Guild Wars 2

Dawdler.8521:

Infusion.7149:

Nope. Not in WvW with blobs.

Indeed lol.

Don’t know what to say, other than “yep, it even runs in WvW with blobs”. Might be a testament to the i5-4300U, but more likely it’s due to how well GW2 scales for different hardware platforms.

GW1 was same way — it would scale down extremely well.

Try downing your settings — if that’s not acceptable, then do buy some new hardware.

Rebound is not the best skill to use a benchmark. Some quick thoughts:

1. The cast time on Rebound! makes it hard to use
2. The window for death-blow prevention is small
3. The fall-back effect (aura) doesn’t occur until 5 seconds after using the shout

Most players I know would like to see the skill become instant cast and provide the aura immediately. The death blow effect can be scrapped or made supplemental to the primary behavior.

Death-blow prevention is not that great in GW2 because it simply delays the outcome of a very bad situation. Also death-blow prevention on a skill that’s not instant-cast makes it very difficult to use (cast too late, cast too early, easily interrupted).

I’ve been using Sigils of Energy and Battle because that’s what I put on my weapons over a year ago (and then forgot about it).

I’d like to optimize my sigils for WvW. I zerg and small team roam. Here are some combinations I’ve been considering:

1. Condition defense using Purity, Generosity, and/or Cleansing
2. Life Steal with Blood and Leeching (unblockable armor-proof damage)
3. Healing with Water and Renewal
4. DPS with Air and Fire

I’m sure there are other combinations I haven’t considered.

Feedback appreciated!

Wolfric.9380:

It´s a bit the same with rebound… Why the hell this effect? Just make it intant cast and give the aura and put it on 50s CD ….

I’m also a big fan of this suggestion too!

1. Make it instant
2. Make the aura application instant
3. Keep the “death-blow” feature, remove the heal if that’s too OP

Wolfric.9380:

I don´t understand why they make it complicated… It´s totally controlable by the glyphs own CD´s.

This.

ANet doesn’t kitten any other condition application skill based upon nearby players, so why do it here?

I’ve been thinking more about this, and I’m suspecting that Mantra’s will be the utility add for the next elite spec.

What pairs well with sword (assuming sword is melee-ish, and sword is the next elite wep per the leaks)?

Looking at utility skill types that we don’t currently have:

Meditations: This is cool, but not sure it pairs necessarily with a sword
Traps: I like traps, but I think wells would be more spell caster-ish
Wells: Interesting but not really different than AoEs we already have
Banner: No thanks
Stance: Also interesting when considering a melee-oriented elementalist
Mantras: Very caster-ish, supports fast skill play (when charged)
Elixir: Doesn’t fit with spell-caster theme imho
Gadget: Ditto
Turret: Ditto again
Spirit Weapon: I love this, but too similar to elementals and remind me of conjures
Spirit: Maybe, but again similar to elementals
Venom: Doesn’t fit with spell-caster theme, but maybe they are elemental effects?
Physical: Same
Corruption: Interesting but does it synergize with elemental attunements?
Spectral: Interesting but similar with corruption, needs to synergize with attunements

My favs from the list are Mantras and Stances.

My poll vote: the cap should remain in place

The dailies are rewarding even when at the achievement point cap. This makes the achievement point maximums deterministic and is a tool to balance the distribution of point sources in the total.

I run GW2 on a Surface Pro 2 which is an i5-4300U with integrated graphics and a total of 4GB RAM. Runs great if you turn all the settings down

If it runs on that, it should run on about anything.

Sazukikrah.5036:

unblockable pull mind you

But can be dodged, or negated with stability.

Yeah but can you really time a group stun-break with any efficiency? Do you pop it when two people are stunned? How about three people? That’s assuming you have the ability to quickly determine that your party is stunned, and how many exactly.

In addition, when zerging we have a stability rotation which reduces the importance of group stun-break. So the group stun-break part seems like a superfluous, and mostly useless addon to this skill.

Also the commander specifically mentioned “the skill with superspeed” when asking the Tempests to slot it (instead of calling it by “Eye of the Storm”). So maybe we can list the scenarios where 5s of group superspeed should be used while WvW zerging

Fun video to watch thanks!

I especially enjoyed watching your skill rotations. The amount of kit swapping surprised me, but seemed manageable when watching what skills you used afterwards. It’s similar to elementalist where you have 20 skills (hammer, FT, elixir gun, toolbelt) and you’re switching kits to access the 15 in addition to the toolbelt.

I don’t think you camped any weapon/kit for very long.

