According to everyone, just don’t go there seems the solution, to that logic, the game is unplayable. If the Puppet causes me to fail multiple events, that helps me not be able to play and not everyone keeps track of that puppet and when it spawns. And again, I don’t remember any other world bosses that causes this much inconvenience on any level as this one does.
I am actually less upset by the repair cost and more upset that I cannot play the game how it was meant to be played (Personal Story and Exploration) just because of one enemy. No other world boss one shots an entire map (that i know of) and doesn’t make it unplayable.
What if you’re killed by a spider?
The marionette is an enemy just like all other enemies.
Enemies hurt you, do something about them or they kill you.
Simple rule.
I wish world bosses would have a larger impact on the world.
Even travelling between zones and destroying stuff if they aren’t dealt with.
That’s the image ANet gave about GW2 before they launched it and I think that’s what they should be trying for.
Okay, How many other enemies can one shot an entire map? Because I don’t remember a lot of them. And I cannot summon a 100 man zerg to deal with one creature just because I want it to happen.
I would help but when there is no one there, it makes it hard and when I am just doing my personal story and I zone in just as it ends and die, I am a little mad about it. A different example is I got shot with a bullet from 1000 miles away and I get to go to the hospital and pay the fee even if the entire thing is unfair and shouldn’t even happen.
So I am on a server that doesn’t do the puppet event every 2 hours, but when it fails, I suffer for it. If you want the effect to be that grand how about killing everyone on every single map? I just bring this up because it made me fail the event I was doing so now so it interferes with how I would like to play and takes a chunk out of my bank.
Ty Anet for this awesome and well thought out content you didn’t have to patch 5 times.
From a lore standpoint all the guild halls were located in The Battle Isles (in Gw1), which I think became flooded due to the Dragons awakening. If they want them to be anything like they were before you need a place to put them as well as a person to buy them from (Gw1 had Canthan Ambassadors and we all know Cantha is now dead.) ((Off topic I believe if game developers did every single thing a consumer said they would ruin their game as well but that is just me))
Been playing since February of 2013. Been in a total of 2 guilds since then. Only problems is the first guild had so much drama it imploded, and with my current guild, its going on a similar path.
So I am looking for a new guild. I would like to part of a PvX type guild since I enjoy all parts of Gw2 (PvE/WvW the most). Kinda hoping for some nice active people to be on, maybe some guild missions and fun guild events (Trivia, Hide and Seek type things maybe) I am on Henge of Denravi now, but may consider transferring to another server if need be (although that could take some time).
TL;DR I am looking for nice people to give me pie.
Anyway, looking forward to join a nice guild with similar thinking people hopefully. Have a nice day!
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[EDIT]* Thank you the few that have decided to read this post and reply. I am going to be looking into some of these opportunities.
Remove the downstate from pvp and wvw. If you die, die. What is that “second chance” of that new game for kitten players?
I remember the firsts online games, when you die you drop a lot of things or lose something like gold or experience. I miss Ultima Online and that kind of games. The games today are pretty easy, new gamers need easy games and GW2 is all about new gamers and easy stuff, easy pve, easy pvp and achievements. Everything in this game is a “easy mode” without punishment for lose.
Uuuuh the problem with this is that Anet advertised this game with this game mechanic and the game has been out so its not a surprised down state is there. And if it is so bad go back to those other games. No one is forcing you to play this one.
So I am about 99.999% certain this has already come up but I will ask it once again. Where are the other dragons or any story about them? I know there are the dragon champions, but any chance we will be able to get a chance to kill the other Elder Dragons or any information about the development about them (i.e. are you guys even working toward being able to defeat the other dragons at all?) I only ask because this Scarlet did it is getting old. (I would actually pay for an expansion to be able to defeat the other dragons.)
PvP is unique in the fact that it uses PvP-only equipment as well as special instance matches as well as auto-balance for fair matches as well as no PvE material in which WvW does have it. WvW is not pure PvP so not every PvP rule can be in effect in WvW. Plus the arena was added for unofficial GvG matches, if they wanted to make it official then it would be its own instance and not a free for all.
Anyone else remember when this same guy was the one that said, this will never happen and there was no plan of doing? Because some of us still do, although it will be a nice update when it happens.
