the invasions and stuff don’t happen as much when there are less people, when the current story is over the majority of people will leave and it will quieten down a lot.

That’s what the training missions are for, you have a long time to find them and beat them.

If you’ve done enough training missions it’s not so required.

Either way their is a /wiki command ingame, to external stuff does seem to be a design decision.

I wish our conjures were as good as engi kits :p being able to switch them out at will would be awesome.

All classes need more skills, many weapons that would make sense aren’t in use yet. I’d vote mace / torch / hammer next up for engineers.

Have a feeling we’ll be waiting til an expansion.

arcana tree doesn’t need to be any more mandatory :P I just hope they fix all the bugs and then we can see if things need buffing or not.

Well you can stand toe to toe with either, it just depends on your build and skills. For example if you use lots of defence you can take lots of hits and stay in melee, if you want to go for full damage you’ll likely have to move a lot, though you don’t really have to kite much.

The most common builds for eles have lots of points in water and arcana, both great defensive trees if you want them to be. As you gain more skill with the class you can strip out defence and replace it with offense.

it looks like a bridge like the one near the entrance.

it was definitely easier to get before people learnt the game :p Now you just have to find the right people, my server seems to have more nice people than other servers, I had no problem finding a group that wanted to help eachother get the achieves.

sweet, i need to find this stuff in southsun before the 28th :o

Wanderer.3248:

Try not to charge in head first to a pack of enemies that use crowd control. Use ranged attacks, pets, illusions etc.

I can think of seven ways to avoid mob knock backs off the top of my head:

Dodge
Stability
Block
Reflection
Stun
Blind
Fear

Chilling an enemy also helps because it will put the knock back on longer cool-down.

Quoted because people seem to miss it. There are many solutions, and all classes have access to some of them if you are having trouble. Use your tools, why would you want the game even easier. Remove all CC from mobs and what do you have? No threat at all.

You just want to log in and get loot for zero effort or thought? How is that even a game.

Didn’t you already make this thread, who cares, just play and have fun, or don’t.

You can do it if you want more damage, but I doubt you need it to be competitive.

I love the attunements

conjures – they’ll be more powerful one day

animations – feels powerful even if it’s not that much :p,

love being able to save people with boons and cc and resses

RTL is the best, though now it’s more tactical (need to find critters :p)

Medazolam.3058:

Yes I would, yep

As long as there are no new caps, I hate level/gear increases.

Some wonderful screenshots there, hopefully will be able to upgrade my comp sometime to do the same XD

When they eventually add more traits and more skills the problem should fix itself.

I really hope anet are planning on adding more traits and skills.

Cherrylin.5869:

generalraccoon.3857:

I hope mesmer portals will continue as it is, I don’t feel it as cheating at all. I love the idea in fact, so much that one of the reasons I worked on my jumping skills and made my last toon a mesmer is to i can help port ppl up. Yea i enjoy doing that.

Interesting. What is your viewpoint on that only mesmers can make this portal then? Do you find that fair, or should others have a similar ability? I know some mesmers are making gold off it; what do you think about that?

Everyone has the ability to make a mesmer and train portal.

takes 5 minutes to talk to them, it’s your fault for missing it. (hint : don’t leave things til the last minute if you want them)

Swim.6830:

BlackBeard.2873:

Swim.6830:

I feel that Mesmers can do so much more damage when specced as glass cannon, while still having higher survivability than Eles glass. Why aren’t the base HPs swapped already?

Because of the bunker. They want the bunker to be middle-of-the-road, so that more people play guardian. If they switched HP, the bunker would be improved. I wish they would just nerf our healing and cleansing into the ground so that we are completely unviable. Then they could buff into a more balanced direction in 6 months.

When my fire attunement does 4k damage, my water dazes, my air confuses people and earth makes me immune, I will be happy (all this considering NOTHING else changes).

Haha with our cooldowns rather than the mesmers? (60 sec base for distortion) Tbh having earth with 60s cd and 4x the power would be hilarious. Earthquake would destroy mountains.

I always tip mesmers that port me (10-20s), they’re taking time out from playing to help and that’s freakin awesome.

Wow, can’t unsee that now :p

kokocabana.8153:

I don’t find that site very useful. Most of the armors look pretty ugly just by looking at that site because of the way the color dyes they use. Picking the right colors and mixing up different armor sets can make or break the look.