Pick the race you want to stare at for the next 100 hours. I rarely see racial skills used.

It’s probably good ANet made the racial abilities less desirable. That way you can play what you want without fear of running sub-optimal.

Myself I run Asura on Elementalist — and pretty much everything since I just love Asura.

Was in WvW last night, rolling in a good Zerg group. The commander asked Tempests in the team to slot “Eye of the Storm”:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/%22Eye_of_the_Storm!%22

I’ve never used this skill since it seems weak compared to the other shouts which grant an aura (900 heal, 1000 regen, protection, vigor, and aura effect).

I tried to find some opportunities to use it — best one was a surprise jump down onto another zerg where the super-speed helped us to run thru the tail to towards the head, mowing down our foes.

Other than that, not sure it provided much use. Maybe I’m not recognizing the proper scenarios to use the shout?

I can see it… think Star Lord from the Marvel Heroes MMO.

The pistol is simply the conduit to launch your magical projectiles!

I have a hard time seeing it as a main hand with an off-hand focus… that’s a bit weird. I’m not keen in another off-hand at this point. Dual magic-pistols sounds cool tho!

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

juno.1840:

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

I rarely run power stats for ele, I find strong condition damage or precision/ferocity to be better routes to take but that’s just me

That’s pretty rare in my experience. Most eles I know either run pure power or mix of power and celestial. That doesn’t mean condi’s eles are bad, it just means you’re a bit special.

It suits my play style better I have my build set up 20-25 stacks of might at all times, that helps (PvE speaking of course, I don’t run condi in PvP)

Ah sry — I’m always wearing WvW glasses and I forget there are other game modes

:)

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

I rarely run power stats for ele, I find strong condition damage or precision/ferocity to be better routes to take but that’s just me

That’s pretty rare in my experience. Most eles I know either run pure power or mix of power and celestial. That doesn’t mean condi’s eles are bad, it just means you’re a bit special.

I’ve mostly played Ele and Guard in WvW. Every now and then I get bored and want to switch it up a bit.

I checked into MetaBattle and that website just sucks for build ideas. Certainly there is more than just a single scrapper build for WvW?

Anyway, last night I played a couple hours as a P/P condi scrapper with gyros (still don’t quite get the elite stealth gyro since it does not follow well at all). I started examining my the build a bit and saw a Grand Master trait which gives stability and might when using a Flamethrower — that seems sick so is there a viable WvW flamethrower build?

Part of me thinks it would be possible to make a front line flamethrower Engi. I can’t figure out if that would be condi or power though. Strangely enough, the flamethrower seems pitifully weak at generating burns.

Dadnir.5038:

I’m sorry to say it but there is no defense from armor in spvp. Only amulet’s stats. You can freely run naked with your amulet there and you’ll see no difference with or without armor.

The wiki says that there is a base armor contribution:

“Players need to equip chest, legs and foot armor to get the base armor value, but hands, shoulders and head are ignored.”

So there is an armor contribution, it’s just normalized. A trait that gives a defense bonus would still function in sPvP.

Reference: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Structured_PvP

draxynnic.3719:

juno.1840:

In fairness I said “traits and heavy armor” when discussing survivability. That being said, let’s look at heavy armor:

Heavy armor does add more defense rating. Ascended heavy is +304 defense over ascended light armor. That’s more than all of our +toughness traits and skills (Signet of Earth +180, Stone Flesh +150, Rock Barrier +250).

For exotics, which is, I believe, what sPvP is balanced against, it works out to 291. So about a third of a cleric ammy either way.

I doubt ArenaNet will ever make a specialisation that allows a profession to switch armours. What I could see, if they decide it’s needed for a melee-oriented weapon, is a trait that provides a bonus to toughness (or even to defence, if they have aggro mechanics in mind!) when that weapon is equipped – so you’d have to actually commit to the weapon to get the benefit, rather than being able to just take it for free toughness while using the more standoff-oriented core weapons.

Oh that’s a good idea. The minor for the new elite could be something like:

“Allows use of Swords. Increases defenses from armor by 30% when a Sword is equipped”

Are there any restrictions on the FTP accounts to curb free botting?

Simple ones are limited TP access (buy not sell) and no ability to mail attachments.

Dadnir.5038:

juno.1840:

So rumor has it that our next Elite spec allows a 1H sword.

Wouldn’t it be sweet if it was a melee based elite spec which also granted heavy armor usage!

Game play feel would be like E/As from GW1, but with front line survivability (from traits and heavy armor).

