Guild Wars 2

the way I see it, this game is finally getting to the “ready for release” point. they have stated many times that Ascended gear was intended from the beginning, and have only implemented it when it was ready. After a year I feel like I’m much closer to playing a fully fledged release game. Had I started playing today for the first time, I wouldn’t feel like anything was missing (save for the LFG tool, which is coming next update)

If we get new races / weapons / continents to explore, that will all come out with a paid expansion for sure. It’s the model they have always followed, and I don’t see a reason to not follow it. If we are lucky, they will give us all that for free. The more you spend in the gem store the higher this chance will be.

print screen is your friend here. if you have any chance to hit it, do so.

and…avenge them for kicking you? there’s a report feature for a reason. use it. print screen as soon as you think it may become a problem. at least you will have some form of reference.

What do you do outside of normal game play or mechanics to keep the game interesting for you?

For example, we hold Jump Puzzle races in our guild every couple weeks. Get everyone on a starting line and hand out prizes for 1st thru 3rd place finishers.

I’ve also made a game out of seeing how many of my skills I can get off before a champ dies in a champ farm. Sometimes I can do it and I feel very accomplished.

What do you or your guild mates do in game that has no outward support from the game developers?

buyer beware: be sure you really love the look. if you ever change your mind, you are stuck with a useless set.

example: my first major armor purchase was a full set of Vigil armor. I put Sup. Altruism runes on them, and enjoyed it. after a while I was able craft an exotic draconic set, and I used a different rune set up since my build had changed. Yes, you can transmute your older stuff for stats, but if you say just want to remove the runes and use them on something else, you can’t. Any gear from a merchant type (order NPCs included) cannot be salvaged at all. You can’t even sell them back.

In short, for every piece of order stuff you buy, get 2 transmutation crystals for each one. (for the first time you get level 80 armor, and for the first time you change your build). it will only save you trouble later.

In my experience I put all my trait points into the Blood line while I leveled. Everything else (extra trait points / armor / trinkets) went toward power and precision. With life stealing you won’t kill everything as fast as the next guy, but you won’t go down as often either. Overall you will have an easier and faster time plowing through map completion. This is the only character where I can say I don’t really need my healing skill.

a few things that may help you decide:

first, you really can’t get a full feel for a profession until you hit 80 and can play with all the traits. there are things on my guardian I can do now that I couldn’t do in early levels, and it makes a huge difference.

that being said, you can go into the heart of the mists as soon as you create a character and boom, you are level 80. you can change traits whenever you like and play around with stats and builds. they even provide “steady” weapons (that always do the same amount of base damage) to see how your changes effect your output.

and finally, if you really want to be dps and like to see lots of big damage numbers, I’d recommend Warrior, Necromancer, Thief or to a lesser extent Mesmer. (I have no experience playing Ele, but I hear they can also zerk with the rest of them fairly well)

+1 for this, for sure. They have already established they don’t want us to alt-tab to look for a party. how about we lose the need to alt-tab to check dungeon timers (and inb4 there’s an app for that)

I have always used staff as an off-set weapon. Always. Empower is basically the only reason. 12 stacks of AoE might is basically like having another person in the party. yes, Damage per Second is important, but efficiency and sustainability is also. You can have a team with the highest DPS in the game, but how long can they keep it up? 3 seconds? 8 seconds? then cooldown and autos for what, 20 to 240 seconds?

with boon duration + empower you can keep a low but respectable cap on dps and sustain any fight to make it shorter. anytime I don’t bring it, the fight takes longer, regardless of the builds of my teammates.

Empower and staff in general on a guardian can be summed up as: Battle Grease.

and if you happen to have a mesmer in the party with Sig of Inspiration, everything above just doubled.

So, when we all hit the 300% magic find cap and are pulling greens and more off every mob drop… is there going to be a shortage of white drops? From what I’ve noticed with MF so far is that the higher that number gets, the fewer loot bags I am finding.

I kind of feel weird saying this, but I’d like an option to turn MF off!

Anyone else feel this way?

I hope they instigate some kind of character limit, or some way of preventing people from selling dungeon runs. I do not know how they could do this, but it’d be nice..

As long as it doesn’t take me 20 minutes to find someone out there willing to do a story mode, I’ll be happy.

lmao.. my pc is better than yours. made me chuckle.

I used the Svanir example due to the moment in HotW path 1 where you can do this, and stacking is simply a better idea.

