Guild Wars 2

This is mainly for WvW burst specced. Currently I have 6 x superior divinity runes which gives me +60 all stats 10% crit dmg. However, gameplay feels smoother if I am able to have 25% runspeed, though I am limiting myself If I use runspeed signet.
What is your take on changing out Divnity with Traveler? 6 of traveler would give me +30 all stats, 6% crit dmg, 15% boon duration, 10% condi duration and 25% runspeed.

The crazy gold price aside, would this be optional? Im considering it cuz I feel at a disadv with runspeed signet, whereas I could be using some more useful that also my traits would benefit from.

Did Anet just nerf the birthday booster? Last night I had 100% karma gain from it, now that karma gain is gone. It was the one hope I had left in actually gaining some karma via WvW as I’m starting from scratch.

I cant seem to find any info about this, though I can tell that it has been removed from its tooltip.

They cannot restore items part from those purchased with laurels. They are very strict in this policy. Ive had numerous examples regarding this but alas.

I agree. Sadly there wont be any drastic changes this year, and they make much more profit in gem store with rapid updates tied with “living” story.

Have you regained your senses yet?

The lag is present even when ur not in a zerg, but when theres a zerg nearby (5000-10000 range). I was figthing 2 players yday at such range to zerg, and it was horrible.

I wonder, if I turn on culling (or off or w/e), will the lag be gone then?

I play D/P in WvW and I find it very nifty simply because I trait more defensively/utility. I trait for stealth perks, since the weapon build favors stealth – which makes D/P even greater in my opinion than a D/P user who trait towards more damage. That player may not be able to defeat certain enemy builds, such as bunkers or traits meant to outlast someone.
In return from my traits I get condi cleanse, hp regen, 50% more runspeed, regen on skill use, gain initiative on stealth, to mention some. The lack of crit/power/crit dmg traits I regain by using full zerker gear, which can result in 7-8k backstabs on average (cloth/medium armor).

Due to the stealth perks it can be really forgiving, but this class also built around evasion so I have good endurance upkeep (not as good as S/D, but better than my target), and if I manage to time my dodges well then I may be able to dance around longer out of stealth. However, it is prefered that I continously black powder stealth into backstab.

I can tell from months of WvW that there are many players out there that dont really know how to fight a D/P, such as hitting me while standing inside my black powder which results in blind. It is easier to hate something that you dont understand.

but those ppl who give up may b those who arnt putting in much effort (i.e. those dying and unaware of tacs), and hopefully more of the rest remains over time to slowly get teq further down in %

Is this for real or a troll thread? It has to be troll. None with their right mind would complain about scroll of knowledge.. it’s like free 250k exp. Anything stacks up over time if you dont click it. Why complain about such a great feat?

Seriously though OP, are u serious?

If you are able to beat 3 level 80s on your ele then you either really took them by surprise (though your not glass in that spec so it had to be a somewhat lengthier battle), or they were really off rails. Sure I’ve done 3v1 on my d/p thief a few times, but I dont feel it counts as the enemies had much more potential, to the point I felt it wasnt representative.

Well now u can hug a ranger.. Every1 cant beat everythin

Qqing cuz u cant beat someone. Stealth may b op in certain cirumstances, but it’s one of many features that brings diversity in game play. Nonetheless, rangers can counter stealth after the skills patch

09/05/2013 I created a support ticket with reference number 130905-001893. I would be greatful if mr Gray had time to take a closer look at it. There has been 3 different mods replying each day, the first mod seemed to have a solution, but then the other two seemed to not be fully aware of the “finesse” of the case.

I would like to state that my experience with support in the past have always been positive. But due to the resources I’ve put in it would be appreciated with a second opinion by reading through all the messages sent from both parts.

Thank you for your time

Chickenshoes.6250:

Having no trinity sucks. I loved being the healer. In this game, healing is for suckers. The only reason I’m playing GW2 instead of a trinity game is because WoW is ughawfulterribadkillmenow and Rift is boring as hell with the gear progression being based on how many hours you can go into a PvP arena and lose ’till you get enough points for the gear you want..

Healing, known as support, is not for suckers. In some content like CoF you may wanna roll 5 zerkers, but overall in many encounters of various sizes, having a support class that can spread HoTs, cleanse, and mitigate damage is key. It even takes more skill to handle combo fields and the know how “to read the game” as it progresses, instead of the “mindless” zerks who just have to focus on that one thing.

That is a fair point, however, this boost is great for the entire server. There will always be someone who will try to aim for these boosts, be it a roamer, smaller groups, unorganized zerg, organized zerg / guild. I see it as an optional gameplay mode within the WvW. There are also nice areas around these capture points that surely would make nice figthing spots for smaller groups, and there are own capture points inbetween the others that may pull some interest over.

