Guild Wars 2

+1 Completely agree… as fractal ends is hard to see the chests on the ground, etc …

I like the warhorn!

The best method to calculate damage ingame currently is to check the combat log (chat window) and add up all the damage dealt, then divide it by the number of seconds that happened between the first damage and the last.

As mentioned above there’s a program that does that for you by simply processing the screenshots in real time. It is windowed and doesn’t interact with the game…
For information purposes the name is jaxnX, use at your own risk.

My elementalist on different attires for each of her roles ….(yeah I know I’ll move to celestial <.< …can’t handle no room in bags no more)

(Copied from another thread)

I want a purpose for pulling a victory other than mist “Favor” that is shared server wide.

For the heroes that helped the victory of a server a proper reward according to the entitlement if not server wide recognitions thee should welcome us with laurels and gold that matches the glory of those who spill blood in name of the server.

I experience pings, pings everywhere, lots of pings ….Runs in distress

I think the toxicity resides mostly here in the forums! it goes in all forms call them HoT haters, Balance haters, people that argue just to defend a point made earlier, Anet haters, dev abandonment haters,… and the self called elites that I would call errors intolerant instead. I see most real elites being veteran players mostly coming from GW1, a game with a rather mature population of gamers who enjoys thinking over manual skill …etc.. not the topic, but those players are usually happy to help, most of them are organized tho, so they are those nice souls in your guild that helps new players go through the content.

Personally, I have explored all game modes and I see mostly friendly players willing to help or minding their own business … There is tho some toxicity I can acknowledge and the only place I have seen it is in the speed runners community. I am talking about the people that wants to finish dungeons and fractal runs in the less time possible (even while pugging xD )but you can spot them in the lfg tool. To be honest I thought that was the normal and the thought kept me from playing Dungeons, since I was a first timer I wouldn’t be welcomed so … (I missed the whole gold rush thing T_T) ..same happened with fractals… I took a long break from GW2 and came back, that’s when I gave dungeons/fractals a second chance … now it’s easier to spot casual runs in the lfg window…if you don’t see them, you can organize them and people will join just to have fun.. youll see lots of people saying it’s my first time or I don’t have experience beforehand (same applies for fractals) and it’s totally fine, nobody complains and they give short explanations… all those runs end up well !!! maybe a swipe or two occasionally, we explain the situation and finish the thing.. people being so happy they wanna keep rerunning.

Now to be fair, not all speed runners are toxic, neither speed running is bad… is a valid way to have fun or get profit but some might put in perspective… The time they save by running with the perfect team, they spend it by trying to assemble it.

Edit: While the old elites would try to craft a legendary weapon, the new “elites” would re run dungeons (Now chest farming) ..until they can buy it.

I think is much fun, not for the skills but for the traits, I like having an extra way of healing/supporting party rather than being a boring dedicated healer that deals no damage. …support can be either offensive(might, fury) and/or defensive(prot, swiftness, regen) and I don’t think it requires no skill, …even more, combines great with Dagger as main as you have to engage into closer combat to either support with shouts or do overloads for either damage, heals or cc <- that’s variety right there. … offhand? well dagger is still there for aggressive ones, focus for defensive souls and now horn for those who like to support is there any more?

I want a purpose for pulling a victory other than mist “Favor” that is shared server wide.

For the heroes that helped the victory of a server a proper reward according to the entitlement if not server wide recognitions thee should welcome us with laurels and gold that matches the glory of those who spill blood in name of the server.

Ok, I assume you are using windows so I would suggest to use the “magnifier” icon aka search dialog box that is in the top of the folder window while you are standing on your local drives (C:,, etc) … search for gw2.exe after some time it should show you where it is.

Edit: if you deleted the exe by accident try searching for gw2.dat … if can’t find it it’s better just to install again.

girginov.3528:

I understant but if members want to make a progress, firstly everybody must play maximazed build and gear. I dont remember clearly, how much cost to change asc gear’s stat but that is not exceed 50 gold to change full gear and weapon stat change.

Per piece maybe!! … it’s quite expensive to be honest, at least for some like me that didn’t make it to the dungeon speed runs.. T_T

NikeEU.7690:

1. Quickness
2. Alacrity
3. Banners
4. Grace of the Land and Frost Spirit and Spotter
5. Assassins Presence

So much for buffs, where’s the debuff list? I think those are as important.

What is the reason for “Achievement Points” being displayed on parties? I personally don’t pay much attention to AP, just let them come naturally but when I am on a party I feel I am under the curve… that doesn’t mean I am less skilled nor even that I have less hours of gameplay on certain char (account based). So, what is it measuring or what was the intent? if it’s bragging rights, don’t we have already titles for that? If AP are something to be proud off, why not using the titles attached to them?

Make it W1+W2 Vs W3+W4 Vs W5+W6, in other words allow team ups between servers to keep population high.

