Guild Wars 2

Rizo.9534:

i hope you know, that sinester ranger doing much more dps, than berserker ranger(and keep 100% of time firefield under boss) and almost 2x more damage than bers warrior in 30sec window.

But anyway. ppl are searching for bers rangers…

Sad story.

Longer fights are not the same as short fights.

If you understood the underlying principle I’m trying to convey, you wouldn’t just zone in on the use of the word beserker !

I give up, this is a topic that has been discussed to death so many times and still some just don’t get it.

Why do I eve bother anymore.

Robert Gee.9246:

• Rupturing Smash: Instead of knockback this skill now causes 1 second of immobilize on hit. This skill can no longer hit the same target twice. Increased damage by 100%.

Robert Gee.9246:

Rupturing Smash has a significantly higher target cap than Earthshaker which is why we limited the immobilize duration. Each portion of the cascade strike can hit 3 targets, and there are 5 strikes per wave (minus a few where they would otherwise overlap) and 5 waves. I’m actually still worried this one might be too strong.

• Good, now, please go fix hammer shock [skill]+ leg specialist [trait] combo !
  I’ve been saying this for years, that this combo should be an AOE immob, not just the 1st target.

If you now do possess the tech, use it please for the love of Balthazar.

Rizo.9534:

Even on picture Ranger marked as BadPlayer :’(

it is there to illustrate the stereotypical rangers that want to play the way they want, meaning max range pew pew. with no regard to game mechanics at all.

I’ve met some really good rangers as well, guess what, not a single one of them was like pew pew from max range ever.

Good players take advantage of game mechanics, eventually they naturally migrate into beserker builds.

Bad players don’t care to take advantage of game mechanics, and their primary excuses are:

“I want to play how I like to play”
“I want team play helping each other and cohesiveness”

guess what, that is exactly what stacking is primarily all about, team play, cohesiveness and helping your team

you can play your selfish way anywhere you like, just not in my group, know what I’m saying.

It’s not just the fact they are not beserker, it is their lack of understanding of game mechanics, while claiming they want team work (face palm)!

Shuzsie.9263:

Please make the raids so that people cannot stack. Stacking has completely ruined the experience of dungeons for me as I do them for fun and because of the challenge and for no other reason.

This ^^ is what players that are either unaware of or don’t care about game mechanics say all the time…..

instead of trying to reason with you, which is a futile exercise to begin with.
I present you with a picture, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Enjoy

What the game needs is for the content and enemies to make better use of the amazing combat system we have.

to those saying there are no roles, you clearly haven’t been playing long or worse, have been playing a long time but never got skilled enough to get passed the trinity blindness to notice the roles in the combat.

The day a.net implements holy trinity is the day I quit this game !

The game looks amazing and fun, but one thing that annoys me to no end is:

Waaaaayyyyyy to much useless verticality !

It wouldn’t be such a BIG issue if you did a better job of signaling on the mini map if an objective I’m running towards is on my level, a level above or below me.

Nothing is more annoying than trying to get somewhere only to find out the bloody thing you want is WAY above you, requiring much backtrack and wasting my time !

That is the single most annoying thing I have to say against HoT, everything else I love.

Especially the mob difficulty.

- Entering and leaving berserk mode should be a toggle on / off thing, it is a main elite spec sell point after all.
- the 15 sec CD on berserk only starts counting AFTER berserk mode is over. [brain fart]
- self stun is a bad idea for an elite, I know there are ways to bypass via traits which also means less flexibility, it is annoying, and doesn’t feel like an elite skill.
- torch damage is way LOW !
- the new heal skill doesn’t have ANY initial heal NOT even a small one !
- the glider deployment needs the option for it’s own keybind !!!

All I’m gonna say is:
That knock down from stealth needs at least a 20 sec ICD !

Diba.4682:

Some people have shared concerns that they worked hard for a legendary only to not use it in favor of winning fights.

This is where I stopped reading !
Totally invalidates any credibility your post might’ve had.
How is this even a concern ?

They chose to make a legendary !

If a fight mechanics incentivises the use of X weapon instead of X weapon, They think it should be changed just so they can equip their favorite shiny ?

