Guild Wars 2

i don’t know about you but i don’t know anybody who mashes CnD for burst damage.

meanwhile, it was a steady source of damage for S/D because they used it frequently to apply daze with sword 1. it barely puts a dent in BS combo builds that are burst.

i feel really disgruntled about the S/D nerfs, which almost all of these are. no nerfs to the silly 18k backstab combo builds in conjunction with this is totally mind-blowing. it’s as the devs went “we have all this data that thieves are using swords instead of daggers—and they’re pushing 4 instead of _2!”_ that’s what it feels like. the CnD nerf obviously hurts S/D thieves more than it does BS combo thieves.

No fix to the pathing for S/D 3, no P/P buffs, and our build selections are even less diverse than they’ve ever been. More backstab combo one-trick-pony thieves to come. Is this a job well done?

dancing dagger probably did need a nerf, but not half effectiveness. it carrying to pve makes me upset too.

feels like diablo 3, man.

“we have data showing thieves hitting 4 instead of 2”

You’re going to be more likely to attract fetishizers with “Exotic Tranny” more than you are people who want their identity to be recognized.

while we’re at it let thieves use greatswords.

in fact greatsword should be a standard issue weapon

There is no “grand scheme of things” to “Thief 5 lets you hold a node indefinitely.” If other thief underwater skills bother you, you should probably post in the “Buff something” thread and not here.

The point is that being able to bunker a node and essentially never be hurt is silly and I’m pretty sure was not in their design philosophy. If it was something you could do on land they would nerf it in a heartbeat. Water really shouldn’t be any different, as the only real reason there might be is “it’s water combat so it doesn’t matter much.”

I played the bursty build for a few days a couple of weeks back, and frankly, it’s just annoying to play as because you can be destroyed so easily. You have to play extremely carefully to not die constantly, and if your burst doesn’t work on someone, then that’s it. Run away or die.

Survivable builds are more fun and can have still reasonable damage and burst capability. They also don’t get mopped by double dagger power/precision burst.

Since thieves love hearing about how their buttons need nerfed, does anyone else feel like spear 5 is honestly over the top? The amount of time you can spend evading with this skill with certain builds strikes me as very silly. I’ve used it many times to simply sit on the contested Ruins node in Capricorn and just evade away and it lasts so long that it’s easy to keep the initiative coming with certain skill/trait setups and fill in the blank with dodge rolls.

Also, running into another thief doing the same thing is extremely annoying.

Normally I wouldn’t give this much scrutiny, but I rarely see water combat get addressed here and I feel like this is something that surely the devs would want to look at.

Clock tower is fun. Speed traits do not grant a great boon, as the increased speed brings increased instability. Most people ‘lose’ because they mess up, not because they trudged on too slowly.

Anyone who is quitting GW2 over Clock Tower’s existence is silly.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

I think the biggest complaint I’ve heard about this, is the fact that those that can complete the Clock Tower, are being awarded “endgame” gear (exotics) just for doing it. So people who can’t do it, are upset that they don’t have that access to exotics like others do.

I guarantee you anyone making that argument also complained that activities in the game were not rewarding enough (such as dungeons not giving actually good loot.)

I did not give up and I am posting in your thread. Zow!

I really do find the first third of the run the most treacherous. After the drop down to the 2nd chest, it’s extremely easy and you have plenty of time.

Clock tower is challenging and once I found myself through my first clear, I found myself able to get through it thereafter with decent consistency.

It was enjoyable.

Osiris.5824: read the mod reply. they do not comment on 3rd party applications.

since it does not grant you any tangible benefits in-game in terms of advantage or rewards, it is most likely not bannable.

it’s a directx mod, not a gw2 mod

this needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed for everything. if you are in range to hit an object, you should hit it. you should never miss and there should never be obstructed errors unless there’s something between you and that object.

graveling burrows are the biggest culprit, but using heartseeker on my thief to break open the gates in legacy in foefire is also a completel kittening nightmare.

please fix this; it’s been a huge problem since beta and it’s never improved. the way players interact with destructible objects needs to be tested, because clearly it never was.

i’m sick of it and it’s just a stressful headache. it makes this game appear extremely poorly developed and AC graveling nonsense (which is the same in all three paths—creativity!) is just artificially difficult when you can’t actually hit things.

