Guild Wars 2

I had to come here and say congrats for the podcast, and thank you.

It was the first time I’ve listened to a full podcast about this (or any other) game. I even went back a few parts to take note.
Really nice ideas and points talked here. Some things I’ve knew, some I’ve think about before but never tested, some were completely new to me.

Good jobs… will check out for more!

At least maybe we wont have people complaining thakittens only temporary.

penatbater.4710:

Wouldn’t stealth be largely useless in team fights/zergs anyway since aoes are left and right?

Not when you heal yourself and cure conditions while in stealth.
And stealthing you can deceive pursuers (that in a group fight will start focusing on the next target), while shadowstep will only make them turn around (no lost target) or need a bit more range…

What if to use siege (exept for rams and golems) you need supply?

One shot of a balista/AC/Cata – 1 supply.

And place upkeep on towers/castles upgrades. To maintain those improved walls and gates and guards you need a set amount of supply per hour.
This would make supply starving and holding supply camps a much bigger impact.

The thing is, the thief is very weak without stealth. You can never be as bunker as a d/d ele or guard or engi or ranger… You lack the protection and heals and buffs of those classes. You dont have good armor or health.

So to not rely on stealth, your only defense is constant dodge and evasion.
This can work well on 1v1s but it wont do much on fights where there are more ground-target aoes or opponents with good range.

One thing about the weapon sigils.
Do you need one “on weapon swap” sigil on each weapon? It seems to me they trigger both when swapping to and out of the weapon.

Might need to test this again when I get back home…

JQ has more commanders on Southsun Cove than in all WvW maps…

Is this serious? or is it a troll post?
How can you say something is “unkillable” if you go down 3 times in about 5secs?

To clear trash like this there are better ways to do it as a thief. S/P for instance.

When people say “thief sucks at pve” its not clearing trash that they meant.

Try the same group of mobs with a warrior, a guardian or a necro… it goes faster and smoother.

What this video proves is that thief is too squishy if he wants to do any dmg… going down 3 times for trash mobs?

I’d like to join that.
Need to check the time, as I live in KSA for the moment…

Auesis.7301:

Not particularly “evil”, more of a “don’t mess with this person” vibe.

That’s the sort of vibe I go for with all my characters, though my Guardian is just a big blob of handsome and not intimidating at all…

That painting is really awesome.
If you did it, congrats.

I think the storm spirit should go with the theme of storm/air on other parts of the game.
That theme usually goes as speed – crits – CC.
A good change would be it gives fury instead (or on top of) swiftness and the active is a 1/2sec (or 1/4sec) stun.

I also like the idea about stealing/stripping boons, but I think that would fit more a reef-rider pet.

If you are farming events with the zerg (SC or Orr) you want good AoE to tag everything.
Build here doesnt metter much. Only 10 pts in BM to get masters bound will already make your pet good enought (and you probably dont even need that). Get a river drake for their AoE to tag as much mobs as you can. I find going LB/SB with faster recharge and piercing arrows better than axe.
You can completely avoid a young karka ranged attack by the same way you avoid a guardians scepter ranged auto-attack btw…

Really farming those events is all about running fast from one spot to the next and tag as much mobs as you can before they melt down to the zerg…

Farming dungeons or WvW is quite different though…

The worse is when they roll over and you are done for.

Some of them can take a full zerg too!

Silence field trap
– when activated up to 50 enemies in 1200 radius are silenced for 30secs
– silenced makes the player unable to use shouts (warrior, guard, ranger) for the duration of the debuff

He got all his achievements from FF done?
Proof of that is that you don’t see him on the forums QQ about missing it.

“Omg a naked ranger with no weapon and a jaguar dealing 3k hits… Im going for the ranger first…”
waiting for all the “OP vs L2P” stuff…

Frostfang.5109:

Ilobo – The “pet cannot jump to get to terget” phenomenon is not new, it has always been there.

I know…
I’m not saying its a new bug. Just saying its still there…

If me or the opponent are on a platform/rock/ledge that needs jumping to get to, the pet just won’t attack it.

yes, pls fix it.

my ranger looks like is wearing some 18th century party dress. and he is a guy!
https://www.google.com/search?q=18th+cntury+party+dress&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=38GZUYC9JNG1hAfGqYDIBA&biw=1250&bih=868&sei=_8GZUb3xGM6qhAeNoYHgBQ

dat trunk!

yes, those skirts need some adjustments…

Looking at the achievments, yes it will…
And I’m glad it does.