The only problem with this, is that Anet does not recognize GvG as an official game mode although they do know it will happen. Because of this they added it to the section of WvW that really does not affect the rest of it. (score wise etc). Although this would be nice I do not think it will happen.
just so you know when you try and res someone dead in combat its actually ressing slower then out of combat. 50ish health in combat 250ish ooc. Besides that build about 4 Superior AC’s and just keep firing down at the dead bodies. almost impossible to res someone through that.
For the sake of nothing, I’ve updated my build slightly. As I have found out I had too many things that I did not need and I need to find a better bar for ideas.
So here I am to show a build that has probably been thought up by now but wanted to get some feedback from it. I was going for a more tanky spec that could still deal out some damage. I am kinda waiting for the Dec. 10th patch to come through and see all the trait changes before I got into the hard core testing (getting the really specific gear, etc).
Tweaks so far: Stabilized Armor is for more of a defensive spec, while if you don’t need as much defense I would go Energized Armor
Last Words I know i probably have skills/traits that overrun or are not in accordance of the min/max meta, but I am kinda fond of this build so helpful feedback is nice. (trying to get better at playing an engi.
Here is that build updated with new food and maintenance oil. Crit chance is still low but I would have to change weapons to get it higher but than vit and toughness takes a hit (not sure what the standard health you want on a guard in wvw).
0/0/30/30/10. Using AH/PoV with 2-handed mastery, Staff/Hammer, with Soldier’s armor and weapons while keeping the zerker trinkets. maybe change runes to rune of melendru just for pure defense if need be. changed food as well. last utility is wild card for whatever i need at the time.
Thank you for the advice so far, I think I might have one or two more questions left. Would Soldier’s armor be nice to switch to in WvW as I know its a big deal with all the damage being thrown around?
So I’ve come up with something like this trying to mix a good balance of offense and defense.
1) Probably going with GS/Hammer in open PvE mostly and Hammer/Staff Combo in WvW.
2) Last utility is kinda what i need, save youselves in solo for fury and other extra boons, retreat for mobility, wall of reflection for projectiles.
3) Heal might be situational as well as maybe some traits (ie. strength in numbers for retributive armor.)
So, I main engi and have no idea what the guardian can do build wise. I just want to be able to casual play my guardian in open world PvE (no dungeons) and some zerging in wvw with my guild. With my research I’ve heard of Healways and AH/EM and all sorts of other things. So is there a nice place to start out at for someone who doesn’t want to be one of those Min/Max zerker perfect players?
Personal Thoughts:
In Open PvE I was thinking GS/Hammer might go well with maybe Staff for mobility. maybe zerker gear.
In WvW I know my guild likes to run Staff and most of the time Hammer because of lines/circles of F-you.
TL;DR
Anyone know of a half decent build for playing Guardian casually in Open PvE/Zerg WvW?
First off don’t get hating. Just a simple question. I know people have fun doing whatever they do, either WvW, SPvP, PvE, Farming or whatever makes you happy. Is it still fun? I am not talking about “Oh god they have made this unplayable because i get less loot or they changed 1 trait” but from the idea of what you are doing. WvWer’s are you taking keeps and towers, fighting on a massive scale with siege, or PvEer’s are there nice looking maps with lots of events, champ trains, and playable (maybe hard) dungeons?
TL;DR Are you guys having remotely any fun anymore as per what games were designed for? I know I can still have fun playing (although some things I might not agree with). How about for others?
“so because i want them all equal, lets nerf them down, not buff the others up” interesting idea, how about this: you don’t have to use grenade/bombs but don’t make it so that i can’t use them.
man this just keeps popping up every other week it seems. yes we need a timer that starts when a person dies and if they don’t get ressed by an ally or respawn, then it either forces respawn or logs you out. i would think between 5-10 minutes would be enough. I don’t think we need to have something that just breaks and entire set of armor on someone just because they are on the ground more then 10 seconds.
1. i could kinda see this one but if you were roaming to find people to duel/kill people, this would make it a pain and just make it 10 times harder to scout to see inside of a tower or sweeping like SM or a keep.
2. would be kinda nice but think it would interfere with visibility with long range weapons i.e. treb.
3. no, for a commander to check siege you pretty much have to be on top of them, they would have to fix this for this idea to work.
4. I would like to see a little bit more of this, maybe not to all skills but to most of them i can see this being useful. (hate seeing a thief heartseeker 20 times before it runs out).
Overall interesting ideas but i think it would make the game harder to play in a visual sense.