I object your honor !

This fallacy about “oh but I worked so hard for my legendary I want to only use my legendary for raiding, please make all raid content so I can clear it with my shiny chosen X legendary I love and sweat so much for”

Elothar.4382:

I agree with most of the posts here. Raids…or challenging group content (as it was referred to) has always been part of the advertised expansion content. If anything, this goes to answer those concerns about the amount of content in this paid expansion. For those that choose not to buy HoT, they will still have the same content that they paid for at launch…nothing about that content is diminished. Raids are new to this expansion and it only makes sense to lock them behind that wall.

You make a very interesting and unexpected point there.

These people contradict themselves.

1st it was, A.net your x-pack doesn’t seem to have enough content to convince me to buy it.

A.net divulges information about Raiding and legendary armor.

Now, they are saying, what ? we don’t get this for free ? that’s it I’m not buying the x-pack.

kitten ed if they do and kitten ed if they don’t.

These people were never gonna buy the x-pack to begin with, they just love complaining and will find the needle in the hay stack to complain about.

Gynok.1756:

I would personally like to see legendary armor obtainable in the three “game types” (for example): spvp (higher level tier), pve (raids) and wvw (achievements). The best would be to make the pieces and the final armor also tradeable in trading post. This would make it possible to get by many types of gameplay. And please don’t hate me for the fact that trading is and should always stay as a part of every mmo.

Legendary armor / weapons should NEVER be tradable !

It is one of the BIGGEST mistakes a.net ever made in gw2.

Hence, new legendaries will NOT be tradable, not even the precursors.

Shiki.7148:

I heard another rumour that said getting level 80 and every hero-challenge in existance should be enough (if you didn’t craft legendaries and had to spend points for one of the gifts, i guess).

it baffles me that on one in here has pointed out to you, that hero points and spirit shards are NOT the same thing !

Hero points: used for unlocking skills, traits and specializations.
Spirit shards: used for buying legendary gifts and general mystic forge materials.

the numbers on the data mined info are indeed way to high, specially considering this is how they intent to introduce future elite specs.

if they don’t lower the cost they will be creating hero point grind in the future.

Want to unlock X new elite spec fully ? here go grind these newly introduced 200 hero points 1st.

That’s not good for the longevity of game at all.

gw2 core game $60 dollars, current playtime 4000 plus hours.
Tons of content updates for free.
HoT $50 dollars, potential playtime 4000 plus hours.
Tons of content updates for free.

Experiencing Tyria and all it’s glory, get tons of exclusive skins and exclusive content no new player will ever see:

PRICELESS

Brand new game, console or whatever else, $50 dollars potential playtime 200 hours.
want more content ? buy DLC for $20 each.

Enough said.

BIGHARSHNESS.3510:

Since HoT releases on a Friday, would it be safe to assume that those of us that prepurchased it will preload it on the Tuesday (Oct 20th) update?

just the ability to pre download it, even if it’s not playable until the 23rd would be nice.

Zalladi.4652:

As the saying goes; “never play on patch day”.

Anyone that takes a day off for the 23rd will likely be kicking themselves by the day’s end. It is far better to take a day off a few days down the line, say for the 25th or so after all of the major bugs have been fixed.

I don’t think so buddy !

I was there when X happened with bugs and all is part of the experience.

For example I can proudly say I was there waiting for servers to go live at head start.
I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything, it is a rare treasure.

excpet raiding in wow is all about following a pretty hard set rotation and waiting for specifically scripted things to happen " the lich king is casting defile" OMFG

The combat system in gw2 lets you defeat content in several different ways.
in wow if you do not follow the rotations and such you never beat that content period.

that to me is what was boring when I played such mmo’s, fully scripted BS

Larynx.2453:

So, to put it simply ArenaNet has a terrible track record when it comes to small scale PvE in GW2.

Let’s hope we get less of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OamhniesRfg
And more of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSeVCw3hVgQ

in both cases very bad examples of content :S

gw2 example is something that was not intended and has been fixed.

wow example, bunch of people standing around following rotations OMFG can you say LAME and BORING.

