Guild Wars 2

Just wondering, how will this affect us?
Surely it will affect 100% of the staff builds around there.

But what about D/D or S/D ? As D/D most of our skills are AoE, even if we mostly use them for single target, would this actually nerf D/D builds? S/D also has some AoE used for single target dps, im a bit worried.

Q: Stance on allowing people to see enemy nameplates in WvW

Mixed feeling – we want server to viewed as a whole and not introduce bitterness to individual players
Not completely opposed to the idea – be interesting to get bragging rights, more competitive nature
Not sure how to design around that at the moment
Need to make it voluntary, prevent harassment issues
WvW is about large scale massive battle mentality where individual players are not as important

“Not sure how to design around that at the moment”. Really, a turn on/off button, there you go.

From ANet point of view, they dont want it, even if 90% of the players want it, so we wont get it =/

This is a big stupid change if it is only to prevent WP zergs, rather disable WP while fighting a boss, seriously, even in WoW you could ress people in combat, you dont need to take this out. It will just increase stress of people trying to run dungeons with pugs since they have a life and no time to make in game friends / guilds.

Duels, will we see them coming any time soon? What about new sPvP game modes?

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Stupid change imo. This is one of the things i like from this game, makes it more dynamic.

If you dont want visual pollution in PvE, just make it both players join a special instanced map once they accept the duel, god you can even add spectators if you want, it would be amazing. But make it both, one for sPvP and one for PvE cause i dont want to duel in my sPvP gear since there are lack of builds in there, and PvE brings more interesting stuff.

There wont be those stats combinations guys. The idea is to bring back all the accesories so you can lets say split ur stats instead of being max at 1 and min at 1 like it is now, it would allow for more builds and more balance as well since there wouldnt be only glass cannon or bunker builds, like it is in WvWvW at moment, its way more interesting, you can make a balanced build, which isnt glass cannon, but neither a bunker, so you can actually survive glass cannon builds a little more (without being unkillable) and also do some damage, actually, these builds, destroy glass cannon builds.

They are already a bit stupid in sPvP where they can nearly perma stealth as well, but here, oh god, they gain like 2 seconds for each stealth plus an aditional 1 second to even ‘load’ their names after they go visible. They are just impossible to fight in WvWvW, 100% stealth time. Try to fight 3 thieves against 3 of any other class, it will be pain! Either increase the stealth debuff to 5-10 seconds or fix culling.

Got hit by 10k as a bunker spec ele, lvl 80 fully geared :O first time.

I do it all the time haven’t seen anyone above rabbit yet in PvE :P

Exactly, i dont want to be 100% P/T/V or 100% P/prec/crit damage i would want to split then even to make a more balanced build. The stats combination you mentioned above most of them are not available in PvE neither.

The change to only 1 item in the accesories slots, i didnt think it would do something at all when i was only doing sPvP, but afer doing PvE/WvWvW (playing the real game!) i figured it out there are some stats combination left out with the actual system. So please bring back all the accesories and jewelry or add more stats combination.

I ask you both, what are ur crit chances? I seem to go low on crit chance whenever i replace power prec toughness trinkets/jewelry (35% atm w/o fury)

Whats ur crit chance?

Im with you bro, im running 0/20/0/30/20 and it does wonders, the skill on dodge is overrated.

What im curious is whats ur crit chance and healing with those accesories? Im using emerald accesories (power prec toughness) instead of healing and im having good results but ya healing may be a little weak.

Maybe not the same effect, but something more, there are some bosses that are impossible to see if they are about to destroy you just because someone is in melee range.

I know most of them you can see them charging their skill, or raising their hammer or w/e, but when doing dungeons with 5 people its nearly impossible to see it some times. What i say is that there should be something extra added to show a mob is about to do a massive damage skill, for example, in Tera, they would get some red lightning on their eyes (kind of anime style), there should be something like this implemented here.

100% Agree, at least, ‘normal dungeons’ (excluding fractals, or maybe not!) should have all the same currencies so you can run any dungeon you want for gear, currently you stick to farm 1 or 2 dungeons 24/7 to get a p/v/t exotic gear for example.

Can we find the same dummies that are there in the mists, in a PvE/WvWvW map? I would like to compare my sPvP damage to my PvE damage.

Can we please have exactly the same training dummies there are in sPvP (the light med and heavy golems) in PvE? Lets say, Lion’s Arch? Please its really important since Pve/Pvp stats are a little bit different and i would like to know if im doing better or worse than my sPvP character and since dueling seems like too hard/lazy to implement, this can be quite easy and fast

Some of those news may be interesting for some people, but not really for me, no new game types, personally i will stick with PvE and WvWvW =/, maybe only join it to test stuff in custom rooms since yet, no ‘duels’ are available and i dont think it will be in the rest of the year.