Does the boon Protection work against siege damage? and just to make sure I do not think Retaliation works on siege damage? Please correct me if i’m wrong, I am curious and not a lot of people knew atleast about the Protection boon.
It’s definitely a possibility. We can try to nudge the meta in certain directions with changes, but ultimately it comes down on the players to establish it.
So when we try and play how we want to within the rules, Anet says no and nerf things so that we have to basically run certain builds if we want to be effective. GG Anet
I think the problem with this is that are player concerns (chains), that players make up as the game goes along and when someone doesn’t follow the norm of those chains, they get mad and say “This is the way it HAS to be done”. Yes it sucks about losing lots of supply but I have never seen Anet or any official say you can only repair when there is not a treb or only use supply camp supply, but I feel your pain and hopefully more players understand there are smarter ways of using supply either building or repairing.
My personal opinion. Please stop nerfing Engi’s and please stop trying to make turrets viable. Yes they have their uses but in 2/3 game modes they just are not. whenever you chance something vital (maybe Engi’s with vigor), it just narrow’s down our opinions even more.
So I got my 5k Achievement chest and got the scroll. Used it on a new ele and of course I wonder what sort of build do I want to run on him after he is level 80. No idea what sort of builds ele’s run but trying to find a nice build that can kinda work both in open world pve and wvw and not be totally useless. Don’t mind if I got to change gear or stuff, but kinda just need to know a little bit more about ele’s before i see what kinda of build works for me.
TL;DR
What kind of builds do ele’s run in open pve and wvw? Any examples would be welcomed.
So many threads in the past few weeks that are clear indications of PvE players unsatisfied that their first foray into WvW has shown them that they need to work to become a valuable player, and can’t just berserker-facetank through every challenge…
If you don’t have mastery, get the kitten off the siege.
If you want to play with the siege engines, you have to earn the privilege by investing some time in learning about WvW and building up your masteries.
Also, for the record, your own team mates cannot see your rank, only enemy servers. If they’re telling you that you need to get off the siege it’s because they’re watching the door that you’re ramming and seeing that you are not applying another stack of structural vulnerability when you hit it, or the fortified wall of the enemy keep isn’t moving enough when your shots strike it. If the commander is committing to taking a tower, keep, or castle, he’s perfectly within his rights to expect that people who know what they are doing are on the important jobs. In other words, the “rank” itself is superfluous, people are looking at whether you have the appropriate masteries — and you don’t.
This is the new mentality with WvW. I UNDERSTAND that with ranks people want mastery only, but maybe there is that one guy that comes to WvW to play with their WvW guild and have large pvp and SIEGE battles. To the players who want progression fine, but make it an achievable goal, idk maybe account bound ranks that have been requested almost since WxP has been introduced.
I would like to believe that the down state on the select enemies (the Nightmare court) are to show that these are not just the regular enemies. They have a power or determination about them that you have to completely rid of their corpse. I just hope it won’t be the norm for every single PvE enemy in the world or it will make it take a lot longer.
Are these really needed? As far as I can tell they really are not needed. Before people didn’t want you on siege if you didn’t know what you was doing. Now its Mastery or GTFO. That and the WxP ranks need to be account bound is a big issue as well.
TL;DR
Do you think they should keep ranks? Personally I think they just cause problems among the players.
Personally I would like to progess with my account as a player and not just each character. Even if they made the ranks account bound it would still take an absurd amount of time to max it all out. And as someone who likes to play different characters, this is the worse part of WvW. I would say either take out the ranks or make them account bound.
It has its use. In the meta of berserker “stack and smack” style it doesn’t offer that power (at least i don’t think so.), but it brings some utility into play (knock back, fire field, and blind.) I saw if works for you then use it if not just don’t. there are many other skills you can use. (I use a Grenade/Bomb build myself.)
I guess I was unsure about how much time it would take. Sorry for being curious. (And I wasn’t looking into a quick fix, I was curious about what what was the top three concerns for the players.)
They said pick the top 3 topics you want to talk about. Its been about 10 days since that, about 5 days since they have locked it I believe. Am I just to assume they either don’t care about that any more, have the topics somewhere else, or because there is only one guy working in the WvW department that it will take more time? I would just kinda like to see which topics made it and how Anet will “explain” why none of it is fixed or could be added.
really the only way of stopping this is to put a lock on who can use the siege. because you can use them and then port to spawn and some troll can still just go back and lead it somewhere