Why is it so impossible to hit objects with melee weapons? This is single handedly the most frustrating and annoying thing about the game. I can’t DPS silly graveling burrows if I can’t figure out how to even hit them with melee weapons.

Why hasn’t this been fixed yet? Are the devs even aware this is an issue? It just creates a lot of artificial difficulty that makes the game feel poorly put together. I shouldn’t be missing objects that I am literally touching because I’m not attacking from the right angle or some nonsense.

This needs to be a function; all too many times I’ve seen a character with a fully acceptable name but they have a pretty inappropriate guild name. There isn’t any button for this, and most time I use inappropriate character name and hope the GMs can sort it out, but it seems like more trouble for them than is due. Can we please have a button for reporting inappropriate guild names in the report dropdown?

Is a free trial for GW2 in the works or coming in the near future now that the servers have stabilized a bit? I have many friends who want to try the game but aren’t willing to shell out $60 up front for it, even though it has no subscription fees.

no stun break. blah.

Necro will probably never be popular for that very reason. Something has to be strong and basic for it to be popular—like Warrior.

Hitting F to interact with an object (say, a Warrior’s banner) will sometimes get you stuck running if you are are moving when you try to interact with it. Very annoying bug.

I was in an incredible group that was doing fantastic, but then one person had to leave. The instance we were in was apparently started by that character, so when she left, everyone got kicked out of the dungeon and we had to start over.

This is totally mediocre and needs to be fixed immediately.

They really ought to just make keys way cheaper. It’s nearly $2 for one of those keys. Don’t they know what a microtransaction is?

What is with the female human weapon swing grunts, anyway? It sounds like a zipper being ripped open too quickly.

Does this bother anyone else?

Heavy armor has far too strong a habit of being textures being pasted onto characters’ chests which is all too upsetting for this game. Please look at games like Demon’s Souls for reference.

There also needs to be something done about character names. It’s hard to remember who is who in guild chat because people will log on with many different characters. An option to use player tags instead of character names in guild chat would be nice.

offhand sword is fine. world of warcraft did not create the idea of dual swords and crediting it for that is dumb.

there’s also nothing weird about “I want to stab them to death with my strong arm” and “parry them with my weak arm.”

it would also help if females did not have absurdly long legs in this game.

i don’t get video game designers’ contempt for female bodies, anyway.

Ryuujin.8236:

…male Asura have nipples, but females don’t Ó_o;

This is probably due to the fact that female Asura chests are not meant to be seen, which is a problem when they just C/P all the male armor on girls. It’s no different than the female models for any other race; human female models do not have nipples either. The difference is simply that you correctly do not ever see a bare human female breast whereas armors do let you see Asura chest.

Bearhugger.4326:

Eh, no. I picked the most muscular physique for my warrior and believe me she is as flat as a girl can get. I think there’s also a few skinny physiques that are that way.

It’s just that the big majority of people (or at least the male players) will automatically pick busty physique when making a female character.

Which is fine it’s their character they should make them look good. At the very least a character should look good to the player behind them.

correction: only a few of the physiques have actually realistically sized female breasts

there are no human female physiques that are flat. period. welcome to video games, everyone

lost me at perpetuating gay stereotypes re: faren.

Sephirox.4071:

I haven’t try the infinite stealth or if it works but…Aren’t Thieves suppose to do that? Stealth, Kill, Run away…I see no issue with them being what they are…Is like telling a orange to be a car…Thieves stealth that’s what they do that’s what they will always do…There are several counter measures in every race to this…

Thieves are not what they are when doing something that the game’s developers specifically designed thief not to do.

