Guild Wars 2

Auto dodge bot ? Are you serious ? Who the hell would need bot for doubleclick ??

I’ve tried 5 tickets and stopped because the encounter is anoying
the arena is anoying (with my tall norn the FOV is greatly kittened in that arena)
So whats the deal ? spend xy amount of gold for repairs, tickets, new build, weapons armor… to get kittening mini pet at the end ? no thanks

Tonight within 10 min of playing the client crashed 2 times with the same message
I am playing this game for almost a year and never before I have seen this
btw I was fighting in crown pavilon when those crashes happened

Dog.1472:

I’ve played every class. You shouldn’t have deleted your thief. If you played it longer, you would know that you are not untouchable in stealth. You are invisible, that’s it. Knowing that you can assume where the thief is going to be and what they’re doing. You can lay down attacks and kill them, you can use mist form so they can’t backstab you and their stealth wears out. You can even dodge it.

Now, if I was using a staff, I’d probably be dead. Plain and simple, some builds don’t work in 1v1, like a staff Ele. That isn’t unbalance. That’s rock being better than scissors.

I’ve been killed by thieves and I’ve killed plenty of them too. If you think there’s nothing you can do, the problem is you, not the class.

I love this kind of posts where players which play/played thieves tells us that stealth is not so OP because they can assume where the thief is going/will be so by hitting the air with your weapons thief can be killed yes… WTH is this bullcrap the assume thing ?
its like lottery I assume there will be numbers 561166214 well I am not a millionaire yet

ofcourse double tap dodging so I can dodge to appropriate direction

Zacchary.6183:

I see alot of people complaining that there is a major lack of balance in this game. The story usually turns out as the original poster recently getting outplayed by something, perhaps multiple times in a row, which irritates them enough to make the player log onto the forums and post their complaints. Bandwagoners and anyone else with a small personal vendetta jumps in to support the poster as well.

The term that’s almost guaranteed to be used in this kind of thread is ""overpowered"

Whats the difference ?
Thief will say that he is skilled thus he outplayed other player. Other player will say that thief is overpowered. Who is right ? How can you measure the outplay thing ? Do you have input data from the other player so you can count down that you outplayed him ? NO
But what all have is the game mechanics (combat, skills, classes…) and you can compare those regarding to all classes and by this comparision you can actually get to the result that some classes are OP in some aspect of the game
got it ?

thieves are seems skilled because there is no way to punish them when they dont kill you on first attempt
here’s why
thieves use initiative instead of cooldowns on weapon skills converting initiative to CD I will get the 8sec the longest weapon skill CD
there is also this problem when enough of initiative I can spam the same skill again and again
So what happens… thief attack me he screws and dont manage to kill me → hide in shadow → wait 10sec → attack again… Thief can again use any ability, I cannot (cool downs up to 45sec on some weapon skills)
That is the main problem with thieves

@Yumiko Ishida.3769

% crit chance (from precision) is math. rounded so that means that the best to have is X.51 % you dont see that in game stats but it works like that because it will be rounded up to X+1
On the other hand X.49% will be rounded down to X
SO
in the first case the excess of crit over 0.50% you can “convert” those by lowering precision and rising other stat (example i dont need 40.49% crit chance when 39.51% is the same. So you can get rid off 20pts of precision and get 20pts to other stat)

COF is a gold mine and yes for mining gold efficiently you need the most efficient machines which are zerk warriors maybe someone discovers that full zerk elementalist goup is the best mining machine who knows.
Personally I dont wanna my character to be the most efficient mining COF machine
I play for fun

Araris.7839:

L2P, I don’t think I’ve ever been taken down by a meteor storm lol. 1 dodge = safety. So difficult, how will we manage?

so by your logic nothing is OP because everything can be dodged ?

thief is the only exception from the weapon skills cooldown mechanics = broken

gw2 is transparent game
so you can find on gw2 wiki all the math formulas for damage, condition damage…
then you can count the actual damage

I run with 10/30/0/25/5 (zero valor) build. The build I have theorycrafted before to the deepest level possible (including damage with different weapons, skills) and its working wonders

allways going for BIS

My first char. in GW2 was human engineer. But at level 27 I’ve realized that Norns are way cooler than Humans and the engineer itself wasnt what I wanted to play.

So I’ve relroled Norn then I found out that I never played paladin like (holy warrior) heavy armor class ever in my previous MMORPG’s so I have rolled guardian and I love it still at lvl 80 full exo, ascended gear

wow, thanks for tips guys
had no idea about the locker in pvp and pvp salvage kit

with the introduction of AP rewards I get kittenloads of PVP only skins. I dont sPVP so they are useless to me and I dont care because thei’re all ugly
They cant be sold, cant be salvaged, cant be flushed in the M toilet… whats the deal ?
I seems to me that anet wants to fill up ours inventory so we buy new bank, bag slots or what ?

