Does anyone else feel uneasy playing a toon of the opposite gender, I do.
I’m a guy, and even though most female toons are more pleasing on the eye to look at, playing one just makes me feel, “Strange”, not to mention the countless guys hitting on my toon, only to find out I’m a guy, and calling me well, some unpleasant names to say the least.
Like I want to make a female norn warrior, because I don’t like how the male norn’s torso seems to be shorter on one side than the other, lol.
It does not bother me one bit, and I have never been hit on a single time because of my character lol.in fact, I’ve been playing MMOs for 15 years and not once have I been hit on while playing a female toon!
I do not think the weaver has anywhere near as many condition removals as is necessary to survive a 1v1 let alone 1vx.
Imagine HoT classes: eating a single condi bomb by a necro, crossing a condi mesmer, facing a condi thief or ranger etc. Let alone w/e is going to happen with condis in PoF…
How do we strip the stack of conditions?
I scrolled through the abilities and I can barely find condi cleanses anywhere.
Specicng into and attuning to water will not be enough to strip a stack.
Further, I much prefer active condition cleansing instead of passive mitigation like Diamond skin which cannot be relied upon if you eat a single backstab.
I think condition cleanses need to be integrated into either attunement swapping or throughout sword abilities such that we can strip off a stack of conditions to surive a bomb and long drawn out fight.
This class is so incredibly complex (which is AWESOME) that I don’t know how to fit this in without making it OP. But as it stands, I don’t see how there is enough.
They did it so that people who wanted mounts would shut up about them already and buy PoF. I agree, GW2 never needed mounts, but there was a ridiculous yet vocal demand for them, so there you go.
I have done map completion on two characters, earned the Gifts of Exploration and spent them to craft legendaries.
Looking at my world map today, I notice that my Tyria completion is at 99%: I have 652/653 points of interest. I believe I have hovered over every single zone and each zone says I have completed them 100%.
Has map completion bugged out recently?
EDIT: This “bug” is on both characters that I did map completion on.
I am curious why is there a limit to how many guilds a player can be a part of, and would it be possible to increase it?
A lot of players like to join different guilds for specific content. For example if you like WvW you might want to join a bigger guild for zerg fights, but also a smaller guild for havok play. Or some who do pve/wvw might also want to join a PvP guild. If you do PvE you might like to have a guild for raids, fractals or any other specific content. Then there are also personal guilds for storage purposes, friends and family, and for wvw purposes.
Everything must have a limit in computing because there is only a finite amount of space. If there was no limit and the number of guilds a player joined got high enough, it would certainly cause issues. This “high enough” point is handled by imposing a limit. Whether the limit is number really close to 0 or really large doesn’t matter as long as it restricts someone from reaching the “high enough” point.
Why the limit is so small is another question. I would like to see an increase as well!
I have been playing a crazy amount of WvW lately, attempting to get as many claim tickets and levels as possible, and I have to say one of the most annoying things is all the freaking reward chests that will not stack and force me to do inventory processing seemingly all the time. Ignoring the chests within chests issue, why does EVERY reward chest have to be different so they won’t stack?
I would really like some kind of option somewhere to avoid having to click the things jiggling on the side as well, just let them accumulate in my inventory automatically (and stack PLEASE)
Maybe even sell some kind of device in the gem store which will automate all of that for you. I would gladly pay to not have to do all that clicking when I am trying to play WvW.
What will be the next expansion wvw map?
After alpine and desert im guessing a “kungfu, asia, panda” oriented style :_(
Can we plz don’t… we just want normal castles like LotR style or something ripped of from Scotland castles.
Plz skip the Asia style buildings that we know they are coming …
After all the crying and complaining you all did about their last map and begging for the return of alpine, what on earth makes you think they will spend any effort on a new map???
It is a no win situation with this community. ANET knows better at this point and Will not risk wasting time on a project like that. Better learn to love the current maps and their rotation scheme because it isn’t changing
Right now, some of us think Anet employees don’t play PvP and WvW, so Anet doesn’t know about big problems. So I think of way to get community to help Anet! What if we did a Crowdfunding to collect monies to give to Anet, so they can hire people to play PvP and WvW for them? Once Anet know about all the issues, then maybe they can assign developer to make fix?