If they wanted thieves to have infinite stealth, they would have given them a World of Warcraft stealth button. They also would’ve made it impossible to cap things while stealthed.

I haven’t seen any threads about this (though similar threads) and unfortunately I don’t have a lot of information about it, but apparently there is a bug with a certain light armor that causes the armor model to disappear completely. This definitely wasn’t a glitch on my end as I saw other people in Divinity’s Reach responding to the character’s apparent lack of dress.

Maybe it’s something newish? Google advised.

GW2 playing the same music in almost every zone (I’ve start of thinking of it as the “adventure” music rather than, say, the Queensdale or Wayfarer music) is deeply disappointing.

I typically am not one of the people in that crowd, but I’ve started playing without music cause I’m sick of hearing the same tracks over and over and over without pause no matter where I go.

The battle theme is also really redundant.

The two-shot cinematics leave a lot to be desired in terms of actual cinema in most cases. I don’t feel it’s even worthy of term.

You can have a talented set of voice actors, but really, they must not have been very inspired while working on this game because a lot of the voice acting is just terribly blank and empty sounding. The only time I was impressed with the voice for the human female player character was in the street rat quest chain whereQuinn dies. She legit sounds whipped into a vengeful fury.

As far as the youtube links above go, they’re both bad. There’s a little tension in the beta version, but even it doesn’t deserve that credit.

Insinuating that it’s the presentation of the cinema that makes the voice acting seem bad is also nonsense. Visual novels and a plethora of jRPGs would like to have a word with you.

Also, Crispin Freeman popping up everywhere in the game is kind of genuinely awful.

I get this sometimes when I am doing WvW. I’ve not had this happen anywhere else in the game. While doing it, sound will not output anywhere else on my computer, but after closing GW, normal sound functionality is restored.

This is still not working on our server (TC). :I

Is it possible that this can be looked at by the art team? It’s pretty gross looking.

http://puu.sh/18ivq

Yes, I used the skinniest model for this particular character, but there’s no excuse for having no meat on her ankles. :T It just looks really … I don’t know, fake. Not even gross, especially since the rest of her is not proportioned so terribly. It subtracts from the look of armors that don’t use boots particularly. I’m pretty sure women have meat on their ankles and not just bone and skin.

Pray.9751:

Untouch.2541:

Rika.7249:

Untouch.2541:

No, that’s why they stated several times they’re adding more.

Source? I’d like to see it, I haven’t heard anything about that

They said during beta.
Forums were culled, so I can’t give proof.

Sorry.

No they didn’t and there won’t be any game modes in the next months to come, what will be there is of course the “soon everything will be better” blogpost that apparently takes about 100h of workload to write up.

Are you trying to suggest that they should actually have some proof of content in the works to show us? They’ve still got some way to go on bug tackling and I don’t expect them to prioritize content so close to launch (at least to the point of showing us product, which keep in mind has to be near final before they can do so.)

Thank you for this; exactly what I came to the subforum today for.

A report workaround would also be great but i’m not terribly optimistic unless it happens to work the same way :T

shrug. they already have special boy armor sets for funny status symbols. adding displayable rank isn’t going to make it significantly worse vs. various benefits (such as having some idea of what rank the armor set someone is wearing requires)

i was already anxious about running around with the default mesmer gear so i really don’t think it matters whether someone can see my arbitrary number or not since the issue already exists

i find these sorts of topics are far more interesting to me than it would be to others I am sharing with just because it’s my writing, but I name all of my characters typically (with some small exceptions for joke characters occasionally) after characters from my writing. i would like to be a published author some day.

My main character is my 42 Thief Krei, and I’m actually not sure where I came up with this name. I had a brief stint in the early years in WoW where I briefly quit the game because I became very ill for several weeks and could not play and my friends that I had been playing with sorely outleveled me, so I lost motivation. When I resubbed, I had a level 1 rogue on my server named Krei that I had no memory of making and it turned into the character that I first level capped and raided with.

