Guild Wars 2

The changes made were extremely slight and did nothing to desexualize the race.

because having a character displaying their underwear versus not is “extremely slight”.

hell I’m pretty sure you’re even able to modify the thunder thighs which they had on release, so there’s pretty much nothing sexual about them anymore besides what you’re trying to make yourself see.

wasn’t there a post of an anet person basically saying she just runs in to a brick wall whenever she tries to get the dungeon suggestions through?

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Right Hand Strength the trait from Guardians that increases 15% crit chance with One handed weapons doesn’t appear to be working..

Anyone else tested? My H %crit chance doenst update

guardian definitely needs this fixed they don’t do enough damage right now

we’ve already been over this

catering to the 30 people playing pvp is clearly more important than the thousands upon thousands who play wvw and pve

this is why pvp balance is more important

xarallei.4279:

Natto.5819:

It seems like it’s doable, since in Tera you can make child characters. The difference is, they have long animal-like ears. In the Korean version, they can even wear skimpy armor. So it’s not like it’s not allowed.

I could make one with an Asura, but they are ugly.

That Tera race is bloody creepy. And the skimpy outfits on them even more so. I would hope to god Anet never creates something like that in this game.

you do know they censored elins on the western client, right?

to answer the OP, I highly doubt it would ever happen since the asura pretty much cover the “short, dwarf/gnome-like race” and “cute child race” category of MMOs in one.

can someone seriously tell me how a fight giving you the option to press 1 next to a dragon’s foot or press 1 a little bit of distance away is so mindblowingly interesting?

like why are people so fixated on ranged weapons? staff ele is op as hell when you can have someone basically sit at range away from danger and still output higher dps than all the other classes in their party.

i’m not even going to pretend gw2 dungeons are challenging, but this whole “you just stack and press 1” lying has gone on way too long.

Have you ever seen P/P thief build? I can dish out a lot of dmg mate

no, you make a big number with unloads. but big number =/= high damage per second. p/p thief damage isn’t really close to d/d damage which is why you were kicked.

I guess this is not selfish, I’m just trying to enjoy the dungeon on another way (not with D/D for example).

“I’m just trying to enjoy the dungeon the way I want and want to disregard the interests of the four other players because my entertainment > their entertainment” sounds pretty selfish to me.

n my mind its cooler if you can kill everymob and actually enjoy the dungeon, rather than stacking on a corner seeing only shinny lights and whatnots.

and who are you to judge what people find fun or not? some people enjoy stacking mobs in corners. some people enjoy stacking them in the open. some people enjoy ranging everything. some people just enjoy the chaos of a mixture of range and melee as a boss jumps around between party members.

so what is it you were saying again? ANet please design dungeons entirely around my interests, I don’t care what other people enjoy?

Sir James.7831:

These days I got kicked out from a party just because I had my two guns. I was stacked, and party leader said: “You are using ranged, bye” lol

Can we have improvement on Dungeons? Like make them impossible to stack, and actually facing it?

What can we expect from dungeons in this new Exp?

so you use low damage weapon sets and complain that you were kicked and then want every single dungeon overhauled to fit your preference?

you don’t think that’s a little selfish at all?

Sublimatio.6981:

Neko.9021:

Why not go to that dungeon guild that teaches new players stickied on the dungeon forums. I think they can help you learn how to skip stuff.

sadly, [noob] is rip, nobody takes care of it. Iris quit, Sarahfull was made the coordinator/leader, mentor list got deleted by Iris, Sarah said she’ll create a new list and thats about it. even after reminding its the same answer “ye i’ll do it” and still nothing FOR MONTHS. you may say it sounds like a rant – and you’re right – it’s incredibly irresponsible to manage such a big and sticked initiative so poorly

because managing a dungeon mentor guild is easy i guess

dude, the couple hundred people watching the pvp world championships is clearly more important the the tens/hundreds of thousands playing pve and wvw cmon swift anet know what theyre doing

this balance patch throwing all game modes out of whack with ungodly damage output, skills with an accidental removal of the aoe cap and massive condition bombing clearly demonstrates this

good thing we have people who are willing to overcome these difficulties

ah yes, I do love the “I hate <name> meta” hipsters that grace us with their presence in every game and then try to throw out things like “I play for fun” (because you can’t play efficiently and have fun at the same time apparently) or “(name) meta is for mindless drones”.