09/05/2013 I created a support ticket with reference number 130905-001893. I would be really greatful if mr Gray had time to take a closer look at it. There has been 3 different mods replying each day, the first mod seemed to have a solution, but then the other two seemed to not be fully aware of the “finesse” of the case.

I would like to state that my experience with support have always been positive. But due to the resources I’ve put in it would be appreciated with a second opinion by reading through all the messages sent from both parts.

Thank you for your time

I would also like an answer to this. I play on piken square, and ever since the last living world patch the skill lag has gotten much worse. It used to be mainly in EB, but now I find this lag in the other borderlands too. And it doesnt have to be a big zerg vs zerg till you simply cannot activate your skills.
Im surprised there’s not much more attention to this issue, unless theres a larger hidden thread out there.

darkdomino.9578:

People’s complaints are that they aren’t substantive. It’s not actual content… it’s a distraction. It’s like dangling keys in front of a baby… and as soon as the event is over, we’ll be back to square one again.

This made me chuckle, thanks for the laugh! I agree though. Other more major events may be less like this though. They do put a lot of work into the LS and it’s good quality material, for its purpose.
Instead they should focus on changing the content that is already permanently there, the things that players enjoy to do and expand on those. Then agian, so many people agreeing and disagreeing in here.

The point isnt to finish all of them. There are many of them because each is different and cater to different playstyles, such as WvW. This to prevent neglecting playergroups and forcing you to do content you prefer less. Obviously you knew this, but everyone could use a reminder now and then.

I agree, incinerator footthrails could at least get its promised update.

8/10 for your old look. The light colors have a nice match, and the overall look feels fresh. 7/10 for your new look. The bright blue from the head and the darker red from armor doesnt have the optimal match. I would consider changing pants/boots as they may not fit the upper design. The greatsword’s color may not fit with the overall color of your set.
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This is my thief Alvan Star. Im going for a minimalistic look, while there are some patterns on the inner darker armor with the use of black and abyss to make this clearer (T3 cultural medium armor). The color “blood” on the outer cape/armor I found as a nice touch to the overall feel of a thief. The weapons have a nice color match to the set as well. Notice the golden medallion and buttons on the knives.

Ashlar.2519:

Unfortunately not. They do not have the ability to refund or replace items purchased via karma or laurels.

That’s not entirely accurate though. My friend purchased the wrong ascended ring for a while ago, and their reply was that they didnt have the tools to reaward him with laurels. However, they fixed his issue by deleting the ascended ring, and awarding him with the appropriate ascended ring instead. Different solution, but same outcome.

Hello everyone. Im not usually the guy that attempts to start larger threads but this is a thought that I’ve been thinking about for some time, and I’d like to get it out of my system. Whether or not it is ideal is up to you.

Currently as it stands, LW offers PvE related content on a 2 week schedule. With this comes new achievements, weapon skins, and mini’s. There are vast opinions on whether or not the living story is successful. I personally find it questionable that a rich game like GW2 who has a vision of catering to all players, primairly focuses on maintaining our needs trough 1 type of content. There are many ways to tell a story and entertain, the discussion isnt if it is hardcore or casual.

Imagine that there was a total revamp of the LW vision. The 4 smaller teams that are currently working on LW were split up and rearranged with other devs with expertise in other types of content.
- For instance it could be 1 team that worked on the “main story”, similiar to cuttroath politics, and other previous main events that ties the stories together as Tyria grows. A story needs its main plot afterall. They could potentially release their stories on a montly basis.
- The second smaller team could be doing mini games, such as SAB. These “side stories” could be some sort of filler inbetween the time it takes for the main story team. The mini games could even be tied to the main story. Perhaps this team and the first could work together in altering the personal story, in order to advance in Orr.

- The third team could be focusing on WvW. Structural changes or invasions to the world maps, such as mass ogre or quaggan outbreak from their existing camps based on something that happened from previous PvE LW. They could potentially have the power to destroy gates and take over camps.
- The fourth team works for SPvP. There could be public tournaments held managed by the devs. Or it could be a festival where other temporary gamemodes are introduced, be it king of the hill, deathmatch or GvG. A celebration or preperation of dire times/mechanics to come in PvE LW. This area could use some more brainstorming.

Inbetween the content cycles, each dev team could also add hints or clues related to the main story, either on whats to come or previous story and its impact. There could even be rewards or plots that affects cross content, i.e. a PvE boss or puzzle gave a spelltome that can only be used in certain areas in WvW.
The devs could even regurarly switch around in teams just to keep things fresh for their sake.

