Guild Wars 2

After hearing the trait changes to HoT, stats being adjusted from traits to armor, does that means our beloved skill based game is becoming most GEAR dependent??? Is that true?

I’ll have to work to get character full ascended? really? i think im lost, someone pls help me.

I left other games tired of the gear dependent since im a casual player.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

hopefully no rifle…

Hopefully… we already have pistols, i’m hoping more for an axe, mace or melee staff for the monk style.

Zero Day.2594:

pupi.2465:

Zero Day.2594:

pupi.2465:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

pupi.2465:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

We don’t need another melee weapon, we need a 1200 ranged weapon. Either a Rifle or a GS used as ranged weapon — just Mesmers, but less butterflies and more shadows.

So Thief becoming a magical GS wielder? i hope Anet doesnt take that road, it would ruin the game.

Thief already uses magic called Shadow Arts.

So Shadow Arts is magic now???? lol ok bro.

Pretty sure it is…

Don’t see anyone in real life going invisible after stabbing someone and throwing a cloak around themselves…

That and no one is jumping 1200 meters/units. Presumably by stepping through shadows… I’ve tried in real life, it doesn’t seem to work, it actually hurts if you run into a wall trying to go into the shadow…

Or signets doing anything besides being stamps that you can wear…

Or a bunch of guys popping out of NO WHERE on call (thieves guild)…

Or being able to throw down some sort of field/area that makes everyone inside invisible.

Or having a dagger bounce OFF the target and ricochet between a couple targets (some how between 3, yet not being stabbed into any one of them)

Or boons that are able to regenerate you back to health after you’ve taken multiple slashes from the sword, possibly a couple from an axe here and there, maybe a couple arrows, and possibly limbs missing – but yeah boon of regeneration, get’s you back to brand new!

Yeah, pretty sure it’s all magic.
But you’re right, let’s apply some “real life logic/reasoning” and say no to having any more magical crap added to the thief.

If you look that way, so even Warriors uses magic then, they can recover from damage, morph on a brute, and carry weapons bigger than their body with super speed.

Everything is magical in this game. Ohhh.. thats it!!! its a game! almost forgot! :P

Resuming, what i wanted to say is… leave the “non-magical” classes untouched by the fancy ideia of making’em with magic skills.

Classic RPG.

Okay, let’s go by your book.

The GS will use “Shadow Arts” to create shadowy greatswords. Or… Using the “Shadow Arts” the thief is able to slash shadows with the great sword from a distance… Or since it’s under “Shadow Arts”, the great sword that should weigh 8lb (or more) now weighs less than 1lb and can be swung for days because it has shadows in it.
Man and i would love to be able to pull arrows out of thin air indefinitely while doing the motion of reloading.
Maybe somewhere between now and HoT, the thief would have picked up a book somewhere on “Advance Shadow Arts” that allow you to create shadow clones or other things. Who knows….

You are right, it’s just a game… lot’s of wiggle room for what can and can happen (no, no “can’t”).

Al rite, lets presume everything can happen… but tell me, why GS? GS on a Thief? do you really like GS that much ? on thieves?? srsly, just roll a warrior :P

On the other hand, i would love to see things like Shurikens or Fist Weapons being implemented… even Melee Staff for Thieves… a Monk fighting style would really be cool.

Zero Day.2594:

pupi.2465:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

pupi.2465:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

We don’t need another melee weapon, we need a 1200 ranged weapon. Either a Rifle or a GS used as ranged weapon — just Mesmers, but less butterflies and more shadows.

So Thief becoming a magical GS wielder? i hope Anet doesnt take that road, it would ruin the game.

Thief already uses magic called Shadow Arts.

So Shadow Arts is magic now???? lol ok bro.

Pretty sure it is…

Don’t see anyone in real life going invisible after stabbing someone and throwing a cloak around themselves…

That and no one is jumping 1200 meters/units. Presumably by stepping through shadows… I’ve tried in real life, it doesn’t seem to work, it actually hurts if you run into a wall trying to go into the shadow…

Or signets doing anything besides being stamps that you can wear…

Or a bunch of guys popping out of NO WHERE on call (thieves guild)…

Or being able to throw down some sort of field/area that makes everyone inside invisible.