Hmmmm
What would be your guess for this years April 1st joke? I have loved everyone so far all the way back to the ones in GW1. So not sure what would be fun to do or play now. Maybe something the Aviator thing again? Maybe switch genders again? Maybe switch professions this time? How about stick figures again?
Tonight I am going to play in a 5 man with some friends. They will be playing necro, rev, warrior and thief. Instead of playing my warrior or mesmer, I was thinking that a pure support druid for heals and condi cleanses might be a good addition to the group. FYI, I have little druid experience. I came up with the following build:
After testing this afternoon I felt that my heals are not as sustained as I anticipated. When I am in celestial form, heals are strong… but it decays very quickly. Then when used up, it seems to take a very long time to replenish. While I am trying to replenish, I feel that I will not be adding much to the group since my attacks do no damage and I don’t have a lot of group healing.
One helpful play style adjustment I found was to only use Celestial Avatar for a couple abilities and not to run it dry just for the sake of sitting in it; the strong heals are more readily available for when needed.
Is there any tweaks that someone can recommend to my build or a play style suggestion I can use? Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
Gear both. Mesmer for solo and playing with stealthers. Warrior for playing with tanky non stealthers to brawl in larger groups and nights when you can’t find a semi even fight.
I personally do not like having to choose to play with either my brother… or my friend. Due to this principle, we have not stepped foot in spvp since the change.
Want to avoid cheese and passive play? Want to play a build that isn’t likely to see a nerf? Want a build with some complexity? Don’t want to play a thief? Need it to be slippery enough to slink away from large groups?
One solid roamer build that meets this description in my opinion: Power Mesmer.
This is my current variant and it hits ridiculously hard mostly from damage bonus stacking. It also has a massive HP pool. The build isn’t really mine but an amalgam of several builds from better players I duel against. Adjustments may be necessary as you play to fit your style.
I agree with power mesmer. +1 ( but I prefer different armor and runes )
It’s a bit rough the first week you play it, but once you learn a bit more about the classes and abilities (by losing horribly to them), you start to avoid soaking hits and begin winning 1v1s
Hmmm I loved the tournaments. I was able to play my game mode only and get a couple of accessories. I remember wvwvw being active and I was in sorrows at the time…. No where near a tier 1. It would be nice to have some action again, even if for a few weeks only…
I used to play this build for small group support with a d/d elly and mesmer (release – 2013/14). That class and build combo allowed incredible durability, control and damage. There was never an unsuccessful night roaming. I always ran 1700+ healing power.
We have since moved onto 2x shatter chrono and thief. We want a different play style as it’s getting a bit stale. So, I thought of returning to our old comp.
We aren’t sure of a class comp, but it will probably be a zerker warrior/necro and scrapper.
Is there any semi-standard support builds someone can recommend?
Checked metabattle, but it’s a zerg build.
Do people believe that I am better off running maur/zerker dps traps + 1 hand sword?
Thoughts on heal power, or is it all about boon duration through durability runes?
Is there a way bind profession skills differently per character so I do not have to rebind every time I switch characters?
Elementalist (normal case):
I would like Elemental attunements bound to Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 and Ctrl+4 in the order the profession skills appear by default. (same goes for all other classes except mesmer).
Mesmer (scrambled case):
I would like the order to be mixed.
I would like Diversion bound to Ctrl+1 (third profession skill) and mind rack bound Ctrl+2 ( first profession skill)
I set this up on the mesmer, logged over to elementalist and found that the keybindings also applied to that character. Ideally, I would love to change the physical ordering of the profession skills, but I do not think this is an option.
Time gating is one of the core problems I have with this game. Laurels aren’t the only example, there are many in GW2.
I like to play more when I have the best/coolest gear. Preventing me from getting the best gear makes me want to play less. To me, time gating is backwards.
I wish I was joking but based on the release of the DBLs, 3-4 years.
But dont forget that 3 years ago Devon did say it only takes 6-8 months, IF they had a team working on it, not the intern they currently have working on WvW on their spare time!
As the mixed Borderlands is adopted, i think Anet should work on the 3rd borderland map after the WvW score overhaul. I hope it can be finished before the next expansion.
LOL! Are you fricking kidding me? You think ANET will give us a new map after the crying from the last one?
We will never get a new wvwvw map. The wvwvw community has themselves to blame for that.