Another of my characters’ names is Ephridel which is actually the name of a male character in my writing (I purposely designed it to be sort of ambiguous.) I actually ended up playing more girl characters with this name in MMOs than guys—i’m not sure i can name a male MMO character I named Ephridel, in fact.

when i’m taking off from being all ~immersive~ i usually go for goofy names like “Angrydad” (im sad this one is taken on this game) and “Dieing,” which I’ve always used for my healer in other MMOs. I had a priest on WoW that I didn’t know what to name and I had a guy in guild mispell dying as “dieing” and i immediately remembered such a comical (Sorry to anyone who does this!) error, needed to have it, renamed my character to “Dieing.” He wasn’t thrilled about it, but it made me happy and I thanked him.

It’s in the actual bank tab at the very bottom. There’s a button for expending your bank in the left or right corner. It costs 600(?) gems.

i consider myself a casual player due to other engagements but i have 171 hours over the past month. idk. my situation isn’t the most ideal and if i was living closer to my boyfriend and not an hour away i’d likely be spending less time on here. i’m also not employed at the immediate moment so that contributes

i definitely know i don’t get as many chances to play as i would like to though!!

I don’t mind other races, but I’ve simply had a tendency to gravitate towards human in all MMOs for whatever reason. It may have something to do with modeling characters off ones in my writing (humans.)

i only used the word “statistical” due to anxieties about coming off as an attention kitten for stating the fact, but it seemed pertinent due to macho men in this thread who feel the need to state that playing a girl character makes you gay or something idk

Rizzy.8293:

I play males, why would I play a female?

Look at pixelated booty?
I have a nice set of booty to look at in real life. I don’t need anymore stimulus.

But hey thats cool for you if you wanna play a girl like shes your virtual barbie doll, just remember, when you call someone gay… you’re presenting yourself a girl :S

nothing is okay about this post

I have 5 girl characters and 2 guy characters. 5 are human, 1 is norn, 1 is sylvari. The males are both human.

for statistical reasons, i am female

Kenral.9317:

I do agree in total ^ with first post.

However……I don’t see a dev reply….does anyone, maybe reddit?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/The-CoF-Buff-My-opinions/page/2#post158017 Robert Hrouda’s post in this topic.

ccrazool.2905:

You’re quite a different kind of gamer than I am, for sure. I don’t think my experience would relate to yours at all. I haven’t got full completion on all the sub-35 zones yet (which has really turned out to be a good “seeing all the sights” gauge), and I haven’t even seen the 50+ zones yet. I’m lvl 43 and haven’t been to Ascalon Catacombs once yet… though that’s mostly due to me not looking for groups. Like I said, I have a lot of sights left to see. Also, I have played to ~lvl10 with a lot of different classes and races to find one that I liked, so I guess that took some time. But I haven’t bought any gems at all, and I forsee literally months’ worth of gameplay ahead of me. You played it out in a couple weeks, which is a pace I can’t imagine. I hope you can get some satisfaction out of your purchases, but I dunno about the “hemorrhaging players” stuff.

You don’t have to be a hardcore player to be upset about these dungeon changes. My highest level character is 42 and they make me upset too because I identify with the token prices for armors being way too high.

I suggest you stay out of dungeons and don’t look at the skins lest it ruin the illusion of a fantastic game that pretends it doesn’t have a carrot on a stick.

User was infracted for this post.

It’s really pathetic how expressing a dissenting opinion in this game turns into a PR nightmare of disrespect by ANet representatives. They have quickly and completely demolished my love for this game because I no longer trust them with it. I don’t need liabilities in my life; I’ve had enough pain in it and I’m only recently getting over it.

Black Lion Key would be an awesome dungeon reward.

Also, dungeon sets cost too much and are a massive grind. It is the most grindy thing this game has to offer.

No LFP ever. Verbally seeking members for a party is not that difficult.

9 year olds are way too stupid to play video games. Duh.