Or having a dagger bounce OFF the target and ricochet between a couple targets (some how between 3, yet not being stabbed into any one of them)

Or boons that are able to regenerate you back to health after you’ve taken multiple slashes from the sword, possibly a couple from an axe here and there, maybe a couple arrows, and possibly limbs missing – but yeah boon of regeneration, get’s you back to brand new!

Yeah, pretty sure it’s all magic.
But you’re right, let’s apply some “real life logic/reasoning” and say no to having any more magical crap added to the thief.

If you look that way, so even Warriors uses magic then, they can recover from damage, morph on a brute, and carry weapons bigger than their body with super speed.

Everything is magical in this game. Ohhh.. thats it!!! its a game! almost forgot! :P

Resuming, what i wanted to say is… leave the “non-magical” classes untouched by the fancy ideia of making’em with magic skills.

Classic RPG.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

pupi.2465:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

We don’t need another melee weapon, we need a 1200 ranged weapon. Either a Rifle or a GS used as ranged weapon — just Mesmers, but less butterflies and more shadows.

So Thief becoming a magical GS wielder? i hope Anet doesnt take that road, it would ruin the game.

Thief already uses magic called Shadow Arts.

So Shadow Arts is magic now???? lol ok bro.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

We don’t need another melee weapon, we need a 1200 ranged weapon. Either a Rifle or a GS used as ranged weapon — just Mesmers, but less butterflies and more shadows.

So Thief becoming a magical GS wielder? i hope Anet doesnt take that road, it would ruin the game.

It would be really cool to see a Thief handling a melee staff, lile Oberyin Martel in GoT.

Which of these 2 you guys think it would be better for duels?

This one

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJEQNAseRjMdUGaVIehQKagfgCVQYOAGgGQdak7dBA-TVCEABTcEA29EAwwDAYLlgMp8jF1fQZ/h20HAwhAIAACA38mH9mH9mlBgZBA-w

or this one

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJEQNApeRjMdUGaVI2dQKiAggCVMY8BCgjBeFo8MudA-TlCCwAbOCA51DMWJIVlfAeAA0U/pumAEHCgc7Pc5EAEAABgbezjezjezyAwsAA-w

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I’ve been on some trouble against really skilled warriors, GS/Bow ones, duelling this guy for like 30 min, and w/l was 2/20…

Gear was all Zerk with some valk accessories, build was (d/d 6/0/2/6/0) and (s/d 2/0/0/6/6).

i guess the armor is not that right, cuz i was getting some hits very like “one or two shotted” from whirlwind…

Any tips?

Remember Neverwinter Nights? or any other game that offers you a different soundboard on voices for the same race when you create the character?

So, that would be good to have on GW2 too, i know there are more “important” things to be worked on the game, and adding (contracting) more actors to record (although not a hard job) is not Anets interest.

But i think it would get the game more rich on deep of personality for each character the players create.

Sry for the english guys, just addind an opinion.

StinVec.3621:

Here is one way, though I am sure there are better alternatives to having to run this rebind script prior to each play session:

• Download and install AutoHotKey (AHK)
  It is a program that is useful for making individual scripts to execute make custom keybinds for individual characters, or even individual games
• Create a text file (myfilename.txt) and add this text into it and then save it

#NoEnv
#SingleInstance Force
SetTitleMatchMode, 3
#IfWinActive, Guild Wars 2

; “F1” is the customizable key used to toggle normal scroll wheel functions on and off

F1::Suspend
WheelDown::return
WheelUp::return

• Rename the .txt extension on it to instead be .ahk
• Double-click/execute this script prior to or during a game session to unbind wheel-up and wheel-down functionality that will only affect the mouse wheel while GW2 is the active window (so mouse wheel still works fine outside of the game even with it running)
• You can customize the activation/deactivation key so you can disable and re-enable the scroll wheel functionality on the fly without having to close the script and re-open it every time.

