Guild Wars 2

Tao.5096:

Use Superior Rune of Traveler.

Problem solved.

Meanwhile a whole new batch of problems appear. Using these runes waters down many potentially great builds and narrows down the options, at least for the Mesmer.

If asked, I’m sure they’d say an expansion is not off the table.

Nothing ever is, even if nothing gets done.

I actually like the hunched look. What I can’t stand is the running on four paws. There’s something abrasive about it that’s difficult to discern. It feels clunky somehow. Crazy as it sounds, I was going to level one of each races but couldn’t go through with the Charr because of the running.

I did the same, bought two Red Deaths. This was ages ago, though. Didn’t know such a service was possible. Oh well, would be foolish to get into it now.

I only care about WvW, so an expansion full of more cron scripts to fight in PvE would not get me excited at all. Particularly since I’ve found all of the Living Story to be really disjointed and uninteresting.

That was excellent.

Tom Gore.4035:

You seem to have mesmerized yourself finally. Happens when you have 5-6 copies of yourself running around. One day you just start to think that maybe you are the clone and one of them is the original.

Now that’s a thought that’s going to fester…

Am I supposed to go into General Discussion and talk about why I don’t give a flying kitten about the Living Farmville content? Is that how this works?

Why no cat owners? Levity, or an actual reason?

sephiroth.4217:

I ended up conforming and now roam on a dire/apoth perplex engie, drop a crate, apply confusion then stand still and bomb heal myself while they kill themselves…

Applying 20+ confusion at the start of the fight isn’t OP is it? Especially when a necro applies torment too! as people said though, just stand still and take it. Dont attack!

I do something similar on my Mesmer. Full ascended dire armor and trinkets, torment shatter spec, and perplexity runes, energy sigils, corruption, bursting. It’s especially sweet when you slot in Pain Inverter and use it at the right time. However, I can’t seem to get more than 23 stacks of torment, it always caps at 23. Annoying.

Devildoc.6721:

Offair.2563:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Badges-for-Tomes-of-Knowledge/page/6#post3998764

I’m not dredging through 7 months worth of posts in the forum, not when search is currently broken just to not bug you that the topic was once talked about several months ago.

Not to mention that if you wanted to ask a question or comment on it, you’d get infracted for necroing.

MrTJpwnz.4710:

emotes work, you could always use the /emote ‘type stuff here’ thing… They only won’t see your name but ‘server name’ ‘wvw rank’ ‘your emote’

They can’t see custom emotes.

No white swords removed the need to upgrade and defend, and turned our home border into a wxp carousel. It also means a lot of wasted time for scouts and roamers, going to defend camps without anyone actually there.

PPK seems to work well to increase ganking, spawn camping, and entice zergs and even guild groups to go out of their way to kill a solo roamer.

tom.7468:

The game is rated 13+

You can definitely tell.

there is no server pride

I feel sorry for you.

You can tell the flavour of the month Rangers easily from career ones simply by getting in melee range. The good ones switch to close combat weapons, while the idiots seem to completely lose their minds.

“Not off the table”? We’ll all be in our cold, cold graves before any of this happens.

There’s probably a developer somewhere swallowing tears along with his pride right about now.

“But I worked really, really h@rd on that thing, I really really did.”

I know this isn’t entirely on topic, but LCD screens emit a “blue light” to make them look brighter and, well, better. For some people, like myself, it’s very tiring [used ‘hard’ but the idiotic filter didn’t like it] on the eyes and makes them easily tired and dry.

There’s a great free program called f.lux which makes the colours on your screen warmer at night (on a schedule and level of intensity you choose) to correspond with the decrease in ambient lighting.

It sounds like an old wive’s tale, and when you first use it you may wonder “wtf why is it so orange” but your eyes get used to it quickly and it makes a HUGE difference. I use it during the day as well, disabling it when I work in Photoshop or otherwise need to see colours “normally”.

Maybe someone else will find it useful. It’s free, and it’s at justgetflux.com.

The airship pass’s introduction right after LA destruction must’ve been a coincidence then, is what I am to take away from this I guess.

J envy.5270:

. . . it is about time Rangers get there shine and use in WvW

Getting a lot of guild invites, are we?

Draknar.5748:

msalakka.4653:

That said, I do think it is too transparent. Like when they destroyed LA, which was a banking/crafting/trading hub, and instantly put up an expensive temporary item on the gem store which allowed easy access to the very amenities that the LA destruction – surprise surprise – removed. It felt to me like the paper-thin story was the vehicle for the real content which was the gem store promotion.

It is a subscription model, just of a different kind. If I couldn’t convert gems into gold, I would rarely buy them at all.