Well yeah, it’s just a basic guide rather than clicking through all the vendors and TP :p

IndigoSundown.5419:

Farzo.8410:

While talking about ’’monsters’’ I think this enemy is the most weird one…

It’s those bandits running around with kegs, suicide bombing, yet, they don’t die themselves, or taking any damage at all.

I mean, what the hell? Running around with an explosive keg, put it down, fuse it, and not take damage yourself?! That enemy makes no sense!

(I know there are many weird enemies that doesn’t make sense but this one is beyond my imagination!)

This is very like a player ability. Engineers with Bomb Kit do the same thing these mobs are doing, except the Engi’s do more damage but no knock.

We do have the knockback on Big ol bomb (bandits has the same graphic too), the bandits have a faster cooldown on it though.

Metal plating on my engi, 30% reduced damage taken by turrets, they still die in the same number of hits.

http://www.gw2armor.com/ has most of the skins.

Khenzy.9348:

Why the scarcity of this particular item in the first place? You should ask that.

Don’t worry about the past, look forward to the good times

I’m so glad I can finally get karka shells for my apothecary set :o

if you’re EU aurora glade is pretty great in my experience :p

Tokens should just be an account based currency like laurels, give me my bank space back :p

You don’t need trinity, you just need content designed with the this combat system in mind. Look at monster hunter, the bosses are epic and require skill. The mobs in gw2 should be more like dark souls / monster hunter, not mindless mmo mobs that just run at you.

SET.3275:

Does Sigil of Night works any time in dungeons?
Still cant understand the day/night things in GW2. In WoW as i remember there was a clock with server time, very handy since my local time was different. How can i see is it day or night in GW2?

The underground dungeons count as night iirc. Also you can buy a ghost weapon to check too, they will glow at night :p

Yoh is very right, action combat needs action on both ends. Monster Hunter is the best feeling game I’ve played in a long time.

I’m getting goosebumps imagining the Shatterer acting like a Rathalos (including hunting them down accross the zone)

Well more events and longer entwined event chains will come over time, and I think that will make all areas more attractive to play. At the end of the day though, the mass of people follow the path of least resistance, so I just say, have at least one world boss in each zone, and maybe have events that lead off them and towards them to entice people to stay in the zone.

I miss the economy and crafting and exploration, I miss being able to sell ANYTHING, I miss losing everything if I die so that shiny gear is really shiny

I still play EVE but I wish all games had item loss and I hate the idea of soulbinding.

@Avatar, the lfg.net is a stopgap, Anet are working on it.

@Riochu. yeah the local trading is a wonderful thing. I don’t mind the mail thing but the number of people you can send to at once should at least be enough to send things to your whole party (and mutual friends/guild should have no limit)

I would hate it if they added mounts, they are far too much dev time too that could go on stuff I want more.

also there are no horses in gw2

in neverwinter you can’t get the best gear without paying in the cash shop.

Also I think someone worked out that you need to use the molten pick about 5000 times to break even on the 4 silver per ori pick. The price is mainly for the effect :p

Tigirious, those other games have loads of rng but it’s put into stuff you actually need to progress.

I remember having to raid for months to get my gear in wow, and in vanilla I never managed to get enough fire res to start MC. You have rose glasses.

If I want good gear in gw2 there are many paths, crafting/dungeons/karma/gold

But we’re not being milked. You don’t have to use the shop to play. I don’t see how that makes me an “unemployed PR” – I actually enjoy GW2, I don’t post just to “make my purchase seem worthwhile”.

If you’re paying a sub that’s being milked. We pay for exactly as much or as little as we want to. If you don’t like the price of x you don’t have to pay for x.

That said I’d love it if everything was token based instead of specific drops though (Also like in firefall, where everything is crafted and items degrade). There’s so much on loot tables, when I get a rare drop its a 1/100 chance of it being useful :p.

Also caring about being a “SPECIAL UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE” and feeling bad when you’re not is so immature. Grow up.

Upgrading your skills through traits/gear/sigils/runes is meaningful progression, maybe you should try various content too.

There is not one build that works best in all content :p

Though if you don’t like aesthetic rewards you are not going to have a good time.