Agree, karma is only useful if you want to make a leg, which i wont, not korean enough, so hum useless…

So much trouble for a simple turn on/off mechanic. I also want to whisper people, so i can set up duels, or spies as someone mentioned above, would add more flavors to WvWvW

Manakel Angel.1047:

In fact, i have a better idea (maybe) about blind. I experience in an other game (i don’t remember which one) e really roleplay blind with my screen becoming black. I saw the skills, the map and quest indicators but everything else was black. I think it would be really good to implement this in the game. And by the way, if the developpers implement surdity, the same can be done with the sound shut down.

Ragnarok online, heh, bats gave you blindness and ur whole screen went black for the exception of a small circle on top of your character (you could pretty much only see urself)

This however wouldnt work, who cares if you cant see kitten, u still have ur enemy targeted, or can press tab to auto target and fire something

I really cant wait for a feature like this, not only for sPvP, but also for PvE, i would like to duel my friends in my PvE gear to test stuff and so on. Just add a block feature and u will be fine.

Honestly i never noticed any difference with day/night, not sure if graphics too low or what…

50% for 3 seconds would be extremely OP. Some classes have nearly infinite blind and could make someone miss 50% of the attacks pretty much of the time.
Currently if u are sleepy or not skilled at all you will still miss a lot, but skilled players will often use their 1 skill just to get rid of blind and then use the big move. However this would be impossible if it lasted 3 seconds you should just retreat or try your luck, blind is fine as it is imo.

Yes it should be optional

An excessive buff could potentially ruin WvWvW, it is already pretty OP since it uses PvE mechanics. Maybe decrease its damage but increase its duration like stated above. But giving it more damage/damage per second is a big no.

GUYS, you say that combo is not OP because thieves/warriors/mesmer can do exactly the same. It is still OP, but not only eng, all of them, so have fun with future nerfs.

Let me tell you the problem is not the engineer being underpowered, is the other classes being op, once they ‘fix’ them to match the rest of the classes it will be the same.

Game is playable for me as well from a notebook with an ati 5650. However in big WvWvW zergs near casttles i get around 5 fps. Yes, total bs.

I dont say theres nothing wrong, i just said it is already buffed.

Mesmers are just like shamans in WoW at wotlk, party/people only need 1 for time warp (blood lust?) or portals.

Confusion already hits 2x in Pve/WvWvW…

It impressed me how much damage he could pull with the lightning skill with scepter, holy crap i never thought u could make it hit that much. However, i dont like that spec too much of a glass cannon 0 survivability xD. Can do nearly as much damage with D/D and survive 50 times more.

So it barely glows? Not sure if it would be good paired with a corrupted one

Can someone give me a good video/screenshot of this weapon in combat? I cant seem to find any good. I want to know its glow and such :P

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elites tied in with grandmaster traits would be ELITE!

This, traits have yet to give more customization, atm every class is the SAME when using the same weapons, giving skills depending on ur traits would add some more customization. Like ‘oh kitten that ele is fire i better run’ or ‘that ele is d/d but earth so i better dont waste my time’. Now its like ‘oh that ele is d/d’ and thats it!

At what level do u get Arah, Citad of Flame and Corrupted gear in sPvP? Cause i have done way more sPvP than PvE and i haven’t seen them yet in sPvP.

So after quitting sPvP and doing PvE/WvWvW, i have got my hands on a full exotic gear, and cool looking skins, in around a week, while it would take around a year to get the same skins in sPvP, whats up?

Apply the bosses design/mechanics to normal dungeons and add some more(or higher chances) interesting drops → profit.

Thats why the optional comes into. I really dont care about those people whispering kitten stuff, but i could care about asking for a 1v1 rematch, or letting someone know how good he did or w/e. But being 100% anonymous is boring and theres no real reason to do so. Just make an option to show/hide your name and thats it. With a ‘real world’ example, go to ward with ur face hidden with paint or a hood, or go with ur face revealed, that easy.

How do u get the recipe for the destroyer dagger? I have already the one for corrupted shard, but im guessing the one for the destroyer dagger is just throwing in the mats with ur weaponsmith and discover it?

Agree the basic ones are totally useless, however if you want fine ones just buy with gems i find them cheap, like 4gold and you can buy 5.

Man i agree with this this error drives me NUTS. Come on really, give a better explanation on the error at least…

The game needs more emotes!

That’s what i said, it should be optional, no one likes to be forced to play how ever someone wants you to play, i thought this game was all about play how ever you want and not how Anet thinks is what we want

Well after doing Fotm(fractals), i can say that, the encounters are pretty interesting, well designed, you can notice the difference, while normal dungeons are way somehow poorly designed. Regular dungeons could use some of the fotm design on bosses since a lot of them are just tank and spank. Please you have the potential you made really funny and interesting encounters in fotm why cant you do the same on regular dungeons? It would motivate people to stop the endless fotm farming and join some other dungeons to have some fun.