So many threads with this calls for a merge… my suggestions from one of those:

UI
- Please add a save/load build function for easy build swapping.
- Average Dps indicator: Either as a build functionality to estimate rotation effectiveness or a simple fixed value acquired at test golems (like having a start button, hit for one min and then calculate value at the end and only display it on screen just for the sake of tunning/balancing).

Malediktus.9250:

kuritsutian.2987:

There’s a mastery that allows you to get crystal drops for random mobs.

Where you using the acid keys to open the map treasures? that alone should give you some extra crystals

acid keys are a ley line crystal sink. they never ever give any crystals back

Oh, could have swore … got over 1K crystals and all I do is quest and open the caches, … guess it all comes from quests and random loot then -_-

Chrono.6928:

my 2 cents.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Maybe-Mordremoth-won/first#post5835768

His seed of anger is strong in us.

Liked your PvP one!

Mine
UI
- Please add a save/load build function for easy build swapping.
- Average Dps indicator: Either as a build functionality to estimate rotation effectiveness or a simple fixed value acquired at test golems (like having a start button, hit for one min and then calculate value at the end and only display it on screen just for the sake of tunning/balancing).

WvW
- Make it W1+W2 Vs W3+W4 Vs W5+W6, in other words allow team ups between servers to keep population high.

Congrats Anet, well deserved award!

nacario.9417:

U are very angry, as u said urself, so ur feelings and emotions are in chaos and despair. This is why ur experience is horrible right now, so u come here to vent. But as in life, there r good and bad, grow on it and dont let such experiences shape u by controlling ur senses, dont let them control u and ur judgement as it is then one self does mistakes.

Do not fall into temptations unless u are truly aware. May u find peace in your mind and hearth. Go forth, my child, and embrace the world.

The eternal bliss Technique +1
Just surrender your ego and let go

There’s a mastery that allows you to get crystal drops for random mobs.

Where you using the acid keys to open the map treasures? that alone should give you some extra crystals

Hello, I use a similar build (Dire condi with scepter/warhorn) and have some input on your build.
Noticed your build is bulky and has some support with the water atonement, am also picking from the utility skills that you are using bleeding/burn as your source of condition damage … I would recommend to stick to burn cause the switching time to add few bleeding drops dps (perma 10 stacks of burn hurts more) … you also want max the usage of that warhorn by supporting your team not with Auras but with boons mostly…. switching to fire trait makes easier and really fast to reach 25 stacks of might that you can share with heat Sync while you stack the burning (area + fire overload followed by blast finishers). Just give it a try, after all it all comes to our playstyle.

(Your build with burning only focus)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJBLhdygIU2A2fJ40AwHBWEAM3W7sN3GEAClPghgwO4GC-TxRTABgoEEg9HK8BA4jeAuU/5ClfGeCAIFwiSjA-e

Edit: damage here is not AOE, so it works as well on enemies with high mobility as those that rather stay there.

Yashuoa.9527:

Liewec.2896:

Yashuoa.9527:

Staff ele is not exactly known for its dmg in pvp

Staff ele in pvp is more a support build than a pewpew nuke dps build.

i disagree,
rather strongly.

Thats probably with a glass cannon build (~11k hp Ele or so) and every boon and condition possible, on a 30 sec cooldown spell with 3.75sec channel, which doesnt even make every meteor hit if its single target.

Sure the dmg in that gif is nice, I wont deny that,

but looking at the wink you did, you probably know well what I mean with that staff ele in PVP is not a pewpew dps build.

Staff ele can do good dmg in pve, due to targets behaving differently than pvp targets.
You can keep them in your fields/areas better for your aoe to take full effect. Pve is more stationary.
In pvp this doesnt really work out, due to players you fight behaving differently and therefore staff ele arent really a pewpew nuke dps build in pvp.

Besides pewpew nuke for me is more about player targeting, rather than ground effect aoe.

nacario.9417:

Having slightly higher aa on fire and air, and dragons tooth casttime reduced, would come a long way imo. Currently im using fire offensivley n def in duels by casting the tooth on me when the guy gets close before i swap out.

You mean faster autoattack on fire and dragon’s tooth delay reduced?
Than it would indeed go a long way.

The autoattack on fire being faster would help more than the dmg being higher I think (or both could be done).
The long delay on Dragon’s tooth is the main problem part of the ability which makes it to difficult to hit with. Way more so than the casttime.

The meteor shower gif looks like linecasting to me with max might. Staff can deal nice damage for short intervals, meteor shower has long cooldown even while covered with icebow … scepter rotations are faster and keep the down time to a minimum + the benefit of might stacking.