EDIT:

The only thing about that wow video I want in gw2 raids is the VO and the story. apart from that it was boring animations were boring everything else about it is boring.

Healix.5819:

Expect to see ascended gear almost required however. That’s probably why they wanted to buff it a little while ago, to make it more obvious.

this would be a good time for a.net to say:

Btw, we are now ready to implement what we stated before.

A +10% difference in stats between exotic and ascended, if you are seriously considering beating our raid challenge you’d better bring full ascended gear with you.

Is there anything gonna be introduced with HoT, like a slider for how much particle effect is visible.

Especially with Raiding being introduced it becomes even more important that we be able to see what bosses are doing.

Ohoni.6057:

The hypocrisy is visible to the naked eye.

No hypocrisy, just a complete situation of non-exclusive concepts. to my mind:

A. Being able to earn Legendary armor through a wide variety of fun ingame experiences, let players decide how they want to earn it.

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B. Being able to buy the Legendary armor off the TP, and being able to at least spend all my time actually playing the game in a way I enjoy.

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C. Having to “buy a slot” in a raid and just go AFK at the entrance and surf the Internet for an hour or so rather than actually playing the game I enjoy.

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D. Not being able to get the Legendary armor unless I raid fairly often.

Now of those, A is clearly the best, A is clearly the goal I want, but B would at least be better than C or D, and D is just The Worst.

A – NO, if you want legendary armor get ready to learn to Raid…..

B – NO, are you kidding me ! this would be the worse they could do !

C – NO, I frown upon this activity even if a.net says it’s ok. It is NOT especially for rewards like legendary armor, you want it ? learn to play the content that drops it PERIOD !

D – I would love to get the sPVP exclusive legendary backpiece, it looks awesome but you don’t hear me QQing about wanting a way to acquire it by doing some easy PVE stuff !!!

Your ideas would see raiding destroyed, if there was an easier way of acquiring this legendary armor of course people would flock to it, humans love the path of least resistance you know.

The life force of raiding in this game lies in it’s rewards…..!
take that away and raiding would die a sudden and unexpected death.

Stop trying to destroy raiding before it is even born !

NoTrigger.8396:

yea i hope no one is going to sell spots to people who dont wanna put in the effort to clear the content.

Ohoni.6057:

So apparently Legendary armor will be available for players who like to raid, which is great for those players, but what about all those players who have zero interest in raiding but who want to earn Legendary armor? What methods will be available for them? Well we be able to earn armor pieces through the Legendary Precursor crafting system that’s being added?

Keep in mind that a large chunk of GW2’s population is here to get away from raiding type games.

1 – legendary armor drops should ONLY drop from raids PERIOD !
2 – spot selling should be monitored, and have a specific reporting sub menu.
1st time offenders get a 72 hour BAN, multiple offenders risk PERMA BAN !!!
3 – glitches, ports, content bugging / bypassing should be monitored and fixed asap to keep the content challenging and relevant.
4 – glitchers and such getting tons of rewards by exploiting / bugging the content will see their accounts reverted to a point before acquiring said rewards.

even the year 3 boosters say from kills instead of all sources WTF anet
in general it is a great gift aka electro dye for free but come on….

Fix the birthday boosters will yah !

Why has the birthday booster not been updated to reflect the new values ???

Beldin.5498:

latinkuro.7304:

Beldin.5498:

Am i wrong when my crystal ball tells me you have an NVidia card ?

completely wrong.

r9 270x

Love the sig
SG-O so much feels……

Ok .. first make sure your GPU is in the slot next to your CPU .. also just remove
and reseat it. If that doesn’t help post a screenshot from CPU-Z and GPU-Z
with GW2 running in the back.

Important is that you see the x16 2.0 and not a lower value, and your CPU
should run at max Speed also of course.

Went back and checked gpu-z after fresh install didn’t help and found there is a 2nd 16x at the back……….mine said 4×.

Problem solved, two heads are indeed better than one.

Thank you very much.

