Guild Wars 2

Remember toughness increases your agro too, might be safer to go for the vitality in water for your tankyness or just go fire/air/arcane with tanky gear :p

Eldain, just stop, go play a mesmer or something. And you can easily play high damage low survival glass ele successfully if you know what you’re doing.

EVERY class gets melee and ranged options, that’s the point of the bloody game. I personally love being up close as a mage archetype, you have no imagination.

They do read forums, but they said if they are on forums then they aren’t working, so would rather be fixing stuff than forum whoring.

Our support is different to other classes support.

Muppet you can already do this :p Just click faster. And yes it’s awesome. Though using both the aura and invuln will put fire on cooldown and put you in earth or vice versa, it’s very situational :p

He asked to be powerful if skillful, lillian you are just wrong :p Best does not mean easy. And ele is easy for me to play, I don’t see how that’s an objective statement.

Probably best to aim for having 30 laurels when you hit 80 but other than that, dye money is pretty good, especially if you get an abyss :P

You are very incorrect robert.

Yeah when I was following the game pre release, I thought the 3 underwater weapons would just replace the weapons that don’t really work conceptually underwater (torch, guns/bows) but no… 3 weapons only underwater AND half my skills disabled, meh T_T

Engi speargun would work on land, it fires missiles :P And kits and necro minions work underwater so there’s no excuse why conjured weapons and ele minions shouldn’t.

The branch bug was fixed right?

I came to mmos from pnp rpgs and rts (warcraft) – no trinity, the trinity was very jarring. And not being able to play with your friends just because they didn’t choose the right class. so annoying. I’ve heard rumours of a 4th spec being added to all wow classes like the druid has, heh.

I’m guessing the seasonal teams will be working towards expansion in the next year.

And they already favoured greatswords

I just wish the dragons would turn and wipe out all the people standing to its side attacking it. I don’t mind static bosses but at least let them turn :p

Wow is nice if you like the trinity I suppose, but when Wildstar comes out.. I can’t see any reason to play WoW anymore. It seems Wildstar has combat as cool as gw2 but with a trinity and comedy too. I guess everything is coming up NCsoft :p

I think I’ll likely move from TSW to WS for my trinity mmo, and GW2 for non trinity fun

Classes like the engineer and elementalist have a steeper learning curve, more cooldowns to keep track of in the background.

Though I can’t really say since they are my mains, every other class is just boring :p

Slowly getting up to bounties thanks to the awesome training ones, will post when we do :p

falling off the metrica jumping puzzle and it not resetting you properly must be pretty high :p

The investigation missions are rather great. But the missions that take you into a solo instance just kill the game for me. I only play with friends, so suddenly being ripped apart from them makes me want to just exit straight away One more thing I love about gw2 is being able to do everything with friends (except hotjoin pvp, what the hell T_T one reason I try it but can’t stand it is being forced to fight my friends.)

Yeah I just want to play Spirit Watch, why is there no mode for just 1 map

Everyone has access to nullification sigil :P

Since when does having a sub give faster features? Anet aren’t getting less money than a sub game. Also sub games have cash shop too, I’m not seeing your point.

This is why I’m glad for the reporting system in LoL, the trash talk has totally disappeared since the tribunal/honour system was added (in my experience) toxic players get punished quickly Every pvp game should have it, teach people about consequences for their actions.

You wouldn’t walk away unaffected acting that way in real life.

MaXi.3642:

Kultas Sunstrider.9218:

have you ever played tpvp?…

ofc but the fact that ppl are using a counter (blind, stability, …) to some skills doesnt change what these skill do if they are not countered…

You can immobilise on vapor form too right, if you get it before it activates?

Yeah the fire axe just feels so left out(why no finishers?), and the earth shield really needs an effect/aoe on the auto…(I love it when ressing people)

the lightning hammer really comes into its own with quickness though, something ele doesn’t really have access to.

Leuca.5732:

For the purposes of the trait, Meteor Shower is the only skill that is “channeled.”

This makes me sad Give us a water#1 beam!

True about conjures, though they do have their uses if you think of them as just a bunch of utilities rather than an actual weapon. In pve I always use the lightning hammer for the aoe stun, blast finishers/aoe blind and leap. Though I’m a bunkery healy spec so it does more damage than any of my attunements too :p

Fire shield now gives might on your attacks doesn’t it ?