I had a blast with MF, had good and bad groups, the dungeons was great and I hope they make it into a fractal or some permanent content for nostalgia’s sake.

You are not “forced” into group.
You can try to solo. Its going to be hard, but some people pull it off…

I hope they make it like that if there are more than 10 enemies in less than 900 range of each other.

QQ in the forums 4x a day in different threads and different subforums (I recomend WvW, sPvP, your class forum, ranger class forum. But you can take it all the way to the suggestions or game discussions forums) untill they nerf the class or implement wvw traps to make it unable to use its mechanics for 30secs or more…

Ok, serious now…
Really depends on the ranger spec.
Check weapons and pets…
You need to know what pet hes using and what they do.
Ranger bunkers go heavy on healing. So poison is important.
If hes using shortbow, dont turn your back to him.
If he got no signets, he’s probably a trapper, get ready to avoid the area where he throws little bags.

I tried this and actually got a triple hit on porting thief that downed him..
It was quite funny.

If I play thief, I don’t usually take invites, as most of them are to complain about stealth, OP profession, lack of skill hiding behind a broken mechanic, getting them off-guard, etc…

If I’m on another toon, I’ll take the invite and its nice talk about builds and strats…

Puandro.3245:

Why do you want GS to do as much as sword when sword already does that much damage? Why have 2 weapons that do the same thing.

Because some people think the game should work as they want it, so they can min-max their min-max’ing.

If they make stealth lost on miss/blocked stealth attacks, it would be fair to not trigger revealed.
This way you can try again if you have the ini for it. Like many other class mechanics that go on reduced CD if you miss.

T1 is too small for all those “hardcore WvW guild’s” egos…

Invisible or anonymous?

go for knights helm-chest-pants-rings, zerker everything else (or put some clerics in the mix) for a mix dmg with survival. Go for LB/GS so you can stay both at range or melee untill you learn the fights and know where and when each is better.

Learn to control your pet well. Change it before it dies, call it back, send it in.
Try to learn how to control your sword attacks sometime, as it can be a great weapon to use.

As your learn the fights and weapons more, start changing the gear to more dmg (zerker) and less defense (knights/clerics)

Some people like going for cond dmg.
I personally find it bad in dungeons PUGs. As condition stacks cap by mobs, unless you have a organized group, each with a set of conditions to apply and dont overstack, you will be wasting dmg.

Using sword you should turn off both auto-attack and auto-target.

With the leap on the #1 chain if you have auto-attack on, you will be stuck to your target. If you turn it off you cancel attacks and move around to re-position. Other melee weapons don’t have the leap, so if you move away you just attack the air.
By turning both auto-attack and auto-target off you make the sword a great mobility weapon. You have so many dodges instead of 2! Even for pve this can be great!

#1-#1-dodge back-#1-#1-#2-#2-#3
with warhorn swiftness the range of your leaps is even greater!
the frequent movement might get you lost a bit in the beginning.
This utility is great in fights with bosses or packs of mobs that you need to dodge a lot.

Another good thing of turning off auto-attack and auto-target is the ability to use the 3rd attack of the #1 chain 2 times to gain distance.
#1-#1-turn around (or pass by your target) – #1-#1
You are now far far away and your target is cripled. Need more range?
face your target again – #2-turn around-#2…

Sword is an amazing weapon but needs FULL CONTROL of your character.
If you let the game control your character for you (auto target, target assist, auto attack) then yes, you will loose control of your character while attackig.
Its hard to learn, but amazing when well done.

Try it with the moas aoe heal

You only self-root if you dont turn off auto-attack.

Great video!

Pls ANet!! Make that song play whenever we /dance!

No one wants surfing quaggans?? wtf

This is what I usually run:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAoaVlUmiP3eS5E95Ey2jeqCJKuHGlT1UdFwKA-jQzAYLBRCCERBkKAk+UWTgCitBBx+gyqaBTZmUtLgKOyuDMA-e

I change traits, utilities and weapon-sets often, but the gear is mostly the same. I like the set-up, gives me good survivability and dmg output.