well warrior damage definitely feels way better post-patch

dominik.9721:

Right. But you are the person who flames the esport scene in gw2 allthough you never have been part of it nor you ever will be. And that makes you look pretty salty and Not better than plebs hating the pve scene

enough said.

i flame it because i find it hilarious that a company would try to establish an esport in their game and then decide "you know what, lets give our pvp almost zero support with barely any new maps besides one that is almost unanimously despised (lolhammer), no new game modes, and basically zero balance changes because stagnant metas are apparently how you make an esport.

and then the icing on the cake being that random boobcam streamers get more views than official gw2 tournaments.

not even salty bro, i just find it hilarious how a company can mismanage their game so hard and still think they can get a serious competitive scene going – and then the few balance changes they make are all revolving around this game mode when like 99% of gw2 players are pve’ers and wvw’ers, which they should be balancing more around instead since it’s catering to their majority. but apparently catering to the majority is irrelevant when all you have on your mind is e$ports, rofl.

Entenkommando.5208:

If anyone deserves to die within the story it is Trahearne .____.

He is just too much of a cliche.

this won’t end well

The fact that you always have to hate/flame this scene shows how mad and jealous you are about those people who achived sth you couldn’t achieve.

lol

it’s not that hard to achieve, you just have to put your mind to it and actually make an effort. i choose to do neither. it’s why I haven’t done anything of relevance in gw2 pvp and yet I’m in a higher league and division than everyone I know who plays league despite having played it for the least amount of time of all of them (compare about 3-4 months of serious play to people I know having played for 2+ years) because I actually bother to make an effort with it.

Not to mention, that it makes you look like as dumb as those who hate the PvE scene.
Your comments aren’t much better than those from lighter and are probably the reason some people can’t take this serious.

i’m not the person claiming pve is some sort of super hard mode when as far as I’m aware it’s just chaining ice bow freezes and spamming dps rotations or just doing the rotation on the completely nonthreatening bosses.

(instanced) pve, pvp and wvw are all the same, you’ll suck at all of them and then if you put the slightest bit of effort in you’ll do fine, none of them are really that harder than the other.

its ok at least you didnt lose your fractal level

I always love the discussion between PvP randoms claiming pve so ez allthough they even didn’t finish a single arah run and salty Pve players jealous about not beeing esport knowing there are maybe better players around in a mode they can’t compete with

ahahahahahaha “jealous”

the pvp in this game is just terribad, puke-quality content. the fact that it’s so bad and draws such pathetic numbers of people to watch its tournaments is why I refer to it as a pretend esport when you have random boob cam streamers on games likes CS/hearth stone/league who have more views than official gw2 “esport” tournaments, LOL. anet never balance their game with any sort of regularity and mismanage their game modes and legitimately think they can make an esport out of it, oh man.

well what else is there in gw2’s pretend esport mode? courtyard? yeah you can do whatever the **** you want in there too.

and you can absolutely run non-meta builds in solo queue and still win, to say otherwise is ridiculous.

never gets old seeing people think pvp is some sort of holy grail of challenging content, I can build stupid items in league and still dump people as well, you aren’t bound by the meta, you’re gated by your own individual skill.

lighter.2708:

Purple Miku.7032:

lighter.2708:

Anything works in PvE, i don’t think you should worry too much about that

The same can be said about PvP and WvW.