Except one could argue that every capitol city has the same amenities that LA had. In fact, I find DR to be even more convenient than LA ever was. So I don’t really feel the destruction of LA and releasing an item that ports you to a convenient area as being that much of a driving force to the gem store.

Didn’t the royal terrace come out before the destruction of LA? For some reason I thought it did, which would make this all moot.

Yes, but the Royal Terrace item was permanent. The Captain’s whatever pass was a temporary 2-week one.

Yes. Even less upgrading or defending. Lost t3 crag to 3 guys. Nobody gave a kitten. The commander continued his wxp adventure retaking the other tower. Oh well. ANet clearly doesn’t play their own game.

I first took a fancy to Mrs. Bouvier because her raspy voice reminded me of my old Victrola. Oh, it was a fine machine, with a vulcanized rubber listening tube which you crammed in your ear. The tube would go in easier with some sort of lubricant like linseed oil…

AdaephonDelat.3890:

msalakka.4653:

Somewhat off-topic, and maybe I’m not even talking about the right game, but wasn’t there a backitem once with loads of moving tentacles? I thought that one was cool. I wonder if that’s available for Asura Mesmers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sclerite_Karka_Shell

You can still get it from laurel vendors.

:O It wasn’t time-gated?

Logging in now to check this out… If I can get it, I’m going to shower you with kisses.

I haven’t shaved today, though.

Somewhat off-topic, and maybe I’m not even talking about the right game, but wasn’t there a backitem once with loads of moving tentacles? I thought that one was cool. I wonder if that’s available for Asura Mesmers.

Vayne.8563:

Right the deal is so bad it’s not worth buying. Does that sound smart to you? Do you think they sell tons of them? To whom?

Probably the same people who click on the 100 € option in the gem store purchase menu. Obviously people are blowing wads of money on important things like different coloured cats. Presumably these items are selling or they’d be replaced with something that does.

Vayne.8563:

The whole idea of a business is to make money. Anet has done a pretty fair job of making money without making the game pay to win.

There have been a few questionable things, but it’s better than most cash shops I’ve seen except perhaps those for subscription MMOs….and today, even subscription MMOs have cash shops.

I think they’ve done a fantastic job of keeping it from being P2W. Especially after my short foray into AA, I’ve found ANet’s solution much more palatable. Some of their cosmetic offerings do tickle even my buying bone, and I’m not easily enticed.

That said, I do think it is too transparent. Like when they destroyed LA, which was a banking/crafting/trading hub, and instantly put up an expensive temporary item on the gem store which allowed easy access to the very amenities that the LA destruction – surprise surprise – removed. It felt to me like the paper-thin story was the vehicle for the real content which was the gem store promotion.

It is a subscription model, just of a different kind. If I couldn’t convert gems into gold, I would rarely buy them at all.

Whichever class you think will make it easier for you to a) escape zergs that appear from around a corner unexpectedly, and b) kill/escape instagib thieves.

You’ll be doing both. A lot.

Personally, I’ll take the stealth and teleport skills instead of the teapots. But I’ve never played engi, so I’m hardly impartial.

Dunno why the hate. I thought they were all funny.

Olvendred.3027:

There are 1426 pages of threads in this particular subforum going back more than 2 years, but they’ve said nothing about deleting those. They just seem to be hiding the no-longer-used subforums, to make the forum page look tidier.

If there were programming issues like you mentioned, they would apply to all posts, no matter what subforum they’re in.

I guess I keep hoping that there’d be some pressing need for this action, rather than something so arbitrary as “tidier look”, that would make them willing to throw away years of people’s thoughts and ideas…

Fuzzion.2504:

In NA T1 – Its 24/7. So anytime is the best time.

Lots of small skirmishes, amirite? We have those in EU too.

Hmmm…. They said that the software changes “will improve [their] ability to respond to any reported (flagged) posts and threads.”

Maybe the change in terms of how that’s implemented is the reason for it. Anything that’s visible in the archives could also be quoted. I doubt they’ve actually read all of those posts or anywhere near it. Keeping them quotable/linkable would mean they also need to be actionable later on if need be.

Let’s say that to automate things in the new system, new posts will include variables (warning level or w/e, triggers when flagged). Since some of those old posts (not visible anymore, but still there) are deleted/infracted, they cannot be all assigned with the same variable.

My only frame of reference is dealing with the backends of a few web stores I help manage. On one of them, all products initially had the same flat shipping rate. Years later, it was necessary to add additional shipping charges to a subsection of those products based on weight. However, weight variables were never part of the product data to begin with. This meant that all products had to be given a default value, and then the aforementioned subsection had to be dug up by hand (since they were spread out and not in one category) and assigned the new variable by which they would get the increased shipping.