Because we are just too skilled for the peon way of weapon switched and anet’s only choice was to try and nerf us with manual weapon switching. They failed.

when you have no info, going on the info you have is flawed logic

It’s not mainly single player unless you want it to be. You can do everything with others if you want to.

Katz if you do away with gold you just get SoJ, If people can trade, they will trade.

You can join from anywhere

marnick.4305:

Donations however aren’t any different from people buying your product.

Yes they are, donations are optional, paying for a product is not.

Engineers are awesome in pvp, some of my best fights in wvw have been on my engineer.

It is NOT newbie friendly though, which is probably why you don’t see many. Warriors are just auto-attack heroes so you can get a good performance without much skill :p

Meta gaming is the definition of hardcore :p If you just play the game you’re not very hardcore :p

Hardcore is going on forums, hardcore is researching things out of game. Hardcore players enable casuals with their teaching and help, generally, that seems to be the biggest use of these tools. Hardcore people write the wikis.

Hardcore is about dedication, a professional isn’t any less dedicated than an amateur. Money doesn’t come into this. Donations are very different to a salary.

I guess you aren’t an elementalist then Scrotbag, we have like 1 build :p

I’m very glad my boyfriend and I play and enjoy games together, I couldn’t imagine having a partner not into the same stuff as me :o

Yep definitely, I love to combo

Well you have to be pretty into a game to make the websites and machinimas etc that advertise and support the game.

Without gw2lfg for example there would be more frustrated people :p

The core gamers create the guilds and communities that make a game more than the sum of its parts imo. I think that’s why overly casual games are more “souless” to me

That said I don’t mind the middle ground, I played EVE for years and had to quit due to the strict timetables required to get anything done :p

Air Glyph of storms really should create a lightning field, it’s utterly useless as is. And engineers really should have a lightning turret like the dredge do :p

I guess if you really want to go water/air at least they both have direct damage.. and lightning hammer/frost bow seem to be the best conjures atm…

Well good luck, There’s probably some build you can make “work” and have fun. Though eventually you’ll probably want to be effective

Transformations really need to just keep the last 5 skills.

In another game, after a certain number of targets, the damage is divided between the targets.

Could this falloff not be added to aoe/boon spreading? reducing damage and durations/effect if you try it on too many targets. Having retaliation do less damage for each consecutive hit (5-10% maybe) would be nice.

It makes sense that there’s only so much shrapnel in a bomb and only so much focus a caster can put into an skill.

The zerg will always be stronger, but the tactic of stacking up on one spot to reduce aoe damage is just so jarring it should be stopped at any cost. It’s stronger for the wrong reasons imo.

Then there’s the perpetuum option, they made zergs risky by having your mech explode on death, crippling mass zergs if you could kill one :P

If you want to find lots of items sometimes it’s better to just use the mf food/buff/guildbuff with a high damage gearset, you’ll kill more things faster, more chances at loot.

All classes are good in pvp, the only issue is that some classes have very few builds that work.

A little 5 slot bar for consumables/world items would be very nice. 1 slot food 1 slot utility buff 3 for world items (or those boosters)

I vote for playable oozes too

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Dangbat.2804:

The no jumping thing is enough to make some people want to tear their eyes out…

True story…

It’s an alright game, but it’s a good thing GW2 isn’t like it in most ways—otherwise it wouldn’t have been nearly as successful.

Funny, as the success of GW1 made this game possible.

Dangbat said gw2 wouldn’t have been as successful if it was like gw1, times have changed, they are probably right.

Though I wish the one thing they didn’t remove was having quite a lot of skills, they did it for balance sake but the balance doesn’t seem any better than gw1.

I kinda wish it was another word, i really like cats but now every time i see the word kitten I am reminded of expletives

You know exactly what any class is going to do in any mmo, as soon as you see what they are using you will know their spec.

They’re an art, art is entertaining.

It was too complex for me the first time I tried it, fast forward 6 years in wow and 4 in eve and I was finally skilled enough to make a build in gw1..barely.

lol.

I want to use the gem store, I really do but there’s nothing to buy -_-