You can literally completely every single part of the PvE content with any build you would like to.

can not say the same to PvP and WvW

you can roam in wvw with whatever build you want. you can zerg with whatever build you want. you can hotjoin with whatever build you want, you can solo queue with whatever build you want.

so yeah, you can.

However what i really seek is a support play style that can do everything from ccing, to blinds and reflects and or heals as you mentioned above

then why don’t you play guardian? they literally do all of those. elementalist can as well. and engineer.

and using wall of reflection requires timing to use when a boss is actually using their projectiles, retreat requires timing to block a relevant attack, a warrior needs to place their banners in the more relevant fights rather than every trash mob, a thief needs to place their smoke screen during a mesmer/guardian’s reflect downtime and so on and so forth.

“hitting as many allies as possible” literally just means using a utility skill while around people, I don’t get how that is so exciting when you do that anyway. guardian tome can burst heal as well.

you literally could have just said “I find healing more interesting than the support options currently present in the game” but instead you’re trying to make it sound a lot more awesome than it actually is, when what you’re asking for is already present in the game.

What i meant was if i could support my allies in a more interactive way. not just press utility skills and then wait for CD then rinse and repeat. Which is why i’m excited for Ventari revenant! you move your tome around to heal and you can cc big crowds and have to move around to pick up shards for heals! Supporting the group yet having fuN!

errrrr

isn’t “moving your tome around to heal and cc’ing big crowds” the same as “press utility skills and wait for their CD”?

Well maybe my feelings are wrong but I had the impression that more people were able to run SC-like compositions since April 2014… but maybe it is a false impression.

well yes, but innovations have been made since then and people have been learning how to go faster and faster. The example I mentioned being the use of DPS gs/sw+f guardians for dungeons and hammer/gs for high level fractals and then I think hammer guardians have generally just been phased out for standard dps guardians more recently.

And also I think I’m trying to figure out what the devs have in their mind to promote so much healing spec recently (Ventari, engi revamp, the huge amount of outgoing heals traits…) since this is maybe the least played style through all game modes.
I mean, I’m talking here about healing, not support in general.

they added sinister, assassin and zealot stats since release too. I’d hardly call what they’re doing a focus on healing specs, they’re just trying to add more stat combinations in to the game. I mean maybe they’ll add main stat ferocity gear at some point too.

paradox interactive have always been open and extremely interactive with their customers. if there’s one company I could definitely point to as how to listen to fans and take feedback, it’s definitely them. i’m pretty sure they even gave up the EU2 and EU3 source code as well so that the AGCEEP and Magna Mundi developers could even construct their own games out of it, though I’m not sure how much or if PI get a share of their profits.

Ranael.6423:

maha.7902:

I suppose they want to promote more needs of tanky or healer for unorganized groups

no, they aren’t

move along nothing to see here.

I really think there will be far less “noobz get home ! I do AC in 10 minutes in my zerker gear while I don’t know what should be my build”
People will really have to know what they are doing and why to complete dungeon in Meta setup.
It won’t affect the majority of people like you (are you still playing? ) and others posting regularly in this subforum but average player will fell the difference and start to fail in their daily AC/TA/SE COF p1 tour (see I’m talking about people who actually run Arah daily).

back when the scaling was out of whack, fights lasted a lot longer in lower level dungeons and ice bows and wallsploits weren’t rampant there was still the same amount of people just playing full glass meta builds through dungeons, either organised group or random pug.

i’m tell you, it won’t make any difference.

the only thing that encourages tanky or healing builds is inexperience. compare strife era warriors and guardians with knights gear versus the current full berserker setups we have now. compare the usage of hammer guardians in higher level fractals (this is a more recent example) to now where I think people just take standard double ele dungeon compositions with a dps guardian.