Beldin.5498:

latinkuro.7304:

Beldin.5498:

Am i wrong when my crystal ball tells me you have an NVidia card ?

completely wrong.

r9 270x

Love the sig
SG-O so much feels……

Ok .. first make sure your GPU is in the slot next to your CPU .. also just remove
and reseat it. If that doesn’t help post a screenshot from CPU-Z and GPU-Z
with GW2 running in the back.

Important is that you see the x16 2.0 and not a lower value, and your CPU
should run at max Speed also of course.

Done, done and done.
I give up trying to find the needle in a haystack…..
I’ve just finished fresh installing and upgrading to windows 10 (fingers crossed)
not installing any 3rd party apps yet, gonna DL the new drivers and install the game see if it works fine.

laokoko.7403:

I have the same problem. I just give up.

Make sure you install the latest driver. If you aren’t very good at computer, get some tech person to help you.

If all fail. The best thing you can do is wait for the next driver and hope it fix for you.

I think Nvidia are fixing their drivers now. But I dont’ know if their be able to fix for you. Since they are mostly try to fix their SLI problems. They didn’t talk much about fixing memory leak or Vram problem.

I’ve been troubleshooting pc’s for years now…..
might just ditch windows 10 and return to my trusty windows 7 pro…….
till these issues are resolved….

I should follow my own advice I’ve given to people for years, and NEVER install an OS when it is brand new out of the oven ! it is a recipe for disaster.

Beldin.5498:

Am i wrong when my crystal ball tells me you have an NVidia card ?

completely wrong.

r9 270x

Love the sig
SG-O so much feels……

Farlo.3642:

Hmm… Is it hard-locked at 18 fps or just bad performance in general? Does it go higher if you lower the graphics?

if I set it to best performance it will hit 70fps which is nothing compared to the 250fps it used to give me under best performance…..

You’re thinking it might be a GPU issue but if it was, I’d have issues in all games not just gw2.

WS is running fine on ultra settings giving me 55~75fps

Farlo.3642:

latinkuro.7304:

if there was a general bottleneck, it would show on other games as well not just gw2……
this is likely a gw2 specific issue with my windows 10 system.

I’m just thinking that something else might be taking up all your CPU, RAM, or GPU in the background causing GW2 to lag. Also Is this a fresh installation of Windows 10 or did you just upgrade from 7/8?

Lil Puppy.5216:

anyway, waits for 64bit games, can’t believe OS’s still come in 32bit flavor…

Simply moving from 32-bit to 64-bit doesn’t do anything by itself, all that does is allow the program to use bigger/more precise numbers and more RAM. Also, I believe GW2 is a 32-bit application, so a 64-bit OS wouldn’t really matter.

I thought so too, been looking at task manager under performance but nothing stands out and my CPU barely hits 25% mem 4/8gb used.

gonna install afterburner see if i can get some more detailed data on the GPU.

this has nothing to do with 32 vs 64 bit…..
clearly you do not understand anything about what is going on !

-repair command didn’t do anything btw…..

Almost you said has been tried, except for the -repair command running that now see if it helps.

if there was a general bottleneck, it would show on other games as well not just gw2……
this is likely a gw2 specific issue with my windows 10 system.

So I’m trying to stay calm while I write this………..

My maximum FPS in gw2 is now 18fps………

All other games running on ultra are well above 50fps.

I’ve pretty much done all I can think of short of formatting the bloody primary drive and installing window 7 pro……………

any thoughts ?

I hope they stream it on the official gw2 twitch stream for those of us that are international players.

I have several accounts,

All accounts except for my main account can login just fine.

Whenever I try to login with my main account it gives me error code:

42:1000:7006:1219

EDIT

NVM it now seems to work fine again.

Whatever you were doing it worked.

Dye application bugged (again)

Sigmoid.7082:

Not sure if anyone has said but maybe they dont want it to be something you can just buy gems, trade to gold and buy. Its something that shows you have played the game to earn and not just your favorite corner of the game either.

This ^^ is what I was getting at…..
For those that think farming the gold for a legendary means earning it !

I for one like the idea of all items related to gen 2 and forward legendaries being account bound ALL OF IT !