Azure.8670:

If you don’t like tempest that’s fine but calling it trash when it dominates in pvp and pve is just stupid

Totally agree, it is not just fun to play but a great performer in PvP even WvW with the support provided while keeping the damage output (Specially Celestial ones).

beefjus.9347:

So THIS happened today. It just reaffirms my vote for DX12. I don’t get why GW2 is running like crap, but Witcher 3 (high, hairworks off, low shadows and water) still runs at 60fps… SMH

I got some RAM and worked just fine … 4Gb no longer cuts it sadly … 8Gb does.

First world problems -_-

Miserymachine.7512:

Sounds like there are a lot of people with kitten rigs. I have no issues with fps or game stability so it’s hard to sympathize.

The problem is there! Dx12 is not the solution, nor the wishful thinking of rewriting a whole game while there’s a stack of things to fix/improve for a chance of little improvement.

I am one of those who could run core smoothly and HoT looked like a slideshow (until yesterday) … until yesterday cause I was concerned about it as it affected my gameplay enormously … what I found was … you have to basically disable reflections … additionally lowered depth of rendering only cause another problem I found yesterday on the technical forums… the system requirements page for gw2 was removed …. apparently 4gb of ram is no longer enough… so I will have to have to loose a bit until I can get another 4gb to be able to do jumping puzzles

Kahli.4325:

kuritsutian.2987:

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Yeah, well I really wasn’t a fan of it in the beginning. Neither were many of my friends, but I’ve begun to like it more and more. Though I know many on my friendlist who aren’t that big fans of it.

I also really despised Tangled Depths, but the more I spent time on the map, the more I began to like it. Think it will grow on people with time, but some will hate it with a passion I’m sure.

When I heard all the ruckus in the forums about Tangled Depths I wanted to check it out by myself (had the map unlocked but skipped it cause was on a guild group to reach dragon stand) … so at first it was hard to move around until you can use the tunnels, but the map is so good looking and the mobs are lots of fun, even farmeable … the tiers are most of the time at 4 so rewards keeps coming constantly, so I found it a very rewarding map … about the Gerent, that’s another story but now with December patch you even get rewards by failing… nothing special but hey.. got a fair amount of eggs by now playing casually and over 1k leyline stones .. that’s after playing 1 or two hours per night, just a few nights … kinda double than other maps.

Yeah, first impression for me was … dang … I can’t get anywhere without mushrooms nor glider … then tried to get masteries and first try was the catching bugs contest… which kinda required them …… all I thought back then was… there must be a very specific path to approach this map. After you get the mobility masteries the fun begins, ..maybe they should be giving after completing some personal story or something.. just saying.. I love HoT btw

Using LFG to sell IS against the policies.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Policy-on-the-LFG-Tool/first

Wait what? paid advantages? Just hope the new policy is not pay per win -_-

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Possibly they don’t want people waypointing to a place a few feet away after dying in an event and making dying irrelevant?

There’s death penalty and armor damage for that matter

I agree on whirl finishers not being too functional… but the solution proposed kinda goes against positioning which was a thing when the game was designed… it looked good back then, I totally feel your point tho … the chances for them to hit something are rare vs small single mobs … on big ones they are better and on a crowd even more (designed for group fights) even tho… at least damage could be boosted a bit imo.

That ol noob.7083:

…If ANET were to rewrite gw2 in dx12….

That’s where I stopped reading

Hmm, I would recommend you to take a look at the technical issues part of the forums, there’s many threads regarding CPU, as of what I have read regarding your question … Intel is better than AMD as for what running the game matters. Another thing is that the bottom neck is not the CPU, the CPU usage is rather low in general except on big zergs. GPU seems to plays a bigger role in fps but every machine is different so who knows.

Hmm, I would recommend you to take a look at the technical issues part of the forums, there’s many threads regarding CPU, as of what I have read regarding your question … Intel is better than AMD as for what running the game matters. Another thing is that the bottom neck is not the CPU, the CPU usage is rather low in general except on big zergs. GPU seems to plays a bigger role in fps but every machine is different so who knows.

I thought I was alone in the struggle, fist map is the worst, gets better later until you reach dragon stand, sometimes really feels like a slide show… would be happy with 1 fps at least

Should be sticky!

What this would lead is to a system that its in place in other moba games to prevent scams and farming which is to block trades (in this case donations) until have at least a week or two of being a member.

Rebound.3409:

At this point you are just lying to yourself in an effort to prove to yourself your own point….but if it makes you feel good who are we to tell you otherwise. As such should be the other way around.

Was more like trying to have a nice conversation, I am no knight on a shinny armor to defend companies I have no shares with.. just like the game and was being thankful, I am a happy person, kinda thanks for everything even at times when I shouldn’t but … never one got hurt for being nice

To respond to game specifics even if offtopic (I am trying to keep it on topic T_T)

WOW – you reason for getting bored with WOW applies equally if not moreso to GW2, where the BiS gear at launch was given to you at 80, once AScended gear was added then it’s a huge grind, far moreso than BiS in WOW.