If the system through which posts are flagged and infracted has changed dramatically, wiping the slate clean might be the least headache-inducing way to go. For them, anyway…

Chaba.5410:

Argos Helios.4965:

Chaba.5410:

Yea network lag isn’t much of a problem but ever since the Winterday patches something weird has been going on. I get really bad server lag and disconnects, like 25sec of no response from the server all the while 180ms avg ping time.

But yea NA T1-3 servers are nothing like EU T1-3 servers. NA would win just by coverage alone.

This. I have this exact same problem, really weird lag since wintersday patches. IOJ server, Melbourne, Australia. Its driving me nuts.

Post about this in the Tech Support forum because Anet thinks the issue is solely related to some bad routing in EU and not their game. I mean the EU players are indeed experiencing some bad routing but on top of it there’s definitely some game issue related to the latest patches.

ANet’s response re: lag and d/c’s is one step above “reboot three times in a row” and “vacuum your computer to remove dust”.

testpig.5018:

Don’t you know the objective of the game is to capture objectives to generate points?

In theory, it is. In practicality, it isn’t. Thanks to the idiotic matchup system, we already know which server will win and which one will be dead last as soon as the new matchup details load. Before a single cap is made. Just like last week. Desolation won, Jade Sea was second. There was never any doubt or suspense as to whether we’d be the loser. Same this week, will lose again. It is known. End of story.

The battles are all there is of interest.

Don’t you know when you capture an enemy objective they will try to take it back?

Of course they will. Once the map is flipped entirely by the omniblob and the Outnumbered buff is gone, they will come out of the woodwork to PvD those doors down. Great suspense.

Moderating lots of forums takes up a lot of time. Time = salary. Salary = spent money.

Less forums to moderate means less time/employees. Less salary. Less expense.

Making a reduction in services provided sound like an improvement of customer service is about the oldest PR trick in the book.

The game isn’t dying, it’s just less alive.

Maybe 600 is shooting for the stars, you’re right.

I don’t agree on the other thing, though. Yes, there’s much more to being a good commander than knowing the map. Leadership skills, etc etc.

“Come on everyone, let’s get the Red Keep” just doesn’t exactly instill me with confidence.

My apologies if my response offended you. It wasn’t intended to be directed at you specifically, but as a generic observation, fueled by the recent influx of completely inexperienced PvE commanders venturing into WvW to do dailies. Ideally, tags used in WvW could only be purchased with rank points or experience accumulated in WvW (not EotM), which would hopefully mean the player would learn something through osmosis if nothing else.

The problem obviously is that the tags are used in different game modes (PvE, WvW, EotM) and PvE commanders shouldn’t have to “endure” WvW for their tags, if they’re really not into it. Right now, gold is the common denominator, although WvW players who don’t enjoy PvE are going to have a hard time accumulating it. The price tag has always been high, because we don’t want players picking it up on day two. Or ten. Or 60.

Perhaps the tag price could be lowered to something like 100g, but you’d have to unlock its use in each game mode. For instance, you could buy it with 100g on day one, should you want to, but you could not actually activate the tag in WvW unless you had accumulated rank 600, and even then you could only tag up in WvW; if you wanted also to tag up in PvE, you’d have to do whatever the PvE equivalent of rank points would be.

It is absolutely true that learning from the experienced is how you improve, and your capacity to do so and be a great commander I do not doubt. My only concern, which is not specific to you, is with how easy it is currently for the inexperienced to attain the tag – even with its high price – and how disruptive it is when they use it.

I read the first post and thought this was a happy thread.

But then…

Novuake.2691:

msalakka.4653:

Acien.2306:

I like the turret builds as well. Are they good PVE dps and WvW?

You’re going to have an interesting time roaming. Any Mesmer worth his salt will slice you into pieces from a distance while you dance among the teapots. The engi that are more challenging are the grenade spammers.

BOMBS awaaaayyyy!!!!

I find that only if a Mesmer somehow sneaks up on me that i have a problem. Normally Bomb+Tool+Rocket Boots do the job well vs Mesmers.

These boots are made for JUMPING!

Haha! You guys make for interesting opponents. Lively, I’d say.

Remove the minimap, downed state, and champ boxes.

Acien.2306:

I like the turret builds as well. Are they good PVE dps and WvW?

You’re going to have an interesting time roaming. Any Mesmer worth his salt will slice you into pieces from a distance while you dance among the teapots. The engi that are more challenging are the grenade spammers.

Vayne.8563:

msalakka.4653:

The whole point of the taxes is to create another gold sink in the game in order to sell gems.

So yeah I wouldn’t hold my breath with regards to any fantasies about player bazaars.