IMHO
condition damage was not designed as primary source of damage for any class
Its like seasoning on steak
If you try to build primary condition damage build it would be like taking lots of seasoning and then add little of steak
It just wont work

OP how in the hell are the Dragon’s Revelry Starcake P2W if you cant buy them with gems
If you are lucky you get the recipe. So lets say you are lucky and you get the recipe. Now can you eat the recipe ?

@OP
Its not worth when you doing it blindly
There is somwhere on net xls where you can exactly build your character on paper (xls) its not problem then to almost exactly count the damage with individual skills, weapons (with 95% accuracy) so then you can count the actual DPS

But back on the full zerker you asked
There are two important values to consider.
First is effective power
Second is effective defense
Then there is max effective power of you class (full zerk, and trait build)
Then there is max effective defense of your class (full vit+tough+healing)

So then you can calculate the effective power/defence % from the max values your class can have
Then you can compare that increasing the effective power by x% will decrease your effective defense by y% or vice versa. So you can decide if the increase is worth or not.
Bassicaly what I found out the best is to find perfect balance for those two so when you count them you get the highest number

I would invest one billion to a team which will convert the GW2 in to fully immersion, matrix like game

GW2 is great game
I stopped playing it in january because i was 100% bored with the game
But 4 months later the boredom expired and I am havin a blast playing GW2 again

The most important thing is I didnt miss anything in the meaning of being competetive

Xenon.4537:

Seems like a troll thread. Either that or OP just got roflstomped by a thief 5 hours ago and is having a knee-jerk reaction.

My advice, if you are willing to listen, is to try some confusion, retaliation, and/or some blocking cooldowns. The initiative mechanic is designed for bursting. Use other game mechanisms to counter and punish the thief’s burst.

its not a troll thread
and I beat bad thieves but I cant beat skilled thieves
the encounter goes like this I am attacked by invisible thief (obviously) I am able react in such I way (using def abilities) that I am able to counter the initial burst and start to beatdown the thief now the bad thief panics and usually I kill him or he just runaway
Now the skilled thief immediately recognize the initial burst countered and he just stealths away waits for the initiative to replenish and attack me again with all the arsenal he has at his dispoasal and here’s the problem I cant properly react on this second attack as my def ability/ies are on cooldown
Thats the reason why thieves are broken.

Dustfinger.9510:

A-net is big on each class providing a different play experience.
“With professions, we’re much more concerned with how they interact with the current balance and whether they provide a different play experience.”
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/2094-room-for-future-races-and-classes/page__st__60#entry89820

So while the base may be the same, they each have something unique that they boast. They won’t just remove it and make it base. You would need to suggest something unique to add to the thief.

stealth-based character is as unique as you can get

Zacchary.6183:

If I stand there and spam /cry while you kill me will that make you feel better?

I am just pointing out that the most basic mechanics in the game apply to all classes except thieves which I think is not OK

If Anet had this ridiculous idea to copy WoW rogue energy based mechanics and call it initiative then I want to see
Elementalists/necro’s/guardians to use mana pool and remove coodowns
warriors/rangers to use rage and remove cooldowns
and so on…

Remove the thief initiative mechanics and replace it with standard cooldown mechanics so the weapon skill’s mechanics would be the same for all classes

what you have written here is MTG type II (standard) model
dont forget about modern, legacy and vintage

But I am sure it woudnt work in character, skill based, non colectible MMORPG

I am really suprised I play on AG server and LA is constantly full
yesterday I wantend to join wvw and all borderlands and also EB were full as on the first month of release

Southsun is pretty dangerous for boting I think
you know karkas and drakes hits like train full of trucks…

its funny how’s this thread gets allways necroed from the bottoms of the thread graveyard

I am happy with current state of the game
and I never played GW1

ShinjiSama.5063:

I am looking for something that looks like this:

As far as I have seen the closest there is, is the Vigil Guild Armor that you only get from joining the Guild. My highest warrior is only in mid 20’s.

OMG xena…

for that chest get gladiator chest

all items my character wears are legenadry because my character is legend

I eat that because its hot-peppery and I love hot-peppery foods

there is no risk and reward in gw2
there is only lottery

why this thread isnt closed yet ?!
Its clear (as many have stated) that you cant vendor legendary item
So the point of the thread is nonsense and should be closed immediately

generally for any mmo you need powerfull CPU which AMD isnt (sadly…)
get an intel CPU and AMD GFX

in wvw I get better fps than in lion arch and Aetherblade Retreat
my spec are
i5 2500K @ 4.5GHZ
radeon 7850, 2GB (OC’ed)
8 GB RAM 1600mhz corsair
SSD OCZ vertex 3
win 7 64bit

I run gw2 1920*1080 maxed details
The thing is that I use tridef soft to run the game in real 3D which eats around 50% of the FPS

in LA I get arround 12-20 fps (24-35fps with tridef off) here I dont care about fps
in Aetherblade Retreat i get 14-23 fps (around 30 fps tridef off)
in WvW I get like 20-30 fps (around 40fps trideff off)
in other dungeons I get arround 30-40 fps (around 60fps tridef off)