And no, from my experience stacking in CoE golems while defending the cannon does not work. It does in the lazer trap room, however. Actually, almost every fight in that dungeons is a stack fight, and this isn’t really to make it easier, but to control AoE rings and targets. If everyone is targeted in the same small space, its much easier to avoid the damage as a whole.

I agree that more content that allowed for some more creative ideas in combat mechanics would be excellent. As it stands now, the go to strategies are “stack here” and “run past these”, but trash mobs are just trash. They aren’t required and all they do is add time. For the casual, non-hardcore market doing these things simply makes more sense. If you have 1 hour to play, stacking and running can mean the difference between doing just 1 dungeon run and possibly doing 3 instead.

it makes it harder to get white drops!

I have two charr. I enjoy them. (They don’t actually run any slower, that’s perception messing with you) but the reason my other 5 characters aren’t charr are for one very simple, honest reason:

Cleavage.

Ootarion.6192:

roachsrealm.9284:

Ootarion.6192:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Using the suggestion of adding a symbol or something, in the case of a duplicate name singles a player out. It calls attention to the fact that they are guesting, or that they transferred. It’s also like saying “haha you couldn’t come up with something your own, you had to copy ‘x’ other person”

I think most people like feeling unique. I know I do.

Uhhhh what? How would adding a last name be any different from having a Symbol or Initial (initial for the server your from) in your name, placed there by the game itself, to tell people which server you are from?

You get to choose your last name. You can pick your server, but there is limited selection. What if your friends play on a server where you don’t like the symbol?

Oh wait I know, make a post like this one complaining about something that isn’t a problem.

Come up with a last name and be done with it. there are plenty of threads on the forum for ideas on how to create an inventive, unique name.

Even with the symbol or initial placed there by the game you can still add in a last name if you wanted to.

you completely missed my point.

Please read it again.

of course you can add a last name if you wanted to. YOU CAN TOO. but you don’t want to, so you refuse flat out to solve your own problem and wait for someone else to fix it.

>_< This is why I stopped coming to the forum.

it was a nice place to read a summary tho. I didn’t even need to read the rest!

the first pay for expansion from GW1 took years to come out. give it time. I personally enjoy the smaller free fast stuff. I do like supporting the devs, but at the same time I’m not going to say “Please stop giving me stuff for free so I can give you 30 bucks for what will amount to the entire Flame and Frost updates with a race and a weapon”

try this. Hit F11, go to the graphics tab, and turn down your full screen gamma. hope this helps!

+1 tho, really. Darker options that my character could actually use would be great. I’ve always been surprised that there was only 1 Legendary for each weapon type. (save for an underwater weapon, of all things)

of course not.

really? you aren’t running zerker gear so you feel useless?

be default, almost by definition, if you are not using Berserker gear you are using something a little more defensive or supportive. How are you useless just because the guy next to you does more damage? I bet your conditions do more damage than his, or you can take a hit better, or you can heal better..

How about we wait until it actually comes out before we pass judgement huh?

dual pistols please.
1 auto attack: damage / damage / weakness
2: some kind of condition popper (nearby bleed / cripple from target)
3: piercing dark energy shot with less damage but more life force gen, proj finisher
4: abyssal energy shot that steals boons
5: and just for fun, rapid fire undead minion egg bullets that hatch on impact, produce death nova’d jagged horrors, and after firing you have the option to blow them all up (blast finisher)

there it gets tricky. technically you still have your speed boost at full, and then it is hampered by another effect. IIRC, chill is a 90% decrease and cripple is about half speed. If you are swift and cripple you are faster than someone with just cripple by whatever % your swiftness is.

mine sits around 1490 before stacking. I consider that high. every little bit helps, but if you’re over the 1k mark you can consider yourself “specialized”.

get all the materials you would need to make every sigil in the game.
get them all multiple times, of course (this is legendary level crafting)
a few gifts for good measure
and some other random, somewhat expensive, but obtainable item.

what you would produce is a Legendary Sigil, which out of combat would allow you to change your weapon’s effects on the fly, just like changing it’s stats.

thoughts?

the real question is, what do you need the macros for?

Id love some kind of in-game macro system support, but it has to have it’s limitations. For example, in City of Heroes you were able to macro a text field to occur when you used an assigned skill, so every time you used the skill your character would say what you want it to. This would be a nice feature.

If you just want to cut out key strokes in your gameplay… this is where the area gets more fuzzy.

I’d love this idea, but see also: intermediate cooking supplies.

