Guild Wars 2

Well the patch comes out on Tuesday, as stated in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Banned/first#post5749845

And I assume there will be balance changes with it.

And as stated in https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-road-ahead-for-2015/ significant balance patches will only be released quarterly.

Xillllix.3485:

Have new fractals been released with HoT or am I missing something?

No, same old fractals. But twice as many levels now (100). And you can select which island you do.

So have fun with farming molten boss

Small balance patch comes out on Tuesday with raids, big balance patch in maybe 2 months.

But don’t keep your hopes up, they’re too busy with raids atm to do much else.

Actually, I spend 80% of my time on the old maps (incl. fractals and PvP).

Some way to encourage me to go to the new maps would be appreciated Right now, the new maps just take too much effort and time to taxi in and finish the meta.

Use a mesmer/necro to remove the boons. Like in level 41-50.

But I agree, retaliation is a bit too strong in PvE.

Seera.5916:

And that’s the beauty of GW2 to me. There isn’t an ultimate goal. There isn’t a point where you’ve done everything. That there’s always something to work toward and that something is player defined and not defined by ANet.

This. In GW2, you have to set your goals yourself.

Also, since GW2 is under development, they will add new stuff every so often. Like new masteries, legendaries, classes, raids, elite specs etc.

Which makes sense, otherwise once you reached your ultimate goal, you would be bored and have nothing to do anymore. And then we would start to see QQ threads, I have all legendaries, 100k gold, all achievements, nothing to do in GW2, GW2 is kitten.

Kain Francois.4328:

Why are people talking about his playstyle and not the fractal 100 stage itself?

Because some people are elitists and want to show off how much better they would perform than OP.

And ofc, for these people it’s clear that fractals are too easy anyway, so no need to further talk about that.

Just seen in another post. Here is a timer for the HoT meta events:

http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/

It’s timed, for Verdant Brink it finishes with day/night time: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Day_and_night

For Dragon Stand there should be a timer at all times.

For Auric Basin and Tangled Depths there seems to be a common hidden timer (across all map instances), though I don’t know the specifics. I would be interested in a website explaining this.

Atm the worst thing about TD is the really toxic map chat after the meta event has failed.

That’s not something I look forward to come back to.

I don’t feel compelled to play a game at release.

Usually it is cheaper and more polished after a some time.

It was announced to be fixed though with the HoT patch.

• Captain Mai Trin Boss:
  • Fixed some bugs that allowed players to rejoin the fight against Mai Trin after logging out.
  • Fixed a bug that would allow Kiel to resurrect downed players outside of Mai Trin’s room.

Adine.2184:

You’ll be happy to know then that Sylvari cant breed .

You’ll be even happier that the only way for Sylvari to have kittens is by adoption, as we concluded in another thread.

UnbentMars.9126:

Fay.2357:

spoj.9672:

Phantasms dont die anymore so yeah.

Obviously, but that doesn’t make my rough math wrong. You won’t have 3 swordsmen up 100% of the time because there’s ramp up time on summoning them, and that sacrifices higher party alacrity uptime which almost definitely outweighs the higher dps of swordsman over avenger.

Additionally, my point still stands. Even in an absolutely perfect scenario for chrono with 3 swordsmen 100% of the time and an absolutely ludicrous personal dps value, you’re still doing dps that makes you look like a little kid compared to engineer.

Then you obviously aren’t playing a mesmer right. A chronomancer can do a kitten ton of personal damage and alacrity affects them just as much as the rest of the group (more actually since there’s a trait to double the duration of self-applied alacrity)

While chronomancer can do a kitten ton of personal damage, and has a much better upkeep of phantasms than pre-HoT mesmer, power creep makes other classes being even better. That is, until Anet starts dishing nerfs out.

If chronomancer existed pre-HoT, it would have done quite well with personal damage, though.

cannons.8109:

I’m relatively new to sPVP and I know I’m bad because I get wrecked in less than 10 seconds by any decent player. Would love to find a safe place where I can get games with only players who have low elo/ranking, so I can learn at my pace and try out new classes and builds. I’ve tried unranked solo queue and also custom games, but there are so many legendary players (with the dragon finishers) everywhere I go. Are there any methods of getting into games with only similarly-skilled (or unskilled as the case may be) players?

Matchmaking should actually take care of this. If you lose enough games, you MMR will go down, and you should be matched with less experienced players.

Hot-join games might be worth a try, though I don’t enjoy these in particular, as the players of the losing team usually leave. So either you stomp them 5 vs 2 or get stomped yourself.

Even as there are many concerns about unranked queue for solo players, the matchups are lot more enjoyable to me than hot-join.