The idea behind this thread is that Anet can also create temporary content, known as Living World, by using already existing locations in the permanent world. LW could be content, such as WvW, that you do anyway, but with a twist over a period of time. LW shouldn’t necessarily always be stuff that you do in order to gain large chunks of achievements, weapon skins or mini’s. It’s about capturing that experience, and it can be easier captured and improved in existing content that players find enjoyable and where they spend most of their time in. Next comes finding that balance of how to include the hardcore and the casual, though I see this as a secondary objective.

With these features one could potentially be closer to a sense of a true living world by attempting to make all aspects of GW2 alive, by making them dynamic. This could further bring down barriers preventing X playergroup from playing a specific content or be neglected, for example WvW or SPvP, while also improving the PvE experience. It is impossible for Anet to fulfill all interests based on playergroups, but hopefully I’ve managed to scratch the fact that there is more potential in LW and GW2 as a whole. All the answers cannot be found here, but it’s an optional basic formula.

Of all the mats, I found this one to be the easiest to obtain. But then again I did save all my champ boxes from 3 days scarlet-farming ahead of patch. This resulted in a mere 3900 bloodstone dust from roughly 600-700 chests.

Hello

Anyone have a guide for 400-500 huntsman? I tried to use search function but no results (does it even work optimal?) Nonetheless, any help would be appreciated.

tigirius.9014:

We’ll see what happens next. It’s like a reality TV show at this point.

Funny you say that, cuz thats how they described GW2 in the pax panel QnA.

As far as I am aware, this is not possible. You cannot make a heavy armor wearer use a leather item. This is why you never see elementalists running around in heavy armor.

You’re closest choice would be the 1-eye-google thingy, cant seem to remember its name.

I have no quote, but I believe I’ve read in a theorycrafting thread that we benefit more from power as long as the crit is somewhat present. I for instance run with 50% crit, and thats good, and from there I work on my power.

One thing one should never complain about is having too much content. That is simply just wrong, it’s a luxory many MMORPGs do not have the resources to offer. We should be thankful for this, while we all have to enjoy that content in our own phasing. Some play a lot, some play less, that’s life. Everything cannot be delivered on a golden plate.

When that is said, as long as GW2 keeps on releasing “mini game” like content with similiar patterns (i.e. several achievement sections with similiar objectives in different content, with the continous weapon skins and mini’s) – then I dont mind that it’s on a 2 week cycle as I really do not take much of this stuff seriously. I miss experiencing stories with a twist, where things may not be as they appear. They deffinatly do put in some work into the characters and how they present the story, but it has yet to touch what I described. So I dont mind the 2 week cycle, so that we can get rid of it and hopefully get onto something different.

Furthermore, it would be great if they considered expanding on their options for 2 week release cycles – must it always be PvE related? How about WvW, could a story be tied here.

I also would like a official response on Incinerator’s footsteps.

Remember that you can transfer gold into gems. Yes the rates are higher, but so has the gold gain been the last month. At least you dont nec have to spend real money.

I think all the complaining in here showcases a larger portion of community GW2 may have: casual players. I have nothing against that, and GW2 as a whole have always been more appealing to casuals due to its “easy to pick up” content, and now suddenly this crowd faces content that require a noticable level of preperation/progression. One can see this in the thread how certain players try to define what fun is for them and how it should be.
While there are some points in here, it may also for some be easier to jump to the forums and complain.

I hate to sound like a spoonge, but the fight mechanics dont differ that much from what is the main issue: the dragon is still standing still. Every other mechanic is just filler to cover up for the lack of immersion this fight has the potential to offer.
I understand that there are design difficulties (technology) that may stand in this way, but for all dragon fights, the devs should always have this in mind. If the boss is standing at the same spot 75% of the time (with occasional roaring in the air), then the encounter can be better. Im not asking them for it to move all over the area, just enough to force the attackers backwards or forwards, or even to the side to avoid a giant stomp – where the dragon actually jumps forward to that very spot. One can even make a dragon fly in the air while it shoots.

“legendary even more powerful”.. what does this mean OP, they are just on par with other exotics as of today.

OP: theres no grind here. It’s been 1 year since launch and exotics have always been the higher tier gear. Then they slowly implemented ways to buy ascended rings, earrings, amulet. Now we slowly get weapons. And for those who already have legendary, they can simply change the stats on the fly, without having to worry about getting several weapons.
Careful about calling out when something is a “grind”, which is far from the truth in GW2.

I honestly, for the life of me, cannot understand why Anet is being so silent about SPvP modes. I understand that this game has come a long way since launch, as many of its features were missing and therefore they had to catch up.