Now make removing supply worth some Wxp and we are good.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/I-m-liking-the-new-traps#content

New traps are out. 30s of revealed if you are around 1200 of one when it triggers…
If your WvW tier has a medium population I wouldn’t go for thief…

Please make a surfing minigame for the next updates around southsun cove.
Something in the style of the old “California games”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Games
But where you have to surf while dodgeing kraits, karkas and the ocasional quaggan swimming around…
Heck, make it so we can use the quaggan tonic to be surfing quaggans!!!

solrik.6028:

Why? Camouflage breaks on movement…

Not on pet movement…

Depends on a lot of things…

Rangers can trait defense while their pets still do masive dmg.
Thiefs can’t really trait defense, but they can dodge and stealth, what puts a lot of people off. Its not so effective on larger fights though…

If you have lag (normal on higher tiers or if you play overseas), it can be impossible to hit anything with a thief and this will drain your resources fast and leave you to die. A ranger has more lag tolerance as his defenses are more passive and his attacks with more range (even in melee with sword or axe)

I’d recommend waiting for the next update to choose though…

Giving ranger stealth would require it to loose on other parts (probably end-regen/vigor and/or hp-regen/regen and/or protection). This would be a major downside for a mechanic that is highly overestimated on pvp and nearly useless in pve.

And WvW is getting anti-stealth fields. So, don’t go on and trade your survivability for stealth just yet…

Soulstar.7812:

Scurrilous.7283:

Tomorrow is not May 14th.

It is now.

For some its today…

Phase 1: You need to climb the Southsun Jumping Puzzle.
Phase 2: Never comes out, people starved to death or went mad trying to get that thing done.
=]

I play a ranger and mostly go for a tanking/survival build leaving the dmg to the cats. This has been fun to play on overland PvE and WvW but there is that problem with dungeons.

In dungeons its not so worth it to stack so much survivability as most of the dmg come on big hits that you can time your dodges well after some practice. But the pet dont dodge, ever…

So yea, there is tons of topics with possible solutions for this (pet mimics your dodges are my fav. so far, aoe immuity would be too OP and easy), but while nothing comes out I want to try to change my build and playstile to be “effective” on those dungeon runs.

I thought maybe going full archery and staying at max range with a ranged or buffing pet might work. If I go with 30(I,VIII,XII)/30(II,V,X)/x/x/x (last 10 pts are optional – more dodges, quickness on pet swap, etc). Using spiders and/or devourers for debuffs and/or combo fields. The healing spring water field can be used to remove conditions from allies on the frontlines or as a back-up spot for people in need of a heal (BYOB mind you, bring-your-own-blast combo.)

My doubt, before going on full zerker gear for those dungeon runs is, can this work?
Is the pet “safer” at his distance (900) in most fights?
Can a full zerker archer, survive those “Stack” fights using his GS and a moa pet for heals?
Would warriors be mean to me?

Riko.9214:

And took me 1 minite to improve your result by 40)) Troll more

Wow man, great MSPaint skills!

Doggie.3184:

RedSpectrum.1975:

@Doggie, what is up with you and throwing gunk<.<? But a whole slew of weapons would be cool, but as Auesis said, anything would be better than the current anim, hence I suggested that form of breakdancing and since my sylvari has shuriken on her legs, it would make sense :p

It’s my favorite steal skill, and it’s powerful + amusing.

I always find it funny that jumping in a pool of gunk gives you chaos armor!

I’d love to participate, but its impossible.
Living in KSA for the moment makes most of my pvp fights so frustrating.

Last night I went with my thief to WvW and fought 3 other guys near a camp. They were terrible, they would stay in the blind field and miss all attacks. But I couldnt react to anything with nearly 10sec lag spikes (not exaggerating). As soon as the blind field was gone (the HS would take so long to trigger that when it came out the blind field was already gone and the combo not performed) I would get killed. Even trying to move was hard with so much rubberbanding…

Normally here its about 400ms lag, but on bad days its like that, 5-10sec lag spikes frequently (every 10-15 secs).

Will love to see the results, and maybe join when I get back from here…

Kaizer.7135:

Uhm no? I play with 300+ms ping, I miss backstabs when I’m literally RIGHT BEHIND THEM.

I KNOW, RIGHT!?!
And to land a CnD can be soooo frustrating!
Even teleports (IS, Steal) seem to not bring use to the target if you play from overseas…