So:
Executing the script unbinds mouse wheel up/down functionality in GW2
Pressing F1 disables the script so they work normally again
Pressing F1 again re-enables the script so the scroll wheel up/down functionality is disabled again

You can find all of the different key names you can use to replace F1 here: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm

Thank You very much Sir! This saved my day! I love how it stills there are nice ppl in virtual world.

As for the others saying “just use another button for dodge” , i play this game since beta, and use dodge on mid mouse button, even with a mouse with many other buttons, for me, it doesnt work well as in the mid button… i am sucessful in pvp this way, so im not changing, also, the other buttons already have its binds.

Thank you and gg all.

I’ve been having this problem with accidentally pressing the wheel up and zooming the camera while on pvp, my dodge is on mid mouse button, so its kinda annoying, i have to zoom out constantly on fights.

I checked otpions, and couldnt find a turn off for the Wheel zooming, it was marked the “page up” and “page down”, unbind them but still the wheel zoom in and out.

My mouse is the warrior multilazer,

http://ebinformatica.inf.br/loja/product_images/z/402/3542_0__45538_std.jpg

On its software there is no otpion to turn wheel off aswell,

can someone help me ?

I Really love GW2 combat mechanics, art, and all, the only thing missing in the game, is more love to pvp… 3 wvw maps, spvp is not enough compared to pve Tyria, I wish Anet could add more than 1 wvw map and the Stronghold mode.

Nephrite.6954:

Lol Heart Seek mid air.

Actually, it was Dancing Dagger before tossing it!

Turk.5460:

I’ve never been terribly good at utilizing stealth, so in WvW I play S/D 2/0/0/6/6. With the countless evades and dodges you can last pretty long. Killing all 3, however, is highly unlikely.

I’ve been using that too Turk, S/D it seems the kung f.u fighting!

and i’ll never be able to do it again! :P

Coronit.9432:

Against enemys with equal skill? No specc will do that.
Against enemys with terrible skill? Every specc will do it.
Against enemys with the average wvw-level? Thats a little bit different…
Easiest specc would be P/D condi, followed by D/P SA most likely. But I don´t recommend them both. Their skill-floor is pretty low. You will have success, yes, but won´t get better.
In general I think D/P panicstrike could do well for you. The condiremove in SA can help a lot against classes with high and heavy hitting access to conditions (very very common in wvw ^^). D/P executioner can do it, too. Is far more difficult though.
Even a well played D/D specc can make it. But it lacks on some things.
My favourite is still S/D acro in different types. When you know what the classes and speccs your enemys are using you can outplay them, dance around them and kill them (yeah, random-dodging works, too).
At the end you should decide for your own what YOU want to play and learn. Like i said above, you will kill the bad ones and the good ones will give you interesting fights. You will learn much more from last ones.
Apart from this…kill the squishy ones first, look what speccs they are playing (is the food condition, bunker or zerker theme?), be aware of medi-guards, are there players you know from previous fights and that you can or can´t kill them? Kill them quickly if its the first type or ask them for 1vs1 when its the second one. Learn from them.

Indeed, Im not a fan of condi builds, so i was focusing on dodging hit and run. I was testing 0/6/6/2/0 with Ambush and Thieves Guild to confuse enemies, but lacks on dmg it seems.

swinsk.6410:

0/0/6/2/6

Daze steal and shadow arts…

I see, would that be good for 1v1 aswell i suppose?

Lest say, 1vs 3+ for those group encounters in wvw, i mainly roam alone.