I am guilty of stacking, but I never do it “just to make things easier and skip content”

It’s really all about strategy for me. Why, with an army of 5 people against 20 to 30 irate Svanir would I suggest everyone split up so we all have to face 4 targets alone, when we could all pull together and force the enemy into a position where we want them? It’s a tactical advantage, and something you’ll notice NEVER works in WvW for one important reason: your enemies are other players. The AI already flee from constant AoE attacks…

Why change something that works and only serves to illustrate how you can play smarter instead of just running in without a strategy? I pose that I have more fun playing in dungeons because of this teamwork, not despite of it, and I’m sure I’m not alone there.

you already provided your own solution, yet you also stated you don’t want to do it. you cannot be helped. it appears that you don’t want to be.

if you have another, constructive, perhaps original idea to help solve the problem then by all means..

@Electro, excellent point. Hadn’t considered that.

I haven’t made one yet, but I’m ‘only’ 200 lodes away. It makes sense that unique items will simply be updated.

I like the idea, but it should be a separate goal. Legendary Sigil. That way you can go for that instead of the weapon, or both, or neither. The cost of course should be part of everything you’d need to make every Sigil. That…could be a lot..

…now if only I could make my trait panel “legendary” so I can change that on the fly, easily, between different build load outs.

For those of you familiar, you know that the sword Infinite Light has a magic find stat by default upon creation. This is also, to my knowledge, the most expensive non-legendary weapon in the game.

From what I’ve read, all existing MF items will become account bound. Those items listed on the TP will be returned to their owners. I assume this means they will be stuck with them. Unfortunate for them sure, but at last check there were only what…half a dozen of these even listed?

If we make one of these after the change in MF patch, will we have the option to choose it’s stats? What will the new default stats be? Will it be account bound? Will those that already created and listed the item be free to list it again after they change it’s stats?

I’m sure this isn’t the only item on the TP that will be impacted like this with the MF change. For expensive items like this, players should be given a way to make up for their time and cost of creating the item. Sure, they get their listing fee back, but they are now stuck with something they wanted to turn into profit, likely as part of a goal to reach something else.

so.. magic find items become account bound.
those items on the TP get returned to you.
You can double click to modify them to a different stat combo of your choice.

Question: After you change the stat combo, do they remain account bound?

Example: see Infinite Light on the trading post. Very expensive, non-legendary weapon requiring expensive mats. This item has magic find by default. Those few that are listed on the TP will disappear. From what I understand, those people will be stuck with them.

What will be the new default stats?

in 1v1 it’s all about positioning. PvE mobs don’t really care about this sort of thing.

Sword / Focus = gap close, block, blind, block x3. With the right consecration you can combo off yourself.
Hammer = gap close, KB, KD, Immob and lock-in-place. With the right consecrations, you can combo off yourself.

See the patterns here?
In my experience, a 1v1 fight in PvP for a guardian means annoying the kitten out of someone until someone else can come by and finish them off with you. So help you if you want to take someone out at range: make good friends with an ele who will take pity on you.

My current build is 20/15/0/30/5, with a focus on symbols all around. With full clerics gear and boon duration up as much as possible, you can take on just about anything.

It’s not a spike damage build, by any means. It’s a pressure build. You lose the ability to use Sword or Scepter effectively (no real great loss there, lets be honest). Mace / Focus has some good combo fields, Hammer is a no brainer, and GS / Staff is an excellent combo for groups or solo in PvE.

You won’t be the main damager, nor should you be. You provide constant dps pressure to foes and constant dps relief to allies. 5 berserkers going through a dungeon run will wear themselves out at some point. 4 berserkers and a symbol guardian will have longer sustainability and more efficiency. You may take a little longer, but the run will be a little easier every time.

25 in zeal is useless for the symbol damage boost. You get more damage overall with 5 points in virtues by spreading stacks of might on each mob death. It’s not much by itself, but it all adds up over time.

I haven’t used it in sPvP, but it sounds like it would need major tweaking. You can solo trash mobs in Orr with no end in sight, but another player is another story all together.

This has been brought up before; and yes, the search function on these forums is abysmal.

This would be too powerful. Just to name a few examples:

Mesmers traited to have damage reduction and damage boosted with every mantra charged.
Necro’s traited with boosted wells.
Guardians traited with boosted spirit weapons.
etc..

What I’d rather see are more elite skill options. Not every class has an elite version of all their utility types, and they should IMO.