I’m sorry but the heavy armor won’t give the elementalist any more survivability. Armor are mainly skins in this game nothing more nothing less. But maybe you wanna play optimus prim as an elementalist with the legendary heavy armor.

In fairness I said “traits and heavy armor” when discussing survivability. That being said, let’s look at heavy armor:

Heavy armor does add more defense rating. Ascended heavy is +304 defense over ascended light armor. That’s more than all of our +toughness traits and skills (Signet of Earth +180, Stone Flesh +150, Rock Barrier +250).

So heavy armor won’t make you indestructible, but it’s better than all our other +toughness options right now. I guess another option is the “minor” for the new elite could be something like “Allows use of Swords and increases defenses from armor by 30%” and it’s then the same (without the coolness of an ele walking around in heavy gear).

What you are proposing is essentially the bare minimum (if that) to introduce scythes.

When I read what you wrote, I don’t get excited about scythes. It’s not much more than simply having the Djinn Form show a scythe graphic (similar to Death Shroud and Reaper Shroud). Honestly, as you thought I’d say, it’s a bit lame.

A new weapon introduction should come with everything that the existing weapons have. My point is that is a lot of work. Only ANet can comment on exactly how much, but qualitatively it’s more than simply adding an existing weapon (like GS) to Elementalist.

I think every forum area has a discussion about new weapons — spear is a popular topic right now. I think new weapon options are cool, and generate a lot of excitement. I don’t think one will be added for a single elite spec — it’ll be something larger in scope to make use of all the work required in the first place.

Some players want spirit weapons because they’re “fun”. For me that means:

• I like how they look
• I like that they have a super-natural, spritual kind of theme going (rather than undead)
• I like that they have an active component in addition to the passive component

They are tricky to balance because they are parallel damage (like minions or ranger pets).

The original SW were a bit better imho because they were indestructible — there was a lot of groaning from other players back then because they couldn’t eliminate the SW threat, except by dodging and there’s only so many times you can do that.

At this point they are nerfed to an undesirable place because (imho) the difficulty in balance. When I see a guardian playing SWs, it does make me smile and think “live the dream buddy, live the dream”.

A new weapon type (i.e. Scythe) is a big endeavor because of:

• Addition of crafting recipes for all stat combos and level variants, including ascended
• Addition of unique animations to all race models
• Addition of skins for all Scythes (crafted, dropped, all levels, etc.)
• Addition of unique exotics including precursors for legendary variant
• New legendary (since there is no existing legendary)
• Addition of Scythe to dungeon rewards (dungeon vendors, reward tracks, etc.)

(and these are only what I could think of on a Monday morning, so surely there are more concerns)

I suspect ANet will add a new weapon at some point, but not yet. When they do, I bet it’ll be for all professions, not just one Elite spec for one expansion. The amount of work is too high to not reuse it across the entire game. Maybe this will happen when all professions have access to all the current weapons.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

To me, video games are video games. I can’t tell you how many times I spent $30, $40, $50, and even $60 for a console game that afforded somewhere between 10 and 40 hours of content, never to be updated.

I am befuddled why anyone would feel qualms over spending the same amount for 100s, if not 1000s of hours for content that is often updated.

Truly mind-boggling.

Yep, simply divide the cost you paid by the hours you played

For me, it’s easily 100 hours since I bought HoT for $25…. so 25 cents an hour. Pretty good deal there!

Better yet, I’m still playing it and I have a rather large to-do list still before I’m done. I imagine the next expansion will be out before I finish.

EDIT: You can compare to subscription model as well — divide cost by months played. For me that’s over 3 months so I’m looking at $8.33 a month. For many other players it’s less than $5 since they bought HoT for $50 over a year ago.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I never said anything about whispering. You made that up. I offered screenie, then wardrobe as an alternative to a hypothetical inspect.

Well literally correct, you didn’t use the word “whisper”, you did say this:

IndigoSundown.5419:

If someone wants to know what skin I’m sporting, they can screenshot and look in the wardrobe. If they cba to do that, they really don’t need to know.

Which implies, with little doubt, that you’d tell anyone that whispered you to take a screenie and go look it up. Because “if they cba [sic] to do that, they really don’t need to know.”

That being said, I saw another suggestion which is to provide an “enable/disable” option for style inspections. If you want to remain private because you put effort into creating your style, then you can disable the style inspection feature. If you’re a more “open source” type of player when it comes to style, then you can enable the style inspection feature. Boom — problem solved, everyone happy!

IndigoSundown.5419:

If someone wants to know what skin I’m sporting, they can screenshot and look in the wardrobe. If they cba to do that, they really don’t need to know.