Every game has gold sinks. Every good game anyway. Every single one.

Not every game sells gems.

/conspiracy theory

It’s hardly a conspiracy if it’s right in your face at every turn.

I can’t even remove runes from armor without a gem store item which makes it pointless to do so as the cost of the item is higher than the worth of the runes. The only option is to salvage (unless you put it on karma gear in which case you’re kittened) or overwrite. The new system even eradicated the use of transmutation. Don’t bother telling me this was to enhance player experience.

Amazing. The forum software gets more updates than WvW.

I don’t think there’s such a chart, exactly.

However, if you go to mos.millenium.org/eu/matchups/ (or /na/ for North America), you can then select your server and view server history which records ppt and objectives held every 15 minutes. You can see when your server has its highest activity, but it takes a bit of effort on your part.

Alternatively, you could just ask on your server’s WvW forums when the most active times are.

If you haven’t selected a server yet, go Seafarer’s Rest in EU or Jade Quarry in NA. You’ll get to karmatrain to your heart’s content.

In WvW, your ability to function as a commander has no correlation with how well you organize people to kill cron scripts in PvE. People skills, communication, etc etc are useless if you don’t have the requisite experience in WvW and the knowledge that comes with it. Your familiarity with the maps, siege placement, common strategies, and the core abilities of the classes in your team are the base necessities. You don’t accumulate this experience in EotM. Rank doesn’t mean anything thanks to EotM, therefore a rank requirement wouldn’t be of much use.

New players shouldn’t run tags.

lordkrall.7241:

msalakka.4653:

The whole point of the taxes is to create another gold sink in the game in order to sell gems.

I never understood this line of thinking.
In fact I would say it is completely the opposite.
Without good gold sinks in the game you would HAVE to buy gold for gems in order to get the stuff you want, unless you play several hours a day.

I agree that gold sinks are necessary for a healthy economy – in general – but I still feel they’ve been taken to an extreme in this game. The currency exchange wasn’t an afterthought.

I play several hours a day and I only play WvW – want nothing to do with PvE. The amount of money I get from the absolute garbage loot I get is not enough to cover the cost of upgrading objectives, using food, and – God forbid – trying out new builds. Having 15% of an item’s value being deducted from the sales price hits me noticeably hard because the only things worth selling are of relatively high value, such as rune sets. Selling normal loot I get as drops is usually not worth it as all I get are error messages telling me I need to sell higher than vendor value, which means they never sell.

I really wish they’d not changed whatever it is they changed. I never pay attention to them as they get automatically completed as I play normally in WvW, the only game mode I play. However I have definitely noticed that they changed something, as we’re getting more and more PvE noobs in WvW just doing dailies. Three nights in a row now we’ve had some kitten pop a commander tag in the borderlands saying he’s there “just to do dailies”. He pops the tag in hopes of getting people with him so he can cap camps, since he’s so obliviously incompetent that he cannot manage the task on his own. It’s the last thing we needed on the borderlands – PvE commanders.

The whole point of the taxes is to create another gold sink in the game in order to sell gems.

So yeah I wouldn’t hold my breath with regards to any fantasies about player bazaars.

I wish there were filtering options so that any blue, green, or trophy drops I get would be automatically trashed. The amount of time I have to spent each night salvaging (lol) and clearing my inventory of just plain garbage is considerable. Why the kitten would any level 80 want any drops lower than Rare from anything to begin with? I quite literally often don’t even pick up loot in WvW because it saves me the time of dealing with the garbage it inevitably contains.

testpig.5018:

sneak attack is not PvD at all.

The whole point of it is being able to capture an unscouted objective unnoticed. PvD is exactly what it is! I’ve captured enemy northern towers solo as a Mesmer several times during this event. All I did was kill the guards, put a ram print down, run to camp, finish ram, bang door down, kill lord and guards, stand in ring. Hoo-doggy, the exciting non-PvD.

I wish you luck on your endeavor.

The problem is that in order to do enough damage to condibunker meta builds to bring them down, you have to survive the thick sea of conditions you’ll be swimming in, while sporting practically zerker gear. People think roaming Mesmers run condi because they’re unskilled, but what they seem to ignore is the fact that unlike Warriors, Mesmer physical damage is only decent in zerker. Knight’s = crap damage. This on top of our light armor. Condi builds don’t suffer from this as they can go full dire without losing effectiveness.

You can get away with it in a group, but as a solo roamer you’ll be spending a lot of time running from waypoints.

That said, I wouldn’t use duration decreasing food nor runes. I run Mantra of Resolve and sometimes trait for cleanse on heals (Mender’s Purity). That’s it.