I suppose they want to promote more needs of tanky or healer for unorganized groups

no, they aren’t

move along nothing to see here.

so ive sat here with tera dl’ing overnight and i tab on to the client and the first thing i see is

“Get ready for four new instances (two with additional hard modes), a new battleground for level 65 players,”

four new instances with hard modes gggggggggggggg

As for your recurrent conspiracy theories, please have some dignity. This is no place for petty antagonism.

oh

my

sides

New encounters is the way you go about fixing the only zerker all the time.

for a time, sure. but once people figure out what skills to dodge/mitigate you’ll fall back in to the “use as little passive defense as possible and maximise your offensive stats” situation again. a bit like how people tried to hail the wurm or silverwastes as “the end of zerker” and then people just carry on using it anyway.

like … lol, people will literally cling on to anything to satisfy their fantasies.

I want my character to be optimal at all times because I can’t stand the idea that I could be better so it would take that stress off if they said no matter what you do you won’t be optimal 100% of the time.

why is being optimal 100% of the time bad again?

. If I were a condi class in my example I would not be optimal for add duty. As a power build I wouldn’t be optimal on boss damage. That is appealing to me

and what if you are someone who enjoys condition builds but would rather deal with adds in an encounter than the boss? you’re not appealing to them, are you?

1.) It would HOPEFULLY eliminate the “link your zerker or you’re out” mentality

“If you’re clearing adds, use berserker or gtfo, if you’re on the boss use sinister/rabid or gtfo, thanks”

so no, it wouldn’t.

2.) Having different roles even if they are all damage roles within an encounter.

you already have different roles within encounters. you’ve got might stackers, CC appliers and damage mitigation roles

it honestly blows my mind that people think carrying multiple sets of gear is even remotely fun and that gear having a different prefix or your damage numbers appearing differently (oh this is a white number, oh this is a white number surrounded by red, oh this is a white number with a little flame or red droplet next to it!) is so incredibly interesting. it’s not. as someone hwo carries two sets of gear along with a bunch of other consumables it’s just annoying and a hassle to carry around, and I wish the game just had build templates so I could just switch between builds without having to reassign all of my traits.

as someone who hasn’t played in a while, in all honesty is standing in one spot and chaining ice bow freezes particularly that challenging? you know, assuming the boss doesn’t die before the first one ends.

Do it yourself, you’d only go “she’s not black enough” anyway. Yeah, actually heard that. Not black enough. Because other people can establish who’s too white or too black or the other way around.
I don’t have the heart to report left and right like a freaking 12yo kid so if you wanna keep at it with this topic I’ll leave you be. I got baited like a complete idiot.

well, no. caucasoids and kittenids have specific distinct facial features, so if you were able to replicate kittenid features in the character creator, then no I wouldn’t be able to argue they “weren’t black enough”. I mean, i’m pretty sure I can use myself as a point of reference when trying to determine if something is “black”.

I like Asian girls and it’s not sexual preference or racism. My girls have normal Asian less busty body type and one is even a kid. The only white is my Norn and she’s Nordic. My last creation is a hot Latino. My beta Revenant is a black man :’>

so my point stands that for the majority of your characters, black is not a common feature for them. I don’t make black characters because I find lighter complexions and caucasian features more appealing.

i don’t get why my point is causing so much friction, I’m literally just pointing out the blatantly obvious and people are up in arms about it. hell, I’m pretty sure if all of my characters were black and I said “well white girls aren’t really my thing (insert winky face here)” nobody would even care, but since it’s the other way round we have people foaming at the mouth.

there’s nothing wrong with having preferences. absolutely nothing wrong with it.

i feel like unless you can burst condis really fast a condition build still won’t be worth using in dungeons. still, it’ll be cool for a mesmer to have triple duelists + bleeds from the rest of the party dealing tons of damage

race drama? what race drama? is pointing out the sexual preferences of the majority drama?

you’re turning it in to a drama by completely overreacting to what I wrote – and I only wrote what I did because I’ve noticed it both online and in real life – that whites, both male and female are generally considered more attractive. in fact, of all the people I went to school with, I can quite literally think of two girls in my entire year off the top of my head who had a preference for black guys. and yeah, it felt bad at the time, being mixed race myself but I don’t even care about it now.