Been using the steal build 2/0/0/6/6 , but not having success in general, any tips?

akaCryptic.2389:

I can think of a few reasons. Maybe they should FIX somethings before bringing in NEW stuff. Dont know anything about lore, maybe it just doesnt fit? I think there are enough weapon types and skills. Even profs getting new weapons is kind of too much as most likely, some weapons will become sub-par to others in almost every aspect. Think about off hand axe for warrior as an example, You dont get more DPS or utility or defense from wielding it with a main hand axe cause AA is too kitten good. You would be better off with a shield mace or sword. Similarly a land spear, would replace rifle or longbow if it is ranged. Or it wouldnt be used at all if it is just subpar.

Its all about playstyle, you need to think about entertainment and playing “the way you like”.

I know a lot of ppl who uses axe off hand because they like to, not because if its better than a shield, a lot of ppl play games for fun, others to be competitive.

Add more weapon types into the game with HoT ?

Why GW2 should not use Land Spears, GreatAxes, Flails/Morning Stars (guess this works similar to mace), Shurikens ? and theres a lot more i forgot…

im pretty sure the community would love to have these in the game.

If the lazyness to develop these new weapons are because of balance issues, i guess GW2 won’t ever have anymore new options and combination combat style for the classes.

Tell me that this wouldnt be awesome on spec for warriors?!

:D

I really got bored for some seconds thinking that was serious… you know, the spec should be LAND SPEARS!!!!! the centaur from drytop already uses it!

This is not a post to compare or make appeal to other game, its just for those who like rpg music and for relax.

;)

At first, might seem strange, but beleive me, this “troll” build, works, its hilarious to see ppls reaction, because they really dont expect to see this kind of warrior…

I dont even need to link the build here, its simple, take the Skull Crack build, 0/2/6/0/6
and replace the GS with the Rifle… done hehe.

Of course you loose mobility, but you keep the gs “dps” with the rifle, and from range.

I dont want to be rude in saying this, dont get me wrong, but, playing warrior, “is not for the weak” :P

Anet, its time to reduce the recipes of Ambrite weapons to low tiers so people can still craft them, there are no more a lot of ppl doing the events, so its almost impossible to reach higher tiers.

Or make the events earn more favor to raise up higher tiers.

The grand majority Gw2 community are afraid of PvP.

Neural.1824:

Remember. It’s “play how you want”.

lol

PvP = Adrenaline

Killing monsters = boooooooriiiinnngg!

Chuck.8196:

This topic has been brought up countless times already. Set mouse scroll to click.

i dont get you.

Anet, it could be good to prevent/avoid massive clicking (r.i.p my mouse), for accumulated chests and Essense of Luck, like for i.e: Right click, having an option to consume/open it all.

Im sorry if i missed something, but i dont know what happened to Rytlok after he fell in that hole… then he appears as Revenant, and according to wiki, Revenant is something that died and came back = Undead…

I just hope, that the new profession Revenant, doesnt come as some kind of “Prestige Class” , like op as hell!

Very nice! I can see my self with Rampage on the slot from now on!

So, i was often fighting this another war who knows to use very well the Rampage elite skill, she just rocks with it! I never payed much attention to it, always used the SoR,

Any of you guys think this Elite can be better at pvp than SoR ?

interesting, do we have good ppl around making videos? i only remember Osicat and have found nothing lately.

I Just tested the lockdown build, its really beast indeed, thanks guys for the help everyone!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsfRl0npRtlpxGNcrRipxYqeOVVkMgDK9IjvAA

You guys think this could work?

Hello fellow illusionists, im in a mood to dust off my mesmer, been playing warrior for the last 6 months, now im hungry for the clone fest again…

I like WvW random duels, so i wanna know, whats the best 1v1 build atm? I’m not a fan of condi, but open to test it if necessary…

Thanks in advance!

I just watched some guy on youtube, with an intersting build i havent tried, GS/ Mace,Shield…. very very effective, but still, ezly kitted tho… but the gameplay is fun, more than axe/shield.

Juba.8406:

Greatsword
all Greatsword skills can now cleave up to 5 targets except Rush.

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since GS does less damage, got no CC or utility.. this change will give Greatsword a unique utility worth of bringing to conquest pvp.

Mending
is now a Physical skill.

Physical Training
is now an Adept trait.