Gynok.1756:

Hopefully they just make so that all the new materials can be sold in tp.

That would defeat the whole purpose, they might as well keep making gen 1 legendaries !!!!

it should have it’s own aura and footfalls, it is a legendary item after all.

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Farming gold to buy a legendary is NOT by any means earning it !!!
playing the game, mastering all types of content IS earning it !!!

Seeing someone with a gen 2 legendary WILL mean true prestige, simply because “he did all of it”

you can do bank transfers using paypal you know, it is not just for credit card payments.

Hammer shock + leg specialist

This skill cobo should immob every enemy hit by the hammer shock skill instead of just the 1st enemy hit……..!

The CD should work on a per enemy basis instead of global in order to not cripple (pardon the pawn) the skill combo…..

This has been brought up before but seeing as

Eles have a similar CD called blinding ashes which can and does blind multiple enemies on burn.

Why not apply the way this CD works to leg specialist ?

The same enemy cannot be immob again for 5 seconds while other enemies can still be affected by it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Maybe, we should wait for more information on what would be involved, totally, and what other choices (if any) will be offered.

Good luck.

If there are other choices that allow you to skip fractals and still obtain it. I want an alternative to doing BORING world completion for acquiring gifts of exploration !!!

UKADAM.3910:

from what it states to be able to fully complete it you have to do fractals :/ i know alot of people don’t do them and still not above level 10, so does this mean we are forced to do them ?

I don’t like world completion but I do it cause I need them stupid world completion gifts !
there you go same thing basically, doing some piece of content you do not enjoy so you can get at a piece of reward you actually want.

All I need is date and time confirmation so I can sort things at work so I can have that specific day off……..!

The sooner the better A.net !!!

Gw2: HoT Annoncement show!

I was so happy, emphasis on was……

Now,

I have this nagging feeling they only started working on the expansion like maybe a month before announcing it.

Why do I think this ?

If they were truly working on this Xpack since 18 months ago, there would be a lot more progress to be seen……

Still,

Since this game has given me so much and I’ve enjoyed this mmo far longer than I’ve played any other crappy mmo out there.

I decided to pre-purchase HoT.

No regrets, but I’d like to see some REAL progress !

Soon ™

I’m on BG, this is not my primary account….
I use this just for posting on forums for obvious reasons.

Participated in all three seasons, yet my achievements panel is either bugged or something is going on, some other guildies have the same issue with them.

Season 1: 1st place representing BG
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_vs._World_Season_1

Season 2: 3rd place spring tourney representing BG
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/WvW_Spring_Tournament_2014

Season 3: 1st place fall tourney representing BG
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/WvW_Fall_Tournament_2014

Now look at the picture and notice that Fall tourney is missing and spring tourney is listed twice with 3rd place rewards……

if 30% is not enough for level one burst than they can do whatever the percent is for a level 1 burst……

My point is, it is impeding me from using a skill warriors were always able to use as a fight opener…..

I’m not saying give me full adrenaline !

I’m saying give me back the ability to use my skill, even if it is at level 1.

I understand why they changed adrenaline and all that jazz.

My issue is that:

* Adrenaline just depletes to quickly

It takes time building up adrenaline depending on your build of choice,
once you hit that max adrenaline level, you should have the option of either using it or keeping it for the next engagement, the latter is impossible because of how fast it depletes, even in WvW it is almost impossible to take it with you to the next fight even if that fight is literally 10 seconds away from you.

* My argument

- Thief: starts with full initiative.
- Revenant: starts with 50% energy.

- Necro: no life force, and locked out of some of it’s class skills
- Warrior: no adrenaline and locked out of some of it’s class skills.

General observations

Necro life force doesn’t deplete when out of combat and it is kept even if you port somewhere else, while we warriors seem to be drawing the short end of the stick because of QQers about our precious hammer leap fueled by adrenaline……

Man, this change has always made me so mad !!!
I understand the thought process behind it but the implementation is not quite ideal.

* My suggestion

How about starting us warriors and necros at 30&% of our adrenaline / life force so we can actually use our adrenaline / life force fueled skills……..

Buy or wait?

Make up your own mind !!!