Also: You shouldn’t care about the finishers, they don’t tell anything about skill.

The people that did a daily dungeon tour for some time will have all skins unlocked anyway, so for them that doesn’t matter.

dolmant.7048:

ok im getting sick of this 1 shot form mesmer bs ok its time to nerf them anet ok this is a joke no class should be 1 shooting any 1 if i wanted to get 1 shooted by some 1 i would go play WoW make a lvl 1 toon and go into a pvp zone and let myself get 1 shooted

What skill do you use to 1 shot someone as mesmer?

They will release “limited balance updates to fix really key game-breaking issues”, but that’s it.

It remains to hope that this will be enough. Next patch is announced next Tuesday with the raids.

Clownshock.5043:

Hey guys

Raids are just around the corner and ppl will maybe start to think what role they want to be.

To the question for u guys.
What class do u think will be the better tank and what class will be the main healer?

//Clownshock

Bear pet from ranger would be a good option for tank It has kitten lot of HP, and 95% immunity to AOE.

You also need recipes for the actual weapons. They are quite cheap on TP, at least for Minstrel stats.

SilverThorn.5047:

I believe the ascended equipment are at the right spot as of now in terms of time/money invested. i’ve got about 5 ascended chests from various contents of game and crafted a full set. With the recent addition of events making 300g (even as a casual player) takes less than a week. Any reduction in the amount of mats required in crafting ascended gear will be unfair to the ones who have crafted multiple sets and is likely to crash the material market which is source of gold for many.

So yeah, i dun think the ascended crafting is aimed at the hardcore players a casual can get as lucky with a chest and score an ascended piece. Crafting is just a sure way of getting one

I would love to hear how to make 300g in less than a week as a casual player.

The reason nobody complains about it, is that nobody is really bothered by them.

Umm balance patches are only done quarterly. Last was when HoT was released. You will need to wait after next ranked season.

Atm Anet is too busy with raids anyway.

Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-road-ahead-for-2015/

I’m afraid the reason Anet ignores WvW (and many other problems), is because they are busy making raids, the new flagship content of GW2.

And yes, a long long time ago, WvW had that role.

Offair.2563:

How about the return of siegerazer, now followed with a npc zerg.

Right now defense is not PvE (and thus ofc nobody wants to do it), but that idea would change that.

Also this would balance autoupgrade, and would put some action to WvW even if nobody is there.

Had that on Skyhammer. Some people feel the need to go afk on that map just because they don’t like the map. That should be reportable.

Bearded.6485:

And fractals can replace the laser!

I suggest that instead of the gathering, players farm the level 40 molten boss fractal. Whichever server has completed it the most times in 1 hour wins.

One of the best abilities of chronomancer has compared to mesmer (from the perspective of a casual player) is the possibility to evade/block for a long time, and the crowd control.

Shield 4: 4.5 sec block, creates 2 phantasms (unless you’re not attacked in the first 2.25 sec)
Well of precognition: 3 sec group evade
F4 shatter: 4 sec evade
Sword 2: 2.5 sec evade

Add to that the F5 shatter that allows to use some skills twice, and the ability to shatter phantasms twice.

For crowd control, we have shield 5 that stuns the enemies in the path twice, and gravity well that knocks down caught enemies for 3 seconds.

This combines nicely with the F3 shatter and the GS knockback if you need some room.

On a casual level, using these skills is often sufficient to win fights

I assume you don’t have HoT (otherwise you would use Chronomancer)? If so, I’m sorry for you, the elite specs are actually a lot stronger. This is definitely the case for Mesmer/Chronmancer.

For some reason, there are PvP Defender, Capturer and Neutralizer dailies that are specific to the Conquest mode, but no dailies specific to the Stronghold mode?

Please consider adding some dailies specific to the Stronghold mode.

Or am I mistaken and these dailies can also be done in Stronghold mode?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

No, only charrs have kittens, also calles cubs.

Sylvari have only sprouts, saplings, and them fern hounds. For some reasons, there are no plant kittens.

I hope this answers your question.

They could always adopt a non plant kitten you know. They have kittens in game. I’ve seen some in Timberline Falls. There’s a Stalker(?) and her kittens there.

That’s true, but I don’t think OP was talking about adopted kittens. Correct me if I’m wrong

Guhracie.3419:

saturn.4810:

No, only charrs have kittens, also calles cubs.

Sylvari have only sprouts, saplings, and them fern hounds. For some reasons, there are no plant kittens.

I hope this answers your question.

Sylvari don’t have sprouts! Sylvari are born fully formed from the Pale Tree’s skull. Er. Branches.