These are subjective opinions, but there are vast numbers out there that have in the past and present shown equal mindset: Conquest mode alone cannot sustain and maintan SPvP. Running from node to node creates a certain meta, this can get tedious over time, as with anything. Why not implement working ideas from GW1 or other games, like actual guild wars with objectives or deathmatch. We now have 7 maps with conquest, releasing more of the same type wont fix the issue.

Everything doesnt have to be so competitive for it to work, if it’s fun then it has gotten a good start.

Rest assured, if nothing is done when i.e. Wildstar launches, the game’s gonna take a hit. It is in their best interest to hinder the crash’s damage.

Shortbow for movement or aoe tag. If you spam number 2 while you run around packs, like in the last living world events, you’ll do wonders. Thief also have no cds, so you can always stick with 1 weapon for a longer time than gimping yourself.

This can be done in SPvP as well, like battle of khylio where you can CnB random buildings. It’s been like this for a long time, dont think there will be a change, as already pointed out, these structures can be damaged.

Did I understand this correctly, the weapon skins will be purchasable with BL claim tickets – and these you get from Locked boxes? So in theory I could potentially burn 50 boxes without being able to afford an item?
Nonetheless, the item I only hope to get is Rox’s Quiver – could someone please confirm in PM if itll be brought back? Transformed all my gold into 1600 gems, really hoping this would cover it in Locked boxes for one.

AC shoulders and gloves. T3 human racial set. A’rized pistol and sacrifical dagger.

I whole-heartedly agree with OP. But then again, there are many features (like multi trait specs) that are missing.

I too am puzzled by this. Then again did they every say that we would get an idea where the story is headed after this LW update?

I’ll keep this a bit short since there are other somewhat similiar feedbacks out there.

LW is the current progression in GW2, with past and future updates tied into each other in various ways. Each update usually brings in a bad guy or group, with heroes on our side that wants us to fight for Tyria’s best interest. This again often brings new currency that can be used to purchase skins.
The idea behind the rapid constant story journey is unique in the MMORPG genre, it differs what we do in “end game” in GW2.

My take on this is that LW has much more potential in terms of story telling, something I hope the LW teams can pick up on, as it is no easy task. To put it in a narrow and primitive way: the storytelling and plots can be very simplistic, whereas it could be much more diverse with shocking intrigues. Just look at the past LW’s and you’ll see a pattern. The conversations between NPCs could also at times be more spiffy, like use of humor.

People want to be entertained, we currently are, but it is far from the point where it brings certain epic feel. The feel for wanting to discover more and be mind blown by the creativity of the story tellers. If it ever gets to that point then people would care less for rewards.
A similiarity can be done with The Secret World. While it does cater to a mature audience, they’re the opposite of LW.

I understand that I may be asking for a lot here, but as the MMORPG genre keeps on growing, the expectations grow as well.

You’re playing the game wrong OP. To get Legendary you must play all parts of the game, not just 1. This is because Legendary is the ultimate goal with the game. If you were to get Legendary purely from WvW there would be little sense of achievement, all it would take is time, instead of focusing on several aspects of the game. You’re meant to enjoy the game to the fullest, it’s your own fault that you only play WvW. And this is okay as long as all stats are equal and getting a legendary isnt a must.

I hear a rumor that if you change the default sigil on a legendary, the item will no more be colored purple, but orange (exotic)? Is this true? And does it affect anything else.

0/20/10/30/10 P/P / SB. Traited for movement (vigor/utility), increased pistol functionality, and slows on target/trash. Fairly glassy in terms of gear, but it’s doable as long as evades are being managed.

Endurance/movement is key in this fight.

After the queen’s event I’ve come to realize how much I need that loot. How much I crave that loot. How thankful I am for destroyer’s existence. Without loot and chance of rare drop, there’s a lack of purpose and thrill of discovery. I feel like a cat chasing its prey, and that is life.

Be ever vigilant

I play because to me GW2 is the better MMORPG option out there as of today (and at least till the end of this year). The other current options are uninspirational.

Some few things: amazing art, character movement/animation feel, world art, the different progression system (achievement pts, not gear treadmill, and maybe soon to come xtra traits/skills), WvW. These experiences cannot be found in other MMORPGs.

It would be great if they considered adding more game modes than just conquest in tpvp though. It would be such a big hit if they added lets say 5v5 or 3v3 purely focused on kills, or actual GvG from GW1.

Im running full divinity runes on my zerker armor. Zerker stats on offsets, but with some vit on accessory set. The defensives (if needed) I just pick and adjust from traits, than from gear. This is a nice tradeoff as well If you only have 1 set and play WvW occasionally.