I simply don’t see this happening for a few reasons. While I love the idea, and wish it were a part of the game as I’ve found myself in the same situation wanting to play catch up with my alts; there is one concrete sign that this will not happen in the near future (at least for levels 10 and above)

Regular fractal relics will be an account wide storage item in the wallet. All characters can share them.

Pristine fractal relics will not be.

I think the devs have their direction pretty clear here.

I saw a warrior and a ranger solo this using auto attack on rifle and longbow respectively. I just used my staff on my guardian and gave them might. Everyone else just kinda sat there. It took like 10 minutes, and we didn’t pull any spiders.

The hardest part of this path is getting past the swarms while covered in stealth goo, IMO.

I remember reading that salvaging blues and greens will give a chance to get these Permanent Account Magic Find items. I assume this direction means the following: You’ll receive some way to change your existing magic find stats into either permanent account boosts, larger temp boosts, or a different combo of stat increases.

In a perfect world:
You get a one-time use special transmutation stone that can only be used with one piece of magic find gear for each piece of gear you have on that character, per character, thru the in-game mail.

What I’m expecting:
A merchant or something that will turn your MF gear into whatever you want for an in-game fee.

it actually does! once you get over 1400 in healing power you get 26 per heal instead of 25! >_<

I’ve been playing a dervish in GW2 for a long time. See: Guardian; traited 20/15/0/30/5. Spec into healing on your armor and boon duration for runes. Symbols, burning, buffs, and conditions all around you. It really does feel like Dervish playstyle.

I just miss the scythe really..

As a necro; my best source of Vigor in CoE is one of the following:

A warrior friend who likes warhorn.
A mesmer friend who likes signet of inspiration.

Just hug the heavies and steal as much health as possible.

I use P/P bouncing shots for trash mobs. SR to skip the stuff you can avoid. D/D for pressure on bosses. Scorpion Wire never leaves my bar: it’s great for putting a boss right where you want them to be.

The only major problem I’ve noticed between the two skills is this:

With SR, everyone knows it’s coming and knows when to stop attacking so as to not ruin the granted stealth.
With MI, not everyone can predict when it’s coming; so without proper communication beforehand someone will be in mid attack chain and not even benefit anyway.

If you are set on sword / focus for your other set, I recommend traiting into reflective focus abilities. The well timed temporal curtain between initials on zergs will take care of more damage alone before your GS or illusions ever enter the picture.

The only problem I have with Torch as a condition removal is the same problem I have with Healing Breeze and helping out my teammates. Positioning is an issue, and I can never seem to get to the right place fast enough or reliably enough to make the best use out of it.

In theory it’s great, but in practice it always feels like, “well, that was ok but maybe next time will be better”

I almost always have staff on standby. The might stacking is incredible. Make friends with a mesmer who likes to share boons. You will win in dungeons.

What has been said above has been true as well, especially Trait 15 into Radiance and 5 into Virtues. Everything else is gravy dependent upon your playstyle. Nothing beats AoE blind, vuln, burning and might stacking (before you even get to staff) just by hitting F1 everytime you kill something.

In my experience:

Sword = Annoy a single target or small groups of mobs.
Focus = Awesome consecration / symbol combo fields.
Scepter = Range-required boss.
Shield = Novelty good in small fights or specific situations.
Torch = (see: Shield)
Greatsword = Bread and butter for symbol / zeal builds.
Hammer = Boss repellant; awesome consecration / symbol combo fields.
Staff = Battle grease.

So, Ive checked the wiki, checked maps online, and checked them with all my in game maps. My counter was at 166/167 when I started searching.

I found 3 areas, meaning, went there > map cleared up > name of place discovered appeared on the screen.

My counter has not changed.

?!?

same problems after internet guy came out and fixed everything, including a shiny new modem. everything else works just fine. GW2 doesn’t.

Observed: if I just stand still and don’t do anything but chat in the game, maybe look at menu screens, I never disconnect. if I use skills or interact with anyone else using skills, I have a higher chance of lag.

I was in the new zone during a champ fight. lag spikes half a dozen times with 2 total disconnects to the character select screen. after the champ was brought down I stayed in the same high-traffic area without using any skills. haven’t dropped out yet..

how about a profession bag:

anything your profession can equip will sort into this bag first.

I think its because the only other way you can get them is by using dungeon tokens. They do not appear on the TP at all. It’d be nice if they were at least account bound…

I thought that looked familiar!