I think in the living story, my Sylvari is addressed as sprout.

No, only charrs have kittens, also calles cubs.

Sylvari have only sprouts, saplings, and them fern hounds. For some reasons, there are no plant kittens.

I hope this answers your question.

World boss train in WvW, way to go!

Maybe add heart quests to the new borderlands? And adventures? And buried chests?

PvE players love them

Raids being very difficult and requiring an organized group is the whole point of it, right?

Gyler.8150:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Guaranteed rewards sound pretty bad, depends on if the droprates for the other stuff are good/if we can get something out of those.

While not present at the release of raids, we’ll also be adding new guild decorations that can be built to showcase your guild’s raiding accomplishments.

This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?

Raid leaderboards coming soon!

Just a few weeks after the fractal leaderboards!

Agyaggalamb.4796:

Timegate here, weekly cap there… Am I the only one that feels this is what we call artificial longevity?

Welcome to raiding

I extracted all my +5 infusions (from before HoT) and upgraded them to +7 without problems. Maybe someone else can confirm this

Yes, there is a infusion extractor for around 20 silver on the mastery gated fractal island.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/raid-rewards-in-guildwars2/

And some actually thought there was a significant amount of gold to be gained in raids, lol.

MiniEquine.6014:

I just want the achievement for maxed crafting professions. I got all of them to max level a few weeks ago and now my scribing profession is stuck at ~level 25.

Why couldn’t they make it relatively similar to level compared to the other professions but insanely expensive to make the important stuff? No other crafting profession is like this one it just feels so jarring…I don’t even know if market corrections will happen within the next year because guilds will constantly be upgrading and scribing things.

I’m on the same boat. Spent maybe 200 gold to get to level 52, given up for now until mats become cheaper.

Is it even possible to get to 400 at the moment?

Artaz.3819:

You want WvW population to spike back up? Add reward chests that contain super rare items from PvE/Fractals (i.e. Auric Ingot) and gold. Participation % required, cumulative tracking to weekly events participated in and goes from 0-200% just like PvE events. Exclude EotM from participation. Win win.

This is not a farm. This is not EotM. This is actual players being involved in either taking/defending WvW objectives. Sure, you’ll have some farmers but you’ll actually have a slew of real participating players that are not inhibited by farming PvE equivalents just to fund time spent in WvW.

You want rank to mean something, make it so the % Participation automatically goes up after you make 100% in the week by 1% every 100 ranks over 1000. But that doesn’t stop with adding rank value after that.

The key is tuning the 100%-150% participation to ~8 hours or so of WvW time per week.

Another aspect I like from the participation based system on the new HoT maps is that you get rewards periodically if the meta event progresses, even if you did not contribute to the specific events.

Having something similar in WvW would reward scouts, roamers and defenders if other people capture objectives. This way, we could focus more on the WvW-“meta”, and be less worried about individual event contribution.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Nath Forge Tempete.1645:

i quite like skyhammer… why should we removed it? i like diversity …

However … u will never find this map on ranked arena … so why complaining? >-> AnD I hope for a capricorn come back (with just 20cm of water … enough to down some asuras… huehuehue)

You make a valid point. Instead of removing it a checkbox option for “Only Ranked arenas” when queuing up would also solve it. Those who want to do unranked for practice but would rather not be forced into a situation where they must play Skyhammer or abandon team should be given options.

That’s actually a really good suggestion. That way everyone could play the way he/she likes, even if there is no ranked season going on.

witcher.3197:

The amount people defending skyhammer is a sad and clear sign that the PvP community left the PvP forums long ago.

Umm, even if the “PvP community” would still be here, there would exactly be the same amount of people defending skyhammer (maybe even more lol).

While it might be considered an exploit, I don’t think it should be punished.

It’s not like you get 1k gold or a legendary for free, you can just farm the fractal faster.

There were (and probably still are) many similar glitches for dungeons, and I haven’t heard anyone being banned using them (please correct me if I’m wrong here!)

I think Anet should simply be more careful when designing fractals and dungeons. Like labeling an event a bonus event if it’s supposed to be mandatory. Or ensuring that all necessary steps need to be completed to finish a dungeon/fractal.

gimme!

/15 pocket raptor champs

I actually bought the commander tag after seeing how useful the mentor tag is to organize verdant brink.

I noticed that a commander tag makes people more likely to follow than having just a mentor tag

So that complaints like

to have a map in the game that requires players put all that effort in for ONE LITTLE KITTEN MAP

become invalid.

Of course not for ranked, but fun maps in unranked are, well, fun!

Nice, how could I forget about the moa transform