I wasn’t talking about grind, I said that it was too easy to get in WoW, I still don’t have full ascended in GW2, working on it and it’s taking some time … yet ascended is enough if you want fancy stuff well..work for it, completely optional tho.

Tera – ‘eye candy’, which is EXACTLY what GW2’s skin system is all about and largely end-game is about getting fluff like skins

Yes GW2 has lots of eye candy …and I love it… problem with Tera is that it was only Eye candy… game itself was not entertaining imo.

FF – so ‘not revolutionary’ is now a reason to get bored with a game .. okay .. BTW, which FF MMO, there are two

The last one, participated in the beta test and played it some.. but it was too generic ..lacked excitement for me…(still is a personal opinion, game is not bad at all)

Silk Road, Kotor – never played them so can’t comment

Not missing much

Kerin.9125:

Ragnarok – a generic MMO of its type, not comparable to GW2 in several aspects IMO

Even if they are not graphically similar, there’s many similar features or other we can “learn from” so to say … for example the Guild vs Guild action. … crafting system, I like the class progression system (branches)… nothing out of the common, just well implemented.

Maple Story – yes, a straight-forward Store driving F2P of modern times.

yup yup

Edit: dang, with so much editing lost my previous post… was saying that Objectively yes the difference is slight, but that slight difference was the nice free content that was added over time that kept me occupied

Leolas.6273:

Sry english isn’t my native language.

I feel you :/ have same issue, about the post, got some screen shots? can report them or at least put them on a spot.. good luck

Rebound.3409:

You didn’t get what i said about exclusive cash shop content. Not gonna explain it again you will have to figure it out on your own.

Yes GW1 was and still is very good. As for the rest i don’t see how GW2 is superior to them from all the parentheses you said it fits most of them.

what? that they make good money? God forbids them for that…

And yes Gw1 is far better than GW2 for my taste, kinda not the point of this thread tho… they added less free content over time than GW2 from my point of view… no cash shop that is probably why.

Rebound.3409:

You must not have played other mmos.

Have played many, got bored of them… without giving names I am familiar with different styles of mmos, ..lol kinda have to give names here to explain myself but yeah… WoW (got bored of it after reached max level and got all the needed gear in no time), Tera online (eye candy fest), Final Fantasy (repetitive, no revolutionary idea), silk road (good for a fully free one, lacked updates)..Kotor(…just won’t talk about this) … Ragnarok online! (maybe my favorite after GW1.. nothing bad to say about this one), maple story (that’s a true $hop game!) and the list goes, …the point never felt spoiled on those games as I feel here and I like it. (Yet I admit there was a period of no content being added, but those days seems to be gone)

Rebound.3409:

You can not convince me an “almost exclusive cash shop” …….

Almost exclusive cash shop? you pay if you want, if you can’t live with what they offer you can just use gold you get for free by playing the content.

Cyrotek.7019:

Ignoring mistakes won’t make the game better, it will just get worse. So one might think you aren’t really interested in the future of the game.

Also I only see 3 free new areas. This is not exactly much considering how old the game is by now.

+pvp maps, fractals… so many stuff that wasn’t there …. we may play just certain things so we can’t see them all

Dragonfeu.4356:

My lvl 80 Herald

A herald of no good news, that is >.<

Here my ele in several of her attires (healer/dps/condi)

Samnang.1879:

Just beat TD meta twice in a row… people are getting better, I guess.

I don’t really think gear/food matter. The fewer people are downed, the faster the kill.

Totally agree!

Like this post and agree with it 100% maybe some can’t see it because like you mention they are used to get free stuff and I am not referring to everything is free, cause it’s not… in principle nothing is because most of us paid for the game…. but devs could just leave it there as it is and only release payed expansions… instead they add events like Halloween, winter, etc, give free cool looking dragon minis, living seasons were free initially and some other things that were added on the way that weren’t included in the original release of the game that we payed for.
We are kinda spoiled by them as they care about what community says and keep downgrading content for everyone or attending to suggestions…. Obviously they have limited time resources and can’t attend to them all as soon as they came out, fixes have priority yet we continue being so demanding as if we were own something just cause we bought our game as any other… I don’t see people being as demanding for the most regular console games, they have even worst commercial strategies like having half of the game as dlc.
kinda getting detoured, my intention was not ranting about community, I still love it, each has the right of having an individual personality and is free to complain about what they want, just wanted to spread some love with my spray and pray words… kinda am all over the place now -_-

So many nice pictures, this is my new favorite thread giving +1 to all the cool ones…. here is my only Ele in her Healing / condition damage / berserk attires … new update will be the celestial one… getting some good ideas over here, I still like to combine the sets tho

+1 for originality and guts