And that’s completely untrue, you can make women with non-caucasian facial features just fine, just use the kitten sliders.

i’d like to see that. because the only game I have ever played which actually makes it possible to create a character with a kittenid (don’t even know why this is censored) facial structure is DA:I.

not really. I mean I prefer lighter skin tones and caucasian facial structures myself too, it’s just sexual preference – and in a video game if you are creating an avatar you will be creating them around an image you have in mind – whether simply something you find attractive, or cool or whatever it is – and in MMOs you’ll generally tend to see more young looking, lighter skinned, chesty female characters.

obvious touchy subject is obvious, though I don’t think people should feel too insecure to admit it.

sexual preference =/= racism

Evion.6298:

No Beautiful black girls?

allow me to be the one to point out the elephant in the room

black people aren’t generally considered as attractive by the majority of people

feels bad but i got over it

how to get rid of stacking

step 1: make a group specifying no stacking
step 2: complete dungeon without stacking

mission successful

raise your hand if crafting-in-fractals nike makes you want to gouge your eyes out

…

raises hand

If you define PvE as dungeons and nothing but, sure.

in dungeons it allows you to stunlock bosses, in open world they throttle up the defiant stacks up to a ridiculous amount so that you can’t stunlock bosses.

so yeah, control is pretty kitten strong. in fact the whole meta is anchored around it right now – you shut down bosses with co-ordinated CC and burst them without interruption.

i remember when people were like lol PS is bad

sure is a good thing rT tested it out and then dub told me about it so i could pass it on to NA

and now it’s “overpowered”, oh my sides

No… That’s the fun for players who like to DPS. Believe it or not, all those players in other MMOs who run tanks, healers and CC masters…? Some of them actually enjoy THAT and GW2 basically takes a big dump on those customers at every turn.

yes, it takes a big dump on them by allowing them to do all of those things and yet do damage at the same time

how

dare

they

“shards of energy will fly off onto the ground around the target. You or your allies can walk over these for a small amount of healing. This encourages strafing around your target to pick up the orbs as you attack”.

Get rekt colesy lawl

i’d say something but i got banned for it the last time i did.

With the condition cap changes, I would largely expect sinister gear to replace it in dungeon runs because it will strictly offer better DPS values from some classes if the stacks are not competed for by players.

you literally have no idea what you’re talking about

“I wish anet would let me play singleplayer in a multiplayer game”

i wish riot would let me get in first person and shoot people with an mp40 when i play league too

Things like hammer warriors and chill necros (zomg, necros with party support) will actually be desirable in high end PvE content

or the warrior knocks down with mace 5 or uses throw bolas and then carries on hammering away.

I wish people who don’t actually play at the high end would stop trying to give feedback on what they think the high end should be when they don’t even understand it.

i think i have like 7k or something

but of course doing pretty much exclusively instances is practically devoid of AP gain so i never really got that high

to be honest i don’t even know how i have the AP i do have, like i literally made zero effort to get any of it

no flood control here

stop being a naughty boy <3333

“achievements” in GW2 to me are normally just grindy borefests so I never bother with them really. it’s why I have absolute jack all for AP when most of the people in my friends list have like 15k+ because for some reason the game is full of people mad enough to do “collect 50 <insert item here>” crap.

but you can get most of them doing brain afk content so vayne is ok with it

you need to be able to shut your brain off and watch tv to get rewards for gw2 to be going in the right path according to our saviour

i forgot how low of a tolerance i had for the entitled **** stains that are rampant in the guild wars 2 discussion forum

“instanced content is bad because I DONT LIKE IT”

sure, and I wish they’d delete their stupid pretend e$$$$$$$ports game mode since it’s terrible but i’m not shoving that opinion down peoples’ throats.