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

this is something i do not want at all in this fine game . and why i do not play World of Warcraft at all . no matter if i did raids wvw pvp or pve no way no how no thanks at all . now if some one likes the skin i got my toon they can take a screen shot and look it up or they could just ask me. otherwise like i said no thanks no how no way the day that happens in this fine game i will stop playing . i do not like that thought as well.

Sounds sort of elitist… kinda like “I got mine, don’t even ask me what it is, nah nah na-nah nah”

e·lit·ist – adjective – favoring, advocating, or restricted to an elite.

EDIT: there’s nothing private about style… you wear it for all to see.

Djinn.9245:

juno.1840:

I would like this just to avoid asking “what skin is that?” when I see a cool look on a player.

Stats and traits can remain private. A way to “link” a build would be cool (a la GW1). That way I can ask and they can offer if they want. Maybe that will come with the next expansion when we can load/save builds

If you make it possible, groups can require it. I say no.

Groups will do what they will do. They can ask your build today and you can either lie or ignore them — either way you’ll suffer. Having build linking is not going to change that in any way (you could also link a different build so the ‘lie’ scenario is still valid).

Ultimately you can choose to run in those type of groups or not. Having build linking doesn’t change that in any way.

We have some of those undesirable things in GW2 as well — just comes with the territory.

I didn’t say remove style from the game — I said it’s not plausible to keep style secret. It’s out there in the open for everyone to see, just like RL. Ultimately a good style will be copied.

That being said, how many players have you seen that look identical?

So I don’t believe your concern of style-theft is really valid anyway.

Although from a game design standpoint, this may be an easy way to incorporate new weapons into GW2.

Essentially make the water weapons function on land with the same (or similar) skills that they have currently.

This expands the number of usable land weapons with less development effort than creating new land weapons from scratch.

Because that’s how fashion works . Wanting to be your own special snowflake that nobody can copy isn’t plausible.

Ultimately ANet owns those skins and it’s to ANet’s benefit for players to see those skins because it leads to sales.

P.S. I guess your comment “If you want know how another ch is dressed just ask him/her in chat.” was code for “I won’t tell you”

Acnologia.6934:

Set: no. If you want know how another ch is dressed just ask him/her in chat.

I don’t agree with this point since we’re talking cosmetics and your look is currently public (as in I can see it on you character right now).

So why waste everyone’s time, especially when players are, you know… playing, to ask “what is that skin you are wearing?”.

Stats and Traits should remain private. However tools to easily share builds would be very beneficial (similar to what’s in GW1). Those type of tools provide quick build sharing as well as training opportunities (when describing optimum builds for a particular guild event).

I would like this just to avoid asking “what skin is that?” when I see a cool look on a player.

Stats and traits can remain private. A way to “link” a build would be cool (a la GW1). That way I can ask and they can offer if they want. Maybe that will come with the next expansion when we can load/save builds

soulknight.9620:

I did a few pentakills with auramancer healbot build a few months ago. I am good, i am godlike, oh wait, i was playing against totally bad players in unrankeds feels bad

Although chasing a terrabad player while in lightning overload and they can’t seem to get out of the AoE is pretty funny.

Sword will have a PBAoE flavor of shatterstone… problem solved

So rumor has it that our next Elite spec allows a 1H sword.

Wouldn’t it be sweet if it was a melee based elite spec which also granted heavy armor usage!

Game play feel would be like E/As from GW1, but with front line survivability (from traits and heavy armor).

Behellagh.1468:

juno.1840:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If the price is rising that means people have more money they wish to spend then they do coins. This seems to be functioning exactly like it is supposed to. With a nearly constant supply over a years time people clear have coins to sell so I don’t see the “problem”?

Clearly there is/was a problem, otherwise ANet wouldn’t have announced a change in behavior.

Is it a change in behavior or simply informing the player base that they aren’t going to intervene so don’t bother waiting for it?

ANet stated explicitly that they are changing their behavior, and some of those changes are already implemented.

You could go Sigil of Torment and Sigil of Blight for some cover conditions — although Blight looks pretty much useless compared to Torment.

First, I would swap Scythe for one of the existing weapons — mostly because adding a new weapon is a HUGE endeavor. Maybe GS since a new two-hand weapon would be nice for Ele. I know that GW1 dervish used a scythe… maybe the scythe is the visual wep appearance when in Djinn form.