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this change is to resolve the conflict between Physical Training and the other Master traits like Axe Mastery, Slashing Power & Distracting Strikes which made Physical Training to never get used, also by being in Adept it make the trait conflicts with Restorative Strength making the new Mending in check, unless the warrior wanted to sacrifice 4 points to take both traits.

Shield Master
this trait now merges both Shield Master & Missile Deflection into one trait.

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this change to make Shield more viable and on par with Off-hand Sword when it comes to Missile reflections.

Fast Hands
is now a feature of Warrior requires no traiting.

Critical Burst
is now in Discipline line in place of the current Fast Hands.

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Fast Hands is so important to Warrior to the point it doesn’t feel like a Warrior without it, builds without Fast Hands are rare to nonexistence, which forces warrior always to put 3 points in Discipline not including the forced 4 points for Cleansing Ire.

Critical Burst suits the Discipline line pretty well as a replacement for Fast Hands.

Attack of Opportunity
is now a Master Minor trait in Arms line.

Brawler’s Recovery
is now a Grandmaster Minor trait in Arms line, same place of the current Attack of Opportunity.

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Brawler’s Recovery meant to build outside of cleansing ire or strengthen it, the problem is it located in Discipline line as a Grandmaster trait conflicting hard with Burst Mastery which combined with Cleansing Ire synergies better and offers more than Brawler’s Recovery, leading it to never get used.

so the solution is to move it down in traits or move it to other trait lines, since we made Fast Hands a global feature for Warrior, putting Brawler’s Recovery in there will make the current meta builds more powerful.

so its better to move it to Arms line as a Grandmaster Minor trait, since that line has nothing to cure conditions making it more viable to trait there.

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I support this! Hire this guy Anet! You need ppl with these ideas!

And for that, i Just can’t decide, I’ve been running GS/Hammer, that fits my style, but sometimes i find GS/Axe-Shield more viable for overall roaming.

Used to be Celestial GS/LB, now im testing this zerker GS/Axe-SHield… what you guys think?? Whats your preference for those who use these builds?

*this is for WvW.

Charr, Humans and Asura against Sylvari, Norn and (New Race) Tengu?

Factions would bring a very interesting feeling in the game

" Charr saying dont trust any sylvari.. "

FACTIONS!!!!! YES PLEASE ! OH PLEASE Open PvP in New Maps!

RedZebra.2345:

it depends on the resolution of your tv screen, in your case the tv is 1920 x1080 so normal hd probably same or less then your current monitor (if you already selected 1920*1080 in gw2 there will be no difference monitor/tv framerate) Don’t forget to change crop settings on your tv (in standard mode, edges are removed to exlude artifacts of tv programs)

Crop Settings?? Sry, whats that?

Etien.4601:

Depends on you rig. Powerfull PC + large monitor and GW2 – priceless

My GPU is a Nvidia 560 ti , AMD x6 with 8gram…. you think this can handle good a 40’ ?

Please Anet, but Please…

Announce 2H Axe and Land Spear as new weapons…

And a City Map for WvW.

Thank You.

Etien.4601:

Far. I’m playing on a 32" TV and I’m like 2 feet away from it. Otherwise your eyes hurt after quite some time. For 40" I guess 4 feets away?

Makes sense Etien, how about the input lag? You think this can compromise pvp?

Hello everyone, i just got a new tv and i’m in the mood to play GW2 on it, its a Samsung 6400 40, i would like tips and suggestions for the ones who play on big Tv’s, monitors…

Whats the distance should I stay from it? Does the experience on GW2 could be different because of the input lag?

Im really excited to play GW2 on big screen!

SilverWF.4789:

pupi.2465:

/Emote (writting) anything you want, it shows as an emote, with your name starting the sentence, for exemple

Amazonico is kinda tired running around.

My question is, since its an emote, can we communicate with the enmey without inviting to party?

For enemy player it will looks like: “Desolation Silver Scout sits down”

But, if you type the line, can they read it?