Really dont understand the bad performance in Aetherblade Retreat
It seems like conected to LA in some way which would explain the low fps

just google it

the fps in Aetherblade Retreat is horrible its almost the same like in lion arch which is for me the place with worst fps

Its instanced dungeon so i dont understand why it has such a terrible fps
I get double fps in any other dungeon

condition damage will be allways inferior to power in current mechanics
Here’s why
Lets say I strike with my sword once per second then
+1 power = +0.5dps
+1 condition damage Burning = +0.25dps
+1 condition damage Bleeding = +0.05dps (one stack)

Esplen.3940:

Cooking is very profitable. You must do a lot of research beforehand, but once you have finished researching, you can easily stockpile materials until you can craft a decent portion of them, then sell them for profit. Again, you must do your research beforehand to find out what is profitable and what isn’t, and also finding profit margins. There are many recipes which I’ve thought about doing, but have less than a 0.5% return, offering mere coppers for the price of golds (and not even guaranteed).

Remember, any sale you try to make is not guaranteed, so don’t go all in when profiting off of anything. It’s better to spread around your resources. If I could gurantee I make 10c off of a sale that that’s 50s, then I would use that in addition to my other sources of income, I wouldn’t rely on that as my only source of income.

cooking is dead
dont need to look any further than dragon bash food

I am happy with my current build
The patch provided only buffs to my current build 10/30/0/25/5
Those buffs include:
Scepter – 30% projectile speed – great buff
Vulnerability trough blind now last 10s instead of 5s – great buff
Signet of judgment now breaks stun and weakness affect also crit. strikes – great buff

there’s no point for me to change build

the inflation will be the result of the destroyed crafting market

The only way to make gold now is
getl lucky on RNG
creating new gold by farminf CoF = inflation

I get the big picture now
Take for example the crystaline dust price problem. Before the ecto salvage it costed around 30s. The crystaline dust is used mainly (I think) to craft superior sharpening stones and master maintanance oils.
But what anet did ? They increased the cost to make those most used consumables from 1 crystaline dust to 3 crystaline dusts. So now crafting those will be maybe even more expensive than before ecto salvage (34.5s for 3 dusts vs 30s for 1 dust).

Inflation is good for Anet because the prices will go up and causual players (the core largest group of playerbase) wont have enough gold for anything because creating (grinding) gold takes lots of time

Its the game design.
Condition damage is similar to healing power no matter how many points you invest to them the result will be pathetic
On the other hand +1 power = +0.5dps

Ursan.7846:

I
Lodestone Market:
Charged: http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24305
Destroyer: http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24325

Quite stable since January, with a slightly decreasing overall trend.

Superior Runes:
Divinity: http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24732
Scholar: http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24836

Quite stable since Jan/Feb, Scholar is pretty much stable since Feb, Divinity has slowly increased.

Exotic armor market:
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/155
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/2128

Incredibly stable since March.

Named Exotic Weapons:
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/31053
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/31077

Remarkably stable!

This “the entire rest of the economy has deflated completely” effect you speak of, I do not see at all.

The items you listed here as an example of stable economy have drop rate within like 0.01% to 1%
The core players of GW2 are causuals (like me) so they wont farm them (DR mechanics…)
They are very stable (because of RNG ofc) as you said so there is no point of buying and resseling them

So what was your point to compare them to crafted food market where you could make some profit ?

GoDaddy.5671:

The only constant in GW2 is change. Adapt and thrive or perish.

wow …
there is one thing you cant adapt in mmo and that is the loss of playerbase so ultimately you will perish at some point

yes the crafted food market (omnomberry products and other ones) is collapsing because of the cheap supplement food from dragon bash

This cheap dragonbash food is the most devastating blow to the high level food crafters.
High level food crafting was a steady but low (10% margin average) source of income for me and other food crafters as some high level foods were allways in demmand

Now we can expect high level crafted food market to collapse. Its allready started with omnombery dropping to the historic minimum prices on TP and will continue to

Lets compare omnomberry pie (av price 3.50) vs Slice of Candied Dragon Roll (av price 0.32)
There are like 3.9mil Zhaitaffy in supply on TP and rising thats almost 800K dragon bash foods

Anet you have just destroyed crafted food market
Was that really neccessary ??

I would like to have fully customizable UI
The current amount of customization is very limited

I play the game with stereoscopic rendering and the non customizable parts of UI interfere greatly with my stereoscopic settings

I wont play these races

Charr male/female – I dont want my character to look like a rabid dog
Silvari male/female – I dont want my character to look like salad mutant
Human female – they look like a little girls/barbies
Human male – they look like gays
Norn male – mutant on steroids, dont like
Asura male/female – they just look like little creeps

So all my characters are Norn females – beatifull, mature, giant-ladies