And no Anet is to blame, for lying to us for 4 years! For not working on WvW at all except when some devs had spare time!
They refused to listen to us, then created CDIs to claim to listen to us, then didnt even listen to us in them! And continued to not listen to us, and now we have these silly polls where the options are things they want, not what we want!
Anet is to blame for everything wrong with the game, they are after-all the developers of the game, it’s not like we coded the game or lied to ourselves!
It took them 3 years to give us a map. They gave us a map and every single one of you complained about it. So they removed it.
Wonder how much money was wasted on develop.ent time? They won’t consider another map. Sorry the truth hurts.
As the mixed Borderlands is adopted, i think Anet should work on the 3rd borderland map after the WvW score overhaul. I hope it can be finished before the next expansion.
LOL! Are you fricking kidding me? You think ANET will give us a new map after the crying from the last one?
We will never get a new wvwvw map. The wvwvw community has themselves to blame for that.
This class is awful at the moment. ANET killed the d/d spec which may have been the biggest draw. Nerf after nerf and lack of meaningful attention have turned this class into the most boring class in the game.
I don’t want to run around with a warhorn, blindly pressing auras (a spec which take little to no skill). I want d/d returned to a viable state and way to deal with this out of control condition situation.
I transferred all my ascended to my mesmer and redid my fractal set on him. I’ve been done with elly since Saturday. The last round of nerfs were the nail in the coffin for me.
I wish they would code a Linux client for GW2. Many people have grown to despise MS and Windows more and more. I think it’s a good time for game developers in general to move to supporting native Linux games as an option.
My only tie to Windows is this game. I’ve had my fingers crossed for a Linux client since day 1
Sorry but imho opinion condi builds are for lazy players. Drop a bomb and stay away. It baffles me that people actually find it fun to play condi builds. LAZY! I remember when condition damage was supplemental to power damage and in that, there was balance. When a player has to spend the entire encounter cleansing condi’s it screams something wrong. Condi builds take no skill whatsoever to play.
Agree, disagree?
What prompted me to post this in part is due to last weekend. I had some time to kill and ended up watching about an hour of spvp matches from about a year ago. There was a noticeable difference in gameplay. Fights were more intense and the skill level was obvious. People can claim you push the same amount of buttons, and that’s certainty true. I think it’s ignorant to claim that bursting with power is the same as bursting with condi. Power bursting starts and stops with each attack and therefore takes more skill to keep up pressure. If that doesn’t make sense this game is lost. Thankfully there’s a lot of competition in the gaming world these days.
Well considering power shatter isn’t really meta by anyone who has a clue how to play mesmer, could you post your build so people can see what you’re currently using?
I’ve mostly stopped playing wvwvw since around the time ANET started making conditions amazing. I left because found myself having a difficult time adjusting to dealing with conditions and it became “unfun” for me.
I decided to try mesmer for the first time solo roaming today EB using the meta battle power shatter build.
Nearly every other roamer I found (maybe every?) was running some condi build:
trapper thiefs
a tank condi warrior build
regular condi thief
condi mesmer
condi ranger
reaper (probably the only build I that I beat — I just stayed away.)
That may be 100% of my 4 hours of roaming. I will be generous and say that I fought a few different builds today… but that might not even be true.
Is there a way to shed conditions that I am not seeing in this build or in an alternate trait line? What about strategies to avoid conditions all together? I am willing to sacrifice personal dps significantly if I can keep conditions off. Any ideas or help is appreciated. Today has frustrated me beyond no end
I think you should be running the squishy metabattle build.
If you run Earth Golem elite, kite well, sigil of energy on your weapon and run sandstorm then that should help with enemy avoidance.
Further, you don’t need to buy another set of gear — ever. You can take that to ANY PvE content and in fact, it is the preferred set up when playing with others. Throw all your agony in there too for fracs.
You will be chugging out insane damage. Start your fight with golem elite and and try to kill before he dies.
Dude, this game should not stress you out. Buy some gems with a credit card, put it toward the item you have been grinding years for— it will come out to the price of a dinner and a movie. There is no monthly fee, you play all the time, game is moving in a positive direction, I don’t see anything wrong with this. Let this help you move on and enjoy yourself. This is all entertainment -.-