Second I would tie the elemental form to F5 so as to not appear similar to “overload” mechanic. This also prevents some mind numbing management of attunement cooldowns trying to figure out what form is available and when.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I don’t get it… the graph you showed has MC’s having a very stable supply and demand over a full year of time. The price has not reached equilibrium yet since people continue to hoard coins instead of sell them. This will stop when they reach correct market value and the number of people selling them equals the number of people buying them.

If the price is rising that means people have more money they wish to spend then they do coins. This seems to be functioning exactly like it is supposed to. With a nearly constant supply over a years time people clear have coins to sell so I don’t see the “problem”?

Clearly there is/was a problem, otherwise ANet wouldn’t have announced a change in behavior.

Warcry.1596:

The combo field dropped first is the one that it will combo off of. That’s how it’s always been.

Understood, but that doesn’t solve the problem. Can you tell which one is down first without field generating player calling it out (and hoping it’s in sequence given VoiP lag)?

We’re not talking about the trivial situation of a single field on the ground.

GW2 is still an incredible value compared to all other options — even F2P. I cannot think of a good F2P game that I didn’t eventually throw money at (the best being LotRO imho which still got my money in the end).

However I did not buy HoT at launch mostly because of the price (along with some other issue I had with GW2 at the time). I did buy HoT during the $25 sale and that was a great deal now that I’ve played it. I’m still playing it and don’t see an end in sight — so many play choices!

At this point, I’m excited about the next expansion and will probably pre-order it when available.

Regarding MCs (and only MCs) my guess is the current supply does outweigh demand — in other words more MCs are entering the game than are leaving the game (note I said “game” rather than “market”).

If this is the case then there’s nothing left for ANet to “fix” regarding MCs, other than letting the market adjust without any further intervention — although I honestly don’t know what intervention they were doing previously in the market regarding MCs.

Maybe MCs are a case that’s not following the text book, so ANet is going to stop trying to force them in a logical direction.

I like tempest quite a bit. It’s not god-mode, nor should it be.

However I also believe it could use a few quality of life changes (example the stability on overload trait should award more than a single stack of stability to make it more effective and worth the trade for regen/vigor trait).

I’m curious on the new elite. I hope it doesn’t punish aura switching like Tempest does (if you switch auras too fast you miss the overload, and if you use the overload you can’t switch back as fast).

My main point is Viscount doesn’t need a reward buff because he is already rewarding. Players are skipping him for other reasons (I postulated lack of knowledge on the champ bag rewards, but others have said it’s simply not fun).

The labby is already very rewarding with the elimination of DR.

Hoping for 1H sword so I can craft Bolt — the best legendary ever

Obtena.7952:

I don’t see what the problem is here. It’s exactly as JS and Anet said … price will raise to the point where demand and supply are more inline. It’s not speculation that markets will adjust … it’s part of their very nature to do so.

QQing that Mystic coins are ‘expensive’ and claiming that it’s because there is something ‘wrong’ in general with Anet’s approach to let the markets work themselves out shows you don’t know what you are talking about. When the price is ‘right’, people will release their coins to ease the demand.

There are multiple ways the ANet can solve this “problem”, although the problem is different depending upon who you talk to.

ANet’s current approach is “hands off” which is a bit ambiguous — without knowledge of the “hands on” approach, we really don’t know what is different. Of course you can guess, but that’s not factual in any way.

Abelisk.4527:

Eles, if played right, are incredible in sPvP.

I am so narrow. I love Scepter/Focus fresh air but decided to theorycraft a build…

And Z0MG I just made a build that utilizes powerful bursts, very high mobility, very high sustain, very great support, and long-lasting boons!!

I think I just hit the jackpot with this build. Ever since I used it my teams have been winning (2-3 games so not a whole lot of experience).

I’ve tried it in 1v1s on 1v1 servers. It’s very very good. High ceiling too. Very high defense, very high healing, very high damage.

Scepter/Warhorn master race. I’ve yet to have extensive experience with it, but from what I’ve played with it, it has been absolutely powerful. I don’t think I’ve ever died in an sPvP game with it so far…

Edit: with more playing, condition users seem to be the only potential threat with this build, but otherwise everything should be good with the build

You should post the build for a critique.

DoctorDing.5890:

I’m somewhat amused that the majority of the lab farming squads I’ve joined in the last couple of days now just skip the Viscount boss. Since the buff they consider him a bad use of time. Perhaps his rewards needs buffing too….

He’s still not hard and what players fail to realize is champ bags give at least 5 HoT bags.

If the door spawn timing was such that there’s always a door available then I can see skipping less efficient doors (like the two three doors that spawn a single vet — very little reward there). Given that there is “down time” where general mob farming is pursued, skipping Viscount doesn’t seem that efficient.